Union Steel Minister gives away Steel Awards 2018
Start giving awards to end-consumers of steel products from the next year onwards: Steel Minister to SUFI
Critical for the Indian steel sector and the Indian industry to place a heightened focus on research and innovation: Shri Chaudhary Birender Singh
“Indian steel industry must aim to be number-one in quality”
|1||Shri Ratan Naval Tata, Chairman, Tata Group||Lifetime Achievement Award|
|2||Shri Vipul Mathur, CEO, Welspun Corp. Ltd.||Hall of Fame Steel CEO of the Year
|3||Tata Steels Ltd.||Steel Mills Steel Company of the Year|
|4||Maharashtra Seamless Ltd.||Steel Users Steel Company of the Year|
|6||POSCO Maharashtra Steel Pvt. Ltd.||Steel Mills Engineering Steel Company of the Year|
|8||Naresh Steel Industries Pvt. Ltd.||Steel Traders Engineering Steel Company of the Year|
|9||JSW Steels Ltd.||Special Category SUFI “Make in India” Award|
|10||M. Junction||Special Category SUFI “Digital India” Award|
|11||Metal Street||Special Category SUFI “Startup India” Award|
The Minister presented the awards and exhorted everyone present to work together and build on this momentum.
Addressing the gathering, the Steel Minister suggested SUFI to start giving awards to end-consumers of steel products from the next year onwards. Noting that the Government has set a target of 300 million production capacity by the year 2030, Shri Singh said that production is slated to increase in India, while it is being cut down in many other countries. He said the need now is to promote consumption of steel products, by involving end-users of steel products.
Stating that SUFI can play an important role in addressing this challenge, Shri Singh said that there is need for innovation in consumption and in reaching out to users in innovative ways. The Minister observed that the world per capita steel consumption is 208 kg, while the corresponding figure for rural India is 10 kg. He asked SUFI to take charge of this and to see that SUFI works in a focused manner for increasing steel consumption. The Minister underlined the need for re-imagination in marketing, in order to increase consumption.
Noting that 10 lakh crore rupees to be invested by 2030 for increasing the domestic production capacity, the Minister spoke of the need to start indigenous production of machinery that would be required to ramp up steel production in India.
The Minister said that it is critical for the Indian steel sector and the Indian industry to place a heightened focus on research and innovation. He added that merely updating technology is not innovation. Asserting that India cannot afford a slow-paced progress, Shri Singh said that India needs a speedy progress and that too with transformation. The growth of a nation is reflected in the level of steel production and consumption. However, if the production and consumption is one’s own, that will usher in a greater degree of confidence, said the Minister.
Shri Singh said that as users of steel, the industry can help spread the message that steel is the material for the future, by sharing their experience at the right platforms. The Minister said that the industry needs to be convinced about the advantages of using steel for specific needs. He said that organisations like SUFI should convince other stakeholders and decision-makers about the advantages of using steel.
On the occasion, the Minister participated in an in-conversation session with the President, SUFI, Mr. Nikunj Turakhia. The Minister said that the National Steel Policy 2017 was designed keeping in mind the need to give level playing field for the primary and secondary steel sectors. He said that there has been an attempt to give preference to domestically produced steel, provided it is of good quality. He said that this has resulted in a saving of around 6,000 crore rupees in the last year or so. He added that in order to improve quality, steel products have been added to BIS.
The Minister exuded confidence that the Indian steel industry will continue to lead the growth trend in global steel scenario. He asserted that the future belongs to steel and that India is the rightful claimant for the top-notch position on world steel map. He said that Indian steel industry must aim to be number-one in quality.
Addressing the media on the sidelines of the event, the Minister informed that the production target for steel is 250 million tons and that the capacity is targeted to be increased by 300 million tons by the year 2030. He said that during the last four years, the per capita steel consumption in the country has gone up from 56 kg to 68 kg. The Minister expressed his satisfaction with this trend.
Speaking on BIS in steel industry, the Minister said that steel products have been brought under BIS in order to provide a level playing field. He added that this is in the interest of secondary steel.
Replying to a query, Shri Singh informed that in the first 9 months of the year 2018, crude steel production in India has increased by 5.5% and nearly 84 million tonnes of steel have been produced. He said that National Steel Policy 2017 welcomes transfer of technology and FDI. He added that the Government has set up the apex R&D umbrella organisation, Steel Research & Technology Mission of India (SRTMI), which ensures that all players in the steel sector are able to reap the advantages of research and innovation efforts made in the sector. This is in contrast to isolated efforts being done earlier, the impact of which was limited, said the Minister.
The Minister informed that for the first time, an Award Scheme for secondary steel sector was instituted by the Government this year, to recognise the contribution of the sector for their contribution to the national economy. He added that the response has been very good. He said that an integrated effort is required from the secondary steel sector as well, in order to move ahead. He added that this approach has been reaping good dividends.
Speaking on steel PSUs, the Minister cited the example of SAIL and said that there has been a total turnaround in the steel sector.
Cabinet Minister, Government of Maharashtra, Shri Raj K. Purohit and Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Shri Gopal Shetty were present on the occasion.


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A differently abled woman passenger on a flight to Mumbai was on Sunday offloaded by SpiceJet after the crew alleged it was not safe to have her on board.
J. Ghosh (40) was not allowed by the crew of the Kolkata-Mumbai flight to fly alleging she was mentally ill and it was not safe to allow her inside the aircraft, sources at the N.S.C. Bose International Airport said.
After being denied permission to fly, Ms. Ghosh lodged a complaint with SpiceJet authorities. The authorities apologised to her and said she would be accommodated in their Monday flight to Mumbai, the sources added.
Ms. Ghosh alleged that the pilot was “adamant” in not allowing her to fly though some people tried to convince him. “I think such people should get a show-cause. They are not human beings,” she said. Ms. Ghosh was said to be a teacher at Kolkata's Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy. — PTI

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I absolutely love spring! So perfect after winter. I would love to say because of the hope of
spring that winter was not that bad. But I would be lying, I hate winter. The older I get the worse it is to me. My dream is to travel with warm weather. But that is another topic. So, let’s talk about Spring. For me there is nothing better than vegetables from the garden. I don’t know exactly how to describe it but carrots from the garden are more carroty. Garden potatoes are richer. Now is the time to prepare for the harvest. I have found a way to make it easier. Tune in!

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — No doubt, Republicans still rule the Texas Legislature, but Election Day results meant losing their powerful supermajority in the House. And the GOP failed to oust any incumbent Democrat in the Senate.
Though Republicans controlled the redistricting process in the past legislative session, their efforts still meant they would ultimately lose a few seats of their 102-48 majority – something that let them basically pass any bill they wanted through the chamber.
On Tuesday, Democrats bounced back, cutting down Republicans’ lead in the House to 95-55. Though they are still in the minority, Democrats’ small gain could pay off negotiating fiery issues like public education funding in the upcoming session.
In the upper chamber, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, won re-election, thus preventing the possibility of a GOP supermajority, which would have been able to suspend rules to pass legislation.
Thus, the partisan makeup of the Senate remains 19-12, though the re-election of the late Sen. Mario Gallegos, D-Houston, means voters will have to choose his replacement in a special election. The seat is likely to remain in Democratic hands, though Gov. Rick Perry could delay calling the election, therefore giving Democrats one less vote.
Of course, there is also the possibility of people switching parties. In 2011, three Democrats turned Republican in the House, pushing the GOP beyond necessary two-thirds majority.
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By popular request (really, I got quite a few emails about this!...;-), I finally completed my Beogram DC motor restoration video! It demon...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Beogram 4002 (5513): Installation of New 3D Printed Transport Lock Bushings
Before doing the platter and sub-chassis alignment adjustments I needed to replace the degraded transport lock bushings of the Beogram 4002 (5513) that I am restoring right now. It is important to have the bushings in place since the sub-chassis adjustment can only be done properly if they are in place. This Beogram was outfitted with the orange type of bushings,
which all seem to be in various states of degradation at this point in time. The gray looking bushings usually seem to be in much better condition. But these orange ones had to go. I removed the plates that hold the transport locks together, which revealed one of the brittle bushings:
I removed it,
And installed one of my custom designed 3D printed replacement bushings:
Each replacement bushing has two identical parts, so it can be installed by putting in one half from below
and the other half from the top:
Then the threaded rod and the top plate can be installed again:
There is a video about installing new transport lock bushings in my Beogram 4002 playlist. The replacement nylon bushings can be ordered directly from my Shapeways store. This is the link to the part. You would need two per transport lock.


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On Tuesday, Shares of Cadence Design Systems Inc (NASDAQ:CDNS), added 0.08% and closed at $25.46 in the last trading session. The last trading range of the stock ranges between $25.32 and $25.736. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (CDNS) recently declared that its OrCAD® Capture has been improved to now include XJTAG® DFT Assistant, an easy-to-use interface that significantly increases the design for test (DFT) and debug capabilities of the schematic capture and PCB design system. Developed by boundary-scan hardware and software tool supplier XJTAG, XJTAG DFT Assistant allows users to detect and correct JTAG errors at the design stage before the PCB is produced, preventing costly re-spins and project delays.
“PCBs have become increasingly densely populated, and accessing pins under packages such as ball grid arrays (BGAs) has been virtually impossible,” said Kishore Karnane, product administration director, PCB Group, Cadence. “Boundary scan addresses this problem by providing electrical access to compliant integrated components on a PCB using a JTAG chain, but it is also imperative that any errors in the JTAG chain are corrected early. XJTAG DFT Assistant allows engineers to determine whether JTAG chains are correctly connected and terminated during schematic capture, early in the design process.”
PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), jumped 1.52% and closed at $62.02 in the last trading session. The last trading range of the stock ranges between $61.14 and $62.23. The company’s Market capitalization is $32.02 Billion with the total Outstanding Shares of 505.67 Billion. PG&E Corporation (PCG) is a Fortune 200 energy-based holding company, headquartered in San Francisco. It is the parent company of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, an energy company that serves 16 million Californians across a 70,000 square-mile service area in Northern and Central California.
On the otherhand United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE:URI), lost -0.32% and closed at $75.87 in the last trading session. The last trading range of the stock ranges between $74.43 and $76.24. During the 52-week trading session the minimum price at which share price traded, registered at $41.90 and reached to max level of $84.63. United Rentals, Inc. (URI) recently declared that it will take part in the Goldman Sachs 2016 Industrials Conference on Wednesday, November 2, 2016. The conference will include a presentation by Michael Kneeland, chief executive officer and William Plummer, chief financial officer.

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I just got done watching Rocky II, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone.
I feel compelled to write about it, because of the amazing emotions that swelling throughout me as I watched the film’s climactic battle and the ending speech by Stallone’s Rocky to his wife.
Even though I’ve seen the movie several times before, I couldn’t help but be on the edge of my seat. I was grinning ear-to-ear with intense satisfaction at the end of the final fight sequence. I could literally feel a warmth of pride and happiness burning in my cheeks as Rocky spoke the final words of the movie.
Yes, pride. Even though it was Rocky’s accomplishments and not mine, over the course of the film I had bonded with Rocky’s everyman character. So, by the end, his accomplishments were mine to cheer on. Mine to be proud of. Like a father (which I am) feeling pride of his son’s achievements (a feeling I have very often regarding my own two amazing sons).
I recall once in college I did an entire paper in my Literature in Film course comparing Rocky II to Shakespeare’s Henry V. I got a B on the paper because Rocky II wasn’t one of the films we were supposed to be choosing from. The instructor said that is the only reason I didn’t get an A+, because I provided well thought, expertly notated arguments of the similarities in plot development and story arc.
I wish I still had that paper.
I am a big fan of four of the Rocky movies: Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, and Creed; my favorite of the movies being Rocky III (also written and directed by Sylvester Stallone). I give passing grades to the other Rocky movies even though I hold a bit of a sense of jealousy over Rocky V in which Rocky has retired but agrees to train a hungry young fighter played by real life boxer Tommy Morrison.
You see, a few years before that film I wrote a fan letter to Sylvester Stallone. In that letter I suggested he have Rocky retire but subsequently agree to train the Olympic Boxing team. It’s not a close enough plot that I can claim he stole my idea. But you do have to admit there are similarities.
What not everybody knows is that Sylvester Stallone was a virtually unknown actor when they made the original Rocky movie from his original screenplay. The studio wanted to buy the script from Stallone for Burt Reynolds to star in, but Stallone kept to his guns. He insisted the only way the movie would be made, was if he was allowed to star in it.
The film was made on a budget of just over $1 million and earned over $225 million in worldwide box office receipts. Stallone was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. The film won the Oscar for Best Picture.
True, Stallone has made some bad movies in his time (anyone remember Rhinestone with Dolly Parton?). But which popular actor hasn’t made a few flops?
Truth be told, Stallone is very much a self-made man. He came from humble upbringings and didn’t let partial paralysis of his face caused during childbirth to hold him back from his dreams of being a movie star. When he wasn’t getting cast in the big parts that would make that happen, he took matters into his own hands and started writing his own vehicles to star in – Rocky being one of them, which he incidentally wrote in three days.
You may not like all of Stallone’s movies, but you’ve got to respect the man. And I, for one, am a fan.

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Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” managed to fend off three new nationwide releases to remain the No. 1 movie in North America.
Though ticket sales for “Thor” cratered in its second weekend, falling by 68% to $46 million from 4,375 theaters, the latest installment in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe easily towered over a trio of newcomers: Sony’s literary adaptation “Where the Crawdads Sing,” Paramount’s animated “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank” and the Focus Features period drama “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.” After 10 days on the big screen, “Love and Thunder” has generated a sizable $232 million at the domestic box office and $497.9 million globally.
For “Thor,” the fourth superhero adventure to spotlight Chris Hemsworth as the Asgardian god with abs that won’t quit, a concerning 68% decline is signaling the movie is not breaking out beyond the comic book empire’s (albeit very big) fanbase. Though “Love and Thunder” will certainly end its box office run with a tidy sum, it’s not ideal for a film of its size and scope to lose such a significant fraction of its audience so quickly after opening weekend. It’s one of the biggest second-weekend drops in MCU history next to May’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which tumbled 67% in its sophomore outing. (Disney’s “Strange” sequel film still earned a mighty $411 million domestically). By comparison, recent Marvel entries were able to fare better with “Eternals” dipping 61% and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” falling 52%…Reuters


Washington & Oregon Crab Season to Start Soon with Changes
The start to northern West Coast crabbing season will finally start in just a few days, but there will be new restrictions after the long delay.
Washington & Oregon Crab Season Starts February 1, 2024
After a months-long delay, the crab fishing season for both the coasts of Washington and Oregon is finally planned to start on February 1, 2024. The start of the season comes long after a delay because of toxic algae found in crabbing waters. The Dungeness crab industry is very important to both Oregon and Washington, with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife estimating the value of state crab during the 2022-23 season to be around $65 million. This is the second year in a row in the area where the crab fishing season had to be delayed.
Big Changes This Year for Washington & Oregon Crab Fisherman
The final start of the crab fishing season is not all good news however, with big changes to fishing rules for local fishermen. When the season starts on February 1, 2024, pot limits will apply to all state commercial fishers coastwide. Fishermen with permanent pot limits of 500 or 300 will now only be allowed to use 400 or 250 pots instead. According to the release from the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the limit will stretch from "Areas south of Point Chehalis and north of Destruction Island until March 2 and between Point Chehalis and Destruction Island until further notice." Other changes to the 2024 season include amendments regarding electronic monitoring, logbook requirements, line marking requirements, and buoy color.
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B Y A W I L D R O S E . . . .
Not my average day at work today. Down in a photography studio my fellow Animal artists and I got messy for the SS18 Menswear range. We made a fast mess covering the place with paint and had some art therapy. I watched paint flow with The Velvet Underground playing in the background.
Only a year till you can see the full shoot including our painting skills and my tropical pattern work. 364 days to go.....
Top : Picture by LaSutton
Bottom : Artist Aron Leah
ROSE EADS | SURFER | DESIGNER | ILLUSTRATOR | PHOTOGRAPHER


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The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating people and events around him for his own amusement.
Until Polina arrives.
She steals his books. She challenges his routine. The nurses like her.
She is exquisite. Soon, he cannot help being drawn to her and the two forge a romance that is tenuous and beautiful and everything they never dared dream of. Before, he survived by being utterly detached from things and people. Now, Ivan wants something more: Ivan wants Polina to live.
My take: 3 looks
What an odd book. I don't totally disagree that it's The Fault in Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next. However, I think that diminishes the worth of this book on its own. It is nicely written and easy to read from a structure perspective. On the other hand, it is very difficult to read. It is, after all, a slice of time in the life of an institutionalized 17-year-old child of Chernobyl. If you don't know exactly what that means, look it up on the internet.
Ivan struggles with a strong mind in a horribly broken body. He even laments this, commenting that most of the other children in the hospital are spared the horror of what they are because they don't have the mental faculty to understand. Ivan has a nice cadence to his days, dealing with new patients, trying to determine who will die within three months, and be abreast to all of the personal business of the nurses.
In walks Polina and everything changes. If there can be a coming-of-age book for a boy with nubs for legs, one arm whose hand has only three fingers, and lack of muscle strength on one side of his face ... but all of the feelings of a 17-year-old boy, this is it. It is not a sweet story, but shows with occasional harshness the reality of knowing things will always get worse.
I can't rave about this book like other reviews I have seen. It is well-written, and about a subject that doesn't get much page-time. However, it is also not illuminating, doesn't give you any info that you don't already know (even if it's deep in your mind), and will probably not have you rush to the bookstore to see what else Stambach has on the shelves. What it will do, however, is make you think about it for days after the last page is turned.
Thank you to NetGalley for the copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

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By Oluwatoyin Adeleye
There’s the #MeToo movement, feminists push, call for equity/equality, fight against gender discrimination, domestic violence and various kinds of abuse amongst women. But in the midst of all these, how progressive is the 21st century woman?
This was the topic of discussion at The We Lead Round Table discussion in collaboration with Accelerate.
OAP Bolanle Olukanni led the conversation amongst top shots in various spheres of the economy incuding Access Bank Head, Corporate Communications, Amaechi Okobi; CEO, Corona Schools Trust Council, Adeyoyin Adesina; Founder, Girls In Glasses, Banke Alawaye; CEO of Xclusive2Divinity (X2D), Deji Irawo; Convener of We Lead, Dayo Oladele-Ilori; and CEO and founder of LSF Public Relations firm, Bidemi Zakariyau.
Are men intimidated by successful women? Why is all the focus on girls alone? Should we focus on boys too? Do women empower one another? Should all women be board members? Is it ok to be a house wife? Do these movements affect the children? Are these calls for equity truly producing any results? Are women growing with it or just being destructive?
ADULT EDUCATION As we sat down recently at accelerate TV waiting for our panel discussion to mark the international women's Day recently, one of our discussants Mrs Adedoyin Adesina, the CEO of the Corona Schools' trust council said to me privately. "If in the course of my meeting with a parent,I find myself more passionate about the child than the parent.I think the conversation we need to have is if you qualify to parent in the first place". I humbly admit that many of us marry because that's what society expects not because we are emotionally, psychologically, financially and relationally mature for the numerous responsibilities. When unprepared and clueless males and females raise children,then we can expect dysfunctional children who would abuse other people either as children or broken adults. We need to honestly consider setting up schools for marital affairs and parenting and people like us must truthful enough to go back and take classes.
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'Letter to the Earl of Bristol (20 January 1626)'
His Ma[jes]ties L[ett]re to the Lo[rd] Digby
We haue receiued your l[ett]re addressed to vs by Buckinham, & we cannot but wonder, that you should through forgetfullnes make such a request to vs of fauour, as if you stood euenly capable of it; when you know, what your behauiour in Spaine deserved of vs, which you are to examine by the observation we made & know. You will remember, at our first coming into Spaine, taking vpon you to be so wise, as to forsee our intentions to change our Religion, you were so farre from disswading vs, that you offered your service & sinceritie to concurre in it; & in many other conferences pressing to shew how convenient it was for vs to become a Romane Catholick, it being impossible in your opinion to doe any great action otherwise: How much wrong, disadvantage & disservice you did to the Treaty & vnto the right & interest of our deere brother & Sister & their children: What disadvantage, inconvenience & hazard you entangled vs in by your artificies, putting off & deluding our returne home: The great estimation you made of that State, & the vile price you set this Kingdome at, still maintaining, that we vnder colour of freindship to Spaine did what was in our power against them; which you sayd, they knew very well: And lastly your approving of those conditions, that our Nephew should be brought up in the Emp[ero]rs Court; to which S[i]r Walter Ashton then sayd, he durst not give his consent for feare of his head; you replying to him, that without some such great Action, neither marriage, nor peace would be had.
Giuen at our Palace at Westminster the 20th day of Ianuary, in the First yeare of our Raigne.
British Library, Harley MS 390, f. 193r, Newsletters from Joseph Meade to Sir M Stuteville, vol. II, 1626-1631
Creation date: 20 January 1626
- Alnwick Castle, MS 12, f. 199r
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- British Library, Additional MS 39238, f. 18r
- British Library, Harley MS 1580, ff. 142r–v
- British Library, Harley MS 160, ff. 20r–v
- British Library, Harley MS 161, ff. 57r–58v
- British Library, Harley MS 6255, pp.11–13
- Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.b.277, ff. 116r–v
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March 30 – May 1, 2016
Opening Reception: Sat., April 2, 5 – 8 pm
Visual Meditations, an exhibition of works by internationally acclaimed English painter, Lindsay Mullen, marks her solo debut in the United States. The artist’s work is a direct response to the light and atmosphere of places she has lived and traveled and aims to capture the fleeting moments that cause one to stop and contemplate; an intentional and conscious pause from the chaotic world. “For onlookers,” said one Swiss gallery owner, “these paintings possess a special liveliness reflected in a style of painting rarely seen today with this degree of potency.” Her unique, pared-down impressionist style subtly and skillfully draws the observer into a meditative space, offering a sacred place to lose oneself, as new details unfold with each occasion for observation. “Through her eyes,” said one British curator, “muted green, blues and ochres give us an almost spiritual insight into light and shade.” Mullen recently moved to Washington, D.C. from Menorca, Spain, where she lived and worked for more than thirty years. She has had some 50 solo exhibitions in that country, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Switzerland.


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|Application number||US 05/612,444|
|Publication date||10 May 1977|
|Filing date||11 Sep 1975|
|Priority date||11 Sep 1975|
|Also published as||CA1051537A, CA1051537A1|
|Publication number||05612444, 612444, US 4022996 A, US 4022996A, US-A-4022996, US4022996 A, US4022996A|
|Inventors||Richard L. Lucas, Robert M. Gute|
|Original Assignee||Midland-Ross Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (7), Classifications (6), Legal Events (1)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
In the operation of public transit services, it is desired to provide one man operated buses or rail cars with passenger-operable door-opening controls at doors of a vehicle remote from the vehicle operator's post. In known arrangements, the vehicle operator has within convenient reach a multi-position electro-pneumatic or electrical controller which enables him to place the electro-pneumatic door operating system of the vehicle in condition for enabling a passenger to open the door through bodily contact or by contact of articles carried by him with switching mechanism preferably mounted on the door. Such doors are commonly constructed in sections which part at the middle with the door-opening switching mechanism mounted along vertical meeting edges of the door sections. In the form herein contemplated, any such door-opening mechanism includes a vertical extending touch bar of which slight movement relative to the door actuates a switch for actvating a door-opening circuit. Normally, the electro-pneumatic door opening system is arranged to operate on a cycle including door-shutting after a small time interval but to start a new cycle whenever the door-opening switching mechanism is engaged provided the controller handle is in the "door-open" position or the door has not returned to a completely closed position.
Objects of the invention are to: provide simple trouble-free touch-bar switching mechanism for activating electro-pneumatically operated door mechanisms of any type of door; to provide such mechanism especially adaptable for mounting on mass transit vehicle doors; to provide the mechanism in a form that is responsive to exterior force applications from any direction including upward or downward; and to provide mechanism of the foregoing objects in accordance with simple design which can be manufactured at relatively low cost within this product field.
The invention is embodied in manually operable switch apparatus comprising a touch bar and first and second spaced assemblies which receive end portions of the end bar and are adapted for attachment to any convenient support such as a section of a door. Each assembly comprises a housing for receiving an end portion of a touch bar with freedom for small range of lateral movement in any direction. Either or both housings may contain a switch which provides a plunger protruding toward the adjacent end portion of the touch bar. Between the touch bar and any such switch are elements defining opposed conically concave surfaces separated by a round element such as a sphere, which in operation "climbs" the slopes of the two opposing conical surfaces to shift the switch plunger and the conical surface element in contact therewith. Resilient means is provided to force the movable portions of the assembly back into neutral centered positions when the bar is no longer urged out of neutral position.
In the accompanying drawing, FIG. 1 is a vertical shortened cross section of the apparatus of the invention taken along the longitudinal axis of the touch bar.
FIG. 1 illustrates a touch bar switch apparatus 5 according to the invention comprising a touch bar 6, an upper assembly 7 which receives the upper end portion of the bar 6, and a lower assembly 8 which receives the lower end portion of the bar 6, and balls 9, 10 which separate the ends of the touch bar from respective adjacent assemblies 7, 8. As indicated hereinbefore, the assemblies, or more particularly, the housings thereof, are fixed to a common base, such as a vehicle door.
The bar 6 comprises a tube 14 of a suitably rigid material, and plugs 15, 16 extending into, and secured in, opposite ends of the tube 14. The plugs as shown, are of swedged outer surface, i.e., of two diameters providing shoulders 17, 18 helpful in locating the plugs in proper position relative to the length of the tube. The portions of the plugs extending beyond the tube are shown with annular grooves in which resilient washers 21, 22 are received. These washers function as resilient buffers in restricting lateral movement of respective ends of the touch bar within the adjacent recesses 23, 24 of the housing 25, 26 of assemblies 7, 8 respectively. Plugs 15, 16 have concave, generally conical surfaces 27, 28 centered with respect to the longitudinal axis of the touch bar 6 in which balls 9, 10 are centered at neutral condition of the apparatus 5. While many elements of the entire switch apparatus are shown as constructed of non-metallic material, metal substitutions may be readily made in most instances. Surfaces 27, 28 are opposed by similarly shaped surfaces 31, 32, respectively, of pistons 33, 34, respectively. Preferably surfaces 27, 28, 31, 32 are of similar right conical configuration with the slant heights thereof extending at an angle, such as 20 degrees with the diametric plane of the elements on which these surfaces occur. Geometry of this order causes the opposite sides of either ball 9 or 10 to roll along sides of opposed conical surfaces essentially in parallelism in a manner which produces linear displacement of the piston 33.
In the assembly 7, the housing has a main rectilinear passageway therethrough which may comprise, as shown, cylindrical sections of different diameters. An intermediate smallest diameter section is defined by a cylindrical surface 36 forming a complementary cylinder for the piston 33. A larger diameter section 37 defines a cavity 38 of suitable length and diameter for housing a switch 41 having a pressure or thrust sensitive portion, such as a plunger 42 reciprocable within an exteriorly threaded sleeve 43 which is resiliently retractable to effect actuation of the switch. The switch 41 is supported within the cavity 38 by threaded relation of the sleeve 43 with a threaded element 45 such as a washer seated along its outer perimeter on a shoulder 46 occurring at the change of diameter of cylindrical sections 36, 37. A lock nut 47 in threaded relation with the sleeve 43 and tightened against the washer 45 prevents the switch from rotating. The switch is otherwise secured within the cavity by a sleeve 48 fitting the exterior surface of the cavity 38 and held tightly against the washer 45 by a plug 49 having its perimeter in threaded relation with an interiorly threaded surface 51 of the entrance portion of the main passageway of the housing. The housing is formed with a boss portion 53 which provides an aperture 54 intersecting with the cavity 38. The sleeve 48 is cut away along this intersection to receive wires 55, 56 connected with the switch 41.
While the switch 41 may comprise an internal spring for maintaining the plunger in outwardly extending relation with the sleeve 43, the washer 45 and the piston 33 provide opposed seats for receiving a spring 57, normally under compression, which maintains the piston in contact with the ball 9.
The recess 23 partially defined by the largest cylindrical surface 58 of the longitudinal passageway of the housing is of sufficient diameter to allow such lateral freedom of movement of the bar 6 as to cause movement of the piston 33 through an eighth of an inch or other short distance needed to depress the plunger for operation of the switch 41.
As shown, the housing 26 of the assembly 8 is identical with housing 25 of assembly 7. As one option, the housing 26 may be equipped with internal hardware similar to that of assembly 7. Such an option will provide another switch similar to switch 41 and somewhat more sensitive control of doors. Where such sensitivity is not needed, support for the ball 10 within the housing may be rigid rather than resilient as found in assembly 7. As shown, the housing 26 contains a piston 34 identical with piston 33 already described. The piston is held to a fixed elevation within the housing by a set screw 61 which engages the piston on the surface 62 thereof normally engaged by a switch plunger. The set screw 61 is supported within the housing 26 by threaded relation with a socket 63 secured against the housing shoulder 64 by a plug 65 in threaded relation with the entrance portion of the main passageway through the housing.
In operation with reference to FIG. 1, a light application of manual force to the touch bar 6 will cause it to roll one of the balls 9, 10 along respective adjacent concave surfaces of the touch bar or a housing. When the ball 10 is so rolled, the touch bar moves in the direction of the arrow 80 to cause movement in the same direction as the piston 33 and depression of the plunger 42 inwardly of the switch 41. Force applied to the touch bar close to the assembly 7 causes rolling movement of the ball 9 and operation of the switch without endwise movement of the touch bar. The resulting actuation of the switch is utilized to operate door opening mechanism not shown. The embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is also operable under any manual effort applied to the touch bar in the direction of the arrow 80. When the housing 26 is equipped with the same hardware as housing 25 and operates as a switching assembly as hereinabove described, then the total switching apparatus responds not only to lateral and upward movements of the touch bar but to downward movements as well. Thus, movement of the touch bar in any conceivable direction can result in a door opening operation.
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|US2687455 *||13 Mar 1951||24 Aug 1954||Horace M Norman||Safety edge mechanism|
|US3330923 *||30 Dec 1965||11 Jul 1967||Security Fire Door Company||Safety edge mechanism for doors|
|US3537211 *||26 Jun 1967||3 Nov 1970||Guilbert Inc||Reversing edge control for car doors|
|Citing Patent||Filing date||Publication date||Applicant||Title|
|US7208694||18 Mar 2005||24 Apr 2007||Wabtec Holding Corp.||Capacitance activated switch device|
|US7919883||17 Apr 2007||5 Apr 2011||Wabtec Holding Corp.||Two-wire adapter|
|US20050231147 *||18 Mar 2005||20 Oct 2005||Robert Urman||Capacitance activated switch device|
|US20100231036 *||17 Apr 2007||16 Sep 2010||Wabtec Holding Corp.||Two-wire adapter|
|EP0185232A2 *||28 Nov 1985||25 Jun 1986||Wacker-Werke GmbH & Co. KG||Dead man's control handle for building site equipment|
|EP0185232A3 *||28 Nov 1985||2 Dec 1987||Wacker-Werke GmbH & Co. KG||Dead man's control handle for building site equipment|
|EP1983648A1||13 Apr 2005||22 Oct 2008||Wabtec Holding Corporation||Capacitance activated switch device|
|U.S. Classification||200/61.43, 49/27|
|International Classification||H01H3/16, B60J5/00|
|30 Sep 1982||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: MIDBRAKE CORPORATION, OWOSSON, MI., A CORP. OF DEL
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:MIDLAND-ROSS CORPORATION;REEL/FRAME:004061/0714
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NEAR Infrared light saunas use incandescent infrared heat lamps for heating. They discharge mainly near infrared, some middle infrared and perhaps a tiny quantity of far infrared energy - homemade near infrared sauna. This kind of sauna also offers warming and stimulating color treatment. The lights produce a percentage of red, orange and yellow noticeable light.
While standard saunas need heats for copious sweating, infrared penetrates the skin and warms from the inside along with on the skin. This suggests the air temperature in the sauna can remain cooler, yet one sweats plenty at this lower, more comfortable temperature level. The infrared light sauna permeates deepest due to the reality that the heat source is all concentrated in a small area, and not due to the frequencies of the energy used (homemade near infrared sauna).
While some people like the intense heat of the conventional sauna, numerous find it difficult to endure, particularly when feeling ill. Near infrared is an antioxidant nutrient, triggers the cells, supports metabolic procedures and decouples contaminants from water particles. Near infrared is handy for injury healing and cellular regrowth also.
The mitochondria (power plants of the cells) produce more ATP (energy currency of the cells) when NIR (near infrared rays) is introduced - homemade near infrared sauna. A group of 20 females riding fixed bikes 3 times per week for 4 weeks exposed to NIR lost an average of 8 cm's or 444% more as compared to 20 females doing the very same exercise without NIR.
Cellulite shows up, in part, due to weakened connective tissue. NIR assists reconstruct connective tissue and has been revealed to minimize cellulite. NIR triggers the color delicate chemicals (chromophores & cytochrome systems) to depths of 23 centimeters, stimulating the energy procedures in cells. homemade near infrared sauna. Increased blood circulation stimulates the sweat glands, launching built-up toxic substances and waste.
Heating the body powerfully shunts blood toward the skin to dissipate heat. This decongests the internal organs and considerably promotes circulation. Sinuses, joints and lots of other tissues benefit significantly. Permeating heat from NIR has long been shown to lower discomfort and increase flow to areas of discomfort. NIR has actually also been shown to substantially increase the range of flexibility.
The skin is the biggest organ of the body and a significant eliminative channel. In the majority of people, it is non-active, busy and toxic. Sun direct exposure, usage of synthetic clothes, bathing in chlorinated water and direct exposure to numerous chemicals harm the skin. Excessive supportive nerve system activity and emotions such as worry, anger and guilt cause blood to be withdrawn from the skin, adding to lack of exercise of the skin.


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LONDON - Britain said it wanted Iceland to rapidly resolve the issue of compensation for the failure of Icelandic bank Icesave, after the North Atlantic island's President Omar Grimsson refused on Tuesday to sign a bill authorising this.
Britain and the Netherlands are seeking more than 3.1 billion pounds from Iceland which they paid in compensation to their domestic depositors after Icesave's failure in 2008.
A bill approving this passed the Icelandic parliament, but was vetoed by the president, putting the bill to a referendum.
The Treasury will consult with colleagues in Iceland to understand why this bill has not been passed and will work with them, the Netherlands and within the EU to resolve this matter as soon as possible, a British finance ministry spokesman said.
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Barb Hunter: Seaway winds founder and director since 2001
In anticipation of her retirement, Barb and husband, Brian, moved to Long Sault in 1999 and she retired from teaching the next year. Taking on the challenge of bringing Concert Band music back to Cornwall, she became the founding director of Seaway Winds Concert Band in 2001. She has performed in Glen Theatre production orchestras and at various churches in the Cornwall area. Barb also performs in Ottawa in the Maple Leaf Brass Band.
Barb Hunter grew up in a musical family in South Bend, Indiana. At 4 years of age she started playing the piano. Flute was her next instrument at age 8 followed by cornet at age 9. While in high school, Barb was a church organist and choir director and played trumpet in the South Bend and Elkhart, Indiana Symphonies. At age 16 she was trumpet soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony and South Bend Symphony.
After graduating from Indiana University ( BMusEd w/Honors and MMus), Barb played in the Phoenix Symphony and taught Jr. high school band in Tempe, Arizona. In 1971, she accepted a position teaching Instrumental Music at Montreal West High School, currently named Royal West Academy. In addition to her teaching career she taught trumpet and Music Pedagogy Methods at McGill University and Concordia University. She has played trumpet in various ensembles in Montreal, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the Encore Brass Quintet. She has conducted the the 306 (Maple Leaf) Wing Concert Band in Montreal from 1996 to 2007.
Barb has two sons, and five grandchildren. Her "hobby" is showing and breeding Standard Longhaired Dachshunds under her registered 'Maxdox' kennel name. She is a Life member of the Canadian Kennel Club, and was a charter member and President for 11 years of Eastern Canada Dachshund Club.


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Kayleigh and Bret had a beautiful outdoor ceremony for their wedding at Deer Park. Their smiles were infectious and the joy was abundant as they celebrated under a shining sun. I so enjoyed being their wedding photographer and witnessing two wonderful and kind souls tying the knot at this fun-filled wedding in Devon.
Bridal preparations were at the couple's home, which made for a relaxed and natural setting. I approached taking the photographs in a reportage style and capturing the bridesmaids' and parents' reactions to seeing Kayleigh in her dress; some of my favourite photos from this time.
It's always something special to watch a bride walk down the aisle. I think the feeling is so overwhelming at this point, your face just can't hide it's happiness. And watching the groom waiting and seeing the bride for the first time - magic.
The sun was shining as the couple said their vows outside in front of family and friends. They were so cute together and had huge smiles through the entire ceremony. After the ceremony, the reception was held in the garden, and the warm weather certainly made it feel like a spectacular summer day.
After the wedding breakfast and speeches, the bridesmaids were up for taking some pictures with the bride. Everyone had a laugh and we got some really cute pictures of them all together.
I then proceeded with taking a few more pictures of the couple. I often like to take the couple pictures in two halves. That way you are never too long away from guests, and also the second half can be a different light (and you might be more relaxed after your meal too!) The golden hour is a perfect time to capture some romantic wedding photographs of the two of you.
Dancing a cheese (yum!) rounded the evening off. As I left you could tell the party was in full swing and everyone was having such a great time. Thanks for having me be part of the day Kayleigh and Bret! x


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Angelina Jolie took some time off from her busy schedule to attend the Cambodian International Film Festival in Phnom Penh on Saturday. The 40-year-old director and actress took her husband, Brad Pitt, to the festival to enjoy a day off work.
Jolie and Pitt were honorary guests at the festival. It is assumed that Jolie has made a lot of friends in the country because she has decided to direct a film based on an acclaimed Cambodian novel. Her new movie, “First they killed my father” deals with the gritty subject genocide, specifically the Khmer Rouge genocide from the 1970’s which had killed millions in Cambodia all through the decade of the 1970’s.
Jolie is in Cambodia to shoot that very film. She probably discussed the new movie with the Cambodians who were all praise for her work at the Festival. She appeared on stage at the Cambodian International Festival to discuss her newest movie with Cambodian film maker Rithy Panh, who has also incidentally directed many films and long documentaries about the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Khmer Rouge genocide was carried out by communists of Cambodia which took the lives of over 2 million people. Jolie’s new directorial venture will be based on Loung Ung’s tragic memoir of the Khmer Rougue genocide which tells the tale of her personal experiences with the Khmer Rouge regime.
MailOnline reports that Jolie wore a black strappy long dress to the festival and her husband Brad Pitt wore a white shirt with cream trousers. Jolie told the press that she had also invited her oldest son Maddox to the sets of the movie so he could better understand his cultural heritage. Jolie and Pitt had adopted Maddox in Cambodia and the country is of special significance to Jolie and Pitt.
Angelina Jolie’s latest effort at film-making, “By the Sea” is already playing in theaters.
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Why Does the Bunny Sword Attack so Low?
I just finally got the Bunny Sword from the casino at Forfeit. When I equip Selan with it it makes her attack power go very high, but when I am in a battle she barely takes any damage away from the enemy. Why is this? CyosisCMR - 7 years ago
It's because the bunny sword has some unique special property that makes its damage output so small (despite the high attack power displayed).
However, the bunny sword is far from being useless. Not only it has a very good IP move (Battle Fury especially is efficient against high HP users), the high attack value also carries over to some other IP moves like Triple Attack. ARTEMlS - 7 years ago
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England’s humiliating loss to India in the opening one-day international will be a “positive thing,” according to all-rounder Moeen Ali.
Tuesday’s loss by ten wickets at The Oval marked England’s first such defeat at home and first overall in eleven years.
The world champions, who will defend their 50-over title the following year, were bowled out for 110 before it happened.
As the World Cup [in 2023] approaches, “we should start winning more games,” hoped Moeen.
“We want to win right now, but you don’t want to win every game,” he said.
It is beneficial. Losing might also teach you additional things at times.
After England’s victory over New Zealand in the World Cup final in July 2019, Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, and Jos Buttler hadn’t played together in an ODI until Tuesday’s loss. This was due to rest, rotation, and a focus on other formats.
Roy, Root, and Stokes were all dismissed for ducks after England was put in to bat on a bouncy pitch and Indian seamer Jasprit Bumrah took 6-19.
The hosts, who were previously 59-7, were only able to beat their lowest ODI score of 86 thanks to lower-order hitting.
This was England’s first home 50-over game since Buttler took over as captain after Eoin Morgan lost a series to India 2-1 last week.
In May, Matthew Mott also took over as the white-ball trainer. It will undoubtedly take some time and maybe a few setbacks, which is okay, added Moeen.
The group will be okay. There is no reason to worry or panic. Since we have so many seasoned players, we will contribute.
“We have been playing well and winning a lot for the past few years. We have been dominating.”
“I sometimes think you shouldn’t peak too soon. As [injured fast bowler] Mark Wood would attest, there are still players who need to be added. We’ll be alright. I’m sure of it. They did a great job with their bowling on that surface.”
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Whitney Blake was an American film and television actress, director, and producer. She is known for her four seasons as Dorothy Baxter, the mother, on the 1960s sitcom Hazel, and as co-creator and writer of the sitcom One Day at a Time. With her first husband, she had three children, including actress Meredith Baxter.
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Whitney Blake, better known by the Family name Whitney Blake, was a popular Actress, director, producer. she was born on February 20, 1926, in Edgartown, Massachusetts.Edgartown is a beautiful and populous city located in Edgartown, Massachusetts United States of America. Whitney Blake started her career as Actress, director, producer in 1956 when Whitney Blake was just 30 Years old. Soon, she became more successful in her profession within a limited period of time, where she influenced people on the bases of her career and earned a lot of fame. After a while, her career completed a full circle as she gained more importance. Whitney Blake went famous for her performance in her own country United States of America. as well as in other countries.
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Blake was born in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. She was the first child of Martha Mae Whitney (née Wilkerson) and Harry C. Whitney, a United States Secret Service agent who had guarded President Woodrow Wilson, his wife, and other political officials. Blake and her younger brother traveled around the country extensively, during which time she attended 16 different schools. While attending Pasadena City College, she worked in small theater groups in the Los Angeles area. In the summer, she worked at her mother’s ice-cream stand in McMinnville, Oregon.
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Blake married Tom Baxter in early 1944. They had three children: sons, Richard Whitney Baxter and Brian Thomas Baxter and daughter, Meredith Ann Baxter. In 1988, her son Brian began co-ownership (with Blake) in a Minneapolis bookstore, Baxter’s Books, which closed in 1998. Her daughter, Meredith, became an actress, starring in the 1980s hit sitcom Family Ties.
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I haven’t updated this blog with my books of the month in a while partly because those posts are rather laborious to compose and also because I was boring myself. So let’s try something different! Instead of my usual list of monthly reads, here’s the highlight reel of what I’ve been reading this summer, and what is on my summer reading list.
I have a habit of disappearing from my blog every summer and it’s not necessarily because my schedule is jam packed. Or at least it usually isn’t. During the summer months, I like to hunker down, take a break, and besides the occasional beach trip, stay out of the sun. This summer was different. Our summer kicked off with a trip to Laos over Memorial Day and was followed by traveling around Mongolia for the majority of July. Continue Reading
We normally try to avoid tourist hotspots, but in Phuket it’s practically unavoidable. At some point, you’re sure to find yourself on a potentially crowded boat headed to either Phi Phi Island or to James Bond Island in Phang Nga Bay. Once you arrive, you’ll be dumped off on an over-crowded beach with a million other tourists taking millions of selfies of the exact same thing.
In other words, Phuket is in many ways a victim of its own beauty.
Like the boat loads of tourists before and after us, we set out on a day trip to explore the stunningly beautiful – and well-traveled – Phang Nga Bay.
I know I’ve mentioned it a million times on this blog, but we aren’t really resort people. Not that there’s anything wrong with resorts, I can certainly see their appeal. In general, we have very simple tastes. We don’t need massive breakfast buffets, porters, satellite TVs, or concierge services. And we especially don’t need a minibar that charges $13 for a can of cheap domestic beer.
We found a really great last-minute deal on a pool suite at The Senses Resort in Phuket and since we were celebrating our anniversary, we thought it was as good a time as any to go crazy…
I’m *finally* getting around to blogging about our trip to Thailand! I can’t promise that these posts won’t be sporadic (they most likely will) or that they will include any useful information (they probably won’t), but sometimes the point is to just start, right?
So, excuse these upcoming grainy camera phone photos because sometimes a real camera is the last thing you want to carry around while roaming the busy, hot, sticky streets of Phuket.
Why would anyone sleep in a cargo container?
As budget travelers, we often find ourselves traveling off season, on off days, and at all hours of the night. Sometimes this means long airport layovers while connecting in international terminals. Sometimes it gives us the perfect opportunity to get a taste of a city IF we happen to be traveling during the day, IF there’s enough time between connections and IF the airport is reasonably close to the city. But most of all, it means we sleep in some pretty interesting places.
Like pay-by-the-hour airport container hotels.
Our main computer is currently under repair which has given me an excuse to fall behind with some of the blog posts that I had scheduled for this month, including this one.
At the end of March/start of April we traveled to the Philippines for a last minute getaway and to celebrate Sly’s birthday. I brought two books with me: one that I thought was going to be a thriller (His Bloody Project – reviewed last month) , and another end-of-the-world sort of guilty pleasure (The Last One), and read them over the course of several nights while laying in a dimly lit room under a tented mosquito net. When we returned from our trip, my sister came to visit for a couple weeks. In between all of our excursions, late nights watching crappy tv and eating buckets of Korean fried chicken, I managed to squeeze in time to read a few books. I didn’t read as much this April as I have in previous months, but I would say that this amount of books is more indicative of what I read on an average monthly basis, with or without visitors and travel plans.
This is my favorite time of year in Korea. It’s the season of cherry blossoms, beautiful weather, street food, and glowing lanterns. For the third year in a row, we walked to the Sincheon River park near our apartment and celebrated Buddha’s birthday at one of Daegu’s many lantern festivals.
I have always had this fear of being proposed to in a very public setting. I know a lot of people love this- find it more special – but as an introvert, the very thought of it makes me cringe. Thankfully, that never happened (the public part of the proposal, not the proposal) but I remember when I first let my boss know that I was engaged, the very first thing she asked was, “Did he propose at a baseball game on a jumbotron?”
Of all the ways in which to propose to someone, I have no clue why my boss automatically assumed that would be the one. Granted, I had to hide my introvert-ness at work, but still, there’s no way. I am a card carrying member of the puritanical guide to public displays of affection. I told my boss that if Sly had proposed to me that way I would have ignored him and walked off because it would have been a clear sign that he didn’t know me very well.
Fast forward to seven years later where we made our first (and last) appearance on kiss cam while attending a Samsung Lions baseball game…

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It’s not that often that you have the pleasure of coming across a creative team as talented as Kathy and Roy Esterhuysen-who just happen to be married! Sharing a love of photography, we caught up with the duo to find out more about the man behind FirstHouse Photography and the lady brains behind the blog, Cherish.
MMS: Tell us a bit about who you are as photographers and the style of photography you’d say epitomises what you’re about?
RE: I would say my style of photography is fairly structured/ commercial, yet still including a natural/ candid feel to it. My preference when shooting people is to get a nice warm backlighting from the sun.
“Durban is definitely the place to be.”
KE: I’m more of a portrait and lifestyle photographer. I like taking candids and find I’m drawn to people smiling and enjoying themselves, I like to capture the emotion. My actual images are generally a bit overexposed as I like the feeling that conveys. I do like other darker imagery but for some reason I can’t bring myself to take those pics myself.
MMS: Durban is home to both of you, what inspires you about this city?
KE: The people and the weather. The City had an ad campaign about Durban being the warmest place to be in Winter, but it’s actually the warmest place to be full stop. There’s a new positive energy to the city, people are choosing to stay here rather than defect to Cape Town or Jozi and a lot of cool things are coming out of that. Durban is definitely the place to be.
RE: Going down to the beachfront just after sunrise in Autumn, having a cappuccino and seeing all the people enjoying life on the promenade and in the water. (I don’t always get to do this as its pretty tough to wake up that early)
“Going down to the beachfront just after sunrise in Autumn, having a cappuccino and seeing all the people enjoying life”
MMS: We see that you each have your own blog that showcases Durban and what we’re all about. What is your favourite content to feature on each of your blogs?
KE: I generally like to feature the people and places of Durban.
“I find too many people blog about things they wish they were experiencing and it feels a little faked to me. I tend to do things, take pictures and add them if I enjoyed myself.”
RE: Most of my images that showcase Durban I post on my Personal Facbook Profile, however, I will be sharing more of these on my blog soon in an iPhone series .
MMS: What are two of your most favourite and recent moments that you’ve captured? (Please feel free to provide images for these)
RE: Can I have 3 of my Favourite images?
MMS: Of course!
RE: Natalie Jumping at Durban Beachfront – This image was taken a while back, but is still one of my favourite images.
Barista Rory at the KZN Latte Art Competition (At Colombo Coffee).
An employee at Meshgear – This was a candid shot I took while walking to an area in the factory to shoot the Heat Treatment Proccess.
KE: Wow, okay! The first one is a shot I took of some friends on an engagement shoot. I like the colours, the location (the pools on the beachfront) and the fact that they’re still recognisable by people that know them even though their faces aren’t in frame.
The second one is a pic I took at the stadium of Judd at Peoples Park Cafe and his daughter Riley.
“She just seems so stoked to be in her dad’s arms and you can see how much he loves her.”
MMS: How do you keep yourself motivated and your photography fresh?
KE: As a photographer you’re always learning. Your style evolves and preferences change. I like to try new techniques but changing up the locations helps to inspire me as well. I have a few photographers I like to keep up with, Lara Jade and Sue Bryce to name just two.
RE: To stay positive and motivated I surround myself with people and photographers who always have a positive attitude.
To keep my photography fresh I am constantly following photographers overseas, buying their training videos and books. The four photographers that inspire me the most are Drew Gardiner, Matthew Jordan Smith, Chista Meola and Joey L.
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