TRI-COUNTY AREA—Some wineries have started the annual harvest of grapes, part of the long process in making wine, and it's happened early again this year by about two weeks.
In the coming weeks, more wineries will be going out into the fields to harvest the grapes. Several wineries are reporting this is happening between one and two weeks early. The harvest last year was also earlier than usual by about three weeks. This year's grapes have been through various extremes in weather, from temperatures in the 90s to lots of rain.
Fred Frank, owner of Dr. Konstantin Frank's Vinifera, said they will start next week harvesting sparkling wine grapes, which will be two weeks early. Frank said they normally harvest the table grapes several weeks from now. He said the grapes have a head start on ripening. He called it "great news," as long as the weather remains cool in the fall. He said there were some downsides to this year's growing period, namely the droughts. However, Frank said thanks to the August rains, the vines fared nicely.
Frank said the other downside is that the overall weather conditions might mean lower grape yields. Specifically, he said the Riesling grapes may be smaller than usual. He explained the drought conditions caused the smaller berries.
The grape harvest at Rooster Hill Vineyards will start later this week and into next week. Amy Hoffman said a usual harvest begins in mid to late September based on previous harvests.
Hoffman said the early rains this year kept the grapes clean, while the heat kept the mold and mildew at bay. She said the vines and canopy are very vigorous. She added the harvest overall looks good, just as long as the fall is not cloudy and rainy.
Eileen Farnan, owner of Barrington Cellars on Keuka Lake, said they started harvesting grapes for juice last week. She said the weeks of 90 degree weather was what moved up the harvest. However, Farnan added the winery also had a slow start in the spring due to the weather.
Farnan said there were fewer Japanese beetles this year, adding the heat might have helped with that. She added when the temperatures get as high as they did the inspects don't like it. The rain was a concern again when Hurricane Irene traveled up the east coast.
"Irene didn't get to us. It would have been devastating," said Farnan. She explained excessive rain will make the grapes bigger with water and become split and cracked. If that happens, the growers have to harvest the grapes then or lose the fruit.
Peter Martini, vineyard manager for Anthony Road Wine Company, said this year is mostly on track for a regular harvest time. He explained Anthony Road won't harvest some viniferas until late September, but they are harvesting some hybrids now.
Another concern Anthony Road had was Hurricane Irene. He said they "dodged a bullet" with that storm front. Martini said it would be devastating if Irene had done to the Finger Lakes what it did to New Hampshire.
Mark Karasz, owner of Rock Stream Vineyards on Seneca Lake, said he has harvested some grapes already this year. However, he said it is not unusual to be harvesting those in August.
Tom Malina, owner of Castel Grisch Winery on Seneca Lake, said they will start the harvest this week with the Pinot Noir. He too said this was earlier than usual. He explained the winery occasionally has early harvests based on the weather. Malina said the winery must harvest early if it is a rainy fall. He said a dry fall is better, that way the sugars can build up in the fruit without there being too much water.


A community can't happen without those who work and don't ask for anything in return.
Volunteer Appreciation Night will be held at the Badlands Community Facility on Tuesday, April 25 and they're still a few spots left.
"I think I have about 10 or so more spots left. We're very close to our maximum, so if they haven't gotten their names in they really need to get them in. I have spoken with the caterer, so he knows how many to set up for. Once those beans are in the pot, that's it," stated Judy -Quintin-Arvidson of the town's Community Services Department.
The evening is going to be full of entertainment and a fantastic meal from Bernie and the Boys.
"It's going to be fantastic, we have a wonderful dessert and a wonderful entertainment group called HOJA. If you've never seen them they're quite interactive and they do all their music by vocal sounds, so like beat boxing and all those things. They really interact with the people and they're a ton a fun, so it's going to be a great night. There's going to be some super door prizes too," outlined Quintin-Arvidson.
Quintin-Arvidson expressed that they try to get the message out to volunteers every year on how grateful the town, and it's residents, are.
"I think volunteers are such giving people that I don't think they realize how much we appreciate what they do. It's really important for us to take a step back and say 'look you guys, you need to pat yourself on the back because no community happens without volunteers'."
If anyone is interested in the last few available spots, register through Judy at 403-823-1324 by April 21 at the latest.


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Q: Short story about if you die you are reborn as someone else in a different time I remember reading a short story a few years ago and I would like to reread read it again. As far as I remember it went a little like this:
You are in a car with your family and a truck hits it, but you are the only one to die. When you regain conciousness you are [in some place that I can't remember] and you see a person (I'm going to call the person as Bob from here, but it's possible the gender wasn't specified) and ask him about your wife/family, Bob tells you that you are dead and your wife/family are/will grieve for you for a time, but your wife get over you and marry someone else.
Bob then basically tells you that you are not actually a human but a being like him and their kind created the concept of the universe, time, ethics, morality etc for you because you are young and it will teach you the above. Since the universe is made just for you, everybody in the universe is you. When you die you are reborn as someone else on Earth, but the past memories are blocked but you do start to gain them back if you stay in the place you are in, but Bob wants to send you back to experience more because you are not finished just yet.
One of the last things Bob says to you is that you will be born this time as a farm girl in China in X year.
I have tried Googling this, but I was only able to get results like "God did not create the universe, gravity did, says Stephen Hawking", "IS THERE A GOD?" and "Quotes About Universe". Any help would be great.

A: This is "The Egg" by Andy Weir
You can read the full story online here

"How many times have I been reincarnated, then?"
  "Oh lots. Lots and
  lots. And in to lots of different lives." I said. "This time around,
  you'll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD."
   "Wait, what?" You
  stammered. "You're sending me back in time?"
  "Well, I guess
  technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe.
  Things are different where I come from."

later

"Because someday, you will become like me. Because that's what you
  are. You're one of my kind. You're my child."
"Whoa," you said, incredulous. "You mean I'm a god?" "No. Not yet.
  You're a fetus. You're still growing. Once you've lived every human
  life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born." "So
  the whole universe," you said, "it's just…" "An egg." I answered. "Now
  it's time for you to move on to your next life."

Purely as a matter of interest, he recently did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) where he discusses the story in some considerable detail

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As part of our Architects in Schools programme, transition year students from Crana College in Co. Donegal took part in a collaborative workshop with architect Breege Galbraith. The students researched the lack of bus shelters in the local town of Buncrana. They carried out interviews and questionnaires with people in the community about their experience of waiting on the bus. They discovered that there is a great need and want from the local community for proper designed bus shelters. Students set out with the mission to design and model a bus shelter to suit the needs of everyone in the community. They identified three locations in the town and successfully designed bus shelters for each space.


The Bearcats' last four home games this season will be played an noon on Saturdays.
It's official: There won't be any more Friday night football games at Small Field this season.
York City School District Supt. Eric Holmes made an executive decision Monday to move this season's remaining William Penn home football games from Friday nights to noon on Saturdays, William Penn athletic director Ron Coursey said. Holmes proposed that change, along with ways to beef up security at Small Field, at a school board meeting last week.
These changes were proposed after two adults were shot outside Small Athletic Field during the fourth quarter of the Bearcats' first home game of the season on Sept. 9.
The Bearcats first Saturday game will take place this weekend when they host Red Lion.
The feeling of playing on Saturday won't be completely new to William Penn players, who played against Harrisburg on a Saturday in 2014 and 2015.
This Friday, William Penn coach Russ Stoner and his assistant coaches plan to take most of their varsity players to Spring Grove to watch the Rockets play Dallastown. William Penn will face both teams later this season, and watching a game gives the coaches more opportunities to teach the sport, Stoner said.
On the way to Spring Grove, they'll stop at West York High School, where Stoner is one of five former players being inducted into the newly-formed West York Football Hall of Fame.
On Saturday morning, the team plans to gather for a pancake breakfast before the game.
The school will also host a pregame tailgate starting at 10:30 a.m. that includes a DJ, prizes and giveaways, Coursey said, sticking with a new tradition started at the first home game.
Some postgame "festive activities" could also be added later in the year now that games will end early in the afternoon, but none are planned for this Saturday's game, Coursey said.
The changes to game times have also been met positively by athletic directors at other schools in the York Adams Interscholastic Athletic Association.


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Home Nigeria Masari Speaks on How Buhari Saved Nigeria
Masari Speaks on How Buhari Saved Nigeria
 Says five years of Jonathan still stinks
Iyobosa Uwugiaren in Abuja
The Governor of Kastina State, Alhaji Aminu Masari, wednesday said Nigeria would have been plagued into serious socio-political and economic crisis going by "the huge mess created by the former President Goodluck Jonathan-led government for five years," if President Muhammadu Buhari had not been elected in the 2015 presidential election.
Assessing the two-year of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government in an exclusive interview with THISDAY in Abuja, the governor who hails from the same state with Buhari, said he is very proud of the achievements of the president.
"Of course, I am very proud of him and proud of what he has done in the past two years. When we came in 2015, 27 states were not paying salaries, and President Buhari came up with different bailouts," Masari stated when asked if he was proud of two years of Buhari-led administration.
He added: "States were given money to be able to pay salaries; those who owed pensions and gratuities were given money to pay, and my state benefited from that gesture. Each state was also given N10 billion from the excess crude account for infrastructure development.
''When the oil price went down and many states could not pay salaries, Buhari introduced what he called budget support. For the first four months, each state was given N1.4 billion and there were many other interventions from the federal government in order to help stabilise the states."
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives wondered what would have happened if there were no interventions from the Buhari-led federal government to help stabilise the system at the time the APC took over power at the federal level.
According to him, "If we did not have Buhari as president, we would have been in serious crisis with the way President Jonathan and his people messed up the economy, politics and the entire country.
''Today, there is relative peace and calm in the politics of our country. We are able to meet the minimum obligation of paying salaries, gratuity/pension and other developmental projects.''
Responding to the view by some leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that APC was not prepared for governance, Masari stated that people who destroyed the entire country have no moral right to accuse APC of not non-performance.
''It is like somebody who destroyed this house, and suddenly people realise that you need to rebuild it. And you realise that there is shortage of cement, water, sand, roofing materials and others. And all the shortages were caused by the people who destroyed the house
"It is unfortunate that we have short memory. Members of PDP know the damage they have done to our country economically, socially, politically and otherwise. They know the damage they did to our country. So, people should not expect us to correct the damage they did in 16 years in less than two.''
Accusing PDP of playing dirty politics as an opposition party, he urged Nigerians to ask PDP leaders what they did with huge financial resources they got when crude oil was selling between 100 and 150 dollars per barrel.
"When PDP was in power, the country was producing 2.2 million barrels per day-that was the time the country was getting huge revenue; it was more than enough. Instead of even leaving the revenue for the excess crude account, they finished it; wherever there was money, they finished it,'' Masari further stated.
Talking about the mess APC inherited from the Jonathan-led government, he said when the present government came in, there were insurgents in the entire North-east geo-political zone, accusing PDP of promoting insurgency for its political interest.
In spite of the fact that there were not enough resources, Masari said APC was able to bring peace, security and stability to the region, saying people can now travel from Borno State to Badagry, from South to Sokoto, without fear of being attacked.
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Q: Dictionary KeyNotFoundException NOT giving error ... WHY? This question is not why it is giving an error .. rather why it is not giving an error ...
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Dictionary<string, string> dic = new Dictionary<string, string>();
    dic["666bytes"] = "ME";
    MessageBox.Show(dic["should_give_error"]);
}

This should give an error, right ? as dic["should_give_error"] is not present but it is not giving an error (the Form loads normally). But I can trap it with try..catch(KeyNotFoundException) block...how come ?

A: I suspect you aren't actually running Form1_Load. Here's a short but complete program to demonstrate the exception being thrown as expected:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Form form = new Form();
        form.Load += Form1_Load;
        Application.Run(form);
    }

    private static void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Dictionary<string, string> dic = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        dic["666bytes"] = "ME";
        MessageBox.Show(dic["should_give_error"]);
    }
}

Compile and run that, and you get an exception dialog box.

A: You gotta read the documentation better. Quote:
// If a key does not exist, setting the indexer for that key
// adds a new key/value pair.
openWith["doc"] = "winword.exe";

So, when you call dic["should_give_error"] the program goes, oh, that key doesn't exist, so let's create one. So it does, and returns an empty string.
Edit: Okay, it doesn't return the empty string when you try to get a non-existent key, but the load event can't throw exceptions under certain conditions. But if you leave it like it is, you should have an empty value for the key "should_give_error".

A: I did found the answer (it's a BUG, not the answer I was expecting) and here are the references ...

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Rachel Duckhouse
Lochmaddy Fank ii, 2020
Rachel's work is in major collections including The British Museum, London
Solo exhibitions include MacRobert Art Centre, Stirling and Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
Group exhibitions include: 'Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing 1970 to now', British Museum and touring; New acquisitions, British Museum, London; Objectspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Selected for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
This exciting new work from a series of natural geometry drawings by artist Rachel Duckhouse is based specifically on sheep fanks, situated on the Scottish Island of Eriskay. Duckhouse initially first came across these structures on long walks around the Outer Hebrides, whilst she was there for an RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) Residency. Importantly, what then immediately struck Rachel was the striking concrete shapes in the natural environment. Originally made from necessity by crofters to put their sheep in, but now seeming almost more like sci-fi monoliths. Similarly, the brutalist structures are to her like contemporary pyramids, relating to puzzles and mazes of the past. After that, they became the inspiration for the natural geometry drawings, in this new body of work.
This new body of work is also importantly concerned with wider environmental concerns, such as rising water levels and the effects of global warming crisis.
This month, Rachel's work is included in The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (previously the Jerwood Drawing Prize). The exhibition opens in London January 2021. Likewise, she is showing this new body of work in a solo exhibition now at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre.
Carraidh at Lochmaddy iv, 2020
Balallan Fank, 2020
Loch Maddy Fank i, 2020
Eriskay Fank i, 2020
Caraidh at Lochmaddy i, 2020
Stepping Stones at Loch Euphoirt, 2020


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Tomorrowland Review
Tomorrowland Trailer
Tomorrowland Gallery
Tomorrowland Trailer: The Future Is Running Out
by Joel D Amos at March 9, 2015 2:58 pm . Updated at March 9, 2015 4:38 pm . Comments
The Tomorrowland Super Bowl trailer merely touched the surface that is the mind-blowing film from Disney that lands this summer. Now that the full length Tomorrowland trailer has arrived, the Brad Bird (The Incredibles) directed sci-fi family adventure has joined some serious flicks in the most anticipated department for summer 2015.
Bird is not just a wizard at bringing animation to life like he did with The Incredibles, but his work on Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is largely credited with why the Tom Cruise film is the highest grossing of the series.
Tomorrowland imagines a world outside of our world where the best and brightest have gone to try their best to change (and save) the future. George Clooney stars as a former child prodigy who has become disillusioned with the state of the world. That is until Britt Robertson shows up in possession of a magical pin that when held gives glimpse into that Tomorrowland world.
The two are fated to join forces and together, maybe, just maybe, they can save mankind from the most perilous of fates.
Tomorrowland is from Lost writer and co-creator Damon Lindelof and Bird and also stars Hugh Laurie (who we finally get to see in the above trailer!), Judy Greer (who will also be in another highly anticipated summer movie, Jurassic World) and Kathryn Hahn.
Look for the latest Disney live action magic on May 22.
Tomorrowland Photos
Tags: Tomorrowland, Movie Trailers
Tomorrowland may have started out as a dream of Walt Disney's, but the picture that hits screens this week is firmly from the...
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 (9 Votes)


Yorkshire is not a county I know that well, but even in my Cornish backwater I have heard of the famous Bettys tea rooms which first opened its doors in Harrogate in 1919. There are now six branches dotted around Yorkshire. When I knew I was headed to York on a work trip last year, there was one establishment I was determined to visit, no matter what. With only a few minutes to spare before my train departed, I managed to locate the tea rooms, heave a few lingering sighs over the array of delights surrounding me, ask for a Yorkshire curd tart and run. I had heard a lot about Yorkshire curd tart from an expat colleague who was always bemoaning the fact she couldn't get them down in the South West. After savouring it on the train home, I understood what she had been mithering on about – it really was delicious. I recently had a go at making a chocolate version and although it was very tasty, it didn't quite have the impact of that first one I tried from Bettys.
All of this is a rather long winded way of saying that when Betty's asked if I'd like to review their Christmas Gugelhupf, I was not going to say no.
So whilst I waited for it to be delivered, I had ample opportunity to ponder on what exactly a Gugelhupf was?
Pronounced google-hoopf, it is the precursor to the American bundt type of cake. Originating from Southern Germany, Vienna, Switzerland and Alsace, the Gugelhupf is a fermented ring cake, dusted with sugar or covered in a chocolate glaze and eaten with a cup of coffee. The story goes that the three kings, travelling to or from Bethlehem, stopped off in Alsace. The residents there were so delighted, that they baked a cake in the shape of the the King's turbans to honour the visit. Today, it is more common to make Gugelhupfs with baking powder rather than yeast and Bettys is one of these.
The cake came well wrapped, in fact within the cardboard box it looked, to all intents and purposes, as though it was wearing a coat of golden chain mail. It was surprisingly heavy for the size (a good sign in my opinion) and when I unwrapped it, I realised why, it weighs in at 730g.
After admiring its luxurious elegance and inhaling the heady chocolatey aroma, the first thing I did was look at the ingredients. I am always concerned that shop bought cakes will have far too many ingredients of which I'm likely to disapprove. I needn't have worried. Betty's is a high quality brand and as such doesn't use junk ingredients. In supporting my case, I happily noted that butter was the first ingredient listed.
Ingredients: butter, sugar, egg, flour, hazelnuts, dark chocolate (65% cocoa solids), invert sugar syrup, maize starch, vanilla, raising agents, milk chocolate (38% cocoa solids) and white chocolate (36% cocoa butter).
My mother, who is extremely fussy about cake in general and highly suspicious of bought cake in particular was very impressed. So all in all, I can only say that this cake scored very highly.
Now, I really think it's time I acquired a bundt mould!
If you cant get to a Bettys tea shop, you can take a look at Bettys online shop where you can buy this gugelhupf for £14.95 and any number of other scrumptious delights. Last order dates for Christmas are 19th December for UK mainland, 5 December for EU and 28th November for the rest of the world, which doesn't give a lot of time.
Betty's have kindly agreed to give one of my readers a luxury Christmas Gugelhopf too. To be in with a chance of winning, please fill in the Rafflecopter below. You will need to leave a comment on this post which then gives you additional chances to enter if you so wish. Rafflecopter will pick a winner at random from the entries received. If you are commenting anonymously, please give me some way of identifying you as I will be verifying the validity of entries. Any automated entries will be disqualified. This giveaway is only open to those with a UK postal address. Because of the Christmas rush, winners will need to respond within 2 days of being contacted. Failure to do this will result in another winner being picked.
We no longer live near a Betty's and I rather miss it. When we lived near Ilkley I used to treat myself to coffee and cake every so often, especially at this time of year when they had their Christmas treats on sale.
You're right about Yorkshire curd tarts, they're delicious.
Anything with chocolate does it for me.
I wish I lived near 'Betty's'!!
I'd love to try a chocolate gugelhupf!
After having a look at the chocolate and hazelnut Gugelhupf I can honestly say I can't think of a better flavour! I'd love to try it. I think we might have to give the Christmas desserts at the supermarket a miss and order something proper!
I would love the chocolate one yum!
I would love to try the chocolate one.
That's a wonderful looking cake! I particularly like the crisp chocolate shell.
A Choccie Gugelhupf would be a delicious treat! All the family would enjoy a chocolate one!
Chocolate and hazelnut is a hard flavour to beat so that would be my choice.
The chocolate one sounds perfect to me!
I'd love to try the chocolate one!
The one which is covered in chocolate please.
The Christmas one sounds utterly scrummy!
Meeeeeeeeep! i'd like a chocolate one, cuppa tea, close my eyes and imagine i was in Betty's.
After reading your comments and seeing the photos it has to be a chocolate one!
It would have to be chocolate.
Dark chocolate will do just fine thanks!
Chocolate,nuts,Christmas = heaven for me.
chocolate and hazelnut please. The world is so much better when covered in chocolate!
Ooooh chocolate would be fantastic!
Chocolate sounds perfect, what a centre piece on the table at Christmas.
The chocolate and hazelnut sounds amazing! Anything containing chocolate is good enough for me im a chocoholic!
Love the idea of chocolate AND hazelnut (my favourite flavour) but I also like a lemon and poppy seed Gugelhupf too!
– NB the ecapture thing on the blog is awful, I had 8 attempts then. 🙁 each was correct.
Anything chocolate for me, pleeeease!!!!
I'd love to try a chocolate, caramel and pecan one.
Plain chocolate, whisky & ginger would be a delicious flavour.
Hmmm…Of course, chocolate, but I would rather like apple, too.
It would definitely have to be the Chocolate one!
Chocolate and hazelnut, very Italian.
Wow! A different kugelhuph from the one I just baked! … You know? With that gorgeous chocolate coating, it reminded me of the little Lebkuchen cookie/cakes that we bought when we went to the Nurnberg Weinachtsmarkt … so spicy and chocolatey and good! Wish I lived in the UK so I could take a chance on receiving one to 'taste test'!
The Chocolate & Hazlenut flavour sounds lovely.
Chocolate & Hazelnut for me, please!
What flavour Gugelhopf would you like to try? – I'd love to try a Chocolate & Hazelnut one.
P.s. I love buying my Grandma things from Betty's, as her name is Betty so she's got biscuit tins etc. with her name on them!!!
It has to be chocolate for me!
Chocolate and hazelnut – yummy!
I think a Chocolate Orange Gugelhopf would be lovely.
Defintely chocolate & I'm so lucky to live only 30 miles away from Betty's but when you can't drive there it's hell!
I'd love to try this, looks delicious!!
The chocolate one is actually making my mouth water!!! Would love to try that one!!!
The a chocolate and hazelnut one sounds marvelous!!
Looks like the chocolate one gets my vote too.
Chocolate every time for me!!!
The chocolate version sounds delicious.
Chocolate – These look amazing!
The chocolate and hazelnut Gugelhupf, coated in dark chocolate sounds heavenly, although I would love to suggest they try making a chocolate and mint one!!
I would love to try the chocolate gugelhupf, it sounds so delicious !!
I have never heard of Gugelhupf but I would love to try it. Looks delicious.
I'd love to try a yummy chocolate one!
choc n hazelnut – v christmassy!
If im honest I had never come across this product although I would love to try. I think the chocolate looks lovely.
I'd love the Chocolate and Hazelnut Cake……would be perfect for my 50th Birthday on Christmas Day!
Chocolate and hazelnut sounds really yummy. Bettys is fantastic.
i have never even heard of these before, the christmas one looks absolutely amazing, and a nice change from the usual christmas cake that gets left uneaten til march!!!
Chocolate with hazelnut makes the perfect combination!
I would like to try one flavoured with apple, cinnamon & ginger, I think that would be really Christmassy.
I would love a Coffee and Hazelnut one but could eat the chocolate one any day!


Through an historical review of cinematic maps – or 'cinemaps' – this paper argues that contemporary digital cartography was conceptualized in films. This argument is first developed through a discussion of the emergence of animated maps in docudramas of the 1910s. These early cinemaps were followed by more sophisticated examples that foreshadowed the structure and design principles of 'modern' cartography. The cinemap that appears in the movie M (Fritz Lang, 1931) can be considered the first 'modern' map as it prefigures many of the current functions of contemporary digital cartography such as the combination image/map, use of sound, shifts in perspective and spatial analysis. The remaining functions of digital cartography, including zooming and live data rendering, were conceptualized in cinema by the 1960s, as illustrated by examples from movies such as Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove and Goldfinger. When professional cartographers were creating their first animated maps, most of the functions of contemporary digital cartography had already been implemented in cinema. Building on these results, the paper anticipates the future incursion of mapping technologies into interpersonal, confidential and private spaces through the study of contemporary cinemaps.


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Yes, Taylor Hall played his best against bad teams -- but so does almost every player in the league
Oscar Klefbom was absolutely right: Taylor Hall's best games came mostly against weaker opponents, but he's not alone.
Dom Luszczyszyn
The Taylor Hall trade has been controversial since the minute it was announced, and former Oilers teammate Oscar Klefbom has only added to it.
On Sunday, Klefbom made a comment to Ola Winther in an interview for HockeySverige.se that Hall's best games were never against the best teams, but he was great against the weak ones. Naturally, the hockey community exploded after seeing the comments, forcing Klefbom to immediately back-pedal, saying that he meant everyone struggled against better teams, not just Hall.
The comments have blown over since then, but the question remains: did Hall actually play his best games against weaker teams?
Before answering that we need a way to measure single game performance. Points are fine, but they don't capture everything and the same goes for Corsi or plus-minus which are heavily team dependent.
I came up with my own method earlier this summer called Game Score. It's a concept stolen from basketball where you combine every basic box score stat, weighing each component by its relative importance. For hockey I used goals, assists, shots, blocks, faceoffs, and penalties as well as Corsi and goal differential at 5-on-5. The scale is mirrored to points-per-game so that a "good" Game Score is immediately familiar. I'll spare you the math, but you can read more about it here.
As for finding a player's "best" games, I used any game with a Game Score higher than two. There were roughly 1,500 of those last season out of over 47,000 individual games. That's an elite performance, and Hall had 10 of them. Only 21 players had more this season, with Sidney Crosby leading with 21 games.
Looking at those 10 games it turns out that Klefbom was absolutely right: Hall's best games came mostly against weaker opponents, at least according to Game Score.
Those elite games came against three playoff teams: Florida, Philadelphia and the Rangers – all of whom lost in Round 1. The rest come against Vancouver, Buffalo, Colorado, Columbus, New Jersey and twice against Calgary. The average point total of those teams is 85.2.
So yes, his best games were against bad teams, but it's also apparent that the relationship between performance and opponent is extremely weak. There is a slight downward trend in Hall's Game Score when opponent strength goes up, but it's simply too noisy to be all that meaningful. Hall still had good games against good teams, while also having poor games against bad teams. He also rarely had a negative performance which is astounding on a team as bad as Edmonton.
But does this even matter? Klefbom is right that Hall played his best against the league's worst, but so does almost every player in the league.
Looking at the best 100-250-500-1500 games last season shows that the best games by pretty much any player will almost always be against the worst teams. The effect only increases as the games become more impressive. Of the 100 best games last season, 38 of them came against the bottom five teams in the league. Just six were against the top five.
That shouldn't be all that surprising either. They're bad teams for a reason and it's because they're easier to play against. The good teams are good for the opposite reason. The teams that allowed the fewest "good" games last year were Anaheim, Washington and Los Angeles. On the opposite end of the spectrum was Vancouver, Colorado and Columbus.
The other side of this is related to Klefbom's stating it was the whole team that didn't play their best against top teams. Again, he was right. Of the 55 Oiler games above a Game Score of two, the average opponent's point total was just 86.3, fourth lowest in the league.
What's interesting though is that the team with the lowest total was Chicago with an average opponent point total of 84.5. If it works for Chicago, it's probably not a very good excuse for why the team struggled. Last year's NHL scoring leader on that very team had 20 "good" games and they were mostly against weak opponents too, with an average of 86.3 points. In fact, most of the teams that feasted on weak opponents happened to be playoff teams (eight of the top 10).
And if you wanted one more reason why "only plays best games versus weak teams" is a silly narrative to peddle you can look at the player who has the lowest opponent points average for players with five or more "good" games. It's Connor McDavid at 76.6 over seven games against Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Buffalo, Montreal, and Columbus twice.
Every game in an 82-game season is important whether it's against a good or bad team. Winning is what matters and playing your best helps that cause. Taylor Hall did that more than anyone else on the Oilers last season and it really doesn't matter who those games were against.
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Terminator 7 Release Date, Trailer – Will There Be a Terminator 7?
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Terminator 7 Release Date, Trailer
Long-time fans of the Terminator fans got pretty excited when Tim Miller (Terminator: Dark Fate's director) talked about Terminator 7 at SDCC (San Diego Comic-Con) a few weeks ago. Everyone knows that the Terminator film series never returned to its original quality after James Cameron stopped making them. In parallel with the quality drop, the audience interest in the movie sequels decreased significantly. As evidence of this, the 6th film of the franchise, Miller's Dark Fate, became one of the biggest box office bombs of all time by failing to break evens with the film's budget by a long shot.
Everyone was pretty sure that after such a failure, no one would dare to make Terminator 7, but Miller's words at SDCC, which we'll talk about below, opened up a discourse about the potential future of the film. So, is there going to be a 7th Terminator film, or did Dark Fate completely destroy the possibility of any future movie of the franchise?
Terminator 7 Release Date
The director Tim Miller gave a simple prescription as to how a future Terminator movie could work well with audiences. Miller thinks that the only way the franchise could be revitalized in the eyes of the viewers is to make the next sequel a low-budget less-hyped film. While saying that Dark Fate failed to connect with the audiences, Miller noted that a stripped-down and cheaper Terminator film would definitely succeed. That said, we should also point out that Miller also clearly expressed he has no interest in making another sequel. He was just answering a question he was asked about the franchise's future.
Is there a future for Terminator? No one really thinks so at this point. Dark Fate's failure at the box office came as a massive blow to the sequel plans of the producers. Some may remember the announcement made in 2017 of a new Terminator trilogy with Dark Fate as the 1st film. However, following the film's performance at the box office, the sources from the production company stated that they were not thinking of making any sequels. Another source noted that companies should pay attention to what audiences want, and it doesn't seem like the audience wish to see another Terminator movie.
So, it is safe to say Terminator 7 will not be released in the near future. At least, there are no plans for it at the moment. If someone bold enough took up Miller's goal and made a low-budget Terminator film focused more on storytelling, it is not clear when that would be possible since the franchise's future looks darker than ever. Thus, we cannot say anything about a potential Terminator 7 release date.
You may also be interested in Best Action Actors of All Time Ranked – From Sylvester Stallone to Tom Cruise.
How many words did Arnold Schwarzenegger say in Terminator?
In the 1st Terminator movie, the star Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic T-800 was portrayed more as a machine more interested in handling his mission rather than a hero who likes making small talk. Interestingly, the actor says only 58 words in the 1st film, most of which are one-liners such as "I'll be back" and "I'm a friend of Sarah Connor."
The actor's lines increase in the 2nd film, Terminator 2: The Judgement Day, and become 700 words. Although the rise in the number of words cannot be denied, 700 words are still pretty low for a significant character.
Who destroyed The Terminator?
We cannot talk about the Fate of every Terminator in the franchise, which has 6 films. However, we can answer the question "Who destroyed the Terminator?" by looking at the events of 3 movies of the franchise. In the 1st one, 1984 original, Sarah Connor destroys the T-800. At the end of the 2nd film, we see T-800 wanting to destroy himself so that future technology does not fall into the wrong hands. So despite John ordering him not to destroy himself, T-800 willingly goes into a vat of molten steel and disintegrates.
The last time we saw T-800, he had already turned into Carl as he gained consciousness and even adopted a human family after he had killed John at the beginning of the film. He later joins Sarah in the fight against Rev-9 and, in the end, sacrifices himself, getting destroyed with Rev-9. This is the last we see Schwarzenegger's iconic character dying.
Also, read 7 Best Action Actresses of All Time From Angelina Jolie to Sigourney Weaver.
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In this video, I want to walk you through exactly HOW Federer pulled off what many people considered to be an upset complete with stats… and most importantly, what this means for YOU as a tennis player, and how you can utilize this knowledge to take your game to the next level.
So, without further ado, let's go over to the computer, and get started.
As you probably know, Nadal has historically given Roger all kinds of trouble. Nadal has won 23 matches head to head to Roger's 12. That means that historically, Nadal has beaten Roger just about 66 percent of the time. So going into this match, you know that Rafa was super confident… so WHY was Roger able to pull off the upset?
Well… there are a few key things to look at. We know that Nadal is one of the fiercest competitors if not the fiercest from the back court. He hits the second heaviest forehand in terms of RPM… creating insane topspin on the ball… and giving him a bunch of safety and is still a great mover, which allows him to hit a ton of forehands. HIs backhand isn't too shabby either. What does this mean for Fed?
And the stats prove that… Fed won only 70/145 points from the back court (right around 44 percent).
So what do you do Roger???
Here's what's interesting… you heard just about everyone saying in order for Federer to have a chance in this match, he was going to have to play quick points.
If you watched the match, you know the first 4 sets were split… and I want to take you to the 5th set which was some of the best tennis Roger has ever played.
What happened in the 5th set, though?
Roger hit 8 backhand winners… which was more than the previous 4 sets COMBINED.
He added 8 more forehand winners in the 5th set which gave him 28 for the match.
Ok…Now what does this mean for you? What can you learn from this if you're in your 50s or 60s… you play 2-3x per week?
Clearly, you should get a bandana, and start speaking in a swiss accent. But what can you do tactically to win more matches?
Make your first serve! Remember… 80% of first serve points won…Consciously or Subconsciously, your opponent is not thinking ATTACk as much on the first serve as he is on the second… and if you have a really good serve, he's probably thinking defensively… so go for that first serve.
Win the first point. Roger won 100 percent of games in the fifth set where he won the first point. This gets you playing from the lead… and subconsciously gets your opponent thinking he's on the defense.
Do these 3 things, and you'll see an increase in points and matches won… and you'll definitely have a lot more fun on court.
Thanks so much for watching this video, I had a great time making it for you. If your interested in HOW Federer trained and was able to make history by winning his 18th grand slam title, I've created a PDF for you that reveals Roger's Secret Practice routine… and walks you through the exact 12 steps that Roger uses to prepare for his matches… and has allowed him to become widely known as the Greatest of All Time. You can have it for free just by clicking on the link somewhere on this video and grabbing it. Thanks again for watching this video, and I'll see ya in the next one. Bye!
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by Paul Lilly — Friday, September 14, 2012
Intel Notes Next Gen Clover Trail Atom CPUs Won't Run Linux
Intel reportedly revealed during IDF this week that its upcoming Clover Trail Atom processor platform will shun Linux support. As Intel explains it, the company's dual-core Clover Trail part is designed for Windows 8 and "the chip cannot run Linux." Oh really?
That's a bit of a curious statement. Clover Trail is, after all, a x86 part, so there's no reason that it can't support Linux, even if Intel has plenty of reason why it won't. Rather than some kind of technical limitation that Intel's brilliant minds back by nearly unlimited resources aren't able to figure out, it appears this is an arbitrary restriction as part of an odd power play by the world's largest semiconductor player.
Backing up just a moment, Clover Trail borrows quite a bit from Medfield, the latter of which has no problem running Android on numerous smartphones. So why would Intel shun Linux with Clover Trail? That's a good question, and it could be because Intel is trying to help Microsoft get off on the right foot with Windows 8.
It's a gamble on Intel's part. For one, the chip maker can expect a backlash from the Linux community. And secondly, locking out Linux means that tablets built around Clover Trail -- all of which will apparently have to run Windows 8 -- will be more expensive than they would otherwise be, at least until the Linux community figures a way around Intel's open source blockade.
Tags: Intel, Linux, Atom, CPU, Clover Trail
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Q: Ruby: Compare if array contains other array how can i compare if an array of strings contains a smaller array of strings in Ruby?
e.g.
a=["1","2","3","4","5"]
b=["2","3"]

now i want to check if a contains b and get true/false
Thanks.

A: The most common approach would be to
(b - a).empty?

It has issues with unique elements, though. To detect whether a includes all elements from b, one should:
a_copy = a.dup
b.all? { |e| a_copy.delete e }
# or
b.all?(&a_copy.method(:delete))


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It has been a long and busy year so far, and the blog has mostly lain dormant. Or fallow—let's say fallow. That sounds like there are things going on below the surface, which there are. I have some pieces coming in the next month that I have been working on for a while.
But until I've put the last bit of polish on them, here's a quick update about some important happenings this summer.
This year, I was honored to receive scholarships From the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the American Council of the Blind (ACB), two of the premier support, advocacy, and education organizations for blind people, led exclusively by blind people.
As part of each scholarship, I was invited to attend the annual national convention for each organization. So in late June I traveled to St. Louis to attend ACB.
And went straight from there to Orlando for the NFB.
Being in a conference hotel with 2000 other blind people is an experience that is hard to describe. On the one hand, it can be overwhelming. It's loud. It's chaotic. On the other hand, there is something comfortable about it. This space is governed by a completely different set of social norms. Sure, there's a lot of bumping into people. There's a lot of dueling canes. But it's expected. No one got bent out of shape about it. No one felt like they had to look after me when I was trying to find my way. No one expected me to know who they are when they sat down next to me. It was a world where blind people were respected and blindness was not isolating.
And I met such fantastic people. I met people working in higher education, K-12, research, policy, law, computer science, robotics, writing and publishing—you name it, there are blind people doing it, and doing it well.
I spent one delightful afternoon with a group of blind educators, sharing ideas on managing classrooms, developing curricula, and working productively with colleagues who don't understand or sometimes even respect the blind people working beside them. We talked about everything from cell phone policies and managing the wriggly bodies of special needs children to using online learning management systems and dealing with institutional administrations and policies. It was a treasure trove of collective wisdom and the reassurance that others have already trod the roads that I am bound to travel.
On another day I met with a small group of academic professionals and graduate students, and we talked about navigating higher education at all levels, from graduate study to tenure, and how to improve research done by and about disabled people in psychology, sociology, and the humanities. I am grateful for the insight, support, and vulnerability of these colleagues, who view success as a collective as well as a personal priority.
There were also groups for blind parents—especially important for me with the impending arrival of our second daughter in October! Blind parents have to do some things differently, and there is no need to reinvent the wheel when other blind people have already developed excellent techniques and successfully raised so many children, both blind and sighted.
The scholarship money I received this summer is great, and it will help me finish my Ph.D. strong (and hopefully in the next year, fingers crossed), but the true value of these scholarships comes from the people I was able to meet and the connections that will last for years.
If you are blind or going blind, I can't recommend highly enough getting involved in a group of the organized blind. Blindness can be isolating, and inventing non-visual ways to do every little thing on your own in a visual world can be taxing and demoralizing. But many have come before, and built a foundation of knowledge and mastery that we all can learn from.
Here's to many more years of collaboration and lives well lived!


Discussion in 'Cables, Speakers, Accessories For Sale / Trade' started by Zerousen, Aug 23, 2018.
Need to clear out some of my collection, so these have got to go.
Ah silly me, I only thought about updating my post with more stuff, and not about whether it even belonged into this category! Thank you for pointing it out.


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New Norwich post office to be officially opened today
Kim Briscoe kim.briscoe@archant.co.uk
Residents and campaigners celebrate as the Vauxhall Street Post Office will not be closed. Picture: Denise Bradley
The new Vauxhall Street post office will be officially opened in Norwich today.
It will mark the successful end to the community's long-running battle to keep the post office in the area.
Controversy was sparked last year when Malcolm Wright, sub-postmaster of the Vauxhall Street branch in Norwich, said he did not want to continue running it.
Post Office Ltd had favoured an application from Hurn Chemist to move the branch to Unthank Road, rather than to the Vauxhall Street Pharmacy, two doors down.
Hundreds of people signed a petition against the move, which many said would make it harder for
less-mobile people to use the service.
Post Office Ltd said earlier this year that it had changed its mind and instead proposed to move the branch to the Vauxhall Street Pharmacy.
Now the new branch, which opened its doors on Tuesday, will be officially opened by Norwich South MP Simon Wright at 10am. The new base will offer extended opening hours and a new car-tax renewal service.
Mr Wright said: "I've been campaigning alongside residents to keep a Post Office branch on Vauxhall Street since 2008, so I'm absolutely delighted that its long-term future has been secured.
"The new branch not only keeps a vital community service in easy reach of its customers, but also
offers extended hours and car-tax renewal.
"I'm delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate the ribbon cutting with local residents."
Do you have a business story? Call business editor Shaun Lowthorpe on 01603 772471, or email shaun.lowthorpe@archant.co.uk


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A.E. Wilman
Author, Novelist
Anna Elisabeth Wilman is a writer based in Europe.
She has been writing since early childhood short stories and short novels.
She is the author of "The land of the MacRoies", "The Girl And The Boy Who Met Just Once", "Saveenal", "Three Lives of Hannah" and "The Adventures of Socrates the Cat" novels; and "The Pumpkin Who Dared To Dream", "Teddy The Squirrel Becomes a Pilot", "Stumpy the Puppy and Patchy the Kitten Become Best Friends" ,"Ziggy in the Land of the Unicorns" , "Ziggy Meets the Master Unicorn", "Ziggy and Pegasus Take a Trip to the Stars", "Ziggy and Pegasus Find a Baby Dragon", "Ziggy and Pegasus in the Land of the Dragons" , "Ziggy Meets Chrysaor" and "Ziggy in the Wild Wild West" children stories.
When not writing A.E. Wilman enjoys reading and good movies. But above of all she loves cooking and baking.
Books by A.E. Wilman
Ziggy in the Wild Wild West
"Ziggy in the Wild Wild West" is a story for children. Ziggy comes back to the land of the unicorns and takes a trip with Chrysaor and the baby dragon to the wild wild west. The journey turns out to be dangerous when the trio is spotted by the cowboys who try to shoot them all. When the situation seems to be helpless, Pegasus comes to rescue them all.
Fiction > Children
Teddy The Squirrel Becomes a Pilot
"Teddy The Squirrel Becomes a Pilot" is a short story for children of any age. Teddy is a squirrel who dreams of flying an airplane. His brother – Stuart - doesn't believe Teddy's dream could come true. But when one day the brothers find an airplane that got stuck in the tree, Teddy decides to fly it.
The Pumpkin Who Dared to Dream
"The Pumpkin Who Dared to Dream" is a story about a special pumpkin who dreams of becoming a pumpkin princess and going places. One day she is taken by a little girl from the pumpkin field. When the little girl discovers the pumpkin can speak, she makes a deal with her. The pumpkin will dress as a pumpkin witch for the Halloween and then she can become a pumpkin princess.
Stumpy the Puppy and Patchy the Kitten Become Best Friend
"Stumpy the Puppy and Patchy the Kitten Become Best Friend" is a story for children of any age about the little dog who finds a little cat and brings it home. They become friends and play together around the house. Because they are naughty, the children have to teach them how to behave well. The story teaches the importance of taking care for the pets.
The Adventures of Socrates the Cat
Socrates decides to start a rock band and with friends embarks on an adventurous journey for fame. But they find themselves in the world of trouble when Socrates meets and falls in love with beautiful and cheeky Margarita. Her father is a cruel ruler, who hates the band and decides to punish them for singing about his daughter.
Ziggy Meets Chrysaor
"Ziggy Meets Chrysaor" is a story for children. Ziggy comes back to the land of the unicorns to find out that Pegasus has a twin brother Chrysaor. Chrysaor and Pegasus explain to her why she did not meet Chrysaor earlier and ensure she and Pegasus can still have adventures together because the brothers don't need to spend as much time together as they used to as they have different destinies.
Ziggy and Pegasus in the Land of the Dragons
"Ziggy and Pegasus in the Land of the Dragons" is a story for children. Ziggy volunteers to help Pegasus with taking the baby dragon back to the land of the dragons. However, in error they find the land of the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs explain to them that nobody knows where the land of the dragons is and suggest the baby dragon could stay in the land of the unicorns since it was born there.
Ziggy and Pegasus Find a Baby Dragon
"Ziggy and Pegasus Find a Baby Dragon" is a story for children. Ziggy is called back to the land of the unicorns to help with a search of the baby unicorn. During the search, Ziggy and Pegasus find a baby dragon and have to find a way of keeping it.
Ziggy and Pegasus Take a Trip to the Stars
"Ziggy and Pegasus Take a Trip to the Stars" is a story for children. Ziggy comes back to the land of the unicorns to take a trip with Pegasus to the stars. During the trip she gets to visit many stars, watches laughing stars of the Milky Way, witnesses the death of the very old star and finally lands on the moon to have a nap there.
Ziggy Meets the Master Unicorn
"Ziggy Meets the Master Unicorn" is a story for children. Ziggy comes back to the land of the unicorns to have another run with the unicorns. She also meets the Master Unicorn who tells her she is welcome in the land whenever she wishes to come back because many unicorns were born out of her dreams. The Master Unicorn is very impressed with Ziggy's dreams and her kindness.
Ziggy in the Land of the Unicorns
"Ziggy in the Land of the Unicorns" is a story for children. Ziggy is a dog who dreams about going to the land of the unicorns and playing there. One day she hears strange noise outside the house and while running to the door she slips and goes through the glass door. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself in the land of the unicorns.
The Land of the MacRoies
"The Land of the MacRoies" is about love, betrayal, war, greed, power, deception. It portrays the youthful naivety where one is not experience enough to see through the lies of the enemies. It is a fantasy novel focusing on a young boy – Onar who is an orphan found in the land of the MacRoies. While growing up there he meets a girl named Kato, who like him is an orphan. They become skilful soldiers employed to fight against the enemies.
Three Lives of Hannah
Hannah has unusual gift – she can remember her past lives. When she breaks her hand and has to undergo a surgery she recognises her surgeon – Aaron - as a man who she met for the first time three hundred years ago. With time she recalls the details of two previous lives they had together. In the year 1730 she was running her father's printing house and was printing books that were prohibited by the Church.
Fiction > Romance
Saveenal
Alicia McLane works as a general operative in a factory. Her life changes when a new supervisor comes and starts bullying and harassing her. Alicia decides to fight him back. Unfortunately, her complaints against the supervisor are handled by the company in a way that shows that anti-harassment and anti-bullying procedures are violated even by the higher management. As the events unfold Alicia is forced to fight for her job and for her sanity.
The Girl And The Boy Who Met Just Once
One meeting between Victoria and Damian sets in motion a set of events that changes lives of many people. They meet accidentally abroad. He helps her. She trusts his intentions are sincere. One night he drugs her and rapes her. She survives the trauma and runs away from him. Soon later, another tragedy strikes. Victoria almost loses her life due to pregnancy complications.
Fiction > Mystery & Thrillers


-Sift together flour, sugar and salt.
-Mix pecans with the above ingredients.
-Add melted butter and vanilla.
-Roll and shape into cocoon shapes.
-Place the cocoons in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes.
-While hot, roll in powdered sugar.
this looks like one of our family favorites except we use walnuts and don't melt the butter.
Yum! These do look like little cocoons!


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Justia Patents Education And Demonstration Patents Organized Armed Or Unarmed Conflict Or Shooting Patents Gunnery Patents Gun Aiming Patents Training Apparatus Using Beam Of Infrared, Visible Light, Or Ultraviolet Radiation Patents Beam Sensor Included In Apparatus Patents (Class 434/22)
Beam Sensor Included In Apparatus Patents (Class 434/22)
Muzzle flash simulator
Abstract: A muzzle flash simulator for simulating the visual effect of muzzle flash of the real firearms, configured to illuminate projectiles passing away from an internal passage, includes multiple illuminating components and multiple combinations of sets of instructions for each one of the illuminating components at indicated time periods, to create various beam effects in front of the internal passage.
Assignee: Acetk Corp Ltd.
Inventor: Yung-Hui Chang
Abstract: The present invention provides a gaining device for playing a game of laser tag. The gaining device includes a controller configured to control and coordinate functions between various components thereof. The gaining device includes an aiming unit configured to generate infrared light signals and a receiver configured to detect the generated infrared light signals. The gaining device includes a targeting unit configured to generate a vibration when the receiver in the targeting unit detects infrared light signals. The gaining device further includes one or more lights configured to indicate one or more states of the aiming unit and targeting unit. The controller is configured to engage the aiming unit and targeting unit in a stealth mode in which the one or more lights are switched off.
Assignee: Bulk Unlimited Corp.
Inventor: Isamar Margareten
Firearm simulator targets and firearm simulation systems
Abstract: Firearm simulator targets and firearm simulation systems are disclosed. A firearm simulator target includes a processor, a memory module, a plurality of light emitting diodes, and machine readable instructions stored in the memory module. When executed by the processor, the machine readable instructions cause the firearm simulator target to illuminate a target pattern subset of the plurality of light emitting diodes such that the target pattern subset of the plurality of light emitting diodes are illuminated to display a target pattern. The target pattern subset of the plurality of light emitting diodes that are illuminated includes a first light emitting diode. When executed by the processor, the machine readable instructions further cause the firearm simulator target to receive a signal from the first light emitting diode, and determine a target hit location at the first light emitting diode based on the signal received from the first light emitting diode.
Inventor: Kurt S. Schulz
Identification friend or foe (IFF) system and method
Abstract: An Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) interrogation system and method adapted for: transmitting RF broadcast signal to be received by complementary transponder(s) of the IFF system being within the interrogation range and thereby arm the complementary transponders for sensing laser beam illumination; receiving an RF response signal from the complementary transponder(s); operating a laser activation interface module, which is configured for interfacing an external laser transmitter, to determine activation of transmission of an interrogating laser beam by the external laser transmitted; and receiving and processing RF signals to identify therein RF response signal(s), which are transmitted by the complementary IFF transponder(s) in response to detection of the trans mitted laser beam.
Assignee: ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES LTD.
Inventors: Abraham Aharoni, Roey Zuitlin
Crowd separation
Abstract: A method for crowd separation, the method may include receiving or generating a signature of an image of a first plurality of pedestrians, wherein the image comprises regions, wherein the signature of the image comprises descriptors of the regions, wherein each descriptor of a region is associated with a region and comprises a set of identifiers that identify content included in the region and in a vicinity of the region; detecting, within the descriptors of the regions, unique combinations of identifiers that are indicative of spatial relationships between the regions and bounding boxes that surround pedestrians of the first plurality of pedestrians; wherein the unique combinations are learnt during a supervised machine learning process that is fed with test images of densely positioned pedestrians; and locating the pedestrians of the first plurality of pedestrians based, at least in part, on the spatial relationships related to detected unique combinations and to locations of the regions.
Assignee: CARTICA AI LTD
Inventors: Igal Raichelgauz, Kirill Dyagilev, Karina Odinaev
Apparatus and method for calculating aiming point information
Abstract: The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges.
Assignee: HVRT CORP.
Inventors: Dennis J. Sammut, Lawrence Chao
Systems and methods for detecting a distance between a conducted electrical weapon and a target
Abstract: The number of pulses of a stimulus signal provided by a conducted electrical weapon ("CEW") between launch and establishing an electrical circuit with a human or animal target may be counted to determine the distance between the CEW and the target and the distance between electrodes launched by the CEW toward the target while positioned in or near target tissue.
Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
Inventors: Magne Nerheim, Steven N.D. Brundula
Joint firearm training systems and methods
Abstract: At least one shooter-side image sensor captures images of a plurality of shooters and a plurality of respective firearms periodically fired by the shooters. At least one target-side sensor collects data indicative of projectile strikes on a target area associated with at least one target. A processing unit analyzes images captured by the shooter-side image sensor and detects projectile discharges in response to firing of the firearms, and uniquely identifies each of the shooters associated with the detected projectile discharges. The processing unit detections of projectile strikes, based on the data collected by the target-side sensor, and the detected projectile discharges and identifies, for each detected projectile strike on the target area, the correspondingly fired firearm associated with the uniquely identified shooter.
Assignee: Modular High-End LTD.
Inventor: Gal Tamir
Simulated hunting devices and methods
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to simulated hunting devices and methods, and in particular to an accessory for a real or toy firearm that provides a simulated hunting experience in a real hunting environment. A hunting simulation accessory can be attached to a real or toy firearm, such as by attaching the accessory to an accessory rail along the barrel of the firearm. The simulation accessory provides audio and visual responses to the user to simulate a hunting experience, even when no live ammunition is fired.
Inventor: Ronnie Valdez
Shooting training system
Abstract: A method for calculation of real time shooting instructions by calibrating data extracted from images of a shooting target and outputs of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) mounted on the body of a shooter. The method comprises calculating a result of a shooting event, calculating at least one physiological parameter of the shooter during a period preceding the shooting event according to an analysis of outputs of the IMU which is supported by at least one wearable device worn by the shooter, calculating shooting parameter by correlating between the at least one physiological parameter and the result, and instructing a presentation of shooting instructions calculated based on additional outputs of the IMU and the shooting parameter on a display of the mobile device or by a presentation unit of the at least one wearable device before an additional shooting event is detected.
Assignee: Erange Corporation
Inventors: Ofir Moshe Almagor, Yuval Stern
Dynamic laser marker display for aimable device
Abstract: A laser system operationally coupled to an aimable device having a Line of Sight (LOS), and adapted for providing a graphic laser display, including: at least one laser source adapted to generate: a first laser output, displaying a fixed pattern at a hit point having a fixed orientation relative to an axis of the LOS of the aimable device, and a second laser output, forming the graphic laser display; a motion control mechanism adapted to direct at least the second laser output; a tracking system configured to track at least one target; and a processing unit, configured to receive tracking data relating to a location of the at least one target relative to the LOS of the aimable device and instruct the motion control mechanism to direct the second laser output to display the graphic laser display on the at least one target.
Assignee: SMART SHOOTER LTD.
Inventor: Avshalom Ehrlich
Light sighting and training device
Abstract: A sighting/training device configured to be mounted to a pistol handle of a gun incorporates a light source, a power source, and a control. The device has at least two operating modes and a switch to select one of the modes. In a first operating mode the light source emits light when a button grip is pressed by a user, and does not emit light when the button grip is not depressed. In a second mode the light source emits light when a sound, such as the sound of a gun firing pin, is detected.
Inventors: Larry E. Moore, Aaron Moore
Heat-sanitization of surfaces
Abstract: Solutions for limiting the undesirable spread of pathogens by indirect contact are provided. The solutions involve heat-sanitization of contact regions on articles or fixtures by flowing selected electromagnetic radiation energy through underlying waveguide structures substantially parallel to the contact regions.
Assignee: Elwha LLC
Inventors: Michael C. Hegg, David R. Nash, Benjamin K. Wilson
Sensory feedback adapter for use with a laser based combat training system
Abstract: An adapter assembly permits sensory feedback such as a pain penalty to be incorporated into a combat training system of the type which includes simulated weapons which output a laser hit signal representative of a projectile and user monitoring devices worn by participants having laser sensors to provide an indication when a participant is hit by a simulated projectile in a combat training exercise. The adapter assembly works with an electrical impulse device also worn by the participants to deliver an electrical shock to the participant in response to receiving an activation signal. More particularly, the adapter assembly has input sensor for sensing when a user monitoring device indicates a hit to the user, and a signal output for generating an activation signal which can be received by the electrical impulse device to shock the participant when hit.
Inventor: Jeffrey James Quail
Laser activated moving target
Abstract: A laser targeting apparatus rests on a surface and moves, such as by vibrating, wobbling, or shaking, when struck by laser light of sufficient intensity. The apparatus is designed not to fall over, so a user does not have to move to the apparatus and pick it up after a strike. The apparatus has a body that includes a structure, which is preferably one or more printed circuit boards including light sensors, for detecting strikes of laser light, and a motor. When a strike of laser light is detected, power is provided to the motor, which vibrates and causes the apparatus to move.
System and method for weapon effect simulation
Abstract: A weapon effect simulation system including a fire simulation system and at least one hit simulation system. The fire simulation system includes a transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic waves to simulate real ammunition from a weapon and elements for including information in the electromagnetic waves. The hit simulation system includes both a receiver for receiving the transmitted electromagnetic waves and a processor for determining, based on received electromagnetic waves, whether a target has been hit. The fire simulation system further includes a calculator for calculating the imagined trajectory of the simulated ammunition and a processor for determining the geographical position of the weapon, and wherein the elements for including information in the electromagnetic waves are arranged so as to include information related to coordinates in the three-dimensional space for the calculated ammunition trajectory.
Assignee: SAAB AB
Inventors: Ulf Björkman, Anders Holmquist
Potential damage indicator of a targeted object
Abstract: Methods and systems for providing multiple viewing modes of a simulated environment are described herein. The different viewing modes may include a magnified view of the environment, an unmagnified view, and/or a magnified view combined with an unmagnified view. The different viewing modes may include a model of a user controlled object which mimics the movement of the user controlled object to provide the user with information regarding the positioning or orientation of the user controlled object with respect to the user's current view. In the different viewing modes, a potential damage indicator may be provided on a targeted object to indicate potential damage to the targeted object based on a current weapon selection.
Assignee: Wargaming.net Limited
Inventors: Dzmitry Yudo, Alexey Alexeev
Interactive target and system for long range shooting
Abstract: An interactive target assembly is disclosed and claimed herein wherein the target assembly is meant to provide real-time feedback to a shooter or other remote onlooker. The shooter or other party can visually detect a strike to the target by way of a high powered LED light that is in wired communication with a target control module. The target control module is thereby in wireless communication via a multi-channel receiver with a remote control and an impact detection module. The impact detection module detects an impact to the target, sending a signal to the target control module, which illuminates a light to indicate a strike.
Assignee: Roberts Tactical Precision, Inc.
Inventor: Kirk J. Roberts
Precision guided handgun and method
Abstract: A precision guided handgun includes a handgun and includes a sensor circuit coupled to the handgun and configured to capture optical data associated with a view area. The precision guided handgun further includes a controller coupled to the handgun and configured to process the optical data to detect a foreground object within the optical data. The controller automatically selects the foreground object as a target.
Assignee: TrackingPoint, Inc.
Inventor: John Hancock Lupher
Toy projectile launching system
Abstract: A toy projectile launching system including at least one toy projectile, and at least one toy launcher, each including a receptacle into which a projectile is loaded, a launching mechanism for physically launching a projectile after it is loaded into the receptacle, a target area sensitive to being hit by a projectile, and a display for presenting a message when a projectile, launched by another launcher, hits the target area.
Assignee: EyeSpy Toys Ltd
Inventor: Benjamin Rosenberg
System and method for marksmanship training
Abstract: A system and method for marksmanship training comprises a screen, a computer having a processor and a memory connected to the processor and adjacent the screen, a set of modified video images stored in the memory, a set of projectors for projecting the set of modified video images onto the screen, connected to the computer and adjacent the screen, the set of modified video images including a moving clay target image and a phantom clay target image adjacent the moving clay target image at a lead distance from the moving clay target image, a camera connected to the computer and adjacent the screen, a weapon adjacent the screen, and a laser operatively mounted in the weapon. The phantom clay target image has a contrast level range from a fully opaque image to a fully transparent image.
Assignee: Shooting Simulator, LLC
Inventors: James L. Northrup, Robert P. Northrup, Peter F. Blakeley
Firearm handgrip assembly with laser gunsight system
Abstract: A firearm handgrip assembly with laser gunsight system has a first grip body having a first attachment facility operable to connect the grip to the frame at a first frame position, a second grip body having a second attachment facility operable to connect the grip to the frame at a first frame position, a connection portion connected to the first grip body and to the second grip body, the first grip body including a beam projection element, the second grip body including a power storage facility, and the second attachment facility being operable to enable detachment and reattachment of the second grip body while the first grip body remains undisturbed, such that batteries may be replaced without disturbing the alignment of the beam projection element. The connection portion may include a conductor and be formed of a flexible material, such as an elastomer.
Assignee: HOGUE, INC.
Inventor: James David Bruhns
LED based identification and communication systems
Abstract: In one aspect, identification and communication systems are described herein. In some embodiments, an identification and communication system comprises one or more query units and one or more response units, wherein at least one query unit comprises a query beam source comprising a light emitting diode (LED) operable to emit a query beam. In some embodiments, the query beam is substantially collimated. In some embodiments, an identification and communication system comprises one or more query units and one or more response units, wherein at least one query unit comprises a first query beam source operable to emit a first component beam and a second query beam source operable to emit a second component beam. In some embodiments, the first query beam source comprises an LED and the second query beam source comprises a laser. In some embodiments, the first component beam and the second component beam are substantially concentric.
Assignee: Analysis First LLC
Inventors: Peter Gerber, Jodi Lasky
Shooting training assembly with infrared projection
Abstract: A shooting target range assembly for use by a trainee marksman using IR night vision imaging equipment to view a target. The range may have at least one target support mechanism for supporting a target and an infrared (IR) light projector associated locally with the base for projecting an IR light locally onto the target to illuminate the target with substantially IR images. The night vision imaging equipment used is chosen to be compatible with the IR light projector chosen. The assembly detects projectile hits on illuminated targets from a projectile fired by a trainee marksman.
Inventor: Noel Gordon
Dry fire training device
Abstract: A multi-function dry fire training device to be inserted into the chamber of a firearm, which comprises an illuminator for emitting, upon receiving a command from a controller, a beam of visible or invisible illumination from the barrel of the firearm, the beam being parallel to its central axis; a controller for controlling the functionality of the device including illumination of the illuminator, in response to activation of the firearm trigger; an actuator, being electrically connected to the controller, for activating the controller whenever being struck by the firearm striker and a power source for providing DC power to the controller and illuminator.
Inventor: Oren Louis Ohr
Adapter for communicating between an anti-personnel training device and a user worn monitoring device
Abstract: An adapter device for use in a combat training system communicates between an anti-personnel training device and a user monitoring device in a training exercise. The anti-personnel training device may be a simulated improvised explosive device including a trigger and an output arranged to output a simulated attack, for example light and sound representative of an explosion, in response to activation of the trigger. The user monitoring device, for example existing training products, such as the Stressvest™ system, the IR Tactical System™, or the MILES™ system, is worn by a user and includes an input which receives a hit signal indicative of the user being hit and an indicator output arranged to indicate the user has been hit. The adapter device has an input sensor to sense the simulated attack of the anti-personnel training device and a signal output to output a hit signal detectable by the user monitoring device.
Simulation system
Abstract: A simulation system for use in military exercise of combat in an area having at least one building has a transmitter arranged on a firearm for simulating firing of a shot and a detector to be arranged on the body of a soldier. Sensors are adapted to sense whether the transmitter and the detector are located indoors or outdoors. The detector is designed to discriminate between normal power signals fired from outdoors and indoors, whereas the transmitters is adapted to emit signals of normal power when located outdoors and signal of normal power as well as a substantially lower power when located indoors.
Inventors: Ulf Bjòrkman, Anders Holmquist
System and method for simulating firing a gun
Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for simulating firing a gun comprises a firing system and a transmitting system coupled to the firing system. The firing system fires a cartridge and comprises a chamber and a hammer. The chamber receives and holds the cartridge, and the hammer strikes the cartridge. The transmitting system detects movement of the hammer and transmits simulation data prior to the hammer striking the cartridge.
Assignee: Raytheon Company
Inventors: Giles D. Jones, Qingce Bian, Christopher A. Tomlinson, Jeffrey E. Decker, William W. Price, Bradley C Huang, Peter M. Wallrich
Airburst simulation system and method of simulation for airburst
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an airburst simulation system and method. The airburst simulation system includes a laser emitting unit to emit laser beam to an airburst aiming position, preset above a target hidden behind an obstacle, such that a warhead is airbursted to shoot the target, a laser detecting unit mounted onto the target to detect an arrival of the laser beam above the target, and a determining unit to measure a distance between the airburst aiming position and an arrival position of the laser detected by the laser detecting unit, and determine whether or not the target has been shot based on the distance. This allows for a simulated engagement using an airburst apparatus, with no harm to human bodies by virtue of the use of laser.
Assignee: Agency for Defense Development
Inventors: Joon-Ho Lee, Je-Wook Chae, Eui-Jung Choe, Sung-Bae Lee, Hyun-Jun Kim
Personal Casualty Simulator
Abstract: A system and method uses three-dimensional, visual feedback for simulated weapons fire during training of a soldier in a combat exercise. In the system, the soldier is provided with a weapon equipped with a laser transmitter that simulates the firing of actual rounds. Further, sensors are positioned on a human target. Also, discharge members are located on the human target. When a signal is received by a sensor, selected discharge members are activated to immediately expel a plume of dust. As a result, the plume of expelled dust provides three-dimensional, visual feedback to the soldier in real-time.
Inventor: Stuart C. Segall
Personnel casualty simulator
Abstract: A system and method uses three-dimensional, visual feedback for simulated weapons fire during training of a soldier in a combat exercise. In the system, the soldier is provided with a weapon equipped with a laser transmitter that simulates the firing of actual rounds. Further, sensors are positioned on a human target. Also, discharge members are located on the human target. When a signal is received by a sensor, selected discharge members are activated to immediately expel a plume of dust. As a result, the plume of expelled dust provides three-dimensional, visual feedback to the soldier in real-time. Additionally, the system contemplates providing three-dimensional, visual feedback from background surfaces and vehicles in the combat environment.
Inventor: Stuart Charles Segall
WEAPON FIRING AND TARGET SIMULATOR AND METHODS THEREOF
Abstract: The present invention describes a weapon firing simulator comprising a laser transmitter arranged to emit a light beam triggered by a simulated firing, wherein the laser transmitter has sweeping means arranged for sweeping the emitted light beam typically around the simulated projectile or missile, the laser transmitter has modifying means arranged for modifying the emitted light beam to contain information, for transmission of a simulated engagement coordinate.
Publication date: December 18, 2014
Applicant: SAAB AB
Inventor: Alf Axerud
Shooting training device
Abstract: The invention is a trigger pull training device for improving trigger pull technique. The device has a frame with a trigger track opening and a trigger which goes through that opening. A proximity sensor or a plurality of proximity sensors are placed proximate the trigger track opening. The sensors are connected to an indicator whereby pulling the trigger such that the trigger is within the sensing zone causes the proximity sensor to emit a signal. A plurality of sensors can be lined along the trigger track opening to indicate the accuracy of any pull.
Assignee: TriggerMaster, Inc.
Inventor: Malcom Baxter
Simulated Gun Shooting and Target Position Sensing Apparatus and Method
Abstract: The present invention comprises a transmitter unit having at least one infrared (IR) transmitter, a target screen, a plurality of photodiode sensors disposed in a spaced apart relationship about the target screen, and receiver circuitry connecting the photodiode sensors together. The transmitter unit continuously emits an IR signal, which is detected by the photodiode sensors. The receiver circuitry then triangulate the position of the transmitter unit by calculating the differential distances between each of the photodiode sensors and the transmitter unit. The receiver circuitry is able to dynamically update the position of the transmitter unit because the transmitter unit continuously emits an IR signal. The transmitter unit is able to simulate a "shot" in a number of different ways, including updating the packet update rate or altering the data packet preamble. No return signal is necessary for the transmitter unit to confirm the "shot.
Inventor: Andrew Lohbihler
System and method for mechanically activated laser
Abstract: A firearm simulation system for enhanced firearms training comprises at least one weapon with a mechanically activated laser. The system includes a normally closed laser activation circuit used in conjunction with a recoil kit. The normally closed laser activation circuit comprises a conductive seal, a ball bearing, and a recoil spring. The recoil spring presses or urges the ball bearing into contact with the conductive seal. The function of the laser activation circuit is mechanically triggered and the laser activation circuit is electrically connected to a light source (e.g., a laser light) and configured to activate the light source, simulating a projectile being fired from a weapon. When the trigger of the simulated weapon is pulled, a striker pin dislodges the ball bearing, moving it out of its original position is contact with the conductive seal. The displacement of the ball bearing by the striker pin, away from the conductive seal, creates an open circuit.
Assignee: Virtra Systems Inc.
Inventors: Roger D. Malin, Ian F. Webb, Matthew D. Burlend, Christopher M. Savarese
Applicant: SHOOTING SIMULATOR, LLC
Devices, systems and methods for firearms training, simulation and operations
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing firearms training without using traditional firearms. Replicas of firearms have control systems in communication with magazines inserted into the replicas to control the number of rounds that can be fired for each magazine. The control systems can also monitor, record and communicate data relating to all use of the replica to centralized control units. Additionally, the control systems can include location sensors to monitor the location of the replicas and only authorize firing of the replicas in approved locations.
Assignee: Practical Air Rifle Training Systems, LLC
Inventor: Richard Russell Hogan, Jr.
Two beam small arms transmitter
Abstract: A Small Arms Transmitter (SAT) having two optical sources for use in a military training environment is described. The SAT includes an infrared laser as a first optical source. A visible optical source, such as a visible wavelength laser, is configured as a second optical source. The visible wavelength laser can be configured to be selectively energized during a beam alignment operation. A combiner can be configured to combine the beam from the infrared laser with the beam from the visible wavelength laser to produce a combined beam. The optical axis of the combined infrared and visible wavelength lasers can be adjusted using an optical steering module. A first optical steering module can be configured to steer the combined beam substantially along a first axis, while a second optical steering module can be configured to steer the combined beam along a second axis substantially orthogonal to the first axis.
Assignee: Cubic Corporation
Inventor: Deepak Varshneya
Laser backrange and marksmanship apparatus and method
Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for making more accurate range and marksmanship determinations in laser-based military engagements. These methods and systems allow a shooter and a target in a laser engagement system to be paired with one another in a substantially unambiguous manner. Such pairing allows the lasers to be used at full power and is particularly well suited for clustered environments in which multiple combatants may be in close proximity to one another. The methods and systems are also particularly well suited for testing new or experimental weapon systems by virtue of the more accurate range and marksmanship estimates provided.
Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
Inventors: Allister McNeish, Keith A. Kunz
Firearm trigger pull training system and methods
Abstract: A firearm training system provides a firearm body having a trigger and a trigger pull sensor circuit. When the trigger is pulled, the trigger pull sensor circuit provides trigger pull data allowing monitoring of the actual two-dimensional trigger pull path taken by the trigger during the trigger pull. The trigger pull path is graft on a predetermined map together with boundary lines representing a predetermined difference threshold from ideal trigger pull data. The system provides a way to monitor trigger pull path to determine whether the trigger has been pulled laterally and/or the firearm body has moved with respect to a longitudinal axis of the firearm body during the trigger pull. By repeatedly monitoring trigger pulls using the system, a user can train to improve trigger pull technique.
Target Device for Determining Received Hits in a Light Based Weapons Simulation System
Abstract: A target device is usable with a simulation system which includes a weapon simulator having a trigger, a chamber for firing a blank cartridge in response to the trigger, and a transmitter arranged to emit a light signal defining one or more activation codes of prescribed duration in response to the trigger. The target device includes a sensor array of photodiodes and a processor receiving output signals from the photodiodes. The processor determines that the sensor array has been hit by the weapon simulator in response to a first portion of one activation code being received by one of the photodiodes and at least one second portion of the same activation code being received by the same or a different one of the photodiodes when the first portion and the at least one second portion correspond to an entirety of one activation code within the respective prescribed duration.
Inventors: Jeffrey James Quail, Rory Bochinski, Alex McIlraith, Luke Draper, Fred Swensen
LASER TARGET PRACTICE SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS
Abstract: Laser target practice using an ultra-violet light emitting laser that is pulsed on when a weapon trigger is pulled. The UV laser light pulse illuminates a spot on a target having a coating of phosphorescent material on a face thereof. The phosphorescent material within the illuminated spot glows for a certain time thereby visually indicating a location of the spot on the target. The UV laser light pulse may also illuminate a spot on a target having a photochromic paint coatings on a face thereof. The photochromic paint coatings within the illuminated spot changes color thereby indicating a location of the spot on the target.
Inventor: Randy Yach
Combat training system and method
Abstract: A target acquisition apparatus for use in association with a target, includes a weapon activation sensor, an image detector, a modulated light detector, a weapon processor, and a weapon transceiver for detecting activation of the weapon and producing a triggering signal. The weapon processor identifies a predetermined modulation characteristic from detected light radiation, identifies a predetermined spatial configuration within a predetermined portion of an acquired image, determines a local coordinate system, and produces a hit indication.
Assignee: Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd.
Inventor: Eli Miasnik
Hunter training system
Abstract: A gun-resembling apparatus having a gunstock and a barrel, a sight aligned with the barrel, a trigger mounted along the gunstock, and image capturing features for capturing targeted images via operating the trigger and safety features incorporated with the image capturing features to teach the student proper gun-handling procedures. The device includes a camera to capture image(s) in a sight line of the barrel. The image(s) are displayed on a display screen for viewing and editing. The device also incorporates a safety switch having a safe and fire position, the camera being prohibited from operating in the safe position and being allowed to operate in the fire position. An alert signal may sound through a speaker if the trigger is not operated after a predetermined time of the safety switch being in the fire position. An image storage device may also be used.
Inventors: Bryan S. Couet, Keri L. Couet
System and method for monitoring handling of a firearm or other trigger-based device
Abstract: Hand position monitoring systems and methods for use with firearms. The hand monitoring system monitors a hand position of a firearm user and includes a sensor assembly and a controller. The sensor assembly acquires hand position information (e.g., index or trigger finger position information) of a firearm user and electronically communicates the hand position information for review and/or analysis.
Assignee: Force Science Institute Ltd.
Inventors: William B. Hudson, William J. Lewinski