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Engineering in Scotland
Abbeygreen, Lesmahagow
Including Old Brae, Church Square and Bakers Brae
Abbeygreen is probably the most important road in lesmahagow and is its "main street" containing shops, banks, churches and a public hall. At the south, it begins at Turholm Bridge until its junction in the North at School Road. The road there contines straight on as "Milton".
This series of photos starts at the south end at Turfholm Bridge and continues North.
Two views of the Turfholm Bridge end of Abbeygreen Road. Date: 7th February 2014. The second includes the local bus (Colin's bus) run by the Rural Development Trust.
Buildings at the end of Abbeygreen. Date: 9th May 2015
Hope Hall taken from Old Brae on the 8th May 2014. This old building was the headquarters and Lesmahagow Branch of the Coalburn District Co-operative Society in the early part of the 20th Century.
Masonic Hall, Abbeygreen (home of Lodge St. John No. 20). Date: 8th May 2014
X50 Glespin bus passing the Masonic Hall. Date: 9th June 2017
Old Brae. Date: 8th May 2014
Looking down Old Brae. Date of photo: 13th Feb 2017
The central section of Abbeygreen. Date: 18th Oct 2017
The Black Bull public house. The entrance is down an alley between the two buildings on the right in the photo above. Date: 18th Oct 2017
Kenny Bell's Barbers. When this photo was taken, Kenny had recently retired and the Barbers was closed. Date: 19th April 2015
Ladbrokes Bookies. Date: 24th May 2018
MHA Bankhouse Care Home. Formerly a bank, originally the British Linen Bank abd latterly the Bank of Scotland until it moved into new premises adjacent to the Fountain. Date: 18th Oct 2017
Another view of Bankhouse Care Home. Date: 24th May 2018
View down central section from Bankhouse Care Home. Date: 24th May 2018
In June 2017, Lesmahagow Development Trust opened 56, Abbeygreen as its new offices and community centre. This building was formerly occupied by the Royal Voluntary Service. Date of photo: 9th July 2017
Church Square with Lesmahagow Old Church. Craignethan Apartments (former hotel) are on the left and the Nisa store and Post Office on the right. . Date of photo: 11th June 2018, shortly before the Highland Games, hence the bunting.
Ali and Sons Convenience Store and Lesmagahow Post Office. Date: 24th July 2018
Craignethan Apartments, formerly the Graignethan Hotel. Date: 26th Oct 2017
Lesmahagow Library. Date: 18th Oct 2017
Modern block on the corner of Abbeygreen and Baker's Brae. The ground floor is Lesmahagow Resource Centre. Date: 24th May 2018
Baker's Brae looking down from New Trows Road. The modern block on the left contains flats and the Resource Centre at the bottom. Sneddons Bakers can be seen at the foot of the brae. The back of the library can be seen on the right. Date: 26th Nov 2017
Sneddons Bakery. Date: 26th Oct 2017
Rollo's Fish and Chips. Date: 24th July 2018
Spar and Subway Lesmahagow. Date: 24th May 2018
Masons Arms. Despite the sign, no longer a hotel, just a pub. Date: 26th Oct 2017
Boots Lesmahagow. Date: 26th Oct 2017
The finishing touches being installed at Abbeygreen Pharmacy that opened in November 2017. Date: 26th Oct 2017
Looking back along the shops in Abbeygreen from the Fountain. Date: 18h April 2015
The main street with the Fountain in the foreground. Date: 18h April 2015
Pepes Fish and Pizza Bar, Lesmahagow at the junction of Abbeygreen and New Trows Road. 24th July 2018.
Floral display near the Fountain. 24th July 2018.
Some of the buildings shown opposite the Fountain in the previous photo were demolished in April 2020 under the 2020 lockdown during the Coronavirus epidemic. I could not get down to photograph the demolition but this photo was taken afterwards. 20th May 2020.
The Fountain, Lesmahagow. 15th April, 2012. The junction of New Trows Road with Abbeygreen with the cast-iron Fountain. The building opposite is also called The Fountain, orginally thr Parish Church Hall bur rebuilt togaether with a new branch for the Bank of Scotland (pn the left). The building was first used as a restaurant but, after the restaurant closed, it was bought by the Council to convert into a public hall to replace the Jubilee Hall.
Bank of Scotland, Lesmahagow from Bloomfield Road. 19th Aug 2014.
Royal Bank of Scotland Lesmahagow Branch. Following closure of many rural branches in 2018, RBS closed this branch on the 19th June 2018 and provided the viilage with a once a week mobile bank facility. Date: 16th May 2015
The closed RBS Branch, without cash machine, signs and internal content. Date: 14th July 2018
Abbeygreen Church and Manse. Date: 16th May 2015
Abbeygreen in spring blossom. Date: 16th May 2015
The end of Abbeygreen - the houses beyond the Glebe playing fields. Date: 26th Feb 2018
Turfholm
Bereholm
New Trows Road
Strathaven Road and School Road
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The illusion of truth and inconstancy of memory are two ideas that motivate me to create. A feeling or thought, usually evoked by a life event, is the origin of each piece. I then explore what it could mean to have these questions through subject matter such as portraiture and the figure. I primarily work in oil paint, charcoal, or graphite. For subject matter, I feel these mediums give the best illusion of space, depth, and reality. I am drawn to the way these mediums allow the surface to be built up gradually and in turn give complete control over mark making and formation of soft transitions. I hope to continue searching for the truth through feelings and introspection as long as it is in question.


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Kasowitz Files Chapter 11 Petitions for Borders Group
On February 16, 2011, Kasowitz filed chapter 11 petitions for national bookseller Borders Group, Inc., and seven of its subsidiaries, in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Kasowitz filed more than 20 motions and applications on the company's behalf, and Chief Judge Arthur Gonzalez entered orders approving Borders' first-day motions, among them an order approving Borders' proposed debtor-in-possession financing, which will provide the company with access to $400 million in financing for Borders' reorganization. On the first day of the case, Kasowitz held an auction to select a liquidator to conduct store closing sales at approximately one-third of the company's stores, and then obtained Court approval to begin those sales immediately at the highly favorable price obtained at the auction. Kasowitz partners Adam L. Shiff and Andrew K. Glenn represent Borders in this matter. Law360 and Bloomberg are among the various publications to profile Kasowitz's involvement in the case.
Adam L. Shiff
Andrew K. Glenn

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APAC is a performing arts academy in the North Western Suburbs of Sydney Australia. The end of year concert is an opportunity for all the students to showcase their dance, singing and acting capabilities on stage and through multi media presentations.
The concert is called "In da House"
The concert and supporting acts are all based around the simple idea that there is a "house full of kids having fun - and there are no parents to stop the fun". It's kind of a 'Hotel California' situation where ALL the kids are trying to get in, and none of the kids ever want to leave.
The various concert acts take place in the different rooms of the house, and outside the house where the kids try a range of desperate ploys in an attempt to get in.
A concept drawing has been already be drawn by one of the students but is not suitable for the print mediums the drawing will be used on. It has been attached as an example of the scale required, the aspect of the house and as an understanding of who the target market is.
The illustration must be set outside the house. Inside the house, we illustration should allude to lots of partying, music and dancing, but we dont need to literally show the shenanigans going on inside [I would suggest silhouettes, musical notes and feeling that the house is bulging with fun].
- 1 x Black and White Illustration supplied in Illustrator format (CS2 or above).
Secondary Audience: Parents, Teachers and potential students/parents.
or something unique and sytlistic!
The visual style needs to invoke energy, enthusiasm and fun.
The illustration style should not be dark, scary, sarcastic or witty.
This is straight-up honest to goodness fun.
Please reference the attached photo and concept illustration - the actual house has been used in various filmed pieces so a generic house will not do.


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Crying immigrant girl on Time magazine cover was never separated from her mom, father says
The father of the Honduran two-year-old, featured on Time magazine and emblematic for the separation of children and parents as part of the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy, told The Washington Post Thursday the young girl was never separated from her mother.
Crying immigrant girl on Time magazine cover was never separated from her mom, father says The father of the Honduran two-year-old, featured on Time magazine and emblematic for the separation of children and parents as part of the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy, told The Washington Post Thursday the young girl was never separated from her mother. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2yyzAQn
Lilly Price, USA TODAY Published 1:11 p.m. ET June 22, 2018 | Updated 1:53 p.m. ET June 22, 2018
Time magazine's "Welcome to America" cover for its July 2018 issue.(Photo: Time photo illustration. Photographs by Getty Images)
The father of the 2-year-old Honduran girl featured on Time magazine and emblematic for the separation of immigrant children and parents, told The Washington PostThursday the young girl was never separated from her mother.
Denis Javier Varela Hernandez told the Post he recognized his daughter on the cover of Time magazine looking up at President Donald Trump and feared she was separated from his wife. The photographer who took the picture, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer John Moore, reported that after he took the photo, the child's mother picked her up and they got into a van.
Moore, along with many on social media, believed they would soon be separated and the child would join the 2,500 other immigrant children placed in detention centers while their parents faced prosecution.
But the mother and child are not separated, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed. This news sparked outrage from the White House and conservative media such as Breitbart calling the photo of the little girl an example of fake news.
A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Photo: John Moore, Getty Images)
Varela disagreed with this rhetoric, telling the Post he is proud his daughter "represented the subject of immigration" and hopes her image will help enact policy change.
"This is the case for my daughter, but it is not the case for 2,000 children that were separated from their parents," Varela told the Post.
More: Time magazine cover places iconic photo of crying immigrant child at Trump's feet
More: The story behind the viral photo of a crying toddler at the U.S. border
TIME's new cover: A reckoning after Trump's border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://t.co/U4Uf8bffoRpic.twitter.com/sBCMdHuPGc
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Daily Archives: May 13th, 2009
Red-Shift Mistakes
By dad2059 on May 13, 2009 | 3 Comments
Conventional scientific wisdom in the area of astronomy and astrophysics is that when observing objects in the Cosmos, the more red-shifted the object observed, the farther away it is. It is one of the bedrock theories in astronomy and a linch-pin of the Big Bang Theory.
But what if that assumption is wrong? What if red-shifts are being mis-interpreted and that red-shifts might not have anything to do with distance?
According to astronomer Halton Arp, quasars that have a high red-shift (thus are interpreted to be very far away) are intrinsically linked to galaxies that are lightly red-shifted, and thus are known to be closer. How can that be?
The distribution on the sky of clusters of galaxies started to be cataloged about 40 years ago by George Abell and collaborators. The cores of these clusters were predominantly old stellar population E galaxies which were believed to be mostly gas free and inactive. With the advent of X-ray surveys, however, it became evident that many clusters of galaxies were strong X-ray emitters. This evidence for non-equilibrium behavior was not easily explained. In these active properties, however, the clusters joined AGN's and quasars as the three principal kinds of extragalactic X-ray sources. Evidence then developed that quasars, and now some galaxy clusters were physically associated with much lower redshift galaxies. Surprisingly, the cluster redshifts were sharply peaked at the preferred quasar redshifts of z = .061, .30 etc. (This evidence has been discussed principally in Arp 1997; 1998a; Arp and Russell 2001).
It was possible to explore these properties further by plotting the distribution of galaxy clusters on other, larger areas on the sky. Some appeared projected along the spine of the Virgo Cluster. It turned out that the Abell clusters which were located in that part of the sky in the direction of Fornax fell in the same distinctively elongated area as the large, low redshift Fornax Cluster. (The Abell clusters reach to about z = .2 limit and the brightest galaxy in the Fornax cluster is z = .0025.) On the sky, in the direction of the giant, low redshift galaxy CenA/NGC5128, the Abell clusters fell almost exclusively along a broadening extension of the X-ray, radio jet going northward from this active galaxy. This is the same line occupied by a number of active, higher redshift galaxies which have been previously associated with ejection of radio plasma from CenA (Arp 1998a).
I am not an astronomer, or astrophysicist, but my interpretation of the above paragraphs is that these radio and x-ray emitting galaxies (and quasars) with varying degrees of red-shift are physically linked with one another along a straight line, and has nothing to do with distance at all!
So what is causing the perceived variations of red-shift?
According to Plasma Cosmology, the variations of red-shift are temperature differences of the objects' plasma:
Astronomers consider plasma to be an ionized gas that behaves according to the same laws that a neutral gas follows, with some modification for magnetic effects. Because they cannot directly measure the properties of extragalactic space, they have developed mathematical models based on the behavior of neutral gases.
Hannes Alfvén, the father of plasma cosmology, took a different approach. In the opening to his monograph, Cosmic Plasma, he describes how the pure theory approach lost touch with reality. Rather than theorize about how plasma is supposed to act, he studied how it actually behaves in the laboratory. Among the many differences between plasma's actual behavior and the theoretical model are temperature anomalies like the one in the galaxy clusters above: temperatures of ions and electrons are 10 to 100 times higher than expected in neutral gases. So, from an Electric Universe point of view, the anomalous temperature seen in the above galaxy clusters are a normal property of the plasma interaction between clusters.
So what do we take from this? Are our present cosmological models wrong, and have been wrong for 100 years?
Is our Sun a huge ball of plasma, and not a fusion furnace?
We know fusion exists, because we weaponized it.
But could this explain why we haven't come up with a way to build a reactor that's capable of controlling the process, after over 50 years of exploding the first H-bomb?
Are we going down the wrong track here?
Origins of Quasars and Galaxy Clusters
Cluster Collisions
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import mongoengine

from caepainvestigatio.logging_conf import initLogging

log = initLogging()

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                continue

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Washing maschine proof techno shirt.
Juska is a colleague of mine from radio. We did Friday nights for ten years. For three years, we did a show together called Disko2000. Those were the days.
A man needs something to do, something to waste time and money. I sew, Juska runs a techno label called Absence of Facts. Once again we are doing stuff together, here is the Absence of Fashion techno shirt!
The shirt is unisexy andcomes in three sizes. The hem is extra long with a V-shape. The raglan sleeves are elbow length. The shirt fits large, but is in no way a tent. It's ready for the dance floor or behind the DJ booth where you can point your finger at people and play the air piano!
The fabric is made in Finland, believe it or not, by Orneule. Super high quality, 100% cotton and weighing in at 155 g/m².
NOTICE! I don't keep a large warehouse of products and the delivery for this shirt will happen with in seven (7) days of the order! Thanks for understanding.


Oh.. My.. Freakin'.. God!! :-O 11 years after it was announced Duke Nukem Forever, the sequel to the mega hit "Duke Nukem 3D" has finally been released! After half a decade passed with the final, realistic release date of it nowhere in sight; I gave up on ever seeing a full version game available for sale at local computer and gaming stores.
[adblockingdetector id="1″]Looking at the minimum PC system specifications, Duke Nukem Forever doesn't seem to need that tough of a system. If you compare the Duke Nukem Forever requirements to the current 2011 PC game heavy hitters Crysis 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops you will see what I mean. Don't get me wrong, this is not a game that will work on an old, slow PC, it still needs a decently powered computer to run though.
If you have an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator ("GMA") graphics card, Duke Nuken Forever is NOT compatible. That card is below the bare minimum requirements. If you have a new, Intel HD or any "integrated"/"on-board" graphics card there is a small chance it will run BUT you must have a fast Intel "Core i" 3, 5 of 7 CPU powering your PC. And even then don't get your hopes up.
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Thompson Announces 2019 Congressional Art Competition: An Artistic Discovery
Deadline for high school students to submit artwork is May 1
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Glenn 'GT' Thompson announced the details for the 2019 Congressional Art Competition.
The winning piece of artwork from each congressional district across the country will be displayed in a special exhibit in the U.S. Capitol.
"This is an excellent opportunity for students of the 15th District to show off their artistic talent and be critiqued by an independent panel of local artists," Rep. Thompson said. "I always look forward to the art competition and enjoy hosting the winner at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C., where their artwork will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol throughout the year."
All entries for the 2019 competition must be received no later than Wednesday, May 1 at 5 p.m.
The winner will be announced at a reception and public showing of all entries at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 4 at the Winkler Gallery of Fine Art in DuBois, Pa.
FOR CONTESTANTS
All entries must meet the following criteria:
* Be two dimensional
* Be no larger than 26 inches wide by 26 inches tall by 4 inches thick
* Not weigh more than 15 pounds
* Be original in concept, design, and execution and may not violate any U.S. copyright laws.
To view the complete contest rules and generate an application, please visit www.thompson.house.gov/services/art-competition.
The Congressional Art Competition began in 1982 to provide an opportunity for Members of Congress to encourage and recognize the artistic talents of their young constituents. Since then, more than 650,000 high school students have participated in the nationwide competition.


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PirateStann Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2018 Hobbyist Digital Artist
Ah, the bad old days, pre-VCR. I remember after we got our first VCR (an expensive beast at the time) obsessively going through TV Guide each week, looking at the late night CBS movie listings, hoping to come across a re-run of 'Terror Among Us' or many of the other '70s & '80s detective movies with bondage scenes. Then wearing a particular section of the tape out from watching it over and over.
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I have similar memories. Nothing worse than having to fast forward through a show you recorded on a hunch, only to find out it was a wash! And how many horrible copies of Terror must've floated around before the digital age?
I had one posted for a long time. Now I have a clean copy with all the irrelevant material edited out, just "mmmphing" and struggling girls.
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What a God send VCR's were!
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Ha! The one TV syndrome. Nobody has to share now, but back then you did. As a kid my TV obsessions were old monster movies, horror movies, good cartoons, etc. At the movies I always went to see the latest British Hammer movies with Christopher Lee and those buxom chicks with the heaving cleavage. LOL! It's amazing how much TV I watched as a kid, because I hardly watch any mainstream TV now. Too much alternative stuff on the internet.
Yup, we were a 1 set family, without cable. I never had cable until a few years ago. As a high schooler I was a huge horror guy, then in college I got into the sexploitation, grindhouse stuff. Hammer is amazing, but not accessible when I was younger. So much of what I wanted was so tough to track down or seek out. I think at one point I had 7 different video rental memberships!! I don't watch much tv now either, but mainly because i am busy, otherwise there is so much great stuff being produced, and ways to enjoy shows from decades ago or even cancelled shows from a year ago... a great age to enjoy TV! I have HBO Go, and I doubt I will ever get to enjoy every series I am trying to get to! I confess, I don't collect or seek out DiD scenes anymore. Not like I used to. But I think whatever shows you grew up with are the Golden age memories a person will use to judge every other generation's programming!
Instead of video rental memberships I have streaming memberships like Netflix, Prime Video, FilmStruck, and Shutter. You definitely get more bang for your buck with these guys.
A while back, I thought downloading torrent files on the internet was the collectors goldmine. And it was for a while until the government/web providers started to crack down and threatened to shut off your service and possible arrests and fines.
The best east thing about all this, is that movies and TV that I've heard and read about...I finally get to see and enjoy. Life is good!
Oh no, I had those memberships decades ago. I have cable and streaming, etc. now too! My go-to example is I used to work in a record store... people looking for a specific song (maybe for a wedding, or a party), and they'd have to plunk $15 on a CD for a single track. Now, you can buy songs a la carte. How many videos did I buy from distros that promised so much but delivered so little? And mind you, much of what I purchased was built on an expectation to see some bondage, so I was clearly setting myself up for disappointment. As such, I found scenes from basic TV and movies to be far more enjoyable. Some of the scenes I collected were scenes I had watched as a child and remembered.
It's so much nicer now. Everything was more expensive in the old days. Before video, they had costly super-8 clips from movies advertised in monster magazines. Now you can the whole movie or TV show for pennies on Netflix.
The disappointment factor is pretty high with a lot of things. How many movies promise the moon and have mostly talking heads?
Film was a little before my time, but I spent many afternoons wandering Florida swap meets and antique malls as a kid and stumbling onto corners filled with old film for sale. Fast forward a few years and I recall when Platoon came out on VHS, it was $100 retail. I recall a time when it was very easy for kids to buy almost anything in such circumstances: nunchucks, throwing stars, switchblades, brass knuckles, Nazi memorabilia, old nudie mags, loops, tons of weird and strange collectibles. Different times for sure.
And you're right: disappintment factor for so many things is high, especially if it is being sold by someone who just wants to move merch. Like you said, they promise the moon. My tastes have mellowed, but I still like things like that, just not to the point where I feel the need to stay on top of it or search it out.
Are you still in Florida? I was born and raised in Southern California. I didn't move to Utah until the early 80's. The swap meets were fun for me too. They always had them in the old drive-in theaters on Saturday and Sunday.
One way I avoid disappointment is to know as much as I can about the people who make the movies or TV shows. I also read the reviews quite closely. I try to find critics I agree with most of the time and use them to get an idea if I'll like something. I'm open to new artists too.
Here's an example: I read a lot about this guy S. Craig Zahler. He wrote and directed 2 movies I really liked: Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cel Block 99. His new movie is called Dragged Across Concrete with Mel Gibson and Vince Vaugh. I'm pretty sure I will like this one too. I normally don't watch Puppet Master movies, but the new one coming out called Puppet Master: The Little Reich is written by Zahler and i've Heard good things about it. This strategy doesn't always work, but I see more hits than misses.
No, I have just spent a lot of time all over panhandle/Central Florida , summers mostly. I also tended to spend a lot of time at gun & knife shows, antique malls, flea markets. I don't get to go to much of those places any more, and I miss it a bit.
I think I was disappointed a lot because my imagination set me up for it. I had specific desires and I wanted to find/discover things on such a prurient level, it was so "built-up" in my mind. And I was young and struggling to find something that reflected what I wanted to see, and I rarely found it until much later. I did find it a bit in the tie-up scenes in tv shows like Dukes of Hazzard or Hunter. A beautiful woman, tied up and gagged, struggling, etc. That is the connection for me personally to collecting those type of scenes from TV and VHS, which was the motivation for wanting to create a comic sharing those kinds of stories and experiences. As an adult, I am far more discerning.
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cristeal Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2018
This was very much my life... As a child I also had to explain why I wanted to tape something like a cop drama that I had no previous interest in
Haha! Exactly. The weird, random recordings were always uncomfortable, but not as bad as when I'd be watching something with my family and a scene would happen and it'd feel like everyone knew I was getting turned on. Always so awkward.
I don't know if my family has ever caught on, but I was definitely paranoid that they would see a pattern. There are a lot of kidnapping scenes in the movies we watch together...
Totally! I think anyone with our interests has definitely been there! Always trying to play it cool...
I envy kids discovering their bondage fetish these days, the internet and Netflix has made it so much easier to find these sorts of scenes privately
I don't disagree, I love rediscovering scenes that were once only available on third or fourth generation VHS copies playing in crystal clear HD digital crispness. But I kind of loved the thrill of tracking scenes down, seeking out the good stuff, wading through previews, playing detective trying to decide whether a preview of the next week's episode might yield DiD gold. These kids today don't know how good they have it!!
In some ways, I feel like it is almost too easy now. Of course, when I was growing up (pre-Internet age), bondage porn was not easy to come by in general. I was 18 before I was able to drive 85 miles to an adult bookstore, where I discovered Harmony Concepts magazines for the first time. That opened up a whole new world for me! If I were growing up now, I'd probably never leave my computer.
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Why does the horse sleep standing up? What is the reason
The reason why the horse wants to sleep standing up
It turns out that the reason why horses are developed to sleep standing up is completely copying the living habits of wild horses. In the earliest days, domestic horses were domesticated from wild horses. You must know that wild horses are rare herbivores. Living in the endless desert and grassland areas, they are often attacked by predators and are in danger of being eaten at any time.
Not only that, in that era, life and production resources were few, and humans still depended on hunting for their livelihoods. Wild horses were naturally one of the hunting targets. In addition, jackals, tigers and leopards were unwilling to let go of these delicacies. The living environment of wild horses was very good. It's bad. Their own resistance is poor. They don't have horns like cows and sheep that can fight against their pursuers. They can only take a thirty-six plan to avoid the enemy by running. Running during the day is mainly to escape the pursuit of human beings. At night, they dare not care, because jackals and wolves are nocturnal creatures. They hide in bushes or caves during the day, and then come out to hunt prey at night. In order to avoid the enemy quickly, horses dare not sleep on the ground at night. They can only stand and take a nap and stay vigilant to prevent accidents. It is the harsh natural environment that creates their habit of standing and sleeping.
After the horse ran away once, when standing in the shade of the tree to rest, they would seize the time to bow their heads and close their eyes to doze off. If they can confirm that there is no danger, they would put their heads on their backs to sleep, such as living with a mare. For the foals or the horses in collective life, this is a very comfortable sleeping position for them. Lying down or lying down to sleep is something you can't expect at all.
Although today's domestic horses are protected by humans and won't be harmed anymore, their ancestors' habits have been preserved, and standing to sleep has become their symbol. In addition to horses, donkeys also have the habit of standing to sleep, because The living environment of their ancestors is similar to that of wild horses.
The way a horse sleeps
Horses do not necessarily sleep at night, let alone sleep until dawn. If no one disturbs it, it can sleep anytime, anywhere, standing, lying, or lying down. Malaysia can sleep eight or nine times a day, which adds up to almost six hours. The horse slept best in the two hours before dawn. The horse sleeps standing and inherits the life habits of wild horses. Wild horses live in the endless desert grasslands. In the ancient times, they were not only human hunting objects, but also delicacies for carnivorous animals such as jackals and wolves. It is not like cattle and sheep that can use their horns to fight against the enemy, the only way is to escape the enemy by running. Carnivores such as jackals and wolves are nocturnal. They live in hidden bushes or caves during the day and come out to hunt at night. In order to evade the enemy quickly and in time, the wild horses dare not lie on the ground without worry at night. Even in the daytime, it had no choice but to stand and doze, maintaining a high degree of vigilance in case of accidents. Although domestic horses do not encounter natural enemies and man-made damage like wild horses, they are domesticated from wild horses. Therefore, the habit of standing and sleeping wild horses is still preserved. In addition to horses, donkeys also have the habit of sleeping standing up, because the living environment of their ancestors is very similar to that of wild horses.
So, is it possible for horses to lie down and sleep? Experts who study horses firmly believe that in a herd or a stable, some horses may lie down and sleep, but it will never happen that all horses lie down and sleep at the same time. , There will always be a horse standing there "watching".
The origin of horses
The equine animal originated in the early Tertiary period of the Cenozoic 60 million years ago. Its most primitive ancestor is the Protohoof, with a body length of about 1.5 meters, a long head and tail, short and heavy limbs, slow walking, and often in the forest. Or live on the tropical plains and feed on plants. The physique is short, with five toes on all four limbs, and the middle toe is more developed. The Eosin horse, or ancestor horse, who lived in the early Eocene of the Tertiary era 58 million years ago, is about 40 cm tall. The forelegs are low and have 4 toes; the hind legs are high and have 3 toes. Simple teeth, suitable for tropical forest life. After entering the Miocene, dry grassland replaced moist shrubs, and the function and structure of equine animals changed significantly: their physique increased, their limbs became longer and became single toes; their teeth became hard and more complex. After the evolutionary stages of gradual new horses, Zhongxin horses, and Shangxin horses, it was not until the Quaternary Pleistocene that it became a single-hoofed horse with a raised head and a tall body.
The mystery of domestication
A study in the internationally renowned magazine PNAS suggested that domestic horses probably originated from the grasslands of Eurasia—that is, in Ukraine and western Kazakhstan today—and continued to bred with wild horses as the herd expanded.
Researchers have long disputed the history of early domestication of horses: archaeological evidence suggests that horses were domesticated in the grasslands of western Eurasia, while genetic evidence from modern mares points to multiple domestication events spanning vast geographic areas. Vera Warmuth and colleagues used genetic data from more than 300 horses in northern Eurasia to model the origin and spread of horse domestication. This group of authors reconstructed the demographic history of the extinct wild ancestor wild horse (Equus ferus) of the domestic horse, and proposed that wild horses expanded out of eastern Eurasia about 16,000 years ago.
Further analysis suggested to this group of authors that the domestication of horses originated from the western Eurasian steppe about 6000 years ago, and that the domesticated horses were constantly being supplemented by wild horses during the expansion of Eurasia. According to the authors, these findings confirm that the domestication of horses originated in western Eurasia and provide evidence that wild horses have entered the domestic horse herd. Therefore, they have combined the completely different evidence from previous studies and resolved the mutual Explanation of the conflict.
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While working on the man cave I needed to paint a 6-panel door white. This door that leads to the laundry room, 4th bedroom, and closet, was a replacement for a plain brown door that had been chewed up by one of our dogs.
When my husband installed it, I wondered why he had replaced the plain door with the 6-panel door. When I started looking at doors, I found it is easier to find the 6-panel doors than the flat surface doors. The hollow core doors are also very inexpensive. Which answered my question as to why he had bought the 6-panel.
I thought about painting all of the brown doors in the house white. Many of these doors though were damaged in one way or another. So I decided to replace all of the doors with the 6-panel doors. At an average cost of around $25, I felt it would be a worthwhile investment and would brighten up the house considerably.
The exterior doors (those leading to the outside) were another story. These doors are solid wood which are much more expensive to replace. There was nothing really wrong with these doors except for a little water damage on the two French doors, old paint, and dog scratches. These would be repaired and painted.
The first step was to go around the house and measure the width of the doors that needed to be replaced. Not that any of the doors were exactly the standard width. I knew I would need to cut down the standard sizes to match the existing doors. I also planned to purchase the doors with the door knob hole already bored in the door.
I also needed to buy new hinges. The old hinges were a tarnished brass finish and some were pretty nasty with paint on them.
I bought what I needed, plus a few extra, from the same company I purchased my door knobs, eBuilderDirect.com. Their price was much cheaper than the big box hardware stores.
The hinges are of good quality and come with the matching screws.
Since there was no way my SUV would fit all ten doors, I bought them as I needed them. The first set of doors I started on was the main hallway.
The first thing I did before removing any door, was note any problems with the existing door I had. Like whether it was sticking in any areas. This way when I trimmed the new door I could cut an extra 16th of an inch off the edge to avoid the sticking the old door had. If the door had too much of a gap on the bottom. I adjusted this also.
I placed the new door flat down on a set of work horses. The old door was placed on top of it. The side with the door knob hole was aligned. I then drew lines on the hinge side, top, and bottom of the doors where I needed to trim off excess so they would fit in the opening. After cutting them on my table saw, I placed the old door back on the newly cut door to make sure it was cut correctly.
I then marked the location of where I would need to chisel out the hinge recesses. With one of the new hinges I had, I traced the outline of the hinges onto the side of the door.
I then cut each outline of the hinge recesses with a sharp blade in my cutter. Going as deep as the thickness of the hinge. I then took my chisel and hammered a wider dent along the edge of this outline. I used a flathead screw driver instead of a chisel around the hinge corners. With the outline of the hinge clearly marked, I held my chisel at an angle and tapped the end with a hammer to remove the wood as thick as the hinge between the carved hinge markings. I used a new hinge to make sure I went deep enough.
After cutting the door hinge recesses I took the door to it's new home and attached the door with the new hinges in place to check the fit. You would think, that after all the steps I made to make sure the door was exactly the same size as the previous door, it would go up easy as could be. Not! Something always had to be tweaked. Some of the problems were with the frames. Like the recess in the frame was set a little too forward or back. Each door and door frame presented different problems that were fixed.
When the door finally fit properly, like it should, it was then painted with the same white as the walls. I also painted the door frame where the old hinges and door knob strike plates were. The house had been painted a few times over the years around all of this hardware. The frame just looks cleaner when you paint these areas BEFORE you place the hardware on.
The brown louvered door is the closet for our gas furnace. It has not been painted or replaced. I am hesitant to do anything to this door. It is made of good solid hardwood and has a decent stain on it. I did replace the door knob with a matching dummy knob and the hinges. The louvered door has a spring roller touch catch which is why I only needed a dummy knob.
I purchased door stops also. Many of the old doors did not have any stops. Which means, there were areas in the drywall that show where doorknobs had hit the wall in the past.
I needed 2 lengths of doorstops. I purchased a 4" rustic door stopper and the 3 1/4" door stopper both from eBuilderDirect. Most of the doors that open up with a wall behind them used the 3 1/4". The 4" was used in odd areas like the closet door in the center of the photo above. When this closet door is opened all the way, it hits the door stop moulding on the right door. Gouging the moulding.
The door stops were also placed at the top of the door instead of at the bottom of the door or on the wall. The dogs just love to chew on the door stops. Up high, they can't touch them.
The door that provided a challenge was the master bedroom door. It is actually two doors that cover a 40" opening. They do not make the 6-panel doors in a 40" width. Nor do they make a 20" 6-panel door. Both are not standard sizes. There was the option to have a custom made door made, but that would have been too expensive. So what did I do?
I did some measurements on all the doors I had already installed to see where 20" would hit on the doors. On the 36" door, it measured just 20" from the edge to where the moulding was on the second column of faux panels.
So I purchased two 36" doors. I then ripped both of them with my table saw through the center at the 20" mark. I then cut of the ends of the scrap piece to get the edge which I glued with wood glue into the gaping hole on the now 20" door. I now had two 20" doors.
I added a piece of moulding, to the door that locks into the ceiling, on the side that faces the hallway.
Photo on the left shows how the door slide locks into the top of the door frame. After you lock this door into place, you close the side with door knob.
The photo on right shows one of the scrap door piece after I ripped off 20" and the end. I saved them for no known reason at the time. I did end up using one of the door pieces for the main entrance door.
As of September 2013, there are two more doors I have yet to replace. The master bedroom closet doors. I need to work on this whole wall removing the cable lines that go up and down around the door frames. I also want to replace the moulding around the door. I have been holding off on this until I work on the master bedroom. I want to tear out the carpeting and replace it with laminate flooring.
I want to place the new door moulding right on top of the new flooring for a finished look instead of trying to cut the laminate around the moulding.
So this job is waiting until I have enough energy and my hands are in better shape to do all of the ripping AND I have the money to buy all of the laminate I need to replace the remaining carpet in the house.
However, In November 2013 I replaced the master bedroom closet doors. I had to keep moving the doors around in the garage and I was afraid I would eventually damage them. I decided to install the doors before they were damaged.
The French doors that are in the living room and master bedroom, that lead to the balcony, were removed and repaired. Each door took about two weeks to strip, repair, and paint.
However, these doors took a couple of decades of punishment from the sun and rain before the balcony roof was added The paint was peeling and there was water damage. The inside paint was also discolored and needed to be painted.
The photos below show the bedroom door after being repaired and painted.
The French doors were taken off the hinges and placed flat on work horses. The stripping of the paint took a while. All of my previous strip and paint projects were done using metal scrappers and sandpaper. In this case, I was having a hard time getting the paint off around the glass.
The front entry door I worked on was completed August of 2013 while I was working on the front entrance. Actually, I started working on the door and that job evolved into the main entrance remodel.
I did not take a picture of the outside of this door but it was the same orange color shown in the backyard photo below. The inside of the door was the flat brown that matched the doors in the rest of the house.
The entrance door also had the usual dog scratches. The front door was removed from the hinges and placed on a set of work horses on the front patio. I sanded off all of the paint on this side of the door down to the bare wood. The other side of the door took a lot more work.
The door on the outside had some unique moulding that I wanted to keep. With all of this moulding it took a while, even when I used the stripper, to remove all of the old paint and then sand the door down.
When the door was finally stripped, I used the outdoor oil based primer and then the latex top coats. White on the inside and the new outdoor color I used on the balcony on the outside of the door.
Finished front door - outside The completed outside of the front door is shown on the left. The door was previously painted one color, orange.
I painted the entire door, after stripping the old paint, with the new outdoor color I am painting the exterior with. For the moulding, I added a little bit of black to some of the paint to get a darker color. I used the darker color to paint the moulding and added the gecko motif.
The inside of the completed door is shown below.
Now that I had 6-panel doors throughout the house, I wanted this door to look like it was a 6-panel door. But I was not going to buy a new door.
What I did have were the two scrap pieces from the two 36" doors I chopped in half to make my master bedroom doors.
With one of these scrap pieces, I cut out the six panels along their edges. I then glued them with wood glue on top of the sanded door after measuring and marking where to put them.
Along the edges of the faux panels I used quarter round moulding. I then used wood filler to put in the crack between the seam of the faux panels and moulding, sanded it smooth and then caulked around the outer edge of the moulding.
I guess I could have just used moulding to make the faux panels, but I wanted this door to match the other doors as close as possible.
The photo below shows a close-up of the faux panel and moulding.
And yes, when I renovated this entire area I got rid of the hideous gold colored plexi-glass. I will cover this topic on the house entrance page.
The only doors I have left to do are the two in the master bedroom and the outside of the backyard door.
One thing I have noticed this past summer (2013), was the amount of swelling the wood and doors in this house undergo when the swamp cooler (evaporative cooler) is being used. I thought I had all the doors working good, with no sticking. This summer the humidity level made many doors stick to the point where they could not even be opened. So I have had to go back and further shave down some doors.
What did I work on after the front entrance door?
The outside door that leads to the backyard at the lower level of the house has only been done on the inside. The inside of the door was done when I was working on the man cave. This door is pictured below.
After removing the door, I applied my stripper to remove the orange paint. Fortunately, this door only had three coats of paint. The orange, then beige, and the white primer.
After stripping most of the paint, the door was moved outside for the sanding. After the door was sanded down smooth, I cut some of the left over ABS sheet I had used on the backyard wrought iron door to cover the four sections on the bottom.
The plywood on the bottom was very thin and damaged. The ABS would also give an additional layer of insulation to the door in addition to protecting the door from dog scratches. The ABS sheets were glued on with Liquid Nails and weighed down with a brick for a day.
Backyard entry door now complete The entire door was then primed with oil based paint. Sanded with a 200 grit sandpaper, then primed again. I let the door sit for a couple of days. After the second coat of primer was thoroughly dried, I sanded the door again with 320 grit sandpaper. The door was then moved inside for the final coats of latex paint.
New hinges were installed and the door hung.
The weather stripping I had installed on the other entry doors in the house and storage shed were added to this door stop.


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The success of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time completely rejuvenated a left for dead franchise. From a series that was known for its challenging, timed gameplay, rose a 3D incarnation that was nearly beloved by both the gaming press and gamers themselves. Setting the gears in motion for sequels, spinoffs, and a movie, The Sands of Time was both a trendsetter for many future titles and an acknowledgement to its roots.
A few years after its immediate trilogy sputtered off, Ubisoft tried to remake the prince once again with Prince of Persia, no subtitle. Much like the NES Ninja Gaiden and the Xbox Ninja Gaiden, Prince of Persia was annoyingly named the exact same as the original game twenty years its predecessor. But if fans were expecting an even closer imitation of the original, they would be quite surprised with the bigger changes made by Ubisoft.
Prince of Persia (2008, not 1989) received mixed reviews with attention to the excellent art and animation, but some disdain towards the game's reported simple difficulty. What attracted me to reviewing the game's first hour was definitely the art style. Borrowing the watercolor look from Okami was definitely a brave move by a generally conservative Ubisoft, and I am hoping some of that creativity might have run over to the parkour and fighting elements of the game. Let's take a look.
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
by Nate — Mon, 03/07/2011 - 5:00am
Hollywood and video games have never had a healthy relationship. Ever since the Super Mario Bros movie ruined millions of childhoods, video game franchises of all kinds have received blasphemous silver screen adaptations. The latest mainstream abuse of a video game license comes from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I'm not one to praise the narrative of most games, but I really enjoyed the bittersweet fable of the Prince and Farah that the 2002 hit presented. I've heard less favorable things about the movie, and I don't think I want to see how it ended up.
The existence of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is the result of one of the strangest cross-media cycles I've ever seen. The Forgotten Sands, a sequel to the Sands of Time video game, was released alongside the Sands of Time movie, an unrelated adaptation of the Sands of Time video game. Even stranger, Sands of Time already has a pair of sequels (Warrior Within, and The Two Thrones), but Forgotten Sands apparently precedes them. Even strangerer, the Wii version of Forgotten Sands is actually an alternate tale to the version of the game available for PS3, 360, and PC!
I'm still trying to wrap my head around all that. The plotline of the Sands Trilogy was already mind-bending enough with all the time travel going on, but now Hollywood's gone and made everything worse! Oh well. I guess the more pressing topic at hand is just how forgettable Forgotten Sands is on the Wii.
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by Greg Noe — Fri, 03/04/2011 - 5:00am
Here we go with another video game adaptation, this time with Disney's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Released last year, it is based on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Windows game of the same name from way back in 2003. Creator of the series, Jordan Mechner, actually wrote the film, so we at least have a bit of pedigree here.
I don't really ever feel the need to watch movies based on video games, so I'm usually seeking them out on purpose to rip on them. The Sands of Time is no exception, and while I fully expected the movie to suck, I was surprised to find that it was actually not terrible, but still not a very good "adaptation" of a series I'm very familiar with.
The movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal in all his shirtless manliness, plus Gemma Arterton as the damsel and Ben Kingsley in yet another video game movie after Bloodrayne. I'm not a big film nerd, but even I recognize that Kingsley is a pretty good actor that takes a ton of bad roles. I question his sanity.
Here's my thoughts on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
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The QTE cure: Singin' in the Heavy Rain
by Nate — Wed, 06/09/2010 - 5:00am
Quick Time Events. Ever since God of War and Resident Evil 4 exploded onto the scene with button-prompt sequences of gore and horror, the industry has shown its sheep-like nature and incorporated these Gotcha! moments into games without thinking about how they make an interactive experience better. Many gamers have adjusted to the fact that every cutscene now has an awful series of play buttons throughout, but I personally would like to cram all the QTEs in the world into a space shuttle full of cobras and launch them directly into the sun if it meant I'd never have to see another one again.
That said, it's not impossible to come across decent use of QTEs. Indeed, before Resident Evil 4 set the standard at the advent of 2005, the mechanic was most prominently-used by the Dreamcast's crown jewel, Shenmue. In fact, it was Yu Suzuki, that game's director, who coined the term "Quick Time Event." Suzuki put the gimmick to good use throughout Shenmue, allowing protagonist Ryo Hazuki to do everything from tossing drunkards around in bar brawls to saving little girls from incoming soccer balls. One of the reasons the game is so beloved today is that it allowed the player to engage in such a wide variety of scenarios, many of which were supported with smartly-designed QTEs.
Good QTEs didn't end with Shenmue, however, even though sometimes it seems that's the case. Like God of War, other Playstation heavyweights have managed to use QTEs to enhance a game experience. I think it's only fair that we look at a few of those, as well as some alternatives to these timed button-prompts for cinematic flair in games.
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
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by Paul Eastwood — Sun, 09/27/2009 - 11:00am
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is the sequel to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which was itself a relaunch of a popular 2D platformer from the early 1990s. The relaunch, developed by Ubisoft Montreal, eventually became a trilogy, released on PlayStation 2, XBox, GameCube, PC, and even a version for the GameBoy Advance. The series has since been relaunched again on the current generation of systems.
Sands of Time was very well received for many reasons, including beautiful art direction, spot-on controls, fluid animations, clever mechanics and a wonderful intangible quality. It had two main downfalls: the combat was repetitive and the game was short.
Warrior Within sets out to correct both of these follies, boasting a longer story and a much-improved combat engine that takes the acrobatic attacks of the first game and expands them to a move list that takes up several pages in the instruction manual.
With these improvements, the game has also "matured" in the video game sense, which as usual means blood and scantily-clad women. Oh, and heavy metal. I'm not really sure why Ubisoft felt this was necessary; I'm assuming it was based on customer feedback.
I played through Prince of Persia: The Sands of time a while back and enjoyed it very much. When it was over I wished it wasn't, and that's what sequels are for. Will Warrior Within satisfy my craving for more acrobatic platforming/adventuring featuring the Prince of Persia?
Note: If I say "the first game" I'm referring to Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, not the original Prince of Persia game.
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Hofstra Pride Guides: Recap of Admitted Student Day!
Recap of Admitted Student Day!
What a success! Yesterday's Admitted Student Day here at Hofstra was filled with new accepted students, excited families, and helpful Hofstra students, workers, and faculty! The events of the day varied from academic sessions, student services fair, a photo shoot with Kate and Willie, an ice cream social, campus tours, and much more! It was a great day for students to learn everything about Hofstra and really experience would life would be like here!
Here are some photos from yesterday's event!
All the families filling up the unispan!


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X-Motor Racing offers an unique experience which hasn't similar experiences. Customizable racing simulation. All is customizable because it's possible to modify all the car specifications, including the physics. This can be useful for many things. It can be useful for adapting a car to the real model car and to make it to behave as the real one, modifying the tyres physics to behave as slicks, to make the grip different depending on the temperatures, etc.
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First published in 1997, Patricia Hollis's biography of the pioneering Labour MP Jennie Lee (1904-1988) won both the Wolfson History Prize and the Orwell Prize. It is the definitive study of this remarkable woman, her stormy political career, and her marriage to Aneurin Bevan. In a new preface to this edition Hollis adds insights into Lee's life which emerged subsequent to first publication, and also draws on her own experience as a Labour Minister from 1997-2005.
'Lee's lives and loves, passions and drives are beautifully and frankly explored in Patricia Hollis's compelling book.' THES
'Superbly researched, engrossingly written, scrupulously honest.' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph
'What makes it particularly fascinating is the author's own first-hand knowledge of politics and of the Labour movement.' TLS
'One of the best political biographies of recent years.' Alan Watkins, New Statesman
First published in 1997, Patricia Hollis's biography of the pioneering Labour MP Jennie Lee (1904-1988) won both the Wolfson History Prize and the Orwell Prize. It is the definitive study of this remarkable woman, her stormy political career, and her marriage to Aneurin Bevan. In a new preface to this edition Hollis adds insights into Lee's life which emerged subsequent to first publication, and also draws on her own experience as a Labour Minister from 1997-2005. 'Lee's lives and loves, passions and drives are beautifully and frankly explored in Patricia Hollis's compelling book.' THES 'Superbly researched, engrossingly written, scrupulously honest.' Gerald Kaufman, Daily Telegraph 'What makes it particularly fascinating is the author's own first-hand knowledge of politics and of the Labour movement.' TLS 'One of the best political biographies of recent years.' Alan Watkins, New Statesman


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UCSB researchers develop a fast, low-voltage actuator for soft and wearable robotics
Posted by Age of Robots | Jun 3, 2018 | Robotics | 0 |
In the world of robotics, soft robots are the new kids on the block. The unique capabilities of these automata are to bend, deform, stretch, twist or squeeze in all the ways that conventional rigid robots cannot.
Today, it is easy to envision a world in which humans and robots collaborate — in close proximity — in many realms. Emerging soft robots may help to ensure that this can be done safely, and in a way that syncs to human environments or even interfaces with humans themselves.
"Some of the advantages of soft robotic systems are that they can easily adapt to unstructured environments, or to irregular or soft surfaces, such as the human body," said UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor Yon Visell.
"Some of the advantages of soft robotic systems are that they can easily adapt to unstructured environments, or to irregular or soft surfaces, such as the human bodySome of the advantages of soft robotic systems are that they can easily adapt to unstructured environments, or to irregular or soft surfaces, such as the human body."
Despite their promise, to date, most soft robots move slowly and clumsily when compared with many conventional robots. However, the gap is narrowing thanks to new developments in the fundamental unit of robotic motion: the actuator. Responsible for the mechanical movement of a mechanism or a machine, actuators do their work in various ways, relying on electromagnetic, piezoelectric, pneumatic or other forces.
Now, Visell and his UCSB collaborators have married the electromagnetic drives used in most conventional robotic systems with soft materials, in order to achieve both speed and softness. "An interesting biological analog to the actuator described in our new work might be a fast twitch muscle," said Visell, who along with UCSB chemistry and biochemistry professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, and postdocs Thanh Nho Do and Hung Phan, authored the paper "Soft Electromagnetic Actuators for Robotic Applications." The article appears on the cover of the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
The main challenge for Visell and colleagues was to build an actuator that could achieve speeds greater than what has typically been possible with soft robotic actuators, many of which depend on slow processes, such as air flow or thermal effects.
"In this project, we wanted to see how far we could push the idea of having very fast, low-voltage actuation within a fully soft robotic paradigm," he said. They based their work on the electromagnetic motor, a common type of fast and low-voltage actuator that is used in everything from electric cars to appliances, but has seen little effective application in soft robotic systems.
A small, soft actuator made of liquid metals and flexible polymers is the soft analog of an electromagnetic motor. This image appeared on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials. Photo Credit: COURTESY IMAGE
The team's work has resulted in a type of actuator that is fast, low voltage and soft — and also remarkably small, just a few millimeters in size. Using unique, liquid-metal alloy conductors encased in hollow polymer fibers and magnetized polymer composites, the researchers created patterned, three-dimensional components that form the basis of soft analogs of standard electrical motors. The fibers themselves are polymer composites that the team engineered to have high thermal conductivity, greatly improving their performance.
"We realized components that are each soft and stretchable, and combined them to create these motor-like structures that can move things," Visell said. To demonstrate, they created a tiny, millimeters-wide gripper that can close in just milliseconds, and a soft tactile stimulator that can operate at frequencies of hundreds of cycles per second.
These devices could find use in emerging areas such as haptics, where touch feedback is sought for applications including virtual reality and, of course haptics' close relative — soft robotics. "These soft electromagnetic actuators can be used to create tactile displays that conform to human skin, or miniature robotic tools for surgical endoscopy or other medical applications," said postdoc Thanh Nho Do.
"We look forward to applying these new soft robotic technologies in areas ranging from virtual reality, augmented reality, wearable technologies, healthcare and medicine," Visell said. "The horizon is wide open."
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"In times of uncertainty people buy Swiss francs, and they also buy Swiss encryption devices"
Published: Friday July 21 2017
In the battle to protect the security of digital information, a Swiss company has used quantum mechanics to develop a new form of cryptography which makes decoding data impossible – even as computers become much faster.
The increasing processing power of computers is making it easier for hackers to decipher encrypted information by finding the keys at the heart of traditional coding techniques. That task will become much easier when quantum computers arrive, hugely accelerating processing speeds and making it possible to break codes very quickly.
However, the quantum mechanics science behind the new generation of super-fast computers has already generated a new form of cryptography which is impossible to decode – not least because any attempt to intercept changes the data. A leader in the field is ID Quantique, a company created in 2001 by four scientists at the University of Geneva who had identified the potential of quantum cryptography to revolutionise data security.
"Quantum encryption technology has been around for a while," says Grégoire Ribordy, a physicist who was one of the founders and became the company's chief executive in 2001. "But all the big IT groups have begun to enter the quantum computing field in the last two years. And the US National Security Agency (NSA) announced in 2015 that it was planning to upgrade its cryptography techniques to make them quantum safe."
"We may have been early into the field, but people now understand the challenge. Quantum computing is no longer science any more, but engineering – it's not a question of if, but when. So quantum encryption has become a priority for protecting the security of data when today's conventional coding techniques become too vulnerable."
The development of quantum mechanics came in the first 30 years of the 20th century when physicists found discrepancies between the results of their experiments and the then theory. Quantum mechanics described a new way of looking at the world of atoms, particles and other very small things. It was initially purely theoretical, but gradually led to the first quantum revolution with the development of lasers, microchips and other new technologies.
This first wave did not use the full potential of quantum physics, says Dr Ribordy. But a second quantum revolution has begun as it has become possible to use much smaller devices and control individual elements. And the emergence of quantum computing is one consequence of that, because it will be able to process the calculations needed to break cryptographic codes so fast that traditional encryption techniques will be ineffective.
"The idea of quantum cryptography is not to use quantum physics to create a problem, but to solve this problem by improving the security of communications."
Even before quantum computing has developed, far-sighted organisations are already using quantum-safe cryptography techniques to provide long-term security of their data. An adversary can record information encrypted using traditional codes today and decrypt it in the future when quantum computing becomes available. Using quantum cryptography now protects critical data such as client portfolios, as well as information about clients and the employees of the organisation.
A more common use today of ID Quantique's quantum-safe techniques is to secure communications between data centres – between head office computers and back-up facilities, for example. An attraction for users is that the information cannot be decrypted when quantum computers arrive, because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. This central tenet of quantum mechanics, says that if you try to read and measure a quantum object such as a photon that carries the encryption key, you change its state.
Kelly Richdale, a seasoned entrepreneurial executive brought in to help transform ID Quantique into a more commercially minded organisation, sees this as a strong selling point. "If someone tries to intercept information sent over optical fibres – for example between two data centres – it creates physical proof of the attempt. It is an anti-eavesdropping mechanism, as well as giving protection in the future world of quantum computing."
The company has other products using quantum mechanics principles, such as the Quantis, a small random number generator, which harnesses the random nature of the universe to generate encryption keys for security products. It is also used in the online gaming industry, which is highly regulated and needs to be able to demonstrate that its games use genuinely random numbers.
An attraction of ID Quantique's security encryption products for potential customers is that it is a Swiss company. "One of our logos is Swiss Quantum," says Kelly Richdale. "The most famous examples of security breaches were those highlighted by the whistle-blower Edward Snowden, who revealed the surveillance of digital communications by governments and their insistence that manufacturers install back doors in devices to give them access to transmissions of encrypted data."
"Switzerland doesn't have that kind of strong government pressure – indeed, we have data protection and privacy as fundamental rights. When countries such as the US force disclosure through back doors, it hugely undermines trust in their products. It's a bit like the flight to the Swiss franc: in times of uncertainty people buy Swiss francs, and they also buy Swiss encryption devices."
Dr Ribordy says he hopes to broaden the company's range of products, to position it as the leader in quantum-safe long-term security. These include new solutions for email encryption and storage encryption, where he expects demand to grow as the arrival of quantum computers approaches.
"We are looking for partners to bring our quantum products into completely different markets, such as smartphones. You could just take a picture on your smartphone which would generate high-quality random numbers for codes and encryption keys for security purposes."
The company has started to grow fast, doubling its staff to 50 in the last year. One factor that is increasing demand is the new focus on cyber attacks. Traditionally it has been on data theft, and that is expected to continue. But increasingly cyber attacks are being used for political purposes, such as influencing elections or attacking critical infrastructure.
"If you look at what happened in Ukraine, the Russians hacked into the electricity grid," says Kelly Richdale. "They took out part of it and the only thing that saved the Ukrainians was the age of their grid and its poor connectivity which stopped the whole network from being brought down."
"The first such attack came in Estonia, which has now become a leader in developing cyber defences. And Switzerland is a good example of how organisations can work together to defend their critical infrastructure, which includes the banks as well as the electricity industry, the water grid and other networks. There is a very strong coordinated response if there's an attack on a Swiss infrastructure company, but there are countries where cyber defence is not so well coordinated."
And the beauty of quantum-safe encryption is that it has guaranteed forward security built in, says Grégoire Ribordy. "It's based on the laws of physics and they can't be changed. Quantum cryptography has the potential to end the race between code-makers and code-breakers. We can improve the performance of our system, reduce its cost and maybe its size, and move into new application areas. But the security of quantum cryptography will not change – and that's what makes the technology interesting."
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In finance, a straddle strategy involves two transactions in options on the same underlying, with opposite positions. One holds long risk, the other short. As a result, it involves the purchase or sale of particular option derivatives that allow the holder to profit based on how much the price of the underlying security moves, regardless of the direction of price movement.

A straddle involves buying a call and put with same strike price and expiration date. If the stock price is close to the strike price at expiration of the options, the straddle leads to a loss. However, if there is a sufficiently large move in either direction, a significant profit will result. A straddle is appropriate when an investor is expecting a large move in a stock price but does not know in which direction the move will be.

A straddle made from the purchase of options is known as a long straddle, bottom straddle, or straddle purchase, while the reverse position, made from the sale of the options, is known as a short straddle, top straddle, or straddle write.

Long straddle

A long straddle involves "going long volatility", in other words purchasing both a call option and a put option on some stock, interest rate, index or other underlying. The two options are bought at the same strike price and expire at the same time. The owner of a long straddle makes a profit if the underlying price moves a long way from the strike price, either above or below. Thus, an investor may take a long straddle position if he thinks the market is more volatile than option prices suggest, but does not know in which direction it is going to move. This position is a limited risk, since the most a purchaser may lose is the cost of both options. At the same time, there is unlimited profit potential.

For example, company XYZ is set to release its quarterly financial results in two weeks. A trader believes that the release of these results will cause a large movement in the price of XYZ's stock, but does not know whether the price will go up or down. He can enter into a long straddle, where he gets a profit no matter which way the price of XYZ stock moves, if the price changes enough either way. If the price goes up enough, he uses the call option and ignores the put option. If the price goes down, he uses the put option and ignores the call option. If the price does not change enough, he loses money, up to the total amount paid for the two options. The risk is limited by the total premium paid for the options, as opposed to the short straddle where the risk is virtually unlimited.

If the options are American, the stock is sufficiently volatile, and option duration is long, the trader could profit from both options. This would require the stock to move both below the put option's strike price and above the call option's strike price at different times before the option expiration date.

Short straddle

A short straddle is a non-directional options trading strategy that involves simultaneously selling a put and a call of the same underlying security, strike price and expiration date. The profit is limited to the premium received from the sale of put and call. The risk is virtually unlimited as large moves of the underlying security's price either up or down will cause losses proportional to the magnitude of the price move. A maximum profit upon expiration is achieved if the underlying security trades exactly at the strike price of the straddle. In that case both puts and calls comprising the straddle expire worthless allowing straddle owner to keep full credit received as their profit. This strategy is called "nondirectional" because the short straddle profits when the underlying security changes little in price before the expiration of the straddle. The short straddle can also be classified as a credit spread because the sale of the short straddle results in a credit of the premiums of the put and call.

The risk to a holder of a short straddle position is unlimited due to the sale of the call and the put options which expose the investor to unlimited losses (on the call) or losses limited to the strike price (on the put), whereas maximum profit is limited to the premium gained by the initial sale of the options.  Losses from a short straddle trade placed by Nick Leeson were a key part of the collapse of Barings Bank.

Straps and strips

Straps and strips are modified versions of a straddle. Whereas a straddle consists of one put and one call at the same strike price, a strap consists of two calls and one put at the same strike price, while a strip consists of one call and two puts. Like a straddle, a strap or a strip allows the trader to profit from a large move in either direction, but while a straddle is directionally neutral, a strap is more bullish (used by a trader who considers an increase more likely than a decrease), and a strip is more bearish (used by a trader who considers a decrease more likely than an increase).

See also
 Butterfly (options)
 Strangle (options)

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Malham boasts an explosion of walking trails long and short, and is both dog and human delight. It's also the home of the National Park Centre and walk leaflets can be picked up here to give you the most up to date information about the footpaths.
The Pennine Way goes through Malham, and you can follow a stretch of it to visit Malham Cove.