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- 1400 - 1500 Roland Levinsky, Lecture Theatre 1
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- 1300 - 1400 Davey Building, Main Hall
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Wednesday 20 September 2017
- 1000 - 1200 Barbican, Mast House 202
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- 1300 - 1500 Barbican, Mast House 202
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Thursday 22 September 2016Your uniform fittings will take place today commencing at 0900. Please see the separate article for further information relating to venues and times.
- 1000 - 1200 Smeaton 205
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- 1300 - 1430 Smeaton 205
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- 1430 - 1500 Smeaton 205
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- 1500 - 1600 Sherwell Foyer
- 1915 - 2145 Graduation Marquees, Plymouth Hoe
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Oral-History:Peter Sandretto
About Peter Sandretto
Peter Sandretto, a leader in aeronautical radio engineering and other electronic fields, was born in Point Canavaze, Italy. He came with his family to the US when he was six and grew up in Ladd, Illinois. He graduated from Purdue University in 1930 and worked for Bell Labs in aviation radio from 1930 to 1932. In 1932, he left Bell Labs for a position with United Airlines, where he worked until 1942. He was commissioned into the Air Force in 1942, where he was assigned as assistant chief of the radar division. Near the end of the war, Sandretto was assigned as countermeasures officer to the Seventh Air Force in the Pacific. After the war, he became director of Aviation for International Communications Labs.
The interview begins with Sandretto's early experiences in commercial radio broadcast during the late 1920s. After graduating from Purdue in 1930, he took a job in aviation radio with Bell Labs. He discusses his various projects in airline voice radio transmission, and provides a useful background of the development of United Airlines and Thorpe Hiscock's role in aviation communications. The interview continues with a discussion of Sandretto's work for United Airlines from 1932 to 1942. In 1942, Sandretto received a commission in the US Air Force. He discusses his work in the radar division as well as his work in countermeasures. The interview concludes with comments upon Sandretto's work with the organization that eventually became ITT Communications and his authorship of three engineering books, including The Principles of Aeronautical Radio Engineering, which established Sandretto's international reputation in the field.
About the Interview
PETER C. SANDRETTO: An Interview Conducted by Frank A. Polkinghorn, June 19, 1974
Interview # 018 for the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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Interview: Peter C. Sandretto Interviewer: Frank A. Polkinghorn Date: 19 June 1974
Background and Education
This is a recording of an interview made with Peter C. Sandretto, who spent most of his career with the Federal Telecommunications Labs at Nutley, New Jersey. The recording was made on June 19th, 1974 by Frank A. Polkinghorn, assisted by Ralph Lamarr. Mr. Sandretto, according to the information I obtained from the Who's Who in Engineering, you were born in Italy.
That's right, in the little town, Point Canavaze, in the Piedmont. The Piedmont is probably not too well known outside of Italy, but it's the place where Italy originated. Italy only had its origin in about 1843 and all the kings of Italy had come from the Piedmont.
How old were you when you came over here?
I was six years of age. I was born while my father was on a business trip, and we lived there for a few years before he came back.
I see. He originated here then?
No, he originated in Europe, but he had been coming over here since he was about sixteen years of age.
I see, and where did you live when you came over here?
In the little town of Ladd, Illinois. It once grew to a population of five thousand.
They showed me the wireless set on the ship we came over on. So my interest in electronics went back a long time, and I was interested as a kid in amateur radio. Then the broadcasting era came along. I got a commercial operator's license, went to Purdue, and ran their broadcasting station. In all I ran some five different broadcasting stations.
Broadcasting in those days was quite different from what it is today. Tell us a little bit about how it was.
I should say it was! It was very informal, both the commercial stations I operated and the Purdue station. The Purdue station burned down, and I got the job of rebuilding it. It was one of the first crystal-controlled stations to be in operation in the midwest. The programming consisted of having some boy call up his friends to see who he could scrape up for that night. One of the important things was that either he or his girlfriend would be able to play the piano, because they had to fill in. They would rustle up a program from the rest of them.
You graduated from Purdue in 1930.
That's right.
I see by a notice here and also by your certificate you were a member of Eta Kappa Nu, which meant that you were up among the top of the class somewhere.
Early Broadcasting Business
Tell us some more about this broadcasting business. When you first went in, in the 1925 era they were just beginning to have remote pickups.
That's right.
Up to that time most everything was in the studio. There must have been a lot more things like that, that you could tell us about.
Well, yes. The first station I operated, I should tell you a little bit of the history. I was in amateur radio and got acquainted with a man in Joliette, Illinois, the vice-president of the steel re-rolling mill. He was very much interested in radio and took a liking to me, and offered me the unpaid, unsalaried job as operator at his broadcasting station. It was at the Masonic Hall, and most of their recordings were Masonic functions. He took an interest in me, as I said, and I went to Chicago to get my broadcast operator's license. I still remember it was a very hot day in Chicago. I got into the office and went to what was called the superintendent of radio, I think, in Chicago. I said, "I want to take the examination." He said, "Sonny, we don't give amateur radio examinations on Monday." I said, "But I'm here for a broadcasting station operator's license." He said, "I think you're crazy with the heat." That was a nice welcome, and the bastard flunked me by three-tenths of a point after I had had to hold a telegraph key together with one hand because it was broken. Well, I came back three months later and passed.
My first station was called WJBA, and this program, as I said, was Masonic functions. Then I went to Purdue. I went over there to keep my license current. Incidentally, this license was signed by Herbert Hoover, the Secretary of Commerce, and the station had been built by students. It consisted of two, two-hundred-and-fifty watt tubes in parallel, and two others as modulators: two as oscillators and two as modulators. That's all there was, just an oscillator and a modulator. When it burned down we had to do it right. Using a little information from the Western Electric handbook, we built one with a kilowatt water-cooled tube. We did this after-hours and during the summer, working there for seventy five cents an hour until we got the thing done.
It must have been about 1928 or 1930?
Yes. 1928, 1929. In that era. You mentioned remote pickups. The third or fourth broadcasting station I had, in which I was operator, was WKBB, in Joliette. No, it was WCLS. WKBB was owned by an automobile parts dealer, and he arranged the programs and I ran the transmitter. The other one was called WCLS, and it was a station of the biggest department store in town. That was up on the top floor of this seven-story building, and they had a regular operator on a full-time basis. He was quitting, going to Chicago, and they asked me if I would take over the station. I said, "Well, I've already got a job as an electrician, working in the steel mill." They said, "Maybe we could work it out anyway, on a part-time basis." So I agreed to that and they said, "How much do you want?" I thought and thought about some princely sum, and I came up with fifteen dollars a week. So I had the only station in town; I could have held them up, really. They had been paying the previous operator fifty dollars a week, I came to find out. Well, I would get up early in the morning before the street-cars were running. Of course, automobiles were out of the question; people my age just didn't own them. So I would get up before the street-cars were working and go to the steel mill because they started early, and then they worked late. I think they worked twelve hours a day. I'd get home dirty, clean up, shower, and get to the broadcasting station. It was in the furniture department, so I would pull up a nice comfortable chair in front of this thing and turn it on and all the pickups were remote from a place called Delwood Park. You were right about that, remotes coming in for the first time. It was at one of those stations that the use of recordings came into being for the first time.
You stayed with this until 1930.
Until I was graduated, that's right.
Bell Labs
Aviation Radio Projects
Yes. Then I guess that when I first met you, you were at Bell Labs in 1930-1932, and you were doing aviation radio.
That's right. I came to Bell Labs on the basis that I would continue in broadcasting station work. Do you remember Roy Corum, who headed the department?
Well, Roy said he didn't have much work, and Streibey wanted me to go into carrier on cable, and Ralph Bear had a rush job; he wanted somebody who fitted in, who knew what radio transmitting was all about. So I got into Ralph Bear's transmitter group.
Yes, I remember him too. What were you doing in aviation at that time?
We worked on a revision of the first airborne transmitter that came out of Western Electric. It was called the 8A. It was a fifty-watt tube with two fifties or one other fifty as a modulator, the so-called Heising modulation. I worked on that one, then worked on what was called an itinerant flyer's set transmitter, on a 10A, which was an airport station transmitter, and finally we wound up working for Tinus on the 13A. 13A was quite a new thing in aviation. It had nine necessary tuning adjustments, and it was multi-channel. I've forgotten, something like six channels. The airlines had had to take the 8A and modify it so that the frequency could be changed from the cockpit because as they flew along and night came they had to change to the night frequency from the day frequency. I don't know why that wasn't provided initially, but they were anxious to get something. I guess that was the reason the 8A had only one frequency. When the aircraft would land, somebody had to come out and put in a different crystal and re-tune it to the night frequency or the day frequency, as the case may be. So with the 13A you were able to select six frequencies, I think, from the cockpit.
United Airlines and 8A Transmitter
The engineering department of the Western Electric Company did aviation radio work in World War I just as far as demonstrations were concerned. I believe they built a small amount of equipment, but am I to understand that there was practically no work done between World War I and this period, 1930 or so?
Yes. I read the files the first two weeks I was at the Labs, and I recall that it only began about two years sooner than that.
They had had success with the carrier — radio to shipboard telephony — as a public service, and so they saw the aviation coming, saw some money with the long-range point of view, and said, "We ought to be in this business to make a success of supplying service to passengers flying these airplanes." So they started the study. I don't know how big the effort was, but pretty small. They went out and studied propagation, and so on. Then Thorpe Hiscock, who was then superintendent or vice president of communications for United Airlines, came to them to ask if they would make it for United. He had gone to RCA.
At the beginning of this period or at the end of it?
At the beginning of the period. Hiscock had gone to RCA first, and RCA wouldn't give him voice communications. The communications was for the pilot, and he is the one who should have it. They thought he was crazy. A pilot couldn't operate a set, and he didn't want Morse code to be used: he wanted voice. He said, "That's what the pilot can understand; he doesn't have to write it down on a pad of paper." He had good reason for doing that because in Europe, which at that time was way ahead of us in aviation, they were using manual operators, as Pan American was using manual operators. But he said, "None of that kind. This communication is for the pilot and should be by the pilot." So he went to Bell Labs and found that they were willing to try to attempt to make a crystal work in an airplane, which was quite a development at that time. He found a very receptive mood. So he gave them the first job of building a quantity. I don't know how many there were, maybe sixty or a hundred of these 8A transmitters and receivers to go with the two. I think it was S. E. Anderson who did the receivers, and D. K. Martin did the system for it. All three men were under Fran Ryan. Remember Fran Ryan?
Oh yes, very well. Foghorn Ryan.
As I recall it, you had certain difficulties with the airplane companies in those days because they were complaining that by the time they served meals on a plane and put radio on it, there wasn't any room for passengers.
Well, that came later. They didn't worry about passengers in the year I'm talking about.
Oh, I see.
They made all their money carrying mail.
I see.
And you think that that's bad? United had an airplane called the 40B2 and another called the 40B4, in which the pilot had his head out of the cockpit and the passengers sat on the floor with their legs stretched out, one on either side of the airplane. They couldn't even communicate. The 40B4 was the same arrangement, but they had four persons instead of only two.
Passenger Air Travel
When did passenger carrying really start?
Passenger carrying didn't get serious really until about 1936. At that time, I think, United started a flight every hour on the hour from Newark to Chicago, and the first of the bi-motor single plane aircraft came in. Complaints about passenger comfort didn't come until later. But at that time the Post Office had credit for it. Brown in the U.S. Post Office, who was condemned [does he mean commended?] by Roosevelt in later years, said that they had to have radio in their aircraft because when they came down they wanted to know where to send the truck to pick up the mail! They got a little extra money for it, so much extra per mile, a cent a mile, or something like that, if they carried radio equipment. So they were very anxious to get it in and get it going.
United Airlines
Leaving Bell Labs
How did you happen to leave the Bell Labs and go with United Airlines?
I was in aviation radio and we had just designed this new set, so we had people coming and asking for us. But they put at the end the ten percent cut. Every department lost one man for every ten they had at that time. I was unmarried and had the least attractive background at that time, so I was one of those that went.
Tell me a little about that later, and that was just for ten years.
That's right.
Early Ground-Station Communication
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World War Two
Signal Corps Radar Division
When the war came along you went in the Air Force.
There were a lot of developments in the laboratory by that time, and the Air Force story is a long one. In 1934 the air mail was cancelled. The Air Corps took over the flying of it. I don't know if you remember, but it was terrible what happened, the number of men that were killed. They were completely unskilled. They had been reduced to a very few hours of flying. Their aircraft were not only old, but they didn't have instruments in them. They started to put in instruments the day they got the order to fly. Radio communications was out of the question. We saw some of these, I remember. I happened to be working at Iowa City at that time, and a station manager was talking to one of these young fellows. He told him, "Here's the weather." He gave him a weather teletype tape. The boy couldn't read a teletype tape, let alone do anything about flying weather. He had an instrument in his ship, and he didn't know whether it was working or not. You could see it was brand new, that it had just been put in a day or two before. This man was just like a father to these boys, trying to keep them from breaking their necks. When the Signal Corps running the laboratory at Wright Field in conjunction with the Air Corps sent a representative up to my laboratory to find out how we did it, we got on a very friendly basis and exchanged trips between my laboratory and Wright Field. So I became very well acquainted with all that. When the war came, General Mike De Armand asked me if I would come to Washington as his deputy for the radar division, and I said, "Sure." He put orders through for me.
So he gave you a major commission in 1942?
That's right.
And you went in as assistant chief of the radar division?
That's right.
Tell us about the state of radar at that time.
I was told I should go on duty as Mike's deputy. I got there and I found I was a deputy, but I didn't have a boss because Mike had somehow crossed Arnold up over the radar for the Panama Canal. I don't know what the argument was, but Arnold was a man with a considerable temper. He'd thrown Mike out, and a new chap had been put in. His name was T. Baxter. He was the chief, but he wasn't chief in fact because he had received this assignment on his way down to the Panama Canal, and was pulled off in Texas because yellow fever shots had gone bad on him. So he had contracted yellow fever as a result of taking these shots, and it left him in a weakened condition. So after being there two weeks or less than that, I went on a trip to find out what this radar was all about. I went to Bell Laboratories, I went to ITT, I went to Wright Field and several other places.
But I didn't finish my tour when I got a call from General Mariner, who was director of communications, which included three divisions: radio, radar, and systems. Somewhere in that was the personnel department, the organization. Mariner had control of everything that he needed. He called me up and said, "For heaven's sake, come up and run this thing!" So I went there. You can imagine my knowledge of the subject at that time, but there were a lot of smart boys in the organization. That's what Mike had said: they were trained at MIT, but they'd never used a screwdriver in their lives. They didn't know what the problem of installation of equipment meant, with procurement and so on. So we got this thing organized and had it running pretty well before T. Baxter came back. When he came back we said, "Well, it's yours." And he said, "I've looked around, and you've done what I would do. You just keep running it." He was very valuable because he knew the Air Corps in and out, and he had the contacts which I didn't have. We made a good team until the first of the year came around. He was supposed to go on duty with the Royal Air Force in London, as we had an interchange of officers. His team came, but he was again in the hospital at that time, so I took over and went to England.
If I recall correctly, it was the spring of 1941 when the Bell Laboratories put out its first bombing through overcast equipment. Bill Shockley and — oh, I've forgotten who else was working on this equipment. Was this the kind of equipment that you had used, or were there other kinds?
No, we had a very much more primitive equipment. In actual operation there was a two-hundred-megacycle thing with a lot of close lines on the airplane. The Signal Corps had a gun laying radar, a 268, and early warning radar, the 270, in operation.
Yes, I remember both of those.
Before I left for Europe, we were just beginning to get the first ASV from Bell Laboratories. It was the ten-centimeter equipment, and I went out to see General Roy Lynn at Wright Patterson Field in connection with installation of this radar equipment to go to coastal command in England. Air Marshal Gaobert, I think, was the one who wrote telegrams to Arnold that kept us hopping. I found the same thing when I went over to the Air Ministry. Was it Tedder? Ted Knoll? I can't remember his name. He kept ragging me because of the countermeasures equipment we promised to deliver and didn't. Our deliveries were not at all the thing that anybody wanted.
What was the job in England? Was it a materials type of job, or an administrative operating type of job?
It was everything.
Yes, and I was in the office of Air Vice Marshal Tate. Now Sir Victor Tate, who later was chairman of the OIC, by the way. He was of Canadian origin. A very fine man, and I enjoyed working with him. He had three deputies, one for countermeasures, one for radar, and one for communications. I have kept in touch with the man recently.
You were there in a period when things were pretty tough, if I recall correctly. The London raids.
Yes, but the heavy part of the raids were over with, and they were followed by the V-1. I was out of there by the time the V-1 came.
I see.
Countermeasure Activities
I took quite a part in the countermeasures activities. We had a little committee. It was a rump committee with no official standing except that we made some things happen. It consisted of a representative from the Signal Corps, who was usually Jim McCrae of Bell Labs.
The committee had been formed by Lloyd Berkner, at his suggestion. I formed it at his suggestion. For some reason or other we discussed it and he said, "Well, why don't you do it?" I did it, and the committee would meet once a month in my office. We would check out how we were going on all three sides, and then take some action. That's the way the first bombing radars in Europe for the Air Force came in to being. They came over some ASV equipment that I got from Lloyd Berkner. One day he came in with a British visitor. I'll think of his name in a little while. He later became very high in the Government. He became Minister of Technology for the British. [Frank Cousins?] We had had a countermeasure program going, but he started a new one. He told me how advanced they were, and how they were prepared in just a month or two to release lots of jammers and so on. Our boys were taking a whale of a beating in Europe, and we didn't have any countermeasures over there at all, so I said, "Something must be done in a hurry." I got the bright idea that we would have a place where we could send people to be trained and other people would be there to install equipment. We would do this in a hurry, assemble it, and then send aircraft off to give protection to the other aircraft that were already flying.
Well, the young fellow I had working for me was very ambitious and active, and he got the thing pinned down to Agland Field. The program started off in a very short time, a surprisingly short time, and we were going to do this. I went to Europe, and I came back to find that the Directorate of Communications had been completely re-organized. Mariner no longer had all control, only a small part of the business. The rest of the bits and pieces were placed all around the Pentagon, in spite of the effort by him and General McClowan. General Mariner went off to Europe, but General McClowan stayed on the job, and communications in the Air Force never really worked during the rest of the war as an effective organization. Well, I came back and was sent to Florida to try and do something with this baby that we had started. We amalgamated it into the rest of the testing activity, where we tested radar equipment. We had some radar equipment, but principally jammers. We had a Japanese radar and a German radar set up there, and we worked against them and then did other testing. I did that for a few months until I went to the Pacific.
The Pacific War
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International Telecommunications
Corporate Background and Names
And then you became director of aviation for International Communications Labs?
That's right.
That's what was known in 1930 or so as the ITT laboratories, wasn't it?
Federal Telecommunications Laboratories initially, then it changed its name to ITT Communications.
Oh, I see. I had forgotten that was the name. They started the International Telephone and Telegraph Laboratories in lower Manhattan?
That's right.
About 1930?
And they ran into difficulties?
That's right.
The head man, whose name escapes me at the moment, was let go, and the second man took charge and ran it for a good many years. But I never knew how that blended in to this other, when the Federal got going.
In the 1930s they didn't even own all of Federal. Then they bought Federal quite late. They had owned a part of it, and it was chiefly of interest to them because it produced marine radios. Radios for shipping. They're still active in that. I know some of that closed down, but there's still a little shred of it somewhere. This laboratory was founded after the war by DeLorraine, who escaped from France and brought with him the blueprints and photographs of equipment that they had been developing not only for the French but for the English.
Did they go into this laboratory that was founded in 1930?
There was no vestige of the 1930 laboratory.
There wasn't any left?
I see.
What had happened was that the Federal Telegraph Company, I think it was called at the time, at Newark —
— they had taken a contract from what is now the CAA, to develop a so-called blind landing system. It was considered a very big contract. I think it was for thirty thousand dollars. Harold Butner's the one who tells this story. He took the contract that included the development of three receivers and transmitters for flight path and localizer, and he gave the contract for the receivers to Bell Laboratories. Bell Labs developed the receivers on that. Then they formed a separate group to do that alone. Federal was producing the transmitters, I guess, and then they used this as a nucleus for forming the Federal Telecommunications Laboratory.
At the end of the war you had gone to the International Communications Laboratory, and you were there from 1947 to 1950. About that time they changed the Federal Labs name.
No, there was a thing called International Telecommunications Laboratory. It was a paper organization, but under this it collected money from the other ITT companies, and it gave them back a certain amount of money. It handled the research and development funds, but its function was a purely administrative.
I see.
Federal Telecommunications Laboratories, which had been organized at that time, its purpose was to develop apparatus which supposedly went into tests, went into production at Federal Telephone and Radio. There were three separate corporations. International Telecommunications Laboratories still exists on the books of ITT as a paper company now, but its function was trying to unify R&D efforts in all of the ITT companies, internationally.
Something like the old R&D of AT&T.
Yes, that's right. That's a good analogy.
Then from 1950 on you were with the Federal Labs. Tell us something about where the Labs stood.
Early Work
Can I go back and tell you a little about my work at International Telecommunications?
Fine, I'd be glad to have it.
If I can get everything right. Well, DeLorraine had invested a lot of money after the war in developing aircraft equipment. They looked at that as being the future. He said, "Well, now we have to tell our companies what this is all about." So my purpose, and General Mariner's, who came on board shortly thereafter, was to try and indoctrinate these companies into what the aviation business was all about. As such I traveled around, and as a result of this work I got some interesting assignments in the Argentine, in the Middle East, and in Venezuela. That's before I transferred to the Laboratories as assistant technical director to Busignies. Now we can talk about Federal Telecommunications Laboratory.
Federal Telecommunications Lab
All right. Go ahead.
At that time it was divided into parts with Businney as Technical Director of the side that looked after navigation and aviation, and a chap by the name of Labanne in charge of the vacuum tube activities and the communications activities, the PCM that they were developing at the time. I was made assistant technical director under Businney. Bill Short got the job as assistant technical director under Labanne.
I haven't followed Federal very much since the war as a matter of fact. They have changed their field a bit since that period?
I don't know where they stand at this time, but they changed very much. We had activities in guided missiles, and our biggest success was the development of the Tachan, which was a combined distance and direction system, which had been spelled out pretty well by RTCA subcommittee SC31, only people refused to read the report after it was written. At least they read it the way they wanted it. We had countermeasures development. In 1954 I became vice president and technical director for the company. Businney left for France. He's dead now. Under Businney we had five major laboratories. These were navigation, countermeasures, guided missiles, vacuum tubes, chemical and physical laboratories. The organization grew to three thousand professional people, and in our biggest year we had a total sales of about fifty-two million dollars.
I see there were a number of patents listed for you in Who's Who in Engineering. Do you have anything in particular to say about those?
There were a couple of patents that in retrospect I should have done a lot more with. One of them I developed for United Airlines. It was the use of electronics in the ignition system, which as you know is a current thing. That was a little ahead of my time. The other was a multi-frequency radar. We never took the right action on it.
This was simultaneous operation on more than one frequency?
Yes. Using a color tube for the display. But by that time I recognized that we had a lot of brilliant engineers around, and I let them do the inventing. We just tried to keep them out of trouble, and keep ourselves out of trouble.
I worked on the SCR 546.
Oh, yes.
It was also a multi-frequency radar, if you recall. It didn't take, either. I guess ten-centimeter equipment got perfected to the point where they really didn't need the other to pick things up.
Published Work
You have one book, The Principles of Aeronautical Radio Engineering, which I have at home and have read with interest. You have a whole list of organizations.
I have three books, actually.
Oh, you have more than one? I don't know about those.
This is the one you know.
This is the one that gave me an international reputation in the field.
Yes, this is the one.
This one is my biggest effort. Unfortunately it was very badly handled. It took me eight years to write.
Electronic Navigation Engineering. Yes, I have seen this, and I guess maybe I didn't distinguish it from the other.
Well, you see, that was something that Bell Labs had asked for. They had a number of authors come out, printed with the same covering on the books.
They were put out by Van Nostrand. We tried to do the same thing within ITT, because they had a handbook, The ITT Handbook, that was selling. But this was handled very badly. It came out way too late for the time. I had to revise it, add a chapter actually, and it still is in demand. It's out of print. They've didn't do very well with it. The University of Wisconsin is selling copies of this for forty dollars now, and they're still requested; they sell a few every year.
I was just noticing your chapter on Loran. I worked on the development of that thing, the early part of it.
Is that so?
Starting in November of 1940.
Is that so? Was John Fink the head of that?
No, John wasn't in on it at that time at all. The NDRC Committee got the notion that they wanted to do this job, and they let out a whole bunch of contracts to RCA, Sperry, Bell Labs, Westinghouse, and GE. GE and Westinghouse were making high-powered transmitters. Sperry and Bell Labs were making receiving equipment and indicator equipment. I've forgotten just how RCA fit in. I was the executive secretary of that group committee that coordinated all of this. This was all at UHF, and line-of-sight at that moment. I wrote a memorandum on the use of reflected waves for that kind of thing and on what could be done with them, and sent it up to Boston. This thing was all being governed from the NDRC there. Then we put in a station out at Heather Plains at the end of Long Island, and one in Delaware. Indian Hill? Indian Beach? Something of that sort. We tested the system out with just two stations, to see how it would work, and about this time we dropped that kind of work and passed the whole thing to MIT, and MIT took it from there with the Navy.
Did you know that AT&T once was interested in furnishing airway equipment for the government?
Furnishing airway equipment for the government. Running the facilities, the navigation facilities.
John Grieg developed the first omni-directional radio range, the phase comparison type, for which Gluck of RCA gets credit. Gluck knows he got his stuff from Grieg. He said the patent was not very good, but John Grieg is dead now. Actually built one and they tested it, and they found that it had a lot of error. I don't think they understood the law of apertures, but the CAA repeated the same development and mistakes after the war, or during the period at that time.
This is your third book, The Economic Management of Research and Engineering. That's something I have had some interest in. This one I didn't know about at all. This was 1968.
By John Wiley.
Well, I'll have to read this sometime.
I promised to write another one, an amplification of this, but I don't know that I'll ever get around to it.
In my work in Japan we had this kind of problem on our hands. I didn't do the detailed work myself on it, but I had management of the job. Well, I see you've got a bunch of medals over here. Do you want to tell us about some of those?
Oh, they're not very glamorous. That's the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star, and theater ribbons, and a couple of others.
And you're a Fellow of the IRE in 1954.
I'm also a fellow of the British Institute, a chartered engineer of the British Institute.
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- 2 About the Interview
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Melbourne: Five-times Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has dismissed concerns about his underwhelming return to the pool as "premature", after disappointing at another meeting in Italy over the weekend.
Thorpe finished 16th fastest overall in the 100 meters freestyle at the Italian Winter Open in Riccione, then 10th in the 200m, with times well short of what he would need to qualify for the Australian team at the Olympic trials in March.
"It`s important that I race, whether it`s a good result or a bad result, I have to keep racing at this stage," the 29-year-old was quoted as saying by The Australian newspaper on Monday.
"But whether it`s the 100 or the 200, racing still feels unfamiliar to me. It doesn`t feel like I know how to do it yet. But I race again in three weeks (at the Victorian titles), and each time I race, things come back. I`m happy with how I raced.
"I don`t look at where I come in the race. I look at the time, how fast it is. I watch it, I critique my race after it but I have no control of what the others are doing. It`s not a concern now, maybe later, but now it`s too premature."
Thorpe, Australia`s most successful Olympian, announced his comeback in February after retiring in 2006 and has since struggled at short-course meetings in Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo.
National head coach Leigh Nugent also warned against writing off the swimmer nicknamed "Thorpedo".
"For any public figure like Ian everyone has an opinion," Nugent said. "Often most of them are ill-informed, so we`ll just keep doing what we are doing.
"We`re not looking for a result now, first of all it`s about making the team, then looking for a result in London, which is a fair way off yet."
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Best of the Year 2013 – Maura McHugh
Yes, I know, I said yesterday's was the final of the 2013 guest Best of the Year series (see here for the guest BoY 2013 posts so far). But having just returned to the Blogcave after retiring to the family estate for the festive period I found one last one had arrived right before Christmas, and it was too good not to include, so here it is, this time (really) the final guest Best of the Year before the blog crew start trumpeting their own faves (if we can winnow down our lists – so many wonderful works to choose from). Here's Maura McHugh with her selection from 2013:
FPI: Can you pick three comics/webcomics/graphic novels which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out?
Maura: Lighter Than My Shadow ,written and drawn by Katie Green
No other graphic novel in 2013 has stayed with me as much as Green's Lighter Than My Shadow, a memoir that track's Green's battle with body dysmorphia, an eating disorder, and the resulting obsessive thoughts and behaviours. This is a prime example of how powerful this medium can be at communicating the inner life of a person to create a narrative with a powerful emotional impact.
The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship That Sank Twice, written by Mike Carey and art by Peter Gross, Kurt Huggins, and Zelda Devon
Carey's series The Unwritten has been consistently clever and intriguing, as it documents the metafictional connection between a character called Tommy Taylor created by writer Wilson Taylor, and Wilson's son, who bears the same name. The story of Tommy Taylor, student of magic, is clearly meant as a homage to the Harry Potter series, and in this book Carey proves his storytelling chops by relating a tale of pupils at a magical school that is compelling in its own right. Hands-down it's a fun read, yet underneath the surface it is saying canny things about the nature of narratives while never becoming self-indulgent. Carey is clearly one of Britain's smartest comic book writers.
Aleister Crowley: Wandering the Waste, written by Martin Hayes and art by RH Stewart
Lots of people have written about Aleister Crowley, and for good reason: he lived his life true to his own grand vision, unrepentant in how he defied social mores. Hayes tackles Crowley's life story in reverse: he presents us with the great beast's last days, and narrates snippets of his life to an observer. Thus, we meet the aged, frail, and grumpy Crowley, before we discover the arrogant magician/trickster, who often played with other people's lives with disastrous results. Stewart's black and white drawings vary in style and technique to reflect the change in tone and story, and the ending to the book, and Crowley's life, is a lovely last exhalation.
FPI: Can you pick three films which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out?
Maura: Cheap Thrills, directed by E.L. Katz, and written by Trent Haaga & David Chirchirillo
This dark film with streaks of black comedy is an astonishing debut from E.L. Katz, which basically consists of four people in a room for the majority of the piece. It's a riveting drama about how the wealthy can manipulate the disadvantaged for their jaded entertainment. There are outstanding performances from the entire cast, and combined with effective direction and strong writing makes this one of the best low-budget movies I saw this year.
Upstream Color, written and directed by Shane Carruth
This atmospheric and evocative science fiction gem is one of the stand-out achievements in cinema this year. Two people traumatised by a strange event are drawn together and eventually uncover the details of their abduction through their interconnection with each other and the environment. Carruth also stars in this film, as well as being one of the producers, and composing the music. This is a fragile, haunting story that favours lyrical exposition over direct explanation.
Frozen, directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck, and written by Jennifer Lee
It can't be all grim and dark, so I'm giving a shout-out to the utterly charming Frozen, a story about the relationship between two sisters, which is the finest musical of the year. If you don't like singing and dancing animated characters, give this one a wide berth, but if you like upbeat, funny, and touching films then you will be enchanted by this tale.
FPI: Can you pick three TV shows which you especially enjoyed over the last twelve months and tell us why you singled them out?
Maura: Hannibal, developed by Bryan Fuller
I came to this sceptical as I didn't think new life could be breathed into the franchise based on the Thomas Harris books, but Hannibal defied all my expectations and offered me some of the most memorable television in 2013. Apart from the intense central performances by Hugh Dancy as Special Agent Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and the rest of the talented cast, the series features a superb production design on all levels: lighting, sets, costumes, and music. It's like watching a series of European arthouse movies on television – from America. It's also some of the most unsettling and scary television I've watched in years.
The Returned (Les Revenants), created by Fabrice Gobert
This creepy French television series is adapted from a 2004 film of the same name, and looks in minute detail at the occupants of a mountain town and what happens when their deceased loved ones return to the land of the living. The central mystery as to why this is happening keeps you intrigued as the stories of the dead and the living unfold at a measured pace.
American Horror Story: Coven. co-created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk
The third in the AHS series, and by far my favourite. This one focuses on a coven in present-day New Orleans which is guided by a Witch Supreme, who is fading as her successor comes into her powers. All the cast are on the ball, but it is a pleasure to watch marvellous performances from veterans Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and Angela Bassett who play complex, powerful women who are (mostly) at odds with each other. Coven is pure Grand Guignol, with characters fighting tooth and nail for their survival: including a zombie attack that was partly fended off by a girl with a chainsaw… If you like horror, you should be watching this.
FPI: How did 2013 go for you as a creator? Are you happy with the way you got your work out this year?
Maura: 2013 has been a good year. The last issue of the first volume of Jennifer Wilde (Atomic Diner) came out, and I'm pleased with how the series turned out, thanks in large part to Stephen Downey's wonderful artwork. I also saw the publication of my two collections, Twisted Fairy Tales and Twisted Myths, by Barron's Educational Series in the USA, which have been well received.
I started a Laydeez do Comics event in Dublin with writer Lynda Rucker, and we've organised three meetings in 2013, all of which have been informative and fun thanks to the marvellous talent who appeared. Apart from that I've been working on other projects, and keeping busy.
FPI: What can we look forward to from you in 2014?
Maura: I've another Jennifer Wilde short due out in 2014, and I'm working on the next volume that should start appearing next year from Atomic Diner all going well. I've a short story due to be published in Black Static in a couple of months. There's at least one other project due out that I can't discuss at this point, alas.
FPI: Anyone you think is a name we should be watching out for next year?
Maura: Anna Fitzpatrick's début graphic novel, Koré, which was published late in 2013 after a highly successful Kickstarter, should earn her a spot on everyone's 'to watch' list. I'm also eagerly anticipating Mary Talbot's graphic novel Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, done with Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot.
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- Want an end-of-game recap of all the action, if you were there or not.
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"My friend and I put the greenhouse up in spring of 1986," writes Joe Seamone in his October 2013 letter to company president William "Buzz" Sierke, Jr. "It has seen 2-3' blizzards, windstorms, below zero and above 100 degree temps, hurricanes and hail and it's still intact. I have used it to over-winter all sorts of tropical plants, bananas, palms, elephant ears, cannas, etc.
When Maryland resident Joe Seamone bought his Gothic Arch Greenhouse nearly thirty years ago, he never dreamed the affordable, quality do-it-yourself product would still be around today.
Growers know extreme weather can mean disaster for plants and the bottom line of those who grow them. And, given today's economy, tightening budgets mean smarter use of money. The purchase of an American made Gothic Arch Greenhouse is not only an investment in the health of plants today but it's a smart investment in the future.
Whether a backyard hobbyist, a commercial grower, a science or horticulture teacher, or maybe just a plant lover like Joe, investing in a Gothic Arch Greenhouse means taking control over inside weather conditions keeping your plants and budget on schedule. By investing in one of a variety of quality, do-it-yourself greenhouse kits, environmental control systems and related accessories, providing dependable year-round conditions to growing plants is possible, despite the crazy weather.
For over 65 years, the Sierke family has been manufacturing and distributing quality customized greenhouses and supplies all over the world. Their affordable, made in the USA, do-it-yourself products are proven to last. The friendly, knowledgeable staff has gained a trusted reputation of being greenhouse experts while the company's signature handcrafted Gothic Arch greenhouse is respected for its proven durability.
The sturdy, solid Cypress frame and state-of-the-art covering of a Gothic Arch greenhouse like Joe's is popular today for its curved roof which in winter, optimizes sun exposure making it warmer inside thus reducing heating demand. Extreme cold though, can mean additional heating needs and, in turn, increased humidity requirements. By discussing individual situations with the expert staff at Gothic Arch Greenhouses, all heating, humidity, thermostats or control, needs can be balanced to achieve the constant temperatures needed inside your greenhouse.
Starting with the smallest 8-foot by 8-foot structure, a Gothic Arch Greenhouse is designed to grow as needs grow by expanding in length and width in 4-foot sections up to 12, 14, 18 and 22 feet. Although the Gothic Arch design is the company's signature line, they have a huge selection of other styles from which to choose the highest quality, lowest priced greenhouse kits on the market today to fit your growing needs. Coupled with a wide selection of greenhouse grower supplies and equipment available by phone or on the web, having Gothic Arch Greenhouses as your greenhouse specialist makes sense.
Whether you're a backyard hobbyist, commercial grower or teacher, or maybe just a plant-lover like Joe Seamone, an investment in a Gothic Arch Greenhouse can help avoid weather damage to plants thus saving you money. The experts with the family owned-operated business will work to marry individual growing needs to one of a wide selection of affordable, quality, made in the USA, do-it-yourself greenhouse kits. Ensuring the right environmental control systems and related accessories are matched perfectly, providing dependable year-round conditions to plants is possible, despite extreme weather. Invest in quality. Invest like Joe did, in a Gothic Arch Greenhouse.


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If you have received my emails for a while, you know that I sometimes refer to you all, affectionately, as "Alan's Army." You are passionate, smart and dedicated. But last week you were something else: Amazing.
I told you about a proposed partnership between multinational corporations and their sellout tools in government (aka the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership). The TTIP features "investor-state" dispute resolution, which invites huge corporations to file lawsuits to prevent government actions that they just don't like, such as health and safety regulations. Similar trade agreements have allowed the World Trade Organization to strike down country-of-origin meat labels, dolphin-safe tuna labels and limits on candy-flavored cigarettes marketed to kids.
I asked you to send your thoughts to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), who will help decide whether to enter into this corrupt abridgement of American sovereignty.
Alan's Army responded -- and how! In all, 9,625 of us submitted comments. Let me tell you how our response stacks up. Before we got involved, the USTR received only 113 comments in 88 days -- many from corporate lobbyists. We added almost 100 times that amount, in a little more than 24 hours. Again, amazing.
Now, let's make our voices heard again. Tomorrow the House Ways and Means Committee, the committee with jurisdiction over trade, will hold a hearing on the TTIP. I plan to deliver a letter to the Committee expressing my disdain for this betrayal, and more specifically, that 30-pieces-of-silver investor-state dispute resolution clause. You can join me.
Click hereto sign my letter opposing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
I would love to have 10,000 citizen soldiers of the Alan's Army on board. You did it once. Can you do it again?
And please, share this with your friends. We want our Army to grow.
Rep. Alan Grayson
P.S. Some of you responded with eloquence. Others with anger. And a few of you were just plain nasty (and you know how much I enjoy that). Here are a few of my favorite comments:
As Thomas Jefferson put it, "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Paul from Sharon, MA
Corporations are running this world already. They need to be severed at the knees. This is Fascism, plain and simple. - Ralph from Blackduck, Minnesota
SERIOUSLY? YOU MUST BE COMPLETELY CRAZY TO CONSIDER ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO SUE GOVERNMENTS! CRAZY OR EVIL. - Georgia from Novato, CA
I am opposed to this misnamed trade agreement in its entirety. It should more properly be called a cowardly corporate surrender document. - Jim from Ballston Spa, NY
American citizens can afford no further capitulation to greed-driven economics and legislation. It is time for those who have always bought their solutions to finally learn the word "No" lest we slip further into ownership by corporate powers and cease to be a nation of the people for the people. - Christina from Maplewood, MN
I am dead set against this agreement and the Trans Pacific agreement as well. What the hell are you guys smoking, anyway? - Bryan from West Linn, OR
I smell NAFTA (NO AMERICAN FACTORIES TAKING APPLICATIONS) and GATT (GANGSTERS AGREEMENT ON TRADE AND TARIFFS). - Mike from Seattle, WA
This is unconscionable! Why are we even considering this? Oh, I forgot...corporations are now more important than people. NOT!!! - Dee from Madison, WI
This is the worst of all the stupidest things I have ever heard of. - Stephen from
Rochester, NY
If this insanity continues I will start pledging allegiance to the United Corporation of America! - Cornelius from West Amherst, NY
Unbelievable. Did Mitt Romney start this piece of crap? - Thomas from Phoenix, AZ


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Kurdish Literature has gone through many turbulent periods. If we consider the Yarsan (Yaristan) Kurdish balladry in Gorani dialect the advent of the Kurdish Literature after Islam then we can call the third century (A.H.) a starting point of Kurdish Literature. Many poems have been composed in Gorani dialect. Beyonds this other Kurdish dialects have actively contributed to the treasures of Kurdish literature such as Hawrami Kurdish, Northern Kurdish (Kirmanj) and Mid Kurdish (Sorani). Throughout centuries Kurdish Literature has been influenced by different intellectuals and religious movements as well as neighbourings' litterateurs.
The above characteristics are the base for this International conference on history and development of Kurdish Literature organised by the centre for Kurdish Language and Literature studies of University of Kurdistan/Iran. The conference is an attempt to lead the future academic and scholarly analyses from various perspectives.
Objectives of the Conference
Subjects of the Conference
The Format of the Articles
All the articles should follow the standards of scientific research article writing (abstract, keywords, introduction, body, and conclusion). A separate page should be allocated to the particulars of the writer(s) to be given to the referees (including: name of the writer(s), profession, academic rank, published works, e-mail, and postal address).
Arbitration Process
Articles delivered to the secretariat of the conference will be presented to the arbiters based on the subject and the final acceptance will depend on their judgement. It is needless to say that the particulars of the writers will not be revealed to the arbiters.
Conference Calendar
Time and Place of the Conference:
5-6 May 2010; faculty of humanities,
University of Kurdistan- Sanandaj Organizer
The centre for Kurdish Language and Literature studies of University of Kurdistan
Conference Language: Kurdish and Persian
Conference Website: www.uok.ac.ir and www.kurdlit.ir
The Publication of the Articles
The accepted abstracts of the articles will be uploaded on the website of the University of Kurdistan and the accepted articles will be published in the book of the conference.
Conference Scientific Secretary: Najmoddin Jabbari Assistant Professor, University of Kurdistan
Conference Executive Secretary: Abdolah Rasoulnejad Assistant Professor, University of Kurdistan
Postal Address:
University of Kurdistan,
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YAY!!! It's Friday! The weekend's here! I knew there'd be some funnies in the media today. And I found a good one when browsing through The Sun this morning.
The story was headlined "West Coast Expressway to cost RM6b".
What's so funny about that you ask. Wait. Doesn't the headline tell you that whoever announced that wanted to make the audience feel that it is such a piece of good news? And true enough the report starts like this....
"The construction cost for the West Coast Expressway, linking Banting, Selangor, to Taiping, Perak, is now 15% lower at RM6 billion compared with the initial estimate of RM7.07 billion a year ago."
Phwaar! So good ah? Save so much money issit? Good la. But then....
"Of course, the highway is also shorter at 233km compared with the earlier construction distance of 316km."
Oh, I see. Errr...so where is the good news? Oh wait ah...got some more...
"The highway project, which is on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis, will also have a shorter concession period of 50 years, compared with the initial reported 60 years."
GREAT!!! Remember we all kicked up such a fuss when we heard about this highway concessionaire being awarded a toll-collection period of 60 years?! Now we endure 10 years less of being fucked up the ass. Huh? What?
"The concession period will be extended for another 10 years if the agreed targeted internal rate of return......is not achieved."
Hahahahahahahaha....I don't know about you but I find this incredibly laughable. The BN government thinks we are stupid or what? Yes they do. And in case you're planning to write to your MP, stage a protest or plan a demonstration at Stadium Merdeka or a place that the PDRM approves of after the Home Minister has okayed somewhere else............
The concession agreement was signed between West Coast Expressway Sdn Bhd and the government on January 2, 2013.
p/s actually hor? Reading Malaysian news is a good way to diet. It turns you off your food. No?


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Commencing students for July intake 2018
Welcome to School of Science!
On this webpage you will find information about getting started at Monash, the enrolment process, course requirements and many other information that you should know before you start your course at Monash.
The enrolment steps start here.
Step 1: Create your computer account
To set up your Monash account you need your Monash ID. This is in your offer letter. Make sure you record your Monash student ID and username.
For any problems creating an account, contact the Service Desk for help.
Step 2: Register your details
Using your Monash account, you can now login to register your details in the enrolment system. In this step you will work your way through the Enrolment Summary screen to:
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Be sure to record the transaction number generated by the system as it is needed for your student ID card photo session.
Step 3: Attend orientation events
Orientation week will start from 16-20 July 2018. Click here for details of the orientation program.
It is important to attend the Course Advice Session on campus to complete your enrolment. It is recommended that you understand your course structure before enrolment is done.
Step 4: Enrol in units
Staff will help you to enrol in units. You are required to submit your Course Enrolment Form to School of Science staff after you have attended the Course Advice Session.
How do I know when I am enrolled?
You know you are enrolled when you see units shown as ENROLLED in the system. Congratulations, if you have completed all previous steps, you are now enrolled at Monash University Malaysia.
Step 5: Additional enrolment tasks
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I remember, as a 5-foot-5-inch executive, being at senior-level conferences and trying to act "taller." I noticed and later read that the majority of CEOs are more than 6 feet tall. That is a personal stat that is hard to change. Lately, there is one other stat that is getting a lot of attention: BMI. For those of you not sure what BMI is, it is a measure of your body fat as determined by your height and weight.
A Wall Street Journal article highlighted research that showed that executives who have a BMI under 25 percent are perceived more positively by peers than those with BMIs over 25 percent. Why? Perhaps it has to do with self-control or discipline or energy levels. Regardless, it is a perception that can impact your career — and your company's prospects.
The great thing about this is that you can do something about it. And, it doesn't have to be doing triathlons or taking up hockey again after all these years. It is about moving more every day. How do you know how much you move? You track it.
Consider every other metric important to your company's success. You track revenue, receivables, payables, aging inventory, product turns, absenteeism, retention and, I am sure, many other things. If it is important, you track it. As we all know, we achieve what we measure.
While you are thinking about what you personally can do to move more, think about how it would help the rest of your senior team and all your employees if they do the same.
How do you get started in this effort?
Create a baseline and then focus on continuous improvement. If you care about productivity, you need to pay attention. Studies have shown that the cost of obesity for every 1,000 workers equates to $285,000 each year. This number includes absenteeism, increased medical costs, worker's compensation claims and increased drug costs.
Of course, not everyone is obese, although more than 70 percent of the people in the United States are overweight and obesity is now considered an epidemic.
Moving more helps everything. It helps our creativity, it keeps our brain younger, it helps ward off heart disease and cancer. You name it; it helps. (For more information on BMI, including how to calculate yours, go to this web page from the National Institutes of Health: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/BMI/bmicalc.htm)
Make it happen
Wouldn't it be great if your employees felt as accountable for their own health as they do for other aspects of the company? Productivity will soar, your retention will be at record levels and people will clamor to work for you. I couldn't grow taller, but I could be in shape.
In a variety of top-level corporate jobs, I traveled all the time so a gym wasn't always an option. So I put on a pedometer and started tracking.
Soon, my senior team all started wearing them. We started doing walking meetings. One-on-one sessions while we were moving became the norm. We started sharing our goals and cheering for each other.
I personally began tracking 10,000 steps a day. And, we became the fastest growing division within the company — by profits — not by waistlines.
If it seems like a big undertaking, consider an outside wellness expert to help you set up a plan, create the metrics and lead the implementation and engagement.
Yes, size counts. You want increases in your bottom-line and shrinkage at the waistline.
Sue Parks, a former top-level executive with USWest, Gateway and Kinkos, is a corporate wellness expert. She is the founder and CEO of WalkStyles Inc., www.walkstyles.com, based in Irvine, Calif., and co-author of "iCount, 10 Simple Steps to a Healthy Life."


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New year, new changes. The holiday season has slowed activity, but we're still here!
From Public to Semi-Private
Muffin and I have discussed how we'd like to proceed with the game and we've agreed that it would be in our best interest right now to become a semi-private game. This means we will no longer be actively advertising MEFA anymore . However, if our current player base would like to invite friends or a newcomer happens across our site, we will still welcome them with open arms.
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The above listed species will now be available as playable characters. Anything I have not listed is not open for play at this moment , but the staff is open to other considerations. If there's something you'd like to play, please PM us or contact us in Discord.
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You may now create your character with just about any profession that you can think of within reason. For example, you may now play a Spectre without staff permission or a trial. However , do bear in mind that your character will not be immune to the consequences of their actions. Being a Specrte is not a license to do whatever the hell you want in RP and you will still need to cooperate with whomever you roleplay with. Please be fair and use common sense when playing such a powerful character. On the other hand , anyone that roleplays with a Spectre cannot ignore their authority under certain circumstances' please react with the same amount of fairness and sense.
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Over the past week or so, I've noticed an unsettling pattern emerging in discussions about the West African Ebola outbreak. Major news outlets and people in power have shifted their focus to the perceived future implications for America, yet no American citizens have died of this disease and only two Americans are known to have contracted it. 900 citizens of four West African nations have died from Ebola so far.
Because this crisis is being covered by dedicated and intelligent journalists like Ofeibea Quist-Arcton of NPR, those of us living outside of West Africa have the information necessary for meaningful discussions around this crisis. As it stands, though, the current American perspective on the Ebola outbreak is extremely misguided.
By choosing to focus the public discourse on two affected Americans, we diminish the tragedy of the 900 lives lost. This focus also contributes to racist worldviews that prioritize white lives over black lives.
But before I get into the details of how and why the current Western focus on Ebola is so royally screwed, I want to cover some basicfacts:
So far, efforts to control the spread of Ebola have been difficult and problematic. British writer and teacher Lola Okolosie tells of her experience upon returning home after recently visiting Nigeria. Her piece in The Guardian describes the challenges presented by her toddler son, who had developed a mild fever while they were abroad. He did not display any other flu-like symptoms upon their return to England, but because they had just been to Nigeria, Okolosie was turned away from a routine appointment with her midwife. For context, only two people in Nigeria were confirmed to have contracted Ebola when Okolosie and her son returned to England.
Okolosie notes that she understands the midwife's decision to apply caution, but that the general public's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not so forgivable. She writes, "In the UK, the comments left beneath articles on the subject often reflect the prevailing anti-immigration climate – except now they are presented within the framework of science and public health."
This anti-immigrant mindset being expressed under the guise of public health concerns is nothing new, and it is not unique to the UK. In the United States, Republican congressman Phil Gingrey recently stated that "illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus, and tuberculosis" are posing a threat to the United States.
Not only is this assertion factually incorrect, it is blatantly xenophobic. Unfortunately, the current humanitarian crisis on America's southern border means that Representative Gingrey's ignorant comment has fallen upon a similarly xenophobic domestic audience. He has only been called out publicly by liberal-learning news sites like Daily Kos and The Daily Beast. To see just how little attention is being paid to his stupidity, take a look at the search results from when I Googled the congressman on August 5:
When I searched Google News for "Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever" on August 4, I was presented with this selection of not-so-relevant stories:
There's so much to say about this screenshot. First of all, five out of the seven faces in the headlines' thumbnails are white faces. This is clearly not a representative portrait of the population suffering from Ebola. It might seem insignificant to point out that a search engine aggregates stories in this way, but it has a big impact on how people perceive this crisis. And because this is a collection of headlines based upon a major search engine's algorithms, it is a direct representation of the much larger national discussion of Ebola.
If I didn't know anything about Ebola and then scanned these search results, I would think that this is a disease that has the potential to impact my personal health and well-being. Six of the seven headlines in this image explicitly mention the United States, even though Americans have not and will not be significantly impacted by the virus. White Americans do not need to be at risk for the Ebola outbreak to be a crisis worthy of the world's attention. Hundreds of citizens of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are dead, and there is no quick fix in sight.
Let me repeat: White Americans do not need to be the center of attention in every single discussion of the current Ebola outbreak.
Of course, not all media outlets are covering this public health crisis in a xenophobic and racist manner. The phenomenon I'm referring to is occurring in aggregate, when we look at the overall trends in media coverage and online discussions. I mentioned Ofeibea Quist-Arcton earlier, and I highly recommend listening to her reporting on the current situation in Sierra Leone. Quist-Arcton touches on issues of culture and focuses her reporting on the people who are directly affected by this crisis.
TV news networks and major online publications need to shift their focus away from "OMG, a handsome white doctor is sick with a scary African virus!" immediately. This kind of coverage is both xenophobic and racist. Quick and infrequent updates on the condition of the two (two!) affected Americans will provide more than enough attention to their cases. 900 people, all of whom are living in West Africa, have already died from this vicious disease for which there is no vaccine or guaranteed cure.
Future coverage and discussion should focus on how communities in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are dealing with this outbreak, and the challenges of bringing foreign medical workers into communities that don't want them there. NPR has been doing a fairly good job of focusing on the parts of this story that actually matter, and Ofeibea Quist-Arcton's recent coverage sets a fantastic example for others to follow.
I'm sure some readers are thinking, "Well, American/Canadian/British news companies are just approaching this story from an angle that their audience will relate to. They have to sell papers/get pageviews/attract viewers!" I wholeheartedly disagree with this perspective. Endless coverage of Dr. Kent Brantly's ambulance ride to Emory University isn't compelling. It's boring, it's pointless, it's racist, and it's lazy.
For once, let's shift our discussions of international events away from white Americans. We can do better than this.