he joined pacific bell, helped organize honda the advisory group for people that happen to have a disability. he gave them put to that company on how to develop features that will help them do better. he became the director of death and disabled services. he was executive director for berkeley in 2001. under dmitri's direction, they have expanded it, they have done so many different things. i can't even less the mall. he sends people out that happen to be disabled and of a test things. before they get out there, to make sure that they are done the right way. so they can practically help people. it is my pleasure right now. give a warm welcome cojones -- to mr. dmitri belzer. [applause] >> thank you, dave. i just decided who will be giving this speech that my memorial service, that is a great introduction. i want to talk to them about how people with disabilities use computers. the first and want to talk about is my family. i come from a family of eastern european immigrants. they were mostly born in europe, all of my grandparents were born there. when my grandparents came here, they were old

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bell. sorry that that chart doesn't reflect it there. for more on the outlook for asia's chipmakers, we're joined by v.p. of consulting at asia pacific at frost and sullivan. thanks for joining us. and it's interesting to look at the divergence between benchmark china and benchmark taiwanese chipmakers. a tale of two different countries, two different markets, what do you think explains the divergence here? >> well, i think you see the divergence even between the two chinese -- the two taiwanese chipmakers, as well. if you look at umc, if you look at dsmc, you can see the difference in terms of how both have performed this year. the dsmc has grown almost 18% year on year. umc has been more or less flat in terms of performance. so i think the difference is not only between, as you are suggesting, between chinese or taiwanese, i think it is more based with certain companies who are in the whole chip manufacturing process. >> so what then is the likes of tsmc, smic doing well, and united microelectronics, for example, not? >> some of the areas where i think umc has fallen back is mainly in terms of technology. if you compare it with dsm

pacific trade pack and win america's blessing for his aggressive economic stimulus. >>> mauri taylor is standing by comments calling french workers lazy and overpaid. speaking to our colleagues on u.s. closing bell last night, he defended his decision to write a letter to the u.s. government refuse to go buy a tire company on the verge of collapse. >> the minister was trying to use us as a billy club, figuring that most ceos will not say anything. they just keep quiet. b but, you know, he picked the wrong guy and i'm going to tell him what it is. what i said was true. and they admitted it. they laughed about it, okay. and that's where this union president, this michael -- i call him spike because he's got his hair all up. they're devout commis and they said that's the french way and i said well, i'm not going to do it if it's going to lose money and that's what you're always going to do. a multi year guaranteed employment, guaranteed everything and i said, okay, we'll do two years and they said, oh, this is a sham. and my question to them is you mean i would spend tens of millions of dollars and you think this is some sort of a sham to close the plant? you're all nuts. >> you're all nuts. he cal