47 years, 9 months, 19 days old age. Julian Assange will turn 48 on 03 July, 2019. Only 2 months, 10 days, 23 hours, 28 minutes has left for his next birthday.
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Julian Assange was born on 03-07-1971 in Townsville in the state of Queensland, Australia. He is an Australian-Ecuadorian Computer Programmer, Journalist, Writer, Editor, Memoirist, Activist, Politician, Author & Founder of WikiLeaks.
Julian Assange had an unusual childhood. His biological father had separated from his mother even before he was born and he was raised by his mother and step-father. He travelled a lot as a child and had lived at over 30 different locations by the time he was a teenager. He became fascinated with computers as a teenager and discovered that he had an uncanny ability to hack and break into computer systems. Bright and intelligent, he enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study mathematics but dropped out without completing his degree. Eventually, he went on to pursue a career as a computer programmer and software developer and began working on the website WikiLeaks which publishes secret information and news leaks.
He began hacking under the name Mendax in 1987. Along with two of his friends, he formed an ethical hacking group. During this time he hacked into several U.S. Department of Defense facilities, the U.S. Navy, NASA, and Australia's Overseas Telecommunications Commission. He also hacked the websites of several prominent corporations and institutions like Citibank, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Panasonic, Xerox, the Australian National University, La Trobe University, and Stanford University.
His activities of hacking were first noticed during the decade of the 1990s. He was accounted for 31 counts against him. He though got away with a fine. He spent three years as a researcher working with the academic, Suelette Dreyfus, who was researching on the subversive side of the internet. Their intensive research culminated in the publication of 'Underground', a book which was about Australian hackers that became a bestseller in the computing fraternity. He registered the domain leaks.org in 1999 and publicized a patent granted to the National Security Agency in August 1999 for voice-data harvesting technology. In 2006, he began working on WikiLeaks, a website intended to share secret information and news leaks on an international scale. The site was officially launched in 2007. He ran the site from Sweden, leveraging the country's strong laws protecting a person's anonymity. Through his site, he published a lot of manning material and thus was being interrogated by various agencies. He took asylum in Ecuador embassy in London and live there from 2012 to 2019 before he was finally arrested by British police in April 2019.
He was born to a visual artist Christine Ann Hawkins and John Shipton. Hollywood film actor Richard Brett Assange was his step-father who died on 1st April 2012. He was married to Teresa Deo Assange from 1989 to 1999 and together has a son named Daniel Assange. He was in a relationship with Sarah Harrison from 2009 to 2012. Sarah is a section editor of WikiLeaks.
He enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study mathematics but dropped out without completing his degree.
His mother and father separated before his birth.
He married while he was in his teens.
A documentary film titled 'Risk' which premiered at Cannes film festival in 2016 was based on his life.


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A dzsida hosszú fanyelű szúrófegyver, a szálfegyverek egy fajtája. Ezt a kifejezést legtöbbször a 18. századtól használt lovassági lándzsára értik, melyet főként a lengyel eredetű ulánusok használtak. A fegyver könnyen megismerhető a hegye alatti kis zászlóról. A lengyel hadsereg a 20. század közepéig hadrendben tartott dzsidát a lovasság számára. Használója az ulánus vagy dzsidás. Az egyszerűség kedvéért és a szóismétlés elkerülése érdekében lehet lándzsa néven is említeni ezt a fegyvert.

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A dzsida 2,5–3,5 m hosszú lovassági szálfegyver volt. Lovasroham esetén a katona előreszegezett lándzsával támadta a gyalogos vagy lovas ellenfelét. A 18. századtól a lovasok a dzsidán kívül szablyával, karabéllyal (rövid csövű puska) és általában 2 pisztollyal is rendelkeztek.

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Az ókorban, amikor először alkalmaztak nagyobb számban lovasságot, a katonákat hosszú nyelű szálfegyverekkel szerelték fel. A középkor lovagjainak is a felszerelésük között volt a lovassági lándzsa, bár ezt a gyalogság is előszeretettel használta. A 17. század végén a gyalogság fegyvertárából kiszorultak az ilyesféle fegyverek, ugyanis megjelentek a lőfegyverek és az erre szerelt szurony, ami a kézitusa során kiszorította a lándzsát. A lovasságot ekkoriban karddal látták el.

A lovasság által használt lándzsa Európában újra használatba jött, amikor Napóleon rendszeresítette a Grandé Arméeban mint első számú lovassági fegyvert. Egyes nézetek szerint Petőfi Sándort az orosz lovasok dzsidával szúrták mellen 1849-ben Fehéregyháza környékén.

Az első világháború idején is használtak lándzsát a lovasok, ám a géppuskával felszerelt lövészárkok ellen öngyilkosságnak minősült lovasrohamokat indítani, így a lovasságot rajtaütések során és a nyílt terepen elhelyezkedő ellenség leküzdésére lehetett hatékonyan alkalmazni.

A legenda szerint Lengyelország 1939-es német lerohanásakor a lengyelek karddal és lándzsával támadtak a német páncélosokra. Ezt az esetet mind a német, mind a szovjet propagandagépezet felkapta, hogy hangsúlyozhassák a lengyel hadsereg elmaradottságát és ostobaságát. Később derült ki a történet valóságalapja: a lengyelek egy gyalogos hadosztályt támadtak meg klasszikus lovasrohammal, majd egy páncélos egység érkezett a gyalogosok megsegítésére. A helyszínre érkező újságírók azonban már csak annyit láttak (vagy csak annyit akartak látni), hogy a lengyelek lándzsával és karddal harcolnak a német tankok ellen.

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askUS, our one-stop-shop for all student enquiries, has launched a new, much easier phone system whereby you can contact all services by calling just one number 0161 295 0023.
The services you can contact through this one number, giving you much less to remember, include immigration, check-in – UKVI, Fees, Awards and Bursaries, Student Registration and Records, Timetabling, Student Finance, Timetabling, Payment Point, Salford Support Fund (SSF), Disability and Learner Support, Wellbeing, Counselling and Careers and Employability.
This is just one of a number of improvements made by the service in the past year, with the team now offering extended opening hours from 08:30-18:00 on Mondays to Fridays and 12:00-16:00 on Saturdays in Clifford Whitworth Library, so that we're here as much as we can be to answer your queries. We're also looking to offer even more ways to keep in touch, with an askUS Twitter account and an askUS a Question service (online chat) set to launch in the coming months.
This news comes just weeks after askUS celebrated its first birthday; a year in which they helped over 32,000 students who visited the askUS service desks and sent over 27,000 student letters – enough to stretch all the way from the university to Old Trafford when laid end to end.
The birthday celebrations spanned a whole week with staff handing out askUS branded pens, trolley coins, post-it pads and sweets from a dedicated stand in University House. There was also some fun to be had by the staff, with an anniversary buffet lunch taking place in University House and a party in the Students' Union Atmosphere Bar and Kitchen.
One way we hope to make our second year of service as successful as our first, if not more, is by continuing to involve our students in the conversation. You can give us your views about the services and any improvements you may want to see, with our tellUS feedback cards. These can be picked up anywhere in University House and completing one just adds to the askUS/student co-creation journey.
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By PETER KEOUGH | June 23, 2009
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Whatever Works | Written and Directed by Woody Allen | with Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley, Michael McKean, Henry Cavill, John Gallagher Jr., Jessica Hecht, Carolyn McCormick, and Christopher Evan Welch | Sony Classics | 92 minutes
It happens to everyone: getting old means getting more annoying. Those endearing little quirks degenerate into insufferable pathologies, the funny stories become less funny with repetition, and in general the same old self-depreciating ironies and obsessive-compulsive hedges against mortality stop working. Whatever Works is old. Really old — it's a screenplay Woody Allen wrote three decades ago and never produced. Perhaps desperate for material, he resurrects it now, long after it's been made redundant by May-December romantic comedies like his own Manhattan. And it has not aged well.
His persona long ago tainted by scandal, Allen has come to rely on stand-ins for himself. Here the Allen manqué is Larry David, and the Curb Your Enthusiasm crank works hard from the get-go to out-curmudgeon the original. Playing misanthropic New Yorker Boris Yellnikoff, he fulminates against organized religion, rednecks (he's like a shock jock from the left, and as appealing), romantic love, human nature, and, quoting Conrad, "the horror" of existence.
The gimmick this time is that chestnut of breaking the fourth wall: he turns to the camera and addresses the movie audience. I don't think many will feel privileged by the attention. Although Allen tries to distance himself from Boris's neurotic megalomania and self-pity, the character wallows wearily in all-too-familiar cradle-robbing lechery, self-aggrandizing self-loathing, hypochondria, and middlebrow namedropping and snobbery. Not someone you want to spend 90 minutes with.
After a failed career as a physicist (he'd have won a Nobel Prize if not for the night terrors), a failed marriage (she tired of his "sophomoric tirades"), and a failed suicide attempt, Boris now teaches chess to children in the park. Then Melodie St. Ann Celestine (Evan Rachel Wood, transcending the material), a low-rent Holly Golightly, appears on his doorstep. She's a runaway from the South who, as Boris iterates, is ignorant, ingenuous, and stupid (though he does concede that she might be pretty). She inserts herself into Boris's apartment and life and — what a twist! — falls in love with him.
With his hatred of sex, romance, and people in general, his tiresome proclamations that he's a genius among "microbes," his penchant for endearments like "simpleton" and "inchworm," what girl could resist? Especially one as benighted as Melodie, who doesn't even know it's a joke when Boris says he played for the Yankees.
Fortunately, Allen is funnier about parents than about girlfriends, so when Melodie's mother, Marietta (Patricia Clarkson), shows up, the movie comes alive. Otherwise, the shtick is tired and the wisdom second-hand, ranging from the platitude of the title to the nihilist terror of existentialism to the greeting-card consolations of kismet. Sometimes clichés are the only way to get your point across, as Boris concedes when Melodie catches him using one. And sometimes they just show that you've got nothing to say.
Parroting Boris, Melodie tells a worshipper that his prayers are useless, that "there's no one out there." This parallels Boris's own monologues to the movie audience, whom he alone among the characters can see. This is, he says, the key to his genius, that he can "see the big picture." That might have been true once upon a time. Now Allen's desperation is as futile as that of any holy roller, and just as likely to fall on deaf ears.
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Since Squanto taught the Pilgrims to plant maize, no food has been more emblematic of the evolution of American eating habits than corn. That's been true from the sepia-tinged golden age of the Midwestern breadbasket to the present day, where those yellow kernels are lab-engineered and recombinated into a dizzying array of futuristic foodstuffs.
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There has been plenty of hand-wringing, in these parts, over the decline of the local broadsheet. The Providence Journal is the paper of record, after all, the agenda setter. And the agenda is decidedly thinner these days.
THE THRILLER IS GONE
With the release of Bad (Epic), Michael Jackson ends a recording hiatus of nearly five years. He could have stayed away for 10 years and still not have escaped the shadow of Thriller , the biggest-selling album of all time.
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Cue up track six on the new Britney (Jive) and prepare yourself for the Technicolor disco flash-back of the year, swooning string section, chunky Nile Rodgers guitar riff, and all. The song's called "Anticipating," and it captures the most famous 19-year-old girl in the world at her guileless, sentimental best.
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Scouting out great cheap restaurants takes me down some strange byways, but I almost never make it to Boston's waterfront. Most places with water views tend to be overpriced or mediocre. Perhaps it's the high cost of picturesque real estate, or that owners count on the scenery to mask their shortcomings.
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Considering the current climate of our feelings toward big business, it's kind of a relief to revert from the present to a bygone era, and from dreary reality to colorful stylizations. In Seacoast Repertory's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying , the clock spins back to 1959.
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Maori skulls taken from a burial cave and later used as part of attempts to scientifically justify racism by Swedish scientists are set to be returned to New Zealand in the near future, despite 'red tape' stalling the process.
Until now, the skulls have been stored at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, one of Europe's largest medical universities.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish scientists investigating potential differences between races plundered numerous skulls belonging to groups including Maori - the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Many of the skulls were looted from graves and then measured and compared in order to try and classify differences between races.
Karolinska Institute has a collection of 800 skulls and since 2008, New Zealand's national museum Te Papa has been fighting to get three of them back.
Olof Ljungström, a historian at the Karolinska Institute, told The Local on Tuesday that he was aware the return of the skulls had taken longer than many had hoped, but insisted that they would be sent back to New Zealand soon, as part of a process that demanded "precision and care".
The transfer of the skulls needs to be formally approved by the Swedish state, which officially owns them. Ljungström said he felt there was a "great chance" that recent media interest in the skulls could help speed things up.
"People don't realize how complicated these processes can be. There's a lot of red tape and specific instructions to follow," he said.
He acknowledged that the Karolinska Institute had had a troublesome past with racial studies but added that there was a lot to learn from previous mistakes.
"Measuring skulls is morally indefensible, but we can't change the history. We can only learn from it and gain more knowledge."
It is understood that the three skulls were taken by Swedish zoologist Conrad Fristedt who visited New Zealand in 1890.
The collection has been lying untouched since the 1960s at Karolinska Institute, which first announced late last year that it was planning to return the remains to New Zealand.
Other bones and skulls stored in Sweden have already been flown back in recent years.
In 2011, the remains of three Maori people were returned at a solemn ceremony in Lund, in the south of Sweden.
They had originally been in London and ended up at the anatomical department and later the department of history at Lund University.


PRINCETON, N.J. -- A new Gallup poll finds that Americans are less likely now than in 2013 to view police officers as having high honesty and ethical standards after grand juries did not indict white police officers whose actions resulted in the deaths of black men. The overall drop of six percentage points in honesty and ethics ratings is the result of a sharp, 22-point drop in nonwhites' ratings of police officers; whites' views haven't changed.
Earlier this year, a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed an unarmed black teen, and a white officer in Staten Island, New York, held a black man in a chokehold that resulted in his death. Those incidents and, importantly, grand juries' decisions not to indict either officer, have ignited controversy over racial bias and the police's use of force to apprehend suspects.
Although those incidents involved blacks, a single standard poll of U.S. national adults does not usually include a large enough sample of blacks to provide reliable estimates of that specific group's attitudes. However, the Dec. 8-11 poll does include a sufficiently large sample of nonwhites -- consisting mainly of blacks and Hispanics -- to look at differences among this broader racial group.
Even before this year, whites have consistently held more positive views of the police than nonwhites. So the much greater likelihood of whites than nonwhites to view police officers as honest and ethical is not new.
But the data from the Dec. 8-11 poll show that whites and nonwhites are reacting very differently to the recent events -- with nonwhites' already less positive views of police eroding further, while there is little apparent impact on the way whites view the police. Consequently, the gap in white versus nonwhite ratings of the honesty and ethics of police has expanded from 13 points last year (58% to 45%) to 36 points this year (59% to 23%).
The six-point drop in all Americans' ratings of the honesty and ethics of police gives the profession its worst rating since 1995, a time when crime was among Americans' greatest concerns. Still, the current 48% rating of police officers is substantially higher than the all-time low of 37% measured in 1977, the first year Gallup asked the question.
The long-term trend shows two clear phases in Americans' ratings of police officers. From 1977 through 1998, their honesty and ethics scores were consistently 50% or below. From 1999 to 2013, perhaps as a result of sharply declining crime rates, the ratings were consistently above 50%. That includes a record-high 68% in 2001, likely aided by the rally in support for public institutions after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The recent controversy over the police's use of force has thus eroded much of the increased positivity the police had built up in recent decades.
Blacks and whites, perhaps because of historical racial discrimination in the U.S. as well as their own life experiences, have largely differing views on matters that touch on race in U.S. society. Ongoing tensions between police and black citizens, commonly in urban areas, also factor into blacks' (and other nonwhites') more negative views of police.
These factors help explain why nonwhites' views of police nosedived after the Ferguson and Staten Island incidents, whereas whites' views have largely held steady. It is certainly possible that as these incidents fade from memory, nonwhites' views of the police -- as well as those of Americans more broadly -- will return to their prior levels. However, improved relations between blacks and police would also go a long way toward improving the way Americans of all racial and ethnic backgrounds view the police.
For results based on the total sample of 606 non-Hispanic whites, the margin of sampling error is ±5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
For results based on the total sample of 174 nonwhites, the margin of sampling error is ±9 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
Republicans and Democrats diverge most in their honesty and ethics ratings of police officers and clergy. Younger Americans give higher ratings than older Americans to most professions, especially judges and nursing home operators.
Americans' rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has reached a new low. Nurses top the latest poll of honesty and ethical standards in career fields, with lobbyists rated worst.
For the first time in Gallup's annual Honesty and Ethics of Professions poll, a majority of Americans -- 55% -- rate the integrity of members of Congress as low or very low. By contrast, 83% of Americans say nurses, the top-ranking profession, have high or very high honesty and ethical standards.


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As GE Capital gets dismantled, General Electric may likely become an industrial and tech growth stock
March 31, 2021	 By Tom Kerr, InvestorPlace Contributor	Mar 31, 2021, 12:45 pm EST	 March 31, 2021
GE Capital began as a basic finance company in 1932 in order to help customers finance their purchase of General Electric (NYSE:GE) appliances. Financing refrigerators, washers and dryers may have been innovative at the time, but back then they had no idea what was coming and how it would affect GE stock.
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Under CEOs Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt, GE Capital assets grew to $160 billion by 1995, $332 billion by 2000, and $637 billion by 2008. By 2014, GE Capital was the seventh-largest bank holding company in the U.S. The following year, Immelt began the dismantling of this empire.
The announcement in March 2021 that GE was selling/merging its giant commercial aircraft leasing business to competitor AerCap (NYSE:AER) may have written the final chapter for GE Capital. Post-closing, GE's finance arm will have a mere $65 billion in assets ($17 billion if you exclude insurance run-off assets) and will be consolidated into GE's overall industrial financial statements.
Having to deal with two separate balance sheets and income statements have frustrated analysts for decades.
What's left will be an almost pure play industrial company poised for growth, something that has eluded GE for a long time. The "new" company will be focused on four distinct segments – Power, Renewables, Aviation and Healthcare.
Primarily consisting of giant industrial gas, steam, or nuclear related turbines, this was one of the stalwart growth engines of GE for decades. In recent years this segment has been troubled due to the rise in renewable energy generation and the decline of the coal business.
Although growth will be roughly flat this year and next, the long-term story of electricity generation in emerging markets still should come into play. In addition, these massive turbines have a substantial service component over time which provides a decent level of recurring revenues far into the future.
This segment is driven by massive onshore wind turbines but also includes hydro power products, solar products and services, and electric grid offerings as well. This segment, with over $15 billion in revenues is not currently profitable as GE continues to invest in the fast-growing renewable energy future.
However, margin improvements should continue for the foreseeable future. This may be a key driver of future growth for GE if the renewable energy concept continues for electric utilities.
GE Aviation provides aircraft engines, systems and avionics to both commercial and military aircraft. The engine market is essentially an oligopoly between GE, Rolls-Royce, and Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE:RTX).
This segment suffered in 2020 as airplane manufacturers and airlines suffered substantial business disruption due to the absence of travel resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. The company expects a recovery starting in the first half of 2021 as well as expanded growth in the military market. Like the Power segment, Aviation has a substantial component of service revenues attached to each sale. Last year, service revenues were 60% of the segment while actual equipment sales were 40%.
If there was a crown jewel of GE's portfolio, healthcare would be it. Primarily know for MRI and CT Scan equipment, they also provide ultrasound equipment, ventilators, and a variety of healthcare IT offerings.
With good top-line revenue growth and mid-teens operating margins, healthcare will drive GE's growth until the Power segment recovers and the Renewable segment turns profitable. GE Healthcare generates billions in much needed free cash flow. On a stand-along basis, GE Healthcare could be worth $60 billion, or half of GE's current market cap.
CEO Larry Culp
Legendary may be a strong word for Larry Culp who took over as CEO in September 2018, but for shareholders of Danaher (NYSE:DHR), that may not be an overstatement. Culp led that company from 2000 to 2014, a period in which the stock climbed over 500% and grew the company into a well-respected and diversified manufacturer of medical, industrial and commercial products.
Culp has been charged with not only turning around the troubled aspects of GE but also delivering the balance sheet and more importantly – growth.
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As GE returns to essentially being a pure industrial company, the perspective by investors should change. Earnings per share is expected to grow 100% in 2022 and perhaps 50% in 2023 according to analysts estimates.
It's no longer a turnaround story, no longer a value stock, but if Culp can pull the magic he did at Danaher, then it becomes a real growth stock. Who knows, one day GE stock might even catch the attention of the Reddit crowd.
On the date of publication Tom Kerr did not have (either directly or indirectly) any positions in the securities mentioned in this article.
Tom Kerr, CFA is an experienced investment manager and business writer who has worked in the investment and securities business since 1994.
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Q: How can I connect my PC connected to WiFi on wlan0 to my oscilloscope on eth0? Here is how I set up my network configuration on both devices
For Linux comp:
wlan0: WiFi Link set to DHCP
eth0: Static IP: 192.168.1.254
      Netmask: 255.255.255.0
      Default Gateway IP and Primary DNS are set blank

For my scope that is wired directly to eth0:
Instrument IP Address: 192.168.1.1
Gateway IP Address: 192.168.1.254
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Http Port:80
Domain Name and DNS IP Address are both left blank

I tried pinging the instrument IP address from my Ubuntu machine and testing the connection on the scope which both failed to show a connection. I'm pretty new to this stuff so any insight would help.
Update:
For some reason the setup tool I was using from the terminal wasn't actually saving my configuration so I just changed it manually from the terminal using sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.254. Now I can ping 192.168.1.254 and transmit/receive packets but when I try to ping the instrument IP address, I get:
From 192.168.1.254 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable"

and am not sure how to proceed.
Here is the output of ifconfig:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:E8:F2:46:6F
          inet addr:192.168.1.254  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:22 Memory:f6ae0000-f6b00000
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:72328 (70.6 KiB)  TX bytes:72328 (70.6 KiB)
wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:6A:6E:45:E8
          inet addr:131.225.175.229  Bcast:131.225.175.255 Mask:255.255.248.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::221:6aff:fe6e:45e8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:234066 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:65309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:93901249 (89.5 MiB)  TX bytes:9874935 (9.4 MiB)

A: As your WiFi is using a public addressing scheme, the 192.168.1.0/24 address scheme can be used to connect your PC to the oscilloscope directly.
So the PC's address should be set to 192.168.1.2 and the oscilloscope's to 192.168.1.3.  The "default gateway" (254) is a reserved address by TCP/IP as is the "broadcast address" (255).  For everything you always wanted to know about TCP/IP but were afraid to ask, read this book.
Extra credit: If the link lights on the Ethernet ports do not turn on after the cable is inserted on both ends, you have to buy an Ethernet cross cable as not all computer's Ethernet ports can connect directly using just any Ethernet cable.

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Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance
October 2016 , Volume 25, Issue 10, pp 4437–4443 | Cite as
Viscosity and Electrical Conductivity of the Liquid Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu Alloy with Minor Co Admixtures
A. Yakymovych
V. Sklyarchuk
Yu. Plevachuk
B. Sokoliuk
The viscosity and electrical conductivity as structure-sensitive transport properties of the liquid metals and alloys are important for modeling of the melting and solidification processes. The viscosity and electrical conductivity data provide additional information about the influence of impurities on the structure and physicochemical properties of the liquid metal matrix, which is useful for understanding of structural transformations in the liquid state. In the present work, an impact of minor Co admixtures on the viscosity and electrical conductivity of liquid Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu alloy was studied. An increase in viscosity with minor Co admixtures is in a satisfactory agreement with model predicted data obtained from thermodynamic approaches and suggests a significant impact of interatomic interactions. Cobalt admixtures significantly affect the electrical conductivity, which gradually decreases with increasing the amount of Co. Additionally, the sample microstructure has been examined using x-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analyses. The formation of Sn-based Co-Sn intermetallic compounds was detected in the alloys with more than 1 wt.% Co.
Co admixtures electrical conductivity electron intermetallic joining microscopy viscosity
The Sn-Ag-Cu alloys (SAC) are widely used as lead-free solders in the electronics industry, and a number of studies intended for enhancement of their characteristics were carried out. Addition of minor amounts of the fourth elements, such as metals in bulk and nanosized forms, ceramic or carbon nanoparticles, is a widespread method to improve mechanical properties of the solder joints (Ref 1-3).
It was recently shown that alloying and impurity metal elements can have several major effects on the reactions between the Sn-based solder and the conductor metal: They can increase or decrease the reaction/growth rate; additives can change the physical properties of the phases formed; finally, they can form additional reaction layers at the interface, or they can displace the binary phases that would normally appear and form other reaction products instead (Ref 4).
A number of investigations were devoted to the effect of different alloying elements as well as impurities on the growth of the intermetallic compound (IMC) layers in Sn-Cu system (Ref 5-10). It was found that addition of appropriate amounts of certain alloying elements to the Sn-based solder can improve the properties of the interfacial compounds, e.g., better drop test reliability, but if excess amounts of the same alloying elements are used, this may cause faster growth of IMCs formed at the interface between solder and substrate, and thus, drastic decrease in reliability can occur (Ref 5).
As an addition to Sn-based solder, cobalt has been attracting a great deal of attention because of its potential benefit. The addition of Co as an alloying element resulted in a better shear ductility of SAC solders, and a reduction in the frequency of the occurrence of brittle failure in ball grid array solder joint improved thermal fatigue and creep resistance and suppression of spalling of interfacial IMC during reflow (see Ref 11 and references therein).
Co belongs to the elements which show marked solubility in IMC layer and has the pronounced effect on IMC formation. It was revealed that small amounts of Co (0.03–0.1 wt.%) change the scallop-type morphology of the Cu6Sn5 to a more planar one (Ref 12). Co also refines the grain structure of the Cu6Sn5 layer after reflow and hinders the grain growth of Cu6Sn5 if subsequent reflows are done. Co dissolves to the Cu sublattice of Cu6Sn5 [(Cu,Co)6Sn5] and exhibits negligible solubility to Cu3Sn; due to the small grain size and the increased driving force of Sn diffusion through the (Cu,Co)6Sn5 layer, its growth rate is increased during solid-state annealing. According to Ref 12-15, even very small additions of Co induce beneficial changes in the IMC growth, and thus in the drop test performance, too large amounts of Co tend to decrease the performance of the solder interconnection, owing to an increased growth rate of IMC layers in solid state and because of the pronounced two-phase layer formation during reflow. Anyway, some of these results and their interpretations are ambiguous.
Much less studies are devoted to the influence of minor metal additions on thermophysical properties of liquid Sn-based alloys, in particular, of SAC alloys (Ref 16, 17). Experimental data of structure-sensitive thermophysical properties, such as viscosity and electrical conductivity, are required for mathematical models and simulations describing solidification and soldering processes.
In this work, the influence of minor Co additions on viscosity and electrical conductivity of liquid Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu (wt.%) reference alloy (SAC387) has been studied. The experimental viscosity results were compared with data, received from the semi-empirical approaches, namely the Budai–Benko–Kaptay (Ref 18) and Kozlov–Romanov–Petrov (Ref 19) thermodynamic models. The Mott theory (Ref 20) was used for the electrical conductivity analysis. The microstructure of the investigated alloys was analyzed using the x-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
SAC387 reference alloy and (SAC387)100−x Co x alloys with x = 0.5–3 wt.% were synthesized from silver casting grains (99.9% metallic purity, Alfa Aesar, Karlsruhe, Germany), tin ingot (99.998% metallic purity, Alfa Aesar, Karlsruhe, Germany), copper rods (99.9% metallic purity, Alfa Aesar, Karlsruhe, Germany) and cobalt chucks (99.9% metallic purity, Alfa Aesar, Karlsruhe, Germany). Samples were prepared by aging of accurately weighed amounts of the pure components (within ±0.1 mg) for 2 weeks in evacuated and sealed quartz ampoules at 1173 K.
The viscosity measurements of liquid SAC387 reference alloy and (SAC387)100−x Co x alloys were taken using a high-temperature oscillating-cup viscometer (Ref 21). According to this method, a cylindrical graphite crucible containing the sample with a mass of about 15 g is placed in a stainless steel container attached to the torsion wire inside the high-temperature furnace. The experiments were performed in an argon atmosphere. The viscometer was three times evacuated with a pump before the measurements. The temperature was determined by WRe-5/20 thermocouples. Each sample was heated up to 1073 K and kept at this temperature at least 1 h for homogenization. The viscosity was measured during cooling from the highest temperature with a constant cooling rate of about 4 K/min.
The viscosity was calculated from the logarithmic decrement and the period of oscillations using the modified Roscoe equation (Ref 22). After each measurement, the weight of the sample was checked. In all cases, the loss of material by vaporization was lower than 0.2% of the ingot. The resultant error of the viscosity measurements did not exceed 3%.
The electrical conductivity measurements were taken by the 4-point method in an argon atmosphere. Graphite electrodes for current and potential measurements were placed in the wall of the vertical cylindrical boron nitride ceramic measuring cell along its vertical axis. The potential electrodes were provided with thermocouples for temperature measurements. Single thermoelectrodes of these thermocouples were used for electrical conductivity determination. The melt temperature was determined by WRe-5/20 thermocouples located in close contact with the liquid. For further details of this method and its experimental realization, we refer to Ref 23. Each sample was inserted into the cell directly inside a high-pressure vessel. Thus, the actual sample composition was accurate within a tolerance of 0.02 wt.%. The resultant error of the electrical conductivity measurements is about 2%.
After viscosity measurements, the alloy samples were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and x-ray diffraction. Metallographic investigations were performed using the electron microscope Zeiss Supra 55 VP. The excitation energy of the electron beam was 20 kV; the surfaces of the samples were visualized by the detection of backscattered electrons. The chemical analyses of the sample phases were performed using the energy-dispersive x-ray (EDX) technique with four characteristic spectral lines of Co, Cu (K-line) and Ag, Sn (L-line). Pure Co was also used for energy calibration of EDX detector signal. Standard deviations for the chemical compositions obtained from EDX were about ±1 at.%.
The powder XRD measurements were taken on a Bruker D8 diffractometer at ambient temperature using Ni-filtered CuKα radiation (accelerating voltage 40 kV, electron current 40 mA). The diffractometer operates in the θ/2θ mode. The powder was fixed with petroleum jelly on a single-crystal silicon sample carrier which was rotated during the measurement. The detection unit was a Lynxeye strip detector. Indexing of the phases was supported by the Inorganic Crystal Structural Database (ICSD). Rietveld refinement of the XRD patterns was done with the Topas3® software provided by Bruker AXS.
Theoretical Predictions
A number of thermodynamic approaches are widespread used for viscosity calculations of liquid metal alloys. Two of the most common thermodynamic models for viscosity predictions were chosen in the presented work, namely the Kozlov–Romanov–Petrov model and the Budai–Benkö–Kaptay model.
Kozlov–Romanov–Petrov Model
Kozlov et al. proposed a simple equation for the calculation of the viscosity of liquid alloys including the integral enthalpy of mixing of the alloy, Δ mix H, and viscosities of the components (Ref 19):
$$ \ln \eta = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^{n} {x_{i} } \ln \eta_{i} - \frac{{\Delta _{\text{mix}} H}}{3RT}, $$
where x i and η i are the concentration and viscosity of the component i, respectively; T is the absolute temperature; and R is the ideal gas constant.
Budai–Benkö–Kaptay Model
The equation for the viscosity of liquid multi-component alloys according to the Budai–Benkö–Kaptay model is expressed as (Ref 24):
$$ \eta = A\frac{{\left( {\sum\limits_{i} {x_{i} } M_{i} } \right)^{1/2} }}{{V^{2/3} }}T^{1/2} \exp \left[ {\frac{B}{T}\left( {\sum\limits_{i} {x_{i} T_{m,i}^{ * } } - \frac{{\Delta_{mix} H}}{qR}} \right)} \right], $$
where M i is the molar mass of the component i; q is a semi-empirical parameter equal to q ≅ 25.4 ± 2 (Ref 25); V is the molar volume of the alloy; ΔH is the enthalpy of mixing; A and B are fitting parameters equal to (1.80 ± 0.39) × 10−8 (J/(K mol1/3))1/2 and (2.34 ± 0.20), respectively; and T m,i * is the effective melting temperature of the component i:
$$ T_{m,i}^{ * } = \frac{T}{B}\ln \left( {\frac{{\eta_{i} V_{i}^{2/3} }}{{AM_{i}^{1/2} T^{1/2} }}} \right), $$
where V i is the molar volume of the component i.
In our calculations, the excess volume of the alloys investigated is assumed to be equal to zero. The enthalpy of mixing was taken from Ref 26; the density, viscosity and atomic volume of the components were taken from Ref 27-29.
Figure 1 shows a temperature dependence of the experimental viscosity for the liquid SAC387 (Ag3.8Cu0.7Sn95.5) alloy together with the literature data (Ref 30, 31). The viscosity values from Ref 31 were digitized.
Temperature dependence of the viscosity of liquid SAC387 reference alloy
Our experimental data are in agreement with Ref 30 and the heating curve η(T) below 1073 K given by Rozhitsina et al. (Ref 31). In contrast to viscosity behavior of Sn, and eutectic Ag-Sn, Cu-Sn and Ag-Cu-Sn alloys described in Ref 31, we did not reveal any hysteresis and points of branching of the heating and cooling viscosity curves.
The viscosity of liquid (SAC387)100−x Co x alloys increases upon cooling according to the Arrhenius-type equation (Fig. 2):
$$ \eta = \eta_{0} \exp \left( {\frac{{E_{\eta } }}{RT}} \right), $$
where η 0 is a constant; E η is the activation energy of the viscous flow; T is the absolute temperature; and R is the ideal gas constant. The values of E η and η 0, determined by the least square regression fits of the experimental data according to Eq 4, are presented in Table 1.
Temperature dependence of the viscosity of liquid (SAC387)100−x Co x alloys
Fitting numerical parameters of the Arrhenius-type Eq 4
Alloy composition, wt.%
η 0, mPa s
E η , 103 J/mol
(SAC387)99.5Co0.5
Temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity σ(T) of liquid alloys SAC387, (SAC387)99.5Co0.5, (SAC387)99.0Co1.0, (SAC387)98.5Co1.5 and (SAC387)97.0Co3.0 was measured during heating and cooling in the temperature range between 500 and 1100 K. A gradual conductivity decrease upon heating was observed for all the alloy compositions (Fig. 3), and for each concentration, the experimental data have been fitted by second-order polynomials, namely:
$$ \sigma = A + B_{1} T + B_{2} T^{2} . $$
Temperature dependence of the electrical conductivity of liquid (SAC387)100−x Co x alloys
The coefficients of the polynomials are listed in Table 2.
Coefficients of the polynomials adjusted on the experimental conductivity for different alloy compositions (from 500 to 1100 K)
A, 102/Ω m
B 1, 102/Ω m K
B 2, 102/Ω m K2
−7.4882
−10.5778
A slope of the σ(T) curve of SAC387 differs from that determined in Ref 30. A deviation between the absolute conductivity values from this study and data of Ref 30, which is noticeable just after melting, vanishes at higher temperatures.
As illustrated in Fig. 3, the addition of Co significantly affects the electrical conductivity, which gradually decreases with increasing the amount of Co addition. It can be seen (Fig. 3) that (SAC387)97.0Co3.0 alloy with the highest cobalt content exhibits the lowest conductivity.
The temperature dependencies of the viscosity for liquid SAC387 alloy calculated according to the Kozlov–Romanov–Petrov and Budai–Benkö–Kaptay approaches are in a good agreement with experimental data (Fig. 4). The maximal difference between the experimental and calculated data from Eq 1 did not exceed 6%.
Comparison of the calculated and experimental viscosity data for liquid SAC387 alloy
In order to examine a possibility to apply for quaternary alloys the chosen thermodynamic predictions and the calculated and experimental viscosity were compared at 1073 K. As given in Table 3, the experimental values exceed the data calculated from thermodynamic approaches, and this difference increases with an increase in the cobalt content. Based on the presented data, a satisfactory agreement between calculated viscosity values and experimental data is obtained.
Predicted viscosity values using Eq 1 and 2 for (SAC387)100−x Co x alloys by the comparison with experimental data (η exp) at 1073 K
η exp, mPa s
η (1), mPa s
The analysis of the electrical conductivity is based on the assumption that an addition of admixtures decreases the electrical conductivity, and this conductivity decrement can be described by the following equation:
$$ \Delta \sigma_{i}^{ - 1} = N_{i} \frac{{mv_{F} }}{{e^{2} }}\varSigma_{i} , $$
where Σ i is the scattering cross section of the conducting electrons at the admixture particles; N i is the atomic fraction of these impurities; m is the electron mass; and v F is the electron velocity at the Fermi level (Ref 20). It was revealed for different systems that in a simplest case, when the impurity scattering does not depend on other scattering mechanisms, ∆σ i is temperature independent (Ref 32, 33).
We believe that the scattering process in the (SAC387)100−x Co x alloys is the same. At the same time, some anomalies in the conductivity behavior were revealed in the temperature range close to solidification. As shown in Fig. 3, the cooling of the samples is accompanied by a gradual nonlinear conductivity increase.
Approaching the solidification temperature, a change in the σ(T) curves has been observed. It is suggested that the cobalt admixtures dissolved in the basic matrix at high temperatures. Thus, the eutectic composition has been shifted, and during the solidification, a hypereutectic alloy was formed. The latter is characterized by two temperatures, T L and T S , which correspond to the beginning and the end of solidification, respectively.
In order to examine the microstructure of investigated alloys after viscosity and electrical conductivity measurements, a few selected samples were analyzed by SEM-EDX and x-ray diffraction. The results of the phase analysis along with BSE images of three selected alloys are given in Table 4. According to the obtained results, no residual pure Co was found in the samples. The XRD phase analysis fully confirmed no pure Co in samples after viscosity measurements that had been found by SEM-EDX. Meanwhile, the Co atoms substitute the atoms of Cu in Cu6Sn5 compound. Similar substitution was observed by Gao et al. (Ref 34) studying the morphology and grain growth pattern of intermetallic compounds formed at the interface between Sn-3.5Ag-0.1Co (wt.%) solder and the Cu substrate. In Ref 35, it was found that the composition of Cu6Sn5 intermetallic in the (Ag3.5Co0.1Sn96.4)/Cu diffusion couple is (Cu90Co10)6Sn5 and (Cu99Co1)6Sn5, which is in agreement with our results presented in Table 3. Furthermore, Cu substitutes Co atoms in CoSn3 IMCs, what is in an agreement with the literature data in Ref 36. Moreover, in the investigated alloys with more than 1 wt.% Co, the CoSn2 and CoSn phases were found.
SEM–EDX results of (SAC387)100−x Co x samples after viscosity measurements
Co-Sn phases
SEM image
Sn, at.%
Ag, at.%
Cu, at.%
Co, at.%
βSn
Ag3Sn
Cu6Sn5
(Co,Cu)6Sn5
(Co,Cu)Sn3
CoSn2
BA1—bulk (SAC387)99.5Co0.5 alloy
The minor cobalt admixtures to the SAC387 alloy gradually increase the viscosity and decrease the electrical conductivity. These effects might be caused by changes in the interatomic interactions, which lead to formation of the new phases during solidification. Such suggestions are confirmed by the microstructure analysis of the samples performed after viscosity measurements. It was shown that Co atoms replace the atoms of Cu in Cu6Sn5 compounds when small additions of Co (up to 1 wt.%) are added to the SAC387 reference alloy. Further increase in the Co content results in formation of the Sn-based Co-Sn compounds in the alloy. Formation of the new Co-Sn phases in the SAC387 alloy with Co additions should reinforce the microstructure in the solid state, and enhanced mechanical properties of SAC387 similar to Sn-based Sn-Cu and Sn-Ag-Cu solders reinforced with In, Ni or Zn, respectively (Ref 37, 38).
Open access funding provided by University of Vienna. Financial support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under project no. P27049 and of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine is gratefully acknowledged. The authors want to acknowledge the support of Dr. St. Puchegger of the Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, with the SEM studies.
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With my expat rotations I'm not the ideal person to run the competition so if there are any of you out there that are keen to run the competition, let me know (It'll also give me the opportunity to enter ;-). It'll be your responsibilty to organise this sub forum - I will give you moderator rights. I suggest that you also obtain sponsorship for the prizes, and also lay down the rules.
Johnboy, I would have been willing to run it... If I didn't really want to participate.
I think it is a great idea but what are the rules? Where can we have a look? If we know what the rules are we can start looking for situations to take photos of.
Johnboy, having looked once again at your teasers from two years ago, I don't have a hope in hell anyway, so if you want me to, Il'l run it for you?
Thanx for the compliments, but a lucky shot or 2.
I accept your offer, thank you!
I will follow-up with a PM.
Anything new on this competition?
This pic was taken pre-mods way back when. Can anyone guess where?
Dit lyk soos in Moremi.


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Founders, Fishermen & Family History Cruise 2019
Scroll down this page for cruise itinerary, speaker bios and genealogy presentations.
Gena Philibert-Ortega's Founders, Fishermen and Family History cruise sponsored by MyHeritage will set sail August 10-17, 2019 from the port of Montreal, Quebec. Sailing on the Holland America Line ship ms Zaandam, additional stops are planned for Quebec City, Quebec; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Sydney, Nova Scotia; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Bar Harbor, Maine; and Boston, Massachusetts. This 7 day cruise includes stops at five ports as well as a day cruising the St Lawrence River.
Genealogists Gena Philibert-Ortega, David Allen Lambert, Daniel Horowitz, and Tami Osmer Mize will provide educational presentations, technology demonstrations, and consultations. In addition, a post-cruise day (August 20, 2019) at the New England Historic Genealogical Society includes a chance to learn more about the Society holdings and allows time for research. Additional events are being planned including presentations and a tour at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.
Terri O'Connell's travel company Cruise Planners is in charge of travel arrangements and cruise registration.
history and sightseeing on land
genealogy presentations, demos, and consultations at sea.
beautiful scenery, wonderful food, and great conversation with other family history enthusiasts.
Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, researcher, and instructor whose focus is genealogy, and social and women's history. She holds a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Women's Studies) and a Master's degree in Religion. Her published works include two books, countless articles published in magazines and online, two volumes of Tracing Female Ancestors (Moorshead Publishing), and a QuickGuide from Legacy Family Tree. She is the editor of the Utah Genealogical Association's magazine, Crossroads. Her writings can be found on her blogs, Gena's Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera, as well as the GenealogyBank blog. Her research projects include Sowerby's British Mineralogy: Its Influence on Martha Proby and Others in the Scientific Community during the 19th Century for the Gemological Institute of America, as well as genealogical research for the first season of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow and the Travel Channel's Follow Your Past. Her current research includes women's repatriation and citizenship in the 20th century, foodways and community in fundraising cookbooks, and women's material culture.
♦ The Wives of Fishermen: The Lives of 19th Century Women and the Records They Left Behind
♦ The History of US Directories and Where to Find Them
David Allen Lambert
David Allen Lambert has been on the staff of New England Historic Genealogical Society since 1993 and is the organization's Chief Genealogist. David is an internationally recognized speaker on the topics of genealogy and history. His genealogical expertise includes New England and Atlantic Canadian records of the 17th through 21st century; military records; DNA research; and Native American and African American genealogical research in New England. Lambert has published many articles in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the New Hampshire Genealogical Record, Rhode Island Roots, The Mayflower Descendant, and American Ancestors magazine. He has also published A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries (NEHGS, 2009). David is an elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Mass., and a life member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati. He is also the tribal genealogist for the Massachuset-Punkapoag Indians of Massachusetts.
♦ New England Probate and Deeds
♦ Nova Scotia Records
♦ Canadian Census
♦ US and Canadian World War I Records
Daniel Horowitz, MyHeritage Chief Genealogist provides key contributions in the product development, customer support and public affairs areas. He holds board level positions at the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) among others. Daniel was the teacher and study guide editor for 15 years, of the family history project "Searching for My Roots" in Venezuela.
♦ Discovering Your Family History with MyHeritage Unique Technologies
♦ Integrating DNA and Family History at MyHeritage.com
Demonstrations:
♦ Planting a Family Tree online in MyHeritage
♦ Find relatives in One Click with MyHeritage Genealogy SuperSearch Engine
♦ Meet your Match – Smart Matches and Record Matches
Tami Osmer Mize
Tami Osmer Mize specializes in finding creative ways to use new and innovative technology not only for quality genealogy research, but to help simplify and streamline research processes. Her presentations, geared for all levels of computer users, are filled with useful strategies, tips, tricks, and always some new "cool tools." The author of the blog RelativelyCurious.com and manager of the ConferenceKeeper.org genealogy calendar of events website, Tami was instrumental in the organization of two first-of-their-kind virtual genealogy societies: the SecondLife Virtual Genealogical Society (SLVGS – the first virtual society affiliated with the Federation of Genealogical Societies, FGS) and the SecondLife chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the first virtual society of the APG. She is also currently the Communications and Social Media director for Joyflips, a powerful and unique smartphone app.
♦ Your Ultimate Digital Genealogy Research Log – Track & Organize All Your Research Data, Citations, and Images (And It's Free!)
♦ From Browser to Wowser! Supercharge your Online Research with the Best Browser Tools and Extensions for Genealogy
♦ "I Know I Have That Picture Somewhere…" Organizing Your Digital and Print Photographs Once and For All
♦ A Place to Call Home – Creating an online Home Page Command Central for all your Online Research and More.
Copyright 2019 GenealogyCruises.com


Bernard is a mechanic in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter. He resides and works in the east side of Lavasteam near the Robosa Foundry.
He has aureolin-yellow fur and wears a yellow hard-hat. A blue work vest with a white t-shirt underneath and a brown utility belt can also be seen. He is always shown holding a light-gray toolbox.
"Hey, man, what you suppose is in that building with the creepy face?
We ain't let in there at all. Only Miney, the boss, and Moe get in there.
He is one of the few mechanics in Lavasteam that does not wear gloves.
If you talk to Bernard right after rescuing Key, he'll still say he's in the factory even though he isn't.
The area in which Bernard resides.


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