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Have you ever tried to chew a stake without cutting it? Although it may be possible, I am sure it would be to most dreadful thing to do. In other words, the only way you can enjoy a steak (as long as you are not a vegetarian) is by cutting it in small pieces. The journey to success is just like eating a steak, you can only enjoy it in small pieces.
You need to take one step at a time. I don't know if you like to watch tennis or not, but is a sport that requires a lot of energy and concentration. In tennis, matches can go on for hours. But, if you ask a tennis player who wins a match, he will tell you that during the match he was only thinking about each game rather than about sets or the whole match. He was focusing at the task at hand.
Instead of waiting a long time for the big winning day, why don't you enjoy success everyday? It is very important when you set your long term goals that you also set yourself smaller goals (e.g., milestones), and as you reach each milestone you should congratulate yourself and celebrate.
Passion and determination are the fuel that help you achieve your biggest goals. If you run out of these two important things, you will have a hard time succeeding.
This is the golden rule for every successful person. When you fail, you can learn from your mistakes. However, if you give up, you won't have any chance to succeed. Failure is only destructive when you give up to try. As long as you don't give up and keep trying, you will achieve success.
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Thanks for your kind words Ali. You're right when you said that success should be taken little by little. A simple feeling of contentment over a thing achieved will make us feel fulfilled in one area of our lives. When sum it up, then, the total outcome that you'll get is success itself. I think it's a great habit to savor each rewarding moment for a simple thing you've worked for.
Thanks for this pick-me-up! Everyone needs the reminder that it is the little things in life that count. Success rarely happens overnight, so we must consider even the most minuet milestone a step closer to our goal.
The most profound and helpful tips are often the most simple. Thanks for reminding me of the basics.
I strongly agree with you with the golden rule, "You Can Fail, But You Can't Give Up". I've seen many people who tend to make money online, they will just quit the game when they can't make even a penny for the first few days, that's the worst part of a people who wants to make money.
Funny how I have a blog post covering almost the same notion from an entirely different point of view! Should have it out next week or so.
My main focus has been on getting the skillset mastered, and it's working very well.
This has been an inspiring article! Need to learn to do more celebrating as I go.
Very well said! Keep it up!
The last point is workable for me much right now, since I am not earning enough to pay for the Rents now.
1. Though i am successful at blogging & affiliate marketing, I am struggling to move my new blog http://www.redisred.com . Because i am trying designing theme, posting content, driving free traffic, participate in social media etc etc. So as per your first point, initially i am going to concentrate on posting content alone.
2. I have smaller goals like No., of comments, No of subscribers & No of clients etc.
3. My passion is helping others to earn online. My determination is my clients should receive their blog earnings in first 90 days.
4. I can't give up. So i think I won't fail.


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There are three changes to the DHL Stormers forward pack for the Vodacom Super Rugby encounter with the Reds at DHL Newlands on Saturday.
Following their victory against the Blues last week, the DHL Stormers will be looking for their third win of the season at home, when they face the Queensland side at 17h15 on Saturday.
There is just one change to the starting backline that did duty against the Blues, with Craig Barry at fullback in place of Dillyn Leyds who has been ruled out with a calf injury. Justin Phillips and George Whitehead provide halfback cover on the replacements bench.
In the loose trio Cobus Wiese is back at blindside flank, which means that Pieter-Steph du Toit shifts across to lock with Chris van Zyl among the replacements.
In the front row JC Janse van Rensburg will start at loosehead prop in a rotational switch wiith Steven Kitshoff. Tighthead prop Carlu Sadie and loose forwards Kobus van Dyk and Sikhumbuzo Notshe are also back in the matchday squad after being ruled out last week due to illness.
DHL Stormers Head Coach Robbie Fleck said that his team have their sights on making another step-up in their performance levels this weekend.
"It was great to get back to winning ways at DHL Newlands last week, but we are certainly not taking anything for granted.
"We want to go out there and improve in a number of areas, to maintain the positive trajectory we are on," he said.
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    Dropdown link

    Action
    Another action
    Something else here

I have tried to add position:absolute, left:0 etc. however without any luck..

A: You can use transform:
Example:
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  left: 50%;
  right: auto;
  text-align: center;
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If you need more info, you can read more about it on the CSS-tricks

A: In this case (in a media query) you can use position: fixed, an appropriate top value (equal to the height of the navbar), and for the horizontal centering left: 50% and transform: translateX(-50%);

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EXCLUSIVE: Roger Stone Urges Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to Legalize Weed In Interview Prior To His Police State Arrest
Plus: CNN films the raid on Stone's home: Did Mueller's office tip them off?
I reached out via a text message on January 18 to Roger Stone, President Donald Trump's long-time associate, to ask him for an interview for Washington Babylon. Over the following week or so we had a lengthy text exchange and then a phone call.
I had initially asked Stone to do an interview about political dirty tricks, and to ask him if he was still in the game what sort of stunts he would pull on on Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donald Trump. I also hoped he would endorse the Petunia/Bella Robinson 2000 presidential campaign.
It was clearly intended to be tongue-in-cheek and I thought at first that I would write it under the byline of Morris Shenker, a deceased, alleged mob attorney who covers the Petunia campaign for Washington Babylon.
Stone said that given his precarious political circumstances — more below — he probably shouldn't talk about dirty tricks even in jest. He proposed we do an interview about his hopes and plans for the national legalization of marijuana, which he hoped Ocasio-Cortez would support.
We were supposed to conduct the interview this weekend to run today, but Stone was indicted on seven counts last Thursday by a federal grand jury in Washington, at the behest of former FBI director and Russiagate special counsel Robert Mueller. He was arrested Friday morning during a raid by an FBI SWAT team on his home in Florida.
Mueller alleged in the indictment that Stone "sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks in coordination with Trump campaign officials," according to the ghastly cable TV network CNN. The network claims it was staking out Stone's house because it suspected he would be arrested. My guess, and it's obviously only a guess, is that someone in or close to Mueller's office or law enforcement tipped CNN off so it could be on hand to film the armed circus of Stone's arrest.
Stone has had a colorful career in politics and there's plenty not to like about him, depending on your political point of view. (There are certainly Democratic operatives every bit as "dirty" as Stone or worse, like Clinton family hack Sidney Blumenthal.) Personally, I find a lot of what Stone has done in the past to be repugnant but I also can't help but admire his cleverness and political brilliance, and generally I love rogues.
Also, let me state clearly and forcefully that whatever you think of Stone this raid was a disgrace and police state shit that is intolerable. No one, whatever their political beliefs, should support it. Mueller is out of control and the whole Russiagate investigation is a farce — which is clearly seen in Stone's indictment, which Andrew McCarthy of National Review brilliantly laid out in this story. (Disclosure: I dislike Trump and Hillary Clinton in equal measure and loathe Bill Clinton more than loathe of them.)
Naturally, liberals and #TheResistance cheered Stone's bogus arrests. I expect they won't be so supportive of police state tactics when Trump or another (future) right-wing president employs them on these very same liberals.
Stone was released on $250,000 bond — an option not available to poor African-Americans or anyone else arrested on non-violent drug charges, by the way. I messaged him while he was in custody to voice my support for him but I also sent him a very critical story I'd published about him by Sydney Leathers, Washington Babylon's Senior Contributing Writer. He was supremely pissed so it looks like our interview is off.
Therefore, I am publishing a lightly edited and shortened version of our text message exchange below, beginning with my courting of him for the interview:
Me: I have written dozens if not hundreds of stories denouncing the farce of Russiagate.
Me: I'll be honest with you, I didn't vote for Trump and I dislike about 80% of what he stands for but I sure as fuck didn't vote for Hillary Clinton.
Roger: You seem to have a miss impression of me as someone who agrees with Trump on everything which is far from the mark. I'm a libertarian and I fully understand Donald Trump having spent 40 years in his orbit. Anyway you slice it he's better than that epic criminal Hillary Clinton.
Me: I totally agree with you and I have written that many times. I wrote a piece about the Clinton Foundations disgusting work in Columbia and they attacked me viciously as they had many times before.
Me: And I sort of figured you were not really in total agreement with all of Trump's positions but I just didn't know.
Me: But again to be honest, I am for AOC. She can't run for office or at least the presidency in 2020 but I'm a big fan of hers. I see her as the left-wing Donald Trump and I expected even if you don't like her policy is you have to admire her rhetoric and balls.
Roger: Personally I am hoping that AOC cosponsors legislation with Matt Gaetz in the house to legalize marijuana. He is a right wing congressman from Florida who happens to be a pro marijuana.
Roger: (After I bragged about having worked with Alexander Cockburn.) Always liked Cockburn Even though I would've had to send him to a prison camp.
Roger: (After his arrest and after I sent him Sydney's story.) That story is hateful. Perhaps you should be more concerned that the FBI raised my home with a 29 member swat team and then I opened the door to be faced with assault weapons pointed in my face. They came 17 vehicles, helicopter and two boats because my home backs up on a canal. I was handcuffed and shackled while they terrorized my wife who is deaf. They then ransacked my entire home looking for evidence that does not exist. They most certainly could have contacted my lawyer and I would've turn myself in voluntarily. The existence of a CNN camera to record my arrest and particularly the issuance of a search warrant violates the law. Tell Sydney Leathers to go fuck herself.
Me: I did. And I will reflect your point of you in my Monday story. Take it easy. I don't censor my writers.
Roger: Your writer is a talentless cunt.
Me: I'll tell her you said so. And honestly, I totally agree with you about the raid and CNN and I am going to nail the fuck out of them on that.
Me: I'll write a story Monday. I'll send you the link and sincerely, good luck and I will take you out for a drink next time you are available. All you have to do is check me out on Facebook and Twitter and you will see I think you got fucked.
Me: I'm really sorry your wife had to witness that. Fucking police state bullshit.
By the way, when I talked to Stone on the phone last week before his arrest he said that Obama could have passed progressive measure on weed with the stroke of his pen but had been too cowardly to do so. I asked him if Trump might support the efforts of Congressman Gaetz — it didn't sound like he had had any contacts with Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez — and he said he thought he might. "Trump recognizes that the real crisis we have is related to opioids," he said.
*By the way, there is a very small chance that I was never communicating with Roger Stone. I originally got his phone number from a Republican operative so it's possible he have me the contact information for someone who was impersonating Roger Stone, and I was the victim of a hoax. But that seems pretty doubtful. But if I was set up, I'll let you all know.
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In the first phase of a massive Pentagon renovation, the Defense Department is installing separate networks for voice, video, and classified and unclassified data.
All the networks are supposed to merge into a single high-speed pipe by the end of the 10-year project.
'I feel confident we'll reach that,' said Col. Robert Kirsch, the Pentagon's project manager for the information management and telecommunications infrastructure renovation.
How soon it happens, however, depends on when various technologies become available and reliable.
Planners have already projected as far out as two decades the networking needs in the 55-year-old building. To build in 50 years' worth of capacity for as-yet-undefined needs, they have designed an OC-48 Synchronous Optical Network backbone on each floor, almost 500 telecommunications closets, 47 communications equipment rooms, and 15 wedge rooms to serve classified and unclassified networks.
The renovation of one of the world's largest office buildings began nine years ago in the basement, and one of three basement segments is finished. An asynchronous transfer mode backbone is in place for the so-called swing space, where 7,000 employees are being housed during work on the five above-ground floors.
Work started in December on the first of five above-ground wedges, each of which will take about two years to complete.
GTE Government Systems Corp. of Needham Heights, Mass., won a $110 million contract to install the ATM network in the first wedge.
Kirsch called the old wiring there a rat's nest and said he expects subsequent wedges will go faster. Some power and network outages have occurred but nothing more serious, he said.
'I just renovated my house, and the disruptions are just like that,' one senior Army executive said.
Kirsch said his job is to ensure that there is enough bandwidth'through large bundles of fiber-optic cable'to preclude any need for assigning priorities to users.
'We're trying to push copper as far out as possible,' Kirsch said.
In the first phase, copper use is confined to telephone service and to some data runs from wiring closets to desks. Video arrives over a combination of fiber and coaxial cable.
Initially, 2.4-Gbps Sonet OC-48 rings will connect three wedge rooms, one for secure and two for unsecure traffic, in each wedge of the five above-ground floors. The ATM mesh will extend into each wedge at 622 Mbps by OC-12 fiber to the edge switches, and by 155-Mbps OC-3 fiber to the telecommunications closets.
Fiber and twisted-pair copper will run from the telecom closets to desks. Each telecom closet will support 100 users in about 10,000 square feet of floor space. Eventually, both secure and unsecured networks will ride on the same Sonet ring, and the two types of traffic will split at the telecom closets.
In the first wedge, users have at least 10-Mbps Ethernet service plus some ATM to the desktop. By 2006, when the third wedge is done, every user will have 100 Mbps, mostly via ATM, Kirsch said.
So much bandwidth could make it unnecessary to buy more-powerful desktop systems, some Army officials suggested.
'We have about 25,000 computers with 10G hard drives at the Pentagon,' said Lt. Gen. William H. Campbell, the Army's chief information officer.
In the thin-client architecture he envisions, data and applications would reside on the networks rather than on local hard drives. That would better guard sensitive data and would let the Army negotiate cheaper server-based software licenses, Campbell said. Thin clients cost less than PCs and are more flexible to network and replace, he said.
At the core of the Pentagon backbone will be the ForeRunner ASX-1200 ATM switch from Fore Systems Inc. of Warrendale, Pa. GTE Government Systems selected Fore as the switch provider for the first wedge after Fore provided the ATM network for the swing space.
Fore has a sizable presence in the Defense Information Systems Agency's global ATM backbone and at the intelligence agencies, said Steve White of Fore Systems. He said ATM was selected for the Pentagon backbone because it has the reliability and scalability for an infrastructure expected to last for 50 years. 'ATM handles that gracefully,' he said, because it can transmit various Ethernet flavors as well as telephony and video.
The ASX-1200 switch generates concatenated OC-48, which means the bandwidth is consolidated on a single pipe rather than bundled in smaller pipes. To get ready for expanding requirements, Fore is working on a 10-Gbps OC-192 switch. A wave-division-multiplexing function in the current ASX-4000 switch can attain 10-Gbps OC-48 rates, White said.


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Refuse to Live There! | Connecting with You!
A lot of people – even Christians who are supposed to positive in every situation – seem to foolishly delight in living in the past! Yet Christians are meant to be people of the present creating – with the Holy Spirit's help – a great future. Grabbing hold of the biblical promise of Jeremiah 29:11 and living life to the full. Getting on with life.
Refuse to live there! Move on!
The Bible has several examples of people who blew it but they rose up and move on. One I've been looking at recently is the prodigal son. He came to his senses and in Luke 15:18 determined 'I will get up and go…' He then rose up out of the pigsty and made for the only one who could help him re-establish and gain a better future – his father. Things worked out fantastically for the guy! It all speaks to us of the confidence we can have in the heavenly Father – God himself who cares so much for everyone.
Another classic is King David who succumbed to the lusts of the flesh and has an extramarital affair with the beautiful Bathsheba. Some of you will remember the story…she gets pregnant, David tries everything to cover his guilt, even having her husband Uriah set up to be murdered.
But…truth always comes out. An ashamed David marries the widow but their child comes down with a fatal illness. 2 Samuel 12 describes David's hitting the ground, fasting and praying for the baby. It's to no avail and God mercifully takes the child. But when David realises the baby is dead he arises, cleans up, changes from mourning clothes, worships God and asks for food (v19-20). His servants ask, 'Why the change?' and he simply explains that he's moving on (v21-23).
Note the wording of v20, 'David got up … .' He rose and moved on!
To change your circumstances you need to get up and out of whatever is binding you or you're wrongly holding on to and move on into a future of hope and confidence in God!
Let go of the past. We can be our own worst enemy by holding onto it or burying ourselves in it or not letting go.
You probably know some people who keep talking about the past (even the good things that can bind and stop them from moving into fresh experiences for today!). Move into a better lifestyle.
One of the greatest declarations of Jesus was his dramatic statement of John 8:36 that he's made us free! He also said that 'God is the God of the living not the dead' (Matthew12: 27). Believe these words of God! If you're living in the past then you bound to it and living among the dead!
Think of the various New Testament people with needs – Mark relates the miracle turnaround of the blind, the lepers, the demon-possessed, the sick woman of Chapter 5 verse 25. All were in a kind of pigsty or downer situation, all decide to rise up and go (or were brought by caring friends or parent) to Jesus the one who changes circumstances.
Maybe that's what you need to do today – rise up and determine to meet Jesus in a life-changing encounter that will result in a new future for you. There's always hope in Jesus! Just refuse to live in the past!


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Ray Parkin
Pattie Wright
The Men Of The Line
In 1939, Ray Parkin was a petty officer on board the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth.
Despite his lack of formal education and his naval practicality and discipline, Ray had the soul of an artist and a philosopher's enquiring mind.
As HMAS Perth became embroiled in war in the Mediterranean and South-East Asia, Ray chronicled the events through his meticulous diaries and his minutely observed paintings and sketches. When Perth was sunk off the coast of Java, Ray survived but soon became a prisoner of war, first on the Thai-Burma Railway and then as a labourer in a Japanese coalmine.
The horrors and privations of those years saw some of his most memorable artwork, documenting both the beauty of the natural world and the savageries of the POW experience.
He also developed lifelong friendships with fellow prisoners Edward "Weary" Dunlop and Laurens van der Post, and later published the seminal books Out of the Smoke, Into the Smother and The Sword and the Blossom.
Ray died in 2005, acclaimed for his art, his wartime trilogy, and for his prize-winning masterpiece HM Bark Endeavour, an extraordinary evocation of Captain Cook's ship and its voyage up the east coast in 1771.
More images from Ray's life:
Pattie Guest Speaker at 8th Div Sigs / 6th Line
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"When we got to the Line, we didn't know what to expect. We knew we weren't going to be treated with kid gloves, but we didn't expect the fourteen to sixteen hours a day on bloody 6 ounces of rice... They worked us to death slowly."
The Men Of The Line recounts the stories of the Thai-Burma Railway survivors, brought together by author, producer and director Pattie Wright, and published in 2008.
Copyright to the Parkin photographs, sketches and watercolours is held by the Parkin family.
Use of any of the images requires permission.
Please contact Pattie Wright for more information.
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Q: Move data onto blank row below Excel from multiple columns with VBA macro I currently have data in the following format:
Name 1 | Email 1 | ID 1 | Address 1 Street | Address 1 Suburb | Address 1 City | Address 2 Street | Address 2 Suburb | Address 2 City | Address 3 Street | Address 3 Suburb | Address 3 City
<NEW LINE>
Name 2 | Email 2 | ID 2 | Address 1 Street | Address 1 Suburb | Address 1 City | Address 2 Street | Address 2 Suburb | Address 2 City

etc.
And I need it to look like the following:
Name 1 | Email 1 | ID 1 | Address 1 Street | Address 1 Suburb | Address 1 City
<NEW LINE>
Name 1 | Email 1 | ID 1 | Address 2 Street | Address 2 Suburb | Address 2 City
<NEW LINE>
Name 1 | Email 1 | ID 1 | Address 3 Street | Address 3 Suburb | Address 3 City
<NEW LINE>
Name 2 | Email 2 | ID 2 | Address 1 Street | Address 1 Suburb | Address 1 City
<NEW LINE>
Name 2 | Email 2 | ID 2 | Address 2 Street | Address 2 Suburb | Address 2 City

etc.
What I have so far in my spreadsheet is in column A is a COUNTA formula to work out the number of rows we need to insert below each row to allow for the data to be duplicated which is calculating fine.  From this I have used the following code to insert these number of lines which is also working fine.
Sub ProcessAddressLabels()
For N = Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(xlUp).Row To 1 Step -1
    If Cells(N, 1) <> "" And Cells(N, 1) <> 1 Then
            Rows(N + 1 & ":" & N + Cells(N, 1) - 1).Insert
            NumValues = Cells(N, 1)
    End If
Next N
End Sub

What I am not sure from here is how to copy each set of 3 cells from the end and place it along with the duplicated user data onto the lines below!
Any help is much appreciated and I hope I explained this simply enough!

A: I cannot say I fully understood all your needs, however
would something like this help:
Dim sht As Worksheet
Set sht = ActiveSheet
' copy the range C1:F1 to the start of the third row.
sht.range("C1:F1").Copy Destination:=Worksheets("Sheet1").range("A3")

A: Give this a try:
Sub Test()

   Dim rw As Range, n As Long, i As Long, x As Long

   Set rw = ActiveSheet.Rows(1) 'starting row

   Do While rw.Cells(1).Value <> ""
        'how many sets of addresses to move?
        x = Application.Ceiling((Application.CountA(rw) - 6) / 3, 1)
        If x > 0 Then
            'insert required rows
            rw.Offset(1, 0).Resize(x).Insert
            For i = 1 To x
                'copy common cells
                rw.Cells(1).Resize(1, 3).Copy rw.Cells(1).Offset(i, 0)
                'cut each address block
                rw.Cells(7 + ((i - 1) * 3)).Resize(1, 3).Cut rw.Cells(1).Offset(i, 3)
            Next i
        End If
        'move to next "new" row
        Set rw = rw.Offset(1 + x, 0)
   Loop

End Sub


Delay in convention-center expansion adds time for tunnel buses, but that's just one project in coming years that will likely worsen downtown Seattle traffic clogs before new light-rail stations open.
People traveling through Seattle will catch a rare break when the Metropolitan King County Council votes as early as Monday to let buses remain in the downtown transit tunnel until sometime in 2019.
Despite this reprieve of up to one year, bus detours and worse congestion will happen sooner or later.
How much hassle will people endure? Can government agencies make a useful plan to move traffic?
• Ferry terminal rebuild: Starting in Augustand finishing in 2023, to cause detours on and alongside Colman Dock.
• First Avenue streetcar: Rails and new concrete to be installed in center lanes from 2018-20, if federal transit grants aren't slashed by President Trump's budget proposal.
• Madison Street bus-rapid transit: Includes a downtown loop where Alaskan Way meets Madison and Spring streets. Construction early 2018 to late 2019.
• Highway 99 tunnel completion: Tube bypassing downtown may open sooner than early 2019 schedule. Permanent closures of Alaskan Way Viaduct, its mid-downtown and Belltown exits, and Battery Street Tunnel.
• Viaduct demolition: Expected in 2019 after tunnel opens. Will cause cascading street closures.
• KeyArena renovations: Oak View Group's proposal, if approved, calls for construction January 2019 to September 2020.
• Waterfront Alaskan Way: To be rebuilt with promenades, more lanes and bike trails in 2019-23, after viaduct demolition.
• SLU street grid: Harrison, Thomas and John streets to be extended across Aurora Avenue North in 2019-21 after tunnel opens.
Convention Place Station will be sold to the county-owned convention center authority for $161 million, to go toward transit operations. The $1.6 billion expansion will double the center's size, while housing and office towers rise across Olive Way.
Land clearing could begin in late 2018.
The sales deal would evict hundreds of buses a day from the downtown transit tunnel onto city streets by March 2019 if project permits arrive by July 1, 2018 — or September 2019 if permits take longer.
Convention-center supporters say the boost in tourism and the construction work is worth the sacrifice that commuters will face.
County Executive Dow Constantine in March proposed a bus ouster as early as October 2018 in the sales agreement. Developers now don't think city permits will arrive soon enough to allow that.
Construction will block a direct Interstate-5 express lane ramp for buses, and fill Olive Way beyond capacity.
Also in the 2019-23 time frame, the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be demolished, the downtown ferry terminal and surface waterfront boulevard rebuilt, and more streetcar tracks installed, even as thousands of office and housing units keep sprouting.
It all adds up to more congestion downtown, before Sound Transit can offer some relief by opening its Northgate, Roosevelt and U District light-rail stations. Those stations won't open until 2021, with long four-car trains.
"They talk about a few minutes more. My experience with traffic is, it could take a lot longer," says Marci Carpenter, who is blind and leads a city transit advisory board. She already spends 20 minutes on a bus from I-5 to Third Avenue in the Stewart Street corridor.
County officials are unlikely to wait longer.
Instead, a broad traffic-planning effort called One Center City is underway.
As a result of the bus-tunnel closure and other projects, Metro will change some routes so that riders transfer from buses into trains to reach downtown, instead of sitting through delays on congested streets.
More buses using Highway 520 will stop at UW Station at Husky Stadium, where the train reliably reaches Westlake Station within six minutes.
An all-bus trip that's now 32 to 46 minutes from the Eastside to south downtown would take 38 to 54 minutes two years from now on that same route. But riders could make the trip in 30 to 41 minutes using both bus and train, a Metro infographic says.
"It's going to be more convenient for some, and less convenient for others," said Metro deputy general manager Victor Obeso.
To keep 520-corridor buses from being swallowed by downtown traffic, Metro is considering a couple of options after the UW Station stop: The buses could go another mile to the University District and return east, or proceed to South Lake Union.
Obeso urges riders to take an online survey and make comments.
Traffic would be a hindrance through the Montlake Bridge as buses head from 520 to the UW Station. After that, would buses stop in a road lane next to the train entrance? Enter UW parking lots? Stop in bigger stations or shelters across Montlake Boulevard?
"How do you create a situation where people aren't angry, where they can make a seamless transfer?" said Shefali Ranganathan, executive director of the Transportation Choices Coalition.
Likewise, some buses from the south and west would stop at Pioneer Square Station, and continue up First Hill. The West Seattle C Line will continue traveling to South Lake Union.
An average 570 buses use Convention Place Station during six peak hours each weekday. They use it to reach the direct freeway ramps, continue on Olive Way, make downtown tunnel trips, or park for driver breaks known as layovers. The convention-center project will push those buses elsewhere.
Without street improvements, buses on Fourth Avenue would take 3½ more minutes to cross downtown, agencies say.
Some ideas to relieve transit congestion have already fallen by the roadside.
Fifth Avenue, which is mainly a general-traffic route south to I-5, will not be converted into a three-lane bus corridor as suggested last winter. That change might require $28 million and more time than planners have.
Nor will agencies pursue the alternative, striping a second bus lane onto northbound Fourth Avenue.
"One Center City Now Recommends Bare Minimum for Transit," said a headline at The Urbanist blog this month.
Scott Kubly, director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT), said another bus lane on Fourth "didn't perform" in studies. Buses already use a general lane to leapfrog other buses, he said.
"Basically what you saw was a marginal improvement in travel time to the bus, but a huge detrimental impact for cars," Kubly said. Signals will be rearranged to help keep buses moving, he said.
He sounded determined to build either a two-way bike lane on Fourth, or a pair of one-way bike lanes on Fourth and Fifth. Adding a second bus lane to Fourth would eliminate the space to create a protected bicycle lane on the left side, he said.
What's being done to provide relief from the expected congestion?
The convention-center sales deal calls for a temporary, $4 million loop ramp on the west edge of the site, to let buses use the tunnel and pour onto Ninth Avenue during the first year of land-clearing and construction — instead of being pushed out immediately in 2018.
Once buses are removed from the tunnel, light-rail trains should be more efficient, crossing downtown in nine minutes instead of 11 minutes.
Officials propose all-door loading for buses on Third Avenue, not just RapidRide buses, to save time.
Sound Transit now expects to run its Bellevue-Seattle Route 550, serving 10,000 daily users, on downtown streets instead of an earlier option of dumping riders at International District/Chinatown light-rail station. Managers concluded that's too much hardship for people who already lost the South Bellevue Park-and-Ride and I-90 express lanes.
If not for the convention-center deal, Route 550 and other buses might have used the tunnel until 2020, when Sound Transit begins its practice runs for the Northgate rail extension.
SDOT is defending car access, which Kubly said will be needed even as downtown's growth is served mainly by transit and close-in housing.
Under a leading One Center City option, Sixth Avenue would be redesigned as a busier two-way thoroughfare — offering a direct shot from Amazon's campus in north downtown to I-5 near James Street.
At the convention-center addition, sidewalks, landscaping and plazas are promised. The project would contribute about $10 million, to match a potential $20 million from the city's waterfront project, to create a pleasant corridor from Capitol Hill past the convention center to Pike Place Market, predicted convention-center developer Matt Griffin.
Some citizen activists have called for bolder moves, even a parklike lid above the freeway.
The Seattle City Council will hear that view when it considers permits for developers to use city right of way.
Metro always planned to eventually sell the Convention Place bus station, so it's great to earn income for transit operations and wind up with a publicly owned convention facility, said Sung Yang, chief of staff for Constantine.
Metro will be paid the first $20 million upfront in the first year, and that money can fund more bus service.
Griffin said he hopes the project isn't delayed by permit controversies.
Every six months lost postpones $120 million in tourist business, and $17 million in sales-tax income, he said.
"The other thing that I often think about is (that) we have $14 million going into subsidized housing" as part of the sales agreement, Griffin said.
He reckons that at an average $100,000 subsidy per unit around the city, and with 1.3 people in each one, the land deal will fund well over 50,000 safe nights of sleep per year — another reason to get it done.


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Home Defective Drugs Diflucan
New York Diflucan Birth Defect Attorneys
What Is Diflucan?
Diflucan is a brand name for a pharmaceutical compound called fluconazole. This drug is often prescribed to treat fungal infections, including vaginal yeast infections, throat infections, abdominal infections, and brain infections (meningitis). In addition, Diflucan is sometimes used to prevent infections in patients who have undergone radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
When taken in high doses during the first trimester of pregnancy, however, Diflucan has been shown by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to increase the risk of birth defects.
The New York Diflucan birth defect lawyers at Finz & Finz, P.C., represent parents throughout the country whose children have been born with Diflucan-related defects. Call (855) TOP-FIRM, or contact Finz & Finz, P.C., online for a Free Case Evaluation.
Birth Defects Associated With Diflucan
A report by the FDA issued in August 2011 warns consumers that high doses of Diflucan (between 400 mg and 800 mg daily) may cause a number of defects in newborns.
These defects can include:
Short, broad heads
Abnormal faces and skull
Thin ribs and long bones
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The FDA also recently changed high doses of Diflucan from category C to category D. This means that there is concrete evidence to show that this drug increases the risk of birth defects in humans, as opposed to simply showing a risk in animal testing. Under certain circumstances, however, Diflucan or other fluconazole-based drugs may still be given to pregnant women.
Questions? Call Experienced Product Liability Attorneys
If your child was born with birth defects that may be linked to Diflucan, call Finz & Finz, P.C., toll-free at (855) TOP-FIRM to speak with an experienced New York defective drug lawyer and learn more about your legal rights and options for pursuing financial compensation. You can also fill out the Free Case Evaluation form online.
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Home Latest News PEMRA Censures Geo Over 'One-Sided' Coverage
PEMRA Censures Geo Over 'One-Sided' Coverage
by Newsweek Pakistan March 14, 2020
Regulatory body's show-cause notice follows senior official accusing media group of not highlighting government statements
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority on Friday issued a show-cause notice to the Jang/Geo Group for "airing uni-polarity of views in its bulletins and programs since yesterday (Thursday)," and discussing "under investigation/trial matters barred under PEMRA laws."
On Thursday, the National Accountability Bureau arrested Mir Shakilur Rehman, the CEO of the Jang/Geo Group, over a land transaction from 1986. It alleged that he had secured illegal concessions from the government to purchase that plot. The arrest has attracted outrage from both within and outside Pakistan, with human rights groups accusing Islamabad of retaliating against Geo for its criticism of the incumbent government's policies.
In PEMRA's notification, the government body has directed representatives of Geo to appear before it on March 20 for a "personal hearing" into the matter. It was issued shortly after Special Assistant to the P.M. on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan claimed to journalists that Rehman's arrest was not an attempt by the government to muzzle media. She claimed media debate on the matter should be avoided and accused Geo of providing a 'one-sided' view of the case. She said the media group should also highlight the government's version.
Shortly after Awan's press conference concluded, Geo reported that cable operators across the country had started receiving orders to either remove Geo from their offered channels or move it to a different frequency to prevent people from accessing it. Geo News Director (News) Rana Jawad claimed this order was issued by PEMRA, adding that there was no legal justification given for this move. "This is being done at a time when the Editor-in-Chief of the Jang Group/Geo has been arrested by NAB," he was quoted as saying by Geo. "This [censorship] is a manifestation of the conspiracy to shut down, silence and end media," he added.
Also on Friday, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Alice G. Wells posted on Twitter that she had "noted with concern the arrest of Mir Shakilur Rehman, the owner of a leading media company in Pakistan."
She added: "Press freedom, due process, and the rule of law are pillars of every democracy."
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Neo Returns in the Trailer for The Matrix Resurrections
I'm here for all. Of. It.
Yes, the original Matrix trilogy started out strong before getting too caught up in its own convoluted philosophy. But no lie: the moment I heard the original Matrix theme in this first trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, I got goosebumps.
There's a lot of familiar territory and imagery on display in this trailer: black cats, blue pills, Alice in Wonderland. A man named Thomas who feels disconnected from the world and is experiencing strange dreams and visions. A lot of this feels like Easter eggs for Matrix fans, especially once the action kicks in. There's a dojo sequence. Helicopters and rooftop fights. Cool stunts and martial arts choreography. And of course, Agents.
And I'm here for all. Of. It.
The Matrix Resurrections stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, who reprise their roles as Neo and Trinity. (And according to IMDb, Lambert Wilson and Jada Pinkett Smith have also returned from the original trilogy.) New faces include Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (who looks uncannily like a younger Morpheus), Neil Patrick Harris as Thomas' therapist, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Jonathan Groff. The Matrix Resurrections is directed by Lana Wachowski (Lilly Wachowski did not return for this film) based on a script by Wachowski, David Mitchell (author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks), and Aleksandar Hemon.
Story details are still pretty light, though you can rest assured that thousands of geeks are currently breaking down the trailer frame-by-frame to glean any possible clues. Given the Matrix's cyclical nature, The Matrix Resurrections could a prequel that explores one of Neo's former incarnations as the One. But given the movie's title, I'm more inclined to think that the peace that Neo brokered between humanity and the machines at the end of The Matrix Revolutions has somehow broken down, and Neo has been reborn — or resurrected, if you will — to help reforge it.
The Matrix Resurrections will arrive in theaters and on HBO Max on December 22.
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34 / the tasting panel / december 2016 TAKING FLIGHT by Meg Houston Maker T wo million years ago, the Laurentide Ice Sheet raked its claws across North America, scratching 11 deep lakes into the landscape. Born of ice, these lakes now temper the climate for the vines that hug their shores. Wine lovers rejoice. Grapes have been cultivated here since the early 19th century, but Vinifera got a toehold only in the early 1960s with the advent of viable rootstocks. Today the region boasts more than 100 wineries, most along Seneca, Cayuga, Keuka and Canandaigua Lakes. I've visited the Finger Lakes three times since 2010 and recently sampled nearly 50 current releases. With each encounter, I find the wines more complex and polished. They trend lean, and their alluring aromatics and cold-climate freshness make them superlative gastronomy wines. Prices are friendly too. While dry Finger Lakes whites skew stony, off-dry styles highlight tropical and orchard fruits. The best Rieslings, which have justly made the region's reputation, evince a slick of oily miner- als, utterly on-point. The reds, principally Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir, earn their structure from acidity, while a thread of herbaceousness feels—dare I say it?—cooling. Ten Cool Wines from the Finger Lakes Red Newt Cellars 2014 Dry Riesling, Finger Lakes ($20) Juicy tropical fruits—pineapple, guava, passion fruit, mango—are glossed with an oily sheen. Pair with the savory and salty. Boundary Breaks Vineyard 2014 Dry Riesling No. 239, Finger Lakes ($20) Crunchy minerals mix with tree fruits, apple blossom and pear. Felicitous and balanced, and great for salad. Dr. Konstantin Frank 2015 Semi-Dry Riesling, Finger Lakes ($15) Like a ripe yellow apple drenched in honeyed citrus and guava, but steely too, with a lean mineral streak. Lovely with a cheese course. Red Newt Cellars 2013 The Knoll Riesling, Lahoma Vineyards, Finger Lakes ($35) A surprising mouthful of tangerine adorned by citrus blossoms, guava and mango. Succulent and languorous, it's good by the glass. Hermann J. Wiemer 2015 Semi-Dry Riesling, Seneca Lake ($18) A paisley of white flowers and orchard fruits spangle its beautifully articulated frame. Extremely elegant and complex. Pair with seafood or poultry. Anthony Road Wine Company 2014 Devonian Red Blend, Finger Lakes ($13) A rosy Cabernet Franc–Lemberger blend saturated with strawberries steeped in lemon rind and thyme. A red for fish and chicken. Hermann J. Wiemer 2015 Cabernet Franc, Seneca Lake ($25) Wildly floral, redolent of field flowers, orchard fruits, strawberries and fennel. Suede-like tan- nins add gravitas. Incredibly versatile. Atwater Estate Vineyards 2014 Cabernet Franc, North Block Six, Finger Lakes ($18) Pomegranate, juniper berry and a demure sprinkling of purplish petals mingle with a breezy breath of evergreen. Pair with lamb. Damiani Wine Cellars 2007 Cabernet Franc, Finger Lakes ($22) Current releases have grippy tannins, but the 2007 shows bouillon, leathery fruits, pink petals, tea and potpourri. Cellaring the 2014 would reward the patient. Standing Stone Vineyards 2014 Saperavi, Finger Lakes ($30) Textbook Saperavi astringency carries black and blue fruits, rare meat and star anise. A very cool cool-climate wine.


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Q: How to formalize "does not move appreciably" in a mechanics problem? I'm working on an exercise from Keith Symon's "Mechanics", ch.2 no.4 (self-study, not homework). The problem is about analyzing the motion of an electron, initially at rest, when a proton flies nearby with constant speed.

A high-speed proton of electric charge $e$ moves with constant speed $v_0$ in a straight line
past an electron of mass $m$ and charge $-e$, initially at rest. The electron is at a distance $a$ from
the path of the proton.
a) Assume that the proton passes so quickly that the electron does not have time to move
appreciably from its initial position until the proton is far away.

This assumption allows me to consider electron's location to be fixed, and calculate the force in the perpendicular/parallel directions to the proton's movement, the impulse delivered to the electron over all time from $t=-\infty$ to $t=\infty$, and the final momentum and kinetic energy of the electron. I've done these parts of the exercise myself. What I'm having trouble with is the final part,

e) Show that the condition for the original assumption in part (a) to be valid is
$(e^2/4\pi\epsilon_0) \ll \frac{1}{2}mv_0^2$

I'm not sure how to approach this. What should "appreciably" and "far away" mean here? And isn't it strange, from physical considerations, that the suggested answer doesn't depend on the distance $a$ between the electron and the proton's path?
One thing I tried was to arbitrarily say "consider the range $[-t_0,t_0]$ over which the proton delivers 99% of its overall impulse to the electron; then the final velocity $v$ I calculated based on the assumption of the electron not moving allows it to move during the time $2t_0$ a distance that's $\ll a$". I calculated the condition for this and it comes out more complicated than the suggested answer, and depends on $a$. I'd appreciate some ideas or a complete working out (but hints are fine too) for a better? more correct? way to approach this.
P.S. I'll record for the sake of the context the missing parts of the exercise:

a) Assume that the proton passes so quickly that the electron does not have time to move appreciably from its initial position until the proton is far away. Show that the component of force in a direction perpendicular to the line along which the proton moves is
$$F = \frac{e^2a}{4\pi\epsilon_0(a^2+v_0^2t^2)^{3/2}}$$
(mks units).
b) Calculate the impulse delivered by this force.
c) Write the component of the force in a direction parallel to the proton velocity and show that the net impulse in that direction is zero.
d) Using these results, calculate the (approximate) final momentum and final kinetic energy of the electron.
e) Show that the condition for the original assumption in part (a) to be valid is
$(e^2/4\pi\epsilon_0) \ll \frac{1}{2}mv_0^2$

A: This kind of problem is all about limits, and in particular trying to understand what you can from various limiting cases without doing an exact calcultion.
The first limit that's interesting to think about is if $a\rightarrow 0$. Now of course when $a=0$ exactly there will be some collision, but let's just imagine $a$ is extremely small but there is some tiny gap so the proton doesn't bump into the electron. In this situation, will there be any net force imparted to the electron? No! Any work the proton does while approaching the electron, will be undone by work of the same magnitude, in the opposite direction, as the proton recedes from the electron.
Therefore the net momentum transfer to the electron must only occur at finite $a$. This gives us the idea that the proton will transfer momentum to the electron while the distance "along the direction of motion" is comparable to the distance "perpendicular to the direction of motion." Note that this intuition we get from taking limits is backed up by your exact calculation of the force in the perpendicular direction -- this expression is peaked at $t=0$, and the time interval over which the force is large is $t \sim a/v$, which is the time it takes to proton to travel a distance $a$.
The proton is in this interval for a time of approximately $\delta t \sim v / a$. During this time, the acceleration of the electron is approximately (but less than) the acceleration at the moment when the proton is exactly a distance $a$ away: $\ddot{x} = F/m \lesssim e^2/(4\pi \epsilon_0 a^2 m_e)$. Assuming that the electron doesn't move much (we'll revisit this in a second), the amount the electron moves $\delta x$ in the time interval $\delta t$ via which the proton traverses the distance $a$ is $\delta x \sim \ddot{x} (\delta t)^2 \lesssim e^2/(4\pi \epsilon_0 a^2 m_e) (a/v_0)^2 = e^2/(4\pi \epsilon_0 m_e v_0^2)$. Multiplying the numerator and denominator of the last expression by $a$, and rearranging, we can rewrite this as
\begin{equation}
\frac{\delta x}{a} \sim \frac{e^2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 a} \frac{1}{m v_0^2}
\end{equation}
What does it mean for the electron not to move much? It means that we can treat the distance between the electron and the proton as approximately constant, during the time the proton is exerting a force, or in other words that $|\delta x| \ll a$. This means that we need
\begin{equation}
\frac{e^2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 a}  \ll m v_0^2
\end{equation}
At this level of precision we haven't been too careful about factors of 2. However, given the similarity of the last expression to the kinetic energy, it's natural to rephrase this as, and equivalent to the rough level of precision we are working, to say
\begin{equation}
\frac{e^2}{4\pi \epsilon_0 a}  \ll \frac{1}{2} m v_0^2
\end{equation}
(You could also say this is a more conservative bound than the one where we don't include the 1/2).
I suspect this is at the level of precision your book is asking the question. But if you wanted to give a more precise answer, you could work out the first order correction to the impulse accounting for the motion of the electron; you would find there is some correction to the displacement $\delta x$ of the electron that has the form $\delta x = \delta x_0 + C  e^2/(4\pi \epsilon_0 m v_0^2)$, where $\delta x_0$ is the answer you get for the displacement ignoring the motion of the electron, and $C$ is some order 1 dimensionless constant you could compute. By demanding the size of the first order correction is below a certain amount relative to the leading order term, you would get a more precise answer.


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Three Contemporary German Language Fiction Writers: Bernd Lichtenberg, Kathrin Roggla, and Kristin Schneider
Translated from the German by Zaia Alexander, William Martin, and Kristen Schnider
This fourth volume of Green Integer publications of writers who received fellowships to the Villa Auora in Los Angeles focuses on fiction writers—in this case writers from three different countries, Bernd Lichtenberg from Germany, Kathrin Roggla from Austria, and Kristen Schnider from Switzerland.
Each of these is a noted German-language fiction writer and the three together reveal some of the exciting writing occurring in their three countries at the present time. Bernd Lichtenberg was born in Leverkusen in 1966 and grew up in Bergisch Glad-bach. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and religion studies, first in Cologne and Bonn, then in Berlin; he is the author of the film Goodbye, Lenin! and several books of fiction. Kathrin Roggla was born in Salzburg in 1971 and now lives in Berlin. She studied German and Journalism in Salzburg from 1989 and in Berlin from 1992; she has published two books of experimental short prose and a novel, Abrauschen. Kristin T. Schnider was born in London in 1960 and educated in Switzerland and London. After working as a secretary, editor, and translator, she became a freelance writer in 1997. Her work focuses on issues of identity, the status of the individual in society, and racism. Her publications include Die Kodierer in/The coder (1990), Dln-a (1991), Ich wollte tsiten/l wanted to kill (1994), and NYSKY (1996).


Finding your next car should not be a tedious process. A lot of teenagers must be dreaming of this ever since they realized how cool it is to drive your own car. If you have a teenager at home and you are looking into having them learn about responsibility then it would be advisable to get them their own car. Now unless you can afford it, it will not be recommended for you buy them a car right off the showroom. You can get them a used car and if they are able to prove how responsible they are then most probably that will be the time you can consider getting them a brand new car.
As of now they may want to get used to the idea that they are not getting their car brand new. You may want to show them how good used cars can be. It all boils down to where you actually get them. Make sure that you get them from a real trustworthy dealer. If you are willing to spend for the car then the seller should not hesitate in showing the documents about the car like service history as well as the actual odometer readings. Go online and check the prices of the car you are eyeing on and see if one is too cheap to be true.
As for used car dealer St. Louis, this should not be troublesome to find because you should see how easy it is to make a choice online. Some websites even has a live chat support so you can immediately get your answers for any inquiry that you may have. You don't have to be cornered into buying. This way you will be able to make your decision alongside your teenager for the purchase to be final and without regrets.


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import android.app.AlarmManager;
import android.app.PendingIntent;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.support.v4.content.WakefulBroadcastReceiver;

import net.myacxy.agsm.AgsmService_;
import net.myacxy.agsm.utils.SharedItems;

import org.androidannotations.annotations.EReceiver;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.ReceiverAction;
import org.androidannotations.annotations.SystemService;

@EReceiver
public class PeriodicRefreshReceiver extends WakefulBroadcastReceiver
{
    @SystemService AlarmManager alarmManager;

    @Override
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    {
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High-κ perovskite membranes as insulators for two-dimensional transistors
Jing-Kai Huang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7187-26531 na1,
Yi Wan2 na1,
Junjie Shi1 na1,
Ji Zhang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-9976-59481 na1,
Zeheng Wang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6994-12343,
Wenxuan Wang1,
Ni Yang1,
Yang Liu1,
Chun-Ho Lin ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0882-47281,
Xinwei Guan ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0100-480X1,
Long Hu1,
Zi-Liang Yang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2193-94344,5,
Bo-Chao Huang4,
Ya-Ping Chiu ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7065-44114,6,
Jack Yang1,
Vincent Tung7,
Danyang Wang1,
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6109-132X8,
Tom Wu ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0845-48271,
Xiaotao Zu9,
Liang Qiao ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2400-29869,
Lain-Jong Li ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4059-77832,10 &
Sean Li ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4437-88171
Nature volume 605, pages 262–267 (2022)Cite this article
Electronic properties and materials
Two-dimensional materials
The scaling of silicon metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors has followed Moore's law for decades, but the physical thinning of silicon at sub-ten-nanometre technology nodes introduces issues such as leakage currents1. Two-dimensional (2D) layered semiconductors, with an atomic thickness that allows superior gate-field penetration, are of interest as channel materials for future transistors2,3. However, the integration of high-dielectric-constant (κ) materials with 2D materials, while scaling their capacitance equivalent thickness (CET), has proved challenging. Here we explore transferrable ultrahigh-κ single-crystalline perovskite strontium-titanium-oxide membranes as a gate dielectric for 2D field-effect transistors. Our perovskite membranes exhibit a desirable sub-one-nanometre CET with a low leakage current (less than 10−2 amperes per square centimetre at 2.5 megavolts per centimetre). We find that the van der Waals gap between strontium-titanium-oxide dielectrics and 2D semiconductors mitigates the unfavourable fringing-induced barrier-lowering effect resulting from the use of ultrahigh-κ dielectrics4. Typical short-channel transistors made of scalable molybdenum-disulfide films by chemical vapour deposition and strontium-titanium-oxide dielectrics exhibit steep subthreshold swings down to about 70 millivolts per decade and on/off current ratios up to 107, which matches the low-power specifications suggested by the latest International Roadmap for Devices and Systems5.
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Fig. 1: Preparation and characterizations of freestanding single-crystalline SrTiO3 layers.
Fig. 2: Dielectric properties of single-crystalline SrTiO3 membranes.
Fig. 3: Local back-gated MoS2 FETs with ultrahigh-κ SrTiO3 dielectrics.
Fig. 4: Electrostatics of short-channel MoS2 FETs based on ultrahigh-κ SrTiO3 dielectrics.
The data needed to evaluate the conclusions in this work are publicly available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6245863. Additional data related to this paper may be requested from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request.
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We thank the Australian Research Council Discovery Project of DP19010366 for the financial support; the facilities, as well as the scientific and technical assistance, of the NSW Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) and the Research and Prototype Foundry Core Research Facility at the University of Sydney, part of the ANFF; and the units and facilities within the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre at UNSW Sydney for the assistance in material analyses. Z.W. thanks L.Li in Peking University for providing assistance in the TCAD simulation; L.-J.L. and Y.W. thank the support from the University of Hong Kong; and Y.-P.C. acknowledges the financial support from Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Taiwan (contract numbers MOST 110-2119-M-002-015-MBK and MOST 110-2622-8-002-014).
These authors contributed equally: Jing-Kai Huang, Yi Wan, Junjie Shi, Ji Zhang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Jing-Kai Huang, Junjie Shi, Ji Zhang, Wenxuan Wang, Ni Yang, Yang Liu, Chun-Ho Lin, Xinwei Guan, Long Hu, Jack Yang, Danyang Wang, Tom Wu & Sean Li
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Yi Wan & Lain-Jong Li
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Zeheng Wang
Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Zi-Liang Yang, Bo-Chao Huang & Ya-Ping Chiu
Graduate Institute of Applied Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Zi-Liang Yang
Graduate School of Advanced Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Ya-Ping Chiu
Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Vincent Tung
School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Xiaotao Zu & Liang Qiao
Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Lain-Jong Li
Jing-Kai Huang
Junjie Shi
Ji Zhang
Wenxuan Wang
Ni Yang
Chun-Ho Lin
Xinwei Guan
Long Hu
Bo-Chao Huang
Jack Yang
Danyang Wang
Tom Wu
Xiaotao Zu
Liang Qiao
Sean Li
S.L. and L.-J.L. supervised the project. J.-K.H. conceived and directed the project. J.Z. led W.W., N.Y. and Y.L. to perform the synthesis and characterization of the perovskite oxide heterostructures. J.-K.H. and Y.W. synthesized the MoS2 monolayer. J.S., X.G. and L.H. carried out microscopy characterization. J.-K.H., C.-H.L. and T.W. performed the Raman and PL analyses. Z.-L.Y., B.-C.H. and Y.-P.C. the executed cross-sectional STM measurements. J.S. and J.-K.H. contributed to the device fabrication. J.-K.H. conducted electrical measurements and analyses of devices. Y.W. and L.-J.L. proposed the device model. Z.W. contributed to the TCAD simulation. J.Y., D.W., V.T., K.K.-Z., X.Z. and L.Q. provided constructive opinions and suggestions. All the authors discussed and contributed to the results. J.-K.H., L.-J.L. and S.L. drafted the manuscript.
Correspondence to Jing-Kai Huang, Lain-Jong Li or Sean Li.
J.-K.H., J.S., J.Z. and S.L. are co-inventors on a patent application (Australian provisional filing numbers 2021902514 and 2022900344) related to the research presented in this paper.
Nature thanks Tibor Grasser, Won Jong Yoo and the other, anonymous, reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work.
Extended data figures and tables
Extended Data Fig. 1 Crystalline structure of epitaxial membranes before release.
a, b, AFM topography and cross-sectional height profile of an as-grown SrTiO3 film indicating an atomically smooth surface with unit cell step terraces. The scale bar is 1 µm. c, 2θ–ω X-ray diffraction the scan of SrTiO3/Sr3Al2O6/epi-SrTiO3 heterostructure. d, The experimental and fitted XRR curves, where the fitting adequately describes the true structure (SrTiO3/Sr3Al2O6/epi-SrTiO3). e, X-ray SLD model used to fit the experimental data. The model represents SrTiO3/Sr3Al2O6 (9.9nm)/epi-SrTiO3 (2.1nm).
Extended Data Fig. 2 AFM measurements of transferred SrTiO3 membranes.
a-d, 10 u.c., 20 u.c., 40 u.c., and 80 u.c. thick SrTiO3 thin films and selected cross-sectional height profiles showing the thickness, respectively. The scale bar indicates 1 µm. e, Thicknesses extracted from various AFM measurements of the transferred thin film. Note that the theoretical thickness of one u.c. thick SrTiO3 is 0.3905 nm (ref. 22).
Extended Data Fig. 3 Structural and stoichiometric characterizations of transferred SrTiO3 films.
a, RSM of transferred 80 u.c. SrTiO3 film around (002), (103), and (013) planes. b, Relative values shown in (a) and extracted lattice parameters. QX, QZ: reciprocal space coordinates. c, High-resolution XPS spectra and analysis of the released SrTiO3 film at Sr 3d, Ti 2p, and O 1s regions. The fitted Ti 2p and Sr 3d spectra indicate that there is no second phase presenting in the membranes while the O 1s spectra were extracted to both intrinsic O in the SrTiO3 and extrinsic O in hydroxyls absorbed on the surface48. d, Binding energy and stoichiometric analysis of XPS results49.
Extended Data Fig. 4 Characterization of MoS2 monolayers.
a, PL spectra and b, Raman spectrum of the as-grown CVD MoS2 monolayer before and after transferring on SrTiO3. Note the Raman frequency differences between E12g and A1g are less than 20 cm−1, indicating the monolayer nature50. c, Optical micrograph of the MoS2 FET at channel region. d, PL intensity mapping of the corresponding area. The scale bars indicate 4 µm.
Extended Data Fig. 5 MOS capacitance and long-term stability.
a, MoS2 MOS capacitor measurements on 16.4 nm (40 u.c.) thick SrTiO3 layer. The accumulation capacitance of 3.45 μF/cm2 corresponds to ~ 1 nm CET. b, Transfer curves of MoS2 transistor with a 40 u.c. thick SrTiO3 gate dielectric. The sequential color column displays the results of the device swept from 1st to 115th times, and the red lines show the results of the first 10 sweeps from the same device after one-month storage.
Extended Data Fig. 6 Lifetime projection.
a, Time to breakdown (TBD) of MOS devices with a 40 u.c. thick SrTiO3 dielectric at various voltage stresses. b, TBD versus stress voltage characteristics, where the black dash-line represents the E model fitting for lifetime prediction.
Extended Data Fig. 7 Short-channel performance.
a, b, Transfer characteristic of the short-channel device with LCH = 55 nm and 25 nm, respectively. The scale bars indicate 50 nm.
Extended Data Fig. 8 Impact of the vdW gap on moderation of FIBL effect.
a, b, Simulated equipotential contours of short-channel (10 nm) MoS2 FETs without vdW gap (a) and with 3Å vdW gap (b), where source and gate are grounded, VD = 1V, and SrTiO3 dielectric is set as 1 nm EOT according to our experimental results. c, Calculated conduction band diagrams of short-channel MoS2 FETs with 1 nm EOT gate dielectrics of SiO2 (κ = 3.9), HfO2 (κ = 22), and SrTiO3 (κ = 75), where 3 Å vdW gap was used. d, Corresponding transfer characteristics of simulated short-channel MoS2 FETs. e, Extracted SS values of the transfer characteristics with various vdW gap thicknesses.
Extended Data Fig. 9 Flexible and transparent MoS2 FETs with SrTiO3 gate dielectric.
a, Photograph of the experiment setup for mechanical bending of MoS2 FETs, where the samples are bent to a tensile strain of 0.54%. The strain at a given bending radius can be approximated by strain = d/2r where d is substrate thickness (0.125 mm) and r is the radius of curvature (11.5 mm)51. Inset is the photograph of MoS2 FET arrays on flexible and transparent PET substrate. b, Measured transfer characteristics of the device under flat, strained, and resumed conditions.
Extended Data Fig. 10 Growth of freestanding SrTiO3 membranes.
a-c, Evolution of RHEED patterns during the preparation of SrTiO3/Sr3Al2O6/epi-SrTiO3 heterostructure. d, RHEED intensity oscillations in the deposition process accordingly, which indicate the typical layer-by-layer 2D growth mode.
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Victoria's "end game" with COVID-19 no longer includes eliminating the virus but a permanent change to daily life for years.
by Samantha Maiden
Victoria's "endgame" with COVID-19 no longer includes elimination and mandatory mask wearing is likely to remain a permanent feature of daily life for years until a vaccine is found for the killer virus.
In disturbing new evidence to the state's inquiry into the coronavirus second wave outbreak in Victoria, the Premier Dan Andrews has warned it's a feature of outbreaks around the world that the second phase of infections is often more deadly than the first.
When asked what the "endgame" of the extreme restrictions were the state's chief health officer Brett Sutton also confirmed it was suppression, rather than elimination and it could be a battle that lasts for years.
He also signalled that public mask wearing would have to remain as a "baseline" restriction for a long time.
"There may be a path that has very, very low case numbers with a kind of baseline level restrictions, universal mark wearing, changed human behaviours very broadly applied across the population that can keep numbers low," Professor Sutton said.
"But I think it always comes with the danger that it can re-emerge and take off again."
Professor Sutton conceded masks were imperfect, but that given the level of community transmission it was a case of doing whatever they could do to bring cases down.
"Although imperfect, cloth masks worn broadly in the community can have a significant effect,'' he said.
"Although it doesn't present as a game-changer, we were really looking to have whatever interventions that we possibly could in Victoria, especially ones that were relatively low cost and low impost, compared to taking more significant measures."
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Brett Sutton had some sobering words about the forecast for Victoria today. Picture: Wayne Taylor
In terms of when masks would no longer be required, Professor Sutton said that depended on whether a vaccine can be found.
"I don't think that it will be available in the next six months, but I do think there's a very very good chance that it will be available within the next 12 to 18 months,'' Mr Sutton said.
Mr Andrews also suggested that the goal of elimination was not a real option, despite being raised as the only way to return to normal life.
"The endpoint is to lower numbers and get numbers as low as possible so that we can have confidence that we can manage the inevitable outbreaks that will occur, and the inevitable transmission that we will see,'' he said.
"But again, if you opened up now … there is no flattening of the curve, there's no moderate outcome, it takes off like a bushfire, and you've got no chance of putting it out."
Speaking at a press conference shortly after his grilling at the inquiry, the Premier said he could not guarantee that the current restrictions will work within the six week time frame.
"It'll only have the maximum chance of working in six weeks if everybody plays their part," he said.
"That's why we're so grateful the vast majority of people are. Your point about increased compliance, to more people at home, more people doing the right thing, so less people doing the wrong thing, that's my sense of it."
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Daniel Andrews said his state will be living with virus restrictions for years. Picture: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
Mr Andrews also told the inquiry there was no question that the impact of the restrictions would scar the economy for years.
"I wouldn't for a moment suggest that this is the end, there will be a budget later on in the year acknowledging the damage that has had to be done,'' he said.
"That'll be a major feature of the budget, as well as the impacts not just on business but on workers' families, communities. We know that this is a one in 100-year event, and the damage done because of it will be long-lasting and will be very significant. That's why we'll have to stand with everybody who's been impacted and stand alongside them strongly and provide them with all the support."
Health Minister Jenny Mikakos told the parliamentary inquiry there would have seen 20,000 additional cases of the coronavirus a day if the state had not moved to a tougher lockdown.
The same modelling forecast that without tougher restrictions 8,000 Victorians would be hospitalised with COVID-19.
"Stage-three restrictions in Melbourne and the introduction of mandatory masks slowed the growth in case numbers but we needed to do more to reduce the number of cases more quickly," she said.
But it was also revealed that there is no clear modelling on what outcomes the Stage 4 restrictions alone will deliver, beyond that the existing ones were not working fast enough to get infections under control.
"I'm not aware of modelling that already incorporates stage 4 restrictions,'' Professor Sutton said.
"What we did see is the effect of what the stage 3 restrictions showed us in terms of the effective reproduction number. That demonstrated that it was driving transmission down and that numbers were expected to plateau. The addition of masks were modelled to a degree with respect to driving mission down further."
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Earlier, Liberal MP Richard Riordan grilled Health Minister Jenny Mikakos and the Premier over reports the government was warned on May 11 that there were concerns at poor infection control in the hotel quarantine scheme.
"But, Premier, Premier, after a month of acknowledging failures in hotel quarantine, nothing has been seen, no admissions by you have been made, no acknowledgement of the error has been made by you," he said.
"Victorians have trusted you to keep them safe. You have catastrophically let them down. Will you apologise to Victorians?"
Mr Andrews replied: "As I've said, Mr Riordan, I'm the leader of the government and the leader of the state and I take responsibility for all of the decisions that are made across our government and the performance of all of our agencies."
"That ultimate responsibility is an important function of the job that I have, the great honour that I have to serve as the Premier of this state."
Originally published as Victoria faces years of restrictions
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