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Following the attack that occurred in Moscow, Russia a few days ago, Nigerian prophet, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has condoled with President Vladimir Putin.
The position of the prophet was made known in a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, on Sunday.
Primate Ayodele recalled how he warned President Putin against such an attack in his prophecy, which was released last week.
He described the attack as unacceptable.
However, Primate Ayodele further warned President Putin to remain careful and vigilant as he foresees another deadly attack in Russia in a couple of months.
The man of God called on President Putin to reorganise his security as there will be attempts to attack him personally.
He revealed that there will be a bomb explosion, missile attacks and another deadly shooting in a few months time if the president doesn’t work against it.
He said: “I want to condole with the president of Russia on the death of over 100 people that died during a terrorist attack on Friday, 22nd of March, 2024.
“It’s sad that I warned the country before the unfortunate incident happened, may the souls of the deceased rest in perfect peace.
“I still want to warn President Putin to re-organize his own security too so that he won’t be attacked. I still see a major attack in Russia that will be deadly.
“Terrorists are already in Russia to cause problems, we are still going to see another bomb explosion, missiles attacks, shootings in months to come.”
Ayodele also warned President Putin against threatening the world with a new weapon.
He further revealed that the president is likely to go into another war.
He said: “I also want to warn President Putin to be careful against threatening the world with a new weapon, efforts to do this will be jeopardized.
“I see a major fire disaster in Russia.
“The president is likely to go into another war.”


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The AT-PT, fully known as the All terrain Personal Transport was a bipedal, all-terrain light infantry walker distinguished by its triple-jointed legs and one-pilot cabin. It's armed with two twin blasters located below the viewpoint. It's slightly armored to withstand small blaster fire.They were design before the start of the Clone Wars and utilized during the Galactic Civil War, a galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance.They stood only three meters tall, and were driven by AT-PT pilots.
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I specialize in treating anxiety, depression, and or addictions. Offering online sessions to all Arkansas, Indiana, and Florida clients.
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My go to approaches for treating anxiety include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness. By using CBT, I have helped my clients learn to change the faulty or negative thinking that causes anxiety to arise. Via Mindfulness, I have helped my clients to learn how to incorporate breathing and meditation practices to control the anxiety's obsessive thinking and physical symptoms.
I have worked in the field of Addiction for 20+ years. I have been trained in numerous approaches to treat addiction issues including CBT, Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, Motivational Interviewing, The Matrix Model, and Seeking Safety. I ran daily substance abuse groups and was in a a supervisory role for over 4 years. I hold a Clinical Addictions Counselor license, a gambling counseling certification, and the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) certification.
I have been treating anger management issues for 15+ years. I ran an anger management group for 8 years. I use CBT to treat anger management issues to teach my clients how to monitor their anger, identify triggers, and look for cues. I provide my clients with ways to respond to anger-provoking situations instead of reacting to them. I also teach my clients the connection between stress and anger, and we discuss how anger is in reality a secondary emotion.
I use CBT to treat depression. I assist my clients with identifying and challenging automatic thoughts, assumptions, and negative core beliefs and help them identify and manage environmental triggers that may exist.
I have worked in addictions for over 22 years. I have extensive training in both chemical and behavioral addictions. I hold a license as a clinical addictions counselor and certifications as a gambling counselor and as counselor to assist family members of persons with addiction disorders (CRAFT).
I have extensive training in CBT and have been using it throughout my 22 years as a therapist. It is my go to model.
I love mindfulness and have been using it with clients for 15 + years. I ran a mindfulness relapse prevention group for 5 years.
I have extensive training in CBT and have been using it throughout my 22 years as a therapist. It is my go to approach. It compliments well to other models including EMDR for which I have also been trained.
I have extensive addictions counseling training. I also hold an clinical addictions counselor license in Indiana, am certified in Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), and am a certified gambling counselor.

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Yes, dark circles around the eyes will be caused by staying up late at night and bad blood circulation. It is the warm compress instead of the cold water that reduces the dark circles. The warm temperature will increase the blood circulation around the eyes and release your symptom. You may have a try and it is really effective.
Dark circles can be caused by many problems, and stay up at night is one of them. You can use an ice bag, cloth dipped in cold water or a frozen spoon apply on your eye to reduce your dark circles under eyes, and it's an effective and temporary method to reduce your dark circles quickly.
Yes, it actually works. Firstly, you need to know the reason why we have dark circles. Getting a bad sleep, drinking too many fluids before bedtime, exposing to intensive sun for a long period and rubbing your eyes frequently, both of them can lead to bags under your eyes, so do a nasal congestion. Bad sleep, pigmentation irregularities and sun exposure seem as the chief culprit. Then go back to your question, your tiny vessel under skin around your eyes expand due to deficiency of sleep. And the blood circulation is hambered, the blood is blocked there. So it appears dark circles. Using a soft cloth to wrap an ice cube or cool tea bags(put in the freezer for half an hour) to your eyes or just on your forehead for 10-15 minutes can lead to a vasoconstriction and relive the blood circulation. By the way, the effects of cosmetic and dark sunglasses can not be neglected.

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- Damage Tolerance of Hole Features in High-Energy Turbine
- Date issued
- Office of Primary Responsibility
- AIR-600, Policy and Innovation Division
This advisory circular (AC) provides definitions, guidance, and acceptable methods, but not the only methods, that may be used to demonstrate compliance with requirements in § 33.70 of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations related to the integrity of engine life-limited parts. Section 33.70 contains requirements applicable to the design and life management of propulsion system life-limited parts, including high-energy rotating parts. This AC presents a damage tolerance approach which can be used to address manufacturing and operationally-induced anomalies in turbine engine rotating part hole features. This approach can be readily integrated with the existing “safe-life” process for high-energy rotors to produce an enhanced life management process. This approach does not replace existing safe-life methodology but supplements it. In the context of damage tolerance, this AC is not intended to allow operation beyond the component manual life limit set using the existing safe life approach which limits the useful rotor life to the minimum number of flight cycles required to initiate a crack. Rotor failure modes for which full containment of high-energy debris can be demonstrated are excluded from the procedures outlined in this AC and need not be accounted for in the overall risk assessment.
- AC 33.70-2 (PDF)


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Seymour Hamilton was born in England in 1941. His father was a British naval officer, his mother a New Zealand singer.They moved to Ottawa, Canada in 1949. It took a long time until Seymour Hamilton could legitimately call himself a fiction writer, although he remembers wanting to do so when he was about 12 years old.
Hamilton studied English and Philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Canada, and went on to do a Masters in English at the University of Toronto. He became an assistant professor at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia and three years later, moved to Canada’s west coast to teach at Simon Fraser University. Later, Hamilton completed a PhD (on American Science Fiction) at Queen’s in Kingston, Ontario just in time for a cyclical slump in hiring by Canadian universities.
Hamilton returned to Nova Scotia and worked first as a contract writer and editor, then as a communications officer in the provincial government. He also wrote and voiced radio essays and theatre reviews. It was during this time that he sailed on a friend’s schooner to the south coast of Newfoundland – an experience that was the genesis of Astreya.
Government communications experience led to his next academic job in the graduate school of Communications Studies at the University of Calgary. After four years of teaching and much hiking in the Rockies, he returned to Ottawa, where until retirement, he taught at Ottawa University and wrote and edited extensively for both private sector and government.
Hamilton currently lives in Ottawa with his wife Katherine and has two sons, Robin and Ben who are ardent supporters of their father’s novels, which included the creation of a terrific book trailer you can view below.
The idea for Astreya had been on Hamilton’s mind since the 1970’s, the story increasing in volume by fits and starts. In retirement, it became a full-time activity, growing from a short novella to a trilogy, comprising The Voyage South, Book I, Men of the Sea, Book II, and concluding in The Wanderer’s Curse, Book III.

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Fate of Illinois Minimum Wage in Hands of Voters…Kind Of
Following other cities and states, Illinois will be including a question on this November’s ballot on whether the current minimum wage, $8.25 per hour, should be raised to $10. The outcome of the vote is non-binding but will likely impact the ongoing arguments to increase the minimum wage that have bandied about the Illinois Legislature for months. Minimum wage ballot votes have become increasingly more common in the last two years in the wake of the low-wage movement that has spread across the country. Some votes, like the Illinois vote, are merely advisory while others are binding.
In 2013, New Jersey voters approved a constitutional amendment to increase minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.25 and index it to inflation. Also in 2013, voters in Sea-Tac, Washington approved an increase in minimum wage from $9.32, the state minimum wage at that time, to $15. This year, Chicago voters recommended in a non-binding advisory measure, an increase in the City minimum wage from $8.25, the state-wide minimum wage, to $15. This November, Oakland, California voters will be weighing in on whether minimum wage should increase from $9, the state’s minimum wage, to $12.25. This measure is in line with other California cities like San Jose, which increased its minimum wage by a 2012 vote and San Francisco, which did the same beginning in 2004. There are similar initiatives going on in other states and cities including Nebraska.
Employers should be aware that municipalities are weighing in on minimum wage issues as well as other labor and employment issues like sick leave (New York City, Jersey City, and Newark) and criminal background checks (Philadelphia). Employers should ensure they are abiding by any labor and employment-related ordinances in cities where they do business. Beware, the trend is only growing!
Brody and Associates regularly advises management on complying with local, state, and federal employment laws including wage and hour laws. If we can be of assistance in this area, please contact us at email@example.com or 203.965.0560.


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Duke Street, Gympie runs a good length north from Commissioner’s Hill on Upper Mary Street through to meet the commencement of Corella Road at the Gympie Cemetery. Duke Street was a busy thoroughfare of stores and residences and used as a connection road to Maryborough.
View 1870 Gympie Goldfields Map / Knight & Hacket
Settlement of Duke Street (excerpt from ‘Gympie and its Cradle Days’, p. 61)
From the Freemason’s corner down to where the Presbyterian Church now stands there were:
-The Masonic Hall (Widgee Shire Council)
-Charles Rowe, the first undertaker in Gympie
-a Chinaman’s shop
-a brewery cellar belonging to Finselbach’s Brewery Tap Hotel in Reef Street (later Union Hotel)
-Mrs Simpson’s Private School
-Dwelling occupied by Tebbutt family (later Mrs Arthur’s family)
-Mr Donohue’s Private School
In 1964, Mr George Thomas compiled a history of “How Gympie’s streets were named” and for his Duke Street entry he wrote:
“Duke Street: Origin obscure, but I am informed it was named for the Duke of Normanby, one of the early Governors, who visited the field”
Here we showcase some beautiful views of early Duke Street, and some of the advertisements of the business houses of Duke Street…..

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CHRISTIANA, Del. (WPVI) --Police are investigating an accident involving a fire truck and another vehicle in Christiana, Delaware.
The collision occurred around 7 a.m. Thursday at Route 40 and Brookmont Drive.
One person in the vehicle suffered a minor injury, and was taken to Christiana Hospital. A second person in the vehicle refused treatment at the scene.
No word on why the vehicles collided.
Route 40 westbound at Brookmont Drive is closed.

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Alarming use of antibiotics in India Largest consumerÂ Â A study by health researchers says that India was the leading consumer of antibiotics worldwide in humans between 2000 and 2015. Also, use of last-resort antibiotic cephalosporins a..
Grey hair: Myths and facts The first sight of a grey hair on your head may cause you to feel dismayed. But remember going grey is a natural part of life. With a stylish cut, you can flaunt your grey hair with aplomb. Here are some myths and fa..


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I never get sick. No, really. I sometime flirt with "under the weather" or "fatigue" or "moody", but even those are pretty rare. But sick? Nope. Not me. But this time, the virus was sneaky and even overcame my secret anti-illness potion (H2O2). So, I spent the entire weekend in bed, plotting my return to the world of healthfulness from beneath several layers of blankets.
From my bed, I imagined myself focusing on practicing, composing, arranging and performing with the aim of finishing my first CD project (or digital download...not sure how to refer to it). My goal is to make a definitive musical statement that reflects the diversity of my training and musical experience, bridging the gap between accessible and esoteric. I'm excited about it, and am ready to get going again. As..cough...soon as ...cough cough...I can stop....cough...cough...stop ..cough cough...coughing and stay out ...cough cough...of bed long enough...cough cough... to get back to w...cough cough cough cough...work...cough cough cough COUGH!!! You get the picture....sigh....
Have a beautifully healthy week, lovelies! May this Valentine's Day be the most beautiful and loving you've ever experienced. Don't restrict your proclamations of love to only the romantic type. Tell everyone you love these three word: I LOVE YOU!!!
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The National Central Library in Taipei on Saturday opened a special exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the Center for Chinese Studies.
Titled “Making Sinology a sparkling asset — The 40 years endeavors of the Center for Chinese Studies,” the exhibition showcases the center’s work over the past four decades in the areas of academic research and international exchange.
The exhibition, which runs through Oct. 7, also spotlights the center’s progress in digitizing Sinology archives.
Fuounded in September 1981 by the Ministry of Education, the center provides assistance to institutes abroad that offer Chinese studies.
Library director-general Tseng Shu-hsien (曾淑賢) said that aside from continuing to make breakthroughs in Sinology, the center also focuses on educating foreign Sinologists.
Tseng said that 511 researchers from 48 countries had received scholarships to conduct studies at the center.
Tseng said that the exhibition also commemorates the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies, which the library in 2012 launched to promote “Chinese culture with Taiwanese characteristics” through the publication of academic research in Sinology by Taiwanese academics.
Thirty-seven resource center branches have since opened worldwide, Tseng added.
Before the resource center was launched, the government had started to promote Taiwanese efforts in the field by establishing Taiwan Academy branches in cities worldwide, Tseng said.
The library joined the government’s efforts and opened exchange platforms at academy branches in New York, Los Angeles and Houston, Tseng said.
Taiwanese actress Big S, also known as Barbie Hsu (徐熙媛), and Chinese restaurateur Wang Xiaofei (汪小菲) officially announced their divorce yesterday, stating the decision was cordial and that they would be raising their two children together. The statement came by proxy through the couple’s legal counsel, filed by both Wang and Hsu. Hsu and Wang thanked fans for their love and support, with the couple saying that fate had blessed them with a time of happiness, and that they were grateful for their time together. They said that while they walked hand-in-hand as husband and wife, they would continue a cordial relationship as
DESTABILIZING: Beijing’s efforts to choke Taiwan, pressure its friends and hamper its democracy are a threat to the world, AIT Director Sandra Oudkirk said China’s provocative military activities near Taiwan are destabilizing and risk “miscalculation,” American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Sandra Oudkirk said yesterday, reiterating the US’ objection to any unilateral changes to the “status quo” in the Taiwan Strait. Oudkirk made the remarks in a speech at the annual conference of the Association of International Relations in Taipei. “In the Indo-Pacific region, America’s effort to resolve and manage differences with the leadership of the People’s Republic of [PRC] faces distinct challenges,” she said, referencing a range of actions by China that she said run counter to the shared values and interests of the
CCP IDEOLOGY: MAC Deputy Minister Chiu Chui-cheng said the CCP’s consolidation around one leader would shrink the space for economic and private endeavors Beijing plans to intensify its unification campaign, a Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) official said yesterday in an assessment of statements by Chinese leaders, while stressing the importance of consensus among Taiwanese. At a conference on Chinese development and security prospects in the Taiwan Strait, MAC Deputy Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) noted key developments in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rhetoric. Much attention has been given to the sixth plenum of the CCP Central Committee, which on Nov. 11 issued the party’s third-ever “historical resolution,” paving the way for Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to retain power through next year’s leadership reshuffle, Chiu said. According
EXTRADITION POSSIBLE? The suspect, who is quarantining upon arrival in Xiamen, is accused of killing a coffee trader on a street near his house in Sindian District The suspect in an execution-style murder of a businessman in New Taipei City’s Sindian District (新店) has fled to China and officials are negotiating his extradition, the New Taipei City Police Department said on Tuesday. The suspect, surnamed Huang (黃), took a flight from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 2pm on that day to Xiamen, where he is staying in a quarantine hotel, as required by Chinese COVID-19 regulations, the department said. Investigators accuse Huang of shooting dead a local coffee trader surnamed He (何) on a street near his residence when he was returning from dropping off his daughter at her


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This is yet another wee blog using the Annals of Aberdeen (covering the period from the early 13thcentury to the early 19th century) as a source from which to discover more about this amazing city in which we live and work.
Scrolling through the pages, I came across a section on ‘the Bridewell.’ I admit, I had no idea what a ‘Bridewell’ was, but, as usual, Mr Google came to the rescue. It transpires that a Bridewell was not what it sounds: in fact, it was a term for a jail!
Although the Annals refer to the problems of petty (and not so petty) criminals from time to time, it wasn’t until the 19th century that the city got around to building a proper jail. Attitudes were not that much different in those days, although perhaps stated more openly than today. The Annals tell us that, “The establishment of houses of correction for petty delinquents, in various parts of the kingdom, has unquestionably been attended with salutary effects to society in general. The main object of these institutions is the reformation of offenders…training them to habits of industry; while at the same time, solitary confinement has a tendency to awaken reflection in their minds.”
The Aberdeen Bridewell was in Rose Street, with the entry to the prison from Union Street. It came into being in 1809 following an Act of Parliament in 1802 and an indication of the size of Aberdeen at this time can be gleaned from the fact that the Annals record, “it is situated near the entrance to the town from the south.”
Although we tend to think of the prison regime of this period as being entirely repressive, there appear to have been serious attempts at rehabilitation and helping the prisoners back into society. Their complaints were even listened to, with the Annals telling us, “the commissioners … who visit the house once every month, inspect the several prisoners … and inquire into and redress any complaints made by any of them, with regard to their treatment.”
The Bridewell was in use till 1868, when it was closed and later demolished and the site was laid out as the West End Pleasure Gardens and Recreation Grounds, which existed for a short while. The gateway to the prison had a porter’s lodge (you can see a photo of it here) and a guardhouse attached. This remained until 1883, when it was demolished to allow Rose Street to be extended northwards to link with Henry Street which in turn led on to Skene Street. Henry Street was subsequently absorbed into Rose Street which, as we know it today, is somewhat different to what it was like when it was the gateway to the town calaboose!
Julie Skinner, Resourcing and Benefits Specialist, RGU


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The world's greatest pianists gather to play arrangements of classical favorites for four to 16 hands in honor of the 10th anniversary of Switzerland's Verbier Festival. The concert was recorded on July 22, 2003.
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and comments on the composer's great achievement, considered one of the greatest works in classical music. Thomas also interviews musicians from the San Francisco Symphony on their thoughts concerning the piece.
The Paul Taylor Dancers perform two works set in the time of the Great Depression. "Black Tuesday" contrasts the escapism of the entertainment world of the time with the grim reality of the depression. The second piece, "Promethean Fire" has been hailed as one of choreographer Paul Taylor's best works.
Great Performances celebrates its 20th New Year's concert with a live broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein hall in Vienna, Austria. The Vienna State Opera Ballet performs and Jose Manuel Carreño performs a solo. Walter Cronkite returns as host.
Since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall that city's Philharmonic orchestra has presented a concert in a different European capital each year to celebrate the continent's shared cultural heritage. This year's 'Europakonzert' takes place at the Mosteiro dos Jerónimosin in Lisbon, Portugal. Music includes pieces from Mozart, Bartók and Debussy.moreless
The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain performs a revival of Roger's and Hammerstein's masterpiece. This version was filmed at Shepperton Studios in London at the close of the stage musical's 1998 run.
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This incredible folk covers band will delight guests with their acoustic folk covers of popular songs. Any audience will love hearing classic tracks from AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson 5 and Tom Jones re-interpreted with acoustic guitar, double bass, drums, violin and female vocals, and this party band’s extensive repertoire of modern hits includes gems from Adele, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Mumford & Sons and many more.
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Orchestre Du Bawobab: Kelen Ati Len + Jarraf
From Visage Du Senegaal (Disques Buur, 1974)
Amongst certain circles of Afro-funk fans, “Kelen Ati Len” is probably the best-known song by this Dakar band but this LP is hardly a one-tracker 1 No doubt, “Kelen Ati Len” is killer with its crashing drums and angular guitar work. It’s like Bawobab/Baobab members had spent a few years jamming with the Kashmere Stage Band before returning to Senegal.
However, I included “Jarraf” because you get a whole other sense of cross-cultural play with its Latin touches. That’s the whole thing about Afro-Caribbean music styles – West African traditions ended up in the Caribbean via the slave trade and then took root and evolved…and once Latin music blew up in the 1950s onward, you can hear how African groups blended it back into their music. Polyculturalism, made manifest?
- Alas, a digitizing flaw messed up the 3rd song I wanted to include. ↩


Frontenac Islands was formed in 1998 by the amalgamation of two of Ontario's oldest rural municipalities: Howe Island and Wolfe Island. Both islands can trace their European roots back to New France, but it was only in the years after the War of 1812 that settlement took place in any numbers.
The islands are named after two of Britain's generals from the time period of the Seven Year's War: James Wolfe (d. Sept 13, 1759) and William Howe (d. 1814), a subordinate of Wolfe's at the Plains Of Abraham and later Commander-in-Chief of British troops in North America during the American Revolution. The islands' current names first appeared on a map in 1818 when Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen of the Royal Navy conducted a naval survey of the 1,000 Islands.
Today, the islands have a mixture of agricultural and rural lifestyles with a growing proportion of residents working off the islands in Kingston or elsewhere in Frontenac County.
The islands, situated as they are at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River, provide a unique location to live and work. Access to the mainland is by boat: both islands are serviced by ferries year-round with the addition of a seasonal ferry to the USA from Wolfe Island from May to November.
The proliferation of Wild Parsnip has been a subject of great concern in the Township, and across the County and Province. These two pamphlets contain practical information about safeguarding against the toxic effects of this plant.
The Township of Frontenac Islands are tendering for the following:
Tender No. 2015-53501
Ultra Low Sulphur Clear and Coloured Diesel
Rob Dillabough, CRS
Manager of Public Works
Copies are available here and Township Office at: 1191 Road 96 Wolfe Island Ontario
The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) advises that Transport Canada has issued a Temporary Certificate valid until June 30, 2017, now allowing the Ministry to carry passengers on trips transporting defined dangerous goods. Following the regularly scheduled designated dangerous goods ferry trip on Thursday July 30, 2015, there will be no designated dangerous goods ferry trips for propane and gasoline highway tankers with a capacity of less than 20 000 Litres classified as; UN1075, LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GASES, Class 2.1, UN1203, GASOLINE, Class 3, Packing Group II, or UN1978, PROPANE, Class 2.1. The federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act requires that dangerous goods tankers be transported one tanker at a time on any regularly scheduled ferry trip. This also applies to empty, but un-purged mobile units that previously carried the above noted dangerous goods on the return trip. Dangerous goods carriers will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis.
If you have any questions, please call at 613-544-2220 for more information.


|Publication number||US6351693 B1|
|Application number||US 09/235,140|
|Publication date||Feb 26, 2002|
|Filing date||Jan 22, 1999|
|Priority date||Jan 22, 1999|
|Publication number||09235140, 235140, US 6351693 B1, US 6351693B1, US-B1-6351693, US6351693 B1, US6351693B1|
|Inventors||Vijaykumar Subramonie Monie, Richard Daniel Hamann, Stephen Duane Cook, Premraj K. Mannikkath, Rajesh K. Vasudevan|
|Original Assignee||Honeywell International Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (112), Classifications (5), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention relates generally to computerized temperature control, and more generally to computerized remote control of communicating thermostats.
Portions of the disclosure of this patent document contain material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. The following notice applies to the software and data as described below and in the drawings:
Copyright 1999, Honeywell Inc., All Rights Reserved.
Managing temperature and other environmental conditions in commercial facilities is a task that is of importance both for the comfort of those using the facility and for the owner of such a facility who wishes to minimize operating cost. A facility's temperature is generally regulated such that the environment is comfortable for customers, or is suitable for whatever other purpose the facility may serve. But, the manager or owner of the facility will seek to minimize the expense of providing such an environment, and so seek to carefully control the way in which heating or air conditioning equipment is used.
Facility equipment operators may not only seek to regulate temperature to a specific and predetermined suitable temperature, but may seek to vary temperature with time of day or week, or to vary parameters other than temperature. For example, a school that is only open between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on weekdays may choose to maintain a comfortable temperature of 68 degrees between 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., but let the temperature decrease to 60 degrees at other times of day and on weekends.
Furthermore, an owner of a facility that allows indoor parking may seek to not only control the air temperature of the parking area, but to control the level of pollutants such as carbon monoxide in the air by monitoring pollutant levels and running ventilation equipment to remove pollutants when needed.
In some facilities, heating and air conditioning equipment controls may allow customization of more detailed functions of the climate control system, in order to better control the system efficiency. Fans in heating or cooling systems may be programmed to run for a period beyond when the heating or cooling device is active, and may be set to run for specified minimum and maximum times. Activation of these climate control systems may be dependent upon the temperature falling out of a specified range of temperatures, and such activation may be triggered differently by each of a number of thermostats within the facility. Different degrees of control over the climate control system may also be allowed at each thermostat's manual controls, such that those people using a particular area of a facility may only adjust the climate control system within predetermined operational specifications.
But, even setting minor parameters of typical climate control systems such as altering time twice a year for daylight savings time usually requires a professional climate control system worker to visit the facility and program the changed data. Setting multiple thermostats in a facility can require further work, visiting each thermostat in question and making or verifying appropriate settings. The present invention addresses the need for a solution to these and other problems.
A computerized system is provided that shows a visual representation of thermostat programming information and provides context-sensitive help. The system automatically detects communicating thermostats on a network upon starting, and gives a visual representation of the programming stages available for programming a thermostat. The system further provides a visual representation of programming details of a user-selected programming stage while providing the representation of all programming stages, and allows selection of programming stages for display or modification of programming details in any order. The system also provides context-sensitive help for each of the programming stages and for each of the programming details of each programming stage when selected, in the form of instruction text and pop-up clarifying clauses.
FIG. 1 shows computerized thermostat system hardware, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of block elements consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 shows a display image of a software application prompting a user to enter self-tutoring mode, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 shows a display image of a software application in which a thermostat is to be selected from a thermostat list, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 shows a display image of a software application in which selected keyboard and display program detail items are viewed or programmed, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 shows a display image of a software application in which selected thermostat program detail data items are viewed or programmed, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 shows a display image of a software application in which occupied and unoccupied time schedule data items are viewed or programmed, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 8 shows a display image of a software application in which program detail data from a selected thermostat may be downloaded to selected target thermostats, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 9 shows a display image of a software application in which data monitored from a selected thermostat is displayed, consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.
In the following detailed description of example embodiments of the invention, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and in which is shown by way of illustration specific sample embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention, and it is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and that logical, mechanical, electrical, and other changes may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the invention is defined only by the appended claims.
The invention disclosed herein comprises a computerized system for programming thermostats. The system provides a visual representation of data to be programmed to communicating thermostats over a network, and provides instructions such as context-sensitive help, instruction text and status text as a part of the visual representation. The instructions are provided so that a manual or other instruction for operation of the system is not required.
The system comprises a number of programming stages, each of which has associated programming details and instructions, which can be used to program the thermostats. Each programming stage comprises programming details related to other items in the programming stage, and can be selected in any order. The system provides a visual representation of programming details for a programming stage selected by a user while providing the representation of all programming stages in a separate part of a display. The system also provides context-sensitive help for each of the programming stages and for each of the programming details of each programming stage when selected.
FIG. 1 illustrates a computer 101, with a processor 102, a hard disk drive 103, memory 104, and a system bus 105. The computer also has a serial port 106 or a modem 107, which can be connected to external devices for communication. The computer further contains at least one device to read a user-insertable machine readable medium such as a diskette drive 108 or CD-ROM (Compact Disc—Read Only Memory) drive 109. The user installs the software containing the instructions that form part of an embodiment of the present invention by placing a machine-readable medium such as a diskette 110 or CD-ROM 111 into the diskette drive 108 or CD-ROM drive 109.
The computer is connected to one or more communicating thermostats 112 via either the serial port 106 or the modem 107. Each of the communicating thermostats 112 has a display 118 and a user input 119, and is capable of communicating with the computer via a network connection.
If the connection to the thermostats is made via modem, a telephone connection 113 is established between the computer 101 and a similar computer 114, which also contains a modem 107 and serial port 106. Also, the communicating modems are attached to computer 114 by a thermostat network adapter 120 and by connection 115. In this configuration, computer 114 is similar to computer 101, but contains executable instructions operable to receive data from the modem 107 and output data from serial port 106, such that the computer 114 comprises a portion of a connection between thermostats 112 and computer 101.
If the connection between computer 101 and the one or more communicating thermostats 112 is made via serial port 106 of computer 101, a thermostat network adapter 120 and connection 116 connect the serial port to the communicating thermostats. Computer 101 is also connected to a display 117, capable of providing a visual representation of information within computer 101. In one embodiment of the present invention, the thermostat network adapter 120 and connection 115 are components of a LonTalk (LonTalk is a Trademark of Echelon Corp) network.
It is specifically contemplated that other embodiments exist and are within the scope of the appended claims, and so are intended to be within the scope of this patent application. For example, the communicating thermostats may communicate via a wireless interface, and need not be connected physically to each other or to a computer.
A block diagram is shown in FIG. 2, which illustrates the elements of an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the blocks are implemented as software executing on a computer, such that for a period of time when the computer is executing the particular instructions associated with each block, the computer becomes the physical embodiment of that block. The software creates signals within the computer that correspond to the signals and information shared by blocks of FIG. 2, and such signals may be stored as data on the computer as a result of execution of instruction within a block. It is to be understood that all blocks need not coexist, but may exist at separate times as the instructions associated with each block are executed.
At block 201, a user launches the software program that comprises instructions for execution on the computer 101 of FIG. 1. The blocks or programming stages of the executed program provide visual instructions to the user to explain proper operation of the current programming stage or block, and further provide pop-up context-sensitive clarifying text. The user then selects a network connection to the thermostats at block 202, which in one embodiment is a connection via modem 107 or serial port 106 of FIG. 1. The network is then searched for communicating thermostats at block 203, and a determination is made at block 204 as to whether any communicating thermostats were identified. If one or more thermostats were identified, all identified thermostats are queried to send program detail data at block 205 and a thermostat list is compiled at block 206. If no thermostats are identified, the user is then prompted to enter a self-tutoring mode at block 207. The self-tutoring mode provides a user a training function in which the software can be learned or demonstrated, without requiring a network of communicating thermostats to be present. Upon entering the self-tutoring mode, a list of virtual thermostats is generated at block 208. After a thermostat list is compiled at block 206 or a list of virtual thermostats is generated at block 208, the user is prompted to select a thermostat from the thermostat list at block 209.
After a thermostat is selected, the user may select any of the programming stages represented at blocks 210, 211, 212, 213, or 214. More than one programming stage may be selected, and the programming stages may be selected in any order, but are selected one stage at a time. Each programming stage at block 210, 211, 212, 213 and 214 again provides context-sensitive instructions and provides pop-up clarifying text relating to program details within each programming stage, and additionally provides a visual indication of the thermostat currently being viewed or programmed.
At block 210 the user views or programs selected keyboard and display program detail data. This data includes configuring the information displayed by the communicating thermostat on display 118 and configuring the operation of the user input 119 of FIG. 1. Information displayed by the thermostat includes in one embodiment the options of clock format, temperature scale, and whether to display temperature. Operation of the user input similarly includes locking out user programming keys so that a user may not alter selected parts of the thermostat program via the user input.
At block 211 the user views or programs selected thermostat program detail data. This data includes configuring the temperature set points of the thermostat, and selecting thermostat timing configuration options. Temperature set points include data such as heating and cooling temperatures for the thermostat during occupied and unoccupied times and selecting a temperature dead band such that when a measured temperature is within the dead band of the desired temperature the thermostat does not activate associated climate control equipment. Also, thermostat timing configuration options include setting minimum on and off times, as well as configuring how often the thermostat may activate climate control equipment.
At block 212 the user views or programs selected time program detail data, including scheduled occupied and unoccupied times. The thermostat may be programmed to maintain more comfortable temperatures during occupied times, and to expend less energy during unoccupied times, and so vary the temperature of its environment according to the schedule configured here.
At block 213 the user may copy the program detail data configured for one thermostat to one or more other communicating thermostats. This allows a user to configure the program detail data for one thermostat as desired, and copy the data to other thermostats, thereby eliminating the need to configure each individual program detail data element for each thermostat and reducing time and expense in configuring a plurality of similarly programmed thermostats.
At block 214 the user monitors data from the selected thermostat. Data monitored includes the environmental temperature, effective temperature setpoint, and various elements related to the climate control system such as duct temperature, heating or cooling activity, and fan activity. The monitoring programming stage is useful to a user in that it may be viewed to indicate or verify proper programming or operation of a thermostat.
After configuring the thermostats as desired, the user then may exit the program at block 215. The program need not, however, be exited after configuration or at any point to operate properly, and may be left running as long as desired.
One embodiment of the invention is a software application provided by Honeywell Inc.(™), that incorporates LonStat (LonStat, LonTalk and LonWorks are Trademarks of the Echelon Corporation) network components to facilitate communication between the computer and the communicating thermostats. Various screen images created by this application are shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and are discussed herein in accordance with the invention as described in reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
FIG. 3 shows a screen image of the software application corresponding to block 207 of FIG. 2, wherein the user is prompted to enter a training or self-tutoring mode. The visual prompt to enter self-tutoring mode is shown at 301, where the option “Yes” is selected by default. Instruction text is shown in an instruction text area 302, to provide the user with a visual aid in the correct operation of the current program block or programming stage. Status text is shown at 303, indicating to the user the current state or result of selected software operations. Here, the displayed message “Failed To Connect” indicates the path selected at block 204—that no communicating thermostats were identified after searching the network.
FIG. 4 depicts a screen image corresponding to block 209 of FIG. 2, in which a thermostat is to be selected from the virtual thermostat list created in self-tutoring mode. Instructions for completing the task presented on this screen are shown in the instruction text area at 401, and the status text at 402 indicates that the user is currently requested to select one of the available thermostats from the thermostat list 403. The selected thermostat is indicated at 404 by a bold outline of the user-configurable thermostat label, which is associated with the thermostat's non-changeable thermostat ID also shown in the thermostat list at 405.
FIG. 5 illustrates a display screen corresponding to block 210 of FIG. 2, where the user views or programs selected keyboard and display program detail data. The status area at 502 explains the nature of the operations to be performed at the currently selected block, and instruction text is shown at 503 to aid the user in completing the operations. An example of pop-up clarifying text is also shown at 504, which displays text explaining the function of the Fan Key Adjustment setting shown at 505.
FIG. 5 also illustrates the user-configurable thermostat label of the thermostat that has been selected and is being configured or viewed at 501. This thermostat label is viewable in all blocks in which a single thermostat is being viewed or programmed, and is noted here as an example. Also, all blocks show a visual representation of the various programming stages of programming a thermostat, as shown at 506. The current programming stage is indicated by a box drawn around the text representing the selected stage, as indicated at 507. Also, a status area that displays text indicating the current status of the software program exists in all programming stage displays, an example of which is shown at 508.
FIG. 6 shows a screen image generated at block 211, at which the user views or programs selected thermostat program detail data. Here, the status text at 601 indicates the current status of the program, and instructions are displayed in the instruction area at 602. Another example of pop-up clarifying text is shown at 603, which displays additional information related to the “Stages of Cooling” program detail data represented at 605. The thermostat currently being configured is also again shown at 604.
FIG. 7 shows a display image representing block 212 of FIG. 2, at which the user views or programs program detail data relating to an occupied and unoccupied time schedule. The status area indicates that the user is configuring scheduled occupied and unoccupied times at 701, and instructional help text is provided in the instruction area at 702. A grid calendar is displayed at 703, within which a user may select a day and a status of either occupied or unoccupied by selecting an appropriate block from the grid, and then may enter a time. A selected time of 6:30 A.M. on Sunday as a time of occupation is therefore indicated at 704. Similarly, programming an unoccupied time of 5:30 P.M. is represented at 704, where the time is shown in 24-hour format. In a further embodiment, grid blocks representing unconfigured, occupied and unoccupied status information are distinguished by differently and distinctly colored backgrounds corresponding to such status information.
FIG. 8 shows a display image representing block 213 of FIG. 2, where program detail data from the selected thermostat may be downloaded to other thermostats. The user-configurable thermostat label of the selected thermostat is again displayed at 801, which at this block is the thermostat that will be used to provide the program detail data to be copied to other thermostats. The thermostat list is shown at 802, excluding the selected thermostat. The user selects a target thermostat, indicated at 804 with a dark background to indicate the target thermostat selected, and clicks the “Add” button represented at 805 to add the thermostat label to the download thermostat list of thermostats selected as target thermostats for downloading shown at 803. Similarly, the “Remove” button at 806 may be used to remove selected target thermostats from the download thermostat list at 803. When the target thermostats have been selected, the user selects the “Update to thermostat(s)” button at 807, and the program detail data from the selected thermostat is copied to the selected target thermostats.
FIG. 9 shows a display image representing block 214 of FIG. 2, in which a user monitors data from the selected thermostat. The selected thermostat is indicated at 901, and the status text at 902 and instruction text at 903 again provide status and information text indicating that status of the selected thermostat is displayed. Details displayed at 904 include environmental temperature, effective temperature setpoint, and various elements related to the climate control system such as duct temperature, heating or cooling activity, and fan activity. Also, alarm data details for the selected thermostat are displayed, at 905.
Finally, to exit the program consistent with block 215 of FIG. 2, the user selects the “File” text displayed at 906, and proceeds to select “Exit” text from a displayed menu.
The invention described herein provides a number of benefits to the user. The ability to communicate with and configure thermostats remotely saves the expense of on-site visits by climate control professionals, and the information, pop-up clarifying text, selected thermostat text, programming stage display, and other displayed information lead a user through the thermostat programming process, reducing the need for training or documentation.
Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that any arrangement which is designed to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific embodiments shown. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the invention. It is intended that this invention be limited only by the claims, and the full scope of equivalents thereof.
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On Sept. 17, 2015, Sir David Willcocks one of the great choral directors of King's College, Cambridge died at age 95. Classical host Michael Barone reflects on Willcocks's life and music.
In my "early years" at Minnesota Public Radio, I also was a functional church organist, serving the First United Methodist congregation in the city of St. Cloud, Minn., for 11 years while working out of MPR's original Collegeville, Minn., studios.
Just before Christmas in 1980, the staff of the Classical Department were required to relocate to the then-new MPR headquarters building at 7th Street and Cedar in downtown St. Paul (the News Department and MPR Administration had been working out of other spaces in St. Paul since 1970). This necessitated that I give up my position as church organist, since 150-mile round-trip commutes for Wednesday rehearsals and Sunday services did not make sense. But it was a somewhat traumatic relocation.
Though I had fun playing a wide variety of organ repertoire for preludes and postludes on the church's modest Wicks pipe organ (and a little mechanical-action Rieger positive that I had purchased and installed in the sanctuary), my real joy as a church organist was in leading (and provoking) congregational singing, particularly during the Christmas holidays when I would draw upon the many David Willcocks arrangements in the two volumes of his "Carols for Christmas." I still recall the distinct sense of withdrawal that year as my idle hands itched to be on some organ's keyboards playing Willcocks' resounding alternate harmonizations for "O come, all Ye Faithful," "The First Noel" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," when I otherwise would have roared off into new accompanimental territory as the congregation ramped up its involvement and really raised the roof with celebratory singing. Sadly, I've not had a church job since.
Some years later, though, I was able to attend a Christmas Eve service at King's College in Cambridge (even as my pre-recorded voice was introducing that same event to American radio listeners!). It was 2009, the year of David Willcocks' 90th birthday (b. Dec. 30, 1919). We had met and briefly chatted with Sir David at a pre-service luncheon, where beyond his lively and engaging manner, I especially noticed his sweet smile, which, later in the chapel, was fully in evidence.
By good fortune, we happened to be seated in the choir (the forward part of King's Chapel, on the far side of the organ screen, where the Choir sits … get it?) directly across from Sir David. I watched as he listened with total delight to the young boy choristers and choral scholars, now under the direction of Stephen Cleobury, as they performed Willcocks' various carol settings and arrangements. His face glowed with a sweet and almost angelic innocence, as he absorbed with total pleasure the music sung by a Choir formerly "his" that, under his direction and with these same arrangements, had shared so much of the Christmas season's peace and joy to so many millions around the world. He was in that moment blessed, just as his life and work had blessed so many of us so many times over the years.
RIP, Sir David Willcocks. You will not be forgotten.
On Thursday, Dec. 3, at 1 p.m. Central/2 p.m. Eastern, listen to our Choral Stream to hear the Memorial Concert for Sir David Willcocks, performed at the Chapel of King's College and recorded for broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
The tribute includes notable performances by King's College Choir, Gerald Finley (a former choral scholar and now baritone opera singer) and many others. The orchestra consists of King's alumni and colleagues of Sir David Willcocks. The musicians donated their services to the Willcocks Music Trust.


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A V-band Low-Power and Compact Down-Conversion Mixer with Low LO Power in 130-nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology
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In this paper, the design of a V-band low-power compact down-conversion mixer in a 130nm SiGe BiCMOS technology is presented. The differential mixer design replaces the conventional transconductance stage of the Gilbert-cell with a pure passive VI-converter. This approach using only the switching quad as active circuit reduces the dc power consumption and improves linearity. In addition, the LO power requirement is decreased down to -10dBm to eliminate the need of an additional LO buffer amplifier saving power from an RF frontend system architecture point of view. Measurement results show that the fabricated mixer achieves a peak voltage conversion gain of 16.2dB and it consumes only 2.1mW of dc power when it is compressed by 1dB. The 3dB RF bandwidth covers 39GHz to 80GHz with a 69% fractional bandwidth. Compared to other state of the art high frequency low-power mixers, the proposed circuit achieves higher voltage conversion gain in a wider RF bandwidth while it has a lower LO power requirement.


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