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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Winnsboro native Fay Allen Kennedy's fingerprints will be all over the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture when it opens some time in 2015.
In February 2012, he signed contract with a three company joint venture, Clark/Smoot/Russell (CSR), that is involved in constructing the facility. Kennedy was the first minority contractor to sign on with a contract for the work with CSR and the first electrical contractor to sign with them.
A master electrician as well as businessman, Kennedy said the project he worked on last summer and fall involved electrical contract work on the job site with a company from Woodbridge Va.
"Being able to work on this museum has meant a lot to me," he said. "It's one of those things that you can look back on and say you are a part of history. And for me, it is being blessed to understand both side of the fence."
A second 'first' for Kennedy
This is not the first "first" for Kennedy when it comes to breaking down barriers and promoting civil rights. As he looks over the job site, many times it triggers memories of his being escorted to class by National Guard troops during the integration of schools in Fairfield County in 1964-65.
At that time he was about 8 or 9 years old. Originally from Winnsboro, he had attended White Hall elementary in Jenkinsville.
"We were going between different schools and just knew we were part of something different," Kennedy said.
Those formative years shaped Kennedy into the man he is today, in large part due to the influence of his father.
"There was a statement my father gave me," he said. "He said 'It's not about race. If you are mad at somebody, you are mad at the person, not the color. If you are upset with someone, it is not the race but it is that one person you have an issue with.'"
He said his father never wanted him to bring race into interpersonal conflicts. Though he shielded Allen from discrimination as best he could in those days, Kennedy said there were rough spots and tension along the way.
"Instead of fighting my way through it," he said, "my daddy showed me the best way through this is through education."
He said that lessons from his father ignited a spark that inspired him to dream of a life beyond Fairfield County. Those dreams led him to become a licensed electrician and businessman.
A 1977 graduate of McCrorey Liston High School, he attended Benedict College for a time and also the University of South Carolina. Kennedy said that for financial reasons he wound up completing his education at Midlands Technical College instead.
"I attended under President (Jimmy) Carter's JPTA (job training partnership) program and was able to finish MTC in 1984 (with an electrician certification)," he said.
The search for work eventually led him to Maryland, which meant he had to re-certify first as a journeyman and then as a master electrician. In the years since, he became certified in Virginia, too.
"In Maryland I went for the highest (certification)," he said. "I became a journeyman first and then went for my masters for the Metro area," he said. Since that time he has earned and maintained certification as a master electrician for South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Igniting a spark in the business community
A solid work ethic led him to eventually strike out on his own and form his own business, B.I.P. Inc., to service the area. Yet despite the pressures of entrepreneurship and the tight bidding of contract labor, he found time to give back to groups in the D.C. Metro area, particularly minority-owned electric contractor businesses.
He helps them network and bid for contracts, and his model has been a successful one. So far, Kennedy's company has installed the temporary power for the entire project and he said that his company has won contracts to do more work later in the design process.
"I help them learn the paperwork and about more experience-based aspects of installation of electrical equipment, that I picked up over the years," he said. "Since I have had the opportunity to do things that other guys have hard time getting to do, I felt called to give back."
Kennedy also is active in church outreach, something else he attributes to his father's influence. He has donated electrical equipment and time doing electrical work free for small churches and also has staffed men's retreats where his story of perseverance and faith resonated with young men in particular.
"I was blessed with opportunity with work, social life and spiritual growth," he said. "(At the retreats) we dealt with young guys and gave them ideas of what God given talent that have and what they could do with it. Our goal is for them to aspire to lives beyond the box that is their own (impoverished inner city) neighborhood."
He is one who made it and said that he was inspired to keep striving, in part, by doubters.
"People saying that you can't do it, inspired me to work hard and keep striving," he said. "I was always taught that with God everything is possible, so you do it."


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I have created a file and have populated it with names and their gender (male or female). Gender can either be inputted as a M or as an F by the user....If the user enters anything else, an error message should appear.
I initially tried this:
if( ( gender == "m" ) || ( gender == "m") )
then write to file
but the file did not accept any input.
I then tried this
if( ( gender == '10101001' ) || ( gender == '10100010' ) )
taking the ASCII code for m and f but I got a compile error (i beleive since i defined gender to be of char type).
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More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday.
Here's a reality check for President Barack Obama's health overhaul: Three out of four uninsured Americans live in states that have yet to figure out how to deliver on its promise of affordable medical care. This is the year that will make or break the health care law. States were supposed to be partners in carrying out the biggest safety net expansion since Medicare and Medicaid, and the White House claims they're making steady progress.
Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday. Experts debated whether it's a fleeting consequence of the sluggish economy, or a real sign that cost controls by private employers and government at all levels are starting to work.
When it comes to health care, it sometimes feels like nothing is simple. And that can be a real problem: According to a recent survey, some health care basics are going right over the heads of the majority of Americans.
Supporters of President Obama's health care reform laws got a major boost when a key opponent lost her business. Mary Brown, whose whose standing to sue is integral to the largest lawsuit against Obama's health care reforms, may be forced to abandon her legal challenge.
On Friday, Walmart announced it was rolling back is health benefits for part-time workers -- benefits that the nation's largest employer expanded just a few years ago in response to criticism of its labor practices. And even the lucky few employees who get to keep their coverage aren't going to like the new plan much.
Last month, new regulations were issued under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) requiring insurance companies to make choosing a plan simpler. Specifically, the new rules require insurers to publish forms providing "clear, consistent and comparable information" about the health-care plans they offer.
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The recent pushback on health care reform appears to have boosted the stock prices of health insurance companies, which have outperformed major indexes by quite a margin so far this year. That's because Americans have been cutting back on doctor visits, keeping reimbursement costs low.
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Centennial Trail - Nakashima Barn, Northend Trailhead — Snohomish County, WA
in Rails to Trails
The north end of Snohomish County's Centennial Trail features the Nakashima Barn as an important heritage landmark in the area. From here the Centennial Trail reaches 29 miles south and is paved over the entire length.
posted by: Dunbar Loop
location: Washington
date approved: 4/30/2013
last visited: never
OC&E Woods Line State Trailhead - Klamath Falls, OR
This OC&E Woods Line State Trailhead is located along Washburn Way and begins next to Safeway Grocery Store.
posted by: thebeav69
location: Oregon
date approved: 4/29/2013
Alhedestien - Midtjylland, Denmark
(da) Gammel jernbane mellem Herning og Viborg. (en) Old railway from Herning to Viborg.
posted by: Ulven7470
location: Denmark
date approved: 4/15/2013
Gravlevstien, Ebeltoft - Denmark
sti på den tidligere jernbanestrækning fra Ebeltoft mod Trustrup. Trail on the old railway between Ebeltoft and Trustrup.
posted by: kallehaugerne
date approved: 4/10/2013
Columbia & Western Rail Trail - Castlegar, BC
This one time railroad west of Castlegar is still in use, though now by pedestrians and bicyclists.
posted by: BK-Hunters
location: British Columbia, Canada
date approved: 4/6/2013
Candy Mountain Express Northern Trailhead
This Trailhead for the Candy Mountain Express Rail to Trails path is located at Sevier Junction, where US Highway 89 and Utah Highway 70 meet on the north side of the very small community of Sevier, Utah.
posted by: brwhiz
location: Utah
date approved: 3/22/2013
Lebanon Valley Rail Trail - Lawn Trailhead
Lebanon Valley Rail Trail Lawn Trailhead, in Lawn Pennsylvania.
posted by: kayakingdog
location: Pennsylvania
date approved: 3/15/2013
Bly OC&E Woodsline State Trail Trailhead - Bly, OR
This rails-to-trails trailhead is located just north of Hwy 140, heading east into Bly, OR.
Mon River Trailhead - Morgantown, WV
This trailhead for the Mon River Trail is located at Round Bottom Road southwest of Morgantown, WV. It is part of a larger rails-to-trails system that is a National Recreational Trail.
posted by: onfire4jesus
location: West Virginia
last visited: 1/31/2013
Godolphin Flag Station - Trans Canada Trail, Hastings, ON
Sign at the entrance to the Campbellford leg of the Trans Canada Trail (TCT) near Hastings, ON
posted by: jiggs11
location: Ontario, Canada
date approved: 2/18/2013
Llandderfel Trail, Bala, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
A former railway that entirely disappeared into a trail that runs from Bala to Llandrillo, and would have formed part of the North Wales slate network, which was never completed and parts of which are in use for tourism.
posted by: N!TR0
location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Ten Mile Canyon National Recreational Trail - Frisco, CO
The Ten Mile Canyon trail uses the Denver-South Park & Pacific (DSP&P) Narrow Gauge Railroad bed for its route. The trail is used annually for the charity event, the Courage Classic.
posted by: Outspoken1
location: Colorado
date approved: 1/15/2013
Sandy Creek Trail - Rockland access point - Cranberry, PA
Just south of Cranberry, PA is an access point for the Sandy Creek rails-to-trail conversion.
posted by: vhasler
Oro-Medonte Rail Trail - Hawkestone, Ontario
This Oro-Medonte Rail Trail entrance point is in the town of Hawkestone, Ontario
posted by: DougandSandra
date approved: 11/14/2012
last visited: 11/15/2012
Baana - Eastern Access
Helsinki harbour rail connected cargo terminal to Central railway station. When harbour was converted to a new suburb, old sidetrack became a route for pedestrians and cyclists.
posted by: Mikkozzz
location: Finland
date approved: 10/28/2012
last visited: 5/18/2013
Douglas State Trail - Rochester, MN.
This trail runs from Rochester, Minnesota northwest to Pine Island. It was created from 12.5 miles of abandoned rail bed.
posted by: Siren Hunter
location: Minnesota
date approved: 10/11/2012
Ghost Town Trail - Eliza Station Access Area - Vintondale, Pennsylvania
The Eliza Station Trailhead of the Ghost Town Trail is located at 1069 Main Street in Vintondale Borough, Cambria County, Pennsylvania.
posted by: outdoorboy34
Ghost Town Trail - Dilltown Access Area - Dilltown, Pennsylvania
The Dilltown Access Area of the Ghost Town Trail is located on State Route 403 (7500 Cramer Pike) in East Wheatfield Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Ghost Town Trail - Heshbon Access Area - Blairsville, Pennsylvania
The Heshbon Access Area of the Ghost Town Trail is located at 10485 Route 259 Highway in Brush Valley Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
Great Allegheny Passage - Meyersdale Trailhead - Meyersdale, Pennsylvania
The Meyersdale Access of the Great Allegheny Passgage is located at 527 Main Street, Meyersdale Borough, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Le p'tit train du Nord
Située au km 107 à Labelle, à mi-chemin entre St-Jérôme et Mont-Laurier./Located right on the bike pathway "Le P'tit Train du Nord" at km 107, by using Du Pont and Allard streets to get there.
posted by: poildecarot
location: Quebec, Canada
date approved: 8/1/2012
last visited: 10/25/2012
Hincaster Trailway, Cumbria
This old branch line connected the Furness Line to the LNER main line. Recently the track bed has been landscaped and re-surfaced for all to use as the Hincaster Trailway.
posted by: flipflopnick
location: Northwest England, United Kingdom
date approved: 6/19/2012
High Bridge Trail, River Road Access
River Road parking for the High Bridge Trail State Park.
posted by: garmin_geek
location: Virginia
date approved: 5/21/2012
Northern Terminus, Genesee Greenway Trail - Rochester, NY
The Genesee Greenway Trail starts in Gensee Valley Park, in Rochester, NY, mostly utilizing the retired Pennsylvania Railroad beds to make a 90-mile trail to Cuba, NY, where it connects to the Finger Lakes Trail.
posted by: sagefemme
location: New York
date approved: 5/3/2012
McCallan Road Trail — Richmond, BC
As a part of the longer McCallan Road Trail this old Canadian Pacific Railway bed runs for 450 metres.


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Posted By: Rev. Samson Fapohunda Posted On: March 25th Views: 332 | RE-INCREASING WORKRS SALARY. Sir in my own opinion for any Government to review the salary of junior/senior salary in time like this its not option. If you observed very well you will agree with me that not the salary earners are the most corrupted fellows in our society it's the so call business Politicians and the Government self establish Companies tags; PANEL, COMMITTEES, MINISTERIAL POSTS e.g. Big and small ministers. Organize seminars etc. you know more than I do. Let the Government stop all these and you will see that this great country will soon ARRIVE. |
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w Six centuries ago, a typhoon zone known as the Dragon Sea claimed 250,000 Vietnamese ceramics when a cargo ship carrying them sank down 230 feet onto the floor of the South China Sea off the coast of Hoi An, a port city in Vietnam.
Fishermen trawling for fish accidentally discovered the shipwreck in the early 1990s, and in 2000, the Birmingham Museum of Art bought some of these treasures at a San Francisco public auction. You can view some of these rare objects for yourself from now until April 8th at the Birmingham Museum of Art's Dragons and Lotus Blossoms exhibition, which showcases these sunken treasures as well as other pieces from the museum's permanent Asian art collection.
These ceramic treasures from the permanent collection range from dishes delicately adorned with blue lotus flowers, peonies, or chrysanthemums, to tigers, winged horses, and dragons living for eternity on 16th century jars. Tiny blue and white parrotshaped bowls remain intact in a glass case even though they were recovered from a 15th century shipwreck.
After the fishermen's accidental discovery, excavation of the site began. "The Vietnamese government soon took over the site and partnered with Oxford University and a private salvage company to excavate the site," says Donald Wood, Ph.D., the Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art. Dr. Wood developed the Dragons and Lotus Blossoms exhibition. "It took four years to bring up some 250,000 Vietnamese ceramics that went down with the ship. The Vietnamese government kept all unique pieces discovered for their museums, plus 10 percent of the rest of the pieces discovered. The rest of the pieces were sold at a San Francisco public auction in 2000 to raise funds to cover the costs of the excavation and the conservation of the pieces," Dr. Wood says.
"The Museum bought pieces from this sale.
These are now on display in the exhibition."
One of the gallery rooms in the exhibition displays a photo of a Vietnamese soldier holding a gun on a ship with the caption, "Vietnamese military guarding against pirates, looters, and sightseers." When most of us think of Vietnam, we think of the war fought there in the 1960s and 1970s. We don't think of an indigenous culture "whose relics provide a bridge to the past," as a documentary film in the exhibition states.
According to this documentary, sacred temples were destroyed in Vietnam during the war, and so these ceramics featured at the museum can show us what was important to indigenous Vietnamese cultures centuries ago.
Many ceramic dishes and pieces of pottery feature animals such as tigers, deer, dragons, cranes, and winged horses, as well as lotus flowers, the Buddhist symbol of purity; chrysanthemums, which symbolize a wish for long life; and peonies, which are a symbol of good fortune, wealth, honor, and love. A tiger crouching on a 16th century jar has black stripes of fur on his forehead, forming the Chinese character for "king."
An ornate, glazed stoneware jar from the 16th century features a magic horse with wings, a creature that appears in many Vietnamese stories and tales. Cranes, a symbol of long life and immortality, also appear on this jar. A pamphlet at the exhibition contains additional information about the animals, birds, plants, mythical beasts, and water creatures that adorn these Vietnamese ceramics.
The museum will host special events related to the exhibition, such as the book discussion they had on March 8th on Frank Pope's book, "The Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archaeology, and Greed off the Coast of Vietnam." This book is available for purchase at the museum store and provides details of the Hoi An wreck. If you would like to know more about shipwrecks other than the Titanic, you can go to an Art Break at noon on April 3rd to hear Ervan Garrison, Ph.D., discuss underwater archaeology as it relates to objects in the Dragons and Lotus Blossoms exhibition. Other special events include "First Thursday" on April 5th , in which Dr. Wood will lead a tour of the exhibition at 6 pm and a Vietnamese film selected by the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival will be shown at 7 pm. First Thursdays also include tapas and cocktails from Oscar's, the museum's café. The museum stays open until 9 pm on First Thursdays for people who can't visit the museum during working hours.
Kristen Greenwood, assistant curator of education for public programs, states that, "we have the types of events you run into in other cities such as First Thursdays and Art on the Rocks." The exhibition and these types of special events are free. "It's very important to us to keep the museum free," Greenwood says. "We are a museum for the community."
Free admission is impressive, considering that Dragons and Lotus Blossoms is the first exhibition of such widely ranging Vietnamese ceramics to be held in North America. Dr. Wood echoes the spirit of community championed by Greenwood.
"We realized we had one of the best collections in the U.S. and wanted to share it with everyone. This is the first large-scale exhibition of Vietnamese ceramics in the U.S.," Dr. Wood states. "Only the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, have comparable collections. It is beautiful material from a part of the world that most people will never be able to visit, and it shows the unique aesthetic spirit of the dynamic Vietnamese people."
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RENTON — Seahawks coach Pete Carroll stopped short of guaranteeing that Charlie Whitehurst will start at quarterback against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
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Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said the team is preparing Charlie Whitehurst to start at quarterback this week against the Cleveland Browns.
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The Seattle Seahawks released newly acquired running back Allen Bradford and signed linebacker Heath Farwell on Wednesday.
The Bradford era came and went rather quickly. He was awarded to the Seahawks via a waiver claim from Tampa Bay last week, and played for coach Pete Carroll at USC.
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Project: | Vote Up/Down |
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Component: | Code |
Category: | task |
Priority: | major |
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Status: | active |
Issue Summary
There is already code for a field implementing vote up down on the git repository.
IMHO making 4 submodules for vud implementation is too much, and since we can replicate most of the work done on those modules through a general field implementation, I am completely in favour to deprecate the ones mentioned in the title.
In the other side, I think this can be a big win because it would be a lot code less to maintain.
This idea was mentioned on the original D7 port some time ago: #749438-95: Port Vote Up/Down to D7
Just wondering, do you want people to start testing with the field module instead of the old submodules?
And we cannot remove those extra submodules yet because that is how the views implementations are working, right?
I also assume we'll still be able to just call the related widget in the tpl.php ourselves if we don't want to display it as a field.
I'd be happy to test and use the field version of vud.
- pulled from git and enabled vud_field.
- in the content type a Vote field was added of Field/Widget="Vote UpDown".
- under Manage Display the format for vote was set to "Vote UpDown(default)"
The widget is not appearing.
php Notice: Undefined index: vud_widget in vud_field_field_formatter_view() (line 160 of /disk2/www/drupal-7.8/sites/all/modules/drupal.org.git/vote_up_down/vud_field/vud_field.module)
php Notice: Undefined index: votingapi_tag in vud_field_field_formatter_view() (line 161 of /disk2/www/drupal-7.8/sites/all/modules/drupal.org.git/vote_up_down/vud_field/vud_field.module).
The $items array is empty in vud_field_field_formatter_view().
Strangely, If I edit and save a node, then the widget appears (and $items contains vud_widget/tag). This is the case for all nodes.
P.S: I still think vud_node is needed, for example for sites migrating from D6 and wishing to preserve votes.
Actually it is related to http://drupal.org/node/1365382.
Duplicated the comment there too.
The problem is that the field items is empty before node object is saved (or resaved how it is described in note#4) with values for items provided by
I solved the problem with hook_field_prepare_view() , in the same way as default image implemented in image.module, and as for me it is a good solution.
But while a patching I noticed that you can't change voting settings for specific entity and in terms of that, storing 'vud_widget' and 'votingapi_tag' for each entity is useless.
So I think that we have to make voting settings configurable for a particular entity too or rework the data storing. Making voting settings configurable for a particular entity looks more attractive for me , because that feature will be required by users, but probably it is an object of discussion.
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1295574-vote-up-down-set-default-value-for-empty-items-4.patch | 961 bytes | Ignored: Check issue status. | None | None |
@Nikot: vud_field is a standard field, so views will recognize it, and can show it. Yeah, if you now what you are doing you can do things manually always, based on the api provided by vud module, but hopefully you don't need to do that.
@boran: I guess that errors are gone now. About sites coming from D6, I plan to make an upgrade path, see #1363928: Upgrade paths from vud_{node,comment,term} to vud_field
@vlkff: Your comment at 6 answered in context at #1365382-4: Preload vud_field based on field settings
FYI, I have vud_node/comment working enough for me on D7 (with upgrade from D6) that I use for one specific site. Only a subset of vid is being used.
I can put the code in a sandbox if it helps, but I guess you want to kill vud_node/comment and get us on fields :-)


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Review In my mind's eye I see the original Prototype in murky black and white, not because the game was without colour per se, but more because everything about it, from the repetitive use of textures through to the monotonous mission structure was somehow muddied and just, well, uninspired.
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Get Infamous/Infamous2 instead
Similar game, superior in every respect..
Nuff said.
Yeah, might look out for this one on discount.
This is a good example of why the 2nd hand market needs to exist.
It looks like it could be fun, but not £50 worth of fun, maybe £15, it has no real long term value, no reel 'keep factor'. The above poster is bang on, inFamous 2 feels like a far better value product thanks to the in depth editor and greater possibilities.
I'm sure it's just another game which Activision, EA and the like will point to in an effort to show how 2nd hand sales are killing their market, but the simple truth is it isn't worth the asking price, very few games are. In this case I don't think it's even worth the asking price after being reimbursed by a trade it so I will be waiting until it can be picked up sub £20 and if I can't find it at that price point, I won't be buying it.
That's not to say it's a bad game, the review and rating seem fair from what I've seen of it but things need to be priced more realistically.
Prototype was good for mindless action...
But unfortunately, as the author worded quite well, that will eventually become boring. I enjoyed the original Prototype but many aspects were far too limited for my taste. You could consume people after which you could take over their personality. So far, so good.
But only when consuming /specific/ people; it didn't stick. For example; a terrified person comes up to you, you consume him/her to replenish your health. Then I'd expect to know what scared the heck out of the guy/girl. For example; knowing where the nearby enemies are located. But Prototype never went that deep. Which disappointed me to some end.
Back in the day Prototype stood directly against inFAMOUS; after careful consideration I eventually picked Prototype. It was good fun, and it still is (I still play Prototype occasionally). But now I think inFAMOUS is the better of the two. The side missions in inFAMOUS added to the whole storyline and expanded heavily on the feeling of being in a city which was in total anarchy. The Prototype side missions on the other hand were mere tests. Race to the top of a building, glide to the spot marked X, consume as many people as possible, etc. It was fun, don't get me wrong, but it never added up to the story of the game itself. Within that context the tests never made much sense...
When looking at the inFAMOUS sequel I think its obvious that Sucker Punch (company behind inFAMOUS) realized all too well that this stuff could get repetitive. And so they added a state of the art (IMO) editor to the game. Some critics considered it a sign of weakness, but owning inFAMOUS 2 I think it was a sign of brilliance. Even now I enjoy messing with it; not bad for a game which storyline you could finish in a few days! The editor is easy enough to let anyone work on it (you don't have to be a graphic artist to build up a story) yet advanced enough to really build something deep.
Prototype 2 otoh... I still think it'll be fun, but I'm not quite tempted to get it, maybe second hand or after a year or so at a (heavily) reduced price. It simply seems to be more of the same.


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RFSC:It is an honor to be able to sit down and talk to the inventor on the CANaerospace Protocol, Mr. Michael Stock. Thank you and welcome to Sun-n-Fun 2012!
MS: You are very welcome.
RFSC: Let's start off with the basics. What is a CAN Bus?
MS: The CAN Bus like many other serial databuses combines data on one end and serializes it and sends it over the bus at a very high speed so it can be re-tracked on the other end. Basically it is there to save wires. If we were to transmit information on dedicated wires we would have a huge bundle. And the Bus actually reduces that to two wires and the information is transferred over the bus in a serialized format.
RFSC: So this gives a a great weight saving and a simpler installation?
MS: Exactly.
RFSC: Can you give us a brief history on the CANaerospace Protocol?
MS: I am an electronics engineer and I became employed with a company called Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm in the mid 80's. I started to work on the helicopter flight controls division of what is now known as Eurocopter. And at that time we were not using many data busses, simply cause there were not to many available in the aviation world. Around that time, 1985, Bosch came up with a data bus that was originally designed for automotive use, call the Controller Area Network, or CAN bus.
We immediately started to use that bus, initially for flight simulation. At that time we did not have any protocols based on that databus. So it was really a very rudimentary bus for transmitting information back and forth, but there was no standardization in any way. Standards came up later, but all of these were targeted towards the automotive industry or the factory automatization industry, so they were not really suitable for the aviation industry. In 1998 I finally went ahead and defined a standard that would turn CAN into a data bus that is really suitable for aviation purposes. And I called this protocol that sits on top of the canbus "CANaerospace" and it has been around since. In the meantime, we are approaching version 2.0 and initially it was used at Eurocopter and then I made it available on the internet and finally with the AGATE programme conducted here in the USA, around the year 2000, NASA got involved with me and standardized the CANaerospace Protocol as the AGATE Databus. The the whole thing moved up to the general aviation world and then starting from this it took about 10 years until companies in GA were using it, and nowadays we have a couple of glass cockpit panel manufacturers using CANaerospace in their products. We have entire avionics suites in General Aviation that use CANaerospace within their system.
RFSC: How did you become involved in the 912 iS programme.
MS: In 2003/2004 I got involved with Diehl Avonics who were at that time doing a full authority digital control system under contract from Rotax for the former 936 engine, which actually was never produced. Nevertheless the CANaerospace protocol was used as the databus interface to the cockpit. When Rotax started to create the 912 iS engine, they knew the protocol worked very well with the 936 and they reused it for the 912 iS. I got involved again in adapting it for the 912 iS ECU. This now really caused the use of the CANaerospace bus gaining momentum as it being used in an engine that is going into production. Nowdays the CANaerospace bus is being used in numerous research aeroplanes like the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOPHIA), a Boeing 747 that carries a large telescope manufactured by German companies and there are quite a number of CANaerospace busses that do real time control throughout the fuselage of that aircraft. Many other research and experimental aircraft are using CANaerospace busses for closed loop control purposes within the aircraft itself.
RFSC: So does CAN harness come standard with the 912iS or is it something that we have to add on?
MS: Actually it comes standard with the engine. For the 912 ULS engine, you still have a lot of sensors that are attached to the engine and lots of dedicated wires running to the cockpit. In the cockpit you had dedicated instruments displaying that information. Now the the 912iS the CANaerospace is coming in as the standard and replaces all these dedicated wires. So there is no more conventional instrumentation possible with the 912 iS.
RFSC: So you cannot run analog gauges and things like that?
MS: That is right. It is actually a dual redundant CANaerospace databus system that goes from the engine to the cockpit, and carries all the information that is required by the pilot. That also means that the interface is reduced to only 4 wires.
RFSC: I guess this is an important time to look at what a pilot can use for gauges. You work closely with Rotax with the wiring, but along the way you also developed a device to read the information coming across the CANaerospace Bus? The Engine Monitoring Unit?
MS: That is right. It is the Engine Management Unit really.
RFSC: Not monitoring unit?
MS: Management. We are taking it to the level of engine management as it does a lot more than just give the indication to the pilot. First, and most important thing of course, is the pilot's display. So through the Engine Management Unit you got the RPM, the manifold pressure and all the temperature and pressures that you need to safely operate the aircraft, by having the engine information. But together with this comes a lot of secondary information that is transmitted by the ECU over the databus. And that secondary information is the status of sensors and the data and the status of the engine itself. Thirdly, the engine management records all this data onto an SD memory card. With this we have the lifetime history of the engine stored on an SD memory card, together with timestamp and GPS data. This information can be used for later post data processing.
RFSC: So not only did you invent the wiring for the engine, it also invented a great way for pilots to access this information.
MS: Right. That is coming with the standard. The CANaerospace standard just has the advantage that all the data that is flowing over the busses is easily readable and can be stored and can be post processed in a very standardized way.
RFSC: What makes this one of the best units out there?
MS: First of all, the Engine Management Unit is not just any engine display which has been adapted to the 912 iS. It has been designed along with the engine and provides the required redundancy and electrical isolation required to maintain the integrity of the overall 912 iS system. Also, it provides 912 iS specific information like cold start procedure guidance which have been verified by flight test. Finally, the EMU has demonstrated during flight tests that it works flawlessly under temperatures as low as -18 degrees Celsius and altitudes of up to 18.000ft. Another aspect is that with the 912iS engine, for the first time in the GA world, the ability of having the engine lifetime information (Things only known to jet engine users before) is now coming to the piston engine world. This gives a lot of additional advantages in terms of maintenance, in terms of troubleshooting, and in terms of monitoring the engine over the lifetime and predicating any problems at an early stage.
RFSC: What other details would you like to share with us?
MS: It is important to realize that the ECU has two sets of redundant CANaerospace busses. One is dedicated to the display in the cockpit (this is the one that the Engine Management Unit is connected to.) The other set of data busses is dedicated to the maintenance that is supported by the dongle from ROTAX. We are not interfering at all. So if the Engine Management Unit is installed, the engine maintenance busses are still accessible by the USB Dongle and can be used to interact with the CPU. So the major difference here is that over the display bus I only interact with the ECU in order to read data from it. I just read information that the ECU sends. while over the maintenance bus, the dongle can actually interactively reprogram the ECU. That was kept separate so that we can have a certifiable way matching an engine display to the ECU without interfering with the internal functions of it.
RFSC: So there is no way the pilot can reprogram the engine by just touching buttons?
MS: That is right. The pilot can read the data. The data can be formatted in any way, be post processed. He has all the indications in the cockpit, but he cannot give commands to the ECU. Nevertheless, the pilot can adapt the EMU display to his needs in terms of displaying metric versus US units and the like.
RFSC: Now all this information allows you to build in extra features.
MS: Yes. The Engine Management Unit comes with the EMDS or Engine Management Debriefing Software. This software runs on any computer (Windows, MAC or Linux) and it can be downloaded from the web. The data that is recorded on the SD card in the engine management unit can be loaded by this software and visualized in many forms. You can visualize the data in sort of a post flight mode, just like a cassette tape recorder. You can scroll through the entire flight and look at the data at any point, zoom into it and look at details. It also has a mode that you can look at engine details and go through the flight just as if you were sitting in the aeroplane and you can replay your flight on the ground with it.
RFSC: I know you have just released the EMU, but I know quite a few engineers and I know they have many future plans for their designs. At this early stage, am I allowed to ask you what you think some of the future features will be?
MS: Let's talk about new features then. (Laughs)
RFSC: Before we continue, let's get it clear that as of right now there is everything that a pilot needs to monitor and manage his engine.
MS: Right.
RFSC: I hear you may have some new ideas or plans for the future models?
MS: Well the first thing which is upcoming very soon, is that we take the GPS data that is recorded with the engine data in the engine management unit, and convert it into the KML file format that can be used with Google Earth. That would allow the pilot to visualize his flight path. That would give him the position on earth, that would give him the speed, and that would give him the altitude and the track he is flying. Together with dedicated points that he can display his fuel consumption, his RPM, his oil pressure or whatever. So that gives a 3D visualization of the engine during flight and the possibility to find out what really your savings and fuel consumptions are. What were your power settings, what was the resulting fuel consumption that you had and he will also see the performance of the airplane together with the engine data and together optimize your behavior as a pilot in the airplane to save as much fuel as possible.
RFSC: That sounds amazing.
MS: It is. It is a new world.
RFSC: Where will pilots be able to purchase the Engine Management Unit?
MS: Good question. Pilots will be able to utilize the existing Rotax support network and all the independent Service Centres' will carry it.
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