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Lab on a Chip is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes original (primary) research and review articles on any aspect of miniaturisation at the micro and nano scale. Lab on a Chip is published monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the editor-in-chief is Harp Minhas. The journal was established in 2001 and hosts other RSC publications: Highlights in Chemical Technology and Highlights in Chemical Biology. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 6.260. Lab on a Chip publishes research at the micro- and nano-scale across a variety of disciplines including chemistry, biology, bioengineering, physics, electronics, clinical science, chemical engineering, and materials science. Lab on a Chip publishes full research papers, technical notes, urgent communications, critical and tutorial reviews, and mini-reviews.
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THE REYNOLDS FAMILY HAS LIVED IN THE CITY OF MAUMEE FOR MANY YEARS. ONE OF OUR FAVORITE HOMETOWN AFILIATIONS IS WITH THE MAUMEE VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ALSO KNOW AS THE WOLCOTT HOUSE MUSEUM. WE HAVE VOLUNTEERED OR CONTRACTED OUR TIME ASSISTING THE STAFF ON VARIOUS PROJECTS. RECENTLY WE WERE INVOLVED WITH RESTORING THE FOUNDATION UNDER THE RAILWAY MUSEUM AND RELOCATION THE BOX SCHOOL HOUSE FROM PROVEDENCE TOWNSHIP TO THE MUSEUM GROUNDS. WE HAVE DEDICATED THIS PAGE TO SOME OF OUR FAVORITE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE MUSEUM PROJECTS.
Finished interior with box stove and hand made desks. Wood desks would be original to the period of the 150 year old school house. They were made for the Wolcott house by local businessman Lou Boehk.
Original cornice found above one of the two entrances and it's reproduction made new. These were made for the school house by Mr. Don Bauerschmidt.
Full demension rough cut 2 inch by 12 inch floor joist under train museum. You may still see the saw blade marks in these. Second photo is of some of the original mortice and tenon framing from the Box School House. The framing on the school house is thicker than most homes built today.
My life was filled with stories from my parents childhood. My Grandfather Charlie worked for the New York Central and my Dad told me of trips on the milk train to relatives near Defiance where they still taught in one room school houses.
My Mom's Dad was a minister and his first congregation was a small church in a small town, much like the one found on the Museum grounds.
Imagine what it must have been like in Maumee with brick paved streets or no pavement at all. Coal was the fuel for trains and heating your home. Once a year you had to scrub your walls to remove the coal dust. Gas powered cars were the exception and your neigbors still had a horse. Airports weren't invented, the interstate was not even an idea and the best way to get to Cincinatti was by a conveyance called the Interurban.
We would like to make a special mention to a long time friend of our Mother, Mrs. Pru Lamb. Pru was a fixture of the Historical Society for several decades. This stone is found in the garden that bears her name along side the Wolcott House on River Road. Please click photo for a larger view.
THE 1840'S HOUSE. DONATED TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY BY CHARLES AND KATHERYN REYNOLDS.
MEMORIAL PLAQUE FOUND OUTSIDE OF THE 1840 HOUSE. IT SAY'S "GREEK REVIVAL TOWNHOUSE C. 1840, ORIGINALLY LOCATED IN MAUMEE AT WAYNE/GIBBS STREET..."
BOX SCHOOL HOUSE. ORIGINALLY LOCATED IN PROVIDENCE TOWNSHIP IN FAR LUCAS COUNTY. MOVED AND REHABILITATED IN 2008. CHARLES AND BRAD REYNOLDS DONATED THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE IN THE MOVING AND RESTORATION OF THIS PRIME EXAMPLE OF A 150 YEAR OLD OAK FRAMED SCHOOL HOUSE.
MAUMEE RAILWAY MUSEUM. ORIGINALLY LOCATED ON ILLINOIS AVE ACROSS FROM THE ANDERSON'S GRAIN ELEVATOR. IN 2009 REYNOLDS CONSTRUCTION RAISED IT ONE BLOCK IN HEIGHT AND REPAIRED THE EXISTING MASONRY WALLS.
WOLCOTT HOUSE BARN. BUILT IN 1979 BY REYNOLDS CONSTRUCTION AFTER THE ORIGINAL WAS FOUND TO BE SUCH DISREPAIR IT COULDN'T BE SAVED. THE WINDOW ON THE FRONT WAS SAVED FROM THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE.


The renowned writer, Elizabeth Pisani, once said Indonesia is the 'biggest invisible thing on earth', and in a way, we think she's right. Whenever a trip to the country is thought of, it's most likely Bali springs to mind. Many people don't even know it's just one of 17,000 islands that make up Indonesia. There's so much on offer, so to help inspire you with some ideas, here's a list by our award-winning travel experts on things to do whilst visiting.
Indonesia is world-famous for its many volcanos and a trip is incomplete without experiencing one. If you have to pick, Bromo is one of the most spectacular in the country and one of the most active volcanoes in the world. It holds sacred value to the Tengger people in the region, who make annual offerings to appease their gods by tossing food and money into the crater. No matter at sunrise or sunset, Bromo never fails to impress.
Bali's enchanting countryside is undoubtedly best explored in the company of one of the local priests that we've come to know over the years. Strolling through the dazzling green paddy fields and lush flora, the island will truly be brought to life. The priest is a central and knowledgeable figure in the community, who will introduce you to Balinese farming, religion, morality, history and more. His family is always ready to welcome visitors to their home with home-cooked local cuisine, (mainly vegetarian) such as sambal and rice. Sometimes there is delicious fish caught fresh from the local river. You can do this experience as part of any of our classic Indonesia tours.
The temple of Borobudur has some pretty impressive credentials. It's the largest Buddhist temple in the world, built in the 9th Century, with bell-shaped domes inscribed with ancient stories of Buddhism. As a UNESCO World Heritage site it can get busy, so we advise climbing up to the temple in the early morning darkness to watch the sun come up over Mount Merapi. Watch the stupas appear as if by magic from the early morning mist.
Witnessing a Tana Toraja funeral ritual will be one of the most bizarre, stomach-turning and fascinating experiences of your life, let alone your holiday to Indonesia. This seldom-visited region on the spider-shaped island of Sulawesi is home to the Torajan people who follow an animistic-style of Christianity. Celebrating the passing of their loved ones is marked by a period of mourning that includes the construction of huge boat-shaped Tongkonan houses, buffalo slaughtering and lots of communal eating.
There are lots of volcanos in the northern part of Sulawesi Island and over hundreds of years, mineral-rich lava has flown into the sea. This has fostered an incredibly diverse marine ecosystem that is home to turtles, sharks, moray eels, giant clams and kaleidoscopic coral. This is some of the best snorkelling and diving on earth.
This unique boutique hotel is tucked away on a remote beach within a National Park on the island of Lombok and is the best place to truly get away from it all for a few days at the end of your holiday. Robinson Crusoe-style eco-huts line the private beach where you can relax and listen to the sound of the waves lapping the ocean, or for those wanting to explore, you can take advantage of the stunning surrounding wildlife to hike nature trails, go cycling, snorkelling and surfing.
Tiger Blue is a beautiful phinisi-style boat, traditional to Indonesia, that will take you on a cruise around the magical islands of Komodo National Park. Not only is this national park home to the infamous, gigantic and other-worldly Komodo dragons, but also the marine life is spectacular and the scenery is breath-taking. Be sure to stop and snorkel at the 'pink beach'.
Wildlife lovers must head to Camp Leakey in Kalimantan, the Indonesian section of Borneo island, where you can get up close and personal with orangutans in their natural environment. Sightings of these beautiful apes are very common here, and your visit will directly contribute to ethical research into orangutan preservation. To see our Indonesia wildlife holidays, click here.
Bali is such a spiritual place and almost every block or crossroads will have an active temple where locals worship. Sure, Bali's got some pretty famous temples on offer such as the iconic Uluwatu and Ulun Danu Beratan sites that are often seen on the front of postcards. However, we'd recommend checking out some of Bali's lesser-known temples that are equally beautiful and rarely visited by tourists. This is the best way to experience Balinese Hinduism away from the rest of the tourists. Pura Lempuyang is our absolute favourite, one of the island's oldest temples with stunning volcano views.
The ultimate tropical island getaway – Nihiwatu is truly one-of-a-kind and a really extra special treat for your Indonesia holiday. Located on the rural island of Sumba that is barely touched by tourism, Nihiwatu offers unpretentious, barefoot luxury with world-class service that allows you to relax on the pristine beaches, take on some of the worlds' best surfing and embark on a journey of cultural discovery – all under one roof. Not to be missed!
If you wanted to include any of the mentioned activities into your holiday, do get in touch on 020 3468 9584 or via email. If you wanted to see some example itineraries for an Indonesia trip, do have a look at our portfolio of holidays. Do note they are just a starting point; all our trips are tailor-made so can be tweaked exactly to match your preferences.


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Several years in the making, and following a lot of angry e-mails to Hyetis from customers wondering when they would receive anything, and now Arny Kapshitzer's Hyetis brand is finally set to ship their first watch - now known as the Hyetis Alpha. Anticipated to be the premier Swiss smartwatch and mechanical watch combination product, the Hyetis Alpha was never actually supposed to be the brand's initial launch. In 2013, aBlogtoWatch interviewed Arny during the debut of the Hyetis Crossbow which was supposed to be their first release. Just over a year ago in 2014, we teased the then-named "Hyetis Redline" watch here, and it was clear that the Crossbow was either canceled or delayed.
The Redline has since had its name changed to the Alpha and, according Hyetis, the watch will begin shipping in January 2016. So, let's take a look at what the Alpha promises to deliver and why it took Hyetis so long. One of the things you need to understand about Switzerland and smartwatches is that there is a built-in sense of contention because the watch industry wants to promote the timelessness of the mechanical watches while also celebrating the spirit of innovation. This has meant a slew of devices, ranging from concepts to commercially released products, that attempt to integrate the world of traditional as well as modern watch making. There are too many examples to mention here, but what seems to be a favored approach is to combine the two.
Recently, TAG Heuer debuted their Connected smartwatch (hands-on here) that costs $1,500, with the option after two years for customers to "trade-in" the smartwatch for a mechanical watch with the same case (for another $1,500). So, that is one approach. Hyetis all along wanted to combine the two in a single product offering the heart of a mechanical watch movement along with electronic elements and a screen.
The only other company I've seen do this with any degree of success is Kairos (hands-on here), but they use a slightly different approach by having the hands from the mechanical watch literally underneath a semi-transparent screen for the digital read out. Hyetis uses two OLED screens which surround the traditional watch hands - an approach I appreciate because it doesn't inhibit legibility.
One of the most interesting elements of the Hyetis Alpha is its approach to being a smartwatch. Hyetis apparently developed its own in-house operating system known as ChronOS that they say is compatible with both Apple iOS and Google Android operating systems. The operating system is based on FreeRTOS, and according to Hyetis even the programming of the operating system for the Alpha was done in Switzerland. As a smartwatch, the Hyetis Alpha will offer notifications and the ability to dismiss incoming calls. It isn't trying to compete with the Apple Watch or Google Android Wear devices - mostly because they really can't. The Hyetis approach to the smartwatch is that people want the watch to exist less as a second screen to their phone and more as a personal and environmental sensor device - which the Hyetis Alpha appears primed to be, with lots of interesting features.
Laser beams placed at several points on the watch face allow for gesture control of the operating system, which is interesting because it implies you don't actually need to touch the sapphire crystal display. The gesture control along with the crown that doubles as a pusher (as well as traditional crown for the mechanical movement inside the watch) appear to be the input controls.
The Hyetis Alpha as a smartwatch is all about logging what you do and, ideally, informing you of important information about your biometric and environmental status. At the 3 o'clock position on the dial is a UV dosimeter which measures exposure to ultraviolet rays, which should be interesting in terms of how it is used in the software. Other sensors built in to the Hyetis include a gyroscope, magnetometer (used to measure magnetic fields), accelerometer, barometer, altimeter, hygrometer (humidity sensor), thermometer, heart-rate monitor, blood oxygen saturation monitor, and GPS signal receiver.
The list of included sensors is impressive, but it has yet to be seen how the Hyetis Alpha will make use of all this information and how it will benefit the wearer. This wouldn't be the first time a smartwatch was released with an impressive list of functions only to not actually work very well. With that said, I have high hopes for the Hyetis Alpha to be the type of product I was hoping for the Casio ProTrek to become. Of course, the Hyetis Alpha is a high-end luxury product, but I hope it helps teach more mainstream products about how to build a device for the wrist which not only acts as a watch but also helps give the wearer useful information about the world around them and their own physical performance.
Consider a smartwatch, for example, that simply pulls weather information from the Internet. The Hyetis Alpha is technically a small weather station on your wrist and can tell you what is going on exactly where you are and where the nearest connected weather station is. Of course, there are the health and fitness elements as well. On the Hyetis Alpha case is a similar assortment of four light sensors, perhaps similar to those on the Apple Watch, which are how the device will measure things such as the wearer's heart rate.
It is too early to tell what the real-world performance of the Hyetis Alpha will be like, but I firmly believe that the company's philosophy toward what a smartwatch should be is spot on, for the most part. As I said, the dial uses two OLED screens to indicate a variety of information around the traditional hands for the minutes, hours, and seconds. This analog time display is powered by a Swiss Sellita SW300 automatic movement. Not only is there a real automatic mechanical watch inside of the Hyetis Alpha, but if your battery dies, at least you can still tell the time. Moreover, it means that there is a "real" dial all the time (never a blank screen), which is a crucial part in a timepiece having the necessary character for watch enthusiasts to consider it as having a "soul."
The electronic innards of the Hyetis Alpha include a 180 MHz ARM processor chip and 4GB of storage. In the video further above, you can see examples of how the system is used. I very much hope that part of the "smart" functionality of the watch will include being able to control, adjust, and view information from the watch via your phone. As a device that includes a series of sensors that your phone does not, a great application for the Hyetis Alpha would be to lend its data to more process-intensive applications hosted on your phone that can make use of that information. I have doubts about the Hyetis Alpha's ability to make the best use out of the data it is collecting, so it makes more than a lot of sense that software on your phone rather than on the watch is used to process what all the data means in terms of both your physical status as well as the environment around you.
In terms of battery life, Hyetis claims 24 hours of use, which isn't amazing, but is on par with other smartwatches out there - more on that below. Battery life is a huge issue based on technological limitations that no one has a solution for quite yet. In a recent chat with top people from both Google and Intel, I was told that while nothing is ready yet, their own technology labs are working on new types of battery technology that we hope to see as being marketable a few years from now.


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Rotary Beginnings
Juan De La Cierva, Autogiro Inventor
Dawn of the Helicopter
Igor B. Bensen
Fairey Rotodyne
Speak of Rotary aircraft and the majority of people will conjure up sleek images of Helicopters, such as the Bell 222 made famous in the TV show 'Airwolf'. An aircraft which can take off and land vertically, fly forwards, backward and sideways and effortlessly stay static in the sky through a process called a hover.
A Helicopter though is only one type of Rotary powered aircraft, there is another type. not as well known, which is called a Gyrocopter and those who know about them often think of rickety old machines from days gone by.
Gyrocopters (also known as Autogiro, Autogyro but more commonly, a Gyroplane) are the forgotten brother, overshadowed by its complex, expensive sibling, the Helicopter. To understand why the Helicopter was the dominant Rotary aircraft and why now the Gyroplane is making a revival, it is necessary to understand a little of Rotary history.
A Gyroplane is an aircraft which uses a free rotating unpowered wing. It gains lift by a process called autorotation, where once the wing is spinning at a critical speed, forcing further air through the rotary wing allows it to maintain rotation 'automatically' and also to generate lift. So long as a spinning rotary wing in autorotation has air forced through it, ie. falling through the air (gravity pulling it down) or being pushed forward through the air from an engine driven propeller (or jet engine), it continues to spin through autorotation and generates lift. Forward flight can be accomplished by the engine driven propeller creating forward thrust or using some of the pull from gravity as the aircraft descends, albeit level or climbing flight can only be accomplished with an engine. A Gyroplane thus cannot stall, so long as it is being pushed forward (by its engine) or falling to the ground (gravity pulling it down), the rotary wing will generate lift. Without an engine running, the rotary wing will generate sufficient lift to maintain flight, albeit it will slowly be descending towards the ground.
A Gyroplane requires a very small landing area, even without an engine, it can land safely, almost anywhere. It's landing profile is not vertical but is much steeper and shorter than a fixed wing aircraft. For take off, they require a very short take off roll which is primarily needed to speed the rotary wing into autorotation before it generates sufficient lift to climb out from the ground. It's take off profile is also not vertical but more like a fixed wing aircraft, depending upon the power of the engine giving the forward thrust. Examples of Gyroplane's do exist which can take off and land vertically, but they borrow from Helicopter technology using the engine to rotate the rotary wing during take off and landings. The ability though of a Gyroplane to land almost anywhere, especially when an engine failure occurs, provides it with a major safety benefit over Helicopters. Should an engine fail in a Helicopter, if the engine is not disconnected from the rotary wing and the angle of attack changed within a few seconds, the Helicopter will crash, often fatally. Even if the engine is disconnected and the angle of attack changed, due to the limitations of speed the gearbox will tolerate, landing an autorotating Helicopter is fraught with difficulties and also limits the areas where it can land.
A Helicopter can generally, if the engine provides sufficient power or the pilot is able to use the aircraft momentum to generate the initial power requirements, enter a state of flight called a hover. This is where the Helicopter is stationary in the sky and over the ground with zero airspeed and zero groundspeed.
A Gyroplane can, under certain conditions, also hover over the ground and fly backwards or laterally. As the rotary wing of a Gyroplane is unpowered, the only way this can be achieved without the Gyroplane descending is if sufficient oncoming wind exists, ie. if a particular Gyroplane requires 30mph of oncoming wind for a given load for the rotary wing to generate sufficient lift to compensate for its weight, then you would require a 30mph oncoming wind with an engine providing 30mph compensating thrust against the wind to remain stationary and hover. In such conditions, if the engine can provide more power, it can be possible to climb and descend vertically whilst in the air. The same exists for backward or lateral flight, if an oncoming wind is 30mph, then an engine producing less than 30mph forward thrust would allow the Gyroplane to fly backwards or laterally given correct control inputs.
To summarise:-
The Gyroplane
Thrust is produced by an engine-driven propeller, typically in a modern Gyroplane this is at the rear but some models have a front facing propeller, such as the GyroJet.
The unpowered, freely turning rotor is tilted back as the gyroplane moves forward
Oncoming airflow through the rotor causes it to spin, producing lift. This is called autorotation.
Always operates in autorotation, thus:
Cannot stall like fixed wing aircraft
Flies safely at low altitudes and low speeds, but cannot hover (unless oncoming wind is of sufficient strength as discussed above).
No need for a heavy main rotor transmission nor a tail rotor
The Helicopter
The powered rotor produces both lift and thrust, and is tilted forward
Can hover, but a powered rotor requires:
Adequate forward speed and/or altitude to maintain flight in case of power failure
A heavy main transmission
Tail rotor to counteract the torque imposed on the aircraft
The simplicity of a gyroplane's design translates directly into greater safety, higher performance, lower maintenance costs including downtime and much greater economy in operation (ie. fuel burn).
Gyroplane's (or Autogiro as they were then called) were invented in 1920 by Juan de la Cierva, born into a wealthy family on September 21 1895 in Murcia, Spain. As a teenager he had a passion for aircraft and started his aviation exploits through experimentation with gliders as early as 1912. He went on to study at the Escuela Especial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos in Madrid to become a Civil Engineer. After graduating he went into aircraft design, initially designing a bi-wing bomber which was tested in May 1919. Unfortunately during tests the aircraft stalled and crashed. Another aircraft of Juan's design, a tri-motor aircraft suffered the same fate which led Juan to look into aircraft design where a stall could be overcome.
After serious investigation, in 1920, Juan came up with his idea for an unpowered rotational wing, setting the foundations for his idea of an autogiro, which he then patented. Over the next 5 years, Juan went on to perfect his design with a series of prototypes Cierva C1 – C6, of which in 1923, the Cierva C-4, a single seat, single engine four blade rotor became the world's first practical autogiro which flew 200 yards on January 9, 1923 in Madrid, Spain by Lieutenant Gomez Spencer.
In 1925, Juan moved to England, where with the support of a Scottish industrialist James G. Weir, he founded the Cierva Autogiro Company. During the same year he demonstrated his Cierva C-6 to the Air Ministry in Farnborough.
On September 18, 1928, he flew a Cierva-C8 across the English Channel, and in 1930, he flew one from England to Spain. Autogiros were used during the 1930s for military liaison, mail delivery, and agricultural purposes.
During the 1930's, Juan and his Cierva Autogiro Company gained acceptance within the aviation community and further advances in the basic design, pitch control and ability to 'jump' takeoff looked certain to see the Autogiro as a force within aviation. Cierva also had established an understanding of rotor dynamics and control, which was applicable to all rotorcraft, and undoubtedly led to the realisation of the helicopter.
On the morning of 9 December 1936, Juan boarded an Amsterdam bound KLM DC-2 at Croydon Airfield. During the take-off roll, the aircraft stalled and crashed into a building at the end of the runway, bursting into flames, killing all passengers. Ironically, the very reason why Juan entered into Rotary aviation, to prevent aircraft stalls, ultimately ended up taking his life.
The earliest recorded helicopter concept, ie. a powered rotor to generate lift, came from China around 400BC and was used as a childrens toy. The toy was introduced into Europe and it wasnt until the 1480's that the most famous helicopter type device, the "aerial screw" was engineered by Leonardo da Vinci. In the late 1880's, Thomas Edison developed an internal combustion engine powered device which was able to fly for 1.5km at a height of 4 meters with no pilot. This was followed in 1906 by the French brothers, Jacques and Louis Breguet, who succeeded in a manned flight 0.6 meters for a minute.
Although many scientists and engineers were working on various guises of a Helicopter, the importance of Juan De La Cierva's work on rotors and the effect upon the evolution of the helicopter cannot be overstated, and is indeed recognised throughout the industry. In the process of creating the Gyroplane (Autogiro), Cierva established an understanding of rotor dynamics and control, which was applicable to all rotorcraft, and undoubtedly led to the realisation of the helicopter.
Professor Henrich Focke, who was licensed by the Cierva Autogiro Company and worked with the C-19 and C-30 Autogio's, went on, by 1936, to design and build the first operational Helicopter, the Focke-Wulf Fw 61. It was the advent of the Focke-Wulf Fw61 which seemed to have confined the Gyroplane to history.
Although the Gyroplane was used in World War 2, for example the Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 which was towed behind German U-Boats to allow the lookouts to see further ahead, it wasnt until after World War 2 that a Russian engineer, Igor Benson, who immigrated to the USA, picked up the Gyroplane gauntlet and advanced its cause.
Igor B. Bensen was born in 1917 in Rostov, Russia. he immigrated to the USA, studying in Hoboken at Stevens Institute in New Jersey where in 1940 he received a mechanical engineering degree from Stevens Institute. He commenced his career with General Electric who in 1944, put him in charge of helicopter research and development. In 1953, Igor founded the Bensen Aircraft Corporation in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In 1954, Bensen was selling plans for the B-6 Gyroglider. It was designed using a 3/8 water pipe and plywood. Things that the individual had easy access to at their local hardware store. The next model that Bensen introduced was the B-7 Gyroglider and was constructed out of Reynolds "Do-it-yourself" aluminum. The B-7m was Bensen's first powered Gyroplane and used a Nelson H-59 engine. The round tube frame was a little difficult for homebuilders to plug and drill accurately, so Igor designed the B-8 frames in 2 x 2 tubing. The B-8m used the McCulloch engine that was designed for military target drones. The Bensen Gyroplane over the years became the most purchased homebuilt aircraft plans. The Bensen Aircraft Corporation was the first gyroplane manufacturer to offer their aircraft in kit form and among one of the first to do so in all forms of Sport Aviation.
In the 1950's, a British company, Fairey Aviation took up the Gyroplane gauntlet and designed the Fairey Rotodyne, a compound gyroplane designed intended for commercial and military applications. A development of the earlier Gyrodyne which had established a world helicopter speed record, the Rotodyne featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air bled from two wing-mounted Napier Eland turboprops. The rotor was driven for vertical takeoffs, landings and hovering, as well as low-speed translational flight, and autorotated during cruise flight with all engine power applied to two propellers. Although the concept was sound and trials were successful, the Rotodyne program was eventually cancelled when a combination of politics and lack of commercial orders arising from concerns over high levels of rotor tip-jet noise doomed the project.
Gyroplane's continued to remain in the domain of enthusiasts. Helicopters had stolen their thunder!
In the last 25 years though, companies such as Magni srl, Layzell, Merlin, AutoGyro and ELA started the beginnings of the Sport Aviation Gyroplane revival. Magni with it's dual seat VPM or Layzell/Merlin and their single seaters played a large part in this comeback but the introduction by RotorSport of a CAA certified permit Gyroplane, the MT-03, turned a distant rumble into an oncoming storm.
Larger companies, notably Carter Aviation and Groen Brothers, both from the USA, have taken and enhanced Gyroplane concepts and technology as seen on the Fairey Rotodyne to create a new level of aircraft, competing almost head to head with the Helicopter.
In the UK, Gyroplane's are seen as the only growing sector of Sport and General Aviation, a situation mirrored in many countries.
Dont take our word for it, visit the Gyroplane Museum at Rufforth Airfield in York or try a Gyroplane today and discover a form of flying second to none.
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You just interviewed, and now you have 24 hours to give a yes or no.
Pat yourself on the back, because you just nailed the interview. It was a long, exhausting day that left you with a lot to think about, but now you're just focused on rewarding yourself with a glass of wine and a Netflix binge.
Except – wait – what's this? Your interview finished minutes ago, and these guys are offering you the job! Oh, by the way, they need to know if you'll accept within 24 hours.
Yay, but also oy. There goes your night of vegging out. Cue panic mode: Make all the phone calls, do all the soul-searching and weigh all the pros and cons – ASAP. Maybe hold onto that wine.
These on-the-spot job offers are becoming increasingly common, says Ryan Sutton, a district president for the specialized staffing firm Robert Half. "Companies, rightfully so, are afraid they might not have the opportunity to get a candidate back in for one more step," he says.
Some companies have had an opening for months and are eager to pounce when they finally find a good fit. Others are giving you only, say, 24 hours to decide in an effort to avoid the counter-offer, Sutton says, or to prevent you from considering your pipeline of competing opportunities. "They're almost trying to catch the emotion of the job search, versus the intelligence of a job search and making sure it's a good fit," Sutton says.
If you're considering a career transition into a new type of job or industry, U.S. News Careers blogger Arnie Fertig suggests taking a self-assessment test, like the Myers-Briggs, to learn more about what you have to offer. "Moreover, it makes a great deal of sense to arrange for informational interviews to learn more about your intended path forward from those who have already traveled it," Fertig writes in a post about things to do before applying to a job.
Also talk with trusted family members, significant others, friends and professional mentors before launching a job search, Sutton suggests. These folks know you best, including your strengths and what makes you happy, he points out. Their intimate insight but outsider perspective may help guide your search.
It's fine to ask the folks you meet with about their hiring experiences to gauge how quickly the process may take for you, Sutton says. However, he adds that you should take their answers with a grain of salt, given that their timelines were likely dictated by the economic cycle they were hired in. The company's speed of hiring even only a year ago, for example, may have been much slower than it is today.
As for other ways to learn about the company from real people, Sutton points out that, sure, you could look at review sites like Glassdoor. But, he warns, employees often feel compelled to comment on these sites because their experiences were either fantastic or terrible. Talking to a real person who you've simply found on LinkedIn will likely give you a more neutral view, he says.
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This page gives details of how the lever arm offset is calculated.
All nav is transformed back to the master antenna on the rear of the cabin roof, and then aznav transforms nav from there to each sensor as required when the individual sensor data is processed. AT4 nav is already wrt this antenna, and the IMU data is transformed back to the antenna during Applanix processing.
The distance is from the phase centre of the master (rear) antenna to each sensor's "prime" point; so for the ATM it is the scan mirror centre, for the Eagle, Hawk and CASI ideally the focus point of the lens.
The angles (as used in aznav) are: gamma is the positive angle from the vertical through the antenna to the sensor prime point and delta is positive to starboard from the centre line direction of the aircraft.
Initially it is necessary to make sure you have the correct sensor prime point coords as observed.
Then aznav sorts out what axis system has been used by the surveyors and swaps the coordinates around until it gets it in the NASA Standard Aircraft system [ Y+ port, X+ tail to nose, Z+ up ]. Then do the angle calcs.
Unless otherwise stated, these values have the PAV80 as the origin and are X positive to nose, Y positive to starboard, Z positive down.
These values are not adjusted for the phase centre of the antenna.
These values have the RCD lens as the origin. They should be entered into IPAS when creating a camera sol file.
Aircraft was surveyed by Sterling Surveys in March 2011.
The LiDAR measurements are made from the antenna to a reference point, then transformed from that reference point to an internal point (PAV 80). The reference point is the front left corner of the LIDAR sensor unit casing.
The hyperspectral measurements are made from the antenna to a reference point, then transformed from that reference point to the Eagle/Hawk lens. The reference point is the forward port corner of the Eagle/Hawk base plate.
Where unspecified, the measurements are as in the previous year.
Measured by ARSF-Ops relative to Hawk (numbers converted below to relative to the GPS antenna), not surveyed. Should be accurate enough though.
The LIDAR survey measurements are made from the antenna to a reference point, then transformed from that reference point to internal points (the IMU and mirror center). The reference point is the front left corner of the LIDAR sensor unit casing. Survey was in late 2008.
18th Dec. 2008: Due to confusion about angle directions, the originally computed gamma angles are incorrect. The error caused should be of similar magnitude to the previous, similar error (ie ~1.5m along-track for ATM, other sensors will have a smaller error). Because the error will be partially compensated for by boresight angles depending on flight altitude, the "wrong" numbers should be used anyway unless you re-calculate the boresight angles.
N.B. Some of the 2006, 2007 data has a preset IMU lever arm offset of 0.907, 0.190, 1.783 - not sure where this comes from, perhaps coords noted on the plane? Dave Davis has said to use the 1.068, 0.182, 1.489 offsets.


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Prior to SHIFT, Julia had worked in the food and beverage manufacturing industry for over twenty years. She started out in engineering, then gained team leader and management experience in a variety of areas, including packaging, brewing, product development, process optimisation, and operations management.
Julia was the brewery manager at Speights brewery's Dunedin site from 2012 to 2016, throughout the $40million brewery redevelopment. This saw some of the 100 + year old brewing equipment replaced with state of the art brewing technology and the implementation of factory automation.
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MMS has also been instrumental in the development of the literacy and numeracy training programme for prisoners, using virtual reality, in conjunction with Johnny Collins (University of Otago Information Science) and Ian Taylor's company Animation Research Ltd.
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The Glasgow Effect: Unpacking why the west of Scotland has poor health outcomes
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Monday 2 April 2018 5:30PM (view full episode)
Image: A scene in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland, showing the slums, some of the worst in Britain (1974) (Getty Images: Rolls Press/Popperfoto)
Glasgow in the west of Scotland has some of the worst health outcomes and life expectancy gaps in Europe.
But the causes are not what you might think — and the solutions certainly aren't.
Sir Harry Burns, former surgeon and former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland discusses what's behind the historical gap in life expectancy between people in disadvantaged areas of Glasgow and the rest of the city and Scotland — and what's been done to improve it.
Title: I Wish I Was in Glasgow
Artist: Billy Connolly / Peter Daldry
Release: 23 August 2012
Album: Under A Leaden Sky
Sir Harry Burns
Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde Glasgow; former surgeon; former Chief Medical Officer for Scotland
Dr Norman Swan
James Bullen
Norman Swan: Hello, Norman Swan here with a very special Health Report for you, about where I grew up, Glasgow in the west of Scotland, with some of the worst health outcomes and life expectancy gaps in Europe. But the causes are not what you might think, and the solutions certainly aren't. The person behind this different way of thinking, with plenty of echoes for us here in Australia, is Sir Harry Burns, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, a former surgeon and chief medical officer of Scotland.
So as a fellow west of Scotland, former and current residence, we've had a bad rap.
Harry Burns: Yes. We are told that Scotland's a basket case as far as its health is concerned. But actually if you look at the trends in life expectancy, it's only really in the past few decades that our improvement in life expectancy has slowed down. And when you look even further it's slowed down largely because the growth in life expectancy in the poorest sectors of the population have slowed down a lot.
Norman Swan: So if you're wealthy in Scotland you're doing okay.
Harry Burns: You appear to be. You know, 'wealthy' doesn't mean mega rich, it means maybe in the top 20%, 25% of the population. Your life expectancy's improving faster than the European average.
Norman Swan: Which is a surprise to most people. Well, let's go back now, because if you go back to, say, the '50s, and look forward, if you just kind of take us on a kind of Cook's tour through recent history.
Harry Burns: The gap in life expectancy between rich and poor has always existed, but it began to widen very substantially probably in the 1960s. And if you look at what was happening at that time, you could see disintegration of communities as post-war housing booms started to take over, the old tenement buildings in Glasgow were being knocked down, and they should have been knocked down because they were no longer fit for human habitation, there were outside toilets and so on. But what replaced them did not facilitate community connectedness.
Norman Swan: So you had tenement areas like the Gorbals, for example, where people were out in the street talking to each other, they knew each other. The housing was crap but the community was strong.
Harry Burns: Yes. People supported each other because they were all living in the same circumstances. But suddenly people were being spread all over the west of Scotland because there was a fashion for building new towns, and people were going there in pursuit of jobs, because the traditional jobs in the west of Scotland, basically in heavy engineering, ship-building, steel-making and so on, were just all disappearing.
Norman Swan: Now, the assumption has always been that it's fried Mars bars and fried haggis, high smoking rates, high drinking rates that are the problem in Scotland. And you've questioned that.
Harry Burns: Yeah. I've never seen a deep-fried Mars bar, so I'm not sure if it's a mythical creature or what, but when you look at our smoking rates, yes poor people smoke more than more affluent people, but overall our smoking rates aren't significantly higher than other parts of the UK, or indeed Europe. Our diet isn't perfect, but there are few countries whose diets are perfect. So you can't really explain what we've seen on the basis of traditional explanations like cigarettes and fatty diets.
Norman Swan: And just to crystallise the life-expectancy gap, it's what?
Harry Burns: At the moment we're looking at an 11-year gap between affluent and deprived men, and a slightly smaller gap than that for women.
Norman Swan: And you've looked at the age groups, because you kind of assume that instead of dying at 80 you die at 70 of heart disease and cancer and what have you, and that's not where you found the loss of life expectancy.
Harry Burns: This is the fallacy that has grown up. Because most people will ultimately die of something like heart disease or cancer, people assume that that's driving the gap in life expectancy. But most people who die of heart disease or cancer die at a fairly advanced age. For example, if you die of something like prostate cancer you probably miss out on a very small amount of life expectancy, because it tends to be older males that get it. But if you die of a drugs overdose, typically you'll do that when you're young, so you might miss out on 50 or 60 years' worth of life expectancy. And when you calculate life expectancy, a death at 25 is significantly more impactful than a death at 75.
Norman Swan: And so when you've done the analysis, this 11 years, 15 years, however you describe the life-expectancy gap, is actually in much younger age-groups.
Harry Burns: A colleague at Glasgow University, about 10 years ago, looked at the gap in mortality rates across the population from 0 to 5, 5 to 10, 10 to 15, all the way up to 80 to 85 and so on. And what it showed was that the difference in mortality rates across the age range was significantly higher in young, working-age people than in teenagers. Poor people in their 20s and 30s and 40s are far more likely to die than more affluent people of the same age. And that seems to be what's driving the gap in life expectancy, not deaths at a later age. In fact some years ago I came across an analysis of what would happen to Scottish life expectancy if we abolished the gap in death rates from heart disease, and it would go up by about a year. So it's a relatively small impact. And therefore, what we've been thinking about the widening gap in life expectancy, that it's caused by things like smoking and so on, does not appear to be an adequate explanation.
Norman Swan: So what is the explanation, because when you look at the causes it's, what, injury, drug and alcohol…
Harry Burns: Yes. Drugs, alcohol and violence – whether accidental violence or deliberate violence – and suicide. If you compare Glasgow with cities in England like Liverpool and Manchester, the risk of death in the younger age group is significantly higher amongst young people living in Glasgow than it is in those other two cities. So something has happened which we believe, looking back at the widening gap, we believe was round about the 1960s which has widened this gap. And as I mentioned, my colleague calculated this about 10 or so years ago. He's recently looked at it again, and the death rates haven't moved on for 10 years. So instead of the gap being at its widest in the 30 to 35, it's now 40 to 45. So this is what we call a cohort effect.
Norman Swan: So there's a group of people moving through with bad lives.
Harry Burns: Yeah. Something happened to them that predisposed them to socially determined ill-health that led them to die of drugs and alcohol and suicide and so on.
Norman Swan: So what's the response to that, because it's away from the medical approach; statins, stopping smoking, alcohol and that sort of thing.
Harry Burns: Well, you should do all of these things. My approach to it is do everything you can think of, do it consistently, and even if it only improves the situation by a small amount, if you do 20 things that are all improving the situation by 2% or 3% then you'll get significant change in outcome. But actually, having seen this picture and understood it, what we went on to do was to try and understand the biology that underpinned the whole problem. It didn't seem likely that we would get support across the medical profession from politicians and so on if we just said, gosh, people born in the 1960s are much more likely to die and we don't know what's causing it but we have to do something about it, we needed to understand what's causing it.
The evidence is pretty clear now that these conditions, like mental health problems that lead to suicide and the despair and hopelessness that leads to suicide and alcohol consumption and so on may well have their origins in early childhood. A major study carried out over many years in California called the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, or the ACEs study, which has looked at neglect, abuse, domestic violence, parental ill-health and so on, and found that exposure to these parenting problems leads to increased risk of violence and alcohol and drug-taking and so on in children.
Norman Swan: So the hypothesis would be that it was the parents who lost their jobs on the Clydebank shipyards and in the car factories and so on, and that flowed through to how they brought up their children. And they got moved to council estates on the periphery.
Harry Burns: Yes, when the parents lost a stable existence, that instability was communicated to the children, and at that age, it's very clear that uncertainty in childhood leads to an increased propensity to experience stress and an increased propensity to inappropriate behaviour, emotional lability, being anxious or fearful or aggressive and so on. And these are all factors that can lead to significant behaviour problems, increased risk of suicide and so on, and increased risk of offending behaviour that ends up in prison.
Norman Swan: You're listening to the Health Report here on RN, and to Sir Harry Burns, former surgeon, former chief medical officer for Scotland, talking about the real causes of the gap in life expectancy between people in disadvantaged areas of Glasgow and the rest of the city and Scotland.
So you wanted to prevent this happening to their children and grandchildren of the original group.
Harry Burns: Yeah, we have to break the cycle. We have to make sure that something changes in the parenting of the second and third generation. One of the other things that has emerged is the epigenetic influence of all of this. By 'epigenetic' what I mean is the environment we're exposed to determines whether or not our genes are switched on or off. And there is some evidence that there is some genetic switching going on in children who experience stressful childhoods.
Norman Swan: Which is then transmitted.
Harry Burns: Yes, and may well be transmitted to second and third generations. So we really need to support parents who come from difficult backgrounds, particularly poverty, parents who have themselves experienced domestic violence and parental mental health issues and so on. We have to find ways of reaching out to them to help them support the children. And the experience I've had, seeing this happen, is that parents are desperate to become good parents. I've never met anyone who wanted to be a bad parent, but I've met plenty of parents who didn't know how to be good parents.
Norman Swan: So you've had this project known as the Early Years Collaborative, to try and sort this out. What have you done?
Harry Burns: The conventional way of changing health policy is to get civil servants and a few experts together to dream up an intervention. And then that's passed on to frontline staff to implement. And my experience over many years is that that really doesn't work. If frontline staff haven't been involved in shaping the intervention, they're not particularly enthusiastic about it and often it's not implemented appropriately.
What we wanted to do in this occasion was to get frontline staff to design the intervention, because they see the people who need help. Over the past five years we've asked staff involved in supporting parents and children to come up with ideas, test them, and if they see an improvement, spread that learning across the collaborative. So people were being brought together regularly to discuss what had worked and what hadn't worked, and then try to implement things consistently.
Norman Swan: So can you give me some examples?
Harry Burns: One of the things we wanted to make sure was that children's intellectual development was supported and the nursery nurses would put their hand up and say, 'Well the evidence is that having a bedtime story improves parent-child relationships but it also improves children's speech and language and so on.' And various things have been done in nurseries to improve the uptake of bedtime stories; giving parents information, running a library and allowing them to take books home with them. One of my favourites is Bedtime Bear. One nursery bought little teddy bears and handed them out to children and told them that the teddy bear needed the bedtime story, so the child was asked to take Bedtime Bear to mum and dad when the child was going to bed, and get them to read Bedtime Bear a story. So the child got the story.
And the other important element of this is that we asked all the nurseries to record what was happening, to count how many bedtime stories were being given. So they asked the kids, 'Did you get a bedtime story last night?' I mean, it's not rocket science. And what we found was the trends…as different things were tried, the line went up and up and up to the point where the vast majority of children in these nurseries were getting bedtime stories. So it's that combination of testing an idea, seeing if it works, and then counting how often it's delivered. And then counting the outcomes.
Norman Swan: So it's simply knowing what you want to do, working out how you're going to do it and then measuring it.
Harry Burns: Yes, have a method for change and measure how effectively you're delivering it, and measure the outcome that you've set yourself to deliver.
Norman Swan: And if you look at it across the board, across Scotland, what are the achievements?
Harry Burns: Significant decrease in stillbirth rate, significant decrease in infant mortality, decrease in general in deaths of children in hospitals, improved uptake of services, improved monitoring of child development and so on. And it's maybe a bit early to be confident about this, but improved performance as children arrive in school in terms of improved developmental progress.
Every country is struggling hard to improve educational outcome. Scotland is no different; lots of money is going into education. But when you look at the evidence: neglect, domestic violence and so on, they are the biggest determinants of educational failure. So in time, give it another three or four years and I think we will start to see declines in things like domestic violence. One of the recommendations I've made to the Scottish government is that all these adverse childhood experiences should be recorded. That will help us know which families need most support. Once we get hold of that, and once we start to manage it downwards, we will see very significant improvements in educational progress. But that's going to take a few years.
The other thing we will see is a reduced offending rate. There are already fewer young people going to prison, and there are lots of other things you can do through the criminal justice system and so on to reduce re-offending. But reducing adversity in early childhood will certainly reduce the number of young offenders. But there are certainly children alive in Scotland today who wouldn't have been alive if frontline staff hadn't adopted some of these practices.
Norman Swan: The obvious thing to say is to extrapolate it to other countries, other areas of disadvantage, and certainly in Aboriginal communities you've got intergenerational disruption, short life spans, children's upbringing being interrupted, people feeling disconnected from the land. Is there any data that you've seen which suggests that in Aboriginal communities in Australia it's a similar pattern to the west of Scotland?
Harry Burns: Well, I haven't seen any data from Australia. One of the very influential studies in terms of the link between neglect in children and adverse outcomes in later life came from studies of children in the Hawaiian archipelago run by a lady called Emily Werner. And that showed very clearly the link between child neglect and poor outcome. So I wouldn't necessarily point to any ethnic group. Neglect happens everywhere. And sometimes it's not even wilful. Parental mental health problems can cause neglect, not through any fault of the parent. But when a child is not getting the regular reinforcement of affection and attachment and so on that it needs in early life, then it causes uncertainty and stress in the child that can be built in throughout life. And it's important to say that the evidence that's emerging is that these abnormalities can be reversed.
Norman Swan: Such as?
Harry Burns: Well, there's now evidence that physical activity can help reverse them by increasing brain blood flow, you stimulate new brain cell growth. That can help reverse some of the problems. Mindfulness, there's very significant numbers of papers being published in medical journals now that show that mindfulness can reverse some of the stress-related changes in the brain and so on. So it's not hopeless, you can turn this around.
Norman Swan: So when you look at this Early Years Collaborative, is it nationwide? What percentage of disadvantaged children is it covering? Is it shifting the dial significantly that you can measure it?
Harry Burns: One of the interesting things we're discovering is that we're finding out there are things about services that are worrying but we didn't know they were worrying.
Harry Burns: Well things like child assessments. Children are supposed to get their developmental progress assessed at 24 to 30 months, and that was supposed to be universal, but a significant number of children weren't getting that, and therefore the nurses running the clinics came up with all sorts of ideas for bringing the parents in more frequently, and in fact that's worked. The rate of assessment has going up from about 60% to over 90%.
So things are changing. But what we are interested in largely are the outcomes. One of the things about this approach is when you get a positive outcome like a reduced hospital mortality, you don't know what change has produced that because you've done so many different things. I would argue that it doesn't really matter what change has produced it. You've got the result, just keep on doing what you've been doing.
Norman Swan: When you say hospital mortality, is this of children or adults?
Harry Burns: That's all ages.
Norman Swan: And why has the Early Years Collaborative made a difference to that?
Harry Burns: Well, the Early Years Collaborative has reduced infant mortality and stillbirth rate, so that will have contributed. But it has also reduced mortality in children who have come into hospital injured or with infections and so on. The same sort of disciplines that are applied in adult hospitals are applied in children's hospitals and they have benefitted from that as well.
Norman Swan: And what about the tracked trajectory through the education system once they've got into school?
Harry Burns: The Early Years Collaborative was…the initial effort was from nought to six years. And now we realise that there are actually significant transitions that are involved when children go to school, when children go from primary to secondary school and so on. So we started a Raising Attainment Collaborative, but it's become clear that we should just see them as part of the same process. So we now have a children and young people's integrated type of approach, all the way up to 18. And then we've got programs which are not yet being run on a collaborative basis but programs that aim to get young people into employment. So we're beginning to see a different type of engagement with people across all the age ranges that doesn't involve the public sector doing things 'to' people, it's supporting young people to do things for themselves.
Norman Swan: And I should have asked earlier, when you say 'collaborative', you're talking about all the different silos: family and community services, the health system, education, working together and collaborating.
Harry Burns: Yes, all agreeing what they want to achieve and agreeing methods by which they will achieve that.
Norman Swan: At the front line rather than head office.
Harry Burns: Absolutely at the front line.
Norman Swan: How is it going to be sustained? You hear of these great projects and then five years later they disappear.
Harry Burns: You know, that's the classic way of the project. Someone comes up with an idea, asks for money from the government, the government gives them X million pounds for five years, and then the project gets assessed, and if the assessment method isn't actually showing an improvement then the money stops and the project dies. But I would argue, I see many projects where I know for certain that individuals' lives have been transformed, it's just the assessment method that's been used hasn't picked up the scale of impact.
Norman Swan: And the timescale, because it could be 10 or 15 years down the track.
Harry Burns: It could, and, you know, we shouldn't worry about that but my feeling is that if politicians have been prepared to put money into this we should try and deliver an answer as quickly as possible and there are ways, using big data approaches that would allow you to see improvements happening much earlier.
Norman Swan: So you get reinvestment. And the question I should have asked at the beginning: you started life as a surgeon and now you're a public health person. Why did you make the transition, or how?
Harry Burns: Well, the way I characterise it was working in the east end of Glasgow and seeing all the ill-health that was there and seeing the response of citizens to the health service when it tried to persuade them to give up health-threatening habits and so on…
Norman Swan: Give up cigarettes, give up booze…
Harry Burns: Yeah, I came to the conclusion that the problem in the east end of Glasgow was not too much illness, it was not enough wellness, and to try to understand what 'wellness' was. They don't teach that in medical school. They teach a lot about illness but they don't teach much about wellness.
Norman Swan: This is because when suggest to someone they give up cigarettes they say, 'Why would I bother?'
Harry Burns: Yes. Why should I bother? Because you'll die early. Well, life's not very great, so I don't care. The smoking is the only pleasure I've got in life. That was the attitude, and I thought, well you have to do this. And some of my colleagues went into politics and that was not something I could bring myself to do. But I thought public health would give me the insights needed to try and do something. And I think it has.
Norman Swan: So how do you kick something like this off?
Harry Burns: My style of doing things has been characterised as 'proceed until apprehended'. Just get on and do it, and make yourself a pain in the neck until people let you get away with it. In fact it was much easier than that because I'd two or three colleagues who had seen this method of patient safety in the United States with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Norman Swan: Where you just ask people at the front line what the problem is…
Harry Burns: Yes.
Norman Swan: Rather than somebody telling you what the problem is.
Harry Burns: Yes. And one of them became the chief executive of the Health Service in Scotland, so he was already primed to accept this, and another colleague, Professor Jason Leitch, he's probably more persuasive than I am. I'm probably a bit more of an…well, I don't know, we're both bulls in china shops, to be honest, and we just got on and did it. And we had the support of the chief executive of the Health Service, and we had the support of the Health Minister who's now the First Minister of Scotland.
Norman Swan: How hard was it to get the other bureaucracies who have not necessarily worked in hospitals and understood defining the problem at the front line, working out what your target is, because you set the whole series of targets, we're going to have this number of children going into pre-school, this number of children doing this, this number of children doing that.
Harry Burns: People working in bureaucracies want to see improvements. And when you come along with a method that delivers some quite spectacular improvements, that's the best argument you can have. There were doubters at the beginning, but my goodness, after the first few results came in those doubters evaporated and they just embraced it.
Norman Swan: Continue till apprehended. You heard it here first. Sir Harry Burns is now Professor of Global Health at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.
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"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3. knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience" (James 1:2-3). We all deal with "divers temptations" or various trials from time to time. As long as we live on this earth, hard times will come our way. How we handle those issues show our character and maturity in Christ.
What types of trials do Christians face? All kinds. We can have trouble at home, at work, with friends. We can have issues with health, wealth, accidents and injuries. A Christian's trials can be physical, emotional and/or spiritual. There is no area of our lives that is off limits to bad times. What can we do?
As children of God, we need to reflect upon Paul's words in Romans 15:4, "For whatsoever things were written aforetime are written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." There are so many wonderful examples in scripture of those who faced trials and overcame. We can remember Job who lost so much and still maintained his Faith in God. In Hebrews 11, we can see this great Hall of Faith where "we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses" (Heb 12:1). Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Gideon, David, and so many others faced trials. They overcame the hard times and the temptations that came along with it.
Remember also Jesus. He was tempted in all points as we are, yet without sin (Heb 4:15). Jesus suffered more in His short 30+ years, than most of us will experience in our 70+. When we think of Jesus being tempted, we think of His temptation by Satan in the wilderness. We also need to remember that He went through life every day, just as we do. He had all the opportunities to mess up, just as we do. Yet, He did not. Not only that, but keep in mind the horrible physical things he suffered for us. All this without giving in or giving up.
We have great resources when trials come. In fact, we have the same resources that Jesus and the rest of those mentioned had. We have God who loves and cares for us. He has given us His word that we may turn to it daily, especially when times are hard. We have the avenue of prayer. We can talk to God about anything, especially those things that are troubling to us. Prayer is a blessing that helps relieve depression and anxiety. We have someone to talk to who is always there and always listening. We also have brethren. We ought to be able to share our struggles with our fellow Christians. Who else can know, empathize, and sympathize with us more than those who have the same or similar struggles.
The Christian will have tough times, however, God has given us what we need to triumph. I hope that you trust in God and put your cares upon Him. He has big shoulders and wants to help bear your burdens. Study the Bible, pray to God and fellowship with His people. That's how we deal with difficulties.


Waciny Laredj was born in Tlemcen, Algeria in 1954. He is a well-known author both in his native Algeria and in France, where he has taught literature since 1994. Several of his novels have been translated into French, although none—I believe—has made its way into English.
Laredj has won a number of prizes for his work, including the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Prize for Literature, which he won in 2007.
My first novel was published in Syria and was very well received. If it had not had success, I might have returned to the French language.
Quel parcours conseilleriez-vous pour appréhender la littérature algérienne de ses écrivains fondateurs à la jeune génération d'aujourd'hui ? Waciny Laredj : La littérature algérienne est traversée par le français, l'arabe et la langue berbère qui s'appuie sur l'oralité. Toute approche ne prenant pas en compte cette diversité demeure limitée mais cette richesse n'a pas été pleinement assumée car la littérature algérienne reste unie par son "algérianité".
More about the author (in French).
Previously profiled: Egyptian Miral al-Tahawy, longlisted for her Brooklyn Heights, Bensalam Himmich, longlisted for My Tormentor, Fawaz Haddad, longlisted for God's Soldiers, Khairy Shalaby, longlisted for Istasia, Raja Alem for The Doves' Necklace, and Renee Hayek for A Short Life. See the full longlist here.


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TP-Link Introduces the First Wi-Fi 6 Range Extender to Its RE Portfolio
Shenzhen, China – Dec. 31, 2019 – TP-Link, the world's leading customer and business products provider, today announced the launch of the first Wi-Fi 6 (also known as AX Wi-Fi) range extender with OneMeshTM technology — RE505X. Different from the previous RE products powered by 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5), RE505X takes advantage of next generation Wi-Fi technology — 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) which is designed to boost speed, improve efficiency, and reduce congestion in heavy bandwidth scenarios. Now, RE505X is available in most leading retailers both online and offline.
More than a traditional Wi-Fi range extender
RE505X is able to work with any Wi-Fi router to eliminate Wi-Fi dead zones and creates a Mesh network by connecting to a OneMeshTM router for seamless whole-home coverage.
Up to 1.5 Gbps Wi-Fi 6 speed
Equipped with the latest Wi-Fi 6 technology, 1024-QAM (higher efficiency) and a wider channel (160 MHz compared to the 80 MHz on Wi-Fi 5), the RE505X range extender delivers wireless speeds greatly surpassing what was previously available.
Larger Capacity
Wi-Fi 6 enhances average throughput 4×, allowing it to serve more devices and provide a superior online experience.
RE505X significantly reduces wireless latency by utilizing OFDMA technology which allows the network to deliver more data to multiple devices, rather than just delivering data to one device at a time. This vast improvement in efficiency now works for both upload and download.
Easy-to-use app
The TP-Link Tether app provides clear directions and simple visuals, making setup fast and easy. Network control and management are available remotely through the app.
RE505X can work as an access point that acts as a portal for devices to connect to the local network. The access point mode is used to extend the wireless coverage of an existing router and to increase the number of users that can connect to it. Also, an Ethernet cable runs from a router to an access point, which transforms the wired signal into a wireless one.
Maximum Speed: 1200 Mbps on a 5 GHz band and 300 Mbps on a 2.4 GHz band.
Uninterrupted Streaming: OneMeshTM technology allows RE505X to connect with other mesh Wi-Fi products to create a seamless mesh network.
Wi-Fi Dead-Zone Killer: cooperating with an existing router to expand Wi-Fi coverage, eliminates Wi-Fi dead-zones once and for all.
Easy Setup and Management: the Tether app walks you through setup and makes management a breeze.
WPS (secure one-touch connection): instantly connect the extender to a router by just pressing the WPS button.
Gigabit Ethernet port: plug in to give wired device network access, especially for bandwidth-intensive devices.
Adaptive Path Selection: keep your network running at top speed by automatically choosing the fastest connection path with Wi-Fi capability.
About TP-Link
TP-Link is a global innovator and provider of consumer and SMB networking products and the world's No.1 provider of WLAN and broadband CPE devices*, with products available in over 170 countries to tens of millions of customers. Committed to intensive R&D, efficient production and strict quality management, TP-Link continues to provide award-winning networking products in wireless routers, cable/DSL gateways, power line adapters, range extenders, cloud cameras, smart home and accessories for global end-users. For small and medium business customers, TP-LINK endeavors to provide stable Business Wi-Fi solutions along with reliable enterprise Switches and Routers.
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Cabramatta, Liverpool & Fairfield targeted in employee conditions crackdown
Businesses in Cabramatta, Liverpool, Fairfield and surrounding areas will be targeted in a new compliance and workplace laws crackdown by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
At least 200 manufacturing, retail, construction and other businesses will be audited by inspectors looking for cases of worker exploitation.
Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James, said that with many workers engaged in low-skilled labour and coming from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, the workforce in the Sydney – South West region was particularly vulnerable to exploitation.
"Over the last two financial years, my agency has recovered more than $550,000 for 264 workers in this region," Ms James said.
"We are conscious that workers in this region may face barriers to understanding workplace laws and to taking action to address workplace issues. This potentially makes them more susceptible to accepting sub-standard working conditions."
Fair Work Inspectors are checking businesses' wage and time records to ensure employers are complying with their workplace obligations.
Employers found to have minor issues caused by genuine mistakes will be provided with education and assistance to rectify their issues and improve their processes to ensure future compliance.
Businesses that refuse to co-operate or any examples of serious non-compliance may lead to enforcement action, including litigation.
As part of the campaign, Fair Work Inspectors are providing employers with advice and access to resources to assist them with understanding and meeting their obligations.
The agency is also focused on educating and assisting workers who are new to the workforce as business and employment opportunities in the region continue to grow.
"Through our proactive compliance and education campaigns we are seeking to ensure that employers fully understand Australian workplace laws and are well equipped to build a culture of compliance in their workplaces," Ms James said.
"We have a range of free tools and information available to assist both employers and workers in this regard."
The Pay and Conditions Tool (PACT) provides advice about pay, shift, leave and redundancy entitlements and is available on the Fair Work Ombudsman's website at www.fairwork.gov.au.
The Fair Work Ombudsman recently launched the 'Record My Hours' smartphone app which is aimed at tackling the persistent problem of underpayment of vulnerable young workers by using geofencing technology to provide workers with a record of the time they spend at their workplace.
Employers and employees seeking assistance can visit www.fairwork.gov.au or call the Fair Work Infoline on 13 13 94. An interpreter service is available on 13 14 50. Small business operators can opt to receive priority service from the Small Business Helpline.
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Q: Can't turn off requirehttps in asp.net 5 MVC 6 site I have an asp.net 5 MVC 6 site I am working on. I turned on require HTTPS like so:
services.AddMvc(options =>
{
    options.Filters.Add(new RequireHttpsAttribute());
});

It worked great, and I have been working like this for a little while. Today I need to turn it off, so I commented out the options filter, but it is still requiring HTTPS.
I have not used the [RequireHttps] attribute on the controllers or actions themselves.
I have gone into the properties and unchecked "Enable SSL" and pasted the http url in the "Launch URL" box.
I have shutdown IIS Express and relaunched the site. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, it continues to try to redirect to HTTPS.
Is it possible IIS Express or Kestral has cached something I need to delete?
Anyone have any suggestions of what else could be forcing it to HTTPS?

A: The RequireHttpsAttribute implementation will send a permanent redirect response (301) back to browser:
// redirect to HTTPS version of page
filterContext.Result = new RedirectResult(newUrl, permanent: true);

This means that when you initially had the attribute enabled and requested a url like http://localhost:62058/, the server will respond with:
301 (Moved permanently)
Location: https://localhost:62058/

If you look at the definition of the 301 response code you will see that browsers will cache it by default:

The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any
  future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned
  URIs. Clients with link editing capabilities ought to automatically
  re-link references to the Request-URI to one or more of the new
  references returned by the server, where possible. This response is
  cacheable unless indicated otherwise.
The new permanent URI SHOULD be given by the Location field in the
  response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of the
  response SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the
  new URI(s).

After you remove the RequireHttps filter, the browser will still use the cached response:

So all you need to do after removing the RequireHttps filter is rebuild and clear the browser cache!

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NIU men's soccer wins MAC Championship
UPDATE! The NIU men's soccer team will host WIU at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, for first round action.
With 6:40 left in regulation time of the Mid-American Conference Championship match, sophomore Sean Totsch (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) became the hero for the Northern Illinois men's soccer team, flicking a header into the back of the net off a free kick from freshman Isaac Kannah (Plymouth, Minn./Prairie Seeds Academy) to secure the MAC Championship for NIU over Western Michigan, 1-0.
"It's hard to describe to be honest," said NIU head coach Eric Luzzi after the match. "A lot of players, coaches and staff worked really hard for a number of years to make this happen. I thought we had a good team coming into the season and, as the season progressed, I thought we had a tournament-worthy team and we're just ecstatic it's official now. As has been our M.O. all year, we just found a way to win. It wasn't the prettiest but we found a way. If that's what we're known for, we'll take that any day."
The match featured a tremendous amount of physical play, as the teams combined for 14 fouls in the first half, play would stopped on three different occasions during the match because of injury. The physical play meant that possession of the ball was in short supply while free kicks and 50/50 balls were a constant theme of the match. In the end, Western Michigan out-fouled NIU, 15-13.
The Broncos had the first good chance to open the scoring when, in the 30th minute; Kai Mendes rifled a shot off the crossbar that ricocheted back into the box. Mendes attempted to bicycle the rebound but fouled junior Rocco Taglia (Caledonia, Ill./Boylan) trying to clear space and ended his own scoring threat.
Seven minutes later, sophomore Gael Rivera (Oslo, Norway/WANG Elite Sports Academy) took a pass from sophomore James Stevenson (Falkirk, Scotland/St. Mungos) at the top of the 18-yard box and worked himself into a shooting position from point blank range, but WMU goalkeeper Sean Lewis was up to the task, deflecting the shot out for a corner kick.
NIU held a 4-3 edge in shots in the first 45 minutes; both goalkeepers were forced to make one save in the opening stanza.
Chances were few and far between in the second half as four yellow cards were shown and just five shots were attempted before the Huskies finally broke through in the 84th minute.
NIU drew a foul near the sideline to the right of the Western Michigan goal and Kannah went over to take the free kick. Kannah played the ball into a dangerous area inside the box and Totsch rose above a sea of Western Michigan black and Northern Illinois white, flicking the ball over Lewis and into the net for what would prove to be the game-winner.
"It was a great service by Isaac and I was just able to be the first one there," said the Oswego, Ill. native. "The biggest thing with set pieces is just wanting it and that's what got us a goal tonight."
For Totsch, the goal was just the second of his NIU career, the first coming a week ago in the regular season finale at Hartwick.
Western Michigan tried to throw everything forward in the remaining minutes. The Broncos were able to earn one corner kick, but never tested NIU junior goalkeeper Jordan Godsey (Ocean Springs, Miss./Ocean Springs) as the Huskies prevailed to win their second MAC championship, the first since 2006.
With the victory, NIU improves to 14-5-0 and will await the NCAA Selection Show to find out when and where it will play in the NCAA Tournament. The selection show will be streamed live on NCAA.com on Monday, Nov. 14, at 3:30 p.m. CT.
For more information on Huskie men's soccer logon to NIUhuskies.com.
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New specialty food products that shoppers are likely to find on grocers' shelves in coming months were on display at the 38th annual Winter Fancy Food Show that concluded Tuesday at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
More than 1,300 food companies, ranging from small Bay Area start-ups to large international brands, exhibited their wares to the trade-only show, which is often seen as an harbinger of marketplace trends.
Botanical beverages, new styles of oils, products with seeds (and lots of oil from seeds), blue cheese-flavored foods, and bananas everywhere were cited as the top trends by a team of food professionals from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade, which puts on the show.
Oakland's Numi Organic Tea showcased its new line of savory teas - tomato mint, beet cabbage, broccoli cilantro, spinach chive, fennel spice and carrot curry. Somewhere between a tea and light broth, these certified organic and verified non-GMO teas make for a comforting, low-calorie (each has 5 calories or fewer) drink.
Also on the vegetable bandwagon: Vosges Chocolates' Crispy Carrot Chocolate Bar with orange powder and bits of dehydrated carrots macerated in orange juice.
Q Drinks offered a new line of sparkling citrus drinks (50 to 55 calories per serving) - available in grapefruit, lemon and orange. Their bright citrus flavor and subtle sweetness is good for sipping on their own or mixing in a cocktail.
Bottled cocktail mixers from Earth & Vine also piqued our interest. With added soda and the liquor of your choice, seasonal flavors like California Meyer Lemon Mandarin, Blood Orange and Pomegranate Pink Grapefruit taste just like they sound. And that's no small thing.
Bay Area confectioners TCHO and Poco Dolce have launched new additions to their product lines. The TCHO Mokaccino bar, features Blue Bottle coffee. Poco Dolce's peanut brittle now comes in sea salt and spicy.
Known for its popular olive oil, the Bariani family is now making a stickier product. Bees were let loose in the olive groves last year, and the result is a raw, textured honey with intense olive flower and wildflower flavors. The honey is currently available online and at farmers' markets.
Crafted in an Oakland kitchen, Buenos Aires Alfajores are made according to owner Andrea Ozzuna's grandmother's recipes. The Argentine cookies come meringue, chocolate and traditional flavor.
Boat Street Pickles offered raisins, plums and figs pickled with savory herbs from Renee Erickson of Boat Street Cafe in Seattle.
And then there's this: Hot Can, a self-heating can of soup that's ready in three minutes. The flavor is typical canned soup-ish, but, hey, the shelf life is five years and no energy needed. Perfect for the earthquake kit.


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Prime location for multifamily, single family, and or ALF, assisted living facility development. Over 30,000 cars per day. Adjacent to the west is the new Castalina 250 single family homes, and across the street from D.R. Horton's Lindsford community.
Ask about impact fee credits that can be offered to provide land to the city for the service road to connect Winkler to Colonial Blvd. Apprx 2 miles west of I-75 on Colonial Blvd.