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The Aust Bicycle Council will contribute to a report going to the Australian Road Rules Maintenance Group
The BTAWA response stems from this proposal:
South Australia recently repealed legislation that mandated certain dimensions for pedal cycles. Repeal of this legislation now means there are no controls over the length, width or height of pedal cycles or the load they carry.
I understand the Western Australia is now the only jurisdiction with legislation that deals with the dimensions of pedal cycles.
The Chief Executive Officer, Department of Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (the Department responsible for the administration of the road traffic legislation in South Australia) raised concerns about the visibility of riders of recumbent cycles.
While there are issues at times with regard to the visibility of riders of upright cycles, this is more about the suitability of the clothing being worn in certain conditions or the lack of appropriate lighting than it is about the cycle being within driver's line of sight.
The issue of recumbent cycles was discussed at the ABC meeting in Darwin in August last year and the minutes show-
17.2 Recumbent Bicycles legality in SA
Riding 3-wheeled recumbent bikes on roads or paths is illegal in South Australia where bicycles are restricted to a maximum width of 700mm. Advice was requested on what other jurisdictions have in place with regard to the legality of recumbent bikes.
Other jurisdictions:
· allow 3-wheeled recumbent bikes to ride on paths and roads i.e. there are no restrictions on the widths of bicycles
· do not legally require specialist visibility clothing to be worn or orange flags to be flown when riding recumbent bikes
· do not provide specific advice regarding specialist visibility clothing to be worn or orange flags to be flown when riding recumbent bikes
· do not have any road safety research specifically related to the road safety performance of recumbent bikes.
On the basis of these minute, no other jurisdiction mandates visible clothing or display of coloured flags.
I have been asked to pursue an amendment to the Australian Road Rules that would mandate the display of an orange flag on recumbent cycles to increase the visibility and safety of the rider and other road users.
I do not know if there definition of recumbent cycles has been developed or where it may be laid down and your advice in this regard would be appreciated.
If there is no definition I would suggest that a recumbent cycle would be one on which the rider assumes a reclining position and the seat is less than 600mm from the ground.
The proposal therefore is to define a recumbent cycle and to require the display of one orange flag at a height not less than 1.5 metres above the ground.
The purpose of this proposal is to enhance the visibility of recumbent cycle riders and to increase their safety.
I would appreciate your comments with regard to this proposal. Any suggestions to improve this proposal would also be appreciated.
The ARRMG meeting is in April but I need to finalise and circulate the proposal paper well in advance. Could I ask for your response no later than Friday 19 March 2010.
Here is the final submission from BTAWA
Submission to the Australian Bicycle Council / Australian Road Rules Maintenance Group regarding perceived visibility of recumbent bicycles and tricycles and other Human Powered Vehicles.
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance of Western Australia has been asked to provide comment on a proposal to increase regulation and legal compliance of human powered vehicles. This proposal appears to be based based on spurious and anecdotal experiential demand, rather than a clear scientific, needs analysis based objective response to an over-representation of recumbent HPV's in vehicle collisions, near collisions, lost time injury, hospitalisations and fatalities.
The Bicycle Transportation Alliance of WA (BTAWA) is Western Australian's largest bicycle advocacy group, with members and affiliate cycling organisations representing over 1000 cyclists. Established in 1993 from many long existing cycling groups, the BTAWA is dedicated to ecological sustainability, achieving public health improvement, advocating for increased and improved cycling transport infrastructure, and promoting everyday cycling.
An amendment is proposed to the Australian Road Rules that would mandate the display of an orange flag on recumbent cycles to increase the visibility and safety of the rider and other road users.
The proposal is to define a recumbent cycle and to require the display of one orange flag at a height not less than 1.5 metres above the ground.
The purpose of this proposal is to enhance the visibility of recumbent cycle riders and to increase their safety.
I would appreciate your comments with regard to this proposal. Any suggestions to improve this proposal would also be appreciated.
The view of the BTAWA is that any amendment to the Australian Road Rules should be based on sound empirical evidence, responding to an identified need, with clear safety outcomes a defined goal. So we would ask the following questions and make comment:
1. The proposal to define recumbents does appear to largely redundant. "Recumbent" can be defined as 'lying down, either prone or supine', any such HPV would therefore require the passenger/engine to assume that position.
2. Exactly what percentage of cyclists do recumbents represent in differing jurisdictions?
3. What needs analysis has been conducted to determine that such changes to legislation, regulation or code of practice are urgently needed, justified or even desirable? Without a comprhensive needs analysis any such move for greater regulation would be precipitate.
4. Has there been any empirical evidence that compulsory addition of an orange flag at a height of no-less than 1.5m above the ground will deliver guaranteed and deliverable safety and health outcomes? Why 1.5m and not 1.3 or 1.8m?
5. Within the totality of vehicle collisions, near-collisions, lost time injury, hospitalisations and fatalities are recumbent riders disproportionately over-represented?
6. Have recumbent riders and recumbent manufacturers' been consulted on this matter?
7. Has any social or cultural analysis been conducted to determine any reduction in cyclist participation rates through compulsory addition of an orange flag? What are the public health outcomes from any possible reduction in participation rates?
8. What benefits are anticipated to result from any such change for 'other road users'?
9. To what extent has overseas experience been sought to avoid us 'reinventing the wheel'?
10. It is very important that any proposed changes to "increase visibility" avoid the massive legal challenges that occurred via the change to Australian Design Rule ADR 19/01 subsequently modified into ADR 19/02 regarding compulsory motorcycle 'lights on'.
It is the view of the BTAWA that issues of visibility should be applied equally to all road users. It is easy to enact changes to small select and easily separated and segregated groups that appear to have little political significance, but much harder to make unpopular changes to larger more politically active groups even when there is clear empirical evidence that such a change would be of benefit to the community (for example slower urban speed limits).
The term 'cyclist' covers everything from a child with trainer wheels, BMX mounted youth, upright shoppers, tourists, vacationers, through to the carbon framed racers wannabes.
The BTAWA acknowledges that there are significant numbers of cyclists in all of these groups who may appear to place themselves at greater risk by wearing inappropriate and less visible options for clothing for the traffic conditions they are negotiating, and more obviously, riding at night with non existent or inadequate lights. This is not a phenomenon that can be overcome through regulation without consultation.
The BTAWA is of the view that rather than create yet more dubiously enforceable legislation, a cycling awareness education campaign would be far more effective coupled with increased expenditure for cycling infrastructure whilst making other less sustainable transport options more expensive - acknowledging the triple bottom-line impact of fossil-fueled transport options on public health and neighbourhood connectivity.
The BTAWA is of the view that such an awareness campaign would emphasis 'rider responsibility' of which being visible to other road users would be a part coupled with strong awareness campaigns for all road users.
The most effective safety feature for cyclists is to have more cyclists cycling everyday, to make cycling ordinary.
The more cyclists there are, the more other road users have an expectation of seeing and negotiating with cyclists. Any statutory change should be viewed from the aspect 'Will this encourage or discourage cycling'? Will this make cycling safer? Is there any basis for this proposed change?'
Any change that discourages cycling must be regarded as undermining their safety. On those grounds and with the complete lack of empirical evidence being presented to justify this proposal, the BTAWA would oppose the amendment.
The BTAWA appreciate being kept appraised of any proposed changes to cycling infrastructure, legislation, regulation or code of practice.
The BTAWA appreciate the opportunity to comment on any such a proposal and look forward to doing so into the future.


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The importance of design
First, heavy reliance on tutorials is bad for creativity. More often than not we end up blindly following the thing without fully understanding the verbose paragraphs describing what we're doing, no matter which big red warning the author has put against this practice. What do we get this way? Many low-level tutorials on the web describe how to create a UNIX clone mainly written in C with a monolithic kernel and a simple console shell. Reminds you of something? That's normal, we already have tons of these around. It's quite sad to spend all this time in OS development only to get yet another UNIX-like kernel with more limited hardware support than the existing ones, in my opinion, though you might think otherwise.
Another reason for not following this approach is that having our head stuck in code makes us short-sighted. There are many pitfalls which can be avoided through some time spent designing our thing before coding. Simple examples : asynchronous I/O and multiprocessing. There's nothing intrinsically hard about supporting those, given sufficient doc on the subject, if you've made the decision to use them early enough and stick with it. It's just a different way of thinking. However, if you started without those and try to add them to your codebase later, the switching process will be quite painful.
Finally, the last reason why I think that design is important even for hobby projects is that their teams are small. Generally one or two developers. This is not necessarily a bad thing : in early stages of an OS project, you generally don't want endless arguments and heaps of code snippets written by different persons in different ways. The obvious drawback, however, is that unless you focus on a limited set of things and try to do these well, you're not going very far. This is why I think at this stage you should be not be writing code already but rather defining what the project's goals are, where you want to go.
Exploring motivations
To begin with, forget that you're targeting a specific computer, and even that you're writing code. You, as a team of 1-2, maybe more human beings, are designing something which will provide some kind of service to other human beings (which may simply be the members of the team). It all begins here. What is this service which you want to provide? When will you be able to say that your project is successful? When will you be able to say that you're not on the right track? To encounter success in a hobby OS project, like in many other kinds of personal projects, the first step is to define it clearly.
So go ahead, take a piece of paper or some other mean of text storage (in my case it was a blog), and explore your motivations. If you're writing an OS because you have some gripe with the existing ones you know of, spend some time finding out what you don't like in them. Try to understand why they are so, explore their evolution in time, read books on the subject if you can find them. Even if it turns out to be a random choice, you've found something : the importance of not doing this part randomly, and to pay particular attention to its design. If you're writing an OS in order to learn something, try to define what you want to learn in more details. Maybe you want to know where the process abstraction comes from? Through which process does one goes from a complex and dumb electrical appliance which does calculations to something which can actually be used by human beings without a high level of qualification?
In all the cases, take as much notes as possible without disturbing your thinking process. There are two reasons for this : first you can review said notes later, second translating thoughts in text forces you to be more rigorous than you would be if you could stick with ideas so vague that they can't even be directly expressed in English (or whatever language you may fluently speak). Try to be as precise as if these notes were to be published and read by other people who are not in your head.
Defining a target audience
After having defined why you're doing this, try to quickly define what your target audience is. An operating system is an interface between hardware, end users, and third-party software developers, so you have to define all three to some extent : what hardware is your operating system supposed to run on? Who is supposed to use it? Who is supposed to write software for it, and what kind of software? You don't have to be overly precise at this stage, but there are some things which you'd like to decide now.
On the hardware side: you should at least know how the users will interact with the hardware (Keyboard? Pointing devices? Which sort of each?), what range of screen areas you wish to cover, how powerful the oldest CPU which you want to target is and how much RAM is guaranteed to be there. You might also want to know right away if your OS requires an internet connection to operate properly, what sorts of mass storage devices you're going to use, and how third-party software (if there is some) will be installed.
Quickly check that the kind of hardware you want to code for is homebrew-friendly. Most desktops and laptops are (with maybe the upcoming ChromeOS notebooks as an exception), video games consoles are a mixed bag (Nintendo's ones often are, others generally aren't), products from Apple and Sony aren't until they are deprecated. A word of warning about cellphones: though they may sound like an attractive platform to code for, their hardware is generally-speaking extremely poorly documented, and you should keep in mind that even when you find one which does allow homebrew OSs to run and has sufficient documentation about it available on the web, the next generation is not guaranteed in any way to offer such comfort at all.
The end user is perhaps the one thing which is hardest to define precisely, except when the developers work only for themselves. You should probably keep around the description of a number of stereotypes representing the kind of people which you want to target. Some examples: "70-year old grandma who has been offered a computer by her grandchildren for Christmas. Never used one. Pay special attention to her sight problems.", "40-year old bearded sysadmin on a company's network. Won't use a computer if it can't be operated in CLI mode with a bash-like syntax. Wants to automate many tasks which are part of his job, think about powerful scripting engines. Needs multi-user support, and a special account to rule them all which only him may access.", "20-year old creative girl who draws things using a pen tablet and various free software. A computer is a tool like every single other for her, it shouldn't get in the way more than a block of paper."
Third-party developers; first thing to note is that if you want them to get interested in your project at some point, you'll first have to attract them as end users anyway. People don't write code for a platform which they wouldn't like to use, except when they are paid for it. On the other hand, devs have a special status in that, to state the obvious, they create software. One of your tasks will hence be to define which kind of software you let them create.
It can range from them writing vital parts of your operating system for you (frequently happens in the world of FOSS desktop operating systems) to every software being written in-house and third-party devs being non-existent (has grown out of fashion these days, except in some categories of embedded devices). Between these extreme situations, there's a wide range of possibilities. Here are a few...
The design/management of OS parts is proprietary, but the spec is disclosed, so that third-party developers are free to implement or re-implement parts of it the way they want
Most of the operating system itself is made in a proprietary and undisclosed fashion, but you're open to third-party drivers and low-level tools (Windows 9x, Mac OS)
Same as above, but you ask that applications needing access to some low-level or otherwise "dangerous" functionality go through some approval or signing process (Recent releases of Windows, Symbian)
You don't tolerate third-party low-level apps and will do everything you can to prevent their very existence, but you offer a native development kit for user applications with generous access to the system APIs
Same as above, but native third-party user apps are considered dangerous and must go through some signing/approval process (iOS)
No native third-party app, everything goes through managed apps which only have restricted access to system capabilities (Android, Windows Phone 7, most feature phones)
With all this information in mind, you should start to have a fairly good idea of where you're heading, and be ready for the next step.
Goals and frontiers
Now that the idea is there, try to put it on paper. Describe what your OS is supposed to achieve, for who, on which hardware, who will code what, and when you'll be able to tell that the project is successful according to its initial goals, that it has reached the 1.0 release, so to speak. By defining the project's goals you define criteria for objectively measuring its success and failure, which will prove to be a very valuable resource later, be it only as a mean to avoid feature bloat and other ways of wasting your very precious development resources.
In the end, look at this global view of the project you have now and ask yourself this simple question : "Do I think I can make it?". If you think you should maybe lower your expectations a little bit, now is the right time, because the later you do it the higher the damage done. Play with all this stuff you have gathered together, polish everything until you have a project you're satisfied with (or maybe drop this idea of writing an OS altogether if you don't feel like it any more), and then you'll be ready for the next step, namely designing your kernel.


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Crowdfunding Projects: It Helps To Let Your Personality Shine Through
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Of course, tons of musicians (and other creators) have jumped on the crowdfunding bandwagon over the past few years, so just seeing "yet another" project isn't newsworthy by itself. But what struck me about Erin's approach was that some of the tier offerings solidified an idea that had been bouncing around in my head lately about these kinds of projects: the ones that work are somehow uniquely personal to the artist in question. Figuring out what goes into the tiers is always something of a challenge, but I think going with purely generic tiers doesn't do much. I've said before that it's important for artists to understand the kind of relationship they have with their fans and build on that, and it appears that Erin does exactly that with her tier options. Some of them are just amusing, like offering her first Spotify check to a backer, or the anti-SOPA petition video she did during the SOPA fight.
But then there are some that seem like they're totally out of left field... and many of them really show off Erin's personality. Things like having her buy some books for you. Or spending an hour fixing your fantasy baseball game. Or actually going to a baseball game or a museum with her. Or, best of all, getting to play a game of wiffle ball with her and some friends (she seems to like baseball).
Now, again, quirky tier options aren't a new idea. We've been writing about them for years, and I know how some of our usual critics will react: with horror at the idea that Erin has to help people with their fantasy baseball teams to get them to support her music. Hell, we heard exactly that criticism three years ago when we highlighted Josh Freese's hilarious tiers, which included things like playing mini-golf with you, or getting lunch at PF Changs, having him wash your car, or giving you a tour of Disney land. To this day, one of our usual critics still brings up the mini-golf example derisively, arguing that if the new business model means musicians have to play mini-golf with their fans to get their support, the new model is a failure.
But that totally misses the point. No one is arguing that playing mini-golf or wiffle ball with your fans is the future of the music business. We're saying it's all about the kind of person you are and how you connect with your fans. That is, what works has to be something that is unique to the artist's personality, and which fits well with the kinds of things that make fans like that artist in the first place. One assumes that Josh chose minigolf and Erin chose baseball/wiffleball not because it was some horrific thing that they didn't like, but precisely the opposite: because those things are fun to them and they wanted to offer up something fun and unique that they could share with their fans as well. And, in both cases, it seems like they're succeeding.
These kinds of offerings help the artist not just make money, but to better connect with their fans by letting their own unique personality shine through. It's that kind of personality that makes people want to support the artists. It's not because they want to play mini-golf or wiffle ball, but that they like supporting the artist in a manner where the artist gets to have fun as well. And that's pretty cool.


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I started the Information Forum because I couldn't find any other major sites where posting guidelines allowed posting about one's own projects. If that were the norm, as it was in the old Usenet days, then the Innovation Forum wouldn't be needed -- and I hope it again becomes the norm and the Innovation Forum is no longer necessary. So many projects in the past benefited from this, such as Linux, Perl, .ZIP files, and so many more. (Those that are not useful get silently ignored.)
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Origin of Toshiba Computer Software Product Line "COPOS and PODIA" for Power-Generation Plant and its induction into the Software Product Line Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
June 14, 2009
Haruo Kawahara,
IEEE Life Fellow(LF-06538995)
Toshiba "Computer Software Product Line" for Power-Generation Plant control and operation has been one of the most successful and the historically earliest large-scale real-time software for industrial plants.
This "Computer Software Product Line" has been inducted into the Software Product Line Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in 2008 (The 12th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC2008)) .
- This "Computer Software Product Line" was named COPOS (Computerized Optimum Plant Operation System) first applied for fossil power plants and PODIA (Plant Operation by Displayed Information and Automation) first applied for nuclear power plants, respectively. Although it was called by a different name for a different type of power-generation plants, a unified standard asset of software has been developed and maintained since late 1970s as a standard product family.
- Later in the part of ' 1. Pre -History' the author will describe the background and necessity to develop the productive method of software manufacturing and to improve the software quality (bug free) in software manufacturing and testing or during power plant commissioning.
- As a main inventor of this "software system" for power plant control and operation, the author describes here the origin of its software development including pre-history, and the original systems concepts, which might be informative as well as useful to the engineers and/or researchers in the other domain of technologies.
Pre-history of COPOS and PODIA
Since 1960s to early 70s at first in USA ambitious plant automation using real-time process computer for fossil power generation plants in order to transfer from manual operation to automatic computer control had been developed to solve the lack of skillful plant operators because it took long time to train them and also the needs for skillful operators had been increasing due to rapid increase of power plants for economic growth.
All of these initial developments in USA, however, failed because the computer hardware and its software performance had been far lower than required.
In Japan, the first introduction of process computer into power plant was that of Takigawa No.2 Unit (75MW) of Hokkaido Electric Co. in 1961. The computer system introduced was manufactured by Toshiba and major functions provided for were scan and alarm, and performance calculations.
As the author with colleagues and customers had seen the above mentioned experiences in USA, they had initiated highly advanced development projects to accumulate the experiences of computer automation from partial scale to full-scale from 1967 jointly with Tokyo, Tohoku and Chubu Electric Power Company as customers and Toshiba as a manufacturer .
In 1968, the first successful DDC (Direct Digital Control) operation of turbine run-up control was realized at Yokohama No.6 Unit (350MW) and the first successful boiler DDC and SSC (Supervisory Control) was realized at Hachinohe No.3 Unit (250MW), which was regarded as partial plant automation.
In high economic growth era, those electric companies had been building more than ten electric power plants in one year in Japan to meet the economic demand.
As enough skillful operators were not always available and therefore the electric power companies came to the conclusion to develop automation system of power plant operation. Majority of these system developments were ordered to Toshiba, since they were playing the leading role for these advanced developments in those days.
The author and colleagues of Toshiba studied the technological experiences of plant automation in the United States and analyzed the reasons of failures of that plant automation. They made all kinds of efforts to develop the method that could realize the required plant automation under the limited performance of then-available process computers.
Customers' needs for comprehensive plant automation, or full-scale plant automation was advocated then to realize such functions as reliable computer operations in stead of operators, optimum plant schedule calculations, easy-to-use human machine interfaces and re-start operation from plant disturbances and the like.
In order to achieve these functions it was really necessary to develop both reliable computer hardware and sophisticated software.
Main memory was typically 32 K words, and auxiliary memory was 160 K words, with no back up system configuration. Reliability and availability of sensors and actuators were also technical issues to be overcome for successful plant automation.
In 1974, COPOS was developed for a fossil power generating plant, Sodegaura No.1 unit (600MW) of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).
This system development was revolutionary in nature from design concept point of view and was patented in Japan (#1063709 applied in 1974), the U.S. (#4328556) and Canada (#1137167).
(1) At first, they developed "event-oriented" concept, which has such a feature that software programs are triggered and executed only when certain plant conditions are fulfilled. The CPU loading was much reduced and saved in this architecture, since the software is executed only when plant changes its status or its conditions like on-off positions of the switches in control room and open-close positions of valves in the fields.
They had noticed that the fundamental algorithms of "action" could be unified by introducing the event-oriented approach. Regardless of the differences of either plant specific information ( i.e. various plant equipments and plant types such as boiler and turbine), judgment, or corresponding operation by plant operators, this information processing could be generalized as an action-chain uniformly in the world of event-oriented software.
By separating the data or database, which varies plant by plant, and the algorithm or application software, which is related to monitoring, judgment and plant operation, plant automation software was then generalized successfully in spite of the differences of plant specifications.
If the contents of above database were expressed in a "Fill-in-the-blanks" format, which can be easily understood without software expertise, plant engineers or even plant operators could describe the automation logic, and thus work split between computer software engineers and plant engineers could be made in parallel. TEPCO engineers had contributed to this innovative leap of concept for intelligent tables in the basic patents of plant automation.
On the other hand, it was getting almost impossible to organize appropriate project teams for Toshiba since more than hundred engineers were necessary for each project in order to develop relevant plant automation software.
In order to solve these difficult issues such as the lack of software engineers and the huge number of software bugs during the projects development, they had put their heart and soul into innovative efforts days and nights without compromise.
One of the key concepts concerning this invention of plant automaton, which was born out of the distress, was to adopt a mainframe off-line computer to manufacture (generate) the plant automation software for the target real-time computer both automatically and in off-line mode.
If those tables, written in domain specific language, were read by the main frame (off-line) computer for software manufacturing and compiled into the automation software for the target real-time computer, then that automation software would be loaded to the target real-time computer and run directly on it.
This invention prepared also for the database and the automation logic algorithm in a table format to display and modify on CRT display with keyboard of the target computer interactively during the stages of software test run in a factory and during the plant field commissioning.
This so called maintenance function eliminates the necessity of program logic-changes nor re-compilation by the main frame (off-line) computer, even if real-time automation software changes were needed. Since this maintenance was so easy and fast that it could eliminate human errors and programming works at plant site, the computer-based plant automation was verified and completed as a mile stone in the power-plant automation history.
(2) The second design concept leap, which was evaluated as a major breakthrough, was realized as a "computer software" system named PODIA which was developed for a nuclear power generating plant, Fukushimadaini No.3 unit (1100MW) of TEPCO in 1982.
After many commercially-based experiences applying COPOS, large-scale system enhancement was made to introduce innovative human-machine interface (HMI) functions. That was to utilize emerging display devices, i.e. color graphic CRTs to their full extents, like conventional instruments.
The development which realized the operation without control panels and bench boards was evaluated as "extraordinary" as a breakthrough. This system development was again patented in Japan (# 964086 applied in 1972).
As a summary statement, the author would like to stress that COPOS and PODIA software product family were so successful to advance the plant automation technology not only applied in the power plant industry in the historically earliest stage but also applied later on in other field of industries.
System Concepts of COPOS and PODIA
The COPOS System:
(1) Unique Decision Table named "Plant Table"
This describes relations among operational actions of plant equipment, parameters to trigger the actions, data for supervising the plant condition, and messages & recorded data, and the like.
This Plant Table is a kind of domain specific table for plant automation. Each operational action has its own triggering information in it and the triggering chain of actions can be edited automatically by trigger link functions. Thus, complex plant operational procedures could be built without any mismatch.
(2) To separate the algorithms from data which are described in Plant Table
An algorithm that interprets this data in Plant Table and initiates an action for operation of plant equipment (e.g. a start of a pump) is described in advance and standardized.
The mechanism of this data made it possible to express the various differences of plant specifications, such as type of power, fossil, hydro, nuclear and etc., as well as those of operational procedures without implementing software codes.
Accordingly, mass customization of plant automation was realized just by preparing these plant specific data in table forms and target real-time computer software generated from the standard asset of software.
(3) Automatic Software Manufacturing (Generation)
Software programs were compiled and generated automatically on a main frame (off-line) computer, using standardized algorithms and the data in Plant Table that have been read in advance: punched cards were used first, then a punched tape, and then OCR (optical character recognition) which made automatic reading possible.
Therefore, the human involvement previously required to write a program and remove its bugs have been basically eliminated, and the productivity of software manufacturing was significantly improved, often by more than hundred times better.
In other words, manpower for software development resource for plant automation was reduced from several hundred people to just a few people who prepared the required plant specific data.
This concept was built-in into the Software Factory of reference (6).
(4) Easy to change data for test and commissioning
To test and adjust the parameters for the plant automation in a manufacturer's factory and during field commissioning, a CRT display was used to show the Plant Table and its data. The data can be changed through the CRT even when the plant is in operation. It is not necessary to change software program in order to change these parameters. Simulation tools were also provided as a part of support software to verify the automation software before actual field testing.
Although the COPOS concept was established more than thirty years ago, it is utilized even today, regardless of the fact that information & control systems have been experiencing such disruptive changes from process and super-mini computers to client-server and distributed real-time embedded systems.
The PODIA System:
(5) An Advanced Displayed Control Room
This system made a major breakthrough by reducing the updating cycle of CRTs from seconds to milliseconds, and replaced the conventional meters and recorders on BTG (Boiler Turbine Generator) control panel boards to a real-time CRT displays, using advanced software technology.
Based on COPOS development, similar approach was adopted to realize most advanced human machine interface systems. Clear separation of data from software algorithms was designed in.
Separation of data from algorithm was further advanced in PODIA system. One class of data was that of fixed-data to define plant structure, while the other class was that of the variable-data to indicate updated process values. Thus, the data volume to process in high frequencies was reduced down to the appropriate level of the system-bus traffic.
The conventional large control panel of a power plant equipped with many meters, switches and recorders in a power plant was replaced by a few displays with touch-sensitive screens.
In case of the failure of conventional instruments due to single component failure, the loss of information is just limited to the related indicator only. All the information, however, will be lost in case of the failure of digital processor due to similar single component failure. So, the function of the redundant system software contributed to the embodiment of the requirements of the PODIA system.
Nowadays an advanced control rooms for any industries including Airplane cockpits are equipped with such displayed systems.
Our invention of PODIA system in early 1970s was really the origin of these modern control rooms.
- Concept of Plant Table in (1) of Section 2 above: Mr. Karashima and Mr. Takeuchi, his supervisor, of Tokyo Electric Company (TEPCO) were the original inventors. Mr. Abe, Mr. Maeomichi of Toshiba cooperated with them.
*Software Concept and Basic Design of COPOS described in (2) to (4) of Section 2 above was invented and designed by Mr. Kawahara of Toshiba. Mr. Kogure and Mr.Minoura of Toshiba developed the computer software program to implement the Basic Design of the Concept.
- Software Concept and Basic Design of PODIA in (5) of Section 2 above was invented and designed by Mr. Kawahara. Mr. Neda developed the computer software program to implement the Basic Design of the Concept.
- After these two revolutionary Concepts and Software of COPOS and PODIA, many related technical concepts were patented by our colleagues including Mr. Kawai et al (reference (7) below) as significant incremental improvements to contribute the completeness of the COPOS and PODIA product family.
- Mr.Kawahara was elected to the grade of Fellow by IEEE in January 1999 for these contributions.
More than 150 systems were delivered to power plants worldwide as shown in http://www.sei.cmu.edu/productlines/plp_hof.html , the Web site of CMU.
(1) T. Nakamoto, H. Kawahara, et al., "Development of 1975 year model computer control system for power generating plant 'COPOS' , Toshiba Review, October 1974.
(2) Y. Kogure, T. Minoura, et al., "New Software System for Power Generation Plant Computer Control (COPOS)", IEEE PICA Conference 1975.
(3) H. Kawahara, T. Neda, "Recent Computerized Power Generation Plant Automation and Advanced Man-Machine Interface System", IFAC 1977.
(4) M. Itho, H. Kawahara, et al., "Application of Process Computer and Color CRT Display in BWR Plant Control Room," IAEA 1982.
(5) K.Fujii, T.Neda, S.Tanaka,O.Suto, Y.Ikeda, and H.Hayakawa," BWR PLANT ADVANCED CENTRAL CONTROL PANEL---PODIA", IEEE Tr. Nuclear Science, Vol. NS-30, No.1, Feb.1983, pp.833-837.
(6) Y. Matsumoto."A Software Factory, An Overall Approach to Software Production," Software Reusability ed. by P. Freeman, IEEE Computer Society, March 1987.
(7) K.Kawai, "Knowledge engineering in power-plant control and operation", Control Engineering Practice 4, 1996.


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Veterans workshop
PRINCETON — American Legion Woman's Auxiliary Unit 125 of Princeton will conduct its monthly veterans workshop at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Legion home; note the new start time. Members are reminded to bring baked goods for the veterans sacks if it is their turn. For workshop information, call VA&R chair Clara Pease at 815-872-0403. To make a monetary donation to the Auxiliary for the veterans work, mail same to Clara Pease, 321 Briar Lane, Princeton, IL 61356. Attn: Veterans.
HCCC luncheon
PRINCETON — The Hampshire Colony Congregational Church Woman's Circle will meet at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at Wise Guys in Princeton for a luncheon and social hour. To confirm attendance, call hostess Judy Topham at 815-872-5052. The Circle will continue its Mission project of "Count Our Blessings" for community disbursement at years end.
Ash Wednesday event
BUREAU — The First Congregational Church of Bureau will hold its Ash Wednesday potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the church's Fellowship Hall at 101 W. Nebraska St. in Bureau. There will be an Ash Wednesday message and communion will be served. Everyone is invited to attend.
Joint worship service
PRINCETON — A joint worship service will be held at the First United Methodist Church in Princeton, 316 S. Church St. at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Members of the First Christian Church, the First Presbyterian Church and the United Methodist Church will participate in worship to mark the beginning of Lent. A light meal will be offered before the service, starting at 6 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
Borrowed items
PRINCETON — The Princeton American Legion is asking those who have borrowed hospital equipment from the Legion to consider returning those items if no longer needed, especially the wheelchairs. Questions may be directed to the Legion by calling 815-872-1171 and leaving a message.


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This will be the first full service snowkite freeride event that provides its athletes with the most comfortable snowkiting experience in what many believe is best location in the world for snowkiting, Alaska! Where passionate snowkiters, kitesurfers, and powder hounds can go to freeride the best spots with everything all planned out for them by seasoned veterans that know the area. It is a trip designed for anyone, from the water kiteboarder trying snow out for the first time to the veteran snow pro that wants to enjoy an epic all inclusive guided snowkiting adventure through Alaska.
Skills required to attend:
Kite skills: intermediate level or greater kite boarding skills (water) or previous snowkite skills
Ski skills: intermediate level or greater skiing and/or snowboarding skills (ski resort);
Snowkite skills: no previous snowkite skills required.
Organizers will be providing a "Get up and get going" clinic for all participants with no previous snowkiting experience and advanced clinics for more experienced participants. Demo kites from Ozone and Cabrinha will be available.
In addition, Athletes are staying the Alyeska Resort where you can take the tram right to the ski slopes from!
See http://www.snowkitejam.com/ for complete info.


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Simple Paper Decorations
Inexpensive or DIY paper banners and decorations are always perfect for sprucing up a party, but they're also a nice way to add some playfulness and color to your walls long after the festivities are over. We loved the paper flags adorning Briana's wall in our tour of her house yesterday and below are a few other paper decoration ideas and resources.
1. Paper flags add color to Briana's Salvaged Sanctuary.
2. Origami boats tied together with string decorate a nautical themed guest room.
3. A string of paper butterflies and inexpensive paper lanterns hang by the windows in Christine's office and bedroom.
4. A playful "mobile" made of cut paper arrows and thread.
5. This garland was designed as a thank you card, but a handmade letter banner could make cheeky wall decor.
6. A garland made from vintage pages of a Dr. Seuss book is available from Etsy seller leJeune for $8, but would also be easy to DIY using any kind of paper for a more grown-up variation of the idea.
7. Mexican cut paper (papel picado) banners are absolutely gorgeous and super-cheap. Available at Casa Bonampak.
8. Pearl River has an amazing selection of paper lanterns and garlands.
(Images 1-5: Sarah Rainwater)


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AUbicycles wrote:I have the contacts though if you purchased overseas, you can forget contacting the Aussie FSA importer SCV Imports as they have no warranty obligations.
i might question that Christopher - they would still have an obligation to supply goods fit for purpose. i don't imagine they can delegate that responsibility. while they may not handle the warranty claim, they must decide whether to continue supplying the component to market.


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Calls to IVR are failing and ICM subsystem is OUT OF SERVICE
From DocWiki
Calls to IVR are failing and ICM subsystem is OUT_OF_SERVICE
|Problem Summary
|Calls to IVR are failing and ICM subsystem is OUT_OF_SERVICE.
|Error Message
|Calls to IVR are failing.
|Possible Cause
| Check if there are any exceptions/errors related to scripts in the logs. Verify that the prompt paths used in the scripts are valid. In an upgrade set up, it could be that the scripts are still using the old windows path which will not work in UCCX 8.0 environment.
Erroneous scripts can result in call failure and ICM subsystem may not come up at all if the prompt path is incorrect.
|Recommended Action
|Correct the VRU script and restart IPIVR Engine. Verify that ICM subsystem is in ACTIVE state in IPIVR.
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Beta Sigma Phi's Phi Master chapter officers; Medicare info session; Fairfield Bridge results; Mother/daughter graduates
Phi Master chapter elects new officers
The Phi Master chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority recently elected officers for the 2013-14 year.
The new officers are: Frances Hinson, president; Rose Wetherington, vice president; Audrey Power, recording secretary; Iris Ginn, treasurer; and Linda Dawson, past president and advisor. Marilynn Bowen, parliamentarian, presented a scrapbook of 2012-13 activities to Linda Dawson in appreciation of her hard work during the year as president of the chapter.
The scrapbook was prepared by Bowen and Hinson.
Medicare help available Monday
A �New to Medicare?� session will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Council on Aging's Skinner Senior Center, 112 E. Blount St.
This informational session will focus on people new to Medicare who recently have turned 65 or who will be turning 65 soon.
The event, open to all, is sponsored by the Seniors� Health Insurance Information Program.
For more information, call 252-527-1545 or 252-527-2191.
Bridge club names winners
The Fairfield Duplicate Bridge Club regular games Sept. 17 and 24.
Sept. 17 winners were: Tempie Pierce and Emily Exum, first place; Edith Cahn and Dayle Pond, second; Nancy Barwick and Joe Goldwasser, third; and Pinkey Harper and Geneva Hood, fourth.
Sept. 24 winners were: Joe Goldwasser and Nancy Barwick, first; Edith Cahn/Dayle Pond and Barbara Sebald/Jane Hood, second-place tie; and Pinkey Harper and Geneva Hood, fourth.
A regular game will be played at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday at Fairfield Center. The club welcomes and encourages all bridge players.
For more club information, call 252-523-6791.
Mother, daughter share celebration
Dorothy W. Gooding and her daughter Dorothy M. Gooding graduated in May with graduate level degrees.
Dorothy W. Gooding received a Master of Divinity from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. She earlier received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from ECU and is assistant nurse manager for 3 East Medical/Renal at Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
Dorothy M. Gooding graduated magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree from Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh. She successfully completed the July 2013 N.C. Bar Examination and was sworn in Thursday in Charlotte to practice law. She is a law clerk to Judge Calvin E. Murphy at the North Carolina Business Court.
Dorothy M. Gooding is the daughter of Dorothy W. and Kenneth Gooding.


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"Jim Morrison" (Apocalypse Now)
"Jim Morrison" (Apocalypse Now)
24 Carat Gold Leaf, Watercolor, Found Object
12" x 12" x 1" inches
© Xany Rudoff Art
*This is a special "Apocalypse Now" Limited Edition *
This original painting by Xany Rudoff is made of 24 Carat Gold Leaf, Water Color, and Found Objects is a portrait of the iconic singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison. Xany Rudoff has taken this piece of rock and roll history and given it a modern day twist: She "iconicizes" the familiar by using the traditional.
Every piece Xany Rudoff creates, she uses the ancient technique of "gilding", a process that was used primarily by the Renaissance and Byzantine Artists of the 15th Century in Religious "Icon" Paintings commisioned by churches and kings. Gilding is the process of adhereing tissue thin pieces of real gold (or silver) called "leafs" to a surface and is considered to be one of the most difficult and time consuming techniques to master. Each leaf of gold must be handled with extreme delicacy, as it will literally disintegrates upon contact if handled incorrectly. Using the utmost care, proper precaution, and precison, the artist handles the gold and adheres it permanently to the prepared surface and then goes through a multitude of processes to burnish, antique, and seal the gold forever.
The art of gilding is considered to be a "lost art" that requires superior craftsmanship and precision, and it is an art form that is so specialized, it is usually passed down from family through family, from one generation to the next, using the very same techniques and "recipes" that have been used since the 15th Century.
Today, there are very few "master" gilders left in the world and Xany Rudoff has taken it upon herself to learn, train, and master this lost art so it can continue to thrive and not become extinct. She uses the exact same formulas,processes,and techniques that all the great artists of the Renaissance and Byzantine era used back in the 15th Century to achieve artwork with nearly identical results and craftsmanship. Each of Xany's paintings are made using only the finest and highest quality of materials, therefore creating artwork of such pristine quality that it will withhold the test of time.
Each piece she creates is hand gilded using either 12 or 18 Carat White Gold, 22 or 24 Carat Gold, Sterling Silver, or Copper Leaf that is carefully and meticulously applied by hand, then hand- burnished to give it a gleaming shine, followed by many hours of careful glazing and antiquing, using either watercolor, acrylic, or oil paint as a medium, and finally, lacquered. Using only the finest and highest quality of materials available, Xany also works closely with genuine Swarovski Crystals that she often uses in her work to accentuate and highlight certain pieces.
Each of Xany's original pieces require many hours of extreme precision and concentration by the artist, as gilding is a very delicate and precise medium that leaves no room for mistakes. Each piece is one of a kind- no two pieces will ever look "exactly" alike as there are too many variables at play to be able to replicate the original painting precisely as each piece is hand gilded and painted by Xany herself.
Xany Rudoff's art is collected by a variety of well known musicians and celebrities, including such notable collector's such as Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, David Lynch, Whoppie Goldberg, Pink (Alecia Moore), Snow Patrol, QOTSA, The Libertines, Kevin McNally, Creation Records Founder Alan McGee,iconic designer Peter Saville, and many others. Xany and her artwork has also been featured in many magazines and newspapers including; The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, NME Magazine, The "Cock No.7" London Art Journal, and many other publications throughout the years.
Xany has also devoted many hours throughout the years to working with charities, most recently participating in the John Varvato's "Stuart House" Benefit for the Rape Foundation of Los Angeles, which helps children who are victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence, where her donated painting of "Keith Richards", was sold and helped be a part of raising more than $1.1 Million Dollars for Stuart House on April 13th, 2014. She has also worked extensively with the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, The MusicCares Foundation, The David Lynch Foundation,The Bill Graham Foundation, and many other charities donating her work to help those less fortunate, as she herself has faced many hardships as well throughout her life.
Xany Rudoff is represented by Drate/Salavetz in New York City.
To see more of Xany Rudoff's work and learn more about her unique artwork, process and life, and to inquire about personal commissions or shows, please visit her website at: www.xanyart.com.
Full Artwork Details
"Jim Morrison" (Apocalypse Now)
24 Carat Gold Leaf, Watercolor, Found Object
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Original Dimensions:
12" x 12" x 1" inches
Xany Rudoff Art
celebrity, rock and roll. album cover art, Gold, Rock music, jim morrison, the doors, painting, drawing, mixed-media, pop, modern, graffiti/street-art


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Hingham native Emily Johnston has come up with a unique way to share her enthusiasm and love for Germany with eighth- through 12th-graders from Hingham, Cohasset, Weymouth, Braintree, other South Shore communities, and all over New England.
Know any teens with the wanderlust?
Hingham native Emily Johnston has come up with a unique way to share her enthusiasm and love for Germany with eighth- through 12th-graders from Hingham, Cohasset, Weymouth, Braintree, other South Shore communities, and all over New England.
Johnston, a 2006 Hingham High School graduate, and her business partner, Anika Dachnowsky of Bielefeld, Germany, believe in the power of international friendship. What better way to express that sentiment than to lead trips this summer for small groups of teenagers to experience the sights, sounds, and tastes of Germany on a personal level?
"Our mission is to increase our students' confidence in themselves and their personal abilities within a fun, safe, supportive, and caring learning environment," Johnston said. "It's all about their getting better acquainted with the German culture and language and gaining an appreciation for them."
Wanderlust Travels, the business Johnston created two years ago, offers three summer camp options for teens — two Introduction to Germany trips (June 29-July 11 and Aug. 3-15) for students interested in getting a taste of the culture and language of Germany and a German Immersion Trip July 13-Aug. 1 for teens with previous German experience who wish to achieve fluency.
Fun while learning
The students are carefully selected for each group based on their age and ability. Johnston and Dachnowsky, both of whom are bilingual, well-traveled, and have classroom teaching backgrounds, accompany the students in small groups. The goal is to provide a firsthand educational and cultural experience while having fun, whether experiencing Germany with German natives in quintessential villages and cities or hiking and camping in Eifel National Park.
"There are also trips to the vibrant cities of Cologne, Bonn, and Aachen, a homestay with a German family, and daily instruction by native speakers," Johnston said. "These aren't the kinds of trips where the tour bus whizzes by the attractions."
Each student's interests are taken into consideration and incorporated into the itinerary whenever possible. "This is their trip," Johnston said. "The kids build a relationship with their group leaders and are able to experience the sites in a more personal way."
Prior to each trip, the leaders get to know the participants ahead of time through Skyping and emailing back and forth. They provide detailed packing lists and helpful links to relevant information, explain what will be different about each trip and what they can be thinking about, what to expect, and the itinerary. They also participate in Google "hang-out" sessions for each group before departure.
There are minimal distractions since no cell phones or other electronic devices are allowed on the trips beyond cameras. "That way the kids can focus on what's immediately in front of them," Johnston said. "We're very excited about this summer's trips and the opportunities for connecting with nature and each other."
While no cell phones are allowed, parents are provided with the telephone numbers of the German families their teens share a three- to four-day homestay with so they can keep in touch and feel connected.
Looking back
Once Wanderlust was established, Johnston started recruiting interested Germans as leaders and teachers and appointed Dachnowsky programs director for the aspects of the business that take place in Germany.
"I was impressed by Emily's enthusiasm and professional knowledge," Dachnowsky said. "I wanted to be part of this endeavor, through which I could continue to enjoy sharing my culture and also learning about the American culture."
She is also looking forward to this summer. "It will be awesome," she said during a recent visit to the United States before heading back to Germany. "I like being part of this cultural exchange and being able to share the country that I love so much with others." Ironically, one of the things Dachnowsky said she will miss the most is the snow.
Their idea has met with enthusiasm among parents and students. "Following a successful dry-run last summer with German students and our other group leaders, we look forward to offering introductory trips this summer," Johnston said.
Among the things she likes most about Germany is the warm reception visitors receive. "They're super-welcoming and inclusive," Johnston said.
She also enjoys the German tradition of having coffee and cake in the afternoon.
A difference Johnston appreciates is that "everything is closed on Sunday so people don't feel they have to work," she recalled. "Everyone goes to church or enjoys time with their families."
By the end of their trip students will have increased their confidence, flexibility, independence, maturity and team-player skills; improved their language abilities and knowledge of the history, culture, and landscape of Germany; and gained an appreciation for Germany through experiential education. They will also know how to read a map.
"The hope is that the kids will continue to foster their German studies, international friendships, and their cross-cultural communication skills and cultural awareness," Johnston said.
Fulbright Scholarship
As background, after graduation from Hamilton College in 2010, Johnston was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany to teach English to high school students. She met Dachnowsky in their dorm hallway upon arriving in Bielefeld, Germany and have been good friends ever since.
As it turns out, Dachnowsky had just finished a semester abroad, and both enjoyed sharing their memories and learning about each other's cultures as well as brainstorming ideas about how to spread their passion for German-American cultural exchange to others.
Johnston remained in Germany for an extra year working for a Universitaet Bielefeld professor.
She has been leading summer camp groups for more than 10 years. She was a Hingham Recreation summer camp counselor from 2002 to 2003 and a rowing coach for youth and adults from 2010 to 2013 at Lincoln Maritime Center at Hingham Harbor.
Johnston led German high school trips to surrounding parts of Germany and to Italy in 2010 to 2011. "These experiences all provided a good foundation for our latest endeavor," she said.
For further information visit WanderlustTravels.org; email email@example.com; or call (339) 200-9785.
You can follow reporter Carol Britton Meyer on Twitter @CMeyerJournal.


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Kim Kardashian distances herself from fake tweet
The reality TV star, who visited the country for the first time in February (13), came under fire after a strange message branding Nigeria "disgusting" popped up online this week (beg25Mar13).
The note was made to look as if it had come from Kardashian's Twitter.com account, but has now been exposed as a fake.
In a series of posts on her real Twitter account, the star writes, "I see there's a photo shopped (sic) tweet floating around, supposedly something I said about Nigeria. That was NOT me, or my feelings. That fake tweet is very disturbing & I would never ever tweet something like that..."
An Internet prankster has since claimed responsibility for the stunt.


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COMS/ Degree programme in English language, literature and translation
Cultural diversity has been identified as one of the major issues of the 21st century on both local and global levels. Referring to a range of cultural phenomena between and within societies and social groups, the concept can be linked to different forms of cultural encounters from peaceful coexistence and multicultural exchange to violent colonial exploitation and the contemporary fear of terrorism. However, cultural diversity does not simply exist; instead, it is narrated and mediated, sociohistorically and politically produced, and mobilised for various ends and goals.
This Studia Generalia lecture series takes a critical look at different realities and discourses of cultural diversity in Anglophone societies. English-language societies around the world exhibit notable ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity due to their long history of colonialism, globalisation and human mobility. The course focuses on various forms of diversity in English-language societies both locally and globally; it offers perspectives on minority languages in the Anglosphere and varieties of English, analyses social identities on personal and collective levels, explores literary and cultural narratives of cross-cultural encounter and the geopolitics of diversity, and examines immigration and anti-diversity discourses.
University lecturer Maarit Piipponen, 050 318 1236


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Our animal print collections are sure to make your packaging stand out. This Zebra frosty bag has folded handle construction with bottom boards. We recommend metallic foil for hot stamping.
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Marc WortmanMarc Wortman is a freelance journalist and the author of The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power (2006) and The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta (2009), both published by PublicAffairs Books. Recipient of Sigma Delta Chi and CASE feature writing awards, Marc has written feature articles on a wide range of subjects for Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Technology Review, and other popular and specialized publications. He is a contributing writer for Start-Up. Along the way, he was also a columnist for the New Haven Register and an editor at the Yale Alumni Magazine. He has spoken to audiences around the country and appeared on CNN, NPR, C-SPAN BookTV, CPTV, GPB, and many other radio and television outlets. Marc was born in St. Louis and grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. Following college at Brown University, he received a doctorate from Princeton University. He lives in New Haven.
- Website http://www.marcwortmanbooks.com
Winter 2013
Levin's legacy endures at the School of Medicine
When Richard C. Levin took office as president of Yale in 1993, the university faced several challenges. Among them...
Spring 2013
Killing Cancer's Seeds
Hope crushed can be a terrible thing. Oncologist Alessandro D. Santin, M.D., sees that despair all too often. Santin,...
Winter 2008
Biotech spinoffs fuel New Haven economy
"Restaurants. Good restaurants." The surge in upscale eateries opening in New Haven, said Jon Soderstrom ...
Spring 2008
How the West was won
The acquisition of the former Bayer HealthCare facility, now known as West Campus, resolves long-standing space needs...
Spring 2007
PET Center opens on Howard Avenue
Despite recent advances in molecular medicine, physicians are still in the dark about many diseases, gleaning clues to...
Spring 2006
The final chapter
Shortly after lunch on a midsummer's day, Charles Slater felt ill. Complaining of indigestion, the 55-year-old...
Autumn 2006
The long war
Born in a war-torn mountain village in the former Yugoslavia, Yossi Schlessinger went on to fight other battles,...
Summer 2005
For stem cell researcher, Connecticut's initiative offers a new avenue for progress
In her Yale laboratory in 2001, Diane S. Krause, M.D., Ph.D., surprised the scientific community with her discovery...
Summer 2004
For doctors, scientists, workshop series is an initiative in translation
Catalin S. Buhimschi, M.D., is just starting out on his research career studying high-risk pregnancies in the...
Spring 2004
Limits on stem cell research may preclude development of key therapies, panelists say
Nobody knows whether stem cells, the body's so-called "master cells" that can differentiate into other cells, will...
Spring 2004
Two alternatives, each a little wrong
With that definition of dilemma in mind, Yale's cadre of bioethicists wade into our mailbag and weigh in on readers'...
Spring 2004
Keeping hope alive for the seriously ill
As a physician caring for seriously ill AIDS and cancer patients, Jerome E. Groopman, M.D., has learned that doctors...
Spring 2004
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Winter 2003
The big move
Relocating 91 laboratories, a magnetic resonance center and the medical school's teaching facilities across Congress...
Winter 2003
A question worth answering: why don't cancer cells die?
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Winter 2003
A building for the 22nd century
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Winter 2003
Of mice and magnets: what's inside the Congress Avenue Building
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Summer 2003
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Summer 2003
A quarter-century of progress
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Autumn 2003
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Autumn 2003
Using genomics to craft a safer pharmacopeia
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Winter 2002
Targeting cancer by subtype
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Spring 2002
Putting evolution to use
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Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
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Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
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Winter 1999
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Spring 1999
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Winter/Spring 1998
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Rox Top Thunder Bay 9-7 to Open Season
The St. Cloud Rox began the 2014 season with a 9-7 win at Thunder Bay Tuesday night. St. Cloud led 7-0 going into the bottom of the 5th inning when Thunder Bay scored 7 runs to tie the game. St. Cloud scored 2 runs in the 7th inning to break the 7-all tie. Eric Loxtercamp went 3-5 with 2 runs scored and 2 RBIs, Clay Ardeeser had 2 hits and 3 RBIs and Harrison Wenson drove in 3 runs for the Rox.
Trevor Charpie thew 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win and Kevin Burgee threw 2 shutout innings to earn the save for St. Cloud. The Rox are 1-0 and will play at Thunder Bay at 10:05am this morning, pregame on AM 1390-the Fan at 9:35.


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Embark on a journey of a life time and explore the city of Machu Picchu - a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. You'll also visit Cusco - capital of the Inca Empire.
Day One Arica to Cusco - Capital of the Inca Empire
Your day starts with a drive to Tacna to board your chartered flight to Cusco where you'll be met and transferred to your hotel. After check in and lunch, you'll have time to rest and adjust to the altitude. In the afternoon drive to Sacsayhuaman Fortress too see this marvel in engineering. You'll also visit the Cusco Cathedral and the religious complex of Coricancha. Enjoy dinner at a local restaurant.
Day Two Cusco to the Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
After breakfast at the hotel, you'll transfer to Ollanta and board the train for a 1 1/2 hour ride to Aguas Calientes and transfer to a minibus for the 25-minute ascent up to Machu Picchu. Your guide will lead you through the awe-inspiring citadel and the many preserved buildings. Today's lunch is at a restaurant. In the late afternoon return by train to Ollanta and transfer to your hotel. Tonight's dinner is at the hotel.
Day Three Cusco to Lima
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel and after check out, transfer to the airport for your flight to Lima and upon arrival, transfer your ship.
Carry-on dimensions are not to exceed 55cm high x 35cm wide x 25cm deep and weigh no more than 8kg. Small, soft bag dimensions not to exceed 20 cm high x 45 cm wide x 35 cm deep.


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Chillpak Hollywood Hour #562
After two weeks of pre-recorded (and absolutely hilarious) episodes, your friends in podcasting are back at it, doing what they do best: Making sense of a world gone wild through insightful, irreverent and inspiring conversation. Dean tells tales of recovery after complete knee reconstruction surgery. Phil tells tales of Fuzz Aldrin's attempted recovery from neurological damage. They preview this week's screening of their film The Lady Killers in San Jose! Then, Dean and Phil roll up their sleeves to tackle the 8th US school shooting of 2018 and what Hollywood can do to affect positive change.
On their most recent shows, Dean and Phil turned their usual "Celebrity Deaths" segment into a bit of a game show. They will be doing more of the same as they celebrate the lives and careers of an actress involved with the Hollywood Ten, an influential gospel singer, the lead singer of The Cranberries, the founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, a young Australian actress, the creator of "WKRP in Cincinnati" and the inspiration for Austin Powers. We are into the 2nd half of what seems likely to be the final season of "The X-Files", even though, it's been quite a good season. The first season of "Star Trek: Discovery" has come to a close and although it was pretty darn bad, there will be a second season. Dean and Phil analyze both these shows and where they fit into the cultural landscape. All that plus a brief discussion about Stanley Tucci's latest directorial effort and the opening salvo in what promises to be a barn-burner of an ongoing argument over the merits of "Twin Peaks: The Return".


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So, you're minding your business (or pleasure) in your tidy Delta Meadowvale hotel room in Mississauga and then, bam! Chaos. Figure skaters everywhere. One man had his cheek cut. He was OK and didn't need any medical attention, but I mean come on. The police were even called.
The craziness was attributed to eight members of Skate Canada who got into a "scuffle at a Toronto-area hotel in what Skate Canada calls an unruly celebration involving figure skaters." Police were called around 5:00 a.m. Sunday morning and nothing good every happens then, especially when figure skaters are involved.
Skate Canada says there was a celebration at the hotel that "got out of hand," and that skaters didn't hush up when hotel staff confronted them over a noise complaint.
Police did not make any arrests. Instead, they just helped the hotel manager get things under control and sent everyone back to their rooms.
h/t Erik
Police break up figure-skater fight at celebration that 'got out of hand' [Globe and Mail]


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Good morning beautiful friends!
Just wanted to share a little something with you today!
I have a bunch of deadlines I'm working on so in true form I decided to distract myself
with something completely new
you know...
cos' I'm supposed to be doing something else ;p
So.... while I was in St Pete staying with the awesome e'Layne Koenigsberg
she showed me how to play with Pic Monkey
an easy peasy photo editor!
So just for fun I'm creating some images using my favourite quotes
and matching them up with my paintings.
don't you think these would make great prints?
well I need to practice a little more. This image is too small....
but this one I'm really happy with.... :)
and then I came across this image, a self portrait taken by my uber talented daughter Santana Verdugo who has a beautiful photographic website here. I'm so proud of her and think that these words are a perfect match for her gorgeous pic!


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spg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 133 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
Need a logo for a Webapplication / Iphone development consulting business. I imagine a logo that combines the strong and stable look of a classic oak style tree with a modern colorful web look/feel. I am ok with making things abstract, but not to iconified.
SpectrumTree.com & SpectrumLeaf.com
"Spectrum" should denote the ability of my business to provide the full spectrum of products and services for web development, iphone development, flash development.
"Tree" should denote that the company is firmly rooted and dependable. We focus on developing web andmobile applications with a clean design and strong architecture.
The logo should denote solid + creative.
I am noticing that the more abstract designs are feeling more right to me, so I have changed the description... no longer does the direction have to use a literal tree or leaf... it can be more abstract.
Also, you can focus on either the tree or leaf idea, although the leaf ideas seem to be doing better than the tree ideas.
- company name "SpectrumTree" should look well when placed to the right of the logo
- logo should have clean enough lines to print well on a small business card (moo.com)
- would like a "daughter" logo for SpectrumLeaf. This logo should be tied to the SpectrumTree logo in color scheme and basic look/feel
- No Gradients. Prefer 4-6 colors.
- Do not want the font for the company name "SpectrumTree" to be overly stylized.
- Use soft colors. Don't want colors to be so bold that they demand all attention
- logos not blocky
- not glossy, not 3d.
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