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An audience with Scorsese isn't like a typical junket interview with a big-name American director. That is made very clear in Michael Henry Wilson's new book, Scorsese on Scorsese. This features a series of discussions that Wilson has had with Scorsese about his films, from 1974 right up to the present day. Their encounters are confessional, therapeutic, invariably littered with references to other movies and often highly technical. Wilson (who co-wrote Scorsese's masterful documentary A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies and is now working with him on his new doc about British cinema) is reverential towards his subject, but also very probing. The metaphors used here are often about illness, addiction and transcendence: a strange mix of the biblical and the psychoanalytical. "Film is a disease... as with heroin, the antidote to film is more film," Scorsese once observed, quoting his fellow director Frank Capra. He is clearly contaminated with this disease. Wilson is fascinated by his symptoms.
The book is very lavishly illustrated with family photos and images of Scorsese and his young buck friends from Little Italy in New York, where he grew up uncertain as to whether he was going to be a gangster or a priest. There are stills, storyboards and images of heavily annotated pages of his screenplays. One full-page illustration underlines the obsessive cinephilia that characterised Scorsese, even as a child. It is an intricately drawn and calligraphed set of images for The Eternal City, an imaginary widescreen epic that Scorsese dreamed of making as an 11-year-old. "A fictitious story of Royalty in Ancient Rome" is how he characterises it. The storyboard images are very carefully drawn and coloured in. It is striking that he has given himself a bigger credit as producer-director than any of the stars (who include Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Virginia Mayo and Alec Guinness.)
What leaps out from every interview over a 35-year span is Scorsese's driven quality: that obsessiveness that almost killed him as a young film-maker.
"Do you know what Fellini said to me... when I was at death's door and had to go into the hospital?" he confides to Wilson in an interview from the late 1970s. "Carry on, my friend! Be crazy! Kill yourself! Work till it kills you!"
Although he reined himself in and got over his morbidly romantic idea that he should drive himself to death through his work, the Scorsese talking in the latter part of the book about Boardwalk Empire is still the same febrile presence who Wilson and his colleague Michel Ciment first met in Paris in 1974, when they came to interview him about Boxcar Bertha and Mean Streets for Positif. At the time, he was in bed, struck down by an asthma attack. "With etched features reminiscent of an El Greco painting, he is an extraordinarily sensitive livewire," they wrote of the then young and largely unknown director. "He laughs often, like a child, in an effort to conceal his underlying anxiety. How can we fail to be won over and inspired by his consuming passion?"
Scorsese doesn't "do" small talk or gossip, but plenty of familiar names pass through these pages and some of the anecdotes can't help but have a comic feel.
Scorsese on Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
Bobby really understood the character. He was Travis. A piece of scenery could collapse behind him and he would react the way Travis would. He had become Travis. I had complete confidence in him. That went back to our collaboration on Mean Streets. We feel many things the same way. We understand each other perfectly. We don't need words to work together. The communication between us is like a form of sign language. His contribution to Taxi Driver was crucial. I think he succeeded in moving audiences, in eliciting their empathy. Thanks to him, we are able to identify with this character that might have been a monster.
How did he prepare for the role?
For example, he drove a cab for two weeks. He had just won an Oscar [Best Supporting Actor] for The Godfather Part II. One evening, an actor got into his cab and recognized him. The guy, who couldn't believe his eyes, exclaimed, "Do you have to drive a cab? Are times as bad as that? Hasn't the Oscar helped you?" One night, I got into Bobby's cab myself; I sat up front, next to him. We drove up and down 8th Avenue, a bad neighborhood. The impression I had was that anything could happen. You have no control over what could happen. Your life doesn't belong to you anymore. That was exactly what the character had to feel. Believe me, anyone who drives a cab in New York at night will be like Travis sooner or later.
Scorsese on his initial doubts about making Raging Bull
[Paul] Schrader told me, "You pulled Mean Streets from your guts. Do it again, but this time limit yourself to two or three characters. You won't be able to handle four." After that I went through a serious crisis. I no longer wanted to make the film; I didn't want to make any film at all. Physically, I was in terrible shape. I spent four days in the hospital hovering between life and death. I was lucky, I survived and the crisis passed. My suicidal period was over. Bobby came to see me. We talked heart to heart. Wanting to kill yourself with work, dreaming of a tragic death – there comes a point when you have to stop talking nonsense, even if you can't help it. We were talking about ourselves, but suddenly I really understood the character. When Bobby asked me point-blank, "Do you want us to make this film?" I answered yes. It had become clear. Jake had experienced before me what I had just gone through. In our different ways, we had both been through it: the Catholic heritage, the sense of guilt, and the hope for redemption. Above all, it's about learning to accept oneself. That's what I understood the moment when, without really knowing what I was saying, I answered yes. When I got out of the hospital, we left for Saint Martin, an island in the Caribbean where there was no cinema or television, to get away from it all. Now we were on the same wavelength; we were speaking the same language. We wrote a hundred-page script in ten days. On the last page I added a quotation from St. John's Gospel, the exchange between Nicodemus and Christ. Jesus tells the high priest that one must be "born from on high", born from the Holy Spirit, to enter the Kingdom of God. I wasn't planning to use it in that form, but I was determined to give everyone reading the script a clear understanding of what it meant to me.
Scorsese on the influence of George Stevens's footage of the concentration camps on Shutter Island
Imagine being a soldier and discovering what he did in those camps: the guilt emanating from the worst century in recorded history! You know, he never made another comedy after World War II. We studied his footage, which is unimaginable, beyond disturbing, but we couldn't incorporate it. We had to re-create it because the flashbacks take place in the mind of Teddy or Andrew. It had to be stylized, blanketed with ice and snow. We used the same color process, Kodachrome, but digitally. All the dreams were shot in Kodachrome. That's why the wallpaper in our interiors has such garish colors.
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The Night Owl Club
Things to do when every one else in the world is asleep. Obviously the activities are determined by the season. You're not going to steal strawberries in January, at least not in Canada. However, if your neighbour owns a green house....
Steal strawberries from your neighbour's garden.
walk in the moonlight
throw rocks at the moon
throw baseballs at the moon
Throw old dead fallen apart scarecrows at the moon.
throw snowballs at the moon (in season)
bay at the moon.
swim naked in the river.
swim naked in a local quarry
walk naked in the moonlight
lay on your back in a meadow and look at the moon (naked)
walk around town playing "Reveille" on a bugle at 3:00 in the morning.
Run away and hide very fast
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SAO PAULO: The Brazilian government cut the target rate of return for pension funds for the coming six years on Thursday in a move long awaited by money managers following a fall in borrowing costs to record lows.
Industry watchdog National Pension Council, known as CNPC, will lower the so-called actuarial target rate of return for state- and private-sector-run funds by 0.25 percentage point per year between 2013 and 2018. Currently, funds have to post a minimum return rate of 6 percent on top of the benchmark IPCA consumer price index.
According to CNPC, about half of pension funds in Brazil have been working with actuarial targets below the 6 percent limit. About 42 percent of pension funds were still using the 6 percent benchmark. Funds in Brazil manage a total 626 billion reais ($298 billion) of retirement money.
"The decision reflects the current scenario of lower interest rates in the Brazilian economy," CNPC said in a statement.
The move underscores one of the many long-term implications of lower borrowing costs in Brazil, where for years fixed-income investors and retirees earned the highest returns of any in the world's 20 biggest economies. Apart from reducing the cost of credit for companies and individuals, lower rates might also fan risk-taking among investors to counter a decline in returns.
The central bank on Wednesday kept the Selic benchmark overnight lending rate at a record low 7.25 percent. A decade ago, the Selic was around 26 percent.
In the statement, Jaime Mariz, a senior pension ministry official, said the move also aims to encourage funds to diversify their assets and "move their investment focus from government debt solely".
Investors including Paulo Corchaki, who as chief investment officer of Ita Asset Management manages 300 billion reais in assets, said that from now on pension funds will have to boost purchases of corporate debt, exchange-traded funds and shares in funds made up of asset-backed securities to beat the returns offered by the most traditional asset classes.


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July 4th is here and it's a good time to think about America.
Let's celebrate our July 4th freedom with a game called, "What Is Going On Right Now in America?"
What freedoms have we gained and lost in this last year?
What has changed in the way we live?
Which changes have we chosen and which have been imposed on us?
Los Angeles seems to be a good reference point on the subject of change in America.
The city of Los Angeles is under massive construction, beginning now with widespread destruction of streets, roads, and freeways.
Although the list of daily road closures can be found on the web, there is no headline announcing that all reasonable ease of movement in the city for all practical purposes has been eliminated.
My guess is that it wouldn't be good for tourism to make this an electric point in public.
This explains the many multi-decked "Hollywood" tour buses offering a double treat for all those craving the city of broken dreams.
For the same money, the wreckage of demolished streets!
Now that's a deal.
Obviously, these city works have been in the works for years, but perhaps behind closed business doors where power brokers plan the city and thus decide for us all exactly what kind of town we live in.
Is America being designed and power-brokered this way, beyond the view of American citizens?
For Los Angeles, this is a time when people are arranging not to leave home beyond when it is strictly necessary.
The point is to avoid the mess, filth, and chaos of road-drilling traffic jams, which is everywhere.


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- Ulf Baumgärtner, Hans-Georg Buchholz, +12 authors Mathias Schreckenberger
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- 2006
To determine how opiate receptor distribution is co-localized with the distribution of nociceptive areas in the human brain, eleven male healthy volunteers underwent one PET scan with the subtype-nonselective opioidergic radioligand [(18)F]fluoroethyl-diprenorphine under resting conditions. The binding potential (BP), a parameter for the regional cerebral… (More)
- André Manook, Behrooz H. Yousefi, +13 authors Alexander Drzezga
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In vivo imaging and quantification of amyloid-β plaque (Aβ) burden in small-animal models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a valuable tool for translational research such as developing specific imaging markers and monitoring new therapy approaches. Methodological constraints such as image resolution of positron emission tomography (PET) and lack of suitable… (More)
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Semantic dementia (SD) is a rare clinical syndrome, assigned to the group of frontotemporal lobar degenerations (FTLD). Histopathological analysis has not revealed the deposition of amyloid plaques in the majority of SD cases, in contrast to dementia of the Alzheimer type (AD). However, based on clinical examination alone a reliable differentiation of the… (More)
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BACKGROUND Cross-sectional imaging studies suggest that patterns of hypometabolism (measured by [(18)F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography [FDG-PET]) and amyloid deposition (measured by [(11)C] Pittsburgh Compound B [PiB]- PET) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) show some overlap with each other. This indicates that neuronal dysfunction might spread… (More)
- Timo Grimmer, Matthias Riemenschneider, +7 authors Alexander Drzezga
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BACKGROUND A decreased concentration of beta amyloid (1-42) (Abeta42) has consistently been found in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is considered a diagnostic biomarker. However, it is not clear to which extent CSF Abeta42 levels are reflective of cerebral pathology in AD. The aim of the study was to determine… (More)
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. (2005) Noninvasive visualization of the activated avb3 integrin in cancer patients by positron emission tomography and [ 18 F]Galacto-RGD. PLoS Med 2(3): e70. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits… (More)
- Roland Haubner, Hans-Jürgen Wester, +5 authors Markus Schwaiger
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The ␣ v ␤ 3 integrin is an important cell adhesion receptor involved in tumor-induced angiogenesis and tumor metastasis. Here we describe the 18 F-labeling of the RGD-containing glycopeptide cyclo(-Arg-Gly-Asp-D-Phe-Lys(sugar amino acid)-) with 4-nitrophenyl 2-[ 18 F]fluoropropionate and the evaluation of this compound in vitro and in tumor mouse models.
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BACKGROUND The integrin alphavbeta3 plays an important role in angiogenesis and tumor cell metastasis, and is currently being evaluated as a target for new therapeutic approaches. Several techniques are being studied to enable noninvasive determination of alphavbeta3 expression. We developed [(18)F]Galacto-RGD, a (18)F-labeled glycosylated alphavbeta3… (More)
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Inhibitors targeting the integrin alpha(v)beta(3) are promising new agents currently tested in clinical trials for supplemental therapy of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). The aim of our study was to evaluate (18)F-labeled glycosylated Arg-Gly-Asp peptide ([(18)F]Galacto-RGD) PET for noninvasive imaging of alpha(v)beta(3) expression in patients with GBM,… (More)
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BACKGROUND Glucose regulated proteins (GRPs) are main regulators of cellular homeostasis due to their role as molecular chaperones. Moreover, the functions of GRPs suggest that they also may play important roles in cancer biology. In this study we investigated the glucose regulated proteins GRP78 (BiP) and GRP94 (GP96) in a series of human esophageal… (More)


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Meet Mr. Rocky! He is a 11-year old boy with a sad past. He was thrown out in an alley as a tiny, skinny puppy. Rocky followed a couple boys heading back home from the liquor store, and never left their home. Rocky was given water and food for the past 10 years, but never really got the love and care he needed until a Good Sam learned about his life story and wanted to help.
Rocky was exposed to a lot of domestic violence issues in his original home. He was also taunted and teased by the neighborhood kids. He craved for some love and TLC every day, and waited for the right family to take him home.
With the help of a Good Sam, Rocky has been given proper vet care, and was professionally diagnosed with spondylosis after a major car accident while living with his former "owners." The spondylosis is completely manageable with the occasional use of pain meds. Rocky gets massaged every day, and he runs, walks, and plays just fine.
Rocky has a loving, gentle personality. He LOVES to cuddle and burrow underneath sheets and blankets to keep warm. He plays with toys, rolls on the grass, gallops around in the backyard. He listens wonderfully well, and even knows how to do tricks (shake, sit, down, and lay).
Because of his past, Rocky needs a special, responsible home that could let him live out his golden years in peace and harmony. He is fearful of loud noises such as screaming people or fireworks. He is fine around certain dogs, but would do best as the only child in the house. He is scared of water. And he is scared of certain men with masks, hats, or hoodies on.
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By Mark Magnier Los Angeles Times
NEW DELHI, India — The owner of a collapsed building in Bangladesh was arrested Sunday near the Indian border as the death toll rose to at least 370 in the nation's worst garment industry disaster. With more than 800 people still missing and time running out, rescue officials fear the number of known dead could rise sharply.
Sohel Rana, landlord of the pancaked Rana Plaza, was trying to flee the country when he was detained in the border town of Benapole, police said. Rana is reportedly an official with the ruling party who went into hiding soon after he was rescued from the wreckage of his building. Local news photos showed him wearing a black and white printed shirt as he was taken into custody by two men in plain clothes.
"He has been arrested and will be tried," Bangladesh's deputy home minister, Shamsul Haque Tuku, told reporters.
Rana Plaza, housing five apparel factories supplying western brands, a shopping plaza and a bank branch, developed cracks Tuesday, according to local media reports. Police condemned the eight-story building, but some factory owners reportedly ordered workers back to their sewing machines just hours before the building collapsed. Reports said an illegal ninth story was under construction.
Disaster Management Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali said Sunday that the structure didn't meet building code requirements, was never approved by the government and was built on a wetland using substandard construction materials.
In addition to Rana, authorities have arrested three factory owners and two government engineers.
Meanwhile, fewer people are being pulled out alive with each passing day. The five rescued Sunday compared with about two dozen on Saturday and more than 70 on Friday.
"The chances of finding people alive are dimming," said Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hassan Sohrawardi, the army official coordinating the rescue operation. "So we have to step up our rescue operation to save any valuable life we can."
Authorities initially announced they would suspend the rescue operation and start removing the debris at the 72-hour mark, but angry relatives forced them to continue searching. As the stench of decaying bodies grows, however, it's only a matter of time before the focus shifts to a cleanup operation, analysts said.
Nine more survivors were spotted under huge pieces of concrete Sunday, spurring an operation to reach them. So far, 2,440 people have been pulled out alive, Dhaka's Daily Star newspaper reports.
The roads were relatively quiet Sunday, with protests limited to a few blocked highways. This followed days of demonstrations and clashes between police and angry garment workers who burned factories, smashed cars and wrecked shops. Opposition forces have called for a national strike Thursday to protest the disaster.
"This is not the time for agitation," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Sunday on a day in which she visited hospitals and promised aid in a bid to stem the civil and political fallout. "It is the time to stand beside other people. Vandalism on the streets is not acceptable."


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- By Christian CarylChristian Caryl is the editor of Democracy Lab, published by Foreign Policy in conjunction with the London-based Legatum Institute. A former reporter at Newsweek, he's also the author of Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and a contributing editor at the National Interest. , Suchita Mandavilli
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Marc Plattner wonders whether the current age of democratic transitions may be nearing its end.
Antônio Sampaio analyzes the political fallout from Brazil's epic World Cup fail.
Vera Mironova and Valerie Hopkins explain why Ukrainian civil society organizations are lending a hand to the beleaguered military.
Terra Lawson-Remer argues that redistributing revenues from Libya's oil wealth is just what's needed to consolidate the transition to democracy.
Mohamed Eljarh reports on the latest battle among militias for control of Libya's main airport.
And now for this week's recommended reads:
Ben Bland of Financial Times looks at the election dispute in Indonesia and assesses its likely impact on the country's continuing transition.
Democracy Digest examines the obstacles still facing Burma on its path to liberal democracy. The New York Times' Thomas Fuller covers the predicament of Burma's Chinese Muslim minority as ethnic tensions deepen.
The Daily Beast's Josh Rogin reports on Movements.org, a new site attempting to crowdsource human rights.
Writing in The South China Morning Post, Jean-Pierre Lehmann argues that it's time for the countries of the West to stop lecturing the rest of the world on democracy.
Brookings' Ted Piccone offers advice to the new U.N. human rights commissioner on how to maximize his effectiveness on the job.
The International Crisis Group issues a report examining the challenges that still face Bosnia. (The picture above shows survivors from the Srebrenica massacre mourning relatives on the 19th anniversary of their deaths.)
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802.11a uses an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)transmission scheme. It can be seen as information divided between a set of sub-carriers separated in frequency. The total bandwidth used is 16.6MHz. The information is modulated on to the sub-carriers with different schemes depending on the used data-rate. For the lowest rate the modulation scheme is QPSK ranging up to 64QAM for the highest data rate of 54Mbps. In 802.11a duplex is accomplished by time division (TDD) where transmission and reception takes place at different times at the same frequency. For details about 802.11a see [5].


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Kashi, Soft-Baked Cereal Bars, Ripe Strawberry, 6 Bars, 1.2 oz (35 g) Each (Discontinued Item)
Kashi, Soft-Baked Cereal Bars, Ripe Strawberry, 6 Bars, 1.2 oz (35 g) Each (Discontinued Item)
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|3 g
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|Monounsaturated Fat
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|100 mg
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|24 g
|Dietary Fiber
|3 g
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|1 g
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|9 g
|2 g
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|25 g
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|375 g
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Jan 6, 1976
|Filing date
|May 7, 1973
|Priority date
|Mar 14, 1972
|Publication number
|Anthony D. Kurtz, Joseph R. Mallon, Jr.
|Original Assignee
|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (24), Classifications (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a division of application Ser. No. 234,616 filed on March 14, 1972, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,800,264, 3/26/74.
This invention relates to high temperature, pressure transducers and more particularly to methods for fabricating and novel structures associated with such transducers.
Due to more stringent applications there is a need for pressure transducers capable of operating at high temperature, while further being of small physical dimensions to enable use of the same in small areas.
Such uses exist in many areas, such as satellite applications, nuclear power, chemical processing, aerodyromics, engine testing and so on.
The semiconductor piezoresistive transducers are in widespread application due to the high output signals available.
The high signal output is desirable, and coupled with this is the fact that when one wishes to provide small transducers (less than 1/8 inch in diameter) the use of semiconductor technology is essential.
The prior art is replete with various techniques for fabricating such transducers.
Certain techniques use organic epoxy adhesives to bond several sensors to a central, metal diaphragm. The metal diaphragm deflects under force and the transducers bonded thereon sense the surface strains on the diaphragm. Difficulties at high temperature operation are paramount due to the "plastic" behavior of the epoxy; and sensors which use epoxy exhibit hysterisis and zero instability. Both terms indicating that such a transducer would exhibit varying quiescent condition operation due to such temperature changes.
With the introduction of monolithic devices, sensors were fabricated integrally with a silicon diaphragm. The integral configuration permitted higher temperature operation; but at temperatures of about 350�F the isolation between the sensors and the substrate deteriorated. This was caused by thermally generated carriers which served to short circuit the sensors to the substrate.
It is therefore an object of this invention to provide improved pressure transducers and techniques for fabricating the same capable of operating at high temperatures. Such transducers being capable of operating at temperatures above 600�F.
A preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a pressure transducer comprising a silicon disc-like diaphragm having located on a first surface thereof at least one dielectric insulating member, said insulating member having a piezoresistive sensor element on a surface thereof to thereby form a composite transducer structure wherein said sensor is dielectrically isolated from said diaphragm, an annular ring housing generally cylindrical in shape having an open top end of a diameter less than the diameter of said disc and a glass bond coupling said disc to said housing, located about the periphery of said disc, with the area defined by said open top end of said housing surrounding said sensor.
Further embodiments include methods of securing pressure transducing assemblies to housing for high temperature operation.
FIG. 1 is a sectional side view of a pressure transducer according to this invention.
FIG. 2 is a top perspective view of a pressure transducer.
FIG. 3 is a side elevation cross-sectional view of a pressure transducer coupled to a housing.
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a pressure transducer and housing arrangement.
FIG. 5 is a side elevational view in cross section showing a pressure transducer coupled to a housing utilizing an intermediate silicon ring.
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the transducer assembly of FIG. 5 showing slotted wire accommodating portions in greater detail.
Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown a pressure transducer which is capable of high temperature operation and is fabricated according to certain novel techniques which will be described subsequently. Numeral 10 references an epitaxial silicon diaphragm. The diaphragm has deposited on the surface thereof a first oxide layer 11 and a second oxide layer 12. As can be seen the layers 11 and 12 emanate from and extend above the diaphragm 10. Positioned on each oxide layer as 11 and 12 are single crystal sensors 14 and 15. These sensors for example may be semiconductor piezoresistive elements. The use of such piezoresistive elements in sensing stress and strain are well known in the art. Such devices have been used in a great many applications as stress and strain gages. For an example of such gage configurations as well as the implementation of such devices, references can be made to a publication entitled "Semiconductor Transducers Using Transverse And Shear Piezoresistance" by Anthony D. Kurtz and Charles L. Gravel published by the Instrument Society of America, Preprint No. P4-1PHYMM 10-67 (1967).
Despite the widespread use of such piezoresistive elements in transducing assemblies difficulty was encountered in using such devices in high temperature operation. The reason is that the isolation in prior art devices between the sensing element and the silicon substrate was effective only up to certain temperatures. The reason that these devices failed to operate at relatively high temperatures was that thermally generated carriers were produced which effectively shorted the substrate. Since the response of the transducer depends on the relative junction isolation, it is therefore desirable to maintain a junction in such devices at as high a temperature as possible. Basically, the transducer shown in FIG. 1 can be referred to generally as a dielectrically isolated device. Such devices are well known but as will be explained the device of FIG. 1 differs in many respects to those shown in the prior art.
The advantages of using dielectric isolation in the fabrication of transducers are many. Dielectric isolation provides higher temperature operation in general because the silicon dioxide insulation resistance is relatively unaffected by temperature. Hence, the fundamental thermal limitation on device performance will be that temperature at which the piezoresistive elements no longer exhibit repeatable and useful piezoresistive properties (i.e., greater than 800�C). The difficulty with such devices is that fabrication is inherently more difficult as well as geometric or dimensional control as compared to the monolithic devices of the prior art. Hence, these devices suffer in that the overall geometry of the sensor is affected and therefore one can anticipate variations from device to device.
In the configuration shown in FIG. 1, the oxide layers 11 and 12 are directed upwards from the surface of the silicon diaphragm 10. This particular configuration as will be further explained, therefore permits a closer control of geometric structure. In fabricating the device shown, the first step in the procedure would be to first grow a layer of silicon dioxide approximately 10,000 to 15,000 angstrom units thick on the surface of a silicon wafer. This can be accomplished by a thermal oxidation process. The process is known and uses an oxidation furnace operating at about 1150�C, to heat silicon wafers located within a quartz tube in a high oxygen or steam atmosphere. The next step is to now deposit a relatively thick layer of polycrystalline silicon by epitaxial techniques. The function of the polycrystalline layer is to provide a support for the single crystal regions which are to be the strain sensors. A basic chemical reaction which can be used for the growth of epitaxial silicon is the hydrogen reduction of silicon tetrachloride. This reaction takes place only at a surface and can be arranged to occur only on the oxidized surface of the wafer. The growth rate of the epitaxial layer is dependent upon the flow rate of the silicon tetrachloride, the ratio of hydrogen and the temperature. The next step would be to preferentially remove the undesired single crystal silicon and oxide portions. The removal can be accomplished by a photolithographic method. This method is conventionally utilized to remove silicon or silicon dioxide from predetermined areas in conjunction with an etching technique. Thereafter, the sensor can be fabricated with a minimum of difficulty by conventional mechanical lapping and photolithographic chemical milling techniques.
FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of such a sensor wherein the sensor is shown separated at the center portion thereof to expose the raised oxide layers which are the support members for the piezoresistive transducing elements.
For examples of how such epitaxial devices can be constructed, reference is further made to the following papers entitled "Development and Application of High Temperature UltraMiniature Pressure Transducers" by Anthony D. Kurtz and John Kicks and "Advances in High Temperature Ultra-Miniature Transducers" by Joseph Mallon and Damon Germanton, both presented at the ISA Silver Jubilee Conference, October 1970, Philadelphia, Pa.
A further problem which will be explained is the implementation of contacts to the sensing arrangements. Referring again to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, there is shown contacts 16 which are platinum contacts and are deposited upon the wafer assembly.
The contacts are preferably fabricated from platinum because of its good conductivity and temperature characteristics, however other metals which are suitable are molybendum and tungsten or any metal which does not react metalurgically with silicon at the desired operating temperature and can be made to form an ohmic contact.
Platinum is sputtered by an RF sputtering process and the platinum is reacted with the silicon of the diaphragm 10 to form platinum-silicide. The platinum silicide is then overlayed with another layer of platinum, to thereby form the contact areas 16. On then can bond platinum leads to the platinum metallized contact areas 16. This assures an adequate contacting surface to which additional leads can be attached by welding, brazing, soldering or other materials.
In general, the fabrication of the dielectrically isolated structure as shown in the figures provides a diaphragm 10 with piezoresistive sensors 14 and 15, which are isolated from the diaphragm by the silicon dioxide mounts 12 and 11. The combination has high temperature platinum lead or lead contact areas 16. This therefore provides a transducing assembly, whereby the resultant structure provides the following advantages:
1. Transducer exhibits negligible creep or hysterisis at elevated temperatures;
2. The maximum operating temperature is basically a function of the lead attaching process;
3. Individual sensors comprising a bridge arrangement on the diaphragm are relatively isolated one from the other by the insulator silicon dioxide, which has a high resistivity (1010 ohm-cm). Moreover, the dielectric properties of silicon dioxide are essentially independent of temperature over a greater range and useful isolation exists at temperatures in excess of 1500�F.
However, these advantages must further be maintained when such a dielectrically isolated transducer is coupled to a housing. Briefly referring to FIG. 2, there is shown a dashed line 20 of a smaller diameter than the diameter of the transducer. The transducer, in order to operate in a particular environment, is associated with a housing used for maintaining the transducer in a fixed position and further effective to aid in the direction and location of leads and so on. It is important that the edges of the diaphragm be well bonded, since a simply supported diaphragm will have significantly lower sensitivity than a clamped diaphragm. In addition the seal or bond must exhibit good mechanical properties and be leak-free even at elevated temperatures. The diaphragm of FIG. 2 is clamped or bonded to a housing within the area between the dashed line 20 and the periphery of the disc-like diaphragm. This clamping area is sometimes referred to as the non-active area, as compared to the active area of the diaphragm. The active area being that area which deflects upon application of a force to the diaphragm.
As can be seen the active area includes the piezoresistive sensing elements, while the non-active area includes the larger area of the contacts 16. The advantages of using this type of construction are discussed in greater detail in a patent application entitled "Electromechanical Transducers and Housings", Ser. No. 36,169, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,654,579, filed on May 11, 1970 by Anthony D. Kurtz, Joseph Mallon and Charles Gravel and assigned to the same assignee herein.
Basically, the bonding of the diaphragm to the housing has to be done in a manner to retain high temperature operating capability as afforded by the dielectrically isolated transducer assembly.
Referring to FIGS. 3 and 4 there is shown a transducer assembly 30 fabricated as a dielectrically isolated configuration, where piezoresistive sensors 31 are found on insulating blocks 32.
An annular housing 35 is shown. The housing 35 is fabricated from a ceramic or high temperature steel alloy as kovar. A bond 36 secures the diaphragm transducing assembly 30 to the housing 35.
As indicated, the properties of this bond 36 are important to the overall high temperature performance of the unit.
The bond 36 is formed by a material known as solder glass. Such glasses have relatively low melting points, as pyroceram, manufactured and distributed by the Corning Glass Company. These glasses are thermosetting and devitrify at a temperature compatible with temperatures (450�C) associated with lead attachment techniques. Upon devitrification, the glass develops a crystalline structure which results in a strong seal as the crystallized material's softening point is higher than conventional glass.
In prior art techniques of bonding the diaphragm 30 to the housing 35 an organic epoxy adhesive could be used. Such adhesives have good mechanical properties within their design limits. However, as operating temperatures are increased, they begin to exhibit plastic behavior causing hysterisis and zero instability for the transducer assembly.
Solder glass on the other hand exhibits excellent mechanical properties at temperatures well in excess of 600�F ambients.
Heating the solder glass to a temperature above the softening point causes the glass to flow, and as the heating is continued, crystals nucleate and grow. The rate of the crystal growth is temperature dependent as the higher the temperature, the faster the crystal growth. Upon reheating (even to temperatures above the initial curing cycle), the bond remains stable.
The formation of a good, high temperature bond between the silicon transducer and the metal housing 35 is dependent upon the control of several basic steps.
The finely powdered solder glass is mixed with a proper suspension vehicle, such as a mixture of nitrocellane in anylacetate, to a desired consistency to form a paste-like mixture or frit. This frit is then placed about the top edge of the annular cylinder 35, in that area on which the transducer is to be bonded. The semiconductor transducer 30 is then placed in position over the top edge of the housing 35, to contact the area where the frit is placed, which is within the non-active area of the diaphragm. The structure is heated for about forty-five minutes at 170�F to insure full evaporation of the suspension vehicle or solvent. Finally, the structure is fired at about 800�F for about forty-five minutes.
This process provides a good bond between the housing 35 and transducer 30. However, when a semiconductor transducer as 30 is bonded to a metal housing having a larger coefficient of linear expansion, and the bond 36 therebetween is made with an intermediate material such as glass, that is cured at an elevated temperature, the gage will be subjected to compressive strain when cooled to room temperature. This is undesirable, since the sensitivity of the gage is somewhat nonlinear under high compressive stress. However, this characteristic can be accounted for in the design technique and alloted for.
The assembly, shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 have slots 37 in the sidewall of the cylindrical housing for accommodating wires 38. The advantages of such slots for the direction of wires from the assembly are further explained in the above-noted patent application.
Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, there is shown a transducer 50 of the dielectrically isolated type, having silicon dioxide insulating support members 52 located on a surface of the silicon diaphragm, with piezoresistive sensors 51 fabricated thereon. Platinum contact areas 53 emanate from the sensors 51 and are directed to the periphery of the disc-like diaphragm as shown in FIG. 2.
The diaphragm 50 is bonded to an intermediate slotted annular housing or ring 55 by means of a solder glass bond 54. The ring 55 may be fabricated from silicon or quartz. The intermediate ring 55 has slots therein which communicate with the wire accommodating slots 59 of the metal housing 57. The annular ring 55 is likewise bonded to housing 55 via a glass bond 56 as above described.
The function of the ring 55 is important to alleviate the above-noted compression force disadvantage.
The intermediate ring serves to provide improved thermal matching between the housing 57 and the diaphragm 50. A metallic housing 57 typically has a higher coefficient of expansion than the silicon disc, therefore, if a seal is accomplished at an elevated temperature, a compressive force is exerted on the dielectrically isolated sensor, resulting in a distortion which causes a deterioration in transducer characteristics. The intermediate ring fabricated from silicon or quartz, or other materials having lower expansion properties than the housing serve to provide thermal matching to thereby greatly alleviate the diaphragm from the undesirable thermal forces. Quartz even has a lower expansion property then silicon and serves to slightly tense the diaphragm after the glass bonding process. Such a pretension is desirable to provide for more reliable operation.
It is understood that various other approaches to structures are known in the art, such as silicon on sapphire, silicon on spinel or on glass. Another technique known as anodic bonding can be used, see for example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,397,278, entitled "Anodic Bonding" by Daniel I. Pomeranz, issued Aug. 13, 1968 and assigned to P. R. Mallory and Company. This invention is not to be limited by the fabrication techniques of such transducers without regard to the bonding of the same to the housings and alternate structures, as further defined and covered by the claims presented herein.
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|Corning Glass Works
|Composite article and method
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|Semiconductor device
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|Corning Glass Works
|Lead titanate-containing,crystallizable sealing glasses and method
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|Mar 31, 1970
|Anchor Hocking Glass Corp
|Creptallizable lead borosilicate compositions for use as low thermal expansion,devitrifying solder glasses or coatings
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|Gen Electric
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|Ferranti Ltd
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|Citing Patent
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|Feb 28, 1985
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|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
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|Feb 27, 1990
|Solartron Electronics, Inc.
|Mechanical sensor for high temperature environments
|Dec 17, 1990
|Oct 20, 1992
|Motorola, Inc.
|Field emission device display with vacuum seal
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|Apr 19, 1994
|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
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|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
|Temperature compensated silicon carbide pressure transducer and method for making the same
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|Dec 31, 1996
|The Foxboro Company
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|Feb 5, 1996
|Mar 25, 1997
|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
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|Mar 14, 1996
|Apr 22, 1997
|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
|Passivation/patterning of PZR diamond films for high temperature operability
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|Sep 30, 1997
|The Foxboro Company
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|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
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|Sep 25, 2001
|Kulite Semiconductor Products
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|Ardishir Rashidi
|Pressure sensing device
|Nov 23, 1999
|Jun 17, 2003
|Nt International, Inc.
|Chemically inert flow control with non-contaminating body
|Jul 20, 2000
|Sep 2, 2003
|Nt International, Inc.
|Sensor usable in ultra pure and highly corrosive environments
|May 16, 2003
|Dec 26, 2006
|Entegris, Inc.
|Sensor usable in ultra pure and highly corrosive environments
|Dec 3, 2004
|Feb 20, 2007
|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
|Transducer responsive to pressure, vibration/acceleration and temperature and methods of fabricating the same
|Sep 30, 2003
|Feb 10, 2009
|Agilent Technologies, Inc.
|Electronically readable microarray with electronic addressing function
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|Sep 8, 2009
|Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
|Combustion transducer apparatus employing pressure restriction means
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|Mar 4, 2004
|Thomas Peterson
|Sensor usable in ultra pure and highly corrosive environments
|Sep 30, 2003
|Apr 14, 2005
|May Tom-Moy
|Electronically readable microarray with electronic addressing function
|Dec 3, 2004
|Jun 8, 2006
|Kurtz Anthony D
|Transducer responsive to pressure, vibration/acceleration and temperature and methods of fabricating the same
|Jan 14, 2005
|Jul 20, 2006
|Kurtz Anthony D
|Combustion transducer apparatus employing pressure restriction means
|Feb 11, 2000
|Nov 11, 2003
|Nt International, Inc.
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|Jul 20, 2004
|Nt International, Inc.
|Non-contaminating pressure transducer module
|U.S. Classification
|65/33.6, 65/43, 257/794
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven.
It had been over a month since Alexander had moved into the house down the road. And over that four week period he and Grace had become joined at the hip. Due to the fact they had become friends during the summer holidays, the unlikely pair was able to spend every waking moment together.
Alexander understood Grace, and Grace understood Alexander. While he was, indeed, just another awkward teenage boy trying to get by, he was also a very thoughtful and complex person. Grace had taken it upon herself to adopt his way of looking at the world, although she had yet to discover fully how that was. Alexander liked to study people, so she tried to as well. She learned to see the humour on his face when he knew someone was lying to him or spot the nearly undetectable shift in his expression when he was angry and didn't want to admit it.
Grace enjoyed being in his company, and that was the pure and simple truth.
'...And I said to her, you just have to get over it because I'm not - hey!' Holly stopped mid-babble, her squeaky voice had become a pleasant hum in the background for Grace while she was thinking, 'are you listening?'
'Oh,' Grace looked up at her friend, 'no. No, I wasn't.'
'Honestly, this is first time we've been able to hang out for ages! You could at least pretend to be happy.' Holly pouted, and lapsed into an angry silence, 'you've been ditching me all the time lately for your boyfriend.'
'Alexander isn't my boyfriend. He is my best friend.' Grace replied dryly.
'No. No he isn't. I'm your best friend, I've been with you since we started high school and you hadn't seen him for years before that,' Holly said, obviously irritated by the new contender for Grace's friendship.
'I've only know you for two years,' Grace pointed out, which was the wrong thing to say, because Holly's cheeks blazed with her annoyance.
'And you've only known him for a month!' She spat, saying 'him' with a terrible venom.
Grace's eyes widened in shock; she had never seen Holly so angry before. Even if she wasn't too fond of her friend, it was a little upsetting for Grace to be what Holly's anger was directed at.
Holly sighed and rubbed the bridge of her nose, 'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be nasty. I'm just feeling left out.'
'I'm sorry, too.' Said Grace, not sounding sorry at all. 'Alexander understands me and he's really nice so I enjoy spending my time with him.'
'And I want to understand you, Gracie,' Holly said sadly, 'but you don't let me in. I'm trying so hard to get to know you again but I can't do it if you won't let me.'
Grace didn't know how to reply to that. She hasn't even considered how much her amnesia had affected the girl sat opposite her, and she suddenly felt sorry for Holly. She didn't realise that the accident would have made Holly feel sat, too. She just took her friendship for granted and accepted the fact she couldn't shake the firey redhead off.
'I'll try harder to talk more,' mumbled Grace quietly, 'if it's what you want.'
'Thanks, yeah.' Holly smiled, 'well! I'm off, we have guests over today. We'll talk later right? Message me.' And with that, Grace's friend left the picnic table with questionable haste.
'I'm sorry.' Grace said again.
'Sorry for what?'
She looked up and was mildly surprised to see Alexander looming over her with his eyebrow quirking upwards, 'nothing.'
Alexander studied the girl for a second and looked as though he had something to say, but thought better of it, 'if you say so.'
He sat down on the bench opposite her, where Holly had been sitting. I should have been this happy to have Holly opposite me, Grace thought miserably.
'Now I'm really worried,' said Alexander, who had been staring at her, his brows furrowed in concern. He placed a gentle hand on her arm, 'what's wrong?'
Alexander's hand comforted Grace, who would have usually recoiled if someone touched her. People placed their bodies near hers made her feel incredibly uncomfortable, their heat left a sickening residue on her skin that she couldn't rub off. She stared at the hand, her eyes glazed over with confusion and worry.
'I think I'm making Holly sad.'
'She wants us to be friends, but I don't know how to be friends with someone like that,' sighed Grace, feeling a little better for being honest with herself - and with him.
He frowned, 'why are you forcing yourself. It's going to hurt her, and you, more if you string her along.' His words stung, but they were the truth. It was unfair on Holly. But Grace couldn't bring herself to let Holly go; she felt like the girl could help her remember her past, even a little. But it was unlikely. The doctors had told her, after weeks and weeks of therapy, that there was little chance of any memories returning to her.
Of course, this didn't really trouble Grace at all. She didn't really want the memories back. If she regained them, then who would she be? Would she magically transform back into her old self, or be who she was currently; only with actually proof she had been alive before she was thirteen. There was something incredibly disconcerting about it.
She slipped out of her little moment and glanced up at Alexander quickly, he was staring at her with genuine concern on his face. Grace trusted Alexander, but she wasn't quite ready to start telling him her most private of thoughts.
So instead of saying something in reply to his statement, the pair fell into a thoughtful silence.
(Sorry, it's really long but it was too short to be able to split into seperate chapters!'


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Speaker Profile
Kevin Sheedy is one of the Australian Football League's most successful and enduring figures. A player and coach over five decades, Kevin has an unsurpassed record of involvement in a 1000 games and eight premierships.
That involvement was well and truly re-ignited in 2012 when Kevin became the inaugural coach of the newest AFL club - Greater Western Sydney, taking his young team to two unexpected victories and helping spread the message of Australian football to a whole new audience.
After two years as senior coach, Kevin stood down to take up the position of Director with Greater Western Sydney, maintaining an involvement in the game that stretches back for decades.
Kevin Sheedy began his career at Prahran Football Club in the Victorian Football Association in 1964. After playing in a premiership with that club, he transferred to Richmond in the Victorian Football League in 1967 and played 251 games before retiring in 1979. Kevin played in three winning grand final sides for the Tigers - 1969, 1973 and 1974.
He was the Skills Coach at Richmond when the club won the 1980 Premiership.
In 1981 he was appointed Senior Coach at the Essendon Football Club, where he coached for a record 635 games during 27 years of continuous coaching.
In that time the club completed in 19 finals series.
Kevin's success ratio as a coach is 61.0% - 386 wins, 242 losses and 7 draws. In finals, he won 23 games and lost 20.
During his time at Essendon, the club competed in seven Grand Finals, winning flags in 1984, 1985, 1993 and 2000. The club also won six of eight 'Night' grand finals in which it competed. Overall, Kevin has coached in 69 pre-season competition games.
Sheeds was 'All Australian' coach in 1984, 1985, 1993 and 2000 and State of Origin coach in 1984 and 1985.
He was also the successful Coach of the International Rules Team in 2005 and 2006, winning three of the four Tests played during his tenure.
In round 15 of 2007, Kevin broke the VFL/AFL's combined playing/coaching record with 251 games played and 628 coached - 879 games.
As well as on field success, Kevin also helped develop Essendon off the field. In 1980, membership was 15,000, in 2008, Kevin was given the honour of being the club's 40,000th member in recognition of his efforts in making the Bombers a national 'brand'.
Kevin also received a number of other accolades during 2008. He was inducted in to the Australian Football League's Hall of Fame, made a Legend of the Essendon Football Club and nominated as The Australian Thinker of the Year.
He was appointed to be an Ambassador for the AFL during the 150th Anniversary celebrations of Australian football.
Kevin is a life Member of the Richmond Football Club, Essendon Football Club and the Australian Football League
He received the Advance Australia Award in 1993 and in 1998 was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his service to sport and the community.
He was named the Australia Sports Commission Coach of the Year for 2000 [Domestic]. Also in 2000 he was awarded an Australian Sports Medal in recognition of his service to Australian Football.
Other awards include:
Runner up in the Vic Division for 2008 Senior Australian of the Year
The Centenary Medal in 2003.
Kevin was one of three finalists for 'Coach of the Year' in the 2000 Australian Sports Awards, and the Essendon Football Team were judged as the National Team of 2000. The club and Kevin are justifiably proud of achieving these awards in an Olympic year.
In 2009, Kevin was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Australian Catholic University for his services to football and particularly the way he has encouraged Aboriginal footballers into the sport.
Also in 2009, he was inducted into the Sports Australia Hall of Fame and in November of that year, appointed as coach of GWS.
In December 2013, Kevin received an honorary doctorate from the University of Western Sydney.
In 2014, he was be the guest speaker for Deakin University's prestigious David Parkin Oration for Sport and Social Change. The event sold out in less than two days.
In March 2015, Kevin became the first life member of Greater Western Sydney in honour of his contribution to the fledgling club, first as coach, then as a Director.
Among his achievements with the Giants were helping the young side to its first ever win in the AFL and bringing to the club the largest ever match-day sponsorship in AFL history.
Also in March 2015, Kevin returned to the club he had supported as a boy, and coached for 27 years – Essendon.
Kevin was appointed as General Manager, Commercial Development and Innovation.
Kevin Sheedy is the co-author of eight books:
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- The success of our annual planning day was due to the quality of Kevin's presentation. We were looking for insights into how creativity can be transformed into innovation and how planning supports delivery. Kevin delivered above our high expectations through his enthusiasm and passion for sport and life.The feedback from the audience was unanimous! Kevin is great speaker and I do not believe we could have chosen better.
Department of Resources, Energy & Tourism
- Kevin spent some valuable time pre-conference understanding our theme and the message we wanted to convey to our sales and marketing team. He nailed the objectives right from the first minute and his presentation was both captivating and entertaining. His understanding of what makes a business like our 'tick' was central to his presentation and gave his content great credibility. Definitely a highlight of our conference.
Philmac Pty Ltd
- Kevin did a fantastic job engaging our industry and getting key messages across in an informal and anecdotal manner. He shared his experience and wisdom with the audience whilst keeping the audience entertained with his subtle humour. Kevin has been an instrumental leader in change in the sports industry and we were pleased we selected him as the keynote to inspire our industry.
Department of Education & Communities
- Kevin Sheedy was great and very warm with all our guests - very happy with him.
Canon Australia
- Kevin's attendance at our forum was described as a stroke of brilliance. He was carefully chosen for his passion, down to earth attitude and wide appeal to our target audience. He fulfilled all expectations in every way.
Aboriginal Workforce Development Centre
- Kevin was gracious with his time , genuinely interested in the local community and a fantastic speaker to the audiences that came to see him. It was inspiring seeing him get everyone involved in his presentation through his mix of humour , honesty and storytelling.
I would recommend Kevin to anyone , whether it be children, community members or corporate bankers. Through his life experiences, both professional and personal he has something worth sharing with everyone.
Australian Sports Commission
- Fantastic, related really well back to our audience about Chiropractic and small business, very impressive and professional.
Synaptic Design
- Everyone so enjoyed and commented how amazing he was and how it left an impression - very relaxed speaker and made everyone feel comfortable.
McDonalds Australia Limited
- Kevin was great to listen to. He adapted his experiences to our industry (private hospital) so everyone in the room could relate to him. The feedback from the staff who attended was excellent.
The Avenue Hospital
- I am writing to thank you for your contribution to the recent National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Construction Conference. Your speech during the Conference dinner was lively and engaging. I am sure that those present enjoyed hearing about your views on empowerment and leadership in the workplace. Your willingness to spend time with guests at the dinner was also very much appreciated. Thank you again for your participation.
National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
- Kevin Sheedy enthralled our team with real life stories and on occasion bringing tears of joy and sadness to many. It was a pleasure to have Kevin address our conference and provided a rare insight into the personal side of a amazing man as he shared some private memories of his Mother and Father. His level of professionalism and his love of public speaking was demonstrated with the decision to honour a business commitment so soon after the loss of his beloved Mother.
On Q Business Systems
- Thanks for a great breakfast and most entertaining speaker in Kevin Sheedy this morning.
Merilyn Hurle, Ronstan International
- Kevin was excellent in his presentation of his role as coach and our company's role with customers. He had the complete attention of the audience.
Aquarian Developments
- Excellent communication while in the store. Always large crowds in attendance.
Mitre 10
- All present, including the Chief Commissioner of Police and other Senior Officers were inspired by your message. Comments included: "He reminded us to think laterally—'outside the square'—and create new ideas.
Victoria Police
- He emphasised the need for training of young people for jobs in the business world at all levels and stressed the need for motivation of management if companies were to be winners in an increasingly international market. With his quiet, inimitable manner, Kevin Sheedy has appeal to a wide cross-section of Australian business people.
Australian Poultry Industries Association
- Inspirational!
Institute of Chartered Accountants Association Vic
- Kevin was professional, funny, entertaining and did a great job relating his speech to the issues affecting our particular industry.
Institute of Electrical Engineers Victoria
- Kevin's video presentation added to the atmosphere. Topical and interesting for all.
Housing Industry Association
- Kevin had the whole audience in the palm of his hand. A great morning.
Serpell Primary School
- Kevin had great empathy for the audience and held their attention. His presentation was interesting and relevant. I believe that we got good value for money.
- We would like to express our sincere thanks for your assistance and presentation at our recent franchise conference. The fact that we had David Parkin pull out at the last minute did send panic stations through our organizing team, however Saxtons went into overdrive and came up with a fantastic alternative in you.
We do appreciate that it must have meant some rejigging of your commitments at the last minute to fit in your presentation which we will be eternally grateful for. At our last conference we had Andrew Gaze speak and they said I wouldn't be able to top that this time; well the response from my franchisees suggests that we delivered again, as they were extremely motivated by what you had to say. You connected with the audience from the very moment you spoke and the ideas and the way you presented them were easily understood and made relevant to the individual franchisees who are small business owners in there own right. We presented the book to all of the participants at the very end of the conference and they were very pleasantly surprised that they had been individually autographed as well.
So what looked like being a disastrous event ended with it being a great success,once again our sincere thanks for you making the effort and motivating 'Our Team'.
Aussie Disposals
- Kevin was brilliant, passionate about his topic and excellent in relating it to our business audience. The audience were enthusiastic and our feedback has been fantastic. Kevin was a delight to deal with nothing was too much trouble and he stayed long after the event signing material for those present.
Maroondah City Council
- Sheeds made good valid points for future direction in planning business developments within the firm and through in a couple of motivational gems as well.
Well done, very professional and will use again for next retreat.
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- Leadership
- Pockets Full of Greatness
- Positive and Lateral Thinking
- The Forgotten Heroes
- Thinking and working outside the square: for the company and your own personal pride
- Thinking and working outside the square: for the company and your own personal pride
- Touch of Cunning
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Many people love to solve all sorts of puzzles. And especially attracted to
those who have not yet solved. Ciphers, puzzles and public messages encoded
tease us with their intrigue why this message is encrypted? what great secrets
it may hide in yourself?
Such a great variety of puzzles, but we decided - in the spirit of the time - to
make a top 10 mysteries of the world, which has not yet been solved.
In the first place, of course, the Voynich manuscript. Named in honor of the
Polish-American antiquarian book dealer Wilfrid M.Voynicha who bought it in
1912, "Voynich manuscript" - a detailed book, fairly thick - 240 pages, written
in absolutely unknown language.
Unknown until now! And there is not even any suggestion that it may be for the
language. Its pages are also filled with colored drawings and strange diagrams,
pictures of incredible events, as well as plants that like no one known species,
which only adds intrigue to the document, which is impossible to decipher.
Author manuscript is unknown, but radiocarbon analysis, as well as several
examinations have shown that its pages are made somewhere between 1404 and 1438
years. The manuscript has been called "the most mysterious manuscript in the
In second place Kryptos, a mysterious cipher covered sculpture, created by
artist Jim Sanborn, which is located in front of the headquarters of the Central
Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia, USA. It is so mysterious that even the
CIA could not decipher it until the end of the code.
Sculpture contains four encryption, and although three of them managed to
decipher the code to open the fourth fails so far. In 2006, Sanborn gave a hint
that the first encryption provides clues to the fourth, and in 2010 opened
another: 64-69 NYPVTT characters in the fourth part of the word "Berlin".
In third place cipher Bale. Bale cipher - a set of three ciphers which allegedly
reveal the location of one of the greatest treasures buried in American history:
many thoUSAnds of pounds of gold, silver and precious stones. Treasure was
originally produced a mysterious man named Thomas Jefferson Bale in 1818 during
the gold mining development in Colorado.
Of the three, only the second cipher is decoded. What is interesting, it seems
that the key to the cipher is the American Declaration of Independence - a
surprising fact, given that the name matches the name of Bale author of the
The transcribed text pointed to the area where the treasure: Bedford County,
Virginia, but its exact location, apparently hidden in one of the remaining
ciphers. To date, treasure hunters searched thoroughly (often illegally) Bedford
County hills in search of Undeniable Wealth.
In fourth place Phaistos disk. Riddle of the Phaistos disk is similar to the
story in the spirit of Indiana Jones. Discovered by the Italian archaeologist
Luigi Perna in 1908 in the ruins of the Minoan palace at Phaistos disc is still
one of the most famous mysteries of archeology. It is made of baked clay and
contains on itself mysterious symbols, which may represent an unknown form of
hieroglyphics. It is believed that it is made somewhere in the II millennium BC
Some scientists believe that these characters resemble the characters "Line A"
and "Line In" letters, in other words, written languages, which were once used
in ancient Crete.
Then what is the problem? The fact that the "Line A" indecipherable.
In fifth place encryption of Shaboro. In fact, this Shepherd's Monument XVIII
century English Staffordshire. If you look at it from afar, you can take it for
a sculptural reproduction of a famous painting by Nicolas Poussin's "Arcadia
Shepherds." But it's worth looking closer, as immediately becomes noticeable
strange sequence of letters: DOUOSVAVVM, - code that you can not decipher the
more than two and a half centuries. And although the author of this cipher
remains unknown, some believe that this code can be a clue left by rytsaryami-
Templars as to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.
Many of the greatest minds of our world have tried to decipher the code and
failed, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin.
Sixth in the so-called business Tamam Shud. case Tamam Shud considered one of
the greatest mysteries of Australia and revolves around an unidentified man who
was found dead in December 1948 on Somerton Beach in the Australian city of
Adelaide. Aside from the fact that the person has not been able to identify,
case became even more mysterious when in a secret pocket sewn into the pants of
a man was found a tiny piece of paper with the words "Tamam Shud". This phrase
is translated as "finished" or "complete" and is used on the last page of a
collection of poems "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam. In addition to this puzzle was
soon found a copy of the "Rubaiyat", which contained a strange cipher left by
these supposedly dead man.
Due to the content of the poems of Omar Khayyam, many believe that the message
was a kind of suicide note, but it still remains unsolved, as the case itself.
In seventh place is not the subject - signal. One summer night in 1977 Gerry
Ehman, a volunteer program SETI (widespread program of searching for signals of
extraterrestrial intelligence), became perhaps the first person to receive a
message from another planet. Gerry Ehman scanned the radio waves from deep space
hoping to chance upon a signal that carries the signs sent by sentient race,
when he noticed a jump in their dimensions. And stumbled. The signal lasted 72
seconds - the maximum possible duration of the measurement, which allows the
equipment and scanning range Jerry Emana. He was loud and, apparently, was
transferred from the place where never been one of these men: from the point of
the constellation Sagittarius next to the star called Tau Sagittarius, 120 light
years from Earth.
Gerry Ehman wrote the word "Wow!" printed on the original signal, and therefore
it was called "Wow! signal." All attempts to once again catch the signal failed,
which led to a great debate about the nature of its origin and its meaning.
Eighth place in the so-called "Letters of the Zodiac", but to the signs of the
zodiac is not relevant. "Letters Zodiac" - a series of four encrypted emails
that are believed to have been written by the famous Zodiac, a serial killer who
terrorized San Francisco residents in the second half of the 60's and early
70-ies of the last century. Write a letter icons, somewhat like letters, partly
runes. Separation of words from each other not.
The letters were probably written as a way to tease journalists and police, and
even one letter (or rather, three fragments of it) was able to decipher the
other three remain unsolved. Decipher the message suggests that three months of
the Zodiac ready Aztec priest became a victim of his own addiction to homicide,
tearfully begs him to help stop killing people (placing it, for example, to the
gas chambers). In addition, decoding starlaypera ends with the sentence "My name
- Lee Allen." By the way, the personality of the zodiac also never been
established, the killer has not been caught, although the Zodiac murders was no
longer identified with the 70s.
In ninth place guiding stones Georgia. Ground breaking stones Georgia, sometimes
referred to as "America's Stonehenge", is a granite monument in Elbert County,
Georgia, in 1979. The stones contain engraving in eight languages - English,
Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian - and each contains
ten "new" commandments for "Age of Reason". They look like four stelae,
virtually connected in a cross with a pillar in the middle and topped with "cap"
of a small square plate
Well, what's puzzling, ask most. Monument do not contain any encrypted messages!
Yes contains. Remain a mystery its purpose and origin. It was erected by man,
whose identity has not managed to establish exactly and who was hiding behind a
pseudonym R.C.Kristian. Where did he get these commandments is unknown, too,
because no sources do not contain anything like that.
Of these, the first of the Ten Commandments is perhaps the most controversial:
"Maintain humanity number below 500 million in the age-old balance with nature."
Many believe that this calling to reduce the human population to the number, and
criticism guiding stones even demanded their destruction. Some fans of
conspiracy theories even believe that they were created "a secret society of
Lucifer", calling for a new world order.
There is a version that the giant "letters" are set taking into account certain
astronomical considerations - hence, in fact, the name "America's Stonehenge".
On the tenth place plank Rongorongo. These mysterious wooden tablets with
inscriptions inhabitants of Easter Island. Currently not clear whether each
character is a single word or syllable. Today in museums around the world
survived only about 25 "boards." Traditionally, they are numbered in the Latin
alphabet, which, however, is not the only way to refer to "tables", among which
there is one stick, two inscriptions on the pectorals reimiro, as well as the
inscription on the snuffbox and Figure tangata manu.
Found "signs" in 1864 by Bishop E. Eero, who argued that these boards were
almost in every home Aborigines, but the islanders are almost could not read
them. Within two years, almost all signs that saw E. Eero died: whether from his
own hand, or during civil strife. It is believed that they were written at
Rapanui. Last knowing Rongorongo rapanuets, Vick, died in 1866.
Since then, scientists from around the world trying to decipher Rongorongo.
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the type of writing, not to mention the specific readings. A well-known theorist
Grammatology I. Gelb believed that it was not written, but only magical figures,
arguing that its signs are so similar to each other, differing only with respect
to small parts that attempt to differentiate their encounters great
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script. New Zealand researcher SR Fisher (monograph 1997) believes that the
plank "mostly reproduce the magic formula fertilization fixed in later versions
of the creation of the world, and are based on the repetition of producing
formula: Agent X united with agent Y and spawned the object (s) Z". By an ironic
characterization linguists KI and IK Pozdnyakov, "it turns out mess in which all
copulating in the most improbable combinations."
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