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Micron front runner to buy Elpida shares

Micron is tipped to be the front runner to aquire bankrupt memory manufacturer Elpida, according to industry sources.

The company is said to be prepared to splash around up to $1.5 billion for the rival, pushing it ahead of the likes of Toshiba and Globalfoundries.

Elpida is facing bids from chip companies after racking up $5.5 billion in debts and being unable to pay them. It announced its bankruptcy late last month and was quickly dumped by old friend Hitachi, which sold off all its shares in the company.

Hynix also proved that it was out for what it could get and showed no remorse for the company when it proudly announced that it had seen a “marked growth” in the number of clients asking to secure big DRAM orders.

Some industry watchers originally thought that Samsung would be a main contender in the bidding war, however, it distanced itself from the company – telling TechEye that it had no plans to jump in Elpida’s grave.

This left Micron, Toshiba and Globalfoundries as potential candidates to get a piece of the chip company.

According to Tom’s Hardware, Elpida’s value lies mainly its Hiroshima manufacturing facility, which is estimated to be worth about $1 billion. It is believed that this is the main attraction for bidders who would pay more if they had to build a plant from scratch.

Micron does have some cash to splash with its balance sheet listing around $2.1 billion in available cash and short term investments.

It’s also been buying more into the market recently acquiring Intel’s shares in the flash memory joint-venture IM Flash.

Western Digital strangely unworried by SSDs

Western Digital reckons that the hype around Ultrabooks is unlikely to hurt its HDD business any time soon.

According to Danny Mauerhofer, head of communications for EMEA & India, Western Digital is not expecting a big challenge from the increasing popularity of SSDs.

Despite claims that SSDs are edging their way into becoming a truly mainstream product, Mauerhofer reckons that they are “not complete” just yet, and unlikely to challenge in either the consumer or business space.

Mauerhofer believes that there’s little to show that HDDs will take a battering, even with cloud computing on the increase there is a clear need for large amounts of storage with strong demand from datacentres, but even in consumer devices there is little to show that HDDs will take a battering he reckons.

Mauerhofer says that in the halls of CeBit, hype has surrounded netbooks in years gone by with claims at the time that they would use flash drives by the bucket load.  This hasn’t transpired and Western Digital does not appear to be overly concerned about a new wave of mobile devices which are heralded as helping bring SSDs to the masses.

Even if the Ultrabook performs well, Western Digital does not believe that many devices will feature HDDs, and the format is still in its infancy, he says.

Large costs for building factories are also a problem, WD said to us.

Western Digital is obviously not shying away from HDD production.  The firm is about to announce the final details of its $4.5 billion deal to take over Hitachi.

The deal has been pushed back, with Mauerhofer telling us that the regulatory frame work has been very “time consuming”.  He remained tight lipped on further details regarding the deal, with more info on its way with an announcement soon.

HDD business to become Mexican standoff

The HDD business will soon become a three-way shoot-out, with only Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba to provide mechanical storage media for our storage hunger.

After a few years of consolidation and general HDD upheaval, the market is now reduced to just three players who control the entire hard drive business. These three players, despite standing under the apparent fallout of the Thai flooding, are now in a privileged position to make a tidy sum.

Seagate completed its acquisition of Samsung’s HDD business at the end of 2011, and through this has also tapped some cutting edge NAND kit to boost its hybrid drive lineup.

Western Digital, on the other hand, will see final approval on the acquisition of Hitachi GST (née IBM), bar freak accidents, later this month, but has been forced to find a buyer for part of its 3.5-inch HDD business to see approval from market regulators.

This leaves Toshiba, which has traditionally been very strong in the mobile HDD business, to pick up the leftover 3.5-inch business at Hitachi. WD will absorb Hitachi, two of its 3.5-inch HDD plants will be traded to Toshiba, and WD will in turn receive a 2.5-inch HDD manufacturing facility, leveling out the two partners’ capacities in both segments.

Toshiba, despite being the smallest of the three remaining players, is the one with the most SSD experience, and can now vertically integrate several market segments, from consumer to enterprise to ultramobility.

WD versus Seagate

Notwithstanding the maneuvering taking place in the foreground, 2011 was marked by floods in Thailand that stalled HDD shipments and essentially threw off the entire PC market as supply fell to an estimated 40 percent of its pre-flooding level. Most PC companies revised their numbers based on the overall recession period, but the official line was the HDD shortage.

Seagate, on the other hand, counted its blessings as the flood in Thailand – all things considered – was an act of a benevolent God.

According to Fang Zhang, storage analyst at IHS iSuppli, Seagate was by mere coincidence spared the brunt of the disaster as it had both its factories on high ground, while not a single WD facility escaped the rising waters. Toshiba’s HDD facility in Thailand was also hit hard. This generated a windfall for Seagate as it became the prime supplier of hard-drives in the last quarter of 2011, according to an iSuppli report. Western Digital had 60 percent of its total HDD manufacturing capacity submerged under the raging flood waters.

Below you can see the role-reversal. WD lost the top spot while falling to almost two-thirds of its prior market share. Seagate took over the top spot… and then some.

HDD Market Share Q3, Q4 2011 - Source: iSuppli

In a post-consolidation world, at Q4-2011 shares, this will look somewhat like this, however, Techeye believes this will come closer to a 40/40/20 split as production resumes at WD and Toshiba takes on some 3.5-inch drive capacity.

Post-consolidation 2012 HDD share estimate

Although supply crashed, average selling prices (ASPs) jumped – for all manufacturers – and the only real problem now is how to handle the demand. With the average selling price shooting up, gross margins reached record highs. WD, for example, had its gross margin rise from $46 to $69, a 32.5 percent increase.

No tears were shed at the company HQ, we are sure.

Post-Thai flooding, HDD manufacturers are now in control of a business they had let run amok. Their two primary concerns being how to keep up their Long Term Agreements (LTA), which usually account for the biggest slice of their business means getting PC OEMs, ODMs vendors and build-to-order their precious storage kit in ample supply. The other concern is to manage the product mix, while it is tempting to think the triumvirate will churn out 3 and 4TB drives like there is no tomorrow, it will have to switch around capacities to keep up with their supply contracts… of course that signing up for a LTA as soon as possible will guarantee you the best deal, and Seagate is counting on that.

Everyone else will basically be on a morphine drip waiting for something to fall out of the back of a truck.

Unfortunately for consumers and businesses, HDDs will be in short supply for the remainder of the year, say the HDD manufacturers. Seagate estimates that supply will reach around 80% of its former maximum by the end of 2012. This reflects both the market consolidation and the time it takes to retool/rebuild after the Thai flood. The truth will be somewhere in between.

The Thai flood has also given the HDD business much to think about, in particular in what regards to future processes and products. Vertical integration was already the order of the day, but most HDD manufacturers are looking to leverage hybrid drives as the next big thing. and vertical integration is the easiest way to go.

This particular expression was dropped by Pat O’Malley, Seagate CFO, a couple of times during the Morgan Stanley conference last week. Seagate hasn’t been completely blind to the market’s ebb and flow, and part of the company’s reasoning behind the Samsung storage acquisition was to provide Seagate with the technology and tools they needed to outpace their competitors in the hybrid market.

During the course of 2012, it will be clear that hybrid drives were the ‘next big thing’ and all three of the HDD players will move into hybrid disk drives as fast as their factories can spit them out. Hybrid drives provide plentiful storage, with today’s platter capacities and blistering fast reads and writes to its small Flash cells. Prices, despite being clearly higher than your traditional HDD, aren’t over the top.

Then come the niche markets that offer better margins than your ‘standard’ consumer desktop. Intel has been pushing hard for its Ultrabook initiative to be a major success and despite it being received enthusiastically by PC manufacturers – as an opportunity to match up against Apple’s Macbook Air – it’s greatest virtue might be pushing out the door 7mm hybrid drives.

O’Malley had previously taken the opportunity to touch base with Intel Ultrabook partners by laying out the ground rules for being on the gravy train: you have to be able to make 7mm-thick (0.3-inch).

Seagate, Hitachi and Toshiba are currently the only hard-drive manufacturers to carry 7mm drives in their product portfolios; however the WD takeover at Hitachi means that all three main players will be able to manufacture the premium format, so expect Seagate to push hard and push fast for this to come to happen.

By the end of 2012, the three main HDD manufacturers will have restocked their components, repaired their factories and realigned their product mixes. They will also have happened to have made a tidy profit, despite the expenses, and ridden off into the sunset.

60 Intel Ultrabooks promised at, er, show

There are already 15 Ultrabooks available from Intel customers and the number is set to soar to over 60 during the course of 2012. But Dell is, oddly, missing from the long list that Intel provided.

Early adopters, however, might like to wait for Ivy Bridge ystems coming this spring.

The list of OEMs and ODMs producing machines based on Intel’s design include Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, LG, Toshiba, and Samsung. We saw the Lenovo one last night – this was very nice. And we saw the LG Z30 and Z430 today – the first of these only weighs 1.2Kg and has a cold boot time of just under 10 seconds. No price or availability for these products yet.

No doubt, those who make it through the lines to see Paul Otellini perform his keynoting will hear plenty more when he fills the Venetian with throngs of CES attendees.

Intel Ultrabooks will not do well for some time

Analysts are claiming that Ultrabooks will fail to meet the forty-percent market share that Intel wants by the end of the year.

NPD DisplaySearch thinks that it is unlikely that Ultrabooks will make a significant impact because they are too expensive.

According to Channel News,   the analyst company added that Ultrabooks would also suffer from supply limitations affecting the production of ultra-thin displays.

The analysts also noted that there seemed to be inconsistent pricing in some parts of the world with Australia being sold Toshiba, Acer and Asus Ultrabooks at a price that were 90 percent more expensive than those being sold in the United States.

NPD Analysts said that ultrabooks could succeed, but it would take a lot longer before they made an impact.

Ultrabooks will become demanded by consumers when things like sleek design and instant-on and long battery life become one of their main focuses. Those who are interested in such matters will be put off by the price.

It said that Intel would be lucky to get ten percent of the overall PC market and will not hit 40 percent share until at least 2015.

Weak demand, strong yen forces Toshiba to slash chip output

Toshiba is shutting down chipmaking facilities in Japan and cut output elsewhere as demand slumps.

The chip plants for the chop are for discrete chips. Three of the semiconductor factories are due to be slashed at the start of April 2012.

Toshiba is on the back foot, like many other Japanese companies, because of the strength in the yen – so it needs to cut costs, reports Reuters. Toshiba will cut discrete chip output until January, it says.

You’d think a strong yen would have a country leaping for joy, but actually it cuts the value of overseas money sent back to its shores.

An analyst told Reuters that Toshiba’s decision isn’t exactly a surprise. The JP Morgan analyst said it’s down to weak demand, as well as domestic customers like electronics manufacturers also cutting their outputs.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg claims Toshiba will also shuffle about 1,700 workers at the end of September 2012. 1,200 of them will go to group companies and the remaining 500 will be told to advance their careers elsewhere, as one factory halves its output of 150mm wafers.

HP is the top spender in Taiwan

Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has revealed that the top spender for the country’s products is inkjet churn-house Hewlett Packard.

The ministry did not say exactly how much HP had been spending, but the Taipei Times says HP’s spending rose 10 percent from the $25 billion it splashed out last year.

HP plans to spend roughly $30 billion each year in Taiwan over the next two years. It plans to go on a hiring spree, too, considering adding 100 employees to its roster in the region.

Other big spenders in the country include Toshiba of Japan, which came second in the MoE’s top of the pops by handing out just over $10 billion to Taiwanese companies. It was followed by tinbox maker Dell, then Sony and Lenovo. They all spent roughly $7.5 billion on Taiwanese products.

A company which dropped out of the top five list was Samsung. Whether Sockgate was a defining factor in that isn’t clear.

The ministry also gave a nod and a pat on the back to technology bigwigs like Nvidia and Qualcomm. Taiwan was happy for them to be investing in local semiconductor companies.

According to the country, the total purchases of Taiwanese products reached a stonking $90.2 billion for 2011, which is 5.7 percent growth from the year before. Ten years on, the figure is just about double the $43 billion in 2001.

Seagate predicts 12 month hard drive famine

The floods in Thailand continue to wreak havoc in the component supply chain and now the CEO of Seagate is predicting there will be a shortage right up to the end of 2012.

According to Bloomberg, which interviewed CEO Stephen Luczo, predictions that everything will be back to normal by summer next year are highly unlikely.  Although Seagate factories are not submerged by floods, many of its 130 component suppliers are, and that is leading to a shortfall in production.

And as sure as love and marriage go together like a horse and a duck, a shortage means prices will rise.  It’s not just the price of hard drives that are rising – Seagate’s share price is rising too.

Bloomberg says drive prices have already risen by 20 percent and Western Digital and Toshiba are in trouble too.  It puts Luczo and his company in a good position because he can place his customers on allocation and put the prices up.

This is the bitter bit, because PC vendors have driven down the price of hard drives to yield much smaller margins than they used to – but now the PC vendors have to pay the piper that’s playing the component tune.  You can find more at Bloomberg, here.

Thai floods disrupt HDD industry

HDD suppliers believe there’s weak demand and so have lowered inventory levels to 10-15 days. But there’s something else they have to worry about now.

A real problem is flooding in Thailand, the largest base for HDD manufacturing in the world and where much of an HDD’s components are built too.

Even though demand is low, the supply might not be there anyway if disruptions continue in Thailand.

Major players like Western Digital, Seagate, Hitachi GST and Toshiba have factories set up in Thailand.

According to Digitimes sources in Taiwan, the chain has felt the effects so seriously that supply won’t be able to go back to normal in the next six weeks.

Meanwhile, some industry watchers believe that the tragedy in Japan actually stabilised the HDD market  , but also that shipments are stagnant in the third quarter of this year.

A TweakTown Week in Review: Top Picks

Hello TechEye viewers, this is TweakTown’s content editor reporting with our second weekly update on all the technological happenings over at TweakTown. This past week has seen a wave of diversity that will peek interest for all comers.

First up, another Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB SSD from OWC entered our labs last week, but this isn’t to be mistaken for the first model with the same name that OWC released about a year prior. The latest revision uses the SF-2282 controller with 32nm Toshiba Toggle flash and as you will see in our full review, it takes significant leaps and bounds ahead to become one of the quickest SSDs to have passed through the TT labs to date.

There’s been a lot of hype surrounding GIGABYTE’s new Z68 weapon that nestles its way neatly into the G1.Killer arsenal. We got our hands on the G1.Sniper2 for a full going over and were quick to see why it’s been received by the PC enthusiast and gamer communities so well.

With dedicated Creative X-Fi audio, Killer E2100 networking and a kaboodle of other gamer and overclocker friendly features on the dominating Z68/LGA1155 platform, for gamers in particular, finding something not to like about the board will be the most difficult, aside from perhaps the understandbly higher price tag compared to some of its competitors offerings.

If you’re sold on the Sniper2 and now setting your target on a suitable kit of RAM, we looked at one of Corsair’s latest Dominator GT series dual channel memory kits earlier this week; an 8GB, 2133MHz kit which particularly stands out due to the lower required 1.5v spec versus other 2133MHz kits that more commonly need 1.6v or above.

With timings of 9-11-9-27, an upperscale default speed of 2133MHz and the beefier 8GB capacity versus your more typical 4GB, there are little to no tradeoffs from the lowly 1.5v requirement to get these modules humming along and as expected, our testing revealed there’s a bit of tinkering room for some timings and speed adjustments to squeeze even more out of the modules.

Our storage Chris guru was grinning like a cheshire cat upon receiving a certain package from OCZ recently, knowing that what was lurking inside was one of the fastest SSD solutions known to man, the mighty RevoDrive 3 X2 PCI-E SSD in 480GB capacity form.

With well over 1500MB/sec read and 1350MB/sec write speeds on tap in ideal situations (confirmed by our ATTO testing), despite the choice of asynchronous versus synchronous flash used, the RevoDrive 3 X2 certainly won’t let you down in the performance ranks, but being a top-tier, workstation oriented product, the price probably will at well over $1600 USD. But if the large 480GB capacity is way overkill, you can always opt for the entry level 120GB model that brings pricing back down to Earth at a respectable $399.99 over at NewEgg at the time of writing.

If you’re a big fan of Rugby, you’d be excited about the 2011 World Cup kicking into action come September 9, beginning with New Zealand v Tonga at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. In coincidence, Developer HB Studios has just launched a new rugby gaming title for the PS3 and Xbox 360, Rugby World Cup 2011 – The Game, the first rugby title out for quite some time, since 2007 actually.

HB Studios were the team that built the EA rugby games over the years, but with EA not releasing a rugby game for the World Cup, it was up to a lesser known publisher, 505 Games to run with it. However, those who played HB Studios’ previous games and loved the way they played will be happy to know that the formula is pretty much the same this time around. You can read our full review on the game here folks.

If you’ve been watching the news lately, you already know that the East Coast of the US was ravaged by a hurricane. In the hurricane’s wake thousands of homes were flooded, entire cities underwater and billions of family pictures, digital and print are now destroyed. For the last couple of years we’ve been urging readers to plan ahead, prepare for the worst and to get your data secure.

When it comes to natural disaster protection, no one does it better than ioSafe. ioSafe has been selling the Solo, a well-built external hard drive enclosure that is able to resist fire, water and pressure for years now. The newest version, the SoloPRO takes the original Solo design and enhances it with faster interfaces to your PC or MAC. Several months ago we looked at the USB 2.0 / eSATA model, but this week we looked at the USB 3.0 model.

And that about wraps up the major happenings from our neck of the woods for this past week. Until next, adios folks!


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While Nations Play Politics, Cities and States Are Taking up the Climate Challenge

By Michael Mintrom, The Conversation

Last week, Donald Trump entered the White House Rose Garden and announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord. In doing so, he fulfilled his campaign promise to “cancel” the Paris deal, a move that calls into question the future of the entire agreement.

In withdrawing, Trump cited the (arguably short-term) sacrifice the agreement requires of the US. This perspective fulfils the famous prediction made by economist Garrett Hardin in the 1960s: the “tragedy of the commons”. Hardin wrote that self-interest drives individuals to exploit collective resources in the short term, even to their long-term detriment.

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Ultimately, efforts to reduce global warming are advanced by the pedestrian, daily choices of households, businesses, and sub-national governments. Millions of local choices can have global effects, for good or ill.

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The backslappers in Washington have had their Rose Garden moment. Elsewhere, energetic policy entrepreneurs are mobilising. Grounded in their communities, they are acting to protect the planet for today’s young people, and for those not yet born. That too, is global leadership.

Michael Mintrom, Professor of Public Sector Management, Monash University

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On the spot: Robbie Keane struck a hat-trick against San Marino

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The Republic of Ireland brought an emotional end to the old Lansdowne Road era last night, sending home the part-timers of San Marino with no more than a collection for autographs and a few painful memories.

Robbie Keane, though, took home the match-ball – metaphorically at least, after Shay Given kicked it into the crowd – reward for scoring the first hat-trick of his international career, taking his tally to 29 goals in 70 appearances.

His goals helped Ireland to the first win of their Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, which had been seriously undermined by the 5-2 defeat in Cyprus last month. That result was maybe put in some context last night when Germany were held 1-1 in Nicosia.

Steve Staunton, the Ireland manager, certainly thought so. "I am pleased," he said. "We got five goals, an excellent job done, that is all you can ask for. And the result in Cyprus was even more pleasing. We have not given up the ghost yet."

Giampaolo Mazza, the San Marino coach, even suggested Ireland could still qualify for the European Championship finals, though he may have been acting the role of perfect guest.

San Marino proved slightly sturdier than in their two previous Group D games, when they conceded 20 goals, 13 of them against the Germans.

However, it took Ireland just over six minutes to steady the nerves of the 34,018 who had come in the rain to watch the anticipated goal deluge. Andy Reid's free-kick took a significant deflection off Davide Simoncini.

The second goal came midway through the first half. The marking was woeful when Kilbane cut in from the left and Kevin Doyle rose unchallenged to open his international record.

Kilbane was also the provider of the third, taking Reid's pass in his stride. Though Mazza appealed in vain for offside, the ball was pulled back for the unmarked Keane to control it on his chest and prod home.

Ireland really needed no outside help, but they received it early in the second half when Lassin Isaksen, the Faroe Islander refereeing his last match, awarded a penalty when Paul McShane appeared to run into Simon Bacciocchi. Keane accepted the gift gratefully.

The hat-trick was completed five minutes from time, Keane diving at the far post for Reid's centre. There was still time, though, for Richard Dunne to put the ball over from a foot out.

"We missed a couple of chances," Staunton admitted. "You have to be more clinical against cleverer teams. There aren't very many games when you go out and attack, attack, attack."

Given had no more than fielding practice for the 90 minutes. Andy Selva made one determined run but, with five defenders around him, elected to shoot from 35 yards.

The goalposts had been dismantled before the Ireland team had completed their final lap of honour around the old ground. A new now era begins, initially in the plusher surroundings of Croke Park before Lansdowne Road is redevloped.

Match details

Republic of Ireland (4-4-2): Given (Newcastle); O'Shea (Man Utd), McShane (West Bromwich), Dunne (Man City), Finnan (Liverpool); Duff (Newcastle), Carsley (Everton), Reid (Charlton), Kilbane (Wigan); Doyle (Reading), Keane (Tottenham).
Subs: Douglas (Leeds) for Carsley, 50; McGeady (Celtic) for Doyle, 63; Lee (Ipswich) for Kilbane, 79.
Booked: McShane.
San Marino (5-4-1): F Valentini; C Valentini, Albani, Bacciocchi, D Simoncini (Bonini 81), Vannucci (Crescentini 72); Andreini, Bugli, Manuel Marani, Mariotti (Michele Marani 59); Selva.
Booked: Selva.
Referee: L Isaksen (Faroe Islands).

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Grudge Match: DampAss vs. Lady GaGassi

DampAss contemplated the offer. On the one hand he knew that he was in good enough shape to play. But he really resented having to play for free. He didn’t see why Nike or some other corporation couldn’t fork over the money to make it worth his while. After all, everyone knows that you have to spend money to make money. And since he was the top bill, he figured that for one cool million his presence alone would attract ten million more. The Haitians would get some food and he could make bank.

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DampAss wondered where his wife was. It had been a while since he got some nookie. Ever since he decided to put their mansion on the market, she had stopped talking to him. He tried explaining that this was how he made his money now that he no longer had tennis endorsements. He reminded her of the mansion he had sold for over 20 million a couple of years ago. This was no different. But she loved this home and didn’t want to part with it. Since his decision to sell, she had moved permanently to the east wing. His nights had become lonely, cold, nookie-less. DampAss sighed deeply in frustration.

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The tournament had the idea of using headsets so that they have some fun. DampAss liked fun as much as the next person, but with Mr. Bow-Legged on the other side of the court and no nookie in weeks, he wasn’t sure he could maintain his smile.

Things got off to a good start. Everyone held their serve. The crowd was happy, involved. Everyone was joking and making the crowd laugh. DampAss decided to try his hand at a joke. He started to imitate Baldy’s pigeon-toed walk. Frankly he thought he did a great job. He snickered with pleasure as he hustled back and forth, his butt wiggling like he was in a gay pride parade. He hoped his wife was watching. The thought of some make-up nookie inspired him to try harder. The crowd roared it’s delight.

He figured that GaGassi would mock him back by letting his tongue fall out of his mouth and then wiping the sweat off his forehead with a finger. That he could handle. But no, GaGassi had to go there. He emptied his pockets and made a joke about DampAss’ poor tipping. It was a low blow. DampAss strained to keep the smile on his face. Inside he seethed with rage. He wanted to hit him. And the next thing he knew he was serving a bullet down the wrong side of the court, hoping to hit Baldy in the face. He had to admire how light-footed the old goat was as he jumped out of the way.

They both pretended it was no big deal, that it was just a joke. But DampAss remained angry. Back home his wife was just as furious. “You should have hit him in the balls!”, she screamed. He was so thrilled that she was finally speaking to him again that he immediately stopped caring about Baldy. And that night she rewarded him with some of the sweetest nookie he had gotten in years. If he knew that this was the prize for getting publicly humiliated by Lady GaGassi, he would sign up for a ton of more charity tournaments.

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LMAO hilarious

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happygeek said...

So she's back in the east wing, living with the help! LOL, coffee-spraying-out-of-my-nose type of LOL!!


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IT takes just $44, the average cost of two bottles of wine, to restore a person's sight.

Through the support of organisations such as Rotary clubs, ophthalmologist Dr Sanjita Sharma restores the sight of thousands of people in Nepal without charge.

Dr Sharma was one of the keynote speakers at the Rotary International District 9830 2014 Conference held in Devonport from Friday until yesterday.

Dr Sharma works at the Hetauda Community Eye Hospital and also travels through the country with its outreach program.

Without these services, thousands of people would never have the opportunity for treatment to restore their sight, and the ramifications for this are immense.

"Children can't go to school because they cannot see, mothers cannot see their children's faces after birth, people are often neglected by their families when they cannot see," Dr Sharma said.

Nepal had a population of 26.62 million people, most of whom lived below the poverty line, Dr Sharma said.

Therefore the outreach element of her work is essential, with thousands going untreated without it.

"Some have to be carried over a shoulder or on a stretcher for some times eight hours to reach treatment," she said.

"Even with my full sight I couldn't hike properly through some of the areas (due to the rugged terrain of Nepal).

"Many people barely have any clothing or shoes either, so to expect them to travel to get treatment, especially in some of the coldest months of the year, is not fair."

Dr Sharma said people also did not seek treatment because of cultural views.

"Some people think that destiny has blinded them, or they have done something wrong in childhood to become blind," she said.

"But (some) blindness is curable so this suffering is not necessary.

"We must educate them."

Treatment rates also drop 25 per cent if patients have to travel Dr Sharma said.

"They don't feel safe leaving their homes and coming with us, so they don't," she said.

Dr Sharma and her team had travelled to eight districts across Nepal and had examined over 17,212 patients, with many of these receiving treatment.

They set up operating rooms everywhere they go, such as in a school room, fumigating it before they start.

Despite having a young family of her own, Dr Sharma said the travel was worth it.

"You wonder why people are happy and it's just simple, they get to see, we can't understand it because we can see," Dr Sharma said.

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On May 3, Bellville and Butler Elementary School combined to participate in the Lois Andrea Speech Meet, which was held in the high school auditorium.

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Second grade: Mia Wilson, first place; Gavin Walker, second place; and Nevaeh Michael, third place.

Third grade: Christian Walker, first place; Regan Pore, second place; and Carter King, third place.

Fourth grade: Savanna Wolfgang, first place; Kaleigh Walker, second place; and Avary Wine, third place.

Fifth grade: Lyvia Davis, first place; Corbin Wynkoop, second place; and Hudson Moore, third place.

The Clear Fork Elementary staff would like to extend a special thank you to the family of Lois Andrea, sisters Mary Andrea and Sue Price, and brother-in-law Jeff Price for graciously volunteering their time to serve as our judges.

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Reflections on the Rising Rates of STIs in African-American Teenage Girls

May/June 2008

Keith GreenBecause I am genuinely passionate about my work, it is sometimes really difficult for me to not take it personally. Hearing that one in two African American teenage girls may be infected with at least one sexually transmissible infection (STI) was one of those times.

The data is from a study that was released at the 2008 National STD Prevention Conference. It was held here in Chicago this year, so I was able to ride the train to and from the sessions listening to Erykah Badu's politically charged new CD, New Amerykah, on my iPod.

There's a song on the CD called The Hump. It's sung from the perspective of a drug-addicted single mother of two who is certain that if she could just "get over that hump," things would be better. But you can tell from her words that she knows that even if she is able to miraculously get over the hump that she's faced with today, another one awaits at tomorrow's sunrise.

It's the circle of life that traps, I mean, moves us all, right?

So, though I have no idea what it feels like to be in her shoes, on the train ride home following the first full day of the conference, I could certainly relate to her pain.

Fully aware of the relationship between STIs and HIV (infection with any of the former makes one considerably more susceptible to the latter), what I saw developing was yet another hump in the work that I have signed on to -- the work of eradicating HIV from communities of color and other marginalized populations.

Lucky for me, the car that I ended up on for the train ride home was practically empty. Usually, I can hold it until I get home, but the combination of those statistics and the shrill of Badu's voice towards the end of that song brought me to tears right on the train.

My brother's sleepin' on my flo'
A bitch could use a little mo'

If I could get over that hump
Then maybe I will feel better

I cried because I knew that relief for her pain, the other side of the hump, would be a long time coming.

In the five years that I have worked in HIV, the one thing that I know for sure is that it is not a lack of resources necessarily that allows this virus to continue to disproportionately affect African Americans. Rather, it is a lack of collective human will to sincerely address and correct the myriad of social ills that have impacted African Americans since there was such a population.

I recently heard one-time presidential hopeful Mitt Romney give a speech to his campaign supporters. In that speech, he suggested that the one thing that all Americans have in common is the fact that all of our ancestors came to this country in search of better opportunity. I believe he was speaking about immigration and the need for policies that would reward people for doing it the "right way," while severely penalizing those who did not.

Sitting in my living room in complete awe, I nearly jumped through the screen to pull him off that stage by his ear to give him a piece of my mind.

I wanted to tell him that my ancestors, Mr. Romney, did not come to this country in search of anything. In fact, they didn't even come by their own volition. And until you and others like you recognize this, and that this very critical historical fact has given you and others like you an incredible advantage for survival, both economically and emotionally, people like me and the woman in Erykah's song will continue to live our lives struggling to get over "that hump."

I want it to be clear that I am not blaming anybody for the current situation of Black people in America. We have a responsibility to ourselves to relentlessly fight the uphill battle and to not prove ourselves to be the inferior human beings that we were once "scientifically validated" to be. Often times, as Bill Cosby once said, we are not holding up our end of the bargain.

But I also want it to be clear that until we acknowledge and make a sincere effort to correct the psychological effects that the years of oppression of Black people in America has had on all of America, but African Americans in particular, none of us will get over the hump.

Taxes for the rich will continue to increase. The gap between the haves and the have nots will continue to widen. Our schools will not be safe. Teenage girls will continue to contract STIs at astronomical rates. And African Americans will always be disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS.

But if I could get over that hump, maybe I will feel better.

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See Also's HIV/AIDS Resource Center for African Americans
HIV and Me: An African American's Guide to Living With HIV
Quiz: Are You at Risk for HIV?
10 Common Fears About HIV Transmission
More Views on HIV Prevention in the African-American Community

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Comment by: Tarvis Mack - DC Wed., Jul. 2, 2008 at 3:03 pm UTC
Kevin, I totally agree with your article in its complete entirety. Apparently, Mr. Romney does not understand the African-American struggles and experience in this country. I'm sure his fore-fathers were not held into captivity, sold into slavery for generations, prevented to be educated or seen by a physician of any sort for centuries. Because of this type of conditioning we have developed taboos, stigmas and dogmas against going to see a physician for even basic health issues reasons. We have to educate ourselves to the importance of seeing a physician, getting tested not only for HIV/AID, but for all life-threatening illnesses that plague our communities. Until the leaders of this country recognize the misdeeds of the African-American race they will never come to understand our struggles with HIV/AIDs in our communities. Yes, the resources are there, but how do you get those resources to people that needs them the most? It's a fighting battle, and we all must stay in it to win. Great article!
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Comment by: Frank Mon., Jun. 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm UTC
Dear Keith -

I read your article with great interest. I am sorry to say, I am not sure what else can be done "to correct the psychological effects" you speak of. Just like my bad decisions put me in this place, the same is true for the Black Community. I have heard this song for so long - same message just prettier words.

We all need to accept our own responsibility. My mistakes are not because of someone else. I believe you have done a disservice to your own community with this article.

I grew up in the south, hate racism, love my black, brown and other friends but I am positive because of my own choice and no one else.

The same is true for the Black Community today. You can not blame anyone for bad decisions except the decision maker.

Yes, I am white and only found out I am positive at 43 years old. That is no one's fault but my own.

Thank You

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Comment by: Delphine Sat., Jun. 28, 2008 at 10:19 am UTC
Hey Keith,I feel you on so much of what you wrote in this article.Like you I work In the field and I do outreach and advocacy, oh and lets not forget to mention that I'm also black and infected with aids, so for those reason alone I too take the NSTDPs stasitics personally. I was so glad to hear you speak to the fact that we as people need to step up and be more responsible in not only addressing the growing rates of STIs in our communities, but we need to stand on the front lines of prevention.I feel that when we become more accountable to the realities of what our drug addictions do to our children in our communities we will fair a much better chance of getting over the hump.Being a recovering crack addict myself I identify all to well with that song.But being a black women living with Aids looking out at the devastation my crack addiction has added to my communities struggle, I believe as Bill Crosby does, we have not kept up our part of the bargain,and I will take it even further to say that we perpetuate most of our own destruction.Working in the field and pounding the pavement on the front lines of prevention I am faced with a reality that makes me cry daily. That being the true facts that I live with every day,1. I watch people that are infected and addicted, continuously ignore all the safe sex talks and workshops provided to help keep themselves and others safe,all in the need to get more drugs by any means necessary.2 As you wrote there is enough available prevention wise, but is there enough available,in morals in our communities. I believe we the cracked generation especialy those of us that are clean, need to take a good look at what's become of our children and families. We need to take a serious look at the connection of drugs and the rising rate of STI infections and start trying to come together and build some strategies to get us over this hump.
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Dove Bank Estate, in Little Lever, has been earmarked for funds of more than £20,000 by ward councillors.

The money will come from Great Places as a condition of its planning permission for building 25 new houses off Park Road.

The funding was initially allocated to Mytham Park, but will now be diverted to Dove Bank Estate after ward councillors protested those affected by the development did not stand to benefit.

Cllr Sean Hornby said: “We’ve been arguing that Dovebank Estate is our most deprived part of our ward, we want to be able to spend money there, and we’re now due £20,000.

“The whole estate is completely run-down , not so much on the inside, but it’s the exterior, it’s an isolated estate built with no facility to drive cars around it, so it creates quite a lot of ghettos where anti-social behaviour can take place.”

He continued: “The money had to come back.It took a bit of a battle but Great Places agreed to it and therefore the money is back for the estate and in our control.”

Cllr Hornby, who says he wants to put some ‘pride back into the area’ is also hoping to raise cash from other sources, including ‘match-funding’ from Bolton at Home.

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He added: “The first stage will be to send fliers and letters out inviting residents to a public meeting. I’m hoping they will set up a residents association to get them more clout and a better liaison with the police as well.”


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Today you will see Columbus’ tomb, the ornate cathedral (UNESCO), and the Giralda Bell Tower. Enjoy a walking tour of the quaint old Santa Cruz Quarter with its bright flowers, white-washed buildings and winding streets; then continue to Plaza de Espana and the beautiful Maria Luisa Park, one of the loveliest in all of Europe. This evening, enjoy an authentic flamenco show (UNESCO) featuring Seville's top performers.
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Travel along the peaceful Sierra Nevada to Granada, the last great capital of the Moors in Spain before it fell to the Catholic monarchs in 1492. Join a local expert for a tour of the world-famous Alhambra, the immense hilltop palace that is a UNESCO site. Also tour the Generalife, meaning “garden of the architect,” where the grounds are beautifully designed with waterfalls, courtyards and smaller secret gardens.
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Begin your day viewing the impressive City of Arts & Sciences. A walking tour of historic Valencia features the ornate 14th-century Serranos Tower and imposing 15th-century Quart Tower. You'll also see the bustling central market, one of the largest in Europe, and view the Gothic cathedral, where construction began in 1262 on the site of an ancient mosque. Next, visit Lladro-City of Porcelain and learn about the history and creative process of the world-famous, handmade Lladro figurines**. Travel to the area where paella cuisine originated. A “paella experience” features a boat ride on the canals surrounding rice field plantations; a visit to a traditional fisherman’s home known as a “barraca;” a paella-making demonstration and an authentic paella lunch. The remainder of the day is at leisure.
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Travel to Barcelona, one of Europe’s most beautiful and exciting cities. The afternoon is at leisure to explore Barcelona’s fascinating boulevards including the famous Las Ramblas, dotted with colorful bird and flower stalls.
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Day 10: Barcelona
Today, get an in-depth look at vibrant and lively Barcelona. Your locally guided tour showcases Columbus Monument; Parc de Montjuic; plus Antonio Gaudi’s UNESCO World Heritage sites including La Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, Batllo House and the unconventional Casa Mila building. Gather this evening for a farewell dinner celebrating the end of an unforgettable trip to Spain!
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You return home with vivid memories of a spectacularly beautiful land with an old, rich and diverse cultural heritage.
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Seville • Columbus' tomb Santa Cruz Quarter Plaza de Espana Maria Luisa Park
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BarcelonaAntonio Gaudi's architectural masterpieces: La Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, Casa Mila

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The BP oil spill may still be continuing, but you can save money while supporting another oil company instead.  (I am going to go out on a limb and say BP will be raising prices whenever they can get away with it for as long as possible.)

But, back to the good part about saving money.  For some time now, Giant grocery store has had a deal with Shell Oil called Gas Rewards.  The premise is very simple:  register with the program, shop at Giant, and earn points when you shop.  Points are earned at a rate of 1 point/$1 spent.  Once you hit a threshold of 100 points, that’s good for $.10 off a gallon.  Shop a lot?  Rack up enough points and you can save up to $2.20/gallon in one visit.  Their website has a very helpful tutorial in case you need more explanation, but once you visit the gas station, pop in your Giant card and the price per gallon will go down as you redeem points.

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