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Publication number | US5903212 A |
Publication type | Grant |
Application number | US 08/970,097 |
Publication date | 11 May 1999 |
Filing date | 13 Nov 1997 |
Priority date | 28 Jul 1995 |
Fee status | Lapsed |
Publication number | 08970097, 970097, US 5903212 A, US 5903212A, US-A-5903212, US5903212 A, US5903212A |
Inventors | Nicholas A. Rodgers |
Original Assignee | Rodgers; Nicholas A. |
Export Citation | BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan |
Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (35), Classifications (43), Legal Events (4) | |
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet | |
This application is a Continuation-in-Part of Application Ser. No. 08/508,964 filed Jul. 28, 1995, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,697,182.
This invention relates to a novelty designed to float in an alcoholic beverage or water or a mixture thereof.
The novelty is frequently called an `ice cube`, although it would not normally contain any frozen water.
The novelty includes a body on or in which is mounted a battery-powered light visible outside the body. Means are provided for turning on such light in response to motion of said body and extinguishing it after it is on for a predetermined duration. By this technique the battery life may be extended to a considerable degree.
The light is preferably an LED which may be powered by a smaller battery than most lights and provides a high intensity illumination in relation to the battery power used. The LED is preferably directed to be visible in a bar or other surrounding environment. An LED by itself may be directed upwardly. However the preferred mode of illumination is an LED directed into one end of a fibre optic. The fibre optic may be directed so that the light is emitted from the other end but preferably is designed to emit light from the side wall of the fibre. Thus, if desired a fibre with side emission, may be illuminated with an LED at each end of the fibre.
Advertising material may be positioned on the body or on a plaque therein to be illuminated by the light.
In drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 1A is a schematic drawing showing a general arrangement of circuit elements:
FIG. 1B is a schematic drawing showing a general arrangement of circuit elements differing in details from that of FIG. 1A,
FIGS. 2, 3, and 4 show successive stages in the construction of a novelty in accord with the invention,
FIG. 5 shows the novelty floating in a beverage glass,
FIG. 6 shows an alternative form of motion responsive switch to that shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 7 shows a preferred way of arranging the illumination components,
FIG. 8 shows a suitable circuit for controlling the illumination of the novelty,
FIG. 9 shows an alternate suitable circuit for controlling the illumination,
FIG. 10 shows an illumination circuit for providing a flashing output,
FIG. 11 shows an illumination circuit for illuminating a number of LED's in sequence,
FIG. 12 shows an illumination circuit combined with a speaker.
In the drawings it is preferred to describe the circuit elements first and the physical aspects last.
In the drawings FIGS. 1A and 1B show schematically typical circuits to control the illumination.
In FIG. 1A and the detailed drawing of FIG. 8 a motion responsive switch being the ball switch 10A which, in response to motion provides alternate open-to-closed and closed-to-open transitions wherein the closed state connects the battery 16 to the timing circuit IC and the open state does not. In switch 10A a ball rolls freely in cylinder 10-1 whose walls are conducting except for insulating end 10-2. Thus the cylinder is permanently connected to line 10-4 and, when ball 10-6 contacts conducting button 10-3, connects to line 10-5. An open-to-closed transition when the timing circuit is not already timing an interval causes it to initiate and time the predetermined interval. (An open-to-closed transition when the timing circuit IC is already timing a power interval is ignored). During the interval the timing circuit lowers the base of transistor T1 relative to the emitter to put T1 in conducting mode which connects battery 16 to the illumination circuit where it will turn on the light, usually an LED 12. At the end of the timed interval the timing circuit turns off T1 (thus T1 represents a power switch, conducting or not between emitter and collector, which opens so that the battery no longer supplies power to the illumination circuit 23 (or 23T FIG. 8). The timing circuit then awaits a further off-to-on transition at switch 10A before timing a new power interval. The length of the timed interval may be adjusted so that the battery life can be best controlled. The motion responsive switch is a ball switch 10 a ball 10-6 connects cylinder wall 10-1 to button 10-3, and hence line 10-4 to the timing circuit IC. If a wire 11-1 exists connects battery 16 to switch 10 then the closure of switch 10A provides the off-to-on transition, to initiate the timing of the power interval.
In the absence of water sensitive probes a conductor connects N5 and N6.
However the battery-switch line may be provided with water sensitive probes between nodes N5 and N6 as best shown in FIG. 8 where transistor T1 and T3 are connected as shown. Probes 11 and 13 are bare to the outside of the novelty item.
By `water sensitive probes` I mean probes which with conduct if the liquid between them is water, potable alcohol as sold in bars or a mixture of water and such alcohol.
When probes 11, 13 are in air, there is no conduction between them and the motion responsive switch cannot initiate the timing of a power interval. When water or alcohol connects probes 11 and 13, conduction there between lowers the base of transistor T2 and consequently the base of transistor T3 so that battery 16 is connected to switch 10 to cause the latter to initiate a power interval.
The circuit of FIG. 1A can equally represent a timing and illumination circuit as shown in FIG. 9 where optionally a direct connection or water sensitive probers may be connected between nodes N5 and N6.
The arrangement of FIG. 1B uses the motion responsive switch of FIG. 6 instead of the ball switch. The cylinder 10B houses is a helical spring 25 which in motion will alternatively touch button 27 to close the switch and separate from it to open it. Thus, under motion the switch of FIG. 6, will provide an off-to-on transition to initiate timing of a power interval in the integrated circuit 1C as long as, at the time of the off-to-on transition, a power interval is not being timed. As with other motion responsive switches, the off-to-on switch transmission is ignored if there is a power interval already being timed.
A mercury switch may also be used as the motion responsive switch but these are sometimes found environmentally objectionable.
FIG. 8 shows in some detail one version of FIG. 1. The battery 16 is connectable to over motion responsive switch to terminal 4 of integrated circuit IC. Preferred values for the circuit elements are as follows:
C--CAPACITOR 0.47 uF at 30 V
(The integrated circuit and transistor referred to above are both available from Motorola Canada Limited, 3125 Steeles Avenue East, North York, Ontario, Canada).
In operation, with the shoe stationary and horizontal, and the switch 10 open the timing circuit will be quiescent but capacity C will be charged to the value of battery 16 (here 3V). Pin 4 of the integrated circuit will be held at 0 volts which is the voltage arbitrarily designated at node 18. The integrated circuit IC will be in reset condition having the effect that there will be a positive voltage at pin 7, rendering the transistor T1 (i.e. the power switch) non-conducting and maintaining the lights in the illumination circuit 23, off.
When motion of the novelty with nodes N5-N6 connected causes switch 10 to close, with a connection between battery positive and pin 4, (that is the switch 10A is changing state from "off" to "on"); the (0-1) or 0 V to 3V transition at pin 4 causes the integrated circuit IC to go to "set" condition causing pin 7 of IC to go to 0 volts. This causes transistor T1 to conduct supplying power to the illumination circuit 23 for the timed or power interval, as determined by IC, C and R1. The `set` condition of integrated circuit IC connects pin 3 with node 18 and in a time determined by C and R1 the circuit is returned to reset condition, extinguishing LEDs 12 and allowing C to recharge. The circuitry is further designed so that switch 10 must be turned off and on again (with the off to on transition occurring outside the power interval) before the integrated circuit can again be activated to set state.
It will be appreciated that the `ground` shown at node 18 is instrument ground only and is unconnected to anything outside the shoe. The choice of node 18 as `ground` is somewhat arbitrary but assists on the description of the circuit.
A preferred illumination circuit is discussed hereafter.
An alternative circuit is shown in FIG. 9.
In FIG. 9 the integrated circuit IC is replaced by discrete elements. A schematic distribution of these elements in the novelty article is not shown but it will be realized that they are placed as found convenient in the casing while position of the lights will be located as described in connection with the illumination circuit.
Exemplary only values of the circuit elements of FIG. 7 are indicated below:
7C1--0.1 μf
7C2--10 μf
FIG. 9 shows a simple one shot circuit.
When motion responsive switch 10 is closed providing an of-to-on transition state, it applies positive voltage to 7C1 and the base of 7T2. This will cause 7T2 to conduct. This, in turn, supplies battery power to illumination circuit 23.
7T2 conducting also connects the negative side of 7C2 to the negative side of the battery. This will place the base of 7T1 at a potential less positive than its emitter which will cause it to conduct. 7T1 supplies positive voltage to the voltage divider 7R2 and 7R3 which supplies positive voltage to the base of 7T2. This will hold 7T2 on after 7C1 has charged and no longer conducts current to the base of T2.
The RC network formed by the resistors 7R4, 7R5 and 7C2 determines the length of time the LEDS will be on. When 7C2 charges, the potential on the base of 7T1 becomes less negative and 7T1 will cease to conduct. This, in turn removes the positive bias from the base of 7T2 (which acts as the power switch T1 of FIGS. 1A, 1B) which will turn off terminating the power interval and the flow of power to the illumination circuit.
To repeat the cycle, switch 26 must be opened and then reclosed (the latter outside a power interval) to initiate the timing of a new power interval.
Thus if, for any reason switch 10 remains closed the LEDS will be extinguished by the circuit described above after the interval illumination duration provided by the RC network.
The circuit of FIG. 9 may be provided with water-sensitive probes between nodes 7N5 and 7N6 as described in connection with FIG. 8, or with any motion responsive switch.
It cannot be said that the circuit of FIG. 9 is always preferable over that of FIG. 8 or vice versa. The circuitry of FIG. 9 is somewhat simpler. However, the circuitry of FIG. 8 may be made extremely compact. The integrated circuit of FIG. 8 may take advantages of a process called `on board integrated circuitry`. In this process the integrated circuit, IC, is actually built into a (very small) circuit board and covered with a dot of epoxy. The size of the integrated circuit of FIG. 8 is about 3/16 inch in diameter and only 1/32 of an inch thick.
The circuits of FIG. 8 or FIG. 9 would require 3V power but it is preferred to use two 11/2V. batteries in series. These batteries are collectively shown and referred to as battery 16.
The specific arrangement of the LEDs and associate components will be described in association with an illumination circuit 23.
An illumination circuit herein may include
The body of the novelty ice cube is preferably constructed with a first encapsulated assembly of the components (connected as shown in FIG. 8 or FIG. 9) including: the focus tube FT, PC board PC, motion response switch, and advertising material which are shown schematically in FIGS. 2, and 3.
The first encapsulated assembly (encapsulation not shown) is preferably again encapsulated in tinted or opaque material E2. The second encapsulation leaves exposed the focus tube, as hereinafter described.
Before the first encapsulation it may be preferred to provide an advertising plaque 29, stating `BAR` or depicting advertising any other material on clear plastic. The plaque is placed to receive the light emitted from the upper side of the focus tube FT.
Finally the device with focus tube or other lighting means and, optionally advertising is preferably encapsulated in a clear plastic generally rectilinear body CP. The rectilinear body will normally be sufficiently heavy to have negative buoyancy and will require an air `bubble` AB to reduce the density to give the body positive buoyancy. The board and encapsulated components, will normally be weighted so that the advertising components ride uppermost.
The generally rectilinear shape makes the encapsulated body resemble an ice cube. FIG. 5 depicts a glass of beverage with the body floating therein.
The focus tube FT FIGS. 3 and 7 preferably comprises one or two LEDs electrically connected as shown in FIG. 8 or FIG. 9. In the preferred illumination arrangement the LED 12 (or both if there are two) is (are) arranged to shine longitudinally along the optic fibre 35 (see FIG. 3). The fibre is contained in an opaque sleeve 31 having an upward open (or transparent) slot 33.
The fibre 35 is adapted to emit a proportion of the light from the LED(s) up the upwardly open slot 33. This will cause the ice cube to glow, and to illuminate the advertising material if present.
Side emissions from the optic fibre 35 may be achieved in two ways. Fibres may be purchased particularly designed to radiate radially from the fibre. Alternatively an ordinary optic fibre, normally used for longitudinal transmission may have it's surface `scuffed` to produce the radial radiation.
Other illumination arrangements, particularly those involving an LED may be used. These may be directed upwardly or otherwise. The LED is customarily provided with a lens L and such lens may be asymmetric if desired to produce a desired focus or effect.
In operation, for a beverage in a glass a rectilinear `cube` in accord with the invention is placed in the drink and will float therein as long as there is enough left of the drink. With significant movement of the `cube` the motion responsive switch will close causing an off-to-on transition. If the timing circuit is not timing a power interval, at the time of said transition, the transition will initiate such timing. The timing circuit will close a power switch (T1, FIGS. 1A, 8, T1, FIG. 1B, 7T2 FIG. 9) to the illumination circuit. The illumination circuit will cause the LEDs to light continuously or intermittently over the power interval in accord with the design of an illumination circuit. If the novelty ice cube has water sensitive probes, failure of the illumination circuit to light on motion will signal that the drink is empty.
FIGS. 8 and 9 show the nodes I1 and 12 at the entrance to the illumination circuit.
The illumination circuit shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 may be detached and replaced with one of the illumination circuits discussed below.
Although the preferred arrangement of the LEDs suggests the use of one or two LEDs, other arrangements may use three or more. Such multiple LEDs would usually be connected in parallel.
Although LEDs appear to be the most efficient mode of converting battery power to light intensity, the invention extends to other lighting sources.
In each of FIGS. 10, 11, and 12 an illumination circuit is shown for connecting across nodes I1 and I2 place of the illumination circuit connected across the same nodes, as shown in FIG. 8 or FIG. 9.
To provide a flashing output FIG. 10 shows an oscillator with its input connected across nodes I1 and I2. The oscillator is preferably of the type A5407 sold by HUA Electronics of Hong Kong. The oscillator output is connected to the LED 12 of the focus tube 35 of FIG. 7. The flashing output will, of course continue for the power interval as timed by the timing means.
FIG. 10 shows a power circuit including a sequencer/oscillator for connection to the illumination circuit terminals I1, I2 of FIGS. 8 or 9. In FIG. 10 the oscillator/sequencer may be adjusted by means not shown, but well known to those skilled in the art to sequence the 5 LED 12 (or other number) as desired and at a desired rate. The power interval as adjusted at C and R1 (FIG. 8) will then determine how many sequences occur. Similarly the power interval as adjusted at 7C2, 7R4 and 7R5 (FIG. 9) will determine how many sequences occur.
FIG. 11 shows an illumination circuit where an oscillator connected across terminal I1, I2 will power a speaker while the glow device of FIG. 7 is connected in parallel therewith.
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The verdict is in and we have the first flop of the fall 2009-2010 season: 'Lone Star.'
It's official: Fox has canceled the struggling series due to low ratings after two airings, the network confirmed Tuesday.
Despite its disappointing debut, the con man drama's failure has somewhat blindsided TV peeps, since the well-reviewed show was pegged by many critics as one to watch this fall.
But in its second outing Monday night, 'Lone Star' was a-lone in last place again: it dropped another 7% to 3.78 million viewers, after pulling a dismal 1.3 rating in the key adult demo for the premiere. (Guess the creator's begging for viewers kind of backfired, huh?).
New episodes of the Tim Roth series 'Lie to Me' will air in its place at 9 p.m., beginning next Monday with the Season 3 premiere.
Fox is known for being swift with the axe, but this one seems particularly abrupt, considering the praise and save-the-show campaigns that popped up for the 'Dallas'-style series, which starred newcomer James Wolk and veteran actor Jon Voight. Airing in the highly competitive Mondays-at-9 time slot definitely hurt, so it's surprising the network didn't try to give the show a shot on another night before pulling it entirely.
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"Actors or Animatronics?"
How about a third catagory/item?
The lonesome totally dark room with a live cricket in the corner?
A whole lot of people can't begin to handle being alone in the dark, it's the scariest thing! They might get molested!
"But you are alone!"
"Yes, I know, that just makes it more terrible! I can't trust anyone, not even myself!
"Cricket!? Was it you?"
"No, you're not my type, besides that I couldn't find a milk carton high enough for me to stand on."
Change all that, "A dark room with a live cricket and a tall milk carton."
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Friday, September 20th, 2013
By William Kincaid
New seats keep Fort students on the ball
District experiments with tool to increase youngster's concentration
FORT RECOVERY - How do you solve the wiggles? Replace students' boring and confining chairs with stability balls.
First-grade teachers at Fort Recovery Elementary are experimenting with the inflatable ball-seats that principal Tracy Hein-Evers hopes will improve classroom focus, core strength and student posture, among other things.
The idea was proposed by first-grade teacher Michelle Stammen.
"Michelle did a lot of research on it," Hein-Evers said. "(The balls) help kids who are hyperactive, (and help) all kids stay focused. There's just a lot of brain research on it."
The exercise balls help with blood flow because students are sitting up, she said. It keeps them more focused and on task, she added.
"It allows those fidgety kids to get that movement," Hein-Evers explained.
Using stability balls in the classroom is part of a larger effort to modernize schools based on research linking physical activity with better learning. Traditional desks and chairs are being challenged as teachers nationwide experiment with yoga balls, footrests and standing desks, which give children outlets to fidget without disrupting class.
Fort Recovery teachers presented the idea to parents during open building night last month.
"They started it right after Labor Day," Hein-Evers said. "We had the kids try it out for about a week, and then they had the option ... to go back to the chair, which we did have some ... but most of them stayed with it."
Students said the spheres are comfortable to sit on.
Teacher Kari Eilerman said she probably wouldn't mind sitting on one of the nontraditional seats, too, because she gets squirmy sometimes.
"I think it's good ... that they can move around a little more because at this age, they really need to get those wiggles out," she said. "Some of them realized after using it for two or three weeks that it wasn't for them so they took their chairs back. But most of them decided to keep them."
Students also are
learning about responsibility.
"I think it's good ... that they can move around a little more because at this age, they really need to get those wiggles out," she said. "Some of them realized after using it for two or three weeks that it wasn't for them so they took their chairs back. But most of them decided to keep them."
Students also are
learning about responsibility.
"A couple kids popped theirs, so if you destroy it, you don't get another one," Hein-Evers said. "They do have rules. They're not allowed to bounce them. They're not allowed to sit on them and bounce."
If they don't follow the rules, the chair is taken away, she said.
Hein-Evers will assess the effects of the stability balls in the spring before deciding whether to use them in other grades next year.
Stability balls, frequently used in exercise and physical therapy, have begun appearing in offices across the country after studies stressed the dangers of sedentary work environments.
The balls first began to surface in schools as aids for kids with attention problems or autism, said Michelle Rowe, executive director of the Kinney Center for Autism at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
The equipment has since gone mainstream.
"It takes away the taboo of wiggling, which most kids do anyway," said Rowe, who also is a professor of health services.
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Tim Burton's new 3D blockbuster Alice In Wonderland will not be screened in Odeon cinemas in the UK, Ireland and Italy, the chain said today, with other films taking priority.
The stance is a response to a dispute over plans for the interval between Disney's fantasy adventure hitting cinema screens and its DVD release to be set at around three months, instead of the longer usual period of 17 weeks.
Odeon, which has more than 100 cinemas in the UK alone, fears Disney's proposals would "inevitably set a new benchmark, leading to a 12-week window becoming rapidly standard in the UK for the majority of film titles".
Odeon and UCI cinema group said in a statement: "Odeon/UCI has invested considerable sums of money, especially in the UK, over the past 12 months to install digital projection systems in its cinemas to enable customers to enjoy 3D.
"The popularity of 3D titles meant that last year these films played in Odeon/UCI cinemas for an average of 18 weeks from initial release."
The statement continued: "We have a very full line-up of films to offer audiences over the next few weeks, including two new 3D titles. These will now take priority in our cinemas."
The cinema group said it would be showing the film in its Spanish, German, Portuguese and Austrian cinemas - "where Disney has indicated that it plans to observe the normal DVD release window".
The eagerly-anticipated Walt Disney Pictures movie, starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter will have a glitzy royal world premiere in London on Thursday, attended by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.
Disney sources said today that "active conversations" with cinema chains were ongoing.
The movie will be released on March 5 in both 2D and 3D and the sources said business could be done very quickly and distribution speedily arranged.
They described the 12-week window as a "healthy run" and insisted Disney remained committed to the "theatrical experience".
It is also thought that a shorter gap between the film's launch at the cinema and on DVD would curb opportunities for piracy.
Bob Chapek, president of distribution for the Walt Disney Studios has said: "We feel that it's important for us to maintain a healthy business on the exhibition side and a healthy business on the home video side.
"We think this is in the best interest of theatre owners, because a healthy movie business is good for them and allows us to invest in high quality, innovative content.
"We remain committed to theatrical windows, with the need for exceptions to accommodate a shortened timeframe on a case-by-case basis, such as with Disney's Alice in Wonderland."
Last Thursday, Cineworld announced it had reached an agreement with Disney and would be screening Alice in Wonderland nationwide on more than 150 screens.
Cineworld chief executive Steve Wiener said previously: "We are extremely pleased to have reached a satisfactory compromise on this matter.
"As leaders in 3D we did not want the public to miss out on such a visual spectacle. As the success of Avatar has shown there is currently a huge appetite for the 3D experience."
A spokeswoman for the Vue declined to comment earlier today when asked whether or not the cinema chain planned to show the film.
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President Barack Obama said Friday night that House Speaker John Boehner was "walking away" from negotiations to raise the nation's debt ceiling and avert financial catastrophe. Still, Obama said he was expecting congressional leaders from both parties at the White House Saturday morning.
In a dramatic appearance in the White House briefing room Obama said it was up to the Republican leaders to explain to him how they intend to avoid the default that is threatened after Aug. 2.
"I expect them to have an answer in terms of how they intend to get this thing done in the course of the next week. The American people expect action," Obama said.
Boehner, in a letter circulated to the House Republican rank and file, said he had withdrawn from the talks with Obama because "in the end, we couldn't connect.He said he would turn instead to negotiations with leaders of the Senate, which is controlled by majority Democrats.
The disconnect in the talks with the White House, Boehner said, was "not because of different personalities, but because of different visions for our country.
The talks had veered uncertainly for weeks, generating reports as late as Thursday that the two sides were possibly closing in on an agreement to cut $3 trillion in spending and add as much as $1 trillion in possible revenue while increasing the government's borrowing authority of $2.4 trillion.
That triggered a revolt among Democrats who expressed fears the president was giving away too much in terms of cuts to Medicare and Social Security while getting too little by way of additional revenues


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Until I had the doghouse out of the vehicle, I didn't realize just how close we sit to a V10 engine that spins at 2600 rpms at 64 mph! It's right there by our knees!
I now have 27 sq ft of Deamplier material on the floor from the firewall to the back of the chairs, in the passenger door and all in the doghouse. It is time for a test drive. I got on the interstate where there is smooth asphalt and got to cruising speed of 62 mph. There is a noticeable difference in engine noise. I didn't have a passenger so I couldn't test if conversing was improved. However, my dB meter is now averaging 54.5 dB, an improvement of about 3 dB. But what does that mean? Well, if you remember, a 10 dB difference is perceived as a doubling of the heard noise, so in very layman's terms, the noise has been reduced by about 1/3 if my calculations and understanding of noise is correct. I called darling wife on my cell phone at 65 mph and I was able to carry on a conversation with her without straining my hearing. I couldn't do that before.
Noise from the doghouse is greatly reduced. However, I still hear a lot of engine noise and it sounds like it mostly coming through the dashboard, dash area, and hood. I also hear a lot of wind noise around the driver's mirror. I think I will order the JC Whitney hood insulation kit (Hushmat) and add material to the driver's door. I also might try to find a mat I can lay on the dash. I've seen some custom mats for the dash that are made to protect the dash from sun damage. Maybe something like this could help.
All in all, I'm very happy with the improvement in noise abatement, but I'd like to knock another 2 or 3 dB off and make the PC as quiet as my truck. To date, I have about $170 invested and 8 hours of time. I could have saved $12 by not buying the adhesive I didn't need (I thought I would need it to glue the existing doghouse insulation back in). I'll be glad to answer any questions. Mark
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Skipper, your going into the right direction as little as I know about this. But yes it does take a 3db change in sound for the human ear to notice a change.
Thanks and keep us updated.
Ever since your mission to lower cab noise, I have been trying to notice where most of the noise is coming from...... Guess I have concluded that a bunch of it is yes, coming from the mirrors. But I also hear a lot from the tires on different interstate pavements. Especially up here in the north where they purposely grove the pavement to counter black ice.
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Girl, 13, dies at Palo Alto train crossing
Original post made on Aug 24, 2009
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, August 24, 2009, 10:55 AM
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a resident of another community
on Aug 24, 2009 at 2:48 pm
AC is a registered user.
I can't help but wonder what a 13-year old girl was doing on the train tracks at 10:45pm. Moreover I can't help but wonder what she was doing on the train tracks at 10:45pm and unable to hear the horn or see the bright three lights on the front of the train.
a resident of Cuernavaca
on Aug 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm
To AC, what was she doing there? unable to hear the horn or see the bright lights? didn't you read the article? the girl was committing suicide, "suicide note was found there"....
a resident of another community
on Aug 24, 2009 at 3:14 pm
TYPO SHE WAS 16 and that is young
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Aug 24, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I agree, why is a teenager of that age doing out at that time of night?
Parent's nowadays need to be "strict" with their children. Not point the fingers at these parents who I'm sure are grieving but as a whole, many parents today do not know how to be good parents. I am in the education field so I speak from first hand experience.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Aug 24, 2009 at 5:07 pm
To Jessica,
You are in the education field, but are you a PARENT? It is so easy to say that parents need to be more "strict". But, you have no idea what happened. There are so many scenarios here - the parents think the girl was at a sleep away at her friends as one example.
Remember that many say that teachers need to be better at their jobs - that is not always the case, but it is easy to say when you are not one of them
a resident of another community
on Aug 24, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I don't think that is a typo. All other news agencies reported that she was 13. I recently watched a very tragic but honest documentary about a teenage boy who committed suicide. It is called "Boy Interrupted" and it is on HBO. This story is just about that boy, so I am not suggesting a comparison to this story. It is a very honest look at suicide and one family's experience with this tragedy.
I think these tracks have to be treated like bridges and have a suicide barriers, bridges and traffic tunnels built. I agree with a poster on the Palo Alto board who suggested we all "boycott" these crossings and drive an extra mile to an established bridge crossing.
a resident of another community
on Aug 25, 2009 at 2:29 pm
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ah duh: I think this article got updated after my first post. I can promise you that I had in fact read it, and I would have noticed the suicide note comment.
Thanks for the correction.
a resident of Castro City
on Aug 25, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Are you serious? What does being out past 10pm have to do with this story? The poor girl obviously had other things going on apart from being out late.
a resident of another community
on Aug 25, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Don, please follow the example of the PA Weekly and shut down this thread. Its only going to get stupider
a resident of Shoreline West
on Aug 26, 2009 at 12:37 am
Char, it's commendable that you want to prevent these tragedies, but do you really think suicide barriers, bridges, and traffic tunnels would do so? that it would make people stop killing themselves instead of just finding another way? or that you could enumerate and guard against all the possible ways in which people can easily kill themselves? are you willing to create a nightmarish world without freedom or excitement in order to try?
I think the only way to stop this is to make people stop wanting to kill themselves. Otherwise, you might as well slap a "mission accomplished" banner on your shiny new barricade.
a resident of another community
on Aug 26, 2009 at 6:27 am
This is a terrible tragety and the relatives and parents are suffering much. Her Aunt especially.
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Cool late night drinking place in Little Tokyo. Tasty good cocktails and martinis, and good food. Our server (a black girl, don't know her name) was very nice and friendly. I didn't take pics but I also had wasabi french fries. Isn't that interesting?
The only thing would be.. they need more than one bathroom.
*Don't forget to bring your ID.
Fuji Mountain Apple $12
House sake, Apple pucker, Amaretto liqueur with cranberry juice and house sour mix
shrimp po'boys with Chinese mustard sauce $7
Love that toasted bun, maybe brioche?
special cocktail
Our server asked me if I wanna try some special cocktail and she brought me this. It was pretty good.
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4 hurt in attack at California Wal-Mart
SAN JOSE, Calif. -
Four people were hurt Sunday when a driver crashed his vehicle into a Wal-Mart in California and assaulted people in the store, police said.
After the crash, the driver got out his vehicle and used a blunt object to attack people, said San Jose police Officer Albert Morales, a department spokesman.
One person suffered what Morales described as serious injuries. He did not know the extent of the injuries to the three other people but said they were not life-threatening.
Investigators have not determined how fast the driver � described as a male in his 30s � was going at the time of the crash, but the car went about 10 to 20 feet into the store. About 70 people were inside at the time of the incident, Morales said.
It's not known what prompted the attack, but Morales said the driver was �uncooperative.� The driver of the vehicle, who was not identified, was arrested when officers arrived.
One witness told the San Jose Mercury News the driver made several runs around the parking lot before driving between poles in front of the entrance and crashing into the store.
�At first, I thought I may have done something to anger him while driving,� Sharon Kaye told the newspaper. �But then I realized he was out to get into the store.�
After the crash, the entrance to the Wal-Mart was roped off with yellow police tape, and workers put up large boards covering the automatic doors where the car had entered. Police were interviewing witnesses and about 30 employees stood watch outside.
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Nuremberg: The Fall Of The Supermen
Even as the horrors unfolded, it seemed difficult to connect them with the shabby figures in the prisoners' dock. And yet, these contemptible shadows had once been among the most powerful and corrupt men on earth. In a rare view from the bench, the U.S. judge at the war crimes trial of the twenty-one top Nazis records the last chapter of their evil careers. It is adapted from Mr. Riddle's forthcoming autobiography. In Brief Authority , to be published by Doubleday this fall.
August 1962 | Volume 13, Issue 5
Testifying, Goering was at his very best, speaking twenty-one hours on the stand without notes, touching lightly but effectively on his own youth—his father had been an intimate friend of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa; he had been the top German ace in World War I after von Richthofen was killed. He described in detail the demoralized and poverty-stricken Germany that he and his comrades returned to when the First World War ended. Germans had never had experience of a democracy, they did not want one; and in any event, the Allies deserted the Weimar Republic after it had been foisted on the country. The German principle had always been authority from above downward, and responsibility from below upward. Was it not natural that, looking about for patterns to follow, they should select two outstanding models? He paused, and let his eye travel over the bench. "The Roman Catholic Church," he continued, "and the U.S.S.R."
If Hermann Goering was the prime exhibit of Nazi evil, Albert Speer was the most humane and decent of the defendants. His straightforwardness and honesty, his calm and reasonable bearing, his awareness of the moral issues involved, impressed the members of the Tribunal. Speer, who was forty-one when he was tried, must have been a highly impressionable young German, idealistic and prone to hero worship, when he joined the party in 1932. Soon he became Hitler's personal confidant, and lavished a passionate admiration on his chief, if one can judge by the denth and bitterness of his ultimate disillusion.
A man of striking ability, Speer took charge of all war production. He was one of the few men trusted by Hitler. It was not until the last days that Speer began to question the character of his leader. Doubts had of course begun to cross his mind; but, working continually at his immense production job, aloof from the chicaneries and plots that eddied around the seat of power, he seemed, like so many other idealists, to have been unwilling to face a reality which was bound to destroy the faith that had meant everything to him.
Unlike the other men in the dock, he cared about Hitler primarily because he believed that the Fuehrer had led the German people out of their despair and impotence, and placed their feet on the path to recovery of national greatness. Speer was serious, deeply thoughtful, without humor, patient, his shoulders bowed under the shame of his people and the moral degradation to which he had helped to lead them. It was no wonder that hatred burned between him and Goering.
In the prison and in the lunchtime recess and when the defendants exercised, the moral struggle continued. Goering wanted the Nazi myth to persist. Even if they were to be found guilty, they could go down to posterity as heroic Übermenschen —supermen. He cornered poor, cowardly little Walter Funk in the exercise yard and told him he must reconcile himself to his fate, that he must stand by Goering and die a martyr's death. He need not worry because some day—even if it took fifty years—the German people would rise again and recognize them as heroes, and even move their bones to marble caskets in a national shrine.
But little Funk was not the martyr type, and cared little about what might happen to his bones. He blubbered a good deal. "I assure you," he confided to Dr. Gilbert, "I don't have the stuff for heroism. I didn't then and I don't now. Maybe that is the trouble." "I always came up to the door," he testified wistfully, "but was never allowed to enter." He was an unimportant little man. As president of the Reichsbank, he had made an agreement with Himmler to receive for deposit and handle the gold and jewels and currency that the SS brought in. "I was never told about gold teeth placed in my vaults," he whined on the stand. "How was I to know they included teeth wrenched from corpses?" Great carloads of the personal belongings of murdered Jews were brought to the bank from Auschwitz and Mauthausen; and there they were neatly sorted and arranged. The jewels and watches were sent to the Municipal Pawn Shops; the gold which had been extracted by a special detachment of SS men from the teeth of the corpses before they were cremated and the gold spectacle frames, to the Prussian mint, where they were melted into bars and returned to the Reichsbank. The notes and coin stayed in the bank. A systematic banker, little Funk. …
Day after day, as the trial went on, the horrors piled up—tortures by the Gestapo in France; "experiments" on prisoners, who died in agony; the gas chambers; the carefully planned liquidation of the Jews- hour on hour the twenty-one men in the dock listened, and the shame spread. Documentary films of concentration camps, showing bulldozers piling up huge stacks of naked, unidentifiable bodies, clearly unmanned most of the accused. After one day's evidence, the radio propaganda chief, Hans Fritzsche, was physically ill in his cell. And after the onetime Governor General of occupied Poland, Hans Frank, took the stand to make his cheap, dramatic confession—"a thousand years will pass and still this guilt of Germany will not have been erased"—Schacht observed to Gilbert that Goering's united front of loyalty and defiance seemed to have collapsed.


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