Very challenging robot. The double head makes it serve balls quickly all over table with different kind of spin for each each head and different throw angle. The 2 wheels makes it have the ability to serve straight fast balls or looped ones. Both heads can be turned to serve side spinning balls.
Random modes makes it suitable for professional players to work their feet.
It has one down side though that on a 0 speed on any head, the motor keeps rotating thus cancelling the spin effect of the other wheel. Can be modified by either disconnecting the wheel or placing a DC inverter on the wheels so that when the Voltage goes below a certain threshold the wheel spins in the other direction and gives a loaded spin.
One more thing: programmed drills might sometimes miss the intended spot.
Briefly, this robot is a nice piece of technology, very challenging, but needs bit of modification.


Kathy McNeil is Assistant Director of Music and Worship Arts and Organist at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville, North Carolina. In addition to that position, she is Director of the Haywood Community Chorus, Organist for the Lake Junaluska Assembly, and Associate Director and Accompanist of the Lake Junaluska Singers. She received her Bachelor of Music in Education and her Master of Music in Organ Performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.
Kathy was Organist/Choir Director at Grace Church in the Mountains in Waynesville, NC, until January 2018. Prior to moving to North Carolina in 2013, she was Principal Organist at St. Mary's Abbey/Delbarton School in Morristown, NJ for 10 years after serving as organist of the United Methodist Church in Morristown, NJ, from 1985 to 2004.
Kathy has given numerous recitals throughout the New York metropolitan area. She has appeared in recital at Princeton University as part of their After Noon Concert Series. She was Adjunct Professor of Organ at the College of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, NJ, and has taught vocal and instrumental music in the New Jersey Public Schools, and handbell and choral groups of all ages in her church positions.
Kathy maintains an active organ and piano studio in Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.


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Mother Urges Adults To Get Whooping Cough Vaccine
By Joanne Faryon / Investigative Reporter
Published August 3, 2010 at 3:00 AM PDT
A San Diego mother who nearly lost her newborn baby to whooping cough earlier this summer is encouraging adults to get immunized.
A San Diego mother who nearly lost her newborn baby to whooping cough earlier this summer is encouraging adults to get immunized. Jozaiah Tremain spent 15 days in the hospital last month. He was only four weeks old.
You'd never know he'd been through such trauma as he looks up at his mother and makes happy baby noises.
But only weeks ago, he was in intensive care at Rady's Children's hospital in San Diego.
"When they couldn't get him to slow down his breathing and they're telling me I'm going to the ICU and then when he started retaining that fluid and he was so swollen. That was pretty scary," Roxie Tremain says.
Jozaiah was diagnosed early with whooping cough and received treatment quickly.
So far this year, seven babies have died from whooping cough, also know as pertussis, in California including a two-month-old baby boy in San Diego.
"Just to go through those things and not bring my baby home I couldn't even imagine," Tremain says.
Jozaiah likely caught the illness from his older brother or mother -– both were diagnosed with a much milder case. Ironically the 11-year-old brother was scheduled for his whooping cough booster on the day his mom went into labor and the appointment was cancelled.
Dr. Dean Sidelinger is San Diego County's deputy public health officer.
"Adults and adolescents simply don't have the immunities they had when they were kids and they finished their vaccines and for that reason a booster shot was developed for pertussis and we started using that about five years ago," says Dr. Dean Sidelinger.
Now the Tremain family is going public with their story, hoping to encourage parents and grandparents to get immunized.
"You might be in the grocery store and coughing because you have an itch in your throat and you're coughing and you have no idea you're giving whooping cough to the baby next to you," Tremain says.
Joanne Faryon
As an investigative reporter, Joanne Faryon worked with the team of journalists at inewsource, a nonprofit journalism enterprise embedded in the KPBS newsroom. Faryon has more than 20 years of experience as a journalist, working in a print, radio and TV. She previously worked in Canada and the U.S., specializing in investigative reporting. During her time at KPBS, Faryon served as reporter, host, and producer for both TV and radio. Among her many stories and investigations is the 2010 look into the effectiveness of the Whooping Cough vaccine. The series of in-depth features lead the Centers for Disease Control re-examine their reporting and change their guidelines. Faryon's work has been honored by the USC's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism with the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism. The prestigious honor was for the Envision special, "Who's Supervising San Diego?" – an in-depth look at the County's Board of Supervisors. Faryon has also received an honorable mention from the National Press Foundation in 2010 for an in-depth look at the state's prison system as part of the Envision series. In addition, Faryon has earned two regional Emmys and several awards from the San Diego Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. Her Canadian honors include a Manitoba Human Rights award for meritorious service for her investigative work on the Ku Klux Klan and right-wing extremism in Canada. Joanne has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Winnipeg and a creative communications diploma from Red River College.
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In September, Stephen Hills will embark on the journey of a lifetime as he takes his spot at the Paralympic Games in Brazil.After the first of two training camps before the games, the New Plymouth cyclist had his goal for the event cemented in place."I'm still aiming for that gold," Hills said.Hills was set to be the first New Zealand athlete to ever compete in the trike event at the Paralympics and said his training had been going well.The first of his training camps was held in Quebec, Canada, where he got a good variation of lengths in his rides on both flat and hilly terrain.Hills said the ride at the games would be dead flat, so getting some training rides on hills would play to his advantage."It probably would help with keeping the power."Before heading to Rio de Janiero, Hills was scheduled to attend another training camp in Canada that would be more similar to the terrain in Brazil to fine tune his performance."The next camp is a pretty flat place we're heading to."
However, Hills said he was concerned for his safety after seeing a recent news article about a New Zealander being 'kidnapped.'
"I'm just hoping I can keep myself safe.
"I think as long as I'm with someone I should be fine."
While the safety side of things was playing on his mind, Hills would be the last athlete to make his way to the athletes village, opting to spend more time training in Canada before the games.
He said he would be arriving on September 8, the day the track cycling begins, with his event not starting until september 14.
"It's probably safer staying to train in Canada than it would be to train in Brazil I think."
To help fund the trip, a fundraising quiz night was being held for Hills at 7pm on August 4 at the Good Home in New Plymouth.
Hills said he wasn't expecting to raise a lot of money, and was unsure how much he wanted to raise, but anything would be helpful.
"Part of it is already paid for, but it'll just help with equipment and getting gear sorted."
Hills was one of a 29-strong squad representing New Zealand at the Paralympic Games, which were set to run from September 7-18.
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Community// December 10, 2018
Cicilline to Reintroduce Resolution to Reestablish House Aging Committee
Taking an Important Step to Protecting Seniors
Herb Weiss
Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI) plans to push legislation to reestablish the House Select Committee on Aging
In October 1992, the House eliminated the House Permanent Select Committee on Aging charged with investigating and putting a spotlight on aging policy. The Committee was instrumental in conducting research and publishing a number of reports on elder abuse, leading to the passage of reform legislation intended to improve nursing home operations and reduce abuse against patients. The Committee's work also led to increased home care benefits for the aging, establishing research and care centers for Alzheimer's Disease, and many other accomplishments on a broad array of aging issues.
Over 26 years later, on March 1, 2016, Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI) introduced his House resolution 160 to reestablish the Committee. He would attract Rhode Island Congressman James R. Langevin (D-RI) and 23 other cosigners (no Republicans) out of 435 lawmakers, but would ultimately see no legislative action taken. "I discussed this proposal with Speaker Paul Ryan (R- WI) and followed up with a letter asking him to move forward with this idea, but he declined to do so."
"I think many of my Democratic colleagues didn't think this resolution would get much traction with a Republican-controlled House, but we did get Seniors Task Force Co-Chairs, Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), which was important," says the Rhode Island Congressman.
A New Opportunity with a House Democratic Majority
With a Republican-controlled Congress successfully blocking Cicilline's simple resolution from reaching the floor for a vote, the Democratic lawmaker says he will reintroduce House resolution 160 in the new Congress with the Democrats controlling the chamber's legislative agenda. "With Democrats in the majority, I think there will be more interest from other members in this resolution," he says, noting, "We will try to make this a bipartisan effort and hope to find Republicans who would be supportive.
"I will first reintroduce the resolution [in the new Congress] and build support from members and then present the proposal to my House leadership. We will try to make this a bipartisan effort and hope to find Republicans who would be supportive," says Cicilline, noting that he will reach out to aging groups for support, including the Leadership Council on Aging Organizations, whose leadership includes Alliance for Retired Americans, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and AARP.
"Of course, I would be honored to lead the reestablished House Permanent Select Committee on Aging, but that decision will be made by the incoming Speaker," says Cicilline.
According to Cicilline, the House can readily create an ad hoc (temporary) select committee by approving a simple resolution that contains language establishing the committee—giving a purpose, defining membership, and detailing other aspects. Funding would be up to the Appropriations Committee. Salaries and expenses of standing committees, special and select, are authorized through the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill.
Cicilline says that a newly established House Permanent Select Committee on Aging would be charged to conduct comprehensive studies on aging policy issues, funding priorities, and trends. Like its predecessor, its efforts would not be limited by narrow jurisdictional boundaries of the standing committee but broadly at targeted aging policy issues.
"Our nation's seniors deserve dedicated attention by lawmakers to consider the legislative priorities that affect them, including strengthening Social Security and Medicare, reducing the costs of prescription drugs, and the particular challenges of poverty, housing, long-term care, and other important issues," adds Cicilline.
Aging Advocates Call for Reestablishing the House Select Committee on Aging
When Max Richtman, CEO and President of the Washington, D.C-based National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM), and former Staff Director of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, heard of Cicilline's efforts to bring back the House Select Committee on Aging almost three years ago, he remarked, "It's long overdue." The Select Committee will once again provide serious oversight and lay the groundwork for House legislative proposals impacting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, he said.
Richtman says that NCPSSM has just joined a working group to push for the reestablishment of the House Permanent Select Committee on Aging spearheaded by Howard Bedlin of the National Council on Aging. This group will devise strategies to resurrect the Committee, adds Richtman.
Richard Fiesta, Executive Director at the Alliance for Retired Americans, whose organization chairs the LCAO, representing over 70 aging groups, says that its membership voted this month to support and push for the reestablishment of the House Select Committee on Aging. "Members during the discussion expressed views that the Committee can be a focal point on aging issues such as such as Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, long-term care, and prescription drug prices," says Fiesta, noting that it could provide important oversight on the U.S. Administration of Aging programs and be a forum for emerging issues such as home care needs.
"With 10,000 American turning age 65 each day, a Select Committee on Aging would be an important step in addressing the needs of older Americans," says Fiesta.
Bill Benson, a former staff director of the Subcommittee on Housing and Consumer Interests, one of the four subcommittees of the House Select Committee on Aging, concurs with Richtman that the establishing the Committee is "long overdue."
"During the 26 years we've been without the House counterpart to the Senate Special Committee on Aging," which Benson also served on, "the House has not had an equivalent powerful voice for advancing critical issues for an aging society as we've had in the Senate. To successfully improve national policy requires both chambers of the Congress to be fully engaged. Restoring the House Select Committee on Aging would be important to do that."
Howard Bedlin, National Council on Aging Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy, adds: "A House Select Committee on Aging will raise visibility of the challenges older Americans are facing every day and support the work of authorizing committees to craft bipartisan policy solutions. Aging is an issue for all Americans. Discussion about the systemic strains that come with longevity and a growing aging population, or highlighting the many intergenerational needs of families across the country can only lead to better understanding and ultimately better support for all Americans as we age."
As Cicilline gears up to put together the bipartisan support to pass his reintroduced to reestablish the House Permanent Select Committee on Aging, he says, "Overall, this resolution represents an important step towards protecting our seniors and the benefits they have earned, like Social Security and Medicare."
"The reestablishment of this Select Committee on Aging would emphasize Congress' commitment to our current and future seniors and would allow us to focus our energy to ensure that they are able to live with dignity and enjoy a high quality of life," he adds.
Originially published in the Woonsocket Call on November 18, 2018.
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Herb Weiss has enjoyed a distinguished 39-year career in journalism, earning a national reputation as an expert on aging, health care and medical issues. Over 699 articles that he has authored or co-authored have appeared in national, state and local publications and newspapers.
Herb is a recipient of the 2003 AARP Rhode Island's Vision Award for his weekly commentary that appeared in the Pawtucket Times. He is a two time recipient (1994 and 1999) of the American College of Health Care Administrator's National Award for his coverage of long-term care issues. He was also awarded the Distinguished Alumni's Award by the Center for Studies in Aging, North Texas State University, in 1997, for his career coverage of aging issues. In 1997, he was selected by the prestigious McKnight's LTC News to be one of its "100 Most Influential People" in Long-Term Care. In 2016.
Herb writes a weekly senior beat commentary for the Woonsocket Call and Pawtucket Times, two Rhode Island daily newspapers.
Today, Herb's weekly newspaper column appears in the Pawtucket Times and Woonsocket Call, two Northern Rhode Island daily newspapers.
Herb and his wife, Patty Zacks, reside in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Well-Being// June 6, 2017
Disrupting the Concept of Aging
by Catherine Grace O'Connell
// September 12, 2018
When Aging in Place Won't Do, Put the "Home" in Nursing Home
by Joel Landau
Community// May 2, 2018
Happiness When Done Right — part 2
by Diana Chapman Walsh


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