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Archive for the 'Vintage SciFi' Category
Every January, I get to read some cool stuff that isn't usually on my radar. This year was no different. (ok, well, some of it was on my radar, but my reaction to what I was reading was nice and surprising!)
But? Something happened this January during my Vintage reads that has never happened before. I mean, it has, but not due to reading vintage science fiction.
what happened, you ask?
Reading Vintage Science Fiction this year, more than any other year I've done this, made me want to go out and get a ton of biographies. I want to get a biography of Begum Rokheya, Oscar Wilde, and Orson Welles, and I want to know all about Mary Shelley's world, and what life was like when she grew up. I want to know more cool stuff about these hella cool people!
I'm not a biography reader, so saying that I want to read biographies is a big stinkin' deal!
Your turn:
What did you get out of Vintage Science Fiction Month this year?
While you're chewing on that, here's the latest batch of Vintage links!
Heather at Froodian Slip enjoyed Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation, and she's interested to see what happens next in the series. She also enjoyed Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, a collection of stories that revolve around a man who is so freakish that the freak shows don't even want him.
WikiFiction celebrates Jack Vance's novel Emphyrio, which turns 50 years old this year. John didn't much care for Emphyrio, but he is a huge fan of Asimov's The End of Eternity.
Howling Frog continues to amaze, with reviews of Star Trek 10 by James Blish (I LOVE these Star Trek episode novelizations!), The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ordeal in Otherwhere by Andre Norton, and Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper.
Bookforager had a good time with Trader to the Stars by Poul Anderson, and now I am also imagining Rijn as talking with Brian Blessed's voice!
If audio is more your thing, SFFAudio has an excellent podcast, courtesy LibriVox, of Philip Jose Farmer's The Green Odyssey. They also have audio of Ray Bradbury's I, Mars. Their website has a TON of Vintage discussions!
Video more your thing? Head over to Lydia Schoch's site for a review of the short 1930 scifi film It's a Bird . Lydia also had a good time reminiscing about The Trouble with Tribbles.
Neal at Gutenberg's Son has some excellent suggestions, if you're looking for a new Vintage book to read.
It's official, Sara Light-Waller has THE BEST garage door!
Kristin Brand recommends Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, with a few disclaimers.
Mervi's reviews reviews Jack Vance's final Planet of Adventure volume, The Pnume. The aliens are fun and curious, even if some of the scenes were eye-rolling.
Planetary Defense Command gave E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman books a try, with Galactic Patrol. He enjoyed the wackyness, but wasn't real keen on the telepathy stuff.
SciFi Mind read Frank Herbert's Destination Void, which asks the questions of how (or why) do you keep a mission alive, when the mission may have been designed to fail? Thanks to John's review, this book has now become a MUST READ for me!
I get most of these links through our twitter feed and by people leaving their links in the "Vintage Scifi Not-A-Challenge tab up top. Apologies if I missed yours! Please leave your link in the comments, and I'll do my best to get this post updated with your links.
Thank you everyone, for an amazing Vintage month!!
War of the Worlds Redux
Posted January 29, 2020on:
I didn't have another Vintage SciFi Month post planned. . . until I yesterday afternoon when I listened to a very fun episode of RadioLab. (and yes, I listen to podcasts the same way I read anthologies: in random order)
The title of the episode was just War of the Worlds, and I could guess what it was about, but the episode was a million times more fun than I expected! Sorry, Yes, this blog post is one huge advertisement for their hella fun War of the Worlds episode and for RadioLab in general.
Maybe you already know this timeline?
1898: H.G. Wells writes War of the Worlds.
1938: Orson Welles does his Oct 30th radio broadcast of his version of War of the Worlds, which takes Wells' story and makes it sort of news-y.
Right at the beginning of the broadcast, Welles announces that this is a science fiction story, and then at the end of the broadcast he announces it again. He and his radio crew assumed they were giving people a fun Halloween scare. And yet, people freak the hell out any way.
The Radiolab hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich go into all sorts of fun historical detail about how how Newspaper and Radio were not friends, and "We interrupt this broadcast for an important news bulletin" was really new at the time, and how listeners would channel surf the same way we channel surf today.
It's just a damn good podcast episode.
They talk about how the police station fielded hundreds of calls from people worried about a Martian invasion, and how people swore they saw smoke above the city. People had convinced themselves that they saw something, and they didn't see anything! because nothing was actually happening! And that Welles had no idea that he'd scared the shit out of people until the next morning when he read the newspapers.
The hosts then asked what I thought (boy was I wrong!) was a rather silly question: Could someone pull this same stunt again? Could someone trick listeners into thinking a radio drama about an obviously fake event was real?
um, Yes.
Two more times, actually!
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Welcome to our last week of #VintageSciFi discussions.
There are some excellent conversations going on in the comments sections, and it's never too late to join in. Here are links to the discussions posts from earlier this month:
Topic for Jan 6 – Jan 12: I just dated myself.
Topic for Jan 13 – Jan 19: Gateway Drug to Vintage.
Topic for Jan 20 – Jan 26: Why is this important to you?
for our final week of Vintage Science Fiction month, we're doing something fun. Let's talk about cover art! the good, the bad, the weird, and the WTF. Before going further, I need to give a huge shout out to Joachim at Science Fiction and other Suspect Ruminations, who has a ginormous index of Vintage Cover Art. There are also cover art galleries available at The Future Is Female, and this rather random but still enjoyable SciFi Books Flickr group gallery. DECADES of wonderful and weird cover art! because do you judge a book by it's cover? I know I do.
Let's discuss!
Topic for Jan 27 – Jan 31: That's, um, interesting. Post your favorite Vintage Cover art. Post the weirdest cover art you can find. Post Vintage cover art that makes you want to pick the book up, post vintage cover art that makes you say WTF?
Be warned, this post is just a gigantic gallery of Vintage cover art (loading my be slow) and my comments on the artwork. Based on the cover art, would you pick up this book? If you've read these titles, does the cover art have anything to do with the story?
If you've got Vintage SciFi Cover art that you love, or cover art that is so weird you're not sure what to think about it, put a link to the image in the comments.
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This week's discussion topic is:
Topic for Jan 20 – Jan 26: Why is this important to you? Why are you interested in reading Vintage SciFi? What do you get out of it?
With so many new books coming out every year, why even bother reading older science fiction?
Is there value in reading older science fiction? Is it worth your time?
Why even read this stuff?
This is something I've thought about a lot over the past five years. Reading older science fiction, for me, is like taking the world's most fun history class. I get to see what life was like in the 60s, the 40s, the 30s, and before 1900, through the eyes of speculative fiction. Because I can't think of a way to phrase it better, I'm going to plagarize myself from a Vintage SciFi blog post I wrote in 2016:
If you could ask your great grandparents what their life was like when they were growing up, you would, right?
If you could go back in time and see what your country and your family were like before social media took over the universe, you'd be interesting in seeing what the world was like, right?
This January, you can. This January, I invite you to travel through time with me. Travel into the past, look into the youthful eyes of your great grandparents. See what came before so we could have what we have now.
Ok, maybe not time travel exactly. . . but sort of.
Everything comes from somewhere. You came from your parents, duh. But who are the parents of your favorite science fiction books? I'll tell you: the parents of your favorite science fiction books are the books that author read to be inspired and to dream. And those books have parents too. If you don't like me using the word "book parents" here, how about "the author's influences"? Something they were influenced and inspired by to create something new and modern.
By reading older fiction, you get to see how that fiction progressed to get to where it is today. You get to experience the family tree, as it were, of speculative fiction.
Ok, that's my two cents.
What are yours?
#VintageSciFi Dicussion week 2!
Posted January 13, 2019on:
Welcome to week two of Vintage SciFi Month! Last week we had a fantastic discussion about what makes older books feel dated, or not feel dated.
Topic for Jan 13 – Jan 19: Gateway Drug to Vintage. Your friend says they don't want to read anything older. They think older books are awful/dated/slow paced/badly written/etc.
What titles(s) do you recommend to them to help them step outside their comfort zone?
How do you convince them to give the book(s) a chance?
To help you get your thinking caps on, here are some links to some recent #VintageSciFi around the blogosphere
Tip the Wink reviews Sands of Mars, Arthur C. Clarke's first published novel
Every Day Should be Tuesday reviews Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov, and looks at Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
Kaedrin tackles Robert Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars and explains the most confusing Heinlein conversation I have ever been part of.
Weighing a Pig reviews Destination Void by Frank Herbert
Howling Frog Books reviews Earthworks by Brian Aldiss
This Sporadic Life reviews Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Red Lips and Bibliomaniacs has a fantastic and in depth review of Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet edited by Mike Ashley
Wolfman's Cult Film Club enjoyed Fantastic Voyage
David Lee Summers talks about A Bertram Chandler's famous John Grimes
Late to the Game enjoyed the movie The Black Hole
Feeling Dated, and Not So Much
Posted January 6, 2019on:
Hello and welcome to this week's #VintageSciFi discussion!
Topic for Jan 6 – Jan 12: I just dated myself. In your experience, which vintage SF books don't feel dated? What titles have passed the test of time, and feel like they could have been written in the last ten years? Is such a book possible? What, in your opinion, makes something feel dated?
Anytime this week, post a blog post with your thoughts, and leave the link down in the comments so others can more easily find your post.
Not sure where to start? Here are my questions and thoughts.
What makes a Vintage book feel dated?
On the hard scifi side of things, whenever I read an older science fiction story and the author talks about "computers the size of a room", or punchcards, I laugh my head off. 1960 called, they want their room sized computer back! I do want my scifi to have technology – computers, spaceships, flying cars, but almost the less the author speaks to the specifics of the inner workings of the technology (how exactly the spaceship flies, how big/small the computer is), the less dated it feels. Vintage Science fiction is more a victim of the "dated through technology" issue than vintage fantasy. In fantasy, a magic wand is a magic wand, you know?
Many readers are turned off and bothered by the fact that older scifi fantasy books tend to feature only white, male protagonists, and that female and non-white characters are built around stereotypes and flimsy characterization. This can make a book feel not only horribly dated, but also offensive. In my personal experience, I've read some books where this is super-bothersome for me, and other times i am not as bothered. Could be the author, could be the mood i'm in that day, I have no idea.
What dated books do I enjoy, even though they feel dated?
I recently read Isaac Asimov's Caves of Steel (review coming soon!). It is horribly dated, often to the point of being funny. The main character comes off as a country bumpkin at times, and i'm hoping that was on purpose, actually, and his wife is written as a 1 dimensional cartoon character. More of this in the review, but his entire worldview is just so narrow as to be silly. So, yes, horribly dated, but more in the review about why I think this is an important read, and how influential the ideas presented were.
One of my favorite older short story collections is The Best of Hal Clement, but yeah, in style and pacing, these stories feel really dated. Lots of hard scifi, good conversations, excellent commentary on communication between humans and aliens. If you've never read any Hal Clement, this paperback is worth hunting for.
It should surprise no one that Mary Shelley Frankenstein does feel dated, and in my opinion this is 100% due to the writing style, which was perfectly modern when the book came out two hundred years ago (Yes, TWO HUNDRED years ago!!). If you're not sure where to start with historical Science Fiction, Frankenstein a perfect place to start.
What Vintage SciFi Books have you read that didn't feel dated?
I'm really interested to hear what everyone else has to say on this one, because the only ones that quickly come to mind for me are Dune by Frank Herbert, Nova by Samuel Delany, Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm, and Waystation by Clifford Simak. With the Wilhelm title, the first chapter or two feel a little dated, but everything after that could have been written last year.
What do Dune and Nova have in common? They take place in the far future, and the lives and goals of the characters have nothing to do with today's life on Earth. In Nova, Earth and Earth based politics are mentioned, but Lorq's decisions are not based on 20th century Earth.
Now it's your turn to join the discussion!
My goodness, where did 2018 go? I don't know about you, but i'm ready to rock and roll this new year!
January is sure to be a busy month for everyone (oh, hi Kickstarter!), so let's start #VintageSciFiMonth by removing some of that Gotta Read!Gotta Review! pressure. If you're planning to read and write reviews, that's great! But #VintageScFiMonth should be about more than just posting book reviews. It should be about discussing older science fiction. Why are we interested in reading it? Is it worth our time? Isn't that cover art hilarious?
Since Vintage Science Fiction Month is a not-a-challenge, these will be not-blog-hops. They are just different discussions for each week of January, so we can all be talking about the same things at the same time. Talk about it on your blog, in other people's comments sections, on twitter, on insta, on FB, via text message with your friends. Send a postcard. You get the idea.
Here are the topic ideas and time frames, so you can put your thinking cap on ahead of time!
Topic for Jan 6 – Jan 12: I just dated myself. In your experience, which vintage SF books don't feel dated? What titles have passed the test of time, and feel like they could have been written in the last ten years? Is such a book possible? What, in your opinion, makes something feel dated?
Topic for Jan 13 – Jan 19: Gateway Drug to Vintage. Your friend says they don't want to read anything older. They think older books are awful. What titles(s) do you recommend to them to help them step outside their comfort zone? How do you convince them to give the book(s) a chance?
Topic for Jan 20 – Jan 26: Why is this important to you? Why are you interested in reading Vintage SciFi? What do you get out of it?
Topic for Jan 27 – Jan 31: That's, um, interesting. Post your favorite Vintage Cover art. Post the weirdest cover art you can find. Post Vintage cover art that makes you want to pick the book up, post vintage cover art that makes you say WTF?
Want one more activity? Got ya covered. Here's a Vintage Sci Fi Month Bingo Card. Well, more of a connect four card than bingo. . .
What happens every December?
Christmas? the Solstice? not enough sunlight?
Every December I get read for Vintage Science Fiction month in January!
I've been hosting this little party since 2012, by reading and celebrating science fiction and fantasy that is older than I am – that is, created in 1979 or earlier. Over the years, the party has grown! it's grown so big I can't host it alone anymore. Red Star Reviews is my fantastic co-host, and we'll be posting, tweeting, retweeting, insta-ing, tubing, and a bunch of other cool stuff.
Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/VintageSciFi_ , find us on bookstagram, mention us on YouTube, retweet and share what your friends are doing. January is a wibbly wobbly timey wimey kind of month.
Here's some artwork you can use:
I'm expecting January to be a bit busy, what with this and that. But I still plan on enjoying some vintage reads, and helping our new VintageSciFi-ers find some old treats that they've probably never heard of.
With apologies to whatever has happened to the cover of this Kate Wilhelm book, here is my Vintage SciFi Month TBR:
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm was published in 1976. I've been looking for a copy of this book for at least 5 years, and when I found this be-stickered copy at a used bookstore I snapped it up! now I just need some goo-gone and some patience to unveil the original cover art.
The Drawing of the Dark by Tim Powers was published in 1979 and was the author's first major novel. I have no idea what this book is about (time travel? beer? saving the world?) , but Tim Powers is a little like being Batman: Always read whatever you want, unless you can read a Tim Powers book, then always read Tim Powers. Powers is one of those authors that when I see a book of his that I don't already own, I automatically buy it.
I was in a twitter conversation the other day about Where to Start With Asimov. I've always loved his I Robot stories, but I've read them to death. But it's probably been ten years since I've read the Robot novels. Here's to hoping these books aren't too horribly dated! The Caves of Steel was published in 1954.
So what's on your #VintageSciFi list?
Goodness, it's already January 19th? When did that even happen? Apparently I am starting out 2018 with terrible time management skills.
Thank you to everyone is who participating in Vintage Science Fiction month, I hope you've taken an opportunity to pick up an author you've never read before, a title you've never read before, or even used this month as a time to revisit your favorite classics. This year's Vintage Month has been a little on the quiet side, and you know what? I am a 110% OK with that.
If you're interested in exploring Vintage Science Fiction titles, and seeing what your friends are up to, these links are for you!
The Howling Frog has been enjoying some excellent Leigh Brackett novels, reviewing The Reavers of Skaith, The Hounds of Skaith, and The Ginger Star. (If the name Leigh Brackett rings a bell it's because her Eric John Stark adventures are awesome, and oh yeah, she was one of the screenwriters for The Empire Strikes Back.)
My Reader's Block read a buffet of short fiction in the 1966 edition of World's Best Science Fiction, which included work by Simak, Fritz, Niven, Saberhagen, all the rock stars of that decade along with names she didn't recognize. She gives a run down of every story, what a great snapshot of the Science Fiction short fiction of '66! Not exactly Vintage, but filled with classic Star Trek injokes, she also had some fun with the new illustrated book Search For Spock.
Every Day Should be Tuesday gave five stars to Andre Norton's The Beast Master. This is an excellently written review, with tidbits from what may have inspired portions of the book and what this book went on to influence. Norton is one of my favorite classic authors, I get a kick out of seeing her work still being enjoyed!
Bookforager enjoyed The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton. Written in the mid-70s, this novel is character driven, has touches of the upcoming cyberpunk trend, features a middle aged female protagonist, and a surprise reveal. I'm not familiar with Compton's work, but after reading this review, I need to track down a copy of this book!
Kaedrin read Larry Niven's classic Ringworld, which I like to think of as the novel that launched a thousand ideas, books, spin-offs, and video games. I don't know about you, but I know I take for granted how much of an influence Ringworld has had on contemporary scifi ideas.
There is a lot of general Vintage Science Fiction chatter happening on twitter, follow @VintageSciFiMonth_ or #VintageSciFiMonth to hop into the conversation!
As for me, I'm reading quicker than I have time to review! I'm currently enjoying a volume of Clifford Simak short fiction. Mostly written between 1940 and 1960, his ideas are far ahead of their time – there is a time travel story in here that screams "The Company", there is a story about vegetable intelligence that I'd love to discuss with an evolutionary biologist, there is a terrifying theory about how the dinosaurs were really wiped out, and it's all just so damn readable!
Whatever book you pick up this weekend, be it Vintage or not, be it a new-to-you author or not, I wish you reading enjoyment and relaxation!
Sorry about the radio silence, it's been a long week! I haven't written formal reviews for these books, but here's what I've been reading recently for Vintage Science Fiction month!
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (1957) – I've been meaning to read this forever. It's one of those books that can spark never ending conversations, in a good way! It's a sort of space opera version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Gully Foyle is just a regular guy, and he gets marooned in space, the only survivor of a nearly destroyed ship. A ship comes to salvage, and sees Foyle. But instead of rescuing him, the ship leaves. Foyle vows to find the people who left him behind, and destroy them. Things I enjoyed about The Stars My Destination included the explanation of how people discovered how to teleport themselves and how teleportation drastically changes how society functions, how Foyle survives a few minutes at a time on the dying ship, his tiger tattoos and the lunatics who tattood him, and I really loved the revelation at the end about WHY certain people want to get their hands on Gully Foyle. The last chapter was absolutely brilliant. Things I didn't like about this book were basically all of the characters. Maybe upon reread I'll connect with the characters more, but I didn't care for any of them, and I couldn't buy into Foyle's insta-relationship with Olivia.
9th Annual Year's Best SF, edited by Judith Merrill (1964) – I've been dipping in and out of this anthology. I started with one of my favorite Cordwainer Smith short stories, "Drunkboat", what a great story! I mean, everything Smith wrote was fantastic! And then I got laugh out of "Double Standard", by Frederic Brown. Told from the point of view of a person who lives inside a television set, who acts towards the window, and wonders about the people he sees on the other side of the window, different people every night. This hilariously rated G story originally appeared in Playboy. Other fun stories I enjoyed included "Mrs Pigafetta Swims Well" by R. Bretnor, "Poppa Needs Shorts", by Walt & Leigh Richmond, and "Ming Vase", by E.C. Tubb. I expect to dip into this anthology more, as there are stories by Alfred Bester, Fritz Leiber, and Hal Clement I'd like to read.
Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein (1953) – So, I do consider myself a Heinlein fan. And many people list Starman Jones as their favorite Heinlein juvenile. But it fell completely flat for me. Maybe I would have liked it more if I'd read it as a pre-teen? It seems like something a pre-teen could really get into. The characters felt very flat to me, and Max Jones, the main character, he doesn't seem to have any personality. Things happen around them, he responds to them in whatever way the story needs, the story moves on. So, the less said about this one, the better.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.comments2012-11-29T13:40:29.054-06:00Wandering Around The World and Other AdventuresKatiehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-40291827179698895522012-11-29T13:40:29.054-06:002012-11-29T13:40:29.054-06:00Hi Christy, Glad you enjoyed these posts. Vicky w...Hi Christy,
Glad you enjoyed these posts. Vicky was my favorite as a teen, but now I'm more frequently drawn to Camilla or Katherine. I need to go back to the poetry though.
KatieKatiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-65752832339582680162012-11-24T17:10:10.573-06:002012-11-24T17:10:10.573-06:00Hello, Katie. I read your post on Madeleine L'...Hello, Katie.
I read your post on Madeleine L'Engle's non-fiction first, because I'm studying her poetry. I so enjoyed reading your thoughts on all her work, that I linked through to this post, too! Very nice job.
L'Engle is one of my favorite authors. Vicky holds a special place in my heart :)
-Christy LuisChristy Luis Reviews: Speculative Fiction (Mostly)https://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-3003609395812145402011-07-25T16:20:28.600-05:002011-07-25T16:20:28.600-05:00I'll fix that when I have more consistent inte...I'll fix that when I have more consistent internet access :/ Thanks for the headsup.Katiehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-29088035385197474742011-07-24T11:09:06.275-05:002011-07-24T11:09:06.275-05:00RSS has content but clicking through fails. I am s...RSS has content but clicking through fails. I am sad. Sad sad sad.Reidhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-83952627115536864652010-12-23T20:10:11.443-06:002010-12-23T20:10:11.443-06:00You had completely forgotten about it, admit it!You had completely forgotten about it, admit it!Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-78135954183841498512010-12-23T20:04:19.328-06:002010-12-23T20:04:19.328-06:00Dude. I can't believe my patience had to last ...Dude. I can't believe my patience had to last A YEAR. LOL.Simonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-40139654766160594942010-12-17T08:42:58.953-06:002010-12-17T08:42:58.953-06:00That unnamed relative even holds her head like you...That unnamed relative even holds her head like you! Bizarre! Also, your dad looks a lot like Anthony (a grown up Anthony not a baby one) in that picture.Rachelhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-26792012644816818912010-12-05T21:58:11.113-06:002010-12-05T21:58:11.113-06:00I share your sentiments exactly. As I do most of t...I share your sentiments exactly. As I do most of the time when we are discussing things that are not bacon.

Question: How do you feel about British bacon? aka rashers?Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-72936288605034509552010-12-05T21:57:04.593-06:002010-12-05T21:57:04.593-06:00Why is their yogurt so good? I think it might have...Why is their yogurt so good? I think it might have magical powers.

I never had fruit 'n' fibre. I love sultana scores. I don't like UHT milk. I still think your sandwiches are weird. Sometime we will go back and eat. And people think the food there sucks. So sad. More for us!Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-2245619085480537262010-12-05T21:54:27.739-06:002010-12-05T21:54:27.739-06:00Haha. So true. I think we need more evidence of th...Haha. So true. I think we need more evidence of this from your end.Katiehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-37340007558089693512010-12-01T16:48:30.377-06:002010-12-01T16:48:30.377-06:00Notable fact: pictures taken by four-year-olds are...Notable fact: pictures taken by four-year-olds are VERY SIMILAR to pictures taken by inebriated males between the ages of 20-25. Frankly, the fact that one's brain can be reduced to the function of a four-year-old's while drinking is enough to make you think twice. Not that four-year-olds are dumb. They are not. For children. For the ordinary adult, however, it is a problem.Simonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-77023111884206207572010-11-29T21:59:55.944-06:002010-11-29T21:59:55.944-06:00ENGLISH YOGURT IS SO GOOD. It's the best yogur...ENGLISH YOGURT IS SO GOOD. It's the best yogurt I have ever had. I would move there for the yogurt alone.

It's funny, reading these posts, I was thinking back to my recent trips, and I have a TON of pictures of food. Because I have such a nostalgiac fondness for it. Fruit 'n' Fibre! Sultana scones! UHT milk! Pret-a-Manger holiday sandwiches! I could go on, but I'm hungry now and I need a snack.Simonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-21421166623864107002010-11-29T21:56:16.411-06:002010-11-29T21:56:16.411-06:00Awwwwwwww, that fridge! I miss it so! Except not r...Awwwwwwww, that fridge! I miss it so! Except not really. It was tiny. And that kitchen was awful. When I think back to the things I ate in it, I am humiliated.

The Viking pics never fail to crack me up.Simonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-39972638585860252472010-11-27T10:54:23.264-06:002010-11-27T10:54:23.264-06:00Doesn't she? It's crazy. I never saw me in...Doesn't she? It's crazy. I never saw me in my maternal grandmother, but I'll look through some more pictures and see what I find.

I want to see your family pictures now. I guess this is where scary movie writers get some of their ideas. Ah life. Sometimes crazier than the movies...Katiehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-75182431584602348312010-11-27T10:29:26.407-06:002010-11-27T10:29:26.407-06:00WHOA. That unnamed relative looks so much like you...WHOA. That unnamed relative looks so much like you that I thought it WAS you until I realized the time period was all wrong. That's sooooo strange. Also, I think your maternal grandmother looks a bit like you in that Christmas tree photo.

Last time I was at my grandmother's house we looked at old family photos, and it was creepy how far back family resemblances went. It's so weird to think that someone who died before you were even born used to look in the mirror and practically see your face. Ooh I just gave myself the shivers.Simonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-63013419289932637602010-11-25T08:19:32.037-06:002010-11-25T08:19:32.037-06:00@Simon, I'm sure John Deere does not actually ...@Simon, I'm sure John Deere does not actually make mixers... they just license the branding to someone who does.Reidhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-80608102292410177992010-11-24T22:07:34.663-06:002010-11-24T22:07:34.663-06:00Also, Ben tells me that instead of the silver mixe...Also, Ben tells me that instead of the silver mixer they now have a pink mixer. I hope it is not Barbie brand...Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-11598394338015942112010-11-24T21:27:29.069-06:002010-11-24T21:27:29.069-06:00That is incorrect. Cinnamon rolls with unlimited f...That is incorrect. Cinnamon rolls with unlimited frosting are better than normal cinnamon rolls!Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-34128274289567036312010-11-24T21:23:00.282-06:002010-11-24T21:23:00.282-06:00I had no idea John Deer made mixers. That's aw...I had no idea John Deer made mixers. That's awesome! I love that it's green.

Nothing is better than cinnamon rolls. Nothing.Simonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-86974511522616543352010-11-23T20:53:43.713-06:002010-11-23T20:53:43.713-06:00Yeah mom... I'm sorry this one wasn't for ...Yeah mom... I'm sorry this one wasn't for you :)

I don't know how much it's helping so far, but I've only been trying the new equipment for about a week. The therapy was much more useful. But I also haven't installed the keyboard tray yet...Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-83431609176094790872010-11-23T10:03:57.518-06:002010-11-23T10:03:57.518-06:00On the other hand, some of us may NOT find it usef...On the other hand, some of us may NOT find it useful!! I'm glad that you can understand it and find the new ways to use your mouse to be helpful. Has it helped reduce the carpal tunnel symptoms yet?Annehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-76749140497085176532010-11-22T20:49:45.254-06:002010-11-22T20:49:45.254-06:00I was too lame. For that, I'm very sad. But ...I was too lame. For that, I'm very sad.

But yeah, Simon, Reid likes funneling his entertainment budget on things like this. And I am subsequently amused or horrified. Simon and tatgeer, maybe you can both look forward to similar fun when I have expendable income :)

Simon, for you that means bacon!Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-90602220861003482252010-11-22T20:46:19.935-06:002010-11-22T20:46:19.935-06:00From Ben: "If I talked about getting a $2,500...From Ben: "If I talked about getting a $2,500 piece of cheese I think I would get made fun of as well."Katiehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-73511471855928056942010-11-22T20:45:46.670-06:002010-11-22T20:45:46.670-06:00tatgeer - I already get massages once a month and ...tatgeer - I already get massages once a month and they know this. Sadly, if they get deep enough to get the knots out, they cause pain... Hopefully PT will be more successful!

Simon - I know. So far, things are going pretty well...Katiehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047398259798836615.post-83970452644467459432010-11-19T09:34:25.377-06:002010-11-19T09:34:25.377-06:00Good news! I'm glad they're committed to h...Good news! I'm glad they're committed to helping you out. A headache a day is NO FUN.Simonhttps://email@example.com

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It's difficult… no, it's nearly impossible to explain what I do sometimes. When I begin to describe my class, my day to day work as an Intervention Specialist, I am often met with some of the same questions, and understandably so.
So why are these kids even in school?
Do your students learn even though they can't tell you anything?
Do you ever feel like you're just babysitting?
These are valid questions. After all, I am in my 4th year of teaching at a school known for serving some of the most vulnerable, medically fragile students in all of Columbus. A class at our school, during a given year, could include entirely students in wheelchairs, fully dependent on staff for all their individual needs each day. I understand the questions, especially if they come from someone who has never been in our building. It sounds daunting. I mean, sometimes even saying it out loud feels daunting as I reflect on the work we do. Sometimes I stumble through my answers consisting of how much of a gift these students are, how they have incredible ability to teach us about life and love, and the joy it brings myself and the whole staff to work with them each day. But these responses have never felt adequate, and last Tuesday I finally found the language to explain why.
It was the second of three consecutive days without students to start the 2018/2019 school year. We were having meetings, preparing our classrooms, and gearing up for students to arrive Thursday. During one of our meetings we watched this video, The Myth of Average, and it was amazing. It added language to what has always felt was missing in my explanation of my job. I'll explain it briefly, but I highly recommend watching it!
Todd Rose begins his TedTalk by describing how air force fighter jets used to be designed to fit "average" sized adults. It was creating a huge problem, though, because they had skilled pilots and intricately designed planes but were getting troubling results. Blame shifted from the pilots to the technology to the flight instructors before finally realizing their problem was the cockpit.
Fighter jet cockpits had been, up to this point, designed to fit the average sized adult. Seems reasonable enough, right?
"If you design something that fit for the average sized person, wouldn't it fit most people? It seems right… but it's actually wrong."
Gilbert Daniels, an air force researcher 60 years ago, studied over 4,000 pilots and measured them on 10 dimensions of size: height, shoulders, chest, waist, hips, legs, reach, torso, neck and thigh. He asked one question: How many of these pilots are "average" on all 10 dimensions? It was assumed that most of them would be. But guess how many of the 4,000+ were?
He found that out of these 10 categories used to determine size, not a single size profile was exclusively average. These planes they thought were being designed to fit most people were actually fitting nobody. Nobody is average in every dimension of the size profile. It's no wonder they were getting poor results. They had to adjust their design. How?
They banned the average.
From that point on the air force demanded that companies building jets design them to the edges of each dimension of size. Instead of building on the average height, for instance, they demanded they be built to fit the tallest of pilots to the shortest of pilots. They did so in each dimension of size. This idea is where we get adjustable seats in cars. It's why my wife who is 5 foot 3 inches tall can scoot her seat forward and drive the same car I drive, and I'm 6 foot 3. It's built to the edges.
Companies initially pushed back hard on this idea, saying it would be too expensive and difficult to design a flexible cockpit, but the air force wouldn't budge. It turned out it wasn't so expensive after all and ended up allowing for the most skilled pilots possible to fly the planes. Performance drastically improved, and their talent pool expanded exponentially. Many top pilots today would have never fit in cockpits designed on average in 1952.
"Now, most of us have never sat in the cockpit of a $150 million fighter jet, but we have all sat in a classroom… And I would argue that these are the cockpits of our economy, and we all know we have some problems."
He goes on to use this as a parallel to education in America.
"We're spending more money than ever before, and we're getting worse results."
The numbers he shares are sobering. We have more than 1.2 million high school dropouts in America each year. Further, more than 50,000 of them score as intellectually gifted. This means we're losing some of our brightest minds each year. At the end of the talk, we learn Todd Rose himself is a high school dropout. Now he's a faculty member at Harvard University.
This is where the shift came for me, where the more adequate explanation of my job shined through. At Colerain Elementary… we find the edges.
I'm always sure of this during our yearly meeting with the next grade level team. We had ours Wednesday as the 3rd grade team prepared to meet our students from last year the next day. We do the same with the 1st grade team as they share with us all about our new friends coming to 2nd grade. I'll tell you what, we know these kids. We spent nearly 2 hours describing the ins and outs of each student moving on to 3rdgrade. It is a bittersweet meeting, because knowing these students from last year will be heading to a new classroom is a difficult adjustment. I miss them because I know their edges. We had a whole year dedicated to finding them, and it's tough to send them along. But I'm comforted knowing that in the years that follow for them, their edges will be expanded even more.
Our students may face challenges and limitations in their learning, but we make sure to find exactly what it is that makes them tick. We spend entire school years with students who may never utter one word aloud, but we absolutely know what it is that will light up their mind. We know what they love. We know how they best learn. We find those edges. We find them, and we do our best to stretch them. We teach to the edges… and beyond.
Our students aren't average. Then again, no students are. Some have an exceptional ability to memorize while others need to study religiously. Some are math whiz's while others can read and comprehend books far above the average speed. Some can sit still in a desk for hours on end and others can't sit still for more than a few seconds. There's no profile that's exclusively average.
Some of my students may not communicate the way I do but they're always telling me something. Some may never hold a pencil, but they are able to learn and grow. They may never have the "traditional" school experience, but they deserve a school experience nonetheless. Plus, haven't we already established that traditional or average is good for no one, anyway?
So we look for the edges. We explore the utmost potential each learner has, and we go for it. Full speed ahead. We collaborate. We explore. We advocate. We try new strategies. We introduce new ideas. Again, and again and again and again, until we find something. We insist every human being deserves an education. They deserve to be in a cafeteria with their peers, experiencing the high energy of an elementary lunchroom. They deserve to be part of gym class and social studies and recess and parent-teacher conferences and literacy night and talent shows and reading and friendship and learning and fun.
I love my school so much because the average was banned long before I set foot there. We look for the edges, and damn, we don't stop there. We do so joyfully, because each student deserves it. We won't stop until we find their edges, and then we'll keep going.
To the edges… and beyond!
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The Separation of Barley and Wheat
Aug 06, 2008
As we approached the end of a 5-year call to prayer (1981-1986), God did something unexpected on April 8, 1985. The Lord suddenly came upon me, and began to reveal a great separation from the Church.
I had already known the distinction between the Church and the overcomers, but did not really understand much about it, other than Revelation 2 and 3 makes such a distinction in the messages to the Seven Churches. But later I came to see it as the separation of David from Saul and as the distinction between barley and wheat.
The law says that we are not to sow diverse seed in one field. Spiritually speaking, as long as the overcomers (barley) were in the same "field" as the Church (wheat), this law was not being fulfilled. But April 8, 1985 began this separation and distinction in order that the overcomers would not be implicated in the wrong decision of the Church.
I wrote about this particular event in more detail in my pocket size booklet, The Prophetic Roots of Modern Abortion. But even so, it was not until 1991 that I began to really understand it.
Even as King Saul was given a full 40 years to rule--and David had to wait, even though he had been anointed and was called to be king--so also the overcomers had to wait until the reign of Saul was completed before they could be given authority to bring in the next phase of the Kingdom. For this reason, representatives of the overcomers were called in 1981 to issue the call to the Church to seek God, intercede, and engage in spiritual warfare. When the Church refused, God made this separation, even as David had to separate from Saul in order to survive the spear attacks.
Then, after the non-declared Jubilee of 1986, God began to work more specifically with the overcomers to prepare them in their character and to reveal the divine plan so that they would be able to declare the Jubilee in 1996, according to the Hezekiah Factor.
God knows, of course, who is part of this barley company. He knows whose heart is for David rather than for Saul. These are the overcomers that God has called, and their spirits have been actively engaged in spiritual warfare in the heavens, even if they themselves were not conscious of this. Not everyone needs to know the details of the divine plan, but every overcomer must have a heart for Christ ("David").
And so from 1991-1996, instead of calling the Church to intercede, God called the overcomers instead. They responded. Keep in mind, of course, that in both 1981-1986 and again in 1991-1996 the Lord used a cross-section of these companies to manifest the heart of the entire bodies of people. It would not be possible to conduct a world-wide poll, but God pointed out certain ones by whose responses we would know the heart of the ones they represented.
It is not too different from modern polling companies today. They ask a random sample of people of their opinions and can come up with a fairly accurate picture of the whole. So it is with God. This method makes it possible for God to have many overcomers all over the world without having to put them all into a single organization.
Too many have made the mistake of thinking that their particular organization or church is "the true Church," and that in order to have status with God, one must join that exclusive club. But this is far from the truth. In fact, most such exclusive churches end up acting more like King Saul than David. God looks at the heart, not at a membership role.
Meanwhile, the Saul Church reached its 40th Jubilee on May 30, 1993 (dated from Pentecost of 33 A.D. mentioned in Acts 2). That is the day "Saul died." It began the transition from Saul's reign to David's reign. That primary transition extended 7 1/2 years according to the pattern of 2 Sam. 5:5.
The overcomers thus received full authority on Nov. 30, 2000, even as Saul had been crowned earlier (in Acts 2).
This set us up for the intense spiritual warfare in the year 2001, which parallels the time of David's conquests to secure His kingdom. In our modern context, it is apparent that God is working to overthrow Mystery Babylon and to establish His Kingdom in its place.
The transition time (1993-2000) correlated with the Jubilee Prayer Campaign, in which we marched around "Jericho" for seven years. Afterward, the warfare correlated with the seven bowls of water and wine poured out upon Jericho from 2000-2006/7. It also roughly correlated with the Haggai Ministry, completing the corporate "Temple" by 2006. We are now in the time of building the vessels and furniture in this long work, and we are looking at the year 2009-2010 as a possible endpoint for this phase of work.
Meanwhile, God has planted "barley" in a field separate from the "wheat" field. He is working with the overcomers and the Church in different ways. When barley is harvested, it is winnowed. When wheat is harvested, it is threshed. When grapes are harvested, they are trodden under foot. Each field is treated differently, according to the work it takes to remove the chaff or flesh.
The judgments of God come by means of the Holy Spirit. In the case of the barley, it only takes "wind" to remove the chaff. In the case of wheat, it takes more effort. The Latin word for threshingfloor is tribulum, where we get the word "tribulation." But either way, the purpose of tribulation is to extract the life (seed) from behind the chaff. He will do what it takes to accomplish this good purpose.
The purpose of treading the grapes is to extract the new wine for God's communion table. Without it, God's communion would be pretty dry. Though grapes require the most intense form of judgment, the divine purpose is to obtain these non-believers to a place of faith and life as well. When the plan is completed, His glory will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.


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St. Paul High School girls basketball coach Robert Miller said the Del Rey League would be a battle and he wasn't kidding. The Swordsmen lost three nonleague games in 17 attempts, entering last week's league opener with a stellar 15-3 mark.
Two games into league play and the Swordsmen are 0-2 after a 64-37 defeat at Bishop Amat on Thursday.
Caption: St. Paul head coach Robert Miller in the second half of a CIF prep basketball game as Bishop Amat beat St. Paul 64-37 at Bishop Amat High School on Thursday, January 13, 2011, in La Puente. (SGVN/Staff Photo by Keith Birmingham/SPORTS)
The path doesn't get much easier for St. Paul (15-5, 0-2) which hosts Bishop Montgomery (13-5, 0-1) next Thursday at 7 p.m.
Here's the game story – St. Paul not able to keep up with Bishop Amat


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LocationNanoose Bay, BC
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Used 2008 Fleetwood RV Bounder 35E
Class A Coach w/Double Slideouts & Rear Bath, Large Vanity w/Sink, Wardrobe & Queen Bed w/Nightstands Slideout, Vanity/TV Above, Wardrobe, Pantry/Refrigerator/Booth Dinette & Sofa Bed Slideout, Lounge Recliner w/Side Table, Flip Up Entry Shelf, Double Kitchen Sink, 3 Burner Range, Microwave Above, Utility Cabinet or Opt. Washer/Dryer, Engine & Chassis Choice and More.
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Funny Face Toast
My two young boys are enthusiastic about learning to cook. So whenever I head for the kitchen, they volunteer to measure, scoop, pour and stir. And with this fun, easy breakfast idea, they also practice their "painting"... without ruining my walls!
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 5 min.
Makes1 serving
- 1 tablespoon milk for each color desired
- 3 to 4 drops food coloring of any colors desired
- Bread
- In a small bowl, combine milk and food coloring. With a small spoon, cotton swabs or clean small paintbrush, "paint" a face on a piece of bread. Toast.
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I tried to mke this for my mom one morning, and my sister and I forgot to add the milk and when my mom ate it she didn't want to hurt our feelings but she told us that it tasted like medicine. My sister and I started lauging so hard!
Mar 12, 2009
Ooooooops! Excuse the "Typos"
Mar 12, 2009
Wouldn't that be hard to toast, being wet from the milk? It might be netter to paint tge face on AFTER the bread is toasted (lightly)


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HOST International
Teaching will be temporarily suspended from 16 March to 19 April 2020 inclusive
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Welcome to Hochschule Stralsund - University of Applied Sciences! Are you thinking about studying here? Or are you interested in a period of study or internship abroad? Are you a university lecturer or staff member who would like to find out more about staff mobility as part of research, teaching or professional development, or about starting an international university partnership? Then HOST International's service ist just what you have been looking for! On the following pages we provide you information about our University's international relations.
International Office
The Incoming Coordinator at the International Office, is the first point of contact at HOST for international students. The Incoming Coordinator provides information and looks after you prior to, during and after your period of study or internship at our University. Students from abroad receive support for preparing and organizing their studies and for social integration in the University town of Stralsund.
Office hours:
Office hours are suspended until further notice. Please contact us by email or phone.
Wencke Wendlandt
Incoming Coordinator
Phone: +49 3831 45 6533
Room: 128, Building 1
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The Outgoing Coordinator at the International Office helps students at HOST to plan and organize periods of stay abroad and advises them about financing opportunities. She holds regular information events. Our tip: arrange for an individual first consultation about 1.5 years prior to your planned departure.
Office hours:
Office hours are suspended until further notice. Please contact us by email or phone.
Janine Ketel
Outgoing Coordinator
Phone: +49 3831 45 6607
Room: 126, Building 1
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The accountant supports the head of international office as well as the outgoing and incoming coordinators. Especially in the fields of financing and documentation of the programs that are managed by the international office.
Ines Plantikow
Phone: 03831 - 45 6607
Room: 127, Building 1
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The International Office is basically HOST's "Foreign Office". This is where everything comes together so that we are able to offer you the best international opportunities.
Main tasks:
- Development and implementation of an Internationalization Strategy
- Development and maintenance of university partnerships
- Development and maintenance of national and international networks
- Governance of student mobility and related language, preparation and supervision offers
- University coordination of Erasmus+ and other multi-university externally funded projects (DAAD, Ministry for Education etc.), applications and governance of central programmes and projects
- Service for schools: support/advice e.g. for summer schools, international degree courses, double degrees, external funding applications
- Lecturer and staff mobility
- Management of the Internationalisation Commission
- Public relations
Office hours: by arrangement
Caroline Neumann
Head of International Office
Phone: +49 3831 457 052
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Africa richest man and Nigeria business mogul ,Alhaji Aliko Dangote has denied claims he is caught up in the Radisson Blu hotel siege by Islamic jihadists.
Earlier reports claimed Dangote is one of the guests staying at five-star hotel in Bamako, Mali, which gunmen attacked this morning.
In a tweet @AlikoDangote, the money man said " Rumours about me being held hostage is false. I was in Mali yesterday. Thanks for your concern. My prayers with those involved.
The gunmen are holding 170 hostages in the capital city, according to witnesses.
According to them, the attackers shouting "Allahu Akbar" opened fire outside the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of the capital before storming it.
Automatic weapon fire could be heard from outside the 190-room hotel where security forces set up a security cordon.
A business owner in Bamako, Garba Konate said a group of attackers showed up about three hours earlier.
"About 10 gunmen arrived early in the morning and shot all the guards in front of the Radisson," Konate said.


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This is just a short post to remember myself, and hopefully to my few readers, how a little more research before doing things could save from problems in future. I had to disconnect all my computer, the Raspberry and every devices because of some maintenance works I hhad to do at home. As often happens when I connected all back not everything worked as before.
Worst of all was the Raspberry Pi 3 that didn't boot anymore or, at least, the boot process crashed betore turning on the network. I had to attach the Raspberry to my TV to discover that the boot process failed while trying to mout the attached USB drives. After some swapping of available USB slots I managed to get back to the original working position. I had to solve the problem definitively.
Mounting drives using UUID
USB drive devices are assigned on a per position basis. This is usually irrilevant for removable drives but it can become a problem when using USB for fixed, mounted on boot, drives. The solution is defining drives non by using their assigned device but the device unique identifier (UUID). The funny thing is that the solution was already on display in Raspberry "fstab" file since the system uses a similar identifier (PARTUID) in order to mount boot and root partitions.
The drive UUID can be easly printed by using "blkid" or "lsblk" commands. Here the vary informative output produced by "lsblk" command:
sudo lsblk -o UUID,NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL,MODEL
once identified drive UUIS is just matter of replacing it inside "/etc/fstab" file like this:
# USB Disk
#/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk ext4 rw,defaults 0 0
#/dev/sdb1 /media/backup xfs rw,defaults 0 0
UUID=bc83dfb9-ebc5-4a96-9cd2-0657fa767717 /media/usbdisk ext4 rw,defaults 0 0
UUID=debd0d49-549a-4187-8284-f20dc3c8f986 /media/backup xfs rw,defaults 0 0


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Hi everyone!
I'd like to introduce you to our friends', Mike and Tina's, new online store: Dayspring Candle Company (DCC).
They are a husband and wife team based out of Dayspring, Nova Scotia, and their company offers a selection of unique (sometimes antique!) oil-burning candles and supplies.
"We pride oil candles for 3 main reasons… a brighter flame – long burn time – reusability. An oil candle doesn't need to be thrown away, just refilled."
"The standard Dayspring Candles, which come in a number of shapes and sizes, are a great way to add a warm ambiance to any room. They can be incorporated easily into craft projects and interior decorating."
"If you're looking for something a little out of the ordinary, our ever changing collection of unique and one-of-a-kind candles are sure to delight. Being situated in such a historic and eclectic part of the world, our access to unique candle bases is excellent. This is the most enjoyable part for us. Our rolling supply is rarely ever the same twice! Check back often for new products or be notified in other ways!"
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|Norfolk Fighter Wing
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|World War II
The Norfolk Fighter Wing is a disbanded United States Army Air Forces unit. Its last assignment was with the I Fighter Command, stationed at Norfolk Airport, Virginia.
The wing reported to First Air Force and was responsible for the air defense of the Norfolk area during World War II. The unit was not manned after July 1944, and inactivated after the end of the war on 3 April 1946.
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✪ 359th Fighter Group: Maj. Ray S. Wetmore
✪ 359th Fighter Group: Lt. John H. Oliphint
✪ Norfolk Uncovered: The Control Tower, RAF North Creake
The unit was constituted as the "Norfolk Air Defense Wing" on 6 August 1942 and activated on 11 August 1942 as part of the First Air Force, stationed in Norfolk. The wing was responsible for the air defense of the Norfolk area, operating with attached Army Air Force organizations and co-operating naval aircraft. The wing was commanded by Colonel Malcolm N. Stewart. On 24 September 1942, Colonel Murray C. Woodbury took command. After Woodbury was promoted to command of the 5th Air Defense Wing,[1] Major Earl H. Dunham became the wing commander in April 1943. Around 24 June, Colonel Burton M. Hovey became the unit's commander. He was soon transferred to command the Philadelphia Fighter Wing,[2] and now-Lieutenant Colonel Dunham commanded the wing again from 14 August. In July it was redesignated as the Norfolk Fighter Wing. Around 25 November Lieutenant Colonel Otis F. Tabler became wing commander. Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Gayle became the wing's last commander around 2 April 1944. The wing was unmanned, without personnel, from July. It was inactivated on 3 April 1946 and disbanded on 8 October 1948.[3]
For the period it was active it was assigned to I Fighter Command and stationed at Norfolk Airport, Virginia.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
- ^ "Brigadier General Murray C. Woodbury". United States Air Force. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ "Major General Burton Murdock Hovey". United States Air Force. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
- ^ Maurer 1983, p. 427.
- Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-02-1. LCCN 61060979.


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Lucasfilm Shuts Down KOTOR Unreal Engine 4 Conversion Mod
May the force be with you.
Since 2015 Poem Studios has been hard at work remastering the 2003 Star Wars RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic giving the game new graphics using Unreal Engine 4 and even new content and planets in what the studio called Apeiron. That is until Lucasfilm had something shut the project down today.
Poem Studios posted a cease and desist letter it received today from Lucasfilm in regards to the Apeiron project. Lucasfilm says that Aperion has no rights to use any of the licensed Star Wars materials and must "take immediate steps to remove all uses of Lucasfilm's intellectual property, including, but not limited to, STAR WARS copyrights, trademarks, characters, artwork, images, and logos and desist from any further use."
It's with a great sadness that I'm posting today; I recently received a letter from Lucasfilm instructing Poem to end production on Apeiron. After a few days, I've exhausted my options to keep it afloat; we knew this day was a possibility. I'm sorry and may the force be with you pic.twitter.com/OCRmMIjwGT— Apeiron Game (@apeiron_kotor) October 11, 2018
The letter, which considers "Poem Studios' affection and enthusiasm for the Star Wars franchise and the original KOTOR game," says Poem Studios has until October 15 to confirm all such removal of Lucasfilm intellectual property and a written confirmation that it will not use any IP in the development of any future games.
In a tweet Poem Studios wrote, "I've exhausted my options to keep [Apeiron] afloat; we knew this day was a possibility. I'm sorry and may the force be with you."
The Aperion conversion mod was meant to breath new life into KOTOR, rendering the game in Unreal Engine 4 while adding new original content. Unfortunately, Apeiron will go the way of many fan projects and shut down. Another blow to fan-created content and the latest enforcement of companies on IP.


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Cornish game hens are a close relative to pheasant. This is an elegant but easy recipe for slow cooker Cornish game hens with Grand Marnier sauce. Perfect for a holiday dinner!
I had a built in "family" when I moved to England in 1984, attending college with Charles, whose family are farmers in Yorkshire.
I had spent time with them when I'd traveled around Europe after college. So on weekends, I'd travel up to North Yorkshire for shooting parties. Those were great times, usually about 12 of us would stay in the house, with its dozen bedrooms.
The men would shoot game during the day and the girls would accompany them. In the evening, we'd have drinks in the drawing room, with Smoked Trout Mousse , then supper in the dining room that seated 22. Later, we'd play parlor games. It was a magical, 1940's PBS drama, kind of time. On quieter weekends, we would go rabbit hunting to thin the population. I learned how to shoot a shotgun and a rifle, and the difference between them.
Although both the rabbit and game population were completely safe from me, I did learn to love the taste of game. My flatmates in London were all barristers. Perry, whose family owned our flat, was the son of a lord. When he would return from his own shooting weekends on his estate, he'd bring back a few brace of pheasant for us. Before we could eat them, he would hang them in our garage until they were properly "gamey". If I recall correctly, a week or so, was about right.
When it was time to actually prepare them, Perry would have to pluck and remove the shot from the birds. This is not generally a popular job, but since I knew I probably wouldn't have many opportunities to learn how to prepare a game bird, I offered to help him. I remember sitting on stools in the garage, plucking pheasant feathers onto newspaper and chatting about life.
I prepared a couple of pheasant for a dinner party one evening using a recipe I had clipped out of the London Times. The recipe calls for marinating the birds in strawberries for a couple of days. I think game goes really well with fruit, so I've developed my own easier recipe, using oranges and the slow cooker.
It calls for Cornish game hens, which is pretty much the only "game" bird you can get outside of England, unless you have friends in game-bird country.
If you do ever get to eat real wild game, it is not unusual to get some shot in your meat, and completely appropriate to set said shot on your dinner plate. I serve these Game Hens with Cranberry Pecan Wild Rice.
Enjoy the Cornish game hens recipe.
Slow-Cooker Cornish Game Hen with Grand Marnier Sauce
- 2 Cornish game hens split down the back and flattened out to fit inside a large slow-cooker
- Zest and juice of one orange
- 4 tablespoons gluten free soy sauce
- 1 clove of garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons of honey
- 1 tablespoon of brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoons Grand Mariner
- Mix all the above ingredients together and put in a crock pot.
- Split the birds down the back and flatten them out and put in crock pot.
- Cook on high for about 3 hours.
- Remove birds from crock pot and strain the juices.
- Heat the remaining juice/marinade over a medium heat until reduced by half and slightly thicker. Remove from heat.
- Finish sauce by whisking in 3-4 tablespoons butter and 1 tablespoon of Grand Mariner.
- Finish birds by browning skin under broiler for a couple of minutes until the skin in golden brown.
- Spoon some sauce over each bird.


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Following are three causes of poor health in India:
(i) High Birth Rate and Rapid Growth of Population : It has created a number of health risks. Population growth has made it difficult to provide safe or sufficient water supply, garbage disposal and sanitation for the community,
(ii) Malnutrition : Widespread malnutrition has contributed to the number of health problems including infections and diseases among children.
(iii) Unsanitary Conditions and Housing : A large number of people live in poor households located in crowded and unsanitary surroundings. People face the problem of contaminated food, water and soil, insufficient personal hygiene and sewage disposal. A sizeable population lives in sub standards dwellings lacking in space, ventilation and sunlight.
Following are three causes of poor health in India:


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If you don't mind spending extra money on stuff for no reason other than you couldn't be bothered finding out how to get things cheaper then head off and read other stuff on the internet. But if you want to learn how to save loads of money read on.
At this time of year lots of newspapers, websites and other media will be reporting you can save lots of money by just price checking all your regular payments.
I decided to see how easy it would be.
I set myself a goal of making €1000 in savings in 60 minutes.
I accepted I was never going to implement the products there and then.
The purpose was to see if I could find the savings and if so would I be enthused enough afterwards to implement them.
The Rules of Engagement were simple:
- I could not use my industry knowledge or contacts as a financial planner to get the quotes.
- I had 1 hour to do the research
I did this one morning over the Christmas holidays when I was home with the kids (4 of them). I got up early but still was disturbed 3 times and had to listen to "Cailou" from my son's ipad for the second half of my research.
Did I succeed? Yes I did, kind of.
I managed to identify savings of in excess of the €2750 in the first year but it did take me 96 minutes just to do the research.
But what struck me most was how difficult it was. Google is great and can get you to the websites you are looking for but then it gets very complicated.
I am in the financial services business but this exercise has taught me as an industry we seem to be wrapped up in this bubble of assumption that people have a clue about what we talk about. Some of the language and jargon used on the websites was, to say the least, confusing.
The quote process was a unique experience and very cumbersome at times and other times just downright frustrating.
There is nothing more annoying than filling out an online form with lots of personal details to find yourself staring at a "processing" message on a screen for 90 seconds before it crashes.
Well actually maybe there is something more annoying and that is filling in the form hitting submit to be given a "thanks we got everything we need now and we will contact you shortly"
Of all the areas the one I found most confusing was the health insurance industry. Then I found the health insurance authority website. I knew about it before and have advised clients to have a look at it (we don't do health insurance in prosperous) so I was delighted when it came up on Google because it meant I didn't have to break the rules of my experiment.
The website was extremely well put together, maybe too well. For me, it was a case of information overload.
For example, I wanted the website comparison tool to show me plans that offer semi-private rooms in a private hospital. Prices for one adult ranged from €597 per year to €5082 per year.
It was at that point I said I need help on this one, these two plans are not the same and I am not sitting in some hospital accounts office in 6 months hit with a massive bill for something I thought was covered and going through a financial crisis at the same time as a family medical crisis.
I felt this for most of what I was doing. In areas that I work I kept thinking to myself "but somebody who has no idea about this stuff wouldn't know they are missing this point" or "that this plan isn't suitable for them" and then areas we don't specialise in I couldn't help but wonder "what am I missing here?"
I accept the value of what I am about to say is incredibly diluted because we are independent advisors ourselves but I feel the best way to do this process is to use independent professionals.
I really have little fear for independent advisors having gone through this process. I was using fictitious details and still felt I would love to be able to speak to somebody on lots of the areas I looked at that are not our core business. The online world has come a long away but it certainly is not there yet.
Let's take a look at what I did. I took a fictitious couple aged 42. He smokes she doesn't. They are married with 2 kids and live in a 4-bed semi in Naas, valued at €320,000. They have a mortgage of €200,000 which unfortunately isn't a tracker. They have a personal loan they got from their bank to buy a car and a credit card with a Christmas hangover of €1500 on it. They have about €10,000 in savings and two very small pensions. Their jobs don't pay into the pensions for them so they had to set up their own a few years back.
Can they save €1000 in 1 hour? No, but they can in 96 minutes….
Home Insurance
The cheapest I could find online was €391 for the year. During the process, we found a policy for €435. We used a €200,000 rebuild cost with €30,000 contents cover €2000 jewellery and €5000 special items cover. Total Saving, €44.62
Car Insurance
With all the concentration at the moment in the media on car insurance prices, I expected there to be a huge variance. We don't give advice in this area so I was intrigued to see what I would find. I was shocked at how little difference there was between companies. We only looked at insuring his car, he was the main driver, clean licence since 1995, no claims no points, driving a 2 litre 2010, BMW 3 series valued at €15,000.
The cheapest was €571 and it took a lot of searching to find it and the most expensive we came across was €859. Honestly, though I couldn't help but feel I was missing something on the cheaper quote. Total saving, €288
Life cover
We went looking for quotes to replace the policy on the mortgage. We tried our best not to use the expert knowledge we have in this area and it was very frustrating, going in blind our couple could save about €110 per year on a €200,000 term policy with 20 years to run (with a little bit of knowledge applied that could have been €600 but we will stick to the rules) Total Savings, €110
Serious Illness Cover
Our couple had €100,000 serious illness cover with 15 years left on the policy. Again, it was difficult when you see what information is being provided to people who buy this online. You realise how much advice they are missing out on. But sticking with the exercise, they could save €575 per annum. With the most expensive plan being €2004 per year and the cheapest being €1429. Total Savings, €575 year one.
Health insurance
As mentioned earlier potentially you could save €4485 in year one here but we are going to ignore it for this exercise as we can't help but feel there is a huge difference between the two plans and we would never get through the research required in the time I allowed for this exercise. Total saving, ignored.
As you would imagine this is where we could get the most savings. Our couple have a €200,000 mortgage on a variable rate (not a tracker). The most expensive rate on the market was 4.3% with the cheapest for their value of their mortgage versus their property value was 3.1%. This would mean the repayments would go from €1243 per month to €1,119 per month. It is a major headache moving mortgage providers but as you can see it is worth it. There are costs involved but the bank offering the cheapest rate also offers a contribution to your legal and valuation costs. Total savings, €1488 year one. (just under €30,000 in the 20 years!)
Let's not get caught up here, rates are diabolical. The best rate we could get on demand was 0.6% with the lowest being 0.1%. On the €10,000 they have in savings that is an extra €50 for the year.
But I can't help but think with rates as they are should our couple be considering a well-constructed, well-diversified portfolio in a long-term investment for part of their savings.
Better still should they be clearing the credit card or the personal loan they have on the car, again this is somewhere that a financial planner would help make the correct decisions. Total Savings, €50 gross of tax!
Credit Card
Rates have really moved up in the last 12 months on credit cards, the most expensive we found was 22.9% with the cheapest being 18.25%.
If like our couple, you are waking up this morning wondering what to do with the credit card that you overloaded at Christmas then there is a really useful trick you can take advantage of.
The 18.25% rate we got comes with 6 months interest-free on any balance you transfer. I would suggest this couple should transfer the €1500 they have on their credit card to the interest-free option and try and clear it down over the next 6 months.
Don't spend any money on the new card and cut up the old one.
If they carry the balance and pay interest only over the next 12 months they will still pay €206 less in interest by switching but potentially this could be a lot more. Total savings in year 1, €206.
We did not have time to do a pension comparison online, but from experience, this isn't something you should rush into. Get advice here. By way of example, we had a client recently who was being charged 12% on every contribution they were making into their pension. This was on top of the ordinary ongoing charges. She never thought she could change her pension to a new provider and didn't realise how easy it would be. Total savings, ignored.
This was an eye-opening exercise to go through. It is far from straightforward finding savings. We purposefully put time constraints on it to try and see is it possible but also to be realistic about what people, in general, would be willing to do.
I found the Health Insurance Authority website hia.ie very useful but most useful of all was consumerhelp.ie which allows you compare mortgages, loans, credit cards and a whole lot more in a very simple format.
We managed to save our fictitious couple €2762 in 96 minutes. Yes, it will take time to implement the savings but some of the savings extend well beyond year one.
The exercise also reminded us of the value in independent advice. Of course, we would say that, but I learnt that there is serious value to be had by having a person to question rather than searching on a screen.
You see easy, it just takes a small amount of time to save enough money to pay for this years summer holiday.


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Unwanted Appeal – Hidden Wolves 2.5 available
I've uploaded the files to Smashwords and Goodreads for this free short story (or is 33,000 words a novella?) Either way, Unwanted Appeal – Hidden Wolves 2.5 takes place shortly after the end of Unexpected Demands – Book 2. It has spoilers for the novel, so they're really best read in order.
Goodreads isn't letting me upload .mobi files at the moment, but it's available there in .pdf and .epub. All the formats are available on Smashwords. Obviously it's a freebie either place. There is some forward movement of the relationship between Zach and Aaron in this one. I hesitate to put too much in the free stories, because they're not as widely known or read, and I don't want gaps between the pro novels. But I might try to get this up on Amazon as well. Having to charge for it there is a bit of a question…
Anyway, here's the story – I hope you like it.
B.H. permalinkMay 6, 2013 12:39 am
Just finished this story last night. Loved it! Among my friends I have a reputation for being particular about authors I choose the read. Your work has quickly made it onto my "must read" list. I'm looking forward to your next books. Many thanks.


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Kuwaiti man brings comic relief to Syrian refugees
KUWAIT CITY // Ali Al Nusf, a Kuwaiti accountant, took a troupe of merrymaking clowns into the dusty confines of Syrian refugee camps and hoped the ensuing antics would change the displaced peoples' lives, if only for a moment.
He is one of the many Kuwaitis who donate, either financially or by volunteering their time, to efforts aimed at helping those affected by Syria's three-year-old civil war.
While Kuwait is under international scrutiny for private donations that fund extremist groups in Iraq and Syria, it is also one of the biggest contributors of charity to those affected by the conflicts.
Kuwait's Emir pledged US$500 million (Dh1.84 billion) in humanitarian aid for Syrians at the beginning of this year. Millions more in funding has been donated by private citizens.
For Mr Al Nusf, the clowns' performances in Lebanon were intended to bring some simple amusement to the refugees.
The venture, which took place in June, became a personal affirmation for Mr Al Nusf that the disastrous affects of war can be alleviated through comedy.
Like many people in their late 20s, Mr Al Nusf dreamed big. After finishing his master's degree in the United States in 2010, he tried selling a script to Hollywood. When that didn't work he aimed to write a sitcom for Kuwaiti TV. That didn't work out either. An attempt to establish a crowd-sourcing website was also unsuccessful.
For a time, Kuwait's tense political atmosphere captured his attention. But when the drama of parliament dissolutions and street protests calmed, he looked for a new direction for his energy.
Inspiration arrived via an article about Clowns Without Borders, a non-profit volunteer group that entertains victims of conflict and disaster.
"When I saw what these guys were doing it was quite a change from politics," Mr Al Nusf said. The notion of clowns travelling the world and helping people through humour appealed to him. He contacted the group in January and for the first time joined efforts to aid Syrians.
Asked why he thought Kuwaitis gave so much to the victims of the Syrian conflict, Mr Al Nusf said: "I think a lot of people got excited about the Arab Spring and having a sense of solidarity with the others. The Syrians perhaps had it the worst in terms of the human tragedy."
Clowns Without Borders was eager to entertain the Syrian refugees. Mr Al Nusf introduced them to Layan, a Kuwaiti aid organisation which could help raise the necessary funds.
Layan deployed a social media campaign to raise the funds using the Twitter hashtag #mynoseisred written in Arabic. Donors posted photos of themselves wearing the red nose of a clown. Within an hour money began to flow in.
"I was shocked. It was an amazing thing that they did this campaign, and they raised a lot of money," said Sabine Choucair, the Lebanese team leader for Clowns Without Borders.
Even as the money came in, Mr Al Nusf had "all kinds" of worries. Clowns Without Borders and Layan, working over email, might miscommunicate. Violence and the threat of kidnapping in Lebanon posed a degree of risk to the clowns.
But most of all, Mr Al Nusf worried that the refugees would not like the clowns.
Ms Choucair, 33, who grew up during the Lebanese civil war and now gives social therapy training to refugees in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon, along with her work as a clown, said the performances "gives them one hour of laughter and laughter is good for the soul, for the body ... it takes people to another level ... It's nice, it's good, it's different, and it's helpful."
With about $20,000 raised by the Layan campaign and after six-months of planning, three clowns arrived from the US and Chile on June 1 for two weeks of performances and workshops in northern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley and Beirut. Ms Choucair also joined the group as a clown.
Despite Mr Al Nusf's initial concerns, the refugees were delighted.
He described watching the faces of the refugees, young and old, gathering to watch the clowns, and, in some cases, volunteering to take part in the shows.
"It was beautiful to see them engaged happily for an hour, not thinking about how bad it was," he said. "They are under pressure. They deserve happy memories."
"Kids need happy memories even if they are brief."
Seated in his spacious family home in Kuwait City, he reflected on what made Clowns Without Borders an appealing way to offer aid.
The group entertained and then left, he said. They were culturally aware and researched where they were going. They also had no political or religious affiliation.
"In this region these days a lot of people do it for credit or the benefit of their political party or their affiliation," he said.
"We don't need to be of the same region or background or religion" to work together.
After the experience with Clowns Without Borders, he wants to organise another project to aid Syrian refugees.
"It just takes some management and putting the right people together," he said.
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NANOMEMS-X is an industrial research project presented by IMAMOTER – C.N.R. and approved on the "Call for strategic industrial research projects aimed at the priority areas of the smart specialization strategy" (DGR 774/2015) within the POR FESR EMILIA-ROMAGNA 2014/2020 Axis 1 Action 1.2.2
The project involves the development of new concept Strain sensors with high sensitivity and a wider measuring range, which allow the creation of innovative applications, capable of giving a competitive advantage to both manufacturers of components in the mechatronics sector and machine builders.
E.S.T.E. srl is the company designated for the development of part of the project in collaboration with MIST E-R and IMAMOTER CNR.
These sensors will be realized using two different technologies, one MEMS type and the other based on elastic nanocomposites, in order to reach a high number of applications. The innovation and the functional principles of the components, allow on one hand to create sensors with high sensitivity and on the other to obtain products covered by worldwide patents (therefore not producible for traditional technologies). The project involves the application of Strain Sensors on rigid supports for the realization of sensors of stress, deformation, force, torque and pressure on mechanical devices, in positions where traditional technologies would be null. These devices will be also used to create non-invasive pressure sensors, meaning they don't require a direct contact with the fluid, giving space to a new class of smart components in the hydraulic system, that finds its excellence in Emilia Romagna region.
Strain elastic sensors based on conductive nanocomposite materials (CTPE), obtained by micro-extrusion, will be used to measure fluid pressure in hoses, for the production of tactile systems to be integrated directly on operator commands or to monitor the status of tires. These devices consist of very low-cost material (4 cents / gr.) and allow to build external systems that will be applied on previous existing systems. All the sensors will be realized with a digital electronic system, able to supply both information in analog format and communication networks used in the machines.
1 - Fabrication of a prototype strain sensor for measurement of the strain applied on a mechanical structure. Fabrication of a MEMS strain sensor equipped with conditioning and read-out electronics, applicable to mechanical arms, metal structures, etc., designed to read local deformation and measure the force applied on the arm. The prototype will have the competitive advantage of having high sensitivity and therefore more freedom in positioning on structures and systems and of not being covered by existing patents. Inserting the sensor in a pin will make it unnecessary to have through holes in the pin, thus keeping its resistance to loads intact.
2 - Fabrication of a prototype Strain sensor for measurement of hydraulic pressure on a duct. Thanks to the high sensitivity of MEMS sensors to deformation, the prototype enables pressure sensing in (rigid) metal ducts in a non-invasive way, based on duct deformation only.
3 - Fabrication of a prototype CTPE sensor for measurement of hydraulic pressure on flexible ducts for measurement of pressure in fixed and mobile hydraulic systems. The prototype will show the excellent adaptability of CTPE sensors, which enable pressure sensing in (flexible) rubber ducts, thanks to their ability to detect the deformation caused by pressure. Tests for ageing and possible alterations due to the high temperatures involved will be evaluated to apply to the sensing system an additional passivation layer that will further isolate the devices.
4 - Fabrication of a prototype formed by a combination of (CTPE) conductive material tactile sensors. A functional prototype of sensors applied to a steering wheel will be built for real-time monitoring of the position of hands and the detection of the force exerted by the driver. This system may be used to check whether the driver is present and to detect driver's illness or unconsciousness.
Examples of application
Checking the status of an industrial pump
Pressure ripple in a gear pump
Non-invasive Pressure measurement
Profiling of the movement of a shoe.
Profiling of the compression and movement of a wheel.