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"Experience shifting raises all sorts of interesting questions about empathic design, where from an physiological-emotional perspective experience designers will literally be able put themselves in someone else's shoes.
What are the characteristics of the people whose experiences will define, well, the essence of the experience we wish to design for, to communicate? It can be anything from designing an out of the box experience to learning, knowing what it feels like to walk in a Sao Paulo subway station, the touch of a razor from a Chinese back street barber, and yes, will encompass sexual encounters.
In this world DRM boils down to removing experiences from human memory and the inevitable badly written DRM leaves its host as a vegetable.
A new profession will arise – people whose job it is to experience stuff, and who will be judged on their ability to capture the subtleties of any difference process, task or context. With a distinction between raw experiences and those enhanced though stimulants, or post production."
Sociology at Microsoft
Marc Smith, the senior research sociologist at Microsoft Research, believes that now is a good time to practice his trade. Thanks to the Internet, there is unprecedented access to sociological data. And thanks to computers, sociologists are better able to sift through that data, find trends, and test models.
At Microsoft, Smith uses public Internet data to look at the social phenomenon of online communities, and he tries to make them better for people and better for business.
He recently gave a presentation regarding his work at Microsoft's TechFest in Redmond, WA, an annual event at which Microsoft researchers from around the world share their latest work.
Technology Review caught up with Smith to ask him about the field of cybersociology.
MIT Media Lab Europe founder starts Distance Lab
The mission of the lab is to invent and commercialise new products and services that help to wipe out the disadvantages of distance in several key domains, including learning, health, knowledge, relationships and culture.
Distance Lab is a distributed research laboratory developed with the Scottish Highlands & Islands Enterprise that aspires to be at the international forefront of innovation in digital media technologies. Launched in January of this year, it has its first office at Horizon Scotland in Forres, near Inverness.
Commenting on the lab, chief executive Stefan Agamanolis said: "We have seen many examples of how digital media can help us overcome distance in the areas of learning and healthcare as well as in our everyday relationships with distant family members and friends. The job of Distance Lab is to take these technologies to a new level, focusing on design factors to make them much more usable and effective than they are now, and to enable new activities over a distance that weren't possible before."
One of the areas Distance Lab will explore is how digital media can be used to create new kinds of tourism experiences that, for example, take place in remote areas or that convey cultural heritage over a physical or temporal distance.
(thanks, Joëlle Bitton for this tip)
Canadian HOT Topics magazine on user experience
Marc Hassenzahl on User Experience
Marc Hassenzahl's research in the area of product evaluation has had him thinking about the relationship between pragmatic and hedonic qualities of products for years. In this interview he takes a broad look at the research in the area of user experience to explore the reasons people like products. While usability, an 'instrumental' quality, is without a doubt important, Hassenzahl considers 'non-instrumental' qualities such as hedonic aspects (stimulation, identification and evocation). Then, looking at the relationship between instrumental and non-instrumental qualities generally, he provides some unsight into how to potentially resolve the dilemma of whether instrumental qualities (e.g. usability) influence non-instrumental qualities (e.g. judgments of aesthetics) or vice versa. He concludes by providing a view on the multi-faceted ways to conduct research in this area.
Usability, Aesthetics, Emotions and the User Experience
Sascha Mahlke's research in the area of aesthetics, emotion and usability has led him to conduct a series of experiments to explore how people experience technology. While acknowledging the importance of usability, his research also addresses non-instrumental qualities (aesthetic and symbolic aspects) and emotional responses. In this article, Sascha reports on a series of studies he has conducted. In Study 1 using real products, he looks at whether usability assessment and aesthetic response correlate with the emotional response and overall judgment of a product. In Study 2, he reports on a controlled experiment that sought to reveal dependencies between usability, aesthetics, emotional response and overall judgment of a product. In Study 3 he explores the influence of context on various aspects of the user experience.
"Despite a lack of visible progress in catching up with Google, the leader in Internet search engines, Microsoft says it still believes that it will eventually turn the tables by improving the quality of its search results and by changing the way computer users search.
It is all part of an arms race for search supremacy that has engaged top researchers at both companies.
- During a morning session for more than 300 visitors at the Microsoft Conference Center, Lili Cheng, a user-interface designer for the Windows Vista operating system, showed off a new service called Mix that will allow Web surfers to organize search results and easily share them.
- A second tool demonstrated, called Web Assistant, is intended to improve the relevance of search results and help resolve ambiguities in results that, for example, would give a user sites for both Reggie Bush and George Bush. Among other things, the results can be refined based on records of earlier searches by thousands of others and the ways those users changed search terms when they did not get the results they were seeking.
- Susan Dumais, a veteran Microsoft search expert, has built a tool to help determine relevance called Personalized Search. It pulls together several hundred results and then compares them with the index that Windows users can build of the documents on their hard drives, a feature called Desktop Search."
People searching for online health advice favour sites with a human touch, research suggests [BBC]
Researchers found people use an initial weeding out process to deal with the minefield of health information of variable quality available.
However, this tends to mean they quickly eliminate most NHS and drug company websites, they said.
The study was funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council.
The researchers examined the internet search strategies of people who wanted to find specific health information on topics such as high blood pressure, the menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
New interface at the confessional
"The art being discussed is likely to be photography of genocide victims; the architecture, environmentally sustainable AIDS clinics; and the technology, water-purification systems."
Anderson, a wealthy former magazine publisher of British origin who founded Business 2.0, the Internet-age business magazine, took over the TED conference from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman, and "absolutely, completely, totally believes that those three days at TED can change the world" [these are the words of Steve Rosenbaum, a longtime TED participant and the chief executive of Magnify Media, a Web video company].
[TED gave me] "a sense of possibility, that people can reach beyond where they are and do things that are surprising," says Anderson.
Nice is that edited highlights from the conference presentations, called TED Talks, are available to watch online or to download for free – sponsored by BMW. And this after the BBC called the event "too intellectual".
"So far the talks have been viewed 5.5 million times by 2 million people."
Now they are creating — guess what — "a social networking system that will seek to be a sort of MySpace for the change-the-world crowd."
Design led futures
"Prototyping – whether conceptual or physical – makes for possible contextual scenarios in the foresight-sense to give rise to possible scenarios-of-use in the user centred design-sense. As such, in foresight activities these designs not only help to evoke more in-depth qualitative reflections from stakeholders, they can also give direct leads as to how to take up certain strategic challenges posed by the scenario, thereby co-creating new value(s).
In ways reminiscent of experimental projects by Philips Design as well as the EU research project Designing for Future Needs (see also here), and with a time horizon of about 10 years, industry partners and students at Victoria University of Wellington School of Design in New Zealand envisioned future solutions in an initiative titled Design Led Futures.
Professor Simon Fraser started it in order to challenge students "to step back from the constraints of daily practice, to look beyond the immediate product, to look at it in context, and to investigate the broader issues that surround it – human issues, issues of society, culture and behaviour – including emotional issues that are fundamental to industrial design as a discipline."
So far three projects have been concluded, in which the focus lay explicitly upon the overall experience rather than the mere object of design :
- Domestic Bliss: students were required to create a new understanding of the role that appliances (such as fridges, washing machines and cookers) might play in the architecture and culture of the home
- Inside-Out: project on the theme of outdoor living and the role that appliances might play in making this possible and pleasurable
- Energising Water: project to explore and create a new understanding of the base material of water by creatively applying existing or new, specifically developed technologies
Check out the fascinating concepts that students developed."
A Web site based in Britain, Zopa.com, and another in the United States, Prosper.com, have started businesses that connect individuals eager to borrow money to other people willing to lend, offering both sides better interest rates than banks.
Banking analysts suggest that these hyper-efficient operations, with few employees and no costly real estate, could force changes to established banks.
New USA Today website is all about social networking
"You can read a note from the editors about the redesign here and a breakdown of the new features here.
The key here is the social networking component. Users can create profiles that include personal information, blog entries, photos and a list of friends. These profiles are then linked to every time a user comment on articles.
The site also includes tons of other features such as tagging, voting on stories, RSS feeds, etc. The user interface includes a good dose of Ajax, which is smart. It will cut down on page views a bit but it creates a much better user experience.
In order to succeed online newspapers are going to have to build vibrant communities around their websites. With its new site, USA Today appears to be doing just that."
Or is this just another community oriented news site, as one of the commenter asks.
Nokia Research on new potentials for car sharing
There are 500+ million privately owned passenger cars worldwide, thereof 236 million in the US. These cars travel in the magnitude of 5 trillion km per year. Let's assume 2 empty seats per car and a small hypothetical value of only 5 cent per km and per seat, the potential value of empty travelling seats amounts to 500 billion €.
The memo points out that current low popularity of car pooling results from technical constraints rather than lack of attractiveness of ride-sharing as such, and explores how mobile communication services can cross-link supply and demand of these empty seats.
Download paper (pdf, 363 kb, 11 pages)
Mobile Communication – the social implications of mobile communication is a social network for mobile society researchers. The new site is focused on the academic analysis of mobile communication in society.
Members create their personal chat group, share photos and videos, post in a forum and are related to one another on the basis of their institutional affiliation or scientific background.
The network, hosted on Ning (which by the way is very slow), was created by Richard Ling, a sociologist at Telenor's research institute located near Oslo, Norway. It has currently 12 members.
What does this mean?
Are email groups things of the past? What is the real difference between email groups and these social networking sites, except that you can upload video and photos? Should Putting People First become a social networking site too? Or is it one already? Is there a need for a new social networking site?
(via Smart Mobs)
Social networking's next phase [The New York Times]
Next week Cisco Systems, a Silicon Valley heavyweight, plans to announce one of its most unusual deals: it is buying the technology assets of Tribe.net, a mostly forgotten social networking site, according to people close to the companies' discussions.
It is a curious pairing. Cisco, with 38,000 employees, makes networking equipment for telecommunications providers and other big companies. Tribe.net, run by a company with eight employees, has been trampled by newer social sites like MySpace and Facebook.
But along with the recent purchase of a social network design firm, Five Across, the deal will give Cisco the technology to help large corporate clients create services resembling MySpace or YouTube to bring their customers together online. And that ambition highlights a significant shift in the way companies and entrepreneurs are thinking about social networks.
They look at MySpace and Facebook, with their tens of millions of users, as walled-off destinations, similar to first-generation online services like America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy. These big Web sites attract masses of people who have dissimilar interests and, ultimately, little in common.
The new social networking players, which include Cisco and a multitude of start-ups like Ning, the latest venture of the Netscape co-creator Marc Andreessen, say that social networks will soon be as ubiquitous as regular Web sites. They are aiming to create tools to let ordinary people, large companies and even presidential candidates create social Web sites tailored for their own customers, friends, fans and employees.
Venture philanthropy fund uses design thinking and ethnography to help solve real-world problems [Business Week]
"Start with the individuals," says founder Jacqueline Novogratz. "Build systems from their perspective. Really pay attention, and then see if they can scale."
Under Novogratz's leadership, the New York-based fund manages $20 million in investments in companies that fall within three portfolios: health, water, and housing. It's not a lot of money compared with any of the traditional venture funds in Silicon Valley. But Acumen's goal is not to launch initial public offerings. Rather, Novogratz and her team are building prototypes for new business models that measure returns in social benefits as well as monetary rewards.
Observing customers to uncover their unmet needs, creating prototypes of new products and services for them, iterating and improving those until they work, looking for new business models—these are all the critical fundamentals of design that Acumen uses in its work. At a recent workshop given by Tim Brown, chief executive of the innovation consultancy IDEO, these same principles of design thinking were inculcated in eight Acumen Fellows, the young professionals the venture fund sponsors to work with its companies in Africa and Asia.
But to compete today, GE needs to focus on the human side of the equation, from ergonomics to emotions. And it needs to do that for cultures all around the world. For insight and inspiration, GE Healthcare recently turned to the undergraduate students of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., one of the world's top design schools. Consumer-product companies have long sponsored classes at Art Center, but this marked the first time GE Healthcare turned to students for ideas.
A participatory conference model at NESTA, London
NESTA, which stands for National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has beautiful well-equipped offices in the centre of London (no wonder, given their £ 350 million lottery-funded endowment), and is increasingly becoming a strategic player in informing the UK innovation policy, in part also due to the new leadership of Jonathan Kestenbaum (who was appointed chief executive of NESTA last November).
The event itself brought about a whole range of ideas (that you can read about here, here, here, here and here – and these are just a few). What I think was also really unique was the process itself.
NESTA organised this event "to learn from those people who have been at the forefront of the development of new participatory ways of working, those who have harnessed the network effects of emerging technologies of collaboration to create new business models, new products and services, to bring about culture change within organisations and disruptive innovation to their sectors."
So they brought about 150 people together for an afternoon. How do you manage a participatory conference? How do you get 150 people to exchange their ideas and learn from it in the process?
The solution they came up with involved the collaboration of Steve Moore of Policy Unplugged, who created a bottom-up process. Simply said, the afternoon was divided in two blocks, with six to seven people making a 3 minute pitch for a particular topic and then breaking out into discussion groups to deepen it. Both the pitches and the discussion groups were open: if you felt like it you could make your own pitch, you joined the discussion group that you liked, and in the discussion group you contributed or listened as you felt like.
This approach was based on the premise that 5% of the people speaking 90% of the time is not the best way to stimulate knowledge sharing and that we are in many ways all experts. In other words, it functioned like a live version of a web forum.
Mark's own group discussed the lack of a Europe-wide discourse on people-focused innovation (e.g. on experience design & innovation; sustainable & innovation; participation & innovation), with most of the discourse either being American or country-specific, and what can be done about it. Some good ideas came up and we are exploring a new online magazine on some best practices that he hopes to tell you more about soon. Any ideas and input are of course welcome.
The face of the $100 laptop [Business Week]
"The so-called $100 laptop that's being designed for school children in developing nations is known for its bright green and white plastic shell, its power-generating hand crank, and for Nicholas Negroponte, the technology futurist who dreamed it up and who tirelessly promotes it everywhere from Bangkok to Brasilia. What has not received much attention is the graphical user interface—the software that will be the face of the machine for the millions of children who will own it. In fact, the user interface, called Sugar, may turn out to be one of the more innovative aspects of a project that has already made breakthroughs in mesh networking and battery charging since Negroponte unveiled the concept two years ago.
Sugar offers a brand new approach to computing. Ever since the first Apple Macintosh was launched in 1984, the user interfaces of personal computers have been designed based on the same visual metaphor: the desktop. Sugar tosses out all of that like so much tattered baggage. Instead, an icon representing the individual occupies the center of the screen; "zoom" out like a telephoto lens and you see the user in relation to friends, and finally to all of the people in the village who are also on the network."


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My adventures in and near Deep Canyon, located near Palm Desert, CA and the pinyon mountains near it.
Monday, September 3, 2012
Highway 74 today~Our World Tuesday~090412
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What a view. It seems to go on forever.ReplyDelete
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as amended by
Made under section 59 of the Telecommunications Act 1986
1 Citation
2 Interpretation
3 Purpose
4 Requirement for a licence or permit
5 Secrecy of correspondence
6 Inspection
7 Copyright
8 Marking of apparatus
9 Amateur station licence or permit
10 Club station licence or permit
11 Temporary permit
12 Duration of licences and permits
13 Application for licence or permit
14 Renewal of licence
15 Revocation or suspension of licence or permit
16 Return of licence or permit and disposal of equipment
17 Keeping of licences, etc.
18 Certificates
19 Availability of certificate, licence or permit for inspection
20 Loss, etc. of certificate, licence or permit and issue of a duplicate
21 Practice to be observed by all operators and licensees
22 Harmful interference
23 General restrictions
24 Operation by permit holders
25 Authorization of special types of emission
26 Packet transmissions
27 Operation by an individual other than the licensee
28 Special restrictions applying to amateur mobile stations while outside Bermuda
29 Station identification
30 Log
31 Use of amateur stations
32 Emergency communications
33 Prohibited communications
34 Third Party communications
35 Access to stations
36 Operation on aircraft
37 Operation on British ships
38 Installation of an amateur radio station aboard ships or aircraft
39 Measurements
40 Type of radio apparatus
41 Spurious radiations
42 Frequencies, types of emission and power
43 Frequency control and measurement
44 Receiver
45 Antenna
46 False statement on application under regulation 9, 10, 11 or 18 an offence
47 Repeal
48 Commencement
1 Citation:
These Regulations may be cited as the Class Three Radio (Amateur Service) Regulations,
2 Interpretation:
(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
(2) In these Regulations or in any licence, permit or certificate granted thereunder where definitions or symbols are used, they shall bear the same meanings as in the international Radio Regulations unless otherwise provided in the Act or these Regulations.
3 Purpose:
These Regulations determine who may operate an amateur station and state the conditions
under which such a station may be possessed and used in accordance with the provisions of
the Act.
4 Requirement for a licence or permit:
Without derogating from the generality of section
9 of the Act a licence or permit or temporary permit is
required for the possession and use of an amateur station in Bermuda or the waters thereof
or on board an aircraft, British ship or a boat and no person
shall operate such station unless he holds such licence or permit.
5 Secrecy of correspondence:
If any message which the amateur radio or licensee is not entitled to receive is,
nevertheless, received by an amateur station, he shall not make known or allow to be made
known its contents, its origin or destination, its existence or the fact of its receipt to
any person (other than a duly authorised officer of the Government or a competent legal
tribunal) and shall not reproduce in writing, copy or make any use of such message or
allow the same to be reproduced in writing, recorded, copied or made use of.
6 Inspection:
(1) Every amateur station and all equipment subject to the licence or permit shall be
open for inspection, at any reasonable time, by the Telecommunications Inspector or by any
person appointed in writing by the Minister in that behalf.
(2) The log required by regulation 30, the amateur radio operator's licence or permit and any other information relating to the station shall be produced to the Telecommunications Inspector or to any other person appointed in writing by the Minister in that behalf when requested by either of them.
7 Copyright:
The licence or permit does not authorize the licensee to do any act which is an
infringement of any copyright which may exist in the matter transmitted.
8 Marking of apparatus:
A licensee who removes any transmitting apparatus of his amateur station from the
location the address of which is given in his licence or permit shall cause the number of
his licence or permit to be clearly inscribed, marked or embossed on such transmitting
apparatus in an easily visible place or attached thereto by means of a label.
9 Amateur station licence or
(1) A licence or permit to possess and use an amateur station may be issued by the
Minister to any individual who -
upon application in writing under regulation
(2) An amateur station shall have one location, the address of which shall appear in
the licence or permit.
10 Club station licence or permit:
(1) The Minister may issue to a bona fide amateur radio club or association a licence
to possess and use an amateur station (hereinafter called "the club station")
provided that such club or association designates one of its members as station trustee
and communicates his name and particulars in writing to the Minister. Such amateur station
may include an unmanned radio beacon or repeater station, to the operation of which the
Minister may attach special provisions and restrictions.
(2) A club station shall only be operated by an amateur radio operator.
(3) A bona fide amateur radio club or association shall be composed of at least five
persons three of whom must be licensed and must have a certificate of advanced class
issued or accepted by the Minister under regulation 18 and
shall have:
11 Temporary permit:
The Minister may issue on a temporary basis to an individual in Bermuda who holds a certificate of an advanced class issued by the Minister or a certificate recognized by him under regulation 18 as being of an equivalent or higher class, a permit whether for himself or for a bona fide amateur radio club or association granting temporary permission for the possession and use of an amateur station and may attach to the grant of the permit such conditions and restrictions as he may think fit.
12 Duration of licences and permits:
(1) A licence shall be for a duration of five years and may be renewed but on first
issuance a licence shall expire on the 30th of June of the following year.
(2) Permits shall be for a period of not more than six months.
13 Application for licence or permit:
An application for a licence or permit shall be made in writing to the Minister in such
form and giving such information as the Minister may determine.
14 Renewal of licence:
A licensee shall normally apply before the expiration of the licence for its renewal. In a case where a former licensee applies for renewal of his licence more than three years after its expiry the Minister may require fresh proof of proficiency under regulation 18.
15 Revocation or suspension of licence or permit:
In the event of revocation or suspension of a licence or permit under section 13 of the
Act [1986: No. 35] no part of any fee paid in respect of such
licence or permit shall be refunded.
16 Return of licence or permit and disposal of equipment:
(1) When a licence or permit is revoked or suspended or is superseded by a new licence
or permit or lapses and is not renewed, the Telecommunications Inspector may require that
the revoked, suspended, superseded or lapsed licence or permit, as the case may be, be
returned to him together with any letters authorizing additions or alterations to the
terms of such licence or permit.
(2) When a licence or permit is revoked or lapses and is not renewed, the licensee
shall inform the Telecommunications Inspector in writing within a reasonable time not to
exceed 30 days as to the manner in which the transmitting apparatus of the amateur station
(hereinafter referred to as "the unlicensed apparatus") has been disposed of.
(3) Upon the death of a licensee, his licence or permit shall lapse and his executors,
heirs or assigns shall within ninety days of his death inform the Telecommunications
Inspector as to the manner in which the unlicensed apparatus has been disposed of.
(4) Unlicensed apparatus shall be disposed of as follows -
17 Keeping of licences, etc.:
(1) The current licence or permit for each amateur station shall be kept at the
location of the station.
(2) A copy of the Act [1986: No. 35] and of any Regulations made
by the Minister for the amateur radio service shall be retained with the records of each
amateur station.
18 Certificates:
(1) The Telecommunications Inspector shall be an examiner under section 13(1)(c) of the
Act for the purpose of examining applicants for certificates.
(2) Any person wishing to be examined for a certificate shall apply to the
Telecommunications Inspector and may be admitted to an examination conducted by an
examiner or examiners on a date and at a time and place determined by the Minister.
(3) The following classes of certificates may be issued by the Minister -
(4) The Minister may accept a certificate equivalent to or higher than an advanced
class certificate issued by a recognized authority in another country as sufficient proof
of competency to operate an amateur station in Bermuda or on an aircraft
or British ship.
19 Availability of certificate, licence or permit for inspection:
Where an amateur station is at a location other than that specified in the licence or
permit the licensee shall, if necessary, and have twenty-four hours notice to make
certificates, licences and permits available for inspection by the Telecommunications
Inspector or by any person authorized in that behalf by the Minister or by a police
officer except when such certificate, licence or permit has been filed with application
for modification or renewal thereof, or has been mutilated, lost or destroyed, and a
request has been made for a duplicate certificate, licence or permit.
20 Loss, etc. of certificate, licence or permit and issue of a duplicate:
In the event of loss, mutilation or destruction of a certificate, licence or a permit
the licensee shall as soon as possible apply to the Telecommunications Inspector for the
issuance of a duplicate certificate, licence or permit.
21 Practice to be observed by all operators and licensees:
(1) An amateur radio operator or all licensee shall in the operation of a station in
the amateur radio service observe the relevant provisions of the Act
[1986: No. 35] and of any applicable regulations made by the Minister.
(2) In all respects not specifically covered by these Regulations each station in the
amateur radio service shall be operated in accordance with good engineering and good
amateur practice.
22 Harmful interference:
(1) A station in the amateur radio service shall be designed, constructed, maintained
and operated so as not to cause harmful interference.
(2) If a licensee causes or allows to be caused, harmful interference by the operation
of his station or there is good reason to believe that this is the case, he shall take all
reasonable steps, in collaboration if necessary with the party or parties affected, to
eliminate such interference, if any.
(3) When harmful interference occurs transmission shall at once be discontinued or
postponed by the amateur radio operator or licensee at the request of the
Telecommunications Inspector.
(4) The Minister shall have the right to prohibit, without compensation, the use of
transmitting apparatus in any particular area should this be necessary in his opinion for
the purpose of ensuring the interference-free operation of any other station, electronic
or electrical apparatus, or appliance.
(5) Before commencing transmission an amateur radio operator or a licensee shall listen
on the frequency which it is proposed to use to satisfy himself that his transmission on
such frequency at that time will not cause harmful interference.
23 General restrictions:
(1) A station in the amateur radio service shall be operated using frequencies, power,
types of emission or modes of transmission authorized by the Minister in the licence or
permit and in no other manner.
(2) Unless otherwise provided in the licence or permit, an amateur station shall not be
installed and operated for a duration in excess of thirty days at a location other than
that specified and defined in the licence or permit whether in Bermuda or outside its
limits, without the prior written authorization of the Telecommunications Inspector or a
prior change in the licence or permit agreed by the Minister.
24 Operation by permit holders:
The holder of a permit issued under regulation 11 shall operate an amateur station using only the call sign, radio frequencies, types of emission or modes of transmission and power that he is authorised to use in such permit.
25 Authorization of special types of emission:
The Minister may, on request, authorize a licensee to carry on special experimentation
with types of emission not authorised by the Minister in the licence or permit.
26 Packet transmissions:
A licensee may use the frequencies authorized in the licence or permit for packet
transmissions employing such types of emission, other than pulse modulation, as may be
selected by experimentation, on condition that the bandwidths prescribed by the Minister
are not exceeded.
27 Operation by an individual other than the licensee:
Notwithstanding that the licensee is at all times responsible for the operation of his
amateur station, he may:
28 Special restrictions applying to amateur mobile stations while outside Bermuda:
The licensee of an amateur station on a boat, or of an amateur aeronautical or maritime mobile station shall, while such
station is outside Region 2 as defined in the international Radio Regulations and outside
Bermuda the jurisdiction of any foreign government to restrict its operation to
frequencies in the bands 7.0 to 7.1 mHz, 14.00 to 14.35 mHz, 21.00 to 21.45 mHz and 28.00
to 29.70 mHz and any frequency above 30 mHz authorized for use by amateurs in either
Region 1 or Region 3, as the case may be, by the international Radio Regulations.
29 Station identification:
(1) An amateur radio operator or a licensee of an amateur station shall use the call
sign assigned to him and no other call sign -
Provided that where there is a series of short transmissions it is permissible to
transmit the call sign at intervals of no longer than ten minutes:
Provided further that the holder of a permit shall operate in accordance with regulation 24.
(2) The call sign referred to in paragraph (1) shall be transmitted -
(3) When an amateur station is being operated as an aeronautical or maritime mobile
station or on a boat outside the waters of Bermuda the licensee shall give in addition to
the normal call sign the following information when identifying -
30 Log:
(1) A licensee shall keep a record of all transmissions on frequencies below 30 mHz
made over the previous 3 years showing the following -
All times shall be stated in U.T.C.
(2) All entries shall be made at the time of transmitting and receiving.
31 Use of amateur stations:
(1) A licensee of an amateur station shall comply with the provisions of section 31 of
the Act [1986: No. 35] and shall ensure that -
(2) All communications regardless of the type of emission employed shall be in plain
language except that generally recognised abbreviations are permissible and any other
abbreviations or signals where the intent is not to obscure the meaning but only to
facilitate communications.
(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a licensee of an amateur station may -
(4) No licensee shall use an amateur station for -
(5) A licensee shall not receive any payment for the use of the amateur station or
allow the station to be controlled by or used for the purposes of any political
32 Emergency communications:
Where an emergency situation exists, a radio amateur operator of an amateur station may
use it to communicate any type of message for himself or on behalf of third parties, but
he shall not accept remuneration in any form in respect of any such communication.
33 Prohibited communications:
No licensee shall operate, or allow to be operated, his amateur station to communicate
with a similar station of a country that has notified the International Telecommunication
Union that it objects to such communications.
34 Third Party communications:
Subject to regulation 32, no licensee shall
operate, or allow to be operated, his amateur station to communicate a message on behalf
of a third party to or from a similar station of another country.
35 Access to stations:
The licensee of any amateur station shall not permit or allow any authorized person to
have access to the transmitting apparatus of the station. Each such apparatus shall be so
installed and protected that it is not accessible to or capable of operation by
individuals other than those duly authorized by and under the control of the licensee.
Provisions authorizing unattended operation of such apparatus in certain circumstances,
shall not be construed to change or diminish in any respect the responsibility of a
licensee to maintain control over the station (including all transmitter units thereof),
or for the proper functioning and operation of such a station and transmitter units in
accordance with the terms of the licence or permit of such station, the Act
and these Regulations.
36 Operation on aircraft:
(1) No person shall install or operate an amateur
aeronautical mobile station on an aircraft except as
authorized by the Minister pursuant to paragraph (2).
(2) The Minister may authorize the installation or operation of an amateur station on
an aircraft if -
37 Operation on British ships:
(1) No person shall install or operate an amateur
maritime mobile station on a British ship except as authorized by the Minister
pursuant to paragraph (2).
(2) The Minister may authorize the installation or operation of an amateur station on a
British ship if -
38 Installation of an amateur radio station aboard ships or aircraft:
In addition to complying with all other applicable laws and regulations, any amateur
station installed and operated aboard an aircraft or British ship
must comply with all of the following conditions:
39 Measurements:
(1) A licensee shall ensure that -
(2) No licensee shall use or permit to be used a "spark" sending apparatus in
his amateur station nor employ in such station unrectified alternating voltage in any
circumstances for the H.T. supply to the sending apparatus, and such licensee shall ensure
that the H.T. supply shall be so smoothed that the value of the residual ripple voltage
does not exceed 5 per cent of the D.C. voltage.
(3) A licensee shall ensure that when telegraphy is being used the arrangement employed
for "keying" the sender is such as to reduce to a minimum the risk of
interference due to any clicks being produced in neighbouring apparatus. Whenever, for any
reason, the carrier wave of the sender is being modulated by any system of modulation, a
licensee shall take care to avoid unwanted frequency modulation of the carrier frequency.
At all times a licensee shall take every precaution to prevent the radiation of energy at
frequencies other than those which are necessary for the type of emission in use.
40 Type of radio apparatus:
(1) A licensee shall ensure that his radio transmitting apparatus is of a type or
description that has been approved by the Minister for use in the amateur radio service.
(2) A licensee shall install an external radio frequency amplifier only:
Provided that the power of the transmitter shall not be increased to a level above that
imposed by the licence or permit; and
Provided further that sufficient measuring equipment to the satisfaction of the
Telecommunications Inspector is also installed to enable the licensee to ensure that no
harmful interference is caused by the installation of such amplifier.
41 Spurious radiations:
So as not to exceed the limits specified by the Minister, a licensee shall ensure that
the emissions shall be free from harmonics, hum key clicks and all forms of spurious
42 Frequencies, types of emission and power:
(1) A licensee shall ensure that -
(2) When so required by the Telecommunications Inspector, the licensee shall equip his
amateur station with a means approved by the Inspector for checking the frequency of the
emitted wave.
(3) If power for the working of an amateur station is taken from a public electricity
supply the licensee shall ensure that no direct connection is made between the supply
mains and the aerial.
43 Frequency control and measurement:
A licensee shall ensure that when in use, any transmitter in his amateur station shall
be tuned to a frequency within an authorized band, which frequency shall be so selected
and maintained that no appreciable energy is radiated on any frequency outside the limits
of the bandwidth and without the modulation applied, due allowance having been made for
the inaccuracy of the calibrating device. A licensee shall employ a satisfactory method of
frequency stabilization in such sending apparatus and shall ensure that his transmitting
apparatus is equipped with a reliable method of a type approved by the Minister for
measuring the sending frequency.
44 Receiver:
A licensee shall ensure that his amateur station shall always be equipped for the
reception of signals sent on frequencies in current use at the station at any time.
45 Antenna:
(1) An antenna which crosses above or is liable to fall upon or to be blown onto any
overhead utility wire or apparatus shall be guarded by the licensee of the amateur station
to the reasonable satisfaction of the owner of such utility wire or apparatus concerned.
(2) The issue of a licence or permit by the Minister shall not relieve the applicant of
the necessity of obtaining planning permission for the construction of any works,
buildings, antennae or other installations in accordance with the provisions of the
Development and Planning Act 1974 [1974: No. 5l] or any other relevant legislation
regarding land development and planning.
46 False statement on application under regulation 9, 10, 11 or 18 an offence:
Any person who willfully and knowingly makes in a written application for a licence or
permit under regulation 9, for a licence
for a club station under regulation 10, for
a temporary permit under regulation 11 for a certificate
under regulation 18, a statement that is false in a material
particular commits an offence:
Punishment on summary conviction: imprisonment for 6 months or a fine of $1,000 or both
such imprisonment and fine.
47 Repeal:
The provisions of the 'Wireless' Telegraphy (Licence) Regulations 1961 including the
Schedule, Form 3 that apply to examinations for, and the issuance of, operators licences
(certificates) to operate wireless telegraphy stations in Class 3, the issuance of
licences for, the allocation of frequencies for, the power and the operation of, stations
in the amateur radio service shall be revoked insofar as they concern such operators'
certificates, Class 3 stations and services and licences therefor.
48 Commencement:
These regulations shall come into force on the 1st day of July 1987.
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Have you been searching for Pheasant Tattoos with Tiffany Lakosky during October 2011?
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
I was doing some research this afternoon about our blog's traffic. Of particular interest to me were the terms folks used in search engines before landing at www.PheasantBlog.org or at www.QuailBlog.org. It may sound like a dry topic, but I've found the results both fascinating and hilarious . . . of course I've been called odd before.
Here's the list of key words that intrigued me:
- October 2011: I've gotta believe folks are in a perpetual search to find open days to hunt roosters this autumn because "October 2011″ is running away from the field as the most searched term.
- Pheasant Tattoos: Nothing says commitment like body ink. Take a look at the tat commitment of PF member Mark Garry for example.
- Chipmunks: As odd as it may seem, these little BB gun targets are crushing the search term field at www.QuailBlog.org. In fact, Andrew's "Open Apology to Chipmunks" is the most frequently visited QF blog of all time.
- Tiffany Lakosky: Turns out being an attractive, well-spoken, female hunter and Outdoor Channel personality can build up a following. The fact she's also the owner of the world shed dog hunting champion doesn't hurt her search engine results either.
- Bird Dog Names: I've sort of made a name for myself in PF's blogosphere as a dog name aficionado. I doubt that I deserve the distinction, but it is one of my favorite conversations amongst fellow hunters, members and dog owners.
- Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever: You may find this hard to believe, but of all the bird dog breeds out there, the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever is the most searched breed before landing at www.PheasantBlog.org. Is there a secret someone's not telling me?
- How to Hunt Pheasants without a Dog: Taking the cake as the most often searched phrase (rather than single word or term). It turns out there are a bunch of folks interested in bagging roosters, but lack the assistance of canine companionship. Check out my top tips to success as a dogless pheasant hunter.
What about you? Do you frequently visit our blog page or did a search engine term lead you here?
The Pointer is written by Bob St.Pierre, Pheasants Forever's Vice President of Marketing. Follow Bob on Twitter @BobStPierre.
Your Bird Dog Could Be a Shed Dog
Friday, May 6th, 2011
For upland hunters who also moonlight as deer hunters, the biggest drawback to pursuing the ungulates is the absence of perhaps the most appealing aspect of bird hunting – the dog. Enter shed hunting, an activity blending bird dogs and bucks, which may be just the ticket to get your bird dog out of its offseason training rut.
What Bird Dog Breeds Can Be Shed Dogs?
According to Tom Dokken, legendary dog trainer and owner of Dokken's Dog Supply, current shed dogs are mainly Labrador Retrievers. "The strongest breeds are the ones that are going to pick something up," Dokken says, alluding to Labs and Golden Retrievers.
But Dokken says most bird dogs can become well suited to shed hunting. "Really any dog that likes to play fetch can be a shed dog," he says. "Even pointing breeds, especially those with natural retrieving instincts like German shorthaired pointers and German wirehaired pointers, can find success."
Hunting Season Just Got Longer
When pheasant and quail dogs go bad, the most likely culprit is a shortage or complete lack of an offseason training regimen. "Quite frankly, a lot of people just drop the ball after hunting season," Dokken says, "Shed hunting is another way to get offseason activity, and one that's definitely different than what most bird dogs are used to."
Bird dogs can easily pick up shed hunting, and in short order, Dokken points out. "Think of it as an upland hunt, but for antlers," he says, "The dogs are using their hunting drive, their noses and working on retrieves, so it's really a way to extend the hunting season." That goes for the trainer, too. "It really feels like I'm going on a hunting trip," he said as he and his dogs prepare to head west to South Dakota in search of sheds this April.
Fortunately, quality shed hunting can be had almost anywhere these days, including suburbia, and isn't exclusive to just whitetail deer antlers – bird dogs can also retrieve mule deer, elk and moose sheds.
Will Shed Hunting Ruin My Bird Dog?
In a word, "No," Dokken says. "Hunting for sheds doesn't mess up a bird dog, there just isn't that competition between birds and sheds," Dokken adds, "The antler can never take the place of a living, breathing, good-smelling and exciting live bird." As easily as bird dogs can pick up shed hunting, the transition back to doing what they do best, hunting birds, is just as seamless.
Shedding Started
While places to hunt abound, the most important element is, as with all things dog training, finding the time. "It's not something you need to train your dog for years to do," Dokken says, "It's simple stuff you can do at home." While Dokken runs a 12-16 week shed dog training course (www.dokkensoakridgekennels.com), he's seen dogs pick it up in a matter of weeks.
Dokken recommends starting with a simple game of fetch, tossing the antler around the house, then the backyard, letting the dog have fun picking it up and brining it back to you. "Take a command word and work it in, but make sure it's not a word you emphasize for other commands," he says. His preferred command is "find the bone."
To a bird dog, a hard shed antler, unlike a soft, well-scented pheasant, typically takes some warming to. Dokken, who doesn't use treats when training dogs for upland birds or waterfowl, does use them for shed training. "A treat let's the dog know it's worth picking up," he says.
One caveat as you increase the number of sheds you're hiding around the house or backyard is the scent from your own hands. "At first, dogs will key on to sheds because of the scent from your hands. You'll eventually need to eliminate that scent using rubber gloves and boots when you place the sheds."
Fast Growing Dog Sport
Dokken has hosted the World Shed Dog Hunting championship at his Oak Ridge Kennels in Northfield, Minnesota. Of the participating dogs to date, Dokken said 80 percent were "bird dogs." The amateur and junior divisions at the firstiever event were won by Lee Lakosky (from The Crush on Outdoor Channel) and his Lab, Tank.
With arguably the two most popular outdoor personalities – Lee and his wife Tiffany Lakosky – into shed hunting dogs, the profile of the sport continues to grow. Dokken has started the North American Shed Hunting Dog Association, and a special shed dog trainer website (www.sheddogtrainer.com) devoted to the sport. He fully expects more shed dogs and their owners out in March and April in coming years as bird dog owners see the value of having a different kind of dual purpose dog. "For bird dogs, there really isn't a downside to shed hunting, it's all upside."
Lee & Tiffany, owners of two Labrador retrievers and past National Shed Dog Hunting Champions, will teach attendees at Pheasants Forever's National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic how to use their bird dogs to hunt whitetail deer antler sheds. National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic presented by MidwayUSA will take place at downtown Milwaukee's Wisconsin Center on February 14, 15 & 16, 2014.
Anthony's Antics Afield is written by Anthony Hauck, Pheasants Forever's Online Editor. Email Anthony at email@example.com follow him on Twitter @AnthonyHauckPF.


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Brunner Brief Bio
Jennifer Brunner served as a twice-elected state trial court Judge of the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County (Columbus, Ohio) from 2000 – 2005. She was elected Secretary of State of Ohio in 2006, serving from 2007 – 2011. She is the founding partner of Brunner Quinn law firm, having launched it as a sole practitioner in 1988 as the state's first law practice focused on election law. Jennifer Brunner managed the firm while caring for three small children, while Rick Brunner, her husband and fellow attorney, handled complex, multi-state litigation for another law firm. After four years, he joined her, and the firm became Brunner & Brunner. Over the years, the firm has grown to encompass a strong litigation and business practice, along with consumer, government, election and campaign finance law practices, criminal appeals, expungements and actions for persons wrongfully convicted.
Brunner has been engaged from 2012 to 2014 as a USAID-funded technical expert on rule of law in the Republic of Serbia, where she assisted the Serbian government on matters of anti-corruption and judicial reform. She served as an international election observer in the Arab Republic of Egypt during the country's constitutional referendum and presidential elections in 2014.
Jennifer Brunner completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology with emphasis in Gerontology, cum laude, at Miami University in 1978, graduating after three years and a summer. She earned a J.D. from Capital University Law School with honors, having her first child during law school while working full and part time. Jennifer Brunner is admitted to practice in the State of Ohio and in the U.S. District Courts of the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
During her years in private practice (from 1987-2000, 2005-2007 and 2011 to the present), Jennifer served as general counsel to a computer firm and several Ohio trade associations. She represented clients before the Ohio legislature and state agencies and served as campaign finance counsel for numerous state and local labor unions, corporations, national and state associations, candidates, and political action committees on state and federal election law. Her experience includes representation of developers and neighborhood groups on zoning, referendum and initiative issues. She previously served as the administrative partner of the firm.
While sitting as a trial court judge, Jennifer Brunner presided over civil and criminal felony trials, including death penalty cases. She founded the county's adult felony drug court, known as the TIES (Treatment is Essential to Success) Program, and permitted jurors to take notes and ask questions, a practice affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court and adopted in state court rules.
As an attorney, Jennifer Brunner holds litigation and administrative law experience in matters of state and local public contract issues, corporate and contract matters, ethics and election law, liquor and local option law and zoning law. Her experience includes representing clients before federal, state and local agencies, boards and commissions and trial and appellate litigation practice in numerous counties in Ohio, in the Northern and Southern U.S. District Courts of Ohio and in the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the American, Ohio State, and Columbus Bar Associations and has achieved Fellow status in each of these three professional organizations.
Brunner holds public sector experience in all three branches of government in Ohio and Franklin County. In addition to her judicial experience, she served on the staff of the Ohio Senate in the late 1970′s, as an attorney in the Ohio Secretary of State's office from 1983-1987 and as a member of the Franklin County Board of Elections in the 1990′s. She is the first woman to be elected Secretary of State in Ohio and the fifth woman elected to statewide executive office in her own right in the history of the state. In 2008 she was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award by the bipartisan John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the nation's most prestigious award for elected public servants, for her work as Ohio's 52nd Secretary of State.
Jennifer Brunner values public service and civic involvement. She currently serves public appointments on the boards of the Central Ohio Transit Authority and the Counselor, Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist Board. She has been appointed to government positions by both Democrats and Republicans. In the private sector Brunner serves on the Legacy Fund of the Columbus Foundation, Progress Ohio Education (501c(3)) and the Center for Community Solutions in Cleveland, Ohio. Jennifer Brunner is running for the Tenth District Court of Appeals in order to serve her community as a judge; she understands the unique role of the tenth district among the state's appellate courts because of its oversight of state government actions, located in Columbus, the state's capital. Brunner's qualifications offer Franklin County and the State of Ohio exceptional, integrated judicial and state government experience.
Jennifer Brunner is the mother of three grown children and a grandmother. She resides in Columbus, Ohio with her husband of 36 years, Rick Brunner, along with two rescue dogs and a cat. She grew up in Columbus, attending and graduating with honors from Columbus Public Schools.
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Kay Jewelers – Leo Diamond and Tolkowsky Diamond Review
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Kay Jewelers began in 1916 when two brothers, Sol and Edmund Kaufmann started their humble jewelry business in the corner of their father's furniture store. Today's Kay Jewelers is a far cry from the family owned small business it used to be. Kay Jewelers is now a division of the subsidiary company Sterling Jewelers and operates as the number one mall-store brand for jewelry in the United States. Sterling is the largest specialty fine jewelry company in the United States and operates well known brands including: Jared's, JB Robinson, Marks & Morgan, Belden Jewelers and many others. These are all wholly subsidized by their parent company Signet Jewelers headquartered in the UK.
Kay Jewelers – The Leo Diamond Graded By GSI (What's That?)
Kay Jewelers sells both loose diamonds as well as pre-set diamond engagement rings. Their Leo Diamond is their signature brand and is offered with a GSI diamond grading report. GSI is a relatively unknown diamond grading lab and has very little strength in the diamond industry. Most jewelers prefer to work with diamonds that have been graded by either GIA or AGS in America.
Just because the Leo diamond boasts itself as, "The first diamond ever independently and individually certified to be brighter", doesn't necessarily make it true. The reason they can say this is due to their partnership with with GemEx Systems which is the developer of the BrillianceScope. The BrillianceScope is a selling tool that claims to measure light returned to the observer (aka a diamond's brilliance). However, many online diamond vendors that are known for their highly ethical diamond selling reputation don't put much clout into the BrillianceScope's findings. Whiteflash.com for example has written extensively as to why they choose not to give this tool much merit.
Leo Diamond – 66 Total Facets (8 More Than The Standard Tolkowsky Cut)
The Leo Diamond is actually considered a modified round brilliant cut diamond; meaning it has more facets than the traditional 58 facet round brilliant as originally designed by Tolkowsky. It was in 1999, that Leo Schachter (2nd generation diamond polisher) branded his 66 facet round brilliant the "Leo Diamond". The extra 8 facets are found in the pavilion (lower half) of the diamond. This is significant because Leo Diamonds are only sold at select stores and are accompanied by GSI diamond grading reports. This makes it extremely difficult to accurately compare a normal 58 facet round brilliant with a standard GIA or AGS grading report to a Leo Diamond because these diamonds are not a true apples to apples comparison.
Just because these diamonds are all branded "Leo Diamonds" does not mean that these diamonds will have the same cut quality. Some Leo diamonds have better cut quality than others. The Leo diamond is also priced higher than the traditional 58 facet round brilliant diamonds because the competition is less (not many stores carry this diamond brand, thus they can justify higher pricing).
The Only Way To Judge A Diamond: By It's CUT
For example, if we were to evaluate a random .69ct H SI1 Leo Diamond from Kay Jewelers this is what we'd find:
The above diamond can be compared to another .618ct H SI diamond from Whiteflash.
There are two obvious differences between these diamonds. First, the cut is obviously not the same quality. The Whiteflash diamond is far superior in it's brilliance as proved through it's ASET image found above. (For more information on what an ASET image is, please click here). The second obvious difference is the price. Why is the Leo Diamond priced more than 40% more than the Whiteflash diamond? Again, we go back to the fact that the Leo Diamond is a branded diamond with 66 total facets and is sold through only select stores. This makes them appear more "rare" and therefore the price is justified at being more expensive. However, the question is, do you think this diamond is worth it? Diamond education is very important, especially when you are investing several thousand dollars in a lifelong commitment.
Kay Jewelers – The Tolkowsky Diamond
Kay Jewelers also offers diamonds that are branded Tolkowsky ideal diamonds. Tolkowsky diamonds are branded diamonds from Jean-Paul Tolkowsky (son of legendary diamond cutter Gabi Tolkowsky). Jean Paul owns Execlo which is based in Antwerp, Belgium. These diamonds are primarily cut in Thailand and Botswana and are all IGI certified.
Again, let's pull a random .70ct I SI1 Ideal Cut Tolkowsky diamond from Kay's online inventory and take a look at what is being offered:
Again, we pull another diamond from Whiteflash to compare. Here is a randomly pulled .704ct I SI1:
Once again we see a clear example of diamonds that aren't the best cut quality at Kay, but yet are selling at 55% more than the lesser known competition. When it comes to diamonds, be sure to evaluate based on cut parameters and light reflection. These are the only true ways to ensure that your diamond will reflect the maximum amount of light and shine brilliantly.
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barrelSyllabification: bar·rel
Pronunciation: /ˈberəl /
Definition of barrel in English:
1A cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops around them.
Example sentences
- Transfer to a wooden barrel or similar container and leave to cool down to a temperature of around 16 degrees Celsius.
- Use what you have - rocks, broken-up concrete, logs, old metal barrels or even sawhorses.
- There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage.
1.1A barrel together with its contents: a barrel of beer
More example sentences
- Clooney struts around grizzled, looking like he had just bathed in a barrel of trout entrails.
- The rule of thumb is that every $10 per barrel increase in the price of a barrel of oil shaves half a percentage point off of GDP growth.
- When the euro and the dollar were at about parity, and oil was selling for $40 a barrel, it took €40 to buy a barrel of oil.
1.2A measure of capacity used for oil and beer. It is usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 192 liters) for oil.
Example sentences
- Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer.
- The tanker Jessica - carrying some 7700 barrels of fuel - ran aground on Tuesday.
- By 1911 the Moturoa oilfield had three wells producing around 110 barrels of oil a week.
2A tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen.
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- They are the Mom and Dad and kids walking to work or school while looking for a gun barrel pointed at them from a white van.
- On the shallow side of the bridge we found the C gun turret, its barrel pointed slightly down towards the deck.
- The Rakais warrior brought the heavy barrel of the rail gun to bear on the armor not more than a hundred meters from his position and pressed a small switch on the weapon's handle.
3The belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse.
Example sentences
- When it slides off the wither down to mid back, the girth is no longer at the barrel of the horse.
- Some of us took that moment to stuff Pop-Tarts left from breakfast into the barrel of the wooden horse's belly.
- His long legs stretched well past her barrel which hampered her a bit, but Myrick was an well done rider and did his best to make her journey smooth.
verb (barrels, barreling, barreled ; British barrels, barrelling, barrelled)Back to top
1 [no object] informal , chiefly North American Drive or move fast, often heedless of surroundings or conditions: we barreled across the Everglades barreling along the Ventura freeway
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- The idea would have been appealing, had we not been traveling at 65 mph on the highway, with tractor-trailers barreling along beside us.
- They were barreling along much like monkeys, swinging their legs forward then their arms, hissing and screeching the entire time.
- The driver lost control and barrelled off the road narrowly missing one of the other jeeps as he did.
charge, plow, stampede, rush, go headlong;
2 [with object] Put into a barrel or barrels.
Example sentences
- Barreling your beer is much less messy and time-consuming than using bottles.
- The natural pressure will build up during the secondary fermentation, caused by the addition of priming sugar and barreling the beer before the yeast has died.
- All waste oil is barreled for pick up by a waste oil burning company.
Middle English: from Old French baril, from medieval Latin barriclus 'small cask'.
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a barrel of laughs
- [often with negative] informal A source of fun or amusement: life is not exactly a barrel of laughs at the momentMore example sentences
- Can she really believe that Julius Caesar is a barrel of laughs?
- An event that has raised more than £2,000 for breast cancer was a barrel of laughs on Saturday.
- Chuck (played with masterful restraint by Peter Sarsgaard) is a paternal authority figure and not a barrel of laughs.
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- (Of payment) without delay: I gotta be paid cash on the barrelMore example sentences
- Adam knew his father always liked to pay up front for his purchases, always called it 'cash on the barrel.'
- So Moron gets the bright idea that instead of taking out a loan from Venezuela, we will pay cash on the barrel but ask for a reduction in the price.
- Why not just hand out talking points to these guys instead of cash on the barrel?
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over a barrel
- informal In a helpless position; at someone's mercy.Example sentences
- Opec, the powerful consortium of the world's oil-producing countries, meets in Vienna today, and they have us over a barrel as the oil price hits $35.
- 'I felt I was being held over a barrel - I did not have time to find anywhere else, so it was that or nothing,' said Wilkins, her rent now £2,003 a month.
- The award also upped his asking price, supposes Broadbent, 'although, if you're intent upon doing good work, producers know they have you over a barrel.'
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with both barrels
- informal With unrestrained force or emotion.Example sentences
- Don Henley lets the music industry have it with both barrels in a Washington Post editorial: When I started in the music business, music was important and vital to our culture.
- By this time both Patsy and Desmond were dead, but the oldest of their grieving children, Cassandra, let fly with both barrels at Rantzen's 'cruel and vicious account'.
- Dan McNutt, underwhelmed by the grovelling that has occurred recently regarding certain sports 'heroes', lets fly with both barrels again.
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