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THERE HE GOES AGAINLouisiana Governor and potential presidential candidate Bobby Jindal released a forty-two-page education-reform proposal urging lawmakers to repeal Common Core on grounds of federal intrusion. Fordham's Michael Brickman doesn't think Jindal's Common Core claims pass the sniff test, but notes that other policies outlined in the proposal, such as ramped-up school choice and charter school efforts, are worth discussing.WE'LL VOUCH FOR THATAs the 2016 election crunch approaches, Republicans may be able to put the national spotlight on school vouchers. Though past attempts to expand the voucher program have met with opposition, GOP leaders hope to broaden the school-choice conversation by making it a central issue in the party's platform. And as our own Chester E. Finn Jr. reports, some high-profile Democrats are finally willing to play ball.
ACROSS THE DIVIDENPR offers a poignant look at the vast, if predictable, disparities in college-advising services between Michigan's tony Cranbrook Schools and an under-funded public school in northeast Detroit. One activist admits resignedly that "your ZIP code can really determine what your future will look like."EDUCATION SPOTLIGHT: INDIANAPolitical junkies and ed-reform observers are turning their attention to Indiana, where embattled State Superintendent Glenda Ritz is facing legislative action that may ensure that she loses her position as schools' chief. The dramatic vote in the state House of Representatives is the culmination of a long power struggle between Ritz and Governor Mike Pence—one that...
Recent days have brought several thoughtful commentaries on results-based accountability in K-12 education, why it's important, what it's accomplished and why it needs to continue.
Such attention is exceptionally timely, as the negotiations presently underway between Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray in pursuit of a bipartisan formula for reauthorizing No Child Left Behind will inevitably devote much attention to the issues surrounding school (and teacher) accountability.
Like Mike Petrilli, I'm convinced that this can no longer be managed from Washington. Like Mike, I'm also convinced that accountability for results in K–12 education must continue. Losing it would carry us back to the pre-Coleman era when schools were judged not by their results but by their inputs, promises, and services, and teachers were evaluated by brief classroom visits from supervisors who arrived with no data, no rubrics—and no ability to do anything about problematic instructors. (Alas, that last shortage remains the norm, as does the practice of finding just about every teacher satisfactory, if not outstanding.)
The only thing that really matters about a school (or teacher)—beyond such basics as children's safety—is whether kids are learning there. If they're not, something must be done to change the situation.
But that's where the soup thickens. What, exactly, to do? The drafters of NCLB thought they knew, and accordingly imposed a cascade of sanctions, plans, and interventions intended to "turn around" failing schools (and districts), as well as some choice-based actions intended to give kids alternatives to such schools. They...
TFA TROUBLETeach For America's slipping numbers continue as they experience their second year of diminishing applicant numbers. The group says the appeal of an improving job market is to blame, while some aspiring teachers have deep concern with TFA's two-year long model. Perhaps played down in the article is a shift to diversify cohorts of teachers, which could also be a factor in diminishing numbers.LOOKING FOR MIDDLE GROUNDSenators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray are reportedly putting their heads together to create a bipartisan proposal for ESEA renewal. Yet there is much skepticism as to whether a fully collaborative bill will be produced; last week, Lamar Alexander said that an NCLB update didn't necessarily have to start with a bipartisan product. When the Senate Education Committee passed a bill in 2013, not one Republican voted for it.
HEASTIE FROM THE BLOCKBronx legislator Carl Heastie has been elected to replace the recently resigned Sheldon Silver as speaker of the New York State Assembly, granting him the power to decide which bills are considered and which aspects of the state budget are negotiated. His (relatively quiet) views on education will be important for the more than one million students that are part of the New York City school system and the $8 billion annually set aside in the budget. What do we know about Heastie so far? His policy plans align somewhat with union priorities, he's pro-charter, and he will bring overdue...
THE SWEET SMELL OF CREEPING DISILLUSIONMENTThe older students get, the more pessimistic (or perhaps realistic) they become regarding their future job prospects, according to this Gallup Student Poll. While 68 percent of fifth graders strongly agreed with the statement, "I know I will find a good job after I graduate," only 48 percent of twelfth graders expressed the same sentiment. Whether this is a reflection of the rough young adult job market or a simple loss of youthful optimism, schools are increasing focus on their students' college and career readiness.STATE YOUR BUSINESSSenator Lamar Alexander has indicated his leaning towards keeping federal testing requirements in the new ESEA bill, but giving states the freedom to choose how they use it to hold their schools accountable. Michael Petrilli says it well: "States should continue to experiment with various interventions in low-performing schools. But let's admit that we don't know precisely what that should look like, and thus we definitely shouldn't prescribe a particular approach from Washington."
CAP'S OFFWisconsin Governor Scott Walker unveiled his proposal for the 2015-17 education budget, with plans to extend voucher participation beyond the thousand-student cap and increase accountability through revised school report cards. The charter school sector can also expect to see an additional $4 million in funding, to be put towards the creation of a state board charged with the approval of new school authorizers.TREASURE MAPBecause the people demanded it: Education Week has assembled...
It's fascinating—and telling—how rapidly the zillion issues tucked away in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act have been distilled down to arguments about testing.
There's been almost no discussion, at least in places where I look, about Titles II through X of the 2002 (NCLB) version, and most of Title I's myriad provisions seem also to have been set aside while people argue over the future of annual testing.
The new House bill would retain that requirement, and Senate Education Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, though declaring himself open-minded on the subject, seems to be moving closer toward keeping it.
Testing is of course controversial in its own right. Many people think there's too much of it and that it's getting in the way of teaching and learning. I've come to view annual testing of kids in reading and math, and the disaggregating and public reporting of their performance at the school (and district) level, as the single best feature of NCLB and the one that most needs preserving. Indeed, I wish the testing requirement extended below third grade and above eighth, and that it was as demanding for science and history as for reading and math. That, I believe, would do a world of good for K–12 education.
But I also know that's lunacy. Nobody is about to expand the testing requirement. The real-world argument is whether to preserve what's already there. But the reason it's controversial is not because of parental upset with...
Over the last couple of months, the ESEA reauthorization discussion has focused on testing. But that's just one part of the accountability conversation.
As I see it, there are four major components of the federal accountability framework: testing, school and district designations, performance targets, and interventions (more on these below). Whether ESEA is reauthorized this year depends on how these sub-issues get resolved.
Mike, trying to forecast the shape of a final bill, recently created a very helpful table explaining the NCLB policies that he assessed to be totally off the table, certain to survive, or up for debate. I think his table did a solid job of explaining the lay of the land.
But it seems to me that more is needed to help folks with a higher level of involvement, such as those actually crafting the new legislative language, advising members of Congress, hoping to persuade decision-makers from the outside, or trying to understand the inevitable bargains to be made.
I think the shortcoming of Mike's table is that its entries (like "cascade of sanctions" and "school ratings") aren't binary; that is, they can't be answered with a simple "yes" or "no." Policymaking in general, especially complex congressional negotiations, requires (and has a way of finding) compromises.
Each of the four accountability components listed above encompasses a range of options. On one end of the spectrum is no federal accountability; on the other end is forceful accountability. Between lie an array of possibilities.
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Imagine you are a first-year social studies teacher in a low-performing urban high school. You are hired on Thursday and expected to teach three different courses starting Monday. For the first two weeks, you barely eat or sleep, and you lose fifteen pounds you didn't know were yours to lose. For the first two months, your every waking minute is consumed by lesson prep and the intense anxiety associated with trying to manage students whose conception of "school" is foreign to you. But you survive the first semester (as many have done) because you have to and because these kids depend on you. You think you are through the worst of it. You begin to believe that you can do this. Then, the second semester begins…
Your sixth-period class is a nightmare, full of students with behavior problems that would challenge any teacher. But as hard as sixth period is, your third-period class is the most frustrating and depressing, because (for reasons only they are privy to) the Powers That Be have seen fit to place every type of student imaginable into the same classroom: seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen, kids with behavior issues, kids with attention issues, kids with senioritis, kids who have taken the class before and passed it but are taking it again because the registrar's office is incompetent. And, of course, a few kind, sweet, innocent kids. Who. Cannot. Read.
This is impossible.
Or so you tell the Powers That Be. Your seniors can do...
FILL 'ER UPThe Wall Street Journal features an op-ed by Princess Lyles and Dan Clark, the executive director and lead organizer of the New York school-choice group Democracy Builders, laying out the case for "backfilling." The term refers to the practice of filling new vacant charter seats as they become available, rather than at set enrollment periods. Though the authors convincingly depict the challenges faced by thousands of parents fighting over a limited number of spaces, Fordham's Mike Petrilli retorts that backfilling can hinder the development of a coherent school culture and disrupt the learning of students who stay continuously enrolled in charters.DEBATE TEAMIn light of the ongoing Senate effort to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Room for Debate blog at the New York Times has gathered some prominent voices to give differing interpretations of what it might mean to "fix" the law. Of course, Fordham's Michael Petrilli has already detailed what form reauthorization is likely to take.
OHIO UPDATEOhio Governor John Kasich has revealed a new education budget proposing a $700 million uptick in statewide funding. Early childhood care and private school vouchers will receive a sizable chunk of the allowance, along with reform efforts for Ohio's charter sector. Fordham's Chad Aldis calls the governor's proposal, which would give charters more facility funding but hold sponsors to a higher level of accountability, an "innovative, bipartisan movement."TFA TBDAfter thirteen years of rapid expansion, the organizational fabric of Teach for America may be ...
2009 it ain't.
Back in those heady days, the new president, fresh off a comfortable electoral victory and with congressional majorities as far as the eye could see, had the power to drive the agenda. Though Capitol Hill's budget process was broken, with the electorate behind him and congressional allies to spare, President Obama's budget submission had to be taken seriously.
Today, the president possesses platinum-level lame-duck status. He's in the homestretch of his tenure, his approval rating hasn't hit 50 percent in nearly two years, and Republicans have significant congressional majorities.
It is through this lens that we should view the Obama administration's FY2016 budget request, released yesterday. Given today's political conditions, the education request is actually quite savvy. It retreats where necessary, digs in where possible, and has an eye on history. There are plenty of good summaries of the education request as a whole and descriptions of specific line items. But here's how I'm seeing the ask:
For six years, the Obama administration, breaking with generations of practice, gave every indication that it saw few limits to the role of the federal government in primary and secondary schooling. The chickens have come home to roost.
There's now widespread resistance to many of its initiatives, especially to ESEA waivers. Per the zeitgeist, Congress is eager to take aim at one of the administration's favorite budget categories: competitive grant programs. Once broadly seen as a valuable tool...
In today's Wall Street Journal, Princess Lyles and Dan Clark, the executive director and lead organizer of the school-choice group Democracy Builders, argue that states and/or authorizers should require charter schools to "back-fill" their "empty seats" when they lose students to attrition. This is a terrible idea.
Their argument in favor of requiring charters to backfill is twofold. First, they say it's unfair to compare schools that backfill to those that don't, because those that don't (like Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies*) almost certainly end up with a more motivated, higher-performing population over time as weaker, less engaged students depart for less challenging environments. It's especially unfair, they say, if the comparisons are made on proficiency rates—the percentage of students passing state tests—instead of individual student growth. (I agree that such comparisons are unfair. More on that below.)
Second, they argue that, by not backfilling seats, schools like Success Academy are limiting opportunity. As a result of this policy, parents only have a shot at getting their kids into schools at designated entry points (like kindergarten or sixth grade). If families lose the charter school lottery for those specific grades, they are out of luck forever.
It's a reasonable point, and I respect schools like Democracy Prep that welcome in students at any grade when space opens up. But whether to do this should remain the prerogative of the school, not the state or its regulators.
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Dr. William N. White II graduated from the Marshall University Edwards School of Medicine in 1989. He works in Dansville, NY and 3 other locations and specializes in Ophthalmology. Dr. White II is affiliated with Nicholas H Noyes Memorial Hospital, United Memorial Medical Center and Wyoming County Community Hospital. He speaks English and Korean.
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Candidiasis (Thrush)... What Is Thrush? Can It Be Prevented? How Is It Treated? Natural Therapies The Bottom Line What Is Thrush? Candidiasis is a common opportunistic infection in people with HIV. It is an infection caused by a common type of yeast
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By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: May 11, 2004
WASHINGTON, May 10— President Bush will be going to three college commencements in coming weeks -- but not those of his twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.
Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, said they did not want to subject other families to the disruptions of a presidential visit when Barbara Bush graduates from Yale University on May 24 in New Haven and Jenna Bush graduates from the University of Texas on May 22 in Austin.
Mr. Bush turned down an invitation to speak at the Texas ceremony. But he will give a commencement address at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and at Concordia University in Mequon, Wis.
Gordon Johndroe, the first lady's press secretary, said on Monday that the president and Mrs. Bush would mark their daughters' commencements in a different way.
''The family will celebrate the girls' graduations, and when we get closer to the date we'll be able to release more information,'' Mr. Johndroe said.
Officially, Yale had no comment on the plans of Mr. Bush, a 1968 graduate who also received an honorary degree there in 2001, when he delivered a short address at commencement. ''This was a White House decision,'' said Helaine Klasky, Yale's spokeswoman.
But faculty members, noting that protesters had interrupted the president's remarks at Yale in 2001, said that he would most likely have faced demonstrations on the campus because of the war in Iraq.
''Protests would surely have been inevitable,'' said Robert W. Gordon, a Yale Law School professor and a critic of Mr. Bush. ''The administration is not terrifically well regarded on this campus by most people, and the management of the war in Iraq is causing enormous concern.''
Officials at the University of Texas had also expected protests. ''It was something we would have anticipated and obviously prepared for,'' said Don Hale, the university's vice president for public affairs.
The commencement speaker at Texas will be Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans. Yale does not usually have a major commencement address, but the speaker for Class Day will be Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker.


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Update on me, the baby, the house.....
Hello ponding friends!
I haven't been around much due to the past 3 mos. of bedrest, among other things. I was out at the pond last night and was thinking of you all. Hope you are enjoying the Spring and having a good 'ol time. I am totally lost, but see that someone got a bench???? I can't wait to hear more about that. And pics, please.
I am still pregnant, and my due date is tomorrow. I have an induction date scheduled for next week, but i'm hoping the little fella' decides to make his way out sooner. Everything is going well at this point, but the baby is getting large and needs to come on out. : )
We just finished the roof work on our new house and we have our window delivery coming today. This is just wonderful for my DH....he has been working so hard and is glad to have the framing complete. I'll attach a link to a thread I just posted over on the "Building a Home" forum if you care to see any pics.
I still don't know when we will get to a point when I can move the fish. I don't have a sight picked out for the new pond yet, so it will be a while.
Well, time to get back outside and start doing something in the gardens. I need to get this labor started......
Have a great day,
~Dawn (mamabirrd)
Here is a link that might be useful: Our house construction progress & pics
Hi Dawn! Wishing you and your family all the best. You have done so much and with a new baby coming too! - where do you find the energy! It will be nice to have the baby on the outside! Take care and remember us for more photos when you feel up to it. -Susan
Huddle up Mamabirrd!!! This is it.... the much anticipated two minute warning. For the immediate near future, you are Dermontti Dawson... the awesome center for our beloved Pittsburgh Steelers. Your doctor, of course, is the field general... the QB. All you have to do is snap, toss, and he'll take it from there. Simple, no?! :-)
The house is coming along GREAT. I see you're already planning ahead with a three car garage. He/She will be driving before you know it, so enjoy it while it lasts.
BTW, tried emailing you a while back but the message got bounced. Keep us posted when you get home with the new arrival.
Thank you f.t.mother, sheepco, & comet!
And Mark, lololol, i'm crackin' up here! I love the analogy and would have never compared myself to Dermontti....but it makes sense! I'll just keep thinking..."snap...toss....snap....toss" when I get to labor & delivery. ; ) Perfect!
As far as the garage....that's exactly what we were thinking! As much as I hate to think of him being 16 already, I know the time will come when he wants a car, and who knows what other kinds of motorized vehicles to make his Mother crazy.
As soon as I have pics of my little babybirrd i'll be sure to share.
~Dawn (mamabirrd)
LOL @ snap, toss! Oh, man, I'd love to see that...or maybe not. LOL
I LOVE your "monstrous chimney", Dawn! I bet it's breathtaking from the inside. Twenty feet! Awesome.
Here's hoping your delivery is so very safe...and SOON! :) Applause for your hard-working hubby, too!
"I'll just keep thinking..."snap...toss....snap....toss" when I get to labor & delivery."
That SHOULD work.... except....if you look up and see that your doctor resembles that fumbling fool Bubby Brister, you MUST call a last second audible: a trick play of sorts.... a direct snap to Misterbirrd! :-)
BTW, if/when you get a chance please drop me an email. I've gotta a ? to ask ju! Gracias.
Dawn, your home is going to be beautiful. Your property is beautiful and so peaceful looking also.
Good luck with your delivery. I can just see you laying there in labor thinking snap, toss and laughing...snap, toss, "ouch"...snap, toss, "ouch". You may as well go ahead and plan to do a victory dance afterward! ;)
~~~~Poo rubbing Dawn's tummy~~~ And talking to the baby now..."You come out soon for your mommy and remind mommy to post some pictures." :)


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There is disclosed an electronic barometric staging unit or aerial cargo delivery actuator for use with cargo carrying or recovery parachutes having an electronic pressure sensing assembly for initiating actuating of a deployment or staging line cutter such that parachute canopy directing and deployment occurs as a programmed function of a barometrically corrected altitude. The invention features a two-part housing assembly carrying the relatively expensive portion of the assembly that is reusable and an expendible or discardable portion of the assembly so that by recovering or retrieving the electronic module, it may be mated up with a new portion so as to substantially reduce the cost of subsequent usages of the apparatus. Since the barometric transducer per se is solid state and of extremely light weight, deceleration moments due to impacting the ground do not in any way impair its operation so that it may be recovered for re-use. The battery pack and the pyrotechnically activated cutter itself are the basic components which are not re-used.
1. An altitude sensor parachute staging unit comprising,
a first housing assembly containing an electronic barometer pressure transducer and altitude selection means for producing a parachute deployment signal,
a second housing assembly containing a direct current electrical power supply and an electrically activated cable cutter for cutting a parachute deployment cable,
complementary electrical connector means on said first and said second housing assemblies for coupling electrical energy from said power supply to said electronic barometer pressure transducer and altitude selection means contained in said first housing and for coupling said parachute deployment signal from said first housing assembly to said second housing assembly to activate said electrically activated cable cutter at a selected altitude during descent of said altitude sensor parachute staging unit.
2. The altitude sensor parachute staging unit defined in claim 1 wherein there is at least one static pressure port in one of said housing assemblies for exposing said electronic barometric pressure transducer to ambient barometric pressure changes.
3. The altitude sensor parachute staging unit defined in claim 2 wherein there are a plurality of said static pressure ports, at least one in each said housing assembly and the ratio of volumetric air space between said first and second housing assemblies and static pressure port is such as to prevent altimeter lag effects from exceeding a selected rate.
4. The altitude sensor parachute staging unit defined in claim 2 including means flush with or below the surface of said first housing assembly for entering a selected altitude to said altitude selection means.
5. The altitude parachute staging unit defined in claim 2 including means flush with or below the surface of said first housing assembly for entering ambient atmospheric pressure at the drop zone into said altitude selection means.
6. The altitude sensor parachute staging unit defined in claim 1 wherein said direct current electrical power supply includes a chemical battery, and percussion means for activating said chemical battery.
7. The altitude sensor parachute staging unit defined in claim 1 wherein said electronic barometric pressure transducer has a very low mass so that ground impact and deceleration forces have no effect on mechanical displacements of said unit whereby said first housing unit and the electronics contained therein may be used again.
8. The altitude sensor parachute staging unit defined in claim 1 wherein said first housing assembly has a perimetrical mating outline corresponding to a mating perimetrical outline on said second housing unit.
9. An altitude sensor parachute staging unit as defined in claim 1 wherein said electronic barometric pressure transducer and altitude selection means for producing a deployment signal includes
a barometric pressure transducer for producing a voltage which is proportional to barometric pressure,
reference voltage generator means for generating a voltage substantially corresponding to said selected altitude, said reference voltage generator including
(1) a source of constant voltage,
(2) non-linear voltage divider means for dividing the constant voltage from said source into a plurality of discrete voltage steps corresponding to a coarse altitude range,
(3) first selector means for selecting one voltage of said plurality of discrete voltage steps,
(4) means for deriving from the voltage selected by said selector means a second plurality N of discrete voltage steps which are always equal to a selected fraction N-1/N of the difference between the first selected voltage and the next higher step of said first plurality of discrete voltage steps,
(5) second selector means for selecting one voltage of said second plurality of discrete voltage steps,
summing means for electrically summing the voltages selected by said first and second selector means, and comparator means for comparing the voltage produced by said summing means with the voltage from said transducer and indicating when the compared voltages are substantially equal to constitute said parachute deployment signal.
10. An altitude measuring system for indicating a selected altitude comprising in combination,
a barometric pressure transducer for producing a voltage which is proportional to barometric pressure,
reference voltage generator means for generating a voltage substantially corresponding to said selected altitude, said reference voltage generator including
(1) a source of constant voltage,
(2) non-linear voltage divider means for dividing the constant voltage from said source into a plurality of discrete voltage steps corresponding to a coarse altitude range,
(3) first selector means for selecting one voltage of said plurality of discrete voltage steps,
(4) means for deriving from the voltage selected by said selector means a second plurality N of discrete voltage steps which are always equal to a selected fraction N-1/N of the difference between the first selected voltage and the next higher step of said first plurality of discrete voltage steps,
(5) second selector means for selecting one voltage of said second plurality of discrete voltage steps,
summing means for electrically summing the voltages selected by said first and second selector means, and comparator means for comparing the voltage produced by said summing means with the voltage from said transducer and indicating when the compared voltages are substantially equal.
11. The altitude measuring system defined in claim 10 wherein said reference voltage generator means includes
a third selector means for selecting a further voltage of said second plurality of discrete voltage steps,
and means for supplying said further voltage to said summing means.
12. The altitude measuring system defined in claim 10 wherein said barometric pressure transducer is a solid state transducer.
The present invention relates to an electronic barometric sensor unit coupled with a refurbishment module for accurately controlling the detonation of a cutter device for deploying cargo carrying or recovery parachutes as a function of a programmed, barometrically sensed altitude.
Aerial cargo delivery utilizing staged conventional parachute deployment is an established art and has been practiced by the assignee hereof for many years. Historically, the staging or deployment line cutter was actuated by devices which utilized either chemical or electronic time delay means to provide parachute dereefing at an approximate altitude. In other words, the altitude of the aircraft was noted by the operator and a time delay was initiated upon movement of the parachute and cargo from the aircraft which, related to the rate of movement of the parachute and cargo from the aircraft provided a staging of the parachute at an approximate altitude. The time delayed actuation approach requires that the aircraft be at a precisely defined altitude which may be undesirable due to weather conditions, and/or other strategic considerations. Moveover, such delayed actuation approaches are hindered by variables attributable to mechanical and electrical inertia. It is also known in the art to provide dereefing actuators which use mechanical barometric pressure transducers usually of the aneroid capsule type. Aneroid barometric actuation is dependent upon the dropping aircraft altitude and is advantageous when compared with the time delayed reaction stages. Mechanical barometric transducers or switches are not acceptable as an aerial cargo delivery actuation means because of the relatively poor repeatability and the relative high cost since the capsule upon impact with the ground and deceleration forces that it experiences renders it, generally, not useful for further staging operations. Actuation by mechanical barometric means therefore does not appear to offer a net advantage over staging by delayed actuation means described earlier. Essentially all of the prior art staging units have been of the one use--expendible variety.
The present invention is directed to an electronic staging unit for aerial cargo delivery actuations which is usable over and over. A first housing assembly is provided for carrying the relatively expensive electronic components which are the altitude sensing components and a second housing assembly is provided for carrying the consumable and/or expendible components, such as the battery-activator and cutter blade system. Preferably, the perimetrical outlines of the two housing assemblies mate and electrical connector elements secured in the respective housing assemblies complete the electric system. In addition, the present invention utilizes a commercially available electronic barometric pressure transducer for producing a voltage which is directly proportional to barometric pressure. A programmable precision reference source is provided which is preset by a plurality of programmable switches to provide an analog voltage of the barometrically corrected altitude at which staging is to occur. Barometric correction is achieved by setting a predicted barometric pressure at the drop zone into the instrument which is used to modify the altitude voltage which is likewise preset into the instrument. The altitude voltage is constituted in two parts by a coarse altitude selector switch which taps into a string or ladder of resistances which are proportioned to take into account the non-linearity and altitude change with barometric pressure. At the same time, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, this voltage is supplied to a negative feedback amplifier and a portion of this voltage is used to supply a second resistance ladder network which is constituted by a string of uniform valued resistors. Selected discrete levels of this voltage are then added to the coarse selected voltage to provide a precise altitude selected voltage. Furthermore, a further voltage selection is utilized coupled to the same string of resistance elements to provide a barometric pressure correction voltage which is likewise added to the altitude voltage. This voltage, then, is used as a reference and is applied to a voltage comparator which continuously compares the magnitude of the voltage provided by the electronic barometric sensor. The voltage comparator output is a discrete level change as the barometric sensor analog voltage traverses the reference voltage set point. This level change passes through a controlled time delay circuit which permits avoidance of the effects of turbulence around the aircraft from actuating the device, to an electronic switch which controls a pyrotechnic detonator for actuating a staging line cutter.
FIG. 1 shows a top plan view of the staging unit in which the safety-pin tag has been removed,
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view with the safety-pin tag in place,
FIG. 3 is a cross-section taken on lines 3--3 of FIG. 1,
FIG. 4 is a top elevational view of the discardible portion of the assembly with the electronics package removed,
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the discardible unit shown in FIG. 4 (the safety tag is shown in place), and
FIG. 6 is a detail electrical schematic circuit diagram incorporating the invention.
The electronic staging unit disclosed herein utilizes an electronic barometric altitude sensing system and circuits which are shock, vibration and temperature resistant and which are incorporated in a separable housing portion from the battery-activator system and the cutter blade and cutter blade delivering system. It may be thought of as packaging the brains in one assembly and the muscles and energy source in another, replaceable assembly. The altitude sensor module 70 constitutes the cover assembly of the device and contains the sensor electronics and calibration/set controls to adjust the altitude activation range from 0 to 9,900 feet in one hundred foot increments. Moreover, the controls enable setting of the ambient barometric pressure, i.e., 29.5 to 30.4 inches of mercury. The sensor electronics is made up from discrete and integrated circuits as shown in FIG. 6. The pressure transducer is an integrated circuit device as disclosed in an article appearing in Electronics for Dec. 4, 1972 entitled "Integration Brings A New Generation of Transducers" by Zias and Heyer at page 83. The title of the article is "Integration Brings a New Generation of Low Cost Transducers" and is incorporated herein by reference. Commercially available transducers are marketed by National Semiconductor Corporation under the designation LX1600 (with various suffix designations for different models). Such transducer has relatively good accuracy for the use intended and in the packaging assembly herein is contained on the innerside of the altitude sensor module.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the altitude sensor module 70 is constituted by a generally rectangular housing cover member 71 which contains therein an electronics module (see FIG. 3) and is secured to the refurbishment module 80 by recessed captive screws. Cover 71 has an opening 72 which connects to a passageway 73 which constitutes a static port 74-1 and tube for the admission of ambient atmospheric pressure to the interior of the unit. At the same time, two additional openings 74-2, 74-3 in the refurbishment module housing 80 are connected by means of tubes and/or passageways through a potting compound (if used) (not shown in FIGS. 3 and 4) to the vicinity of the pressure transducer 75 (FIG. 3) by passageway 75-P.
The three static ports are important and insure altitude accuracy up to about 650 foot per second descent rates over an approximately 10,000 foot operating altitude range of the unit. It will be appreciated, of course, that other rates may be utilized and other port combinations. The three ports are employed to thereby provide static air regardless of the altitude of the descending unit with regard to relative wind angle. As a result, the altitude error due to relative wind effects is minimized. The ratio of internal volume to static port size is designed to prevent altimeter lag effect from exceeding 20 milleseconds for altitude rates up to 650 feet per second. For this reason, the potting (if used) shown in FIG. 5 in the refurbishment module as well as in the altitude sensor module provides an internal volume to static port size (the three ports shown) to reduce this altimeter lag effect. By reducing the volume of the space and/or providing more ports or, alternatively, ports with large passageways, the lag may be further reduced. However, it is important that the static air pressure only be measured and the altitude error of the decending unit with respect to the relative wind angle be minimized. It will be noted, therefore, that the provision of a static port in the cover plate containing the altitude sensor module as well as in the two opposite opposing sides of the housing for the refurbishment module assures that the different wind angle effects are taken account of and also assures that there is no altimeter lag which exceeds 20 milliseconds for descent rates up to 650 feet per second. As indicated earlier, the rate may be varied as well as the time lag provided that these parameters of the invention are kept in mind.
The cover 71 of the altitude sensor module 70 has three openings therein 76, 77 and 78. Openings 76 and 77 provide access through the cover plate 71 to two screwdriver-adjustable selection means or switches 82 and 83 with the screwdriver slots 84 and 85 being in the form of arrows pointing to indicia printed or engraved on the cover plate 71 about the openings or holes 76 and 77. Thus, switch operator 82 is used for entering altitude selections in 1000 foot increments and the digits 0 through 9 which are printed or screened about the opening 76 correspond to 0 foot settings through 9000 foot settings in 1000 foot increments. In like manner, opening 77 has the indicia 0 through 9, screened or engraved thereabout in equal increments of about 36 degrees and correspond to 100 foot increments of altitude. Thus, with the arrow-screwdriver slot 84 pointing to the digit 7 and the arrow-screwdriver slot 85 pointing to the digit 1, the instrument is set for an altitude of 7100 feet.
A similar opening 78 is provided for introducing barometric pressure for the drop zone into the instrument. In this case, the opening 78 has printed or engraved thereabout in equal 36 degree increments, the designations beginning with the lowest pressure 29.5 and in decimal increments in 1/10 inch of mercury through 30.4 inches of mercury. A similar selection switch operator 88 having an arrow-screwdriver slot 89 therein is provided for entering, by way of a screwdriver adjustment, the barometric pressure at the drop zone. It is to be emphasized that the switches are detented switches with each of the positions, and are commercially available and require that the switch actuator 76, 77 and 78 be flush with or below the exterior level of the cover 71. This assures that the user must positively set the drop zone altitude settings into switches 82, 83 and 88.
There is also an additional advantage in providing two ten position detented switches for entering the selected altitude and selected barometric pressure for entering the drop zone barometric pressure compensation. Thus, instead of using a one turn potentiometer and calibrating the dial in marked-off spacing of three degrees representing increments of 100 feet, a much easier field use instrumemt is provided by increments of approximately 30 degrees or more (360 degrees divided by 10 positions).
In addition to the openings for the static port and tube and altitude and barometric pressure selection, three additional openings TP-1, TP-2 and TP-3 may be provided for various test points in the electronic circuitry. Also a removable cover is provided which when removed provides access to calibration potentiometers.
The refurbishment module 80 contains the webbing cutter 91, a thermal battery 94 (see FIG. 5), an arming assembly 92 and a safety-pin 95. As shown in FIG. 5, the cross-sectional shape of the housing for the refurbishment module is generally triangular with the static ports 74-1 and 74-2 in the lower exposed sides thereof with the upper side surfaces thereof having the same parametrical outline as the housing for the altitude sensor module 70. Battery 94 and arming assembly 92 are shown in greater detail in FIG. 5 and as there shown, the battery 94 is activated by a percussion cap 97. The percussion cap is exploded or set off by the operating of the arming assembly 92. Arming assembly 92 includes a safety-pin 95 and pull hang tag 96 secured thereto. The arming pin 95 passes through two holes 97 and 98 in housing 99 and prevents withdrawal of the firing pin lanyard 100. Firing pin lanyard 100 is connected to the eyelet 101 of a pin 102 coaxially centered in a bore 103 of housing 99. A shaft 104 having a firing pin 105 at one end thereof has, at the opposite end thereof, and in interfitting and in interlocking relation with the end of shaft 102, interfitting locking abutments 104A and 102A. A compression spring 106 centered coaxially about shaft 104 is seated at the bottom of bore 107 in housing 99 and against a shoulder or flange 108 on shaft 104. With the arrangement as shown, the interlocking abutments 102A and 104A are maintained in position by the walls of bore 103. Thus, when the arming pin 95 is removed by its tag 96, the lanyard 100 may be pulled outwardly which, in turn, due to the interlocking of abuttments 102A and 104A, loads the spring 106 and as the interlocking abuttments 102A and 104A pass beyond the end of bore 103, they disengage by cam action so as to release the rod 104 and the firing pin 105. The spring therefore unloads, driving the firing pin against percussion cap 97 to thereby activate battery 94.
This supplies power for approximately 120 seconds via conductors 110 to selected pins in connector 111. This power is thereby supplied through the connector to the altitude sensor module and powers up that unit. It will be appreciated that the lanyard is pulled upon the dropping of the cargo with its chute attached from an aircraft or the like. As described earlier is connection with the altitude sensor module, there is a time delay of 4-5 seconds to permit the unit to exit from the aircraft and pass the turbulence thereof. Subsequently, upon the unit reaching the altitude entered into the unit, it may be several hundred feet in advance of that since the deployment of the chute takes certain time, a signal is received from the altitude sensor module through the connector 111 onto conductors 112 which extend into a wire ignited explosive unit 130. This explosive unit or pyrotechnic unit 130 thereby explodes to provide a high energy driving force to the cutter blade 140. Cutter blade 140 is maintained in position in bore 141 by shear pin 142. It will be appreciated that instead of cutting the shrouds passing through shroud opening 145 and/or other mechanism for releasing and deploying the parachute, the signal received on conductors 112 may be used for actuating a release mechanism or other utilization device for other applications of the invention. A potting compound may be used to fill the space around conductors 110 and 112, and the passageways (not shown) to ports 74-2 and 74-3. The amount of potting compound sets the ratio of internal air volume to static port size which prevents the altimeter lag effect from exceeding about 20 milliseconds for altitude rates up to 650 feet per second. This rate is for one particular embodiment, it being clear that other rates, depending in part on the characteristics of the barometric pressure transducer, may easily be designed into the unit by adding more static ports, increasing the cross-sectional area and/or changing the air volume enclosed between the two-part housing assembly.
Referring now to FIG. 6, the barometric transducer 30 is supplied with a regulated voltage from supply 31. The supply 31 includes a chemical battery B which is activated upon the release of the lanyard as described earlier herein and has an output for approximately 120 seconds which is more than ample time for the operation of the staging unit. This voltage is applied to the barometric transducer between terminal 5 and ground terminal 2. The output on terminal 1 of barometric transducer 30 is applied through a resistor 32 to the positive terminal input of comparator 33. A feedback resistor 34 (4.7 megohm) is connected between the output terminal of comparator 33 and the barometric transducer input 35.
The second input to comparator 33 is a derived voltage which is directly correlated to the altitude at which the unit is set to operate. This voltage is derived in a staging altitude voltage generator which generates a constant voltage having an amplitude directly proportional to the predicted barometric pressure at the selected altitude for staging. It is constituted by a resistor 36, one end of which is connected through a proportioning resistor 37 which, with resistors 38 and potentiometer resistor 39 form a voltage divider. Resistor 39 is a nulling potentiometer so as to adjust the level of voltage supplied as one input to negative feedback amplifier 40. A similar voltage from the opposite end of resistor 36 is connected to a voltage dropping string or ladder network constituted by resistors 40-1, 40-2, 40-3, 40-4, 40-5, 40-6, 40-7, 40-8, 40-9 and 40-10. Each of these resistors, which has the exemplary value shown on FIG. 6 of the drawing, is proportioned to take into account the non-linearity in altitude change with barometric pressure as sensed by the transducer 30. The intermediate point between each of these resistors is connected respectively to a terminal on the coarse altitude selection switch 50 (adjustment 95, FIG. 1) which selects the individual discrete points between the voltage divider. The resistors 40-1 . . . 40-10 are proportioned or scaled to provide 1000 foot increments of voltage drop. (It will be appreciated that other increments of altitude could be used with appropriate changes in the scaling of the resistors). Each of the intermediate points between the resistors is connected to a terminal on selector switch 50, so that the uppermost point on the voltage divider chain is connected to point 9 or the 9000 foot plus level range selection, the second point is connected to the 8000 foot plus level select and so on down to the zero plus select range. The wiper on selector switch 50 is connected through a gain control potentiometer 51 and through a proportioning resistor 52 to a summing point 53 which constitutes the input to amplifier 40.
Output terminal 42 of amplifier 40 is connected through a resistor 43 to a point on a second voltage dropping resistor string constituted by resistors 44-1, 44-2, 44-3, 44-4, 44-5, 44-6, 44-7, 44-8, 44-9, and 44-10. A further proportioning resistor 45 is used to connect the upper end of the string to the 15 volt supply. The voltage fed back through resistor 43 is added on to this voltage. The intermediate points 44-1, 44-2, 44-3, 44-4 and so on through 44-10 are connected to a second altitude selection switch 55. The wiper 55W of fine altitude selection switch 55 is connected through a large resistor 56 (1 megohm) to the summing point 53. Thus, with the wiper 50W of altitude selection switch 50 on, for example, the 8000 foot range, and with the wiper 55W of altitude selection switch 55 on the 200 foot range, the set altitude is 8200 feet. This constitutes a means for deriving from the voltage selected by the first selector 174 a second Plurality N of discrete voltage steps which are always equal to a selected fraction N-1/N of the difference between the first selected voltage and the next higher step of the first plurality of discrete voltage steps to thereby provide a voltage which is combined with the coarse altitude selection voltage.
In order to compensate for variation in barometric pressure at the drop zone, a barometric pressure selection switch 60 is provided which has its contact points 60-P connected to the same points on voltage divider chain 44-1 to 44-10 as the points on altitude selection switch 55. The wiper 60W of barometric correction switch 60 is connected through an isolating resistor 61 (one megohm) to the summing point 53. A large resistor 64 isolates the two signal voltages from the output of amplifier 40 and assures that these voltages are added or summed at summing point 53 with the coarse altitude voltage selected by the wiper 50W of coarse altitude selection switch 50.
The output voltage from amplifier 40 is thus a fixed voltage which has been generated to correspond to the voltage at which the parachute is to be deployed. This voltage then is supplied as the second input to the comparator 33 and as soon as the voltage output of barometric transducer 30 as applied to the positive terminal of comparator 33 is equal to this set voltage, an output is provided from comparator 33 which is applied across input resistor voltage 170A-170B of comparator 171. There will be no output from the comparator 171 as long as the input to the negative terminal is absent. As soon as the lanyard 192 is pulled and the battery is activated, the regulated voltage is also applied across a voltage divider constituted by resistors 172 and 173. This voltage is applied through a delay amplifier 174 which has a feedback connection constituted by a parallel resistor 178 and capacitor 179 and shunt capacitor 180. This provides a delay of 4-5 seconds before there is any output from delay amplifier 174 to the negative input of terminal 171. This assures that the altitude sensing and pyrotechnic firing circuits are inhibited for 3-4 seconds after the arming pin or lanyard is pulled to prevent false activation due to turbulance as the load exits from the aircraft. The signal appearing at the output of comparator 171, after this 3-4 second time delay is used to energize the electronic switch which fires the pyrotechnic device P that actually operates the cutter to deploy the parachute. The output from comparator 171 is coupled through resistance 195 and integrating capacitor 176 and applied to base resistor 177 of a Darlington connected transistor switch pair 178 which, when switched on, activates pyrotechnic explosive device P which, in turn, drives the cutter blade.
While certain illustrative features of the invention have been shown in its preferred embodiment, it is understood that the concept of the invention may be employed in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. For example, instead of a triangularly shaped refurbishment module, other configurations may be used. Other forms of electronic circuitry for detecting the altitude may be used. Both the battery and the pyrotechnically actuated blade may themselves be replaceable, e.g. with plug-in connections to wires 110 and 112, respectively, so that all of the expendible components may be replaced further lowering the cost per use. A further adjustment for ambient temperature may be incorporated in the circuit, and this may be by a further manual adjustment or by electronic measurement of temperature. These and other embodiments and obvious variations of the invention are intended to be encompassed by one or more of the claims herein.
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Lemme switch to my macaroni with the cheese
Let's rock
French Monatana and Biggavelli
Got a black ski mask and a black skelly
I'll get 'em buried in a cemetary
Just make sure there's money in my commisary
Dem Coke Wave niggaz, they run the city
And stop asking me about the nigga Jimmy
You see them fuck-niggaz lookin' real scary
Running around town tryna black-ball me
Hahaha, how you gon' try to black-ball me
Fuck-nigga, think I don't know 'bout you
Puttin' them cars to Joey I.E.
Asylum and all them niggaz
Tellin' them niggaz don't give us no money
How the niggaz ain't gon' give us no money and you selling 16000
I sell that three days when I drop nigga
Max sell that when he drop first week nigga
How the fuck you try to black-ball us
You can't black-ball us
Go check that new Don Diva
You top seller?
Nigga I'm the top seller in the muthafuckin' country nigga
And I got my London boys, they'll tell you
I'll sell 16000 over there, and this beat was wack
We still bodied it
Fuck y'all niggaz talkin' 'bout man
We run the city nigga
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Fuck-ass niggaz
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Submitted by AmericanFreedumb on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 01:15. Permalink
I'm not sure it was successful because of deceit and half truths...
You have to admit that Romney was an awful, uninspiring, non-believable, and seriously lame candidate.
Obama was successful because the people wanted him more than Romney - pure and simple. They were both full of lies and BS.
The people preferred taxing the rich versus themselves.
The people prefer available birth control.
The people prefer socialism.
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
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BIRMINGHAM, England — Christian Benteke converted an injury-time penalty to earn Aston Villa a 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday, ending the team's seven-match losing run in the Premier League and provisionally lifting it out of the relegation zone.
West Brom goalkeeper Ben Foster fouled Matthew Lowton, and Benteke coolly stroked in the spot kick in the fourth minute of stoppage time to seal Villa's first league win since December.
"I was saying we're alive. There were people who wrote us off but we're alive and kicking," said Villa manager Tim Sherwood, who was hired last month after the team dropped into the bottom three.
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no offense but those shoes are like grandmother shoes. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh my god yes, that's exactly what they are! I'm gonna call these my granny heels, perfect provocation! :DDelete
these shoes are just so cute, I think there's a version of it with no platform right? lovely. loving the dash of maroon and black, like this is just beautifully carved. anyways, speaking of feet fetishes, I once went to omegle and some guy wanted me to suck my feet cuz he had a fetish for feet :SReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah they do, and so does Prada but these were too fun to pass out. Btw, that's scary that the guy just asked you so blatantly and shamelessly, he has a serious fetish.... Just take it to the internet man... lolDelete
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Yep, I l-o-v-e shoes but don't worry I'm not the type that sniffs them (unless they're brand new just to take in the scent of new Italian leather).Delete
now, these are serious shoes. absolute awesomenessReplyDelete
I really love the colour and I think, yes, they ALMOST look like grandmother shoes but somehow, even with the slightly squared top they seem nice and fresh.ReplyDelete
Agreed, and the fact that they resemble grannie shoes just makes them all the more desirable! It's grannie-chic-Delete
FANTAAAASTIC! I would love to slip these babies on! Adore the chunky-ness of a usually classic dainty shoe style. Of course it would be Miuccia Prada to come up with these beauties. XReplyDelete
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Wow! Looks amazing these high heeled shoes. Are taken to a sexy yet almost sinful extreme giving them their taboo nature. Fetish shoes are not for the faint hearted, but who couldn't use at least one pair of fetish heels to spice up your wardrobe.. :) Kisses from VV!!ReplyDelete
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Love your thought process about shoes being a socially acceptable fetish. These are very beautiful, very Miu Miu.ReplyDelete
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Old fashion clothings are coming back but with some modification so they are more stylish. Cute shoes but need to go with, of course, the right outfit!ReplyDelete
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me encantan los zapatos!ReplyDelete
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Melamine/pet food symptoms
Have there been any recent recalls of pet food? Does anyone know what the symptoms are of pet food poisoning?
Currently there is a ban on all dried milk products comeing from China into the USA. If you are really worried about this very real danger, check the label on the food you are worried about, if there is a dried milk powder (this is where the melamine is mixed) then I would contact the company to determine where the product was made, and switch products if there is any issue. There are a number of high quality pet foods which are made in the US or have no fillers like dried milk. Natural Balance is an excellent dog food....Hope this addresses your concerns...
the previous melamine in pet food was not in the dried milk so you have to be concerned even if the pet food doesn't have dried milk. The melamine (the first pet food scare) was in the wheat part I believe? So it can be in anything.
It is scary to think about.
We have two barn cats that are now almost 3 yrs. old. They have had diarrhea for over a month now and the strange thing is that they both look and act very healthy. I am assuming it is on-going but is hard to tell since they are outdoors most of the time. They come into the guest house when it is going to be cold or storming at night and that is when they use the litter box. That is the only way I can tell there is a problem.
The cat food occurred to me because I can't figure out what else it could be unless they both ate something poisonous outside. I got some anti-diarrheal tablets and had them on those three times a day for a week and saw no improvement. No more trips to the vet with these two. It is a two hour round trip and I don't drive.
I agree with akchicago, most likely a parasite problem such as giardia, coccidia, roundworms, etc. Anti-diarrheal tabs don't generally work on animals, and never cure the cause of diarrhea anyway. You could give panacur (fenbendazole) for 5 days to cure everything except coccidia; then you'd need ponazuril. I don't think ponazuril is available OTC but you can probably find fenbendazole at a feed store or pet store. Good luck.
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chinas really low,so good guess. I have seen a sight online where you can buy real yes REAL, human bones from dead people in China- for $700+ you can buy a 7 month old babies head- skull that is.
As for the Barn cats, you should get them to a vet, and get them de wormed.
I am so sorry for your loss. My cats, however didn't have the problems yours had --- they had diarrhea for months but otherwise were healthy. I started giving them my homemade diet and they got better immediately. I am convinced that because of our brutal winter, they couldn't go out and hunt. They were living on the dry kibbles and that just wasn't enough protein or other stuff they needed.
Once they could get outdoors again, the problems ended. I am of the opinion that cats are not indoor pets, but I know many here disagree.


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The Chaplain's Office is seeking nominations for the two recipients of the 2002 William Stringfellow Award of Peace and Justice in memory of William Stringfellow '49. All letters of nomination are due Monday, March 4, and can be addressed to The Office of the College Chaplain, 161 Wood Street, Lewiston, Maine, 04240.
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