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wikipedia | The following is a list of universities in Estonia.
The University of Tartu is the oldest and most prestigious university in the country.
^ "Estonia | Ranking Web of Universities". www.webometrics.info. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
^ "Foreign Solutions: Top universities in Estonia". www.foreignsols.com. Archived from the original on 2016-07-27. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
This page was last edited on 30 December 2018, at 13:29 (UTC). | 2019-04-22T20:51:22Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_Estonia | Porn | Reference | 0.944361 |
yahoo | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sun bears, the smallest of the world's eight bear species, are generally solitary animals, content to spend most of their time alone outside mating season, foraging for fruit, rodents, birds and insects in Southeast Asian tropical forests.
But, scientists said on Thursday, they also possess an unexpected social skill that puts them in elite company alongside humans and some of our close evolutionary cousins: the ability to mimic another bear's facial expressions in a subtle type of communication.
"It seems that some forms of communication are much more widely shared amongst mammalian species than we previously thought," said Derry Taylor, a comparative psychology PhD student at the University of Portsmouth in England and lead author of the study published in the journal Scientific Reports. | 2019-04-26T10:08:19Z | https://uk.news.yahoo.com/little-sun-bears-facial-mimicry-reveals-complex-social-204609638.html | Porn | Science | 0.75191 |
wordpress | “Can you cure loneliness?” asks Charlie Brown.
“For a nickel I can cure anything.” Lucy says.
“Can you cure deep-down, black, bottom-of-the-well, no hope, end-of-the-world, what’s-the-use loneliness?” he asks.
“For the same nickel?!” she balks. | 2019-04-24T20:48:41Z | https://howardrossen.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/a-request-from-charlie-brown/ | Porn | Kids | 0.949902 |
typepad | This is ericaceae's Typepad Profile.
Tammy and Heather are friends from a million years ago in college who share a mutual love of all things crafty. We share the love here!
I love it! It looks like it might work well with a pregnant belly too.
the paloma top - a new sewing pattern!
The Pebble Vest is one of my favorites for winter too. It's so cozy and looks great on everybody!
We made peppermint bark last year too, and it is definitely on the to-do list again this year!
I've been eyeing up those adorable hats. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love it! We might have to copy this idea.
A big blank canvas + paper + glue + stitching + poetry + paint + drawing + room for everyone + layers upon layers of family art = a most wonderful day.
I'm glad I'm not the only one! Knitting amidst the chaos is the only way to get it done. And it just feels good. Everyone is content? Okay, I'll just knit a few rows and enjoy the relative peace. | 2019-04-20T02:28:15Z | https://profile.typepad.com/ericaceae | Porn | Arts | 0.984304 |
wordpress | Changes are coming to supported browser and operating system requirements for EnergyU. To ensure your equipment meets the requirements, click HERE to review the document describing these changes.
If a user reports a problem launching a course, they receive a “Please wait” message and the course never loads, have them turn Compatibility Mode on. Each browser is slightly different – for additional information, Google (search for) Compatibility Mode for the browser version being used.
There are actually two places that you need to check Accept; the course will then show as 100% passed in your credits by user report. If your course does not show 100% and displays an X instead of a check mark, it means that the first submit button was clicked without checking the Accept radio button.
Click HERE for instructions on how to properly accept and “pass” the course. | 2019-04-18T19:12:18Z | https://energyutraining.wordpress.com/2014/10/ | Porn | Reference | 0.687622 |
wordpress | There are three things you should know about Sam Mendes’ production of King Lear: it’s modern dress (more about it later), it achieves quite a few revelatory moments in the interpretation of the text (more about them later) and has a brilliant Lear in Simon Russell Beale. Maybe it’s true of King Lear what is true of Hamlet: it’s easier to have a brilliant central performance than having a brilliant production. If Sam Mendes’ King Lear falls short of true greatness, that’s more of an observation than criticism. The experience is rich and the rewards many, and any shortcomings become part of an intensely rich dialogue with the audience.
That was unexpected: could it be that the Royal Court weekly rep season, rough, quick and unpolished, produced one of the best acting performances of the year? When the time comes and I look back on 2013, I have little doubt Sam Troughton playing Alan in Clare Lizzimore’s Mint will be a definitive theatre moment of the year.
Lucas Hnath’s Death Tax, the second play at Royal Court weekly rep season, starts at the same box of a set The President Has Come to See You occupied, but the similarities end here. While “The President…” was a seat of the pants experience, certainly for the actors, Death Tax is a thoughtful, funny, exposing play about life close to death and life without death. The characters are defined by questions of mortality, money, the moment when their response to a moral and practical challenge changes their life, whether they realise it or not.
New artistic director, new bar. New adventures. Last night was my first time at the Royal Court since Vicky Featherstone took over and some of the changes were immediately apparent. Nice use of space at the bar, mismatched furniture, greater variety at the menu and food served till late. I heartily approve. I can see many more theatre friendships forged there.
New adventures, new rules. The President Has Come to See You, by georgian playwright Lasha Bugadze, is the first of six new plays performed by the same cast who only has a week to rehearse and perform each play. It’s fast, exciting, a little bit messy, and there is not enough time to feel the panic.
From left: Adam James as Tony, Eleanor Matsuura as Isobel and Sam Troughton as Thomas. Photo Robert Day.
Towards the end of Mike Bartlett’s Bull*, as performed at the Crucible Studio under the direction of Clare Lizzimore, I looked across the stage at members of the audience sitting opposite me: a woman was watching with her mouth open and a horrified expression. A man had his head slightly bowed, like he wished not to see but not able to stop himself. All with good reason: the last ten minutes of the play are as brutal and horrifying as anything I have seen on stage. And all that, without a drop of blood or physical violence.
But let’s get back to the beginning: as the back page of the text points out “Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt”. Or maybe, this would be a bad time to imagine you have a stain on your shirt. Tony, Isobel and Thomas are waiting for a meeting with their boss. One of them will get fired. No decisions made yet but one of them doesn’t stand a chance. There is a horrifying inevitability to the proceedings.
A talented cast, a classic play, a theatre that regularly produces thrilling work (see A Doll’s House only a few weeks ago), where did all go wrong? You might have guessed that this production won’t make it to my top ten of the year, but a word of warning, my negative view of the production is considerably stronger than a mild dislike.
Short disclaimer: I have seen a few plays by Anton Chekhov, but I haven’t seen Three Sisters before. I don’t dislike unconventional interpretations of classic plays, it’s up to every individual production to won me over. But Three Sisters at the Young Vic, adapted and directed by Benedict Andrews, is so far off the mark that at times I felt personally insulted it was wasting my time (and at three hours running time, that’s a lot of time to waste). | 2019-04-19T07:32:09Z | https://theotherbridgeproject.wordpress.com/tag/sam-troughton/ | Porn | Arts | 0.171706 |
wordpress | A little tree was needed for a small felt scene. It came to mind that a pine or spruce would be ideal, so I played a little as I pondered on what I could share as a free pattern. The two tasks merged .
My initial idea was to make the tree as simple as possible. These trees can be any size, so there is no standard pattern, my first attempt was a simple cone made from two triangles cut free hand,then blanket stitched along the two long sides and filled with fleece. The base was a circle cut to fit. If you feel your tree needs to be stabilized you can insert a cardboard circle into the base.
This alone makes a simple tree that can be used as is, however noticing a scrap of green felt that had a pinked edge led to one of those aha! moments .
My aha was to cut different sized circles with pinked outer edges and slip these onto the cone. This was done by cutting a hole in the centre of varying widths to fit the cone. You could leave it unstitched as it was quite secure but if it is to be played with then I would recommend stitching around inner circle of the layers to attach them to the cone base.
Foliage Circles- as many as you will.
The very top was a rather tiny circle with a segment cut out ,stitched together and to the tree.
Simple, easy and also a child friendly project that is now very seasonal as these little trees could be decorated with tiny bells, beads and sequins as above to make a table centrepiece or left plain for play or nature table.
If you wanted to you could create an “arty” tree using different colours for the layers, or perhaps a white sparkling tree with glitter glue frost or……All you need is your own imagination and whatever is at hand.
Putting it altogether in Sequence.left to right.
That is an awesome idea! Something I could make with my daughter – thanks! | 2019-04-26T00:13:08Z | https://fruitsofheart.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/little-fir-tree-tutorial/ | Porn | Kids | 0.773457 |
wordpress | I’m very pleased today to feature the second of two guest posts by Dr Jill Stewart, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health and Housing at Middlesex University, covering the important and sometimes neglected work of our earliest environmental health practitioners. You can follow Jill on Twitter @Jill_L_Stewart and see more of her work on her personal website, Housing, Health, Creativity.
Proper housing is necessary on account to our climate, which makes it requisite, or at all events, desirable, that we should have shelter and protection from the elements. Also, in accordance with our modern ideas of civilisation, having progressed beyond that age of cave-dwellers and gipsy life…it is also very necessary for the proper upbringing of our children, so that they may develop into a healthy and virile race, sound in body and mind, and worthy of our great Empire, which, in due course, it will be their duty to maintain.
It is here that Dr Christopher Addison, then Minister of Munitions, later President of the Local Government Board and then the first Minister of Health, really comes to our attention for his work in state subsidised housing estates. As doctor turned learned politician, Addison’s understanding of poverty and health provided comprehensive impetus behind the Housing and Planning Act 1919 (Addison Act), recognising the need for council housing that was of decent quality and set in good environments in accordance with the recommendations of the 1918 Tudor Walters report.
However, there remained the perpetual problem of the thousands who continued to live in slums, despite ongoing interventions by the Sanitary Inspectors and Medical Officers of Health. This massive challenge resulted from sheer numbers, legal processes involved, and where to house those displaced by clearance.
Whilst still President of the Local Government Board, Addison received deputations from the London County Council and the Greater London Local Authorities supported by the Sanitary Inspectors and relating to government financial assistance for large scale slum clearance and local housing development. The deputation asked for two things: that the deficiency grant be similar for those displaced but remaining in the slum cleared area as those re-housed in land not previously built on; and that processes to acquire slums from landlords prior to clearance should be both cheaper and quicker. In turn, Addison urged those present to deal with sanitary areas and build new homes without delay in advance of the forthcoming new legislation.
It is not the people’s fault that their life is spend in unsavoury tenements wherein they and, often enough, two or three other families have to share the same tap in the yard or on the next landing, as well as a dirty closet which it is nobody’s business in particular to keep clear. It is no fault of theirs that the mother of the family has only an ordinary fire grate in which to cook the meals and that the same room has to serve as a wash house, living room and bedrooms. It is not their fault that there is no possibility morning, noon or night for any member of the family to have any manner of privacy whatever; that the infant and the little child have to sleep in the room which other have to frequent when they come in for supper and during the evening; that is it not possible for fresh air to get through the tenement because if opens either on to a stuffy landing or is backed by another house; that boys and girls have to sleep in the same room together; that even at the time of birth, or in the hour of death, the same unyielding conditions, save for the kindliness of neighbours, similarly circumstances govern the whole conduct of their family life.
The public are apt to forget the valuable work accomplished by the Sanitary Inspectors throughout the country, the steady maintenance of general conditions of effective sanitation is due to their devotion and toil under the guidance of the local Medical Officers of Health…The Sanitary Inspector is a hard-working and little praised official, who carries out much of the unpleasant work in keeping up the general level of the health services.
The Sanitary Journal discussed what the Inspectors found in the nation’s housing stock: houses that were originally built to cheap, low standards with bad materials and lack of planning and forethought. This was seen to aggravate deplorable conditions; overcrowding; rats, mice and vermin and reports on the substantial health effects. Unhealthy areas of slums, with underground rooms and back to backs regularly feature, referred to as an “evil trinity – dampness, darkness and dilapidation”. Tenants were seen as victims of their circumstance; and some landlords criticised for failing to take responsibility for repair (6).
Between the wars, with a shortage of both rural and urban housing, overcrowding was particularly problematic. In a 1922 Sanitary Journal, a Mr JG Banks, Chief Sanitary Inspector at East Ham, said that overcrowding was ‘a national disaster for it must result in increased disease and mortality, immorality, drunkenness and vice being also fostered and fed in the overcrowded homes…’ (7).
There was no let-up on poor housing and still little hope for those who had endured slum living sometimes across decades. There were numerous health risks relating to poor housing, and multiple physical and mental health effects as well as heightened risk of infectious disease such as tuberculosis and high child mortality.
Drainage remained paramount to the Sanitary Inspector’s role, affecting both hygiene standards, then a public health priority, but also the need to control rats, an ongoing problem. Much advice was given, such as in the lengthily-headed 1926 publication ‘Drainage and Sanitation: A practical exposition of the conditions vital to healthy buildings, their surroundings and construction, their ventilation, heating, lighting, water and waste services: for the use of architects, surveyors, engineers, health officers, sanitary inspectors, and for candidates preparing for the examinations of the various professional institutions’ as the diagram below shows.
Rats, mice and vermin not infrequently infest old and structurally unsound houses. In some cases they are present to such an extent as to render the house unfit for human habitation, and on every occasion they may be a contributory factor thereto. The sanitary inspector should pay particular attention to these pests, examining the house for their presence besides making inquiries from the tenant. Not every householder likes to admit the presence of vermin, and walls, back of pictures, bedding, etc., should be carefully scrutinised wherever necessary for the presence of vermin. The presence of rats frequently indicate defective drains or the presence of accumulations of matter and filth, which should be dealt with under the Public Health Act. The presence of vermin – the bed bug chiefly – may be such as to render a house unfit for human habitation, and in the case of very old houses it may be quite impossible to eradicate them from the premises.
The Housing Act 1930 forced slum clearance and area improvement programmes to house those displaced; it also introduced powers to reduce overcrowding but problems remained entrenched.
The full extent of the tenants’ plight was revealed in the 1935 social documentary Housing Problems. Tenants present their own narratives of living in slum housing and problems with rat and insect infestations. The film reveals the sheer length of time – sometimes decades – that many families had to endure such poor, sometimes dangerous and decaying living conditions and how they tried to cope with rats, overcrowding, no internal water supply or WC, child mortality, trying to cook next to the bed, with homes decaying around them and how this meant that they had to live their lives.
However the film also offers hope. It shows two then innovative ideas of new working class housing schemes at Quarry Hill in Leeds (10) and Kensal House in Ladbroke Grove (11). Now suddenly with an option for new housing, tenants describe their excitement and dreams for their new homes. A Second World War was of course not then on the horizon but, for many, their municipal dreams had once again to be put on hold.
(2) The Historical England webpage First World War: Wartime Architecture provides some useful background.
Fortunate that I chanced upon this article while researching dwellings of the poor in Hammersmith 1890s-1930s. Very useful.
Good to hear you found it of interest, it would be good to see how your work progresses. | 2019-04-20T04:13:41Z | https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/tackling-the-slums-addison-and-the-sanitary-inspectors-part-2-1914-1939/ | Porn | Health | 0.669838 |
wordpress | My New Blog & Lil Kim’s Diss Track!!!
Hey Y’all, back at it again! This time with some great news!!
Drum Roll Please! Ha, just kidding it’s not THAT serious. All I did was start a new blog but this time in Spanish. It has nothing on it but some homemade graphics and a welcome page but please go take a look and hopefully subscribe! Like I said, it’s in Spanish but I will be posting all translations (in English and possibly Portuguese) on here so look out for that.
In other news, Lil Kim put out a diss track about Nicki Minaj. It’s posted below!
Man, I have been trying to post about stuff but, I have been overwhelmed by the near 100 views I got off of my last post. What can top that? Nothing but Fake Patois could come close. Check this video out. It’s old but I love the song. Don’t know what a fake patois is? Well Get Smart and Google it! By the way, Wikipedia is the best thing ever!
I love how Das Racist is talking about fake patois but the whole song is done in a fake patois.
Oh, by the way, shoot me a comment below about what you would like to see me post about. Oh oh oh, and subscribe please! Thanks. | 2019-04-21T22:00:42Z | https://gradienteyes.wordpress.com/tag/youtube/ | Porn | News | 0.956162 |
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8Not this faire outside, which our hearts doth moue.
11By no pretence claime any maner place.
14That Vertue but that body graunt to vs.
12] demurre: ."Demur, signifieth in Common-law a kinde of pause upon any point of difficulty." (Edward Phillips, The New World of English Words, 1658; see Lexicons of Early Modern English). | 2019-04-21T00:30:08Z | https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/astrophel-and-stella-52 | Porn | Reference | 0.907939 |
wordpress | On July 23rd 1903 the Ford Motor Company sold its first car. The company was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer, Troller, and Australian performance car manufacturer FPV. In the past it has also produced tractors and automotive components. Ford is the second-largest U.S-based automaker (preceded by General Motors) and the fifth-largest in the world based on 2010 vehicle sales.
He was also an avid supporter of Adolf Hitler and made large financial donations to the nazi party. | 2019-04-18T20:56:34Z | https://interestinghistories.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/on-this-day-july-23rd/ | Porn | Business | 0.99228 |
wordpress | Most of my original Muttering Mormon posts are now showing up over at LDS.net, where the good folks there have been very kind about making my stuff look better and expanding the audience. I’ll try to remember to post links here.
The latest can be found here.
I know you folks at the gym were enjoying a giggle at the sweatband on the scrawny middle aged dude who is only there to ride a bike. I knew it looked goofy when I put it on. It made my bald spot show. But, the thing is, I sweat a LOT, and it sometimes drips on my book when I’m on the recumbent bike. I hate that way more than I worry about how I look. So I go with what works.
That’s what us older dudes do.
All of my life I’ve had a hard time understanding the eccentric old person. For the first half of my life (and least I hope it was only half) I’ve worried about trying to encourage other people to respect me and like me. I figured everyone else starts off the same way. So what comes over a guy that makes him turn in the skinny jeans and opt for polyester shorts and long white socks? To wake up with wacky hair, look in the mirror, and decide “I can go with that.” To basically tell the world to go jump in a lake?
Over the last year, I finally get it.
You see, I know you are proud of your guns and abs. And I’m honest enough to admit, you look terrific. My “abs,” to the extent they can be called that, are marked up with a half dozen scars where doctors have taken out organs that are supposed to be pretty useful. No, I don’t do sit ups. But I get up…every morning, without all of my original parts. You do that, and I’ll tip my hat to you then.
And all of those weights you can bench press. Zowie. Time was that I was a strong guy, too. Much stronger than my size. Then I was run over by an eighteen wheeler. Fifteen broken bones and a punctured lung. To paraphrase Yoda, “When crushed you are, so good you will look not.” Have a truck dropped on you, and then let’s see what you’ve got.
This time last year, you were probably doing what you are doing now. You were here at the gym, lifting heavy things, flexing for girls, and staring at yourself in the mirror. This time last year, I was getting over a coma and being dead–twice–and was about to go another round of trying to check the big ticket on an operating table. I spent a lot of time looking in the mirror after that, too. I saw a wraith. So, yeah, the stairs up to the second floor where the bikes are take me a little longer than they should. But I came back from the freaking DEAD. Scoreboard.
My process probably was accelerated by outside events. But I’m not alone. That skinny octogenarian in the white t-shirt and the blue-veined legs marching on the treadmill? Chances are, he’s seen more than you have imagined, endured more than you could handle right now, and he probably has more grit than you can hope for at your age. He likely has overcome more before breakfast than you will face in the coming year. And if he looks goofy, deal with it. He’s comfortable and he doesn’t give a frog’s fat fanny what you think about it.
I’m playing Galaga with bonus lives right now. So I’ll read what I want to read and listen to the music I want to listen to. I’ll speak my mind when I feel like it, and if it shocks someone in the room, I’ll be blissfully unconcerned. I’ll wear what I want to wear. If I don’t want to go someplace, I’ll tell you that. And I’ll wear a terrycloth headband so that I don’t sweat on my books.
At the same time, I’ll enjoy all of the other privileges that come with not being twenty anymore. I’ll love my wife deeply and be completely devoted to her. She’s getting older, too, and with each year is that much better than some skinny little kid with too much makeup and implants. I’ll tell people I love them and not worry if it is cool or manly. I’ll hug the people that matter. I’ll take pride in my faith, even if others aren’t on board with it. I’ll stop during a 5K walk and take a picture of a woodpecker. Because woodpeckers.
I will find joy in a breath.
I will explore the universe by holding my sweetheart’s hand.
I will play the back nine with a joy that I was too scared to embrace during the first 9 holes.
And, even though it is likely in vain, I will urge you to live a fuller life now, before it is too late.
The folks over at LDS.net asked if I would start writing for them. So there will be some original stuff popping up over there, as well as some reposts of older stuff. I’m flattered and really excited about it. First article went up today. Check it out!
As a missionary, explaining how the Atonement worked to investigators (the three that I taught in two years) was deceptively easy. Following the discussions of the Atonement found in the Book of Mormon, we would explain that the Atonement is the means of overcoming two deaths: physical death and spiritual death. Physical death is a separation of the spirit and the body, and through the resurrection, Christ brings those two together again, never to be divided. Spiritual death is the separation of us from God, which Christ overcame through His suffering, bringing us together again, never to be divided.
The concepts of physical and spiritual death, and how the Atonement defeats both of them, is scripturally and doctrinally sound. The reality of these aspects of the Atonement sits at the heart of what we believe as Latter-day Saints. But I believe that the conversation shouldn’t end there when we discuss the saving power of the Atonement. There is a third death from which Christ redeems us.
The third death is despair. It may be defined as the separation of our hearts from hope.
I have known something of this third death. Despair has a destructive capacity unlike anything else I have experienced. It consumes us from the inside and so poisons our minds that we actually seek our own destruction. I have attended more funerals for suicides than I thought I ever would (I anticipated something like “zero”). I have talked with one of despair’s victims in the very moment he considered taking his own life. I desperately invoked the power of hope, endeavoring with no small degree of panic to inject some dim light into the darkness.
We learn in the seventh chapter of Alma that one of principle reasons that the Plan of Salvation required Jehovah to descend to mortality as Jesus was so that He could experience the sufferings that all of us feel as part of our own mortal sojourns. Alma explained that the Spirit “knoweth all things,” meaning that the Spirit can observe, understand, and sympathize with our plight, but Christ actually experienced all things “according to the flesh,” meaning that He knows perfectly our trials and therefore can perfectly empathize and perfectly succor us.
“Succor” is a fancy Latin-type word that means “the lifesaver thrown to someone drowning in despair.” The Savior demonstrated repeatedly during His ministry that He has power over the storms in our lives. Calming the tempest and walking on troubled waters are impressive miracles, but their utility is limited. The real miracle is His ability to calm the tortured tempests of our souls, and to teach us to walk calmly when all around us is madness.
The scriptures are replete with references to the Savior’s ability to overcome the third death. The first two words announcing the coming of the Christ child, as spoken to the shepherds, were “Fear not.” Christ was seen in vision by Isaiah as the Prince of Peace. He promised peace and comfort to his followers. He said the the Holy Ghost would come as a Comforter, and that He, Christ, would be another Comforter. Paul referred to our Father in Heaven as the God of all Comfort.
Enduring mortality well requires striving, and our adversary understands that. He knows that if he can get us to give up, he will win. Thus he spreads the gospel of despair. He exploits every addiction, every heartache, every personal disappointment. He seeks to drive wedges into every crack in our dreams and aspirations, hammering at them relentlessly until he has created a chasm between us and the hope promised through the Atonement.
Our Heavenly Father’s Plan is a Plan of Happiness. It is the means by which we defeat death, sin, and despair. It is the blueprint for joy here and now. As we invite Christ to take a more prominent place in our lives, His very presence drives out despair. We are redeemed from fear and hopelessness. We are restored to the companionship of hope, and as with the other two aspects of the Atonement, that reconciliation can be forever.
I recently had a discussion with young man wrestling his way through some testimony issues. As we talked through some of his questions and frustrations, one of the things he mentioned was experiencing feelings of inadequacy during fast and testimony meetings when one person after another stood before the congregation and ticked off all of the things they “knew.” “I know Joseph Smith was a prophet.” “I know that Christ lives.” “I know the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.” This sincere young man felt that either he wasn’t getting the spiritual confirmations everyone else is getting, or these members are overstating the strength of their testimonies.
As I thought about this, I realized that he has a point. I cannot remember the last time I heard someone couch their testimony in terms of what they “believe,” as opposed to what they “know.” For me, much of my testimony is based upon beliefs, not iron-clad knowledge. Like most people, I have not enjoyed dramatic spiritual manifestations that would justify bold announcements of what I know. But I tend to state my testimony in the same “I know” terms.
Perhaps it is just a matter of social convention. When primary children are being taught how to give their testimonies, we tend to teach them to use “know speak” instead of “believe speak.” So we have three-year old Sunbeams testifying that they know the Book of Mormon is true, even though they can’t read the front cover of the book, and knowing that Thomas S. Monson is a prophet when they might not be able to pick him out of a police lineup. We learn early on to use that language, and we stick with it.
It might also be a pride thing. If ten people before me have announced what they know, do I look like my testimony is lacking if I say that I believe? Are people going to think that I’m hedging my bets?
There is scriptural authority for using either term. Alma speaks of testing our beliefs with the metaphor of planting a seed. When we act upon our beliefs and see positive results, in Alma’s view, we have a knowledge of truth, because we have seen its results. From that standpoint, many of us really do “know.” We’ve seen the positive effect on our lives from living the commandments, and having put gospel to a test we “know” that it is true.
On the other hand, we have the testimony of Peter, who was asked by the Savior in the sixth chapter of John whether the Twelve would leave him as did many other disciples. Peter answered with “We believe and are sure that thou art the Christ.” This is a slightly nuanced approach. It says that even though there may be things in the gospel that are unsettling to us, our belief is sufficiently strong to make us “sure” that the gospel message is true. It reminds me of Nephi saying that he doesn’t know all things, but he does know enough to persist on the gospel path.
I think that the virtue of belief needs some rehabilitating in the Church. The truth of it is that when we speak of knowledge with reference to our testimonies, we typically are referring to our level of confidence in what we believe. We believe so strongly, we feel comfortable labeling our convictions as knowledge. We believe, and are sure. It may be more helpful to those new in the faith or momentarily struggling in their testimonies, to hear that we remain faithful because of what we believe.
The wonderful hymn, “I Believe in Christ,” is a powerful example of a moving testimony based upon belief. As an apostle, a special witness of Christ, Elder Bruce R. McConkie certainly would have been justified in using “know speak.” I am quite sure that his testimony was far more developed than anything I can hope to enjoy in the near future. But the repeated expression of “I Believe” not only is poetic, it is also honest and hopeful. And the strength of the testimony suffers nothing by being expressed in terms of belief.
I don’t believe in “rules” for testimonies, as do some people in the Church. Bearing a testimony is not a performance, nor does it need to confirm with rigid requirements as to content. So if someone wants to talk about what they “know,” I assume that they are using the word in the Alma “seed” sense and not the Joseph Smith “grove” sense, and I am fine with that. And if someone tells me what they believe, I welcome them into the fellowship of those of us who have found that belief is sufficient to weather the storms that cross our paths.
And for those who don’t know that they’ll ever know, I suggest that–for now–you give belief a chance. | 2019-04-18T20:59:21Z | https://mutteringmormon.wordpress.com/2016/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.731962 |
wikipedia | The 1929 Southern League was the inaugural season of speedway racing in the United Kingdom for Southern British teams.
Stamford Bridge were crowned as the first champions, just two points ahead of Southampton Saints. Hall Green withdrew after 7 meetings and their record was expunged.
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wordpress | The reason for that is very simple: I don’t have the answers to questions regarding “why’s” and “how’s”.
The experiences of otherworldly realms of spirits and entities is, in my opinion, 99% in reference to yourself. The outcome of it to be positive is also in reference of how you work as an individual and how affected you are of the social indoctrination. That includes your upbringing from your parents and the religious views of the society. And there’s also the innercore of who you really are, that makes you special and unique in your own way.
That doesn’t mean I don’t have theories of “why’s” and “how’s” and some vague answers from my wives about certain things I’ve experienced with them. But that is just a reference to myself, and not to the person asking questions about a subject or an experience. I don’t really have answers to give. All I can do is being a reference to my own experience, sharing these in my blog. Maybe a few readers can relate some of those experiences to themselves, and that’s where the last 1% is. The percentage of similarities, that some of us have in common.
As I see it, given answers to these kind of questions, can build expectations of things that might not occur to that specific individual. And that doesn’t mean that me, or anyone else for that matter, is “more special” than others. Experiences of this matter is very much on an individual level, which makes it unique in its own way. | 2019-04-22T02:57:06Z | https://succupedia.wordpress.com/2014/08/ | Porn | Reference | 0.932639 |
wordpress | Okay, Finally! I am sitting down to share this fun show I have done with Cathie Bleck, It will be up at Maria Neil Art Project until the 19th of October. The images of the show are courtesy of Cathie, as I never recall to take pictures of shows until shortly after they are taken down. Ha!
Tomorrow, October the 11th from 6-9 pm we are having a closing reception of sorts, complete with a craft beer tasting in conjunction with Portside Brewery. Me and Cathie will be there, so stop on by. In the meantime, here is the installation of the show!
and some close ups of Cathie’s lovely work. We are both sticklers for detail.
Finally a shot of me and my twin Beth being twinsies at the opening reception. If you squint hard enough you can imagine us as one two headed lady. | 2019-04-20T08:48:52Z | https://amycaseypainting.wordpress.com/2014/10/ | Porn | Arts | 0.983423 |
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faithweb | paul...a true follower of jesus or a subverter of the faith of jesus and founder of a new religion?
PAUL...TRUE FOLLOWER OF JESUS...OR SUBVERTER OF THE FAITH OF JESUS AND FOUNDER OF A NEW RELIGION?
When reading this website one will come into much challenging information that will be completely new to the seeker of truth. I assure you that the following details, facts, and information concerning the true historical Paul and the problem and the split with the Jerusalem Church is documented well outside the New Testament. I challenge every reader to do his own "homework" in order to verify to himself beyond any doubt that what I will be sharing with you is the truth and in order to make it easy for you I have presented a short bibliography where you can verify the facts in this website for yourself from the following scholarly sources.
Historical Statements About The Apostle Paul...How Can They Say Such Things About Paul...What Do They Know That We Don't?
The Gospel Message Of Jesus And Paul...Do They Agree?
The Gospel Message of Jesus...Who Will You Believe For Eternal Life...Jesus Or Paul?
The Gospel Message of Paul...Who Will You Believe For Eternal Life...Paul or Jesus?
The Nature Of The Christian Faith: Historical Or Mythical?
Does Paul's De-Emphasis Upon The Human Jesus Affect The Writers Of The Other Gospels?
Solving The Jesus-Paul Problem...Can It Be Done?
THE PICTURE OF PAUL IN THE NEW TESTAMENT: HAVE WE BEEN TAUGHT THE TRUTH?
The Picture Of Paul In The New Testament...Have We Been Taught The Truth?
The Problem Of Paul In The New Testament...But You Never Knew That There Was A Problem...Did You?
Can Knowledge Of The Pharisees, Gamaliel, Stephen, And Paul's Pre-Christian Life Help Us Find The Truth?
The Non-Jewish Ideas Of Paul---A Pharisee of Pharisees...How Can This Be?
Does The Account Of The Jerusalem Church In The Book Of Acts Discount Paul's "Gospel" And Theology?
Controvery At The Jerusalem Council? Law Or Grace? Or Both?
Paul...He Was Opposed By The Nazarenes And Yeshua's Church...This Should Trouble You!
Paul's Conversion In The New Testament...Is It Trustworthy...Or Should We Be Suspicious?
Did Paul Betray Yeshua And His Message?
When Paul's Teachings Conflict With Jesus...Who Are We To Believe?
The Law According To Paul...How Can We Believe Him?
Does Paul Have Double Vision When It Comes To The Law?
Did Paul Continue To Bring Blood Sacrifices After The Cross Of Jesus?
In Spite Of Paul's Favorite Portrayal In The New Testament...Was He Still An Enemy Of The Faith Of Jesus?
Paul And The Nazarenes...Why Do Their Messages Conflict When They Both Followed Yeshua?
What Is This Law That Paul Rejected?
The Law According To Paul...Can We Believe Him?
Paul's Conflicting Ideas On The Law...What Gives?
Faith And Works...Does Paul Misrepresent It In The New Testament?
Paul Would Have Us Believe Grace Is "Mysteriously" Somehow Exclusive Of Good Works...Is It?
Grace As God's Unmerited Favor...Or Is It Merited After All....And Again Have We Been Misled By Paul?
The Anti-Judaism Of Paul...Strange For A Pharisee Of Pharisees...Don't You Think?
Paul Misquotes The Prophets And Misinterprets The Cornerstone...You Have Got To Be Kidding?
Does God Want You To Obey His Torah Or Paul For Salvation?
Does Paul Have The Right To Say That Those Who Don't Accept His "Variant" Gospel Are No Longer The Israel Of God?
Is God's Wisdom Available To All Or Only To Those Who Accept His "Variant" Gospel?
How Could Paul Be So Wrong In Saying Hanging A Corpse On A Tree Is A Curse On The Dead Instead Of The Living?
Does Paul Try To Make Us Believe That Abraham Alluded To Jesus When He Didn't?
Faith Or Deeds? Did Paul Misrepresent Abraham And David In His Writings...And What Are We To Believe?
Did Paul Misapply The Text Of Isaiah To Maliciously Accuse The Jews Of Blaspheming The Name Of God...When They Had Not?
Does Paul Slant The Truth To Make It Look Like His Pauline Christianity Has Replaced The Religion Of Moses And Yeshua?
Does Paul Take Out Of Context The Psalms To Make His Point...Even If The Original Author Of The Psalms Intended No Such Meaning?
Did The Writers Of Gal. 3:5-6 Take The Quote Of Abraham And Faith From Gen. 15:6 Completely Out Of Context?
"In Thee Shall All The Nations Be Blessed"...What Does This Really Mean?
Galatians 3:11...No Man Is Justified By Obedience To The Law In The Sight Of God...Or Is He?
Galatians 3:13...How Could Paul Be So Wrong In Teaching That The Hanging Of A Corpse On A Tree Is A Curse Upon The "Dead" Instead Of The "Living"?
Galatians 3:19 States That "The Law Was Ordained By Angels" Or Was It?
Galatians 3:19 States That The Law Was Given Because Of Transgressions...Was It #1?
Galatians 3:19 States That The Law Was Given Because Of Transgressions...Was It #2?
Isa. 54:1 & Sarah And Hagar...Paul's Attempt To Teach With Rabbinic Methods...Gone Completely Awry!
"In Thee Shall All The Nations Be Blessed"...Does This Refer To Jesus As Paul Would Have Us Believe?
Paul Would Have You Believe That Gentiles Who Accept His Unique Gospel Are Now The "New Israel"...How Absurd Paul!
Can Paul Misquote Habakkuk And Get Away With It? Well He Has!
Did The New Testament Writers Deceptively Picture Biblical Judaism As A Religion Without Love?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #1?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #2?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #3?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #4?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #5?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #6?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #7?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #8?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #9?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #10?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #11?
Paul's Rebuke Of Peter....Have We Misunderstood What Really Happened At The Antioch Incident #12?
CONTRASTNG THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS AGAINST THE TEACHINGS OF PAUL...WHY DOES PAUL DISAGREE WITH JESUS' MESSAGE AND GOSPEL?
As we conclude the study of apostolic theology, the words of Rabbi Solomon Schechter come to mind: "One thing is quite clear even to every student, and this is that a curious alternative is always haunting our exegesis of the Epistles. Either the theology of the Rabbis must be wrong, its conception of God debasing, its leading motives materialistic and coarse, its teachings lacking in enthusiasm and spirituality, or the Apostle to the Gentiles is quite unintelligible."
Paul And His Heretical Views On Authority....Was He A Sexist?
Paul And His Views Of Jewish Christians...What Would Jesus Think Of This?
Who Is The Real Paul...A Man Of Tolerance Or Bigotry?
Who Were The Evangelists And Why Did They Write What They Did?
Have We Believed In "Another Jesus" And Not Known It?
Have We Completely Misunderstood Paul's Message In The Book Of Galatians No.1?
Have We Completely Misunderstood Paul's Message In The Book Of Galatians No.2?
Have We Completely Misunderstood Paul's Message In The Book Of Galatians No.3?
Have We Completely Misunderstood Paul's Message In The Book Of Galatians No.4? | 2019-04-26T11:39:01Z | http://paulproblem.faithweb.com/acover_page.htm | Porn | Home | 0.184497 |
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google | A shopping assistance method and service system is provided in which a shopper captures information about an item of interest (90) and sends it over a mobile radio infrastructure (10) to a service system (40). At the service system, the information is processed to identify at least the type of item of interest. A determination is also made of a location associated with the information, this location will generally be that of the store (92) where the shopper captured the information, but could also be the shopper's home location. The service system next carries out a specific task (72) relating to the identified item (90), such as obtaining comparative prices, and then provides a report back to the shopper, the contents and/or organisation of the report taking account of the location previously determined as being associated with the information.
The present invention relates to a shopping assistance service system and method and, in particular, but not exclusively, to such a service system and method utilising the information capture and processing methods and apparatus of our co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/715,560, filed Nov. 17, 2000, incorporated herein by reference.
Communication infrastructures suitable for mobile users (in particular, though not exclusively, cellular radio infrastructures) have now become widely adopted. Whilst the primary driver has been mobile telephony, the desire to implement mobile data-based services over these infrastructures, has led to the rapid development of data-capable bearer services across such infrastructures. This has opened up the possibility of many Internet-based services being available to mobile users.
By way of example, FIG. 1 shows one form of known communication infrastructure for mobile users providing both telephony and data-bearer services. In this example, a mobile entity 20, provided with a radio subsystem 22 and a phone subsystem 23, communicates with the fixed infrastructure of GSM PLMN (Public Land Mobile Network) 10 to provide basic voice telephony services. In addition, the mobile entity 20 includes a data-handling subsystem 25 interworking, via data interface 24, with the radio subsystem 22 for the transmission and reception of data over a data-capable bearer service provided by the PLMN; the data-capable bearer service enables the mobile entity 20 to communicate with a service system 40 connected to the public Internet 39. The data handling subsystem 25 supports an operating environment 26 in which applications run, the operating environment including an appropriate communications stack.
More particularly, the fixed infrastructure 10 of the GSM PLMN comprises one or more Base Station Subsystems (BSS) 11 and a Network and Switching Subsystem NSS 12. Each BSS 11 comprises a Base Station Controller (BSC) 14 controlling multiple Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) 13 each associated with a respective “cell” of the radio network. When active, the radio subsystem 22 of the mobile entity 20 communicates via a radio link with the BTS 13 of the cell in which the mobile entity is currently located. As regards the NSS 12, this comprises one or more Mobile Switching Centers (MSC) 15 together with other elements such as Visitor Location Registers 32 and Home Location Register 32.
When the mobile entity 20 is used to make a normal telephone call, a traffic circuit for carrying digitised voice is set up through the relevant BSS 11 to the NSS 12 which is then responsible for routing the call to the target phone (whether in the same PLMN or in another network).
With respect to data transmission to/from the mobile entity 20, in the present example three different data-capable bearer services are depicted though other possibilities exist. A first data-capable bearer service is available in the form of a Circuit Switched Data (CSD) service; in this case a full traffic circuit is used for carrying data and the MSC 32 routes the circuit to an InterWorking Function IWF 34 the precise nature of which depends on what is connected to the other side of the IWF. Thus, IWF could be configured to provide direct access to the public Internet 39 (that is, provide functionality similar to an IAP—Internet Access Provider IAP). Alternatively, the IWF could simply be a modem connecting to a PSTN; in this case, Internet access can be achieved by connection across the PSTN to a standard IAP.
A second, low bandwidth, data-capable bearer service is available through use of the Short Message Service that passes data carried in signalling channel slots to an SMS unit which can be arranged to provide connectivity to the public Internet 39.
A third data-capable bearer service is provided in the form of GPRS (General Packet Radio Service which enables IP (or X.25) packet data to be passed from the data handling system of the mobile entity 20, via the data interface 24, radio subsystem 21 and relevant BSS 11, to a GPRS network 17 of the PLMN 10 (and vice versa). The GPRS network 17 includes a SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) 18 interfacing BSC 14 with the network 17, and a GGSN (Gateway GPRS Support Node) interfacing the network 17 with an external network (in this example, the public Internet 39). Full details of GPRS can be found in the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) GSM 03.60 specification. Using GPRS, the mobile entity 20 can exchange packet data via the BSS 11 and GPRS network 17 with entities connected to the public Internet 39.
The data connection between the PLMN 10 and the Internet 39 will generally be through a firewall 35 with proxy and/or gateway functionality.
Different data-capable bearer services to those described above may be provided, the described services being simply examples of what is possible.
In FIG. 1, a service system 40 is shown connected to the Internet 40, this service system being accessible to the OS/application 26 running in the mobile entity by use of any of the data-capable bearer services described above. The data-capable bearer services could equally provide access to a service system that is within the domain of the PLMN operator or is connected to another public or private data network.
WAP stack where “WAP” is the Wireless Application Protocol standard. Details of WAP can be found, for example, in the book “Official Wireless Application Protocol” Wireless Application Protocol Forum, Ltd published 1999 Wiley Computer Publishing. Where the OS/application software is WAP compliant, the firewall will generally also serve as a WAP proxy and gateway. Of course, OS/application 26 can comprise other functionality (for example, an e-mail client) instead of, or additional to, the WAP functionality.
The mobile entity 20 may take many different forms. For example, it could be two separate units such as a mobile phone (providing elements 22–24) and a mobile PC (data-handling system 25) coupled by an appropriate link (wireline, infrared or even short range radio system such as Bluetooth). Alternatively, mobile entity 20 could be a single unit such as a mobile phone with WAP functionality. Of course, if only data transmission/reception is required (and not voice), the phone functionality 24 can be omitted; an example of this is a PDA with built-in GSM data-capable functionality whilst another example is a digital camera (the data-handling subsystem) also with built-in GSM data-capable functionality enabling the upload of digital images from the camera to a storage server.
Whilst the above description has been given with reference to a PLMN based on GSM technology, it will be appreciated that many other cellular radio technologies exist and can typically provide the same type of functionality as described for the GSM PLMN 10.
Recently, must interest has been shown in “location-based”, “location-dependent”, or “location-aware” services for mobile users, these being services that take account of the current location of the user (or other mobile party). The most basic form of this service is the emergency location service whereby a user in trouble can press a panic button on their mobile phone to send an emergency request-for-assistance message with their location data appended. Another well known location-based service is the provision of traffic and route-guiding information to vehicle drivers based on their current position. A further known service is a “yellow pages” service where a user can find out about amenities (shops, restaurants, theatres, etc.) local to their current location. The term “location-aware services” will be used herein to refer generically to these and similar services where a location dependency exists.
Location-aware services all require user location as an input parameter. A number of methods already exist for determining the location of a mobile user as represented by an associated mobile equipment. Example location-determining methods will now be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5. As will be seen, some of these methods result in the user knowing their location thereby enabling them to transmit it to a location-aware service they are interested in receiving, whilst other of the methods result in the user's location becoming known to a network entity from where it can be supplied directly to a location-aware service (generally only with the consent of the user concerned). It is to be understood that additional methods to those illustrated in FIGS. 2 to 5 exist.
The location-determining method illustrated in FIG. 2 uses an inertial positioning system 50 provided in the mobile entity 20A, this system 50 determining the displacement of the mobile entity from an initial reference position. When the mobile entity 20A wishes to invoke a location-aware service, it passes its current position to the corresponding service system 40 along with the service request 51. This approach avoids the need for an infrastructure to provide an external frame of reference; however, cost, size and long-term accuracy concerns currently make such systems unattractive for incorporation into mass-market handheld devices.
FIG. 3 shows two different location-determining methods both involving the use of local, fixed-position, beacons here shown as infra-red beacons IRD though other technologies, such as short-range radio systems (in particular, “Bluetooth” systems) may equally be used. The right hand half of FIG. 3 show a number of independent beacons 55 that continually transmit their individual locations. Mobile entity 20B is arranged to pick up the transmissions from a beacon when sufficiently close, thereby establishing its position to the accuracy of its range of reception. This location data can then be appended to a request 59 made by the mobile entity 20B to a location-aware service available from service system 40. A variation on this arrangement is for the beacons 55 to transmit information which whilst not directly location data, can be used to look up such data (for example, the data may be the Internet home page URL of a store housing the beacon 55 concerned, this home page giving the store location—or at least identity, thereby enabling look-up of location in a directory service).
In the left-hand half of FIG. 3, the IRB beacons 54 are all connected to a network that connects to a location server 57. The beacons 54 transmit a presence signal and when mobile entity 20C is sufficiently close to a beacon to pick up the presence signal, it responds by sending its identity to the beacon. (Thus, in this embodiment, both the beacons 54 and mobile entity 20C can both receive and transmit IR signals whereas beacons 55 only transmit, and mobile entity 20B only receives, IR signals). Upon a beacon 54 receiving a mobile entity's identity, it sends out a message over network 56 to location server 57, this message linking the identity of the mobile entity 20C to the location of the relevant beacon 54. Now when the mobile entity wishes to invoke a location-aware service provided by the service system 40, since it does not know its location it must include its identity in the service request 58 and rely on the service system 40 to look up the current location of the mobile entity in the location server 57. Because location data is personal and potentially very sensitive, the location server 57 will generally only supply location data to the service system 40 after the latter has produced an authorizing token supplied by the mobile entity 20B in request 58. It will be appreciated that whilst service system 40 is depicted as handling service requests form both types of mobile entity 20B and 20C, separate systems 40 may be provided for each mobile type (this is likewise true in respect of the service systems depicted in FIGS. 4 and 5).
FIG. 4 depicts several forms of GPS location-determining system. On the left-hand side of FIG. 4, a mobile entity 20D is provided with a standard GPS module and is capable of determining the location of entity 20D by picking up signals from satellites 60. The entity 20D can then supply this location when requesting, in request 61, a location-aware service from service system 40.
The right-hand side of FIG. 4 depicts, in relation to mobile entity 20E, two ways in which assistance can be provided to the entity in deriving location from GPS satellites. Firstly, the PLMN 10 can be provided with fixed GPS receivers 62 that each continuously keep track of the satellites 60 visible from the receiver and pass information in messages 63 to local mobile entities 20E as to where to look for these satellites and estimated signal arrival times; this enables the mobile entities 20E to substantially reduce acquisition time for the satellites and increase accuracy of measurement (see “Geolocation Technology Pinpoints Wireless 911 calls within 15 Feet” 1 Jul. 1999 Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs). Secondly, as an alternative enhancement, the processing load on the mobile entity 20E can be reduced and encoded jitter removed using the services of network entity 64 (in or accessible through PLMN 10).
Once the mobile unit 20E has determined its location, it can pass this information in request 65 when invoking a location-aware service provided by service system 40.
FIG. 5 depicts two general approaches to location determination from signals present in a cellular radio infrastructure. First, it can be noted that in general both the mobile entity and the network will know the identity of the cell in which the mobile entity currently resides, this information being provided as part of the normal operation of the system. (Although in a system such as GSM, the network may only store current location to a resolution of a collection of cells known as a “location area”, the actual current cell ID will generally be derivable from monitoring the signals exchanged between the BSC 14 and the mobile entity). Beyond current basic cell ID, it is possible to get a more accurate fix by measuring timing and/or directional parameters between the mobile entity and multiple BTSs 13, these measurement being done either in the network or the mobile entity (see, for example, International Application WO 99/04582 that describes various techniques for effecting location determination in the mobile and WO 99/55114 that describes location determination by the mobile network in response to requests made by location-aware applications to a mobile location center—server—of the mobile network).
The left-hand half of FIG. 5 depicts the case of location determination being done in the mobile entity 20F by, for example, making Observed Time Difference (OTD) measurements with respect to signals from BTSs 13 and calculating location using a knowledge of BTS locations. The location data is subsequently appended to a service request 66 sent to service system 40 in respect of a location-aware service. The calculation load on mobile entity 20F could be reduced and the need for the mobile to know BTS locations avoided, by having a network entity do some of the work. The right-hand half of FIG. 5 depicts the case of location determination being done in the network, for example, by making Timing Advance measurements for three BTSs 13 and using these measurements to derive location (this derivation typically being done in a unit associated with BSC 14). The resultant location data is passed to a location server 67 from where it can be made available to authorised services. As for the mobile entity 20C in FIG. 3, when the mobile entity 20G of FIG. 5 wishes to invoke a location-aware service available on service system 50, it sends a request 69 including an authorisation token and its ID (possible embedded in the token) to the service system 40; the service system then uses the authorisation token to obtain the current location of the mobile entity 20G from the location server 67.
In the above examples, where the mobile entity is responsible for determining location, this will generally be done only at the time the location-aware service is being requested. Where location determination is done by the infrastructure, it may be practical for systems covering only a limited number of users (such as the system illustrated in the left-hand half of FIG. 2 where a number of infrared beacons 54 will cover a generally fairly limited) for location-data collection to be done whenever a mobile entity is newly detected by an IRB, this data being passed to location server 57 where it is cached for use when needed. However, for systems covering large areas with potentially a large number of mobile entities, such as the FIG. 5 system, it is more efficient to effect location determination as and when there is a perceived need to do so; thus, location determination may be triggered by the location server 67 in response to the service request 68 from the mobile entity 20G or the mobile entity may, immediately prior to making request 68, directly trigger BSC 14 to effect a location determination and feed the result to location server 67.
Further with respect to the location servers 57, 67, whilst access authorisation by location-aware services has been described as being through authorisation tokens supplied by the mobile entities concerned, other authorisation techniques can be used. In particular, a location-aware service can be prior authorised with the location server in respect of particular mobile entities; in this case, each request from the service for location data needs only to establish that the request comes from a service authorised in respect of the mobile entity for which the location data is requested.
As already indicated, FIGS. 2 to 5 depict only some examples of how location determination can be achieved, there being many other possible combinations of technology used and where in the system the location-determining measurements are made and location is calculated, stored and used. Thus, the location-aware service may reside in the mobile entity whose location is of interest, in a network-connected service system 40 (as illustrated), or even in another mobile entity. Furthermore, while in the examples of FIGS. 2 to 5, invocation of the location-aware service has been by the mobile entity whose location is of interest, the nature of the location-aware service may be such that it is invoked by another party (including, potentially, the PLMN itself). In this case, unless the invoking party already knows the location of he mobile entity and can pass this information to the location-aware service (which may, for example, may be situation where the PLMN invokes the service), it is the location-aware service that is responsible for obtaining the required location data, either by sending a request to the mobile entity itself or by requesting the data from a location server. Unless the location server already has the needed information in cache, the server proceeds to obtain the data either by interrogating the mobile entity or by triggering infrastructure elements to locate the mobile. For example, where a location-aware service running on service system 40 in FIG. 5 needs to find the location of mobile 20G, it could be arranged to do so by requesting this information from location server 67 which in turn requests the location data from the relevant BSC, the latter then making the necessary determination using measurements from BTSs 13.
Although in the foregoing, the provision of location data through the mobile radio infrastructure to the mobile entity has been treated as a service effected over a data-capable bearer channel, it may be expected that as location data becomes considered a basic element of mobile radio infrastructure services, provision will be made in the relevant mobile radio standards for location data to be passed over a signalling channel to the mobile entity.
The present invention concerns a shopping assistance service whereby a user can obtain comparative prices of an item of interest whilst out shopping. The ability to obtain comparative prices using mobile communications is already known (see, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,134,548 that discloses a system in which a user can input a universal product code and receive back price information and reviews). The retrieval of product-relevant information is also described in our above-mentioned co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 09/715,560, where a hand-held scanner is used to capture information which is then sent, for example over a mobile communications link, to a remote processing system where the scanned image is used to enable a specified task (for example, providing more information on the product to which the scanned image relates; providing information on similar products; ordering the product; etc.).
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved shopping assistance service method and system.
(c) carrying out a specific task relating to the identified item and delivering an output, said location being used to organise and/or select what is in said output.
task means for carrying out a specific task relating to the identified item and delivering an output, said location being used to organise and/or select what is in said output.
task means for carrying out a specific task relating to the identified item and delivering an output, said location being used to organise said output according to zones of different accessibility from said location.
FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating different usages of the service system.
The shopping assistance service method and system embodying the invention will now be described with reference to FIG. 6 which shows the service system 40 as connected to the public Internet 39. It is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the specifics of the mobile entity 20, location discovery means, and communication infrastructure shown in FIG. 6; the generalisations discussed above in relation to FIG. 1 to 5 regarding these elements apply equally to the operational context of the service system 40. Furthermore, whilst the service system 40 is shown as connected to the public Internet, it could be connected to the GPRS network 17 or to another fixed data network interfacing directly or indirectly with the network 17 or network 39; it will also be appreciated that any appropriate data-capable bearer service (not just GPRS) can be used for passing data through PLMN 10.
In the FIG. 6 embodiment, the data handling subsystem 25 of mobile entity 20 runs a shopping aid application 26 (for example, a WAP application) by which the user can provide item data on an item of interest (for example, goods 90 displayed at a business premises 92 such as a shop or store), select a task to be carried out in relation to that item data, and send the item data and task data via a data-capable bearer service of PLMN 10, WAP gateway 35, and internet 39 (see heavy dotted line), to a shopping assistance service system 40. System 40 processes the received data to effect the specified task, fetching additional information as needed, and then delivering the results in a manner specified by the user. The specified tasks can include collecting comparative pricing data for the item of interest, accessing reviews of the item, ordering catalogues, creating a personal shopping session catalogue for later reference (for example, from a home PC 79), etc.
According to the present invention, the contents of the results information delivered by the service system are selected and/or organised by location as will be more fully described hereinafter.
Item data is provided to the shopping aid application 26 by means of a capture transducer 27; in the present example, the capture transducer 27 is a hand-held scanner which is used by the mobile-entity user to scan an information label 91 associated with the item 90 to generate image data. The image data is displayed to the user via a viewing interface 28 to enable the user to verify that the scan has been successful. The information label 91 includes, for example, a bar code identifying the product as well as a text description and price. Details of a suitable scanner are given in our aforesaid co-pending U.S. patent application.
The mobile entity also includes an interface 29 which the user can use to select the specific task that the user wishes to be carried out in relation to the scanned-in item data; preferably this interface, or another interface of the mobile entity, permits the user to key in further data such as the explicit identity of the store 90. Whilst the store identity may have been captured with the image data (for example, where the product bar code is extended to include store identity data), including the store identity as an explicit data field facilitates processing and generally entering this data need only be done once in each store regardless of how many items of interest are scanned in. However, it should be noted that the store identity can be obtained in a variety of ways including from the location of the store as will be described hereinafter; accordingly, it is to be understood that reference herein to store data for indicating the identify the store is to be broadly understood to encompass any data enabling the identity of the store to be derived either directly or indirectly.
The item data, task selection data, and any other input data are received at the shopping assistance service system 40 through web interface 41 and are handled by processing block 42. More particularly, these data are first subject to a preliminary processing 71 the purpose of which is to identify all the main data elements using, as necessary, the services of an image interpretation process 74. The main data elements are listed below.
The service system will have received user identity data when the user first connected to the service system and this is used to look up user profile data in database 43, the user profile data specifying certain processing preferences as will be described below.
Generally this is a separate date element in the data passed to the service system and there is no difficulty in identifying and extracting this data. Alternatively, the user can specify in their user profile that a particular is always to be performed. More than one task can be specified in respect of the same item of interest.
The identity of the item (generally item type though possibly for valuable items the identity of the specific item instance) is extracted through processing of the item data (in the present example, the item data is image data though it would be possible to have captured the item identity as explicitly entered data). The image processing is operative, for example, to read scanned-in bar code to identify a UPC (Universal Product Code) or to read scanned-in text using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. Alternatively, the image processing involves matching the captured image against a library of stored images (for example, images of labels 91 provided by the store concerned), these images having associated data records giving details of the associated items.
The location of the store where the item data was captured can be obtained by any of the location discovery means described above with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5. In the present case, a location server 67 of the PLMN 10 is queried through interface 36 to obtain the location of mobile entity 20. Where the store identity is positively known then this could be used as an alternative way of discovering location by look-up in a database associating business identity with location.
As already noted, the store identity can be embedded in the image item data or sent as a separate data item. Rather than having the user directly input the store identity or extracting it from the image item data, the process 71 of the service system can be arranged to map the user location to a business identity using, for example, a database 45 that provides such mappings for a particular locality. Since multiple businesses may be in close proximity or one above another in a shopping mall, it is preferable that process 71 provides interpreted item data to the database 45 to enable the latter to resolve ambiguities by matching the item type against information on the nature of the businesses concerned (database 45 including a business description of each business). Database 45 also holds contact details (such as website URL) for the businesses on which it holds details (for this reason, database 45 is provided even where business identity is not obtained by a location-to-business look-up); database 45 can be an external resource accessed by service system over the internet.
After the preliminary processing step 71 has extracted the main data elements, the specified task is executed (step 72) using an appropriate script retrieved from database 44. Depending on the nature of the task, this will generally involve contacting local and/or remote shopping information databases 46, 47 containing information such as pricing and availability of the identified item at other physical stores and virtual stores, or contacting item informational resources relevant to the identified item, such resources including product review websites, the website of the store where the item data was captured, the item manufacturer's website, etc. Retrieval of information from these databases 46, 47 and resources 48 is effected under the control of retrieval process 75.
available from a virtual store over the internet with delivery to the location focus.
Z5—available from a virtual store over the internet with delivery to the current location or the user's home (here, there is no difference between the two, though there could be, for example, in the case of travelling abroad).
by remote printing at the user's local (home/office) printer.
Any other appropriate feedback mechanism can be used. With respect to the presentation of comparative pricing and availability data for an item, as already described this data is selected relative to one or more location foci according to certain distance criteria (expressed above in terms of zones); the presentation of this information is preferably also presented according to those distance criteria, a list presentation format generally being more convenient than a graphical one.
In addition (or alternatively) to carrying out particular information retrieval tasks in respect of individual items of interest, the service system is arranged to execute, for each item on which data is captured, a store-to-catalogue task; this task stores in database 49 information about the item of interest concerned, this information being, for example, the item data itself, the main data elements extracted by the preliminary processing 71 (including store identity), and timestamp data (including date). This item information, taken together for all items, effectively forms a catalogue of items of interest found during a shopping trip. Preferably, the URLs of relevant further information resources for each item of interest are also stored, together with the URLs of websites of the stores visited (these URLs are obtained either as part of the preliminary processing or as part of the catalogue task itself). The store-to-catalogue task effectively includes the dispatch process, delivering data to the database 49.
When the user arrives back home, the user can access the service system 40 and ask for the day's personal shopping catalogue to be displayed; this causes the processing block 42 to run a present-catalogue task that retrieves, from database 49, the user's item information for the current date and organises and presents this information back to the user via, for example, suitable web pages. Since the stored item information includes the store identity where each item data was captured, the presentation of the personal shopping catalogue is conveniently effected by store as illustrated in FIG. 8 that depicts a web page presentation of the personal shopping catalogue. More particularly, for each store (here stores “PQR” and “XYZ”) there is a corresponding entry 81 each giving the store identity, a thumbnail 82 of each image item data captured at that store, and a corresponding text description of the item concerned (this being the item identity extracted during preliminary processing 71).
Further information in respect of displayed elements is made available by making such elements hot links; thus to access the website of a store, the user clicks on the store name thereby activating a hyperlink to the store's website (the URL of which was previously found by the service system). Clicking on an item image thumbnail 82 brings up the full image whereas clicking on the item description 83 brings up a list of further information resources for that item and further tasks that can be undertaken (such as price comparison and availability checks from other outlets, this information preferably being locationally graded in the manner described above with reference to FIG. 7). Another available task is preferably a purchase task for purchasing the item via the store concerned (this facility acts as an incentive for stores to cooperate with the service system).
Activating button 87 takes the user to a control menu from where the user can, for example, access and modify their user profile, choose to view their personal shopping catalogue for a different date, or display all item datas concerning a particular item type, regardless of date of capture.
Preferably, upon a user asking to view their personal shopping catalogue for a particular date, including the current date, the present-catalogue task first presents the user with a map showing the stores visited (this being done using the store location data and a suitable map database). The user can then select a store as an entry point into the shopping catalogue for the day, the store entries 81 being arranged chronologically (except repeat visits to the same store on the same day are all included in the first entry for the store on that day).
Conveniently, the shopping aid application 26 permits the user to send null item data to the service system for the purpose of registering the presence of the user at a particular store regardless of whether item data is captured at that store. The service system processes this input in the normal way except that it does not seek to extract item identity information or retrieve item-relevant information; the present-catalogue task uses the store data associated with the null item data to present the store in the personal shopping catalogue though no item element is displayed in respect of the null item data. Of course, if non-null item data is subsequently captured at the store concerned, the null entry can be deleted.
As will be appreciated by persons skilled in the art, many variations are possible to the above described shopping assistance service method and system. For example, the location-dependency of comparative pricing and availability data can be solely reflected in how that information is displayed instead of being used to determine what pricing and availability information is retrieved. As well as location being a relevant parameter for the comparative pricing retrieval and display, relative price may also be a parameter whereby only the lowest prices are returned to the user or even only prices lower than that at the user's current location.
The items of interest can be services as well as products.
Additionally or alternatively to the item data capture techniques described above, audio input is also possible, the user inputting a voice message as the item data which is then subject to audio processing by the preliminary processing step 71 to extract information such as item identity (and possibly also store identity and task required).
The mobile entity 20 can be arranged to carry out some of the preliminary processing of captured data itself before contacting the service system 40. Thus, the mobile entity can be configured to extract item identity and price information from the scanned image item data, possibly with the help of user input.
While in the described embodiment the item and store data has been transmitted to the shopping assistance service system 40 substantially at the time of capture, it is also possible for the user to capture and save the item and store data in a handheld device and latter download the captured data on one or more items to the service system 40 (for example, from a home PC). Furthermore, at least some of the preliminary processing and task execution can be effected by local processing resources of the user, though access will still be required to remote information resources for pricing, availability, review and other such information.
FIG. 9 depicts different degrees of involvement of the service system in relation to the building of a personal shopping catalogue by the user. The left-hand side of FIG. 9 shows the situation already described above where mobile entity 20 equipped with a capture transducer scans label 91 of an item 90 of interest and sends the data at the time of capture (see arrow 110) via PLMN 10 and internet 39 to the shopping assistance service system 40 for preliminary processing and store-to-catalogue task execution (here both represented by process 93). The user subsequently accesses the service system from home PC 79 and retrieves (arrow 111) personal shopping catalogue pages prepared by the present-catalogue task 94. The user may request follow up tasks such as price and availability comparison data (see arrow 112).
The right-hand side of FIG. 9 depicts the situation where the user has a handheld device comprising elements 25 to 28 of the mobile entity 20 of FIG. 6, together with adequate storage means for holding the captured data, and location discovery means (such as a GPS receiver). The captured item and store data is similar to that described above in relation to the FIG. 6 embodiment; however, the captured data is now retained in the device 120 rather than being transmitted over PLMN 10 to the service system. When the user returns home (arrow 113), the user downloads the captured data into home PC 79.
The processing of the captured data can now proceed in several different ways depending on the split of processing between home PC 79 and remote resources such as the service system 40; additionally, certain processing (such as item identification) can be effected either before or subsequent to presentation to the user of their personal shopping catalogue for the day.
Thus, the simplest approach is to arrange for the home PC to pass all the captured data to the service system 40 (see arrow 114) and allow the latter to carry out its processing substantially as in the FIG. 6 embodiment in respect of the preliminary processing, store-to-catalogue and present-catalogue tasks (depicted together as process 97 in FIG. 9). A variant of this approach is to have the service system carry out the preliminary processing and store-to-catalogue task but with the resultant item information being passed back to PC 79 for local storage; in this case, PC 79 can conveniently carry out the present-catalogue task itself on the basis of the received item information received from service system 40.
At the other extreme, the home PC can be arranged to carry out all the functions of the service system (depicted by process 96 in FIG. 9), making reference (arrow 115) to external resources 105 over internet 39 where necessary to look-up data such as location-to-business identity and to access shopping data such as comparative prices and availability on a location-focus-dependent basis.
In one preferred arrangement, the captured data is subject to initial processing 98 in PC 79 to identify the stores visited and obtain website contact information (this is done, for example, by using captured location data to do a look up in an external location-to-business identity database that also includes contact data). Thereafter no further processing is done until the user requests to see their shopping catalogue for the day. At that time, a present-catalogue program is run to display by store, the captured image item data. The user can then ask for further information about a selected displayed image item and this causes the present-catalogue program either to analyse the image item data itself or to contact the website of the store concerned (arrow 116) and ask the store website 140 to match the image item data with image data held by that website. Preferably, the user can intervene in the identification process to insert a clue (such as general item type); indeed, the captured image item data can simply be used as a visual cue to prompt the user to input appropriate clue words to track down the product in a store catalogue held by the store website. In this case, the capture transducer of handheld device 120 can conveniently be a digital camera.
The user can also be responsible for inputting store identity on the basis of visual prompting off the image item data or otherwise. In this case, there is no need to capture store data whilst actually shopping; however, capturing location data with each item data is a convenient way of associating items coming from the same store, though alternative mechanisms are possible (for example, the user can simply key in a store ID for each item on which data is captured).
As another variant, the item labels 91 can advantageously include URL data referencing corresponding item information in the store's website catalogue. In this case, the service system 40 or home PC 79 can include appropriate means for extracting the URL data from the image item data and then, when presenting the personal shopping catalogue, either using the URL as a hyperlink that can be activated by clicking the image item data thumbnail 81, or fetching a store catalogue image to be used in the personal shopping catalogue in place of the thumbnail.
(c) delivering to said user at least one of comparative-pricing and availability data for items of the type identified in step (b) for other business premises relative to said physical location, said data being categorized into zones of different physical accessibility of the business premises as they relate to the physical location of the user, the delivering step being over a communication link originating at the service system and including a mobile radio infrastructure.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said location is that of the business premises where the item is being offered.
by processing of image data included in said information.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said location is a predetermined location specified by the party responsible for sending the information to the service system in a user profile held by the service system.
5. A method according to claim 1, wherein step (b) includes determining multiple locations associated with said information, one of said locations being that of the business premises where the item is being offered and another said location being a predetermined location specified by said user either in a user profile held by the service system or in said information, and step (c) includes determining at least one of comparative-pricing and availability data for items of said identified type from business premises categorized into respective sets of zones of different physical accessibility for each said location.
a convenient driving zone around said location.
applying speech recognition to recorded audio data included in said information.
8. A method according to claim 1, wherein a specific task comprising one of delivering comparative-pricing data and delivering availability data is selected by the party responsible for sending the information in step (a), the selected task being explicitly specified in said information sent to the service system.
by making said output available at a web site accessible by said party.
10. A method according to claim 1, wherein said item of interest is a product on offer for sale or hire.
11. A method according to claim 1, wherein said item of interest is a service.
12. A method according to claim 1, wherein a zone distance is input with respect to an item of interest.
13. A method according to claim 1, wherein a zone distance is stored in a user profile.
an output subsystem for sending the categorized data to the user.
16. A system according to claim 14, wherein said information further includes an indication of at least one further location specified by said user, the processing subsystem being arranged to identify said at least one further location from said information, and the task subsystem being arranged to determine at least one of comparative-pricing and availability data for items of said identified type from business premises categorized into respective sets of zones of different physical accessibility from each said location.
18. A system according to claim 14, wherein a zone distance is input with respect to an item of interest.
19. A system according to claim 14, wherein a zone distance is stored in a user profile.
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The present application describes various embodiments of systems and methods for providing internal and external components for portable computing devices having a thin profile. More particularly, the present application describes internal components configured to fit within a relatively thin outer enclosure, wherein the internal components comprise at least one external interface, such as, for example, a track pad interface.
This U.S. Patent Application claims priority under 35 USC 119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/715,810 filed Oct. 18, 2012 entitled “Trackpad Features of a Portable Computer” by Jang et al. and to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/715,820 filed Oct. 18, 2012 entitled “Manufacturing Features Related to an Internal Components of a Portable Computer” by Espiritu et al both of which are incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
The embodiments described herein relate generally to portable computing devices. More particularly, the present embodiments relate to internal components that may be included in portable computing devices which include at least one external interface, for example, a track pad interface.
The outward appearance of a portable computing device, including its design and its heft, is important to a user of the portable computing device, as the outward appearance contributes to the overall impression that the user has of the portable computing device. Dimensions of the portable computing device may be particularly important to a user.
One design challenge associated with the manufacture of portable computing devices is the design of internal components as they relate to an enclosure of the portable computing device. When the design of the enclosure is selected to be relatively compact, the internal components within the enclosure must be designed and configured to fit within the compact space of the enclosure. Internal component functionality should not be compromised to because of a lack of implementation space.
Therefore, it is desirable for internal components of a portable computing device to have good functionality and to have a compact configuration to allow integration into relatively compact volumes.
Embodiments of improved internal components for a portable computing device are provided. In one embodiment a track pad includes a cover, a touch sensor, and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board may be connected to the touch sensor and coupled to the cover at an end thereof that is free to pivot. Thereby, the printed circuit board may stiffen the end of the cover. This may facilitate use of a dome switch coupled to the printed circuit board and configured to operate upon pivoting the cover without use of a separate stiffener for the cover.
According to another embodiment, a portable computing device includes a base portion including a top case, the top case including a set screw, bottom case and a track pad coupled to the top case. The track pad comprises a cover extending from a first end to a second end, the first end of the cover pivotally coupled to the top case with the second end decoupled from the top case, a touch sensor, a printed circuit board in communication with the touch sensor and coupled to the second end of the cover, and a switch coupled to the touch sensor and configured to actuate upon pivoting the cover about the first end and contacting the set screw.
According to another embodiment, a fixture is provided to calibrate a set screw position used in a track pad assembly. The fixture can include a switch coupled to a touch sensor, a support member including a threaded hole positioned over the switch, a gauge fixture configured to fit within the threaded hole and a set screw disposed on the gauge fixture.
In another embodiment, a method is provided for attaching ground tabs coupled to a touch pad to a printed circuit board can include the steps of receiving the touch pad and ground tab, where a first end of the ground tab is coupled to the touch pad, bending a second end of the ground tab to form an acute angle between the second end of the ground tab and the touch pad, arranging the printed circuit board to contact the ground tab in a contact region, heating the contact region bonding the printed circuit board to the ground tab and folding the ground tabs to configure printed circuit board to contact the touch pad.
Embodiments of acoustic components related to a track pad for a portable computing device are provided. In one embodiment, a track pad can include a cover extending from a first end to a second end where the first end of the cover can be configured to pivotally couple to a case of the portable computing device with the second end decoupled from the case. The track pad can also include a touch sensor and a printed circuit board in communication with the touch sensor and coupled to the second end of the cover where the printed circuit board is configured to support the second end of the cover. The track pad can include a dome switch coupled to the touch sensor and configured to actuate upon pivoting the cover about the first and at least one acoustic transmission member configured to guide acoustic energy within the track pad.
In another embodiment, a portable computing device can include a lid portion configured to include a display, a base portion including a top case and a bottom case pivotally coupled to the lid portion where the top case can include a palm rest zone, a keyboard zone and a track pad zone, configured to support a track pad, the track pad including a cover with a first end and a second end, the first end pivotally coupled to the top case and the second end decoupled from the top case, a touch sensor, a printed circuit board in communication with the touch sensor and coupled to the second end of the cover where the printed circuit board is configured to support the second end of the cover and at least one acoustic transmission member configured to guide acoustic energy within the track pad.
In yet another embodiment, a portable computing device can include a base portion including a top and a bottom case and a track pad, the track pad including a cover extending from a first end to a second end, the first end of the cover pivotally coupled to the top case with the second end decoupled from the top case, a touch sensor, a printed circuit board in communication with the touch sensor and coupled to the second end of the cover, the printed circuit configured to support the second end of the cover, a dome switch coupled to the touch sensor and configured to actuate when the cover is pivoted about the first end and at least one acoustic transmission member configured to guide acoustic energy within the track pad.
FIG. 2 shows the portable computing device of FIG. 1 in a closed (lid) configuration that shows rear cover and logo according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the portable computing device in an open state according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 5 illustrates a top case with an integrated support system according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 6 illustrates a view of the top case of FIG. 5 highlighting the relationship between integrated support system and various structural components according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 7 illustrates a bottom view of a track pad according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 8 schematically illustrates an exploded view of the track pad of FIG. 7.
FIG. 9 illustrates an exploded side view of the track pad of FIG. 7.
FIG. 10 illustrates an expanded view of acoustic foam of the track pad of FIG. 7.
FIG. 11 illustrates an expanded view of a support system of a portion of the track pad of FIG. 7.
FIG. 12 illustrates a method for assembling a track pad according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure.
FIG. 13 illustrates a cross sectional view of dome switch and support plate arranged in a fixture to calibrate a set screw position.
FIGS. 14A-14F illustrate steps for controllably forming a service loop in ground tabs.
FIG. 15 is an isometric view of printed circuit board positioned over ground film with ground tabs.
The following relates to a portable computing device such as a laptop computer, net book computer, tablet computer, etc. The portable computing device can include a multi-part housing having a top case and a bottom case joining at a reveal to form a base portion. The portable computing device can have an upper portion (or lid) that can house a display screen and other related components whereas the base portion can house various processors, drives, ports, battery, keyboard, track pad and the like. The top case and the bottom case can each be joined in a particular manner at an interface region such that the gap and offset between top and bottom cases are not only reduced, but are also more consistent from device to device during the mass production of devices. These general subjects are set forth in greater detail below.
In a particular embodiment, the lid and base portion can be pivotally connected with each other by way of what can be referred to as a clutch assembly. The clutch assembly can be arranged to pivotally couple the base portion to the lid. The clutch assembly can include at least a cylindrical portion that in turn includes an annular outer region, and a central bore region surrounded by the annular outer region, the central bore suitably arranged to provide support for electrical conductors between the base portion and electrical components in the lid. The clutch assembly can also include a plurality of fastening regions that couple the clutch to the base portion and the lid of the portable computing device with at least one of the fastening regions being integrally formed with the cylindrical portion such that space, size and part count are minimized.
The multipart housing can be formed of a strong and durable yet lightweight material. Such materials can include composite materials and or metals such as aluminum. Aluminum has a number of characteristics that make it a good choice for the multipart housing. For example, aluminum is a good electrical conductor that can provide good electrical ground; it can be easily machined and has well known metallurgical characteristics. The superior conductivity of aluminum provides a good chassis ground for internal electrical components arranged to fit and operate within the housing. The aluminum housing also provides a good electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield protecting sensitive electronic components from external electromagnetic radiation as well as reducing electromagnetic radiation emanating from the portable computing device.
The top case can include a cavity, or lumen, into which a plurality of operational components can be inserted during an assembly operation. In the described embodiment, the operational components can be inserted into the lumen and attached to the top case in a “top-bottom” assembly operation in which top-most components are inserted first, followed by components in a top-down arrangement. For example, the top case can be provided and shaped to accommodate a keyboard module. The keyboard module can include a keyboard assembly formed of a plurality of keycap assemblies and associated circuitry, such as a flexible membrane on which can be incorporated a switching matrix and protective feature plate. Therefore, following the top-bottom assembly approach, the keyboard assembly is first inserted into the top case followed by the flexible membrane and then the feature plate that is attached to the top case. Other internal components can then be inserted in a top to bottom (when viewed from the perspective of the finished product) manner.
In addition to the keyboard, the portable computing device can include a touch sensitive device along the lines of a track pad, touch screen, etc. In those embodiments where the portable computing device includes a track pad the track pad can be formed from a glass material. The glass material provides a cosmetic surface and is the primary source of structural rigidity for the track pad. The use of the glass material in this way significantly reduces the overall thickness of the track pad compared to previous designs. The track pad can include circuitry for processing signals from a sensor associated with the track pad. In one embodiment, the circuitry can be embodied as a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB can be formed of material and placed in such a way that provides structural support for the track pad as well as increased rigidity. Thus, a separate track pad support is eliminated.
Due at least to the strong and resilient nature of the material used to form the multipart housing; the multipart housing can include a number of openings having wide spans that do not require additional support structures. Such openings can take the form of ports that can be used to provide access to internal circuits. The ports can include, for example, data ports suitable for accommodating data cables configured for connecting external circuits. The openings can also provide access to an audio circuit, video display circuit, power input, etc.
In one embodiment, the top case can be formed from a single billet of aluminum that is machined into a desired shape and size. The top case can include an integrated support system that adds to the structural integrity of the top case. The integrated support system can be continuous in nature in that there are no gaps or breaks. The integrated support system can be used to provide support for individual components (such as a keyboard). For example, the integrated support system can take the form of ribs that can be used as a reference datum for a keyboard. The ribs can also provide additional structural support due to the added thickness of the ribs. The ribs can also be used as part of a shield that help to prevent light leaking from the keyboard as well as act as a Faraday cage that prevents leakage of extraneous electromagnetic radiation.
The continuous nature of the integrated support system can result in a more even distribution of an external load applied to the multi-part housing resulting in a reduced likelihood of warping, or bowing that reduces risk to internal components. The integrated support system can also provide mounting structures for those internal components mounted to the multi-part housing. Such internal components include a mass storage device (that can take the form of a hard disk drive, HDD, or solid state drive, SSD), audio components (audio jack, microphone, speakers, etc.) as well as input/output devices such as a keyboard and track pad.
These and other embodiments are discussed below with reference to FIGS. 1-12. However, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the detailed description given herein with respect to these figures is for explanatory purposes as the invention extends beyond these limited embodiments.
FIGS. 1-6 show various views of the portable computing device in accordance with various embodiments. FIG. 1 shows a front facing perspective view of an embodiment of the portable computing device in the form of portable computing device 100 in an open (lid) state. Portable computing device 100 can include base portion 102 formed of bottom case 104 fastened to top case 106. Base portion 102 can be pivotably connected to lid portion 108 by way of clutch assembly 110 hidden from view by a cosmetic wall. Base portion 102 can have an overall uniform shape sized to accommodate clutch assembly 110 and inset portion 112 suitable for assisting a user in lifting lid portion 108 by, for example, a finger. Top case 106 can be configured to accommodate various user input devices such as keyboard 114 and track pad 116. Keyboard 114 can include a plurality of low profile keycap assemblies each having an associated key pad 118. In one embodiment, an audio transducer (not shown) can use selected portions of keyboard 114 to output audio signals such as music. In the described embodiment, a microphone can be located at a side portion of top case 106 that can be spaced apart to improve frequency response of an associated audio circuit.
Each of the plurality of key pads 118 can have a symbol imprinted thereon for identifying the key input associated with the particular key pad. Keyboard 114 can be arranged to receive a discrete input at each keypad using a finger motion referred to as a keystroke. In the described embodiment, the symbols on each key pad can be laser etched thereby creating an extremely clean and durable imprint that will not fade under the constant application of keystrokes over the life of portable computing device 100. In order to reduce component count, a keycap assembly can be re-provisioned as a power button. For example, key pad 118-1 can be used as power button 118-1. In this way, the overall number of components in portable computing device 100 can be commensurably reduced.
Track pad 116 can be configured to receive finger gesturing. A finger gesture can include touch events from more than one finger applied in unison. The gesture can also include a single finger touch event such as a swipe or a tap. The gesture can be sensed by a sensing circuit in track pad 116 and converted to electrical signals that are passed to a processing unit for evaluation. In this way, portable computing device 100 can be at least partially controlled by touch.
Lid portion 108 can be moved with the aid of clutch assembly 110 from the closed position to remain in the open position and back again. Lid portion 108 can include display 120 and rear cover 122 (shown more clearly in FIG. 2) that can add a cosmetic finish to lid portion 108 and also provide structural support to at least display 120. In the described embodiment, lid portion 108 can include mask (also referred to as display trim) 124 that surrounds display 120. Display trim 124 can be formed of an opaque material such as ink deposited on top of or within a protective layer of display 120. Display trim 124 can enhance the overall appearance of display 120 by hiding operational and structural components as well as focusing attention onto the active area of display 120.
Display 120 can display visual content such as a graphical user interface, still images such as photos as well as video media items such as movies. Display 120 can display images using any appropriate technology such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), OLED, etc. Portable computing device 100 can also include image capture device 126 located on a transparent portion of display trim 124. Image capture device 126 can be configured to capture both still and video images. Lid portion 108 can be formed to have uni-body construction that can provide additional strength and resiliency to lid portion 108 which is particularly important due to the stresses caused by repeated opening and closing. In addition to the increase in strength and resiliency, the uni-body construction of lid portion 108 can reduce overall part count by eliminating separate support features.
Data ports 128-132 can be used to transfer data and/or power between an external circuit(s) and portable computing device 100. Data ports 128-132 can include, for example, input slot 128 that can be used to accept a memory card (such as a FLASH memory card), data ports 130 and 132 can be used to accommodate data connections such as USB, FireWire, Thunderbolt, and so on. In some embodiments, speaker grid 134 can be used to port audio from an associated audio component enclosed within base portion 102.
FIG. 2 shows portable computing device 100 in a closed (lid) configuration that shows rear cover 122 and logo 202. In one embodiment, logo 202 can be illuminated by light from display 120. It should be noted that in the closed configuration, lid portion 108 and base portion 102 form what appears to be a uniform structure having a continuously varying and coherent shape that enhances both the look and feel of portable computing device 100.
FIG. 3 shows another embodiment in the form of portable computing device 300 that is smaller than portable computing device 100. Since portable computing device 300 is smaller in size than portable computing device 100, certain features shown in FIG. 1 are modified, or in some cases lacking, in portable computing device 300. For example, base portion 302 can be reduced in size such that separate speakers (such as speaker grid 134) are replaced with an audio port embodied as part of keyboard 114. However, bottom case 304 and top case 306 can retain many of the features described with regards to portable computing device 100 (such as display 120 though reduced to an appropriate size).
FIG. 4 shows an external view of bottom case 104 showing relative positioning of support feet 402, inset 112, cosmetic wall 404 that can be used to conceal clutch assembly 110 and fasteners 406 used to secure bottom case 104 and top case 106 together. Support feet 402 can be formed of wear resistant and resilient material such as plastic. Also in view are multi-purpose front side sequentially placed vents 408 and 410 that can be used to provide a flow of outside air that can be used to cool internal components. In the described embodiment, vents 408 and 410 can be placed on an underside of top cover 106 in order to hide the vents from view as well as obscure the view of an interior of portable computing device 100 from the outside. Vents 408 and 410 can act as a secondary air intake subordinate to primary air intake vents located at a rear portion of portable computing device 100 (described below). In this way, vents 408 and 410 can help to maintain an adequate supply of cool air in those situations where portions of the rear vents are blocked or otherwise have their air intake restricted.
Vents 408 and 410 can also be used to output audio signals in the form of sound generated by an audio module (not shown). In one embodiment, a selected portion (such as portions 412 and 414) can be used to output sound at a selected frequency range in order to improve quality of an audio presentation by portable computing device 100. Vents 408 and 410 can be part of an integrated support system in that vents 408 and 410 can be machined from the outside and cut from the inside during fabrication of top case 106. As part of the machining of vents 408 and 410, stiffener ribs can be placed within vent openings 408 and 410 to provide additional structural support for portable computing device 100.
Moreover, trusses 418 can be formed between vents 408 and 410 in combination with stiffener ribs to add both structural support as well as assist in defining both the cadence and size of vents 408 and 410. The cadence and size of vents 408 and 410 can be used to control air flow into portable computing device 100 as well as emission of RF energy in the form of EMI from portable computing device 100. Accordingly, stiffener ribs can separate an area within vents 408 and 410 to produce an aperture sized to prevent passage of RF energy. The size of an aperture can restrict the emission of RF energy having a wavelength that can be “trapped” by the aperture. In this case, the size of vents 408 and 410 is such that a substantial portion of RF energy emitted by internal components can be trapped within portable computing device 100. Furthermore, by placing vents 408 and 410 at a downward facing surface of top case 106, the aesthetics of portable computing device 100 can be enhanced since views of internal components from an external observer are suppressed.
FIG. 5 shows integrated support system in accordance with the described embodiments. In order to enhance the structural integrity, reduce bowing, and improve resistance to infrequent but potentially damaging events such as being dropped, top case 106 can be fabricated to include integrated support system 700. Generally speaking, top case 106 can be divided into various structural zones each of which can be expected to be exposed to various amounts and types of stress. For example, top case 106 can divided into palm rest zone 702, track pad zone 704, side vents zone 706, rear vent zone 708, clutch bolt zone 710, and keyboard zone 712 that can each have individual structures that tie in together in a floor-to-ceiling arrangement to form integrated support system 700. (It should be noted that by integrated it is meant that there are substantially no breaks or gaps in the structural elements that form integrated support system 700.) For example, keyboard zone 712 can include keyboard support rib 714 that racetracks about keyboard zone 712. Keyboard support rib 714 can have an enhanced thickness “t” in order to provide a substantially increased resistance to flexing or bending (that is proportional to t3). By interconnecting the various structural elements of integrated support system 700, any stress or other load applied at a particular point in a specific zone can be more evenly distributed within top case 106 thereby reducing the likelihood of bowing or warping top case 106.
FIG. 6 shows a view of top case 106 highlighting the relationship between integrated support system 700 and various structural components in accordance with the described embodiment. More particularly, FIG. 6 shows an interior view of top case 106 illustrating various openings used to accommodate keyboard 114 and track pad 116. More specifically, keyboard openings 722 can each have a size and shape in accordance with an associated key cap assembly. For example, opening 722-1 can be sized to accommodate power button 118-1 whereas opening 722-2 can be sized to accommodate a space bar. In addition to keyboard openings 722, opening 724 can accommodate track pad 116. For example, track pad 116 can be attached directly to top case 106 at shoulders 726 and flex support 727 can be used to provide support for a flex connector. Furthermore, a dome switch associated with track pad 116 can be supported at support plate 728.
Top case 106 can be fabricated in such a way that integrated support system 700 (as shown by the broken line) can be used to provide support for internal components as well as a mechanism for distributing loads more evenly about top case 106 thereby avoiding localized stress points. In this way, the likelihood of warping or bowing of top case 106 can be substantially reduced. In addition to providing for load distribution, integrated support system 700 can provide support points and structures for various internal components. For example, as described above, stiffener ribs can be integrally formed with integrated support system 700 in such a way that an external load applied to portable computing device 100 in the vicinity of vents 410 (or 408) can be passed by way of stiffener ribs to integrated support system 700. In this way, the load can be transferred away from the point where the load is applied and distributed more evenly about top case 106 and bottom case 104 thereby reducing the possibility of warping or bowing.
As part of integrated support system 700, magnetic clamp supports 732 can provide a support structure for magnet pad 734 used to support magnets that magnetically attach top case 106 and bottom case 104 together that facilitates the insertion of and securing of fasteners 406 into bosses 736. For example, during an assembly operation, top case 106 and bottom case 104 are first magnetically attached to each other using magnets secured to magnet pad 734. The magnetic attraction is such that sufficient “play” in (x,y) is available for securing fasteners 406 into bosses 736 affording an easier and more timely assembly operation. Moreover, by securing top case 106 and bottom case 104 in a central region, an amount of flexion of bottom case 104 is substantially reduced thereby preventing “belly rub” where an exterior surface of bottom case 104 flexes to the point where it comes in contact with a surface upon which it rests. Other mounting features can include audio jack mounts 738, microphone mounts 739, and clutch assembly support plates 740 for securing clutch assembly 110 to top case 106.
Magnetic attachment plates 742 can be used to form a magnetic circuit with magnets disposed within lid portion 108 for securing lid portion 108 to base portion 102 in the closed configuration of portable computing device 100. Rear vent openings 744 can be used to provide air for cooling internal components such as a CPU, GPU and so forth. In one embodiment, left and right vent openings 744-1 can be used to direct exhaust air away from portable computing device 100 whereas central vent openings 744-2 can be used to direct cooler intake air into portable computing device 100. In addition to vent openings 744, vent openings 408 and 410 can be used as a secondary source of cool intake air in situations in which vent openings 744-2 are partially or fully blocked to assure adequate cooling of various internal components. Keyboard support rib 714 can be used to support a keyboard feature plate as well as part of an EMI shield used to block RF energy and a light block used to block extraneous light emanating from a light source used to illuminate key pads 118.
Returning to the track pad 116, one possible configuration is illustrated in FIG. 7. As illustrated, the track pad 116 may include a cover 802 which may define an outer surface with which a user may interact by inputting gestures thereon. The cover 802 may comprise glass in some embodiments. The gestures may be detected by a touch sensor 804, which may be coupled to the bottom of the cover 802, as illustrated. In some embodiments the touch sensor 804 may comprise a plastic material such polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
The track pad 116 may also include a printed circuit board (PCB) 806 including one or more touch circuits 808 and connectors 810 thereon, and associated communications medium 811 coupled thereto. The touch sensor 804 may be positioned between the printed circuit board 806 and the cover 802. The printed circuit board 806 may be in communication with the touch sensor 804 such that that the printed circuit board 806 receives signals therefrom.
The cover 802 may extend from a first end 812 to a second end 814. The first end 812 of the cover 802 may be pivotally coupled to the top case 106 of the portable computing device 100. In particular, mounting points 816 may be configured to couple to the shoulders 726 of the top case 106 such that the track pad 116 is received in the opening 724 (see, e.g., FIG. 6).
Whereas the first end 812 of the cover 802 may be pivotably coupled to the top case 106, the second end 814 of the cover may be decoupled from the case. Thereby, the second end 814 of the cover 802 may pivot. In this regard, the track pad 116 may further comprise a dome switch 818 (or other embodiment of a switch) positioned proximate the second end 814 of the cover 802. The dome switch 818 may be coupled to the touch sensor 804. Accordingly, as the second end 814 of the cover 802 pivots, the dome switch 818 may be activated. Thus, user inputs may also be inputted through the track pad 116 through pivoting the cover 802 to actuate the dome switch 818.
However, due to the second end 814 of the cover 802 being decoupled from the top case 106, it may be desirable to stiffen and support the second end to reduce other undesirable effects besides acoustic dampening. In this regard, the printed circuit board 806 (and additional intervening standoffs 861 illustrated in FIG. 8) may function as a stiffener configured to support the second end 814 of the cover 802. In this regard, the printed circuit board 806 and/or standoffs 861 may also define one or more protrusions 822 that extend past the second end 814 of the cover 802, and which are configured to engage recesses 748 in the top case 106 (cf. FIG. 6). Further, in addition to the touch circuits 808 and connectors 810, the dome switch 818 may be coupled through a hole or recess 819 of the printed circuit board 806.
Coupling of the dome switch 818 through the printed circuit board 806 may offer increased durability as compared to other implementations. For example, as the track pad 116 is pivotally attached to the top case 106, and as the dome switch 818 provides a compliance for activation of the pivoting assembly (e.g., through clicking), coupling through the printed circuit board 806 reduces “swiping” or x-y translation during pivoting due to shorter arc-lengths of pivoting travel, which may increase a useable lifetime of the dome switch 818 and therefore the entire track pad 116. For example, according to experimental results conducted in accordance with this particular implementation, more than about five million click or pivot cycles are possible through coupling of the dome switch through the printed circuit board 806.
Turning now to FIG. 8, an exploded view of the track pad 116 is presented which further illustrates its benefits.
As shown, the track pad 116 includes the cover or glass 802. The track pad 116 further includes member 803 (optional) arranged between the cover 802 and the touch sensor 804. The member 803 may be a compliance member, adhesive film, polymer film, or any other suitable member. The track pad 116 further includes a grounding film or substantially planar ground potential member 805 arranged on the touch sensor 804. The ground film 805 may provide a reference ground potential for detecting user inputs through the touch sensor 804. In some embodiments, the ground film 805 and touch sensor 804 are integrally arranged as a single unit and may not be illustrated as separate.
The track pad 116 further includes dome switch 818 arranged within hole 819 of the printed circuit board 806 and the ground film 805, and coupled to the touch sensor 804. In this regard, a dome or flexible portion of the dome switch 816 may be arranged to be activated through the hole 819, while being directly coupled to the touch sensor 804. Thus, an additional member 1100 (e.g., set screw or screw-like support member) illustrated in FIG. 11 is provided to allow engagement of the dome switch 818 through the hole 819.
The track pad 116 in FIG. 8 further includes standoff members 861 arranged on the ground film 805. The standoff members 861 may be members configured to add a vertical differential between the printed circuit board 806 and the ground film 805. In some embodiments, the standoff members 861 may be formed directly from the printed circuit board 806, for example, through additional laminations, and allow for the dome switch to be situated beneath the printed circuit board 806.
The track pad 116 further includes compound mounting points or support members 816 arranged on the ground film 805. As illustrated, intervening compliance members or standoffs may be included to protect the ground film 805.
As further illustrated in FIG. 9, in some embodiments a backing plate 750 may be positioned below the track pad 116. The backing plate 750 may be configured to define a planar surface 752 which may form a portion of a compartment in which a mass storage device 754 (e.g., a hard drive or solid state memory) is positioned. In this regard, the planar surface 752 of the backing plate 750 may abut an elastomeric material coupled to the mass storage device 754. Further, the printed circuit board 806 may comprise one or more protrusions 822 that extend past the second end 814 of the cover 802. As illustrated, the protrusions 822 may be configured to engage recesses 748 defined in the outer case 106 proximate the opening 724 therein. Accordingly, the protrusions 822 may prevent the track pad 116 from extending out of the opening 724 in the top case 106. As further illustrated, the touch sensor 804 may extend past the second end 814 of the cover 802 and past the protrusions 822 such that a gap 824 between the cover and the top case 106 may be concealed. In this regard, the touch sensor 804 may define a relatively dark color, such as black, which conceals the gap 824 and other components in the personal computing device 100.
Turning now to FIG. 10, an expanded view of the acoustic transmission members 821 is provided. As shown, the acoustic transmission members 821 are coupled between the track pad 116 and the top case 106 such that audible noise produced at the dome switch 818 is transmitted away from a user of the device 100/300 and into an interior cavity thereof. Therein the cavity, the acoustic noise may be dissipated through interaction with a plurality of interior components. It should be understood that the acoustic transmission members 821 may also function to dampen the audible noise, and may provide other functions not explicitly described herein.
As described above, the track pad 116 may be pivotally coupled to top case 106 through members 816. Furthermore, dome switch 818 may provide a compliance feature allowing for clicking and/or pivoting of the entire assembly. As illustrated in FIG. 11, a set screw or support member 1100 may be arranged through the hole 819 of the printed circuit board 806 thereby allowing inflection of the dome switch assembly 818. The set screw 1100 may be set within support plate 728 on top cover 106 during assembly of the device 100/300.
A related method for assembling a track pad 116 and/or device 100/300 is also provided. As illustrated in FIG. 12, the method 900 may include providing a cover extending from a first end to a second end, providing a touch sensor, providing a dome switch, and providing a printed circuit board with an opening or hole at operation 901. The method may further comprise coupling the touch sensor to the cover and coupling the dome switch to the touch sensor at operation 902. Further, the method may include coupling the printed circuit board to the second end of the cover to support the second end of the cover and coupling the printed circuit board to the touch sensor at operation 904.
In some embodiments the method may also include pivotally coupling the first end of the cover to a case of a portable computing device with the second end decoupled from the case. The method may also include concealing a gap between the cover and the case by extending the touch sensor past one or more protrusions defined by the printed circuit board at the first end of the cover.
Turning now to FIG. 13, a cross sectional view of dome switch 818 and support plate 728 arranged in a fixture to calibrate set screw 1100 position. In one embodiment, the position of set screw 1100 can provide good functionality for the actuation of the dome switch 818, and control audible acoustic properties related to the actuation of dome switch 818. For example, if set screw is too far into support plate 728, partial actuation of the dome switch 818 can occur. Conversely, if set screw 1100 is too far from dome switch, undesired acoustic noises may be produced, or set screw 1100 may be actuated incorrectly.
To help ensure precise positioning of set screw 1100, a gauge fixture 1302 acting as a gauge block can be inserted into support plate 728 as shown. Dimensions of gauge fixture 1302 can be well controlled and can be precisely measured prior to use. On an upper portion of gauge fixture 1302, a collar 1304 can be formed to guide and position set screw 1100.
An optical measuring device 1310 can measure and determine a distance from the measuring device 1310 to set screw 1100. In another embodiment, optical measure device 1310 can determine a distance from the measuring device to a driver bit or other tool used to attach or drive set screw 1100 into support plate 728. When this measurement is made, the optical measuring device is also measuring the additional distance attributable to the gauge fixture 1302. This measurement can be used to provide a preferred distance that the set screw 1100 should be positioned with respect to support plate 728. After that distance is determined, the gauge fixture 1302 can be removed, the correct distance calculated (by subtracting the distance attributable to the gauge fixture 1302) and the set screw 1100 correctly positioned in support plate 728. In one embodiment, the optical measuring device can again measure to the top of set screw 1100 or driver bit. The collar 1304 can advantageously position and hold set screw 1100 in place while measurements are being made when gauge fixture 1302 is placed in support plate 728. In one embodiment, collar 1304 can constrain any motion from set screw 1100.
Ground tabs can be attached to ground film 805 that is in turn bonded to touch sensor 804. The ground tabs can couple ground film 805 to printed circuit board 806. Ground tabs are typically bonded to the printed circuit board 806 with a high temperature bonding process. In order to avoid exposing touch sensor 804, ground file 805 and other track pad components to heat, a service loop can be provided through the ground tab. FIGS. 14A-14F illustrate steps for controllably forming a service loop in the ground tabs. FIG. 14A shows a simplified diagram 1400 of ground film 805 and ground tabs 1402. Ground tabs 1402 can be attached to ground film 805 with conductive adhesives 1404 or any other technically feasible method. For example, ground tabs 1402 can be attached to ground film 805 with anisotropic conductive film adhesives.
In a first step shown in FIG. 14A, the ground tabs 1402 can be arranged to form an angle with respect to ground film 805. FIG. 14B shows a bending step. Accordingly, in FIG. 14B the second end of the ground tab 1402 is bent by partially rolling the second end of the ground tab over the ground film 805. FIG. 14B also shows that bending the ground tab 1402 may include pushing a first press 1420 in the direction of the arrow (cf. FIG. 14B). The first press 1420 may have an angled point 1422 to lift the second end of the ground tab 1402 to a first position.
FIG. 14C shows a step of pushing a second press 1425 against the second end of the ground tab 1402 from the first position to a position forming the acute angle, in the direction shown by the arrow (cf. FIG. 14C). In some embodiments, the acute angle is 45 degrees. Accordingly, the second press 1425 having a cutout 1427 in the shape of the acute angle presses the second end of the ground tab 1402 against a fixture 1430. The fixture 1430 has an edge formed in the acute angle. In some embodiments, the steps shown in FIG. 14C, FIG. 14D, and FIG. 14E are performed with the fixture 1430 in place, as shown.
FIG. 14D shows ground tab 1402 arranged to form an acute angle with respect to ground film 805. In a second step, the printed circuit board 806 can be bonded to ground tab 1402. This step is illustrated in FIG. 14E. In some embodiments, fixture 1430 thermally isolates a contact point of the printed circuit board 806 with the ground tab 1402 from the first end of the ground tab proximal to the ground film 805. The step shown in FIG. 14E may include arranging the printed circuit board 806 to contact the ground tab 1402 by pressing the second end of the ground tab to the printed circuit board 806 over the fixture 1430. Since printed circuit board 806 is disposed away from ground film 805, any heat used during the bonding process is also away from ground film 805. This can protect elements near and around ground film 805 from exposure to extremes in heat. In particular, in some embodiments steps 14D and 14E prevent the formation of air or gas bubbles in adhesive portions included in and proximal to ground film 805. The appearance of air bubbles is undesirable, since air bubbles tend to change in size over time, thereby altering the calibration settings of a touch sensor proximal to ground film 805.
After the bond between ground tab 1402 and printed circuit board 806 has set, the printed circuit board 806 can be positioned against adhesive 1404 and ground film 805. This is shown in FIG. 14F. In one embodiment, the printed circuit board 806 is positioned against adhesive 1404 and ground film 805 only after the temperature of the printed circuit board 806, and more particularly the interface between printed circuit board 806 and ground tabs 1402 have cooled at a temperature that will not cause damage to ground film 805, adhesive 1404 or the surrounding area. This method can enable shorter ground tabs 1402 by virtue of positioning the printed circuit board 806 at an acute angle. The shorter ground tabs 1402 can be easier to dress within the portable computing device. 100. FIG. 15 is an isometric view of printed circuit board 806 positioned over ground film 805 with ground tabs 1402. The ground tabs 1402 can be coupled to printed circuit board 806 in such a manner that can allow relatively small loops 1502 to be formed.
a switch directly coupled to the touch sensor and extending into an opening defined by the PCB, wherein the switch is configured to be actuated by a support member of the portable computing device that extends into the opening in the PCB when the cover pivots about the first end.
2. The track pad of claim 1, wherein the PCB defines a protrusion that extends past the second end of the cover and is configured to engage the case.
3. The track pad of claim 2, wherein the touch sensor extends past the protrusion and is configured to conceal a gap between the cover and the case.
4. The track pad of claim 1, wherein a vertical position of the support member is adjustable so that a distance the cover pivots before the switch is actuated by the support member changes with adjustment of the vertical position of the support member.
5. The track pad of claim 1, further comprising at least one acoustic transmission member configured to guide acoustic energy within the track pad, wherein the acoustic energy is imparted to the cover by actuating and de-actuating the switch.
positioning a support member proximate the opening so that when the cover pivots the support member activates the switch through the opening in the PCB.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising: forming a protrusion on the PCB that extends past the second end of the cover and is configured to engage the top case.
concealing a gap between the cover and the case.
9. The method of claim 6, further comprising: adjusting a vertical engagement position of the support member so that a distance the second end of the cover travels before actuating the switch changes.
constraining the support member with a collar included in the gauge fixture configured to constrain a set screw.
11. The method of claim 10, further comprising contacting a portion of the switch with the gauge fixture through the threaded hole.
12. The method of claim 11 further comprising measuring a distance between the switch and the support member with an optical measuring device and the gauge fixture having controlled dimensions.
at least one acoustic transmission member coupled to the cover in a position proximate to the first end of the cover and configured to guide acoustic energy within the track pad, wherein the acoustic energy is imparted to the cover by actuating and de-actuating the switch.
14. The track pad of claim 13 further comprising: a support member that actuates the switch through an opening in the PCB when the cover pivots about the first end.
15. The track pad of claim 14, wherein a vertical position of the support member is adjustable so that a distance the cover pivots before the switch is actuated by the support member changes with adjustment of the vertical position of the support member.
16. The track pad of claim 15 , wherein the at least one acoustic transmission member is further coupled to the case of the portable computing device.
17. The track pad of claim 13, wherein the at least one acoustic transmission member is configured to guide at least a portion of the acoustic energy from the cover to the case.
18. The track pad of claim 13, wherein the at least one acoustic transmission member is further configured to dampen at least a portion of the acoustic energy.
a track pad zone configured to support a track pad, wherein the track pad comprises a cover having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end of the cover configured to be pivotally coupled to the top case, a printed circuit board (PCB) coupled to an interior facing surface of the cover, a touch sensor in communication with the PCB and coupled to the second end of the cover, wherein the touch sensor is in communication with the PCB and disposed between the PCB and the cover, and at least one acoustic transmission member is coupled to the cover proximate the first end of the cover and configured to guide acoustic energy within the track pad.
20. The portable computing device of claim 19, wherein the at least one acoustic transmission member is configured with a first side coupled to the cover proximate to the first end of the cover and a second side in contact with the top case.
22. The portable computing device of claim 21, wherein the support member comprises a vertically adjustable set screw configured to set a distance the cover travels when the cover pivots about the first end when the switch is actuated by the support member.
23. The portable computing device of claim 19, wherein the at least one acoustic transmission member is further coupled to the top case of the portable computing device.
24. The portable computing device of claim 19, wherein the at least one acoustic transmission member is configured to guide an acoustic energy from the cover to the top case.
25. The portable computing device of claim 21 , wherein the at least one acoustic transmission member is further configured to dampen at least a portion of an acoustic energy generated upon actuation of the switch.
mechanically and electrically coupling a switch to an interior facing surface of the touch sensor, wherein the switch is configured to be actuated by a support member of the portable computing device that extends into an opening in the PCB overlapping the switch when the cover pivots about the first end.
27. The method of claim 26 wherein the support member comprises an adjusting screw, wherein the adjusting screw is configured to locate a position at which the switch is activated when the cover pivots about the first end.
28. The method of claim 27 wherein coupling the switch to the touch sensor comprises placing a support member through the opening to allow an inflection of the switch upon actuating the support member.
decoupling the second end of the cover from the case of the portable computing device.
PCT Application No. PCT/US2013/065113-International Search Report & Written Opinion dated Jan. 28, 2014.
PCT Application No. PCT/US2013/065113—International Search Report & Written Opinion dated Jan. 28, 2014. | 2019-04-24T02:46:24Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US9030839B2/en | Porn | Computers | 0.178526 |
google | According to measurements from both NOAA and NASA, the top 5 warmest years on record have all occurred since 2010. I'm curious about how we as individuals are thinking about, processing and discussing this unique moment. I would be very grateful if you shared with me some of your experiences during these early, warm years.
1. Where did you grow up? And where do you live now?
2. What seasonal rhythms helped you mark time when you were growing up?
3. Were those rhythms ever disrupted? As a kid, what did that feel like?
4. Are there seasonal rhythms that you experience as an adult that help you mark time?
5. Have you noticed any changes recently in your local seasons or landscapes? What are they and when did you start noticing these changes?
6. How have these changes affected your sense of time, your awareness of your body?
7. What unseasonable weather have you experienced most recently?
8. In general, what does unseasonable weather feel like? What are some emotion words you might use to describe the effect it has on you?
9. Do you think about climate change as something that will happen in the future or something that is happening now? If you think about it as happening now, was there a moment for you when you transitioned from one mode of thinking to the other?
10. Has there been a moment when you've felt climate change show up 'in your own backyard?' What was that moment and how did it feel?
11. Did anything change for you after that?
12. Has thinking about climate change affected your day-to-day life, routines or habits? If so, how?
13. Are there activities that you participate in that you know contribute to the rising levels of carbon in our atmosphere? What does it feel like to engage in those activities?
14. Did you read, or read about, the 2018 UN IPCC Special Report on Climate Change? If so, are you thinking about it?
15. If you knew for a fact that in 20-40 years we would fall into some kind of social collapse due to limited resources, would your priorities change for the way that you conduct your current daily life? Would it change the way you spend your time? Would your values change?
16. What do you know about climate change specifically?
17. What kinds of conversations are you having with your community and your loved ones about climate change?
18. When you think about climate change, what do you think about and how do you feel?
19. In what ways have conversations about climate change affected how you plan for your future?
20. If you looked back at this moment from 100 years in the future, how would you historicize it? How would you contextualize this moment within human history?
21. Do you have children? Do you want to have children? Could you talk about your feelings in regard to having children during these early warm years?
22. How vulnerable do you feel on an individual level? How vulnerable do you feel within a global context?
23. What are you afraid of for our future?
24. What are you hopeful for?
25. What are you afraid that you may lose? What have you already lost?
26. Is there a way that you grieve these losses?
27. What else am I not asking you that I should be asking you?
28. Are there questions you're currently asking yourself that you don't yet know the answers to?
29. And finally, would you mind sharing with me some demographics, such as your gender, racial identity, class background, age and profession? | 2019-04-19T14:35:58Z | https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXrB9jCzSZUClVi3XdaTHMKF4igFsk2lnBlfypScPfwk8uew/viewform?usp=sf_link | Porn | Society | 0.502242 |
wordpress | Got a minute? Find out how you can participate in an important alarm industry initiative — as well as access information that can help you build your company.
TRG Associates, a CSAA member company, works with CSAA each year to produce an alarm industry attrition report. View our one-minute video for more information.
Ready to participate? Visit Attrition Project.
Susan Farris of Security Central in Centennial was recognized June 25 as the Central Station Operator of the Year by the national Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA).
L-R: CSAA President Pam Petrow, Susan Farris, and SDM Editor Laura Stepanek. Photo by A Day in the Life Productions.
The annual CSAA Excellence Awards, co-sponsored by SDM Magazine, highlight members of the security and fire alarm industry who make outstanding contributions to the safety and welfare of the customers they serve. Ms. Farris accepted her award at the annual CSAA awards banquet, held this year in Baltimore, MD. She was noted for her role in saving an Aurora woman from an armed assailant during a home invasion spree.
The intruder broke into three homes in an Aurora townhome complex the night of September 1, 2014, attacking and assaulting two other women before being arrested as he fled Taillon’s home.
Security Central provides electronic security and fire alarm solutions and monitoring services from their 24-hour Quick-C.A.R.E. facility near I-25 and Arapahoe Rd. For more information, visit securitycentralinc.com.
CSAA member Brandon Freedman was on hand to snap photos of the members who arrived at ESX early to participate in VoC.
Following the meetings, CSAA staff compiled notes from each group’s discussion and searched for commonalities and critical action items. A full report was to be made available to all members for comment.
Central Station Operator of the Year: Susan Farris, Security Central Inc.
Read the full press release (including all the finalists and nominees) and watch for the feature story in August SDM. SDM is the awards program co-sponsor. More photos will be posted soon!
(L-R) SDM Editor Laura Stepanek, Guardian Protection Services Vice President of Customer Service Mike Overby, Guardian Protection Services Director of Operations Jason Bradley, CSAA President Pam Petrow. Photo by Brandon Freedman. | 2019-04-22T05:01:08Z | https://themonitoringassociation.wordpress.com/2015/07/ | Porn | Business | 0.636517 |
wordpress | If you ever used Fantastical or Due, you know that natural language parsing is better than chocolate. Now I want you to count how many task managers you know that implement natural language parsing. Exactly, none.
I find frustrating that even smothered by options, several of them directed to power users, NLP is still an improbable feature request to most. So I built one.
You will find the install links in Phillip’s article.
However, if you don’t use these apps, you can still play with NLP’s through this action. | 2019-04-20T11:03:12Z | https://automation4ios.wordpress.com/tag/natural-language/ | Porn | Computers | 0.179477 |
google | the axis thus determined is assigned to the tracked instrument.
This application claims the priority of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/041,953, filed on Apr. 3, 2008, which is hereby incorporated in its entirety by reference.
The invention relates to a calibration method for an axially determinate medical instrument. The invention is specifically centered in the field of medical instrument navigation and deals with determining the spatial position of the axis of an axially determinate instrument and assigning it to said instrument, in order to use this information to assist subsequent navigation of the instrument. This process is called “calibrating” the instrument.
The “axially determinate instruments” mentioned are instruments which are designed to be elongate, either in terms of their form or function, and for which, when used, it matters where the axis or functional line of the axis of the instrument lies spatially and relative to other navigated objects (other instruments, parts of the patient's body, etc.). Examples of such axially determinate instruments are pointing apparatuses or pointers which display trajectories along their axis, or a rasp and/or drill and their guides which specify a machining direction along their axis.
In the prior art, calibrating is performed in very general terms with the aid of calibration instruments. Such calibration instruments have abutment surfaces, abutment edges or point recesses; they are known and described precisely in the navigation system in terms of their shape, and are themselves spatially localized, i.e. tracked with the aid of a tracking system which is assigned to a navigation system. If a medical instrument is then placed onto or aligned with such a calibration instrument, it is also possible to determine the spatial position of a geometric characteristic, i.e. for example a position of the axis of the instrument, because the spatial position of the calibration instrument is known due to its tracking reference. Thus, in this instrument calibration, a tracked calibration instrument is utilized.
Calibration systems which use calibration instruments are for example known from CA 2440872 A1, EP 0 904 735 A2 and WO 02/061371 A1.
One disadvantage of these known calibration systems is precisely the fact that such a calibration instrument has to be provided. Tracked calibration instruments are relatively expensive to manufacture, because they have to be operated at very small tolerances. They are also relatively susceptible, since the position of the tracking reference on the calibration instrument always has to be the same. If the instrument is dropped once, and the tracking reference is shifted relatively even only slightly, the instrument is unusable. Separately tracking the calibration instrument is also a strain on resources.
It is the object of the present invention to provide a calibration method for axially determinate medical instruments which is optimized and in particular simple. This object is solved in accordance with the invention by a calibration method for an axially determinate medical instrument, wherein: the instrument, which is situated within the localization range of a medical tracking system, is positioned such that it can be rotated about its spatially determinate axis; the instrument is rotated about the axis, wherein a reference which is situated on the instrument or is arranged on and/or fastened to the instrument such that it is spatially fixed relative to the instrument comes to rest at at least two positions; the at least two positions are spatially determined with the aid of the tracking system; the axis of the instrument is spatially determined from the determined positions; and the axis thus determined is assigned to the tracked instrument. The sub-claims define preferred embodiments of the invention.
Thus, the invention utilizes precisely these rotational symmetry features of certain instruments and uses these features for implementation in a simple calibration method. In other words, the position of the instrument axis is determined by rotating the instrument about precisely this axis and positionally determining a certain point on the instrument at at least two places during this rotational movement. It is merely necessary to ensure that the axis is spatially determinate or spatially fixed. Thus, the present invention has realized that precisely this rotationally symmetrical characteristic of an axially determinate instrument can be used to calibrate it. It is merely necessary to ensure a sufficient positional accuracy and/or determinability during the calibration rotation, for which a tracked calibration instrument is not necessary.
Calibration thus becomes simpler, most cost-effective and less elaborate.
In one embodiment of the method in accordance with the invention, the assignment between the axis and the instrument is provided to a medical navigation system, which is linked to the tracking system, as instrument calibration information. Once the instrument has been calibrated, it can always be correctly navigated in the subsequent course of the operation.
In accordance with the invention, the axis can be determined in different ways. One way is to use an eigenvalue analysis of the movement of the reference at at least two positions. The trajectory described by the reference (during rotation) can also be a circular trajectory or a part of one, and the axis is then determined as the normal to the circular area plane through the centre point of the circle. Both types of method shall be commented on in more detail below.
Any tracking system can be used as the tracking system, and examples of these would be an optical, active or passive tracking system, a magnetic tracking system, a radio frequency tracking system or an ultrasound tracking system.
In one variant of the invention, the reference can be directly localized by the tracking system; in particular, it can be a reference marker which is assigned to the tracking system and fastened to the instrument. The rotation about the axis will then produce a circular trajectory or partial circular trajectory of the reference marker.
Another way is for the reference to be indirectly localized by the tracking system, and this is for example possible if said reference is approached with a tracked pointing apparatus or pointer during the circular movement (the tip of the pointer remains on the reference during the movement). In this case, it is advantageous if the reference is a reference point on the instrument which can be unerringly approached, in particular a recess on the instrument or a cavity which can receive and hold on to the tip of a pointer.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the instrument is held by a non-tracked calibration support when it is positioned such that it can be rotated about its spatially fixed axis. Such a calibration holder can specifically comprise a cylindrical receptacle for the shaft of the instrument which encompasses the axis.
The invention also includes a program which, when it is running on a computer or is loaded onto a computer, causes the computer to perform a method such as has been described above in various embodiments. It also includes a computer program storage medium comprising such a program.
The invention is illustrated below in more detail on the basis of the enclosed drawings and the description of embodiments. It can include any of the features described here, individually and in any expedient combination, and is in particular also directed to its implementation in a device—even if this is not explicitly mentioned in each case.
FIG. 1 shows a medical instrument which can be calibrated in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 2 shows an example of an instrument calibration in accordance with the invention, using a calibration holder.
FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of a calibration method in accordance with the invention, for a drilling tool.
FIG. 4 shows a flow diagram for an embodiment of the present invention.
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate a first embodiment of the present invention, which relates to a calibration for determining the axis of a medical instrument, namely a pointer 1, which is used in a navigation system. The navigation system and a corresponding tracking system are each indicated only schematically in FIGS. 1 to 3; the navigation system has been given the reference sign 21, and the tracking system (two cameras with a field of view indicated by broken lines) has been given the reference sign 20.
In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, the instrument to be calibrated is the instrument 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, which is represented in a simplified form by a pointer, the shaft of which exhibits the axis 2. A reference star 4 comprising three reflection markers for the tracking system 20 is attached to the pointer, and one of the markers is referred to below as the reference 5. In both figures, the arrow 3 shows a movement about the axis 2, and this movement will be a rotational movement having a spatially fixed axis if—as shown in FIG. 2—the pointer 1 is inserted into a cylindrical interior receptacle 7 of a calibration support 6 and rigidly fastened (in the coordinate system of the tracking system 20). The receptacle 7 of the calibration support 6 then has enough play that the pointer 1 can be rotated, and the front end of the pointer also abuts against a stopper (not visible in this case). It does not have to be possible to track the calibration support 6; its position can be arbitrary within the field of view of the tracking system 20.
The axis does not necessarily have to be spatially fixed while the instrument rotates, but merely spatially determinate. This term includes a spatially fixed axis, but also an axis which is spatially fixed relative to another device which can be tracked by the tracking system.
wherein Mx is the transformation from the camera to the reference geometry at time x, and Mx+1 is the transformation from the camera to the reference geometry at time x+1.
wherein E is the unit matrix.
Using the knowledge of the eigenvalues of the movement and therefore of the rotational axis, it is possible to assign the latter to the instrument, and the calibration has been performed.
Another way of performing a calibration method in accordance with the invention is discussed below on the basis of FIG. 3. FIG. 3 again shows a navigated, tracked region comprising an instrument 10, namely a drilling tool, which comprises a handle 11. The axis of the drilling tool 10 is indicated by the reference sign 12, and the rotation about this axis is indicated by the reference sign 16. The handle 11 comprises a notch 15 for the tip of a pointer 17 which is tracked in the tracking system 20 using reference reflectors, one of which has been given the reference sign 13.
This embodiment shows how it is possible in accordance with the invention to do without pre-calibrated tools or tracked calibration instruments, and how it is possible to perform a calibration using only a standard pointer and a fixed point (reference).
In accordance with the embodiment of FIG. 3, the method in accordance with the invention determines the position of an axis in three-dimensional space, for example the axis of the implant channel (humerus) in the case of shoulder surgery. The axis can be ascertained after drilling, if the drilling tool (rasping tool) is still present in the drilled channel.
The channel for the humeral implant is manually drilled and/or milled using the drilling or rasping tool 10 comprising the T-shaped handle 11. The handle 11 is fastened to the drilling tool with the aid of a ratchet mechanism, i.e. it can very easily be rotated in the direction counter to the drilling rotation.
The pointer 17, the position of which is tracked by the tracking system 20 via the marker array (the marker 13 and the other two markers), is positioned on one of the arms of the handle 11 such that the tip penetrates into a recess 15 which it cannot slip out of. Using the marker array comprising the markers 13, it is possible to track the tip of the pointer 17 and therefore also the point 15, which in this case is the reference and which the tip of the pointer does not leave.
In order to calibrate the axis 12 of the instrument 10, the handle 11 with the tip of the pointer in the recess 15 is then rotated in the easy rotational direction of the ratchet, wherein the point 15 can be tracked by the tracking system because the pointer 17 is tracked, the tip of which performs a circular movement.
Once enough positions of the tip of the pointer have then in turn been detected in order to determine the parameters of the circle, i.e. to determine its spatial position, it is also possible to determine the normal through the centre point of the circle, and this normal then corresponds to the instrument axis 12. In this case, too, the circular movement of a reference point on the instrument is in turn used to determine the axis—however, the reference point 15 is not tracked directly but rather indirectly via the tip of the tracked pointer 17. In principle, however, it is also possible for the eigenvalue method, as discussed above, to be applied in this case.
The method in accordance with the invention is shown again in summary in Steps 1 to 5 in the flow diagram of FIG. 4. Firstly, in Step 1, the device to be calibrated is prepared, which should have a circumferential point which can be tracked, for example a marker array (optical, passive (reflective), active (LEDs)), a magnetic marker or a fixed point which can be localized, for example approached with a pointer. The device is then moved in Step 2, wherein said movement can be a rotational movement or can also consist of holding the device at a number of rotational positions of the circumferential point (same axial position). The movement is tracked by movement tracking in Step 3, such that Steps 2 and 3 are performed simultaneously or at least overlapping. In accordance with one embodiment, a circular trajectory and a normal through the centre point of the circle (the axis) can then be determined from the tracked movement, or an eigenvalue analysis of the movement is performed directly, and both processes result in the axial determination and therefore calibration of the movement axis of the instrument, by assigning the determined axis to said instrument.
Computer program elements of the invention may be embodied in hardware and/or software (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.). The computer program elements of the invention may take the form of a computer program product which may be embodied by a computer-usable or computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-usable or computer-readable program instructions, “code” or a “computer program” embodied in said medium for use by or in connection with the instruction executing system. Within the context of this application, a computer-usable or computer-readable medium may be any medium which can contain, store, communicate, propagate or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction executing system, apparatus or device. The computer-usable or computer-readable medium may for example be, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared or semiconductor system, apparatus, device or medium of propagation, such as for example the Internet. The computer-usable or computer-readable medium could even for example be paper or another suitable medium on which the program is printed, since the program could be electronically captured, for example by optically scanning the paper or other suitable medium, and then compiled, interpreted or otherwise processed in a suitable manner. The computer program product and any software and/or hardware described here form the various means for performing the functions of the invention in the example embodiment(s).
Although the invention has been shown and described with respect to one or more particular preferred embodiments, it is clear that equivalent amendments or modifications will occur to the person skilled in the art when reading and interpreting the text and enclosed drawing(s) of this specification. In particular with regard to the various functions performed by the elements (components, assemblies, devices, compositions, etc.) described above, the terms used to describe such elements (including any reference to a “means”) are intended, unless expressly indicated otherwise, to correspond to any element which performs the specified function of the element described, i.e. which is functionally equivalent to it, even if it is not structurally equivalent to the disclosed structure which performs the function in the example embodiment(s) illustrated here. Moreover, while a particular feature of the invention may have been described above with respect to only one or some of the embodiments illustrated, such a feature may also be combined with one or more other features of the other embodiments, in any way such as may be desirable or advantageous for any given application of the invention.
2. The calibration method according to claim 1, wherein the assignment between the axis and the instrument is provided to a medical navigation system, which is linked to the tracking system, as instrument calibration information.
3. The calibration method according to claim 1, wherein the axis is determined with the aid of an eigenvalue analysis of the movement of the reference at at least two positions.
4. The calibration method according to claim 1, wherein the trajectory described by the reference during rotation is a circular trajectory or a part of one, and the axis is determined as the normal to the circular area plane through the centre point of the circle.
5. The calibration method according to claim 1, wherein the tracking system is an optical, active or passive tracking system, a magnetic tracking system, a radio frequency tracking system or an ultrasound tracking system.
6. The calibration method according to claim 1, wherein the reference is directly localized by the tracking system.
7. The calibration method according to claim 6, wherein the reference is a reference marker which is assigned to the tracking system.
8. The calibration method according to claim 1, wherein the reference is indirectly localized by the tracking system.
9. The calibration method according to claim 8, wherein the reference is localized by approaching it with a tracked pointing apparatus or pointer.
10. The calibration method according to claim 9, wherein the reference is a reference point on the instrument which can be unerringly approached.
11. The calibration method according to claim 10, wherein the reference point on the instrument is a recess or cavity.
12. The calibration method according to claim 1, wherein the instrument is held by a non-tracked calibration support when it is positioned such that it can be rotated about its spatially fixed axis.
13. The calibration method according to claim 12, wherein the non-tracked calibration support is a cylindrical receptacle for the shaft of the instrument which encompasses the axis.
14. A program which, when it is running on a computer or is loaded onto a computer, causes the computer to perform a method in accordance with claim 1.
15. A computer program storage medium comprising a program according to claim 14. | 2019-04-25T10:08:14Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090247861A1/en | Porn | Arts | 0.072538 |
wordpress | Today I stopped by The Rook & Pawn, located in downtown historic Athens, GA, a couple hours before my appointment at Pain & Wonder Tattoo. I ordered a Chocolate Stout Herbal Tea because duh, it sounded like a beer. It had a very sweet milk chocolate aroma to it; reminiscent of a tootsie roll. While I was sitting at the bar, I thought to myself, “I should do another series for Uncap! that’s dedicated to the beautiful men and women that serve up delicious brews. It just so happened that Emma was taking care of me today and she would be my 1st to endure my live interview. At any rate, I present to you Uncap! The Bartender Collection.
Emma is originally from Deculia, GA which is about 40 mins from here. She didn’t start bartending in a bar like you would normally think, but behind the coffee giant, Starbucks. We talked about how being a barista really prepares you to be a bartender. She wasn’t the first person that I’ve heard say this, so if you’re an aspiring bartender, get those hands on an espresso machine and get to business.
So Rook & Pawns has brewed coffee, brewed tea and brewed grains, for my favorite drink, which is of course is beer. I asked her to pick a favorite from each of those categories and she said, “Espresso with ice & vanilla and for tea, I’d drink anything with citrus, but nothing creamy that has rich flavors”. And asked about beer, “Sours anything sours and I don’t like IPAs, they all taste the same. The only one I’ll drink is Tropicalia because everything that Creature Comforts puts out is good”. I sense a local bias? Ha, no I agree, Tropicalia is phenomenal.
And if it was her last moments on earth, water would be her drink of choice. I chuckled and she smiled saying, “I’d have a Mojito because they are so refreshing” and I definitely agree!
So if you’re ever in Athens, stop by Rook & Pawn, pick up a good brew and enjoy the company of Emma.
I like how she said she would have water as her last drink. Rook & Pawn sounds like an awesome places, but I don’t know if it would be a place for me. Not too big on coffee or tea (I know I’m weird).
Haha they have a small draft list and it’s right next to Creature Comforts. | 2019-04-19T04:20:24Z | https://uncapeverything.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/uncap-bar-emma/ | Porn | Business | 0.45127 |
wordpress | April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. In light of this, many articles about autism around the world are beginning to circulate on the web.
I just read an article on reuters.com (here: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm ) about Autism in China, that talks about how it has only been recognized as a disability since 2006 and parents struggle to find answers and the methods to help their children thrive.
I was expecting shocking news in this article, but these same stories happen here in the United States every day.
From all of the visibility Autism seems to get in the media, one would think awareness here in the US is much more prevalent than anywhere else, and maybe it is, but it isn’t enough.
Until parents are heard by the medical community instead of being rudely dismissed, until medical professionals actually pause and read the diagnostic criteria, until kids are raised to respect differences, and adults who should know better start thinking before they speak & judge and start listening, then the little awareness that we have in this world is nowhere near enough.
April is Autism Awareness month, in support of this I will be writing more frequently about some of our family experiences, personal experiences, and things that have helped us along the way.
Until later, please google… If you are not directly involved in raising a child with ASD, and are curious about what some of us face every day, I definitely suggest google, reading local news articles- including the comments…The comments on most online articles, from major news services, are most telling about what families and children experience and how much more awareness is needed. | 2019-04-18T19:20:21Z | https://beclever.wordpress.com/category/115689/ | Porn | News | 0.417767 |
wordpress | Let’s Wait Awhile: A Teenage Love: No Affair by Dyphia Blount is the beginning part of a story that could end any of sundry ways. In this book we read of teenagers Payne, her best friend Marquis, her friend Tiara and their parents/families/friends. Ms. Blount penned a riveting saga full of twist and turns that has to be experienced, not told about. This story has huge potential.
I was surprised that the synopsis is not part of this part of the story, it should be rewritten to reflect what is actually in the book. I was also surprised at how this book ended, definitely left you hanging and feels incomplete. This book also needs to be edited, the “errors” are distracting and interfere with the flow of the story therefore I can only give it 3 stars. This could easily be an awesome read once things are corrected and brought in line.
We don’t just read it, we experience their journey as well.
Giving My All to You by Sheryl Lister is an awesome read. This is the saga of Faith Alexander and Brandon Gray. We are pitched right into their will we be or won’t we be. We are held totally enchanted by their interactions and repartee.
Faith comes to Los Angeles in search of her father and before she gets to it, she is involved in a traffic incident that she has to be rescued. The first person at the scene does so and it’s Brandon.
Brandon just has to see that the woman he witnessed getting hurt while driving home was taken care of and had her belongings that he was determined to deliver personally. So, he stayed in the hospital until she was awakened and gave her the belongings that he retrieved from her car. However, once she awakened, he was immediately besotted and she was total enthralled.
Faith finally meets her father and during a later visit, learns that he is a partner in the company that Brandon’s family owns after her father reveals her inheritance. Now, she has to figure out how to tell him since she knows of his disdain for having a Vice President at the company.
Sheryl Lister pens a story that entertains and engages us. We don’t just read it, we experience their journey as well. | 2019-04-20T00:56:59Z | https://rheaalexis.wordpress.com/2017/05/ | Porn | Reference | 0.540855 |
wordpress | My favorite thing to do on the weekends is Letterbox with my boys. A Letterbox is a walk with a purpose . . . here is how it works.
3. Choose the area and peruse the list in the town you are interested in. We sometimes print out three or four when we are headed somewhere (we also pull them up on the iphone when we are out and about).
4. Then we head out together . . . here are my favorite letterboxers . . .
Andrew chose this letterbox, and it was wonderful. We have loved that letterboxes introduce us to new places we would not have found. This one did just that. It began at the Emerson Inn, where Andrew brought me for dinner the night he proposed . . .
And led us to a little foot path along the ocean . . .
5. Then you follow the directions on the sheet . . .
Our directions brought us by beautiful views . . .
And some pretty fun houses . . .
We were looking for this green arbor . . .
That led us to this stone, where Andrew and Cole went looking . . .
6. Find the Letterbox . . . . and Andrew did . . .
A letterbox is most often a tupperware box (though not always). Its contents include a notebook (for you to stamp with your personal stamp and sign – we have not done this). It also includes a stamp from the person who hid it (for you to stamp in your letterboxing notebook – we also do not have one of these). We just love finding them. We love the process. Maybe one of these days we will actually get into the stamping part. | 2019-04-26T06:17:42Z | https://sharpteamblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/40-for-40-experience-31-letterboxing/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.925405 |
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tripod | A trip to Europe for me is a big deal, so I decided to document all aspects of the trip, including the planning.
2. Things we want to do include visiting a nightclub, Opera at Vienna or Venice, drink coffee in Vienna, go on a boat trip?
3. Proposed mode of travel in Europe is by train. Predicted time spent in Europe is estimated at 4-6 weeks. Proposed budget is A$7K per person including airfares.
4. Issues to deal with include YHA memberships, International student cards, international adapters (so we can use our appliances) and phone arrangements.
5. It was decided that a group of four is best, and our fourth travelling companion is preferably a girl, and someone who shares our interests, energy and is known to all three of us. Yi-Lin and Grace were suggested.
Then fly to Hong Kong for approximately one week.
2. Luggage - decide to bring one big wheely case each, and a day backpack.
3. Cameras - each will bring personal choice of cameras, and at the end of the trip, resulting photos and film footage, etc are to be shared.
Plan to purchase film for still cameras in Australia in advance, develop pictures in HK.
4. Guide books - needs research. Primarily Lonely Planet vs Eyewitness.
Will enquire with friends who have already been to Europe and see if we can borrow guide books, rather than buy them.
Also search for other literature in libraries, web.
6. Electronics - Edward is to find his international adaptors. Will bring Australian powerboards and chargers so cameras and phones etc can still be used. Each person must investigate how their own electronic equipment is to be charged.
7. Other things to bring are thongs, shampoo & soap, something to do on trains and buses, washing powder for clothes.
8. Travel documents - must photocopy passports, tickets, insurance documents, etc before leaving.
Are visas necessary for any of the places we are visiting?
Travel Insurance - research also needed.
International Student Cards - nothing has been done about this yet.
Mobile phone international roaming - Kelvin and Carmen are to investigate with their respective operators.
9. Suggested visit to Tourist Offices Abroad?
Need to research hostel facilities eg bathrooms, cooking facilities (kettle?), laundry, internet access. Also bedrooms and dormitories.
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HM Prison Reading, formerly known as Reading Gaol, is a former prison located in Reading, Berkshire, England. The prison was operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service until its closure at the end of 2013. It is a Grade II-listed building.
HM Prison Reading was built in 1844 as the Berkshire County Gaol in the heart of Reading, Berkshire on the site of the former county prison, alongside the site of Reading Abbey and beside the River Kennet.
Designed by George Gilbert Scott, it was based on London's New Model Prison at Pentonville with a cruciform shape, and is a good example of early Victorian prison architecture. The Pentonville Prison design of 1842 was based on the design of Eastern State Penitentiary of 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It was designed to carry out what was the very latest penal technique of the time, known as the separate system. As a county gaol, its forecourt served as the site for public executions, the first one in 1845 before a crowd of 10,000; after 1868 executions took place inside, the last one in 1913.
It was used to hold Irish prisoners involved in the 1916 Easter Rising, for internment in both World Wars, as a Borstal and for a variety of other purposes. Most of those interned during the First World War were of German origin but there were also Latin Americans, Belgians, and Hungarians. In 1969 the wing where the Irish had been held was demolished.
In 1973 Reading was re-designated as a local prison, and around that time its old castle wall was removed. The building was designated as Grade II listed in 1978. In 1992 it became a Remand Centre and Young Offenders Institution, holding prisoners between the ages of 18 and 21 years.
Accommodation at the prison consisted of a mixture of single and double occupancy cells, on three wings. There was also a residential unit (Kennet wing) of single occupancy cells for low-security 'open' prisoners. There were two education departments at the prison, one run by the Prison service and one by Milton Keynes College. The remand centre library was run by Reading Borough Libraries.
On 4 September 2013, it was announced that HM Prison Reading would close by the end of that year, and the prison formally closed in November.
There have been calls for the prison building to be preserved as a tourist attraction, and Reading Council have confirmed that they intend to retain the complex. In June 2014 it was proposed that the site could be converted into a theatre venue. However, in November 2015 it was announced by Chancellor George Osborne and Justice Secretary Michael Gove that the site was to be sold to housing developers.
In May 2016 it was announced that the former prison would be made available as an arts venue for the Reading 2016 Year of Culture programme.
Oscar Wilde – author of poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol based on memory of an execution that took place here while he was serving a sentence for homosexual offences.
Charles Thomas Wooldridge – murderer, whose execution inspired Wilde's poem.
Stacy Keach – actor, served 6 months after being arrested for cocaine smuggling in 1984.
Amelia Dyer – serial killer.
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Peter Southerton: Reading Gaol by Reading Town (Berkshire Books, Gloucs., 1993).
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We're not about to settle for feeling dried out in our own homes, and neither should you -- when a simple humidifier can allow you to feel warm and snuggly, without your skin suffering the consequences.
What exactly does a humidifier do? At the bare minimum, these devices emit water vapor or steam into your rooms to increase the moisture in the air. This helps soothe dry and cracked skin and makes the air easier to breathe (which can be a real godsend if you're battling a winter cold, flu or sinus infection).
Humidifier options diffuse water vapor through cool mist or warm mist. There are pros and cons to each. Cool mist humidifiers typically use less electricity and, since they don't boil water, are usually safer to use in homes. Warm mist humidifiers, however, can remove mold and bacteria from the water through the boiling process. But regardless of design, all humidifiers can do the trick.
While emitting water vapor into the air is the bare minimum, many also double as oil diffusers, and some are even designed with various lighting settings, to set the mood or act as a night light. These added perks are especially beneficial if you're looking to integrate your humidifier as part of your designed living or bedroom space, rather than just throwing it in the back of your closet when you're not using it.
When properly cared for, a humidifier can help your skin feel hydrated and your eyes and sinuses feel less irritated. However, it's important to clean your humidifier, as the moist conditions allow bacteria and mold to form, and those could be spread around your house along with the moisture.
Humidifiers come in a variety of prices, so to help you find one that best suits your needs and budget, we've come up with a list of options that range from budget-friendly to premium, and from basic humidifiers to ones that have all the bells and whistles.
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wordpress | While tending my garden the other day, I was viciously attacked by these little monsters. Mosquitoes can be such a nuisance during the summer. They make it difficult to enjoy outdoor activities.
Commercial bug repellants use Deet as their active which will kill these pests by paralyzing their nervous system. However, did you know that these repellants can also dissolve plastic and paint? So why on earth would we spray this on our skin? Deet has been know to cause skin irritations, mood swings, and impair cognitive functions. And the smell…. ugh!
Luckily, there are some natural solutions… here is one of them. There are certain scents that bugs don’t like, but are pleasing to us – lavender, vanilla, rosemary, clove, and lemongrass are among them. Use this recipe to keep the bugs away naturally.
Mix all the ingredients in a 16 oz. spray bottle. Fill the rest of the bottle with water and shake to combine. Spray freely on your arms, legs, and any other exposed skin. You can even spray this mixture on your clothing for extra protection.
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wikipedia | Plaster spraying allows a plasterer to skim a drywall more than five times faster than using a hand float to apply it. Although classic gypsum-based plaster can be sprayed if it is "spray grade," most plaster sprayers prefer the organic-based pre-mixed plaster packaged in a plastic bag because the plaster spraying machine does not need to be cleaned out after the job is finished, providing that plaster is kept moist. The pre-mixed plaster also has the advantage that any surplus can be recycled, almost eliminating waste, and plasterers do not need to haul water and mix the plaster from powder. A drywall skimmed with pre-mixed plaster can be painted in less than 24 hours, depending on the ambient temperature and humidity.
Most common and simple to use. These sprayers have a hopper which holds the material which is connected to an air compressor. The air moves through the bottom of the hopper forcing the plaster out via the outputs on the wall. These tools generally are easy to clean and cost between $250 – $300 USD.
These sprayers have a worm-drive pump like Utiform Quattro or Master that pumps the plaster up to a spray gun that has a large nozzle, usually 4 to 8 mm, that extrudes the plaster into a chamber on the end of the gun. In this chamber, compressed air is introduced to blast the plaster into a spray. Worm-drive pumps have a rubber stator which is not compatible with solvent-based materials.
There are a few plaster sprayers that have a peristaltic pump (a tube squeezed by rollers) which also requires compressed air to produce a spray. These types of plaster sprayer can also spray textured coatings with particle sizes up to about 3mm diameter, providing that they are not solvent based.
Newer types of plaster sprayer have a piston pump, which has sufficient pressure to spray smooth (untextured) plaster without compressed air. Full airless pumps are sometimes used to spray smooth plaster, although they are not ideal as the flow rate is too low for volume projects; however, they can be used to spray solvent-based plasters.
Air operated piston type supply pumps can put out as much as 27 gpm. Like the Graco Bulldog 10:1 at about 9 gpm and the Lincoln Pile driver 5:1 at about 27 gpm. These flow-rates are calculated at a maximum of 120 cfm air supply. Material supply hoses are medium pressure at about 600 psi. These pumps are material supply pumps only and additional air is required at the spray gun to propel the material to the surface. These guns are usually an internal mixture type guns where the material and air exits the gun together.
When the plaster has been sprayed on the wall or ceiling, it is laid off with a wide spatula, typically 40 cm wide. This can be mounted on a pole for finishing the ceiling.
ToolCrete- USA manufacturer of sprayers for plaster, stucco mortar http://www.mortarsprayer.com.
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wordpress | Haiku for the Holiday Season!
The Holidays! Oh, the excited anticipation of them all! The planning and the decorating; the ever-changing shopping lists–two miles long; the food and the get-togethers with all that wine! And, then there’s the writing out of Christmas cards and the wrapping of presents; the lighting of candles and the Yuletide tree; the sounds of music in the air, at the school concert and in stained-glassed churches everywhere!
Phew! So, between the stress and the laughter, we’d like to offer you these few haiku from our archives to brighten your celebration of this season of light and love, hope and peace!
Our featured Poster Illustrates just such a scene. The haiku poster is from our 2009 Series. The cheerful haiku was written by Nancy Liccione (Clay 2003) and brightly illustrated by former Syracuse University Illustration Student, Yealim Kong, now a Home Textile & Graphic Designer based in New York City.
However you spend these last few days of 2017, we wish you a warm and merry Holiday Season!
Rosalyn Carroll, contributing poet and manager of our poetry blog, at the unveiling of the 2017 poster series.
Welcome. If you believe in art as an expression of community, and you like seeing it in public, you’ve come to the right place.
The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together community poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of poetry posters for the city’s poster panels.
Each year we produce 16 art posters, each featuring an illustrated poem about the downtown, the city, or the nearby countryside.
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google | Methods and apparatus identify downhole equipment and correlate input data with the equipment to improve planning and/or inventory operations. For some embodiments, oilfield equipment or tubular goods such as drill pipe include a shaped recess along an outer circumference for receiving a tag cartridge by shrink fitting. Once tagged, detector system configurations at pipe yards may facilitate logging the presence and location of each drill pipe and correlating specific data, such as inspection data, to each drill pipe. Further, this correlation populates a database utilized to achieve other business functions such as forecasting number of additional drill pipe needed to purchase, invoicing customers according to actual tracked wear/use of the drill pipe being returned, and providing well or job specific drill string population using known history pipe joints.
This application claims benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/740,406, filed Nov. 28, 2005, which is herein incorporated by reference.
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to identification of downhole oil/gas well drilling and completion equipment and correlation of input data with the equipment to improve inventory and planning operations.
Exploration, production and completion of hydrocarbon wells require numerous pieces of oilfield or downhole equipment, such as mud motors, drill bits, underreamers, jars, drill collars, measurement-while-drilling (MWD) or logging-while-drilling (LWD) tools, cementing plugs or floats, and other tubular goods including drill pipe, casing and expandable casing, liners and expandable liners, and sand screens. Much of this equipment lasts for many years of usage such that the equipment may be reused for different jobs. To therefore mitigate costs associated with the use of the equipment, rental companies supply customers with their needs for such equipment by maintaining the equipment at inventory locations such as pipe yards.
One issue that rental companies encounter involves assessing whether the equipment may be safely and reliably reused or is at the end of its lifespan. Use and rotation of the drill pipe, for example, in the hole leads to material fatigue and erosive and corrosion wearing of the inner and outer diameters of the drill pipe. Accordingly, inspections of the drill pipe detect wall wear and any other defects to aid in ensuring that the drill pipe does not fail downhole. The drill pipe passing inspection returns to the pipe yard for subsequent rental without further analysis of inspection results by the rental company while the drill pipe failing the inspection is discarded, otherwise retired or de-rated.
Individual asset identification represents another issue that rental companies confront. Some inventory management techniques may employ unique serialization of each drill pipe. However, prohibitive costs and lack of acceptable serial numbering options limits application of any asset tracking achievable by the rental company utilizing such serialization and results in deficiencies with respect to performing desirable business functions of these companies.
Various approaches enable differentiating and identifying each drill pipe. For example, the drill pipe may include attachments incorporating steel stenciled serial numbers, which tend to wear or erode away over time, require manual inspection & replacement, and may need cleaning to be visible. When the stenciled number is located in a hole drilled or milled slot in an outer diameter of the drill pipe tool joint, the stenciled numbers may correspond to numbers on a plug inserted into the drilled hole in order to identify the drill pipe if the numbers wear off the plug or the plug falls out, but small character size required for enough digits in the drilled hole affects legibility. Attempts to identify drill pipe with radio frequency identification tags affixed to the drill pipe require expensive, complex and/or obtrusive attachment configurations that may harm performance of the drill pipe and often cannot withstand operations downhole.
Therefore, there exists a need for methods and apparatus for identification of downhole equipment and correlation of input data with the equipment to improve planning and inventory operations.
For some embodiments, a system for managing oil field tubular goods includes a tubular member having a remotely machine readable identification tag, and a detector positioned within an inventory location to read the identification tag, wherein the detector is positioned and configured to automatically track movement of the tubular member into and out of the inventory location.
According to some embodiments, a method of managing oil field tubular goods includes providing a tubular member having a unique identification tag, and tracking movement of the tubular member into and out of an inventory location by reading the identification tag with a detector.
In some embodiments, a method of managing oil field tubular goods, includes providing a tubular member having a remotely readable identification tag, gathering data associated with the tubular member, correlating the data and an identification code of the identification tag in a signal bearing medium, and invoicing for actual wear to the tubular member as determined based on the correlating.
For some embodiments, a method of managing items of oilfield equipment includes providing each item of oilfield equipment with a remotely readable identification tag, gathering data associated with the items of oilfield equipment, correlating the data with an identification code of the identification tag of each item of oilfield equipment in a signal bearing medium, storing the data cross-referenced to the identification code in a computer system, interrogating the computer system to locate items of oilfield equipment according to one or more criterion based upon the stored data, and identifying the location of each item of oilfield equipment which satisfies the given one or more criterion.
FIG. 1 is a side view of a drill pipe having an identification groove disposed on an exterior surface of the drill pipe to define a receptacle for receiving a complimentary tag cartridge, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 2 is a cross section of the drill pipe having the identification groove with sides that converge toward an opening of the groove, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the complimentary tag cartridge prior to insertion into the identification groove of the drill pipe, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic of a pipe yard implemented with an identification member reading system, according to embodiments of the invention, for use with remotely machine readable identification members such as the tag cartridge on the drill pipe.
FIG. 5 is an exemplary output displayed on a computer to graphically show location of the drill pipes meeting set criteria, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 6 is a flow chart illustrating information input into a computer database and correlated to an identification code of an item tagged with an identification member such that computer logic outputs various business related functions, according to aspects of the invention.
FIG. 7 is a cross section of a drill pipe portion having an identification cavity with a complimentary tag cartridge threaded into the cavity, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 8 is a cross section of a drill pipe portion having an identification cavity with a complimentary tag cartridge slip fit into the cavity, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 9 is a cross section of a drill pipe portion having an identification cavity with a tag cartridge retained in the cavity by a snap ring, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 10 is a cross section of a carrier of a deformable tag cartridge prior to final assembly, according to embodiments of the invention.
FIG. 11 is a cross section of a drill pipe portion after the carrier shown in FIG. 10 is deformed in an identification cavity during assembly, according to embodiments of the invention.
Embodiments of the invention relate to identification of downhole equipment and correlation of input data with the equipment to improve operations. For some embodiments, oilfield equipment or tubular goods such as drill pipe include an improved tag. Once tagged, detector system configurations at pipe yards may facilitate logging the presence and location of each drill pipe and correlating specific data, such as inspection and usage data, to each drill pipe. Further, this correlation populates a database utilized to achieve other business functions such as forecasting and refining future puchasing of additional drill pipe, handling customers' accounts, returning drill pipe based on actual tracked wear/use of the drill pipe being returned, and providing well or job specific drill string population using known history pipe joints.
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate a drill pipe 100 having a pin end 102 and a box end 104. The pin end 102 includes an identification groove 106 with sides 200 that converge toward an opening of the groove 106. For some embodiments, the groove 106 defines a dove tailed or bell shaped cut or slot along an exterior radially outermost wall surface of the drill pipe 100 between an upset or outward shoulder 103 and a threaded section 105 of the pin end 102. This location disposes the groove 106 in an area of the drill pipe 100 having a relatively thick wall compared to other sections of the drill pipe 100. In addition, the groove 106 opens perpendicular to a longitudinal center axis of the drill pipe 100.
FIG. 3 shows a complimentary tag cartridge 300 prior to insertion into the identification groove 106 of the drill pipe 100. The groove 106 defines a receptacle for receiving the complimentary tag cartridge 300 such that the sides 200 of the groove 106 mate with edge surfaces 301 of the cartridge 300. Tight interference contact fitting of the cartridge 300 within the groove 106 may retain the cartridge 300 in place due to thermal expansion properties of the drill pipe 100 and cartridge 300. As the cartridge 300 is inserted, cooling the cartridge 300 while at least pin end 102 of the drill pipe 100 is heated may aid in retaining the cartridge 300 in place. Simple and reversible retention of the cartridge 300 within the groove 106 enables easy replacement of the cartridge 300 as needed.
For some embodiments, the tag cartridge 300 includes or encapsulates in a protective manner a remotely machine readable identification member such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, optical bar code, and/or surface acoustic wave (SAW) tag that is unaffected by radiation such as from well logging tools. A top surface 306 of the tag 300, a bottom surface of the tag 300, or both may include visible identification markings or alphanumeric coding (depicted as “ABC” and hereinafter referred to as numbers) unique to the drill pipe 100 as a secondary or primary identification mechanism. Unique coding may differentiate the type of asset (e.g., drill pipe, casing, etc.), the manufacturer, and/or the owner.
Penetration to profile the top surface 306 of the tag 300 may form a barcode that may still be read should some damage occur to the top surface 306. In some embodiments, a two dimensional (2D) bar code or matrix code may encode redundant information at various different locations within the bar code such that the information may also still be read in the event some damage occurs to portions of where the bar code is located. For example, the 2D bar code may be burned by laser with penetration of about 0.076 millimeters into the top surface 306 of the tag cartridge 300, which may be formed of stainless steel, and/or applied directly to the drill pipe 100. The 2D bar code contains a grid of square cells instead of bars or stacked bars representing linear codes. Further, the numbers on the tag 300 may match or be correlated to numbers stenciled onto a bottom surface 202 of the groove 106 in the drill pipe 100, which is protected by the cartridge 300. This redundancy in identifying the drill pipe 100 enables at least manual identification of the drill pipe 100 in the event that the cartridge 300 fails or is lost.
Dimensions of the groove 106 ensure sufficient material for secure shrink fitting or bonding of the cartridge 300 within the groove 106 and aid in providing space for multiple legible numbers to be visible on the top surface 306 of the cartridge 300 and/or the bottom surface 202 of the groove 106. For some embodiments, the groove 106 measures about 4.0 inches in length and about 0.75 inches in width. Minimum outer diameter standards for the drill pipe 100 may determine a maximum depth of the groove 106.
The foregoing describes improved tagging designs. Therefore, the tag cartridge 300 and groove 106 in the drill pipe 100 provide exemplary techniques to identify each individual item whether drill pipe, as used as an example herein, or other oil field equipment in a unique manner, whether or not the equipment is expendable or reusable. However, some embodiments of the invention may incorporate different identification tagging designs in their implementation.
FIG. 4 illustrates an identification member reading system implemented in a pipe yard 400. The pipe yard 400 therefore may include one or more of a gate detector 408, a hand-held detector 412, and first, second and third triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 for use with remotely machine readable identification members such as the tag cartridge 300 on the drill pipe 100. Each drill pipe segment or joint within a pipe stack 402 (shown end on) on a storage rack 404 and each drill pipe within a pipe lineup 406 on an inspection rack 407 includes at least one remotely machine readable identification member expressing a serial number preferably unique to each individual pipe.
The detectors 408, 412, 414, 416, 418 may represent any RFID reader (antenna and decoder), magnetic flux leakage detector, or other suitable device such as a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) with a scanner or camera, which reads the identification members and records to a database maintained in a computer (see, FIG. 5 for example). The detectors 408, 412, 414, 416, 418 and/or any other hand-held, movable, or fixed detector communicate to the database that may be internal or external to the reader. In operation, the detectors 408, 412, 414, 416, 418 may communicate to/from the database either by wire(s), fiber optics or wireless electromagnetic such as radio frequency, optical, or microwave communication. The serial number and/or inspection information may be communicated directly and immediately to the database or may be held temporarily by electronic memory inside the detectors 408, 412, 414, 416, 418 for later transfer to the database.
Information input, contained and/or manipulated in the database may include asset tracking inputs such joint serial number, customer name, number of days out, and delivery ticket number. Inspection inputs may include report number, joint serial number, inspection standard used (e.g., ISO, RP7G, TH HILL, or NS1 and/or NS2), and test method used (e.g., dye penetrant, liquid penetrant, transverse, longitudinal, or shear wave). The database may further contain maximum and minimum dimensions by specification. In addition, the physical properties of the inventory input into the database may include size, weight, grade, and overall length. Tool joint related information may be captured in the database, such as thread, condition (e.g., pass/fail or reface/machine), double shoulder threaded connections (e.g., pin length and box length), counter bore, bore back, stress relief groove, bevel diameter, benchmark (e.g., yes/no), outer diameter of the box, outer diameter of the pin, inner diameter of the pin, hard banding (e.g., yes/no, pin, box, center dimension). Input relating to a tube may include API values and may relate to class (e.g., new, premium plus, premium, or class 2), minimum wall thickness, and straightness. With respect to tube and tool joint, information input may include plastic coating (e.g., yes/no and condition), inner diameter condition, and drifting (e.g., full length drift pass/fail and dimensions). Other inventory input data may include drill collar information (e.g., elevator recess outer diameter and slip recess outer diameter) and other relevant data (e.g., heavy—center wear pad outer diameter, spiral—spiral outer diameter center, heavy and spiral—integral or welded).
Each drill pipe within the pipe lineup 406 undergoes inspection for wear and fatigue damage. During this inspection the identification members may be read automatically (e.g., there may be a plurality of stationary readers mounted in proximity to the inspection rack) or at least by machine with the hand-held detector 412 operated by a user 410. The individual serial numbers and inspection results communicate to the database and correlate in the database where this input information is stored for future manipulation and analysis described hereinafter. For some embodiments, the hand-held detector 412 may be integrated with a caliper or other inspection tool to enable automated writing to the database regarding inspection information, such as wall thickness in the case of the caliper. The inspection results may include wall thickness, outside diameter, inside diameter, crack detection, pitting, maintenance history, length, connection size and type, material type and strength, API or ISO grade/condition, customer job history and run data, and dates of inspection. The customer job history may include data regarding rotating hours, corrosive environment hours and deviated rotating hours for the drill pipe.
Writeable RFID tags used as the identification members enable storing information such as pipe dimensions and mechanical properties or material certificates, inspection results, where/when used, physical properties, operating parameters and inventory. Writing the information to the RFID tag may occur during or after inspection and/or when the pipe is manufactured. Depending on the on-rig identification equipment used by the customer, the identification members may thus contain the actual job history for each individual pipe, which may also be logged in other electronic storage media or printouts for later input into the database during the inspection.
Further, some of the detectors 408, 412, 414, 416, 418 and/or additional detectors may attach to forklifts, trucks, hoisting/lifting/moving equipment, and/or the racks 404, 407. When placed on this equipment, reading the identification members on the drill pipe permits the serial number and movement information within the pipe yard 400 to be communicated to the database. For example, the serial numbers may transfer to the database as pipe rolls across the racks 404, 407 when the detector is placed on, or in proximity to, the racks 404, 407. Avoiding manual serial number reading prevents hand crush injuries in the pipe yard 400 due to pipe rolling or shifting while hands are adjacent the pipe or are even handling or touching the pipe to, for example, rub the serial number clean. For this reason, the hand-held detector 412 also distances hands and other body parts of the user 410 a safe distance from the pipe since a reader portion of the hand-held detector 412 is affixed to the end of a wand so that the reader portion may be extended to a position proximate the identification member of a given piece of pipe. The hand-held detector 412 may extend a fixed or adjustable length of at least 1.0 foot, more than 2.0 feet, or even 3.0 feet or more depending on location of the identification members. The hand-held detector 412 also thereby helps with inspection of pipe that is racked in large arrays because the user 410 of the hand-held detector 412 does not have to crawl on the racked pipe to read every identification member.
Strategic placement of one or more of the detectors 408, 412, 414, 416, 418 may enable recordation of loading or unloading of trucks going/coming from vendors/customer and automatically communicate to the database. For example, the gate detector 408 at the entrance of the pipe yard 400 may include arrays of fixed antenna coupled through circuitry to differentiate the direction of the trucks coming from and going into the pipe yard 400 and hence determine whether drill pipes carried on the trucks are entering or leaving the pipe yard 400 or shipping/receiving station depending on where the gate detector 408 is located. Computer software connected to the database may generate reports showing the inventory status of the drill pipe having identification members and generate shipping and receiving tickets or e-mail notification to customers upon shipment.
The first, second and third triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 positioned around the pipe stack 402 demonstrate further pipe location tracking capabilities for some embodiments. The triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 may include additional detectors operating on the same principles as the triangulation approach described herein. Detectors may provide redundancy and cross verification. Also, the detectors may scan across different planes, as the first, second and third triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 define one plane. In operation, the triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 read identification members on each piece of pipe within the pipe stack 402 and determine a distance to any given pipe from a given detector. Analysis of time distance of arrival (ping response time), received signal strength indication, and angle of arrival of transmitted signals may determine these distances. Any other signal processing methods may further facilitate distance calculations between the triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 and the individual identification members such as methods based on phase rate of change of backscatter-modulated signals.
With the distances to the triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 determined and the location of the triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 known whether fixed, movable or hand-held, using trilateration may determine an accurate location of each identification member and hence each pipe. For example, calculating the difference in distance between the first and second triangulation detectors 414, 416 for one particular identification member forms a curve that indicates all possible identification member locations as determined by the first and second triangulation detectors 414, 416. Using the third triangulation detector 418 further limits the possible locations such that calculating the intersection point of the curves results in a location for the drill pipe.
FIG. 5 shows an exemplary output obtained with the triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 to display a graphic representation of the pipe stack 402 on a computer 500. Selecting by, for example, clicking on an icon displayed on the computer 500 may enable on-screen data retrieval of information (e.g., inspection records, maintenance history, run life) correlated in the database to a particular pipe within the pipe stack 402 associated with that icon. As illustrated, searches initiated for set criteria identify or flag where on the storage rack 404, or otherwise in the pipe yard 400, that pipes meeting the criteria are located. For example, “X” and filled-in markings on the graphic representation of the pipe stack 402 may correspond, respectively to drill pipes having a minimum wall thickness less than x inches and drill pipes having a minimum wall thickness less than y inches. Such information may facilitate filling orders for customers requesting only drill pipe having wall thickness greater than x inches. Customers may therefore select assets based upon history and/or physical properties rather than having to use broad classifications such as API standards. Further, the graphic representation may illustrate useful information in making forecasts for purchasing new/replacement drill pipe since the drill pipe with wall thickness less than x inches may be suitable for one more rental while the drill pipe with wall thickness less than y inches may be suitable for two more rentals with the rest of the drill pipe capable of multiple more uses.
FIG. 6 illustrates a flow chart of information input into the database and correlated to each individual tagged item such that computer logic may output various business related functions. For explanation purposes, the following description of the steps in the flow chart makes reference to the specific application illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5. At a tracking input step 600, gate detector 408 reads identification members on individual drill pipe as the drill pipe enters and exits the pipe yard 400. Additionally, triangulation detectors 414, 416, 418 and hand-held detector 412, as examples, may read during the tracking input step 600 the identification members and provide further input information including inventory location. Unique storage identifiers may be further positioned at each location an asset is stored so that the storage identifier along with the identification members on the asset may be correlated within the database for facilitating finding a particular asset and inventory control. An analysis step 606 involves receiving input information regarding presence and/or location data obtained from tracking input step 600 and correlating the information with each individual drill pipe to provide an inventory output step 610. The inventory output step 610 logs presence and/or location of each drill pipe in the pipe yard 400 for functions such as generation of shipping and receiving tickets.
At an inspection input step 602, inspection results communicate to the analysis step 606 for correlation to each individual drill pipe. Comparing the inspection results of returned drill pipe with prior inspection results that are maintained in the database and obtained before shipment to the customer enables determining whether anomalies (such as excessive wear) require further investigation, and may further flag such anomalies within a customer account management system. Therefore, fee evaluation output step 608 automatically initiates or at least instigates billing. For example, the fee evaluation output step 608 may invoice according to wear and/or use of the drill pipe as determined after inspection input step 602.
The inspection input step 602 also aids in managing inventory levels in the pipe yard 400. Decisions regarding retirement of the drill pipe occur at inspection input step 602, thereby reducing inventory levels with each drill pipe retired. However, the inspection data obtained at inspection input step 602 and input into analysis step 606 also contains valuable information with respect to remaining inventory (i.e., non-retired drill pipe) in order to help forecast the number of additional items to buy in purchasing output step 612. In practice, rental companies can only place orders from pipe manufacturers or suppliers at limited time windows making purchase decisions imperative prior to actual need that can be difficult or impossible to predict with limited information. For example, data from the inspection input step 602 once correlated in the analysis step 606 may provide evaluations such as percentage of pipe having less than 50% of useable wall thickness left and hence useable at only one more job. These evaluations performed by the computer at the analysis step 606 may further differentiate among quantity of certain sizes of pipes and possible trend-lines for wear patterns based on, for example, the region or particular customers. To more accurately forecast number of drill pipe to buy at purchasing output step 612, the analysis step 606 may receive data regarding known future orders from customers and/or make projections based on past recent customer orders as depicted by upcoming rental order input step 604. Furthermore, results of the purchasing output step 612 may automatically trigger purchases of the forecast number of drill pipe needed.
With input information as described herein correlated to each individual drill pipe, the inventory output step 610 may facilitate searches for particular customer requirements during an order filling output step 614 and otherwise aid in locating and directing pipe having certain characteristics within the pipe yard 400. In this regard, customers may require drill pipe meeting certain standards which may be identified such as shown in FIG. 5. A quick inventory check utilizing the order filling output step 614 may ensure that the rental company has sufficient supplies meeting the standards set by the customer. For example, the customer may design strings of long length or otherwise pushing the yield strength of the drill pipe such that the first few thousand feet of drill pipe within the string must be guaranteed as new or of like new quality. The order filling output step 614 may select appropriate pipe within the yard 400 to fulfill these needs. Lower quality or de-rated pipe may meet other customer demands or be utilized at the bottom of the string.
Other job planning aspects include ordering joints of the drill pipe within a string at order filling output step 614 to improve and lengthen useful life of the drill pipe. By way of example, the order filling output step 614 may select pipe having low or no deviated rotating (i.e., rotation at a directional induced bend) hours for a section of the string where deviated rotating hours are expected to be incurred. On the other hand, the order filling output step 614 may choose pipe with relatively higher deviated rotating hours for disposing in sections of the string where the drill pipe only rotates in substantially straight portions of the borehole. Therefore, the order filling output step 614 may maintain the pipe in inventory with deviated rotating hours below a dangerous threshold without leading to premature retirement of certain drill pipe due to high deviated rotating hours. Further, the use of the drill pipe can be rotated at the rig to reduce cumulative fatigue and wear by tracking the hours in deviated sections of the well.
In some embodiments, the computer with the database as described heretofore enables internet access to the information therein and the output functions such as the order filling, inventory, purchasing, and fee evaluation output steps 614, 610, 612, 608. A website may thus provide access or at least limited access from a remote location. For example, remote access may make the graphic representation shown in FIG. 5 viewable from a home computer, laptop or phone PDA. Pipe selection and drill string configuration may occur on site at a drill rig or at a customer's place of business due to this remote accessibility.
Referring back to FIGS. 1-3, various different identification tagging designs enable coupling of a tag to a piece of inventory other than the groove 106 that is undercut to house the tag cartridge 300. For example, the tag may be disposed in a cavity (e.g., circular or elliptical shaped) on the outside of the drill pipe. Some embodiments utilize epoxies or bonding agents to secure the tag to the outside of the drill pipe or within the cavity or slot machined in the drill pipe for receiving the tag. The epoxy or bonding agent used alone or in combination with mechanical retention configurations described herein for affixing the tag to the drill pipe may further provide protection from impact, erosion, corrosion, and wear. Depth of the cavity or slot may be selected to facilitate in preventing or eliminating interference of the communication between the reader and the tag caused by metal surrounding the tag. To aid in counteracting this potential interference, any of the embodiments described herein may space the antenna of the tag offset from the bottom of the cavity through the packaging of the tag or the inclusion of an insert. For some embodiments, a pressure relief system in the design of the tag or a mounting system, such as a port through the tag or channel along the mounting system, may facilitate keeping down hole pressures from accumulating and becoming trapped behind the tag. For example, at least one relief port 1000 passing through respective tags as identified in FIGS. 3, 7, 8, 9 and 11 illustrate one way to ensure that the tags do not pop out from pressure fluctuations.
FIG. 7 shows a drill pipe 700 having an identification cavity 706 with a complimentary tag cartridge 730 threaded into the cavity 706. Mating threads 710 between the cavity 706 and a carrier 760 of the tag cartridge 730 engage to retain the tag cartridge 730 in the cavity 706. The carrier 760 may be made of a softer material relative to the drill pipe 700. Locking of the carrier 760 into place may occur by making the mating threads 710 with at least one of the last few engaged threads not of standard thread form such that as the carrier 760 is screwed into the cavity 706 the carrier 760 deforms, which locks the carrier 760 into place. For some embodiments, the carrier 760 and the cavity 706 taper together or with different tapers such that the carrier 760 becomes wedged once inserted into the cavity 706.
FIG. 8 illustrates a drill pipe 800 having an identification cavity 806 with a complimentary tag cartridge 830 slip fit into the cavity 806. Unidirectional teeth 810 on an outside of a carrier 860 for the cartridge 830 engage an inside surface of the cavity 806. Angle of the teeth 810 permits press fitting of the cartridge 830 into the cavity 806 with sliding inward movement but prevents outward movement of the cartridge 830 by biting into the pipe 800.
FIG. 9 shows a drill pipe 900 having an identification cavity 906 with a tag cartridge 930 retained in the cavity 906 by a snap ring 960. A groove 910 machined out in the cavity 906 retains the snap ring 960 relative to the pipe 900. Interference with the snap ring 960 mechanically locks the cartridge 930 into place.
FIGS. 10 and 11 illustrate a configuration utilizing a deformable carrier 1060. Prior to insertion into an identification cavity 1106 and subsequent deformation, the carrier 1060 as shown in FIG. 10 defines a substantially cylindrical shape. FIG. 11 shows the carrier 1060 deformed into an undercut portion 1110 of the cavity 1106 upon assembly with a wall of the carrier 1060 forced outward into the undercut portion 1110 to lock the carrier 1060 in place. The deformation may result from further insertion force applied to the carrier 1060 after the carrier 1060 bottoms out in the cavity 1106. For some embodiments, assembly of a tag cartridge 1130 with the carrier 1060 housing any components such RFID antennae occurs prior to insertion of the carrier 1060 into the cavity 1106. Various components of the tag cartridge 1130 in some embodiments may snap into the carrier 1060 after the carrier 1060 is seated in the cavity 1106 and deformed.
a computer that is configured to display a graphic representation of the tubular member and the adjacent tubular members, the graphic representation forming a user interface that provides selective display of data in response to selecting a specific tubular member, wherein the location of the tubular member is identified on a screen of the computer in relation to the other tubular members.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the detectors are connected to the computer that is configured to determine the location of the tubular member by signal triangulation.
identifying the tubular member on the graphic representation displayed on the screen of the computer in response to a search criteria inputted into the computer.
4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a hand-held detector extendable in length.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the tubular member includes a groove with sides that converge toward an opening that opens perpendicular to a longitudinal center axis of the tubular member, the groove retaining the identification tag therein.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein the identification tag is shrink fit into the groove.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the identification tag is threaded with a misfit engagement within a cavity disposed on the tubular member.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein a snap ring retains the identification tag within a cavity disposed on the tubular member.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the tubular member includes an undercut cavity with sides that converge toward an opening having a smaller diameter than a deformed portion of the identification tag disposed in the cavity.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein unidirectional angled teeth disposed on the identification tag secure the tag within a cavity disposed on the tubular member.
11. The system of claim 5, wherein the identification tag comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.
12. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer is configured to automatically generate shipping and receiving tickets.
forecasting a number of additional tubular members to buy as determined based on the correlating used to assess remaining life expectancy of the tubular member beyond a next use of the tubular member.
invoicing for actual wear to each tubular member as determined based on the correlating.
tracking movement of the tubular member into and out of the inventory location by reading the identification tag with multiple detectors at an entry point for shipping and receiving at the inventory location, the detectors enabling detection of the direction of movement of the tubular member.
16. The method of claim 15, further comprising automatically generating reports showing inventory status of the tubular goods.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the locating comprises signal triangulation.
designing a string of tubulars based upon input information from a customer.
19. The system of claim 1, wherein the identification tag is disposed within a carrier that is configured to be placed in a cavity formed in the tubular.
20. The system of claim 19, wherein the carrier includes threads that mate with corresponding threads in the cavity.
21. The system of claim 19, wherein the carrier is configured to deform when placed in the cavity of the tubular to lock the carrier within the cavity.
22. The system of claim 1, wherein the identification tag includes a relief port.
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wikipedia | National Highway 544, commonly referred to as NH 544, (old number NH 47) is a 340-kilometre-long (210 mi) National Highway in South India connecting Salem city in Tamil Nadu to the city of Kochi in Kerala. It is also called the Salem-Kochi Highway. The highway runs through the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, connecting various important cities and towns such as Salem, Coimbatore, Palakkad, Thrissur and Kochi. It is a spur of National Highway 44, which forms the North South Corridor of the National Highway network of India.It passes south of coimbatore. It was formerly designated National Highway 47.
In an effort to improve the traffic systems, the Kerala Road Safety Authority (KSRA) has completed the first phase of installation of high-tech automatic traffic enforcement systems on the 98 km Edappally-Mannuthy stretch of NH 544. As part of the Rs 8.5 crore project, 65 automatic traffic enforcement systems will be installed at 23 points on the stretch. The monitoring technology involves a mixture of virtual sensors, motion detectors, inductive sensors, logo sensors and high resolution cameras. Pictures of number plates would be captured using 10 megapixel cameras. The main server that will be linked to all cameras will be set up at the deputy transport commissioner's office. The magnetic sensors installed on roads will trigger the cameras in case of violations and send a message to the main server. Offenders will be traced based on visuals of vehicles and registration plates and they will be issued notice. The project is being implemented by KSRA and the Motor Vehicles Department with the technical support of Keltron as part of the decision to observe 2011-2020 as the 'decade of action for road safety'.
All the Toll Plazas, except those on L&T Bypass are FasTag enabled, with dedicated lanes.
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After nearly a dozen days with my Crossroads team, I have come to realize that chivalry is not dead. My team brothers have exhibited a deeper level of masculinity which has driven me to a more authentic femininity.
gentlemen, which uphold the grace and dignity of women. I shall give you a few examples of the chivalry that I am immersed in this summer.
I am a 21-year-old junior attending a Catholic University in the US. I am studying statistics and computer science. My knowledge of the Catholic faith has been very limited and I have not sought to amend this issue until now! I like singing, drawing, painting, crafting, and writing. Enjoy my blog and feel free to comment!
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2016 was not a great year. Today, I would like to share with you a true story that happened almost 75 years ago. Let us not lose hope in humanity!
Unit 731 (731 部隊, Nana-san-ichi butai) was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel.
From 1936 to 1942 approximately 12,000 men, women and children were murdered in Unit 731, but the atrocities committed there were physically worse than in the Nazi death camps: their suffering lasted much longer, and not one prisoner survived.
“Battleship Island” is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. In 1959, its population density was 835 people per hectare (83,500 people/km2) for the whole island, or 1,391 per hectare (139,100 people/km2) for the residential district, the highest population density ever recorded worldwide. | 2019-04-25T13:00:21Z | https://celestialkitsune.wordpress.com/category/japan/history-japan/ | Porn | News | 0.260435 |
wordpress | The bigger question is why is it called a shekel at all?
Only someone supremely tone deaf to the negative associations attached to the word shekel for any Christian—since the New Testament story (Matthew 26:15) that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for ‘thirty shekels of silver’—would even consider naming the currency of the modern-day Jewish state by that name.
Unfortunately, since Jewish Israelis are not taught anything about Christianity or the New Testament, the powers that be in Israel are probably still utterly unaware of this.
For a country that is always keen on portraying itself as a Western country (and even part of Europe), this ignorance is particularly striking, and it would make an interesting academic study to examine how much damage it inflicts upon Israel’s image abroad, at a subconscious level.
There were so many alternative names that could have been used—such as ketter (crown), kikar (talent), géra, agorah—or my favourite, culpa (if only for the opportunity to say, when asked how much something costs, ‘Mea culpa’ = ‘a hundred culpa’).
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Thousands lined the six-mile route through the city that the President and Mrs. Roosevelt drove through on the way to Hyde Park Stadium. Squads of soldiers from Fort Niagara, National Guardsmen and city and state police guarded the entire distance. The route specifically went through the north end to the south end section of the city to Niagara Avenue and then to Hyde Park.
President Roosevelt praised the new stadium and similar public works projects. He explained the government’s works policy and mentioned the cordial relations existing between the United States and Canada–as exemplified in the twin cities of Niagara Falls, New York and Niagara Falls, Ontario.
“The government’s policy is to think not only of the practical necessities of public works including water works systems, sewage disposal plants and similar projects but to develop that kind of thing which is useful to us and our children in our recreational life,” he declared.
A heavy mist blanketed the stadium. Just before the President’s arrival torrential rain had fallen in Niagara Falls and it fell again after the President departed.
The last presidential visit before Roosevelt’s ended in national tragedy. President McKinley spent an entire day in Niagara Falls before leaving for Buffalo where he was killed. Fortunately, Roosevelt had much better luck.
One very special little girl, Miss Joanne Muhlbauer, daughter of Mr and Mrs. William Muhlbauer of 420 Twenty-third Street, had the distinct honor of shaking hands with the President. While standing amidst the crowds at the Falls Street railroad station, nestled in her grandfather’s arms, little Joanne was certainly in the right place at the right time. As the President came down the ramp he stopped to smile at the little girl who looked up at him. He shook her little hand and then disappeared into his car. Miss Muhlbauer was only eight months old and was said to be “one of the most fortunate ladies in Niagara Falls.” Her grandmother, Mrs. Swalwell, who was a member of the Democratic city committee from the Fifth Ward, Fifth District, also had the privilege of shaking hands with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. | 2019-04-23T21:01:08Z | https://thedeadbeatssociety.wordpress.com/category/hyde-park/ | Porn | Sports | 0.414551 |
wordpress | I reckon it was in about 1972 at a party with friends….
Well to be honest they weren’t what you might call friends per se, as in – ‘known them for years and would lend them my air bed and trust them with the pump that actually works’ kind of friends. I suppose you would call them acquaintances but then in those days and at that time I certainly didn’t use scrotty words like acquaintances – O no!
This part of my story really began a couple of years before, when I first chose to ‘drop out’.
My closest friend Steve, when reminiscing over that time, claims I was indeed the only person he knew who really ever did ‘drop out‘ when I left a perfectly good, well paid and safe job in London as I did back in 1969 when I did my personal ‘Kerouac’ and went ~ ‘On the road’, figuratively speaking as it turned out. I was actually forced to go back to work by my mother bless her, firstly as a delivery man for John Perring the furniture retailer before attaining a porters post at the ‘mecca’ of hippy jobs of that day when I joined a band of similarly disenfranchised social outcasts helping our fellow-man whilst earning a few pennies at the local ‘Cottage Hospital’ in Sutton in Surrey. Here we toted fresh laundry to the wards and collected the dirty including the infamous ‘red bags’, took patients to X-Ray, built and dismantled beds, collected and delivered meals in what became affectionately known as ‘the hot-locks’ and among many other duties, occasionally visited the mortuary which was always sad but also necessary.
I had bought and read all the popular books of that generation – Tolkien; Aldous Huxley, Worlds in Collision by Velikovsky; The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing; plus certain books and pamphlets by the drug guru Timothy Leary, etc etc as I smoked dope, dropped acid and consumed other illegal substances, barbiturates, amphetamines, uppers and downers, even cannibalising a nasal spray with a friend and diluting it in coca cola (we had heard this gave a pretty decent ‘buzz’). All this, as I earnestly sought to find my personal ‘path’ and discover what I believed in and what I didn’t.
My new reclusive self will always be thankful for the input of my seriously good friend Steve who at the time did his best to keep me socially active with invitations to parties, gigs and events that I was always happy to attend. I suppose I became a bit of a Barney Rubble sidekick for my mate as I travelled in tandem alongside his girlfriend of the time and provided him with some necessary male company. Not that I was ever worried about where I went or didn’t go to be honest or who I spoke to at such events having always been a bit of a ‘party animal’ and a pretty gregarious kind of fellar. Indeed I reckon I could write an anthology of amusing stories and anecdotes collected from chance meetings with interesting people I have met at parties through the years. Might even try it sometime and if I do this tale would have to feature in it.
The process of intellectual thought at that time in my life had maintained a pretty steady stream since leaving the ‘material world’ of day by day exchange at my ‘proper job’ working as an apprentice artists agent in offices adjacent to Leicester Square. At the time I was concerned purely and simply with the task of unlearning and dealing with the ‘clutter’ of transposed opinion that we all inherit and imbibe, much akin to the effects of secondary smoking we now understand can effect our health and dependencies.
We assume so much of what we believe from those who care for us and raise us and from the culture we grow up in, much like a cerebral strain of photosynthesis which of course allows plants and organisms to gain and convert strength and life from the sun’s energy and translate it into body matter. I now wanted to re-think everything and understand why, how and what I was going to allow into my body, whether animal, vegetable, mineral, psychological, intellectual, scientific, political or religious.
For this reason I ate a simple diet, read only discerning literature, questioned everything, accepted nothing and kept an ‘open mind’ on all major subjects. One way I helped myself to reevaluate things was with various self-styled or self appropriated buzz words or sayings. ‘Honest to God’ was one such phrase I adopted as I sought to re-define a personal belief system that would be based on a simple, straightforward truthfulness to every question I considered deserved my attention but the third word of that particular mantra offered me an immediate dilemma of analysis.
If my honesty was to be directed to a universal deity then I had to be confident that a) there was one and b) that a person of that importance should be known by a name rather than just ‘God’. Consequently this name I should know.
My current system of beliefs had no problem in accepting the first premise ~ a) … that there is indeed a deity responsible for the wonders of nature and the whole business of creation and reproduction. I believed I certainly had enough evidence in my own short life experience to support the notion that there is indeed someone ‘out there’, that you can talk to them and that they do in fact aid you in answering the many prayers I had already proffered at times of personal distress and danger. A miracle encounter involving a tiny, red arachnida had also recently brought me down to earth from my fairly ‘trippy’ existence and given me a ‘faith’ boost. I hope you can tell reader, I am being real ‘honest to God’ here.
However, I stalled when determining the name my God should go under …. premise b). I was certainly raised a Christian but I had no particular certainty that Jesus or Mohammed, Alla or Buddha, Jah or Jehovah, or indeed any other human name for God or whoever, was in fact either God’s agent, son or daughter or indeed any certainty that they happened to possess God’s actual personal name at all! You can see I had thrown myself into the very deepest end of the theological questions pool and so far I was just about keeping afloat.
R.D. Laings classic ‘Politics of Experience’ had hit me whilst reading, with the phrase ~ “I cannot be sure of anything I have not personally experienced”. This soon became another adopted and treasured maxim. Whilst the many warm feelings in my ‘centre’ when praying as a very sickly child, often ill and with parents who argued a lot, warranted enough ‘personal experience’ to tick the yes, I know there is a God box, however I had forgotten to ask whilst praying, who the God I was speaking to was?
I eventually concluded that a God worth his or her salt is not going to be too worried about names anyway and maybe all these names of God were just expressions from different cultures and countries for the very same person. Traditional names for the same Guy, the same Girl. I mean how many Almighty Gods can there be in one Universe? A bit like mommy and daddy have different names the world over… It seemed to me at that time, that a universal deity is going to be ‘above’ getting in a sweat over the differing names people called them anyway.
This certain naive theology, I still sort of subscribe to by the way. People generally have a real hard time recognising that a supreme all-seeing, all-knowing creative intelligence really should not have so much trouble discerning what is true love, affection and devotion from what is disrespectful, insincere, sassy or irreverent … and so I considered my God could be called by any name, as long as it was not intended to be disrespectful!
I therefore reverently decided I would choose a new name for God and that Gods name should be something honest and true. A name that the common people could relate to, not an Eastern name, not a religious name at all, a name like Ron!
Ron, was an ex-docker who was a fellow porter at the Cottage Hospital where I worked, among all of us hippies. A guy with a greased, short back and sides haircut and a nice clean full set of false teeth which gave him the warmest, friendliest smile. Ron had a lovely, rippling chuckle of a laugh and 101 stories of when he worked in the London Docks until an industrial accident forced him to retire. Ron and his wife had then moved out of Millwall in East London and they came to live in Sutton in the Surrey ‘sticks’ and started working with us and boy was he a ‘salt of the earth’ character. A straight up ‘union’ guy, who mixed with us freaks and anyone and did a full and decent days work. Ron was the perfect character and had the perfect name for my kind of God.
These were the thoughts buzzing in my head the day I journeyed to meet up with Genevieve, my arranged date for the evening, along with Steve and Sue the girlfriend who had been invited to a party in North London.
The party was typical of much hippy-style events of the day which in turn was actually much like most similar gatherings of youngish people the world over since time immemorial. In other words, to begin with everyone was a little self-aware and nervous of standing out from the crowd. Enter yours truly and a couple of spliffs and a barley wine or two later and me and Genevieve had soon got into a few of the ‘deeper’ issues of life and circumstance that people did in those insecure but revolutionary days.
Genevieve wore a black, velvet, ankle-length coat and had the richest, fullest, thick, black, curly and shiny hair which hung down over her shoulders. She had soft, pale flesh with rosy cheeks to match the softest, lilting Irish brogue and we were hitting it off pretty good, sat on the floor, in the middle of an unfurnished, darkened room while people milled around us fairly aimlessly.
“So Steve, what do you make of God?.. What do you think about God?.. Do you believe there is a God or anything?” Her soft, Irish voice made the questions natural and sincere. Only in those days did people ask questions like that on a first date and I suppose the Irish have always seemed more than most to be consumed with questions of guilt and conscience, forgiveness and eternity .
“Well yes Genevieve yes I do believe in God” I replied “but I’ve decided to call my God, Ron!”. I now expostulated on my reasons for this seemingly random and possibly blasphemous utterance. Those reasons were after all as fresh and ripe in me as June strawberries on a sunny day. How could I have known that this fair, Irish maiden would be the siren chosen to divine and release the wellspring of feeling and thought from this, young, yet wizened sailor, afloat on life’s turbulent waters yet himself so recently cast, shipwrecked from the high seas of personal search and discovery.
Well, you might say, she lapped it up and had my intention been to ‘lay’ the charming Genevieve then I most surely must have had 3/5 of my leg over by the end of the 1st chapter of the Gospel According to Ron or as by now the ‘crack’ and my racing, creative imagination had already re-defined it ~ ‘Ronism’.
“You see isms are not what it’s all about for me Genevieve. Why do people argue and fight about who God is rather than just accepting that God is and just try and get on with each other? And so I’m calling my God, Ron and my religion RON-ISM because, well why shouldn’t it be”.
Genevieve looked amazed and a little in awe as my improvised discourse eventually dampened down! Her simple question had birthed a new theology it seemed, maybe a theocracy, possibly yet another religion and she like a new Mary was there at its birth looking just a little flushed. I considered my next ‘article of faith’, my next ‘statement of belief’ as it now dawned on me that indeed Genevieve was no longer alone with me as we sat together on the floor, for new disciples had been joining us unnoticed since I began my discourse and now like us they were sitting cross-legged or standing around us in a circle upon the woven rug, upon the floorboards, in the middle of the darkened room. There must have been a least a round dozen of them following the thoughts of yours truly, drinking in enthusiastically every word.
Had I just had a moment of ‘epiphany’ or realisation? Had we together, in the middle of that room, shared a transcendent energy, we dozen or so disciples. As my inspired rant reached the barrels very bottom, I almost waited for the heavenly choir, an incandescent light but all we got was the final verse and chorus of the Who singing ‘I Wont Get Fooled Again!
As a postscript to this piece I reflect how readily were that generation to be led, to be inspired… How naive, how vulnerable and how easily duped our cynical selves might say. … There is a certain humour in the story I hope I have caught as well as an irony, that had I been looking to ‘score’ with either the lovely Genevieve or the gathered apostles of my inspired new creed I may indeed have started that day a new cult religion called … RONISM!
I so suddenly that day became the ‘guru’ spreading the ‘light’ and it gave me a shake I can tell you and also gave me an insight as to how easily things like that can get started, and certainly at that time anyway, when people meet someone who appears to have ‘the answer’.
It sort of makes me laugh to remember the day I took centre stage with my impromptu speech and theory on God ~ unstripped and unplugged! Within 14 months I gave up all and any dependency on drugs and found a true faith identity but that story is for another day! | 2019-04-20T15:13:37Z | https://edenbray.wordpress.com/ronism-%E2%99%97-it-all-started-at-a-party-with-friends/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.81694 |
wordpress | I have just finished reading Steve Gilbert’s latest edition of MAILBAG.
thought he was not worth the money.
a year and let Tracy play third.
Dunn a deal. Dunn is a born DH who should be in the American League.
useless thing you can do, when they aren’t hitting it over the fence.
As you saw last year, that kind of lineup doesn’t make the playoffs.
hit .291 last year, they could form the nucleus of the lineup.
of before you part with the big bucks.
RBI and he also scored two runs.
Reynolds went yard. Chris Snyder had a 2-run double.
the top of the wall in left field and bouncing in the good direction.
But there it was in the fifth inning, Eric Byrnes’ first grand slam.
Owings his 6th W of the year.
people start asking again if he should be on the DL.
result. But now, Byrnesie knows he can do it because he HAS done it.
And I look forward to him doing it again.
walks are indicative of better discipline).
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wordpress | Yes, the Fed took a serious chunk out of the fed funds rate and I finally have good news–something happy–to write about. I am grateful. More to the point, though a rate reduction is certainly not a panacea that will solve every problem out there, it will help…at least, for now.
What’s left to be concerned about? For a reasoned introduction to that subject, listen to a recent interview with Alan Greenspan. He’s speaking far more plainly now than when he was the obscure delphic oracle at the Fed.
30-yr Fixed-rate Mortgage 6.86%15-yr Fixed-rate Mortgage 6.551-yr ARM 6.34%[HSH average rates: 30-yr up 11 bps, 15-yr up 14 bps; ARM up 4 bps]Thumbnail Sketch: A growing number of economists are watching today’s economy with increasing concern, fearful that a drop in personal consumption (retail purchases by the likes of you and me) could lead to recession. As Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com, states it: “The U.S. expansion is hanging by the thread of business and consumer confidence.” As a result, the decision of the Federal Open Market Committee [FOMC] as to how much of a slice to take out of the fed funds rate had the more sober economists hoping for a 50 basis point reduction (which would give us a 4.75% target rate and reduce the prime rate at most banks by the same amount)…but most, having watched the Fed move very slowly toward a rate reduction, were actually expecting a 25 basis point rate reduction. What were the arguments for and against a 50 basis point rate reduction? It is reasonable to assume that the members of the FOMC were weighing two opposing problems. First, there was the possibility that, without an adequate shot in the arm, the economy might slide perilously downward, as consumers and business leaders lost confidence in its faltering path of growth. On the other hand, there was a genuine concern that, with a rate reduction larger than the usual 25 basis points, markets might react to what they saw as greater negativity and fear in the Fed’s response than they had expected. (Those who have observed the Fed over the years, too, have come to understand that our central bank carefully avoids surprises. Markets tend to overreact to them. So there was good reason to expect a 25 basis point reduction.) That was the backdrop. What we got, though, was a 50 basis point rate reduction. The Fed also cut the discount rate (the rate at which banks borrow short-term from the Federal Reserve) by 50 basis points to 5.25%, clearly signaling a readiness to provide necessary funds to banks. Further, there are less than subtle signals that the Fed will consider future rate cuts. Lastly, it’s notable that the vote yesterday for the rate cuts was unanimous.
As far as the Fed is concerned, therefore, we have moved from an economy in which rising inflation is our predominant concern to an economy in which recession has become our primary worry, and we can reasonably expect that a series of rate cuts is in the offing. The effect of these rate cuts is difficult to predict but, for the short to medium term, at least, it cannot be a bad thing. We receive this decision, therefore, with a degree of gratitude and hope—though we remain concerned about the longer-term future of this economy. | 2019-04-23T10:57:12Z | https://tahoehomes.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/good-news-feds/ | Porn | Business | 0.489172 |
wordpress | At an outreach earlier, I spoke to an educator who teaches in the local community. He said that he felt like a social worker more than a teacher. I felt for him and I understand. I stated that in order to be effective in reaching youth that are affected, we need to fill the belly before we can fill the mind. He agreed.
If a child hasn’t eaten since lunch at school YESTERDAY, and hasn’t had a good night sleep, and had to duck and dodge bullets, drug pushers, etc on the way to school, the last thing they want to hear is how to multiply 10 times 10. They want to know where they going to eat, if I’m going to be safe, and if I can arrive home safely, and if my home is going to be safe when I get there. There will be no learning when 30 heads are hurting and 30 bellies are rumbling. A new appreciation for educators and administrations has been birthed today.
This week we continue our Throwback Thursday: Best Teams of Each Decade series by looking at the best teams to play in the 1960s.
Make sure to check back next week for our look at the best teams of the 1970s!
Which of these teams do you think would do best in today’s NBA? Leave your comments below!
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Trauma is a situation or a memory that you want to forget, but CAN’T!!
The sad part about trauma is that it occurs, individuals are wounded, damaged, and injured physically, mentally, and emotionally. Some never get help for their trauma, as they never heal.
The sad part about trauma is that people know it happened to them or others, but won’t pick their head out of the sand. We allow it to happen, but don’t do anything to heal for it. | 2019-04-20T18:54:17Z | https://theproject180blog.wordpress.com/2014/07/ | Porn | Health | 0.977419 |
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wordpress | Well, that seems to have gotten rid of the trickortreaters for another year. In this neighbourhood they are organised into parties with adult supervisors to oversee the visit. Nearly all are dressed up – some in quite elaborate costumes – and they all seem delighted with the mini-chocolates or snack bags of chips.
I’m happy to participate and the organised nature of it, with a clear flag to be tied onto the letter box indicating that we are trickortreat friendly, makes it a breeze to deal with. None of the kids are mean or rude.
I have fond memories of this in Canada as a child, though scooting through twilight streets in Calgary in October wearing a bed sheet could be a pretty cold experience.
Perhaps a cathedral service and then a dinner round the pub, or a punchup, innit? | 2019-04-24T17:53:35Z | https://hrhoa.wordpress.com/category/great-britain/ | Porn | Kids | 0.937863 |
wordpress | QUANITRA HOLLINGSWORTH: TURKISH CITIZEN, OLYMPIAN?
Former VCU star Quanitra Hollingworth (left) will try to lead Turkey to the 2012 Olympics in London this summer.
Quanitra Hollingsworth has always been a few years ahead of her peers. Not just in the classroom, where she skipped two years of middle school, not just on the basketball court, where she was dominant, but the way she approached life.
Even as a 16-year-old redshirt freshman at VCU during the 2005-06 season, she was already talking about more adult ventures like traveling Europe and seeing the world. Basketball was never her station in life. It was her vehicle.
As if playing professionally in Lithuania, Latvia and Hungary the last three years wasn’t enough, Hollingsworth, who is also a member of the WNBA’s New York Liberty, has decided to take her European immersion to another level.
Hollingsworth was recently granted Turkish citizenship, a step that allowed her to become a member of the Turkish National Team ahead of qualifying for the 2012 Olympics in London. On the heels of a Hungarian Championship with Uni Seat Gyor last month, Hollingsworth is set to depart for Istanbul on May 12 for the Turkish National Team’s training camp.
From there, the Turks will move to the 12-team Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Ankara, Turkey June 25-July 1. Five teams among the field that includes Argentina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Japan, Korea, Mali, Mozambique, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Turkey will advance to London. Seven other countries, including the United States, have already qualified.
As much as this is an advancement of Hollingsworth’s European adventure, it’s also a business arrangement. While Hollingsworth declined to discuss whether or not she will be paid by Turkey, there are other obvious benefits. By becoming a Turkish citizen, Hollingsworth can bypass a rule that exists in many European leagues that limits the number of American players a team can sign. It gives Hollingsworth, as well as her prospective employers, greater flexibility.
Hollingsworth says Turkish officials targeted her, as well as several others, during Euroleague play this year. She said that Hungary approached her with a similar offer. Such arrangements are not without precedent. Epiphany Prince and Becky Hammon (Russia) are recent examples.
But make no mistake. Hollingsworth believes in Turkey and wants to make history.
Hollingsworth has won professional European championships in Hungary, Latvia and Lithuania.
While she’s comfortable moving forward, Hollingsworth admits there were a few hurdles along the way. First, she will miss the first half of the WNBA season. After spending her first two seasons buried at the end of the bench in Minnesota, Hollingsworth was traded to the Liberty prior to last season and developed into a vital reserve, averaging 4.6 points and 4.4 rebounds a game.
The WNBA has a scheduled break for the Olympics from July 14-Aug. 15, and the Liberty expect Hollingsworth back in time for the second half of the season.
The other hard part was breaking the news to her parents, both U.S. Navy veterans.
With her affairs in order, Hollingsworth is ready to lead Turkey to London. Turkey has never qualified for the Olympics and is ranked 21st in the world by FIBA, but finished second to Russia in 2011 at the European Women’s Basketball Championship, it’s highest ever. Turkey was also aggressive in targeting players like Hollingsworth to nationalize and bolster its squad. For those reasons, Hollingsworth believes the Olympic dream is within reach.
Quanitra Hollingsworth starred at VCU from 2005-2009 and led the Rams to their first NCAA Tournament bid in 2009. She ranks third on VCU’s all-time scoring list (1,604) and second in rebounds (1,114). Her jersey is one of just three to be retired by the program.
Very well written article about an extraordinary Ram.
Remember Q? Ex-Lynx center hoping to lead Turks to Olympics | OlympicsWiki.com - The latest 2012 Olympics news!
Good Luck Q! Miss u much at the NY Liberty games but looking forward to seeing you back in the next few months.
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wordpress | It started out like any other routine day. Up early, shower, comb the hair, brush the teeth, start up the automobile and head out enroute to various scheduled appointments.
Except on this day Marcia Brandon was guilty of listening to the radio as she fidgeted with the automobile controls and multitasked down the highway. The preening on the road was a costly lesson as she drove distracted, lost in thought on the road.
Because on this day the 82-year old woman was cited by Oregon State Police (OSP) for driving 110 mph in a 55 mph zone on Highway 26 west of Gresham. That’s correct 110 mph! When the OSP trooper finally overtook the hulking Pontiac Bonneville and was able to pull over Marcia Brandon (did I already state she was 82 years old?) she stated that she wasn’t aware she was driving that fast. In fact, she had no idea that the car’s hazard lights were blinking on either as she whizzed past other traffic.
Ms Brandon was cited for Violation of the Basic Rule – 110 mph in a 55 mph speed zone.
Convictions for driving over 100 mph now carry a mandatory minimum 30 – 90 day suspension in addition to a $1,103 fine. Since 2006, with the stronger law and penalties, drivers traveling 100 mph or faster have decreased. In 2009, troopers cited 298 drivers for traveling 100 mph or faster on Oregon highways, an approximate 21% decrease from 2008 (376 drivers cited) and 45% since 2006 (537 drivers cited). In 2009 DMV noted 313 drivers received court ordered suspensions for driving over 100 mph, 366 court ordered suspensions in 2008, and 428 court ordered suspensions in 2007.
Roy Lester Shideler (age 82) – driving on a suspended WA. license traveled into the ditch on Hwy 395 and was ejected from the vehicle and died.
Irma Crumrine (age 81) pulled in front of a vehicle on Hwy 97 and seven people were injured. All survived.
Sandra Boehme (age 66) traveled across the center line striking a pickup which then created two other vehicles to crash. All survived.
Delia Le Blue (age 78) collided with a van making a left hand turn on Hwy 26 resulting in serious injuries.
Clinton Deshazer (age 71) for unknown reasons crossed the centerline and collided with a semi-truck which resulted in serious injuries.
It turns out the fastest growing segment of the driving population are seniors who make up 9% (about 19 million) of the nation’s drivers. This figure is expected to jump to more than 30 million drivers by 2020. Drivers aged 75 and older have a 37% higher crash rate than younger drivers, according to the Elder Law Journal, published by the College of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And with the exception of teenage drivers, seniors have the highest probability of death resulting from an auto-related accident of any age group.
Sure, age alone does not determine a person’s ability to operate an automobile, but evidence suggests that certain characteristics associated with aging impair driving performance.
I acknowledge that independence of senior drivers is very important and fundamental to maintaining our freedoms, but I’m not sure the state/DMV tests are doing enough for road safety when an 82 year old is licensed and feels empowered or unrestricted to travel 110 mph on her way to errands.
Why so many age related vehicle accidents when by law Oregon drivers aged 50 and up must undergo a vision test verifying they can safely scan and traverse the roads? The testing must occur upon license renewal and every eight years thereafter.
Given the aging population trends there needs to be more done by DMV in validating an aged driver’s abilities.
UPDATE: October 26, 2010 – Just yesterday, Martha Lockhart (age 82, from Olivehurst, CA.) stopped near Toledo on Hwy 229 at the intersection of Hwy 20. For some unknown reason she pulled out into the path of a semi-truck which was pulling empty pole trailers. The collision flipped the trailers which in turn collided with a Chevy truck registered to Oregon State and was being driven by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) employee Tamara Elizabeth Wagner (age 52) who was pronounced deceased at the scene. Ms Lockhart and the truck driver received non-life threatening injuries. | 2019-04-23T18:59:25Z | https://nwhog.wordpress.com/tag/roy-lester-shideler/ | Porn | Reference | 0.237275 |
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wordpress | Which is a song Seger won’t play live. It’s one of his best songs, but it’s from early in his career, a time he seemingly refuses to acknowledge. If you’ve spent any time reading this blog, you know we love Bob Seger’s early stuff. He was huge in Detroit and we heard him on the radio in Wisconsin long before he hit it big with the Silver Bullet Band in 1976.
But because Bob Seger won’t play most of his great early stuff live, I didn’t go see that 2013 show, nor did I go see him when he returned to Green Bay last August.
Which brings us to yesterday’s intriguing news that ABKCO Records is releasing a bunch of Bob Seger’s earliest singles on LP, in glorious mono, on September 7.
“East Side Story,” the song championed by Larry, is the second cut on the forthcoming “Heavy Music: The Complete Cameo Recordings 1966-1967.” It draws from singles released by the Cameo label out of Detroit in 1966 and 1967.
It’s intriguing because we’ve been down this road before and have been disappointed.
In 2009, Seger teased us with “Early Seger, Vol. 1,” a regional release comprised mostly of deep cuts from some of his earliest LPs. Ten of the 14 cuts were from “Smokin’ O.P.’s,” “Back In ’72” and “Seven,” all released from 1972 to 1974. I have those LPs, so I didn’t need the comp.
In 2011, Seger ignored his early days when he released “Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets,” which was comprised entirely of songs from 1976 or later.
Those of us who dig Seger’s early work again felt a little left out. So we put together a blog post of Bob Seger’s other greatest hits.
Larry picked “East Side Story,” of course. “Heavy Music” was a consensus pick by our panel of experts. Appropriately, “Heavy Music” also is the first cut on the new release.
Still, I wonder. I find it hard to believe that Bob Seger, always so reluctant to let his early stuff see the light of day, signed off on this. Perhaps he got a sweet deal. Perhaps he doesn’t own the rights to these releases and has no say. ABKCO re-released two of the Last Heard singles in 1973, but billed them as Bob Seger only.
Whatever. I’ll be happy to get it when it lands in our local record stores come September, even if I’ve heard all but four of the 10 cuts.
I already had two of the cuts on “Michigan Brand Nuggets,” a compilation of early Detroit garage and psych rock “fortified with 7 very rare Bob Seger songs.” It was released in 1996 and re-released in 2016. The two cuts are both sides of a Cameo single released in February 1967 and re-released as an ABKCO single in 1973.
It’s been a nice morning, and I hope it’s been one for you, too.
These three songs always make my Christmas.
An 11-year-old Michael Jackson will forever convey the excitement of Christmas morning. That Christmas songs could sound like this was a revelation to 13-year-old me.
“Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town,” the Jackson 5, 1970, from “A Motown Christmas,” 1973. Also available digitally.
“Snoopy’s Christmas,” the Royal Guardsmen, from “Snoopy and His Friends,” 1967. Also available digitally.
“Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir, released as a single, 1971.
I’d always had it on “Shaved Fish,” the 1975 compilation LP from Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band. Until this year, that is. Found this while record digging. Delighted to have it.
It’s also available digitally, of course.
We usually wind up Christmas with the same three songs here, but Santa Claus has already come to town and gone.
But after this year — After This Year — it’s still worth hearing the message in the other two.
“Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir, released as a single, 1971. A remastered version is available on “Gimme Some Truth,” a 4-CD compilation released in 2010. Also available digitally.
“Snoopy’s Christmas,” the Royal Guardsmen, from “Snoopy and His Friends,” 1967. (The link is to a double CD also featuring “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron,” their debut album from 1966.) Also available digitally.
The legend: Jerry Lee Lewis.
Still performing? Apparently so. There are no dates listed on his website, but his last gig was about six weeks ago in Mississippi. I’ve never seen him play live.
What we must acknowledge but won’t dwell on: The Killer has gone through a whole lot of unsavory business. A scandalous marriage to a cousin who likely was 13 when they were wed in December 1957. Six other wives. Allegations of domestic abuse. Substance abuse. Arrested outside Graceland in November 1976, drunk and waving a gun. Jeebus.
Where I came in: Hm. Not really sure about this, either. Perhaps when he covered “Chantilly Lace” in 1972, or perhaps when “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” crossed over from country radio in 1973. It wasn’t until 1989 that I bought my first Jerry Lee record, the “Milestones” greatest-hits comp released on Rhino Records to coincide with the release of “Great Balls of Fire,” the film in which Dennis Quaid played Jerry Lee.
Appreciate the greatness: I have always loved piano pounders, and Jerry Lee stands with Little Richard as perhaps the greatest of them all. Jerry Lee’s late ’50s hit singles are among the cornerstones of rock ‘n’ roll. That said, here are some other tunes I dig.
They recorded this on July 18, 1964, a Saturday night. (The liner notes incorrectly say July 1.) To hear this astonishing side, Jerry Lee clearly brought the greatest live show on Earth to town that night. In a mere 15 minutes, the Killer rips through covers of tunes by Little Richard, Charlie Rich, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Ray Charles.
“Jenny, Jenny,” “Who Will The Next Fool Be,” “Memphis,” “Hound Dog” and “I Got A Woman,” Jerry Lee Lewis, from “The Greatest Live Show On Earth,” 1964. This is Side 1. It runs 14:58. It’s out of print.
“Roll Over Beethoven,” Jerry Lee Lewis, from “Jerry Lee Lewis: By Request,” 1966. It’s out of print. Recorded live at Panther Hall ballroom in Fort Worth, Texas.
You’ll find both of those live records on “The Greatest Live Shows On Earth,” a 1994 CD.
My friend Larry introduced me to this one over at his mighty Funky 16 Corners blog. It’s probably the best cut on an otherwise ordinary record on which Jerry Lee seems to have lost his way.
“Shotgun Man,” Jerry Lee Lewis, from “Soul My Way,” 1967. It’s out of print, but is available on this double CD with “The Return of Rock” LP from 1965.
After turning to country music with some success, Jerry Lee returned to rock with mixed success on some interesting records on the Mercury label in the early ’70s. Here are a couple more rip-roaring covers.
“Me and Bobby McGee,” Jerry Lee Lewis, from “The Killer Rocks On,” 1972. It’s out of print, but is available on this import CD released in 2004.
“Hold On, I’m Coming,” Jerry Lee Lewis, from “Southern Roots: Back Home To Memphis,” 1973. It’s out of print, but is available on an expanded Bear Family import released in 2013.
This is Jerry Lee at his lewdest, his most lascivious, produced by the equally notorious Huey Meaux. Just filthy.
Once again, all I really need for Christmas are these three songs.
After a Christmas season in which less was more, all I really need for Christmas are these three songs. They come from a more innocent time. | 2019-04-24T17:59:49Z | https://amthenfm.wordpress.com/tag/1967/ | Porn | Home | 0.105539 |
newgrounds | This is audio taken from an xbox live recording of a Gears Of War multiplayer session.
An alien goes around killing people. Yay. | 2019-04-19T14:42:57Z | https://lantay77.newgrounds.com/favorites/movies | Porn | Games | 0.951944 |
wordpress | I think it’s amazing that she’s playing games like Grand Theft Auto and Disgaea at 86. I hope I’ll still be able to hunker down with some great video games 50-60 years from now. Then again, in fifty years, we probably won’t even have to hold a controller, judging by the way consoles are being made and upgraded. In fifty years, I’ll probably be able to just control it with my mind; on second thought, maybe that’s not a good thing if you know what I mean! | 2019-04-21T13:03:51Z | https://championgeekery.wordpress.com/tag/grand-theft-auto/ | Porn | Games | 0.994271 |
wordpress | I’m a wife and the mother of three children. Two girls (17 and 14) and a son (12). I moved from California to the east coast in high school and made Maine my home. Now, you can find me teaching high school English, writing when I can, or curled up with a romance novel.
Ha ha ha! This is a funny one. I don’t seem to be able to “make” time, but I take advantage of the little bits I get here and there. Family watching a movie? I escape to my room to write. Stuck at lacrosse practice? I hide out in the car to write. Summer vacation? Mommy writing time!
Nope. But maybe it’s because I have such little time to write. I’m always thinking about my stories so when I have a moment of peace at my laptop, the words fly pretty quickly. The issue is…not enough time to write it all down!
I fell in love with Jill Shalvis, Susan Mallery, Kristan Higgins, Brenda Novak and many, many more. I love reading about real-life romances, especially those set in small towns. Well, the stories are made up but they could happen, right? My books are sort of a blend between contemporary romance and women’s fiction. I focus on the characters and their internal conflict and the budding romance between the hero and heroine. I also love writing about friends and families. There’s so much material there, right?
I’m a hybrid. I have three series with small presses and my latest series in self-published. I like the blend; I’ve learned so much from my small presses and have gained fabulous writer friendships with my fellow authors, but it’s a whole new adventure self-publishing!
Total extrovert. However, I was a major introvert–I’m talking social anxiety disorder–until my college years. I was shy in my early twenties, and then something happened. I have no idea what. I absolutely love going to writer and reader conferences and have no trouble speaking in front of a huge crowd. Which is helpful with my day job. Standing up in front of 16-18 year olds trying to inspire them to write and love literature is one of the most challenging jobs I can think of. Talk about daily rejection!
Don’t stop writing. Ever. And reach out to fellow writers. Often. Attend local writing groups (my local RWA chapter is fabulous, even if you’re not a romance author) and conferences. NEVER stop learning. And don’t publish a book just because you “can”. Get your work in front of as many eyes as possible. And I’m not talking about your Aunt Mabel. You need advice from those in the writing community. Also, hire a professional editor and do your research!
The Romance Writer’s Phrase book by Jean Kent and Candice Shelton – It’s a handy little phrase book, used for tag lines, body language, etc.
A more updated version would be The Emotional Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi. I use these books when I’m in the layer process of my book. I used to use them during the rough draft, but found I got too bogged down with particulars rather than just writing the damn book.
The Novel Writer’s Toolkit by Bob Mayer – I have an old copy of this, but found it useful for understanding aspects of the business like Sell-thrus and royalties. I believe he has an updated version.
And of course I have a Thesaurus, Dictionary and Two Style Guides.
Pinterest – I use Pinterest to store a lot of my pictures for characters, setting, clothes, etc. Of course you can totally get lost on there.
First Draught – I have to give a shout-out to these ladies, because they cover a range of topics and they talk about everything from craft to publishing. I love their Vlog!
Jenna Moreci – Jenna is a YA Indie Writer and she has this Vlog where her topics are humorous and based on her writing experience. I highly recommend this if you are exploring Self-publishing or are a YA writer.
Google Keep – I sort of stumbled across this recently and use it in place of Scrivener. I make up all these little notes on characters, settings and scenes I need to write and then I can have it on the side of my Google Doc. I’m sort of envious of Scrivener, but the feature I was really wanting was to replace my post-it plotting system that I learned from Cherry Adair.
Last week I covered the importance of finding your tribe, and of course my tribes are some of my favorite things.
Writer Wednesday – Decoding Agent Lingo.
As I continue down this journey of finding an agent, I have a hard time finding agents with an #mswl (Manuscript Wish List) that includes Steampunk Romance. Steampunk, yes. Romance, yes. Not necessarily both.
Romance is a broad genre and it includes a lot of subgenres. I usually end up looking for Paranormal Romance, Fantasy Romance or Sci-fi Romance. Arguably Steampunk fits into all of these but forms don’t usually account for the historical piece of steampunk. Sigh.
BTW – If anyone out there is writing Steampunk that has YA(Young Adult), NA (New Adult) or even MG (Middle Grade) elements – Agents are looking for you.
Women’s Fiction seems to be making a come back but I’ve seen these variations; Women’s Commercial Fiction, Women’s Literary Fiction, and Women’s UpMarket Fiction. I was starting to wonder if these were all snooty code for Romance. For Your Information they are not.
UpMarket Fiction is a phrase that bugs me…once I looked it up, it bugged me even more. According to my Google search as an adjective it means, “relatively expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers.” Okay… I still have no idea what that means.
I was speaking to another author recently and she was telling me that she’d received over 83 rejections in a year and then just last month found an agent on a Twitter Pitch Party. I’ve only sent out a handful of queries…so I have a long way to go.
I imagine agents are much like readers, they know what they like, and they probably have an easier time selling what they like to read. So here’s crossing my fingers that I find that agent who loves what I write and can sell it into the market. | 2019-04-24T08:26:47Z | https://tinaholland.wordpress.com/tag/womens-fiction/ | Porn | Home | 0.4174 |
wordpress | The federal government has demanded that major internet companies turn over users’ stored passwords, according to CNet, a highly respected tech website.
CNet is calling this an “escalation” in internet surveillance by the federal government.
So what does this escalation mean exactly?
If that’s not concerning enough your government not only wants your passwords, but it also wants algorithms and security questions regarding those passwords.
So far these have only been requests and so far the companies receiving the requests are fighting them. But most of the big internet companies like Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo declined to comment in the CNet article or provide any specifics concerning the requests. Apple, Facebook, AOL, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast did not respond to queries about whether they have received requests for users’ passwords and how they would respond to them.
The question is can you protect your private communications and information if the Feds do get access? The CNet author seemed to provide a little bit of advice, whether intentional or not is hard to say. He said longer passwords that contain odd characters are much harder to discover even with an algorithm.
There are times where law enforcement may need this kind of information when investigating a crime, however those instances should be handled case by case and only in accordance with local, state, and federal law. I’m of the opinion that once you break the law you begin to lose privileges. That’s by choice. This situation ignores choice, rights, and the freedoms of law abiding citizens if indeed blanket access to passwords is provided.
If you’re uncomfortable with this story, and I think everyone should be, call your congressional representatives and senators and let them know this is unacceptable. Ask them if they are aware of these requests. Ask them to explain the depth and detail if indeed they are aware. But most of all let them know YOU’RE AWARE. | 2019-04-26T06:43:52Z | https://longversion.wordpress.com/tag/google/ | Porn | Computers | 0.921484 |
tripod | 1. Find or create a candle shaped to resemble your companion animal.
2. Carve the animal's identifying information, protective runes or other symbols on it.
3. Anoint the candle with Protection Oil and burn.
If the candle is too cute to burn, get two. Maintain one permanently, while burning the second.
Use an actual photograph of your pet or if unavailable, choose something, another image, statue, or candle bearing a strong resemblance for this spell.
1. Paint protective runes, hieroglyphics or other symbols onto the image.
2. Anoint with Protection Oil.
3. Keep the image in a sage, discreet spot, touching up periodically with Protection Oil.
Create this charm for any companion animal that sheds teeth.
1. Collect the animal's baby teeth and place within a conjure bag.
2. Add a coin minted in the animal's birth year if known, otherwise substitute a lucky medal or charm plus a tag with the animal's name or initials scratched into the metal.
3. Keep the bag in a safe place for protection.
1. Place charcoal in a little pouch.
1. Rub the animal with a whole, raw egg in its shell, working from head to tail and down, rather than up, the legs.
2. Flush the egg down the toilet for a house pet; otherwise, dispose of the egg outside the home or barn.
3. Add the hairs to the wax.
4. Remove the wax from the heat source and allow it to harden.
5. If possible, now lead all the animals needing protection around the perimeter of their home, in a sunwise direction. A minimum of two people is required for this: the person leading the parade holds the block of wax in one hand and a sacred image in the other. The person bring up the rear drags an axe on the ground behind.
6. When all animals have safely returned home, bury the wax in a safe, secret place.
Take the animals to the ocean and bathe them in the waves. If this is impossible, asperge with salted water or other magical formula water.
Burn elecampane roots, mugwort and Saint John's Wort to calm animals and protect them.
Hang bunches of mugwort on gates and field boundaries to protect the animals within from malevolent magic and spiritual danger.
1. Make an image of your pet the focal item of the altar.
2. If you are requesting assistance from a specific spirit, surround the image with items (candles, images, incense, offerings) that will call that spirit.
3. If you are unsure whom to ask for protection, request it from the animal's guardian spirits: place four white candles in the corners of the altar, with the animal's image in the center. Burn them with frankincense incense.
*Note: Remember Illes' work is for historical reference and is not suggested for use!! | 2019-04-20T13:21:42Z | http://spazchica1313.tripod.com/steampunkhedgewitch/id20.html | Porn | Reference | 0.084361 |
wordpress | Lazy boy cooking: Caribbean Style!
My Faith and Phoenix: Caribbean X-Men?
Diets. Lifestyle. Your comeback: A hand to the face! | 2019-04-19T18:58:40Z | https://jayswonderlandorg.wordpress.com/page/2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.436131 |
cnn | 1. Investors take a breath: It's rare to see so much stillness in global markets.
Major indexes around the world are holding steady after taking sizable tumbles on Tuesday and Wednesday.
U.S. stock futures were not making any big moves.
European markets were mostly flat in early trading. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index seems to have been relatively unaffected by the deadly terrorist attack near Parliament on Wednesday.
Asian markets ended the day with modest gains.
2. Takeover talk: Has Amazon (AMZN) struck a deal? Media reports indicate the online shopping platform has agreed to buy the Arab world's leading online retailer Souq.
American Airlines (AAL) is also expected to splash out some cash. Bloomberg reports the company is set to buy a $200 million stake in China Southern Airlines. Shares in the Chinese air carrier were halted in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The Guangzhou-based firm has promised "an announcement in relation to [a] possible major strategic cooperation."
3. More hints from the Fed?: U.S. central banker Janet Yellen is scheduled to give a speech at 8:30 a.m. ET at a Federal Reserve conference about the "economic futures of kids and communities."
While the Fed chief may not address her plan for interest rates, more clues could lie in a speech later in the day by regional Fed president Neel Kashkari, who raised eyebrows by voting against this month's rate hike.
4. Obamacare in focus: Wall Street will be closely watching developments on the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. The White House said it's confident the bill will pass and warned there was no "Plan B".
Those backing the plan continue to work toward securing the 216 votes needed to pass the health care bill led by House Speaker Paul Ryan. But a backlash threatens to sink the effort or even scrap the vote altogether.
Additionally, Trump's nominee to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission -- Jay Clayton -- is having a confirmation hearing before the Senate banking committee at 9:30 a.m. He's expected to be pressed on his extensive links to Wall Street and quizzed about his ties to troubled companies like Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Valeant (VRX).
5. Earnings and economics: ConAgra (CAG) and Accenture (ACN) are set to release earnings before the open Thursday, while GameStop (GME) will release earnings after the close.
The U.S. Census Bureau will release its February New Home Sales report at 10 a.m. | 2019-04-24T13:15:23Z | https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/23/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html?section=money_markets&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_markets+%28CNNMoney%3A+Markets%29 | Porn | Business | 0.315582 |
livejournal | You've sweated it out for nearly a year - maybe it's time to take a rest.
That's *entirely up to you*.
Now comes the twist! You knew there was going to be a twist, right?
This is CHAMPIONS week. You only have to write one of these entries. You can take on either one.
The other is to be completed *by your champion*. (Someone who is not currently in the competition, and ideally someone who has *not* been involved in this season.), another writer who may end up holding your fate in their hands. So choose wisely!
My awesome champion zenrat has completed their entry!
It's called The Wolf Ring, and it was written for the Open Topic. Go check it out!
My champion this week is the fabulous kradical, aka Keith R.A. DeCandido. His entry is posted up on my journal - The Other Side of the Story.
I did The Bystander Effect.
I worked with fodschwazzle (who agreed to serve with zero notice, it must be said!), who wrote for the open topic.
My champion, douchejuice, posted his Open Topic above.
My champion is the unflappable team_jessie - try to flap her, it won't work. We stand together, and we will live or die together! | 2019-04-20T10:12:18Z | https://therealljidol.livejournal.com/838956.html | Porn | Reference | 0.309938 |
wordpress | Please make sure all of our family, friends feel love this Christmas.
Hello. I am writing to inform you of what a great person Santa is.
My family and I were visiting family in New York for Thanksgiving and we took our 2 children on the 7pm Polar Express. I have a 3 year old boy and a 20 year old daughter who is Mentally retarded, non verbal and suffers from a seizure disorder. She may be 20 years old but she is mentally 8. She lives for Christmas and seeing Santa every year.
I just wanted to share our experience with you and let you know what a WONDERFUL man Santa is.
This Christmas I would like you to help potty train Daniel. I told him that he could get a new lego set for Christmas if he was potty trained. Maybe you can ask him how potty training is coming along? | 2019-04-25T08:15:56Z | https://adirondackrrblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/santas-visit-to-the-polar-express/ | Porn | Kids | 0.782351 |
clips4sale | In this clip Desiree sits, bounces and smashes her very willing and excited participant! This is face sitting fun you will wish you were a part of!
Desiree and her first Squashee!
Desiree and her Devine lollipop!
Desiree Gets Rubbed Down And More! | 2019-04-22T06:44:33Z | https://www.clips4sale.com/studio/22265/3935165/Desiree+Devine+Face+Sitting+Fun+Part+1 | Porn | Recreation | 0.614638 |
wordpress | Is what I said leaving the dressing room after trying these .99 shorts on!
It was Wednesday, and in my area that means the glorious color of the week is only .99, (as well as on Sunday) whatever the item, and these shorts were indeed the color of the week, red.
I also found this great blouse by for $4.49. What a price. I love flowers. I love blouses. This shirt has both. Or is both…one of the two. Or both of the two. I’m done now.
Lastly, that day I purchased a comfortable cotton long sleeve purple heavy tee, new from Target, also for $4.49.
Can’t wait to lounge around in this.
At $8 this purse by Mossimo isn’t outrageously priced, but I don’t need one, and am really looking to down size my purse wearing anyway, and this doesn’t really support that goal, as pretty as it is. I do love the scoop pocket style.
This clutch/wallet would support the smaller theme, but I am looking for one with straps. No one needs to be walking around holding something, that/s just annoying.
For now I will just stare and pine…and be fine with the lovely purse I currently have from Goodwill that I get oh so many compliments on. It will do for now. This is what I mean by grown up reasons. That is such a responsible grown up thing to say, wouldn’t you agree?
This is a Gap XS…go figure that one. I have never been accused of being an XS, even when I was like 10 years old..:) I understand it’s not supposed to be a tight fitting shirt…but its not tight on me, fits perfectly loose, and the shoulders should not fit on me if it was a true XS. But I’m not complaining or aguing, it fits and I like it. And I’ll wear it to have Mexican and $3 Margaritas any day of the week.
This is all I have for now…stay tuned for a furniture post! I have recently moved, and found several great finds for my new place at two area Goodwills! Couldn’t be happier with them, and I will share them next! | 2019-04-26T06:17:47Z | https://mygoodwillfinds.wordpress.com/category/food/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.914024 |
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I’ve been using ChristianAudio.com for several years now and I think you just might like their service. They provide Christian books in audio format. I have several of their books and thoroughly enjoy them.
I’m really happy that they finally have an Android version of their app. I love it! I download several of my books and now I have access to them anytime. This month they are giving away the King James version of the New Testament absolutely free. Enjoy!
Here is a scripture to help you start out this new year fresh.
Although at times you and I may get angry, we should not sin. The way to prevent sin is to deal with “the anger before the sun goes down”.
Here’s my point, as you start out the new year, don’t allow yourself to bring in anything that is negative (anger, troubles, etc.). Let it go. Whatever happened last year that makes you angry, upset or discouraged, let it go. Do not bring it into the new year (don’t let the sun go down on it). Even though this verse is an excellent tip for married couples, it can also work wonders for us as individuals too.
Apostle Paul got angry (at least once) with Mark, one of the guys in his ministry. He apparently misjudged Mark in Acts 15:37 by not wanting to bring Mark with him on his second journey (Mark did leave Paul’s first journey for a reason no one really knows). Paul talks bad about Mark to his cousin Barnabas. Barnabas didn’t agree with Paul and this disagreement led to a split in Paul’s ministry. Paul went one way and Barnabas the other.
Later on in 2 Tim. 4:11 Paul writes, “Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.” It looks like Paul had a change of heart because now he wants Mark back. We don’t know exactly what happened except that Paul now wanted Mark back on his team. Some commentators guess that maybe the reason Mark left Paul on the first journey was that Mark was just being rebellious or not willing to pay the price. Others say that it’s possible that Paul was just so on fire and passionate about this ministry that he neglected his team or that maybe he was a little too harsh and hard to work with. Yet others say that Mark just got homesick. We really don’t know the reason why Mark left Paul.
When Paul writes asking for Mark he is in prison knowing that his life may be ending soon. I take it that Paul did not want the sun to go down on his anger (he was pretty upset earlier).
Have you ever misjudged someone? Has someone misjudged you? The Word of God says to let it go by not letting “the sun go down while you are still angry”. Deal with it quickly.
You might be thinking, how do I not let the sun go down? Good question, here a are a few suggestions: Ask God to help you. Think before you speak. Forgive yourself, forgive people, build good relationships (by being a good listener) and expect great things. Love your spouse and kids. Speak positive things. Stop being negative and expect grace and favor. Expect God to do great things in your life this year as well as in your family’s life.
If you want to take it a step further stay in God’s Word, work hard, mind your own ministry, grow yourself, be creative, be positive and don’t be afraid to ask for help. If you are involved in ministry don’t isolate yourself, be a good team player, be available, teachable, have a good attitude, roll with the punches and smile. If you are not involved in ministry, get involved. Give your time, talents & treasure to God. Start small but do something.
Be happy on purpose, keep your eyes on the Lord and position yourself to have a great year (by your commitment, faithfulness, and excellence). Lastly, while we are talking about starting out this new year fresh, don’t forget to plan, prioritize and to pray.
Don’t bring into the new year anything negative from your past. Forget about it on purpose. Stop thinking about the bad things that happened to you. Let them go. Don’t bring them into this new year.
“Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry”.
Who needs another ebook reader? That’s what I thought when I first heard of Vyrso. After a little time I realized that Vyrso is not just another reader. If you like reading (on your Android device or iPad) you will enjoy Vyrso.
What separates Vyrso from other ebook readers is this, “one-touch Bible reference”. In other words if the book you are reading includes a Bible verse, you can tap the scripture and it is opens up for you. With a simple touch, Vyrso shows you the Bible passages that your ebooks reference. This is a wonderful timesaver, allowing you to read the Bible along with your favorite Christian authors’ ebooks. Plus their cross-library search tool helps you find what every ebook in your bookshelf says about a given topic; you can find the quotes and passages you want in no time!
If you are a Logos Bible Software or Biblia.com user, (I’ll review them both later) Vyrso connects all the books in your library, enabling you to make connections you never knew possible. Very nice! You can now integrate all of your Logos Bible study materials with your leisure and personal reading.
Vyrso offers a broad selection of ebooks written by Christians for Christians. The Vyrso experience brings readers the best Christian titles on any mobile device, providing a virtual Christian bookshelf that goes wherever you go. I’ve been using Vyrso for several weeks now and I am enjoying it.
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Then create the little dashes throughout the rest of your fingernails. You can either recreate this on your other hand OR just do only dashes. Make it so that some nails have fewer dashes and other nails have clusters of them!! | 2019-04-19T17:15:44Z | https://londonmoorebeauty.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/make-a-wish-this-2012-a-new-years-nail-design/ | Porn | Reference | 0.78536 |
salon | The man who was once referred to as the Cuban-American Barack Obama announced tonight that he is suspending his campaign. He lost his home state of Florida Tuesday night to GOP front-runner and likely Republican nominee Donald Trump, and it wasn't even close.
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Watch a video of his announcement below via NBC News. | 2019-04-20T10:55:59Z | https://www.salon.com/2016/03/16/marco_rubio_suspending_campaign_after_resounding_defeat_in_florida/ | Porn | News | 0.738299 |
wordpress | I’ve been meaning for a long time to go and see the Nelson Monument on Glasgow Green, which was one of the first erected after Trafalgar, but when I finally got round to trying, on the day of the fireworks, I found they’d shut off the whole park, rather than just the launch area. So Christmas shopping provided an excuse for a second attempt.
The way into the park is through an arch which was once part of the front of Glasgow’s Georgian Assembly Rooms, built just before 1800 by James and Robert Adam.
Two carved panels on the arch show Apollo playing on his lyre and the Three Graces dancing.
Further in, Nelson’s monument is in the form of a very tall obelisk.
This was the first public monument to be put up after Trafalgar, although the monument at Taynuilt, erected by the workers of the Bonawe Iron Foundry which provided cannonballs for thr navy, is earlier.
One side of the base has Nelson’s name and title, and the others have the names of three of his famous battles.
Near the base of the monument, an inscribed stone commemorates the fact that James Watt was walking in the area when he had his idea for a separate condenser for a steam engine. Glasgow Green is a very historic place!
The day I spent in Gibraltar when I was in Andalucia last summer had never seemed quite enough to see everything I wanted to, even without my camera dying halfway through it – plus I wanted to go back in the spring or autumn, when there was a chance of flocks of birds passing through or over the straits. So the combination of Trafalgar Day, the weekend, and reading week making my work go quiet seemed like a good excuse for a second trip, even if it did put two big adventures into the same month.
I spent Friday travelling via London – the flight to Gibraltar was in the early evening, but as a lunchtime flight to London would mean cutting it a bit fine, and a late morning flight would still mean taking the whole day off work, I took an early morning flight and went via St Paul’s, which was having Trafalgar Day on the Friday.
I wasn’t sure which day was going to be Trafalgar Day in Gibraltar, because I’d read that the service in the Trafalgar graveyard was held on the Sunday closest to Trafalgar Day, but I went down there when I got up (quite late) on Saturday morning anyway, and that was a good thing, because the various groups involved were beginning to gather then.
This was a very different thing from the public services at Tynemouth, or even in London – very formal and naval, with various important guests. You didn’t get too bad a view from outside, although there were always trees in the way.
There are two graves there actually from Trafalgar, and they left wreaths on both of them.
Both services I saw that weekend began with words of Collingwood’s – it’s the one privilege he does get – St Paul’s with the General Order for a day of thanksgiving after the battle, and this one with the words from the Trafalgar dispatch which are also on a monument there.
There were at least two Lord Nelsons (or Lords Nelson?) prowling the streets of Gibraltar that day – this one had joined the reenactment of the Ceremony of the Keys which takes place on Saturdays.
There did turn out to be a service on the Sunday as well, but in the King’s Chapel. I wasn’t really dressed for church at the time, though.
Later on Saturday I went to the Alameda, where Stephen Maturin watched a great variety of people walking as he sat on Worcester, but now the botanic gardens – the main parade ground seems to have become a car park.
There’s a monument there to General Elliot, governor of Gibraltar during the great siege.
The gardens also have a very nice view of the tower on the dockyard buildings.
On Sunday morning I walked out to Europa Point early to watch the sun rise (but not too early, because it was the last week of summer time and sunrise wasn’t until 8.30), then came back, had a proper breakfast, and started walking down again, this time sticking to the coast rather than the quick way by Europa Road.
The naval base is, of course, still very much in use, so that it’s hard to get a good picture from anywhere around it. Apart from the Alameda picture, my favourite was taken from the rock the next day. The South Mole – the old New Mole – is the one running in from the left, although it wouldn’t have been so long in Jack and Stephen’s day.
Behind and above the dockyard is Jumper’s Bastion, where some of Worcester‘s young gentlemen stood, for some reason, with a black calf.
Nelson’s Anchorage, at Rosia Bay, is really just the name for the site of an enormous Victorian gun, although the bay itself is where Victory anchored after Trafalgar.
The old vcictualling yard at Rosia Bay now seems to be used for all sorts of things, but still has its original entrance.
The bay is the only natural harbour in Gibraltar, apparently. It’s a bit elusive – easy to look down into, but not at all obvious how you get to sea level. But I did find a way down by an odd spiral staircase, and it’s then easier to find the old archway and the steep slope which lead back up to the yard.
Again, I had a very good view from the rock the next day – the yard entrace is just behind the stripy looking roof on the left.
Beyond that there’s nothing very much until Europa Point. The lighthouse was built in 1841, and belongs to Trinity House.
I did get to see Africa this time – but if there were any birds about, apart from odd seagulls, it was so calm that they were right out to sea.
Algeciras Bay was quite busy, but relatively peaceful.
There’s quite a lot of grafitti from the period there, including this drawing of a tall ship.
Further up again are some of the tunnels dug out during the great siege – originally with the intention of getting guns onto a ledge called The Notch on the north face of the rock, but openings from the tunnels themselves turned out to work just as well, and when the Notch was reached guns were put inside it too, rather than on it.
The day before the Sheerness trip i spent on the Waverley, sailing or at least steaming along the Thames. I enjoyed it more than I expected to, actually – I thought I would enjoy Tower Bridge, and the mouth of the river and the Medway, but almost everything we passed was interesting.
The buildings along the river are a very varied collection, mixed in with layers of history – as well as the weird company buildings and modern waterfront developments we were constantly passing remains of Victorian and Edwardian docks and wharves and piers. But there’s quite a few Georgian survivals too, scattered along the river.
Almost beside the pier at Tower Bridge is the old City of London Custom House (sadly with a thing like a mutant hoodie towering over it), built in this incarnation in 1814, but existing on almost the same site since the 14th century. According to the man who was doing commentary, it’s very grand on this side to impress visiting foreign captains with the status of London, and very dull and ordinary on the land side!
Round the first big bend in the river and more very modern buildings at Canary Wharf we came to the surviving buildings of the Deptford Victualling Yard, which once provided and stored food not only for ships at its neighbouring dockyard, but for Woolwich, Chatham and Sheerness as well.
Next, at the head of the bend, came Greenwich. Cutty Sark is newer than some of the Victorian survivals, but as she sailed for a living I suppose she has to count as part of the Age of Sail – and she does have lovely rigging. She was all burnt and wrapped up in things when I went to Greenwich years ago!
The Hospital buildings – later the Royal Naval College – are probably the most stunning things to be seen along the river – and, like the Custom House, seem to have been built to be seen from the water. The buildings were built in two sections to allow the Queen’s House behind a view to the river.
The buildings at Greenwich are a good example of the muddle along the London section of the river – the hospital, then a collection of more modern buildings, then an almshouse towered over by an enormous power station.
Back into the longer reaches of the river, and outside of the flood barriers, this clocktower is on the only building surviving from Woolwich Dockyard.
There’s much more left of Woolwich Arsenal, just downriver.
Beyond that the city starts to fizzle out into industrial land and countryside – plus the Dartford Bridge, the docks at Tilbury, bright blue flood defenses at Canvey Island and the endlessly long pier at Southend, but nothing from the right kind of history until the Medway.
This is Sheerness from the sea, with the tower of the old Dockyard Church in the middle.
Sheerness Dockyard was on the river side of Garrison Point, where the Victorian fort is now used as part of the Medway’s navigational control. The dockyard site is under the modern commercial port, and I don’t think there’s much left of the historical buildings.
I did think about going right back up the river, but it would have been dark by the time I got into the interesting parts of London, so I stuck to my original plan of getting off at Gravesend and making my way straight into darkest Kent (there was a bit too much unlighted road involved) ready for the next day’s adventures.
After the Sheerness adventure I went on to Chatham dockyard – not without difficulty, as it was possibly the moat confusing place I’ve been in my life – no signs along the road, a great gate that you can’t get in, and then finally a pedestrian entrance which is only labelled from the other direction, and which leaves you in one corner of a great waste of other people’s carparks, still with nothing to point you towards the entrance in the faraway opposite corner.
And so I was late getting there, and later once I’d eaten lunch – I was starving – and everything is done by slow guided tour, so they’d organised me into a 3pm ropery tour before telling me that I wouldn’t have time to see the main actual Age of Sail exhibit beforehand, and without telling me that the ropeworks would take so long I wouldn’t have time after.
Right, I’ve had my moan. And after all it’s not like Portsmouth, where I might never be in my life again – it’s quite conceivable that I’ll find a reason to go back to London in the next twelve months, which is how long the ticket lasts. And what I did see was interesting.
This is the old main gate, the one that you can’t get in, with George III’s arms over it.
The entrance, once found, is through this line of old workshops – although this is the inside.
Chatham by the Napoleonic period was mainly a building yard, with ships refitting in the Thames or at Sheerness rather than trying to make their way up the Medway, and several of the ‘working’ buildings seem to have been built about that time.
The mast house building is older, from the 1750s, but the upper floor is the mould loft where the plans for Victory were made (this is what I wanted to get to and didn’t).
No. 1 smithery was built in 1808, originally as a courtyard which was later roofed over. At first it was used for making chains and anchors, but of course more and more work was done in iron as time went on. It holds an exhibition of ship paintings and models – from a range of periods, but with plenty of wooden sailing ships!
A line of stores and office buildings lead down towards the ropery. The Clocktower building, built in 1723 and rebuilt in 1802, is the oldest surviving naval storehouse.
The (Port) Admiral’s offices also date from 1808, and were originally the offices of the master shipwright.
The Commisioner’s House, here shown slightly squint because I was in a hurry, was built in 1704 and is apparently the oldest surviving naval building in England. You can’t go into the house, but you can go into the gardens behind.
I will admit that it was probably at least 75% Lt Bush which took me to Sheerness on Sunday morning, after a Saturday spent on the Waverley on the Thames and Medway – plus about 20% historical interest and 5% plain liking for going to the ends of the earth.
But one thing that Saturday in particular pointed out to me, though, is that while it might be the ends of the earth, it’s not a remote or obscure place if you think in terms of the sea. This is a place at the mouth not only of the Medway but the Thames and the way to London – an army garrison as well as a naval port. It’s the closest land to the constantly changing fleet at the Nore, and part of a chain of naval establishments along the two rivers – in particular the bigger dockyard at Chatham, a few miles up the Medway, but with food stores coming down from Deptford.
It was the Nore that brought the yard to Sheerness, and its original purpose was to provide a base for refitting ships which were finding it too hard to get up the river to Chatham and tending to prefer to refit at sea, with all the stores having to be brought out by boat – although by the early 19th century smaller ships were being built there as well, with Chatham mainly building larger ships.
There’s nothing left now of the Sheerness of the Napoleonic Wars, because the site was rebuilt between 1815 and the 1820s – so that it was once a perfect example of a Georgian dockyard, as it had been built to a definite plan, rather than growing up over time. Sadly there’s not much left of the Georgian dockyard either, with a lot of buildings having been demolished since the navy gave up the site in 1960.
The main buildings left are the residential buildings, in particular Naval Terrace on the edge of the site, which was looking its best on a sunny autumn morning.
At one end of the row is the Dockyard Church, beautiful but sad, having been burnt out a while ago. There’s a campaign under way to restore it and turn it over to some kind of community use, and I hope it succeeds.
These houses are still inhabited, although privately rather than through any connection to the yard. They’re the kind of plain Georgian I like best, and I think they’re wonderful – but imposing as they are, these are the houses for the less important officers, three storeys high but only three windows wide.
One of them is for sale, or has been recently, so you can have a look inside as well!
Naval Terrace also still has its row of coach houses running along the bottoms of the gardens.
This map shows the layout of the houses – Naval Terrace on the edge with its gardens running back, and then the larger gardens of Dockyard Terrace running up to the grander houses, with the church and the separate Captain Superintendant’s House off to the side.
The dockyard is surrounded by a high wall, built in 1827 and still surviving.
The second terrace, Dockyard Terrace, still survives inside the wall and can just be seen over it. These houses are two storeys tall plus the attic level with windows, but are five windows wide and with grand porches and gardens – the houses for the more senior officers.
This page from Spitalfields Life called From Spitalfields to Sheerness is well worth reading, and has pictures taken inside the wall, including one of the avenue leading from Dockyard Terrace up to the church, as well as pictures of the dockyard in the 1820s.
Outside the wall is the original settlement of Sheerness, originally the Blue Houses which 18th century dockyard workers built and painted with blue naval paint, and now the area called Blue Town. It’s also fading away without the dockyard, but I liked this old sign as a reminder of the naval connections (and the one pub that still seemed to be open was called the Jolly Sailor).
After prowling round Blue Town, I went for a walk along the sea front, and discovered to my surprise that you could get along almost all the way to the garrison, giving a better view of the suriving buildings inside the walls.
Neither building is in particularly good condition, I think, having been used and abused by the current commercial port, but there are also plans to restore them and bring them back to residential use.
The dockyard and garrison were protected on the landward side by moats and earthworks, some of which still survive – these are parts of the moats just beyond the edge of the yard, but there is also a long moat running right along the edge of the town, a good bit further out.
Last weekend I spent a morning in Cockermouth – essentially on the way to the hills, but I took the chance while I was there to prowl around and have a look at things.
It turns out that Wordsworth isn’t the only Georgian character they’re proud of – they also have John Dalton, who proposed the atomic theory and was the first person to create a table of atomic weights, Fletcher Christian, of Bounty fame (or infamy), and a man called Fearon Fallows, sent by the Admiralty to come astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.
It was Dalton I came across first – prowling around early in the morning, before most of the shops were open, I took myself on a kind of treasure hunt around the marketplace, to find various pieces of artwork in the pavements and other places – which include a very scientific drain cover, and bollards decorated with Dalton’s atomic symbols.
I had time for more wandering around before Wordworth House opened, and found Fearon Fallows’ birthplace nearby.
Late in the morning I visited Wordsworth House, birthplace of both William and Dorothy.
I don’t seem to have taken many pictures in the house – I never do, they all look much the same – but I did like this ship in a bowl.
And a lady was making very decorative food in the kitchen!
The garden at the back leads down to the riverbank, and was a nice place to prowl around. | 2019-04-20T00:56:19Z | https://ingreatwaters.wordpress.com/category/adventures/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.811715 |
freewebs | Next to the United States, the French have mantained conventional carrier operations for longer than any other nation, and have gained the experience associated with it. Operating the two Clemenceua class carriers for years, they were able to keep a carrier and its embarked airwing deployed for much of the last 40 years. As those two carriers aged, the French planned to replace them with two nuclear carriers.
When finally commissioned, on her first major voyage, the vessel developed cracks in the propeller and had to go back into the yards. Finally, in 2001 she was pronounced fully healthy and then helped take part in Operation Enduring Freedom against the Taliban in Afghanistan. She has been sailing and conducting operations ever since with the normal maintenance and repair layovers. Thjis has included significant and very successful crossdecking exerices with US nculear aircraft carriers, like the five week long "“Bois Belleau" exercises conducted with the US Navy Harry S. Truman nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea in December 2013.
With the successful launch, commissioning, and operations (albeit delayed) of the Charles de Gaulle, the French joined an elite club with nuclear aircraft carrier operations that contains only two countries, themselves and the United States.
The French have since decommissioned both of their other carriers, the Clemenceau has been scrapped and the Foche was sold to Brazil where it has been refitted and recommissioned in the Brazilain navy as the Sao Paulo, the flagship of their fleet.
The French had plan to build another nuclear carrier of the Charles de Gaulle class, but first opted to make it conventionally powered instead, and now have decided to forego a second carrier altogether for the forseeable future. | 2019-04-22T12:18:21Z | https://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/worldwideaircraftcarriers/degaulle.htm | Porn | News | 0.524215 |
livejournal | "D'you reckon we can do magic on the train?" Harry asked, pulling out the apparently blank piece of parchment that James had given him. "I mean, is it part of Hogwarts, so it's not underage magic?"
"I don't know," Neville said.
"I'd have tried it earlier, but it… er… set off an alarm, and Dad took my wand until this morning."
"Then I guess if it doesn't set off an alarm, it's all right."
"And if it's not, I guess Dad can't just Apparate onto the train…"
There was a tap at the door, and then the muffled sound of someone yelling, "Oh, very funny, Fred!"
Harry pushed the parchment hurriedly under his cloak then said, "Come on in, Ron."
Ron Weasley, shaking his head furiously, backed into the compartment, dragging his trunk. His robes seemed to be on their last few threads, no matter how good his mother was at repairing things, and his trunk looked about a hundred years old. The wand clasped in his fist was splintery and had deep finger marks in it. The trunk suddenly rose up on little cat feet and bumped the back of his knees.
He raised the wand and pointed it down the corridor, but apparently chose to give up when a voice further down cried, "Go on, give it a try, Ronniekins!"
"My brothers," he said through gritted teeth. "They hexed my trunk."
"Then magic is allowed on the train!" Harry said.
Harry raised his wand at Ron's trunk and said, "Finite incantatem."
The legs disappeared and the trunk settled down.
Ron's eyebrows went up. "Not half bad! I should've tried that. I've heard it a hundred times, too."
"Harry's dad was just telling us about it," Neville said. "We have it on the brain."
Harry bit his lip and Neville saw his finger trailing along the edge of the folded parchment, then he said, "So, what do you think about the Tutshill Tornadoes this year?"
Ron shrugged and sat down. "They're all right. Mind, I still say that it'll be a Chudley year."
"Chudley?" Harry repeated in dismay. "The Canons? Oh, please…"
Neville, who knew nothing more about Quidditch than could possibly be avoided, excused himself to go looking for snacks. He wasn't sure if there would be an opportunity, but he supposed there would. It didn't look like Harry would be getting around to working the spells on the parchment just now, anyway.
He wandered toward the rear of the train first, for no particular reason, and didn't see anything that looked like snacks. When he reached the end, he turned around again, meaning to go to the front, but a few carriages down, he saw someone else making her way up the corridor slowly, looking in the windows of the closed compartments as she passed them. Once, she raised her hand hopefully, but, after a moment, she lowered it and moved on.
She looked up and saw him, then came forward quickly, pulling her trunk along behind her. "Hello! Hello, there. I… I see you're not sitting with anyone, either. Perhaps we could…" She reached him. "I, er… We met at the book shop. I'm sure you don't remember. It was only briefly. I'm Hermione. Hermione Granger?"
"I remember," Neville managed, when he realized that she'd paused. "I, er…"
"I didn't think to ask anyone from my orientation if I might sit with them. I suppose I thought the Muggle-borns would sit together. But Dean Thomas is sitting with an Irish boy and they said there was no room, and I suppose Justin didn't see me wave just now. It's quite crowded in there. And Kevin Entwhistle just said he didn't want to sit with me. I think Su Li was going to, but…" Her voice faded, and Neville saw a certain crestfallen expression on her face for a moment before she went on and said, "At any rate, I don't see anything open. I don't suppose you can think of a place to sit?"
Again, Neville found himself quite wrong-footed, feeling as if he'd been spun around rapidly several times with his eyes closed, then let loose and expected to run. He opened and closed his mouth a few times, then managed, "I'm sitting." His face went hot. "I mean, obviously, I'm not sitting right now, but I have a place. My friend Harry, and Ron Weasley, and -- "
The girl seemed to deflate, like dandelion leaves rapidly withering after an application of potion. "Oh," she said. "I see."
"There's plenty of room with us," he said. "It's only the three of us in the whole compartment. If you wanted to join us."
She bit her lip and looked at him with caution. "If you're sure it would be all right?"
Neville wasn't sure, not really. He didn't think this girl was the sort who Harry would take to, and it would certainly mean not getting to whatever the secret in the parchment was, but he couldn't very well leave her wandering the train all the way to Scotland, either. So he said, "Of course it would. Come on. I'll introduce you."
He led her back to the compartment he'd been in. There was a bad moment when he was sure he'd passed it without noticing, but before she realized that he was lost, he heard Harry's voice rising above the train sounds to say, "But Chudley! They're terrible!"
"I hope you don't mind Quidditch talk," Neville said. "My friend Harry's a bit wild for it."
"I don't know anything about it. It's a sport, isn't it?"
Neville despaired at the thought of Harry's face if she said something like this to him, but it was too late to turn back now.
Harry and Ron, now quite animated in their conversation, looked up, then both did a double-take when they saw that Neville wasn't alone.
Neville's throat closed up on him when he tried to open his mouth, but Hermione took a deep breath, then ran on, "Hello, I'm Hermione Granger, and Neville said I might sit with you, if it's entirely all right. He says you're talking about Quidditch, and I don't know anything about it, so perhaps you could tell me…?"
"I…" Neville looked out the window. "I met Hermione in Diagon Alley." He looked at Harry. "She's in Lupin's group? Er… Professor Lupin's group."
Neville could see the calculations going on in Harry's head, and it took about five seconds for him to guess that there had been some sort of instruction. He swallowed, then nodded. "All right, then. Er… my mother's Muggle-born, too. Er…" He gestured around. "Have a seat, then. I'm Harry Potter. This is Ron Weasley."
Ron waved, a little nonplused, as Hermione sat down beside him, across from Harry. Neville sat down on Harry's side.
Harry gave him a vaguely irritated look, then said, "Right, then. Quidditch. What do you know to start with? Do you know broomsticks?"
"Well, I know what they are, of course…"
It took most of the rest of the train ride for Harry and Ron, batting the subject back and forth between them, to explain Quidditch. This was punctuated by occasional outbursts about the best teams and the best players, and a rather heated debate about classic broomsticks that broke out somewhere past Manchester and lasted through the Yorkshire Dales. By the end of it, the sky was red outside, streaked with dark clouds, and if there was a conclusion to be made, Neville had missed it entirely.
"So…" Hermione frowned. "If I understand correctly, the whole thing comes down to catching the Snitch, and the rest doesn't really matter?"
"No!" Harry threw his hands in the air. "Everyone says that, but it's not true. Catching the Snitch ends the Game, but if the other side is more than a hundred and fifty points up on goals, you can still lose."
"Right," Ron said. "I've seen it happen."
"But why would someone catch it then?" Hermione asked.
She shook her head. "I suppose I don't know a lot about sports, one way or another. I never follow the Muggle ones, either."
Harry waited until she looked out the window, then raised his eyebrows in Neville's direction. Neville shrugged.
At some point during the Quidditch conversation, a woman pushing a trolley of sweets had come through, and Neville and Harry had split the cost to buy quite a lot of everything for Hermione to try. Ron had made sheepish motions of searching his pockets for coins, but both Neville and Harry knew he didn't have them, so they pretended not to see his efforts. Once the Quidditch talk was over, Hermione made a point of sampling everything, though she said she'd best brush her teeth for an hour when she got to school, or she'd hear about it from her parents, who apparently took care of teeth for a living. This was turning into quite an interesting conversation, as Harry got her to talk about how they drilled holes in people's teeth and did surgery on them, but just as she was going through a particularly nasty description of something called a "root canal" (she had Ron and Harry's utter attention on it), they pulled into Hogsmeade station.
Around their compartment, they could hear other students gathering their things, and on some unspoken signal, all four of them got up. Neville and Harry took their Transfigured satchels and threw them over their shoulders (Neville figured it would be just his luck if the spell broke as he got off the train and his full-sized trunk dragged him down and broke his neck on the way) and Ron and Hermione dragged their wheeled trunks along until they got out into the cool night air.
Somewhere in the dark, a voice called, "Firs' years! Firs' years over here!"
They'd started down the path that Neville thought must lead to the lake when he noticed that Hermione had fallen behind. He went back up the hill to her. "What is it?"
"Just… nerves. I don't know where I'll be. It was hard enough finding a spot on the train. Where will I live? Professor Lupin said at orientation that older students like to make it a bit of a secret how people are chosen, but that it's nothing that will hurt us, but what if it's something I don't know how to do? It wasn't in Hogwarts, A History. What if someone in the house has to ask for me or whatnot? No one older than I am knows me to ask for me!"
Neville's own nervousness melted a little bit in the face of it. "I think you'll be fine. Granny's told me that there's just something that tells you your house. I never heard of anyone not getting any house. And you'd be good at a bunch of them. Though I'm pretty sure they'll say that I can barely do magic and ought to stay home for a few more years."
"I don't think so. Let's hope not. But you said you'd been doing magic, so that shouldn't be a problem for you."
"Oh. Right. I can do magic." She smiled.
"Come on. Let's catch up with Ron and Harry."
"They liked the surgery stories."
"Oh." She took a couple of deep, gulping breaths, then said. "All right, then. Let's go." She turned sharply and nearly marched down the path and around the bend, where they got their first view of Hogwarts, shining in the night across a moonlight-sparkled lake. Rubeus Hagrid was getting the students settled in a small fleet of boats waiting at the shore.
Harry and Ron were holding one, looking impatiently back up the path. Neville and Hermione hurried to join them.
They sailed together across the lake, Hagrid alone in a boat at the front, looking up at the gleaming castle above them, the boats magically propelling themselves into the night. Something large and slimy seemed to move among them, causing some of the first years to scream, but Hermione said that it was just a giant squid that she'd read about in -- of course -- Hogwarts, A History. This interested Ron a great deal, and he spent the rest of the ride trying to get a look at it.
They got to the far shore, and Hagrid led them into a tunnel under the school, finally docking at a pier beside a set of stone steps leading up to a heavy wooden door. Hagrid helped everyone out of their boats, then went up to the door, and solemnly knocked on it three times. It opened immediately, and Professor McGonagall came out. Harry smiled and waved, but Neville knew better. She didn't respond. Harry made a face, which she quite unfortunately did see, and raised her eyebrows.
"Very well, Mr. Potter," she said.
"Thank you, Hagrid, I will take them from here."
She led them into a huge entrance hall. Neville had a picture of his mother on the grand staircase here, on the day she'd left school, waving manically at the camera. He looked around tentatively while Professor McGonagall gave a brief talk about what was about to happen, not actually revealing anything, just telling them what the school's houses were, and that they'd be given a chance to "smarten up." She led them into a little room off to the side to get themselves ready, then excused herself to make sure the Great Hall was prepared for them.
Neville straightened his robes a bit, and Harry went back to his never-ending battle to put his hair in order. Hermione tried desperately to put her thick, frizzy hair into a plait, giving up at last and finger-combing it back to where it was before. Ron's robe was clearly second hand. It was a size too big for him and the he was frayed. There was nothing he could do about it, though, so he just stood there, looking uncomfortable.
Across the room, Neville spotted Draco Malfoy with Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. He tapped Harry's shoulder and pointed them out.
Harry drew his wand, eyes sparkling. "Think we should hex them?"
"No. Just… " Neville nodded over at Hermione.
Harry took his meaning, and stepped up beside Neville, blocking Hermione from Malfoy's sightline. So far, he hadn't noticed her. Ron looked over and realized who was there, and joined the line.
"What are you looking at?" Hermione asked, interested.
Malfoy heard her voice and glanced over. With a sinking heart, Neville realized that their guard line was the best possible way of conveying that they were hiding something.
Malfoy gave them a puzzled look, then a dark-haired girl with an upturned nose whispered in his ear, and he smirked unpleasantly.
Luckily, they were spared from any confrontation by the return of Professor McGonagall, who put everyone in two lines. Neville found himself behind Harry and across from Ron. Hermione ended up just behind Ron, and beside her -- behind Neville -- was a pretty girl named Hannah Abbott, who Neville had met at a few Ministry functions. She was fidgeting almost as much as Hermione, and they started talking nervously to each other as Professor McGonagall led everyone to the Great Hall.
Neville had been here once for years ago, when Gran had given a speech to the school governors and parents over the summer. It had been when people were threatening to remove their children from school over Professor Lupin's appointment. Gran gave a long talk -- a bit of a scold, really -- about what sorts of people would deny their children a good teacher, and one who'd discovered and broken a very powerful curse on the position, just because he had a magical disease that was quite manageable with modern methods. He wasn't sure how much good that particular speech had done, though it may have been effective for some reason, as, in the end, almost no one had chosen to remove their children from the school. Of the ones who did, Gran only sniffed and said, "Good riddance to the cowards." Neville hadn't paid that speech a great deal of attention -- Gran liked to talk, and he'd seen her at the Wizengamot, talking about other things, and she hadn't talked much about it elsewhere -- and he'd just goggled around at this hall, not really registering that it was in the school he was supposed to go to. The ceiling almost seemed to be a window, showing the weather outside. Now, through the floating candles, he could see the clear night sky.
Professor McGonagall led them all up to the front of the room, where a very old wizard's hat sat on a four-legged stool. Its tip bent back and forth, and Neville felt like it was getting a look them. This wasn't unheard of in magical objects, so he wasn't entirely surprised when a hole near the brim opened, and it began to sing.
Neville glanced around as the song went on, describing all of the houses and what sorts of people were in them -- brave for Gryffindor, brainy for Ravenclaw, patient and loyal for Hufflepuff, cunning for Slytherin. Neville wished he were one or the other of them. Maybe not cunning; he'd leave that to Slytherin. But he couldn't figure out where you were supposed to be if you were just… average. Normal.
When the song was over, Professor McGonagall stepped up and unrolled a very fancy looking sheet of parchment. "When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted." She looked up and called, "Abbott, Hannah!"
Hannah nearly jumped out of her skin behind Neville, and pushed through the group. She sat down and put the hat on. It looked very strange on her, like she'd found it in an old attic. Neville saw it moving slightly for a moment, then it shouted, "HUFFLEPUFF!" The Hufflepuff table cheered.
Susan Bones gave Neville a faint smile on her way to the hat, and was also sent to HUFFLEPUFF, no surprise. The next two people, Neville didn't know -- Terry Boot and Mandy Brocklehurst. They were both sent to RAVENCLAW, and a girl called Lavender Brown went to GRYFFINDOR. Each table greeted their new recruits with fond applause. Millicent Bulstrode, a stocky girl with a plain face, became a SLYTHERIN after a good bit of consideration by the hat. She seemed a little less than excited. So did the Slytherin table, where people couldn't muster more than a polite clap.
As people passed Harry, he greeted several. Neville decided that he must know them from the Ministry, or the days he spent wandering Diagon Alley. Ron seemed to know a good few as well. Even Hermione gave little waves to other Muggle-borns she knew from orientation, like Justin Finch-Fletchley, a curly-haired boy who was put into HUFFLEPUFF.
A moment later, Hermione herself was called. Her nervousness had turned into a kind of bouncing energy, and she nearly jammed the hat onto her head. Neville fully expected it to make her a Ravenclaw -- the fact that she'd apparently already memorized Hogwarts, A History suggested it -- but instead, it called out "GRYFFINDOR!"
Neville glanced at Ron and Harry, who were both from old Gryffindor families, and, to his disappointment, saw that neither of them looked pleased. The Gryffindor table, on the other hand, applauded her wildly and made room for her.
There were a handful of students after Hermione, sorted into all four houses, then Professor McGonagall said, "Longbottom, Neville!"
The Great Hall fell strangely quiet, and Neville could hear people whispering. He looked up for a moment at a particularly loud whisper, and unfortunately, tripped over someone's foot, so he came lurching out into the small empty space in front of the hat. There were titters around the hall, and Draco Malfoy outright laughed. Professor McGonagall silenced him with a look, then steadied Neville by touching his arm and leading him to the stool.
"You know what your grandmother would say," she whispered, giving him one of her rare smiles.
Neville did know what Gran would say: It's not important what an ignoramus like that says or does, and your dignity is not dependent on the opinion of other children. You have a duty. Go forward.
So Neville took a deep breath and sat down on the stool, ignoring titters, the whispering, and the pointing. He took the hat and put it on his head. It slid down over his eyes, which helped block out the room.
"Ah," a voice whispered in Neville's ear. He felt the hat move around his head. "Interesting, quite interesting. We can certainly rule out Slytherin. You have no slyness to you at all."
"Yes, I imagine it would hold little appeal to your mind. You do have a good mind, of course, but Ravenclaw… I think not."
"Yes, yes. You'd do very well in Hufflepuff, but would it satisfy you? Would it make you who you want to be or merely who you believe yourself to be?" Neville couldn't think of an answer to this rather alarming question before the hat went on. "I think your heart is truly a Gryffindor's heart."
I'm not brave at all! The only time I ever fought anyone, I was a baby, and it was really my dad fighting!
"You have greatness inside of you. Gryffindor would not allow it to be idle."
I'm not great! I'm only famous by accident.
"Fame is not your greatness. Your greatness is in your refusal to waver."
I waver! I waver all the time! Really, it's just a fluke that anyone thinks anything about me. It wasn't me at all!
"You would languish in Hufflepuff…"
And Neville's sorting was over.
The Great Hall exploded with applause, and the hat was lifted from his head. He blinked owlishly, wondering if that really was all there was to it, if he might not put it back on and continue the conversation until it came to whatever senses a hat could possibly have.
But then he looked back at Harry and Ron, who were clapping now, and at the Gryffindor table, where Hermione was already making space for him, scooting down the bench as she grinned.
He stood up slowly, and made his way to the Gryffindor table.
It's good to come back to the Potterverse, even though this is coming EXCRUCIATINGLY SLOWLY. It's a long way from the heady days of early Teddy. But it's fun to mess around with an AU and visit with an undamaged Harry. I love Harry. He's always my favorite. But he's sometimes easier to see through other people's eyes.
Very nice to see a Harry who's fully integrated in the wizarding world and comfortable with navigating people and places within it ... he has both James and Lily's traits in him that show up more strongly in this than in PS/SS, kind of like the Harry we see in the later books. It's also interesting how he and Ron still don't like Hermione much although their first introduction to her is now gentler and more friendly. I look forward to seeing how the friendship ends up developing in this timeline!
I adore your Neville and how you portray his quiet dignity. He may not be as outspoken about it as Gran, but he has inherited her poise in his own way! And yes, the hat is right. Not a sly bone in him! The battle would be between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor as you've suggested. And one thing Neville seems to do by his nature is to pick what is right over what is easy. The way he invited Hermione to join him is a classic example!
Neville is a very neat character, and I think a lot of that was foreshadowed in the first book, with the points he earned for telling off the heroes -- not because he was right (or wrong), but because that took a radical level of guts.
You can almost see Harry and Ron wondering why they have to be stuck with someone so obtuse about their favorite subject, and you can nearly see Hermione thinking "Boys really are all the same whether they're magical or not!"
LOL. "I waver! I waver all the time!" Love it.
It'd be out-of-character for Hermione to hit it off with Harry and Ron (considering their personality clashes) even with a closer Neville facilitating the interaction. However, it does look like that the facilitation did help a great deal in smoothing thing out, considering how she was able to bring up topics that got even Ron's interest.
Fun seeing how the Sorting Hat prods at the student to get a certain action. In a way, that Neville argues about (a lack of) bravery and conviction actually says more about him than if he had agreed with the Hat's assessment.
I take it that the canonverse hat deliberation went along the same lines (minus the fame part)?
I think it would have been similar. I was delighted to find out that JKR said that was the choice for Neville, because I already planned to do it, but yes, I can imagine that the Hat was smarter than Voldemort about how dangerous this sweet little kid could be if pushed.
I wonder if, in canonverse, Neville maybe fretted more about Trevor's escape than he normally would have because that poor girl was wandering around without a friend.
Aww. This is now my headcanon.
Thanks for the new chapter! I love the insight into the sorting hat's processes ... far more interesting than Harry's sorting in canon.
"Would it make you who you want to be or merely who you believe yourself to be?"
I have always enjoyed your stories, and this seems to be shaping up to be an interesting AU.
Good to see you back in the Potterverse.
Sorry this review is so late - I didn't see that you'd updated.
I like the setup you have with the... quartet now, I guess? Although my sense somehow (and I don't know what you have planned yet, if anything) is that Neville and Hermione and Harry and Ron are going to be a little more divided for a while. Not in a dramatic way or anything, I just think it's going to take Harry and Ron a while to warm up to Hermione, although Neville brings out her sweet side (as he does in canon), so that might help. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes friendshipwise - the troll in the dungeon scene in particular.
Can't wait for more of this story!!!
And I really need to get writing. I'm just... writing lethargic, at the moment!
Yes, but I'm cleaning up the already posted chapters for AO3, and trying to get myself back in the mindspace. I'm expecting to get back to work this weekend. | 2019-04-19T22:49:56Z | https://fernwithy.livejournal.com/1287666.html | Porn | Sports | 0.528581 |
wordpress | I had a short story published!
I’m still on hiatus, but the good news is that my manuscript is almost done! I expect to have it finished (rough draft) by mid-September. And I’m working on lining up interviews with some great literary agents! So stay tuned!
In other news, I’ve had my first short story published. It’s a children’s horror story and it’s been published in Underneath the Juniper Tree. If you’d like to check it out, you can find back issues here. My story is in the summer, 2013 issue.
Now, back to work! Hope I’ll be done slaving away at my manuscript soon so that I can rejoin the blogging community! I’ve missed you all! | 2019-04-26T04:33:39Z | https://theliterarymom.wordpress.com/2013/08/ | Porn | Kids | 0.497896 |
wordpress | Experiment: UG-11 – UV = ∼650-1250nm IR.
For well over ten years, I have enjoyed playing around with different wavelengths in my personal photography, most notably, with infrared wavelengths between around 700 and 850nm. These two frames were captured with the only equipment I have currently, that is able to record IR wavelengths, but it’s not ideal for the job as such. They were captured using a UG-11 conversion.
UG-11 blocks visible light from reaching the image sensor, allowing over 99% UV light transmission from around 235-410nm however, much less IR transmission from around 650-1250nm peaking at around only 30% transmission at close to 715nm. This makes UG-11 ideal for UV photography (think: flowers or forensic applications) but less ideal for IR shooting. Though there is no need for an IR filter to be mounted on to the front of the lens (because visible light is already being blocked) a simple UV filter is adequate in order to allow only IR wavelengths to pass. However, because the peak light-transmittance of IR wavelengths is only around 30% of a dedicated IR conversion, it does mean that unless one is happy to record their images at higher ISOs in order to shoot handheld, a tripod will still be required. (Shooting this configuration with a tripod at base ISO would render some fabulous cloud or water movement due to longer Tv necessities for accurate exposures, I would imagine.) Furthermore, good strong sunlight is a must if shooting (handheld) infrared in this way and, as I have discovered, duller daylight is far less forgiving when capturing IR with a UG-11 than it would be with a dedicated IR converted unit.
I’m sure, not least because of my passion for alternative-wavelength photography, that I will be coming back to discuss this topic in a lot more depth in the future, but thought I’d share a couple of handheld frames captured recently with a 35mm UG-11 conversion that I rediscovered at the back of a drawer. I’m not sure I have a specific use for UV photography yet, but it’s fun to play around with possibilities, nonetheless.
This is just a little frippery so please, don’t judge me on composition. | 2019-04-19T01:02:22Z | https://35chronicle.wordpress.com/2018/06/17/i-was-just-rummaging-in-my-drawers-35chronicle/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.924167 |
utoronto | Cartulary: York Minster Fasti. Being Notes on the Dignitaries, Archdeacons and Prebendaries in the Church of York Prior to the Year 1307. C. T. Clay. Yorkshire Archaeological Society, V.124. Yorkshire Archaeological Society. Wakefield. 1959.
Cartulary: Canterbury 1193-1205. C. R. Cheney, B. E. A. Jones. English Episcopal Acta Volume 3. British Academy, Oxford University Press. London. 1986. | 2019-04-20T12:40:38Z | https://deeds.library.utoronto.ca/deeds-search?q=deeds-search&%3Bfq%5B0%5D=record_type%3A%26%2334%3BCartulary%26%2334%3B&%3Bfq%5B1%5D=cart_county%3A%26%2334%3B%C3%8Ele-de-France%26%2334%3B&fq%5B0%5D=property_county%3A%22North%20Yorkshire%22&fq%5B1%5D=docYear_multi%3A%26%2334%3B1195%26%2334%3B | Porn | Reference | 0.75058 |
dreamhost | Does anybody know of a good Poll script. Has anyone tried using the Solidarity Components Poll? We were using it on our website but it no longer works.
Solidarity is no longer working?
You should contact Dreamhost support and get some help. I talked to them in October and they had just signed another contract with Solidarity. | 2019-04-24T14:12:48Z | https://discussion.dreamhost.com/t/poll/15644 | Porn | Business | 0.915354 |
pagesperso-orange | There style was largely influenced by the English Arts & Crafts movement.
This wonderful Art Nouveau door reminds of course the work of Olbrich in Darmstadt.
The owl is the most represented pattern in Finnish Art Nouveau. Nature is a source of inspiration for Art Nouveau artists (both plants and animals).
This late Art Nouveau/Jugend villa adopts more geometrical lines. It was built by Selim A. Lindqvist in 1910. | 2019-04-19T16:16:38Z | http://artnouveau.pagesperso-orange.fr/en/pays/finland.htm | Porn | Arts | 0.880288 |
wordpress | Long Way Home – Save A Woman – Save The World!
Since I wrote last we have made a lot of changes in our lives. The salon I worked at closed – literally – overnight while we were on vacation and I just decided to focus all my energy on the mattress business. We opened another warehouse in Tampa and we are getting ready to start moving into the hospitality industry as well as a higher profile retail operation. All possible as the economy improves and our energy remains high. Michael and I always do better when we are in a growth phase. When we are comfortably numb with no immediate pressing demands being made, we get bored…and then we become foolish. Anyone who knows me knows I am a workaholic and always try to position myself to be number ONE. Michael is inventive and makes the most from networking opportunities. Together we are a powerful team. We have had the good fortune to have two of the very best professional sales people available in charge of each store and they are a huge part of our dramatic growth.
We moved to a house that we hope to eventually purchase that is in a much smaller – and backwards – community that is about an even distance from both stores and I planted a garden and replaced the kitchen appliances with ones gifted to me by my mother in law. Somehow having “my own” appliances has really created a sense of ownership and permanence that I didn’t have before. The smaller community has turned out to be welcoming and far friendlier than the metropolitan environment we were used to and being so disconnected from what we used to call civilization, has enabled us to spend more time together without distraction.
Our personal lives have changed too. Michaels’ son from his previous marriage has reappeared unexpectedly in the last six months and – unfortunately – brought the ex-wife, a younger brother and an adoptive father with him. We are embedded in the middle of a brutal tug of war between the evil ex-wife and her bitter ex husband as they work to make each other lives miserable and dictate our level of participation in Dereks life. For now – we are (so sorry so sad) to be shut out and can only communicate by cell phone and text. We are hoping to get to spend some extended time with him over the summer but it will require some serious negotiation with these two crazy people.
I have had very little time to reflect on the volcanic events that have changed our last year – and as grateful as I am for our success in business and our renewed relationship with Michaels son – it has revealed some cracks in my armor. That’s not bad in and of itself. I am a more considerate person than I used to be and I think about the impact my actions will have on others more often than not. I have more compassion. I have more empathy. I have more patience – although just a tiny bit more – and it wears off quite quickly. I am more absent minded. Although I start early and end late, I accomplish much less in a day than I feel I should. I am disappointed in my sales performance at the Tampa store and I feel like I am stretched into too many directions to be fully effective in any of them. I daydream – briefly – of projects I’d like to undertake of a more creative variety but I rarely take any action to complete anything of any real value. Finally – I went completely off the deep end when the ex-wife made a clumsy and completely futile pass at my beloved husband. Try as I might – I can’t come back from that offense and have been unable to either face her or forgive her.
On the other hand, I feel like I have really gotten a handle on the direction my weight has taken. I have lost a little over 40 pounds and have been able to keep it off and still feel like I am not being deprived. I feel I have – with Michaels determination and support – become more health conscious and less self destructive with my eating habits. I feel that I will soon be ready to dispense with the cigarettes for good. I feel a closer sense of family with my own “clan” and really miss both of my sisters. I talk to mom or dad more than I ever have and I really look forward to giving them updates and hearing about their daily activities.
I can say – without question – my life is better than I had ever hoped. I look around every day and can’t see anyone who is happier than I am. I don’t know how that happened with all the stupid decisions I have made, but I thank God for his grace. I only hope I can do it justice. | 2019-04-18T10:52:38Z | https://saveawoman.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/long-way-home/ | Porn | Business | 0.625576 |
livejournal | My friends saw hour 1 on Saturday night on the beach in HI but I've managed to stay unspoilt. If anyone is interested in their red carpet pics I will post links.
Michael Emerson would be great at nature film voice overs. "In the spring, the ice thaws and all the tiny creatures awaken..." lol. | 2019-04-21T10:16:03Z | https://ayakasan.livejournal.com/304043.html | Porn | Arts | 0.834014 |
wordpress | « Odemwingie to West Ham?
Marc Wilson has left the club to sign for Premier League rivals Bournemouth today for an undisclosed fee. With injury and falling down the pecking order he hardly featured last season. His recent Twitter outbursts won’t have helped either.
Hopefully we will sign a centre back before deadline day. No movement on a striker yet.
Youngsters George Waring and Choulay have joined League One side Shrewsbury Town on loan until January.
The under 23’s side started their season in the Premier League 2 with a 3-0 defeat to West Ham. New signing Ryan Sweeney scored an own goal.
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wordpress | Short drama about a father with a murky past. One day he has to run because of that past. He takes his son with him. Father and son spend this day together, but can the distance be overcome? Graduation film St. Joost Arts Academy.
Watch the film with composer commentary. | 2019-04-25T14:19:51Z | https://barisazman.wordpress.com/efendi-2003/ | Porn | Arts | 0.958008 |
yahoo | Over the past two years, President Trump’s protectionism has drawn opposition from assorted pundits who claim that it rejects basic economic wisdom. But is the president’s reevaluation of free-trade policies in the context of the current global economy — and specifically, in the context of our issues with China — really the harbinger of disaster these critics claim? As ongoing trade talks between the U.S. and China near their conclusion, it is worth pointing out that the administration’s hard-nosed approach has won the U.S. some important victories.
Many of the higher-ups in Beijing have proven strategically inept in meeting the threat posed by the new battery of American tariffs, causing an administrative frustration among Chinese policymakers that has been widely covered by the media in recent months. After spending considerable time struggling to understand U.S. motives, China now stands to lose greatly if it does not cooperate with America on trade. While certain American industries have been affected by the trade war, the administration’s retaliatory tariffs have hurt China’s economy far more than our own.
That forecast depended in part on the administration’s ultimate willingness to follow through on its threat to impose retaliatory tariffs. While, after months of escalation, the trade war was placed on hold as part of a “90-day truce” announced in December, the tariffs already in place, combined with the prospect of a tariff increase, proved enough to bring the Chinese government to the negotiating table.
And finally, amid Trump’s threat to “more than double” current tariffs on China, the White House has announced that “China will agree to purchase a not yet agreed upon, but very substantial, amount of agricultural, energy, industrial, and other product from the United States to reduce the trade imbalance between our two countries.” While it is true that our trade deficit with China has reached record highs even as the administration’s trade war continues, it has increased more slowly than our trade deficit with the rest of the world, and it will matter little if China is ultimately brought into line.
It should be clear at this point that Trump’s hard-line negotiating stance has had an undeniable impact on China. The trade war can be understood only in the context of the Chinese Communist party’s unscrupulous campaign for international dominance. His tariffs, combined with the decision in May to exclude the Chinese military from joint RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) exercises after its destabilizing actions in the South China Sea, have gone a long way toward discouraging China’s anti-social, aggressively expansionist economic and military policies.
But there are also more fundamental, structural issues playing out in the background of America’s set-piece trade competition with China. “Throughout the 1980s and 1990s,” Benjamin R. Mandel has said in Current Issues in Economics and Finance, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “approximately 12 percent of the value of goods shipped globally originated in the United States; by 2010, the share had dropped to only 8.5 percent.” As our share of the global marketplace shrinks, the capitalism-induced democratization of China that was promised for decades has not materialized. The Chinese Communist party has largely managed to harness China’s economic boom to entrench itself in power.
Does economic development lead to the development of representative government over the long term? In the post–World War II age, it has generally seemed to. But at what cost, if a decade-long dictatorial nightmare has to come and go first? Better to keep a despot powerless — at least until a reasonably sane government replaces him — or, failing that, to at least stop his regime from taking economic advantage of us, just as President Trump is now attempting to do with Xi.
America is facing a challenge to its preeminent place in the community of nations from an ascendant China, much as traditionally free-trading Britain faced such a challenge from the more protectionist German Empire at the turn of the last century. Foreign powers are ramping up protectionism and neo-mercantilism to challenge us as the leading, free-trade practicing global power, and we ought to explore the full array of economic and policy options available to meet this challenge, even if we have to go against conventional wisdom in the process. In a post–Cold War world where American dominance is giving way to a more multipolar environment, we should reconsider our approach to the global economy. It would, indeed, be wrongheaded to deny the healthy growth of other nations, even if that means America no longer dominates the landscape in the precise way it once did. But, by the same token, we need to react properly to the changing 21st-century trade landscape, demand justice in the international economy, and back that demand up with unquestioned strength.
We ought simply to evaluate the administration’s trade policies toward China on these terms. Until the day China drops its own unfair industrial and trading practices, and until its ruling government ceases its inhuman crimes and repressions, we should be wary of trade with Chinese companies and of China’s economic growth, and affirm the good that the president’s approach has achieved thus far. Instead of pursuing either neoliberal purism or complete autarky, we would do well to consider the possibility that integrating both free-trade and protectionist principles in an adaptive economic strategy might offer advantages that a more one-sided strategy could not. | 2019-04-19T21:19:07Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-approach-beijing-hurts-china-103033920.html | Porn | Business | 0.527593 |
wordpress | I think I loved him. No – I knew I loved him. The way he gazed at me like I was worth more than any soul to have walked this earth. The way he caressed my body when we were alone, and the way he stole precious touches when we weren’t alone was what had my heart racing. There was something about him that kept drawing me closer to him. Even though he was a flame that was sure to burn me, I couldn’t help but keep walking towards the light, almost like a moth that couldn’t pull itself from the bright light that teased it. The closer I moved towards him, I knew my life would spin out of control. But I was sure once I got to him, he’d centre me.
Even now as I stare at him from across the ceremonial dinner hall, I can see the small smile that crept onto his lips as he feels my gaze glide across his body. I didn’t even want to be here. These events were not to my interest, not like I was against charity events or events that gave recognition to people who had made such an impact within the community. But tonight was not the night I wanted to be out. Smiling at people I didn’t like. Sitting amongst strangers who my parents forced down my throat and engaging in conversation that bored me more than enticed me. They discussed subjects such as politics and plans for the community, as I sat amongst a number of community leaders. But none of what they had discussed reached my heart, let alone my ears.
After graduating I knew that joining a career that allowed me to explore my creativity was where I needed to be. But once my parents had caught wind of this idea, there had been an agonising two-hour argument about my life, which I obviously had no control of.
My dad shouted over my complaints. And even as tears pricked the sides of my eyes, he ignored them and shoved clothes in my face, reminding me the limo would be picking us up in 20minutes. It broke my heart that my parents knew so little about me, and still wanted to pull me away from things that I enjoyed. But the one thing they couldn’t pull me from, was him. They tried on many occasions to stop us from seeing each other. But, there is only so much a parent can do.
My mother followed my gaze and audibly sighed, nudging me slightly to wake me out of my trance.
“Harold, I didn’t know he would be here.” My father followed her gazed and caught Elliot’s eyes. Elliot ignored his stare and kept his eyes on me, whilst I bit my lip, nerves and excitement playing in my stomach.
My father coughed pulling me out of Elliot’s trance again, causing me to stare at my parents, who were more than angry that I was entertaining this little staring battle I had with Elliot. My mother shifted in her seat as my father leaned closer to me.
Father rarely threatened me, until Elliot came into my life. I wasn’t sure what they hated about Elliot most. Whether the fact that he didn’t fear them as powerful beings or the fact that he was white. Either way, my parents had never admitted to what it was that brought so much distaste to their mouths at the mention of Elliot, but I knew it was to do with whom he was. My parents weren’t racists, or so I would like to think. They were people who cared more about image than they did of their own child’s happiness. And if communal leader and powerful businessman, Harold Bennett, let his only daughter fall in love with a white boy, would be a shame to him and his parental skills. I’m sure it was this that had pushed my parents into keeping me away from Elliot. But they couldn’t stop the strong pull we shared, no matter how many times they tried to lock me away from him.
“Did you hear your father Alexandra?” My mother whispered in a sharp tone. I nodded my head slightly, looking at the table not trusting my eyes to not wonder towards Elliot’s direction. I heard my father whisper a ‘good’ and resumed his chatter with other businessmen he planned to make future plans with.
I hadn’t analysed a table as much as I did tonight. I told myself not to look up, as I knew Elliot would still be looking at me. But as time passed it grew harder to fight the urge to stare at him, knowing what my heart wanted but couldn’t have. My father had excused himself as he and a few other men wanted to continue business discussion away from the ladies. My mother smiled and took a sip of her wine, sliding into conversation with the other wives who had nothing better to do with their lives other than be false with each other. I lifted my head and not to my surprise Elliot was watching me. He wore a pained look, knowing something was wrong, but I gave him a small smile, an attempt to reassure him things weren’t as bad as they may have looked. He smiled back and gave me a quick wink, making me feel like a little schoolgirl who was sneaking around with her boyfriend.
“Yes!” My head spun quickly in her direction.
“No sorry, I was lost in thought.” My mother eyed me, before ignoring her suspicion and repeated what Mrs Monroe had told her.
I couldn’t mask the horror that crept on my face as I watched my mother smile in delight. So she not only wanted to control my life, but now she was playing cupid with it too? I sat numb for a few seconds, before anger bubbled in my chest. Was not taking my life enough? What more did my family want that would make them happy enough to leave me be? It was bad enough I studied a course in university that I loathed, but I thought after I graduated the hassle would ease. But they hadn’t bargained on me meeting Elliot and instead everything got worse. I pushed my chair out, trying to keep my anger at bay, before excusing myself from the table.
“Where are you going?” My mother questioned.
She kept quiet and with that, I took my leave desperate for air and space. They were crowding me so much I thought I was going to suffocate in their presence. I made my way to a deserted balcony, that wasn’t too far from the dinner party and took a deep breath. The air burned my lungs as I inhaled. I clutched the edge of the balcony and let the cold air brush pass the little skin that I showed in my expensive designer dress. It did little to show the beauty of my figure, and the only revealing part of my dress was the fact that it was sleeveless and had a slit running up my right leg. My parents had decided what dress I wore tonight. Making sure the family image was up to everyone’s expectations. Taking another deep breath, I sighed wondering how different my life would be if I weren’t born under the known and respected leader, Harold Bennett.
A hint of cologne teased my nose, and I knew instantly who had joined my microcosm. My body instantly relaxed as his arms embraced me softly. In sync, my body melted into his, whilst my heart thundered in my chest. I hadn’t been able to touch him in so long since my parents had done everything they could to keep us apart. Now with his hands possessively holding my hips and my back against his chest, my stomach rolled in excitement. He bent down slightly, coming close to my ears so only I could hear him as he graced me with light kisses.
“I’ve missed you Alex.” He nibbled on my earlobe, making me sigh in pleasure, as his hands held me more firmly.
“I’ve missed you too Elliot.” He chuckled and shook his head, slightly grinding his hips into me, so that I could understand how much he had truly missed me. My breath found itself caught in my throat as I felt the hardened flesh poke me softly in my back. He fully wrapped his arms around me, like a snake claiming his meal. With his hips grinding into me a little harder than the previous time.
“They’ve been keeping you from me, haven’t they?” It almost came out as a growl as he kissed my neck. I tilted my head towards the right, giving him more access to the flesh that blazed by his touch. His hands caressed my body. His left hand slowly moved towards my breasts, whilst his right hand moved towards the core that screamed his name. My breathing increased, with my heart thudding in my chest. I knew what the repercussions were if we were caught, but I couldn’t seem to find the voice of reason. Instead, I pushed myself more into his erection, hoping my need and desire was being known. He chuckled and stilled his hands. I surprised myself when a groan of frustration escaped my lips. He turned me to face him and turned around, checking if we were still alone. When he was clear we wouldn’t be interrupted, he pulled me towards the shadowed area of the balcony, with a look of ecstasy in his eyes.
Once we had reached the furthest wall, far from the windows that led us to the balcony, he pulled my body towards his. Making my body crash into his in an instant. I looked up at him as he ran his hands through my hair, still with desire laced in his eyes. He brought his lips to mine, allowing the need and hunger we had for each other to take control. The kiss had begun with passion, but once we had received a taste of each other, the kiss had turned dark. Almost as though the time we stood kissing, would never amount to the time we were apart. Pulling away slightly for air, he crushed our lips together again for another passionate kiss. My hands roamed his body, not fulfilling my desire. Nothing was going to be enough. He was my drug and the only way I’d keep going is if I had him. And with my parents depriving me of his love, I knew I had to get as much of him as I could. He pulled away again, giving me air to breath. My chest rose and fell in quick breaths, as I felt drunk with his passion.
“They’re hiding you from me Alex.” He held my body again, this time in fear of losing me. I returned the embrace with the same fear eating away in my mind.
“I love you Elliot.” His body stiffened and then he pulled away to look me in the face. After staring in my eyes for what felt like eternity, a cocky smile played on his lips as he traced my figure with his finger.
“You love me huh?” I nodded, nervous of his reaction. I hadn’t told him I loved him before, but I knew in my heart what I felt. And after what my parents had made him endure, I felt he deserved to know.
His hands moved closer to the core that ached for some attention. He stroked the thigh that was revealed due to the slit in the dress and crept his hands higher to the lace thongs I wore. A groan escaped his lips as he felt how fragile the material was. In an instant reaction, I ran my hands through his hair, enjoying the dark look that veiled his eyes as his hands crept closer to the damp area of the lace material. As his hands slowly made its way between my thighs, my core clenched, knowing soon the tension that ran through my body would soon be released by the touch of my lover. His touch left small flames of desire in its wake, making me ache with pleasure.
“God Alex I could take you here right now…” I pulled him down for another deep kiss when I heard a small shriek coming from the entrance of the balcony. Our heads whipped to the sound, when I noticed my mother holding her mouth with one hand, whilst the other clutched onto her chest. I jumped away from Elliot, not aware of what to say or what to do. Elliot stood still in obvious shock with his shirt creased from my touch and his hands in the position of where they were when our bodies were united. My mother looked between the two of us, unable to grasp anything to say, whilst my whole body trembled in fear. If my father knew, I was sure to be sent away, or receive a punishment that would ensure I never sure Elliot again. All three of us stood frozen in our places. My dress still hiked up past the respectable length where Elliot had touched me. My mouth opened to speak, yet when I tried to conjure up something, nothing came out. I took a step closer to mother, but that only made her retreat away from me. I took a deep breath and spoke.
I looked at Elliot, my heart squeezing at his confession and love that he has for me. Knowing that by confessing his love would do nothing but anger my mother, I couldn’t help but feel proud that Elliot had the confidence to still proclaim his love after being casted away. His words made her stumble backwards. Shocked to hear his confession, but then she stood upright, remembering who she was and grabbed my hand with so much force I almost fell.
“You will stay away from my daughter.” She turned on her heel, trying to walk back to the hall. But I needed to speak with Elliot, needed to say something, to explain what was going on and how I could make things better. Yet, the grip she had on my wrist was far stronger than I would have guessed. Pulling me towards the hall, I tried to resist, knowing Elliot would be left in the dark if I didn’t do something to save our relationship.
“But Elliot–“ She span round, standing right in my face as her face twisted in anger.
With that she continued to drag me back to the hall. I turned around, tears now falling from my eyes as Elliot turned into a mere shadowed figure standing alone at the balcony. I wanted to scream for help, wanted him to rush over and rescue me from the clutches of my family. But, we both knew anything else he would have done would only cause more trouble. I loved Elliot and he loved me, but there was nothing we could do about it. And I thought my family couldn’t take me away from Elliot, who was I kidding. | 2019-04-20T23:13:58Z | https://sarahebalogun.wordpress.com/2016/04/ | Porn | Reference | 0.175705 |
sfgate | The interior decorating proposal is a blueprint for all future interactions with your client.
2 What Is Interior Decorating?
An essential transaction between any decorator and client is creating the interior decorating proposal. An interior decorating proposal clearly spells out who is responsible for what tasks, the timeline for completion and what amount will be paid. Without the interior decorating proposal, a lot of interaction between decorator and client can be left open to interpretation, leaving the potential for miscommunications in the business relationship. There are eight main components you need to include in your proposal.
Set up a meeting with your client to discuss what work is involved in the project, when the work should be done, and what the fees are and when they will be paid.
Take meeting minutes and submit this to your client for review. Once all the terms between you and your client are mutually agreed upon, then start drafting your proposal.
Write an introduction that summarizes what you as the interior decorator are responsible for in the project, versus your client's responsibilities.
Describe the scope of work, which is essentially a summary of what decorating work will be done for the client. These items may include big picture items such as providing new finish and furniture choices and layouts. It can also range from research and shopping for design items, to providing drafting services.
List the items to be purchased and the expected budget for those items.
Create a timeline for any steps in the work to be completed. If the job is to be completed in phases, detail what each phase consists of, and the completion dates for each.
Account for all expected fees and reimbursable expenses for your work.
Include a section that clearly spells out client responsibilities, such as decision-making timelines and responsibilities for payment and fees.
Write a section in your proposal that covers the terms for resolving disputes and terminating the contract.
Add a place for you and your client to sign the proposal as an acceptance of its terms.
Proposals can make or break a potential relationship with your client and should demonstrate that you have a firm grasp on the work that needs to be done, when it needs to be done, and for how much. Make sure you keep lines of communication open to create a proposal that benefits you and the client.
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wordpress | American Josh has lived in Xinjiang for over ten years and shares his experience and wisdom on his regional blog. Far West China is one of the few English-language Xinjiang blogs that has remained throughout Xinjiang losing internet access for over a year. This blog provides great content from a fascinating region of China.
The main sections include guides and hotel information for Xinjiang province’s largest cities (namely Urumqi, Korla, Turpan and Kashgar), tips on seeking employment and moving to Western China, and information on the cultures and history of Xinjiang and the infamous Silk Road.
The site is incredibly organized, beautifully presented, and contains articles and blog posts covering life, travel, and everything in between. Some of the past blog topics have included information on climbing Tian Shan, travelling in China’s primarily Muslim regions during Ramadan, details on the rioting that has been occurring throughout the province, details on seeing rarely visited areas of Xinjiang, and much more.
The Resources section has good suggestions for books, movies, and media related to Xinjiang as well as maps and a link for a guidebook purchase.
For any travellers or fresh faces in Xinjiang, Far West China is the best resource available on the internet.
Posted on October 27, 2013 by danielleflaing. This entry was posted in Cities and tagged Xinjiang. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-19T02:51:04Z | https://chinacitylinks.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/xinjiang/ | Porn | Reference | 0.210596 |
wordpress | For my second electronic literature blog I chose to take a closer look at one of the pieces that Mia mentioned in our first orientation class regarding electronic literature. “My Body – A Wunderkammer” by Shelley Jackson.
Right of the bat I wondered if this piece had any relation to “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley, but dismissed this as a coincident that happened to be just a little bit too on the nose to be considered a factor. It’s just happens to be a name that shows up twice, and I guess a reference to the human ‘body’ as well, which is arguably the star of the Frankenstein show, but still.
However, the more and more I looked through ‘My Body’ it felt like there was supposed to be an ever so thin red line referring to Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein. It was only later while I read the ‘shoulder’ part of the piece and saw an explicit reference to the name “Frankenstein” that I realized there had at least been a modicum of interplay between the worlds. First and foremost, the first imagery we’re introduced to at the ‘main window’ of the piece. The body is, in my opinion, displayed to us in a way that points the reader towards ‘dissection’ and, or, ‘mutilation’ as we’re invited to examine and explore every individual part of the body.
She talks about how she thinks her body is “hulking”, “musclebound”, and describes how she thought of herself as “looming” over he friends—clear similarities with the monster of ‘Frankstein’.
The majority of the text in the piece itself is made up of small stories where the author reminisces about certain parts of her childhood that relate to her body parts (and tattoos). These stories usually follow the same pattern as the rest of the story—there are bad/scary parts and there are good/delightful parts. The stories usually talk about how foreign the authors thinks of her own body, or either about how the public thinks her body is foreign, or how she is afraid of how other people perceive her changing body.
The story talks for the most part about scary and daunting puberty can be, and how children don’t consider each other too different until the arrival of the changes that come about as a result of puberty. | 2019-04-21T16:38:10Z | https://therobofyourdreams.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/bodies/ | Porn | Reference | 0.693474 |
wordpress | Today Curt Schilling, 38 Studios founder, posted more screens of Project Copernicus on Facebook. He went on to say..
Images from the most magical, breathtaking and awe inspiring world ever created. Images I was “allowed” to peek at along the way, when the team wanted us all to see the magical world we were building.
Project Copernicus was/is the MMO 38 Studios was working on. Personally, the game looks quite excellent. It breaks my heart to see a MMO that may have a lot of potential – potentially flushed due to the current fallout in 38 Studios. Why Mr. Schilling decided to posts these screens is beyond me. Perhaps to spark buzz for the game to be picked up by another dev. Time will tell the fate of this MMO.
For those who do not use Facebook, I took the liberty of posting some here for you. Enjoy. Tell us what you think.
Yes, you heard it here. Just announced on the Bethesda Blog, mounted combat is on it’s way to Skyrim. If you cannot contain your excitement, you can download the beta version of 1.6 right now!
Here’s a look at the changes to be added: You can find everything right here!
Kotaku [source] just reported that there are many rumors swirling right now that 38 Studios has shut down Big Huge Games, the developers who helped create the lackluster RPG- Kingdoms of Amalur. This comes hot on the heels of the recent financial crisis rocking 38 Studios and the state of Rhode Island. Right now, there is no official word from 38 Studios. Link Dead Gaming will have more for you as this story develops.
I cannot think of a better way to start off a day than a debut trailer. Wouldn’t you agree?
Today, Sega and Double Fine announced their joint project – The Cave.
The Cave is a side-scrolling, puzzle-solving, platforming, adventure game. Which is ok in my book. The game looks incredibly awesome. The environments and characters FEEL like a Double Fine game. There are definitely elements of Trine here and other well known side-scrolling platformers. (Sega’s own Sonic and even Metroid.) It’s great to have them back. [Double Fine’s Kickstarter] The trailer shows the viewer just enough to draw you in. We also have some screenshots below.
The game is aiming for a early 2013 release. The Cave will be available on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. | 2019-04-25T02:20:14Z | https://linkdeadgaming.wordpress.com/tag/gamers/ | Porn | News | 0.777391 |
wikipedia | ^ God of War – PlayStation 2. IGN. Ziff Davis Media. [July 5, 2012]. | 2019-04-23T19:40:41Z | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%B0%E7%A5%9E%E7%B3%BB%E5%88%97 | Porn | Games | 0.859253 |
tripod | REAL Heart Math: Music from the EKG-Extends to your Speech!
reflected in the voice harmonics, and a bit about perhaps why.
reach into each persons heart.
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rense | NEW YORK Dr. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, told the Times-Picayune Sunday afternoon that officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, including FEMA Director Mike Brown and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, listened in on electronic briefings given by his staff in advance of Hurricane Katrina slamming Louisiana and Mississippi--and were advised of the storm,s potential deadly effects.
"Mayfield said the strength of the storm and the potential disaster it could bring were made clear during both the briefings and in formal advisories, which warned of a storm surge capable of overtopping levees in New Orleans and winds strong enough to blow out windows of high-rise buildings," the paper reported. "He said the briefings included information on expected wind speed, storm surge, rainfall and the potential for tornados to accompany the storm as it came ashore.
"We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It,s not like this was a surprise. We had in the advisories that the levee could be topped."
Chertoff told reporters Saturday that government officials had not expected the damaging combination of a powerful hurricane levee breaches that flooded New Orleans.
Brown, Mayfield said, is a dedicated public servant. "The question is why he couldn,t shake loose the resources that were needed,,, he said.
Brown and Chertoff could not be reached for comment on Sunday afternoon.
In the days before Katrina hit, Mayfield said, his staff also briefed FEMA, which under the Department of Homeland Security, at FEMA,s headquarters in Washington, D.C., its Region 6 office in Dallas and the Region 4 office in Atlanta about the potential effects of the storm. He said all of those briefings were logged in the hurricane center,s records. | 2019-04-20T07:18:21Z | https://rense.com/general67/chert.htm | Porn | News | 0.886375 |
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