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Sean Connery, the original James Bond, dies at 90
Sir Sean Connery, the first actor to play Ian Fleming's James Bond in film, has died at the age of 90, his family informed. Sir Sean Connery died in his sleep. He was in the Bahamas. The Scottish actor defined 007, starting from his first appearance in a Bond film, Dr No, in 1962, and going on to work in six more films over the course of his career.
His work on the big screen spanned several decades. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
The winner of one Oscar, three Golden Globes and two Baftas, Sir Connery has worked in films like the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones, The Hunt for Red October, etc.
Over decades, Sir Connery has been voted as the best actor to play Ian Fleming's suave sleuth, James Bond, in numerous audience polls. From Dr No in 1962, to Never Say Never Again in 1983, Connery played Bond for two decades.
He turned 90 in August this year. Largely considered the actor who defined James Bond for generations of viewers and fans, Sir Connery played Bond on screen seven times: Dr No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Never Say Never Again (1983).
Connery's only Oscar was one for the Supporting Actor, for his performance as an Irish policeman in The Untouchables.
Sean Connery was born on August 25, 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Joseph Connery, a factory worker and lorry driver, and Euphemia McBain McLean, a cleaning woman.
Connery took up the job of a milkman, his first, as a teenager.
At 16, Connery joined the Royal Navy and was discharged three years later on health grounds. He returned to the cooperative society where he took up his milkman job and did several other odd jobs before starting backstage work at the King's Theatre in 1951. He landed a small part as a chorus boy a few years later. In 1957, Connery got his first film role, in No Road Back.
The breakthrough role, of course, came five years later. As the first James Bond. A role that Connery will forever be remembered for. A character that will forever remain etched in the minds of his fans.


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Strawberry Cookie Tarts are so simple and delicious and will impress that special someone or your life.
This small batch recipe has a wonderful combination of flavors with a fresh strawberry, soft cookie, cream cheese mixture, and a chocolate drizzle.
Scroll to the bottom for a full recipe card.
I made them for Valentine’s Day. I hope you will love them!
How to make Strawberry Cookie Tarts:
In a small mixing bowl beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla on medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy.
Spread the cream cheese mixture on the tops of the cookies.
Place one strawberry half, cut side down, on each cookie.
Place them on the wax-paper-lined baking sheet.
In a small microwave-safe bowl combine the chocolate morsels and shortening.
Microwave on high about 1 minute or until melted, stirring every 30 seconds.
Drizzle over strawberry-topped cookies. Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to 24 hours.
Strawberry Shortcake with Buttermilk Biscuits
Strawberry Shortcake with Buttermilk Biscuits have sweetened fresh strawberry slices on top of turbinado sugar topped fluffy homemade biscuits and a dollop of whipped cream to finish them off.
Strawberries and Cream Bread Pudding
This Strawberries and Cream Bread Pudding has fresh strawberries and Italian bread cubes baked in a delicious custard filling and topped with a sweet creamy glaze.
Strawberry Cobbler for Two
This easy strawberry cobbler recipe is quick to prepare and bakes into a thick, sweet, yet still tart dessert. It has a fresh sliced strawberry layer topped with a golden brown cake like topping. This makes two individual large portions or you could divide it into four smaller portions.
Chocolate Covered Strawberries Small Batch
Make your own chocolate covered strawberries with this easy hand dipped small batch recipe. These delicious strawberries make a perfect romantic sweet treat dessert for Valentine’s Day, date night, or any day.
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 12 soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies, any brand
- 6 medium strawberries, halved
- 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 teaspoon shortening
- In a small mixing bowl beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until fluffy.
- Spread cream cheese mixture on tops of cookies. Place one strawberry half, cut side down, on each cookie and move to a wax-paper lined baking sheet.
- In a small microwave-safe bowl combine chocolate morsels and shortening. Microwave on high about 1 minute or until melted, stirring every 30 seconds. Drizzle over strawberry-topped cookies. Chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes to 24 hours.
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 239 Saturated Fat: 9g Cholesterol: 32mg Sodium: 103mg Carbohydrates: 19g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 15g Protein: 2g

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A Swap Shop will take place from 4 pm to 8 pm on the evening of 8th March 2016, International Women’s Day.
You are invited to drop your gently used clothing into The Arts office,5 Dean Street, Irishtown or County Hall, The Office of the Environment, John’s Street before 26th February.You will be given tokens in exchange for your clothes.We invite you to bring these to Open Circle House, John’s Green on International women’s Day.There will be a make up artist in the house as well as our own Ann Dunne,(see ‘Meet the Members’) on hand to help you style yourself fabulous. Treasures found, shared and a time to talk about why we choose the things we do to wear, where they come from and our place in the whole BIG picture of sustainable fashion.
The Zipyard, Kilkenny will be available to discuss up-cycling and alteration options with you for your finds and have kindly agreed to give away a quantity of €5 vouchers to use in their shop.
Ross Costigan , Fashion Photographer will be snapping your glorious mini make overs.If you miss playing dress up, or are looking for a new wardrobe this event is for you!
Call Alice on 087 1355318 for more details.

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A plaza with a stage, fountain, pavilion and plenty of green space will greet visitors crossing the Big Four pedestrian bridge into Jeffersonville.
The plaza will surround a ramp from the former railroad bridge, which is being renovated to allow bicyclists and pedestrians to cross the Ohio River between Louisville’s Waterfront Park and downtown Jeffersonville.
City officials unveiled plans for the approximately $3 million landing project during a meeting on Thursday night. Architectural firm The Estopinal Group and Taylor Siefker Williams Design Group developed the plans for the city.
Jeffersonville communications director Leah Farris said the city intends to pay for the project with revenue from its tax increment finance districts.
Construction of the landing, dubbed Big Four Station, will start after current construction on a ramp to the bridge is completed, which is expected to be in April. It’ll take the city about a year to finish the landing, Farris said.
In February, the Indiana Department of Transportation and the city of Jeffersonville awarded a $6.5 million contract to Clarksville-based Gohmann Asphalt and Construction to construct the Indiana approach to the bridge. The ramp has been under construction since March.
The new Indiana approach will pass over Riverside Drive, the flood wall, Mulberry Street and Market Street as it slopes to a landing at the corner of Pearl and Chestnut streets.


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NHS England has published its ‘MedTech Funding Mandate policy 2022/23: guidance for NHS commissioners and providers of NHS-funded care’.
This policy aims to direct the NHS on which MedTech innovations are effective and likely to give savings on investment; and to ensure the NHS has a sustainable approach to overcoming the financial barriers to adopting medical devices, diagnostics and digital products.
In its second year, effective from 1 April 2022, the MTFM policy is being expanded to include seven further technologies, across a variety of clinical conditions, with potential savings of £44 million. All the selected products enable high quality outcomes from treatment and depend on fewer resources, reducing theatre time and length of stay so that more patients across England can be treated quicker.
The policy guidance for 2021/22 stated that the criteria for 2022/23 would change: namely, that the 2021/22’s fifth criterion – previously supported through the ITT/ITP programmes – would be removed in 2022/23. Also, while the criterion for cost savings to be delivered within 12 months had the lowest support in the public consultation, it was retained for 2021/22 to ensure a focus on rapid return on investment while the NHS responds to the pandemic. This criterion has been changed to delivering savings within three years.
The 2021/22 technologies will remain on the MTFM policy as long as they continue to meet the criteria set out at paragraph 17, supported by the published NICE guidance.
The policy paper sets out the roles and responsibilities for various MFTM stakeholders such as NHS England, NHS Improvement, AHSN technology leads, suppliers of tech included on the policy, individual AHSNs, NHS commissioners and NHS providers.
With this policy for 2022/23 we will continue to ensure eligible patients can have equitable access to the best new medical technologies faster”, said Matthew Whitty, Chief Executive of the Accelerated Access Collaborative at NHS England NHS Improvement.
Please access the full policy paper here.

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Ask any filmmaker or actor to name the most essential skills a costume designer can have, and the answer is never an eye for color or an encyclopedic knowledge of fashion.
On paper, "The Ides of March" would seem like the zeitgeist film of the moment as the nation revs up for another presidential election marathon.
Arguably one of the most worshipful biopics about an actor to date, "My Week With Marilyn" recalls the period in Marilyn Monroe's career when she filmed "The Prince and the Showgirl" at Pinewood…
Terrence Malick is one of a handful of American filmmakers with an unmistakable auteurial stamp: whispery, internal voice-over monologues meld with seemingly random, if exquisite, shots of nature to…
CNN announced the elimination of at least 50 staff positions Friday as the company follows through on the results of a three-year review that found technical advances reduced the need for certain…
Italian d.p. Dante Spinotti, best known for his work with Michael Mann on such films as "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Heat," will receive the American Society of Cinematographers' 2012 lifetime…
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Retrospectives devoted to Todd Solondz, Terrence Malick, Billy Wilder and mumblecore mainstay Joe Swanberg will highlight the second annual American Film Festival, taking pace Nov. 15 - 20 in…
For the third year in a row, Alexandre Desplat was honored with the film composer of the year kudo at the World Soundtrack Awards on Saturday, the culmination of the 38th Ghent Film Festival in…
NFL Films has pacted with Vivendi Entertainment to be the exclusive distributor and marketer of NFL Films' home entertainment programming in the U.S. and Canada.
Lorraine Ali has been named pop music editor at the Los Angeles Times, announced Sallie Hofmeister, assistant managing editor, arts and entertainment, and Craig Turner, arts and entertainment editor.


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if you are meat and potatoes kinda person, you are going to love these salisbury steaks. i made them for jamie the other night and he did. me, i am not so much on "meat patties", but i did make myself a teeny tiny one. it was good, full of flavor. it is a texture thing for me. now, i thought the the gravy and onions were daaaang tasty, too tasty in fact since i am trying to adopt a healthier lifestyle. i opted for just a spoonful, so cruel. i paired the salisbury steaks with nice full bodied,not wine, but mashed potatoes! plus some steamed fresh broccoli and garlic bread. overall, this is definitely a keeper. i found and adapted the recipe from one in a magazine. i hope you will try it.
not so healthy, but oh so good. enjoy.
beth's salisbury steak
for the patties-
1 1/4 lbs. of ground chuck
1/4 cup fresh chopped flat leaf parsley
2 tbsp. chopped green onions, all of it
big pinch of kosher salt
big shakes or grinds of black pepper
2 tbsp. flour
for the gravy-
1 tbsp. evoo
2 cups sliced onions(i used one large)
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. minced garlic(i used one huge clove)
1 t2 cups beef broth
1 tbsp. tomato paste
1/4 cup dry red wine(i didn't use)
3/4 tsp. kosher salt
1/2 tsp. dried thyme leaves(i didn't use)
combine chuck, parsley, scallion, salt and pepper. divide evenly into 4 portions and shape each into 3/4"-1" thick oval patties. place 2 tbsp. flour in a shallow dish; dredge each patty in flour. reserve 1 tsp. flour.
heat 1 tbsp. oil in a saute pan over medium-high heat. add patties and saute 3 minutes on each side, or until browned. remove from pan.
add onions and sugar to pan; saute 5 minutes. stir in garlic and tomato paste; saute 1 minute, or until paste begins to brown. sprinkle onions with reserved flour; cook 1 minute. stir in broth and wine, then add the salt and thyme.
return meat to pan and bring gravy to a boil. reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer 20 minutes.
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- Daqo New Energy’s Q2/2022 revenues added up to $1.244 billion, down on quarterly basis with lower sales volumes
- Polysilicon production cost of the company came down by 28% sequentially and ASPs improved to $33.08 per kg
- Management has revised the annual production volume guidance to 120,000 MT to 125,000 MT
Leading Chinese polysilicon producer Daqo New Energy has increased its annual production volume guidance for 2022 after having achieved ‘better-than-expected’ operational performance in H1/2022 as its gross profit for Q2/2022 went up over 16% QoQ and over 200% YoY to $946.9 million.
Daqo’s revenues in Q2/2022 slightly declined to $1.244 billion compared to $1.28 billion in the previous quarter, due to a decrease in sales volume but mostly offset by high ASPs. Gross margin was 76.1%, up from 63.5% in the previous quarter and 68.7% in the previous year. For this the management attributes 28% reduction in polysilicon production cost sequentially.
The company produced 35,326 metric tons (MT) polysilicon in the reporting quarter, and sold 37,545 MT for $33.08 per kg ASP. The ASP improved from $32.76 per kg in the previous quarter.
Daqo managed to bring down the average total production cost of polysilicon in the reporting quarter to $7.26 per kg, down from $10.09 per kg in Q1/2022. “With higher manufacturing efficiency and better economy of scale, we reduced our per unit electricity cost and depreciation cost by 7% and 13% in RMB terms quarter-over-quarter, respectively. In addition, our metallurgical–grade silicon cost in the second quarter was reduced by 37% as compared to the first quarter. With our facility in optimized stable operations, we believe we will be able to maintain, and possibly further improve, our cost structure in Q3 and Q4 this year,” said Daqo CEO Longgen Zhang.
In the next 2 quarters, Daqo plans to conduct annual maintenance of its facilities in phases, and also carry out technological improvement projects. With these plans, the manufacturer targets to produce 31,000 MT to 32,000 MT polysilicon in Q3/2022. Zhang said the company is sold out for August and has strong order backlog.
But for the annual production capacity, the targets have been increased to 129,000 MT to 132,000 MT, up from the previous guidance of 120,000 MT to 125,000 MT (see Daqo Revenues & Gross Profit Up In Q1/2022).
According to the management, the current challenges in the solar PV value chain are here to stay. Zhang explained, “Challenges in getting energy consumption approvals, long construction times, and delayed ramp-up times, as well as the operational inexperience of new players, make polysilicon one of the sectors with the highest entry barriers and slowest expansion growth in the solar PV manufacturing value chain. We expect this imbalance to continue for a while and help our sector greatly benefit from the robust market demand.”
End of July, Roth Capital Partners also shared a similar view when the analyst firm said that polysilicon supply growth is lagging demand growth, but the situation could potentially see some alleviation by YE’23. The financial analysts said that polysilicon prices were flat last week (WoW), ‘but are expected to continue increasing modestly when companies start the next round of order bookings in August.’
Of late, several new silicon projects have been announced or started production in China, including GCL Technology’s 100,000 ton granular silicon project, which began operations in Leshan end of July (see China PV News Snippets). In early August, integrated solar PV manufacturer from China, Tongwei announced that production of the first phase of its joint venture Yongxiang Energy Technology’s 120,000-ton high-purity crystalline silicon project has begun in Sichuan (see China PV News Snippets).

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text: On 12-09-2012 at about 4:41 PM the Owasso Police Department responded to a call of shots fired near 115th St. East and 110 St. North. Upon arrival Officers discovered that a homeowner had shot a man who was allegedly attempting to make entry into his residence. The investigation has revealed that the deceased and the homeowner were acquaintances and had been involved in a verbal and physical altercation prior to the shooting incident. The deceased is Edward Templeton, age 38. The investigation is on-going and no arrests have been made. The case will be submitted to the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office who will make the final determination as to whether or not charges will be filed.


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Writing about restaurants may seem like the way to live the good life. In reality, especially in Bangalore, it’s a task made dreary by new restaurants that flog tired ideas, try and fail at aping concepts or are annoyingly pretentious.
So, there’s a heightened sense of anticipation when there’s the promise of a restaurant with a difference. Still, I made a concerted effort to go with no bias or preconceived notions to Toast & Tonic, assiduously avoiding early reviews or even a glance at the menu.
One look and I was smitten. This is, without any argument, Bangalore’s most gorgeous looking restaurant. Others may be more opulent, extravagant or highly designed, but for sheer, dazzling style, Toast & Tonic will take some beating. What was once buzzing Monkey Bar, is now a high-ceilinged, barn-like space. Wood finishes, an earthy colour palette and the cutest farm animal shapes suspended on strands of fairy lights all come together, bathed in soft lights, to create a warm, mellow mood. I loved the bar the best and found myself frequently turning to gaze at it, as if it were some fetching cocktail hour scene in a beautifully shot film.
It’s the perfect showcase then for the new direction that Chef Manu Chandra’s prodigious talent is taking. The menu is said to be inspired by the eating out culture of New York’s East Village – a melting pot of ethnic influences, edgy, yet comforting. The cooking is not bound by cuisine or culinary style. The flavours are from across the globe, but every dish celebrates Indian produce, ingredients and condiments in a way that has never been attempted here before.
Roasted Beet Salad doesn’t sound particularly innovative, but here with the perfectly cooked beets, marinated feta and flawless honey mustard vinaigrette, every mouthful was a flavour pop. And there was the small plate of Warm Asparagus, Avarekai (possibly the last of the season) and Green Beans with peanuts and lemongrass, paying elegant tribute to a seasonal favourite. I’m a jackfruit fan and to taste tender shreds atop tostada with smoked goat cheese was delightful.
We’ve been hearing that Poke bowls are the trendy new food to try and Manu Chandra brings it to Bangalore. There was locally sourced tuna, served on sticky Gobindobhog rice with mustard greens, seaweed, fried onions and chia seeds, tasting of the sea and hinting at the comfort of a Bengali meal. I loved, too, the Spiced Prawn Cutlets with a just-right charred pineapple salsa. Eat the flatbreads here, with toppings such as charred broccoli, tomato gojju and feta and you may never order pizza again. For main course, I had Udon Calabrese, with cold-pressed mustard oil – unusual, flavourful, deeply satisfying.
Every dessert on the menu seduces. I settled for Expressions of Jaggery – pot du crème, banana jaggery cake, noren gur – and am freed from Tiramisu tyranny forever.
Toast & Tonic, then, is a path-breaking effort. I hope, too, that it’s the beginning of a new movement that celebrates the purity and goodness of real food and honest cooking.
PS: The bar does brilliant things with gin & tonic, and more about that in my next post.


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Expectations for rookie Martavis Bryant
August, 5, 2014
By Tom Carpenter | ESPN Insider
The Pittsburgh Steelers' initial depth chart, released Sunday, didn't have any surprises at wide receiver, where Antonio Brown and Markus Wheaton are listed as the starters, with Justin Brown backing up Brown and Lance Moore behind Wheaton. Those four are followed up by veteran Darrius Heyward-Bey and rookie Martavis Bryant.


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Reports from Nigeria say hundreds of people died as a result of Sunday's explosions at a munitions depot in the commercial capital, Lagos. Witnesses say workers have pulled hundreds of bodies from a canal near the scene of the explosions.
The bodies are those of people who ran to escape from the massive explosions Sunday, only to drown after they plunged into the nearby Oke-Afa canal in Lagos' outlying Isolo district.
Witnesses at the scene say many of the victims are children who were frightened by the sound of the massive explosions, which echoed across the area, shaking buildings and shattering windows several kilometers away.
Lagos State Police Commissioner Mike Okilo says a number of cars also ended up in the canal, after motorists panicked while trying to drive away from the blasts. The explosions went on for several hours Sunday, after fire spread from a street market into the military facility where a large number of explosives were stored. There is no word from officials on exactly what touched off the fire and caused it to spread into the munitions depot.
The blasts sent burning shrapnel into homes and businesses adjacent to the depot, which is in the densely populated Ikeja district of Lagos. Nigerian officials say thousands of people have been left homeless.
President Olusegun Obasanjo toured the scene of the devastation Monday, as fires continued to smolder in buildings adjacent to the military facility. The Nigerian leader told reporters outside the depot the military will launch an investigation to determine what caused the disaster.
"When a situation like this occurs, the military must carry out an inquiry to find out exactly what happened, how it happened, who is to blame, if anybody is to blame, [and] what should be done to prevent future re-occurrance," he said. "The military knows how to go about that, and they will have to go about that."
President Obasanjo also promised assistance to those who were left homeless. He said the government will work to relocate residents who lost their homes and reunite children with their families.
Many of those listed as missing are the children of soldiers who were stationed at the military facility.
On Monday, officials warned residents to be careful of unexploded shells that landed in areas surrounding the depot.
The explosions on Sunday raised tensions in Nigeria. The country, Africa's most populous nation, has experienced six military coups since it gained its independence from Britain in 1960.
Military and state officials tried to ease panic by promptly going on national television to explain that the blasts were the result of an accident, and not part of a military coup, as some people had initially feared when they first heard the explosions coming from the direction of the military camp at Ikeja.

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Those wacky researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev are at it again. The Israeli scientists, best known for dreaming up ways to transmit software from computers that aren’t networked, have figured out a way to do it using the vibrations in computer fans.
Mordechai Guri, professor at the University’s Cyber-Security Research Center, revealed the technique on 13 April in his latest paper, AiR-ViBeR: Exfiltrating Data from Air-Gapped Computers via Covert Surface ViBrAtIoNs.
Most computers have at least one fan, which they use to cool their internal components by introducing air to them. Some higher-end components like graphics cards come with their own dedicated fans to keep their silicon from overheating. Guri realised that these fans create vibrations in any structure supporting the computer (like a table).
This attack focuses on changing the speed of the chassis fan. It generates the most vibration, points out the paper, presumably because it’s embedded right into the case that sits on the table, unlike say a GPU fan that typically sits inside the machine.
Malware running on the computer changes the speed of the fan, which makes the table vibrate at different frequencies. A device that could pick up those vibrations could interpret them as data, Guri deduced. He also figured out the perfect device to make this work: a smartphone.
The attacker still has to get malware onto the airgapped computer that’s going to transmit the data, but as Guri points out, this has been done before in incidents such as the Stuxnet attack. The malware must then gather the data that the attacker wants, and this would have to be coded in advance as there’s no command and control capability in an airgapped environment.
The malware then vibrates the fans at set frequencies, creating the appropriate vibration in the underlying table which can be picked up by the malicious code running on the smartphone. From there, the phone can communicate the data to the attacker over the internet.
Don’t expect great transmission speeds if you decide to try this attack at home. Guri demonstrated a communication speed of about half a bit per second in an average workplace scenario. Assuming all the stars aligned, you could still score some SSH keys in decent time, though.
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University have used fans to transmit data before, but they concentrated on the noise that they made. They have also used screen brightness, keyboard LEDs, speakers, and infra-red cameras, among others. Other researchers have also created attacks that used accelerometers to listen to your calls instead of getting microphone permission.
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(The Center Square) – An Iowa representative introduced Tuesday a bill that would allow parents to watch live footage of their children in public school classrooms.
“I think we need to showcase the great work our teachers do,” Rep. Norlin Mommsen, R-DeWitt, a farmer, told The Center Square in a phone interview Tuesday.
He said that through the COVID-19 pandemic, parents learned they wanted to be more involved, and this is a mechanism of facilitating parental involvement.
“Similar to a body camera on a policeman, a camera takes away the ‘he said, she said’ or ‘he said, he said,’ type argument and lets them know ‘hey, we are doing a good job.’ It takes that argument away,” Mommsen said.
He said he believes the video surveillance would shut down the “sinister agenda” remark Sen. Jake Chapman, R-Adel, made. The comment has been widely circulated in social media and news stories.
Chapman had advocated for the removal of certain books from Iowa school district libraries.
“One doesn't have to look far to see the sinister agenda occurring right before our eyes. The attack on our children is no longer hidden,” Chapman said during opening session. “Those who wish to normalize sexually deviant behavior against our children, including pedophilia and incest, are pushing this movement more than ever before. Our children should be safe and free from this atrocious assault."
KCCI reported that Chapman said he was talking about some, not all teachers.
“We've seen it that they have actually come before school boards and advocated for keeping this type of literature in the classroom,” he said. “And I don't think that's OK.”
Many have said the comment is an attack on teachers overall. Mommsen said his bill is meant to support teachers throughout Iowa.
“This would eliminate this ‘sinister plot’ chatter because the video shows there’s not a sinister plot,” he said.
He said one of his English teachers when he attended Miles Community High School changed his life. Miles Community High School has since merged with another school.
“I just think it would be great to let our teachers get back to teaching and not have to worry about that. … If I was [a police officer], I would have put one on, just for my own self-protection.”
Under the bill, school districts would install cameras in each classroom not designated for special education or physical education.
Funding for the cameras would be paid by school foundation aid. School districts would solely allow parents of children in the classroom to view live footage during school day hours. Employees who intentionally cause cameras not to function would receive a written reprimand. A second offense would involve a fine of 1% of the employee’s weekly salary. Subsequent offenses would be fines of 5% of the employee’s weekly salary. Superintendents who fail to enforce compliance would be subject to a fine of 5% of their weekly salary each time an employee of their district is fined for a third or more occurrence.
Mommsen said he included those measures because of his conviction.
“I could see people blowing it off, saying ‘Not in my classroom.’ I just feel so strongly that it would be beneficial to … the teachers, the parents, education as a whole that I needed some type of penalty mechanism,” he said.
Mommsen said people should be openminded as they examine the bill.
“I look at it as a very positive thing,” he said.


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I wanted to write something about these long, summer days: how they are suddenly upon us, how they leave me laughing but also desperately trying to catch my breath. Then I did a little digging in my blog archives and realized I’d already written the post I was imagining. No need to reinvent the wheel, then. Summer is easy like that.
In slightly revised form, here is my summer manifesto. Every word just as true as it was one year ago.
Summer days are here: cool in the morning, a little too warm by afternoon, and every window open.
We wake early but find that the sun has already beat us to it. These are the longest days, and they start without us. I sip my morning coffee and make my list. How is it possible to feel so behind at 6:30 in the morning?
Summer to-do lists are like none other:
Pick the snap peas while they’re still tender. Cut the sweet peas before they wilt. Visit the u-pick berry farm. Make freezer jam. Write that magazine story due tomorrow. Carve a dent, at least, in the email inbox. Write that check and mail it. Help the boys catch fireflies.
Summer priorities are topsy-turvy. Ripening strawberries and fat peas are things of urgency, but I’ve forgotten where I left my laptop. Was it two days ago, I last used it? There’s an important professional conversation I need to have, but I’ve missed the phone call twice. The first time, I was at the creek with the kids. The second, I was picking cherries.
An afternoon storm rolls in, the kind of summer storm that is all sound, little fury, and I think Lord, I love summer.
The boys start fighting (again), and I pray, Lord, let me survive the summer.
Summer days are so long, we have more than one second chance.
Here is one, and here is another. We explode in anger. We apologize. I make them hug. One shrugs. One runs away. We laugh. And we do it all again, three or four times. I maybe cry once, and then I tell my kids how I used to fight so terribly with my sisters I made my own mother cry.
Summer is crying mothers, and fighting kids; summer is fat, sweet strawberries, and lightning crashing like a cymbal on your head.
Summer is more, and more, and more.
Summer is magic.
Summer days run fast and hard until evening. Then the summer sun slows, almost stops, and you can hardly tell it’s sinking. Summer evenings taste like forever. I could finish that to-do list if I wanted, but urgency fades in the evening. Why didn’t I realize sooner? These are the longest days, and there is time enough.
Swift, swift times flies, but still there is enough for what matters: porch rockers, bubble wands, strawberries, one last visit to the new tree with a watering can.
The kids watch a movie and stay up too late. You and I walk in the meadow we made when you decided to stop mowing the grass.
There is time enough.
Summer is here. Why don’t we sit a while?
Tell me, I’d love to hear. What is your summer manifesto?
I look forward to Mother’s Day. My life brims with beautiful mothers: my own, my mother-in-law, my two sisters, and my sister-in-law. Though my four children never have managed to plan a breakfast in bed, they are not stingy with homemade cards and hugs. When I stirred my youngest awake this morning, she said, before even opening her eyes, “Is today Mother’s Day?” That’s how eager she is to watch me open the brown paper-wrapped craft she brought home yesterday from preschool.
But I remember other Mother’s Days. I remember Sundays when the annual recognition of all the moms in the church congregation brought me nothing but pain. I wanted what they had. Desperately.
Having a mother and being a mother are blessings, which means they open us right up to both great joy and great pain. It seems a fitting thing to remember this week.
I am grateful to my friend and fellow writer Sharon McKeeman for sharing her story of grief and Joy with us.
When I was young, I tucked my dolls into bed safely each night. When I was young, I drew haphazard flowers on construction paper for my mom on Mother’s Day. Life was simple and sweet, and I trusted that it would always remain so.
I didn’t know then that I would hold a son stillborn on his due-date. I didn’t know I would caress his perfect but lifeless body before the nurses took him from me. In those moments, life shattered desolate. I returned home from the hospital to my two young sons, and somehow, we celebrated Thanksgiving a few weeks later. My heart had stopped right in its tracks, but the North Carolina sun kept shining, and the rhythm of ordinary and holidays continued. I offered thanks around our turkey-laden dinner table, and I wrapped presents for my children at Christmas. Grief is a long road, but as the chill of the winter months turned to warm spring, I felt my soul begin to revive. Then one day I woke up, and it was Mother’s Day. How could I survive this?
I was afraid I would come untethered, scared that I might just float away. Shame, despair, and heartache were so very close that day, but miraculously Christ was closer. The One who made me and holds my son, wrapped His arms tight around me and carried me through that day. This didn’t numb the pain, but as my two living children kissed my tear streaked cheeks, I lived the truth that, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. (Matthew 5:4 NIV) A mother just barely healing from sprinkling her son’s ashes in the sea, I was comforted. I can’t explain it other than I called out to Christ because I didn’t know how else to survive, and He surrounded me. He held me and didn’t let go.
I wish I could say that since then I have tucked my children into bed safe each night. Thankfully a healthy pregnancy followed the loss of my son on his due-date, but I lost another child when his heart stopped beating at sixteen weeks and another when her heart never began to beat. Even though I held three living children, Mother’s Day become a joke, a time to endure. Even as I collected hand drawn cards and red roses, my soul sank. While around me spring was bursting with life, my heart began to feel as dead as my womb. Despair and distrust of my heavenly Father grew until a friend reminded me that a weeping Jesus is always near.
Jesus entered this mess with us. He suffered and wept; He weeps with us still.
I came to rest in that truth.
I held three children, and I mourned three children. My arms were full, and my arms were empty. Through it all my Maker held me. When I was too weak, too consumed by grief, to hold on, God surrounded and carried me.
This spring an unexpected bloom has unfurled. After I held death within my body three times, a pregnancy blossomed into a healthy daughter who is filling my arms and heart. After all these years of mourning, we have named her Joy. Our family holds her close and breathes thanksgiving, but I know this happiness is just a step in our journey. There will be more storms, more barren months. The greatest gift comes in knowing that joy was not found alone in this precious little one, but in discovering that Christ weeps with me, and my Maker holds me so carefully that no tragedy can tear me from His embrace.
For every woman with empty arms and an aching heart in this season, I pray that she will feel a weeping Jesus near and comforting her. I pray that a miraculous joy will well up within, defy earthly pain, and speak heaven straight to her soul.
There is an everlasting spring yet to come, and even as these bodies of dust often fail us, its whispers take root in our hearts.
Sharon is a homeschooling mama to three sons and a daughter. She is a Midwestern girl at heart who now lives with her family on the sunny beaches of Southern California, where they enjoy reading together and playing in the surf. She is an author, educator, speaker, and photographer who shares more of her story as @sharonmckeeman on Instagram and at www.sharonmckeeman.com where you will find her blog, Writing in the Dust, as well as her newsletter, Mourning into Joy, which is filled with encouragement and resources for grieving mamas.
Recently, I found myself digging around in the archives of this blog. I was looking for something particular – I no longer remember what – but I stumbled on this post from last December. I wrote it for Solstice, the longest night of the year. It would be one of the last posts I would write before Shawn’s death in January.
I have lately been remembering last year’s Christmas celebration. In my memory, those were the last innocent, happy days. Days when we had not yet known sorrow. Days when we had not yet seen the almost unbearable glory of God.
I was shocked to reread this post and realize I was grieving last December, too. Smaller sorrows, perhaps, but sorrows still. The words I wrote last December do not simply remain true; they are more true.
Strangely, they are also giving me more hope. Through some trick of faulty memory, I had placed the happy days in the past. I had forgotten that the greatest happiness – the most complete joy – is still ahead of us. We have not yet arrived.
But we are nearer. And every door of grief and suffering through which we pass brings us nearer still.
The best days may be yet to come, but in December I remember how much gladness is ours today. This was true for me last December. This is still true today.
Each December I think it will be different. This will be the year I shake my winter melancholy. This will be the year my delight grows day by day. These are days of ornaments and sugar cookies and twinkling lights. Aren’t they supposed to be happy?
But this year is much like every other year. The ornaments shatter, the cookies crumble, and those new LED bulbs cast a cold-hearted glow.
More than ten years ago, I spent a few December days watching my friend’s little girl. My friend was in the hospital laboring to deliver a baby boy whose heart had already stopped beating. Over the weekend, I took care of another little girl who has no idea her parent’s hearts are broken.
All weekend, in the background, Over the Rhine was singing, “If we make it through December we’ll be fine.”
This was going to be the year I would look on the bright side, but I have just about accepted that there is no bright side in December. Only darkness and the pin-prick lights on the Christmas tree, and tonight is the longest night.
At one in the morning on the fourth Sunday of Advent, my friend’s little girl threw up. When I found her, she was crying, and her beautiful curly hair was smeared with vomit. While I bathed her and toweled her dry, I thought two things: Why is this happening tonight? and Thank you, Jesus, that I can do this for my friend.
This is what we do in December. We bake sugar cookies, and we scrub vomit from the sheets. We cry for our friends and we cry for ourselves, and we hand out bars of chocolate tied with red and green bows. We make toasts to the new year, and we wonder how we’ll ever survive another one.
We pray come, Lord Jesus, come, and we remember that he already has and that he’s seen it all before. The vomit and the death. The good food and the hunger. The love and the loss.
I don’t know if I’m angry, or tired, or simply sad, but I will keep baking cookies. I will continue hanging ornaments, and I will make my husband climb up on the barn roof to secure a lighted star.
Because somehow despite it all (or because of it?) I still believe that there is a God up there in heaven who has made us this promise:
“I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow” (Jeremiah 31:13).
We live somewhere between the promise and its ultimate fulfillment. It is a land where tears drop onto festive wrapping paper. A place dusted with cookie crumbs and peppermints. It is empty stockings hung by the fire, and it is our hope, perhaps a little shaky and unsure, that one day we will wake and those stockings will be full.
But it isn’t only a one-day hope. Perhaps if we make it through December we will be fine, but I don’t want to be fine. I want more than that. I want better than that.
I want gladness.
Gladness like the taste of sugar cookies and candy canes and the cinnamon rolls I make every Christmas morning.
Gladness like the face of a child when snow finally does fall.
Gladness like every bright, sweet gift that comes to us only in December.
Are you visiting from Jennifer’s place today? You are welcome here.
I’m an English PhD who traded the university classroom
for an old farmhouse and a writing desk.
I write about dreams and desire, I write about family and faith.
I write to remember that life is magical.
Her smile is even more dazzling in person.
Which means she stands out in this family. For the most part, we Purifoys are deep thinkers and deep feelers. Quick to notice trouble and pain, more than a little inclined to grumpiness first thing in the morning.
But not this one. We all dote on her because she’s the smallest, the cutest, but I think we dote on her for another reason: she is, more often than not, the happiest. She is a candle, a bouquet of flowers, a breath of fresh, spring air. Our happy, smiley baby girl.
And there’s a story behind that. A prayer, too.
I tend to pray vague, intangible prayers. They are halting, more than a bit ragged. But I think they are my best prayers. They are so full of holes, of all I don’t know and cannot quite see, there is plenty of room for God to come and live in them.
I know this because I once prayed for happiness.
Sometimes we live with a story for quite a while before it occurs to us to share it. Sometimes we need a nudge. An invitation.
I am grateful to the writer and blogger Jennifer Dukes Lee for giving me that nudge. I am grateful for the invitation to share a story with her readers. Today, I’m sharing the story of this prayer. It was a surprising prayer with an even more unexpected answer.
I’d like to share this story with you, too.
Will you follow me here to read along?
When I picture in my mind this turn from Advent to Christmas, it looks like a stream of water becoming larger and faster until it pours itself out into a big, beautiful sea.
And, I do think it is like that. But, it is also like sitting next to a friend at the Christmas Eve church service. It is getting up and making the traditional Christmas morning cinnamon rolls. It is heading to the kitchen to prepare the turkey or ham or (in our case) the Beef Bourguignon soup. It is cleaning up the mess of wrapping paper. It is a big sandwich made with leftover everything and eaten in front of the fire.
In other words, Christmas is both extraordinary (like frosty starlight and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”) and beautifully ordinary (meals cooked and shared, phone calls made and received).
We all know this. We have all lived this. We have seen Christmas come and go, again and again. But I mention it because it is so easy, with the waiting and the longing, to forget that what we have been waiting for is mostly already with us. Not entirely, no, but more and more every year Christ is with us and his kingdom is more fully realized.
Perhaps, what we have been waiting for is not more of Jesus, necessarily, but eyes that are open more widely to the fact that he is always and already with us – in so many seemingly ordinary ways.
And so I wish you an ordinary Christmas. A Christmas of friendship and special food and thoughtful gifts. A Christmas of candlelight and carols and maybe a hand to hold or, if not that, a very good book.
I wish you a Merry Christmas.

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April is National Poetry Month, which is a perfect time to start getting creative with poetry! What about a game that unlocks new poems, translated from the Dutch into English?
It’s available now, for children as part of the Never Grow Up! program and for adults too. Developed by Studio Louter and the Dutch Foundation for Literature, this drag-and-drop game named Puzzling Poetry (Treasure Chest), color has been drained from the world. Download the app in the apple app store or follow this link to download the app for your other devices.
Piece the poems back together and bring color back to the world by completing all the levels along the way. Puzzling Poetry Treasure Chest is an addictive drag-and-drop game where the world has lost its color. It is the player’s job to bring the coloor back by piecing together the poems. Read and solve poems by twelve well-known Dutch poets, including Annie M.G. Schmidt. After completing all the tasks, you also get the chance to create your own poem. Puzzling Poetry Treasure Chest stimulates vocabulary, creativity and reading comprehension in children and therefore provides a useful contribution to lessons. The game has been developed by Studio Louter and Lucas Hirsch in collaboration with the Dutch Foundation for Literature and the Creative Industries Fund NL. Ted van Lieshout, the Schrijverscentrale and education professionals have also made creative contributions to the quality of the app’s design.
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Wu-Tang Clan released their new record A Better Tomorrow at the height of nationwide outrage about the deaths of unarmed Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police officers. So it makes sense that the new video for the record's title track includes footage from protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York - the guys made the video "in the hopes of inspiring change and promoting unity around the world." Big ups to them. Check it out.
It includes images of protesters around America.


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Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay didn't win a ring this past season, losing to the New England Patriots in the final game of the season, but the 33-year-old head coach apparently gave one out on Saturday night.
McVay's girlfriend, Veronika Khomyn, announced on Instagram that the happy couple is engaged to be married.
The couple first began dating while McVay was an assistant coach for the Washington Redskins. She joined him in Los Angeles when he became the Rams head coach.
McVay and Khomyn appeared to be on vacation this weekend.
Khomyn announced on Instagram, "Can't wait to call him my husband."
TMZ Sports had more details on the proposal:
Two have been on vacation in the French Riviera -- where the 33-year-old busted out a diamond ring the size of Veronika's knuckle and popped the question.
Sean and 29-year-old Veronika started dating somewhere around 2011 ... when she was a student at George Mason University in Virginia and he was an assistant coach on the Washington Redskins.
Since then, the two have been super tight ... she moved out to L.A. with him when he took the job to coach the Rams. They live together in a home in the San Fernando Valley.
Perhaps McVay will add a ring of his own next February.
The Los Angeles Rams will enter the 2019 season as one of the favorites to get back to the Super Bowl.

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Located in Whitby, Ontario, New Roots Therapy offers compassionate and collaborative counselling services to individuals, couples, and families. Our therapists are mental health and relationship professionals, and are experienced in working with a wide range of concerns from a variety of therapeutic approaches. Please see our "specialties" above.
In addition to providing quality counselling services, New Roots Therapy also offers behaviour consultation services with our Behaviour Specialist. Children, adolescents, and families struggling with behavioural challenges at school, at home, or within the community may benefit from working with our Behaviour Specialist, as a single service or in combination with counselling sessions.
Our therapists provide both short- and long-term counselling services. Daytime, evening, and weekend appointments are available. We offer a free initial 10-minute phone or e-mail consultation.
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Could Someone Have Periodontal Disease and Not Know it?
Dental and oral health are things that many people have trouble keeping up with. It can be hard to even realize something is wrong until your teeth or mouth are physically damaged. Our office services the areas of Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, and Paradise, NV. Dr. Ryan Martz can help you find ways to keep your oral and dental health in the best condition possible. Schedule a consultation with Gardens Cosmetic and Family Dentistry in Las Vegas, NV to learn how Dr. Martz can help you today.
What is periodontal disease?
Periodontal disease affects the areas around your tooth, like the gums and bone. This can be caused by a mix of plaque, tartar, and bacteria. Plaque is the layer of food, bacteria, and saliva that coats your teeth. If not removed, it can turn into tartar. If plaque and tartar are left untreated for long periods of time, they can begin to damage your gums and bone. This disease is known for making your gums red and swollen while causing bleeding. However, four out of five people do not even know they have periodontal disease. This is because this condition is virtually painless during the early stages. If you live near Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, or Paradise, NV, and think you may be suffering from periodontal disease, contact Gardens Cosmetic and Family Dentistry to learn how periodontal disease may affect you.
What causes periodontal disease, and what should I look for?
Periodontal disease is caused by a buildup of bacteria, plaque, and tartar, which lead to inflammation and this eventual disease. However, there are some risk factors that could increase the likelihood of getting this disease, including smoking, diabetes, stress, genetics, dry mouth, and hormone changes. There are some precursors you should watch for if you think you may be at risk for developing periodontal disease. Common signs include bad breath, red and swollen gums, sore gums, gum bleeding, pain when chewing, loose teeth, gums that are moving away from your teeth, tooth sensitivity, and changes in the bite of your teeth or the fit of restorations.
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Paul Selvin Award
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Edge of Tomorrow, Get on Up, Fair Game
Jez Butterworth, Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, Tate Taylor
John-Henry Butterworth is an English screenwriter who has co-written several screenplays with his brother Jez Butterworth. The brothers won the Writers Guild of America's 2011 Paul Selvin Award for their screenplay for the 2010 film Fair Game.
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By Ekaete Bassey
Sharon Okpamen also known as Okpamen Enorese, an Edo-born filmmaker, since starting her production company, Sharonny Production Enterprise in 2015, has successfully produced over 12 films.
She has produced and featured in several movies including The Great Servant, Take A Fall, Eshikito, Enibokun Nollose, Ovbieze Odehiomwan, Olighi, Efosa and The Housewife among others.
After almost decade of active contribution to filmmaking in Nigeria as an actress-cum-producer, Okpamen Enorese efforts have been applauded by fans and stakeholders in the make-believe industry as she was honoured with some prestigious recognition and award.
“Among other accolades, I have won J-Drims Moving Pictures ‘ Best Producer of 2017 with the movie Olighi, Best Lead Character 2018 of the High Combination Entertainment award and this year, now, I have been honoured with the Icons Award 2019 for Beauty Influencer by Edisa Award,” she said.
READ ALSO: Music was my first love – Sharon Okpamen
Sharon Okpamen also declared that an actress can have a decent career in the movie world and succeed without any scandal if only she is principled enough to live a decent life.
Emphasizing on the importance of decorum by actors and actresses, Sharon Okpamen declared: “To be decent makes you an icon. An actress or any female celebrity should learn to close her legs because men will come in a different form.”
She had been a devout filmmaker despite being an enterprising beauty entrepreneur and a talented musician. “The reason I stick to filmmaking,” she explained, “is because I want to contribute to the society by visual, visual messages run faster than written.”

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Reishi mushrooms have long been known for their ability to help boost the body’s immune system. Life Extension has now created a unique extraction that allows for the reishi to be extremely more bioavailable. Reishi mushrooms have been proven to enhance the activity of certain cells and other crucial immune factors that have been known to have effect on healthy immune systems.
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The Lithuanian authorities gave Ukraine old munitions that are not used by the military. It is reported by the war Department of the Baltic republics.
We are talking about ammunition, which Lithuanian military used before the transition to NATO standards. Basically it cartridges of caliber of 5,45 mm to Kalashnikov rifles.
Cargo transportation by mutual consent of the parties paid by the Ukrainian authorities.


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|Publication number||US5565723 A|
|Application number||US 08/331,817|
|Publication date||Oct 15, 1996|
|Filing date||Oct 31, 1994|
|Priority date||Oct 31, 1994|
|Publication number||08331817, 331817, US 5565723 A, US 5565723A, US-A-5565723, US5565723 A, US5565723A|
|Original Assignee||Dastidar; Pranab|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (12), Classifications (26), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates to transmission of mechanical power using an electromagnetic device particularly for continuous and smooth variable speed drives under manual or automatic control.
It has always been the desire to have smooth variable rotational speed transmission of mechanical power over large speed ranges. It is known in the art that reasonable variable speed transmission for low powers is possible through mechanical friction aided devices by changing friction contacts at varying radii, but at high powers, efficient transmission through variable gear ratio changes has been the preferred method. Where the transmission from an engine is to be all mechanical, the requirement of high torque at low speeds Is generally obtained, in the art, by running the engine at high speeds and reducing the speed at the load point by gears. At high speeds of the load shaft the gear ratio is changed, such as in cars, to keep the engine at the right speeds for delivering the maintenance torques at the load point. Because of the involvement of gear changes through the complete speed range there are as many interruptions in the transmission as there are gear changes.
On the other hand, as is also known in the art, smooth rotational speed changes through the full range is easily possible with good efficiency, in electrical transmission once the initial mechanical power is converted to electrical power through a electric generator. It is quite frequently used in railway traction where electrical power is picked up either directly from external conductors or generated with prime movers on the traction engine. In the former case there is only one electrical device for traction on the locomotive, namely the motor and in the latter case there are two electrical devices, the generator and the motor. Also known is that direct current series motor is the favoured traction device because of its ideal torque speed characteristics. At low speeds high torques are required for acceleration and at high speeds only low maintenance torques are needed to keep the desired speeds which the direct current series motor adequately provides.
An object of the present invention is to perform the transmission of mechanical power in a single device through electric power generation and drive with smooth and continuous speed changes and with the desired torque speed characteristics, with manual or automatic control of speeds. A feature of this invention is two coaxial rotatable coupled magnetic systems having embedded electrical windings as in electrical machines, known in the art, but with the difference that each of the said coaxial parts is mechanically coupled one to the prime mover and the other to the shaft driving the load so that both the said coaxial parts rotate and transmit mechanical power. Another feature is feedback between the two said rotating parts by picking up the currents from the said windings, as an illustration, with brushes and commutators or slip rings and electrically coupling the said windings through control circuits. Yet another feature of the invention is mechanical transmission with desired speed torque characteristics with the possibility of simultaneously meeting electrical power requirements by tapping off electrical power from the said winding circuits.
The above and other features of the invention will now be more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims. It will be understood that the particular assemblies and the explanations are by way of illustrations only and not as limitations of the invention. The principles and features of the invention may be employed in various and numerous embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention.
Reference is made to the accompanying drawings in which are shown illustrative embodiments of the invention from which its novel features and advantages will be apparent.
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of one form of the transmission assembly illustrative of an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of another form of the transmission assembly illustrative of an embodiment of the invention with slip ring assemblies and rectifiers circuits represented in schematic form, all of which form parts of the assembly.
Description of the illustrative Embodiments
Referring to FIG. 1:
There are two coaxial magnetically coupled rotable parts, 1 and 10, housing electrical windings, in slots like, 11 and 12, round the peripheries. One of the rotatable parts, 1, is mechanically connected to the driver engine through the support, 5, and the shaft, 7, and the other rotatable housing, 10, is mechanically coupled to the shaft, 18, driving the load. Hereinafter, 1, will be referred to as the outer rotor and 10, as the inner rotor. The mechanical connections can be reversed according to convenience, with the engine connected to shaft, 18, and the load to shaft, 7. To describe the device the case of direct current on the two rotor windings housed in slots indicated by, 11 and 12, is considered. The windings terminate on to two commutators, 21 for the outer rotor and 19 for the inner rotor. The commutator, 21, rotates along with the outer rotor, 1, through support, 22. The commutator, 19, mounted on shaft, 18, rotates along with the inner rotor, 10. Brush pairs, 14, on the commutator, 21, and 16 on commutator, 19, are placed at right angles to each other in the magnetic pole space and are held on stationary supports. The illustration herein considers the case of two magnetic poles though multiple magnetic pole configuration with multiple brushes is usable. The brushes are connected in series, through connection, 20, and through control variable resistor, 15. The outer rotor, 1, is supported by bearing, 6, on stationary supports and bearing, 13, on the rotating shaft, 18. Bearing, 17, for the shaft, 18, has stationary supports and the other side of the inner rotor, 10, has bearing, 4, on support, 3, and on shaft, 7.
The features of the drive are explained as follows: As the engine begins driving one rotor any remnant magnetic field existing in the air gap, 8, between the rotors will induce emf in the windings. Current begins flowing in both the rotor windings as the engine rotates. Two steady magnetic fields, indicated schematically by 2 and 9, are established in the rotor gap, 8, by the combinations of the windings, commutators and brushes on the two rotors. As the current begins to flow the magnetic field in the air space, 8, between the rotors is enhanced thereby increasing the generated emf which causes the current to rise further. The cummulative effect will continue till non-linearities or controls, 15, in the winding circuits bring about a steady state. The magnetic field, 2, indicated schematically, created by the current in the windings on the inner rotor, 10, is perpendicular to the brush pair, 16, on the inner rotor commutator, 19, and the other magnetic field, 9, shown schematically, created by the current in the windings on the outer rotor, 1, is likewise perpendicular to the brush pair, 14, on the outer rotor commutator, 21. Since the brash pairs, 14 and 16, are perpendicular to each other, the air gap magnetic fields, 2 and 9, are also perpendicular to each other. A torque is established on the inner rotor, 10, causing it to follow the rotor, 1, which is being driven by the engine.
If no remnant field exists at the start, according to the invention, the series connection, 20, between the windings is broken temporarily and a small direct current is injected in the circuit from a direct current source such as a battery. The source is removed and fie circuit simultaneously reclosed before the injected current decays. The winding inductances would keep the current alive for a period. This current will provide the staffing magnetic field in the air gap, 8, after which the sequences for the growth and maintenance of the field and the rotation of the inner rotor, as already referred to, will follow. Other methods of creating the initial field as with special windings on one of the rotors and passing current through it or with withdrawable permanent magnets are other features of the invention.
The transmission assembly could also be used to initially start the engine by gripping the load shaft to prevent its rotation, feeding currents to the two windings from a battery to make only the engine shaft rotate, then breaking the winding circuit once the engine starts and remaking the circuit to the configuration required for mechanical power transmission. This is yet another feature of the invention. Where brakes are provided the brake system could be used for gripping the load shaft.
To explain the feature of the torque speed characteristic let it be assumed that the engine speed is kept constant by feedback after sensing the speed with a sensor. If the load torque on the rotor, 10, increases the rotor will tend to slow down. The slip between the two rotors, 1 and 10, increases. A larger emf is induced on the windings in the rotors, a larger current flows in both the windings, larger magnetic field in the air gap, 8, is created and the rotating torque is increased, which caters to the higher torque requirement of the load shaft, 18. Simultaneously, the fuel input to the engine increases automatically to keep its speed constant and at the same time provide the increased torque demand. The torque speed characteristics of the embodiment will be almost like that of the direct current series motor. Even If the engine is not kept at a constant speed, its speed will have to be adjusted by higher fuel injection or by allowing a slow down in engine speed without permitting the stall regions of the torque speed characteristics to be reached. The speeds of the load shaft will adjust accordingly in order to meet the torque requirements.
The current is controllable by the variable series resistor, 15, to adjust the magnetic field strength to set the desired speed, generally, of the load shaft, 18, at the required torque, which is another feature of the invention. In order to improve the efficiency instead of control by the series resistor, 15, electronic control such as through thyristor systems is also usable.
The illustration has used the series motor analogy but it is possible to use the shunt field system or series and shunt combinations to get the desired characteristics. Brushless commutation designed through standard methods, known in the art, using electronic components is feasible.
According to the invention, slip rings instead of commutators are usable and the rotor currents can be alternating current or a combination of alternating current and direct current. As an illustration by way of FIG. 2, the windings in slots indicated by, 12, on the rotor connected to the engine is fed direct current through the two slip rings, 28, and rectifying circuit, 25. The alternating current from the windings in slots indicated by, 11, on the inner rotor, 10, picked up through the three slip rings, 23 is rectified by rectifiers, 24. In order to avoid magnetic saturation in the ferromagnetic circuits when alternating current is rectified, full wave rectification or multiphase tapping and rectification is utilised. The three slip rings, 23, are provided for full wave rectification. The magnetic field, 2, caused by the direct current in the winding of rotor, 1, rotates as indicated by 27, along with this rotor driven by the engine. The rotating field, 2, and the induced alternating current in the windings of the rotor, 10, connected to the load shaft, 18, generate the torque almost similar to that in induction motors, known in the art. The speed, generally, of the load shaft, and the torque speed characteristic is suited to the condition under which the device is used, through controls, schematically shown by, 26.
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|U.S. Classification||310/103, 310/104, 310/105|
|International Classification||H02K23/40, B60K17/12, H02K49/06, H02K19/10, B60L11/14, H02K49/08, H02P15/00|
|Cooperative Classification||Y02T10/70, B60L2200/26, Y02T10/642, H02K19/10, H02K49/06, H02K23/40, H02K49/08, Y02T10/7077, H02P15/00, B60K17/12, B60L11/14, Y02T10/641|
|European Classification||H02P15/00, B60L11/14, H02K49/08, H02K49/06|
|Dec 3, 1999||FPAY||Fee payment|
Year of fee payment: 4
|May 5, 2004||REMI||Maintenance fee reminder mailed|
|Oct 15, 2004||LAPS||Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees|
|Dec 14, 2004||FP||Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee|
Effective date: 20041015


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Herbal Treatment For Capillary Hemangioma
Patience: Ch will generally grow faster than the kid for about 6-8 m, slow then start to shrink down into the skin leaving a pale or parchment like surface by the age of 4. Rarely do they need any work. If they might interfere with vision of distort the nose some dermatologists might treat to decrease size. Rx varies;laser, injected med, oral meds, most will go away over time. ...Read more
Lots of options: Find a doctor, or children's hospital that has a vascular anomalies clinic or specialty and get the opinion of people that see these all the time. Depending on size, etc, treatment may or may not be appropriate but there is a time crunch for certain treatments to be effective (like propranolol). ...Read more
Capillary bundle: Ch are spaghetti like collections of bundled capillaries in a common birth mark. They will generally grow faster than the kid for about 6-8 m, slow then start to shrink down into the skin leaving a pale or parchment like surface by the age of 4. Rarely do they need any work. If they might interfere with vision of distort the nose some dermatologists might treat to decrease size. ...Read more
Morning glory disk anomaly with ipsilateral capillary hemangioma, agenesis of the internal carotid artery, and horner syndrome: a variant of phaces syndrome?
Will Eye Hospital: Recommend you travel to see the retinal service at the wills eye hospital in philadelphia, pa. Would recommend dr. Gerry shields and dr. Carol shields. ...Read more
Leave it alone?: 1% of folks have a benign hemangioma in the liver. The vast majority of hepatic hemangiomas require no treatment whatever. If you have been offered treatment, ask why. Their malignant counterpart, the one lesion I know for which they could be mistaken, is very rare and I've not heard of anyone surviving it. ...Read more
Eyelid hemangioma: Most hemangiomas do not require treatment — they grow and then shrink on their own. Eyelid ones are an exception though, because as they grow it can obstruct vision and cause problems with visual development in the infant. I would advise a consultation with a pediatric dermatologist and ophthalmologist. Most likely systemic therapy with Propranolol would be indicated in this situation. ...Read more
Hemangioma benign pelvic tumor may I know it s treatment it causes pain also my mom is 74years old she is diabetic?
Need to be sure that: "Hemangioma" is the cause of the pain. There are surgicalm radiofrequency, and radiation methods of obliterating a finding, but it may not affect her pain. Severe diabetics can have vrey painful diabetic neuropathy. Dm & hemangioma not related, and neither may be the cause of her pain. Consult a pain specialist too. ...Read more
Most Do Well: Infantile hemangiomas have a growth phase and an involutional phase. The growth phase occurs over the first 4-10 months of life, with few having significant growth after 5 months. All hemangiomas involute slowly over 2-10 years, but not all involute completely-- possibly leaving irregular texture, loose tissue and can scar if they ulcerate. Treatment may be necessary in large or growing lesions. ...Read more
A tumor composed of: Dilated blood vessels that grows along the bones in the spinal cord is a condition called a vertebral or spinal hemangioma. People with this type of spinal tumor typically don't experience symptoms, especially when the hemangioma is small. If the tumor grows larger, patients can begin to experience debilitating symptoms, such as chronic back pain or paralysis. Patients who symtomtatic should treat. ...Read more
None: Vertebral hemangiomas are common, usually found incidentally, requiring no treatment. If painful suggesting a compression fracture, kyphoplasty can be helpful. ...Read more
My mother had MRI nd reveals she has vertebral L1 hemangioma so I am worried about that please suggest me treatment and it's complications?
A hemangioma in L1 is extremely common. I would mention that it is reasonable to recheck it if the hemangioma is atypical.
Even thoguht hemangiomas are common they can lead to weakining of the bone. So if your mom has suddent increased pain — it could be a stress fracture- again uncommon.
Hemangiomas of bone do not cause raised skin lesions. ...Read more
Hemangioma over last 20 years. I live in india so where can I go for treatment out of the country?
Why does my daughter have such large veins across her face leading to the hemangioma under her eye. Could it be fighting against the treatment?
Possibly: Hemangiomas are irregular collections of blood vessels, in this case beneath the skin. Warmth or redness of skin may be a sign of infection or inflammation. While steroids are used to reduce inflammation, they can increase risk of infection. In addition, steroids can thin in the lining of certain tissues and blood vessels, increasing the risk of bleeding in the setting of trauma. ...Read more
I had body check with ultrasound and CT scan last month, there is a Liver hemangioma size 10x6cm, shall I need a treatment, thanks?
Hemangioma follow up:
Treatment is often not necessary unless liver functions become deranged.
A gastroenterologist would advice follow-up consultations ...Read more
My husband has a large hemangioma on his L1 vertebrae his dr reccomends urgent treatment because he is having urine incontinence and numbness in legs.
Here are some ...: Oftentimes, the patient, family, and doctor come to confront the dilemma in when and how to treat a disease. How? No magic abound for such. Together, the joined group has to balance between medical necessity including patient/family's emotional subjectivity and doctor's professional objectivity, and professional possibilities so to decide when, what, and how to take action. So, ask Doc so to... ...Read more
Top vs bottom: Cappillary hemangiomas are in the top skin layers and cavernous deeper in the skin, see: http://goo. Gl/vivep. ...Read more
Nests of capillarys: Infants often have nests of capillarys show up within the first month that can be localized, tiny, round or dominate a large area of skin. They grow faster than the child & surrounding nl skin, peaking in relative size about a year & have a strawberry like appearance. This rapid growth phaze is followed by slowing & reversal, often major patches decline & pale parchment like skin is left. ...Read more
Alternative to what?:
Do you mean "complementary and alternative", "holistic" rx?
None has shown evidence of effectiveness. ...Read more
Laser: A laser is excellent for reducing the vascular component of the hemangioma. Depending on the location, other options for removing the scar include primary excision and/ or serial excision. Closure may be accomplished primarily or with flap closure occasionally requiring tissue expansion. ...Read more

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