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About 28 million of the nearly 36 million people living with Alzheimer's and other dementias have not been diagnosed, robbing them from the benefit of treatments and the chance to have a say in their future care, according to a report released on Tuesday.
It found that many people are not diagnosed with dementia until the disease is well advanced.
"Failure to diagnose Alzheimer's in a timely manner represents a tragic missed opportunity to improve the quality of life for millions of people," said Dr. Daisy Acosta, chairman of Alzheimer's Disease International, a patient advocacy group that sponsored the study.
The group last year estimated that Alzheimer's and other dementias cost $604 billion globally to treat, a figure that will soar as the number of sufferers triples by 2050.
Its latest report, which makes the case for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's, comes just days before a United Nations meeting on Alzheimer's and is aimed at getting the disease on the agenda of world leaders.
The group is pushing for all countries to develop a national dementia strategy that promotes early diagnosis and offers a range of care from primary care doctors, specialists, and community-based treatment centers.
Recent studies suggest the disease starts developing at least a decade before symptoms appear.
Many scientists and patient advocates believe earlier testing will play an important role in getting people treated and in preparing families for the burden ahead.
"The report is really mainly about the estimated 28 million out of 36 million people worldwide with dementia who don't have a diagnosis," said Professor Martin Prince of King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, who led the study.
Among the study's main findings, he said it shows that while current Alzheimer's treatments -- Aricept from Eisai Co and Pfizer Inc, Reminyl from Shire, and Exelon from Novartis Exelon -- are no cure for the disease, they can improve symptoms in some patients. That could allow some to delay a nursing home stay, for example.
Prince said early diagnosis could save high-income countries as much as $10,000 per patient. While that might not mean much to individual families taking care of a loved one with a disease that can span several years, those savings could make a significant difference on a global scale.
And there are other reasons to diagnose patients.
"Earlier diagnosis can also transform the design and execution of clinical trials to test new treatments," Marc Wortmann, executive director of ADI, said in a statement.
Researchers increasingly believe that many drugs being tested for Alzheimer's have been tried on people who are already too far gone. Earlier diagnosis will help countries develop infrastructure for treating people in the earliest stages of the disease, when drugs have the most chance of doing some good.
Dr. Sam Gandy of the Mount Sinai Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in New York said existing drugs are only modestly effective, and they always wear off.
"Eighteen months after you start a drug, they are in the same place," he said in a telephone interview.
But Robert Egge, vice president of public policy at the U.S.-based Alzheimer's Association, said the burden of Alzheimer's is so great that even modest benefits are worth pursuing.
"We certainly need to push for more effective disease-modifying treatments that can slow or stop the disease, and at the same time we see the treatment value that can follow from early diagnosis," he said.
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This is the first in a series profiling women who have risen through the ranks of the automotive industry in Metro Vancouver.
At the ripe age of 16, Lindsay Maingot decided she wanted to get into the automotive industry.
"You know what? I just needed a job and I started as a receptionist at a North Shore dealership," she says of a career move that would come to define her professional life. "I decided that I really wanted to sell, but no women were salespeople back in the early '70s.
"I begged them to hire me on the floor, and (back then) they could come right out then and say: 'We don't want a woman here,' not like today."
Despite those early struggles, the dealership took a chance and hired her as a salesperson when she was just 18.
The first car she ever sold was to a woman and it was a beautiful gold Camaro Berlinetta.
She smiles as she recounts the story.
When asked why she thinks there aren't many women salespeople, the 55-year old offers: "It's a tough business."
From the sales floor, she transitioned into what she really wanted to do.
"I moved from sales and went into the business office because that was really my passion, learning about financing and dealing with people's credit problems."
Today, she is the credit consultant and finance specialist at Carter GM.
"Credit is a scary thing," she says. "It's not easy for us to access and they don't teach us about it in school and they should."
Lindsay's primary focus at Carter is to try and get people behind the wheel of their dream car, but for a lot of individuals, it's a not as easy as a few clicks on the computer.
Working with people with challenged credit, the mother of three takes it upon herself to help fix the issue, but tells people it can take time.
"S o m e t i m e s , w h e n y o u bludgeon the credit, and you haven't paid anything on time, with no one to help you, there's one place that will do it at 29 per cent. So is it worth it to you to build it back?"
She continues. "I start with someone at 29 per cent, in a reasonable car, in the best car I can find them, the best gas mileage, the lowest payment, as little of an amount to borrow, so they get in the habit of making regular payments again. Then about a year and a half later down the road, they're back in here, or I call them, and we check their credit. Now, their score might have gone from 450 to 600. Then maybe I can refinance their car and bring it down to 15 per cent. So they don't go with 29 per cent the whole time. It becomes part of a process where the person and I work together."
Lindsay has worked with numerous clients over the almost four decades she has been in the auto industry.
Last year alone, she and her team of four facilitated the sale of more than 400 vehicles.
A multiple-time winner of the New Car Dealers Association of B.C.'s salesperson of the year award, Lindsay doesn't necessarily sell cars but she works with clients with financial woes, including women.
"A lot of women who have gone through divorce or the death of a spouse, single moms. There's a lot struggle out there."
While she doesn't deny that she's in the business of selling cars, it's not always about the sale, but the bond formed with clients.
"In this business, all you need to do is be honest, be totally sincere, never drop your eyes from another person.
"You talk from your heart and help them as best you can and you build a relationship. Without a relationship, you're never going to survive in this business, or any business."
In her opinion, the personal connection is paramount.
"In my world, people stop by for a hug and a cup of coffee."
She loves hugs. Aside from embracing, Lindsay, who works six days a week, offers some insight into the car-buying process.
She suggests people know their credit score and see where they stand financially before falling in love with a car on the lot.
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We tested a version of a Normandy-style beach assault (there have been a bunch of really solid ones so far), a clever spin on Infection involving the life (and death) aquatic and a version of Capture the Flag that modified The Pit and added the slickest gameplay mechanic I've seen from the Forge since Rocket Race.
There are two nooks on The Pit that are covered by the soft ceiling, but via the Forge players can spawn and survive there. Beneath each of the towers in The Pit, the user had placed a teleporter receiver nodes and then blocked those nodes with giant crates. The teleporter sender nodes were placed up in the nooks and when players died all spawn points took them to what we'd start to call "The Jail." There are a number of ways to get the crate off of the receiver teleporter and spring your buddies from "The Jail," so that they can get back to the business of capturing the flag. The crate that covers the teleporter respawns pretty regularly, re-sealing off the jail. Mission Designer Dan Miller pointed out that the Quake 1 had a similar Jailbreak system where one player would climb on other players heads in order to exit a respawning purgatory and seek vengeance against those who have tresspassed against him.Shamelessly, I'm ripping off the "Jailbreak" mechanic this weekend and planning on giving a multiple teleporter Jailbreak version of Team Slayer on The Pit a whirl. Unless the Colts lose the Patriots, in which case I'll be completely inconsolable in a bathtub or back alley somewhere in Seattle's scary district.
Map forgers and game variant makers we are watching, playing and enjoying what you're doing and it's entirely possible that you'll get a message from us once we've tested a gametype with some feedback and a few notes and maybe a date as to when it will be showing up on Favorites. And no, don't ask: us using your map/gametype/films/screenshots doesn't mean you're getting the Recon armor. Recon is Fight Club and the first rule is you don't talk about it.
Content DownloadThe map tadpoles in the DLC pond continue to swim along, with some even growing into full-sized and feature-rich bullfrogs in the last couple of weeks. Only a little bit of growing left to do before the frogs find their way to the stream. One of those maps that isn't ribbit-ing around just yet though, is O.K. Corral, an asymmetrical medium-sized map and O.K. Corral had its lighting tweaked considerably. The changes shifted the sun's position shifted, giving the entire map a warm death-at-sunset feel. The sun's rays stream through trees and into the blown out structure that often ends up at the very epicenter of combat (assuming you've procured some kind of close-quarters weapon). If you haven't got anything short range, however, there's a variety of multi-level open air catwalks, with glorious sight-lines down long semi-protected alleyways where you can rain death from above. Jodrell Bank, a map Frankie talked about in recent weeks, is fast becoming one of my favorite maps from our excellent smorgasbord of DLC maps. It's a Team Slayer main course and player counts would fit swimmingly into both Social Slayer and Team Slayer hoppers and I think it might even be possible to shoehorn a few more players into the mix without overcrowding things. Purple Reign continues to see slick revisions. The earliest iteration of the map actually had a completely different overall shape. If I sketched the cross section of the map's floor onto a napkin it would've looked like a small hill, but when you played it, it wasn't readily apparent. In the last month, the concavity was changed so that if you were staring the same napkin with the new version of it it'd look more like a gently sloping bowl. The difference in the way the map played then versus now is pretty remarkable. Subtle changes to the floor's geometry resulted in wider lines of sight for players staring down one half of the map and an intricate and strategic mix of floor/column/ramp gameplay on the other side and all of the sneaky jumps those mechanics entail. One of the sooner-than-later maps is a treat we're calling Vandelay. Vandelay is structurally the simplest map we've ever made, yet the tools that we're providing with the help of the Forge give the map tons of potential. That potential could be used for devising clever contraptions, unique playspaces and when paired with Player Traits could become a test bed for new ideas from both Bungie and the playerbase.
Tom Doyle, one of the artists working on some of the fineries in Vandelay described the knicks and knacks on the map as Legos. Up until now, Forge has been primarily thought of as an object editor. It's been a great tool for devising tweaks and changes to maps, the net result ranging from "Oh, you put more BRs on Snowbound," to "Wow, you made a Jail that you rescue players from."
We hope that Vandelay will help folks use the Forge because of the variety and different types of tools players will have at their disposal. Doyle has been working tirelessly with Tyson Green on these objects and tools. Changing weapons and spawns inevitably affects balance and map flow, but the Legos that Doyle is talking about will let players create spaces for gameplay and give them the means of dictating where players will encounter their foes, in addition to what they will be holding when they get there. Again, like we were with the Forge in the first place, we're pretty stoked to see what folks come up with when Vandelay releases into the wild.
Get RoutedOne of our AI engineers and the Internet's very own Max Dyckhoff had a great router for network testing while Halo 3 was in development. Whenever anyone would join his game in out take home playtests his router would somehow ensure that players had a bad experience. Everyone would lag, scream profanities at Max and ask following morning that he not be allowed to participate in takehome tests because he's ruining all of the fun. We sorted out the issues with Max's router but he had some more tips on network connectivity that he wanted to pass along. Here's what Max sent along:
"Look at your router's documentation to see if it supports Quality of Service (QoS) settings, and if so then try setting the maximum upload and download speeds to 85% of your actual upload/download speeds."
Remember folks, not every router has a Quality of Service setting and before you go tweaking your network configurations, make sure to thoroughly pore over your router's information pamphlet. Most routers have online manuals and should come with paper manuals, so be responsible and do your homework.
Web GemsWhile it's surely not new to some folks, I spent an embarrassing amount of time this week looking at different images from a couple of Halo 3-related fan sites that made some blips on some folks at Bungie Studios' radar.
Roger Wolfson pointed out that an Internet traveler figured out how to make 3D screenshots using our Screenshot function in-game. Now in order to see these images in 3D, you're going to need to eat a whole bunch of boxes of snacks until you find some 3D glasses inside. Thankfully, Roger brought some to work. Check out the images here.
Simply taking the screenshots and putting them up and making them totally sweet is one thing, but it's a whole 'nother thing to actually write an incredibly detailed guide on how-to make the screenshots on your own. It's like an episode of Mr. Wizard, but without the pauses for station identification and "public television needs your money" interruptions.
The other website we stumbled across this week is called Halotivational. The idea comes from a bunch of jokey Internet memes that are the result of the high action, overly intense, drama-filled shots of mountain climbers that you'll see while sitting in the Dentist's chair. New Joints at the Bungie Store
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- Experts say terror of violence befalling your baby is common for mothers
- Hormonal changes may contribute to a sense of foreboding among new moms
- Shanon Cook experienced these moments of terror, which she thought were abnormal
- Doctors say sleep deprivation can also contribute to these mental mirages
As I pushed the stroller along a tree-lined Manhattan street when my daughter was about 3 months old, I felt elated. Sure, I hadn't slept in eons, but there was a bounce in my step that came from being out in the world. It was gloriously sunny; the sky was a bright, friendly blue; my precious bundle was drifting into a contented snooze.
Then disaster struck.
Not in my physical surroundings. But entirely, bizarrely inside my head. An image of the baby being snatched violently from the stroller by an assailant invaded my thoughts. I could see it all play out as clearly as if it were actually happening: her helpless cry as she was yanked away, me, frantic, propelling myself toward the kidnapper, screaming bloody murder as I give chase, fists ready to unleash untold harm.
In a matter of seconds, this disturbing scene shrunk and vanished, like an image on a TV screen that's been switched off, and I stood, shaken, rooted to the pavement, gripping the handle of the stroller while I steadied my breathing.
What the hell was that about? Glancing around, everything was as it should be. The sun was still out. Kylie was blissfully asleep right in front of me, pink cap cradling her delicate little head.
What could possibly have sent me from a happy-go-lucky mindset to an I-could-kill-someone rage with no provocation whatsoever? Was I, dare I ask, losing my mind?
Not according to neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, author of "The Female Brain." She described what I experienced as a "daymare," a common occurrence for new moms in those first few months of parenthood. A side effect of the brain's transformation from non-mom to full-on mom.
"All of these hormones, that post-delivery, post-birth, postpartum state has got your circuitry, your 'mommy brain' triggered to be on high alert," she said. "Aggressive high alert. It's an intense surge of anger and protective hormones and fantasies."
Fantasies so dark I could be useful as an adviser to the show "CSI: NY"?
"It's actually a very normal state," Brizendine assured me. "But no one talks about it."
You can say that again. In my birthing class when I was pregnant, all sorts of helpful information was shared regarding water breaking, epidurals, breast-feeding and baby's first poop, but there was no mention of, oh yeah, those moments when you're prone to imagine despicable things happening to your baby.
Nor did any of the moms -- many of them strangers -- who came up and put a hand on my bump, offering their unsolicited horror stories from the delivery room, mention the horrors I might experience after I left the hospital.
"Moms feel like if they tell people about it somebody will think they're really crazy," Brizendine said. "You would think moms would talk about this in the mommy groups, but they actually don't. Because in the repeating of it, it almost re-traumatizes you and you're just hoping it will go away."
Brizendine said these daymares afflict about half of new moms and typically last three to six months post-birth.
And we're not necessarily talking about postpartum depression here. Occasional daymares and nightmares aside, I didn't feel depressed at all after having my child. I was tickled pink most of the time, laughing at new discoveries, marveling at this wonderful creature, relishing the cuddles and closeness of breast-feeding. But in sharp contrast to the euphoric highs, would come these random, disorienting and incredibly dark thoughts, sometimes two or three times a day.
As I was stepping into the shower, I might think, "What if someone's strangling the baby right now?" Or on the subway, I might eye up a passenger. "Does that women have a knife? Is she going to kill my husband or my baby?"
A 2007 study published in the journal Sleep showed that about 75% of postpartum women experienced terrifying nightmares involving their infants. And if you scour mom testimonials in forums online, you'll come across torment: "I'd feel a presence in the room and something (someone) would either be chasing me or strangling me" and "(I'm having) nightmares about losing my son."
My friend Heidi mentioned she'd had a dream in which her baby boy was deteriorating before her eyes but she was powerless to do anything. I'd had the exact same dream about my daughter when she was 2 weeks old. The gruesome details were uncannily similar. (New-dad friends of mine have mentioned having nightmares too.)
Brizendine, who is director of the Women's Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, said one of her patients admitted she had disturbing daytime fantasies about attacking her own baby with a pair of scissors or a knife.
While it might sound like this poor mom has what it takes to be the next Andrea Yates, it's important to understand that she's really just adjusting to the "fight or flight" stress hormones that for any new mom or mom-to-be are innate and incredibly powerful, Brizendine said. It may explain why actress Evan Rachel Wood recently lashed out after the paparazzi snapped a photo of her ultrasound. It explains why we say never come between a mama bear and her cub. It explains why a mother feels like she could lift a bus off her child with her bare hands if she had to.
And like it or not, Mama has to feel like that.
When a horse gives birth, its foal gets up and starts walking within 30 minutes or so. Mother sharks abandon pups almost right after birth because they're able to fend for themselves. But as any new parent will tell you, a human baby is born in an incredibly immature state, requiring its parents, particularly its mother, to be stunningly protective. That baby can't do a thing without her. Except maybe cry with Pavarotti-like lung capacity.
Which brings us to an underlying cause of these daymares and sinister thoughts -- sleep deprivation. New moms tend not to get nearly as much sleep as their minds and bodies require, and any sleep expert or doctor will tell you that prolonged sleep debt leads to hallucinations, a loss of perspective, moodiness and lo and behold, intrusive psychotic thoughts.
"Get some sleep," says psychologist Eileen Kennedy-Moore. "Sleep deprivation is one of the main causes of postpartum symptoms. Recruit your partner, a family member or a friend to watch the baby if necessary, so you can rest."
Brizendine said sometimes an intense two-week sleep program is necessary to help mom "reset the brain circuitry."
I'll admit, I was operating on about four continuous hours of sleep a night in the six months post-birth, a far cry from the seven I require to feel rested and better equipped to handle life's demands, parental or otherwise. It wasn't until my daughter started sleeping through the night that my circuitry got the reboot it needed and the daymares wound down.
Kennedy-Moore, author of "What About Me?: 12 Ways to Get Your Parents' Attention Without Hitting Your Sister," also advises moms to go easy on themselves when dark thoughts invade.
"It's important to remember that thoughts are not the same as actions," she said. "Just because you can imagine your baby falling does not make it likely that your baby will fall. Although in some cases, dark thoughts can be a severe and debilitating symptom of a postpartum anxiety or depressive disorder, usually they are just an unpleasant part of normal adjustment."
She also said it's helpful to remind yourself that you're not a bad mother, you likely just have a vivid imagination.
"Don't try to fight the thoughts. The more we try not to think something, the more it will pop into our heads. Just notice the thought and gently let it pass."
And for the love of your own sanity, don't be afraid to talk to someone about it (and in severe cases, this is a must). A therapist. A nurse. I really wish I had opened up about it at the time.
As it turned out, I did find a measure of relief from a fellow mom, albeit one I didn't know. Actress Tilda Swinton, who has twins, had sobering words about motherhood when talking about her role in the chilling film "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
Swinton said parents often shy away from discussing taboo subjects, such as the fear that their children will turn out to be violent or that bad things will happen to their family. She described how her fierce maternal instinct kicked in after giving birth, which was both terrifying and exhilarating.
When I met Swinton at an art gallery opening not long after the film was released (I interviewed her boyfriend, the painter Sandro Kopp), I wanted to hug her (though I didn't dare -- her white suit was too awesome to crush). She helped me see I wasn't necessarily losing my mind, just creating a slightly new one.
Brizendine said she believes there's a silver lining to those horrifying, violent thoughts.
"This level of intense feeling of aggression shows you how intensely bonded you are to your baby," she said. "That's the good news. This is a proof positive of that emotional and biological bond."


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Well, if WWVB does go away, at least I've finally got the Tecsun loop dialed in to cover the whole house now. Setting the tuning knob in the middle appears to give the best compromise between directionality and signal strength. I managed to sync from 30m through 5 walls at 30 degrees off perpendicular to the broadside of the loop. My G-Shock GWM5610-1 seems to be the most reliable receiver, beating out the clocks with their larger antennas, as well as my two more expensive watches.
I am toying with idea of mirroring your work but tying it to a gps reference. If prices drop on these clocks I will put them throughout house and have inexpensive masterclock system.
Nice choice on watch too. Extremely capable timepiece there. Tough solar is the bomb. My travel watch is a Casio PAG 80T. Steven Harris wears a PAG 240. And Nutnfancy is also big fan of the casios. They are quickly becoming the ubiquitous prepper watch.
I'm not sure what the expected lifespan of these rechargeable batteries are, but being dead for 18 months can't be good for it.
I bought my new watches because this one had developed a weird short where the back-light would come on for minutes at a time just from touching the metal case or twisting it on the wrist. So it had some issues and I tipped it over the edge through neglect. I thought it was in a place that would get some light, but I accidentally covered it with something.
I really like the retro 5600 G Shock form factor of that watch in the Tech Crunch article, I have two of Multiband6 models (one is a Japan only model), but I can't find any Bluetooth models in the US market, and don't really feel it's worth paying the premium to get it from Japan. The only Bluetooth Casios here are blinged out garish monsters starting at $400.
I often find that my FOSSIL watch is out of sync with my Wilson sun dial and it appears to be no big deal.
Yeah my FOSSIL watch and my Seiko solar watch are often out of sync with this PC and all three are out of sync with the TV stations. Who cares? My one battery operated Dakota grandfather clock is always accurate even though it is only in sync with itself and the TV stations. Let's see hmm, microwave clock is never in sync with anything, it's never set and the thing is unplugged when not actually in use. And the clock on the oven is almost in sync with the Dakota but again the timer is the only thing that really matters but it's difficult to get to the plug. I don't even have a sundial.When you're retired you really aren't too concerned about what time it is.
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Robots to the Rescue! Build & Test a Search-and-Rescue Robot
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AbstractHave you ever heard of the NASA Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity? How about the "bomb squad" robots that police and the military use? These are places that are hard for us to reach (Mars), or dangerous for us to be near (explosives). Because the human operators are usually far away from the robot, driving one is different from driving a car. Operators rely on information sent back from the robot, including pictures and video. In this project, you will build your own simple mobile robot and test your ability to operate the robot when you cannot see it.
ObjectiveBuild a simple robot using a radio-controlled toy car and a wireless video camera. Test your ability to drive the car when you can only see the video from the camera compared to when you can actually see the car.
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Humans use robots for many different things. Some robots in factories automatically put things together. Some robots look like, and even talk like and interact with, humans (the kind of robot you will see most often in movies). Some do things that humans find boring, like vacuuming. Others do things that are dangerous or difficult for humans — this means no human lives are put at risk.
The NASA Mars rovers are a great example of robots that do something difficult - going to Mars! Figure 1 below shows a computer image of the Mars Science Laboratory rover nicknamed "Curiosity."
Figure 1. A computer image shows the Mars Science Laboratory (nicknamed "Curiosity"), by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA.
One day, scientists hope to send humans to Mars, but until we figure out how to do that safely, it is easier to send robots (for example, the trip to Mars is very long, so humans would have to pack lots of food — but robots do not need to eat). Because it takes a long time for radio signals to get from Earth to Mars (can you find out how long?), the rovers have to be partially autonomous. Autonomous means that a robot can decide on its own where to go and what to do, without direct instructions from a human. A fully autonomous robot really has a mind of its own and does not take any instructions from humans. Most robots today are partially autonomous — they can make some decisions on their own, but still take directions from their human operators. For example, NASA team members set broad goals and destinations for the Mars rovers, but they cannot give detailed instructions on how to drive around every single rock or over every bump on the Martian surface. The rovers have sensors to help them observe their environment and decide how to do things like move around rocks. Sensors are devices that let a robot gather information about its environment, just as humans use sight, hearing, touch, and taste. For example, you use your eyes to see the world around you, and a robot uses a camera. You use your ears to hear sound, and a robot uses a microphone. Robots use many other types of sensors — for example, they can use lasers to figure out exactly how far away an object is, without touching it!
An example of a robot that does something dangerous is a bomb disposal robot. Bomb disposal robots are used by the police and military to safely disarm bombs that may have been planted by terrorists or criminals. The PackBot®, shown in Figure 2, is one example of a bomb disposal robot. (The company that makes it is iRobot®, the same company that makes the Roomba®, a robotic vacuum cleaner.)
Figure 2. The PackBot is equipped with a camera and radio-controlled robotic arm, which lets soldiers and police officers safely disarm bombs (Wikimedia Commons user Outisnn, 2011).
This helps keep the police and soldiers safe while they do their jobs. Because these robots are used on Earth and not Mars, humans can send wireless signals (or radio waves) to the robot quickly, so the robots are radio controlled. This means a human operator usually drives the robots (a safe distance away from the bomb) using a video game-like controller and watching a video feed from a camera on the robot. This lets the operators "see" from the robot's point of view, even when they cannot actually see the robot (for example, if it is around a corner or on the other side of a building). These robots also went to other dangerous situations — for example, emergency workers used them after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan (see the Bibliography).
If you have ever played with a radio-controlled toy car, you might know how difficult it is to drive the car around a crowded house without crashing into things. Would it be harder if you could not see the car, but only the view from a camera attached to the car? This is what robot operators have to do. In this project, you will make your own search-and-rescue robot with an attached camera and test your ability to drive it.
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- What kinds of robots are there? Can you find examples of different robots?
- How long does it take a radio signal from Earth to reach Mars? Do you understand why the Mars rovers have to be partially autonomous?
- What types of sensors do humans have?
- What types of sensors do robots have? Can you find examples of robot sensors that humans do not have?
- What types of bomb disposal robots are there other than the PackBot®?
- What can search-and-rescue robots do besides bomb disposal?
- How did emergency workers use robots after the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
- NASA. (2013, May 10). Spirit and Opportunity, Mars exploration rovers. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
- NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (n.d.). Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity rover. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
- Endeavor Robotics (n.d.). PackBot. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
- Koren, M. (n.d). 3 Robots that Braved Fukushima. Popular Mechanics. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
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- National Center for Education Statistics, (n.d.). Create a Graph. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
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Materials and Equipment
- Radio-controlled (RC) toy car of your choice. Many options are available at toy stores or online. We used this toy car from Amazon.com.
- Wireless video camera and receiver. Many options are available in different price ranges. We found this wireless video camera at Amazon.com to be a good low-cost option.
- TV or computer monitor with video input that is compatible with your wireless camera receiver (composite, component, VGA, HDMI, or DVI). The camera we linked to above has a composite video output (a single yellow plug).
- Duct tape
- Stopwatch
- Multiple rooms in an indoor area for a robot "course" (outdoor area may also be an option, depending on the off-road abilities of your RC car)
- Volunteer to operate stopwatch and keep track of the number of crashes
- Adult helper who knows how to hook wireless camera up to TV or computer monitor
- Batteries as required by RC car and camera (check packaging/directions)
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Experimental Procedure
- Use duct tape to attach your wireless camera (and battery) to your RC (or radio-controlled) car. By combining a sensor with a mobile car, you have now made a simple robot. Our robot is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Our search-and-rescue robot, made from a toy RC car and a wireless video camera.
- Connect the receiver of your wireless camera to a TV or computer monitor. Ask an adult volunteer to help you with this step if necessary. (You may also need to read the instructions for your wireless camera).
- Practice driving the car around your house while walking behind the car and looking at it. Also practice driving it by looking only at the TV screen. Once you are comfortable driving the car both ways, move to the next step.
- Plan a route through your house to use as a test course. Sketch a map of your house (include obstacles like furniture), and plot out the route on this map. This is exactly what scientists, engineers, or robot operators would do. For example, NASA uses satellite images of Mars to plan routes for the Mars rovers. (To see for yourself, search Google for "Mars rover route.") Police or military officials may use a map of a city or floor plan of a building to plan routes for their robots.
You can imagine that the map of your house is actually the site of a real-life disaster scenario. For example, you could pretend that you are navigating your robot through a collapsed building after an earthquake to look for survivors; or you could plant a "suspicious package" in your house (which may be a bomb) that your robot needs to investigate; or you could pretend that there has been a chemical spill and your robot needs to take environmental readings to see if the air is safe for humans to breathe. In any of these situations, using a robot to explore helps make things safer for human emergency and rescue workers.
Figure 4 shows an example map of a house, and an imagined scenario where the robot must reach a chemical spill in a factory after an earthquake.
Figure 4. An example map showing a planned route through a house (top), and an imaginary disaster scenario based on the layout of the house (bottom).
- Try driving the route while you are walking behind the car, so you can see it the entire time (remember that in a real-life disaster scenario, this would not be safe to do!). Ask a volunteer to use a stopwatch to time how long it takes you to drive from start to finish. Also have the volunteer keep track of how many times you crash the car into something. After you finish, write the numbers down in your lab notebook. It might help to make a table like Table 1 to keep track of your data. (Because you will drive the route more than once, both following the car and watching it only on the TV or monitor, you need to number each trial for both — for example, 1a and 1b, 2a and 2b, and so on.)
|Time to Finish (seconds)
|# of Crashes
- Now try driving the route while looking only at the TV with the video images coming from the wireless camera. Do not look at the car! This might be easiest with the TV in a separate room that is not part of your planned route. Again, ask a volunteer to time the trip from start to finish and keep track of the number of times you crash the car into something.
Note: Your RC car and wireless camera will each have a limited range. Depending on the size of your house, you may need to limit the length of your route to stay within range of both the RC car and the camera. If you do this, be sure to go back to step 5 and do the shorter route while following the car.
- Repeat the experiment at least two more times, so you should have six trials total — three while following the car, and three while watching the car only on TV. If you have time, you can do more trials. Add rows to your data table if needed.
- Make a graph of your results to compare the trials where you followed the car and the trials where you watched only the TV. Make one graph for the time it took you to complete the course and one graph for the number of crashes you had. Plot the individual point from each trial on your graph. You can also calculate an average for all the trials and plot that point on the graph (be sure that the average point looks different from the individual data points). Figure 5 shows examples of how to set up these graphs.
Two example graphs have no data but measure the time to finish and number of crashes of an RC car driving through a course in a house. The RC car is driven through the house under two circumstances, the first is while keeping an eye on the car while it completes the course, and the second is while only watching a screen that shows video feed from the car. Each graph has columns to record data from both scenarios.
Figure 5. Example of how to label the axis for your graphs. The graph on the left is used to compare the time to complete the course and the graph on the right compares the number of crashes while watching the car or watching only the TV.
- Using the graphs you made in Step 8, compare your results for driving while watching the car and driving while watching only the TV. Which method was faster? Which method had fewer crashes? Which one did you think was easier to do?
- It would also be interesting to see if you got better at driving the car over time, as you got more practice and did more trials. You can do this by plotting the time it took you to finish or the number of crashes for the trial number for each type of test. Figure 6 shows a blank example graph.
Example graph has no data but measures the number of crashes for an RC car driving through a house. This graph measures the number of crashes on the y-axis versus the trial number on the x-axis, and has two colored lines to represent trials done while watching the RC car and trials done while watching a screen with a video feed from the car.
Figure 6. An example of how to label the axis on a line plot graph comparing the number of crashes for each trial. This graph will whether or not you got better at driving the car the more you drove. You could make a similar graph for the time it took you to complete the course.
- Examine the graphs you made in Step 10. Did you get better at driving the car the more you drove it? Did the time to complete the course and the number of crashes go down? Did they stay about the same, or change greatly from trial to trial? How do you think this affects your results?
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Belcher fatally shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins at their Kansas City home Saturday before shooting himself in the head in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot in front of team officials who were trying to stop him, including general manager Scott Pioli and head coach Romeo Crennel.
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The clean dozen: Everyone's trying to be greatest thief
Sometimes the actors onscreen look like they're really having fun. They say what they have to say and do what they have to do to tell the story, but they don't make it look like they're working. If the movie's good, the audience shares in their fun; if it's bad, they resent it.
The 2001 remake of Ocean's Eleven was a good movie. The viewer felt like a fly on the wall at a Hollywood party, watching a big beautiful cast having a good time. Even when they were being downright silly, they never broke the fourth wall to wink at the audience.
The idea of a sequel has the easy-money smell of a tour by a sexagenarian rock band, but Ocean's Twelve recaptures all that was good about Eleven with enough new ideas that no one can be accused of coasting.
Assuming our familiarity with the characters, director Steven Soderbergh and new screenwriter George Nolfi quickly reintroduce them while setting the new plot in motion. Danny Ocean and the 10 cohorts he assembled to steal $160 million from three of Terry Benedict's (Andy Garcia) Las Vegas casinos have settled into relatively honest lives. Danny is remarried to Tess (Julia Roberts), the most valuable thing he stole from Benedict, and they're preparing to celebrate their "second third anniversary."
Suddenly Benedict tracks everyone down and gives them two weeks to pay him back with interest– or else– and everyone knows his "or else" is not to be taken lightly.
Having collectively spent about half the money they need to repay, there's no honest way they can earn close to $100 million in that time, and they're "too hot to work anywhere in this country." At least that's the excuse to set the bulk of the movie in Europe, and who's going to argue?
Rusty (Brad Pitt) is Danny's co-captain. Linus (Matt Damon) is still the runt of the litter but with ambitions of moving up. Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle) is the electrician. Turk (Scott Caan) and Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck) are transportation experts. Frank Catton (Bernie Mac) is a safecracker who's very particular about his nails. Livingston Dell (Eddie Jemison) is a tech geek. Yen (Shaobo Qin) is an acrobat who can squeeze into small places. Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner) is an old crook who's always ready to come out of retirement. Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) financed the Vegas job for revenge on Benedict.
After a botched heist in Amsterdam, it's discovered that this whole thing was set up as a competition to discover who is the greatest thief in the world. The challenger is a Frenchman known as the "Night Fox" (Vincent Cassel). How better to sell a movie to Middle America than having our heroes defend our national honor against the French... even if the competition is in illegal activities and we're ganging up 11 (or more) against the Frenchman? (The uneven odds may stem from the fact that the script was originally written as a generic thriller and adapted to accommodate the Ocean gang.)
The target is the 1896 Fabergé Coronation Egg, which is on display in a museum in Rome. Museum security is heavier than usual because the plot was discovered in advance by Europol detective Isabel Lahiri (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who once had an affair with Rusty while investigating his Bulgari job.
Cassel does a dance around laser beams that puts the one Zeta-Jones did in Entrapment to shame, but Catherine looked better doing it.
In general, minimal time is spent on the capers, and there's a certain amount of jumping around in time to make the story unfold more interestingly.
The film's comic highlight comes when Tess's resemblance to a certain pregnant actress is exploited. The appearance of an unbilled guest star makes this seem more like a sequel to The Player than Ocean's Eleven for a few minutes.
Other "guests," though not playing themselves, are Robbie Coltrane, Eddie Izzard, Jeroen Krabbe, and Cherry Jones, who puts in a small but pivotal appearance near the end.
As cinematographer (under a pseudonym), Soderbergh gives the film a little "indie cred" with some handheld work, some iffy lighting and a generally less polished look than the usual studio production of this type, though not enough to hurt the box office.
The idea of a crime competition will probably be co-opted for a reality show if a network can figure out how to do it legally. Here, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose; it's how much fun you have playing the game that counts. These actors sure look like they're having fun, and with the U.S. playing against France, who do you think is going to win?
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Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts: The Role of Muslims
Though its winds have long died down, the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy are still palpable throughout the northeast. Homes have been completely destroyed, cars remain overturned or crushed beneath fallen trees, and thousands are still struggling to find food and shelter.
But since the hurricane swept through the region last month, ICNA Relief Disaster Relief Services has been leading recovery efforts on the ground.
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Armed with its own truck, trailer and tools, ICNA Relief has conducted block-by-block home assessments, distributed food packages, water, coats, blankets, scarves, socks, heaters and clothing to affected residents, and helped sweep, clean and gut homes, mosques and Islamic schools and centers.In New York alone, the organization has distributed over 600 pantry-food packages, 1,300 bottles of water, 1,200 blankets, 80 coats, and hundreds of heaters to families without heat. Families who've lost their clothing in the floodwaters have been provided with 500 pairs of warm socks, 100 winter scarves, and 75 children's kits, which consist of towels, blankets, hats & clothes. In Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, a team of doctors sponsored by APPNA (Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America) and PTI (Pakistan Tareeki Insaaf) has set up a medical clinic and offered physical check-ups, blood pressure readings and sugar tests, as well as prescriptions and free over-the-counter medication.
ICNA Relief has also provided disaster crisis counseling and offered important FEMA information to residents on its hotline and at ICNA Relief neighborhood booths managed by volunteers from various organizations.There has been no shortage of individuals and organizations willing to help the victims of the hurricane. Thousands of volunteers have descended upon local recovery headquarters to aid in relief efforts. The Muslim American Society (MAS), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), Islamic Center of NYU (ICNYU), the Hidaya Foundation, Islamic Relief USA, the Zakat Foundation, Life for Relief and Development, the American Muslim Consumer Conference (AMCC), Al Ghazaly School and numerous local mosques including Masjid Omar, ISCJ, MCMC, NHEIC, NBIC and Masjid Shuhada have come together under the umbrella of ICNA Relief to rebuild the homes and lives of their friends and neighbors. As a member of NVOAD and NY and NJ State VOADs, ICNA Relief has worked with numerous partner organizations, periodically reported quantitative updates via conference call and submitted written reports to FEMA directors. ICNA Relief has established connections with many local mosques, centers and individuals in the affected areas, and Ahmed says the organization will continue its work in the region for at least two more months before reassessing the needs of residents and reevaluating its own plan for long-term recovery.
For now, the physical and emotional toll of Sandy is still vastly evident across the region. Volunteers describe what they've seen on the ground, saying, "Some homeowners have lost everything. Their homes were flooded floor to ceiling with seawater and sewage flooding. Some have lost their cars in the flood waters, and those with cars were without gas for days. Families of 20 or more people have been living in a single house without heat or electricity; some of them have little kids who haven't been able to return to school because their schools were destroyed.""Many of these people have had their sentimental, valuable items strewn across their backyards. They're so overwhelmed by what's happened that they don't know where to start," says one volunteer. ICNA Relief's teams have been focusing on mass debris, trash removal and mold remediation to help get these families back on their feet.
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What has struck many after Sandy is this spirit of community and cooperation that has pulled neighbors together over the last few weeks. "We've been out here helping, but there have been several families that have refused aid because they feel like others need it more," says Shahid Farooqi, a volunteer manager in New York City. "It's incredible. Landlords are allowing their tenants to live with them while they recover from flood damage; people with no electricity are reaching out to help those who still lack heat and power.""People have sent checks, cash, clothing, supplies and food; others are donating their time and effort, traveling hours just to help out. In all honesty we've been really overwhelmed by the amount of support we've received. We've even had days where there are too many volunteers because everyone just wants to pitch in and help out." Volunteerism has been its own reward for many of those who have joined ICNA Relief in recovery efforts post-Sandy. Volunteers of all ages have stood outside in their bright yellow shirts, braving freezing temperatures, delivering blankets, providing food, water and much needed information and generally giving victims of the storm the sense that they're not alone. "Sometimes all that's needed is a kind word or a hug. People are still reeling from their loss, and they want to feel like they have a strong support system," said a volunteer from Harlem, NY. "I've been really lucky to be able to help them through ICNA Relief's efforts. It makes me feel really great to know that I'm helping someone else feel better about what they've endured in these weeks. I'm looking forward to coming back out again." This spirit and support is not limited to the residents of one neighborhood alone. As a blog post on the Al Ghazaly school's website mentions, "Sandy taught us to appreciate every little thing we have. The ability to switch on a computer and send an email, the ability to work in light, to be wise and frugal but Sandy taught us an even bigger lesson. It brought humanity together in an hour of need. Whether it was looking out for our neighbors or sharing some gasoline with a total stranger, Sandy taught us that we are all connected through our basic human needs." To support ICNA Relief's Sandy Relief Efforts, or to find out how you can get involved, visit www.icnarelief.org.
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Just over a year ago, I was sat talking with a friend whilst her three children played with my three children, there was Playdoh all over the floor, Barbie was wearing Ken's clothes, Ken was dressed as a Disney Princess and I had just shared a sip of my homemade salted caramel vodka…. it was a great play date.
My friend has a gorgeous parenting travel blog and I confided in her that I really wanted to set up a craft blog with tutorials for mums and kids. She gave me great advice and told me to just go for it. This friend is one of those wonderful people who makes you feel like you can do anything…
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