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Vuzix Stock Stays Optimistic
Augmented reality smart glass maker Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI) Shares have rebounded from a low of $3.88 but have started to fall again.Since macro issues come from inflation, Coronavirus disease Effect, supply chain The conflict with Russia has indirectly contributed to the income gap. This was primarily due to timing issues with two key customers during the quarter and an anomaly in the first fiscal quarter of 2021. Defense customers are driving higher demand and follow-on orders for display engines and head-mounted waveguides. Many developments on the OEM side were not reflected in the quarter, but should have an impact later this year. Growth is still expected to exceed 2021 levels, driven by strong demand for Internet of Things (IoT) warehousing, logistics and expand steadily health care Including the launch of the next generation of shoulder augmented reality for its clients surgical platform. Speculators looking for a potential double or triple bagger can watch for an opportunistic pullback in Vuzix stock.
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Fiscal 2022 First Quarter Earnings Release
On May 10, 2022, Vuzix reported results for the first quarter of fiscal 2022 for the quarter ended March 2022. The company reported an earnings-per-share (EPS) loss (-$0.16), which missed analysts' consensus estimate ($0.14) (-$0.02). Revenue fell 34.2% year over year to $2.5 million, missing analysts' consensus estimate of $3.4 million. Paul Travers, CEO of Vuzix, commented: "The first quarter was a challenging time for many of our customers, suppliers and partners due to ongoing COVID disruptions and geopolitical tensions in Europe. These issues are widespread Presence, and their impact on certain timing of expected customer orders, resulted in lower-than-expected sales in the first quarter. Despite the delays in the first quarter, we continue to see underlying momentum from our key smartglasses customers, particularly in warehouse and logistics as well as healthcare. In our business, we see growing demand and follow-on orders for head-mounted waveguides and display engines from new and existing defense customers and consumer electronics OEMs, which will have a strong impact on our A positive impact in the second quarter of this year."
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CEO Travers acknowledged that the quarter was challenging due to the macro environment and geopolitical tensions in Europe. These undercurrents resulted in the timing impact of certain customer orders, resulting in a revenue shortfall in the first quarter of fiscal 2022. He believes that the AR industry is still in its infancy. Major customer accounts reflected the growth as the company focused on providing value-added hardware solutions. Vuzix continues to invest in core technologies such as waveguides, display engines, and enhance manufacturing capabilities. In the weakest quarter in history, Q1 revenue fell year-over-year (-36%). The shortfall is due to an anomaly in the first quarter of 2021, a beneficiary of the timing delay of the quarter's early launch. Without the launch of two key accounts, the first quarter of fiscal 2022 will meet or exceed consensus estimates. There was momentum in the OEM side of the business, which has not been reflected in the quarter. CEO Travers still expects core smart glass revenue to surpass 2021 revenue in 2022, helped by expansion in logistics and warehousing and healthcare.All of its major healthcare ISVs are expanding the availability of Vuzix-powered surgical solutions, including Medacta's next AR shoulder augmented reality surgical platform in Europe and the US
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use Rifle Chart Weekly and daily time frames provide a precise view of the VUZI stock landscape. The weekly rifle chart attempts to reverse the downtrend as the weekly 5-period moving average (MA) rises to $5.72 and attempts to cross the 15-period moving average upwards at $5.81.Shares have stabilized near $4.54 Fibonacci (fib) levels. The weekly 200-period moving average was flat at $6.82 and the 50-period moving average was flat at $9.26.weekly Market Structure Low (MSL) Buying triggers a breakout above $5.97. The weekly stochastic is rising through the 50 band. The weekly upper Bollinger Bands (BBs) are at $7.32 and the lower Bollinger Bands are at $4.33. The daily rifle chart uptrend is attempting a potential reversal as the daily 5-period MA falls to $6.41 and the 15-period MA falls to $6.09. The daily 50-period SMA support overlaps with the $5.68 Fib. The daily lower BB price is $4.26. The daily stochastic formed a bearish mini inverse puppy as it retreated to the 80 band.Speculators can follow Opportunistic pullback levels lie at $5.68, $5.03, $4.54, $3.88, $3.39, $2.92, $2.44, and $1.96. The upside trajectory ranges from $7.41 to the $10.49 Fibonacci level.
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Introducing February Guest Blogger Dr. Maha Almahmudi
By Douglas Nelson on Feb 03, 2015
I'd like to start by thanking our January guest blogger, Dr. Randy Gascoyne, for highlighting how generous donor support is fueling advancements in lymphoid cancer research at the BC Cancer Agency.
It is my pleasure to welcome our guest blogger for February, Dr. Maha Almahmudi. Dr. Almahmudi is a radiation oncologist at the BC Cancer Agency Abbotsford Centre and an expert in endoscopic-...
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The BC Cancer Foundation provides instrumental support to the Gascoyne Laboratory and a number of other researchers within the Centre for Lymphoid Cancer (CLC) program. Donations made by patients and families in B.C. and elsewhere that are targeted towards the CLC allow us to create the infrastructure to maintain the research enterprise. These funds are critical to our sustainability over time...
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Okay, I've been busy, but it's finally time for another artificial muscle update! I've achieved some of my best results yet, and I think I'm about ready to try using these in an actual application.
I wanted the ability to test different annealing temperatures. However, the helpful KD5ZXG, who has been leaving a lot of comments on the first post in this series, warned me that temperatures in my toaster oven might not match what's shown on the dial. To get an idea of the actual temperature, I calibrated my oven with sugar and found out that it runs about 50°F hotter than the dial indicates when I'm trying to set the oven in the 300°F neighborhood.
Once I had a better idea of what the oven was actually doing, I baked a bunch of small nylon loops at different temperatures and for different lengths of time. These weren't muscles, just short pieces of nylon wound into circles, with their ends pinned in place by an alligator clip. Each time I turned up the heat, I allowed the oven and the metal pan to pre-heat for at least ten minutes before introducing any nylon samples. This is more time than it actually seems to need to get up to temperature, but I wanted to be safe – the oven can swing to even higher temperatures during its pre-heat cycle, so it's best to let it gain stability before annealing muscles. All the temperatures given in the conclusions below take the 50°F offset of the dial into account.
My green 711 um line (Trilene Big Game) is fine with being annealed for up to 30 minutes at 300°F, but starts melting at 350°F. The other two brands I'm working with (Cousin Clear Monofilament 381 um and Zebco Omniflex 533 um) do just fine at 350°F and below. I previously saw some of the Cousin stuff melt at 350°F, but I wonder if that was because I didn't pre-heat the oven properly before putting it in.
At 200°F, 10 minutes in the oven won't do much to set the loops of nylon … they want to unwind again after being unclipped. However, 20 minutes or more at this temperature will do the trick. At 250°F, 10 minutes still isn't enough, though the loops set better than at 200°F. At 300°F, 10 minutes is sufficient to set a simple loop, though for tightly coiled muscles you might want to go longer. This is the recommended annealing temperature, and since I've confirmed that it doesn't melt any of the lines (assuming I set my oven dial so I actually get 300°F!) it's the temperature I'll be using in the future. I've been annealing my most recent muscles for 20 minutes at 300°F.
In my last post, I mentioned that tinsel wire seemed like the best heating element out of the ones I tried. My supply was very limited, though, since I pulled it out of an old pair of headphones – and try as I might, I could not find any place to buy it! The only tinsel wire that I found for sale in small quantities was intended for repairing speakers, and its diameter was far too large. So instead, I bought some 10/46 litz wire from this Ebay seller. Litz wire is made from many small copper strands coated with a film of insulation, much like tinsel wire, but it lacks the fiber core. It's so flexible that I suspect you could use it like conductive thread as well. I also bought some 30 AWG nichrome wire from this seller.
Conclusion: the litz wire is my favorite. I might buy a slightly thicker version next time, since it seems a little delicate; it's not nearly as bad as the single-strand magnet wire, but I've had it snap on me a couple of times. As part of a muscle, it heats fast, cools fast, and generally provides great performance.
As for the nichrome, it's reasonably good, but due to its high resistivity, it doesn't heat up nearly as fast as the litz wire. If your muscle is very short, your system has enough voltage to drive a reasonable current through the nichrome, or you just don't need your muscle to respond very fast, it's probably fine – but I would say that it's not as versatile as the litz wire. (You can always reduce voltage if you want less current through your muscle. Stepping it up is harder.) It's also not insulated, so if adjacent coils short together when the muscle is fully contracted, interesting things might happen. The best thing about it is its strength. I never had problems with the nichrome wanting to break during coiling.
But nichrome is MADE for heating! Why are you saying it doesn't work as well as copper?!
Nichrome is used in places like your toaster mainly because it can get very hot without melting or oxidizing. But I don't need or want the heating elements in my artificial muscles to be red-hot. I would like to be able to use them in low-voltage systems, say 5-6V. The amount of resistive heat you can get out of a wire is proportional to the amount of power you pump into it. And since P = V2/R, increasing resistance when voltage is fixed will decrease your power. All else being equal (same power supply, same length and diameter of wire, same environment), a copper wire will produce more heat, faster, than a nichrome wire. Copper also has better thermal conductivity than nichrome, meaning it will cool more quickly after the power is turned off.
Here's a video of my latest muscle. This one has two litz wires wrapped around the nylon in opposite directions to provide better coverage, for faster and more even heating. It is lifting a bag of pennies weighing 35g (slightly more than one ounce). You might notice that the coils near the top are going flat. I got greedy and overheated it. I'm powering it with a 3V wall wart, and it is drawing 1.17 A.


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An 18th-century building which was used as a bakery in the 19th century, built on the east side of High Street. It became a public house at the end of the 19th century when it was given the name of The Wheatsheaf because of the bakery connection.
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No 'Cinderella' Championship
By Garrett Hinchey
Article originally ran in Yellowknifer Friday, June 1st
The 2012 Yellowknife Fastball League season begins on Monday, June 8th, and throughout the summer members from each of the league's six teams will take turns in this space profiling their squads and providing updates on goings-on around the league. As team captain of the F.E.D. Tile/Fire Prevention Pirates, I've been asked to kick things off by offering a little insight into the 2012 prospects for the defending league champions.
The Pirates are sponsored by F.E.D. Tile and Stone and Fire Prevention Services Ltd., and first joined the YK Fastball League in 2006. Last year, the team capped an incredible playoff run that saw the Pirates eliminate the league's other three teams in succession before beating the regular season champion Slades Expos in a 4-2 final. Although the team's first championship may have been of the "Cinderella" variety, the Pirates are young, hungry, and out to prove that last year's run was no fluke.
Chief among the keys for the Pirates to duplicate their success will be consistency. The team has a deep and talented pitching staff, anchored by league MVP candidate and newly-bearded-for-added-intimidation Darcy Moshenko and Inuvik transfer Glen Tingmiak, and bolstered by ex-Junior Merchants Ryan Sheppard, Garrett Hinchey, Chad Hinchey, and Andy Williams. However, the Pirates youth does tend to catch up to them in the field and preventing the odd "circus inning" will be essential in sustained success.
With two of the league's top five batting average leaders last season in Hinchey and Ryan Theil, the Pirates have the ability to make up some of these runs on offense – and top-notch athletes like Curtis Gibeau, Kirk Sangris, Devin Hinchey, and new recruit Kyle Kuptana allow for a line-up that mixes both speed and power. A key loss for the Pirates this year though is catcher Brad Mueller, whose middle-of-the-order bat, presence behind the plate, and beer garden experience will be sorely missed. If the Pirates want to have any hope of improving on last year's championship season with a territorial title, effectively replacing (or coaxing a mid-season return out of) Mueller will be a must.
This season, the Pirates will host an invitational tournament to kick off the season from June 15 to 17 – the concession and beer garden will be up and running, so make sure to come down to Tommy Forrest and catch some great fastball. The Pirates begin their defence of their title on opening day, Monday, June 8th, in a finals re-match against Slades. First pitch is scheduled for 8PM at Tommy Forrest.
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Canopy Growth deal would include 7Acres greenhouse in Tiverton
Canopy Growth's proposed acquisition of The Supreme Cannabis Company includes the 7Acres cultivation facility in Tiverton.
Thursday's acquisition announcement said the plant near Kincardine has "a demonstrated capability of consistently producing premium flower from sought-after strains at low cost with significant potential for scaling."
The Supreme Cannabis Co.'s 7Acres "hybrid-greenhouse cultivation facility" was first licensed to produce cannabis in 2016.
A Canopy spokesman offered an emailed comment Friday when asked about the importance of the facility, employment levels and potential impacts of the deal for its future.
"Canopy Growth is excited about the prospect of adding Supreme's Kincardine cultivation facility to our national production footprint.
"Staff at the facility have been key in producing the top-quality products Supreme is known for and we look forward to continuing this tradition well into the future. At this stage it's too early to comment on specific numbers and we will share more detail as the integration process advances."
He provided no information about current employment at the plant.
The announcement says the deal will strengthen its brand portfolio by adding premium brands 7Acres and 7Acres Craft Collective.
Supreme Cannabis shareholders' benefits include Canopy's US CBD business and "conditional positioning for continued exposure to the U.S. market expansion."
Shareholders are to vote on the deal in June, then it will be subject to regulatory approvals. Canopy is to acquire all of Supreme Cannabis's issued and outstanding common shares in a transaction valued at about $435 million.


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Russians scoff at Western fears of Ukraine invasion
Published February 15, 2022 at 5:55 AM EST
Visitors enjoy the ice rink in Red Square at the Moscow GUM State Department store with the Spasskaya Tower to the left and the Kremlin Wall in Moscow on Monday.
While the U.S. warns that Russia could invade Ukraine any day, the drumbeat of war is all but unheard in Moscow, where pundits and ordinary people alike don't expect President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on its ex-Soviet neighbor.
The Kremlin has cast the U.S. warnings of an imminent attack as "hysteria" and "absurdity," and many Russians believe that Washington is deliberately stoking panic and fomenting tensions to trigger a conflict for domestic reasons.
Putin's angry rhetoric about NATO's plans to expand to Russia's "doorstep" and its refusal to hear Moscow's concerns has struck a chord with the public, tapping into a sense of betrayal by the West after the end of the Cold War and widespread suspicion about Western designs.
Speaking to reporters after President Joe Biden's call with Putin on Saturday, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov bemoaned what he described as U.S. "hysteria" about an allegedly imminent invasion, saying that the situation has "reached the point of absurdity."
The U.S. says that Russia has concentrated more than 130,000 troops east, north and south of Ukraine and has the necessary firepower to launch an attack at any moment.
Russian officials have angrily denied any plans to attack Ukraine and dismissed Western concerns about the buildup near the country, arguing that Moscow is free to deploy its troops wherever it likes on its national territory.
"We don't understand why they are spreading clearly false information about Russian intentions," Ushakov said about the U.S. warnings of an imminent attack.
In 2014, Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula following the ouster of the country's Moscow-friendly president and threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, Donbas, where more than 14,000 people have been killed in fighting.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has taken a more combative tone, denouncing Washington's warnings of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine as "war propaganda" by the U.S. and some of its allies.
Zakharova alleged that the U.S. "needs a war at any price," charging that "provocations, disinformation and threats represent its favorite methods of solving its own problems."
She denounced U.S. intelligence claims about an alleged "false flag" operation mounted by Russia to create a pretext for invading Ukraine, comparing them to then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's 2003 speech before the U.N. Security Council, in which he made the case for war against Iraq, citing faulty intelligence information claiming Saddam Hussein had secretly stashed weapons of mass destruction.
"The U.S. politicians lied, are lying and will keep lying," Zakharova said.
Such rhetoric has been amplified by state television, where hosts have alleged nefarious U.S. designs, accusing Washington and its allies of planning phony operations of their own to encourage hawkish forces in Ukraine to launch an offensive to reclaim areas controlled by Russia-backed separatists in the country's east.
Opinion surveys indicate that the majority of Russians share such views.
More than half of respondents in recent polls conducted by the Levada Center, the top independent opinion firm, consider the U.S. responsible for the current standoff over Ukraine, about 15% blame it on Ukraine and only 3%-4% believe it's Russia's fault, while others were undecided, its director Denis Volkov said in comments broadcast earlier this month. Levada's nationwide polls of about 1,600 people have a margin of error not exceeding 3.4 percentage points.
"Most people see the conflict as a Russia-U.S. conflict," Volkov said, adding that respondents in focus group interviews said that the U.S. could push Ukraine into attacking the rebels in the east to draw Russia into the fighting.
Asked if she fears a war, Moscow resident Anaida Gevorgyan dismissed it as Western "propaganda."
"Russia will never do it," she said. "We are brotherly people, and we have lived together for so many years."
Russian political analysts are broadly dismissive of U.S. war warnings, pointing out that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would carry a massive price without offering Putin any clear wins.
"For Moscow, risks of an invasion of Ukraine outweigh any possible gains," Moscow-based security analyst Sergei Poletayev said in a commentary.
Unlike Crimea, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014 without firing a shot, and the conflict in Donbas, where Moscow has denied playing a military role despite Ukrainian and Western claims to the contrary, a full-fledged invasion is certain to become a political and economic disaster for Russia.
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People walk past a market set up in Red Square with St. Basil's Cathedral to the left and the Spasskaya Tower on the right in Moscow on Monday.
While the Kremlin appears bent on pulling Ukraine back into Moscow's orbit, a massive offensive will inevitably involve huge casualties, undermining Russia's global standing, leading to its international isolation and shattering Putin's posture as a leader who cares about ordinary Ukrainians and sees the two people as one.
"It's impossible to imagine a war with Ukraine," Moscow resident Vitaly Ladygin said. "We all have relatives there, we have always lived together. I love Ukraine and dream about going there once it all all ends."
An attack on Ukraine would be certain to trigger draconian Western sanctions that would further cripple Russia's stagnant economy, dent people's incomes and erode Putin's support. And while the Russian military could be expected to rout the much weaker Ukrainian army, it will inevitably face massive resistance later, resulting in a protracted conflict that would drain Moscow's scarce resources.
Sergei Karaganov, a Russian foreign policy analyst with close ties to Kremlin thinking, said in recently published comments that while "it's necessary to stop NATO's further expansion and militarization of Ukraine ... we definitely don't have plans to conquer Ukraine."
Many Russian observers predict that instead of launching an invasion, Putin could try to keep pressure on the West with more troop deployments and drills to keep Ukraine out of NATO.
"Having failed to score a full diplomatic result or dare to use force, Russia could turn its army presence near Ukraine into a constant or regularly renewed source of threat that will incur a damage to Ukraine that Western assistance wouldn't be able to compensate," Alexander Baunov of the Carnegie Moscow Center said in an analysis. "It will also keep the West under strain, and in the end Ukraine and the West could show a greater flexibility."


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Q: Estimating the probabilities of many events given only intersections We are interested in approximating the probability of $n$ (possibly dependent) events $\{e_1,\dots, e_n\},$ but we can only estimate the probability of an intersection of any $q$ of them:
$$P(e_{k_1}\cap e_{k_2}\cap \dots \cap e_{k_q})$$
The problem's model gives us the following identity. We have an algebraic function $f:\underset{q \text{ times}}{\underbrace{[0,1]\times \dots \times [0,1]}}\rightarrow [0,1]$ where:
$$f\left(P(e_{k_1}),P(e_{k_2}),\dots, P(e_{k_n})\right) = P(e_{k_1}\cap e_{k_2}\cap \dots \cap e_{k_q}).$$
$q$ is fairly small (it's 9), but $n$ can be on the order of dozens to several thousand.
If we took enough samples we would have a chance of just using algebra to solve for each $P(e_i)$ individually, but the amount of samples and computation time needed to do this seems huge.
Is there a good way to approach such a problem?

A: I'm not clear from your question what type of model you're using, but in Linear Modelling there is a class of problems known as "large p, small n" in the "Variable Selection" literature, the best known solution is probably the Lasso, refer Tibshirani's Lasso page.

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Prior to joining Delta, Oberle was a general manager at General Electric for 25 years, working in lighting technologies and transportation. © 2020 Endeavor Business Media, LLC. The GRT (ground thermal response test) is in fact a measurement method that allows a special device to detect the equivalent average thermal conductivity of the ground, in which a pilot borehole heat exchanger has been installed to be later used for a geothermal system. The system is able to capitalize on the near-constant temperatures just four to six feet below people's feet to keep occupants comfortable using energy naturally generated from the earth, which can essentially be considered free. Eneren puts itself forward as a single contact from design to maintenance processes. As opposed to the vertical arrangement, which would have required the piping to reach depths of between 100 and 400 feet, the horizontal system only needed the piping to reach a depth of 30 feet. To design a duct system, the HVAC system designer must have completed a Room-by-Room Manual J load calculation as well as a Manual S equipment selection. 17 September 2013. The original plan for the 180,000-square-foot facility was to implement a vertical, closed-loop system. We will gladly furnish a list of happy customers too. "Geothermal Heat Pumps." Furthermore, geothermal systems have the benefit of being set up in multiple zones, with each zone having an individual control room. Given the portion of energy consumption generated by a building's heating and cooling systems, a geothermal system can have a significant impact in a building owner's ability to achieve these designations. Installation of the header manifold. May-June 2016. Pure water, mixture water/glycol, Building energy demand and peak load "Geoefficiency." TAILOR-MADE, INTEGRATED, TERMO-TECHNIC ENGINEERING DESIGN. EcoMech calculates exactly how much airflow for comfort is needed in each room. 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However, upon inspection of the site's geology, rock and soil composition, and land availability, it was determined that the location could not meet the required depths for this type of piping structure without disrupting the water table. In this case, a horizontal system proved to be the best option because it used the facility's large land space and resolved its depth issue. Thermal properties of the ground (GRT or hypothesis) National Geographic. What's more, geothermal systems have longer life spans than conventional heating and cooling systems. For land with minimal space, a vertical ground-loop system may be ideal. It uses the earth all the time, without any intermittency, as a heat source (in the winter) or a heat sink (in the summer). Ranging from improvements in overall building efficiency to greater flexibility in architectural design, these systems are becoming impactful players in the building design and construction industries, making them worth serious consideration for current and future construction projects. As mentioned previously, numerous variables must be considered before making a final decision, but the many geothermal options available makes it highly likely that there will be a solution to fit every unique need. Many designers and building owners look to push the envelope in building design, aiming for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum or even net zero status. The industry is moving in a positive directions with automation and control of systems at the forefront. A geothermal heat pump (GHP) or ground source heat pump (GSHP) is a central heating and/or cooling system that transfers heat to or from the ground. Which of the following flowmeters could reasonably be applied to measure air flow in an HVAC system? The resulting process for a closed-loop system, by which a heat exchanger transfers geothermal heat between refrigerant in the heat pump and the antifreeze-like solution in the piping system, is the same across the three different configurations. Once a system type is selected and installed, the heat exchanger transfers the obtained heat to the building's energy distribution system. However, the department confirms that these additional costs will be recouped from resulting energy savings in as few as five to 10 years. In the Paleolithic era, the practice of utilizing the earth's thermal energy was in the form of bathing in hot springs. In today's building environment, green design is becoming less of an option and more of a requirement. Department of Energy. We are also available by phone, email, and can give you geothermal projects completed or underway to go and view with us, or by yourself. Additionally, because of its subterranean nature, it has significantly fewer visible parts than traditional systems. By the 1940s, modern geothermal practices took shape. Retrieved 18 May 2016. Heating and cooling is a significant portion of commercial energy consumption, so it only makes sense that optimizing these operations would result in a comparable amount of LEED points. Retrieved 18 May 2016. Despite its proven history, the practice is still considerably underused. As further evidence, these systems have been shown to remove up to four times more kilowatt-hours of consumption from the electrical grid per dollar spent than photovoltaic and wind power add to the grid. To compensate, however, the land space needed to allow for the piping network to cover a wide area, which equated approximately to the size of five football fields. Further value and return on investment comes in the form of reduced maintenance costs, with geothermal systems requiring far less upkeep than conventional systems. D Magazine. In anticipation of the show, exhibitors shared some top innovations that will be on display at the Orange County Convention Center come Jan. 25. ENEREN S.r.l. Image courtesy of Delta Products Corporation, Sign up for Flow Control Network eNewsletters. The design phase of a geothermal air conditioning system requires a pre-design that verifies the feasibility of the application. There are several different approaches to ground loop design, but they all fall under two basic categories: closed loop and open loop. We design and service some of the largest homes in the Atlanta area and we have the skills to satisfy the most demanding homeowners and builders. This system works by running a supply line pipe underground from the building to the water. Although largely hidden in the physical sense, the benefits of geothermal systems are clear. With heating and cooling costs accounting for a significant portion of a building's energy usage, utilizing a geothermal system to cut these costs can result in substantial savings. Thanks to the constant collaboration with the University of Padua, and specifically the departments of Industrial Engineering and Geosciences, Eneren can access to the latest research and publications on the topics of interest. When building an energy-efficient home, customers want the best geothermal system design for their home that their budget allows. Metering data identifies sources of air, water and debris. Delta used a horizontal drilling method with 50 boreholes at 15 feet and another 50 boreholes at 30 feet. Retrieved 23 May 2016. U.S. Department of Energy. Air Conditioning & Geothermal System Contractor. EcoMech Geothermal: Home Owners & Builders choose us for their heating and air contractor. 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Yu Wen-Fu
2002 | Visual Art | United States
to observe contemporary art activities in New York following a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California
Exhibition / United States
REWOVEN: Innovative Fiber Art
March 16, 2017 - June 20, 2017
Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art is a collaboration between the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Taiwanese American Arts Council, New York, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens Colleege and the QCC Art Gallery / CUNY. The exhibition showcases twenty-four artists whose extraordinary creativity and commitment to nature, environmental, and social issues are addressed in a convergence of painted, woven, netted, sewn, assembled and installed artworks.
Grantee: Yu Wen-Fu
Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art is a collaboration between the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Taiwanese American Arts Council, New York, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College and the QCC Art Gallery / CUNY. The exhibition showcases twenty-four artists whose extraordinary creativity and commitment to nature, environmental, and social issues are addressed in a convergence of painted, woven, netted, sewn, assembled and installed artworks.
Visual artist Wen-Fu Yu is part of the exhibition. Wen-Fu Yu received an ACC Fellowship in 2002 to undertake a residency in the U.S. and for research in New York.
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2017 Jodori Khiang - Community Artfest
September 9, 2017 - October 29, 2017
Jodori Khiang is a community-engaged project that aims at revitalizing the Jodori District in Taipei City through art. Facilitating cultural activities in everyday living spaces is a way in which social responsibility of the arts can be practiced.
Grantees: Chen Ching-Yao, Yu Wen-Fu, Shih Tung-Ling
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The Hidden South 南方以南
May 26, 2018 - September 1, 2018
As an important access road between eastern and southern Taiwan, the South Link Highway of Provincial Highway No. 9 possesses rich natural topography and cultural landscape, and is also a crucial area where the Austronesian culture has been preserved. This project hopes to connect people and nature while exploring the cultural legacy and development in this region. Nature becomes the stage of the project, and art serves as an instrument to enable the encounter and sharing between people in this southern region. Through the energy of art as well as local culture and resources, the project aims to enrich the landscape of the south by re-defining the relationship between people and nature and initiating dialogues between people and the environment—dialogues that transcend nationality, culture and age—through collaborations between artists and local residents, and eventually creating artworks and projects that address the our co-existence with Great Nature. This is a project that evokes our remembrance of home to co-construct and play a part for the place, where we collectively dwell.
Vector of The South
The work extends from beach towards the land, and from lines to planes, forming waves that materialize the direction of the southern wind. The wind from the vast sea arriving at the narrow strip of plain in Taitung weaves out a fascinating humanistic dimension. The arrival of the wind brings the sand, plants, reef rocks of different shapes, mist, drifting objects, and waves. Facing the ocean, even the hair and clothes are eternally drawn by the hidden south and its invisible magnetic field.
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Q: Cannot send command IR with HotPI I bought a HotPi a while ago, and decided to use it. So I followed the procedure to configure the IR and after a few hours I was able to IR signals on my Raspberry 1.
But my purpose here is to send IR signals, which I tried, without any luck.
So this is the command I try to do (just for test):
irsend SEND_START devinput KEY_POWER ; sleep 3

And this is what lircd tells me:
lircd-0.9.4c[907]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
lircd-0.9.4c[907]: Info: Cannot configure the rc device for /dev/lirc0
lircd-0.9.4c[907]: Error: invalid send buffer
lircd-0.9.4c[907]: Error: this remote configuration cannot be used to transmit
lircd-0.9.4c[907]: Error: error processing command: SEND_START devinput KEY_POWER
lircd-0.9.4c[907]: Error: transmission failed
lircd-0.9.4c[907]: Info: removed client

Edit:
It seems I'm not using the good drivers. According to the HotPi documentation, I'm suppose to use lirc-rpi, which I'm suppos to install with
sudo modprobe lirc-rpi

Which, at least, doesn't return an error. But trying to configure the interface tells me that the driver doesn't exist:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mode2 --driver lirc-rpi --device /dev/lirc0
Driver `lirc-rpi' not found. (Missing -U/--plugins option?)
Available drivers:
accent
alsa_usb
asusdh
atilibusb
atwf83
audio
audio_alsa
awlibusb
bte
bw6130
commandir
creative
creative_infracd
default
devinput
dfclibusb
dsp
dvico
ea65
file
ftdi
ftdi-exp
ftdix
girs
i2cuser
irlink
irtoy
livedrive_midi
livedrive_seq
logitech
macmini
mouseremote
mouseremote_ps2
mp3anywhere
mplay
mplay2
pcmak
pinsys
pixelview
samsung
sb0540
silitek
slinke
sonyir
srm7500libusb
tira
tira_raw
udp
uirt2
uirt2_raw
usb_uirt_raw
usbx
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A: Here is no info what lirc version you are using. There are vast differences between the legacy 0.9.0 still used in some distros and modern lirc.
That said, the logs seems pretty clear. You are using the devinput driver, right? This driver does not support sending data, reflecting the fact that also the kernel doesn't.
You then need to use another driver - first stop might be the default one. If/when using this other driver, you need another lircd.conf.
Please refer to  http://lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html
EDIT: Ah, lirc-0.9.4c says the log. Sorry, my bad. The reply should still be valid, though.

A: When you record the remote, use:
irrecord -d /dev/lirc0  -f name.conf
The -f uses raw mode. This then worked for me on the transmit side, before I got same error as you.


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