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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 148
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 148
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Flame of the Month
Flame of the Month, as the name suggests, is going to be a regular feature where our guest editors will review a game on all the major 8-bit platforms. The first Flame comes from Commodore Crusader. Jason Wotnau and Akio Tenshi would like to say that even though they respect the guest editors and their opinions, they don’t necessarily have to agree with the contents of these articles.
Druid is an action adventure by Firebird from 1986. A lot of those who have played it (my humble self included) return to it with affection. Yet it rarely scores high in any C=64 Top X list that I know. And that’s the point. Even though it’s not considered a tops game that would showcase the numerous strengths of the C=64, it’s still enough to demonstrate the machine’s superiority over the jokes of a platform called Atari, CPC, and Spectrum.
You are Hasrinaxx, the last of the Great Druids, and your task is to restore peace in the realm of Belorn by defeating four demon princes in the dungeons of the evil lich Acamantor.
You have missile spells based on Water, Fire, and Lightning. The element of Earth is used through a golem that you can control and use either to cover your back or as a tank. Apart from those, you can also cast Chaos and Invisibility. Let the journey begin and good luck!
LOADING PICTURES
Well, good presentation doesn’t make a good game, but it can’t harm, can it?
The C=64 has a great loading picture featuring the main protagonist in a mysterious landscape in the moonlight, with a staircase leading down into Acamantor’s lair. The CPC version is a direct conversion of that. It’s worse than the original, but at least it tries.
The C=64 picture (left) vs. its CPC version (right) is one of very few fair fights we’ll see along the course of the article. The CPC one isn’t too bad. Some bits around the druid himself even look improved, but what ruins the pic is the choice of colors of the ground (doesn’t fit the lighting), broken perspective around the castle walls, and especially the credits mania. This Paul – who probably converted the pic – just must put his name under Bob, and once they put extra text into the picture, they had to insert the music credits too. Music credits on the title screen? C’mon, people!
The ZX picture was probably drawn by a schoolboy. Talent-free schoolboy. There are lots of bad details in the picture, but the winner is the golem. It looks like it’s dressed in spandex under which it has an erection.
Left: nice loading picture on the C=64. Right: Hepatitic druid wearing a cross (eh?). Golem suffering from priapism. Constipated as well, juding by its looks. Were the gates of the castle meant to look ominous? This is supposed to be dark fantasy, not Trap Door! And by the way, the player is obviously supposed to understand hexadecimal.
No, actually, the reall winner is the Atari 8-bit version because it has no loading picture at all.
Well, good music doesn’t make a good game, but it can’t harm, can it?
On the C=64, there’s this cult tune by David M. Hanlon (whose tune for Druid II later became even cultier because it was used about a zillion times in Fairlight cracks). It emanates mystery, tension, looming fate. But on the CPC, the music has absolutely nothing in common with the atmosphere of the game. I swear I’m not overdoing it when I tell you that it sounds like one of the old wanna-be-merry hurdy-gurdy carousel tunes.
Then there’s the bizarre bit with the Spectrum music, or the lack thereof. The ZX version credits D. M. Hanlon for music, but there’s no music at all! Actually, all the ZX credits go to the same people as on the C=64, so it looks like someone just mindlessly copied a few lines of text. Or hoped no one would notice. And ah yes, no music whatsoever on Atari either.
This is where the C=64 and the ZX version look almost identical. Ironically, this screen should not look the same on two different platforms.
Now good sound effects don’t make a good game, but they certainly can’t harm, can they?
The Commodore has them pretty straightforward: shots and enemies being born or killed are white noise, the druid is taken care of with a bass sound that implies power. But for the other platforms, in-game sounds are another Waterloo.
On the Atari, the sounds that have to do with the enemies sound either like wet farts or like a bike tire losing air. And the druid sounds are much, much worse. Those bleeps sound so electronic that it completely ruins the fantasy atmosphere of the game. The CPC sounds have a strange metallic touch to them. Most of them have a high pitch element that just causes me a headache. Maybe it was meant as additional motivation for players: don’t let any enemies near you, or we’ll play you this sound! Works for me. Really does. The ZX version, for a change, has about one sound: the slight crack of a skipping record. All the sounds in the game are then composed of this one crack being played various times and with various gaps in between. Yet, if I had to choose between the ZX’s serial cracking and the Atari’s and CPC’s radio bleeping and squeaking in fantasy settings, I’d go for the Spectrum in 11 out of 10 cases.
Well, good graphics don’t necessarily make a good game, but bad graphics can suck some enjoyment out of it.
On the C=64, you start out in Acamantor’s gardens infested by ghosts and giant beetles (further levels will add more, like living blobs of slime, ralacks, wraiths, or even devils). Next to trees and hedges, there’s a neatly animated river. There are also chests scattered across the gardens (and later in the dungeons as well) where you can replenish your magic inventory. After you cross the river, you find a rotating pentagram (called “Pentogram [sic!] of life” in the manual, probably to signal to concerned parents that this has nothing to do with worshiping evil) that heals you if you stand on it. When you feel ready for it, you take the staircase down to the dungeons.
The CPC in-game graphics are once again a solid conversion of the C=64 original, but what surrounds them puts the looks of the game down. Obviously for hardware reasons, the part of the screen where action happens is several lines smaller than on the C=64. What to do with the empty space? Let’s put the druid, golem, and rating statuses below the spells! Result? It still looks like they didn’t know what to do with the space. But as they were redesigning, they had another “clever” idea: putting some graphics under the game window to make the screen less empty. But what color, not to risk confusing it with in-game gfx? They chose blue instead of the original druidish green and gold (yellow), which then led to changing the font in the “DRUID” on the screen’s top, and once they were at killing the style, they also replaced the stylish eye indicating the spell currently in use with a blue arrow. Not cool.
On the Spectrum, the dark energy emanating from Acamantor’s lair is already much more visible in the gardens. For example, not just the beetles, also the ghosts are black. Even the druid is black, perhaps as a kind of mimicry. Very efficient mimicry. As more or less anything that moves looks like a shapeless lump of black pixels, don’t ever take your eyes off the screen, or when you’re back, you won’t know what’s you and what’s an enemy. The river then contains squares and rectangles of light blue water. I spent ages trying to decipher this secret code until I realized it was just bad drawing. The rest is the regular “black on something” Spectrum graphics.
The Atari has more colors, but even there, Acamantor has been hard at work. He started with stealing every other pixel line of the lawn and replacing the grass there with his evil yellow stuff. Then he, for whatever mysterious reason, made his minions smaller than on the other platforms. Well, one could live with these cute ghosties (or, more accurately, cute white tree stubs wearing sunglasses) or the giant beetles being not-quite-as-giant as on the other platforms, but the devils in the later levels look more like overgrown mice with wings. Also, being limited on monster colors, the Atarimantor probably decided to make up for it in the display area: if you look closely, you’ll see that the water drop has a grey lower left corner and the fire is chiefly pink. To me, that’s a choice of colors asking for a very colorful language on the player’s side. Plus, where on the C=64 and the ZX you have a golem icon, on the Atari, there’s something between a flexing bodybuilder and a gorilla. And finally, there’s a certain WTF factor to the pentagram. Every self-respecting pentagram is either black or black and white. Well, the pentatarigram of life in screwed colors is blue and yellow.
IN THE DETAIL
“The devil’s in the detail.” Well, in Atari’s case, it’s, “The overgrown mouse with wings is in the detail.” Anyway, nice details don’t make a great game, but they can turn faint hopes of having a good time either into facepalms or laugh-fests.
Water, fire, and lightning missile spells on the C=64 (top line), CPC, Atari, and Spectrum (bottom line).
One nice touch of the C=64 version are the missiles. They have different shapes and colors. Water is white and blue, fire is red, lightning is white. On the CPC, they just took the fire sprite and recolored it for the other elements. On the Atari, all the shots also look the same (like some enigmatic hieroglyphics), but they’re even the same two colors: blue and pink. We already know that some people on the Atari thought that pink was the color of fire, so now we also have pink water and pink lightnings. And the Spectrum? Well, yeah, the “black on something,” I know. That’s a kinda hardware thing. But the missiles also look the same. So instead of a fireball, lightning and a water bomb, you’ve got three identical tar balls.
ZX Druid standing by the pentagram and then going over it.
One more proof of programming laziness on the Spectrum side: there’s no masking out of the background. In human terms, while nothing can be done about that the druid is black and the other color changes all the time according to the background, the “inside” of the druid isn’t just filled with this color, it acts transparent instead. It’s most visible in the druid’s face, or, as the picture below shows, most invisible if the background happens to be black too.
The Spectrum’s druid seems to be a specter. But Atari fans shouldn’t despair. They have typewriters. Really! On the C=64, the CPC, and the ZX, they are the chests with magic spells, but on the Atari they look like stylized typewriters. Have a look! (The typewriter on the right is added by me for comparison.)
And then there are the monsters. On the C=64 and the CPC.
On the Spectrum and the Atari, they are rather graphical monstrosities. The ZX enemies – and sometimes the druid as well – look like a “guess the monster” quiz. Just try it yourself!
Question: In the picture, there are two characters standing opposite each other. Those of you with a really rich imagination can recognize the druid on the left and a ghost on the right. But what’s the black smudge in front of the tree on the far left supposed to be? (Answer: another ghost.)
On the Atari, monster colors are a problem. So someone had a bright idea: if we can’t have multicolored monsters, let’s at least have the monsters in a multitude of colors. The only other explanation would be that the Atari druid has smoked some weird stuff and can see the monsters in psychedelic colors. Have a look at the – by far – not exhaustive gallery. Top to bottom: a salmon-colored something (probably a wraith), a yellow overgrown mouse with wings. Then there are a white, greenish, purple, and a blue beetle; all with blue eyes (note that they are very magical beetles because their heads are not connected to their bodies). Next are a yellow, green, salmon, and a pinkish-violetish snake. The bottom line are then a grey and a green ralack. Yet the winners in my eyes are the pink and the turquoise skeleton.
Just for a bit of a comparison, here are some monsters from the C=64 version. Top to bottom, left to right: ralack, snake, slime, devil, beetle, ghost, skeleton.
I’ll be brief here. Bad gameplay does make a bad game.
The CPC version is sluggish and too difficult at the same time. Due to the smaller game window, more enemies spawn closer to you, giving you less time to react. Also, on the C=64, if you’re running from an enemy and the enemy gets off-screen, the computer still “remembers” it for a while, so if you stop, the same enemy will come from that direction. The CPC, on the other hand, removes the enemy from the screen as soon as it touches the border, resulting in not only enemies suddenly disappearing but once again more random spawns and you not being able to plan your next steps. In addition to that, your spell missiles are slower than on the C=64, and as you can have only one on the screen at any given time, if you miss, you’ll have to wait that much longer till you can shoot again, which can cost you dearly. The sluggishness then comes from that even though the game window is smaller, if there are more enemies on the screen, the game gets visibly slower. And the scrolling is wobbly, so avoid if you’re prone to headaches from unsteadily moving pictures.
The Atari version has some fun-breaking issues too, like there’s no difference between the pictures of a typewriter that you haven’t looted yet and one you’ve already opened. So if you get a bit lost, you may go through a lot of fights and lose a lot of energy to get somewhere only to find out you’ve already been there. Furthermore, sometimes monsters drain your energy not through direct contact but touching the same object you’re touching. Collision-checking clumsiness at its worst. And on top of that, the game is somewhat too easy. I haven’t played Druid for about ten years, yet on my first play of the Atari version I got beyond half of the game.
The Atari might have issues with how the game is balanced and how some of the game mechanics are implemented, but the Spectrum version is just a total flop. Not only is it quite slow. Its biggest problem is that it doesn’t scroll. So it happens that you’re on the side of a screen, and suddenly you start losing energy because there’s a monster on the next screen that can see you and starts biting you. In Druid, it’s vital that you can always see what’s coming at you, so that you can either kill it or avoid it, and the Spectrum copies all the other game mechanics except the scrolling. It’s like having to play a joystick-wiggling sports game with text adventure commands.
C=64 rules. Atari, CPC, and ZX Spectrum suck. Or at least Druid on the Atari, CPC, and ZX Spectrum sucks.
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Gilbert native, Jr. Coyotes, AHU, Bobcats, DYHA alum Livanavage chosen as weekly USHL award winner
The USHL announced today that Chicago Steel blueliner Jake Livanavage is the USHL Defenseman of the Week. The defending Clark Cup champions completed a weekend sweep with a pair of 6-4 wins thanks in part to a strong four-point weekend from one of their returning defensemen. Livanavage was a huge contributor in Friday night’s win…
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EHL completes inaugural All-Star Classic Event, showcases ‘just how much parity exists in our league’
The Eastern Hockey League (EHL) held its first-ever All-Star tournament Nov. 20-21, featuring four teams (68 players total) from around the league in Hookset, N.H. Over the span of two days, the four teams — Red, Blue, White and Gray — played three round robin games followed by a consolation and championship game. Each team…
Jr. Coyotes graduate Brett collects weekly honors from USPHL
Wisconsin Rapids Riverkings blueliner Colby Brett is the Defenseman of the Week in the USPHL Midwest West Premier Division. A second-year USPHL Premier veteran and first-year Riverking (he played 2020-21 with the Provo Riverblades), Brett missed the first game of a two-game set against the Chicago Cougars (a loss) with an injury, but came back…
Flagstaff native, Northstars product Brendel garners weekly award from NA3HL
The NA3HL announced today that El Paso Rhinos goaltender Peyton Brendel is the South Division Star of the Week. Brendel, 18, helped his team move into third place in the South Division with a three-game home sweep of the Louisiana Drillers. The Flagstaff native started and won all three games in the series for the…
Bobcats, Jr. Coyotes, Pinnacle alum Hawley garners monthly USPHL honor
The USPHL has announced that Elmira Jr. Enforcers blueliner Logan Hawley is the Atlantic West Division Defenseman of the Month. The Jr. Enforcers have not been quite the force that they were in their first season in 2020-21, when they took their magic all the way to the USPHL National Championships and kicked off their…
Flagstaff’s Birecki named to EHL player list for 2021 All-Star Classic
The Eastern Hockey League (EHL) has announced the names of the 68 players that will be participating in the 1st Annual EHL All-Star Classic on November 21-22 at the Ice Den Arena in Hooksett, N.H. The first installment of the league’s brand-new event will feature a total of 36 forwards, 24 defensemen and eight goaltenders,…
EHL players shine in All-Star series vs. NCAA D-III teams Curry, UMass Boston
It was back to school for a handful of players across the Eastern Hockey League, as the All-Star team completed its collegiate showcase over the weekend with games against Curry College and UMass Boston. While the score sheet showed two losses for the EHL All Stars, a 5-2 defeat to Curry and 6-1 loss against…
Bobcats alum, Flagstaff native Kuche picks up weekly NA3HL accolades
The NA3HL has announced that Gillette Wild forward Carson Kuche is the Frontier Division Star of the Week. Kuche lit up the scoresheet for Gillette last week, notching back-to-back multi-goal games. The native of Flagstaff posted a pair of goals and another pair of assists on Friday, then bagged two more goals on Saturday for…
Mesa product, Jr. Coyotes graduate Wright grabs weekly award from USHL
The USHL has announced that Omaha Lancers forward Garrett Wright is the league’s Forward of the Week. The Lancers swept a home weekend over the defending Western Conference champion Fargo Force thanks in part to a great offensive output from Wright. Friday night saw a pair of goals from the Mesa native as Wright had…
EHL season moving into high gear with pair of games vs. NCAA teams this weekend
As the Eastern Hockey League season enters its second month, the USA Hockey-sanctioned junior league continues to provide exposure opportunities for its member clubs with two exhibition games this week against NCAA Division III schools. The EHL team skating against Curry College (Friday at 6:50 p.m. EST) and UMass Boston (Saturday at 4 p.m. EST)…
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Irish Woodturners Guild – East Central Chapter
April 2019 – Seminar
August 2018 – Summer BBQ
Tom Murphy 1st prize IWG Seminar
April 2015 -Seminar
As usual the December meeting of our chapter had a festive air to it, (I’m told) and the demonstration was given by our own father Christmas in the form of Joe O’ Neill. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend due to the fact I was having a long awaited hip operation and I’m ghost-writing this for Frank Trappe who obligingly stepped into the breech to take the notes and let me know what went on. Joe it seems was in his usual form, cracking jokes as he went on to demonstrate the making of a candlestick turned from pieces of beech. The base was from a piece around 200mm in diameter and 5omm thick, the stem from a piece 250mm long and 80mm by 80mm. Then Joe, who was wearing a tartan hat a surgeon’s gown and mask, mounted the stem blank between centres and roughed out a cylinder, from there he shaped the stem with a spigot at the bottom to fit to the base, the top was drilled to take a candle cup. The next step was to turn the base from the 200mmx50mm blank and this he did very skilfully with a hole to take the spigot on the stem, joined the two together and there it was, a candlestick to grace the Christmas dinner table.
Then to the break with Tom Gibson doing the honours, (sorry I missed that, hope you kept some mince pies for me Tom.)
For the second part of the afternoon Joe demonstrated the making of a salt shaker, an ingenious piece of turning and very useful on the dining table and to quote Joe, anyone worth his salt can turn one, as I have described this on a previous occasion and I believe Joe handed out a printout to everyone in the audience I won’t repeat it.
I have been asked to give a mention and a congratulation to Jim Hynes for his success in the Guild seminar competition, a second and third in one section and a third in another, these can be seen in the December journal, well done Jim for setting a standard that I for one would strive to achieve.
That’s it for this month all that remains is for me to wish one and all a very happy Christmas and a happy and safe new year, I look forward to seeing you all in January.
Pat Gannon. Frank Trappe.
© Copyright 2022 – Irish Woodturners Guild – East Central Chapter
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Opinion: Why we’re taking a stand with CALM to prevent male suicide
March 29, 2018 /in News Analysis /by Alister Houghton
Adam Mack, UK CEO at W, discusses the agency’s commitment to its work with the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) and what he hopes the campaigns achieve.
Unless you’ve been on a digital detox over the past week, you’ll have probably seen the incredible Project 84 campaign launched by the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) on Monday.
Adam Mack
84 sculptures of real men who have taken their own lives now loom over the Southbank as a hard-hitting and pertinent reminder of the fact that 84 men are lost to loved ones every week, through suicide.
The campaign has become a national talking point, with people in the public eye showing their support – from Sam Smith taking to Twitter to Jeremy Corbyn talking about it in today’s PMQs. And that’s what Project 84 is all about – removing the stigma attached to male suicide and normalising the idea that it’s OK for men to seek support.
CALM’s work is absolutely vital, and as an agency, that’s why W is so committed to supporting what it stands for. Our goal was to amplify the installation and deliver CALM’s message with far-reaching national (and now global!) coverage so we could actually initiate this much-need conversation. And that’s where the appeal of these campaigns comes in.
It’s all about placing the issue of male suicide – which most people actively avoid talking about – in mainstream press so they can no longer ignore it. Our global CEO Warren Johnson is personally invested and passionate about our work with CALM for that reason – it’s all too clear to us that men don’t feel as though they can express themselves as well or as openly as women often do.
#DontBottleItUp – which we launched with CALM last October with Love Island’s Chris Hughes – was all about how ludicrous the idea is that men continue to keep their struggles to themselves. Just as ludicrous (l’eau de Chris, get it?!) as the notion that Chris would launch a premium bottled water brand infused with his own tears. And it worked – the nation got behind it, delivering a 495% uplift in visits to the CALM website in the first 48 hours – 95% of which were first-time visitors.
Even in our work with Lynx and Anthony Joshua last year, we turned the sport of boxing on its head to achieve a similar goal. We wanted to deliver an emotional reaction that would resonate with a mass market, so we decided to present AJ in a previously unseen way – focusing on his mental strength rather than physical.
At a time when the (rightly) celebrated #metoo movement is making global waves for female empowerment, it’s easy to forget that men face issues too as they seek to redefine their gender role. So we’re committed to making a difference, and changing the ways people view masculinity is just a start.
Humanising the idea of male suicide via Project 84 is another vital step forward in reminding people that male suicide is about real lives and not just a statistic. It’s about drastic action and everyone should be taking a stand to join this movement, helping to prevent male suicide.
Sign the petition and take a stand with us.
Tags: Adam Mack, Campaign Against Living Miserably, Opinion, Project 84, W Communications
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Don Newberry, Tulsa County Court Clerk
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Tulsa County Court Clerk Don Newberry
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About the County Court Clerk’s Office
Pursuant to Oklahoma State Statutes, the Court Clerk, as an elected official, is charged with maintaining the records of all Tulsa County District Court cases. These cases are filed in their respective departments in the main offices of the Court Clerk on the second floor of the Tulsa County Courthouse. Certain licensing documents are also filed by the Court Clerk such as Marriage Licenses, Marriage Officiant registration, Process Server registration etc.
The Court Clerk also provides personnel for thirty-five (35) District, Associate and Special Judges; maintains statistics regarding the filing and disposition of all cases; and collects statutory fines, fees and forfeitures. A portion of all fines, fees and forfeitures collected by the Clerk is the source of revenue for which the office and the Courts are budgeted to operate. Expenditures include: jurors and witness fees, Public Defender salaries, transcript purchases, printing of forms, postage, utilities, courtroom maintenance, furniture, equipment and general supplies. The balance of monies collected is sent to the State Judicial Fund for the operation of District Courts throughout the State.
In October 1999 the Tulsa County Court Clerk was the first Court Clerk in the State to implement the Oklahoma Court Information System – a computer system sponsored by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. This system now includes twelve district courts and appellant courts in Oklahoma, and is accessible to outside parties via the Internet at the web address: www.oscn.net
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Los Angeles Daily News
Renters don't trust new city
By Harrison Sheppard Staff Writer
SHERMAN OAKS - Mayor James Hahn and a renters' coalition said Thursday they don't trust San Fernando Valley candidates to carry out their pledge to keep rent control in an independent Valley city.
Hahn and Larry Gross of the Coalition for Economic Survival cited the legislative record of one candidate who signed the rent-control pledge and the records of other secession supporters who either didn't sign the pledge or aren't running for office.
"They may tell you they support tenants' rights, but the record shows differently,' Hahn said. "Don't be fooled. It's a gamble - secession is a gamble in so many ways. There's so much uncertainty. We know what we have now. We don't know what we'll have next.'
Hahn and Gross spoke at a news conference in Sherman Oaks after 101 of the 111 candidates for mayor or council in the proposed city signed a pledge to keep Los Angeles' rent control ordinance after being elected.
The news conference at times turned raucous, as Valley independence supporters and candidates also showed up, heckling the mayor and other speakers from across the street with shouts of "Not true!' and "Free the Valley!'
Some Valley candidates who signed the pledge said they felt insulted that the mayor and Gross said their pledges were not to be trusted.
"I really resent the mayor's questioning my veracity, when I have sworn - written, signed, dated on a piece of paper - that I will never touch rent control,' said Terry Stone, a council candidate. "It is against my values as a human being (to break the pledge) and it is against the ethics of all the candidates I have talked to. I have seen nobody come out and say: Let's get rid of rent control.'
Gross singled out two prominent candidates - Assemblyman Keith Richman, a mayoral candidate, and former Assemblywoman Paula Boland, who is running for council - as having voted against bills that were in tenants' interest.
Richman said he also resented the allegations.
"I've been very clear that I support rent control and continuing the rent stabilizing ordinance in the new San Fernando Valley city,' Richman said. "I signed the pledge. To say that I would not live up to that is just wrong. I absolutely resent that.'
Richman said he opposed the bills that Gross cited because of other provisions in them. Boland, who did not sign the rent control pledge, could not be reached for comment Thursday.
In another development Thursday, Richman issued a letter to Hahn challenging him to a debate, and offering to allow the mayor to pick the time and location.
Hahn has repeatedly refused to debate secessionists directly, saying in July that he sees no need to, in part because he believes secessionists have taken to making the campaign more about him than about the issue itself. Kam Kuwata, the chief consultant to the mayor's anti-secession campaign, said Thursday the mayor's earlier statement still stands.
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Meeting our Topic Groups
The Topic Group Phase of the Neighbourhood Plan officially kicked off at the weekend, with an Induction Event held at the Town Hall for all Topic Group Members. These are volunteers from the local community who will be helping to shape the Plan during this important stage.
The purpose of the Induction Event was to provide basic training on neighbourhood planning for the 43 Topic Group Members that have joined. It was also an opportunity for them to meet each other for the first time, meet Town Council Officers, and meet Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group Members.
Councillor Nick Murry, Chairman of the Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group opened the event. He explained how the public had helped shape the Plan’s Vision for the Town and how it would be the Topic Groups role to breathe life into this by developing an effective set of policies, with the support of the Town Council’s Planning Officer and Neighbourhood Plan Consultant.
Commenting on the event, Cllr Murry said:
“It was fantastic to see so many enthusiastic volunteers, with such wide ranging experience, getting stuck into this crucial phase of the Plan. I am looking forward to working with them.”
He continued,
“I’d also like to add a big thank you to the Steering Group and its support staff, and to all the Town Councillors who’ve given up their time to get the Neighbourhood Plan to where it is. It is in my view, a shining example of local democracy in action.”
The 7 Topic Groups are: Housing; Community Infrastructure; Green Infrastructure; Town Centre; Transport; Economy; and Sustainability & Climate Change, which will be a cross cutting theme throughout the Plan.
This Topic Group phase will last for around 6 months, with each Topic Group meeting monthly, and reporting back to the Steering Group thereafter. The remit of each individual Topic Group will be to look at the gaps in current planning policy (to see where the Neighbourhood Plan can add value). They will then gather evidence to justify planning policies, and begin to draft planning policies.
The Topic Groups will be working with the Chippenham community to help further develop a shared vision for the Town. It is hoped that this will foster community spirit and empower the local community to take more ownership over what happens in their neighbourhood.
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MTB Led Rides
Nicky Degrendele
“Over the past year and a half Scott has not only helped me as a cyclist but also as a person. I feel like I have grown a lot since we started working together. Since the beginning I felt very comfortable and peaceful around him. I could talk about anything whether it was if training didn’t feel ok, I was missing home and was struggling with my emotions or if I felt like I had questions about nutrition – questions about anything really. I knew I could count on him back when I was in Switzerland but now that I’m back in Belgium, I know I can still count on him.
I feel like Scott can work with any athlete no matter where the athlete is from or what their background is. He treats everyone the same by treating everyone differently. He will put maximum efforts in to make it work.”
Tegshbayar Batsaikhan
“Scott is an important person for me. because he’s my coach, who led me to become the owner of the World Championship rainbow jersey.
I think he’s a great coach. because his coaching skills are unique in nature and are very kind to his athletes. he feels the strengths and weaknesses of his athletes and provides us with an excellent training. He is sincere in his work and I am happy to do his training under his guidance.”
Alec (Pedaler) Briggs
“I’ve had the pleasure of working and keeping in touch with Scott since he started coaching me as a youth and continues to do so now at the age of 27. Scott is the one who unlocked the potential in me to race at an international level as a junior, and now continues to facilitate my success of making a living out of racing and riding a bike internationally all over the world with his guidance from a distance.Scott enabled me to understand my own potential and gave me the tools to prosper self sufficiently both physically and mentally. It is safe to say the privilege of riding my bike as much as I do and as well as I do would not have been possible without Scott’s guidance over the years, for which I’ll be forever grateful.“
Nicholas Paul
It was a great privilege and the opportunity of a lifetime for me to be at the UCI World Cycling Center. From the first day I arrived, the staff made me feel right at home. Although it was a big change to my routine, climate, culture and nutrition, I quickly adapted. The experience taught me how to be an all-round professional athlete: punctual, confident, committed, responsible, focused and self-motivated.
The training was of a high level, very effective and easy to understand, with a well-organized program. The coaching was professional and cordial, which made a very comfortable training atmosphere to develop me mentally, physically and technically. I was always instructed on how to achieve optimal results, also I was very impressed with the introduction of the watt bike to monitor my progress throughout the training camp.
The camp enabled me to make giant leaps towards achieving my goal of representing my country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Joanna Rowsell MBE
“Scott was my first ever cycling coach and began coaching me in the winter of 2004. I was a complete beginner to cycling and not only did he provide me with training plans tailored to fit around my studies he also spent time out on the bike alongside me to help develop skills which are essential for racing. I think it’s fair to say cycling didn’t come naturally to me at first but all his hard work paid off and in 2005 I won the National Junior Pursuit title at my first attempt. While Scott coached me I competed in cyclo-cross, road racing, track racing and time trialling and his expertise across these different disciplines was particularly helpful as I endeavoured to develop all the areas of my cycling as well as working on my physical conditioning. I found Scott’s knowledge of sports science helpful as he could explain the reasoning behind each session.”
Gary Kirk
“My wife bought me a group of sessions with Scott as a Christmas present. At the time I was in the early stages of riding the track. We worked together on a personalised programme that fitted in with my busy work schedule. This involved track training and turbo sessions. This was so successful that I carried on using Scott which culminated in me taking part in the Good Friday track meeting at Herne Hill, something I wouldn’t have considered before working with him.
I now spend my time riding MTB and have spoken with Scott on several occasions for advice and we even met up at Cwumcarn where he took me riding which was great fun and very enlightening.
I would have no hesitation in recommending his services as in my opinion he is a very able, patient and professional coach.”
Melanie Alexander
“I have been coached by Scott since winter 2011/spring of 2012. In that time I have gone from being hopeful of finishing in the top 5 to rarely finishing outside the top 5 at national XC races. My development in this time has been as a result of Scott’s commitment to my training and racing. The structured training plan is just one element of Scott’s commitment; he also places a strong emphasis on providing feedback and in depth review of strengths plus areas to improve on in my race performance at national level races. This keeps my training plan relevant to my development and is further benefitted by advice on other elements of racing such as mental preparation and how to structure my race day. All this combined makes me a stronger racer.Scott is easy to talk to, happy to be contacted and very approachable – I never feel like a nuisance contacting Scott which is often daily. Scott’s belief in my development keeps me focused and enhances my confidence. Overall I believe I can achieve more which makes me enjoy racing and riding my MTB even more and keeps me driven. I highly recommend Scott as a cycling coach (unless you are racing against me ;-))”
Jake Charlton
“Before I started being coached by Scott, I was training 6 days a week using the turbo,
rollers and club rides but I was not achieving what I wanted to. Once I started
being coached by Scott, I was still using the turbo, rollers and doing the club
rides but each session was structured and I began to achieve the better results
that I was after”
Nikki Charlton (Jake’s Mother):
“We had felt for a while that Jake was going through all the motions of training, but what he was doing, or the quality, was not quite right. He was not getting the results he was looking for. We did not know the specifics of what he should have been doing, so Jake asked Scott to coach him. I really felt that Scott focused him and gave him the specifics that he needed. I feel that Jake benefited hugely from Scott’s coaching.”
Leona Kadir
“I would say I am fairly difficult to coach. I lose motivation very easily and get bored very easily. I get very frustrated with myself and often have very little self belief. Scott dealt with all of these things really well. The training was never repetitive and despite being really hard, it was actually quite enjoyable mostly! He was always available when I needed to ask questions and made me talk about why I was frustrated after races which really helped me deal with it all. I trained with Scott in the run up to my biggest race so far, the world marathon championships in South Africa. I can honestly say I have never felt stronger or more prepared for a race.”
New Year’s Reflections
Three good reasons to get off your bike!
The importance of Wagers, Wasting time and Wattbike tests
Reflections on a year in Switzerland
Contact me at scott@fitinnotime.co.uk or +44 7941 174734
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JUST PLAIN, BUT SO SWEET
"What's this, now?" Q is trying to decipher my handwriting on the shopping list.
I lean over the table and peer at the list; I can barely read it myself. "Oh, that says evaporated milk. And then sweetened condensed milk. They're two different things. In cans. They should be near one another, probably in with the baking things."
"We have milk."
"Well, these are different. I'm making rice pudding. Do you want it with or without raisins?"
"I don't like it, with or without."
"Wait a minute -- you love rice pudding."
"Oh, that's right. I was thinking you said Rice Krispies. I don't like Rice Krispies."
I would never say Rice Krispies.
"And I'm going to need some more white flour."
"How much more baking would you say you have left to do?" Ever since Thanksgiving, Q has watched a steady stream of cookies, cakes and breads pour out of the oven.
"Oh, as much as I can," I say, wrapping up some nut bread in wax paper. It needs to settle down for a day or two after baking; it's much too crumbly if you cut right into it. Same with the fruit cakes: they need to sit and think for a week or so, and they need frequent drinks of port or brandy to aid their contemplation. They are ready to eat when they start to slur their words and stagger around the kitchen. "I don't really think about how much I need. I just think about what I want to make. I give most of it away. I just like to bake."
"I can see that." Q shakes his head and tries to look cheerful, but his depression upbringing makes him nervous when he encounters large quantities of food. He's afraid something will be wasted. But he writes "white flour" down on the list and goes off to the store.
Our kitchen at home wasn't beautiful -- I'm not sure anybody then thought a kitchen should be beautiful, only functional. It was large, though, and a lot of cooking could happen in it at the same time: my grandmothers were both wonderful bakers, one in Swedish and one in English. So there were tea cakes and shortbreads and bannocks and Eccles cakes, ginger cookies and delicious white-sugared balls flavored with cardamom and studded with nuts. A little girl could help and observe and lick the bowl. And then grow up and fill every other house she ever lived in with warmth, and wonderful smells that would carry her back in time.
Why bother with rice pudding at Christmas time? It's so ordinary. But isn't that what the Incarnation is all about? Nothing in the world is really ordinary, not now that Christ has come into it.
Bring to a boil:
1 cup rice
Reduce heat, cover and simmer until water is absorbed (12 minutes for white rice; I use brown, and it takes about 25-30 minutes).
Stir in: 1 12-oz can evaporated milk (both milks are available fat-free)
1 14-oz can sweetened condensed milk
Bring everything to a boil.
Meanwhile, in a smallish bowl, slightly beat
2 large eggs (1/2 cup EggBeaters can be used instead)
When milk mixture is at a boil, temper the eggs with it: take a small amount (1/4 cup) of the hot mixture and stir gradually quickly into the beaten eggs; this will keep them from being "hardboiled" by the hot milk mixture.
Then add egg mixture to milk mixture and stir with wire whisk. Bring to a boil and cook two minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in
1-1/2 tsp vanilla
Serve warm or cold, sprinkled with cinnamon or not. Great breakfast on a cold day. Great dessert, too: plain and wonderfully ordinary among all the sugar cookies.
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GP MANCHESTER 20130
Spain dazzled with its golden girls
The eternal Brigitte Yague (-49 kg) and the newest World medalist Eva Calvo (-57 kg), left in the road several powerful rivals that crossed their path in the Manchester Grand Prix. Both won in the "GP Final 2013”.
The Grand Prix Final held last weekend in Manchester awarded 80 points to the winner of each weight category, which by the way, were exclusively Olympic categories. As far as women’s teams are concerned, the maximum award was to Spain thanks to Brigitte and Eva.
Brigitte, baptized by masTaekwondo.com as the “Queen of Taekwondo” thanks to her three World and European championships, and her Olympic Silver Medal, returned to competition after fifteen months and, as usual in her, she did it reaching one more title for her collection.
The Mallorcan had major obstacles to get to the top. Brazil, Egypt and China fell under her talent and at the Final, the current World Champion was waiting for her: Korean Kim So Hui, who had beat Elaia Torrontegui of Spain , Liu Li Ping of China and Yasmina Aziez France. A spectacular Final showed that experience beat youth by an emphatic 9-1 in favor of Europe.
Meanwhile Eva Calvo did what Brigitte but in the -57 kg weight category in a Final with all the stadium against her, because his opponent was none other than the Olympic champion from Britain, Jade Jones.
To reach the Final, the World Bronze Medal holder (World Championships Puebla 2013), beat the Russian Kristina Khafizova, 4-0, Taiwanese Tseng Li-Cheng, 7-2 and South Korea’s Kim Yuijn, 7-6
In the semifinals, she beat French Floriene Liborio in a combat decided by golden point after a 1-1 draw to reach the final against the London 2012 Champion.
In the decisive match, Eva Calvo beat Jade Jones 4-1 to win the second gold of the Spanish team in the Manchester Grand Prix and thus close the Spanish participation in the top of the podium for the women’s teams.
Two athletes from the same team, ten years of difference in age. Their performances showed us that the “cracks” as Brigitte are stainless and return anytime to show their incredible talent. And, on the other hand, the generational change and youth, as the case of Eva Calvo, are also fundamental to teams that want to remain in the top.
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Entertainment > The Hoff hits Liverpool
The Hoff hits Liverpool
Alex Longthorne, JMU Journalism
– February 1, 2011Posted in: Entertainment
David Hasselhoff © Trinity Mirror
After Pammie’s panto stint, ‘The Hoff’ came to the Empire as one of the new judges for the Britain’s Got Talent auditions, which were held in Liverpool for the first time.
People were lining the streets outside St George’s Hall from early in the morning with the hope of grabbing a seat inside the Empire to see performances from a variety of amateur acts aiming to go big, following the preliminary auditions at the Echo Arena before Christmas.
The star-studded panel was one of the major draws for the crowd, as Hasselhoff, who is a judge in the American version of the show, joined fellow new recruit, stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre, and Amanda Holden. They had their fingers poised over the dreaded buzzers, in place of more familiar judges such as Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan.
The crowd screamed loudly in response to Hasselhoff’s question: “Does Liverpool have talent?”, as the American actor donned a garish Union Jack blazer for the occasion.
Pregnant judge Holden said it was about time the show visited Liverpool: “I can’t believe we’ve not been here before. I’ve got links to Liverpool and I know so many talented people here.” She later tweeted: “Had a fantastic day in Liverpool. So much talent and great audiences.”
Geordie hosts Ant and Dec made a surprise appearance on the roof of the Empire as the show was filmed for transmission later this year, with the Liverpool auditions held over the course of Friday and Saturday before the judges headed to the next round in Cardiff.
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Daily cases drop below 4,000; deaths, critical cases hit record highs
Published : Nov 28, 2021 - 09:57 Updated : Nov 28, 2021 - 10:32
Citizens wait in line to receive COVID-19 tests at a state-run medical center in southern Seoul on Sunday. (Yonhap)
South Korea's new coronavirus cases dropped below 4,000 on Sunday, but the number of deaths and critically ill patients hit fresh highs, spawning concerns about the further spread of COVID-19 under eased virus restrictions meant for a gradual return to normal life.
The country reported 3,928 new COVID-19 cases, including 3,893 local infections, raising the total caseload to 440,896, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).
The tally was down from 4,068 on Saturday but higher than 3,901 on Friday. The country reported the highest daily infections of 4,115 on Wednesday.
The decline was largely attributable to less testing over the weekend.
South Korea's quarantine efforts stand at a critical juncture as it has seen a surge in COVID-19 related deaths and critically ill patients since it began easing virus restrictions on Nov. 1 under its three-phase "living with COVID-19" scheme.
The country added a daily record high of 56 more deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, raising the death toll to 3,548. The fatality rate stood at 0.8 percent.
Critically ill patients also reached an all-time high of 647, marking the fifth straight day such cases stayed above 600.
Of the 634 seriously ill patients, those aged 60 and older accounted for 84.5 percent, the KDCA said. Breakthrough cases shot up at senior care hospitals and nursing homes as vaccination efficacy has diminished for those who received shots earlier this year.
Health authorities remained on alert over a possible further surge in virus cases during the winter season and the impact of the emergence of the new omicron variant, first detected in South Africa.
South Korea planned to move to the second, more eased stage in mid-December, but health authorities have warned the country may not be able to do so if the current virus trend continues.
The government plans to unveil a set of quarantine measures Monday to tackle the spike in COVID-19 cases. Health authorities are considering setting the period of the validity of vaccinations passports to six months in a bid to encourage people to receive booster shots later.
Unvaccinated people may also have to shoulder treatment costs if they are infected with the virus. Currently, the government provides all treatment costs for COVID-19 patients.
On Sunday, South Korea imposed an entry ban on all foreign arrivals from eight African countries, including South Africa and Botswana, in a bid to block the inflow of the potentially more transmissible omicron variant.
South Korean nationals from those countries are required to be put in a 10-day mandatory quarantine at facilities regardless of whether they have received COVID-19 vaccines.
Of the locally transmitted cases, Seoul reported 1,668 new cases and Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds the capital, identified 1,083 more cases.
The number of cases from overseas came to 35, raising the total to 15,673.
A total of 42.5 million people, or 82.8 percent of the country's population, have received their first shots of COVID-19 vaccines, and 40.9 million people, or 79.7 percent, have been fully vaccinated. (Yonhap)
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Home Conditions & Treatments Adult Health Library
Other name(s)
choline bitartrate, choline chloride, choline dihydrogen
Choline is a part of many chemicals within the body. It’s water-soluble. All of the jobs of choline are not yet known. It may be needed for your liver and kidneys to work well. Choline is also a part of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. This is a chemical that passes messages between nerves. It also passes messages between nerves and muscles.
Choline is also the building block of lecithin and sphingomyelins. Lecithin is a part of cell walls, plasma, and lipoproteins. Sphingomyelin is the insulating material of brain and nerve tissue.
Medical uses
You can get all the choline you need from your diet. Choline deficiency only happens in rare cases. For this reason, the use of choline supplements is limited. Choline doesn’t have an established use as a supplement in healthy people.
Unproven claims
There may be benefits that have not yet been proven through research.
Choline supplements may help treat neurological issues due to the cholinergic system. But studies show that these supplements don’t affect brain metabolism.
Choline is claimed to help treat these conditions:
Huntington chorea
Friedreich ataxia
Presenile dementia
Fatty liver and cirrhosis
Choline supplements are said to reduce cholesterol, control mood swings, and protect the liver from damage due to alcohol. They also may lower blood pressure, boost memory, and treat Alzheimer's disease. Choline may also enhance athletic performance.
Choline may help prevent neural tube defects in pregnancy. It also aids in fetal brain development.
Recommended intake
The Adequate Intake (AI) of choline is 550 mg for adult men and 425 mg for adult women. Pregnant and breastfeeding women need more. Most people in the U.S. don't get enough choline in their diet.
About 9 in 10 to 19 in 20 pregnant women don't meet the AI for choline. Some studies suggest that low choline levels in pregnancy are linked with an increased risk for neural tube defects. But other research found no such link.
Foods that contain choline include egg yolks, soybean, wheat germ, peanuts, and liver.
Choline deficiency in animals may lead to liver problems and kidney damage. These liver problems have led to liver cancer in laboratory animals. However, this has not yet been found in humans.
People being fed by IV may have low serum levels of choline, which may require them to need choline supplements
Side effects, toxicity, and interactions
Choline may cause a stomachache, diarrhea, or loose stools. This can happen at normal doses. Large amounts (about 20 g) of choline may cause other side effects. These can include dizziness, low blood pressure (hypotension), and fishy body odor. They can also include depression and heart rhythm problems.
Choline may cause depression in some people. You should not use choline if you have bipolar disorder.
Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding should talk to their healthcare providers before taking any supplements.
There are no known interactions between choline and any food or medicine. People with low folate levels may need more choline.
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Milford Township and Proud of It Story Co. Home Page
Jefferson Highway, No. 69, in the North Part of Ames
Another in a series of pictures owned by the Highway Commission which was taken about 1920 publicizing the need for better roads. This time the scene (looking north) is the planks through the mud on the north side of Ames. The houses most visible in the shot are still in existence; the one on the left is in the seventeen hundred block of North Grand Avenue. This mud is just two miles out of Milford. At the time this was the main road from Ames to points in north Iowa and on to Minneapolis.
is credited for starting Habitat for Humanity in Story County, helping oversee 16 homes.
1941 Marvin Smith Jr was one of the organizers of the Story Co Property Tax Assoc and served as one of the State Directors of the Iowa Property Tax Association.
1944 Gordon E. Bivens: Records books on tape for the Iowa Comm of Blind: visits nursing homes with his dog for senior therapy; facilitates workshops in Iowa Prisons; and facilitates alternatives to violence workshops in Iowa Prisons. How Challenging!
1947 Joe Harper: Joe drove a golf ball from State Center to Colo for the Newland Fund-raising effort to renovate the Hwy 30 historical land mark gas station and cafe. In 2008 he served as Colo's Chairman for RAGBRAI.
1952 Florine Borton Smalley: As once said of her efforts: Florine was in numerous community and professional organizations at the local, district and state levels and she was always willing and able to volunteer her time, energy and home grown or home made goodies for their activities or fund-raisers through out the year.
1955 Dale Hughes and 1956 Jurine Borton Moore: After the 2005 reunion they made a two year commitment to record the history of Milford Township and the activities of its people into a book format to be shared at the 2007 Milford Twp Reunion. They are both also responsible the content and format of Iowa Hall of Pride web-sight on Milford Twp. It is reported to be the largest in the state or has more information in than any other school district no matter what size! It's certainly been a labor of love and as Jurine says, you would have to be-- insane and single to do it, because of the dedication of time and effort involved. See page 204.
1956 Jurine Borton Moore: Provided a 400K paid up irrevocable life insurance policy for the Iowa 4-H Foundation and ISU and Iowa Wesleyan College at a two-thirds, one-third distribution. She appreciates their part in her life and its her way to pay back and pass on the opportunities.
1960R Janet Hansen Collins: Story County Planning and Zoning Commission and Story County Medical Center Endowment Foundation.
1973 Bill Couser: Lead out rider for thirty years with Sparrows 40 Horse Hitch Family sometimes travels too, Bill says, coast to coast for major parades. They have done the New York Macy's Day Parade the last 5 yrs. Also 318
Typing Classes Started in Milford School
Apparently typing, as a course, was introduced in Milford in the fall of 1936 as the Nevada Paper states in an article about the opening of school at Milford.
“A course in typewriting is being offered to juniors and seniors this year. A classroom has been arranged for the new equipment which consists of twelve typewriters and tables. This course is being taught in two double periods thereby accommodating twenty four pupils.” New LC Smith typewriters were purchased in the 1940-'41 school year. See page 95. See Teachers List 169.
1958-1959 PTA
A nine event calendar has been announced by the Milford PTA. Open house will feature the first program on 25 Sept. The other monthly programs are as follows: 23 Oct, Women's Night: 20 Nov, Grades 1-4; 18 Dec, Christmas Program; 29 Jan, Men's Night, 26 Feb, Grades 5-6, 26 March, Music Department; 23 April, Style Show; and 7 May, Eighth Grade Graduation.
PTA Officers for the year are President, Mrs Don Book; V President, CP Thompson; Secretary, Mrs Arnold Nelson; and Treasurer, Mrs Richard Sorensen.
Slowpitch Softball Pitcher- Dale Hughes
Milford's Dale Hughes `55 started playing slowpitch softball in Central Iowa in the late sixties or sooner and quickly developed into one of the best pitchers in that region. He pitched for many teams at tournaments where he was the "guest" pitcher. Besides many local and Central Iowa Tournaments, he participated, as a pitcher, in contests at the State, Multi-State, and one National Slowpitch Tournament and won several MVP honors.
He used the same big ol glove for years. It was first used in the `76 season and by the late nineties, many entire opposing teams were younger than the age of that glove. In one game in about 2002; a young fellow hit a very hard ball right back at him and he snagged it with his glove and the force of the ball broke some of the leather bindings on the glove. The batter said something like - that's what you get when you use a glove older than I am. Everyone, including Dale, thought that was funny and that's one of the things that makes the game so much fun- just the kidding around and the banter. He is still at it in 2011. See page 204.
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Local council to chop down Hogwarts Forbidden Forest …or something
Oct 24, 2017 | General Blog, Politics, Thoughts and Observations
News came in recently of a tragedy about to befall residents of Hogwarts
Well not Hogwarts exactly, but… Hemel Hempstead
It starts with H and it’s not far from the Barrow residence, so it’s the best I could do.
Hogwarts Forbidden Forest? – Well actually no but…
A footpath through Hemel Hempstead, that is said to have existed since the 14th Century, is possibly being dug up, defiled and generally tarmacked over.
But the footpath isn’t the issue. The ancient hedges that run alongside the footpath and their gnarled and distorted forms are what makes them reminiscent of the Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts, or ents, or godswoods… or something.
The current situation is that the local authority, Dacorum Borough Council, have seen fit to grant planning permission for an extension to an existing industrial estate that will dig up, defile and generally tarmac over these hedges and leave the footpath as a mere pavement alongside the roads that will make up the industrial estate and its warehouses. Of course the council are saying that they are doing their duty maintaining an ancient right of way, planting a few new trees, etc., but it’s the digging up, defiling and general tarmacking over that is the issue.
Centuries old footpath due to be destroyed
The planning regulations say that it is not permissible to chop down, dig up or generally defile a hedgerow that is at least 30 years old, more than 20 metres in length, adjoins another hedgerow or forms part of a boundary to agricultural land, and tarmacking over is right out of order!. The hedgerows along this footpath fulfil all of these criteria and probably more. In fact this footpath also fulfils criteria relating to an ancient parish boundary, is adjacent to an archaeological site currently being excavated, is part of an ancient field system and marks the boundary of an ancient manor. Clearly the local authority have made a mistake in granting planning permission to dig up, defile and generally tarmac over this particular historic location.
Ancient trees – evidence of the age of the footpath
Further away from our location of Forbidden Forest trees, or ents, or godswoods the footpath can be traced across the town where it passes in an almost straight line between the houses, past lockup garages and schools, sometimes passing along streets but most of the time along a line away from the roads where it must have run for centuries. Along one stretch, between a local comprehensive school and a town park, it’s easy to see old laid hedges that were mature trees 50 years ago and must have been laid many decades before, possibly in previous centuries.
Down in the valley it’s possible to trace a route where the footpath would have crossed the River Gade where other remnants can be seen up the hill into Boxmoor beyond. All this is in a direct alignment to the laid hedges at the school some two miles away. In the direction opposite from the Hogwarts like stretch (or ents, or godswoods, or something) the footpath can be traced across the M1 and continues to the region of the old Gorhambury estate and then possibly even on to St Albans.
With a little bit of imagination it’s possible to think that, in the days of Edward III, when the Black Prince came to nearby Berkhamstead Castle to convalesce shortly before he died, a messenger might have been dispatched to the Abbot of St Albans to tell of the arrival of the prince. The messenger would have travelled back down the route to what later became Boxmoor, over the hill and down to ford the shallows of the River Gade.
Ancielt right of way elsewhere through modern town
As we pick up his journey our messenger takes up an old sickle that hangs on the post marking the continuing path up the hill. This is a mediaeval convention where a traveller collects this implement and carries it to clear the footpath of any unwanted undergrowth, leaving the sickle at the other end for a returning traveller, thus paths and tracks were maintained by the passage of the locals.
At the top of the hill he passes onto the plateau between Hemel Hempstead and St Albans where he hangs the sickle on a post, for here he is passing into farmland and the path is more frequently travelled. He picks his way through the fields and scattered woodlands, flatter and easier to farm than the slopes he’s just climbed.
Here one of the first council estates would be built after WWII (but the town planners of the mid twentieth century would see fit to leave the footpath largely intact). Passing the future location of Adeyfield School there is a local farmer laying the hedge at a homestead that, many generations later, might become Adeyfield Farm. (You can always tell an old laid hedge as the trees have been partially cut through and bent over so that they grow horizontally, then when they’ve been left alone for a few years they start to grow upwards again.) Along this stretch of the path with these hedges, as would be laid for hundreds of years to come, no sickle would be needed to clear such a well maintained path.
Old laid hedges elsewhere on the ancient path
Further on our traveller has a dilemma. The footpath crosses the road where, to the right, it leads directly to St Albans past another homestead later to become Cox Pond Farm and just over the rise the manor of Westwick (later to become the village of Leverstock Green). Right here, at the crossing of the road, hundreds of years later, the Crabtree Pub would be built, not until the Victorian period, but you might imagine it would be built in this location because this is where the footpath crosses the road to St Albans. Does this indicate a bustling location? Perhaps, if the Crabtree pub had a predecessor, our messenger decides to stop here for refreshment before continuing on.
Ancient footpath trodden over centuries
However our traveller, aware that word of the ailing Black Prince’s arrival needs to reach the Abbot of St Albans, he takes a cheeky detour and, instead of turning right, he continues on the footpath towards Gorhambury, where he has a secret purpose.
Coppiced trees due to destroyed
He passes through the locations of the future Hemel Hempstead industrial estate and out the other side. Here the footpath kinks and turns along the north boundary of the manor of Westwick. Just here, amid the crumbling ruins and robbed out building materials of an old Romano-Celtic temple, only excavated in the 20th Century, he passes the fields between Woderedynge and Old House Field, a boundary that existed even in the time of the Black Prince.
coppiced
Here the trees are coppiced, cut back to ground level, to harvest the wood. Trees harvested in this way can survive many hundreds of years and it is said that trees continually coppiced will never die of old age. You can tell how old they are because, over hundreds of years, they become wider the more they are coppiced.
This is the stretch that will eventually become the gnarley ancient trees, inhabited by dreams of wizards and witches in the future, reminiscent of the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts or perhaps ents, or godswoods… or something.
All this could soon be gone
Soon our late medieval messenger crosses the line of the road that he could never imagine in his dreams (or nightmares) as he crosses the future location of the M1 at Junction 8. It’s possible that our footpath is the very reason the position of M1 Junction 8 is in this location, for the footpath utilises the motorway bridge, thus saving money on an otherwise necessary extra footbridge.
Soon our messenger is in Gorhambury to sneak a short hour to visit his honey, honey being a term for a lover that has persisted since medieval times, as has the footpath he has walked.
He’s made this detour many times before. His master, the priest at Berkhamsted, knows it takes perhaps half a day to walk from Berkhamsted to St Albans but our messenger friend knows that his master won’t know what time he arrived, and the Abbot isn’t expecting him anyway, so a visit to his culver (a medieval name for a dove) as he likes to call her, won’t be noticed.
In modern times instead of the Abbot at St Albans or the priest at Berkhamsted Castle the only person to notice our messenger’s diversion along the Hogwarts path (or the ent path, or the godswood path) would be a different sort of minister, for local campaigners have protested the digging up, defiling and general tarmacking over of our ancient footpath and the case has been referred to the Secretary of State.
Planning applications are a truly arcane and impenetrable business, more so than anything that Harry Potter and his chums get up-to. I’ve tried to find a link to the planning application but even my powers of magick aren’t sufficient to figure it out. So please, if you can find a link then do post comments with the details. Also please share any other information you might have be they links to petitions, historical information, stories of ancient clerical messengers, or whatever.
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Please also share this post so we can spread the message as wide as possible and save this ancient footpath. Warehouses be damned!
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A Fanatic Heart
In this winning documentary, Irish singer, songwriter and political activist Sir Bob Geldof traces W.B. Yeats’ life, from his earliest family trips to Sligo – which awakened a lifelong love of fairy tales and folklore – to international fame as the poet laureate of an emerging Ireland, to his Nobel Prize and role as Senator in the Irish Free State. Bringing his own infatuating passion to the subject, Sir Bob shows how Yeats led the way in imagining a new Ireland into being after the Famine and, after centuries of oppression, gave the people of Ireland back a story they could believe in – and fight for. A captivating tale of mythology, nation-building, insurgency and disillusion, the film is above all a story about how poetry and language can shape our world. Sting, Bono, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy and Colin Farrell are among those who perform Yeats’ poems. Ireland 2016 (100 minutes)
Onstage interview with filmmaker Sir Bob Geldof at 8:00 pm.
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Emma Raducanu vs Marta Kostyuk LIVE: Latest tennis match updates
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Emma Raducanu will bid to earn a place in the semi-finals of the Transylvania Open as she takes on Marta Kostyuk in the last eight this afternoon.
Raducanu followed her shock triumph at September’s US Open with an early exit at Indian Wells earlier this month, but the 18-year-old has bounced back this week with back-to-back wins in Cluj. The British No1 fought from behind to beat Polona Hercog in three sets in the first round, avant que seeing off Ana Bogdan in straight sets yesterday – downing the Romanian on her home soil. Next up for Raducanu, whose father is Romanian, is a clash with Kostyuk. The Ukrainian has made it into the quarter-finals here with two consecutive straight-sets victories, defeating Germany’s Mona Barthel in the last round.
There are no fans in attendance at the Transylvania Open this week due to coronavirus-related restrictions, but Raducanu has been feeling the love in Cluj anyway. “I feel like I am playing at home, I am getting so much support,” the teenager said after her first-round win. “Everyone is just really helpful and friendly in anyway they can. I don’t want to leave just yet, I want to see my grandma [à Bucarest] but just wait a few days, I want to play here in Cluj.”
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Raducanu vs Kostyuk
Quarter-final meeting at Transylvania Open
Match expected to begin at 5.30pm BST
Emma Raducanu vs Marta Kostyuk
Raducanu is court-side now!
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On the other side of the draw, second seed Anett Kontaveit will take on Sweden’s Rebeca Peterson.
Estonia’s Kontaveit dismissed Anhelina Kalinina 6-3 6-1 in the quarter-finals today, while Peterson battled past Lesia Tsurenko 6-2 3-6 6-3.
There it is, Halep eases past compatriot Cristian 6-1 6-1.
Raducanu or Kostyuk will face a tough challenge against the former world No1 in the semi-finals here, though the lack of a home crowd for Halep means one less thing to think about for her opponent.
We’re just waiting for the conclusion of Simona Halep vs Jaqueline Cristian.
Two-time Grand Slam champion Halep leads her fellow Romanian 6-1 5-1.
The winner of this tie will face the victor between Raducanu and Kostyuk.
The players are expected on court in approximately 15 minutes!
“I feel like I am playing at home, I am getting so much support,” Raducanu said after her first-round win this week. “Everyone is just really helpful and friendly in anyway they can.
“It is really nice to be here and I really want to extend my stay here. It means so much to me, I just love the country and playing here.
“That’s why I was fighting, I don’t want to leave just yet, I want to see my grandma [à Bucarest] but just wait a few days, I want to play here in Cluj.”
Emma Raducanu hopes to delay visit to grandmother with more success in Cluj
Raducanu’s father, who is travelling with his daughter this week, is Romanian and the plan is to go and visit his family in Bucharest
Raducanu has revealed she has presented her US Open trophy to the Lawn Tennis Association as a “little gift” in recognition of their role in her development.
The British number one, 18, became the first British woman to win a singles grand slam title since Virginia Wade’s 1977 Wimbledon triumph with her stunning run from qualifying to victory at Flushing Meadows in the summer, but she has not held on to the hardware.
“It’s stored at the National Tennis Centre I’m pretty sure in London,” Raducanu said after beating Ana Bogdan to reach the quarter-finals at the Transylvania Open.
“It’s not at home. If you want to see it, it’s at the NTC.”
Emma Raducanu reveals she handed US Open trophy over to LTA as a ‘little gift’
The teenager wanted to show her gratitude for the LTA’s role in her development.
Here is a look at Raducanu’s last-16 victory over Ana Bogdan yesterday, a result with which the 18-year-old made it back-to-back wins in Cluj.
Emma Raducanu beats Ana Bogdan to reach Transylvania Open quarter-finals
The 18-year-old saw off a battling Bogdan for a 6-3 6-4 la victoire
Raducanu followed her shock triumph at September’s US Open with an early exit at Indian Wells earlier this month, but the 18-year-old has bounced back this week with back-to-back wins in Cluj. The British No1 fought from behind to beat Polona Hercog in three sets in the first round, before seeing off Ana Bogdan in straight sets yesterday – downing the Romanian on her home soil.
Next up for Raducanu, whose father is Romanian, is a clash with Kostyuk. The Ukrainian has made it into the quarter-finals here with two consecutive straight-sets victories, defeating Germany’s Mona Barthel in the last round.
There are no fans in attendance at the Transylvania Open this week due to coronavirus-related restrictions, but Raducanu has been feeling the love in Cluj anyway.
“I feel like I am playing at home, I am getting so much support,” the teenager said after her first-round win. “Everyone is just really helpful and friendly in anyway they can. I don’t want to leave just yet, I want to see my grandma [à Bucarest] but just wait a few days, I want to play here in Cluj.”
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Tom Sutcliffe enjoys plays which raise issues of race and ‘political correctness’
When my wife Meredith Oakes and I each played the role of Malvolio in school productions of Twelfth Night in Sydney and Hurstpierpoint, we were both presenting a character who was indubitably male. You would not ask a trumpeter to perform a violin concerto, even though the instruments have similar pitch ranges. I have not seen the current National Theatre Twelfth Night, which I gather sticks to Shakespeare’s words for the actress playing a role now called Malvolia – a woman in the story, not a man. There are complaints of too few female and black roles in Shakespeare and in the rep generally. Dear reader, you know what I mean.
Should actors’ skin colour and gender be a factor in casting? Nobody is being asked to get castrated to sing castrato roles, but mezzos and countertenors are grateful that there is no natural authentic competition. For Keith Warner’s new Otello staging at Covent Garden this month, Gregory Kunde and Jonas Kaufmann, powerful white tenor voices, alternate in the title role. Is skin colour important in Verdi’s opera or Shakespeare’s tragedy? Is it offensive for a performer to use make-up to seem duskier-skinned? Is the tragedy about a black man’s insecurity and jealousy, or about being an outsider? Should Shylock be performed by a real Jew? Moors might be just ‘a little tanned’ – a popular jocular phrase among Aussie friends a few decades back. Today ‘a touch of the tar’ (from Max Factor or another manufacturer of make-up) is unacceptable in this role. It has been claimed, perhaps permanently, by distinguished Nigerian and other African actors not from Morocco – with its blue-eyed Berbers, brown-eyed Arabs, and deep black Africans all mixed up, thanks to a long established slave-trade which had nothing to do with Christians.
Richmond’s well-run Orange Tree Theatre now has a newish American play called An Octoroon written by a gifted, reputed 32-year-old, African American Princeton graduate from Washington called Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (who used to work for the New Yorker). It is based on Dion Boucicault’s 1859 New York hit The Octoroon, and directed very well by Ned Bennett, the gifted son of our former neighbour in Streatham who also did Pomona here, which much impressed me (and won prizes). Three of the main actors white up, black up, or red up. A lot is made of this, and it affects how we feel about the played-to-the-hilt melodramatic story, which concerns a young plantation owner newly returned from Paris to find his inheritance under threat from a real baddie. He falls for a lovely girl who knows he should not marry her because of her one-eighth-tainted blood. Nine of the roles are played by the three main actors with coloured-up faces, making for quicker than lightning changes, almost impossible challenges, hysterically expended energy, and a strong sense of reality and emotion. The main roles (the writer BJJ, innocent young George in his blond wig, and the evil M’Closky with villainous moustache, who wants to buy it all including the property’s pretty contented ‘niggers’ who run away to escape the auction) are taken with astonishing brilliance by Ken Nwosu, Hackney-raised and trained at the Drama Centre, and already seen at the RSC and National Theatre. A stage direction says that Nwosu’s whiting up ‘should go on for some time’.
The other duplicated roles include another playwright, Boucicault, who must also be Wahnotee (local ‘native American’ hence his red face) and even later on the robust southern auctioneer Latouche, who explains that he got sunburnt coming from New Orleans in an open carriage (which earned a laugh). Kevin Trainor works hard and well and provides the words of a fourth role if you are counting. Plus, finally, there is the multi-talented handsome-faced partly south Asian Alastair Toovey, perhaps most hard-driven of all, as BJJ’s assistant and two crucial other roles – Pete, who helps the master run everything and keeps an eye on all his fellow ‘niggers’, and young slave Paul, whose murder by M’Closky precipitates the unwinding and winding up of the plot. Southern belle Dora is a wonderful opportunity for Celeste Dodwell, who only has to use lipstick – seized with no holding back. The Octoroon Zoe is touchingly performed by lovely Iola Evans. And three black actresses, Vivian Oparah, Emmanuella Cole, and Cassie Clare provide the still and watchful centre of the living reality at the base of the story – with the added touch for the last named of donning a rather Lewis Carroll-like costume for occasional intrusions by Br’er Rabbit.
By the end of the play, BJJ’s purpose is achieved. Liberal walkers-out, disgusted with constant non-PC language, have abandoned ship. But most of us at the preview I saw got the point, that roles in the theatre are adopted as in life. We enter the theatre to be entertained and provoked into thinking. The only rule in the theatre is that there are no rules. I think Jacobs-Jenkins has added exactly the right spice to Boucicault’s long-preserved meat – first enjoyed on the very eve of the US Civil War. I think Bennett the director has delicately achieved exactly the mixture of crazed disorder and detached grounded observation on the part of the women slaves that the Irish playwright Boucicault and the resurrecting BJJ both require – to serve a needed appropriate riposte to the PC prescriptiveness now threatening our sense and our enjoyment. Our theatre is, we find, thrillingly endowed with much black talent. We have black stars as Henry V. Anybody can do anything, including white actors wanting to be Othello. We need it all. Acting is more than skin deep, and we are not colourblind.
Nina Raine’s Consent has closed at the National Theatre’s Dorfman (which used to be the Cottesloe), but was a sell-out and certainly merits being sent on a tour or given a West End run. Roger Michell’s careful, detailed, absorbing production was truly virtuosic, achieving really fine performances all round. Equally impressive were Hildegard Bechtler’s brilliantly practical in-the-round set designs – the floor opening and supplying furniture and even the lampshades above suggesting various messages. It is about three barristers and their wives and lives, and how the roles they play in their work connect with the way they relate as old friends. Jake and Edward prosecute and defend a rape case that we get some inkling about. The dialogue is very sharp, realistic. Consent comes to matter personally when marriages wobble and one falls apart. But Gayle, the rape victim in court at the start, is unsurprisingly a different class – and, so, a sad victim of the alienation that implies.
It is this writer’s exact high-octane ear for dialogue and pursuit of the emotional reality of the three high-achieving couples (one of whom is steering unsuccessfully towards marriage) that stokes the wonderful cast, which Max Stafford-Clark’s Out of Joint company assembled in partnership with the NT. Most outstanding and unforgettable were Ben Chaplin’s secure over-confident charming Edward and his slightly neglected instinctual feeling wife Kitty (Anna Maxwell Martin – brilliantly pained and crushed). Chaplin’s emotional journey, devastated and uncomprehending, when Kitty falls for his slightly despised eupeptic friend Tim (Pip Carter) was agonizing. Heather Craney’s early scene as Gayle the rape victim, discovering the dire reality of having to witness her own fate in court, is just right, but later, with tragedy round the corner and things falling apart, the playwright needed something more fundamentally dislocating and less convenient than mere plot resolution. One feels it is excitingly and movingly close to genius. But bringing the rape victim into Edward’s kitchen, intruding on their slightly fraught socializing, makes for a challenge that the following act does not credibly answer.
An Octoroon runs at Richmond-on-Thames’s Orange Tree Theatre until 1 July. Consent may go on tour next year.
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Planning And Selection Of High Speed Conveyor Roller
Selection of conveyor roller
Conveyor roller is used to support the conveyor belt and the materials on the belt, reduce the working resistance of the conveyor belt, ensure that the sag of the conveyor belt does not exceed the technical rules, and make the conveyor belt work smoothly in the predetermined direction.
Roller according to its use is mainly divided into carrier roller, return roller,impact roller and aligning roller. Roller is one of the key parts affecting the operation effect of conveyor, accounting for about 30% ~ 40% of the quality of whole conveyor, 25% ~ 30% of the price of the whole conveyor, and it is the primary part of daily management, protection and replacement. The planning and selection of roller have an important influence on the normal operation of the conveyor, stable work, power consumption and the price of the whole conveyor. Especially in the case of high belt speed, the requirements of roller are becoming more stringent.
As the main component of the conveyor, roller has become more and more stringent with the advancement of belt speed. The primary factors affecting the high-speed operation of roller are run-out value and rotation resistance value. When the roller is working at high speed, the sealing structure of roller will be affected by heat and other reasons. The structure planning of high-speed roller is proposed in this paper.
1. Sealing structure of roller
The sealing structure is an important factor affecting the operating life and working resistance of roller. There are two main methods for the sealing structure of rollers on the market:
(1) Non-touch seal (such as labyrinth seal). The working resistance of this kind of sealing is small, but due to the existence of internal conflict when working at high speed, it will inevitably lead to the occurrence of heat. With the change of air pressure, dust particles enter the bearing seal cavity along with the inhalation process, causing the bearing to work in a state of interference conflict, and aggravating the wear of the bearing.
(2) Touch type seal. The sealing effect is better than the non-touch type, but the working resistance is large.In the case of large temperature and pressure differences and uneven distribution, the elastic deformation of the sealing lip is also inconsistent, resulting in poor sealing effect.
It is not ideal to add the sealing effect only by adding the number of sealing passages and sealing length. The labyrinth sealing structure of the first rotating gap is the key to deal with the sealing problem, the gap problems, slime or water will flow into the internal labyrinth channel, causing the failure of the roller, such a maze number is meaningless.
The roller proposed in this paper adopts the composite structure of axial labyrinth seal and touch seal, and its characteristics are as follows:
(1) The number of sealing passages of the axial labyrinth seal is not affected by the radial scale of the bearing, and can be added appropriately. The sealing surface of the axial labyrinth is in the same direction as the centrifugal force of the water flow. The water that has entered the
seal when the roller rotates will flow to the top of the labyrinth along the sealing surface under the effect of centrifugal force. In order to enhance the effect, the top of the inner sealing ring can be considered to choose the circular arc structure.
(2) Add a sealing ring on the outermost side of the labyrinth seal to form a touch seal, which can not only deal with the “breathing problem” of the labyrinth seal, but also won’t add the depth of the bearing seat like other composite seal structures. Sealing ring NBR/PA6 material, light weight, corrosion resistance, friction coefficient is smaller than other engineering plastics.
(3) add a convex ring on the inner baffle ring (see Figure 1), change the direction of axial movement when dust or water enters the gap of the inner baffle ring. When the roller works at high speed, a vacuum will be formed between the convex ring and the outer baffle ring to ensure the sealing effect.
2. Process characteristics and material selection
The radial run-out of the roller mainly depends on the radial error of the cylinder, the quality of the bearing seat and the coaxiality of the assembly process. The radial run-out value of roller has great influence on the smooth work of conveyor, especially when the radial run-out value is too large at high speed, the conveyor belt will oscillate violently and affect the normal work.
At present, most of the rollers of the rollers are replaced by steel pipes, which are heavy in quality. The quality of the pipes, ovality and outer diameter tolerances are not easy to guarantee, especially the existence of the discontinuity of the barrel structure affects the coaxiality, and it is easy to cause the rollers to be eccentric. Periodic vibration will occur due to the centrifugal force during the working process, which will affect the smooth operation of the conveyor belt.
3. Roller bearing selection
The working life of the roller mainly depends on the bearing and seal. Many idlers on the market use large-clearance bearings. Compared with ordinary bearings, large-clearance bearings have larger clearance and ball diameters, which can reduce the sensitivity to coaxiality and enhance the ability to adapt to foreign objects.
However, the selection of bearings with large clearance will greatly affect the axial bearing capacity of the idler, especially after the belt speed is increased, the movement of the axial bearing capacity will cause the uneven working state of the belt conveyor. Even in severe times, it is necessary to stop the machine for debugging and overhauling from the beginning.
In this paper, we plan to select deep groove ball bearings with dust cover, which can not only ensure the cleanliness of the inside of the bearing, enhance the axial bearing capacity, reduce the frequent damage to the bearing caused by the axial high-frequency impact force, but also ensure the smooth function of the bearing extends the actual operating life of the bearing.
This paper has done some basic researches on high-speed rollers from the aspects of structure, sealing, application and technology of new materials. The roller adopts a composite sealing structure that combines an axial labyrinth and a touch labyrinth, and uses a deep groove ball bearing with a dust cover. The application of new materials and the change of processing technology ensure the roller’s rotating resistance, radial circular jumping and waterproof, dust-proof sealing and other functions. Under the development direction of high-power, long-distance and large-throughput conveyors, Roller structure proposed in this paper has little rotating resistance, low noise and long operating life, which plays a vital role in the output power of the speed conveyor.
Global Conveyor Supplies Company Limited – RS series rollers
Shaft: Roller shaft is made of high precision cold drawn round steel, which has not been tempered and tempered. Precision chamfering milling machine, clamping ring grooving machine is used to process the shaft, so as to ensure that the axial displacement of the roller is almost zero.
Tube: Roller shaft is made of high precision cold drawn round steel, which has not been tempered and tempered. Roller shell adopts special frequency welding pipe, small bending degree, small elasticity. Adopt advanced steel pipe chamfering cutting and inner hole machine tool, precision machining on both ends of steel pipe, effectively ensure the concentrically of roller, minimize the machining error.
Bearing: Roller bearing adopts special C3 deep groove ball bearing. Before assembly, the roller bearing has been filled with lithium grease and sealed permanently on both sides, which can realize lifelong maintenance free and prolong the service life of the bearing.
Seal assembly: The roller seal component is made of nylon material, and the structure form is contact labyrinth seal structure. The inner and outer sealing form a high-precision labyrinth channel, the channel filled with long-term lithium grease, so that the roller has good waterproof and dust-proof performance. Precision chamfering milling machine, clamping ring grooving machine is used to process the shaft, so as to ensure that the axial displacement of the roller is almost zero.
Bearing housing: The production of bearing housing adopts multi-stage precise automatic stamping molding to ensure the high precision of bearing and sealing position. Roller tubes and bearing housing at both ends 3mm full fllets are welded by carbon dioxide gas protection simultaneously with a dual gun automatic welding machine to provide a minimum of 70% penetration and ensure idling remains robust even under high loads and high speeds.
1. RS series rollers belong to GCS high-end conveying rollers.
2. The return/carrier/trough roller has a high-precision construction consisting of up to nine sealing parts, ensuring excellent water and dust resistance. With rubber or steel seals, multi-groove labyrinth seals.
3. The bearing housing and the roller tube are fully welded to ensure good contact throughout the roller. Grease is a permanent lubricant.
4. According to customer’s requirements, the surface of roller can be painted with any color.
5. Material: Usually Q235 carbon steel (dedicated to conveying roller), A3 cold drawing shaft (can be higher precision according to different customer requirements).
6. Each roller will go through strict inspection and testing to ensure that each batch of roller is truly high quality.
Please feel free to contact us to obtain conveyor rollers.
We are professional, excellent technology and service. We know how to make our conveyor roll move your business! Further check www.gcsconveyor.com Email: [email protected]
Company Name: Global Conveyor Supplies Company Limited
Phone: 86+18948254481
Website: https://www.gcsconveyor.com/
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There’s a lot of news to share today. However, perhaps the most surprising is Huawei’s decision to break up its cloud and AI group, which it formed in January last year. It looked like the right move and based on the new divisions apparent success, Huawei had committed to investing $1.5 billion in it. The company also announced just a few weeks ago that its consumer group head, Richard Yu, would be heading up the division. What happened? I think we’ll have to wait for further industry comment and analysis.
Scroll down for Tech Radar’s story on Huawei, plus funding news, SoftBank’s $2.8 billion investment in Norwegian robotics firm AutoStore, semiconductor and smart city news. And more criticism of Apple’s and Google’s relationship with China from Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel.
Last, but not least, I can highly recommend Charles Reed Anderson’s excellent TechBurst Asia Podcast on the career of Michael Conlin, the first Chief Data Officer for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and ethics in AI. Entertaining and insightful!
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Singapore-based retail analytics company Trax raises $640M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and BlackRock
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China’s first smart hospital featuring AI opened in Guangzhou
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S. Korea, Taiwan companies far exceed China in terms of semiconductor capital investment
#China #SouthKorea #Taiwan #semiconductor - According to IC Insights, Samsung remains the world’s biggest spender since 2010 and together with TSMC, both companies are expected to be responsible for 43 per cent of the global total expenditure this year, reported Nikkei Asia. (Economic Times)
Toyota unveils new models in advanced driver-assist technology push
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#Japan #automotive - Toyota Motor Corp unveiled on Thursday new models of Lexus and Mirai in Japan, equipped with advanced driver assistance, as competition heats up to develop more self-driving and connected cars. (Reuters)
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Citizens should be at the centre of developing AI, say experts at WEF tech summit
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#Singapore #AIpolicy - Citizens should be at the centre of developing AI, not the technology, and people ought to be treated fairly and be well represented when it comes to their input in the training of AI systems, said experts on Tuesday (April 6). (Straits Times)
Tides of change: Shenzhen powers China's smart city drive
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Japan’s smart city initiatives will play key role in its digitisation and economic revival
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Tokyo announces 'robot' supermarket
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