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The Elders The Advisory Council The Elders' Team
The Elders are grateful to the members of the Advisory Council, whose donations and generous support enables them to carry out their work independently.
Virgin Unite
Sir Richard Branson is Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group. Virgin is one of the world's most recognised and respected brands and has expanded into many diverse sectors from air and ground travel to telecommunications, health, space travel and renewable energy through more than 200 companies worldwide, employing approximately 50,000 people in 29 countries.
In 2004, Richard established Virgin Unite, his non-profit foundation. It mobilises the talent and resources from across the Virgin Group and beyond, to tackle tough social and environmental problems in an entrepreneurial way. It is built on the belief that, the only way we can address the scale of the challenges facing the world today is by revolutionising the way businesses and the social sector work together – driving business as a force for good. Richard has been working closely with Virgin Unite to bring together the right partners to help create new global leadership models to address conflict, climate change and disease.
Richard and his close friend, Peter Gabriel, had an idea about the need for a new leadership model for our 'global village'.
Inspired by the role that elders play in traditional societies, as a source of advice, wisdom and experience, they took the idea to Nelson Mandela and were thrilled when he agreed to help bring a group of 'global elders' together.
Founded in 2007 with the support of Virgin Unite and a great group of partners, The Elders convened visionary leaders including Graça Machel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and President Carter.
In 2009, Richard brought together a group of the world's top entrepreneurs to initiate the Carbon War Room. The vision is to mobilise capital, innovation, expertise and international collaboration to increase the effectiveness of climate change efforts already underway and to focus on filling any gaps. These keen entrepreneurial minds will work together to help speed and scale solutions that will deliver a low-carbon economy.
Richard and Virgin Unite also support a number of initiatives that lead to economic empowerment and healthy communities. These initiatives range from; the creation of sustainable healthcare models in Africa, to supporting young entrepreneurs through the Branson School of Entrepreneurship in South Africa, to creating opportunities for disadvantaged young people in the US and the UK.
Richard is married to his wife Joan and they have two wonderful children, Holly and Sam.
The Peter Gabriel Foundation
Peter is co-founder of the group Genesis with whom he made seven albums. He has also recorded eleven solo albums and composed soundtracks for films including Birdy (1984); The Last Temptation of Christ (1989); and Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) as well as the Oscar-nominated song 'Down to Earth' for the film Wall-E (2008). In 1980 Peter founded WOMAD (World of Music Arts and Dance), which has presented over 150 festivals in over 40 countries.
A long time advocate for human rights, Peter coordinated and participated in Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! Tour in 1988 and also co-founded WITNESS to give cameras and computers to human rights activists around the world. In cooperation with WITNESS, Peter was instrumental in the launch of The Hub, dubbed 'a YouTube for Human Rights'.
Peter's business interests cover music, media and technology and include the Real World group of companies, OD2 which has now become Nokia's Music Store and Solid State Logic, the world's leading manufacturer of mixing consoles for music recording, broadcast and post-production.
Peter has received many awards for his pioneering work in the fields of music and human rights, including the Man of Peace award of the Nobel Peace Laureates, the 'Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres', BT's Digital Music Pioneer Award and Grammy awards for his music and video work. 'Sledgehammer' was voted best video of all time, and his interactive work 'Eve', won the Milia D'Or for Multimedia.
Jeremy Coller
J Coller Foundation
Jeremy Coller is the Chief Investment Officer of Coller Capital, the leading global investor in the private equity secondary market. Coller Capital was founded in 1990 and the last fund raised $5.5 billion in July 2012. The firm has stakes in over 300 private equity funds and 2,500 private companies worldwide. In 2012, he was recognised as one of the 20 most influential people worldwide in private equity over the last decade.
Jeremy is particularly interested in pension policy, entrepreneurialism and venture. Jeremy is the author of The Lives, Loves and Deaths of Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors. He is a vegetarian, and does not wear silk or leather.
The J Coller Foundation was established in 2002. One of the Foundation's largest donations supported the creation of the Coller Institute of Private Equity at London Business School.
Don Gips
Don Gips is the CEO of the Skoll Foundation and leads the organization's work investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs to create lasting social change around the world. His experiences span public service, politics, business, finance, and technology.
Most recently, he led Albright Stonebridge Group's Africa Practice, consulting with companies, entrepreneurs, and foundations investing across the continent. Previously, he served as Director of Presidential Personnel in the Obama White House, ushering in the most diverse administration in U.S. history. He served as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa where he managed more than 1,000 staff and a budget of over $600 million across multiple government agencies.
Early in his career, he helped design and create a $650 million start‐up government corporation to promote community service which became the AmeriCorps program, still operational today. He served as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore and Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission. Still earlier in Don's career, he developed a clean water project with Sarvodaya, a leading social enterprise, and managed a refugee camp in Sri Lanka.
He sits on the boards of Zayo Group, a fiber and internet infrastructure service provider; Liquid Telecommunication, a Pan‐African provider of fiber and telecommunications services led by Strive Masiyiwa, one of Africa's preeminent entrepreneurs and philanthropists; and the President's Council on International Affairs at Yale University.
Don received an MBA from the Yale School of Management and his undergrad degree from Harvard University. He is married to Elizabeth (Liz) Berry Gips, who leads education programs for Village Health Works, bringing health care and development to rural Burundi. Don and Liz have three grown sons: Sam, Peter, and Ben.
Srik Gopal
Humanity United
Srik Gopal is the Managing Partner at Humanity United, a foundation dedicated to cultivating the conditions for enduring freedom and peace. He works on ensuring Humanity United's focus and alignment around mission, values, and overall strategic direction, while simultaneously engaging with a variety of external colleagues, stakeholders, and networks globally to change the systems in which Humanity United is active.
He was previously Vice President of Strategy and Program at the Democracy Fund, also part of the Omidyar Group. At Democracy Fund, he oversaw the organization's strategy and programmatic portfolio and instituted learning systems to ensure that the organization is highly impactful in its work. Prior to that, Srik served as Managing Director at social impact consulting firm FSG, co-leading the Strategic Learning and Evaluation practice.
Srik's articles on systems change, strategy, and evaluation have been featured in The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Foundation Review, The Guardian, and Forbes India, among others.
Lisa Harris is the founder of Align Capital, LLC a private equity firm in Austin, Texas. Ms. Harris is a major investor and involved in all aspects of Align Capital, LLC, including investment opportunities, acquisitions, portfolio oversight, and overall firm management. She has over 35 years of experience in banking, family office investments, real estate and private equity.
Ms. Harris manages the family office investment portfolio of ARH Family Partnership, which holds commercial real estate, early stage capital in young companies, and numerous other investments in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
Ms. Harris currently serves on multiple corporate boards. Additionally, Ms. Harris serves and has served as a board member for non-profit boards, including Jeremiah Program and Gen Austin. She is an advocate for transforming families from poverty to prosperity two generations at a time. Her non-profit work prepares determined single mothers to excel in the work force and readies their children to succeed in school, reducing generational dependence on public assistance.
As an ambassador to A Glimmer of Hope she is very passionate about her work in Ethiopia to provide clean water, education, health care and microfinance loans which support resilient communities and empower women and girls.
Dorine Manson
Dutch Postcode Lottery
Dorine Manson comes from Beetsterzwaag (Friesland). After studying history in Groningen, she worked for PwC from 1993 to 2002 as a consultant and subsidy adviser manager. Since 2002, Dorine has been Head of Economic Development and later of Economic Affairs at the City of Amsterdam. In September 2010, she started as Director and later Chair of the Board of VluchtelingenWerk Nederland, an organisation with several hundred paid employees and more than 13,000 volunteers.
Since 2018 Dorine Manson is Managing Director of the Dutch Charity Lotteries, the largest fundraiser for charities in the Netherlands. With the postcode lottery brand, these activities have grown to become the third-biggest private donor in the world over the past five years.
Randy Newcomb
The Omidyar Group
Randy Newcomb is a Senior Advisor at The Omidyar Group. The Omidyar Group is a diverse collection of global companies, organizations, and initiatives founded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar that strive to catalyze social impact globally.
As Senior Advisor Mr. Newcomb explores future trends, new and alternative thinking, and diverse points of view to address the challenges we face in the 21st century. Drawing from twenty years of leadership at international levels, Mr. Newcomb supports the mission of The Omidyar Group by weaving together networks of individuals and organizations working together towards a common purpose.
Previously, Mr. Newcomb was the founding President and CEO of Humanity United for fifteen years. Working closely with the Omidyar family, Randy grew HU as a values-based organization dedicated to cultivating the conditions necessary to address intractable problems such as violent conflict, atrocities, human exploitation, and modern-day slavery. Prior to serving as CEO of Humanity United Randy was a Vice-President at the Omidyar Family Foundation and the Omidyar Network.
Jean Oelwang
Jean is the President and a Trustee of Virgin Unite, which works with the Virgin businesses and other partners to address social and environmental issues. Its achievements since 2003 include the establishment of a school of entrepreneurship for young people in Johannesburg, sustainable transport solutions to improve access to health care in rural areas and the incubation of global initiatives such as The Elders.
In her previous life, Jean helped to lead successful mobile phone start-ups in South Africa, Colombia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Hong Kong and the US, and was joint Managing Director of Virgin Mobile in Australia. She has also been involved in the social and environmental sectors, having worked for the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife in Australia, and in numerous volunteer roles, including a stint as a VISTA volunteer working with homeless teens in Chicago.
Mabel van Oranje
Girls Not Brides
A global advocate for freedom, justice and development for two decades, Mabel van Oranje is the initiator and Chair of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. She is also co-founder and the Executive Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the (advisory) boards of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Crisis Action, Global Witness, the Open Society Foundations and The Elders.
In 1993, Mabel founded the European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans and was its CEO until 1997. In 1997, she joined the Open Society Foundations in Brussels as Executive Director, becoming OSF's London-based International Advocacy Director in 2003. From 2008 until 2012, she was the first CEO of The Elders.
Mabel helped found the Dutch foundation War Child (1995), the global NGO coalition 'Publish What You Pay' (2002) and the Independent Commission on Turkey (2004). She has been actively engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDS and in global efforts that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 2002.
Mabel holds masters degrees in Economics and Political Science (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam. In 2005, the World Economic Forum named her one of its Young Global Leaders.
Sally Osberg
Sally Osberg has led entrepreneurial organisations and been an agent for social change throughout her career. As President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, she partners with Founder and Chairman Jeff Skoll and heads the organisation's team in identifying and supporting innovators pioneering scalable solutions to global challenges. She is a well-known proponent of thought leadership, research, and alliances that advance the work of social entrepreneurs solving the world's most pressing problems.
Currently, Sally serves on the boards of the Skoll Foundation, the Skoll Global Threats Fund, the Oracle Education Foundation and the Palestine-based Partners for Sustainable Development. She was founding Executive Director of Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, guiding that institution to international recognition for its cutting edge work in the museum field, and formerly active as a director on the boards of the American Association of Museums, the American Leadership Forum, and Women and Philanthropy, among others.
Sally has received the John Gardner Leadership Award from the American Leadership Forum, been inducted into the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame, and been named by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the "Millennium 100" for her role in shaping and leading Silicon Valley.
Shannon Sedgwick Davis
The Bridgeway Foundation
Shannon Sedgwick Davis is CEO of the Bridgeway Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Bridgeway Capital Management, Inc. An attorney, Shannon is a passionate advocate for social justice and international human rights. She is a well-known strategist engaged in promoting peace and ending human atrocities across our globe.
Shannon is a recipient of the Spirit of McMurry award, given annually to one outstanding alumni, as well as Baylor Law School's 2011 Young Lawyer of the Year award. Shannon's work has been featured a number of times on radio, television, and through print media.
Shannon previously served as Vice-President of Geneva Global, and Director of Public Affairs at International Justice Mission. She is currently a board member of several organisations within the US and abroad including The Elders, Humanity United, and Toms Shoes.
Jeff Skoll
Jeff Skoll creates businesses that result in positive social change. As eBay's founding President, he helped generate entrepreneurial opportunities for millions of individuals around the world. He also launched the eBay Foundation with pre-IPO stock.
In 1999, he created the Skoll Foundation, which supports social entrepreneurs whose innovations are poised to achieve large-scale impact. The Foundation reflects Jeff's belief that, to bring about a more peaceful and prosperous global community, we must deploy the most innovative solutions on critical challenges like health, environmental sustainability, economic and social equity, human rights, institutional responsibility, and peace and security.
The Foundation co-hosts with the Saïd Business School at Oxford the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. The Forum convenes 800 social entrepreneurs, thought leaders, policy makers, philanthropists and students to learn, problem solve and build community.
In 2004, Jeff founded Participant Productions (now Participant Media) to create entertainment content that would have a long-term benefit to society. Among other films, Participant has produced Good Night and Good Luck, An Inconvenient Truth, Darfur Now, The Kite Runner, Charlie Wilson's War, Chicago 10, The Visitor and The Soloist.
In April 2009, Skoll founded the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund and named Dr Larry Brilliant president of the new organisation. The fund addresses urgent challenges confronting humanity and the planet, including climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict.
Lulit Solomon
Dr Lulit Solomon was born and raised in Ethiopia and was educated and trained in North America and the UK.
Lulit is a founder of a healthcare analytics company. Formerly the Global Director of Epidemiology at Datamonitor, she has over twelve years of therapeutic and epidemiologic practice. Lulit has extensive experience in developing healthcare products for the biopharmaceutical industry. Previously, Lulit was the Principal Epidemiologist at Decision Resources and has undertaken a variety of health strategy consulting projects in countries including in the UK, Canada, Malawi, Kenya and Uganda. As a former fellow of the Cancer Intelligence Unit at Cambridge University, she has strong links with international governmental and non-governmental institutions, and public health agencies. Lulit holds a PhD and Mphil in Epidemiology from Cambridge University.
Lulit is actively engaged in the debate and development of issues with other thought leaders in Big Data. She sits on advisory boards of a number of prominent healthcare and technology companies. She is also the Senior Healthcare Advisor to the J Coller Foundation and an Ethiopian Ambassador for 10x10, a global action campaign for girls' education.
Amy Towers
The Nduna Foundation
After fourteen years in the financial sector, Amy Towers turned her full-time attention to raising four young sons and running her philanthropic foundation. She established the Nduna Foundation in 2007 with the intent to focus her work on nutrition, human rights, health care, and conservation.
She was recognised for her work by the US Fund for UNICEF in 2006 when she received the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award; by the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation in 2011 with the Caring for Congo Award; and was named Humanitarian of the Year by the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation in 2013.


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Gamers Go Global
Falmouth's gaming community got creative this weekend (25-27 Jan) when they took part in the 2019 Global Game Jam® - the world's largest game creation event taking place around the world at physical locations.
Senior Lecturer Brian McDonald explained: "This is a truly connected event with sites in 113 countries around the world; a chance for game developers to come together and make games just for fun. For us, it's so important to get involved, not just to support our students but also to grow the game development community in Cornwall."
The Jam kicked off on Friday afternoon when this year's theme was revealed - what home means to you - those taking part then got into teams and had until Sunday to complete their games.
At Falmouth, 67 people took part, including undergraduate and postgraduate students and staff, as well as independent game developers including Triangular Pixels.
Brian added: "We ended up with 17 teams in our Games Academy who made a diverse set of games from a farming simulator set in Cornwall, where you have to manage a farm to earn enough money to buy pasties, to a game where you play as a polar bear who is trying to survive its rapidly shrinking home environment.
"The Global Game Jam is such great experience; it allows students to work with new people and challenge themselves to make a game based on an interesting theme, gives them the chance to make a small game from beginning to end and helps them develop their own professional practice."
Second year Computing for Games student Sam Auber worked on a minimalist game concept, he said: "It was a lot of fun watching people play and react to the different challenges and secrets in my game, I was surprised by how many people actually enjoyed it.
"The GGJ was great, I had a lot of fun participating and jamming along with friends, Brian and the rest of staff that hosted the event did an excellent job and I'll definitely be participating in next year's GGJ!"
Second year Game Development student Eric Eggert, who's team created an Oregon Road meets March of the Penguins style game, added: "The restricted time span was very motivating and gave us a sense of achievement upon completion. The event provided a collaborative environment where everyone could have a try at something."
Fellow Game Development student Maddie Riley said: "We made a survival game called Make It, where you upgrade your home at the expense of the environment around you, causing pollution and de-forestation as you improve your own standard of living.
"The event gave me a chance to develop a game with no worries about marks or grades, just enjoying the creative process and getting the opportunity to work with people I may not have otherwise. The sense of community in the academy is what drew me to take part and it was a super exciting atmosphere."
This year 46,996 jammers in 860 jam sites located in 113 countries made over 8,000 games! All the games created can be downloaded and played on the Global Game Jam website.
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1. Is there a better way to serve the perimeter of an underfloor system than using underfloor fan powered boxes?
2. What is a column unit?
3. I have heard a lot of concern about raised floor leakage. Is this something that I need to be concerned about?
4. How much energy does a UFAD system really save over conventional overhead distribution?
5. There was a day last week that the AHU were providing warmer air than design so the floors themselves required more air to cool the space. One of the air columns did not meet the .05" SP. The Hz of the ACF was set to max out at 40 Hz. Is that correct? I'm sure the fan runs quieter at lower Hz but I thought maybe it wouldn't be set to max out at 40 Hz if in the rare instance it would need more power it could get it.
6. We are in a climate where we use 100% OA economizer. How can I incorporate the use of a column unit in that approach?
7. How low can a raised floor height be constructed and still use UFAD?
8. What has experience shown regarding different supply temperature requirements floor by floor in a UFAD system?
9. How large of a mechanical closet do I need to contain the column unit? Where is the optimal location for them to be placed?
10. I thought underfloor systems were not supposed to have ductwork and yet I have seen many projects with it and it seems difficult to build – is there anyway to avoid underfloor ductwork?
5. How low can a raised floor height be constructed and still use UFAD?
6. How large of a mechanical closet do I need to contain the column unit? Where is the optimal location for them to be placed?
1. How do I calculate space cooling and heating loads in a building with UFAD?
2. Is there a better way to serve the perimeter of an underfloor system than using underfloor fan powered boxes?
3. What is a column unit?
4. When I design overhead systems, I usually duct the space return air into the floor-by-floor AHU to minimize the pressure differential between the mechanical closet and the occupied space. Do I still need to do this with underfloor?
5. I have heard a lot of concern about raised floor leakage. Is this something that I need to be concerned about?
6. How much energy does a UFAD system really save over conventional overhead distribution?
7. There was a day last week that the AHU were providing warmer air than design so the floors themselves required more air to cool the space. One of the air columns did not meet the .05" SP. The Hz of the ACF was set to max out at 40 Hz. Is that correct? I'm sure the fan runs quieter at lower Hz but I thought maybe it wouldn't be set to max out at 40 Hz if in the rare instance it would need more power it could get it.
8. We are in a climate where we use 100% OA economizer. How can I incorporate the use of a column unit in that approach?
9. How low can a raised floor height be constructed and still use UFAD?
10. When is a program going to be commercially available to determine load calculations in an UFAD project?
11. What has experience shown regarding different supply temperature requirements floor by floor in a UFAD system?
12. How large of a mechanical closet do I need to contain the column unit? Where is the optimal location for them to be placed?
13. I thought underfloor systems were not supposed to have ductwork and yet I have seen many projects with it and it seems difficult to build – is there anyway to avoid underfloor ductwork?
1. What is a column unit?
2. There was a day last week that the AHU were providing warmer air than design so the floors themselves required more air to cool the space. One of the air columns did not meet the .05" SP. The Hz of the ACF was set to max out at 40 Hz. Is that correct? I'm sure the fan runs quieter at lower Hz but I thought maybe it wouldn't be set to max out at 40 Hz if in the rare instance it would need more power it could get it.
3. What has experience shown regarding different supply temperature requirements floor by floor in a UFAD system?
1. How much energy does a UFAD system really save over conventional overhead distribution?
2. How low can a raised floor height be constructed and still use UFAD?
3. I thought underfloor systems were not supposed to have ductwork and yet I have seen many projects with it and it seems difficult to build – is there anyway to avoid underfloor ductwork?
Q. Is there a better way to serve the perimeter of an underfloor system than using underfloor fan powered boxes?
Q. What is a column unit?
A. A column unit is a term used to describe Air Zone's vertical floor-by-floor air handling units for raised floor and overhead distributed designs. Some of our smaller CFM units are close in size to a building column!
Q. I have heard a lot of concern about raised floor leakage. Is this something that I need to be concerned about?
A. Tate has done the best job in the industry of addressing this issue. Tate Access Floors, Inc. is proud to provide three best practices guides to aid in the proper design and construction of an underfloor air distribution (UFAD) system. Trade specific guides have been created for the Architect, General Contractor, and Commissioning Agent extracted from lessons learned through Tate's experience working on a wide range of UFAD projects. These guides will help to ensure the proper sealing and reduction of underfloor air leakage in an access floor air plenum. Furthermore, Tate believes a holistic approach to design and construction should be used and recommends regular consultation be held with key individuals on the construction team throughout the entire design process. You can find these documents at http://www.tateaccessfloors.com/resources/plenum_guides.aspx.
Q. How much energy does a UFAD system really save over conventional overhead distribution?
A. That answer depends on a number of variables including whether economizer systems are being used and the type of airside distribution system. The energy savings results from lower TSP at the air handler vs conventional overhead systems. A quick analysis will show that if we ignore the energy savings due to increased economizer hours because our supply temperature is 62 degrees vs. 55 degrees (in an overhead system) and we assume that our floor-by-floor column units have been located correctly in the space layout so underfloor ductwork is not necessary, and the external static pressure at the unit is .3 or less, then we can safely say that underfloor systems will save between 6-10% in total KW hours consumed by the building (all other things being equal).
Q. There was a day last week that the AHU were providing warmer air than design so the floors themselves required more air to cool the space. One of the air columns did not meet the .05" SP. The Hz of the ACF was set to max out at 40 Hz. Is that correct? I'm sure the fan runs quieter at lower Hz but I thought maybe it wouldn't be set to max out at 40 Hz if in the rare instance it would need more power it could get it.
A. The air column units are set at the factory for both the upper and lower limits, and this is necessary to protect the equipment. On this project the lower limit was established and set to prevent the electric heater from unwanted overload cut-out. The upper limit is established to protect the motor from operating in an overload condition. Regarding the warm day that was experienced, a problem of this type is not solved by providing more airflow; the mix of the airflow is the important factor. If any space is warmer than desired, the primary damper should be programmed to open more and thus provide more cold air in the fan chamber. The fan volume is established by the pressure under the floor and this can be anywhere between 0.02 and 0.06; if all of floor grills are opened fully, it may be difficult to reach 0.06 floor pressure because all access flooring will leak 20 to 30% of the total airflow into the occupied space. This leakage is not negative because the leakage is from the under floor plenum onto the occupied space and leakage exist on all projects. The temperature sensor under the floor must be properly set to maintain quality space temperature; normally the under floor sensor is set at approximately 62 degrees. If the sensor is currently set at 62 degrees then lower the set point to 60 degrees. Again, increasing the airflow will not solve a warm space condition; the mix of airflow from the primary and by-pass air must be changed to provide a cooler space.
Q. We are in a climate where we use 100% OA economizer. How can I incorporate the use of a column unit in that approach?
A. Economizer systems can be used with our column units very easily. The economizer shaft typically would be brought to the mechanical closet where our column unit is located. Normally a Mixed-Flow Air Column Unit would have an OA inlet into the mechanical room with perhaps 10 to 15% OA; this air is blended with the primary air being supplied at the top of the Column Unit and with the RA being induced. The mixed air condition is developed based on the primary and return air being supplied to the Column Unit. Upon the demand for lower air discharge from the unit, the primary air damper will open to the maximum and the induced return air is then at a minimum; likewise upon demand for a warmer discharge air temperature, the primary will modulate to the minimum position and the induced air will be at the maximum airflow position. If an economizer cycle is required an OA duct sized for the required total airflow should deliver the required airflow into the mechanical room, a return air damper would be needed and it would need to close when the 100% OA damper is open; the primary air damper would close to zero airflow and the induced return air actually becomes 100% OA.
Q. How low can a raised floor height be constructed and still use UFAD?
A. We believe that UFAD systems can go as low as 6" FFH (4-5/8" of clear space) to 8" FFH provided our column units are spaced in frequent points on the floor plate to ensure good air distribution. This low FFH is very applicable for general office where electrical plug and play conduit is only 7/8" diameter and voice and data cables are not intensive. The floor height needs to be greater for applications where cable trays are being used.
Q. What has experience shown regarding different supply temperature requirements floor by floor in a UFAD system?
A. Research in UFAD buildings that have been operating for several years show that the temp supply on each floor in a UFAD system will need to vary particularly on a low rise building. For example, on a 3-story building, the supply temperature required for proper occupant comfort under the raised floor will differ from floors 1 (with the raised floor on a slab on grade), floor 2 (being sandwiched in the middle of the building), and floor 3, which is receiving radiant energy from the roof. As a result, engineers are finding our floor-by-floor air columns are a great solution to solve this problem as this way individual floor temperature needs can be met.
Q. How large of a mechanical closet do I need to contain the column unit? Where is the optimal location for them to be placed?
A. For the mixed flow unit, the walls can be located 6" away from the three sides, and all service would be from the front of the unit through a single or double set of doors. For the environmental air tower, the walls can be located 6" away on two sides of the unit. We recommend a minimum a clearance of 2' on the adjacent coil side and 2' from the front of the unit to the doors.
Q. I thought underfloor systems were not supposed to have ductwork and yet I have seen many projects with it and it seems difficult to build – is there anyway to avoid underfloor ductwork?
A. Yes! Underfloor ductwork or plenum dividers are not desirable and should be avoided if at all possible. If more injection points are delivered with our column units, then underfloor ductwork can be in most cases completely avoided. Column units should be located on the building core edges or in the tenant spaces between the core and perimeter.
Q. How do I calculate space cooling and heating loads in a building with UFAD?
A. In his book Underfloor Air Distribution Guide, (ref pages 158-162) Fred Bauman points out that while cooling and heating loads are calculated in a similar fashion as that of overhead distribution, there are differences. The most important is that because UFAD systems rely on stratification, it is not correct to assume a completely mixed room. Stratification will divide the room into an upper and lower zone. In general, once the room air has risen above this stratification height, it will not reenter the lower zone, and herein lies the fundamental difference from the fully mixed room assumed in an overhead system. As such, convective heat gains from sources above the stratification height will be exhausted directly into the ceiling return and not included in the airside calculations. The solution is to use the assumption of two distinct mixed zones, which should yield results that the total CFM required is basically the same as an overhead distributed system.
Q. When I design overhead systems, I usually duct the space return air into the floor-by-floor AHU to minimize the pressure differential between the mechanical closet and the occupied space. Do I still need to do this with underfloor?
A. No! The external static pressure in an underfloor system is typically .3 in w.g. (.05" underfloor and .25" return) compared to 1.5" or more external static pressure in an overhead system.
Q. When is a program going to be commercially available to determine load calculations in an UFAD project?


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Telematics: Building A Construction Ecosystem
By Mike Osenga15 April 2020
Telematics today has evolved into a larger concept that presents the modern construction site as an "ecosystem" characterized by as many interconnected moving parts as any other natural environment
By Jenny Lescohier
Not long ago, the word telematics conjured mundane (and possibly anxiety-producing) thoughts of endless machine metrics and piles of incomprehensible data. Today, the term only scratches the surface of a larger concept that presents the modern construction site as an "ecosystem" characterized by as many interconnected moving parts as any natural environment.
Despite the magnitude of that statement, recent advancements in technology promise to make work simpler, more efficient and more productive for construction professionals who see themselves as part of a bigger picture.
Comparing a construction site to a natural ecosystem might sound like a stretch, but it simply refers to the idea of collaboration. According to Soeren Brogaard Jensen, CCO with Trackunit, there's a delicate interplay on today's most advanced jobsites between the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who build the equipment, the rental companies who often supply it, the professionals planning the project and the workers operating the machines.
Construction data
"We've started to think about telematics as something that is animating and improving collaboration across the ecosystem," he said. "Stakeholders have come to appreciate that if we can let the most relevant data flow freely between corridors, everyone wins."
Burcin Kaplanoglu, executive director of innovation, Oracle Construction and Engineering, agrees there's a growing emphasis on using data for the greater good.
"A lot of this will be driven by a recognition of the benefit of data that can be captured and analyzed," he said. "Construction businesses at the cutting edge will be demanding greater transparency, knowledge and collaboration of the construction process to have more control."
But what does data sharing look like to equipment owners on a practical level?
In answer to that question, Jensen recalled that construction professionals used to buy machines and then choose a telematics system and retrofit their fleet with the technology. The data gathered was held by the equipment owner. This is still often the case, but OEMs are increasingly fitting their machines with telematics in the factory as standard equipment.
There are endless metrics that can be measured, and only a portion are relevant to the average equipment owner. The remaining bulk of the data, however, can be extremely valuable to the OEM and is easily accessible through an application programming interface (API) that connects each piece of equipment with a server that collects information. In other words, this happens seamlessly, without any effort on the part of the equipment owner or operator.
"The concept of sharing data is central to the benefits a telematics system can offer, since the more information OEMs can gather about actual machine usage, the better they can design equipment for real-world use in the future," added Trackunit's Jensen.
From barcodes to artificial intelligence
Telematics technology has come a long way in its relatively short history, and the evolution is rapidly picking up speed.
Holger Pietzsch, heavy construction vice president of marketing at Hexagon's Geosystems division, Leica, explained how telematics provides benefits on three levels: operational efficiencies, asset management, and operator/jobsite performance.
"In its most simplest form, telematics are similar to the evolution of the barcode for supply chain management; it gives you internal operational efficiencies," he said, noting, for example, that an OEM can track the health, location and workload of their sold equipment through telematics.
When it comes to asset management, telematics uses a "data wrapper" on each unit to remotely monitor the equipment and give the owner feedback, such as how much fuel that individual machine is consuming or whether the engine is overheating, or is liable to in the near future.
Pietzsch said today's telematics systems are also moving in a direction more focused on the actual work being done, enhancing jobsite efficiency.
"You own these excavators to move dirt… on time, upon spec and on budget," he said. "Ultimately, if you don't move the dirt where and when it needs to be moved, you don't get paid. Our technologies focus more on improving how much dirt is moved and was it the amount it was supposed to be."
With that in mind, companies like Leica are offering technology such as machine control guidance – an early form of autonomy – that allows construction professionals to perform their work more precisely.
"Now someone can sit at their computer and design a ditch and then download that design onto a piece of equipment, such as an excavator. The machine actually then becomes spatially aware," Pietzsch said. "When the excavator starts moving dirt, the technology tells the operator they are no longer digging straight or they're too deep or they've got to turn. The technology starts interacting directly with the machine."
Once machines have this basic level of "intelligence," Pietzsch said they can become part of the larger "ecosystem," sensing what needs to be done and providing feedback to the operator.
"A.I. is the big game changer in construction because of the focus on improving productivity in an industry that continues to see competitive pressures," Kaplanoglu states. "It's about capturing, analyzing and sharing data from projects to mitigate risks, manage issues earlier and continually improve from project to project."
Construction equipment performance
Aggregating data from different owners affords OEMs with the true story of equipment performance based on real users' experiences. This is crucial to equipment design and advancement and can benefit both owners and operators in the long run.
The average aerial work platform, for example, has a hundred data points that are continuously monitoring the hydraulic systems, the engine and any alarms, etc. Out of all those data points, Jensen said approximately 30% are relevant to the user of that machine.
"The remaining 70% are really not that relevant to the user," he said. "But OEMs are extremely interested in that data so it can be inserted into how machines are being manufactured for the next generation of equipment."
The majority of data collected is gathered through user response to error codes, which can be as simple as an informational notation, such as the seatbelt is not fastened, or as critical as imminent component failure.
"The data that's produced gets validated by the people in the field," Jensen explained. "We call this 'ground truth.' By sharing this data, suddenly you can augment and improve the information by connecting thousands of users who've acknowledged this error."
Kevin Garcia, general manager of civil specialty solutions at Trimble, echoed this statement. "Today's technology allows OEMs to get information like engine fault codes, fuel burn, tire pressure and other metrics from the system, and technology providers can pull back operator performance, task percent completion, cut/fill maps, updated surfaces and more.
"Civil contractors are interested in controlling their inputs and using technology to gain visibility into every truckload of material as it is loaded at the quarry with loader scales and software like InsightHQ, a quarry management portal from Trimble that provides performance metrics on a web browser or mobile device."
Garcia continued, "During mass haul operations, the combination of traditional excavator scales connected to haul monitor systems across a mixed fleet is delivering an immediate 25% more material moved, and an understanding of total tons moved, truck counts and each step in the haul cycle."
The brain of construction
As more data is shared and aggregated through telematics technology, equipment can be manufactured to be increasingly intuitive and intelligent.
"If you look across a population of a half million machines in a territory, you can start predicting what machine to have ready for what type of jobs, and in what depot," Jensen said. "We're trying to take those A.I. algorithms and think about how can we actually make the data generally available, not just for one customer but as an open source system, almost like the 'brain of construction.'
"What we're trying to push here is internalizing data, using it in your own value chain, but also putting it back into an open source community to leverage the power of the ecosystem; the power of many people thinking about the same problems," Jensen continued.
Pietzsch from Hexagon agreed, adding, "Rather than using telematics to track and monitor one asset, it's now more about how this asset compares to all the others in relation to the work that needs to get done. It's really embedding the information of that machine and what it does into the plan of what's supposed to happen on that jobsite.
"We see increasing focus on using technology to enable better collaboration of people and coordination of activities," Pietzsch added.
Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, machine control and telematics specialist at Topcon Positioning Group, noted that sharing data will have to be done conscientiously.
"We need to continue to develop our industry-wide sharing standards, such as the AEMP API, to provide end users with more convenient access to OEM equipment data," he said.
"This will allow them to better manage and analyze information across their fleets and save time and money on the job site or within their operations."
Telematics has already brought many benefits to today's construction jobsites, and that trend promises to continue – and accelerate – as more data is shared between stakeholders.
5G a game changer
Improvements in global information infrastructure are allowing telematics technology to offer greater immediate benefits on today's jobsites, as well as alleviating some bigger-picture industry concerns.
Genie's LifT Connect solution allows equipment owners to see precise machine hours remotely to help manage long-term maintenance
The advent of 5G wireless technology (the fifth-generation of digital cellular networks) began widespread deployment in 2019 and is allowing telematics technology to expand on today's jobsites at an ever-faster pace.
"The rapid growth and expansion of global cellular networks allows for faster data transmission," explained Christine Zeznick, Genie director of business development – telematics, Terex AWP. "With the shortage of technicians in the industry, leveraging telematics – like the data the Genie Lift Connect solution provides – allows a service technician to remotely troubleshoot a customer's concern and potentially avoid a costly on-site service visit. This type of savings in both time and labor can add up quickly."
The ability to effectively monitor maintenance from afar is another powerful aspect of telematics.
"Long-term rentals have traditionally posed a problem for knowing when maintenance is due," Zeznick noted. "As a result, customers often set a calendar-based schedule to visit the machine and perform engine maintenance. This has resulted in potentially servicing the machines more than required or not as frequently as needed. Telematics allows a rental company to see precise machine hours remotely and manage the maintenance of long-term rentals more efficiently, driving savings."
Steve Janda, construction digital and technology market manager at Caterpillar, said the company's Remote Services are making a significant improvement to jobsite efficiency. There are two key features, Remove Troubleshoot and Remote Flash.
"Remote Troubleshoot enables Cat dealers to run diagnostic testing on connected machines, diagnose the cause of a fault code or alarm and pinpoint potential issues while a machine is in operation," said Janda. "Remote Flash enables remote updates to a machine's onboard software without a technician present. A Cat dealer notification informs customers when a new software update is available, and the customer can deploy the update while the machine is on the jobsite.
Remote Troubleshoot and Remote Flash are two key features to Caterpillar's Remote Services app
"Remote Flash and Remote Troubleshoot are revolutionizing the way machines are serviced," said Janda. "Saving a trip to the machine saves the customer both time and money."
Jari Hytti, manager, field service applications, Metso, said the company's remote monitoring function is helping customers keep up with machine inspections, again preventing unnecessary man hours.
"We can proactively contact our customers and agree on the date when the inspector can come to the site to make the inspection," said Hytti. "Same thing applies for the upcoming maintenance events: We can proactively contact our customers and offer our services to them based on the data from the machine.
"Remote troubleshooting will help our customers when the Metso experts can see the machine alarm log. Based on that, they can help solve the possible problems the customer might have without leaving the office. This way, the customer's machine will be up and running faster."
Hytti said the technology is evolving to allow artificial intelligence to work with remote monitoring systems, helping machines to begin making predictions about what's going to happen and either make or suggest corrective action for the user.
This article was originally published in the January-February 2020 issue Construction Technology, a publication by the editors of International Construction and Construction Europe. Along with Diesel Progress, these magazines are part of KHL Group.


With strong educational backgrounds Vicki and Jonny can run workshops for Children. Vicki has a Masters degree in education and is an experienced ensemble arranger having worked as a peripatetic instrumental teacher for many years. Jonny is an ex cathedral chorister and close harmony singer and also an experienced arranger. Vicki has Qualified Teacher Status and both have enhanced CRB checks in place. Workshops can be delivered around specific curriculum requirements depending on the subjects being taught in school at that time.
Using a broad range of instruments that span thousands of years and round the globe this workshop can be used in either the cassroom or as an assembly. Instruments used span thousands of years across the whole globe and can be linked into the curriculum of both history, geography, citizenship and more.
A relaxed mixed tune / song session for under 16s. Dots and chords can be provided, but predominantly a ear-y experience.
Folk music arrangements for children to play. An ability to read music would be useful (but not a barrier) to gain the full ensemble experience.


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by Molly Rachamim
My first pregnancy scare occurred the week of my eighteenth birthday, three months after my baptism. My boyfriend (who was a few years older) was gentle, Christian, and not trying to take my virginity. We had been reading something about the early Christian subintroductae—the "virgins" of I Corinthians 7:36-37—who slept with their male partners without intercourse; we were full of confidence in the power of faith to work miracles. Within a few weeks our bodies worked the more accustomed miracle.
I would have gone then to the university clinic for pills, but students under eighteen could not get them; a friend, also underage, had just tried. By the time of my birthday I was terrified that my period would be late, and because of my anxiety it was. It was 1970; abortion had been legal in New York for just two months. My mother said she would take me there if need be.
The second scare occurred six months later, because I had promised my parents I would not make love with the man again and could not keep my promise. By then I had a supply of pills in my dresser drawer, but being sworn to chastity I did not take them. This time I did not tell my mother—unless she read my half-formed plan to spend Christmas with my roommate from New York for what it was—and when my period came I abandoned promises and miracles, took the pills, and lied to my parents about the state of the relationship until my lover and I married the next year.
Why should I say such things, nearly thirty-five years later and to strangers?
The confessional mode is uncomfortable, for writer and readers; it drags wretched secrets into the public realm, where no one really wants to see them. But if abortion has to be defended in the public realm, it is partly in these terms —who whispered what to whom in what confusion, who yielded to whose touch in what delight, who was more afraid to go out and buy condoms than risk begetting a child, or to swallow pills than break a promise to her parents— because that is how unwanted pregnancy happens, through confusion and bad management and accident. That it did not happen to me was due to the relative efficacy of the withdrawal method and to sheer luck. Some people recommend willpower and abstinence with great certainty; perhaps they have been luckier than I, and never encountered confusion.
But intelligent young people receive religion with great confusion, as my own story shows; they take it seriously, and trust it implicitly as a bulwark against their own bodies' hungers, and when their bodies learn to join anyway —in quiet, happy disregard of all vows—they feel betrayed. The young votaries of movements like "True Love Waits," who vow to save themselves for marriage, may have a little more good sense than my lover and I did, but some of them too will discover that the skin makes its own laws, as imperious as those of the Bible; they will even discover that those laws are not bad laws for being different ones, and then they will be troubled. "And then"—says Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas, in another connection—"they will be amazed, and rule over all": they will learn to take charge. Some, even at that point, will take charge of their instincts, and go back to abstinence; some will take charge of children; some will be lucky, as we were, and only have to take charge of birth control; and some will take charge of pregnancies that dismay them, through abortion.
The most dismaying thing about a pregnancy one does not intend, aside from its very occurrence—the thing that can undermine a serious young person's religion—is that it unsettles all one's notions about God's will. There is something uncanny and untrustworthy about a universe in which the conception of a new person can come about by accident. One is not, after all, a soul acting deliberately to do the best thing at the best time; one is a bundle of badly controlled instincts, the man a sperm factory, the woman a baby motel. Unwanted pregnancy is the body's practical joke, life's horse-laugh on men and women so incautious as to call a brief truce in the war between the sexes; God is nowhere discernible in it, unless you imagine God as a capricious warden who may ignore your lapses one month and punish them fiercely the next. For a young woman accustomed to using her mind—even hoping (preposterous presumption!) to serve God with it—unwanted pregnancy, or the fear of it, is a theological moment. She has to decide whether God even wants her mind, or only her uterus; if, on balance, she thinks God does want her mind, she has to get used to using her head (a humbler, slyer skill than using her mind) before she uses her body. She is shaken by all this sudden, frantic physical and intellectual fumbling; she wonders whether spiritual life is actually livable.
There is, of course, a strain in Christian thought that will always say the uterus counts for more than the mind: the strain that does not distinguish between intellect and intellectual pride, and that locates God's will—for men and for women—precisely in opposition to one's own. In this view the practical joke of pregnancy is a chance at salvation, because it is a crucifixion. Like any other disruption of one's life, like a flood or a slowly dying parent or a child rendered quadriplegic in an accident, pregnancy demands that one set aside one's own interests and live for the Other. Selfishness is the great accusation against women who abort. To refuse the instantaneous, exigent demand of the fetus for its life is, in this view, a kind of damnation—and not only because the fetus dies, but because the woman has put herself first, restored the pattern of her life rather than rising to the interruption. There is something ringing and prophetic about the doctrine—one cannot write it without seeing its heroism, its radical pity—but there is something pitiless in it too: what compassionate person dares volunteer another, an Other, for crucifixion? The woman's demand too is exigent: to be able to gauge her own strength, to agree to live so intimately and utterly for the Other only when the effort will not destroy her. One needs enough self left to be stronger than the child.
At eighteen I did not have that strength. I came to Christianity not with this strenuous sacrificial view — and certainly not in search of security or "values"— but as a young writer whose life had already been disrupted by religious awe. I had been raised without religion, and thus found the elements of religion everywhere; my lifelong need has been to understand how those elements cohere. I was raised with art, much of it Christian art, and in my teens I suppose I mistook the accidents for the substance: I thought I could become a better artist by becoming a Christian. It seems ludicrous, now, that I imagined the religion of Dante and Michelangelo and Donne and Milton and Bach and Gerard Manley Hopkins to be in any sense the custodian of their work; it did not even consider itself the custodian of the Latin Mass or the Book of Common Prayer. But from the outside I thought the art was contiguous with the doctrines. I think I felt as some people feel today about the pervasiveness of sexual imagery in popular entertainment: in a culture saturated with religious imagery I was required to abstain, painfully and rigorously, from religion. No wonder that when I could no longer hold out against religion I yielded to sex too: the act of yielding was so unfamiliar and so welcome. But I was not prepared to care for or even to comprehend a child.
I was young, I was violent-tempered, I was afraid of babies and did not like young children; I had not even liked being a child. I did not want to be a mother. I thought I would kill a child through rage and ineptitude. I was grateful not to need an abortion, but I would have chosen it just as gratefully in preference to the prolonged, ambivalent cruelty I would have inflicted on any child I raised. Better to inflict the cruelty early and quickly and summarily on an undeveloped fetus than on a fully perceiving person who would suffer it ever after. If one cannot live for the Other—through whatever failures of character, which I would readily have acknowledged—one must not pretend to try. People who agonize over the fate of the unborn think that we have no pity. We do. We do.
The Episcopal Church, to which I had gravitated, was liberal on the question of abortion; I did not have to contend with the notion that it was full-scale murder. (Fewer people did, before Roe v. Wade; I am told that even most evangelicals were quietly liberal, basing their theology of ensoulment on Genesis 2:7—"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul"—and considering abortion a morally problematic but private choice.) But I was too new to the church to consider asking for help there, and I did not have much sense that the priests (all men at that time) were at ease with young women's sexual problems. My mother—ironically enough, since our relationship was very bitter at that point-was my only friend.
Having come this close to abortion—and having crossed other boundaries that good women are not supposed to cross—I think there is a qualitative difference to the way one thinks after breaking a prohibition, which those who obey it tend not to understand. Those who have not committed a forbidden act perceive only that it is forbidden; those who have find out that one has to live after it. Life is different on the other side: one disobeys, and the prohibition was only a prohibition, the lightning does not strike, and one is left in the entirely practical position of being responsible for oneself. Adam and Eve knew that position—"knew" it in the biblical sense, a knowledge integral and incommunicable—and everyone who comes after them learns it again, if not through sex then by some other means (and there are many means more violent and less excusable than sex). Either decision, to obey or to disobey, gives rise to more decisions, which still demand to be made with care and honor. The obedient naturally see the transgressor's shift in thinking as mere shamelessness, but the transgressor may perceive a certain shamelessness even in obedience: the good can gloat in their goodness. In the world after Eden—which is to say, the world we all live in, post-lapsarian, post-mythical—even innocence is not paradise retained; even the act of saying "Don't eat the apple!" can be corrupt. One can say it complacently; one can say it threateningly or contemptuously, to frightened strangers; one can say it with guns and clinic blockades and harsh laws, in an orgy of rectitude that leaves no time for the close self-scrutiny one recommends to others. There is a more genuine righteousness that does not depend on fierce public shows of rectitude, but that righteousness is not easily shocked, is infinitely gentle in speaking with the vulnerable, and knows the meaning of pardon.
I have sometimes thought there is a moral or psychological gap in Christian thought, not only in the volatile fundamentalist churches but in the staid and civilized mainstream ones: a fixation on the process of temptation and fall, on preventing transgression, as if Eden or heaven were within human reach if only we could refrain from doing wrong. There is a naiveté about it (as well as a heresy), which is shown in the deep mistrust of the self I spoke of earlier, and in a craving for moral safety. If the self is always on the point of straying, then anything that tears down and weakens the self must be approved: we must not only submit to God's practical jokes but laugh at ourselves in full pratfall, give thanks for the humiliation and the wound. The self hamstrung, houghed, short-circuited, is the self God wants of us—not simply a broken and contrite heart, but real incompetence—because competence would entail trust in our own powers.
I say all this not out of mere animus against Christianity—though it would be foolish to pretend that I have none—but because I have seen other possible ways of thinking. As a convert to Judaism I have been struck by the generosity with which Jewish thought—the very origin of Thou Shalt Nots—handles the self and its faults. On the whole, the state of the community rather than the state of the soul is Judaism's concern; the self is not the center of one's spiritual attention but the necessary equipment for maintaining the relation with God and pursuing justice. Resignation, not selfishness, is the prototypical Jewish sin. One who is not resigned to injustice must strengthen the self, precisely not because the self is all-important but because it is the hope of the Other. There are such currents of thought in Christianity, but they are confused and muddied by the stronger force of the imperative to mistrust the self. I have wondered whether the driving force behind Christian antisemitism almost from the outset was the envy of a population that had been taught to cripple itself for a population that had not.
Rabbinic law does not decide hypothetical cases. It applies the laws of the Torah (often a good deal softened by the Talmud) to individual circumstances, which are never the same twice. It has never categorically forbidden either birth control or abortion; it has consistently ruled that the life of the mother takes precedence over the life of the fetus in cases where the mother's life is at risk. In that sense it has not considered the fetus a coequal human life. The rabbinic responsa have been reluctant to accept certain reasons for abortion as legitimate: poverty and social disgrace, surely the most common reasons, have not been declared acceptable in the responsa. (David M. Feldman's Marital Relations, Birth Control, and Abortion in Jewish Law [New York: Schocken, 1974] explains in detail the evolution of rabbinic thinking on this point.) But in the more sympathetic rulings the woman's emotional stability—which may well be jeopardized by poverty or disgrace—has been an acceptable reason. Indeed in one nineteenth-century ruling on the use of emergency contraception after rape, the woman's will in the matter is the single decisive factor: Rabbi Yehudah Perilman of Minsk wrote that a woman "differs from 'mother earth' in that she need not nurture seed implanted within her against her will; indeed she may 'uproot' seed illegally sown" (Feldman 287). There are many kinds of unlawfulness besides rape; one wonders whether the rabbis, always a bit apprehensive of governments, would consider the state's overruling of a woman's will a form of unlawfulness.
The rabbis' attention to circumstances is worth emulating: religion need not generalize its moral categories to the point where they become cruel, or sneer at "situation ethics" as a kind of collusion with evil. The anti-abortion movement uses big thunderous words like life and sanctity—abstractions that can be understood by people just barely capable of abstraction—yet what a pregnant woman faces are particulars: a child she longs to raise or dreads to raise, and the conditions she has to raise it in. A baby is not, as the other side is fond of saying, a "choice"; it's also not "life," undifferentiated and self-maintaining. It cannot be sensibly spoken of in abstractions at all. A philosophy student once told me he fully agreed at the pragmatic level that the woman must be the one to decide, but that he wished abortion were firmly justifiable at the ideal level. But a baby is pragmatic: it is not the stuff of Platonic forms or unchanging principles. Someone has to wake up and feed it, someone has to change its diapers, someone has to give absorbed and unconditional attention to its least activity and syllable and symptom. No philosophy yet, apart from some feminist philosophy, has faced pragmatism at so dire a level—though Emmanuel Levinas tried, with his assertion that mothers embodied most fully his principle of living for the Other (and he, as far as I know, made no statement on whether they had the option to refuse). If the pregnant woman's position can be described in abstract terms at all, it is with words like moral agency, which require some sophistication and quietness of mind to understand, and which do not begin to touch the actual nature of each woman's choice. For real understanding, narrative is required; in a sense ethics is always a subset of narrative. If not for situations, ethics would never be needed; if not for situations, ethics might be easily applied.
In one sense it is always our business, as ethical people of any persuasion, to play God: "the heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth he has given to the children of men" (Ps. 115:16). But that process is never simple, never comfortable, and never easily understood. Above all it is a process in which compassion and severity are in continual tension, and compassion to one person may mean harm to another. We live after the Fall: knowing good and evil, but able to separate them only temporarily and with great care. In Jewish tradition, where the Eden story is simply a parable of lost innocence, this ambiguity is a condition of life, difficult but not inevitably disastrous; our job is to repair the world with all the energy, ingenuity and mercy at our command. In Christian tradition, where the Fall has theological standing—where it is seen in hindsight as a human disaster of such magnitude as to require the Redemption, the discarnate God's taking flesh in a woman's womb—it should be, if anything, clearer that the effects of the Fall cannot be sidestepped. No one is immune to confusion and bad management and accident; religion itself is no vaccination against sin. And even pregnancy, which in an unambiguous world might never seem ill-timed or unwelcome, is not always and intrinsically good. Nor is abortion, however disquieting, always and intrinsically evil.
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Dorothy Ruth Pirone
Extraordinary Babe Ruth
Early years, Boston and New York
Braves, Dodgers and retirement
Good deeds off and on the field
His love of children
Babe loved playing the Negro Leagues
Baba Ruso!
Babe's 500ft Home run graphs
The House That Ruth Built
Babe is sick and an Icon passes away
Babe Ruth, etc. Blog
About Andy and I
Home on the Farm
Babe Ruth in Art
Vaudeville, Hollywood & Celebrities
NewsReel
Esteemed Guests articles
Friends of the Legacy
Ruthian Links!
Babe at Spring training 1934 - Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth goes back to Boston...Braves
When Babe Ruth left Boston for New York, he changed the look of baseball forever. He became the most famous slugger in baseball history.
It was different when he returned as a Boston Brave. My grandfather, in his 15 year career with the Yankees, hit .349 with 659 home runs and 1,978 RBI's, while leading the league in home runs 10 times. He did not get what he wished and that was to manage the Yankees after putting the team on the map. The Yankees released him for $1.00 on Feb. 26 1935. A nice thank you. Babe now 40 years of age signed with the Boston Braves that very day.
It was a three year contract with the Braves to be their vice president, assistant mananger, and wanting his bat, playing right field. My grandfather would play only 28 games, hitting .181 in 92 plate appearances.
His OPS was still .789, with 6 home runs, the last 3 he hit in one day. May 25, he went 3-for-4 with three homers and 6 RBI's in a loss against the Pirates. He walked out that day knowing that Judge Fuchs had no intention of honoring his promise to let him manage the Braves.
Babe Ruth accepting gift from Judge Fuchs 1935
"All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill." Babe Ruth
Babe is moving on
" Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder." Babe Ruth
Forbes Field, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania on May 25, 1935 was to be his last game. My grandfather went 4 for 4 on that day, hitting three home runs and driving in six runs. Babe Ruth bid goodbye to the Majors. He grew tired of being just a drawing card.
The Dodgers
Babe talking about Dodgers - Babe Ruth
My grandfather still holding out hope that he can stay in baseball and someday manage a team.
Sadly it was not to be. MLB and the game he loved and served all his life would never let him manage. Shame really, as he proved in Japan, he would have made an excellent manager. I think it is baseballs biggest mistake and a big loss for them.
Other Sports and Retirement
Babe provided Thanksgiving dinner!
Sent to me from a fan, Jim Ferrari of NY
Babe pleads not to be forgotten
These is much more of Babe's Yankee career, but have to edit myself or this site will never get launched!! More on his Yankee career to come!


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"A Christian community is a group of people who are bonded by and strive to live by Jesus' vision and values. A small Christian community or a small church community is a group of people who come together in an ongoing way within the Christian tradition to pray, to reflect on a passage of Scripture, to share their life stories in light of the Word, and then to commit to live out the Word in their daily lives. Another way of saying this might be: a group of people committed to one another, to God, and to the world who desire the gospel to touch every aspect of their lives."
Maybe you'd like to meet new people. Maybe you'd like to spend more time sharing your faith with others and hearing them express their own faith. Maybe you'd like to grow spiritually. Maybe you'd like to deepen your relationship with God. Whatever your reason – it's the right one.
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MIT Develops A New AI Language - GEN
Jul 02, 2019 Gen, MIT develops new ai language, mit new ai language, gen ai language , 4409 Views
MIT researchers have developed a new programming language designed for computer vision, robotics and statistics - "Gen".
Gen is a novel probabilistic-programming system, MIT researchers claim, it allows you to write models and algorithms without having to deal with equations or manually write high-performance code. It will also help expert researchers in writing sophisticated models and inference algorithms, required for prediction tasks and were previously infeasible.
"One motivation of this work is to make automated AI more accessible to people with less expertise in computer science or math," says first author Marco Cusumano-Towner
The team behind the Gen said that it is a package for Julia. Its multiple modeling languages are implemented as DSLs in Julia and it is a Julia library for inference programming as well.
The new language eases the use of probabilistic modeling and inference. Gen provides you with modeling languages in which you can express models, and high-level programming constructs to automate aspects of inference. It's capabilities unify symbolic, neural, probabilistic, and simulation-based approaches to modeling and inference.
Interestingly, Intel is already collaborating with MIT to use Gen for 3-D pose estimation. The company plans to use Gen's 3-D estimation from its depth-sense cameras that are used in robotics and augmented-reality systems.


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Pacquiao-Marquez 4 not important: WBC boss
Posted at Oct 30 2012 06:23 PM | Updated as of Oct 31 2012 07:11 AM
MANILA, Philippines – World Boxing Council (WBC) president Don Jose Sulaiman criticized the fourth fight between rivals Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao of the Philippine and Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico, calling it "a fight without importance."
Pacquiao and Marquez will fight for the fourth time on December 8 in Las Vegas. Although there are no title belts on the line, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) has created a special title for the fight and will present the winner with its "Champion of the Decade" belt.
"The fourth version of Manny Pacquiao vs Marquez is a fight without any importance, because there is no championship at stake," Sulaiman said, as quoted by Boxing Scene.
"It is a fight that only interests those in Mexico and the Philippines, and the match is not drawing attention anywhere else in the world," he added.
"It is a fight with only a single purpose – to fill the date and nothing more."
Yahoo! Sports' Paul Magno noted that Sulaiman sounded "more like a woman scorned than the head of a sanctioning body."
Sulaiman had offered to put up the WBC's "Diamond" belt at stake in the bout, but it was the WBO who wound up sanctioning the fight and getting the sanctioning fee.
According to Magno, the sanctioning fee is "a substantial amount of money" that could amount to a "seven-figure payday" for the WBO.
"It was certainly enough money to set off the WBC's Sulaiman and kill all semblance of diplomacy from the 81-year-old," he wrote.
Magno also notes that Sulaiman's rant against the Pacquiao-Marquez bout "should surprise no one who follows the sport."
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History of Maryland - 2
CORNWALLIS INCENSED. 409
Congress manifested their approbation by the passage of a preamble and
resolutions on the 9th of March, 1781, expressive of their thanks to the officers and men who participated in the battle, and directing a gold medal with
suitable inscriptions, to be presented to General Morgan. They likewise presented Colonel Pickens with a sword, and Lieutenant Colonels Washington
and Howard with a silver medal each. Major Edward Giles, aide-de-camp of
Brigadier General Morgan, was breveted major "in consideration of his
merit and services." The Legislature of Maryland, and a number of the other
States, marked the event with proceedings expressive of their gratification.x
Incensed at the defeat of Tarleton, Cornwallis, who was not more than
thirty miles distant from the scene of action, determined to pursue his retreating adversary, regain his captured troops and baggage, strike terror into the
heart of North Carolina, re-establish the royal government, and press forward
to form a junction with the British troops under Arnold, in the Chesapeake.
Leaving Lord Rawdon with a large force to hold South Carolina, Cornwallis,
having been reinforced by Leslie's command, on January 19, 1781, began
his long march. Collecting his army at Ramsower's Mill, on the south fork
of the Catawba, he resolved, on the 25th, to sever his communications with
South Carolina, and to turn his army into light troops. Destroying his extra
baggage and nearly all his wagons, he took up his "flying march " in pursuit
of the American army.
Morgan, anticipating the designs of Cornwallis, on the 25th wrote to
Greene, advising a junction of their forces. Receiving this letter,. Greene
placed his army under the command of Major General Huger, with orders to
press forward with all speed, by the direct road to Salisbury, while he, accompanied, by an aide and sergeant's guard of dragoons, rode across the country
nearly one hundred and fifty miles, and on the 30th, arrived in Morgan's
camp, at Sherrald's Ford, on the Catawba.    Receiving intelligence of the
paces, and then discharged a pistol at him, Harper's Ferry in 1799, Colonel Washington,
which wounded his knee." The sergeant here then holding a distinguished rank in the army,
spoken of was Everheart. Colonel Washington, passed through Middletown, and inquired for
upon his return from the chase, embraced his his old and faithful friend, desiring that he
wounded friend, and sent him, under the care would visit him the next day in Frederick. A
of two dragoons, three miles distant from the large number of the citizens assembled to wit-
camp, where his wounds were dressed by Dr. ness the interview. It is stated that, on ap-
Pindall, formerly of Hagerstown, then surgeon proaching, they rushed into each other's arms,
of the regiment. Owing to his wounds, he did kissed, and gave vent to their feelings in tears of
not participate in the battle of Guilford Court- joy. This was the last time they ever met,
House; but, at the request of his old com- though Everheart was urged by his old commander, took charge of the baggage-wagons, mande^r to remove to Carolina, where wealth,
and on the 18th of October, 1781, was present ease and happiness awaited him. Everheart died
at the capitulation of Cornwallis at Yorktown, in 1839, and was buried with every respect by a
where he formed the acquaintance of Lafayette. grateful people.—Maryland Papers Seventy-Six
In 1782, he was honorably discharged, and em- Society, p. 42. Southern Literary Messenger for
harked in agricultural pursuits in his native 1838, p. 590.
valley.   Having married, and become the father 1 Graham's Life of Daniel Morgan, p. 262, etc.
of several children, his time was chiefly em- Greene's Life of Greene, p. 128, etc.   Johnson's
Ployed in providing for their wants.   After some Life of Greene, p. 322, etc.   Lee's Memoirs of the
years, he became a Methodist preacher.   When War.
the United States troops were   stationed at
Title History of Maryland - 2
Creator Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas)
Publisher J. B. Piet
Place of Publication Baltimore
Title 00000446
Transcript CORNWALLIS INCENSED. 409 Congress manifested their approbation by the passage of a preamble and resolutions on the 9th of March, 1781, expressive of their thanks to the officers and men who participated in the battle, and directing a gold medal with suitable inscriptions, to be presented to General Morgan. They likewise presented Colonel Pickens with a sword, and Lieutenant Colonels Washington and Howard with a silver medal each. Major Edward Giles, aide-de-camp of Brigadier General Morgan, was breveted major "in consideration of his merit and services." The Legislature of Maryland, and a number of the other States, marked the event with proceedings expressive of their gratification.x Incensed at the defeat of Tarleton, Cornwallis, who was not more than thirty miles distant from the scene of action, determined to pursue his retreating adversary, regain his captured troops and baggage, strike terror into the heart of North Carolina, re-establish the royal government, and press forward to form a junction with the British troops under Arnold, in the Chesapeake. Leaving Lord Rawdon with a large force to hold South Carolina, Cornwallis, having been reinforced by Leslie's command, on January 19, 1781, began his long march. Collecting his army at Ramsower's Mill, on the south fork of the Catawba, he resolved, on the 25th, to sever his communications with South Carolina, and to turn his army into light troops. Destroying his extra baggage and nearly all his wagons, he took up his "flying march " in pursuit of the American army. Morgan, anticipating the designs of Cornwallis, on the 25th wrote to Greene, advising a junction of their forces. Receiving this letter,. Greene placed his army under the command of Major General Huger, with orders to press forward with all speed, by the direct road to Salisbury, while he, accompanied, by an aide and sergeant's guard of dragoons, rode across the country nearly one hundred and fifty miles, and on the 30th, arrived in Morgan's camp, at Sherrald's Ford, on the Catawba. Receiving intelligence of the paces, and then discharged a pistol at him, Harper's Ferry in 1799, Colonel Washington, which wounded his knee." The sergeant here then holding a distinguished rank in the army, spoken of was Everheart. Colonel Washington, passed through Middletown, and inquired for upon his return from the chase, embraced his his old and faithful friend, desiring that he wounded friend, and sent him, under the care would visit him the next day in Frederick. A of two dragoons, three miles distant from the large number of the citizens assembled to wit- camp, where his wounds were dressed by Dr. ness the interview. It is stated that, on ap- Pindall, formerly of Hagerstown, then surgeon proaching, they rushed into each other's arms, of the regiment. Owing to his wounds, he did kissed, and gave vent to their feelings in tears of not participate in the battle of Guilford Court- joy. This was the last time they ever met, House; but, at the request of his old com- though Everheart was urged by his old commander, took charge of the baggage-wagons, mande^r to remove to Carolina, where wealth, and on the 18th of October, 1781, was present ease and happiness awaited him. Everheart died at the capitulation of Cornwallis at Yorktown, in 1839, and was buried with every respect by a where he formed the acquaintance of Lafayette. grateful people.—Maryland Papers Seventy-Six In 1782, he was honorably discharged, and em- Society, p. 42. Southern Literary Messenger for harked in agricultural pursuits in his native 1838, p. 590. valley. Having married, and become the father 1 Graham's Life of Daniel Morgan, p. 262, etc. of several children, his time was chiefly em- Greene's Life of Greene, p. 128, etc. Johnson's Ployed in providing for their wants. After some Life of Greene, p. 322, etc. Lee's Memoirs of the years, he became a Methodist preacher. When War. the United States troops were stationed at
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For the now demolished hall near Blakesley, see Blakesley Hall (Northamptonshire).
Blakesley Hall (grid reference SP130861) (a grade II* listed building) is a Tudor hall on Blakesley Road in Yardley, Birmingham, England. It is one of the oldest buildings in Birmingham and is a typical example of Tudor architecture with the use of darkened timber and wattle-and-daub infill, with an external lime render which is painted white. The extensive use of close studding and herringbone patterns on all sides of the house make this a home that was designed to show the wealth and status of the owner. The house is also jettied on all sides. At the rear of the hall, built on the back of the chimney, is a brick kitchen block dating from circa 1650.
The visitor centre constructed in 2002.
The hall is a timber-framed farmhouse built in 1590 (when Yardley was in Worcestershire) by Richard Smalbroke, a man of local importance to Yardley. His family farmed at the hall and had other buildings in the surrounding area which were lost over time. After 1685, the building passed into the hands of the Greswolde family and for the next 200 years became a tenant farm. In 1899, the hall was acquired by Henry Donne who renovated the dilapidated house before selling it to the Merry family, a local paint and varnish manufacturer, who were the last family to occupy the hall.
The hall became a museum in 1935 after centuries of use as a private home and its parlour was renovated. Its purpose was to display the history of the local medieval manors which comprise Birmingham. The Hall was damaged by a bomb in November 1941 causing extensive damage and the museum did not open again until 1957. After research in the 1970s, the Hall was restored to an authentic period appearance and refurbished using furnishings drawn from the 1684 inventory of the contents.
It was last renovated in 2002 with the extension of a visitor centre and car park. Some structural work was also carried out in the hall and modern intrusive features such as the toilet block and the boiler room were removed, the former being relocated into the new visitor centre. This allowed the second smaller parlour to be placed on the ground floor next to the Great Parlour. An adjacent barn (Grade II listed) to the east of the hall has been renovated and consists of exhibition space and space for social functions.
As a Community Museum, that is a branch museum, of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery it is run by Birmingham Museums Trust. Many of the original architectural features of the hall remain such as the herringbone floor. Among the artefacts discovered at the hall are candlesticks and pewter goblets. In the Bedchamber, paintings on the wall from 1590 were discovered after being hidden for centuries, their rediscovery partly in thanks of the bomb damage that loosened a significant amount of plaster in the hall. When renovations took place postwar, inspection of the bedchamber revealed fragments of leather and painted plaster. When the chamber was cleaned up, the walls and timbers were shown to be decorated in a Moorish design. A mock up of how the 'painted chamber' would have looked can be seen in the back bedroom at Blakesley hall.
The Gilbertstone, moved in local folklore by the Giant named Gilbert (which gave its name to the area of Gilbertstone on the border of Yardley and South Yardley), is displayed in the grounds of the museum.
^ Historic England. "Blakesley Hall (1075711)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
"Medieval Yardley", Victor Skipp, 1970, Phillimore.
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Hydro-Québec - Issue of Debentures Due February 15, 2060 on the Canadian Market
MONTREAL, Dec. 1, 2021 /CNW Telbec/ - Hydro-Québec announces that it has negotiated on the Canadian domestic market the issue of CA$500,000,000 of Debentures, Series JR, maturing on February 15, 2060.
The Debentures, with a coupon of 2.10%, payable semi-annually, will be offered on the market at a price of 85.753 plus interest deemed to have accrued from August 15, 2021. The yield is 2.700%.
The lead manager for this issue is National Bank Financial Inc. with BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. and CIBC World Markets Inc. acting as co-lead managers, Casgrain & Company Limited, Desjardins Securities Inc., Laurentian Bank Securities Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Scotia Capital Inc. and The Toronto-Dominion Bank, acting as other managers.
This is the tenth additional tranche of Debentures, Series JR, issued initially on November 9, 2020 and the total aggregate principal amount of Debentures outstanding under this Series now amounts to CA$5,500,000,000.
SOURCE Hydro-Québec
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