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PLAYING CAREER: Was selected by the Reds in the sixth round of the June 1984 free-agent draft...was signed by Bill Clark...played seven seasons (1984-90) in the organization as a catcher and third baseman...in 1986 was Tampa's Most Valuable Player...in 1985 and 1987 was the organization's eighth-best prospect as named by Baseball America.
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How The Weather Affects Wild Turkey Behaviorby Pursue The Outdoors on June 25th, 2005 in Turkey Hunting
How does Cloud Cover, the Temperature, Windchill, Percipitation, and the Wind speed affect the gobbling and behavior of wild turkeys?
The temperatures had been in the 40's and 50's for the last week, and the turkeys had been gobbling every morning. But, during the night a cold front had come through, bringing with it cloudy weather and wet snow. I'd gotten up early, left the hotel and drove to the farm where I guided turkey hunts. Once I got to the farm I drove to the bluff where I'd put a group of toms to bed the night before. I got out of the Suburban, placed my Haydel's turkey diaphragm in my mouth and blew a soft tree yelp; no answer. I tried again, louder; still no answer. Then I blew a loud lost yelp, and waited in silence. All I could hear was the sound of a flock of wood ducks as they flew by overhead; wheet, wheet, wheet. For the next two hours I drove up and down the bluffs, trying to get a bird to answer my calls. I tried a flydown cackle, a peacock call, even a coyote howl, but nothing worked. It looked like I would go home empty handed, and I did. It wasn't until ten years later that I understood why I couldn't get a tom to answer my calls.
I began researching turkeys in 1998, to try to find out how gobbling, breeding and daily activity are affected by the weather. During my spring and fall research I would leave the house 1 ½; hours before daylight, drive a half mile to where I research and hunt turkeys in southern Minnesota, and write down everything that happened until I could no longer see or hear the birds. I was there long before the first gobble, and I was able to watch the birds fly down, feed, call, strut, fight and breed. I usually spent three to four hours watching and listening, but there were times when I stayed until 1:00 or 2:00 in the afternoon. Then I'd return a couple of hours before sunset, watch the birds as they fed in the evening, and watch and listen to them fly up to roost for the night.
During the study I kept track of the time of sunrise and sunset, the sky conditions, the temperature, wind speed and direction, when gobbling began and ended in relation to sunrise, how many gobbles occurred every five minutes, which bird or group of birds the gobble came from, and where the birds were. Then I looked for correlation's between the gobbling, breeding and daily activity of the birds, and with the different weather factors. The results of my research have taught me a lot about turkey behavior.
Cloud Cover
One of the first things I noticed during the study was that the birds began gobbling and flew down later than normal when there were cloudy skies. Turkeys rely heavily on their sight to alert them of danger, and because they are daytime animals, they wake up when the sky begins to get light, and they wait to fly down until they can see well enough to detect danger. On cloudy days the toms would begin gobbling about 20 minutes later than they did on days when the sky was clear. Both the toms and hens flew down about 20 minutes later than normal on cloudy days. The dominant toms usually flew down and arrived at the strut later than the hens.
During the study most gobbling occurred when morning temperatures/wind-chills were between the upper 30's and lower 60's. Gobbling was severely reduced when the temperature/windchill dropped below 34 degrees, although this may have been because most of the cold days were, cloudy, windy, and rainy or snowy. Because turkeys inhabit a wide variety of habitats they are accustomed to different temperatures and wind-chills. Lovett Williams Jr. told me that turkeys in Florida gobble when morning temperatures are at 32 degrees. I shot my first Merriam's turkey in Nebraska shortly after it gobbled at 10:30 in the morning, it was 96 degrees.
On cold days the birds not only called less, they also began calling later than normal, usually after it had warmed in the mid-morning hours. They also flew down later than normal. Once they were on the ground the turkeys often sought areas that were open to the sun, usually out of the wind, where they were warmer because of solar radiation. During extremely cold weather they sought food sources out of the wind, and fed for several hours before they returned to the woods. I often saw them feeding on top of an open corn crib, at a silage pile not far from a cattle barn, and in a field where the farmer spread cattle manure every few days.
A research paper sent to me by Dr. James Earl Kennemer stated that when there had been precipitation during the last 12 hours, gobbling activity was reduced. As a result of my research I'll go a step farther than that. When it had rained within the last 12 hours gobbling activity was almost non-existent. If the birds did gobble it was later in the day than normal, usually after the skies cleared and the temperature warmed, and then there was less gobbling than normal. When it had rained during the night, but wasn't raining in the morning, I often saw the birds sitting in the open, especially if the sun was out, with their wings outspread, trying to dry out.
If it was still raining in the morning the birds often stayed in wooded areas later than normal, and chose areas with little ground cover to feed and rest in. I watched them walk through the woods on several occasions, and when the vegetation was wet they preferred to stay on game rails, old roads, and in areas with low vegetation. They didn't seem to want to get any wetter than they already were. When they did come out into the open to feed they used areas with low vegetation; new growth meadows, picked agricultural fields and pastures. But, not all birds are alike. One day when I had the state wildlife habitat manager with me we saw a hen standing in the middle of a county road in a pouring rain.
I also found that the birds were late on their daily travels when it had rained in the last twelve hours. If the skies were still cloudy in the morning the birds flew down later than normal, and arrived at traditional feeding/strutting areas later than normal, later than they did when the skies were cloudy but when it had not rained. It took me a while to understand why the bird were so much later on rainy days. I didn't understand why the birds were so late on rainy days until I watched them feeding one afternoon in a soybean field about a half mile from a group of white oaks where they often roosted. They birds usually fed in the field on the east side of the woods, moved around to the south side of the woods, and then flew into the trees about 50 yards from the field edge. The next morning they would fly down from the trees and land in the bean field, about fifty yards from the edge of the woods.
On this particular evening the turkeys had been feeding for about a half hour when it began to rain. The birds moved into the woods on the east side, and as it continued to rain they flew into a group of elms, where they roosted for the night. Because it was raining in the afternoon, before the birds roosted, they had stopped feeding earlier than normal, flew up into trees they didn't normally use, and roosted earlier than normal. Because they were farther away from their traditional feeding/strutting area the next morning, they couldn't fly down into the field. They had to walk farther than normal to get to the field, and they arrived at the feeding/strutting area later than normal the next morning. There were several times during the study when it rained in the afternoon, before the birds flew up to roost in a traditional roosting area. This usually resulted in the birds arriving late at open feeding/strutting areas the next morning, and they didn't follow their normal route.
My studies show that less gobbling occurs on windy days. When the wind is blowing it's hard for the toms to hear other birds calling; consequently they gobble less in response to each other. When it was not windy the birds often roosted on the upper two thirds of east or south facing slopes. I suspect this was because the prevailing winds were easterly, and because the birds might gain the benefit of late evening and early morning sunlight. When there were strong winds, or when it was both cold and windy, the birds roosted on the downwind sides of slopes or wooded areas, in heavy cover if the could. In areas where there are conifers, turkeys often roost in them during cold weather. On windy days, especially when it was cold or rainy, the birds usually fed in areas out of the wind; low-lying areas, wooded areas, and the down wind side of hills or woods. When they did feed in areas open to the wind they ate quickly and then moved into protected areas earlier than normal.
Barometric Pressure
According to noted waterfowl biologist Dr. Jim Cooper, birds have numerous air sacs in their bodies that allows them to detect slight changes in barometric pressure, and warns them of approaching storms. Some hunters believe birds, including turkeys, feed heavily up to two days before a storm because they know it is coming. This would allow them to wait out a storm and resume feeding after it passes.

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We are the areas leading web devolopment/design & IT Company. We have recently added the word 'group' to our company name. We have been established in the industry for 8 years and are looking for something fresh, new, with a little 2.0.
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Jen Doll is a former staff writer for The Wire. She is the author of Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest.
On July 20 we woke up to the news that a 24-year-old man had killed 12 people and wounded countless others in a shooting at the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. I think it's fair to say a lot of us were stunned. There have been mass shootings before in America, and globally, of course, but this one seemed to represent a bigger, more terrifying reality, not least because of the sick intersection of entertainment and murder. On that day, I wrote a piece about how futile it feels at times like these to sit in front of a computer and type out words in the face of horrific tragedy.
That July 20 was a summer Friday, like today, a day in which you'd hope news might be slow and silly, focused on questions of summer etiquette or pop culture or entertainment. Maybe some politics, maybe someone making some silly gaffe or another. But our Fridays, and our weeks, haven't really been like that this summer. While failing to garner the focused and for a week or so sustained news attention of what happened in Aurora, there have been shootings in Chicago. There have been shootings in Seattle. A shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. A shooting near Texas A&M, and one at D.C.'s Family Research Council. Around America, more and more shootings. These have been shootings that have led to injuries and numerous deaths—tragic, accidental, purposeful, stupid, and as people say, "meaningless," except to the people whose loved ones no longer exist. The problem, these many shootings and short few weeks later, is not that the rest of the world seems so meaningless, it's how numbed we've become to the horror stories in our midst.
In Times Square earlier this month, a guy was shot by NYPD officers after he brandished a knife and, they say, lunged at him. He was killed. Crowds were there to witness the occasion. Afterward, blood was reportedly on the street for several days. Today, another summer Friday, approximately one month after we learned the name James Holmes, there was another shooting "in broad daylight," in the middle of pedestrian-clogged Midtown Manhattan, near the Empire State Building. One man was killed, 9 people were reportedly injured, and the gunman was eventually killed by police as well. There was, briefly, a striking, shock-blood-red image on the home page of the New York Times of the victim [extremely graphic, link here]. It's since been replaced with a slightly less dramatic image, though still chilling, of a cop leaning over a body. The question is: What is happening to us?
People argue that we obviously need better gun control. It's hard to reasonably counter a statement like, "If fewer people had guns, there would be fewer people shooting them." What if there were no guns? We'd find other ways to kill each other, sure, but the scope and scale would be different. But this is not a post about gun control, it's about the hopelessness and powerlessness we feel in the wake of these instances. Guns are a means by which we make it easier to hurt each other. We should make it harder to hurt each other; we should also figure out why we do that stuff in the first place. That's really difficult though, maybe impossible, so instead we rage about idiot legislation or lack thereof; we rage about the "politicizing" of issues that, of course, are political issues to start with. Pro-gun people become even more firmly entrenched and defensive and sure of "rights"; anti-gun people can't understand why they don't see what appears pure fact. Could we all just please stop shooting each other? And then, one eventually tires of outrage, and that's an even more terrifying thing. When incidents like these fail to horrify, when we simply nod our heads and say, Oh, yeah, I heard the shootings in Chicago were pretty bad this summer, and then go about our daily lives, maybe that's the deepest failure we show as humans.
A sick twist about this, too, is that for a shooting to really capture us, to make us stop and think, it must be ever bigger, more cinematic. It must include, say, the Empire State Building, or the opening night of the year's biggest blockbuster, or violence at the hands of the NYPD. As soon as we find out, as with the story of today's shooting, that the dispute involved a disgruntled man who had been fired and who shot his former coworker, that is, as soon as the mayhem becomes mundane, we start to compartmentalize. This is not as harrowing, somehow, as a shooting in which a man walks into a movie theater and kills 12 random strangers. Similarly, when shootings are not "mass" but are related to, say, drug deals or other criminal acts; when they are committed by fringe characters upon one another; when they are between people who are related or married and in abusive situations; when there is some sort of motive we can place upon the event that cuts us out of the equation, we feel a little bit better, or safer, and we move on.
Even when we blame the NYPD for excessive force, or for being, as we see it, careless—Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the press that he thought some of today's wounded were hit by bullets from the officers' guns—somehow it lessens the impact of knowing that guns have killed yet another person or people in our society. We can parse out our concerns and that makes them easier to handle, less impactful. Then there are the seasonal blames. It's summer, right? People are more angry in the summer, more prone to violence, and things will cool down when our world cools down (climate change notwithstanding). We just need to get through another week, or month.... But, of course, we're just putting off the inevitable. Even if this were true, summer will come again, along with the related upswings in violence.
Now we're in an election year, just months away from November, and yet, the discussions have steered notably far from issues like gun control, instead focusing on "women's issues" and ridiculous statements made about things that aren't, actually, key voting issues in the first place. Maybe neither candidate has the courage or inclination to delve into the question of guns, or, more broadly, of societal violence with any depth, because it's bound to be a stew of ideologies and passionate, not always rational, argumentation. And because we just don't have easy answers why, or fixes for those problems. But not talking about it certainly does more harm than good. Maybe that's an argument for why we do need to look at the photos, however jarring.
The Onion ran a piece just yesterday titled, "Nation Celebrates Full Week Without Deadly Mass Shooting." Its subhed, following today's Empire State shooting news: "UPDATE: Never Mind."
Never mind is pretty much exactly the problem. We have to keep hoping and trying and also try not to forget, because along with not addressing the cause of the violence and what makes it so extreme and, yes, mortal, the worst thing is just going about our lives, not worrying, not even thinking about it, until the next tragedy occurs.
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Using wit, not anger, to deal with ones opposition
In an earlier post, I wrote approvingly about Greg Gutfeld's The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage, which focuses on a culture of outrage that requires that people — especially people on the Left — use manufactured outrage to yell down anything that doesn't agree with their limited view of "tolerance." When someone sent me an email with the following quotations, it occurred to me that many outraged shrieks we hear may result because Lefties are totally at a loss for words. In other words, their education has been so limited, and their intellectual materiel so sparse, they're incapable of the type of cutting wit that was once de rigueur amongst educated (or semi-educated) people:
These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.
· "He had delusions of adequacy." – Walter Kerr
· "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." – Winston Churchill
· "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow
· "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
· "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." – Moses Hadas
· "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." – Mark Twain
· "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." – Oscar Wilde
· "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." – George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
· "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second … If there is one." – Winston Churchill, in response.
· "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." – Stephen Bishop
· "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." – John Bright
· "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." – Irvin S. Cobb
· "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." – Samuel Johnson
· "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." – Paul Keating
· "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." – Charles, Count Talleyrand
· "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." – Forrest Tucker
· "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" – Mark Twain
· "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." – Mae West
· "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." – Oscar Wilde
· "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts… For support rather than illumination." – Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
· "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." – Billy Wilder
· "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." – Groucho Marx


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The unique part is the way the inverter is housed next to the motor in the Model S and X.
The traditional problem with motors in cars is that prior to the Prius, large electric motors were all hand built. An order of 25 was considered a very large order. No one had ever made thousands of large motors on a production line prior to that so it is not possible to go to an electric motor manufacturer and order 2,000.
Every manufacturer of cars with large motors (Tesla, Toyota, GM, Nissan, etc.) has had to develop their own manufacturing process.
All electric motors have a lot of torque but they also have high RPMs so you'd likely need a gear box to take care of that.
Because electric motors last a very long time (often longer than the items they were installed in originally) you should be able to find used ones for low cost.
"Electric Boat Market Takes Off in Switzerland"
I can't think of any. Energy stored by a flywheel energy isn't free, you have to use energy to spin the flywheel resulting in an energy conversion loss, and the weight of the flywheel mechanism is likely to overcome any potential savings. It might have worked in planes because once at altitude there is very little energy required to keep the plane flying but cars have to travel up hills. It also helps that ICE have a flywheel to start with, so making it a bit heavier doesn't add the same amount of weight that a whole new device would have.
The only place that this kind of thing can work is in mountainous regions where going down hill creates more energy than the battery can store, so additional storage methods are required if you are intending to save the energy.
In the early days of the 2004 Prius, six engineers that purchased a Prius added battery packs to store additional energy. Only one had improved mpg because he lived in a mountainous region. The other five either had poorer or unchanged results. These weren't plug-in batteries as we know them today, they were just batteries added to the main battery. Back then it was thought that more battery power should equal better mpg. Turned out not to be true.
Tesla motor is quite standard three-phase four-pole AC motor, there is nothing special about it. Basically a 100 year old invention with just minor fine-tuning. How they make PEM or power electronics is what is special to Tesla.
You can find about zillion different motor manufacturers for your boat that make just as good motors as Tesla. Trick is to combine just right amount of power, energy and size for batteries and have good and efficient inverter with right software to run the engine. While all parts are quite common and cheap combining them in "right" way without losses is not that easy task.
Note also that water + high voltages = not very healthy. You need to make your high voltage electric systems rather waterproof to make good boat motor. An emergency cutoff for batteries that physically separates the battery from rest of the system might be needed (in case there is a leak or grounding).
Salt water has a special affinity for electric gear. Do not skimp on water- and rust-proofing!!
Then triple it.
What kind of power you need? High voltage reduces need of high amps, but if you don't need high power then low voltage systems work just fine. Also DC motor could be safer and definitely less complex. It just wont be quite as efficient.
The thing that you mention "human-assisted" indicates that you are not aiming for high power system. If not then there are plenty of electric motors for boats already on sale. Like here: http://www.elcomotoryachts.com/products/elco-ep-motor.shtml
Just google to find plenty of those kind of pages. Electric is coming to boats too, it just is less hyped thing.
"The traditional problem with motors in cars is that prior to the Prius, large electric motors were all hand built. An order of 25 was considered a very large order. No one had ever made thousands of large motors on a production line prior to that so it is not possible to go to an electric motor manufacturer and order 2,000."
It is at least for very large AC motors. I drive trains for a living and my employer (Norwegian State Railways) are in the process of having 50 new trains delivered. Each trainset has 6 motors, thus the total is 300 induction motors which can each deliver 750kW continously.
The maker of the trains (Stadler in Switzerland) have many more customers, I'm sure they order these motors by the thousands each year.
But I suspect they are a bit heavy for passenger car use ;) they'd probably work fine in a trailer though, combined with a stack of 10 85kWh batteries ;)
I don't doubt that there are some special cases. The source for that comment was "The Prius That Shook the World" ISBN 4-526-04376-1
Con varias dudas sobre esta reciente tecnología y desarrollo de autos Tesla:
1.- Qué relación tiene Tesla Mtors con Toyota? Son una divisón, son empresas totalmente independientes o comparten avances tenologógicos?
2.- Qué tipo de transmisión manejan estos motores de Tesla, y si el PRIUS (Toyota) que tiene tecnología HSD se maneja totalmente eléctrico o sigue siendo en todos los lugares del mundo un auo híbrido?
Saludos a todos y gracias por sus comentarios...
I believe synchronous PM motors could be harder to source than the AC induction motors used by Tesla. Traditionally, induction motors has been used in heavy applications.
Permanent Magnet (PM) Motors often make a lot of sense for low powered motors (<5kW) since the magnets eliminate the need for electrical current to generate the magnetic field in the rotor. For higher powered motors, permanent magnets become increasingly more difficult to work with and are highly cost prohibitive. Plus, as motors get more powerful, the relative penalty of using current to generate the magnet field (electro-magnets) is much lower so they can still be very efficient. Hence, for high powered industrial motors and generators, 3-phase induction is currently king of the hill.
That said, I can see a time in the future when 3 or 4 phase Switched Reluctance (SR) Motors take the thrown. Mechanically, this is about a simple as you can get for a motor. The are no permanent magnets or coils in the rotor. It's a bit more difficult to design and control, but has the potential to be even more efficient than induction technology. If anyone is interested in motor operation or technology, I'd highly recommend reading about SR motors and generators.
I wonder is Tesla is considering moving to SR motors in the future. They are certainly up to the design challenge and it could help them lower costs in the long run...
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I wonder if the cost of the motor is enough of a factor to be worth the expense of meeting such a "challenge". The remaining "inefficiency" that can be whittled a way is very small.
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Right. Going from 95% efficiency to 97.5% efficiency is whopping 100% increase in efficiency ;-P
No, it's a 50% decrease in inefficiency.
That would be correct use of the word. In marketing talk going from 5% to 2.5% is twice as good, so 100% increase in efficiency. That's how you get those insane over 100% figures to efficiency increase in some of the advertisements.
I think more important than the potential slight gains in efficiency for an SR motor is the prospect of fewer mechanical components and lower motor cost.
Fewer than AC induction? How is that possible, there is only one moving part in the AC induction motor? Do you mean less copper wiring?
I believe that the motor itself is nearly the cheapest item in the drivetrain already, I bet PEM costs more. If SR motor requires more complex PEM then that probably offsets the cost gain from motor itself. Even if not, the gain is small. Also power/size ratio is in question here, smaller is better, efficiency (if close) comes next to that.
Not that you shouldn't investigate the possibilities, any tech that gives same result with less cost is preferable.
I was considering copper wiring and other items associated with the rotor coils as "mechanical components". They add to cost, assembly, time, etc.
I'm still learning about these and other motor technologies myself, so I'm not exactly sure yet exactly how much of a cost, size, and efficiency difference there is between state of the art SR and Induction Motors, however my research so far indicates that an SR Motor can beat an Induction Motor in all three areas. PEM costs would likely be somewhat higher, but it seems like the cost of electronics is decreasing with time, whereas the cost of copper and iron is generally flatter or even increasing.
I can't say Tesla's R/D and retooling cost for switching to SR motors in the future would definitely be worth while (especially now when they are simply trying to turn a profit with the phenomenal Model S). However, I have to think that the SR technology is on their radar and I wouldn't be surprised if it's part of a long term plan...
I believe Tesla is following everything regarding electric drivetrains. Whatever gives you best result is least price (always a compromise).
Copper is expensive and heavy. I wonder if you could use graphene instead. Carbon is one miracle substance, it is also best conductor in room temperature that we know of in form of graphene (about 30-35% better than copper), and it is light and extremely durable in right configuration.
Cost is tied to two things: abundance and difficult to work with. graphene is good at first, bad at second, copper other way around. We can't affect abundance (at least not until we start to mine asteroids), but we can get better at working with materials. Just out of curiosity I would like to see what kind of electric motor that could produce.
Or just plain replace all copper wiring in batteries and wires with graphene. That should reduce weight quite a bit. Carbon fibers in body panels, carbon nanotube-derived chassis, graphene in wires and motor, tires, rims...
Cool idea regarding graphene. This could have huge potential if they can come up with a viable production/manufacturing method.
Hi guys, a noob question regarding Tesla technology. Does Tesla tried to create any electric scooter like these other companies, http://trendigitaltech.com or it doesn't worth it for the company? Thanks
"It is at least for very large AC motors."
And for small ones. As noted nothing special about Tesla motors or it's mfg, it's mature tech and manufacturing. Not sure where the "hand made" idea came from. EV's are pretty simple. It was battery tech that advanced to make EV's possible and that tech is more Japanese and Korean.


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Yeah,yeah, this is true, because Pedro is still young and immature, soon he will understand things well, well we all messed up, but Pedro's not . But the demo of his game is not bad.Jorge22 wrote: ↑08 May 2018 19:13Yes, I do see what you mean. Somebody invented the guitar. If only that person were an "original" every other guitar player/composer would be custom-playing/composing. The same for everything else as well. Adam and Eve were originals (kind of, since God would have been the original) and Caim, Abel and everybody else that followed were all customs.
We may, of course, call everything we get here a "custom level". It's true in a sense. On the flip side, things get so different from one builder to the next, from one level to the next one... I mean, should we call Psiko's Hypersquare, for instance, a "custom level" or a "game"? Is it original (meaning it's no copy, that's what the word original is intended to mean) or is it just using what somebody else created? Because even that isn't strictly true in any sense if we think of how the community developed the basic tools Core provided back in the day.
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IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, & Africa) History
History of Region 8
Region 8 was created when the American Institue of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged in January 1963. However, its seeds were planted by the IRE which, unlike the AIEE, was a transnational society with Sections outside the USA.
The IRE had a stronger international character to its organization than the AIEE. Although the IRE Constitution, adopted at the first meeting on May 13, 1912, did not use the word 'international,' nor define mebership qualifications by nationality, it was understood that the IRE was open to members around the globe. When Regions were established with the January 1949 Bylaws of the IRE, only the US and Canada had formal region designations. Sections had been founded, however, including Buenos Aires (1939), London (1944), Israel (1954), Egyt (1955), Tokyo (1955), Rio de Janerio (1956), Colombia (1958), India (1959), Italy (1959), Benelux (1959), Switzerland (1960), Geneva (1961), Chile (1961), France (1961), and United Kingdom (1962).
On April 24, 1962, IRE approved the formation of Region 9 and onon 12 May 1962, shortly before the merger, the IRE created Region 9. The new region comprised twelve Sections in other countries, seven of these Sections being in Europe, Benelux, Egypt, France, Geneva, Israel, Italy, UK & RI. Dr. Rinia (Benelux) was the first director of Region 9 1962-1963.
At the time of the merger it was agreed that the IEEE should continue the transnational concept. The first sentence of teh Section 3 of the IEEE Constitituion, dated March 9, 1962, and adopted at the merger, reads: "The character of its cope is non-national, and the territory in which its oeprations are to be conducted is the entire world." In 1970, Section 3 was revised to read "The character of its scope is transnational and the territory in which its operations are to be conducted is the entire world."
The IRE type of structure was adopted, but revised: the number of Regions in the USA was reduced from seven to six; Canada became Region 7; Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa became Region 8 on 8 January 1963, which is therefore the date on which our Region was founded; other parts of the world were covered by Region 9. The present Regional structure resulted from later changes: in 1966 South America became Region 9, with Region 10 covering other parts of the world; finally in 1981 the remainder of Africa become part of Region 8.
Some recollections of the Eastward spread of IEEE Sections in Region 8
In the days before the end of the Berlin Wall, and the associated political changes in Eastern and Central Europe, IEEE activity in the countries east of the 'Iron Curtain' was limited. There was a Poland Section in Region 8, formed in 1972, and occasional IEEE related conferences had taken place there. Other International Organisations such as IFAC and IFIP were rather more successful in organising conferences in this part of the world, because of the way that they had 'representatives' of each country in their management bodies.
The Hungary Section was formed in 1987, and the Region 8 Committee held a meeting in Budapest in April 1989.
After the changes, there was a rapid development of IEEE activity and formation of new Sections. A Region 8 Committee meeting was held in Warsaw, Poland, in Spring 1991 during what were still difficult economic times for Poland.
However, growth in membership numbers was (and still is) slow. The economic changes meant that IEEE membership was unaffordable for many professional engineers and academics. Senior members of national research institutes were often able to join using other than personal funds, but in a few cases, they regarded IEEE membership as something of a privilege which they were reluctant to share with junior colleagues.
Somewhat later, the R8 Committee held several more of its meetings in the Central and Eastern European areas: Prague, Czech Republic, in 1994, Berlin, Germany in 1999, in what had been East Berlin (part of the former GDR), then at Budapest, Hungary in 2002 and at Kraków, Poland in 2004. The Czechoslovakia Section was formed in 1992 and despite the split of Czechoslovakia into the Czech and Slovakian Republics, a single Section for both has been retained, although that may not be sustainable in the long term.
Russia was something of a special case – a huge country with many locations which have extensive Scientific and Engineering activity at a high level – where one might expect, in the long term, to see many IEEE activities develop. However after the IEEE Russia Section was formed in 1990, membership growth was very slow, mainly for economic reasons, although many Chapters were formed, partly with the aid of a financial support initiative from some IEEE Societies, especially from Electron Devices, and who paid for initial memberships so that Chapter formation petitions could be created, and there were a number of IEEE conferences held. Chapter Chairs meetings were held in various places in Region 8 with financial support from Societies in Division I and IV and from Region 8, generally alongside the major conferences of one of the Societies, and the support was enough to pay for the attendance of Chapter Chairs from many of the Central and Eastern European locations. The Microwave Theory and Techniques Society was also very active in this initiative and still is. This led to several similar Chapter Chairs meetings for other Societies being initiated by the Region 8 Committee (for example, one for Signal Processing Chapter Chairs alongside the ICASSP in Istanbul, Turkey in June 2000).
However, Chapters in parts of Russia remote from Moscow sometimes complained of lack of support from their Section, and after a while moves to provide some independence for activities in St. Petersburg and Siberia arose. After some suggestions to form a Russia Council were abandoned, there was finally agreement to form three Russia Sections, one to be called 'North West' and one 'Siberia' – while the original Russia Section retained responsibility for all other parts of the country. Existing Chapters were transferred to the newly formed Sections where the location of their principal activities justified it.
Another "problem" with some of the new Chapters was an unwillingness of the initial Chapter Chairs to hold elections and be replaced by other volunteers, resulting in some very long-serving Chairs. This also happened with a few of the new Sections. In the Ukraine Section, there were strong 'differences of opinion' between a Chapter in the East part and another in the West part!
When the three Baltic Republics (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) gained their independence from Russia, there was a suggestion from the Region 8 Committee management to try to form a single 'Baltic' IEEE Section, combining the three countries. There was a mistaken belief that they were all rather similar, with languages incorrectly assumed to be Slavic! It took some persuasion to convince some senior R8 IEEE volunteers that this was not the case, and that each had a very different language and culture.
An early step was the formation of a Chapter in Estonia, which was affiliated with Finland since there was no Estonia Section. I had the pleasure of announcing the formation of this Chapter to the Region 8 Committee when they met in Piscataway in Spring 1998. To the puzzlement of all except the IEEE Finland Chair, I preceded my announcement by asking the Committee to listen to some music played over the audio system – this was a recording of the Estonian National Anthem, to celebrate the formation of the first IEEE unit in Estonia. It was immediately recognised by the Finland Section Chair because both countries share the same tune for their National Anthems, even though the words are quite different. During the time of the Soviet Union, playing the Estonian National Anthem or showing the Estonian flag were serious offences. Some time passed before the three Baltic countries had their own Sections, with the Latvia Section having only recently been established (in 2008).
As mentioned in the September 1995 interview by Bob Winton (archived at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University, with a link from the Region 8 website), initial attempts to form a Lithuanian Section involved Prof. Raimundas Jasinevicius, from Kaunas University of Technology, who had established links with Universities in London, England many years before, for the exchange of junior academics, etc. Progress with Section formation was very slow and made slower by his absence in Denmark for six years as Lithuanian Ambassador. However, the Section was finally established in 2005, based mainly in Vilnius. This was followed by the Estonia Section formation in 2006.
IEEE activities in the former Yugoslavia were another special case. The Yugoslavia Section was formed in 1971 (or 1985, according to their website), and became moderately active in holding conferences and in providing IEEE volunteers. Because of a 'blocked currency' situation, USA, but an arrangement was made to keep the funds in Yugoslavia where they could be utilised for organisation of local IEEE conferences and also could be used to pay the local costs of conference attendance there by visitors from Western countries, who could then reimburse IEEE in USA. Following the wars in Yugoslavia, Slovenia and Croatia first split away to form their own Sections, and later Bosnia and Herzegovina formed a separate Section. Calling the residue of the original Section by the name Yugoslavia became an increasing anomaly, and in 2005, it was renamed the Serbia and Montenegro Section
Because of a number of rather new Sections wanting to host the R8 Committee, and because the R8 Committee management was glad of the opportunities to welcome these new Sections by meeting on their territory, the Committee meetings were held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2006 and in Sofia, Bulgaria and Bucharest, Romania, in 2007.
The next few meetings of the R8 Committee are likely to be in Western Europe, and so the long term average will seem more balanced.
Prof. Tony Davies
8 June 2008
Section Formation dates
- 5-Oct-1954 ISRAEL
- 8-Sep-1955 EGYPT
- 13-May-1959 BENELUX
- 13-May-1959 ITALY
- 13-Dec-1960 SWITZERLAND
- 17-Oct-1961 FRANCE
- 10-Jul-1962 U.K. & IRELAND
- 28-Mar-1963 NORWAY
- 12-Jul-1963 GERMANY
- 20-Mar-1965 SWEDEN
- 16-Apr-1968 SPAIN
- 18-Aug-1968 DENMARK
- 12-Feb-1970 IRAN
- 17-Mar-1970 GREECE
- 21-Jun-1971 SERBIA and MONTENEGRO
- 1-Dec-1972 POLAND
- 12-Jun-1973 FINLAND
- 5-Aug-1977 SOUTH AFRICA
- 12-Jan-1978 NIGERIA
- 21-Dec-1979 AUSTRIA
- 5-Jun-1981 SAUDI ARABIA
- 4-Dec-1981 PORTUGAL
- 17-Nov-1982 KENYA
- 20-Jun-1987 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- 21-Aug-1987 HUNGARY
- 18-Nov-1988 WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
- 18-Aug-1989 TURKEY
- 20-Feb-1990 KUWAIT
- 15-Aug-1990 ROMANIA
- 15-Aug-1990 RUSSIA
- 21-Nov-1991 UKRAINE
- 1-Aug-1992 CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- 1-Aug-1992 CROATIA
- 1-Aug-1992 SLOVENIA
- 30-Jun-1993 CYPRUS
- 24-Jun-1995 BULGARIA
- 14-Feb-1997 REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
- 12-Nov-1999 JORDAN
- 23-Jun-2000 ICELAND
- 22-Jun-2001 BAHRAIN
- 15-Feb-2002 BELARUS
- 13-Feb-2003 RUSSIA (NORTHWEST)
- 13-Feb-2003 RUSSIA (SIBERIA)
- 18-Nov-2004 LEBANON
- 18-Nov-2004 MOROCCO
- 18-Nov-2004 QATAR
- 18-Jun-2005 LITHUANIAN
- 12-Nov-2005 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
- 18-Feb-2006 OMAN
- 23-Jun-2006 ESTONIA
- 18-Nov-2006 MALTA
- 16-Feb-2008 LATVIA
- 21-Jun-2008 IRAQ
- 21-Jun-2008 TUNISIA
- 5-Sep-2008 GHANA
- 15-Nov-2008 ZAMBIA
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Austria: Founded 21 December 1979; Kurt R. Richter, Chairman; Robert Genseer, Vice-Chairman; Andreas Sethy, Secretary; Franz Voggenberger, Treasurer.
Benelux: Founded 13 May 1959; Herre Rinia, Chairman; Vitold Belevich, Vice-Chairman; Bruce B. Barrow, Secretary/Treasurer
Denmark: Founded 18 August 1968; Georg Bruun, Chairman; P.M. Larsen, Vice-Chairman; P.E. Gudmandsen, Secretary/Treasurer; Otto Ring, Secretary/Treasurer
Finland: Founded 12 June 1973; Martti E. Tiruir, Chairman; Uolevi Luoto, Vice-Chairman; Iiro O. Hartimo, Secretary; Christer O. Nykopp, Treasurer
France: Founded 17 October 1961; J.R. Pernice, Chairman; J.D. Lebel, Secretary
Greece: Founded 17 March 1970; John D. Flambouriaris, Chairman; Christos E. Papasifakis, Vice-Chairman; Menelaos C. Levachides, Secretary/Treasurer
Iran: Founded 12 February 1970; Abbas Tchamran, Chairman; S. Berbekar, Vice-Chairman; S. Reza Hashemian, Secretary; Mahmud Zareh, Treasurer
Israel: Founded 5 October 1954; Franz Ollendorf, Chairman; J.. Halberstein, Secretary
Middle and South Italy; Founded 23 May 1966; Giorgio Barzilai, Chairman; Valario R. Cimagalli, Secretary/Treasurer (Italy was divided into two Sections in 1966 and merged again into one in November 2005.)
Nigeria: Founded 12 January 1978; F.S. Atiya, Chairman (Section was originally part of and became part of when region boundaries were redrawn.)
North Italy: Founded 13 May 1959; Algeri Marino, Chairman; Giuseppe P. Tarchini, Secretary
Poland: Founded 1 December 1972; Adam K. Smolinski
Portugal: Founded 4 December 1981; Manueal de Medeiros, Chairman
Saudi Arabia: Founded 5 June 1981; Robert B. Tucker Jr., Chairman; Mustafa A. Jalali, Vice-Chairman; Lynn D. Blackwell, Secretary; Keith G. Hunsiker, Treasurer
South Africa: Founded 5 August 1977; P.A. Calvert, Chairman
Spain: Founded 16 April 1968; Rogelio T. Segovia, Organizer
Switzerland: Founded 13 December 1960; G.C. Gross, Chairman; J.. Gayer, Secretary (Originally founded as Geneva Section; name changed 20 September 1967.)
Yugoslavia: Founded 21 June 1971; Mirjan Gruden, Chairman; Vinko R. Albert, Vice-Chairman; Stanjoe Bingulac, Vice-Chairman; Joze Furlan, Secretary; Andrej Dobnikar, Treasurer
Further Research
A short history of IRE Region 9 / IEEE Region 8, by Martin Bastiaans - A history of IEEE Region 8 spanning its origins from the IRE Region in Europe, through the IRE/AIEE merger forming the IEEE and subsequently to the present day Region 8 consisting of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Included are personal reflections of past directors, Committee meetings and conferences, student activities, Award recipients from Region 8, and Region 8 History papers presented at HISTELCON 2012. A number of archival documents are attached as appendices, including ephemera and minutes from early Region 8 Committee meetings.
Region 8 Centennial Review , issued in 1984 for the 100 years of IEEE.
Region 8 History and Strategy,1995
Early history of Region 8 and the UKRI Section] by Bob Winton, Mick Byford, and Robert Williams. An Interview Conducted by William Aspray on 4 September 1995 for the IEEE History Center.


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1. QB John David Booty, Sr., USC
No contender left a more lasting impression for voters to process in the off-season than Booty, who torched the Michigan D for 390 yards and four touchdowns in the Rose Bowl. The fact that he's the starting quarterback for USC, everyone's likely preseason No.1 team, is enough for him to be the early front-runner.
2. QB Colt Brennan, Sr., Hawaii
Not too many people outside the WAC knew Brennan at this time last year. After breaking or tying 19 NCAA records, including single-season touchdown passes [58], he's suddenly a household name and the year's must-see attraction.
3. RB Darren McFadden, Jr., Arkansas
Last year's runner-up to Troy Smith has the potential to be even better in 2007 now that offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn is gone, putting to bed the debate over the direction of the offense. McFadden is the nation's premier running back and new coordinator David Lee is going to treat him as such, meaning more McFadden and more big games.
4. RB Steve Slaton, Jr., West Virginia
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5. RB Michael Hart, Sr., Michigan
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6. QB Brian Brohm, Sr., Louisville
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7. QB Pat White, Jr., West Virginia
He's got all the speed and game-breaking ability of teammate Steve Slaton to go along with an improving passing game that's going to paralyze defenses on play-action.
8. QB Colt McCoy, Soph., Texas
If Texas is in the national title hunt, he'll be one of the main reasons. With the foundation set and a great team around him, the sky's the limit.
9. RB Ray Rice, Jr., Rutgers
He ran for 20 touchdowns, 1,794 yards and nearly a spot in New York City as a Heisman finalist, finishing seventh in last year's vote. Now the team around him should be even better.
10. RB P.J. Hill, Soph., Wisconsin
Tapping into his inner-Dayne, he lumbered for 15 touchdowns and 1,569 yards in 2006, tops among the nation's freshmen. Wisconsin is good enough to take the Big Ten keeping its star in the spotlight all season long.
11. QB Chad Henne, Sr., Michigan
As a talented fourth-year starter with the Big Ten favorite, Henne is in a real nice position to become the first Wolverine quarterback to win the Heisman Trophy.
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If West Virginia can finish in the top 5 this year, I think the Heisman will go to either Slaton or White. I can't see Arkansas having the same success as last year... especially with Dick starting the entire season. And with Jones on the team, it's got to reduce McFadden's chances.
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Western wonders: A traveler's guide to Scotland's best whisky region
For whisky lovers, Scotland is about the Highlands and the Lowlands, the Isles and Speyside.
Some fall in love with the tastes generated by a certain area, the result of the combination of peat, grain, water and other materials used in production.
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Yes, you can buy a bottle of all the brands below from major retailers across the globe, but there's something special about downing a dram in the distillery, perhaps looking out over a nearby loch or mountain range.
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Just north of Glasgow on the way to Loch Lomond and dating to the early 19th century, it's one of a handful of remaining Lowland whisky distilleries in operation.
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Isle of Islay
Caol Ila
Light in color, but still carrying spicy after-tones, Caol Ila, founded in 1846, is the youngest of the Islay whiskys listed here. While growing in popularity, however, it maintains a traditional, limited range of product.
The 18-year-old is a gem that shouldn't be blended.
This distillery is set for wider global recognition in the years ahead.
Open since 1815, Ardbeg is one of the smaller distillers on this list. It's adopted an interesting "name" not "age" approach to whisky, producing a range of differently named whiskys all aged differently and with differing final strengths.
The Uigeadail (named after the local loch) is for some the most complex whisky ever. On all critical fronts, it's been highly praised.
There's a good reason bottles of Laphroiag carry the three feathers of the Royal Warrant, the crest of HRH Charles, The Prince of Wales -- their 15-year-old was HRH's personal favorite on the whisky stakes.
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A lot of newbie's to the world of fine malt whiskys see Bowmore as an acquired taste. I certainly did at first, but now this one ranks in my top whiskys.
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Tours are recommended (see homepage for details), as this rounded Islay product perfectly demonstrates the local tendency toward full-bodied peaty whiskys.
This one's been naturally filtered through the peat of the nearby Laggan River. Normally, the cellars in which the drink ages are themselves beneath sea level.
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Now, 183 years after first turning out whisky, its range of seven different ages --from 10 through 30 years -- inspire true Talisker fans to spend a lot of time and effort sampling the lot.


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