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The best bands are the ones that operate like gangs, the ones who formed to kick back at the world and act as a kind of orphanage for similarly displaced youths. Said bands don't care about anything as much as they care about being that band. Music becomes the unifier, a language that can be joyful and sorrowful at once, and always cathartic. The pure authenticity of the band is in their refusal to pander to rules and expectations. It's their way or the highway. MUNA are that band. They finish each other's sentences, they are one another's biggest cheerleaders, they have a language between them that defies American English, and in conversation they can't wait to get onto the subject of their shared queerness as fast as possible. MUNA came together like a ride-or-die clique would form in a cult classic teen movie. If three's a crowd, MUNA are the one you wanna hang with. Imagine the opening scene. It takes place at USC in LA, sophomore year. Katie Gavin, a newly arrived transfer student from NYU, is walking out of an African Diaspora class where she's just met a cute girl with a twice-pierced nose called Naomi McPherson who she wants all her friends to meet
In their hook-laden songs, MUNA may come across as broodily as the soundtrack to 'Donnie Darko', all Joy Division lyrical moroseness and Tears For Fears chiming melodies, but IRL they possess the college humour of 'Beavis & Butthead' and the bitching aloofness of 'The Craft' via the charm of pretty much every great '90s girl band. Via memorable headscarves, premature life crises, and three individual obsessions with making music, MUNA arrived at their self-described "dark pop" of 2016 and a debut EP in 'Loudspeaker', which they take full credit for. Their listening sessions comprise of everything from Fleetwood Mac and Talking Heads to Massive Attack, LUSH and Cocteau Twins.
For Urban Cone — four high-school friends from a Stockholm suburb — creating irresistibly catchy, emotionally resonant music that has the potential to connect with fans all over the world is all they've ever wanted. Formed in 2010, Urban Cone has enjoyed substantial success in their native Sweden with their debut album, 2013's Our Youth, and 2015's Polaroid Memories, which was also released in the U.S. The band's sound — feel-good, indie electro-pop — earned them positive praise from such tastemaker outlets as Brooklyn Vegan, VICE/Thump, Idolator, and Stereogum. Urban Cone toured Europe with fellow Swedish rising star Tove Lo and the U.S. with The Griswolds. It was during their summer U.S. tour that Urban Cone began coming up with ideas for their upcoming third album, which will be released by Interscope Records/Universal Sweden. Vocalist/keyboardist Rasmus Flyckt and vocalist/bassist Emil Gustafsson had written and produced Urban Cone's music themselves and this time they wanted to take a different approach. The songs on the new album are anchored by harder, hip-hop-influenced beats and funky guitars, while retaining those sparkling melodies that Swedish music-makers seem to conjure up so effortlessly.
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Talking Heads' Singer David Byrne Suing Florida Governor
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Talking Heads vocalist David Byrne has issued a lawsuit against Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida. Byrnes alleges that the politico used the band's 1985 single, "Road to Nowhere" without seeking permission or proper licenses. See, if you use someone's music without asking them, you violate intellectual and artistic property laws, kids!
In a suit filed Monday afternoon in Tampa, Byrne is seeking $1 million damages from the Gov'nor, who once served as the state's Attorney General, as well as his senatorial campaign, claiming that they used the song earlier this year as part of website and YouTube advertising. Byrne says that Crist attacked his primary opponent, Marco Rubio, using the song. Crist was initially a Republican candidate, but has switched horses in mid-stream and is now running as an independent. I guess Byrne isn't much of a Republican, huh?
Do you think Byrne is more bummed that a former Republican used one of his songs or that he used it without asking?
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Tyneside bids farewell to Bishop Ambrose
A special Mass was celebrated yesterday, to say farewell to Bishop Ambrose Griffiths, who is retiring as bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle after reaching the compulsory retirement age of 75. More than 150 priests and 500 other representatives from across the diocese gathered at St Mary's Cathedral, in Newcastle, for the midday Mass. At the end of the Mass, Bishop Griffiths was due to be presented, by Fr William Bellamy, with a new car and computer, bought by the parishes of his diocese. Fr William Bellamy, parish priest of St Michael's Church, in Elswick, is Newcastle's longest-serving priest. Bishop Ambrose will return to serve in his former parish in Leyland, Lancashire at the end of this month. He is being succeeded by Canon Kevin Dunn, who will be ordained as the 12th bishop of Hexham and Newcastle on 25 May.


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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|May 28, 1991
|Filing date
|Aug 1, 1989
|Priority date
|Dec 23, 1987
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Mark S. Rash, Nicholas D. Harrison, F. Prince Butler
|Original Assignee
|Rash Mark S, Harrison Nicholas D, Butler F Prince
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (81), Classifications (14), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a divisional application of Ser. No. 07/137,206, filed 12/23/87.
This invention relates generally to the art of telephones, and more particularly to a cordless telephone network for enhancing public telephone systems.
As is well known, pay telephones are located at strategic places from which consumers can place calls. A difficulty with the current pay-telephone system is that one must normally be located exactly where a pay telephone is in order to place a call. Often, this is inconvenient since one must get out of his car, for example, to enter a phone booth. Similarly, in most current public telephone systems, it is necessary for telephone companies to make available separate stations, or booths, for each caller and these booths are sometimes uncomfortable and inconvenient, especially when it is raining or the booths are located in crowded or undesirable areas. Further, callers sometimes wish to spread reference papers in front of them while making calls, which is not usually possible in phone booths. Also, it is expensive for telephone companies to provide separate booths and equipment for each caller. It is an object of this invention to provide a public pay telephone system having telephones which allow a caller to remain in a chosen area, such as in his car, while making a call and which do not require telephone companies to provide separate stations for each of the callers.
A related problem to that discussed above is that it is difficult for an individual to receive a call at a public telephone booth. In this respect, a party expecting to receive a call at a public telephone must wait close by the telephone which can often be very inconvenient, especially when others are periodically using the telephone. Such situations are especially impractical for truckers who often must wait by public telephone booths at truck stops waiting for instructions from home offices, when they should be sleeping to prepare themselves for their next run. It is an object of this invention, to allow a called party to receive a call on public telephone systems while "on the go", at locations convenient to the person, such as in his car or truck or at a restaurant booth.
There are currently available cellular telephones which allow users to make and receive calls from cellular telephones located in serviced zones. In this regard, serviced zones are normally located around large metropolitan areas and these zones are divided into cells. If one owns a cellular telephone, and he is located in a serviced zone, he can place and receive calls via a cell antenna and base unit located in each cell. A problem with cellular telephone systems is that they are expensive to maintain and therefore are expensive for the users thereof. In this regard, one must currently pay a substantial monthly use fee as well as a substantial per call fee. Still further, one must pay for long distance toll charges and the cellular equipment is extremely expensive. On top of this, since it is expensive to set up a serviced cellular zone, this is not done, in rural areas. However, it is often desirable to place calls from within ones car, or otherwise "on the go", when one is in remote areas as well as when one is in metropolitan areas. Truck drivers provide a good example of those who often wish to place and receive calls from their trucks in remote areas. Thus, it is an object of this invention to provide a telephone system which allows one to place and receive calls from within motor vehicles or otherwise "on the go", which does not require the investment of relatively large sums of money in equipment, monthly fees, and per call fees for consumers and which does not require the investment of larger sums of money by telephone companies.
In recent years cordless telephones have come into use with which a party can have a base unit connected to a ground line with a transmitter and receiver for communicating with a cordless hand-held unit located up to one thousand feet (1000) away from the base unit. By using the hand-held unit, one can receive calls and place calls via the associated base station. To date, The United States Federal Communications Commission allows ten (10) channels to be used for cordless telephones, each channel having two (2) frequencies, one on which the base unit transmits and the hand-held unit receives and the other on which the hand-held unit transmits and the base unit receives. These channels are as follows:
______________________________________TABLE OF CORDLESS TELEPHONE CHANNELS Base Hand-held transmit transmitChannel (MHz) (MHz)______________________________________1 46.610 49.6702 46.630 49.8453 46.670 49.8604 46.710 49.7705 46.730 49.8756 46.770 49.8307 46.830 49.8908 46.870 49.9309 46.930 49.99010 46.970 49.970______________________________________
In order to provide a certain amount of security for calls placed and received on cordless hand-held units a preset security code is normally assigned to a particular base unit and its associated hand-held unit. In this respect, the hand-held unit cannot be rung by a base unit which transmits another security code and, similarly, the base unit will not place a call for a hand-held unit which does not transmit the preset security code. In other words, the base unit and the hand unit are preset to be used one with the other to provide security.
Although current cordless telephones are quite useful in particular situations, their usefulness is unduly restricted. In this respect, one cannot use such a cordless hand-held unit unless he is near one particular base unit, and that is the base unit with which the hand-held unit is purchased or particularly preset to operate. Further, such a prior-art cordless telephone hand set does interfere with transmission of another if a mode switch thereof is moved to an active mode while the other is already having a conversation.
It is an object of this invention to provide a cordless telephone network which allows each cordless-telephone hand-held unit to be used with any of a plurality of strategically located base stations while yet providing more security than is presently available for each cordless telephone in the network.
According to principles of this invention, each of a plurality of cordless-telephone hand-held units can be used with any of a plurality of cordless-telephone base units. Such base units are strategically located by telephone companies or others in truck stops, rest areas along interstate highways, convention centers, restaurants, and the like. Each of the base units has a RAM for temporarily storing an identification code of a first hand-held unit with which it is communicating and does not allow other hand-held units, with other identification codes, to receive calls from, or place calls through, that base unit while the base unit is so "captured"by the first hand-held unit. Each of the hand-held units, includes a voice activation/deactivation switch which does not allow voice signals until that particular hand-held unit and a captured base unit have properly "shaken hands". Each hand-held unit in the system has a different identification code.
Yet further, each hand-held unit has the capability of scanning a plurality of cordless telephone channels when it is in modes for both receiving and placing calls; in order to receive its identification code on one of these channels when it is receiving calls, and in order to receive a "channel free" transmission from a nearby base unit when it is placing a call.
The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of a preferred embodiment of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views. The drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating principles of the invention in a clear manner.
FIG. 1 is a simplified isometric view of a truck stop with a base unit and a plurality of hand units thereat;
FIGS. 2a-2b are block diagrams of a simplified base unit of this invention;
FIGS. 3a-3b are diagrams of a simplified hand-held unit invention; and
FIGS. 4a-4b are flow charts of the operation of the base unit and hand-held unit of FIGS. 2 and 3.
Referring now generally to FIG. 1, a truck stop 10 has a base unit (BU) 12 mounted thereat on a pole 14 with an antenna 16. The base unit 12 is mounted in an elevated position in order to prevent vandalism, however, it should be understood that the base unit 12 could be mounted inside the truck stop 10, on the ground, on a telephone pole, or at some other location. The antenna 16 is located high in the air so that it can more easily communicate with trucks, cars, or individuals with hand-held units. The base unit 12 is connected by a ground line 18 to a normal commercial telephone network 19. The network 19 can transmit signals on ground lines satellites or in any other way signals are transmitted on commercial telephone lines. Various mounts for hand-held units are shown in FIG. 1 which are representative of uses of this invention.
A first hand-held unit (HHU) 20 includes a microphone 22 to be placed at a user's mouth, a speaker 24 to be placed at a user's ear, a keyboard 26 with which a user can create touch tones for communicating dialed digits, code numbers, and the like to the base unit 12, and an active/standby switch 28. The first hand-held unit 20 also includes an antenna 30, various circuits 32 (FIGS. 3A and B), and a battery 34 (see FIG. 3B also). A receiver unit 36 (FIG. 1) is normally included with each hand-held unit 20. The receiver unit 36 has a cradle 38 for receiving the hand-held unit 20 and various contacts 40 for mating with contacts 42 on the hand-held unit to automatically place the hand-held unit in a stand-by mode and to charge the battery 34 in the hand-held unit when the hand-held unit 20 is cradled on the receiver unit 36.
A second hand-held unit in a truck 44 and a third hand-held unit in an automobile 46 are exactly the same as the first hand-held unit 20 and therefore they are not further described herein, however, each of these hand-held units are connectable to an exterior antenna 48 and 50 so that they can better communicate with the base-unit antenna 16.
With regard to the receiver unit 36, this is connected to a power source which is used to charge the battery 34 in the hand-held unit 20, and such receiver units in the truck 44 and the automobile 46 are attached to the batteries of these vehicles as their power sources. It should be understood that the power source could be built into the receiver unit 36.
Looking now in more detail at the base unit (BU) 12, with reference to the block diagram of FIGS. 2A and B the ground telephone line 18 includes a ring line 18A and a tip line 18B which are connected to a telephone line interface circuit, or hybrid 48. Basically, the hybrid 48 shapes those signals coming from the base unit 12 over the ring and tip lines 18a and 18b to meet telephone company regulation values of voltage, current and impedance. Such a circuit is sometimes called an impedance matching network. A particular hybrid circuit which will work in this invention is one sold by Cermetek Micro Electronics, Inc., model CH1813.
The hybrid unit 48 is connected to a central logic controller, or BU-CPU 50, over a line 52 on which incoming rings are communicated and a line 54 on which it is indicated that the hybrid has gone "on or off hook". Further, the hybrid 48 is connected to the BU-CPU 50, over a force on/off-hook control line 56, over which the BU-CPU 50 can instruct the hybrid 48 to go "on or off hook".
The hybrid 48 is also connected to a BU analog ASIC circuit 58, which includes amplifiers, modulators, demodulators, AGC circuits, and filters, via voice, or audio, lines 60 and 62. The analog ASIC circuit 58 is connected to a transmitter circuit 64 and a receiver circuit 66 by means of a TX/RX control line 68, and a transmit voice line 70 and a receive voice line 72. The transmitter and receiver circuits 64 and 66 are coupled to the BU antenna 16 via a filter circuit 74 which includes band pass filters and a surge protection hybrid circuit.
The ASIC circuit 58 includes a touch tone generator 74A and a touch tone decoder 74B which are interconnected by a control bus 76. The tone generator 74A and the tone decoder 74B are interconnected to the audio lines 60 and 62 by input and output tone lines 78 and 80. The ASIC circuit 58 also includes filter and amplifier circuits 75 in the audio lines 60 and 62.
The BU-CPU 50 is connected to the ASIC circuit 58 by a status and control bus 76 and a data bus 86.
The BU-CPU 50 is also coupled to the FM receiver 66 and the FM transmitter 64 via a frequency synthesizer, or tuner, 96. Other peripheral elements of the base unit will be described below in relation to operation of the overall system.
Looking now in detail at the hand-held unit 32 shown in the block diagram of FIGS. 3A and B, the battery 34 is coupled to a converter 90 which provides the various DC voltages and ground to operate the various elements of the circuit. With regard to the rest of the circuit, this circuit is basically controlled by a HHU-CPU 92 which includes the necessary RAM 92A and EPROM 92B. The HHU-CPU 92 is coupled to a touch tone DTMF decoder 94, encoder 124, and a digital tuner (PLL Frequency Synthesizer ) 96 via a digital ASIC circuit 98 over address bus 100, data bus 102, and control bus 104. The HHU-CPU 92 is also coupled to the active/standby switch 28 over the address and data buses 100 and 102 via an address decode and data latch logic circuit 106 of the digital ASIC circuit 98. The touch tone DTMF/decoder 94 and encoder 124 are coupled to an ANALOG ASIC circuit 108 on audio lines 110 and 110A respectively. The digital ASIC circuit 98 is attached to a TX/RX driver amplifier circuits 114T and R by means of transmitting receiving control and data bus line 116T and R. The TX/RX driver amplifier circuits 114T and R receive and transmit a radio frequency signals on the HHU antenna 30 to the BU antenna 16.
The ANALOG ASIC circuit 108 is coupled to a telephone speech network and tone dialer 120 which could be of the type sold by Motorola under the model number MC34013A. This telephone speech network 120 includes a line voltage regulator (not shown), the dual tone multi-frequency generator 124, and a speech network 126. It should be understood that the DTMF generator 124 includes a necessary resonator 128 and keypad 130, and is interfaced to the CPU Data Bus 102 by keypad logic 131 of the digital ASIC 98. The speech network 126 is coupled to the microphone 22 and the speaker 24 of the hand-held unit 20 shown in FIG. 1 via an analog switch 132. The analog switch 132 is controlled via the voice enable/disable control line 104.1 by the HHU-CPU 92 and the digital ASIC 98. An analog switch 132 which would work is part #DG305A of Siliconix Corp, Sunnyvale, Calif.
Also attached to the HHU-CPU 92 via the DIGITAL ASIC's address decode and data logic are the ringer control line 104.2, a local ringer 134 and its driver 136, and the DTMF generator 124.
The operation of a cordless telephone network of this invention will be described with reference to the flow charts of FIGS. 4A, B and C, referring to the hardware diagrams of FIGS. 1-3B where necessary.
Referring now to FIG. 4A, the power is turned on at the hand-held unit at block 138 and at block 140 for the base unit. The BU-CPU 50 (FIG. 2A) controls the touch tone generator 74A to periodically generate touch tones signals of 00000000 which are operated on by the analog ASIC 58 to be transmitted by the transmitter 64 over a base-transmit radio frequency of an assigned cordless telephone channel to radiate from the BU antenna 16. This is shown at block 142 in FIG. 4A. In this discussion it will be arbitrarily assumed that the base unit of FIG. 2 is operating on cordless-telephone channel 3 shown in the TABLE OF CORDLESS TELEPHONE CHANNELS shown above, thus, it transmits on 46.670 MHz and receives on 49.860 MHZ.
When the hand-held unit (HHU) is turned on, its CPU 92, FIG. 3B, sets the digital tuner (PLL frequency synthesizer) 96 to control the FM transmitter 114T and receiver 114R so that these units receive and transmit the radio frequency of channel 1 (see the TABLE OF CORDLESS TELEPHONE CHANNELS shown above) as is depicted by block 144 in FIG. 4A. The HHU mode switch setting at block 146 in FIG. 4A is normally on standby when the HHU is turned on. Both the hand-held unit and the base unit are now active with the base unit transmitting a series of 0's at block 142 over transmit frequency 46.670 MHZ, monitoring signals coming in over frequency 49.860 MHz channel 3 (hand-held unit transmit frequency for channel 3) at block 148 and monitoring for a ring on the land line 18 at block 150. At the same time, the hand-held unit, which is set to standby, is "listening" with its antenna 118 for its ID number plus a request signal at block 152 on the flow chart on channel 1 and if it does not receive such a signal on channel 1 within a specific length of time, at time-out block 154, the HHU-CPU 92 controls the digital tuner 96 to increment the switch to transmit and receive on the base transmit and receive frequencies of channel 2, which are 49.845 MHZ and 46.630 MHZ respectfully, as indicated at block 156.
In order to place a call from the hand-held unit the mode switch 28 is set to active at block 146 of FIG. 4A and the HHU-CPU 92 is made aware of this via the digital ASIC 98 over the data line 102. The HHU-CPU 92 listens for reception of a hand-held unit ID number of 00000000 over the base unit transmit frequency of the channel that is then being monitored at block 158. If no channel is received within a time out period at block 160 the channel is incremented at block 162 by the CPU 92 and the new hand-held unit receive frequency is monitored at block 158. If the hand-held operator does not receive a signal indicating that a free channel was found, he moves the active/standby switch back to standby. However, if when the hand-held unit is incrementing through the channels at blocks 158-162 it receives, from a base unit, a hand-held ID of 00000000 over audio line 116R, such as on channel 3, the CPU 92 instructs the DTMF generator 124 of the hand-held unit to transmit the hand-held unit's ID number plus a request signal at block 164. This signal is transmitted over audio line 116T, and transmitted via the hand-held antenna 30 on the hand-held unit frequency 49.860 MHz for channel 3 on which the hand-held unit received a free channel signal. The BU-CPU 50 receives this hand-held ID number plus a request signal at block 148 and stores the ID number in its RAM at block 168. As can be seen in FIG. 2A, the received signal flows from antenna 16 to thru RF filter/impedance network 74, to the FM receiver 66, thru the RX IF line 72, to the IF to audio converter 73, thru the filters and amplifiers 75 to the DTMF tone decoder 74B which decodes the signal producing the received hand-held ID number plus a request. This decoded signal is read by the BU-CPU 50 via the data bus 86 when a READ line 87 is activated by the BU-CPU 50, after the BU-CPU 50 has been interrupted on a tone received interrupt line 89. The BU-CPU 50 then instructs the hybrid 48 on line 56 to go "off hook" on the tip and ring telephone lines 18 at block 170. The BU-CPU 50 then instructs the dial tone generator 74A to create dial tones representative of the HHU ID number, which the base unit just received and temporarily stored, plus an acknowledge signal and this composite signal is transmitted over the base unit transmit frequency for channel 3 (46.670 MHZ) at block 172. The hand-held unit receiver, which is receiving the base unit transmit frequency of channel 3 receives its hand-held ID and the acknowledge signal at block 174 which is decoded by the DTMF decoder 94 and noted by the HHU-CPU 92. The HHU-CPU 92, acting via the control bus 104 and line 104.1, activates the analog switch 132 which enables the microphone 22 and the speaker 24 to transmit via the speech network 126. At this point, the base unit transmitter and receiver 64 and 66 are both operating respectively on the channel 3 frequencies 46.670 and 49.860 MHz as are the receiver and transmitter, respectively, in the circuit of 108 for the hand-held unit. The hand-held unit operator can then dial a number using the keypad 130 which is transmitted directly through the voice lines 60 and 62 of the base unit to the telephone lines 18. The hand-held operator listens for an answer and upon receiving one has a conversation at blocks 178a and b of FIG. 4B. If during this conversation the party at the other end of telephone lines 18 should hang up, this would be detected by the hybrid circuit 48 and signaled to the BU-CPU 50 on hook-data line 54. The BU-CPU 50, would, via data bus 86, control the tone generator 74A to send tone signals via the ASIC circuit 58, the transmitter 64, and the base unit antenna 30, to the hand-held unit and these dial tones are decoded by the dial tone decoder 94 and this data is provided to the HHU-CPU 92. The HHU-CPU 92, upon receiving these signals (HHU ID# plus a "clear" signal) at block 180 (FIG. 4B) operates the analog switch 132 (FIG. 3A) to deactivate the microphone 22 and the receiver 24 at block 182 of FIG. 4B. The HHU-CPU activates on control bus 104 the digital tuner 96 to increment the tuner one channel (to channel 4) at block 162 and, since the mode switch is still set at active at block 146, the hand-held unit again listens for a clear channel (one with the base unit transmitting a frequency of 0's on channel 4). If the mode switch is set to standby block 146, the hand-held unit and the base unit go back into the original standby mode that existed when these units were first turned on.
In this regard, while the hand-held unit is having its voice deactivated at block 182, the base unit CPU 50 is erasing the hand-held ID which was temporarily stored on its RAM at block 184 and is instructing the hybrid 48 on control line 56 to hang up (hook on) on telephone lines 18. The base unit CPU 50 then again instructs the digital tone generator 74A to transmit a channel clear signal, a series of eight (8) 0's, on its fixed channel 3 base-unit transmit frequency indicating to all users that Channel 3 is now available (free). At block 142 both the base unit and the hand-held unit are now back in-the standby mode.
Assuming, however, that the first one to hangup is the hand-held unit (by moving the mode switch to standby at block 186), the hand-held unit then transmits the hand-held units ID number and a clearance signal at block 188 which the base unit receives at block 190. Again, as can be seen on the flow chart, the HHU-CPU deactivates the voice at block 182 increments the tuner one channel at block 162 and returns to the standby mode. While the hand-held unit is doing this, the BU-CPU 50 is erasing the hand-held unit's serial number which has temporarily been stored in RAM at block 184 and hangs up on the land line, thereby also returning to the standby mode in which it transmits a free channel signal at block 142, etc.
A call received from the land line is initiated when the hybrid 48 (FIG. 2B) detects a ring at block 150 in FIG. 4A and so instructs the BU-CPU 50 (FIG. 2A). The BU-CPU 50 instructs the hybrid on line 56 to go "off hook" or, answer as indicated by block 192 in FIG. 4A. The BU-CPU 50 then monitors (using the DTMF Decoder 74b) dial tones received over telephone lines 18 and any hand-held ID number is temporarily stored by the BU-CPU 50 in RAM at block 194. If no hand-held unit ID number is received the base unit returns to the standby mode hanging up at hybrid 48, see block 196. However, should the BU-CPU 50 receive a HHU ID number from the land caller, it stores this temporarily in its RAM at 198 and instructs the dial tone generator 74A to generate the hand-held unit ID number plus a request which is transmitted at block 200 of FIG. 4C. If the hand-held unit called is in the standby mode it receives this ID number plus the request signal at block 152 but if it is in the active mode, its ID number plus a request signal will have no effect on it and the base unit will receive no acknowledgement within a set period at block 202 and the BU-CPU 50 erases the hand-held serial number from its RAM at block 204 and orders the hybrid to hang up the land line at block 196, thereby returning to a standby mode. However, if the hand-held unit is in a standby mode the HHU-CPU 92, upon receiving the hand-held unit ID number plus a request activates the ringer 134 on control bus 104 to begin periodically ringing at block 206. If the mode switch 28 is moved to the talk position within a specific period, as detected by the HHU-CPU 92, see block 208 of FIG. 4C, the HHU-CPU 92 will activate the transmitter TX of the hand-held unit and will operate the DTMF generator 194 to provide the hand-held ID number plus an acknowledge signal which is transmitted by the hand-held antenna 118 at block 210 of FIG. 4C. At this point, the HHU-CPU 92 activates the analog switch 132 so that the microphone 22 and speaker 24 can be used, see block 212 of FIG. 4C. The base unit receives the hand-held ID number and acknowledge signal at block 202 of FIG. 4 and at this time a conversation can take place as indicated by blocks 214a and 214b. Thereafter, either the party at the end of the telephone line or the hand-held unit operator can hang up and the hang up sequence is exactly the same as was previously described above. All blocks on FIG. 4C having identical functions have identical reference numerals.
It will be appreciated that because of the safeguards built into this system it is possible to have a base unit function with a number of different hand-held units. Such safeguards include:
1. having mechanisms on the hand-held units which allow the hand-held units to only transmit once they have received either their particular ID numbers when they are in the standby mode and a channel clear signal when they are in the active mode;
2. having mechanisms on the hand-held units which deactivate their microphones and speakers until the CPU's have fully determined that a conversation can take place; and
3. mechanisms in the base unit for temporarily storing the hand-held units ID number in a RAM to only allow that hand-held unit to receive and send commands to and from the base unit during a conversation and then to erase the hand-held unit ID number from RAM once the call is completed.
With the system of this invention, it is possible to place a base unit at any location and anyone having a hand-held unit can then place and receive calls through that base unit from their car or some other remote area close to the base unit.
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
For example, it would be possible to have at one location multiple base units, each one being attached to a different land line and each one operating on a cordless phone channel. If this were done, it would be necessary to insure that none of the base units are operating on the same channel. It would also be possible to allow the base units to move to channels which are free of interference, however, if this were done, it would be necessary to have a system CPU for controlling the various base units to ensure that none of them are operating on the same channel.
Yet another possibility is for the BU-CPU 50 to maintain a TABLE OF USERS, and only allow those hand units having specific ID's set on the TABLE OF USERS to place and receive calls through that base unit. In this manner, a truck stop could maintain a base unit and require hand-held users to check in and pay money in order to get their ID numbers on the table of the BU-CPU. A system could be worked out in which a hand-held unit ID number is enclosed on a label, card, token, or cassette which is plugged into a base unit and a hand-held user would then have to pay money in order to plug his token in and would have to retrieve his token upon leaving. It would also be possible to have the base unit provide voice messages to callers to properly orient land-line telephone callers and explain to them when and how to key in ID codes of hand-held users.
Still further, it would be possible to have an LED read out on the hand-held units indicating signal strength and channel availability.
Also, a FM transceiver hybrid circuit could be used which includes some elements of the ASIC circuit 58 as is indicated by dashed line 214 in FIG. 2.
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Any organization is for the good of public... for the good of humanity....the present procedure and system in CGHS is causing troube to patients who are already in trouble... the following suggestions are offered for the improvement of cghs facilities -
1/ The token must also be issued by phone and approximate time by which the patient must be available for the consultation of doctor must be told to patient.
2/ There must be single queue / single window system ... all the medicines must be available immediately and same day ... the patient should not need to visit different hospital and different places on different dates again and again ... and no need for patient should arise for making different queues at different times at different levels ... since it is wasting the precious time of patients, doctors and hospital staff.
3/ The medicines should be available same day in the same hospital where he is reffered ... he should not be compelled to collect the medicines from cghs hospital.
4/ Wastage of time of patient should be avoided ... he should not be forced to come in different queues again and again due to different reasons for the same treatment.
5/ The working hours of all cghs dispenseries should be up to 4PM.
6/ At present the patient is forced to come in different queues again and again due to the following reasons -
a/ First, he has to come in a queue for collection of token ... morning 7AM he has to make a queue for collection of token and only 50 tokens are issued ... if these tokens are finished then he has to make a queue next day for the same purpose.
b/ After collection of token at 7AM, he has to wait up to 1PM afternoon for his number for consultation of doctor... and if you can not get the token and approach the doctor for treatment at 1.30PM, the doctor may refuse you since his working hours are up to 2PM only.
c/ After consultation / pescription of doctor, the patient has make another queue for collection medicines if available ... otherwise he will have to come again next day for rest of the medicines ... and he will have to form a queue again.
d/ If the patient is referred to other hospital ... then again he has to form a queue for token ... then next queue for prescription of doctor.
e/ After prescription of doctor in referred hospital, next day he has to go his original cghs dispensery from where he was referred again for collection of medicines... this is entirely wrong system / procedure ...the medicines should be available in the referred hospital itself.


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Program Faculty
With a combination of appointed faculty from the University of Denver and adjunct faculty with extensive real-world experience in their fields, our expert faculty at University College understand adult learning theories and provide practice-based education to busy adults. Students gain the hands-on skills and foundational knowledge needed to excel in their chosen industries, all while learning from professional practitioners who work in the fields they teach.
Our faculty lead dynamic discussions in the classroom, hold rigorous academic standards, and embrace innovative technologies and curriculum designed specifically for adult learners. Learn more about the faculty at University College by browsing the descriptions below.
Ryan Abeloe
Ryan Abeloe (MS in GIS, University of Denver; BA in Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno; BS in Geography, University of Nevada, Reno) currently works in the oil & gas industry with responsibilities ranging across ArcMap, ArcGIS Server/Portal, SDE, and even a few non-ESRI tools. Ryan discovered his passion for GIS while he spent a summer working between McMurdo and the South Pole doing manual labor. He previously worked in transportation engineering and for non-profits doing primarily demographic analyses in GIS.
Greg Baca
Mr. Baca has been turning spatial data into information his entire career, the last 12 years in the GIS field specifically. Mr. Baca is founder and director of GIS Services for MGIS Inc. a firm specializing in GIS analysis and training. Mr. Baca has worked for private industry, local and county governments in a variety of roles including: GIS Programmer/Analyst, GIS Database Administrator, GIS Specialist, and GIS Coordinator. He has worked on, and managed a wide variety of projects for utilities, emergency management, and local governments. He teaches beginning, intermediate, and advanced GIS courses. Previously, Mr. Baca served on the conference committees for GIS in the Rockies (2000, 2001) and the International Geospatial Information Technologies Association (GITA)(2003). Mr. Baca also serves on the board of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of GITA, and serves on the GIS Advisory Board for Front Range Community College in Colorado.
D. Joe Falconer
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Janet Gritzner
Janet Gritzner (PhD in Geography, Louisiana State University; MA in Geography, University of Maryland; BA in Geography, University of Maryland) has extensive experience in GIS and teaching. As a full-time faculty member in the Department of Geography, Dr. Gritzner brings knowledge of remote sensing, international program development, and planning and implementation of GIS technologies. Dr. Gritzner research interests are hydrologic modeling in GIS, LIDAR/IFSAR applications, prairie wetlands, place name generics, Great Plains small towns, and Caribbean food systems.
Nicholas Grove
Nicholas Grove has over 26 years law enforcement experience. Within his law enforcement experience, he has 12 years of crime analysis and mapping experience. Nicholas graduated the first "academy" in 2004 to train crime analysis as part of the Crime Mapping & Analysis Program (CMAP) through the University of Denver. He received his MS from Tiffin University in Criminal Justice/Crime Analysis. He has been involved in the current processes of analyzing crime as part of police department operations, planning responses to mapped crime, and participated in police department operational meetings similar to the New York Police Department COMPSTAT process.
Nicholas is the past President of the Colorado Crime Prevention Association and past Secretary of the Colorado Crime Analysis Association. He has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver's University College since 2013 teaching crime mapping and analysis with the Geographic Information Systems, Department of Geography.
Steven Hick
M.A., University of Missouri, is the department director for Geographic Information Systems. Hick is the instructor for " Basic Geographic, Spatial and GIS Concepts", "Fundamental Vector GIS Concepts", and "GIS Project Design and Implementation" courses. Hick is a senior research associate with the University of Denver Department of Geography and directs the activities of the GIS Lab. Hick also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Geography Department of DU. Prior to joining the University, Hick was a GIS consultant with UGC Consulting of Englewood, Colorado. He has served as a lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio, completed post-graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin and was a cartographer with the Defense Mapping Agency. (GIS)
Heather Hicks
Heather Hicks, a certified GIS Professional (GISP) has 16 years experience in the geotechnical field, including GIS, geology, natural resources management, geomorphology, natural hazards, petroleum applications, as well as telecommunications, project management, homeland security, and governmental programs. Ms. Hicks has a BS in Geology and a BA in Geography from the University of Delaware. She earned a MS in Geographic Information Science from the University of Denver. She is completing a PhD in Geosciences from the Colorado State University using GIS as a natural hazard assessment tool.
Her professional career has included positions at the US Geological Survey's Water Resources Division, an environmental consulting company, a telecommunications corporation, city government, and more recently as the GIS Coordinator for the State of Colorado's Department of Natural Resources for 6 years, and as the Director of the GIS Department of EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. since 2007.
She has been an adjunct faculty member of the University of Denver since 2004, teaching GIS, environmental applications, natural hazards, and natural resources courses in University College and the Department of Geography. She also serves as a part-time instructor at the University of Colorado at Denver in the Civil Engineering department, teaching GIS in Natural Resources and Spatial Theory and Analysis courses. In 2009, she started as an instructor at Johns Hopkins University for the Advanced Academic Programs GIS certificate program inaugural course offerings.
Edmond Holroyd
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, is retired as a Research Physical Scientist from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation after 31 years of service. He worked on weather modification projects for four decades, specializing in their evaluations. After 1988 he was the lead research scientist in Reclamation's Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Group. Ed has been sharing his expertise in the GIS Department at the University of Denver since January 1999. (GIS)
Courses Taught:
GIS 4700 Remote Sensing
GIS 4740 Digital Image Processing
Devin Johnson
MPS in GIS, Northeastern University
BS in Geographic Information Science and Cartography, University of Maryland College Park
Devin is originally from Baltimore, Maryland and currently resides in Colorado Springs. Devin has extensive knowledge in geospatial and remote sensing analysis as well as program development. His professional experience in these fields extends within the scientific community, federal civilian sector, and the military. Devin has worked collaboratively with astronomers, engineers and meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Station, geospatial contractors with the U.S. Army's IGI&S Support Center, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, numerous military officials as a Multispectral Satellite Systems Operator/ Instructor within the U.S. Air Force, and with both faculty and students at Pikes Peak Community College as the Geographic Information System Department Chair. His qualifications also include two and a half years of instructing experience in remote sensing and GPS, over seven years of experience using ERDAS and ENVI image processing software, extensive knowledge using Overwatch Systems Lidar and Feature Extraction Analyst, and a high level of familiarity with Python scripting and various open source geospatial software.
Luke Kaim
Luke Kaim (MS in Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine; BA in Geography, University of Denver) is a GIS System Analyst with Applied Future technologies as a contractor to the Bureau of Land Management. Previously Luke was a GIS Application Software Specialist II for Cherokee Nation Technologies which is a contractor to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). His passion is to help answer spatial questions using programming. As a Python developer, Luke has created a GUI to support route by route analysis using linear referencing and dynamic segmentation. Luke has also scripted ecology analysis for a USGS client. Luke has over seven years of experience doing GIS and Remote Sensing projects.
Scott Kelly
MS in Applied Geospatial Science, Northern Arizona University
MS in Sport and Leisure Service Management, University of Nevada Las Vegas
BS/BA in Marketing, Northern Arizona University
Since 2003, Scott has worked with GIS and remote sensing, having started his career with the U.S. Geological Survey and then served as the Lab Director for the GIS and Remote Sensing Core Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has created online workshops and taught several geospatial courses. Other projects have included Grand Canyon archeology GIS management and land change detection with the Bureau of Land Management in southern Arizona. Scott has a master's degree in applied geospatial management and enjoys the combination of art and science that he finds in GIS and remote sensing.
Joseph Kerski
Joseph Kerski is a geographer who believes that spatial analysis through digital mapping can transform education and society through better decision-making using the geographic perspective. He holds three degrees in Geography. He has served as geographer and cartographer at NOAA, the US Census Bureau, and the US Geological Survey. He teaches online and face-to-face courses at primary and secondary schools, through MOOCs through Penn State, Esri, Elmhurst College, and elsewhere, and universities such as Sinte Gleska University and the University of Denver.
Joseph serves as Education Manager for Esri, focused on thought leadership in geospatial technology education. This includes curriculum development, research in the effectiveness of GIS in education, professional development for educators, and fostering partnerships to support GIS in education at all levels, internationally. He has authored books such as Spatial Mathematics, Tribal GIS, The Essentials of the Environment, International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS in Secondary Schools, and The GIS Guide to Public Domain Data.
Jeffery Kreeger
Jeff Kreeger (MBA, University of Colorado, Denver; GIS Certificate, University of Denver, BS in Business Administration, Biola University) is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina in Hospitality Management (target graduation date August 2017) and began teaching at University College since 1996. Jeff has taught the following six courses at some point since 1996: GIS Database Design, GIS in Public Health, GIS in Business, GIS in Telecommunications, Cartography, Introduction to GIS. Jeff has utilized GIS technology in his job from 1990 through 2012 for US West, Qwest, and CenturyLink as well as consulting firms. In fact, Jeff worked on an oil and gas project with one of his consulting firms and a taxation project in another position and still another position as a forecaster. Jeff brings his diverse industry experience into the classroom to add a real-world perspective to the course material. Even though he teaches solely online, he uses humor to keep the subject matter interesting.
Rod Kuhns
M.C.I.S., University of Denver, is the founder and president of Kuhns & Associate, Inc., a private consulting firm that provides software engineering, technical consulting, and business solutions for the Geographic Information Systems Industry. He has 15 years of experience in design, software engineering, implementation, and management of Geographic Information Systems and relational database management systems. Kuhns is an authorized ESRI instructor and instructs courses for GIS and MCIS master's degree programs as well as for other public and private organizations. (CIS
Christopher Leatherman
Chris Leatherman is the owner and chief remote pilot for Aerial Solutions of Wyoming an Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (UAV) company in Gillette, Wyoming. He is a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified remote pilot and manned aircraft student pilot with extensive aeronautical knowledge. In addition he is a member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics an organization of remote hobbyist pilots and DroneU a group of professional UAV pilots. He enjoys working with aspiring UAV pilots sharing his knowledge and learning from students.
Lisa Piscopo
Biography not available
Al Souid
PhD in Environmental & Resource Engineering with emphasis on Water Resources, State University of New York (SUNY)
MS in Environmental & Resource Engineering with emphasis on Water Resources, State University of New York (SUNY)
Al Souid is an adjunct faculty member of University of Denver. He brings with him over twenty years of experience in Surface Water Hydrology, Hydraulics utilizing digital data and up-to-date Geographical Information System (GIS) tools and applications.
He has been a nationwide Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) since 2003 and is a technical lead on several flood risk projects for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Corps of Engineers and many States (nationwide) and municipalities. He is currently a technical consultant for a major international corporation. His area of expertise is using GIS to model simulations of surface water hydrology and hydraulics along with their applications on flood control designs, measures and prevention. His ongoing projects are riverine and coastal digital flood maps, watershed studies and planning, risk products and software tool development.
Dr. Souid brings his industry experience into the classroom to integrate both theory and practice into the course materials.
Shannon Sprott
Shannon Sprott graduated from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Biology & Ecology in 2002. After graduation, Shannon started as an intern, and moved into a full-time position with the Gunnison County Mapping Department as their GIS Technician, where she has worked since 2002 to the present. During this time, Shannon completed her Certificate and Master's Degree at University of Denver in GIS. Shannon's professional experience includes: 10 years as GIS technician for Gunnison County, GIS Consultant for Lidar Guys, GIS/GPS Director of The Rocky Mountain Biological lab, Adjunct GIS Faculty for Western State Colorado College, and Adjunct Online Faculty with University of Denver, University College.
Richard Thurau
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Michael Tuffly
Dr. Michael Tuffly (PhD in Forest Science, Colorado State University; MS in Natural Resource Management, Humboldt State University; BS in Forestry; Humboldt State University) is the Principal Scientist for Environmental Resource Inventory and Analyst LLC (ERIA Consultants, LLC) in Boulder Colorado for 11-years. He is also a Certified Mapping Scientist in Remote Sensing from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), Certified Forester from the Society of American Foresters (SAF), Certified Senior Ecologist from Ecological Society of America (ESA), and a GIS professional (GISP) from the Geographic Information System Certification Institute (GISCI). He has over twenty-five years of applied statistics, Natural Resources Management, GIS, and remote sensing experience. During his career he has provided expertise to federal, state, private, and non-profit organizations in the US and abroad regarding natural resource management issues.
Tuffly regularly gives lectures on geography, forest ecology, hydrology, to students at Colorado State University. Moreover, he also presents lectures at professional societies.
Norma Van Nostrand
MA in Geography, University of Montana
Norma Van Nostrand, a certified GIS Professional (GISP), has over 16 years of experience in the field of cartography and geographic information systems (GIS). While attending graduate school, Norma worked as a GIS technician for NorthWestern Energy. After graduation, Norma was hired as a GIS Specialist for the Bureau of Reclamation in Burley, Idaho. During this time, Norma also taught an introductory GIS course at the College of Southern Idaho. Norma's passion for cartography and GIS lead her back to Colorado and to the exceptional position of GIS Specialist for the U.S. Forest Service in Granby. Now retired from the federal government after 30 years of service, Norma shares her GIS knowledge, passion, and diverse experience with students at DU as an adjunct instructor.
Marilyn Williams
Marilyn M. Williams, PhD, MPH received her doctoral degree from University of South Florida, Tampa, in Geography and Environmental Science and Policy. She also possesses a Masters in Public Health with a focus in Environmental and Occupational Health. Her research interests include environmental determinants of health and related outcomes, urban health and health disparities specifically focused on pollution exposure to susceptible populations. She is currently conducting atmospheric exposure and population work in Denver, Colorado and Houston, Texas as well as evaluating maternal access to health care and social resources in New Delhi, India.
Barbara Wolf
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The easiest way to borrow money and pay for services and things that you may require is opt for a credit card. A credit card is a type of payment card issued by banks to ensure that you can fulfill all individuals your needs without facing any financial hurdle. It is very simple to get a credit card in Malaysia. Based on your agreement between bank and you, bank will issue a credit card preferred by you. When managed properly, credit cards can benefits us in many ways. But, if not used wisely, credit cards can ruin our lives.
Things to consider before applying for a credit card in Malaysia
Well, are planning to buy a credit card in Malaysia? If so, how are you planning to find out the perfect credit card for you? The credit card market in Malaysia is very much competitive and it offers a wide range of credit cards to suit your diversified needs. Amidst a limitless number of credit cards, how do you decide your credit card?
You need to consider and understand your priorities, needs and interest before you pick up a credit card deal in Malaysia. It is also important you have the answer to the following questions with you - How much credit limit do you require? For which purpose do you need a credit card? Should you apply for an annual fees credit card or not? What are the prevailing interest rates charged on credit cards in Malaysia? Once, all the answers are clear, you can go ahead with your decision of applying for a credit card.
Now, your next step will be to find the perfect credit card in Malaysia to suit your personalized needs.
How to choose a perfect credit card in Malaysia
Mentioned below are the points you need to consider to find out a perfect credit card deal in Malaysia:
- Know your requirements:
- Don't pick up a credit card randomly:
- Shop around for a better deal:
- Read the fine print:
- Know about annual fees & related charges:
There are different categories of credit card available in the Malaysia Credit Card market. So, based on your requirements, you can choose a credit card for you. For example, if you are a frequent traveller, you can opt for a Travel Credit Card like Standard Chartered WorldMiles Card. On the other hand, if you are a foodie and love to eat outside frequently, you can opt for dining credit cards like Maybank 2 Cards. If you have business related needs, you can apply for commercial credit cards such as Mach Visa Credit Card.
Many people have the habit of choosing a credit card randomly without considering its terms and benefits. They seem to respond to the emails or phone calls made by credit card providers and jump on the first card they come across. This is a very wrong way to apply for a credit card. You may incur loss going forward.
It is always important to shop around and analyze the various credit card offers available in the Malaysia Credit Card market. Shopping around would help you find out different credit cards and compare their benefits and terms. Comparison may help you choose the perfect credit card to meet you personalized needs. So, never get diverted by the tempting offers available in the market without further exploring them.
Before you finalize a credit card deal in Malaysia, it is very essential you read the fine print. The fine print will help you know and understand the terms and conditions applicable for your chosen credit card. Besides, it protects you against frauds, and unpleasant surprises in the future. There are many instances when an offer says that it is a free credit card, but in actuality the card involves a lot of hidden fees and charges. In such scenarios, reading the fine print helps.
It is always important to check the annual fees charged by a credit card. If the annual fees charged by a card is higher than the cost of benefits and rewards received with the card, you may reject the card and opt for another one. There is always an option of closing the card after redeeming the rewards. However, not all the credit cards in Malaysia charge annual fee. In fact, many popular credit cards come with no annuals fees for the whole tenure. Besides, you should also be aware of, card replacement fee, balance transfer fee, supplementary card fee, foreign transaction fee, late payment fee, cash advance fee, credit shield field protection fees and many such related fees and charges charged on your card.
Thus, an understanding of the above-mentioned factors would certainly help you find the perfect credit card in Malaysia to meet your diversified needs.
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Product Description
There are only three survivors of a shipwreck off the Scottish Island of Stroma following one of the clearances of a highland glen in 1819. They are two very new babies and an eleven-year-old boy, Rory-Beag, sharp of memory but unable to speak due to a deformity from birth. He is cared for by a minister on the mainland of Caithness and the babies, assumed to be twins, are sent away and adopted by a couple from distant Northumberland, where they are baptised Kenneth and Kate and passed off as the adoptive parents' own children. Rory-Beag is the only person alive who knows that they are not even brother and sister, but he can tell no one until the minister teaches him to read and write. Desperate to find the twins, he makes two unsuccessful journeys to trace them, one when he is only thirteen and one as an adult. He fears they may be forever lost to him.
In Northumberland, Kenneth and Kate grow up under their obsessive father, Ridley Reid, and ineffectual mother, Clara. The children long to kick over the traces but only Kenneth breaks away, first to school and then to the merchant navy. Separately, as young adults, Kenneth and Kate have cause to doubt the story Ridley and Clara have told them about their birth, but unless they break free of the hold of their parents, they may never learn the truth of their birth or the existence of the one who can solve the mystery found only in the memory of Rory-Beag.


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PhD Fellowships (PRC) PhD Fellowships (PRC)
The Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra seeks doctoral applications from talented students with a strong interest in research. Candidates for PhD positions must hold an M.Sc degree or equivalent.
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DTIC Research Positions 2017-2018
These fellowships are considered as Predoctoral Research Contracts (PRC), due to the approval of the Spanish law 14/2011 on Science, Technology and Innovation.
Applications are invited for the DTIC fellowships, which are targeted at exceptional predoctoral researchers in the DTIC's research areas. The fellowship provides a recognized first step into a research career.
We highly encourage that, before applying, each candidate identifies one or several DTIC research supervisor with whom he/she would like to work and contact them. Support from a potential research supervisor is very important during the fellowship selection process (and to get admitted to the PhD program, too).
Host institution:
Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Research Areas
Students will pursue doctoral studies in one of the Research Areas of the department which include Cognition, Computation and Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Ubiquitous Computing, Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Cognitive Multimedia Technologies, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Image Processing for Enhanced Cinematography, Sound and Music Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Educational Technologies, Network Technologies and Strategies, Wireless Communications, Information Theory and Coding, Computational Neuroscience, Instrumentation and Biomedical Electronics, Computational Imaging and Computational Physiology, Analysis of Biomedical Data and Non-Linear Signal Analysis.
Application Period
First PhD application period: November 28th, 2016 to January, 16th, 2017 Resolution
Second PhD application period: January, 17th, 2017 to March, 10th, 2017 Resolution
Third PhD application period: March, 11th, 2017 to April, 28th, 2017 Resolution
Fourth PhD application period: April 29th, 2017 to June, 1st, 2017 Resolution
Fifth PhD application period: June, 2nd, 2017 to September, 17th, 2017 Resolution
Early applications are very much encouraged. In particular, we highly recommend candidates coming from outside the EU to apply before the last Application Period
How to apply
• Fill the application form
• For any consults contact to email@example.com
Duration of the fellowship (PRC)
Maximum four years, renewed yearly.
Candidates must have submitted a PhD application. Only candidates accepted to the PhD program are eligible a fellowship (PRC). Hence, every fellowship application should be paired up with an admissions application into the PhD program. Admissions to the PhD program are handled by the University Admission Office.
Types of fellowship (PRC):
Teaching PRC includes a teaching assistance load of 60 hours per academic year.
Teaching-Project PRC includes a teaching assistance load of 40 hours per academic year plus some tasks related to the funded project the PhD candidate joins.
Project PRC includes tasks linked to the funded project the PhD candidate joins.
Fees covered by the fellowship (PRC)
Both types of fellowships/PRC include the annual tutorship fees, but not the administrative fees neither the fees for validations of degrees issued by a university outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) without homologation. Check here for further information.Fees covered by the fellowship (PRC)
The year salary gets an increase of 6% during the 3rd year and 20% during the 4th year.Other grants


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Get your feet moving and your hips swinging with Fed Square's Latin Dance classes!
Professional dancers from the Melbourne Latin Festival will introduce you to a range of Latin dances including Salsa, Bachata, Zouk, Samba, Cha Cha, Argentine Tango and more.Come along for a great summer dance workout or just sit back and relax listening to the sultry Latin beats.
No partners or experience required.
• Friday 20 January | 7pm – 8pm – Synergy Salsa• Friday 3 February | 7pm – 8pm – Acontra• Friday 17 February | 7pm – 8pm – Showy Dance• Friday 3 March | 7pm – 8pm – Loco Mojo• Friday 17 March | 7pm – 8pm – Candela Latin Dance• Friday 31 March | 7pm – 8pm – Fisica Dance
Location:- Federation Square:- Crn Flinders st & Swanston St, Melbourne (In front of Fed Square Information Booth) In case of wet weather , classes will be in the atrium)
Facebook page:- https://www.facebook.com/events/1832165317060152/
Lift access & wheelchair accessible.
Contact: email@example.com, MB:0413503262, http://www.melbournelatinfestival.com.au


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Sand Work
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Sand work is a beautiful work of art. The work is easy and simple and can be tried by anyone.
Select a design of your choice. Now according to the size of your design, get the hard board cut. Next,
Put glue on a part of the design. Then scatter the sand over the glue evenly. Pat the sand thoroughly so that the sand fixes firmly onto the hard board. Keep it sometime for drying. Now reverse the hard board so that excess sand falls out. In a similar way, complete the design by filling the sand, part by part.
The sand that is usually available in the market comes in rather dull shades so, in order to brighten the shades you can paint the design with a quality paint like fevicryl or any good oil paint. When the paint dries, put 2-3 coatings of varnish on the design.
Now your sand work is complete. You can frame the work and use as a wall decoration.


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I was working with a man in his 80's this week. He is profoundly weak. As I explained to him the sequence of events our bodies go through, both gaining strength or weakening. His eyes lit up as a realization hit him.
He told me he had a routine for years and years. Stretching, push ups, core work, everyday until recently. It is a lot harder to gain strength than it is to lose it. It's amazing how quickly our bodies weaken with rest. He said to me; "My mistake was in stopping."
This is true in all areas of life. If you are someone who wants to grow and change for the better through life, it takes action. As I've heard throughout my life from different, wise people, the job, the marriage, the fitness, etc. . . is not going to jump up and knock on your door.
I write down my goals, visualize the completing the task and take at least one step toward my dream each day. I figure the days are going to go by anyway, I may as well end up somewhere better than worse.
Fantasizing the freedom to change for the better, one day at a time.


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