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Tim Cook Announcing The New iPad !
As expected Tim Cook, The Chief Executive of Apple had promised the Apple fans that Apple is unveiling the latest version of iPad on the 7th March - namely "The New iPad" and not the iPad3 or iPad HD as rumored. Physically, the New iPad and iPad 2 resembled very closely. Apple stick to its award winning design and at the same time beefed up the internal hardware.
The summary of New iPad
The New iPad is now capable of displaying 2048 x 1536 pixels aka HD retina display, up 4 times from the iPad 2. Besides that, it is equipped with the new custom made quad core processor, an A5X chip which promises great graphics and multi tasking capabilities.Also noticeable upgrade is the iSight, capable of shooting video upto 1080p and 5MP. The main selling point of the New iPad is the 4G LTE connection to ensure ultra smooth video loading from the Net, 10times faster than 3G.
Comparison between New iPad and iPad2
Apple will start selling the New iPad in the Canada and US next week with the most basic model at $519 and 4G model starts at $649. Good news for future iPad 2 owners as Apple is slashing it by $100, pretty good deal IMO. Anyways, news of New iPad arriving in the Malaysia and Singapore market remained unknown but we are targeting around late April to May yah :) Well done, Apple !


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18th November 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana nearly the entire population
of the religious community The Peoples Temple committed suicide
by ingesting purple Flav-or-aid laced with Potassium Cyanide and
tranquillisers. Nine hundred and fourteen people died including
the community leader Jim Jones...
The reenactment has begun to reconstruct elements of lives and deaths of
The Peoples Temple. Embarking on a journey through the complexities
and paradoxes of Jim Jones and his followers.
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First screening of The Promised Land film on 13 Nov 2001...more
The Jonestown Re-enactment has been initiated by artist Rod Dickinson.

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Dec 1, 2021
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For those who cherish Disney, worship at the altar of Spielberg, love nothing more than immersing themselves into the world of Aardman, let us introduce you to Not Just For Kids. This is the podcast that revisits the films we cherished growing up, be they family films or something we maybe shouldn’t have been watching. Host Russell Bailey kicks off our Christmas coverage for 2021.
Former guest, film lover and dad, Will Chich (https://twitter.com/WillChich) joins to chat Die Hard and Jingle All the Way
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Food vacuum packaging bag
Vacuum bags are also called decompression packaging, which is to extract all the air in the packaging container and seal it to maintain a high degree of decompression in the bag. The scarcity of air is equivalent to the effect of low oxygen, so that microorganisms have no living conditions, so as to achieve fresh fruit and no disease. purpose of occurrence.
Applications include vacuum packaging in plastic bags, aluminum foil packaging, glassware packaging, etc. Packaging materials can be selected according to the type of items. Since fruit is a fresh food, it is still undergoing respiration, and a high degree of hypoxia will cause physiological diseases. Therefore, vacuum packaging is less used for fruit.
Mechanism of vacuum packaging：
1. It is to reduce the oxygen content in the package, prevent the packaged food from mildew and deterioration, maintain the color and fragrance of the food, and extend the shelf life.
2. Vacuum packaging certainly plays an important role in food, but it also has extraordinary effects when used in the processing of clothing items.
3. Compared with ordinary packaging methods, vacuum packaging reduces the space occupied by items. It also has the advantages of moisture-proof, dust-proof, and bacteria-proof, making the transportation of clothing items more convenient.
4. It greatly reduces the possibility of losses caused by some accidents.
Vacuum packaging is mainly used for food packaging, such as meat, cereal processed food, and food that is prone to oxidation and deterioration. It can also be used for the packaging of mechanical parts, instruments, and fluffy products such as down products and wool products.
With the gradual improvement of people's living standards and the continuous improvement of the quality of life requirements, vacuum packaging has occupied an indispensable and pivotal position in contemporary people's lives. It is a typical field of vertical extension of packaging technology and plays an infinite role. replaceable role.

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Hector Hernandez - Bob Heilman's Beachcomber
Bob Heilman's Beachcomber
Chef Hector Hernandez has worked with the Heilman family for nearly 20 years. His roots are in the culinary arts with an uncle who is also a chef. Hector started his career working every station in the Beachcomber kitchen. Today, Hector is a chef who has created his own culinary catalog, as well as having mastered Heilman’s Traditional recipes. His talents lead a strong and dedicated kitchen staff of 30 plus for the Beachcomber and Bobby’s Bistro Restaurants.


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Born into a middle class family from Kavala, Harissiadis studied chemistry in Lausanne. Foreign illustrated periodicals and books inspired his interest in photography. He began his career as a photographer on the Albanian front in 1940 when, as a reserve officer, he depicted the life of his fellow soldiers and their dramatic advance into Northern Epirus.
Later, because of his language skills, he was transferred to Athens, where he recorded the difficult conditions that prevailed during the Axis Occupation.
As a European press correspondent he photographed the events of the "Dekemvrianá" and the Civil War. After liberation he was commissioned by foreign relief agencies active in Greece to photograph the arrival and distribution of American aid. Later on, the Ministry of Reconstruction commissioned him to record major public works and the country’s economic recovery. The optimistic quality of his photographs was partly dictated by the nature of this task.
Harissiadis was a founding member of the Greek Photographic Society in 1952, and between 1956 and 1985, in partnership with Dionysis Tamaressis, he ran the well-known photographic agency "D. A. Harissiadis". As a commercial photographer, he specialised in industrial photography and advertising. During the course of his career, he recorded the gradual industrialisation of Greece, the expansion of the shipping industry, the development of modern architecture and the country’s overall economic progress. Finally as a photographer for the National Theatre of Greece, he contributed to the creation of a valuable visual history of the Greek theatre.
Throughout his professional career, Harissiadis maintained a personal interest in photographing Greek towns, landscapes and everyday life in agricultural and urban surroundings, believing that mankind was "the most interesting subject in the world." The predominantly American influences that can be detected in his work are the result of his association with foreign photo agencies and his familiarity with international trends in photography. The artistic value of his work was internationally recognised at a very early stage and he was the only Greek photographer to participate in the major exhibition entitled "The Family of Man", which was held in New York in 1955. He also took part in a number of exhibitions, two of which were "Greece by Eleven Photographers" (Chicago, 1957) and "The face of the European" (Munich, 1959). His balanced, often abstract composition, his faultless technique, his sense of humour and optimism combine foreign influences with a Greek aesthetic sensibility, adding up to a very personal style.

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Records of Carmarthen Rural District Council, Carmarthenshire, including mortgages and receipts, 1887-1929; minutes, 1970-1979.
Carmarthen Rural District Council Records
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- ReferenceGB 211 CARMARTHEN RDC
- Dates of Creation1887-1979
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description3 boxes; 29 volumes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The Local Government Act 1894 established rural district councils. The Rural District Council was responsible for housing, public health and sanitation in the parts of Carmarthen not covered by the Borough Council/ District Council. The council also became responsible for the water supply. The Council was abolished in 1974.
Arranged in chronological order.
Deposited by Mr Vaughan M. Williams, Chief Executive, and Jenny Gammon, Reference Librarian, Carmarthen Library, between 1984 and 1991.
Compiled by Annette Strauch for ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of the description: Carmarthenshire Archives Service, Catalogue of Carmarthen Rural District Council Records; Collis, Kim, The West Glamorgan Archive Service, A Guide to the Collections (Swansea, 1998).
Other Finding Aids
A hard copy of the catalogue is available at Carmarthenshire Archives Service.
Conditions Governing Use
Usual copyright regulations apply.
All records have been retained
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Magistrates had three meetings on Monday to discuss a number of issues affecting Taylor County residents.
From discussions of fire trucks to recycling and the operation of Veterans Memorial Park, the meetings were open to the public. Several community members attended.
Fire Protection and Emergency Services
The meetings began at 8 a.m., with this Committee discussing the County's new fire truck, which is currently being built in Pennsylvania.

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Brain-Injury Center Seeks Bankruptcy as Bank Sees DefaultDavid Armstrong
Florida regulators are demanding that a brain-injury treatment center with patients from across the U.S. prove that it’s financially viable, as the facility seeks bankruptcy protection.
The Chapter 11 filing Friday by the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation Inc. followed Bloomberg News stories about the alleged abuse and neglect of patients by their caregivers at the 200-bed residential facility southeast of Tampa. It’s one of the largest in the country treating people with long-term disabilities brought on by brain trauma.
The filing came hours after Regions Bank sued the institute, known as FINR, in U.S. District Court in Tampa, claiming it’s in default on $31 million in real-estate loans. The lawsuit by the Birmingham, Alabama-based unit of Regions Financial Corp. says FINR stopped paying on the debt in August.
FINR’s owner, Joseph Brennick, said in a statement yesterday that he was “confident” the facility could properly care for the people living there while it undertakes a financial restructuring. Media coverage led to “a significant decline in revenue making FINR unable to meet is financial obligations,” Brennick said in the statement.
Negotiations with Regions Bank are “ongoing and we are making strides to resolve this successfully as we look for a long-term solution,” he said.
After the bank sent FINR a default letter in September, Brennick withdrew at least $466,000 from center coffers, the suit alleges. In addition, FINR has failed to give the government the payroll taxes withheld from employees’ wages and hasn’t paid real estate taxes and routine operating expenses, Regions Bank says in the suit.
Lyndsey Cruley, a spokeswoman for FINR, didn’t respond to requests for comment on the bank’s allegations.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, which licenses the center, ordered FINR on Friday to provide it with detailed financial statements by the close of business Jan. 14. The agency told the company it needs to show that it has sufficient assets and revenues to operate for the next two years, and that it can document its ability to correct its financial instability.
Michelle Dahnke, a spokeswoman for the state agency, declined to comment on the consequences if FINR isn’t able to prove its financial strength.
At least five patients have died from alleged abuse or neglect at FINR since 1998, two in the last two years. Since 2005, the state has received 526 allegations of abuse and neglect, at least 37 of them classified by investigators as verified, meaning they were supported by a “preponderance of credible evidence.” Some of the complaints are still being investigated.
FINR is fighting a Florida regulatory order from August that it must move about 50 patients to other facilities. The Regions Bank complaint alleges the center is in violation of a loan provision that requires it to maintain a minimum daily occupancy of 75 percent of capacity.
Four Chapter 11 petitions were filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Tampa, by FINR and three affiliated corporations. They said in court filings that they estimated they owe between $3 million and $30 million to 103 to 346 creditors and that their assets total $150,000 or less.
The list of creditors includes insurance companies, law firms, medical supply companies, water and electric utilities, the county tax collector and a public relations firm.
In its suit, Regions Bank asks that a court-appointed receiver take control of the center “pending the foreclosure or other disposition of the collateral” for the loans. The bank alleges the current operation of the brain-injury facility “jeopardizes both patient care and Regions’ interest.”
The case is Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation, 8:13-bk-00102, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida (Tampa).

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As it develops a provincial housing strategy, the province is looking for the input of Islanders.
One way it’s gathering that is through an online survey through the government webpage.
Government wants to hear from Islanders about appropriate and affordable housing needs in the province, and about their personal housing experiences.
The survey, available through February 2nd, takes about 15 minutes to complete and responses are confidential and anonymous.
Paper copies of the survey are also available at Access PEI sites across the province


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When Titanic was released in 1997, part of the media craze surrounding the film was director James Cameron's painstaking work on re-creating the ship, staterooms, and even table linens with historical accuracy. One person not impressed was astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who became a vocal critic of Titanic's depiction of that fateful night sky. In meetings with James himself and in public appearances, Neil called out the director for his inaccurate and "lazy" use of a random assortment of stars despite knowing the precise latitude and longitude where the ship sunk, and thus easily capable of re-creating the exact stars Rose would have seen when waiting in the water for rescue.
Finally, with today's Titanic 3D rerelease, scientific accuracy proves victorious as James Cameron admits his perfectionist defeat and changes the stars to reflect what Titanic survivors would've seen at 4:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912. In honor of Neil's constellation concern, download one of these four apps to ensure you always know which stars you're gazing at on a clear night.
- Star Walk for iPad ($5) — Tour the universe in all its stunning, bright-eyed wonder with this HD app that has been beautifully remastered for the retina display of the newest iPad generation.
- The Night Sky ($1) — Should you find yourself in the desert or aboard a cruise ship with limited WiFi, this is the app to have for 4G-less connectivity. View the local stars even without a data connection.
- SkyView ($2) — Point your phone's camera to the sky for an augmented reality view in 3D graphics of the stars above. Travel back or forward in time to see the sky on a particular date. Very handy should you ever make a historical film.
- StarTalk (Free) — This radio program hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson won't show you the stars in the sky, but by subscribing to the podcast, you'll stay on the cutting edge of all things space, science, and pop culture.


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The Iliad and the Odyssey - mrdowling.com The language of the Iliad and the Odyssey suggest that Homer came from the western coast of the modern nation of Turkey. Homer's name can be translated from a word that means blind, but the vivid imagery of the Iliad and the Odyssey suggest that the author of the poems must have had sight at some point in his life. The Odyssey - Homer - Homers epic poem - Summary "The Odyssey" (Gr: "Odysseia") is the second of the two epic poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer (the first being "The Iliad"), and usually considered the second extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the 8th Century BCE and is, in part, a sequel to "The Iliad". Homer - Facts, Iliad & Odyssey - Biography The Iliad and The Odyssey have provided not only seeds but fertilizer for almost all the other arts and sciences in Western culture. For the Greeks, Homer was a godfather of their national culture ... The Internet Classics Archive | The Iliad by Homer
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The Internet Classics Archive | The Iliad by Homer The Iliad By Homer Written 800 B.C.E Translated by Samuel Butler. The Iliad has been divided into the following sections: Book I [47k] Book II [63k] Book III [36k] The Iliad - reed.edu The Iliad is a great poem, but also one which presents a number of difficulties for the first-time reader. This page is designed to be a jumping-off point to help you overcome some of the common difficulties readers have with Homer's Iliad, and also to provide tools to enhance and deepen your reading of the poem.
"The Odyssey" (Gr: "Odysseia") is the second of the two epic poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer (the first being "The Iliad"), and usually considered the second extant work of Western literature. It was probably composed near the end of the 8th Century BCE and is, in part, a sequel to "The Iliad".
The compilation we know as the "Iliad" was written centuries later, the date Pagel is proposing. The scientists tracked the words in the "Iliad" the way they would track genes in a genome. The researchers employed a linguistic tool called the Swadesh word list, put together in the 1940s and 1950s by American linguist Morris Swadesh. Author Says a Whole Culture—Not a Single 'Homer'—Wrote 'Iliad ... The Iliad survived for hundreds, if not thousands, of years as a spoken poem and was eventually written down, around 700 to 750 B.C. But no manuscripts survive from that time. But no manuscripts ...
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A good way of getting a sense of the values and priorities of the Iliad's many translators is to compare how they translate a given passage. ... except with the prior written permission of ... SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Context The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan captors. The Odyssey takes the fall of the city of Troy as its starting point and crafts a new epic around the struggle of one of those Greek warriors, the hero Odysseus.
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Homer ILIAD : Full text of the Iliad translated in English English translation of Homer's Iliad by Theodore Alois Buckley. Preface by the translator. The present translation of the Iliad will, it is hoped, be found to convey, more accurately than any which has preceded it, the words and thoughts of the original. "The Odyssey": The original chick lit? | Salon.com Jul 27, 2006 · When you accept the premise that "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" were semi-improvised oral epics, but composed at a highly unusual length and composed to be written down, many things become clear ... Homer - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. Homer (700-800 BC), commonly credited as the Greek poet and author of Western Literature's first and most influential works Iliad (c. 750-725 BC) and its sequel Odyssey (c. 743-713 BC). For hundreds of years these two works of Homer, written in ancient formal Ionic Greek diction mixed with dialect, have been the subject of numerous translations ... PDF Homer's Iliad Books 1-2 - facultystaff.richmond.edu

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Features - Straight Talk
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
Looking for new Grand Prix
BY LUIS VASCONCELOS
Formula One is about to enter new territory with the acquisition of Delta Topco by Liberty Media. From what has been said, we've all gathered a lot more effort and money will be put into digital and social media, as a way to broaden the exposure of the sport and attract a completely new generation of fans - something the old regime was not even trying to do as Bernie Ecclestone was quick to point out he didn't believe there was any money or future in those social platforms.
Being far from interested in these areas of the business, I'm glad to leave all the analysis, speculation and other to those who seem to go to the Formula One races but never see a car running, preferring to go around the paddock talking about money, politics, the Strategy Group and so on.
What really caught my attention in Chase Carey's many interviews was his mention of finding new markets for Formula One, new venues to host Grand Prix. At the same time, Gianluca di Tondo, the man who runs Heineken's massive Formula One program, was very open about wanting to have a new Grand Prix in Vietnam, because this beautiful Southeast Asian country is Heineken's fastest growing market. Heineken took its Vietnamese importers to Singapore last week and, according to di Tondo, they loved the experience and expressed a wish to have a Grand Prix close to Ho Chi Minh City, a city with more than eight million people and a vibrant economy.
Combine the two statements and you get the feeling the Formula One calendar will go through a face-lift in the next few years - once the current contracts expire - that may include an expansion from the already saturated 21-races calendar or some strategic changes.
Here I have to declare a personal interest because Vietnam has been my part-time home for nearly 20 years, I love the country and the people and I'd like to spend more time there, so a race close to home would be nice. But what the last 20 years have taught me is that getting the Vietnamese government to spend money on anything will be a very tough job. For 15 years there have been open talks about building a new international airport to take over from the heavily saturated Tan Son Nhat facility and not even a stone has moved. That's because building a brand new airport costs billions of dollars and while French and Japanese investors have expressed a lot of interest in building it, to then run it, the Vietnamese government wants them to build it but then reap the rewards from the new facility.
As some of you may remember, six years ago Ecclestone sent Hans Geist to Nha Trang, to offer a deal to the local authorities and everything went well until they were told they'd have to pay for the construction of a new circuit and a hefty promoters' fee every year. As soon as they heard that, their interest died and Geist didn't stay long to enjoy the lovely beaches in the area, returning home empty handed. So, if Heineken really wants a race in Vietnam, it's better the company is ready to pay for the whole thing, as the local authorities won't be interested in putting any money into it.
But if Vietnam comes in, does this mean we'll have a third race in Southeast Asia? Singapore's contract expires at the end of next year and there are internal discussions about the value of the event for the country. Losing what is one of the highlights of the season would be a blow to Formula One, the local government knows that, so they have the kind of leverage only Monaco has enjoyed. Hopefully a new deal will be done soon, one that will suit both parties and will keep the night race on the calendar. Malaysia, on the other hand, may be on its way out at the end of the current contract, which expires at the end of 2019. The locals spent quite a bit of money resurfacing the Sepang circuit but the government has lost all interest in the Grand Prix and it wouldn't be a surprise if they'd drop it, opening the doors to Vietnam. And Thailand could be an option too, but only after the country's situation becomes stable again and Red Bull would be massively interested in it, as would Heineken and other major players in Formula One.
Another Asian country that could get a Grand Prix is Korea, but not down in Yeongam, where not even the Koreans wanted to go: if Formula One is to return to the country it has to be to a track close to Seoul, as that would attract a lot of fans to the grandstands.
Looking at Europe, I guess Germany has to be a permanent feature and France should be back in the calendar, but Spain may be under threat after Fernando Alonso's retirement, as interest will seriously dip without the local hero - unless Carlos Sainz gets a chance with Red Bull and becomes the second Spanish Grand Prix winner.
One venue under serious threat, because the contracted improvement in the facilities is not happening, is the Canadian Grand Prix because there's no alternative to Montreal for Formula One. A second, maybe even a third race in the United States would more than make up for it and with Liberty Media being based there, it shouldn't be too difficult to do a couple of new deals.
A return to Buenos Aires, as long as the Oscar Galvez circuit would get a serious face-lift, would do wonders for Formula One because the huge success that was the return to Mexico, one year ago, would certainly be repeated in Argentina, such is the South American's love for motor racing.
Finally, there's Africa, absent from the Formula One calendar since 1993. Ecclestone has made dozens of attempts to get back to South Africa, mainly to Cape Town, with no success, but maybe with more favourable conditions for the promoters things could change. Morocco could be an alternative, as the country is stable, there's a lot of passion for racing there and a good amount of money to invest, but somehow negotiations with the locals have never picked it up.
Having said all that I seriously hope the calendar doesn't grow to 25 Grand Prix per year and I'd rather see a few races rotate - with a hardcore of 14/15 races being permanent features and the others getting an event every other year - with 20 races being the limit. Otherwise the wife may kick me out of Vietnam and there goes my retirement plan...


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At the time MLK spoke those words, the world was not ready for accepting people based on their deeds and actions, but rather was focused more on skin color.
Today with Obama’s inagauration, one might suggest that MLK’s words spoken nearly 40 years ago, were prophetic… and in a way they were. But the election of Obama has turned MLK’s words of wisdom completely upside down. We have not judged Obama based on the content of his character, but instead we have judged him based on the color of his skin. More headlines and news reports have focused on Obama being a Black or African American rather than being the best and brightest individual for the job of President. MLK would be saddened by the rabid focus on Obama being black. So while many political hacks argue we’ve made history today, I would strongly argue otherwise. History would have been made, if the campaigns and the election of Obama was based entirely on him being the best and brightest candidate to be President. But from my vantage point we are far from living in a “post racial” society… oh quite the contrary. We still allow people to carry around labels such as Mexican American or African American… I ask: “Aren’t we all simply Americans?” To me it is a given if you were born here legally… you are an American… you are not African, Mexican, Polish, Klingon or anything else. You are simply an American. And until we get to the point, we are all simply Americans, there is no chance we are going to be able to move beyond race. To me it is insulting for people to insist they are Mexican American or African American. I am of Irish descent, but don’t label myself Irish American, I am simply an American. End of Story.


by Gwenn Gmeinder, N.A. Busines Development Manager, Sensor Products, Littelfuse
Analog and digital sensors are accurate and reliable over the long term. Here we explain how to choose them for industrial automation and motion-control applications. We define and describe the benefits of digital and analog sensors and give industrial examples. Then we apply design principles and best practices to detail a custom magnetic-sensing solution for an industrial application.
Industrial automation and motion designs, such as conveyors, elevators and pick-and-place machinery, must function within factories subject to dust and dirt. These designs often exhibit high vibration and spikes in shock force as well. Such conditions can threaten the stability of sensor circuits. Fortunately, some custom magnetic sensors sport features to ensure long-term accuracy and reliability.
Consider an application that must verify when an object such as an elevator door is closed. Here, digital versions of reed and Hall-effect sensors deliver outstanding reliability.
Basics of digital reed switches
This electrical switch requires no power to operate. A glass tube with precious metal hermetically seals its contacts.
Benefits: Reed switches are reliable for millions of operating cycles because they are immune to moisture and other environmental conditions.
Applications: Reed switches are common in microprocessor-controlled, logic-level electric loads. Because reed sensors can switch ac or dc loads, they are suitable for digital on/off applications such as closure or position-detection systems in industrial or motion-control machines.
As mentioned, freight and passenger elevators often use reed switches for door-closure detection. A magnet mounts to the door, and the reed sensor attaches to a fixed frame hidden behind the elevator wall.
When the door is open, the reed sensor is left with its contacts open, so cannot sense the magnetic field. Its output value feeds into a microprocessor control to indicate an open door. When the door closes, the sensor detects the proper magnetic field and the reed contacts close, sending a new signal to the controller. In modern industrial systems, a microcontroller is usually part of the control circuit. This lets the reed or Hall-effect sensor switch with low logic-level dc voltage and current values.
Basics of digital Hall-effect sensors
These sensors combine a Hall-effect sensing element with circuitry to output a digital on/off signal that corresponds to a change in the magnetic field without using moving parts. The Hall effect device’s active circuitry draws a small amount of current at all times.
Benefits: Digital Hall-effect sensors offer high reliability and users can program them to activate at a given magnetic field tolerance for precise sensing requirements.
Applications: Hall-effect sensors only work in industrial and motion-control applications with low dc voltage and current values. These sensors are common in high-speed applications such as rotary speed tracking on linear conveyors. For example, a Hall-effect speed sensor might detect a rotating 16-pole ring magnet. Here, the Hall-effect sensor activates with each passing north-pole segment and deactivates with each passing south-pole segment. Then the sensor sends these signals to the control unit.
High-precision analog sensors: Rotary and linear Hall effect
Analog sensors let end users get instantaneous feedback on a magnet’s position in an industrial system. Analog Hall-effect sensors of the past measured the flux density of the magnets and are greatly influenced by the temperature value of the application. Now, thanks to advances in analog Hall-effect technology, newer Hall-effect chips measure the angle of the flux field instead of the traditional amplitude, making them much less sensitive to temperature changes. So, the sensors deliver more stable analog output across a large temperature range.
There are a couple Hall-effect sensor variations that are suitable for custom analog sensing.
Basics of rotary Hall-effect sensors
Without using any moving parts, this semiconductor-based sensor combines a Hall-effect sensing element with circuitry to provide an analog output signal that corresponds to changes in a rotating magnetic field. This sensor offers two output options—analog or pulse-width modulation (PWM).
The device is programmable so engineers can associate a specific output voltage or PWM to a precise degree of rotation. Multiple programming points are available up to 360° of rotation. Each programming point represents a voltage or PWM output value that corresponds to a given angle of the magnetic field. This results in a high-accuracy, high-resolution ratiometric output signal relative to the degree of rotation.
Benefits: Unlike a mechanical rotary or resistive film rotary device, rotary Hall-effect sensors do not experience changing resistance values or mechanical wear. They offer exceptional stability over normal operating temperatures up to 105° C. Units are accurate from 0 to 360° rotation with 0.5 V to 4.5 Vdc output or 10 to 90% duty cycle for PWM.
Applications: Rotary Hall-effect sensors are becoming increasingly popular for replacing resistive film and potentiometers—mechanical devices subject to wear and oxidation that degrade signals in the control unit. So, Hall-effect sensors work in myriad motion designs. For example, they can help measure the angle of a flapper valve in a fluid-flow system to precisely adjust the flow rate; in control circuits, they work to detect dial position.
Basics of linear Hall-effect sensors
Linear Hall-effect sensors measure linear movement of a magnetic field rather than rotation. Such sensors are programmable for a set output voltage that is ratiometric for a given travel distance. (Their output options are the same as those for rotary Hall-effect sensors.) The sensors measure linear movement and relative flux angle of magnetic actuators to 30 mm of travel with a single Hall-effect chip. This outputs a ratiometric signal to track the precise movement of the sensor.
Benefits: The sensor and actuator work in all sorts of final mounting areas, even where they’re subject to magnetic influences from surrounding equipment. This makes for an optimal output signal because programming can account for any shunting, mechanical tolerances or stack-up tolerances of the magnetic field (so the output signal corresponds to just the magnetic-flux direction as the magnet rotates).
Applications: Linear Hall-effect sensors often work as level sensors for monitoring fluid levels. Here, the sensor detects the location of a moving float sporting a magnet. Linear sensors can also be useful when seeking a precise position tolerance for automatic pick-and-place systems.
Expertise applied: Custom sensing for a conveyor
When selecting high-performance magnetic sensing, first the design engineer should conduct a thorough review of the application’s environmental, mechanical, electrical and magnetic parameters. Then the engineer should analyze the industrial application’s full magnetic circuit—including the sensor and magnetic actuator. Then the engineer can identify custom-sensor setups robust enough to meet the design requirements.
Employing the design guidelines and best practices we review here, consider the following case study in which a custom magnetic sensor improves an industrial-conveyor application.
The problem: Initially, the machine builder wanted a Hall-effect speed sensor mounted to an industrial belt-drive system on a conveyor. Extensive communication between the end user and design-engineering teams made it clear that a standard Hall-effect sensor wouldn’t meet the requirements for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic interference (EMI) or electrostatic discharge (ESD), because the electric motor running the conveyor was too close to the sensor’s location.
Other requirements: The end user needed a custom sensor setup with 24-AWG insulated lead wires connected to the standard Hall-effect sensor through an uncontrolled environment. The lead wires had to withstand potential hazards within the factory such as dust, chemicals, oils and vibrations. They also had to continuously send speed signals to a microprocessor control unit.
The Hall-effect speed tracking had to be upgraded to handle the speed and relative magnetic circuit of the sensor’s actuator. The sensor had to bridge the required 2-mm gap between the sensor and the magnet.
The solution: The engineering team developed a robust custom design with additional capacitive and resistor circuitry on a printed circuit board. That gave the sensor extra EMI, EMC and ESD protection. The sensor’s injection-molded capsule was made larger than the standard capsule to accomodate the new circuitry. In addition, the lead wires were upgraded to 20 AWG with Teflon insulation.
The manufcturer designed a true speed-sensing Hall-effect chip to replace the digital Hall-effect chip and get more accurate speed signals.
The design team also used computer simulation to identify the optimum magnet design for the 2-mm sensing gap. They determined that a 16-pole toroid magnet (with eight pole pairs) would maximize magnetic-circuit reliability. So now, the new injection-molded capsules work for other designs without forcing the end user to pay for tooling.


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JACKSON — The Washington Lady Lion golf team traveled on Tuesday, Aug. 29 to compete in a quad match at Franklin Valley Golf Course. The other participating teams included Jackson, Minford, and Oak Hill.
Jackson won the event with a 159, followed by Minford with a 161, Washington with a 177, and Oak Hill with a 185.
Individually for the Ironladies, Aubrey Arnold led and was the medalist with a 40, followed by Alia Rippeth with a 55, Ava Jenkins with a 64, and Bambi Smallwood with a 67.
Individually for Minford, Lainey Howard led with a 53, followed by Ava Thacker and Madelyn Bennett with a 54, Ava Flaig with a 55, Danica Clarkson with a 56, and Riley Kasee with a 57.
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Nutrition Supplements are something we have all heard of over the years but what exactly does the term mean. It is a fact that all the food we eat have nutritional content. Nutrition supplements are simply food in a concentrated form designed to give the benefit of eating a large quantity of food in natural form.
Over the decades, the nutrient quality of fruits and vegetables available today has deteriorated due to the depletion of the nutrient content in the soil. If you take into consideration the pollution in water and air, the use of Hybrid or genetically engineered seeds, extensive use of fertilizers and pesticides, it is very optimistic to expect good quality of nutrition.
It is therefore understandable that the possibility of getting adequate nutrition through our regular diet has become difficult. It is no wonder that chronic diseases are rampant today and striking people much earlier than before. To help assist our body’s nutritional needs due to our reduced quality of diet, we make use of nutrition supplements so that our body can perform at the level that is designed to do. Healthy eating is the ideal scenario when you can prepare meals with the proper ingredients, but with our busy lifestyles and limited time, the next best thing to healthy eating is taking nutrition supplements.
With the help of supplements you can guarantee that you get sufficient nutrients to help promote the best possible health and performance, even if you don’t eat an adequate balanced variety of foods to stay within your daily needs for better health.
There are six essential nutrients for health and body maintenance. These are vitamins, minerals, water, fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Nutrients are the building blocks of life that we obtain through our diet. Our bodies don’t make them. At this time, it is known that there are fourteen vitamins required by humans. Vitamins are organic compounds found in foods. Since they are organic – containing carbon – they can be destroyed by heat, unlike their companion essential nutrient group, the incombustible minerals.
There are six food types that contribute to healthy eating from which we can absorb these essential vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. These are grains, vegetables, fruits, oils, dairy, meats and beans. We should strive to consume these food types in a balanced way to help maintain and promote better health naturally.
It’s important to understand that nutrition supplements are not intended to treat, diagnose, mitigate, prevent, or cure diseases but rather to assist your body’s nutritional needs.
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With a passion for the written word, Skye has returned to her home town of Sydney with a journal full of new ideas, looking for new experiences in media communications as she completes her degree. She spends her free time writing short stories and creative pieces, and hopes to bring her imaginative and playful writing style to FT Adjusting’s blog, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Export success with turbine blade test systemsThermosensorik GmbH6, Erlangen, Germany
Erlangen, December 17, 2007 - Thermosensorik GmbH today announced it had won two major orders for turbine blade test systems with a total combined value of approx. 2m. Two gas turbine manufacturers in the UK and China have each ordered a turbine blade test system from the Erlangen-based experts in fully automatic, non-destructive testing.
In recent weeks Thermosensorik GmbH has received two major orders from international companies belonging to the Siemens Power Generation Operating Group. And Thermosensorik also supplied Siemens Power Generation with the world's first robot-aided system, based on the heat flux thermography principle, for non-destructive testing of turbine blades. This is currently in use at the Berlin gas turbine plant for serial testing of all turbine blades produced there. Now the same Operating Group has ordered two more turbine blade test systems for manufacturing locations in the UK and China.
The robot-aided turbine blade test systems measure the three-dimensional diffusion of heat inside the material using highly sensitive Thermosensorik thermal imaging cameras. If there are faults or defects inside the material, the heat flux is disrupted, and the faults are pinpointed and imaged. Of the established technologies for non-destructive testing, heat flux imaging analysis fulfills a particular combination of requirements: it checks an entire area extremely quickly and fully automatically in each case, and can "look into" the material to find evidence, for instance, of delaminations or to measure layer and wall thicknesses as well as test the cooling behavior of turbine blades.
On the basis of the first industrial test system for blades of large 70-340 MW gas turbines, Thermosensorik has now developed the second-generation system concept. The level of automation of the systems was upgraded, from automatic control of the test procedure to fully automatic testing, which now also includes automatic fault recognition and operator-free, objective good/bad classification. The new, modular system concept is now used for the other Thermosensorik test systems too, e.g. for fully automatic, non-destructive testing of welded joints in the automotive industry.
The system in the UK is the first time Thermosensorik's turbine blade testing has been used on smaller blades for turbines with a power of 5 MW and upwards. So in future not only all types of stationary power plant turbines for power generation but also jet engines for air travel can benefit from Thermosensorik test technology.
Tom Stenger, Division Manager Factory & Technology, on the system at Siemens Gas Turbine Parts Ltd in Shanghai, China: "The Thermosensorik test system is an indispensable element in our quality assurance chain for our high-temperature turbine blades. The prototype system in Berlin exceeded all our expectations. When I was put in charge of setting up Siemens turbine blade production in China I realized right from the outset that based on the positive experiences we need another high-tech system of this type here in the plant too."
The systems are used for automatic testing of turbine blade production at several stages of production. The result is reliable quality assurance during production and considerable cost savings. The managing director of Thermosensorik GmbH, Thomas Hierl, expects the current new orders to act as a signal for all manufacturers of power plant turbines and jet engines: "The test systems are the guarantee of top quality and cost savings. Siemens Power Generation is once again relying on Thermosensorik's expertise - and not just in Germany. Others will follow."
About Thermosensorik GmbH
Thermosensorik GmbH was founded in 1998 as a spin-off of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. As a pioneer in the field of heat flux imaging analysis Thermosensorik has made decisive contributions to the development of this new technology for the non-destructive testing of materials and components. Today, the product range comprises high-resolution infrared camera systems (including the one with the fastest frame rate), manual test systems for laboratory use and fully-automated, in-line test systems for the non-destructive detection of cracks, cavities, delaminations, faulty joints etc. as well as for the fast measurement of layer and wall thicknesses by means of heat flux imaging.
Thermosensorik employs 30 highly qualified people and possesses a tight network of skilled suppliers. Well over 100 installations at research institutions and in industry prove the capability of Thermosensorik products on a daily basis. Besides manufacturers of turbines, some of the largest German car manufacturers use Thermosensorik test systems for non-destructive testing in serial production.
Thermosensorik was awarded the Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce's Founders' Prize in 2003. Since 2006 Siemens AG has had a minority holding in Thermosensorik GmbH via its subsidiaries Siemens Venture Capital GmbH and Siemens Technology Accelerator GmbH.
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Vermont Business Magazine Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO) is alerting Vermont residents that a scam usually aimed at distribution utility customers has grown to now include VELCO - the electric transmission grid operator. Callers claiming to be representing VELCO have targeted at least one Vermont business demanding credit card information to pay an account balance or face disconnection.
As the owner and operator of the electric transmission grid, VELCO does not manage accounts for any residential, commercial or industrial customers. Those customers are instead served by local electric distribution companies. Further, Vermont utilities do not demand credit card information or other payment mechanisms over the phone or in person. Anyone receiving such a call should not give out personal information, including account or credit card numbers and should contact the police.
Customers receiving such calls are encouraged to report this scam by contacting the Vermont Attorney General's Office Consumer Assistance Program at 1-800-649-2424 (in-state only) or 802-656-3183 (from out-of-state numbers) or by visiting www.uvm.edu/consumer.
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The Small Fakers were officially launched on a chilly night in February 2007 at a central London shindig attended by fans and associates of the East End's very own fab four, the seminal, sensational Small Faces!
The buzz in the audience that night was intense - there had never been a Small Faces tribute band before, mainly because the original band were so unique and special, and had, in Steve Marriott, a lead vocalist of astonishing power, recognised as being blessed with one of the most awesome voices in rock history. Could The Small Fakers even hope to come CLOSE to replicating the sound, and the look, of the Small Faces?
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During his early days Vijay wanted to play class-romantic films and things got changed after Thirumalai, Ghilli and Thiruppachi, now the actor is one of the most wanted mass heroes in Tamil cinema.
Though Thirumalai and Ghilli are Vijay’s initial mass hit films, it was Thirupachi which took him to the B and C center audience, especially with the trademark 5 songs, punch dialogues and action scenes.
Recently, Perarasu who directed Vijay’s Thiruppachi and Sivakasi has said that ” Young heroes and new comers should not include build-up / self praising songs like the one which is used in Rajini/Ajith/Vijay movies as it will irk the film viewers, a hero should add such mass ingredients in a progressive fashion”.
Perarasu also recalled that when they shot “Nee Entha Ooru’ song in Thiruppachi, Vijay saw the rush and expressed his reluctance in doing such a mass song. Vijay told me that, the song looks little exaggerated but I convinced him to do the same”.
Perararsu has concluded by saying even top heroes like Vijay are reluctant in incorporating mass build-up songs, hence new comers should learn from them “
Ilayathalapathy Vijay’s Pongal release Jilla, is nearing the elusive 100 days milestone. The movie is still listed at Baby Albert and the small screen at PVR, with a show each. The 100 days mark will be breached next week on April 19th.
Before that, Vijay fans have another reason to rejoice as the official verified FB page of the movie has crossed the magical 1 million likes mark. The page is still very active with close to 2 lakh people talking about the page. Just goes to show the kind of following that Vijay continues to command among the youth, despite being in the industry for more than 2 decades
Vijay’s next film, Kaththi, is already among the few most expected flicks coming out of K-Town this year.
Earlier there were rumours that the Ilayathalapathy Vijay – AR Murugadoss project, Kaththi, jointly produced by Ayngaran International and Lyca Productions, will face problems due to the alleged association of the movie’s producers with the Sri Lankan government.
Rubbishing all such rumours, Ayngaran International’s Karunamoorthi said, “Ayngaran has been in the industry for a long time – we have distributed around 2000 movies in foreign lands. And, in regard to Kaththi, Lyca Productions is supporting us financially. That’s it. All the rumours circulating that we are working alongside the Lankan government are entirely false and baseless.”
Regarding the movie, he said, “Ilayathalapathy Vijay plays double role in the movie. 40% of the shoot is completed, and the movie will be out by Diwali.”


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The third adventure in Droon finds Eric, Neal, and Julie shipwrecked on a creepy and mysterious island. It's going to take some quick thinking and lots of magical help for the kids to get out of this one! B&W illustrations throughout.
In the third Droon adventure, Eric, Neal and Julie find themselves shipwrecked on a creepy and mysterious island, and need some quick thinking and magical help to get themselves out of the situation.
A small storage room underneath the staircase leading down to Eric's basement is a magical doorway that takes Eric, Neal, and Julie to the magical land of Droon and to adventure.
About the Author
Tony Abbott is the author of more than ninety books for young readers, including THE SECRETS OF DROON series; middle-grade novel KRINGLE; and THE HAUNTING OF DEREK STONE series. He was the recipient of the 2006 Golden Kite Award, as well as the 2009 Edgar Award. Tony was born in Ohio, and now lives with his wife and two daughters in Trumbull, Connecticut. Visit him online at www.tonyabbottbooks.com.


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In the introduction to A Hunter’s Fireside Book Gene Hill sets himself up as an everyman, someone who you could trade a little bourbon whiskey back and forth with, someone "who’s a lot like you". Ray Childs, who performs this audiobook, has the voice of this person; the warm and gravelly voice of a person you could sit in a duck blind with and trade tales over cold coffee. Hill has a way of picking out the details of the joys of a hunter who might more aptly be called a naturalist or outdoorsman. If you find yourself, like Hill, working too much and yearn for a campfire and a good talk about the outdoors and the simple pleasures of a fine shotgun you’ll have a good friend in this audiobook.
The legendary American outdoor writer’s finest collection. For decades, Gene Hill’s articles and books have captured the spirit of the outdoors in a way that inspires and entertains millions of readers. A Hunter’s Fireside Book captures the essence of the life of a sportsman and explores the full spectrum of the hunter’s experience: sunrises in the duck blind, an unforgettable hunter’s moon, the camaraderie of men who know the pleasures of being wet and cold and a little bit lost.
©2009 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
This is one of Hills best! The audio version is nice to have for listning to while relaxing in the dark of a hunting camp. Just before drifting off to sleep.
Mostly Tail Feathers, Another wonderful collection of Gene Hill's storys. I don't think you can find an audio of this one. However, I highly recommend this book.
Hill the Trap shooter. I can easily relate to his trap shooting yarns.
No, I enjoy listning to a few storys over several eavenings , with a double scotch.
Hill always makes me want to be in the field bird hunting with my brittany..Gracie.
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LOS ANGELES -- Javier "Chicharito" Hernández has been named the LA Galaxy's captain for the 2020 season, the LA Galaxy announced on Friday.
The Galaxy striker will don the armband on Saturday when Los Angeles open their MLS regular season campaign against the Houston Dynamo at BBVA Stadium (12:30 PT/Univision). Hernández has served as the club's captain throughout the preseason.
The 31-year-old striker is Mexico’s all-time leading goal scorer and joined the LA Galaxy in January following time with Chivas de Guadalajara, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham and most recently, Sevilla. In all, the forward has tallied over 200 goals during his career for both club and country.
Throughout his career, Hernández has appeared in over 400 matches across top-flight leagues in Mexico, England, Spain and Germany in addition to appearing in over 100 matches for Mexico. During that time, he has tallied 156 goals for club and 52 goals for country, the most of any Mexico International.
Since 2006, he has represented sides that have captured two Premier League titles (2011, 2013), the Mexican Primera División: Apertura (2006), the FIFA Club World Cup (2014), the Concacaf Gold Cup (2011) and Concacaf Cup (2015). Individually, he has been honored as Concacaf Men’s Player of the Year (2015), Concacaf Best XI (2015) and Concacaf Gold Cup Golden Boot and MVP (2011) and was named to the Bundesliga Team of the Season (2015-16).
LA Galaxy’s 2020 home opener is set for Saturday, March 7 at Dignity Health Sports Park against Vancouver Whitecaps FC at 7 p.m. PT. Fans can purchase tickets to the club’s 2020 home opener by clicking here. Single-game tickets to Galaxy home games are available on www.lagalaxy.com/tickets.


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Elementary school technology club members are pushing their digital know-how into classrooms and throughout their campus.
At Cedar Valley Elementary School in Killeen, campus instructional technologist Anna Adam is the go-to expert on all issues connected to technology.
Her passion for integrating technology into the classroom spawned a popular after-school club called the Digi-Dolphins and now the 22 fourth- and fifth-graders are spreading their knowledge.
They are also having a lot of fun.
“Kids are almost innately excited about technology,” Adam said as her students scrambled about to complete a scavenger hunt using iPod Touches and scanned bar codes.
“When you empower them, they bring what they know to their teachers, they spread it to their classmates and it integrates into the curriculum,” she said.
Working in groups of three, students moved to six stations led by clues they had to decipher using iPod Touches to scan bar codes. The clues included questions taken from TAKS tests.
During previous after-school sessions, the technology club members worked on stop motion animation projects, learning photography and filmmaking through iMovie.
They also completed music videos to accompany Cedar Valley’s annual TAKS rally, an elaborate staff talent show to fire up students prior to taking the state tests.
They made a video for a school awards ceremony, movies to go with PE activities and various classroom projects.
In addition, each student in the club is assigned to a class or office in the school where they provide technology assistance and document various special activities.
Adam dove into the technology club idea six years ago when she was at Willow Springs Elementary School in Killeen. She operated that club for three years before moving to Cedar Valley, where she has sponsored the Digi-Dolphins the past three years.
Students are so committed to the club, which requires an application process, that members rarely miss and take pride in wearing their special Digi-Dolphins ID badges like media passes. Dolphins is Cedar Valley’s mascot.
Fifth-grader Meghan Spear, Adam’s daughter, has experienced the technology club since kindergarten. She seems to understand the value of learning technology early.
“In the future, we will be technified,” Spear said. “It’s good to learn now. We can have Kindles and iPads at school. We read books on iPods.”
Fifth-grader Emma Bodisch has caught on to the excitement of technology, too.
“I like learning new things we wouldn’t learn if we weren’t in tech club,” Bodisch said. “It’s useful for our future. We’re in the technology age. It’s important to keep up so we can get a good job and it’s fun.”
She said her favorite projects involve shooting and editing video. “The whole school sees it and I say, ‘Hey, I did that.'”
“I like that we do all kinds of things with technology, not just one thing,” said fourth-grader Cami Bogdan, listing stop motion animation and a cartoon software called Animation-ish among her favorites.
“We do a lot of fun things,” fifth-grader Nicolas Feliciano said. “I can express my feelings and it’s educational,” he said, pointing out film projects on the water cycle and life cycle.
Several students said their classmates and parents go to them with computer and other technology questions they can usually help solve.
For their sponsor, the club goes beyond fun and even beyond the walls of Cedar Valley Elementary School.
“Most of them will have jobs that don’t exist now,” Adam said of her fourth- and fifth-graders. “When I was their age, my job didn’t exist and I didn’t aspire to it.”
Learning today’s technology tools and how to adapt to the rocket-pace of change, she said, would serve students for life.


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TfL Bus safety programme – RoadPeace perspective
Posted: 23 June 2016 | Amy Aeron-Thomas, Advocacy and Justice Manager | No comments yet
RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims, discusses the impact of Transport for London (TfL)’s new bus safety programme announced earlier this year…
RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims, welcomed Transport for London (TfL)’s new bus safety programme earlier this year, and for good reasons. This ground breaking programme introduced support for victims and transparency around collision investigations, as well as setting new standards in safety. The latter included introducing safety incentives in bus company contracts and developing a safety scorecard for bus companies. TfL is to also deliver its “In the Zone” safer urban bus driver training to all 25 thousand London bus drivers by the end of 2016. This training programme focuses on increasing driver awareness of vulnerable road users.
But the four key workstreams, in RoadPeace’s view, are the following:
1. Bus safety standard
TfL has been piloting speed limiters on two bus routes since 2014, but as of 2018, all London buses are to be equipped with Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA). Not only will this enable TfL to monitor and tackle speeding bus drivers, ISA on buses also helps prevent speeding by other drivers. Trials done several years ago by TfL found a vehicle fitted with ISA would affect the speeds of 12 vehicles around it in inner London and eight vehicles in outer London.
All London buses are to be equipped with ISA from 2018
But there is more. TfL has also trialled pedestrian/cycle sensors, and is looking into the design of bus fronts and mirrors, as well as internal bus design and technology to prevent pedal confusion.
Founded on the principle of road danger reduction, RoadPeace advocates tackling danger at source. And this is what TfL has done with this bus safety standard. This is different from the traditional approach of trying to change the behaviour of road users, e.g. the victims.
As the Safe System approach acknowledges, road users make mistakes and the transport system should be designed to ensure these are not lethal or life changing. TfL’s analysis of pedestrian deaths in London over five years found 35% resulted in a criminal prosecution but this fell to 18% when buses were involved. But instead of ‘victim blaming’ publicity campaigns aimed at stopping pedestrians making simple mistakes, TfL is designing out danger.
2. Support service for those affected by fatal or serious injuries
TfL has introduced a helpline and a support programme for those bereaved, seriously injured or a witness to a fatal or serious injury bus collision. Immediately after an incident has taken place, the service will be available to offer emotional and practical support and provide a single, named point of contact at TfL.
Helpline and a support programme launched
This support service is due to the determination of Sarah Hope, who was seriously injured in a bus crash that also killed her mother and resulted in her two year old daughter having her leg amputated. It took years of campaigning by Sarah to get this initiative introduced, with TfL providing support, regardless of liability.
This is the first time a transport authority, at least in Britain, has taken responsibility for providing support to road crash victims. And both Sarah Hope and TfL are to be commended for this programme.
3. Bus collision data
TfL, like DfT, has published quarterly data where the casualties of bus and coach collisions are reported together. It is now to provide separate data for bus collisions. This is a major advance, providing transparency and allowing a better understanding of the true toll of buses and of the circumstances in which bus collisions occur.
Separate data for bus collisions
RoadPeace has campaigned for data to be presented by the vehicle type but this change must be credited to another campaigner. Tom Kearney was almost killed in a bus collision on Oxford Street in December 2009. Since his recovery, he has been a non-stop campaigner for bus safety, and recently won a national campaigner of the year award for his efforts.
4. Greater transparency in bus collision investigations
Another new milestone is with the transparency with fatal and serious injury bus collision investigations. Information on the procedures undertaken by the police, bus companies and also TfL will be documented, and the outcomes reported.
TfL has also commissioned research into fatal bus collisions to identify countermeasures. This marks a change from its previous research on London road deaths which was by victim mode. And going forward, TfL will review the collision investigation reports submitted by the bus companies to check for trends.
“This represents a step change in policy”
This represents a step change in policy. RoadPeace has campaigned for many years to get the outcomes of fatal and serious injury investigations to be reported. Whilst buses are involved in less than 10% of fatal and serious injury collisions in London, it sets a precedent. And TfL is promising similar transparency with lorry collisions. RoadPeace expects this to lead to the police reporting the outcomes of all fatal and serious injury investigations.
Compared to other major cities, London’s buses were considered safe. But TfL has showed that this is not good enough and there is more that can be done.
RoadPeace is in touch with other survivor advocacy groups around the world and we know the challenges they face. In New York City, a new law introduced a maximum 30 day prison sentence for drivers found guilty of killing or seriously injuring a pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing. But bus drivers are campaigning for their drivers to be exempt from it. We can only hope that the new measures and higher safety standards set in London inspire other cities and countries to do more to reduce the danger posed by buses.
Amy was introduced to RoadPeace in 2000 whilst working for Transport Research Laboratory on a Department for International Development-funded scoping study on community participation in traffic law enforcement. She leads on RoadPeace’s justice and road danger reduction watchdog and policy work. Her role has included coordinating the 2014 conference on ‘Road Danger Reduction and Traffic Law Enforcement – How policing can support walking and cycling in London’, which was organised by RoadPeace, Road Danger Reduction Forum, CTC (now Cycling UK) and London Cycling Campaign. Amy initially worked as a transport planner and her educational qualifications include an MSc in Transportation Engineering, MPA in Public Administration and MP in Urban and Regional Planning, from the University of Virginia.


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Harmonic to Participate in the Stifel 2020 Virtual Cross Sec
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced that Sanjay Kalra, chief financial officer of Harmonic Inc, will present at the Stifel 2020 Virtual Cross Sector Conference on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. ET.
A live audio webcast of the conference presentation will be available on Harmonic's website at http://investor.harmonicinc.com. The archived webcast will remain posted on the Company's investor relations website for 90 days.
About Harmonic Inc.
Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery technology and services, enables media companies and service providers to deliver ultra-high-quality broadcast and OTT video services to consumers globally. The Company has also revolutionized cable access networking via the industry's first virtualized cable access solution, enabling cable operators to more flexibly deploy gigabit internet service to consumers' homes and mobile devices. Whether simplifying OTT video delivery via innovative cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies, or powering the delivery of gigabit internet cable services, Harmonic is changing the way media companies and service providers monetize live and VOD content on every screen. More information is available at www.harmonicinc.com.
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In decades to come, archaeologist Marija Gimbutas will be considered one of the most important women of the twentieth century. Her pioneering, interdisciplinary research into the earliest cultures of Europe led to a startling new view of the origins and meaning of Western civilization. According to anthropologist Ashley Montagu, "Marija Gimbutas has given us a veritable Ro ...more
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How will space explorers cope with isolation?
[...] It was the alone-ness itself that was frightening and my subsequent 59-day ski across the continent was dominated by my battle to deal with the shock of it.To read it is to almost be there in her shoes. Fascinating. See the links for pics and more.
I imagine that the first humans to visit Mars might experience a similar state of shock at their disconnection from human society. It is intriguing to wonder whether there might be parallels between the psychology involved in exploring Mars and exploring Antarctica.
Could potential astronauts preparing for long space missions across the solar system learn anything useful from experiences like mine in Antarctica?
As I began my loneliest of expeditions I had the benefit of more than a decade of previous polar journeys to draw from. In addition I had carefully prepared for the psychological stress of isolation, consulting a specialist sport psychologist.
Yet, I was taken aback by the range of ways in which the alone-ness affected me. I became increasingly emotional. With no one to witness my behaviour, I allowed inner feelings to flow into outward expression without check. If I felt angry, I shouted. If I felt upset, I cried.
Self-discipline became much harder. Surrounded by others, taking risky short-cuts isn't a possibility, largely because of the embarrassment of being discovered. But alone, with no-one to observe your laziness, the voice of temptation was always present. I found that ignoring the voice of temptation was an extra drain on mental energy that simply hadn't existed on team expeditions.
My brain, starved of any input by the lack of colour, shape or form in my largely blizzard-obscured world began to fill in the gaps by creating hallucinations.
I was surprised to find that we can hallucinate not just with our visual sense but with all our senses. I hallucinated strange forms in the gloom of regular whiteouts that took the shape of floating hands and small bald men on dinosaurs, but I also hallucinated smells, tastes and sounds that all seemed very real.
As I skied, I began to direct my internal monologue at the sun (when it was visible through the bad weather) and was slightly perturbed when eventually the sun began to talk back to me in my mind. It took on a very distinct character and even though I knew on some level that it wasn't real, the sun played an important part in my coping strategies.
Routine became increasingly important to me in overcoming these damaging responses to alone-ness. When everything else in my landscape and daily experience was so surreal, routine became the rhythm that I clung to. I performed every task in exactly the same way, every time it had to be done. I repeated chores in the same order again and again until I reached the point that I barely had to think about them. Reducing the thought required seemed to simultaneously reduce the emotion.
This was despite the fact that I did have some connection to the outside world during my expedition. I carried a satellite phone which was capable of calling anyone in the world at any time from my tent -- and yet, largely, I decided not to.
I was scared of the emotional high that speaking to loved ones might bring, knowing that it would inevitably be followed by a crushing emotional low as I was forced to end the call. [...]
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