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I once heard of a woman who named her newborn daughter "Placenta." When asked by an interviewer why she did this she replied, "I just liked the sound of the name." Sad to say, this now does not seem to be an isolated instance of parents plucking a strange name out of the air, or out of their emotional needs, or out of a current trend, and saddling their child with it. Having come untethered from tradition and from family connectedness, some people now seem to find a sense of uniqueness in the strange names that they give their kids, a sense missing from within themselves. How different this is from the Hawaiian custom of giving names. In Hawaiian culture your name carries within it your genealogy and your place within that family; to a non-Hawaiian ear the name may seem excessively long… and unpronounceable!… but to a Hawaiian that name speaks of belonging within a family, an ʻOhana.
An important virtue within Hawaiian culture is that of respect, particularly the giving of it to others. To the non-Hawaiian mind expressing respect may seem to be as if one is acknowledging that the other is superior to the self… a heretical thought to the Western mind… but for the Hawaiian the giving of respect is a recognition of the Divine in the other; for the Hawaiian, "respectfulness" is the Divine quality that denotes our being a human being! This issue of respect is at the heart of the bestowing of a lei on someone as well as the recognition that one never goes to a meal at another's home empty-handed. As a monk of around 40 years I long ago had to wrestle with my place in the grand scheme of things and this has resulted in a sense of gratitude within me, as well as a desire to treat others with respect. I once answered the telephone only to discover that the Empress Farah Pahlavi was on the other end desiring to discuss a letter that I had sent to her. Even though she had no way of knowing this, out of respect I immediately stood and stayed standing for the entire 10 minutes of that call. It just seemed right to me.
The Hawaiian sense of respect even extends into the nature around us, again a recognition of the Divine within it. Sam Ohu Gon III, a Hawaiian friend on Facebook who I very much respect, once wrote: "I remember being dismayed when people came back from a hike into native forest with things they had chopped down 'just because we might need it someday', and it was clear they had looked on their presence in the sacred uplands as some kind of shopping spree. It is a symptom of a colonized mind-set, this viewing of the world as made up of commodities." For the Hawaiian, going into the forest to gather is not simply a matter of taking things: One asks permission of the land to gather, one gathers only what one needs, and one brings back to give back to the land. I suspect that many non-Hawaiians would view this as a waste of time; just go in and get what you want and get out. After all, what has respect got to do with it?!!!
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2 Tank Maui Dive or Snorkeling Trip
Join us for an unforgettable 2 tank boat exploring the best of Maui's reef's.
1223 Front St
Lahaina, HI 96761
Best 2 Tank Maui Deluxe Dive
The island of Maui is beautiful, but the world that lies underwater just off Maui's shore is even more inspiring!
Maui's reef network is home to turtles, sharks, nudibranchs, frogfish, eels, schools of colorful reef fish and more. This is your best chance to swim with Maui's sea turtles, you will be in Honu Heaven.
Family friendly dive in a small group
Your experienced captain and crew will determine the days sites based on conditions but we promise you will be thrilled.
Our group sizes are small and you will receive special attention from your instructor who will guide you through 2 exceptional dives.
The Maui Deluxe 2 tank is an especially family friendly trip and snorkelers are welcome to join in on the fun as many of the sites are shallow.
Our 2 Tank Maui Deluxe Dive
The 2 tank dive includes lunch during the surface interval.
Must be a certified diver. Rental equipment is available to rent on an item by item basis.
Nitrox is available for an additional $15 a tank.
$165 /per scuba diver
$115 /per snorkeler
Breakfast and lunch included.
Optional rental gear available.
Ask about discounts for multiple days of diving or snorkeling.
What is included in the tour
Scuba or snorkel experience at 2 gorgeous sites.
Lunch during the surface interval (vegetarian option available).
Light breakfast at the shop before departure.
Stops for marine life such as dolphins or whales!
Souvenir Dive Maui water bottle made from recycled plastic to keep you hydrated on the boat.
Professional photos for purchase.
Rain poncho for inclimate weather.
What makes this tour special
Experienced instructors and captains who love what they do and love sharing it with you.
Small group sizes and individualized attention so you have fun and feel safe.
Maximized bottom time, your air and your deco rule your dives. If you have enough air you can have 2 hour long dives.
Current rental equipment. Our BCD's have integrated weights and regulators have dive computers so you are comfortable in the water.
Conservation oriented. Our crew cares about the health of the ocean ecosystem and does our best to have eco friendly practices.
"Best dive ever. Nine divers, 4 staff, two in the water, means better service than a 5 star restuarant. Courteous, competent, friendly. They know their stuff, love to pass on their knowledge, and just care while still having fun.
Oh, and a hundred dolphins frolicked through our dive group at Cathedral!"
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Such a stupid death.
Today everyone knows what a selfie and the selfie craze isn't slowing down for several years.
Most of the so-called "cebasek" made for social networking. We photograph your home, on the street and in exotic locations.
But some people also do self in unsafe places, to demonstrate himself to his friends and to the world.
Sometimes at such moments something goes wrong and ends in tears.
Here, 10 of the cases when people got seriously injured or even died trying to take a selfie.
1. Selfie with a grenade
In Russia is constantly increasing the number of accidents associated with selfie. This became such a problem that the interior Ministry of Russia issued a memo, which is reminiscent of security during the filming selfie.
For example, there was a case when two young men posed for a selfie, holding a grenade. The explosion occurred unexpectedly. Both boys died on the spot, and a photograph depicting one of them with a grenade in his hand.
2. Selfie with a gun
One more dangerous case occurred in a 21-year-old Muscovite, who took selfies with a traumatic gun. She decided that it would be best to look with a gun aimed at his head. The weapon accidentally fired and she hit herself in the head. The girl was seriously injured, but fortunately she managed to survive.
3. Selfie with the fall from the cliff
A few years ago a canadian tourist was almost killed when trying to take a selfie while in the National Park of Croatia on Plitwickich lakes. The young man miraculously survived after falling from 75 meters high, after the branch on which he stood broke.
However, the other tourists from Slovakia was less fortunate when he tried to do the same. He fell from a cliff while filming a selfie and died on the spot.
4. Selfie with the bull
During the annual bull run festival in Spain, the man decided that it would be nice to take a picture with a few bulls. When David Gonzalez Lopez was in an unprotected area, making a selfie with two oxen, a third attacked him from behind, several times threw him into the air and stabbed to death his neck and thigh.
5. A tourist died doing selfie at the Taj Mahal
Another tragic event happened with the Japanese tourists who visited the famous Indian Taj Mahal. One of the tourists stood at the king's gate and tried to take a selfie, but lost his balance and fell down the stairs. He received a severe head injury and later died in hospital.
6. The teenager was run over by the train
Police Department Mumbai was forced to create a so-called "zone without a selfie" because of the large number of teenagers who were injured or died during the shooting of selfies. One of them was an Indian boy who was walking on the tracks when suddenly noticed an approaching train. He decided to take a selfie with a train and waited for the approach, after which he was killed.
7. Two men who killed a walrus.
Chinese businessman Jia of Lizzani were at the zoo and decided to take some selfies with the huge 1.5 ton walrus. He decided to play with the animals, and the walrus, apparently, liked it so much that he decided to drag the man into the water. When the caretaker noticed this, he tried to save the visitor, but the walrus took the two men, and after a few minutes they drowned.
8. Selfie with zipper
In July 2015 unknown English tourist got hit by lightning when he was in the National Park of the Brecon Beacons in Wales. The fatal blow happened when the lightning hit the metal selfie stick and a young man killed by an electric current.
9. Selfie on the train.
Girl from Romania tried to make a special selfie on top of a train in iaşi. According to her friends, 18-year-old Anna Uros planned to publish the "perfect selfie" in the social network Facebook, but is touched by the foot wire, getting the discharge in the 27 000 volts. The girl suffered burns on 50 percent of his body and died in hospital.
10. 7 people died in the selfie incident.
One of the most tragic cases occurred in India, when seven friends swam in the Ganges river. One of them started to do a selfie, slipped and began to sink. One by one all of his six friends jumped into the water to save each other. However, the current was so strong that all seven of them perished. The youngest was 16 and the oldest of them – 24.
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Who We Are
Ralph's Beginnings
Ralph's parents – Rudy and Marian Merk – purchased a small Osoyoos cherry orchard in the early 1980's as they embarked on 'retirement'. This business opportunity gave Ralph the privilege of working alongside his parents. In 1984, Ralph married Elizabeth and they joyfully rolled up their sleeves to promote fresh BC fruits and vegetables – out of the back of their old, yellow van.
Establishing a more permanent produce location at Granville Island Public Market (Vancouver, BC) took place in 1985. That's where RALPH'S gained the reputation for offering fair prices, good old fashioned family service, and fresh produce from the orchards and fields of the Okanagan. It was with great blessings when Ralph's sister and brother-in-law (Dianne and Murray Redekop) joined the team in 1987. They brought their twin daughters (Julie and Karen) from Saskatchewan who have grown up to become very hardworking, cheerful members of RALPH'S current staff. With 22 years at Granville Island, becoming experts in the produce industry was firmly rooted.
The Merk's purchased a family farm in 1989 located in Langley, BC. Meanwhile, Ralph & Elizabeth's own family has been growing: With a span of 16 years between Jason, Jennifer, Steven, Vanessa, and Sara they all experienced the joys of farm life and have been learning how to 'bear fruit' in the family business.
By 1991, produce sales began on a hay wagon. Due to customer loyalty, these country farmer beginnings were replaced with RALPH'S present road-side Murrayville farm market. Since opening year-round in 1998, residents from all over the Fraser Valley choose RALPH'S as part of their weekly shopping routine. A farm experience where country meets the city! We're delighted to note that in the same year, harvest contributions began fresh from Ralph's field!
Our Business
We are 100% British Columbian, family-owned and operated. We treat customers, staff and suppliers with honesty, courtesy and integrity. We are friendly, eager to serve and hardworking. We create a positive and supportive work experience for our team.
Our Community
By raising our own family in Langley, we are grateful to the local, surrounding community. Whole-heartedly, we support local growers and producers. We show our gratefulness by giving back to local charities and community organizations.
Our Service
We provide a farm experience, where country meets the city for our surrounding community. We are positively influencing and creating healthier and happier lifestyles, through an uplifiting atmosphere and providing the freshest, most delicious and most nutritious produce. We instill trust in our shoppers, creating happy customers – to us, that's a successful day! We always Remain dedicated to the customer experience and are continuously examining ways to improve it. All of our success attributes to our loyal customers, staff and the Lord's provision.
Our Quality
We always do our best to provide our customers with the highest quality products, in all of our departments – everyday. We maintain our reputation as The Okanagan Connection so that our community is offered the freshest quality fruits and vegetables. We cater to discerning food lovers, who seek healthy choices. This is why we offer a variety of natural, organic and conventional grocery items. We are continually analyzing our specialty offerings to ensure that we are meeting our community's needs.
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A rebranding for the bulgarian version of 40under40. The project aims to present the successful young Bulgarians who are under 40 years old and are not in the media attention.
The task was to create a new project identity, bold and innovative.
Many of the people that get selected by the 40under40 jury have incredible stories, sometimes even unbelievable. That is why i chose to go with an unbelievable or impossible perspective that simply says to the public: Nothing is impossible…


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North Korea says its ICBM can carry nuclear warhead; U.S. calls for global action – media
North Korea said on Wednesday its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) can carry a large nuclear warhead, triggering a call by Washington for global action to hold it accountable for pursuing nuclear weapons, according to Reuters.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Defense Department said it had concluded that North Korea test-launched an ICBM on Tuesday, which some experts now believe had the range to reach the U.S. state of Alaska as well as parts of the mainland United States, as reported by Reuters.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the test, on the eve of the U.S. Independence Day holiday, represented "a new escalation of the threat" to the United States and its allies, and vowed to take stronger measures.
Read alsoNorth Korea hails 'long-range' missile test – BBCTillerson warned that any country that hosts North Korean workers, provides economic or military aid to Pyongyang, or fails to implement U.N. sanctions "is aiding and abetting a dangerous regime".
"All nations should publicly demonstrate to North Korea that there are consequences to their pursuit of nuclear weapons," Tillerson said in a statement.


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Tags: child > computer > ebay > fitzand > funny > keyboard > netbook > online > parcel > shopping
An hour ago … while playing with Fitzand in his room and he was typing away on his imaginary computer … when he suddenly turned over and asked 'Daddy! You want to buy a camera?'. I was a little puzzled but soon I realised it could be because sometimes when he comes bugging me while I'm at my computer … I'll be surfing the 'net looking at cameras. 😀 Oh no! Hahaha! So I promptly said 'Yes … I want a camera.'.
My little boss with my netbook. No … not the imaginary one mentioned above. 😀 This is an old photo.
He continued to 'type' and pretended to type further. 'Do you want ALE camera?' he asked. Huh? ALE camera? Ermm … I love drinking Pale Ale … so what the heck … an ALE camera it shall be! He typed and typed. Then he stopped and told me that he bought the camera for me. OMG! eBay? With my credit card???!!!
The funniest moment was perhaps a few seconds later when he said someone was knocking at the door. He opened the room door and said that my camera arrived! Hahahaha! He then 'collected' an imaginary parcel … closed the door … carefully placed the 'parcel' on the floor and said … 'I open the box for you. This is your camera. You cannot use it yet. You need to put in battery.' I tried not to laugh and then he proceeded to 'load batteries' and then said 'I try for you first ok?'. Ermm … ok. Hahaha! He lifted the 'camera' to his eye level … told me 'you look like this … then when you see something nice only you … click … click. Okay?'. At this point, I couldn't help but laugh and thanked him for it.
I can understand about the part where he knows I buy cameras online but ermm … the part when the parcels arrive … I'm sure he made it all up because my parcels usually arrive at the office and he has never seen me receiving or opening one!
I look forward to the day when he really buy me a camera (with his own money of course but he is only 4 now … so that will be a long wait) but for now … I'm keeping my eBay password and credit card away from him. 😀


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Swellendam Heritage Association to erect Swellendam family crests
The Swellendam Heritage Association (SHA) has commenced on a project to have Swellendam family crests displayed on metal hoardings attached to the lampposts along the west end of Voortrekker Street. The Swellendam Municipality has approved a pilot project in this respect. The pilot project saw the erection of four hoardings displaying eight family crests (two crests, one on each side of a hoarding). The purpose of the pilot project is to gauge public opinion with regard to heritage, inclusivity and aesthetic value before commencing with the full project. Examples of these family crests in the pilot project can now be viewed on the lampposts opposite Moolmanshof.
SHA wants this to be a Swellendam community project. All families, whether with historic ties, who currently reside in or are involved in Swellendam are asked to be part of this project.
This picturesque town is unique in terms of situation, landscape and natural scenery. Her history is illustrious and diverse, created and formed through contributions of all ethnic, social and administrative role-players. So special is she that Dr. Joan Prins, a Swellendammer of old, once referred to her as "The Swellendam Mixed Grill". SHA, through this project, aims to give recognition to those past or present within the greater Swellendam community.
The pilot project will continue for the balance of this year and next year, if all goes according to plan, a huge effort will go into filling the western end of the main street with family crests.
SHA would like to record its thanks to the municipality for approval of the pilot phase of the project, support and the erection of the hoardings. The association's thanks also goes to the participants in the project and Alex Hayn of Atelier Studio for design assistance. Francois and Shaun from Lotz Signs for the manufacture of the Crest Boards. Johan van Schalkwyk for the manufacture of the frames and assisting Francois du Rand and Frik Erasmus and their team from the municipality for the mounting of the crests. Without their participation SHA could not have commenced the project. The association is convinced that this project will make a unique contribution to the distinction of the town.
All families who would like to participate or would like to give recognition to an old Swellendam family, can submit the names and their contribution to the association. Families who do not possess an existing family crest will be assisted to create a crest using the background of their family's history. It would also be appreciated if contributors would sponsor families who may need assistance financially as a way of possibly repaying such a family or any other personal reason.
The main project will be launched in January 2020 so interested parties are invited to order their family's crest before then.
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My strategy is to fill in all possible numbers on each cell and then I look to eliminate. the tiny newspaper size doesn't allow this easily. I'm looking for a blank board I can download and print. (I actually made my own on graph paper and scanned it but wondering if there's something more "professional")
My newspaper just started carrying Sudoku last week so I just started playing and have not been stumped-yet! The first few were so easy I was cocky and got bored but then it published 4 and 5 stars and it got fun.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday there was a heavy police presence along w. Division St. at Dollar General. Springfield police officers were called to check the well being of an unresponsive man who was sitting in a van in the parking lot.
The officers talked with the man and discovered the van was stolen. They asked him to step out of the van but he drove away. The female officer was dragged through the parking lot. A back-up officer fired his gun hitting the van driver.
"It was scary," Brittany Persinger, a witness, said.
The van driver was spotted in Midtown near the intersection of Jefferson and Calhoon. After a brief foot chase, he was arrested by officers.
The van driver was taken to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Those with the Springfield Police Department say the officer who was dragged through the parking lot was treated for her injuries on the scene and will be okay.


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Dr. Scott Loepp is an independent consultant with Katz, Sapper & Miller's Veterinary Services Group. With more than 30 years of experience as a clinician, as both a partner and a sole owner, Dr. Loepp has dealt with all of the challenges of operating a successful business. He is the practice owner and a veterinarian at Frontier Veterinary Hospital in Portland, OR.
In his role with KSM, Dr. Loepp advises on issues such as fee and medical record reviews, standards of care, operational workflow, and how to create a turnkey organization.
Dr. Loepp earned a Veterinariae Medicinae Doctoris degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and anthropology from Duke University.
Dr. Loepp previously served as president of both the Portland and the Oregon Veterinary Medical Associations. He is currently the director of group development at the Veterinary Study Groups.
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NC State Misses A Final 400 Medley Relay With Alternate Lineup
NC State missed the A final of the 400 medley relay while swimming an alternate lineup and gaining almost two seconds. Cal very nearly missed the final as well while swimming without Olympic champ Ryan Murphy.
2017 M. NCAA Picks: California In Position To Reclaim 200 Medley Relay
Ryan Murphy will look to lead Cal back to the top of the podium in the 200 medley relay.
Louisville Downs ACC Record to Win 400 medley Relay Gold
NC State and Louisville battled for the gold, with just .12 separating them at the finish. During the entire duration of the race, they were never separated by more than 3 tenths of a second.
2017 Men's ACC Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap
The 2017 Men's ACC Championships kick off today at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, GA. Swimmers are slated to compete in the 200 medley relay and 800 free relay.
Held Splits 18.1 as NC State Sets New ACC Record in 200 Medley Relay
The biggest difference maker came on the backstroke leg, as freshman Coleman Stewart blazed his way to a 20.97 to give them the early lead.
NC State Men, Stanford Women Return To #1 In Division I Polls
The new Division I swimming and diving polls are out with NC State climbing back to the #1 spot after…
NC State Women Win Nailbiter Over Virginia By 6 Points
The battle between the NC State and Virginia women came down to the very end of the meet on Saturday, as the Wolfpack secured victory by 6 points with their win in the 200 free relay.
Freshman Ky-Lee Perry Sets Pool Record as NC State Beats UNC
Freshman Ky-Lee Perry impressed in the women's sprints, setting a new Pool Record in the 50 free.
2016 NC State Invite Day 2 Finals: McHugh, Small Get the Job Done for Tennessee
Day 2 of the 2016 NC State GAC Invitational saw Tennessee Volunteers top the 400 IM on the women's and men's sides.
2016 NC State Invite Day 2: McHugh Tops 400 IM Prelims in 3:43.5
Tennessee All-American Sam McHugh kicked off day 2 of the 2016 NC State GAC Invitational with a dominant swim in the men's 400 IM prelims.
College Swimming Previews: #4 NC State Men Continue Meteoric Rise
The NC State Wolfpack will be looking to bust through into the top 3 at NCAAs after a somewhat disappointing 4th place finish last year.
NC State's Braden Holloway "We Wanted to Prove Ourselves Again"
NC State coach Braden Holloway talks about everything from the depth of the ACC to training in an Olympic year after the conclusion of the 2016 ACC Men's Swimming & Diving Championships.
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Out of lane 2, the men from NC State got it done in the 200 medley relay at last night's opening session of the 2016 ACC Championships.
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Research Seminar: Pr S. Bartram, Warwick Business School, "Fundamental Analysis Works"
Research Seminar
27th March 2015 at 12:00, Room: 4205
ESCP EUROPE, 79 avenue de la République 75011 Paris
Professor Söhnke M. Bartram, Warwick Business School
Will present the paper:
"Fundamental Analysis Works"
Abstract: Stock prices cannot be the outcome of a rational efficient market if fundamental analysis based on public information is profitable. Our approach to fundamental analysis estimates the intrinsic fair values of stocks from the most common quarterly balance sheet and income statement items that were last reported in Compustat. Taking the view of a statistician with little knowledge of the theory of finance, we show that the most basic form of fundamental analysis yields trades with risk-adjusted returns of up to 9% per year. The trading strategy relies on convergence of market prices to their fair values. The greatest rate of convergence occurs in the month after the mispricing signal and subsequently decays to zero over the subsequent 28 months. Profits from trading are present for both large and small firms in economically significant magnitudes.
Organizers: Prof. Gunther Capelle-Blancard (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Labex Refi), Prof. Christophe Moussu (ESCP Europe, Labex Refi), Arthur Petit-Romec (ESCP Europe, Labex Refi)


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As news began to circulate that Deepika Padukone will be doing a Luv Ranjan film along with Ranbir Kapoor, fans took to Twitter to express their disappointment through a #NotMyDeepika campaign.
On Friday night, Deepika Padukone was seen alongwith Ranbir Kapoor leaving Luv Ranjan's office in Mumbai. A few images have gone viral over the internet suggesting the same.
Last year, it was announced that Ranbir will be seen in Ranjan's next film alongwith Ajay Devgn. It is not clear whether the meeting was for the same project.
Memes suggesting fans' displeasure have taken over Twitter. Some are defending the actor's performances in films and choice while the others are trolling the actor for working with Luv Ranjan and the kind of films he makes.
Here are a few of them.
Crazens and neutrals to LuvRat, Bhushan Kumar and their shitty film right now : #NotMyDeepika pic.twitter.com/b8b1U1prT2
— ❦ (@MonaDarlingx) July 20, 2019
Deepika after realizing signing this Luv Ranjan film is the worst decision she could make#notmydeepika pic.twitter.com/rJiuNKmvKD
— Eli (@belisaav) July 20, 2019
Deepika calling Luv to cancel the film. #notmydeepika pic.twitter.com/aaWgaTSzsP
— sera (@ssuldier) July 20, 2019
Deepika to her fans pic.twitter.com/quwkEAufPm
— Shab. (@IamShab07) July 20, 2019
Being the top actress of your country you have many people looking upto you, it is YOUR responsibility to set the right example. Are you even aware of how you are gonna promote someone who has sexually harassed other women by working in his film? #NotMyDeepika
— ❦ (@MonaDarlingx) July 20, 2019
@deepikapadukone you've disappointed your fans #notmydeepika
— Crazen (@emma_liaa) July 20, 2019
I refuse to believe that she signed this or is thinking whether to do it or not. We all know Deepika. This is not something she would do. #notmydeepika
— #Chhapaak (@padukonesbae) July 20, 2019
#notmydeepika @deepikapadukone you have got so many young girls looking upto you, don't let us down please, don't do the movie.
— (@ranveerdeepikas) July 20, 2019


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People use social networks as a getaway thing, they use various apps to forget about the daily struggles for a while. Over the past years, Facebook faced a lot of controversies due to the spread of fake information over the internet. Various people spread fake information to misguide people or to create chaos in the surrounding.
How rumors are detectedA month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a rumor spread on Facebook. People started sharing about a viral gimmick familiar to email spammers: "Copy and paste this message to all your friends, or else Facebook will share your private information". This hoax started particularly in the U.S. and the Philippines.
Inside Facebook, California, headquarters, a small group of people watched this rumor gain traction by using a special software program they called Stormchaser. The tool was specially designed to track hoaxes, silly jokes and often untrue viral misconceptions, particular about Facebook-owned apps.
Use of StormchaserSince 2016, Facebook employees have used Stormchaser to track various viral posts, including a popular conspiracy that the company listens to users through their phone's microphone according to their three former employees.
Stormchaser is one of the several tools that Facebook uses to manage its reputation after all the controversies over the past years.
Facebook used this tool only to detect posts about Facebook based on keywords, and to respond according to the situation.
Companies monitor social media to get feedbackWe live in a digital world where almost everyone prefers social media for all sorts of purposes. Different companies use social media to learn about the customer response to their products. Facebook is unique in a way that it owns the platform that its watching, this advantage helps Facebook to track and reach users more effectively.
Facebook tries all the ways possible to create a good impact on its usersAfter various controversies, Facebook hires hundreds of public relations official to create a better image of the company. They collect survey data on a frequent basis to understand how the general public views them. The internal efforts of Facebook which haven't been reported that much includes a program dubbed Night's Watch, after HBO's Game of Thrones, The Facebook staff monitors how the news coverage of Facebook spread on social network and apps such as WhatsApp. Although the content is encrypted on WhatsApp but Facebook could get a sense of what went viral on the app by looking at how people mentioned information from WhatsApp when they posted to Facebook.
Use of polls to measure top leadersDifferent companies use polls to measure how different top leaders are perceived according to a variety of people. During the 2016 elections, the data collected was also used to determine where Zuckerberg and Sandberg stand in front of others. In June 2017, Zuckerberg was considered as the "mature", "honest" and "passionate" CEO. He scored the highest "innovative" and lowest on "shares my values"
- Also read: Mark Zuckerberg is No More its Employees' Most Favorite CEO, Revealed a Recently Collected Data
Zuckerberg's commencement address at Harward University in May 2017 was rated more "inspiring" than his F8 conference earlier that year, reported Bloomberg.
Issues of Zuckerberg with glass conference roomA particular issue arises when Zuckerberg found his face appeared in a presentation with a label "Historic Innovation". The concept that he was not a current innovator anymore made a lot of controversies because Facebook is a platform for its creativity to recruit software coders and to sustain company morale.
Facebook introducing new features to attract more usersFacebook executives went on stage at their annual developer conference to announce about tech that could transfer a person's thoughts into texts on Screen. In summer 2017, Facebook copied some features of Snapchat by introducing short stories, etc.
- Also read: New Research Claims that Facebook Plays a Significant part in Improving the Mental Health of Adults!
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I'm currently a college student and creative writing teacher at a vocational training school. Every moment I promise to myself, " One day I'll be a writer." Now, I'm working to the writing of a TV series of my invention.
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Favorite Movies: The Devil's Advocate, Forrest Gump, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Others, Shutter Island , V for Vendetta, Citizen Kane, Inception, the Harry Potter movies, The Lord Of The Rings, The Water Horse, The Great Gatsby, I Am Legend. I can watch these movies and never get tired .
Favorite TV Shows: Hannibal , Black Mirror, Teen Wolf , The Originals.
Favorite Actors: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Nicholas Cage, Leonardo di Caprio, Matt Damon, Will Smith, Bradley Cooper, Robert de Niro, Robin Williams and Dylan O'Brien.
Favorite Actresses: Nicole Kidman, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, Eva Green, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter.
My First Movie Experience: Ghost. I was still a little girl when my grandfather died and I remember my mother explaining to me through that movie that despite I could not see him he was with me.
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"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!"
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Monday, November 30, 2009
New Webisode posted!
Hey Gang, we just posted the 4th webisode from season 2--about Dr. Guy Harvey's research on stingrays at Stingray City, Grand Cayman. You can read about the shoot in our BLOG entry from back in May. Hope you enjoy the new segment!!
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
The new DVDs are here!!
Finally, after almost 2 years of production, months of editing and design, and another month of pressing--the season 2 DVDs are here!! We are now shipping all the pre-orders that have come in and we are extending our pre-order price as a pre-holiday discount until Dec. 15. You can get a huge stack of season 2 DVDs for holiday gifts for a great price! CHECK IT OUT!
The DVD is a two disc set containing all 7 half hour shows from season 2, plus a bonus feature ("Sharks: Predators with a Purpose" an award-winning short film about the need to protect sharks, produced by Oceanic Research Group). Also included is a great coupon for significant savings from Ian's Natural Foods, our major sponsor! So get some DVDs today and spread the fun!!
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Friday, November 13, 2009
JBBW returns from Raja Ampat, Indonesia!
Hey Everyone,
I'm in Singapore on my way back from an exciting trip to Raja Ampat, Indonesia filming for season 3. This remote area in eastern Indonesia takes about 3 days to reach from the USA but has the most spectacular coral reefs in the world. Pierre and I were filming a rare "walking" cat shark and Tasselled Wobbegong sharks for a segment on bottom-dwelling sharks. Also, we shot tiny pygmy seahorses (only the size of a fingernail) for a segment on seahorses.
The reefs were amazing and the trip was spectacularly fun, but I'm looking forward to getting home. I have been away a lot and I'm looking forward to a nice quiet holiday season at home!
More news to come soon....
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
New Webisode is posted!
Yes, we posted it a couple days early because we are leaving for Indonesia tomorrow. The newest episode of Jonathan Bird's Blue World is on the website!
Check it out!!
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
The JBBW team returns from Curacao
Hey Gang,
Tim Geers, Mia Peluso and I just returned from Curacao where we shot 3 (or maybe 2-1/2) segments for season 3 of Jonathan Bird's Blue World. We went down for the coral spawn which was predicted to occur on the nights of Oct 10-12. It did spawn, but not as much as we might have hoped, so the footage is pretty thin. We may have to go back next year for another attempt. Since we are at the beginning of an 18-20 month shooting cycle, that will not be a problem.
While we were there, we also visited the Curacao Seaquarium, where we met George Kieffer, the director of the dolphin program and the guy in charge of the rehabilitation of a stranded pilot whale named Sully that they are nursing back to health. We decided to make a segment about their dolphin program, and another about Sully, who is named after Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, the U.S. Air pilot who landed the crippled jet on the Hudson River.
For 5 days we shot around the island above and below water, then we dove for half the night on three of the nights we were there, hoping to capture good footage of the coral spawn. (We got some, but probably not enough). On the last day, we spent 12 straight hours working at the Seaquarium. It was a very long 5 days because we worked hard, got sunburned and didn't get much sleep. But the result was some excellent material for season 3!
We would like to thank Habitat Curacao, The Curacao Seaquarium, the Curacao Tourist Board and Ocean Encounters for their support as well as our pal Chernov for being our guide to the island! Mia was on her first assignment with the Blue World team as production manager for a shoot, and we'll see if she ever wants to do it again!
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Jonathan Signing posters & DVDs at NPEE
It was a fun weekend at the Natural Products Expo East in Boston. I was there at the Ian's Natural Foods booth signing shark posters and DVDs for fans of the show. They were running a DVD on a small screen, and we had lots of people young and old stop by to talk sharks, Blue World and great healthy food! (I even managed to grab a stash of Ian's new healthy snack food "Fruitabits." They didn't last long once I got home and my kids discovered them!)
Did you miss the Expo? Well you can catch the Natural Products Expo West in March, 2010. It's in Anaheim, CA! Ian's will be there, and so will I! We'll even have season 2 DVDs available. Come on down!
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Goliath Grouper spawning shoot!
Pierre and I just came back from a great shoot filming the Goliath Grouper spawning event in Florida for the 3rd season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World. We spent a couple days filming with David Doubilet, Jen Hayes and Wyland--heavy hitters in the underwater world. That was great fun. We were working with Jim Abernethy off his boat the Shear Water. We had tons of great fish action. Unfortunately, we are so busy finishing the second season stuff right now that I haven't had time to go through the footage and capture some underwater stills for the BLOG. I'll have to add them later. However, I have a couple topside shots of the gang in in action! (Special thanks to Annette Robertson for these pics!)
After a few days on the Shear Water, Pierre, David, Jen and I headed over to work with David Ochs and AquaSafari Adventures for an afternoon and dive a different wreck. We had fewer fish, but really clear water!
And in other news, if you haven't noticed yet, the first webisode of season 2 is now posted on the Blue World Website!! It's about my adventure learning to be an aquarist at the New England Aquarium. Check it out!
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Season 2 is Coming Soon!
Well, the season 2 master tapes for Jonathan Bird's Blue World have been delivered for closed captioning and they are now on the way to NETA for the satellite feed to the public television stations beginning Oct. 9, 2009! It's very exciting! It won't be long now before the show is airing across the USA!
We are now working on authoring the DVD set for the complete season 2. It should be ready well before Christmas and will be a two disk set. It will be provided in anamorphic 16:9 aspect ratio to take advantage of HDTVs. At this point, there are no immediate plans for a Blu-ray set, even though it was shot in HD. That's because the licensing costs of Blu-ray are too high to justify a small press run.
In the meantime, I squeezed in a short trip to Florida to film the Goliath Grouper spawning event. Wow, those are some big big fish and Pierre and I filmed a wonderful segment.
Finally, some more big news....check out the all new BLUE WORLD website!!
We are now working on authoring the DVD set for the complete season 2. It should be ready well before Christmas and will be a two disk set. It will be provided in anamorphic 16:9 aspect ratio to take advantage of HDTVs. At this point, there are no immediate plans for a Blu-ray set, even though it was shot in HD. That's because the licensing costs of Blu-ray are too high to justify a small press run.
In the meantime, I squeezed in a short trip to Florida to film the Goliath Grouper spawning event. Wow, those are some big big fish and Pierre and I filmed a wonderful segment.
Finally, some more big news....check out the all new BLUE WORLD website!!
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
We're editing like crazy!
We have one week to go before we will be outputting all the season 2 programs to tape, so things around the Blue World office are busy! We have been editing the segments slowly over the past 18 months as we have been shooting them. Most of the segments were edited by me while I was not traveling, but Art edited two of them and Kerry edited four. As you know, the segments, which run 6-12 minutes each, end up being "webisodes" on the website, with a short opening sequence. But strung together, three at a time, with "bumpers" between them, and a 1 minute opening sequence, they are ~28 minute television programs.
With season 2, things are more complicated than season 1. First of all, we're shooting, editing and delivering the show to television in HD. (For you technical buffs, we shoot in 1080/60i). Also, we now have an underwriter (Ian's Natural Foods....yummy chicken nuggets!) so we needed to create a "spot" (15 second promo) for them that goes into the beginning and end of the program for public television.
So after the Ian's spot was complete and approved, including a theme song by Bruce Zimmerman, we had to get Art into the studio to record his "bumpers" (you know, the part where the guy with the great voice says "Coming up next on Jonathan Bird's Blue World..."). After those were recorded, the assembly of programs began. This is fun because it all comes together. The new opening sequence which we have been working on for months, the Ian's spot, the bumpers, the segments, and of course putting the credits together and trying not to forget anyone.
The last step is when we rent a very expensive Sony HDCAM studio deck for a day to output everything from our editing system (An 8 core Mac running Final Cut Studio) to tape. This is nerve-wracking for me, because I constantly worry something will go wrong. It usually doesn't, although once we had a power outage in the middle of an output to tape and everything crashed. When the shows are on tape, I can breathe a huge sigh of relief because they no longer depend on hard drives and computers! Having the finished product on a nice HD tape in the hand is a good thing. That's when it feels real.
Next those HDCAM masters go to a company that does the closed-captioning for the hearing impaired, and the descriptive audio for the blind. The new masters with closed captioning are then sent to NETA, our distributor, for the satellite feed. Our satellite feed for season 2 begins October 9, so you can start bugging your local public TV stations for it after that!
Whew, it's a lot of work to make this show. A typical 10 minute segment requires at least a week in the field to shoot, sometimes more. Then it takes about 10 days of editing to get it completely finished. By the time we finish an entire half-hour show, complete with music, bumpers, etc., we probably have a solid two months invested in it. Now you can see why it takes more than a year to make 7 new shows!
Wish us luck...we go to tape next weekend!
P.S. Have you noticed that the new Jonathan Bird's Blue World website is live?
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Season 3 filming begins in the Galapagos!
We have a lot of cool announcements coming in the next few weeks. We are launching our new JBBW website, delivering the finished edits of the season 2 shows to our distributor, and starting a marketing effort on season 2. But for this Blog entry, I want to tell you about the very first shoot of season 3--in the Galapagos.
I spent 2 weeks working in the Galapagos with Pierre and Julia on the first segments we are shooting for season 3. Since we have already done segments on Whale sharks (coming out in season 2) and hammerheads (season 1) we are not making any segments on the subject which is the most common in the Galapagos. Instead, we are doing a segment on sea lions and on marine iguanas. (We also planned a segment on mola mola, but they didn't cooperate.)
We had a fantastic 12 days working from a nice live-aboard dive boat, spending 6 days at Wolf and Darwin Islands to film whale sharks and hammerheads (hey, I love those critters) then headed down south to the cold water to film the sea lions and marine iguanas.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Last shoot of season 2!
Christine, Tim and I just came back from Grand Cayman, where we completed the final shoot of Season 2 of Jonathan Bird's Blue World! The segment is about Stingray City and the research that Guy Harvey (famous marine artist and PhD in marine biology) has conducted into the habits of these animals. Stingray City is the name of a place where they have been feeding Southern Stingrays for many years, making them friendly. On a day when a cruise ship is in port, more than a thousand people go out to feed the stingrays. What effect does this have on the animals? How does it change their natural behavior? Well, you'll find out when the show airs! One of the best parts of this segment was getting to know Guy and his daughter Jessica. We spent a couple days diving, fishing and even relaxing on the beach with Guy and his family. It was great fun!
Later, we shot a segment at the Cayman Turtle Farm which will probably appear in season 3. This new facility (rebuilt after Hurricane Ivan in 2004) is quite impressive, and the turtles are so cute!
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
The Blue World Team Goes to British Columbia
Things have been busy around here in the Blue World! As we reach the end of our season 2 filming, we are getting a little nuts. Pierre, Kerry, Linda and I just returned from a week shooting in Port Hardy, British Columbia, at the end of Vancouver Island. We went out for a segment on Giant Pacific Octopus, some shots of giant sun stars, and also the Pacific Wolf-eel. We didn't get enough decent material for the octopus segment, so that will have to wait until season 3. However, we got some great footage of the wolf eels and sun stars, so look for those in the release of season 2!
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Friday, March 13, 2009
The Blue World Team Goes To Antarctica!
We have just landed back in Ushuaia, Argentina (southernmost city in the world) from our exciting Blue World shoot in Antarctica. Our team took a ship over 600 nautical miles from Ushuaia over the Drake Passage (roughest water in the world) to Antarctica for a week of diving and exploring the most remote and hostile place on Earth.
We dove every day in water that ranged from 30 to 34 degrees, using extremely warm drysuits. The highlights of the diving included a school of gigantic jellyfish almost 2 feet across, weird and rare cold water benthic invertebrates, a pair of curious Leopard seals (known to be the most aggressive animal in Antarctica) and even a dive on a shipwreck.
We walked with thousands of penguins and Fur seals, dove under icebergs, and even visited a couple of remote research stations. Fortunately, we enjoyed extremely good weather. The sun was out most of the time and the daytime temperatures peaked above freezing.
All this exciting stuff will be part of the Antarctic segments in the second season of Jonathan Bird's Blue World coming to you in the summer of 2009!
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At a special event in Tokyo, Square-Enix have revealed the latest piece of Lightning's story. It's a PS3/360 game scheduled for a 2013 release, and it's called Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. In the short video below, producer Yoshinori Kitase briefly introduces the game, stating that it will portray Lightning's final battle, and end her saga that began in 2010's Final Fantasy XIII.
The game takes place in Novus Partus, a world of four islands that float in the Sea of Chaos. These islands are surrounded by a blue lagoon that simply drops off into an abyss, lending the world an ethereal beauty. These islands apparently play host to a range of environments; from rocky terrain to desert and ruins, and are said to be full of wilderness and ripe for exploration.
In the video below, XIII-series art director Isamu Kamikokuryo goes into more detail on the world of Lightning Returns, and while it's interesting that Square-Enix have chosen not to simply call this installment Final Fantasy XIII-3, Kamikuryo points out Etro's throne and New Cocoon in the environment art of the world's largest city, Luxerion – two major plot points from XIII-2.
Also of note is the monorail, which allows Lightning to travel between the islands, and I must say, the design of the architecture and the notion of a train system linking the different 'island towns' immediately calls to mind the PS Vita's excellent Gravity Rush – certainly no bad thing. It does make me wonder quite where this new installment takes place, though; is Novus Partus on Gran Pulse? Surely not, but we can see New Cocoon floating in the sky. Is it somehow connected to Valhalla? Considering the placement of Etro's throne, could it actually be Valhalla, but in a different time? I'm cetainly a little confused!
EDIT– According to IGN, the game is indeed set hundreds of years after the events of XIII-2 (the latter events of which took place hundreds of years after XIII…) and the game features a doomsday clock, which counts down to the end of days; the game itself begins 13 days before the end (didn't the flashbacks in XIII also start 13 days before the events of the game?).
Ok, the doomsday clock idea I can get behind; it reminds me of Majora's Mask, and it'll be interesting to see how Square-Enix implement a similar system – will we be able to undertake actions that set the clock back and give ourselves more time? But setting the game hundreds of years further into the future kind of irks me… Isn't the time travel getting a little out of hand now? If you want people to care about your world, surely a little consistency is needed? Perhaps the team will address this by allowing us to see inside New Cocoon, thus drawing a tighter thread between Lightning Returns and it's predecessor?
Some gameplay details were also discussed at the event and detailed in a liveblog on Andriasang. Once again, the game will be directed by Motomu Toriyama, who spoke about how they wish to portray Lightning in this third game. He noted that in XIII-2, Lightning had become something of a demigod and that the team want to show her as she was in the original game… before stating that she will be more powerful than ever before in Lightning Returns. Once again, I am confused.
There will apparently be some scope for customisation in-game, with references made to Lightning's outfits and weaponry, and the game is being developed with button response in mind, though Toriyama stopped short of declaring it an action game. A trailer was also shown to those in attendance, though photography was strictly forbidden by this point. Hopefully it'll surface online before too long.
We can expect to hear (and hopefully see) more on September 4th, though for now I remain a little skeptical. My interest is piqued, and I'm glad to see Lightning take centre stage again after the Serah-heavy XIII-2, but I hope Square-Enix have some way to tie this all together, acknowledging the previous games while also giving us something new to explore.
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Many forces are drawing sensor manufacturers to wireless technology. The explosive growth of the personal communications market has driven the cost of radio devices down and the quality up. At the same time, the expenses associated with installing, terminating, testing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and upgrading wiring continues to escalate faster than facility managers would like. The Federal Aviation Administration recently announced that aircraft wiring would no longer be considered a lifetime, fault-free techno-logy.[1] Not surprisingly, the details of the cost equation depend on the application. With wire in some specialized installations approaching $2000 per foot, the attractiveness of a wireless system needs little reinforcement.
In this article-the first of a two-part series-we'll provide information that will enable you to make sound build/buy decisions and to choose appropriate architectures and implementations. This article presents the background and technological underpinnings of wireless systems.
Photo 1. The nose-on-a-chip is a MEMS-based sensor that can detect 400 species of gases and transmit a signal indicating the level to a central control station. The wireless sensor was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Point-to-point wireless systems have been available in the instrumentation world for many years. The first architectures that supported wireless interconnects involved simple wireless modems capable of transmitting packets of data across a room (or a field) using standard RS-232 interfaces on both ends. Many of these early systems used digital modulation techniques across standard narrow-band frequency modulation channels. But restricted band allocations severely limited the number of devices that could operate simultaneously in a common area. More sophisticated modulation techniques and emerging standards are beginning to address these and other problems common to early systems. True wireless networks are becoming feasible through the use of advanced techniques.
Over the last 50 years, innovations have provided the basis for new thinking in the industrial application of radio telemetry. But innovations alone cannot bring wireless solutions to the industrial marketplace. The economics of Moore's law continue to teach us lessons about the relationships among technology, marketing, and quality. The market forces driving wireless telephony technologies continue to offer components that exploit new technology at astoundingly low prices and high quality. The second article in this series will discuss Moore's law in greater detail and explain how it applies to sensors, measurements, and controls.
Why Wireless Sensors?
The industry is moving toward the implementation of networks of wireless sensors that can operate in demanding environments and provide clear advantages in cost, size, power, flexibility, and distributed intelligence (see Photo 1, page 10). Architectures for sensor networks have been changing greatly over the last 50 years. We've all worked with measurement schemes in which individually wired sensors output a 4–20 mA signal that represented the parameter being measured. The cost and complexity of such wiring prompted many to embrace bus architectures when they became available in the 1970s.
|Figure 1. The long runs of wires necessary for 4–20 mA designs have given way to the bus and network architectures of today. The distributed intelligence supported by the concentrators in these architectures not only reduces the wiring but also the required communication bandwidth. Intelligent wireless sensors will bring a new reduction in wiring; more opportunities for distributed intelligence; and with peer-to-peer sensor networks, improved reliability and robustness.
Bus and network topologies significantly reduced the required wiring and provided an opportunity for hierarchical architectures that supported distributed intelligence at the unit and factory floor levels. Smart sensor standards-by supporting higher level interfaces and allowing information abstraction and object-oriented approaches-are also providing new opportunities for distributed intelligence architectures. Many of the standards allow individual sensors to interface directly with a digital bus.
But these standards haven't eliminated the need to wire individual sensors to a concentrator. And this architecture introduces a single point of failure-the digital bus connecting all the sensors. Alternatives provide redundant bus architectures, but cost and complexity escalate significantly as the number of required connections increases. As shown in Figure 1 (page 12), a wireless network of intelligent sensors eliminates that failure mode and provides peer-to-peer communications so that cooperating-sensor implementations can be cost effective.
New sensors and actuators based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are coming out of laboratories around the world and providing solutions in specific applications.[2] Many automotive air bag deployment systems have been designed to use state-of-the-art MEMS-fabricated accelerometers-potentially the most widespread application of MEMS to date. And a new generation of ink jet printers uses print heads fabricated with MEMS techniques. Attaching wires to these miniature devices can be problematic and introduces failure modes that could be avoided with wireless designs.
The Center for Intelligent Sensors in Germany builds miniature sensors based on multichip modules. Photo 2 shows a submicron position sensor designed to measure the location of material during assembly. The ribbon cable illustrates the need for a wireless interface both to reduce the probability of failure and to maintain the low mass of the sensor for specific deployment scenarios. Many new miniature sensors are designed with low-mass, low-footprint electronics but require cables to be attached. Wireless implementations will eventually make these devices even more versatile. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) nose-on-a-chip is a MEMS-based sensor that can theoretically detect as many as 400 species of gases and wirelessly signal the level in parts per billion (ppb) (see Photo 1). Tests at ORNL have confirmed ppb sensitivity for mercury in air with a wireless signal transmitted to a PC receiver for readout.[3]
A self-contained wireless temperature sensor is shown in Figure 2 (page 14). Tests conducted onboard the Navy's USS The Sullivans showed that the device could reliably transmit the temperature of the environment over three decks and under typical shipboard EMI conditions. Figure 3 shows the functions implemented in the single-chip wireless temperature sensor. The area on the lower left was designed to be sensitive to a specific frequency of an IR signal. The communications protocol implemented on the chip allows a TV-style remote to be used to program the sample rate, analog gain, and other parameters. The potential for cost reduction, unprecedented flexibility, and power reduction is evident in these single-chip wireless systems.
The first (and to date only) commercially available, fully integrated wireless sensor was announced by Computational Systems, Inc., in the fall of 1998. CSI, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Emerson Electric, can be reached at www.compsys.com and is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The self-contained device is part of CSI's program for monitoring the health of rotating machinery and measures temperature, vibration, and other important parameters. The intelligent sensor performs an FFT on the raw acceleration data, alarms on off-normal conditions, and transmits only the small amount of data necessary to update the host on the status of the equipment.
|Photo 2. The fragile wiring on miniature sensors, like the submicron position sensor illustrated here, makes the case for why wireless technology will become more important as sensors shrink.
CSI's robust, consistent, distributed architecture allows the customer to add new sensors to the network as they become available. Because CSI has elected to maintain proprietary interfaces, new sensors will only be available from CSI or from licensed partners. Open standards are meant to provide end users with options from a wide array of suppliers who opt to comply. The battle between open and proprietary standards will play out in this market as it has in other markets before.
The constantly reduced cost of computational power lends itself well to the distributed architecture described above. Embedded intelligence reduces the bandwidth required in the communications path. Customer acceptance of wireless technology, led by the wireless phone market, is likely to spread to industry much like the ubiquitous personal computers that have penetrated the industrial markets.
Trends are already evident that encourage increased use of sensors, software, and controls to bolster a company's competitive advantage. When the factory floor data systems become a sustainable competitive advantage (rather than an expense to be managed), companies will demand continuously increasing performance and reduced cost-Moore's Law! New sensor companies (or existing companies that reinvent themselves) will likely emerge to supply low-cost, high-performance, easily deployed devices that will change the way end users view sensors and sensor systems.
|Figure 2. Integration of the sensor, signal conditioning, and telemetry on a single chip can overcome the high cost of wiring in distributed measurement applications.
Technological Underpinnings
The development and deployment of wireless sensors depend on the convergence of spread spectrum radio, new code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques, error detection/correction, and new techniques for mixed-signal (A/D) IC designs. Bringing these technologies to bear on sensor needs requires an interdisciplinary approach to design that many organizations have been unable to implement. Some organizations have successfully developed components for wireless sensors but haven't been able to produce an integrated sensor that meets operating parameters necessary for real-world use.
The disadvantages arising from the use of wireless technology in measurement applications have relegated wireless solutions to niche applications, at best. The disadvantages have been serious enough that most users have either avoided the temptation to pursue a wireless approach or, having suffered the consequences of the shortcomings, vowed never to try again. Problems identified in many of the early attempts include:
|Figure 3. The U.S. Navy tested the Telesensor to determine how effectively the intelligent wireless sensor could monitor temperature throughout a ship. The device reliably collected and transmitted data over three decks of the ship and resisted shipboard EMI. The diagram shows the various components of the sensor.
- A lack of robust connectivity
- Inadequate data rates
- Inadequate data security-wireless systems did not offer features that could prevent unauthorized interception of signals and data
- Limited extensibility-the technology lacked the ability to dynamically reconfigure existing and new sensor nodes in the network
- High cost-fabrication costs of radio transceivers meant that only high-value applications could be addressed
- EMI susceptibility-manufacturers could not produce the complex circuitry that ensured accuracy and implement immunity to nearby RF generators
- Overly complex logistics-deploying wireless devices required detailed logs and licenses
- Time synchronism-local synchronized time was not available for correlating cross-sensor data
- Short battery life-tetherless devices required batteries that had to be changed or recharged frequently
Solving these problems so that wireless sensors can be used to address market needs requires several technologies that have been known and understood for quite some time but whose costs are just now becoming competitive.
Spread Spectrum. Not all spread spectrum techniques are created equal. Spreading the energy of the communications signal over a wider range of frequencies can be accomplished in a number of different ways. The original patent described what is known as frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS). Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) uses a related but different approach to spread the signal. Ultra-wideband techniques spread the signal over very large frequency ranges. Each technique has advantages and disadvantages under the various conditions that might be encountered in a typical measurement application. In each case, the key is to make certain that the transmitter and receiver can lock in quickly and synchronize the spreading and despreading actions.
FHSS is conceptually simpler than the other techniques because most of us are accustomed to thinking in terms of frequency domain signals. The basic idea is that the signal is transmitted on a series of frequencies allocated for this purpose. The signal jumps from frequency to frequency at a predetermined rate and sequence. Because the sequence is pseudo random, unauthorized listeners won't know which frequency is next.
As the chipping rate (i.e., the number of changes per bit) increases, the security, noise immunity, and robustness increase. The chipping rate is a critical performance parameter of any digital, spread spectrum technique. The math shows that the process gain for chipping is 20 db log (chip rate). Because RF gain is usually a function of transmitter power, this is a critical power saving strategy, which extends battery life considerably. Chipping can't help in a white (Gaussian) noiselimited environment, but most real-world (as opposed to outer space) environments are limited by colored noise coming from nearby terrestrial sources.
DSSS distributes the signal over a range of frequencies by exclusive-oring each bit in the data stream with a high-rate, pseudo-random spreading code. Because the receiver has a copy of the code, it can recover the signal by reversing the operation. The 64-bit spreading code provides a robust and secure interface for the measurement. Some DSSS implementations use smaller spreading codes, but these result in less process gain and a less robust connection. This technique is related to chopping techniques that have been used for years to stabilize analog signals for use in feedback control systems.
Multipath interference occurs when a signal is reflected (and therefore time delayed) and appears at the receiver as an interfering signal. Automobile FM listeners hear this as the swish, swish that occurs in areas where reflections are common (e.g., an area containing hills, buildings, or metal towers).
But by spreading the signal over a range of frequencies, multipath interference is mitigated. The mathematics of spread spectrum transmissions show that as long as the time delay is greater than the chipping period multipath interference can be beneficial because alternative (i.e., reflective) paths can ease the line-of-sight requirement common in most radio telemetry applications. Only near-field, multipath interference is a problem. But because the frequency is constantly changing and the interleaving techniques ensure that chips are not sent on the same frequency in each bit, the actual interference caused by near-field, multipath transmission can be reduced to tolerable levels.
Code Division Multiple Access. If you effectively use the spread spectrum techniques outlined so far, you can use a channel-sharing strategy different from the time domain multiple access (TDMA) and frequency domain multiple access (FDMA) techniques. In TDMA implementations, each transmitter is allocated a time slot during which it is authorized to transmit. This implies that new devices must somehow fit into the existing sequence or a new configuration is necessary. FDMA requires that each transmitter stay on the frequency allocated. Extensibility to new devices is problematic without a carefully planned frequency allocation strategy.
Code division multiple access (CDMA) lets your wireless system support new transmitters without hard limits or a priori knowledge of how many will be required or how each of the transmitters will be configured. As long as the spreading codes are uncorrelated (i.e., orthogonal), each unwanted signal appears as random noise at the receiver and can be removed. The only limit is when the noise floor is elevated to the point where you can't reliably extract the signal.
Research at Virginia Tech's Mobile and Portable Radio Group shows how these limits play into real implementations. The Virginia Tech Web site is located at www.mprg.vt.edu and contains valuable information about wireless technology.
Mixed Signal Design. As a rule, you cut your expenses when you implement a function on a single IC. To a large extent, the cost of a viable implementation determines the component count. Most sensors still consist of multiple components. The integration of the components into subsystems and finally functional blocks has kept the cost of sensing and measurement systems relatively high while the cost of other electronic building blocks has plummeted.
The technical challenge for those creating sensor subsystems has been to integrate the transducer, signal processing, digitization, information abstraction, communications, and power in the same easy-to-manufacture package. Recent work at ORNL has demonstrated the feasibility of building integrated wireless sensors. Figure 2 and Photo 1 illustrate some examples of this approach.
The chip in Photo 1 contains 400 distinct sensor elements configured for readout through onboard electronics. When the sensor array was interfaced with the single-chip, spread spectrum, wireless transmitter, an ORNL team led by Chuck Britton demonstrated the feasibility of a new breed of sensors that are highly integrated, accurate, and can transmit their readings in engineering units compatible with existing data acquisition standards.
Ultimately, a design could incorporate many thousands of these sensor elements, including redundant devices, reference standards, and nulling sensors. The resultant measurement would be orders of magnitude more accurate and orders of magnitude less costly than current competing measurement devices.
The economics of this approach make this desirable. Mixing analog, digital, and radio frequency circuits on the same standard CMOS device presents a number of technical challenges that are just now becoming well understood.
Fully integrated electronics offer the additional advantage of consuming less power. Sound design practice and intelligent power management strategies are extending the battery life to intervals reasonable for plant-floor applications.
The work at ORNL's Instrumentation and Controls Division illustrates one approach to providing ubiquitous, low-cost wireless sensors. Information about our wireless work can be found at www.ornl.gov/orcmt/ wireless or can be obtained by contacting one of the authors directly. Other organizations have taken different approaches and can be found on the Web with little difficulty.
When evaluating alternatives, consider inherent sensor accuracy, robustness, power demand (battery life), and ease of implementation. A classic measurement for a communications channel is the bit error rate (BER). By checking the uncorrected BER, you can ascertain the robustness and likely failure scenarios for a given implementation. The tradeoff between BER and data rate is well understood because error-correcting codes must be added to the data stream to accommodate potential errors in the transmission. The better the uncorrected BER, the better the potential for getting the data through.
Many have speculated that the Next Generation Internet will be much more sensory interactive than the current Web. Adding the numbers of sensors necessary to address this demand will bring the sensor business to new paradigms. Preparing today to make this transition is critical to the long-term success of an organization.
Existing and emerging standards are making it easier for the transition to ubiquitous wireless sensors. The IEEE 802.11 allowed wireless Ethernet connectivity, giving people their first view of wireless connectivity to the Web. The number of requests for Internet addresses continues to grow exponentially as more and more devices are becoming Internet accessible. The IEEE 1451 smart sensor standard is making it easier to interface sensors to the network. Extensions to 1451 are now being proposed by IEEE committee members to support wireless sensors that can be instantly accessible over the Internet-with controlled access, of course.
The next article in this series will address more of the economic issues associated with wireless technology. We'll lay out a roadmap that you can use to determine appropriate applications for early success. We'll also examine more of the emerging trends to determine how they might affect decision points and arguments for organizational commitments to this technology. We will suggest critical partnership criteria to support decisions related to the build/buy/subcontract dilemma. The important issue here is for each organization to set a path that is comfortable and potentially profitable for it as the wireless revolution sweeps through the sensor, measurement, and control arenas.
- ABC News broadcast announcing Federal Aviation Administration decision on aircraft wiring. October 1998.
- S.T. Picraux and P.J. McWhorter. December 1998. "The Broad Sweep of Integrated Microsystems," IEEE Spectrum: 2433.
- C.L. Britton et al. March 2, 1998. "MEMS Sensors and Wireless Telemetry for Distributed Systems," Proc of The SPIE Fifth International Symposium on Smart Materials and Structures, San Diego, CA.


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Only every once in a while do you get a true surprise debut at a motor show these days; the information is normally leaked a few days before in most cases. Meet the Toyota FT-1 supercar concept.
Totota FT-1 Concept
The FT-1 stands for Future Toyota 1. The FT-1 was debuted at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show. There are rumours that this could be the Supra concept/replacement of the future. We can only hope this is true one day, as the FT-1 is a beauty.
Looking at the design of the car it looks like a beefed up version of the FT-86 concept with a nice exhaust that spawned the GT86, you can also see elements of Nissan's 370Z, Lexus' LF-A, a huge retractable rear wing, and a taste of a formula one nose cone.
Our team was heavily influenced by Toyota's sports car past, especially Celica and Supra, and we sought to capture some of that history. It is an aggressive, track-focused sports car concept with a presence that has been amplified for shock and awe
'Place of business' is how Toyota describe the interior of the FT-1. I love this idea; the interior has more of a fighter jet feel than a car interior feel. It is very snug inside and the driver benefits from a coloured heads up display and a Formula-1 style steering wheel which is very nice indeed.Amazingly those of you who own Gran Turismo 6 can actually download the FT-1 concept and take the car for a test drive yourself. I love the world we live in today!
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On Earth, or in the dark reaches of space, teenagers are concerned with one thing: meeting other teenagers. It's no different for Roarke, the latest arrival to the offworld agri-colony of Tirgu-Mires. He's making new friends fast, particularly with a young girl named Hope. But there's more to this farm colony than Roarke first suspected. Every town has a dark secret not spoken in the light of day. Tirgu-Mires' secret just happens to have sharp teeth, acid blood, and a murderous hunger for human flesh.
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Saturday, 2 March 2019
Saturday walk - Robertsbridge Circular - Lunch by a lake and tea at a castle
Toughness: 4 out of 10
9.15 train from Charing Cross (9.18 Waterloo East, 9.24 London Bridge) to Robertsbridge, arriving 10.34.
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This is a fairly gentle Weald outing, whose most beautiful moment is when you crest a hill and see Bodiam Castle, surely the archetype of all medieval castles, below you. Bodiam's National Trust tea room is also a good place for tea, so usually this walk only gets done in the summer, but it is now light till 6.10pm, so I think we can have chocolate cake and still finish the walk.
That is, if you don't choose Bodiam as your lunch stop. It is 8.4 miles into the walk, but the Castle Inn by the castle serves food all afternoon on a Saturday, so at a stretch you could delay eating until then.
Otherwise your lunch stop would be the Waterside Cafe at Hawkhurst Fish Farm, 5.1 miles into the walk, which proved a satisfactory lunch stop (with a lakeside setting) on this walk's last Saturday outing in 2017 (and yes it is licensed).
Note that the original early lunch stop on this walk is long gone, and the Royal George pub in Hurst Green, which transitioned into the Eurasia restaurant, is now apparently transitioning back again. The new establishment has no website yet, so I assume it has not yet re-opened, meaning there is no point in doing the Hurst Green diversion.
After Bodiam it is a pretty 3 or 4 miles (depending on which length of the walk you believe) to Robertsbridge, but as long as you leave by 4.30pm or so, you should do it in daylight. Robertsbridge has at least two pubs, one being the quirky Ostrich by the station.
Trains back from Robertsbridge are at 14 past the hour, but just for you there are two additional trains at 5.44 and 6.44.
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- Walker said...
N=28 on this walk, with an equally large Meet-Up group also on the platform at Robertsbridge. They were doing a similar but not identical walk and we only tangled up with them once mid-morning. Each member of that party, we calculated, had paid £10 on top of the train fare for the walk once you took into account group discounts. A nice little earner for someone.
It was a long while since I had done this walk and I was surprised by its variety and interest. Nice dry ground after the recent sun and pleasant views at times. Primroses were coming out in several places and wild garlic shoots were appearing in the woods. Over an arable field two larks were singing. The weather was pleasant, w=brightish-cloud-and-some-sun, enabling some to walk in shirtsleeves for a time, though with a cold wind and greyer skies towards the end.
With so large a group (and no "trained mountain leader") we inevitably got a bit spread out, but many, I think, had lunch at the Waterside Cafe, leaving generous amounts of mud on their floor. The food choice was good but we quickly exhausted it, consuming first all the fish and chips and then all the vegan curry. Everything came very fast.
It was three miles after lunch to Bodiam, where lots of us had tea at outside tables at the (new?) cafe by the castle moat but some went to the pub. It was still only 3.30pm so nearly all pressed on to Robertsbridge, one getting the bus.
We let the 17.14 train go to have a drink in the Ostrich and then caught the 17.44, with the traditional wine, nachos and hummus to smooth our passage home.
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And when the day came for them [=Mary and the new born Jesus] to be purified as laid down by the Law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord observing what stands written in the Law of the Lord: Every first-born male must be consecrated to the Lordand also to offer in sacrifice, in accordance with what said in the Law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.
Now in Jerusalem there was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man, he looked forward to Israels comforting and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took him into his arms and blessed God and said:
Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace,
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a light to enlighten the pagans and the glory of your people Israel.
As the childs father and mother stood there wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother,
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