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Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts
The Pneumococcal Awareness Council of Experts (PACE) is a project of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and is composed of global experts in infectious diseases and vaccines. Established in December 2006, The Council seeks to raise awareness among policymakers and aims to secure global commitments to prevent pneumococcal disease, a leading infectious killer of children and adults worldwide.[1] The Council works in collaboration and partnership with countries, NGOs, academia and industry.
Council Members[edit]
PACE is made up of 21 global experts on infectious diseases and vaccines from 17 countries around the world. The Council is chaired by Ciro A. de Quadros, Executive Vice President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Orin Levine, Executive Director of PneumoADIP[2] at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
PACE has hosted and participated in a number of events worldwide to help raise awareness about pneumococcal disease.
On May 4, 2007, the launch of PACE was announced at a press conference in Washington, D.C. At the event, PACE gave its first annual Global Leadership Award.[9] The Global Leadership Award is given annually by PACE to recognize an individual, organization or country that has championed pneumococcal disease prevention and made a significant contribution towards policies that advance the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. PACE Global Leadership Award recipients include: Dr. Thomas Cherian, who has helped accelerate the surveillance of pneumonia throughout the developing world and contributed to research on the global pneumococcal disease burden. The Health Minister of Rwanda – the first country in Africa to introduce pneumococcal conjugate vaccines; and the Health Minister of Costa Rica – the first country in Latin America to implement a nationwide vaccination program.[10]
On November 20, 2007, PACE's European launch took place in Prague, Czech Republic with representatives from professional societies, PACE member Pavla Krizova, and the Czech Ministry of Health in attendance.[10]
On February 15, 2008, PACE held a press event during the 3rd Regional Pneumococcal Symposium[11] in Istanbul, Turkey to call upon policy leaders in Turkey and the region to assure access to pneumococcal vaccines and to support the expansion of health systems to deliver them and monitor their impact.[12]
On June 10, 2008, PACE along with the Sabin Vaccine Institute, PATH and PneumoADIP, participated in the 6th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-6)[13] in Reykjavík, Iceland. PACE issued a Global Call to Action on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention,[14] urging governments to take steps to make financing available for access to pneumococcal vaccines.[15]
On October 24, 2008, over 100 professional medical societies, institutions and organizations from around the world had signed PACE's Global Call to Action to urge governments, donors and industry to ensure access to pneumococcal vaccines. Rwanda announced that they would be one of the first two countries to introduce the pneumococcal vaccine into its national immunization program in the spring of 2009.[16]
On January 31, 2009 PACE and the Hib Initiative[17] hosted Childhood Pneumonia and Meningitis: Recent Advances[18] at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. The event, brought together stakeholders in child health from Pakistan, including health professionals, representatives from the Ministry of Health and EPI officials. Event leaders, PACE Co-chair Dr. Ciro de Quadros and PACE member Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, highlighted the role of advocacy in combating childhood pneumonia and meningitis.[19]
On March 3, 2009, PACE, in conjunction with the Sabin Vaccine Institute, PneumoADIP and the WHO, hosted a media briefing at the Sabin Vaccine Institute's 4th Regional Pneumococcal Symposium[20] in Johannesburg, South Africa, at which PACE released two new studies, Sequelae Due to Bacterial Meningitis among African Children: A Systematic Literature Review,[21] and Bacterial Infections in Persons with Sickle Cell Disease: A Review of Data from Africa with a Focus on Pneumococcal Disease.[22] The event also sought to highlight South Africa's introduction of the pneumococcal vaccine, with support from the GAVI Alliance.[23]
In October 2009, PACE conducted a briefing and one-on-one meetings with members of the European Parliament and European Commission to recommend action on pneumococcal disease.
On November 1–2, 2009 PACE, a member of the World Pneumonia Day Coalition, sponsored a press conference, policymaker roundtable, rally, march and symposium to commemorate World Pneumonia Day in Bangladesh where the country's leaders and advocates focused their attention on the prevention and treatment of pneumonia. These events and activities were led by PACE member Dr. Samir K. Saha. PACE World Pneumonia Day events also took place in Brazil, Dominican Republic, Kenya, South Africa, the Czech Republic, Israel, Pakistan, China and the Philippines.
Global Call to Action on Pneumococcal Disease[edit]
In 2008, PACE launched its Global Call to Action on Pneumococcal Disease Prevention[14] in partnership with 114 professional medical societies, organizations and institutions from around the world.[24]
PACE Commissioned Studies[edit]
PACE commissioned two studies, Sequelae Due to Bacterial Meningitis among African Children: A Systematic Literature Review,[21] and Bacterial Infections in Persons with Sickle Cell Disease: A Review of Data from Africa with a Focus on Pneumococcal Disease,[22] that highlighted the increased risk for children in Africa of contracting pneumococcal disease and suffering its devastating consequences. It was found that African children who contract pneumococcal disease are 36 times as likely to have sickle-cell disease, a blood disorder prevalent in African children that increases the risk for infectious diseases and early death.[21] Inn addition, the research showed that up to one-half of all children in Africa who get pneumococcal meningitis will either die or be disabled as a consequence of the disease, even when treated with antibiotics in a hospital. As the three leading causes of bacterial meningitis in childhood are vaccine preventable, the regular use of conjugate vaccines would reduce the high burden of morbidity and mortality in both epidemic and endemic settings.[22]
- ^ World Health Organization, "Pneumococcal vaccines"
- ^ "PneumoADIP".
- ^ "Robert Reid Cabral Children's Hospital".
- ^ "European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases".
- ^ "Czech National Institute of Public Health".
- ^ "National Research Foundation".
- ^ "Mali Center for Vaccine Development".
- ^ "Kenya Paediatric Association".
- ^ "PACE Global Leadership Award".
- ^ a b "Global Health Experts Unite to Combat the World's Leading Vaccine-Preventable Killer".
- ^ "3rd Regional Pneumococcal Symposium".
- ^ "Leading Health Experts Urge Turkish, Global Policy Leaders To Take Action Against Pneumococcal Disease".
- ^ The Lancet (2009). "Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates"
- ^ a b "PACE Call to Action".
- ^ "Health Experts Call on Global Leaders to Ensure Access to Life-Saving Pneumococcal Vaccines".
- ^ "Medical Societies Join Forces to Assure Equal Access to Life-Saving Vaccines".
- ^ "Hib Initiative".
- ^ "Childhood Pneumonia and Meningitis: Recent Advances".
- ^ "Sabin Childhood Pneumonia">"Childhood Pneumonia & Meningitis: Recent Advances".
- ^ "Sabin Vaccine Institute's 4th Regional Pneumococcal Symposium".
- ^ a b c Ramakrishnan M, Ulland AJ, Steinhardt LC, Moïsi JC, Were F, Levine OS (2009). "Sequelae due to bacterial meningitis among African children: a systematic literature review". BMC Medicine. 7 (1): 47. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-7-47. ISSN 1741-7015. PMC 2759956 . PMID 19751516.
- ^ a b c "Bacterial Infections in Persons with Sickle Cell Disease: A Review of Data from Africa with a Focus on Pneumococcal Disease"
- ^ "PACE Studies Unveiled at Sabin's 4th Regional Pneumo Symposium Reinforce Need for Pneumococcal Vaccine".
- ^ "PACE Partners".


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"Shocking! But a very important book for America especially in light of the War on Terrorism!" Why I Hate Israel: A Candid Account is a fresh look at the Jewish-Arabic Conflict in light of current trends in human rights laws and ethics. Priya Gandhi-Ganesh is particularly insightful in identifying troubling elements that are impediments to peace and human progress in the Middle East and on the global scene. Gandhi-Ganesh effortlessly draws together examples and anecdotes to highlight her points. At the end of the book, the listener will most likely find herself empathizing with Gandhi-Ganesh's sentiments. Even if the listener does not, she will certainly feel more enlightened about the realities of the Jewish-Arabic Conflict in today's Post-September 11th World. Perhaps, the most refreshing aspect of this book is the explicitly stated position that the author hates Israel.
Gandhi-Ganesh argues from Hinduism, Christianity, International Human Rights, and ethics why her hatred is justified and even encouraged. This book is certainly among the most important books on the Middle East to come out of the new century. Those with a general interest in terrorism and Middle East conflicts will find this book helpful. High schools and colleges can use this book for discussions on ethics, the current situation/events, politics, international relations, and America's place in the world. Thus, this book is excellent for general reading as well as in educational/school settings.
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The Construction Law programme is designed for construction and legal professionals with an interest in developing knowledge and application of construction law for practical use in the workplace. It combines face-to-face contact with the course team and electronic distance learning technology to provide flexibility of learning to suit individual needs. The programme places considerable emphasis on the application of the law in problem-solving and problem-avoidance situations within the context of the construction industry. Widespread use is made of case study material and real-life scenarios. You will be able to participate in mooting sessions, dispute resolution workshops with high-profile DR contributors and presentations which will further develop your ability to formulate, propose and defend an argument. The MSc stage of the programme enjoys accreditation with the RICS and an application for accreditation with the CIArb for 2011 is pending).


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You may not have been aware of it until now, but you're living in the land of Judeo-Christian-Islamic values. That unwieldy phrase is being bandied about by Muslim advocacy groups including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim American Society and the American Muslim Council. Agha Saeed of the American Muslim Alliance recommends that this phrase trip off tongues "in all venues where we normally talk about Judeo-Christian values, starting with the media, academia, statements by politicians and comments made in churches, synagogues and other places."
Would there have been Muslim Founding Fathers and Muslim political figures throughout American history if there had been a significant Muslim population here at that time? Perhaps. But the phrase "Judeo-Christian values" refers to a specific set of things that are valued. Agha Saeed would have us accept on faith that Islam values essentially the same things, but there is abundant evidence to the contrary — and I am not referring to the depredations of terrorists. I am talking about classic Islamic law: the Sharia.
In principal contrast to the Sharia is a Judeo-Christian value that may seem paradoxical at first glance: secularism. The Bill of Rights forbids the establishment of a religion or any prohibition of "the free exercise thereof." Contrary to fashionable myth, this provision wasn't hammered out by unbelievers to give them freedom from believers. Establishing no religion meant that all were free to practice their own. Even Enlightenment thinkers such as Locke who laid the groundwork for secular government worked within a profoundly Christian cultural and intellectual context. In America, Protestants, Catholics, and Jews were able to turn away from their histories of warfare and mistrust and fashion a working polity from the values they shared in common — from Biblical and traditional teachings about the equality of dignity of all people before God.
Where secularism exists in Muslim countries, it was imported from the West; it didn't emerge from any understanding of the Qur'an or Muslim tradition. Many Muslims, particularly radicals, regard it as illegitimate: Islam provides a model for the ordering of society; why import one from unbelievers? According to Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979), an influential Muslim scholar, commentator on the Qur'an, and founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami (Party of Islam), a powerful force in contemporary Pakistani politics, "the purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and programme."
He didn't envision this as a program for Pakistan alone. "Islam requires the earth — not just a portion, but the whole planet — not because the sovereignty over the earth should be wrested from one Nation or several Nations and vested in one particular Nation, but because the entire mankind should benefit from the ideology and welfare programme or what would be truer to say from 'Islam' which is the programme of well-being for all humanity."
Maududi was no eccentric. This is not only the guiding principles of celebrated twentieth-century radicals such as the Ayatollah Khomeini, Sayyid Qutb, Hasan al-Banna, and Abdullah Azzam; it's also an established view in the Islamic world. It powers Sharia states such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, wields immense influence over public policy in Pakistan, Egypt, and elsewhere, and motivates exemplary democrats like Hamas, which spells out its differences with the PLO in its Charter: "Secular thought is diametrically opposed to religious thought. . . . Therefore, in spite of our appreciation for the PLO and its possible transformation in the future, and despite the fact that we do not denigrate its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, we cannot substitute it for the Islamic nature of Palestine by adopting secular thought. For the Islamic nature of Palestine is part of our religion, and anyone who neglects his religion is bound to lose."
Can non-Muslims live in this Islamic state? Most certainly. "Islamic 'Jihad,'" Maududi explains with a tolerance that would impress Karen Armstrong, "does not seek to interfere with the faith, ideology, rituals of worship or social customs of the people. It allows them perfect freedom of religious belief and permits them to act according to their creed."
There's just one catch: "However," Maududi continues, "Islamic 'Jihad' does not recognize their right to administer State affairs according to a system which, in the view of Islam, is evil." Likewise Sayyid Qutb. Muslims, says the father of modern Islamic radicalism, must not only preach, but also "strike hard at all those political powers which force people to bow before them and which rule over them, unmindful of the commandments of God, and which prevent people from listening to the preaching and accepting the belief if they wish to do so. After annihilating the tyrannical force, whether it be in a political or a racial form, or in the form of class distinctions within the same race, Islam establishes a new social, economic and political system, in which the concept of the freedom of man is applied in practice."
"The freedom of man." Gee, that does sound like a Judeo-Christian value — until you realize that he's talking about stoning for adultery, amputation for theft, polygamy, concubinage, the subjugation of women, and all the other stipulations of the Sharia, all of which he stoutly defended in his voluminous writings. Like Maududi, Qutb insisted on Islamic tolerance: the freedom of non-Muslims to practice their religions in an Islamic state. But his vision isn't quite compatible with Western secularism either. Jihad, he explains, "should leave every individual free to accept or reject [Islam], and if someone wants to accept it, it should not prevent him or fight against him. If someone does this [rejects Islam], then it is the duty of Islam to fight him until either he is killed or until he declares his submission." Freedom for Qutb meant freedom to obey the Sharia, a freedom enforced by the power of the state. In any case, all this may or may not constitute freedom, but it sure doesn't have anything to do with Judeo-Christian values.
In light of all this, it's not so surprising that CAIR's board chairman, Omar Ahmed, would have said in 1998 that "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." This statement has received renewed publicity lately, resulting in hot denials from CAIR that Ahmed ever said anything like this. Maybe he didn't. But it's really no more than a paraphrase of the teachings of Maududi, Qutb, and other radical Muslims, so that that there are many Muslims in the United States today whose beliefs are exactly summed up by this statement. Maududi and Qutb are respected voices whose writings are freely available to American Muslims from numerous online bookstores. Many of them are freshly published in new English translations that are fitted out with prefaces glowing with praise for the great men who wrote them and the enduring relevance of their ideas.
Are we to believe that no American Muslim is reading them? Or that every American Muslim who does read them rejects their rejection of secularism? This is an increasingly important question in light of the fact that the "Judeo-Christian-Islamic values" campaign is not just another exercise in PC wordplay. Muslim groups have announced their intentions to field more candidates than ever in 2004, and to work harder than ever to influence public policy.
Well and good. But will these candidates be so kind as to explain their relationship to the Sharia, and their long-term goals for the United States and its secular Constitution? I am certain that if any of those candidates read this, they will see it as an insult. It is not intended as such. Faced with similar questions about his Catholicism in 1960, John Kennedy didn't take them as an insult. He knew that even though anti-Catholicism was a pervasive bigotry (albeit not as fashionable then as it is now), there were non-bigots with genuine questions. After all, Pope Pius IX in 1864 did condemn the proposition that "the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church." Whether or not Kennedy's answer was adequately formulated, he took the question seriously and reaffirmed his commitment to our secular government.
Can Muslim politicians please make the same attempt before asking us to swallow the idea of "Judeo-Christian-Islamic values" whole and unexplained? This is a serious question born out of a serious fact: Islam is the only religion in the world that has a set of detailed legal directives for the ordering of societies, and Muslims around the world are pressing hard in numerous countries to put those directives into practice. Must we blandly assume that that can't and won't happen here? Certainly an explicit and definitive renunciation of the Sharia, with its built-in inequalities for woman and non-Muslims and its draconian punishments, would not be too much to ask for. Would it?


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Support walkers in this event celebrating the work of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and raising funds to further important research on this disease. The society's mission? People affected by MS can live their best lives as we stop MS in its tracks, restore what has been lost and end MS forever. Volunteer shifts will vary based on your particular interest, and timing will vary accordingly, although the walk is set to begin at 10:00 a.m.
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We love B&Bs. This is not a B&B in the English sense - you know the type - small, cozy, a few rooms and getting to know the family that runs the home away from home. This is a budget hotel, which provide breakfast. But then again, they DO put 'hotel' in their name.
Bloomsbury is quite lovely a section of town. The hotel is 2 minutes from Russell Square station. Location is ideal!!! Pret a manger nearby, three leafy green parks, British Museum about 10 minutes. Pubs, cafes, everything you can want.
Also, the staff are incredible. Hardworking is probably too soft a word for it. The ladies who clean - the staff must love the owners because its cleaned so well. I'm a clean-freak and I had nothing to complain about! I bet even the tops of their doors are clean.
The breakfast is no-nonsense and run by one older lady that is no-nonsense too, but as nice as honey. She refuses to let you do ANYTHING but eat, and does it all - takes orders, serves, serves more, cleans up and makes the toast and never burns it.
There must be over 30 rooms in there? From what I gathered, very very few are en-suite. I also encountered many mature couples who have been there multiple times.
Then there are the budget travellers and students, which lets face it, no one can be vetted prior to being given a room key. We booked a twin room (doubles were taken) and shown to a room that certainly saw better days. As we were on a romantic weekend, this room made us want to cry. Clean, spotless, but dirty walls, bleak white sink - I went out to check the shared bathroom and asked my husband if there was a chance to leave...but London is a very pricey town and this price was...very good (76 GBP for a twin with shared bathroom.) We assured ourselves that there must be one useable shared bathroom in all the place (there are many!!!)
I passed the young man who checked us in and asked, "do you possibly have any other rooms." He asked what was the problem, I said none, just that it was a bit grim in there. He offered a renovated room, which we took without seeing! This room, as well as the first, were facing the front of the hotel. Room 11 was fine - definitely painted and refreshed. Oh! All rooms have fantastic flat screen TVs. The linens were clean and although budget (the sheets were scratchy), I'll take clean over comfy any day!!! Flat pack wardrobe was broken on the bottom, and took up a lot of space in the room. The room had a sink, and windows that opened, which we did.
This is very communal living and there were 3 other doors near us on the top floor, and not all people were raised apparently with other people so slamming of doors, talking outside the door, etc., these things you have to live with all night. Very unfortunately, I spent a good half hour at 2 AM listening to a girl being sick in the bathroom after stumbling upstairs. Again, this is NOT the fault of the hotel or the owners, but please remember this is a budget hotel and a lot of students stay here. The area is full of budget hotels and hostels, so even after the sick girl went to bed, the noise of the rude people in the streets (yelling, whistling) is...loud.
Of the three beds in the our twin room, one was new, the other two so soft they went quite to the floor.
Now we only slept at the hotel, not used it as the destination of our trip. The second night was better, much calmer all around and seemed the place full of students in a group, and they were all so nice. No problems the second night, except for waking to someone opening and closing their doors next to us. I did not use the showers....
Our side of building had a new shower and what looked to be an older one. Top floor, not much pressure. And you had a choice of boiling hot water or boiling hot water. (No, that is not a typo.)
I'm not a breakfast eater, so next time we'll spend a bit more money for a higher level hotel and go have a lunch or breakfast elsewhere. The crazy thing is, for 76 pounds, this is a great value for a bed in London, especially one so close to the tube. The location is lovely; I enjoyed walking around the area, and the hotel has two lounges for folks to relax and spend time meeting each other, as well as a place to keep your luggage.
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D-Sisive – Golden Lullaby (Prod. MMac) [Audio]
Toronto, ON – As we've pointed out before, no one introduces a D-Sisive record like Mr. Derek Christoff himself. Look for the description of this newly released tune after the jump. As usual, the producer/MC pulls no punches when it comes to telling fans where he's at musically and what's going on in his head… the muse behind his latest creation. But it's the same type of D-Sisive you hear in his music… honest, introspective and not shy about taking a shot at himself if he feels it's warranted. In any event, we like him and we know you do too! Check out "Golden Lullaby" below and look out The Great Mr. Nobody Mixtape (like that title doesn't completely encompass everything). "Golden Lullaby" is HipHopCanada's Song of the Day.
The release party is going down Friday, September 19, inside Rancho Relaxo (300 College Street). Along with D-Sisive, the event will feature performances by Swamp Thing, Def3, Factor, Wordburglar and more. Click here for the Facebook listing.
D-Sisive Releases Golden Lullaby…
Having children changes everything. It changes the way you see the world. Your priorities change. Musicians write songs that are more child-friendly. Actors choose films their children will like. Everything changes. You change. You're no longer living for the same reasons.
I wasn't going to change. Nope, not me. I wasn't going soft. That would be against everything I stand for. My swear words. My anger. My sadness, and bitterness. That's D-Sisive, and without those things, he's…I'm…a soft, fat Macedonian dad. I sure as hell wasn't going to record Fat Macedonian Dad music, either. Jim Jones would never approve! Nelly Furtado had a child, then made the worst album of her career. With help from Timbaland, she needed to find her inner-horniness and promiscuity to bring her back. She was fortunate, but it could have went the other way. I wasn't falling into that trap. A fat, Macedonian dad, I was not.
But… A fat, Macedonian dad, I am!
Seeing|hearing my daughter's heartbeat for the first time, during her first ultrasound, kinda flushed that down the toilet. It made her real. It brought me to tears, and I only cry during funerals and the ending of Rudy. It was beautiful, and inspired me to write Golden Lullaby.
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The present application claims the benefit of priority of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/673,075 filed Apr. 20, 2005 for Henry Lon Eisenson the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates generally to the field of battery-operated flashlights, in which batteries are used to power incandescent or light-emitting diode (LED) portable light sources. It relates not to common consumer flashlights that use carbon-zinc or alkaline cells, but specifically to flashlights that utilize batteries and/or regulation with relatively flat output curves during their useful output period. The present invention is time-based: it provides an ongoing comparison between predicted battery runtime and actual usage of the flashlight, and displays the result to inform the user of minutes remaining.
There exist several methodologies by which flashlight battery power can be determined and displayed to the user.
Prior art as shown at the U.S. Patent Office. A simple Boolean search term of abst/(flashlight and battery and (indicator or life)) elicited two meaningful results: U.S. Pat. No. 4,962,347—Flashlight with battery tester and U.S. Pat. No. 4,876,632—Flashlight with battery life indicator module.
Both of these approaches to the problem are conventional and utilize some derivative of Ohm's Law; they impose some load upon the battery, measure current flow through that load or voltage across the battery, and from those data (load and either current or voltage) estimate the battery's probable remaining capacity. These patents were evaluated and found to reflect none of the features and capabilities of the present invention.
There are many other battery-powered portable devices that do include battery life indicators of varying types, but in a market search none was found that operates on the principles set forth herein, and none was found that cost-effectively solves the portable flashlight requirement addressed by the present invention.
There are many existing designs, products, and patents that in some ways are related to the present invention, or that in some ways attempt to solve the problem addressed by the present invention, but no reasonable combination of the terms that would reasonably discover the present invention, and no search in applicable markets, have identified a similar solution.
The term "flashlight" applies to a spectrum of handheld portable lighting products ranging from simple household convenience and safety devices to those designed to meet urgent and often emergency requirements. Some flashlight products sell for the equivalent of 30 minutes' work at minimum wage, while others cost the equivalent of an hour of a competent attorney's time, and a few exotic flashlights cost thousands of dollars.
All portable "flashlights" are powered by batteries, ranging from primitive carbon-zinc cells to cells using expensive rechargeable (nickel-metal-hydride, nickel cadmium, lead acid, lithium-ion, lithium-polymer, etc.) technologies. The best non-rechargeable flashlights use lithium-ion cells with excellent power densities, usually intended for use by law enforcement, military, and emergency services personnel, but also bought by consumers willing to pay high prices for quality and performance. Makers of such lights include Streamlight, Surefire, and Pelican.
Despite at least two patents describing methodologies by which the power remaining in a flashlight's battery can be measured and displayed, there are virtually no flashlights sold today with any sort of battery life indicator. The reason is that the prior art solutions work on battery technologies that suffer a steady decline in output voltage under load, and such voltage-under-load is an unreliable predictor of remaining life.
Existing technologies by which battery life is measured impose a temporary load on the battery and measure voltage under that load, however this practice dissipates battery power into that load and therefore the remaining life is diminished by the battery power expended in the measurement process itself.
Further, inexpensive flashlights are not designed for emergency use, and therefore compete based upon price. They use inexpensive batteries that fit the profile for which such a prior art solution was designed, but the inclusion of such a feature will raise the price of this category of product beyond the range of the market.
The expensive flashlights that are designed for emergency or tactical use employ expensive batteries (i.e. lithium-ion) and/or regulation, such that the output of the power system is relatively constant until just before the battery supply is completely depleted, at which time it dies quickly. If the prior art solutions (measuring voltage under load) were to be applied to this type of flashlight, they would show maximum remaining battery life even if the flashlight were close to the end of its life.
Therefore, modem flashlights designed either for consumers or for emergency services do not include a battery life indicator.
Products for both categories of use seem to run out of power when they're most needed, especially in emergency situations. There exists no mechanism by which a police officer, for example, can glance at a tactical flashlight and see in a moment the remaining life in the existing battery pack. And in an emergency, replacing batteries—even if spares are carried—is time consuming and sometimes not even possible.
While many of the prior art flashlight battery status measurement and display solutions may be suitable to one degree or another for the particular limited requirements they address, they are not optimum or generalized solutions for today's consumer flashlight products because those solutions are too costly to implement at the consumer level, and the consumer market is price-driven. Such battery status measurement and display solutions may be suitable to flashlights designed for emergency uses, but only if those flashlights employ carbon-zinc, alkaline, or lead-acid batteries, the output voltage of which under load correlate roughly with remaining capacity.
In these respects, the FLASHLIGHT BATTERY LIFE INDICATOR, according to the present invention, substantially departs from the concepts and designs of prior art. In so doing, the present invention provides unique advantages to certain consumer flashlights because it is economical to implement, and unique advantages to flashlights designed for emergency, law enforcement, and military usage, because it provides the user with a constant always-on display of remaining battery life in minutes.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in common flashlights, and the known methods and practices for the measurement and display of battery life in flashlights, the present invention provides a substantial divergence from custom to achieve the primary goal of providing a method by which a flashlight's remaining battery life can be constantly displayed, in the most useful format: minutes.
The main objective of the present invention is to provide a cost-effective battery life indicator for flashlights that employ batteries and/or regulated supplies with a relatively flat depletion curve.
Another objective is to provide a simple method by which a known depletion period (runtime) of a selected design or combination of components (bulb plus battery pack) can be built into the product.
Another objective is to provide a circuit by which the absence/presence (therefore replacement) of the battery pack can be sensed, triggering a reset to the preset runtime figure.
Another objective is to provide a means by which the preset runtime period can be manually adjusted by the user, based upon experience or knowledge, thus improving the accuracy of the display.
Another objective is to provide an optional nonvolatile memory, such that previous adjustments are "remembered" from one battery change to another.
Another objective is to provide an optional internal/integrated long-life battery, such that selected circuitry comprising the present invention can be self-powered, and memory components thereof can "remember" previous history and runtimes.
Another objective is to provide an always-on display, such that at any time the user can glance at the unit and determine the minutes remaining on the internal battery or charge.
Another objective is to use well-understood and inexpensive countdown timer circuitry, logic, and liquid crystal displays already in wide use, to reduce the cost of implementation of the present invention.
Another objective is to provide the potential to fully exploit the well-understood and inexpensive existing circuitry by embedding a complete (self-powered) timekeeping device in the flashlight, with the countdown feature as but one function thereof.
Another objective is to provide the potential for a simple algorithm that correlates power used with time on, with the understanding that duty cycle has an effect upon the total output minutes (runtime) of many battery types.
Another objective is to provide the potential for a means by which different power levels, selectable by the user, can be accommodated by the circuitry embodying the present invention.
It is the intention of the inventor that these objects apply to flashlight/cell combinations in which a display of either accumulated or remaining runtime is based upon a known value to which runtime on a given set of cells or charge is compared. They are specifically applicable to all flashlight and cell configurations involving an electromechanical mechanism by which a battery supply with a relatively flat depletion curve and therefore a predictable life under load (as with lithium-ion or any supply that is regulated) can be correlated with time used and therefore time remaining, and the result is displayed in a manner convenient to the user.
It is also the intention of the inventor that these objects apply to other battery-operated devices the users of which would benefit from a display of minutes remaining or percentage of battery remaining.
Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become obvious to the reader and it is intended that these objects and advantages be within the scope of the present invention.
To the accomplishment of the above and related objects, this invention may be embodied in the forms illustrated in the accompanying specification and drawings. However, the specification and drawings are illustrative of the basic concepts only, there are many possible configurations and derivatives lying within the intended scope of the invention.
The present invention is a Flashlight Battery Life Indicator (FBLI) suitable for use in flashlights that employ batteries or cells with relatively flat depletion curves. Alkaline, carbon-zinc, and lead-acid batteries have a gradual depletion curve over time and therefore require a load vs. voltage measurement upon which battery life can be estimated, but nickel metal hydride and especially lithium ion batteries, and all supplies with active regulation, have a depletion curve that approximates a straight line until the battery is about to fail, after which point failure is rapid. The time between "fresh" and the "knee" of the depletion curve is a reliable predictor of runtime of such high-tech batteries and cells.
The FBLI therefore exploits that time vs. load relationship of such batteries, tracking the ON time of the flashlight, correlating time with load, and displaying time remaining in minutes.
In one form, the FBLI consists of a digital countdown timer powered by the flashlight circuit, with a latch that holds the last point at which it was activated. Therefore, when the flashlight is ON the timer is counting down from some preset number that reflects the capacity, in minutes, of the selected battery type. When the flashlight is turned OFF, the timer stops counting but remembers its last setting and the next time the flashlight is turned ON it counts down from that point. The datum reflecting minutes remaining is displayed on an always-on liquid crystal display (LCD) embedded in a shallow milled or molded cavity in the flashlight, with internal wiring to the battery power supply. That LCD and its associated circuitry is anticipated to have about the same power dissipation as the similar circuitry of an inexpensive digital wristwatch, which usually runs from a "button" cell for years. Therefore, the load imposed by the circuitry upon the flashlight battery is considered insignificant.
Some battery/load combinations will provide different run times depending upon duty cycle. That is, the total run minutes will be greater when the duty cycle is no more than (as an example) 25%, which reduces heating of the battery due to internal resistance, and heat suggests loss of energy to thermal radiation rather than light radiation. Also, some flashlights provide more than one power setting. The FBLI circuit can be made intelligent, such that it can either adapt, or be made to adapt, to duty cycle differences. Also, by providing wiring to the same control that determines power settings, internal logic will "know" the current flow and runtime can be predicted accordingly.
When the flashlight is opened to permit replacement of the cells, power is completely removed and the FBLI resets to the original (preset) runtime value. Control is provided by which the user can modify the runtime value, based upon experience (past usage or shared information) or knowledge (change of battery brand or capacity). The present invention includes the potential for nonvolatile memory to "remember" the settings for the previous battery pack(s), minimizing manual adjustments required when batteries of a similar sort are used as replacements.
The flashlight will begin counting down the next time the flashlight is turned ON, presumably with new or freshly charged batteries.
When rechargeable batteries are used, there is potential for the flashlight to be removed from the charger with a partial charge, which would produce a deceptive reading because the FBLI would assume the battery is fully charged. Chargers used with nickel metal hydride batteries, however, are "intelligent" and "know" the charge state of the batteries being charged. Therefore, when the FBLI is implemented in such a rechargeable flashlight, the charger must maintain a constant communication with the flashlight's internal circuit, advising of charge state so in the event the flashlight is removed from the charger prior to attainment of a complete charge, the display will be approximately correct.
A new flashlight equipped with the FBLI, and into which new cells are installed, will display a preset runtime in minutes representing the capacity of the manufacturer-selected battery with the load imposed by the manufacturer-selected bulb. Obviously, different combinations of cell brand/quality and load will perform differently. Therefore, the FBLI includes a control function that permits the user to modify the preset runtime based on experience, measurement, or estimate, and that value can be refined with further experience.
As described, the FBLI can be integrated with newly-manufactured flashlight products as a competitive feature that provides advantages over other flashlight products not similarly equipped.
The FBLI utilizes many of the components of a common digital watch: time base (quartz oscillator), dividers and associated circuitry, some logic, controls, liquid crystal display and driver thereof, and battery, so it is only a matter of adaptation to include all those "watch" functions of which the countdown timer is but one.
The FBLI can also be expressed as an add-on accessory, either as a replacement end-cap (with integrated ON/OFF switch), as a tubular extension that is screwed in place between the original end-cap and the barrel of the flashlight, as a tubular extension that is screwed in place between the original barrel and the emitting end of the flashlight, or as a replacement barrel that fits between the original endcap and the original emitting end.
The best expression of the FBLI utilizes the flashlight's internal battery as a power source. However, it is also possible to embed within the circuit representing the present invention a small (i.e. wrist-watch) battery that will provide years of operation with uninterrupted power. That feature will enable long-term memory and integrated data collection. Also, the use of an internal battery minimizes wiring in those applications where the present invention is an add-on to an existing flashlight.
However expressed, implementation of the FBLI provides the user with a flashlight that displays a reasonable prediction of the time remaining on the batteries in the unit. That prediction is based upon a comparison between actual usage (including compensation for duty cycle) and known/estimated runtime of a given combination of cells and load, with an always-on display of the result, in minutes.
The present invention is equally applicable to other battery-powered devices the users of which would benefit from a display that shows minutes remaining or percent remaining of battery life. Digits displayed can have meanings other than countdown minutes, including countdown or countup watt-minutes, percent, mAh, photons, etc.
The high performance tactical flashlight ordinarily consists of a tubular housing containing one, two, or three lithium-ion cells (typically type CR123) in series, an endcap with integrated switch, and an emitting end with a xenon or high-power LED (Luxeon) light source, an optional regulator, a reflector, lens, and housing. A few examples use a pushbutton switch integrated with the flashlight barrel, and the present invention is easily adapted to that configuration as well, but for simplicity the remainder of this text addresses the most common configuration of such flashlights in which the control is provided in the endcap.
In operation, depressing or twisting the endcap switch completes the circuit, and current flow through the emitter generates light. That current flow depletes the battery at a rate that is predictable for a given set of components and cells.
The present invention consists of two circuits, each grounded, plus one or two control buttons, plus a display showing runtime in minutes. The control buttons are embedded, such that they can be reached only by means of a ball point pen or other implement, and are not readily activated in normal usage. The display is that of a 3-digit liquid crystal display (LCD), behind a durable transparent plastic cover.
Circuit ONE is connected across the full battery of one or more cells, and therefore is "live" whenever the cells are in place. There is no voltage across the circuit when the flashlight is opened and the cell(s) are removed, and voltage appears when the cell(s) is/are replaced and the flashlight closed. That circuit is a very low power, high-impedance circuit that is used as a sensor by which the logic within the present invention resets its countdown timer to a preset value. It is also used to power the countdown timer and liquid crystal display (active and visible at all times), however the timer is "active" and counting only when the second circuit is live.
Circuit TWO is connected to ground and also to the battery end of the emitter (bulb or LED or regulator), such that when the flashlight switch is ON, that circuit becomes "live". The present invention uses that circuit to sense the voltage applied to the emitter of the flashlight, and starts the countdown timer from its previous saved value, transmitting the current value to the driver of the liquid crystal display.
The countdown timer is of the same complexity as that provided in digital wrist watches costing in their entirety, at retail, as little as the equivalent of ten minutes of a union journeyman carpenter's wage. Such a countdown timer is an inexpensive, well-understood, and technically nonchallenging component of the present invention. Many such countdown timer implementations have a pause function, similar to that required by the present invention when the flashlight is OFF, so no new technology is required to achieve that objective.
Either one or two pushbutton (sealed, weatherproof, embedded below the surface of the flashlight housing) switches can be provided to modify the starting runtime and (potentially) other factors. If one switch is used, it can increment the initial runtime value (preset at the factory for nominal battery/cells/load). Obviously, experience may dictate that the correct setting is lower than the factory preset value, in which case the switch may be used to increment past zero to the correct value. Alternatively, a second switch can be added to decrement the displayed value. Alternatively, a quick push-release of a single button can shift the function from UP to DOWN.
It is well understood that the runtime of a given combination of emitter/load and battery/cells will vary with duty cycle. It is a technically trivial exercise to include logic within the present invention sufficiently complex as to accommodate and adjust for that difference, by weighting various ON periods and decrementing runtime accordingly.
It is also possible that the adjustment for runtime made on the previous battery will be retained in nonvolatile memory, so each subsequent adjustment is a refinement.
Therefore, when a flashlight equipped with the present invention is opened for a battery change, circuit ONE is depowered regardless of switch position. When batteries are replaced and the flashlight reassembled, the present invention's logic resets the countdown timer to the preset nominal value or (if nonvolatile memory is provided in the implementation) the retained previous value, which can then be adjusted if required by pushing the appropriate button.
Then, when the flashlight is turned ON, the countdown timer counts down. It stops when the flashlight is turned OFF, but continues to display the remaining runtime value. Therefore, whenever the flashlight is picked up, a glance is sufficient to tell the user the number of minutes remaining on the present cells or charge.
One derivative of the present invention permits detection and adjustment of runtime based upon whether the flashlight is kept ON for an extended period, or is ON and OFF for various duty cycles.
There is also the possibility of such additional features as fiber-optic or other illumination of the runtime display, or inclusion of a dim (for tactical reasons) LED warning when runtime approaches some preset limit.
The present invention can be incorporated in a newly-manufactured flashlight, or can be built as an accessory or replacement component of existing flashlights. When built as an accessory, additional wiring or circuitry may be required to avoid loss of functionality. For example, if the accessory is at the switch end of the flashlight, some means must be provided for sensing voltage at the base of the emitter. To avoid such complexity, some derivatives may include independent power supplies, such as a watch battery.
Other functions and derivatives of these functions are also possible, and if a flashlight battery life indicator is based upon (1) the relatively linear runtime of modern batteries as opposed to voltage measurement under load, and (2) countdown of remaining runtime when the flashlight is ON, such battery life indicators are considered within the scope of the present invention.
Preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The preferred embodiment of the present invention, the Flashlight Battery Life Indicator (FBLI), is also the simplest expression thereof, in which it is deployed as a runtime display in a newly manufactured flashlight intended for emergency services or military personnel, etc. Such flashlights are often utilized by other emergency services personnel, and are even purchased by consumers. Such a flashlight is typically powered by two 3V CR123 lithium-ion batteries overdriving a 4.8V xenon bulb, all in a cylindrical package measuring about five inches in length and about 1.125″ in diameter. These "miniature tactical flashlights" often generate about 100 lumens output (sufficient to temporarily blind a human).
The preferred embodiment flashlight is equipped with a push-ON momentary switch at its base, the collar of which may sometimes be rotatable for permanent ON/OFF.
The FBLI consists of a simple liquid crystal display, one IC, one crystal oscillator clock circuit, and one or two simple pushbuttons, all with about the same complexity as ordinarily appears in an inexpensive plastic digital wrist watch, with no independent battery as the system is powered by the flashlight's battery. Drain, however, is about that of a wrist watch so the net effect upon battery life is negligible.
In the preferred embodiment, the power to the base of the light bulb appears at the FBLI as a "sense" signal to turn the countdown timer ON and OFF.
In the preferred embodiment, the flashlight's battery is also wired to the FBLI to power it whether the light is ON or OFF, thus providing memory from one ON event to another.
In the preferred embodiment, the FBLI assembly is fitted into a shallow milled cavity in a suitable component of the flashlight, and capped with a sealed plastic cover through which the display may be easily read. Adjacent embedded waterproof buttons are provided to permit access to the switches that control the circuit.
When batteries are in place, the user can use a ballpen or similar implement to activate the switches provided to make setting changes. There are many possible control scenarios, but in the preferred embodiment, pressing and holding one of them puts the FBLI into a settings mode, in which the other button can be cycled through user-determined values. At that point, the user can set or modify the projected runtime of the batteries selected for the flashlight. For example, the Surefire batteries in a specific model of Surefire flashlight produce a known runtime value, which can be preset at the factory, and then modified by the user when a different brand of batteries is selected.
In the preferred embodiment, when new batteries are installed and the flashlight is closed, the FBLI is powered and initialized, and the LCD will display the preset runtime value for that flashlight. The user can then modify the runtime remaining, based on published battery/bulb information or on experience. From that time on, the FBLI will display runtime remaining, depending upon the time the flashlight has been ON. Every time the flashlight power is switched ON the timer circuit counts down from its initial preset value, so at any given moment it displays runtime remaining. The displayed data is visible whether the flashlight is ON or OFF, so if the flashlight is picked up in an emergency situation, the user can determine battery condition at a glance.
The preferred embodiment is also the simplest form of the present invention. The basic FBLI can be augmented with such features as accommodation of different power levels, an algorithm to adjust for duty cycle, communication with a charger (for rechargeable batteries), etc.
Various other objects, features and attendant advantages of the present invention will become evident as the reader follows that flow and considers obvious alternatives and derivatives of the flow shown, all of which are the intention of the inventor as embraced by the present invention.
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Lovely colours, embroidery is beautiful, luxury, glamour!
What is your background?
Coming from a family that has fashion and textiles in its blood and a background in these fields that goes back several generations, I developed and nurtured my passion for fashion from my family environment, by working with my mother's fashion label, her seamstresses and tailors and her boutique, from a young age. Growing up in this environment I gained priceless first-hand experience and knowledge of textiles and fashion, from production and dealing with clients, to sourcing suppliers and marketing new collections.
Which designers do you rate highly and why?
Mary Katrantzou - what she creates is beautiful-when you look at any of her clothing, you know its her.
Monique Lhuillier - she gives her designs a very personal touch, her backstage and models seem to love her and the way she works.
Carolina Herrera - her dresses are just outstanding!
Tell us about your design process from concept, production and to the shelves…
I am always thinking of new designs, when I put it on paper, I send it over to my sample maker after drafting for a season. After samples are tried and tested with tweaks here and there, I then present my designs to buyers, boutiques etc. When they order, it goes into production.
How do you think your brand has developed?
Over the past year, my brand has developed from a range of design sketches on paper to being ready to be stocked in fashion boutiques and department stores. I hope to stock my brand in leading luxury fashion department stores in the future.
What do you dislike most about your job?
Nothing at the moment- maybe ask me this question a few years down the line..
What are your main achievements and what do you aim to achieve now? Past present and future
My main achievements are getting in touch with buyers to stock my brand at their stores.
What advice would you have for anyone starting out in (your field)?
Do a lot of research and make a 5 year business plan before starting out! Always be positive and never give up!
Why do you think British design stands out on the global stage?
British design is classic, niche and has its luxury feel to it and its heritage.
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Emily Oberman: all good design has a level of wit
Pentagram partner Emily Oberman explains why all good design needs "a level of wit" in this film from Cape Town creative conference Design Indaba.
Pentagram partner Emily Oberman explains why all good design needs "a level of wit" in this film from Cape Town creative conference Design Indaba.
Oberman joined Pentagram in 2012 after running design studio Number 17, which she co-founded with Bonnie Siegler in 1993. She recently worked on a Mad Men bench installed in New York to mark the show's final season, a new identity and book to celebrate the 40th anniversary Saturday Night Live and a brand identity and parody ads for fictional drug Ablixa, which was featured in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller, Side Effects.
In an interview with Design Indaba (Oberman was a speaker at this year's conference, delivering a talk on things she has learned in her career so far), she explains the importance of a subtle use of humour in branding.
"I don't think all good design is hilarious, but i think a wit or a wink or something in everything … it helps you make an emotional connection with your audience," she says.
Oberman also talks about her work creating titles for Saturday Night Live, and why she enjoys taking on projects where she can learn something new – such as creating the identity, app and website for On Being, a radio show and podcast about religion and faith hosted by Krista Tippett.
Design Indaba takes place in February each year – for details, see designindaba.com. To read our daily reports from this year's conference, click here, here and here.


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Ijon Tichy is the only human who knows for sure whether the self-programming robots on the moon are plotting a terrestrial invasion. But a highly focused ray severs his corpus collosum. Now his left brain can't remember the secret and his uncooperative right brain won't tell. Tichy struggles for control of the lost memory and of his own two warring sides. Translated by Elinor Ford with Michael Kandel. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Lem's latest futuristic satire sends his redoubtable protagonist Ijon Tichy-hero of The Futurological Congress, among other works-to the moon, which has been given over to intelligent, self-evolving war machines in a kind of super-detente. Weapons are banned on Earth, while each nation's robot army runs an arms race on the moon. When the governments of Earth become concerned that the machines are planning an invasion of the mother world, the Lunar Agency dispatches Tichy and several remote-controlled robots to investigate. What Tichy finds on the moon provides Lem with a first-class opportunity to skewer military thinking and arms-race politics (it's to the author's credit that his deft takeoff of the Cold War in no way seems dated). Even stranger, however, is what happens to Tichy himself-a bizarre encounter with an unusual weapon results in a unique twist on the theme of split personalities. Humor and a breathless pace create a delightful and thought-provoking read. (Sept.)


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HCIdea® enables you to reduce fraud, waste and abuse by managing prescriber information more efficiently and gaining greater insight into the identity and integrity of each prescriber. You can better assess risk associated with prescriber identities and make more informed decisions with HCIdea integrated into your claims database system.
Billions of dollars a year are lost to healthcare fraud and abuse, including prescriptions written by unauthorized providers. The expertise needed to perform proper investigation and recovery efforts is substantial. The costs incurred are significant, and there is no guarantee any recovery amounts will actually materialize.
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Are Italian trains easy to use?
Jack Gould and his wife want to visit Venice and Verona, and possibly Vicenza and Milan
Are Italian trains easy to use? My wife and I are hoping to visit Venice and Verona, and possibly Vicenza and Milan too, but we prefer not to drive. Jack Gould, Ipswich
Sunday Times travel expert Richard Green responds: Rail travel is a lot of fun. The trains are generally smart, run on time, and people are very ready to chat.
Train travel is also much cheaper in Italy than it is in the UK and it isn't necessary to buy tickets months in advance to find a bargain.
In Italy the fares are set according to the distance you are looking to travel and the speed of the train – a high-speed intercity service costs more than a slow train stopping at all stations.


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With this latest enhancement, we're one step closer to being able to offer a truly turnkey solution.
Columbus, Ohio (PRWEB) October 09, 2013
In response to positive feedback heard at the recent IRMMW-THz conference, Lake Shore Cryotronics announced today that it is moving forward with implementing software features that will further enhance the usability of its prototype terahertz (THz) materials characterization platform.
The features, demonstrated during the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) in Mainz, Germany, incorporate THz acquisition and software control of the cryogenic and magnetic platform.
"Going into this project, one of our objectives was to develop software that was easy to use. We knew this would be key to how well the system is adopted by the materials development community – particularly everyday researchers who do not consider themselves terahertz experts," said Scott Yano, Lake Shore Product Marketing Manager. "With this latest enhancement, we're one step closer to accomplishing that goal and being able to offer a truly turnkey solution."
"The software enables users to see raw scans as they are being acquired by the system. This way, they're provided real-time visualization of the scans as well as averaged data," Yano explained. The software processes raw scans into the normalized THz transmission spectra, from which electronic material properties can be derived.
Lake Shore is currently testing the functionality enabling researchers to automate measurements at variable cryogenic temperatures and magnetic fields. The system will be capable of stepping through temperature points automatically without user intervention.
At the IRMMW-THz conference, Lake Shore saw interest from scientists specifically interested in using the THz system for research into novel semiconductors, organic materials, and other electronic and magnetic materials with resonances in the THz regime. The prototype Lake Shore system provides for high-frequency measurements to above 1 THz, to temperatures as low as 5 K, and magnetic fields to 9 T.
By having a fully integrated hardware/software platform for THz materials characterization, researchers will no longer have to manually assemble a system in their lab and then build their own software to manage its operation. The Lake Shore system bundles the management software with continuous-wave THz spectroscopy and photomixers specifically developed for cryogenic operation.
Lake Shore intends to formally introduce the system for sale in early 2014. Several key research facilities in the U.S. are already using alpha units of the system to gain valuable insight into molecular solids, thin films and other semiconductor devices.
For more information, visit http://www.lakeshore.com.
About Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc.
Supporting advanced research since 1968, Lake Shore (http://www.lakeshore.com) is a leading innovator in measurement and control solutions for materials characterization under extreme temperature and magnetic field conditions. High-performance product solutions from Lake Shore include cryogenic temperature sensors and instrumentation, magnetic test and measurement instruments, probe stations, and precision materials characterizations systems that explore the electronic and magnetic properties of next-generation materials. Lake Shore serves an international base of research customers at leading university, government, aerospace, and commercial research institutions and is supported by a global network of sales and service facilities.


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Exclusive interview: An audience with Arnie (3/3)April 29, 2013 Golf Equipment
Arnold Palmer is one of the most decorated and charismatic men to grace the game. Over breakfast at Bay Hill, we listened to his views on golf's past, present and future. Part three of three.
- This piece continues from part two. To read part one, click here.
"Certainly I like Brandt Snedeker – he's good. He's got a little different approach to the game. He's quick and I think that's particularly key today."
Asked how different life on tour is now, Palmer cites a distance between the players that did not exist in his day.
"I think we were closer because we travelled together. Today everybody goes by airplane so they're separated and in those days we travelled in caravans so that made it different.
"Jack and I never travelled together. He came along a little later too, he's 10 or 11 years my junior.
"I used to take him on my airplane to tournaments occasionally, but that was a little different and that was getting closer to the modern era. Now, everybody flies.
"But when Dow and I started together we drove and travelled a lot together and we stayed in the same hotels and we rented houses together."
Popular wherever he goes, Palmer has a special place in the hearts of British golf fans. He has not completely ruled out one more trip to the Home of Golf.
"I have a lot to do with St Andrews still, I love the course and the town.
"They want me to come over this year for the 600th anniversary but it's a long way for me to go – I'm 83 now – so we'll see."
It is now 53 years since Palmer made his first trip to the Open Championship. It was the centenary Open and the venue was, fittingly, the Old Course. The then 30-year-old had to adjust quickly to the challenges it presents.
"Well, I suppose the proper language would be 'surprised' at St Andrews," he says. "I had read a lot about it and knew quite a bit about it but much to my relief – and I say relief because it was scary to play St Andrews the first time and not know where any of the hazards were and the bunkers – I had Tip Anderson as my caddy and he was wonderful.
"He was the greatest.
"He knew everything and he could direct me. Without him I would have been lost.
"It would have taken me a lot longer to pick up where I did and play as well as I did.
"It took me a while before St Andrews became so special to me.
"It's knowing where to hit the ball and using the memory that you have to direct you, to tell you where and to get into the 'feel' for the golf course.
"You can almost hit it away from where you think you should hit it to be in that safe position. And that was something I had never experienced."
Did it come naturally?
"Yes, I picked it up. My only experience up until then was Portmarnock over in Dublin for the World Cup.
That was the first links course of that nature that I had ever played.
"I played with Sam Snead and we won the team but Flory van Donck – do you remember him ? – he won the tournament individually – he beat both of us, but we won the team. And that was my first experience.
"I played well there and I loved it. I loved the Irish and I loved the setting and the atmosphere and the environment and everything. That was fun."
Palmer's visit to that Open, and his commitment to returning each subsequent year, was largely responsible for re-instating the Open as a Major championship.
Where he led, the other Americans followed.
My father was a professional and from the time I can remember playing and competing he always said, 'you know, Arnie, you've got to play internationally to be great'. So what made him take the time and the effort to travel to a strange land to play a style of golf he was unfamiliar with, against weaker fields than there were at home and for less prize-money, especially once the travel expenses had been factored in?
"My father was a professional and from the time I can remember playing and competing he always said, 'you know, Arnie, you've got to play internationally to be great'.
"And of course that sunk in. He was a very influential guy in his conversations and his feelings about the game and something that made it even more important to me was that the president of Latrobe CC, Harry Saxman, said: 'Well if Arn's going, you and I will go too'.
So he brought my father and they went to the Open at St Andrews with me, which was great.
"It was an excitement that set up my life for playing international golf.
"It's very special to me that my father came to St Andrews with me. That's important."
Palmer would go on to win the Open twice, in consecutive years. First in 1961 at Birkdale then the following year at Troon, when he ran away from the field.
"The fairways at Troon are pretty humpbacked, they all go off, and I was hitting it good enough to keep it right in the middle and that gave me the opportunity to get a pretty good lead and keep it.
"It was somewhat a separate event. It was nice to go down the 18th and enjoy it and I love Troon."
One of the by-products of Palmer popularising the Open was to encourage a generation of European players, a group which 20 years later would wrestle away America's dominance of the Ryder Cup.
He not only doesn't mind the effect he had in making Europe stronger (although, typically, he plays down his part), he cherishes the resurgence of America's biennial opponents.
"When I went to Europe in '60 one of my thoughts was to incite the Europeans to become more competitive and come here and play and get our guys over there and make it a more international kind of go-round. I didn't realise I was going to be so successful.
"Because you see what has happened. And it was inevitable, whether I had done it or who had done it, it was going to happen, but that edged it on a little bit and made it happen sooner."
So is Tom Watson the man to regain the Cup for America?
"Tom Watson will be great. He's a great guy and he's a good thinker so he will be the kind of captain you want.
"I'm not saying that he'll absolutely win but I'd give him a pretty good chance.
"The match at Medinah was good for golf. It was a great match and I won't say that I was overly surprised at what happened."
As well as his two Opens, there were four Green Jackets. Much like Nick Faldo and Seve Ballesteros, it seemed these two Majors particularly suited his style, although that is not quite the way Palmer sees it.
"I don't think so. I think any Major requires the coolness on top of playing under the pressure of that situation.
"If you look at the records you'll see I could have won five (US) Opens very easily and that is something that disturbs me a little, the fact that I didn't win them.
"But my approach was that I didn't care what tournament it was I just wanted to win. I played a Cleveland Open just like it was a US Open.
"I suppose unfortunately, as I got older and played even better golf than I did when I was young, that if I'd had a little different psychological approach then I would have won more Opens than I did and I have said at times that had I not won the Open at Cherry Hills I might well have won two or three Opens but the satisfaction, psychologically, of having won the Open did something to my mental approach and the aspect of playing the Open. And I'll stick with it!
"When you think of Oakmont, which was the one that was the most devastating to me to not win, in 62, I made a couple of major errors in that.
"It could well be a psychological effect. At nine I took four shots from the edge of the green and I three-putted 17 times and Nicklaus didn't three-putt at all."
The memories seem so vivid. I wonder if he ever re-visits them in his dreams, all those Major wins or perhaps even the near misses?
"No, I come up with new ones. I was playing a tournament the other day in my dream. I got to the 9th and I was doing pretty well and ready to go on the back nine in good shape in my dream and then I just walked off the course – in my dream!"
It is high time for him to get back to Kathleen on their anniversary. I thank him and apologise for our breakfast over-running. Unbelievably gracious, he either doesn't mind or gives no indication of doing so.
"Thank you Mr Palmer," I say. "That was a privilege."
And I mean it.
- Click the link to read part two. To read part one, click here. To see an in-depth photo gallery, click here.


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Shower \ Soap \ Wash \ Hygiene \ Drain \ Bathroom \ Bathtub \ Battery \ Clean \ Bath
3D Model - Bathtub 5690838 by LiveVertex @ 3DOcean
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3D File Formats Included: .fbx (multi format), .max (3ds Max), .obj (multi format); Animated: No; Created In: 3ds max 2011; Geometry: Polygons; Low-poly: No; Materials: Yes; Poly Count: 47939; Rigged: No; Textured: Yes; UV Layout: Yes.
Highly detailed bathtub
Created in 3D Studio Max 2011 natively.
- Ready for close up renders
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- Studio setup and accessories included, ready for render
- Intuitive naming structure and objects grouped accordingly
- TurboSmooth set to level 2 (Check wireframes for base geometry)
- Materials and lights setup for Mental Ray
Toilet; Bathroom basin; Beko washing machine.
Keywords: bath, bathroom, bathtub, battery, clean, drain, hygiene, shower, soap, tub, wash.
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Genesis Gaming Signs Deal With INTRALOT as a content provider
Las Vegas, NV (September 29th, 2016) Leading supplier of both desktop and mobile video slot content, Genesis Gaming is excited to reveal they have expanded their portfolio to include Keno games. Genesis has entered into a content agreement with Intralot and will be providing custom Keno games as part of a new deal signed with Intralot.
Intralot is a leading provider of gaming solutions across the globe. The custom titles provided by Genesis Gaming will be initially launched as part of their VLT games in the United States.
We are very excited to be working with Intralot and providing them with content. We will be leveraging our years of slot content experience in creating more fun, interactive and feature rich Keno Games. said James Watson, Director of European Sales at Genesis Gaming.
About INTRALOT
INTRALOT, a public listed company established in 1992, is a leading gaming solution supplier and operator active in 57 regulated jurisdictions around the globe. With 1.91 billion turnover and a global workforce of approximately 5,100 employees in 2015, INTRALOT is an innovation-driven corporation focusing its product development on the customer experience. The company is uniquely positioned to offer to lottery and gaming organizations across geographies market-tested solutions and retail operational expertise. Through the use of a dynamic and omnichannel approach, INTRALOT offers an integrated portfolio of best-in-class gaming systems and product solutions & services addressing all gaming verticals (Lottery, Betting, Interactive, VLT). Players can enjoy a seamless and personalized experience through exciting games and premium content across multiple delivery channels, both retail and interactive. INTRALOT has been awarded the prestigious WLA Responsible Gaming Framework Certification by the World Lottery Association (WLA) for its global lottery operations.
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