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Goose Creek firefighters extinguished a fire at a rental property early Tuesday morning.
The fire broke out about 6:30 a.m. at 207 Pineview Drive, the Goose Creek Fire Department reports.
When firefighters arrived flames were scene coming from the roof. No one was living in the home, and no injuries were reported, firefighters say.
Most of the damage in the fire was to the homes attic, according to firefighters.
Firefighters are still investigating the fires cause, but it is not thought to be suspicious, according to the department.
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|Blanche Binder, born in New York City, grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her father, Fischel Bimko, a native of Kielce, Poland, was a noted Yiddish playwright and author whose plays have been performed in theaters all over the world. Blanche's first language was Yiddish, and in her childhood home Yiddish actors, writers and musicians often gathered to share music, stories and ideas. As a young woman, Blanche pursued her undergraduate studies at Hunter College, while also becoming a proficient opera singer. In 1947, she met Emanuel, who had fought in Europe during World War II while serving in the U.S. Army. Manny, also a native New Yorker and the grandson of a rabbi, spoke Yiddish at home while growing up. Blanche and Manny married and settled in New Jersey where they raised their daughters Leah and Andrea. They sent their daughters to a Yiddish-language summer camp, where the girls had the opportunity to "perform" on the Yiddish stage. During their 61-year partnership, the Binders have continued to focus on the preservation of Yiddish culture and supporting the State of Israel, the twin goals of their commitment to the greater Jewish community. Throughout their married life they have been active members in the American Jewish Committee and YIVO, served on the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater Board of Directors, formed a Northern New Jersey Chapter of Magen David Adom, and in their "spare" time together built a successful real estate business. Blanche and Manny are the proud grandparents of five grandchildren. Blanche honored her father's memory by publishing his five-volume autobiography, On Life's Path. The Binders along with their daughters, will accepts this award as a tribute to and in memory of Blanche's late father Fischel (z"l).
|Maks Etingin, one of the newest members of the YIVO Board of Directors, is devoted to supporting Jewish institutions in the United States and Israel. Recently he dedicated a panorama at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem in memory of the family who saved him during the Holocaust. He also is deeply involved with Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the Chaim Weizmann Institute and Magen David Adom. Maks is an experienced real estate professional and well-respected leader in the field of property management at ORSID Realty, which his father Albert Etingin founded over fifty years ago. He has earned the real estate industry's most highly regarded designation of Certified Property Manager (CPM). As part of the team at ORSID, where he serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, he is proud that he is "never more than a phone call away from any client." Maks is connected to YIVO through his birthplace and the Jewish community that once thrived there. He notes, "Wilno (Vilna) and YIVO were part of my growing up. I was born in Wilno and as a teenager I ended up in the Wilno Ghetto, from its first day to its destruction. By miracle we survived – my parents, brother and myself were hidden underground by a Pole." The Etingins subsequently left Vilna for Lodz, Poland, then Sweden, and then came to New York. With the help of the Jewish Community Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he was able complete his studies in engineering. He is proud of building a successful real estate company in New York, but most importantly, he notes, "My wife Rochelle and I have two married daughters and six grandchildren, all of whom give me great joy in life."
|Warren Grover, a native of Newark, New Jersey, is a graduate of Weeqhuaic High School. From there he went on to earn an MA in Russian history at New York University. He taught history at Weeqhuaic High School, and for five years at Newark College of Engineering, before he left to join a family business in direct mail advertising. After 30 years in the business he left to pursue the study of history once again, which culminated in the publication of his landmark study Nazi's in Newark (Transaction Books: 2003). In addition to completing this book, he taught at Solomon Schecter for two years. Warren's lifelong interest in history and languages is integral to his more than 20 years of service as a Trustee of YIVO, and as chair of its Finance Committee. His knowledge of Russian, and his familiar connections to prewar Jewish Lithuania, and his businessman's approach to governance are key factors in his years of leadership and commitment to YIVO. For over thirty years Warren has worked actively for the United Jewish Federation of MetroWest. He also has served as president of the board of the Jewish Historical Society of MetroWest, and on the board of the New Jersey Historical Society. His wife Andrea, an Italian scholar teaching at New York University, translated Anna Foa's book, The Jews of Europe after the Black Death, as well as play by Ugo Betti. The Grover's son, Owen, and his wife Erin, have a son, Devon.

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A horse walked into a bar, the bartender said "Why the long face?". OK, so it's a bad joke but this long face offers some short and challenging problems. Don't forget your crash pad and spotter as all problems are top outs which is what makes these problems so amazing to send!
Access issues inherited from Balls Head
Climbing of any kind (including bouldering) has been banned by North Sydney City Council throughout the Ball's Head Reserve since 1996. Please don't jeopardise future attempts to restore access by flouting the ban.©
Directly to the right of Lindfield With A Water View. Look for the tree stump and the half buried log and you've found the start of the face.
Ethic inherited from When Crags Collide
When Crags Collide is a bolt free environment. Bolting will not be tolerated by the developers and more than likely North Sydney Council as well.
When Crags Collide was developed as pure bouldering for the love of bouldering. The developers want it to remain this way.
It may be tempting to bolt the highballs or even put some sneaky carrots in at the top. The developers did discuss this as an option and decided seeing this is a popular look out, and the base is on a very popular hiking track, that bolts would only detract from the natural beauty of the area that non-climbers come to enjoy.
There's one rusted forgotten bolt at the top of Lindfield With A Water View from several decades ago. This is a mark oh history but if any other bolts are found here they'll be chopped by either the developers or once again, more than likely North Sydney Council.
April 2013 was when the Czech Princess Radka and Sir Brendon Flanagan started to develop this face, which comes with not only amazing top outs but a bad joke as well. Being new to the world of bouldering, Radka realised just how scary scary scary topping out a tricky problem could be. One word...commitment! Radka decided she'd prefer to down climb each problem and hand over the FA's to Brendon. Much to Brendons pleasure he accepted these amazing offers one after the other after the other. Eventually Radkas bouldering skills improved and what should happen? She topped out. Did this make Brendon proud? Yes, he was proud to see the Czech Princess succeed with such an amazing step in bouldering progress. Did this make Brendon sad? Yes, he missed out on an FA. Good with the bad people, good with the bad.
This crag is a product of the great bouldering boom!
Chalk up, climb on and live the dream!
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Start half a meter right of Wiggle Your Toe. Using the crimpers head up and top out.
Start 1 meter right of Oh Golly Miss Molly. Do not stand on the trunk! Using the friendly holds head up and top out.
Start 1 meter right of That's Chloe With A C.H. Head up and top out.
Start 1 meter right of Seriously Sensational Sunset. At the obvious featured wall head up and top out.
Start 1 meter right of It's All About The Topping Out People. Starting beneath the scoop make your way up. To climb this problem the right way...the correct way...think like Ned Flanders and follow the scoop to the left.
Start 1 meter right of The Leftorium. Match your hands on the jug, head up and top out.
Match hands on the nice ledge immediately to the right of Boulder On with Codral. Top out to the right.


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So, you wanna take part in the Oscars but don't have a nominated film, fancy gown or any Hollywood connections? Don't worry, there are still plenty of Oscar-related events for you too. Lindsay Lohan, you might want to take note.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences traditionally sets up bleachers along the red carpet so fans can watch all the stars arrive. Every September, they hold a week long online lottery giving away tickets for the spots. Anyone can put their name in but you have to have pretty good luck to win considering last year over 20,000 people entered but only 300 seats were available.


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So you alone have Bama ranked ahead of Texas. Okay. So you're a bit of an SEC homer. That's understandable for a N.O. sportswriter. But then you rank your in-state BCS defending national champion four spots lower than the AP and USA Today average, and that's giving them 'the benefit of the doubt!' What is that? Some kind of sad cry for attention.
I agree oldgreg. If there was any justice the BCS would pair the winners of the SEC and Big XII championship games. That's the closest thing you can get to a playoff. Those two conferences alone account for seven of the top 10 teams!
BTW TP you need to work on your fact checking a bit. It's the Arizona State Sun Devils, not Wildcats, and Auburn played on Thursday, not Saturday. Good read otherwise.


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Mildred "Millie" Holmer, 85, of rural Republic passed away Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008, in St. Francis Home in Tiffin.
She was born March 29, 1922, in Reed Township, rural Republic, to Henry and Gertrude (Hossman) Schoen, now deceased. Mildred married Norbert F. Holmer Sept. 1, 1962, at the former Assumption Catholic Church, Reed, Ohio. She was a member of the former Reed Assumption Church, St. Gaspar del Bufalo Church and the Altar Rosary Society. She enjoyed baking, especially elderberry pies, and also gardening.
She is survived by her husband, Norbert; a brother, Sylvester Schoen of Bellevue; and two sisters, Agnes Holmer of rural Republic, and Theresa Elmlinger of rural Monroeville.
In addition to her parents, Mildred was preceded in death by her brothers, Leo Schoen, Urban Schoen, Joseph Schoen, Earl Schoen and Henry Schoen; and sisters, Edith Swope, Rosemary Holmer, and Sister Mary Edith Schoen of the Sisters of St. Francis.
Friends will be received 2-8 p.m. today with a rosary serviceat 3:30 p.m. at Foos and Foos Funeral Service, 151 Yorkshire Place, Bellevue. A Funeral Mass officiated by the Rev. Jim Holmer and the Rev. Paul Fahrbach will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Gaspar del Bufalo Church. Burial will follow at Reed Assumption Cemetery.
Memorial Donations may be made to St. Gaspar del Bufalo Church, 16209 Seneca County Road 46, Bellevue; St. Francis Home, 190 St. Francis Ave., Tiffin, Ohio; or Heartland Hospice, 96 S. Washington St., Tiffin.


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In situ monitoring optimizes flash-light sintering of nanoparticle ink
Printed electronics offer many advantages such as substrate flexibility, low cost and ease of processing. Some of the key components of printed electronics are conducting lines and films. Although conducting polymers could be used for these components, their conductivity and stability are typically inferior to metallic counterparts. Recently, metal-based nanoinks have been introduced to alleviate these shortcomings. However, the nanoinks can be complicated to synthesize, which has cost implications.
Now, reporting their results in the journal Nanotechnology, Hak-Sung Kim, Hyun-Jun Hwang and Wan-Ho Chung based at Hanyang University in South Korea have made a great stride towards the realization of low-cost copper nanoparticle ink. The team has developed a process that enables commercially available Cu/Cu2O nanoparticles to be used in printed electronics.
The production of pure Cu nanoparticles is difficult because they oxidize easily on contact with air. Most commercial Cu nanoparticles are covered with a thin Cu2O shell and cannot be transformed into conducting lines/films through traditional thermal sintering. To alleviate these problems, Hak-Sung Kim's group has developed a two-step process.
IPL sintering
The first step is to functionalize the Cu/Cu2O nanoparticles to induce reduction during sintering. The next step is to use intense pulsed light (IPL) to shorten the sintering time to 20 or so milliseconds. The sintered lines/films exhibit a conductivity that is just a few times lower than the value for bulk copper.
In addition, the researchers optimized the IPL sintering process via in situ monitoring of oxide reduction/sintering phenomena to minimize the re-oxidation phenomena of copper nanoparticles during IPL sintering process (see movie).
The synergistic combination of functionalized Cu nanoparticles and IPL sintering can realize low-cost nanoink and enable instant sintering at room temperature and under ambient conditions for printed electronics.
Back in the lab, the group is working on various other types of nanoparticles and pre-cursor inks for printed electronics and energy harvesting/storage devices in combination with the IPL process.
Additional information can be found in the journal Nanotechnology.
About the author
Dr Hak-Sung Kim received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea in 2006. He is currently assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Hanyang University in South Korea. His current research focuses on reactive IPL processing for material synthesis for flexible printed electronics devices (display, semiconductor and conductive patterns) and energy harvesting/storage applications such as solar cells, fuel cells and supercapacitors. Hyun-Jun Hwang and Wan-Ho Chung are PhD candidates in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Hanyang University in South Korea, under the supervision of Prof. Hak-Sung Kim, PhD. Their research also focuses on printed electronics and its application in display and memory devices using IPL sintering.


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About Carlos Solís a.k.a. ArkBlitz (in the rest of the Internets)
At this rate, all members of the Free Software Foundation will start traveling abroad on foot.
Know what's the worst part of this? No other major browser is committed enough to freedom, and the few free-software browsers that do are mostly GNU+Linux-exclusive. For example, the FSF's fork of Firefox, GNU IceCat.
Now, let's consider the intricacies required to license said song as public domain in every country in the world. It's not pickiness, it's literally required to supply network services worldwide in several cases. There are several countries with terms even longer than Life+70: Mexico (Life+100), Ivory Coast / Côte D'Ivoire (Life+99), Colombia (Life+80), Samoa, Honduras, Guatemala, and Saint Vincent and Grenadines (Life+75). If you or your children, grandchildren or greatgrandchildren happened to move to any of those countries, your greatgrandchild would be in his 80's when said songs enter the public domain, and your greatgreatgrandchild (!) on his 55's.
If José María Villalta wins the presidential elections (next February), you can be sure that he'll kiss that agreement bye-bye. And, perhaps, sell us to the ALBA.
XMPP providers ought to adopt the Off-The-Record standard for encrypted chat, by the way: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
Agreed. Projects like Secret Maryo Chronicles (a libre replacement of Mario Bros.), OpenSurge (a replacement of Sonic), TuxKart (Mario Kart), 0 A.D. (Age of Empires), StepMania (DDR/Pump It Up), and several others have been able to liberate the gamestyle of their original games while using unique and original characters and scenarios.
My wish to found a company that releases free-as-in-freedom hardware, devoid of any technology under restrictive patents or binary-only firmware, that builds and releases a cheap plug server based on it, specialized on hosting decentralized, encrypted, free-as-in-freedom networking services, is starting to turn, not just on a desirable reality, but also in a need.
And to think that the speech (along with all other Martin Luther King's works) will be in the public domain in Mexico only after 56 years from now.
This is one of the reasons why I avoid to work upon most public domain works: retroactive re-copyrighting. One day, for example, you publish the translation of a work from an author that died, say, 53 years ago, taking care of releasing it solely in the countries where life+50 applies, and not those with life+70 or beyond. The next day, the parliament of a country where you already released the translation declares that copyright is retroactively extended to life+70, and bam! Now you're a criminal, liable for infringement, most possibly about to be sued for the earnings of your book and then some more, even if the work is already declared as "orphan". I usually recommend people who do use public domain works in a common basis to use only works that are legally usable in all countries of the world (currently that means life+100, thanks to Mexico and Ivory Coast amogn others), in order to avoid both licensing fragmentation and unexpected retroactive licensing. The alternative is, of course, copyleft and liberal licensing, but even those are liable to retroactive relicensing as well (albeit in a more limited form).
Starbucks had to switch to a vegetable-based dye because people were either grossed out or vegan.
Finally, a good example of the usage of trademarks as a mark of origin and trust. Even though I disagree with the other restrictions that Mozilla places on its trademark usage (e.g. not allowing free-software derivatives of Firefox to use its trademark, to the point that the IceWeasel and Icecat projects had to be created as a direct result), in this case they're totally correct into claiming it as a case of deluding unaware users, tricking them into trusting a product masquerading as a privacy-protecting program.
The obvious solution would have been to use the MooGNU instead (see http://archive.org/details/M00GNUhttp://archive.org/details/M00GNU for more details). But, of course, which manager would like to release a GPL'd Scribblenauts only because of that?
Or PS Network Premium, which isn't free but gives you free games every so often, among other perks. Now that's how you do business.
The best effort done towards making the cloud work for its users has been the federated social network, where anyone can host a local version of the network and communicate with other servers with only knowing the address to point at. Status.Net, Diaspora, Friendica, Pump.IO, just to name a few recent examples.
I'd go for the one that runs on GNU/Linux-libre. Except that, of course, it would take five years to gain support for eye vision.
I am almost sure that they intentionally use footage from US games just to taunt the "imperialist" MPAA and affiliates.
If we take into account that there is at least one country (Mexico) where the copyright of the Sherlock Holmes' series as a whole is still standing until at least 2031 (100 years after the death of the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), then the defense of Doyle's estate can allege that Klinger and King are infringing in at least one country, which will grant them 8 more years than the estate claims!
The Free Cultural Works Definition declared non-commercial licenses as non-free for a good reason.
At least the licensing conflict between the copyrighted songs and your former license has been lifted. But, the film as a whole is still fully copyrighted. I remember that there was a plan to crowdfund the purchase of the worldwide license of the songs; is that still on the works?
Exactly. And for the lyrics and tune to be in the worldwide public domain, we must wait not 70, but 100 years after the death of the last among McCartney, Starr and all other authors. Which means that, unless the average lifespan increases dramatically, we won't be able to live the day when the aforementioned song enters the true public domain.
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Her Story is a bold and largely successful experiment in interactive crime fiction.
Rocksteady's gorgeous-looking third Arkham game refines its open-world format a bit and lets you drive a whole hell of a lot of Batmobile.
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These games are based off of an established license, such as a movie or comic. Examples are the James Bond and Spider-Man franchises.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Digital Distribution is the concept of purchasing digital media via the internet and having it sent to the user directly via the internet. No physical representation of this content is given but the content resides on the users hard drive and is legally owned by them.
A proprietary video codec (.bik extension) developed by RAD Game Tools and used in a very large number of video games.
Health is a value that gauges how much damage players can take in a game before they die or pass out. Also known as life in some games. Health is usually represented by a bar or a percentage instead of an exact amount. Found in most non sport games
Videogames that, for better or for worse, are based on an existing non-videogame franchise. Usually drawn from movies, tie-in games have also been made about TV shows, novels, and even one-hit wonder pop bands.
Steam is a digital distribution service owned by Valve. Originally created to distribute its own games, Steam has since expanded to become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games, and supports community features, downloadable content and achievements. Starting 2010, Steam now offers Mac games as well.
The main line of distinction between victory or failure in video games, death is the process of a biological being ceasing to be alive.
Xfire is a downloadable instant messenger client and Digital Download Store for Windows. It is targeted at gamers and has many features related to gaming.
Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
From Beat-em-ups to fighting games to modern FPS, one dude hitting another has made an enjoyable pastime.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
Sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you wanna coast.
Video games that are based on existing comic books, manga, and graphic novels.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto building, onto platforms, or onto skulls, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Anthropomorphism is the concept of an object, concept or character that has human qualities or traits, such as speech, a level of intelligence similar or higher than a human's and self consciousness. "Anthro" means "of human" and related to the concept of humanity.
Humans are bipedal, sapient primates capable of abstract reasoning, language, and emotions.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, commonly refers to the programmed behaviors of NPCs in a game, whether it's the fact that a soldier takes cover behind a wall in Gears of War, or that townspeople cheer upon your arrival to their village in Fable.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
Some television shows are ripe for interactive adaptations. Like Grey's Anatomy, or The Young Ones.
Slashing weapons are designed to cut and slice rather than causing blunt trauma. Examples include swords, axes, claws, naginatas, or even whips.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
The concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods, breaking the fundamental laws of science.
The title of a game is a year, or has a year in it. Normally used for sports game and other annual titles, but also used to designate when a game takes place rather than the year released.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
A boss fight is a culminating challenge that pits the player against one or more enemies representing a greater threat and/or difficulty than those previously faced. These scenarios typically feature unique antagonists.
First-Person is a vantage point that attempts to simulate looking through a game character's eyes. It is most commonly found in First-Person Shooters and Racing Games, and to a lesser extent in other genres, such as RPGs and 3D Platformers.
The player character is seen at a distance from a number of different possible perspective angles. There is generally a movable camera but it can also be in a fixed position. It most commonly refers to a viewpoint behind the player character.
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New Yorker, Jessica Leccia joined the cast of Guiding Light in 2007 as Natalia. She is known for her role with Dennis Leary, on "Rescue Me," and has been on other soaps as well as Primetime shows such as "Law & Order."
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An exhausted Mayer freaks out on Simpson over the phone, allegedly demanding that she stop calling and texting. [Popcrunch]
Brit Strips Off Clothes for Cash?
The pop star's been spotted changing outfits multiple times a day. The reason? A rumored deal with a paparazzi house, who can get more dough for each different pic of Brit. [TMZ]
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Her former bodyguard's tell-all reveals that Lindsay supposedly loved the ladies, attacked Jessica Simpson and was dangerous to be around. That sounds about right! [MSNBC]
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According to the World Health Organization: Public health refers to all organized measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy and focus on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases. Thus, public health is concerned with the total system and not only the eradication of a particular disease
A Master in Public Health (MPH) from the University of San Francisco is a two-year, part-time program that prepares students to work in a variety of health care settings. The mission of the Master of Public Health program is to develop a network of public health leaders and generalists who will advance public health, social justice, and well-being in the city of San Francisco, the State of California, the United States and the world and to create an educational Public Health Presence that promotes community engagement, professional collaborations, and public health advocacy.
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The program is organized in a cohort model of instruction. Each cohort is made up of approximately 25 students, two-thirds of whom are typically Bay Area health professionals looking to enhance their qualifications or individuals in another field looking to transition into a public health career. During the two years of the program, your cohort will move through the curriculum together – starting and finishing with the same members.
You can start in fall or spring semester.
The MPH program is 45-units and typically takes take two years to complete.
MPH Program employs the best classroom and online teaching methodologies. Each semester, students enroll in a full load of two classes, which are held on campus one evening per week for three to four hours. Students complete a comparable amount of online work between those meetings. Students can pursue their degrees while working without having to put their professional lives on hold! The entire MPH program takes six consecutive semesters, or two years to complete.
Please note that tuition rates and fees are subject to change and more information can be found
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Posted: January 30, 2013|
A row has broken out between police and crime commissioner Sir Clive Loader and Leicestershire County Council.
The disagreement centres on how a £1.6 million Government crime-fighting fund should be distributed.
The money used to be paid directly to the county council but now goes to Sir Clive, who was elected to the post three months ago and who is responsible for deciding how it is spent.
Most of the money is pooled with other funding bodies, including the NHS and the probation service, to pay for services such as drug and alcohol treatment and the management of offenders in the community.
Some is used to fund smaller, local crime-prevention projects.
Sir Clive has told the county council he will give it half of the cash to cover the six months from April but not, for now, the full year's grant.
Before deciding to release the rest of the money he has told the council he wants to see evidence it is being used efficiently and that the services deliver results.
The county council said the decision was taken without sufficient consultation and has led to uncertainty about the future of some of the services it provides – and the future of a number of jobs.
The county council has released correspondence to the Mercury – in the form of e-mails and text messages – between Sir Clive and the authority, which is run by fellow Conservatives.
In one exchange, Sir Clive said he could no longer work with the chief executive of the county council – John Sinnott – who had written a letter to him outlining the council's and councillors' concerns.
County council leader Nick Rushton said he hoped the dispute could be resolved and a sound working relationship restored.
The dispute was expected to come to a head at a meeting of the police and crime panel – the group of councillors which was put together to scrutinise the commissioner – at County Hall today.(JAN 30)
The exchange of correspondence revealed Sir Clive believed the decision to set aside time at today's meeting for discussion of the dispute was "appalling".
A county council spokesman said: "Community safety services provided by local authorities and other partners have been instrumental in reducing the crime rate and the county council is concerned that the commissioner's proposals put those services and our successful partnership arrangements at risk."
Sir Clive said: "I want to make long-term decisions, commissioning the right services from the right providers, creating long-standing working relationships built on trust and confidence.
"In my view, to do this in haste would be dangerous.
"We are all working for the public and that public expects and deserves us to work together efficiently and effectively."
Also at today's meeting, Sir Clive was due to talk through a draft version of his plan for policing in Leicestershire for the next five years.
He has indicated he will freeze council tax payers' contribution to policing – the precept – at current levels for the next two years.
Sir Clive, who was elected to the post in November, wants Chief Constable Simon Cole and his officers to continue to drive down offences such as burglary, vehicle crime, robbery, sexual assault, domestic abuse and alcohol-related violence.
He set out his vision for dealing with alcohol and drug addiction and addressing the cost to the force of missing person inquiries, particularly cases of people who repeatedly leave local authority care or mental health units.
Sir Clive is to hold a series of meetings with residents and interest groups to listen to their concerns about crime and anti-social behaviour.
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Ryan Ludwick calls out Cincinnati fans for lack of energy
Sep 25, 2013, 5:46 PM EDT
This is never, ever a good idea. Total no-win situation for a player. But Ryan Ludwick does it anyway, calling for enthusiastic Reds fans this weekend because, well, the enthusiasm against the Mets this week was a little lacking:
One can argue that this worked for David Justice and the Braves in 1995, but it took Tom Glavine saving his bacon in Game 6 for him not to become persona non grata. Otherwise: nope, no fan base in the world is gonna say "Hey, Ludwick is right! We're too lackadaisical!"
And let's face it, Ryan. You dropped two of three to a Mets team that's deader than vaudeville. You want enthusiasm? Give your fans a reason to show it.
- sabatimus - Sep 25, 2013 at 5:52 PM
Right: blame the fans for your team tanking. Always a good decision.
- forsch31 - Sep 25, 2013 at 7:17 PM
The Reds are 6-4 in their last 10 games. Sorry, that's not "tanking," painful loss to the Mets notwithstanding. The attendance for their last five home games have been below the season's average (about 24,000 vs. 30,000), which considering that the team's been in a dogfight for the division the past few weeks, would obviously rub the players the wrong way.
Still, not cool…not when the Reds set a new total home park attendance record this year for the ballpark (which has been around 10 years), and this was a mid-week afternoon game.
- dt2332 - Sep 26, 2013 at 11:33 AM
Ryan Ludwick does have a point though. Cin has been one of the best in the NL for three years running now and almost every weekday home game (Mon-Thurs) is at night to get more people to come. The fact that a team battling for first place in the division and only sells roughly 30,000 of its 42,319 seats is funny and disappointing for the city. The Reds don't even sell out on a Saturday night unless they're playing the Cubs or Cardinals. The fact that the Cubs season average of 32,165 is almost 2,000 more than the 30,931 the Reds average makes Cubs fans laugh since they are 20 or so games out of contention. The only time Cubs fans can see a game at a reasonable price is in Cin because they know they can buy upper level tix for $6-$10 and move down to the lower level.
- forsch31 - Sep 26, 2013 at 6:14 PM
The problem is that Cincinnati has only gotten above average of 30,000 six before in its history–the Big Red Machine years of 1976, 1977, and 1978, and in 1993, 1994, and 2000. It's never gotten above 35,000.
There's unreasonable expectation, and there's historical reality.
- thomas844 - Sep 25, 2013 at 5:52 PM
How about Ludwick focuses on his hitting instead of the fans? The Mets walked Votto FIVE TIMES the other day to get to him and he didn't do a thing the whole game. You said it best Craig, if he wants the fans to have energy, he needs to help give them a reason to have it.
- Marty McKee - Sep 25, 2013 at 5:55 PM
At this point, he's lucky to be in the lineup. I would start Choo in LF and Hamilton in CF, at least for the postseason, and use Ludwick as a pinch-hitter with runners on base. Giving him a 2-year contract was a bad idea. Not just because it was unlikely he could repeat what he did the 2nd half of last year (remember, his first half of 2012 was awful), but it also kept Jocketty from trading for somebody better to play LF while Ludwick was on the DL.
- gosport474 - Sep 25, 2013 at 7:29 PM
Spot on analysis, Marty. As a Reds fan, I cringed when they signed Ludwick for two years when every statistical measure showed him him in a steep decline the three years prior to Cincinnati. The last three months of last season were more than likely a small aberration. In fact, his best season in '08 is most likely an outlier, and at age 35, the decline is likely to continue.
- joshbresser - Sep 26, 2013 at 12:59 AM
I still don't see how the Reds didn't, at the very least, block the Pirates from getting Marlon Byrd.
If they force him on you, you have a .280 average along with 22 homers to jam in your lineup for the cost of about 100k.
- irishdodger - Sep 25, 2013 at 6:11 PM
Meanwhile journeymen ballplayers make millions via guaranteed multi-year contracts. Ludwick is probably pro-socialized medicine…provided he doesn't have be a consumer of it.
- vikesfansteve - Sep 25, 2013 at 7:13 PM
More like the umpires calling pitches 4 inches off the plate strikes saving his bacon…
- Uncle Charlie - Sep 25, 2013 at 7:33 PM
If anybody actually showed up for the games, they would be insulted.
- mattysold - Sep 25, 2013 at 8:40 PM
WOW! Some stones on this guy. I think the pitching staff should call out the reds hitters, Ludwig especially for lack of Run support. Any coincidence Votto's avg dropped since he's been back? He should have stayed on the DL. Lose 2 of 3 to the Brewers and now the Met's in the last 2 weeks. Wonder why fans are frustrated. We'll be there for the playoffs, will you?
- sportsfan69 - Sep 25, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Hey Ludwick why don't you hit ball. As matter of fact, whole team looks like their sleep walking. Two runs in 18 innings against the pitiful Mets pitching staff. Shut up and do your job.
- jm91rs - Sep 25, 2013 at 10:07 PM
I wish the reds fans were more supportive too, but thanks to ludwick and company the few fans that came to the game went home pretty bummed out. 2 of 3 from the mets? Losing record in September? I hope they figure that crap out or it will be one and done and the fans won't have a chance to see a playoff game.
- joshbresser - Sep 26, 2013 at 12:55 AM
Here are his full comments, by the way:
"Coming over here, I heard about how big a baseball town this is. We've put a
winning ballclub out there three of the last four years. This is a good team. When we went to Pittsburgh, they had an advantage. Fans were loud. A playoff atmosphere. Ludwick said he had an epiphany of sorts Wednesday. With two outs in the Reds 9th, he heard a woman in the fifth row behind the home dugout, loudly taking the fans to task. "We have a great team and our fans f—— suck,'' she said, according to Ludwick. He said a Mets player raised similar issues Tuesday night: "You guys are in the middle of a pennant race and no one's here. What's going on?'' Said Ludwick, "I might be be calling (fans) out. But I'm calling them out in a positive way. We want loud and energetic. It's like a natural Red Bull. We need every positive aspect we can to keep this thing going.''
Where even to begin with this? I don't know which is worse, the guy with nearly a -1 WAR reaming fans for not doing their job, or the assumption that it's the *fans'* jobs the players don't get pumped up. You're making 14 million (undeserved) dollars over the next 2 years, and you're on a team headed to the playoffs. That's motivation there. You pump the fans up, they're there to see you, not the other way around. The fans are the reason why you get to play baseball for a living instead of working at a Burger King or whatever. The fact that these comments followed a 1-0 loss to Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Mets (after losing 4-2 the night before) is just funny. The Mets walked the guy in front of you 5 times in one game, and you nearly set the MLB record for men left on base (10 LOB, 12 is the record.) What is there to get pumped up about that?
You want loud and energetic? We want better than .250/.300, no power.
- joshbresser - Sep 26, 2013 at 12:57 AM
By all means, Ryan, forfeit your 8.5 million dollar salary next year and head back to the Pirates and that great atmosphere they have. I'm sure they'll have a parade just for your return- that .232/.341/.330 (2 HR) slashline you posted for them was the stuff of Bucco legends.
- stoutfiles - Sep 26, 2013 at 8:54 AM
I'm sure Reds fans would get pumped if they put Ludwick on the bench for the rest of the year. Put Choo in LF and Hamilton in CF. Problem solved. Choo has been great all year and Hamilton is both fresh and hungry; he doesn't need to get amped up by the crowd to play hard.
- cincinata - Sep 26, 2013 at 9:15 AM
I don't blame anyone in particular for this team's poor results. They are a good team, just not the best team out there. I gave up on these guys just recently after coming home to lose 2 out of 3 to the Mets. Hamilton is not the answer. There are problems with this team scoring runs and especially hitting with men on base. The opposition can neutralize Chapman by leading the Reds going into the 9th. Also, Hamilton is not going to beat you if no one hits after he steals 2nd base. That is the major problem. And, I heard Phillips comments something about swagger being the most important or very important part of the team. At the same time, the Cardinals (with no swagger) cleaned up the very hot Wash. Nat's 3 in a row. Ludwig had nothing to do with that, even though he is not contributing now. Personally, I am thinking the Pirates win 2 out of 3 this weekend.
- cincinata - Sep 26, 2013 at 9:16 AM
I don't blame anyone in particular for this team's poor results. They are a good team, just not the best team out there. I gave up on these guys just recently after coming home to lose 2 out of 3 to the Mets. Hamilton is not the answer. There are problems with this team scoring runs and especially hitting with men on base. The opposition can neutralize Chapman by leading the Reds going into the 9th. Also, Hamilton is not going to beat you if no one hits after he steals 2nd base. That is the major problem. And, I heard Phillips comments something about swagger being the most important or very important part of the team. At the same time, the Cardinals (with no swagger) cleaned up the very hot Wash. Nat's 3 in a row. Ludwig had nothing to do with that, even though he is not contributing now. Personally, I am thinking the Pirates win 2 out of 3 this weekend. No swagger in the world will fix that!
- xblac1d - Sep 26, 2013 at 4:38 PM
Maybe it's happened & I've missed it but do Rays players (worst attendance in MLB)use the lack of "energy" from their fans as an excuse for losing 2 of 3 from a team like the Mets?
An excuse is just that,if YOU'RE 2 games back of a division title energy should be coming from your clubhouse.
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- Sulphuric acid, ammonia, amines, and oxidised organics play a crucial role in nanoparticle formation in the atmosphere. In this study, we investigate the composition of nucleated nanoparticles formed from these compounds in the CLOUD chamber experiments at CERN. The investigation is carried out via analysis of the particle hygroscopicity, ethanol affinity, oxidation state, and ion composition. Hygroscopicity was studied by a hygroscopic tandem differential mobility analyser and a cloud condensation nuclei counter, ethanol affinity by an organic differential mobility analyser and particle oxidation level by a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer. The ion composition was studied by an atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight mass spectrometer. The volume fraction of the organics in the particles during their growth from sizes of a few nanometers to tens of nanometers was derived from measured hygroscopicity assuming the Zdanovski-Stokes-Robinson relationship, and compared to values gained from the spectrometers. The ZSR-relationship was also applied to obtain the measured ethanol affinities during the particle growth, which were used to derive the volume fractions of sulphuric acid and the other inorganics (e.g. ammonium salts). In the presence of sulphuric acid and ammonia, particles with a mobility diameter of 150 nm were chemically neutralised to ammonium sulphate. In the presence of oxidation products of pinanediol, the organic volume fraction of freshly nucleated particles increased from 0.4 to ∼0.9, with an increase in diameter from 2 to 63 nm. Conversely, the sulphuric acid volume fraction decreased from 0.6 to 0.1 when the particle diameter increased from 2 to 50 nm. The results provide information on the composition of nucleated aerosol particles during their growth in the presence of various combinations of sulphuric acid, ammonia, dimethylamine and organic oxidation products.
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- To study the effect of galactic cosmic rays on aerosols and clouds, the Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets (CLOUD) project was established. Experiments are carried out at a 26.1 m3 tank at CERN (Switzerland). In the experiments, the effect of ionizing radiation on H2SO4 particle formation and growth is investigated. To evaluate the experimental configuration, the experiment was simulated using a coupled multidimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) – particle model. In the model the coupled fields of gas/vapor species, temperature, flow velocity and particle properties were computed to investigate mixing state and mixing times of the CLOUD tank's contents. Simulation results show that a 1-fan configuration, as used in first experiments, may not be sufficient to ensure a homogeneously mixed chamber. To mix the tank properly, two fans and sufficiently high fan speeds are necessary. The 1/e response times for instantaneous changes of wall temperature and saturation ratio were found to be in the order of few minutes. Particle nucleation and growth was also simulated and particle number size distribution properties of the freshly nucleated particles (particle number, mean size, standard deviation of the assumed log-normal distribution) were found to be distributed over the tank's volume similar to the gas species.


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Stressing stuff in my life at the moment.
One of my 'best friends' recently made friends with a guy and a girl. These two people gave me a hard time the first two years of my secondary school course. The boy bullied me for some course of my second year there, leaving my knees scared and I don't want to relate to the boy anyway and the girl spread rumours about me at school and I didn't make alot of friends because of her (she now has very little). I had a tough two years and I got really depressed on my 3rd year of secondary school. Recently, one of my best friends has be-friended them and I advised him it may not be a good idea. They boy said he was coming to my REAL best-friends concert last night, I posted on Facebook "I will literally cry of depression and get knives ready to slit if he comes" because he screams and shouts and he has an obsession with Hitler (yes, really.) So my 'friend' goes and grasses me up and now his brother wants to kill me because he's done "alot for me" What? Bully me the first two years of school!
Same with the girl, my friend posted something about how 'sexy' she was on my Facebook. My 'friend' grassed me up again, and now she's telling everyone to hate me. I'm really fed up with it and I had a two hour long argument with my 'friend' about it. He was saying "your being a d*ck and bullying them" I said "If you felt the pain they put me through then you'd feel the same too!" And he kept saying "It's not fair on them" and I said "I've done more for you than they ever will!" And now him and his 'gang' are trying to tell all my friends to stay away from me as I am evil. When actually most people say I'm the nicest person they have ever met as I'm there for them and my best-friend said "Screw them"
I don't know what to do, the kids brother cornered me in a street two weeks ago because I told his brother to stop invading my privacy and stalking all of my friends. So he cornered me and threatened me and my 'friend' said "don't call the police on him" so I did that for him. But I wish I did if I'm dead next time he see's me.
It's coming to the point I don't want to leave my home, goto school and not even finish my school course and try and get to University I am that scared. Can someone please help!
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LADY COUGARS DROP TWO CLOSE GAMES IN COLUMBIAMarch 8, 2014
COLUMBIA - The Cleveland State softball team hit the road for a weekend Region VII Conference four-game set with Columbia State. The Lady Cougars saw a lead slip away in the late innings in both games of Friday's doubleheader as the Lady Chargers came back to capture a 5-2 win in game one and then scored six times in their final two at-bats to take a dramatic comeback win in game two, 11-10.
Cleveland State jumped on top with a run in their very first at-bat in game one. Sara O'Rear singled and moved to second on a nice sacrifice bunt by Leslie Nunnelly. Kristen Qualls then singled in the first run of the day.
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Columbia State then took control of game one with three big runs in their half of the fifth. Hayley Smothers singled in a run while an error and a sacrifice fly finished the inning and gave the home team a 5-2 lead.
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Oops, i posted the samething. Didn't noticed you did already. They say two great minds think alike though. Funny!
Reggie, next home game (Atl)... do the Heisman pose when you score a TD!!!! They can have the trophy but not what you did to get the award.
For the right price, i don't see this being a bad pick up. Fargas has a unique running style to go with his power.
Alright, enough already!
Joey Porter!!!
Fujita played OLB in a 4-3 defense and now headed to play inside on a 3-4 defense. Vilma was inside in a 3-4 and now is a fool with it on a 4-3 defense. With that being said, Joey Porter can play either 3-4 or 4-3 OLB. One things for sure, Porter can rush the passer. 17 sacks a year ago and like 9 last season. Hmmmm....
Joey Porter's lost fire is still much better than any of the Scott boys the Saints had last year. Although they did win the big one the two Scotts, but Joey Porter is by far a better athlete at the OLB position. Only knock on J. Porter is his loud mouth. But not you nor anyone can knock this man play... his numbers don't lie. Check'em!!!
Fujita now a Brown. Let's get Joey Porter asap!
Fujita now a Brown. Let's get Joey Porter asap!
Joey Porter!!! I think that would be a nice fit with Vilma. Just wishful thinking though. Don't see the Saints getting that loud mouth but dude is a baller at the OLB position.
Every game won't be pretty, have some faith! Saints will win!
Next guy in line, time to step up. Lord, i hope the guys don't take these Rams lightly. Any given Sunday!
Saints win though.
The Raiders are that darn bad. I mean C'mon man!!! Not taking anything from NYG but the Raiders sorry.
Saints by 10! Take my word.
Yeah man, Arrington had his chance. He's not going to the practice squad. For what, when his hammy can't get right. Can't practice anyways.
Notice how the audio (what he's saying) is faster than his mouth. LOL, like them old Bruce Lee movies.
Even if the Saints was have a season like last year, Sean Payton still not going anywhere. Believe that!!!
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The Nature of Art
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Roger Kimball's "Clement Green-berg: An Appreciation" [September] came as a disappointment. Green-berg's vaunted high seriousness and admirable powers of analysis notwithstanding, his work merits a greater disavowal than Mr. Kimball seemed able or willing to offer.
Identifying the fundamental cause of the disintegration that permeates and threatens to undermine our culture may be difficult, . . . but the idea that art need not contain recognizable subject matter is one sensible place from which to begin a diagnosis. Green-berg did not invent that notion, but his acceptance of it appears to have been unequivocal, and he is probably more closely identified with it than any other recent figure of such intellectual authority and acclaim.
The idea itself is corrupt and destructive, implying either that pure form is as significant as human experience or that art need not signify. Both implications are false. Form exists as a critical component of art, but form alone does not constitute art. The representation of human experience does, and the assertion of that simple and basic truth might be the single strongest point from which to undertake the reintegration and revitalization of our enervated culture. . . .
Harvey Gordon
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Harvey Gordon is hardly the first person to object that abstract art is an engine of social and moral disintegration. Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin thought so; as in fact did Adolf Hitler, who delivered an impassioned speech linking "so-called modern art" and "Germany's collapse and general decline" when he opened the Great Exhibition of German Art in 1937. Today, a fashionable school of Marxist criticism in the academy blames the New York School of abstract painters for helping the United States government prosecute the cold war. I mention this by way of background.
The real issue—and it is a deep issue—concerns the place of form in aesthetic experience. Mr. Gordon's fundamental error, I believe, is in thinking that the experience of form and "human experience" are necessarily at odds. He prefers his paintings to display naturalistic illusion, which is certainly his prerogative. But if painting is to be more than an exercise in nostalgia, reminding us of objects that happen to be absent, then questions of form immediately begin to intrude. When we ask about the quality of a specific work of art, and begin to compare it with other works, then questions of form become paramount.
I suspect that Mr. Gordon's association of social disintegration and abstract art is based partly on the notion that an interest in "pure form" is a recent development. He may, therefore, find some solace in contemplating the following passage from Plato's Philebus:
When I say "beauty of form," I am trying to express, not what most people would understand by the words, such as beauty of animals or of painting, but I mean . . . the straight line and the circle and the plane and the solid figures formed from these. . . . For I assert that the beauty of these is not relative, like that of other things, but they are always absolutely beautiful by nature and afford peculiar pleasures in no way comparable with the pleasures of scratching. . . .


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The solar collector structure includes a solar collector for deriving heat from the sun for useful heating purposes. The collector structure is pivotally mounted and means are provided to pivot the structure during daylight hours to follow the sun and receive the maximum amount of heat available. The means for pivoting the solar structure includes bellows which are expanded and contracted in accordance with the angle at which the solar structure is positioned with respect to the sun.
1. A solar collector structure comprising a solar collector including a tubular structure for the passage of fluid therethrough for the purpose of heating the same, a box-like case including a back and at least two parallel vertically extending, spaced apart side walls extending perpendicularly to the back at each side thereof on each side of and in spaced relation to the tubular structure, a vertically extending cylindrical post adjacent to and in spaced relation to the case, means pivotally mounting the case on the post for pivotal movement about the vertical axis of the cylindrical post, a separate container positioned immediately adjacent each side wall of the case whereby the side walls of the case shade the containers from the sun's rays impinging on the case in accordance with the orientation of the case, fixed means secured to the post, bellows positioned between the case and the fixed means secured to the post on each side of the post, conduit means connected between the interior of each container and the interior of the bellows closest thereto, and a charge of volatile fluid in each of said containers, said fluid in each container vaporizing when heated by the sun resulting in pressurizing the connected bellows and tending to cause the bellows to expand and cause the solar collector to pivot about the vertical axis of the post whereby the front of the case will tend to point in the direction of the sun's rays.
2. A solar collector structure as defined in claim 1, further characterized in that the means for pivotally supporting the case from the post comprises separate rings sleeved over the post vertically spaced apart thereon, means securing the rings to the case, and a collar secured to the post immediately beneath at least one of the rings.
3. A solar collector structure as defined in claim 1, further characterized in that said bellows are each located above the respective connected container.
4. A solar collector structure as defined in claim 1 further characterized in that said bellows each are pivotally connected to said fixed means and fixedly connected to said solar collector.
5. A solar collector structure as defined in claim 1, further characterized in the provision of motion dampening means between the solar collector and said fixed means.
6. A solar collector structure as defined in claim 5 wherein the motion dampening means is piston and cylinder structure.
Various systems for collecting and utilizing solar energy for heating purposes have been proposed in the past. Generally, in such systems, solar collector devices have been strategically placed in outdoor areas to receive sun rays. Fluids are passed through the solar collectors and absorb heat from such collectors. Such fluids are moved from the solar collector to a point where the heat which is collected from the sun is ultimately utilized for heating purposes.
It is desirable that the solar collectors be positioned as nearly as possible to receive sun rays directly. One technique which has been utilized in the past is to fixedly position the solar collectors so that the collector will receive an optimum amount of sun rays during the course of a day. Such fixed installations inherently result in a compromise situation wherein the sun rays do not directly impinge against the collector during some period of the day, usually in the morning and evening.
Systems have been proposed wherein the solar collector is rotated during the day to follow the path of the sun. In such systems, electric motors have usually been used as the means for rotating the collector. Electric motors have the disadvantage of being relatively high in cost, require the consumption of electrical energy during use, and necessitate maintenance and repair costs. A system has also been proposed wherein heated fluid in canisters is moved from one side of the collector to another to cause a weight imbalance, causing movement of the collector.
The present invention proposes means for pivoting a solar collector which involve vaporizaton of refrigerant to operate a bellows construction. The system is inherently economical in design and effective in use. The number of operative parts is minimal, thereby reducing the need and cost of maintenance and repair.
The solar collector structure comprises a solar collector which includes a tubular structure for the passage of fluid therethrough for the purpose of heating the same. Fixed means pivotally mount the collector for angular movement to position the collector during the course of a day to directly face the sun. A container is positioned on each side of the vertical center of the tubular structure. Shading means are provided on the collector for each of the containers. The shading means for each container block sun rays from impinging on surface portions of the container located on the side thereof opposite the vertical center of the tubular structure. A bellows is positioned on each side of the vertical center of the tubular structure. The bellows are connected between the tubular structure and the fixed means. Conduit means are connected between the interior of each container and the interior of the adjacent bellows. A charge of a volatile fluid is provided in each of the containers. The fluid in each container vaporizes when heated by the sun, resulting in pressurizing the connected bellows and tending to cause the bellows to expand with resultant pivoting of the solar collector.
FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of the solar collector structure illustrating one embodiment in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of the solar collector structure of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the solar collector structure of FIG. 1, with portions broken away for the purpose of clarity.
Referring to FIG. 1, the solar collector structure 10 includes a solar collector 12 which is pivotally mounted on an upright post 14 by means of upper and lower rings 16, 18 which are connected to solar collector casing 20 by means of support elements 22, 24. A collar 26 is fixedly secured to a lower portion of the post 14. Lower ring 18 rests on the collar 26 to thereby support the solar collector 12 in the position illustrated. The post 14 is supported by means of a base 28 which may be firmly secured to the ground.
Any of a variety of commercially available solar collectors may be used in connection with the present invention. Such solar collectors may be used individually, as illustrated, or may be connected in banks. The illustrated solar collector comprises a box-like casing 20 in which is mounted a metallic plate 30. The plate 30 is normally blackened to result in maxium absorption of heat. A transparent plate 32 is placed on the front of casing 20. Sun rays readily pass through plate 32 to heat the collector structure. However, plate 32 tends to prevent reverse movement of heat.
A tubular structure 34 is secured on the face of plate 30 in heat transfer relation thereto. The structure 34 comprises a plurality of parallel tubes 36 connected at each end by tubular manifolds 38, 40. Conduit 42 is connected to inlet 44 and conduit 46 is connected to outlet 48.
As is common, relatively cool fluid passes into lower manifold 40 via inlet 44. This fluid passes through tubes 36 and thence into manifold 38 and exits via outlet 48. The conduits 42, 46 are connected to a remote point wherein heat is extracted from the fluid which has been heated as a result of its passage through the collector. The fluid used for the system may be, for example, water or like fluids in which the sensible heat is extracted, or the fluid may be refrigerant which boils from a liquid to a vapor in the collector, the vapor subsequently being condensed to give up the latent heat.
A cylindrical container 50, 52 is mounted within casing 20, one on each side of the vertical center of tubular structure 34. One of the containers 50 is on one side of the plate 30 while the other container 52 is on the other side of the plate 30. Each of the containers 50, 52 is positioned so as to absorb sun rays. The containers are placed closely adjacent casing side walls 54, 56 so that generally the front portion and inside portions only of the containers may receive sun rays. The outer surface portions of the containers are shaded from the sun by means of the side walls 54, 56.
A pair of spaced apart bellows 58, 60 are connected to the exterior surface of the casing back wall 62. The bellows 58, 60 are spaced about an equal distance from the vertical center of the casing.
A pair of outwardly extending arms 64, 66 are secured to post 14 in alignment with the bellows 58, 60, as by welding at 68, 70. Each of the arms carries a bracket 72, 74. The outer ends of the bellows carry projecting elements 76, 78 which are pivotally secured to the brackets by means of pins 80, 82. The upper end of each of the containers 50, 52 is connected to the interior of bellows 58, 60 by means of conduits 84, 86. The containers 50, 52 are charged with a readily vaporizable refrigerant material, such as a fluorinated hydrocarbon or methylchloride.
A piston and cylinder type motion dampener 61 is pivotally connected between arm 66 and collector 12 to prevent fluttering in the wind.
In operation of the structure 10, as best seen in FIG. 3, when the sun is positioned to the left of the solar collector 12, the sun rays will assume the angle illustrated by arrows 88, 90, 92, 94. Illustratively, only one arrow 88 forming part of the potential amount of sunlight which could impinge on container 50 will actually impinge upon the container. The remaining potential sunlight will be absorbed by side wall 54. On the other hand, about three times as much sunlight, represented by arrows 90, 92, 94, will impinge upon container 52. This will result in container 52 becoming warmer than container 50. The refrigerant within container 52 will boil and a portion thereof will vaporize. The vaporized refrigerant will move, as a consequence of its own vapor pressures, into bellows 60. This will cause bellows 60 to expand. Some of the refrigerant in container 50 may also vaporize. However, the vapor pressure resulting in bellows 60 will be greater than in bellows 58, resulting in bellows 60 expanding while bellows 58 is forced to contract. This will cause the solar collector 12 to be pivoted to the dotted line position illustrated. In this position, the sun rays are more directly impinging upon the plate 30 and tubes 36, resulting in a more efficient collection of sun energy. Movement of the collector 12 will continue until the pressures in the containers equalizes.
As will be appreciated, as the sun moves, the angle of the sun rays will change. As this occurs, the amount of the rays impinging upon containers 50, 52 will change, resulting in variation of the vapor pressure in bellows 58, 60 in such a manner that the solar collector 12 will be constantly shifted in position to follow the sun as it passes from one position to another during the day. About a 120° pivot of the solar collector 12 appears to be satisfactory to accomodate the hours of sunlight during the period of a day.
The bellows 58, 60 are located above the containers 50, 52 so that when the refrigerant condenses from vapor to liquid in the bellows it will return to the containers by gravity.
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