text: A Standardized Approach to Safe, Effective Prone Positioning in the SICU Sharon Dickinson, Craig Meldrum, Connie Rickelmann and the SICU staff University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Purpose To evaluate if a standardized approach to prone positioning for the treatment of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Acute Lung Injury (ALI) prevents the following complications: • Self extubations • Line and tube pulls • Employee injuries Background The prone position has been used to improve oxygenation in patients with severe hypoxemia and acute respiratory failure since 1974. The prone position has been shown to increase endexpiratory lung volume and alveolar recruitment. All studies with the prone position document an improvement in systemic oxygenation in 70% to 80% of patients with ARDS, and the maximal improvements are seen in the most hypoxemic patients.1-3 Prone positioning has associated risks to both the patient and the healthcare worker. 2 One challenge to use of the prone position in ARDS patients has been the difficulty of safely moving a patient with severe hypoxemia due to ARDS. 2 Complications can occur in the process and include unplanned extubation, lines being pulled, and tubes becoming kinked. Additionally, proning obese and fluid overloaded patients can be labor intensive and can result in staff injuries.2 However, the technique can be performed safely by trained and dedicated critical care staff aware of its potential benefits in critically ill patients with ARDS and severe hypoxemia.2-4 Methods • A retrospective data analysis was completed from May 2010 to April 2011 to evaluate for complications of prone positioning utilizing the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE III) data system • All patients proned during the study period were included in the analysis • A comparison group of patients who were not proned were also analyzed. This group consisted of all patients admitted to the SICU during the study period • Data was analyzed to evaluate for complications of prone positioning Discussion With flat sheet, pull pt to one side of the bed. Tuck flat sheet around pt arm In order to protect it and move pt Position pt arm up on one side, arm straight on the other and knee up if desired. Patient fully proned, head to side. Results Prone positioning occurred for 118 days during the study period. One patient self-extubated during the study period but no lines or trachs were pulled. Our overall incidence of notable complications is 1/118 (0.85%). No employee injuries were noted secondary to proning a patient. Nonprone positioning occurred for 6997 days. In this comparison group, we experienced 13 self extubations, 75 line pulls and 3 trach pulls for an overall incidence of 91/6997 (1.3%). References 1. Piehl MA, Brown RS. Use of extreme position changes in acute respiratory failure. Crit Care med 1976;4:13-4. 2. Dickinson S, Park PK, Napolitano LM. Prone-Positioning Therapy in ARDS Crit Care Clin. 2011 Jul;27(3):511-23 3. Pelosi P, Tubiolo D, Mascheroni D, Vicardi P, Crotti S, Valenza F, Gattononi L: Effects of the prone position on respiratory mechanics and gas exchange during acute lung injury. 1997 Am J Respir Crit Care Med. Vol. 157. Pp 387-393, 1998 4. Dirkes S, Dickinson S: Common questions about prone positioning, June 1998. AJN. Vol. 98 No 6 5. Lamm WJE, Graham MM, Albert RK: 1994. Mechanism by which the prone position improves oxygenation in acute lung injury. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. Vol. 150. Pp 184-193. Tilt the patient over and position with pillows SICU criteria to initiate prone positioning: 1) Effective compliance (normalized) < 0.5 mL/cmH20/Kg 2) P/F ratio < 200 on Fi02 > 0.5 Proning Data for period 5/1/10 - 4/30/11 8000 7000 6997 In our experience, the use of the prone position is an effective strategy for the treatment of severe hypoxemia in patient with ARDS. To institute the prone position, we favor a simple 5 step technique that uses four staff members and a regular ICU bed. More recent studies document the benefit of extended prone position therapy (> 20 hours per day) in ARDS. A recent review of all published meta-analyses on the efficacy of prone position for ALI and ARDS concluded that prone positioning was associated with reduced mortality in the cohort of patients with severe hypoxemia, defined as PaO2/FiO2 ratio < 100 mm Hg. Additionally, prone positioning can be used as a rescue therapy for patients with ARDS and refractory lifethreatening hypoxemia. 6000 5000 4000 Proning 3000 Non-proning 2000 1000 0 0 Days during study 13 Self-extubation 75 0 3 0 Line/tube pulls Trachs pulled % Incidence per proning day 0.85% % Incidence per non-proning day 1.21% Conclusion Based on the evaluation of this intervention, the following conclusions and recommendations are made: 1) Prone positioning of patient's with ARDS using a standardized protocol can prevent complications 2) Prone positioning of patient's does not result in increased injuries to healthcare workers. 3) Prone positioning is a safe and effective treatment option for severe hypoxemia


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We sit propped on pillows in bed drinking our morning coffee. We grant ourselves the luxury of resting on the Sabbath and decide to skip church. He has injured his back and can't move without feeling significant pain. I am fatigued by a week-long push through depression and I can't speak without choking up. My soul is exploding with a slew of thoughts that have no home. I need to articulate, to debrief, but I don't want to indulge while he's hurting.
"I think I need to clear my head–are you feeling up to it?" I test the waters. In past years I wouldn't have recognized my need until it had reached the fevered pitch of angst. The urgency to find relief and a solution would have driven us both into fix-it mode. In the end, we wouldn't have solved anything and would likely have ended up misunderstanding each other—the whole laborious ordeal culminating in frustration and anger. I no longer expect to find a solution and he doesn't feel required to provide one. Like an infected boil, I've learned there's great relief in just lancing through it and letting it drain. Giving words to my pent-up emotions does that for me.
The opening line of my monologue reads like a comic strip: "I feel like Charlie Brown." I peel the thoughts from my reluctant tongue and continue. "I keep trying and trying but I still feel like an unaccomplished outcast—like I will never complete the edits on my draft of a significant life." My words sound self-pitying as they bounce around in my adult brain yet at the level of emotional honesty, they are on point. We had watched the Peanuts movie the previous day with our grandchildren. I couldn't help identifying with Charlie Brown throughout the movie. "I feel like people just don't get me, like I'll never belong, like my contribution will always fall flat." I wipe tears and blow my nose. "All I can see are my failed attempts caught in a tree, dangling like the kites Charlie never managed to fly?"
"Actually, I thought of you through the movie as well," he says. "I thought about how hard you work to get through what you're up against." He goes on to tell me how he sees me as a good-hearted woman and that, like Charlie, my character is far better than my accomplishments. For the next thirty minutes, I poured out the weeks' encounters and the bottled-up feelings I had cloaked in BRAVERY and bravado. I tell him about all the areas I feel confused and directionless. I tell him how I just wish I knew where my lane was and could stay in it. I confess to him my fear of being an imposter—that while I'm pushing past my illness that I worry I'm fabricating a better self, feeding a performance. I talk about how inspired I get by what the confident women around me are pulling off—and how it also makes me feel inadequate. I blow my nose and wipe the smudges of mascara from my face. I tell him that I don't know if I can manage both a significant impact in the world and have anything left to manage my own world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
He listens with kindness and I can tell that he's not just enduring one more gripe session or self-pity monologue. He sees my genuine desire to get it right. I tell him about the things that overwhelm me, scare me and break my heart. I offer that I'm confused about medication and diagnosis and shrink at what my faith community thinks about me and my struggles—of how I get tired of trying to please and appease. I tell him that I know God loves me, that I don't doubt His nearness. I tell him about my gratitude for His faithfulness that no matter how hard things become, there is always, always, always something to rejoice about. I admit that I need to close my ears to all the voices around me and simply stand silently before God and listen to what HE has to say.
I pause for a while and soon I feel peace beginning to take shape inside me. Nothing has changed except that I have been given the gift of a safe, non-judgmental friend to sort out my conflicting thoughts with. I haven't answered any of the usual questions. I haven't devised a new life strategy. I have, however, dislodged the words, errant or true, from my crowded soul and made room to receive the grace I so desperately need. God's grace and the grace of those with skin on. When I have spent my words, I turn to God's word—an assigned scripture–and I smile at what I read and I think I can see Him smiling too.
"Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good!
His faithful love endures forever.
Has the LORD redeemed you?
Then speak it out!"
Psalms 107:1-2
And so I speak it out!
Amid the things I do not understand, I understand this: God is good and He faithfully showers grace upon brokenness, imperfection, illness, failure, and loss. Perhaps the calling of my life is simply to model trust in this God we cannot see. Maybe the way I follow Jesus will be the publishing house for my story. I may or may not speak from a platform or from the printed page, but my life can be, and is, a living epistle of God's grace and redemption.

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ROME - Over 1800 accredited, 58 participating countries, 45 projects, more than 60 thousand meetings, 120 films, crowded Upfront TV and What's next Italy; it is the boom of the 3rd edition of MIA, the International Audiovisual Market concluded in Rome on October 22 in Rome, at the Barberini District with a thrilling success, also marked by the million views on twitter. A success due to the choice of organizers to give a strong identity, thanks to the clarity of the model built on the industry that had an excellent match in the Italian and international market. An identity, due to the highly innovative and European reorganization of the autonomous management of ANICA and APT, led by the Presidents Francesco Rutelli and Giancarlo Leone, by the Directors General Mina Larocca and Chiara Sbarigia and supported by all the companies that the two associations represent.
"Great satisfaction" was the word used by Lucia Milazzotto, Director of MIA, in his speech on the achievements of the 1839 accredited that have worked hardest in hectic days talking about the Market. "It was a vibrant market, because the number of meetings and business was above expectations, Milazzotto explains, because MIA is a market that gathers industry leaders. It is important because a European strong market that has at the same time been a major US participation. Qualified for the quality of the participants, the films and the projects presented."
Still, always continuing in the list of adjectives most used these days by the guests, the MIA was, as Milazzotto explained, "useful, because the Italian and European industry increasingly needs unobstructed spaces of encounter. But the MIA is especially strategic: MIA is becoming an appointment not to be missed. " Finally, concludes Milazzotto, the MIA has been "Italian, international and beautiful, which was the adjective I heard more in these days. Italian: Italy is experiencing a crucial moment in its history regarding international development; in this context, Italy will play an important role in the global trading tables. And it is international because it collects the industries of 58 countries that came to Rome to do business. Finally, in a simple word that sums up all the exceptional atmosphere of these 4 days, the MIA was beautiful because it is the only market that lives and lives in extraordinary locations that go through two thousand years of history."
Finland has been among the 58 countries represented, with four companies present: Vertigo, Cinemanse, Empire Pictures, Cinema World.
In particular, Minna Virtanen, producer and director of Vertigo, based in Helsinki, regarding this edition of MIA, stated that " it was very important ant useful. The MIA TV series pitching forum was very well arranged. I was amazed that all projects selected were so high level productions. It was a great honor to be included in this fantastic group of projects."
As regards a particular aspect or side of the business, she adds that "since I already have co producers and the world sales agent (Federation Entertainment) on board, I was looking for broadcasters. I think you never make deals in pitching forums. This is the place where you connect to the right kind of people and the business negotiations start from here. Mia pitching forum provides a great opportunity to network with right kind of people and the best companies in the business. That is the most important thing"


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Doris Gene Carpenter, 90, of Wabash, IN, and having family in Huntington, IN, died Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018, at 9:15 a.m. at Vernon Health and Rehab in Wabash.
Mrs. Carpenter was a 1945 graduate of Lincolnville High School. She was a homemaker and a nurse's aide for Friendly Nursing Home and Pleasant View Nursing Home, both of Wabash.
She was born Oct. 9, 1927, in Lincolnville to Frank and Dora Page Cross Gaines. She married Raymond E. Carpenter in Wabash on April 31, 1971; he preceded her in death on Jan. 8, 2018.
She is survived by three daughters, Sherry (Roger) Baumbauer, Sarina Bitzel and Doretta Tucker, all of Wabash; a stepdaughter, Diana (Aaron) Biehl, of Huntington; nine grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by a son, Danny Tucker.
There were no services.
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Makalu trekking in eastern Nepal is protected by the Makalu Barun National Park and Conservation Project. Established in 1992, it covers 2330 sq km. Among the 16 mountains in the park, it is home to Makalu, the fifth highest mountain in the world (8463m/ 27,766ft).The world's fifth highest mountain. Formerly a restricted area, it spans five major ecological zones where can be found the lush, tropical Arun Valley, dense forests or rhododendron and fir and alpine meadows that lead to the might Barun glacier. From the base camp, any one can view the spectacular Mt. Makalu, Campare to other trekking it is long but tremendous an exciting trek from beginning point by bus hille or by flight Tumlingtar along the Arun River to the Makalu base camp. You will walk through beautiful rai and limbu settlements of num and with steep climbs to the makalu barun national camp. We would like to put here as an extra for you that while you will be doing trekking in the Makalu base camp you will also touch the Sherpani Col pass which is the main pass trail to join the Khumbu valley.


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The little orphaned sea lion pup struggled to climb into the kayak. Tuckered out, cold, shivering and real hungry, the 7-month-old pinniped was on its own, abandoned by its beleaguered mother, no doubt starving herself.
This has been a record year for abandoned sea lion pups on the Southern California coastline.
Eventually the sea lion pup managed to climb into my friend's kayak, and eventually found its way into his lap to seek some much needed warmth. The pup stayed with us for over two hours on the water until we landed in a half moon-shaped cove on the southeast end of Santa Cruz Island. Reluctantly the young sea lion flopped out of the kayak and stumbled onto the cobbled beach before finding a warm patch of sand to haul out in.
This has been a record year for abandoned sea lion pups on the Southern California coastline, and these are the lucky ones who are discovered by people walking the beach and able to contact a local Marine Mammal Rescue Center. From there the pups are retrieved by volunteers, rehabilitated and then eventually released in the open ocean near haul out sites. Unfortunately scores of other pups go undiscovered, hauled out on inaccessible portions of the coast, or out on any of California's eight windswept Channel Islands. These are the unlucky ones where nature simply takes its course.
"These atmospheric warm water events are catastrophic on the food chain," said Dr. Brent Stewart, senior research scientist at the Hubbs – Sea World Research Institute. "Sea lion pups are coming ashore from the islands in poor condition."
Over the past year warm currents in Southern California waters have wreaked havoc on cold upwelling systems that generate nutrient rich waters. Portions of the food web like squid and baitfish have been forced to retreat to deeper, colder waters, making things tough on female sea lions and their hungry 6–to–8–month–old pups. Beginning in the fall of 2014, mother sea lions began heading further out into deeper waters to search for more reliable food sources, leaving no choice but to abandon their offspring.
In February, 2015 there were 850 sea lion pups collected off mainland beaches. In March there 1,050 pups retrieved, and in April there were 560. Thus far, almost 3,000 sea lion pups have been retrieved and placed in Marine Mammal Rescue Centers up and down Southern California.
"Some of this is disease," continued Dr. Stewart, referring to hookworm. "Most of it though is dehydration and malnutrition."
Some of the pups that are rehabilitated are affixed with Global Positioning System (GPS). Using satellite telemetry scientists are tracking the movements of these animals. A number of them are scouring the Southern California coast for food, with a few dipping as far south as Baja California.
Despite the abundance of malnourished sea lions in Southern California, their overall numbers are increasing. There are roughly 250,000 to 300,000 California sea lions in Southern California waters, with 65,000 sea lion pups born last year, their populations robust as ever. Yet, Dr. Stewart wasn't optimistic on a quick recovery.
"There are reports of warm water upwelling in the Galapagos Islands now," he said. "It looks like an El Nino following this event, so we'll see what happens to them this year. We suspect births will decline again."
Later in the afternoon on the same day, I was paddling west from Scorpion Anchorage near the southeast end of Santa Cruz Island. Working my way toward Cavern Point, I found a lone sea lion pup straining to get out of the water on wave-battered rocks cloaked in acorn barnacles. Its ribs were showing and it took a lot of energy for it to get just a few feet above the water and out of the chilly northwest winds. For three days it returned to the same spot soaking in the warm morning sun, but the pup's uncertain future always relying on that cold, nutrient-rich water for survival.
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Opera repertoire includes the title roles in Carmen and La Pericole; Rosina in Il Barbiere di Sivigilia, Dalila in Samson et Dalila, Varvara in Katya Kabanova, Guilietta in The Tales of Hoffmann, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Maddalena in Rigoletto, Seigrune in Die Walkare, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Siebel in Faust, Nancy in Albert Herring, Tisbe in La Cenerentolla, Tessa in The Gondoliers, Stasi in The Gypsy Princess, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Medoro in Orlando, Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Emilia in Otello, Magdalene in Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, all for Opera Australia; Grace in Love in the Age of Therapy (OzOpera/Melbourne Festival and Sydney Festival); the title role in Carmen, Flora in La Traviata and Lady Angela in Patience (West Australia, Opera); Cornelia in Giulio Cesare and Maddalena in Rigoletto (Opera Queensland); the title role in Carmen (Spray Farm Festival and Melbourne City Opera) Flowermaiden, Second Squire and Voice from above in Parsifal (SOSA).


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The following piece appears in our Summer 2016 digital issue. The entire issue is available for immediate download.
When I was a teenager, I recall once staring into my reflection in the mirror of the bathroom I shared with my four brothers. My two older sisters were married by then, abandoning me at that terrifying juncture when my body and mind morphed from child to woman. I looked into each of my eyes, first the left, then the right, and wondered: "Who are you?" Or something to that effect. The words aren't as important as the feeling, which was a combination of curiosity, confusion, and fear. Perhaps it wasn't as profound at the time as it is in hindsight, but it marked me in my mind as one of those people who needed to know what the point of our lives is and who would never be satisfied with pat answers.
I have come to realize not everyone has that need to know. My husband, for example, is content to live and let live. He is a kind, selfless, compassionate person who thinks it's unlikely that Jesus was God, which I as a Catholic believe, or that there even is a God. He takes his cue from the natural world—meaning that all things live and die. The end. Whereas I see the natural world as confirmation that there is more to life than what we see.
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Finding the cuisine of your dreams is easy in Washington, where upward of 1,000(!) restaurants present a world's choice of options, whether you crave sushi or a luscious boeuf bourguignon. Scoring a table can be the tricky part: Washingtonians dine out a lot. A LOT. Wheeler-dealers and socializing urbanistas fill restaurants throughout the city, from the U&14th Street Corridors, where the newest and hottest eateries proliferate, to the White House neighborhood's upscale fine dining establishments. Be sure to make a reservation, whenever possible. Two services are very helpful in booking a table: www.opentable.com and www.cityeats.com. Most D.C. restaurants belong to one or the other service, and some are registered with both. Use them.
The city is also notable for its casual dining, and often the food is as sensational in these places as at the higher priced D.C. restaurants. (If you're a fan of tacos, pizza, and burgers, you'll love the appealing versions at Tacqueria Nacional , Graffiato , and Good Stuff Eatery . Asian cuisine is increasingly a favorite, with newcomer Daikaya taking the popular lead. Bistros serving "small plates" of delicious tastes are clearly here to stay, no matter whether the cuisine is Mexican, as at Bandolero , or the Middle Eastern mezze of Zaytinya . Finally, you should know that a boisterous bar scene is now a dining-out fact of life. And it can get loud.
Good restaurants are in every neighborhood, and this chapter leads you to a range of options, spanning diverse cuisines and budget considerations.
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Keep in mind that the price categories refer to dinner prices, and that some very expensive restaurants offer affordable lunches, early-bird dinners, tapas, or bar meals. The prices within each review refer to the average cost of individual entrees, not the entire meal.
Expensive $20–plus
Moderate $10–$19
Inexpensive $10 and under
Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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Overhead Scan - ADIRS Panel
by Eric Bradley, 16 July 2015
The next panel, still working towards the back, is the ADIRS panel.
Drawing: Eric Bradley [© 2015]
This panel starts with a row of 3x ADR buttons, which should all be set to "on" (remember, if they are illuminated, that means they are off).
Then there are 3x IR Mode Selector switches, used to set the IRS to OFF, NAV, or ATT. Normally these switches should be in the NAV position, and you should set them to NAV now.
Above these, we have the IR Fault/Align buttons. These are used for warning when the IRS is out of alignment or when there is a problem with any of the 3 IR data collectors. Each of these buttons has 2 sections, with the amber FAULT light at the top and white ALIGN light at the bottom.
If the FAULT light is on and steady, it means there is an unrecoverable fault with that IR collector, but if it is flashing then it means the attitude and heading information can still be recovered by switching to ATT mode with the corresponding IR Mode Selector switch.
The final light button on this panel is the ON BAT button. This lets you know when any part of the IR system is drawing power only from the battery and not using any other power sources.
The top part of the panel is dedicated to the ADIRU information display. There is the display itself, two switches for determining what gets displayed, and a keypad for manual input.
IMPORTANT: You should use this site with Chrome or Chromium browser for best results because other browsers may have too many keyboard quirks that will quickly become annoying (for example, the QuickFind feature in Firefox, or the way Firefox uses the backspace key for navigation).
For most users, it will be best to switch the browser to full screen mode (F11), so that the screen won't scroll unintentionally.
REALLY IMPORTANT: This page requires a minimum viewport area of 900px wide by 600px high. It is NOT intended to be used on a smartphone or mobile phone display, but will work on tablets that meet the minimums. You will get best results with a PC running Chromium for Linux in full screen mode.
UPDATE: From August 2017 we fixed this problem slightly. It will now scale the entire screen on Android phones. Unfortunately if your phone has a very small screen, that may make it difficult to read the text.
In the lesson panel on the left side of the page, you will see it has been divided into 3 sections.
The top section shows the available lessons, displayed as a row of buttons. Each lesson is designed to follow from the previous one, so it is best to complete them in order from left to right.
The middle section is the lesson body, which contains all the content of the lesson.
If you see a green button, this means it leads to information that is essential for continuing (exception is on the preflight checks page, where color has no meaning). Blue buttons link to information that may be of interest, but is not essential.
The lesson body may need to be scrolled in order to see all of the content. It is important to remember that when moving between pages, on most browsers the scroll position will not be reset (if you know how to do that without refreshing the page, be sure to let us know). You will need to scroll back to the top yourself.
The bottom section divides the lesson body into pages, making it easy to go back and review what you have already read before.
Most of the time, you should read every page of every lesson. The exception is lesson 1: Check & Start. For that lesson, you can skip straight to page 5 if you have no interest in real-world aviation and only want to learn the MCDU procedures.
This help file is due to be updated and will be given a new separate page with much more detail.
For now, we felt it is better to just get the most vital information out there as quickly as possible, so you can started. We will make fixes as we go, and continue adding content as it becomes possible.
Our site is famous for two reasons... first and best, because of our attention to detail and our solid attempt to create the most realistic free online training tool available for the MCDU. But unfortunately we're also famous for how slowly we can make updates.
We'd like to improve on both counts! And that's where you have the opportunity to help.
This product is available to the public totally free of charge and we don't make any profit from it at all. We volunteer our spare time to work on the project and unfortunately there is less and less of this spare time available.
So we are now asking any enthusiastic volunteers who would like to see this project reach its full potential to assist with developing the project. It is really easy to help and you don't need to be a programmer to do it!
You can help us by adding new airports, waypoints, routes etc. If you can spare just one hour to help with that, even if you only add one line of data, it will go a long way towards getting this project up in the air :)
Everyone who helps will get a shiny new developer credit that you can display on your CV or brag about to your friends or whatever else you want to do with it.
Please use the email contact form to get in touch if you are interested. Also any active duty or trainee A320/A330 pilots (or similar) who would like to help in other ways than adding data, we are also very keen to talk with you!
My sincere thanks to everyone who has helped us to keep this project alive for another year, and I truly hope we can continue to make things even better.
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When we first started this project, many airlines were still using the older MCDU hardware with just software updates, so many of them had a simple OFF/BRT knob that you rotated to adjust the brightness or turn the unit off. That is no longer the case and it is much more common to encounter the newer hardware, so we have implemented a long overdue update to the interface. Now you use the BRT and DIM keys to switch on and off. We have not added incremental brightness yet, but it is planned for the near future.
/ ATC COMM tutorial available!
Additional information is available from document or visit IBAC website).
For now, it works in a much simplified manner. Tough break, but we need more money!
Fixed PERF CLB / CRZ / DES pages.
Built framework for PERF APPR page, but it does not display yet (needs a little coding, thanks for your patience and understanding).
Now also working on some new LATREV functionality.
Added section to website to allow you to participate in developing this project.
For the moment, because I don't yet have any other place to bring this notice to attention, regarding the soon-to-be-implemented communications features, I would like to present this document containing potentially important information regarding the nature of communications messages and some of the matters that you should be aware of. Eventually we will get around to providing a tutorial on all this stuff here on the MCDU website. The features will be available before the tutorial is ready, so that is why I have made the link to the document, which is not a tutorial but does raise some important issues that will undoubtedly be of help to you in your training.


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A letter to a wallflower.
Dear friend,
I have finally seen the movie "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." I first came across the novel some 4 years ago when a friend handed me a paperback of the same title from the States written by Stephen Chbosky. I instantly loved the novel, but never really got to talking about it among friends as I feared some might think it cheeky and girl-flickish. I watched the movie alone because my friends were mostly preoccupied with things that have to do with domestic things. Sundays don't fail. So there I was inside the theater, reliving every bit of feeling I had when I first read the book.
What's beautiful about this movie is that the cast were perfect for their roles. Since the story is set in a period where I half-belong, the 80s, my biases had me captured throughout the film: the music they used (lots of David Bowie's Heroes, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, etc.), the much-loved mixed tapes, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the plaids, and yes, the hash browns. Logan Lerman did a wonderful job in giving life to Charlie, a 15-year old freshman who struggles with his introversion brought about by a dark past and an even darker future which he himself assumes. Charlie meets an eccentric mix of seniors whom he devotes his time with and explores the exciting but altogether miserable adolescent life. Emma Watson succeeds in losing her thick Potter accent and she brings out a good amount of playful and risqué maturity to her role as Sam. Ezra Miller plays Patrick (otherwise known as "nothing" – a reverberating recall from A Chorus Line character Diana Morales) who steals some shining moments from Charlie in an adorable way.
I guess the young people of today would benefit from watching "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." It sends out a strong message about knowing oneself and embracing everything about us – both the good and the bad. It carries the tagline We Are Infinite, and that is a resounding idea that people must take to heart to live a life of meaning. It is indeed true that some people gripe about their slanted self-worth because of their relationships, but "We accept the love we think we deserve." And I think this movie deserves a big round of applause.
Much love,


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This month has been exceptionally exciting, eventful, tiring and time poor for a reason that will soon become apparent if you're not already aware.
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Multi Joint = More Muscle, Less Time. What you need to Know.
If you're retired, unemployed, on vacation, or an out-of-season athlete with plenty of time to spend at the gym, continue doing bicep and leg curls, tricep and leg extensions, and other single-joint (isolation) exercises.
However, for those juggling many activities like work, school, family, and sports commitments while trying to fit in quality weight-training workouts, multi-joint movements (also known as compound exercises) are proven time-efficient muscle builders that deliver more results than single-joint exercises.
This does not imply that single-joint movements are ineffective. However, outside the weight room, in daily activities and in sports, virtually every movement involves more than one joint.
the benefits
Therefore, it makes sense to do mostly multi-joint exercises not only from a time management standpoint, but from a functional perspective outside the gym as well. And if you really want to gain mass for athletics or build beach muscles in the coming months before summer, replace those bicep and leg curls with barbell rows, deadlifts and squats for the next several weeks.
If your time is limited and you want fast results from these multi-joint (compound) exercises, or if you simply need some motivation, listen to Randall Strossen, Ph.D., who wrote a book called Super Squats back in 1989. He said, "Ignoring the fact that your time is precious and you might not want to spend three hours in the gym hitting each muscle group in turn, and the fact that it's a rare movement in everyday life that truly isolates a muscle group, there's another very compelling reason to stick to the basic exercises: They increase strength and size far more effectively than the isolation exercises. In fact, one compound exercise will produce far more bulk and power than an entire series of isolation exercises."
the proof
Need proof? Take note of the size of powerlifters. Each of their workouts focuses on just three multi-joint powerlifting exercises -- squats, deadlifts and bench presses. Performing several sets of those "big 3" during each workout can quickly yield growth without having to do any single-joint exercises that extend gym time. But limiting yourself to only those three exercises can get stale.
For variety, there are additional multi-joint exercises you can perform to boost muscle size in the shortest amount of time, such as overhead or shoulder presses, pulldowns, dips, lunges, pushups, and dumbbell rows. When you do multi-joint exercises, more muscle groups are used per exercise, stimulating growth throughout the entire body -- including your arms -- due to the release of anabolic (muscle-building) testosterone and growth hormone.
More anabolic hormones are activated during a squat or deadlift than during a single-joint exercise such as a leg extension (knee joint) or bicep curl (elbow).
Following are several multi-joint exercises to incorporate into your workouts. To keep things interesting, occasionally substitute deadlifts and lunges for dumbbell or barbell rows and leg presses. Or do squats instead of leg presses and dips, or pushups rather than bench presses. For shoulders, try upright rows instead of overhead presses.
Find out which multi-joint exercises will bulk you up and try some of the sample workout schedules
multi-joint exercises
Squats: Recognized mostly for building powerful thighs and hips, squats also add size to the upper body -- including the back, shoulders, chest, and arms -- due to their anabolic effect.
Deadlifts: The deadlift is another anabolic king because it not only increases lower body growth, but that of the upper body as well.
Leg Presses: These enable you to use heavier resistance than do leg extensions or curls, thus promoting more muscle growth. While three or more sets each of leg extensions and leg curls mainly work the quadriceps and hamstrings respectively, three or more heavy sets of leg presses or squats will strengthen and add more mass to the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteals -- in a shorter time frame!
Front, Side or Reverse Lunges and Stepups: These are also excellent time-saving multi-joint lower body exercises, and they are particularly more functional for sports and daily activities than leg extensions or leg curls.
Bench Presses, Dips and Pushups: When it comes to the upper body, bench presses, dips and pushups not only add mass to the chest, shoulders and back, but the triceps as well. In fact, they do it much more effectively than single-joint tricep pressdowns or kickbacks. Also, eliminate those single-joint dumbbell flyes for the chest for several weeks; these exercises will build up your chest muscles to a greater degree in less time.
Overhead Presses: Excellent for shoulders and triceps.
Pulldowns, Pullups, Barbell Rows, and Dumbbell Rows: You'll see your biceps grow without doing one curl; not to mention the added size of your back muscles from doing these exercises.
Upright Rows: They're also a bicep and forearm-building movement, as well as a wonderful shoulder and upper back exercise.
sample workouts
Here's a sample workout schedule utilizing these multi-joint exercises. For those with a full plate of business occupying each week, do full-body workouts every third day with two days off for recovery. For example, train on Monday, Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Tuesday over a two-week period. If you have more time, try a four-day per week split routine, training the lower body on Monday and Thursday, and the upper body on Tuesday and Friday (Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday off).
Full-body "every third day" workouts might include leg presses, deadlifts, dips, pulldowns, and upright rows during one session. The next workout could comprise squats or lunges, bench presses or pushups, pullups or barbell rows, and overhead presses. For those favoring a four-day split program, do several sets of squats and lunges on lower-body days, and choose leg presses and stepups for the next workout.
Upper-body days would involve selecting bench presses, dips or pushups, pulldowns, pullups, or dumbbell rows or barbell rows, and either upright rows or overhead presses.
Give it a shot
Devote approximately eight weeks to doing only multi-joint exercises, combined with adequate sleep and nutrition to enhance recovery. What -- no bicep curls for about two months? Well, believe me, after all those sets of pulldowns, pullups, upright rows, barbell rows, seated rows, and one-arm dumbbell rows, your biceps should be huge -- not to mention your bigger triceps, shoulders, chest, back, and legs from all the other multi-joint exercises.
And think of all that extra time you will have accumulated to accomplish things outside the gym just by removing the single-joint exercises from your workouts!


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They not only recorded growth in all segments, but are also expanding into new markets.
Last weekend (24-26 July) Under Armour sponsored the South African Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) Wave Riding Championship in Cape Town and the brand was also the clothing sponsor of the South African team competing in the world championship earlier this year.
Under Armour has also made inroads in the fishing market and won the best new apparel award at this year's major US trade fishing show (ICAST).
The brand is now also the official performance partner of USA Boxing. Under the new partnership the brand will supply the boxers with head-to-toe training and competition apparel and footwear until 2021.
Their custom collection of boxing gear features Armourvent technology, which has been thoroughly tested for high intensity action that maximises effectiveness in the ring. The new UA ClutchFit Title Hunter boxing boot gives boxers a flexible feel with locked-in support that enables every movement.
Under Armour's net revenues increased 29% to $784-m for the second quarter. Although its net income dropped 17% to $15-m due to foreign exchange losses and higher expenses, it still surpassed analysts' estimates.
All of the brands' segments experienced growth, with footwear growing the most (up by 40% to $154-m). This is due to continued product expansion in running and excitement created by the Stephen Curry Signature product. Accessories grew by 39% to $83-m with the introduction of new bags, and apparel grew by 23% to $515-m with the expansion of baselayer and training products.
The direct-to-consumer net revenues increased 33% year-over-year while international net revenues increased 93% year-over-year. Inventory also increased 26% to $837-m whereas cash and cash equivalents dropped 43% to $171-m, and the brand's total debt went up $519-m compared to the same period last year.
The brand has updated its 2015 outlook and expects net revenues to grow 25% to $3.84-bn for the 2014 fiscal year and an operating income growth of 14-15% to $405-m.
"The on-going strength of our brand and execution of our business plan give us confidence in raising our full year top line outlook," says Brad Dickerson, COO/CFO of Under Armour, Inc. "The confluence of our sports marketing success stories has provided a unique opportunity to drive investment toward areas that we see are key to long-term sustainable growth and we plan to take advantage of this dynamic in the back half of 2015. At the same time, we are increasing our focus on developing sustainable business process improvements and better connecting the components of our value chain to more fully capitalize on our brand's momentum each season going forward."


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In a medium saucepan, bring the water and salt to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the squash and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Strain and set aside.
For the dip: In a food processor, blend the bell pepper, avocado, ground cumin, yogurt, and mayonnaise until smooth, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Transfer to a serving bowl and let stand for 10 minutes to thicken.
Serve the dip with warm or room-temperature chayote squash.


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Unusual perspective on a landing plane but works for me.
I find my eyes wandering around in the lower area trying to see what is in there. Being dark makes it hard but adds to the mystery of airport configurations.
Bobo you make me worry. Is my screen to light or is your to dark? If you cannot see the concrete wall I might be posting images looking way to dark.
Andre,hi,I can see the wall clearer to the left of photo darkens as I look to the right still visible though,hope this helps......
Based on the histogram, the image is not too dark. I had the same impressions of the lower part of the image as Bobo in that I saw some sort of long wall at the very bottom, though I would never have known whether it was made of cloth or concrete. I also see a road on the left and I think a retaining wall above the road perhaps made of large rocks. I spent a bit of time looking at that area of the photo trying to figure all of that out.
Bernard according to Mike's post me and you need new screens. If Mike sees a road on the left leading into the image with a retaining wall of rocks to its right, I definitely need to do something about my screen, damn!
Hi Andre,re.the wall, I can see panels greyish colour to the left,then darker panel,lighter panel one after the other till just right of centre two lighter ones together then dark,light etc...bottom left just left of lamp post a small blue box can be seen.....


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Diabetic Digest - Islet transplantation may correct type 1 diabetes
Diabetic Digest - April 27, 2016
Every year I read numerous stories about break-throughs in curing type 1 diabetes. Most don't have any traction, but the story I have for you today gives hope to many that live with type 1 diabetes.
Read how a study says that islet cell transplantation may help to correct type 1 diabetes. It's very interesting.
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Islet transplantation may correct type 1 diabetes, study says
WASHINGTON - Transplants of islet cells, the cells responsible for producing insulin in the pancreas, helped people with type 1 diabetes establish near-normal control of their glucose levels, get free of hypoglycemic events and in many cases no longer need insulin therapy.
Just under 90 percent of patients receiving islet cell transplants in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored clinical trial showed significant improvement in management of their condition during the course of a year, inching researchers closer to a cure for the genetically-caused disease.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder, in which the immune system attacks islet cells, preventing the release of insulin, making it difficult for the body to break down sugars for use, storage or excretion.
The clinical trial, spearheaded by the Clinical Islet Transplantation Consortium, announced in September that the first patient in the study no longer needed insulin therapy.
With results from the rest of the phase 3 trial in hand, the researchers said they will look to license technology to manufacture purified human pancreatic islets for mass use, while also continuing studies on the safety and efficacy with varied groups of patients.
"For people unable to safely control type 1 diabetes, islet transplantation offers real hope for preventing severe, life-threatening hypoglycemia," Dr. Tom Eggerman, a researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, said in a press release.
For the study, published in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers recruited 48 patients at eight university medical centers around the United States.
All patients received purified islet cells from deceased human donors, with each participant given the transplant into the portal vein, which carries blood from the intestine to the liver. Each of the patients was also given immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their immune systems from rejecting the cells.
After one year, 87.5 percent of participants had no hypoglycemic events, near-normal control of glucose and better awareness of their condition. After one year, 52 percent of patients no longer needed insulin therapy.
Of patients who did not see results within 75 days -- they still needed insulin treatments -- 25 patients received a second transplant, and one patient received a third.
The researchers worked with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to run the trial with future plans for mass manufacture in mind, potentially speeding up the approval process.
"The findings suggest that for people who continue to have life-altering severe hypoglycemia despite optimal medical management, islet transplantation offers a potentially lifesaving treatment that in the majority of cases eliminates severe hypoglycemic events while conferring excellent control of blood sugar," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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4 medium zucchini
1 cup long grain rice, cooked
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, chopped
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 pound lean ground beef
1/2 cup bread crumbs
2 cups canned spaghetti sauce
3 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped
2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons parmesan cheese, grated
Split zucchini lengthwise, scoop out seeds. Saute ground beef, onion, garlic, dill, and parsley in olive oil. Remove from heat. Add cooked rice, beaten egg, 1/4 c bread crumbs and mix well. Fill zucchini with mixture and place in a baking dish. Cover with spaghetti sauce, sprinkle cheese and remaining bread crumbs on top. Cover and bake at 350 for approx 45 minutes, until zucchini is tender but firm.
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At a Glance
Blade Runner 2049 is a direct sequel to the Blade Runner movie released in the 1980's. For those unfamiliar with the series, it takes place in a dystopian future in which human-like androids, known as replicants, are commonplace. As is common in movies of this genre, not everything goes according to plan and people known as blade runners are dispatched to keep the peace. With this basic synopsis in place, Blade Runner 2049 follows suit, apparently taking place a few decades after the events of the first.
As the first movie was produced well before my time, I never got around to seeing it, so this review will be based mostly on the latest movie as a stand-alone film. That being said, at close to 3 hours in length this movie provides plenty to talk about. As usual, you can expect this review to be spoiler free.
A Look Into the Future
The post-apocalyptic society concept is one that has been used time and time again in movies over the last decade or so, so going into the movie I was really hoping Bladerunner 2049 would have some form of originality. Fortunately, it did seem to have quite a bit that made it a unique experience. One thing that stood out, for me at least, was the pacing of the film. Based on the theme alone you would expect the movie to be fast-paced and full of action, but it was actually quite the opposite. The majority of the film was centered on dialogues and the relationships between different characters. Many of these dialogues were philosophical or meant to make some kind of statement about society, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it was very easy to get confused or lost, especially if you have not seen the original film. All of this just made for a pretty slow film that would probably lose the interest of the casual movie-goer fairly quickly.
Writing aside, the movie does a great job of capturing the essence of the setting, probably more so than other movies I have seen with similar themes. Blade Runner 2049 thrusts you into a gloomy, dingy, and cramped world where each encounter truly feels like a fight for survival. The performances of each of the characters are phenomenal and really help to make the world feel all the more real and all the more tragic. Some of the most memorable performances, however, were those portraying the cold and inhuman replicants in their attempt to replicate human emotion in times of crisis. Though perhaps not the most relatable on a personal level, each scene and each conflict throughout the film are sure to keep you thinking about a potential deeper meaning.
The Blade Runner Experience
From an artistic perspective, there doesn't seem to be much that could have been done to improve. Everything from the cramped city filled with holograms and bizarre characters to the thick gloom that hangs in the air with every scene seem to be characteristic of a world far from our own; but the attention to detail keeps it close to home. And it is all complimented by a beautiful soundtrack. Rather than being over the top, the movie seemed to have a very practical depiction of what life may be like some 30 years from now, and that made it even more thought-provoking.
Each character had a strong personality that fueled their personal agenda, but what at first seemed like a fairly twisted mess of differing priorities ended up smoothing out quite well into what was otherwise a very interesting (abstract, yes, but interesting) plot. Rather than following a standard plot path, the movie has you all but guessing what you are supposed to be worried about for the first half of the film only to change direction just when you think you have it all figured out. It helped break down one long movie into what felt like two separate stories.
The Consensus
Despite its many good qualities, Blade Runner 2049 is probably a movie that requires some background knowledge and a specific taste to fully understand and appreciate. Even then you will probably find yourself confused on more than one occasion. This movie is certainly one that is meant to keep you thinking even after the movie has finished, which I find to be a commendable trait. All in all, it is very cinematically pleasing and tells a great and well thought out story, but it may be a bit much for anyone with more simplistic tastes.


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8 TV Shows I love to watch:
1. Survivor
2. The Amazing Race
3. How I Met Your Mother
4. The Hills
5. Desperate Housewives
6. Entourage
7. Friday Night Lights
8. The Office
8. The Office
8 Favorite Restaurants
1. The Horne House
2. Happy Sumo
3. Tree Room
4. Zoom
5. Carraba's
6. Cafe Rio
7. Foundry Grill
8. Melting Pot
8 Things that happened YESTERDAY:
1. A playdate with Kelli and Eli--my favorite!
2. A wild Halloween party at The Generations Network (where Eric works)
3. Amos wore his pirate costume
4. I woke up at 5 a.m. and stayed awake all day with NO naps
5. Trick or treating--for some people
6. Eric bought me a cherry coke and 2 crispy cremes!
7. Eric got a hot haircut
8. A quiet night at home with the family
8 Things I'm Looking Foward to:
1. Meeting new baby Horne
2. My family coming to visit next week!
3. Getting back into shape after 2+ years of being pregnant/nursing/just being lazy
4. Eric getting home every night
5. The holidays, especially the Horne's Christmas visit
6. All of Amos' and new baby's milestones and accomplishments
7. Our basement getting finished
8. Wearing non-maternity clothes and sleeping on my stomach
8 Things on my Wish List:
1. To be closer to family
2. Eric owning his own business (and it being successful, at least enough so I'm not a stress ball all the time)
3. EVERYTHING at Costco
4. Closure for "Lost"--it doesn't have to be this season, but eventually
5. New baby Horne being a really good sleeper
6. Good health for my family and friends
7. Calorie free ice cream, chocolate, french fries, and pizza
8. A back rub
8 People I Tag:
1. Eric
2. Emily
3. Deveney
4. Kelli
5. Kris
6. Britni
7. Laura
8. Paige


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The determination of the two contenders in the Super Bowl promised excitement as the best two teams from each conference compete. Unfortunately, the NFL has come up short on exciting games this year so only a half of the competitions were entertaining. The other was decided by a large number of points but that does not mean that that team is favored when it comes to the final round of professional football this year.
AFC Championship
For the second year in a row and adding to the many numbers of times, the New England Patriots entered the AFC Championship and ended with triumph. The Jacksonville Jaguars put up a fight with a strong first half but they could not stop Tom Brady even after they eliminated his best receiver due to the concussion protocol. The Jaguars weren't able to generate a large enough lead and the greatest quarterback of all time did what he does best, driving down the field to take the lead with only a short amount of time left on the clock. The Patriots will enter the Super Bowl again as the favored team and a legacy to uphold.
NFC Championship
The blowout game surprised me as the backup quarterback Nick Foles threw for a stunning game and the Philadelphia defense shut down the Vikings and their rookie quarterback. The Eagles went up early and never look back getting 24 points in the first half and adding two more touchdowns in the second as they shut out the Vikings just like they did the Falcons the week before. Despite the impressive performance, the Eagles still have a lot to prove with a backup quarterback and a strong defense to take on the legendary reigning champions.
It will be tough to say goodbye to football this season though it ends in a dull fashion. I don't care much for either of these teams but I'll still be watching come Super Bowl Sunday. My attention will slowly drift to the NBA as I catch up on who leads there and start to follow teams to get a sense of the league. I'll probably write a few sports post about basketball and maybe even hockey next month.


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Athena: An FPGA-based UGV from Olin College May 3, 2010Posted by emiliekopp in labview robot projects.
Tags: FPGA, igvc, labview, lidar, olin college, sbRIO, ugv
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Meet Athena, a UGV designed by students at Olin College to compete in the 2010 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC).
Athena avoids obstacles using an NI SingleBoardRIO, an FPGA-based embedded processor. Unlike processors, FPGAs use dedicated hardware for processing logic via a matrix of reconfigurable gate array logic circuitry and do not have an operating system.
Since FPGAs are simply huge fields of programmable gates, they can be programmed into many parallel hardware paths. This makes them truly parallel in nature so different processing operations do not have to compete for the same resources. Programmers can automatically map their solutions directly to the FPGA fabric, allowing them to create any number of task-specific cores that all run like simultaneous parallel circuits inside one FPGA chip.
This becomes very useful for roboticists. For anyone programming sophisticated algorithms for autonomy, FPGAs can make a netbook look like an Apple II. Granted, FPGAs are not the easiest embedded processing solution to master, assuming you don't have an extensive background in VHDL programming.
However, the students at Olin College have taken up LabVIEW FPGA, which allows them to program the FPGA on their sb-RIO using an intuitive, graphical programming language; VHDL programming not necessary.
As a result, they can run their algorithms super fast; incredibly fast; and the faster your robot can think, the smarter your robot can become.
Here's what Nick Hobbs, one of Athena's builders had to say:
The cool thing about this is we're processing LIDAR scans at 70Hz. That means in 1/70 of a second we're evaluating 180 data points effects on 16 possible vehicle paths. This is super fast, super parallel processing of a ton of data that couldn't happen without NI's FPGA. Oh, and naturally, all programmed in LabVIEW!
It's making more sense on why they named their robot Athena; she's one smart robot. I'm looking forward to seeing more from Nick's team. Check out more videos on their YouTube Channel.
For more info on FPGA-level programming and other multicore solutions, check out this white paper.
Move over ASIMO: Meet CHARLI, the first U.S. full-sized humanoid April 29, 2010Posted by emiliekopp in Uncategorized.
Tags: aibo, asimo, charli, darwin, dr hong, hubo, humanoid, labview, maxon, robocup, romela, sbRIO
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Our friends at RoMeLa just unveiled their latest major project to Popular Science magazine: CHARLI or Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence.
A few months ago, I had heard quite a bit about this project from Dr. Hong himself. It's no longer a secret that he and his students have created the nation's first full-sized humanoid robot, a feat that countries like Japan (ASIMO) and Korea (HUBO) had once kept to themselves.
It all started back in 1997, when RoboCup announced the charter to create a fully-autonomous soccer team of robots that would beat the World Cup champions by 2050. Since then, teams of researchers and students from all over the world have competed in RoboCup, with variations of robotic soccer players, from fully-simulated robots in software, to four-legged Sony Aibos, and more recently, bi-pedal humanoid robots in small and medium sizes.
RoMeLa is no stranger to RoboCup, competing in the "kid-size" humanoid league with DARwIn. Now they're scaling up and planning to compete in the "teen-size" league with CHARLI-L (CHARLI-Lightweight). RoMeLa will use their extensive experience in humanoid locomotion, kinematics and control to help CHARLI-L beat his opponents on the field.
But beyond competing for the coveted trophy at RoboCup, CHARLI is already turning heads in the robotics industry. CHARLI-H, the next-gen version of CHARLI-L, has a unique mechanical design, inspired from the anatomy of humans. Instead of being actuated by rotational motors in his joints, like most robots of his kind, CHARLI has linear actuators along his limbs that mimic the way our muscles stretch and contract to control movement. CHARLI's kinematics are like that of a human, with muscle-like actuation and compliance and flexibility at his joints, like tendons.
I'm looking forward to getting up-close and personal with CHARLI-L and CHARLI-H as RoMeLa continues their cutting-edge research. Maxon Motors and National Instruments have been heavily involved in these projects, donating hardware and software for their designs. Specifically, the current design for CHARLI-H uses an NI sbRIO embedded controller, Maxon motors and Maxon EPOS2 motor controllers; all of CHARLI-H code is written in LabVIEW graphical programming software.
Additionally, it was announced that Dr. Hong will be a keynote speaker at NIWeek 2010. As such, he'll be bringing some of his posse from RoMeLa, both human and robotic, to the Austin Convention Center this year. So expect some more details on CHARLI and other RoMeLa projects in the weeks to come.
RoboCup 2009: Robot Rescue League Team Spotlight February 25, 2010Posted by emiliekopp in labview robot projects, Uncategorized.
Tags: lidar, robocup, robot competition, sbRIO, search and rescue, ugv, white paper
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Get up close and personal with RoboRescue Team FH-Wels, from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. These students and researchers have an impressive resume of participating and winning in a variety of worldwide robotic competitions.
Their latest success: building an autonomous robot to compete in the 2009 RoboCup Rescue League, a competition where autonomous robots navigate through a small-scale obstacle course of complex, unstructured terrain in search for victims awaiting rescue.
Their white paper is extremely informative, providing a breakdown of the hardware and software design. The team wisely chose commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies for their robot design, including a notebook PC and haptic joystick for the command station, a D-Link router for communications, an NI sb-RIO for the onboard processing, a Hokuyo 2-D laser range finder for mapping, an Xsens IMU for localization, an NI Compact Vision System for image processing, and lots more. To piece it all together, they used LabVIEW for software programming.
One blog post wouldn't do them justice, so I figured just embed their white paper. It serves as an excellent reference design for anyone building an UGV for search and rescue applications.
And here's a video of their robot in action:
National Instruments Releases New Software for Robot Development: Introducing LabVIEW Robotics December 7, 2009Posted by emiliekopp in industry robot spotlight, labview robot projects.
Tags: a*, arm, crio, exclusive, labview_robotics, lidar, national_instruments, new_software, robot_revolution, sbRIO, starter_kit, ugv, velodyne
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Well, I found out what the countdown was for. Today, National Instruments released new software specifically for robot builders, LabVIEW Robotics. One of the many perks of being an NI employee is that I can download software directly from our internal network, free of charge, so I decided to check this out for myself. (Note: This blog post is not a full product review, as I haven't had much time to critique the product, so this will simply be some high-level feature highlights.)
While the product video states that LabVIEW Robotics software is built on 25 years of LabVIEW development, right off the bat, I notice some big differences between LabVIEW 2009 and LabVIEW Robotics. First off, the Getting Started Window:
For anyone not already familiar with LabVIEW, this won't sound like much to you, but the Getting Started Window now features a new, improved experience, starting with an embedded, interactive Getting Started Tutorial video (starring robot-friend Shelley Gretlein, a.k.a. RoboGret). There's a Robotics Project Wizard in the upper left corner that, when you click on it, helps you set up your system architecture and select various processing schemes for your robot. At first glance, it looks like this wizard is best suited for when you're using NI hardware (i.e. sbRIO, cRIO, and an NI LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit), but looks like in future software updates, it might include other, 3rd-party processing targets (perhaps ARM?)
The next big change I noticed is the all-new Robotics functions palette. I've always felt that LabVIEW has been a good programming language for robot development, and now it just got better, with several new robotics-specific programming functions, from Velodyne LIDAR sensor drivers to A* path planning algorithms. There looks to be hundreds of new VIs that were created for this product release.
Which leads to me to the Example Finder. There's several new robotics-specific example VIs to choose from to help you get started. There's some examples that help you connect to third-party software, like Microsoft Robotics Studio or Cogmation robotSim. There's examples for motion control and steering, including differential drive and mechanum steering. There's also full-fledge example project files for varying types of UGV's for you to study and copy/paste from, including the project files for ViNI and NIcholas, two, NI-built demonstration robots. And if that's not enough, NI has launched a new code exchange specifically for robotics, with hundreds of additional examples to share and download online. ( A little birdie told me that NI R&D will be contributing to the code available on this code exchange in between product releases as well.)
This is just my taste of the new features this product has. To get the official product specs and features list, you'll have to visit the LabVIEW Robotics product page on ni.com. I also found this webcast, Introduction to NI LabVIEW Robotics, if you care to watch a 9 minute demo.
A more critical product review will be coming soon.
Looks like the robot revolution has begun.
Feedback control at its finest: Innovations from UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab October 19, 2009Posted by emiliekopp in industry robot spotlight, labview robot projects.
Tags: feedback control, FPGA, IEEE, labview, NIWeek, sbRIO, switchblade, treaded, ucsd, ugv, video
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I found this cool video (below), provided by IEEE Spectrum Online the other day. Josh Romero, it's narrator, must have experienced the robot revolution at this year's NIWeek, as much of the video footage is taken from the Day 3 keynote. Here's the full, extended version of Dr. Bewley's talk about the work being done at the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab.
Josh brings up a good point in his video: automatic feedback control can be the difference between simple, ordinary robots and incredibly sophisticated dynamic systems. Take Switchblade, for example. The robot performs low-level control on a dedicated, embedded processor (in this case, a 2M gate FPGA on a SingleBoardRIO) to automatically balance itself on a point. There is an additional, real-time processor that performs additional tasks like maneuvering up a flight of stairs. With it being so small and having such a wide spectrum of mobility, it puts search-and-rescue robots like the PackBot to shame. See you at the top of the stairs, PackBot!
Ok, I take that back. Let's avoid "shaming" PackBot. Please don't shoot me, PackBot.
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Stay tuned for a closer look at how Switchblade works in a future post.
How to Build a Quad Rotor UAV October 6, 2009Posted by emiliekopp in code, labview robot projects.
Tags: .m-file, code, FPGA, how_to, labview, national_instruments, quad_rotor, robotics, sbRIO, UAV, xkcd
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Blog Spotlight: Dr. Ben Black, a Systems Engineer at National Instruments, is documenting his trials and tribulations in his blog as he builds an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), using a SingleBoardRIO (2M gate FPGA+400MHz PowerPC processor), four brushless motors, some serious controls theory and lots of gorilla glue.
I particularly appreciate his attention to the details, stepping through elements of UAV design that are often taken for granted, like choosing reference frames, when you should use PID control, and the genius that is xkcd.
Like most roboticists, throughout the design process, he has to wear many hats. I think Ben put it best:
I think that the true interdisciplinary nature of the problems really makes the field interesting. A roboticist has to have at minimum a working knowledge of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science / engineering and controls engineering. My background is from the world of mechanical engineering (with a little dabbling in bio-mechanics), but I end up building circuits and writing tons of code. I've had to pick up / stumble through the electrical and computer science knowledge as I go along, and I know just enough to make me dangerous (I probably don't always practice safe electrons…sometimes I let the magic smoke out of the circuits…and I definitely couldn't write a bubble sort algorithm to save my life).
My point in this soap-box rant is that in the world of robotics it's good to have a specialty, but to really put together a working system you also need to be a bit of a generalist.
For anyone even considering building a UAV (or just likes to read about cool robotics projects), I suggest you check it out. He shares his .m-files, LabVIEW code, and more. Thanks Ben.