The 22nd China Expressway lnformatization Conference and Technical Product Exhibition
The "China Highway Informationization Seminar and Technical Product Exhibition"(abbreviated as: CEl), which started in 1999, is sponsored by the China Highway Society and undertaken by the magazine "China Transportation Informationization". l he conference is held once a year and has been successfully held for 21 sessions,with tens of thousands of participants. From paying attention to the construction of my country's expressway electrical and mechanical engineering to informatization construction , from small-scale technical exchanges to the 21st industry event in 2019, in the past 21 years,it has played an active role in promoting the construction and development of my country's expressway informatization. withthe affirmation and support of the Ministry of Transport and the China Association for Science and Technology, it is hailedas the largest and most influential professional conference in the field of transportation informatization in my country.lIn order to implement the State Council and the Ministry of Iransport's plicy and spirit of deepening the reform of the tolroad system and canceling the provincial boundary toll stations of expressways, realizing electronic non-stop toll cllction.ensuring the sate , smooth and efficient operation of expressways, and better serving the cancelled provinces The follow-upof toll station work in the world, to improve the information construction and service level of expressways, exchange anddiscuss related management and technical issues under the new toll system, strengthen experience and technical exchanges
among peers, promote the application of new technologies and new products, and strive to achieve China's highwaytransportation system reconstruction, standard unification, networking and joint control, intelligent and intelligent
development goals, to contribute to building a strong transportation country, the China Highway Scciety is scheduled to holdthe 22nd China Expressway in Chongqing on August 27-28,2020 Highway informatization conference and technical product
exhibition (CEl-2020 for short).
l he exhibition area of the exhibition is nearly 30,000 square meters, and it is expected that more than 280 domestic and foreign manufacturers will participate in the exhibition, vying to show their strength and level.
Host: China Highway Society
Cooperative Office: Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd."China Transportation Informationization" magazine
lime: August 27-28,2020
ADD: Chongqing International Expo Center Hall N1，N2，N4
France SICAME Booth No.: Hall N4-A415
welcome new and old customers and colleagues to visit the booth for guidance!
2019 Asia Power Electrician and Smart Grid Exhibition + Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Achievement ExhibitionConcurrently held. Asia CleanElectricity and Energy Storage Technology Exhibition, "Belt and Road" Asian Power Summit Forum
he 2019 China (Shanghai) nternational Electric Power Exhibition is a wel-known professional exhibition in China.The theme of thisexhibiion is "technological innovation, brand remodeling, value-added optimization, and solutions" to promote the industry/s upstreamand downstream service innovation; Demonstration, academic exchanges,industry annual meetings, forum discussions, product
The "China Highway Informationization Seminar and Technical Product Exhibition"(abbreviated as: CEl), which started in 1999, is sponsored by the China Highway Society and undertaken by the magazine "China Transportation Informationization". l he conference is held once a year and has been successfully held for 21 sessions,with tens of thousands of participants.
Gorgeous golden autumn, meet in Beijing! The 2018 Beijing International Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition will be held in China Intemnational Exhibition Center (New Hallfrom October 17-19! Sicame Power Equipment (Nantong)Co., Ltd. sincerely invites you to come and visit.Booth w309. Sincerely meet, see or leave!
From June 23 to 24,2016, the 2016 annual meeting of the Electrical Branch of the Architectural Society of China was held in Nanjing.Hickam Power Equipment(Nantong) Co., Ltd. participated in the meeting. More than 120 architectural electrical experts from majordesign institutes across the country participated in this conference, and nearly 50 domestic and foreign electrical equipment manufacturers participated in the exhibition.The SICAME booth attracted the attention of many professional participants
From June 16 to 17,2016, the Shandong Provincial Builiding Electricity and Intelligentization Annual Conference was held in Liny.Hickam Power Equipment(Nantong) Co., Lid.participated in the conference. M.Han Hai,Sales Director of Hickam China,gave aspeech on the topic of "Insulation Piercing Clamp Branch Connection Technology" at the forum.


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2013: Japan & Korea’s All Kills
If you’re bored of the mainstream but not so keen on Korean’s usually depressing and unplugged indie sounds, then perhaps some bingsu pop is in order. The best tracks from this budding new genre include the cute and lofi Blueberry Muffin Recipe by Rururu, the goofy Ice Cream by Garina Project, the twee wonder of Welcome to this Wonderful Mart by MyuMyu, and the ethereal Sing by Ookoorookoo.
You know where to go to hear those tracks out with words from yours truly, and enjoy the video for Sing below as a bingsu taster.
This year’s best Korean indie, though, came in at the eleventh hour, with the release in November of Glen Check’s new album, Youth. Glen Check are a duo who make a kind of Cut Copy/Justice/Rapture fusion, and Youth was the album you secretly hoped Daft Punk would actually make. Too summery for winter, but sure to find its time in the light next year, check out my favorite track from the album, Summer Hearts.
Hot on their heels, despite not releasing any albums in 2013, were Humming Urban Stereo, who put out a lot of one-off releases, including remixes and productions, the latter including the frenetically aloof Maem Maem by Bebop [MV]. Their best achievement would have to be a toss-up between Let’s Stay Together  or the below song, Rollercoaster, which rips up your stereos with giddy and lovedrunk electro.
2013 also saw k-pop and k-indie come a little closer together with collaborations between the likes of 10cm and girl group Orange Caramel , along with a marked increase of girls with guitars such as AOA Black, the spin-off band for idol group AOA, plus solo act Yoari, who I wrote about back in January . Her track Do You Like It? was a sadly underrated bit of rock pop shreddage.
Let’s have a look over to Japan & Taiwan now!

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Thieves beware. If you prowl around [Matthew Gaber]’s place, you get soaked by his motion activated super-squirter. Even if he’s not at home, he can aim and fire it remotely using an iPhone app. And for the record, a camera saves photos of your wetted-self to an SD card.
The whole security system is handled by three subsystems for target acquisition, photo documentation, and communications. The first subsystem is centered around an ESPino which utilizes a PIR sensor to detect motion. It then turns on a windscreen washer pump and uses pan and tilt servos to squirt water in a pattern toward the victim.
The target acquisition hardware also sends a message to the second subsystem, an ArduCAM ESP8266 UNO board. It takes a burst of photos using an ArduCAM Mini Camera mounted beside the squirter outlet. The UNO can also serve up a webpage with a collection of the photos.
The final subsystem is an iPhone app which talks to both the ESPino and the UNO board. It can remotely control the squirter and provide a video feed of what the camera sees.
One detail of the build we really enjoyed is the vacuum relief valve he fabricated himself. It prevents siphoning through the pump when it’s not on. Don’t miss a demo of the squirter in action after the break.
We’ll all have worked in offices that have air-conditioning, but a little too much of it. It’s wonderful on a baking-hot day to walk into the blessèd cool of an air-conditioned office, but after an hour or two of the icy blast you’re shivering away in your summer clothing and you skin has dried out to a crisp. Meanwhile on the other side of the building [Ted] from Marketing has cranked up the whole system to its extreme because he’s got a high metabolism and an office in the full force of the midday sun.
Software wise, the system uses the Sming framework providing an MQTT communication with a backend server that allows the users to control their aircon experience. This is very much a work in progress, so the software has yet to be put up. (Hint, [Maya], hint!) The whole project though is an extremely tidy build, in fact a thing of beauty to a standard you’d expect from a high-quality commercial product. It’s this that tipped the balance into our featuring it before the software is released, it’s one to keep an eye on, because quality like this doesn’t come every day.
Over at Sparkfun, [Alex] shared an OLED clock project that’s currently in progress but has a couple interesting twists. The first is the use of a small OLED screen for each digit, to which [Alex] added a stylistic touch. Digits transition by having segments slide vertically in a smooth animated motion. It’s an attractive effect, and the code is available on his github repository for anyone who wants to try it out.
[Alex] also found that by using an ESP32 microcontroller and synchronizing the clock via NTP over WiFi, the added cost of implementing a real-time clock in hardware becomes unnecessary. Without an RTC, time would drift by a few seconds every day and require a reset. At the moment the clock requires the SSID and password to be hardcoded, but [Alex] would prefer to allow this to be configured via a web page and could use some help. If you have implemented a web server on the ESP32, [Alex] would like to know how you handled multiple pages. “I’ve been scratching my head throughout the build on how to get this done,” he writes. “With the ESP8266, there’s on(const String &uri, handler function), but that seems to have been removed on the ESP32.” If you can point [Alex] in the right direction, be sure to pipe up.
OLED displays and clocks often go together, as we have seen with projects like the DIY OLED Smart Watch, but it’s nice to see someone using the OLED’s strengths to add some visual flair to an otherwise plain display.
The Internet of Things is developing at a rapid pace, as hobbyists and companies rush to develop the latest and greatest home automation gear. One area of particular interest to some is lighting – yes, even the humble lightbulb now comes with a brain and is ripe for the hacking.
[Tinkerman] starts by doing a full disassembly of the Sonoff B1 lightbulb. It’s a popular device, and available for less than $20 on eBay. Rated at 6 watts, the bulb has a heatsink that is seemingly far larger than necessary. Inside is the usual AC/DC converter, LED driver and an ESP8285 running the show. While this is a slightly different part to the usual ESP8266, it can be programmed in the same way by selecting the correct programming mode.
This is where it gets interesting – [Tinkerman] flashes the device with a custom firmware known as ESPurna. This firmware enables greater control over the function of the bulb, from colour choice, to speaking to the bulb over MQTT.
[Tinkerman] does a great job of walking through the exact steps needed to disassemble and reprogram the bulb, and touches upon the added flexibility given by the custom firmware. We love to see projects like this one, that give greater control over IoT devices and enable users to better integrate them with other systems.
Assuming the board was dead, [Pete] grabbed another — and suffered the same problem. The WEMOS boards wouldn’t program, but other boards had no issues. Sensing that something may be amiss, further research was in order. A forum post turned up discussing different programming modes for the ESP8266.
It turns out that there are different types of flash used with the ESP8266, and the correct programming mode must be selected for a given hardware setup. These modes are known as DIO and QIO, meaning “dual IO” and “quad IO” respectively. This refers to the number of IO line used to talk to the flash memory. There are also further modes, known as DOUT and QOUT. It’s important to identify the modes supported by the flash chip on board, by looking at the datasheet. Obviously this can be difficult on some pre-built modules, so experimentation is the key here.
By choosing different flash memory parts and selecting the DIO or DOUT modes, it’s actually possible to free up more GPIO pins as well. This knowledge is handy when optimizing ESP8266 designs for memory speed or maximum IO flexibility. It’s a good lesson that it always pays to look at the datasheet to get the best out of your parts.
We’ve had our eye on [davedarko’s] LAMEBOY project for a while now, a handheld setup in roughly the same form factor as the classic Nintendo Game Boy. It’s remarkable how approachable portable electronic design has become, and that’s really what makes this interesting. The design is beautiful, and the closer you look, the more respect you have for what [dave] is doing.
Right now his proof of concept has a 3D printed enclosure whose face is the printed circuit board. We love how the lower left corner of the PCB slips under a pocket in the case, which makes it possible to use just one screw to secure the two together in the upper right.
The LAMEBOY is built around an ESP8266 module. Anyone who has used one knows this chip contains a fair amount of horsepower, but very little I/O. [Dave] has a lot going on with an LCD screen, six user buttons, a USB to I/O chip, and an SD card slot. He took two approaches to solve this dilemma. First he grabbed a PCF8574 port expander, and second he’s offloaded the color control of the screen backlights to an ATtiny85 (running a BlinkM clone).
Below you can see some early game tests on the perfboard prototype. We haven’t seen game play on the most recent prototype (there is a screen color test video in his latest project log) but it sounds as though [dave] plans to make use of the Gamebuino framework. This should mean that there will be no shortage of cool ROMs to load.
When we think of relays, we tend to think of those big mechanical things that make a satisfying ‘click’ when activated. As nice as they are for relay-based computers, there are times when you don’t want to deal with noise or the unreliability of moving parts. This is where solid-state relays (SSRs) are worth considering. They switch faster, silently, without bouncing or arcing, last longer, and don’t contain a big inductor.
An SSR consists of two or three standard components packed into a module (you can even build one yourself). The first component is an optocoupler which isolates your control circuit from the mains power that you are controlling. Second, a triac, silicon controlled rectifier, or MOSFET that switches the mains power using the output from the optocoupler. Finally, there is usually (but not always) a ‘zero-crossing detection circuit’. This causes the relay to wait until the current it is controlling reaches zero before shutting off. Most SSRs will similarly wait until the mains voltage crosses zero volts before switching on.
If a mechanical relay turns on or off near the peak voltage when supplying AC, there is a sudden drop or rise in current. If you have an inductive load such as an electric motor, this can cause a large transient voltage spike when you turn off the relay, as the magnetic field surrounding the inductive load collapses. Switching a relay during a peak in the mains voltage also causes an electric arc between the relay terminals, wearing them down and contributing to the mechanical failure of the relay.

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Just got my hands on a new rifle and scope. A 257 Weatherby ultra-light with 3-9 Leupold scope. It is mounted with Warn bases and rings. Took it out today for initial sight-in and had problems with the elevation. Windage adjustment dialed in fine, but could never get the elevation closer than 10 inches low at 25 yards. I would hate to shim the rear base, but does anyone have other ideas?


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The Folklore Museums Network, Historic Environment Scotland, and Museums Galleries Scotland will present an exciting conference on folklore, material culture, intangible culture, heritage and museums on Thursday December 16, 2021. The day will bring together speakers of international standing, case studies of projects, inspiring perspectives on collections and the archaeological/heritage landscape, to drive forward the ways in which museums and heritage organisations deal with folklore and related fields.
Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland and the UK
Thursday, December 16
Welcome & Introductions
Peter Hewitt (Folklore Museums Network)
Ben Thomas and Laura Harrison (Historic Environment Scotland)
Jacob O’Sullivan (Museums Galleries Scotland)
10.35 Hugh Cheape– Taking forward Material Culture and Folklore: our engagement with people, place and regional ethnology
11.20 Q&A (15 mins)
11.35 Break (15 mins)
11.50 Tina Paphitis - The Place of Folklore in Archaeological Landscapes: Plurality, Participation and Practice
12.10 Jeremy Harte - These boots were made for walking: haunted objects in museums
12.30 Rhona Ramsey - Nacken chaetrie: finding the material culture of Gypsy/Travellers in Scottish museums
12.50 Q&A (15 mins)
13.05 Lunch (55 mins, reconvene at 14.00)
14.00 Miriam Morris - Talking Statues Case study: Archives, Walks and Talks
14.20 Gauri Raje - Passing down stories: Working across generations with migrant stories
14.40 Valentina Bold - 'The Kinmont Willie Sword and other Tales of Mettle'
15.00 Q&A (15 mins)
15.15 Break (15 mins)
15.30 Feedback (Mentimeter Survey)
To book your free place please go to: Museums Galleries Scotland | Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland
By Ben Gazur
Food folklore is a tantalising subject but also, given the nature of its ingredients, an ephemeral one. If the material evidence of food folklore is not eaten during the performance of ritual, or simply because it is delicious, then it tends to rot away. There are however some morsels of food folklore that have stood the test of both time and hunger, resisted the work of weevils and fungi, and can now be found in museum collections.
Witch cakes have a long history. At the Salem witch trials it was revealed that a method of identifying the witches was used that involved the baking of a special cake. It was in January of 1692 when several of the young girls of the Parris household began to behave oddly. Bewitchment was soon thought to be involved.
Luckily a neighbour, Mary Sibley, suggested a way to find the culprit. She ordered her slave Tituba to bake a witch cake. The key ingredient was to be the ‘water’ of the young girls. The cake containing their urine was baked and then fed to a dog. The reaction of the dog to this treat is not known, but no indication of the witch was forthcoming.
Where the idea of a witch cake came from is unknown but it is possible that it was an old tradition imported from England by the Salem inhabitants. A contemporaneous almanac describes a way of curing ague by feeding a cake containing a patient’s urine to a dog. If the dog shook then the disease would be cured. The witch cake as used in Salem could have been a repurposing of an old folk cure.
What is known that there was a folk custom of crafting witch cakes in Britain that continued into the 19th century, though most bakers forgo adding their own body fluids to the dough.
Witch cakes of Britain operated more as charms and amulets than as methods of uncovering witches. The reports of witch cakes say that they were baked between the 1st and 6th of April each year. Made of a simple dough made from flour, salt, and water they are shaped into a ring with several spikes projecting out. Once baked to a rock-like hardness they were hung in homes as a charm against witches and all manner of other bad spirits. After a year a new cake was baked to replace the old one.
In the Pitt Rivers museum there is a well preserved witch cake collected in Flamborough in Yorkshire that was collected at some point before 1933.
[Image Link: http://objects.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/PRMUID222156.html]
Scarborough Museums also contains an example of a witch cake said to have been baked in 1850. While several cracks have appeared on it the witch cake is surprisingly well preserved. [Image Link: https://folklorethursday.com/material-culture/superstitious-charmed-life-william-james-clarke/ ]
Collecting pieces of food folklore is something that has appealed to many collectors throughout history but most collections of charms have been broken up and disposed of. Some like that folklorist Edward Lovett however have been preserved and offer an insight into the material culture of folklore in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Among the huge number of charms and amulets collected by Lovett can be found three rather unlovely crumbs of bread. Despite being collected around 1915 the fragments of white bread have held up surprisingly well. Currently held in the Cuming Collection these pieces of bread are catalogued as a curative charm. A strange piece of folk magic is referenced in their catalogue in relation to them. To cure a child of whooping cough a lock of hair was taken from the back of the child’s head and put between two pieces of bread. This hirsute sandwich was then fed to the first dog that was seen. By eating the bread and hair it was thought that the dog would take on the whooping cough. One must wonder why, if this was the supposed use for this bread, it was not digested by a dog with a sudden chesty cough?
Some food folklore however is supposed to last. One tradition has it that any bread baked on Good Friday will never go mouldy. Such bread was prized not only because it would never go “ropey” but because it was able to cure many diseases. By grating the bread into drinks it was thought to cure whooping cough. It was even grated into animal feed sometimes as a treatment for farm animals.
In Norfolk Good Friday bread was particularly trusted. An old lady reported that her neighbour was sure to die when an illness stubbornly refused to go away – “for she had already given her two doses of Good Friday bread without any benefit.”
Because Good Friday bread was supposed to be immune against the passage of time it is not surprising that at least one loaf made its way into a museum collection. Baked in 1919, the loaf in the Cambridge Folk Museum was examined decades later and found to be somewhat stale but free of mould. I’m currently trying to locate this loaf to see if it remains un-ropey.
Ben Gazur is an author and writer currently working on a book about food folklore. You can support his book by clicking here. If you know of any food folklore items lurking in museum collections then feel free to contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
This fiddle is on display at the Clan MacPherson Museum, Newtonmore. It is said to have belonged to James MacPherson, 'the Outlaw', whose mother was an 'Egyptian' or Scottish Traveller, his father a laird in Invernesshire. Macpherson was arrested and hung in 1700, and it is said that he played this instrument just before his execution. When he offered the fiddle to his surviving band members who had come to watch him die, none of them would take it so the condemned man broke it on the gallows and flung it away. As part of new display at Clan MacPherson, a member of the Scottish Traveller community has created some new interpretation for this evocative object. We're looking forward to exploring more stories and collections like this in the near future!
Thanks to Rhona Ramsey for this information.
A quick post to highlight a great programme of speakers to be enjoyed from the comfort of your own home this September. The conference (organised by the Society of Folk Life Studies) has a distinct museum component this year, with themes connecting music, dance, song, story and related artefacts and Vernacular buildings and interiors. There will also be a (virtual) tour of Galway City Museum.
More details and booking instructions can be found here: Conference – online 2021 – Folk Life Studies
By Kate Hill
In 1959, Molly Harrison, curator of what was then the Geffrye Museum, wrote to Andrew Jewell, curator of the Museum of English Rural Life, ‘I am not completely sure what is and what is not folk material!’ – and he replied ‘I am not sure that I understand what folk material is either’. This was a little strange as the correspondence concerned the gathering of material for a Directory of Folk Collections, which he was undertaking for the Royal Anthropological Institute. The responses to his survey showed that a large number of museums around the UK held material which they considered to be ‘folk’. However, it’s clear that this was a broad and flexible category, used to describe everything from local history of any kind, to ‘Victoriana’ of any kind – it’s not surprising that there was some uncertainty about what was being investigated.
This is partly because of the way folk material emerged into museums earlier. Around 1900 a major change started to emerge in museum collections – whereas before this point museum collections had focused on classical material, natural history, and increasingly applied art and anthropology, ‘ordinary’ local historical material came, relatively suddenly, to be collected. Rapid change and urbanisation meant old ways of life seemed to be disappearing fast, and older things were increasingly aesthetically appreciated. Initially people such as Gertrude Jekyll, the garden designer, and a group of teachers, craftspeople and artists in Haslemere in Surrey, focused on the peasant - a rural figure untouched by the present whose life would be represented. In the interwar period, though, folk collections came much more to represent a broader idea of ‘everyday life’ in the past – encompassing domestic collections, craft, industry and much more. This was in many ways a response to the democratisation taking place in wider society, especially in education.
The other key innovation associated with folk museums is in display. Folk museums pioneered reconstruction displays, building on natural history dioramas, and on the display practices of international exhibitions in the last decades of the 19th century. Even before the arrival of open air museums, folk material had broken through the idea of displaying material just in relation to other examples of the same kind of thing, in glass cases, and had moved to displaying assemblages of things as they might have been encountered in the past – the fireside being an absolute classic of the interwar period. Such display methods show a desire to make the past more immediate, more intimate and more accessible – curators said they were hoping to make their museums interesting to ‘ordinary’ people and children – but there’s also evidence to suggest museum staff themselves enjoyed a certain amount of imaginative immersion through their playful engagement with museum material, dressing up, demonstrating skills, and even keeping livestock.
I’m currently undertaking research into the growth of folk collections, displays and museums between about 1920 and 1970 – some museums have been the subject of historical research, such as St Fagans National Museum, and the Museum of Cambridge. Yet, as my map above shows, this was a much more widespread phenomenon, from an earlier date, than has maybe been realised as yet, and I want to study it in a more holistic fashion, and think about how it has underlain the approaches to social and local history which we see in museums today. I will be making research trips to key places, but I also want to capture the breadth of the mid-twentieth-century museum trend towards the ‘folk’.
My key interests are in collections and display, as well as in the motivations of those making such innovations at the time, and if possible (unlikely I know!) any material relating to what visitors thought of folk material displays. I’m keen to hear from curators who may have collections of this kind from the period, especially if they know how those collections were displayed at the time, who collected them, and why. I’m also keen to hear how curators see and use these collections now. I’ve been surprised to find instances where all of collections like this are in storage – how do they relate to contemporary priorities in social history? How can/should they be used? Do they represent the historical sensibilities of the period when they were collected? What sort of display are they suited to? Please get in touch with me at email@example.com if you have anything you’d like to share with me!
Title Image: Map of self-identified ‘folk’ collections at museums, 1945 and 1959. Data for 1945 from M. M. Banks, ‘Folk Museums and Collections in England’, Folklore 56: 1 (1945); data for 1959 from survey material held at the Museum of English Rural Life. Many thanks to Dr Ollie Douglas for drawing this material to my attention.
Dr. Kate Hill is Associate Professor of History and Deputy Head, School of History and Heritage, at the University of Lincoln firstname.lastname@example.org
Our friends at the Folklore Podcast have just launched the Folklore Library & Archive at www.folklorelibrary.com. It is a new online resource that aims to preserve an ever-growing repository of research material in the field of folklore for future generations of researchers. The project, which soft-launched on May 5 2021, will soon become fully available, and is split into the following categories:
Library – an extensive folklore library of both print books and electronic editions
Audio Archives – comprising recordings of folklore talks and lectures spanning many years, as well as audio field recordings and other interviews
Video Archives – folklore customs, traditions and other items recorded in the field
Document Archives – including the UKs largest archives of spectral Black Dog accounts and many thousands of pages of other research notes
Photographic Archives – photographs taken at sites of folkloric interest, as well as photographic records of customs, traditions, objects and more
Researchers will be able to request copies of information from the Library & Archives, for which indexes will be available online, in line with copyright regs where items are not in the public domain already.
The founding team is composed of four members, all of whom are currently working on the project on a volunteer capacity: Mark Norman, folklore researcher, author and founder of The Folklore Podcast thefolklorepodcast.com; Rhianna Wynter, a storyboard artist and illustrator; Danial Wynter, archivist and creator of Board Game Feast; and Joana Varanda, writer and founder of the Twitter page Superstition Saturday Superstition Sat/urday (@SuperstitionSat) / Twitter.
For more info visit their beautifully designed website www.folklorelibrary.com
The pioneering research/music collective, Folklore Tapes, whose work explores the arcana and folklore of the UK, is celebrating 10 years of amazing output since their first release 'Two Witches' back in 2011.
FT hope to release a new audiophile press of their 'Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor'; and are looking for backers to help them get the ball rolling. Please pledge whatever you can afford here: Folklore Tapes Ten Year Anniversary Editions by Folklore Tapes — Kickstarter
The Kickstarter campaign seeks to fund two releases in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Folklore Tapes. The first is an audiophile-grade reissue of one of the label's most sought after editions, Theo Brown and the Folklore of Dartmoor. The second is a new Ten Year Anniversary Book featuring essays and hitherto unseen photography from the collective's many fieldtrips, recording sessions and live performances.
Ironstone mining began in Redcar and Cleveland in the 1840s. By 1872 some 1,648 miners arrived to the East Cleveland villages, migrating from Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland and Norfolk and even as far as the Cornish tin mines. With this migration came various superstitions and folklore from the coal and tin mining traditions.
The Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum’s (https://ironstonemuseum.co.uk/) collection of ironstone bibles reveals possible connections between artistic expression and the mining traditions of protection whilst underground. Creating small hand held art works out of local materials appears common across all mining communities, and objects like this were probably created as souvenirs and heirlooms to sell to local folk for a profit. Many would include special messages to loved ones. The ironstone bibles decoration vary, they are often gilded, sometimes including flowers or a simple border around the edge. Some are inscribed with daisy wheel patterns, but it is not known if this was meant for protection.
Working as an ironstone miner was a dangerous job, underground in dark and dirty environments so it was understandable that miners were prone to some superstitions when it came to their working life. Miners worked for long hours and the miner’s wife would often choose to work first thing in the morning, this was to avoid being seen by the men while on their way to work. Miners believed that if they saw a woman before going off to work something bad may happen to them in the mine. Whistling in the mines was forbidden and coined as 'the music of the Devil'. Omens of death included a howling dog beneath the window of a house and the crowing's of a cockbird in the still hours of the night. A popular saying in most villages was 'A whistling woman and a crowing hen Are neither fit got God not men'. Many early ironstone miners believed in the existence of underground spirits possibly from sparks down in the pit. Elves, pixies and gnomes are even said to have lived deep underground playing tricks on the miners and stealing their food.
Please contact email@example.com if you would like to know more about their collections.
Jonny Hannah is the lead artist on Museums Northumberland's Northumberland Folk project.
I was commissioned by Museums Northumberland in July 2019 to create four exhibitions inspired by folklore in the fair county of Northumberland. I’d made many artworks in the past inspired by folk heroes, folk devils, folk songs & ballads. It’s an area I’ve loved for a long time. In our google-saturated world of the 21st century, Folk has always been an antidote to this. So many of the stories & tales are unanswered, inconclusive. Does Nessie exist? Of course she does, but the delicious uncertainty is every bit as exciting as the question.
One of the key parts of Northumberland Folk, as it quickly became known, was community participation. I didn’t really want a hundred of versions of the Bamburgh worm tale, great story that it is. So I began working out how to gather tales that for me, come under the category of ‘Urban Folklore’. Folk, is often perceived as something that happened a long time ago, in a deep, dark wood, as the peasants milled around, clueless. But I knew even growing up in Fife in Scotland, how folk was ever changing, growing & being added to. Mike Wilkie, known as Moog, lived a few streets away from me, then one day, he was gone. As far as I know he’s never turned up. What happened to him? This, I firmly believe is folk. The scary big house, just near our secondary school had all sorts of tales attached to it. There was talk of orgies. But we’d go there to play the collection of broken pianos housed in one of its outbuildings. And Dunfermline was a prominent place for folk music, with a legendary club called the Howf, where a young Billy Connolly & Gerry Rafferty would perform. But then when punk cam along, our town gave birth to the Skids, which I would happily also call Folk; the music of the people, played by them.
So I began trying to get the ‘urban folk’ stories from the good folks of Northumberland. I devised story cards for them to fill out, went busking in the streets with my special, customised guitar & started to hand them out. And the tales I got back were great. From stolen & resold milk bottles to make a few pence on the side, to a recipe for a cocktail celebrating a (fairly) local football hero (the slice of lime pulled all the other ingredients, like cheap cider & old whisky, together brilliantly). One story told of a certain public phone box (remember them?) in Bamburgh, where a call from a failing marriage gave birth to another successful one. So, romance, intrigue, the odd ghost, and a man called ‘Sticky’, & much more besides.
These stories are not in the books, until I make the book, or in my case… newspaper. So, as well as having many of these stories in my exhibitions, alongside more obvious tales such as the brave hero Lizzie Storey, & the amazing muscles of Jimmy Strength, a new newspaper (title undecided, possibly The Northumberland Folk Courier), will be published to mark the public start of the project next spring. Who knows, there may have to be two editions of the paper, as the stories keep coming. During the bleakness of lockdown, a true folk hero, Jack Charlton passed away. I know almost nothing about football, but I know Big Jack is well worth featuring. There will also be a separate publication celebrating the women from the area. As can often happen, the history books cut the women out. So, I’m going to do the opposite. From historical characters like the strong Josephine Butler, to women I’ve met along the way. I sat down with Marjorie Mountain, at the The Old School gallery in Alnmouth, one afternoon, at a time when I was having doubts about the project, & the way I was gathering information. But that conversation, by the ex-school mistress, sorted me out. Marjorie described the folks of Northumberland, having gone through more than their fair share of industrial upheaval, as ‘stoic & brave’. And then in an equally poetic manner, saw the landscape of this part of England, as ‘handsome, wild & free’. And there I had it, almost a sub-title for my entire project; Northumberland Folk; stoic, brave, handsome wild & free.
And more recently, I’ve gone right back to the start, & been obsessively drawing the dragon & brave knight from the ancient tale of the Bamborough Worm. But it’ll sit well with stories of found WWII Luftwaffe mascots & a giant ringworm… I hope. Even if it is all incongruous, & more akin to a car-boot sale, that’s what Folk can often be. Try as we might to control & curate it, it’s by the people, for them, & I’m delighted to say there’s no telling where that’ll end up. But four museums in Northumberland is a good place to start…
By Diane A. Rodgers, Co-founder of the Centre for Contemporary Legend and Senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
Folklore is a living, evolving part of our everyday lives and is present in the cultural artefacts that surround us. Significant elements of this cultural fabric are film and television, streamed into homes via a number of devices and from across many different countries and decades. My research interest lies in how folklore is communicated onscreen in this way, not only by what is represented on screen, but how and in what contexts. Examination of such texts can suggest to us how customs and rituals change over time and evolutions of belief and attitude, which directly affect how people may experience relevant archive material.
For example, consider the representation of Voodoo in Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) or shrunken heads in numerous cinematic examples, including Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (1994). Texts like these may be the very first experience many people have with concepts about such physical artefacts, before having come into close contact with them in a museum and, perhaps, even before questions about racism or colonialism are raised for them (the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford recently removed its famous collection of shrunken heads as part of a decolonisation process).
Dried cats such as those exhibited at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, traditionally placed in buildings for luck or to ward off evil spirits, can be given a more sinister dimension of magic by film and television. For example, ‘Baby’ an episode of Nigel Kneale’s 1976 television series Beasts, features a couple finding a dried creature in an urn, bricked up in a wall. In this case, however, rather than bringing any kind of luck with it at all as an apotropaic device, this dried curiosity has in fact been imbued with an extremely unpleasant curse.
People’s encounter with such exhibits are likely already coloured in some way by (potentially problematic) onscreen representations and it is vital to study the way folklore is presented in popular media because of this. Museum exhibits can educate and reshape common understanding, providing unique and additional contexts to such material as an experience in themselves. I am a fan fan of both Powell and Pressburger’s classic wartime film A Canterbury Tale (1942), in which characters stay in the Hand of Glory Inn and The Wicker Man (1953) in which Edward Woodward wakes up to a hand of glory burning by his bedside. Imagine my delight, then, when I happened across a ‘real’ hand of glory at the Whitby town museum collection some years ago. I look forward to more such future encounters, magical or otherwise!
Diane A. Rodgers
The Peacocks were a distinguished family of scholars who lived at Bottesford Manor and worked in North Lincolnshire during the later 19th and early 20thcentury. They were Edward Peacock (above left), and his seven children: Adrian, Edith, Florence, Julian, Mabel (above right), Maximillian and Ralf. Although a farmer, Edward was primarily an historian, who published numerous works from serious academic studies to popular novels. He educated and passed on his enthusiasm to his children.
Although based on studies of this area, most of the Peacocks’ work is of national importance. Edward’s two dictionaries of local dialect terms were ground breaking. A third volume compiled by Mabel and Maximilian, was eventually pieced together by Eileen Elder. Adrian wrote widely on agriculture and natural history, Florence was an historian and poet, Julian a genealogist, and Mabel the most widely recognised writer in Lincolnshire dialect. Maximilian was a collector of dialect and natural history observations.
The Peacock Family Archive is now part of the North Lincolnshire Museums collections. It consists of agricultural records, domestic records, common-place books, lesson books, drawings, photographs, diaries, personal correspondence and Lincolnshire dialect cards. An incredibly rich resource, it shines a light on the views and lives of people who lived in the local area from the early 18th century to the early 20th century.
The photographs here show Edward and his daughter Mabel, two of the people we have to thank for recording the local dialect.
Post written by Rose Nicholson, Heritage Manager for North Lincolnshire Museums, which includes North Lincolnshire Museum and Normanby Hall Country Park. Please go to the Members Area for contact details.
Ethel Rudkin (1893-1984) was a pioneering archaeologist, historian, folklorist, recorder of oral tradition, and collector of ‘bygones’, who lived and worked in Lincolnshire. She has been described as one of the last of the ‘old style’ antiquarians.
Ethel Hutchinson was born in Willoughton, and married George Henry Rudkin in 1917. He became a commissioned officer during the First World War, but tragically died in 1918. As a child Ethel visited the Peacock Family at Bottesford Manor with her parents, and this clearly fostered an interest in folklore and dialect for which she is best known. Her 1936 publication, ‘Lincolnshire Folklore’, is the best-known account of the subject in this area. It can be viewed as forming a direct succession to the work of Edward and Mabel Peacock.
Bob Paisley, Ethel Rudkin’s friend and editor of her fascinating diary has this to say of her legacy: “Due to her wide ranging interests, Rudkin never viewed individual subjects in isolation, and often discovered unique connections between folklore and tradition, archaeology and history. She was willing to pass on her discoveries and influenced a new generation of Lincolnshire archaeologists and historians.”
As well as copies of all her publications, the Rudkin Collection at North Lincolnshire Museum consists of notes, photographs, ephemera, her library of folklore and history books and archaeological small finds from throughout Lincolnshire and including comparative material from abroad. The star archaeological object is a Neolithic jade axe from Wroot. There is also a small collection of folklore objects, including a wooden hobby horse from a plough jag team and witch balls. Poignantly we also have one of Ethel’s handbags, which contains the flowers worn in her hair at her wedding to George and a handful of letters received from him whilst away serving during the First World War.
The Coorg Battle Talisman. This object was created in India to protect the wearer in combat. The attendant stories about the item, gleaned from contemporary newspaper accounts, family tradition, and the museum accession register illustrate, with bloody immediacy, the circumstances in which many objects in UK museums were collected during the British occupation in India.
On April 3, 1834, Captain Robert Gordon from Kirkcudbright marched with a division of British and Indian troops into Coorg, southern India. Their objective was to depose Chikka Veera Rajendra, the ruler of that kingdom, who had ceased – according to the British – to be ‘a dependent ally of the East India Company’.
6000 men armed with rifles and Howitzers marched on Coorg. The Coorg resistance was brave but in vain. With minimal casualties the British forces routed the Rajah’s strongholds. Hundreds of Coorgs were killed. One of the dead carried this talisman with a Persian charm inscribed into the bronze:
‘He [the wearer of the talisman] is the Victorious, O Holy and Almighty God, the confirmation of Thy glorious command hath sent this wretched and insignificant person to make war against the enemy, but apart from the aid and favour of the Holiest and Most High I have no father. Therefore my sustenance depends wholly upon Him.’
This talisman or kavacha was probably bought from a sadhu or holy man. When carried into war the proper way to wear a protective talisman was over the heart or over the buttocks. The talisman addresses Madheva or Shiva. Robert Gordon picked it off the corpse of the soldier and later donated it to the Stewartry Museum in his home town.
Chikka Veera Rajendra was defeated, but he marched out of Coorg alive and very wealthy. His lands were forfeit but he received a monthly pension of £6000. In 1852 he and his daughter sailed to England. He pursued a case in the English courts to recover his fortune, but in vain. His daughter, Gowramma, was baptized by the Archbishop of Canterbury with Queen Victoria as her godmother.
Post written by Peter Hewitt, Museums Officer for Collections, Dumfries & Galloway Museums Service, founder of the Folklore Museums Network.
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US 2337587 A
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Dec. 28, 1943. v T, BRQCKY 2,337,587
NAVIGATION GUIDE Filed May 5, 1942 Patented Dec. 28, 1943 NAVIGATION GUIDE Tony Brocky, Minneapolis, Minn., assignor of one-half to Mark Cook and George Cook, Minneapolis, Minn as Joint tenants Application May 5, 1942, Serial No. 441,881
The invention relates to navigation instruments and has as an object the provision of an instrument to enable a navigator to ascertain very closely his position anywhere on the face of the earth at any time when the stars are visible.
It is an object of the invention to provide an instrument embodying a clock mechanism keeping zero longitude time with a star map adjustable with respect to the clock and with means for projecting an image of stars upon the star map.
It is a further object of the invention to provide an instrument which while applicable to determining both latitude and longitude at any point on the earths surface, or on ships at sea, is especially valuable for determining locations while navigating the stratosphere.
Further objects of the invention will appear from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawing showing an illustrative embodiment of the invention, and
Figure 1 is a plan view;
Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section;
Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation of the clock casin Fig. 4 is a detail section through a portion of the clock casing, and
Fig. 5 is a detail side elevation of the structure shown in Figure 4.
As shown the device comprises a support desirably mounted upon gimbal bearings comprising a ring it] mounted aboutthe axis of pins H, I2, to tilt in one plane and a ring l3 mounted in ring Ill to tilt on the axis of pins l4, 15, the axis of the latter pins being at right angles to that of the first named, in the well-known manner.
If desired the ring I0 may be the outer ring supporting a compass, magnetic or gyroscopic.
Carried by the ring l3 there is shown a pair of standards l6, ll, in which is mounted a shaft l8 upon which a projection instrument I9 is carried. Projecting from the shaft l8 there is shown a pair of arm 20, 2! rigidly supporting the casing 22 for the clock mechanism.
The works of the clock mechanism constitute no part of the present invention and are therefore not shown. The works should be of the type which mark the hours and also the months, as for instance such as shown in Patent No. 1,153,492, Hoitinga, September 14, 1915, with obvious arrangement of gearing to drive rings 28 and 25. The portion 23 of the casing 22 to which the arms 20, 2! are secured is stationary and rigid with the shaft l8 and the projection apparatus I 9.
The ring 24 will be revolved by the clock mechanism once each twenty-four hours and the ring 25 will be revolved once a year, over ring 24.
Freely revoluble upon the ring 25 there is shown a ring 26 which carries a face 21 upon which a star map is delineated with the polar star at the center of the map, which center is rigidly fixed upon the axis of the projection instrument IS. The optical characteristics of this projection apparatus are such as to include an angle of projection such as to include the brightest stars around the polar star when directed to the north polar region.
It is to be understood that for use in the southern hemisphere a star map delineating the brightest stars adjacent the southern polar axis of the heavens will be substituted for the face 21.
Desirably the points representing the stars, as indicated at 28, Figure 1, may be perforations in the face 21 and illuminating means may be provided within the casing to permit the star representations upon the map to glow with about the same brilliance as will the star images projected by the instrument I9.
Since the center of the star map representing Polaris in the northern hemisphere is rigidly fixed with respect to the projection instrument, it is immaterial whether this star which is relatively faint can be discerned or not, and the same is true whether any star in the southern hemisphere appears at the center of the map for the reason that the bringing into registry of the brighter stars or even one bright star at each side of the polar zenith is all that is necessary to adjust the instrument.
It will be seen that if the instrument is located at zero degrees longitude, as for instance at Greenwich, England, and the telescope is pointed at the North Star and the ring 26 carrying the star map is revolved to bring the constellations about Polaris, as for instance Ursa Major and Andromeda, into registry with their indicated 10- cations upon the star map and if the instrument then be allowed to stand, the clock being accurately indicating time, the registration between the map and the projection of the stars will remain indefinitely. In this condition the angle of the instrument carried by the shaft it when read upon the scale 29 will read the latitude of Greenwich. The arm 30 which is adjustable upon the shaft l8 and retained in adjustable position as by crew 30' has a set screw 3! and a micrometer adjustment 32 in the manner common with theodolites.
To enable a flne adjustment of the ring 26 upon ring 25, there is shown a clamp 33 rendered operative by set screw 34, which clamp i mounted upon a screw 35 screw-threaded in a post 36 carried by the ring 25.
If the set screw 34 is loosened the ring 26 and the star map 21 may be adjusted to bring the projection of the star into rough registry with their showing upon the star map, the angle of the instrument I9 being simultaneously adjusted. The set screw 34 being tightened, a fine adjustment may be had by operation of the screw 35.
Obviously Vernier scales will b provided for the most accurate possible reading of the angles.
It will be seen that supposing the instrument to be mounted upon a plane with the clock keeping Greenwich time, if the plane flies at a high speed and for instance in the stratosphere for a number of hours, it will be impossible by any of the usual dead reckoning means, to determine.
location, as the speed will depend upon air drift, speed of the plane through the air, and other variables making dead reckoning impossible. However by keeping the plane in level flight as much as possible supplemented by the gimbal mounting of the instrument, if the projection instrument be adjusted to cause the polar star images to coincide with the star map accurately,
both latitude and longitude can be immediately read upon the scales at 29 and 31, the latterscale being a division of the periphery of the ring into 360 degrees, minutes, and as close approximation to seconds as is possible considering the circumference of the ring. Thisreading, since a degree of longitude at the equator is about 70 miles and the minute is about 1.1 miles, if the scale can be read within one or two seconds of accuracy, a navigator should be able to determine his location with an error of not much more than one mile.
Use of the instrument in the stratosphere is referred to where it maybe possible to utilize the instrument at all times of day or night. The projection instrument l9 should be of as great fight-gathering power as possible.
The ring 38 in which the ring I0 is mounted is shown as freely revoluble in a frame 39 and the ring 38 may carry compass bearing indications not shown, to coact with a zero point 40 the clock casing can be made two faced in a known manner with a star map for the Northern Hemisphere mounted at one face and a second map for stars visible about the southern polar axis carried and properly rotated at the opposite face. The two faced casing may be mounted in arms 20, 2| for ready reversal, by means not shown.
Minor changes may be made in the physical embodiment of the invention within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.
1. A navigation instrument comprising, in combination: clock mechanism keeping 0 longitude time; a revoluble star map showing circumpolar stars and revolved by said mechanism; mechanical means to provide an accurate comparison between the position of revolution of said star map with the position of the stars in their apparent revolution about the polar axis of the heavens; said last named means carrying a scale calibrated in degrees and fractions thereof to indicate lonitude.
2. A navigation instrument comprising, in combination: clock mechanismf means actuated thereby to revolve in synchronism with sidereal time at 0 longitude; an astronomical chart showing at least a plurality of circumpolar stars; means for causing revolution of said chart with said first named means releasable for free revolution of adjustment; means for projecting images of the stars shown on said chart for comparison with the chart to provide a basis for angular adjustment of the chart; and a scale of degrees and fractions of degrees of longitude measuring the angular displacement of the chart when revolved into the position occupied by the projected images of the stars to show the longitude of location of the instrument.
3. A navigation instrument comprising, in combination: a casing for sidereal time keeping mechanism to be operated at 0 longitude time; a star map disk mounted on said casing for free revolution ofadjustment; means for-clamping said star map disk having its center point a polar location, to be driven by said mechanism; a star carried upon the frame 39. Therefore when the projection instrument I9 is adjusted to bring the star images into registry with the map the direction of flight of the plane may also be'read directly from the instrument.
To hold the gimbal rings level, counter weights. are shown at 4|, 42 carried upon arms rigid with the rings In and I3 respectively.
The, star maps must obviously be properly located in ring 26 to be circumferentially correct for 0 longitude time. 43 is shown carried by the star map disk 21 entering a properly located recess in the rim of ring 26.
The angle read at scale 29 is slightly influenced by the altitude of the plane, when the instrument is so used. While this variation is very small because of the distance of the stars, yet, if desired a scale indicated roughly at 45 may b provided to be adjusted relative to a zero point 44 on the shaft, providing an adjustment by use of set screw 39' for differences of say ten or twenty thousand feet differences of altitude.
For convenience when crossing the Equator,
image projection instrument mounted for angular adjustment about a horizontal axis; means holding said casing and map with said polar location fixed with the axis of said instrument; means for reading said angular adjustment in terms of degrees and fractions thereof of latitude; means for indicating the revolved adjustment of said map when in registry with the star images provided by said instrument, relative to 0 longitude in terms of degrees and fractions thereof of longitude; means for rotatably adjusting said hori- To this end a projection zontal axis in a plane parallel with the surface of the earth to bring the angular movement of the instrument about said horizontal axis into the plane of a great circle of the earth passing through the poles; whereby to determine latitude and longitude by direct reading.
' 4. A navigation instrument comprising, in combination: a star map; 0 longitude, sidereal time keeping means connected to cause revolution of said map about a polar axis thereof; means to adjust said map about said polar axis to a position corresponding to the position in the heavens of the stars shown on said map; and means to indicate longitude in degrees and fractions thereof determined by the circumferential relation of the adjusted star map and the time indicated by the time keeping means as of 0 longitude.
5. A navigation instrument comprising, in combination: a revoluble support; means to preserve a level position thereof; standard means rising from said support; a shaft revolubly mounted on said standard means; a, casing for clock mechanism rigidly supported by said shaft in spaced relationthereto; a star map carried by said casing to be rotated by the mechanism about a polar axis of the map; a star image projecting 6. The combination of claim 5 with a scale indicating degrees and fractions thereof of latitude carried by said standard means and a pointer moving with said shaft.
7. The combination of claim 5 with said map adjustable circumferentially relative to said casing and with indicating means carried by the respectively adjustable parts denoting degrees and fractions thereof of longitude when the star map optical system rigid with said shaft with its axis 10 is in registry with projected images of the stars.
coincident with the polar axis of said map.
TONY BRO CKY.


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Transition-State Model for Entropy-Limited Freezing
Peercy, Peercy S.
Thompson, Michael O.
Tsao, Jeff Y.
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CitationAziz, Michael J., P. S. Peercy, Michael O. Thompson, and Jeff Y. Tsao. 1987. Transition-State model for entropy-limited freezing. Materials Research Society Symposia Proceedings 74: 117-122.
AbstractA brief review is given of transition-state theory, both for the case of unimolecular reactions in the gas phase, and for reactions in condensed phases. An argument is made that, within the context of this theory, heterogeneous freezing in Si is limited to rates much lower than collision rates by the difference between the entropies of the solid and the liquid.
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A spokesperson for Activision Blizzard said it is considering compensation for Diablo Immortal following an outcry surrounding a recent update to the fantasy game. The arrival of Diablo Immortal patch 1.6.2 introduced a number of changes to Blizzard’s RPG game, but one of the most controversial was a change in the description of one of Diablo Immortal’s legendary gems sold in its in-game store.
The Diablo Immortal Blessing of the Worthy gem update clarified that its effect provided bonus damage based on a character’s current life, not their total life as the description previously stated. This can obviously be a pretty dramatic difference – especially for characters like Barbarians who have large health totals but use skills like Undying Rage to keep fighting while they have 1 HP left.
This issue is exacerbated because the gem is sold in multiple packs in Diablo Immortal’s in-game store, allowing players to spend real money – upwards of $100 USD if you choose to buy all the packs on offer – to level up the gem. As a result, players who had purchased the gem asked Blizzard to refund their purchases, or at least provide an equivalent value of Diablo Immortal Eternal Orbs, to compensate for this item they felt was sold to them under false pretenses .
Diablo Immortal community manager SinfulScribe has now provided an update on the matter, saying that Blizzard is “looking into issues regarding the accuracy of the descriptions of certain legendary gems.” They stress that the team understands “how central the effects of these gems are to builds and player progression” and that they are “digging into the impact these issues have caused so we can compensate affected players.”
As for what that compensation will be and when it’s likely to arrive, SinfulScribe explains that the investigation “will take some time and data,” but says that “once we have more details on how we’re going to move forward, I’ll share that with you.” Players in the comments express their thanks for the news, but note that it took a long time to both address the issue and comment on the possibility of compensation after the update.
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The Global Automotive Surge Absorber Market was valued at USD 1,192.45 Million in 2022 and is anticipated to reach a value of USD 2,218.53 Million by 2030 expanding at a CAGR of 8.1% between 2023 and 2030.
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Automotive Surge Absorber Market Key Opportunities
Incorporation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS): The progressive integration of ADAS in contemporary vehicles opens avenues for surge absorber applications. Given that ADAS relies extensively on sophisticated electronic components, the importance of surge protection becomes imperative to ensure the flawless and dependable operation of these safety and automation features.
Increasing Adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs): The swift embrace of electric vehicles presents a notable opportunity for the surge absorber market. With the growing prevalence of EVs, the demand for surge protection solutions is poised to escalate, given the pivotal role of electronics in electric powertrains and control systems.
Aftermarket Surge Protection Services: The aftermarket segment presents an opportunity for surge absorber providers to offer retrofitting and maintenance services. In light of heightened awareness among vehicle owners regarding the importance of safeguarding electronic components, there is an increasing inclination towards seeking aftermarket surge protection solutions for existing vehicles.
Research and Development for Innovative Technologies: Investment in research and development to pioneer and introduce next-generation surge absorber technologies, encompassing more efficient materials and advanced configurations, positions companies at the forefront of the market.
Automotive Surge Absorber Market Key Trends
· The escalating adoption of electric vehicles represents a prevailing tendency profoundly influencing the surge absorber market.
· The unceasing assimilation of sophisticated electronics into vehicles, encompassing elements such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), infotainment systems, and connectivity solutions, propels the demand for surge protection.
· Amidst a growing focus on vehicular safety, surge absorbers are evolving into integral components essential for preserving critical safety systems.
· The progression and deployment of autonomous vehicles constitute a substantial trend significantly impacting the surge absorber market.
· The escalating complexity of automotive systems, propelled by the assimilation of advanced features and functionalities, contributes to the heightened demand for surge absorbers.
· The inclination towards global connectivity and communication systems within vehicles introduces both opportunities and challenges for surge absorbers.
· Collaborations between surge absorber manufacturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are experiencing an upward trajectory.
Region-wise Market Insights
Asia Pacific accounted for the largest market share at 36.7% in 2022 whereas, North America generated more than USD 340 Mn in 2022.
In North America, the surge absorber market benefits from a technologically advanced automotive sector, placing significant emphasis on electric and autonomous vehicles. The region's strict safety standards additionally stimulate the demand for surge protection solutions. Meanwhile, in Europe, there is a noticeable shift towards environmental sustainability, guiding innovation in surge absorbers towards eco-friendly alternatives. The automotive surge absorber market in Asia-Pacific emerges as a formidable force, driven by the robust automotive industry in countries like China and India. Here, the surge absorber market is intricately connected to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles and an upsurge in technological integration across automotive systems. South America, and the Middle East and Africa regions offer distinctive opportunities and challenges. In Latin America, burgeoning economic growth and escalating vehicle production contribute to an expanding market for surge absorbers. However, market dynamics may be influenced by challenges tied to economic volatility. In the Middle East and Africa, a growing emphasis on automotive safety and infrastructure development molds the surge absorber market, albeit at a relatively measured pace.
Segment-wise Market Analysis
· Metal Oxide Varistor (MOV) tend to be the largest segment in the Automotive Surge Absorber market. MOVs offer a cost-effective solution compared to some alternatives, contributing to their widespread adoption. The preference for MOVs underscores the industry's recognition of the importance of quick and efficient transient voltage suppression to ensure the integrity and longevity of electronic systems within vehicles.
· Passenger vehicles represented the largest market segment, as Passenger vehicles drive the demand for Automotive Surge Absorbers, benefitting from advanced electronic systems. The surge absorbers ensure the safety and reliability of sensitive components in these vehicles.
Market Competition Landscape
Prominent players in the market are not singularly committed to product development but actively engage in strategic collaborations and partnerships with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). This collaborative strategy aims to ensure the seamless integration of surge protection solutions into vehicle designs, with the intention of cultivating long-term relationships and attaining a competitive advantage in an industry where compatibility and optimized performance hold paramount significance. Concurrently, leaders in this market are deeply immersed in an ongoing commitment to innovation, endeavoring to formulate surge protection solutions that not only meet stringent safety standards but also align with the evolving technological landscape of the automotive sector. The ascent of electric and autonomous vehicles amplifies competition as companies vie to position themselves as pioneers in furnishing surge absorbers tailored for these cutting-edge automotive systems. A heightened emphasis on environmental sustainability has sparked an upsurge in research and development endeavors, with market participants exploring eco-friendly alternatives and materials, thereby further molding the contours of competitive dynamics. Additionally, the aftermarket segment introduces an additional layer of competition, with companies striving to capture the expanding demand for retrofitting surge protection solutions in existing vehicle fleets. The capability to offer comprehensive aftermarket services, encompassing retrofitting and maintenance, strategically positions companies within this segment.
Key players in the global automotive surge absorber market implement various organic and inorganic strategies to strengthen and improve their market positioning. Prominent players in the market include:
· Bourns, Inc.
· Panasonic Industry
· E-Tech Components
· Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
· Infineon Technologies AG
· Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation
· Littelfuse, Inc.
· Matsuo Electric Co., Ltd.
· Flexicraft Industries
Market Revenue in 2022
USD 1,192.45 Million
Market Revenue in 2030
USD 2,218.53 Million
CAGR (2023 – 2030)
2023 – 2030
2018 to 2022
Value (US$ Mn)
Key Report Deliverable
Revenue Forecast, Growth Trends, Market Dynamics, Segmental Overview, Regional and Country-wise Analysis, Competition Landscape
· By Surge Absorber Type (Metal Oxide Varistor (MOV), Gas Discharge Tube (GDT), and Silicon Avalanche Diode (SAD))
· By Application (Automotive Electronics, Engine Control Units (ECUs), Safety Systems, Communication Systems, and Others)
· By Vehicle Type (Passenger Vehicles, and Commercial Vehicles)
· By End-User (OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), and Aftermarket)
North America: U.S., Canada and Mexico
Europe: Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Spain, and Rest of Europe
Asia Pacific: China, India, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and Rest of Asia Pacific
South America: Brazil, Argentina, and Rest of Latin America
Middle East & Africa: GCC Countries, South Africa, and Rest of Middle East & Africa
Key Players Analyzed
Bourns, Inc., Panasonic Industry, E-Tech Components, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Infineon Technologies AG, Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation, Littelfuse, Inc., Matsuo Electric Co.,Ltd., and Flexicraft Industries amongst others
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The Fiddler by Sheralyn Barnes from the Reflections from the West of Ireland series.
Each one of Sheralyn's paintings capture the spirit of Ireland. All matted prints are printed using archival pigmented inks on acid free paper and matted using conservation materials. To insure longevity, avoid displaying artwork in direct sunlight or near a heatsource.


At first glance, using an external flash device with a microcontroller (MCU) appears to be a simple exercise in matching the two devices to achieve functionality. But designing an embedded product is a complex process of finding the best balance between competing solutions to meet the design requirements.
Introducing flash to the design, as most Internet of Things (IoT) devices do, adds another set of variables to arbitrate—and can make it more difficult to meet the application’s efficiency, longevity and reliability requirements. This article discusses the most common flash technologies incorporated in embedded systems and the challenges that emerge in order to reliably use them.
Types of Flash for Embedded Applications
Flash can be either removable or non-removable. Removable media include USB pen-drives, compact flash, SD/SDHC/XDHX/MMC cards, and other similar packaged technologies. Non-removable media include NAND, NOR, and eMMC. Figure 1 shows eMMC-packaged NAND flash.


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Britney Spears has had more than one encounter with police this month.
Six days before she allegedly struck an employee, the pop star called the Ventura County Sheriff's Office to report "some type of theft," Captain Eric Buschow of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office tells E! News.
Spears called the authorities just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 10, about something being stolen.
When deputies arrived at her home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., they contacted her security staff and were told Spears had "decided she did not want to file a report at that time," Buschow said. Deputies left without writing a report, because Spears "declined to pursue any action."
He said that "due to Spears' sudden change of heart," there is no official record about what was allegedly stolen from her home—or by whom.
TMZ reports that "sources directly connected" to Spears said the theft was related to her dogs. The identity of the alleged thief is unknown.
E! News reached out to her lawyer for comment and hasn't heard back.
Around 10 a.m. on Aug. 16, she allegedly had a "dispute" with an employee at her house and is now being investigated for alleged battery, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. The female employee said Spears confronted her after she returned from the vet. The singer allegedly slapped her phone out of her hand and also "hit her hand," according to the Sheriff's Office. The staffer wasn't hurt.
The employee left the house and drove to a local station in Thousand Oaks, where she filed a report with the Sheriff's Office. The spokesperson said Spears "wouldn't speak with" authorities to share her side.
Her attorney, Mathew Rosengart, told NBC News that the case is "nothing more than an overblown alleged misdemeanor involving a ‘he said she said' about a cell phone, with no striking and obviously no injury whatsoever." He added, "Anyone can make an accusation. This should have been closed immediately."
Spears also made headlines this week after the hosts of the Stitcher podcast Toxic: The Britney Spears Story speculated that she had secretly married her one-time fiancé Jason Trawick, but divorced him in 2012. The podcasters pointed to a legal document, obtained by E! News, that seemingly revealed she paid $9,150 to the Law Offices of Alexandra Leichter for a "consultation dissolution of marriage."
However, Trawick appeared to deny the rumors this week when texting friend Billy Bush. "Jason Trawick says, 'I believe you would have known if I was married,'" Billy recounted. "'But you would have made a perfect usher.'"


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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 80, Issue 1, 1 January 2007, Pages 76-90
Min Shi, Kaare Christensen, Clarice R. Weinberg, Paul Romitti, Lise Bathum, Anthony Lozada, Richard W. Morris, Michael Lovett and Jeffrey C. Murray
Maternal smoking is a recognized risk factor for orofacial clefts. Maternal or fetal pharmacogenetic variants are plausible modulators of this risk. In this work, we studied 5,427 DNA samples, including 1,244 from subjects in Denmark and Iowa with facial clefting and 4,183 from parents, siblings, or unrelated population controls. We examined 25 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 16 genes in pathways for detoxification of components of cigarette smoke, to look for evidence of gene-environment interactions. For genes identified as related to oral clefting, we studied gene-expression profiles in fetal development in the relevant tissues and time intervals. Maternal smoking was a significant risk factor for clefting and showed dosage effects, in both the Danish and Iowan data. Suggestive effects of variants in the fetal NAT2 and CYP1A1 genes were observed in both the Iowan and the Danish participants. In an expanded case set, NAT2 continued to show significant overtransmission of an allele to the fetus, with a final P value of .00003. There was an interaction between maternal smoking and fetal inheritance of a GSTT1-null deletion, seen in both the Danish (P=.03) and Iowan (P=.002) studies, with a Fisher’s combined P value of <.001, which remained significant after correction for multiple comparisons. Gene-expression analysis demonstrated expression of GSTT1 in human embryonic craniofacial tissues during the relevant developmental interval. This study benefited from two large samples, involving independent populations, that provided substantial power and a framework for future studies that could identify a susceptible population for preventive health care.
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 62, Issue 3, 1 March 1998, Pages 573-584
Ivaylo Stoilov, A. Nurten Akarsu, Ihuoma Alozie, Anne Child, Magda Barsoum-Homsy, M. Erol Turacli, Meral Or, Richard A. Lewis, Nusret Ozdemir, Glen Brice, S. Gulderen Aktan, Line Chevrette, Miguel Coca-Prados and Mansoor Sarfarazi
We recently reported three truncating mutations of the cytochrome P4501B1 gene (CYP1B1) in five families with primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) linked to the GLC3A locus on chromosome 2p21. This could be the first direct evidence supporting the hypothesis that members of the cytochrome P450 superfamily may control the processes of growth and differentiation. We present a comprehensive sequence analysis of the translated regions of the CYP1B1 gene in 22 PCG families and 100 randomly selected normal individuals. Sixteen mutations and six polymorphisms were identified, illustrating an extensive allelic heterogeneity. The positions affected by these changes were evaluated by building a three-dimensional homology model of the conserved C-terminal half of CYP1B1. These mutations may interfere with heme incorporation, by affecting the hinge region and/or the conserved core structures (CCS) that determine the proper folding and heme-binding ability of P450 molecules. In contrast, all polymorphic sites were poorly conserved and located outside the CCS. Northern hybridization analysis showed strong expression of CYP1B1 in the anterior uveal tract, which is involved in secretion of the aqueous humor and in regulation of outflow facility, processes that could contribute to the elevated intraocular pressure characteristic of PCG.
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 70, Issue 2, 1 February 2002, Pages 448-460
Andrea L. Vincent, Gail Billingsley, Yvonne Buys, Alex V. Levin, Megan Priston, Graham Trope, Donna Williams-Lyn and Elise Héon
“Early-onset glaucoma” refers to genetically heterogeneous conditions for which glaucoma manifests at age 5–40 years and for which only a small subset is molecularly characterized. We studied the role of MYOC, CYP1B1, and PITX2 in a population (n=60) affected with juvenile or early-onset glaucoma from the greater Toronto area. By a combination of single-strand conformation polymorphism and direct cycle sequencing, MYOC mutations were detected in 8 (13.3%) of the 60 individuals, CYP1B1 mutations were detected in 3 (5%) of the 60 individuals, and no PITX2 mutations were detected. The range of phenotypic expression associated with MYOC and CYP1B1 mutations was greater than expected. MYOC mutations included cases of juvenile glaucoma with or without pigmentary glaucoma and mixed-mechanism glaucoma. CYP1B1 mutations involved cases of juvenile open-angle glaucoma, as well as cases of congenital glaucoma. The study of a family with autosomal dominant glaucoma showed the segregation of both MYOC and CYP1B1 mutations with disease; however, in this family, the mean age at onset of carriers of the MYOC mutation alone was 51 years (range 48–64 years), whereas carriers of both the MYOC and CYP1B1 mutations had an average age at onset of 27 years (range 23–38 years) (P=.001). This work emphasizes the genetic heterogeneity of juvenile glaucoma and suggests, for the first time, that (1) congenital glaucoma and juvenile glaucoma are allelic variants and (2) the spectrum of expression of MYOC and CYP1B1 mutations is greater than expected. We also propose that CYP1B1 may act as a modifier of MYOC expression and that these two genes may interact through a common pathway.
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 69, Issue 1, 138-147, 1 July 2001
1 Program in Human Genetics Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville
2 Departments of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville
3 Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville
4 Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville
One of the greatest challenges facing human geneticists is the identification and characterization of susceptibility genes for common complex multifactorial human diseases. This challenge is partly due to the limitations of parametric-statistical methods for detection of gene effects that are dependent solely or partially on interactions with other genes and with environmental exposures. We introduce multifactor-dimensionality reduction (MDR) as a method for reducing the dimensionality of multilocus information, to improve the identification of polymorphism combinations associated with disease risk. The MDR method is nonparametric (i.e., no hypothesis about the value of a statistical parameter is made), is model-free (i.e., it assumes no particular inheritance model), and is directly applicable to case-control and discordant-sib-pair studies. Using simulated case-control data, we demonstrate that MDR has reasonable power to identify interactions among two or more loci in relatively small samples. When it was applied to a sporadic breast cancer case-control data set, in the absence of any statistically significant independent main effects, MDR identified a statistically significant high-order interaction among four polymorphisms from three different estrogen-metabolism genes. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a four-locus interaction associated with a common complex multifactorial disease.

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Jeanne, a gorgous 20-year-old, French girl, meets Paul, a middle-aged American expatriate when they are both looking to rent the same apartment. Inexplicably drawn to one another, they have sex, and when Paul takes the apartment, Jeanne agrees to return there often. There, they have numerous sexual encounters, but, by Paul's insistence, they never tell each other their names or their histories. Each has something to hide: Jeanne is preparing to marry a filmmaker, who is preoccupied with making a documentary about her. Paul's secret is darker: he is coping with the recent suicide of his wife. As their sex life becomes more complicated, kinky, and twisted, each must decide whether their affair is about more than just sex.
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One of the most controversial movies that Bernardo Bertolucci made - and definitely the most unconventional role Marlon Brando played - "Last Tango in Paris" shocks with its stark sexuality which almost overshadows Brando's brilliant performance and the metaphorical narrative. While looking for an apartment in Paris, Paul(Brando) and Jeanne( Schneider) happen to meet inside one and are instantly attracted to each other by an almost animalistic sexual urge. For three days following that, they continue an affair without knowing each other's names or for that matter anything else about one another. While Paul is trying to assuage the pain from his wife's suicide, Jeanne has her own doubts about her impending marriage to a film director and revels in Paul's sexual prowess. Inside the seedy apartment, they escape from the realities of the world and immerse themselves in sexual ecstasy. But this arrangement is only ephemeral and sooner or later, they have to get back to the world waiting outside the closed doors.
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Suffolk County Red Light Camera Vote Falls Along Party Lines
Suffolk County lawmakers plan to make changes to a controversial red light camera program that was extended this week for another five years by the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
Democrats say the program was a success in reducing injury and death at intersections. Republicans call the vote irresponsible and say it doesn’t make roads safer. County Minority Leader Tom Cilmi called the program a money grab for the county.
“The program was originally intended to be a public safety program, but that unfortunately as oftentimes happens, government got a taste of the money and has let the program completely come off the rails for which it was designed.”
Cilmi said the county needs to find a better way to prevent collisions.
“We believe that rather than taking photographs and video at intersections and pretending to make them safer, that we should actually have engineers look at those intersections and actually make them safer. Perhaps changing the timing of yellow lights and of the red light clearances.”
A study of the program found more collisions occurred at red light camera intersections.
County Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory says residents see the rewards of the program, even if they don’t like paying the fines.
“They’re not bought into the conspiracy theory that the timing of the yellow lights have been changed to entrap people. I think most people respect that they made a violation. They don’t like that they have to pay a fine but can see that there are major safety benefits.”
Republicans proposed suspending the program to address the overticketing of motorists and camera placement in low-income communities.
Democrats proposed waiving administrative fees for first-time offenders and an annual review of camera locations to determine if they need to be moved.
The program was approved Wednesday night with a few improvements to address community concerns.

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O Love, you brought forth a jug
Filled with the ache that my heart clog
I wont drink this wine, this drug!
Drink but for my hearts sake!
From this wine poured me a cup
Wisely his praises I brought up
Bittersweet, pleasing to sup
Like the praises my heart would make.
From the Wheel of Fortune and fate
Stepped forth a Soul so great
I ran forth to demonstrate
The rewards my heart had at stake.
O Divine Secret, of Thee I ask
Yourself for crowds do not unmask.
Praised and thanked me for my task
For my hearts sake, thus He spake.
I was pleased that my Beloveds face
Towards my home its path would trace
And opened up with much grace
The veil covering my heart break.
If Love for blood may thirst
Brave warriors are curst
Mountains spontaneously burst
In such place my heart quake.
O Thou the bringer of cure
Pleasure and pain you endure
Only in you I am secure
Thou can cure my heartache.
Every fruit if only tries
My hearts ache can realize
Melancholic face, bloodshot eyes
Streams form hearts bloody lake.
King of the World put away tears
The Pride of Tabriz appears
Light of Truth, Shams, now nears
Thy light my heart will wake and take.
Ó Shahriar Shahriari
September 14, 1998

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