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To force someone to hug or kiss someone they barely know, what kind of message is that?" Essenburg said. Goulet agreed that there’s an incredible need for the center Essenburg dreams of. In hosting training sessions and attending them, there’s a "hunger" among prosecutors and front-line workers for information on how to best handle cases, he said. "That’s the reason Sheryl has a real interest in the justice center," Goulet said, "to get the training out to people who want and need it so badly." Roberts believes Essenburg will likely see that dream become reality. "If you spent some time with her, you’d see she’s really a pretty tenacious individual," he said. "I can’t imagine the ups and downs of the job after 25 years or better, the sleepless nights.
Archive for: January, 2008
Storage Bits Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives 100 GB memory chip coming in 2009 Posted in: Solid State Disk Bytes, not bits. Oh, and it's fast, too. Nanochip, a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor firm, just received $14 million in funding to complete work on a 100 GB storage chip. Intel Capital, who should know something about chips, is an investor. The goal: ". . . allow Nanochip to complete development of its first prototypes later this year . . . ." MEMSy were the borogoves . . . The Nanochip design is a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System, or MEMS, device. A descendent of IBM's Millipede device, it uses polarization instead of Millepede's heat to store data. An array of tiny probes - looking like phonograph needles, if any of you have ever seen one - less than 25 um in diameter, changes the state of the recording medium.
New Delhi, November 21
SEBI was also in the final stages of preparing norms for the much awaited real estate mutual fund (REMF). "The accounting solution for valuation of real estate were being worked out by AMFI and ICAI," he assured. "We will ensure that both products are made available to the investors and there won't be any partiality in introducing REMF and REIT," he said. In 2008, the regulator planned to launch a nationwide campaign to educate investors and encourage the market participants to take up the role of self-regulating organisations (SROs) more seriously. "Recognising that the informed investor is going to be the backbone of the market, SEBI is going to devote calendar year 2008 to a nationwide investor education campaign," Damodaran said, adding that the regulator has already set up its own investor protection fund.
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