|Publication number||US5546295 A|
|Application number||US 08/520,302|
|Publication date||Aug 13, 1996|
|Filing date||Aug 28, 1995|
|Priority date||Feb 24, 1994|
|Publication number||08520302, 520302, US 5546295 A, US 5546295A, US-A-5546295, US5546295 A, US5546295A|
|Inventors||Ralph Prete, Vladimir Brunstein, Todd J. Kazmirski|
|Original Assignee||Rotron Incorporated|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (17), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (28), Classifications (7), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/201,002, filed Feb. 24, 1994, now abandoned.
The invention relates to electrical converters, especially for use in power supplies in electrically propelled vehicles with external power pick-up, e.g., in electrical locomotives, streetcars, trolley buses, and subways.
Electrically propelled vehicles may require one or several auxiliary power supplies, e.g., for lighting, air conditioning, and communications. Typically, such power supplies run off a main DC line supplying power to the traction drive system of the vehicle. Electrical connection to the main power line is through a carbon brush to an overhead wire or a third rail; in the case of trolley buses, two carbon brushes to overhead power lines are used. As a result, due to the intermittent nature of connection through moving contacts, DC input power is subject to large voltage transients.
Auxiliary power requirements on the electric vehicle may be AC or/and DC, and often at several different voltage levels. For example, a vehicle may have a 37-volt DC low-voltage bus, a 370-volt DC high-voltage bus, and a 230-volt 3-phase AC bus. These line characteristics may be derived from three separate supply circuits or from a single hybrid circuit. In either case, power is extracted from the main power line at 600 volts DC, for example.
Known power supply circuit configurations of interest here have evolved into topologies which may be referred to as GTO-AC and GTO-DC type, for AC and DC output power, respectively. In a GTO-AC power supply, a GTO (gate turn on) switching network drives the primary side of a low frequency transformer, typically at 60 Hz. The secondaries of the transformer provide the desired AC power to a bus in the vehicle. In this design, the transformer turns ratio must be chosen to give the desired AC output voltage for the 600-volt DC nominal input. Any long-term transient will show up in the output of the secondary winding, so that the output voltage will be regulated only if the input voltage is regulated. Moreover, even at constant input voltage, the output voltage will vary somewhat with load current.
A GTO-DC power supply is similar, with a GTO switching network on the primary side of a transformer inducing a low-frequency AC output voltage at the output of the secondary winding(s). This voltage is then fed into a rectifier network to provide a DC source. Again, the output voltage varies with input voltage and with load current.
These topologies have gained acceptance because of their ruggedness and proven reliability. Transient voltages on the 600-volt line input can be in the range of 3000 to 5000 volts, and any equipment such as GTO's directly connected to this line must be able to survive the transients. Of course, a filter may be interposed for attenuating the large transients. Since the transients have a significant amount of energy, the filter must have large capacity. As a result, for a 15 kW power supply, for example, such a filter will weigh several hundred pounds. If a smaller filter is to be used, GTO's are required with correspondingly higher voltage ratings.
Although these power supplies have proved to be reliable in the field, they have significant drawbacks. One significant drawback lies in their size and weight. Since they operate at low frequency, all their energy conversion components, including the input filter chokes, input filter capacitors, transformer, output filter chokes and output filter capacitors are very large and bulky, typically having a weight upward of 2000 pounds and a volume on the order of 50 cubic feet.
Power supplies in which the supply frequency is higher have reduced weight and size, with smaller and lighter filter capacitors and switching transformers. Such power supplies require transistors which can switch at high frequencies. While GTO's can operate only up to 1 kHz, high-speed transistors such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBT) and metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFET) can switch at frequencies up to at least 20 kHz; see, e.g., U.S. Pat. No. 4,860,184, issued Aug. 22, 1989 to W. A. Tabisz et al.
High-speed transistors are available only in voltage ratings up to 1200 volts, so that use of IGBT's or MOSFET's in vehicular applications again would seem to require a large input filter to attenuate the transient voltages on the traction power line. Such combinations of an input filter with a high frequency switching converter are not price competitive with low frequency GTO-type converters.
An electrical power converter such as an inverter or a DC power supply comprises series-connected switching circuits, so that a DC input voltage is split between the switching circuits. As a result, lower-rated, high-speed switching elements can be used without damage due to input-voltage transients. Among suitable switching elements are IGBT's and MOSFET's. The series-connected switching circuits are half-bridge circuits or full-bridge circuits. A circuit which is a half-bridge circuit or a full bridge circuit here will be designated as a bridge-topology switching converter circuit.
FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of a preferred first embodiment of the invention, representing a DC power supply comprising half-bridge transistor circuits.
FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram of a preferred second embodiment of the invention, representing an inverter comprising half-bridge transistor circuits.
FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram of a preferred third embodiment of the invention, representing a DC power supply comprising full-bridge transistor circuits.
FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram of a preferred fourth embodiment of the invention, representing an inverter comprising full-bridge transistor circuits.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of exemplary control circuitry for controlling gate and emitter voltages of switching transistors of a power supply circuit in accordance with FIG. 1.
The DC power supply circuit of FIG. 1 includes a front-end or input stage with switching transistors Q1 through Q4 with respective gate terminals G1 through G4 and emitter terminals E1 through E4, and capacitors C1 through C4. Via a transformer with primary windings T1A and T1B, and with a secondary winding T1C, the input stage is coupled to a rectifier stage with diodes D1 through D4, a coil LOUT and a capacitor COUT. In operation, upon application of a DC input voltage VIN, a DC output voltage VOUT is produced.
The following components are included in an exemplary embodiment of a DC power supply circuit in accordance with FIG. 1: transistors Q1 through Q4, Toshiba IGBT's MG200Q2YS1, rated at 200 A and 1200 V; capacitors C1 through C4, Philips 3188GH372T400AMA2, 3700 microfarad, rated 400 V; coupling transformer windings T1A and T1B with 18 turns each, and winding T1C with 3 turns; diodes D1 through D4, Sanrex FRS200AA60, rated at 200 A and 600 V, output inductance LOUT of 15 millihenry, output capacitor COUT Philips 3188GG4730075AMA2, 47000 microfarad, rated at 75 V.
The inverter circuit of FIG. 2 comprises front-end and rectifier stages as described above with reference to FIG. 1, followed by an output stage with transistors Q5 through Q10 with respective base terminals B5 through B10 and emitter terminals E5 through E10. In operation, upon application of a DC input voltage VIN, 3-phase AC output is produced.
The following components are included in an exemplary prototype embodiment of an inverter circuit in accordance with FIG. 2: transistors Q1 through Q4 and capacitors C1 through C4 as specified above for the exemplary embodiment of the power supply circuit in accordance with FIG. 1; coupling transformer windings T1A and T1B with 8 turns each, and winding T1C with 28 turns; diodes D1 through D4, Sanrex FDS100AA60, rated at 100 A and 600 V; output inductance LOUT of 2 millihenry, output capacitor COUT Philips 3188GG322T400AM, 3200 microfarad, rated at 400 V; output stage transistors Q5-Q10, Powerex KD421215HD rated at 150 A and 1200 V. This prototype embodiment, including a front end with two IGBT half-bridge circuits in series, operates as a 15 kW 3-phase AC inverter at a switching frequency of 20 kHz.
Another prototype embodiment has two outputs. One output provides 28 volts DC for a low-voltage bus, and the other provides a voltage which varies between 172 volts and 320 volts, for charging a battery bank as a stand-by for emergency propulsion. The front end of this supply also uses a dual-stage IGBT-based half bridge operating at 20 kHz. Each of the prototypes weighs less than 200 pounds. It is estimated that GTO-type supplies with similar capability would weigh on the order of 1,000 pounds.
The DC power supply circuit of FIG. 3 includes a front-end or input stage with input capacitors C and with IGBT's Q1 through Q4 and Q11 through Q14, having respective gate terminals G1 through G4 and G11 through G14, and having respective emitter terminals E1 through E4 and E11 through E14. Via a coupling transformer with primary windings T1A and T1B, and with a secondary winding T1C, the input stage is coupled to a rectifier stage with diodes D1 through D4, a coil LOUT and a capacitor COUT. In operation, upon application of a DC input voltage VIN, a DC output voltage VOUT is produced. Exemplary numerical values for the components shown in FIG. 3 are as described above for FIG. 1, with capacitors C of 3700 microfarad.
The inverter circuit of FIG. 4 comprises front-end and rectifier stages as described above with reference to FIG. 3, followed by an output stage with transistors Q5 through Q10 as described with reference to FIG. 2. In operation, upon application of a DC input voltage VIN, 3-phase AC output is produced. Exemplary numerical values for the components shown in FIG. 4 are as described above for FIG. 2, with capacitors C of 3700 microfarad.
Included in preferred power supplies and inverters is control logic circuitry for the switching transistors. For a power supply circuit as in FIG. 1, FIG. 5 shows a control circuit 51 connected to a driver circuit 52, with logic-isolated power supply 50 at 37 volts, for example. The input terminals VS and VSR of the control circuit 51 are understood, as connected to the correspondingly designated voltage output terminals shown in FIG. 1. The output terminals G1 through G4 and E1 through E4 of the driver circuit 52 are understood as connected to the respective gate and emitter terminals shown in FIG. 1. As connected to the circuit of FIG. 1, the combined control and driver circuits 51 and 52 provide for feedback-controlled modulation of on/off periods of the transistors Q1 through Q4, for maintaining a desired power supply output voltage VOUT. Control circuitry as shown in FIG. 5 can be used also for the front end of the inverter circuit shown in FIG. 2. Analogous circuitry can be included for control of the 3-phase AC output stage of the inverter circuit of FIG. 2, with voltage output terminals VA, VB and VC of FIG. 2 connected to corresponding control circuitry input terminals, and with driver output terminals connected to the base and emitter terminals B5 through B10 and E5 through E10 of the transistors Q5 through Q10. Control circuitry for power supply and inverter circuits in accordance with FIGS. 3 and 4 is analogous to control circuitry for the circuits in accordance respective with FIGS. 1 and 2.
Characteristically, in accordance with an aspect of embodiments according to FIGS. 1 and 2, the front-end circuit can be interpreted as a hybrid of two half-bridge converters in series. The input voltage VIN is split, with each half-bridge circuit receiving half the input voltage. As a benefit, such a converter can operate with lower-rated, higher-speed switching transistors even when relatively large transients arise at its input terminals. If four transistors are used, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the withstand voltage of the circuit is twice the transistor rated voltage. If eight transistors (in four half-bridge circuits) are connected in series, the withstand voltage for the input is four times the transistor rating. Because of the high operating frequency of this network, the size of filter capacitors and of the switching transformer is reduced.
The operation of a front-end circuit with series-connected half-bridge circuits is similar to that of a single half-bridge circuit, with each half bridge mirroring the operation of the others. Thus, Q1 and Q3 turn on and stay on for the same periods. Their on period (or duty cycle if expressed as a percentage of the fundamental period) is less than or equal to one half of the fundamental period. During the on period, Q1 conducts current through T1A to the capacitor network of C1 and C2. The voltage across T1A is reflected in the secondary winding of the transformer. Similarly, Q3 conducts current through T1B to the capacitor network of C3 and C4, and the voltage across T1B is also reflected in the secondary winding T1C of the transformer. Q2 and Q4 also turn on simultaneously, but 180 degrees out of phase with Q1 and Q3. In this manner, they reverse the current and voltage applied to T1A and T1B, respectively. The voltage induced in the transformer secondary winding T1C is also reversed.
The rectifier network with LOUT and COUT shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 serves to rectify the AC voltage at the secondary winding of the transformer to produce a DC output. The duty cycle of the switching transistors Q1 through Q4 can be chosen effectively to control the DC output voltage. By reducing the duty cycle, the energy coupled from the primary to the secondary is lowered, effectively reducing the output voltage of the rectifier network. For control of the output voltage level, a control network can be included as described, with feedback of the output voltage for modulation of the duty cycle of the switching transistors. Preferably, in the interest of preventing saturation of the switching transformer, the duty cycles of the switching transistors Q1 and Q3 are closely matched to the duty cycles of Q2 and Q4.
The transformer windings are not restricted to being on one and the same transformer core. T1A and T1B may be on two different cores, or on the same core and wound in parallel. Similarly, T1C may be split into two windings which may be connected in parallel. Such two windings may also be connected in series through two rectifier networks, with the further benefit of allowing the use of faster recovery diodes with lower voltage rating.
Characteristically, in accordance with an aspect of embodiments according to FIGS. 3 and 4, the front-end circuit can be interpreted as a hybrid of two full-bridge converter circuits in series. Analogous to embodiments according to FIGS. 1 and 2, the input voltage VIN is split, with each converter circuit receiving half the input voltage, and the same holds true for any input-voltage transients. In the embodiments of FIGS. 3 and 4, comprising two converter circuits in series, withstand voltage is twice the transistor rated voltage. Analogous to embodiments according to FIGS. 1 and 2, if four such circuits are connected in series, the withstand voltage for the input is four times the transistor rating. Any number, even or odd, of suitable switching circuits can be connected in series for increased input withstand voltage.
In converter operation, Q1, Q3, Q12 and Q14 turn on and off together. Q2, Q4, Q11 and Q13 also turn on an off together, but 180 degrees out of phase with Q1, Q3, Q12 and Q14. Preferably, in the interest of matching of duty cycles, the switching transistors have substantially the same switching characteristics. For control of the output voltage level, a control network can be included as described, with feedback of the output voltage for modulation of the duty cycle of the switching transistors.
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The praised epic poem, Beowulf, is the first great heroic poem in English
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The old tale was not first told or invented by the commonly known, Beowulf poet.
This is clear from investigations of the folk lore analogues. The manuscript was written
by two scribes around AD 1000 in late West Saxon, the literary dialect of that period. It
is believed that the scribes who put the old materials together into their present form
were Christians and that his poem reflects a Christian tradition. The first scribe copied
three prose pieces and the first 1,939 lines of Beowulf while the second scribe copied the
rest of Beowulf and Judith. In 1731, a fire swept through the Cottonian Library,
damaging many books and scorching the Beowulf codex. In 1786-87, after the
manuscript had been deposited in the British Museum the Icelander, Grinur Jonsson
Thorkelin, made two transcriptions of the poem for what was to be the first edition, in
1815 (Clark, 112-15).
Beowulf is a mixture of pagan and Christian attitudes. Heathen practices are
mentioned in several places, such as vowing of sacrifices at idol fanes, the observing of
omens, the burning of the dead, which was frowned upon by the church. The frequent
allusions to the power of fate, the motive of blood revenge, and the praise of worldly
glory bear testimony to the ancient background of pagan conceptions and ideals.
However, the general tone of the epic and its ethical viewpoint are predominantly
Christian . There is no longer a genuine pagan atmosphere. The sentiment has been
softened and purified. The virtues of moderation, unselfishness, consideration for others
are practiced and appreciated. Beowulf is a Christian reworking of a pagan poem with a
string of pagan lays edited by monks; it is the work of a learned but inaccurate Christian
antiquarian (Clark, 112).
The author has fairly exhaulted the fights with Grendel, his mother, and the
dragon into a conflict between powers of good and evil. The figure of Grendel, while
originally an ordinary Scandinavian troll is conceived as an impersonation of evil and
darkness, even an incarnation of the Christian devil. Grendel is a member of the race of
Cain, from whom all misshapen and unnatural things were spawned (Kermode, 42)
such as ogres and elves. He is a creature dwelling in the outer darkness, a giant and
cannibal. When he crawls off to die, he is said to join the route of devils in hell. The
story of a race of demonic monsters and giants descended from Cain. It came form a
tradition established by the apocryphal Book of Enoch and early Jewish and Christian
interpretations of Genesis 6:4, There were giants in the earth in those days, and also
afterward, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men, who bore
children to them (Holland Crossley, 15).
Many of Grendels appellations are unquestionable epithets of Satan such as
enemy of mankind, Gods adversary, the devil in hell, and the hell slave. His
actions are represented in a manner suggesting the conduct of the evil one, and he dwells
with his mother in a mere which conjures visions of hell.
The depiction of the mere is the most remarkable because it is a conceptual
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Gay=s Use of Music for Satire in The Beggar=s Opera
John Gay=s The Beggar=s Opera is a rather complex work, despite its apparent simplicity. Critics have interpreted it variously as political satire, moral satire, even (at a stretch) Christian satire. Common to many interpretations is the assertion that the Opera is a satire directed at both the politics and the art of its day. A fairly conventional interpretation of the play and its composition shows that it is, and was intended by its author to be, specifically a satire of Italian opera and of the aristocrats that patronized that form. While that interpretation is not in doubt, because critics almost universally agree about it in the literature, most interpretations overlook a certain aspect of the satire and comedy. Specifically, the nature of the music and the manner in which Gay uses that music in the play produces a certain brusque effect, one which can serve to heighten the comedy and deepen the satire of Opera. This caustic use of music extends to the content of the songs themselves, the technical features of the music, and the manner of their insertion into the play itself. Several examples of the songs, as well as the text surrounding them, evidence this acerbic use of the music within the play to satirize opera.
That Gay means to satirize opera categorically is fairly obvious within the text, even without outside knowledge of the operas of the day. Gay first indicates his satiric intent in the Beggar=s opening speech when the Beggar says:
I hope I may be forgiven, that I have not made my opera throughout unnatural, like those in vogue. (Nettleton 530)
Further, the Beggar represents opera composers to some extent, which is an unflattering representation in itself. That the Beggar speaks like a literary hack furthers the insult delivered to those composers through this character:
I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas: the swallow, the moth, the bee, the ship, the flower &c.
At the end of the play, the Beggar and Player return to further insult opera. The Player says AAn opera must end happily@ (III.xvi), to which the Beggar replies by indicating that he can create a happy ending, because A*tis no matter how absurdly things are brought about@ in opera. additionally, the composer and performer do these things Ato satisfy the taste of the town,@ thus assigning blame for the banality of opera to its audiences.
Gay was motivated to satirize opera because of its immense popularity, as William Schultz says:
In 1728 (the year of the Opera=s premiere) Italian opera was firmly settled as a popular fashion. People of all ranks...flocked to hear the foreign compositions, as well as English pieces in a similar style. (136)
Italian opera was so very popular that it eroded native English music and musical styles. Musical productions of anything besides opera were poorly funded by patrons, if funded at all, and often failed. The sixty-nine ballads of Gay=s Opera are native English tunes for which Gay wrote new lyrics. And the work was a very successful strike against the foreign art form, as well as a revitalization of the somewhat sagging English musical tradition (for a fuller discussion of the historical circumstances, see Schultz ). At the very least, a certain sort of artistic patriotism motivated Gay in composition.
The most immediate aspect of Gay=s satire is in the content of the opera and some of its ballads. While there are notable exceptions, the opera as a form is one generally reserved for the most Aworthy@ material. This is more the case before the time of the Opera than after, but still largely true even after the Eighteenth century. Wagner=s Parsifal is about a quest for the Holy Grail, and the Niebelung is about the struggles of the Norse gods. Berlioz=s Les Troyens is about the Trojan War. Bizet=s Carmen is a tragic love story, and Handel=s Rinaldo is about a knight in the First Crusade. Handel was a contemporary of Gay and one of the major operatic composer of his day, thus his work rather exemplary of the operas of the period. Purcell=s King Arthur is a Asemi-opera@ about the mythic ... more
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Take Me, Cowboy (Copper Ridge: Desire) by Maisey Yates
Highly recommended for anyone who likes their heroines sassy, their heroes strong, and the descriptions of orgasms lengthy.
Take Me, Cowboy is the story of two folks who have been best friends for most of their lives. Chase is the town playboy and Anna is the town misfit who recently started her own business as a large equipment mechanic. Anna’s mom left the family behind when Anna was a kid, so lady influences in her life were slim to none. More at home with monkey wrenches than high heels, Anna’s not exactly made her way into the dating scene. Our story kicks off when Anna’s brother bets her that she can’t get a date to an upcoming charity gala ball thing and she takes him up on it.
Not having any idea what to do about it, she moans to her best friend who comes up with a solution: they should fake date until the gala.
Well, chickens, we know exactly how that’s going to turn out, don’t we!
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Anna is strong and sassy, and with the comfort of knowing Chase so well on many levels but not all, we see both that confidence and the shakiness that comes from new layers in relationships. She knows this man, but she doesn’t know this part of this man. She’s used to taking care of her own sexual needs and not opening herself up to the intimacy that comes with partnering. For a lady who prides herself on being self-sufficient, Anna quickly finds herself craving the space that’s created in a relationship. That shift is unexpected for our Anna, and a lesser author would have ignored it. Instead, Yates sits in Anna’s discomfort and confusion for just a little bit, just enough time to allow us to believe that the choice she makes to move towards Chase instead of away from him is authentic.
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“You don’t say much, do you?” I asked, exhaling some smoke. A breeze picked up and blew some of the smoke from my mouth over to her face. ---- Logan is the protagonist in the novel Seed Me. Learn more about him on the wiki Link in bio.
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This time around our story includes RMU fan favorites including Spalding, Penny, Lisa, Louise, Nox, Lilith, Billy, Vivian, The Connors, and the mysterious Midwives of Rowley! Launching in Spring 2020. More news coming very soon! ----- Cant wait to get this out to you all!
Another read this year, no particular order. The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. A fascinating dive into what love really is. He presents it as something that is grown and maintained. The book explores how to navigate love and how it applies to everything you experience in life.


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As the largest jet liner ever built, in its “3-class” mode, the A380 can carry 525 passengers in the first, second and economy classes. In its all-economy class configuration, it can carry a mind boggling 853 passengers! This capacity bests the 747-8 which has a 467 passenger 3-class capacity or at most a 605 all-economy class capacity. This ability to carry so many extra passengers results in greater profit for airlines and has resulted in the A380 outselling the 747-8 with 317 orders to 119 orders. The future of the 747-8 will apparently be as a cargo aircraft.
Even in terms of range, the A380 can outfly the 747 by about 500 nm and is capable of reaching a maximum distance of 8,500 nm. Also, the amount of floor space in the A380 is over 5,100 square feet, a 40% increase over the 747-8. Furthermore, the combined thrust of the A380’s 4 massive jet engines is 72,000 pounds, also besting the 747’s 66,500 pounds of thrust.
Compare these numbers between the Airbus A380, the “King of the Skies” and the Boeing 747, the “Queen of the Skies,” to the venerable Boeing 707, the first commercially successful passenger jetliner that debuted in 1957. It had a capacity of about 150 passengers and a range of 2,500 to 5,750 nm depending on configuration. The combined thrust of the 707’s 4 jet engines ranged from 13,000 to 19,000 pounds. Airplanes sure have come a long way since 1957!
With no loss of life in an accident and no loss of an entire plane, the A380 has had an exemplary safety record so far. With its huge size and enormous passenger capacity, however, a total loss of an A380 and its passengers would be a tremendous catastrophe, a prospect scary enough to give a person pause when considering the wisdom of putting so many people in one plane.
Question for students (and subscribers): How big can planes still get? Judging from the remarkable progress made since the Wright Brothers first flew, it literally seems like the sky’s the limit. Personally, I would be satisfied with more legroom and easier access to bathrooms on passenger flights, how about you? Please let us know in the comments section below this article.
Your readership is much appreciated!
For more information, please see…
Norris, Guy and Mark Wagner. Airbus A380: Superjumbo of the 21st Century. Zenith Press, 2010.
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DALLAS — The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services will tour a COVID-19 testing site Tuesday in Dallas and then meet with both FedEx leaders and representatives of the Strategic National Stockpile who are working to distribute protective equipment to frontline health care workers.
“The Trump Administration has worked to equip states like Texas with the tools needed to beat the virus, from testing supplies and data expertise to PPE shipments, therapeutics, and an eventual vaccine,” said Secretary Alex Azar in a written statement.
On Tuesday, Azar will visit the federally-funded testing site in Dallas.
Later in the day, Azar will meet with leadership at a FedEx facility near DFW Airport and with personnel from the Strategic National Stockpile.
Both groups are part of Project Air Bridge, a federal effort for the Trump administration to partner with private companies and reduce the time it takes for U.S. medical supply distributors to receive personal protective equipment and other critical supplies.
“I look forward to meeting with, hearing from, and thanking Texans on the front-lines combating the coronavirus, including the federal, state, and private partners who are shipping critical lifesaving supplies around the country, about the hard work they’re doing and the steps we’re taking together to defeat the virus,” Azar said in the written statement.
July has been the toughest month yet in this state’s fight to control the coronavirus.
For seven days this month, Texas recorded more than 10,000 new daily cases of the novel coronavirus. The seven-day average of fatalities is also rising in Texas all month, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
More on WFAA:
- MAP: These are the confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Dallas-Fort Worth area
- Denton County health department recommends school year to begin online through Sept. 8
- Dr. Hotez: 'Every day we're breaking new records in the Texas metro areas in terms of numbers of deaths'
- World's largest COVID-19 vaccine study begins with 30,000 volunteers


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(Notice in particular the quote below in their state code. We need a clause like that in our FIPPA.)
Washington State is a lot like Canada when it comes to abortion, a near lawless wasteland. But the one good thing is the Public Records Law. I'd say we have the strongest of all 50 states. This preamble or "construction" is actually in the state code:
"The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may maintain control over the instruments that they have created. This chapter shall be liberally construed and its exemptions narrowly construed to promote this public policy and to assure that the public interest will be fully protected. In the event of conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any other act, the provisions of this chapter shall govern."
Basically, if you ask for a document the state has, they have to give it to you, as long as they redact any personally identifying information. And they automatically get punished if they don't, so you really don't have to work very hard to get records. The onus is on them, not on the requestor.
On abortion, it turns out that doctors report every abortion to the state Department of Health. This data is published in statistical form every year by the DOH. I have previously requested the raw data and received it, but the abortionists once up on a time got a law prohibiting the release of any information identifying the abortion clinic or abortionist, so that stuff was redacted/removed.
But if they want to hide it, I want to see it.
So it occurred to me that if they won't give me the clinic info, I could do an end-run around their restriction by requesting the data by clinic. Legal technicalities! So I asked for all abortion records where the facility is X. And then did that for a whole bunch of clinics. This worked on the first one (a non-profit hospital chain out here). So then I did a batch of requests including Planned Parenthood and the major free-standing abortion mills. Now when the state is about to release info it has that is about you, they must notify you. So all the abortion clinics were notified that this data was about to be released. It turns out they all got together to sue the government not to release the data (which is their legal right.)
So that's where we're at. So legally the government and I are actually co-defendants, and most of the abortion clinics in the state are suing us to prevent release of records. It turns out that there is case law where the state Supreme Court has ruled on almost identical legal issues, so it should be cut and dry.

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Quote:> Just a simple question. I'm designing a simple Motif application and am
> wondering if anyone knows if the Motif 2.0 libraries (sold by Red Hat)
> are Threads friendly. The program works fine until I start to even just
> include the threads library in compile time. Then it begins to fail
> after just a few X events.
Motif 2.0 and the XFree86 libraries are not thread safe. The new Motif
2.1 will be thread safe. If you want to use threads in your X application,
all the X calls must be done within one thread. Use the other threads for
the non X related stuff.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Penney for your equality
And not only has Penney’s featured real-life gay parents in its marketing campaign, it’s treated them as wonderfully equal and totally not a big deal. The copy that went along with the Mother’s Day ad was called “Freedom of Expression” and said “You’ll often find Wendi, her partner Maggie, and daughters elbow-deep in clay, paint of mosaics.” It also featured Wendi’s mom, to make it a lovely three generations portrait. The new Father’s Day ad says, “First Pals: What makes Dad so cool? He's the swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver - all rolled into one. Or two.”
Both sets of gay parents are featured amid other pictures depicting straight parents and other families. They’re just amid the melting pot, as it should be. Of course, this brought out the crazies. The so-called One Million Moms conservative group launched a protest for both the Ellen hiring and Mother’s Day ad.
In response to the Ellen thing JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson said: “Our company was founded 110 years ago on The Golden Rule, which is about treating people fair and square, just like you would like to be treated yourself. And we think Ellen represents the values of our company and the values that we share.”
When the rabid mamas attacked again for the Mom’s Day ad, a JCPenney spokesperson said: “As JCPenney focuses on becoming America’s favorite store, we want to be a store for all Americans. In celebration of Mother’s Day, we’re proud that our May book honors women from diverse backgrounds who all share the heartwarming experience of motherhood.”
Now, the Father’s Day ad is so new the marauding mommies haven’t had a chance to launch a protest. But, rest assured, I am certain they will. And now I am also equally confident that the good people at JCPenney will rebuff said intolerance and instead embrace an acceptance of a world that thinks everyone – gay, straight, whathaveyou – deserves to be represented and perhaps wear reasonably priced clothes while doing so. Sure, it’s also business, but it’s good business for everyone when gay inclusions is not just principled but marketable. So thank you, Penney’s, for knowing that love is love, family is family and a dollar is a dollar. You’ve certainly earned a few of mine.

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William Harrington - Columbo : The Grassy Knoll (Titan, 1994): Columbo's investigates the murder of an obnoxious talk show and blithely unravels the truth behind the assassination of JFK. Sure, I'd have preferred the next book in the series - Columbo tackles the Manson Family in The Helter Skelter Murders - but this will do to be getting along with.
I wonder how you got on with this one, Dem? I've just found a short scribble about it, 230 words, but won't post if it's on your 'to read' stack. On the other hand, I could be mean...
Anyway, went to town for the first time in a month and visited that shop again:
Translation by Stephen Marlowe (Sphere, 1978)
The Camp on Blood Island J M White & Val Guest (Panther, 1958-70)
Blackwater 3: The House by Michael McDowell (Corgi/Avon, 1983-85) Grisly murder, torn apart bodies and stuff.
The Roundabout by Michael Allwright (Panther, 1968-73) "A macabre little yarn..." Sunday Times (and that must be a pseudonym surely)
Key Out of Time by Andre Norton (Ace, 1963) Bought because it was an old Ace.
Enter the Saint by Charteris (Pan, 1963) Three short stories, mediocre cover. Wish I hadn't given those Yellow Jackets away to Oxfam.
The Haunting of Clifton Court by Dana Ross (Popular Library, 1972) "...hideous forces of corruption were vying for her very soul."
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco (Coronet, 1973-77) Never saw this painted cover before. Post-film.
Duel For a Dark Angel by Marc Marais (NEL Original, 1975) Possibly a new NEL find?
Horror Novels edited by Mike Ashley (W H Smith, 2004) Includes Fengriffen and Kirk's There's a Long, Long Trail a'Winding.
The Sweetwater Point Motel by Peter Saab (Guild Publishing, 1981-86) I sold this exact copy to that shop years back. Perhaps I'm more in the mood to read crap now?
Also saw but didn't buy, in case you're looking for them:
Three Professionals novels by Ken Blake: Long Shot, Where the Jungle Ends, and Fall Girl
Witch Mark by S F Roland - (Trojan, undated but good as new)
Also, a Sphere Revelations novel from the 70s, like the Confessions series. Can't remember the damn title now, but there were only two listed in the series.
The Patron Saint of junkyard dogs was looking out for me last week.
From a creepy crawl along the Charing Cross Road ....
Anon - Sweeney Todd or The String Of Pearls (Wordsworth Editions, 2007): Reprint of penny dreadful (1846-7), usually attributed to Thomas Peckett Press, but Dick Collins excellent introduction controverts this. By his reckoning, as many as four authors worked on it. I've read several extracts in Haining's works on the subject but now, at long last, here's the entire story going at around an unbelievable £2.50 a throw.
George W. M. Reynolds - Wagner The Werewolf (Wordsworth Editions, 2006). Another 'dreadful, from the notoriously prickly Reynolds whose work will also be familiar to those who go in for early Haining's. Again, I've read several chapters but never the entire 450 + pages monstrosity in it's entirety
Michael Marshall Smith - Spares (Harpercollins, 1996)
Bernard Pickton - The Expert (Sphere, 1979) "Based on the popular TV series". Never heard of it but evidently centers around a top pathologist.
John Robert Columbo & Michael Richardson - Not To Be Taken At Night (Ravette, 1988). Thirteen tales of terror, etc. I gave my previous copy of this away unread, but that won't happen this time.
From those lovely people at Constable-Robinson (on the back of eight Mammoth's)!
Paul Bibeau - Sundays With Vlad (Constable, 2008): Looks like if fun, although those who share my aversion for all things Count Dracula Fan Club are advised that I just spotted a reference to "Penthouse North."
Last but by no means least
One Eyed Gray #5
Where to start ......
.... it certainly won't be Columbo .....
From the first, I set myself against "literature"; the story was the thing, and no amount of style could persuade me to select a story that lacked genuine, unadulterated horror. For those who wanted something high-brow there was plenty.
Crow 2: Worse Than Death GNS: Bamboo Guerillas Sloane by Steve Lee (kung fu PC Western)
but they were off amazon so that's cheating. But, I found all 4 GNS Sabat books in good nick for £1.40 each today, and Edge 51 for a quid! Also got some other stuff like a Mick Farren novel and a Christopher Pike, but they pale in comparison really innit.
Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Jun 19, 2008 20:49:33 GMT
Quite a few since I last posted:
The Dead - Mark Rogers Tree House - Victor Mullen Beasts - Stephen R. George Runaway - Stephen Gresham Satan's Snowdrop - Guy N. Smith (with wonderful nazi zombie cover ;D) The Bad Seed - William March - £1.50 the lot The Blood Snarl - Ivor watkins 10p
The Rivard House - F.Edwin Lambirth Hell-O-Ween - David Robbins The Wild Bunch - Brian Fox The Rage - Jack Ramsay Croc - David James - £1 the lot
I got this lot today, at £1 a piece & all in good condition:
Best New Horror 1 The Slime Beast - Guy N. Smith Bloodshow - " " Fiend - " " The Walking Dead - " " Ogre - Mark Ronson The Tribe - Glenn Chandler Devil's Coach Horse - Richard Lewis The Cannibal - Stuart Kinder Blowfly - David Loman Snowman - Norman Bogner
So you could say I'm a happy shoggoth There are some wonderful covers on some of these books, I shall have to scan some of them & post them.
Unfortunately I didn't get it the first time I went round the market, but I could have had a hardback of The Plague Chronicles by Guy N. Smith for £1. But when i went round again someone had picked it up & was buying it, despite me mentally willing them to put it back.
On 'earlies' this week ("When there's no more room on the late shift, the dead will stumble out of bed at half four in the morning with a low growling moan...") and come half two today I was dragging myself through town en route back to the old sucking pit, more than ready to hurl myself in, when I was siezed by an odd compulsion to stop off at Eagle Books in the indoor market (the last great bookstall in Derby) and treat myself to a poundsworth from his 25p "non-returnable" basket.
Here's just some of what I turned up during a brief 15 minute rummage;
Let's Go Play At The Adams' by Mendal Johnson (Granada)
Mendal Johnson's "experiment in horror... more terrifying than Lord Of The Flies and The Exorcist combined!" isn't a personal favourite but as my mate's one of those people who love it (and for 25p) it'd have been rude not to...
The Glass Cage by Colin Wilson (1973 Bantam edition, originally published 1966, Arthur Barker)
"An extraordinary novel of occult power and evil obsession - from the publishers of The Exorcist"
Nine violent deaths... Nine quotes from Blake...
draw Damon Reade into a strange and baffling mystery that interrupts his self-imposed isolation and plunges him into a compelling clairvoyant connection with a maniacal killer!
Subtitled, "An unconventional detective story", this one just seemed to appeal to me more than some of the other (possibly even greater) finds. The "Nine violent deaths... Nine quotes from Blake..." idea hooked me on the spot and made me want to start reading it there and then.
But then I wouldn't have found...
Mod Rule by Richard Allen (NEL 1980)
LONDON MODS IN HASTINGS RIOT!
"The war started now! A biker splayed brokenly on the road, his machine wheel-spinning against the kerb. Other bikers roared their engines and bore down on Joe's crowd. It boiled down to a battle between nutty bikers and gutsy mods..."
Rather disappointingly, no reference whatsoever to The Exorcist on the cover. It's been a while since I read this (or any other of the Richard Allens) but I seem to remember it not quite living up to the cover. Even so, still arguably the best book ever to start with the line; "Where's me socks?"
And still a right result. Rummage, rummage... what have we here..?
The Ghoul by Guy Smith (Sphere, 1976)
Creature From The House Of Horror
"Two cars roar away into the darkness from the noisy brilliance of a party, on a race to Land's End. But a few hours later impenetrable fog brings them to a halt on a deserted moorland road, and brings the occupants to the brink of an unspeakable fate. For nearby is a house of horror and death, a house which harbours a terrible creature which feeds on human flesh... the ghoul!"
Well, bugger me. It's Guy Smith's The Ghoul, as I live and breathe, in all its Les Edwards covered, 128 page glory. Eagle Books has previously provided copies of Bamboo Guerillas and a Werewolf or two at very affordable prices but 25p for this little beauty has to be a bit of a bargain (even if it is non-returnable).
So that was my quid gone. But the rummaging continued...
A Dark Shadows tie-in, Barnabas, Quentin and Dr. Jekyll's Son (Paperback Library, 1971); Martin Caidin's Cyborg novel, Operation Nuke (Mayflower edition with the Richard Clifton-Dey cover); Ivor Watkins' Demon (Futura, 1983), his follow-up to the ubiquitous The Blood Snarl (every second-hand book stall and charity shop in the country seems to have at least one copy of The Blood Snarl, and one day I really must buy one...); a Howard Baker which I didn't pick up and can't remember the name of now; and various other obscure gems all purporting to be the "First/Second/Third/Twenty-seventh in an explosive new action-packed series from (insert name of publisher of cheap paperback knock-offs here)". Also a brilliant looking sleaze title from the sixties 'exposing' the hedonistic lifestyles of hippies, beatniks and what have you (really might have to go back for that one). The one I was perhaps most intrigued by, but ultimately decided to pass on, was Graham Masterton's How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed (Star, 1984). I may go back for it but just felt that maybe there were others who might get more pleasure from it than I would. There was other stuff too that escapes me now, and all 25p a go. It quite revives your flagging, world-weary spirit when you discover a basket like that, I'll tell you.
Available in Morrison's now for £3.99, for those of us still in mourning for regular helpings of spaghetti served up usually by actors who look almost exactly (but not quite) like their American counterparts, Death Rides a Horse. Starring Lee Van Cleef (complete with pipe), John Phillip Law, and with score by Ennio Morricone, this tells the tale of how Law survives a brutal attack in which his family and their employees are murdered and grows up to hunt the killers down with Lee Van Cleef.
"Death Rides a Horse (aka Da uomo a uomo, or As Man to Man) is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy. The film has lapsed into public domain.
"Whenever the angered hero encountered one of the bandits who wronged him and killed his family, footage of the wrong being avenged is superimposed over the hero's face. As a homage, this technique was used by Quentin Tarrantino in Kill Bill whenever The Bride confronted one of the Deadly Vipers. The main theme of Death Rides a Horse is used in Kill Bill. It is the trilling flute and mixed choral piece played when The Bride calls out O-Ren and her bodyguards at the House of Blue Leaves.
"The scene when the main character, Bill, watches his family being murdered is referenced in the animated scene of Kill Bill. Here the skull necklace is depicted as a skull ring, worn by the man who kills O-rens father.
"Death rides a Horse" is a 1970 reggae single from the Hippy Boys. It appears on the B-side of Max Romeos single "melting pot" on the Pama Unity label."
Pah! Brilliant find Rog that inspired me to pop into Morrison's with a fiver. No such luck. A bit of of bonus as I desperately dug through the War/Western section and plucked out Walter Hill's The Long Riders, a film I haven't seen for too long. Hill was a Peckinpah fan who appeared to be remaking his favourite controversial film classics in his own way, as Robert Altman redefined film genres earlier with M*A*S*H (war). McCabe & Mrs Miller (Western), The Long Goodbye (detective/noir), Nashville (musical) etc. The case that Hill's The Warriors is A Clockwork Orange is a tad limp I'll admit (bizarrely dressed youth cults, stylised violence), but Southern Comfort is not a million miles from Deliverance and The Long Riders reminded me greatly of The Wild Bunch (until he was more blatant with Extreme Prejudice). The use of the brothers Keach, Carradine, Quaid and Guest as the James brothers, the Youngers, whoever the Quaids are/were and the Fords is a quaint touch that works.
Hill was a Peckinpah fan who appeared to be remaking his favourite controversial film classics in his own way.
Indeed. Hill's THE DRIVER is an almost scene for scene remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAI, with the hitman changed to a getaway driver, and a happy ending substituted for Melville's more downbeat climax.


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