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We recorded this several times, both from Clare singers and from Irish Travellers in London.
This is the version we got from Mikey Kelleher of Quilty, Clare, along with the note I wrote for it for the Clare County Library website - Mikey's and another version can be heard here
Carroll Mackenzie Collection
First when I was courted by a bonny Irish boy,
He calls to me his true love, and his darling girl was I.
He called to me his true love, his heart's delight and joy,
And how can I forget the thought of my bonny Irish boy.
You all know Dublin city, a city of noble fame.
And there my bonny Irish boy, to court me first, he came.
His cheeks were like the rosy red, and his eyes was as black as the sloe,
He'd break the heart in any fair maid, no matter where he go.
I'm a long time in his company, and hope to be his bride.
And now he have forsaken me, and have crossed the ocean wide.
I'm afraid some other fair maid, his company will enjoy,
Which leaves me now lamenting for my bonny Irish boy.
And through all green fields and gardens where gentle flowers so gay,
There my bonny Irish boy could ramble, sport and play.
Where the blackbird and the thrushes and the larks so softly sing,
There my bonny Irish boy, some kisses he would bring.
So I'll pack up my Sunday clothes, and in search of him I'll go.
I'll travel through dear old Ireland, through rain, cold frost and snow.
And when I'm tired and weary, I will sit down and cry.
Lamenting for the day I spent, with my bonny Irish boy.
So when I'm dead, and gone to rest, there is one request I'll crave.
Bring back my bones to Ireland, and bury them in the grave.
Write it on my tombstone, for all that do pass by:
That I died quite broken hearted for my bonny Irish boy.
Conversation after the song:
Jim Carroll: Lovely. Where did you get that from Mick?
Mikey Kelleher: Oh, that's years old too, years.
"The published sets of this song fall into a number of categories.
A. A girl is courted and abandoned; she resolves to follow him;
B. She follows him, fails to find him, says she will die in exile and wishes to be buried in Ireland;
C. She finds him, but he is married, conclusion as B, above;
D. She fails to find him, goes mad and is confined to an asylum;
E. She finds him and marries him.
Nearly all the Scots' texts, including nine in the Greig / Duncan collection, are of the A type, the majority of the others are of the B or C type. There is only one recorded version from Norfolk, of the D type and just two, from Newfoundland and from a Scots Traveller with a happy ending. According to Dr Hugh Shields, the 'mad' version dates from an early nineteenth century broadside, which he said was 'a favourite with the popular press in Britain and Ireland'; this seems to have all but disappeared. Ewan MacColl, in his note to a Scots Travellers' version, says that the happy ending variation was the one favoured by Scots Travellers. Frank Kidson obviously didn't think much of the song; he notes a version taken from a Scots girl, of which he published only three verses:
'I have not thought it worth while to reprint the whole of the verses.'"
Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection.
Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, Kenneth Peacock.
Till Doomsday in the Afternoon, Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger (eds.).
Traditional Tunes, Frank Kidson.
Bonny Irish Boy sung by Micheál Conway

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Man dies after falling off personal watercraft in Bogue Inlet
A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard says a man has died after falling off his personal watercraft in Bogue Inlet.
Petty Officer Brandon Broome told WITN-TV in Washington that the Coast Guard received a call at approximately 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. He said three men were on separate watercraft and the brother-in-law of the man tried to help him back onto his watercraft.
Broome says the inlet was a little rough and that the 49-year-old man, who was wearing a life jacket, was in a panic and then became unconscious.
Rescue boats were launched and emergency personnel began performing CPR. The man was taken to Carteret General Hospital, where he died.
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And they said Twitter was just another useless, self-aggrandizing waste of finger-pressing.
So see what you make of this tale, related by CBC, of a Canadian who says his MacBook was stolen last week in New York.
Sean Power, who happens to be a Web analyst and all round geekish hero, suddenly remembered on Thursday that he had installed Prey tracking software and began to wonder whether he might be able to follow the alleged thief. Then he had another thought: perhaps he could tweet about this situation.
The Ottawa man began like this: "Shit! Twitter, help! Prey just found my stolen (as of three days ago) laptop. Here's the report. I see the guy! http://awe.sm/5J8gE."
His next tweet read: "I have a picture and IP of the guy that has my stolen laptop. What should I do next? http://awe.sm/5J8gI."
Over the next several hours, Power began to use the Prey software not only to follow the alleged thief, but also to take photographs of him as he logged into a Chase bank account, Gmail, and Skype. Power even posted the alleged thief's name.
Naturally, Power contacted the police, too. In the meantime, though, Power's Twitter followers began to do what Twitter followers do: they followed. No, literally. Some of them began to follow the alleged thief for real--in the real world of New York.
The police, though, wouldn't come out until Power filed a report. So, with his Twitter followers hot on the trail (Power himself was back in Canada), Power begged them not to do anything silly, violent, or untoward. He tweeted: "Retribution is lame. Violence is lame. I'm sure there's a peaceful way of resolving this. That's the only acceptable scenario."
Then, it seems one follower (who was unknown personally to Power) and someone else appeared at the bar where Power knew his MacBook to be.
Power tweeted about the pair: "OK. There are two people currently in place at the bar. @nickreese and a non-twitterer."
One of the pair--@nickreese, who describes himself as a strategic thinker and change maker (don't we all?)--decided that it would be fun to confront the man.
When Power realized that one of his Twitter followers had gone so far as to place himself in potential danger, Power was concerned.
"It was just stress when I realized there were people who literally could have been risking their lives for a stupid piece of plastic," he told CBC.
However unlikely, the operation went smoothly, and @nickreese even persuaded the man to talk to Power on the phone. It must have been an endearing conversation.
Whatever was said, the man apparently gave the MacBook back.
The way @nickreese sees it, he was doing something entirely normal (for a strategic thinker and change maker). For he tweeted: "Thank you for all the kind words. In reality, I just helped out a stranger in need. I hope others would do the same for me. Would you?"
There is the question. The answer: some yes, some no.
Power told CBC he won't be pressing charges. Instead, before disappearing to a farm for the weekend, he tweeted: "I am happily reunited with my laptop. I slept so much last night that I didn't even look inside the bag to see what was in it!"
He also insisted on Twitter that he has no connection to Prey and that this is not some splendid publicity caper.
Say what you will about Twitter, but it does create connections that previously would never have been made--even if it's only to help recover a stupid piece of plastic from Cupertino. And Twitter doesn't seem to hire PR companies to say nasty things about Google, either.


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I'm Dr. Lawrence Blonde. I'm the Director of the Ochsner Medical Center in New OrleansOchsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Almost 21 million Americans presently have diabetes. Most people with diabetes don't achieve recommended treatment goals for control of blood sugar, and, therefore, are at increased risk for the development of chronic complications of diabetes like eye disease, kidney disease, increased risk for heart attack and stroke.
The Ochsner Diabetes Clinical Research Unit has focused on new therapies and new ways of delivering health care for people who have diabetes. We were involved in the trials of most of the new blood glucose lowering therapies that have become available in the last decade. Our department has developed a novel, intensive insulin program for seriously-ill, hospitalized patients and are actively studying the impact of this program.
Several years ago, we conducted a study that demonstrated that a more organized way of delivering out-patient diabetes care, using a team of health care professionals, could be associated with an improvement in blood sugar control and an improved quality of life for people with diabetes. Recently, we collaborated with Dr. Wood in our research department to conduct a pilot study looking at the impact of a simple, safe, home-based exercise program and showed its potential to reduce cardiovascular risk factors in people with diabetes. We're working to refine this intervention and to further study its potential to help people with diabetes.

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After the remarkable fan presence during the game against South Alabama, the student fan base seemed to diminish during last Saturday’s game.
“I was at the box. I looked over to the student section, and it was empty,” said Alina Penjieva, an admissions counselor for the game. “Third quarter – empty, fourth quarter – empty. Where are our fans?”
According to Penjieva, she then noticed that some of the players cheered on their teammates by waving white towels during the tense moments of the game.
“So I said, ‘What if all our fans have white towels, and, you know, we do the same thing, and we don’t stop waving until the clock stops, and we get the win,’” Penjieva said.
The morning after, Penjieva created the White Towel Movement (WTM), a volunteer fan event urging fans to bring any white fabric to wave to the game against Appalachian State this Saturday. Penjieva shared Head Coach Neal Brown’s message to fill all the fan seats of the Veteran Memorial Field (#packthevet) and motivate the team.
“We witnessed it firsthand when we went to the South game,” Penjieva said. “Fourth quarter, all the fans realized that we have to push our team and win this game, so the whole fourth quarter we didn’t sit down.
“When you’re down to fourth quarter and you’re exhausted, yet you look over to the fans and they’re not giving up on you, they’re truly believing in you, that’s when you get that second energy and you just keep forward.”
Montae Barto, a freshman graphic design major from Crestview, Florida, and AJ Smiley, sophomore criminal justice major from Birmingham, are two of the players who wave and twirl white towels to hype their teammates.
“This season I made it my job to encourage and drive my teammates and coaches by twirling the white towel,” Smiley said.
“That would be pretty cool,” he said about the possibility of the whole student section cheering the team in the same way the players do.
Penjieva also noted that fan presence may also help to get Troy ranked as the games with fan presence are more likely to be covered by media channels.
By Tuesday, Nov. 8, the WTM has gathered 1600 towels in volunteer donations, according to Penjieva.
Donated towels will be distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis at the entrance.
Penjieva said those who wish to volunteer with giving out the purchased towels can contact her at her Facebook, Alina Troy.
“We can turn it into tradition, where we actually get sponsored,” she said. “The sky is the limit and above. That’s the goal.”


The controversy involving Indian pacer Mohammed Shami and his estranged wife Hasin Jahan has been going on for a long time now, and earlier this week, there was yet another chapter to this saga that never seems to end. On Monday, Jahan had made another serious allegation against Shami and was quoted as saying, "Shami wants to marry the sister-in-law of his elder brother five days after Eid and that’s why he has offered me money and asked for the divorce.”
Shami, who has more often than not preferred to remain quiet to such claims, hit back this time around with a prompt reply and was quoted as saying by xtratime.in on Tuesday, "I am in so much trouble due to my first marriage. Do you think I am mad that I will marry another girl?"
He then added by saying, ”Hasin has brought a lot of allegations about me in last few months and this is an addition to that. That’s good, then I will invite her to be present at my second marriage."
Shami was part of the Delhi Daredevils team in the IPL 2018 season but failed to make much of a mark. The Daredevils finished last on the points table and the pacer only featured in four matches, where he took three wickets. He has struggled to hit his previous heights since then but has vowed to come back and has his eyes set on making a mark during the England tour.
“I couldn’t perform well in last few months due to my family problems, but I am confident that things will change in England,” said Shami.


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Welcome to Archie Smith Instruments, Here you will find information on the different types of instruments that I make. Please use the links at the bottom of the page to navigate the site. Most pictures on the site enlarge if you just click on them. Now let me tell you a little bit about me.
In the tradition and spirit of the fine Old World Craftsmen, I work alone. I plan and design, “scout out” sources (from over the world) and acquire the varied and specific materials that I want. I then cut, saw, resaw, bookmatch, glue, sign, date, number, drill, clamp, trim, carve, cut out and prepare various materials for inlay, do the inlay work itself, shape, sand, spray, buff, press in anchors, screw in tuners, string, tune and play my instruments. (I also sweep up the sawdust.)
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text: #Bullying is a term that gets thrown around many workplaces a lot. If you have any pride in your #leadership, you need to know how to recognise it before it becomes a systemic part of your #culture. You also need to know what it actually is so that you, and your team, don’t start throwing the term around unnecessarily. What is bullying? #Bullying is when someone exerts physical, emotional or positional power over someone else in order to force them to do something they do not want to do. The problem is plenty of people do not want to do plenty of things, so how do you distinguish between what’s bullying and what’s just reasonable requests? Unfortunately, many people have trouble here. Here are few examples of common confusions that I’ve come across. The preface to all of these is that it assumes you are not shouting, swearing, using verbal abuse in any way or physically intimidating people. They are however transferrable to either boss or employee. So here we go… What isn’t bullying? It isn’t repeatedly asking people to do their job in a timely and proficient manner despite them saying they are busy with other things – It isn’t calmly repeating yourself. It isn’t expressing dissatisfaction with someone’s performance and requesting they repeat the task again – It isn’t being unhappy with someone’s effort. It isn’t asking someone why they have not done what they said they would do, and therefore indicating they have let you down – It isn’t expressing you feel let down by someone. It isn’t refusing to do something for an employee if they have not convinced you of the veracity and efficacy of their idea, no matter how passionate they are about it – It isn’t saying no, when all they want to hear is yes. It isn’t challenging someone for more discussion, investigation or exploration when on the surface the deal doesn’t smell right to you, but they are telling you it’s right for them – It isn’t challenging someone’s sense of what’s a good deal. It isn’t standing with your hands on your hips or arms folded when you’re contemplating what someone is saying whilst they are desperately trying to convince you – it isn’t standing your ground in an assertive but non-aggressive manner.

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At this year’s CIAA Tournament, FWV along with Urban Sports & Entertainment Group, hosted an exclusive VIP media tour presented by Toyota on Thursday, March 3 at the Charlotte Convention Center. This event provided media with exclusive interviews and photo opportunities, a first-look at the new CIAA 100th Anniversary logo and a preview of all Tournament activities held in the CIAA's own Fan Experience, which features 200,000 square-feet of FREE activities.
The official unveiling of the CIAA’s 100th Anniversary logo took place during the men’s final on Saturday, March 5, at the Time Warner Cable Arena. FWV produced a contest through the CIAA’s Facebook and Twitter accounts encouraging fans to submit their versions for the 100th Anniversary logo. The winner received $2,500 and a 2012 CIAA Tournament VIP Package. FWV received over 30 entries during the course of the logo contest.


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Calvin Harris topped Forbes list of the world's highest paid DJs for 12 months ending June 1, 2015.
Calvin Harris is the world's highest paid DJ.
The 'Summer' hitmaker - who's dating pop-star Taylor Swift - has topped Forbes Magazine's annual list of highest paid earners, raking in an estimated $66 million last year in pre-tax earnings between June 2014-June 2015.
His staggering wage is far more than the second highest paid DJ, David Guetta, who made $37 million last year from his residencies in Las Vegas and Ibiza and headline slot at this year's Coachella Festival in California.
Calvin's haul - which surpassed 'Hunger Games' star Jennifer Lawrence who is the world's highest paid actress earning $52 million in the same period - comes from the sale of his debut 2014 LP 'Motion' which reached the top of U.S. dance charts and the his modelling stint for Giorgio Armani for underwear, eye wear and watch lines, as well as his own Las Vegas residency.
He told Forbes: ''The rise of dance music has been astronomical... I happened to be in the right place at the right time.''
Forbes said: ''He's had a pretty good year at the office.''
'Speak and Spell' was released on this day (October 5th) in 1981.
It's October 3rd! And you know what that means...
The final trailer for the new sequel is here.
After a couple of weeks of speculation, the Irish quartet are getting back together for the 20th anniversary of their 1998 formation.
Once a fire fighter, always a fire fighter.
Brody Dalle's band dropped their first new music since 2003's 'Coral Fang'.

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Piston (Reciprocating) Engine Power Plants
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has been refined and developed over the last 100 years for a wide variety of applications from tiny 1 cc engines powering model aircraft to gigantic marine engines with power outputs of tens of MegaWatts. The reciprocating engine with its compact size and its wide range of power outputs and fuel options is an ideal prime mover for powering electricity generating sets (gensets) used to provide primary power in remote locations or more generally for providing mobile and emergency or stand-by electrical power.
Generating sets are designed to work at fixed speeds because of the requirement to provide a fixed frequency AC voltage output. A rotor speed monitor provides an indication of the generator output frequency and this is fed back to control the fuel supply valve to keep the frequency constant.
The voltage is also proportional to the speed until the magnetic circuit saturates when rate of voltage increase, as the speed increases, slows dramatically .
The output power can be controlled by a thyristor controlled regulator which varies the ignition angle of the thyristor which in turn varies the average current into the load.
- Primary Power
Large Diesel generators are used for primary power applications
- Emergency Power
Small portable generators often used for emergency power may be petrol (gasoline) or diesel powered. Remote, unmanned applications are usually provide with an auto start-stop capability.
- Electric Traction
The first Diesel electric hybrid vehicle was patented in 1914 by Hermann Lemp. It used electric traction for the transmission system to avoid the use of complex gearing mechanisms necessary to deliver the power of the Diesel ICE to the wheels over the full range of train speeds since electric motors can operate over a wider speed range and can be more easily controlled. It used DC motors for this purpose and the DC power was provided by a DC generator driven by the Diesel engine. Modern Diesel electrics use AC machines to avoid the use of unreliable commutators and brushes in the motors and generators. Using Diesel electric power permits flexible routing and avoids the cost of the expensive infrastructure of overhead wires needed by pure electric trains. Electrical output power may be as low as 200 kW for a small passenger vehicle and up to 2 MW for a large freight train.
(See diagram for hybrid marine applications.)
Internal Combustion Engine Operating Principles
Internal combustion engines are constructed from one or more cylinders, each sealed at one end and open at the other, in which close fitting pistons can move up and down. (See diagram below) The engine derives its power from the burning of a compressed air-fuel mixture in each of the cylinders in succession. The fuel is ignited when the piston is at the top of its stroke and the expansion of the burning gas drives the piston downwards. The reciprocating motion of the pistons is converted to rotary movement by a crankshaft which delivers motive power to the desired application, in this case a generator. Air or an air-fuel mixture is introduced into the cylinder when the piston is at its lowest point and a flywheel on the crankshaft provides the momentum to drive the piston upwards to compress it.
The piston and connecting rod in a reciprocating engine form a large mass which is accelerated from zero to a very high speed and decelerated back to zero again with every revolution of the engine. (100 times per second in an engine operating at 6000 rpm.) This places immense forces on the moving parts of the engine.
Many methods of introducing the air and fuel into the cylinders, of controlling the ignition and of removing the exhaust gases have been developed over the years. The two main engine classes are spark ignition or Otto cycle engines and compression ignition or Diesel engines. Both of these types may be designed for four stroke or two stroke operation.
Simplified equations representing engine performance make the assumptions that the working substances are ideal gases, all processes are reversible and there is no friction.
The following idealised equation applies to both Otto (spark ignition) and Diesel (compression ignition) engines described below.
P= ηf ma N QHV (F/A) / nR
P = Engine power output
ηf = Fuel conversion efficiency
ma = Mass of air introduced into the cylinder(s) per cycle
N = Crankshaft rotational speed
QHV = Heating value of the fuel
(F/A) = Fuel mass flow rate / Air mass flow rate
nR = Number of crank revolutions per power stroke (2 for 4 stroke engines, 1 for 2 stroke engines)
From the equation we can see that output power is proportional to the mass of air passing through the engine (the capacity or swept volume of the cylinders), the speed of rotation, the energy content of the fuel and the rate at which it is consumed which can all be directly measured.
The output torque T is also proportional to the engine's capacity and the rate of fuel consumption and is given by:
The fuel conversion efficiency which affects both the engine power and the torque is more complex and dependent on the thermal and mechanical efficiency of the engine.
Energy Conversion Efficiency
The fundamental task of the an internal combustion engine is to convert chemical energy into mechanical energy by burning the fuel in the cylinder and the thermodynamic efficiency is a measure of how well it performs this job under ideal conditions. Practical systems however are subject to a variety of losses which conspire to reduce the overall efficiency of the engine in delivering mechanical energy to the crankshaft to surprisingly low values. Efficiencies can be as high as 50% or more for large diesel engines which make use of waste heat recovery systems but as low as 20% or 30% for simpler designs such as automotive power plants and small domestic electricity generating sets.
- Compression Ratio and Thermal Efficiency
Combustion efficiency can be improved by compressing the available oxygen and fuel molecules into a very small space which, together with the heat of compression, causes better mixing and evaporation of the fuel.
The theoretical thermodynamic efficiency of an Otto engine thus depends on the compression ratio of the working fluid as well as the nature of the fuel and is given by the standard equation:
Thermal efficiency = 1 - (1/rv)^γ-1
where rv is the compression ratio of the engine which is defined as the ratio between the volume enclosed by the cylinder and the piston when the piston is at bottom-dead-center (BDC), the volume enclosed by the cylinder and the piston when the piston is at top-dead-center (TDC).
Gamma (γ)is the ratio of specific heats at constant pressure (Cp) and constant
volume (Cv) of the working fluid ( for most purposes air is the working fluid,
and is treated as an ideal gas ). The gamma ratio for air is 1.4. The more complex the gas molecules, the lower the gamma. For the fuel mixture used in an internal combustion engine gamma would typically be between 1.15
The specific heat C is the amount of heat per unit mass required to raise the temperature by one degree Celsius. Thus:
C = Q / M * delta T
Where Q is the applied heat, M is the mass of the specimen and Delta T is the change in temperature which results. This assumes no phase change takes place since heat added or removed during a phase change does not change the temperature.
The thermal efficiency equation for an ideal Otto cycle is shown graphically below. It shows that the thermal efficiency and hence engine power increase with compression ratio however there is little improvement for compression ratios in excess of 17
The compression of the gas by the piston in the cylinder causes the gas temperature to rise and this temperature rise increases with increasing compression ratio. Since the compressed gas is a mixture of air with a volatile fuel, it may ignite spontaneously without a spark when the volatile fuel reaches its flash point before the piston has reached top of the compression stroke. This effect is called pre-ignition and limits the maximum compression ratio of a spark ignition engine to about 12:1
Compression ratios of spark ignition engines are typically in the range from 8:1 to 12:1
Diesel engines however which depend on the temperature rise caused by the compression to ignite the fuel rather than a spark, can, and must, work at much higher compression ratios. They can do this because the compressed gas is purely air and the fuel is not introduced until the air is already compressed.
For a given compression ratio, the Diesel engine is actually slightly less efficient than an Otto cycle engine but the Diesel more than compensates for this since it operates at much higher compression ratios.
Compression ratios of Diesel engines are typically in the range from 14:1 to 25:1
One downside of high compression engines is that the higher the
peak gas temperatures in the cylinder cause higher
the amounts of nitrogen oxides to be produced.
- Air / Fuel Ratio
The combustion process is a chemical reaction in which the fuel is oxidised (burned) by the oxygen in the air. For complete combustion to take place, a specific weight of air is required to oxidise all of the fuel without leaving any excess oxygen. The ratio of the weights of the air and the fuel required for complete combustion is called the stoichiometry ratio.
For petrol (gasoline) the stoichiometry air / fuel ratio is 14.7:1 and in an Otto cycle engine it is the task of the carburettor or the fuel injection system to maintain this ratio. If the air / fuel ratio is much higher than the stoichiometry value, as with a lean mixture, it is difficult to ignite the mixture with the spark plug. If the ratio is lower, as with a rich fuel mixture, some of the fuel remains unburnt and the engine efficiency suffers.
By contrast Diesel engines run at variable air / fuel ratios. This is because the ignition of the fuel is caused by the high temperature caused by compression and not by a spark.
Only a small amount of fuel is needed when the engine is idling but the combustion chamber is always full of pure air before the fuel is injected so that the air / fuel ratio can be as high as 60 or 100:1. As the load on the engine is increased, more fuel must be burned to provide the power and so the amount of fuel injected per cycle must be increased accordingly but the amount of air inducted into the cylinder per cycle is constant so that the air / fuel ratio is reduced.
Because the inefficient fuel - air mixing associated with Diesel engines results in incomplete combustion and the consequent production of soot particles when supplied with a rich fuel mixture, most Diesel engines need to run lean of the stoichiometric value of the fuel used. For the same swept volume, naturally aspirated Diesel engines can thus not burn as much fuel as equivalent Otto cycle engines which reduces slightly the efficiency advantage gained by their higher compression ratios.
- Energy Losses
All of the heat that comes out as exhaust or goes into the radiator is wasted energy.
Typically 35% of the applied heat energy is lost to the cooling system and slightly more through the exhaust. Incomplete combustion of the fuel gives rise to further losses. Friction accounts for another 5% to 6% of wasted energy and yet more energy is used to turn the various ancillary pumps, fans and generators needed to keep it going.
See also Heat Engines
Practical Power Output
Practical power output is limited by air flow restrictions due to limitations on the size and shape of the intake and exhaust paths, the fuel mixing efficiency, the flame propagation rate, friction, the ability of the mechanical components to withstand the high compression pressures in the cylinders and the extremely high inertial forces on the reciprocating parts including the connecting rods and the valve mechanisms.
The performance characteristics for a typical small engine which result from of all of these constraints are shown below.
The power and torque increase with engine speed but reach a peak and begin to tail off as these limitations begin to take effect. This is a major disadvantage for an automotive application which needs power and torque over a broad range of engine speeds, but not necessarily for a generator application which usually runs at constant speed.
- Spark Ignition Engines
The spark ignition engine was patented in 1876 by Nicolaus August Otto.
Until the 1980s, spark ignition engines used a carburettor to vaporise the fuel and mix it with the air. The air-fuel mixture is sucked into the cylinder by the downward movement of the piston and then compressed as the piston moves upwards. At the top of the cycle the mixture is ignited by a spark and the expanding, burning gas drives the piston down again. The intake and exhaust of the gases into and out of the cylinder is controlled by valve mechanisms at the top of the cylinder (the cylinder head) or by the movement of the piston past ports on the side of the cylinder.
The engine speed is controlled by a throttle (butterfly valve) which restricts the flow of the air-fuel mixture into the engine. The increased drag on the air flow caused by this mechanism hampers the engine breathing and so reduces its overall efficiency, particularly at slow speeds.
After 100 years of using carburettors in Otto cycle engines, fuel injection systems were introduced in the 1980s. With their much greater control over the combustion process they rapidly replaced the crude but reliable carburettor. They use electronic sensors to measure engine conditions such as air temperature and pressure and engine rpm. as well as the demand on the engine derived from the throttle position and use this information to deliver a precisely calculated charge of fuel into the engine through an injector. The fuel is injected at high pressure directly into the induction manifold or the cylinder or into a cavity in the cylinder head when the piston is near the top of its stroke and the air compression is almost complete. The fuel is atomised and mixes with the air prior to ignition by the spark. This system allows more precise timing and metering of the fuel flow, improving the combustion process, giving better efficiency and at the same time reducing harmful exhaust emissions.
- Diesel Engines
The compression ignition engine was patented in 1894 by Rudolf Diesel
Diesel engines are similar to Otto cycle engines but are designed to work at much higher compression ratios in order to achieve higher thermal efficiencies. To do this they aspirate only air during the compression cycle and the fuel is only introduced at the end of the compression cycle. In this way pre-ignition of the fuel is avoided since there is no fuel present during compression.
The high compression of the air causes its temperature to rise to over 700 to 900 degrees Celsius. Fuel oil is injected at high pressure into this hot air when the piston is at the top of its cycle causing the fuel charge to be atomised and ignition to occur immediately.
Engine speed is controlled by varying the fuel flow and the Diesel engine has no throttle valve to restrict the air flow. This makes it more efficient at low speeds than the Otto cycle engine.
Because of the high ignition temperatures achievable with high compression engines, Diesel engines can use much less volatile or less combustible fuels which in turn allows the engine to use a much wider range of fuels. The forced vaporisation of the fuel by the injector also assists in enabling the use of less volatile fuels.
Rudolf Diesel's original engine was designed to run on coal dust and later the French government, who were at the time exploring the possibility of using peanut oil as a locally produced fuel in their African colonies, pioneered biofuels by specifying peanut oil as fuel for the engine he demonstrated at the 1900 "Exposition Universelle" in Paris.
Large marine Diesels run on heavy fuel oil which is a waste product from the petroleum refining industry (sometimes called "bunker oil"). It is thick and viscous and difficult to ignite but safe to store and cheap to buy. Before use, the fuel must be heated to thin it out to aid vaporisation.
- Real and Illusory Efficiency Benefits
Because of their high compression ratios, Diesel engine deliver real efficiency improvements over the lower compression spark ignition engines, however this improvement amounts to only about 20% and does not account for the efficiency improvements of up to 40% claimed for the engine.
The other 20% improvement is due to the nature of the fuels. Both fuels have a similar energy density with petrol (gasoline) about 1 % better at 45.8 MegaJoules/kilogram (MJ/Kg) compared with Diesel oil with a density of 45.3 MJ/Kg. But Diesel oil is much denser than petrol with a density of 850 grams/litre which is about 18% denser than the more volatile petrol which has a density of only 720 grams/litre. Thus one litre or gallon of Diesel contains 17% more energy than than the equivalent volume of petrol.
When comparing the fuel consumption of automobile engines it is important to remember this.
If we ignore for the moment the 20% efficiency improvement due to the higher compression ratio of the Diesel engine, it would appear that Diesel engined cars are even more efficient, achieving an additional 17 % better mpg. However, this is only because fuel oil is sold by volume not by weight. When measured in miles per kilogram, the fuel consumption would be almost exactly the same.
- Otto / Diesel Comparison
The conversion efficiency for petrol engines (chemical energy to mechanical energy delivered to the crankshaft) is about 24% and about 32% for diesel engines
- Otto Cycle
- The relatively long period of one complete inlet stroke, available for fuel-air mixing means better mixing is possible in Otto cycle engines. This translates into better combustion control and fewer harmful emissions.
- Superior fuel mixing coupled with a relatively low compression ratio allows the spark ignition engine to run at high speeds.
- Higher speeds allow smaller engine size for the same power output.
(Power = Torque X rpm)
- Because of the lower compression ratio of the Otto cycle engine, it is subject to lower mechanical forces and so can be constructed from smaller and lighter components.
- Because the Otto cycle engine uses a volatile fuel mixed with air, the air-fuel mixture has a relatively low flash point. This limits the possible compression ratio which can be used. High compression ratios would raise the temperature of the air-fuel mixture to above its flash point causing the fuel to ignite prematurely before the piston reached the top of its compression stroke. This would tend to drive the piston in the reverse direction and is known as pre-ignition. Pre-ignition can however be minimised or avoided in fuel injection engines.
- The Otto cycle engine is less efficient than the Diesel engine because of its lower compression ratio.
- Usable fuels are limited to the more volatile hydrocarbons.
- Diesel Cycle
- Diesel engines are more efficient than the Otto cycle engines due to their higher compression ratios and are thus more economical to run.
- The combustion does not depend on natural vaporisation of the fuel so that a wide variety of less volatile and less combustible fuels can be used.
- Diesel engines tend to run cooler than spark ignition engines. Because of their higher fuel efficiency, they turn more of the fuel's heat energy into mechanical energy and reject less waste heat than spark ignition engines. For this reason Diesel engines have a lower risk of overheating if left idling for long periods of time. This makes them particularly suitable for marine and remote power generating applications where they may be required to run unattended for days at a time.
- High compression ratios are needed for compression ignition to take place. The detonation of the air-fuel mixture results in higher forces and shock loadings on the mechanical parts of the engine which must be bigger and heavier to accommodate these forces.
- The short duration available for fuel-air mixing at the top of the inlet stroke can result in poor fuel mixing and poor combustion characteristics. This in turn limits the possible engine speed and hence the possible power output.
- Because they run at a slower speed, Diesel engines must have a larger displacement (capacity) to produce the same power as a gasoline engine. This also means they must be bigger and heavier.
- Running at a slower speed also means that the Diesel engine must provide more torque to produce the same output power as Otto cycle engines.
- Because of the detonation of the fuel-air mixture, Diesel engines tend to be noisier than their Otto counterparts.
- Diesel engines are often supercharged to get more power out of the available capacity. This may reduce the overall weight of the engine but it adds to the cost and complexity.
- Four Stroke Engines
The four-stroke engine uses two engine revolutions for each power stroke, one to burn the fuel-air mixture and to clear out the exhaust gases and the other to reload the cylinder with the working fluid and compress it ready for ignition. Air flow through the engine is controlled by valve mechanisms in the cylinder head.
Lubricating oil is held in the crank case, isolated from the combustion chamber, and is pumped to the bearing surfaces via a separate pump.
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- The Intake/Induction Stroke
The four-stroke cycle starts with the intake stroke when the piston is a the top of its travel. The inlet valve opens and as the piston moves downwards it sucks the working fluid (air or air-fuel mixture) into the cylinder under atmospheric pressure. The exhaust valve remains closed.
- The Compression Stroke
When the piston reaches the bottom of its travel the inlet valve is closed and the working fluid is compressed as the piston moves upwards.
- The Power Stroke
When the piston reaches the top of its travel, in the case of an Otto cycle engine, a spark ignites the air-fuel mixture initiating the power stroke in which the burning gas expands and forces the piston downwards. In Diesel engines, the fuel is injected into the compressed air which spontaneously ignites initiating the power stroke as in the Otto engine. Both inlet and exhaust valves remain closed.
- The Exhaust Stroke
As the piston passes through the end of its downwards travel, the exhaust valve is opened and the upwards movement of the piston expels the exhaust gases.
After the exhaust stroke the cycle starts again.
The precise timing of the opening and closing of the valves as well as the timing of the fuel ignition may be varied to improve the gas flow and combustion processes.
The engine only develops power during the power stroke. During the other three strokes the movement of the pistons is powered by the inertia of a flywheel on the crankshaft.
- Two Stroke Engines
The two-stroke engine uses only one engine revolution for each power stroke, the fuel air mixture is burned and the exhaust gases cleared out on the down stroke and the cylinder is recharged and the working fluid compressed during the upstroke. In its simplest form, as used in the spark ignition version, the two-stroke engine does not normally have separate valve mechanisms as in the four stroke engine. Instead the air and fuel flow in and out of the cylinder through ports (apertures) in the side of the cylinder wall which are opened or blocked by the passage of the piston which acts as a valve as it moves up and down past the ports in the cylinder wall. The inlet port is situated near the bottom of the cylinder and is connected to the crank case which is sealed and forms an essential part of the air-fuel management in this engine. Both sides of the piston are used in the two-stroke engine, the top side in the cylinder to provide the motive power and the underside in conjunction with the crank case to pump the air-fuel charge into the cylinder.
The exhaust port it situated further up the cylinder on the opposite side from the inlet port and is open to the atmosphere.
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Diesel versions, described below, are slightly more complex and usually have external valve mechanisms to control the air flow, rather than relying on the simple system of ports.
Using the crank case as a pressurisation chamber to pump the air-fuel mixture into the cylinder has consequences for the engine lubrication. The crank case can not hold both the volatile fuel mixture and heavy lubricating oil at the same time. Instead, oil must be mixed with the fuel to lubricate the crankshaft, connecting rods and cylinder walls.
- The Compression Stroke
Starting when the piston is at the bottom of its travel, both exhaust and inlet ports are uncovered. At this time a pressurised air-fuel mixture from the crank case enters the cylinder through the inlet port. As the piston moves upwards it first covers the inlet port then it covers the exhaust port situated further up the cylinder and the compression of the air fuel mixture commences and continues until the piston reaches the top of its stroke.
During this upward movement of the piston, a partial vacuum is created in the crank case underneath the piston drawing the air fuel mixture through a carburettor into the case past a reed type, non return valve ready to provide the next fuel charge.
The Diesel version does not depend on the pressurised crank case for providing the air-fuel charge. Since the Diesel breathes only air, aspiration is provided by a mechanically or turbine driven supercharger (See below) which forces air into the cylinder at the appropriate point in the cycle. This provides better scavenging and better control over the combustion and because the fuel does not enter the crank case, it can be sealed allowing the Diesel two-stroke engine to use conventional lubrication from an oil reservoir in the crank case.
- The Power Stroke
At the top of the compression cycle the air fuel mixture is ignited by a spark and the expansion of the burning gases pushes the piston downwards, turning the crankshaft.
At the same time the downward movement of the piston compresses the gases in the crank case on the underside of the piston.
As the piston nears the bottom of its stroke it first uncovers the exhaust port allowing the high pressure exhaust gases to be expelled. Further downwards movement of the piston towards the bottom of its travel uncovers the inlet port allowing the pressurised air-fuel mixture charge from the crank case to rush into the cylinder helping to sweep out any remaining exhaust gases in a process known as scavenging. The top of the piston is usually shaped to prevent the incoming fuel mixture from escaping out of the exhaust port. When the piston reaches the bottom of its travel the cycle starts again.
Note that the exhaust and intake both occur during the power stroke.
A flywheel on the crankshaft provides the momentum to complete the compression stroke.
- Four-Stroke Two-Stroke Comparison
- Four Stroke Engines
- Better control over the combustion process is possible due to more control possibilities with valve and ignition timing. This allows better fuel efficiency for the same compression ratio and better control of exhaust emissions.
- Better mixing of the fuel with the air due to the separate intake and compression cycle.
- Less power density than the two-stroke engine since there is only one power stroke every two engine revolutions.
- More complex and expensive to manufacture.
- Two-stroke Engines
- Because two-stroke engines have one power stroke every engine revolution they have a much lower weight and a significantly better power density than the four-stroke engine for the same power output.
- Two-stroke engines do not normally use complex external valve mechanisms, thus they have fewer moving parts and a much simpler, less expensive construction. This in turn lowers their weight further and allows them to run at very high speeds.
- Overall the two-stroke machine is a powerful, low cost, very simple, very light weight machine which is able to run at high speeds.
- Lubrication by mixing the oil with the fuel avoids the use of an oil sump and allows the engine to work in any orientation making it suitable for portable power tools.
- Though the two-stroke engine may have a greater power output, its actual efficiency is less than the equivalent four stroke engine. Inefficient fuel air mixing and inefficient scavenging leading to incomplete combustion, inefficient use of the fuel and unwanted exhaust emissions.
- Crank case pumping requires engine lubrication via oil mixed with the fuel. Can result in less efficient lubrication as well as unwanted burning of the lubrication oil during the combustion process creating further pollution.
- (Note: The Diesel two-stroke engine which breathes air and uses conventional lubrication does not suffer from either of the above two disadvantages.)
- Two-stroke Diesel engines normally need superchargers to achieve reasonable efficiency levels which adds considerably to the cost and complexity and precludes them from low cost applications.
Naturally aspirated four-stroke engines draw air into the cylinders by the downward movement of the piston which creates a partial vacuum inside the cylinders. The rate of air flow into the cylinder is limited by the maximum pressure difference between the pressure inside the cylinder and the outside atmosphere, namely 1 bar or 14.5 psi. This in turn limits the maximum power which can be extracted from the engine. The power output can however be increased by pumping air under pressure into the cylinders using a supercharger.
Similarly limitations apply to two-stroke engines. In this case, air is pumped into the cylinder from the pressurised crank case, also at low pressure but the power output can also be improved by supercharging.
The supercharger is essentially an air pump which may be gear driven from the engine crankshaft or turbine driven by the flow of the exhaust gases. In both cases the efficiency gain more than compensates for the energy used to drive the supercharger.
The DiesOtto Engine
Currently, automotive engineers are working on engines using a combination of Diesel and Otto engine technology.
The hybrid engine runs on petrol. On start-up, it runs in standard Otto mode, with spark plugs igniting petrol injected directly into the cylinder. Once the engine is warm and cruising, variable valve timing allows the compression ratio to be increased (See Miller cycle). The engine then switches to a more efficient Diesel mode and the spark plugs are deactivated. In this way it can achieve the advantages of both Otto and Diesel engines.
See also Hydrogen fuel
The problems of noxious exhaust emissions from fossil fuelled vehicles are well known. Fortunately electricity generation by piston power makes up a very small percent of electric power generation. See Fuel Sources
See also generators and external combustion engines
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Manchester City are ready to meet Borussia Dortmund’s £58 million valuation of striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in a bid to replace him with star striker Sergio Aguero.
The Argentina striker’s relationship with City boss Pep Guardiola is understood to have broken down, while the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss has told the player he can decide his own future at the Etihad.
Aguero was left out of Guardiola’s Champions League team that faced Barcelona in the Camp Nou, and it’s understood that Aubameyang is set to become the man to replace the 28-year-old.
The Gabon international has already admitted that his father, who acts as his agent, had held talks with City during the summer. But the Premier League club are set to return with a new offer, in which they’ll meet both Dortmund and the player’s demands.
Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan are both understood to be interested in taking Aguero from the Etihad, while Real Madrid’s transfer ban will deny Los Blancos from signing the Argentine, with the Spanish giants keen on his services.
And talks between City and Aubameyang have already begun, for a second time, in recents weeks, meaning Aguero’s is nearing the Etihad exit.
Guardiola has made no secret of his desire to sign Aubameyang, who is the current Bundesliga Player of the Year and one of the hottest striker’s in Europe.
Manchester United and Chelsea are also understood to be interested in the Borussia Dortmund striker.


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We love the beautiful hand carved handiwork on this vintage tile and wood trivet. Originally made in Mexico, it features a 6 tile printed design with blue, white and yellow detailing. The tiles have the original stamp on the bottoms.
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Jadakiss is finally speaking out in response to 50 Cent's dis track "Piggy Bank," and he can barely keep from smiling.
"This is the best thing that could have ever happened to us," Kiss exclaimed Tuesday in New York about how he and his crew feel. "As long as we do it right, we can't go wrong from this. I can sell, I can make Styles' album double platinum alone just off this whole thing. My album sales for Kiss of Death is gonna start going up off this whole thing. It's just swinging the momentum our way, which we needed."
Jada said he wasn't surprised by "Piggy Bank" coming out because he has "spies" close to the G-Unit camp (see "50 Cent's LP Pushed Up, Harsh 'Facts' Sound Like Disses On Leaked 'Piggy Bank' "). He was, however, flabbergasted by what he called a weak lyrical showing by 50 on the song.
"When I heard 'Piggy Bank,' I was happy," Kiss laughed. "I felt way worse when I heard [Beanie] Sigel's [dis] record [a few years back]. 'Piggy Bank' was funny to me. He's gotta have something else. That can't be it, it's garbage! I guess it was just a jab. But the power punch I'm gonna give him, that wasn't the right arsenal to start off the fight with."
On "Piggy Bank," 50 does say the track is just a warning shot, and hints he has more barbs up his sleeve. Kiss says that battle rapping is nothing new to him and he'll gladly go back and forth for as long as 50 wants.
"I just want to benefit off it," Jada said. "I need Styles' album to benefit off it. That's where the real response is gonna be, but until then, I'mma give you a whole plate of hors d'oeuvres to live with until it comes. This is right up our alley, and I got nothing to lose. I'm still gonna sell 900,000 records, I still can go in any 'hood and I still get love from the people. This is just helping me out."
Much like Fat Joe told MTV News last week, Jada thinks that 50's "Piggy Bank" is just a publicity stunt. As for Jada's thoughts about Game being booted from the G-Unit for saying he was staying out of the "Piggy Bank" beef (see "50 Drops Game From G-Unit; Shots Fired At Radio Station"), the LOX rapper says 50's gone mad.
"I don't know what's wrong with 50," Kiss said. "But I thank him for the opportunity to [let me] air his ass out."
Jada will "air" 50 out, on wax, in just a few days — he plans to release a response track or two to the mixtape circuit. Styles' Time Is Money, meanwhile, should be out sometime this spring.
For a full-length feature on 50 Cent and his many beefs, check out "All Eyes On 50 Cent: The Sequel."
For an in-depth conversation with 50 and a recap of this week's events, check out "All Eyes on 50 Cent: The Sequel" Saturday, March 5 at 3 p.m. ET on MTV.


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Matt Elliott of CNET shared the screenshot below, in which a “Hide From Your Timeline” option appeared in his status update composer, and a popup read:
Create Posts Just for News Feed: Now you can create posts that only show up in News Feed and search results. They won’t show up in your Timeline.
Facebook users always had the option of removing posts from their Timelines via Activity Log, but if this feature is rolled out widely, that step would be unnecessary.
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The Timeline on your profile is a great place to see a comprehensive history of your Facebook posts. We’ve heard feedback that sometimes, you may want to share a post with friends and family via News Feed and not have that post be displayed on your Timeline. The ability to hide a post from your Timeline already exists, and today we’re testing a feature that would make it even easier to control where your posts live by giving you the option to publish a post only to News Feed and not to your Timeline.
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Lessons learned from historic flooding are to be shared with the current generation to urge them to act now and protect their own loved ones and property. A free exhibition of historic flood photographs and maps of Beer and surrounding area is being held at The Mariners' Hall in Fore Street, Beer, thanks to the Environment Agency, Beer Emergency Response Team and The Westcountry Rivers Trust.
Residents and visitors are invited to come along to the event on July 28 2022 from 10am to 4pm and share their experiences or just take in the photographs on display.
Chris Khan, a flood resilience officer at the Environment Agency, said: “We are hosting this event because your neighbourhood is at risk of flash flooding. This type of flooding happens extremely quickly with potentially devastating impacts as seen in Beer and Boscastle in 2004 and Coverack in 2017.
“More than 750 people attended a similar exhibition in Sidmouth in 2018 and over 500 in Colyton in 2019. Both were an amazing success with people coming from all over the country. The photographs are a real eye-opener and leave you questioning how you would react.”
While the Environment Agency hopes attendees will leave with the information they need to prepare, act, survive, Beer Emergency Response Team hopes to attract new members to support its newly created Community Emergency Plan for the village.
Westcountry Rivers Trust will also display posters on some of its work done in the area and share potential solutions and opportunities to improve Beer’s waterways and increase its resilience against flooding.
Refreshments will be available. Find out how you can reduce the impact of flooding on your home at www.befloodready.uk


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This is to announce what’s happening here in February. First, the Classic Movie Blog Association is running its “Fabulous Films of the 1940s” blogathon from February 17th through 22nd. Visit the CMBA blog here for a roster of all the great bloggers participating and the films they’ve chosen to explore this exciting decade in film.
My pick is “Resisting Enemy Interrogation” (1944), which will be posted Thursday, February 21st. If you haven’t heard of the film, don’t worry, it’s probably just because you’re a civilian. This was made by the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps as a training film for troops and was never shown to the general public. However, unlike a lot of rather dry training films, this one is a smash, one of the most intriguing and dramatic films to come out of the war, despite its simple lesson of giving only your name, rank, and serial number. Nobody actually “stars” in this training movie, but you’ll see a lot of young men who later became familiar faces: Arthur Kennedy, Craig Stevens, Don Porter, and Mel Torme. Rand Brooks and Kent Smith already had made a foothold on their film careers. Lloyd Nolan, the only “veteran” so to speak, of the group, is our narrator and debriefing officer.
You may recall (or not) that some months ago I put out an APB on the TV documentary “Hollywood Commandos” (1997) about this First Motion Picture Unit (or FMPU). With special thanks to Moira Finnie of The Skeins, I was able to contact Mr. Gregory Orr, the producer of this documentary, who (though the film is not currently available for sale), kindly provided me with a copy. The following week, February 28th, I’ll be discussing "Hollywood Commandos" and the FMPU in more detail as a follow-up to “Resisting Enemy Interrogation.”
I’m looking forward to it. In the meantime, I’ll see you next week with a Valentine’s Day kissing booth. But don’t get any ideas.
Coming up: I'll be speaking at the Westfield Athenaeum, Westfield, Massachusetts on Tuesday, March 12th in celebration of Women's History Month. I'll be drawing from essays in my recently published States of Mind: New England. This, and some of my novels, will be available for sale at this event.
I'll be appearing with a number of other local authors at the Author Fair at the Springfield City Library, Springfield, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 6th. This will be a meet-and-greet event with the public, and a selection of my books will be available for sale.
I'll be speaking at the Chicopee Historical Society, meeting at the Chicopee Public Library on Thursday, May 16th with a PowerPoint presentation about topics from my recently published States of Mind: New England. That book will be available for sale at this event.


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It was a long day after classes and I was waiting for the pedestrian light to turn green. A visibly-impaired woman with a white cane stood beside me. When the light turned green, she didn’t budge. So I nudged her on. As I walked behind her, this admiration for her independence came to me. Using the yellow tactile blocks under her feet she made it all the way to Sentral and up the escalator all on her own.
Without the tactile blocks, it would daunting just to be out in the city. It is a shame that while the disabled are striving to be independent, the able-bodied people are not contributing much to help. Ironically, we’re disabling the disabled from progressing to become self-sufficient individuals.
While Brickfields is well-equipped with tactile blocks and ramps along pedestrian walkways (because the Malaysian Association for the Blind is in the vicinity), not all of them are barrier-free. With the construction of NU Sentral at Lot 8 going on, walkways are pretty much in a mess. With the heavy flow of pedestrians daily, five-foot ways are no longer capable of accomodating this surge. More often than not, rushing urbanites bump into the cautious blind. The huge pillars reduces the walkway to half its ‘walkable’ space. It’s inconvenient for able-bodied people (because Malaysians have yet to develop a mentality of the system of walking on the left), what more the disabled?
Other than the escalator, there isn’t any other way to get from Tun Sambanthan Road to Sentral. What about the wheelchair-bound? Ramps (like the one outside BAC) are simply too steep.
Lights at zebra crossings stay green for too short a time. The beeping sound (indicating ‘GO’) isn’t loud enough for the blind. And motorists scared the lights out of pedestrians when they stop so suddenly on the zebra crossing.
Only the Kelana Jaya Line train stations are disabled-friendly – elevators, wheelchair lifts, platform gaps smaller than 5 cm, straight platforms and ramps.
I remember Ida Nerina in her Crazy Sexy Honestly column in The Star wrote about finding a mirror in a disabled-friendly washroom a foot too high and thinking, “Yes, clearly designed by an able-bodied person.” I find many a time, disabled loos are used a storage for mops and buckets by janitors.
And then, there are the able-bodied Malaysians. They park in spots for the disabled and say, “I’m rushing. Cannot find parking lah.” And their concerns matter so much than to help a lost disabled person. It’s a shame that even a policeman who was sitting in the train ticket office didn’t seem very happy when I asked him to accompany a disabled man to get to the platform when his train came. Honestly, I was rather disgusted that a man in uniform was reluctant compared to the other passengers of the same train who were willing to help.
Despite by-laws that require buildings to be disabled-friendly, little has been done. If these facilities in KL aren’t up to standard, what about the other smaller cities and towns?
The government’s perpetual call for caring for the disabled is not reflected in the amenities and infrastructure. Worse, government buildings are so poorly equipped to accommodate the disabled eg. Kg Simee government clinic in Ipoh. It’s disgraceful.
It’s not pity or sympathy that the disabled community need or want. It’s a change in societal mindset and attitudes. Only when the government protects the interests of the disabled and when policy-makers are genuinely committed to aiding the disabled, can they have access to mobility and independence.
I cannot list down all the inconveniences that the disabled face in their daily lives which are related to public facilities, but I can only tell from my observances. I am physically able (thank God), but it does not mean that able-bodied people should leave the strive for an increase in government effort to integrate the disabled into society to the disabled only.
Their disability does not make them any lesser than us. It’s time we disable disabling the disabled.

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Clinical Nurse to Pharmaceutical/ Medical Device Sales Representative
What I love about the nursing profession is the diversity of career opportunities once you get your Registered Nurse (RN) status. The traditional starting point to becoming a nurse is in a nursing school program.
The first job, usually in a medical surgical unit, is the natural sequence. After about 2-3 years, nurses typically find themselves leaning toward a desired specialty.
The right work schedule often finalizes a career trajectory.
Hands-on experience increases your knowledge base as a clinician. It’s how you grow and progress naturally in the field. But then what? Is that were it ends? Does a nurse only do hospital-based shift work, office-based patient care, or work in acute surgical settings?
The answer is no. There is a whole world out there looking for you. There are successful, growing industries that need you! One of those is the pharmaceutical sales /medical devices industry. You can offer your expertise and talents as a patient advocate to improve the lives of patients and families through nontraditional nursing opportunities with pharmaceutical and medical device companies in sales and/or education.
Positions have opened for nurses to join pharmaceutical/medical device sales teams for a variety of reasons:
- the clinical nursing education and direct patient care experience cannot be matched when it comes to understanding what health care providers want to hear and what patients need;
- access to a physician and their staff is more likely when a nurse leads that initiative:
- doctors are used to talking to nurses, so that comfort level provides easier access to health care providers (HCPs) who want to hear about new products;
- nurses are naturally inclusive, instinctively respectful of ancillary staff, and know how to connect on a peer-to-peer level with office nurses; and
- there is a sense of trust that a nurse will provide the best possible patient care options.
Clinical Nurse Educators (CNEs) are also a growing group of professionals being utilized by pharmaceutical industry and medical device companies to educate potential customers (physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, patients/families) by comprehensively detailing a product. The specifics of the role of a Clinical Nurse Educator include
- engaging in peer-to-peer discussions with clinical professionals while providing information and hands-on training on specific medications and other disease management devices used to diagnose and treat chronic conditions,
- providing information and training on a product’s administration, dosage, management of possible side effects, and techniques to improve patient compliance,
- developing patient and nurse education-training materials,
- attending conferences on behalf of clients, discussing clinical trials, and increasing understanding of a client’s product among nurses, directors of nursing, physicians, pharmacists, and other health care providers (HCPs).
- There are lots of opportunities for certified nurses beyond traditional nursing. You may find so much more!

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Actor Tyler Wold feels lucky to be stepping out onto the Monticello Opera House’s stage this month for their production of “On Golden Pond,” and it’s not just because he was once the voice of The Florida Lottery. Wold placed his acting career on hold for 13 years while serving as an announcer for the state’s lottery drawings, but it wasn’t long before the theater bug bit him again.
In 2010, he got back onstage at Theatre Tallahassee in “Witness for the Prosecution” and “Cabaret.” During the day, Wold works in the radio business as the Key Account Manager at Cumulus Media. His last show, pre-COVID, was playing the Stage Manager in the Opera House’s production of “Our Town.”
“Theater has been the center of my social and personal life outside of work,” says Wold. “I missed all of the people and the connection that you can have with your audiences. It’s very satisfying to turn in a good performance and do something that people enjoy and put their hard-earned money out there to see. It’s very rewarding in that way.”
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The adage that the family that plays together stays together has certainly held up for the Band Perry.
The band of brothers (two) and a sister have been traveling together for 14 years and playing together since 2005. Their self-titled 2010 debut album has gone platinum and launched three Top 5 country hits -- including the chart-toppers "If I Die Young" and "All Your Life" -- and they've won three Country Music Association Awards and a pair of Academy of Country Music Awards.
"There's a lot of great things about" succeeding as a family, notes mandolin-playing Reid Perry, 23. "First of all, you have each other's backs, and there's not a lot you can do that'll make the others think poorly of you. But we do argue a little, like about who has the last word."
Kimberly Perry, 28, adds with a laugh that "we're all in our 20s, but really we never grew out of our teens -- a least some of us more than others."
The Band Perry, which ails from Greeneville, Tenn., has certainly won the respect of older peers, however. They've been on the road with Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw and, now, Brad Paisley in addition to their commercial triumphs. And now the trio is ready for its next step; Kimberly says the group is "halfway through" with its sophomore album, with plans to release a first single in early fall and the album out before the end of the year.
"We worked a long time to get this busy," notes Kimberly, who played in her own group before joining forces with her Reid and youngest brother Neil, 21. "We're really, really blessed. It's been a full 14 years, but really the last two years our whole lives have changed.
"We really just take it one day at a time, and even though we're busy we try to let all the wonderful things and wonderful opportunities really sink in. It's been amazing, and we hope there's more to come."
The Band Perry performs with Brad Paisley, Scotty McCreery, Kristen Kelly and Love and Theft at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at the DTE Energy Music Theatre, Sashabaw Road east of I-75, Independence Township. Tickets are $72.50 pavilion, $35 lawn. Call 248-377-0100 or visit www.palacenet.com.
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Beachside setting and great location to go for food, drinks, hospitality or to enjoy time spent on the beachside porch setting. Come back at night for the jukebox and live music entertainment.
The island bakery is a great place to catch breakfast while spending time on the island. Everything is hand made and baked fresh daily on site. Fresh ground coffee, mouth watering pastries, omelets (available on weekends) and delicious deli sandwiches.
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For 2018’s iteration of Drop Everything, the arts and culture biennial on Inis Oirr, we and our sister-company, Hen’s Teeth, worked with the event founder Mary Nally, and the amazing Lithuanian London-based illustrator, Egle Zvirblyte, to create an impactful site-specific work. For the week either side of the weekend in May, larger-than-lifesize characters appeared across the island.
Egle took inspiration from the island’s people, history, and previous iterations of Drop Everything, to create a cast of characters to place throughout the landscape. With the great shipwrecking of the cargo vessel, The Plassey, in mind, Egle’s characters can be seen with whiskey, toilet bowls and shoes in hand, making off with their loot. Then there’s the local gentleman, tin whistle in hand, entertaining the islanders and visitors with his musical skill. Her work responded to the island, its people, landscape and stories.
Ranging in size from eight to 16-feet tall, and hand-painted in bright colours, Egle’s sculptures could be seen from a distance, and made an impression against the dramatic landscape of this unique and rugged island.
The installation attracted attention from global creative industry press leaders, It’s Nice That, Creative Boom, Pow Wow Worldwide and Calvert Journal. Egle’s work also captured the imagination of both festival goers and islanders, and the installation characters featured heavily in social media posts about the weekend.


When times get tough, you want to batten down the hatches and eliminate as much uncertainty as you can. Unfortunately, with the moves that millions of Americans are making with their money, the only certain thing is that they're going to end up big losers.
Where the money is
According to the research firm Market Rates Insight, banks have never seen more money flood into federally insured checking, savings, money market, and CD accounts. The firm counted an all-time high of $9.8 trillion held in those accounts, up by about 3.5% in the first half of 2011.
Certainly, there's no shortage of reasons why people are moving their money into the most secure locations they can find. The plunge in the stock market over the past month has reminded investors how risky stocks can be and has reawakened fears of a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. The debt-ceiling debate in July has reduced confidence that the federal government can solve the economic problems that the country faces. Moreover, with economic problems plaguing Europe and even red-hot emerging markets starting to face difficult conditions like high price inflation, investors are running out of places to hide.
But as comforting as having money in the bank can be, it's not a viable investing strategy for anyone -- except perhaps those who are rich enough to live off their money regardless of whether it earns income or not. For most of us, the problem lies in the fact that we need our money to grow to keep up with the two biggest negatives that investors have to deal with: inflation and taxes.
The chokehold of the invisible hand
Government statistics suggest that inflation isn't a huge problem. But lately, we've all seen the impact of inflation creep into our lives. It has hit food prices, with Starbucks (NAS: SBUX) , McDonald's (NYS: MCD) , and Kraft (NYS: KFT) among the many companies that have raised prices to offset higher costs. It has put apparel retailersGap (NYS: GPS) and Aeropostale (NYS: ARO) in the uncomfortable position of either having to eat higher costs by reducing profit margins or try to hike prices in a lousy economy. And it's hitting those who need health care, as expensive medical devices and drugs threaten to disrupt the entire Medicare system and put health insurance companies -- and the consumers who pay for insurance policies -- at risk.
Even if your personal inflation rate matches the government's Consumer Price Index, a historical rate of about 3% means that if you're getting less than 1% on your money in a bank account -- as nearly everyone is right now -- then your nest egg is losing purchasing power day in and day out.
Moreover, taxes can be a big drag on your portfolio. Of course, if you are getting next to no interest on your bank savings, then your taxes on that negligible income won't be that high. But taxes serve as a reminder that you have to earn even more just to keep from seeing your after-tax purchasing power lose ground.
The big winners from the savings trend
If anything, the trend toward using FDIC-insured bank accounts is a net positive to deposit-heavy banks. Citigroup (NYS: C) reported $866 billion in deposits for its most recent quarter, while Wells Fargo (NYS: WFC) had $853 billion. Bank of America actually topped the $1 trillion mark. All of those institutions benefit greatly from being able to access so much money from depositors without having to pay high interest rates.
Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that you should go put all the money you have in savings and buy bank stocks with it. But making some kind of smarter investment than accepting a fraction of a percent in interest is a no-brainer -- no matter how much uncertainty there may be right now.
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Keep your camera ready: in Hawaii, breathtaking sights await you around every turn. Here, just about every byway is scenic, and each overlook offers a new Instagram-ready vista. From hidden sea caves along the Napali Coast to state parks that let you walk in the footsteps of Hawaiian royalty—not to mention our hundreds of miles of sun-kissed beaches—we invite you to explore Hawaii's magnificent scenery.
With hundreds of miles of pristine coastline, Hawaii’s beaches are postcards come to life. Whichever kind of beach fits your version of paradise, you’ll find it in Hawaii.More
A visit to Hawaii begs the question: what isn’t a natural wonder? Just about any of our stunning beaches and emerald-green mountains could qualify, but there are a few that tower above the rest.More
Hawaii emerged from the sea millions of years ago, forged by the power of volcanoes. Today, active volcanoes continue to shape the ever-changing landscapes of our islands.More
Here on the beautiful island of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands, our family is passionate about producing the BEST handcrafted vodka in the world for you and the environment; crisp, natural, clean and thoroughly enjoyable.
Frommer's Hawaii 2013 says, "Blue Hawaiian is the Cadillac of helicopter tour companies." Now featuring the incredible, 21st-Century "Eco-Star" helicopter. Daily departures from Oahu, Maui, Big Island and Kauai.
Greenwell Farms offers farm tours continuously from 8:30am through 4:30pm Monday through Sunday. Take an interesting personal walking tour of coffee fields and the processing facilities, enjoy free samples of various coffee products, and see a working Kona coffee farm.
Frommer's Hawaii 2013 says, "Blue Hawaiian is the Cadillac of helicopter tour companies." Now featuring the incredible, 21st-Century "ECO-Star" helicopter. Daily departures from Kauai, Maui & the Big Island.
Hali'imaile Distilling Company hand crafts 12 locally made spirits from farm to bottle (Vodka, Rum and Whiskey). Our flagship PAU Maui Vodka is the only vodka in the world made from the Maui Gold Pineapples and only one distilled from all glass still invented by our Master Distiller Mark Nigbur.
Kau Coffee Mill is a grower and producer of coffee with 100 acres in production. Provides a full range of services from pulping to roasting for local farmers. A visitors center and retail store is located at the Mill and is open 7 days a week to sell our roasted coffees and macadamia nuts.

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Family Game Night
An evening of family games and fun for everyone!
The Library will supply a wide-range of tabletop games and feel free to bring your own favorite game to play and share with others.
Snacks and lemonade will be provided.
Call librarian Mary Neuman with any questions at 509-758-5454.