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Just a short walk away from Bali's stretched out most popular beach and within minutes from the hustling and bustling center of Seminyak, you can stay in your own private haven at Villa Samuan which consists of the 3 bedroom Villa Samuan Siki and the 2 bedroom Villa Samuan Kalih. Depending on the size of your travel party you can choose to stay at one of these equally beautiful retreats or rent it together as one big private paradise.
Adjoined to the living area and the garden, you will find the master bedroom featuring a canopied king size bed along with beautiful carpets, a wooden seating area and two old-style red closets. There is also a dressing room with antique sofa and large wardrobe closets containing a safety deposit and fresh kimonos for you can wear after a relaxing bathing-session in the adjoined bathroom.
The two guest bedrooms are furnished with twin beds that can be joined together to make large king size beds. One room is adjoined to the spa room and the other has a small private garden with stone-carved statue. Both the rooms have televisions with DVD players, wardrobe closets with safety deposits and fresh kimonos ready for you to wear after a relaxing rain-shower in the en-suite bathroom.
In between the two living compounds of Villa Samuan Siki lies a beautiful tropical garden featuring plants, palm trees, green grass, stone-carved statues and a timber deck surrounding the swimming pool. On the veranda you can sit at the round wooden table enjoying your morning espresso or reading a book and for those wishing to catch a nice tropical tan, the garden also offers sunny areas where you can sunbath on one of the wooden sunbeds. Small children can safely play in the green grass as there is a pool fence available.
Villa Samuan Siki features two traditional Balinese pavilions, both have glass sliding doors and windows opening up to the villa's outdoor areas making the spaces bright and airy and inside the rooms are decorated with traditional arts, framed posters drawing attention from art-lovers and a stylish wooden interior design. The villa boasts a dining area along with lounge areas and there is a separate cinema room where you can watch 3D movies on the massive screen or pick a book from the impressive book-closet. There is also a well-equipped spa area on-site for in-house massages or luxurious cream baths. The fully equipped kitchen features an espresso machine and everything you need for making your own food but you can also let the chef-cook prepare you delicious meals in the massive staff-kitchen situated in between the two Samuan villas.
A warm welcome awaits you at Villa Samuan Siki as the well-trained staff will be happy to make your stay memorable and suited to your wishes while respecting your privacy. The villa offers personal butlers on call, trained chef-cooks ready to prepare delicious western or Asian dishes and there is security at night.
Inside the villa's walls you will find tranquillity and peace of mind yet outside you will be finding yourself in the heart of action, perfect for those seeking the best of both worlds. The beach and the famous Ku De Ta beach club is just a 5 minute stroll away while Seminyak offers you an outstanding range of special boutique shops, restaurants, café's and nightclubs , all within walking distance of your front door.
For the last part of our journey, my friends and I stayed at the Villa Samuan, which was by far the best place we'd stayed in Indonesia. Upon arrival we were greeted with a cold beverage by the friendly staff who told us about the history of the villa and showed us around. One of the things I found most astonishing was that the entire villa was spotless (which is hard to find in Indonesia, even in the nicer hotels). The staff was friendly and professional, and always close by to answer any questions or take care of any special requests. The villa was gorgeous and impeccably decorated, making the villa feel cosmopolitan and timeless. The location was in a nice quite neighborhood; The beach was only a short walk away and so was the Seminyak shopping area making it the perfect spot to stay in Seminyak. I would definitely recommend the Villa Samuan to any of my friends traveling to Bali!
Villa Samuan is one of the most magical places I have been to. There are a couple of factors that make Villa Samuan magical, its lovely architecture, its location, but its the staff thats the cherry on top of the cake. The staff makes you feel at home and are wonderfully kind and helpful. It feels like you have been welcomed into a beautiful home with a loving family to go with it. The villa is a lovely place to go to with your loved ones, its a place where you can relax and feel completely isolated from the outside world (even though its in the center of Seminyak, 5 min walk from restaurants, shops, bars and of course beaches). I would recommend everybody that will ever step a foot on Bali to stay in Villa Samuan, even if its only for a night. Me and my friends will hopefully return to Bali and if we do Villa Samuan is on top of our list!! Thank you for the lovely stay, Lotte.
As a frequent visitor to Bali for over the last 10 years Villa Samuan is for sure The Best Place to stay!! For a perfect vacation I highly recommand this stunning villa for a super relaxing vacation. Villa Samuan is a very stylish, spacious villa. Beautifull decorated and has a good balance of traditional Balinese and modern style with great attention to detail. The location is perfect: in a lovely tranquille neighberhood, just 3 minutes walk from the Beach ( KuDeTa) and many nice restaurants and shops are just around the corner. The quality of service makes a stay at Villa Samuan unforgettable; The staff is very friendly, polite and helpfull. Literally everything is taken care of. From the moment we arrived the service was first class. Every morning the staff prepared a lovely breakfast at the time we desired. If we decided to stay in the villa at the pool we were in a totally beautifull private setting and at lunchtime we were pamperred with a perfect lunch and fresh juices. Also it is possible to have your private dinner at the poolside; we really enjoyed eating under the stars!!! Compliments to the cook; We loved the Indonesian food!! But off course every mealchoice was availible; we just had to let them know what our wishes were; everything was possible. Villa Samuan is great to stay with family and friends. It is a perfect place to relax your mind, body and soul. I really enjoyed the prived massage in the villa!! And I loved my cup of fresh tea in the early morning or coming back from a lovely day at the beach. Thank you very, very much for taking care of us with an exceptional service, delicious food and first class villa!! We are looking forward to come back next summer.
The villa is beautiful and in such a great location. Just a walk away to all the fab spots in seminyak. My only complaint about it was that the pool was freezing. It was one of those dark coloured pools and it just did not heat up, so we really didnt use it (and had kids with us who will swim in anything). The staff were good, not as present or as attentive as in other villas, and some people may like that. One manager knew to come and ask in the afternoon if we needed anything and then we all sat in the garden, relaxed and ate and drank. Very comfortable villa. Same breakfast day in and out got a bit tedious but we just went out but if you are looking for a villa with a great chef and team , this i dont think is it. it can be opened in a number of combinations. It was just the freezing pool that was the downside.
Breathtaking is often overused, not here! Stepping into this wonderfull place on earth will litterally make you hold your breath. It is a calming experience and everything you'r looking for in Bali. The well balanced proportions, beautiful interior and fantastic staff will make you want to sell your own home and move in! We where visiting Villa Samuan earlier this year (March), and much more often then I'd like to, I am still thinking about the wonderfull stay we had. The above mentioned interior is fantastic. An open living room leads to the villa pool is great for cooling off after reading your holiday literature in this oasis the owners can call home (we where Lucky enough to meet the owners, the most open & kindhearted people). If you'r done reading, the villa is a short walk from the beach and/or mainstreet. If you'r not the walking kind of person, since it's a holiday the friendly staff will be happy to arrange transportation to suit your needs and do daytrips. To make things 'worse', food and drinks prepared by the pro-active staff are wonderfull. So the only real danger of Villa Samuan is that they should call it Hotel California, "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave".
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Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, Chosin also called Changjin, campaign early in the Korean War, part of the Chinese Second Offensive (November–December 1950) to drive the United Nations out of North Korea. The Chosin Reservoir campaign was directed mainly against the 1st Marine Division of the U.S. X Corps, which had disembarked in eastern North Korea and moved inland in severe winter weather to a mountainous area near the reservoir. The campaign succeeded in forcing the entire X Corps to evacuate to South Korea, but the Chinese did not achieve their particular objective of isolating and destroying the 1st Marine Division. Instead, in a deliberate retrograde movement that has become one of the most-storied exploits in Marine Corps lore, the Marines turned and fought their way down a narrow vulnerable road through several mountain passes and a bridged chasm until they reached transport ships waiting at the coast.
Crossing into North Korea
Following the successful landing of the X Corps at Inch'ŏn in September 1950, the United Nations Command (UNC), under the direction of U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman's administration and the UN General Assembly, pursued the remnants of the communist Korean People's Army into North Korea. On the orders of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of all allied forces in the UNC, the U.S. Eighth Army crossed the 38th parallel (the prewar border) on October 7 and advanced up the western side of the Korean peninsula toward P'yŏngyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. At the same time, MacArthur redeployed the X Corps on amphibious ships around the peninsula to Korea's east coast. The X Corps (commanded by Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond) included the 1st Marine Division (Maj. Gen. Oliver P. ["O.P."] Smith), the 7th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. David G. Barr), and the 3rd Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Robert H. Soule). The corps also had control of the Capital and 3rd divisions of the South Korean I Corps, which was already crossing the 38th parallel on the east coast highway.
What MacArthur did not know was that the Chinese had feared such an offensive since the Inch'ŏn landing. The Chinese began preparations to enter the war by sending supplies and support troops into North Korea. Meanwhile, Chinese combat divisions, some 21 in number but expanding to 33 by December, remained in Manchuria ready to move against the UNC ground forces. On October 18–19, Chinese leader Mao Zedong, after considerable debate, ordered the Chinese People's Volunteers Force (CPVF), under the command of General Peng Dehuai, to move against the Eighth Army, whose lead elements had advanced beyond P'yŏngyang and were marching along two separate routes toward the border with China at the Yalu River.
The Chinese First Offensive of October 25–November 6 staggered the Eighth Army, damaging one American division and four South Korean divisions in the battle of Onjŏng-Unsan. To the east, two American divisions of the X Corps had landed on October 26 and 29, and the South Korean I Corps was heading north up the coast road toward the Sino-Soviet border. The wide separation of these units made them a tempting objective for the Chinese. On November 2–4, the South Koreans and U.S. Marines fought their first engagement against the Chinese at Sudong, inland from the port city of Hŭngnam. There a Marine regiment defeated an attacking division, killing at least 662 Chinese soldiers.
Advancing to Chosin
Underestimating the fighting ability of the CPVF, MacArthur ordered Almond to advance inland with the 1st Marine and 7th Infantry divisions to the Chosin Reservoir. From there the two divisions would move west toward Kanggye, a mountain mining town where the Chinese and North Korean armies seemed to be concentrating—a maneuver that would place the X Corps north of and behind the CPVF armies facing the Eighth Army. MacArthur's scheme required an 88-km (55-mile) advance over a single unpaved road through the heart of the T'aebaek Mountains in freezing weather and blinding snowstorms. Smith told Almond the plan was rash, but Almond, operating directly under MacArthur, ordered the Marines forward.
The X Corps' first objective, the village of Hagaru-ri, rested near the southern tip of the reservoir, a narrow mountain lake that provided hydroelectric power to the mining industries of northern Korea. The lake's proper name is the Changjin Reservoir, but, during Japan's annexation of Korea (1910–45), its name had been changed to Chōsen, the Japanese name for Korea. Through successive translations and hurried mapmaking, the reservoir became known as Chosin and remains so to this day for American veterans of the Korean War. By any name it was a cold barren battleground where deep foxholes could be dug into the frozen earth only with the help of explosives and bulldozers.
With its supplies moving by truck, the 1st Marine Division established battalion-sized bases at Chinhŭng-ni and Kot'o-ri, villages along the Main Supply Route (MSR), the X Corps' name for the road to the reservoir. The division began its final march to the reservoir on November 13, with two of its reinforced regiments, the 7th and 5th Marines, in column and moving cautiously. Each regiment was a regimental combat team with attached artillery battalions, a tank company, engineers, and headquarters and service units. On November 15 lead elements of the 7th Marines reached Hagaru-ri. From there the regiment prepared for its next advance, west of the reservoir to Yudam-ni, 22 km (14 miles) away, while the 5th Marines moved cautiously up the reservoir's right bank.
General Smith, unhappy with this risky deployment, persuaded Almond to allow the Marines to concentrate at Hagaru-ri and replace the eastern force with a unit from the 7th Infantry Division. Almond ordered General Barr to form a regimental combat team of two infantry battalions, an artillery battalion, and other troops. The 31st Infantry Regiment, commanded by Col. Allan D. MacLean and known as Task Force MacLean, numbered 3,200 Americans and Koreans. It replaced the Marines east of the reservoir on November 25. Smith used this operational pause to strengthen the defenses of Hagaru-ri and build a rough airfield for emergency resupply and medical evacuations. A battalion of Marines manned the most vulnerable part of the perimeter, but much of the position had to be manned by noninfantry units. The Marine Corps' investment in making "every Marine a rifleman" would soon pay dividends.
The Chinese strike
As the 1st Marine Division advanced, Peng ordered the uncommitted Ninth Army Group (commanded by General Song Shilun) to leave Manchuria and destroy it. Song's army group (12 divisions in 3 armies) numbered 150,000 soldiers—mostly infantry with mortars and machine guns but not much artillery, since the Chinese lacked guns, shells, and trucks and feared UNC air strikes on road-bound columns. Moreover, the army group had not prepared for winter war. Still, Mao found the X Corps too tempting a target to resist, and the Chinese believed they had found an effective formula for fighting the UNC: stealth, nighttime attacks, ambushes, local surprise, and superiority in numbers. The Ninth Army Group moved into positions on either side of the reservoir with five divisions, and it moved three more divisions to cut the road south of Hagaru-ri and attack Kot'o-ri. Smith, benefiting from aggressive intelligence operations, knew the Chinese had massed around his division, but Almond did not share his alarm.
In the last week of November the Ninth Army Group launched simultaneous division-level attacks on the 1st Marine Division at Yudam-ni, Hagaru-ri, and Kot'o-ri and on Task Force MacLean east of the reservoir. The 7th and 5th Marines, having met major Chinese forces in a daylight attack on November 27, quickly prepared a perimeter defense for night action. The enclaves at Hagaru-ri and Kot'o-ri were even better prepared, though the Hagaru-ri perimeter had too much critical hill terrain to defend with the available troops. Halfway between Yudam-ni and Hagaru-ri, one Marine rifle company defended Tŏktong Pass, where the Chinese 59th Division had placed a major roadblock. Task Force MacLean, meanwhile, was strung out along the east shoreline road in seven different locations.
In three days of intense night battles and daylight probes starting on the night of November 27–28, all of the major Marine positions held, but Task Force MacLean did not. By the time the surviving soldiers (minus their commanding officer, who went missing in action en route and was never recovered) managed to struggle on foot and in small, disorganized groups around the frozen reservoir or directly across the ice to Hagaru-ri, they numbered only 670, and only half of them were fit for duty. The Marine regiments, on the other hand, though reduced by one-third to one-half in their rifle companies, managed to halt or curb the Chinese attacks, aimed at penetrating the perimeters and overrunning artillery positions, the airfield, and command posts. Artillery fire around the clock and air strikes during the day also punished the Chinese. The only real misstep in the defensive battle was a decision by Smith and the 1st Marine Regiment commander, Col. Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller, to send a convoy of tanks and supply trucks from Kot'o-ri to Hagaru-ri on November 29. Task Force Drysdale, commanded by Lieut. Col. Douglas B. Drysdale, 41 Independent Commando, Royal Marines, in addition to service and headquarters troops, included a Marine infantry company, an army infantry company, and Drysdale's British raiding battalion. The task force was ambushed en route. One-third of the force (tanks and infantry) fought through to Hagaru-ri, and another third fought its way back to Kot'o-ri. The remainder (162 officers and men) died or became captives.
Fighting back to the coast
On November 29 Almond, having met with MacArthur in Tokyo, acknowledged that the X Corps could survive only if its dispersed divisions headed for the nearest port. Most headed to Hŭngnam and were evacuated to Wŏnsan—a decision that reflected the Eighth Army's defeats in the west. Moreover, the Truman administration soon discarded the policy of unifying Korea by force, though it still wanted to save the Republic of Korea. Preserving the UNC for this mission (its original one) dictated that the X Corps escape the grasp of the CPVF Ninth Army Group. To achieve this aim, Almond took a worst-case position: the Yudam-ni and Hagaru-ri garrisons would rally at the latter perimeter and then fly out, abandoning the division's heavy weapons, vehicles, and supplies. The rest of the division would march back down the MSR from Kot'o-ri to Hŭngnam. Smith, however, refused to abandon his division's equipment. Instead, he argued that the Yudam-ni–Hagaru-ri movement was the critical one. Once the two groups had united at Hagaru-ri, they could absorb ammunition and replacements by air and evacuate the worst wounded and frozen casualties. At that point the division could turn and fight its way to the coastal plain—"advancing in a different direction," as Smith phrased it. Almond conceded that such a withdrawal by the 1st Marine Division would attract Chinese divisions and thus allow the rest of the X Corps to retreat without real danger.
On December 1 the 1st Marine Division began the movement that eventually took its rear guard inside the perimeter established by the 3rd Infantry Division near Hŭngnam. In the course of this escape, the division rendered three more Chinese divisions ineffective in addition to the four that had already been ruined at Yudam-ni and Hagaru-ri. The Yudam-ni group, the first to move out, did not stop until it reached Hagaru-ri on December 4. The 5th Marines walked the road to protect the vehicle train, while the 7th Marines plodded through the hills to break up Chinese "fire sacks" and relieve the Tŏktong Pass defenders. Their two artillery battalions, meanwhile, moved by bounds to ensure continuous fire support, and Marine and navy fighter-bombers were on call during daylight to strike any suspected ambush. The arrival of the 5th and 7th Marines at Hagaru-ri ensured that the airfield would not be closed by Chinese fire. Marine and air force transports brought in critical ammunition and gasoline and took out 4,500 casualties. The fuel was critical: one Marine artillery battalion lost half its guns north of Hagaru-ri when its tractors ran out of diesel fuel.
The reassembled 1st Marine Division reorganized, tried to eat and sleep in warming tents, and prepared to fight south to the coast. On December 6 the "attack in a different direction" continued, destination Kot'o-ri, 18 km (11 miles) distant. The real challenge was Funchilin Pass below Kot'o-ri, where the Chinese had destroyed a bridge over a chasm. The solution was to assemble a bridge that was air-dropped in sections, enough of which survived to allow vehicles to pass. The Chinese contested the withdrawal at this chokepoint, but the Marines fought through the trap, although the rear guard had to abandon seven tanks. The final potential barrier, another pass to the south, had been cleared by the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, in a nighttime attack in temperatures as low as −34 °C (−30 °F). A battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division stopped two attacks on the final Hŭngnam perimeter on December 3 and 15. By the latter date the 1st Marine Division, its rear guard having reached Hŭngnam on December 11, had been loaded onto their waiting transport ships. Resistance by the Chinese had become almost token, their troops ruined by cold, starvation, and relentless X Corps firepower.
The Chosin Reservoir campaign was a geographic victory for the Chinese, for the X Corps, instead of redeploying to Wŏnsan, was forced to return to South Korea, where it became part of the Eighth Army in January 1951. Nevertheless, the campaign ruined the CPVF Ninth Army Group, which did not return to the front until March 1951, and it convinced the UNC that allied ground troops could defeat Chinese armies, however numerous. The Chinese have remained vague on their losses in the battle, but their own records and UNC estimates put the Ninth Army Group's casualties in the range of 40,000 to 80,000, when one counts combat deaths and wounded plus deaths and incapacity from the cold. The 1st Marine Division lost 4,385 men to combat and 7,338 to the cold. Other X Corps losses amounted to some 6,000 Americans and Koreans.
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These days I'm alarmed at the amount of discarded energy gel sachets I keep seeing when out training. Since when did going for a ride require such technologically advanced nutrition? Those little foil packets seem to be everywhere these days, I have even seen them strewn about my local suburban cycle path. It makes me feel a little bit like this..
You may be interested to know that the crying native American in the commercial was actor Espera Oscar de Corti, who was in fact not a native American at all but the son of Sicilian immigrants, he was however known for his portrayals of native Americans in Hollywood films. His native Italian ancestry was not made public until the end of his life. Damn, TV lied to us again!
As cyclists we need to be extra careful to tread lightly wherever we go. Why?.. Because basically everybody pretty much hates us. I don't want to lapse into stating the obvious (its so boring) but littering really doesn't do us any favours as a group, think of it as another excuse for "motorists" to bleat about how irresponsible cyclists are. Of course we all know that the amount of littering done by cyclists is insignificant when compared to the amount of drink cans, fast food wrappers and cigarette butts tossed away by everyone else. Oh and that lone shoe you keep seeing by the roadside? Its mine, I've been looking all over for it. If you have any sense of responsibility towards your fellow cyclists put that little packet back in your pocket and dispose of it thoughtfully.
"Motorists", I love that term. It sounds so quaint, whenever I hear it I imagine one of those vintage cars being driven by a gentleman wearing an overcoat and airmen's goggles. Or perhaps a villainous scoundrel and his henchman as can be seen in the rendering below.
I might also add that we need to be extra careful with our litter when racing, all it takes is an angry resident to complain about our roadside refuse and before you know it another permit for a racing circuit is revoked by the officialdom. Just like dangerous riding on the road or running red lights its always just a few bad eggs misbehaving. Of course the problem is we all get tarred with the same brush, so lets start helping ourselves by trying to do the right thing. End of tiresome rant.
Energy gels are great because they allow you to get a quick hit of fuel in a few seconds instead of fumbling around with wrappers and choking on inhaled pieces of food as you struggle with the speed of the peloton, I know, I've been there too. For this reason I totally recommend energy gels for racing, but for training? They are convenient yes but personally I think its overkill to use them while training when you are probably better off just eating real food.
In our modern world we are exposed to all sorts of nasties on a daily basis whether they are in the air we breathe, the water we drink or even what we wear or put on our skin. I don't want to sound alarmist but chemicals are everywhere and we should be trying to minimise our exposure to them when we can. What does all of this have to do with energy gels? It's all in the ingredients…
I have done some basic research into some of the ingredients listed on the back of a popular energy gel I just happened to have at home. Chemical cocktail anyone?
Potassium Chloride (KCI): Found naturally in the human body and vital for functions including the beating of your heart, used in food processing as an alternative to salt. Too much of the stuff can cause side effects such as irregular heartbeat, stomach pain and my favorite, weak or heavy legs (just what every cyclist wants). Of course its only used in small quantities in your energy gel but how much are you getting from other sources? You may also be interested to know that it is also used as fertiliser and is the same deadly substance used to administer lethal injection. Fun! Don't be too afraid, almost any substance can be lethal in a high enough dose.
Potassium Sorbate (202): Commonly used in food processing to curb the production of yeasts and mould in cheese, yogurt, dried meats and sometimes wine. Not really considered to be too much of a problem unless you have an allergic reaction but in large quantities can cause nausea, diarrhoea and in an ironic twist, nutrient loss in food (just what every cyclist wants).
Sodium Benzoate (211): Naturally occurring in some fruits but chemically manufactured for use in food processing, used as an ingredient in many foods and soft drinks because it works very well at killing bacteria, yeast and fungi. Recent scientific research has shown that this stuff can actually damage DNA which may lead to neuro-degenerative diseases. I suppose its logical that if it can destroy yeast cells then in can at least damage human cells. Boffins have also discovered that the chemical reaction between sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid (300), also known as vitamin C, creates benzene which happens to be a known carcinogen. Nice! Some energy gels combine the two but you should also consider if you are taking vitamins as well as consuming sodium benzoate from other sources. Recently banned in the UK.
I never really looked at the ingredients of the food I consume too closely as I assumed that I have always eaten pretty well and avoided processed foods where I could, but after having just a little look into the potential problems with food additives I will definitely be switching the brand of my energy gel and pay more attention to the labels of the food and drink I consume.
Oh and don't get me started on the phthalates which might be leaching out of your bidon as you have been reading this. As if going for a ride wasn't already dangerous enough.
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Assessment Tools for Health Information websites: Using comparison of NHS Direct and MedlinePlus for health information about heart failure as an example
Health Information in western world is constantly increasing but there is a constant need for assessment of this information. Two tools developed to assess this information using heart failure as an example, and information assessed and compared for NHS Direct and MedlinePlus. Unfortunately, the state of health information in developing countries is poor and there is complete lack of information for common person especially in the local languages. There is lot to learn from the contents, presentation, and working of NHS Direct and MedlinePlus as an example.
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Humanity professor: An interview with Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier offers a simple summary of the purpose of the small community he began in 1964: "The secret of L'Arche is relationship: meeting people heart to heart; listening to people with their pain, their joy, their hope, their history."
Harder to describe are the profound effects of life together on L'Arche's members, both the developmentally disabled "core members" and the "assistants" who care for their needs.
From a single house in France, L'Arche (French for "The Ark") has grown to more than 130 communities throughout the world, including 15 in the United States. From its original Roman Catholic foundation, L'Arche has expanded to include Protestant and Orthodox Christians, and is beginning to reach beyond Christianity. When groups ask for the "formula" that would allow them to reproduce L'Arche, Vanier offers a simple answer. "It's really around friendship and taking chances and believing in very simple things."
Jean Vanier was born in Canada in 1928. After serving in the British and Canadian navies, he earned a doctorate in philosophy from the Institut Catholique in Paris. He lives in Trosly Breuil, France, where he founded L'Arche with Father Thomas Philippe in 1964.
How did you first get involved with people with disabilities?
Really the story goes back to World War II and my joining the British Navy at age 13. After eight years I decided to leave the Navy not knowing what I was going to do except that I wanted to follow Jesus.
I moved to a community next to the Dominican House of Studies in France in 1950, where I pursued a doctorate in philosophy, which I later taught for some time. It was there that I met Father Thomas Philippe. I knew in some way that he was a presence of God for me.
In 1963 Father Thomas was chaplain of a small institution of people with disabilities in the village of Trosly Breuil, and he suggested I come there because, in order to understand human beings and society, he said, you have to understand and be in contact with those who are the most rejected. I was a little bit nervous, but I went. The institution housed about 30 people with disabilities, men from the age of 16 to 40.
How did you react?
I was shocked and amazed. It was a small institution, but quite intense. Every one of the residents was hungry to enter into a relationship with me. My philosophy students had wanted my head, but these people wanted my heart. It was a cry for relationship.
It was also a discovery of two worlds: the world of comfortable people, who were able to make choices, and uncomfortable people, who had no choices. So I started visiting the psychiatric hospitals in that part of France, listening to people.
But I really wanted to be close to Father Thomas, so I decided to stay in Trosly Breuil but also to live with two or three people with disabilities. I got a dilapidated old house with no electricity.
How did you choose the people that you first began living with?
I didn't really choose. I got close to the director of an institution for people with disabilities, and she said I could have three of her residents. Looking back, it was a difficult place; the institution housed 80 people and was overflowing.
One, Raphael, had had meningitis. He couldn't speak very much. Another, Philippe, had had encephalitis, one leg paralyzed, one arm paralyzed. He spoke too much. There was a third one, Danny, whom I should never have accepted and actually only stayed a day because he was unable to hear or see, and he had a deep psychosis. As soon as he left the institution, he became quite upset. And so the first night, I had Raphael and Philippe and this guy who was completely terrified. So I had to call the institution and say, "Come back quickly." That's how it began.
What did you learn from the relationship with Raphael and Philippe, and how did that set you on your path?
First of all, I was happy, and Raphael and Philippe were happy to be out of the institution. They brought out the child within me. I'd been serious, a teacher, and prayerful. But they brought out my desire to goof around. Because with people with disabilities, you don't talk philosophy, you play.
The goal was creating a relationship. But they had to get to know me, and I had to get to know them. It was a gradual discovery of this incredibly beautiful capacity to relate. Raphael and Philippe had never been appreciated or seen as valuable. For me, it was the whole discovery of the broken heart, the wounded heart.
Did L'Arche grow quickly?
All sorts of things started happening. First a psychiatrist asked if we could take in somebody who had no place to go. Soon there was another house in the village that we could buy. In August of 1964 we had moved up to four or five people. Then, in March of 1965, the whole staff of the institution where Father Thomas was chaplain left-it then had 32 people-and I was asked to take it over.
People started coming to help, but it was never enough. So those years were difficult.
What was the key in creating relationships with people with disabilities?
It took time for me to realize that what was important was really listening to their needs and hopes. It was a gradual shift for me to listen and to create a community structure where we listen to each other.
Fortunately I'm somebody who can go with the flow. Assistants who had more experience than I had in working with people with disabilities would say, "You shouldn't do this and you shouldn't do that." I discovered I could do nothing by myself. We could only do something together.
So the keys to breaking down barriers were listening, evaluating, discerning. It was a gradual formation in myself and a transformation. I had to move from generosity to communion.
What's wrong with generosity?
Well, with generosity you always have power. You have money and opportunity. I always had power through teaching. But communion is about losing power and becoming a friend to someone. I was trying to move from generosity to personal encounter. And that implies listening and understanding.
But that move requires me to be vulnerable. To move from personal encounter to a friendship and then to a commitment-little by little there is a loss of power. I discovered that it's vital that people be welcomed and discover a place of belonging. We belong to each other. But this realization came gradually.
I think my strength was that I didn't quite know what I was doing. When you don't know what you're doing you sort of follow the music. You go with the flow. People come. Some stay. Some go on. People are being transformed.
Yet through all that, a plan evolved. I believe it's a miracle. I never wanted to start a movement. I just wanted to be close to Father Thomas and to live with two or three people. Today we have 131 L'Arche communities and about 10 on the drawing board.
What do you think drives that growth? Why is L'Arche so attractive?
I think there is a gradual realization that it's the people with disabilities who are changing the rest of us. I had dinner last night at our community in Chicago, and there was a presence of God in that gathering, a gentleness, a peacefulness, a kindness. This is a little place in the kingdom of God. There's joy. There's happiness. There's prayerfulness.
St. Paul in his First Letter to the Corinthians says that those parts of the body that are the weakest and the least presentable are necessary to the body and should be honored. I never read an ecclesiology that says we need people with disabilities to be the church. But the church cannot be church if parts of the body are separate. And all the parts of the body are necessary; the body cannot exist without those parts. So there's a whole new understanding of church connected to our communities.
At the same time, we are not fighting a cause, though there is a sense that, through L'Arche, something has been given to us that is for the whole church. And when I say the whole church, rather than just the Catholic Church, it's because Protestant and Orthodox Christians are involved as well. It may be for the whole world as well, as I see a new start welcoming Muslims.
We have learned how we are transformed by weakness. But we are in a culture that believes we are transformed by power. And the tension between weakness and power is in us all.
What prevents the church from placing people with disabilities at its center?
It's always difficult to pinpoint things. When a PBS crew came to L'Arche to do a report, they said, "We've never seen anything like this before." You can go into a church and not have that experience of joy and belonging.
Jesus was credible because he did things. What is being done today that makes the Catholic Church or Christians credible?
The whole question is transformation. Somehow L'Arche has moved from a place of justice for people with disabilities to being a place of the kingdom where people are transformed because of people with disabilities.
In one of our homes we have very severely disabled people. Most people think there's no relationship possible with people in that condition. And then young assistants come and they are transformed precisely because of this relationship. But they begin sensing the conflict with culture.
What is the conflict?
The culture of the United States is a culture of success and of power and of upward mobility. You can see this even in the church in that it's seen as a "promotion" to be named a cardinal. I see it as a demotion! I mean, who would ever want to be a cardinal?
What is important is to find places where you can rejoice and sing and be happy, be as human as possible.
But even the notion of community has been broken now. There are very few places in the world today where people are working with each other, struggling together, and loving each other. I saw it in Washington, D.C. in an African American church where I sensed that people loved one another. I've seen it in evangelical communities in France, where people would say, "I just visited this guy in our community who was in prison." You sensed people loved one another.
The Catholic Church has insisted on the sacramental reality, but sometimes we've missed the relationship between communion with Jesus and communion in a group. In our culture we're frightened of being in relationships. We're too fearful. Yet Jesus is telling us that we are strengthened by the love we have for one another. We can't be frightened of meeting people who are different.
Instead we create walls. In the United States, in all countries, the whole focus is on security. And the stranger is a potential danger. Immigrants are a potential danger. Nobody knows quite what to do.
Can you talk more about the Catholic roots of L'Arche and how it has grown beyond Roman Catholicism?
We were certainly born on Catholic soil. What I call the elements of the Catholic Church-the Word, the Eucharist, the priest-are fundamental to L'Arche. There is also a vision in Catholicism, an anthropology of the gospels, of how the weak transform the strong.
But L'Arche quickly grew to include Anglicans as well. Now we say every community should try to define its religious affiliation. Our local community is a Catholic community. When we are in Calcutta, community members are Hindus, and now we have grown so that we may even found communities with Muslims and Muslim people with disabilities. How will that be? We don't know. But people come to our community not because they are Catholic but because they are in pain. The passport in the community is suffering.
But we'll try to discern and to understand, and that's why we need help from theologians and anthropologists. I think we need help because we can't do it on our own. But it's always about how the weak are transforming us.
It's said Pope John Paul II was a fan of L'Arche.
The first time I saw John Paul, in 1985, he was in good health and he asked me to speak about L'Arche. I told him about Eric, who was blind and deaf, and how Eric had changed my life. Afterwards I heard that he told someone he hadn't understood what I was trying to get at.
But he really did understand at the end of his life, because he was a visible sign of the presence of God through his weakness. In the last images that were taken of him at the east window of St. Peter's, just shortly before he died, he is there with his mouth open, trying to get words out, really embodying the reality of Jesus on the cross. I think his weakness was giving a message to the world.
I was asked to comment on the rosary when John Paul came to Lourdes two years ago. I was just ahead of his "pope-mobile," walking ahead to each of the five stations. One of the mysteries was about announcing Jesus to the poor. And I was looking at the pope, and I said, "Our pope is now among the poorest. But because he's the poorest, he's a sign of the glory of God, and God is working through his body."
What kind of God is revealed in such weakness?
Ettie Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who died in Auschwitz, was one of the great prophets of the sense of God's presence. She said it isn't we who need God; it's God who needs us.
It's a whole new vision of who God is, a vision of the littleness of God, the weakness of God. God is the most excluded one. Nobody wants God. Oh, yes, we'll always talk about the God of power who is on our side. But a vulnerable God, a fragile God, a God who weeps?
I get irritated when people tell me we're doing good work. I don't want to do good work. It doesn't interest me. What interests me are places in the kingdom that can reveal who God is.
How have these many years of living with people with disabilities affected you personally?
I remember one guy with very severe disabilities who had lived with his mother for 30 years. She got sick and he couldn't live with her anymore, so he was put in a hospital. In the hospital he screamed and screamed and screamed.
His scream awoke my scream. His anguish awoke my anguish. When I would give him a bath, he was so open and completely relaxed. But once out of the bath, the tension in his body would return, and he would scream and scream. We decided not to give him medication to stop his screaming because it was a natural reaction to pain. And if you break the natural reaction to pain, he'll have other reactions that will be more dangerous. So it was important that he scream. But that scream put me face to face with the reality of my own anguish and my own fear.
We just had a meeting in France for fathers of people with disabilities, and we could never have believed what happened. Fathers began speaking for the first time about their anger about having a child with disabilities. Up until then, it had been Mom's problem. Fathers sink themselves into work, come home late, and never really accept the reality. But they suddenly started opening up because we gave them the opportunity to speak about their own pain.
People with disabilities reveal to us our own disabilities if we enter into this vulnerable relationship with them. I have experienced my own barriers, my own fears. But I also know that I'm on the road to healing. Maybe healing is knowing where your own pain is.
This article appeared in the August 2006 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 71, No. 8, pages 18-23).


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September 15, 2012
By Shawn At Parenting
During my tenure at Babytalk and Parenting, I have interviewed pediatricians, OB-GYNs, couples and family counselors, child psychiatrists, neonatal nurses, teachers, EMTs, nutritionists, sex experts, celebrities, and everyday moms and dads. In those interviews, I've asked them for advice, often about fatherhood. A month ago, I set a goal: Revisit every story I've written, and distill every good piece of advice into a simple, bite-size nugget.
Introducing Dadvice, a collection of 90 tips and tricks, do's and don'ts, try-this's and skip-that's, for every stage of fatherhood. It's the most complete, most comprehensive list available anywhere. Print it. Bookmark it. Share it. Tweet it.
1. You will be the second person to know that you're having a baby. If she has a BFF, possibly the third. If you're not really a couple, possibly the fourth.
2. A dad is born nine months before a baby is born. The job starts when the pregnancy test displays a plus sign.
3. Cream cheese and cottage cheese are okay for pregnant women. Brie and feta are not.
4. A guy smarter than you just told your pregnant wife she looks beautiful. For the second time. Don't get complacent.
5. Ask your doctor about circumcision before making a decision.
6. Learn how to make a good mocktail.
7. Handle the litter box. Kitty litter is toxic to pregnant women.
8. Keep the gas tank at least half full during the last week of pregnancy.
9. Find a good take-out restaurant near the hospital.
10. Be grateful that your baby is the 19 billionth child to be born in human history. Because I assure you, number 3,605,000 didn't go as smoothly.
11. Take more days that you're given for paternity leave. Your company won't fight it. It's bad PR for them.
12. Buy a newspaper the day he's born.
13. Cutting the umbilical cord: Meh.
14. Wash your hands.
15. The "dad bed" in the hospital room is more comfortable than you'd think.
16. Take every blanket, pacifier and formula packet they give you at the hospital. You paid for it.
17. Your baby's first poop will resemble crude oil. Don't freak out.
18. Imagine being hired as a pilot with no training. "Here's the cockpit. Good luck getting to Houston." That's what it's like coming home with a newborn. And it's like that for everyone.
19. The OB-GYN and pediatrician know as much about raising a great kid as you do. Don't doubt yourself.
20. Stir, don't shake, the bottle when mixing formula.
21. For poop stains, sunlight acts like Shout spray.
22. Newborns don't blink. Don't freak out.
23. Her family will say she looks like one of their relatives. Your family will say she looks like one of your relatives. Get used to it.
24. Don't attempt sex until four to six weeks after delivery day.
25. Meat tenderizer works on breast milk stains.
26. When you're sponge-bathing the baby, don't forget the folds.
27. A diaper bag is a bag with diapers in it. You don't need to buy something new.
28. If you own a backpack, you own a diaper bag.
29. Cargo shorts are a diaper bag you can wear.
30. Go big on Mother's Day. Every year.
31. When the sex starts up again, use lube.
32. Aromatic candles and chewing gum will keep you awake at work.
33. Have your partner leave you a voicemail of the baby screaming. Save it. Play it for friends or co-workers when in need of a good excuse.
34. Your kid's hiccups bother you more than it does them.
35. If your baby is formula-fed, that means you take a night shift too.
36. Diapers are great for buffing cars.
37. Talk to your baby. A lot. Narrate your day.
38. If your stroller doesn't have a cup holder, get one. It's easier to coordinate a moon landing that steer a stroller with one hand.
39. Pedialyte cures a hangover.
40. When it comes to making a decision, don't give Mom a bunch of options and leave it to her to decide. She'll start resenting your inability to take charge.
41. Travel with an extra set of clothes. Both for you and the kid.
42. Baby crying? Hold him against your chest facing out, and do knee bends. Works every time.
43. Say your sorry the same day you make the mistake.
44. A kid's childhood does not need to be luxurious perfection. Aim for pleasurable survival.
45. When in doubt, Swiffer.
46. A phone is also a baby monitor: Call your partner. Place your phone on the nursery nightstand. Put your partner's phone on speaker. Enjoy your evening.
47. If you act dramatic when they take a spill, they will start crying. If you clap and cheer, they won't.
48. When it comes to raising children, your grandparents' philosophical advice will be spot-on. Their medical advice will be terrible.
49. Schedule a date night at least once a month.
50. Goldfish crumbs glow like a radiation leak. Cheerios, a discreet, neutral tan, are your go-to snack for car rides.
51. Side with your partner more often than with your mother. You don't live with your mother.
52. Don't stop believin'.
53. When a toddler starts walking, he'll be attracted to things at his level, like electrical outlets. Babyproof before that happens.
54. If you let your kid play with the iPhone, put it on "airplane mode."
55. Buy a duplicate of his attachment object (stuffed animal, blanket, etc.) online. You'll need it sooner than later.
56. Speak up at doctor's appointments. The pediatrician doesn't know your child like you do.
57. They're not repeatedly asking "why" because they're curious, but because they're hoping you'll change your mind.
58. Don't give them snacks before dinner, and when it is time to eat, serve them the veggies first.
59. The words you'll use the most are "no" and "don't." Think of less negative ways to make your point.
60. Warning: You will eat every chicken nugget and French frie they don't finish.
61. Don't get frustrated when your kid can't make up his mind. You gave him three options for breakfast. When there's one option, there's one option.
62. Wash your hands.
63. Nail polish remover removes grass stains.
64. Point your arm out like you're walking like an Egyptian. Put your other arm against it to create an "X," and spread your fingers. You just made a swan shadow puppet.
65. Spending time with your kid is not called babysitting.
66. Washable markers only.
67. Don't get upset when your 4-year-old says "stupid." He doesn't mean it like you mean it.
68. A gumball machine is a great way to teach your child about primary colors and wasteful spending.
69. If your child is colorblind, give him Oreos.
70. Tell your partner "thank you." A lot. And let your children hear you say it.
71. Marriage isn't necessary, but it will make the school admissions process easier.
72. Glue is edible. Technically.
73. A zoo is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of life without parole.
74. Two dollars for a lost tooth.
75. There is a big difference between asking your child "What did you like most about the museum?" and "You liked the museum, didn't you?"
76. You will be in charge of the plunger. Get used to it.
77. Don't call your son "bro," but "dude" is okay.
78. Keep the Halloween candy out of reach.
79. If you ask your child who broke the lamp, and she answers you while dancing, she's telling the truth.
80. Your kid is not a little you. He's a little him.
81. On the first day of school, ask the teacher what supplies she still needs. Buy them.
82. If they forget their lunch at home, don't pick up a Happy Meal and deliver it to them at school. They will conspicuously start forgetting their lunch on a regular basis.
83. Learn to grill. Everything will assume you know how, so be ready.
84. Sending them to their room for punishment is a waste a time. Pick a spot with no entertainment value.
85. Dark chocolate works as well as an over-the-counter cough suppressant.
86. Don't let them wear flip-flops on the playground.
87. The "stranger danger" talk will kinda freak them out, but you need to do it anyway.
88. If he's interested in playing sports, try a team sport first.
89. Wash your hands.
90. The problem with being a father is once you're really, really good at it, you're unemployed.
Did I miss anything? Is there a piece of dadvice you think needs to be added to the list?
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Published January 13, 2015
Roberto Hernandez worked an effective 8 2/3 innings, while Kelly Johnson and Yunel Escobar each added a RBI as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Miami Marlins, 3-1, in the first of a two-game interleague set.
Hernandez (3-5) scattered three hits and one unearned run while striking out five without issuing a walk to win his first game on the road this season.
"He wasn't overthrowing, wasn't trying to do too much," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "The ball had great movement. He had great command of his slider, which he used at the right times, and a good changeup to boot."
Fernando Rodney, who has been inconsistent throughout the year, came in for the final out to pick up his 10th save of the year.
The Marlins continue to struggle and dropped their eighth straight game, a season high.
Tom Koehler (0-3) pitched well despite being handed the loss. He allowed three runs on seven hits while fanning four over eight frames.
The Rays fourth consecutive win puts them a season-best four games above the .500 mark.
The Rays got all the offense they needed to win the game in the first inning. They started the game off with three straight hits, a Ben Zobrist single to left-center followed by a Matt Joyce double. Kelly then hit a single to right.
Evan Longoria grounded into a double play to bring home a run and give the Rays a 2-0 lead.
"It's always tough when you give up a couple of runs in the first," Koehler said. "When you give up that second run it really puts your team in a hole. Every at-bat becomes a battle for them from the beginning, and that can't happen."
The Marlins scored their lone run of the game in the first on a throwing error by Joyce, who tried to throw out Chris Coghlan advancing to third on a fly ball. The throw to third, though, went into the crowd.
Escobar tacked on another run in the seventh with a sacrifice fly to plate James Loney, who had doubled.
Rodney, with a runner on first and two outs, need only two pitches in the ninth to secure the victory when Derek Dietrich lined out to right field.
Game Notes
In the month of May, Johnson ranks second in the majors with 26 RBI, trailing only Detroit's Miguel Cabrera (31) ... Marlins outfielder Marcell Ozuna extended his hitting streak to 14 games with an infield single in the fourth inning, which is the longest active streak in the majors ... The Marlins designated infielder Nick Green for assignment.


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This proceeding is available on CD-ROM
- Location:
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Coordinators:
- Greg Jones, WD5IVD
- Paul Rinaldo, W4RI
- Steve Stroh, N8GNJ
- Steve Ford, WB8IMY
- Paul Rinaldo, W4RI
- Hosted by:
- Amateur Radio Research and Development Corp. (AMRAD)
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16th ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference
October 11th, 1997
- Amateur Radio and the Linux Operating System
by John Bandy, W0UT
- Information: This paper is about moving from MS Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS to MIT X Window and Linux 1.2.13. These operating systems run on the author's PC Intel chips supporting amateur radio applications. This paper will be a comparison based on experience of the two mentioned operating systems. Also are lists of ham radio application software, journals, books, and Internet Sites available for Linux.
- Amateur Radio on Manned Space Vehicles: Improving Amateur Radio's Future Through Enhanced Space Frequencies
by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO
- Abstract: Since 1982, Amateur Radio has had frequent or continuous presence on space vehicles with astronauts and cosmonauts on-board. To date, tens of thousands of amateur radio operators and their guests have communicated with astronauts and cosmonauts in space. Despite the outstanding success of this facet of amateur radio, it has been plagued with a significant problem -- many parts of the world, including most of the U.S., cannot reliably receive the 2 meter signals from the spaceborne crew members due to severe frequency interference. This problem is even worse for our amateur radio colleagues in space. This paper intends to describe the problem that astronauts and cosmonauts in space and terrestrial amateur radio operators endure to achieve contact success. This paper also provides some high-level recommendations to relieve this problem in the future.
- An AMSAT Mobile TRAKNET
by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR
- Conclusion: With the advent of the handheld GPS unit for under $199 has brought thousands of mobile amateur radio operators into the world of mobile data. For years, the growth of amateur GPS applications have been growing at phenomenal rates. At this writing there are mobile map packages available which include the GPS unit for under $150 total! Similarly, the state-of-the-art in automatic PACSAT ground station technology has been improving with many recent software packages to make unattended automatic ground station operations quite easy. The problem is that these two communities of expertise have so far had little cross-interests. It seems that the time is now to merge these technologies into a new amateur application that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of each and fuels the development of an Amateur Radio Mobile Satellite System. Traknet is the opportunity to not only merge these interests into a common purpose, but also to demonstrate Amateur Radio's continuing progress in communications technology.
- APRS Vision System
by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR
- Introduction: The APRS Vision System (AVS) was developed to provide a variable bandwidth vision capability for APRS Robotic applications. The system provides an efficient method for image transmission from a mobile or rover and uses the standard APRS UI frame protocol so that the existing APRS digipeater networks can be used for vastly extended range. Using the APRS UI broadcast protocol, not only is there no wasted bandwidth for ACKS, but everyone can monitor the image. A hypothetical idea of driving a robot in New Jersey from a HAM shack in Maryland presents the concept which was so markedly demonstrated this year with the Mars Rover.
- APRServe: An Internet Backbone for APRS
by Steve Dimse, K4HG
- Introduction: Last year at the 1996 Digital Communications Conference I predicted that within the next year we would have a working nation-wide APRS backbone running on the Internet. This paper details the progress that has been made towards that goal.
- Keypad Interface Language
by Roy Ekberg, W0LIQ, and Martin Schroedel, K9LTL
- Synopsis: ARDS Project was proposed earlier in the Proceedings of the 12th ARRL Digital Communications Conference (held in Tampa, FL, in 1993). During that time, R&D was limited to experiments with Model 12. We renamed ARDS Project Computer Assisted Communications (CAC). This system evolved by experimenting with more models. Model 17 revealed compelling reasons why FCC's 97 part rules need changes that would permit hams to use Keypad interface language with digital signals.
- An All-Software Advanced HF Modem for Amateur Radio
by Matthew Ettus, N2MJI
- Winner of Best Technical/theory-oriented Student paper
- Abstract: The need for an inexpensive and robust replacement for 300 baud FSK on the amateur HF bands apparent. A modem was developed which allows for greatly increased data bandwidth (up to 500bps), while at the same time allowing for increased reliability through the use of advanced modulation and coding methods. The entire system runs on a standard PC with a soundcard, under Linux. The only necessary hardware is a mechanism for keying the radio.
- Detection and Estimation of Covert DS/SS Signals Using Higher Order Statistical Processing
by Mamdouh Gouda, Ernest R. Adams, and Peter C.J. Hill
- Winner of Best Technical/theory-oriented Student paper
- Abstract: Conventional linear and non-linear receivers are generally ineffective in detecting direct-sequence spread spectrum (DS/SS) signals if the spreading sequences are unavailable. An investigation into using correlation-based processing is reported showing that the cyclostationary property of DS/SS provides detection capability. Finally we describe with results an emerging technique based on higher-order statistics where triple correlation analysis is used, leading to the detection and estimation of DS/SS length and its code generating function g(X).
HamWeb: Rethinking Packet Radio
by John Hansen, WA0PTV
- Abstract: This paper describes a general implementation of a simple "broadcast protocol" useful for terrestrial amateur packet links. It allows the transfer of files and entire directory structures from a server to many client stations simultaneously. Consideration is also given to applications of HTML to amateur packet links.
- Wireless in Ulaan Bataar
by Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP
- Introduction: In Ulaan Baatar, Mongolian, severe weather conditions prevail, the wired telecommunications infrastructure is very poor, advanced telecommunications technology expertise is limited (although there is considerable local computer expertise), and US access to Mongolian scientific and research facilities is highly constrained by lack of normal Internet connections. Last year, some of us went to Mongolia to integrate a series of data radios into a wireless network, and then field-test them. Our purpose was to build on and apply knowledge being gained from the "Wireless Field Test (WFT) Project for Education," funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and run by Dave Hughes of Old Colorado City Communications, in Colorado Springs, CO.
- Management of TNCs by Means of the Simple Network Management Protocol
by H. Hmida, VA2HLH, and M. Barbeau, VE2BPM
- Abstract: This article deals with the application of a network management framework, called Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), to manage a particular type of network devices named Terminal Node Controllers (TNC). TNCs are widely used in the amateur packet radio community. We present new tools based on SNMP for remote management of TNCs. A Management Information Base (MIB) has been created for the TNCs parameters we manage in KISS mode. The MIB is implemented under the Linux operating system and uses the CMU-SNMP package. We implemented also a new command to manage simultaneously and remotely several TNC parameters.
- North American Digital Systems Directory (NADSD)
by Greg Jones, WD5IVD and Carl Estey, WA0CQG
- Abstract: Have you ever wanted to know if there might be a Packet BBS in a distant city where a friend lives ? Or what the frequency is of the PacketCluster station in your area ? Many times it isn't easy to find out about digital services in a distant area. In the past, one way to get this information was to consult the packet listings in the ARRL Repeater Directory. That's now a thing of the past. The North American Digital Systems Directory (NADSD)project was begun in January of 1997 to make information concerning amateur radio digital systems available to amateur radio operators. This paper will describe the history, purpose, and functions of the NADSD.
- TAPR Status Report on Spread Spectrum Activity in the Amateur Radio Service
by Greg Jones, WD5IVD and Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP
- Abstract: This papers review the current status of Spread Spectrum (SS) in the Amateur Radio Service and also covers TAPR's activity on Spread Spectrum issues over the last two years.
- TCP Header Compression According to Van Jacobson via AX.25
by Gunther Jost, DK7WJ/K7WJ
- Abstract: The Van Jacobsen scheme for TCP/IP header compression is briefly introduced, and an implementation of the system under FlexNet is described and discussed.
- TCP/IP on FlexNet -- Just Another Layer
by Gunther Jost, DK7WJ/K7WJ
- Abstract: The goals and outcome of a project to optimize TCP/IP transport over the FlexNet AX.25 network is described. A number of optimizations, and their implementations are described and discussed. These include header compression, resend minimization, packet age tracking and ACK consolidation, as well as platform considerations and potential uses.
- An Amateur 900Mhz
Spread-Spectrum Radio Design
by Tom McDermott, N5EG, Bob Stricklin, N5BRG, and Bill Reed, WD0ETZ
- Abstract: System design principles and high-level design details are described for a new spread-spectrum radio design for the 900Mhz amateur band. The radio is designed to provide A 10-BASE-T interface as the data port, and is designed to provide transport of IP-based data. It is planned to provide both stand-alone and fully-networked hub configurations. The design is based on Frequency-Hopped Spread Spectrum (FHSS) spreading. Use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) and QPSK modulation provide significant system gain performance compared to other FHSS FSK designs. The radio is currently in the printed-circuit board layout stage.
VHF/UHF/Microwave Radio Propagation: A Primer for Digital Experimenters
by Barry McLarnon, VE3JF
- Abstract: This paper attempts to provide some insight into the nature of radio propagation in that part of the spectrum (upper VHF to microwave) used by experimenters for high-speed digital transmission. It begins with the basics of free space path loss calculations, and then considers the effects of refraction, diffraction and reflections on the path loss of Line of Sight (LOS) links. The nature of non-LOS radio links is then examined, and propagation effects other than path loss which are important in digital transmission are also described.
- Software Radio Technology Overview and Recent Progress
by Joseph Mitola, III
- Abstract: This paper summarizes software radio technology emphasizing recent progress, including the first software radio workshop of the European Community and progress of the MMITS (open architecture software radio) Forum. The software radio is an emerging technology for rapidly building flexible, modular, multiband multimode radio systems. It allows one to create radio infrastructure that can be programmed for new standards and dynamically updated with new software personalities. These personalities include air interfaces that may be downloaded to software radios "over the air", reducing the need to purchase new hardware for new services. The technology has been proven in the field, but there are technical, economic and institutional challenges remaining before the benefits of this technology are fully available at low cost. This paper highlights key technical challenges and opportunities.
- PerlAPRS: An Automated Control Application for APRS Networks
by Richard Parry, W9IF
- Abstract: PerlAPRS is an application which can monitor both local TNC received APRS packets and remote Internet APRS packets and perform an automated action based on criteria specified by the user. The criteria that PerlAPRS uses is the callsign of the station and its location specified as a Maidenhead Grid Square. Other requirements specified by the user increase functionality of the program in real world applications. The actions executed can be written in any language, but UNIX style shell scripts are ideally suited for this purpose. Scripts can be developed to perform functions such as automatic notification via email as well as logging. PerlAPRS is freely distributed under the GNU licensing agreement.
- Update on Digital Voice Technologies
by Paul L. Rinaldo, W4RI
- Introduction: At the 1996 Digital Communications Conference, I presented a paper on "Amateur Radio Digital Voice Communications" with the intent of promoting interest among amateur experimenters. Not much progress has been made in developing amateur digital voice systems during the past year. Industry is still doing developmental work but standards are not easily achieved.
- Using a PC and a Soundcard for Popular Amateur Digital Modes
by Thomas M. Sailer, HB9JNX/AE4WA
- Abstract: Recently, standard personal computers (PCs) have become powerful enough to do serious digital signal processing (DSP) without the need for a specialized DSP coprocessor. A standard PC soundcard serves as the interface between the analog world of the radio and the digital world of the PC processor. This equipment together with an appropriate software package allows the ham to operate many popular digital modes without a TNC.
- Terminal Node Controllers -- Towards The Next Generation ?
by Darryl Smith, VK2TDS
- Abstract: This paper describes work into a new generation of hardware for Terminal Node Controllers (TNC's). This development has been done under Linux on IBM compatible hardware, but is easily transferable to a more traditional microprocessor based TNC design.
- On-Air Measurements of CLOVER P38 Throughput
by Ken Wickwire, KB1JY, Mike Bernock, KB1PZ, and Bob Levreault, W1IMM
- Concluding Remarks: This paper is part of a series treating on-air measurement of throughput of various HF data-transmission protocols available to amateurs. Here we describe an extensive set of measurements of throughput for text and other files sent using the file transfer protocols implemented in the HAL P38-CLOVER terminal and firmware package. The files were transmitted over near-vertical-incidence-skywave (NVIS) and one-hop skywave (OHS) paths. The measured throughput data in our experiments were analyzed using software specially written to compute throughput statistics from our CLOVER data. Throughput statistics for compressed and uncompressed text, data, graphics and hybrid (Word and Excel) files are presented, and text throughput is compared with throughput using PacTOR and GTOR.


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Here are 10 London homes from the Apartment Therapy archives — from updated Victorian flats to modern makeovers and loft conversions.
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• 1 North London House Tour: Chris & Steve's Colorful Gothic Family House
• 2 East End House Tour: Amelie and John's London Warehouse Conversion
• 3 London House Tour: Veronika & Sebastian's Rooftop Victorian
• 4 North London House Tour: A North London Sanctuary
• 5 Bloomsbury House Tour: Jon & Liezel's New Bloomsbury Home
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• 8 Camberwell House Tour: Minna's English Countryside in the City
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Christmas in January!
14 comments:
- Stephanie said...
Gorgeous! You won't want to leave your bedroom next Christmas it'll be so pretty and cozy. Looking forward to seeing your matching pillowcases. I'm thrilled to hear about your Barefoot class.
- January 16, 2012 at 5:51 AM
- Lynn said...
What a perfect quilt for Christmas. You'll want to take it out of the guest room and have where you can look at it all the time. Choosing thread color is always a bit dicey. It looks like you hit the nail on the head with your selection.
- January 16, 2012 at 6:56 AM
- Barb said...
I love it!!!
- January 16, 2012 at 7:15 AM
- Sue said...
What a beautiful Christmas quilt ! I love your choice of quilting thread ! PERFECT!
- January 16, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- Me and My Stitches said...
Another awesome finish! Very nice and you are way ahead of the game for next Christmas.
- January 16, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Candace this is one FUN quilt!!! I haven't heard of that book before...I wished the link would have shown more inside photos.
- January 16, 2012 at 10:28 AM
- Christine said...
Love your Fruitcake quilt ... the quilting is lovely.
- January 16, 2012 at 11:56 AM
- Ulla said...
Beautiful quilt! You seem to finish quilts just like that ...
- January 16, 2012 at 12:11 PM
- Kaaren said...
Define schmutz, please! Tee hee.
Another beautiful finish, Candace. That's one thing I don't have...a Christmas quilt. I must fix that for next Christmas.
- January 16, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- AnnieO said...
Love the pinwheels! Congrats on teaching a class--how fun. I just ordered the Barefoot in the Park pattern yesterday--along with String Beans!
- January 16, 2012 at 5:43 PM
- Lisa D. said...
That's very cute! I think the thread color is perfect, too.
- January 17, 2012 at 8:58 AM
- Carrie P. said...
Gorgeous quilt and quilting. Congrats on your finish.
Glad you enjoyed your classes.
Take your camera and show us what fabrics the ladies used. Please!
- January 17, 2012 at 10:46 AM
- Linda said...
Oh, Candace, Your quilt is gorgeous!!!! I love how the green Isacord looks!!!! Perfect thread for your gorgeous quilt!!
- January 18, 2012 at 8:19 AM
- Mary said...
What a beautiful quilt. Your quilting is beautiful also. Great Job!
- January 18, 2012 at 8:18 PM


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OK, I'm better now.
Anyhow, since I was near Los Angeles, Sgt. Friday would ask for "just the facts". So here's a closer slice to fact: John and his students (a big shout-out to those regular readers among them) liked it, as they told me at dinner. But they're sort of the choir here. Them liking my talk just says it doesn't belong on The FAIL Blog.
There were a couple guys up in the front row who were following and paying attention, but they seemed skeptical of the whole invariant/covariant distinction I'm trying to push. I really should have motivated the move to tangles better, and that might have helped smooth that over. From my side it was a good-natured difference in viewpoint, but was it the same on their end, or did they get the impression I was wasting their time?
I saw one person I'd spoken with earlier leave early. Did she have a previously-scheduled appointment, or was I just that unengaging?
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And what of the silent majority? One young woman in particular stood out since she had what looked like the "confused" look on her face — not a good sign. But it was pretty consistent, never devolving into the "I give up, but don't want to stand up and leave" look. Maybe it was her "thinking" face? Really, this is who I'm always the most neurotic about: the people who don't say anything at all. I don't mind if I don't set the entire room on fire (metaphorically), especially in such a mixed audience as this was (I'm more used to seminars than colloquia), but I'd like people to go away thinking "that's an interesting viewpoint, and one worth pursuing, even if it's not something I'll drop everything to chase down myself".
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Microcantilever based biochemical sensing has shown tremendous promise for ultrasenstive detection in both liquid and ambient conditions. However improving the sensitivity, reliability and robustness of these sensors so they can achieve their potential needs substantial efforts in (a) chemical functionalization of the sensor, (b) mechanical transduciton of the binding events, and (c) integration of the sensors into larger systems. In this talk we will focus on our groups efforts at developing new ultransensitive paradigms for mechanical transduction of binding events. We will focus on our results on the use of (i) higher cantilever modes, (ii) the used of carbon nanotube whistered cantilevers, (iii)the development of mode localization sensors and (iv) the performance of cantilever sensors under liquids.
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