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A brief thought for this evening
"We're all just walking each other home." – Ram Dass With all of the sadness and tragedy in the world, especially today, it is worth remembering that the most important thing we can do is to take care of one another in the best way we can. Be kind. Be gentle. Be honest. Ask for help. Give it freely. Don't be afraid to be vulnerable. Hug people. Send a note. Smile. Cry on each other's shoulders if you need to. As hard as it can be, refuse to let hatred, violence and anger pull us further apart. We're all in this
Thoughts on imagination
For as long as I can remember, I have spent a large portion of my days living in my imagination. Daydreaming. Fantasizing. Thinking. Creating other worlds, people and scenarios. In a sense, my imagination gave me a secret world in which, consciously or subconsciously, I was superior to others. Privy to something they didn't know or could not access. Even during social occasions, I would often be fantasizing about someone or someplace else, smiling at the people around me and, perhaps, to them, appearing to engage in perfectly fine conversation, but never truly being there. Discovering the teachings of Eckhart
Seasickness & tortilla chips
One morning, during my recent holiday in New York, my mum and I got on the ferry to take a Hop-On, Hop-Off tour of the Hudson River. Whilst I had felt fine beforehand, within a few minutes of being on the boat, I began to feel a bit nauseous. I have never particularly suffered from seasickness, but the weather was rough, the motion strong and I began to struggle with the feelings of sickness. I tried to breathe through it and focus on one thing, all of the usual strategies, but the feeling was intensifying and, by the time we
Why are we scared of making progress?
I'm about to go to bed after a good but tiring first day back at school with the children, but I wanted to post briefly about something that's been on my mind… It has struck me recently that sometimes I actually hamper my own progress because I am frightened. I am talking about spiritual progress, or essentially about coping with a particular difficult life circumstance. I think that many of us do this. In the particular, personal situation I am thinking of (moving on from a complicated relationship) I feel sometimes that I am actually doing a lot better than
Learning from loss: a quick catch-up
I'm sorry it has been a little while since I've written. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a great New Year! Our festive period was quite strange and emotional, due to the loss of my grandmother, but we enjoyed family time together and really made the best of it. Unfortunately on New Year's Eve, the day after my grandma's funeral, we had to take my beloved cat, Maisie, to the vet to be put to sleep. She has been unwell recently, the prognosis was not good, and we knew it was only a matter of time. The
A quick recommendation and a simple question
If you have not yet come across Byron Katie, I would suggest delving into her work–and then doing The Work. The idea, in very basic terms, is that every situation and emotion is all dependent on our own perception. It's about working through those thoughts that eat away at us and getting to the truth of them. And it's not always easy. Sometimes it comes back on us in ways we don't expect! But isn't that what we want? To be open, vulnerable, brave, honest and kind? A question that stuck with me from The Work is
The struggle after acknowledgement
When we're talking about behaviours we want to change, habits that are no longer helpful to us, acknowledgement is the first step and, for some people, the hardest. Noticing our behaviours, our emotions and our triggers is absolutely vital if we are to make positive changes. But I've realised, through my own experience, that acknowledgement doesn't automatically equal change. It seems to be a facet of human nature (or at least my own!) that we can absolutely know that something is unhelpful or even harmful, but we continue to do it anyway. Sometimes that is necessary, for a while, until

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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large bag composed of layers of canvas, saturated or coated with air-proof and water-proof preparations and filled with air, designed for use in raising sunken vessels. When needed for use, empty air-bags are secured to the vessel beneath the surface of the water, and air is then forced into them. Also called
- noun The presser of a pneumatic molding-machine.
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The old Taurus is known for its flashing air-bag warnings that often amount to false alarms.
The system is supposed to disable the bags if the problem could cause an unwanted air-bag deployment.
By now, the average American would be bankrupt from all the procedures this air-bag has had.
Q: Recently I have had a constant air-bag light on in my 1994 Ford Taurus GL.
It can take months for incipient corrosion to find its way to the car's computer systems or air-bag controllers.
The safety board, which makes nonbinding recommendations, isn't expected to call for federal mandates for stepped-up air-bag deployment.
Closely held AmSafe industries Inc., the primary supplier of air bags for general aviation, business jets and airliners, has sold about 19,000 air-bag devices for general aviation.
With approximately 1,600 general aviation accidents claiming roughly 500 lives each year across the U.S., experts believe many more crashes would be survivable with the help of air-bag technology.
After assessing the performance of air bags in roughly two dozen such accidents over three years, they said, the safety board has agreed to call for more widespread use of air-bag technology on private planes.
"Drop it, and we have to buy another one at full price," Shane Allen, former information systems manager at Special Devices, a manufacturer of air-bag initiators for the automotive industry, told CIO. com earlier this year.


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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Pink Frosting!
Before too much time passes, I wanted to sneak in a little post about Glitterfest! What a wonderful show to be part of! Diane and Sheryl of Whimzy did a fantastic job organizing this glitterfully fun affair and I can't wait to see what they do for the Fall fest & Halloween! Stay posted at www.vintagewhimzy.com .
As usual I met some fantastic new people; Susie Scott was a neighbor across the way whose art is so sweet and inspiring. Oh those faces, those sweet little faces of hers...you know I've got a thing for the cool little faces…and she's got them! Check out her site if you get a chance. www.susiescottstudios.com so very cute! Sherry Goodloe was a new found friend as well. What a cool lady. I didn't get a picture, but she's got amazing stuff at www.gotart4u.blogspot.com I can already tell she's one of those special people that just seem to get it. She teaches, creates and inspires, you can see it in her writing and in her eyes.
This was a day was filled with glitter, and laughter and pink, and you know I love pink, but what really makes these days, the best days are the people, the pink is just the frosting.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
You're the Queen Award!
This award is part of a really fun Marie give away sponsored by Cassandra at www.myartfuladventures.blogspot.com. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right so my apologies if it's not.But Susie Scott was so sweet to share it with me I just had to give it a go!Now I'm off in an attempt to spread this blog love...wish me luck!!!XO
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Although lightning strikes hit the ground millions of times a day, the chances of being struck by lightning are very low. If lightning does hit you, it sends a massive electrical current through your body. This can cause skin burns, internal organ damage, and cardiac arrest. Being hit by lightning is a medical emergency, even if symptoms are mild. Call 911 and seek emergency care for all cases of lightning injuries.
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WASHINGTON — Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who was praised for his agency's response to Hurricane Harvey but sharply criticized for its handling of Hurricane Maria's devastation of Puerto Rico, announced on Wednesday that he would resign.
Mr. Long's tenure was also punctuated by a controversy that had nothing to do with storms. The inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, found in September that he had improperly used government vehicles to travel between work and his home in North Carolina, where his wife and two sons live.
In a statement announcing his departure, Mr. Long noted that in his two years leading the agency, FEMA had handled more than 220 declared disasters, including during several hurricanes that caused profound damage in Texas, in Puerto Rico and along the East Coast.
"While this has been the opportunity of the lifetime, it is time for me to go home to my family — my beautiful wife and two incredible boys," he said. "As a career emergency management professional, I could not be prouder to have worked alongside the devoted, hardworking men and women of FEMA for the past two years." The agency declined a request for an interview.
Mr. Long said Peter Gaynor, the deputy administrator, would serve as acting administrator.
Mr. Long earned plaudits for FEMA's response to Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana in 2017. Assessing the damage in Texas, President Trump praised Mr. Long as "a man who really has become very famous on television in the last couple of days."
But he came under withering criticism for FEMA's handling of relief efforts after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico later that year, including a call last month from Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts and a candidate for president, for Mr. Long to resign.
Hurricane Maria eventually caused almost 3,000 deaths and left thousands without electricity for months, and Hurricane Harvey killed nearly 70 people. Those storms combined with others in 2017 caused an estimated $300 billion in damage.
Mr. Long came to Washington with a strong reputation for skilled handling of disaster management, and White House officials often praised his professionalism. But that standing was undercut by the inspector general's report, which noted that Mr. Long had also used a government vehicle for personal purposes while on a family vacation in Hawaii.
"The FEMA administrator is supposed to be focused on preparing for disasters like the devastating hurricanes that killed thousands of Americans in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — not using government vehicles to shuttle his family around Hawaii at taxpayer expense," Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, who was the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and is now its chairman, said when the report was released.
"Administrator Long's apparent violations of federal law for his own personal benefit are another example of how senior officials in the Trump administration continue to use American taxpayer money," Mr. Cummings said.
At the time, Mr. Long took responsibility for his actions but denied that he had knowingly violated agency rules.
Before coming to Washington, Mr. Long had served as a director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency from 2008 to 2011, when he became a private contractor.


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This is the real Spain!
In the heart of the little-known peaceful Axarquia, nestled on the slopes of the stunning Sierra Tejeda mountains and overlooking the beautiful Vinuela valley with its lake far below, Casa Louisa is a large, spacious and comfortable house, sleeping up to ten, with large pool, several sun-trap terraces and close to the little pueblo village of Alcaucin with its very Spanish Bars and restaurants.
Although only a short drive from the bright lights and bustle of the coast and around an hour from Malaga airport, at Casa Louisa you will find a haven of peace and tranquility amid the olive groves and the rugged beauty of towering mountains that surround the valley; where holidays with family and friends become unforgettable … happy times with children splashing and laughing … peaceful restful relaxing days under a hot sun, dozing, perhaps, in the shade, book in hand and only the sound of the breeze rustling the olive trees to disturb you; of walks through the pine-woods in the National Park just above …of watching wonderful sunsets from the balcony, seduced by the incredible views … of evenings lasting well into the night gathered round a candle-lit table and under a brilliant star-lit sky, the lights of the valley twinkling far below.
This fascinating part of Andalucia offers a multitude of interesting and exciting things to do and see for those who like to be out and about … Granada and its wonderful Alhambra Palace … the stunning ancient cities of Cordoba and Seville … perhaps a trip to the water park with the kids or a day cycling on the tiny almost unused roads … take, perhaps, a guided mountain bike trip through the forest on the many tracks ? … a fresh seafood lunch on the coast? … kayaking through gentle coastal waters around the cave-studded cliffs? You will find, however, dragging yourself away from lazy days by the pool, the peace and quiet, the comforts of the house and the stunning setting, will become harder and harder as the days go by.


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Decopatch – Craft Project 1
Decopatch the inspiration
Decopatch or Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing coloured or patterned paper cutouts onto it in combination with special glue and varnish mix, gold leaf and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers.
We are going to do a Decopatch upcycling project today. At Craft we like to be environmentally friendly where we can, so we absolutely love upcycling projects. We are going to create a lovely handmade pen pot for your office desk, or if you wanted it, a small vase for your window ledge. All you will need for this project is:
- A small flat paint brush
- A sheet of your chosen decopatch paper. (you can buy the branded or non branded deco patch papers here or here any patterned tissue papers will work)
- A Decopatch glue your can get these here or any online or shop retailer (if you don't have this you can use a PVA watered down slightly)
- A stronger glue (see instructions)
- A recycled glass jar of your chose.
- Scissors
- Some decorative ribbon
Step 1
Okay we start by taking your piece of decopatch/tissue paper and either tearing it or cutting it into small pieces. Then you take your paint brush and dip it into the glue and spread a thin layer over a section of the glass jar. Then you take a piece of the tissue paper and layer it onto the glued section. Then dip your brush back into the glue, wiping any excess off. Then glue over the piece of decopatch/tissue paper till it is completely covered and any air bubbles are pressed out.
Tip; On some jars there is the logo or name in the glass, around these it is difficult to get a smooth finish on the paper. I find that using my fingers for this gives you a better contact with the paper. Press gently with your finger to mould the paper to the raised surface.
Step 2
Okay now you have the hang of it, continue with the rest of the pieces of paper until the jar is completely covered. On every piece added make sure the air bubbles are pushed out and it is as smooth as possible. Now let it dry! It may take a few hours to dry naturally but if your like me and impatient you can pop it on your radiator or on the window sill in the sun, to help it along.
Step 3
Now that the jar is completely dry you can see what you have achieved. I would check over it as sometimes when the paper is wet with he glue, you can miss a few bits leaving glass on show. You can go over these bits now completing the jar. Again let this dry then we can finish it off.
Step 4
Now your jar is nice and dry you will have noticed that it is difficult to get the paper perfectly over the top rim, where the lid goes. This is where your ribbon comes in. Take the chosen ribbon and wrap around the top lip of the jar till it meets the starting point. Cut it along this edge so you have the perfect sized piece to fit the top of the jar. Now with a stronger glue, I used E-600 or a supper glue if you don't have this to hand, squash a bit out onto the underside of the ribbon. Now stick it to a start point on the jar at the top. Once the glue is dry safely and slightly pulling to get a nice finish, pull the ribbon round the jar. Then placing a blob of glue at the end on the underside of the ribbon, push it down to meet the start piece. Now let it dry.
Now you should have your finished hand made, decopatch upcycled pen pot or vase. See image below of my finished jar.
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Cuba announced Monday it had re-established formal contacts with European nations including France, Germany and Britain in a quest to normalize relations after a nearly two-year-long freeze.
Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said the decision was made after an EU commission recommended that member states work to improve relations with Cuba's communist government, in part by ending the practice of inviting dissidents to national holiday celebrations at their embassies in Havana.
"Due to these pronouncements, Cuba has made the decision to re-establish formal contacts with a group of countries from the European Union," Roque told a news conference.
Roque said Cuban authorities would immediately start meeting with ambassadors from eight European countries: France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Greece, Portugal and Sweden.
Relations between Cuba and Europe chilled after Cuba cracked down on the island's opposition in March 2003, rounding up and sentencing 75 dissidents to long prison terms.
European nations were also troubled by the firing-squad executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry to the US.
EU members responded by unanimously agreeing to reduce high-level governmental visits and participation in cultural events in Cuba and to invite dissidents to embassy gatherings.
But some EU nations, led by Spain's new Socialist government, say the EU sanctions have had little effect. In mid-December, an EU commission recommended member states work out a new policy encouraging the Caribbean island to open up.
Martha Beatriz Roque, one of 14 dissidents from the original group of 75 released from prison last year, said she was disappointed.
"We are going to continue working to achieve democracy in Cuba, despite the European Union turning its back on us and supporting the Cuban government," Roque said in a telephone interview.
Monday's announcement came about a month after formal contact was re-established with Spain, Belgium and Hungary. Perez Roque declined to comment on the EU countries with which contact has not been resumed.
By late November, as the EU reviewed diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, the government started releasing some of the 75 dissidents from prison.
Including an earlier release of dissidents for health reasons, 14 of the original 75 have now been freed, leaving another 61 still behind bars.


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Mushroom and Bacon with Dates
You will need
4 flat-cap mushrooms
Splash of lemon juice and Worcester sauce
Salt and pepper
4 slices cured bacon, cut in two, lengthways
8 dates For pickling mushrooms 2 tbsps olive oil
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
150g wild cultivated mushrooms, sautéed
Place the flat-cap mushrooms on a grill tray. Put a knob of butter on each mushroom, then sprinkle a little lemon juice and Worcester sauce over them. Season with salt and pepper, and grill under a high heat for five minutes.
Roll a bacon slice around each date, then place them in a hot pan and brown them on all sides.
Mix the olive oil and balsamic in a bowl, season, and then add the sautéed mushrooms. Serve the bacon on the pickled mushrooms.
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The Puzzle of the North Korean ICBM
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 634, November 5, 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Uncertainty remains about North Korea's technological maturity and ability to launch nuclear warheads that could hit the US homeland, even after its recent success at launching the Hwasong-14 missile and the conducting of its most powerful nuclear test yet. The first-stage engine of the Hwasong-14 is a critical component in its possible operation as an intercontinental ballistic missile, but there are questions about how Pyongyang came by this engine, how many it possesses, and whether or not it can produce them on its own. These uncertainties are troubling not only with regard to North Korea, but also with regard to Iran. They have sobering implications about the possibility of monitoring and preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction worldwide.
The success of the two test launches by North Korea of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Hwasong-14 on July 4 and 28, as well as the powerful nuclear test on September 3, surprised and shocked the world, especially the US. This is because they suggest an eventual scenario in which Pyongyang is able to strike the American continent with nuclear weapons, a capability to which it might already be very close.
To this was added The Washington Post report of August 8, according to which the American intelligence community believes North Korea has successfully developed a miniaturized nuclear weapon that can be installed in the warhead of a ballistic missile. This achievement means Pyongyang is crossing the threshold to becoming a nuclear power. Contributing to the unease are Pyongyang's fiery declarations, including a statement on October 16 by North Korea's deputy ambassador to the UN that "the entire US mainland is within our firing range."
It is difficult to assess the truth of that statement, as North Korea's nuclear status is still ambiguous. These issues remain to be determined:
- the ratio between Hwasong-14's flight range and the payload weight it can carry;
- the weight and dimensions of the nuclear bomb North Korea has developed so far, and its ability to fit it into a missile warhead;
- whether Pyongyang has developed a "reentry vehicle" (RV) capable of surviving a return into the atmosphere prior to hitting its target;
- the missile's accuracy; and
- the origin of the missile's first-stage (main) engine, the number of engines of this type possessed by North Korea, and its ability to manufacture them domestically.
American aerospace engineer John Schilling wrote in July that the Hwasong-14 is still unreliable and not yet capable of reaching Alaska or Hawaii. In his view, it will take another year or two of tests and development before the missile can carry a nuclear warhead capable of striking targets on the American West Coast.
Theodore A. Postol, Markus Schiller, and Robert Schmucker, in an August article in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, analyzed the flight trajectories of the two stages of the missile in the launches of July 4 and 28. According to their calculations, if the Hwasong-14 had been carrying a payload with a nuclear bomb, it is doubtful that it would have been able to hit Alaska, let alone the US mainland. The test missiles carried a very small payload compared to the weight of a nuclear warhead, and the heavier the payload, the shorter a missile's flight range.
However, Dr. Jonathan McDowell, a satellite launch expert at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, disagrees with this claim. In August, he stated that if the Hwasong-14 is launched at a lower-angle trajectory than the July 4 and 28 launchings, it could carry a payload up to 11,000 kilometers, which would enable it to hit almost all the US states. This is due to the high-powered thrust of the missile's second-stage engine, which would give it "a bit more push."
It is important to bear in mind that the weight and dimensions of the nuclear bomb North Korea intends to install in the Hwasong-14's warhead are unknown. Postol, Schiller, and Schmucker's claim – that a Hwasong-14 carrying a nuclear payload might not even be able to hit Alaska – was based on the assumption that the nuclear bombs developed by Pyongyang contain an enriched uranium core and therefore weigh approximately 500 kilos. But at least some North Korean nuclear bombs have a plutonium core and therefore weigh significantly less. Moreover, the September 3 nuclear test showed Pyongyang's rapid progress in nuclear weapons development and the likelihood of its success in miniaturizing the bomb.
Images distributed by the North Korean news agency KCNA showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, prior to the test launch, observing a large, peanut-shaped, silver-colored device. According to KCNA, he was watching "the loading of a hydrogen bomb into the new ICBM." A wall in the background displayed a cross-section drawing of the missile's warhead and within it the photographed device.
While the device is similar to the US W87 thermonuclear bomb, it should be noted that the conical W87 warhead's cone base diameter is 56 cm, it is 180 cm long, and it weighs 200 to 270 kg. The device and warhead in the KCNA images appear to be larger and therefore heavier than the W87. Also, the device in the KCNA photos might be a mockup. Nor is there any certainty that the nuclear explosive device detonated in the September 3 test was the same as the device shown in the KCNA images.
Still, it is highly likely that the test was conducted on a device with a plutonium rather than an enriched uranium core, and boosted by hydrogen isotopes. It is therefore difficult to draw conclusions from the KCNA images regarding the weight of the North Korean bomb and the impact of that weight on the flight range of the Hwasong-14.
As to whether or not the photographed device was a mockup or the real thing, Joshua Pollack, editor of Nonproliferation Review, commented the day after the test: "Given the closeness in time between the exhibition of the device and the actual test, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the actual device … They have very good reasons to show exactly what they've got, because they're trying to enhance their credibility. I give them the benefit of the doubt on this one."
One of the problems in the development of ICBMs is the RV's survival due to harsh environmental conditions, extreme temperatures in the thousands of degrees, and high deceleration pressure, all of which act on the vehicle during its descent into the atmosphere on its way to striking its target. The RV must be covered in an ablative heat shield, since as a result of the melting or vaporizing of the coating, the thermal energy dissipates into the atmosphere.
It is doubtful that Pyongyang has developed a reliable heat shield for the RV. After the launch on July 4, North Korean media claimed the test had proven the durability of the Hwasong-14 RV – but South Korean intelligence believes North Korea has not yet acquired sufficient expertise in RV technology as it lacks suitable testing facilities, such as wind tunnels.
The article by Postol and his colleagues also casts doubt on the North Koreans' having mastered RV technology. Their doubts were reinforced by a short video aired by the Japanese broadcaster NHK, which showed that at the end of the July 28 launch of the Hwasong-14, near the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the missile was shedding parts into the sea and apparently falling apart. Michael Elleman, a missile specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, claimed that prior to the missile's return to earth, small objects were falling from it, apparently due to its premature disintegration, and concluded that "the Hwasong-14 RV did not survive during its second test." Both Elleman and McDowell believe North Korean technology has not yet matured to the point that it poses a real nuclear threat to the US.
There could be another explanation for the disintegration, however. An August 12 report by Ankit Panda in The Diplomat notes CIA estimates that the Hwasong-14 RV was lofted to an excessive apogee of about 3,700 kilometers. This means its reentry into the atmosphere was at a steep angle that accelerated its speed and caused its surface to overheat.
According to this assessment, North Korean RV technology has advanced sufficiently to allow a missile launch at a lower trajectory, requiring minimal energy and thus reducing the heating of the RV. If this is in fact the case, the missile will be able to hit targets in the US. As proof, the article states that when the missile was launched to an altitude of 2,800 km during the July 4 test, the RV survived at an altitude of at least one kilometer before returning to earth.
The parameter that defines the accuracy of a missile's impact is CEP (Circular Error Probability), the radius of the circle around the target where there is a 50% probability of its hitting. Hwasong-14's CEP estimates range from 30 km to 3-5 km. A Hwasong-14 at a CEP of 30 km, if launched at Los Angeles, would probably miss it, and the city would likely remain unscathed. But at a 3-5 km CEP, the missile could cause thousands of casualties in the city even if it does not score a direct hit.
Based on photos of the Hwasong-14, especially the one showing it on a Chinese-made mobile ballistic missile launcher that has a known length, Postol, Schiller, and Schmucker identified the missile's first-stage engine as an RD-250 type. That engine, which has an 80-ton thrust, was designed in Russia by the NPO Energomash in the 1960s for the R-36 missile, which was the backbone of the USSR's strategic missile arsenal during the Cold War. The production of the RD-250 engine was later transferred to the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro, Ukraine.
In an August article in The New York Times, Michael Elleman focused on the Yuzhmash plant as the source of the RD-250 that ended up in North Korea. The transaction was shown against the background of the economic difficulties the Ukrainian plant faced following the deterioration of relations between Russia and Ukraine due to the Crimea flare-up in 2014.
The identification of the RD-250 model as the first-stage engine of the Hwasong-14 (also installed as the engine for the Hwasong-12's single-stage medium-range missile) was based on the findings of German engineer Norbert Brügge, published on July 17. Brügge referred to a video image released for publication by North Korea, in which Kim Jong-un was photographed in late September 2014 as he watched an innovative rocket engine during its ground test. The engine was described as "the largest and most powerful to date." When Brügge examined the photograph of the engine and compared it to the diagram of the engine produced by the Yuzhmash plant, he found they were a good match in shape and dimensions, as well as in the position and size of the four Vernier steering engines surrounding the first-stage engine (the purpose of which is to direct the missile's flight trajectory after launch).
Elleman's conclusion that Russia's NPO Energomash was involved in transferring the technology to North Korea was further supported by the findings of UN investigators six years ago following the arrest of two North Koreans in Ukraine in July 2011 for attempting to steal secret information on advanced missile systems, liquid propellant engines, and the like. In his article, Elleman raised the questions of how the technology was transferred to North Korea and whether the Ukrainians continue to assist Pyongyang in this area.
Immediately following the article's publication in The New York Times, accusations flew between Moscow and Kiev over responsibility for delivery of the engine into North Korean hands. Volodymyr Groysman, Ukraine's prime minister, called the article a "provocation," while Oleksandr Turchynov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, called it "a Russian intelligence conspiracy". The Ukrainian space agency stated that all engines manufactured at the Yuzhmash plant were designed solely for the Russian space program and that all engines manufactured, as well as their documentation and blueprints, are in Russian possession.
Moreover, to refute the NYT article, the Ukrainian security services gave CNN footage and detailed information about the sting operation they had conducted in July 2011 to ensnare the two North Korean spies who were out to steal missile technology. They even allowed CNN to meet the spies, who had been imprisoned in Zhytomyr prison for eight years.
On the other hand, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has alleged that "the copying of Ukraine's rocket engines by North Korea would have been impossible without Ukrainian experts." In addition, as part of Russian propaganda efforts, the online publication Russia Insider displayed a video on August 18 in which a prankster, posing as Turchynov, duped the director of the Yuzhmash plant, who innocently admitted that the plant had maintained ties with North Korea for 14 years but minimized their scope.
Whom does the US believe? A member of the American intelligence community told Reuters, "We have intelligence to suggest that North Korea is not reliant on imports of engines … we judge they have the ability to produce the engines themselves." On the basis of that assessment, Ankit Panda concluded in an article on August 16 that the engines are manufactured in North Korea as part of a joint development program with Iran.
To support this conclusion, Panda used a November 2013 report from the US Treasury Department, according to which Iranian technicians from the SHIG organization (the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group), which belongs to the Iranian Ministry of Defense, arrived discreetly in North Korea in 2013 to develop a new 80-ton thrust engine (the RD-250) together with their North Korean counterparts.
The second-stage engine of the Hwasong-14 is the R27, developed and manufactured at the Russian Makeyev plant for the SS-N-6, a Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM). These engines and their technology were transferred to the North Koreans, who fitted them to the Hwasong-10 medium-range ballistic missile (also known as the Musudan or BM-25). The Hwasong-10 was first revealed during a parade in Pyongyang in 2010, though its test launches have all failed so far. According to reports, the Iranian ballistic missile Khorramshahr, recently unveiled in Iran, is a copy of the North Korean Hwasong-10.
The uncertainties about North Korea's nuclear capability are very troubling in view of its threats to the US, South Korea, and Japan, and the fear of the outbreak of war in East Asia. These uncertainties are worrying not only with regard to North Korea, but also with regard to Iran. They have sobering implications about the possibility of monitoring and preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction worldwide.
Lt. Col. (ret.) Dr. Raphael Ofek is an expert in the field of nuclear physics and technology, who served as a senior analyst in the Israeli intelligence community.
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For session 54 I had the pleasure of speaking to the creator of Buti Yoga, Bizzie Gold. I really loved having Bizzie on the show as the conversation just got real and raw so quickly. In this session, we break down exactly what Buti Yoga is and where it's going. Plus, we delve into how [MORE]


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Since my blog beginnings in 2008, one question seems to keep coming around: Where do you get your ideas? I mean, there's only so much you can write about games, yes? It's all been said?
You'd think so, but… no. I haven't found that to be the case. Once I started writing, I haven't really been able to stop — and I haven't found myself experiencing many "dry spells" where the well of topical ideas is empty.
So from my perspective, there are a few ways that I keep ideas coming so that I'm not stuck with my fingers poised expectantly over the keyboard with nothing to power them. Here's a quick list of where I get my ideas:
- I talk about what I played yesterday, sharing a unique experience or a funny observation so that it's not just a dry journal entry
- Someone on another blog broaches an intriguing topic that I can bounce off of or add to the discussion
- I get worked up over something — good or bad — and vent on the blog about it
- I pepper in a lot of "quickies" — polls, pictures, quotes — to keep the pattern of blog posting going
- I look at games coming down the pike and find something captivating about them to discuss
- I make sure to keep a list going of ideas when they come to me for times when I'm at a loss for something to write that day — it helps to have that list to fall back on
- I keep in mind how stand-up comedians entertain by zeroing in on an observation and exploiting the heck out of it
- I look at the news of the past day (I recommend Massively, but you can pick your own poison) and see if any of that inspires a post
- I ask a question
- I answer someone else's question
- I make a quick list, because writing lists is fun and everyone seems to love reading them
- I pay attention to what my guildies or even general chat is discussing, and see if there's post fodder in that
- I give myself a new experience and write about that
So it's nothing special, really, just a hundred different points of inspiration for posts. The most important thing is to get something — anything — out on a regular basis. Get in the habit of writing, even if it's just a quick three-sentence post for the day, because that makes future posts a lot easier to formulate.


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CARLSBAD — Preserve Calavera and other community groups are encouraging the Carlsbad Planning Commission and City Council to choose the Quarry Creek project alternative to build 506 houses instead of the current proposal, which includes 656 houses.
Diane Nygaard, CEO and founder of Preserve Calavera, said concerned residents are not opposing the Quarry Creek project. They are simply asking for fewer houses to be built on the west panhandle of the site. This end of the site butts against the 134-acre Buena Vista Creek Ecological Reserve and neighbors the historic Marron Hayes Adobe.
"We're reasonable people," Nygaard said. "We realize the developer has the right to develop the land."
The 156-acre project site is part of the reclaimed Hanson Aggregates quarry. It includes El Salto Falls and is bordered on the east by Oceanside's Quarry Creek Shopping Center.
Corky McMillin Companies built the shopping center and is an active officer of Quarry Creek Investors LLC that will develop the housing project.
Nygaard said the alternative of 506 units is a compromise and notes that the area was originally zoned for 293 homes.
Project builders prefer to stick to the current proposal.
"There is one proposed project with 656 homes," Todd Galarneau, senior vice president of Quarry Creek Investors LLC, said. "A number of alternatives are required by the California Environmental Quality Act. Some have more (houses), some have less."
Galarneau added at least one alternative calls for 750 homes to be built.
The perk for the city to approve a plan with 656 houses or more is that the density would satisfy part of the city's affordable housing requirement.
Galarneau said Quarry Creek Investors has been working with the city, regional agencies and a dozen community groups throughout the planning process to reach the best project proposal.
The city's general plan states that at build-out 40 percent of city will remain parks and open space.
The current project proposal designates 60 percent of the site to parks and open space with 56 percent of the site to remain natural open space.
"We meet all city criteria or exceed them," Galarneau said. "This is a critical habitat and historical site. We really struck that balance in the current land use plan."
Nygaard said the proposed 87.9 acres of open space fails to preserve a visual buffer between planned homes and the adobe.
Poles that mark planned building are distinctly visible on the hill across from the adobe and adjacent reserve.
"It's a regional wildlife corridor and has a historic sense of place," Nygaard said. "There's 9,000 years of Native American history, a land grant adobe and natural resources. It's a unique treasure of Carlsbad."
Citizen groups have been involved in preserving the area since the Quarry Creek Shopping Center was built as the first phase of the project.
"This is the third round of community involvement," Nygaard said. "I don't know anybody that doesn't agree there's been too much development."
Previous efforts were made to preserve and maintain El Salto Falls.
In one case a buffer zone between the falls and shopping center was approved by Oceanside City Council, but papers were hastily signed off that did not include a sufficient buffer zone and the agreement was not recognized.
"There is a history of concern," Nygaard said.
In other efforts money was successfully raised to purchase adjacent land and preserve it as part of the Buena Vista Creek Ecological Reserve.
The latest efforts are focused on creating a visual buffer between the adobe and planned development by not building on the 56-acre panhandle area next to the adobe.
A period of public review of the project's draft Environmental Impact Report extends from now through early December and allows residents to give their feedback.
"In three months a critical decision will be made," Nygaard said. "Three of the eight alternatives are taking development off of the panhandle."
So far the Carlsbad Planning Commission has not given direction and City Council has not made a recommendation on development plans.
Community input on the housing project is being collected through Dec. 7. All comments will be reviewed, responded to and presented as part of a summary to the Carlsbad Planning Commission and City Council in late January or early February.
"Each comment is listed," Chris DeCerbo, principal planner said. "Often times actual revisions are made."
The project will proceed with public hearings in early 2013. Construction of homes is expected to begin in 2015.
The Quarry Creek master plan can be viewed on the city of Carlsbad website. Comments can be emailed to senior planner Van Lynch at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Cassi Clausen was the original founder of The Open School, and began the journey in February 2012. She has a Bachelors from Westmont College, a Masters of Education from UM St Louis, and a Masters of Arts from University of London, Goldsmith's College. She has dedicated her life to giving a voice to kids, and advocating for respectful parenting and education. Cassi has three kids, two of whom currently attend The Open School, with the third acting as its mascot. She enjoys nice restaurants, junky television shows, and traveling with and without her kids. Read more about Cassi in this article.
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Many thanks to Rafael Rodriguez for offering such a kind review of my recent book, Reading John over at the Jesus Blog. I appreciate him taking the time to give it a fair hearing. Also, it's always gratifying when someone 'gets' what you're trying to do.
I always wanted to thank my blogmate, Nijay Gupta for naming my book the best textbook in his Best Academic Books of 2015 post. Perhaps he's biased, but I don't really care!
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If you need to charge differently a specific visit of a service based on a specific day, on a specific time period of the day, or if the day is a holiday, you don't need to create different Bill Codes for this. For the same Bill Code, you can now enter different rates depending of the day, the time of the day, or if the day is a holiday.
Step 1. Access the list of Bill Codes via the Accounting settings
Go through Accounting > Global Settings (1) > Bill Codes (2)
Step 2. Create a new Bill Code and define the default rate as usual
From the Bill Codes list, click on the "Add Bill Code" button (1)
Define the Bill Code summary (2) and then the default Rate (3).
Step 3. Define time specific rates for the Bill Code
If for the same Bill Code, you want to override the default rate based on the day and time of visits, you can add as many as time specific rules.
After setting the default rate, the "Add Time Specific Rule" button (1) is enabled. When clicking on it, the Rule setup section appears.
For each Time Specific Rate, you need to define first the rate (2) that will be applied based on day and time constraints.
Then you can set a combination of days (3), time (4), and holiday constraints (5). This setup will allow the system to find the right rate when invoicing, depending of the visit start time.
Once you're happy with the Time Specific Rate, you can save it (6).
Step 4. Review and Reorder the time specific rules
Once you added all your Time Specific Rates, you can still edit or delete some of them (1), but the most important thing is to order them correctly.
To order them, you can drag and drop them clicking on the icon (2) at the far left of each Time Specific Rates.
When billing a visit, the system will look if the matching Bill Code has some Time Specific Rates. If so, it will check in order the rules to see if one of them is matching the visit time.
The matching is done based on the visit start time.
If no Time Specific Rates is matched, the Default Rate will be applied.
Examples based on the screenshot above:
- A visit happening from 19h00 to 20h00 on a Sunday, not being a holiday, will be billed 20 per hour, as the weekend rule ("Sa, Su, all day") rule is above the evening rule ("Everyday, from 18:00 to 23:59").
- A visit happening a holiday will always be billed 25, whatever the day and the time of the visit, as the Holiday rule was put first.
- A visit starting at 23h30 on a Monday and finishing on a Tuesday at 00:30, not being a holiday, will be billed 14 per hour as the visit is not happening on a holiday or during the weekend, and the start time of the visit overlap with the evening rate ("Everyday, from 18:00 to 23:59").
- A visit on a Tuesday from 14h00 to 15h00, not being a holiday, will be billed 12 per hour, which is the Default Rate, as no Time Specific Rate is matching with the visit.
Step 5. Save the Bill Code and see the time specific rules on the Bill Codes List
Once you're happy with the Bill Code setup, you can save it.
You can identify a Bill Code having an effective rate with Time Specific Rates if there is a Warning icon next to the effective rate of the Bill Code (1). If you mouse hover on the icon, you can see the Time Specific Rates ordered by priority (2).
Note 1: You can do the same setup when you add a new effective rate to an existing Bill Code, in the Bill Code Edit Dialog.
Note 2: If the rate of the Bill Code is overridden at the Client level, the time specific rates of the Bill Code will be ignored so the rate defined for this client only is always used when generating their invoice. See this article to learn how to to override the rate of a bill code at the client level.


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One thing that has become clear to me in the last few months is that if I draw (paint, collage, doodle, etc.), I write. Since writing is an essential part of my job (the whole publoish or perish thing is real), I need to draw more in order to write more. Simple as that. It works.
To that end, since le beginning of the year, I have participated in various schetchnoting and doodle challenges, and creative prompt schemes, and produced a lot of pages of stuff on paper. if you follow my Flickr account, you have seen those pieces accumulate.
In the last couple of months, you have seen me do (and complain about) slow journaling. It's absolutely not for me. I have had more pleasure from doing things in my Occasional Journal (9 pieces in all) than from all of the Slow Journaling thing (61 pieces). So I have decided to return to the mostly graphical arts on the one hand, and writing on the other hand. Least June and July, I had done a modified #Index-Card-a-Day challenge from Daisy Yellow in a notebook with different prompts. I had thought I would do the 2015 #ICAD challenge next June. However, I have decided to do the true 2014 #ICAD now. I will not be doing it in exact order and I very well may do it faster than in 61 days, doing more than one card a day or doing several cards in parallel over several days. But I will be doing it on index cards using several different techniques. So far, I have done drawing and mixed-media collage, with paint. I am not placing any limits on myself.
I have found that I make different art in a sketchbook than on loose paper. Both are freeing in different ways. The interaction between pages in a journal brings out a lot of interesting themes and possibilities, but there is little choice to fill the pages in order. I guess one could not fill them in order, but I find I cannot. Loose paper, however, be it watercolour paper, bristol board or inder cards, is freeing precicely because one does not have to do anything in order. Any one piece of paper can go where and when ever one feels like. If I want to do prompt #29 right now and do #4 tomorrow, then that's what I do. If I want #7 and # 32 to answer each other, I do so. And I don't have to worry about smudjing the previous pave while doing it. I like this. If I feel like doing a page in the Occasional Journal, then that's what I do too.
Since I am no longer commited to journal in one notebook in a form I don't like, I should blog more here, with actual words rather than with passive aggressive pithy statements. Which should bring back what little interest this blog has in the first place. No more pithy!


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One of the complaints often thrown at eReaders by avid book lovers is there lack of that tangible feel of paper - that rustle of the turning page. Well all that may be set to change for the better is these flexible displays go into mainstream production. With the ability to bend like paper, using a clever set of resistance based sensors, the display can use different "bend gestures" to operate the display.
This, if implemented say in a flexible Kindle (I'll take the copyright for that Amazon - thanks) may evolve into flicking the corner of a page to advance a "location" in a book, or a simple bend could switch the track or shuffle the songs you are listening too.
Over to you:
Have you taken up using an eReader?
Is the experience close enough to reading on paper to make you switch?
What other clever things could be done with bend gestures?


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Riding a ratings wave from "Countdown With Keith Olbermann," a program that takes strong issue with the Bush administration, MSNBC is increasingly seeking to showcase its nighttime lineup as a welcome haven for viewers of a similar mind.
Lest there be any doubt that the cable channel believes there is ratings gold in shows that criticize the administration with the same vigor with which Fox News's hosts often champion it, two NBC executives acknowledged yesterday that they were talking to Rosie O'Donnell about a prime-time show on MSNBC.
During the nine months she spent on "The View" before departing abruptly last spring, Ms. O'Donnell raised viewership notably. She did so while lamenting the unabated casualties of the Iraq war and advocating the right to gay marriage, among other positions.
Under one option, Ms. O'Donnell would take the 9 p.m. slot each weeknight on MSNBC, pitting her against "Larry King Live" on CNN and "Hannity & Colmes" on Fox News.
But even without Ms. O'Donnell, MSNBC already presents a three-hour block of nighttime talk — Chris Matthews's "Hardball" at 7, Mr. Olbermann at 8, and "Live With Dan Abrams" at 9 — in which the White House takes a regular beating. The one early-evening program on MSNBC that is often most sympathetic to the administration, "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson at 6 p.m., is in real danger of being canceled, said one NBC executive, who, like those who spoke of Ms. O'Donnell, would do so only on condition of anonymity.Continue reading the main story
Having a prime-time lineup that tilts ever more demonstrably to the left could be risky for General Electric, MSNBC's parent company, which is subject to legislation and regulation far afield of the cable landscape. Officials at MSNBC emphasize that they never set out to create a liberal version of Fox News.
"It happened naturally," Phil Griffin, a senior vice president of NBC News who is the executive in charge of MSNBC, said Friday, referring specifically to the channel's passion and point of view from 7 to 10 p.m. "There isn't a dogma we're putting through. There is a 'Go for it.'"
Fox News consistently denies any political bias in its programming. But whether by design or not, MSNBC is managing to add viewers at a moment when its hosts echo the country's disaffection with President Bush.
The channel has done so much as Fox News did beginning in 1996, when the president was Bill Clinton, a Democrat. On some nights recently, Mr. Olbermann has even come tantalizingly close to surpassing the ratings of the host he describes as his nemesis, Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, at least among viewers ages 25 to 54, which is the demographic cable news advertisers prefer. Most of the time, though, Mr. O'Reilly outdraws Mr. Olbermann by about 1.5 million viewers over all at the same hour, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Still, as its most recognizable face, MSNBC has marshaled behind Mr. Olbermann, who on July 3, in an eight-minute "special comment" at the close of his show, addressed President Bush directly and called on him to resign. Two months later, the channel chose Mr. Olbermann to serve as the principal host of its coverage of a major prime-time address by Mr. Bush.
Mr. Olbermann's "special comments" — more than 20 in the last 12 months, and nearly all of them first-person editorials that find some fault with the administration — have helped increase the ratings of his program by 33 percent in just the last year, to about 773,000 viewers a night, according to Nielsen. With those ratings, Mr. Olbermann's program surpassed "Paula Zahn Now" on CNN, which was canceled last summer.
Mr. Olbermann comes on after "Hardball" with Mr. Matthews, whose longtime opposition to the war — and to what he describes as Vice President Dick Cheney's outsize role in the administration — has become only more pointed since he took on the title of managing editor of his broadcast over the summer.
Since then, he has talked, both on the air and off, about the "criminality" of the Bush White House, as epitomized, he says, by the role of I. Lewis Libby Jr., the vice president's former chief of staff, in the C.I.A. leak case. Mr. Matthews's overall ratings have edged up in the process, though not on the scale of Mr. Olbermann's.
Even Joe Scarborough, once a conservative congressman from Florida who stood behind President Bush during a campaign rally in 2004, has seemed to have a change of heart about his fellow Republicans in recent months, as is obvious to viewers of "Morning Joe," his new morning show on MSNBC. In recent weeks, he could be heard praising Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's outreach to the military and her husband's accomplishments as an ex-president, sentiments that, he acknowledged, had surprised even him.
In a telephone interview yesterday morning, hours before the news of the O'Donnell negotiations surfaced, Mr. Scarborough sounded more like Mr. Olbermann than vintage Newt Gingrich.
"I'm just as conservative as I was in 1994, when everyone was calling me a right-wing nut," he said. "I think the difference is the Republican Party leaders, a lot of them, have run a bloated government, have been corrupt, and have gone a very, very long way from what we were trying to do in 1994. Also, the Republican Party has just been incompetent."
Asked if Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews in particular provided an outlet for the opinions of viewers unhappy with the current administration, Mr. Scarborough said yes.
"While I don't agree with a lot of the things those guys say night in and night out," he said, "I think it's very important that those disaffected voices have a place to go when they think somebody out there needs to be speaking truth to power."
Which is not to say that all of the channel's hosts speak in one voice. On that same day last month when Mr. Scarborough spoke warmly of the Clintons, for example, he also referred to Democrats generally as "stupid people" and "morons."
In an interview Friday, Mr. Matthews, who was once an aide to Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the former Democratic speaker of the House, recalled that his criticisms of the Clintons in the mid-to-late 1990s made him an outcast within the party, and are still echoed in his skepticism about Mrs. Clinton today.
"I really do take on people with power," he said. "Deceit is what drives me crazy, either by Bill Clinton or the hawks in this administration."
That said, in a separate interview last week, Mr. Olbermann acknowledged that for MSNBC's nighttime lineup to ultimately work, viewers needed to be able to follow at least some common themes from one show to another. He likened himself and his fellow hosts, collectively, to the menu of a hamburger restaurant with several variations of the same dish.
"If you go into a burger place, and you go in there for the fish, you might want the fish occasionally but it's probably a mistake," he said. "Could you be utterly different politically and succeed in this format? You'd basically be throwing your audience away."Continue reading the main story


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Different aspects combine to bring about safety of civil engineering works : rules used for their design, actions they are submitted during time (classical or accidental actions, effects of time) and/or generated by environment (climate actions, natural hazards,..). The objective of this course is to treat the generality of these problems and to study the specific case of concrete structure particularly in the context of seismic risks.
Durability and Vulnerability of Structures and Associated Risks
- Institution:
- University of Grenoble Alpes
- Specialization:
- EE/ES - Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology
- Term:
- Fall 2017
- Teacher(s):
- Credits:
- 3
- Date (from - to):
- 01/09/2017 – 31/01/2018


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Orchestrina di camera, any of a group of small keyboard instruments related to the harmonium, invented and made by W.E. Evans of London. He patented them on Oct. 29, 1862.
Designed to imitate the tone of the clarinet, oboe, flute, French horn, bassoon, and others, they were intended primarily to be used as substitutes for those instruments in orchestral performances when players of the actual instruments were not available. They had bellows-activated free reeds and had the same compass as the instruments they replaced.


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Tel. +1 248 835 6076
E. firstname.lastname@example.com
Welcome to Miettinen Law PLLC, Downtown Detroit's boutique law firm catering to the sports, entertainment, & arts industries. Our goal is simple - we strive to be the first resort for legal services & counsel to local talent so that the community progresses & becomes further enriched.
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What are the product details for the USB Digital IO Box that is available for the INSIGHTqc controller?
Compatible with all INSIGHTqc controllers
Part Number Information:
Ordering Number: 47617332001
Details & Specifications:
- 8 Octo-coupled Isolated Inputs with associated LED status lights
- 8 Relay contact outputs with associated LED status lights
- USB Plug and Play for easy setup
- Ability to Sink or Source the outputs
- Internal 24V (Low Current Applications)
- External 24V Connections available for higher current requirements
- Screw-on USB connector for a robust connection
- Power LED indicator
Plug type connectors with screw - clamping yoke
Mountable to controller or flat surface with INCLUDED brackets
•Maximum recommended USB cable length is 5 Meters
•Up to 4 USB DIO boxes can be connected and programmed with a single controller, providing a maximum of 32 inputs and 32 outputs
How to Program / Setup
- See Programming: Menu/Settings/DIO for further instructions
- Wiring Guide
Included Mounting Options:
- The mounting brackets required to achieve these mounting positions shown below are included with every QC-DIO-8CH.
Other views:
Bottom Mount
Side Mount
Side Mount - 90


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Fax: (631) 423-4368
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