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Virtual and Augmented Reality with Embedded Systems
Virtual reality is a term that has been used frequently in sci-fi novels and movies.
Virtual Reality (VR) is an artificial environment created with a computer and presented to the user in such a way that it appears and feels like a real environment. To experience a virtual reality environment, the user is required to wear special gloves, earphones and goggles, all of which receive inputs from the computer system. The computer continuously monitors and analyses the user's actions and alters the information fed to the devices the user has worn. For example the goggles, track head movements and respond accordingly by sending a new video input which makes the user feel s/he is in a real environment. The simulated environment can be similar to the real world - for example, simulations for pilot or combat training - or it can differ significantly from reality - such as alien worlds and creatures depicted in Virtual Reality games.
In contrast, the goal of Augmented Reality (AR) is to add information and meaning to a real object or place. Unlike Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality is not aimed at creating a simulated computer-based environment. Instead, it takes a real object or space that the user is viewing, as the foundation, and incorporates contextual data to deepen a person's understanding of the object. For example, Augmented Reality can add data such as an audio commentary, location data, historical context or similar information that can make a user's experience of a thing or a place more meaningful. Similarly, AR systems can be used to superimpose images from an X-ray or MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner directly onto a patient's body to help a surgeon analyse and clearly understand the nature of a fracture or a tumour.
Augmented reality is the next step in Virtual Reality, created by combining information, digital data received from different devices and the internet, to create a surreal world which gets displayed to the user in such an intuitive fashion that the user may not be able to differentiate between the real world and its virtual augmentation.
Creating the Virtual World
Getting the right information at the right time and the right place is the key to the functioning of a VR and AR system. The basic requirements of both VR and AR systems are same – both depend on data generated from user movements and perspective to arrive at the information (text, visuals, sound etc.) to be provided to the user. AR systems and VR systems employ similar hardware technologies but differ in the complexity of the systems used. In general, the devices used in both VR and AR systems can be summarised as below.
Tracking devices: The "input" unit of a virtual system or tracking devices help sense the movements of the user to identify the user's coordinates in real-time. The requirements for AR in such cases are much stricter than those for VR systems. VR systems use indoor tracking devices to track the entire body actions of a user to "transport"
Scene processor: VR systems need to process and generate realistic images because they completely replace the real world with the virtual environment for the user. Thus, a complex and high performance intelligent embedded system capable of rendering text, graphics and sound to match user movements is critical in a VR environment. In AR, the virtual images only supplement the real world. Therefore, fewer virtual objects need to be drawn, and they do not necessarily have to be realistically rendered. However, an AR system needs to have the intelligence to interface with a centralised database or connect to a network, internet or GPS (Global Positioning System) to fetch and display the right information to the user. In addition, an AR system tracks the position and orientation of the user's head so that the overlaid material can be aligned with the user's view of the world.
Display device: The display devices used in AR may be less complex when compared to VR systems. For example, monochrome or low-resolution display may be adequate for some AR applications, while VR systems need to use full colour high-resolution display systems. Optical see-through Head Mounted Devices (HMD) with a small display device may be satisfactory in the case of an AR system because the user can still see the real world. However, a complex HMD that blocks the user's view to the real-world is critical in the case of a VR system.
Difference between Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Immersion
Virtual reality provides a totally immersive environment while Augmented Reality adds information to the user's existing view of the world.
• User senses
In Virtual Reality, a user has to be in a controlled environment, a simulator capsule or a head mounted device (HMD) that feeds the user visuals, sounds, motion, sensation and in some cases smell as well.
In Augmented Reality, the user maintains a sense of presence in real world and the information is generally displayed on HMD or a hand-held device.
• Complexity
Virtual Reality systems are complex since it needs to process all details associated with the virtual environment. Augmented Reality systems are less complex but needs to combine virtual and real worlds to provide a rich user experience.
Embedded intelligence
Similar to a central processing unit of a computer, the scene processor forms the core part of a VR or AR system where the data gets processed and results are generated for the user. Embedded systems are playing a vital role in creating advanced, intelligent and affordable scene generators for VR and AR systems. The increase in processing power and miniaturisation of embedded components are paving way to the creation of scene processors with higher processing power yet in sizes that fit inside the palm of the user. The use of embedded technology also supports interconnectivity of similar devices and also ensures connectivity to external systems, networks or internet to give a rich holistic user experience.
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• Simulation for space missions
• Robotics and tele-robotics
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• Medical surgery simulation
• Virtual Reality games
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• Virtual HMDs to aid military combat operations
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Zika, a mosquito-borne illness currently spreading rapidly across the Americas, has been linked to a fetal neurological disorder called microcephaly. In response, a slew of Latin American countries have recently encouraged women to hold off getting pregnant to keep the virus from affecting their unborn children.
"The advice of some governments to women to delay getting pregnant, ignores the reality that many women and girls simply cannot exercise control over whether or when or under what circumstances they become pregnant, especially in an environment where sexual violence is so common," said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein in a Friday statement.
To those following the UN's involvement in international abortion rights policy, this comes as no surprise. UN officials have consistently urged countries to lift restrictive bans on abortion, declaring that they breach human rights treaties.
The UN's announcement comes a day after a judge in Brazil went against the country's mainstream abortion policy by announcing he'll allow women to end a pregnancy in cases of microcephaly.
Abortions are currently outlawed in Brazil, except for cases of rape, anencephaly (a more extreme version of microcephaly, where a baby often dies in infancy), or when the mother's life is in danger. Some conservative lawmakers have even pushed to further regulate these exceptions.
"I know this is very difficult because the subject is new, requires thorough discussion, and a great deal of religious influences persists," said Judge Coelho de Alcântara. "But my position is that abortion for microcephaly should be allowed."
This is exactly the reaction that international women's health advocates have been hoping for — but believed would be a long shot. Conservative Latin American governments have historically suppressed any efforts to lift or loosen abortion bans — that is, until now.
"The fears over the Zika virus are giving us a rare opening to challenge the religious fundamentalists who put the lives of thousands of women at risk in Brazil each year to maintain laws belonging in the dark ages," Silvia Camurça, a director of SOS Corpo, a feminist group in Brazil, told the New York Times.
In the rare Zika-affected country that does offer legal abortion, women are still up against unnecessary hurdles. In Colombia, for instance, it's already legal to abort a fetus that has life-threatening malformations, like microcephaly, but few women know it's an option and few doctors will actually agree to do the procedure.
The UN aims to lift these frustrating barriers.
"Health services must be delivered in a way that ensures a woman's fully informed consent, respects her dignity, guarantees her privacy, and is responsive to her needs and perspectives," the commissioner concluded. "Laws and policies that restrict her access to these services must be urgently reviewed in line with human rights obligations in order to ensure the right to health for all in practice."


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|Application number
|Publication date
|Apr 27, 1999
|Filing date
|Jan 31, 1997
|Priority date
|Jan 31, 1997
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Ronald Pardi, James C. Rollinson, Daniel J. Stark, William J. Maybee, Eddy G. Mizzi, Walter Kowalewski, Paul Krause
|Original Assignee
|Ford Motor Company, Progressive Tool Industries, Co.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (13), Referenced by (2), Classifications (13), Legal Events (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a tube alignment and delivery apparatus for use in a manufacturing process and, more specifically, to an apparatus used to align and load a flow tube in a feed magazine used in the manufacture and assembly of heat exchangers.
2. Description of the Related Art
In a conventional apparatus for manufacture and assembly of a heat exchanger of a parallel tube and fin type, a plurality of tubes and fins are stacked adjacent one another to form a tube and fin bundle. Once the tube and fin bundle is assembled, side plates and upper and lower headers are attached. The process of assembling the heat exchanger may be accomplished manually or through automated machinery. If machine assembled, a plurality of tubes are manually loaded into a feed magazine from which they are withdrawn during the manufacturing and assembly process. This requires an individual to remove tubes from storage containers and physically place the tubes in the feed magazine either one at a time or in small groups. Such a procedure is both time consuming and unwieldy.
Therefore, it is advantageous to provide an apparatus for receiving tubes in bulk and aligning and delivering the tubes to a feed magazine for use in manufacture and assembly of a heat exchanger. Such an apparatus eliminates the need for manual labor to load the tubes in a feed magazine.
The present invention is an apparatus for alignment and delivery of a plurality of tubes to a feed magazine for use in connection with an apparatus for assembling or manufacturing a heat exchanger. The apparatus includes a drum receiving a plurality of tubes. The drum aligns and deposits the tubes on a conveyor that transports and discharges properly aligned tubes in a feed magazine for use in a manufacturing process. The apparatus further includes an alignment mechanism that aligns the tubes in the feed magazine after the tubes are discharged from the conveyor into the feed magazine.
One advantage of the present invention is that a large number of tubes are segregated, aligned, and placed in a feed magazine in a facile and economical manner.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will be readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood after reading the subsequent description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is an overall elevational view of an apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an elevational view of a drum of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is an end view of the drum and apparatus with portions omitted for clarity.
FIG. 4 is a top view of a conveyor according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken on a plane of line 5--5 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is an elevational view of an alignment apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view taken on a plane of line 7--7 of FIG. 6.
Tubes 12 form an integral part of a heat exchanger (not shown). The tubes 12 are manufactured in a tube mill from an extruded metal such as aluminum. During the manufacturing process, the extruded tube is severed into predetermined lengths. It is normal for a manufacturer of a heat exchanger to receive tubes 12 in bulk. The tubes 12 must be aligned and loaded into a feed magazine 14. During the manufacturing and assembly process, the tubes 12 are automatically withdrawn from the feed magazine 14 as used in the assembly of the heat exchanger.
One embodiment of the tube alignment and delivery apparatus 10 is shown in FIG. 1. The apparatus 10 is used to align a plurality of tubes 12, received in bulk, and deliver and load the tubes 12 in the feed magazine 14 as a preliminary step in the manufacture of a heat exchanger. While disclosed herein for use with tubes 12, the tube alignment and delivery apparatus 10 may also be used with other workpieces.
As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus 10 includes a drum 20 into which the tubes 12 are loaded in bulk. A conveyor, seen generally at 90, receives the tubes 12 from the drum 20 and delivers them to the feed magazine 14. An alignment mechanism 140 aligns the tubes 12 within the feed magazine 14. Thus, the entire apparatus 10 enables a plurality of tubes 12 to be loaded in the feed magazine 14 for use in a manufacturing process in a facile and economical manner.
Turning now to FIG. 2, FIG. 2 shows a frame 22 formed of a plurality of leg members 24 and braces 26. A drum 20 is rotatably mounted on the frame 22 through an annular support 34. The annular support 34 is pivotally mounted to the frame 22 through bearings 35 secured to the frame 22. The drum 20 includes a front conical section 28 and a rear conical section 30. The conical sections 28, 30 are joined at their respective large ends 28a, 30a by an outwardly extending flange 32. The drum 20 is supported within the annular support 34 by a plurality of support rollers 36 and alignment rollers 38 secured to the annular support 34 by roller brackets 39. The support rollers 36 and alignment rollers 38 engage the flange 32 of the drum 20 and support the drum 20 for rotational movement. The annular support 34 further includes a drive roller 40 mounted within a U-shaped bracket 41. A spring 44 mounted over a rod 42 presses the drive roller 40 against the flange 32. A drum motor 48 provides power to rotate the drum 20 through a drive linkage, seen generally at 46. The drive linkage 46 includes a drive belt 50, a reducer 52 and a second drive belt 57 interconnecting the reducer 52 to the drive roller 40. The drive linkage 46 further includes take-up or idler pulleys 51, 53. Consequently, activation of the drive motor 48 transfers power to the drive roller 40 causing the drum 20 to rotate within the annular support 34.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the annular support 34 is pivotally mounted through a pair of bearings 35 to the frame 22. A pair of stops 54 secured to the frame 22 define the outer limits of movement of the drum 20. An arm 56 extends downwardly from the annular support 34 and engages an adjustment rod 60 situated in a shock mount 62. Movement of the arm 56 along the adjustment rod 60 enables the angular position of the outlet opening 88 of the drum 20 to be varied, and thus, the rate of discharge of the tubes 12 from the drum 20 can be varied. A counter weight 58 is attached to the drum 20 for balance.
A feed chute 70 is pivotally mounted through a bracket and pin assembly 72 to a feed chute frame 74. The feed chute frame 74 is attached to the frame 22 supporting the drum 20. As shown in FIG. 2, the feed chute 70 includes an adjustment rod 76 to position the feed chute 70. Side walls 78 on the feed chute 70 funnel the tubes 12 into the drum 20 through an inlet opening 80 on the drum 20.
The drum 20 includes a drum cavity 82 receiving the tubes 12 loaded through the feed chute 70. The drum cavity 82 includes a plurality of vanes 84 secured to the inner wall 83 of the drum cavity 82. As the drum 20 rotates in a clockwise direction shown by the arrow 86 (see FIG. 3), the vanes 84 engage and align the tubes 12 in a longitudinal direction, i.e., along their longitudinal axis. Varying the angle of the outlet opening 88 and the speed of rotation of the drum 20, varies the discharge rate of the tubes 12 from the drum 20.
Turning now to FIGS. 1 and 4, a conveyor, seen generally at 90, for transporting the aligned tubes 12, is shown. The conveyor 90 includes a first inclined section 92 and a second substantially horizontal section 94. The conveyor 90 is mounted to a conveyor frame 96 formed of a plurality of upright members 98 and cross members 100. The inclined section 92 and the substantially horizontal section 94 are both belt-type conveyors. The inclined section 92 includes a first drive motor 104 to drive a first conveyor or inclined section belt 102, and the second substantially horizontal section 94 includes a second drive motor 106 to drive a second or substantially horizontal section conveyor belt 103. While the conveyor 90 is shown herein in two sections, one inclined and one substantially horizontal, the conveyor 90 may be formed of a single section, either inclined or horizontal, depending upon the ultimate destination and discharge position of the conveyor 90. One attribute of the conveyor 90 is to transfer and deliver the aligned tubes 12 from the drum 20 to the feed magazine 14.
As illustrated in FIG. 1, the inclined section 92 of the conveyor 90 is connected to the substantially horizontal section 94 by a bracket 107. Thus, the two conveyor sections 92 and 94 operate in a unitary fashion. The inclined section 92 is pivotally mounted to the conveyor frame 96 through a bracket and pin assembly 108. The bracket and pin assembly 108 allows the position of a discharge end 112 of the conveyor 90 to vary with respect to the feed magazine 14. A power cylinder 110 positioned between the conveyor frame 96 and the conveyor base 136 provides the power to move the discharge end 112 of the conveyor 90 to various positions along the feed magazine 14.
Turning to FIGS. 1 and 4, a hopper 114 is positioned on the conveyor 90 adjacent the outlet opening 88 of the drum 20 and receives the tubes 12 as they exit the drum 20. The hopper 114 guides the tubes 12 onto the first conveyor belt 102 of the inclined section 92 of the conveyor 90. A resilient flap 116 positioned adjacent the hopper 114 ensures that the tubes 12 lie flat on the first conveyor belt 102 upon exiting the drum 20. The construction of conveyor 90 is similar for both the inclined section 92 and the substantial horizontal section 94 and is shown in FIG. 5. The conveyor 90 includes a C-shaped channel 128 supporting the first conveyor belt 102. As shown in FIG. 5, the C-shaped channel 128 is attached to the conveyor frame 96 via a mounting member 130. Side walls 132 extend upward from the C-shaped channel 128 and support a pair of guide plates 118, 120 positioned in a V-shape. The tubes 12 travel along the first conveyor belt 102 between the guide plates 118, 120. Further included is a short cover 124 enclosing the first conveyor belt 102 to facilitate contact between the tubes 12 and the first conveyor belt 102.
The guide plates 118, 120 further include a plurality of ribs 126 extending inward and along the direction of the first conveyor belt 102. The ribs 126 aid in keeping the tubes 12 in contact with the first conveyor belt 102. Upon reaching the discharge end 112 of the conveyor 90, the tubes 12 are deposited in the feed magazine 14.
An alignment mechanism, seen generally at 140, is positioned on the discharge end 112 of the conveyor 90 to aid in properly aligning the tubes 12 in the feed magazine 14. As illustrated in FIGS. 6 and 7, the alignment mechanism 140 includes a drive wheel 142 rotatably mounted to a shaft 144. The shaft 144 is supported on an arm 146 pivotally secured to a mounting bracket 148 attached to the conveyor base 136. A drive pulley 150 is secured to the shaft 144 and is coupled by a drive belt 152 to a driven pulley 154 journaled within a bracket 164 secured to the conveyor base 136. The drive belt 152 is made of a resilient material and pulls the drive pulley 150 downward into contact with the second conveyor belt 103 of the substantially horizontal conveyor section 94.
The drive pulley 154 is attached to a driven shaft 156. The driven shaft 156 includes an eccentric portion 158 having a center line 160 offset from the center line 159 of the driven shaft 156. A connecting rod 166 is connected on one end to the eccentric portion 158 and on the opposite end to a projection 172 from a slide 168. The slide 168 is mounted for reciprocal motion in a guideway 170 attached to the conveyor base 136. Thus, movement of the second conveyor belt 103 causes reciprocal movement of the slide 168 within the guideway 170. Attached to the slide 168 on an end adjacent the feed magazine 14, is a head 174 having an inclined surface 176 and a vertical nose surface 178. As shown by the dotted lines in FIG. 6 representing movement of the head 174, the inclined surface 176 and vertical nose surface 178 cooperate to properly align the tubes 12 within the feed magazine 14. A keeper plate 180 secured via a bracket 182 to the conveyor base 136 keeps the tubes 12 aligned within the feed magazine 14 as the alignment mechanism 140 travels along the feed magazine 14.
A plurality of sensors 190 are positioned on the feed magazine 14. During normal operation, the tube feed rate is calculated to keep up with the rate of use. The rotation speed of the drum 20 and its angular position are set such that the tubes 12 enter the feed magazine 14 at a rate equal to the rate the tubes 12 are withdrawn for use in the manufacturing operation. In operation, the discharge end 112 of the conveyor 90 is placed in its lower most position, i.e., against a lower stop 188. A first or lower sensor 192 detects the presence of tubes 12. If no tubes 12 are detected, the drum 20 continues to operate and tubes 12 are discharged onto the conveyor 90. If tubes 12 are detected at the first sensor 192, the drum 20 is turned off. However, a number of tubes 12 still remain on the conveyor 90. Rather than turn the conveyor 90 off, the conveyor 90 continues to operate and delivers the remaining tubes 12 to the feed magazine 14. It is recognized that the tubes 12 remaining on the conveyor 90 would fill the feed magazine 14 to a level higher than the discharge end 112 of the conveyor 90. Thus, when the tubes 12 reach the height or level of a second sensor 194, the power cylinder 110 is activated to raise the discharge end 112 providing additional space in the feed magazine 14 for the tubes 12.
In the instant embodiment, the discharge end 112 is raised approximately three inches to allow additional space within the feed magazine 14. The height adjustment may be variable and multiple sensors used to move or adjust the height of the discharge end 112 in smaller increments depending upon the number of tubes 12 on the conveyor 90. Finally, an upper level sensor 196 can be used to stop the conveyor 90 if the tube height reaches a certain level within the feed magazine 14. When the tubes 12 are withdrawn from the feed magazine 14 and the level reaches the upper level sensor 196, the drum 20 and conveyor 90 are turned back on. When the level of tubes 12 falls to the first sensor, the discharge end 112 of the conveyor 90 is lowered into contact with the stop 188.
The present invention has been described in an illustrative manner. It is to be understood that the terminology which has been used is intended to be in the nature of words of description rather than of limitation.
Many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible in light of the above teachings. Therefore, within the scope of the appended claims, the present invention may be practiced other than as specifically described.
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|U.S. Classification
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Mar 5, 1999
Owner name: PROGRESSIVE TOOL & INDUSTRIES COMPANY, MICHIGAN
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Effective date: 19970205
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Owner name: FORD MOTOR COMPANY, MICHIGAN
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Broad warns seamers to brace for long haul
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Unfashionable leaders Lancashire refuse to be cowed
Jul 5, 2016: Lancashire are unlikely leaders of Division One after promotion last season but in a stop-start season they refuse to be cowed
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Icahn, who submitted a preliminary offer for a recapitalization of Dell last month, is the wild card. It's unclear whether he will follow through with a formal offer, which would involve a tender for as much as 58% of Dell shares at $15 apiece.
Wall Street is putting low odds on a formal Icahn bid; Dell shares have dropped about 60 cents to $13.35 since the Blackstone news and are trading below the $13.65 offer from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. The view on the Street seems to be that if the deal dies, Dell shares will head lower, perhaps as low as $10 or $11.
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Dell shares now look appealing because investors stand to make a small profit if the Michael Dell-led offer gets approved. And the alternatives to that offer—which would allow Dell to remain a public company—could provide significant value to shareholders, since Icahn and Southeastern value Dell at more than $20 per share. Alternatives include an Icahn tender offer, or the billionaire investor's original idea in early March for a $9-a-share special dividend.
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Investors stand to make a small profit if the Michael Dell-led offer is approved. Alternatives, such as a Carl Icahn offer, could prove much more lucrative.
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The Dell buyout faces a high hurdle because it requires approval of a majority of Dell holders, excluding Michael Dell, who owns about 16%. Given the opposition, there's a good chance the deal dies even if an Icahn proposal doesn't materialize. That would be welcome news for Dell investors, who could then benefit from alternatives that offer immediate and long-term benefits that probably far exceed $13.65 a share.
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The time has come for these athletes and teams to rule the high school sports scene. GIRL Magazine takes a look at four athletes and two teams who are at the top of their games.
Avery Ardovino Winter Sports School (Park City, Utah) -- Class of 2009
When Ardovino was 8 years old, she joined an after-school ski jumping program to stay
busy until her mom got out of work. Nine years later, Ardovino is the nation's best up-andcoming
ski jumper. The youngest jumper on the U.S. Ski A Team by five years, Ardovino
will begin her senior year of high school this spring (her school runs from April-November
to give students the chance to travel and train during the winter sports season).
Ardovino, who finished in the Top 10 of four Continental Cup events in 2008, is gearing
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Skylar Diggins Washington (South Bend, Ind.) -- Class of 2009
As a DJ in her spare time, Diggins typically spins
artists like Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Ne-Yo and
Rihanna. But when she's on the basketball court,
the 5-foot-9 Notre Dame recruit is busy spinning
defenders around in circles. Rated the nation's
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She also chipped in with 7.6 rebounds, 4.5 assists
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Ashley Evans Pinnacle (Phoenix) -- Class of 2010
You wouldn't know Evans was only a
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Markel Walker Schenley (Pittsburgh) -- Class of 2009
Walker is just the latest star from her family,
following in the footsteps of older sister
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breaks. Walker averaged 16.6 points per
game last year for Schenley, which advanced
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nation's No. 1 wing and No. 4 overall recruit in
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State titles are nothing new to Immaculate Heart, but even the Blue Eagles have to be excited about this winter's team. The defending Non-
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Saint Andrew's (Boca Raton, Fla.) Soccer
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bounced in the regional semifinals last season. This winter,
the Scots are seeking revenge. Almost the entire roster
returns, including junior Laura Weinberg. A Duke-bound
forward, Weinberg scored 27 goals last year. Team captain
Emily Brockway, a senior sweeper who has started for the
Scots since eighth grade, anchors the back line, while senior
midfielder Serra Tumay controls the middle. Senior Lauren
Reilly will be in goal this winter even though she's also a
talented forward. In preparation for a deep playoff run,
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7 April 2015 Research
New battery charges in under a minute and still performs perfectly after being recharged thousands of times
The three phase battery doesn't need expensive separators, so fabrication is much simpler and cheaper. (Model seen here) © Felice Frankel
Donald Sadoway and colleagues devised a stationary energy storage solution based on a liquid lithium negative electrode, a molten salt electrolyte and a liquid antimony–lead alloy for the positive electrode. The materials are immiscible and so form the necessary three separate layers by self-segregation. This makes the device relatively easy to fabricate and precludes the need for sophisticated and costly precious metal membrane technology and separators. The team also points out that the liquid metal battery has a longer recharge cycle life and a higher current density than other experimental systems that do use such membranes.
Indeed, the team's experiments with this novel storage system carried out at 450°C displayed a current density of 275mA/cm2, with a cycling efficiency of 98% on charging and 73% 'round-trip' energy efficiency. While the operating temperature is high, and thus requires a proportion of the energy supply to keep the metals liquid, the use of lead rather than the much higher melting magnesium used in earlier prototypes brings the operating temperature down from 700°C.
Sadoway explains that there need be no concerns regarding the use of lead in such a system. 'Lead is not a problem as it is inside a sealed container,' he says. 'It's not going to be venting or leaking into the environment. Safety is not an issue in the course of normal use. In fact, if the battery case were breached and the contents leaked, they would freeze. In this sense, a battery that is operative only at elevated temperature is safer than a battery that is operative at ambient temperature.'
Critically, for the adoption of such liquid metal systems in energy storage is the capacity loss over time of such systems. The team's experiments completely charging and discharging their battery over 450 cycles over 75 days suggests that the battery will still have 85% of its initial storage capacity after 10 years active service. The long life of the system is partly due to the nature of the battery in that there are no sensitive, solid, mechanical components to be contaminated and degraded during use as there are with conventional rechargeable lithium batteries such as those used in portable gadgets like mobile phones and laptop computers. The team adds that at today's prices, the electrode materials costs are approximately $65/kWh (£40/kWh).
'The invention of this three-level liquid metal battery is unique,' says Stanford University's Robert Huggins. 'It is leading to the development of an entirely different type of energy storage device for large-scale applications, in which size, weight and portability are not critical parameters. Instead, cost, high rate performance, safety and lifetime are most important.'
7 April 2015 Research
New battery charges in under a minute and still performs perfectly after being recharged thousands of times
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Non-toxic organic molecules may offer a low cost and safe alternative to acid-based electrolytes
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Borrowed hydrogen chemistry drives reaction to obtain useful fuel from biomass
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Quantum, Monday at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, introduced a series of network attached storage (NAS) appliances that provide access to archived content on linear tape open-5 (LTO-5) tape cartridges.
The Scalar LTFS (linear tape file system) is the second hardware-based appliance to join this soon-to-be-crowded space. Crossroads Systems originally introduced StrongBox, an LTFS gateway for other vendors' tape libraries, last summer. The StrongBox appliance differs from Quantum's Scalar LTFS in that it writes data to disk first and then to tape. Quantum's Scalar LTFS writes data directly to tape. Other vendors are interested also in LTFS because it makes retrieving data from tape so easy. IBM, HP, and Oracle have software-based implementations and SpectraLogic has LTFS on its roadmap.
The LTFS interface was developed by IBM as a means to access data stored on magnetic tape. It relies on metadata associated with each piece of data and is now supported on LTO-5 media. Data written in the LTFS format can be used to provide direct access to file content data and file metadata, thus making it possible to have a file system view of data stored on the tape.
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Quantum has three models of its Scalar LTFS appliance that work in concert with its Scalar tape libraries. Each model--one enterprise and two departmental--supports both CIFS and NFS files and can be used to import and export data into Quantum's StorNext File System, where data can be managed for video archiving.
Further, the Scalar LTFS appliances can support multiple tape libraries concurrently and, because it uses a read-ahead cache, multiple users can concurrently access files from the same cartridge.
The Enterprise appliance has 10-GbE and 8-Gb Fibre Channel (FC) connections to the network and supports as many as 32 tape drives. The FC Department appliance has 1-GbE and 8-Gb FC connections to the network and supports as many as eight tape drives. The SAS Department model has 1GbE and 6Gb Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) connections to the network and supports as many as eight tape drives.
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Vietnam's mobile market has grown strongly over the last decade, evidence that the competition model the government has put in place, although with some limitations, has been working. At the same time, demand for new mobile services appeared to have dropped and growth had generally slowed. There has been a gradual shift to value added services, with the arrival of 3G and 3G+ and ahead of the launch of 4G.
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How old is McCain??
Palin's Alaska sure ain't Librul!! You Betcha!!
"Thirteen colony strategy" would've been a little more accurate. There, now. Nit picked.
DCrat vs Relic, luvs it! You guys really need a 3rd party.
My youngest lives in AK; his town is about 15% right-wing nutjobs & 85% normal, sane socialists.
…or Obama's 57 States.
Both the Democrats and Republicans have a 50 state strategy. 50 states to leave their mess in.
As the Democratic Convention over the last 4 days should have reminded everyone YET AGAIN the 57 "states" that candidate Barack Obama was referring to were the 57 state-level delegations at his own nominating convention. 50 states + DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, Mariana Islands, Samoa, and Americans Abroad. But yeah, a juicy right-wing slur is too good to let go of, isn't it, no matter how inaccurate or unfounded it is.
gee, you seem upset.
gee, you seem stupid.
Isn't this just a cartoon?
This would be more topical if we were talking about the current Presdidential election. Too bad Get Fuzzy has gone the way of Doonesbury & Stone Soup
I fail to see how HMunster stating a fact that you yourself verified makes it a right-wing slur…
To all mentioning Obama, McCain, and Palin: this has ©2006, not ©2008, between P1 & P2, which makes it all the more confusing. Why was this even a topic in a non-Presidential-year?
But, speaking of Palin, the Washington Post recently reported her saying
she lost employment opportunities after hopping aboard the "Trump Train" and sitting at the "cool kids table."Her PAC shows the following breakdown as of June 30, 2016:
Total Receipts………………$1,235,251So, if only $47,500 was given to campaigns, where did the other $1,841,621 that was spent go? to pay for Palin's personal expenses? Aw yes, conservatives.
Total Spent………………….$1,889,121
Begin Cash on Hand…………$825,556
End Cash on Hand…………..$171,686
Campaign contributions made..$47,500
He was referring to states and not the 57 state-level delegations at his own nominating convention, because that is what the question was about. Of course, what was important to him……
That's good news, I hope the sane socialists vote for non Palinesque politicians!
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The joint integrated Electronic Health Record system being developed by the Veterans Affairs and Defense department will be deployed nationwide from 2014 to 2017, and development work on the system will be ongoing during that period, Roger Baker, chief information officer for the VA, said on May 23.
Baker, speaking in a conference call with reporters, said there are 127 existing medical applications that need to be "addressed" in the new joint "iEHR" system. That means some forms of the existing applications would be migrated from legacy systems to the new system, or similar functionalities would be developed in the new joint system.
Although work has already started, development is likely to be continuing on most of the 127 applications during the deployment period starting in 2014, Baker said.
"The bulk of the applications won't be in the new system" as of 2014, he said. Many of the applications will continue to run in the existing legacy systems, VA's "VistA" and DOD's "AHTLA" while the development work continues, he added.
During the 2014 to 2017 period, those dozens of applications will continue to be replaced and functionality developed in the new system, Baker said.
Baker also said the new joint system will have four layers, including a data map to the Healthcare Data Dictionary, an enterprise service bus for messaging between the data and the applications, the applications and a common graphical user interface.
Both the Defense and VA have agreed to build an open source ecosystem for software for their joint record, Baker said.
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