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I am a visual artist (drawing/painting) who graduated from the Lycee Francais de New York. I excel in English and also speak, read & write fluent French, speaking it with a French accent. Relational work is something I truly value and enjoy and have consciously moved into as I have excellent writing, communication and relational skills.
My students include adults, young adults and kids, who benefit from my well-developed listening/assessment skills honed from having studied compassionate communication. Being an artist with a liberal arts background, I am naturally creative and well-rounded, know how to keep things fun/interesting for students while keeping an eye on learning and retention. I am naturally adept at finding connections between things, helping a student get a larger picture of whatever topic is at hand. I'm naturally warm, nurturing, patient, good-natured, and sensitive to students' needs.
This past winter, I had a story published in my meditation group's newsletter, and was also recently invited to write for a local online journal. I am currently included in an art exhibition in downtown San Francisco. Whether it is English, French, Art or Handwriting, I look forward to making the best, most productive use of our time together. I love the humanities and expressing oneself clearly, and hope to be able to work on these areas of study with you! Hi,
I am a visual artist (drawing/painting) who graduated from the Lycee Francais de New York. I excel in English and also speak, read & write fluent French, speaking it with a French accent. Relational work is something I truly value and enjoy and have consciously moved into as I have excellent writing, communication and relational
Danielle is a great tutor. I'm so lucky to work with her. She arrives precisely on time every time, and she is incredibly patient. While I was looking for a job, I practiced interviewing with her. It was very helpful and effective. She let me know what is my weakness of speaking English, so that I could improve my speaking skills. I highly recommend her!!
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I have been an artist all my life. As a youngster, I took lessons at the Museum of Modern Art as well as the Art Student's League in NYC, where I won a prize. Later, I attended art camp and pre-College at Rhode Island School of Design. I majored in Studio Art at Clark University in conjunction with the Worcester Art Museum, MA. I completed two out of three years of a graduate program in painting at the Maryland Institute, College of Art before taking a leave of absence. I finished my studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, getting a Diploma in Drawing & Painting.
Drawing is my best love. It is the medium I've been concentrating on over the last few years. Whether you need help drawing from observation, or drawing "from within", this is my specialty. I would love the opportunity to assist anyone in the practice of drawing.
Color mixing is another one of my specialties. I look forward to hearing from you.
I passed the CBest test (for substitute teaching in CA) in 2011. It tests reading, writing and math skills. I've already been an after-school French teacher for 5th/6th graders, gave interactive, hands-on museum presentations to elementary school kids on the history of CA Missions. Have been nannying for the past 8 months with kids from 1 1/2-5 years old. I'm currently tutoring a 7-year old boy in handwriting/art. I have a background in mindfulness practices and other strategies that work well.
Hi. I excel in the English language, having scored high on the college prep test (720), and continuing on to the present day, as I was offered an opportunity to write for the local online publication due to commentary I provided over the years. My father was head translator/reviser at the United Nations, and my mother a copy editor in multiple languages, so perhaps it runs in the genes.
In any event, speaking and writing clearly in English is my favorite thing to impart as a tutor. I love exploring ideas, or meeting a student where they are in life to help them be the best they can be and express themselves well.
I did go to a French school as a child, and I believe that learning a second language at a young age increases sensitivity to ideas well-expressed and a love and respect for language in general.
I've also developed a capacity for public speaking—trying my hand at public comment a few times at San Francisco City Hall. It's good to come prepared, and I was complimented the last time I did it, being told by the person about whom I spoke that out of all the comments that were made that day (and there were many), mine was the one she remembered.
I hope I can be of assistance in all matters relating to the English language!
Having had a bilingual education myself (French/English), I feel very qualified to help students who are struggling with a new language. I'm very sensitive to students' needs. I am a visual artist with a liberal arts education so am well-rounded and able to connect with many different kinds of people. Speaking clearly and writing well are my strengths, and I look forward to making our lessons fruitful and enjoyable at the same time.
I have a BA in Studio Art from Clark University in conjunction with the School of the Worcester Art Museum; painting was one of the areas I focused on. I completed two of three years of Graduate study in Painting at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, before taking a leave of absence.
I have a Diploma in Painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I excelled in painting even as a child, having won a prize for it at the Arts Student's League of New York, and I also excelled in it as a teenager at a pre-college summer program at Rhode Island School of Design.
I have been working with a 10-year old boy who is dyslexic (and who has ADHD) since January 2014 (this is an ongoing job), helping him with reading skills and comprehension. I have a lot of patience and know how to make lessons fun and fruitful for children.
I myself love to read and enjoy imparting the skills necessary to help a person get the most out of reading.


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I guess the main thing that tells me is that generally I was in my own little world when I was a kid and didn't pick up on a lot of pop culture or societal stuff that most other people just absorbed.
― kinder, Thursday, 23 February 2012 03:50 (five years ago) Permalink
This is really deeply part of the problem, that yeah, trying to get the ideas in books like Delusions of Gender into discourse is like pulling teeth - while I bet that if you tried to get a copy of, say, Women Are From Pluto, Men Are From Outer Space, you would find half a dozen copies in circulation. People are really deeply attached to these stereotypes.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 08:38 (five years ago) Permalink
holding on to stereotypes of your own gender/sexuality seems almost like a comfort blanket for some people. it probably smooths certain situations. that, more than anything else, might be the biggest barrier to breaking down those stereotypes.
i had good friends in school who were female and physics/maths-leaning - including the girl widely acknowledged to be top of the year in all those subjects - i don't recall her feeling that being a girl was a barrier in any way. (but then we had a good proportion of female maths/science teachers, including the head of maths who was one of the most brilliant teachers i encountered, and did a lot to coax me through my own maths fear) (and also i genuinely don't recall any sort of pink-princess-girly-girly culture when i was growing up?!). i mean, there are so many environmental factors to consider as well - type of school, location blah blah blah.
also the type of student you are? if you're a straight-As pupil, male or female, you're going to develop an innate assumption that you should be good at every subject even if you don't have a feel for it (like, i stayed in the maths top set throughout school without ever really understanding any of it). if you're a middling student you might feel that your lack of feel for a subject might be down to gender?
hmmm i also just remembered that while many of the maths/science-leaning boys in our school went on to jobs in engineering, that girl i mentioned never did go into academia like she wanted, and is a school teacher now, and i'm not sure she's entirely happy with the way things turned out :/
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 February 2012 08:58 (five years ago) Permalink
btw i am enjoying zora's posts but haven't yet been able to take them in *and* formulate a worthwhile response
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 February 2012 09:00 (five years ago) Permalink
There honestly wasn't as much pink-princess-girly-girly culture when I was growing up. I know I'm about 10 years older than you, Lex, but I was very much a product of a 70s childhood when my mother's generation were coming from their consciousness raising groups and NOW meetings and actively trying to dismantle gender stereotypes in their own lives, as well as the lives of their kids. I think, on the whole, this was a good thing.
But also, on another level, childhood just hadn't been commercialised in the same way it has now. That there was one set of toys, everyone wore each others' handmedowns and that was that. And now toy companies realise that they can make twice as much money by selling a blue version and a slightly shitter pink version of the same toy, and so this stuff gets actively promoted.
It was one of the things that I noted in those books, that round about the age that kids start to notice that they Has A Gender, they become interested (usually, not always) in figuring out what it is, what it means, and how to (for lack of a better word) perform it. You can nudge kids into accepting gender roles, you can nudge them into wider ideas about gender. Apparently, one of the influential factors in developing ideas about gender is actually whether one has a closely aged sibling of a different gender. (That girls with a brother and boys with a sister tended to be more relaxed about gender roles.)
But yes, individual circumstances certainly play a role - and we're talking about averages, not absolutes here. "An average of 15% drop" can mean that some girls won't drop at all, and some girls will drop by as much as 30%. These things aren't that useful on an individual level because individuals in populations vary, that's what they do.
That yes, I had a protective influence because I had parents that said "your one grandmother was a mathematician, your other was a scientist, one of your great aunts was a code breaker at Bletchley Park, it would be very surprising (and you would bring shame on our family) if you turned out not to be good at maths" and lo and behold, I, too, do if for a living. But that does not mean that the stereotypes don't exist and aren't powerful to people who did not have situational factors like that.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 23 February 2012 09:12 (five years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I for one always wanted Merzbow's Music for Bondage Performance type stuff unpacked; and never trusted Whitehouse (hated the little I heard of their music anyway)...thing is no one seemed to bother to question, it just had this polarising effect (and w/music like that y'know..)see, I think EV's defense of Whitehouse is OTM. There's a sense of humor/irony behind their aesthetic that seems pretty blatant to me compared to some newer noise musicians who flirt with the same imagery & are a lot more serious about it.― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
see, I think EV's defense of Whitehouse is OTM. There's a sense of humor/irony behind their aesthetic that seems pretty blatant to me compared to some newer noise musicians who flirt with the same imagery & are a lot more serious about it.
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Can you give me an example of this, btw? At the time I just thought it was a blatant apolitical free for all. Granted, all a very fine line which could get misinterpreted by idiots down the line but if you give 'em rope..
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 February 2012 12:06 (five years ago) Permalink
I don't want to derail anybody's discussions, but this seemed like the appropriate thread for this - a great post at Jezebel about gendered marketing of LEGO products, and what happens when you switch the audio on the commercials.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:47 (five years ago) Permalink
my own personal experience with gender/sci: both parents are highly educated with tons of graduate degrees, working in sci or health. my older sis ended up collecting master's degrees in the sciences. i was expected to excel in sci/math and i did, although i still had enormous anxiety about it. i tested better in sci/math than humanities when i did any sort of standardized testing. but my biggest class problems were always in sci and math. my honors chem teacher in HS used to say that i was really smart but i got in my own way.
i was never consciously aware of any discouragement or implication that i might not be great at sci/math--but it freaked me the fuck out. and i believe that it was partially due to gender bs that i absorbed, although i tried to reject it. (wearing men's clothes, etc)
― JuliaA, Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:18 (five years ago) Permalink
I had a young cousin once that posted on facebook that she did well on a math test once and it scared her.
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:20 (five years ago) Permalink
been thinking abt gender and expectations of academic performance...
it seems to me that we've seen, over the last few decades, the emergence of new stereotypes regarding gender and things like general intelligence and ability in math/science. in characters like hermione granger and lisa simpson, we see a girl who easily excels her male peers in these areas, but who is comparatively straightlaced and "uptight". the "nerdy girl" is smart and academically accomplished but socially unskilled and often unhappy/dissatisfied. she is a stickler for rules and order, and is often seen as "annoying" by those around her, adults and children alike. she's basically a modern version of "bossy" and/or "goody-goody" midcentury female comic strip characters like lucy (peanuts) and margaret (dennis the menace), but much more sympathetic and clearly "bright".
the emergence of the nerdy girl runs parallel to a much remarked-on shift in american sitcom family dynamics, where adult male husband/father characters over the same few decades have become increasingly childlike, foolish and irresponsible, exaggerating in their television wives the same "straightlaced" and "uptight" rule-enforcing and behavior monitoring characteristics we see in characters like hermione and lisa. the sitcom wife is not typically (ever?) pictured as truly brilliant, especially not when it comes to things like math and science, but she is often, clearly, a good deal more sensibly intelligent than her husband.
in certain respects, the stereotype of the "less smart woman" is perhaps beginning to be traded out for "smarter, but less fun".
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 15:51 (five years ago) Permalink
i think we've also seen the emergence of an adult version of the nerdy girl character in stereotypical portrayals of the "corporate woman", a character who is typically portrayed as occupying a management position. she is extremely capable, but also rather ruthless and even cruel, a sort of evil twin to the "good" sitcom wife.
a lot of this stuff seems to reflect changing power dynamics in american society, and anxieties about the same.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:17 (five years ago) Permalink
This trope is at least as old as Jane Austen. It exists, but it's hardly a new development.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:35 (five years ago) Permalink
yeah, what i was going to say. thinking young maggie tulliver in mill on the floss
― horseshoe, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:36 (five years ago) Permalink
yeah, i'm not saying that any of this is newly invented (it's not, obviously), but these sorts of images do seem to have gained a fair amount of cultural prominence in the last few decades. in the states, anyway.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:39 (five years ago) Permalink
Well actually it was one of the principle objections to female education down through the ages! That educating women to use their minds will make them un-womanly and possibly sterile! This was a classic Georgian to Victorian complaint (I bet you could probably find it as far back as the Classical period.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:41 (five years ago) Permalink
yeah, but hermione, for instance, isn't exactly "unwomanly", and lisa clearly vaccilates on that point (probably depending on who's writing the jokes). in these characters and the contemporary sitcom mom/wife, intelligence is, to some extent, positively associated with femininity.
again, not entirely new ("sensible" sitcom wives and "smart, prissy" young girls go back quite a ways), but i see a greater and more positive emphasis on such characters than in the recent past. more thinking aloud than making an argument...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:49 (five years ago) Permalink
and then there's everyone's favorite manic pixie dreamgirl!
― sarahell, Friday, 24 February 2012 17:55 (five years ago) Permalink
I need to get back on track with my chapter précis, and then come back and demolish this fucker.
― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:44 (five years ago) Permalink
It is very interesting and stuffed with proper citations.
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 7 August 2012 01:07 (five years ago) Permalink
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 01:13 (five years ago) Permalink
I want to add additional gender options to a form that parents fill in about both themselves and their children. I'm not sure about the best wording.
A colleague who wants to write 'other' and have people write in what they want, but that is 1. not practical for data collation reasons - we need to automatize that - and 2. sounds dismissive to me. Is it? In any case I suspect she is not suggesting this from a place of inclusivity, but I can't be sure.
I suggested adding 'transgender' to the existing 'Male' and 'Female'. Would having just those three options be appropriate? Are there more that should be included? Re the children, another colleague suggested adding 'intersex' but I think parents of intersex children would tick the box corresponding to their child's presenting gender.
― ljubljana, Friday, 4 April 2014 11:46 (three years ago) Permalink
Please avoid "Other" at all costs. It's literally Othering as all hell.
The problem with suggesting "transgender" as a gender is that: 1) it erases the difference of M to F and F to M because "transgender" singular is not really the identity, "trans man" and "trans woman" are the identities. and 2) it disregards non-binary genders and 3) specifying out, if you are going to use "trans" you should really use "cis" as well, but that gets into the bad kettle of fish of forcing people to out themselves. There is considerable debate as to what you should call a third gender option. Personally, I like "non-binary" because there are differences between people who identify as "genderqueer" (both) or "agender" (neither) or something else entirely. Most people agree a third or maybe even fourth option is necessary, but there is disagreement on what it should be.
What is more important is how you phrase the question. The problem is, that the most inclusive language you can use "what gender do you identify as?" or "what gender do you present as?" are the questions which will most confuse cis people (also, ending questions with "as" = grammatically clumsy). I'm sure there are resources out there about good ways of phrasing this question, and a third option in an open and inclusive way that doesn't make cis ppl too upset? I will look for some.
Sorry, this is not a good answer, but basically, I'm mostly aware of what options to avoid, rather than what options are preferred.
― Branwell Bell, Friday, 4 April 2014 12:14 (three years ago) Permalink
Sorry for multiple posts, but this just occurred to me... the other consideration is, indeed, why are you asking the question? Because there are circumstances under which you are not looking for the person's gender, you are looking for their sex - very specific circumstances, usually involving medical treatment. In which case, M, F, Intersex would be preferred (and possibly some trans options). If you are just asking about gender, consider why you need to know gender at all.
― Branwell Bell, Friday, 4 April 2014 13:13 (three years ago) Permalink
the other consideration is, indeed, why are you asking the question?
^ not saying this has relevance to ljubljana's situation but lots of places collect info without thinking, I've tried to phase it out of records at previous employers
― ogmor, Friday, 4 April 2014 14:36 (three years ago) Permalink
Thanks, BB, that's extremely helpful. I really like the possibility of having a 'non-binary' option.
Currently there is no question as such - just 'Gender' and a list. I'll give that some thought.
Ogmor, you're right, we always need to keep an eye on whether we really going to use the data. I'd rather not say too much on here about the actual studies, but we're interested in parents' gender because of an interest in how that might correlate with the ways they do specific activities with their children. We're interested in children's gender both for that reason, and because there are established (but small) developmental differences in language and other cognitive development.
― ljubljana, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:06 (three years ago) Permalink
OK, that is a perfectly valid and reasonable reason to be interested in gender. (It's the "what gender should we ~market~ to you as" questions that really irritate me.)
Maybe use "non-binary" with some examples ("e.g. agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender") so that cis people don't get too confused? It's too bad you can't use a freetext for gender, but I understand that would make data collection an absolute nightmare.
― Branwell Bell, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:15 (three years ago) Permalink
Why do you keep assuming cis ppl're going to be confused
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:22 (three years ago) Permalink
can you just put a blank space for people to write in whatever they want?
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:31 (three years ago) Permalink
Our first "NOT AAALLLL CIS PEOPLE!!!!" comment. Yay!
― Branwell Bell, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:33 (three years ago) Permalink
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:37 (three years ago) Permalink
Omg, my co- worker who did not even bother coming to the meeting about re-doing the questions is fighting me on this and directing me to census categories. I suspect religious grounds are behind that. Nnnnnggggg. 20 emails and counting.
Crut - that would be great but would cause us probs with auto-categorizing the data.
― ljubljana, Friday, 4 April 2014 16:08 (three years ago) Permalink
Everyone agreed yesterday to change the question, bar the co-worker who skipped the meeting. We just needed to sort out wording. Today no-one except me is responding to her emails saying we mustn't add any other options. Her reasons: (bear in mind we are asking parents as well as children about their gender):
Again, I think g3ender should be m@le/fem@le. If there is a consensus to have third option, which I d0n't think there is, then the third opti0n should just be blank. I don't think w3 are in a position to get into terminology that is p0tentially confus1ng (children aren't usually transg3nd3r and p@rents don't necessarily choose a different g3nder for young childr3n). It becomes too pol1tical as well.
I responded to that by saying I disagree but would go along with the results of a vote, so please let's have show of hands. No-one responded, and the person trying to get the new questionnaire together has now asked our supervisor to decide. I think I know which way it'll go, unfortunately. I could still be wrong.
― ljubljana, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:31 (three years ago) Permalink


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Jared and I have a list of all the places we want to go in Seoul. It's a long list, but we have been slowly working on it. Our number one site, N Seoul Tower, has been put off again and again in the past few months. We actually wanted to visit it during my first week in Korea, but we finally made it there this weekend!
N Seoul Tower is a large communication tower located in the exact center of the city. The tower is atop Namsan Mountain, making it a perfect spot for panoramic views of Seoul. The legendary view of the city called to our photographer hearts, and we just needed a clear day for our visit. That need for a clear day is why it has taken us so long to visit the tower. When I first arrived, Korea was experiencing "yellow dust." This is basically a dust storm that starts in the deserts of Mongolia or China and hurtles across Asia, gathering pollution as it goes. It's just nasty. I would sweep our patio, and within an hour there would be a new coating of dust/dirt/grime. There were several days when visibility was extremely low; I couldn't see high-rises that are just a few blocks away. Therefore, the yellow dust prevented us from N Seoul Tower for a few weeks. Luckily, the dust began to minimize! Just in time for the monsoon season! I've seen sunshine once or twice in the past month. I don't have other monsoon seasons to compare this experience to, but it isn't that horrible. Every day is cloudy with at least one or two bouts of rain throughout the day. Sometimes it rains all day, sometimes it rains just for a few minutes, but it is always cloudy. When I heard about the monsoons, I thought there would be torrential downpours every minute for the entire month. Not so. There are strong rainstorms, but they aren't continuous. I didn't mind the monsoon season too much; it was an excuse to buy purple rainboots. However, rainboots or no, the cloudy weather was not conducive to panoramic picture taking.
On Saturday, the rains had stopped, there were fewer clouds than usual, and we felt a twinge of hope. To the tower! We took the subway and then the bus to the tower, but you can also access by hiking up the mountain or riding a tram. We elected not to actually go up the tower; you can pay to take an elevator to the top and view the city through windows. However, there is a large observation deck below the tower, and we were quite happy to enjoy the view (for free) from there. We arrived just in time to see the sunset, which was obstructed by clouds that had moved in. Can't win 'em all. (It was around this time that I realized I haven't seen stars in at least three months.) It was still a beautiful view, and I had fun pointing out landmarks I knew. I have a fairly horrible sense of direction, so I was pleased that I was able to recognize a few things. From our vantage point we could see Bukhansan National Park, Yongson Army Garrison, Gangnam, the 63 Building and the Banpo Bridge. It was neat to see how much we have traveled around the city (and how much there still is to explore!)
However, my favorite part of visiting N Seoul Tower were the love locks! We have seen these memorials in every country we have visited, yet had not partaken in the tradition until now. There is a fence all around the observation deck, and for years lovers have placed a padlock on the fence. Their lock remains forever, like their love. Awww. Throughout the years, so many locks have been placed on the fence that it appears to be a wall of locks. More recent couples must resort to attaching their lock to a previous couple's lock. I loved looking at the lock wall. It was so colorful, happy, and hopeful. And also quite rusted and grimy, but love isn't always perfect. Though I enjoyed looking at all the locks, I found the non-lock mementos the most entertaining.
As I mentioned, we've seen these displays all over the world, but have never had a lock of our own. I decided that since Seoul is going to be a big part our story, we should be a part of Seoul. I purchased one of the many locks sold at the gift shop (it also sells commemorative Seoul Post-its!) I wrote on the lock our names, the date of our first date, our wedding date, and "Sweet Dreams," one of our few cute couple traditions.
So, after all these months of waiting, did we get the perfect Seoul picture? Nope. Did we have a perfect night out? Absolutely.
Love reading your page. Glad you both are enjoying your life in Korea. You will always be a part of Korea after you leave. Love your lock!!!
Aww……..how sweet! Glad you were able to add your lock.
That is such a neat memory. And people will read your note for years to come. That is so cool!


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. ( ChipWire) Intent on recreating itself, Oren Semiconductor Inc. here is bringing in a new CEO, rolling out improved VSB/QAM chips for the U.S. digital TV market and branching out into the red-hot broadband wireless market.
Jacob Tanz, a chip-industry veteran with experience in broadband cable markets, takes the hot seat as Oren's new president and chief executive officer. He's looking to boost revenue and ensure growth by expanding Oren's business beyond its current focus on terrestrial digital and analog TV.
"The U.S. DTV market is not expanding as fast as other communication markets," said Tanz, the former North American sales and marketing vice president for Libit Signal Processing Ltd. in Herzia, Israel, a cable-modem technology company that was acquired last year by Texas Instruments Inc. Oren will continue to invest in the development of vestigial sideband (VSB) technology, but the company "cannot depend on the DTV market to expand our revenue bases. It's just not big enough," Tanz added.
Oren's current bread-and-butter product is a ghost cancellation chip used in a majority of TV sets designed and manufactured by consumer electronics companies in Asia. The company now employs 80 workers, and is going for its fourth round of funding.
Broadband wireless, known also as "multipoint, multichannel distribution service" (MMDS) or "fixed wireless," is the carrot Oren is chasing. And it's not alone. A substantial number of chip vendors and service providers are looking at MMDS as an alternative to digital subscriber lines and cable modems for broadband Internet access.
"We can leverage all the underlying modulation technologies we developed for the digital terrestrial market into the new, fixed wireless communication world," Tanz said, because no true MMDS standard exists yet modulation schemes, quality-of-service requirements and line-of-sight connections are still in question.
Complicating the standards debate, Oren has submitted to the IEEE 802.16 committee its own proposal. Oren's proposed technologies consist of an orthogonal frequency-division modulation (OFDM) system for a multitone broadband wireless solution and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) technology for a single-tone system. Oren's goal is to roll out the company's own broadband wireless product line early next year, according to Tanz.
Next-generation chips
Meanwhile, Oren has just released the company's third-generation VSB and VSB/QAM chips for the U.S. DTV market. Based on the same programmable DSP architecture used in VSB and QAM demodulation chips the company announced last year, Oren engineers made further enhancements in equalization algorithms to improve VSB reception. Both OR51211, Oren's new VSB chip, and OR41221 are designed to run both VSB and 64QAM/256QAM and use a 576 tap full equalizer, providing a microsecond standard equalization range of -4.5 to +44.6. The new ICs come with an integrated A/D converter, integrated tuner control and direct I/F conversion.
Rather than using fixed pipe-line signal-processing circuitry that is hard to change, Oren's VSB chip uses adaptable filter blocks controlled by a central DSP.
Customer field tests done in early September using the new demodulation chips show that "our VSB solution today is up to par with the OFDM standard" with regard to signal reception, said Mike Hurlston, vice president of marketing at Oren. Using a test bed developed by the Advanced Television Testing Center (ATTC), Oren's new-generation VSB chip "has shown significant improvement," he said.
For example, in an 0.5-Hz dynamic ghost test one of the ATTC-designed tests whose results correlate to the chip's signal reception ability using an indoor antenna Oren's new RE51211 VSB chip demonstrated 4.0 dB, a 50 percent improvement over the company's previous VSB chip, which marked 6.6 dB, Hurlston said. Such a performance far exceeds the industry's benchmark of 9.1 dB, he added.
Business concerns
"The reality is that the VSB performance that exists today is good," Tanz said. "I've seen it working well in field tests with live feeds, using an indoor antenna." Asked whether broadcasters may still have serious concerns over the modulation scheme, Tanz flatly said, "The issues broadcasters are facing are related to a business model, nothing to do with the technology."
Oren's new OR51211 VSB chip, available now, is priced at $21 each in 10,000 units, while the OR51221 VSB/QAM chip sells for $24 each in the same quantities.


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The Daily Telegraph and the papers that rely on it for content are again beating up an ALP leadership speculation story. It must be a day ending in Y.
Homer keeps track of his parent company's Australian operations
A source told me there are concerns that have been raised in discussions by unnamed parties that a certain person is considering doing something! I wish I could share with you the reason I believe that, but just take my word for it. You know, news.
Still, I think the Daily Telegraph might have an ALP leadership speculation addiction problem. Perhaps, in the interests of helping them become functioning, credible members of the media again, we should keep track of how long they can go between indulging themselves.
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TORONTO - Who knew that getting Adam Lind into the lineup would be so complicated?
With Jose Bautista and his right hamstring still not ready to take on right field duties, the Toronto Blue Jays slugger has been the designated hitter the past two games.
To accommodate Lind on Wednesday, the Jays put him at first base, moved Edwin Encarnacion to left field and swung Melky Cabrera around to right.
More sock in the lineup with this group to be sure.
The re-jigged lineup helped do the trick as the Jays scored a 7-4 walkoff victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on a two-out, three-run home run by Encarnacion to sweep the two-game series.


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Fitch Improves Cablevision Rating Despite Spree
Fitch Ratings Firms outlook to stable from negative as Cablevision commits $850M to MSG rehab, Wi-Fi network.
Fitch Ratings Firms outlook to stable from negative as Cablevision commits $850M to MSG rehab, Wi-Fi network.
Cablevision Systems will invest $850 million to renovate Madison Square Garden and build out its Wi-Fi network, which is an overlay to its fixed wire service, corporate-credit-evaluation service Fitch Ratings Service said Wednesday, as it also firmed the New York-area cable-system operator's outlook to stable from negative.
The sunnier outlook comes despite Cablevision spending $496 million to buy Sundance Channel through its Rainbow Media Holdings and forking over $650 million to acquire 97% of suburban daily newspaper Newsday.
Also, last year, shareholders rejected an offer by the Dolan family, the insiders running the company, to take Cablevision private. Management responded by going on an acquisition and building spree, taking an entrepreneurlike approach rather than simply being cautious and avoiding big outlays.
Cablevision -- which has 3.125 million subscribers and dominates the New York area, with annual revenue of about $6.8 billion -- is heavily leveraged, carrying various classes of debt that totaled $11.6 billion as of March 31, which Fitch rated. Of this, $2.3 billion matures before the end of 2009 and will have to be refinanced, although how is not clear. While noting that there's a crisis in the credit markets, Fitch said it is not worried that Cablevision can refinance its maturing debt because it has strong relationships with lenders after years of being a good borrower.
Cablevision's basic subscribers average the highest-spending of all large cable operators in the nation and are clustered in what enables benefits from mass scale, Fitch believes. But Cablevision subscribers will decline, although still be highly profitable, Fitch forecast.
The Wi-Fi mesh network, which will offer free local broadband to fixed-wire customers at no additional cost to consumers, "will certainly pressure near-term free cash flow generation," Fitch said. It'll extend cable into the wireless arena and, thus, expand the existing triple play of video, voice and broadband to a quadruple bundle.
Cablevision surprised analysts by revealing the Wi-Fi plan in a recent earnings call. "From Fitch's perspective, the Wi-Fi service is a defensive strategy aimed at retaining customers in light of increasing competitive pressures, principally from Verizon Communications," the ratings service said. "The Wi-Fi network will be capable of producing speeds of up to 1.5 mbps [megabits per second], which is comparable to current wireless-data-network speeds. However, the service will have limited applications primarily due to the lack of mobility."
Verizon recently filed to offer video services in New York, a Cablevision stronghold, to which Fitch responded that competitive pressures are part of the landscape.


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Canadian Dollar: Forecasts For 2014 Updated, USD/CAD Exchange Rate to Rally Further
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The Canadian Dollar (CAD) has found a firmer footing in March, largely owing to a less dovish BoC. But, according to TD Securities' forecasts the CAD still has further to fall.
The Canadian dollar exchange rate complex is tipped to experience yet further weakness in 2014; this according to the March update to the 2014 exchange rate forecasts held at TD Securities.
However, early March sees stability in the Canadian currency with the Bank of Canada (BoC) showing an even hand towards managing expectations. With no sign of an imminent rate cut the CAD has strengthened:
Neverthelesss, the outlook remains CAD-negative, "USD/CAD has consolidated over the past month, the top out and reversal from the low 1.12 area late last month coincided more or less with our forecast upgrade for USD/CAD. We are not perturbed," says TD Securities analyst Cristian Maggio.
At Pound Sterling Live we note that the broader Canadian dollar exchange rate complex will likely be dictated to by the USD/CAD rate; trends here will likely feed into the pound / CAD rate, EUR/CAD etc.
The big problem for the Canadian currency at present appears to be the Bank of Canada who are feeding a dovish message to markets in response to weak domestic economic releases.
TD Securities don't think there will be any backing off from the very dovish messaging that Governor Poloz introduced in January.
"Growth trends continue to be restrained by Canada's weak trade performance and inflation is unlikely to pick up significantly from the low end of the bank's target range anytime soon. A big rise in prices in the February month last year means that base effects will dampen price growth again this year after the slightly stronger than expected CPI data for January," says Maggio.
TD advise that they remain comfortable with their above consensus forecast profile for the US dollar vs Canadian dollar exchange rate through the balance of this year.
"We look for USDCAD to peak around 1.17/1.18 through the middle of the year before edging a little lower in H2. The median (Bloomberg) forecast calls for USD/CAD to remain little changed from current spot levels through the remainder of 2014," says Maggio.
Bank of Canada to weigh on Canadian Dollar
According to analysts at TD Securities the Bank of Canada will maintain an ever more dovish bent to interest rate expectations as a means to achieve a weaker currency.
"Canada needs to generate more inflation and stimulate growth where it has been most deficient and that has been in the export sector. A weak currency works toward both ends and given 75% of exports still go to the US the prospect of leveraging off stronger US growth prospects is now better than in recent years," says Maggio.
Additionally, the growth outlook is materially stronger in the US than in Canada, which will also support better performance from Canadian fixed income.
Turning to purely domestic factors, we expect the BoC will remain firmly on the sidelines this year. Moreover, given the direction that BoC communication has taken over the past 6-months we are inclined to believe that Poloz will continue to emphasise the downside risks to inflation over the next few meetings – though a further dovish shift looks less likely at this point.
"Hence, we expect the front-end of the curve to incorporate a mild easing bias for another quarter – whereas the Fed simply cannot threaten cuts any more," says Maggio.
Pound sterling vs Canadian dollar forecast
A look at the GBP/CAD outlook shows:
1 GBP will buy 1.84 CAD this quarter.
1 GBP will buy 1.87 CAD in mid year.
1 GBP will buy 1.83 CAD in the third quarter.
1 GBP will buy 1.82 CAD at year end.
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1 EUR to 1.49 CAD quarter.
1 EUR to 1.49 CAD in mid year.
1 EUR to 1.43 CAD in the third quarter
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Yeah attributes and skills aren't really all that different. In one game you might have a constitution attribute that raises your hp. In another game you might have a toughness skill that does the same thing. In one game you might have a strength attribute for damage, and in another game a sword mastery skill might have the same effect.
I generally found the early attribute based games to be far more simplistic. If you were a fighter you put your points in strength. If you were a mage you put them into intelligence. It wasn't exactly rocket science and you generally had 0 customization options beyond that.


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Wrinkles, a pain to so many people all around the world. Once a sign of ageing, and now a sign of laughter, frowning and bad lifestyle choices. Wrinkles are causing so many people to spend so much money every year, not only trying to avoid these tiny little lines, but also in getting rid of them once they have already appeared. But why do they appear in the first place? What is it that causes wrinkles?
1Note that wrinkles are primarily caused by ageing and the makeup of the skin.
- There are three layers to the skin, and these are - epidermis, the dermis and then the subcutaneous tissue.
- All of the three layers are made up of slightly different things and contain a different sort of tissue. They also do different things.
- The epidermis, for example, is a barrier to the outside world.
- The dermis is a connective type of tissue. It contains different types of this connective tissue that all do different things, by way of strength, durability and also the look and texture.
- The subcutaneous tissue is the bottom layer of the skin that contains fat cells. It is these layers that insulate the body and makes the skin appear plump and healthy.
2Learn about the effects of the ageing process. During the ageing process, the epidermis and the cells within it become thinner. Thinner cells mean thinner skin and the barrier against outside elements is less effective. The skin appears dryer and the skin is unable to repair itself as easily as it did in younger age. The dermis contains cells like collagen. Less of this is produced in the ageing process and the skin starts to lose its elasticity. Because of this and the effects on the first layer, the epidermis, the skin loses its healthiness and it will start to wrinkle and also sag.
- With the third layer, the subcutaneous tissue, the fat cells shrink as they get older and the cells cannot fill out the skin as much as it can when it is in its younger years. When the skin becomes damaged, and wrinkles and sagging begins to happen, the cells cannot fill it out, and it is this reason why wrinkles happen with age.
3Note the other role of ultraviolet light in causing wrinkles. There are many other reasons why this wrinkle process begins prematurely.
- It has been proven that up to ninety percent of the symptoms that accompany premature ageing,[citation needed] for example, wrinkles, is due to prolonged exposure to ultraviolet light. This comes from sunlight and can also come from tanning beds. Basically, the exposure to the sun causes the wrinkles to begin at an accelerated speed. The light that the sun gives out kills the cells within the epidermis and the layers further down and causes the same system of events as ageing does.
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- Other reasons to what causes wrinkles can be hormonal. The menopause and other conditions where there are decreased amounts of estrogen produced can also change the makeup of your skin, causing it to be unable to repair itself and therefore lead to wrinkles and other signs of ageing, such as age spots.
- It has also been proven that constant frowning or smiling can cause the skin to lose its elasticity and this also causes wrinkles.
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I've had an active month in regards to inquiries and new credit cards...and what (in the long term) will be a successful month. HOWEVER, Transunion has taken this occasion to drop my V-score from 711 to 607. Even though all of my other scores took a minor hit, TU is now 56 points lower than any other V-score or FICO score I have, including my TU FICO score, which actually INCREASED 22 points since last month with the same info.
Comparing my report from last month to this one, I have added a couple inquiries, added two new accounts, had my available credit go up $1000, and my usage went from 11 to 12%. I also had one of my two collections fall off of my report. The one major change is that I accidentally increased the usage of one of my cards from 30 to 70% (a $500 limit card) by charging the purchase to the wrong CapOne card.
The sad thing is that all of my reports have many of the same updates, and every score has either gone up or lost just a few points...I've analyzed the h*** out of the data (yes, I'm a tad obsessed because I'm going to be mortgage hunting next year), and I'm not sure this is any more than a cautionary tale as to how fickle a credit score can be. Maybe it's a new policy that increasing a credit limit and having a collection removed is a 100-point TU V-score penalty? ;)
Anyway, I'm sure it will recover in the next couple of months, but it makes no sense to me. Welcome to the wonderful world of credit scores.
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If you have wondered why you are suddenly seeing when someone has followed someone or favorited a tweet in your news timeline, you are not alone. Twitter has stepped up their testing to show follows and favorites of people you follow in your timeline.
In this example, two of the three items visible on the screen are follow alerts, while the third is a retweet.
2 out of 3 tweets in my timeline viewport are things I didn't ask for and people I follow didn't share. Wtf @twitter? pic.twitter.com/ODRJIPo0Gl
— Nicholas C. Zakas (@slicknet) August 18, 2014
Twitter filling my feed with stuff I didn't ask for – stuff other people follow and fav. pic.twitter.com/IVOViGF1QW
— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) August 17, 2014
Ooh now twitter inserting selected "[person you follow] faved" tweets into main timeline pic.twitter.com/zDhrNseNGs
— Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 16, 2014
It does not seem to be promoted tweets or promoted follows at this time – or if they are, Twitter isn't disclosing it. But showing up in news timelines is annoying people.
From a marketing perspective, it is a good thing. If you get many people following you or if you tend to get people favoriting your tweets more than retweeting them, it means you will get a lot more exposure of your account and tweets than you might otherwise.
However, its would be likely that Twitter will end up monetizing it, and in a slightly less obtrusive way than how Twitter currently promotes tweets and accounts and it could prompt more action from those who see it, since the person they follow would have very recently interacted by following or favoriting.
It is unclear how frequently Twitter is doing this, as it isn't doing it to all follows or favorites, only select ones.
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ESL Job Feed is the most eclectic and broad source of ESL jobs and teaching positions available worldwide.?ESL Job Feed publishes links to ESL Job postings from a variety of sources including TESall, Total ESL, Yahoo!/Monster, Guardian Jobs, Chronicle of Higher Education, craigslist, TESOL Org, TEFL and many more. From conversation schools for beginners to university positions for teaching veterans,?ESL Job Feed is your source for English teaching positions worldwide.
High salary position at a hilly city!
Date 2013-11-14 07:11:40 Location : Asia:China
an ancient civilization that is resurging like never before! Make a great middle class salary by teaching your language - English - to Chinese [kids, adults, etc.]
Time for an adventure you will fondly remember for the rest of your life!"
We are looking for qualified teachers who are seeking opportunities in ESL all over China!
Many wonderful and lucrative opportunities are ready for you across the entire country!
There are many great positions available throughout the following weeks and months ahead.
Nanchong is the second most populated city of Sichuan Province, only after Chengdu.
High salary position at a hilly city!
- Location:NANCHONG, Sichuan Province (Job code: SCNCT-01)
- Salary: RMB 8000
- Workload: 20 teaching hours + 10 office hours /week
- Flight: Returned tickets after fulfilling one year contract
- Accomodation: Furnished free apartment with internet service
- Holidays:Public holidays + 10 paid days during winter vacation
- Start Date: Feb. 2014
- Age group: Kids and adults
- Working visa provided
- Native speakers required
Required Documentation:
- Current Resume, Stating your Nationality of origin and working experience in detail
- Copy of the ID page of your valid passport
- Copy of your highest degree and other qualifications
- TEFL/TESOL certificate (not essential)
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- References with contact information
If you are interested in the above mentioned position, looking for a new position or thinking about starting one in the future,
We know that our teachers take comfort in dealing with foreigners when obtaining a position in China, as we understand what is important to you and what simply won't do.
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Iain Dowie is an increasingly strong candidate to become Crystal Palace's next manager with an announcement on an appointment expected this week.
Dowie was interviewed last week but has not heard from the Palace hierarchy since. However Tony Pulis's wage demands are understood to be prohibitive, while it is understood that the former Stoke City manager does not believe Palace can avoid relegation from the Premier League.
The compensation being requested by Dynamo Moscow for another Palace target, Dan Petrescu, is also a problem for their owners.
Palace still hope to confirm a new manager before their players return to training tomorrow. Last week Petrescu had appeared the favourite after impressing the club's chairman Steve Parish in talks. Palace are still investigating whether they can persuade the Russians to accept a lower amount of compensation or, instead, spend the money by matching the high salary wanted by Pulis who is a free agent after leaving Stoke City in the summer.
Dowie is also out-of-contract and it is understood that he held talks with Parish last weekend, which were also positive.
Palace are determined to have a new manager in place before next weekend's Premier League match against Hull City, Dowie's former club.
It may well be that because of his ready availability and because it would not be as expensive as attempting to hire Pulis that Dowie will be hired.
Dowie, a former Palace striker who also led the club to their last promotion to the Premier League in 2004, would be a controversial choice for many supporters given the circumstances under which he left the club in 2006 to take over at Charlton Athletic. Dowie was sued by Palace's former chairman Simon Jordan for the manner of his exit.


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Rev. Nathaniel Sanders/Saunders of Orange and Spotsylvania Co., VA
Please refer to post #1856 on this fourm and Robert Davis's reply to it as his 4th. Great-grandfather.I would like to correspond with this Robert Davis if possible.
The Rev. Nathaniel Sanders/Saunders supposedly d. in Orange Co., VA in 1808. Does anyone have his will?According to DAR records he had a daughter who d. in KY in 1818.
He is listed as giving a gun to the Revolutionary cause and is named next to John Price, believed to be my ancestor and who also gave a gun.Near the end of the Rev. War this John went to KY with other family members, soon being joined by his son, John, as well as another son, William.
In the early 1790's Nathaniel Sanders was in Woodford and/or Franklin Co., KY also and by 1800 both a Nathaniel Sanders Sr. and Jr. are listed in the 1800 Taxpayers of Franklin Co. KY.These are the same counties in which my John Price lived.
It has been my observation that the name Sanders was commonly spelled Saunders.Since Rev. Nathaniel Sanders and Rev. John Price served the same congregations in VA, I thought it possible they joined one another later in KY, and possibly the Elder Nathaniel Sanders went back to Orange Co., VA, where he d. in 1808, while his son stayed in KY.
After viewing Nathaniel Sanders/Saunders families on Ancestry, I've noticed there are some real questions as to these Nathaniel Sanders.It looks to me that the spelling has been one problem, but that there is a connection between these Sanders/Saunders families specifically to the Rev. Nathaniel Sanders, if not one and the same person.
The 1808 will could help uncover some of the questions.Would love to hear from anyone working on the research of these families.
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|Número de solicitud
|Fecha de publicación
|16 Sep 1980
|Fecha de presentación
|21 Feb 1979
|Fecha de prioridad
|21 Feb 1979
|Número de publicación
|Paul O. Rawson, Louis E. Nagy, George J. Veth
|Cesionario original
|United States Surgical Corporation
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|Citas de patentes (15), Citada por (21), Clasificaciones (10), Eventos legales (1)
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 771,011, filed Feb. 22, 1977 now abandoned.
The present invention relates to a specialized disposable sanitary cover or sheath which is intended for use in surrounding a reuseable temperature and respiration sensing probe used in measuring these physiological parameters in a patient. The cover is formed in unitary construction and has a specially adapted end portion for surrounding the temperature sensing element and a specially constructed scoop portion for guiding and channeling the respiration exhalation from the patient towards the respiration sensing means located in the probe.
In keeping with the recent trend in the health care field towards automation of previous manual or mechanical sensing operations, the use of electrical sensors to measure certain patient physiological parameters has been increasing. However, such electrical sensors do not readily lend themselves to previous methods of sanitation when it is desired to use the sensor on a successive number of patients. For example, after measuring a patient's temperature with a glass-bulb thermometer, the thermometer was typically immersed in alcohol, thereby providing the necessary hygiene. However, in the case of an electronic thermometer, the physical construction of the sensing means is often adversely affected by its immersion in alcohol. Similarly, when sensing a patient's respiration rate by the use of an electronic means such apparatus must necessarily be close to the patient's face while exhaled air from the nasal passages is conducted over a suitable sensor. Accordingly, the respiration sensing means must also be cleaned in order to be used by a successive number of patients. One solution to the problem of cross-contamination between patients has been to discard the entire sensing apparatus after its initial use by a patient; however, this is expensive and has not met with much approval in the health care industry. A much better solution to the sanitation problem is the use of disposable covers or sheaths which fit over the sensing means and are discarded after each patient's use. However, such covers, while solving the problem of cleaning the sensing means, have also introduced their own peculiar problems. For example, because the thermistor which senses the temperature should be in good thermal contact with the area to be measured, the probe cover must be a good thermal conductor. The probe and cover together must have a small thermal mass to prevent adversely affecting the temperature of the body in immediate proximity to the temperature sensor.
To simultaneously measure a patient's respiration as well as temperature, it is necessary to channel the exhalations of the patient into the area where the respiration sensor is located.
A drawback of known sensing sheaths has been a tendency to become disoriented when inserted in a patient's mouth. That is , since most probes and their sheaths are rounded, the probe will often tend to rotate about its longitudinal axis after insertion in a patient's mouth, losing its desired orientation and its ability to capture the patient's respiratory exhalations and in this manner a faulty reading is likely to occur.
It is therefore an object of the pesent invention to provide a unitary sanitary sheath for covering a combined temperature and respiration sensing probe which will not adversely affect the measuring characteristics of the sensors.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a unitary sanitary cover for a patient physiological parameter sensing probe which has a tapered end portion at the area intended for contact with the temperature sensing portion of the probe so as to improve the heat transfer characteristics between the thermistor and the patient.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a unitary sanitary sheath for a temperature and respiration sensing probe having a large scoop like area to collect and deflect the exhalations of the patient to the respiration sensing means.
It is a still further object of the present invention to provide a disposable unitary sanitary cover for a temperature and respiration sensing probe which has a substantially flat area located at the place on the sheath corresponding to the location where the patient will clasp his lips around the probe.
Finally, it is an object of the present invention to provide a disposable, unitary, sanitary, sheath for a temperature and respiration sensing probe which has only a relatively thin portion covering the temperature sensing means and has a relatively large scoop to direct the respiration exhalations to the respiration sensing means and which has a flat portion corresponding to the place where a patient will grasp the probe and sheath combination with his lips wherein the flat portion is partially roughened so as to eliminate any slippery sensation to the patient.
These and other objects are achieved by the present invention by providing a one piece plastic sheath which may be formed by injection molding, and which has a substantially thin tapered portion at the area which is intended to mate with the temperature sensing means of the temperature and respiration sensing probe, and which has a large scoop-like contoured surface located in the vicinity of the inlet port for the respiration rate determination means. This scoop-like area is provided to channel the exhalations of the patient, so as to direct them into contact with the sensing means which is located in the interior of the probe. The unitary sheath of the present invention is also provided with a flat area corresponding to the location of the patient's lips so that upon grasping the sensor in the patient's mouth, it will have no tendency to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the probe. Finally, since it is very often the case that the plastic choosen to construct the sheath of the present invention may be a polyethylene type which is rather slippery when wet, the area where the patient's lips will contact the sheath may be slightly roughened thereby permitting the patient to gain a better purchase on the cover.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of the top of a temperature and respiration sensing probe located within a unitary cover provided by the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a temperature and respiration sensing probe aligned with, but withdrawn from, the unitary, disposable, sheath of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a side view a temperature and respiration sensing probe inserted in the unitary disposable sheath of the present invention and showing the face of a typical patient in phantom.
FIG. 4 is a view from the bottom of a temperature and respiration sensing probe inserted in the sheath.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view taken from the rear of a sensing probe and sheath combination.
FIG. 6 is an elevation view taken from the rear of the disposable hygenic sheath of the pesent invention.
FIG. 7 is a view of a portion of the sensing probe and showing the sheath in phantom.
FIG. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of the sensing probe showing the sheath of the present invention in phantom.
FIG. 9 is a transverse cross-section of the temperature and respiration sensing probe of FIG. 8 taken along line IX and showing the unitary sheath of the present invention surrounding the probe.
FIG. 1 shows a suitable temperature and respiration sensing probe at 10 inserted into the sheath 12 of the present invention. The elongated temperature sensing tip 15 is inserted in the patient's mouth and the temperature sensing tip of the probe 14 is placed under the tongue. The portion of the sheath at 14 is intended to be substantially thinner than the rest of the sheath including portion 16. Sheath tip 14 has a conical taper, and fits in intimate contact with the temperature sensing tip 40 as shown in FIG. 2 of the probe 10 and is essentially the same length as section 14. Also shown in FIG. 1 is the curved scoop portion 18 for collecting and directing air expired through the patient'nose. A flat area 20 is provided on the upper surface of the sheath to orient the sheath with scoop 18 toward the nose as the patient's lip rests on area 20. A textured surface may be provided at 22 generally covering the flat area 20.
To permit the exhalation from the patient to be introduced into the probe housing, sheath 12 provides openings 26, 30 and 34 which communicate with the inlet aperture 24 of the probe 10, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 8. Multiple small openings are provided so that when inserting the probe 10 into the sheath 12 the temperature sensing portion of probe 10 will not exit improperly, as it might through a single large hole. Accordingly, the slats or bars 28 and 32 will direct the conical tip 40 of the temperature sensor 10 into the tip of the sheath 12. This insertion is suggested in FIG. 2.
FIG. 2 shows a suitable temperature and respiration sensing probe 10 in a position for insertion into the unitary sheath 12, the cup-like scoop 18 of the sheath 12, and the textured flat surface 22 intended to be grasped by the patient's upper lip. The slots cut into the sheath will not allow the conical tip of sensor 40 from exiting through the slots.
In FIG. 3 the flat portion 20 of the probe cover 12 is grasped by the patient's lips and the textured surface 22 will be in contact with the lip. Scoop 18 is shown located directly below the patient's nasal passages where it will be in the path of most of the patient's exhaled air.
FIG. 4 shows the bottom of a sheath having a probe inserted therein. The sheath may be made of polyethelene or polypropylene plastic. The inlet aperture 24 of the probe 10 is shown within the sheath and covered on one side by the bottom 52 also shown in FIG. 8 of sheath 12.
FIG. 5 shows the assembled probe and sheath from the rear including the scoop 18, which surrounds the slots provided to permit the flow of exhaled air into the probe respiration sensor.
FIG. 6, a rear view of the sheath of the present invention, shows the scoop 18 and also the slots 26, 30 and 34. Looking into the rear of the sheath the thin conical tip 14 for temperature sensing may be seen.
In FIG. 7, the thin tip 14 of the probe 10 extends for a distance which is equal to the length of the metallic tip 40 of the temperature sensor of probe 10. It is this thin portion which is made to have an inner diameter which is slightly less than the outer diameter of the metal portion 40 so that upon insertion of the probe into the sheath the two portions will be brought into intimate contact.
In FIG. 8 the unitary cover is shown in combination with the probe for which it is intended to be used and in this view it may be seen that the exhaled air, shown generally by the arrows 50, is caused to enter the slots which are in communication with the inlet port 24 of the probe.
FIG. 9 shows the sheath of the present invention surrounding the probe 10 and the manner in which the openings 26, 30 and 34 permit exhaled air to flow into the inlet aperture 24 of the probe 10. Also shown in this view is the manner in which one opening of the transversely arranged inlet aperture 24 of probe 10 is covered by the bottom 52 of sheath 12 so that the exhaled air does not pass through the probe housing but rather is caused to be directed into the passage containing the respiration sensing means.
It is, of course, understood that the preceeding description was only given by way of example and that various other forms may be taken by the unitary sheath of the present invention.
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Britain top Gulf commander slams al Jazeera
Britain's top Gulf commander stepped up a war of words with Al Jazeera television on Thursday, saying the Qatar-based news channel risked becoming a tool for Iraqi propaganda.
Air Marshal Brian Burridge opened a media briefing with a fierce denunciation of al Jazeera for showing "shocking, close-up" pictures of two British soldiers apparently killed in action earlier this week in Iraq.
"Quite apart from the obvious distress that such pictures cause friends and families of the personnel concerned, such disgraceful behavior is a flagrant breach of the Geneva convention," Burridge told reporters at the U.S. Central Command's forward headquarters in Qatar.
Burridge later clarified his statement, saying he held Iraqi authorities responsible for making the video, not Qatar-based al Jazeera for showing it.
"I appreciate that all media outlets have a strong desire for exclusive pictures and we have no desire to limit journalist freedom in any way," Burridge said.
"However, all media outlets must be aware of the limits of taste and decency and be wary that they do not unwittingly become tools for Iraqi propaganda," he added.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair had already expressed "horror" over al Jazeera's decision to show pictures of the bodies. (Albawaba.com)
© 2003 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)


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AMD Radeon HD 7900 PCB Pictures Leak To Web
Subject: Graphics Cards | December 21, 2011 - 07:26 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: amd, 7900, radeon hd, tahiti, gpu, pcb
Tech Power Up managed to get their hands on a couple photos of the PCBs used in the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 7900 series graphics cards. The blue boards show the traces and connectors that will eventually house the memory chips, graphics processor, capacitors, PCI-E power and video out connections (among others). This particular PCB is allegedly the "cost effective" version that is an alternative for Add-In-Board partners (for example: Sapphire, HIS, and XFX) so that they can offer lower cost cards.
The naked boards feature spots for two DVI, one HDMI, and one Display Port connector, although graphics card manufacturers do not have to include all of the connectors enabling low profile HTPC friendly versions. Further, the PCB features connections for an 8+2 analog VRM (voltage regulators), 12 memory chips, and two 8 pin PCI-E power connectors.
Keep in mind that this PCB is merely a reference design and may not be used in all Tahiti cards. AMD has given its partners free reign to design their own PCBs for the 7950 graphics cards. On the 7970 card; however, the cost effective reference design may well be used in many third party 7970 cards as an alternative to the main 7970 board design.
I suppose we will just have to wait until tomorrow for the official launch to learn more about the new cards. However, being so close to the launch date, the photos are likely representative of the actual PCB design. More photos can be found here.
Looks like it's going to be a real monster. I was getting tired of having the fastest single GPU card anyways. ^_^ (GTX580 rocks!)
Lol at NVIDIA. I always liked them and still do but they are losing consumer GPU ground at an alarming rate since just a few years ago. Almost everyone was NVIDIA before Radeon 4000 series. AMD has been killing NVIDIA. AMD was first to release 40nm GPU with 4000 series, first to release Direct X11, shortly will be first to release 28nm GPU, and also will be first to release PCIE 3.0 GPU. NVIDIA fanboys keep saying wait till NVIDIA comes out with their flagship single GPU card. Newsflash, that is a year away from happening and in a year when it does come out AMD is going to have an entire refresh of GPUS ready to roll out. Hopefully for NVIDIAS sake their card will be ad fast as the 7970 because at that time the 7970 will already be a year old.
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After the recent Converse x Ian Ginoza Jack Purcell Red Ox from the 1HUND(Red) Collection, Converse has now worked with Huf on the Skidgrip Mid. The sneaker comes in black canvas and features an all-over "H" pattern. The Huf logo is also featured on the mid-sole and on the laces. The tongue features a special Converse by Huf tag. The sneaker is now available at Sneakersnstuff.
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After last week's equally odd choice of dog "models", this week's Quick Sniff Challenge consisted of shearing sheep (baaaaa!) – in the words of one participant, he was "shocked, appalled, and scared." After the 11 remaining groomers worked their magic using what looked like a hedge trimmer on lil lambs, they finally had the chance to tackle pups! Excellent. Sticking with the theme, this week's breed was a real live herding dog – the bearded collie. The contestants had to wash and style the pooches making sure to get out mats and tangles and have the hair lie flat, while still giving the pups that rugged, natural look they're known for. So, who was deemed the best in show this week? Find out when you
Jonathan once again captured the "top dog" spot on this episode! I can't say I'm surprised as this self-proclaimed celebrity dog groomer def has the confidence to carry him through. If you've missed either of the first two episodes, you can catch up online before the next one airs on Saturday!


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-- foo
The position where Charlotte was on her back on the box with her arms restrained across her neck was very interesting. That is how you tie the arms for effective tit fucking. I'm still waiting for someone to demonstrate this neglected fetish on a BDSM web site! Please Chanta!
-- Prodomguy
I am a huge Mika Tan fan. The only problem; she should have been gagged in all scenes (other than when not giving a blowjob). Mika bound, gagged and getting fucked...WOW!!! More of Mika Tan.
-- Bondageman2
doyleo : ?«TJ is plain annoying?». Sorry, dude, you have the head into the ass (French : ?«la t??te dans le cul?») saying this sort of moron's monotonous complaint. RJ
-- regisjean
Whahaaah! It works! - What? - Advertising on he net! There is one actually saying : TFWYFSIB. - ? - Yes! If you open it, it says : Twisted Family Welcomes You For Sex In Bondage. After Audrey Hollander & Otto Bauer, we welcome here Devon Lee & Marcus London. What a fun! We are totally beyond the scene here again. I have always loved girls like Devon, scared girls inside themselves into great bodies, quite slow and heavy (there is a superb French book about that from Andr?© Hardellet : ?«Lourdes, lentes?», very affective without nervousness. Marcus is a happy man to have got one of them, a very rare occasion in life with so many speedy freaky girls circling around the world! So, this love shoot behind the scene is the tender and sweet side of BDSM. We are allowed to have a look at the intimate playing of a couple : I love that!
Soft brother of Schartzenegger introducing innocent maid to pleasure in pain. Ah! muscular Christianity - a structural program in itself! And maid servants into hotels, an ambulant program by themselves too... The eagerness for fuck of Ashli is the same than in her shoot with Nika Noire, at CB, with a difference as doming concerned (thanks Chanta to have us able to make the comparison into a same gap of time). Nika is as young as Ashli (20 years old), so it was an equilibrated shoot of "rookies", a good scene, on CB. Here TJ plays soft but introducing Ashli to man BDSM - a gift for a dom to be able to "switch" from heroic brutal scenes to tender and affectionate ones. There is scoop and an anti-scoop in this shoot for me. Well, what do you prefer I begin with, the good new or the bad one? - The bad, I have heard : well, Ashli has some problem of presentation of herself, in this shoot, I hadn't noticed in the CB shoot : big acne on the face, notably on the forehead, which is quite visible in the middle part of the scene with numerous close plans. The good one? For the first time in a classic TF shoot, 5 positions instead of 4, so Ashli was in it and not out of it. A light shoot, but a tasteful one.
THE FRENZY AND THE TRANCE. So powerful is this girl (Audrey Hollander) that she splashes the screen. She is here with her husband, Otto Bauer, in a scene "like at home". And everything is said. We cannot see them acting on screen, because they do it in real and for real. So strong is this girl, that, above any "topping from the bottom" here, she is the center of the scene, the willing victim, the dimension beyond human habits the man has to sacrificed himself to earn. In this shoot totally "beyond the scene", with some porn feats if you want to score them (like triple anal penetration), we reach the natural streaming of life beyond life, nothing to see as actor or actress play : kinky life for an "italian"faced man (with a German name) with a witch : the archaic Cretan.
First off, Sienna is one of the prettier girls on this site, very beautiful girl (her big fake headlights...nice!). But the creativity aspect as far as the shoots are concerned is getting to be a bit of a bore (same positions, same dialogue, etc.). Why not add some water to your shoots to spice it up every now and then, or a different role play for the Dom, he seems to play the same character on every shoot.
-- outrage
This is one of the best sex scenes I've ever seen. Very hot, very sexy, just nasty enough to be edgy, great bodies, a real sense of dominance and submission that doesn't seem exploitative, and fantastic hard rough fucking. Bravo!
-- horny jay
Who is she kidding she does not do anal. She has been a lot more than just potty trained, that is for sure!
-- BigAck
THUMB INTO ASSHOLE = truth with puritan pastor's wife. We are here into bonus update dimension, guys and galls, and personally I feel Chanta had no duty to give us such gift, but I understand the topic : she felt a 29 minutes shoot (the William one) was something a bit short at quantitative level (being light at qualitative one). I feel this update deserves to be carefully judged - in it's own dimension, a shoot in the box which was something of a weird thing from the start. Why? At start, that's clear, Jezebel, this girl virgin to everything as a good pastor's wife (even not a pussy virgin), belongs to the super dupper boring class of the infamous Ozzma Lynn on CB site, or Dakoda Brooks on F&B. The cold fish, with the utmost boring face on the earth. But Kurt Lockwood is a hero, and I must allow, I discovered him on this shoot. I don't know why, he was "super dupper" excited to do painful treatments to this un-sensitive creature (cattle prod, cane ...), as if he was the real psychopath in action. So, this newbie, with the very boring "Japanese" mask of the boring puritan wife, at start, was drawn out of her sleeping life and committed to pleasure = forced orgasms. May she quit her boring mask from now on to some expressive face through further porn experience? I don't know. But I feel Kurt was able here to achieve some "feat", and, if we are sensitive to it as a bonus, it is quite something able to rise an hard-on from the ole-member. I had never figured I would be able to have a hard-on seeing a dead fish wife of a puritan pastor being fucked. Chanta will always surprise me! [God! Do forgive me! As your night left hand, I have to tell the truth]. RJ
This was great. I love the way Bailey says "sir"! I just wish this could have been longer. Thanks, d
-- d
i think that britney has a luscious body and did a good job for her first bondage shoot. i'd like to put a vote for pairing her with amber on CB. 2 anal sluts no waiting. thanks chanta
-- davrom
Nika is a gorgeous sexslave, but needs more training. Bring her back soon. My hat's off to Curt, he brings out the best in a submissive, though not his best here.
-- maximus
Good shoot.
Just wanted to say that I tend to love all the shoots that use that metal collar and chain. Guess I'm into props.
-- peterk
Lovely accent and great tits!
-- AssMan
this shoot is fantastic and i'm not even done watching it yet! TJ is my favorite and Dakoda is such a doll. Yes, please, and more thank you!!
-- porcelain
She is a very sex hot girl to have on the site. I was wondering if you can do more with her.
-- mbender888
wow this two guys knows what they do some young chick can much learn about bdsm and sex from adriana and kurt
-- winfried
Berlin, compared to Sabrina "Vixen" on the rocks, don't you find AmBER LEAN? - I like to joke, too. RJ


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A Jew, a Woman and Churchill's Favorite Spy: Christine Granville, Flesh-and-blood Hero
A biography of Granville, nom de guerre of a Polish-Jewish woman who worked behind enemy lines for British intelligence in World War II, presents her neither as femme fatale nor woman in distress - but as the hero she is.
"The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville," by Clare Mulley. St. Martin's/Dunne, 432 pages, $26.99
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