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Learning and Skills Bill [H.L.] - continued House of Commons
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THE ADULT LEARNING INSPECTORATE
Tenure of members
1. - (1) A person is to hold and vacate office as a member or as chairman or chief officer of the Inspectorate in accordance with the terms of his appointment.
(2) On ceasing to be a member a person is eligible for re-appointment.
(3) A person may at any time by notice in writing to the Secretary of State resign his office as a member or as chairman.
2. - (1) This paragraph applies if the Secretary of State is satisfied that a member-
(a) has been absent from meetings of the Inspectorate for a period longer than 6 consecutive months without the Inspectorate's permission, or
(b) is unable or unfit to carry out the functions of a member.
(2) The Secretary of State may by notice in writing to the member remove him from office, which shall then become vacant.
Salaries, pensions, etc
3. - (1) The Inspectorate must pay in respect of its members such salaries and fees and such travelling, subsistence and other allowances as the Secretary of State may determine.
(2) A payment under sub-paragraph (1) may be made to the member concerned or (if the member consents) to another person.
(3) As regards any member in whose case the Secretary of State may so determine, the Inspectorate must pay or make provision for the payment of such sums by way of pension, allowances and gratuities to or in respect of him as the Secretary of State may determine.
(4) If a person ceases to be a member and it appears to the Secretary of State that there are special circumstances making it right that he should receive compensation, the Secretary of State may direct the Inspectorate to make to that person a payment of such amount as the Secretary of State may determine.
4. - (1) The Inspectorate may appoint such employees, including inspectors, as it thinks fit.
(2) A person employed as an inspector is to be known as an Inspector of Adult Learning.
(3) In appointing inspectors, the Inspectorate must have regard to the need to appoint persons who have the appropriate experience and expertise.
5. - (1) The Inspectorate must pay to its employees such remuneration and allowances as it may determine.
(2) Its employees are to be appointed on such other terms as the Inspectorate may determine.
(3) A determination under this paragraph requires the Secretary of State's approval.
6. - (1) Employment with the Inspectorate is to be included among the kinds of employment to which a scheme under section 1 of the Superannuation Act 1972 can apply.
(2) The Inspectorate must pay to the Minister for the Civil Service, at such times as he may direct, such sums as that Minister may determine in respect of the increase attributable to sub-paragraph (1) in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under that Act.
(3) If an employee of the Inspectorate is by reference to that employment a participant in a scheme under section 1 of that Act and is also a member of the Inspectorate, the Secretary of State may determine that his service as such a member is to be treated for the purposes of the scheme as service as an employee of the Inspectorate (whether or not any benefits are payable to or in respect of him as a result of paragraph 3).
7. - (1) The Inspectorate may establish such committees as it considers appropriate.
(2) The members of any committee are to be appointed by the Inspectorate and may include persons who are not members of the Inspectorate.
Supplementary powers
8. - (1) The Inspectorate may do anything which appears to it to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of or in connection with the exercise of its functions.
(2) In particular it may-
(a) acquire and dispose of land and other property;
(b) enter into contracts;
(c) invest sums not immediately needed for the purpose of exercising its other functions;
(d) accept gifts of money, land and other property.
(3) But the Inspectorate has no power-
(a) to borrow money;
(b) to lend money without the consent of the Secretary of State;
(c) to hold shares in a company without his consent.
Delegation of functions
9. The Inspectorate may authorise the chairman, the chief officer or one of its committees to exercise such of its functions as it may determine.
Members' interests
10. - (1) A member of the Inspectorate who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in any matter that is brought up for consideration at a meeting of the Inspectorate or a committee of the Inspectorate must disclose the nature of his interest to the meeting.
(2) If such a disclosure is made-
(a) the disclosure must be recorded in the minutes of the meeting, and
(b) the member must not take any part in any deliberation or decision of the Inspectorate or any committee of the Inspectorate with respect to that matter.
(3) If a member is not present at a meeting at which a matter in which he is interested is brought up for consideration, sub-paragraph (1) only applies to him if he was aware that the matter would be brought up for consideration at the meeting.
(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) a general notification given at a meeting by a member to the effect that he-
(a) has an interest in a specified company, firm or other organisation, and
(b) is to be regarded as interested in any matter involving that company, firm or other organisation,
must be regarded as a sufficient disclosure of his interest in relation to any such matter.
(5) A member need not attend in person at a meeting in order to make a disclosure which he is required to make under this paragraph if he takes reasonable steps to secure that the disclosure is made by a notice which is read and considered at the meeting.
(6) The Secretary of State may remove a disability under this paragraph subject to such conditions as he considers appropriate.
(7) The power of the Secretary of State under sub-paragraph (6) includes power to remove (either indefinitely or for any period) a disability which would otherwise attach to any member, or members of any description, by reason of such interests, and in respect of such matters, as may be specified or described by the Secretary of State.
(8) Nothing in this paragraph precludes any member from taking part in the consideration or discussion of, or in voting on, any question whether an application should be made to the Secretary of State for the exercise of the power conferred by sub-paragraph (6).
11. - (1) A representative of the Secretary of State is entitled to attend and take part in any deliberations (but not in decisions) at meetings of the Inspectorate.
(2) The Inspectorate must provide the Secretary of State with such copies (and made in such form) as he may require of any documents distributed to members of the Inspectorate.
(3) The validity of any proceedings of the Inspectorate is not to be affected by a vacancy among the members or by any defect in the appointment of a member.
(4) The Inspectorate may regulate its own procedure, subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule.
Seal and proof of instruments
12. The application of the Inspectorate's seal must be authenticated by the signature-
(a) of the chairman or of some other person authorised (generally or specially) by the Inspectorate to act for that purpose, and
(b) of one other member.
13. - (1) This paragraph applies if a document purports to be an instrument made or issued by or on behalf of the Inspectorate and-
(a) to be duly executed under the Inspectorate's seal, or
(b) to be signed or executed by a person authorised by the Inspectorate to act in that behalf.
(2) The document must be received in evidence and treated (without further proof) as being so made or issued unless the contrary is shown.
14. - (1) The Inspectorate must-
(a) keep proper accounts and proper records in relation to them;
(b) prepare a statement of accounts in respect of each financial year of the Inspectorate;
(c) send copies of the statement to the Secretary of State and to the Comptroller and Auditor General before the end of August next following the financial year to which the statement relates.
(2) The statement of accounts must comply with any directions given by the Secretary of State as to-
(a) the information to be contained in it;
(b) the manner in which the information is to be presented;
(c) the methods and principles according to which the statement is to be prepared.
(3) The statement of accounts must contain such additional information as the Secretary of State may require to be provided for the information of Parliament.
(4) The Comptroller and Auditor General must-
(a) examine, certify and report on each statement received by him under this paragraph;
(b) lay copies of each statement and of his report before each House of Parliament.
Inspectorate's status
15. - (1) The Inspectorate is not to be regarded as the servant or agent of the Crown or as enjoying any status, immunity or privilege of the Crown.
(2) The Inspectorate's property is not to be regarded as property of the Crown or as property held by or on its behalf.
House of Commons disqualification
16. In Part III of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (disqualifying offices) insert at the appropriate place-
"Any member of the Adult Learning Inspectorate."
Prepared 27 March 2000

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Autopsies have helped identify 63-year-old twin brothers who were found dead last weekend in their Chattanooga home.
But the medical examiner still hasn't been able to resolve the mystery of what happened to the brothers and how their bodies could have remained in the home for about three years without anyone noticing.
Police found the skeletal remains of Andrew and Anthony Johnson sitting in their recliners in a living room in their home Saturday. The conditions of the bodies suggested that both men had been dead since 2011.
After the autopsies, investigators still believe the brothers have been dead for about three years.
There were no signs of trauma or anything to indicate the two were victims of homicide, but investigators are waiting for the results of toxicology tests to come back, Chattanooga Police Sgt. Wayne Jefferson said.
'Right now there is nothing to indicate that they died of anything outside of natural causes,' Jefferson said. He cautioned that results of blood tests that come in later could tell a different story.
The neighbors, according to police, had no idea anything was wrong because there was no odor coming out of the house and the brothers lived like hermits and had little contact with family or anyone else. Jefferson said he believed that somebody continued to mow the brothers' lawn all those years.
Police had actually gone to the Acorn Street home back in 2011 after family members became concerned because they hadn't seen the brothers.
The house, according to police, appeared to be vacant, and a note inside the mailbox indicated that mail delivery had stopped because the postal service thought the Johnson brothers had moved.
At the time, police said, there were no signs of anything but a vacant home, so officers did not force their way inside the home. Also, police said a relative said in 2011 that it would be unsurprising if the twins moved without telling anyone in the family.
Family members who had a key to the home called police on Saturday and asked officers to go inside and check the house. Police discovered the bodies after getting permission to open the door.
Investigators say there was no indication that the brothers suffered from mental illness. Both had valid driver's licenses, insurance, owned vehicles and even had records of having owned at least one business in the past. The two reportedly suffered from diabetes.
Chattanooga police say officers who checked the outside of the home in 2011 followed normal procedure because investigators didn't have indication that anything was wrong or evidence that would justify them forcing their way into the house.
Investigators have established the date of death based on the time stamp found on a receipt near unused cans of Coke.
The discovery has shocked neighbors who didn't think anything was wrong because the grass was regularly cut and the mailbox wasn't overflowing.
The twins were known to live a hermit lifestyle and did not communicate regularly either with family or anyone else, reports WRCB.
A sister of the twins had tried to check on them in August 2011, but didn't have a key. She had called police and they found that the residence appeared to be vacant.
A letter from the Post Office was found in the mailbox stating that they believed the residence to be vacant and to cease delivery of mail to the address.
Officers also discovered in 2011 that there were no signs of forced entry to the residence, no foul odors, no signs of foul play or suspicious activity, and no visible/evident reason to allow forced entry to the residence.
At that time, family members indicated that they would not have been surprised if the brothers had moved without telling anyone.
On Saturday, family members called police after finding a key to the residence. Officers were given the key and found the men deceased inside the residence.
The twins' family has declined to comment.


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Neon Trees: Pop Psychology
Adam Perlmutter
Photo by Chris Schwegler AtlasIcons
Guitarist Chris Allen and bassist Branden Campbell discuss playing with nuance in Neon Trees, an alt-pop rock band with a sound that could be described as new new wave.
Neon Trees, the modern pop band that is musically and sartorially indebted to new wave, might rely heavily on synthesizers to achieve its dance-approved approach. But on its latest album, Pop Psychology (Island Records), the very first sounds—the transient rasp of an instrument cable, followed by the ringing open D and G strings—give a hint of both the importance and the subtlety of the guitar on the record.
Throughout the album, Chris Allen doesn't play standard-issue rock guitar but something more thoughtful. His collection of riffs and timbres, plus the occasional oddball atonal move, feel spontaneous and orchestrated, and pair nicely with that of his bandmate Branden Campbell, who's style is equally informed by such great session bassists as Donald "Duck" Dunn and by Campbell's contemporary counterparts like John Stirratt of Wilco.
The roots of Neon Trees—whose name was inspired by the signage of In-N-Out Burger, the fast-food joint headquartered in Southern California—go back to Allen's childhood days. He and Tyler Glenn, the group's singer and keyboardist, were neighbors in Murrieta, California. When Allen took off to college in Utah, Glenn followed him, and there they eventually teamed up with bassist Campbell and drummer Elaine Bradley, independently releasing a debut EP, Becoming Different People, in 2006.
Before Neon Trees, Campbell was involved with, among many other bands, a ska group with the drummer Ronnie Vannucci, Jr., who would go on to join The Killers. After witnessing an early live show of Neon Trees, Vannucci was suitably impressed by his former bandmate's new outfit, and as a result Neon Trees got its big break in opening for The Killers on its 2008 tour. This led to the Trees scoring a record deal with Mercury Records, which released Habits (2010) and Picture Show (2012), respectively spawning the hit singles "Animal" and "Everybody Talks."
As was revealed a few years ago in our PG Rig Rundown, Allen and Campbell might be described as major gear heads, aficionados of equipment both new and vintage, so we were excited to check in with them on their most recent rigs and hear about the thought processes behind Pop Psychology.
Tell us about your gear.
Chris Allen: My main guitar is an Eric Johnson Strat, and then I have a Telemaster that I had a Master Builder at Fender—Jason Smith, I used to play with him in high school—make for me. It's got a Jazzmaster body and neck pickup but a Telecaster bridge and bridge pickup and selector switch. The neck profile is the same as on the Eric Johnson model guitar, and it has this 12-string-like headstock. I also had him build me a guitar based on a '48 Esquire prototype with one TV Jones pickup and the whole thing painted a uniform color, Ford Grabber blue, so that it looks like a big hunk of plastic. Then I have a Jazzmaster and a bunch of guitars I only use in the studio. And I really like old Silvertones, which have such unique voices. I'm always picking them up on eBay or when we're out on tour, at local shops. My favorite is the black-and-white hollowbody Silvertone, the 1446 that everybody calls the Chris Isaak model.
Lightly overdriven guitar with a little reverb is not that big of a deal, people don't scrutinize the tone live and feel ripped off that it doesn't sound exactly like the record. But if they do notice, sometimes people even like the live sounds better! —Chris Allen
Live I use a Laney Lionheart, the L20H with a matching 2x12 cab, as well as a Roland JC-120. I also use those amps in the studio, plus a Divided by 13 JJN 50/100, a Silvertone Twin Twelve, and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. The main pedal on my board is an Ibanez Tube Screamer, a handwired TS808. I held off on that one for the longest time because of the price tag, but then I realized that I had no problem spending $350 on a delay pedal, so why not spend that much on overdrive, being as it's such a big part of my sound? I also use a Keeley 4-knob compressor and a Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay. The RV-3 has been discontinued, so I went searching on eBay and got a few of them, since they'll probably only get harder to find in the future. In the studio I like to use a JangleBox and the Eventide TimeFactor, but with so many knobs on the TimeFactor, it can be a bit intimidating to use live.
Branden Campbell: My main bass is made by Mike Lull, who teamed up with [Pearl Jam's] Jeff Ament to make a signature model oversize bass with a neck and body that are 20 percent larger than standard. Mine has a custom satin finish, in Kerry green. I've got a Fano hollowbody bass that I love, as well as Fender Pino Palladino and Adam Clayton signature basses. Then there's the 1975 Gibson Ripper and the Rickenbacker 4003, both which I tune down to D, and a 1966 Guild Starfire. Bass players don't usually switch up that much, but, travelling between different climates, and using different tunings, I need at least a few basses on the road. Some basses lend themselves more to D standard [low to high: D–G–C–F], and nothing seems to respond quite as well to the lower tension as the Ripper.
For amps I use an Aguilar DB 751, and I've also got an Aguilar Tone Hammer preamp pedal. That's my holy grail—I take it everywhere I go. We once had a gig in the Philippines where I had no choice but to play through a questionable old amp that had gotten all rusty due to the climate there. Even though that wasn't optimal, I knew that with the Hammer in the front end, everything would be fine and the 10,000 people waiting to hear us would not be disappointed.
Most of my D-standard songs use a chorus pedal, the EBS UniChorus, which is my nod to Peter Hook from New Order and Joy Division. The EBS Billy Sheehan Drive pedal with a built-in compressor is really solid, too. I'm a sucker for drive and also use the SolidGoldFX Beta bass overdrive, the Z.Vex Wooly Mammoth, and the Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi. I'm really stoked on the new DigiTech Bass Whammy pedal, and have been using the Electro-Harmonix Micro Synth. I also added the Moog Sub Phatty analog synthesizer keyboard. Running that thing through the bass Big Muff is just insane!
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Neon Trees performs its first hit, "Animal," live in a stripped-down setting.
Photo by Dan Locke/Frank White Photo Agency
Who are your benchmarks?
Allen: The first one that comes to mind is Peter Buck from R.E.M. He's just a real team player, he doesn't need to stick out or be the star of the show. That's where I come from—I just want to play for the song, to be part of a team. I want my playing to be really musical. It doesn't need to be all about technical prowess, except, of course, in certain styles where it's called for. And I really like Johnny Marr from the Smiths. He's got such an intricate style that jumps all over the place. I might not play a lot like him, but he's definitely inspired my melodies.
Chris Allen's Gear
Fender Eric Johnson Stratocaster
Fender Telemaster
Fender Jazzmaster
Assorted vintage Silvertones
Divided by 13 JJN 50/100
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
Laney Lionheart L-20H head with matching 2x12 cabinet
Roland JC-120
Silvertone Twin Twelve
Boss RV-3 Digital Reverb/Delay
DigiTech HardWire CR-7 Stereo Chorus
Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb
Eventide TimeFactor delay
Fulltone GT-500 booster/distortion
Ibanez TS808HW Handwired Tube Screamer
JangleBox compressor/sustainer
Keeley 4-knob compressor
Malekko Trem
Malekko Vibrato
MXR Micro Amp
Strymon El Capistan dTape Echo
Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
Strings and Picks
D'Addario EXL110 (.010–.046) and Fender Medium picks
This might sound random, but I'm a huge fan of Cyndi Lauper … I love bands like Modest Mouse and Built to Spill. In the mid-'90s I started listing to a lot of groups that came from the Northwest. Growing up in Southern California, there's a really different music climate. I had a friend who moved up to Seattle for a semester, and when she came back she brought all of these tapes, so I started listening to those bands. It was a breath of fresh air to hear these musicians who always played things a little weirdly. Plus, some of those melodies really struck a chord with me.
Campbell: My biggest influences are Duck Dunn, the house guy for Stax Records, and John Entwistle of The Who. Each had this certain sound. Years ago, they didn't have such fancy equipment. They had to use guitar amps, which for solo bass just sounded so horrible. But they sounded good by adding frequencies from cymbals and guitars and having just enough of the bass to poke through. I took that as a lesson, so when I go in the studio I start with a gnarly tone, often using flatwounds with a pick and maybe even a mute, and then I sculpt the sound from there.
Getting back to Entwistle, I love his sustain and dirt—those little bass runs on "My Generation" are just so awesome. I should mention James Jamerson, and also on the Motown side, Michael Henderson, who did a lot with Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. He recorded "Let's Get It On," which is one of my all-time favorite grooves. On the rock side of things there's Peter Hook, as I mentioned before, and Duff McKagan. On the contemporary side of things there's John Stirratt from Wilco and the homie from My Morning Jacket, Two-Tone Tommy [Tom Blankenship]. All great players with such great ideas.
Here the Neon Trees out themselves as Beliebers in an unplugged cover of a topical pop song.
Have you had to modify your playing for Neon Trees?
Campbell: I've always loved the warmth of the fingers, but I've learned that the attack that comes from a pick blends really well with synth. Another thing I've learned from this setting is that it's not always about when the note starts but when it ends, how long you'll hold it. I'll sometimes let a note linger just a little longer than I would have in the past. That can be where the funk is at—even if it's not really a funky song.
Allen: For the longest time, I played not in a full band but just with a drummer, and I really had to almost overplay to fill out the songs. Now in Neon Trees, I've learned to keep myself in check, and am always simplifying things to make sure I don't step on the vocals or any of the other parts. Come to think of it, that's an important thing for any style!
Can you let us in on your compositional processes?
Campbell: It comes from all different directions. Sometimes Tyler makes these computer demos, and he's always very careful to leave room for the rest of us. He might come up with a bass line on the computer or keyboard, but it's up to the group to get jamming on the demos and make the parts our own. I'll take the demos into my bass cave and live with them a little, feel them out before I come up with the parts that best suit the songs.
Allen: Over the years it's changed a lot. When Tyler and I first got together, I would write all of the guitar parts, and he would take them and come up with melodies and add a little keyboard before the whole band would get together and finish the song. Now Tyler works with our producer, Tim [Pagnotta], and brings the demos to us with the basic structures and parts in place. We can tweak some of the parts and add what we feel is best. Before we go into the studio, we rehearse and get tight on all of the songs. We also wrote a few from scratch in the studio this time. It's nice we can still do that—all write together. You never know what will happen, we all have such different influences.
What about your recording processes?
Allen: Before we record an album, we usually have a couple weeks of preproduction, followed by rehearsing in our practice space. Tim comes and works with us on transitions, shows us what to streamline and what might make our individual parts better. For drums, for instance, this will involve making sure that all the accents are in the right places, that they're not stepping on the vocals or anything else. In preproduction, everything is recorded. We try to get scratch tracks before we go in the studio, one person at a time, to record our individual parts. Normally I go near the end, just before the keys and vocals, but this time in the studio I recorded before a lot of the other parts. Some guitars had to be re-recorded later if it felt like something was missing, that a little lead needed to be added.
Branden Campbell's Gear
Jeff Ament JAXT4 by Mike Lull
Fano Alt de Facto GF4
Fender Pino Palladino Precision
Fender Adam Clayton Precision
Gibson Ripper
Guild Starfire
Hofner Club Bass
Rickenbacker 4003
Aguilar DB 751
Aguilar Tone Hammer
EBS Billy Sheehan Drive
EBS UniChorus
Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi
Moog Sub Phatty
SolidGoldFX Beta
Z.Vex Wooly Mammoth
DR Fat Beams (.045–.105) and Fender Stainless Steel Flatwound (.055–.105)
Clayton Acetal rounded triangle picks
Campbell: For my part on this record, we did everything in Provo [Utah], at June Audio. I really had a blast laying down my parts. Tim, the engineers, and I focused on the bass for 10 straight days; they brought in about 20 different basses and a bunch of different amps. I was in heaven, messing around with so many different tools I don't normally have at my disposal, a bunch of boutique stuff and retro instruments, great old tube compressors and whatnot.
What are some of your favorite moments on the record?
Campbell: There's a song called "Another World," which got me back into plucking strings with my fingers. Neon Trees generally requires a bass pick with a little more dirt, but something cleaner, with 16th-notes on the fingers just felt right for that song. What's great is that before we made the album, Hofner sent me a Club Bass, which I love. On "Love in the 21st Century," we should get credit for making that Hofner not sound like a one-trick pony. That bass normally has a very particular sound—a Beatles sound. But we added so much dirt to it that it sounds like a completely different instrument.
Allen: I really love my playing on the whole track of "Living in Another World." I just had a really good time writing it. That was one of those songs we did at the last minute, just before heading into the studio. At the beginning of the day it didn't even exist. We started jamming, and Tyler kind of pointed me in the first direction it took from the little intro riff, and we built on it from there. A lot of times we do so much tweaking and rewriting, but this one came right together, in like an hour. We tracked it on the spot, and when it came time to think about re-recording it, Tim didn't find it necessary. He just thought maybe we'd add some acoustic guitar and it'd be done.
Another moment I really like happens in "I Love You, but I Hate Your Friends," in the chorus where there are two guitars that work off of each other. It's really fun and upbeat, kind of like the Smiths. You can't pick out what each guitar is doing; they're kind of blended into one giant thing thanks to the Tube Screamer and the plug-ins that Tim used to further modify the tones on this and throughout the album.
Chris, given the plug-ins, is it difficult to recreate these sounds in concert?
Allen: It can be a little tricky, but I don't get too picky when it comes to matching tones. It's not like we're talking about a complex sound like [U2's] the Edge has on "Mysterious Ways," where the intro riff is such a big part of the sound. Lightly overdriven guitar with a little reverb is not that big of a deal, people don't scrutinize the tone live and feel ripped off that it doesn't sound exactly like the record. But if they do notice, sometimes people even like the live sounds better!
How have you evolved as a musician since the early days of Neon Trees?
Allen: When we first started, I didn't consider myself a songwriter. I never focused on what part comes after the next as far as structure is concerned, intro-verse-chorus-bridge or whatever. I didn't think about things like a second verse needing something new and exciting to move the song forward. Now, I try to focus more on the song and what I can add to the big picture through different textures, something really ambient and reverbed-out, strategically placed whammy-bar splashes, things like that.
Campbell: I was very traditional in the beginning. I was the rock guy, while the others were very new wave. I've always loved players like Duck Dunn or Entwistle, who made the very best of just the bass guitar, but I've learned not to be afraid to incorporate lots of processing and even bass synth sounds, to use whatever tools needed to convey the low-end message.
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Rig Rundown: Wolf Alice's Joff Oddie
Joff Oddie shows PG his own Jag-Master creation and then plasters it with pedals bending (and distorting) space and time.
Listening to the tidal wave in "Giant Peach," the riotous "Moaning Lisa Smile," or the punked-up "Play the Greatest Hits," it's hard to imagine Wolf Alice as an acoustic duo. Then talk to Joff Oddie about his integral use of effects—"These pedals can do such crazy things; to not do crazy things with things that can do crazy things seems odd"—and the band's origin story becomes even more improbable. But it's true: Wolf Alice started with guitarist/singer Ellie Rowsell and guitarist Oddie playing acoustic-folk music during open-mic nights in North London pubs.
After self-releasing an EP, they expanded and electrified their sound with the help of Theo Ellis (bass/synths) and Joel Amey (drums/synths). Now sure, plenty of the band's repertoire from their four official releases stays in the quieter, softer settings—creating maximum drama—but Joff and the gang give some animation to nearly every note played. (To give further cred to the group's juxtaposition of floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, in a 2015 PG interview Oddie cited John Fahey and Sonic Youth as two of his biggest influences.)
"On Blue Weekend, we leaned into our past quite a bit, where we layered up sounds with acoustic instruments. We used loads of 12-strings, banjos, resonators, and tenor guitars," Oddie says about the band's recent release. "We're even performing an acoustic fingerstyle number—'Safe From Heartbreak (if you never fall in love)'—each night, so it's nice to get back there."
Before Wolf Alice's sold-out show at Nashville's Cannery Ballroom, guitarist Oddie shared an hour with PG's Chris Kies. The resulting conversation covered the cathartic process of building his first guitar during lockdown (a Jaguar-Jazzmaster hybrid) and why he switched to a pair of Fenders that are "a big sheet of paper that you can paint on." Plus, he illustrates how every moment in a Wolf Alice set has a pedal, and those moments are unique and not repeated.
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The Joffcaster
After wrapping work on the band's third full-length album, 2021's Blue Weekend, Wolf Alice guitarist Joff Oddie had a wide-open calendar. The ongoing pandemic lockdowns and restrictions finally provided him the time he'd need build his dream machine. He dusted off the blank of mahogany under his bed and ordered some crude hand tools. He cut, carved, and contoured the Jazzmaster-y body (a shade bigger than Joff's old No. 1 Jaguars) to his specs and stance. Originally, he was going to slap a parts neck and fretboard on his homemade body, but rolling with the momentum and confidence, he ordered more wood (torrefied flame maple for the neck and rosewood for the fretboard). To help with the Jag's slinky 24"-scale length and make it easier to play the higher frets (especially for the chords in "Delicious Things"), Joff extended his guitar's scale length to 24.75". And the neck profile is insanely thin (as in "Ibanez RG" shredder slim).
The rest of its bits are standard for an offset—a Fender Vintage-Style Floating Tremolo, a Mastery bridge, and simplified switching—while it growls with a set of Lollar Jaguars. All of his guitars take Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottoms (.010–.052) and he stings the strings with Dunlop Nylon Standard 1.0 mm picks.
"Plinky Plunky"
For most of the 10-plus years Wolf Alice has been electric, this 1962 Fender Jaguar reissue has been Oddie's main guitar. He bought it completely clean, with student loan money, in Wood Green, London, off Gumtree (the U.K.'s equivalent to Craigslist) when he and fellow co-founder Ellie Roswell decided to amplify their music. "I don't know why I bought it, to be honest. I remember seeing a Jaguar in a guitar shop when I was a kid and thinking, 'that's an ugly-looking guitar,'" he confesses. "I had started listening to Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., and My Bloody Valentine in late my teens and early 20s, but I think I got it wrong, because they all play Jazzmasters [laughs]. I eventually fell in love with the eccentricities of the Jag."
Years back, this worn-down jangle machine was upgraded with Lollar Jaguar pickups and an M1 Mastery bridge, and it has maintained that pedigree ever since. "Since putting a bit longer scale length on my build, giving it more resonance, I've noticed how the Jag's shorter scale can have a deader, plinky-plunky sound," admits Oddie. "For years I overcompensated the rest of my setup with my amps (bass on 10) and utilizing specific pedals to increase the Jag's sustain."
This one tends to appreciate distortion, gain, and fuzz, so Joff will strap it on for the heavier, more rocking songs like "Moaning Lisa Smile" or "Giant Peach."
Sustainer Strat
"I'm not using this guitar to its full potential right now," concedes Oddie. "I'm just scratching the surface and just using it as a Strat, but I did request it from Fender because it has the special stuff." The Fender EOB Sustainer Stratocaster was co-designed by Radiohead's Ed O'Brien and his longtime tech (and Oddie's current tech) Adam Cummings. It's still stock and features the unique setup of a Seymour Duncan JB Jr. humbucker (bridge), a Texas Special single-coil (middle), and a Fernandes Sustainer (neck). It has a "really lovely clean sound," so Joff uses this for the band's softer songs, like "Lipstick on the Glass."
Jangling with Johnny
"We've only just begun." Oddie quotes the Carpenters when referring to this pristine Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar that sees stage time for Blue Weekend's dreamy-pop number "How Can I Make It Ok?" He notes during the Rundown that the Bare Knuckle Johnny Marr single-coils give the guitar a "paddier, '80s sound" and that "it's one of the best guitars being made at the moment. It's something really special."
Picking the P
For Blue Weekend's "No Hard Feelings," Joff will put on this Fender American Professional II Precision Bass and pick out chords far up the neck while bassist Theo Ellis plays on a Roland RD-2000 Stage Piano.
Double Your Pleasure. Double Your Fun.
Joff once toured with a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III and a handwired Vox AC30HW2. Shortly after their first album, My Love Is Cool, Joff started to require more volume and less color. "For me, the Twin's blank canvas—huge amounts of headroom with big, clean sounds—is a big sheet of paper that you can paint on." These Fender '65 Twin Reverb reissues are both on and are set in a double-mono platform. For European tours, he'll sub out one of the Twin reissues for a proper '70s silver-panel Twin Reverb.
Joff's "Death Star"—Home to Oddities and Curiosities
"As ridiculous as this sounds, the concept of this board was to get as much functionality out of something that can also get on a plane," says Oddie. "It also needed to be on the floor, because I'm not interested in having them in a rack offstage. I'm a control freak and I like to see what's going on." Let's dive into this FAA-regulated pedalboard built by Matt Tag aka the Guitar Butler. Everything starts by going into the RJM Music Mastermind PBC, where Joff has meticulously mapped several presets for every song in Wolf Alice's nightly setlist. Oddie employs a six-pack of complicated, deep workstations from Strymon (BigSky and TimeLine) and Empress (Nebulus, Phaser, Tremolo2, and Multidrive). Even broader sounds and tone splicing happen with Joff's pair of digital power plants from Line 6 (HX Effects and HX Stomp). The lower right corner has a deuce of dirts (JHS Sweat Tea V3 and Analog Man King of Tone). And a heralded green giant (Electro-Harmonix Russian Big Muff) and trio of tiny tone teakers (Wampler Tumnus, Mooer Tender Octaver, and Mooer Yellow Comp) round things out on Joff's main board. An auxiliary board to the side houses a Dunlop Cry Baby Wah and a Morley PVO+ optical Volume Plus.
Underneath the hood there are various power supplies from GigRig (Generators, Isolators, and high-current Timelords and Supanovas) and a Strymon Zuma.
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Q: why does query in mysql works but query in php doesnt and its only due to specific columns I'm trying to do a simple query:
SELECT
    job_title,
    job_description,
    job_tasks,
    technology_skills,
    job_activities
FROM
    careeryou_db3
WHERE
    Job_Interests = " CIE"

It works perfectly in mysql giving me this result:
http://imgur.com/a/E9yv3
However, when I use this in my PHP it returns an empty data set. I did some troubleshooting by trying to query the columns one by one and it works(returning the correct results respectively.
SELECT
    job_title, job_description, job_tasks
FROM
    careeryou_db3
WHERE
    Job_Interests = " CIE"

Apparently, when I try to query anything from the columns of [technology_skills] OR [job_activities], the php result would return as BLANK. Does anyone have any idea why? this is strange and im kinda new to this
This is my php code:
$query = 'SELECT job_title,job_description,job_tasks FROM    careeryou_db3 WHERE Job_Interests = " CIE" ';
$resultset = mysql_query($query, $connection);

$records = array();

while($r = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultset)){
    $records[] = $r;
}
echo json_encode($records);

A: I can't see any error on your sql syntax. Can you check the mysql logs for better error information?
See here for details
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/error-log.html
[mysqld]
log_error=/var/log/mysql/mysql_error.log
general_log_file=/var/log/mysql/mysql.log

It would help how you call the mysql, place the query build code as example.

A: It might be worth adding these lines for extra debugging to ensure your connection and query is successful.
$result = mysql_query($sql);

if (!$result) {
    echo "Could not successfully run query ($sql) from DB: " .  mysql_error();
    exit;
}

if (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) {
    echo "No rows found, nothing to print so am exiting";
    exit;
}

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
....

A: It is because of the data in those columns that are conflicting with the PHP. Apparently this "—" cannot get parse into PHP which explains why the query works only in phpMyAdmin and not my PHP script.

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"Until universities demonstrate better ability to lower their cost of operations, perhaps through more intensive use of online classes and elimination or reduction of tenure, we expect government officials to produce bolder solutions in response to the public outcry against the cost of higher education," the report said.
We can expect administrators who are ignorant of the values of the university community to use those suggestions against us.
4. Earlier this week, Ralph Martire gave an interesting pension reform proposal and Rich Miller, a non-partisan political blogger in Springfield who is widely read by insiders, gave it basically his seal of approval as a base. The essence is a refinancing of the amount due the funds.
The Tribune and some big business groups will also hate it. Why? Because it causes no real pain for public employees and retirees. And that's really what they want.
From the UI Daily E-Summary http://www.uillinois.edu/our/news/summary.cfm As a reminder: my sources are these, plus the News-Gazette (NG), Daily Illini (DI), New York Times (NYT), Chicago Tribune (Trib), a bunch of google-news, and the goodness of my readers, who send me things I might have missed.
1/15 — pp. 24-27 (NYT) "California to give web courses a big trial", actually San Jose State.
1/16 — p.6 (Crain's) "Here's an actual honest-to-goodness pension fix", see above.
1/16 — pp.35-67 (Trib) The massive pay-walled four-part story on the bankruptcy of the Tribune Co. Note length!


A MAN from Peterborough with a history of psychiatric problems was found dead in his apartment after taking an overdose of drugs.
The body of Simon Deluce (43), from Eaglesthorpe, Peterborough, was found in his house on April 2 this year.
An inquest heard that toxicology results on his blood and urine showed Mr Deluce had a potentially fatal amount of the antidepressant mirtazapine.
It also showed he had a large quantity of alcohol in his body at the time of the overdose, meaning the coroner was not able to say if the overdose was accidental or deliberate.
Coroner Gordon Ryall delivered an open verdict. He said: "It is impossible on the evidence to say why he did it.
The inquest heard that Mr Deluce, a former IT worker, had struggled with mental health problems since his divorce, but had not spoken to anyone about his issues since November 2010.
He was found after friend Kevin Price twice visited his house to find a window open but no answer at the door.
Mr Price, from Fulbridge Road, said: "He never said anything to me about wanting to take his own life. We last spoke on the Saturday (March 26) at about 2pm, and we agreed to meet up on Monday.
Mr Price phoned the police, and PC Vincent Watson discovered the body at 7.30pm. The property was said to be messy, but there were no suspicious circumstances.


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Justia Patents HeatedUS Patent for Apparatus for deicing of trolley wires Patent (Patent # 4,190,137)
Apparatus for deicing of trolley wires
Jun 22, 1978 - Dainichi-Nippon Cables, Ltd.
In a power transmission system comprising at least two trolley wires for supplying an alternating current power to an electric vehicle, and at least two feeder lines coupled to the trolley wires at feeding points of the corresponding trolley wires spaced apart a given interval for feeding a voltage to the trolley wires, with a closed loop formed between a portion of the trolley wires and a portion of the feeder lines through two adjacent feeding points, a throughtype current transformer is provided for each feeder line such that the feeder line extends through the transformer and the primary winding of the transformer is connected to receive an alternating current voltage between the above described at least two trolley wires, whereby a secondary alternating current induced in the feeder lines serving as a secondary conductor of the transformer flows through the above described closed loop, which causes a Joule heat along the trolley wires, thereby to deicing of the trolley wires. Preferably, an alternating voltage between the above described at least two trolley wires is selectively applied to the primary winding of the transformer, such that a supply of the alternating current voltage to the primary winding is controlled manually or automatically responsive to meteorological conditions. Such an automatic control of a supply to the primary winding of the transformer may be selectively effected, in association with the temperature of the trolley wires being lower than a preset temperature, a predetermined meteorological condition being met by an ambient temperature, water, snow and the like, a current normally flowing through the trolley wires being less than a predetermined value, and the like, singly or in combination.
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1. Field of the Invention;
The present invention relates to an apparatus for deicing of trolley wires. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus for deicing trolley wires in a power transmission system comprising at least two trolley wires for supplying an alternating current power to an electric vehicle.
2. Description of the Prior Art;
Water, snow etc, if any, on trolley wires installed in a power transmission system for supplying an alternating current power to an electric vehicle is frozen to form a ice layer on the trolley wires when the ambient temperature or the temperature of trolley wire becomes lower than the freezing point. The ice layer prevents an electrical contact with a pantograph of an electric vehicle. As a result, a supply of an electric power from the trolley wires to an electric vehicle is disturbed and a pantograph is broken. For this reason, the operation of electric vehicles is often obstructed.
A prior art system for deicing of trolley wires which is of interest to the present invention is disclosed in Japanese Published unexamined utility model application No. 131601/1974, laid open Nov. 12, 1974 for public inspection. FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the prior art system for deicing of trolley wires as disclosed in the above referenced Japanese Utility Model Laying Open Gazette. Referring to FIG. 1, a trolley wire 11 for supplying an electric power to an electric car is suspended from a stringing wire 13 by means of a plurality of electrically insulating hangers 12 and electrically conductive hanger 12'. The plurality of hangers 12 are provided to hang the trolley wire 11 from the stringing wire 13, with the trolley wire 11 electrically insulated from the stringing wire 13, while the hangers 12' are set in the vicinity of the feeding points 14 and 14' so as to electrically connect the corresponding points at the trolley wire 11 to the feeding points 14 and 14'. The feeding points 14 and 14' are connected to a feeder wire cable 15 at predetermined intervals of distance for the purpose of feeding a voltage to the trolley wire 11, thereby to compensate for a voltage drop along the trolley wire 11. As a result, a closed loop is formed by means of a portion of the feeder line 15 and the trolley wire 11, coupled to each other at the feeding points 14 and 14' through the hangers 12'. A rail installed beneath and along the trolley wire 11 forms a return circuit of a current flowing from the trolley wire 11 through a pantograph of an electric car and wheels thereof to the rail 16. A primary winding 171 of a transformer 17 is connected between the feeder line 15 and the rail 16. A secondary winding 172 of the transformer 17 is provided to transform the voltage applied to the primary winding 171 to a lower voltage and is connected to a full wave rectifier 18. The full wave rectifier 18 comprises a bridge circuit of diodes, connected in a well known fashion, and the direct current output is applied to the above described closed loop formed by the feeder line 15 and the trolley wire 11. The direct current output terminals of the full wave rectifier 18 may be shunted with an alternating current bypassing diode 19. With such a circuit configuration, a direct current is caused to flow through the above described closed loop comprising the feeder line 15 and the trolley wire 11 and the said direct current is superposed on the alternating current flowing through the trolley wire 11. As a result, the current flowing through the trolley wire 11 is increased and a Joule heat is produced along the trolley wire 11, thereby to deicing of the trolley wire 11.
However, the above described prior art system requires the transformer 17 and the full wave rectifier 18 for the purpose of applying a direct current to the trolley wire 11 to deicing of the trolley wire, with the result that the circuit configuration becomes complicated and expensive. In such a power transmission system where a single trolley wire and the rails are utilized for supplying an electric power to an electric vehicle, a very high voltage power of such as several thousand volt to several ten thousands volt should be transmitted and this necessitates transformation of the said very high voltage to an appropriate voltage suited for rectification into a direct current voltage to be supplied to the trolley wire for the purpose of deicing of the trolley wire, with the result that the transformer 17 should be extremely large sized and becomes expensive. In addition, in order to apply the output of the full rectifier to the feeder line and the trolley wire, some connections for such direct current circuit need be separately provided, which makes installation complicated and expensive. Furthermore, as the output direct current from the rectifier is divided into two parts at the connection point of feeder line, only one part of the divided current is effective to increase a Joule heat in the trolley wire 11. As a result, deicing of the trolley wires need much electric power, resulting in lower efficiency.
Another example of interest to the present invention for an apparatus for deicing of trolley wires is seen in Japanese Published examined patent application No. 42805/1976, published Nov. 18, 1976 for opposition. More specifically, the referenced Patent Publication Gazette discloses that both a trolley wire for an up line and a trolley wire for a down line of a double track are connected at the terminations to form a closed loop and a separate power source for supplying a power for deicing is provided in a power source for supplying an electric power to both trolley wires, such that an alternating current is applied from the substation to the closed loop formed by the trolley wires of the up and down lines, whereby an additional electric power is applied to the trolley wires and a icing of the trolley wires is prevented or unfreezed. However, the above described deicing apparatus requires a double track including an up and down lines. For this reason, the apparatus disclosed in the referenced Japanese Patent Publication cannot be applied to a single track. In addition, the closed loop formed by the up and down lines becomes so large as to cover a distance between two adjacent substations coupled to the double track. As a result, a deicing operation should be effected in such a large closed loop and a localized deicing operation cannot be effected such that a freeze of the trolley wires is prevented only in a relatively short span of the trolley wires where prevention of a icing is required by virture of meteorological conditions in such a local area. For this reason, the system disclosed in the latter referenced Patent Publication involves a problem of an increased power loss.
Briefly described, in a power transmission system comprising at least two trolley wires for supplying an alternating current power to an electric vehicle and at least two feeder lines coupled to the trolley wires at feeding points of the corresponding trolley wires spaced apart a given interval for feeding a voltage to the trolley wires, with a closed loop formed between a portion of the trolley wires and a portion of the feeder lines through two adjacent feeding points, a through-type current transformer is provided for each feeder line such that the feeder line extends through the transformer and the primary winding of the transformer is connected to receive an alternating current voltage between the above described at least two trolley wires, whereby a secondary alternating current induced in the feeder lines flows through the above described closed loop, which causes a Joule heat along the trolley wires, thereby to deice of the trolley wires.
Preferably an alternating voltage between the above described at least two trolley wires is selectively applied to the primary winding of the through-type current transformer, such that a supply of the alternating current voltage to the primary winding of the through-type current transformer is controlled manually or automatically responsive to ambient meteorological conditions. Such an automatic control of a supply of the alternating current voltage to the primary winding of the through-type transformer is selectively effected, in association with various conditions, singly or in combination, such as the temperature of the trolley wires being lower than a predetermined temperature, a predetermined meteorological condition being met by an ambient temperature, water, snow and the like, a current normally flowing through the trolley wires being less than a predetermined value, and the like.
Therefore, a principal object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for preventing a icing of trolley wires, which is simple in structure, easy of maintenance and inexpensive in cost, and of higher efficiency.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for deicing of trolley wires, wherein a icing can be prevented selectively in a relatively short span of trolley wires, where deicing of the trolley wires is most required in the light of the meteorological conditions in such a local area.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for deicing of trolley wires, wherein a power consumption required for deicing of the trolley wires is reduced and thus a icing of the trolley wires can be prevented with a less power loss and with a higher efficiency.
These objects and other objects, features, aspects and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the companying drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a prior art apparatus for deicing of trolley wires;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a through-type current transformer for use in the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing in more detail a decision circuit in the FIG. 4 embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. As described previously, the present invention is characterized by employment of a through-type current transformer. Therefore, it would be appropriate to describe the through-type current transformer, before the explanation of the principle of the present invention with FIG. 2.
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a through-type current transformer to be employed in the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, the through-type current transformer 30 comprises a primary winding 31 wound around the portions of an O letter shaped core 32 having a through aperture 33. According to the present invention, the through-type current transformer 30 is utilized such a manner that a feeder line 15 extends through the through aperture 33 of the core 32 of the transformer. Therefore, when an alternating current voltage is applied to the primary winding 31, an alternating current flux is induced in the core 32 and accordingly an alternating current is induced by the alternating current flux to flow through the feeder line 15.
With simultaneous reference to FIGS. 2 and 3, the principle of the present invention will be described in the following. With particular reference to FIG. 2, the embodiment is shown comprising three trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T which are installed along a path for travel of electric vehicles, such as electric cars, to supply a three-phase alternating current power to the electric vehicles. The three trolly wires 11R, 11S and 11T are electrically connected to three feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T installed along the above described three trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T, respectively, at predetermined intervals of distance l for the purpose of supplying a three-phase alternating current power from the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T to the corresponding trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T at the above described intervals l. The three feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T are connected at the ends thereof through three supply lines 150R, 150S and 150T, respectively, to a substation 20. Thus, it would be appreciated that for each span of the above described intervals l a closed loop is formed for each phase by the corresponding portion of the respective trolley wire and the corresponding portion of the respective feeder line as coupled to each other at the adjacent two feeding points. Thus, for each span of the above described intervals l, three closed loops are formed, the closed loop for the phase R including the corresponding portions of the trolley wire 11R and the feeder line 15R, the closed loop for the phase S including the corresponding portions of the trolley wire 11S and the feeder line 15S, and the closed loop for the phase T including the corresponding portions of the trolley wire 11T and the feeder line 15T.
At each span of the above described intervals l, through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T structured as shown in FIG. 3 are set such a manner that the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T extend through the through apertures 33 of the transformers 30R, 30S and 30T, respectively. It is pointed out that in FIG. 2 the through-type current transformers are identified by the reference numeral 30 as affixed with postscripts R, S and T to represent the corresponding phases R, S and T, although in FIG. 3 such postscripts were not employed. As best seen in FIG. 2, the primary windings 31 of the through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T are connected to two supply lines among three supply lines 150R, 150S and 150T or alternatively connected to two trolley wires among the three trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T. So as to receive a single phase alternating current power. Preferably, a switch means 21 is set for each span to selectively supply the above described three sets of single phase alternating current powers to the primary windings of the through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T from the supply lines 150R, 150S and 150T or from the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T. The switch means 21 may be a manual switch selectively operable by an operator. Alternatively, the switch means 21 may be an automatic circuit breaker automatically operable according to a predetermined condition such as a meteorological condition, such as an ambient temperature, water, snow and the like, and/or a physical condition of the trolley wires, such as the temperature, the current and the like of the trolley wires.
In operation, when an ambient meteorological condition becomes worse, i.e. an ambient temperature becomes lower than the ice point when the water and/or snow exist, so that trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T are placed in a condition where a freeze is likely to occur, the switch means 21 is closed manually or automatically according to detection of such meteorological condition, whereby an alternating current voltage is applied to each of the primary windings of the through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T. Accordingly, an alternating current flux is induced in each of the cores 32 of the through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T and thus an alternating current is induced in each of the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T extending through the through apertures 33 of the transformers. The alternating current thus induced in each of the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T by virtue of the alternating current flux of the respective through-type current transformers 30R, 30S, and 30T is caused to flow through the corresponding closed loop. As a result, in each of the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T, there flows a sum of a load current to be caused to flow through each of the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T in order to operate the electric vehicles and the above described induced current caused to flow through each of the above described closed loop.
Because of superposition of the above induced current and load current usually flowing through the trolley wires during the operation of the electric vehicles, a Joule heat is generated in each of the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T which serves to deice the trolley wires. When no electric vehicles is operated, then no load current flows through the trolley wires and accordingly only the above described induced current is caused to flow through each of the trolley wires.
It should be pointed out that the direction of flow of the load current in each of the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T by virtue of the operation of the electric vehicles and the direction of flow of the above described induced current in each of the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T induced by means of the corresponding through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T are selected to be the same and thus the direction of flow of the above described induced current in each of the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T is opposite to the direction of flow of the current normally flowing therethrough, with the result that a much more Joule heat is produced in each of the trolley wires as compared with that in each of the feeder lines.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the switch means 21 is adapted to be on/off controlled automatically according to an ambient meteorological condition, the condition of the trolley wires per se, and the like. Such embodiment will be described in the following.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the present invention and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a decision circuit 50 employed in the FIG. 4, wherein decision is made automatically as to whether a icing of the trolley wires should be prevented in response to an ambient meteorological condition, such as an ambient temperature, water, snow and the like, and a trolley wire condition, such as a trolley wire temperature, trolley wire current and the like.
The above described trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T for supplying a three-phase alternating current power are connected to one side terminals of an electromagnetic switch serving as the above described switch means 21 through a molded case circuit breaker 411. The other side terminals of the electromagnetic switch 21 are connected to the primary windings of the through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T, such that a single phase power is taken from two of the three other side terminals in different combinations. A current transformer 431 is coupled to any one line, such as 15S in the embodiment shown, among the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T, for detecting an overcurrent flowing in the feeder lines. Among the power supply lines 150R, 150S and 150T, another current transformer 432 is coupled to the same phase 150S as that of the feeder line 15S wherein the current transformer 431 is coupled, for detecting an overcurrent flowing through the supply lines. The current transformer 432 may also be utilized to detect a current to be supplied from the substation 20 to the transmission system being less than a predetermined value such as in case where the number of operations of the electric vehicles is reduced in a night time, for example, which is taken into consideration in determining whether a freeze of the trolley wires should be prevented.
A voltage between the trolley wires 11R and 11S obtainable through the molded case circuit breaker 411 is applied through another molded case circuit breaker 412 to a primary winding of a transformer 42. The secondary winding of the transformer 42 is connected to a control unit 40 for the purpose of energization thereof. The control unit 40 comprises a parallel connection coupled to the secondary winding of the transformer 42 including a delay relay 1D for a delay operation responsive to initiation of energization, an overcurrent detecting circuit 44 responsive to the overcurrent detected output of the current transformer 431 and 432 for energizing a relay 1R, decision circuit 50 responsive to an ambient temperature detector 471, a water detector 472, a snow detector 473, a trolley wire temperature detector 48 and the current transformer 432 for determining a condition of necessity for deicing of the trolley wires, a relay 21R for closing the electromagnetic switch 21, a pilot lamp 491 for displaying a state of supply of the power, and a lamp 492 connected in series with a normally open auxiliary contact 21a of the electromagnetic switch 21 for indicating the closed state of the electromagnetic switch 21.
In a normal state of operation where the meteorological condition is better, when the molded case circuit breakers 411 and 412 are closed, the secondary voltage of the transformer 42 is applied to the control unit 40 and thus the pilot lamp 491 is lit to indicate a supply state of the power and with a delay of a predetermined period of time after initiation of energization the contact 1Da of the delay relay 1D is closed, whereby a voltage is applied to the overcurrent detecting circuit 44, and the decision circuit 50 for energization thereof. Since various circuits such as 44 and 50 are supplied with an energization power after the contact 1Da of the delay relay 1D is closed, any information which is liable to occur until a steady state is reached after initiation of energization can be prevented. The overcurrent detecting circuit 44 is structured such that unless the current in the feeder line 15S as detected by the current detector 431 and 432 exceeds a predetermined current value a connection between the terminals a and c is opened so that the relay 1R may not be energized. Therefore, the normally closed contact of the relay 1Rb is remains closed. However, since the relay 2R is not energized in such a situation, the contact 2Ra of the relay 2R is opened. Accordingly, the relay 21R is not energized, whereby the electromagnetic switch 21 is kept opened and the through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T are not supplied with a power.
Now description will be made of how an iced trolley wires is deiced in response to detection of an ambient meteorological condition. As the above described temperature detector 471, a transistor coupled to be variable of the characteristic as a function of an ambient temperature, a thermocouple or the like may be used. The above described water detector 472 may be structured such that it's impedance is varied as a function of presence or absence of water and thus the output voltage thereof is decreased responsive to presence of the water. The above described snow detector 473 may comprise a heater for heating a portion of snow for melting the same and a water detector similar to the water detector 472 for detecting the presence of the water produced as a result of melting of the snow for providing a decreased output voltage responsive to the snow. The trolley wire temperature detector 481 may comprise a thermocouple provided associated with one of the trolley wires, the output voltage of which is variable as a function of the temperature of the trolley wire. The current detector 432 may comprise a current transformer.
The detected outputs of the temperature detector 471, the water detector 472, the snow detector 473, the trolley wire temperature detector 481 and the current detector 432 are applied to the amplifiers 511, 512, 513, 514 and a decision circuit 526, respectively, in the decision circuit 50. The output voltage of ambient temperature as amplified by the amplifier 511 is applied to decision circuits 521 and 522. The decision circuit 522 is structured to level detect the above voltage of ambient temperature at a predetermined level, say a level corresponding to the ambient temperature of +2.degree. C., so that the high level output signal is obtained when the ambient temperature is lower than the above described temperature of +2.degree. C. The output of the decision circuit 522 is applied to an AND gate 541. A decision circuit 523 is connected to the amplifier 512 to receive the output of the amplifier 512 and is structured to determine whether the output voltage of the water detector 472 has become lower than a predetermined voltage due to the presence of the water, thereby to provide the high level output to an OR gate 531. A decision circuit 524 is connected to the amplifier 513 to receive the output of the amplifier 513 and is structured to determine whether the output voltage of the snow detector 473 has become lower than a predetermined voltage due to the presence of snow, thereby to provide the high level output to the OR gate 531. A decision circuit 525 is connected to the amplifier 514 to receive the output of the amplifier 514 and is structured to level detect the voltage of trolley wire temperature at a predetermined level, say the temperature of +2.degree. C., so that the high level output is applied to the OR gate 532, when the trolley wire temperature is lower than the temperature of +2.degree. C. On the other hand, the decision circuit 526 is structured to level detect the trolley wire current at a predetermined level, say the current value of 50A, so that the high level output siganl is obtained when the trolley wire current is smaller than the current of 50A and is applied to the other input of the OR gate 532.
Accordingly, when the ambient temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature of say +2.degree. C. under the presence of water or snow and the trolley wire temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature of say +2.degree. C. or the trolley wire current is smaller than the predetermined value of say 50A, the AND gate 541 is enabled to provide the high level output signal as a command for additional heating of the trolley wires for deicing of the trolley wires.
The decision circuit 521 is structured to level detect the above described voltage of ambient temperature at another given level corresponding to another different predetermined ambient temperature of say -1.degree. C. which is 3.degree. C. lower than the above described predetermined temperature of +2.degree. C., so that the high level output signal is obtained when the ambient temperature becomes lower than the above described another predetermined temperature of -1.degree. C. Accordingly, when the ambient temperature is lower than the above described another predetermined temperature of -1.degree. C. and the trolley wire temperature is lower than the above described predetermined temperature of +2.degree. C. or the trolley wire current is smaller than the above described predetermined current value of 50A, the AND gate 542 is enabled to provide the high level output as a command for additional heating of the trolley wires.
The outputs of these AND gates 541 and 542 are applied through an OR gate 55 to the relay 2R for energization thereof. Therefore, when the high level output is obtained from the OR gate 55, the terminals a and c of the decision circuit 50 is connected and the normally open contact 2Ra of the relay 2R is closed, whereby the relay 21R is energized. Therefore, the electromagnetic switch 21 is closed. Since the normally open contact 21 is closed, an alternating current voltage is applied to each of the primary windings 31 of the through-type current transformers 30R, 30S and 30T, whereby an alternating magnetic flux is induced in each of the magnetic cores 32 of the transformers and accordingly an induced current flows through each of the closed loops comprising the corresponding portions of the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T and the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T for the span now in discussion. A flow of the above described induced current in each of the trolley wires causes an additional Joule heat, thereby to prevent or deice the trolley wires. At the same time the normally open auxiliary contact 21a of the relay 21R is closed and the lamp 492 is lit to indicate that the trolley wires are being heated.
In the foregoing description, the decision circuit 50 was described as structured to make coordinated decision responsive to detection of the meteorological condition such as an ambient temperature, water, snow and the like and the detection of a trolley wire condition such as the trolley wire temperature, the trolley wire current, and the like to determine whether a command for additional heating by the induced current should be provided. Besides the above decision circuit 50, such a decision circuit may also be used, wherein among the above described conditions, inasmuch as a condition such as meteorological condition, trolley wire condition etc, may be utilized to make separate decision to determine whether a command for additional heating should be provided responsive individually to each detection. In addition to the detectors 471, 472, 473 or in place of the detector 472 in the decision circuit 50, another detector such as a humidity detector, fog detector and the like may also be used. Either of the trolley wire temperature detector 481 and the current detector 432 may be omitted, because there is a certain relationship between the trolley wire temperature and the current of the feeder lines in some conditions.
Now description will be made of the operation in case where an overcurrent flows through the trolley wires. When at least any one of the detectors 471, 472, 473, and 481 is in disorder and thus the temperatures are not detected correctly, in spite of the fact that a command for additional heating has been obtained and the induced current has been caused to flow through the trolley wires as well as the feeder lines of the closed loops by means of the throughtype current transformers, the total of the currents in the current transformers 431 and 432 increases to exceed a predetermined current value of say 600 A. The overcurrent detector 44 is structured such that the terminals a and c is closed to energize the relay coil 1R when the total of the currents in the current transformers 431 and 432 exceeds the above described predetermined value of say 600 A. Accordingly, in such a situation, the normally open contact 1Ra of the relay 1R is closed and the relay 1R is energized to be selfretained, while the normally closed contact 1Rb is opened. Therefore, the relay 21R is deenergized and the electromagnetic switch 21 is opened. Therefore, the alternating current voltage applied to the primary windings of the through-type current transformers 30R,30S and 30T is interrupted and the induced current by the through-type current transformers is accordingly interrupted, with the result that additional heating of the trolley wires by means of the through-type current transformers is discontinued.
As described in the foregoing, according to the embodiments of the present invention, additional heating of the trolley wires is achieved by an alternating current induced by the through-type current transformers rather than utilizing a transformer and a rectifying circuit for supplying an additional direct current power to the trolley wires. As a result, a large sized transformer and a rectifying circuit of a large capacity can be dispensed with. Thus, according to the present invention, an apparatus for deicing of the trolley wires is provided, which is simple in structure, easy of maintenance and is inexpensive in cost. According to another aspect of the present invention, the through-type current transformers are provided to induce an additional current only in the closed loops formed in a relatively shorter span of the trolley wires by a portion of the trolley wires and a portion of the feeder lines. As a result, only a portion of the trolley wires included in the closed loop can be selectively heated to deice the trolley wires which is likely to occur in a relatively narrow local area. As a result, deicing of the trolley wires can be achieved with less electric power and thus with higher efficiency. According to another aspect of the present invention, the condition for deicing of the trolley wires is determined by an coordinated or individual decision of an ambient meteorological condition, a trolley wire condition and the like and an automatic control is effected responsive to such decision. According to further aspect of the present invention, the present invention can also be employed even in a single track system as well as a double track system including an up and down lines.
Although in the foregoing description, the embodiments were described as employing a power transmission system comprising three trolley wires combined with three feeder lines for supplying a three-phase electric power to electric vehicles, it is pointed out that the present invention can be equally applied to a power transmission system comprising only two trolley wires combined with two feeder lines for supplying a single phase alternating current power to electric vehicles. Thus, it is intended that the present invention also covers such changes and modifications.
Originally, the feeder lines 15R, 15S and 15T are provided to feed at intervals l to the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T an alternating current electric power of the respective phases to eliminate a voltage drop along the trolley wires 11R, 11S and 11T because of the load current flowing therethrough. Therefore, the present invention can be advantageously employed in such a power transmission system comprising a plurality of trolley wires for supplying an alternating current power to electric vehicles and the corresponding plurality of feeder lines already installed to be coupled to the trolley wires at feeding points of the corresponding trolley wires spaced apart a given interval for the purpose of only feeding a voltage to the trolley wires, by additionally providing a through-type current transformer for each feeder line such that the feeder line extends through the transformer and connecting the primary winding of the transformer to receive an alternating current voltage between two trolley wires or feeder lines. Thus, according to the present invention, skillful use is made of the feeder lines already installed to be coupled to the trolley wires for the purpose of feeding a voltage to the trolley wires. On the other hand, the present invention can also be advantageously employed in a power transmission system comprising only trolley wires for supplying an alternating current power to electric vehicles, by additionally providing feeder lines to be coupled to the trolley wires at feeding points of the corresponding trolley wires spaced apart a given interval for the purpose of feeding a voltage to the trolley wires and also for the purpose of forming a closed loop between a portion of the trolley wires and a portion of the feeder lines through two adjacent feeding points, and by further providing a through-type current transformer for each feeder line such that the feeder line extends through the transformer and the primary winding of the transformer is connected to receive an alternating current voltage between at least two trolley wires or two feeder lines. In the latter situation, the distance l is selected to be most suited for dividing the trolley wires into a plurality of closed loop areas which should be individually selected in consideration of the meteorological condition peculiar to that area.
Although the present invention has been described and illustrated in detail, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be taken by way of limitation, the spirit and the scope of the present invention being limited only by the terms of the appended claims.
1. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wire in a power transmission system comprising:
at least two trolley wires for supplying an alternating current power to an electric vehicle, each of which has a feeder line, said feeder line being connected to said trolley wires at a plurality of points to form a plurality of closed loops, and each feeder line in said closed loops passing through the through aperture of a through-type current transformer having a primary winding to which a voltage between said two trolley wires is applied in order to cause a Joule heat along said trolley wires.
2. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wires in accordance with claim 1, which further comprises switching means for selectively applying said alternating current voltage obtainable between said at least two trolley wires, to said primary winding of each of said transformer.
3. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wires in accordance with claim 2, which further comprises
first temperature detecting means operatively coupled to at least one trolley wire for detecting the temperature of said one trolley wire,
first decision means responsive to said first temperature detecting means for determining the temperature of said one trolley wire being lower than a predetermined temperature, and
means responsive to said first decision means for controlling said switching means for applying said alternating current voltage obtainable between said at least two trolley wires to each of said transformers.
means provided between said two adjacent feeding points for detecting an ambient meteorological condition between said two adjacent feeding points,
means responsive to said ambient meteorological condition detecting means for determining the output of said ambient meteorological condition detecting means reaching a predetermined ambient meteorological condition, and
means responsive to said ambient meteorological condition determining means for applying said alternating current voltage obtainable between said at least two trolley wires to said primary winding of each said transformer.
5. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wires in accordance with claim 2, wherein said ambient meteorological condition detecting means comprises second temperature detecting means for detecting an ambient temperature between said two adjacent feeding points, and said ambient meteorological condition determining means comprises means responsive to said second temperature detecting means for level detecting the output of said second temperature detecting means.
6. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wires in accordance with claim 2, wherein said ambient meteorological condition detecting means comprises means for detecting water between said two adjacent feeding points, and said ambient meteorological condition determining means comprises means responsive to said water detecting means for determining the presence of water between said two adjacent feeding points.
7. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wires in accordance with claim 2, wherein said ambient meteorological condition detecting means comprises means for detecting snow between said two adjacent feeding points, and said ambient meteorological condition determining means comprises means responsive to said snow detecting means for determining the presence of snow between said two adjacent feeding points.
means operatively coupled to at least one feeder line between said two adjacent feeding points for detecting a current flowing therethrough,
means responsive to said current detecting means for determining the detected current value being larger than a predetermined value, and
means responsive to said current determining means for controlling said switching means for stopping a supply of said alternating current voltage obtainable between said at least two trolley wires, to said primary winding of each of said transformers.
9. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wires in accordance with claim 2, which further comprises means operatively coupled to at least one feeder line between said two adjacent feeding points for detecting a current flowing through said feeder line,
means responsive to said current detecting means for determining the detected current being smaller than predetermined current value, and
means responsive to said current determining means for controlling said switching means for applying said alternating current voltage obtainable between said at least two trolley wires to said primary winding of each said transformer.
10. An apparatus for deicing of trolley wires in accordance with any of the proceeding claims, wherein said power transmission system comprises three said trolley wires and three said feeder lines for supplying a three-phase alternating current power to an electric vehicle, and through-type current transformers are each provided for each feeder line such that each said feeder line extends through said through opening of said core of each said through-type current transformer.
2870311 January 1959 Greenfield
3316362 April 1967 Mayo
Filed: Jun 22, 1978
Date of Patent: Feb 26, 1980
Assignees: Dainichi-Nippon Cables, Ltd. (Kobe), Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Kobe)
Inventors: Akira Shimada (Ibaraki), Kouichi Watanabe (Kobe), Katsuji Nakajima (Kashihara)
Primary Examiner: Richard A. Schacher
Attorneys: W. G. Fasse, D. F. Gould
Current U.S. Class: Heated (191/27)
International Classification: B60M 134;


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However they may look perfect, celebrities have skeletons in their closet. Canadian actor and producer Ryan Reynolds may have had teeth surgery or not… but in any case he certainly has a rather special face. He looks neat, with this kind of American jawbones, rather angular in comparison to Europeans'. A friend of mine who was in need for some Gums treatment Boisbriand found out that the actor actually came from Vancouver. His mother was a salesperson and his father a simple person too.
Married to the beautiful actress Blake Lively, Reynolds confided in an interview that she meant a lot to him. They have had two children together already and he seems to be very happy with being a father and a spouse. Strangely enough they called their daughter James which is usually a masculine name Reynolds also confided into an interview that he had three older brothers and that their father was very tough with them as he grew up in Vancouver, Canada. When he was becoming an adult, he felt quite a huge anxiety as he was trying to find ways to control him as well as others. Nominated several times for various awards, he was also nominated for his first Golden Globes as he starred into the movie Deadpool.
The actor born in 1976 got into acting thanks to his fellow Vancouver actor Chris William Martin; the latter told him to head over to Los Angeles California with him so he stayed in a very cheap motel and was rather poor for a while. His car didn't have doors and he drove without them for about the next month 4 months after his arrival there.
He was engaged for a while to Canadian singer songwriter Alanis Morissette but they broke up after he had accompanied her though to the 2003 Canadian Juno music awards. They were engaged but the engagement was off in June 2006. Later in 2008 he was engaged and even married to Scarlet Johansson but eventually they broke off as well.
Even though he failed his high school drama class he ended up becoming one of the most famous and talented actors. As he was named the sexiest man alive by People magazine in 2010 he gained a lot of muscle weight for his role in Blade: Trinity.
He has English and Irish ancestry but is actually from Canada. He has his star on the Hollywood walk on frame in California since 2016.


Rafael Nadal's return from a hip injury has been delayed. The star was to play this week in Acapulco but the hip injury he sustained at the Australian Open hasn't fully healed forcing him out of the event yesterday.
"I believe that all the necessary cares had been taken, I arrived to Cozumel to work on my adaptation, but yesterday in the last training before starting the tournament," Nadal said Tuesday. "I noticed a puncture in the same area of the problem I had in Australia, today in the morning I went to the resonance, I do not know what it is yet, but it is in a similar line to what happened in Australia, maybe it is a minor situation but the reality is that it is not clear yet and until it goes down a bit and the tests are done, it will not have the exact diagnose. The doctors told me that I cannot play because there is a risk of increasing the injury.
"I'm sorry for me, I'm the most affected, then I feel sorry for the tournament and the fans, I appreciate your love, I know that it's a difficult news but I had to communicate it this morning, and even though I'm not there, I know this is going to be a success", Nadal added.
Nadal hopes to play at Indian Wells and Miami next month. The news is a boom for Roger Federer's hopes of staying No. 1 a little longer, though the Swiss has made no indication he will play the clay season.
Smart decision to pull out instead of playing injured. He'll be back!
Agree. Better to be properly rested and recovered than trying to play and make everything worse.
1) capture a 2nd RG and…Federer fans need to take this with a grain of salt….
At this point it's an outrageous thought but seeing a 37 year old holding all 4 majors? Talk about distancing yourself from your rivals.
Roger already said that he will play in clay this year.
Roger Federer held the Nr. 1 spot longer than anyone else ever (303 weeks).
He has won the ATP World Tour Finals a record 6 times.
sorry, I hope Nadal and Stan and Djokovic's comeback.
The thought came to my mind as well. Murray is set to return on grass, but hard to see him beiing one of the favorites there, so Federer is the clear favorite for Wimbledon as of now. USO he lawsys have chances and the way he is playing on HC is encouraging, but he hasn't won there since 2009. He will need a good draw in RG, with Thiem and Zverev on the other side.
He already indicates that he may play a mini clay season this year (Madrid or Rome) and RG.
If he loses ealry in Miami, QF or erlier he won't spent a lot of energy and may decide to give it a go.
Federer holds 5+ titles at three different GS, not two. As it is, he is the only man to hold 3+ titles at three different GS. Both Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic could reach 3 if they win one more Wimbledon (Nadal) or US Open (Djokovic). 5 looks like a stretch, though.
This is indeed bad news for all tennis fans.
This is the 6th consecutive tournament nadal has withdrawn from due to injury.looks like his grinding style of play and his effort to get to no 1 last year has has taken its toll.
Hope his body heals soon.
Rennie i get what your saying, and i know you want to make everything about him, but theres been plenty of Federer news and threads just recenetly here on tennis-x, but this ones about Nadal, so can we at least make this one about him ?, Roger is class you too, no offence or disrespect ?
Sorri Willow – hope you don't mind squeezing Andy in – although it's not really big news as we all knew Andy would be out until Grass….however, good to hear he's on target.
PS: Hope U and Margot are escaping the Beast and all that is forecast to follow. My wee corner is totally snow free with blue skies – but boy it is cold!
J-Kath no problem, there hasnt been any Murray news for some time, what got irritating was this thread been turned into a Federer thread and all his career achievements yada yada, when there already is one about him anyway winning the Laureus award, i just thought we couldve made this one at least about Rafa ….
About the weather J-Kath completely snowed in here lol ….
so much talk about these old guys – Murray and Djoke are almost 31, Nadal is close to 32, Fed is past 36. What about the younger guys? Are they good for nothing when it comes to the big matches and big tournaments? Dimitrov has now reached the age at which Borg retired, so he's not really part of the young group any more. Other than Zverev and Kyrgios, I don't see anyone with that level of talent. But these two don't have their heads in place yet. Its weird to see a 36 year old number 1 winning slams given today's highly physical game. Its like Borg winning a slam in 1991.
Kath: that naughty Emma is causing havoc where I am. Snowdrifts against the back door and mournful birds in the garden. St David's day too. Tsk! Tsk!
Have been watching Dubai as they hold umbrellas over the players to shield them from the sunshine. Me oh my that Coric is fit BTW, but not impressed he lost to the wee roadrunner.
Oh gosh Margot. Yes, and yes to the birds – waiting on the electrical wires for food. A friend left work early 1.00pm Glasgow but got caught on motorway for 13 hours …Emma is sending wind, real wind my way – lost power this evening but back on.
Have almost given up on tennis – Stan out again, Rafa still unfit….waiting for Nole and then Andy – let's hope it works out well for them as the younger gen. not very inspiring so far.
Hope Rafa will pull out from IW & Miami too…Get enough rest & heal his battered body..and stop being so stubborn & hard headed…And start listen to his team's opinion too for God sake!
But Nadal knows his own body, if hes fit to play he will play, its always wait till clay, dont get me wrong i wouldnt want him to play injured, but why wait till this or that all the time ?
J-Kath / Margot https://www.facebook.com/southendnewsnetwork/videos/1237675542978583/?t=4 take a look at this lol ….
^Thanks RZ. Not unexpected. Stay off the HC, get tuned up for the Clay season, his speCIALty.