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Between a Rock and a Soft Place
January 14, 2006
By: Guest Writer
Originally published in the Bangkok Post, Wednesday 21 December 2005By George RomanykEven as I write this, the guttural growl of a Harley Davidson (not to mention a roaring chorus of other Harleys, BMWs and Japanese superbikes) is still echoing in my ears. You see, I've just returned from a five-day road trip to the Golden Triangle, along with an assortment of biker friends who also happen to be company presidents, CEOs and entrepreneurs. Now, before you start wondering what this has to do with a column on branding (or start snickering "born to be mild''), I'd like to share some insights I garnered during the course of this challenging and exhilarating journey. While our group was on the road during the days, we certainly weren't averse to roughing it. We got our motors running, we headed out on the highway, and when the highway occasionally deteriorated into a rutted, muddy track, we were well up for it. Ah, but at the end of each day, the discomforts of the road were eased by the unique boutique resorts on the Mekong our assistants had booked us into, as well as some first class meals, and the imported wines and cheeses and some truly tasty Cuban cigars we had smuggled along in our saddlebags. My point (besides making you green with envy) is that our little jaunt was a good example of a major change sweeping the world right now in how luxury is perceived and experienced. For many of the "baby boomers'' and the swelling ranks of "Generation X'' (people born between 1964 and 1976 or thereabouts), the era of ostentatious luxury is over, and instead they are demanding authenticity and adventure. We still want our luxuries, but we want them contemporary, with a hip twist; luxury that "keeps it real'', as it were. Particularly in the luxury hotel and travel sector are these demands being felt. At the recent International Luxury Travel Market in Cannes, the age of ostentatious travel was proclaimed to be over, with new research unveiled showing today's wealthy travellers needed "authenticity, exclusivity and attention to detail'' to keep them happy. "Personalised'' and "private'' were also big buzzwords. In a survey of 248 travel suppliers from around the world who service the needs of the affluent, 84% agreed their clients sought a more subtle form of luxury than in the past. The survey, by the Future Foundation, concluded: "No longer content to visit the classic haunts of the rich and famous, today's luxury traveller would prefer to be a trailblazer, albeit in great comfort, and visit new and less discovered destinations.'' According to ILTM's founder, Serge Dive: "The tastes of the rich don't stay still. Our research shows that the luxury traveller of today doesn't just want to be pampered-- they want a total escape from their highly pressured lives and they want to come back from their holiday having experienced something new.'' Another trend is that as more people get rich younger, they take less formal but shorter trips, with technology allowing them to blur the line between business and leisure travel. Also, little things often count for much: 65% of those surveyed said the toiletries on offer in a hotel were important, with recognised luxury brands meriting maximum brownie points. After our trip, I can heartily agree with that last point: eight windblown hours in the saddle of your steel steed, and you really appreciate little treats like a scented hot towel, some luxurious shampoo and shower gel, and a unique hotel experience. These findings also echo research our own firm has conducted during the course of a major re-branding project with one of our major hotel clients. Our research results concur that well-heeled travellers prefer service that gives them space to be themselves and to feel totally relaxed (while still meeting their every need of course) rather than the more intrusive and obsequious style of service offered by many five-star hotels in the past. A recent article in Newsweek notes: "Travel used to be divided into two basic categories: luxury and no-frills. The former consisted of flying first class, dining at three star restaurants and staying in decadent comfort; the latter involved backpacking and camping out in some of the world's most beautifully remote spots. Now, tourists can have their wine and see the wildlife too; communing with nature and living the good life are no longer mutually exclusive.'' Newsweek defines this as "rustic luxury'': a group of wealthy "new nomads'' toting Mount Everest-ready backpacks by luxury luggage-makers like Tumi, who want to visit the most rugged deserts, jungles, mountains and forests, and go rock-climbing and wreck-diving, but want their designer coffee and Egyptian cotton sheets when the day's adventuring is done. There is also the element of one-upmanship among this growing demographic. As one new nomad tells Newsweek: "It's a status game. Staying at the Four Seasons seems kind of bourgeois, since any doctor from the Midwest will know about it.'' To me, getting wild without losing the luxury is like a marriage made in heaven. There's nothing like zipping through rugged jungle tracks on your hog, getting down and dirty, when you know that some prime rib, a nice glass of Bordeaux and a fat stogie have your name on them.George Romanyk is chief executive officer of Creative Inhouse, a local branding consultancy and ad agency.
By: Guest Writer
The Best Weekend Travel Section
January 14, 2006
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
The NYT Travel section once again rocks my world, with superb pieces on St. Barts, the popularity of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (and the unchecked development that can plague towns that are named to the list), Aspen's Winter X Games, comparing online Vacation Packages, and the unrivaled, glamorous destination of South Beach.
Cheap Airfare to Sundance
A big thanks to the Mobissimo blog. (Flights from SF are $435, from NYC $389, and LaLaland $325.)
Travelers Beware! Health Risks on the Road
IHT's got the skinny on a newly released study on the health dangers for those traveling to developing countries. Fun stuff like mosquito-born dengue fever (aka bone-crushing disease) and parasite infections. Two thirds of travelers to the developing world get sick, and the study-- which contains the most comprehensive records of those travelers treated at travel clinics-- provides a real blueprint for doctors. For more gory deets (parasites, bugs, worms, mosquitos...), check out the related CNN.com article.
All About Turin, Italy
January 11, 2006
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
The sights, the eats, the Turin Olympic transformation... CNN.com Travel's got it covered. (But the best time for experiencing the city's marvelous renaissance may be after the Feb 10-26 Olympic Games, when visitors can enjoy a year full of festivals sponsored by UNESCO, sin the crowds.)
Fit Hotels Directory
January 10, 2006
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
With the new year upon us, fitness is on the mind. And if you're prone to travel, the idea of dismal hotel fitness facilities may scare the bejesus out of you! But never fear-- the Fit Hotel Directory is here to help. In their words:
Find a quality hotel gym instantly! Gone are the days of searching for your hotel's tiny fitness room or gym, full of out-dated, bulky equipment simply to get a good workout. Guests have long been demanding quality, in-hotel fitness equipment and FitHotelDirectory.com is answering back resoundingly with our directory of the finest hotels with top-notch gyms and fitness rooms.
Forbes.com World's Most Romantic Hotels
January 9, 2006
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
Tah-dah. Here it is, though booking now for Valentine's Day may prove an impossible feat.
Earn Double Hilton HHonors Points This Winter at Conrad Hotels
January 5, 2006
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
From now until the end of March, stay at participating Conrad hotels and you'll receive double points. Valid at all 19 of Conrad's award-winning hotels—spread around the globe from Chicago to Bali to Tokyo to Istanbul. Heading to Chitown on business? The latest addition to the Conrad family-- the Conrad Chicago-- awaits on the Magnificent Mile. Desperate for a beach-break? The Conrad Bali is a stunning sanctuary among lagoons, cascading waterfalls, and gorgeous gardens. Or discover the modern luxury of the Conrad Tokyo. The choice is yours.
Top Ten Events Worldwide for 2006
January 4, 2006
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
Thank God for the Washington Post, which put together this sweet list of global happenings for the new year, including the Turin Olympic Winter Games and the centennial of the San Francisco Earthquake.
France Tacks On a New Airline Tax
December 23, 2005
By: Mary Winston Nicklin
Starting in July, flights leaving France will be taxed an additional EUR 40. Chirac's measure will raise an estimated EUR 200 million a year for developing countries, to fight AIDS and support health programs, mostly in Africa.Via IHT


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This music box designed by ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne graduate José Ferrufino uses the movement of the musical mechanism to cause sticks of barley to gently sway. More »
This music box designed by ÉCAL University of Art and Design Lausanne graduate José Ferrufino uses the movement of the musical mechanism to cause sticks of barley to gently sway. More »
This visitor centre in Redbridge, England, by UK firm Sarah Wigglesworth Architects features a zig-zag roof with oversailing wooden trusses. More »
Israeli designer Adi Zaffran Weisler has created a set of tables and stools by combining tree branches, trunks and twigs with plastic during the moulding process. More »
A spiralling concrete slide connects the kitchen and child's bedroom of this family house near Jakarta designed by Indonesian architects Aboday and photographed by Happy Lim. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Dezeen are in Venice for the opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010 where Lisbon firm Aires Mateus Architects are exhibiting these houses with sandy floors, photographed by Nelson Garrido. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Hong Kong firm Rocco Design Architects are competing with OMA (see our story here) and Foster + Partners (see our story here) to create a master plan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. More »
London designer Lee Broom will also launch two faceted pendant lights in white and gold at the London Design Festival next month (see our earlier story on his Architrave collection). More »
London designer Lee Broom is to launch a collection of furniture inspired by architraves, cornicing and mouldings during the London Design Festival next month. More »
This office in a Shanghai warehouse, designed by Fei Wang of Atelier Ten, features a staircase that narrows from four metres wide at its foot to two metes at the top. More »
This weekend designer Gareth Neal will create picnic areas around east London with furniture covered in intricate marquetry. More »
This residential building for the riverbank in St. Petersburg by Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has been approved for construction. More »
New Swedish brand RVW will present their inaugural collection during the London Design Festival next month. More »
DezeenTV: the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents features designer Kai Linke of Frankfurt talking us through his selection of eclectic images including a dog covered in snowballs and the long wait involved when growing chairs from plant roots. More »
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this transparent pool house in Munich, Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer. More »
Japanese architect Hiroyuki Miyabe of Speac Inc. has renovated this house covered in ivy by stripping it back to its structural elements.
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Loove Broms and Li Jönsson of Sweden's Interactive Institute have devised a system of lamps that visually indicate a factory's energy consumption through spotlights. More »
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Your Sound Oasis® NATURE JOURNEY sound card takes you to soothing and relaxing environment to help you sleep and relax easier. The sound card is used in conjunction with the Sound Oasis S-650. It incorporates 12 authentic digital recordings of nature recorded in the wild by the world's most foremost nature recorder.
Product Features
|Thunderstorm in the Wilderness
|Unwind to the exhilarating, but soothing sound of distant thunder as gentle rain falls upon a remote lake.
|Crashing Waves on Rocky Point
|Take a break and walk along a jagged coastline as you listen to the powerful, yet exhilarating, crash of waves against the rocks.
|Forest Rain
|Relax to the steady tapping of refreshing rain as it pelts the dense forest floor.
|Block out noise or drift off to sleep with the natural "white noise" effect of a thundering waterfall.
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|Discover the tranquility of soft surf as it washes against a sandy beach within a hidden cove.
|Ocean Rain
|Sleep or relax with your favorite book as the wavering patter of rain falls upon the vast ocean.
|Nestle-in as a powerful, but calming windstorm blows through a deep mountain valley.
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|Caribbean Surf with Seabirds
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Perfect selection of nature sounds. Review by Calvin Rudd
I purchased the Nature Journey Sound Card when I purchased the Sound Oasis machine as an extra with the two cards that come with the machine. This is a tremendous sound card. All the different nature sounds are perfect. Just what is needed when trying to drift off to sleep. A great selection of nature sounds that is very relaxing and puts the mind at ease when trying to get to sleep. This card compliments the two cards that come with the Sound Oasis machine. (Posted on 2/03/2015)
Best selection of sounds Review by N/A
I hesitated buying another card that seemed like it had many similar sound to the card that came with the machine. I am glad I bought it because my favourite sleep track is the 'Gentle surf in a hidden cove'. It is easy to imagine myself at a beach house listening to the distant surf. (Posted on 12/09/2013)
perfect nights sleep Review by Jennifer
Since we have been using the sound oasis we have both been sleeping so much better.Originally it was purchased due to my husband having tinnitus, but I have always had trouble sleeping and have found it a tremendous help with my sleep. Has helped me as much as my husband. (Posted on 4/04/2013)
Great sleep sounds Review by Dave
the rain helps sleep, just like the real rain. As we live in South Australia in the north we do not hear alot of it, but when we do, we sleep well. (Posted on 12/03/2013)
These sounds can't be beat! Review by Kimberley
Nature sounds have always calmed me,and this one is packed full of just natural sounds.No music,just pure nature. Wind is my absolute favourite nature sound and it was the reason I bought this product.And I was not let down. I hope to see more wind tracks in the future! :) A definate buy if just sounds are your thing. (Posted on 15/01/2012)


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From Mirror reports
The 2010 Outdoor Times Hunting & Fishing Show will once again feature national flavor.
Ted Nugent, popular musician, author and outdoors enthusiast, headlines the event, which will be held at the Blair County Convention Center Feb. 19-21, 2010.
Nugent, who drew a large crowd here in 2007, returns to speak at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19 and at noon Saturday, Feb. 20.
"Obviously, when you talk about hunting and fishing, one of the biggest names on the map is Ted Nugent," Mirror General Manager Ray Eckenrode said. "His voice and viewpoints resonate with many of our Altoona Mirror readers and Outdoor Times subscribers, and we're thrilled to have an opportunity to connect our customers with Nugent in such an up-close-and-personal way. It will be three years since he last appeared in Altoona and so much has changed in the world. I'm sure he'll have a lot of new ground to cover."
Also appearing at the Outdoor Times will be Babe Winkelman, host of "Outdoor Secrets" on the Versus Network. Winkelman will be giving seminars and expert advice and signing autographs all three days of the sixth annual event.
VIP tickets, priced at $100, will go on sale Monday, Sept. 21. VIP tickets include a private reception with Nugent, seating in the first four rows of his show, a Sunday, Feb. 21 reception with Winkelman and admission to all three days of the show.
"Having two outdoor celebrities as notable as Ted Nugent and Babe Winkelman will make it a blockbuster event," Outdoor Times Editor Walt Young said.
General admission and priority seating tickets for Nugent's speaking engagement go on sale Monday, Nov. 2. To purchase tickets, call 800-854-8228 or stop by the Altoona Mirror at 301 Cayuga Avenue.


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Butler Township
Mary Ramsey to Jordan Ramsey, home on Ridge Road; $42,000.
Jane Eckert to Greg and Dena Clark, home on Firestone Avenue; $140,000.
East Liverpool
William Wooley to Christine Wellman, et al, home on Michigan Avenue; $27,000.
Vicky Diddle to Charles and Amy Hilditch, home on Lang Street; $91,500.
Debrah and James Mouse to Virginia and Anthony Wooten, home on Division Street; $12,000.
Lisa Tice to Thomas and Judy Jenkins, lot on Huston Avenue; $310.
East Palestine
Clifford and Susan Vogan to D. Thomas and Kathleen Kimberly, condominium on Claybrook Drive; $138,000.
Elkrun Township
William and Lois Humphrey to Randall and Kimberly Sprouse, land on Desellem Road; $2,500.
Fairfield Township
Charles Beiling, trustee, to Donald and Dawn Arthurs, 16 acres on Spring Hill Drive; $175,000.
Towanna Strader to Advance Auto Net LLC, home on Canal Street; $30,000.
Hanover Township
David Meyer Jr. to John and Lori Tucker, home and 7 acres on Mechanicstown Road; $272,739.
Marilyn Humphrey estate to Eagle View Family Farm, home and 336 acres on McCann Road; $1.8 million.
Knox Township
Deutsche Bank (Richard and Kimber Carlton) to Mays Real Estate, home on Heritage Drive; $52,500.
Perry Township
Ned and Sarah Chappell, trustees, to Constantine and Barbara Economus, property on U.S. Route 62 and Pine Lake Road; $140,000.
Edward Bennett, et al, to Wells Fargo Bank (foreclosure), home on Ridgewood Drive; $38,000.
Trampis New, et al, to Adrienne and Richard Carl III, home on North Ellsworth Avenue; $90,000.
County Sheriff (Douglas Prouts) to Bank of New York, home on South Union Avenue; $25,000.
Donald and Marsha Beadnell to Rodney and Melissa Baker, home on State Street; $9,600.
St. Clair Township
Scott and Bonnie Shaw to Bert and Deborah Dawson, retail shopping plaza on St. Clair Avenue; $400,000.
County Sheriff (Lisa Reed) to Fannie Mae, home on Bloomfield Road; $84,839.
Unity Township
Sheryl Miller to Sheena Peters, home and 3 acres on Neeld Road; $122,000.
Washington Township
Judith Call to Andrea Hackney, house trailer and 3.5 acres on Hazel Run Road; $27,000.
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Bank of America (Don and Stephanie Hughes) to Whiteleather Properties, home on West School Street; $63,100.


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Apple, others working on battery standardLeading notebook makers Apple, Dell, and Lenovo will hold a summit meeting in San Jose, Calif. next month to begin development of standards for the manufacture of lithium ion batteries for portable and handheld electronics.
The companies are part of the OEM Critical Components Committee of the IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries — an organization of some 2,400 companies which represent all facets of the electronic interconnection industry, including design, printed circuit board manufacturing and electronics assembly.
The move comes on the heels of Dell's announcement this month that it is recalling 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries — the largest consumer electronics recall in history. The notebook batteries, which include cells manufactured by Sony, may overheat and could pose a fire risk, Dell said.
"Without a doubt, standardization can and will address the issue of operation and safety called into question by the use of lithium ion batteries.," said John Grosso, chairman of the IPC OEM Critical Components Committee and director of supplier engineering and quality at Dell. "While the Committee had identified lithium ion batteries as the next product for standardization, we are going to accelerate our activities now."
Grosso said the IPC Committee will identify any current standards related to lithium ion batteries with the goal of standardizing design, performance and safety requirements for these batteries.
The committee has recently been very active in identifying and working to standardize components vital to the the computer and telecommunications industries. It recently completed a standard for cooling fans, which took less than a year from design to implementation — a remarkable turnaround time for PC standards.
The E-Commerce Times recently quoted Grosso as saying that he expects a similar turnaround time for the battery standard. "We're going to have a standard out on batteries by no later than July 2007," he said.
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- This week on AI: 'Touch bar' MacBook Pro in late Oct., all-glass casing on 2017 iPhones & more
- Apple ordered to pay $302.4M in damages to VirnetX in patent retrial
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- 10nm chip foundry process coming to Apple partner TSMC ahead of Intel


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THE next few days could be pivotal in the political life of this country. Starting on Thursday with the state of the nation address, we shall see whether President Jacob Zuma is capable of using the new strength he gained at Mangaung to give the nation some clear, decisive leadership; while in the course of this week, we should also get an indication of the influential Mamphela Ramphele's political intentions.
Taken together, those two factors could shake up our political scene.
In referring to the new strength Zuma gained at Mangaung, I do not mean that he emerged from that centenary conference at the head of a stronger party. He didn't. The African National Congress (ANC) is in a steady state of decline and Mangaung did nothing to reverse or even slow that trend.
What it did was simply enable Zuma and his supporters to triumph over their rival factions within the ANC.
That has strengthened Zuma's control over the party, but it has not boosted his national standing which, if anything, is set to decline further as the arms deal and Nkandlagate and the pathetic attempted cover-ups continue to moulder his clay feet.
The question is whether Zuma can use his strengthened control over the ANC itself to break the paralysis that the tripartite alliance imposes on it.
Early signs are encouraging, with Zuma declaring the National Development Plan to be the government's central policy project; indicating that he wants to push through the youth wage subsidy; and suggesting that education may be classified as an essential service, which would prevent teachers from going on strike — something they have tended to do just as students are preparing for year-end examinations.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will fight all of these, particularly the latter two — and this is where Zuma's mettle will be tested.
In the past, his resolve has melted away in the face of resistance from his alliance partners. But Cosatu is a much weakened organisation now. It is being shredded by the breakaway of splinter unions and its membership numbers are shrinking, while its most potent leader, general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, emerged bruised from the federation's own national conference last September.
As for the South African Communist Party, its bark has long been more fearsome than its bite.
It boasts a significant increase in its membership to about 160,000 — about the population of the old Transkei town of Mthatha. Moreover its leader, Blade Nzimande, has been co-opted into the Cabinet, where any dissenting voice he may have is muffled by the tradition of Cabinet collective responsibility.
So the road is now clearer than at any other time for Zuma to lead. This is his great opportunity to redeem his reputation.
But just as it is his great opportunity, so too will it be his final devastation if he fails to seize the moment. Windows of opportunity as clear as this don't often come the way of national leaders.
As for Ramphele, it is difficult to assess her political potential, as I am writing this before she has formally announced what her plans are. It is noteworthy, however, that a number of other analysts facing the same disadvantage have not been deterred from writing off her chances of having an effect.
They say that while she is a great intellectual, they don't think she will make a good politician; that she has no political base; that she is not a people's person; that she doesn't have the right charisma; that all she will be able to do is take opposition votes away from the Democratic Alliance (DA).
I disagree. Perhaps this is because I had the opportunity of getting to know Ramphele when she was banished during the apartheid era to the tiny village of Lenyenye, near Tzaneen, in the old Bantustan of Lebowa.
I can testify from that experience that she is not just a fine academic; she is a dynamic woman of action.
And she does have a constituency. She and the iconic Steve Biko, who was her close personal partner, were key founders of the Black Consciousness Movement, which ignited a whole generation of young black people in this country during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of that generation later drifted into the exiled ANC and the internal United Democratic Front when the Black Consciousness Movement was banned and Biko was murdered in detention by the apartheid state's security police.
But its ideas live on in the hearts of many, and I have no doubt it is Ramphele's intention to reignite those ideas and challenge the inefficient and corruption-riddled ANC with them. Ramphele was an inspirational figure during her seven years of banishment. She arrived at Lenyenye pregnant with Biko's baby and, as she told me at the time, the news of her partner's terrible death almost destroyed her.
The shock and agony of it caused her to suffer a near miscarriage, but the thought of losing the baby — "all I had left of Steve" — rallied her courage and enabled her to endure four months in bed until the infant was born. She named him Hlumelo, a Xhosa word meaning a shoot from a dead tree.
Then she rose from her bed to transform the local community in an astonishing way. She raised money abroad and built a clinic with two outstations in neighbouring villages, where, as a medical doctor, she not only treated patients herself, but ran nutrition and healthcare classes.
She ran a twice-weekly soup kitchen, taught local women how to grow their own vegetables, established sewing and knitting clubs that sold their own products, raised enough money to build and stock a library, as well as a day-care centre, where women with jobs could leave their small children, and started adult literacy programmes in five villages….
Most remarkable of all, she established a brickyard to cut building costs that employed 16 people, had its own tractor and turned out 20,000 bricks a month. Don't tell me that such a person does not have the organising ability to found a political party.
Nor do I believe that the bulk of whatever voter support Ramphele's new party is likely to get will come from the DA rather than from the ANC.
The DA is by far the best organised political machine in the country; its structures are sound and its supporters are highly committed.
It is the ANC that is brittle; its faction fighting and the endemic corruption that have poisoned its soul during the Zuma years, have made it so.
Dissatisfaction with the ANC showed itself when the Congress of the People (COPE) first appeared on the scene.
That potential support melted away when COPE destroyed its opportunity with an insane leadership row. But I am prepared to wager that the dissatisfaction is still there.
What is more, Ramphele doesn't have to perform spectacularly in next year's general election to have a meaningful effect. Just 8% of the vote would do nicely.
The DA has to do no more than hold on to the 25% it achieved in the most recent local government elections, for the ANC to find itself looking down the barrel of a gun.
Which is what we need to get a government that is more responsive to the people's needs than its own patronage interests: real political competition.
• Sparks is a veteran journalist and political analyst.


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Orlando Fl
Joined Apr 2003
108 Posts
A123's dont catch fire? NO???????
I set my trusty 300C with a 15s 2p A123 pack on charge with a Schulze charger set at 15s A123 4.5 amp charge and went for a cup of tea.
About 30 minutes later a shout from one of my buddies had us all racing back to the trailer where smoke was billowing out.
I hurled the remains of the heli out and so the damage to the trailer was minimal but the heli is written off from the tailboom forward.
I have no idea what could have caused this fire, but now all my charging will be done outside or under very close supervision, including temp battery temp sensor.
Dont get complacent guys, things can still go wrong.
The zinger here is a fire with a supposedly thought of, fire proof system. It may not have been the A123's fault, but something happened which could have resulted in extensive damage depending on where and when it happened, fortunately, you were nearby and alerted in time to minimize the damage.
Your final comment says it all - "Don't get complacent guys, things can still go wrong." I think we need to be reminded of that every now and then.
That is why I never charge my packs in my plane car or heli. Sorry to see your loss though.
Sometimes "freak" things happen with batteries that have no explanation.
On the other hand, if a charging voltage is applied to a cell when it's fully charged (4.2 v), it is pretty much 100% guarenteed to flame up, right? Out of all the flame incidents with lithiums, aren't 99% of them occuring during charging?
Old batteries are plane scary. The packs loose "capacity" with time and by damage. If you end up with a pack that has effectively uneaven cell capacities, the smaller capacity cells would be subject to overcharging before the charger detects the peak. That ='s fire.
I charged a 4S A123 2300 mAh pack as a 5S packs by accident which resulted in cells being charged to 4.56 volts each. There was no damage done to the pack and it now has an additional 41 flights on it.
Thing is even if the cells them self do not flame the associated wiring and surrounding combustibles sure can.
The only fire I have every experienced while charging batteries for use in RC during the past 44 years was caused by a Nicad.
The old advise of not charging batteries unatended is still very good abvise and atleast with A123s this can be a very short length of time.
United States, NJ, Frenchtown
Joined Mar 2003
10,135 Posts
Could be any part of anything ?
Battery--charger freaked out-- leadwires shorted. Without a accurate finding, it is tough to lay blame.
USA DOD has had the cells abused in everyway possible, including being shot by bullets to cause a fire and came up with no problems. That is why they, LIFE PO4's, are going into so many new hybred electric cars and military vehicles.
Still, yours could be the 1 exception. I found many " Brand new rejects. " before I retired.
5 miles from the geographical center of Pennsylvania
Joined Aug 2005
2,150 Posts
Sorry about your loss.
But it confirms my idea that I'm going to treat A123's like lipos and never assume that they aren't going to vent explosively. Someone around here got an A123 cell to blow up.
Orlando Fl
Joined Apr 2003
108 Posts
This lot obviously got hot part way through the charge and something set fire to the cabin which is molded ABS, fiberglass and acrylic. The charger was still charging even though the heli was on fire so one side of the 2p pack was still good.
I am glad its a heli I was getting tired of and was about to sell, and all my other helis were outside. All the transmitters were in steel drawers so they survived, the fluorescent lights in the trailer came off worst. Clean up was easy, just wipe the soot off. Small mercies I suppose, it could have been a lot worse, the fire was just above 5 gallons of kerosene jet fuel and 3 cans of propane/butane gas.
The first guy in the trailer was a fireman, and as usual with those guys, caused more damage than he cured. He hit the heli with his CO2 extinguisher and blew a load of molten burning plastic into the plastic face of the aluminum walls. Thats not coming off, but as he helped clean the rest of it up, I let him off <G>
amherst,nova scotia,canada
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A little more time will probably determine the true risk factor if any with these 123s.
On the otherhand caution is just being smart. I really hoped these could be charged in the plane safely.
I wonder if the loss might be recoverable from your home insurance? It was a loss of personal property by fire after all. No harm in trying perhaps. Find out how much increase in yearly premiums result from collecting a claim. No normal person likes to see an event like this happen.
San Jose Ca / RSA flyer
Joined May 2003
8,030 Posts
If the ESC was'nt vented properly the output FETs will short out thru the motor and battery , thats what almost happened to my ECO 8 HELI after landing, saw SMOKE and quickly released the 3S 6000 mah tp LIPO
modified canopy with cooling louvers on the side
U must always provide adequate COOLING for the ESC in a HELI or plane
some people here at the " RANCH" remove the shrink wrap and heatsink plate from the ESC and COOL the FETs naked in the open, makes it pass more CURRENT also
when I did an autopsy on the JETI 40 amp , found a whole bank of FETs to the BL motor connector completely charred
Joined Apr 2005
3,386 Posts
I am sorry about the looses.
This i a warning to everyone, never leave any energy without supervision.. There is a lot of energy in 15s2p pack.
If I would guess, then internal fuse of one or more cells did activate and as they are causing short circuit to the subject cell, big voltage difference show up. Well, paralleled part was perhaps fully charged and ready to use its power, so, my quess is that huge currents may flown from one part of a pack into another.
Tell me please, A123 cells used in this heli, they were in paper or in white foil? If a foil, or something that can not sustain high temperature, was the only separator between conductive cells, multiple short circuits between cell bodies may occur consequently.
Second question please, each cell was paired to create 2p parallel packs, then build 15s series of that 2p units, or that was just two 15s packs connected into 2p parallel as whole packs?
Dallas, TX
Joined Jan 2005
2,190 Posts
I wouldn't blame it on the A123 cells right off. Since no one witnessed it. The A123 cells have alot of power in them and in a 15s2p configuration that can be enough energy to cause what happened if the output of the pack is shorted. That kind of power can burn wires up and cause a fire without the cells going up in flames until the fire burns the cells.
Joined Apr 2005
3,386 Posts
I have took a brief look at the history posts of Peter.
Excuse me please, but I am sure that You would better search for much better charger, for all Lithium, even for nanophosphate A123, batteries.
Well, I know that it is a serious problem, even if money do not matter.. Even worse, I have never seen a charger that would fulfill the safety needs, for such big packs and huge charge power.
Joined Sep 2007
407 Posts
Man, what a shame, that was a nice looking heli. Just curious, how do the three rotor heads handle compared to the two? You`ll probably never know exactly what caused it. But if it was a shorted pack or wires, even packs much smaller than this are capable of melting some pretty healthy wires, and do it pretty quick too. Its amazing how much current these little batteries can produce. Be careful about throwing em around on the workbench with a bunch of screws and tools too, i melted a nicad pack i was building like that once.lol
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One of Japan's weirdest games, Tokyo Jungle, a survival-action video game developed by PlayStation C.A.M.P and Crispy's, is set to debut in North America on September 25th for $14.99 and on September 26th, it will be officially launched in Europe at £9.99 (€12.99, or AUS$19.95), according to a report from Game Arena. Hence, Tokyo Jungle video game can already be downloaded by North American and European players next month.
Sony made the announcement a few days ago, when the company revealed that the downloadable title of the Japanese full-priced PS3 retail release Tokyo Jungle will cost less when it launches in Europe and North America this September. Sony's declaration about the western launch dates of Tokyo Jungle happened during the official launching of the title's Gamescom trailer.
Sony, however, has elucidated that the North American and European releases will only be a downloadable title via PSN. This denotes there will be no physical disc release of the video game yet, unlike in Japan.
The international release of Tokyo Jungle video game, particularly the ones scheduled on the 25th and 26th of September 2012, in North America and Europe, was first confirmed by Sony's Scott Rohde.
Tokyo Jungle is published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for PS3 platform. It was released in Japan on June 7th, 2012. The game is set in a deserted, futuristic Japan per se a post-human future, in which the city has shifted into a vicious wildlife wasteland. Players are given two modes to choose from -- the Story and Survival modes.
The video game's Story Mode centers on completing missions around several different animals. Meanwhile, in Survival Mode, the player fights for survival as he takes control of an animal. The key characters in the story are the Pomeranian dogs.
An official description of the game is posted on the PlayStation website, which says, "Everything is the enemy and only the strongest will survive."
In this game, a player can stalk the streets of Tokyo as prey or hunter while animals rule the planet. Hunters can feast on plants, hunt preys or utilize all means to stay alive until the challenges are completed. A hunter player needs to fight all the way to the top of the food chain. Online ranking leaderboards are also available for a player to compare progress with other players across the globe.
As what PSM3 has said, Tokyo Jungle video game is going to be "perfect in execution, if not presentation." Such statement makes gamers set high prospects on the game itself.


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Dave Richards: Hill-Tatum chemistry hilarious in 'Jump Street'
Laurel & Hardy. Abbott & Costello. Martin & Lewis. Burns & Allen. Cheech & Chong. Rowan & Martin. Ackroyd & Belushi.
Will we eventually add Tatum & Hill to this esteemed list of comedy duos? Hard to say, after just two movies. But "21 Jump Street" was one of 2012's funniest movies, and the inevitable sequel "22 Jump Street" looks promising.
I'm not sure who had the bright idea of teaming up Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, let alone had a hunch that Tatum could be funny.
His earlier films were "chick flicks," action flicks or dumb teen movies, with most of them apparently designed to keep wardrobe costs down by keeping him shirtless.
I wasn't expecting much from "21 Jump Street," but it surprised me by dumping the dramatic facade of its TV inspiration and turning the buddy-cop dynamic completely on its head.
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller -- who wrote and directed that one -- also subverted expectations with a clever role-reversal conceit. When they went undercover in high school, Hill was the cool, popular one and Tatum played the nerdy one -- opposite of how they actually were during their actual high school days.
The movie knowingly winked at buddy-cop comedies, the genre's stereotypes -- even the notion of remaking an '80s TV show. The script was clever, but what really made it work was the unexpected chemistry between Hill, a seasoned comedic performer, and Tatum.
In comedy, oddball pairings often work: tall vs. short, fat vs. thin and, in this case, smart vs. dumb, cool vs. not-cool, hot vs. not and all those permutations but with Hill and Tatum also slyly aware of the jokes.
"21 Jump Street" also succeeded by making some subtle, salient points about high-school roles: what it takes and what it means to be popular. It was a guys' "Mean Girls," in a way.
Reviews suggest the sequel is just as self-aware as "21 Jump Street." It sends up the idea of sequels, for starters, sending them to college instead of high school.
But this one also has a deeper subtext, playing up the budding "bromance" between Hill and Tatum's characters in a way that sounds to me like the homoerotic underpinning of Batman and Robin in "Saturday Night Live's" outrageous animated shorts, "The Ambiguously Gay Duo."
Writes Salon's Andrew O'Hehir: "Jenko (Tatum) and Schmidt (Hill) are either too dense to notice that they relate to each other as lovers or they simply don't care, and either way it's supposed to be simultaneously a sign of progress and completely hilarious."
In other words, they're updating "Seinfeld" -- the "not that there's anything wrong with that" line -- and taking it to a brave nth degree.
Not that there's anything, well, you know.
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Are you using Windwos XP?
If you are, this could be a work around (I think)
If you map your NAS drive, and press the one that says something like
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Runaway turtle Toddy back at his Semaphore Park home
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- February 12, 2013
A TURTLE who escaped his Semaphore Park home with the help of two accomplice bunnies has been reunited with his owners.
Semaphore Park resident Tennille Chipping found inquisitive reptile Toddy on the road when she went for a midnight walk on January 24.
Ms Chipping started searching for the turtle's owner, posting a photo on the "Lost Dogs of Adelaide'' Facebook page, alerting local pet shops and taking out a classified ad.
More than two dozen people contacted her after a story on adelaidenow attracted a flood of phone calls, emails and comments, but not the rightful owners.
Owner Tracey Wallace contacted Ms Chipping on Sunday morning after a nearby resident took the article to her house and asked if she had lost a turtle.
The woman had seen Toddy wandering around the Wallace family's driveway the same night Ms Chipping found him on the street.
"The lady put him on our lawn, thinking we would come home soon, when Tennille found him outside our home a few hours later. She was looking through the paper and recognised the turtle as the same one she returned to our yard,'' Mrs Wallace said.
Mrs Wallace said Toddy escaped his backyard pond after the family's rabbits, Hoppy and Snowflake, dug a hole under the fence. Her children Keagan, 7, Amy, 5, and Connor, 1, were "so chuffed'' to be reunited with their turtle after he was missing for two-and-a half weeks.
"I saw the article on the kitchen table when I woke up on Sunday morning and thought `He looks very much like Toddy','' Keagan said.
"He's about the same size and had a little broken bit on his shell.''
Mrs Wallace said the family's labrador Zulu was the most excited to see his friend again and has followed Toddy around the yard since his return.
Ms Chipping, who received a thank you card from the Wallace children, said she was glad the turtle has been reunited with his family.
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Ahwatukee Life is a weekly feature about people who live and work in Ahwatukee Foothills.
Name: Pam Gaber
Age: 52
Occupation: Founder and chief executive officer of Gabriel's Angels, a non-profit pet therapy organization.
Family: Mike Gaber, husband; Animals: Gabriel, a Weimaraner and chief executive dog of Gabriel's Angels; Jack, Weimaraner; Noah, Rhodesian Ridgeback; and Orzo, cat in residence.
How long have you been in Ahwatukee? Yikes ... 21 years.
Question: How did you land in Ahwatukee and what keeps you here?
Answer: I was working in the corporate sector and was relocated to Arizona. I needed close proximity to the airport so Ahwatukee was a perfect fit. What keeps me here are the beautiful mountains, open areas and down to earth people.
Q: How long has Gabriel's Angels been going now? What's the mission?
A: Gabriel's Angels has been in existence since May 2000. Our mission statement is "To deliver healing pet therapy to abused, neglected and at-risk children, nurturing their ability to love and trust, thereby freeing them from the cycle of violence." We serve over 10,000 children every year and the need is at least double that. So we continue on!
Q: So many non-profits run out of steam after a while. What keeps yours going?
A: The reality is non-profit success mirrors the for profit sector. Only 5 percent are in existence after five years. In my opinion, companies that fail do so because of insufficient capital, lack of planning and over expansion. We have been prudent in our growth initiatives.
What keeps Gabriel's Angels going full steam ahead is the results we have in meeting our mission of healing children in crisis with pet therapy. There is no better feeling of accomplishment than that.
Q: How many volunteers and employees do you have right now?
A: 150 pet therapy teams, 100 other volunteers and 10 staff.
Q: Where is your favorite place to take a dog for fun in Ahwatukee?
A: Telegraph Pass (in South Mountain Park), off Desert Foothills Parkway.
Q: Is our community pet friendly enough?
A: I think Ahwatukee is very pet friendly. I have frequent many places with outdoor patios that welcome well behaved pooches.
Q: Where can we find you on a typical weeknight in Ahwatukee? Any favorite restaurants or hangouts?
A: Here is where I may appear boring. On a typical weeknight I am home enjoying my home, feeding three large dogs and kicking back. I may be found "hanging out" at AMC Ahwatukee 24 watching a Sunday matinee all by myself. Shhh . . . it's my escape!
Q: What's the best book you have read in the last year?
A: "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. It's a must read for all dogs lovers. It is "written" and "narrated" by a dog!
Q: What is your all-time favorite movie about a pet or animal?
A: "As Good as it Gets." I loved how Jack Nicholson truly fell in love with that pooch and that it made him a better man.
Q: Pride or Thunder?
A: Pride . . . only because of the paw print.
Q: Any new goals for Gabriel's Angels this year?
A: We want to reach capacity. Our goal is to reach every abused, neglected and at-risk child in Arizona and provide pet therapy intervention to begin the healing process. Simply put, we reach capacity as funding permits.
Q: What would you like to see less of in Ahwatukee this year?
A: Rain. My dogs just hate it and it makes my life a lot harder.
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Pam Gaber, founder of Gabriel's Angels pet-therapy charity, spends some time with her dog Jack during the Doggie Beach Party at the Franciscan Renewal Center Feb. 27.
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OpenSUSE Struggles with Hardware Problems
Due to a breakdown in storage array, some openSUSE servers were unavailable yesterday, including download.opensuse.org.
Although problems continue, openSUSE does now have some minimalistic package sources in place that will at least enable the transfer of security updates. According to a post by Peter Poeml on the openSUSE Factory List, repairs can take some days.
The openSUSE Project has suffered continual hardware problems and download.opensuse.org, for example, still suffers from a shortage of disk space, which is the reason for the lack of backup data. The project is keen to find sponsors for a new/second storage array.
Get a better sponsor than novellFedora has Redhat, Ubuntu has Shuttleworth, Caos has Infiscale, etc etc. Novell gets the benefits of the work going on at OpenSuse, maybe they could invest in 10k worth of gear for them.. Rediculous..
openSuSE NOT enough diskspaceI don't understand -- as cheap as hard drive arrays are in the market of today - this should never be. How can a distro organization run out of disk space? There are enough contributors in the world that would happily torrent or even chip in and buy a 18 terabyte SAN server...or am I missing something here?
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Explaining Youth Labour Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?
Juan Francisco Jimeno-Serrano
Foundation for Applied Economic Research (FEDEA); Universidad de Alcala; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Juan Jose Dolado
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)
Florentino Felgueroso
Universidad de Oviedo - Facultad de Economicas; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
March 2000
CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2398
This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labour market in Spain over the last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower educated workers, symptoms of over-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also presents a simple matching model with two types of workers ('educated' and 'non-educated') and two types of jobs ('skilled' and 'unskilled'), under which educated workers may crowd-out non-educated workers from their traditional entry jobs, showing that a combination of an increase in the relative supply of higher educated workers and rigid labour market institutions harms the training and labour market prospects of lower educated workers, while it raises the proportion of higher educated workers performing low-skill jobs.
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NEW YORK — Andy Pettitte plans to announce his retirement Friday at a news conference at Yankee Stadium, a person familiar with the arrangements told The Associated Press.
The person spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because the news conference had not yet been announced.
A five-time World Series champion, Pettitte had been telling the Yankees since the end of the season that it was likely he wouldn't play in 2011. He became a free agent and has not attempted to negotiate a contract.
His intention to retire first was reported by YES Network's Michael Kay.
The 38-year-old left-hander is 240-138 with a 3.88 ERA n 16 major league seasons. He excelled in the postseason, setting a major league record for wins by going 19-10 with a 3.83 ERA.
Pettitte's departure leaving a huge hole in the Yankees' rotation, with no proven starters behind CC Sabathia, Phil Hughes and A.J. Burnett.
Having failed to sign free agent Cliff Lee, New York has agreed to minor league contracts with Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia in recent weeks, trying to find more options for a fourth and fifth starter in addition to youngster Ivan Nova and Sergio Mitre.
Pettitte spent 13 seasons with the Yankees, interrupting his career in New York to play for his hometown Houston Astros from 2004-06. He was a three-time All-Star, earning the honor in 1996, 2001 and last year, and was a 20-game winner in 1996 and 2003 when he twice went 21-8.
He was 11-3 with a 3.28 ERA in 21 starts last season. His season was limited by a strained left groin that caused him to go on the disabled list from July 19 to Sept. 19.
Pettitte had said that he increasingly felt the tug to return to Texas and his family. Once the school year ended, his family traveled to New York where they could be together during homestands, but the distance from his loved ones now has trumped whatever desire he had to climb higher in the Yankees record book.
Pettitte's 203 wins with the Yankees are the third-most in franchise history, trailing only Whitey Ford (236) and Red Ruffing (231).


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How to Apply DC-to-DC Step-Up (Boost) Regulators Successfully
Power for portable electronic devices such as smartphones, GPS navigation systems, and tablets can come from low-voltage solar panels, batteries, or ac-to-dc power supplies. Battery-powered systems often stack cells in series to achieve higher voltages, but this is not always possible due to a lack of space. Switching converters use an inductor's magnetic field to alternately store energy and release it to the load at a different voltage. With low losses they are a good choice for high efficiency. Capacitors connected to the converter's output reduce output voltage ripple. Boost, or step-up converters—covered here—provide higher voltage; buck, or step-down converters—covered in a previous article1—provide lower output voltage. Switching converters that include internal FETs as switches are called switching regulators,2 while devices requiring external FETs are called switching controllers.3
Figure 1 shows a typical low-power system powered from two series-connected AA batteries. The battery's usable output varies from about 1.8 V to 3.4 V, whereas the ICs require 1.8 V and 5.0 V to operate. Boost converters, which can step up the voltage without increasing the number of cells, power the WLED backlights, micro hard disk drives, audio, and USB peripherals, while a buck converter powers the microprocessor, memory, and display.
Figure 1. Typical low-power portable system.
The inductor's tendency to resist changes in current enables the boost function. When charging, the inductor acts as a load and stores energy; when discharging, it acts as an energy source. The voltage produced during the discharge phase is related to the current's rate of change, not to the original charging voltage, thus allowing different input and output voltage levels.
Boost regulators consist of two switches, two capacitors, and an inductor, as shown in Figure 2. Nonoverlapping switch drives ensure that only one switch is on at a time to avoid unwanted shoot-through current. In Phase 1 (tON), Switch B is open and Switch A is closed. The inductor is connected to ground, so current flows from VIN to ground. The current increases due to the positive voltage across the inductor, and energy is stored in the inductor. In Phase 2 (tOFF), Switch A is open and Switch B is closed. The inductor is connected to the load, so current flows from VINto the load. The current decreases due to the negative voltage across the inductor, and energy stored in the inductor is discharged into the load.
Figure 2. Buck converter topology and operating waveforms.
Note that the switching regulator operation can be continuous or discontinuous. When operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM), the inductor current never drops to zero; when operating in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), the inductor current can drop to zero. The current ripple, shown as ΔIL in Figure 2, is calculated using ΔIL = (VIN × tON)/L. The average inductor current flows into the load, while the ripple current flows into the output capacitor.
Figure 3. Boost regulator integrates oscillator, PWM control loop, and switching FETs.
Regulators that use a Schottky diode in place of Switch B are defined as asynchronous (or nonsynchronous), while regulators that use a FET as Switch B are defined as synchronous. In Figure 3, Switches A and B have been implemented with an internal NFET and an external Schottky diode, respectively, to create an asynchronous boost regulator. For low-power applications requiring load isolation and low shutdown current, external FETs can be added, as shown in Figure 4. Driving the device's EN pin below 0.3 V shuts down the regulator and completely disconnects the input from the output.
Figure 4. ADP1612/ADP1613 typical applications circuit.
Modern low-power synchronous buck regulators use pulse-width modulation (PWM) as the primary operating mode. PWM holds the frequency constant and varies the pulse width (tON) to adjust the output voltage. The average power delivered is proportional to the duty cycle, D, making this an efficient way to provide power to a load.
As an example, for a desired output voltage of 15 V and an available input voltage of 5 V,
Energy is conserved, so the input power must equal the power delivered to the load minus any losses. Assuming very efficient conversion, the small amount of power lost can be omitted from the basic power calculations. The input current can thus be approximated by
For example, if the load current is 300 mA at 15 V, IIN = 900 mA at 5 V—three times the output current. Therefore, the available load current decreases as the boost voltage increases.
Boost converters use either voltage- or current feedback to regulate the selected output voltage; the control loop enables the output to maintain regulation in response to load changes. Low power boost regulators generally operate between 600 kHz and 2 MHz. The higher switching frequencies allow use of smaller inductors, but the efficiency drops by approximately 2% with every doubling of the switching frequency. In the ADP1612 and ADP1613 boost converters (see Appendix), the switching frequency is pin-selectable, operating at 650 kHz for highest efficiency or at 1.3 MHz for smallest external components. Connect FREQ to GND for 650-kHz operation or to VIN for 1.3-MHz operation.
The inductor, a key component of the boost regulator, stores energy during the on time of the power switch and transfers that energy to the output through the output rectifier during the off time. To balance the trade-offs between low inductor current ripple and high efficiency, the ADP1612/ADP1613 data sheet recommends inductance values in the 4.7-μH to 22-μH range. In general, a lower value inductor has a higher saturation current and a lower series resistance for a given physical size, but lower inductance results in higher peak currents that can lead to reduced efficiency, higher ripple, and increased noise. It is often better to run the boost in discontinuous conduction mode to reduce the inductor size and improve stability. The peak inductor current (the maximum input current plus half the inductor ripple current) must be lower than the rated saturation current of the inductor; and the maximum dc input current to the regulator must be less than the inductor's rms current rating.
Key Boost Regulator Specifications and Definitions
Ground or Quiescent Current: The dc bias current not delivered to the load (Iq). The lower the Iq the better the efficiency, but Iq can be specified under many conditions, including switching off, zero load, PFM operation, or PWM operation, so it is best to look at operating efficiency at specific operating voltages and load currents to determine the best boost regulator for the application.
Shutdown Current: The input current consumed when the enable pin has been set to OFF. Low Iq is important for long standby times when a battery-powered device is in sleep mode.
Switch Duty Cycle: The operating duty cycle must be lower than the maximum duty cycle or the output voltage will not be regulated. For example, D = (VOUT – VIN)/VOUT. With VIN= 5 V and VOUT = 15 V, D = 67%. The ADP1612 and ADP1613 have a maximum duty cycle of 90%.
Output Voltage Range: The range of output voltages the device will support. The boost converter's output voltage can be fixed or adjustable, using resistors to set the desired output voltage.
Current Limit: Boost converters usually specify peak current limit, not load current. Note that the greater the difference between VIN and VOUT, the lower the available load current. The peak current limit, input voltage, output voltage, switching frequency, and inductor value all set the maximum available output current.
Line Regulation: Line regulation is the change in output voltage caused by a change in the input voltage.
Load Regulation: Load regulation is the change in output voltage for a change in the output current.
Soft Start: It is important for boost regulators to have a soft-start function that ramps the output voltage in a controlled manner upon startup to prevent excessive output voltage overshoot at startup. The soft start of some boost converters can be adjusted by an external capacitor. As the soft-start capacitor charges, it limits the peak current allowed by the part. With adjustable soft start, the start-up time can be changed to meet system requirements.
Thermal Shutdown (TSD): If the junction temperature rises above the specified limit, the thermal shutdown circuit turns the regulator off. Consistently high junction temperatures can be the result of high-current operation, poor circuit board cooling, or high ambient temperature. The protection circuit includes hysteresis so that the device will not return to normal operation until the on-chip temperature drops below the preset limit after thermal shutdown occurs.
Undervoltage Lockout (UVLO): If the input voltage is below the UVLO threshold, the IC automatically turns off the power switch and goes into a low-power mode. This prevents potentially erratic operation at low input voltages and prevents the power device from turning on when the circuitry cannot control it.
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Figure A. ADP1612/ADP1613 functional block diagram.
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Dear Listeners,
I would like to share with you one of the many letters I have received from Israel since its inception which may also fascinate you as it does me.
The Israeli Ben Gurion University is itself a miracle made from innovation.
This letter for help was written to me some time ago when Israel was very young and struggling merely to survive.
I no longer receive those letters for help because Israel is happily on her own.
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Dear Mrs. Zwerling,
With the earth's temperature rising, and national resources dwindling, pollution worsening and the world's population growing, the global environment faces a challenge of seemingly impossible proportions – one that can take a miracle of innovation and determination to surpass.
So, it is no surprise that to meet the toughest environmental challenges, the world is turning to a specialist in both impossibility and innovation. Israel – specifically – the foremost maker of miracles in a nation built on them.
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As one of BGU's most loyal supporters, you know this institution itself is something of a miracle.
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Class Members of the Chase TCPA class action settlement include all current and former borrowers or co-borrowers whose residential mortgage loan or home equity line of credit is or was serviced by JPMorgan Chase Bank or Chase Home Finance, and who were contacted on their cell phone by Chase through the use of an automated dialer system and/or an artificial or pre-recorded voice between June 16, 2006 through June 15, 2011.
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