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Controlling electrohydraulic servo systems has always been just a little more challenging than controlling electromechanical servomotor systems. The main reason is that electrohydraulic systems use compressible oil to move the actuator. A hydraulic system can be thought of as a mass between two springs where the piston and the load is the mass, and the oil on both sides of the piston represents the two springs. Servomotor systems are simpler because, for the most part, only the inertia of the motor and the connected load must be considered.
Enough differences exist between the two types of systems that what is good for controlling one is not going to be optimal for the other. Servomotor systems can be controlled very well with PID control loop gains plus velocity and acceleration feed-forward gains. This control method has often been used to control servohydraulic systems, too, but a simple PID plus feed forwards cannot always control a hydraulic system optimally.
Achieving design goals
For optimal design of a hydraulic system, the fastest response to disturbances and errors should be applied. However, to achieve this goal, you must either increase the damping factor or increase the natural frequency of the system. Adding friction will increase the damping factor. Another way to provide damping is to add a small orifice between the A and B ports of the valve. Unfortunately, both of these methods waste energy.
Increasing the diameter of the cylinder can increase its natural frequency, but that increases cost because a larger cylinder, valve, accumulator, and pump will be required. It is less expensive and more effective to use electronics to get around the limitations. To do this, the PID may be extended to include a second derivative gain, but hurdles must be overcome before a second derivative gain can be used.
Another enhancement is to use an electronic motion controller that can add a jerk feed-forward term to the control loop. Jerk is the derivative (rate of change) of acceleration. Feed forwards are estimates of what the control output should be to the valve to achieve a target velocity, acceleration, and jerk.
If the model for the actuator is known exactly, and no disturbances occur, then, theoretically, you could control a servohydraulic actuator perfectly without using closed-loop control. It should be obvious that the valve should be opened up proportionately to the target velocity, and a velocity feed forward can do that. Why wait for the PID to respond to an error?
The acceleration and jerk feed forwards work on the same principle, but take into account how the oil compresses as it applies force to the load. In practice, the model for the actuator is not known exactly and it isn't perfectly linear, so closed loop control is still required. When set correctly, the feed forwards can estimate the control output usually to within 5% of the required control signal. Then, the PID needs only to provide a small correction to the control signal due to non-linearities and changes in load.
Challenges of second order control
Adding a second derivative gain and jerk feed forward requires solving three major problems:
First, a high order motion profile generator must be designed that can generate smooth changes in position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk. The velocity, acceleration and jerk should be smooth to ensure that the control output generated using the feed forward gains is smooth.
Second, using the derivative gain requires estimating an accurate and smooth velocity. Using the second derivative gain is more challenging because it requires estimating an accurate and smooth acceleration.
Third, how do you tune the jerk feed forward and the second derivative gain? Trial and error is time consuming, so auto tuning must be used.
Two main advantages result from using high order motion target generators. The first is that a physical system cannot possibly follow a linear ramp. This is because following a ramp would require instantaneous changes in acceleration, which, likewise, would require instantaneous changes in force, pressure and flow. The second advantage of using higher-order target generators is that velocity, acceleration, and jerk will vary smoothly from point to point, enabling a smooth control output to be generated.
Estimating velocity and acceleration
The purpose of estimating velocity and acceleration is so that the first and second derivative gains can be used to provide damping for the mass between two springs. The damping allows the actuator to follow the motion profile without overshooting the target velocity and position. The first and second derivatives add electronic damping, which is more efficient than adding friction to increase damping.
Accurately estimating the velocity and acceleration is critical to using the derivative gains. Many people who have tuned PIDs have avoided using the derivative gains because they amplify "noise" and make the control output look noisy.
The simple way of calculating velocity requires knowing the position at two different times and dividing distance by time. This works well if the positions and times are precisely known. Calculating the acceleration usually is done by measuring the speed at two different times, calculating the difference between the two speeds, and dividing the difference by the time.
This seems easy enough, but in practice, it is difficult — in part, due to sensors and loop times. For instance, if the feedback device provides only 0.001 in. resolution and the sample times are at one msec intervals, the resolution of the speed calculation is only 1 in./sec. This is a shortcoming because ramping up or down the target velocity will smoothly ramp through speeds that are not even multiples of 1 in./sec. The measured speed will not match the actual speed most of the time, so the measured speed will be too fast or too slow. And when this error is multiplied by the derivative gain, the error will make the control output look noisy. In reality, the error is not noise but quantizing error — the rounding error caused by variation in the number and values of samples taken in the sampling period.
Calculating the acceleration is even more error prone because if the velocity's resolution is only 1 in./sec, then over a 1 msec time period the acceleration will have a resolution of 1000 in./sec2, which is not usable at all. In practice, most hydraulic systems usually ramp up and down a rates closer to 100 in./sec2. Clearly, a better way must be found to estimate the velocity and acceleration to make them usable for calculating feed forwards.
A sensible solution
The answer to this problem is to use a model to estimate the velocity and acceleration as a function of the control output. The model is simply a set of equations that use floating point numbers having practically infinite resolution compared to a real feedback device. This eliminates the quantizing error, but the model had better be fairly accurate. To keep the model from going astray, the measured feedback is used to correct the model. Now, the derivative gain can be multiplied by the error between the target and estimated velocity. Similarly, the second derivative gain can be multiplied by the error between the target and the estimated acceleration. Doing so will make the output smoother.
Part Two
Figures 1 and 2 contain two graphs showing how one can use the measured velocity and the control output to generate a first and second order model respectively. The measured or feedback velocity in red is calculated using a simple method. The resolution of the feedback device is 0.001 inches but the velocity is calculated over a time span of two milliseconds, so the resolution of the feedback velocity is 0.5 inches per second. One can see that the estimated velocity is much smoother because it is generated by the model, but the feedback velocity from a first-order model doesn't follow the changes in the actual model that well. On the other hand, the estimated velocity for the second order model follows the feedback velocity much more closely than the first order model, and best represents how the actual system is moving. This indicates that the system is a second order system, behaving like a mass between two springs.
So where does the model that is used to estimate the velocity and acceleration come from?
Auto Tuning
Auto tuning is a feature that is supported by some electronic motion control systems and is necessary when using advanced features such as the second derivative gain and the jerk feed forward because few hydraulic control system designers have any experience at tuning them manually. The two parameters can be determined roughly by trial and error but having a method of determining the gain, damping factor and natural frequency quickly is important to reduce startup time and shorten the time it may take to retune a system as the mechanics change.
Auto Tuning
VCCM Equation:
Fl is the load force that must be overcome,
Natural Frequency:
β is the bulk modulus of oil,
A is the surface area of the piston,
V is the volume of the cylinder, and
m is the mass of the load
Auto tuning is a way of estimating the model of the actuator and load using the control output to the actuator and the position and velocity response as in the two graphs above. Models can be very complex but usually one can achieve 95% of the benefit with 5% of the effort if the model is kept relatively simple. A hydraulic actuator and load can be modeled simply as a mass between two springs so the model consists of a gain, damping factor and natural frequency. It is possible to estimate the gain and natural frequency at design time using the VCCM equation (See sidebar) and the formula for natural frequency (See sidebar). The damping factor is a little more difficult to estimate, but a typical damping factor is in the range of 0.3 to 0.4. Even a rough estimate of the damping factor can allow the person doing the motion control to enter these parameters into the motion controller's built-in simulator so that he or she can get started before the machinery is built. Once in the field the controls person can do an auto tune to find the actual gain, damping factor and natural frequency.
Auto tuning isn't totally automatic. There is a procedure where the actuator must be moved in a specific way, usually via open loop control. The relationship between the control output and the position or velocity data is estimated by trying a value for each of the three parameters (gain, damping factor and natural frequency) and then checking to see how closely the estimated position or velocity follows actual recorded position or velocity. An evaluation can be done by summing the square of all the errors between the estimated and actual position or velocity. The three parameters mentioned above are changed in an effort to minimize the sum of the squared errors. This is a trial and error process but a computer can do it very quickly so it seems instantaneous. When the computer is done it has found the best values of the gain, damping factor and natural frequency.
The Results
A true test is to move the actuator using a sine wave motion profile. The actual or true velocity and acceleration will smoothly go through a range of values and the goal is to estimate the velocity and acceleration accurately so the actuator can follow the target accurately. Low resolution feedback will make the quantizing effect obvious because the velocity calculated directly from the feedback will change in steps. The goal of the model based control is to estimate smooth velocities as shown below.
The graph in Figure 3 shows how an actuator with a gain of 3 inches per second, damping factor of 0.4 and a natural frequency of 10 Hz can be controlled using a PID with a second derivative gain. The feedback is truncated to 0.001 inches to simulate a start-stop linear magnetostrictive displacement transducer (LMDT) rod with a position feedback of 0.001 inches. As noted above, the resolution of the measured velocity would be 1 inch per second and the resolution of the acceleration would be 1000 inches per second squared. The graph shows that the estimated position is so close to the actual position that they look like one line. The estimated velocity is relatively smooth compared to what could be achieved doing simple velocity calculations where the resolution would be one inch per second. The control output is basically doing a 1 volt peak to peak sine wave to control the actuator. There is a little noise on the control output due to the errors in estimating the velocity and acceleration but it isn't bad compared to what would happen without estimating the velocity and acceleration with the model.
If the model wasn't used the control output would simply be changing from +10 to -10 volt because of the inability to estimate the velocity and acceleration. Without the model based velocity and accelerations, the PID and second derivative gains would need to be drastically reduced in order to keep the control output from swinging 10 volts peak to peak.
Figure 4 contains a graph of the actual and estimated velocities. There are actually two lines in the plot, but the estimated velocity is almost identical to the actual velocity, so the estimated velocity line is on top of the actual velocity line. Again, notice that there is no 1 inch per second quantizing.
As expected, the estimated acceleration(shown in Figure 5) does shows the effects of feedback quantizing, but spikes of four or five inches per second squared are a lot better than errors of 1000 inches per second squared. The estimated acceleration curve still does a good job of following the actual acceleration.
Just for comparison, compare the model based control above to control without the model (shown in Figure 6). The same gains are used as in Figures 3-5 above. The control output isn't shown because it changes from -10 to +10 volts due to the affect the quantized velocity and acceleration has on the control output. Since the control output is often saturated, the actuator is being controlled as if the valve is a simple on-off directional control valve.
Implementing model based control with an electrohydraulic motion controller that can run second-order algorithms allows one to control systems that would otherwise be uncontrollable because the derivative gains couldn't be used or the gain values would need to be keep low so the response will be slow. The alternative is to design systems so that the damping factor and natural frequency are high but this increases the system cost.


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The central goals laid out in the review, titled "Leading Through Civilian Power," are accountability through transparency and the primacy of nonmilitary engagement in development and crisis resolution, officials said. "Civilian power has to be the first face of American power, supported by our military and in partnership with our military, but it's civilians who have to lead," review director Anne-Marie Slaughter told reporters during a Dec. 17 conference call.
Requested in July 2009 by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said she had benefited greatly from the Defense Department's quadrennial reviews when she was on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the self-assessment reflects efforts by State and the U.S. Agency for International Development to "stay ahead" of the world's many changes while making the work of the many players "more unified, more focused and more efficient," Clinton wrote in an introduction. "We will work to break down walls between agencies. We will eliminate overlap, set priorities, and fund only the work that supports those priorities. We will empower our people to make decisions and hold them accountable for the results."
Specifically, the review calls for:
- Establishing a Bureau for Energy Resources to unite diplomatic and programmatic efforts on oil, natural gas, coal, electricity, renewable energy, energy governance, strategic resources and energy poverty;
- Elevating economic diplomacy by expanding State's role on geoeconomic issues, including appointing a chief economist;
- Creating an undersecretary position for civilian security, democracy and human rights;
- Expanding the capacity of the undersecretary for arms control and international security affairs by establishing a Bureau for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance;
- Working with Congress to establish a Bureau for Counterterrorism;
- Establishing a coordinator for cyber issues to lead State's efforts to protect the confidentiality of communications among governments;
- Adopting, between State and USAID, a lead-agency approach with a clear division of leadership and responsibility; and
- Making U.S. aid more transparent by creating a Web-based dashboard with data on State and USAID foreign assistance.
"We are talking about our civilians across the federal government," Slaughter said. "We will be working with the Justice Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Treasury, the Department of Agriculture -- all the civilians across the government who increasingly run programs and build relationships with their counterparts abroad."
Cheryl Steele, a former Foreign Service officer now working on State Department issues at the consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, said the quadrennial review marks "the first time we have it in the words of the secretary of State how diplomacy and development fit into the national security agenda."
With today's overseas issues likely to involve not just war and terrorism, but climate change or natural disasters, she added, the review also is an acknowledgment that "the best actor to address a crisis or a development may not be in State or USAID but in the Agriculture or Commerce departments," or in the private or nonprofit sectors.
The next step in the cross-government approach, she said, is to move the initiative down from the Cabinet and undersecretary levels to those of the office directors and desk officers "so they can know if they are right to engage their partners in other agencies in a dialogue."
Many in the development community were cautiously encouraged. The quadrennial review "represents an ambitious agenda filled with commitments to 'do better,'" wrote Connie Veillette, director of the Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance Program at the Center for Global Development, in a blog post. "Operationalizing those commitments, and changing the culture required to do so will be difficult. If State and USAID do not constructively engage with Congress, I can predict that many of the proposed changes will not see the light of day."

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Things I learned the "Summer of 1984"
Even angels need birthday cake.
(Recipe included https://judethefoodie.com/2012/07/02/rich-golden-cake/)
Just because he only got three cakes does not mean we should stop celebrating that he was born!
Our overuse of the word awesome has actually devalued it.
Incorrect use: Oh wow, this movie is awesome!
CORRECT USE: It's so awesome that she can operate on a babie's heart, the size of a walnut!
Incorrect use: You got us tickets to the game? Awesome!
CORRECT USE: He's breathing on his own? Awesome!
Today is the best day I'll ever have.
There are no guarantees so make the best of every day.
Karel Soucek is one crazy dude.
http://www.infoniagara.com/niagaradaredevils/karelsoucek.aspx Tom came into the recovery room at Mt. St. Mary's Hospital and told me this guy went over the falls and lived. Six months later tries to jump into a ten foot barrel in the Houston Astrodome and hits the side. He was no Nik Wallenda!
Pediatric Cardiologists and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeons are two different specialties.
I had no idea that first you see a cardiologist who performs the diagnostics then you see the surgeon (who often has the bedside manner of a brick).
McDonalds has great coffee.
In the lobby of CHOP (http://www.chop.edu/ Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) there was a McDonalds. We got a coffee and cinnamon rolls every day. Never underestimate the power of good coffee.
If a surgeon offers to try the newest surgery on your child…run, don't walk to the surgeon who does.
The surgeon at the time at Buffalo Children's Hospital had never done the surgery called the switch. In fact, it had only been performed fewer than two dozen times. He said he'd try.
Mortality rates become a sobering statistic when you are talking about state of the art medical intervention.
We said "no thank you" and became the first family to take our child away from Buffalo for open heart surgery. I guess all legacies come to an end.
Sometimes a hole in your heart is a good thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashkind_balloon_atrial_septostomy Tommy's pediatric cardiologist turned out to be a world renowned doctor. My sister-in-law Mary had not been at CHOP for a month when Tommy was born. When his diagnosis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_of_the_great_vessels) was made she went directly to Dr. Rashkind's office and is singularly responsible for having him take her nephew on as a patient.
In the end, faith is all we have.
Things are often not what they seem.
I saw a man tossing a little boy up in the air in an enjoining waiting room and felt a pang of jealousy. My husband reminded me there was likely a very serious reason why those two should be in that room. Reframe: thank God they had that playful time together.
The sound of laughter in a hospital is not at all strange.
Superheroes wear masks…and scrubs.
When it's too hard to pray, too hard to think beyond the next moment, I discovered there are countless and nameless people who are doing the praying for you.
July 2, 1984 – Happy birthday Tommy III – forever young…


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Hagar bored with York in wrestling?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:21 pm
The joke down here to Kalvin York is that after beating him twice in two great matches Hagar's not interested in a third because Kalvin, "he's just not that into you!" But man what a match it would be! York's at 152 and probably will take that, looks like Hagar will be down a weight from him and should win his 4th title. Let's hope they both do it! York will be a pre med student and wrestle for the UW. What's Hagar doing as we get no news from way up there!
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Leeds businesses are being called upon to help in a
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most vulnerable children.
As part of a major campaign called Foster4Leeds, Leeds
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Leeds City Council urgently needs more local
authority foster carers to make a real difference to the lives of children and
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Through Foster4Leeds, the council is now asking
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Councillor Judith Blake, executive member for
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to get on board and show their support. What better way than helping us recruit
some top class foster carers for children who need a safe and loving home.
"This campaign is an innovative idea to get this
important message to as wide an audience as possible and a way the city's businesses,
organisations, website owners and bloggers can do their bit for children in
Leeds children's services has set itself the
ambitious target of recruiting 200 new foster carers over the next two years to
meet the needs of its looked after children population, replace retiring foster
carers and reduce the use of private agencies.
There is currently an urgent demand for carers who
can foster babies and young children; these carers need to be able to foster
full time, be non-smokers and have a spare bedroom.
There is no such thing as a typical foster carer. Leeds
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people and that Leeds children are fostered in their home city, which at times
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Organisations, businesses, sports teams, bloggers and
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Morelia is a quiet city nestled high in the hills of the Michoacan state of Mexico, and lined wall-to-wall with historic cathedrals and colleges. A grand aqueduct that looks like a procession of arches sweeps around the city's outskirts. The streets buzz with students, stores crammed with charming artefacts, and tourists looking to just relax or worship.
When we usually travel, our days are a huge blur of running breathlessly from place to place, thanks to Desi who's a regular Clark Griswold. I, on the other hand, like to take things easy. Needless to say, there's always a lot of arguing about what to do and how much to do which, I think, makes our vacations more fun!
But in places like Morelia, I win because there is little to do other than go with the tranquil flow.
One of our favorite things to do when we visited Morelia was to go in the evenings to a restaurant, Cafe Europa, just opposite the huge and beautiful cathedral in the city's center, order a big cup of coffee, and just sit back and watch the world go by. For once, even Desi did not complain about the lack of activity because he was too busy relaxing.
I ate a lot of bean and rice dishes in Mexico, but there were plenty of times when I was pleasantly surprised by the exquisite ways in which your usual old staples were transformed into something special.
In Morelia, I found a vegetarian restaurant where I ate a delicious burger with a vegetarian patty stuffed inside of it. It tasted a lot like these potato and lima bean cakes that I'm serving up today. The crunch of the patty or cake was perfect with the soft bread.
I served these cakes with just some stir-fried beet greens (try them, Obama, and I promise you'll become a fan of the delicious beet!). You could also just try eating them like burgers, stuffed inside a crusty bread, or like felafel, in pita.
Traditionally, these would contain some cheese, but of course I left it out because this is a vegan food blog and hey, why spoil a good thing?
The potato and lima bean cakes also remind me a little of a popular Indian street snack, Ragda Patties, which are potato cakes served in a pea sauce. But unlike that dish, these cakes combine both the legume and spud right inside the patty which means less work for me. And that's just the way I like it.
Potato and Lima Bean Cakes (Tortitas de Alubias y Papa)
4 large floury potatoes, diced and then boiled until fork-tender
1 cup lima beans, soaked for a few hours, then cooked until tender
1 bunch scallions/spring onions, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 jalapeno peppers (use any moderately hot green chilies if you can't find these)
1 medium red onion, finely diced
2 tsp cornflour mixed with 2 tbsp water
Salt to taste
About 1/2 cup of flour, for dredging the patties.
1-3 tbsp canola or other vegetable oil.
Place the potatoes and lima beans in a bowl and mash together until you have a lumpy but fairly smooth mixture.
Add the remaining ingredients and mix together. The potato-bean mixture should hold together when you form a patty.
Make 2-inch wide patties and dredge them in the flour. Shake off any excess flour.
Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a cast-iron or non-stick skillet.
When the oil is hot, place just enough patties in it so the skillet is not overcrowded.
Cook about 2-3 minutes on each side, over medium-high heat, or until golden-brown.
Serve hot with any hot sauce or these yummy stir-fried beet greens (recipe follows)
Stir-fried Beet Greens
1 bunch beet greens, thinly shredded
3-4 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced.
1 tbsp canola or olive oil
Salt to taste
Heat oil in a skillet.
Add the garlic, and when it turns golden, add the beet greens.
Toss together and cook on medium-low heat for about 5 minutes or until greens are absolutely tender.
Add salt to taste.
Serve hot.
These delicious cakes go, of course, to It's A Vegan World: Mexican. There's a week left to go, more or less, so hurry up folks and send in your entries!


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Team advances to regional finals in Fourth Annual Hult Prize
The Hult Prize recently announced that the Heller School for Social Management has advanced to the regional finals of the Fourth Annual Hult Prize.
The Hult Prize is the world's largest student competition and crowdsourcing platform for social good, recently named one of the top five ideas changing the world by former President Bill Clinton and Time Magazine. In partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative, the innovative crowdsourcing platform identifies and launches social ventures that aim to solve the planet's most pressing challenges. Student teams compete in five cities around the world for a chance to secure $1 million in start-up funding to launch a sustainable social venture.
The theme of the 2013 Hult Prize is global food security and will focus on how to get safe, sufficient, affordable and easily accessible food to the 200 million people who live in urban slums – a challenge personally selected by Clinton.
"We strive to find a comprehensive solution to the food crisis in Haiti that can then be replicated in other countries of the world," says Jean Cledanor Lindor, MA-SID '14, a group member from Haiti.
Dr. Stephen Hodges, president of the Hult International Business School, says, "The Hult Prize is thrilled that the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University has joined the initiative. This year's competition has received a record number of entries, bringing together some of the most talented students to help solve global food security which can benefit nearly a billion people."
Each team selected was chosen from more than 10,000 applications received, totaling over 350 colleges and universities and representing over 150 countries. The Hult Prize regional competitions will take place on March 1 and 2, on Hult International Business School's five campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai and Shanghai. The Heller team will compete in Boston.
The Heller team members are Marta Baran, MA-SID/COEX '14 (Poland), Rachel Clarkson, MA-SID '14 (USA), Ema Kaminskaya, MA-SID '14 (Belarus), Jean Cledanor Lindor, MA-SID '14 (Haiti), and Sothea Phan, MA-SID '14 (Cambodia).
Following the regional finals, one winning team from each host city will move into a summer business incubator, where participants will receive mentorship, advisory and strategic planning as they create prototypes and set up to launch their new social business. A final round of competition will be hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative at its annual meeting in September, where CGI delegates will select a winning team to be awarded the $1 million prize by Clinton.
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Geisha Teruha
From the Collection of Rob Oechsle
| As maiko: Osaka
As geisha: Tokyo
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As geisha: Shimbashi
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Before ImmortalGeisha.com was launched, there was a website called The Geiko Gallery, ran by Jim Gatlan, a collector of old Japan photographs and postcards. Jim and I became online friends, sharing our mutual love of collecting bijin photographs. In many ways, he was one of my original mentors while starting my way into the wonderful world of collecting postcards.
Jim enjoyed sharing wonderful images from his collection, however, there was one beautiful, yet haunting face that he kept coming across. Curious about who she was, Jim set out on what he initially thought would be an impossible mission - to find out the name of the young geisha, and to learn about her life.
Much to Jim's surprise, he was immediately successful! The young geisha turned out to be Teruha, a geisha from Shimbashi who had lead a rather "checkered" life. While Teruha was well known in Japan, she wasn't in the West. Jim researched about her and wrote a wonderful article, and then an article about his search for her and then Teruha became known to us all.
It was with great sadness that I learnt of Jim's passing. While The Geiko Gallery remained online for a while, it eventually disappeared from the internet, taking along with it the story of Teruha. After many years of being offline, it was purely by happenstance that I discovered a fellow postcard collector and mentor, Rob Oechsle, was also in communication with Jim all those many years ago. Before Jim passed away, he shared with Rob his research documents on Teruha, and Rob was also able to save copies of The Geiko Gallery before it disappeared for good.
It is with great pleasure that we are able to present to you again the story of Teruha, as written by Jim Gatlan, and his heartwarming account of searching for, and discovering her.
From the Geisha House to the Temple...
The Story of Teruha, Geisha, Postcard Model and Priest!
Often, the image the word "Geisha" paints in most people's mind is one of elegance, style, wealth and beauty. Literature and prose suggests a rather gilded life, dedicated to the perfection of artistic pursuits. Very little is known about the lives of the Geisha from a personal prospective, or what actually occurs behind the gilded curtain of beauty and poise.
A mere peek into the life a Geisha is rare in and of itself. I was thrilled to discover the story of a young woman who lived such a life, but the added fact that she was one of the most featured Geisha in my postcard collection only added to the thrill as her life unfolded during a recent trip to Japan.
What I learned about this young Geisha was more than I ever expected. Her life was far more remarkable that even the wildest or most vivid imagination might dream up about the life of a sophisticated Tokyo Geisha.
From the glitz and fame of a turn of the century Geisha, to late Meji period beauty queen status, to suicidal depression and failed marriages. Our postcard Geisha traveled a road that eventually led from broken hearted affairs, to inner peace as a temple Priest. From shimmering kimonos to the habits of a nun, from New York's Wall Street, to the wooded silence of Kyoto. This is the story of Teruha. She was born in Osaka in 1896. Her real name was Tatsuko Takaoka. It is unclear how, or under what circumstances she made her way to Tokyo, but at the age of 13, after a brief training period, she became a Shimbashi Tokyo Geisha, and took the name Teruha, (Ter-rue-ha), which means "Shining Leaf".
The life of a Shimbashi Geisha at the turn of the century was a charmed life, complete with a certain amount of celebrity status attached to it. It was about this time that photography was becoming popular as an art form, and Shimbashi Geisha was a popular subject for many photographers, as well as a favored topic for many postcard publishers. Teruha enjoyed posing for many of the young and dashing photographers who eagerly hired her to pose for them. The newly published postcards was great advertising for the young and ambitious Teruha.
Teruha was painfully aware that her chosen profession was very much dependent upon her youth and her beauty to a large extent, and she also knew these were assets that she must use while she still possessed them. During her young Geisha days she was involved in a number of romantic affairs, most of which ended in failure.
Around the age of 16, she fell in love and had her heart broken, and tried to commit suicide by cutting off her little finger. She recovered from both the suicide attempt, and the broken heart, and at age 23 married a stock broker and moved to New York. Soon, the marriage ended however, and she returned to Japan and tried to reenter the Geisha community. She had a great deal of difficulty getting a license however, since she was said to have no talent. Most likely, this was retribution from her peers for the marriage and the move to New York. So Teruha returned to New York and studied dance for a few years in an effort to overcome her lack of talent.
She eventually returned to Japan again, and was successful in becoming a Geisha again. She soon turned most of her efforts towards teaching dance to other Geisha in the district. She remained active to some degree as a Geisha in her own right, and before long, she tried marriage again. This time, Teruha married a medical professor and tried to live as an ordinary housewife, but once again the marriage failed. After her second failed marriage, it was now virtually impossible for her to become a Geisha again, so she sought work wherever she could as an actress, a bar madam and even still as a model. During this period in her life, Teruha struggled through several failed affairs that later she described as "A Checkered Life!"
As is so often the case with troubled people who find themselves locked in a cycle of deep depression, Teruha eventually turned to her religion for a peace and purpose in her life that she had not been able to find as a Geisha. In 1935, at the age 39, she decided to dedicate her life to Buddha and entered the priesthood as a monk. She found herself in the Sagano / Arashiyama area of old Kyoto, at the famous Gio-Ji Temple.
The Gio-Ji Temple is noted for having been founded by two sisters, Gioh and Ginyo who were both loved by the same man, Kiyomori Taira. The affair ended and the sisters secluded themselves in the Heiko Monogatari area to spend the remainder of their lives in quite contemplation and solitude among the bamboo forests the area is famous for. Over the years, Gio-Ji Temple became a place of refuge for many broken hearted women who lived out their lives in the modest temple. It became known in some circles as the Temple of the Broken Hearted. Teruha became one of the broken hearted, and spent the remainder of her days there also.
At Gio-Ji, she took the name Chi syo, which means "Clever Sunshine". She soon became a very popular monk, and later, she rose to the position of Head Priest at the all-female temple. She never escaped the notoriety of her Geisha days, and her failed suicide attempt as a young lover. She was known to some, as "The Nine Fingered Geisha", and to others, "The Nine Fingered Priest!" Sometime later during her life at Gio-Ji, Chi syo (Teruha) published a book about her life called "Bird Eating Flowers" . She also published a book in diary form about her checkered life called "The long life of a leaf" The fascinating story of her checkered life did not escape the eyes of the Japanese literary world. Several years ago, a popular novel was based upon her life, (sadly, to the best of my knowledge, none of these books were ever translated from Japanese.)
Despite her troubled youth, Teruha lived a very long and religiously active life. She was well known and loved in the Heiko Monogatari area around Gio-Ji, although she rarely ventured from the temple grounds. She readily spoke to people about her checkered life, and participated in the writing of the novel based on her life. She proved to be a very capable Head Priest, and skillfully administered the Gio-Ji.
The checkered life of the young Shimbashi Geisha, turned Priest came to an end at Gio-Ji in 1995 at the age of 99. Her remains rest on the beautiful temple grounds that she loved so much. By all accounts, Teruha found the happiness that she so desperately sought as a young woman within the confines of the this simple but elegant temple. She never tried to escape her past, the temple was left an impressive collection of Teruha postcards upon her death, instead, she used her troubled youth as a foundation for her faith and dedication in her later life.
During her brief period as a Geisha, Teruha left a legacy of delicate and subtle images that many postcard collectors throughout the world enjoy nearly a hundred years after they were first published. I am sure that she had no idea of the popularity her photos have gained outside of Japan. Her life was filled with the satisfaction she discovered within her religion, and that of Gio-Ji after she turned her back on the Geisha world. Still however, I think she would smile with the knowledge that her old photos have found a treasured place in the hands of many admirers around the world.
It is my hope that story of Teruha, the nine fingered Geisha, will be remembered by her collectors and admirers wherever they may be.
The Search for a Vintage Postcard Model...
Finding a 1909 Geisha in the Land of the Rising Sun
Admittedly, it was a long shot. At times, I thought it would be downright impossible. The passage of time, incomplete, lost or destroyed records of publishers long since gone made the thought of identifying a particular Geisha on a particular postcard seem like a lost cause. Still, it had a certain appeal, especially in the case of the postcard model I came to know as Teruha.
This is the story of how I stumbled on not only her name, but her entire life story.
Over the months, I bought and sold quite a number of Teruha cards. I kept several for my private collection, but duplicates were auctioned off. Three of my best customers, Tina Crumpacker of Florida, Ashley Weber Thompson of Oklahoma and Barbara Perry of Alabama bought the majority of my auctioned Teruha cards, and built quite an impressive collection. Soon, like me, they began to wonder about the identity of the young Geisha featured in so many of our cards.
It was Ashley who first brought up the question of who she was, (we used the term 'was', since we assumed she was probably dead due to the age of the cards), and Barbara also was curious. Tina offered encouragement in trying to identify her since she also enjoyed Teruha cards. But the thought of tracking down a woman nearly 100 years old, in a foreign country with nothing to go on but a postcard seemed like a real long shot. But what the heck, I had a trip planned to Japan anyway, so I packed a card or two, and off I went.
Upon my arrival in Japan, my dear friend Riuko Hamasaki presented me with a book as a gift. The book was a photo book that loosely translated to being about late Meji period beauty queens. As I leafed through the beautiful book, I was stunned to see the photos on page 127. Displayed were photos of the very Geisha Ashley, Barbara, Tina and myself had wondered about. Moreover, one of the illustrations used on the book was one of my favorite postcards of the young woman. Suddenly, a task I thought was nearly impossible earlier, was unfolding within hours of my arrival in Tokyo.
The next day, when my friend arrived to begin our tour, I asked her about the book, and my postcard model. Sure enough, I had not been dreaming. A brief bio was given about my postcard model, named Teruha, along with a mention that she eventually became a priest at the Gio-Ji Temple on the outskirts of Kyoto.
My travel plans were quickly changed to include a visit to Gio-Ji. My hopes were of course that Teruha might somehow still be alive and at the temple. But her age would now be 104, (I learned from the book that she had been born in 1896), not impossible, but also not likely. Otherwise, I hoped to locate her grave and perhaps find someone still at Gio-Ji who might remember her.
When I arrived at Gio-Ji, I was surprised to find it not at all like the typical Japanese temple or shrine. There were no ornate decorations, not elaborate carvings or statues, just a simple elegance and charm that belied the history and story behind the temple. Somehow, as I learned more and more about the troubled life of Teruha, the spartan temple seemed to fit her well, or she fit Gio-Ji.
What Gio-Ji lacked in opulence, it made up for in charm and warmth. This point applied not only to the lovely grounds, but the staff of the temple as well. Two volunteers who worked at the temple selling admission tickets were very helpful and eagerly answered my questions about Teruha.
As it turns out, there was never really a mystery at all as to the identify of the young postcard Geisha. Teruha was somewhat of a celebrity in Japan, and the temple staff remembered her fondly, (she died in 1996 at the age of 99). They knew of her past as a Geisha, a model, and the strange tale of her attempted suicide by cutting off her finger, and they willingly spoke about her as if recalling the adventures of a long lost friend.
Where Teruha lived as a monk, and later the Head Priest of temple, was pointed out to me. I was also shown her final resting place. Remarkably, the temple had copies of two books written by Teruha later in her life for sale in the temple office, and I was pleased to add them to my library.
The last area of Gio-Ji I visited was the small section of the temple where past monks and Priests are laid to rest. This is where my search for the lovely little Geisha came to it's conclusion. I quickly found her marker, and I was pleased to see that she is well tended, and cared for, as evidenced by the fresh flowers that adorned her stone.
I was very pleased to have visited the temple, and later, I was afforded a chance to talk (via Riuko as my interpreter) to the current Head Priest about Teruha. As it turns out, the present Priest, Chieko, was Teruha's successor as administrator the temple. She spoke warmly of Teruha, and I learned that she left behind a collection of her postcards which Gio-Ji now treasures. I am only sorry that time didn't permit me a chance to view the collection.
What began as an improbable search at best, turned into a quick and complete discovery that answered the questions that Ashley, Barbara, Tina and myself has wondered about from afar. We did not 'find' her, because she was never lost. We did not 'discover' her, because she was already well known in her own country. But we now know her, and this knowledge lends a new appreciation for the young Geisha on the old postcards that we know and enjoy so much.
I hope that her name is forever linked to her cards that trade in cyber space around the world, And that she finds the same admiration outside of Japan, as she enjoyed at her beloved Gio-Ji.


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Elliott Abrams is the Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. His CFR blog is Pressure Points. He served, most recently, on the staff of the National Security Council staff during the Bush administration commencing in June 2001, first as a deputy assistant to the president and later as deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy.
We recently featured a column by Abrams based on his new book, Tested By Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Given his positions during the Bush administration, the book is an insider's account of the subject captured in the subtitle.
Commentary draws on the book for the extraordinary excerpt "Bombing the Syrian reactor: The inside story." I recommend it to your attention. It is utterly compelling reading.
Here are a few of the takeaways from the article:
In May 2007 Israeli intelligence discovered the construction of the reactor (built to North Korean specifications) as it neared completion in a remote location. Israeli intelligence concluded without any doubt that its purposes were military. Prime Minister Olmert sought to share the intelligence with President Bush. In the event, Israeli intelligence chief Meir Dagan met with senior administration officials including Vice President Cheney to share the intelligence. Dagan reported in confidence: "All Israeli policymakers who saw the evidence agreed that the reactor had to go away."
Bush and his national security team performed their own independent assessment. In Abrams's telling, as I understand it, they did not disagree with the assessment of Israeli intelligence. (The CIA, however, had a more, ah, nuanced reading of the situation. It expressed high confidence that the site was a nuclear reactor, but low confidence that Syria had a nuclear weapons program.)
The senior officials of the Bush administration considered military versus (ridiculous) diplomatic options involving the IAEA and the UN to deal with the reactor. Secretary of State Rice and Secretary of Defense Gates opposed bombing the reactor. Indeed, Gates wanted Bush to prevent Israel from bombing the reactor, urging Bush to threaten Israel that its relationship with the United States was at stake. Only Vice President Cheney supported a military strike. Bush opted for Rice's proposed diplomatic approach backed by the threat of force.
When Bush conveyed the administration's conclusion to Prime Minister Olmert, Abrams reports:
I wondered how Olmert would react and believed I could predict his response: He would say, "Wait, give me some time to think about this, to consult my team, to reflect, and I will call you tomorrow." I was quite wrong. He reacted immediately and forcefully. George, he said, this leaves me surprised and disappointed. And I cannot accept it. We told you from the first day, when Dagan came to Washington, and I've told you since then whenever we discussed it, that the reactor had to go away. Israel cannot live with a Syrian nuclear reactor; we will not accept it. It would change the entire region and our national security cannot accept it. You are telling me you will not act; so, we will act. The timing is another matter, and we will not do anything precipitous.
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This is not the account President Bush gives in his memoir, in which he writes that Olmert initially said, "George, I'm asking you to bomb the compound." Someday transcripts of their conversation will be available, but Bush's recollection does not comport with mine.
Israel successfully struck the reactor in September 2007. It's a story from which one can draw many conclusions. Here is Abrams's final, inarguable conclusion:
[T]his incident is a reminder that there is no substitute for military strength and the will to use it. Think of how much more dangerous to the entire region the Syrian civil war would be today if Assad had a nuclear reactor, and even perhaps nuclear weapons, in hand. Israel was right to bomb that reactor before construction was completed, and President Bush was right to support its decision to do so. Israel was also right in rejecting fears that the incident would lead to a larger war and in believing that it, and the United States, would be better off after this assertion of leadership and determination. That lesson must be on the minds of Israeli, and American, leaders in 2013.
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Should have put up a high fence to keep flight path up, chain link the bees can fly right through....JP
I wonder if the ordinance specifies a infestation.
So it is like making your computer so you can talk on it, and your phone into something to send typed messages...... Weird
So it is like making your computer so you can talk on it, and your phone into something to send typed messages...... Weird I have to agree with you on that. Funny on how things like that work!.........People move to the country and try to make it like in town....Then,...people move into town and try to turn it into the country!...wierd, huh? That is somewhat the problem with the area that I live in. They buy 3 or 4 acers and become "Country Folk" overnight. Our biggest problem is the city people that move into our area to retire and think that all of the regulations and codes that they had in the city, need to follow them into the country. Things work just fine, here and we don't need to change.
Quote from: JP on November 29, 2008, 08:07:22 pmShould have put up a high fence to keep flight path up, chain link the bees can fly right through....JPFortunately, that's not his property boundary that you're looking at. I believe that his extra supers are inside the chain-link fence.Quote from: buzzbee on November 30, 2008, 06:28:27 amI wonder if the ordinance specifies a infestation.Yes it does. Here's an older article: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/508408.html I'm trying to find the Altoona Mirror article that had a copy of the original citation included. I think we're all more than a little taken back that they can interpret an ordinance such as that to cover beekeeping. The whole game changes whenever governing bodies decide they can 'bend' ordinances to stretch the areas they cover.The president of our regional bee association has visited Mr. Nales home, and has been trying to assist Mr. Nales throughout this process, and some members of the state beekeeping association and other officials are trying to help out as well. Be assured that Mr. Nales has water supply, flight path, and other 'urban beekeeping concerns' addressed with his neighbors' safety in mind.Our local organization has offered their support, but we need to see what Mr. Nales decided to do - whether or not he decides to appeal further, we should all understand the need for us to stand behind him. Like some others have said - the outcome of this case will help dictate other towns' stances on urban beekeeping - and that will impact a lot of us around here.PS - Bjorn - THANK YOU - that was me.PSS - If you check the article link at the top of this post, it quotes the lady as saying her 'husband' is allergic to bees. The video says it's the dog. :roll: :fishhit:
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A few days ago, we reported that the latest PlayStation 3 system update (version 4.45) had the unfortunate side effect of rendering some units unusable (colloquially known as "bricking"). Sony pulled the update to investigate the problem and has now issued an update.
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May 30, 2011
Not the sort of holiday you really want!
To cut a long story short, on Thursday afternoon we had an accident in our campervan, my husband's first accident in 50 years of driving (apart from being nudged behind once at a stop sign and a bit of a ding at a petrol station when he didn't turn wide enough.) It looks as though our campervan will be written off as the external and internal damage was quite bad.
We are SO thankful to God that He sent his angels to look after us and we came out of it without a scratch on us. A nano-second earlier and my husband could have sustained serious injury or worse.
The last few days have been spent trying to get home and to get all the gear in the van home. Because we were out in the country, there were no hire cars available. We caught a bus to travel the 200 kms to the coast to try to hire a car there, but without success. In the end, we were able to borrow the car of a friend another 113 kms away, drive back the 200 odd km and pack up all the gear in the van, drive home 370 kms, unpack the gear, have a sleep, and drive the 340 kms back to return the borrowed car.
So here we are at a train station, waiting to catch the Tilt Train back home! We are so blessed with so many people helping us in our time of trauma. Friends and people we didn't know have gone out of their way to look after us and we are ever so thankful. We're now starting to get over the shock and are looking forward to a relaxing train trip. We will be very happy to arrive HOME!
With thankfulness to our great God
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- WoolenSails said...
That sounds like a few of our trips;)
Glad you are both ok though, that is what counts.
- May 30, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- Wanda said...
Oh Val I am so sorry to hear you have been in an accident but so very glad you both are okay. I was in a freak accident several years ago and remember the terror and then relief. Rest while you can and know that there are those who care about you out here in blogland.
- May 30, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Christine M said...
Oh Val. That's terrible news. The main thing is neither of you were hurt. You can always replace the camper. Take care. Hugs, Christine
- May 30, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Vroomans' Quilts said...
So sorry your vacation was a horror, but so glad no one was hurt seriously.
- May 30, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- BJ said...
It is a huge blessing that neither you nor DH were injured in the accident. I'm so sorry for the accident, loss of your campervan, and the hassle it has been to get back home with your belongings, etc. What is most important, though, was spared - you and your husband. Take care and give yourself time to relax - that's a huge trauma you had.
- May 30, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Jeanette said...
Val so glad to hear you & your husband ore ok. What a terrible time you've had of it. Hugs,
- May 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Mommarock said...
As difficult as Google is making it to comment, I have to find a way.. Thank goodness you are okay!! What a horrible vacation.. I think you will have to write that off as a bad experience and take a REAL vacation.. one where you can truly relax!
- May 30, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- Marsha said...
You are right, that is not a very good way to spend a vacation. I'm happy to hear you are both OK and you are almost home so you can relax. I think you had some wonderful angels watching over you.
- May 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- Jessica said...
I am glad you are safe and not hurt. It is great that you had some help. I hope it gets sorted out easily for you.
- May 30, 2011 at 11:31 AM
- vernagrace said...
Sorry to hear about the accident, but so thankful you are both safe and sound. Trust the Lord will handle all that needs to be handled for you and I thank Him for providing the necessary angels for you at this time.
Stay safe and God bless.
- May 30, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Michelle said...
Sorry to hear of your accident, glad that you are all fine! It sounds like you may need a break at home to get over the shock! It is times like this that we count our blessings.
- May 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM
- CraftyMummy said...
Oh Val! Glad to hear you are ok but sorry to hear about the van. You'll need a holiday when you make it home!
- May 30, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- sunny said...
Thank God you're both safe! Hubby and I had an accident far from home, and understand what it takes to get back home again. Hopefully, you'll be able to regroup and plan another vacation soon.
- May 30, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Allie said...
Oh my goodness Val - I'm so glad you guys are safe! That's a terrible way to spend a holiday. I hope you get home on the train quickly!
- May 30, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Judith said...
Oh! how awful for you and your poor campervan. I am so pleased that the two of you are all right. I bet you were very shaken up. You will be both pleased to get home and put up your feet with a nice cuppa and get your nerves settled. I was very good of your friend to lend you a car so you could get your possesions back. Take care x
- May 30, 2011 at 4:10 PM
- Sheila said...
How awful - but so glad you are both ok.
- May 30, 2011 at 6:33 PM
- Teresa said...
I am so sorry for your ordeal, but so thankful you are both ok.
- May 30, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- KaHolly said...
So glad you are both okay! What a disappointing vacation.
- May 30, 2011 at 8:10 PM
- Roxanne said...
How awful to have to cut your vacation short with such a happening. I'm so glad you and your husband suffered no injury. God always provides to those who love Him.
- May 30, 2011 at 9:26 PM
- Susan In Texas said...
I'm glad you are both safe. I hope no one else was injured in the wreck? Stuff can be replaced, people, not so much.
Take care,
Susan in Texas
- May 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM
Val, I was alittle worried when I hopped over to your blog and found nothing Sunday night. I have just been on it and want to say how sorry I am for you and your hubby. Thank goodness you are both okay. I can only imagine how shaken up you both were.
The Lord works in miserious ways and know that He wrapped his arms around you both.
Try not to think about it too much (the ordeal, that is) and remember that God shines His light in dark places.
Hugs, Sue from Cyprus
- May 31, 2011 at 8:55 PM
Hello Val, so sorry to hear of your scarey experience - the angels were surely looking over you both. I hope you are getting things 'back on track'
best wishes.. Heather [ S.A ]
- May 31, 2011 at 10:42 PM
- Country Log Cabin Quilter said...
That is scary! So glad you are fine. We are on a camping trip ourselves and I had thoughts of what would we do if something happened when we were out in the middle of nowhere. We can trust in God no matter where we are and no matter what happens.
- June 1, 2011 at 1:33 AM
- Ozjane said...
God is good and it is lovely to read the tone of your thankfulness and praise in what could have been a horrible story. To have His presence in our trials can really turn them into triumphs...thought it often takes a while to fully see that.
Hugs in Him.
- June 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM


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The Wave Glider—a self-propelled, solar and wave-powered robot designed by Liquid Robotics—has been deployed to track great white sharks in the Pacific Ocean. Stanford University scientists are hoping to understand why the great white shark population in an area near the Californian coast has been in decline over recent years. Last year, we reported how The Wave Glider had been awarded $22 million in Series D financing in order to serve as a platform for ocean observation, data collection, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. The Stanford team said that The Wave Glider will join "an arsenal of ocean-observing technologies" that will spy on the marine predators in real-time.
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Asus G2P 17" Core 2 Duo Gaming Notebook Review
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Asus has been making major inroads into the mobile computing market over the past year. The products we have reviewed here on PC Perspective have all shown that Asus is a competent notebook manufacturer with a focus on quality and style. Though Asus' mobile product line is extensive and targets a wide range of users, one of the missing pieces from their catalog was a system dedicated to gamers. Manufacturers like Dell, Alienware, Voodoo, and ROCK have long been catering to this crowd with high-end gaming notebooks, and now Asus is joining the fray with their G-series systems.
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