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The hydrogen powered Solaris Urbino 12 is being tested again in Austria.
After successful test runs in Vienna in June, the bus has now been handed over to the Dr. Richard Group, the largest private bus operator in Austria, which presented the vehicle in St. Pölten on 7 July 2020.
The Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen uses a set of fuel cells with a power of 70 kW. The hydrogen is stored in gaseous form in five new-generation tanks . The set of type 4 composite tanks (of the latest generation available on the market), are placed longitudinally above the first axle of the vehicle, and have a total volume of 1560 liters.
The energy needed to power the bus is produced in the fuel cell. The hydrogen is turned into electricity, which, in turn, is fed directly the bus driveline which consists of an axle with electric motors.
The bus is also fitted with a Solaris High Power battery acting as an additional electric power storage facility.
The sole by-products generated during the operation of the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen are heat and steam. Consequently, the vehicles do not generate any noxious substances whatsoever.
The Dr. Richard Group is the biggest family-run carrier in Austria with a fleet of nearly 1000 buses, including the vehicles made by Solaris. The cooperation of the two firms started back in 2010.
The Dr. Richard Group is the biggest family-run carrier in Austria with a fleet of nearly 1000 buses, including the vehicles made by Solaris. The cooperation of the two firms started back in 2010.
Dr Ludwig Richard, Owner and President of the Dr Richard Group said
"The Dr. Richard Group has been dealing with emission-free mobility for a few years now. Over the course of numerous tests of battery buses we were able to gain a valuable insight into their practical operation and implementation. Now, for the first time ever, we have a chance to test a hydrogen-powered Solaris bus. The longer the distances to be covered and the heavier the vehicle itself, the more important this type of driveline is becoming, also in terms of resources needed to refuel. The relatively high costs still remain a barrier to a large-scale implementation of this particularly environment-friendly technology, but we look forward to the test which constitutes a significant milestone on our path to green mobility"
Solaris already have 57 Hydrogen buses on order, of which a batch of 25 hydrogen buses is bound to the two German cities of Bolzano, Cologne and Wuppertal. They are scheduled for delivery by the end of this year.
SASA Bolzano (capital city of South Tyrol province, close to the border with Austria) was the first operator to secure an order with Solaris for the fuel cell buses, which was unveiled at UITP Summit in Stockholm in June 2019.
Connexxion (Transdev group) will put into service hydrogen buses in the Netherlands, which prides itself to be the most dynamic country in Europe with regards to energy transition in public transport sector. An agreement with Solaris has been secured for the delivery of 20 Urbino hydrogen vehicles.


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WW2 US PX Type Garrison Cap - Medical (Maroon & White)
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The Visitor
by Hammer No More the Fingers
This is a demo version of 'The Visitor' recorded and mixed by Chris Rossi at Spacelab Studios in Durham, NC. It is a song very loosely based on a story my cousin told me many years ago. It's about a prophet who predicted a murder would happen on Halloween in a clock tower in a town next to a river that runs south to north. Apparently there are only a couple of rivers that run south to north, The Nile and The New River which runs through the town of Radford, VA. I forget the year in which this is supposed to happen, but I don't believe it has happened yet. Can't wait though!
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Four weeks ago, on October 3, I shared with you the setting for my reception of First Holy Communion. If you didn't get a chance to read that posting or if you've forgotten it, please reread it in preparation for today's posting. Thank you.
In May 1944, the first graders and myself practiced daily for our First Holy Communion. After school on Friday, I lightheartedly played cowboys and cattle rustlers in the side yard by our house. Lying on the ground was an old telephone pole.
On top of the pole balanced a footlong wooden board. Into this two-by-four my little brother had pounded a three-inch nail. Its large flat head stuck up about two inches above the board's surface.
Note that the nail in my 1944 board
was not on the head of the board
but on the flat long side.
Gleefully, I pretended to be Gene Autry riding Champion. My horse and I repeatedly leaped the telephone pole to catch those dastardly rustlers as they herded our stolen cows into the purple-shadowed canyons and across the sun-baked mesas.
While in the air during one mighty leap, Champion missed his footing and I fell hard onto the two-by-four and its stud.
The nail head punctured the skin right below my kneecap, splintering the crown of my shinbone. Tears trickled my face as I pushed myself upright. The dangling two-by-four armored my shinbone, hobbling me.
Unable to stand, I jerked the board away from my leg. The offending nail head brought with it a thick glob of fatty yellow tissue. Oily fluid drained from the hole in my knee and down my shin. Frightened, I stumbled to my feet, but could hardly walk.
Mom rushed me to the doctor's office. He cut away the fatty tissue, explaining that my leg would stiffen so I couldn't bend it for a few days, but otherwise I was fine. After giving me a tetanus shot, he sent us home.
Two days later, I told Barbara Ann, my chaperone and best friend, about my stiff knee. Then we processed into Saint Mary's Catholic Church with the other communicants.
At the appropriate time, the first graders, our chaperons, and I entered the sanctuary. Row by row, we ascended the eight steps up to the altar. The first row of communicants then knelt on the top step. The middle row followed suit on its step. The third knelt. Moments later, the fourth row—my row—knelt on the bottom step.
I stood.
And Barbara Ann?
She tugged the hem of my first communion dress and loudly whispered, "We're supposed to kneel!"
I couldn't. The knee was as stiff as that two-by-four it had been attached to.
Father Hennessey placed a communion wafer on the tongues of the kneeling children in the front row. They returned to their seats. The next three rows stood. Moved upward. Knelt.
I stood.
Once again, Barbara Ann tugged. "Get down! Kneel!" Her words echoed down the nave. I heard tittering.
Father Hennessey frowned, then looked down at me benignly. I tried to brush away Barbara Ann's hand. She tugged harder. "Down!"
The second row received communion and left the sanctuary. The next two rows rose and moved up two steps. The first row knelt as did my row.
Aware that everyone must be looking at me, I tried to get my knee to bend. It refused. Urgency threaded her voice as Barbara Ann shouted, "Kneel! Dolores! We're supposed to kneel!"
The chalice shook in Father Hennessey's hands and tilted. The communion wafers came close to spilling out. He jerked the chalice upright, frowned at Barbara Ann, and began to place a wafer on the tongue of each kneeling child in the top row.
They, too, returned to their pews.
Finally . . . FINALLY . . . my row rose, stepped upward, and knelt.
I stood.
Laughter rolled like a wave down the nave and up into the sanctuary.
"Kneel! I'm telling you you're supposed to kneel!" Barbara Ann's shrill whisper shook the rafters. She tugged at my dress. Part of the skirt ripped from the waist. It dangled toward my ankles.
Father Hennessey placed the communion wafer on my tongue. The other children in my row stood. We returned to our seats. They knelt. I sat while in all innocence we gave thanksgiving for the gift we'd just received.
At the end of Mass, we filed out, stood on the front steps of Saint Mary's, and had our photograph taken. Here it is. And there am I in the front row with the bandage on my knee.
I hope that if any of my classmates are reading this today they will not be annoyed that I posted our picture here . . . nor will the photographer from sixty-eight years ago. It surely represents a time and a place that is long gone but also long remembered. Peace.


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Strategic planning tools – forest investment finder
- Central and regional government recognise and seek to promote afforestation on marginal land for erosion, carbon, water quality and economic benefits. However forestry is not economic on much of this land.
- Forest investors and policy makers need a mechanism to strategically identify where afforestation will be economic (as a pure commercial forestry venture) and where it can also deliver ecosystem services that meet local, regional, or national needs.
- Managers of existing forests need spatial tools to assess scenarios that evaluate how changes in their management practices influence economic performance and delivery of a variety of ecosystem services. This information will inform decisions around land use change and policies that affect forest growers, and regional economies and infrastructure.
Potential benefits
The value of avoided erosion from afforestation of 2.4 million ha of erodible hill country is in the order of NZ $2.1 billion.
Afforesting only those regions with high erosion (1.2 m ha) achieves ~85% (NZ$1.8bn) of the avoided erosion value.
Afforesting the region with the highest erosion (0.2 m ha ~ 8% of the total area) achieves about 50% (NZ$1.1billion) of the avoided erosion value.
The same approach could be used to demonstrate the contribution of existing forests to the wider sustainability of New Zealand.
A planning tool has been developed known as Forest Investment Finder (FIF).
The tool focuses on future forest scenarios for land with low economic productivity and slight to extreme erosion risk.
These areas could provide high environmental benefits to NZ from afforestation, avoided soil erosion, biodiversity, improved water quality and carbon sequestration.
The cost of this research project was $320 k over four years.
FIF supports strategic planning. It could be used to:
- Evaluate radiata pine forestry regimes, harvesting systems, and product price scenarios for both existing estates and new forests.
- Investigate the economics and environmental benefits of new forest species planted on marginal lands; the total value of environmental benefits from current forest estates; and to quantify the level of payment needed to drive afforestation for a range of ecosystem services.
FIF will enable identification of regions across New Zealand where it would or would not be viable to purchase land and convert to forestry. The tool will support policy decisions and strategic planning on the economics of forestry scenarios and the value of ecosystem services provided by the forests.


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I'd like to thank Sterling Allan of PESN for letting me know about this video interview he just conducted with Mike McKubre, LENR researcher at the SRI International institute in Stanford, California. McKubre has some very intersting information and ideas to share, and the whole interview (about 25 minutes long) is well worth listening to.
Some key areas covered are:
- His involvement with Brillouin energy's development of their LENR systems
- His thoughts on the size of COP required to make commercial LENR worthwhile (minimum of 10x)
- The types of work he does at SRI
- His ideas about the term fusion — "it is fusion"
- His thoughts on the four main players in the LENR field: Brillouin, Defkalion, Rossi, Blacklight Power. He says there is no need for competition, they should cooperate to move the field forward.
As always, McKubre comes across as experienced, articulate, knowledgeable and very credible. He's a great spokesman for the field, and should be a media point person for LENR, in my opinion.


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By Liz, looking forward to seeing the sun again…someday?
I turned in Murder She Meowed, book seven in the Pawsitively Organic Mysteries, on May 1.
My point is, this was a huge accomplishment. And then I thought about all the other accomplishments I've racked up in the past 10 months–and compared them to the challenges– and decided to actually celebrate for a change. Here's an excerpt from my Facebook post from the day I turned in the book. Since last July, I:
- Wrote three(!) books (and did copy edits/page proofs for one).
- Had a really crappy few months at my old job.
- Found/started a new (and pretty demanding) day job.
- Traveled a bunch with said new day job.
- Managed to take a real vacation for the first time in a long time last fall.
- Dealt with A LOT of personal issues, including Shaggy's illness, which was wicked stressful for me.
- Lost 2 cats within 2 weeks back in January – Pumpkin and Johnny. 🙁
- Did one round of B-School.
- Managed to give off the illusion that I was a semi-moderately high-functioning adult most days.
Actually acknowledging that I got a lot done despite most of this stuff is new for me. Typically, I'd cross stuff off the list, tell myself to suck up the rest, and move on.
But I didn't do that this time. I decided to give myself a break before the next deadline (which is looming, but it's all good). I took a couple weeks off from serious writing, and tried to be good to myself. Granted, I spent some extra time on the day job, but aside from that, I managed pretty well.
So if you'd all care to indulge me, I thought I'd share five things I've been reading/doing/watching/pondering during the little vacation I granted myself (kind of like Tim Ferriss's 5-Bullet Friday emails):
Watching: both of Harlan Coben's Netflix series, The Five and Safe. Calling it research. Loved them both – he is a master.
Reading: My reading time was severely compromised during the past months. I finally got to finish Dennis Lehane's Since We Fell. And I read Marianne Williamson's A Return to Love, a book I'd only read in pieces up until now.
Who I'm following: I'm currently obsessed with the poet Nayyirah Waheed. Her short poems speak volumes.
Quote I've been pondering: By Alan Cohen: "Fear and resistance are the dragons that stand at the door of the temple that contains the jewel you seek. Just keep going."
Where I've been: This isn't super exciting, but I've wanted to go to a Container Store for years – and there's finally one close to me. I made my first trip a couple weeks ago. It lives up to the hype!
That's a little bit of what I've been up to. Thanks for indulging me!
Readers, what are your favorite down time activities?


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Both physical security and cybersecurity must be in place to keep chemical facilities safe from attack
While almost all businesses in today's world are concerned with security — both physical security and cybersecurity — chemical processors likely have a deeper interest, because the industry has been identified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS; Washington, D.C.; www.dhs.gov) as a potential target for terrorism. As a result, chemical processors that are considered high risk according to DHS criteria must adhere to regulations put forth by the department's Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS; see also Chem. Eng., September 2009, pp. 21–23).
According to DHS, the CFATS program identifies and regulates high-risk chemical facilities to ensure that they have security measures in place to reduce the risks associated with certain high-risk chemicals. Initially authorized by Congress in 2007, the program uses a multi-tiered risk assessment process and requires facilities identified as high-risk to meet and maintain performance-based security standards appropriate to the facilities and the risks they pose. On December 18, 2014, the president signed into law the Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014 ("the CFATS Act of 2014"), which reauthorized the CFATS program for four years. It is expected that DHS will continue the program in the future, as well.
"CFATS was initially developed over concerns that an individual or group could breach the perimeter and infiltrate a chemical facility with the intent of damaging storage vessels holding toxic materials, so the first step was to understand, at each of these facilities, where the chemicals were stored and then to create an outer perimeter with security that would prevent a saboteur from getting to these areas," explains Joe Morgan, business development manager of critical infrastructure with Axis Communications (Chelmsford, Mass.; www.axis.com/us/en). "This cultivated the need for physical barriers and detection methods at chemical facilities and brought into the light the fact that chemical processors face larger and more significant threats than some other industries.
"Since then," he continues, "it has been realized that physical security interacts with cybersecurity, because if someone were to hack into a chemical plant's mainframe and gain access to processes via control networks, they could just as easily perform the same type of sabotage. So physical security and cybersecurity are becoming closely intertwined."
Adrian Fielding, global marketing director, integrated protective solutions, with Honeywell Process Solutions (Houston; www.honeywellprocess.com) agrees: "The physical security and cybersecurity relationship is very symbiotic. You need one to protect the other. You need physical security to prevent someone from getting on site and into a server room and causing a cyberattack internally, and you need cybersecurity to prevent someone from hacking into a security system and taking critical systems down."
Therefore, protecting just one or the other is not enough, says Jay Abdallah, global director of cybersecurity solutions at Schneider-Electric (Andover, Mass.; www.schneider-electric.com). "Securing one area is not sufficient, as the weakest area can be penetrated, causing a breach. All areas must be equally secured, using a combination of multiple detective and preventive controls."
Threat vectors
But before a chemical processor can secure the facility, it is important to know the threats from which they require protection.
In the past, most chemical facilities had some sort of physical perimeter, such as fencing, for safety purposes to keep people from entering the property, says Darin Dillon, business development manager, with Convergint Technologies (Schaumburg, Ill.; www.convergint.com). "However, after 9/11 it became recognized that some of the chemicals stored and processed could be stolen, sold on the black market and/or used as dirty bombs elsewhere or that someone could enter a facility and turn valves, releasing toxic or explosive chemicals, endangering employees and surrounding communities. Today, the goal of physical security is to keep the bad apples out of the facility and away from the chemical supply chain," says Dillon.
"Gaining physical access to a chemical process ends the game when it comes to risk, since physical access is meant to be the last line of defense," says Schneider Electric's Abdallah. "The biggest threats from a physical perspective at these facilities are from natural disasters, terrorism and physical damage caused from loss of control (caused by a cyber or other breach). Due to the high degree of risk at chemical processing facilities, security must always be a high priority."
He adds that cyberthreats that affect process control and safety could have a huge impact and must share elevated attention, adding another dimension to plant security.
Seth Carpenter, cybersecurity technologist with Honeywell Process Solutions agrees that loss of safety and process control are the two biggest cyberthreats for chemical processors. "Hackers getting into a system and taking actions that could compromise the safety of the plant, personnel or surrounding communities and gaining access in a way that could negatively impact production and availability of the facility are real issues for today's chemical industry."
The reason these threats exist, says Joshua Newton, security architect and team lead within the Connected Services Organization at Rockwell Automation (Milwaukee, Wis.; www.rockwellautomation.com), is because during the last five to ten years, the manufacturing and process world started to move quickly toward technology enhancements because they offered better analytics and big data and all the related production benefits. "So there was a push to become a connected enterprise," he says. "However, it brought with it an inherent risk of exposure to devices."
Neil Peterson, DeltaV product marketing director, with Emerson Automation Solutions (Round Rock, Tex.; www.emerson.com) agrees: "As we went to widely networked solutions with a lot of open communications and standards, it allowed the operating and financial benefits of communications between control and business systems, but also the stage was set for bad things to happen. It is now very possible for a hacker or cyber terrorist to get into a plant network and create havoc," he warns.
What type of havoc? Malware attacks, which are often introduced via social engineering (for example, corrupt links sent via email) or unwittingly through portable hard drives, gain access and move laterally through a system gaining credentials, elevating privilege to an administrator and then moving about the system installing software and creating denial of service. "This means it is possible — if the right protections aren't in place — for every workstation on a control system to be taken offline, leaving operators blind to the process," explains Peterson. "Not only is this a dangerous situation, but it's a costly one because you are forced to take the system down unless you are willing to run blind, so you're losing production."
And these types of attacks are on the rise for many industries, including energy, critical manufacturing and infrastructure. According to Schneider Electric's Abdallah, in 2015, the transportation industry reported 23 attacks and the water industry reported 25. In 2016, the energy industry reported 59 attacks, while critical manufacturing faced 63. Thus far in 2017, 2,000 food-and-beverage industry companies fell prey to a well-known ransomware attack called Petya.
Clearly attackers are getting more savvy and "those looking for the biggest bang for their effort may consider chemical facilities to be of higher value," says Abdallah (Figure 1).
Attacks such as these are often indirect attacks in that the malware, once introduced, moves around the system on its own. There are also directed attacks where malware or ransomware gets into the system via an attachment or portable hard drive, corrupts a workstation and then "phones home to the attacker," says Peterson. "From that point, the attacker starts issuing commands on the workstation using the user's credentials and begins to pivot and roam around the network to find a target. If that target is the control system, the attacker then attempts to capture the credentials of the engineer responsible for that workstation and can remotely access the control system, making it do whatever he wants."
Physical security solutions
The good news is that most processors are taking steps to protect both the physical and cybersecurity of their facilities. "When it comes to providing physical security, most facilities are already doing a good job of it with fences, cameras and access control, but they should also be trying to stay one step ahead of the bad guys and one of the current areas of focus is in early detection," says Convergint's Dillon. "We want to give them earlier warnings if there's a threat. We can put systems in place that let the bad folks know we see them and encourage them to move along" (Figure 2).
Early detection systems include a variety of cameras and analytics, perimeter intrusion detection, ground-based radar and other technologies that allow security to see potential intruders before they get to the gate, so security has ample time to react when and if they do reach the gate.
"There's a formula that can be used to create an appropriate early detection zone," says Axis's Morgan. "Using the formula, processors determine how many minutes it would take to stop someone from reaching the critical aspect inside the plant and, based on that time, they can figure out how far away, in distance, they need to detect someone approaching the plant." And, at that distance point, they need to install early detection methods. Thermal cameras are one of the newer technologies for early detection, he says, because thermal technology offers improved analytics that examine pixel changes using advanced algorithms. "Thermal imaging has the ability to detect and analyze pixel changes and determine if they have the formality of a human being, and if those cameras are integrated with a video management system, security can be alerted so early action can be initiated," says Morgan (Figure 3).
Integration of such systems, along with the use of mobile devices and apps, is another way processors are hardening the physical security of their facilities, says Bill Lorber, vice president of sales and marketing, with Apollo Security (Newport Beach, Calif.; www.apollo-security.com). "It is very easy to tie access control and video systems together so that security people can see when someone comes in and ensure the card matches the live image. In addition you can integrate systems so that when a door opens or there's motion in an area, live video automatically appears on the security system monitor" (Figure 4).
He continues: "Mobile devices are becoming much more important in this system as well, because you are no longer restricted to a guard sitting in a room with a monitor. The manager of security can also see activities when a group of people comes in or access video associated with events from a remote location via a mobile device using a live web version or app."
This type of integration and automation allows security to evaluate a situation in milliseconds versus having an alarm event followed by several minutes of locating the correct camera for that location, then searching for a binder with instructions on how to respond and react, says Dillon. "Integration and automation provide a faster, more efficient response, which minimizes the cost of security, wasted time and potential for errors."
Shoring up cybersecurity
The first layer in creating a system that's hardened against a cyberattack, says Tony Downes, Global HSE Advisor with Honeywell Process Solutions, is in the system design. "There are things we can incorporate physically at the plant level that make it more difficult for someone to interfere with the process. For instance, because it's a safety issue before it's a security issue, we don't have valves without backup systems, which helps prevent someone from opening a valve and causing a release," he says. "There's things we do for process safety reasons inside the plant design that make it inherently safer and, if those are in place, you can then get into defending the control system, making it even more difficult for a malicious attacker to do a lot of harm."
Some of the simplest methods of thwarting a cyberattack include what Rockwell Automation's Newton calls "basic cyber hygiene," such as keeping operating systems up to date with patches. "Even though cyberattacks seem very sophisticated, under most circumstances, the methods employed are known attack vectors that can be prevented with patches and updates."
Beyond installing patches, control system providers suggest a layered approach to cybersecurity. "Defense in depth is the best approach and not just because we can provide each layer, but because it is the most comprehensive protection. Beyond that, always make sure the cybersecurity you're putting in place is context based. What you're trying to protect is your process, so the first layer of defense is making sure that if your control systems are exposed to external connections, that they are limited, read-only and always monitored," says Alexandre Peixoto, DeltaV cybersecurity marketing manager with Emerson Automation Solutions. He adds that applications should be run on an embedded system, which is harder to compromise. Further, processors should use firewalls, which allow a certain flow of communications to devices, but prevent others that aren't approved. Antivirus software should be employed at workstations to prevent known threats from infecting them. And on top of this, we are starting to see whitelisting applications, which prevent software that has not been approved from running on the system."
However, while all this helps prevent attacks, control system providers say that defense is not enough, so monitoring has become more popular as the threat grows larger. "Cybersecurity is not just about protection," says Peixoto. "Monitoring helps the user detect anomalies by monitoring data across different networks to make sure everything moves the way it should. Control systems tend to work on a predictable schedule, so when you see an anomaly, it is easy to detect."
But, because chemical processors often prefer to focus on making chemicals, not defending against cyberattacks, some control system vendors are offering managed services. "They can hire people to help out with anything from assessing their systems and determining where they stand in the defense against cyber attack and what steps they still need to take, as well as recommending and installing necessary technologies and then keeping up with patches and updates for them," says Honeywell's Carpenter (Figure 5).
And, there's certainly no shame in taking help from experienced security professionals as there is a lot to keep up with in an effort to keep facilities properly locked down and safe from harm. "What's most important is taking the steps to protect against all forms of attack because chemical facilities are attractive to potential terrorists," says Honeywell's Downes.


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I'm over at So Suzy Stamps today designing this card. I created it with some amazing Rose Gold Embossing Powder from The Ton Stamps and the Fancy Butterfly and Birthday Wishes Stamp from So Suzy Stamps. As usual I have a video explaining the process. This is quite a quick and easy card depending on how fast you work with a craft knife.


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phrasal verb
: to get ready for a fight
: to start to deal with something in a brave and determined way
For millennia, the humble square has been one of the most common geometric shapes, used to represent order and rationality. It can seem boring and predictable with its right-angled corners and equal sides, making it familiar and stable. But squares can give us so much more.
Squares provide a strong foundation which form building blocks for a community. They give us balance and equality which guide us to fairness and honesty. Squares enclose us in a safe place, giving us security. Above all, squares help us build a blanket for a child who would otherwise have none.
Square up with Knit-a-square so we can fight for the cold and forgotten, and provide warmth, comfort and, most of all, the knowledge that a child is beloved.
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On June 10, 2016, Nintendo Co., Ltd. filed in the US via the United States Patent and Trademark Office several patent applications related to Nintendo Switch. They were published today December 15, 2016. The applications are quite similar in content.
Nintendo Switch patent is now public
You can look at the detailed patent at NeoGAF. The Nintendo Switch just keeps getting better and better. We were completely hooked from the start, but now they have touchscreen, motion sensors, VR support, and additional Joy-Cons. The only thing we can see a need for anymore is a battery case or something similar. Although the USB-C is basically confirmed so we can just get a bank).
A lot of people think the headset piece acts similar to the docking station. However, this would only be possible if the headset is tethered to a power outlet or has an internal battery. If so, it could do what laptops do when plugged in and in "High-performance mode". This allows it to boost gpu clock, volts/energy use, same for cpu and ram use on it too. They could possibly add to the fps and give more raw GPU power to upscale from 720p to 1080 or 1440.
Reminder that for the docking station to boost the Switch's performance, the fan inside the system needs to turn on. If the Switch is right in front of your face, the fan would be a bit loud.
On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with trying VR at the moment if you can try preferably the HTC Vive. It does have its downside of cables but a few companies are making backpack PCs that mostly fix that issue. It's worth a try. You won't be disappointed, but you might not necessarily walk away wanting one as VR currently is. But get a good idea of where VR games are heading.


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It is Time to Learn New Ways* to Design & Build
and Stop doing what gets in the way!
* The new 590 page 2020 DFM book has 814 topic section
by Dr. David M. Anderson, P.E.,
fASME, CMC
Build-to-Order Consulting
Cost Reduction Strategy (home page) Seminars Consulting Credentials Client List Articles Books Site Map
Excerpts from the Book: Build-to-Order & Mass
Copyright © 2017 by David M. Anderson
There are many opportunities to reduce total cost in supply chains, which are responsible for many unnecessary overhead costs to generate forecasts, count inventory on-hand, generate purchase order inputs through MRP (Material Requirement Planning) systems, place purchase orders, wait for parts to arrive, expedite those that are late, receive (and maybe inspect) materials, warehouse, group into kits for scheduled production, and distribute within the plant. These costly and time-consuming steps can be avoided with a spontaneous supply chain, which is able to pull in materials and parts on-demand.
The concepts presented herein are labeled as the resupply of parts and
materials as opposed to procurement or purchasing. This is to emphasize that
most of supply chain management is a resupply function of parts and
materials that have been procured before. Therefore, the role of
procurement/purchasing departments will change.
In a build-to-forecast batch environment (mass production), Purchasing's role was to order parts based on forecasts and MRP data and then expedite part shortages due to forecasts being off, bill-of-material errors, inventory count errors, and late deliveries. For spontaneouls supply chains, Purchasing's new role will be to:
$Encourage and maybe drive standardization of parts and raw materials for current products and help new product development teams design around aggressively standardized parts and materials.
$Identify standard raw materials and parts available from multiple sources; arrange breadtruck replenishment.
$Arrange steady flows of standard parts and raw materials; nurture supplier/partner relationships with the focus on delivery.
$Establish kanbans and pull signal arrangement with suppliers.
Most of the spontaneous part and material resupply will be automatic or
manually triggered by production personnel, not by MRP and purchasing.
For the 25 finalists in Industry Week's annual Best Plants rating, 55.6% have implemented pull systems compared to the average of 18.6% for all 2,511 manufacturers surveyed.1 The best plants used pull systems three times more than the average plant.
There are two aspects of the spontaneous supply chain: raw material resupply and part resupply.
Identify the most common and least common parts by sorting usage in Pareto format. Standardize on the most common materials, even if they are a higher grade or tolerance; the total cost savings in material overhead and purchasing leverage should compensate for any perceived cost increase. New products should be designed around these standard materials. Existing designs could be converted for any "better than" substitutions. Unusual and seldom-used materials should be discouraged in product development and phased out after conversion on existing products.
For very flexible environments like lean, build-to-order, and mass
customization, the standardization should be very aggressive.
Too many types of raw materials can thwart spontaneity and present
manufacturers with the dilemma of stocking all types of materials or ordering
them and waiting for delivery. The effective procedures presented in the
Standardization article should be used to aggressively standardize raw
materials. Standardization reduces the incoming variety which helps enable the
spontaneous supply chain. Purchasing leverage and other material overhead
savings compensate for any cut-off waste and for some products getting "better"
material than they need. Standardization can also protect a manufacturer from
shortages, which are more likely to occur if production depends on many unusual
Raw materials could be automatically resupplied using the following techniques (in order if increasing variety):
Steady Flow of Standard Raw Materials. The ultimate scenario for spontaneous resupply is to reduce the number of raw material types within each category to one, in which case steady flows can be arranged for each standard raw material. Ideally, there should only be only one type of each material. Then forecasting multiple types would be unnecessary and "ordering" would be as simple as matching the tonnage in to the tonnage out; in other words, the incoming flow of the standard raw materials would be equal to the monthly consumption of the plant. These will be used one way or another. Multiple types of materials in each category would allow the same spontaneity if the ratio is constant or predictable and usage is segregated (if not, material changeover would have to be quick and hopefully automatic).
Material Cut-to-Length/Shape. Raw materials can be cut to-length or
to-shape on-demand from the longest version or standard sizes by programmable
CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) equipment, such as laser cutters and screw
machines. For example sheet metal can be cut-to-shape on-demand by the
"source cell" shown below:
If the sheet metal can be standardized to predominantly one type for the factory, then sheet can be ordered on a coil, at much less material expense, and fed from a coil dispenser and straightener. The leading edge of the coil would then be programmably positioned in the CNC shear to cut any size sheet in any quantity on-demand (a) for subsequent processing in nearby machine tools, like the laser/plasma cutters shown or (b) as a kanban source for all users of that sheet in the plant. Note that after the first cut, the sheet can be rotated for second cut made in the open space shown in the foreground of the same shear, either automatically or manually positioned against a programmable stop, with appropriate safety assurance with sheet grippers and two-handed switches.
Benefits of Sheet Metal Source Cell:
• Flexibility advantage of having sheet metal cut on-demand without setup delays or costs
• High utilization potential of all equipment in cell and receiving equipment
• Cell can be a kanban source between on-demand tasks
• Raw material savings when:
• buying from larger suppliers or directly from the mill
• getting quantity discounts
• bypassing intermediaries suppliers
• avoiding sheet cutting charges, which is part of the cost of all cut sheets.
more efficient nesting when patterns are only constrained by width
• less waste from inefficient use of 4' by 8' sheets
• avoiding damage to storing/handing partial sheet remnants
• not needing to store, retrieve, and set up partial sheet remnants or discarding them
• avoiding chance of loading the wrong partial sheet if identifying marks are missing from a remnant
• unlimited long lengths possible
• variable sheet length gives the ability to keep a one-piece flow of sheet sets (for each product), rather than trying to fill up a 4' x 8' sheet by nesting many parts from several products, which is more only suitable for mass production batches.
The result is on-demand shearing of low-cost sheet that is always available.
Such sheets can travel in one-piece flow to flexible fabrication cells
or kanbans or to any other users BTO or MC users
Linear Cut-Off. Raw material variety can be greatly reduced by cutting off linear materials on-demand at the points of use or as kanban parts resupplied automatically to all the points of use. Linear materials include all forms of bar stock, extrusions, strips, tubing, hose, wire, rope, cable, chain, and so forth.
Min/Max Stacks. In the "min/max" technique, often used for raw material like sheet metal, material is consumed until the stack reaches the "min" (minimum) level, usually marked on the rack or wall. This triggers a reorder of the material to bring it up the "max" (maximum) level without the usual purchasing costs. Price and delivery arrangements, based on average usage data, could be negotiated on a long term basis for greater purchasing leverage. This can be done by single axis programmable cut-off machines, or from less automated tools directed by on-line instructions displayed on monitors]
Kanban. For raw materials that come in bins rather than stacks, the kanban resupply technique could be utilized. It may be that the source is one of the cut-off operations mentioned above (for more on kanban, see the illustrated discussion below).
Strategic Stockpiles. Until the above techniques can be implemented, it may be necessary to have strategic stockpiles of certain materials. The manufacturer could use selective stockpiles to temporarily compensate for any parts or materials that cannot be "pulled" or for temporary availability problems on standard materials. Stockpile ordering would have to be based on some kind of forecasts, but if the material was standardized, then the forecast would be easier to make for the aggregated demand for all consumption.
Order Material After Receipt of Product Order. Spontaneous resupply
may not be feasible for unusual or seldom-used raw materials, especially on any
products with inherently high diversity of materials. If material order times
are less than build times, these materials could be ordered after receipt of the
product order.
The typical response when suppliers are asked to deliver parts just-in-time
to their customers' pull signals is to keep building the parts in large batches,
try to stock enough in their finished goods inventory, and meter them out
"on-demand." A special-case variation of this approach is the Dell model where
suppliers warehouse their parts next to the assembler's factories. Not many
assemblers are big enough and powerful enough to force their suppliers into such
an arrangement.
However, this is not really a pull-based supply chain. Parts availability would depend on assemblers' forecasts, which are becoming increasingly less accurate, and the supplier's inventory, which is costly to carry and prone to obsolescence.
Part resupply strategy depends on the variety of the parts. At one end of the spectrum, very standard parts that are used in almost all products could arrive in a steady flow like standard raw materials.
At the other end of the spectrum, parts with high variety would be built on-demand using the techniques presented herein including flexible CNC fabrication and manual equivalents.
In between, there are several other strategies such as kanban for somewhat standardized, medium-variety parts and breadtruck resupply for small, low-cost commodity parts such as fasteners. Inflexible parts, such as casting and plastic parts, can be consolidated into versatile parts that can be used in many products. Parts could be automatically resupplied by the following techniques (listed in order, with the easiest first):
Steady Flow of Parts. As with standard materials, steady flows could be arranged for very standard parts, which would be used one way or another. The criteria for steady flow of parts would be standardization and widespread use.
Breadtruck Resupply. The easiest and "lowest hanging fruit" in
material logistics is the breadtruck (sometimes called "free stock")
delivery system for small, inexpensive parts, like fasteners. Instead of
counting on forecasts to trigger an MRP system to generate purchase orders, all
the "jellybean" parts can be made available in bins at all the points of
use. A local supplier is contracted to simply keep the bins full and bill the
company monthly for what has been used, much like the way bread is resupplied by
the breadtruck to a market.
All the MRP/purchasing expense is eliminated and this type of delivery can assure a constant supply of parts, thus avoiding work stoppages. Being off the forecast/MRP system, the supply of these parts can be assured for "forecast-less" operations such as build-to-order and mass customization. Typical parts suitable for breadtruck deliveries are fasteners, hardware, and almost any small, inexpensive part.
As companies become more agile, they may include slightly more expensive and slightly larger parts into the breadtruck system. The more expensive parts may incur some inventory carrying cost, but that should be outweighed by savings in purchasing, material overhead, expediting, and avoiding work stoppages. The criteria for breadtruck deliveries would be:
$A reliable supplier can be contracted. Many suppliers welcome such business and want to perform well, since they usually get all the business for their categories of parts and raw materials.
$Parts can be distributed at all points of use, without cluttering assembly areas with too many parts. Of course, part standardization will help achieve this goal.
$Parts are small enough and cheap enough so that sufficient parts will always be on hand. Bin count can be set high enough to preclude any chance of running out.
$Parts are not likely to go obsolete or deteriorate while waiting to be used.
$The breadtruck parts are not so "attractive" as to create a significant pilferage problem, since, generally, companies do not correlate part consumption with product sales. However, making breadtruck parts freely available for R&D prototypes and factory improvements may encourage innovation and the use of standard parts.
$Manual reorders are not anticipated to occur. The supplier should be in a continuous improvement mode and be constantly adjusting bin count to correspond to prevailing demand. The factory should alert the supplier about any anticipated "spikes" in demand.
Kanban Resupply. In kanban resupply, parts with limited
variety are made, maybe in batches, and resupplied automatically to replenish
parts bins based on part consumption. This is one of the many pull systems
used to "pull" parts into assembly operations.2 The resupply is
automatic once the pull signal gets to the supplier. There are many simple ways
to do this without complex information systems such as MRP or ERP. Thus, kanban
resupply avoids the uncertainly of forecasting, the cost of purchasing, and the
cost and risks of inventory.
Kanban works best for semi-standard parts without too much variety, which would increase work-in-process (WIP) inventory and clutter assembly stations with too many part bins. Kanban parts can be made in mass-produced batches, thus reaping the benefits of economies of scale. Part manufacturers may have to implement setup and batch size reduction to be able to economically make batches small enough for kanban deliveries.
The principles of kanban can be best explained using the two-bin system as illustrated below, which shows two rows of part bins which are set up for resupply. Initial assembly starts with all bins full of parts.
When the part bin nearest the worker is depleted, the full bin behind moves forward, as shown by the empty space in the illustration. The empty part bin then is returned to its "source," which could be the machine that made the part, a subassembly workstation that assembled the part, or a supplier. The source fills the bin and returns it to this assembly workstation behind its counterpart which is still dispensing parts.
The beauty of Kanban resupply is that the system ensures an uninterrupted
supply of parts without forecasts or high-overhead-cost ordering procedures.
The number of parts in a bin is based on the highest expected usage rate and
the longest resupply time. The size of each bin is determined by the bin
quantity and size of the parts. For large parts, some companies use two-truck
kanbans, in which parts are drawn from one truck trailer while the other trailer
goes back to the supplier for more parts. Alternate systems include kanban
squares for larger parts and a two-card system where the cards travel (or are
faxed) back to the source instead of the bins. Electronic equivalents can also
be utilized.
In order for Kanban systems to work, there must be enough room to dispense all parts at all the points of use. This, again, emphasis the importance of part standardization.
Yasuhiro Monden, in an updated version of his classic Toyota Production System,3 states that "the kanban system's most remarkable feature [is] its adaptability to sudden demand changes or exigencies [urgencies] of production." This is exactly what is needed for build-to-order environments, which are based on demand, not on planned production schedules.
Spontaneous Build-to-Order of Parts. For parts that are too varied for kanban, the assembler or the suppliers themselves would need to implement spontaneous build-to-order so that they could actually build on-demand to their customers' (the assemblers') pull signals. This is the only way to supply mass-customized parts on-demand for mass-customized products. Parts can be made on-demand in-house or by nearby agile suppliers.
It may appear that spontaneous build-to-order of parts may cost more than mass production, but in reality, a complete BTO operation is very cost-effective when measured on a total cost basis.
Parts Made On-Demand by Suppliers. Hopefully, it may be possible to find suppliers who can implement these techniques to make your parts on-demand in response to your pull signals. Pull signals need to be initiated early enough and response time needs to be quick enough so that parts arrive without causing assembly delays.
Spontaneous build-to-order of parts may require the development of supplier/partner relationships in which suppliers establish the ability to build parts in any quantity on-demand. The distance to the supplier must not be so great so that part delivery delays product delivery.
Be wary of suppliers that are "pulling" parts from inventory because of the risk of not having enough (which they may blame on your inadequate forecasts) and higher than necessary cost for inventory carrying costs.
Parts Made On-Demand In-House. In order for spontaneous build-to-order to work, all parts must be available on-demand. If there are any key parts that are not suitable for kanban and no supplier can build them and ship them quickly enough to your pull signal, then you might have to bring those operations in-house, as discussed in the article on outsourcing and vertical integration.
Flexible Processing. Regardless of the sources of parts, spontaneous part manufacturing operations must be able to make parts on-demand efficiently in a batch-size-of-one mode without setup or inventory. CNC programmable machine tools and flexible assembly can produce a high variety of parts without setup costs and delays from standard raw materials. Similarly, manual assembly can be made flexible, as shown in the mass customization article. This may require concurrent engineering of product families, parts, and processing to eliminate all setup changes, as discussed in the article on designing products for lean production and BTO.
Strategic Stockpiles. Until the above techniques can be implemented, it may be necessary to have strategic stockpiles of certain parts. The assembler could use selective stockpiles to temporarily compensate for any aspect of the supply chain that cannot be pulled or for temporary availability problems on standard parts.
Order Parts After Receipt of Product Order. Spontaneous resupply may not be feasible for unusual or seldom-used parts, especially on capital equipment with an inherently high diversity of parts. If parts order times are less than build times, these parts could be ordered after receipt of the product order.
Dock-to-Receiving-to-IQC-to-Warehouse-To-Kitting. In most plants incoming
parts a slow and expensive procedure starts in the receiving department (where
they are logged in), then to the incoming quality control (IQC) department
(where they are inspected), then to the raw material warehouse (where they are
inventoried), and then the kitting department (where they are counted and
grouped into batches).
Dock-to-Line Deliveries. To be truly agile, incoming parts and materials must flow directly to the all points of use without all the steps listed above; this is called dock-to-line delivery. This is sometimes referred to using the more common, but less accurate phrase, dock-to-stock, which technically means parts go to some kind of internal warehouse, hopefully without incoming inspection, before being distributed to the line.
Dock-to-line may be more easy to implement after implementing part and material standardization, product line rationalization, breadtruck deliveries, and kanban resupply of appropriate parts. Freeing up floor space by inventory reduction efforts will make room for internal distribution at all points of use. Lean environments require much less raw materials inventory than batch oriented operations, so there will still be a net reduction in floor space requirements after implementing lean production. In addition, part warehouse space may now be more available.
In order for dock-to-line to work, quality must be assured at the source by suppliers whose processes are so in control that their customers (the assemblers) do not need to inspect incoming parts. Further supply chain cost could be saved if the suppliers' systems we so in control that the suppliers did not have to inspect them either.
Dock-to-stock deliveries can be either triggered by purchase orders that come from MRP systems or hopefully automatic pull signals like kanban. Dock-to-line deliveries can be an essential part of a lean production program or may be instituted primarily to save cost and improve throughput. Industry Week's "Best Plant" survey of the 25 top performing candidates indicated that 68% of suppliers deliver parts to the point of use in the plant.4
The Problems with Incoming Inspections. The big paradigm shift required for dock-to-line deliveries is the elimination of incoming inspections of parts and raw materials. Incoming inspections are impractical for two reasons: time and cost. Just-in-Time deliveries, as the name suggests, should be just in time. Having to go through incoming inspections, usually at central receiving stations, would cause too many delays for a fast-moving lean environment. JIT deliveries may be smaller and occur more often than the traditional large order that is delivered infrequently. Consequently, inspecting many small orders would be very inefficient and costly because of the inspection setup which include finding getting up to speed on quality standards and procedures, setting up and calibrating test and inspection equipment, and dealing with problems via MRB (Material Review Boards).
Eliminating Incoming Inspections. But incoming inspections cannot simply be eliminated without some way of assuring that the incoming parts and raw materials will have adequate quality. If a manufacturer simply dictates new standards for incoming part quality from suppliers, the suppliers may respond by shifting inspection from the manufacturer's receiving to the end of the suppliers operations. This may screen out bad parts but at too great a cost in money and agility. In addition, when companies try to achieve quality by rejecting out-of-spec parts from a "wide" bell curve, the result is that the parts that do pass will have a high proportion close to the "hairy edge" of not working, which may cause more worst case failures.5
Suppliers, internal and external, need to adopt the Six-Sigma philosophy of assuring quality at the source. If part manufacturing and raw material processing is sufficiently in control, quality will be assured by the process, not by subsequent inspections. Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a proven tool for assuring quality by process controls.6 Even though SPC is firmly founded on statistical principles, its implementation does not require the proverbial Ph.D. in statistics. Control charts, available from the American Society of Quality (ASQ), have the statistics built into the charts so that factory workers can use them by literally filling in the blanks and performing some simple arithmetic computations.
Certification. Suppliers that can prove that their processes are in control and, thus, can deliver good parts directly to the line are certified by the manufacturer. Similar certifications may also be applicable for raw material suppliers to allow them to ship metals, plastics, and chemicals directly to the points of use without incoming inspections.
ENDNOTES/REFERENCES (See below)
New Article on Strategy: http://www.design4manufacturability.com/strategy.htm
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Cost Reduction Strategy (home page) Seminars Consulting Credentials Client List Articles Books Site Map
1. David Drickhamer, "Aim High; How Industry Week's Best Plants Measure Up,"
Industry Week, October 2002, pp. 67-70. This article is available online at
2. Yasuhiro Monden, Toyota Production System, An Integrated Approach to Just-in-Time, Second Edition (1993, Industrial Engineering and Management Press, IIE), Ch. 2, "Adaptable Kanban System Maintains JIT Production," and Ch. 3, "Supplier Kanban and the Sequence Schedule Used by Suppliers."
3. Monden, Toyota Production System, p. 27.
4. Industry Week, The Complete Guide to America's Best Plants, (1995, Penton Publishing).
5. David M. Anderson, Design for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering; How to Design for Low Cost, Design in High Quality, Design for Lean Manufacture, and Design Quickly for Fast Production, (2010, CIM Press, 456 pages; 805-924-0200), Chapter 10, "Design for Quality."
6. Robert Amsden, Howard Butler, and Davida Amsden, SPC Simplified, (1989, Quality Resources, New York, NY).


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Colorado Hospital Association Response to State's Public Option Proposal
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, COLO. – Oct. 7, 2019 – Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) issued this statement in response to the release of the state's proposal for a new health insurance public option:
"After initial review, Colorado Hospital Association has concerns with the state's draft report on public option. While CHA and its member hospitals and health systems supported House Bill 19-1004 during the legislative session and the legislators that brought the idea forward, and we appreciate the work by the Polis Administration to develop this plan, there are several components that give us cause for concern," said Chris Tholen, CHA executive vice president.
"In the public stakeholder process, CHA and its members shared that any public option plan should:
- Focus on Colorado's remaining uninsured;
- Protect consumer choice to competitive insurance markets; and
- Safeguard access to high-quality care through sufficient payments for providers and hospitals.
"Most importantly, by opening this public option to all Coloradans, there is the potential to significantly damage the health insurance market in our state. The way the plan is drafted, patients could choose to leave their current coverage to choose the public option, which could destabilize the current health insurance market. The Association is also skeptical about what appears to be the first step toward price control or rate setting as well as an intent to make provider participation mandatory. These factors, when combined with the potential to dismantle the private insurance market are cause for concern.
"Colorado hospitals fully recognize that there is much work that needs to be done to address health care affordability. But embarking on a path that adds further uncertainty by destabilizing Colorado's insurance market, on top of instituting government price controls, will likely cause consequences on the state's health care system beyond what is intended.
"We commend the Polis Administration on its hard work and will fully analyze the proposal to see how well it reflects the intent of HB 19-1004 and the above criteria. We look forward to further engaging with the Administration to ensure that this solution will further affordability, coverage and access in our state."
About the Colorado Hospital Association
Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) is the leading voice of Colorado's hospital and health system community. Representing more than 100 hospitals and health systems throughout the state, CHA serves as a trusted, credible and reliable resource on health issues, hospital data and trends for its members, media, policymakers and the general public. Through CHA, Colorado's hospitals and health systems work together in their shared commitment to improve health and health care in Colorado. Learn more at www.cha.com.
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Jet Harris And Tony Meehan
|Jet Harris and Tony Meehan began playing together as members of the Shadows backing Cliff Richard. Despite the success of the group in its own right, both of them decided to quit. Meehan had left the group at the end of 1961 with plans to take up a job in A&R with the Decca record company. Harris stayed with the group until 1962 deciding that he could probably do better for himself on his own. He was already a well known and popular artist, particularly with the female members of the Shadows audiences and Duane Eddy had shown the potential rewards for a 'solo' guitarist. This was a very risky decision as Jet found playing his own 'lead' quite different to playing bass guitar with the group.
The EP shown on the right (DFE8528) is the only one you are likely to come across that is attributed to both artists. Another does exist- "Diamonds", but is very rare in the UK. "Jet & Tony" is hard enough to find and contains both sides of their two biggest hits together.
Jet's first two solo singles both made the chart, but he decided to forge a link with the former Shadows drummer who encouraged by Harris's success agreed to a partnership. Their first single release; 'Diamonds' went all the way to the #1 spot and things looked to be going all their way. Two more major hits followed, but disaster struck in the form of a car crash in which Harris was injured. With his partner unable to play, Meehan continued with the 'Tony Meehan Combo' and even achieved a minor hit in that guise before finally moving off into his A&R role.
Jet Harris later returned to playing, but by this time the musical scene had changed and the accent was on the new vocal groups rather than instrumentals. He would never regain the momentum needed to reach the charts again. There were rumours for years that he might again rejoin the Shadows. However, it was never to be and Harris still remains a well loved solo performer on the 60s nostalgia circuit.
Sadly, following an accident at his London home, Tony Meehan died on November 28th 2005.
|Jet Harris
|Decca F11466
|Besame Mucho/ Chills And Fever
|Decca F11488
|Main Title Theme (The Man With The Golden Arm)/ Some People
|Decca F11841
|Big Bad Bass/ Rifka
|Fontana TF849
|My Lady/ you Don't Live Twice
|Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
|Decca F11563
|Diamonds/ Footstomp
|Decca F11644
|Scarlett O'Hara/ (Doing The) Hully Gully
|Decca F11710
|Applejack/ The Tall Texan
|Tony Meehan Combo
|Decca F11801
|Song Of Mexico/ Kings Go Fifth
|Jet Harris
|Decca DFE8502
|"Jet Harris"
|Besame Mucho/Rave/Some People/Real Wild Child
|Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
|Decca DFE8528
|"Jet And Tony"
|Scarlett O'Hara/Doing The Hully Gully/Diamonds/Footstomp
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Pastor's son kills mum in church
The man, identified as Abraham Ovie, accused his mother of hindering his prosperity and has allegedly quarrelled with her many times in the past.
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The Edo Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), Ogboi, said Ovie is presently in custody assisting the police to solve the mystery behind the act.
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- 7.5 x 38 Crux du Connoisseur #3
For this review, I sampled the Crux du Connoisseur # 2 provided to me by Crux Cigars at this years IPCPR in New Orleans. The Crux du Connoisseur # 2 falls in the category of a Lonsdale vitola which are becoming more prevalent in the market place this year. This style of cigar is one the harder ones to roll since it is a narrow ring gauge and has limited amount of filler and binder to produce the flavor profile and to get the burn right. I can honestly say this cigar is one of the best Lonsdales I have smoked as you will read.
The Crux press release on the Crux du Connoisseur describes it:
The Crux du Connoisseur features a Habano wrapper from the Jalapa region of Nicaragua, as well as a Nicaraguan binder and filler made up of tobacco from Honduras. As with all Crux cigars so far, the Crux du Connoisseur will be produced at Plasencia Cigars S.A. in Esteli, Nicaragua, and will be a regularly available release.
Examining the Crux du Connoisseur the first observation you make is the beautiful oily Habano wrapper that has a consistent pre-light sheen to it and a waxy feeling to the touch. The barrel of the cigar has a sweet fermented tobacco aroma. It is adorned with a simple yet elegant band, gold and white with the Crux logo printed sideways in white on a gold background with embossed scrolls The phrase Du Connoisseur is printed in gold on a white background at the bottom. Turning the cigar around the back of the band has the Crux Cross printed on it.
I clipped the cap with a double blade cutter and gave it a few dry draw puffs It was slightly restricted but once fired up the Crux du Connoisseur opened right up and delivered a decent volume of spicy and peppery smoke. The pepper lasted a short while and then a woody and nut flavor filled the palate. As it progressed past the one inch mark, the perfectly formed salt and pepper ash rested on a thin burn line and coffee notes began to enter the mix.
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I had to take the final photo before the last ash fell but I smoked this down to the final leaf fragment as it was just to good to put down.
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Though I only paired this with a dose of Keith Richards, I would suggest enjoying this with a nice Highland Malt Scotch or aged sipping Rum.
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GWCT Dinner & Auction 2013
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The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust Scottish Auction was held on Thursday 9th May at Prestonfield in Edinburgh. This annual fund raiser was sold out this year with over 440 guests attending. This is a clear sign of the support for the critical work undertaken by the Trust here in Scotland. The results of the Trusts work provide the science required to influence legislation on rural issues such as conservation and sustainability of Scotland\'s wildlife reserves.
The evening was sponsored by Pentland Landrover (the reception) Saffrey Champness (the dinner) and Artemis Fund Management (the bidding system). Again Highland Game donated the venison for the dinner.
The Chairman, Lord Sinclair commented:
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"My thanks once again go to Highland Game who, for the third time, donated the Venison for the annual Game and Wildlife Conservation Trusts' fundraising event at Prestonfield. I thought it would be difficult to improve on the quality of meat they have donated in the past, but once again it was outstanding and without exception the guests have singled out the venison in their praise of the evening. This, combined with the excellence of the chef at Prestonfield, made this years event one to remember. On behalf of the organising committee I thank Highland Game for their continued support."