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He did a research and wrote a book on it. Not sure how good that video is.
The Omega Project. He was one of the first researchers to begin linking the altered states into one semblance of manifestation. Or, he was doing so with the research he decided on.
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Ring, author of Life at Death (Quill: Morrow, 1982), compares the experiences of UFO abductees to the out-of-body journeys of those near death. Initially, his title seems misleading. He mixes a few archetypes and fairy tales with some philosophy and religion, the result of which is a theory regarding the "encounter-prone personality." This type of person represents the spiritual evolution of humankind, people who are tapped into the "Mind at Large"--i.e., a creative, helpful force that will assist us in saving ourselves and our planet from destruction. This book differs from other UFO material in that the question of whether the encounters are real or not is not at issue. The symbolism is what matters, e.g. abductees usually report receiving a physical examination from the aliens. Ring sees this as a warning that we need to examine and to heal ourselves. Loaded with case histories of near-death experiences and UFO encounters, questionnaires, and impressive notes and bibliography, this will appeal to general readers.
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I prefer the correlation between birth traumas and mode of abduction: statistically significant.
It underlies the unconcious tides which shape our waking realities.
Dionysian Fullaflattus
Not just subconscious, but conscious tides as well, though in truth conscious tides said in this exchange is far from 'normal' waking consciousness.
The onion layers of consciousness and perception that leads gradiently through and into the subconscious...shapes, colors, sounds,
, resonating echoes through life to appear sometimes when unexpected.
Reminds me of the story you tell, Dion, of writing about your youth to your future self.
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This is a casual restaurant, popular with locals, best for breakfast, don't miss the "pan dulce" (sweet bread) a Mexican tradition, here is very very good, has its own bakery, you don't have to go to México city or other place to taste it at is best, ask for "chocolate caliente" or "café con leche", I tried the quesadillas on... More
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Two Boys is an opera in two acts by American composer Nico Muhly, with an English-language libretto by American playwright Craig Lucas. The opera's story is based on real events in Manchester, England, in 2001 as described in a 2005 Vanity Fair article titled "You Want Me 2 Kill Him?"[1] The Guardian, among other news publications, found that the story has depth and intricacy upon which Muhly's opera only touches.[citation needed]
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Rebecca | soprano | Mary Bevan |
Jake (avatar) | baritone | Jonathan McGovern |
Jake (real) | boy soprano | Joseph Beesley |
Fiona | mezzo-soprano | Heather Shipp |
Anne's mother | mezzo-soprano | Valerie Reid |
Liam (Detective Constable) | tenor | Philip Daggett |
Peter | bass-baritone | Robert Gleadow |
Cynthia, Jake's mother | soprano | Anne-Clare Monk |
Brian's mother | mezzo-soprano | Rebecca Stockland |
Brian's father | baritone | Paul Napier-Burrows |
Doctor | bass | Michael Burke |
Celebrant | tenor | Geraint Hylton |
American Congressman | tenor | Anton Rich |
American Congressional Page | tenor | Peter Kirk |
American Suburban Girl | soprano | Eleanor Burke |
American Suburbam moms | sopranos | Clare Mitcher, Claire Pendleton |
Two Boys opened to mixed reviews from the British press. William Hartstone in The Guardian called it "thoroughly modern opera, both disturbing and challenging".[7] Edward Seckerson writing in The Independent praised the composition, libretto and staging, calling it "an auspicious operatic debut."[8]
David Gillard writing in the Daily Mail, said, "A compelling opera for our time inspired by real-life internet crime," while conceding that the overall evening was "static".[9] George Hall, writing in The Stage, praised the libretto, but called Muhly's music "a commonplace and ultimately thin soundtrack accompaniment".[10] Rupert Christiansen, writing in The Daily Telegraph, described it as "a bit of a bore – dreary and earnest rather than moving and gripping, and smartly derivative rather than distinctively individual". He continued, "It sounds more intriguing than it is, because Muhly signally fails to build the narrative into a sound melodramatic structure. Although the opera isn't long, it seems so, plodding along without substantial contrast of pace or mood, and never reaching a satisfactory climax."[11]
In the New York Times, Zachary Woolfe wrote: "Serious and radiant, 'Two Boys' is a landmark in the career of an important artist. Confidently staking his claim to the operatic tradition, Mr. Muhly has added to it a work of dark beauty."[12] The Bloomberg review began by quoting Muhly's PR tagline as "the hottest composer on the planet", concluding "Whichever planet that is, it must be a pretty tepid one." The review also faulted the libretto which "moves with such exasperating slowness, that if the audience hasn't worked things out by Act II, then they're probably asleep or sensibly diverting their mental energy elsewhere."[13] The opera elicited unkind comparisons to police procedurals on TV. The Independent dismissed it as "Prime Suspect with a soundtrack of semi-skimmed Glass."[14] In The Guardian, which has frequently commissioned guest columns from Muhly, Andrew Clements dismissed the opera as "a bland mid-Atlantic compromise" with a musical idiom "pitched somewhere between recent Philip Glass and the John Adams of The Death of Klinghoffer."[15] Writing in The Londonist, Sam Smith concurred, "Muhly's music...is interesting but can feel underwhelming and derivative."[16] So So Gay panned the production as "an operatic misadventure" and "a dreary letdown", and agreeing that the music "is minimalist to the point of being unexciting".[17] In The Financial Times, Andrew Clark felt the opera was underwhelming and that "the fault lies in Muhly's generic minimalism. The orchestral accompaniment, rarely breaking out of a steady moderato, has the quality of a soundtrack. Vocal lines are singable but impersonal...'Accessible' hovers over every bar."[18]
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A regional war may well be approaching. The actions and statements of Iran and its Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian proxies over the past week or so indicate that this is what Israel's enemies are gunning for.In preparing for this growing threat, Israel's leaders need to consider more than just the military challenges it faces. They must consider the political actors at home and abroad that limit the IDF's ability to fight to victory and develop strategies for neutralizing those actors.The latest developments are menacing. Last Saturday, Iran's unelected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to open up a new round of hostilities on February 11. Then Wednesday, Iran launched a new missile into space. Israeli and US missile experts claim that the missile launch signals that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles and building the capacity to launch nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles.Following the missile launch, Syria's president and foreign minister issued incendiary comments threatening Israel with war. Notably, they did so the same day the US informed Syria of its intention to send an ambassador to Damascus for the first time in five years.Hamas, for its part, sent barrels of explosives drifting to the Israeli coastline – exposing new ways it can kill us. And Fatah, for its part, decided to kiss Hamas's ring this week. Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath's obsequious visit to Gaza Wednesday was a graphic demonstration of Hamas's preeminence in Palestinian society.Then there is Hizbullah. In a speech on January 15, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah pledged that the next war will "change the face of the region."This may not be an exaggeration. It isn't simply that under the blind eye of UN peacekeepers Hizbullah has replenished and expanded its arsenal to include long-range missiles. It isn't simply that in the three and half years since the war Hizbullah has taken control over the Lebanese government. Hizbullah has also built up a formidable ground force. In the event of war, these forces may be deployed as an expeditionary force inside northern Israel.And if the precedent of former MK Azmi Bishara – who fled Israel after learning that he was about to be indicted for serving as a Hizbullah agent in the 2006 war – is any indication of Hizbullah's modus operandi, Israel may also face Israeli Arab fifth columnists assisting Hizbullah forces inside the country.Assuming for the moment that the IDF and the government are prepared to contend with these mounting military threats, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his colleagues must take the necessary steps to withstand and minimize the effectiveness of the far left's expected political warfare against Israel. As the past decade has made clear, the aim of that warfare is to delegitimize Israel's right to defend itself in order to make it impossible for Israel to pursue the war to military and political victory.As in the military arena, so in the political arena, Israel's foes have grown from nuisances into strategic threats over the past decade. The UN-sponsored Goldstone Report, which effectively denies Israel's right to defend itself and criminalizes its military efforts to secure its citizenry and its territory, is evidence of the gravity of the threat Israel faces as our leaders plan for the coming war.ON THIS latter plane, the past week has been an eventful and hopeful one. The latest developments offer guidance for how the government must proceed as the winds of war blow ever stronger. Late last week, the Zionist student movement Im Tirzu published a detailed report demonstrating that 16 anti-Zionist NGOs funded by the post-Zionist New Israel Fund worked hand in glove with the UN Human Rights Council and Richard Goldstone to bring about the establishment of the Goldstone committee and give credibility to its allegations that Israel committed war crimes during Operation Cast Lead. According to the Im Tirtzu report, 92 percent of Israeli allegations that Israel committed war crimes in its campaign against Hamas came from these 16 NIF-funded organizations.Im Tirtzu's report was prominently covered by Ma'ariv last weekend. 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Charged with investigating the police who quelled the rioting rather than the rioters whose violence forced the prolonged closure of major highways to Jewish traffic throughout the country, the Orr Commission had a devastating impact on the police's morale and organizational culture.Adalah successfully cowed the Barak government into agreeing to rules of inquiry for the commission that denied police officers even minimal rights of due process. They were not allowed to confront or question their accusers. In the aftermath of the commission's public hearings – which amounted to little more than show trials – the careers of several dedicated officers were destroyed. As a consequence, police commanders began curtailing their law enforcement activities in Arab villages. Everything from illegal building to livestock theft to incitement to war against Israel has gone uninvestigated and unpunished.Furthermore, the Adalah-instigated and orchestrated Orr Commission empowered the most radical voices in Israeli Arab society. Supported by Arab political leaders, Adalah published a manifesto calling for the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. Bishara's suspected espionage for Hizbullah, and the legal establishment's self-evident fear of prosecuting him for treason, are also the direct consequence of the Orr Commission.As for the IDF, NIF-funded organizations have played a key role in organizing the weekly riots at flashpoints like Ni'ilin and Bi'ilin and in the recent expansion of these riots to other places in Judea and Samaria like Neveh Tzuf. Supported by anti-Israel activists from Europe and the US, these riots have had a devastating impact on the IDF's morale and its ability to defend Israeli communities.The NIF-funded pro-Palestinian group B'Tselem provides the rioters with video cameras with which they regularly shoot distorted footage. Their canned films portray Israeli civilians seeking to defend themselves from the rioters as attackers. They portray IDF soldiers trying to keep order and protect Israeli civilians as violent bullies. B'Tselem gives these films to its supporters in the Israel media, which broadcast them as credible footage and demand that the IDF open investigations against its officers for carrying out lawful orders.On the defensive, the IDF is compelled to curtail its operations and Israeli civilians, now demonized, are viewed as legitimate targets for terror attacks. One recent film of the rioting outside Neveh Tzuf posted on YouTube shows border policemen simply fleeing the scene and leaving the residents of the community to fend for themselves.Im Tirtzu's offensive against the NIF sparked outraged protest among the NIF's supporters on the far left in Israel and in the US. Everyone from Ma'ariv's in-house anti-Zionist reporters Maya Bengal and Meirav David to J Street have piled on, attacking Im Tirtzu's financial backers and seeking to demonize the organization by referring to it as extremist, far right, racist, fascist, out-of-the-mainstream and all the other routine far-left terms used to demonize Zionists. What is most encouraging about the aftershocks of the Im Tirtzu report is that the Left's attempts to demonize it have so far failed. Indeed, the loudest voices calling for an investigation of NIF and its sponsored organizations have been MKs from Kadima.THE HARSH truth is that the main cause of Israel's poor performance in Cast Lead and the Second Lebanon War was the Olmert government's ideological dependence on the far left and its central contention that it is Israel's presence in contested areas rather than our enemies' commitment to Israel's destruction that causes wars. Owing to their allegiance to this falsehood, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni were unable to prosecute the wars to victory militarily, justify the limited steps they did take to defend Israel diplomatically, or discredit the rising chorus of Israeli NGOs arguing that Israel had no right to defend itself politically.Since Cast Lead, however, two important things have happened. First Kadima was replaced by the Likud. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rightly recognized the Goldstone Report as a strategic attack against Israel. If Israel has no right to defend itself; if its moves to do constitute war crimes, then Israel cannot fight, cannot win and will be destroyed. Rather than give credence to the report, Netanyahu has made discrediting it one his primary aims in office. And to counteract its force, among other things, for the first time since the start of the Oslo peace process with the PLO, Israel's government is asserting the Jewish people's right to Judea and Samaria.Beyond that, Kadima itself has changed its tune. Now in the opposition, Kadima no longer needs to defend its rejected plan to unilaterally withdraw from Judea and Samaria. Mahmoud Abbas's refusal of Olmert's offers to withdraw Israelis civilians and military personnel from nearly all of Judea and Samaria and to cede sovereignty in Jerusalem discredited the notion that it is possible to make peace with the Palestinians. Most importantly, the fact that Goldstone castigates Livni and Olmert as war criminals requires Kadima to fight all forces – including the far left it previously supported – that give credibility to Goldstone.These developments clear the way for the Netanyahu government to take steps to neutralize the potency of these groups. The government should move swiftly to order the police and the IDF to enforce the law against these groups and their allies. It must also provide the political support to police and military commanders in the field to empower them fulfill their orders without fear that they will be persecuted for doing their jobs.
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US 20050128062 A1 Abstract A portable electronic device, like a cellular telephone is capable of detecting collisions between vehicles and notifying the proper authorities. The device includes a microprocessor and memory, in addition to an accelerometer and global positioning systems receiver. The memory includes at least one filter for screening out false positives, which are false collision detections. In one embodiment, the device determines its velocity. It then checks to see if its velocity falls within a range associated with moving vehicles. If so, the device monitors the accelerometer. When acceleration values in excess of a predetermined threshold are detected, the device pauses and again checks its velocity. If the velocity has fallen from the range associated with moving vehicles to a range associated with a vehicle that has sustained a collision, the device notifies emergency personnel that a collision has occurred. Another filter includes an operability check of the keypad, coupled with a notification message that the authorities will be called if the keypad has not been actuated within a predetermined time. Another embodiment includes a detector capable of detecting a vehicular cradle, such that the notification only occurs when high acceleration values are detected in a vehicle.
Claims(19) 1. A portable, electronic device capable of detecting collisions between vehicles, the device comprising:
a. a controller subsystems; b. a radio-frequency transmit and receive subsystem; c. a global position system subsystem; and d. an accelerometer; wherein the controller subsystem comprises a microprocessor and a memory, the memory having firmware stored therein, wherein the firmware comprises at least one filter for preventing false positives. 2. The device of
a. a keypad and display subsystem comprising a keypad and a visual display; and b. a microphone and speaker subsystem. 3. The device of
a. monitoring the velocity of the device; b. recording a plurality of velocity values in the memory; c. monitoring the acceleration of the device via the accelerometer; d. determining when the velocity falls within a predetermined range; e. determining when the acceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold; and f. actuating the transmit subsystem when both the velocity falls within a predetermined range and the acceleration exceeds the predetermined threshold. 4. The device of
5. The device of
a. the velocity falls within a predetermined range; b. the acceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold; and c. the velocity of the device after the acceleration falls below the predetermined minimum threshold. 6. The device of
7. The device of
a. determining the operability of the keypad; b. notifying a user that a collision has been detected; and c. notifying the user that the transmit subsystem will be actuated if a key is not pressed. 8. The device of
9. A portable, electronic device capable of detecting collisions between vehicles, the device comprising:
a. a controller subsystem; b. a radio-frequency transmit and receive subsystems; c. a global position system subsystem; and d. an accelerometer; and e. a means for detecting a vehicular cradle. 10. The device of
11. The device of
12. The device of
a. monitoring the velocity of the device; b. recording a plurality of velocity values in the memory; c. monitoring the acceleration of the device via the accelerometer; d. determining when the velocity falls within a predetermined range; e. determining when the acceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold; and f. actuating the transmit subsystem when both the velocity falls within a predetermined range and the acceleration exceeds the predetermined threshold. 13. The device of
14. The device of
a. the velocity falls within a predetermined range; b. the acceleration exceeds a predetermined threshold; and c. the velocity of the device after the acceleration falls below the predetermined minimum threshold. 15. The device of
16. The device of
a. determining the operability of the keypad; b. notifying a user that a collision has been detected; and c. notifying the user that the transmit subsystem will be actuated if a key is not pressed. 17. The device of
18. The device of
19. A collision detecting system, comprising:
a. the device of b. a vehicular cradle, the cradle comprising a means for actuating the means for detecting a vehicular cradle. Description 1. Technical Field This invention relates generally to a method and apparatus for detecting collisions between vehicles, and more specifically to a method and apparatus for using a portable electronic device, like a cellular telephone, to detect collisions using acceleration data, and to notify a third party when such collisions occur. 2. Background Art Collisions between vehicles are bad experiences for everyone involved. Not only are they costly and time consuming, but serious collisions may even cause life-threatening injuries as well. The amount of time that lapses between impact and notification of authorities to the arrival of emergency personnel can mean the difference between life and death. Immediate notification of the accident is imperative in reducing the overall response time of emergency services. For minor �fenderbenders�, immediate response time is generally not a problem. To begin, such minor accidents generally do not involve life-threatening injuries. Additionally, as most people carry cellular telephones when they travel, a person involved in a minor accident may simply call �911� after the collision. For serious accidents, however, simply calling the authorities may not be possible. Seriously injured travelers often lose either consciousness or the ability to operate a phone in such accidents. Consequently, an unconscious or seriously injured driver or passenger risks sustaining permanent injuries or even death by not being able to use a phone. One prior art solution to this �automatic notification� problem is to couple a telematic device to a vehicle's safety systems. For example, cars equipped with the OnStar� system have alert systems that are tied to the deployment of airbags. The OnStar� system further included an embedded cellular phone. When a person is involved in an accident, and the airbags deploy, the OnStar� system places a cellular call and notifies an operator of the deployment. If the car is equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) device, the OnStar� system will notify the operator of the vehicle's location as well. The problem with this prior art solution is that many cars are sold without OnStar�. Such systems are not standard equipment, and are generally sold as an option for an additional fee. Additionally, older cars, built before OnStar�, do not include this equipment (and may not even include airbags). Further, passenger transportation, like busses and trains, generally do not include such notification equipment. There is thus a need for an improved collision notification system that is portable and that works independently, without the need of embedded vehicular subsystems. A preferred embodiment of the invention is now described in detail. Referring to the drawings, like numbers indicate like parts throughout the views. As used in the description herein and throughout the claims, the following terms take the meanings explicitly associated herein, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise: the meaning of �a,� �an,� and �the� includes plural reference, the meaning of �in� includes �in� and �on.� This invention provides a portable electronic device, like a cellular telephone for example, that is capable of detecting collisions by sensing the acceleration of the portable device. The device includes one or more of a plurality of filters that prevent false collision detections. For example, if the portable device were dropped by a user, the device would sense a dramatic acceleration upon impact with the ground. Filters are provided to prevent this dropped situation from summoning the authorities, while allowing the device to call the authorities when an actual collision occurs. Additionally, the invention optionally includes a sensing means that allows the portable device to tell whether it is present in a vehicle. As stated in the preceding paragraph, one aspect of the invention operates by sensing the acceleration, in three dimensions, of the portable device. U.S. Pat. No. 6,459,988 (B1) teaches a mobile device for signaling a collision based upon changes in acceleration. To calculate acceleration, the '988 patent employs the Global Positioning System (GPS). The mobile device of the '988 patent receives a constant stream of positional coordinates from the GPS, and then calculates acceleration based upon these geographic coordinates and an internal clock. When acceleration changes dramatically, the mobile device notifies the authorities that a collision has occurred. The calculation-based system of the '988 patent presents three problems: First, the processing power to calculate acceleration from a series of position coordinates is quite large. Calculating a derivative of velocity is bandwith-intensive. Consequently, one must have a dedicated device, with an expensive microprocessor, to perform these extensive calculations. For this reason, the system of the '988 patent is not suited to small, multitasking devices like cellular phones. Second, the system of the '988 patent relies on a stream of geographic coordinates from the satellite-based GPS system. The accuracy of these coordinates, as seen by civilian electronics, is limited. Further, small changes in position are not easily detected. Consequently, it is often quite difficult to determine whether an applied acceleration was due to a sudden stop (for example at a light that suddenly turns red), or was due to an actual collision. Third, GPS-based solutions only work when the antenna of the GPS device has a direct line of sight to the satellite. If the antenna of the device happens to be, for example, in a tunnel in an urban area, the satellite signal will be lost. The present invention solves both of these problems by providing a simple, accurate acceleration-based collision detection system that may be implemented on processors like those found in cellular telephones. The invention provides a portable device equipped with a three-dimensional accelerometer. When sudden changes in velocity occur (i.e., acceleration), a microprocessor in the portable device indicates that a collision-like event has occurred. The invention includes several filters that prevent false alarms, like sudden, deliberate, braking stops for example. When a collision event occurs, and the event is not annulled by a filter, the portable electronic device calls authorities and reports that a collision has occurred. Upon notifying the authorities, the device transmits information about the collision. For example, the portable device transmits collision location by way of a GPS sensor. The portable device may also include a prerecorded message that relays information about the device's owner, including medical information, to the proper authorities and emergency response team. Referring now to The phone 100 includes traditional cellular phone components, including interface systems represented here by a keypad and display 104, RF transmitter/receiver subsystems 103 and microphone/speaker subsystems 105. The controller subsystem 101 comprises a microprocessor and associated memory. The memory components may include both volatile and non-volatile memory. The memory may be integrated into the microprocessor, or may be a chipset that is discrete from the microprocessor. The non-volatile memory component includes the firmware that not only serves as the operating system for the phone 100, but also includes the filters, as recited below, that prevent false collisions from being detected. Two central components of this preferred embodiment of the phone are the accelerometer subsystem 102 and the GPS subsystem 106. The accelerometer subsystem 102 includes a small, lightweight accelerometer, as well as the accompanying signal conditioning and amplification circuitry. Any number of accelerometers may be used with the present invention. One example of such an accelerometer is the EGA series of miniature accelerometers manufactured by the Entran Corporation. Another is the SMOS7LV accelerometer ASIC manufactured by Motorola. These small, lightweight accelerometers are well suited to small portable electronic devices, and measure steady state, as well as dynamic, acceleration. The acceleration measurement is made by computing the square root of sum of the squares of the accelerations in the X, Y and Z directions. The GPS subsystem 106 includes a small GPS receiver for downloading geographical coordinates from the GPS system. Any of a number of GPS receivers may be used in accordance with the invention. One such GPS receiver is the UV-40 16-channel miniature GPS receiver manufactured by the Laipac Technology Corporation. The microprocessor in the controller subsystem 101 continually reads data from the GPS receiver in the GPS subsystem 106 to determine where the phone 100 is geographically. Additionally, the microprocessor may compute the velocity of the phone 100 by dividing changes in position by elapsed time. Note also that many modern GPS systems deliver not only positional information, but velocity information as well. If such a GPS receiver is used, i.e. one that delivers position and velocity, the need for calculating velocity with the microprocessor is eliminated. The microprocessor reads acceleration directly from the accelerometer in the accelerometer subsystem 102. The direct reading of acceleration eliminates the step of having to calculate the derivative of velocity to acquire acceleration values. Calculating such rates of change requires a robust processor, which is often not available in small, portable devices like phones. By employing a miniature accelerometer, the microprocessor may simply read the acceleration values directly from the accelerometer and store them in the memory in the controller subsystem 101. In the simplest form, the phone 100 operates as follows: When a sudden rapid motion, is detected by the accelerometer, thereby causing a spike in acceleration, the microprocessor of the controller subsystem notes that a collision type event has occurred. Stored in the memory of the controller subsystem 101 is emergency information, for example the phone number �911�, as well as electronic data and/or recorded messages that may be transmitted to the authorities in the event of a collision. These messages may include information like personal and medical information about the owner of the phone 100. In addition, the microprocessor of the controller subsystem 101 stores the magnitude, time and location of the collision (via the GPS subsystem 106). When the controller subsystem 101 detects a collision event, it causes the transmit/receive subsystem 103 to dial the emergency number stored in the memory of the controller subsystem 101. The controller subsystem 101 then transmits the textual or recorded messages in the appropriate sequence to notify the emergency personnel of the details of the collision and the party involved. This notification allows the emergency personnel to respond appropriately. An immediate concern that comes to mind is the following: What if I drop my phone? That causes a spike in the acceleration�will the device call the authorities every time I drop my phone? Referring now to In At step 203, the microprocessor continually monitors the output of the accelerometer, thereby monitoring the acceleration of the phone 100. At step 204, the microprocessor compares the output of the accelerometer with a predetermined threshold, which may be 5*9.8 m/s2, or 5 �Gs�, for example. So long as the acceleration remains below this predetermined threshold, the filter returns to step 203 via path 214. Note that a preferred range of �G� values for which the accelerometer should be able of detecting with the present invention is 25 to 400. The accelerometer is preferably capable of withstanding at least 3000 G without failure, to ensure that the accelerometer survives the automobile accident. Once the acceleration exceeds this predetermined threshold, however, the filter proceeds to step 205. At step 205, the microprocessor reads recent velocity values (as stored in the stack at step 202). At step 206, the microprocessor checks to see whether these velocities correspond to velocities associated with moving vehicles. For instance, a minimum value may be 5 m.p.h., which is the minimum impact rating of bumpers on American cars. A maximum value may be 125-150 m.p.h., the maximum speed of most domestic cars. A preferred range of velocities would be between 15 m.p.h., the speed of a human running quickly, and 150 m.p.h. When the velocity falls within this predetermined range, the filter proceeds to step 207 where the current velocity is read. During a collision, with the exceptions of hit and run incidents, the final velocity of the vehicle will be below a predetermined minimum threshold, and will probably be zero. As such, at step 208, the microprocessor checks to see if the present velocity is zero, or at least below the predetermined minimum, which will be no more than 5 m.p.h. If all of the above are true, specifically that an acceleration value above a predetermined threshold is detected, the recent velocities are within a predetermined range, and the present velocity is below the minimum threshold, the filter proceeds to step 209, wherein the microprocessor denotes a collision has occurred. At step 210, the emergency personnel or proper authorities are notified. At step 211, the messages, including present position, information about the collision and information about the phone's owner are actuated and transmitted to the authorities. The filter of The filter eliminates this false positive in a couple of ways. A first way to eliminate this false positive is to simply set the predetermined acceleration threshold to a value greater than those values associated with dropped phones. For example, simply tossing the phone onto a car seat causes a relatively low acceleration to be measured. By setting the threshold below the values associated with such �soft drops�, nuisance false positives may be eliminated. The second way that dropped phone false positives may be eliminated is by way of the velocity profile. If a person is standing, sitting or walking and drops the phone, the recent velocities in the stack will not fall within the range corresponding to that of a moving vehicle. As such, these false positives will be screened out by way of step 206. A second type of false positive occurs when a phone is thrown. Mischievous souls may attempt to �trick� the system by throwing their phone across the room or against a wall. However, the filter of Referring now to If the keyboard is operable, the microprocessor sounds a user alert at step 302. The alert may be an audible message like the following: �Warning! Warning! Collision detected. Authorities will be notified if a key is not pressed in the next five seconds . . . � Alternatively, a visual indicator may be actuated, for example a strobe light. At step 303, the microprocessor senses whether a key has been pressed. If it has not, the inference to be made is that the user is unable to activate the phone and is therefore probably injured. As such, the microprocessor notifies the authorities at steps 210 and 211 as recited with The filter of Referring now to However, when the phone strikes a rigid surface like concrete or tile, the phone will experience a short, high acceleration. Very shortly after the phone experiences this high acceleration, however, the phone will come to rest. On the other hand, when a phone is in a car that sustains an accident, large acceleration values are measured for a longer period of time. As such, step 700 checks to ensure that the acceleration value has remained above the predetermined threshold for a minimum time, for example 0.5 seconds. If so, the control unit proceeds to step 209, just as with the discussion of This filter is best explained by way of example. Imagine a phone that is loosely resting on the seat of an automobile. When a driver stops quickly, inertia causes the phone to slide off the seat. This sliding off the seat is analogous to a dropped phone. Turning briefly to Turning to Note that an alternate means of ensuring that the measured acceleration is commiserate with a collision and not a drop is by integrating the measured acceleration over a predetermined time. The integration would eliminate spikes based upon drops and sildes off of car seats, while yielding an average value that would be large when high-energy events occur, but low when drops occur. Referring now to In addition to these components, the phone 100 of This assembly thereby allows the accelerometer subsystem 102 to be actuated only when the phone 100 is placed in the vehicular cradle 402, thereby facilitating collision notifications only when acceleration is detected within the confines of the vehicle. Such an assembly prevents false positives caused by dropped or thrown phones. It will be clear to those of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of this disclosure that the embodiment of Additionally, while the reed switch 400 is shown here as coupling power 403 to the accelerometer subsystem 102, other configurations may be substituted as well. For example, the accelerometer subsystem may be powered continually, and the reed switch 400 may close to couple a logic signal to the microprocessor, thereby indicating that the phone 100 is coupled to the vehicular cradle 402. Further, rather than using a contactless switch to indicate that the phone 100 is coupled to the vehicular cradle, other techniques, including monitoring data communications with peripheral devices, monitoring charging of the battery, monitoring audio communications with vehicular car-kits and hands-free accessories, or wireless connections may be substituted. While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described, it is clear that the invention is not so limited. Numerous modifications, changes, variations, substitutions, and equivalents will occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the following claims. For example, while various filters have been described, it will be clear that these filters could be used in combination as well. Referenced by
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The spectral and luminescent characteristics of samples of Y2O3:Nd3+ ceramics obtained from different precursors under different preparation conditions (the concentration of an HfO2 compacting additive, the temperature and time of synthesis) are studied at 300 and 77 K. It is shown that the spectral positions of absorption and luminescence lines of ceramics correspond to those of a Y2O3:Nd3+ single crystal. At the same time, the absorption and luminescence spectra show an inhomogeneous broadening, characteristic of disordered crystals and glass. The energies of the 4 I 9/2 and 4 F 3/2 Stark states of the Nd3+ ion are calculated. The calculation results nearly coincide with the data from the literature for the Y2O3:Nd3+ single crystal and transparent ceramics. Samples containing the compacting additive show additional lines, whose intensities correlate with its concentration and the method of preparation of Y2O3:Nd3+ ultradispersed powders. It is assumed that these lines are related to the fact that either Nd3+ ions enter the composition of the HfO2 compacting additive or Hf4+ ions are present in the nearest environment of Nd3+ ions at the boundaries of granules enriched with HfO2.
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In Soweto, Remembering Mandela As A Figure Of Resistance
While the world remembers Nelson Mandela as the great reconciler, some ordinary South Africans are remembering him in their own way — as a powerful figure of resistance. And they're looking toward the country's future with both hope and uncertainty.
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And I'm Steve Inskeep. The remembrances for Nelson Mandela are being spread out over more than a week. People around the world want to pay their respects, including the dozens of dozens of world leaders who attend a service in a soccer stadium on Tuesday.
First, Mandela's fellow South Africans get their chance. They are considering his legacy in a nation transformed, but still troubled. NPR's Gregory Warner reports.
GREGORY WARNER, BYLINE: Sunday morning outside the African Gospel Church on Mooki Street in Soweto, Pastor Mandla Mpanza is sitting in his gold-colored Mercedes. An iPad is propped against the wheel. It's the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Nelson Mandela, and Mpanza is jotting down some ideas for his sermon.
PASTOR MANDLA MPANZA: He was an epitome of peace, forgiveness, love, selflessness. You know, he's been a great man of our lives.
WARNER: Same morning, another church just next door, Eric Zulu has just finished his Remembrance Day sermon. Zulu drives a 1998 Volkswagen, by the way. But his theme for today's remarks is almost identical.
PASTOR ERIC ZULU: We mustn't fight. We mustn't segregate. We must love one another.
WARNER: OK. I'm now going to cross to the other side of Mooki Street - not the side with all the churches - because here you can find another aspect of Mandela's character. Not just the man of reconciliation, but the man of resistance, the fighter.
WARNER: OK. So, we're here in the DOCC. That's the Donaldson Orlando Community Centre, where Nelson Mandela used to train as a boxer.
WARNER: Mandela once wrote that the appeal of boxing for him was not the violence, but the science of the sport. He wrote that he was, quote, "intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used the strategy both to attack and retreat."
A photo of a young Mandela in boxing gloves hangs on the brick wall of this gym. Thirty-two-year-old Maybee Mfecane finishes his bag routine, and stops to catch his breath.
MAYBEE MFECANE: Yeah. I used to - because I have a videotape of Mandela boxing, you see. So that's when I started to realize that Mandela was a boxer. It was a surprise to me. I didn't know that.
WARNER: Mfecane doesn't earn his living in the ring. He installs security cameras. And in Soweto, he says he's lucky to have a job. There's a growing resentment of foreigners blamed for taking jobs away from South Africans.
MFECANE: You know, the Pakistanis are here. The Nigerians are here. You know, I heard the rumor that there's going to be a riot after Mandela funeral.
WARNER: Something violent.
MFECANE: Yeah. Something violent.
WARNER: Most people don't fear xenophobic riots on Sunday, the day that Nelson Mandela will be buried in his ancestral home of Qunu. And things have been peaceful so far. But South African security will be out in large numbers - a reminder of the troubled history of Soweto, where people don't just associate Mandela with the great acts of peace that he did when he got out of prison. They also remember him for the political violence that they did in his name while he was still incarcerated. Those riots of the 1970s and '80s forced the world, and the government of South Africa, to pay attention.
Back on the church side of the street, Eric Zulu is worried that rising xenophobia and racial tension in South Africa is a symptom of a larger problem.
ZULU: If we can finish corruption and stick to what Mandela has laid for us. So I was reminding the young ones going to the elections next year: They must choice right people.
WARNER: Consumer confidence here is at a 20-year low. That means that at no time since Mandela became president have South Africans been more pessimistic about their economic future. Mandela once said that he was stubborn for peace. But Zulu worries that, two decades after apartheid, South Africans are losing patience with the pace of change.
ZULU: You'll find ourselves divided here. And yet, we've got such a good foundation from this great man. If we can miss it, it's our own Ndaba.
WARNER: Our own Ndaba, he says, our own story: the new story that South Africans will have to write without Nelson Mandela as their guide.
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