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Levi ben Gerson
Born: 1288 in Bagnols now Bagnols sur Cèze, Provence, France
Died: 20 April 1344 in Avignon, France
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Levi ben Gerson is known by a large number of different names. Other than Levi ben Gerson, the commonest seem to be Gersonides and Levi ben Gershon. However, others refer to him as Levi ben Gershom, and less commonly as Gersoni, Leo de Bagnols, Leo de Balneolis, Leo Judaeus, Leo Hebraeus , or by the acronym Ralbag. The large number of references attached to this article testify to the large number of studies by historians. Yet little is known of his life and what some historians claim as certain, is sometimes disputed by others. The 'facts' we give here are, therefore, simply those which are believed by the majority. Levi ben Gerson certainly came from a family of outstanding scholars. His father was Gershon ben Solomon, a scholar who wrote Sha'ar ha-Shamayim. Levi states that his grandfather was Levi ha-Kohen, and it is believed that he was his mother's father. Levi was also closely related to Nahmanides (1194-1270) who was a Spanish scholar, a rabbi and Jewish religious leader who is known for his work on philosophy, poetry, and medicine. Levi was a cousin of Judah Delesfils whose grandson was Simon ben Zemah Duran (1361-1444), a Spanish Jewish rabbi who wrote several famous works.
We know that Levi ben Gerson lived in Orange, a town which today is in France but this was not so when he lived there. This is, in fact, quite significant, for the king of France at the time Levi was born was Philip IV, known as Philip the Fair. He expelled the Jews from France in 1306 seizing their property and confiscating all money owed to them, but Levi was not affected. However, even in Provence Jews had a difficult time and Levi wrote in Preface to Milhamot (1329) that the suffering of the Jews:-
... are so intense that they render meditation impossible.The period 1309-1377 is that of the Roman Catholic papacy in Avignon and these popes had quite good relations with the Jews. Levi certainly had good relations with leading men of the district, both Jewish and Christian. He dedicated one of his works to Pope Clement VI, one of the Avignon popes, and another work was requested by Philip of Vitry, Bishop of Meaux. Yet another of his works was written at the request of a group of Jewish and Christian noblemen. As is already evident from what we have just written, what little information we have about Levi comes from his works. Sadly, these contain very little information about his life. Similarly, there are mentions of him in the writings of others during his lifetime, but again little can be gleaned about his life. For example Isaac de Lattes writes in the Preface to one of his works:-
The great prince, our master Levi ben Gershon, was the author of many valuable works. He wrote a commentary on the Bible and the Talmud; and in all branches of science, especially in logic, physics, metaphysics, mathematics, and medicine, he has no equal on earth.This leads naturally to two questions. How did Levi ben Gerson become an expert in so many subjects? How did he make a living? Neither question can be answered with any certainty, but we can say a little. For example, given the family of scholars he came from, it is almost certain that he received training in religious matters by family members. There is no evidence where he could have received a scientific training, however, so many experts believe that he was self-taught in these topics. As to his profession, the most common theory is that he made a living from his medical expertise, but other theories suggest that he made money from money lending, or astrology, or that he was of independent means and did not need to earn a living. One might expect that someone expert in so many areas would read the languages of the day with ease but this appears not to be the case. He spoke Provençal but wrote all his works in Hebrew. This may at first look unlikely since only Latin versions of many of his works survive. However, these are translations, the original Hebrew text being lost. He certainly refers to Latin as the "language of Christians," and almost all historians believe that he could not read Latin. Whenever he quotes from Latin works by authors such as Aristotle, he always gives the quotation in Hebrew. Similarly, it is believed that he could not read Arabic, so had to read the works of the Arabic scholars in Hebrew translations. These deductions clearly have some bearing on his education. The only other (almost certain) fact about his life is that he married the sister of Judah Delesfils, whom we mentioned above, so was distantly related to his wife; no record exists of any children from the marriage. We now look at Levi's works.
First we examine his contributions to mathematics. He wrote Art of Calculation (or Art of the Computer) in 1321, which is sometimes incorrectly described as the Book of Number. It deals with arithmetical operations, including extraction of square roots and cube roots. In this work he also looks at the summation of series, permutations and combinations, and basic algebraic identities. He gives formulas for the sum of squares and the sum of cubes of natural numbers as well as studying the binomial coefficients. In proofs, he uses induction making this one of the earliest texts to use this important technique. In [57] and [58], Shai Simonson publishes the problems from this remarkable work by Levi. In fact, it is the Art of Calculation which allows us to give the year of Levi's birth, since he says he finished writing it in 1321, when he was thirty-three years old.
In 1342, at the request of the bishop of Meaux, he wrote The Harmony of Numbers which contains a proof that (1,2), (2,3), (3,4) and (8,9) are the only pairs of consecutive numbers whose only factors are 2 or 3. One year later, he wrote On Sines, Chords and Arcs which examined trigonometry, in particular proving the sine theorem for plane triangles and giving 5 figure sine tables. He calculated his sine tables using Ptolemy's methods and his tables are very accurate. In this work he studied chords, sines, versed sines, cosines but not tangents (which were not in use at this time). Gino Loria suggested that the sine theorem be named after Levi but he was not the first to present the theorem, which was known to Jabir ibn Aflah in the 12th century, but he may have rediscovered it. He also published two geometry books, one being a commentary and introduction to the first five books of Euclid, but not presented axiomatically. The other is the Science of Geometry of which only a fragment has survived. It is interesting to note that Levi was interested in Euclid's parallel postulate and appears to have been part of a lively debate about whether it could be deduced from the other axioms. He proved the parallel postulate with an argument based on an assumption on the convergence or divergence of straight lines that is (as of course it must be) equivalent to the parallel postulate; see [43] for further details.
We now look at some of Levi's contributions to astronomy. One of these is associated with astronomical instruments. He invented Jacob's staff, an instrument to measure the angular distance between celestial objects. We should note that the term 'Jacob's staff' was not used by Levi but rather by his Christian contemporaries; he used a Hebrew name which translates as 'Revealer of Profundities'. It is described as consisting:-
... of a staff of 4½ feet long and about one inch wide, with six or seven perforated tablets which could slide along the staff, each tablet being an integral fraction of the staff length to facilitate calculation, used to measure the distance between stars or planets, and the altitudes and diameters of the Sun, Moon and stars.This was far from his only contribution to improvements in astronomical instruments. In [23] Bernard Goldstein looks at Levi's various innovations in instrument design. A striking example is the design of a transversal scale for reading fifteenths of degrees on the graduated outer circle of an astrolabe. We note that, remarkably, it was around 250 years later that Tycho Brahe used a similar transversal scale on his great mural quadrant. Goldstein also, in an appendix to [23], examines Levi's transversal scale for the Jacob staff. We note that while Levi's method for constructing the scale is theoretically correct, it requires making measurements that seem extremely difficult, so perhaps the theory was never put into practice.
These instruments are described in the astronomical part of Levi's major work The Wars of the Lord which took him twelve years to compose beginning in 1317 and finishing on 24 November 1328. The work is divided into six books, with the fifth of these dealing with astronomy. The astronomy part was translated into Latin at the request of Pope Clement VI in 1340 but this translation includes later revisions of the work by Levi. We will look later at some of the other books but for the moment we make some comments on Book V which alone contains 136 sections. The Hebrew text, with translation and commentary, of the first 20 sections is published in [8]. H W Guggenheimer writes in a review:-
This is the first edition of any of Levi's astronomical writings in Hebrew; as the editor points out, because of the author's critical attitude towards Ptolemy his work did not find many readers who were willing to acknowledge that they had read it (which was translated into Latin at the papal court of Avignon). These first 20 sections contain a general philosophical introduction, Levi ben Gerson's trigonometry, a description of the construction and use of an instrument invented by him (the Jacob staff) for exact determination of angular differences, remarks about the exact construction of the astrolabe and improvements invented by him, followed by practical and theoretical methods for the determination of the meridian and the position of stars and, finally, a proof that Ptolemy's theory does not account for the facts - neither for the moon (which in an epicycle motion would have to be seen from both its sides) nor for the planets, and a preliminary exploration of alternative (excentric circle) theories.So Levi's passion for accurate astronomical instruments came from a desire to make sure that any proposed theoretical model was actually in accord with observation, and the more accurate the observation, the better a theory could be put to the test. It was a bold move by Levi to reject Ptolemy's system and certainly shows his strength of character that he was prepared to argue against such a deeply held standard model of the universe. However, he realised that Ptolemy's model does not match the facts. Most importantly, although various tinkerings with epicycles and other corrective devices could always be used to correct the position of the heavenly objects, it still left the apparent size of the objects far from that which was observed. For example, according to Ptolemy's model the size of Mars should vary by a factor of 6 but Levi observed only a factor of 2 in the size of the planet. Levi observed a solar eclipse in 1337. After he had observed this event he proposed a new theory of the Sun, which he proceeded to test by further observations. Another eclipse observed by Levi was the eclipse of the Moon on 3 October 1335. He described a geometrical model for the motion of the Moon and made other astronomical observations of the Moon, Sun and planets using a camera obscura. José Luis Mancha, reviewing [25] writes:-
Faced with the conflict between physical and mathematical accounts of celestial phenomena, [Levi] rejected (against Aristotelian tradition) the confinement of astronomy within the limits of a merely predictive theory, and intended (against most of the Ptolemaic tradition) to construct a true mathematical representation - not only a possible one - of the heavens and the motions of the heavenly bodies, being able to satisfy at the same time the requirements of observation and natural philosophy.Having explained that Levi rejected Ptolemy's model, we must make it clear that the model which Levi gives is of a similar type consisting of 48 spheres. Some of these spheres are concentric with the Earth, while others are not. Levi considers that these solid spheres are separated by layers of fluid that lubricate their motions, each sphere being moved by an immaterial intelligence. He gives an iterative calculation for the size of the fluid layer and is led to a calculation of the size of the universe which differs very significantly from Ptolemy's. For example, for Ptolemy the distance to the sphere of fixed stars is 20,000 Earth radii, while Levi calculates it to be 160 . 1012 Earth radii. Of course these beliefs were well wide of the truth such as his belief that the Milky Way was on the sphere of the fixed stars and shines by the reflected light of the Sun. His lunar model, however, is very interesting for he was able to eliminate epicycles and come up with a model which agreed with observation much better than that of Ptolemy, see [28] and [29]. The 99th chapter of Book V consists of astronomical tables made for the meridian of Orange in 1320.
Despite spending some time on considering Levi's mathematical and astronomical contributions, we have not yet mentioned the bulk of his work which was on philosophy and religious studies; he wrote many complex Biblical commentaries. It is important to realise that Levi's scientific work was often in conflict with Judaism. He leaves us in no doubt as to his views on such conflicts writing in the Preface to The Wars of the Lord:-
The Law cannot prevent us from considering to be true that which our reason urges us to believe.We promised to say a little more about The Wars of the Lord. In fact the six books of this work are designed to examine six philosophical questions: the immortality of the soul; prophecy; God's omniscience; divine providence; the nature of the celestial spheres; and the eternity of matter. These six questions are examined, one in each of the six books, beginning with a discussion of the views of earlier philosophers, in particular Aristotle. In his discussion of the immortality of the soul, Levi examines the material intellect, which he believes is born with man but only has potential existence, but acquired intellect reaches an effective existence by acquired ideas and conceptions. The acquired intellect, Levi argues, does not cease to exist with the death of the body, so achieving immortality. On prophecy, Levi considers whether it is possible and argues strongly that it is. For anyone like Levi who believes in astrology, such a conclusion is inevitable. The topic of the third book, God's omniscience, was a subject debated at length by philosophers and Levi gives his own views [56]:-
The sublime thought of God, he says, embraces all the cosmic laws which regulate the evolutions of nature, the general influences exercised by the celestial bodies on the sublunary world, and the specific essences with which matter is invested; but sublunary events, the multifarious details of the phenomenal world, are hidden from His spirit. Not to know these details, however, is not imperfection, because in knowing the universal conditions of things, He knows that which is essential, and consequently good, in the individual.On divine providence, Levi reaches the conclusion that some are protected and guided by general providence while others are under an individual providence. We have looked in some detail at Book V, Levi's astronomical theories, so it remains to comment on Book VI which discusses creation and miracles. On creation, he argues against the 'ex nihilo' theory, arguing instead that 'inert undetermined matter, devoid of form and attribute' had existed for all time. This was really potential matter brought into form and being in an instant act of creation by God. His argument regarding miracles is interesting, for he claims that they exist but are neither due to God nor to prophets. They are the result, he argues, of the active intellect. But miracles have their own limitations: they cannot alter the laws of nature; they cannot produce a contradiction; and they cannot affect the motion of the celestial spheres.
Let us end this biography by quoting from Tamar Rudavsky's conclusion [53]:-
Gersonides' philosophical ideas went against the grain of traditional Jewish thought. Gersonides reflects the following characteristics: first, his writings demonstrate a fundamental interplay and harmony between astrological and theological beliefs. It is clear that the appeal of astrology lay in the fact that it offered useful information, while it looked and operated like a science. ... Gersonides believed that life on earth had a meaning, and that terrestrial events had an order. Astrology was a means of ascertaining that meaning. Gersonides' views on prophecy, providence, free-will and evil reflected ingredients of this philosophical determinism. Whereas his commentaries occupied a central place in Jewish theology, his philosophical work was rejected. .... Only in recent years has Gersonides received his rightful place in the history of philosophy. As scholars have rediscovered his thought and have made his corpus available to a modern audience, Gersonides is once again appreciated as an insightful, ruthlessly consistent philosopher.
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When I was a young Jesuit, I used to groan under the weight of exhortations to prudence. I thought prudence was an old man's virtue. My first Jesuit rector, Father Frank Fallon, was particularly given to such tiresome appeals. They always seemed to me to be counsels of caution against rocking the boat. I was not a rabble-rouser, but from the time I asked my kindergarten teacher to allow the class to take our music time outside and have a parade, I have been an innovator.
As head of a tutoring program conducted by us seminarians in inner-city schools, I was repeatedly meeting with Father Fallon to make changes in our seminary routine so that our tutoring work could be more effective—like bringing our tutees to visit on our Thursday holiday. He and other superiors rarely gave me encouragement. Most of the time, I only heard second-hand the objections they had heard or expected to hear from the older fathers. But in the end they always granted the change I requested.
For most of my classmates, the rector's cautious appeals were just one more thing to endure. For some, I fear, it represented a lost opportunity to engage their youthful idealism, and for that reason some vocations were lost. For me, it was a training in institutional change. I learned that bringing change was frequently a lonely enterprise and that expressions of appreciation would come only much later, after the work was successfully done.
Prudence, of course, is a much richer virtue than simple caution. For the Western philosophical tradition, it is a practical wisdom for making right decisions in changing circumstances. Nonetheless, it does have a restraining role. It used to be that bankers were known for their prudence. But clearly in the run-up to the current financial crisis, the heads of the major investment houses had lost their caution and their prudence, in the broader sense of understanding the wider societal role of banking. The old gray heads were swept away by the same "irrational exuberance" that drove the clever, competitive young brokers who worked for them.
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For the first half, it looked as if Notre Dame was doing its best to spoil the party. The Irish got to within one point of UConn. At the half, the Huskies only led 25-22.
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Researchers from OMII-UK, an organisation based at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science and a team from the School of Biological Sciences worked together to try to better understand viruses using the latest e-Research techniques.
Dr Richard Edwards, Head of the Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution Group, who studies how proteins interact and is particularly interested in short, linear motifs - known as SLiMs - worked with OMII-UK to extend his successful software SLiMFinder, a system which compares viral and human proteins and allows biologists to understand both forms better.
'A protein can be thought of as a sequence of amino acids, like beads on a string,' explains Dr Edwards. 'SLiMs consist of about three-to-five specific amino acids in the protein and could be responsible for the signalling pathways between many proteins, because they control the ways in which proteins interact. They are potentially useful to viruses too. They are small so it is relatively easy for a virus to evolve a structure that mimics them, and hijack the signalling pathway controlled by the SLiM.'
As a result of his studies, Dr Edwards wrote SLiMFinder which predicts the SLiMs responsible for specific protein interactions (including those used by viruses to manipulate their hosts). This collaboration focused on the creation of a workflow for SLiMFinder, which used OMII-UK's very successful Taverna software. This allows the automation of repetitive tasks, such as data collection from databases, or data manipulation, and provides a user-friendly interface. Development of the software was funded by the Engage project, which brings together the software expertise of OMII-UK and the infrastructure of the National Grid Service to help researchers around the country adopt e-Research techniques.
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The number of historic covered bridges in Ohio is dwindling, from what was once thousands to about 145 now, and preservationists say vandals and arsonists are chipping away at those still standing.
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It's one of 18 original covered bridges in Fairfield County, which has the most among Ohio's 88 counties. In northeastern Ohio, Ashtabula County also has 18, but some of them are newer.
Ohio's historic covered bridges were built from 1816 to 1919, Simmons said.
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I just uploaded my PhD thesis
A Distributed Music Information System, which I defended on the
22nd of January. My examiners were David de Roure from University of
Southampton and Nicolas
Gold from King's College. My PhD supervisor was Mark Sandler.
Here is the abstract:
Information management is an important part of music technologies today, covering the man- agement of public and personal collections, the construction of large editorial databases and the storage of music analysis results. The information management solutions that have emerged for these use-cases are still isolated from each other. The information one of these solutions manages does not benefit from the information another holds.
In this thesis, we develop a distributed music information system that aims at gathering music- related information held by multiple databases or applications. To this end, we use Semantic Web technologies to create a unified information environment. Web identifiers correspond to any items in the music domain: performance, artist, musical work, etc. These web identifiers have structured representations permitting sophisticated reuse by applications, and these representations can quote other web identifiers leading to more information.
We develop a formal ontology for the music domain. This ontology allows us to publish and interlink a wide range of structured music-related data on the Web. We develop an ontology evaluation methodology and use it to evaluate our music ontology. We develop a knowledge representation framework for combining structured web data and analysis tools to derive more information. We apply these different technologies to publish a large amount of pre-existing music-related datasets on the Web. We develop an algorithm to automatically relate such datasets among each other. We create automated music-related Semantic Web agents, able to aggregate musical resources, structured web data and music processing tools to derive and publish new information. Finally, we describe three of our applications using this distributed information environment. These applications deal with personal collection management, enhanced access to large audio streams available on the Web and music recommendation.
So far, just a PDF is available, as I am still fighting with LaTeX2HTML, but there will be an HTML version some time soon :-) I am also planning to upload, at the same place, some extra annexes and extra results I didn't include in the main document. I think I will also blog here about some of the things included in this thesis.
In case you just want to jump to a particular chapter, I will just give some keywords to the different thesis chapters below:
- Introduction
- Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web technologies: FOL, Description Logics, RDF, Linked Data, OWL, N3.
- Conceptualisation of music-related information: web ontologies, music ontology, time ontology, event ontology, workflow-based modelling
- Evaluation of the Music Ontology framework: ontology evaluation, data-driven evaluation, task-based evaluation, latent dirichlet allocation
- Music processing workflows on the Web: workflows, concurrent transaction logic, N3, N3-Tr, DLP, publication of dynamically generated results, Semantic Web Services
- A web of music-related data: linking open data, dbtune, automated interlinking, quantification of structured web data
- Automated music processing agents: N3-Tr, Henry, music analysis, workflows, prolog
- Case studies: gnat, gnarql, personal music collection management, zempod, music recommendation
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Investors Capital Holdings (ICH), the parent company of the Lynnfield, Mass.-based broker-dealer of the same name, said Wednesday that it had net income of $280,000 on total revenue of $20.32 million for the period ended Sept. 30. This represents a gain of $0.04 per share vs. a loss of $0.13 a year ago.
In the second fiscal quarter, revenue rose close to 1% from last year thanks to a jump in commission revenue and other fee income, the company says. Commission revenue rose 0.8% to $15.78 million, compared to $15.66 million in the year-ago period. Advisory fees, however, declined 2.5% to $3.98 million, compared to $4.08 million in the same period last year.
The company says that ongoing expense reductions and revenue growth translated into consecutive operating and net income postings for the first two quarters of the fiscal year. It has about 450 advisors and some $8 billion in assets under management.
"We continue to invest in the revenue-generating areas of our business, supplementing the success of our recruiting efforts with proven, organic growth initiatives such as practice management, advisory services, information technology, and value-added events," said President and CEO Tim Murphy (left) in a press release.
The firm reported operating income of $430,000 compared to an operating loss of $1.39 million a year ago. Net income was $280,000 for the quarter compared to a net loss of $880,000 12 months earlier.
"Investors Capital continues to benefit from enhancing the overall quality of its representatives by providing broad practice management solutions to assist its advisors in growing their practices and recruiting established, high-performing representatives," the company said in a statement.
The average revenue per advisor, based on a rolling 12-month period, rose at the end of the second quarter to $169,373, an increase of 0.1% over $169,130 for the year-ago rolling 12-month period.
Adjusted EBITDA was roughly $563,400 compared to negative $374,800 for the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2011.
"By continually focusing on the basics of our business and being more committed than ever to providing 5-Star Service to our advisors, we look forward to turning our current earnings successes into sustainable long-term growth," explained Murphy.
In mid-October, Investors Capital says that the Clear Sailing Investment Group decided to affiliate with its independent broker-dealer and end its affiliation with SagePoint, one of the broker-dealers that is part of the AIG-owned Advisor Group.
Clear Sailing includes advisors Daniel S. Chabott, Sr., Jennifer Chabott, Richard Darrow, Michael Ingenito, C. Robert Kelly and Terry Seely. The firm has offices in Barrington, R.I., Northfield, Mass., Glastonbury, Conn., Newington, Conn., and Grand Rapids, Mich.
"The folks at Clear Sailing met with a number of our competitors, but selected Investors Capital based on the human factor; that was very important to them," said Peter Acciavatti, senior director of business development for Investors Capital, in a statement. "They chose us because we were real people who gave them a good feeling inside whom they felt they could trust with their business. That's the Investors Capital brand in a nutshell."


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Marking Ducati's third victory in a row, Carlin Dunne won the 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and set a new motorcycle course record from pole position for the second year in a row.
He was riding a Ducati Multistrada 1200 S and both Dunne and teammate Greg Tracy finished in under 10min. This is a first for any motorcycle in the 90-year history of the event, although it's also the first time the entire course has been asphalt paved.
Dunne crossed the finish line at the 14,110ft summit with a record-setting time of 9:52.819, beating his previous record of 11:11.32. Tracy was less than six seconds behind in second place with 9:58.262.
"Today was an emotional day," said Dunne. "When we heard we won and broke the record for the second time, I was speechless. The one-two finish proves the Ducati Multistrada 1200 S is the ultimate bike to conquer Pikes Peak."
The riders reached speeds over 144mph on the mountain's straights, traversing 156 turns while climbing the 12.42-mile course. The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, known as the "Race to the Clouds", is held in the Rocky Mountains, west of Colorado Springs and the start line altitude is 9389ft, finishing at 14100ft.
"Three years ago we chose the Multistrada 1200 S to compete at Pikes Peak to showcase its capabilities…" said Dominique Cheraki, General Manager of Ducati North America. "When we were alerted that the entire course would be paved in 2012, there was no doubt that the Multistrada 1200 S was still the right choice and breaking the record today proves this."


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Increase distance Handset of Telephone can be used from Base of Telephone. Replace tangled or broken telephone handset cords. No installation or wiring required, takes only minutes. Insert smaller plug into handset of telephone and larger plug into base of telephone. Curly cord is White in colour.
- Extension lead for Phone.
- Extend handset on phone.
- For use on Irish Network.
Length: 25m
Colour: White
Connection: Irish Standard
The VoIP Cyberphone is a fully functional USB-powered telephone which comes bundled with Skype™, free software which uses new VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology to allow you to make free calls to other VoIP Cyberphones all over the world.
All you need is an Internet connection: Broadband is best - although the system still works with a 56k dial-up - and you can start talking to the 208,000,000 people worldwide who have already signed up for Skype™.
The VoIP Cyberphone even gives you more features than your existing landline with a choice of ringing tones, missed call and contact lists, call length timings, conference calling, touch dialling and answer phone service all rolled into one!
Laser AO-USBPH VoIP phone
- Plug and play, fully compatible with SKYPE, no need for hardware driver
- BIG LCD Screen, soft mobile phone style keypad
- Ringing on all incoming calls, 10 ring types and adjustable volume
- Sound card built – in, no sound card required for your PC
- Echo cancellation, noise reduction, full duplex communication
- See missed calls and dialled calls directly from the BIG LCD
- Screen of Skype phone
- Dimension: 12cm x 4cm x 1.5cm
- Weight: 100g
System requirements:
- 400 MHz processor or higher or better with USB interface
- 128 MB of RAM
- Operation System: Windows 2000/XP
- Network: LAN, ADSL, ASDN, 33.6k modem or above
1 x VoIP Phone with USB CABLE
1 x Skype Software CD
- Wall-mountable
- Selectable pause/ tone dialling
- One-touch redial
- 2-step ringer volume control
- Electronic handset volume control (4 steps)
- Colour: Black (B)
- No lead, mercury and other harmful chemicals are used
|Speaker Phone
|LCD Display
|Speed-dialing Memory
|Phonebook Memory
|Ringing Tone Selector
|off / low / high
|Caller ID Tel. Number*
|Caller ID call-waiting*
|Voice Mail Service Compatible*
|Redial Number Memory
|Headset Jack
|Dial Lock
|Call Restriction
|Dimension (WxDxH) mm
|Weight (g)
- Easily attach to keychains or other important items
- Find your phone by pressing the tile to ring it loudly even in silent mode
- Enlist help with a growing community of other Tile users
- A full year of use with no charging required
Easily attach to keychains
Simply attach the small, discreet and useful Tile RT-13001 Mate Bluetooth Tracker to an item and locate it quickly and easily with Bluetooth tracking. You could also use the adhesives (sold separately) to stick to flat surfaces, such as a laptop.
Use it with your keys, wallet and other treasured, useful, or easily misplaced items so you don't lose them in future.
Find your phone
Lost your smartphone? Press the Tile button to ring it loudly, even when it's on silent mode, so you can track it down.
Using the map you can see its last known location to search there first, or send a lock-screen message in case someone finds it for you.
Enlist help
The growing Tile community can help you find your missing item. When a Tile user approaches, the app notifies of the last-known location. With other users on the case you could find your important belongings in no time.
A full year of use
The Tile Mate features non-rechargeable batteries which will last a year, after which you can replace your old Tiles with new ones for a special community member price.
With a sealed, water-resistant case, the Tile can also stand up to the rigours and stresses of daily life. The battery is sealed away from children and pets, while the Tile cannot be disabled if it falls into the wrong hands. This gives you added peace of mind, knowing that you can use the gadget confidently and continuously.
Simple, Easy-to-Use Operation
Ideal for elderly users and those with visual impairment, this easy-to-use telephone features an oversized dial pad, making it extremely simple to receive and make phone calls. Its large backlit LCD display illuminates during use, offering clear visibility both day and night. What's more, with the simple press of a button, you can also take calls hands-free, allowing you to relax and get comfortable without adding strain to your hands and wrists.
Contact Storage
Boasting a three-button one touch memory system, this telephone stores up to three numbers that can be rang out at the simple touch of a button. Caller ID lets you easily see who is calling you with a simple glance at the large LCD screen, giving you the option of taking or receiving the call without worry.
Functionalities for Your Ease
What's more, its long extendable cord enables an easy reach, allowing you to place it anywhere in your home without causing obstruction. Complete with a high and low ringer switch, you can easily switch the volume of the ring so it can be heard anywhere with your home.
- Big Button Telephone with more features than other comparable makes and models at a lower cost too!
- Hands Free Speaker Phone - hands free dialling (leave the handset down and dial your number), ideal for banking, or call queues, when you are through you can pick up the handset
- LCD Digital Display: shows the number you are dialling, time & date + Caller Display shows the incoming call number (requires Caller ID service from your line provider) - 4 x AA Batteries included
- Phone Memories & Auto Redial (3 single button memories) - Flashing LED light alerts you to an incoming call - High / Low Ringer volume
- Wall mounted, or table / desk mount (bracket included) - TBR (Recall) & Tone / Pulse dialling - Handset Amplifier (High / Low)
- Itek Big Button LCD Hands Free Telephone
- Caller ID
- Incoming Call: Up to 35/38 items with 12 digits
- Outgoing Call: 5 items with 16 digits
- 32 Digits with auto-IP number
- One-touch memory: 3 items with 16 digits
- 32 digits pre-dialing number
- 12/16 digits 7 segments LCD display
- Auto-redial function
- Product Type: Telephone
- Brand: Itek
- Pack Size: 1
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 21.1 x 5.8 cm
- Itek Reference: I62002
- Slim design featuring a 1.43 inch CSTN LCD screen
- New powerful 800mAh battery extends use
- Travel with enhanced security featuresd like the Mobile Tracker
- Mobile phone Call Manager keeps your day in order
- Speakerphone that adds comfort and usability
- Boxed-product Weight: 181 g
- Batteries 1 Lithium ion batteries required. (included)
Panasonic KXT GE 110 Big Button Dect
Big Button with Large Characters-Easy-to-see and easy-to-push big illuminated keypad with large characters.
Three Dedicated Memory Dial Keys-Enable you to dial with a simple operation.
Quick Volume Control & Hearing Aid Compatibility
Dedicated volume keys and Amplify key on the side of handset for easy control during talking. Simply push the Amplify key to boost the volume to about 2 times the normal level.(6dB)
Large, 1.8-inch Backlit Display
Simple key layout
HAC (Hearing Aid Compatibility) Support
Handset with Dimples for Slip Resistance
Eco Mode / Zero Emit
Call Block
Hands-Free Speakerphone on Handset
Display Information: date, time
Colour Support: monochrome
Connections: Headset jack
Colour: black
Dialler Type: keypad
The Tile Pro (2018) Bluetooth® tracker makes it easy to find lost items.With a 300 ft. range the Tile Pro covers twice the distance of the new Tile Mate.
This durable, water-resistant tracker is also twice as loud, making it easier to find everything, including your keys, wallet and phone.
Use your smartphone to make your Tile Pro ring when it's nearby but out of sight. If it's your phone that has gone missing then simply double press the Tile button on your Tile Pro to make your phone ring - even when it's on silent!
Activate Community Find: If your Tile Pro is far away, let other Tile community members help. The Tile app running on their phones can send location updates to your app, letting you know where your Tile Pro is.
Battery life: Replaceable CR2032 battery is guaranteed for one year from activation. You can easily replace it yourself
The Panasonic TGB210 offers reliable sound quality and DECT cordless freedom. The handset sports large, widely spaced keys and a backlit amber screen for displaying caller information and facilitating straightforward address book management.
Designed to help simplify your daily routine, the TGB210 offers a useful array of call management features. With the Phonebook service enabled, you can save up to 50 numbers which you be able to easily call, without having to take out your phonebook or yellow pages. Featuring a 1.4" monochrome display, the TGB210 provides the functionality of an alarm clock.
Product Features:
- 1.4 Inch, easy to read illuminated LCD Display
- Caller ID
- 16hrs talktime
- 280 hrs standby
- 50 item phone book
Uniden big button feature phone
easy to see & use big buttons
handsfree speakerphone
large lcd display
129 memories
80 caller id log
Product information
|Icecream Sandwich
|Item Weight
|209 g
|Product Dimensions
|16 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm
|Item model number
|Special features
|Bluetooth Tethering
|Form factor
|209 Grams
|Battery Power Rating
|Phone Talk Time
|4 Hours
|Phone Standby Time (with data)
|200 Hours
This phone is compact enough to fit in a narrow space. The simple and stylish appearance will complement various room interiors. The additional feature in the model is the 18 minute Answering System
Just press the dedicated ECO button. Signal output is reduced by up to 90% and power consumption is reduced by about 3.5% when compared with normal mode. The ECO indicator will be clearly displayed on the LCD screen when the ECO mode is activated.
Reduce unwanted call such as telemarketers. Block any specified number as well as any head string of 2 to 8 digits matching your specified numbers or 'no number provided' calls.
Automatic Volume Control offsets unwanted volume variation
Automatic Volume Control offsets variations in sound signal, which can be caused by distance, signal strength or the caller's phone so what you hear always remains consistent. Reducing the audio amplification for strong signals, and increasing it for weak ones, means you can enjoy a smooth conversation without unwanted sound volume variation.
Ultimate convenience through easy setup
Ultimate convenience through easy set up. Simplified installation Plug and Play product
Low radiation and power consumption
Philips phones are energy efficient and designed to be respectful to the environment.
Menu in multiple local languages
Enjoy easy setup, navigation and control with intuitive menu available in local languages.
Optimised antenna layout for great reception in any room
Our optimised antenna layout ensures strong and stable reception, even in areas of the house where cordless transmission is difficult. Now you can take a call wherever you are in the house, and enjoy a long, uninterrupted conversation even as you walk around.
The Parametric Equaliser delivers pure and clear sound
Our telephones use parametric equalisation in the digital sound processing to fine tune the sound response back to the intended linear frequency response curve, delivering sound that is pure and clear, for each conversation.
- Model - KX-TSC11MX
- 50-station speed dialer
- Voice mail indicator
- 20-station redial memory
- 3-step ringer volume control
- Model - KX TG 6811
- Hands Free Speakerphone
- Caller ID
- Intercom Between Headsets
- Clear Sound
|Cordless Phone
|Number of Handsets
|Any Key Answer
|Do Not Disturb Mode
|Voice Mail
|Caller ID
|Display Functionality
|1.8 inch LCD
|LCD Backlight Colour
|Volume Control
|Talk Time (without charge)
|Up to 16 hours
|Standby Time
|Up to 200 hours
|Charge Time
|Approx 7 hours
|Base Unit Dimensions (W x D x H)
|Approx. 90mm x109mm x 85mm
|Handset Dimensions (W x D x H)
|Approx. 48mm x 34mm x 165mm
- 30 Minute answer machine with message counter on base.
- Caller ID with Incoming call barring & Night mode
- Noise reduction Key
- 120 Name and number phonebook
- 15Hrs Talktime & 170Hrs Standby time.
- Nuisance call block - 50 numbers
- Model - M335
- Caller ID
- 25 Mins Record
- 50 Numbers In Phonebook
- 1.6" Display


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Bees are fascinating. You may remember learning about the waggle dance they do to communicate the direction and distance to great flowers, but did you know that the hive entrance guards sometimes accept bribes? That's right — a bee from another hive will slip one of the guards a little nectar, and then that guard will tell the other guards, "Hey, this is my nephew Joey. He's okay." Joey will slip in, steal a little honey and make a quick getaway. And I bet you thought only humans were corruptible.
The only problem with this story is that most of the bees in the hive are women, so Joey is most likely a Josephine. In a hive of 50,000 bees, only a few hundred are males. The bees have complete control over whether the eggs will hatch into males, females or a queen. They usually choose females, because females do all the work. The males just sit around, eating and drinking more than their share. Sound familiar, ladies? In fact, one indication that bee season is over is when the females decide they don't need the lazy males anymore. They're tired of taking care of them, so they kick them out of the hive and leave them to die on the ground. Take note, gentlemen, you have been warned…
And if you've ever dreamed of being queen for a day, there are only a few days in a queen bee's life that you could possibly enjoy. These are the days when she soars in the sky, mating with up to 20 males. For the men, it's drop-dead sex — and I mean this literally. Mating kills the male bees, and they fall out of the ski. Dead bodies litter the ground. After that, all is drudgery for the queen, and she will probably never fly again. She's not even allowed a bathroom break as she goes about her life's work of laying eggs. An entourage surrounds her, tending to her every need, grooming her, feeding her, moving her from cell to cell and, most importantly, encouraging her. "That's a fabulous egg!" "Put another one right here!" "Wonderful!" "You're the queen of all queens!" "Lay some more!"
We became backyard beekeepers for many reasons: to harvest honey, to help pollinate the garden, to alleviate — in our own small way — colony bee collapse and to have fun. My husband Dale does most of the work. Last fall, he attended a beekeeping seminar and classes at the library and became a dedicated member of our state beekeepers' association. Dale's a careful planner, so all of our decisions were thoroughly researched.
Very early on, we had to decide whether to get a "split" or a package of bees. A split is typically something a beekeeper splits from his hive. It may contain several frames of gestating bees/brood and the house bees that take care of them, a frame of honey, a frame of pollen and a queen. If you choose this option, you will likely harvest honey during your first year of beekeeping. A package of bees is just a box of bees and a queen. It takes longer to establish this type of colony, and it will be the second year before you get any honey. As a gardener, this seemed like the difference between starting my own seed and buying a quart perennial. The allure of watching it all unfurl from the beginning was irresistible, so we went with the package.
After learning all we could about beekeeping, we ordered our supplies. The frames required some assembly, but most do-it-yourselfers will find this easy. We were ready and waiting. The bees arrived in a wire box inside of another wire box with wooden handles. We could see them frantically climbing around, on one another, and I'm certain the UPS man was happy to get the buzzing package out of his truck. Dale was out of town when the girls arrived, so I was responsible for moving the cage to the garage and spraying them with sugar water twice a day.
Putting the bees in the hive ranks high on Dale's "most fun things I've ever done" list, and it was exciting to watch. He opened the door on the box and gently shook the bees out over the open hive. Some flew into a small, lively cloud, but most fell into the box. After spending several days in a cramped cage, Josephine looked around and said, "Wow, this is great, we can make this work. It's much better than that little wire box."
Dale is a proud bee daddy. While inspecting the frames during the third week, I heard him shout, "Look, look, it's a baby bee climbing out of its cell. Oh, look, there's another… and another… Yeah! This is so cool." Dale began pampering "his girls" even more. He fed them all the sugar water they could use, and when the temperature sizzled, he not only relocated the big umbrella from the deck to the bee yard, he also adjusted it twice a day to keep them shaded.
Dale pulls a frame of delicious honey from the honey super.
All that pampering paid off, and our hive grew quickly. When they filled their one-story bee house, Dale added another box. Within three months, they filled three medium-sized boxes. That's enough honey to get them through the winter, so anything else they make is ours. We were told we wouldn't get honey the first year, but it isn't jam that I'm spreading on my toast! In late July, Dale added a queen excluder and a honey super. The honey super is where the honey is harvested. It's a box exactly like the other three boxes in the hive, but it's separated from the other boxes by a queen excluder. The queen excluder is a piece of mesh that allows the worker bees to pass from the brood chambers to the honey super, but it excludes the slightly larger queen — no one wants larvae in their honey!
Every time you go into the hive, you set it back about three days, but as a new beekeeper, Dale was enthralled and couldn't resist checking their progress.
The bees never stop. Even while Dale inspects the frame, they just keep working.
|Bob Fanning, a past president of our state beekeepers' association, says, "I always recommend that a new beekeeper get at least two hives to provide a reference for comparison. If one hive has problems, it is more obvious to an inexperienced beekeeper if there is a second one to compare it to, and thus a red flag that help might be needed." Following are his estimated startup costs:
|Note: If you decide to start with one hive, it will cost approximately $522.
Phillip Garrison, president of our beekeepers association, has 110 hives. He visited our hive in July and helped me with this article. He estimated that our original population of about 4,000 has grown to a full hive of 50,000 bees. He also told us that in our area beekeepers harvest an average of 60 pounds of honey each year. His advice to anyone interested in beekeeping is to join a bee club, take classes and find a mentor. If you need help finding a bee club, your state department of agriculture can assist you.
Bees are fascinating, and they never stop working. They don't even sleep. In fact, when Dale shakes the frame and bees fall into the hive below, they just brush themselves off and immediately start working wherever they land. Phillip says, "If only humans could work together as well as bees — there's no telling how much we could accomplish."
From State-by-State Gardening November/December 2012.
Title photo copyright © istockphoto.com/abdesign all other photos courtesy of Peggy Hill.


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[…] The famous Temple bar district of Dublin […]
No visit to Dublin would be complete without a walk through the famous temple bar district. Temple Bar is a busy riverside neighbourhood located beside the Liffey, spread over cobbled pedestrian lanes.
Approaching the district we crossed the Liffey on the Ha'penny Bridge to reach the Merchant's Arch through which walk right into this riverside neighbourhood. The Ha'Penny Bridge is Dublin's oldest pedestrian crossing over the river Liffey
As we walked through the cobbled lanes of the neighbourhood it was hard not to notice that you can literally step out of one pub and straight into the next one without as much as hitting the pavement in between. Lively markets and boutiques fill the cobbled lanes and alleys of the Temple Bar quarter with life during the day. At night, the area turns into a heaving throng of pleasure seekers crowding the pubs that host live folk music, or strengthening themselves at one of Temple Bar's many eateries.
To skip the crowds we bought some take away and sat next to the Liffey enjoying the atmosphere of this district.
Temple Bar district is definitely a cultural melting pot with an Irish flavour at its heart.
[…] The famous Temple bar district of Dublin […]
Hoping to visit Dublin maybe next year so great to read your post x
looks great but I have to ask… are there any places where you can get a drink??? 😛
Wel, seeing as Dublin only has 772 pubs you are going to be hard pressed at finding one…..
Mmmmm… no self respecting local will be seen in any of those tourist traps!
Next time you visit we'll get you to the real cool spots!! 😉
Those hanging baskets are out of this world! Love your photos
Thank you!! I agree, the hanghing baskets of Dublin were fabulous!!
Lovely photos, living in Savannah Ga and looking at this post I can see the Irish influence in the buildings here
Lovely, I have not been yet!! The most beautiful part for me is all the beautiful hanging baskets and flowers!
Dublin is definitely on the bucket list. Thanks for the awesome photos.
And more,much more, of those beautiful flowers.
The flower baskets in Dublin were amazing!!!
I was in Dublin years ago as my uncle was teaching at a local university on a fellowship. I loved this section of town! I just heard we are getting a direct flight from Minneapolis to Dublin so perhaps I will have to revisit!
Oh wow, I love it when a city gets new flight routes, they always have great specials to celebrate!! So hopefully you will get the chance to walk these cobble street again soon.
I hope so too! 🙂
Beautiful post.
Thank you!! Was a lovely area to explore.
I love visiting Dublin, thank you for posting.
It was a lovely city and I definitely wouldnt mind going back again!
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