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More Cup final tales
Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).
Another batch of your personal stories from great cup finals of the past.
I moved to New York in 1980 and promised myself that I would come home if Spurs got to a Cup Final. I promptly booked my trip in April 1981, for the Thursday to Tuesday covering Cup Final weekend, but didn't have a ticket. My Sister's local was running a raffle for 2 tickets and asked her to draw the winning ticket. She drew her own ticket, to loud jeers of 'fix!'. I had my ticket for the match. The draw threw all of my plans. I queued from early Sunday morning for replay tickets and had to postpone my return for a few days. But boy was it ever worth it!
Andy Capaloff - Lifelong Spurs fan, finally back living in London
My Dad used to work in North London in the late 60's and 70's, and knew the bloke in charge of policing for White Hart Lane at that time. So at the fragile age of 8 yrs old I was taken to my first footie game ever - the League Cup Final against Villa in 71! Two goals from the great Martin Chivers ensured my heart was devoted to the club from then on, and although I'll be watching on telly this time, I'll be as loud and enthusiastic as that magical day in 1971!
Mad Uncle Simes
I was lucky enough to get a ticket for the 1999 cup final at Wembley. Ok, the game was not the best ever but when Allan Nielsen scored the winner all hell broke loose and I managed to jab the bloke next to me in the eye. So if you were at that game and some crazed maniac poked you in the eye 'sorry' I also managed to lose my car keys so had to walk home from the station when I got back to Woking. A great day nevertheless. Come on you Spurs!
Steve Rodgers
I could not get a ticket anywhere for the 1999 Final until I tried ticket agencies in London. I was told that they had hundreds to sell in the Leicester end but they would all be Spurs supporters around me. They lied! I arrived to find there were lots of gaps but only a few Spurs fans here & there.
I noticed that my blue waterproof outdoor coat was very similar to all the stewards so when I was questioned by some Leicester fans as to why I wasn't cheering for them I pretended that I was an off duty steward who had a day off and was trying to enjoy the game. Fortunately they accepted that so I was ok.
Can you imagine how I had to explode silently when we scored. The leicester fans immediately started to drift home so I was able to get to the other end soon after. I have a ticket in our end this time.
PS. Message to Blackburn Rovers - We are going to score 4 goals again so if you want to win you will need 5 (I don't think you will get them!). Come on you SPURS!!!!!!!
Paul Michael
Being a Norwegian Spurs supporter for 35 years the 1991 cup final v Nott'm Forest will always be specially remembered. Having tried all possible ways to get a ticket, I as a last chance phoned a Norwegian newspaper man who I knew was a close friend to a member of the Spurs staff. Against all odds I got confirmation of a ticket and flew to London on the Saturday morning and went straight to the Royal Lancaster hotel to pick up my ticket.
After three attempts I reached the reception area and told the receptionist that I had an appointment with Mr X. I phoned his room and was allowed to take the lift to the top floor where the Spurs team where staying. After I had collected my ticket I was allowed into the leisure centre of the hotel where I met the whole Spurs team collecting autographs and taking pictures. Imagine with only three hours to kick-off!!!!! As if that wasn't enough I met the 1966 team who had a 25 years anniversary meeting at the same hotel. The final of course was the icing of the cake but I will always remember "the warm up" to the match.
Jan Otrebski
One of the greatest days of my life, the 1991 FA Cup Final. Having suffered their victories in the 1987 Littlewoods Cup and unfortunately that night at Anfield in 1989, this was the first time in my supporting life I could crow at them. A wonderful team performance after Gazza went off, Paul Stewart's equaliser and thinking Mabbutt had scored the winner only to read on a billboard at Seven Sisters after the game that it was a Walker own-goal are especially fond memories, but not as memorable as being told that night by my friend Stu when I finally got back to Southend, via the Lane and slightly worse for wear (due to a 2 quid bottle of Thunderbirds on the train back from Fenchurch St), that I had been spotted on BBC 1 after the final whistle as we applauded the boys round the pitch with my baggy, yellow Hummel sweat shirt topped off by what is now referred to as the Dickie-Afro, a disgrace of a hair-cut which put even Alun Sunderland's from the 1979 FA Cup Final to shame. At least it didn't have a big chunk of grey fluff in it (check out his celebration after they score the winner in the last minute). AJAX HERE WE COME!
I was at Wembley for the Spurs v Liverpool Milk Cup Final back in 1982 and after Steve Archibald scored it was an awful feeling waiting the whole game for the seemingly unbeatable Liverpool to equalise and then go on to win.
When we went to see Glenn and the Boys beat QPR a couple of months later it made up for all the earlier pain! There were about ten of us who went to all the games back then when I was 14 and as I am living abroad now, I still speak to a couple of them and they're looking forward to Sunday as much as me. I'll be looking for a television somewhere that is showing the game!
One of our Spurs mates sadly died about 5 years ago but if he's looking down on Cardiff this weekend, hopefully he'll see a Spurs win. He would be well chuffed!!
Antony Barrington
I was only seven years old and I remember my dad managing to lay his hands on tickets for the 1981 F.A. Cup final replay. Unfortunately me and my dads' mates all had seating tickets but my dad had to stand on his own on the terraces behind the goal in which Ricky Villa scored the best goal wembley has ever seen. Because I was so small at the time I didn't get to see the goal due to everyone standing up in front of me.
The memory that will stay with me forever though, is when all of the fans started to make their way home. I was on top of one of my dads' mates shoulders and remember looking out over wembley way on a beautiful balmy summers evening and seeing this banner which proclaimed 'we've got Hoddle, youve got sod all' - Brilliant!!! Come on you spurs!!!
James Garrett


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The Ramayana in Disney's, "A Little Princess."
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This is perhaps my earliest exposure to the Ramayana and Hindu mythology. I remember watching the movie many times with my older sister. Many of my parents friends thought my sister looked like the main character from the movie at her age. I thought it would be interesting to see what others think of this live-action interpretation of the story, despite the fact it's only getting served to the audience in bits and pieces throughout the main story. Link to youtube if embedding isn't working: https:/

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Watch: Lang Lang plays Fazil Say in a no-score draw
October 31, 2014 by norman lebrecht
It's the Chinese star and a 12 year-old kid having a crack at the crazy Turkish version of Rondo alla Turca.
Mozart will never sound the same.
Fazil forever.
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I'm sure the No Fun Police will be here soon to rain on all the fun, but this is so great to watch and listen to.
Oh, Susannah….!
Kid is much better…
A Marxist interpretation. Chico Marx.
Maxim Lando is really fun. Who is the other guy?
Lang Lang's contribution was stupid and only succeeded in detracting from the refined musicality and quality sound of Maxim Lando,Lang Lang's explosive,ugly sounds were just stupid and egoistic. Naturally.
Lang Lang should stick to Chopin. The only recital of him I ever enjoyed was a Chopin only one. Not sure if that was his playing though or the lateness of the night.
Didn't go back to hear classical music live after I saw him in a concerto in Glasgow, despite I lived steps away from the concert halls at the time. I bet if I heared pretty much any other pianist that night, I'd have been back many times.
Fortunately a few years later I started listening to musicians, not marketing tools.
Ugly and vulgar.
Nearly a day before the no fun police caught up on this one!
Great fun watching Lang Lang and young Maxim Lando. Thank you!


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Your little one knows his own name. He loves his name. He may even know what letter it starts with. MY letter! And does he also know his middle name, and last name too? Yes? Good job, buddy!
But what about all the other info? Those basic names and numbers we all have in our heads, and that give us a place in this world to call home, people to call family. Telephone numbers; street name and number; name of town; parents' and caregivers' full names -- do your kids know this stuff? It's not like they're not capable of learning it. If a two-year-old can memorize the entire length of Danny and the Dinosaur, The Runaway Bunny and significant portion of The Real Mother Goose, then surely she can file away an address and phone number. Which might come in handy....
Which brings us to why many of us don't manage to teach these fundamentals. Even thinking about why or when your child might need that kind of info can make any parent downright crazy, and can lead even the savviest of us to stick our heads deep down into the sand(box). So let's not think about that just this second, but rather this: learning these things makes our kids feel smarter and stronger. Why? Because they know that much more about who they are. And we know how important that is to our preschoolers.
That's why we are big fans of an idea for teaching our kids their own "411" found in our Savvy Activities Encylopedia, written by one of our many clever parent contributors. And we quote:
"Take a picture of your house and paste it on a piece of construction paper (older children can help with this). Cut out a picture of your state and paste it on the paper as well. Then write out your full address, city, state, and telephone number. If you have space, include a few emergency phone numbers. This will help your child learn important information that they should know. Display the project on your refrigerator so that there are plenty of opportunities to see it."
Really, this is just the beginning of an idea. You can take it from there -- expand and embroider as will best suit your child. A poster up on the wall is perfect for a visual learner. If you've got a musical one, make up a song. For a poet, a rhyme or a rap. Let a doer practice dialing. Or if you've got a voracious reader, turn the project into a little homemade book (we're talking folded paper and a stapler) about your family and where you live.
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By RJ Currie - a tongue-in-cheek look at sports and the world.
As admirable as it is for Victor to push his horse for the award, it lacks the prime requisite to be considered as a sportsPERSON. As good as AP is, he's no Mr. Ed.
I agree %100. And Serena deserved it, no question.


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Chesapeake Energy Cumulative Convertible Preferred (CHK-PD) offer an appealing risk reward profile.
Chesapeake Energy Cumulative Convertible Preferred
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- Distribution Dates: Quarterly (Suspended)
- Current Price: $24.30
Chesapeake has been hit by the low oil and natural gas prices. However, there are some positives that gives a reasonable chance that the company will survive:
- Commodity prices have gone up. Oil prices are hovering around $50. David Einhorn has made a bet on recovering natural gas prices.
- The company has been exchanging debt for equity. Although this is not great for equity investors, this is really good news for bond and preferred holders. More of these announcements will be a boon to both bond and preferred prices.
- The company has been divesting assets to pay down debt.
- Amended its $4.0 billion credit facility.
If Chesapeake survives and eventually starts paying dividend, this preferred could start approaching $100. Also, the dividend are cumulative – which means that it will accumulate while the dividends are suspended. To me, there is a greater than 50% chance that Chesapeake survives. So, it is a good gamble to take on this. I would treat it as a long term option investment.
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Download the authoritative guide: Enterprise Data Storage 2018: Optimizing Your Storage Infrastructure
In keeping with the concept of a global space in PGAS implementations, X10 also has the concept of globally distributed arrays along with structured and unstructured arrays.
With X10 you also have fine-grained concurrency with the ability to use large distributed clusters that can be heterogeneous (recall that Big Data is designed for distributed computation). Perhaps even more important, it is interoperable with Java, which is the lingua franca of Big Data, with the exception of the analytics portion, which is dominated by R.
X10 has gone beyond classic Java to add a real parallel execution model as well as data sharing but at the same time, X10 understands the idea of a distributed system. As Big Data continues to grow, the importance of using languages such as X10 will becomes increasingly necessary.
For larger and more diverse data sets, you can no longer rely on a "local" language that executes on a single node. You will need a language that is designed for parallelism. While I'm not pushing X10, it does have an advantage in that it can interoperate with Java. So it should be relatively easy to write applications that interact with existing NoSQL and Hadoop applications.
There are other efforts at parallelizing applications using MPI. For example SAS is already using MPI (Message Passing Interface) in some of the applications to improve performance.
Even if we use a language such as X10 for writing parallel Big Data applications, at some point it will be become painfully obvious that relying on what are essentially "local" file systems will also become an impediment to scaling performance.
Parallel IO
The software issues do not stop with just the application language because Big Data is really about – you guessed it – data.
Right now a majority of the Big Data world really does everything in serial data access patterns. As an example, let's consider an analytics application written in R. The application is basically single threaded since R is primarily single-threaded but it uses a NoSQL database to access the data (note that the database itself can easily be distributed).
The database then accesses the data that is stored in Hadoop. Using mapreduce for task parallelism, the database may access different sets of data or even the same data, on difference nodes.
However, remember that the Hadoop/mapreduce model really allows the application to access the data only on the node where the data is located. So you are locked into the data access performance of a single node (i.e. "local" data access). At some point the Big Data world is going to discover that task parallelism only gets them so far and that they will have to start thinking about parallel data access.
Recall that when a job runs within a Hadoop environment it is assigned to a node where the data is located. The job(s) are started on that node and all data access is done on that node alone (again, "local" access).
Each node in the system has some sort of direct attached storage (DAS) that is now the bottleneck for data access performance. A single data request from the application goes to the Hadoop file system, which makes a serial data request to the underlying storage, which uses RAID across several disks to get better performance.
The point is that the data access is limited by the performance of the local storage system that is attached to that node. The only way to temporarily push the bottleneck somewhere else is to start throwing lots of storage hardware at each node, which will get expensive very quickly.
To avoid spending too much on hardware just to gain some temporary storage enhancement, what is needed is for the underlying file system and the API for accessing that file system to allow parallel data access. A classic example of this is from the HPC (High Performance Computing) field in the form of MPI-IO.
To quote the link, "The purpose of MPI/IO is to provide high performance, portable, parallel I/O interfaces to high performance, portable, parallel MPI programs." If you strip away the plethora of adjectives, what MPI/IO provides is a set of functions for MPI programs that do parallel IO.
This means that either a serial or parallel application (MPI does not restrict you to only parallel applications) can perform parallel IO to a single file. The critical design point for MPI/IO is to provide a high-speed interface for program's checkpoint in the event of a system failure or to output data for post processing. This is significantly different than what might be needed for a Big Data algorithm.
In addition to applications that perform parallel IO you can also have an underlying file system that is parallel. Examples of this include GPFS from IBM, Lustre, and Panasas.
In these file systems the data is striped or otherwise distributed across a number of storage nodes. So when data is accessed it is possible that all of the data servers will locally access their portion of the data, assemble the data in the proper order (there are many ways to do this), and the resulting stream of data is returned to the application. This allows the data to be accessed in parallel even if the data request is serial. This file system model is very different from Hadoop. Either Hadoop will need to be adapted or something new will replace it.
Today we have Hadoop and the applications that use it, accessing data very serially. Let's assign that a performance of 1. If had parallel applications performing parallel IO then we can have n processes accessing the data. If the hardware can keep up then we have a performance of n where nis the number of processes running in parallel.
Then if there are m data servers for a parallel file system and all of them can run at full speed, then the performance for an application that is parallel and accessing data on a parallel file system is n x m. For very moderate values of n and mthe performance goes up quite dramatically.
A simple example of a file system that has 4 data servers (m=4), and an application that runs on every core in a 16-core node (n=16), means that we can theoretically get a speedup of 64 relative to what we can do today with Hadoop and serial applications. Moreover, if we keep today's task parallelism in place while adding application and file system parallelism, then we get an even larger boost in performance.


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You don't want to be on Dana White's bad side. Just ask Jon Jones.
The UFC president ripped Jones, his light heavyweight champion, and Jones' coach Greg Jackson on a media conference call for not taking a fight on eight days notice against Chael Sonnen last month.
White has no trouble speaking his mind about referees, judges and his own fighters – that much his clear. But when you're good to White, he's great to you.
For almost the entire day Friday, instead of preparing for UFC on FX 5, White was on the phone with law enforcement officials from Minneapolis, Minn., and Des Moines, Iowa in an effort to bail Jeremy Stephens out of jail. Stephens was scheduled to face Yves Edwards on the Fuel TV prelims of the card Friday and White was determined to get Stephens to the Target Center in Minneapolis to compete.
After the event was offer, and White's efforts failed, the UFC boss said he was willing to pay an "astronomical amount of money" to get Stephens out of custody. He was cool with officers taking him right back to jail after his fight. White was ready to bend over backwards for Stephens, a 26-year-old lightweight who has been in the UFC for five years.
None of it worked. Authorities from Des Moines, who had an outstanding assault warrant for Stephens for an incident that occurred in 2011, played hard ball. White was most upset, because he believes Stephens when the fighter says he's innocent and that a father and husband is now out of a pay day.
Chances are, White will make it right and compensate Stephens financially somehow. It probably won't get much press. Usually articles about White revolve around how foul-mouthed, stubborn and irration White can be.
Those stories aren't wrong. White is all of those things sometimes. But he's also exactly the kind of boss you want in your corner when the crap hits the fan.
As long as you're on his good side.
It was hard to get a good read on the main event, because it was clear that Travis Browne injured his leg very early on. That almost completely negated what makes the Hawaiian heavyweight good: striking power. To Antonio Silva's credit, he pounced like a shark when he saw Browne was hurting, knocking him out in the first round with a wicked overhand right and ground and pound.
I'll reserve judgment on Browne until I see him at full strength against someone Silva's caliber. "Bigfoot" is a more than competent heavyweight, bordering on the top 10. There are very few men in the world who will outclass him, especially on the ground. This fight never even got to where Silva is at his best though. It was an odd outcome because of the freak injury.
Jake Ellenberger did maybe three or four positive things in three rounds. If you can believe it, Jay Hieron did even less. No, there wasn't much to talk about regarding this fight. Ellenberger got a nice takedown in the second round and mashed up Hieron's face with elbows, probably breaking his nose and definitely opening up a few decent cuts.
Other than that, it was a very uneventful bout. Ellenberger won by unanimous decision, but was more conservative than we've ever seen him. Maybe that knockout loss to Martin Kampmann in his last fight made him somewhat gun shy. Still, I'm more worried about Hieron, who at 36 is looking at a last run at glory and couldn't pull the trigger.
John Dodson is like the Randy Moss of the UFC. Sometimes he takes rounds off. That's what happened in the first and Jussier Formiga won it. Then Dodson turned it on in the second round, knocking Formiga out and doing his usual backflip, kicking off the cage celebration. Dodson will get flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson and he can't afford to take any rounds off in that one. Johnson is one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world.
Josh Neer proved why he's never been more than a middle-of-the-pack welterweight in the UFC. Justin Edwards, a borderline prospect, finished him with a guillotine choke just 45 seconds into the fight. Give Neer credit for one thing, though: He's entertaining to watch. The 29-year-old journeyman hasn't been to a decision – win or lose – in his last 11 fights.
The prelims were all about comebacks. Michael Johnson was pummeled in the first round only to come back to knock out Danny Castillo in the second. Mike Pierce knocked out Aaron Simpson with one punch in the second after losing the first round and Darren Uyenoyama also came back to beat Phil Harris by decision. All three of those guys — Johnson and Uyenoyama, especially — will win a lot more fights in the UFC.
The best fight all night was Diego Nunes' decision win over Bart Palaszewski. Both guys got rocked – Palaszewski in the first and second rounds and Nunes in the third. Palaszewski had Nunes in a world of trouble in that last round, but Nunes held on and looked really good in the first and second. Palaszewski is never in a bad fight and Nunes is still one of the best featherweights in the UFC.


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The Perimeter Technologies introduced a wifi wireless dog fence to compete with Petsafe's wireless dog fence in June 2009. Perimeter Technologies uses WiFi technologies and boasts a range of useful features never before seen in a dog fence. We see the WiFi fence as a real innovation in dog fencing because it actually alerts you as to where your dogs are and if they are challenging the fence. We have had the unit for a couple of months now. See the following link for an an initial wifi fence review. It has a lot of good features, but unfortunately it is not ready for primetime.
The boundaries are intolerably vague, moving 20+ feet from minute to minute. And the response time is seconds too slow, correcting the dog too late and stopping the correction too late. This all combines to make training the dogs on the system very difficult.
There are also mysterious signal dropouts where the collar loses touch with the system, sometimes even when the collar is directly in the line of site.
Both the newer Havahart Wireless (also based on WiFi) system and the older PetSafe Wireless are much better choices with more consistent boundaries and faster response times.
Summary: The Perimeter Technologies WiFi introduces significant innovations, but is lacking in the fundamentals. We like the addition of the alert when the dog challenges the fence and the provision of rechargeable batteries. The inconsistency of the boundaries, slow response times, and difficulty dealing with obstacles make the unit a poor choice. The Havahart and PetSafe Wireless units are better choices.
We start by noting that there are a lot of features that making the WiFi really tempting:
First, range is significantly boosted over the Petsafe model. The system claims a range of 200 feet, giving it a coverage over 2.5 acres. Our early tests show range was in fact better, but we struggled to get a range better than 150 feet in typical conditions. A significant increase over the PetSafe model which has a maximum radius of 90 feet. So the range is much better but not quite as good as claimed. In particular the unit has a lot of trouble where it has to go through multiple walls. Where there is a clear line of site it shines, but put it in a large house and you get lots of dropouts and the range plummets. Also not that the unit, like the PetSafe model can only project circular boundaries and does not work well in a house with metal siding or a metal roof. (NOTE: The new Havahart wireless claims a range of 400 feet)
Second, the WiFi Fence has two way communication between the collar and the base unit, a first in the industry. This allows you to use the base unit to determine how far away the dogs are from your home. And even more importantly you can be alerted when your dogs attempt to challenge the fence, when their battery is low or when they are no longer in communication with the base unit for any reason. In our tests, this worked really well. It was a nice feature to be alerted when the dog challenged the fence because we could go outside straight away and investigate. The feature that gives you the distance the dog is from the base station provided some entertainment but was of little practical use because it does not tell you in what direction the dog is relative to the base station.
Third, Perimeter Technologies lets you adjust up to two collars independently. The model cannot support more than two collar per base station. We are not sure if you can use multiple base stations to overcome that limitation. So at the moment it is not for people with more than two dogs.
Fourth, batteries for this model are rechargeable. In fact you get two rechargeable batteries, one for the base station (in case of a power failure) and one for the collar. This puts the Wifi Fence further ahead of the PetSafe model which is not rechargeable. (rant warning) We are big proponents of rechargeable batteries. Not only are they convenient, and better for the environment but they are also safer. Proprietary batteries often lead to situations where people's dogs are in danger because the batteries are flat and they have to wait to get new batteries in the mail. (rant over)
Battery life seems decent, we got over a week with the collar without needing to recharge the battery.
But, ultimately we don't think the WiFi is a good buy yet. Early customer opinions on the unit are hit or miss. We are hearing more complaints about these units than we do about all other systems combined. Complaints seem to center around use where there is no clear line of site, signal dropouts, and the unit being slow to respond when the boundary is breached.
The wifi does not seem to be very good at penetrating walls in many installations. Metal is it's kryptonite. If you have a metal roof or metal siding, it will not work. Even without metal it doesn't get through walls for a lot of people and has a lot of trouble with other obstacles like trees.
Lots of people have dropouts, where the unit looses communication with the base station even in plain line of site. Our test unit did not have the dropout problem, but we have noticed this problem in subsequent units.
Most maddeningly, the boundary is vague and can take a couple of seconds to respond once the boundary is breached. This makes it hard to train the dogs as they aren't regularly getting the correction. We only get a lag of 2-3 seconds at normal ranges but have got reports from customers of 10+ second especially when at the maximum range. This also means you need a larger safety buffer between the boundary and the street to feel comfortable that the dogs are going to be kept safe from harm.
There is promise in the units, that later versions will fix these bugs. But until then, our advice is to stick to wired units.
The WiFi Dog Fence base unit is be $330 (including one collar). Additional collars are be $149. You can use two collars at the same time. At least with initial units, you will not be able to overlap base stations like you can on the PetSafe Wireless PIF-300.
Summary: The Perimeter Technologies WiFi Dog introduces significant new features to the wireless dog fence including added range, challenge alerts, and rechargeable batteries. But, we have some serious reservations around the units, particularly their ability to penetrate walls, respond quickly to breaches, and give a crisp boundary. In-ground systems are still clearly the better technology for the moment. If you are going to look at Wireless systems, the newer Havahart Wireless and the older PetSafe Wireless are better choices (in that order)
|Perimeter Technologies Wifi Fence
|Collar Battery
|Rechargeable – Lithium Ion
|Correction Levels
|8 Levels
|Beep Only Training Mode
|Collar Warning beep
|Collar Vibration
|Independent Correction Levels
|Collar Dimensions
|??" (L) x ??" (W) x ??" (D)
|Collar Neck Size
|??" – ??"
|Collar Water Resistance
|Collar Fit Test
|Maximum Number of Dogs
|Minimum Dog Size
|20 lbs
|Minimum Age
|6 months
|Maximum Containment Area
|2.5 acres
|Boundary Radius
|0-200 feet (adjustable)
|Control Box Dimensions
|??" (L) x ??" (W) x ??" (D)
|Control Box Power Source
|Wall Outlet (110V)
|Control Box Battery Backup
|Yes – rechargeable lithium ion
|Indoor Pod Compatibility
|Outdoor Pod Compatibility
|Included Boundary Wire
|Included Boundary Flags
|Training Materials
|Package Dimensions
|12" (L) x 8" (W) x 6″ (D)
|Package Weight
|4 lbs
|Limited Lifetime
For the Wifi Fence Manual click here. (PDF)
You can order a Wifi Fence from our online store, here. They will typically ship out the next business day.
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The WiFi unit worked for about 4 months. Bought it in 2012. We tried changing out the batteries and recharging them. Sadly, the collars kept chirping and scaring the dogs. The monitor worked inconsistantly. Often we would receive calls from our neighbor the dogs broke through the boundry and were in her yard. Very dissatisfied and feel it was a waste of money. The batteries alone are rediculously expensive. Wish I would have used the money towards an in-ground wired fence and had the trainer work with us and the dogs. Now I'm not sure what to do. The wireless fence is useless as it is right now.
What are the property line setback requirements for installation of an electric dog fence?
ADMIN – Hi John, you can set the boundary wire on the edge of your boundary and adjust the boundary signal width to the widest signal possible that still provides your dogs with ample space to run and play. With a wireless system, you'll simply dial the signal to where the circle fits within the boundaries of your property. Set it up where if your dog crosses the boundary, he is not in danger of entering the road or crossing into you neighbors yard.
THIS PRODUCT IS NOT WORTH THE MONEY!!! DON'T BUY. The "Cons" are the usual not the occasional. WASTE OF MONEY! And, the company does nothing if it does not work for you.
ADMIN – Hi SW,
Please tell us how your really feel. Just kidding. You are correct. The WiFi fence is one to stay away from. We do not recommend this fence. Ever.
In reading the questions and answers on this page, I thought that this product would work very well for our property (vinyl siding, shingle roof, no trees, gently sloping), until I realized that we have a 5 foot steel fence around our pool. It is an inground pool, but we would definately want it inside the boundry. It is not a solid fence, but has bars every 4 inches. Would this interfere with the signal?
Also, would you recomend this fence over the Petsafe fence?
ADMIN – Hi Erin,
It's difficult to tell. Typically, the type of metal that generates the greatest issues is flat surface area metal where the signal tends to deflect off of it instead of pass through it. You're fence sounds low risk to me.
Actually, the only wireless fence we'd recommend is the Havahart Wireless. Here's our field test on all three wireless options:
Hi everyone, just make sure you check the dates of these comments, Perimeter has since updated the software for this product which has solved many of these issues. We sell this product in Australia and have had many happy customers. Thanks!
ADMIN – Hi Impala,
Thanks for adding your positive experience with the system. We have tried newer versions of the Perimeter Wifi Dog Fence, and found the updated software did not make much difference. You may be on an even newer version than we have seen – but none of the software upgrades we have seen since the time of the original review has changed our recommendation.
After almost a week of trying to get our Perimeter WiFi border established, I am giving up and sending it back in the morning. Maybe it was just our unit but setting the boundaries was next to impossible. I'd hear a beep, set a flag in that spot, and the next time I brought the collar out to that area to test it… nothing! Not a sound. Not a peep. Not a beep. This happened over and over again. I grew weary trying to figure out where the boundaries were to set the flags because there was no consisitency from one time to the next. Consequently, I've now had my unit for 6 days and have gotten no where with it, let alone starting to train my dog. Wished it would have worked out but it just didn't for me. I'm going to look into other brands of wireless fences and hope for better luck. I must say, though, that the gentleman I spoke to on the phone was extremely helpful, knowlegebable and friendly. He told me honestly that the Perimeter WiFi has about a 50/50 return rate for various reasons. I gave it a try hoping I was in the 50% that it worked for. Obviously I wasn't.
ADMIN – Hi MT,
Sorry to hear it didn't work for you. Those kinds of spotty coverage problems are endemic across all brands of wireless fences. They have a lot of problems getting through obstacles. If you can, try a wired system. Wired systems are much better, they do not have that problem at all.
Purchased a PWF-100 unit and have been very disappointed in it's performance. We have tried multiple locations, including the second floor, for the Indoor Station and there are always "dead" zones where our dog gets NO stimulation and just walks away from our property. Cannot recommend this unit unless you live in a tent with no trees for a few hundred yards.
I really like the features of this system. However, the negative reviews cause me to be cautious to buy it. I see many of the negative reviews are older and the latest review gives positive feedback on the system. Does anyone know if the bugs have been worked out of the system? Also, does the company provide upgrades to improve the system? Thanks!
ADMIN – Hi Kurtis,
The units are constantly being shipped with better software. You can't upgrade it yourself, but Perimeter has been good in the past about swapping the units for ones with newer software where there is a problem. Unfortunately, it does not seem to have made a big difference in our testing. Less seem to be arriving dead, but the system still has the same limitations.
I think after all the negative reviews people have much lower expectations from the unit. We certainly try to be very clear that it has very big limitations when selling it to customers. (the boundary line moves around a lot, it is very slow to react, and has a lot of trouble with obstacles). Where I think it does better is in a wide open space, with a dog that has already been trained on a wired system. I would not use it in any other situation.
I feel compelled to write a good review about this product. I was one of the original purchasers of this system back in May/June of 2009. I will admit that the system they originally sent was not working correctly… but the problem was relating to the collar synching with the base unit. The second system they sent worked perfectly! I think the biggest challenge that people face is finding a suitable place for the base unit. It does use a wi-fi signal, so like any radio wave, it is succeptable to interference. I live on a 2 acre property and have the perimeter set to 110 feet. Yes, if u do not calibrate the collar, it can be off by a LOT!! There is a factory reset button if u have a problem. It only took my dog about a week to really learn the boundry. I set it up with the collar in my hand and walked the entire circumfrence of the signal placing the flags exactly where I heard the beep. It was mostly a circular shape, although on the far side of my house, the signal was brought in about 6 feet (due to interference, or going through all the walls), so the shape there was a little different. Like I said, I put the flags exactly where the beep occured. I re-checked the boundry twice before putting the collar on the dog.
I understand the problems some people are having and will try to explain from what I experienced. #1 – the collar does not need an on/off switch because it has a motion sensor built in. After about 5 minutes of stillness, it goes into a sleep mode until motion is detected again. Sometimes, I will shake the collar just a bit before letting the dog outside to make sure it is activated. #2 – Like any wireless product (and I have tried them all), there will be times when the signal is dropped. The base unit DOES have an alarm if it loses contact with the collar. You can choose to mute it, or wait until it re-scquires the signal (sometimes takes a minute or so). However, the pluses of the system far out weigh the negatives. I know where my dog is at all times. I can actually watch the distances change when he is running around the property at night. I can see when he is getting close to the boundry and call him back if needed. I would agree that the accuracy is about +/- 3feet from the set distance. Overall, I am pleased with the system as it continues to keep my dog in the yard. I used a Petsafe wireless system before and sent it back because my dog was shocked very badly several times while IN MY OWN HOUSE! So, do your research and see what system works best for you. I was pleased to work with their customer service.
This unit should have never been placed on the market. It was totally useless and a major waste of time. I bought this unit from an online store "Pet Street Mall" . They only refunded $260 of my original $300. So add a waste of money to the list!
Well after reading all these reviews it's all truth. As someone who has this system since july 2009 till today let me put some things i do like about it. After i trained my doges for a while and made sure they know there boundaries(of course they got shocked few times)I decided to use this system only with the buzzer correction since the system is really not consistent with the corrections distance. The good thing about it is my dogs know when to come back to our yard without getting shocked and we know where the dogs are at all times.
And most important the customer service is really the best out there. I had the whole unit and collars replaced recently to more updated one, so i hope one day they will get it to work right.
America Outdoor, an internet merchant, failed to fully refund the price paid for a defective Perimeter WiFi Dog Fence System. The merchandise was returned within 20 days after purchase, carefully re-packed in the original box, clean and in new condition. Following is an excerpt from the letter to America Outdoor requesting a full refund and explaining the defective system.
This system does not perform as it claims. We spent an entire day trying to set the perimeter.
There is no consistency in the distance from base station to the Activation Zone. Most of the time it is not even close, sometimes varying more than 30 feet short of or beyond the point of initial activation — much greater than the claimed Activation Zone of +/- 3 feet. Sometimes, it will not even activate at all anywhere along the line extending from the base station and through a previously-set activation point, allowing "holes" in the fence where it does not
Additionally, there are extreme variations in the width of the Correction Zone, well beyond the claimed width of 5 feet to 10 feet (diagram says 3 feet to 10 feet). As with the Activation Zone, the variation of the Correction Zone is random and often exceeds 30 feet. These substantial and randomly-occuring inaccuracies result in an extremely irregularly shaped Safe Zone whose boundary is ever-changing and totally unpredictable. If I cannot predict where it will activate, our dog certainly will not be able to do so.
Such an erratic system will be impossible for even the most intelligent dog to learn because the boundaries are always changing. In order to avoid the unpredictable, unfair, painful corrections, it is reasonable to expect that our dog would cower at the side of the house, as close as he can get to the base station inside, terrified of moving too far.
Due to the negative feedback in regards to problems transmitting through walls etc… It sounds like the system should have an external antenna that could be positioned in the center of a roof. My house is situated in the center of the area where i would like the dog enclosed, so this would be perfect… until this problem is resolved i will not be purchasing this product!!
This product is easy to setup with a preset distance already built in. Moving in and out of the menus was easy as well as changing the corrections. I found no problems walking around my house with the collar and also noticed that it started beeping within 3 feet of where I set the boundary. I set the boundary to be 100′. Being able to setup the system by myself was very simple. The rechargeable batteries have been lasting me about 7-10 days.
The thing I really like the most is being alerted to when my dog challenges the system!
After reading the negative reviews, I was nervous to take the plunge. But with a 30 day money back guarantee I figured why not?
My first impressions are quite different than other reviewers – I thought the product appeared well built and did not appear at all cheap, in fact it seemed robust.
Had some intial troubles setting up (I am not the most tech savy) but the person I reached on the customer service 1-800 number was most helpful. Seems placing the unit next to the fridge was not the best idea. Moved to a different spot and easily got a decent boundary (70′). My property is a little over a hundred feet wide so any more range and my dog would be in the neighbors yard. I did play around and got 100 feet, but reset to 70′. I do agree that it would be nice to just "dial in " the range instead of running in and out of the house.
Battery life has been around a week, though my dog "bumps" the boundary quite a few times a day. It is really nice to know what he is doing! I would consider a wired product if it offered the feedback, I just like to know all is well.
I was leery of rechargeable batteries, I hate throwing away a product because the batteries die and you can't replace them. The batteries in the Wire Free wifi fence are replaceable (thats how you charge them, you take them out and charge in the base) – and you can buy replacements on the web.
I found the lower shock levels to be too low (tried them myself and they were only a tingle). Setting 3 and 4 will get your attention, setting 5 hurts! However setting 5 works well. Maybe when he starts challenging less I will back the setting down a little.
The only time I experienced issues similar to the other reviewers was when I placed the base next to the fridge – ever since moving it all has been well. I am really pleased I decided to take the plunge and my neighbors are amazed with the system. I am worried that neighboring systems will interfere, but the girl at customer support assured me they would not.
We have purchased this product ( Perimeter Wire Free WiFi Fence ) for our dog.
Setting up is not that bad once you get the hang of how to do it, did not like the fact that the boundary is in a circle which went into our front yard, but we managed. For the first week we thought it was pretty good, our dog would hear the beep and run on the back deck, as long as he was on a leash he would respond. The first time we took him off the leash he ran right through the boundary and got shocked but kept running. We knew we had more training to do with him. After 2 weeks the unit would not even shock him and the batteries would not keep a charge, so we sent it back and recieved a new system. We have had the new system for a week and a half now and the new system is not working now. It beeps, charges the batteries but does not shock him, he has even went past the boundary with the colar beeping a just laid down. I have just contacted the company for a full refund. I can not see spending $300.00 for this product and have noting but problems and not working for us. I am looking now for another way to find something else for our dog. I have been reading many reviews on different products wire less and wire fences, only to see many bad reviews with the same problem I am having with this product ! Might just save up for a fence atleast I know that to work ! This product is not worth the money just a bunch of headache.
I just exchanged (not recevied yet) an earlier model of this unit for an updated version through the company. Jen in customer service was very nice and took care of it professionally; with no issues.
Serial# on the base station was 939.
I like the idea of wireless, but this wireless dog fence did not work at all. As the reviewers above note it drops out and starts beeping a lot, scaring the hell out of the dog and me! This happens even in plain sight. I called Perimeter Wifi and they were nice, but could not fix the problem.
I exchanged it for a wired system and it worked perfectly, wish I did this in the first place.
I got one a few days ago. I have a farm, the dog keeps chasing the neighbors cat. He's a nice guy but our dog is not nice to his cats.
We have several Large horse trailers and several vehicles on the property. Not to mention the barn is sided and roofed in metal.
Initial test are proving pretty well. We can reliably get about 285 (so says the base unit). Seems to work even with a horse trailer in the way. With several horse trailers in the way there are holes in the signal.
This is with the unit on the roof of my truck parked in front of the barn. The barns metal siding may be acting as a reflector aiding in picking up the signal.
Some of the things I think are awfull about the WiFi fence system.
-No on/off switch on either the base station or the collar. Not very well thought out at all.
-Build quality is not very good. The unit looks/feel very cheap.
-Collar does not beep for any amount of time before the dog gets correction. It tones and zaps a the same time.
-Correction level 1 is far too harsh! On my sportdog sd1800 collar my dog responds well to level 2 (out of 8) which I can barely feel. Level one on this collar lights me up like an electric fence! And when it hits him he yelps like he's just been kicked. So I've been using just the tone, it works well for him. Please fix this problem!
-You cant set the range from the base station. This is just silly. You should be able to set the range from the unit if you like.
-Would like to be able to 'call' the dog from the base unit with tone. But thats not really needed.
-The system menus are not exactly easy to maneuver through.
I am currently working on a Range Extension unit for the WiFi fence to increase the power for sending and recieving and also adding a external antenna on the unit for mounting away from the base station. Tests should be completed by next week. If anyone is interested in this you can email me firstname.lastname@example.com
I have had problems with this unit penetrating any wall in my house. It is sitting in the box right now. I would not purchase this if you are looking to buy a wireless fence.
Problems this unit is junk. They need to take it off the market. From the first day it would drop signal and my dog would be off and running. I can't see they ever tested this junk. Very disatisfied with unit.
We purchased the WiFi system only to be disappointed. The above review of the system mentions that the Wifi has problems maintaining its signal through walls. ("Complaints seem to center around use where there is no clear line of site, signal dropouts, and the unit being slow to respond when the boundary is breached". )This definitely was true for our situation. We could only get a signal when the front door was open and that was in a straight line from the base. We couldn't get ANY signal in any other direction. We ended up getting the PetSafe wireless system yesterday and in 5 minutes the system was completely setup and there's no problems with dropped signals through walls, etc. I'm so satisfied with the PetSafe product and have the Wifi boxed up and ready to head back company.
How old should the dog be to use this type of fencing (or any electric fencing)? Also, is there a dog size issue like the Petsafe wireless system? We have a lab puppy and she is very active. I want to purchase the best system. I appreciate any information!
ADMIN – Hi Giles,
You should avoid using an electric dog fence on a puppy under 6 months old. (If you absolutely must, you can do 4 months provided they can perform the training basics, sit-stay-come with ease). But try and wait.
You can use the WiFi or PetSafe on dogs 15+ pounds.
As to the best system, I would always choose one of the wired systems (e.g. Petsafe Ultrasmart PIG00-13619) over the wireless. You get a much cleaner boundary line and a much more reliable easier to train correction. It is definately worth the one day of work installing a wired system. But if wired doesn't suit your property – I would lean toward the WiFi over the PetSafe.
I'm interested in how customers are liking the wifi pet fence. In the review it said there would be an update. Just wondered how it's going.
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Charlize Theron spoke about the incident she used to prep for the role.
"I did experience a very traumatic experience, an event, in my life. And somehow it's formed me. My character goes through this ordeal when she's 8 years old, and it really is examining what trauma does to a child, especially when she's expected to speak about it. And that's definitely something I can relate to, that's definitely something I've experienced in my life. As far as events go, they're very similar. There's a murder [in the film], while my situation was a very unfortunate incident with self-defense."
When Charlize Theron was 15 years old, her mother killed her father. Her dad had fired a gun into her bedroom and threatened to kill her. He had been out drinking.
Charlize Theron has said that the incident is a part of who she is, but does not define her.
"I know that if my daughter was in the same situation, I would do the same thing [my mother did]. It's a part of me, but it doesn't rule my life."
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A Shin Bet security probe reveals that China is a central financial channel for funding Hamas activity worldwide.
Thursday, 06 December 2012 09:20
by Neve Gordon and Yinon Cohen
The United Nations General Assembly recognised Palestine as a "non-member state". But it may very well be that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has already missed the boat. With the help of graphic designer, Michal Vexler, we have created an infogram to illustrate and explain how demographic changes within the West Bank obstruct the possibility of the two-state solution. The numbers suggest that Abbas' bid to the United Nations was too little, too late.
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120. Particularly in London.
(Mr Edmonds) Yes. A serial miscalculation, certainly,
but a miscalculation that I think in 1995 was probably recognised
and an alternative way of changing London numbers was then put
forward which would have had an overlay which at the time was
rejected following a consultation. I think we have under-estimated,
yes, quite clearly.
121. With the latest change to 020 has that
gone smoothly as far as you are aware?
(Mr Edmonds) I am aware it went very smoothly indeed.
The changeover on 22 April was technically almost flawless. The
changeover in terms of the number of misdials, apparently there
were 18 per cent misdials on the first day of the changeover compared
with 25 per cent in 1995 when the Big Number change happened.
Apparently 80 per cent of the population were using the new numbers
by the end of the parallel running and by the end of two days
after the changeover five per cent of calls were being misdialled.
I think by any standards it was a remarkably successful enterprise.
122. With the misdialling, I will admit I do
that myself now because you have to remember to put the "8"
or "7" in front of the seven digits, is that going to
be continued?
(Mr Edmonds) Yes.
123. The voice comes over, how long will that
go on and how long will you go on keeping statistics?
(Mr Edmonds) It goes on for the foreseeable future.
I am afraid I do not know when it stops. I will find out and I
promise to let you know.
124. About the number changes for mobiles, we
had a report that Orange were looking to be struggling to update
their system for new mobile codes. Are you confident operators
are ready for the changes?
(Mr Edmonds) Yes, I am. This is an example of the
industry working together. I think the industry worked together
very well on fixed number transfer and I think they are working
very well together now on mobile number transfer. I have no evidence
there is any problem within a company that should produce problems
in terms of implementation but, again, I had not heard about Orange,
I will check on them.
125. Publicising the changes to mobile, I am
sure I have heard radio announcements about the "07"
changes but is that something the companies are doing? Are you
doing that as well?
(Mr Edmonds) No. The companies will do it again. The
companies spent £22 million on the change which happened
in April. They will spend a considerable amount of money on the
changes that will take place on the mobile. There is regular advertising
as you say. There is also some hefty press advertising which has
126. Do you have any control over that?
(Mr Edmonds) No.
127. Is it left to the operators?
(Mr Edmonds) It is left to the operators but Oftel
sits in an interventionary way on the steering committee that
runs the campaign, so we were consulted at all stages of the previous
campaign and we will be involved in all stages of this campaign.
It is an operator decision. It is their money they are spending
and it is the number they are having to switch for their own customers
that they are responsible for.
128. Are there going to be free information
lines for customers to find out what will be happening about mobile
number changes?
(Mr Edmonds) I do not know. Again, I will find out.
129. Have you got any information as to what
profits were made on the information lines for the Big Number
(Mr Edmonds) No, I thought they were 0800 numbers
which people dialled free.
130. Were they all?
(Mr Edmonds) Again, I do not know, but that was my
broad assumption, that you did not get charged for phoning to
find out what was happening. In fact, I am sure it was an 0800
131. Do you know how much the whole exercise
cost the consumers?
(Mr Edmonds) No.
132. Has anybody made an estimate?
(Mr Edmonds) No. The one statistic I do know was apparently
calculated at £550 million in 1995 for Phone Day. As the
Chairman knows, as the Committee knows, I was faced with the situation
that this was going to happen, the decision had been taken and
it was the responsibility of Oftel to drive it through as best
it could. I do think it has gone very well. We clearly faced some
anxieties in advance of the number change but in reality, with
the exception of a problem in Bodmin, I think, which has got the
code 01208 where calls have been misdirected, it went smoothly.
133. On 26 August in The FT and The
Independent there were two comments about BT intending to
double the minimum cost of pay phone calls.
(Mr Edmonds) Yes.
134. Were you aware of this? Were you consulted
upon it? What was BT's justification for that?
(Mr Edmonds) Oftel does not price control or has no
control over the prices of pay phones. BT notified us in advance
that they were going to double the charges, BT then proceeded
to double the charges. I am not going to sit here today and defend
BT on decisions they took. I can report to you the reasons they
gave to me are quite simple, that there has been an 18 per cent
reduction in their call volume over the last year, there has been
a 20 per cent decrease apparently in call minutes. The phrase
used by the Managing Director of BT(UK) when I asked him about
it was that they were haemorrhaging money from their call box
service and, therefore, they took a commercial decision to double
the charges.
135. It is not one of your briefs to look at
the area of competition between street call boxes, I would have
assumed it was. At one stage there was quite a lot of competition,
basically it seemed more like a clutter to me, on the high street
between competing companies.
(Mr Edmonds) Yes.
136. A good proportion of whom seemed to have
dipped into the market and got out of it quickly.
(Mr Edmonds) Without wishing to defend BT, perhaps
one sentence indicates why BT took the decision it did: because
the profits were simply not there. The first part of your question,
yes, we do have a responsibility, we have a responsibility under
making sure that the Universal Service Obligation, of which providing
access to call boxes is one element, is delivered by BT. We do
in effect have in the UK a very good coverage of pay call boxes.
We have one of the highest ratios of pay call boxes per head of
population of any European country. What we are going to do is
another market analysis, we are looking at this in the next few
months. In the middle part of next year we will produce a document
on pay phones, call boxes in the UK, to pick up the points that
you have made: is there competition, why is there not competition,
what, if anything, should happen in regulatory terms to remedy
competition if anything can be done?
137. What about if you find within that survey
there are gaps? I accept there is a wide coverage across the UK
but if there are gaps in the provision in any particular geographical
location, is that something you will address with BT or BT's competitors,
for example?
(Mr Edmonds) Yes, indeed. In 1997 BT agreed to build
an additional 500 call boxes through the UK, many of them I think
in more isolated areas. Of those they have installed 130 I am
told, as of yesterday, so clearly the geographic spread is an
issue we will look at. There is a geographic averaging of charging
so there are very expensive call boxes in remote areas of the
country, you pay the same charge that you do in London.
138. What are your powers? What powers do you
have if, for example, to use the words of the Managing Director
of BT(UK) when he was saying they were haemorrhaging business,
being beaten to death and not with golf clubs on this occasion
but by customers presumably using mobile phones more extensively
than they ever have?
(Mr Edmonds) Absolutely.
139. If they are being beaten to death financially,
what powers have you got to say under the Universal Service Obligation
"You will live with that, BT, and you will live with it across
the UK"?
(Mr Edmonds) That is exactly what we will say to them.
We will set out the criteria for the provision of uneconomic call
boxes and we will say "It is part of the Universal Service
Obligation that you provide those call boxes". We have to
use the power to do that under the USO.


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As the only female in my department, I am often the only member of staff to notice certain obvious problems regarding scheduling (after-school/evenings), female doctoral students too afraid to talk to their supervisors (but comfortable sharing concerns with me), exclusion of women from lectures and other events hosted by our faculty etc. After so many years of expressing these concerns, I had hoped others might begin to notice – especially since they are not being required by external bodies (university regulations, funding bodies etc). Sadly this is not the case and I am burnt-out. I want to be able to talk about my research, my projects, etc and not about problems that we should all be combatting together? Any other burnt-out feminists experiencing a similar reality?
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Australian researchers have developed a robot capable of distinguishing crown-of-thorns starfish in coral reef ecosystems and killing the creature with a single shot of salt.
The robot, equipped with state-of-the-art computer vision and a machine-learning system, could play an important role in protecting Australia's Great Barrier Reef from the creature, which is believed to be responsible for up to 40 per cent of the coral cover decline across the reef.
The crown-of-thorns sea star (COTS), with its typical crown of venomous thorn-like spikes covering its upper surface, is one of the largest sea stars. It preys on coral polyps. A single starfish can consume up to six square metres of living coral reef per year.
Conservationists fight against the species by sending human divers into COTS hotspots to inject the animals with bile salt.
The robot, dubbed COTSbot, developed by a team from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, could simplify and speed up the process.
"We see the COTSbot as a first responder for ongoing eradication programmes, deployed to eliminate the bulk of COTS in any area, with divers following a few days later to hit the remaining COTS," explained the robot's creator Matthew Dunbabin.
"The COTSbot becomes a real force multiplier for the eradication process the more of them you deploy. Imagine how much ground the programs could cover with a fleet of 10 or 100 COTSbots at their disposal, robots that can work day and night and in any weather condition."
The robot, equipped with stereoscopic cameras for in-depth perception, can stay in water for up to eight hours and kill more than 200 COTSs.
The researchers tested the robot, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, in a trial in Queensland's Moreton Bay and hope to deploy it at the Great Barrier Reef in December this year.
In the latest trials, they focused on testing the robot's mechanical parts and navigation system. The robot uses five thrusters to maintain stability and is equipped with GPS and pitch-and-roll sensors.
The researchers spent six week developing and training the robot to recognise COTS among coral, feeding thousands of still images and videos of the reef into its software.
"Its computer system is backed by some serious computational power, so COTSbot can think for itself in the water," said Feras Dayoub, who designed the COTS-detecting software.
"If the robot is unsure that something is actually a COTS, it takes a photo of the object to be later verified by a human and that human feedback is incorporated into the robot's memory bank."
The researcher explained that making sure the robot can reliably recognise COTS was not an easy feat as the coral reef environment is very complex. The robot's camera and algorithms have to be able to overcome low visibility as well as depth-dependent colour changes.
The researchers first stumbled upon the idea to use a robot to fight COTS some ten years ago. However, back then, it required up to 20 injections to kill a single starfish. It was only last year, when researchers from James Cook University (JCU) developed a new single-shot method, that the team was able to bring the idea seriously back to life.
"That was the game-changer that opened the doors for a robotic solution to the COTS problem," Dunbabin said. "Combining this with new advances in machine learning meant we could make COTSbot a reality."
The team believes COTSbot is the first autonomous underwater vehicle to be equipped with an injection system. It is also designed to operate exclusively within a metre of the seafloor, which is extremely challenging for any robot.
The researchers will take the robot for first tests at the Great Barrier Reef next month to test its performance recognising the starfish. During the trial, every action of the robot will be first verified by a human controller to prevent mistakes.
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