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Acoustic Tape Measure
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Acoustic Tape Measure
Distance (aka Acoustic Tape Measure) determines the physical distance between two XOs by measuring how long it takes sound pulses to travel between them.
Using the Distance activity
You need two laptops in order to use this activity. Steps:
- launch the Distance activity on one of the XOs by clicking on the icon on the activity taskbar;
- Send an invitation to the other XO;
- launch the Distance activity on the second XO by clicking on the invitation icon on the activity taskbar;
- click on the "Begin Measuring Distance" button found near the top of the activity view on both XOs;
- the first XO will send an audio pulse; the second XO will respond with an audio pulse of its own; then both XOs will calculate and display the distance between them in meters;
- this process will repeat until you click on the "Stop Measuring Distance" button or you exit the activity.
- Try not to move the laptops while they are taking measurements as it will result in a bad measurement;
- If the "Begin Measuring Distance" button does not activate, try relaunching the Distance activity again on the second laptop from the Neighborhood view.
- Atmospheric conditions can impact the accuracy of the measurement; there are overrides to the default settings under the Atmosphere tab.
Measurement Algorithm
Normally, distance measurements that use audio transit time work by first synchronizing the clocks on the two computers. The receiver starts recording, and notes the wall-clock time at which recording started. The sender then plays some sound, noting the wall-clock time at which playback was initiated. The distance is then determined by the amount of time between the start of playback and the receiver hearing the pulse.
The speed of sound is over 300 meters per second, so 1 cm accuracy requires synchronization to within about 30 microseconds. This is very difficult to achieve, even with advanced tools like NTP, over an unreliable wireless network. Moreover, determining at what time recording or playback started is very difficult. The audio function calls typically take several millisecond to return, and recording or playback could have started at any point during that interval. Accurate timing is especially difficult on a multitasking, non-realtime operating system like the XO's Linux kernel, and even more so due when writing in a high-level language (Python) on an overtaxed, underpowered processor. On the XO, this would a be a futile approach.
Acoustic Tape Measure sidesteps the synchronization issue entirely. Instead, it uses the fact that the XO's microphone can hear the output of the XO's speaker. Therefore, the algorithm works by turning on both XO's microphones, and then having each XO play a distinctive sound. Each XO will hear its own sound almost immediately, but there will be a delay before it hears the other XO's sound, due to the propagation delay. The XO that plays a sound first will hear its sound immediately, but it will hear the second XO's sound delayed by the propagation. The XO that plays second will hear the first XO's sound delayed, but hear its own sound immediately. Therefore, the first XO will measure a longer distance between the two sounds, and the second XO will measure a shorter distance. The difference between their measurements is twice the propagation delay. In this way, Acoustic Tape Measure computes the distance between two laptops by taking the difference between two measurements of the same interval.
Development notes
In testing, accuracy was 1 cm or better at 2 m. At a distance of 10 meters, measured distance typically fluctuates no more than 1 cm, with sporadic errors up to 4 cm. However, there is likely a systematic error of a few cm, depending on temperature.
The measurements seem to be extremely accurate, under controlled conditions. In fact, accuracy seems to be limited by variation in the speed of sound with air temperature. The variation is approximately 0.2% per degree C. Code currently assumes an air temperature of 25 C, which means ± 3% over the whole range of reasonable temperatures. At short distances, accuracy is limited by the 48 KHz sample frequency, corresponding to a distance of ~7.5 mm between samples.
An estimate of temperature would be useful to improve accuracy. Even an almanac, giving average temperatures by location and time of year, would be helpful.
Alternatively, it is in principle possible to use this system to measure the air temperature due to its effect on the speed of sound. However, to achieve accuracy of 1 degree C, it would be necessary to separate the laptops by a fixed distance of at least 10 meters, known to 1 cm accuracy. This is extremely difficult, and unlikely.
The test signal uses the entire audio spectrum to maximize accuracy. Specifically, the test sound is a Maximum Length Sequence.
The system only seems likely to work well when the laptops are facing each other and have uninterrupted line of sight. However, early performance testing suggests that it is more tolerant to these disturbances than initially estimated. The measurements are unlikely to work well if the distance is changing during measurement.
Each measurement cycle requires about 8 seconds.
Stability is not perfect. Typically the program runs for a few hundred measurements before hitting a networking bug. This corresponds to about 15 minutes of continuous measurement.
Acoustic Tape Measure originally used Gstreamer for audio playback and recording. However, this proved to create threading bugs when combined with GTK and Telepathy, as all three toolkits share the same GLib mainloop. Therefore, the playback and recording were transitioned to use the ALSA aplay and arecord tools.
The code incorporates a delay to compensate for corruption at the beginning of a microphone recording, bug #3813.
Ideas for use
2D Position determination
Even given full knowledge of the distances, determining the locations of an arbitrary number of laptops is a nontrivial nonlinear optimization. And the laptops have to face each other. And computation takes a long time.
However, in the simple case of three laptops, 2D positioning may be possible. For three laptops, it is not too difficult to ensure that all three laptops face each other and all paths are free of obstacles. The corresponding math problem is also trivial.
Position graph matching game
The Boston Museum of Science has an exhibit which measures user distance from a computer along a long mat. The computer then horizontally scrolls a graph with a pattern, along with your current distance. Idea is you have to scurry back and forth to try and match your position to the pattern. Vaguely Digital Dance Revolution-like. I'm not really sure the concept works, but it could be easy to try, and with music added, and kids able to draw their own patterns, it might be interesting.
The algorithms would have to be greatly accelerated before something like this would be possible. Children would have to move with one laptop in hand, pointed at the stationary laptop. Also, the measurements are unlikely to work well if the distance is changing during measurement.
One possibility would be for the computer to say "go N meters away" and then have a competition to see how many tries it takes to get within, say, 5%. This could be a good distance-sense training exercise.
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Bell Helmets Press Release:
Bell Helmets and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, today unveiled a commemorative helmet in honor of the 2013 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix, taking place July 19-21 at the famed Northern California raceway. A limited run of the helmet will be available for purchase online during the weeks leading up to the event, as well as onsite during race weekend at the Mazda Raceway Superstore, while supplies last.
The commemorative Bell Star Carbon helmet, features a breathtaking custom finish by renown air-brush artist Chris Wood of Santa Barbara-based paint shop Airtrix, with graphics that pay tribute to Northern California's historic Cannery Row. In 2012, Bell and Mazda Raceway partnered on a small run of commemorative helmets that were used solely for promotional purposes prior to and during the race weekend, paving the way for this year's expanded program.
"The response from athletes and fans to last year's special edition commemorative helmet was so positive, that expanding and allowing race fans to purchase the helmet in 2013 was a no-brainer for us," said Chris Sackett, General Manager, Bell Powersports. "We've enjoyed a valuable partnership with Mazda Raceway over the years, and we jumped at the opportunity to partner with them once again for such an exciting initiative around one of America's greatest road racing events."
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The limited edition commemorative Bell Star Carbon is now available online Here. Fans in attendance can also purchase the helmet while supplies last at the Mazda Raceway Superstore, located in the Yamaha Marketplace.
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Covering the shabby concrete storefronts in this small Israeli town are graffiti messages expressing the anger some Ethiopians feel over what they see as racism.
An unemployed Ethiopian immigrant waiting at the bus terminal says he has little hope of finding a job.
In a predominantly Ethiopian neighborhood named for Zionist forefather Theodor Herzl, residents complain that landlords use racist deals to keep them out of apartment blocks where white Israelis live.
Welcome to the epicenter of the growing movement of Ethiopian Israelis fighting what they call omnipresent discrimination and even blatant racism in the Jewish state.
"It's funny that Herzl was a man who said that Jews should be together but… it's full of Ethiopians living separately," said protest leader Rachel Sium-Aaron, 26, pointing to a sign emblazoned with Herzl's name.
Few Israelis had heard of Kiryat Malachi, much less been to the down-on-its-heels town of 25,000 on the road to Beersheba from Ashdod, until television news reports in early January broke the scandal of apartment leases that supposedly barred Ethiopians from living there.
Ethiopians responded by mounting one of the biggest demonstrations in their community's short history, drawing about half of the town's estimated 5,000 Ethiopians into the streets on January 10.
The East African immigrants and their allies staged a similarly sized protest on January 18, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem.
Ethiopian elders say the protests, organized using social media and led by people in their 20s, represent a dramatic new stage in their community's history.
Many of the protest leaders are second-generation immigrants who grew up in Israel and may feel more confident protesting racism than their parents, who came from Ethiopia in the famed airlifts of so-called Falasha Jews.
"The youngsters didn't appreciate what was happening until now," said Yaakov Kabada, a leader of Kiryat Malachi's Ethiopian community. "But now they have woken up. Now it's all bursting out."
Studies reveal that de facto school segregation exists in some places in Israel, with some schools populated entirely by children of Ethiopian origin. In Kiryat Malachi, some neighborhoods appear to be populated almost entirely by African immigrants.
"'Ethiopian only' schools are a disgusting and condemnable phenomenon that stain the entire education system," Alex Miller, chairman of the Knesset Education Committee, said in September.
Ethiopians also suffer employment discrimination. When Ono Academic College scholars surveyed advertising executives, lawyers, bankers and other professionals, some 53% said that people in their profession prefer not to employ Ethiopians.
The new consciousness is on display around Kiryat Malachi, where protesters have spray-painted graffiti proclaiming "Ethiopian price tag," a reference to the well-publicized "price tag" campaign carried out by right-wing Jewish settlers who oppose compromise with the Palestinians.
Sitting aimlessly at a bus stop in Kiryat Malachi, Ambatio Damete conceded that he had nowhere to go. An unemployed 32-year-old Ethiopian, he has high hopes for the new protests.
"We haven't studied to the level of other Israelis; we don't have professions, and even those who have degrees aren't getting jobs," he said.
At Beit Tzipora, a Kiryat Malachi youth center, educator Cassao Jacob is under house arrest. Police say he is responsible for the graffiti, a charge he denies. He accuses them of shutting down his Facebook page to slow down the movement, which Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld denied.
"I know it's because of the demonstrations… they think they can stop us," Jacob told the Forward.
Jacob, 26, is charismatic and eloquent, with the same engaging youthful quality as Daphne Leef, a leader of last summer's social justice protests that rocked the country. He describes Ethiopian youngsters as "outsiders from Israeli society because of color and culture."
A veteran of the Second Lebanon War who did his army service in a combat unit, he says he exemplifies the frustration of many young Ethiopians who serve the country without getting anything back in return.
"After all these things, this country gives me racism and police action," Jacob said. "It's very sad for me."
Sium-Aaron insists that the emerging Ethiopian protest movement aims at uniting all Israelis: blacks and whites, immigrants and those born in Israel.
Sium-Aaron says that it "is not only for us, it's for the country, too." She reasoned that Ethiopians are currently seen as a very loyal minority to the state, and more committed than other demographics to army service — but that this enthusiasm could dissipate.
"If people here aren't respected, they won't serve the country in the same way," she said. "There will be chaos."
The protests have spurred conversation and tension in Kiryat Malachi. In the town center, some non-Ethiopians saw the apartment discrimination as clear-cut racism. Businessman Moshe Lavi said that residents accused of barring Ethiopians should publicly apologize. Otherwise, "it won't end quietly," he said. Artist Lilly Ezra says she supports the protesters and that they are "absolutely right 100%."
Others insisted they are not racists. But they conceded that they understand why some Israelis would not want Ethiopians living in their apartment buildings.
An Israeli-born shopkeeper who declined to give her name because local tensions are running so high said that Ethiopians should become more like Israeli-born people. She said Ethiopians do not cook or act the same as other Israelis.
"Their culture is so different, and they don't know how to be with us," she said. "[We] want to teach them a different way, but they don't want it…. Nobody wants Ethiopians in their building."
The same split reaction to Ethiopians apparently exists at the highest levels of Israel's government. When Ethiopian activist Gadi Desta said that there were incidents of "apartheid" in Israel, Immigration and Absorption Minister Sofa Landver rebuked him for not appreciating what his new home had given him.
"You need to be grateful for what you have received," said Landver, an immigrant from Russia.
President Shimon Peres responded by noting the contribution that Ethiopians have made to society.
"We, the State of Israel, should say thank you to immigrants from Ethiopia," Peres said, "and not vice versa."
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Cubs apply for permit for right-field sign at Wrigley
Club moves forward after talks stall between team and rooftop owners
CHICAGO -- The Cubs have filed a permit application to install a 650-square foot sign in right field that would partially block the view from some of the rooftops.
According to reports, Monday's action comes after talks last week between the Cubs and rooftop owners failed to reach a resolution. The Cubs want to install a see-through sign in right field to generate revenue. The Chicago City Council had authorized such a sign last year.
Alderman Pat O'Connor, 40th Ward, told the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday that this was a positive move, even if it results in the two sides having to go to court to resolve it.
"It gets the show on the road," O'Connor told the Sun-Times. "Now we have a finite time in which we'll get an answer and get a project going.
"They continue to try and find a way to resolve it, but some problems have to be resolved in litigation. Now there's legal standing to get this before a judge. And I'm fine with that. If nothing else, now they have a greater incentive to resolve this."
The Cubs also want to install a video scoreboard behind the left-field bleachers, part of the $500 million renovation plan for Wrigley Field.
Last week, the rooftop owners filed a defamation lawsuit against stadium financing consultant Marc Ganis, who once advised the Cubs' prior owner, the Tribune Co. In the suit, rooftop owners accused Ganis of making false and defamatory statements, including urging Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to remove the rooftop roadblock and side with the Cubs.
The Cubs were named in the lawsuit as "respondents in discovery." According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Cubs officials felt the suit signaled the rooftop owners' intention to take further legal action to block the two outfield signs proposed for Wrigley Field.
"Since last summer, we always stated our intent to move forward with this sign in right field prior to the 2014 season, and we were hopeful we could reach a resolution at the negotiating table," Julian Green, vice president, communications and community affairs, told the Chicago Tribune on Monday.
"But given the rejection of our proposal and last week's legal action, it certainly appears we are going to be met with some resistance, so we are planning on moving forward with this sign," Green said. "We are still interested in a solution that doesn't involve the courts."
The rooftop owners share 17 percent of their revenues with the Cubs. Last week, the Cubs met with the rooftop owners and reportedly explored the option of reducing the team's share of the rooftop revenues or buying them out.
"Rooftop owners believe any blockage of our views violates the contract we have with the owners of the Cubs," Ryan McLaughlin, spokesman for the Wrigleyville Rooftops Association, told the Sun-Times on Monday. "This is an unfortunate turn of events, because our hope was to find a solution to this matter."
The Cubs and rooftop owners were scheduled to meet later this week.
The City Council authorized the Wrigley Field renovation plan last summer. During the Cubs Convention earlier this month, president of business operations Crane Kenney said the team would not begin the project until rooftop owners agreed not to sue to block the signage.
The Cubs' have done mock-ups of the proposed outfield signs, and reduced the size of the signs and moved their location after concerns expressed by the rooftop owners.


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Gay wins 100 at Adidas Grand Prix in New York
Tyson Gay accomplished all his goals at the Adidas Grand Prix: He won, put his body through the grind of rounds - and stayed injury-free.
On a cold, rainy afternoon, the American-record holder eased to victory in the 100 meters, finishing in 10.02 seconds into a headwind Saturday. He appeared to slow down a bit at the end but still beat countryman Ryan Bailey by .13.
"It was important to leave here healthy and not try to push it too hard with the conditions," Gay said. "I feel pretty good."
A year ago at this meet, Gay made his return to competition after major hip surgery, running in the "B'' race as he scrambled to ready himself for Olympic trials. He felt far different on Saturday.
After Gay barely missed out on a bronze medal in London, he's off to a strong start this season and looking to challenge Usain Bolt again.
The 100 field had to run semifinals to qualify for the final, which Gay figured would be good preparation for U.S. trials before the world championships in August.
"I'm definitely pleased with the time," he said. "I felt comfortable."
Gay could probably relate to high jumper Blanka Vlasic's feelings on Saturday. The two-time world champion competed for the first time since ankle surgery 16 months ago - and she won, clearing 6 feet, 4¼ inches. The weather made her foot ache.
"But I don't care," she said. "I'm happy and I know it will recover."
Olympic gold medalist David Rudisha won the 800 in 1:45.14 - well off his world record of 1:40.91, but about what he expected considering the weather.
Two-time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica took first in the 200 in 22.53 seconds on a day not designed for fast times.
"It's not the type of weather sprinters like," she said.
Reigning world champ Amantle Montsho won the 400; Olympic gold medalist Sanya Richards-Ross, recovering from toe surgery, pulled out after deciding her foot wasn't ready to return to competition.
Olympic silver medalist Michael Tinsley used the weather to his advantage to win the 400 hurdles, staying relaxed and rallying at the end when the wind was at his back.


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The Orlando Magic and Dwight Howard must make momentous choices about their futures in the weeks ahead. Those decisions, whatever they turn out to be, could affect Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum.
That is what makes Friday's Magic-Lakers matchup at Amway Center so intriguing. The Magic's current center could be facing the Magic's center of the future.
To understand how Bynum compares to Howard, the Orlando Sentinel asked an executive for an NBA team, ESPN analyst Jon Barry and NBA TV analyst Dennis Scott to evaluate Bynum. Their conclusions are similar: Although Bynum is a very good player who is improving, he simply is not on Howard's level.
"If you took Bynum and put him on the Orlando Magic, they're not 10-4 right now," Barry said. "There's just no way. I don't see him as being a guy that carries a team. He's not a franchise player. Dwight Howard is a franchise player."
This is the dilemma the Magic face. Howard finished as the runner-up in last season's MVP voting, and it will be enormously difficult for Orlando to receive equal value if the franchise decides it must trade him before the March 15 trade deadline.
Howard has identified the Lakers, the Dallas Mavericks and the New Jersey Nets as his preferred trade destinations. On those three teams, Bynum is the available player with the highest long-term upside. He is a talented, 24-year-old center in a league that lacks quality centers.
Bynum, 24, has posted the best numbers of his career so far this season.
He entered the Lakers' game Thursday night against the Miami Heat averaging 16.5 points and 13.9 rebounds per game. Those would be career highs if he can keep it up.
"I see a talented 7-footer that has improved every year he's been in the league," said the executive, who does not work for the Magic or the Lakers and was granted anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss another team's player publicly.
"Besides size, first and foremost, he has a good touch inside. His footwork is excellent for a big man. He doesn't play soft. He can protect the basket. He rebounds his area very well."
Magic officials say nothing has changed regarding Howard's long-term future. The team still wants to re-sign him for the long term, but the trade request Howard made in December still stands.
If Howard's mind does not change between now and the trade deadline, the Magic would take an enormous gamble if they hold onto him past March 15. Howard could opt out of the final year of his deal in July, become a free agent and sign somewhere else, leaving the Magic with no compensation as they lose one of the best players in the game.
If the Magic decide they must trade Howard, they could do much worse than Bynum, and the Magic likely would receive other assets — perhaps from a third or fourth team — and divest themselves of Hedo Turkoglu's contract.
Still, Bynum has a major red flag: He is injury-prone. Since the 2007-08 season, he has missed 122 regular-season games because of various injuries or ailments. Howard, on the other hand, has missed only five games because of injuries or illnesses.
"The biggest problem or question with Bynum over his career is, 'Can he stay healthy?' " Scott said. "That is the concern. When he's healthy, the Lakers can win an NBA title. When he's not healthy, it's hard for them to win."
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Watch: Massimo Tosato on the Global Investment Trends Survey
Massimo Tosato, Executive Vice Chairman of Schroders plc, looks at the disconnect between investors' expectations and behaviour highlighted by the Global Investment Trends Survey.
The Global Investment Trends Survey survey, which is the largest independent study Schroders has ever commissioned, polled more than 20,000 retail investors across 28 countries, each with at least €10,000 (or local currency equivalent) to invest in 2015.
The research found a mismatch between investors' anticipated returns and their appetite for risk. That is, although investors expect double digit returns this year, they are reluctant to invest in higher-risk assets to achieve this goal.
The average retail investor is looking to place only around 21% of their investment portfolio in high risk / high return assets (such as equities), with 45% of their funds going to low risk / low return assets (such as cash) and around a third (35%) being placed in medium risk assets (such as fixed income).
The full findings of the survey can be found as a PDF below.


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War of the Dwarves and Orcs
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|Previous war: War of the Dwarves and Dragons
|Next war: War of the Ring
|War of the Dwarves and Orcs
|Beginning: T.A. 2793
|End: T.A. 2799
|Place: The northern Misty Mountains and Mount Gundabad
|Outcome: Crippling defeat for Orcs, pyrrhic victory for Dwarves
|Major battles: Sacking of Mount Gundabad, various battles in mines, strongholds, and colonies, Battle of Azanulbizar.
|Dwarves of all Seven Houses, Longbeards, Firebeards, Broadbeams, Blacklocks, Stonefoots, Ironfists, and Stiffbeards.
|Orcs of the Misty Mountains
|King Thráin II, Thorin, Náin, various generals and/or kings or lords of the other houses
|Azog and likely other Orc-chieftains
The War of the Dwarves and Orcs was a great war fought between the two races.
After their home under Erebor had been sacked by the dragon Smaug, many of the Dwarves of Durin's Folk were homeless and wandered through western Middle-earth, trying to make as best a living they could. After some years of wandering they settled down in Dunland.[1] Among these Dwarves were Thrór, formerly the King under the Mountain now King of Durin's folk in exile, his son Thráin II and grandson Thorin II who became later known as Thorin Oakenshield.
Thrór fell into despair after living many years in poverty, or perhaps the Ring he wore was ultimately working towards his bearers evil. Whatever the case, he decided to leave his people in T.A. 2790 to seek out and look upon the ancestral halls of Khazad-dûm. Accompanied by his friend Nár, they crossed the Redhorn Pass and came down to the East-gate of Moria where the Thrór took it upon himself to enter alone, despite the warnings of Nár who stayed behind in the dale.
Thrór was found and slain by Azog the Orc-chieftain who had ruled in Moria, and after a few days Thrór's head had been branded with Azog's name and the corpse was thrown out of the gate where it was found by Nár. He was left alive to serve as a messenger to the Dwarves that Azog now claimed to be the King of Moria, and to stay away.
When Nár returned to the king's son Thráin, he told him of his father's murder and the Orc's warning. For seven days without eating or sleeping the new king sat, until he stood and cried "This cannot be borne!"[2]
From 2790 to 2793 the Longbeards responded to this tragedy by gathering an army, and calling on all the other six Houses of the Dwarves for war.
Early Stages
In 2793 the Dwarf host was ready, and set departed for war; assailing and sacking one by one all the Orc-holds they could find from Mount Gundabad in the north, to the Gladden in the south.
Little is actually known about what happened during six year-long war, however it is know that most of the it was fought underground, in the great mines and tunnels of the Misty Mountains, where Dwarves excelled in combat.
The Final Battle
The war's came to a climax 2799 (Probably the January or February), when the final battle was fought in the Dimrill Dale below the East-gate of Moria, the Battle of Azanûlbizar. The Dwarves gained victory in this notoriously bloody encounter when reinforcements arrived late on the scene from the Iron Hills. Azog was slain by Dáin Ironfoot.[3]
In its aftermath, King Thráin wanted to enter reclaim the city, but the Dwarves not of Durin's folk refused, saying that the city was not their Fathers' House; they had honored Thrór's memory by fighting and that was enough. Dáin Ironfoot also warned the king that Durin's Bane still dwelt within Khazad-dûm.
The war was very costly for the Dwarves. near half of those involved in the final battle were killed and with a possibility of a couple thousand more being killed throughout the rest of the war. Náin, Frerin, and Fundin were among the more notable casualties. Thráin II himself lost an eye and gained a limp, and Thorin was wounded when his shield broke and he had to use an oak branch to defend himself-hence the epithet "Oakenshield".
The Orcs suffered irreparable damage to their numbers by war's end. 10,000 alone were killed in the Dimrill Dale, and It seem highly likely that at least that many were killed throughout the previous five years of the war. Those that survived the final battle (as many as 10,000 or so) fled south through Rohan, seeking refuge in the White Mountains beyond, where they troubled the Rohirrim for two generations. As a result of such losses, the Orcs of the Misty Mountains virtually disappeared as a threat for Eriador and Wilderland. One and a half centuries later the Orcs of the North were recovering, but their numbers were permanently depleted to severely low levels in the aftermath of the Battle of Five Armies in 2941. It was here that Bolg son of Azog tried to avenge his father and the Great Goblin, but in his failure three fourths of his people were killed.
The repercussions of the War of the Dwarves and Orcs likely even had an impact on the very outcome of the War of the Ring.
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See Also
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, Durin's Folk
- The Peoples of Middle-earth
- The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, Appendix A, (2nd edition 1966), p. 356. It mentions that the balance of the Orcs at Azanulbizar fled.
|Preceded by:
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Sorry - The Companye of Merrie Folke are fully booked this year. Could be interested next year though. Good luck with your event. You can find us on Facebook
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Urgent update.
I can no longer use Haughley park Stowmarket as they have land issues.
I am now holding the Ancient Oak Medieval Fayre at Quy country park, Stow road,Stow Cum Quy Near Cambridge CB25 9AF
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Austin Collie stayed healthy in his return to the NFL, which was a great sign considering all the concussion problems he's had in his career. Collie's form on the field, however, was not what it used to be.
Matt Barrows of The Sacramento Bee first reported Saturday that Collie was informed of his release by the San Francisco 49ers, who later confirmed the move. The former Indianapolis Colts slot receiver couldn't make the 49ers' roster on a crowded, if flawed, depth chart, but he tweeted that he isn't giving up on football.
No worries. The #comeback train isn't stoppin. Was a great opportunity 4 me to get back into playin shape & get my knee/body ready 4 season.- Austin Collie (@AKCollie_17) August 31, 2013
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In the next installment I will get around to unveiling (a nice word to build suspense and anticipation where none should exist) spots 51-60 on my list; for now, I am going to discuss some of the pitchers who did not make the list and how the average and median Hall of Famer does.
Here are the figures for the average and median Hall of Famers:
CAT….NW%...WAT.…….WCR…...ARA……..WAA………....WAR………......Top 5
To me, anyone who is better then the median Hall of Famer should probably be there himself, no questions asked (all other things being equal). It is those below the median for whom there is a real debate. There are 31 pitchers with more career WAR then the median Hall of Famer, and all who are eligible are in the Hall with the exception of Bert Blyleven.
Now, let me tell you that pitchers 61-73 on my list, in rough chronological order are: Sam Leever, Ed Reulbach, Chief Bender, Carl Mays, Bob Shawkey, Dolf Luque, Burleigh Grimes, Herb Pennock, Bucky Walters, Jerry Koosman, Jim Kaat, Bret Saberhagen, and David Cone. To be honest, by the time I got to around 45 it was very difficult to make judgments on specific pitcher-to-pitcher comparisons; there are too many guys with similar WAR, similar WAA, similar ARA, etc.
Among pitchers who didn't make it at all, there are few that I will discuss. The first is Eddie Cicotte. The numbers alone would have ranked Cicotte in the mid-40s, but I docked him the entire 1919 season, which was his second-best season, +11.8 WAR. That drops him from the mid-40s into the range of borderline top sixty, and I chose other pitchers ahead of him. If you throw the World Series, then you have in my eyes destroyed your body of work in the regular season. Add in the fact that his fourth-best season, 1920 (+7.6 WAR), has to be viewed with some suspicion given the fact that he had already knowingly thrown games at the time, and it's easy to drop him past the very similar numbers of others in that group. On talent alone, Cicotte would belong.
Jack Morris is a pitcher whose reputation is just not matched by his performance. The reason he has been overrated is that he does well in W-L record; his +74 WCR ranks thirty-eighth all-time. But his career ARA was just 105; he was only +63 WAR for his career. He COULD be ranked in the top sixty, particularly if you want to give more weight to the W-L, but I can't justify it myself.
Mel Harder is a guy who still gets Hall of Fame push, but maybe that is only my impression because I am from Cleveland and read old newspaper columnists wax poetic about the olden days of good old Mel. After all, the famous Bill James Keltner List was the result of old Keltner fans pushing him, and was discussed in the Indians essay of one of a Abstract. Mel Harder was a fine pitcher, no doubt; .534 NW%, 108 ARA, +58 WCR, +61 WAR. But what sets him apart from Milt Pappas (.550, 111, +60, +61)? Or Freddie Fitzsimmons (.572, 109, +66, +59)? Or Orel Hershiser (.567, 109, +63, +59)? You get the idea. There are too many pitchers with near identical characteristics. These are the guys who would make up the bottom portion of the Top 100. Excellent pitchers, not Hall of Famers.
Well, that is, except for the Hall of Famers who don't make my top sixty. Leaving out Bender and Grimes, who were in my 61-70 range, they are: Lefty Gomez, Catfish Hunter, Bob Lemon, Jesse Haines, Jack Chesbro, Dizzy Dean, and Rube Marquard.
Gomez pitched for great Yankees teams, and ranks much better versus average then he does against replacement. Jimmy Key has very similar numbers, though, with the exception of Gomez' higher peak. Nobody thinks of Key as an all-time great.
The late Catfish was by all accounts a great guy, and he pitched for six pennant winners. But his career was short, and if you compare him carefully to his teammate Vida Blue, it's tough to pick one. Blue is viewed as a disappointment because of his brilliant early work, followed by fairly average pitching, but:
Hunter did that in 3449 IP, Blue in 3343.
Bob Lemon had a short career (2850 IP). His teams had excellent records (.589, about the same as the .587 for Whitey Ford). He was a converted third baseman, so he wasn't a bad hitter, but +61 WAR needs a lot of help to get into HOF territory. He could get some war credit, but he missed his age 22-24 seasons and was not a pitcher before he left, so that's extremely iffy to me.
Jesse Haines was one of the Frankie Frisch crony choices, and has absolutely nothing to set him apart from the pitchers in the Mel Harder pack, as he was .549, 108, +59, +58 himself.
Jack Chesbro is probably in the HOF because of his tremendous 41-12 season in 1904. That was a legitamitely great season (+14.8 WAR), but he never again cracked double digits, so his peak is not THAT spectacular (+45 WAR in top 5 years ranks thirtieth). But if you focus on peak value, he has a case to be one of the greats.
Dizzy Dean was brilliant as well, but only for a brief time. His top 5 seasons are +42, good enough to rank 39th, so he's a peak special. His rate stats are great (.625 NW%, 131 ARA), but he was 33 innings short of 2000. Just not enough career value for me.
Finally, Rube Marquard's inclusion in the Hall of Fame is a joke. Marquard was slightly above average on a rate basis (.517 NW%, 104 ARA), and didn't have a super-long career in order to provide that much value (+53 WAR). Compare him to Claude Passeau, who I doubt many have even heard of (.512 NW%, 110 ARA, +52 WAR). Marquard is, without any doubt in my mind, the worst pitcher in the Hall of Fame. He wouldn't make my top 120.
Then there are the pitchers who are included in the Hall of Merit but not in my top sixty. These I will treat in more detail then the HOF snubs, because I think the HOM voters are much more qualified to do this task, and since there are not the personal politics of the Frisch-type that got us Jesse Haines.
Alright, I lied, there's no "pitchers". There's a pitcher, singular, and that is Wes Ferrell. Let me start by giving you my evaluation of Ferrell, and then let's look into arguments put forward in his favor. Luckily, Dick Thompson does not read my blog or know me from Adam, so we can do this rationally.
Ferrell has a great W-L record, there's no doubt about it: .607 NW%, +35 WAT, +70 WCR (45th in WCR). However, his ARA is only 112, for +15 WAA and +52 WAR. He pitched only 2630 innings, and won just 18 games after the age of 30.
One pro-Ferrell point is that he had a fine peak, which is true, but given the ground rules here, is irrelevant. Another is that he was an excellent hitter. This we can quantify, so let's get at it. Ferrell 1305 career PA, hitting 280/351/446. This is excellent, but not quite as good as it looks, as he played in a high-scoring context (N=5.22, PF=1.02). His RG of 5.60 is +13 runs versus an average hitter.
Of course, the standard should not be an average hitter, but an average hitting pitcher. The average pitcher hit at 40% of the league RG in the 1930s (a .138 OW%). Ferrell is +118 runs against this standard.
But in fact this is too much, because Ferrell should only be compared to a pitcher when he is actually pitching. Ferrell played in a total of 547 major league games, but only 373 of these were as a pitcher. That means that in 174 of those games, he needs to be compared to a replacement level hitter, not an average pitcher.
Unfortunately, we don't know how many PA he had in those games, but let's be conservative and assume it was just one per game. Sure, there may have been games in which he pinch ran or something and never hit, but there were also likely games in which he had multiple PAs. Ferrell played in 13 games in the outfield for the Indians in 1933, his only games in the field, and recorded 2.46 Total Chances/Game, versus a league average of 2.28, so it's safe to say he was playing the majority of those games.
So we assume that Ferrell had 1131 PAs that need to be evaluated v. an average pitcher, and 174 that need to be evaluated v. a replacement hitter (73% of the league average, .350 OW%). Under this new standard, he is +110 runs, which translates to +10.5 wins.
These are extra wins that we can add in to his pitching performance, and so instead of being +52 WAR and +15 WAA, he can be +64 WAR and +26 WAA. This would definitely bring him closer to the top 60, however there are twelve pitchers with the higher or same WAR not in, and many others right behind them. The WAA fares better; there are only six in the neighborhood. So perhaps I should have put Ferrell in the 61-70 range, but he still doesn't crack the top sixty.
Some of the other arguments for Ferrell centered around peak value by comparing him to Grove, which is not something I'm going to explore here because peak is not on the table at all. Another was that Ferrell had to pitch more against the better teams in the league because he was his team's ace, and a poor team needed to throw their big gun to have a shot against the Yankees and the other contenders.
"Jonesy" provided in-depth data that he researched for 1932, which I rate as Ferrell's fourth-best season (+6.8 WAR). Here are Ferrell's IP v. each team, along with their RG:
Weighting each team's RG by the percentage of his IP thrown against them, the true context Ferrell pitched against was 5.25 runs/game. The assumed context was 5.33 r/g, so this in fact hurts Ferrell, ever so slightly. The point of this data was supposed to be a comparison with Grove, but that is irrelevant here; the conclusion is that in 1932, at least, Ferrell's assumed and actual contexts were essentially equal, and no adjustment is needed.
I don't know if other data was compiled broken down by season, but if so I have not found it. The bottom line is that Ferrell is a borderline top 70 pitcher by my standards. He is not a HOFer by these standards.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
My Top 60 Starters, Warmup
In the next installment I will get around to unveiling (a nice word to build suspense and anticipation where none should exist) spots 51-60 on my list; for now, I am going to discuss some of the pitchers who did not make the list and how the average and median Hall of Famer does.
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How could you have missed Chris Jaffe's spectacular series on pitcher leveragring:
Guilty as charged. If it makes it any better, I wrote this series way back in Jan or Feb and am just getting around to posting it now. But I certainly a) should have read Jaffe's articles and b) acknowledged his research.ReplyDelete
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Information sharing on violence saves millions in health, criminal justice and social costs
The sharing of anonymized information about violent incidents between emergency care departments and the police and local authorities, can save millions of pounds in health and social costs alone, suggests research published online in Injury Prevention.
The analysis shows that in 2007, in Cardiff, where this collaborative approach was pioneered, the scheme lopped off almost £7 million from health, societal, and criminal justice costs caused by violence.
The estimated individual and societal costs of violence recorded by the police in England and Wales in 2003-4 came to £14 billion.
The Cardiff Violence Prevention Programme, which was set up in 2003, entails the capture of anonymised information on violent incidents treated in hospital emergency departments.
This information includes exactly where the incident took place, the time, day, and weapon used. These data are then fed to a crime analyst who combines them with police intelligence to come up with continuously updated crime hotspot maps.
The police and local councils use these maps to target prevention activities more precisely than is possible using police intelligence alone, including redirecting resources, changing police patrol routes, changing the licensing conditions of particular establishments, intervening in other locations, such as street violence hotspots, schools and parks, and the positioning of surveillance cameras.
The Cardiff data has also led to other prevention strategies in the city, including the weekend pedestrianisation of certain areas of the centre where bars and clubs cluster, and the mandatory use of plastic barware.
The analysis drew on monthly data for hospital admissions and serious woundings and minor (common assaults) recorded by the police in Cardiff and 14 other comparable cities in England and Wales between 2001 and 2007, which included the two years preceding the introduction of the scheme.
The economic impact of violence was based on implementation costs and Home Office figures, taking account of inflation and other relevant factors.
Although the numbers of common assaults rose between 2003 and 2007 - a reflection of earlier and more frequent police intervention resulting from use of A&E data - the number of more costly serious woundings fell in Cardiff.
This added up to a yearly saving of £5 million until 2007, when the savings rose to £6.9 million, including savings of £1.25 million in healthcare costs and £1.62 million in criminal justice system costs.
The costs of setting up and running the scheme were, modest, however, coming in at just under £108,000, and just over £210,000, respectively. In all, the scheme has saved a total of £82 for every £1 spent on it.
"[Our] study builds on a growing literature showing that violence-prevention strategies can provide a substantial return on investment, and demonstrates the benefits of multiagency information-sharing partnerships to guide violence prevention planning, policies, and activities," write the authors.
"Moreover, the fact that the reduction in woundings and the benefit-cost savings were documented at the community level underscores the public health significance of the [Cardiff] model," they add.
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More than 200 of the nation's leading publicly traded companies are joining two separate actions to oppose Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act at the Supreme Court, reports Bloomberg.
Apple Inc and Morgan Stanley [lead] the corporate group [which] includes Facebook and Intel. [It] will argue in its brief that gay-marriage bans in 41 states harm workplace morale and undermine recruiting.
The publicly traded companies backing gay marriage include Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Alcoa Inc., American International Group Inc, EBay Inc., Marsh & McLennan Cos., NCR Corp., Nike Inc, Oracle Corp, Office Depot Inc., Panasonic Corp., Xerox Corp., Barnes & Noble and Caesars Entertainment Corp.
A larger group of companies -- more than 200, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) -- is also poised to side with gay- rights advocates in a second Supreme Court case, involving a federal law that defines marriage as a heterosexual union. Under that law, known as the Defense of Marriage Act, legally married gay couples can't claim the federal tax breaks and other benefits available to opposite-sex spouses. The companies in that case are part of a collection of more than 250 employers, including cities, counties and law firms.
Meanwhile: More than 100 lawmakers, politicians and former Republican leaders have now signed on to the Republican SCOTUS brief opposing Prop 8, reports the New York Times.
The list of Republicans on the brief now tallies more than 100, organizers say. It now includes Beth Myers, who ran Mr. Romney's 2008 campaign and was a senior adviser to him in 2012. The brief, organized by Ken Mehlman, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee who is gay, will be filed on Thursday as a friend-of-the-court, or amicus, brief to a lawsuit that seeks to overturn Proposition 8.
Towleroad published a list on Tuesday of the Republican signatories so far. The list includes Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, former Reagan budget director David Stockman, former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former California Rep. Mary Bono Mack ... and Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, the former California Republican gubernatorial nominee who infamously supported Proposition 8 and vowed to defend it in court.


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Families Outdoors: Reducing stress on kids and your wallet!
I recently stumbled upon a New York Times blog post that discussed how a simple walk in the park could reduce brain fatigue. You know, that feeling of being disjointed or mentally drained. The post got me thinking; if a walk in the park could provide a simple brain refresher; just imagine what a week of camp or a weekend retreat could do!
At Operation Purple® camps and retreats we embrace the healing powers of the outdoors and thrust kids and families into beautiful environments to do just that – reboot. Life is already busy and chaotic so overlapping it with a military lifestyle just seems to be more than any one person should be able to handle. Giving these families a week or weekend away and "unplugged" makes perfect sense.
Our intent is to energize families to try new activities and create memories with the hope that they recreate these stress-reducing moments once they go home. I often reflect on activities my family did for fun that were actually my mom's way of turning our heads. As a financially stretched military family, expensive vacations or entertainment activities were out of our reach. So our industrious mother chose instead to use night hikes through the neighborhood instead of using what little gas was in the car to pick up little brother from the sitter. Mom-instructed, kid-friendly gardening, was an excuse to get dirty while reducing our grocery budget. Creating our own flour dough in the backyard meant mom never had to consider whether she could afford our request to "have purple, blue, AND pink" play dough.
My mom had no clue her homemade distractions were "reducing brain fatigue"—she just knew doing things outdoors cost her less financially and emotionally. Performing simple outdoor activities provided hours of harmony in our home. So, here are a few of my favorite memories that stemmed simply from a military mom giving her kids some fun in the sun on a tight budget:
- Have a picnic. We often packed our favorite books, a few blankets, and a simple meal before venturing to a local park or outdoor space. As a kid it was an adventure to eat on the grass after collecting my share of grass stains. For mom, it was a cost effective alternative to my never-ending McDonald's plea. To this day I love to rejuvenate by sitting on an expanse of grass with a PB&J in hand.
- Fly a kite. I know this sounds very Mary Poppins, but putting a kite in my hands as a child created an obsession that couldn't be stopped. I tried it once and was hooked. I quickly gave up my precious Nintendo and found myself running up and down the neighborhood just to see the streamers fly. I'm cringing at how that dates me, but the scenario of being tied to the TV by an electronic game system still rings true for most kids today. My mom's ploy to avoid purchasing yet another video game created an adult city dweller that now religiously rings in spring by participating in the annual kite-flying extravaganza on the National Mall.
- Set up a scavenger hunt. Nothing turned sibling rivalry around quite like a friendly competition. Organizing a scavenger hunt that resulted in a team sweet treat to enjoy while basking in the sunshine was a win-win for mom. She got hours of quiet while we feverishly hunted to find every clue outside. The inevitable family nap that happened post-scavenger hunt was a bonus. I honed my trivia skills on a monthly basis while out in the sun.
Spring is here, with summer close on its heels—don't wait to get kids outside! How will you reduce stress on your kiddos' brains, and your wallet? What fun new memories will you create that your kids can use when they are adults?
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We are looking to centralise our Integration in our company and I'm wondering what sort of solutions other have for this and what the best way to approach it would be. At the moment we have different types on integration running different lanuages, different frameworks on different servers so we are looking to move them all to a single framework to make it easier to manage.
Some of the current Integration includes:
- SQL Server scheduled tasks (on 3 or 4 servers)
- SQL Server Integration services (on 2 or 3 servers)
- Console applications (.NET on 2 Servers)
- Windows Services (.NET on 2 servers)
What we are after is:
- 1 server that manages all integration jobs scheduling (so this only needs to be setup once and we always know where to find it)
- A job monitor that displays the history of jobs run (Much like the SQL Server Job Activity monitor)
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This was Nikola Tesla's letterhead. It reminded us that along with the overlooked little things changing our lives, but let's face it: We need the loud, filthy, slaughter-filled battles just as much. Like the dirty War of the Currents.
Just in case you're not familiar with the War of Currents - one of my favourite messes in the history of electricity - allow me to catch you up. On one end of it all we had Nikola "Wizard of the West" Tesla, George Westinghouse and alternating current. On the other hand was Thomas "Dirty Fighter" Edison and direct current.
The whole trouble began when the United States were ready to move away from Edison's idea of direct current and try that newfangled AC. Dear ol' Tommy couldn't just sit back and let that happen. So, he did what any man in his right mind would do and started a smear campaign against the new system:
[He spread]disinformation on fatal AC accidents, publicly killing animals, and lobbying against the use of AC in state legislatures. Edison directed his technicians, primarily Arthur Kennelly and Harold P. Brown, to preside over several AC-driven killings of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs but also unwanted cattle and horses. Acting on these directives, they were to demonstrate to the press that alternating current was more dangerous than Edison's system of direct current.
When that wasn't enough, Edison got a bit more personal:
He also tried to popularize the term for being electrocuted as being "Westinghoused". Years after DC had lost the "war of the currents," in 1902, his film crew made a movie of the electrocution with high voltage AC, supervised by Edison employees, of Topsy, a Coney Island circus elephant who had recently killed three men.
Considering that we don't refer to someone being shoved into the electric chair as a "Westinghousing", I'd say Tommy didn't do so well. Anyway, we're not here to make fun of killing animals, Tommy's lost war, or to brag about Tesla. The point is that a good idea - alternating current - wasn't taken down by a dirty fight. And that, ladies and gents, is a lifechanger.
Letterhead image from Letterheady. Some information from Wikipedia and the Nikola Tesla Museum


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However, the bass clarinet also shares the higher clarinets' wood-rich glow and can provide a satisfyingly comforting sound. Like a saxophone (which was influenced by the earlier bass clarinet), the instrument has a metal upturned bell and a curved metal crook to which the mouthpiece is attached, but it retains the maple-wood body. Another adjective that gets applied to the bass clarinet is goblin-esque - for its startlingly subtle dynamic control.
Bass Clarinet
Larger and differently shaped than the standard clarinets, the bass clarinet has a darker timbre that composers often exploit for expressions of gloom and doom, as Mahler does in his Sixth Symphony.
Instrument: Bass Clarinet
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Quality Perforating, Inc., Carbondale, PA, has invested in a new hydraulic 125-ton perforating press with unlimited stroke control. The press, from M. Brück GmbH & Co., can perforate material from 0.030 to 5/8-in. thick, and sheet sizes as large as 78 by 156 in. Maximum speed: 300 strokes/min. The machine can perforate nonsymmetrical patterns and geometric shapes.
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Acid Fluorescent Yellow GDC
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Acid Fluorescent Yellow GDC is an acid yellow dye with a CI Name of Acid Yellow 73 and a CI Number of 45350. This product appears as a yellow powder. It can be used in paints and to dye paper. It can also be used to dye wool and silk.
Dimacolor Industry Group Co.,Ltd was founded in 2005. The company is located in one of most beautiful citys in China-Hangzhou. China dyestuff, pigment, paint ink plastic additive, oil drilling chemicals manufactures, suppliers and factory. Dimacolor is a professional pigment & dyes manufacturer and exporter. Their annual production capacity is 10000 metric tons and their products are used in the graphic arts and inks industry.
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Perfection Uniforms Goes Green with REPREVE Recycled Fibers
BRENTWOOD, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perfection Uniforms has chosen REPREVE®, a 100% recycled fiber by Unifi (NYSE:UFI), for a line of eco-responsible uniforms. The announcement was made at this year's North American Uniform Manufacturers and Dealers (NAUMD) trade show in Las Vegas.
"Quality and integrity are important in introducing a line of environmentally responsible uniforms, which is why we selected REPREVE," said Steve Gilkeson, Perfection's vice president. "Manufacturing uniforms made from REPREVE is simply the right thing to do and it encourages the responsible use of public funds in the purchase of agency uniforms; it's an investment in serving the greater good."
"We are excited that Perfection Uniforms selected REPREVE for their line of eco-responsible uniforms," said Roger Berrier, executive vice president for Unifi. "As a company, we strive to provide environmental textile solutions for our customers and we recognize that going green is more than just a lifestyle, it's now becoming a way of life - from the things we do at home to the clothes that we wear."
REPREVE, Unifi's family of 100% recycled fibers, conserves valuable natural resources by offsetting the need to produce virgin synthetic fibers. On average for every pound of REPREVE that is manufactured, the equivalent to 0.5 gallons of gasoline is conserved. By 2010, through the production of REPREVE, Unifi will conserve the equivalent to 10 million gallons of gasoline.
Perfection Uniforms, a manufacturer of police, fire, and EMS uniforms, is known for its innovative product development initiatives which resulted in a designation as one of Apparel magazine's "Top 50 Most Innovative Companies." Additionally, Perfection Uniforms has held the Uniform Market's Univator award for three consecutive years by successfully applying the best that technology has to offer to a number of products in its public service line, including design for its MatrixSeries and StratusSeries uniforms.
Matt Thornton, vice president of New Business Development at SwiftGaley (Perfection's U.S. mill partner that will produce fabrics made from REPREVE), comments: "Perfection Uniforms has always been an innovator in the market. It is not surprising that they are the first customer to work with us on developing a fabric utilizing recycled polyester. This 'green' technology shows a commitment from the leadership of Perfection Uniforms to have a positive impact on the environment."
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