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Toyota's all new 'fun' Prius
by Peter Valdes-Dapena @peterdrives September 9, 2015: 12:38 AM ET
The new Toyota Prius boasts a lower, sleeker shape.
Toyota has unveiled an all new Prius that's expected to get about 55 miles per gallon and be "more fun to drive than ever," according to the automaker.
Granted, this is the Prius we're talking about. It's a car that's been sold on the basis of its impressive fuel economy, not driving enjoyment. But with gas prices dropping to their lowest level in years and SUV sales driving the automotive market, an expected 10% improvement in fuel economy may not be enough -- on its own -- to excite car shoppers.
So Toyota (TM) is touting the new car's redesigned and more responsive suspension, its sleeker exterior design and a new interior.
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With its distinctive curved roof shape, the Prius is an icon among environmentally friendly "green" vehicles. It accounts for almost a quarter of all "alternative fuel" vehicle sales, according to the automotive website Edmunds.com. That category includes plug-in electric cars and plug-in hybrids as well as non-plug-in hybrids like the Prius.
Even though sales of the Prius were down almost 12% last year compared to the year before, the car remains one of Toyota's core models in the United States. It's Toyota's fourth most popular model in the United States after the immensely popular Camry, Corolla and Rav4. In 2014, Toyota sold More Priuses than General Motors (GM) sold of the Chevrolet Malibu family sedan.
"It's definitely come a long way," said Jeremy Acevedo, an industry analyst with Edmunds.com. "It used to be associated with a subculture of environmentalists."
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With the Prius now entering its fourth generation, consumers have also learned to trust and understand the car's once confusing hybrid electric technology. They get that most hybrid cars don't need to be plugged in and the battery packs don't need to be replaced after a few years.
The Prius has an extremely loyal owner base, Acevedo said. This car, he said, is "review-proof." Even if car magazines don't much care for it, buyers will still flock to pick up the latest version.
In addition to better fuel economy and a new look, Toyota is also offering a new suite of safety technology features. These include a lane departure warning system that will gently steer the car back into its lane and brakes that work automatically if an impending collision is detected.
The new Prius was unveiled at a Toyota dealer event in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will go on sale in early 2016.
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The Zambian Jewish Community Public Health Wing and Exchange Program open new doors for healthcare
From left: Mr. Edwin Wulfsohn, longtime Trustee of the UK Tel Aviv University Trust; TAU President Joseph Klafter; President of the Council for Zambian Jewry, Mr. Michael Galaun; TAU VP for Resource Development Amos Elad. Photo: Yossi Zeliger
The Zambian Jewish Community Public Health Wing at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine was inaugurated during the 2015 Board of Governors Meeting in the presence of officials from the Zambian Jewish community, TAU and Zambia's Copperbelt University.
The newly renovated wing is home to the Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Health Promotion and Occupational and Environmental Health, which are part of the TAU School of Public Health. This important addition to the Faculty of Medicine is part of a far-reaching contribution by the Zambian Jewish Community that includes support for the construction of the new medical school at Copperbelt University, the Zambian Jewish Community Public Health Exchange Program between the two universities and funding for novel epidemiological research at TAU.
Mr. Edwin Wulfsohn, longtime Trustee of the UK Tel Aviv University Trust, made the initial connection between Council for Zambian Jewry President Michael Galaun and Tel Aviv University, allowing this unique project to come to fruition. "I think that today must be one of the finest days in the history of the Jewish community in Zambia," Galaun said at the inauguration ceremony, adding that, "We are a very small community, but we punch above our weight, and I am very, very proud to be here."
From left: President of the Council for Zambian Jewry, Mr. Michael Galaun; Head of TAU's School of Public Health Prof. Daniel Cohen; Vice Chancellor of Copperbelt University Prof. Naison Ngoma; Dean of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine Prof. Ehud Grossman and Dean of the Copperbelt University School of Medicine Prof. Kasonde Bowa. Photo: Yossi Zeliger
TAU President Joseph Klafter thanked the members of the Zambian Jewish community, saying, "Your contribution reflects your deep commitment to your home country, to Jewish solidarity, to the State of Israel and to universal public health." Dean of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine Prof. Ehud Grossman also expressed his gratitude, pointing out the 35-member community's dedication to tzedakah. "Despite your small size, you are very generous community," he said.
Addressing the guests from Copperbelt University, the Head of TAU's School of Public Health Prof. Daniel Cohen conveyed his excitement about the exchange of knowledge and skills planned. "We are happy to share our knowledge with you and we want to learn from you too," he said, adding that TAU's School of Public Health would benefit from learning about the challenges facing Zambia's healthcare system.
Vice Chancellor of Copperbelt University Prof. Naison Ngoma praised the community's meaningful donation, which will help fill a void in human resources in Zambian medical care, and said that he hoped "public health is just the beginning of our collaboration with Tel Aviv University." Dean of the Copperbelt University School of Medicine Prof. Kasonde Bowa added that "the opportunity to work with Tel Aviv University's School of Public Health is one that we grab with both hands."
Summing up the impact of the Zambian Jewish Community's generous gift, Prof. Klafter described the three-fold benefits it will bring: "It will ensure that our talented medical students have the highest quality resources they need to take the reins of Israeli healthcare and public health research in the years to come; It will expand the university's relations with Africa by enabling us to share and exchange public health expertise with medical professionals and scientists from Copperbelt University; and it will help advance new knowledge by supporting high caliber research."
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The Conversation: Planning a baby? A fertility app won't necessarily tell you the best time to try
Posted on October 31, 2019 by Robinson Research Institute
Fertility apps are becoming increasingly popular.
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Jessica Grieger, University of Adelaide and Robert Norman, University of Adelaide
In years gone by, women would rely on the calendar on the wall to work out when their next menstrual cycle might occur. They would look to physical signs to tell them when they might be ovulating, and therefore when they'd be most likely to fall pregnant.
More recently, we've seen the proliferation of mobile phone applications helping women track their current cycle, predict their next cycle, and work out when the best time is to try for a baby.
There are more than 400 fertility apps available, and over 100 million women worldwide are using them.
For many women, tracking their fertility can be an emotional whirlwind
The personalisation and convenience of apps makes them empowering and attractive. But they require some caution in their use.
While fertility apps use individualised information to estimate the most fertile period, they are not completely reliable. And even if an app indicates when a woman is most fertile, it doesn't mean a pregnancy will follow if a couple has sex during this window.
A woman's menstrual cycle consists of three phases: menstrual bleeding, the follicular phase (when an egg-containing follicle is growing) and the luteal phase (the two weeks after ovulation prior to the next period).
It's traditionally been thought the follicular phase varies in length between women, whereas the luteal phase is relatively constant between women – generally around 14 days. All phases together are thought to amount to a cycle lasting 28 days.
The actual time of ovulation, which occurs at the end of the follicular phase, is marked by the rise in a hormone called the luteinising hormone. This can be measured by a blood test, or more conveniently by urine dipsticks (the same mechanism used for at-home pregnancy tests).
Women's fertility: does 'egg timer' testing work, and what are the other options?
Physical changes during ovulation include altered vaginal secretions and a subtle drop and then rise in basal body temperature.
A woman can become pregnant during the five days before ovulation or on the day of ovulation. However, the most fertile days are the three days leading up to and including ovulation. By 12-24 hours after ovulation, a woman is no longer able to conceive during that menstrual cycle.
How the apps work
When a woman logs the beginning of her menstrual cycle, fertility apps attempt to predict, using inbuilt algorithms, when ovulation might occur. The app then recommends the timing of intercourse accordingly to optimise the user's chance of becoming pregnant.
Calendar-based apps rely entirely on menstrual cycle length and an assumption ovulation occurs 14 days before the next period.
Many of the more sophisticated apps collect data on basal body temperature, while some also call for a woman to examine her cervical mucus secretions, or include results from at-home ovulation test kits.
There may be ancillary options to track mood and feelings, diet and exercise, and sexual intercourse.
An app to prevent pregnancy? Don't count on it
Are they effective?
Australian researchers recently looked at 36 fertility apps most commonly downloaded by Australian women. The research, yet to be published, indicated less than half (42.7%) of the apps predicted the correct ovulation date.
A published study looking at 12 fertility apps found the calendar-based apps did not correctly determine the ovulation date when the average length of previous cycles was different to the estimated current cycle length. The prediction of fertile days based solely on previous cycle lengths is a clear limitation of calendar-based apps.
For apps collecting temperature data, the prediction of highly fertile days was also commonly missed due to the use of data from previous rather than current cycles.
It's likely the apps which request more information will have better accuracy. But their effectiveness also relies on the user entering information correctly and consistently.
How to pick the good from the bad smartphone health apps
Importantly, a recent study looking at more than 600,000 menstrual cycles from 124,648 women tracked by the Natural Cycles app showed the luteal phase is often considerably longer or shorter than 14 days. This calls into question the fundamental premise of a standard 28 day cycle on which many apps are based.
We have confirmed this using the Flo app, demonstrating differences in cycle length based on body mass index (BMI), age and ethnic background.
In women who had logged at least three cycles on the Flo app (1.5 million women), we found just 16.3% had a median 28 day cycle. A higher percentage of older women (aged 40+) had shorter cycles; whereas Asian women and women with a very high BMI tended to have longer cycles.
For a couple struggling with infertility, an app probably can't offer a solution.
An algorithm can't capture all factors that affect fertility
Although we need more research in this area, the evidence so far suggests if you're trying to have a baby, you shouldn't rely too heavily on an app – particularly if you're finding it hard to conceive.
Various factors such as diet, exercise, body weight, and ethnicity can play a role in a woman's menstrual cycle and a couple's chance of conceiving. While many apps allow users to input this information, changes such as an increase or decrease in body weight, or times of high stress, which may lead to irregular menstrual cycles, are not incorporated into the algorithms that predict when a woman will be most fertile.
This may contribute to a delay in conception and lead to distress, particularly if a couple has already been trying to conceive for many months.
I have PCOS and I want to have a baby, what do I need to know?
On the plus side, consistency in using fertility apps may assist women in getting to know their bodies better, and with evidence-based educational components in some apps, their use may support fertility awareness and knowledge about reproductive health.
Fertility apps can be beneficial for documenting monthly cycles and help women identify when their cycles may be irregular. When this is the case, this may be a sign of other reproductive health issues, and women should see a doctor.
In women who have reproductive health issues such as polycystic ovary syndrome or endometriosis, the ability to become pregnant is already reduced. An app estimating ovulation or suggesting the most fertile period in these women may therefore be limited in its effectiveness.
Jessica Grieger, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Adelaide and Robert Norman, Professor of Reproductive and Periconceptual Medicine, The Robinson Institute, University of Adelaide
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Q: Kotlin @Value dosen't set variables spingboot security trying to set some parameters in the AuthenticationManager of SpringBootSecurity by getting values from application.properties, but the values are only the one set by default, and not the one in the application.properties file
Have used @Value in other places of my app without problem, but in this class somenthing is wrong...
whatever I set in application.properties, the values are always the default ones.
e.g refreshTokenExpiredDays should be 4 (see applicationproperties file below) but in fact it is 1
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value
class ApplicationAuthenticationFilters(
          authenticationManager: AuthenticationManager
    ):UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter(authenticationManager) {

        @Value("\${security-json-token-secret}")
        private val jsonTokenSecret: String = "secret"

        @Value("\${security-access-token-expired-mns}")
        private val accessTokenExpiredMns: Int = 10

        @Value("\${security-refresh-token-expired-days}")
        private val refreshTokenExpiredDays: Int = 1

        @Value("\${security-tokens-in-header}")
        private val tokensInHeader: Boolean=false

    ...
    ...}

application.properties
cors-origin-patterns=http://localhost:3000,https://localhost,http://localhost:8080

security-json-token-secret=secret
security-access-token-expired-mns=20
security-refresh-token-expired-days=4
security-tokens-in-header=true

[EDIT] wondering why someone set -1 to my question...
BTW, yes, this filter class is called when overriding the configure function in the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter
override fun configure(http: HttpSecurity) {

        val applicationAuthenticationFilter:ApplicationAuthenticationFilters = ApplicationAuthenticationFilters(authenticationManagerBean())

    applicationAuthenticationFilter.setFilterProcessesUrl("/auth/login")

    http.csrf().disable();
    http.sessionManagement().sessionCreationPolicy(SessionCreationPolicy.STATELESS)
    http.authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/auth/login/**", "/auth/token/refresh/**").permitAll();
    http.authorizeRequests().anyRequest().authenticated()
    // filtre ici pour gérer la JWT vai authentificationManager
    http.addFilter(applicationAuthenticationFilter)
}

[EDIT 2] My solution
Finaly have created a data class that I inject in all constructors that require a variable from application.properties
@Component
data class EnvVariables(
    @Value("\${security-json-token-secret}")
    val jsonTokenSecret: String = "secret",

    @Value("\${security-access-token-expired-mns}")
    val accessTokenExpiredMns: Int = 10,

    @Value("\${security-refresh-token-expired-days}")
    val refreshTokenExpiredDays: Int = 1,

    @Value("\${security-tokens-in-header}")
    val tokensInHeader: Boolean = false
)

A: You can do the following:
        @Value("\${security-json-token-secret:secret}")
        lateinit var jsonTokenSecret: String

        @Value("\${security-access-token-expired-mns:10}")
        lateinit var accessTokenExpiredMns: Int

        @Value("\${security-refresh-token-expired-days:1}")
        lateinit var refreshTokenExpiredDays: Int

        @Value("\${security-tokens-in-header: false}")
        lateinit var tokensInHeader: Boolean

Note: Your class (filter or otherwise) will need to be an @Bean or @Component in order to have values injected into them. In your [EDIT] it appears you are constructing it manually, in which case your properties will not be handled by Spring.
Additionally, other techniques exist instead of @Value, such as using @ConfigurationProperties.

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tUnE-yArDs: Transition with a Capital "T"
By Bonnie Stiernberg | August 9, 2011 | 3:05pm
Photo by Alex Vanhee Music Features tUnE-yArDs
Hometown: Oakland, Calif.
Album: w h o k i l l
Sole Permanent Member: Merrill Garbus
For Fans Of: Dirty Projectors, The Books, Animal Collective
"This is Merrill."
Merrill Garbus' voice is calm and clear, but as the tUnE-yArDs frontwoman greets me on the phone from her Oakland, Calif. studio, I'm briefly taken aback as I realize I was half-expecting her to yell at me.
If you're familiar with the 32-year-old's work, you'll know this isn't as unreasonable as it sounds. Although she can do ethereal and understated better than most, Garbus is truly in her element when she's belting, her hurricane of a voice ripping through a uniquely layered soundscape of ukulele, bass, saxophone and percussion.
For w h o k i l l, her sophomore LP that dropped via 4AD back in April, the genre-defying singer ventured into the studio after recording her debut (the decidedly lo-fi BiRd-BrAiNs) on a digital voice recorder.
"It felt like being naked a bit, you know, because I'm used to working by myself all the time," she says. "To sort of expose other people to the neuroses of my process makes me feel exposed, but it was good for me, and I can already tell how I've grown through that experience for sure."
Garbus—who, in addition to providing tUnE-yArDs' Afropop-infused powerhouse vocals, handles all ukulele and drum duties—labored over the decision to expand the sound.
"I didn't want to let go of that lo-fi aesthetic, and at the same time I knew that I started with that way of recording with a voice recorder, and I had begun that so long ago that I was outgrowing it in a lot of ways," she says. "One way was the speed of it. It was very, very slow and time-consuming, and I just felt like the musical ideas were flowing faster than that concept would allow."
"It was a process," she continues, "and the whole time, I was like, 'What am I—what are tUnE-yArDs supposed to sound like?' You know, 'Am I going to lose all my first fans by not releasing a recycled cassette tape version of this album as I did before? Or is this the sort of natural progression to change?'"
Change, as it turns out, fueled much of w h o k i l l. Race, violence and privilege are all recurring themes on the record, largely a result of a series of shifts in Garbus' life.
"Moving here to Oakland, a lot of those things are very much in your face. I think when I started the first album, I was living in Vermont and you know, it was a different set of concerns," she says, laughing wryly. "Living in Vermont and Montreal, they're very insulated worlds in a lot of ways, and then I came out here, and you're very much forced to confront your community and your sort of societal situation, and socially it's a lot more confrontational out here. So I was just finding that place in my new life, and also my new life professionally, my new life personally, there was so much stuff that just completely changed.
"Certainly it's a violent place around here, but there's also a violence in that kind of change. You're damaging or destroying or killing elements of your old life."
There's such a strength to Merrill Garbus' voice that it's hard to believe she'd have any interest in destroying herself. On "Killa," she proudly declares, "I'm a new kind of woman, I'm a new kind of woman, I'm a don't-take-shit-from-you kind of woman." It's nearly impossible to listen to a tUnE-yArDs track and not feel empowered, so it must follow that that's a part of her mission as an artist, to become some sort of Gaga-esque symbol of self-love and reassure legions of devoted fans that they're perfect the way they are—right?
"I think unfortunately, it's more selfish than that," she laughs. "I realized a long time ago that I didn't want to do something for other people generally in my life, and I think that does apply to the audience, although it's funny because of course I depend on my audience, and that kind of support and showing and people being enthusiastic about the music is totally what I need to keep going in my career for sure, but in terms of the actual music…"
She pauses. All of a sudden her tone shifts, and for the first time, I can hear just the slightest waver in her otherwise-steady voice. "You know, I need help to affirm my life, my existence on the planet. I need help to not have my day just be a bundle of anxiety and shame and scorn and hatred and fear. And so I need this outlet of creating something which sort of represents the best about life, which to me is joy and dancing and celebration and being grateful for being alive. And that sounds high and mighty, I guess, but that is how I've tended to go about it.
"You know, a friend of mine was like, 'I think right now 85 percent of my day, I want to be alive. The other 15 percent, I want to die. But 85 percent of the time ain't bad!' And I think I've found that that's what I need; I just need to keep hanging onto that 85 percent. So, very selfishly, it would be great if other people got that kind of experience from it, but I need it, and I would do it by myself in my basement if I had to, but it turns out that sharing it with other people also becomes a very huge part of the celebration itself."
Garbus grew up surrounded by music (her mother's a pianist, and her father plays fiddle), and while experimenting with sound helped her cope with a painful young adulthood, the Smith College grad—who studied theater in school—never really thought of it as a potential career until later in life.
"I think a lot of it sort of chose me," she explains. "Really it was sort of just that I was so depressed in my mid-twenties that all I could really bring myself to do was play my ukulele lonely in my room, so I think a lot of it was sort of accidental, and in a lot of ways, I felt like I had no other choice. I couldn't do anything else. I couldn't see what I was going to do, so I just kind of ended up doing this thing that turned out OK."
So far, it's turned out a little better than OK: her colorful music video for "Bizness," (click the "play" symbol above to watch) choreographed by Sonia Reiter, currently has over 800,000 views on YouTube ("I really wanted to have a video that evoked that "Thriller" pyramid dance moment, but in a really new and sort of post-modern way," she says); she's already at work recording a follow-up to w h o k i l l, and last week, she made her network TV debut with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
For the time being at least, Garbus' live show is a whirlwind of loops and pedals, as she and bassist Nate Brenner recreate the album's tracks without the help of a backing band. However, as her sound continues to expand, the singer says she's open to the idea of bringing on more musicians—although don't expect her group to grow to Arcade Fire size just yet.
"That's been a whole other process of [deciding] who to bring on tour and not get overzealous and say 'Now we need 20 people and an orchestra to really get the full power of this set' or whatever," she says. "As much as I'd love to have some people take over some of the stuff I do because there's a lot of high pressure, I also think there's a lot that people get from that, that just I on my own can create a whole bunch of sounds and a whole bunch of rhythm and a whole bunch of danceability. I think that that's a really neat part of the show to me and to the audience, so for the time being that will definitely remain a part of the show, but I can hear it in the new stuff that I'm writing that of course there's room for more…We just need to see how I can pay people fairly and make a living and create the band that I want to create."
It makes sense, in a way, that Garbus is open to collaborating. Her belief in music's ability to bring people together is clear ("[It] was really the only strong community that I actually felt in my life," she says), and she's constantly blending together a seemingly never-ending list of influences to create her unique sound.
"Music is sort of a baseline for me in a way that I didn't really understand until I started doing it and realized, 'Oh yeah, this has been sort of ingrained in me for a very long time,'" she says. "I would say my mom playing Bach a lot when I was very young, that sort of became a kind of spiritual experience for me, I think."
She continues, choosing her words carefully so as not to step on the toes of sonic non-believers: "I've sort of had these moments throughout my life where music means everything to me, and I think it's true for a lot of music lovers that there are these religious pairings where music means everything to them."
The new album, which is tentatively due out "late 2012 or early 2013 if we're all still alive after the apocalypse," according to a laughing Garbus, will likely fuel music fans' passions by bringing some joyful noise and getting them moving—celebrating that precious 85 percent of the time when we feel like being alive.
"I think a lot of what's been going on for me is definitely more music for dancing," she says. "That's become a real priority for me."
While she's hesitant to go into too much detail so early in the recording process, Merrill Garbus does cheerily concede one indisputable fact:
"You're catching me at an exciting moment."
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Concorde question
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23rd Aug 2010, 13:03
Location: Cardiff UK
On the ITVV Concorde DVD the Captain explains that during the cruise climb at mach 2 the auto throttles were armed and would be used as required. Then during descent the throttles were gradually pulled back whilst the autopilot was given an IAS of I think 350 knots. Therefore the plane would have to descend to maintain that speed. He explained that the power settings were chosen to ensure that there was sufficent cooling etc.
My query is if an autoland was to be undertaken was the auto throttle system able to maintain the required landing speed or would the pilot have to manage the throttles? I guess that decreasing or increasing the pitch to control speed when on the glide slope would not be a good idea.
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EXWOK
Approach handling was an interesting exercise - being so far down the back of the drag curve (over 100kts below best L/D) very accurate thrust handling was required.
The autothrottle was always used for approach if servicable, except for a two-engined approach, and was absolutely excellent. There were two, operating in parallel, and if the speed was more than a couple of knots out for more than a few seconds it was unusual. In IAS ACQ mode there was an active input from the INS which tracked grounspeed and so enabled anticipatory throttle movements during wind changes - if an autoland runway was available the preferred method of dealing with an approach likely to experience windshear was to carry out an autoland. (I think I speak for everyone, though, if I express a preference for the just going somewhere else option).
In Supercruise one autothrottle only was rearmed if the associated autopilot was engaged - it wasn't active but was available to cater for sudden drops in temperature which could cause unpleasant sudden high rates of climb if the temp shear was sufficient.
The rest of the flight - basically manual thrust, usually with the throttles fully forward.
Maybe one day we'll start making aeroplanes with such sophisticated systems again...........there's still lots that hasn't been hinted at on this thread
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Biggles78
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Originally Posted by EXWOK
there's still lots that hasn't been hinted at on this thread
EXWOK, more than happy to take a hint........PLEASE! and welcome to this gem of a thread.
With the FBW, was there any feedback built into the yoke? The Airbus with it's "joystick" has, I believe, no feel unlike a Flight Sim force feedback one.
If there was a yoke movement on one side did the other side mirror the movement or like the Airbus did the sidestick play dead?
M2, it appears the tailwheel was, so far, the only "fault" in an otherwise extreme machine. Were there any other items like the tailwheel that were unworthy to be in her?
Does anyone have a tech drawing of the "sliding seals" used in the hydraulics. I have trouble visualising something that could withstand the 4,000psi pressure. Why was such a high pressure used? After all the control surfaces couldn't have required that much input to effect an authority movement. I understand it was also a special fluid that was used. Was this because of the pressure it was under or the temperature extremes?
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4greens!
This is a wonderful thread about the most superlative aircraft ever built.We were once fortunate enough to be given seats 1 C&D (I would have liked to see a roll-call of their previous occupants) and with regard to the hugely knowledgeable points made about fuel transfer and trim, during boarding and in flight the sound of fuel pumping was often louder than the Olympus music.During a visit to the FD the captain verified that these were the noisiest rows in the cabin despite their often being used by royalty and REAL A-listers. Many thanks for sharing your deep insights into this machine.
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yoke feedback
Biggles:
Yep, there was feedback. In this respect, the implementation of FBW had a rather different philosophy to FBW Airbus'.
Below 200kts it was basically a spring feedback, above that speed it was achieved throught the feel system, not entirely unlike conventional aircraft.
Of course, the feel was tempered also by the autostab system, which didn't feedback through the yoke, but did make control surface inputs. A basic analogy is to imagine a yaw damper, but on all three axes. (It was of course rather more sophisticated, especially in pitch).
During airtests we would fly portions of the supersonic accel without autostabs and it was then very obvious exactly how much input was being made - great care was needed to remain within sensible bank angles in the low supersonic regime.
Also - watch a video of the control surfaces in the latter stages of the approach and landing - all those rapid deflections are the autostabs overlaid on the pilot's inputs. One has to remember that the aircraft is effectively statically unstable in pitch at approach speeds, so a pilot up-elevator input would soon be followed by a countering autostab elevon-down to contain the tendency to keep pitching up, and vice-versa. Gusts affecting the IAS would also create an input.
All of which means the basic spring feel below 200kts is not as basic as it sounds.....and in normal signalling modes (ie FBW and autostab active) the amazing thing is that the aircraft handled beautifully through an 1100kt speed range.
If you look at a picture of the flightdeck you will see a row of 14 white switches full width of the fwd edge of the overhead panel. These were autostab pitch/roll/yaw, feel pitch/roll/yaw left and right systems and the two pitch trim switches (which played a big part in the low-speed protection).
If any of them dropped out you could be sure that the first thing the nearest pilot would do would be to try to re-engage them, as it made for a vastly more pleasant life.
Also, regarding the 4000psi pressure adopted - the control surfaces most definitely did need powerful actuators; as you now know they were very active, especially on approach and transonic, and as well as IASs of up to 530kts you have all the lever arm changes brought by shifting centres of pressure over the surfaces caused by shockwave movements.
If you want to fly supersonic, frontal area is everything so 4000psi also has the benefit of keeping the PFCU cross-section down.
I'm sure M2Dude will be able to give a better explanation of this aspect - it's nearly seven years since I flew the beast (that's depressing) and it's hard enough to remember detail of the flying bits, let alone the complex engineering aspects.
Oh yeah - finally:
As for my allusion to other interesting areas of this aeroplane, we've all got our favourite examples - but I for one will see how the thread progresses naturally before I start proselytising about my favourite bits.
M2dude
Location: FL 600. West of Mongolia
The tailwheel design really was the one exception in poor design terms, but I'm sure that if the aircraft was doing what she should be doing right now, (you know routinely flying across the Atlantic and beyond, instead of languishing in museums), modifications would have finally put this particular malady to bed). In design terms, the rest of the aircraft was nothing short of a flying work of art, a masterpiece. Having said that though, personally I would rather that four rather than three hydraulic systems had been used. Originally there were four systems in the design, but the RED system was deleted, as it was felt to be superfluous. My own view is that this particular decision was total poppycock. Oh, and Green, Blue and Yellow hydraulic systems was something else that Airbus copied from Concorde.... although we ourselves pinched that idea off of the Comet ).
As far as the hydraulic expansion joints go, I will scour around and see if I can find a diagram for you. Try and picture two titanium (or stainless) tubes, on inside the other, with a sealed chamber being formed at the join. Inside this chamber were multiple lands fitted with special viton GLT seals. They did work incredibly well, although occasionally one of the seals gave out, and things got wet, VERY WET.
As far as the 4000 PSI hydraulic system, as EXWOK quite rightly pointed out, the loading on the flying control surfaces were immense throughout the whole flight envelope. (Picture alone just the T/O from JFK RWY 31L, where the aircraft is tightly turning and the gear retracting, all at the same time). As well as the flying controls and landing gear, you also had the droop nose to consider, four variable engine intakes as well as a couple of hydraulically operated fuel pumps. Oh, and in emergencies, a hydraulically driven 40 KVA generator too. The reason that 4000 PSI was chosen was that if a large amount of hydraulic 'work' was to be done, the only way to keep the size of jacks and actuators to a reasonable size/weight was to increase the system pressure by 25% from the normal 3000 PSI. (On the A380 they've gone a step further and gone for 5000 PSI, saving them over a tonne on the weight of the aircraft).
Concorde used a special hydraulic fluid, Chevron M2V. This is a mineral based fluid, as opposed to the ester based Skydrol, used by the subsonics. The reason that we went for a different fluid was a simple one; Skydrol is rubbish at the high temperatures that Concorde operated at, no good at all in fact, so we needed something better and in M2V we found the PERFECT fluid. As an aside, unlike Skydrol, that attacks paintwork, certain rubber seals, skin, EYES etc., M2V is completely harmless, wash your hair in it. (I did, several times when we had leaks. Thinking about it, maybe THAT is why my hair is such a diminished asset
It's so great having another of my pilot friends diving in to this post, welcome welcome
I remember the Mech' Signalling part of the air tests, my lunch has just finished coming back up thank you. (for interest chaps and chapesses, with mechanical signalling, using just the conventional control runs under the floor, there was no auto-stabilisation).
The artificialfeel system worked incredibly well I thought, I always found it curious that the peak load law in the computer was at the transonic rather that the supersonic speed range. It was explained to me long ago that this was because the controls really are at their most sensitive here, but at high Mach numbers are partially 'stalled out', due to shockwave movements along the surfaces, and were therefore less effective. (For this reason I was told, the inner elevons were so critical for supersonic control, being the most effective of all elevons at high speed).
To all, I forgot to mention in my previous post regarding the engine failure in G-BOAF in 1980; I remember an FAA surveyor, who was taking a look at the carnage within the engine bay, saying that in his opinion, no other aircraft in the world could have survived the intensity of the titanium fire that ensued. Analysis showed that the fire was successfully extinguished, possibly at the first shot of the fire bottle. This was a testament to the way that the Concorde engine bay could be completely 'locked down' when the fire handle was pulled, as well as to the way that the whole engine installation was technically encased in armour plate. To put all this in context, acording to Rolls Royce a titanium fire, once it takes hold, can destroy the compressor of a jet engine in four seconds.
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Tim00
I'm just an interested non-pilot bystander, & hope it's OK to post here.
Thank you all for this truly fascinating information. I've a question arising from watching the ITVV DVDs:
Having two pilots obviously gives some options if one becomes ill or incapacitated, but how were things handled if the FE became unable to perform his duties? Did the FO take over, & how familiar were the pilots with the FE's duties - could either pilot do the FE's job in full, or was it limited to some subset such as required for a diversion/landing etc. I assume this kind of thing was practised in the simulator regularly?
I note (unless I've misunderstood) that there was some presetting of the load limit fuel transfer system, so that the pilots could initiate a CofG movement for descent if required.
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Like so many in the Concorde family, I have millions, I'd like to share a couple here. I remember at Fairford in mid 1974, a CAA test pilot (I honestly forget the gentleman's name) was taking the British pre-production A/C 101 (G-AXDN) for a special test flight. The reason that this flight was so special was that for the first time, the CAA were going to do an acceptance flight trial of the brand new digital air intake system. This revolutionary system had been retro fitted to 101 barely a year earlier, and being a brand new (and totally unique, in electronics terms) system had been plagued with teething troubles. It was quite reasonable for any airworthiness authority to have serious misgivings about any system that was going to wave great big metal lumps around in front of the engine compressor face, and that if only a few degrees out from the commanded position out could cause the engine to 'backfire' etc.
So anyway, 101 took off and disappeared into the very blue sky and we waited, and waited, AND WAITED. (I'd only left the RAF and joined the project a few months previously, and did not want my new association with this amazing aircraft to end). I was biting my nails, drinking coffee, losing my hair... (without the help of M2V ). Anyway after about 2 1/2 hours the aircraft returned to Fairford, and everybody crowds around the crew for the debrief. A very stern faced CAA pilot looked at us all, broke into a grin and said "as far as I'm concerned gentlemen, you've got yourselves an airliner". At that point the room was a study of total happiness, blessed relief, and a need to go to the loo..... But from my point of view, I will remember those words forever.
101, which now resides at the Imperial War Museum Duxford was the fastest Concorde ever. She achieved Mach 2.23, which was an incredible irony, as Concorde can trace a large part of it's developement history back to the BAC 223, proposed SST.
As far as flying memories go, I just don't know where to start; My first ever Concorde flight was in November 1976, out of Fairford on a pre-delivery test flight on G-BOAD. (Now sadly bobbing up and down on the Hudson, next to the USS Intrepid). I was staggered how fast and high we flew (Mach 2.08, FL580). Most of my flying up to that date had been in C-130's in the RAF, at around 340 KTS and FL300; Concorde also being infinately quiter in flight than the good old Herc'. I remember a BA QA guy showing me how I could touch the skin of the aircraft at Mach 2 (You reached behind a door busstle flap, moved your hand through some insulation until you felt bare metal). OUCH!! it was hot, very hot.
But I think one of my most memorable flight memories was aboard G-BOAG, (now residing in the Boeing Museum of Flight in Seattle) returning from BKK, having stopped off to refuel in BAH. We were forced to fly subsonic over Saudi, and got caught in this amazing electrical storm, There was St Elmo's fire cracking and bubbling all over the visor panels, but just as incredible was the long blue electrical discharge coming off of the nose probe; it seemed to extend about 50' in front of the aircraft. The crime was, none of us on the F/D had a camera. Every time I bump into the captain on that day (are you reading this Ian?), we go back to remonissing about that incredible flight. Also, later on the same sector, after we had decelerated to subsonic cruise again, this time flying up the Adriatic, we had another fascinating sight: It was getting quite dark now, and here we were, travelling at Mach 0.95 at FL290, when above us was all this Mach 0.8 ish traffic at around FL330-350. All we could see were all these navigation and ant-coll' lights above us, seemingly travelling backwards. It was quite a sight. On the original BAH-BKK sector a week earlier, we flew through some of the coldest air I'd ever seen; The air was at ISA -25, and at Mach 2 our TAT was only about 85 deg's C. (You could feel the difference too; the cabin windows felt only warm-ish to the touch). The upside also of all this was that your fuel burn was much lower than usual. (The only downside of course is that your TAS is a little lower). Rolls Royce did some analysis on the flight, and were amazed at how well the propulsion systems coped with some of the temperature sheers that we encountered, sometimes 4 to 5 deg's/second. They said that the prototype AFCS had been defeated by rises of only 0.25 deg's/second ).
Not meaning to go off onto a (yet another) tangent; Negative temperature shears, very common at lower lattidudes, always plagued the development aircraft; you would suddenly accelerate, and in the case of a severe shear, would accelerate and accelerate!! (Your Mach number, quite naturaly, suddenly increased with the falling temperature of course, but because of the powerplant suddenly hitting an area of hyper-efficiencey, the A/C would physically accelerate rapidly, way beyond Mmo). Many modifications were tried to mitigate the effects of severe shears, in the end a clever change to the intake control unit software fixed it. (Thanks to this change the production series A/C would not be capable of level flight Mach numbers of any more than Mach 2.13, remembering that Mmo was set at 2.04).
There was one lovely story, involving the Shah of Iran, having one of MANY flights in a developmment aircraft. The aircraft encounterd quite a hefty series of temperature shears that plagued havoc with some Iranian F4's that were attempting to close on the Concorde, to act as an escort for the Shah. (or so the strory goes). I'm still trying to picture these F4's, on full afterburner trying to get close to a Concorde cruising away on dry power). It is said that the F4's were having such difficulties, due to their relatively crude powerplant, coping with the temperature changes, that the Concorde was ordered to slow down, 'so the escorting F4's could catch up'!! True or not, it is part of Concorde folklore.
Last edited by M2dude; 24th Aug 2010 at 14:31. Reason: spelling (again) :-(
Hi M2Dude - keep it coming! I missed all this stuff from the early days......
Tim00 - good question, and very relevant.
It takes a lot to incapacitate a Flight Engineer - beer, cigars and scary women were no issue - they were definitely the most relaible part of the operation. (And arguably the least attractive.....)
If the unthinkable happened the First Officer would find himself on the FE's seat. We practised it less often than you might think, but thought about it a great deal. Especially the fuel system management.
Which brings me to your second point - yes, there was a preset for the 'automatic' fuel transfer system, although that wasn't the mechanism used for the pilots to 'take control' of the CG. The critical thing was to be able to get the CG forward if a rapid decel had to be made - for this reason there was an override switch above the First Officer which used various pumps and valves to txfr fwds - primarily by txfring from tank 11. It would be used in various recall checklists (supersonic 4-engine flameout and Continuous Ssurge at M>1.3 seem to register from the dim past) until the FE was able to take over the txfr system himself.
I didn't ever need it - in the surges I encountered the FE was always ready to manage the txfr before we needed the override.
Oooooooh!!!! There's a new topic for someone: Surges.
Theoretically the correct checklist to call for was the "Continuous Engine surge above M 1.3 Conditional Procedure, please". In reality the call was always much more succinct.
Monosyllabic, in fact................
I'm off to the pub, but I bet Bellerophon can speak with erudition on the operational aspects, and if M2Dude is who I suspect he is, I KNOW he'll be able to cover the technical aspects in great depth!
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Fascinating thread. Please keep it going.
I see from photo in post 66 that pitch attitude at Mach 2 was about 4 nu. Could you say what attitudes were normal at other stages of flight?
I think I read that initial rotation was to a pre-computed attitude which allowed for simultaneous climb and acceleration. What was the speed typically when re-heat was cancelled at I assume 1000 agl?
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ChristiaanJ
M2dude,
Thanks for bringing up the story of the temperature shears at low latitudes, saves me some explaining !
The phenomenon was not really "discovered" until the route proving started.
As you say, it meant abrupt changes in Mach and Tt.
Since the pitch autopilot in, say, 'Mach Hold', had only one way to cope with those changes : pitching up or pitching down, this resulted in abrupt climb and descent manoeuvres that were totally inacceptable.
It was not only fixed by modifiying the intake controls.... !
It also led to a fairly major mod in the AFCS, by bringing the auto-throttle into the loop.
Instead of letting the pitch A/P take the aircraft into a zoom climb to try and stay within the "speed limits", it woold be the autothrottle pulling the throttles back.
After a fair amount of flight tests, this became the final form of the 'Max Cruise' mode.
I know... I should have kept a diary.
All this happened 35 years ago, so I can't put exact dates, or even specific aircraft, into the story. At least I still have some Concorde doc, that at times allows me to refresh my memory.
But one thing stayed in my memory over the years ...
The initial A/P+A/T 'Max Cruise' mod meant a major modification of the autothrottle computers. One of the circuit boards in particular was totally "butchered" on-site (Fairford), with well over a hundred track cuts and new wire links, not to mention the number of component changes (to give an idea to the 'experts', these were double-sided PCBs of about 15x20cm).
We got the job done (4 boards : 2 boards per computer, 2 computers), got the computers tested and on the aircraft. Knowing full well how easy it was to introduce faults and problems during such a modification (a dud solder joint could be enough), we expected to see them back within days, or at least within a few flights.
Well..... those computers left the lab with each about a thousand hours "on the clock" (they have little elapsed-time counters that indicated hours under power, NOT flight hours).
The first time we saw them back (for a minor mod, not a fault), both clocks showed over 10,000 hours !
Ah, those were the days
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There were questions about the JFK 31L take-off.
I think this is it....
YouTube - Concorde British Airways take-off
PS The YouTube legend says last t/o from Heathrow, obviously wrong.
As Concorde was in reality the first and only successful SST; a lot of useful information must have been gained during the flight testing phase. Were there any plans to incorporate any updates/modifications based on leasons learnt into later production models(if there of course had been more orders)?
Whilst typing the above I was reminded of something I read many years ago; that MI6 managed to pass slightly doctored "blueprints" to the Russians and that was the reason that "Concordski" was such a failure. I have always assumed that this was an "urban myth".
Always more nose up than a conventional a/c.
As you note, about 4 in the CRZ. About 10.5 degs on approach.
As part of the performance calcs we calculated a 'theta 2' value of pitch. This was bugged on the ADI with a little bug controlled from a thumbwheel on the yoke - at all speeds very accurate pitch control was required, hance this device and the ADI being calibrated in 1 degree increments.
Theta 2 was attitude reqd to obtain V2 in the first segment with one engine out, i.e. the target attitude if an engine failed after V1. Once the gear was up (second segment) one would pitch up a little to hold V2 until 600ft then start initial accel.
On all engines, one held it until 250kts then pitched up to maintain that speed. You'd typically reach it before passing over the M25 departing LHR to the West.
In all cases, as soon as SID altitude or noise abatement limits had been reached you went to the barber's pole asap (400kts initially) as this was where best performance lay.
Coffin Dodger
Location: Just west of the North Sea
Sorry, haven't worked out how to embed videos. Stunning departure!
YouTube - Concorde: Last Takeoff From JFK Airport With Live Commentary
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Landroger
Location: Jungles of SW London
Modern LSI surface mounted, multi layer electronics.
First of all, many, many thanks to our four main sources of Concorde 'nectar'; M2Dude, ChristiaanJ, Bellerophon and Exwok. Their input, each from a slightly different viewpoint, is absolutely captivating. As fascinating as the lady herself.
Christiaan rang an awful lot of bells with his description of some of the electronics - it was very, very similar to the stuff I used to work on, back in the early days of production CT Scanners. Cut tracks and wire links were the 'staff of life' and the stuff of nightmare. Our first minicomputers - to reconstruct the CT image - had 32 kilobytes of memory on four boards, each about 17" square!! My phone has about 2 Gigabytes of memory! Now this was in the late seventies, when Concorde had been flying for a good number of years.
My question, which is a bit of a tilt at windmills, is this; If you had to build Concorde all over again with the same airframe and engines, how much more room, how much lighter and how much more capable would the electronics be if they were made using the latest surface mount, Extremely High Density integrated circuits and microprocessors?
Thanks again everyone, for the best thread I have read on PPRuNe for two years (and there have been some superb ones in that time )
Roger.
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Originally Posted by Nick Thomas
Rather than me waffling and doing cut-and-paste, just look here :
Concorde "B"
Concorde '217' would have been the 'prototype' for the 'B' version. Sadly it never happened.
Like all urban myths, there's some truth in that.
Yes, there was some industrial espionage, and a Russian or two was arrested with microfilms of blueprints and a few components, in the best James Bond style (this was in France, BTW...).
Some "duff gen" may have been passed as well... although the main reason the Concordski failed was that they didn't really get some of the vital stuff sorted, with the subtlety of the wing shape and the intake controls being only a few of the examples.
To my mind, the best story (urban legend or not) was that a Russian got caught scraping tyre deposits off the runway after a few accelerate/stop tests. The sample was duly sent to Russia, mixed with chewing gum and a few other ingredients, and a certain amount of time is reputed to have been wasted tryng to reproduce the 'formula".....
Legend also has it, that the Russians at one point quite seriously inquired if they could buy the license to the intake control system.
Since at the time it would still have had quite significant military use as well, the answer was a very firm "njet" !
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Coffin Dodger,
Thanks for your link to the video of the last JFK takeoff, with the full comentary.


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Tuberculosis is a devastating disease of mankind resulting in 3 million deaths per year. There are 10 million new cases of tuberculosis worldwide, and after a 32- year decline, the number of new cases is now increasing dramatically in the United States with a nearly 10 percent increase in the number of AIDS patients since HIV both reduces immunity against Mycobacteria tuberculosis infection and activates existing, latent infections. Although there are effective chemotherapeutic approaches for tuberculosis, rapid diagnosis is important for effective treatment and current methods take from two to six weeks. Moreover,there are increasing reports of the apparent appearance of drug resistantstrains of M. tuberculosis and the determination of drug susceptibilitiessometimes takes too long to be of use to the patient. The goal of this project is to develop a rapid, sensitive and specific tool for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and rapid assessment of drug sensitivities, using diagnostic reporter bacteriophages. Diagnostic reporter phages will be constructed by insertion of genes encoding luciferase enzymes expressed from mycobacterial-specific signals into mycobacteriophage genomes. When these recombinant phage infect mycobacteria, the luciferase enzyme is expressed and can be detected with an extremely sensitive assay for the production of photons in a luminometer. This assay is very sensitive and should be able to detect fewer than 100 live M. tuberculosis bacilli in a clinical sample. The need for cultivation is thus eliminated and diagnosis can be performed in a few hours rather than a few weeks. Moreover, the response of antibiotics can be monitored at the same time. Specificity of the assay will be generated through the construction of several reporter phages that have different, but well defined host ranges. The phages used will include the well-characterized L5, TM4, and a number of novel uncharacterized phages. Phage L5 offers particular advantages as a model for gene expression following phage infection and for the construction of alternative cosmid vectors.
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Bacteriology and Mycology Subcommittee 2 (BM)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Microbiology/Immun/Virology
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Jacobs, William Robert / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
R01 AI Diagnosis of Tuberculosis by Recombinant Shuttle Phasmid
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Riska, P F; Jacobs Jr, W R; Bloom, B R et al. (1997) Specific identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the luciferase reporter mycobacteriophage: use of p-nitro-alpha-acetylamino-beta-hydroxy propiophenone. J Clin Microbiol 35:3225-31
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De Copa AUF Uruguay is het nationale voetbalbekertoernooi van Uruguay en wordt georganiseerd door de Uruguayaanse voetbalbond (AUF). Het toernooi werd in 2022 opgericht. De winnaar kwalificeert zich vanaf 2023 voor de Copa Sudamericana.

Geschiedenis
Het Uruguayaanse voetbal kende in het begin van de twintigste eeuw verschillende bekertoernooien. De Copa Competencia (1900-1925) en de Copa de Honor (1905-1922) vonden vrijwel elk jaar plaats, maar daarna werd er tot 1933 alleen nog maar om de landstitel gespeeld. Vanaf de jaren dertig werd er om het Torneo Competencia gestreden, maar dit werd veelal in een competitie-systeem gespeeld en niet via knock-outwedstrijden.

Het enige toernooi dat als nationaal bekertoernooi kon worden gezien was het Torneo de Copa dat in 1969 plaatsvond. Dit toernooi diende als kwalificatie voor de Recopa Sudamericana de Clubes, dat was bedoeld als Zuid-Amerikaanse beker voor bekerwinnaars. Het bleef echter bij deze eenmalige editie van het Torneo de Copa, dat door Rampla Juniors FC was gewonnen.

In 2018 ontstond het idee om een nieuw bekertoernooi te organiseren. Hieraan zouden niet alleen ploegen meedoen die in de nationale competitiestructuur speelden, maar ook ploegen die waren aangesloten bij de Organización del Fútbol del Interior (OFI), een amateurvoetbalbond die competities organiseert in het 'binnenland' van Uruguay (buiten het departement Montevideo. In 2022 werd vervolgens het bekertoernooi echt opgericht.

Deelnemers
Er mogen 77 ploegen meedoen aan de Copa AUF Uruguay. Voor ploegen in de twee hoogste divisies - de Primera División en de Segunda División - is deelname verplicht. De ploegen in de Primera División Amateur en in de Copa Nacional de Clubes (georganiseerd door de OFI) mogen ook meedoen, net als twee ploegen die actief zijn in de Segunda División Amateur.

Opzet
Het toernooi wordt gespeeld middels knock-outwedstrijden. Alle ontmoetingen - met uitzondering van de halve finales - worden over één wedstrijd gespeeld. De ploegen uit de Primera División stromen pas in de zestiende finales (laatste 32) in. De finale wordt gespeeld in het Estadio Centenario in Montevideo. De winnaar van de Copa AUF Uruguay kwalificeert zich vanaf 2023 voor de Copa Sudamericana.

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Universo Dos Mil
Name: Reyes Gonzales Preferred Name: Universo Dos Mil
Date Of Birth: Apr 17th 1963 Place of Birth: Santa Anita, Baja California, Mexico
Nationality: MEX Gender: Male
Ring Name(s): El Especial, Universo 2000, Universo Dos Mil
Promotion Search: All • AAA • CMLL
Year Search: All • 1992 • 1994 • 1995 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2013
CMLL Trios Title
Mexican National Trios Title
AAA Triplemania XXI
Jun 16th 2013 Dr. Wagner, Jr. & Electro Shock & La Parka II & Octagon def. El Canek & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 & Villano IV 8-person tag
CMLL Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2013
Mar 15th 2013 Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. & Rush & Shocker def. (DQ) El Terrible & Mr. Niebla & Universo 2000 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Mar 30th 2007 Marco Corleone def. Universo 2000 hair vs. hair (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL Sin Piedad 2006
Dec 15th 2006 Shocker & Universo 2000 def. Kenzo Suzuki & Marco Corleone Hair vs. Hair Tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Mar 17th 2006 Perro Aguayo, Jr. def. Universo 2000 hair vs. hair (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL Juicio Final 2005
Dec 2nd 2005 Universo 2000 def. Halloween hair vs. hair (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL 72nd Anniversary Show
Sep 16th 2005 Perro Aguayo, Jr., Universo 2000 def. Hector Garza hair vs. hair (3-way elimination)
CMLL 49th Anniversary De Arena Mexico
Apr 8th 2005 Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero & Universo 2000 def. (DQ) El Canek & El Canek & Perro Aguayo, Jr. 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Mar 18th 2005 Black Warrior & Brazo De Plata & L. A. Park def. Apolo Dantes & Satanico & Universo 2000 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Dec 17th 2004 Universo 2000 def. (DQ) Perro Aguayo, Jr. 2 out of 3 falls
CMLL 71st Anniversary Show
Sep 17th 2004 Dr. Wagner, Jr., Rayo De Jalisco, Jr., Universo 2000 def. El Canek mask vs. mask (4-way)
Dec 5th 2003 Universo 2000 def. Pierroth, Jr. hair vs. hair (2 out of 3 falls)
Apr 4th 2003 Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero & Universo 2000 def. Atlantis & Lizmark Jr. & Mr. Niebla 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Mar 21st 2003 Black Tiger III & Dr. Wagner, Jr. & Universo 2000 def. Atlantis (c) & Black Warrior (c) & Mr. Niebla (c) 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls) CMLL Trios Title
(title change)
CMLL 69th Anniversary Show
Sep 13th 2002 Atlantis & Brazo De Plata & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. def. (DQ) Cien Caras & Dr. Wagner, Jr. & Universo 2000 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Apr 12th 2002 Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 def. Atlantis & Brazo De Plata & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2002: Apocalypsis
Mar 17th 2002 Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. & Shocker & Vampiro def. Tarzan Boy & Ultimo Guerrero & Universo 2000 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Dec 14th 2001 Atlantis & Lizmark Jr. & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. def. Dr. Wagner, Jr. & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Sep 28th 2001 Dr. Wagner, Jr. & Fuerza Guerrera & Juventud Guerrera & Universo 2000 def. Black Tiger III & Lizmark Jr. & Negro Casas & Villano IV 8-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2001: Juicio Final
Mar 30th 2001 Universo 2000 def. Perro Aguayo mask vs. hair (2 out of 3 falls)
Mar 17th 2000 Brazo De Plata & Emilio Charles Jr. & Mr. Niebla def. Apolo Dantes & Cien Caras & Universo 2000 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Sep 24th 1999 Brazo De Plata & Gigante Silva & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. def. Apolo Dantes & Scorpio, Jr. & Steele & Universo 2000 Handicap Tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Mar 19th 1999 Atlantis & Brazo De Plata & Gigante Silva def. Apolo Dantes & El Gran Markus Jr. & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 Handicap Tag (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL 65th Anniversary Show - Show 2
Sep 18th 1998 Dr. Wagner, Jr. & Steele & Universo 2000 def. Headhunter A & Headhunter B & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Sep 11th 1998 Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 def. Headhunter A & Headhunter B & Ringo Mendoza 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL Ruleta de la Muerte 1998
Jun 18th 1998 Tinieblas Jr. & Universo 2000 def. Black Warrior & Mr. Niebla
CMLL Homenaje a Salvador Lutteroth 1998
Mar 20th 1998 Mr. Niebla def. Universo 2000
Sep 19th 1997 Apolo Dantes & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 def. Atlantis & El Fantasma & Lizmark 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
CMLL 62nd Anniversary Show - Show 2
Sep 29th 1995 Mascara Ano 2000 & Miguel Perez Jr. & Universo 2000 def. Atlantis & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. & Vampiro 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
Sep 22nd 1995 Mascara Ano 2000 & Negro Casas & Universo 2000 def. Dos Caras & El Hijo del Santo & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
AAA TripleMania III-C
Jun 30th 1995 Cien Caras & Fishman & Jerry Estrada & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 def. Konnan & La Parka & Latin Lover & Mascara Sagrada & Perro Aguayo 10-man tag elimination
AAA TripleMania II-C
May 27th 1994 Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 def. Coco Amarillo & Coco Azul & Coco Rojo steel cage (3 on 3)
AAA TripleMania II-A
Apr 26th 1994 Coco Amarillo (c) & Coco Azul (c) & Coco Rojo (c) def. Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 6-person tag Mexican National Trios Title
Apr 3rd 1992 Konnan & Perro Aguayo & Rayo De Jalisco, Jr. def. Cien Caras & Mascara Ano 2000 & Universo 2000 6-person tag (2 out of 3 falls)
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Brandi Carlile is playing the Palace Theatre in Albany on May 23rd. Her indie debut with longtime collaborators, The Hanseroth twins, The Firewatcher's Daughter was released March 3rd on ATO Records.
It debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200, NPR Fresh Air deemed it "her best yet," and it garnered raves from the NY Times, LA Times, Billboard, and more.
Here we share portions of a number of songs from the album and speak with Brandi about songwriting, touring, the Looking Out Foundation, and meeting the President.
Our next guest is one of the few people who has shared a stage with David Letterman for the entire span of his 33-year long late night career.
In 1982, Will Lee became one of the original members of The World's Most Dangerous Band, the house band on NBC ' s Late Night with David Letterman. Then, he made the move with Letterman in 1993 to CBS to become a part of the Late Show with David Letterman's CBS Orchestra with Paul Shaffer.
He is a Grammy award winner who has also performed with pretty much every major music act of the last three decades as well as with three members of The Beatles. He travels around the world with his Beatles tribute band, The Fab Faux.


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Archive for Category
Illustrated children's book: Vanity Mouse
November 28, 2021 November 22, 2021 by Milan Petrovic
My new illustrated book for children is now available on Amazon! Right now, there is an English language Kindle and Paperback edition released, and over the next month, there will be more editions in additional languages.
Amazon KDP has finally begun publishing hardcover books, but the service is currently in Beta, with many limitations on what can be published, including the minimum number of pages needed for the hardcover book edition.
The Wolf And Seven Little Goats in Paperback format on Amazon
November 24, 2021 September 30, 2020 by Tijana Nikolic Petrovic
My first children's illustrated book is now available in paperback format on Amazon. Right now, only the English language version is available, depending on the future interest, other translations might be expanded to paperback too.
Illustrated children's book: The Wolf And Seven Little Goats
September 19, 2020 September 1, 2020 by Tijana Nikolic Petrovic
My first illustrated book for children has been published, and for now is available in Kindle format from Amazon, with more formats expected later this year, including print edition.
Wiry People Book available on TiniART.net
September 19, 2020 April 16, 2020 by Tijana Nikolic Petrovic
Finally, TiniART.net is now a functional store, and the Wiry People book is now available for direct purchase from this website. If you prefer, you can still buy the book from Gumroad or Amazon, and links are provided on the book page.
Wiry People book available on Amazon
My first book, Wiry People: Inktober and Other Drawings has been published, and it is now available for purchase on Amazon Kindle Store in Kindle eBook format.
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A clear blueprint has been put in place to transform the Sunshine Coast economy through the Regional Economic Development Strategy 2013-2033.
– generating nearly 2,000 jobs from businesses that we have attracted to the Coast or encouraged to expand (eg. Youi).
A new Planning Scheme for the whole Sunshine Coast has been put in place, providing greater certainty for the community and for investors.
Opening the Sunshine Coast up to the world – supporting more Sunshine Coast businesses (like RADAQUA) to access new export markets.
Assisting local businesses to access opportunities – last year alone, our Council spent $169 million with local businesses given our commitment to spend locally to help business grow and prosper.


So just on the heels of reporting that if you make it to 90 you have a reasonable shot at living with a quality of life to 95 comes this.
Americans are living longer than they did two decades ago, but they are losing ground on key measures of health to people in other developed nations.
Researchers, led by Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in Seattle, in a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, show progress in reducing death rates, adjusted for age, across a variety of diseases. But death rates from illnesses associated with obesity, such as diabetes and kidney disease, as well as neurological conditions like Alzheimer's disease, are on the rise. And to top it, the number of years of living with chronic disability rose for the average American in the past 20 years, partly reflecting increased longevity.
The findings are considered the most comprehensive analysis of the health of the U.S. population in more than 15 years.
"Despite a level of health expenditures that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago, the health of the U.S. population has improved only gradually and has fallen behind the pace of progress in many other wealthy nations," said Harvey V. Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine, in an editorial accompanying the report.
We are getting sicker sooner, at age 68.1, and living with illness longer. The U.S. ranking for a healthy life span fell to 26th from 14th two decades ago.
The lead causes of premature death in the U.S. remained heart disease, lung cancer and strokes. Leading contributors to disability were lower-back pain and other disorders of muscles, nerves and joints, as well as depression and anxiety. Poor dietary habits have overtaken smoking as the most important risk factor associated with years of life lost to disability and to premature death.
The common thread to all of these recent studies is that most of this is under our control. And as I reported in a previous blog, exercise is not enough. It is the combination of diet and exercise that does the trick. That is why it is disturbing to see that poor dietary habits have overtaken smoking as the most important risk factor.


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As Tranquil as the Moon
Husband, Let's Meet IRL
Like a Feather Tickling My Heart
Madam Yan's Matchmaking Pavilion for Men
The Seat of My Heart
Lovely Writing System
Second Male Lead to One, Male Lead to Another
Like a Ray in My Night
Oh. My. Fate?! Stories
Oh. My. Fate?!
Romancing the Son of Heaven
Oh. My. Fate?! Extras
The Onion-Cutting Ninja's Secret Crush
Short Stories & Collections
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OMF V9C165 Starting the Refinement Process
On 7. February 2022 8. February 2022 By Yan Su SuIn Oh. My. Fate?!, Original
Jinde felt a little reluctant when thinking of the study he had had back when he had still been sitting on the throne of the dragon realm. Now, while he had all the ingredients and utensils necessary to start the refinement process, there still wasn't a good place to do so. Well, it couldn't be helped.
He dragged his husband and Xin Lan to prepare the room, getting the furnishings out of the way until he felt that he had enough space to make sure that he wouldn't be disturbed. Then, he and Zheng Yin arranged everything in the way they needed to be able to work best.
Looking at the result, Jinde nodded. "Not bad. I guess this will do." In any case, this kind of process might also be easily noticed so it was better to do it in their own room. Especially so since the person living next door now was Qiu Ling. Who would dare to bother them when they were basically living with the current dragon king?
He took a seat in front of the furnace, grabbing the first of the ingredients that he had prepared while giving Zheng Yin a look. "You wouldn't happen to have a fire spiritual vein, would you?" This was the one thing that he was a bit jealous of when looking at the other races. Having a spiritual fire vein was very convenient for refinement.
Zheng Yin shook his head though. "I'm afraid not."
Jinde sighed and already wanted to reach into his spatial ring to grab a flint when his husband crouched down next to him.
"I have a full set of spirit veins, remember?"
Jinde looked at him and then couldn't help but touched his forehead, unable to believe himself that he had just done this. "Right. You're human now, I sometimes forget. Alright, make a fire for me then."
Leng Jin Yu ignited the fire and then immediately stepped to the side. He made sure to stay around in case Jinde needed his help again though.
Xin Lan and Zheng Yin also stood to the side, not wanting to bother him.
While Zheng Yin might be able to help, there was a time and place for that. Right now, what they were doing was to first create a pill that would aid in the process of connecting the old and the new part of the bones before Jinde would make the material to actually form that new part.
In fact, there were even pills that could make the bones regrow by themselves, but usually, that process was quite ugly. Zheng Yin didn't doubt that Xin Lan would be able to take it but Jinde probably didn't feel that it was the right way to go.
Actually, he admired his confidence in himself. Making that kind of pill was difficult but actually shaping the bone himself and then connecting it to the old one was even more so. Not everybody would be able to do it. And to have so much confidence in your abilities that you would go for it without a second thought was admirable.
Jinde didn't bother about what others might think. He focused completely on what he was doing. In fact, had missed refining. At the time when his soul had been injured, what he had missed most was his dragon form but refinement came pretty soon after that. This was something he had learned when he had still been young and he had managed to master it to a high degree.
He had never thought that there would be a day when he wouldn't be able to do this anymore. When the time came, it devastated him. With everything else going on, with all the freedom he had already lost by getting into the state he had been in, this was just one more thing on top that he couldn't take.
Now, he was healed. He had his dragon form back, his freedom, his strength. And now, the thing that he had taken so much pride in was also in his grasp once more. Yes, the ability to create something incredible from the forces of nature and his own knowledge was right at the tip of his fingers.
There was a faint curve to his lips while he added one ingredient after the other, using his wind magic to fan the flames or curb them according to what was necessary. He stirred the liquid that formed, slowly but surely condensing it into a pill. His spiritual energy seeped into it, making the otherwise unassuming pill glow with a layer that looked to be made out of crystals.
With a wave of his hand, the flames beneath the furnace were extinguished and the winds carried the pill up from the bottom and into Jinde's hands.
He narrowed his eyes and observed it, making sure that there weren't any impurities in there. After a while, he finally gave a hum and nodded. "Not bad. I guess it could have been a little better but this should suffice."
Xin Lan nodded, not worried. "If it's you who made it, then I'm not worried. Let's just go for it." Anyway, he had often seen Jinde refine pills and potions and say they were 'alright but could be better' while other refinement masters stared at the result and felt like kneeling down. Jinde's standards were just too high.
Jinde chuckled, not afraid to accept his praise but he didn't hand the pill over to him. "Don't be this fast. The effect will be the best if you only take it a couple of minutes before we start the procedure. So you better not take it yet. We still need to prepare the rest."
Xin Lan gave a hum and stood back while Jinde handed the pill to Zheng Yin instead, and exchanged the furnace for a cauldron. "Well, I really hope this works." He hadn't explained in detail before so now, he couldn't help but turn to Xin Lan. "I guess I don't need to tell you but this is for shaping the missing pieces of your bones. The higher the quality, the better. The pill will help them integrate with what is currently left of your bone structure but the better this material is, the easier it will be."
Xin Lan gave another hum, not looking too worried. "You know, even if you don't explain to me, I trust you. Also, you know that I can take pain. So even if it's not perfect and means some suffering, it will be alright."
Jinde gave him an indulgent look, but still couldn't help but chastise him at the same time. "You're saying that now. But tomorrow, all of us will need our full strength. That goes for you the same way it does for me and Zheng Yin. So don't try to play tough with me today. The better this goes, the better for you, and the better for us tomorrow. But now, hush. I really need to focus for this."
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According to Billboard, Travis Scott's Astroworld finished number one last week for the second straight week.
Nicki Minaj refused to accept that and claimed her album Queen -- which was in its debut week -- was really number one.
She also insisted that Scott told her he knew her album was the real number one.
If Nicki and Travis really had that conversation, Scott was just placating her chart rage.
Because during his performance at last night's VMAs Scott made it clear that he believed his album was number one.
"Astroworld number 1 right now. VMAs make some noise," he yelled at the end of his set.


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WhatsApp's Big Security Hole Allows WhatsSpy Web-Based App To Track Users
12 February 2015, 9:37 am EST By Judy Mottl Tech Times
If you think your WhatsApp account and activity are secure, well think again. A serious vulnerability lets your status be tracked as well as any changes you're making to profile photos, status messages and settings -- even if you've been diligent about adjusting privacy settings.
You can thank a Dutch university student for not only alerting the world to the security flaw, but for seeking it out, literally.
Maikel Zweerink created an app aimed at proving just how weak WhatsApp is in terms of user security, and his program WhatsSpy Public apparently works pretty well when it comes to tracking user activity. Those using a SIM card or a non-WhatsApp phone number and a few other little tricks can track whomever they wish on the social networking platform.
"I made this project for you to realize how broken the privacy options actually are. It just started out as experimenting with WhatsApp to build a bot, but I was stunned when I realized someone could abuse this 'online' feature of WhatsApp to track anyone," Zweerink wrote in a blog post discussing his app. "I could just say this in like a blog article that the privacy options are broken, but you wouldn't realize the impact it actually has."
According to Zweerink, the web app is a proof of concept that the social network is "broken" when it comes to user privacy. Once you have it up and running and even if a user has privacy options set to "nobody," the program lets you track status, check out profile photos, mess with privacy settings and see status messages.
The social networking site, owned by Facebook, boasts more than 700 million users. The security flaw comes just months after WhatsApp introduced improvements to its security measures.
As Tech Times reported in November 2014, the site announced a new feature aimed at securing user privacy and activity. The end-to-end encryption feature from Open Whisper Systems promised to prevent anyone, except a sender and receiver, from viewing messages.
The security effort was not applauded by law enforcement and federal agencies such as the FBI, which claimed it would inhibit investigations requiring insight from WhatsApp user activity.
At the time cryptography expert Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute described the end-to-end encryption for WhatsApp as "very significant."
"Now there are people who don't even know what encryption is who will still get the benefit of a strong encryption protocol on all their messages," Green said.
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Cerise Name Meaning & Origin
US Popularity of Cerise Over Time
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I think that Cerise is a perfect name, in that it is exotic, uncommon, and unique but it sounds familiar in the pronunciation of the name. It also sounds sweet and if you will; reminds one of the holidays! I would say that the name "Cerise" is a better choice for those who like the name "Serena" but are wary of the overuse of the name Serena and also of the showbiz associations with the name (i.e. Serena from the T.V. show Gossip Girl). Also good for those who like the sound of the name "Denise" but aren't too keen on picking it up, it being a more common name. Cerise creates a similar feel when pronounced, while remaining apart from the rest, in a class of it's own. So, it's simple yet feels like it will never go out of style! I also praise the simple meaning of this name, it simply means "cherry" and I adore simple, uncomplicated meanings of names that still represent something sweet and timeless. Pronounced as: (Seh-reese).
The names "Cherisse, Charisse" and their diminutives (Charys, Cheryss, etc.) are combinations of the two French names "Cherie" and "Cerise."
Cerise is a French name and means 'cherry.' It's quite uncommon, but it has a certain ring to it, making it sound almost as if it's been around for ages and works for anyone who has it as their name. It's also a perfect substitute for the names such as 'Serena' and 'Denise', for people who don't quite like the names, but have an attraction to similar denominations. Extra bonus points: it's simple and sweet, almost sounds that way it's spelt, meaning easy for people to learn to write, and it's also perfectly easy to say. A perfect name with a sweet meaning and simple nature, 'Cerise' really has what it takes to go far and make it as a successful name.
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Nicknames for Cerise
Reese, Reesy, Cee, Cersei ;)
Meanings and history of the name Cerise
"Cerise" is a French name meaning "cherry."
Famous real-life people named Cerise
Daughter of a French aristocrat family: "Colette Cerise" as announced in Paris' Le Figaro in April 2010.
Cerise in song, story & screen
"la cerise sur le gâteau" a popular French expression meaning "the icing on the cake."
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