•Malindi Assistant county commissioner Omar Abdi who was present thanked members of public for their good work in volunteering information that led to the arrest of the over 1012 suspects
The Judiciary in Malindi on Saturday destroyed narcotics worth sh.14.5 million at the main dumping site.
Drugs destroyed composed of 500 kilograms of bhang worth Sh.2.5 million and five kilograms of heroin worth Sh. 12.5 million.
One gram of heroin has a street value of Sh. 2500.
Malindi Chief Magistrate Julie Oseko who led the exercise said the narcotics drugs were recovered from 1012 suspects who were arrested, charged and convicted at the Malindi law courts from the five sub counties which are within the court’s jurisdiction.
The exercise was done in front of Court Users Committee members, NGOs such as Omar project that is helping rehabilitate drug addicts, office of the Director of Public Prosecution, national police service, provincial administration.
Addressing journalists during the exercise the Chief Magistrate said the drugs destroyed consist of those exhibits which passed through courts and used as exhibits from 2002 to 2019.
‘‘We are required by law to dispose these drugs under the court’s supervision. Basically this is a court sitting though we are in the dumpsite. What we have here today are cannabis 500 kilos, heroine five kilos,’’ she said.
Oseko said the suspects who had been arrested were taken to court and convicted and sentenced of possession or trafficking in drugs.
She said the cases of the drugs were concluded and suspects convicted adding that some could either be serving jail term or could be outside
The magistrate said in 2017 they did the same exercise, but then realized that some of the drugs had been kept at the police stations on behalf of the court which did not have space to store them.
‘‘We can assure you as of now we do not have any drugs at the police station. The only drugs that are in our possession are the ones that have cases still pending in court. For me this is a very important occasion because it therefore depicts that the war against drugs,’’ she said.
Oseko said drugs have really destroyed a lot of lives adding that the judiciary as an institution together with their stakeholders managed that breakthrough because of the support they received from, stakeholders such as anti-narcotics, county office,NGOs,
‘‘We have been working very very closely so that we are able to rid the coast region of the drug menace coz this region is a hub of these drugs,’’ she said.
Malindi Assistant county commissioner Omar Abdi who was present thanked members of public for their good work in volunteering information that led to the arrest of the over 1012 suspects
‘‘In future I just want to tell you that we are no longer relaxing, the fight will be intensified and our target will be more than this,’’ he said.
He urged members of the public to try and give out information to security personnel so as to arrest the drug traffickers
Alice Mathangani from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution said they register one plea for drugs in at the Malindi law courts daily that shows the seriousness of the epidemic of drugs.
Malindi anti-drug crusader Mohamed Famau hailed the Judiciary for the good work and the police for the crackdown against drug traffickers.
‘‘This is not something easy or small that today is the third time in Malindi to destroy drugs, we have gone a step further after the campaigns that we do aimed at ending drug trafficking,’’ he said.
He said the aim of the campaign is to end drug trafficking in Kilifi County and the coast region at large to end the drug menace and save the youth who have been affected by the drugs.
Mohamed appealed to Members of parliament not to pass the cannabis bill which is already in parliament
‘‘If the bill is passed it will wipe out current and future generation because bhang affects youth some get mental sickness, drop out of school while others do not get married,’’ he said.


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Wednesday, December 24, 2008.
ATHENS-------- Former University of Georgia and NFL offensive lineman Ronald Lee "Pete" Case died recently at his home in north Georgia following a long illness. He was 67.
Case earned a starting berth on the Bulldogs’ 1959 SEC championship team as a sophomore and All-SEC honors at UGA in 1960 and 61. Case was team captain in ’61.
A first-round draft choice of the Eagles in 1962, Case was traded to the Giants after three seasons. At New York he was reunited with Fran Tarkenton, the All-Pro quarterback who had led Georgia to victory over Auburn to clinch the 1959 SEC championship. He played 79 games in his six seasons in New York.
After retiring from the NFL, Case operated a restaurant in Atlanta called the Brave Falcon. He later retired to Lake Lanier, Ga.
Case was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to Decatur, Ga., in 1954 where he attended Decatur High.
Survivors include daughters Lee Anne Rice and Cathy Colquitt, son David Case, brother Clifford L. "Bud" Case, niece Andrea Case, nephew Patrick Case, and five grandchildren.

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I like how it’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and “Thor: The Dark World” and then Iron Man is just like, fuck the bullshit, we’re just callin’ this thing “Iron Man 3”.
Because a secondary title would imply it’s also about something other than Iron Man. And we all know how well that would work out.
#tony stark does not share
“Iron Man 3: Tony Stark”
Iron Man 3: The Tony Starkening.
(Source: guardian-of-the-arc, via ozyreads)
reblgo if u want a thai gap like this
shopping carts in random places make me sad
there is nothing for you there friend
so i’m pitching a hypothetical large-scale public sculpture project tomorrow for my art and design in contemporary society class
it’s a large concrete structure that is completely blank upon its dedication except for stenciled text that reads something to the effect of “this piece is not finished — finish this piece” at which point all people — street artists, fine artists, non-artists — are encouraged to make marks on it, until it’s completely covered and beyond, as a constantly evolving reflection of the city and its culture and thoughts
this is the image im tacking onto the proposal, because
i am very proud of you for waking up today. you are very brave. existing can be hard sometimes and that is okay. i am proud of you even if all you did today was exist. i am proud of you for existing.
(Source: theonion, via itsvondell)
My mother just came with the groceries and I opened the door and without thinking asked “swaggity swag what’s in the bag” and she replied “bip boop bop bread and flip-flops
since gay people call themselves flaming homosexuals can pansexual people call themselves frying pansexuals because not only is it like flaming homosexuals but we also have the benefit of a play on words
and in a single question you have hit on the reason i don’t commonly identify as pansexual
in a single question you have convinced me to identify as pansexual again

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↠ Sisters By a River ☆ Barbara Comyns Barbara Trapido, Sisters By a River, Barbara Comyns Barbara Trapido, Sisters By a River On the banks of the River Avon six sisters are born The seasons come and go the girls take their lessons under the ash tree and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir Then unexpectedly an air of decay descends upon the house ivy grows unchecked over the windows angry shouts split the summer air the milk sours in the larder and their father tOn the ba ↠ Sisters By a River ☆ Barbara Comyns Barbara Trapido - Sisters By a River, Sisters By a River On the banks of the River Avon six sisters are born The seasons come and go the girls take their lessons under the ash tree and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir Then un
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4.5 starsThis is the third novel I have read by Comyns and this one is autobiographical covering her early years It describes life in her family home, a run down and crumbling manor house, on the banks of the Avon in Warwickshire, with her parents and five siblings I read a little about Comyns life and the description of how she made ends meet before she began writing endeared her to me Comyns generated money by breeding poodles, renovating pianos, dealing in antiques and classic cars and drawin [...]
I m not sure whether this should be classified as a novel, a memoir, a collection of essays, or a combination of all the above Most likely the latter Centering around the author s childhood on the banks of the River Avon in the early part of the 20th Century among a large, affluent yet debt ridden family, the book is a series of short essay like sketches that are alternately horrifying and humorous, tender and brutal We are introduced to Barbara and her four sisters, two younger, two older There [...]
Have you read this insane and wonderful book My friend Normandy gave it to me last night and I had to prevent myself from staying up til 4 in the morning to finish it It s about being the neglected and strange child of a pre WW2 vaguely aristocratic British family I guess imagine Nancy Mitford with the quirkiness and sadism and childish hyperfocus lens turned up about 500% I would especially recommend this book to my friend Sadie Stein for some reason Sample sentence Mummy had always looked and [...]
Barbary Comyns is a very unusual writer, both regarding her life and her writings She married early and unhappily, worked in a variety of jobs, some of them rather unusual, not to say bizarre breeding poodles and kind of slipped into a writing career when she was persuaded to try to publish the stories about her early life she had been writing down for her children She had a hard time finding a publisher for that novel, but finally succeeded and it was released as Sisters by a River in 1947.As f [...]
I am a sucker for stories about large dysfunctional families, particularly if they are of the English eccentric type This strange tale fiction posing as memoir and supposedly written by the author for her children with no eye to publication has many Mitford ish elements lots of sisters, a father who roars, lots of animals and an idyllic Cotswold setting There is also that same sense of smug Victorian prosperity the large family, the servants and governesses, the elaborate picnics and tennis part [...]
I am still loving the Barbara Comyns experience, second book in Apparently this is an autobiographical tale but whether you read it as that or just plain fiction, it is marvellous either way If you do consider it as Comyns upbringing, you can certainly spot elements of The Vet s Daughter the isolated, lonesome teenager, love of animals, disastrous marriage of the parents, the deaf, domestic abuse, even a reference to going to London and expecting it all to be marbled streets, and then being shoc [...]
I decided to reread this in October, as I did not remember a great deal of it I read it at around the same time as Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and The Vet s Daughter, and it has evidently paled in comparison somewhat A striking child s voice is used here from the position of retrospect, and the structure takes a jumble of both separate and interconnected memories as its focal point As is often the case with unreliable narrators in fiction, some of the peripheral characters came to life than [...]
Very odd I don t quite get the point of it It s not a true story, but some things are true It was written for the author s children, but it s too adult for children It s entertaining in it s weirdness, but tiring in it s lack of plot or perceivable point So A mash up of many odd things I haven t quite decided what I think of it.
A quirky read.Barbara recounts her bitter sweet childhood.Dark, chilling which shifts to humour.The seasons come and go, the water swirls down the river, the ivy grows over the Windows.Debts rise and the family home is sold dispersing the sisters among their relatives.
This has turned into a binge read of Barbara Comyns for me and this one didn t disappoint A very engaging memoir style story narrated from the point of view of the middle ish daughter of a large family growing up in a wealthy environment that abruptly comes to an end.I found that a lot of the themes monkeys, parrots, moustaches, chest hair etc evident in her other books are here, which makes sense given that these seemed to be peculiarities of her family upbringing and this was her first novel I [...]
And I thought I had a bad childhood Written with wit and humour.
First attempt at writing for Barbara Comyns, a kind of experimental first step, for a young writer still wondering if she was even capable of doing so Even so, it s far from the usual coming of age material, and manages to get inside the misconceptions of childhood without too much in the way of studied affect or reconsideration We are introduced to the family and its environs at the moment of infant Barbara s birth, so we re already in non documentary circumstances, somewhere in the wilds of Wa [...]
Barbara Comyns is a Shirley Jacksonish treasure Think Life Among The Savages Only darker Much darker Sweet, twisted Sherwood Anderson type apples.
This slight novel was a dreamily told reminiscence of a vague, haphazard, and neglectful childhood at a British country manor during the early part of the 20th century I believe it is based on the actual experiences of the author The book takes the form of a series of first person vignettes that form a hazy narrative of a country childhood The narrator and her four sisters grow up benignly neglected by their parents, receiving perfunctory guidance and spotty education from a series of governesse [...]
Memories of an abusive childhood told through the eyes of a child I would have enjoyed this book if the childhood had had some happier moments I personally found the lighthearted way it was told, often with humour not comfortable when reading about domestic violence and child abuse but I see that this was the authors way of telling us this life seemed perfectly normal to the child I also felt the purposely mispelt words were not needed to tell us that a child was speaking I also felt as this wa [...]
I absolutely love Barbara Comyns No one can compare This book is one of my favorites of those of hers I ve read She is all horror and beauty, picking a wound over and over again to marvel at the beauty of the fresh blood Read her Read her Read her.
Beautiful book Very simple, tender, dreamy and endearing Descriptions of all the little things that matter to the author and make her surroundings You really enter this time and place with each short chapter so lovely
This book is an anjoyable light read and autobiographical, telling of the sort of upper middle class English upbringing which Comyns had It s all very similar to the Mitford sisters, amusing and crazy.
Very dreamlike and strange but all the interesting for it It seems very reminiscent of Nancy Mitford and, to a lesser extent, Dodie Smith s I Capture the Castle This book is like a darker, quirky view on that world.
An incantatory daymare of a book, pitched somewhere between Bruno Schulz and Linda Manz in Days of Heaven Potential alternate title These Are the Children Who Squashed the Rabbits.
A wonderfully unique read You can watch my review here youtu bK075QWPCkA
Another wonderful and strange book from Barbara Comyns I m working my way through all of her books,with delight.
Nice idea but the cutesy childlike narration and spelling mistakes is just too unconvincing How many children can spell claustrophobia before they can spell blossom
This was very good Very, very similar to Who was changed and who was dead, which gets extra points for actually having a plot Sometimes I felt like Sisters was a bit too meandering, but I am the generous queen, so it still gets 5 stars.I still feel like my fave Comyns is Our Spoons came from Woolworths is that bc it was the first one I d read, so encountering her weird style for the first time made the biggest impression on me It s also the book that s easiest for me to relate to on a personal l [...]
Barbara Comyns Sisters by a River has this in common with J.R.R Tolkien s The Hobbit Both Comyns and Tolkien wrote their stories to read to their children, neither initially had an eye toward publication I can image the Tolkien children delighting to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins and the lot, but I wonder what the Comyns young ones made of this passage from a chapter titled God in the Billiard Room.There was a funny light in the billiard room, and I wasn t really surprised when one hot Sunday [...]
I am so grateful for the kind soul who recommended this novel We see life from the point of view of a small girl in a ramshackle house and family The spelling, and the matter of fact way of telling the events, help create an astonishing atmosphere where the craziness is almost accepted as normal by us which it was for the family and the humour and horror juxtapose and seep through Parts of this were first published in a serial form in a magazine before anyone would publish this novel It is a co [...]
This came out of nowhere for me Absolutely loved this little read Sisters by a River isn t really a novel with a linear narrative structure like I was expecting I would probably describe this as a collection of vignettes, or snapshots, into the lives of this curious family From what I understand, this novel is semi autobiographical The narrative voice we hear throughout the book is from one of five sisters She is named Barbara, the same as our author, although we don t actually find out her nam [...]
This is a remarkable little book not much of a storyline, but you get to spend some crackpot times with five the 6th never gets a mention off the wall sisters, their strange detached mother who feels to the reader like she s floating away all the time, their melancholy violent whisky drinking father, and their belligerent terminally disappointed grandmother Oh, and there s various maids and governesses that come and go in less than cordial circumstances The family is barely functional and is con [...]
This new edition publication date is 4th July I m particularly interested in this one since it s a coming of age classic 1947 and it seems suited to my tastes On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir Then, unexpectedly, an air of decay descends upon the house ivy grows unchecked over the windows, angry shouts split the summer air, the milk sours [...]
Lovely book that can only be described as the literary form of naive art Comyns recounts episodes from her childhood brought up in a genteel if debt laden family It put me in mind of Nancy Mitford s accounts of her own familyIrascible Daddy, vague, deaf Mammy and six children, who for want of outside company spend much time together.Comyns writes in a unique childlike style, with eccentric spelling and an antipathy to semicolons so that her phrases run into each other.Far from being a sentimenta [...]

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When J.J. Abrams was named the new director of Star Wars: Episode VII, it seemed like the sci-fi geek conversation had shifted away from Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness and onto his upcoming Star Wars movie. Now that Star Trek Into Darkness is only two months away, Paramount is doing everything they can to make sure people focus on Star Trek. Paramount has released a new teaser for the Star Trek sequel that is more action-packed and thrilling than anything we’ve seen from the movie so far. Check it out below:
From early press screenings of the first 30 minutes of Star Trek Into Darkness, it sounds like the sequel will be more exciting and heart stopping than the previous movie. The new teaser really does capture the excitement in less than a minute and a half. It also looks like Abrams is fully showing his influences. The opening looks like the movie version of the popular mobile game “Temple Run,” and there are a few scenes that are reminiscent of The Empire Strikes Back and Tron.
Recently, J.J. Abrams and Benedict Cumberbatch talked about the differences between the villains in Abrams’ two Star Trek outings, Nero and John Harrison. It sounds like the two villains are equally deadly, but completely different. Where Nero is more physical, John Harrison is more intellectual and cunning.
Star Trek Into Darkness will beam into theaters everywhere on May 17th, in 3D and IMAX.


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May 5, 2010
In addition to being an environmental disaster, the oil spill in the Gulf is affecting travel and tourism in and around our coastal areas. Potential visitors are beginning to reconsider travel to the threatened areas in anticipation of beaches being impacted. Today’s Miami Herald article Florida Tourism in Fear Over Gulf Oil Spill likens this response as similar to a hurricane threat. Florida state tourism officials face difficult decisions in how to address this issue particularly in regards to how to disseminate information to the public (and potential visitors).
I thought that the author poses an interesting question:
“As tourists mulled their summer plans, Florida’s tourism officials debated the best way to influence those decisions. The fight mirrored familiar tension that builds whenever a hurricane looms: how much information about a potential catastrophe is too much information?”
What do you think?
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/05/1613588_p2/fla-tourism-industry-awash-in.html#ixzz0n4MfOLLb
Particularly for our hospitality students — below is a suggested list of resources where you can find more about management strategies used for issues affecting tourism and travel:
Restoring tourism destinations in crisis : a strategic marketing approach / David Beirman G155.A1 B385 2003
Safety and security in tourism : relationships, management, and marketing / C. Michael Hall G155.A1 S25 2003
ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
Hospitality & Tourism Complete from EBSCO
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection from Gale
October 13, 2009
The library has purchased access to a fabulous new database: Global Road Warrior. Focused on countries and their cultures, this database is an excellent tool for looking up points of interest, travel essentials, business culture for women, and demographics. There are also maps and images!
Global Road Warrior (Charlotte, No. Miami, Providence Campuses)
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This recent addition to our databases has over 100 e-book titles on topics that range from the arts to women’s studies. The collection can be browsed by title, subject or author. You can also search the collection by keyword (to search the full text within the books), title, author and other fields.
There’s a Quick Search feature at the top of every page in this resource, but most users will find that the Advanced Search offers more robust and accurate searching. The resource also has the American Heritage College Dictionary built into it for looking up definitions without leaving the collection.
Here are a few Greenwood titles that relate to some of the majors here at JWU:
Building High-Performance People and Organizations
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Successful Leadership
Global Business Etiquette Marketing in the 21st Century
Women in Business: The Changing Face of Leadership
Battleground: Criminal Justice
Crimes and Trials of the Century
The Crime Junkie’s Guide to Criminal Law
Eco-Terrorism: Radical Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements
Offender Profiling in the Courtroom: The Use and Abuse of Expert Witness Testimony
The American History Cookbook
American Indian Food
The Business of Wine: An Encyclopedia
Controversies in Food and Nutrition
Food Culture in France (there are several other “Food Culture” titles featuring other countries)
Fashion and Costume in American Popular Culture: A Reference Guide
The Business of Entertainment
The Business of Sports
Encyclopedia of Sports in America
Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Super Bowl
To access the Greenwood Digital Collection, go to the Databases section of our site, and scroll down to “G” in the alphabetical listings:
January 13, 2009
Center for Gaming Research –Univ. of Nevada
Gaming articles and info.
Food service software and educational materials.
Current issue and newsletter available for food quality information and issues.
Hospitality Jobs Online
Career links and position information. Browse by position, location, company, or property.
A portal for hospitality industry information.
Information on planning and professional resources.
Nations Restaurant News
An industry magazine offering articles ranging from “food trends and financial matters to consumer trends and the latest equipment innovations”.
Restaurants and Institutions Magazine
Articles, news, blog links, and educational resources.
Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory
Links to tourism offices around the country and worldwide.
Restaurant and review search
Bureau of Labor Statistics-
Hospitality –Going Green
The following are links to Web resources that offer information on going green and eco-friendly practices in the hospitality industry:
American Hotel and Lodging Association –Green Resource Center
Green Meetings Industry Council
Green Meetings –U.S. EPA
U.S. Green Building Council –LEED
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His breath fanned my neck as I stood, looking down at the body below me.
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I turned to argue, but he beat me to it.
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He pushed me down on the bed roughly and my blood ran cold when I saw the smirk on his face.
Any person who knows anything about gang life knows who she is. Murders, steals, and is the sister of a drug lord and an ex girlfriend to a drug dealer.
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Aircraft - Locations - Group and Duty - Books
No.160 Squadron was a heavy bomber squadron that was formed for service in the Far East but that was detained in the Middle East during 1942 and only reached India in 1943.
The squadron reformed at Thurleigh on 16 January 1942 as a Liberator squadron. The ground personnel left for the Far East on 12 February 1942, but the aircrews remained in the UK for training. In early May they moved to Nutts Corner, and spent one month flying anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic.
The move east finally began in early June when the Liberators flew out to Palestine. They were meant to fly on to India, but instead they were retained in the Mediterranean by Tedder, spending most of their time carrying out night raids on enemy targets in Libya and Crete. They were also used to support Operation Vigorous, an attempt to get a convoy from Alexandria to Malta in June 1942. Some of the squadron's aircraft were involved in an attack on the Italian fleet at sea during this operation, and a Liberator from an accompanying American formation even managed to score a hit on the Italian battleship Littorio. The Liberators were retained in the Middle East until after the battle of El Alamein.
They were then allowed to continue on to India one-by-one, before on 15 January 1943 the remaining aircraft in the Middle East merged into No.178 Squadron.
The squadron flew its first patrols over the Bay of Bengal on 6 February 1943. The squadron was the first British Liberator squadron to reach India, and at first was used as a general reconnaissance unit. A few weeks after beginning operations most of the squadron's aircraft moved to Ceylon, where they flew a mix of shipping protection and long range photo reconnaissance missions over Sumatra and the Nicobar Islands. It was also used for mine laying, dropping nearly 1,000 mines in the first four months of 1945. Some of these mine laying missions could be very lengthy - the longest, to Singapore, lasted for twenty one hours!
In June 1945 the squadron was transferred to Special Duties, dropping agents and supplies to resistance groups in Malaya and Sumatra. Some of these sorties were even longer, with some lasting for more than 24 hours, a remarkable tribute to the endurance of the Liberator.
After the Japanese surrender the squadron was used for transport duties in India, Ceylon and Malaya before in June 1946 beginning to fly back to the UK.
May 1942-January 1943: Consolidated Liberator II
November 1942-October 1945: Consolidated Liberator III
June 1943-November 1945: Consolidated Liberator V
January 1944-January 1945: Consolidated Liberator VI
October 1945-September 1946: Consolidated Liberator VIII
August-September 1946: Avro Lancaster GR.3
January-February 1942: Thurleigh
May-June 1942: Nutts Corner
June-November 1942: Aqir
November 1942-January 1943: Shandur
November 1942-February 1943: Salbani
February-August 1943: Ratmalana
August 1943-August 1944: Sigiriya
August 1944-February 1945: Kankesanturai
February-October 1945: Minneriya
October 1945-June 1946: Kankesanturai
June-September 1946: Leuchars
Squadron Codes: C, R, K, A, X, BS
1942: Bomber Squadron, Middle East and North Africa
1943-1945: Bomber Squadron, Burma and Far East
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1. Hodgkinson, E. L., Smith, D. M., & Wittkowski, A. (2014). Women’s experiences of their pregnancy and postpartum body image: a systematic review and meta-synthesis. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 14(1), 330.
2. Matarasso, A., & Smith, D. M. (2015). Strategies for Aesthetic Reshaping of the Postpartum Patient. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 136(2), 245-257.
3. Matarasso, A., & Smith, D. M. (2015). Combined breast surgery and abdominoplasty: strategies for success. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 135(5), 849e-860e.
4. Rinker, B., Veneracion, M., & Walsh, C. P. (2008). The effect of breastfeeding on breast aesthetics. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 28(5), 534-537.
5. Stevens, W. G., Cohen, R., Vath, S. D., Stoker, D. A., & Hirsch, E. M. (2006). Is it safe to combine abdominoplasty with elective breast surgery? A review of 151 consecutive cases. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 118(1), 207-212.
6. Chaput, B., Bertheuil, N., Alet, J. M., Bodin, F., de Bonnecaze, G., & Michot, A. (2016). Combined Abdominoplasty and Breast Surgery versus Isolated Abdominoplasty: Results of a Systematic Review. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 137(1), 248e-249e.


|Publication number||US3098210 A|
|Publication date||Jul 16, 1963|
|Filing date||Apr 26, 1957|
|Priority date||May 1, 1956|
|Also published as||DE1136248B|
|Publication number||US 3098210 A, US 3098210A, US-A-3098210, US3098210 A, US3098210A|
|Inventors||Sparling Stanley Capel, Haslett Roy William George, Hopkin Peter Roy, Sothcott John Ernest Leon|
|Original Assignee||Kelvin & Hughes Ltd|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (10), Classifications (15)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
July 16, 1963 ECHO RANGING WITH REFERENCE TO BOUNDARY. CONDITIONS 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed April 26, 1957 TRANSMITTER UNIT TRANSDUCER AMPLIFIERS RECTiFlER- RECORDER T) g /)7 a) M1 7 Al A2 A3 XI Y W FL .2. TRANSMITTER UNIT) TRANSDUCER /AMPLIFIERS)7 RECTIFIER (RECORDER r L J I T A! A2 A5 XI THRESHOLD V 4 VOLTAGE AKP. SOURCE GI 4 DETECTOR, ,ANTEGRATOR II J: 'NTEGRATCD DIFFERENTI/STOR TRANSMITTER R TIFIER (TRANSDUCER gRECORDER I AMP. AMP. AMP. A Ml N1 A5 A6 Xs A7 7 w,
5C.$'Pn1uflc T-R NETWW 12. M. G- Hasmr A TTOR/VEY July 16, 1963 S. C. SPARLING ETAL ECHO RANGING WITH REFERENCE TO BOUNDARY CONDITIONS Filed April 26, 1957 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 l l I IN VENTORS A TTORNE Y6 July 16, 1963 s. c. SPARLING ETAL 3,098,210
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ECHO RANGING WITH REFERENCE TO BOUNDARY CONDITIONS 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed April 26, 1957 a w a o w M 6 whmm w E. L W. aw: M w R?J o N a M mm 2w R4 we E 7F M W Fill] w M U l 1111111111111 llll T3 V V VJL v 2 f E v 5 w M p a v e uo a 0 T0 0 AW H T Mw H r M 7 w A Lrmr A M 2 mi c c A lAllmqllo A w 4w M A TTORNE Xi United States Patent Ofiice 3 ,0982 Patented July 16, 1963 3,098,210 ECHO RANGING WITH REFERENCE TO BOUNDARY CONDITIONS Stanley Capel Sparling, Roy William George Haslett, Peter Roy Hopkin, and John Ernest Leon Sothcott, Barkingside, England, assignors to Kelvin & Hughes Limited, Glasgow, Scotland, :1 British company Filed Apr. 26, 1957, Ser. No. 655,212 Claims priority, application Great Britain May 1, 1956 8 Claims. (Cl. 340-3) The present invention relates to ultrasonic echo-sounding systems for the detection of fish in the sea in which exploring signals in the form of pulses or short wave trains are emitted from a transmitter into the sea, the exploring signals being reflected relatively weakly by fish in the path of the exploring signals and relatively strongly by the sea bed to provide echo signals which are received and applied to display means for indicating the reception of echo signals. In this specification the term display means includes recording means.
In the operation of such systems there is usually a long drawn out boundary or bottom echo from the sea bed due to the width of the transmitting beam, irregularities in the boundary and interrefiections between various parts of the boundary or between parts of the boundary and objects lying near to it. It is frequently found that in the display, the echoes from fish near the boundary are either partially obscured by the echoes from the boundary itself or merge with the boundary echo and in some cases it is not easy to detect the presence of such fish in the display as the echoes from them are not distinguishable from the boundary echo displayed on the record and appear as part of that echo. This difficulty is aggravated by the over-loading of an amplifier in the receiver and the saturation of the recorder by echoes from the boundary and from objects near the boundary.
In the case of fish lying close to or on the sea bed, the fish echo often appears on the display joined to the echo from the sea bed, hereinafter referred to as the bottom echo. It is then extremely difiicult to tell whether a variation in this bottom echo display is due to variations in the sea bed or to fish lying near the sea bed. In addition, because of the vertical motion of the ship on account of waves, the sea bed is not displayed on the record as a sounding of constant depth. For example in an electrochemical recorder the sea bed is not shown as. a straight line parallel with the direction of motion of the paper, but is subject to variations due to the vertical motion of the ship, and on an electrochemical recorder chart the bottom echo record may be of roughly sine-wave form.
It is an object of this invention to provide an improved system of the type referred to adapted to provide a display in which the presence of fish lying near to the sea bed can more readily be detected than hitherto. The invention comprises indexing means providing 'a guide, pointer, or indicator which is an index of or indicates a directing sign, a guide or data reading of desired information in a quantitative sense.
According to the present invention a system of the type specified comprises indexing means for providing in the display of the indications of boundary echoes an index whereby the position of the leading edge in the display of each boundary echo can be determined, the indexing means including a circuit responsive to the reception of the leading edges solely of boundary echoes to vary the display abruptly at an instant fixedly related to the instant of reception of the leading edge of each boundary echo. The abrupt variation in the display can be arranged to occur at the leading edge or \any suitable time thereafter.
The indexing means and the nature of the abrupt variation in the display can take various forms. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the said circuit in the indexing means comprises an interrupter adapted to interrupt the display of received boundary echoes and means responsive to the leading edges solely of received boundary echoes for actuating the interrupter. In this embodiment the interruption must occur after at least the leading edge has been displayed.
It is a principal purpose of the invention to provide a novel fish finder able effectively to distinguish fish close to the sea bottom under conditions in which the fish echo is merged with the leading edge of the sea bottom echo, by providing a suitable display on which the leading edge of the bottom echo is shown and the major portion of the bottom echo is blocked out, leaving the fish echoes standing out as conspicuous irregularities in the leading edge of the bottom echo as displayed on the display device. To achieve this effect it is important that at least a portion of the leading edge of the bottom echo, larger than any fish echo, appear as a line or band on the display, otherwise there is no reference or index to enable a viewer to interpret the display with consistency or reliability and against which the depth of the fish displayed could be readily determined. Assurance that at least part of the leading edge of the bottom echo, unmistakably identifiable as such, appears on the display as a reference from which the fish echos may be said to project like a sore thumb and be readily identified as fish echoes, is obtained by delayed blanking out a major part of the bottom echo.
The delay in blanking out part of the bottom echo is arranged to be such that a line of sufficient width and amplitude as to be readily identifiable as the bottom echo is always produced on the display. This is achieved by a fixed delay or indexing means which becomes operable at a predetermined voltage value or level of the bottom echo signal which is larger than the signal representative of the larges fish echoes. This predetermined value is independent of the full amplitude of the bottom echo. After the beginning of the bottom echo there is a short period, depending upon the steepness of the leading edge of the bottom echo, which may be termed the time to rise of the bottom echo to the predetermined voltage value.
I This time is too short to assure that a portion of the 1 leading edge of the bottom echo will appear on the display if the blanking out were operative immediately upon the bottom echo signal reaching the predetermined value. Accordingly a fixed delay, comprising for example a suitable condenser and resistance, is placed in the circuit, so that the blanking out of the bottom echo does not remove the leading edge thereof and a sufficient portion of this leading edge remains on the display as a line or band to act as an index, which is essential to a determination from the display of the presence of fish close to the sea bed. A sea bottom with good reflecting properties will yield a bottom echo signal with a sharp rise which will be blanked out by the blanking pulse unless some delay in 3 addition to that inherent in the time to rise of the bottom echo is built into the circuit.
The invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram showing the receiving section of an echo sounder of known type,
FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of one embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the waveforms of signals at various points in the diagram of FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 is a block circuit diagram showing the receiving section of another echo sounder of known type,
FIG. 5 is a circuit diagram of part of another embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram showing a modification to the circuit shown in FIG. 5, and
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the waveform of signals at various points of the circuits shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.
In the embodiments to be described apparatus for the detection of fish comprises a transmitting unit in which a short pulse is generated and applied to a transmitting transducer which is under water. Echoes from fish and from the sea bed are picked up on a receiving transducer (which may, if desired, be part of a common transmittingreceiving transducer or may be a separate transducer), are amplified and are applied to a pen recorder.
In these embodiments the display is effected on a recorder of the type in which a stylus moves across the recording chart in a direction representing time and hence range whilst the paper moves at right angles to the direction of motion of the stylus. Signals received from the same range are recorded by successive strokes of the pen and appear on the chart closely side by side or overlapping, thus forming a continuous line or band in the direction of motion of the paper.
It is arranged that recording of each bottom echo is interrupted for a predetermined period beginning at a short fixed time after the leading edge of each bottom echo, that is to say short compared with the duration of the bottom echo. The bottom echo is usually a long echo with a steep leading edge but a gradual falling off towards the end. The effect of this interruption in recording appears in the bottom echo records as a white band parallel with the leading edges of the bottom echoes so that these echoes are, in fact, recorded in two sections and appear as a narrow band separated from a broad band by this white band. In the narrow band the band boundaries are close together and it is thus much easier to identify echoes from fish lying near the sea bed as these will be displayed as slight irregularities in the leading edge of the bottom echoes but not in the white band.
Alternatively, it may be arranged that the period of interruption is as long as or longer than the period of the remainder of the bottom echo and in this case recording of the bottom echo will not be resumed. When this practice is adopted the bottom echo will appear on the recorder chart as a narrow black band only, but the presence of objects lying on or near the bottom will be detected in the same way, that is to say by a thickening of the black band.
In these embodiments of the invention the output of one stage of the receiving amplifier is divided into two parts, the high frequency signals from one of these parts being rectified and passed by an amplitude gate which is adjusted to pass only the upper portion of the bottom echo (which is larger than the fish echo from the same exploring pulse). The initial rise of the bottom echo is slightly delayed and is applied to generate a short pulse which is used to close a gate through which the other of the said parts of the output passes before being applied to the pen-recorder. The effect of this is to produce on the chart a narrow black line, of width determined by the amount by which the initial rise of the bottom echo is delayed, separated from the rest of the bottom echo trace 4 by a White line of width determined by the width of the short pulse.
The receiving section of a known echo-sounder, as shown in FIG. 1, comprises a receiving transducer M feeding an amplifier which has three amplifying stages A A and A followed by a rectifying stage X The output from the rectifying stage X is applied to a pen recorder W The first stage, A is a gain-controlled stage and is fed with a suppression control voltage of variable decay time which is adjusted in such a manner that the bottom echo gives the largest signal output, which fully saturates the pen-recorder.
In the modification of this circuit shown in FIG. 2 the amplifying stage A is gated and is arranged to pass no signal when a gating pulse is applied to it from a further amplifier A Normally all signals pass through the amplifying stage A and are displayed on the display device. The only time the amplifying stage A is gated is after the leading edge of a boundary echo and hence all echoes from fish are duly indicated on the display device.
The output of the second stage A is split, part being applied to the third stage A and part to a detector X the output from which is passed through an integrating circuit I a diiferentiating circuit 1;, a second integrating circuit 1 to the amplifier A A pre-set steady amplitude gating voltage is also fed into the detector from a voltage source G so that the high-frequency signal from the amplifier A has to exceed this pre-set voltage before the rectifier X conducts.
Thus, referring to FIG. 3, if the output from the first stage A is as shown at (a) the output from the detector X is as shown at (b). Whilst the waveform shown at (n) represents the envelope of a modulated high-frequency carrier, the waveforms shown at (b) and subsequently represent actual pulse waveforms. In these diagrams the ordinates represent potential and the abscissae time. The potential scales of each diagram bear no relation to one another. In the waveform shown at (a) B is a small fish echo and the large oscillating echo is the bottom echo with a steep initial rise E The level E is the level below which the amplitude-gating voltage fed into the detector X allows no signal to pass. The fish echo E as shown is readily distinguished from the bottom echo. This apparatus however can provide an unambiguous indication of a fish echo even if it merges with the bottom echo provided it does not rise above the level E This level may be made adjustable by providing a control knob 59 for the circuit G The integrating circuit I has a short time constant, so that its effect is to smooth out the envelope of the pulse shown at (b), producing at its output the pulse shown at (c). The differentiating circuit J shortens this pulse, producing the pulse shown at (d).
The second integrating circuit I has a long time constant so that it delays the initial rise of the pulse shown at (d), producing the pulse shown at (e). The upper portion of this pulse is amplified and inverted in phase by the amplifier A and applied to gate the amplifier A The amplified and inverted pulse is shown at (f).
The output from the rectifying stage X is thus as shown at (g), a portion E of the bottom echo having been suppressed by the gated amplifier A Thus the gated amplifier A constitutes an interrupter which interrupts the display of the received boundary echoes and which is actuated by the circuit G X I J I and A comprising means responsive to the leading edges solely of received boundary echoes, the whole constituting indexing means. In this embodiment the abrupt variation in the displays is an abrupt variation from black to white in the trace. The threshold voltage is set entirely in the side chain G X 1 I 1 and A, which is used to provide the gating voltage. Thus, the threshold voltage does not appear in the main chain M A A A X W In the receiving section of another known echo-sounder shown in FIG. 4, a transducer M is connected through a network N two amplifying stages A and A a voltagedoubling rectifying stage X and an output amplifier A to pen-recorder W Reference is made to page 553, FIG. ll6(a) of Radio Engineering by Terman, Mc- Graw-Hill, 3rd edition 1951 in connection with voltagedoubling rectifying stage X In this echo sounder the transducer M is used as a transmitting and a receiving transducer and the network N is common both to the receiving section and the transmitting section (not otherwise shown) of the echo sounder.
In FIG. 5 part of the amplifying stage A the rectifying stage X and the output amplifier A of FIG. 4 are shown in more detail. The portion of the circuit within the dotted enclosure constitutes the modification necessary to carry the invention into effect in this embodiment.
Thus, the amplifying stage A comprises a valve V with an anode load consisting of the primary winding of a transformer S tuned by a capacitor C in parallel with the winding. The anode load is connected to a source of high-tension plate or anode voltage, shown as +270 v. at the top of FIG. 5, through a resistor R and to earth through a capacitor C The resistor R and the capacitor C constitute a decoupling network of the valve V The anode of the valve V is connected through a capacitor C to the cathode of a rectifier X; (that is to the plate or electrode by which a conventional current leaves the rectifier) and to the anode of a rectifier X A resistor R is connected between the anode of the rectifier X and the cathode of the rectifier X and with the rectifiers constitutes a voltage-doubling network. The cathode of the rectifier X is connected to the control grid of a pentode valve V through a resistor R The pentode V is the amplifying valve of the output amplifier A of FIG. 4. The resistor R a capacitor C in parallel with the resistor R and a capacitor C connected between the control grid and the cathode of the pentode V constitute a filter network. A large A.C. decoupling capacitor C is connected between the anode of the rectifier X and the cathode of the pentode V The valve V has an anode load resistor R and two cathode load resistors R and R in series, shunted with a capacitor 0,. A terminal T connected to the cathode of the valve V provides an output to the recorder.
The anode of the rectifier X is connected through a rectifier X poled to conduct in the same direction as the rectifier X and a large resistor R in parallel with the rectifier X to the movable contact of a switch P One fixed contact of the switch P is connected to the junction of the resistors R and R and the other fixed contact is connected to a source of potential of 30 volts. For an electro-chemioal recorder the output required from the terminal T depends on whether wet paper or dry paper is used. The rectifier X and the resistor R are connected to the source of potential of -30 volts when wet paper is used and to the junction of the resistor R and R7 when dry paper is used. This junction is at a potential of approximately +60 volts. Furthermore a switch P is provided to short out the resistor R when dry paper is being used.
Referring to FIG. 7 a signal at the anode of V is shown at (a). The steep Ileading edge of the bottom echo is shown at E as in FIG. 3(a) but here the fish echo E is represented as large and of sufficient amplitude to saturate the chart of the recorder, and is merging with the bottom echo. The level at which the recorder chart is saturated is shown by the dotted line E The signal applied to the grid of the valve V is shown at (b), when the circuit within the dotted enclosure in FIG. 5' is not present or is switched off. Such a signal produces a trace on the recorder from which it is very difiicult to tell whether a shoal of fish is present or not.
Waveform 7(a) represents the voltage at the anode of V with an initial level at plus 220 volts, the positive voltage being in the upward direction. There is an initial small delay equal to the time of rise of the level E to level E followed by a delay introduced by the action of R and C The waveform back edge shows the additional delay by R and C after waveform 7 (h) falls below the level E The level of horizontal lines seen in waveforms 7(d) and 7(e) represents the level of the cathode of V -In both these diagrams the vertical coordinate shows the voltage between the :control grid and the cathode of V Referring now to the circuit within the dotted enclosure in FIG. 5 a further output from the valve V is fed through a capacitor C and a resistor R of large resistance to the control grid of a pentode valve V connected so as to operate as a triode, that is with its suppressor grid and cathode connected together, and with its screen grid and anode connected together. A rectifier X7 connected between the junction of the capacitor C and the resistor R and earth conducts during the negative-going portion of the signal from the anode of the valve V and hence the signal applied to the control grid of the pentode V is again as shown in FIG. 7(b).
The control grid of the pentode V is also connected to earth through a capacitor C and the anode is connected to the high-tension anode supply through a load resistor R The cathode of the pentode V is connected to earth through a resistor R and to the high-tension supply through a resistor R Resistors R and R constitute a potential divider biasing the cathode of the pentode V to approximately +60 volts.
Thus a large positive potential must be applied to the control grid of the pentode V in order to render the pentode conducting. In FIG. 7(b) only signals above the dotted line E will render the pentode conducting.
The anode of the pentode V is connected to the control grid of the pentode V through a capacitor C and a rectifier X in series, connected so as to allow only negative-going signals to be applied to the control grid of the pentode V from the anode of the pentode V Positive-going signals from the anode of the pentode V are short-circuitcd to the cathode of the pentode V through a rectifier X connected between the junction of the capacitor C and the rectifier X and the cathode of the pentode V Thus when the signal provided at the anode of the pentode V rises above the level E in FIG. 7(b) the pentode V is rendered conducting and the potential at the anode of the pentode V falls to a level E (FIG. 7(0)). The anode of the pentode V remains substantially at this level E until the waveform shown at (b) falls below the level E The anode then recovers with a time constant C (R +R +R +R so that the signal applied from the anode of the pentode V to the control grid of the pentode V is as shown in FIG. 7(0). The time constant C (R |R +R +R is fairly short but the voltage applied to the grid of the pentode V is prevented from rising above the zero line (FIG. 7(0)) by the rectifier X The net signal applied to the control grid of the pentode V is the sum of the signals shown in FIG. 7(0) and FIG. 7(b). This signal is shown in FIG. 7(d).
In this circuit the leading edge of the signal shown in FIG. 7(0) is delayed from the beginning of the bottom echo by the grid circuit of the pentode V the resistor R and the capacitor C acting as an integrating circuit.
-In this simple circuit, however, the length of time for which the pentode V is conducting is dependent on the amplitude of the bottom echo. This means that while the initial black line on a chart is of constant Width, the white line is of varying width. If it is required that the white line is also of constant width the circuit shown in FIG. 5 may be modified by breaking the :circuit at 20, 20, 121, 21' and inserting the circuit shown in FIG. 6.
The signal appearing at the junction of the resistor R and the capacitor C is now fed to the control grid of the left-hand side (in the drawing) of a double triode valve V The double triode has a common cathode connected to earth through a resistor R Normally the right-hand side of the double triode is conducting and hence this resistor biases the cathode of the double triode and determines the level E in FIG. 7 (b) The anode of the left-hand side of the double triode V is connected to the high-tension anode supply through a load resistor R and to the control grid of the righthand side of the double triode V through a capacitor C and a resistor R in series. A resistor R is con nected between the junction of the capacitor C and the resistor R and the high-tension supply. The right hand anode of the double triode V is connected to the hightension anode supply through a load resistor R and to the control grid of the pentode V through a capacitor C12- The double triode V functions as a flip-flop circuit and normally the right-hand side is conducting. When a signal of sufficient magnitude is applied to the control grid of the left-hand side, this side is rendered conducting. The flip-flop then resets itself with a time constant dependent on the product C R Thus a rectangular positive-going pulse is applied to the control grid of the pentode V and the output from the anode of this pentode is a rectangular negative-going pulse. The signal now applied to the control grid of the pentode V is as shown in FIG. 7(e). This results in a white line of constant width and having a sharply defined trailing edge as well as a sharply defined leading edge. Although the FIGURE 7(d) shows the major part of the bottom echo as blanked out according to a presently preferred form of the invention, it will be understood that all that is actually necessary is the blanking out of a part suflicient to make the leading edge of the bottom echo clearly identifiable by setting it off from the remainder of the bottom echo. In FIGURE 3(g), for example, only a sufficient part of the bottom echo is blanked out to make the leading edge clearly identifiable as such. The adjustment of the preset voltage level at which the display is interrupted by the blanking pulse affects the width of the leading edge of the bottom echo appearing in the display. As this display width of the leading edge is narrowed to approach a line, the contrast with the fish echoes will increase and they will stand out with increasing contrast as obvious irregularities on the narrowed leading edge. The variation in contrast arises from the contrasting widths of the fish echoes and the leading edge of the bottom echo in the display. Thus, increase in contrast can be obtained with the same intensity of display signals.
Although embodiments have been described in which the abrupt variation in the display of each boundary echo signal is a variation in trace intensity it will be understood that other form of abrupt variation may be used to provide the index. For example, it may be arranged that the recording pen gives a lateral kick on in the instant of reception of the leading edge of each boundary echo signal, or a predetermined time thereafter. This form requires, of course, that the line records in the trace be spaced adequately to display the steps so formed to constitute the index.
While there have been described above what are presently believed to be the preferred forms of the invention, variations thereof will be obvious to those skilled in the art and all such changes and variations which fall within the spirit of the invention are intended to be covered by the generic terms in the appended claims, which are variably worded to that end.
1. Echo ranging apparatus for the location of fish in the sea, comprising a transmitter for transmitting pulsed exploring signals into the sea. a receiving transducer adapted to produce electric signals in response to echo signals resulting from the reflection of the exploring signals by fish in the sea and by the sea bed, electric amplifying means connected to said receiving transducer to amplify said electric signals and compnising a gated stage capable of being rendered non-conducting upon the application of a suitable electric control pulse thereto, a display device adapted to display the output signals from the electric amplifying means in relation to time, an electric control pulse generator, circuit means for applying said electric signals as input signals to said generator, said generator producing an electric control pulse when the amplitude of said electric signals exceeds a predetermined value, the said predetermined value being so chosen that it is exceeded only by a signal value corresponding to the receipt of a sea bed echo, said generator having delay means such that the initiation of said control pulse has a predetermined time delay in relation to the commence ment of the sea bed echo, circuit means for applying said electric control pulse to said gated stage, so that the display of received signals is inhibited for a predetermined time period commencing subsequently to the commencement of the sea bed echo to ensure the display of at least a portion of the leading edge of the bottom echo of greater amplitude than the display of fish echoes before said interruption occurs, so as to provide an index such that fish echoes merged with said bottom echo stand out and can be readily detected by the irregularities they produce in the leading edge of the bottom echo as displayed on said display device.
2. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 in which the electric control pulse generator comprises a biased detector to which the signals from the receiving transducer are applied, the said detector thus only producing an output if the said signals exceed a predetermined value, and the output from the detector providing the electric control pulse.
3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, and means to control said predetermined value of said electric signals which triggers said electric control pulse.
4. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, said electric control pulse generator comprising a detector to which the signals from the receiving transducer are applied, and a biased amplifier connected to receive the output of the detector, said amplifier thus only producing an output it the said signals exceed said predetermined value, the output from the amplifier providing the electric control pulse.
5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 in which the electric control pulse generator comprises a detector connected to receive the signals from the receiving transducer and a monostable, flip-flop circuit connected to receive the output of the detector, the said monostable circuit being triggered to generate an output pulse only if the output from the detector exceeds said predetermined value, the output of the monostable circuit providing the electric control pulse, said display means being a pen recorder.
6. In ultrasonic echo-sounding for fish in the sea, the method of distinguishing echoes from fish close to the sea bottom in the presence of the bottom echo which comprises displaying the echo signals on a time base, interrupting the display of the bottom echo signal at a fixed time after the leading edge of the bottom echo signal in response to the bottom echo signal exceeding a pre-set level, said fixed time being such to assure that at least a portion of the leading edge of said bottom echo of greater amplitude than said fish echoes is displayed to provide an index such that fish echoes merged with said bottom echo stand out as irregularities from said leading edge and observing the irregularities of the displayed leading edge of the bottom echo signal in relation to the interruption in the display, said irregularities resulting from fish echo signals joined to the bottom echo signal.
7. The combination set forth in claim 6, the step of adjusting said pre-set level to vary the contrast of said fish echoes with repsect to the leading edge of said bottom echo.
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Watlington puts safety upfront as violence takes center stage
Schools in Philly have seen their fair share of violence in recent weeks. What are Dr. Tony Watlington’s solutions?
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Philadelphia may not end 2022 with as many homicides as 2021, but that’s not to say it was a good year at all for the city in the areas surrounding violence prevention. That’s especially true as the year comes to a close when it involves the city’s youth, who have both become not only more likely victims of the crisis, but also its perpetrators.
In the last two months, Philadelphia’s youth have seen that violence hit their schools in two high profile incidents near Roxborough and Overbrook high schools. A November report on Dobbins High School from the Philadelphia Inquirer also brought further scrutiny on the district for not dealing with what was called “a chaotic and unsafe environment.”
With all the attention, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Tony Watlington told AL DÍA in a recent sit-down interview that it’s made the next phase of his transition plan even more vital.
At the top of the list, especially after the shootings near Overbrook and Roxborough, is safety.
“As a school district, our number one priority is to make sure our children are safe everyday,” said Watlington.
Like the city’s approach to the sprawling issue of gun violence, there are many short and long term solutions the superintendent laid out for the school district as it does its part in the overall city effort to curb gun violence.
On the short term side, Watlington said the school district will continue to support and look to expand its Safe Paths program, which employs adults to stand by along the routes students take to and from school. Right now, there are currently eight schools in the district that benefit from the program , but Watlington said there is a planned $750,000 of further investment that will take that number up to 12.
One of those schools to be added is Overbrook High School, where four students were shot near the school after being let out for Thanksgiving break in November.
The second short term solution Watlington discussed is continued investment and further expansion of Safety Zones surrounding certain schools in the district. It’s a partnership between the school district and the Philadelphia Police Department that puts uniformed police officers in and around schools.
“We know that having an increased law enforcement presence is important,” said Watlington.
On that front, an additional $600,000 is slated to strengthen the partnership over the next year and a half to two years.
For the third short term solution, Watlington spoke of a re-emphasis of talking to students in the district to connect better with them and learn more of their problems in and out of the classroom.
“See something, say something,” is what Watlington called the approach his leadership team is bringing to the student body. “You need something, raise your hand and ask.”
That’s something he said teachers and other staff members in the school district confront on a daily basis.
“In a historically underfunded school district, the needs of our students are great,” he said. “And we need to get them what they need.”
In one specific effort to better connect, Watlington said the school district would offer free online support for students between 6th and 12th grades. Teachers and other staff will also have access to the same online resources.
For long term solutions, Watlington said the school district would continue to monitor students’ attendances and progress in subjects like reading and math. Success in those fields, he said, makes students “believe they have options” when it comes to higher education.
But with the investments made now in safety, Watlington also said how it potentially takes away from investments in other areas, like hiring more climate managers, counselors and librarians for schools.
It’s why the third phase of Watlington’s transition is arguably the most important.

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text: We recently bought a chest freezer for our basement…..now to fill it! Last winter I loved having smoothies for breakfast so I figured since I’m not planning on canning tomatoes or peaches this year I would focus on freezing fruit. My friend Wendy also loves to make smoothies so a few weeks ago we headed out early to pick strawberries. We ended up with 30 lbs each!! After getting home Jeff helped me wash and hull them and then into the freezer they went! Since these photos we’ve frozen about 8 bags of blueberries – next up….raspberries!


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Standard Life has reported a 62 per cent increase in UK pre-tax operating profit for the first half of 2012, from £87m to £141m, as the provider gears up for automatic enrolment and the retail distribution review.
The rise in UK profits was driven by a 5 per cent increase in fee based revenues, from £309m in the first half of 2011 to £325m this year, and a 21 per cent reduction in acquisition expenses, from £107m to £84m.
Profits from Standard Life’s fee based business rose 31 per cent, from £118m to £155m, while corporate pension profits were up 60 per cent, from £25m to £40m.
Total assets under administration on the provider’s platforms increased 19 per cent, from £10.8bn in the first six months last year to £12.8bn this year. There was a 17 per cent increase in advisers using its wrap, from 926 to 1,087 with the average assets under advice for each firm increasing from £8.2m to £8.8m.
Total Sipp customers increased 22 per cent to 147,000 while assets under administration increased nearly 10 per cent, from £16.4bn to £18bn.
Standard Life UK chief executive Paul Matthews (pictured) says: “The 62 per cent increase in the UK’s operating profit shows we have made the right decisions to prepare the business for the regulation changes facing the industry in the coming months and years.
“The implementation of RDR is just 139 days away and our retail business is well positioned to help advisers prepare for the future and ensure they are in a position to trade profitably in 2013 and beyond.
“The fact that we have been operating on an adviser fee, non-commission basis, for a number of years now means we are on track to deliver our RDR programme ahead of schedule and will be fully compliant from 15 October.”
Standard Life’s UK business was the catalyst for a 15 per cent increase in the group’s overall pre-tax operating profit, from £262m in the first half last year to £302m this year.

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Teams on R-rate alert as second wave fears grow
Fears of a second wave of Covid-19 infections in France, as well as concerns over the reliability of testing for the virus, have contributed to a growing sense of uncertainty ahead of the Tour de France, which begins in Nice tomorrow.
France’s R-value rose to 1.4 yesterday according to Jean Castex, the prime minister, who admitted that the resurgence of coronavirus was “undeniable” and could spread “exponentially” if the country did not react quickly.
A national alert will be triggered if the R-rate rises above 1.5. Nice, a popular holiday destination, is already at that level. Provence-AlpesCote d’Azur, which contains coastal regions including Nice and St
Tropez, has an R-rate of 1.52, one of the worst in the country.
It is into this climate of uncertainty that the biggest cycling race in the world has arrived, with 22 teams and their attendant staff, plus broadcasters, media and fans.
The chief concern at this stage, other than for general safety or the possibility of a second lockdown, appears to be the “two strikes and you’re out” rule, which organiser ASO has communicated to teams. Two positive tests from any members of a team will result in that team having to leave the race.
However, there have been instances of false positives reported. Earlier this week, Bora-Hansgrohe withdrew their team from the
‘Right now it’s two positives and you go home, but that could even be modified by the time we start’
Bretagne Classic after a rider tested positive, only for a second test to come back negative.
The Daily Telegraph has spoken to a senior member at another team who said they had a scare on the way to Nice when one of their bus drivers tested positive, necessitating a search for a replacement. Finally one was located, only for the first driver to call the next day and inform his team that his second test had come back negative.
The possibility that a team might have to quit the race, only to find that one or both of their positive tests was faulty, is a concern. “It is known that PCR tests have a certain rate of error and thus produce false positive results,” Ralph Denk, the
Bora-Hansgrohe manager, said this week. “This in itself would not be a problem if there were the possibility to check the results immediately in the case of a positive finding.”
ASO is apparently considering amending the rule before tomorrow’s Grand Depart. “Right now it’s two positives and you go home, but that could be modified by the time we even start,” said Matt White, the Mitchelton-Scott sports director.
Sir Dave Brailsford, the Ineos Grenadiers team principal, said common sense should prevail, with the role of the team member taken into account. “For me, it’s about the interpretation of the rules and what we are trying to achieve, which is a safe race,” he said.
Ready to start: The Tour de France Grand Depart takes place in Nice tomorrow

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Reports of a woman brandishing a rifle and entering Trump Tower during a domestic-related incident has seen SWAT crews swarm the Chicago building.
🚨#BREAKING: Woman armed with a rifle walks inside trump tower hotel
Currently numerous authorities and SWAT officers are on the scene at Trump tower international hotel in Chicago Illinois after a Woman armed with a rifle walks into the building reports… pic.twitter.com/YDWLlw7zcb
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) April 5, 2023
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police said SWAT officers responded Wednesday to a domestic incident at the Trump International Hotel and Tower, located in the city’s central Loop near the Chicago River.
The large police presence outside the condo-hotel quickly drew attention from workers and tourists in the busy area.
“At this time, we believe this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public,” Chicago Police media representatives said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.
At least one police helicopter is also at the scene and the road outside has been closed in both directions while police surround the scene and investigate.
Footage from the scene shows multiple police vehicles and officers swamping the area near and around the entrance of the building.
At about 11.35am local time (5.35 pm BST), the woman was seen brandishing a rifle and entering the Trump Tower, two law enforcement sources told the Chicago Sun.
Locals and bystanders are reporting on social media that the building and the surrounding area have been put on lockdown.
SWAT TEAM SURROUNDING BUILDING
Others reported that the SWAT team have surrounded the building.
ABC reported Maher Kawash wrote on Twitter: “Massive police/ SWAT presence at the Trump Tower in Chicago as Wabash Ave is shut down.
“Chicago Police could only confirm there was a “call of service” & we are awaiting more details. Police clearing people out from the area.”
The reporter later added that this is an isolated incident and that there is no threat to the public.
SWAT team has surrounded Trump Tower in Chicago after a women entered the building brandishing a rifle. pic.twitter.com/ZlmSENDGXT
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) April 5, 2023
A tweet by Chicago Police read: “SWAT officers are on-scene in the 400 block of N. Wabash for a domestic-related incident.
“At this time, we believe this is an isolated incident and there is no threat to the public.
“Media staging is at Grand/Wabash. Updates will be provided when available.”
Police were reportedly called to an apartment on the 27th floor of the skyscraper.

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Wales has miles and miles of glorious coastline, with sandy beaches, inviting waters and hidden bays and coves just waiting to be explored. Some coves are harder to reach than others and many have slipped under the radar of many visitors, who instead head to the more popular beaches.
There's plenty of unspoilt coastal areas where you can escape the crowds if you know where to look?
Whether you are looking for coastal walks, places to paddleboard or a beautiful sport for sea swimming, we have the perfect selection of secluded bays and coves for you.
Traeth yr Ora, Anglesey
This secluded, shingle and sand bay is the perfect place for a brisk coastal walk and wildlife spotting. It's a pretty cove that's part of Anglesey's Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and can only be accessed by foot or boat, so you won't find many visitors at this remote spot.
Walk along Anglesey's north coastline to catch a glimpse of seals, porpoises, bottlenose dolphins and a variety of seabirds.
Mowingwood Bay, Pembrokeshire
Mowingwood Bay is a quieter alternative to the popular Barafundle Bay in Pembrokeshire and is just 0.2 miles away from Barafundle but doesn't attract huge crowds.
At this quiet bay, you'll find intriguing rock formations, caves and a blowhole., low tide also reveals a stretch of golden sand.
Porth Iago, Gwynedd
Quiet Porth Iago is next to another secluded cove Porth Ferin, they are separated by a short walk on the Wales Coast Path. There are no facilities at this beach so make sure to bring everything with you.
You can access the beach via the coastal path or from the nearby farm which has a paid car park.
Church Cove Doors, Pembrokeshire
Church Cove Doors has a unique, high-arched ‘door’ cut into the headland by the sea that features a sandy and rocky cove that is tricky to reach but worth the effort
Access to this beach is at low tide only and via the coastal path only, or via a kayak, if you are exploring the spectacular Pembrokeshire coast on a sea kayak. There are several outdoor companies that organise kayak trips to Church Cove and other rocky bays.
Explore Churches offer a ' pilgrims from the sea ' adventure, where you can explore the Pembrokeshire coastline and learn more about 6th-century saints and medieval pilgrims
If you’re planning to visit, check out the tide times to make sure you don’t get cut off by the incoming tide.
Monk Nash, Vale of Glamorgan
To get to the bedrock beach itself you have to follow a secluded windy path in woodland along a small ravine and stream, look out for the old mill on your right as you descend.
The beach itself is mostly stony, fully of grey pebbles that look like dinosaur eggs, to your left there's a small mossy waterfall and cliffs that stretch up and up. It's a brilliant place to take the kids for a stroll, walk the dog or get some incredible sunset photos.
Porth y Nant, Anglesey
This rocky cove in Anglesey is a really under-the-radar cove that doesn't see many visitors. This is the place to come for a secluded hike or a peaceful dog walk to get away from the crowds.
You won't find any cafes or facilities near this stone and shingle bay, so make sure you have everything you need for exploring this quieter part of Anglesey's coastline.
One of Ceredigion's best kept secrets, this beautifully secluded sandy cove lies down leafy lanes lined with flower-covered banks.
Penbryn is owned by the National Trust. The beach is almost a mile in length.
There is a car park on Llanborth Farm as you arrive, some 400 metres from the beach. The walk down to the beach is either on the lane or follow the footpath signs from the back of the car park (behind the café ) which takes you into a beautiful wooded valley, full of wood anemones in the spring.
Swanlake Bay, Pembrokeshire
This secluded bay is only accessible from the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path so is the perfect getaway if you need some time and space just to take in the lush surroundings.
It is a shingle beach but at low tide, it reveals golden sands and rock pools, backed by low cliffs. Even at the height of summer, you could be one of only a handful of visitors.
Tywyn Point, Carmarthenshire
5 miles away from popular Pembrey Sands lies Tywyn Point, a secluded bay that sits within the RAF firing zone of the beach, meaning access is normally restricted to evenings and weekends.
It's worth the trek to this quiet spot though as it has largely escaped the attention of visitors. You'll find an interesting array of shells lining the golden sands and a distant shipwreck of the Paul, which ran aground in 1925.
St Govan's Chapel & Tank Beach, Pembrokeshire
Climb down the steps to this tiny, dark hermit’s cell, built into a cleft in the high cliffs with stupendous views out over the sea. You can scramble down the rocks below and coasteer to Huntsman’s Leap in calm weather. Or bear due east from the car park ½ mile to a long, snaky, sandy inlet known locally as Tank Beach.
Temple Bay, Vale of Glamorgan
Temple Bay is a small cove that sits in Dunraven Bay on the Heritage Coast. It's about half a mile’s walk from neighbouring Southerndown Beach, where you'll also find the nearest parking. this sheltered bay is a perfect place to escape the crowds and take a quiet dip in the waves.
Nearby, you'll find the site of Dunraven Castle, a former mansion that later acted as a hospital in World War II.
You'll find a number of secret sandy coves and tidal pools and rocky islets on this beautiful stretch of beach.
Rich in bird life: curlews, redshanks and black-necked grebes visit in winter, and large flocks of sandwich terns can be seen in summer. Beware of strong currents out in the estuary.
Blue Pool Corner, Gower
Blue Pool Bay is one of Gower's most charming bays. There are no roads or lanes leading to this beach and its location and very sheltered position at the base of u-shaped cliffs is such that only those who know about its existence, and are not afraid of a good walk, ever frequent the clean sands here.
It is not a beach that is usually just stumbled upon and the average tourist will usually settle for the larger, more easily accessed neighbouring beach of Broughton. For that reason, Blue Pool Bay is also one of Gower's quieter bays.
Ceibwr Bay, Pembrokeshire
This narrow inlet of rocks and sand is surrounded by tall cliffs. It’s wild and remote and not suitable for swimming but great if you want to spot a porpoise.
It's reached by a narrow lane along the Nant Ceibwr valley from the village of Moylegrove.
Approximately ⅔ mile to the southwest along the coastal path is the Witches Cauldron or Pwll-y-Wrach - a large collapsed cave formed by the sea eroding the soft shale rocks.
Ramsgrove, Gower Peninsula
Ramsgrove is one of many secluded bays in the Gower, it's a rocky little cove near Rhossili that is accessed via a steep high sided, limestone valley.
It's a quiet place to explore rock pools and enjoy some solitude on the popular Gower peninsular. Swimming isn't recommended here due to the choppy waves and remote location. Instead, have a coastal walk, a picnic or walk the dog in peace.
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SWIFT TRANSPORTATION COMPANY ANNOUNCES TIMING OF FOURTH QUARTER & 2011 YEAR END EARNINGS RELEASE AND CONFERENCE CALL
Swift Transportation Company (NYSE:SWFT) will release its earnings for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011 on January 25, 2012 before the market opens in the form of a letter to the shareholders. The letter will be published on the company's website at http://ir.swifttrans.com/, as well as filed with the SEC on a form 8-K.
Following the distribution of the letter to shareholders, we invite questions regarding the periods' performance be submitted to Investor_Relations@swifttrans.com. Questions will be accepted until 2:00pm EST on January 25th.
A conference call is scheduled for Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:30pm EST, where Swift Transportation's management team will answer questions previously submitted.
Participants may access the call using the following dial-in numbers.
U.S./Canada: (866) 379-9391
International/Local: (706) 634-0901
Conference ID: 43395820
The letter to shareholders, transcript of the Q&A, as well as a link for the replay, will be available via our investor relations website: http://www.swifttrans.com/.
Jason Bates, Vice President Finance, and Investor Relations Officer
Ginnie Henkels, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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4-H’ers participate in robotics tournament
BEMIDJI – Seventeen Beltrami County 4-H youth participated in the Regional First Lego League Robotics tournament Dec. 8 at the Northome School.
The group represented three teams from Beltrami County 4-H. The Division II team, “The Oldies,” was honored with the Judges Award at the tournament.
The mission theme for the 2012 First Lego League season was Senior Solutions. The mission: Can First Lego League teams improve the quality of life for seniors by helping them continue to be independent, engaged and connected in their communities?
Each challenge had three parts: the robot game, the project and the FLL core values. Youth participated with one coach in the challenge by programming an autonomous robot to score points on a themed playing field (robot game), developing a solution to a problem they had identified (project), all guided by the FLL core values.
Financial gifts from Paul Bunyan Communications and the late Jim Heltzer help sustain the Beltrami County 4-H Robotics program. The Headwaters Science Center provides space and technical support for the teams and the Science Engineering and Technology 4-H Club.
Demonstrations of the robots and aquatic robots can be found in the 4-H Robot Shack during the 2013 Beltrami County Fair.