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BenQ Joybook Lite U121 Eco netbook
BenQ's new netbook has a big 11.6-inch screen and long battery life
- 11.6in screen with a 1366x768 resolution, long battery life, large keyboard
- Keyboard is bouncy and keys are too stiff, lots of unused chassis space
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The Joybook Lite U121 Eco is a good option for anyone who wants a big netbook with long battery life. It has an 11.6in screen and a mostly full-sized keyboard, and a 6-cell battery. However, its build quality could be better and we'd like BenQ to include options for a 3G module and a solid state drive.
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BenQ's Joybook Lite U121 Eco is more than a typical netbook. It has a large 11.6in screen with a 1366x768 resolution, and this has allowed BenQ to install a full-sized keyboard on the wider chassis.
But while the bigger screen and keyboard go a long way to making this netbook more desirable than most, it's by no means one of the best models on the market. Despite the bigger keyboard and therefore bigger keys, the keyboard is a little bouncy, the keys are too hard to press and their response is not crisp. As such, they can feel uncomfortable to type on, plus a couple of keys are so small they can be hard to press without hitting the adjoining — especially if you're a touch typist. The colon, comma and forward slash keys are 13mm wide compared to 17.5mm for the alphanumeric keys.
The good news is that Benq has designed the keyboard with the keys are in the customary positions, so you won't have to hunt for the location of the delete key or press the function key instead of the control key when copying and pasting content.
At 11.6in, the screen size of the BenQ Joybook Lite U121 Eco represents a good balance between portability and usability, so if you can get the hang of the bouncy keyboard and stiff keys, you won't get tired when typing on it for long periods of time. The higher screen resolution also allows you to work on more than one window at a time; so you can easily have a Web browser open alongside a document window. That's not something you can do with most of the other netbooks on the market.
When it comes to speed, the Joybook Lite U121 Eco is not especially fast compared to other netbooks. It ships with an Intel Atom Z530 CPU, which runs at 1.6GHz and has a 533MHz front side bus; it has 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM, and a 160GB, 5400rpm, Serial ATA hard drive (a Seagate ST916031 4AS model). In our MP3 encoding test, the Joybook recorded a time of 8min 20sec, which is a middle-of-road result. Its hard drive transfer speed of 16.56 megabytes per second (MBps) is faster than the previous BenQ netbook we tested (the Joybook Lite U101) yet it's slower than the 20MBps we expected.
Overall the Joybook Lite U121 Eco felt responsive when launching programs and switching windows. It has an Intel GMA 500 graphics adapter, which is a little more powerful than the GMA 950 graphics present on most netbooks on the market, as it gives the netbook a little more oomph when it comes to playing videos. You can play high-definition content (720p) without noticing any tearing or stuttering in the video.
If you regularly use your laptop while travelling, you'll appreciate the large, 6-cell, 56.94 Watt hour battery that's available for the U121 Eco. It lasted 4hr 51min in our video rundown test, in which we loop a video while the screen brightness is full and the wireless radio is enabled. This is a good result and one of the main reasons you may want to consider this netbook over others available at present.
BenQ touts a Quick Charge feature for this netbook, saying that the battery can be charged in one hour to provide up to six hours of life. In our tests, it took us 1hr 29min to fully charge the 56.94Wh battery, which then provided us with just less than five hours of life. But the life of the battery will depend greatly on how you use the netbook. We sometimes ran into a quirk with the battery when trying to charge it; the battery would not accept a charging signal until we removed it and re-inserted it.
The 6-cell battery gives the Joybook Lite U121 Eco a weight of 1.45kg, which is a little on the heavy side for a netbook, but the added battery life and big screen are worth the extra grams. The netbook's build quality is adequate (apart from the keyboard, which we think could be improved) and it balances nicely on your lap. It also doesn't feel hot when you use it over a long period of time — primarily because the large chassis gives the internal components plenty of air circulation.
In fact, there is plenty of room in the chassis due to a couple of empty slots — one is for a solid state drive, the other is for a 3G module (there is a SIM reader in the battery compartment). Unfortunately, neither option is available for purchase in Australia. BenQ does include an 802.11n wireless networking adapter, Bluetooth, 10/100 Ethernet, a built-in webcam, three USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot, a D-Sub port and microphone and headphone jacks in the Joybook Lite U121 Eco.
BenQ could have added a lot more feature wise to this netbook — especially when you consider the free internal space — but the Joybook Lite U121 Eco doesn't differ greatly from the other netbooks, save for the bigger screen and keyboard. Nevertheless, this offering is a good option for anyone who feels that a 10in netbook is just too cramped to use.
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Enlarged Thought in Arendt and Kant
By Jeffrey Champlin
"The greater the reach — the larger the realm in which the enlightened individual is able to move from standpoint to standpoint — the more 'general' will be his thinking. This generality, however, is not the generality of the concept — for example, the concept 'house,' under which on can then subsume various kinds of individual buildings. It is, on the contrary, closely connected with the particulars, with the particular conditions of the standpoints one has to go through in order to arrive at one's own 'general standpoint.'"
-- Hannah Arendt, Kant Lectures, sixth session
In her Kant Lectures, Arendt draws a bold vision of Kant's political philosophy out of the Enlightenment thinker's Critique of Judgment. Famously, Kant turns to aesthetics after having revolutionized the theory of knowledge in The Critique of Pure Reason, and moral philosophy in the Critique of Practical Reason.
Feel the Bern: Understanding The Spirit of Political Revolution
By Dawn Herrera Helphand
"The failure of post-revolutionary thought to remember the revolutionary spirit and understand it conceptually was preceded by the failure of the revolution to provide it with a lasting institution."
-- Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
Among the surprising elements of the Bernie Sanders campaign is the candidate's unapologetic call for a "political revolution" and the electorate's apparent response. The radicalism of the term "revolution" and the unexpected breadth of its appeal ought to give us pause. Arguably, "general dissatisfaction, widespread malaise, and contempt for those in power"--the political sentiments that Hannah Arendt identified as revolution's causes--are much more widespread among voters in both parties than had been previously thought.
Critical Thinking, Judgment, and Empathy
By Jennie Han
**This article was originally published on April 1, 2013.**
"Critical thinking is possible only where the standpoints of all others are open to inspection. Hence, critical thinking, while still a solitary business, does not cut itself off from 'all others.' To be sure, it still goes on in isolation, but by the force of imagination it makes the others present and thus moves in a space that is potentially public, open to all sides; in other words, it adopts the position of Kant's world citizen. To think with an enlarged mentality means that one trains one's imagination to go visiting."
-- Hannah Arendt, Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy
Arendt's appeal to the "enlargement of the mind" of Kantian judgment is well known and is often discussed in relation to Eichmann's failure to think and recognize the world's plurality. To the extent that we find lessons in these discussions, a prominent one is that we might all be vulnerable to such failures of judgment.
The Dangers of Cynicism
By Jeffrey Jurgens
"In the circle around Socrates, there were men like Alcibiades and Critias—God knows, by no means the worst among his so-called pupils—and they had turned out to be a very real threat to the polis, and this not by being paralyzed by the electric ray but, on the contrary, by having been aroused by the gadfly. What they had been aroused to was license and cynicism."
--Hannah Arendt, "Thinking and Moral Considerations"
Hannah Arendt regards Socrates as an apt model for the kind of thinking she admired and championed. He was, in her words, "a citizen among citizens," a man who thought "without becoming a philosopher." For rather than imparting a substantive notion of virtue or truth, he sought to "unfreeze" sedimented concepts like justice, courage, and happiness so that his interlocutors might examine them anew.
Amor Mundi 3/1/15
Hannah Arendt considered calling her magnum opus Amor Mundi: Love of the World. Instead, she settled upon The Human Condition. What is most difficult, Arendt writes, is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. And yet she came to do just that. Loving the world means neither uncritical acceptance nor contemptuous rejection. Above all it means the unwavering facing up to and comprehension of that which is.
Every Sunday, The Hannah Arendt Center Amor Mundi Weekly Newsletter will offer our favorite essays and blog posts from around the web. These essays will help you comprehend the world. And learn to love it.
Amy Ireland is thinking about a genocide at the level of "genus-cide," the eradication of humanity itself. The threat is not weaponry but technology. And the exemplary precursor is the horse: "In the United States--where competition with the automobile was at its most intense--there were about 26 million horses in 1915. By the 1950s only 2 million remained." The question Ireland asks is whether humans are going the way of horses to be replaced by more efficient machines. Will artificially intelligent machines consume humans' fuel? "Far from being actively malevolent, an artificially intelligent agent endowed with enough power only needs to be indifferent to become a murderer. What are we, after all, but fuel? Atoms that can be freely disassembled and reassembled into something else - a thousand paperclip factories, for instance, or a massive supercomputer, capable of mathematical calculations we can't even begin to imagine in our current state of technological paucity. Even the clearly delimited goal of creating exactly one million paperclips can warrant the wasting of an entire planet, for a fully rational AI would never assign zero probability to the hypothesis that it has not yet achieved its goal.... There is something satisfying about imagining a malevolent artificial intelligence that actively wants to destroy us because it fears us, loathes us, or at least finds our existence frustrating and inconvenient. But the notion that something will destroy us out of sheer indifference is much harder to swallow because it forces us to consider the possibility of our utter insignificance. Bostrom surmises with all the level-headedness of a pure statistician that the odds against humanity's survival are overwhelmingly high. The default outcome of our construction of a single strong artificial intelligence is, quite plainly, extinction. His intention, naturally, is to raise awareness of the risks that lie behind this seemingly anodyne technological innovation and encourage governments, corporations or other entities that may one day attempt to build strong AI to implement rigorously tested control measures before letting the thing out of the box. All this is well and good, but it rests upon a deeper anthropomorphic supposition. What if the most radical gesture a flailing humanity can make at this juncture is not to increase its investment in security and control, but to pass it on? What if we are entangled in a larger evolutionary process that we never had control over in the first place? The real question then, might not be how to survive the construction of strong artificial intelligence but whether or not the survival of the human race is a good thing after all." Ireland is right to pose the question of "genus-cide," although her tone is a bit blithe. The threat is not the eradication of human beings but, as Arendt writes in The Human Condition, the loss of the human condition, those characteristics of being human like labor, work, action, and (sometimes) thinking. As Arendt writes, "This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself. There is no reason to doubt our abilities to accomplish such an exchange."
Karl Ove Knausgaard was commissioned to travel from Sweden to the Viking's first settlement in Newfoundland and then drive across the United States in order to reflect on the state of America. In part one of his two-part "Saga," Knausgaard offers this insight into a specifically American form of poverty, the poverty of imagination and the abandonment of distinction: "I'd seen poverty before, of course, even incomprehensible poverty, as in the slums outside Maputo, in Mozambique. But I'd never seen anything like this. If what I had seen tonight--house after house after house abandoned, deserted, decaying as if there had been disaster--if this was poverty, then it must be a new kind poverty, maybe in the same way that the wealth that had amassed here in the 20th century had been a new kind of wealth. I had never really understood how a nation that so celebrated the individual could obliterate all differences the way this country did. In a system of mass production, the individual workers are replaceable and the products are identical. The identical cars are followed by identical gas stations, identical restaurants, identical motels and, as an extension of these, by identical TV screens, which hang everywhere in this country, broadcasting identical entertainment and identical dreams. Not even the Soviet Union at the height of its power had succeeded in creating such a unified, collective identity as the one Americans lived their lives within. When times got rough, a person could abandon one town in favor of another, and that new town would still represent the same thing. Was that what home was here? Not the place, not the local, but the culture, the general?"
Peter Railton gave the John Dewey Lecture at the American Philosophical Association Meeting this year, where amidst reflections on philosophical thinking, personal courage, and political activism, he offered a guileless and moving account of his personal struggle with depression. "And what of depression? Perhaps we all know the mask of depression, that frozen, affectless face we catch glimpses of on our students, colleagues, and friends. I can't do anything about that. But perhaps I can do something about the face of depression--its visible image in the minds of our children and parents, teachers and students. Because in truth, we are still to a considerable degree still in a world of 'Don't ask, don't tell' with regard to depression and associated mental disorders, such as anxiety, even though these will severely affect one in ten of us over the course of a lifetime, and often at more than one point in a lifetime. So there's nothing for it. Those whose have dwelt in the depths depression need to come out as well. Some already have, but far too few adult men (big surprise!), and especially far too few of the adult men who somehow have come to bear the stamp of respectability and recognition, and thus are visible to hundreds of students and colleagues. It's no big deal, right? We're all enlightened about this. Then why do the words stick in my throat when I tell you that another theme uniting the three episodes I have recounted from my life, and that has played an equally important role in shaping my philosophy, is that they were all accompanied by my depression. This moody high school student, this struggling protester, this anxious young faculty member--they were all me and they were all living through major depressive episodes at the time. And there have been other such episodes, some more recent. Thankfully, for me and especially for my family who have been through so much already, not right now. Did others know? I don't know. Some must have guessed--perhaps those who themselves had known depression in their lives could see the mask of depression upon my face. But the thing is: I couldn't say it. I couldn't say, 'Look, I'm dying inside. I need help.' Because that's what depression is--it isn't sadness or moodiness, it is above all a logic that undermines from within, that brings to bear all the mind's mighty resources in convincing you that you're worthless, incapable, unloveable, and everyone would be better off without you. Not a steely-eyed, careful critique from which one might learn, but an incessant bludgeoning that exaggerates past errors while ignoring new information, eroding even the ability to form memories. A young man once had the courage to tell me, 'My brain is telling me to kill myself, but my body is saying "no."' Happily, his body won. But it doesn't always. Every year, thousands of young men don't win the battle. We are captive audiences to our own minds, and it can become intolerable." Depression, Railton suggests, is still in the closet, and this causes untold pain at colleges, where, as a recent study shows, the mental health of college Freshmen is at an all-time low--something that will not surprise any of us who teach in this nation's colleges and universities.
In Railton's speech on depression discussed above, he also has this tidbit on meetings: "Oscar Wilde is still right--because the cost of building a society where the people have more say in how their lives are run is still many, many meetings. What is a meeting, after all, but people deliberating together with a capacity to act as a group that is more than just a sum of individual actions, and this sort of informed joint action is a precondition for significant social change. Come together, decide together, act together, and bear the consequences together. We must own our institutions or they will surely own us. As Aristotle told us, one becomes a citizen not by belonging to a polity or having a vote, but by shouldering the tasks of joint deliberation and civic governance. And there is no civic or faculty governance, no oversight of discrimination in hiring and promotion, no regulation of pollutants, no organization of faculty or students to initiate curricular reform, no mobilization by professional associations to protect their most vulnerable members or to promote greater diversity, no increased humaneness in the treatment of animals and human subjects, no chance to offset arbitrariness and bullying within offices and departments, no oversight of progress and revision of plans in response to changing circumstances, without actual people who care spending long hours in the work of planning, meeting, and making things happens. The alternative is for all these decisions to be made at the discretion of those on high--or not at all." At a moment when faith and participation in all institutions is rare and the pursuit of individual pursuits comparatively common, Railton's reminder of what Arendt calls the power of talking and acting together is worth heeding.
David Cole writes that the Senate Torture Report, when read in full, leads to fundamentally different conclusions than most of the headlines and early accounts suggest. Above all, the report blaming the CIA for lying may have missed the real story: "The full story is more complicated, and ultimately much more disturbing, than the initial responses--mine included--suggested. And because these documents may be the closest we come to some form of accountability, it is essential that we get the lessons right.... So why did the committee focus on efficacy and misrepresentation, rather than on the program's fundamental illegality? Possibly because that meant it could cast the C.I.A. as solely responsible, a rogue agency. A focus on legality would have rightly held C.I.A. officials responsible for failing to say no--but it also would have implicated many more officials who were just as guilty, if not more so. Lawyers at the Justice Department wrote a series of highly implausible legal memos from 2002 to 2007, opining that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, confinement in coffinlike boxes, painful stress positions and slamming people into walls were not torture; were not cruel, inhuman or degrading; and did not violate the Geneva Conventions. The same can be said for President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and all the cabinet-level officials responsible for national security, each of whom signed off on a program that was patently illegal. The reality is, no one in a position of authority said no. This may well explain the committee's focus on the C.I.A. and its alleged misrepresentations. The inquiry began as a bipartisan effort, and there is no way that the Republican members would have agreed to an investigation that might have found fault with the entire leadership of the Bush administration. But while the committee's framing may be understandable as a political matter, it was a mistake as a matter of historical accuracy and of moral principle. The report is, to date, the closest thing to official accountability that we have. But by focusing on whether the program worked and whether the C.I.A. lied, the report was critically misleading. Responsibility for the program lies not with the C.I.A. alone, but also with everyone else, up to the highest levels of the White House, who said yes when law and morality plainly required them to say no."
The Little Voice Inside Your Head
Adam Phillips worries about what's inside us: "We are never as good as we should be; and neither, it seems, are other people. A life without a so-called critical faculty would seem an idiocy: what are we, after all, but our powers of discrimination, our taste, the violence of our preferences? Self-criticism, and the self as critical, are essential to our sense, our picture, of our so-called selves. Nothing makes us more critical--more suspicious or appalled or even mildly amused--than the suggestion that we should drop all this relentless criticism, that we should be less impressed by it and start really loving ourselves. But the self-critical part of ourselves, the part that Freud calls the super-ego, has some striking deficiencies: it is remarkably narrow-minded; it has an unusually impoverished vocabulary; and it is, like all propagandists, relentlessly repetitive. It is cruelly intimidating--Lacan writes of 'the obscene super-ego'--and it never brings us any news about ourselves. There are only ever two or three things we endlessly accuse ourselves of, and they are all too familiar; a stuck record, as we say, but in both senses--the super-ego is reiterative. It is the stuck record of the past ('something there badly not wrong', Beckett's line from Worstward Ho, is exactly what it must not say) and it insists on diminishing us. It is, in short, unimaginative; both about morality, and about ourselves. Were we to meet this figure socially, this accusatory character, this internal critic, this unrelenting fault-finder, we would think there was something wrong with him. He would just be boring and cruel. We might think that something terrible had happened to him, that he was living in the aftermath, in the fallout, of some catastrophe. And we would be right." In other words, critical thinking is essential, but let's also recall that it is dangerous. All thinking is an attack on the status quo and the common world in which we live. That is what Arendt means when she wrote, "There are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous." That doesn't mean we should stop thinking critically, but it does mean that thinking requires knowing when thinking is, and when it is not, needed. That is the moment of judgment.
Novelist Gary Shteyngart spent a week watching Russian television and living like a Russian oligarch: "Here is the question I'm trying to answer: What will happen to me--an Americanized Russian-speaking novelist who emigrated from the Soviet Union as a child--if I let myself float into the television-filtered head space of my former countrymen? Will I learn to love Putin as 85 percent of Russians profess to do? Will I dash to the Russian consulate on East 91st Street and ask for my citizenship back? Will I leave New York behind and move to Crimea, which, as of this year, Putin's troops have reoccupied, claiming it has belonged to Russia practically since the days of the Old Testament? Or will I simply go insane? A friend of mine in St. Petersburg, a man in his 30s who, like many his age, avoids state-controlled TV and goes straight to alternative news sources on the Internet, warns me in an email: 'Your task may prove harmful to your psyche and your health in general. Russian TV, especially the news, is a biohazard.' I'll be fine, I think. Russians have survived far worse than this. But, just in case, I have packed a full complement of anti-anxiety, sleep and pain medication."
Andy Greenwald considers what made the recently concluded sitcom Parks and Recreation successful and what it's legacy might be: "Art doesn't always have to be a dark mirror reflecting reality. It can and should also be a window, thrown open to let in every last bit of possible light. Parks and Recreation never quite resembled the real America. But every episode was imbued with the idea that maybe it could, if only we, the people, cared a little more and tried a little harder. The Wire, the greatest drama of the young 21st century, left us with a tough legacy to reckon with. Parks and Rec, the best comedy of that same century, gifted us with a beautiful model to which we can collectively aspire. I doubt the future will be as bleak as David Simon's vision for it or as rosy as Mike Schur's. The joy of being a TV fan is that we get to consider both. That's not a cop-out, by the way. That's a compromise, and one that even President Leslie Knope could accept. After all, Parks was built on the bedrock belief that opposing ideas could not only have merit, they could coexist. Like the show itself, it's an idea that sounds simple but in practice is anything but."
Lunchtime Talk with Ari-Elmeri Hyvonen, a Hannah Arendt Center Visiting Fellow
"Arendt's Critique of Modern Society as an Analysis of Process Imaginary"
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, 1:00 pm
Now Accepting Applications for Post-Doctoral Fellowships!
The Hannah Arendt Center announces three post-doctoral fellowships for the 2015-2016 academic year.
To learn more about the fellowships, including how to apply, click here.
Application Deadline: Thursday, March 5, 2015
HAC Virtual Reading Group - Session #5
HAC members at all levels are eligible to participate in a monthly reading group led online via a telecommunication website by Roger Berkowitz, Director of the Hannah Arendt Center.
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Friday, March 6, 2015
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"Figuring Rights: Wollstonecraft and the Right to Political Community
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The Hannah Arendt Center, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Film Screening, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake and Director's Discussion by Michael Lessac
Synopsis: A diverse group of South African actors tours the war-torn regions of Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia to share their country's experiment with reconciliation. As they ignite a dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must once again confront their homeland's violent past, and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
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Courage To Be: Lecture and Dinner Series, with Uday Mehta
Putting Courage at the Centre: Gandhi on Civility, Society and Self-Knowledge
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This invention relates to an apparatus forming a container convertible into an air cushion support.
Known is a GEM kit for an automobile that can be converted into an air cushion support for the automobile comprising a rigid platform with a detachable flexible air cushion skirt, there being mounted on this platform removable propulsion and blowing means, steering gear and means for coupling them to the automobile units (U.S. Pat. No. 3,270,827).
But complete dismemberment of the rigid sectionalized platform and storage of all the parts of the automobile air cushion support in the automobile itself increase platform assembly time and reduce effective load-carrying capacity of the automobile. Besides, when vehicles with different wheelbase dimensions are used it is necessary to have several modifications of center sections of the rigid sectionalized platform which creates additional inconveniences in operation.
Also known is a trailer-container for a vehicle that can be converted into its air cushion support, comprising a rigid folding base composed of hingedly connected main and perimeter sections and provided with a flexible inflatable air cushion guard; further comprising detachably mountable rotor-type propulsion and blowing means, steering gear and means for coupling them to corresponding drives of a vehicle, as well as means for coupling the vehicle to the trailer-container base (PCT RU 92100078, dated Apr. 15, 1992).
The known trailer-container when unfolded constitutes a rigid platform. Its main sections together with perimeter sections are rigidly fixed so as to avoid folding of the base around its hinge joints.
It should be noted that such rigidity of the base necessitates reinforcing it in order to avoid plastic deformations which may occur in the process of operation and this leads to weight increase and reduces payload of the air cushion support.
Besides, functional capabilities of the aforementioned analogs are limited because in non-operational condition they can be transported only as a supplementary kit in a body of a vehicle or hauled as a trailer.
Their functions are also limited in operational mode since they can be used only together with a vehicle, this vehicle also being a drive for their propulsion and blowing means.
Primary objects of the invention are: first, to create an apparatus of a design that would permit to an extension of its functional capabilities both in operational and non-operational conditions; second, to make this apparatus a more simple construction and to increase its technical capabilities by creating a certain flexibility of the air cushion platform, thus enabling it to partially match a given terrain contour.
This task is accomplished as described below. The apparatus convertible into an air cushion support and foldable into a compact container comprises a folding base composed of hingedly linked main and perimeter sections, detachably mountable propulsion and blowing means with means for driving them, a detachable steering gear and a flexible inflatable air cushion skirt. According to the invention the aforementioned folding base is made as a flexible latticed structure. Main sections of the base are provided with transverse girders and with at least two longitudinal girders. Longitudinal girders are coupled to transverse girders by means of elastic and resilient coupling elements permitting limited displacements of the girders against each other and so the base with its sections unfolded and forming an air cushion support is given the capability of matching, to a certain extent, a given terrain contour.
Each elastic and resilient coupling element incorporates at least two coaxially placed bushings. These bushings interact through their outer surfaces with a fastening element of a girder going in one direction and through their inner surfaces and outer end faces with a fastening element of a girder going in another direction.
Each of these coaxially mounted bushings is made of vulcanized rubber or plastics.
Main sections of the base are fitted with double-pin three-link hinge joints permitting the apparatus to be folded into a compact container.
Besides, the apparatus is provided with rigid coupling elements for fixing main sections of the base in unfolded position, these rigid coupling elements being detachably mountable units.
Each of these rigid detachable coupling elements is made as a girder length interacting with responding elements located on longitudinal girders.
The lower surface of main and perimeter sections of the base is covered by elastic airtight sheet material, sheet overlapping one another.
This elastic airtight sheet material is arranged in such a way that it can form a chamber of the flexible inflatable skirt.
Besides, the flexible inflatable skirt together with the elastic airtight sheet material of main sections of the base are secured in an airtight fashion along outer perimeter of the lower surface of the base thus forming an inner cavity of an air cushion chamber.
Perimeter sections of the base and the flexible inflatable air cushion skirt are provided with fastening elements for connecting them in unfolded position and for further disconnecting them during successive fold-up of the apparatus into a compact container.
Besides, main sections of the base are provided with disengagable means for securing running of a vehicle when the vehicle is installed on the unfolded apparatus. In this case the vehicle suspension can damp disturbances occurring in the process of travel on a cushion of air.
Use of elastic and resilient coupling elements permits to make longitudinal and transverse girders such that they can be rearranged to match dimensions of a vehicle used.
Each propulsor-blower installation is provided with kinematic coupling for coupling it to a vehicle drive when the vehicle is installed on the air cushion support.
Besides, the apparatus is supplemented by means for hauling it as trailer by a vehicle after this apparatus has been folded into a compact container.
Advantages of the claimed invention will be more evident if illustrated by accompanying drawings and explained by detailed description given below.
FIG. 1 is a side view of the apparatus when folded into a compact container, standing on its own wheels.
FIG. 2 is a side view of the apparatus converted into an air cushion support, carrying an automobile.
FIG. 3 is a front view of the apparatus converted into an air cushion support, carrying an automobile.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a base with a flexible inflatable skirt, unfolded.
FIG. 5 is a plan view of FIG.4.
FIG. 6 is a view of fragment T of FIG.4.
FIG. 7 is a view of fragment T of FIG. 4, sections folded.
FIG. 8 is a view in cross-section taken on lines A--A of FIG.5 (turned).
FIG. 9 is a view in cross-section taken on lines B--B of FIG.5.
FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the apparatus at initial stage of unfolding (without skirt).
FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing the apparatus with perimeter sections beginning to open up (without skirt).
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the apparatus when unfolded (without skirt).
FIG. 13 is a side view of tile apparatus folded into a compact container.
FIG. 14 is a side view of the apparatus converted into an air cushion support.
FIG. 15 is a front view of the apparatus converted into an air cushion support.
Referring now to the drawings and describing this invention in detail, the apparatus convertible into an air cushion support and foldable into a compact container is used in two modes: passive mode and active mode.
In the passive mode the apparatus is folded into the compact container 1 (FIG. 13) and in this condition it can be carried by any transportation means.
Besides, to facilitate case of transportation the apparatus 1 can be put on its own wheels 2 and hauled as a trailer by the vehicle 3 (FIG. 1).
In the active mode the apparatus is converted into an air cushion support with its own drives (FIGS. 14, 15).
Besides, the apparatus when unfolded can accommodate the vehicle 3 (FIGS. 2, 3) and in this case a drive of the vehicle is used.
Generally, the apparatus comprises the folding base 4 (FIGS. 3, 4) on which there are the flexible inflatable skirt 5, detachably mountable rotor-type propulsion and blowing means 6 and the detachable steering gear 7 carried by and attached to this base.
When the apparatus is used together with a vehicle, the vehicle is secured to the disengagable brackets 8 (FIG. 3) mountable on the base 4. In this case the drive of the vehicle is coupled through the kinematic coupling means 9 to the propulsion and blowing means 6 to rotate an air cushion blower and an airscrew thus creating a controllable thrust. The kinematic coupling means used here permit the blower and the airscrew to function independently.
The latticed folding base 4 (FIGS. 4, 5) composed of the at least two main latticed sections 10 and latticed perimeter sections--the bow section 11, the rear section 12 and the side perimeter sections 13 forms the apparatus body structure. The triangular inserts 14 are mounted between the bow section and the side perimeter sections as well as between the rear section and the side perimeter sections. All the sections are fitted with hinge joints permitting the sections to be unfolded into a platform and folded back into a compact package. The main sections of the base are linked by the double-pin three-link hinge joints 15 (FIG. 4).
The hinges 16 (FIGS. 6, 7) of a three-link hinge-joint are secured to transverse girders of each main section of the base and through the pins 17 linked together by the extended middle link 18.
Each of the main sections of the base is fitted with the at least two longitudinal load-carrying girders 19 (FIGS. 4, 5) which interact through the elastic and resilient coupling elements 21 with the transverse girders 20 located under the longitudinal girders. Additional installation of longitudinal girders under transverse girders is possible.
The presence of the elastic and resilient coupling elements permits to make longitudinal and transverse girders such that they call be rearranged to match dimensions of a vehicle used.
Each of the coupling elements 21 is made of elastic and resilient material, for example rubber or plastic. Each of the coupling elements 21 incorporates the at least two coaxially mounted bushings 22 with conical outer surfaces, top parts of the working cones 23 facing each other. The bushings 22 interact through their outer surfaces with the fastening elements 24 of the transverse girder 20. At the same time, the inner surfaces 25 and the outer end faces 26 of the bushings 22 interact with fastening elements of a longitudinal girder, these fastening elements being made as the bushings 27, 28 with the washers 29 pulled together by the bolts 30.
Due to the presence of elastic and resilient coupling elements longitudinal and transverse girders are capable of limited displacements against each other thus transmitting to a platform with or without a vehicle a certain flexibility and permitting this platform to partially match, when translating or landing on ground, a given terrain contour whereby considerably reducing inner stresses in section structures of the base.
Such a design permits to reduce total weight of the apparatus and to increase load-carrying capacity of an air cushion support.
At tile same time it makes travel in a vehicle on an air cushion support more comfortable because the vehicle suspension, which in this case is being used, damps disturbances resulting from terrain roughness.
In order to avoid spontaneous folding up of unfolded base sections the apparatus is provided with the rigid detachable coupling elements 31 (FIGS. 4-6) mounted between the upper longitudinal girders 19. Each of these rigid coupling elements is made as a girder length looking in cross-section like an isosceles trapezoid. Sides of this girder length have flanges which interact with responding elements at ends of longitudinal girders of each section of the base. The mentioned rigid coupling elements are bolted to each section of the base by the bolts 32.
In order to reduce even more weight and to simplify the apparatus construction the lower surface of main sections is covered by the elastic airtight sheet material 33 (FIGS. 4, 7, and 8) of main sections made, for example, of rubberized cloth. The elastic airtight sheet material 34 covering lower surface of perimeter sections (FIG. 8) is made such that it can form the flexible inflatable skirt chamber 35. The elastic airtight sheet material 33, 34 of main and perimeter sections, being attached by the bolts 36 along outer perimeter of the base in an airtight fashion, forms the inner cavity 37 of an air cushion chamber (FIGS. 4, 8). Such a construction provides a solution to the problem of sealing simultaneously all the lines of folding available in such a structure.
To ensure a possibility of successive fold-up of perimeter sections and of the flexible inflatable skirt into a compact container and to fix the skirt in operational position they (the perimeter sections and the skirt) are fitted with the fastening elements 38 (FIG. 8) made, for example, as straps secured to a receiver and engaged by their holes with the hooks 39 on perimeter sections. With the purpose of securing a vehicle and propulsor-blower installations to an unfolded base the transverse girders 20 of main sections of the base are provided with the fastening elements 40 made as through holes (FIG. 8).
Use of the apparatus is described below.
To transform the apparatus forming a container into an air cushion support it is first unfolded to form a platform (FIGS. 10, 11, 12). The sections 10,11,12,13,14 are unfolded around their hinge joints into operational position. The rigid coupling elements 31 are mounted on the longitudinal girders 19 of the main sections 10 of the base 4 (FIGS. 4, 5, 6) fixing the base in unfolded position and preventing it from spontaneous fold-up. After that, drives of propulsion and blowing means (not shown) and the propulsion and blowing means 6 themselves are installed using the fastening elements 40. The drives are coupled to the propulsion and blowing means by the kinematic coupling 9. Next, the steering gear 7 is mounted and the flexible inflatable skirt 5 is attached to perimeter sections by means of the fastening elements 38,39. The sections are fixed in operational position (FIGS. 14, 15).
When the container is used as a trailer, being put on its own wheels 2 and hauled by a vehicle, it is necessary prior to performing the abovementioned procedures to dismount its coupler and wheels. The procedures for transforming the container into an air cushion support for the vehicle 3 will be here the same till the moment of installing the kinematic coupling 9. In this case the vehicle is driven onto the unfolded base over the rear section 12 which, after that, is closed and connected to perimeter sections. The vehicle is secured to the base 4 by means of the disengagable brackets 8 and the vehicle driving gear is coupled through the kinematic coupling 9 to the propulsion and blowing means 6. The steering gear 7 is now mounted as well as means for coupling it to the vehicle.
When the vehicle drive is placed in gear, vanes of the propulsion and blowing means start rotating and the assembled structure rises on a cushion of air. When power vanes are transferred from zero mode to operational mode the air cushion support translates on a cushion of air.
To convert the air cushion support back into a compact container or a trailer the reverse sequence is used.
The apparatus when converted into an air cushion support can be used to move across water or rough terrains being at the same time a more ecologically clean, if compared to others, transportation means which does no harm to ground surface or vegetation.
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Glimmerglass's rarely done 'King for a Day' a rare treat, well done
This zany production of Verdi's only comic opera before 'Falstaff' keeps the singers in chaos and the audience in stitches
Central City Opera celebrated the 60th anniversary of The Ballad of Baby Doe with a hip, canny, multi-faceted new production.
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Loving attention to the highest quality was everywhere evident in Des Moines Metro Opera's Manon.
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With the thermometers reaching boiling point, there's no doubt that summer has finally arrived in London. But, the sun seems to have been shining over the large marquee in Holland Park all summer.
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The champagne corks popped at the close of this year's Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance at the Royal Opera House, with Prince Orlofsky's celebratory toast forming a fitting conclusion to some superb singing.
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Two years ago, the well-established Des Moines Metro Opera experimented with a 2nd Stages program, with performances programmed outside of their home stage at Simpson College.
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The tense, three hour knock-down-drag-out seduction of Beauty by Pleasure consumed our souls in this triumphal evening. Forget Time and Disillusion as destructors, they were the very constructors of the beauty and pleasure found in this miniature oratorio.
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Said and done the audience roared its enjoyment of the performance, reserving even greater enthusiasm to greet stage director Christophe Honoré with applauding boos and whistles that bespoke enormous pleasure, complicity and befuddlement.
'A century after the Somme, who still stands with Britain?' So read a headline in yesterday's Evening Standard on the eve of the centenary of the first day of that battle which, 141 days later, would grind to a halt with 1,200,000 British, French, German and Allied soldiers dead or injured.
This zany production of Verdi's only comic opera before 'Falstaff' keeps the singers in chaos and the audience in stitches
The heroes of the Glimmerglass production of Verdi's rare — really rare — second opera, Un Giorno di Regno (King for a Day), are director Christian Rath, choreographer Eric Sean Fogel, and set and costume designer Court Watson. This trio has taken a work with a threadbare, unfunny plot, and only intermittingly inspired music, and transformed it into an afternoon of zaniness that delighted the audience in the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown.
Verdi wrote this work in 1840 when he was 27. It is his only comic opera until Falstaff, the final masterwork of his old age. Un Giorno was booed by the audience in Milan, in part because of poor singing, and it received but a single performance.
Verdi bounced back from this disappointment with his third opera, Nabucco, which is about as far in spirit from Un Giorno as one could get. He was clearly not looking in the rear-view mirror. Just as he abandoned the comic path, so has the work been abandoned by opera houses in the last 173 years, although Europe has seen a few mountings.
The Rath team put the six principal singers and the chorus through all sorts of physical activity — climbing, jumping, boxing, kissing, dancing, and swinging chairs at each other in a chaotic closing scene to Act 1 that is reminiscent of The Barber of Seville and The Italian Girl in Algiers, both by Rossini, whose presence hovers over Verdi in this creation. The site gags come so thick and fast and are so ingenious that the audience forgets this soufflé could collapse at any minute if the temperature is not kept at a high heat.
Ginger Costa-Jackson as Marchesa
Rath signaled to the audience that a circus was about to start by projecting clown-costume circles of color on a white curtain during the toe-tapping overture. Then, in the English titling (for a production sung in English), the audience was invited to attend a double wedding and to allow four hours "to clear security." Similar 21st century touches were interpolated in the text by Kelley Rourke, who did all she could to make this creaky story of young love thwarted (and then triumphant) relevant.
The stage business was so intricate, and non-stop, it was a wonder that the first performance went so smoothly. I expected the cast to fall off the steeply raked set at any moment and tumble into the orchestra pit, but no one did. Indeed, if anyone was ever out of place it wasn't evident to the audience. The physical comedy delivered by the young cast assured a success.
Had Verdi not been the one to write this, however, no one would stage it today. So, is the great master present at all in the music? Here and there, yes. A few phrases from mezzo-soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson (as the Marchesa) find their way into Gilda's music in Act 1 of Rigoletto. Some of the choral work prefigures Ernani.
What is more instructive, however, is how Verdi assimilated Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini in this work, which is only to be expected given how wet behind the ears he was. The basso buffo singing of Doctor Dulcamara (The Elixir of Love) and Don Pasqualeare not far from the surface in the music for bass Jason Hardy as the Baron Kelbar, and baritones Andrew Wilkowske (as La Rocca) and Young Artist Alex Lawrence as the King of the title. One extended passage for the King and chorus in Act 1 is a close parallel to music from Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims. A promising duet for tenor and baritone in Act 1 could be plopped into Bellini's I Puritani without much alteration.
And so it goes for about two hours of music — little Verdi, but lots of early 19th century Italian opera by other masters. What he did demonstrate at 27 was his ability to write for the voice. The tenor part (the love-sick Edoardo, sung by Young Artist Patrick O'Halloran) is particularly fine.
As the Marchesa, Costa-Jackson was the only "name" singer in the cast. Dolled up in a red sheath and a blond beehive wig, she vamped around the stage, often holding a twinkly gray toy poodle that adamantly refused to move at one point in the first act. Her part lies high for a mezzo, and Costa-Jackson had some problems at the top of the range. But given she was in a track meet of a production that must have sorely taxed her lung power, it's surprising she sang as well as she did.
Clockwise from top: Jason Hardy as Baron Kelbar, Patrick O'Halloran as Edoardo, Jacqueline Echols as Giulietta and Andrew Wilkowske as La Rocca
None of the three low-lying males — Hardy, Lawrence, and Wilkowske — has the cavernous bass or baritone voice, or the agility in articulation, to do justice to the patter. Nor do they have the blustering style of a Doctor Bartolo. All were too light for their roles, but they threw themselves into the proceedings with gusto, particularly Hardy. His impersonation of a boxer alone is worth the price of admission.
The best singing came from the young couple (who would become Nannetta and Fenton in Falstaff in another 53 years). Young Artist Jacqueline Echols was a prim Giuletta in her modest patterned dress. She has a melting soprano voice and terrific stage presence, even when singing from under the raked stage. As her true love Edoardo, O'Halloran looked like Clark Kent in an argyle sweater, matching socks, shorts and black-frame glasses. He doesn't yet sing like Superman, but he has much potential. His voice seems agile enough for Rossini, but also with sufficient heft for Donizetti and Bellini. For me he was the most rewarding singer on stage.
The two smaller parts of Delmonte and Count Ivrea (who totters around on a walker) were assumed by two more Young Artists, Andrew Penning and Joe Shadday.
The performance was conducted by Joseph Colaneri, the new music director of the Festival. He miraculously led a crisp, tidy performance in which everyone stayed together even as they were rocketing around the stage. I don't know how this was achieved, but it was. The orchestra played very well for its new boss.
Un Giorno can be heard on CD in a luxury cast that includes José Carreras, Jessye Norman, Fiorenza Cossotto and Ingvar Wixell on Decca, under conductor Lamberto Gardelli. The score holds up in repeated listening, particularly with the manic images from Glimmerglass in one's head. Even though Rath's production book must be 5,000 pages long, other companies might want to take a look at this rarity — if the cast is young and fit.
David Rubin
This review first appeared at CNY Café Momus. It is reprinted with the permission of the author.