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Chip West concludes his sixth season on the Virginia coaching staff in 2015. West, who coaches the Cavalier cornerbacks, took over the role of recruiting coordinator following the 2012 season and saw Virginia sign a top-30 class in February 2013 that featured the first five-star prospect Virginia signed since 2005. It was the third consecutive top-30 class for the UVA program.
The highly-energetic West has taken advantage of his personal and professional background in the Tidewater area to strongly enhance Virginia's recruiting efforts in that region. In February 2014 Rivals.com and Scout.com each named West its ACC Recruiter of the Year. West spearheaded a recruiting effort that landed UVA numerous top-rated recruits, including two of the nation's top-10 recruits. West was named the Atlantic Coast Conference's recruiter of the year for 2011 by 247Sports and was one eight finalists for the organization's national recruiter of the year honor.
As effective as West has been on the recruiting circuit, he has been equally successful as a position coach.
In 2012, sophomore cornerback Demetrious Nicholson was an honorable mention selection to All-ACC media and coaches teams. As a freshman in 2011, he was a second-team freshman All-American.
In 2011, senior cornerback Chase Minnifield earned All-ACC honors for the second straight year while being coached by West. Minnifield ended his career with 13 interceptions.
That same year, Nicholson, the state's high school player of the year in 2010, started all 13 games, recorded two interceptions and finished fourth on the team with 60 tackles.
In 2010 West coached Ras-I Dowling. Despite missing much of the season due to injury, Dowling was a second-round pick by the New England Patriots.
A Hampton, Va., native, West was the assistant head coach, recruiting coordinator and defensive backs coach for head coach Bobby Wilder at Old Dominion before joining the Virginia staff. He was responsible for recruiting the Hampton Roads and Tidewater areas for the Monarchs. ODU went 9-2 in 2009 in its first season as a NCAA FCS program.
Prior to joining the staff at Old Dominion, West coached at James Madison for three seasons (2004-2006) overseeing the defensive backs, including free safety Tony LeZotte, a 2005 All-American and Atlantic-10 Defensive Player of the Year, as well as the Atlantic 10 co-rookie of the year as a freshman. The Dukes won the NCAA Division I-AA national championship in 2004, finishing 13-2. In 2006 JMU returned to the FCS playoffs, losing in the first round at Youngstown State.
West coached the defensive backs at Fordham in 2003 when the Rams were 9-3. He served as the wide receivers coach at Colgate for four years and worked as a graduate assistant at West Virginia. Colgate shared the 2002 Patriot League title with Fordham, finishing with a 9-3 overall record and a 6-1 league mark. The Raiders led the Patriot League in 2002 in total offense, averaging 392.5 yards per game, including 215.0 yards per game passing. In 1999 Colgate won the Patriot League title and competed in the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs.
As a graduate assistant at West Virginia for two seasons, West worked with the defense as the Mountaineers participated in the Carquest and Insight.com bowls.
West played football at Kecoughtan High School. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer information systems from Livingstone College, and his master's in physical education from West Virginia while working as a graduate assistant coach. West was an all-CIAA wide receiver at Livingstone.
He and his wife, Patrice, are the parents of five children: Zoe, David, Gwen, Justin and Jada.
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Hometown | Hampton, Va. |
High School | Kecoughtan HS, Hampton, Va., 1989 |
College | Livingstone, 1993 |
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Family | wife, Patrice; children Zoe, David, Gwen, Justin and Jada |
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Israel is using a permanent base in Iraqi Kurdistan to launch cross-border intelligence missions in an attempt to find "smoking gun" evidence that Iran is building a nuclear warhead, the Sunday Times reported Sunday.
According to Western intelligence sources, Israel has used sensitive equipment during its covert operations to monitor the radioactivity and magnitude of explosives tests. It was also reported that Israeli special forces used Black Hawk helicopters to carry commandos disguised as members of the Iranian military and using Iranian military vehicles.
The sources said that Israel had been conducting intelligence missions in the area for several years. In recent months efforts aimed at the Parchin military complex near Tehran to which the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been denied access, have intensified.
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Shares the article History of the peoples of Spain: "The peoples of Spain". Here we read with great rigor all the possible aspects of the peoples of the peni ...
"The peoples of Spain". Here we read with great rigor all the possible aspects of the peoples of the Iberian Peninsular.
The first part of the work focuses on the Ancient History of Spain, from the Palaeolithic to the Romanization, with particular emphasis in the pre-roman peoples who lived in Iberia: linguistics, society, material civilization.
AND is that Julio Caro Baroja, probably from the Spanish Anthropology the best representative that has taken our country, he wrote in "the peoples of Spain" the most comprehensive of the ethnographic studies of Spain that had been made to date of its completion in 1946 ... and it remains so. Now you can not call attention to its approach (although it remains unsurpassed by its depth and comprehensiveness), but in those years was a incredible novelty.
"The peoples of Spain" raises an ethnological study in its second volume, with a different approach. There is no question here of a historical study, but fully focused on the ethnology of Spain, although with multiple historical references-.
Caro Baroja divided into etnoregiones Spain with their different characteristics. Discusses all aspects of the material life and intangible in these regions ethnic spanish (popular art, structures of room, marriage customs in Spain, forms of agricultural life and livestock, folklore, mythology, rituals ... and of course the holidays in Spain with a degree of unsurpassed depth.
Anthropology of the peoples of Spain Thus becomes our days in a work of historical value incalculable. What in 1946 was a masterpiece of ethnography in Spain, the advance of industrialization and urbanization of our country has become a masterpiece on the life and thought of our parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents (here we are dependent on the age of each one ... ).
This does not mean that in this work of anthropology on Spain Some features of the Spanish and the Spanish culture cannot be observed today: in fact, some are of tremendous today, as the persistence of caste "spanish", that are perpetuated through the nepotism.
Why does the Anthropology of the peoples of Spain In Julio Caro Baroja is a masterpiece novel? Now it is normal, but then all the studies with components ethnographic or historical-geographic that had been made in Spain (and the majority of foreigners also) exudes "essentialism" and "metaphysics" on the be deep and eternal of determined people - the "being" Hispanic", the "Russian soul" … -, very much in line with the idea of the volkgeist. The work of Julio Caro Baroja breaks with this tradition to assume characters eternal to a people, to do, simply, good ethnography.
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ACPSEM Distinguished Service Award
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Award Recipients: John Coles, Lee Collins, John Heggie, John Drew, Robert Fitchew, Lyn Oliver, Ian Smith, Howell Round, Tomas Kron and Eva Bezak.
Boyce Worthley Young Achiever Award
This prize honours one of the founding members of the College, Boyce Worthley, who was a senior physicist with the Anti Cancer Foundation, Adelaide. He became the College's first Life Member. This prize is awarded to a younger member of the College for a significant contribution to the profession of physical and engineering sciences in medicine, generally with several publications in refereed journals as a primary author.
This award covers the expenses of registration and travel to the next College's annual conference as an invited speaker. The intent of this award is to recognise achievement for outstanding work and to encourage such members to stay in the profession. Past recipients of the award have included, Phillip Bones, Lorraine Holley, Marienne Hibbert, Dale Bailey, Richard Jones, Peter Metcalfe, Aina Puce, Geoff Tansley, Richard Fright, Steven Meikle, Tomas Kron, Peter Hoban, Martin Ebert, Paul Keall, Martin Butson, Lois Holloway, Lisa Duggan, Loredana Marcu, Zoe Brady and Michael Taylor.
Branch Travel Grants
The purpose of these grants is to encourage young members or affiliates of the College who might otherwise have difficulty attending the annual conference.
Recipients are part sponsored to attend the College conference to present a paper. Calyn Moulton of Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA, and James Talbot of Auckland City Hospital, NZ, were the recipients of these awards in 2014.
David Robinson Innovation Prize
This prize commemorates David Robinson AM, ACPSEM President 1986-1987, an engineer who pioneered work in the field of diagnostic ultrasound.
This annual prize is awarded to assist a member, of any grade, to attend the EPSM conference to present a paper detailing innovative work related to diagnostic imaging or biomedical engineering. Nicholas Hardcastle, of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, was the recipient of this award in 2013.
Kenneth Clarke Journal Prize
The prize is to be awarded annually for the best paper on original work published in the Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine authored by a member of the ACPSEM.
The value of the prize is $500. The Journal Editor makes the selection with the assistance of the Associate Editors.
Richard Bates Travel Scholarship
This scholarship honours the College's third President, Richard Bates, who was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. His particular expertise was in the field of signal and image processing, and he supervised more than 50 masters and doctoral students, many of whom are current College members.
The scholarship is awarded to assist a physical scientist or engineer to undertake a period of study or carry out a research project overseas. The scholarship is awarded to members whose projects are perceived to be of broad benefit to the College or the profession of physical and engineering sciences in medicine. The intent of this award is to advance research in medical physics or biomedical engineering.
The maximum value of the Scholarship is $5000. Past recipients of the scholarship have investigated high doserate brachytherapy, pharyngeal pressure-flow data, PACS, and microbeam radiation therapy. In 2008 Dale Bailey, from the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney,received this scholarship to assist his visit to the memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre to study radiation doses from CT and SPECT. In 2009 Benjamin Khoo, was awarded the Scholarship to further his studies into bone mineral density as derived from dual energy x-ray absorptiometry scanners. In 2011 Tomas Kron was awarded the scholarship to study volumetric arc therapy at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland.


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A gifted South African artist, his works are rich, powerful and thought provoking.
Many of his works focus on the social and political issues of his country.....while others evoke memories and stories of childhood.
His charcoal drawings are fabulous.…as are his linocuts and etchings…..black + white + erasures + under-drawings + smudges…..maybe a few fine lines of red ink, and maybe a slick of sky blue pastel.
Some were comical, some monumental in size, others subtle and poetic….his animated video created from multiple drawings (+ erasures) was intriguing.
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- The Wood Carving from Kenya
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A biomonitoring test was used to assess whether rivers and streams maintained sufficient water quality to support aquatic life. Daphnia magna were exposed to the water samples collected from 17 sites of 13 rivers and streams in Tokyo and its suburbs and the acute response of D. magna was monitored.
The mobility of the organism was acutely inhibited in the water of six rivers and streams tested. Discharge to these sites was from paddy field, and was a significant proportion of the total flow of the streams and rivers. Gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy of the samples revealed the presence of some pesticides in the water samples. Determination of the toxicity of organophosphate insecticides such as fenitrothion and diazinon to D. magna showed 50% inhibition concentration of mobility at 48-hr exposure (48 h-EC50) of 0.10 to 1.0 μg/l. The concentrations of these insecticides in the water samples correlated well with the toxicity measurements of each sample. These insecticide concentrations accounted for most of the toxicity.
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Ryan Vogelsong and these San Francisco Giants sure have become adept at saving their season.
Now, they need to do it once more against the comeback champs.
Vogelsong struck out a career-best nine in another postseason gem and on his biggest stage yet, and San Francisco staved off elimination for the second straight game, pushing St. Louis to a winner-take-all Game 7 in the NL championship series with a 6-1 victory Sunday night.
"There are two teams in the same boat right now. You'll see two teams go out and give it everything they've got," Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt said. "This is what we play all year for and we'll put it all on the line. This is Game 7. There's only one better Game 7. They are no more what-if scenarios."
Turns out the defending champion Cardinals aren't the only team tough to put away in October.
Marco Scutaro delivered a two-run double and Buster Posey drove in his first run of the series with a groundout in the first inning as San Francisco struck early to support Vogelsong.
San Francisco's Matt Cain and St. Louis' Kyle Lohse are set to pitch in a rematch of Game 3, won by the Cardinals. There's a forecast of rain in the Bay Area during the day.
"It's time to get it done," Lohse said.
These wild-card Cardinals sure seem to like the all-or-nothing route in October, while San Francisco thrives playing from behind.
"Clutch performances are just guys playing normally in big spots. You can't be petrified by the situation, and neither of these teams have been," St. Louis' Lance Berkman said. "One of the things that makes Game 7's so interesting is that I don't think either of these teams is going to choke it away."
Five games with their year on the line, five wins for these gutsy Giants this postseason. Now, it comes down to one game for the past two World Series champions to return, with the Detroit Tigers waiting.
Pitching to chants of "Vogey! Vogey!" from the sellout crowd of 43,070 at AT&T Park, the right-hander didn't allow a hit until Daniel Descalso's broken-bat single to center with two outs in the fifth. Vogelsong struck out the side in the first and had already fanned five through two innings.
"This place is going to be loud, I can tell you that," Vogelsong said of Monday night.
Scutaro had no chance for a collision with Matt Holliday this time. In their first game back at AT&T Park since Holliday took out the second baseman with a hard slide in Game 2, Holliday was scratched about an hour before first pitch because of tightness in his lower back, and Allen Craig replaced him in left field.
It hardly mattered the way Vogelsong pitched.
The Cardinals managed their only run on Craig's two-out single in the sixth. St. Louis had gone 15 innings without scoring after left-hander Barry Zito won 5-0 on Friday in Game 5.
"I just tried to do really the same thing he did, come out and set the tone early for us," Vogelsong said.
Vogelsong had his second stellar seven-inning outing against the Cardinals in a week, allowing four hits and one run. He walked one in a 102-pitch performance and lowered his postseason ERA – all this year – to 1.42.
The 35-year-old Vogelsong toiled through the minors, Japan and even winter ball to finally pitch under the October spotlight for a chance at the World Series. His latest impressive outing put the Giants one win away.
"I just believe that it's my time," Vogelsong said.
After taking a 3-1 lead back home at Busch Stadium, Mike Matheny's Cardinals will have to find some offense in a hurry if they want to get back to the World Series.
"We've got to make some adjustments but our team's done that all season," Matheny said. "One thing I know is these guys take these to heart."
These Cards might just prefer close calls. Just like last year.
They won the NL's second wild card on the second-to-last day of the regular season, then won at Atlanta to reach the division series. The Cardinals rallied from a 6-0 deficit with a four-run ninth inning to stun the Washington Nationals 9-7 in Game 5 of the division series.
The Giants got to St. Louis ace Chris Carpenter again. The Cardinals winningest postseason pitcher with 10 victories looked out of sync for the second straight start – and he left with a nearly identical line as in his 7-1 Game 2 loss here last Monday, down to the hits, earned runs, unearned runs and innings.
Carpenter was done in by one big inning this time, too. He allowed six hits and five runs, two earned, in four innings.
"The bottom line is I'm not giving my team a chance to win," Carpenter said. "You go out with a 5-0 lead after two innings, it's not giving your team a chance."
Vogelsong reached on shortstop Pete Kozma's fielding error in the second, scoring Brandon Belt after he led off the inning with a triple. Scutaro came up two batters later and doubled home two more runs.
The 10 unearned runs allowed by the Cardinals are the most in an NLCS, according to STATS LLC – topping the nine given up by the Braves in 2001 and Dodgers in 1985.
San Francisco never faced an elimination game in 2010 on the way to winning the World Series, but has had to go the distance in each of its first two postseason series this year. They became the first team in major league history to come back from a 2-0 deficit to win a best-of-five series by winning three straight on the road as they did at Cincinnati.
"We're enjoying this moment. We know how to handle this situation," San Francisco third baseman Pablo Sandoval said.
They have Vogelsong along for this year's run.
"He was on top of his game again," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "He's probably been as consistent as any starter this year."
The Giants put pressure on Carpenter right away.
Scutaro drew a one-out walk and Sandoval doubled off the wall in center on a ball that eluded Jon Jay. Posey followed with a groundout to third to score Scutaro for a 1-0 lead.
Scutaro is batting .458 (11 for 24) during the NLCS.
"I don't really know, man," Scutaro said when asked to explain it. "Just excited to come to the field every day. … Being in this opportunity, just being in the playoffs, is amazing."
While the Giants have won five straight games facing elimination this postseason, the Cardinals have won their last six dating to last year. This is the first time the NLCS has gone seven games since 2006, when St. Louis beat the New York Mets 3-1 at Shea Stadium. Carlos Beltran, now with the Cardinals, struck out looking when Adam Wainwright froze him on a curveball.
"This night, this moment belongs to every player in here and every fan in the stands," San Francisco right fielder Hunter Pence said. "There's still another story to be told, and we'll just have to wait and see if we're going to enjoy it."
NOTES: Matheny said he wasn't sure whether Holliday would be available Monday. "Wait and see, we'll see tomorrow," he said. … Giants 1B coach Roberto Kelly worked his first home game of the series after sustaining a concussion during the initial workout day Oct. 13 before the NLCS began. He gave a thumbs-up before running out to the field during pregame warmups. … San Francisco is 5-1 when scoring first this postseason. … The most unearned runs allowed in any LCS is 13, by the Angels in 1986 against the Red Sox. … The Cardinals didn't get a leadoff man aboard all game.


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Boris Lvovich Rosing (Russian: Бори́с Льво́вич Ро́зинг; (April 23, 1869 (old style, May 5, 1869, new style). – April 20, 1933) was a Russian scientist and inventor in the field of television.[1]
Boris Rosing was born on May the 5th, 1869 (April 23, 1869 (old style)) in Saint Petersburg into the family of a government official.[2] His father, Lev Nikolaevich Rozing, served on the commission for military service (conscription) under Czar Alexander II. Lev developed an interest mathematics and technology, including recent inventions, which he communicated to his son. From 1879 to 1887, Boris studied at St. Petersburg's Vvdensky gymnasium, from which he graduated with a gold medal. There, he distinguished himself in his studies of the exact sciences, literature and music. He then studied physics and mathematics at St. Petersburg University, which was a major research center. The distinguished faculty included the chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and the mathematicians Pafnuty Chebyshev and Andrey Markov. After graduating with honors in 1891, he remained at the university to pursue graduate studies in physics. The subject of his dissertation was magnetic hysteresis. He discovered hysteresis in the lengths of iron wires in the presence of cyclic magnetic fields, a phenomenon that was discovered independently by the Japanese investigator Hantaro Nagaoka.[3] He subsequently became a physics instructor at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. Starting in 1894, he also taught physics at the Konstantinovsky Artillery School, and from 1906, he lectured on electrical and magnetic measurements as part of women's polytechnic courses. During 1894-1900, he continued his studies of magnetism but also worked on several practical electrical problems. He taught at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology until 1918. He then conducted research at the Leningrad Experimental Electrotechnical Laboratory from 1924 to 1928 and at the Central Laboratory for Wire Communications from 1928 to 1931.[4]
Rosing's interest in television — or the "electric telescope", as he called it — began in 1897. Others had tried to develop a mechanical version of television. Rosing recognized the shortcomings of mechanical television; he thought that the image should be displayed electrically on a cathode ray tube (CRT). By 1902, Rosing began actual experimentation to test his ideas: he constructed a simple apparatus for electrically deflecting the beam of a CRT, which allowed him to draw figures on the tube's screen. At that time, mechanical devices scanned an image onto a selenium photoresistor, the resistance of which varied in response to the light striking it. However, selenium photoresistors responded to changes in light levels too slowly to accurately reproduce moving images. Therefore Rosing used a photocell, a piece of alkaline metal in a vacuum tube which emitted electrons in response to light. Once Rosing had developed a rudimentary working television that incorporated his two innovations — a photocell detector and a CRT display — he filed a patent application in Russia on July 25, 1907[5] and — on the improved version of his system, which included magnetic deflection coils around the CRT — on March 2, 1911.[6] He followed up with a demonstration of which a report was published in the Scientific American with diagrams and full description of the invention's operation.[7][8] During 1912-1914, he did theoretical and experimental work on magnetic lenses. In 1918, he co-founded the North Caucasian Polytechnic Institute, now the Kuban State Technological University. In the early 1920s he resided in Krasnodar (formerly: Ekaterinodar), near the Black Sea. There, in 1920, he co-founded the Ekaterinodar Physical-Mathematical Society and became its chairman, and in 1923, he wrote his booklet The Electric Telescope: Vision at a distance.[9][10]
Rosing's invention expanded on the designs of Paul Nipkow and his mechanical system of rotating lenses and mirrors. Accordingly, Rosing's system employed a mechanical camera device, but used very early cathode ray tube (developed in Germany by Karl Ferdinand Braun) as a receiver. Rosing's Braun Tubes consisted of two parallel metal plates that were used to electrically shift the electron beam itself before it was scanned and reached the screen. These two plates were connected electrically to the photoelectric cell in the camera. Depending on the output of the photoelectric cells, the beam would be deflected up or down before entering the concentrating plate. Since this movement increased or decreased the number of electrons passing between the plates, it had the effect of varying the brightness of the electron beam. The system was primitive, but it was definitely one of the first experimental demonstrations where the cathode ray tube was employed for the purposes of television. [11] V. K. Zworykin, who pioneered television in the United States and Germany, was a pupil of Rosing and assisted him in some of his laboratory work.[12] In 1925, B. Rosing advised and helped young inventor Boris Grabovsky apply for a patent (issued under No 5592) of a fully electronic TV set, called Telefot.[13]
Rosing continued his television research until 1931 when he was exiled as a counter-revolutionary to Kotlas without right to work, but in 1932 was moved to Archangelsk, where took up physics at the Forestry Technology Institute. Rosing died in exile in 1933 of cerebral hemorrhage. He was buried in the Arkhangelsk Vologda (formerly: Kuznechevskaya) cemetery.[14][15]
- ^ "The story of BBC Television - How it all began". BBC World Service.
- ^ Biographical information from:
- Сергей В. Истомин [Sergei V. Istomin], Самые знаменитые изобретатели России [The most famous Russian inventors] (Moscow, Russia: Вече [Veche], 2002), pages 87-91. Available on-line at: "Изобретения России: Борис Львович Розинг (1869-1933)" [Russian Inventions: Boris L'vovich Rozing (1869-1933)]. (in Russian)
- Paul Marshall (2011) "Inventing Television: Transnational networks of co-operation and rivalry, 1870-1936," Ph.D. thesis, University of Manchester (England), pages 194-197. Available on-line at: E-scholar (University of Manchester)
- ^ B. Rosing (1895) "On the change of length in soft iron wire placed in a uniform magnetic field," Philosophical Magazine, 5th series, 39 : 226-228.
- ^ Albert Abramson, Zworykin, Pioneer of Television (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1995), page 213.
- ^ See:
- Russian patent no. 18,076 (filed: July 25, 1907 ; issued: October 30, 1910), "Cпособ электрической передачи изображений на разстояние" (Method for the electrical transmission of images over a distance)
- Deutsches Reich Patent no. 209,320 (filed: November 26, 1907 ; issued: April 24, 1909), "Verfahren zur elektrischen Fernübertragung von Bildern" (Method for the electrical transmission of images)
- British patent no. 27,570 / 1907 (filed: December 13, 1907 ; issued: June 25, 1908), "New or improved method of electrically transmitting to a distance real optical images and apparatus therefor"
- ^ See, for example:
- Boris Rosing, "Art of electric telescopy," U.S. Patent no. 1,161,734 (filed: April 5, 1911 ; issued: November 23, 1915).
- Boris Rosing, "Electrical telescopy," U.S. Patent no. 1,135,624 (filed: April 5, 1911 ; issued: April 13, 1915).
- British patent no. 5,486 / 1911 (filed: March 4, 1911).
- ^ See:
- Robert Grimshaw (April 1, 1911) "The "Telegraphic Eye" ," Scientific American, 104 : 335-336.
- (Jacques Boyer) (June 17, 1911) "Prof. Rozing's 'Electric Eye' — a new apparatus for television," Scientific American Supplement, 71 (1850) : 384.
- (Ernest Ruhmer) (December 23, 1911) "Important step in the problem of television," Scientific American, 105 : 574.
- ^ "Boris Lvovich Rosing". Retrieved Oct 26, 2012.
- ^ Russian Wikipedia: Rozing, Boris L'vovich
- ^ Б. Л. Розинг [B.L. Rozing], Электрическая телескопия: Видение на расстоянии [The Electric Telescope: Vision at a distance] (Petrograd, Soviet Union: Academia, 1923). Available (in part) on-line at: Google Books
- ^ Abramson, Albert. Zworykin, Pioneer of Television. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1995. Print.
- ^ "VLADIMIR K. ZWORYKIN (1889-1982)". M.I.T., The Lemelson Foundation. Retrieved Oct 26, 2012.
- ^ Boris Grabowski - the inventor of electronic television
- ^ Boris L. Rosing's grave
- ^ Russian Wikipedia: Vologda cemetery
Further reading[edit]
- Петр Кузьмич Горохов [Peter Kuz'mich Gorokhov], Б. Л. Розинг: Основоположник электронного телевидения [B. L. Rozing: Founder of Electronic Television], (Moscow, Soviet Union: Nauka, 1964). (in Russian)
- Блинов, В.И. and Урвалов, В.А. [Blinov, V.I. and Urvalov, V.A.], Б. Л. Розинг [B. L. Rozing] (Moscow, Russia: Просвещение [Enlightenment], 1991). (in Russian)
- Сергей В. Истомин [Sergei V. Istomin], Самые знаменитые изобретатели России [The most famous Russian inventors] (Moscow, Russia: Вече [Veche], 2002), pages 87-91. Available on-line at: "Изобретения России: Борис Львович Розинг (1869—1933)" [Russian Inventions: Boris L'vovich Rozing (1869—1933)]. (in Russian)
- Куценко, Игорь Яковлевич [Kutsenko, Igor Yakovlevich], Б. Л. Розинг — первооткрыватель электронного телевидения, основатель Кубанского Политехнического Института [B. L. Rozing — discoverer of electronic television, founder of the Kuban Polytechnic Institute] (Maykop, Republic of Adygea, Russia: Kuban State University of Technology, 2007). (in Russian)
- Boris Rosing's patents registered in the Soviet Union. (in Russian)


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So I tuned into a few of Lynne McTaggart's "Fairness Campaign" shows where she converses with many renowned life coaches and I have to say I was not only impressed, but felt a shift in my own perspective.
On the surface, McTaggart's attempt at such a movement may seem like a new age idiom or a lost cause for hippies, but I found her conversations extremely relevant to the current state of humanity worldwide. Insights from Jack Canfield, Hale Dwoskin, Marci Shimoff and Michael Beckwith couldn't be more perfectly timed.
One conversation that stood out to me was Marianne Williamson's. She's been around for a while and I was somewhat familiar with her overall general outlook on things as a result of reading random columns she'd written or occasionally spotting her on TV.
Williamson said something so obvious, yet poignant, yet often forgotten in the midst of havoc. "When there is imbalance, great or small, individual or collective, the Universe will seek to balance itself." Of course, it may seem trivial, but entertain this statment. I won't get into dissecting this it because, 1, I don't feel it's necessary, 2, this blog would go on forever, and 3, I don't want to offend the doubters who often cause the unfairness of which McTaggart speaks.
I began to think about Williamson's statement and understand how it applied to me. I consider myself to be pretty balanced and, for the most part, unaffected by distant matters. Then I realized, therein lies my problem. What do I define as "distant?" Why do I feel like matters outside of my immediate surroundings aren't part or an extension of me? Why am I easily knocked off balance when someone I love is hurting or ill? When and where did I draw this proverbial line of what shouldn't matter to me and what is worthy of knocking me off balance? And is anything at all truly worth my being out of balance? After all, I know that when I am out of balance, I am only half as useful to anyone or anything than when I feel completely secure.
This one tiny statement in this one isolated conversation greatly impacted me. So much so, that I now constantly ask myself – from the time I wake up to when I go to bed – "Is that worth rocking my foundation? Is there anything I can do to contribute to a good outcome? What can I do to make the best of this?"
Those three little questions have already changed the way I live my daily life. I hope to maintain this "check list" and its contribution of fairness to myself; I've already noticed the influence that my newfound energy has on those around me – close and far.
This is the last weekend to listen to Lynne McTaggart's online Fairness Campaign Speaker Summit for free. The remaining speakers are Ivan Misner, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Jean Houston. It's convenient and, most importantly, effortlessly mind opening. I suggest you check it out.
New Music Series Offers Fan Favorites at Fan-Conscious Prices
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Expired Race Card
I was born and raised in a middle class, multi-race neighborhood in Philadelphia. Since infancy, I gravitated towards the black community. My late mother always said it was because the nurse who took care of me when I was born happened to be black. Like me, my mother was an equal opportunity lover, friend, co-worker who'd give the shirt off her back for anyone who needed it. And she did. I saw her do it at least once.
Growing up, the racism-related incidents I witnessed and even personally experienced were uncountable. Strangers and even schoolteachers harassed me for "hanging with the blacks." My mother battled with my school to dispute an "F" we both knew I didn't deserve on my report card. My mother won. I got my deserved "B" and, "More importantly," my mother said, the teacher was "let go."
As I got older, the racism continued. Depending on the circumstance, I felt it my responsibility to speak on my friends' behalves so they wouldn't be either verbally abused or further discriminated. I didn't know whether doing so made any type of difference in retrospect, but I know undoubtedly my heart was in the right place in those moments. It was a place where I wanted to avoid a bigot making my friends shed more tears; A place where I could possibly protect them from the ignorance of others; A place where I wanted to assure them I loved them and we'd get through anything together. It was the same place where I felt utterly embarrassed to be part of the human race.
New experiences shed light and somewhat changed my perspective as I entered adulthood and traveled abroad. Although these experiences have been the catalyst for my acceptance of no longer being embarrassed to be human, I still find myself analyzing people in general and, more times than not, am convinced almost everyone has at least a little hypocrite inside them. It doesn't have to be an obvious situation. It can be the way someone stands in line at the grocery store, the way they interact with their friends, what they choose to eat, read or watch on television.
The unfortunate part for me is I now realize my efforts – as one tiny individual in a very different time – made no difference at all. When I hear about things like the uproar over Angelina Jolie playing Cleopatra in a movie and Sandra Bullock adopting a child who happens to be black, it turns me into that same person I was decades ago. Except this time I WANT to represent white America: The place I never thought I'd want to be and of which, in fact, would've bet my life I'd never be part when it came to any race-related issue.
While it's no secret I am a serious fan of both Vanessa Williams and Halle Berry, I do think the role of Cleopatra is suited for a famous Egyptian actress. As for Sandra Bullock and her new baby, I want to look each black person in the face and shout, "Would you rather a baby stay in foster care and never know what love feels like? Would you really rather that child not have a guardian and provider because that guardian and provider is not black? Is your disapproval for interracial families stronger than your desire for the children of America to grow up in homes filled with love, laughter and support?"What I once regarded as validated and justifiable frustration has, over time, spiraled into out-of-control irrationalism amongst the black community. These uproars are not about justice and equality. Oftentimes, they're not about significant issues. They're about trying to inflict guilt and revenge on generations of people who, like myself, would actually like to regard each individual with the same level of respect as any other; As a human being.
Outcries respected by key figures created platforms for black America to be rightly honored and recognized. But these same platforms divide America today. And ongoing uproars over which entertainers play which roles in which films and who's adopting what color baby serve as the channel for modernized segregation. 14 decades after slavery was abolished.
This brings me to my journey through Europe, where a few acquaintances from Amsterdam asked, "Why does America have so many issues with skin color? In Amsterdam, we don't identify people by their skin color. We're all just Dutch." Just Dutch. Wow. Even parts of Europe, widely known for starting slavery, have evolved to generally regarding everyone equally. Imagine that. In America. If for just one second.
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Thoroughly Enjoying Modern Humor
Once in a while, if you're lucky, along comes a TV show so entertaining and intriguing, you cannot fathom missing a segment let alone an entire episode. For me, this show is ABC's Modern Family.
Modern Family is a staple in my weekly routine. It is only for this show that my anticipation will not allow me to do anything but stop whatever I am doing, sit down and watch it as it broadcasts. Never via dvr. That would be an insult to the creators. (Though I do record it in the event my excessive laughter results in my missing some dialogue.)
Modern Family is a perfect example of the old saying "It takes a village…" Here we have phenomenal writers, an impeccable cast, identifiable yet infectiously humorous matters and an ideal timeslot.
In only its second season, I initially thought my favorite character was "Manny," played by Rico Rodriguez. That quickly shifted to "Phil" played by Ty Burrell, then I just couldn't get enough of "Gloria" played by Sofia Vergara and "Cam" played by Eric Stonestreet. Then I realized: It's just impossible to have a favorite actor in this show. And that's OK! This is not only because each actor is thoroughly enjoyable, but they are each critical to the overall "village." That is the very reason Modern Family is ABC's most-watched telecast.
Another interesting facet for me, personally, is finding myself intentionally watching repeats for the first time in my life. Outside of reading a great book twice, I've never felt like I was doing something for the first time after having actually done it already. This show is just that thoroughly entertaining.
Sometimes it's difficult to believe Modern Family is on the same network that didn't know how to salvage Golden Globe Award-winning dramedy Ugly Betty. Perhaps they'll entertain the idea of some sort of spin-off with three-time Emmy nominee Vanessa Williams and her ever-so-entertaining onscreen sidekick Michael Urie? The network would be foolish to let Williams get away.
Regardless, ABC gets major kudos from me – and apparently millions of American viewers – for getting it right with Modern Family.
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When Surgery Goes Wrong
I created this post for anyone who is considering surgery by thoracic surgeon Dr. Robert J. McKenna Jr. Dr. McKenna performed thoracic surgery on me at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, CA.
Thoracic surgery is designed to take pressure off the nerves to the arm and can be achieved by removing the muscles that surround the nerves (scalene muscles), removing the first rib, or doing both. In my case, Dr. McKenna concluded that my first rib needed to be removed to avoid the return of blood clots in my carotid artery.
Upon the completion of my procedure, I awoke to a completely paralyzed arm. My family member and I immediately informed Dr. McKenna. He was visibly shocked and proceeded to order a series of tests to figure out what went wrong.
After being discharged from the hospital, I continued to pursue my own neurological and nerve tests in hopes of determining the reason behind my paralysis. My neurologist discovered that a series of nerves (brachial plexus) had been nicked during my surgical procedure.
Obviously, I could not function properly with only one mobile arm and had to rely on friends and relatives to help with daily life such as walking the dog, cooking and cleaning. I endured great pain and could not sleep or work for weeks.
While I had many friends, relatives and even doctors advising me to file suit, the last thing I wanted was litigation. I was already physically, mentally and emotionally spent.
After my neurologist determined the cause of my injury, I sought physical therapy several times a week to try to preserve whatever healthy nerves and tissue I had in the injured area. I also began to seek acupuncture treatments and Chinese medicine from an acupuncturist and herbalist who had experience with brachial plexus injuries. I was under these treatments for five months before I started getting feeling back in my arm.
I made sure to inform Dr. McKenna's office of my test results as they became available as well as the costly treatments I needed to determine if it was even possible to regain mobility of my injured arm. Surprisingly, Dr. Robert J. McKenna Jr. and his staff were more concerned about the $3,000 my insurance company did not cover for the surgery he performed. I knew then I had a bigger problem on my hands.
I immediately sought the help of my PCP who believed I had a case and referred me to several thoracic outlet surgeons in the area. I provided them with copies of my post-op report and they each concluded my injury was a result of Dr. McKenna's neglect. Two of the thoracic surgeons with whom I spoke (I've omitted their names from my blog to protect their identity at their request.) indicated that Dr. McKenna wrote in my post-op report that my "brachial plexus seemed to be relaxed," so surgery proceeded. They advised me to file suit immediately because a doctor should never proceed with an operation unless they are sure of something. Apparently, Dr. McKenna's choice of the word "seemed" indicated that he was anything but certain. The surgeons also explained that they could not personally testify for me as they know or know of Dr. McKenna. Interesting, no? I had to locate thoracic surgeons in another region of the country who would come to the same conclusion and be willing to testify.
After locating an attorney who would take my case, I'd already received extensive and costly physical therapy, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and acupuncture for over a year. I was able to again lift my arm and move my fingers.
My attorney located a thoracic outlet surgeon/specialist in the midwest who concluded that, although Dr. McKenna did inflict injury and was responsible for nicking my nerves and causing the paralysis, it wasn't "neglectful;" Therefore, he could not testify. My attorney advised that unless I could secure the testimony of the two local thoracic surgeons, I wouldn't have a strong malpractice case, making him reluctant to proceed.
To this day, my arm appears normal, but I cannot hold it above my shoulder for longer than four minutes nor can I lift anything more than 7 pounds above my shoulder. I tend to have sporadic pain jolts down my forearm and tingling in my ring and pinky fingers as well. Although I am extremely grateful to be able to again use my hand, my nerve injury – though not as drastic – is permanent and my functions are unfortunately very limited.
Unfortunately, I was forced to surrender to my injury and the neglect of Dr. McKenna. In fact, after recently informing him and his office that my arm functions are still significantly abnormal after all the tests and therapy I sought in an attempt to regain full mobility of my arm, he still demands I pay him that $3,000 my insurance didn't cover.
The truth is, even if I owed him only $5.00, I would refuse to pay that $5.00 on principle. I believe his reaction to and behavior towards my permanent injury is immoral. I know what I'd do if I were in his shoes. Do you?
So, if you're reading this, I am glad you are doing your research. That is my purpose for sharing my story. Please choose your surgeon wisely. Don't hire someone with a history of neglect and lack of morality.
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P!nk Empowerment
Having worked closely with various recording artists in the music industry for half my lifetime has resulted in me being a fan of very few performers. If you know me, you're probably already aware that there are no more than eight recording artists for whom I will purchase albums (on the actual day of release) and concert tickets. There are even fewer about whom I've been compelled to blog. However, I am proud to say that P!nk (or do I say, simply, "Pink") is one of them.
More than a decade ago, when I was much more stubborn and particular (yes, that's possible), I experienced P!nk's first album by default, as my best friend loved it and used to bump it in the car ALL the time. Her unique voice, which I find powerful – not just because of her consistently evocative lyrical content, actually made me listen on a level I found thoroughly enjoyable. (I have this amazing ability to completely block out music I hate and take myself to a totally different zone. I like to call it "Projectile Elsewhere Living.") So, from that point, I made an effort to not only listen to P!nk's music, but also note anything I've heard about her from legitimate individuals in my professional circle.
What a relief to experience a successful young female artist who is not only deeply involved in each and every aspect of her career, but also continues to release stimulating music that is meaningful and, in my opinion, worth far more than any value that any record label can put on it.
Just when I thought the journey from Can't Take Me Home to Try This to Missundaztood to I'm Not Dead couldn't be any more ideal, I experienced P!nk's live show and never looked at any recording artist the same. I could go into a review of her show here, but in all honesty, my extravagant yet accurate verbs and sparkling yet accurate descriptions won't do her concerts justice. So I highly recommend anyone reading this catch her on her next tour. I promise you will be pleased. If not, I will personally reimburse each of you for the cost of your ticket.
This brings me to P!nk's new album Funhouse. I pre-ordered it. In fact, it was only the fourth album I actually purchased this year. Don't get me wrong… I like various music genres and have thousands of songs on my ipod, but I won't buy an album if I believe the artist isn't genuine. (Thank God for friends who buy albums for their sheer love for music, period.)
Anyway, I played Funhouse for the first time on my ipod while checking out of a hotel. The songs didn't initially capture my attention the way those on I'm Not Dead did (most likely because I was disrespectfully jumping from a car to a shuttle to an airport check-in line while P!nk was generously extending her talents). But I listened again, without any interruption, once I boarded my six-hour flight. Then I listened again. And again. And again.
As with her previous albums, I appreciated feeling like P!nk invested herself on multiple levels to sincerely share with us a transition into another chapter of her life. The freeing of her deep-seated emotions combined with her usual, but most appreciated sarcasm were a vivid reminder as to why this chick is successful. She doesn't seem to back down regardless what she encounters all the while unintentionally empowering her audience.
So, whether it's a song to which you can sing, dance, workout, wallow, drink, nod, hi-five your best friend or virtually assault someone, P!nk naturally conveys messages applicable to anyone at any given time. But Funhouse took me to another level in my imaginary relationship with P!nk. I learned that not only do I adore her as an entertainer, but her selflessness has resulted in my utmost respect for her as a human being. She makes me proud. Proud to be a chick (who, like P!nk, also happens to be from Philly and in the music business)!
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John McCain – A Man of Equality and Family Values… Not!
I've always found politics amusing. Unfortunately (or, perhaps, fortunately), I never had serious regard for them, thereby never investing significant time to reflect, comprehend, respond, object, gamble, etc., to whatever the goings on. Until now.
Since McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate last week, I've had a good amount of time to marinate in the insult I experienced from his obviously calculating, manipulative decision to attempt to get Clinton voters and unsettled Democrats to jump the fence. In response, I've asked myself many questions – rhetorical and literal…
- Who the hell is she…. Really?
- Are our American women so naive to not see that Palin (and all of her "controversies") is McCain's token nominee who will "prove" that McCain believes in "equality?"
- Do American people not see that this nomination is McCain's self-serving, pathetic attempt to market himself as the quintessential "family values" man?
- Out of curiosity, did Palin not properly inform her juvenile daughter about birth control, abstinence, etc.? Being Palin's an extreme conservative/anti-abortionist and all…
- Does seventeen-year-old Bristol really want to marry her "baby's daddy" and is doing so really her "choice?"
- Does Palin care about Bristol's privacy? I mean, hell, if the media can make a three-week saga out of Janet Jackson's breast, the Alaskan governor knew her family festivities were plentiful for launching a 24-hour Palin Reality Network.
I'd like to point out that McCain's choice of Palin (a woman with no views on foreign policy), is counterproductive to his "Barack Obama is inexperienced" movement. And Palin's choice to exploit her daughter is just as self-serving as McCain's decision to select her as his running mate.
The irony in all of this is that I, personally, didn't think it could get any worse with George Dubya out of the Oval Office. However, Palin, not Clinton – a woman who is undoubtedly capable of being president, could actually be the first woman in the Oval Office. I mean, hello!!! McCain is a whopping 72 years old!
Who knows? Maybe some Americans will actually trust that McCain does believe in equality because of this stunt. And those same people wlll view Palin's ruthless disregard for her daughter's privacy as a heroic "Hey, when duty calls!"
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