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Engineers from Bremen are working on the electric drive system of the future
10 August 2017 - Marlis Torka
An engine under the bonnet drives the wheels – this is the configuration that has been powering cars for over a hundred years. However, wheel hub motors – i.e. motors in the hub of the wheel, not under the bonnet – promise many advantages. Electric drive systems make this possible.
It has been said that, at the end of the day, a traditional car is nothing more than a horse-drawn carriage without a horse – just a lot faster, safer and more comfortable. But the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Bremen is not content with this, and hopes its research into wheel hub motors will bring about a change in the way the car is perceived.
As Felix Horch, Head of Electric Drive Systems at IFAM, explains: "In a motor car, the 'horsepower' is generated by the engine rather than a team of horses, but the principle is still the same: propulsion at the front, load at the back. The same as it has always been. This is where we come in and take the concept a step further. Why not have the drive system directly in the hub of the wheel?" The team on the joint 'FSEM II – Electromobility Systems Research' project is dedicated to exactly this question. They are working on air-cooled wheel hub motors with the potential for opening up whole new areas of application for electric motors.
It is all down to the initiative of the Fraunhofer Institutes
Horch, as project coordinator, and Prof. Matthias Busse, Head of the Fraunhofer IFAM, are promoting this field of study in Bremen with plenty of ambition and motivation. After FSEM I, the preceding project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to the tune of €34 million, ended in 2011, the team decided to carry on with their research. They all agreed that the expertise gained, and areas of interest identified, over the 22 months of the FSEM I project should not go to waste. "On FSEM I, IFAM was responsible for the development of a wheel hub motor and the construction of FRECCO, the Institute's concept vehicle. We developed numerous components for the test vehicle here in Bremen. Even then, our vision was conceived for the long term and had sustainability as a goal," says Horch. "That's why we and 15 other Fraunhofer Institutes decided in 2012 to continue the project, even without any further funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research."
Fraunhofer IFAM takes leading role in FSEM II
Since early 2013, 16 Fraunhofer Institutes have conducted research into areas of electromobility with future potential as part of the joint FSEM II project. These include areas such as drive train/chassis, battery/range extenders and configuration/infrastructure. The project is managed and coordinated by Fraunhofer IFAM in Bremen. According to press spokesperson Martina Ohle, the joint project has great potential: "Hybrid and electric vehicles are delivering new solutions based on electric drive systems. Across all areas of application, for example in automotive engineering and agricultural machinery, electric drive systems are addressing the challenges of increasing energy efficiency, torque, performance and reliability, while lowering costs."
That is why Fraunhofer IFAM's Electric Drive Systems department has an interdisciplinary team that focuses on the entire development chain, from initial design to producing, testing and deploying drive system prototypes. Air-cooled wheel hub motors promise lower costs and energy consumption as they do not need many of the components of a traditional mechanical drive system. At the same time, they increase the amount of space available in the vehicle, and the individual torque settings of each wheel make active road safety concepts possible.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is the secret of success
When the project started in 2009, Fraunhofer IFAM was to some extent entering uncharted territory. "We had experts and plenty of know-how in manufacturing technology, but the research into electric drive systems was entirely new to us. We successfully dealt with this challenge by attracting new employees to Bremen, and by acquiring knowledge over the years that has enabled us to become a technology leader in Germany. IFAM has a unique approach to bringing together manufacturing technology and electric drive systems, as we combine the two areas under one interdisciplinary roof," says Horch.
One of the most important features of systems research is an open and cross-functional dialogue, and this is also key to the philosophy of the Fraunhofer Society, adds Ohle. "Not only do we think in terms of connecting research and practical application, we also actively encourage a dialogue between our employees at IFAM and those of other institutes."
There is still much to discover
"Our ambition is clear: to develop the links between electric drive systems and manufacturing technology," says Horch. This includes continuing their systems research in the field of electric vehicles at the site in Bremen. And this research is really paying off. It is Horch's belief that electric and hybrid vehicles will gradually become the norm for all vehicle manufacturers. Wheel hub motors have several advantages over internal combustion engines: their simple construction means they contain only a few parts, and they offer high reliability with virtually no wear and tear. "The development and optimisation of manufacturing technology for electric vehicles and components remains relevant for the future, both from a research and an application point of view. The question we want to answer with our research, therefore, is how we can make this technology more affordable, more reliable and safer," Horch concludes.
Pioneering ideas could become reality
New concepts for electric vehicles could be on the cards. One possibility might be a modular system that could be varied according to use. Horch gives his imagination free rein: "If I was planning a day out with the family, I would use the family module. If I needed to transport furniture, I would select a different body. This would work particularly well in the context of car sharing. Even a radical redesign of the car would be a possibility." This may still be a long way off, but Horch is sure of one thing: the objective must always be to maximise the utility to the customer. And Fraunhofer IFAM is making a valuable contribution to this through FSEM II.
The research will continue
Whether there will be a third project following FSEM II is currently still under discussion, but either way, electric vehicles and smart cities will remain a focal point of Fraunhofer IFAM's work. "One of the great strengths of the Fraunhofer Institutes has always been the ability to react to current requirements and questions in society, and to examine relevant topics in order to initiate new research projects – and we will continue this approach once FSEM II has been completed," Ohle adds.
In 2009 a path was chosen, and it has proven to be the right one. The FSEM projects are great examples of the type of applied research carried out at the Fraunhofer Institutes, where the focus is on the development of new technologies, processes and methods that have real-world applications. The employees have acquired so much advanced expertise that the IFAM is increasingly in demand as a specialist in the field of electric vehicles. "We help companies to use the technology efficiently. Bringing together research and practical application is the key added value that the Fraunhofer Institutes offer. Even after the project has finished," Ohle adds.
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By Brian Murphy | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2010 at 11:01 p.m. | UPDATED: November 12, 2015 at 7:19 a.m.
DETROIT — Joe Louis Arena is no place for the weak-kneed, and the Red Wings are an unpleasant team to face severely wounded, no matter if the perennial powerhouse has been fighting for playoff positioning all season.
Wild goaltender Josh Harding tried playing hero Friday night despite laboring through two periods with an obvious hip injury that left him hobbling and propping himself up in the crease like Tiger Woods leaning on his driver to support his shredded knee at Torrey Pines.
Harding, who missed three games last month with a hip injury, aggravated it during the warm-up and couldn't move freely during the game or survive the Red Wings, who rolled to an easy 6-2 victory.
"I just didn't have much tonight," said Harding, who yielded four goals on 32 shots. "It just got worse and worse and worse."
Coach Todd Richards considered replacing Harding with Niklas Backstrom, who is nursing a tender groin and played the previous night in Philadelphia. But the backup goalie convinced Richards he was "good to go."
"You have to trust your guys. They know their bodies best," Richards said.
Trailing 4-2 in the second intermission, Harding grudgingly told Richards he had to shut it down in favor of Backstrom.
"Backie played last night and did an awesome job. I feel terrible right now that he had to play the third period," Harding said. "He's your goalie partner, and when you throw him to the wolves, it's not an easy place."
Harding would not speculate on the exact nature of his injury. He will be re-evaluated in Minnesota, but his status for the remaining seven games seems tenuous at best.
The loss all but snuffed the Wild's faint playoff chances as they fell 11 points behind eighth-seeded Detroit in the Western Conference.
Even if the Wild won their remaining games, the Red Wings need only three points in their next eight games to mathematically eliminate Minnesota.
And these Red Wings are on a roll — winners of four straight and 11 of 14. They are poised to clinch a 19th consecutive postseason berth, the longest active streak among the four major North American sports.
The Wild have lost seven of eight in Detroit, allowing five or more goals four times, to fall to 4-13 with a tie at the Joe.
Already sucking wind after playing overtime against the Flyers and traveling overnight, the Wild did themselves no favor by going down a man after the opening shift, the first of nine power plays they handed Detroit.
Minnesota escaped unscathed when the game remained scoreless after 20 minutes. However, the tide quickly turned early in the second.
Johan Franzen took advantage of Minnesota's soft defensive coverage to go wide and freeze a tottering Harding, who could only flail at a shot that sailed into the far corner for a 1-0 Detroit lead at 1:19 of the second.
Back-to-back penalties granted the Wings a brief two-man advantage. They failed to convert five-on-three, but seconds later Tomas Holmstrom camped in front of Harding to perfectly redirect Niklas Lidstrom's point shot, and it was 2-0.
Antti Miettinen had a great chance to halt Detroit's momentum at the seven-minute mark when he broke in alone on Jimmy Howard only to fire over the crossbar.
Three minutes later, the Wild went on a five-on-three power play, another opportunity to seize the initiative. Richards called a timeout to give his attackers time to organize.
Instead, the Wild could not manage a single shot over 44 seconds of a two-man advantage. Worse, they allowed the Wings to take a three-goal lead when Jonathan Ericsson redirected another Lidstrom point shot.
Less than two minutes later, with Harding scrambling out of position, Pavel Datsyuk from a sharp angle rifled the puck through the crease where it ricocheted off defenseman Greg Zanon's skate into the net for a 4-0 Detroit lead.
"If you make mistakes against the Detroit Red Wings, they're going to capitalize," Zanon said. "We just happened to make four in a matter of four minutes, and they did what they do best."
Franzen scored a pair of goals among three points to lead Detroit while a shaky Howard made 25 saves for the win.
Andrew Brunette and Owen Nolan scored for the Wild.
Brian Murphy | Sports columnist
Brian Murphy has been on the Pioneer Press sports staff since 2000, migrating from the Detroit Free Press, where he covered police, courts and sports for four years. Murphy was the Minnesota Wild/NHL beat writer from 2002 to 2008 and has covered the Vikings as a reporter and columnist since 2009. Murphy is a Detroit native and Wayne State University graduate.
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People used to say that when taxi drivers started talking up stocks, a crash was coming. Today, it's Uber drivers. Last week, two of my Uber drivers on two continents discovered I was a professor of innovation (they asked) and immediately shared stories of rapid riches. The objects of their desires were cryptocurrencies based on blockchain such as bitcoin and ether. More appear every day.
Be clear, billion coin is no bitcoin. Bitcoin, ether and others are real. These methodologies have a powerful future in our global financial system, though no one can predict what that will be. We can, however, confidently predict there will be casualties.
The good news is lots of experimentation, discovering new stores of value and value exchange (not to mention blockchain applications beyond currencies; note the work of John Clippinger). The New York Times reported recently that entrepreneurs are creating new digital currencies to rapidly raise funds for early-stage ventures. So-called Initial Coin Offerings enable entrepreneurs (or scammers) "to raise large sums of money without dealing with the hassles of regulators, investor protections or accountants." According to the article, 65 projects have raised $522 million so far in 2017.
When some of the dozens of cryptocurrency schemes crash, there will be pain. However, the long-term impact on our economy of these experiments will be positive. The more troubles occur early, the more likely economic actors might successfully climb steep cryptocurrency learning curves.
Financial manias don't require investment innovations, but they often play pivotal roles. Expanding leverage for retail investors exacerbated the Crash of 1929 which ushered in the Great Depression. Various forms of structured instruments such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) played central roles in the global financial crisis of the late 2000s.
Note, though, that many innovations infamous for contributing to hysterias, crashes and even fraud, end up becoming functional parts of our financial system. Junk bonds, villains of the 1980s, and CDOs of the recent crisis re-emerged widely adopted. High-frequency trading (HFT) has contributed to flash crashes, but it has also, "taken friction out of the execution cycle by adding liquidity," as Tom South, Chief Business Architect of venerable financial institution Northern Trust, explains.
Innovation at scale assumes risk at scale. John Law, an economist who founded France's first central bank and contributed enormously to early monetary theory, from 1719 – 1720 also created France's so-called Mississippi Bubble that generated widespread chaos within France's financial system (see The Mississippi Company's Biloxi camp in the photo below).
The opportunity to quickly generate enormous wealth makes investment innovations powerfully attractive — and dangerous. Launch a consumer product or food ordering app that fails? Only you and your investors are on the hook. Financial innovations gone awry can cascade across entire economies. Of course, we're not considering incremental innovations here. We're discussing big new ideas.
Most investment innovations are fully digitizable or nearly so, and thus rapidly scalable. (While many physical assets are not digitizable, investment products derived from them are.) They're also typically easy to replicate. When a new financial instrument starts making someone money, others pile in. A few early entrants do remarkably well. Later entrants, providers or investors, have to pay a higher price and assume more risk.
Two factors differentiate investment innovations in terms of their impact on our broader economy: at-risk participation and interdependence. The level of each impacts how much risk a particular innovation presents within the financial system.
First, relative to the overall financial system, how widespread and at what magnitude is at-risk participation? To what extent do consumers, businesses or other organizations expose themselves by participating?
Which brings us back to cryptocurrencies. As long as they do not present systemic risks, crashes can occur without jeopardizing national or global financial systems. Rather, we should hope for crashes to occur early, while systemic risk remains low. Doing so mitigates the cost of learning to the economy. HFT-generated flash crashes have not yet compromised our economy (not yet) and have meanwhile stimulated critics and regulators. By contrast, CDOs appeared invincible until their abuse helped catalyze an Atlantic-wide financial crisis— a breathtakingly high cost of learning.
Hope for crashes early, to mitigate the cost of learning to the economy.
Even if all cryptocurrencies were to magically fail in a single day (unlikely by design), they wouldn't remove a critical piece from the global financial Jenga tower — for now. The total global value of bitcoin, the most established cryptocurrency, as of June 27, 2017, was estimated by multiple venues at just under $43 billion, less than the net worth of Bill Gates, currently the world's richest individual. We've already experienced at least three major crashes in bitcoin's value since 2011. People lost serious money. Damage was contained.
Cryptocurrencies have, by design, evolved outside of incumbent financial systems. They were created separate from and as alternatives to fiat currencies, though they're not completely isolated. As some cryptocurrencies scale, convertibility, interdependence and regulation will increase. Schemes enabling international remittances are proliferating, especially in Asia. In April, the Japanese government formally defined how regulations would apply to cryptocurrencies.
Over the next few years, some currencies will crash, some platforms will collapse, people will lose money and (perhaps) more players will go to jail. (Bitcoin pioneer Charlie Shrem has, and he's already on to his next venture.) It's tough to see bubbles when you're inside them, but tracking at-risk participation and interdependence of emerging investment innovations might provide warnings.
In the meantime, be thankful that competitive experimentation will open opportunities for deeper and more diverse capital markets with potentially wider participation. And expect that what goes up will also go down.
This article originally appeared in Forbes, July 7, 2017.
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It's easy to get around Alexandra. Alexandra has a wide array of shops including New World supermarket and The Warehouse. Check out the museum, historic bridge, tour old gold diggings and gold pan at old tailings sites. Don't miss the annual blossom festival if you are around in late September or the Food and Wine Festival around Easter in Clyde.
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Michael Duff following Cheltenham's 2-0 loss at Stevenage
Michael Duff faces the media after his team's final day of the season loss at Stevenage in League Two.
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After seeing his team end the League Two season with a 2-0 defeat at Stevenage, boss Michael Duff has called on his side to be better away from home when the next campaign gets going in August.
Two second half goals in quick succession saw Joe Martin and Jordan Gibson help Boro to a 2-0 final day victory at the Lamex Stadium.
At the end of a campaign which saw Duff installed as boss in September, the man in the dugout felt poor decision making proved costly.
"The two chances they had in the first half were just two whacks down the pitch, bad decisions from us, and the goal was a set play," Duff said post-match.
"First contact, second contact, goal - and then Scott [Flinders] made a bad decision to throw it, so we were the makers of our own downfall today.
"We moved the ball well first half. There were pockets that we wanted to work on that we have worked on we didn't quite get into, so I didn't think there was a lot in the game personally.
"I'm not that bothered about the result now. I'd rather talk about the progress that has been made, because the last six months has been tough. The players have all bought in. They've been unbelievable in regards of they've stuck together, and they've come out the other end.
"Yes we're disappointed that we've lost the game because we wanted to win the game. The players know we need to be better away from home. We can be as good at home and as bad away, which is a mentality thing that we need to get to the bottom of. Generally I thought it was an okay performance."
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Ret. MSgt Brian Brown of Albuquerque, N.M. and Tim and Tanya Miller of Laramie, Wyo., with Ret. MSgt Jason Dell of Berea, Ohio, and Garth and Trish Boltinghouse of Sterling wish to announce the engagement of their children, Faithe-Maree Brown and Liam Dominic Dell.
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Eating out in Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent café's two-course lunch and hot drink for £2.50 - our verdict
Spoiler alert: You might not have room for your tea!
Hannah Hiles
Lunch for £2.50 at the Juicy Gossip Cafe at Affordable Food Stoke in Blurton.
I'm not sure I've ever received such a warm welcome walking into a cafe for the first time as I did at the Juicy Gossip.
Run by volunteers alongside the Affordable Food Stoke shop and No 87 social supermarket, the Blurton cafe is open three days a week and offers diners bargain two-course lunches with a hot drink for just £2.50.
It reopened a couple of weeks ago after being closed for 18 months due to the pandemic - and the community is definitely glad to have it back.
When I popped in earlier this week I was treated like an old friend even though it was my first time in the building. The shop was bustling when I headed into the spotless cafe area which has half a dozen tables and was decorated ready for Christmas.
The menus on the tables showed that diners can choose toast for 20p, toast and jam for 40p, or the main option, a ham or cheese sandwich on white or brown bread with salad for just £1.
I confess that I'm a bit awkward when it comes to sandwiches because I don't like butter or margarine, so I was relieved to hear that everything is made fresh to order and they could accommodate my quirks. Volunteer Melissa Beydilli offered me mayonnaise instead, but I assured her that I preferred it completely plain.
For dessert - also just £1 - I could choose between lemon sponge or marmalade cake, both made in house, with or without custard. I initially misheard the marmalade cake as Marmite cake, which didn't sound quite so appetising, and I opted from the iced lemon sponge with a little jug of custard on the side.
When my sandwich and salad arrived I was suitably impressed with the huge plate of food. My grated cheese sandwich - with no butter! - was so full of cheese that bits kept escaping and the bread tasted very fresh.
The salad took up half the plate and couldn't be faulted. Often a side salad means a piece of limp lettuce and a watery slice of tomato but not here. I was treated to a delicious mix of cucumber, onion, crunchy peppers, lettuce and sweet cherry tomatoes.
To be honest I was already quite full at this point after the generous serving of sandwich and salad, but I wasn't going to miss out on the massive piece of lemon sponge.
I tried it without the custard first and it was moist and delicious, with the tartness of the icing perfectly complementing the sweetness of the sponge.
Adding the custard was the finishing touch - bringing back memories of school lunches, in a good way - and I easily cleared my bowl.
It was a really tasty, filling meal, with simple and straightforward good food, for an unbeatable price. I could barely eat my evening meal that night because I was still so full from lunch. I'll have to go back sometime to try the marmalade cake, now that I know it's not made of Marmite.
As for the coffee - well, I pretty much run on caffeine and normally drink coffee so strong that you can stand your spoon up in it. But I definitely wasn't going to complain about my 50p mug of instant - it was full, it was hot, and it was brought to my table with such warmth that I didn't really mind how it tasted.
While I was enjoying my lunch, the room was full of chatter and laughter with everyone being welcomed as friends. I could hear people praising the food and the bargain prices, and everyone was joining in each other's conversations across the tables. Shoppers popped in to say hello and said they would be back later. I suspect it's not called the Juicy Gossip cafe for nothing.
Nikki Barrett, who has run Affordable Food Stoke since November 2017, says the community missed the cafe while it was shut.
"When the cafe was closed during the lockdowns it left a big hole," she says. "People love to come in and sit and chat.
"It's all about affordability. Everyone would love to go to Costa or Starbucks but that isn't always possible. Everyone is welcome here and we get to know each other. If we see that someone is struggling they will walk out of here with a bag of food."
And customer Kate Sale, of Weston Coyney, agreed: "I'm so glad it's open again. I love to come in and see Nikki and then do my shopping at No. 87.
"It's so friendly and there's no judgement. Every time I come in people are laughing and joking. There's just such a good atmosphere here. It's fantastic."
I couldn't agree more. It was a place full to bursting with heart and soul. It felt like real community, and it was lovely.
The Juicy Gossip cafe is open on Thursdays and Fridays 10am to 1pm and Saturdays 10am to 2pm, at 77 to 81 Meaford Drive, Blurton.
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The trailer for "Central Intelligence" just hit Facebook, and there's a chubby version of The Rock in it who will haunt your dreams for eternity.
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Letter to the editor: The value of unlaundered history
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JACK WILSHERE and Mesut Ozil were out in force last night as Arsenal revelled in their FA Cup win.
The Gunners thrashed Aston Villa 4-0 yesterday at Wembley to lift England's oldest domestic competition for a record 12th time.
Wilshere and Welbeck were clearly in the party mood as they led the celebrations.
They were joined at London night haunt Libertine by Kieran Gibbs, Hector Bellerin and Danny Welbeck, who all missed the game through injury.
Arsene Wenger even offered to buy the players a round of drinks after their FA Cup triumph.
Aston Villa star Jack Grealish was also pictured at the same venue as he tried to forget a bad day at the office.
Chelsea's Gary Cahill was also out on the town.
The Gunners' stars may have felt a bit bleary eyed on their FA Cup victory parade today.


Visit Mitch's website and read his full bio here.
Through yoga teaching, health and wellness counseling, education, scholarly research, publications, public speaking, mentoring, and chanting, I express my commitments to holistic healing, peace building, social healing, children's rights, nonviolence, the prevention of violence, and spiritual cultivation. My recent publications include, but are not limited to, The Neurobiology of Vicarious Trauma and How Yoga Helps (2012), Some Causes and Consequences of Direct and Structural Violence (with Marc Pilisuk, 2012), The Power of Peace (with Madeleine Y. Gómez, 2004), Peace Quest: Cultivating Peace in a Violent Culture (2003), and The Plague of Violence: a Preventable Epidemic (2002).
I work as the Holistic Health and Wellness Coordinator for Psychealth, Ltd. and as a yoga teacher with the Niroga Institute.
My mission for holistic healing, peace building, and spiritual cultivation is rooted in early childhood experience. As an undergraduate at Columbia University (B.A.), I chose religion as my major because I wanted to discover what the spiritual traditions could contribute toward reducing violence and building peace on earth. My graduate studies were in sociology at the University of Chicago(M.A.) and psychology at Saybrook University and were motivated by the same abiding interest. In February, 2013, the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, located in Kolkata, awarded me a Ph.D. (h.c.) in Alternative Medicines in recognition of my lifetime achievements in this field, including my scholarly work, publications, yoga teaching, practice of holistic healing modalities, clinical counseling work, and teaching in higher education.


The Winner of Dream Getaway #23 is….
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We will get you qualified for Dream Getaway #24 starting on Monday, be listening around 7:20, 12:20, and 4:20 for the cue to call! And don't forget to sign up for the online Dream Getaway as well!


The growth of a new IC market creates ripples along the entire supply chain. Today, we see the semiconductor industry reacting to the needs of the growing automotive IC market, including the development of new IC test tools and methods. This article focuses on why new manufacturing and in-system test strategies are required to meet safety requirements and explains how new technologies, tools, and methods help to enable the emergence of autonomous vehicles.


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What is egress planning consulting?
Safety security design normally adheres to international standards and in most cases this is sufficient, however, egress planning as a service is something new and ONE9 3NINE Consulting prides itself on providing egress planning of all staff members within the building during any emergency.
I have fire exit doors isn't that enough? Even though fire exit doors have been located as per local fire and safety codes, in some cases real life scenarios where people are trampled or hurt during an evacuation is unacceptable and as such egress planning is utilized to ensure that eventualities are best accounted for and mitigated by additional fire doors or by better locating door placement and its dimensions. Considering door size and corridor dimensions other than aesthetic considerations can mean the difference between life and death and so egress planning is adopted to take a design past compliance of local fire and safety codes and forwards to true occupancy safety planning.
How can egress planning help me? Basic egress planning should be adopted in every design where possible to provide additional proof to civil defense that safety measures have been designed to meet both their codes and also that of real life scenario testing in the case of an emergency. In most cases, Egress planning could also be used as part of the creation of an emergency plan creation ensuring that certain segments of staff and thus volumes of people use certain emergency exits instead of going back to collect personal belongings from a desk. Another benefit of egress planning is at large outside venues where plans must be formulated for control of thousands of people. ONE9 3NINE is pleased to be able to provide safety planning on so many levels and to be working with the global leaders of both safety and security.


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Walking old town Taipei
Taipei Walking Tour offers visitors and locals alike an opportunity to delve into the capital's history through a number of themed tours and workshops
By Jenny Peng / Contributing reporter
In the midst of bustling Taipei lies a historical oasis where clusters of shops and homes are a reminder of what was once "the most important port in northern Taiwan." What might be a little-known piece of history to non-Taiwanese is set to change with a series of walking tours introducing the region that is offered in English and Japanese.
The tours are held by Taipei Walking Tour in the Dadaocheng (大稻埕) and Dalongdong (大龍峒) districts, about 10 minutes north of Taipei Railway Station by car. Throughout May and June, a number of themed tours and workshops on topics such as Taiwan's puppet culture, Xiahai City God Temple's (霞海城隍廟) daytime and nighttime processions, and a roadside banquet on Dihua Street (迪化街) will be offered for NT$200 and NT$400. The tours and workshops are held mostly on the weekends leading up to the festival at Taipei Xiahai City God Temple, beginning on June 8.
In the past two years, veteran interpreter Joey Ho (何良正) has witnessed a growing interest among young people in Taiwan's history.
Believers carry a palanquin through the streets of Dadaocheng in this file photo.
Photo courtesy of Taipei Walking tour
"It could be the Internet that attracts young people to come and listen. Before, it seemed like young people weren't interested in history. But through our efforts, they are starting to be concerned about this place, Taiwan's history, its relics and old streets."
With roughly 20 people following tour guide Johnny Cheng (程華生), the Dadaocheng heritage tour began with a stroll under the red arcade facade reminiscent of European architecture. Many of these former shops were built in the late 19th century, which coincided with Japanese occupation of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. As a result of the marriage of European-Baroque, Japanese and Minnan (Southern Fujian) architectural styles, the buildings lining the streets are distinctly unique to Taiwan.
Prior to the tour, Kelly Hsiao (蕭凌雲) said she knew little about Dadaocheng's history as a prosperous riverside town. Hsiao runs a hostel and was looking for recommendations to travelers other than the usual shopping and night market experience.
People on the Dadaocheng walking tour stand outside Ci Sheng Temple.
Photo: Jenny Peng
"When you visit Europe [and] stay in a hostel, they provide so many free tours or walking tours... [B]ut in Taiwan... we don't have so many local activities to join for foreigners."
Hsiao doesn't know any other English-language walking tours available, and she thought it was "sad" that Taiwan's history wasn't easily accessible to non-Taiwanese.
One of the surprise stopovers was a tour led by a descendant of Lin Lan-tian (林藍田), one of Dadaocheng's first settlers. Lin's residence, built in the mid-1850s, is an example of Minnan architecture, designed for doing business. It's unusually long depth is broken up into three sections. Supplies would arrive in the rear, while living corridors were in the middle and the front was a shop.
"It's a legacy," said Scott Lin (林宗志). "The spirit and wisdom of that legacy is something we're trying to pass on to future generations."
Although Scott Lin's ancestors made a living selling mixed goods and offering fortune telling services, the shop has become a modern tea house, hinting at Dadaocheng's past as a renowned tea processing center. Today, however, dried goods and Chinese herbal medicine are the two most common businesses in the neighborhood, according to Cheng.
The two-hour tour also included stopovers at Ci Sheng Temple (慈聖宮) and Xia Hai City God Temple.
Though attracting non-Taiwanese was the original goal of organizers, the majority of participants on Sunday were Taiwanese.
Yang Jei (楊乃傑) said he enjoyed the tour.
"I am Taiwanese, but I never knew this part of our history."
For comprehensive information about the tours in Chinese, Japanese and English, visit: www.taipei-walkingtour.tw.
Notes from central Taiwan: What do we say when facts have no meaning?
Last week I had an experience that I suspect has become quite common for foreigners living in Taiwan: talking to a Taiwanese who was an ardent fan of soon-to-be-former US President Donald Trump. As I was heading for the stairs to my apartment, my landlady stopped me, eyes alight, with an idea for what to do about storing my bike downstairs. The conversation eventually veered into politics, and for a full 35 minutes she held forth on the manifold greatness of world-savior Donald Trump. She's neither unkind nor a fool. Pro-Taiwan, she detests former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the Chinese
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Jan. 18 to Jan. 24 Viewers couldn't believe their eyes when the Taipei First Girls' Senior High School marching band appeared on television in 1981. None of the girls were sporting the government-mandated hairstyle for female secondary school students, which forbade their hair from going past their neck. Some even had perms. The students had been invited to perform in the US, which the government saw as an important affair since the US had severed official ties two years earlier. The idea was that sending a group of girls with the same permitted hairstyle would appear contradictory to
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A new section of Taipei City bike path will open soon along the southern bank of Jingmei River (景美溪). Discovery of this missing link by members of Skeleton Crew, a Taipei-based group of cyclists that grew out of off-season training by dragon boat racers, reignited debate about how many kilometers of bike path there now are in Taipei. Their guesstimates ranged from 60 to almost 400 kilometers, though calculations used different criteria and definitions. Some said "Taipei means Taipei City," others that this would be silly since it was too easy to cross unknowingly into New Taipei City, Keelung City
By Mark Caltonhill
Highways & Byways: Beigang: A tale of temples, dogs and frogs
Decapitated and eviscerated, the two frogs lay on their backs in a clear broth. Noticing that other diners didn't hesitate to pile toothpick-thin bones and bits of mottled skin on their tables, I set to work with chopsticks and spoon. I was winding up a day trip to Beigang (北港), the religious capital of Yunlin County, when I strolled east onto Minjhu Road (民主路) from Wenhua Road (文化路) and came across this eatery. I'd gone to the intersection to see an obelisk that honors the man regarded as Beigang's founding father. The Yan Si-ci Pioneering of Taiwan Monument (顏思齊開拓台灣紀念碑) celebrates
By Steven Crook


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Q: how to go one view to another view? I create one Application for Language Display. Now, I need to display the Another Page when I tapped on first button then go to Another Page. If I tapped on Second Button, It will back on first Page.
How to code it?
Thanks in Advance...
Rahul Rana

A: In the first page, instantiate a UINavigationController, and when the AnotherPage is tapped, push the second page onto the NavigationController stack.

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