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National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Headquarters | Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States |
Annual budget | $1.1 billion (2011) |
Agency executive | Dr. Patrick D. Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology |
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National Institute of Standards and Technology |
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — known between 1901 and 1988 as the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) — is a measurement standards laboratory, otherwise known as a National Metrological Institute (NMI), which is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. The institute's official mission is to:[1]
Promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life.
NIST had an operating budget for fiscal year 2007 (October 1, 2006-September 30, 2007) of about $843.3 million. NIST's 2009 budget was $992 million, and it also received $610 million as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.[2] NIST employs about 2,900 scientists, engineers, technicians, and support and administrative personnel. About 1,800 NIST associates (guest researchers and engineers from American companies and foreign nations) complement the staff. In addition, NIST partners with 1,400 manufacturing specialists and staff at nearly 350 affiliated centers around the country. NIST publishes the Handbook 44 that provides the "Specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for weighing and measuring devices".
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Initial mandate[edit]
In 1821 John Quincy Adams stated, "Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessities of life to every individual of human society",[3] but this had long been understood. The Articles of Confederation, ratified by the colonies in 1781, contained the clause, "The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states—fixing the standards of weights and measures throughout the United States— ....". Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States (1789), transferred this power to Congress; "The Congress shall have power...To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures".
In January 1790 President Washington, in his first annual message to Congress stated that, "Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to", and ordered Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson to prepare a plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States, afterwards referred to as the Jefferson report. On October 25, 1791, Washington appealed a third time to Congress, "A uniformity of the weights and measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the Constitution and if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to the public council than conducive to the public convenience", but it was not until 1838 that a uniform set of standards was worked out.
History of agency[edit]
From 1830 until 1901, the role of overseeing weights and measures was carried out by the Office of Standard Weights and Measures, which was part of the U.S. Treasury Department.[4] In 1901, in response to a bill proposed by Congressman James H. Southard (R, Ohio), the National Bureau of Standards was founded with the mandate to provide standard weights and measures, and to serve as the national physical laboratory for the United States. (Southard had previously sponsored a bill for metric conversion of the United States.) [5] President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Samuel W. Stratton as the first director. The budget for the first year of operation was $40,000. The Bureau took custody of the copies of the kilogram and meter bars that were the standards for US measures, and set up a program to provide metrology services for United States scientific and commercial users. A laboratory site was constructed in Washington DC, and instruments were acquired from the national physical laboratories of Europe. In addition to weights and measures, the Bureau developed instruments for electrical units and for measurement of light. In 1905 a meeting was called that would be the first "National Conference on Weights and Measures".
Initially conceived as purely a metrology agency, the Bureau of Standards was directed by Herbert Hoover to set up divisions to develop commercial standards for materials and products.[5]page 133 Some of these standards were for products intended for government use, but product standards also affected private sector consumption. Quality standards were developed for products including some types of clothing, automobile brake systems and headlamps, antifreeze, and electrical safety. During World War I, the Bureau worked on multiple problems related to war production, even operating its own facility to produce optical glass when European supplies were cut off. Between the wars, Harry Diamond of the Bureau developed a blind approach radio aircraft landing system. During the Second World War, military research and development was carried out, including development of radio propagation forecast methods, the proximity fuze and the guided bomb.
In 1948, financed by the Air Force, the Bureau began design and construction of SEAC, the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer. The computer went into operation in May 1950 using a combination of vacuum tubes and solid-state diode logic. About the same time the Standards Western Automatic Computer, was built at the Los Angeles office of the NBS and used for research there. A mobile version, DYSEAC, was built for the Signal Corps in 1954.
The "National Bureau of Standards" became the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1988.[4]
Metric system[edit]
The Congress of 1866 legalized the use of the metric system through the passage of U.S. code 1952 Ed., Title 15, Ch 6, sections 204 and 205.[6] On May 20, 1875, 17 out of 20 countries signed a document known as the Metric Convention or the Treaty of the Meter which established the International Bureau of Weights and Measures under the control of an international committee elected by the General Conference on Weights and Measures.[7]
NIST is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and operates a facility in Boulder, Colorado. NIST's activities are organized into laboratory programs, and extramural programs. Effective October 1, 2010, NIST was realigned by reducing the number of NIST laboratory units from ten to six.[8] NIST Laboratories include:[9]
- Engineering Laboratory (EL)
- Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)
- Material Measurement Laboratory (MML)
- Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML)
- Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
- NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR)
Extramural programs include:
- Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), a nationwide network of centers to assist small and mid-sized manufacturers to create and retain jobs, improve efficiencies, and minimize waste through process improvements and to increase market penetration with innovation and growth strategies;
- Technology Innovation Program (TIP), a grant program where NIST and industry partners cost share the early-stage development of innovative but high-risk technologies;
- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program, the nation's highest award for performance and business excellence.
NIST's Boulder laboratories are best known for NIST‑F1, which houses an atomic clock. NIST‑F1 serves as the source of the nation's official time. From its measurement of the natural resonance frequency of caesium—which is used to define the second—NIST broadcasts time signals via longwave radio station WWVB at Fort Collins, Colorado, and shortwave radio stations WWV and WWVH, located at Fort Collins, Colorado, and Kekaha, Hawaii, respectively.
NIST also operates a neutron science user facility: the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). The NCNR provides scientists access to a variety of neutron scattering instruments, which are used in many fields of research (materials science, fuel cells, biotechnology, etc.).
The SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility is a source of synchrotron radiation, in continuous operation since 1961. SURF III now serves as the U.S. national standard for source-based radiometry throughout the generalized optical spectrum. All NASA-borne extreme-ultraviolet observation instruments have been calibrated at SURF since the 1970s, and SURF is used for measurement and characterization of systems for extreme ultraviolet lithography.
The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) performs research in nanotechnology, both through internal research efforts and by running a user-accessible cleanroom nanomanufacturing facility. This "NanoFab" is equipped with tools for lithographic patterning and imaging (e.g., electron microscopes and atomic force microscopes).
Measurements and standards[edit]
As part of its mission, NIST supplies industry, academia, government, and other users with over 1,300 Standard Reference Materials (SRMs). These artifacts are certified as having specific characteristics or component content, used as calibration standards for measuring equipment and procedures, quality control benchmarks for industrial processes, and experimental control samples.
Handbook 44[edit]
NIST publishes the Handbook 44 each year after the annual meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM). Each edition is developed through cooperation of the Committee on Specifications and Tolerances of the NCWM and the Weights and Measures Division (WMD) of the NIST. The purpose of the book is a partial fulfillment of the statutory responsibility for "cooperation with the states in securing uniformity of weights and measures laws and methods of inspection".
NIST has been publishing various forms of what is now the Handbook 44 since 1918 and began publication under the current name in 1949. The 2010 edition conforms to the concept of the primary use of the SI (metric) measurements recommended by the Omnibus Foreign Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.[10][11]
NIST has seven standing committees:
- Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC)
- Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR)
- National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee (NCST Advisory Committee)
- Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB)
- Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT)
- Baldrige National Quality Program Board of Overseers (BNQP Board of Overseers)
- Manufacturing Extension Partnership National Advisory Board (MEPNAB)
Homeland security[edit]
NIST is currently developing government-wide identification card standards for federal employees and contractors to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to government buildings and computer systems.
World Trade Center Collapse Investigation[edit]
In 2002 the National Construction Safety Team Act mandated NIST to conduct an investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2 and the 47-story 7 World Trade Center. The "World Trade Center Collapse Investigation", directed by lead investigator Shyam Sunder,[12] covered three aspects, including a technical building and fire safety investigation to study the factors contributing to the probable cause of the collapses of the WTC Towers (WTC 1 and 2) and WTC 7. NIST also established a research and development program to provide the technical basis for improved building and fire codes, standards, and practices, and a dissemination and technical assistance program to engage leaders of the construction and building community in implementing proposed changes to practices, standards, and codes. NIST also is providing practical guidance and tools to better prepare facility owners, contractors, architects, engineers, emergency responders, and regulatory authorities to respond to future disasters. The investigation portion of the response plan was completed with the release of the final report on 7 World Trade Center on November 20, 2008. The final report on the WTC Towers – including 30 recommendations for improving building and occupant safety – was released on October 26, 2005.[13]
Election technology[edit]
NIST works in conjunction with the Technical Guidelines Development Committee of the Election Assistance Commission to develop the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines for voting machines and other election technology.
SAMATE (Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation) is a NIST project focused on improving software assurance by developing methods to enable software tool evaluations, measuring the effectiveness of tools and techniques, and identifying gaps in tools and methods.[14]
Four researchers at NIST have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their work in physics: William D. Phillips in 1997, Eric A. Cornell in 2001, John L. Hall in 2005 and David J. Wineland in 2012, which is the largest number for any U.S. government laboratory. All four were recognized for their work in laser cooling of atoms, which is directly related to the development and advancement of the atomic clock. In 2011, Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on quasicrystals in the Metallurgy Division in 1982-1984. Other notable people who have worked at NIST include:
Since 1989, the director of NIST has been a Schedule-C Presidential appointee and is confirmed by the United States Senate, and since that year the average tenure of NIST directors has fallen from 11 years to 2 years in duration. Since the 2011 reorganization of NIST, the director also holds the title of Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology. Fourteen persons have officially held the position (in addition to three acting directors who served temporarily). They are:
- Samuel W. Stratton, 1901–1922
- George K. Burgess, 1923–1932
- Lyman J. Briggs, 1932–1945
- Edward U. Condon, 1945–1951
- Allen V. Astin, 1951–1969
- Lewis M. Branscomb, 1969–1972
- Richard W. Roberts, 1973–1975
- Ernest Ambler, 1975–1989
- John W. Lyons, 1990–1993
- Arati Prabhakar, 1993–1997
- Raymond G. Kammer, 1997–2000
- Karen Brown (acting), 2000–2001
- Arden L. Bement Jr., 2001–2004
- Hratch Semerjian (acting), 2004–2005
- William Jeffrey, 2005–2007
- James Turner (acting), 2007–2008
- Patrick D. Gallagher, 2008–present
NBS Director Allen V. Astin is the father of actor John Astin and the grandfather of actor Sean Astin.
See also[edit]
- Advanced Encryption Standard process
- Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD)
- International System of Units, see International Bureau of Weights and Measures
- ISO 17025 - used by testing and calibration laboratories
- Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Metrology
- National Software Reference Library
- NIST hash function competition
- WWV (radio station)
- ^ NIST General Information. Retrieved on August 21, 2010.
- ^ "NIST Budget, Planning and Economic Studies". National Institute of Standards and Technology. October 5, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- ^ NBS special publication 447-Retrieved 2011-09-28
- ^ a b Records of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Archives website, (Record Group 167), 1830-1987.
- ^ a b John Perry, The Story of Standards, Funk and Wagnalls, 1953, Library of Congress Cat. No. 55-11094, p. 123
- ^ NIST history page 41-Retrieved 2011-09-28
- ^ International standards: page 22; -Retrieved 2011-09-28
- ^ NIST Strengthens Laboratory Mission Focus with New Structure
- ^ NIST Laboratories. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Retrieved on October 6, 2010.
- ^ Handbook 44- "Forward; page 5" Retrieved: 2011-09-28
- ^ 100th Congress (1988) (Jun 16, 1988). "H.R. 4848". Legislation. GovTrack.us. Retrieved September 28, 2011. "Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988"
- ^ Eric Lipton (August 22, 2008). "Fire, Not Explosives, Felled 3rd Tower on 9/11, Report Says". New York Times.
- ^ "Final Reports of the Federal Building and Fire Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster". National Institute of Standards and Technology. October 2005.
- ^ Introduction to SAMATE National Institute of Standards and Technology. Retrieved on October 12, 2009.
External links[edit]
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- Main NIST website
- The Official U.S. Time
- NIST Standard Reference Materials
- NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
- NIST Scientific and Technical Data
- NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
- Manufacturing Extension Partnership
- Historic technical reports from the National Bureau of Standards (and other Federal agencies) are available in the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)


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candid chimera
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 6:47 pm
Post subject: 1
One day, you are sitting in a bar with Skinny Dakota when he takes out a coin and proposes a wager. After getting over the shock of discovering that Skinny was a betting man you decide to check out the game. "The rules" Skinny says "are simple". "You are to choose a combination of 3 possible results of a coin toss, either HHH, or TTT, or THT, or HHT etcetera, so long as there are three. I will then do likewise. Then I'll start flipping. The first person to have their combination comes up is the winner. As a gesture of goodwill, and to prove that I'm
the hustling little weasel you're always making me out to be, I'll let you choose your combination first. Ok? Is ten bucks a good bet?"
You prepare to make the first choice. You think for a little, wondering which combination would most likely come up. After examining the coin to make sure it wasn't weighted or double headed you realise that one particular strategy would benefit you immensely. What is it?
[This message has been edited by Gomez (edited 02-05-2002 01:47 PM).]
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Drama queen
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 6:50 pm
Post subject: 2
So that's how you do it.
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Member of the Daedalians
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 6:57 pm
Post subject: 3
rules of strategy:
1 make skinny dakota get a coin worth $10
2 convince him you will do the flipping
3 chose any combination
4 make skinny dakota look away
5 cash the prize
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Member of the Daedalians
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 7:01 pm
Post subject: 4
on a second thought i would use one of the following:
tth, htt, thh or hht - this is because choosing ttt or hhh is clearly silly, and likewise chosing either tht or hth would be risky as it is not likey the coin will keep alternating between the two
or else just make him drunk....
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1:41+ Arse Scratcher
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 8:06 pm
Post subject: 5
If I pick HTH, Skinny will pick either HHT or THT, so that the last two of his combination line up with my first two.
I think this gives him a slim advantage.
What if I offered him the "priviledge" of picking first?
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 8:14 pm
Post subject: 6
Do you have to give the choices in order (i.e. HHT is different to THH)? If so, then there are eight equally likely outcomes so it doesn't really matter which one you choose.
If the order doesn't matter and you're just choosing, say, 3 heads, or 2 tails and a head, then either choose 2T1H or 2H1T because there are more possible combinations that match these patterns than the other outcomes (3 heads or 3 tails). Whichever of these two you choose, Skinny will probably choose the other.
[This message has been edited by Marvin (edited 02-05-2002 03:15 PM).]
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 8:21 pm
Post subject: 7
I agree with Lepton, except
Let Skinny pick first, and when you choose change the
of his choices. This increases your odds of winning to 50%
On second thoughts, no it doesn't. Unless there's a trick your odds of winning are already 50%. I'll just go back to agreeing with Lepton ... I think that way may be slightly better.
[This message has been edited by quidnunc (edited 02-05-2002 03:27 PM).]
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Daedalian Member
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2002 8:29 pm
Post subject: 8
Walk away - haven't you people been paying attention ?
Nothing Skinny does puts the favor on your side. Any bet you take with Skinny is in his favor.
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Drama queen
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2002 11:08 pm
Post subject: 9
fix bump.
the next time a thread like this crashes... all you have to do is open up the reply screen for another thread in the same forum, change the &topic=??????.cgi part in the subject line to the number of the crashed thread, and reply.
And you don't even have to be a mod to do this.
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Daedalian Member
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2002 11:53 pm
Post subject: 10
If it's so easy to fix, why not have UBB fix threads when they crash?
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Daedalian Member
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 12:18 am
Post subject: 11
I remember on another Skinny Dakota post, somebody made a comment that the problem was very easy once you stripped out all the irrelevant information. In that case, the reduced problem was "Skinny Dakota offers you a bet. <SNIP> Should you accept?". The answer obviously is NO.
In this case, I think the correct answer is to punch him in the face. You won't get any money, but he won't be expecting that.
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A very tilted cell member
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 2:23 am
Post subject: 12
That was my version of Monty Hall with weighted probabilities on the doors!
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1:41+ Arse Scratcher
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 2:27 am
Post subject: 13
For example, I pick HHT and Skinny picks THH.
Assuming that HHT doesn't come out as the first 3 flips, there is a 1 in 2 chance that T will precede my HHT.
My math is probably flawed, but I see this as him having an 11 in 16 chance of winning, while I get the sloppy seconds (5 in 16).
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Daedalian Member
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 2:55 am
Post subject: 14
Lepton is basically correct. No matter what you pick, Skinny can then choose a dominant strategy. It isn't all that intuitive, but the possible choices are not transitive.
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Daedalian Member
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 4:01 am
Post subject: 15
mathgrant, on that problem, IIRC, Skinny would choose one of the doors with a given probability; the player would name one of them; Skinny would reveal one of the doors to reveal a goat; the player could then choose one of the doors.
At the time, I asked if the trap was that nothing in the rules forbade Skinny from opening the door the player chose, which would lower the player's odds, but you never bothered to acknowledge my question. Was that the trap you had in mind?
(Was that the thread where the "Hey, you didn't say I couldn't drop a bowling ball on your foot!" came from?)
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A very tilted cell member
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 4:51 am
Post subject: 16
Re bowling ball: I think so.
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candid chimera
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2002 5:57 pm
Post subject: 17
Lepton has it. The strategy you should employ is to defer the first choice to Skinny. That way you will always be able to choose a combo that's more likely to come up than his.
For example, assume you pick HHH. Skinny would then pick THH. Unless HHH were the first 3 results of the first 3 coin flips Skinny cannot help but win. In fact his odds would be 7/8 to win (or thereabouts). I shan't bother with the math for the other results but whatever you pick Skinny will always have an advantage of at least 66%.
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Daedalian Member
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2002 12:33 am
Post subject: 18
Offer to bet someone else that you'll beat Skinny and ask for 3 to 1 odds. Anyone who knows Skinny would figure his chances of winning would be higher than that.
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1:41+ Arse Scratcher
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2002 1:10 am
Post subject: 19
~saves this idea for GL Convention 2002~
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While every speech and article on UC makes reference to the importance of mobility, the take rate of the current UC mobility capabilities appears to be minimal. What's missing in those offerings that could put mobility in the center of users' UC planning?
The question is posed wrong. The question should be does UC have any role other than mobility and isn't the answer just a to get everyone a cell phone? CFOs are already paying for most cell phones and with the money they save by throwing out the PBX, phones, and landlines - they can pay for everyone's cell phone and still come out ahead.
Evolution: PBX --> UC --> Pure Cellular (4G)
There is absolutely no need for an organization to have a phone system any more - what 4 digit dialing? Yeah right.
The historically low take rate on mobile UC has been due to the complexity of deployment and a less than friendly user interface of mobile UC's predecessor FMC. FMC required a dual mode smartphone, a client, and voice grade WLAN. This is a relatively complex undertaking for enterprise IT groups which puts them in the position of running a miniature cellular network, and of course the user experience was more complicated than just making a simple call. Another big factor in the sluggish uptake was the fact that the mobile operator was really not involved, thus their was no leverage of the intelligence of the modern mobile network. The latest generation of mobile UC aka FMC which Sprint ,Tango and NET have launched, transparently extends the mobile UC capabilities to the cellular phone. The result is that any existing or future Sprint mobile can be used as an extension of the UC/PBX system. No dual mode smartphone or specialized client is required and no impact on the WLAN. It is simple to deploy and works exactly as the existing phone; no learning curve.
Tom you make a good argument for the demise of traditional desk phones but the enterprise will still require capabilities to facilitate services such as conferencing, accounting, recording, presence, directory, voice mail etc that the distributed architecture of UC supports, be it enterprise based or hosted. So a "pure cellular" solution will still need to integrate with the enterprise communications environment and allow for the management of these mobilized services. That is really the role of mobile UC; extend the enterprises services to the mobile and allow the enterprise to manage them.


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Job 19
English Standard Version (ESV)
Then Job answered and said:
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Measure is sponsored by Ocean County legislator
A bill that would ban the future construction of jughandles in New Jersey passed muster with a state Senate panel Monday, paving the way for its potential consideration before the entire body.
The measure by state Sen. James Holzapfel (R-Ocean) would prohibit the planning, design or construction of any additional jughandles on roads or highways statewide. It passed the Senate Transportation Committee Monday.
Holzapfel, in a statement issued after the committee vote, said the bill was inspired by projects on several state highways—including Routes 1, 4 and 130—where issues of heavy congestion and frequent accidents were solved by removing jughandles and replacing them with flyover bridges and modernized intersection designs.
"While jughandles were originally designed to prevent the build up of traffic at intersections, they can no longer handle the high volumes that are now common on many New Jersey roads," said Holzapfel, in the statement. "Cars get backed up and people often have to wait through three, sometimes four, light changes to get through an intersection with a jughandle."
Holzapfel first proposed the prohibition of jughandle construction in 2003 when he served in the General Assembly, and resubmitted it every two years since when new legislative sessions opened. Monday was the first time the bill saw the light of day in a committee review.
Instead of jughandles, new intersections would be designed with flyover bridges – essentially, overpasses – or with lane structures that eliminate the need to go through an intersection twice and separate traffic entering and exiting a roadway with greater distance, thus avoiding the potential for accidents and speeding up traffic flow in the process.
Holzapfel's bill would not affect current jughandles.
John E
4:38 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Two of the worst jughandles I ever saw were both at Rt37 and Main Street in Toms River...always backed up onto the highway causing cars to block the main roads even, plus takes about three light changes before you can even get across the road if using the jughandles.
1:19 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
ALSO, Rte.37 and Hooper Ave. One sits and looks at Monsignor Donavan School for minutes before gaining access to Hooper Ave. only to then catch a red light. Just awful that entire Rte. 37 IMO. I really avoid it when possible, picking and choosing to shop in the area very carefully.
3:51 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
They both need overpasses (more money than jughandles). So does this one at the TR-Brick border, as another commenter noted: "If any potential bridge should get consideration, it should be one where Hooper Ave (AKA Brick Blvd) crosses Church Road in Silverton to eliminate the major backup that extends almost a mile into Brick during evening rush hour." Worst bottle-neck in the county!
5:08 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Bring back the circles. While accidents may go up, the more than likely will only be fender benders and not major intersection crashes.
9:45 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
I live in the southeren part of the state, and the town in which I reside currently has 6 round-a bouts and Burlington County Freeholders like them so much that they have deiced to place another one in our town. They are called thise verses a circle because there is only two roads that enter them and they are much smaller in size. The running joke is that whenever there is a back-up of traffic anywhere, you will here the comment "maybe if they put a circle (or round-a-bout) there traffic would not be like this". I am for the left hand turn lanes.
1:21 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
lol at first I thought you wrote: "bring back the cities". Apart from the urban blight and illegals - the cities were at one time a great idea. Imagine the concept - walking to errands and mass transit. It is a shame that middle class America was forced onto the suburban reservations. And yes, if we didn't want to be victims of crime we were forced.
5:38 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Politicians must have found a way to fill there pockets more by trying to be an Engineer.
5:43 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Try smaller circles,works great,slows traffic,big trucks can still get around.Don't build them like a race track..
Rich Smith
6:24 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
The placement of jughandles should be more selective but not completely band. They take up some time but they do contribute to safety.
6:31 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Everything thats going on in New Jersey, and there big issue is jughandles
1:27 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
That's like saying we should not deal w/any more issues until every hungry stomach is filled. Solve world hunger first then move to the next issue. Government is like an air traffic controller. You have to deal with many things at once. You have some planes 10 miles away, some are circling and some are landing. You can't deal with one plane util it lands then deal with the next plane. Multitasking is not a new concept.
brick strong
7:55 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
The Sandy Recovery ...needs more attention ! Help these poor people that still haven't been able to return to there homes..Or still no place to call HOME..
1:25 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The state has a truckload of federal highway monies that they need to use so what the heck. If banning jughandles alleviates some of the traffic fatalities we keep reading about, I say go for it. The old circles were basically a hang onto your hat and pray and I am talking twenty five years ago! (memba the old Laurelton Circle?)
7:56 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
Well, that should just about clear up our property tax problems.
7:57 pm on Monday, February 4, 2013
This jughandle ban bill is theee most important issue facing every single taxpayer in NJ. Glad our brave politicians have rushed this bill to the front desk because nothing else matters.
M Myers
12:46 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
why not just delay the lights at the jughandles, then traffic will keep moving, make the left turns. I don't want a bunch of overpasses ruining this pretty state we have.
7:21 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
KC hit the nail on the head....There is a bunch of Fed. DOT money in the sandy bill, and to get it, states are scrambling for a piece of the pie. And while the bill is to eliminate them in new construction, I bet they have a long list of intersections that they can start on now.
Greg Thompson
7:24 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
They can add circles, jughandles, no right on reds they can add cameras. Fact is 2/3's to 3/4 of the people driving our road ways are inept n can't drive !!! They don't pay attention, sit there when the light turns green which in turn lets 2 or 3 cars through the intersection instead of 10 or 12. They mosey around town like there's no where to be or go. Then add a siren from an ambulance n watch em freeze up again. I had an ambulance behind at the light on Rt 70 with one car infront of me, I honk the horn n the guy rolls forward 10 inches. Well 10 inches isn't enough room for an ambulance. I had to drive partly over a curb to get by this dope so the screaming sirens could get to the hospital. After all that the guy looks at me and gives some dopey "I'm sorry" smile. (Go home n stay there looser !!! ) Maybe it's my fault? "Gangsta Rap made me do it"
jeffrey scouler
10:09 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
LIke your right on point maybe we should worry more aobut the bad drivers not the"bad" roads
Poindexter McSmash
7:47 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
There are no correct choices, but to thin out the herd. Too many people live too close together and cause many forms of mental anguish. It's already proven that city life will be cut short, while living in a wooden area allows a peace and quite stress free environment. Of course unless it's south jersey!
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8:56 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I am not originally from this area and when I moved down here about 5 years ago from upstate NY, I was like what the heck is worng with Jersey and making a Left I've been here 5 years now and I still don't know where to turn for certain business's on the Left LOL. I hate the no left thing, why can't they just make a left hand turn lane, real simple!! I've seen jug handles the size of parks, such a waste of land, added paving costs and maintenance!
jeffrey scouler
10:08 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
because at a jug handle you dont block the lpassing lane when you have to make a left turn and the lane gets too full cause the lights arent timed you can compensate with the shoulder of the right of the jughandle, also if you miss your jug you go to the next and turn around its that simple if you can't do that then maybe you shouldnt drive.
9:07 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
First of all, your poll is statistically insignificant and no better than pulling answers out of a hat. Besides that, this could be called the "Let's Kill a few More Motorcyclists Bill." If you follow accident reports, the vast majority of motorcycle accidents occur when someone makes a left turn in front of a motorcyclist riding in the opposite direction. Jug handles eliminate this. And, finally, what is the estimated cost difference between a jug handle and an overpass? Surely astronomical.
9:26 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Yes for more flyover bridges, but banning jug handles is wrong. They do have there place. And Ray is correct about the motorcyclist being killed by people turning left in front of them.
Ross Chatham
10:35 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
OR we could ban motorcycles, a ridiculously stupid and dangerous means of transportation in the first place.
9:32 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The problem in NJ is sometimes you can turn left at a light, sometimes there is a jughandle on the right, sometimes a circle, sometimes a suicide lane as on Fischer Blvd. You have to get right up to a light before you know what to do then you are in the wrong lane.
jeffrey scouler
10:05 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
great lets go sacrafice safety for speed more people in a hurry turn left into traffic do we really live in such a state that the lawmakers cannot seet that this place is crazy! i wonder what family member of the state senate builds and engineers the roads. time to call in a watchdog group caue this will not benefit the newjersey residents only line the pockets of the lawmakers.
jeffrey scouler
10:13 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
im sorry jusghandles and circles worked i have never seen such a debocle since they removed all circles from south jersey near the ac airport (used to flow smoothly, now no circle nothing but a mess, airport circle used to flow smoothly now nothing but a mess, shall i go on lets just tax the people more give the money right to the lawmakers and change nothing itll suit their needs more then ours and we can cut out the middle man then they dont need to launder the funds through the removal of jug handles ( i am being sarcastic for anyone not picking up on that)
10:16 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Lets fixed all these bad timed lights .Nothing more aggravating than braking for a jughandle turn with No cars cued up on rt 70 .Why can`t we have working sensors in the roads to improve traffic flow and conserve gas and brakes. Jughandles screw up the traffic flow instead of improving it....
10:53 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Left hand turns work, circles and jughandles do not!
Sal Petoia
3:53 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Dolores… Maybe you weren't around back then, but a trip around the old Laurelton Circle during rush hour was more than enough to get the old adrenalin going without spending money to buy coffee or high energy drinks! And you didn't have to worry about spilling the hot stuff in your lap!
Jeffrey Scouler
10:56 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
oh yeah ross how bout we worry about risind fuel cost and taxes so that i can afford to drive a car and not ride a motorcycle how bout that better yet we save the money from the jug handle argument put it tward an airplane ticket for each idiot who wants to spend the money that our state doesnt have and drop you imbisciles like ross and go live where you can turn anywhere you want to provide you with the greater good not the greater good of everyone. lets face it people there is no money in nj so lawmakers want to remove jughandles then sell that land that they took with emminant domain and create a new cash cow. LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE PEOPLE
Sal Petoia
11:01 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
"…new intersections would be designed with flyover bridges…"??? Very cost prohibitive, and a lot of land would be consumed. The problem is too many vehicles, not enough road surface and a lack of driver patience. Left turn lanes with dedicated signals work, but there must be enough left turn lane length to accommodate the traffic volume. Only very major intersections should warrant consideration of "flyover bridges", such as Chambers Bridge Road and Route 70. However, this was proposed years ago, but rejected because of the cost, land consumption and interference with businesses. If any potential bridge should get consideration, it should be one where Hooper Ave (AKA Brick Blvd) crosses Church Road in Silverton to eliminate the major backup that extends almost a mile into Brick during evening rush hour.
Jeffrey Scouler
11:14 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
left hand turns in congested areas cause the passing lane to be blocked do you not all see that or should we all pass on the right too in the blindspot
causing more accidents passing on right time and time again causes more accidents than jug handles
3:43 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Passing lane... you're funny; everyone is driving in the left lane whether they are passing or not...
Jeffrey Scouler
11:15 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
11:43 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
So how are turning movements going to be made without jughandles? Left turn lanes a mile long that back up into the main road? Now you'll get even less green time at the light.
Martin Vavra
11:45 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I have always hated going through the same intersection twice. I would like to know why U-Turns at intersections are not allowed. I'm for efficient flow of traffic and as far as "safety" is concerned, in is up to the drivers to operate their vehicles safely. I don't rely on highway design by itself to be my protector.
Jeffrey Scouler
11:49 am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Josh Dubnick
5:35 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Depends on the intersection. Look at the signs. Route 46 East at Route 10 has a sign that specifically allows U-turns (but bans them for trucks).
1:18 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Since when did politicians become traffic engineers?
Martin Vavra
2:15 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
I drive a Suburban. NP with the turning radius.
5:31 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The only place in Brick were I think a flyover bridge would work is were Rt 70 and Brick Blvd meet. This way the traffic going west on 70 could keep going and you would only need one light on 70 east so Brick Blvd could enter 70.
5:47 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Jug handles work, look what it did at the rt 70 and cedar bridge intersection. They cause less accidents. The only accidents that happen at that intersection are people trying to beat light to make left, or people who cant read the no left turn sign. Where is there space to make overpasses, imagine the traffic at the rt 37 and 166 intersection without the jug handle, the lights will have to be longer to allow people to make a left and cause traffic to back up into manchester. The dot likes to ban the jug handles, so now they have more work to correct them and throw more money down the drain. People are right Sandy relief, should be these politicians concerns not jug handles.
Lisa Frankenfeld
8:59 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
I come from a state which has no jughandles, so have experienced both.
Jug handles do NOT work. They are confusing and and inefficient means of controlling traffic.
And because of the yields, jughandles are the cause of MORE accidents.
If it weren't so expensive, I think another bill should be passed which would ELIMINATE jug handles.
Ken T
4:19 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Big story here, but what about our own Donald Brauckman stepping up the political ladder anyway he can by ousting the 13 year SRO officer in Mooorestown to fit his own agenda? No story here Christina? The Moorestown Residents are up in arms with our Committee Member they see exactly what backdoor deal was made. We see how this Patch works no article written about any committee member doing anything questionable...this entire deal was suppose to happen without any problems or controversy. Parents, teachers and students were the whistle blowers on this one.
Lauren Burgoon
4:50 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Ken, That story is on Moorestown Patch, and has been for two days. It's not a Cinnaminson matter, it's a Moorestown matter.
6:43 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Lauren with all respect that story involves our towns Committee man Don Brauckmann and it is a huge story. I guess this does not show Don in such a great light so no story here. But on the other hand you are ready to write about Don the Moorestown Police Officer when it makes him look good! See you later Patch no time for you!!! Political writing at its' VERY BEST!!!
Greg Thompson
6:54 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
Left hand turns were deamed unsafe many yrs ago due to drivers turning into traffic causing a very bad accident. That's when the state went to juggies which are also used as drainage ditch's from storm run off. If you can't handle a jughandle stay home ...
8:05 pm on Sunday, February 10, 2013
funny how the rest of the country can manage their roadways w/o the use of these ridiculous engineering disasters. makes one wonder if the those who develop our highways actually live/drive here.
the use of the jug just adds to the cost of construction, the cost of land purchase, land upkeep, road maintenance and so much other "stuff". just think of the thousands of miles "jugs" require that need to be serviced yearly w/ snow plowed/salted, grass mowed, shoulders cleaned.
what's wrong w/ a dedicated left turn lane and the use of left turn arrow signal lights.


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Exhibition in Progress. You are invited to come again!, Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, 2008, Curator: Vladiya Mihaylova Bora Petkova
finalist BAZA Award , 2009
How do the specific gallery space and its conditions influence your work on the Exhibition in Progress. You are invited to come again! project?
The project treats the gallery space as a laboratory, as a ground for exploring the links between the process and the object, the object and space. A few stages of its rearrangement define its interactive nature. This places the exhibition in the temporal line of the present continuous tense and directs towards involvement in the materializing of the object. The transition evolves in the installation itself, which forms the object and at the same time the inner space of the object. The rearrangement of a material constant in quantity and quality changes the routes of perception.
What is your approach to the object connected to? How do you transform a certain object into a sculpture?
The wrappings I choose are abstract in form. Their anonymity is guaranteed by the lack of any advertising or financial value, which does not associate them with offering a specific product respectively. Free of their "previous life" they do not carry the signs of personal consumption. The changes in the contexts of their use, the material of their realization as well as the work with form itself, give meaning to its independence and uniqueness preserving traces of its industrial origin. Thus I create a new object using the qualities of the already existing one in a new way and leaving and individual mark which points at what is invisible in it.
What is the most important thing in your work as an artist?
I have been experimenting with the identification and reconsideration of the connection between the rational and the creative interfering in the logic of the complete form and the expressive character of the material. What is interesting to me is the contrast of the minimal, sensuous and imperfect interference in the explicit constructiveness of forms of a predominantly industrial origin. In that way I am changing their function, they are not used in the way they are supposed to be used.
Vaska Emanouilova Gallery owns a museum collection with works of the eminent Bulgarian sculptor and in that sense it is not an entirely neutral space. How does that influence your work?
In the context of the gallery presenting Vaska Emanouilova's works I am interested in the systems for perceiving and creating an object of art. Through the rearrangement I aim at a dynamic presence and communicativeness of the object under creation, ambiguity of the situations and a dialogue with the environment. I use the trick of the continuous observation so that I cause the effect of a repeated research on one and the same situation. A research directed both towards the object I am creating and towards Vaska Emanouilova's sculptures. Her works call for revelation and extension of the moment of intimacy with oneself. This charges them with a stunning individual presence.
Exhibited together they fill in and give meaning to space building up an independent web for perceiving the sculpture object. With my project I aim at interfering with that way of perception presenting the object itself as a series of shots with a certain duration. They follow each other into one continuously changing situation which creates a totally different space organization. In that sense the project rips up the feeling of closed intimate space created by the sculptures of the permanent exposition and fragments it showing that it is the result of a process and is not something presupposed. What is personally your idea of the place and mission of the artist today?
It's hard for me to answer that question. In that particular case the simultaneous co-existence of the permanent exposition and the projects of contemporary artists as a policy of Vaska Emanouilova Gallery should draw the attention to the results of such co-existence. To the way the heritage is used and yet to the experiment with the context and communication by means of other media. It seems to me that the exploration of the established links between the viewer and the work of art could change the already familiar phenomena. This is one of the possible ways of behaviour of an artist today.
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