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Full release is here. Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to help bring us to this point. You are all wonderful and I'm glad to have had your help.
For those who want the pure vanilla translation patch: http://realtapatch.tumblr.com/
Project leads: Jacktheinfinite101, Waku Waku, Koto
Jacktheinfinite101: Lead editor, programming, some image editing.
Koto: Lead translator, text editing, some image editing.
Waku Waku: Lead image editor, programming consultant, PS2 resources.
Quibi: Lead programmer.
Hyarion: Initial translation of Fate H alts.
MeruP: Programming.
Dallas Hickan: Additional image editing.
Taka-jun, ArchDemon, Tjm, and puKKa from Mirror Moon: Original translation.
bishopcruz and Annonymous: First H uncensor patch.
Himeros and Belldandy100: Second H uncensor patch.
Nintendo Maniac 64: thread derails, additional image editing.
Special thanks to Terrafire for full text comparison
files between FSN and RN for every single scene.
Originally created by Kinoko Nasu and Type Moon.
Special thanks to any other BL members who helped out.
Q: My game is crashing when I reach an OP, the error
message says "EAccessViolation", what do I do?
A: We've gotten many cases of this. The problem is
with your hardware, not the patch. The solution we've
found is for the user to install the latest LAV filters.
Here's a link to download them: https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFil...-Installer.exe
Q: I have the original Fate Stay Night. Will these
patches work for them?
A: No. This patch is for the digital download PC version
of Realta Nua. You have to acquire that to use this patch.
Q: I don't see Faterealtanua_savedata in my documents, I
tried putting the patches in the game directory of my
Fate Stay Night 2004 game, but they don't work. What's
going on?
A: Again, these won't work with the 2004 PC FSN, you need
the digital download PC Realt-
Q: Will this work on FHA?
A: http://i.imgur.com/MsvhGYb.png
Q: I have Waku Waku's RN patch for the 2004 PC version.
Is there any difference between this and that patch?
A: Loads. Waku's patch for the original only added what
he could into FSN.
Q: What order do I play the routes in?
A: The official order is Fate (Saber route),
Unlimited Blade Works (Rin route), Heaven's Feel
(Sakura route) - playing them out of order is possible
but not recommended.
Q: How do I unlock the OP's in your Vita OP patch?
A: The 2004 FSN Op's are added to the Movie menu upon
completion of the prologue. If you complete the prologue
in Fate, you will see the PS2 Fate Op, if you complete
it in UBW you will see the PS2 UBW Op, and if you complete
it in HF, you will see the PS2 HF Op. Compting Day 3 in Fate
gives you the Fate Vita OP, Day 3 in UBW gives you the UBW
Vita OP, and Day 3 in HF gives you the HF Vita OP.
Q: Viewing the OP's in fullscreen is causing high CPU
usage, how do I fix this?
A: Try lower resolutions of the OP patch. Links will
be available for lower resolutions soon.
Q: I want to view the original 2004 version of the
relationship between Sakura and Shinji, but I don't
want to view the H scenes, what can I do?
A: We're working on something to accomodate this request.
In the meantime you need H scenes on to view the original
version of the Shinji/Sakura relationship. If you don't
want to view the H scenes but want to see thier original
relationship, then my advice would be to, starting from
Day 5 of HF, turn H scenes on when Shinji is in a scene
or is mentioned, and on Day 14 make sure you have H scenes
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GOMES, Annatália Meneses de Amorim et al. Code of rights and obligations of hospitalized patients within the Brazilian National Health System (SUS): the daily hospital routine under discussion.Translated bySidney Pacheco Badiz. Interface (Botucatu) [online]. 2008, vol.4Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1414-3283.
Patients' rights constitute a mechanism for change in care and management within the Brazilian National Health System (SUS). The aim of this study was to present roundtable discussions concerning the rights and obligations of SUS patients within the hospital environment. This is a descriptive, exploratory study, conducted at two hospitals in Fortaleza, Ceará. Three roundtable discussions were held at each institution, involving 40 staff members from various professions and sectors. The debate was centered on the text of the Code of Rights and Obligations of SUS Patients in Ceará. The discourses were analyzed according to the content analysis method of Lawrence Bardin. Analysis led to the perception that consolidated norms made it difficult to put the rights into practice and the roundtable discussions broadened this critical view, promoting further insight. This was shown to be an important educational instrument for citizens' rights and for humanization of the healthcare process.
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5 Things I Learned At the End of the Oregon Trail
When my parents are in town (Portland, Oregon), I finally get around to seeing local areas of interest. Yesterday we checked out the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, which was full of Oregon Trail trivia. Here are some of my favorite bits.
1. Awesome hairstyles were par for the course. The photos (well, daguerreotypes) in many exhibits showed dudes with out-of-control hairstyles. See the image at right for some examples (see also: "Father of Oregon" Dr. John McLoughlin and the same as an image macro). (Pictured above right: Sam Barlow and Joel Palmer -- later, Palmer's neck beard got vastly more protuberant.)
2. Emigrants didn't know how to handle their guns. According to several exhibits, accidental gunfire was a leading cause of death on the Oregon Trail (and I seem to remember this from the Oregon Trail video game). The issue was that emigrants brought muzzle-loading rifles which required a laborious loading procedure -- involving a piece of wetted cotton, a lead ball, a ramrod, a firing cap, and a few minutes of fiddling -- which was deemed too time-consuming if the weapon was needed in a hurry. As a result, wagons were trundling along the plains with loaded rifles in them. Of course, when a wagon hit a big enough bump, the weapon would discharge, often with tragic results. (Later invention of the breech-loading rifle largely eliminated this problem.)
3. Oregon City was a big deal. Now a small community near the vastly larger city of Portland, Oregon City was the capital of the Oregon Territory in the late 1840's, and it contained the only land office serving a huge region of the American West. This meant that for a time, if you wanted to plat a new city anywhere on the west coast, you'd have to make it to Oregon City to get your plans approved. (The most famous example of this was San Francisco: after it was platted, the plans were schlepped up to Oregon for approval because California wasn't yet a state and thus didn't have a land office.)
4. The first Oregonian woman to vote arrived via the Oregon Trail. Abigail Scott Duniway arrived in Oregon in 1852, keeping a diary of the journey which recorded, among other things, the death of her mother on the trail. In 1872, Duniway started a newspaper, The New Northwest, in which she debated her brother Harvey Scott (a writer for The Oregonian) on the issue of women's suffrage. In 1912 Duniway became the first woman to vote in Oregon.
5. The Oregon Boot was not something you wanted on your foot. The museum had an example of an Oregon Boot, which is a heavy leg shackle used on prisoners to prevent them from running. The fun part of the exhibit is strapping the Oregon Boot to your own leg and hobbling around. The sad part is thinking about the podiatric suffering Oregon prisoners must have endured living with the damn things.
There's lots more to learn at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, should you find yourself near Portland with an afternoon to kill!
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Atonement. Remember how gross Benedict Cumberbatch was in Atonement? It's a testament to his skill as an actor but I can't help but hold it against him anyway. Poor Robbie took the fall for Paul's underage creeping! Can you be TOO good at your job?
Atonement was the second time James McAvoy and Cumberbatch worked together, having previously co-starred in Starter For Ten which I quite liked and think is underrated though I can't remember Bendy in it at all. Now he and James will be collaborating on their third film and it looks like they're returning to archetype with Cumberbatch playing creepy Julian Assange and McAvoy his former WikiLeaks lieutenant Daniel Domscheit-Berg, based on an unflattering book Domscheit-Berg wrote about Assange being an amoral famewhore. Pretty sure Bendy won't be making it onto my Five List any time soon then.
Here he is in London today walking around in a fox shirt shopping with a friend. And McAvoy the other night at a charity event with really good hair.


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MANAGUA, Nicaragua – MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Several banana workers denied Friday they were part of a conspiracy to defraud Dole Foods Co. by falsely claiming in a damage lawsuit to have worked on a banana plantation and been made sterile by pesticides.
Seven workers at a news conference in Nicaragua, where the contamination allegedly occurred in the 1970s, accused Dole of having tricked or bribed them into casting doubt on claims in the suit that led to a $2.3 million judgment against the company.
They said they wrongly agreed to testify on behalf of Dole in a court case under way in Los Angeles that there had been a fraud in the recruiting or testing of some of the plaintiffs in the suit.
"They tricked and bribed humble farmworkers who, out of poverty, agreed to lie to overturn the ruling," said lawyer Antonio Hernandez. About 1,000 former workers gathered for the Friday event.
A judge in Los Angles is considering throwing out the 2007 damages award for workers exposed to the pesticide DBCP. Some of the workers involved in the U.S. lawsuit against Dole were later found either not to have been made sterile by pesticides or never to have worked at the company's plantations.
Francisco Cano Centeno, 50, who said he worked as a plantation foreman, said Dole offered him money to testify in the latest court case.
"What they wanted was for me to testify that the tests had been altered, that they had not worked on the banana plantation, and that for saying what they wanted, they would give me $225,000," Cano Centeno said.
"I agreed to lie because they know that we are poor and know how to use you. They took me to Costa Rica and there I said everything they asked of me."
He regrets the decision now, Centeno said. "They tricked me, they tricked all of us. They gave me just $300, that's it."
An attorney for Dole denied the company tried to bribe witnesses.
Lawyer Scott Edelman said he could not confirm whether any of the workers at the Nicaragua news conference had testified for Dole in the suit. He said he is prohibited from naming any of the "John Doe" witnesses in the case because a judge has sealed their identities.
But, Edelman said, "any allegation that Dole's investigators bribed or offered to bribe any witnesses is categorically false."
"As the court has already found, these lawyers (for the original damage suit) have recruited fake plaintiffs and threatened and intimidated witnesses not to come forward. This is more of the same," Edelman said. "This is a calculated effort to disrupt current proceedings addressing their conspiracy and to intimidate witnesses and the court."
According to Dole lawyers, the plaintiffs, a Nicaraguan judge and U.S. lawyers conspired to defraud the banana company of millions of dollars.
Banana workers' leader Francisco Palacios said the statements from workers at the news conference prove that the workers who sued Dole told the truth. "Nemagon (a name for the pesticide used at the plantation) did harm us, many are sick," he said.
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To Catch a Thief has never been one of Hitchcock's greatest films. Described by Donald Spoto in The Art of Alfred Hitchcock as "a creampuff of a movie with a little suspense at the end" and by Hitchcock himself as "a lightweight story," it was one of Hitch's thriller-comedies, although it is more romantic than suspenseful, better known for its clever double entendres (both verbal and visual) than its hair-raising moments.
In the third of his four collaborations with Hitchcock, the reliably dapper Cary Grant stars as John Robie, a former master jewel thief who fought in the French Resistance during World War II and is now enjoying a comfortably secluded and private existence in the south of France (he's obviously spent a great deal of time in the sun as he is tanned to a deep, almost unnatural bronze). However, when a rash of high-profile jewel thefts begin ravaging the Cte d'Azur, the police focus in on him because the robberies fit his M.O. Robie insists that he is innocent (although Hitchcock slyly keeps the idea open that it might be him all along) and becomes determined to nail the jewel thief himself in order to clear his name.
Thus, the film fits neatly into Hitchcock's two favorite scenarios: the innocent man wrongly accused and the double-chase, in which the wrongly accused hero is pursued by both the real villain and the police (Grant would find himself in a similar position a few years later in Hitchcock's superior North by Northwest [1959]). Yet, unlike most of Hitchcock's films, in which the villain is usually obvious from the start, To Catch a Thief is a genuine whodunit, and the narrative is built around unmasking the real jewel thief at the end.
However, in many ways, the entire jewel thievery plot is nothing more than Hitchcock's favorite cinematic device, the macguffin, that thing you think is so important but is ultimately irrelevant to the film's real goal. In To Catch a Thief, the real story is not about crime, but about the growing romance between Robie and Francie Stevens (Grace Kelly, in her third and final appearance in a Hitchcock film), a spoiled American heiress on vacation who sets her sights on Robie mostly because he doesn't roll over for her as so many men have in the past. Francie is fascinated by Robie's rouge charm, and the fact that he was (or maybe still is) a master thief thrills her to no end. Thus, the film's title takes on a double meaning, as Robie is trying to catch the jewel thief while Francie tries to catch him.
While not a great film, To Catch a Thief has plenty to recommend about it. The Oscar-winning cinematography by Robert Burk, who shot 12 of Hitch's films, including The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964), is absolutely gorgeous in all its Technicolor glory, giving the posh hotels and French blue skies just the right hint of decadence. Unlike so many of Hitchcock's films, at least half of To Catch a Thief was actually shot on location, so you get a real sense of the spacious glamour of the south of France.
Speaking of glamour, any film that pairs Cary Grant and Grace Kelly is worth seeing at least once, and the infamous seduction scene in Francie's darkened hotel room is one of Hitchcock's cleverest and sexiest moments, unsubtle though it is. With fireworks exploding in the background, Francie entices Robie with the diamond necklace around her neck, although every line she says can be read in relation to her body, which is the real jewel ("Hold them," she says at one point, referring to either her breasts or the diamonds or both). It is all done in a knowing, cheeky fashion, which was done as much to placate the Production Code Administration as it was to remind the audience that, in the end, this is all in fun.
And that's the word that best sums up To Catch a Thief-"fun." It is not deep or socially relevant in the way some of Hitch's films are, and it certainly didn't break any new ground cinematically. It does make for a diverting good time, though, and one can't entirely fault Hitchcock for wanting to rest on his laurels every once in a while.
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Imagine putting years of time, effort and money into a life-changing invention that you think will bring you tons of money and fame while changing the world. Now what if your amazing invention ends up killing you instead?
It happens… maybe infrequently, but it does happen. Below, check out five examples of inventors who might have prolonged their lives if they had never dreamed up their creations.
Bad Blood
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov was a Russian Renaissance Man – his interests included physics, philosophy, economics, science fiction, the universal systems theory and, his downfall – the possibilty of human rejuvenation through blood transfusion. Bogdanov was interested in the theory that a blood transfusion could possibly hold the secret to eternal youth, or at least slow the aging process. He actually performed a blood transfusion on Vladimir Lenin's sister, Maria Ulianova. He tried 11 of these procedures on himself, with one of his friends remarking that Bogdanov appeared to be 10 years younger.
In 1928, he completed a blood transfusion on himself that ended up resulting in his death. The transfer was from a student who had malaria and tuberculosis. Some suspect that the death was, in fact, a suicide – Bogdanov wrote a very "nervous" political letter shortly before his death.
The Printing Press – Literally
William Bullock is the man responsible for the 1863 invention of the web rotary printing press. It completely changed the printing industry because of how quickly it could produce.
This was one of his many inventions – others included a roof shingle cutter, a cotton and hay press, a seed planter, a lathe cutting machine and a grain drill (which won him a prize from the Franklin Institute).
He perfected his web rotary press in 1860. Although a rotary press was already in operation, Bullock's allowed continuous large rolls of paper to be used, eliminated the need to hand-feed paper through. The press could print up to 30,000 sheets an hour.
In 1867, though, the machine turned against Bullock. He was adjusting a new press that had been installed for the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper and tried to kick a driving belt onto a pulley. His leg got caught into the machine and was completely crushed. He died a little more than a week later during an operation to amputate his leg.
The First Aviation Accident (Maybe!)
Before the Wright Brothers, there was Otto Lilienthal. Known as the "Glider King", he was the first person to make successful gliding flights more than once. Publications ran pictures of his successes, which helped to make the idea of inventing a "flying machine" more plausible to the public.
After many years of successes, failure finally caught up with him. On August 9, 1896, he fell from a height of 56 feet and broke his spine. He died the next day, but said "Kleine Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Small sacrifices must be made!").
The Wright Brothers credited him with as their inspiration for pursuing flight. "Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century," Wilbur Wright said, "Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important."
Toxic substances couldn't kill him…
Thomas Midgley, Jr. held more 100 patents, had a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell and worked for a subsidiary of General Motors. He discovered that adding tetra-ethyl lead to gasoline prevented internal combustion engines from "knocking". However, this also released huge amounts of lead into the atmosphere, causing health problems and massive pollution. After people at the GM plants started hallucinating and dying of lead poisoning, though, Midgley was assigned to develop a non-toxic refrigerant for household appliance. So, he discovered dichlorodifluoromethane (please don't ask me to pronounce that), AKA Freon. Turns out that Freon is a chlorinated fluorocarbon, which is insanely bad for the ozone layer. This guy just couldn't win!
Midgely wouldn't live much longer to discover other toxic substances, though – in 1940, he developed polio. The disease left him extremely disabled, but, being the inventor that he was, he developed a system of pulleys and ropes to lift him out of bed. It was this invention – and not the hazardous exposure to lead and CFCs – that killed him. In 1944, he got tangled up in the ropes of his contraption and strangled to death.
The Brave Little Tailor
Franz Reichelt was a tailor who was convinced that the next big thing was a coat that doubled as a parachute. So he got busy sewing and developed just that. To test the coat/parachute (coatachute? Paracoat?), Reichelt climbed up to the first deck of the Eiffel Tower. He told authorities that he was going to use a dummy to test the invention, but at the last minute he strapped himself in and jumped to his death in front of a large crowd of spectators. If you YouTube his name, you'll find video of the entire event. Since this is a family blog, I wasn't sure that I should link to a man plummeting 60 meters to the cement below.…
And One Man Who Didn't Die From his Invention
Apparently there's a long-standing story that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin died at the "hand" of his namesake invention, the Bowie Knife. I'm just kidding. He helped conceive of the guillotine, obviously. He suggested the beheading machine as a way to humanely execute criminals. Guillotine was actually against the death penalty and hoped that his invention would be a step toward more humanity, which would eventually abolish the death penalty altogether. At the time, people who couldn't afford to pay for a quick death were decapitated, but it often took quite a few blows and the axe or sword was usually rather dull. Although Guillotin was arrested and imprisoned in the late 1700s, he was not executed. He was freed and died of natural causes in 1814.
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by Jon Bloom, president of Desiring God*
We all long to rest from the fatigue of living. God placed the desire for rest in our souls, and He promises to fulfill it: "I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish" (Jeremiah 31:25).
In a very real way, Jesus gives rest to "all who labor and are heavy laden" and come to him (Matthew 11:28). But in this age, we cannot find complete rest.
In this age, Jesus grants us the gospel rest of ceasing the impossible labor of self-atonement for our sins (2 Corinthians 5:21). But in embracing the gospel, we find ourselves also drafted into a war—a war to keep believing the gospel and a war to keep spreading it to others. In this age we "strive to enter that [complete] rest" of the age to come (Hebrews 4:11).
Wars are exhausting—especially long ones. That's why you are often tired. Many soldiers, who experience the fierceness of combat, want to get out of it. That's why you're tempted to escape. That's why you're tempted to give up.
But don't give up. No, rather "take courage. Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded" (2 Chronicles 15:7).
Don't give up when that familiar sin, still crouching at your door after all these years, pounces again with temptation.
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)
Don't give up when you feel that deep soul weariness from long battles with persistent weaknesses.
"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)
Don't give up when your long asked-and-sought-and-knocked-for prayers have not yet been answered.
And he told them [the parable of the persistent widow] to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. (Luke 18:1)
Don't give up when the devil's fiery darts of doubt find flesh and make you reel.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day…in all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. (Ephesians 6:13, 16)
Don't give up when the fragmenting effect of multiple pressures seems relentless.
"But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger…(2 Corinthians 6:4–5)
Don't give up when the field the Lord has assigned you to is hard and the harvest does not look promising.
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9) Don't give up when you labor in obscurity and you wonder how much it even matters.
…your Father who sees in secret will reward you. (Matthew 6:4)
Don't give up when your reputation is damaged because you are trying to be faithful to Jesus.
Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. (Matthew 5:11)
Don't give up when waiting on God seems endless.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:30–31)
Don't give up when you have failed in sin. Don't wallow. Repent (again), get your eyes off yourself (again), and fix your eyes on Jesus (again). Get up and get back in the fight.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9)
…if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself. (2 Timothy 2:13)
Living by faith in "things not seen" is hard (Hebrews 11:1). Jesus reminds us: "the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few" (Matthew 7:14). But the way has always been hard, and you are not alone in the difficulty. You are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses who have passed this way ahead of you (Hebrews 12:1). Many have suffered far more and have remained faithful. Remember them and imitate their faith (Hebrews 13:7).
Above all, remember Jesus Christ (2 Timothy 2:8). Jesus knows your works (Revelation 2:2) and he understands your war (Hebrews 12:3). His grace will be given to you in your time of need (Hebrews 4:16) and it will be sufficient for you, even at the very worst times (2 Corinthians 12:9).
So, look to Jesus (Hebrews 12:2), "fight the good fight of the faith" (1 Timothy 6:12), and finish your race (2 Timothy 4:7). When you have done the will of God, you will receive what is promised: his great and eternal reward (Hebrews 10:35 -36). Measured by eternity, the hardships of this life will not be long, and "by your endurance you will gain your
lives" (Luke 21:19). Don't give up.
*Jon Bloom is the author of Not by Sight: A Fresh Look at Old Stories of Walking by Faith and serves as the President of Desiring God, which he and John Piper launched together in 1994.
This article is reprinted from the Spring 2015 issue of Eternal Perspective magazine See also…
Don't Lose Heart
God is Faithful
Jesus is Lord
Not Worthy to be Compared
Verses of Hope and Comfort
God Always Answers Prayer but Not as We Think
God's Purposes in His Children's Trials
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The diesel-emissions-cheating scandal could have been the end for Volkswagen as billions of dollars were spent on fines and to make amends with customers.
To right its reputation, the company vowed to put diesel in the past and charge forward with a massive US $13.5-billion investment in an electric future.
And here we are — more than four years after the scandal broke in the fall of 2015 — with the rollout of the company's first electric vehicle.
The five-passenger ID.4 hatchback, arriving by mid-2021, breaks new design ground and looks nothing like any existing VW model.
Compared with the Tiguan crossover, the ID.4 is about 11.5 centimetres shorter, four centimetres lower and has about 2.5 centimetres less distance between the front and rear wheels.
The ID.4 has slightly less cargo capacity and comes with available space beneath the load floor for stowing small objects.
Towing capacity is 1,225 kilograms compared with 680 for the Tiguan.
The ID.4's interior comes with a 10- or optional 12-inch display screen that's slightly angled toward the driver. Separate (redundant) volume and temperature controls are located below each screen. A 5.3-inch screen is in place of a traditional gauge cluster and has separate battery-charge status and range displays.
Interior lighting includes a thin strip extending the length of the dashboard, positioned along the base of the windshield.
All ID.4s come with "Hello ID" voice control for drivers to adjust the cabin temperature, request specific directions and summon music selections.
An 82-kilowatt-hour battery located below the floor supplies a motor that's between the rear wheels. That's right: just like the VW Beetle of old, the ID.4 is rear-wheel-drive. The system is rated at 201 horsepower and 228 pound-feet of torque.
According to Volkswagen, the ID.4 can go 400 kilometres on a full charge, which takes about 7.5 hours using a 240-volt Level-2 home outlet. When plugged into a 480-volt Level-3 commercial fast charger, topping up to 80 per cent battery capacity from five per cent takes less than 40 minutes.
Engaging the single-speed controller involves twisting an oddly shaped switch located beside the driver's display.
The fuel-economy equivalent — based on average charging cost versus distance traveled — has yet to be determined. Launching later in 2021, the all-wheel-drive ID.4 will add an electric motor up front to produce an estimated 302 horsepower. With the same battery pack, it will likely have less range than the rear-wheel-drive model.
The base ID.4 comes with dual-zone climate control, heated steering wheel and side mirrors, six-way power-adjustable seats and wireless phone charging. Base pricing hasn't been set for Canada but expect the low-$50,000 range.
The midgrade trim has a panoramic roof, faux leather upholstery (instead of cloth), 12-way power seats with massage function, ambient lighting, power tailgate and adaptive LED headlights that pivot in the direction of a turn. There's also an illuminated VW logo on the nose.
The premium package includes 20-inch wheels (18-inchers are standard), silver roof rails on a blacked-out roof and unique bumper add-ons.
All ID.4 trims are outfitted with considerable dynamic safety technologies such as adaptive cruise control, forward-collision warning, autonomous emergency braking, pedestrian detection and rear-backup alert. Road-sign display, high-beam-sensing control and parking assist are also standard.
Note that a heated windshield will come with the later-arriving all-wheel-drive ID.4, while a new base model with less content will be added for 2022 (when production moves to Chattanooga, Tenn., from Germany).
Factor in government incentives in British Columbia and Quebec — the federal iZEV program requires the ID.4 to have a base price of less than $45,000 — and this electric makes a tempting alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles, including those made by Volkswagen. Why? Mostly because it's the right (popular) body style: a good-looking and functional crossover.
What you should know: 2021 Volkswagen ID.4
Type: Rear-wheel-drive midsize utility vehicle
Propulsion: AC electric motor (201 h.p.)
Transmission: Single-speed automatic
Market position: The ID.4 ushers in a new era for Volkswagen in North America, being the automaker's first dedicated electric model. It's part of a major push by VW to introduce a number of electric cars by the mid-2020s.
Points: Attractive body is as much a departure for VW as the ID.4's engineering. • Positioning the motor at the rear is unique for any new model, electric or not. • Standard array of safety tech (part of a notable level of convenience features) covers nearly all contingencies. • Upcoming AWD option along with added performance should prove popular.
Active safety: Blind-spot warning with cross-traffic backup alert (std.); active cruise control (std.); autonomous emergency braking (std.); lane-departure warning (std.); pedestrian detection (std.)
L/100 km equivalent (city/hwy): n.a.
Base price (incl. destination): $50,000 (est.)
Ford Mustang Mach-E
- Base price: $52,500
- New-for-2021 EV hatchback comes in a variety of strengths and ranges.
Kia Niro EV
- Base price: $46,900
- Well-equipped hatchback uses a 201-h.p. motor and has a range of 239 miles.
Nissan Ariya
- Base price: $52,000 (est.)
- Coming electric model can be had with 215 h.p. (FWD) or 389 h.p. (AWD).
– written by Malcom Gunn, Managing Partner at Wheelbase Media
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Daily Kos/Research 2000 recently did a controversial poll of self-identified Republicans. The poll results were treated as suspect mainly because some controversial questions were asked and the results featured what many conservatives perceived as an unusually high percentage of flaky answers.
So, I thought it might be interesting to ask some of the Kos/Research 2000 questions to conservative bloggers. Now, right-of-center bloggers don't match up exactly to the Republican base. They're more knowledgeable, more libertarian, and less socially conservative than Republicans overall, but still, they seemed like a roughly representative group.
With that in mind, Right Wing News emailed more than 250 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to answer nine questions that were copied from the Kos/Research 2000 poll and one bonus question about health care.
The following 79 blogs responded.
101 Dead Armadillos, Ace of Spades HQ, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, The American Princess, The Anchoress, And Rightly So, The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Argghhhh!, Axis of Right, Bad Example, Basil's Blog, Black and Right, Bookworm Room, Bright & Early, Bull Moose Strikes Back, Cao's Blog, Confederate Yankee, Copious Dissent, Dodgeblogium, Doubleplusundead, Drumwaster's Rants, Election Projection, Cara Ellison, Exurban League, Fausta's Blog, Cassy Fiano, Flopping Aces, Fraters Libertas, Freeman Hunt, GayPatriot, Generation Patriot, GOPUSA Northeast, GraniteGrok, Guardian Watchblog, Paul Ibrahim.com/, IMAO, Infidels Are Cool, JammieWearingFool, The Jawa Report, Linkiest, Little Miss Attila, Mean Ol' Meany , Moonbattery, Midnight Blue, mountaineer musings, Mount Virtus, No Oil For Pacifists, No Runny Eggs, Outside The Beltway, The Nose On Your Face (Buckley), The Nose On Your Face (Potfry), Pal2pal, The Pink Flamingo Bar & Grill, Pirate's Cove, Pirates Man Your Women!, QandO, Right Wing Rocker, Right View from the Left Coast, Russ. Just Russ, Say Anything, Don Singleton, Sister Toldjah, The Smallest Minority, Snark and Boobs, Solomonia, Stolen Thunder, The Sundries Shack, Don Surber, This Ain't Hell, The TrogloPundit, Twenty Mule Team, Viewpoint, Wolking's World, Word Around the Net, YidwithLid
The bloggers were asked to select answers to the following questions (because some bloggers skipped particular questions, gave answers that weren't listed, or gave answers that were difficult to categorize, there are not 79 responses to each question.)
1) Would you favor or oppose giving illegal immigrants now living in the United States the right to live here legally if they pay a fine and learn English?
Favor: 24% (19 votes)
Oppose: 76% (60 votes)
2) Do you believe Barack Obama is a racist who hates White people?
Yes: 29% (23 votes)
No: 71% (55 votes)
3) Do you believe ACORN stole the 2008 election?
Yes: 20% (16 votes)
No: 80% (63 votes)
4) Should openly gay men and women be allowed to serve in the military?
Yes: 53% (41 votes)
No: 47% (37 votes)
5) Should same sex couples be allowed to marry?
Yes: 24% (19 votes)
No: 76% (60 votes)
6) Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?
Yes: 11% (9 votes)
No: 88% (69 votes)
7) Do you believe Barack Obama was born in the United States, or not?
Yes: 86% (66 votes)
No: 14% (11 votes)
8) Do you think Barack Obama is a socialist?
Yes: 89% (70 votes)
No: 11% (9 votes)
9) Do you believe your state should secede from the United States?
Yes: 6% (5 votes)
No: 94% (73 votes)
10) Do you think the Democrats are going to pass a health care bill?
Yes, they'll get it through. 26% (20 votes)
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Auto Companies in Russia: Always Two Sides to a StoryMay 1, 2012
Eduard Roytberg is a Senior International Trade Specialist and the Global Automotive Team Leader within the Commercial Service division of the International Trade Administration.
This past week 12 U.S. auto parts and service providers traveled through Russia with ITA's Deputy Secretary Michelle O'Neill finding partners and business opportunities along the way. It will come as no surprise that three of the 12 are based in Michigan.
CAMACO, LLC is a Novi, Michigan based independent supplier of engineered seat frames to the automotive market with locations in North America, South America, Europe and India. Camaco supports 1,200 employees worldwide and their diverse product scope includes stamped metal and wire-frame seat assemblies, headrest and armrest structures.
Camaco has only just begun working with the U.S. Commercial Service and is looking to expand operations into Russia. They have existing operations in India and Brazil.
Another Michigan company on the mission Fluxtrol, Inc., is based in Auburn Hills. Fluxtrol was established in 1981 and manufactures soft magnetic materials for magnetic flux control in induction heating systems and provides advanced engineering services including computer simulation, induction coil design and process optimization.
Fluxtrol, a client of the U.S. Commercial Service for the past 7 years, embarked on this mission to expand their presence in the Russian market and are looking to broaden and deepen their auto industry contacts. They are already planning follow-up trip. Robert Ruffini, President of Fluxtrol is also a member of the Michigan District Export Council.
Inductoheat, Inc., established in 1962 and based in Madison Heights, is a small yet leading manufacturer of induction heating equipment with more than 50 years of experience. Inductoheat operates 40 facilities worldwide providing products to many of the world's largest automotive companies.
Indoctoheat has been working with the U.S. Commercial Service for the past two decades and hoped to gain exposure to and understanding of the Russian market, make significant connections with leaders, partners and potential customers in Russia, and explore opportunities for business expansion in Russia.
"As a result of participating in the trade mission, I will be coming back within the next three weeks to visit two new prospective clients and further develop our level of support for the Russian automotive market," said Inductoheat, Inc., Vice President of Heat Treating Rob Madeira.
These and the rest of the mission participants are either already doing business in Russia and looking to expand or are here with the hope of expanding into the Russian market.
To facilitate good business relationships for U.S. companies, the Commercial Service in Russia and globally frequently work with foreign buyers to ensure that U.S. firms find positive and long-lasting relationships in an overseas market.
Some of those buyers were recognized by Ms. O'Neill during the mission's visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Specifically, Triton-Import of Moscow was recognized for its achievement in opening the Russian automotive spare parts market to American small and medium-sized enterprises. For the past 19 years, Triton-Import has been an important Commercial Service partner. This partnership has resulted in more than $50 million in sales for U.S. exporters of automotive spare parts.
The two companies honored last week in St. Petersburg include Solex and Auto Sport Tuning. Solex was recognized for their achievement as a leading importer of American-made trucks and spare parts into Russia. The Commercial service has helped Solex find U.S. partners to actively market U.S. brands that has resulted in more than $300 million in sales for American truck manufacturers and spare parts for American trucks.
Auto Sport Tuning (AST), a relatively young partner of the Commercial Service, was recognized for its leading role as an importer of U.S. specialty automotive equipment in the Russian market. AST has participated in the International Buyer Program, or IBP, since 2007, attending the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a result of this collaboration and partnership with the Commercial Service, AST has established business partnerships with several American automotive performance suppliers.
The U.S. and Russian companies show the partnership it takes to facilitate global trade. Great partners home and abroad can be facilitated with the help of the Commercial Service domestically and overseas.


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Enterprise to Begin Open Season for Proposed Expansion of Panola NGL Pipeline System
Enterprise to Begin Open Season for Proposed Expansion of Panola NGL Pipeline System
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYS: EPD) affiliate Panola Pipeline Company, LLC ("Panola") today announced the start of a binding open season to seek shipper support for a proposed expansion of the Carthage to Lufkin segment of its natural gas liquids ("NGL") pipeline system. The Panola Pipeline is a 181-mile pipeline that originates near Carthage in Panola County, Texas and supports the Haynesville and Cotton Valley oil and gas production areas. The pipeline extends to destination points at Mont Belvieu in Chambers County, Texas, enabling shippers to access the world's largest NGL fractionation complex, including facilities owned and operated by Enterprise.
Depending on shipper response to the open season, the Panola expansion project will be designed to accommodate approximately 15,000 barrels per day ("BPD") of incremental capacity. Achieving the additional capacity would involve installing pumps and related equipment. The additional capacity would be available mid to late second quarter of 2013.
The open commitment period begins today at 9 a.m. CST and will close on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 5 p.m. CST. For commercial inquiries or additional information related to the open commitment period, please contact Chad Aldrich at (713) 381-6427 or email@example.com.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. is one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, NGLs, crude oil, refined products and petrochemicals. The partnership's assets include approximately 50,700 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines; 190 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, petrochemicals, refined products and crude oil; and 14 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity. Services include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage, and import and export terminals; crude oil and refined products transportation, storage and terminals; offshore production platforms; petrochemical transportation and services; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the United States inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems and in the Gulf of Mexico. For additional information, visit www.enterpriseproducts.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein that address activities, events, developments or transactions that Enterprise expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future, including anticipated benefits and other aspects of such activities, events, developments or transactions, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including required approvals by regulatory agencies, the possibility that the anticipated benefits from such activities, events, developments or transactions cannot be fully realized, the possibility that costs or difficulties related thereto will be greater than expected, the impact of competition and other risk factors included in the reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Enterprise. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of their dates. Except as required by law, Enterprise does not intend to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Remarks by the President on Shooting of American Service Members in Germany
THE PRESIDENT: I want to take a brief moment just to say a few words about a tragic event that took place earlier today in Frankfurt, Germany.
I'm saddened and I am outraged by this attack that took the lives of two Americans and wounded two others. I think the American people are united in expressing our gratitude for the service of those who were lost. Michelle and I have their family and their friends in our thoughts and prayers and we are praying for a speedy recovery for those who were injured.
I want everybody to understand that we will spare no effort in learning how this outrageous act took place and in working with German authorities to ensure that all of the perpetrators are brought to justice.
We don't have all the information yet, and you will be fully briefed as we get more information. But this is a stark reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our men and women in uniform are making all around the world to keep us safe, and the dangers that they face all around the globe.
So I think it's fair to say that on behalf of the American people we want to extend our deepest condolences to these families. And we will give you further updates as we get more information about it.
Q Anything on Libya?
Q Will you take a question on Libya, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: I will have a chance to take some questions tomorrow. President Calderón from Mexico will be here, and so I'll give you guys a chance to ask a couple of questions on some of these other pressing topics. All right? Thank you.
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Modern lighting
historic hotel
In retrospect, we should have done this earlier. We are really impressed."
- Willem van Dam, Chief of Technical Services, The Grand Sofitel Amsterdam
Creating a welcoming and warm décor is vital for any five-star hotel, and the Grand Sofitel is no exception. Not only did the lights need to preserve the hotel's rich heritage, but it was vital that they met the Accor hotel chain's energy standards. With 177 guest rooms and 21 meeting rooms, which have a mix of both traditional and modern décor, the hotel needed a carefully constructed lighting solution.
LED technology received a warm welcome. The flexibility of the Philips hospitality range meant that we could preserve the historic feel in places like the lobby, with its traditional chandeliers. This was achieved using Novallure lamps, which fit into conventional sockets, but have a much greater lifespan than older bulbs. The bulbs create a warm and glamorous glow that adds to the luxurious atmosphere.
In other areas of the hotel, like the meeting rooms, we used hospitality lighting to create a modern, stylish atmosphere. LuxSpace downlights and StyliD spotlights were chosen for their ability to create clean, refreshing ambience and attractive accent lighting where needed. Following the renovations, the hotel has won several awards and is back in the spotlight where it belongs.
"We can't give any facts on the total savings on energy and costs yet, but we're expecting it to be 70% to 80%. And that's not to mention the vast amount of time that will be saved on maintenance." - Willem van Dam, Chief of Technical Services


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Lasers for welding have proven their worth in the last 35 years in select applications. Despite their high capital cost, the precise, intense heat source makes lasers the right choice where there are tight tolerances, close fit-ups, and thin materials. These are applications where lasers produce less distortion, with their smaller heat-affected zone (HAZ) around the weld. That lack of distortion is critical in applications from medical devices to sheetmetal lap joints on automobile body parts, according to Ed Hansen, global product manager for ESAB (Florence, SC), the international welding company.
He said that the laser has become more popular as solid-state lasers have come to dominate the field. Because of their operating wavelength in the near infrared, solid-state lasers deliver their beams along flexible fiber optics instead of the optics and mirrors required with older CO2 technology.
"Fiber-delivered lasers are now useful on larger and higher-volume parts," he said, noting that automated welding applications that do not currently use lasers should consider them given the advances. "Most of the things you need to do for automated welding," he said, "you will need to do to be successful at using a laser."
Laser-only welding has been limited to those thin-walled and tight-tolerance applications. Laser-only welding is currently limited to applications where joint tolerances allow no more than about 0.1 mm of gap variation. In a number of ways that is changing. One way is with hybrid welding.
Companies like ESAB are using their expertise in gas metal arc welding (GMAW)—think MIG—combined with fiber-delivered laser energy to create the best of both in these hybrid systems. The addition of GMAW means using an arc to add-in filler material from a wire. Welds in thicker materials benefit from the precise, deep penetration heat source of lasers, and the combined system is faster and more forgiving. "With a filler metal added, this allows you to start applying laser welding to joint fit-ups and joint designs that are not optimal," Hansen said. Modest gaps can be bridged. Certain amounts of surface contamination are tolerable and weld chemistry and mechanical properties can be manipulated. Designers can also add fillets and bead reinforcements for greater strength and to resist fatigue failures. "This means laser welding can be applied in more conventional applications," he said.
ESAB's Hybrio is such a hybrid system, combining a solid-state laser with GMAW. It welds at 3–10 times the speed of conventional processes, with 80–90% less heat input, according to the company. Its wider bead bridges gaps that are four times wider than a conventional laser-only process. Just as importantly, an adaptive control system monitors the weld joint in real time, adjusting for joint gaps and mismatches and further broadening the process window to handle gaps up to 1.5 mm. New applications now opened to laser welding include shipbuilding, construction, pipeline supplies (such as oil-country tubular goods), heavy equipment/off-highway, and railroad equipment.
In terms of hybrid welding, Jim Hurley, southeast regional sales manager for Trumpf Inc. Laser Technology Center (Plymouth, MI), also pointed out that the laser not only saves time, but material as well. Many weld joints prepared for welding are V-grooves, and a wide joint is needed for traditional GMAW to get heat energy to the bottom. With laser's deep penetration, a smaller included angle is needed and hence less filler material.
Hansen from ESAB noted that while solid-state and fiber lasers now run up to many 10's of kW in power, the practical limit of what they would use in hybrid welding is around 12 kW. Beam quality in terms of beam parameter product (BPP) need not be finer than 10–12 mm-mrads, in most welding applications. In fact, for "high power" welding applications, from hybrid to remote scanning, 75% or more of most applications require lasers that provide power between 4–6 kW, according to Hurley from Trumpf, with a BPP around 8 mm-mrad or better. For example, a common laser for welding is the Trumpf TruDisk 6002. It provides a near-IR beam at 6 kW with a BPP of 8 mm-mrad. Another plus is that some models deliver their energy through up to six individual fibers, enabling a single laser to power a number of independent workcells, reducing capital cost.
As important as the advent of hybrid welding is, Hurley also noted that remote laser welding remains important. Remote welding uses the unique standoff capability of lasers and scanning optics. Remote welding systems rapidly direct a laser beam over large parts like automotive doors and closures. They weld a number of spots and short seams separated by distance, saving time over traditional spot-welding methods. In many cases, it produces a better weld, according to Hurley. Remote welding started with far-IR beams from CO2 lasers delivered in flying optics. Today, he noted that solid-state lasers are now the choice. This means that laser heads mounted on common six-axis articulated arm robots provide unprecedented mobility, combining motion of the head with directed motion of the beam.
With advancements like solid-state remote welding and hybrid welding, Hurley believes there is plenty of room for growth for laser welding, especially in North America. "The Europeans are leaders in developing and deploying it," he said. They are more comfortable with the technology, according to Hurley. "They are seeing the benefits," he said. Those benefits will grow on manufacturers in North America, he believes.
"Laser cutting is like a divorce, but laser welding is like a marriage," said Paul Denney, senior laser applications engineer of Lincoln Electric (Cleveland, OH). "For a cut getting separation cleanly and quickly is what you worry about. However, for a successful weld you do not only worry about getting things to 'stick' together but also what has to be done so that 'union' will last in the long term. For laser welds you have to be concerned about the chemistry of the base and weld metal, the resulting microstructure of the weld and the HAZ, and the size." He sees laser-welding growing, from remote welding to creating tailor-welded blanks. Lincoln Electric supplies laser-welding systems, hybrid laser systems that combine laser and GMAW, and hot wire cladding laser systems.
The key, as Denney sees it, is to think of laser welding as a revolutionary, not an evolutionary, process, especially for the newer hybrid approaches. "You do not want to try and replace a resistance or arc-welding process one-for-one. For example, lasers want to give you a high aspect, deep penetration weld, but if you look at the drawings from most companies they might specify an edge-lap joint or fillet-type joint," he explained. Simply using a laser to weld the fillet they specify, you cannot get high enough deposition rates to justify the laser. "What you want to do is use a joint that works to the strength of the laser like a butt joint," he said.
Anecdotes like these speak to the need to introduce laser welding early in the design process, with design engineers involved as well as the manufacturing engineers on the factory floor. At that point, it is vital to explain the process in terms of economics. "You almost need to talk to the finance guys," he said, explaining that with a rapid process like lasers, if the part is designed to the laser process, you can actually reduce the cost per part.
At the same time, manufacturers are necessarily cautious about adopting novel approaches to mainline products. "You need to ease into some novel areas and then, once it has proven itself, [manufacturers] can trust it and use it more broadly," he said. "That has happened in transmissions and in car seats. Eight years ago, no one was really using laser remote welding for car seats and now almost all suppliers are doing it. Why? Because they trust it," he said.
He also pointed out that for select industries and applications, laser welding has reached a certain maturity, like tailor-welded blanks, drive train, and medical components. Costs for lasers have decreased, but he sees that cost-curve flattening in the last couple of years. Nevertheless, he predicts both hybrid and remote welding applications will expand, replacing other welding methods. "Sweeping a laser beam from spot to spot is much faster than moving a resistance weld gun between spots even as the welds themselves take about the same," he said. Therefore, for the same number of spot welds, that means faster cycle times and higher throughput.
"Welding once was background noise compared to laser cutting, which is where the majority of systems were sold," said Mark Barry, vice president sales & marketing of Prima Power Laserdyne (Champlin, MN). "But about five years ago, we began to see an expansion in laser welding applications."
Customers include turbine, high-precision medical device, and electronics device manufacturers. He attributes two reasons for the growth of laser welding: the nature of the parts and the availability of efficient and economical fiber lasers. "The parts we deal with today are more often near-net shape. We are joining finished parts together," he said. These highly machined, high-value parts already have the tight fit-up needed for an autogenous process. They also need a process that minimizes distortion—ideal for laser welding.
The fiber lasers Laserdyne incorporates into its machines are providing an ideal and convenient laser source to meet the needs for precision welding. The fiber delivery means an output beam source that is evenly distributed as a top-hat (as opposed to a peak Gaussian distribution), with the advantage of low divergence.
Even with the advent of fiber lasers, laser welding capital expense costs can be relatively high but are offset by many advantages. As Barry found out from an extensive review with existing customers, capital cost was not the most important buying factor. The factors that matter include good process control; high-quality welds; robust operation with high uptime; and ease of use by operators not expert in lasers.
"Fiber lasers when employed correctly are easy to use and easy to teach people to use," he said. "They provide a large window of acceptable parameters." Some customers prefer a lower average power with many pulses; others prefer high power with few pulses. Customers can obtain a variety of results from the same basic system. "The simple processes actually mean we can do more interesting welding," he added.
Another key development Barry is seeing is a single laser system tasked to do multiple operations, such as cutting, drilling, and welding. He attributes this to the newer quasi-continuous wave (QCW) fiber laser. "Before, manufacturers would cluster lasers in the same area, now they are distributing them into work cells because they can perform multiple operations and they do not need specialized operators who are experts with lasers," he explained.
The next big jump in development may very well be high-brightness direct diode lasers, according to Hansen. Attributes he likes include lower cost, higher electrical efficiency and the small footprint or form factor. In fact, they are similar in size to current welding power.
What are direct-diode lasers? Many solid-state lasers use diodes to excite a lasing material. Therefore, disk-lasers or fiber-lasers use diode lasers as an intermediate power source. The direct diode laser skips the intermediate process. The trade-off is poorer beam quality but higher efficiency. Laserline (Santa Clara, CA) is a supplier of high-power direct diodes used to create the laser beam used in welding, cutting, or brazing. "The wall plug efficiency of a direct-diode system is between 40–48%," said Wolfgang Todt of Laserline.
Laserline's LDF series direct-diode lasers range from 3-20 kW power, though beam quality decreases as power increases. For example, the Laserline's LDF 3-kW version is 20 mm-mrad, the 6-kW version is only 40 mm-mrads, with standoff distances of 150 mm.
These are better than they used to be and today there are a number of applications where this is sufficient beam quality, especially in aluminum welding, Todt said. Welding with direct diode lasers is not always autogenous. Audi uses LDF diodes to weld aluminum with aluminum-silicon wire filler, using 2–6kW LDF lasers.
In other applications requiring higher quality, Laserline introduced a beam converter device for its LDF line of laser diodes. "For up to 4 kW, the beam converter provides 8 mm-mrads of beam quality with a standoff distance of 500–650 mm," Todt said. There are trade-offs for the enhanced quality. Wall-plug efficiency is reduced and the beam converter adds capital expense. Said Todt: "It is our answer to fiber lasers in applications requiring higher-quality fiber-optic delivery of a beam."
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch urged US lawmakers to tackle far-reaching immigration reform, saying that scrapping quotas on special visas and promoting paths to citizenship would boost US growth and innovation.
The chairman of 21st Century Fox and News Corp has also pressed for immigration reform in his native Australia in the belief that freer borders there and in America would boost trade relationships.
In an opinion piece published on Wednesday on the website of the Wall Street Journal, which he owns, Mr Murdoch admonished opponents of such change in the United States "as being dead wrong about the long-term interests of our country".
"One of the most immediate ways to revitalise our economy is by passing immigration reform," said Mr Murdoch, himself a former immigrant who became a naturalised American citizen in 1985.
He joined reform advocates who worry lawmakers might avoid taking up the thorny issue before November's congressional election, especially after House Republican Eric Cantor's shock defeat to a college economics professor who denounced him for being too eager to compromise with Democrats.
US President Barack Obama, a Democrat, has been pushing new immigration laws to create a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million undocumented residents. But a bill that passed the Democrat-controlled Senate has been stalled in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Mr Murdoch argued for giving non-criminals already living in the United States a path to citizenship, removing the quota for"H1-B" visas for highly-skilled foreign workers, and strengthening border security.
He pointed to a study by the Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan group of mayors and business executives where he is a member, that says over 40 per cent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or a child of immigrants.
He said Mr Obama was exercising "wise restraint" in holding back on taking executive action over provisions of immigration policy in the hopes of a more bipartisan approach.
"However, if Congress fails to even try to have this important debate, the president might feel tempted to act via executive order," Mr Murdoch wrote. "I hope it doesn't get to that point, given the furious political firestorm that would result."


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nêl,[1] or neleð,[2] is the number three (3, III) in Sindarin.
In Noldorin, the precursor of Sindarin, three is neledh, which evolved to neled in later Noldorin. The word derives from root NEL.[3][4]
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor: Appendix: The Eldarin numerals" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 42, July 2001, p. 25
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Two" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 48, December 2005, pp. 6, 21 (note 23)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 376
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, pp. 92, 150 (note 6)


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Steven Goddard asks the rhetorical question: How do you get an organism to destroy itself?
Simple — convince it that something essential for its survival is making it sick. A great example of this is bulimia. If an individual believes that food is unhealthy, it eventually will self-destruct and die.
As far as I can tell, that is the fundamental purpose of the global warming movement. Civilization can not exist without an adequate energy supply, and greens are determined to make that impossible. They are determined to introduce a fatal imaginary paradox — which will lead western civilization to self-destruct.
Simple — convince it that something essential for its survival is making it sick. A great example of this is bulimia. If an individual believes that food is unhealthy, it eventually will self-destruct and die.
As far as I can tell, that is the fundamental purpose of the global warming movement. Civilization can not exist without an adequate energy supply, and greens are determined to make that impossible. They are determined to introduce a fatal imaginary paradox — which will lead western civilization to self-destruct.
Yes, we've been seeing a lot of this lately. Christians need to get-with-the-times, knock it off with those ancient hymns written by dead white guys, let the hippies lead the Sunday services with their tambourines and guitars. Men who are single and trying to find ways to attract women, should stop acting like men; shave the facial hair, speak in a higher voice, get into American Castrati mode. The Republican party, just lately spanked in this year's elections, should stop acting like Republicans…turn a blind eye to that low-hanging fruit represented by the evangelicals and Tea Party people who couldn't be bothered to pop a chad for Mitt Romney, and imagine these swelling throngs of butt-hurt hipsters who will surely vote GOP, in droves, with a bit of platform support for gay marriage, amnesty for illegal immigrants, exploding government largess, AND don't forget the silly but creative new social programs.
And then there is technology. What does America have to do to recapture her competitive edge? More college grads, of course! Acres and acres of college grads, each one clutching a spiffy new roll of sheepskin, with a documented specialty in something absolutely useless that ends with the word "studies." Pity the poor college student graduating just in time to compete for a limited number of jobs, with swelling throngs of classmates equally indoctrinated with equally smug heads packed full with equally silly things. How I pity them. Maybe if we grind enough of them down we can produce a few joules of energy after the coal & nuclear plants are shut down.
I suppose this is all just a byproduct of mass communication. Think back a century before now, which is just the blink of an eye in human evolution. What was communication? I'll tell you what it was in 1912: You could have distance, you could have instant access to your audience, you could broadcast to multitudes — pick any two out of those three but you could not have all three. The one exception was a radio signal sent out randomly, like the Titanic's shout-out for help, but that was nothing more than a scream converted to electronic form. Today, communication is one-way or two-way, we can choose one or the other of these at our leisure; you can broadcast, instantly, to whoever is interested, and you can pick up feedback whether the recipient wants you to or not. You can find out their time zone, their nearest major city, their GPS coordinates. You can get their IP address. You can find the time and date of their "page hit." You can find out what Google query they used to find your page…and oh, is that not embarrassing and titillating at times. You can sell things across thousands of miles, with confidence, enjoying the benefits of highly advanced peer-reviewed digital signature algorithms. You can do practically anything. You can Facebook. You can open an entry on CraigsList. You can blog. You can tweet. And let's not forget, of course you can "text." You can send audio, video-still and video-motion. You can put out a live feed. You can make it look like Hitler is taking his own picture with an iPhone, or your pet "LolCat" is very sorry he made you a cookie and then eated it.
You can change the outcome of elections. Oh, yes, absolutely you can do that.
So I suppose we should not be surprised to see so many people seizing these instant-broadcast-communication technologies, and giving instructions to their enemies about how to, um, er, ah, survive. TO: N. BONAPARTE FROM: LORD WELLINGTON RE: WATERLOO. You really can't blame them, can you? You can blame the enemies for accepting the advice, and then being surprised to learn it never was in their interests…that does seem pretty stupid. And it is. But the fact is, it works a good portion of the time. "Stick your head in this noose and then jump off the chair, you'll be amazed at the results." Derr, duh, um okay.
This is an ironclad rule: If it works, it doesn't matter if it's silly or tragic. You will be seeing a whole lot more of it, because hey, it worked. No exceptions. So yes, we have a lot of people talking their enemies into committing suicide, and we shouldn't be surprised to see it.
Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes and Rotten Chestnuts.


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The site is intended for anyone who is involved or interested in distance learning (distant learning) or distance education in developing countries. It should be useful to students interested in learning by distance, to teachers interested in teaching by distance, or to people interested in research on distance education in developing countries.
It seeks to show how new ICTs - open educational resources, open source, Web 2.0, blogs, wikis, social networking, social bookmarking and other social software - can be used for online education (e-learning) to conduct classes online in distance courses. Or how such ICTs enable collaborative teaching. It also touches on some of the new ICT harware possibilities for online schools, such as wireless communication.
In particular, it is a resource for students wanting to obtain online training and online degrees, providing advice on a range of programmes. It has advice on studying at an online college or online university, e.g., learning styles, and even includes details of how students can obtain free online learning.
Select your particular interest, viz., student, teacher, researcher, using the tabs above the picture header.
You may also like to visit my other website: Online and Distance Learning
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Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University - a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. It is about students in the developed world with good connectivity, but the lessons are the same as regards the need to create active learning. And we have to stop using poor connectivity as an excuse for not changing things in the developing world.
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Regional economies and communities are facing increasing economic, social and cultural hardship in many parts of the world as economies adjust to the demands of the new orders of the information society.


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Ringer Season 1 Episode 9
Ha ha. I may be in the minority, but I'm pretty entertained when I get punked by a show. Ringer is doing a damn good job. It keeps me guessing all of the time whether or not Bridget is a damn idiot, or if she's actually pretty clever.
There were more likes than dislikes this week, so let's get right to them. First of all, we have a happy, smiling SMG! I couldn't be happier about that; it is about time we get to see her be happy. The fact that she's happy because she's falling for her sister's husband, well, you win some and lose some, right? Is it my imagination, or is Andrew really quite adorable? Also, how much more do you enjoy an episode where there's no Juliet? (Of course, there is/was Henry, so it's kind of a tradeoff). Andrew is unquestionably the sweetest in this scenario, so it hurts my heart to think of where we're now going when he inevitably gets hurt.
Because he will. Because Olivia, who Gemma's four-year-old twins could tell is not just after the company's money doing well but also after Andrew's dick doing well, and in the words of Drake, she's just saying, he could do better. It's tiresome because it's so obvious, but then again, maybe Bridget will be smart enough to worm her way out of it?
I mean, she was smart enough to figure out that Charlie was in fact 'John', though not without the help of relatively-easily-clean Malcolm – oh, and a stunningly succinct psychiatrist. Honestly, if this is how easily people are summed up after what amounts to years in therapy? I should consider just doing this as my resume. Just six bullet points. "Has been known to enjoy puppies."
But aside from highly easily manipulated medical professionals and secret-hitmen-sponsors who, in the space of a few days, change from eminently trustable to so completely annoyed with you that they blow their cover, this is pretty fun.
And Gemma is alive and I told all of you that! Probably the best/worst line in the episode – the one that made me cringe the cringiest - was when he told her she had to buck up and eat her bologna. Bologna! That is just the most horrible thing. You can feed your prisoner whatever the hell you want, but to feed them Bologna is just an insult. (Also, is he taking Gemma to the bathroom?)
I wish we could see what the hell Siobhan is DOING in Paris. For a while she was…boning the new European Attache to Andrew's company? But most of the time she's just standing veryveryclose to a window or a wall, and like, if you're out there, at least eat some pastry! Meet some guy named Antoine! Something other than talk to Suddenly Grumpy Charlie Whose Name Is John!
I'm into this show now, I'm just amused enough to keep going, although Juliet makes my interest fall off hard, so it's a sliding scale. Are you keeping up? Is this fun for you? Is it, if your family is like mine, the series you'll try to get everyone hooked on during the holidays so no actual talking has to go on?
Buck up and eat bologna
Ringer Season 1 Episode 9


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Justin Bieber Sued -- You Stole My Credit Card for Penis Enlargement
Justin Bieber Sued You Stole My Credit Card for Penis Enlargement
Justin Bieber bought himself a penis enlargement with a stolen credit card ... and he's also cheating on his GF with Ke$ha, Rihanna and Penelope Cruz ... this according to a CRAZY new lawsuit filed in court and obtained by TMZ.
Bieber has been sued in Michigan by a man claiming to be Selena Gomez's father -- who makes some of the most insane, and obviously untrue allegations ever documented in court.
Among the highlights:
-- "Bieber has cost me $426.78 and never paid me back. This money was used as abortion money because Justin Bieber got my daughter Selena pregnant in my bedroom, on my canadian bear rug."
-- "Usher Raymond came to my house on the forth of july 2012 and sodomized me with a firework and lit it inside my anal area while blaring kate perry [sic] firework song in my ear drums."
-- "[Bieber] gave selena a std and Bieber stole my credit card to buy him and sean p-ditty [sic] combs cocaine to use in drug free school zones."
-- "Bieber also got a penis enlargement with my stolen american express card. "
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The Million Pound Note1954 Romance | Comedy
Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by Mark Twain. Gregory Peck plays Henry Adams, an impecunious American living by his wits in London. Henry becomes the object of a wager between millionaire brothers Oliver and Roderick Montpelier (Ronald Squire and Wilfred Hyde-White), who want to find out if a man with a million pound note in his bank account could live comfortably for one month on the strength of that note--without ever spending a penny of it. When Henry is given the note and lets it be known that he has it, every courtesy imaginable is extended to him by hoteliers, restauranteurs, etc. Trouble brews when Henry uses the note's reputation to speculate on the stock market. When his creditors demand that he produce the note as an act of faith, Henry is unable to do so, whereupon pandemonium reigns--and the audience's laughter cascades.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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