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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 01:57
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BJF wrote:
the HDD is an 1997 item it says, and has a connector that takes the form of pins on about 1mm spacing arranged top and bottom inside a hollow socket 25mm x 4mm (approximately)
Any chance of posting a pic of that connector?
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 03:30
Post subject: Re: Getting Puppy onto an OLD Dell laptop.
BJF wrote:
... but the optical drive doesn't boot. ...
Back in the dark ages there was a small floppy program (DOS?) that allowed selection of which device to boot from regardless of the system BIOS. I tried to load DeLi Linux this way on my 486 machine which did have an optical drive. Getting that, the optical drive, to work was a saga as I recall!.
I know you are unable to format a floppy but If you are really desperate I could "possibly" find the floppy and post it to you. I do have 98se installed on the other hard drive.
I am on the big island to the West of you.
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Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK
Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 03:50
Post subject: Re: Getting Puppy onto an OLD Dell laptop.
Mercedes350se wrote:
Back in the dark ages there was a small floppy program (DOS?) that allowed selection of which device to boot from regardless of the system BIOS
SBM Boot Manager
= SBM = "Smart Boot Manager".
It's a bootable floppy.
You boot the floppy...
It detects all the bootable devices and displays them in a menu...
You choose the bootable optical disk in its drive...
If the drive isn't yet ready with a bootable disk in place [BIOS communication with the drive not yet->(complete, and file system on disk detected/readable)] the attempt will fail [big red warning displayed].
Wait 'till the optical drive LED stops blinking, and retry.
When the BIOS has established communication with the drive the attempt should succeed.
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 05:47
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Sylvander: I am rumbling about with Grub4DOS and SBM both of which I can get onto the laptop via the CD, but I have no idea if they can or how to make them work, except for a floppy installation. The readme instructions pass some distance above this noob's head. If it can be done from files loaded onto C:\ then some hand-holding would be required.
Mercedes: I have a drawer of useful things going back years that needs investigation as it just might (cross fingers) have a data or application flop that goes back to my 98 years. If not, may I call upon you in the West Island and take up your offer please?
All: I'll see about a picture of the mysterious HDD socket for identification. Of course if the HDD gives up, where would I ever get another???
Thanks again.
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 10:40
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It's a very standard hard drive connector, attached to a little bit of Dell wizardry that is fooling you.
What you have is not one part, but TWO. You have a hard drive in a metal and plastic shell called a "caddy". Here's how to dismantle it. Read the instructions CAREFULLY, this thing (stupidly) has a fragile part in it.
Take the four screws off the sides (and SAVE THEM CAREFULLY -- they are tiny and you will need them to put the drive back in later!). Should be two per side. Then tilt the hard drive so that the front (where the black plastic bezel is) is up a little.
You will see a brown bit of what appears to be circuitry at the back of the drive. This is a (rather fragile, unfortunately) flexible PCB connecting what's on the back of the drive to that special connector you mentioned.
Holding the flexible PCB and the connector where it attaches to the drive, so you don't rip it to bits, wiggle and tug the drive off the adapter.
You really do need to be careful, as that flexible PCB can rip very easily -- and there is no way to repair it except getting a replacement. The good news is that if you do rip it, replacements are cheap on eBay -- in the States they are $5.99 for a three-pack (or $5.35 if you only want one). That's US dollars of course.
Once you get the drive off so that you've got hopefully two parts and not three (which would be caddy and most of the adapter, the rest of the adapter that came off with the drive, and the drive itself) you'll see that it's got a standard 44pin connector as described.
...as for the floppy drive: give it up man, that drive is hosed. If you can get a parts machine from eBay you may be able to replace it, but you'll have to pull the laptop apart -- and that is usually a hair-raising experience the first time you do it. It certainly was for me. Doubly so for old Dell laptops -- jigsaw puzzles got nothing on how these things go together. I have a CPi and I hope I don't have to take it apart again any time soon!
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 12:26
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BJF wrote:
Sylvander: I am rumbling about with Grub4DOS and SBM both of which I can get onto the laptop via the CD, but I have no idea if they can or how to make them work
(a) Download
(b) save it somewhere convenient...
(c) Unpack sbm.img from within it.
(a) Write the sbm.img image to a floppy disk.
I probably made the SBM bootable floppy I have, years back when working within Windows, but I had a go just now using Slacko-22.214.171.124 using my present USB-connected floppy disk drive.
Used the following dd command using a terminal run within the Xfe folder [/00] holding the sbm.img file.
dd if=sbm.img of=/dev/sdb
[sdb is the name my Slacko has given to the FDD, so that's what I used in the command]
Don't know if my present brand new PC would boot a bootable floppy residing inside a USB-connected FDD.
So I cannot test it, although the floppy now seems to have the files written to it.
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 13:11
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BJF wrote:
I have a drawer of useful things going back years that needs investigation as it just might (cross fingers) have a data or application flop that goes back to my 98 years. If not, may I call upon you in the West Island and take up your offer please?
Which 98 floppy are you looking for? I have a W98 startup floppy if that is of any use. And that 32mb edo if you are still interested (although the module seems taller than you mentioned)
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Location: Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 14:19
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Dear All: In summary hopefully covering the high spots...
Laptop boots either from floppy or HDD. Win98 uses a different, non-legacy, floppy format(?). -Post 2000 formatted floppies aren't recognised or formatted by laptop. Seemingly only IBM format post 2000 floppies are about now or produced by formatting app's. Data written to one cannot be read by laptop. Wrong format. CD drive works but is non-booting. BIOS won't allow it. A BIOS flash, even if available, needs the floppy drive active. Data can be written to 98 via CD but not accessed as a Live CD. A Boot Manager can therefore be written onto the HDD but presumably not installed on it to supplant the WinBoot and access the CD as a bootable medium. Some hope lies in obtaining a few 98-formatted floppies including a start-up disk PROVIDED that it will permit the boot of a Puppy LiveCD, and PROVIDED that putting eg SBM on a 98 floppy doesn't make it unreadable. The solution to that might lie in asking a 98 owner to write a n SBM disk for me. The HDD may yet (thanks for that Starhawk) be able to be plugged into my old Compaq and installed to.
Thanks to all who have joined in with some really useful suggestions. Greengeek: I'll be in touch!
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Posted: Fri 05 Oct 2012, 15:14
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Hi, BJF,
check out this option - Puppy linux for Win98. From what I read Puppy could be started from ms-dos direct or from Win98. At least you will see if it works for your hardware:
I will write one more time your easiest option to have Puppy on this laptop. Choose some puppy version and copy the files in a folder on your hard drive from Win98.
Install Grub4Dos from
and try to find the right boot code to boot puppy. I'm sure someone who has grub4dos will help you with the right boot code.
BTW PupNgo is not easy to boot this way as frugal install with grub. You might or might not be able to boot it with grub4dos. It has some problem finding the main sfs file when it boots from grub legacy. I've tested this my self and it is also written in the forum thread.
Farewell, Nooby, you will be missed...
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Posted: Sat 06 Oct 2012, 02:13
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OK. I have Smart Boot Manager on a floppy that was formatted under 98se.
PM your details and I will post it across to you.
Using the floppy is a cinch - I will include details with it.
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Posted: Sat 06 Oct 2012, 12:57
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Just a thought.
Have you checked, or altered, the boot order in the BIOS so that the CDROM drive is the first boot device and the hard drive is the second?
Edit: Once you do this it will not matter if the CDROM is left as the first boot device.
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Posted: Sun 07 Oct 2012, 11:34
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A couple points...
@Mercedes350se: this system is incapable of booting from CD-ROM. There will be no option present to do that within the BIOS, simply because the programming within such to make it happen does not exist.
@BJF: you keep talking about Win98 floppies vs. other floppies. I suspect if you put a Win98 floppy in the drive you will find it also not to work.
There are two overarching kinds of floppy drives: those in PCs, and those not in PCs. If you were trying to read a PC 5.25" floppy in a Commodore 1541 disk drive, it will not work because of the low-level encoding of the drive. The way the information is placed on the disk is different between those two. I spent my last semester in college programming assembly on a C64 with two of those drives. It was painful and I didn't learn anything terribly useful (except: assembly code is a pain in the ... ) but it was enjoyable in between frustrations.
However... PC floppy drives are generally fungible within their size category. That is, any 3.5" floppy drive will be able to read any 3.5" floppy disk, given the proper software on the OS end. Therefore, your normally-formatted DOS boot floppy, or Plop boot floppy, or any other bootable floppy, will read and boot if the disk and drive are both functional.
That gives either of two possibilities: one is that your BIOS is hosed. Possible but I would say unlikely. If the system boots and operates normally from the hard drive, then you do not have a bad BIOS -- that little chip controls a lot more than the clock! In fact, BIOS stands for Basic Input / Output System and tells the rest of the computer how to access drives and controllers and such, so that you can have these things work and work well. If your BIOS is toast, it wouldn't boot to Win98 in the first place. (At this point, if it IS toast and the machine doesn't boot anything -- recycle the system, there's not much else to be done, as the BIOS must be updated from the [obviously non-working] floppy drive.)
The other possibility, of course, is that the floppy drive itself is no longer operable. That is far more likely. It is of course a mechanical device, and laptops and notebooks lead rough and tumble lives. So it is likely to have lost its calibration at least, if not fallen entirely to bits inside.
Unfortunately, it is likely to be a 'slim' model that is entirely proprietary (in interface, not operation) to your system, as opposed to simply plunking a desktop drive into something more portable. You would at this point, assuming you want it to work, be looking on eBay for an inexpensive but functional machine for parts, and then you would be looking to learn laptop disassembly -- which tends to have quite the learning curve, especially on older models! (This would definitely be the advanced course.)
My suggestion of pulling the hard drive stands. Forget the floppy drive, you're almost certainly wasting time.
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Posted: Tue 09 Oct 2012, 14:16
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Stahawk: Thank you. Guess I knew your conclusions from early on but the different appearance of the HDD made that course look unlikely. The fear of bricking the lappy sent me off in big circles!
OK. Removed drive and separated it from its caddy. Now it looks just like the Compaq drive here in my right hand once its adapter plug is removed too. It's an IDE drive all right. What's with all these adaptors??? I've put the Compaq back together because it's needed but the Dell drive will go into the Compaq and get PupnGo applied. Report follows.
Somewhere I have a floppy lens cleaner in my bag of old useful things. Hope against hope, I'll give the flop a shampoo one day and see what happens.
Thanks again.
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Posted: Tue 09 Oct 2012, 15:34
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Floppy drives are magnetic... by "lens" I hope you mean "head", otherwise what you have is a shiny disc with brushes on the bottom, which is very good for scratching the lenses of optical drives.
The adapter is a cheap way to fool gullible and/or non-tech people into thinking that the laptop manufacturer is the only company on Earth who can replace their drive for them. It doesn't work very well
...once more I'll remind you that the flexible PCB in that adapter is quite fragile and cannot be repaired once damaged. One hairline cut in one wire counts as "damaged" BTW. Handle that thing with kiddie gloves!
Good luck! Keep us posted.
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Posted: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 07:03
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BJF wrote:
Somewhere I have a floppy lens cleaner in my bag of old useful things. Hope against hope, I'll give the flop a shampoo one day and see what happens.
Try cleaning the heads with a Q-Tip saturated with isopropyl alcohol.
Then use another Q-Tip to dry them.
And don't energize the drive until it's completely dry.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Heather Hill Heath Summer Bloomers
50 comments:
- Orchid de dangau said...
The most I like is Mrs Donaldson ;) so beautiful, never seen before and really hope can touch the real one. Thanks for sharing these beauties.
- August 11, 2011 at 2:59 AM
- Vild-rosen said...
That flower must be what we call "Ljung " in Sweden. It´s an autumn flower in Sweden and in about september/october everyone grow them in pots.
Very lovely one´s you show us and I like Mrs Donaldson at the most.
- August 11, 2011 at 3:20 AM
- Larry said...
What a valuable post... I'm bookmarking it for future reference. I've tried heathers often in the past and had extremely poor luck... I would so love them mixed with my dwarf conifers, but our soil is also neutral and we are zone five. I truly appreciate the info that you've provided... may I ask what your source is on these cultivars? Than you, Larry
- August 11, 2011 at 4:43 AM
- Zoey said...
Interesting plants that I am not very familiar with. I love the foliage as much as the flowers.
- August 11, 2011 at 4:47 AM
- Autumn Belle said...
Lovely bushes. Nice names too!
- August 11, 2011 at 4:47 AM
- Mark and Gaz said...
A lovely little collection of heather and heath there Cher :) Glad to see some doing well in alkaline soil too!
- August 11, 2011 at 4:49 AM
- E said...
gorgeous! I love the names too!
- August 11, 2011 at 6:50 AM
- Andrea said...
These are aliens in the tropics, but i saw some semblance in temperate climes. I love the names Heather and Heaths, my first time to hear such names. They are beautiful.
- August 11, 2011 at 7:31 AM
- Malay-Kadazan girl said...
I have never seen this plants before. So cute!
- August 11, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Paula said...
I have never seen these plants before - thanks for sharing the lovely blooms! Paula from Idaho
- August 11, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- Christine @ Stonehouse Living said...
Hi Cher,
I love the texture and the unique little blooms. So nice and tidy.
Great focal impact in your garden. Thanks for sharing them!
All the Best,
- August 11, 2011 at 9:01 AM
- Darla said...
Very interesting plants today.
- August 11, 2011 at 9:53 AM
- darbycreekyorks said...
Wow you sure pack alot into your garden! I wouldn't remember most of the varieties of my stuff. Is there anything you need that I might have tho?
- August 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM
- Lavender Cottage said...
Hi Cher
I enjoyed seeing all your named plants, to me that's important for reference and recommendations.
I'm not sure if I could grow these in our area even though I have the clay. Might have to just enjoy yours.
- August 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- milka said...
You use a lot of mulch that makes your garden always looks so neat. Beautiful plants. Great idea ;)
- August 11, 2011 at 10:58 PM
- About JollyJilly said...
Hi im a new follower from the blog hop
I really enjoyed your blog and hope you will visit me over in the uk anytime
- August 12, 2011 at 5:16 AM
- Diane said...
Oh, they are stunning and colourful. I've definitely never seen these before they are very interesting to me!
Like an above poster said, the mulch you use really adds to the neatness of your garden.
Happy weekend to your, Cher.
- August 12, 2011 at 5:58 AM
- About JollyJilly said...
Hi I'm already following from jollyjillys my blog is
Hope you will visit
- August 12, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- Rebecca said...
Heather. I MUST try it. I appreciate your post. It has whetted my "appetite" to try some & see how they do in our soil here.
- August 12, 2011 at 9:16 AM
- Forest Rose said...
Happy Friday...This is such a peaceful blog. New follower from the boost:))
Forest Rose
- August 12, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Dragonfly Treasure said...
Love those!!
- August 12, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Ciccia said...
Beautiful flowers, I didn't know Heather is a flower. I don't know much about flowers actually, except roses and daisies and carnations. But I have basil, rosemary and coriander on my balcony back home in Sicily. Luckily my husband remembers to water them, I don't have a green thumb. I do love gardens though. I'm following you from Rome, we're here for the summer. I found you through my friend melogranoantico and I'm following you from now. Have a nice weekend!
- August 12, 2011 at 3:09 PM
- ANGEL said...
nice flowers sunray! never heard of them before, but they're very pretty. happy gardening!
- August 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM
- GirlSprout said...
I've always wanted to grow heathers because they seem so romantic, but they don't do well here. Yours are so healthy. The Ken Wilson is a pretty shade of pink.
- August 12, 2011 at 11:32 PM
- Aerie-el said...
Love heathers, not just cuz of a Scottish background either! Yours look great!
- August 13, 2011 at 1:18 AM
- Fishtail Cottage said...
Fabulous Heather (my middle name) i too enjoy Heather in the gardens - its a great filler & not to fussy! Thanks for sharing your gardne post this week at Cottage Flora Thursday's! xoox, tracie
- August 13, 2011 at 1:26 AM
- louise said...
I like to plant heather in tubs and hanging baskets for winter colour. You can't beat seeing it in it's natural habitat like the Scottish Highlands.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Always good to meet fellow gardeners x
- August 13, 2011 at 3:37 AM
- orchideya said...
Like them all, such lovely display. Ken Wilson is the best. And thank you for visiting my blog.
- August 13, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- Sissy said...
Cher, I loved seeing those heathers! I don't think they do well, here, in the midwest...I rarely see them. We saw them when traveling the east coast, I think you hit on the head about the acidity, whatever your pH is, you got it right!
They almost look like sedum, don't you think?
- August 13, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Vild-rosen said...
Thank you for the tip, I´ll try a Sedum Angelina and hopefully it will make me like the "autumnchair"
Have a nice weekend.
- August 13, 2011 at 12:13 PM
- Marlee said...
Man I love a good garden, nice pics! Great blog, am a new follower :).
- August 13, 2011 at 4:41 PM
- Melynda said...
We have Heather in the front yard on the street side of the fence, some of them bloom, others not. I do like that they are hardy, you have to be to survive in my front yard!
- August 13, 2011 at 8:15 PM
- Michael said...
I have been looking to add some evergreen shrubs to my garden and these are perfect, both in size and shape. Will they do well in dappled sun areas?
- August 14, 2011 at 10:23 AM
These look great Cher. I might try some later when I get the other things done I am doing, but it will be a while yet.
- August 14, 2011 at 2:22 PM
- Terri @ A Creative Princess said...
What a beautiful blog! Thank you so much for linking up!
- August 14, 2011 at 7:01 PM
- Krafty Max Originals said...
Hop'in by from 'Boost My Blog Friday Blog Hop'. I'm following your blog now, wont you please come and follow me back?? ~KM
Krafty Max Originals
- August 15, 2011 at 5:21 AM
- dorothy said...
I really like the texture and colors of those heaths. I don't think they will grow in our climate, but I enjoyed seeing the varities in your lovely garden! Happy Bloom Day!
- August 15, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- Chavonne said...
Hello, I found you blog on the Meet Me Monday Blog Hop & I'm a new GFC follower :)
very pretty photos :)
- August 15, 2011 at 5:59 PM
- The Sage Butterfly said...
I like the feature of heath...so much texture and character. Happy GBBD!
- August 15, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Malar said...
I never seen this plant before! Very beautiful. Are those leaves pricky?
- August 15, 2011 at 9:43 PM
- kitchen flavours said...
Beautiful flowers, have not seen these before. I like the Heath Williamskii, the contrast between the lovely pink flowers and their needle foliage is really strikingly beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
- August 15, 2011 at 11:44 PM
- greggo said...
very interesting that they do well in your clay. They seem to rot out for me.
- August 16, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Donna Heber said...
Your heather and heaths are just gorgeous, especially the Ken Wilson! I did try to grow one years ago, but for some reason it didn't come back. I hope you are having a wonderful week.
- August 16, 2011 at 12:33 PM
- Donna @ The House on the Corner said...
So wish I had a green thumb! I just love an environment that crowded with plants and fragrance!
Thanks so much for joining the Tuesday Train!
- August 16, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Jennifer @ Just Peachy in Dixie said...
Beautiful! You have such a lovely garden. I would love it if you would stop by my very first blog hop debuting today and share one of your great posts!
Have a wonderful day!
- August 16, 2011 at 7:34 PM
- Olga said...
These plants are very pretty. I especially like the one in the second picture, such beautiful bright color.
Have a lovely day!
- August 17, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Lorraine Syratt said...
What a pretty collection of Heathers. I've never attempted to grow them in my southern Ontario garden, but I should, They'd be great as stand-alone plants or along borders to break up the lavenders. Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Lorraine at RomanticGardening.com And thank you for stopping by my blog earlier today.
- August 17, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Victoria's Voice said...
Absolutely Beautiful!
I wanted to stop by and thank you for participating in the Get Wired Blog Hop. I am following you.
Have a wonderful day!
- August 21, 2011 at 3:06 PM
- ann said...
Hi. I have come to you by way of Heather's Fields. What a sad post today about the brute of an Elk destroying her garden. I love your hydrangea and am quite curious as to your secret for getting them to do so well. I planted one last summer and it failed to come back this spring. I want to plant another one this fall. Any tips for zone 5 (Northern Colorado) on how to amend soil and protect it over the winter? Love your heathers too.
- August 23, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Sunray Gardens said...
Hi Ann. Hydrangeas depend on the type you get. I only buy the Hydrangea Paniculata. A lot of people buy the Macrophylla which doesn't do well here way too often. The ones I have listed do well up North. I don't amend my soil period. I have clay and I'm not going to try and make it anything else. It has to survive here period. :)
Any other questions please feel free to ask. You can email me also from my profile.
- August 23, 2011 at 10:04 AM


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The Miracles of Light (Dec, 1936)
The Miracles of Light
By Charles Morrow Wilson
THEY were having a light dinner party. Samuel G. Hibben, illumination engineer and authority on light and responses to light, was host. Food, drink, and chef were the best that money could buy. There were musicians, gay storytellers and all the trimmings.
The host had even arranged special lighting for the evening. Instead of ordinary clear or frosted lamp bulbs, he substituted especially designed filter lamps which cut out all the ordinary spectrum . of colors except greens and reds.
Guests strolled in to the table, hale, hearty and merry. Then they began to notice that their eyes were deceiving them. Delicious steaks were whitish gray. Celery was gaudy pink. Milk appeared blood red. Salads were bright blue. Lemons became oranges. Coffee changed to pale yellow. Fresh green peas appeared black. Peanuts seemed bright red.
The food and the cooking were perfect, but the broken-spectrum lights played havoc with established senses of color and taste. Therefore the dinner party wasn't especially enjoyable. Most of the guests ate almost nothing. Several left the table prematurely, and two became violently ill after dinner because of "confused eye responses."
The dinner party was not altogether a practical joke. It was a demonstration of the effect of light, not only upon the sense of sight, but upon related senses of taste, smell and touch. It was a pertinent example of the underlying theory of modern light research—that over and above its abstract physical qualities, today's challenge of light is a challenge of individual application and individual reactions to light on the parts of the various orders of life. In order to make plants grow better, we must literally learn how the world looks to a plant. To use light as a defense against insects or bacteria, we must learn something of how the world looks to insects and bacteria. Such learning is a tremendous job.
Today men of light are learning, and therefore we see spectacular progress in the classification and use of lights. Outstanding among these steps of progress are sterilization of bacteria and harmful microorganisms by means of the lethal or death ray; trapping of harmful moths and night-flying insects by use of the correct length of light waves; destruction of termites and borers by light; further perfection of the X-ray; better propagation of desirable plants and seed, and destruction of undesirable plants and seeds by the use of light.
Most of our new findings in light remain in the world of the unseen. We see only a small octave of light. The best human eye in the world is at least half blind.
Light is measured in terms of angstroms —linear distance between crests of light waves, which so far as we know are shaped very much like water waves. Nobody ever saw an angstrom. Here's why. Take a medium dull pencil and make a mark on a piece of paper. The width of this mark is probably about one millimeter—roughly one twenty-fifth of an inch. The angstrom is one ten-millionth
of one millimeter. The human eye sees only in terms of light waves between 4,000 and 8,000 angstroms in length. Any wave longer than 8,000 passes out of the range of our visibility, begins to be registered by our nerve ends, and therefore we call it heat. Light waves of around 3,300 angstroms, though below the bounds of our spectrum, are the much talked about ultraviolet rays which give becoming sun tans. The X-ray, as short as ten angstroms, is the shortest light wave known to science. Between the X-ray and the ultraviolet are the more recently segregated lethal or "death" rays, those between 2,000 and 3,000 angstroms in length. Use of the lethal ray as a potential and powerful agency of destruction today offers some of the most thrilling chapters in the whole thrilling subject of light. Scientifically speaking, the lethal ray is just now being born, and its birth is a tough break for little bugs. Bacteria or microorganisms are its logical prey. In terms of human beings or large animal specie the lethal ray is not yet a "death ray." The actual penetration of the lethal ray remains extremely slight. Under present classification it couldn't dig far enough into a human body to reach a vital organ, though it can cause a malignant skin burn. But it is a dealer of speedy death to bacteria and microorganisms.
For every animal that breathes there are unseen billions of bacteria. Much of this vast bacterial life is helpful to man, in fact indispensable. Yet the bacterial little bugs sometimes get through their vigilance. They may drop down from the air. They may hover in particles of sponge or rubber. Though ordinary flesh wounds can be pretty well cleaned with liquid sterilizers, a surgeon opening a human abdomen can't "germ-proof" this kind of wound by pouring in a pint or two of liquid sterilizer. That would probably be as hard on the patient as on the bacteria.
Dr. Hibben and his staff of light students, engineers, pathologists and medical researchers, visualize a device whereby every type of wound can be cleansed of all bacteria by means of lethal-ray light. They have actually invented and patented this equipment. The Westinghouse Lamp company recently shipped out 100 lethal-ray sterilizers. Each machine goes to a prominent physician or surgeon for experimental use. Thus far the equipment isn't safe for the amateur to use. The mechanical challenge is primarily one of producing a bulb with glass filters so extremely thin that the glass will tend to center the power of the tiny waves. A bubble process has been devised which reduces the thickness of the glass to about one-thirty-thousandths of an inch. In addition to killing microorganisms on flesh surfaces the lethal rays combat certain skin ailments such as ringworm and "athlete's foot," apparently caused by microorganisms that are first cousins to ordinary bread molds.
That's the human side of the lethal-ray story. The housekeeping side is but a short step away. Today we see the arrival of lethal-ray equipment to give the permanent knockout to every organism that may lurk on dinner plates, glasses, or cups. Most of these microorganisms are comparatively harmless. Yet if you and I were shown enlargements of the infinitesimal plant and animal life that settles upon the cleanest of chinaware wholly without invitation, we would probably indulge in quite a number of fasts. The New York City Board of Health now has under consideration eradiation equipment which sterilizes restaurant, hotel, and fountain equipment by lethal waves of light.
Already the death ray is beginning to take a place in commercial meat-packing and canning. Every day, microorganisms too small to be seen cause tremendous spoilage loss of foods. Therefore several commercial packers are beginning to use lethal light rays to sterilize and pre-insure the keeping qualities of their products. This attainment grew directly out of research on ways to sterilize refrigerators. The answer seems to be that foods should be made sterile before entering a refrigerator. Glass or earthenware containers can be pretty well sterilized with boiling water. Frequently containers made of wood, pulps, or plant-fiber products cannot stand the boiling water treatment and demand sterilization by eradiation.
Molds, too, are among the most costly of all weed pests, ruining uncounted millions in food products every year. Mold ravages have been seriously aggravated by entry of the pre-sliced loaves of bread. Careful wrapping and storage are not always a safeguard. Sometimes mold spores get on mixing machinery or knife blades and become planted in the bread before it is wrapped. Today, at least one great chain bakery is beginning to use lethal-ray vaccination against molds in all of its products, including fruit cakes and plum puddings.
It is possible, even probable, that death-ray equipment will be available for home use within five years, or sooner. The equipment is still comparatively expensive, and if handled carelessly is extremely dangerous to human skin and eyesight. The inventors and developers make the friendly suggestion that if you wish to experiment with the lethal ray, you better watch your step.
So far we have been talking of extremely small light waves that destroy extremely small bugs. Let's consider larger waves that attract larger bugs. Use of lights for trapping night-flying beetles and moths gains increasing importance since we find that many of our gravest insect pests are readily attracted by lights which are within range of human visibility. On a summer night one may now see light traps in lawns and gardens, serving not only for the good of grass and gardens, but also for the comfort of people. Orchardists are learning that light traps are the most effective control of codling moths, foremost enemy to apples, and lawn tenders are finding that light is equally effective for trapping the Asiatic beetle which eats grass and foliage, while its larvae destroy roots.
The light trap is simple. It can be merely a lamp, either kerosene or electric, placed above a pan of kerosene or beside some leaves or strands of sticky flypaper. Moths and beetles fly to the light and eventually skid down into the kerosene or tumble against the flypaper. There also are light traps on the market.
Insect trapping with light becomes more important as insect damage becomes more serious. The world grows smaller as transportation becomes faster and bugs get around quicker. The Asiatic beetle, which probably accounts for the brown spots on your lawn, is said to have reached us by way of a shipment of oriental iris bulbs. This bug,, one of the most serious menaces of our time, is one of the most easily trapped by light. An air liner from Cuba to Florida brings a dozen malarial mosquitoes as unnoticed stowaways. Left to their own devices many of our worst insect pests wouldn't spread far. But when the chance comes for an insect to hop a ride, that's a different story.
The real importance of light trapping of the night flyers lies in local control or defense against localized insect plagues and is an excellent supplement for quarantining, spraying and other forms of necessary warfare against our fiercest competitor, the bug. Light trapping came into popularity as a by-product of the nation-wide craze for miniature golf courses. People went at night to play on these brightly lighted courses. Lights drew bugs, and bugs annoyed customers. Operators demanded light traps and got them. Then it became evident that many of the bugs caught in these traps were miners of crops, lawns, and gardens.
To trap any sort of game, one must know something about the habits and senses of that game. Unquestionably insect eyes respond differently to light than ours do. To visualize just how the world looks to a bug is a hard job. But this is exactly what light engineers and entomologists, aided and coordinated by the department of agriculture, are trying to do. Progress is promising.
Many insects are attracted by light waves which we can see. Asiatic beetles or codling moths can be trapped with an ordinary clear lamp. Others, like the mosquito, are actually repelled by lights that are within the range of human visibility. Others, like the grasshopper, evidently see by a light which we can't see at all. But within limits of our own sight and color spectrum, the greatest number of night-flying insects seem most attracted by bluish-white lights. Frequently a delicate blue bulb will lure twice as many bugs and moths to a trap as a plain clear bulb. Red lights have little drawing power since insect eyes seem blind to red and green. A red bulb will usually draw less than half as many as a clear bulb, while yellow or golden lights often repel. Bees, hornets, and wasps swarm about fine blue lights, and most other insects respond most easily to the fine blues and violets, which are the lower edge of the human spectrum. There is every reason to believe that ultraviolet light, ranging from colors faintly visible to the human eye, through the shorter wave lengths on down to 3,300 angstroms, the sun tan light, is most effective for drawing insects.
Colors and temperature reactions are also important. We don't know much about the thermodynamics of insect life, but we are learning something of color responses of the lower orders. In this connection the recent introduction of electrical illuminations through gases is important. Sunlight, as we know it, is a gas-filtered light, but the filtration provided by the atmosphere of the earth, and perhaps by oxygen clouds which surround the sun, allows a comparatively solid wall of color spectrum. On the other hand we now know certain gases can eliminate large portions of the color spectrum of light, blot out some colors entirely and therefore intensify others. The Neon tube light for signs is a good commercial demonstration of this principle. Light filtered through helium, for example, is cream-pink to the eye; through argon, vivid purple; through thallium, vivid green. Mercury vapor reduces the spectrum to red, yellow, green, blue.
Quite possibly this new conception of "gas light" may have a profound place in insect control through color response and allure. In any case light would seem the most logical control element for harmful insect and bacterial life. The field of light-trapping, like the infinite field of light study and experiment, is wide open for the amateur, for the home mechanic and for the original observer.
In viewing the new magic of light, we should notice some new findings in the life-giving relationship between life and leaf, since in this perennial mystery lies the final source of the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the wood that builds our houses and starts our fires. Unfortunately, science does not yet know the exact chemistry or organism of leaf growth. Science believes that an assortment of some fifteen chemicals from the soil, with rain ' water and gases from the air, properly motorized by sunlight somehow produces the delicate magic of the leaf. Light, usually sunshine, is evidently the basic growth element for most plants. Few seeds will germinate unless the soil about them is exposed to light.
But the earlier theory that no other light but sunlight can cause seed to sprout or leaves to grow is now being dropped. Some of the best nurserymen are finding that two hours of intense electrical lighting each day will produce excellent blossoms from virtually any variety of garden flower; that in greenhouses or indoors if sunlight be supplemented by electric lights at night, or even during part of the night, many plants bloom or mature several weeks sooner than they will in the open, even though soil and temperature are the same.
Some of our best agronomists now believe that plant growth is actually affected by moonlight, even though this is a reflected light that has long been considered a "dead" or "negative" light. Dr. Randall R. Kincaid, scientific director of the Florida State Experiment has found that a small-sized seed, such as tobacco seed, will actually germinate when exposed only to bright moonlight. Physically speaking, we can only say that light is light, and we have no very good reason to argue that sunlight is basically different from other light in its effect upon living organisms.
However, there is good reason to believe that colors and length of light wave have a profound bearing upon plant growth or death. Flint, a famous experimental botanist, finds that in terms of plant growth, yellow, orange, and red are the colors of life, while the part of the spectrum which we see as blue and violet are colors of death or dormancy to the leaf. That is, the coarser light waves are best for plants, whereas the finer waves, including the ultraviolet, don't help at all. This opens a tremendous field for thought and experiment.
Flint, assisted by Johnson of the Smithsonian Institution, also found a red that is poisonous to plants. This is a narrow band of coarse red just at the top edge of our visible color spectrum, and it is sure death to leaf and seed alike. Astronomers believe that the vast envelope of oxygen surrounding the sun, filters sunlight of this particular wave length. In their native state, plants are therefore not exposed to this coarse red. Develop a type of glass to accentuate or center this wave length, and unquestionably you have a tool of death to use against weeds or other plant pests. Or maybe a strong enough concentration of this coarse red could kill weed seeds already on or in the ground.
The same may be true of the plant poison contained in the blues and violets of our spectrum and in the ultraviolet rays. The Flint experiments prove that an oat sprout, growing heartily in ordinary un-filtered light, is definitely improved by yellow or golden rays, but when exposed to blue light, growth of the little plant ceases, its strength begins to fail, and presently it dies.
A famous French researcher, Le Clerc of the Paris Institute, goes further with this theory in analyzing the effect of Bordeaux mixture. Bordeaux mixture is a combination of copper sulphate and lime. For years it has been our greatest tool for fighting fungus diseases of plants. Fungi, tiny plants that suck the life out of larger plants, are one of the gravest menaces to plant life generally. We have been told that copper sulphate contained in the mixture poisons the fungus organism, and that the lime merely reduces the damage to the plant caused by the copper.
But Le Clerc proves that this cannot be poisonous to fungi because the copper is allied so tightly to the lime that it can never actually reach the parasite organism. He also proves that the leaf coating of the copper sulphate-and-lime compound called Bordeaux mixture allows only blue light to reach the fungus organism, since the lime niters out all the rest of the spectrum. Neither mildew spores nor fungi mycelium can grow under the poisonous blue ray. The fungus spores can germinate, but the blue light weakens them and they soon die.
All this opens an entirely new concept of plant-disease control, weed killing, speedy propagation of flowers and vegetables based upon the application and filtration of light, and upon light bands and death bands of the color spectrum.
Since sunlight is free, and of worldwide extent, since electrical facilities increase at an unprecedented rate, the possibility of man's being able to control or influence plant life by means of light is of great importance and timeliness. We still don't know exactly what light is. But we are learning a great deal more about what light can do.


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The Ellis Lab is actively involved in advancing foundational synthetic biology and applying synthetic biology to a variety of different research areas. Our research is interdisciplinary, with members coming from biology, chemistry, maths and engineering backgrounds. The laboratory is part of CSynBI, The Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation and The Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College, London. The major focuses of the lab are studying the construction of regulatory networks and understanding how to build a designer genome from parts.
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- Feb 2013: Welcoming Joshua Smit, Joachim de Jonge and Thomas Hargest to the Ellis Lab
- Jan 2013: Welcoming Dr Francesca Ceroni to our group.
- Dec 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking to Kent Fungal Group on Dec 10th
- Nov 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking at Trinity College Science Society in Cambridge on Nov 13th
- Oct 2012: Welcoming Ollie Wright to the lab, and welcoming back Tim and George for PhDs
- Sep 2012: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 19th Sept at the CRICK Systems and Synthetic Biology Event in London.
- Aug 2012: We're all glued to the Olympics. The Triathlon comes right by us. Work?
- Jul 2012: Our article on yeast fractal growth is in the Leverhulme Trust Newsletter
- Jun 2012: Our GEN Magazine interview on synthetic biology is out. Several of us will also be at the enGENEious meeting in Oxford on 25-26 June
- May 2012: Ben Reeve will be exhibiting our synbio work at the Imperial Festival on Fri-Sat 11-12 May.
- Apr 2012: The Ellis Lab sign-up to make Synthetic Yeast Chromosome XI at the 1st Sc2.0 International Meeting.
- Mar 2012: Our paper on promoter libraries and orthogonal TAL-effector-based regulation is published in PLoS One. Official press release is here.
- Feb 2012: Our review Construction of synthetic regulatory networks in yeast is published by FEBS Letters
- Jan 2012: Ben Reeve awarded 'Bioengineer of the year' at the Department Christmas Dinner
- Dec 2011: Awarded a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for Rapid Protease Detection using Synthetic Biology.
- Nov 2011: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 2nd Nov at 17th IBC 2011 Conference in Beijing, China.
- Oct 2011: Welcoming PhD candidate Ben Reeve to the group.
- Sep 2011: Tom Ellis will be speaking on 2nd Sep at IEEE's EMBC 2011 Conference in Boston, USA.
- Aug 2011: Check out the Imperial iGEM team 2011, working to make roots grow better where they're needed.
- Jul 2011: Fabio Chizzolini has successfully defended his MSc Thesis at Padova University, getting 100% cum laudae.
- Jun 2011: Tom Ellis, Arturo Casini and Ben Blount will all be at SB5.0, Stanford Uni, June 15th to 17th
- May 2011: Our review on DNA Assembly has been featured in Nature and Nature Methods
- Apr 2011: We have created a GFP variant expressing stably in a Thermophile for promoter characterisation in high-temperature organisms. It REALLY glows.
- Mar 2011: Talks of our research are being used in an interactive artwork: Public Misunderstandings of Science currently at Lab Life at The Lighthouse, Brighton.
- Feb 2011: E.Chromi project with James King and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, nominated for UK Design Museum's 2010 Design Of The Year.
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The healthcare industry is one of the world's largest and fastest-growing industries where efficiency and accuracy are vital. To improve patient care and operational efficiency, a hospital in Sichuan brought in Chainway's mobile healthcare solution.
1. The HIS system on PC terminal can't achieve mobility of bedside nursing.
2. Lacking detailed records is a barrier to generate positive patient outcomes.
3. Performance assessment and effective scheduling of nurses can't be realized.
4. The nurse handwritings are highly error prone.
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Award-winning Pipeline Theatre Company announces a 2nd extension of its wildly popular and critically acclaimed production of CLOWN BAR by Adam Szymkowicz, with music & additional lyrics by Adam Overett. It is directed by Andrew Neisler. Performances will now run through September 27 at The Box.In CLOWN BAR, Happy's junkie brother Timmy is found dead, so he returns to his old clown life to ask a few questions. But can Happy go home again without getting sucked into the seedy clown underbelly of vice and violence? Put on your red nose, throw back your shot of extra-funny, and get swept into this immersive who-done-it as bad-guy-gone-good Happy Mahoney confronts his past in a vengeful attempt to solve his brother's murder. CLOWN BAR stars Willy Appelman, Ian Axness, Salty Brine, Andrew Farmer, Jessica Frey, Daniel Johnsen, Ben Langhorst, Michael Lorz, Iris McQuillan-Grace, Cyndi Perczek, Kelly Rogers, Claire Rothrock, Gianmarco Soresi, Emma Tattenbaum-Fine, Dan Tracy, Amir Wachterman, Eric Williams, and Shane Zeigler. The production team includes Andy Yanni (Production Manager, Set & Prop Design), Joe Cantalupo (Lighting), Meghan Gaber (Costumes), Turner Smith (Fight Direction), Ben Hobbs (Choreography), Ian Axness (Musical Direction, Additional Music, & Accompaniment), Ari Schrier (Producer), Anna Lauren Farrell (Associate Producer), Kristin Bodall (Production Stage Manager), Darragh Garvey (Casting Director), Colter Ogden (Stage Manager), and Heather McDevitt Barton (Wardrobe Supervisor). Adam Szymkowicz studied playwriting at Juilliard and Columbia. The New York Times has called his plays, "sweet, sexy, neurotic friendly," "fabulously weird and weirdly fabulous," "weird but likable," "hysterical," and "disturbing but touching." His plays, which include Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, My Base and Scurvy Heart, Incendiary, Fat Cat Killers, The Why Overhead, UBU, and Nerve, have been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LAByrinth Theater Company, Primary Stages, The New Group, Southern Rep, Rising Phoenix, The Lark, Kitchen Dog, and Chicago Dramatists. He is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner. He also runs a blog where he has interviewed over 540 playwrights and his web series, Compulsive Love, is coming out soon. For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.Andrew Neisler is a Georgia-raised, Brooklyn-based theatre artist and director. Recent directing credits: The Gray Man (HERE Arts Center with Smith + Tinker), Charlatan (Ars Nova Project Residency), Shoot the Freak (Not Just 3 New Plays), Golden Baby: Good Point! (Ars Nova ANT Fest), Tape (Strasberg Institute), Folk Wandering (Ars Nova ANT Fest/Joe's Pub), Bebe Zahara Benet's Creature (XL), Alfridge Von Waddlegrave (Aggrocrag/Ars Nova ANT Fest). Artistic Director,Political Subversities. Co-Founder/Co-Director, Fresh Ground Pepper. BFA, NYU/Tisch. www.fgpnyc.com. Founded in 2009, Pipeline Theatre Company makes theater of the imagination. Their company thrives on adventure and believes no story is worth telling without a little risk. Past productions include: Nate Weida's gibberish musical BYUIOO, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle (2011 NY IT Award winner & ITBA Special Citation for Outstanding Production), Bekah Brunstetter's Fat Kids on Fire (directed by Tony-nominee Peter Frechette), Tim Chawaga's Sleepless City, Charles Busch's Psycho Beach Party, Colby Day's Felix & The Diligence, Giant Killer Slugs, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of The Nightingale and Ash Girl. For more info visit www.pipelinetheatre.org CLOWN BAR runs now through September 27, Saturdays at 7:30pm. The Box is located at 189 Chrystie Street between Stanton & Rivington, two blocks below Houston -- accessible from the F train at 2nd Avenue. Tickets are $30-$50 available at 800-838-3006 or www.brownpapertickets.com.


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Even though it's only 10 a.m., it's already hot out on the asphalt parking lot surrounding the Love's Travel Centers Salisbury location right off I-85 in North Carolina – a 10-acre site featuring eight gasoline pumps capable of refueling 16 cars and nine diesel pumps able to refuel 18 heavy trucks (with diesel exhaust fluid or "DEF" dispensers available on the diesel fuel island as well) plus a truck-dedicated Tire Care Center, CAT Scales, and 11,000 sq. ft. building housing a retail shopping area and two fast-food restaurants.
[To view more photos of Love's Salisbury site, click here.]
Yet neither the heat nor the vehicle traffic dissuade either Jeff Webb, general manager of Love's Salisbury location, or Bill Stanton, Love's district manager for North Carolina and Virginia, from making their rounds.
[That's Webb on the left and Stanton on the right in the photo above at right.]
I got the chance to visit Love's Salisbury travel center back in May since Shell held its annual Super Rigs competition in nearby Charlotte – largely to obtain a "behind-the-scenes" glimpse of how truck stops provide the ubiquitous "food and fuel" services expected by big rig operators and everyday motorists alike.
[For a little history about this venerable truck stop chain, go here.]
Webb typically arrives at 6 a.m. and conducts what he calls a quick "drive around" of the entire facility just to see if there's anything glaringly wrong he needs to take care of immediately. Once parked, he gets out on foot and combs the fuel islands and parking spaces, making sure pump nozzles are clean, there are no spills, trash cans are emptied and loose trash picked up.
He then goes inside to ensure store shelves are neat and properly stocked and that the restaurants (in his case a McDonald's and Chester's Fried Chicken) are operating smoothly, along with the fuel desks.
Later, he'll stop by the two-bay Tire Care Center at the back of the Salisbury facility to make sure things are ship-shape there, too.
It's a process that doesn't stop for Webb during the day as he doesn't have an office. Instead, he'll just stay almost continuously in motion, jumping in to help where needed – re-stocking shelves, closing sales at the gasoline and/or diesel "desks," even cleaning bathrooms or one of the facility's seven showers if necessary.
Yet Webb explained to me that he "wears a lot of hats" in this fashion due in part to his own history as a truck driver. "I spent 10 years out on the road, then eight years working at truck stops – the last two for Love's," he said. "I'm very familiar with how tough life on the road can be and I'm putting that experience to work here."
Webb and Stanton both stressed that truck drivers can get food and fuel almost anywhere from any number of providers. Thus customer service is the one big differentiator out in the truck stop world.
"A driver is out on the road for 10 hours at a time, so the truck stop for them is often one of the few times they get to interact with people," Webb said. "Thus they want friendly service, working pumps, plus clean showers and bathrooms."
Stanton said the key to providing what he calls "top drawer" service is to find good people to staff a truck stop and then put a lot of trust in them to do things right.
"We not only teach them but get our managers to lead by example," he noted – emphasizing why general managers at Love's facilities jump in and do the "dirty work" such as cleaning bathrooms. "If they do that, they become our fire fighters; they are doing daily checks and making things right all on their own. If we cover our bases that way, if we're firing on all cylinders as a team, then there will be few customer service 'fires' to put out."
Another example of the "team ethos" that pervades Love's Salisbury location is that the eight technicians staffing the two-bay Tire Care Center at the back of the property pull double duty as grounds keepers – mowing the lawn every Tuesday, weeding and cleaning up trash as necessary.
The site also functions under what Webb dubbed the "eight hour rule" in that trash cans are emptied, fuel nozzles cleaned, and the windshield cleaning fluid available at both the gasoline and diesel fuel islands gets replaced every eight hours.
Love's also continues to try and broaden its array of services as well in order to meet more of the industry's needs. For example, in June, the company rolled out Love's Financial to offer freight factoring services to help drivers manage their business and cash flow through flexible cash management products with lower transaction fees.
Gary Morgan, director of Love's Financial, noted that drivers can wait up to 60 days for payment from shippers after delivering a freight load, whereas via factoring they can get paid within 24 hours or less, which provides the capital they need between loads to cover upfront expenses, such as fuel, insurance and payroll.
He added that drivers can factor with Love's remotely, or at any Love's that offers Transflo Express. Factoring is different than a loan, meaning drivers won't incur debt and it comes without the same level of credit restrictions.
The company is also trying to help make natural gas a more attractive option for fleets by installing "fast-fill" compressed natural gas (CNG) systems capable of refueling a heavy truck at a rate of 10 gallons per minute; meaning a driver can fill a 100 gallon equivalent tank in 10 minutes or less, noted Bill Cashmareck recently, the general manager of natural gas at Love's.
So far Love's has opened four fast-fill CNG locations – three in Texas and one in Oklahoma – with another 12 on the way for 2015 and beyond, with another six planned for Texas, three in Oklahoma, and one each in Ohio, Arizona, and New Mexico.
"We believe these locations will be in areas of high demand as the market for this cost-efficient fueling alternative evolves," Cashmareck said. "We're focused on serving both our heavy-duty customers and the general public [and] plan to increase coverage for the general public by adding a light-duty option 'fast-fill' option to our existing 11 light-duty CNG stores throughout Oklahoma."
Like many other travel center chains, Love's is also trying to beef up its truck maintenance and repair offerings so it can continue to be more of a "one stop shop" for independents and fleets alike.
Aside from providing most types and brands of truck tires at its 190 or so Tire Care Centers typically co-located at its truck stops – brands such as Bridgestone, Firestone, Aeolus, Michelin, Michelin Retreat Technologies, Goodyear, Continental, BF Goodrich and Yokohama – the company plans to double from the current 70 locations hat offer light mechanical services by the end of 2014.
"Expanding light mechanical locations means drivers can count on quality service and professionalism for electrical repairs, belts and hoses, fleet and DOT inspections, brake repairs and more," noted Tom Love, the chain's founder and executive chairman, back in March. "We've received an overwhelmingly positive response since light mechanical services were introduced in 2012. The lifeblood of a driver is being on the road, and we believe it's our responsibility to offer the best range of products and services to get them back on the road quickly, safely and with proven products."
Love's is also reinvesting in its existing truck tire care facilities by adding tire and part warehouse space along with more enclosed bays, more room and increased amenities.
Technology isn't an afterthought at truck stops today, either, and that's another area Love's hopes to keep expanding upon – especially where radio frequency identification, or RFID, is concerned. Love's offers an RFID-enabled diesel fuel payment system at its truck stops, with a low cost RFID tag placed on a truck's windshield allowing drivers to turn fuel pumps on and off as well as complete the payment transaction with little interaction.
Jon Archard, director of fuel marketing for Love's, said RFID technology provides a valuable benefit not only because it's easy for drivers to use, but that it also provides a major fuel theft deterrent and provides more accurate payment tracking information.
"A gallon of diesel fuel costs roughly $4. If RFID technology can eliminate just 1% of fuel theft or other unauthorized fuel purchases, the trucking company has saved four cents per gallon," Archard said. "There aren't many ways for a fleet to see this sort of financial impact with such a minimal cost to do so."
"Having the ability to activate the pumps and pay for fuel without having to swipe a payment card and then come in to the diesel desk to get the pump started is a big time saver," Webb explained. "It just removes one more hassle a driver needs to deal with. Because today, the way hours of service (HOS) rules are set up, drivers want to maximize their time on the road. And as an RFID system can help them do that, we want to have it in place for them."
Just one more example of what's going on under the surface at the truck stop in order to help make a driver's day – and thus that of the industry's – more efficient, more comfortable, and more profitable.


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Supreme Court Rules Narrowly In Bilski; Business Method & Software Patents Survive
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Update: Many people had expected that Justice Stevens (who is retiring) would write the majority opinion. Instead that was done by Justice Kennedy. Justice Stevens' concurring opinion, however, is a pretty strong rebuke of the reasoning in the majority opinion, even if he agrees with the final outcome. It appears that Stevens does think that business method patents are a problem, but couldn't convince enough members of the court to come out and say it.
Since at least the days of Assyrian merchants, peoplehave devised better and better ways to conduct business. Yet it appears that neither the Patent Clause, nor early patent law, nor the current §101 contemplated or waspublicly understood to mean that such innovations arepatentable. Although it may be difficult to define withprecision what is a patentable "process" under §101, the historical clues converge on one conclusion: A business method is not a "process."


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Did you know Botany Bay was once a dry land mass crisscrossed by rivers? Or that Sydney Airport possibly could have been moved to Towra Point? These are just some of the stories you will see in our new exhibition at Mascot Library & George Hanna Memorial Museum.
We are here explores the history of Bayside through maps. The exhibition features a number of enlarged maps so you can get up close and see tiny details such as a series of hideouts that once existed around Sydney Airport.
Throughout the exhibition we also encourage you to share your observations and memories by writing them to sticky notes and placing them on the maps you find interesting. Alternatively keep an eye out for our upcomming map related workshops.
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Get out of the rut of researching Internet's gigantic genealogy databases. They are extremely worthwhile, but there is much more to explore on the Internet. I have discovered many great web sites for Illinois. They offer digital images.
The Illinois Digital Archives is worth checking. I recommend that you begin by clicking on the Collection Directory. This will give you an idea of what is there, then you can browse and search. There is also a help site if you have questions. Some of the collections include Illinois Veterans History Project, Illinois State Highway Maps, Illinois Historic Aerial Photographs and collections of various state historical societies and libraries.
Another great digital collection is the Illinois Historical Digitization Projects from the Northern Illinois University Libraries. Some of the projects include Illinois during various periods, such as the Civil War, 1861-1865, The Mexican-American War and Illinois Civil War Newspapers.
Be sure to check out the Illinois State Archives. There are many links to information about doing genealogical research in Illinois, the Illinois Regional Archives Depository System (IRAD), and online databases. Their holdings include digitals of the Federal Township Plats of Illinois.
There are many databases to check at the Illinois State Archives. These include Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916 and Illinois Statewide Death Index 1916-1950. There is a listing of records in IRAD, plus lists of veterans. I particularly like the Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database.
If you have Chicago ancestors, be sure to check out the Chicago Public Library Digital Collections. Another interesting web page is Chicago Ancestors.org from The Newberry Library.
There's more out there, so be sure to Google for your areas of interest in Illinois and include the word "digital."


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Hi,I don't understand the whole discussion here :Michael and his team invite us without having to pay for it to their website. We can customize all very interesting information without paying any buck for it. We can leave our personal opinion here in in this forum without having to pay for it. It not only costs much time and effort for the whole team to run such an incredible source of great information, it also costs much money. So, if you will go on customizing these information without haviong to pay for it, you should consider that the Lula-team has to find a way to pay the bills. And, if animated ads pay a bigger portion if it, it will be ok, or, in clearer words, we don't have to judge whether it is ok or not !In Germany we say ' if you don't like the innkeeper of a pub, take the other pub next corner'.It is just my peronal view on such things !Robert
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The truck stops in India form an ecosystem that builds, repairs, and services trucks. They also provide community for the drivers. The parts for the trucks, including body steel, are delivered by bikes like this Premium Gold Appl.
The owner added a lucky charm to the front fender. He makes his living with this bike.
NGOs work very hard at teaching the drivers and sex workers at these stops about preventing STDs. I'll cover that in another post.
Read more about the Mobile Social Worldwide and view the photos.