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 briefly held the lead, but he made three bogeys coming in.

The Links course purist is the developer of the Bandon (Ore.) Dunes Golf Resort.

What is a true links course?
George Peper, the former editor-in-chief of Golf magazine, is the ultimate authority on links courses. I believe in his definition, which is sandy soil with little or no agricultural value, close to the ocean and relatively few to zero trees and fescue grass. The trees part is the most debatable because you get into whether or not Shinnecock and National Golf Links are true links courses. George would eliminate them because they are covered with trees.

Are there any impostors?
Impostors is a little bit strong because there are many definitions of a links course. Pebble Beach is not an impostor but it's named the Pebble Beach Golf Links because it's on the ocean and very much like a links course. But I don't think they are trying to fool anyone. Basically the American usage of the word links is equivalent to golf course. Many people don't know the difference between a true links golf course and a parkland course.

Are golfers getting an authentic links course experience at Bandon?
Yes. Although we claim Bandon Dunes and Pacific Dunes and Old Macdonald as links courses, we do not say that Bandon Trails is a complete links course because some of its holes are in the woods.

Why the love affair with links courses?
It's golf as it's meant to be. I know that sounds arrogant, but it goes back to St. Andrews, the first Links course, where they have been playing golf since 1200. It's the perfect Links course. It's the way golf should be played.

In today's dollars how much would it cost to build St. Andrews?
It would probably cost $5 million. A lot of it would go to irrigate it. Slowly the golf courses in Scotland and Ireland have put in irrigation systems, but if you took that away you knock off $1.2 million from the price tag.

What was the first Links course that you played?
Ballybunion, which is on the southwest coast of Ireland. It is something. From the first round at Ballybunion I was hooked on links golf. That was the late 1970s.

How did you find Bandon?
It was all luck. It took me four years during the late 1980s to find the land. I was looking in the southern part of Oregon, which isn't links land. I was frustrated, and out of the blue a broker called and said I got sand dunes, a mile and a half of ocean line, gorse and Scottish broom. It was perfect for links golf. I didn't know at the time that Oregon has 50 miles of sand dunes-covered coast. That 50-mile stretch down to Bandon is America's links land.

How many acres did you buy for the first course, Bandon Dunes, which opened in 1999?
The first course only needed 400 acres but I bought 1200. Later on I bought another 1200 acres on the site.

If you could have any piece of Links land property in America where would it be?
The best links land is on Long Island in New York where Shinnecock Hills, the National Golf Links, Sebonack, Friar's Head and Garden City are all generally located. Long Island is entirely sand. You couldn't build much there now because it's too populated. But the most affordable place to build is probably the Oregon coast.

Why do you think it took so long for someone like you to come along with the money and the desire to build links courses in the U.S.?
Augusta National has had a great impact on golf architecture in the United States, and it's a parkland golf course. It and Baltusrol and Winged Foot were early and huge influences in American designs because it's much easier to find farmland than it is links land. The mindset in the U.S. was that if we want to play links golf we can go to Scotland and Ireland.

You recently opened a fourth course at Bandon Dunes, a Tom Doak-design, that you named Old Macdonald as a homage to Charles Blair Macdonald, America's first practicing golf architect, who designed the National Golf Links in 1911.
What Tom Doak built is very St. Andrews like. It feels like St. Andrews. It has the hard fescue grass, the tight lies, wide fairways and a number of ways to get to the big greens. St. Andrews greens total 6.1 acres. At Old Macdonald the greens total 6.3 acres.

With Old Macdonald are you also after that brown, dry look of St. Andrews?
Yes. The word we use for brown is tawny, which is a cross between brown and green. I've played here the last two days and our greens are on the brown side of tawny. We starve them of water.

If it's a true Links couldn't you putt your way around the course?
Yes. We have a pro here named Grant Rogers who can hit a 200-yard baby draw with a putter. And he can get it to within two feet consistently of the hole with a putter from 100 yards.

You have four courses that comprise the Bandon Dunes Resort. What's next?
I have a project in Nova Scotia called Cabot Links. It will be a links course on the ocean. Ten holes will be ready in the summer of 2011 and the full 18-hole course will be ready in 2012.

Do you have any intentions of ever building anything other than a links course?
No. I'm the Johnny Appleseed of links golf.

What was the initial reception to Bandon when it opened in 1999?
It was two and half times better than I thought it would be. And once we built the second course, Pacific Dunes, and certainly now that we have four, we've become a destination much like going to Scotland or Ireland.

How many times have you played St. Andrews?
I have played it 15 times and I can't get enough of it. It's the world's best golf course. There is nothing I would change about it.

Would you have a hotel to carry off the 17th tee, the Road Hole?
No. But they've been hitting over something there for 400 years. At Old Macdonald we have a road hole that plays like the original hole except we don't force you to hit over a building.

Is it cheaper to maintain the rustic looking links courses than it is a parkland course?
Because fescue is a natural grass we use less chemicals and fertilizers on it. So it's a little cheaper. But you still have to mow the grass and the irrigation is automatic.

How did you make your money before you decided to build golf courses?
I had a greetings card business that I co-founded in 1971 and sold in 2005.

Your first course was a nine-hole private club in New Buffalo, Mich. that was inspired by Pine Valley. That's probably the greatest course in the world that no one has ever seen.
It is unbelievable. It has 18 great holes. It should be No. 1 on your list of courses to play after you come to Bandon.

What are the links courses that should be on a golfer's bucket list?
National Golf Links, St. Andrews, Ballybunion, Royal County Down. If you're in the U.S. try to get to National Golf Links because it's convenient, but if you can make the trip, go play St. Andrews because it was the first.

Will you be watching the Open this weekend?
Absolutely. It's a treat for anybody who likes golf.

What's your favorite hole on the Old course?
I like the 18th hole because it arrives in the town of St. Andrews, which is so unique because the town basically grew up around the course. Hitting your tee shot over that little swell and then walking over the Swilcan Bridge and then trying to two-putt that enormous green. It's the history of golf.

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A curious fjord pony holds things up in Norway.

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A friend's sketch of the Rich's RV

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One of David Rich's incomparable photos, this one from Bodrum, Turkey

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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) made a preliminary ruling last week that Taiwan's HTC had infringed on two Nokia patents. The infringed patents cover a method for receiving and transmitting radio signals, and a method for eliminating unwanted signals.

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T.H. White's classic tale of the young Arthur's questioning and discovery of his life is unparalleled for its wit, wisdom, and colorful characters.
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Jason Koivu
A time-traveling Merlin? Stop it, White ol' boy, you're killing me!

TH White's version of the King Arthur myth is...unusual. It's not a straight up retelling of the tale that tries to pinpoint any kind of actual date upon when the "real" King Arthur lived and base the story in that period. It floats about, taking little bits of history from here, a legend or two from there, and cobbles them together. It makes for an interesting fantasy.

It's also distracting. I'm the sort that likes to get immerse
If you are looking for my review of this book please head for my long winded review of The Once and Future King as this book is Part 1 thereof. If, on the other hand, you are not looking for my review... Hello!
The Disney movie is only about the first twenty pages of this book...and not really because they changed all the characters. This book is sweet, intelligent, funny, and endearing.
My love of the television show Merlin, could not get me through this book. I finally finished it, and all I really have to say is that I shall not be starting "The Once and Future King" any time soon.
When I picked up this book up at a library book sale I had such high expectations for the story, which quickly evaporated within the first four chapters. The book was not exactly poorly written (and I've read worse), but the tone of voice conflicts with the overall narration, which prevents the rea

If you decide to read this, look for an unabridged edition with the author's illustrations. I read the Time-Life edition. There should be lots of words and terms you've never encountered before. Unless, of course, you are an expert on Norman England, falconry, hunting boars, long-ago dog breeds, tilting, jousting and medieval butchery.

I want to label this a quirky fantasy. It's certainly can't be taken seriously. The audience seems to be juvenile, but the language, specifically the terminology,
Sep 19, 2007 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
Recommends it for: fans of Arthurian legend
Shelves: series, fantasy, classics
Setting: Great Britain
Time Period: Middle Ages
Series: Part 1 of The Once and Future King series

Plot Summary: Wart (Arthur) is a young orphan living with Sir Ector and working as a page in medieval Great Britain. While fetching one of Sir Ector’s birds, which his companion and foster brother Kay has lost, he encounters the wizard Merlin who becomes his and Kay’s tutor. Through a series of adventures made possible by Merlin, Wart learns about the world, nature and man’s duty to nature. His adventu
I read this when I was younger, but I don't remember loving it so much then. I didn't remember how the narrative voice blended humour and beautiful descriptions, anachronisms and explanations of relatively historically accurate details. I forgot how intertextual it is -- Merlin putting his fingers together like Sherlock Holmes, and all the hints at Lancelot's doings and so on, and Robin Hood...

But it is all those things. There are parts of it that are beautiful, parts that are so wonderfully wel
Dissertation reread time! I acquired a distaste for T.H. White sometime during my MA, and I'm not sure exactly why: rereading The Sword in the Stone, I still rather loved it, with its gentle humour and the character of the narratorial voice and its understanding of each character. I note that in my first review I noticed the way it treats Kay, which is a good sign for this dissertation...

It's written in a conversational way, but it's also beautiful. There are descriptions of the natural world th
Scott Sheaffer
This is a great book for anyone into medieval, Arthurian legend. I enjoy stories about chivalry and white knights in search of damsels in distress but just can't get thru the lengthy and boring Sir Thomas Mallory text, "La Muerte De Arthur". This book is a fine combination between Alice in Wonderland and Sir Thomas’s work. In other words it's the entire story with more fun and imagination. I'm glad this is only part of a series. I'm off to start book two.
“The Sword in the Stone” is the first book of “The Once and Future King” volumes written by T.H. White during the same period Tolkien was writing The Lord of the Rings and C.S Lewis creating the world of Narnia—other epic, fantasy novels, which gave birth to the new movement of magical realism—a movement in which magical elements are part of an otherwise realistic environment. The Once and Future King is such an Arthurian fantasy novel.

Although it might appear as a novel for young readers, it’s
Sono rimasto al quanto deluso da questo libro. Potrei essere forse influenzato dal film Disney da esso ispirato, ma non ho trovato l'ironia, la magia e "l'eccentricità" che mi aspettavo. Complice forse una pessima traduzione ho trovato la narrazione assai noiosa e prolissa. Anche le scene in teoria più epiche o divertenti sono descritte senza riuscire realmente a convincere e nessun personaggio riesce ad entrarti nel cuore. Credo proprio che per una volta il film si sia dimostrato migliore del l ...more
I found this on a list somewhere of 'books everyone should have read', so picked it up from the YA section of the library and dutifully did so. It was a bit of a curate's egg. The anachronisms were a bit strange and the plot was light-to-non-existent. I found the dialogue punctuation irritating after a while - there were a lot of new paragraphs with the same speaker as the previous one, where the quotation marks suggested it should be a new one. Often I wasn't sure which 'he' was being referred ...more
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3.5 Stars

I think my plan was originally to read all of The Once and Future King and then review all the books at once. But oh well, to hell with that plan. I haven't started the other books in the collection and it's been like three months and I've been sidetracked by too many other things, so ... oops.

I will keep this pretty short since I am trying very frantically to catch up on reviews and I don't remember enough about what I was going to say to write a detailed review. This is what I get for
I loved it and will definitely write more later as I read the follow-ups with the kids. My brats absolutely enjoyed it, even if many of the jokes, the funky blending of the Medieval with the Modern, might have floated a bit over their tiny wee heads. We three (my brood and me) are excited to push forwad and read the rest of The Once and Future King.

Anyway, I think White perfectly captured the magic, power, fears and the joy of both youth and myth with this retelling of early Arthurian legend. W
Greg Deane
This is an amusing work for children, though entertaining for all ages, with a number of interesting mediaeval words, like 'austringer', 'alaunt' 'solar room' and 'fewmets. The novel offers a good many insights into life in feudal households and the unfolding of the seasons in rural England. White gives interesting insights into haymaking, jousting, the path to knighthood and archery

But the story is heavy with anachronisms, so that Robin Hood who resisted the tyranny of King John in the 12th an
I loved The Sword in the Stone. I watched the Disney movie before I read the novel and I loved that too. However, the book is a lot different from the movie and even though I know the story I still enjoyed it immensely. The book is about a boy named Wart who lives with Sir Ector and his son, Kay, in a castle. Wart never knew his real parents, but Sir Ector treats him like a son and Kay is a brother to him. Wart's adventures begin when he is lost in the woods and stumbles upon the cottage of the ...more
Let me just say that I am REALLY proud of myself for finishing this book. It's very well written and imaginative and descriptive, it's just not at all my genre. ;) So there were some days I had to tell myself, "Okay, 10 minutes of this book and then you can read whatever you want to read."

It's on the Ambleside Year 7 list for two of my kids for next year so I wanted to pre-read it, and if I'm going to have them read it, I figured I'd better read it, too. I loved the character of Wart, and Merly
‘The Sword in the Stone’ is a deeply strange and awkward book, a fact that is immediately apparent but rarely commented on. This, I suppose, is a measure of its greatness – that its greatness is acknowledged by all despite its palpable absurdities and clumsinesses, its endless digressions, flagrant anachronisms and startling shifts of tone.

But there is simply so much good humour (even though its opening paragraph contains a very off-colour joke), so much good writing (and a lot of engagingly bad
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The book "The Sword in the Stone" by T.H. White is, as stated by Garth Nix, 'One of the best fantasy novels ever written.' The tale takes place in a large castle in Great Britain during the Medieval Ages in which a young orphan, Arthur, or mainly known as The Wart, lives with Sir Ector and his foster brother Kay. One Afternoon, while pursuing one of Sir Ector's prime birds which Kay had let escape and left, The Wart finds himself in front of a cabin where he meets Merlin the Wizard. Merlin Event ...more
Awesome story. It is the first part of the "Once and Future King." Everyone knows this story thanks to Walt Disney. The book is a fascinating mixture of modern and medival. It has King Arthur, Robin Wood (a.k.a. Robin Hood), Merlin, giants, witches, and more.
Kevin Xu
different from the other three books in the Once and Future King
This is one of the more famous Arthur stories, and I am fairly sure I saw the Disney film decades ago. It did not make a large impression on me. Certain aspects of the book are very good, and others are far less so.

Young "Wart" is not descended from nobility like his companion Kay, and the two of them grow up in and around castle life. Only towards the end of the novel is there any potential friction, as Kay starts through his knighthood ceremony, leaving Wart as the squire. The finale of the no
Drew Graham
Young Wart lives in the castle of his guardian, Sir Ector, and studies jousting and riding and hawking alongside (and secondary to) Ector's son, Kay. When Wart meets the mysterious and mercurial wizard Merlyn in the Forest Sauvage roundabout the castle and is taken into the mage's tutelage, he finds he has quite a lot to learn, and also quite a destiny to fulfill.

I had always planned to read The Once and Future King in its entirety when I reached this movie in my Disney source material read-th
Rucker Manley
Absolutely enchanting.

The first in T.H. White's Once and Future King pentalogy, The Sword and the Stone is an imaginative look at the education of Wart by an old wizard name Merlyn, a man who only grows younger as time goes on.

The story, contrary to my expectations, isn't as much a narrative as it is a series of chronological vignettes. Alternating between the adventures of Wart as a boy and the adventures of Wart as an animal, T.H. White, and by proxy, Merlyn, teach Wart and the reader the hard
I love thinking about this book. T.H. White has an amazing ability to allow some rather simple lines to speak depths that stretch through the entirety of the book. Not that the lines are allegories, symbols, or even foreshadowings of things to come later but that they express a fullness of world, character, and story. Merlin's interaction with the Wart, and the Wart's interaction with the world he encounters, is fathoms deep, and in this way it is one of the best children's book I've read: we do ...more
I have dim memories of having read the book when I was 12 or 13. It was good to revisit it forty years later. Like so much 'classic' children't fiction it doesn't seem to be written for children at all.

The mixture of playfulness, pastoral and mysticism reminded me rather of Kenneth Grahame. The scene where Wart meets the goddess Athena reminds me of the 'Pan' section in Wind in the Willows. And it's not surprising to learn that TH White was an influence on JK Rowling. Hogwarts is what the Castle
The later books in this series are darker and more suitable for older readers, but this one, the story of Arthur's boyhood, is an all-ages delight. The philosophy and some of the jokes were beyond Nick's level, but fun for me. The underlying story, however, was absolutely perfect for a little boy who likes knights and fantasy. Young Arthur (the Wart) has a series of adventures over the course of a year, involving his foster brother and father, his new tutor Merlyn, the ordinary people of the cas ...more
Marcus Hutchens
Oy, this was painful to read haha. I kept asking myself how does the author make turning into a fish or a jousting match sooooo boring?! There were so many instances that had potential to be entertaining and exciting that instead made me feel like I was reading a law school book (or something else that's terribly dull). If it weren't a short book I would have given up several times, but I have definitely given up on planning to read the whole series. Not what I would call enjoyable fantasy. 2/5
No puedo creerlo pero pudo conmigo.
Me resulta mega aburrido, si bien tiene cierta simpatía y un sentido del humor que me gusta, no destaca por su abundancia, por cada guiño humorístico tenés páginas y páginas de descripciones aburridas.

Siento que no avanzo y no me resulta nada interesante lo que leo. Es tedioso.

¡Qué este sea conocido como el día que me venció un libro infanto-juvenil!
Oof - how to say anything sensible about this book! I remember reading it while ill (and being given milk-toast - something I'd read about in children's books, and found dreadfully disappointing - just soggy toast covered with hot milk?) when I was about 10 or 11 and I loved it. But I clearly didn't remember it at all, as I only remembered the being a fish bit from the film (and dimly, at that) and had no memory of the Wart's being turned into a falcon or the lengthy digressions about falconry, ...more
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Publication numberUS4114428 A
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 05/726,140
Publication dateSep 19, 1978
Filing dateSep 24, 1976
Priority dateSep 24, 1976
Also published asCA1092847A1, DE2727173A1
Publication number05726140, 726140, US 4114428 A, US 4114428A, US-A-4114428, US4114428 A, US4114428A
InventorsCharles H. Popenoe
Original AssigneePopenoe Charles H
Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Radio-frequency tuned-circuit microdisplacement transducer
US 4114428 A
An inductance-capacitance loop defines a resonant circuit and is arranged in a member subject to stress. Strains resulting from the stress vary the inductance or capacitance of the circuit, and its resonant frequency. A dip meter is used to detect the resonant frequency and thus provides a reading indicative of the stress in the member.
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I claim:
1. In a strain-stress detecting system comprising:
an elongated integral fastener member subject to elastic deformation when stressed wherein one portion thereof moves relative to another portion;
a resonant circuit assembly carried by said member, said assembly comprising a body of electrical insulating material on said member;
an electrical coil on one surface of said body;
a first capacitor plate on an opposite surface of said body and first means electrically connecting said capacitor plate to one end of said coil;
a second capacitor plate adjacent and movable toward and from said first plate and second means electrically connecting said second plate to the other end of said coil whereby said coil and plates define a resonant circuit; and
one of said plates being fixed relative to one of said portions of said member and the other plate being fixed relative to the other portion whereby elastic deformation of said member will vary the resonant frequency of said circuit.
2. A system as defined in claim 1 wherein a film of dielectric material is positioned between said plates.
3. A system as defined in claim 1 wherein said body is a generally cylindrical bobbin having a circumferential groove, one side of said groove and one end of said bobbin comprising said one and opposite surfaces and said coil comprising a coil of wire in said groove lying against said one surface.
4. A system as defined in claim 1 wherein said body is in the form of a flat disk, said coil being a spiral coil of metal foil on one surface of said disk, said first plate being a layer of metal foil on the other side of said disk and said first means comprising conductive foil extending from the center of said coil through a hole in said disk to said first plate.
5. A system as defined in claim 1 wherein said body is a sheet of said electrical insulating material, said first and second plate being layers of foil on different surface portions of said body, said coil comprising separate coil portions on different parts of said sheet and each being a spiral of foil on the surface of said sheet, said sheet being folded upon itself to bring said coil portions into concentric juxtaposition and to bring said plates into opposed relation.
6. A system as defined in claim 1 wherein said body is a sheet of said electrical insulating material, said plates comprise spaced metal foils on different portions of one face of said sheet and said coil comprises a spiral foil coil portion surrounding each of said metal foil plates on said one face of said sheet, said sheet being folded upon itself to bring said different portions of said one face, said plates and said coil portions into adjacent opposition.
7. A system as defined in claim 1 including, a longitudinal bore in said member, a recess in one end of said member in one of said portions, said bore extending from said recess into the other portion, said assembly being mounted in said recess and motion transmitting means in said bore to transmit motion from said other portion to said other plate.
8. A transducer comprising a foldable sheet of electrical insulating material having at least one flat spiral conductive coil on a surface thereof, a pair of conductive capacitor plates covering different surface areas of said sheet, said plates being respectively electrically connected to opposite ends of said coil, and said sheet being folded to place said plates in opposition to each other with one of said plates being movable toward and from the other plate by flexure of said sheet material to vary the frequency of the tuned circuit defined by said plates and coil.

This invention is in the field of microdisplacement transducers, by which small displacements on the order of 0.001 inch may be measured.

Several types of microdisplacement indicators have been previously invented and patented by myself and others which indicate small displacements by means of a color or intensity change of a visual indicator area. Such indicators have been commonly employed in tensile fasteners to relate changes in elongation or deformation of the fastener to external loading conditions, such that at a prescribed load or tensile stress in the fastener, the indicator will display a prominent color or brightness condition. A known shortcoming of such visual indicators is due to the subjective nature of individual color vision, in that the accuracy of the device relies on the judgement of the operator as to whether or not the proper color change has taken place. Photometric instrumentation to measure the reflectance of the indicator element can eliminate the subjective aspect of the measurement, but is in turn subject to variations due to drift, reflections or dirt present on the indicator window.

It is a major object of the present invention to provide an accurate microdisplacement transducer which may be applied to similar applications as the previous devices, but will not be subject to individual operator interpretation.

A further object is to provide a microdisplacement transducer which is adapted to mass production in high volume at very low unit cost, such that the transducers may be widely employed in low-cost items, such as mine-roof bolts, without unduly increasing the costs of such items.

Another object of the invention is to provide a microdisplacement transducer adapted to being inductively-coupled to an electronic readout device selectively positioned in the proximity of the transducer, thus enabling measurement of the displacement condition of the transducer without the need for actual contact or electrical connections.

A still further object is to provide a microdisplacement transducer having an essentially digital output, such as frequency which is a funtion of microdisplacement, so that the measurement of such displacements will not be a function of amplitude or instrument drift but will consist of an easily determined quantity such as a frequency count.

An important advantage of the present invention lies in the ready adaptability to automated assembly and calibration of the transducers into end items such as tension-indicating fasteners.

These and other objects and advantages are obtained by the present invention in which the transducer is in the form of a self-contained tuned radio-frequency circuit, one element of which is made variable responsive to the displacement to be measured. The natural resonant frequency of the transducer tuned circuit thus will change proportionately to a displacement change acting on the variable element. The transducer resonant circuit may be excited into oscillation at its natural resonant frequency by means of an external test oscillator having a probe coil which is brought into the proximity of the transducer inductive element. When the external oscillator probe coil is brought near the inductive element of the transducer, the two circuits are effectively coupled together through mutual inductive coupling. As the frequency of the test oscillator is swept, oscillations induced in the transducer circuit will be of very low amplitude until the test oscillator reaches the resonant frequency of the transducer tuned circuit, at which point they will "peak" or increase sharply in amplitude. A high circulating current is thus developed in the transducer circuit, which is reflected back into the test oscillator as a high impedance, tending to degenerate the level of oscillation. By noting the degeneration or "dip," the resonant frequency of the transducer and therefore the displacement of the variable element may be determined. Test oscillators are available commerically under the names "dip meter" or "dip oscillator" which may be used to determine the resonant frequency of the subject transducers according to the above description. However, it has been found that better performance and coupling can be obtained with instruments designed specifically for this application.

It may be noted that the determination of the displacement applied to the transducer is completely independent of the amplitude of the response, and is dependent only on the frequency of resonant oscillation, which is inherently a digital measurement. Digital measurements may generally be made with more accuracy than is possible with an analog quantity, since instrument drift and gain instability will not affect a digital measurement. The accuracy of a frequency count is dependent solely on the stability of the timebase. With a crystal-controlled timebase, stabilities of 1 PPM are commonplace. The accuracy with which the resonant frequency of the subject transducers may be determined is thus limited only by the ability to resolve the "peak" or "dip" of the response. This is a function of the sharpness of the response peak of the transducer resonant circuit, which is determined by the circuit "Q" or quality factor. Since circuit "Q" is simply the ratio of the circuit reactance to circuit resistance, the transducers should be designed to have the highest possible inductance or capacitance and the lowest possible resistance to ensure a high "Q.

FIG. 1A is a schematic illustration of a resonant circuit;

FIG. 1B is a diagram showing the general structural relationship of the inductor and capacitor as employed;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of typical installation of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a sectional view, similar to FIG. 2, wherein the invention is installed in a bolt;

FIG. 4 is a graph showing the response of the transducer as measured by a dip oscillator;

FIG. 5 is a graph showing the relationship between strain displacements and resonant frequency;

FIG. 6 is a sectional view through a typical embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 7 is a view illustrating one way of forming the circuit loop;

FIG. 8 is a view of one side of a further form, in an intermediate stage;

FIG. 9 is a view of the other side of the structure of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing how the structure of FIGS. 8 and 9 is folded to form a resonant circuit;

FIG. 11 is a view illustrating how the invention is used; and

FIGS. 12 and 13 are block diagrams showing suitable forms of dip oscillators.

The transducer consists of a resonant circuit comprising an inductance L and a capacitance C connected in series as shown schematically in FIG. 1A, and in actual physical relationship in FIG. 1B. Such transducers have been constructed as shown in FIG. 2, in which an inductive coil consisting of some 60 turns of wire 2 is wound on a thin plastic bobbin 4 about 5/8 inch diameter and 1/8 inch thickness. The terminations 6 and 8 of the coil are connected to two disks 10 and 12 of thin copper foil separated by a dielectric insulating film 14; the combination of the disks and film serving as the capacitive element. The upper foil disk 10 and dielectric 14 are bonded to the lower surface of the bobbin 4, and the lower foil disk 12 is free to move closer to or farther from the upper disk 10 responsive to movement of a headed actuating pin or element 16 relative to a supporting body 18. Thus, displacement of the pinhead causes the capacitance to vary accordingly, changing the resonant frequency of the LC circuit.

FIG. 3 shows a transducer shown in FIG. 2 applied to a tension-indicating fastener in the form of bolt 20, wherein the movable capacitor plate is actuated by pin 16 within the shank of the bolt. This is a typical application of the present invention, in which the tuned-circuit transducer may be employed to enable electronic readout of the actual tension in the shank of the bolt or other fastener, without contact or electrical connections. The bolt has an axial hole 22 in which pin 16 is loosely fitted but fastened to the bolt at the bottom 24 of the hole while free to move relative to the bolt at its upper end, which has a disk-like head, substantially transverse to the pin axis. A microdisplacement transducer as in FIG. 2 is mounted in a shallow recess 26 in the head of the bolt, such that the head of the pin 16 bears against or is fastened adhesively to the undersurface of the movable capacitor plate 12. When a stress load is applied to the bolt as by tightening the bolt head against a rigid structure, the shank of the bolt will elongate according to Hooke's Law, and the head of the reference pin 16 will be drawn relatively downward from the transducer and bolt head, increasing the gap between the two capacitor plates and thus decreasing the capacitance of the tuned circuit in proportion to the tensile load on the bolt. This will cause an increase in the transducer resonant frequency, which may be detected by an external dip meter or dip oscillator whose probe coil is brought near enough to the transducer coil to allow inductive coupling between the two coils. In this manner the tension in the fastener may be conveniently determined at the time of installation and at any subsequent time.

FIG. 4 shows a plot of the response of such a microdisplacement transducer as measured by a dip oscillator. As the frequency of the dip oscillator is swept, the response is relatively flat until the resonant frequency of the transducer is reached, at which point there will be a sharp dip, shown at 28 in the FIG. as occurring at about 10 MHz. After the dip has been located, the dip oscillator frequency at the minimum point may be accurately determined with a frequency counter. If the transducer resonant frequency is so determined at a number of different displacements applied to the transducer by pin 16 and the results plotted, a nearly linear relationship between resonant frequency and applied displacement will result as shown in FIG. 5. The actual relationship can be shown to follow a parabolic law, in which the resonant frequency of the transducer is approximately proportional to the square root of the applied displacement.

FIG. 6 shows another form of the transducer, etched upon a two-sided circuit board 30 of insulating material. A flat coil 32 is etched into the top side of the board by known "printed circuit" methods and a capacitor plate 34 is similarly etched into the underside of board 30, with the connection between the two made through a plated-through hole 36 in the center of board 30. The outer terminal 38 of the coil is plated over the board edge to make contact with a movable foil plate 40, fastened to the periphery of the underside of the board in contact with outer terminal 38 and movable upon actuation by an external pin or element as described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. A dielectric film 42 separates the two capacitor plates 34 and 40.

Alternative forms of the microdisplacement transducer may be made by etched circuit techniques on a flexible plastic film base. Such circuits may be processed by high volume machinery automatically and continuously at a very low unit cost. One such circuit configuration is shown in FIG. 7. This transducer is etched onto a single side of a butterfly-shaped flexible base film 44, using about 1 mil copper foil on a 1 mil plastic base. The capacitor plates 46 and 48 are situated in the centers of the two joined disks of film 44, with the inductor in the form of flat coils 50 and 52 surrounding the capacitor plates and connected by a foil neck 54. The foil side of the circuit is covered with a very thin insulating dielectric film. The two disks are folded over onto each other to make a circular transducer, which may be applied to any application, such as that shown in FIG. 3. In the application of FIG. 3, the undersurface of the flexible circuit transducer of FIG. 7 is attached adhesively to a non-metallic disk element (not shown) fastened at its periphery in the recess in the fastener head. Operation is identical to that described previously.

Another flexible circuit configuration is shown in FIGS. 8, 9 and 10, which has the advantage of having increased inductance and capacitance over the configuration shown in FIG. 7, while having the same outer diameter. The resonant frequency will thus be lowered and the circuit "Q" increased, increasing accuracy and reducing potential instrumentation problem areas. In FIGS. 8 and 9, it may be seen that the circuit is two-sided, with connections between sides being made through plated-through holes. Three disks 56, 58 and 60 of flexible insulating film material are joined by integral necks 62. Inductor coils 64 and 66 are etched on opposite sides of disk 58 and an additional coil 68 is etched on one side of 56. The other side of disk 56 has capacitor plate 70 etched thereon while the side of disk 60 corresponding to coils 66 and 68 has capacitor plate 72 etched thereon. Foil strip connects one end of coil 64 to plate 72 through plated hole 76. The center of coil 64 is connected to the center of coil 66 through plated hole 78. coils 66 and 68 are connected by foil strip 80, and the center of coil 68 is connected to plate 70 through plated hole 82. The flexible circuit device thus described is folded on necks 62 around a nonmetallic disk element 84 as shown in FIG. 10, such that the three coil elements are situated above the two capacitor plates. Movement of the lower capacitor plate 72 relative to upper plate 70 will change the capacitance and the resonant frequency of the transducer.

The transducer of FIG. 10 may obviously be mounted in a bolt or the like in the manner shown in FIG. 3.

An important characteristic of transducers having etched foil inductors on the exposed top surface, such as the transducers of FIGS. 6-7, and 8-10, is that the resonant frequency may be "trimmed" by shorting together a number of the exposed inductor turns. This capability enables a fine adjustment of resonant frequency after installation, to compensate for normally expected manufacturing tolerances in products incorporating the transducers. For instance, it is well known that large variations in mechanical properties may be expected to occur between different bolts having purportedly identical dimensions and materials. This causes a variation in the deflection or elongation characteristics between identical bolts stressed with identical tensile loads, and therefore a resultant variation in the resonant frequency of transducers applied to tension-indicating bolts. This variation may be "calibrated out" during the manufacturing process by applying an accurate tensile load to each bolt after installation of the transducer, and measuring the resonant frequency at that known load. If the measured frequency differs from the desired design condition, coil turns are successively shorted together until the desired frequency has been reached. In this manner, all tension-indicating bolts may be made to have identical frequencies at the design load condition.

As previously mentioned, the resonant frequency of the tuned-circuit transducers of this invention may be determined through the use of a commercially available "dip meter." However, higher accuracy and more convenient operation will result from use of a more specialized measurement system, such as will be described. Although the described systems are in reality quite sophisticated, because of recent integrated circuit technology they are adapted to be incorporated into battery-powered hand-held instruments, comparable in size to a pocket sized calculator. Such a measurement system is shown in FIG. 11, being used to determine the tensile load on a mine roof bolt 20 which incorporates a microdisplacement transducer 86 applied, for instance, as shown in FIG. 3. The measurement of the actual tension will be shown in the following teachings to be accurately and conveniently made within a few seconds, by simply bringing the probe end 88 of the instrument 90 near to, or touching the transducer 80 embedded within the head of the bolt 20. As the probe is withdrawn an accurate measurement of the displacement state of the transducer, or in the case of this example, the tensile load on the mine roof bolt will remain displayed on the digital readout 92.

The basic principles of a measurement system which determines the resonant frequency of a tuned-circuit transducer completely automatically will be explained with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 12. The electronic system shown in FIG. 12 will display the resonant frequency of any resonant tuned circuit, such as the transducers of this invention, which may be effectively inductively coupled to the probe coil of the system.

In FIG. 12 a free-running function generator 94 outputs a ramp or triangular waveform at a relatively low frequency, say between 1 and 1000 Hz. The voltage output of 94 is directed into a voltage-controlled oscillator 96, whose output is a radiofrequency sinusoidal waveform at a frequency which is proportional to the input voltage. Thus, the output of 96 is a swept radiofrequency signal sweeping from perhaps 5 to 15 MHz, so as to completely bracket the frequencies at which the tuned-circuit transducers would be capable of resonating. The output of 96 drives a probe coil 98, which may be brought into proximity to tuned-circuit transducer 86. A portion of the output of 96 is directed into a tracking oscillator 100, which may be of the form of a phase-locked loop circuit, the output of which normally tracks and remains synchronized with the input frequency from VCO 96. A signal proportional to the instantaneous power driving probe coil 98 is directed into dip detector 102. This circuit generates an output pulse at the minimum point of the "dip" response as shown in FIG. 4, as the VCO frequency is swept. There are a number of well-known methods for detecting this "dip," such as a differentiating circuit followed by a zero-crossing detector. The pulse output of the dip detector 102 is present only when a dip has been detected, and then only at the minimum point of the dip where the derivative is zero. This output is directed to the tracking oscillator 100 to "freeze" its frequency of oscillation at the input frequency at the instant that the dip was detected. The same signal is used to gate a frequency counter 104, which reads the output frequency of 100 and displays the resultant count.

The system of FIG. 12 operates in the following manner. The probe coil 98 is initially distant from a resonant circuit 86 and no dip is detected by 102 as VCO 96 is swept through its range. The digital display of counter 104 is blanked as the system is initially activated, and remains blanked until a dip is detected. As the probe coil is brought near enought to transducer 86 to become inductively coupled, that condition is reflected back into the probe circuit and a dip is detected during each frequency sweep, which causes counter 104 display to update once per sweep. This count will vary somewhat with distance between probe coil 98 and transducer 86, due to the loading effect of the probe coil on the resonant circuit of transducer 86. As the probe is removed from the vicinity of transducer 86 the coupling will decrease with distance until a dip can no longer be detected by 102, and the last detachable frequency count will remain in the display of counter 104. It is well-known that the most accurate measurement of the resonant frequency of a tuned circuit is produced when the coupling between the probe circuit and the test circuit is as "loose" as possible. This condition will normally be achieved by the system of FIG. 12 when used in the described manner.

A similar measurement system is shown in block diagram form in FIG. 13, wherein the output of the measurement may be displayed in engineering units more convenient to the application of the transducer, as in FIG. 11, rather than as a resonant frequency which would have to be converted to the desired units. For instance, if the tuned-circuit microtransducers were used in tension-responsive bolts, the tensile load on the bolt may be displayed directly in kilopounds or kilonewtons.

A function generator 106 corresponds to 94 in the previous figure, oscillates at a relatively low frequency with a ramp or triangular waveform and causes voltage-controlled oscillator 108 to sweep its ouput between, say, 5 and 15 MHz. The output of 108 is directed to probe coil 110 which may be inductively coupled to tuned-circuit transducer 86, thus far exactly as in the system of FIG. 12. A "dip" in the probe circuit power due to a resonance condition between transducer 86 and probe circuit 108 and 110 is detected as before by dip detector 112. A sample-hold circuit 114 has an input leading from the function generator voltage output, and an output which corresponds to the input voltage at the instant that a pulse is applied to the "sample" input. This output voltage is then held at the constant value until another pulse is applied to the "sample" input. The output of 114 is directed into a linearizing and scaling circuit 116 which removes the beforementioned square-root dependence of the dip frequency and scales the output such that the voltage output of 116 corresponds to the tensile load on the bolt in the proper engineering units. The output of linearizer-scaler 116 may be directed into a voltmeter for an analog display, or preferably into digital voltmeter 118 which produces a direct digital display of the bolt tensile load measurement.

While the foregoing descriptions relate to forms wherein the resonant frequency of the transducer is changed by moving capacitor plates relative to each other it is to be understood that the same results could be obtained by moving portions of a coil toward or from each other to vary their coupling. It is to be noted that in the form shown in FIG. 7 both plates 46 and 48 and coils 50 and 52 are movable toward and from each other.

While a limited number of specific embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, the same are merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and other forms may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claims.

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International ClassificationG01D5/243, G01L1/14, G01D5/241, G01B7/16, G01L5/24
Cooperative ClassificationG01D5/2417, G01B7/22, G01L1/144, G01L5/24
European ClassificationG01L5/24, G01D5/241D, G01L1/14A2, G01B7/22


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Publication numberUSD654287 S1
Publication typeGrant
Application numberUS 29/363,785
Publication dateFeb 21, 2012
Filing dateJun 14, 2010
Priority dateJun 3, 2010
Publication number29363785, 363785, US D654287 S1, US D654287S1, US-S1-D654287, USD654287 S1, USD654287S1
InventorsLuigi Iulita
Original AssigneeStylgame S.R.L.
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External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
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  1. The ornamental design for an adjustable platform, as shown and described.

FIG. 1 is a front-right side perspective view of an adjustable platform showing my new design;

FIG. 2 is a rear-right side perspective view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a top plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a bottom plan view thereof.

The portions of the figures in broken lines form no part of the claimed design.

U.S. ClassificationD06/675


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The LA Times on Google Maps

The Los Angeles Times is becoming a prolific user of Google Maps. Here are just some examples of how the paper has used the Google Maps API to help illustrate news stories and give their readers access to local data.

Mapping L.A.'s Neighborhoods

The LA Times’ neighborhood map of Los Angeles County is a Google Maps interface to individual maps and statistics for 158 cities and unincorporated places and 114 neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles.

The map allows readers to click on one of the highlighted regions on the map and then select an individual neighborhood. Once you have selected a neighborhood you can view information about schools, income, demographics and news from the area.

LA Magnet Test Scores

A Google Map created to compare the test scores of Los Angeles' magnet schools with other magnet schools and to their host schools.

L.A. Farmers Markets
A Google Map guide to Southern California farmers markets. It is possible to browse the markets by location and by the day of the week.

Where the Westside Starts
The Westside has no official defined border. Therefore the LA Times decided to ask its readers how they define the Westside.

The Times then produced two Google Maps; one to show The Times' definition of the Westside's geographical boundary and one to show the readers' ideas.

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Hugh Hefner & Crystal Harris: The Wedding is Off!

Posted Tuesday June 14, 2011 2:16 PM GMT

The third time is apparently not always the charm, as Hugh Hefner's upcoming nuptials to Crystal Harris have been called off.

As TMZ reports, the 25-year-old model has nixed all wedding plans after a weekend argument with her 85-year-old fiancee, which prompted her to move out of the famed Playboy mansion.

Hugh and Crystal began dating back in 2009, before announcing their engagement last Christmas.

The now-canceled wedding, which was scheduled for this Saturday, June 18, would have been the third walk down the aisle for Hefner.

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After a stellar Stanford career as a goaltender, Shane is a volunteer assistant coach ... was named 2008 Goalkeeper of the Year by ... led the country in save percentage (.559), saves (232), and was second nationally in saves per game (11.6) as a senior ... also named Shane as a first-team All-American after leading the Cardinal to a national ranking throughout the season ... named to the IWLCA All-American Team as a junior, as well as to the All-Region team ... MVP of the MPSF Tournament after recording 28 saves and a 6.51 goals against average in the three games, all Cardinal wins ... Posted a .596 save percentage in the MPSF Conference Tournament ... Broke three major goalkeeper records in 2007 including Most Career Games Played (53), Most Career Saves (599) and still is the career save percentage leader in Stanford history with a .550 save percentage ... as a Sophomore in 2006, named Stanford's first All-American with second team honors, along with teammate Megan Burker ... 22-save performance against North Carolina on April 2, 2006 tied for the top mark in the NCAA and set a Stanford single-game record ... graduated from Towson High School in Towson, Md.


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Other Position: Distances
Year: Senior
Hometown: Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.
High School: Cornwall Central
Major: Biology
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* Seven-Time All-America *

Career Bests (thru 2015 indoors):

• 5,000 Meters: 15:11.13
• 1,500: 4:18.29
• Mile: 4:42.43i
• 3,000: 9:04.57i
• Two Mile: 9:54.22

Stanford Record Book:

• 5,000: 1st
• 3,000: 6th
• 5,000: 6th

At Stanford:

• Set school and Pac-12 records by running the 5,000 in 15:11.13 at the 2014 Payton Jordan Invitational, making her the third-fastest collegian all-time, and second-fastest American collegian.
• Won the 2013 Pac-12 cross-country title.
• 2014 NCAA indoor and outdoor 5,000 runner-up.
• Fourth in the 5,000 at the 2014 USATF Championships.

2015 Season:

• Did not compete.

2014 Season:

• NCAA runner-up in the 5,000, clocking 15:37.74 in Eugene, Ore.
• It was Stanford's highest finish in that event since 2005.
• Led for most of the final two miles before being passed with 600 by to go by winner Marielle Hall of Texas, with Dartmouth's Abbey D'gostino in third.
• Broke school and Pac-12 records in the 5,000 at the Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational on May 4, and crushed her personal record by 42 seconds, running 15:11.13.
• It made her the third-fastest in collegiate history and the second-fastest ever for an American collegian, trailing only Colorado's Jenny Simpson, who ran 15:01.70 indoors in 2009.
• The school record was 15:20.44 set by three-time NCAA 5,000 champion Lauren Fleshman in 2003.
• Fleshman was in attendance during Cuffe's record-setting run.
• Finished fourth at the USATF Championships in Sacramento on June 28, running 15:13.15, with teammate Jessica Tonn ninth.
• The time was the second-fastest ever for Cuffe.
• Placed second in the Pac-12 5,000 in 16:11.97 and in the 1,500 (a PR 4:18.29).
• Third in the NCAA West Prelims, running 15:55.16.
• Anchored Stanford to second-placed finishes at the Penn Relays, running a 4:35.86 split for 1,600 in the distance medley relay and 4:16.6 in the 4x1,500.
• Won the Big Meet in the 1,500 (4:19.79) ... named Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.

• Earned two first-team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships.
• Placed second to Dartmouth's Abbey D'Agostino in the NCAA 5,000, running 16:22.48.
• The next day, placed seventh in the 3,000 (9:17.87).
• Won the MPSF championship in the 3,000, running a personal best 9:04.57, the fourth-fastest in Stanford indoor history.
• Jumped to No. 5 on Stanford's all-time indoor list with a personal best 15:53.95 in the 5,000, placing third in the invitational race at the Husky Classic on Feb. 14.
• Fifth in the invite mile at the Penn State National, running 4:45.51.

2013 Season:

• Earned second-team All-America honors in the 5,000, placing 13th at the NCAA Championships in 16:16.37.
• That was after coming in with the 24th best time.
• Placed 10th in the Pac-12 Championships in the 1,500, running 4:23.57.
• Was fourth at the Big Meet in the 1,500 (4:24.64) in her season debut.
• Sixth in the 5,000 at the NCAA West Prelims in a personal best 16:15.53.
• A USTFCCCA All-Academic selection.
• Named Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.

• Did not compete

2012 Season:

• Placed 10th at the Pac-12 Championships in the 5,000, running 16:42.00 in Eugene, Ore.
• Advanced to the NCAA West Preliminary Round in the 5,000, placing 25th in 17:07.32.
• Earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.

• Set the American junior record in the 3,000 of 9:07.79 while setting a meet record at the UW Last Chance meet in Seattle on March 3.
• The time was the fifth-best indoor mark in school history.
• The time broke her own AJR mark of 9:15.56 that she first set at the Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., on Feb. 3.
• Earned second-team All-America honors by placing 14th at the NCAA Championships, running 9:27.57.
• Placed fifth in the MPSF Championships in 9:10.07.

Cross Country:

• Won the 2013 Pac-12 championship in Louisville, Colo.
• Finished fourth at the NCAA Championships to earn her second All-America honor.
• Named 2013 Pac-12 women's cross country Athlete of the Year.
• Placed 21st at the 2012 NCAA Championships in Louisville, Ky.
• Was the No. 1 runner for Stanford's third-place NCAA team.
• A three-time NCAA Championships participant.

• Twice competed with the USA junior national team.
• Was the U.S.'s top runner at the 2011 IAAF World Junior Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain, placing 17th while clocking 20:15 over 6K.
• Also ran the 5K at the 2009 Pan Am Games in Trinidad and Tobago.
• Was second at the Bupa Great Edinburgh International Cross Country Championships in Scotland.

High School:

• The 2010 Foot Locker cross country national champion.
• Won the 2011 USA Junior cross country and New Balance Indoor Nationals 2-mile titles.
• Set the junior national record in the 2-mile with a time of 9:54.22.
• A seven-time New York state champion and five-time NYS Federation champion.
• Won two USA Junior 5K championships, in 2009 and 2010.
• Named the Gatorade National Girls Runner of the Year in 2010-11, after winning similar state honors twice.
• 2011 NYS Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year.
• Set school records in five events.
• Teams won a combined three OCIAA Championships and six Section 9 Championships.
• Also appearedon Cornwall Central's 2011 All-American distance medley relay.
• Captained her school's indoor, outdoor, and cross country teams for two years.
• Competed as a race-walker during the indoor season of her freshman year.

• Daughter of Ronald and Marie Cuffe.
• Has a younger brother, Conor, and a younger sister, Dara.
• Majoring in biology.


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Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
3. The Nazi's invade your house. How do you react?
Get your own army to fight back
Run for survival
Shoot them (with a shot gun handy)
4. 3000 zombies surround you.You take out your gun and see that it has 6 bullets left. How do you react?
I'm screwed
At least 6 of them are dead
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Zombie- Power from guns
Vampire- Gain power of Humans
Werewolf- Utterly destroying
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Live like Robinson Cruesoe
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Find food and shelter, then relax
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Official Nexus 7 Case Now Shipping

Official Nexus 7 case went up for sale in the Google play store earlier this week, and is now shipping to early buyers.

Initial estimates said that the official Nexus 7 case would ship in 3 to 5 business days, but my order shipped and will show up sometime Monday afternoon.

The Nexus 7 case is $19.99, with two-day shipping as the only delivery option. Even at $30 delivered, it is much cheaper that we have seen the Nexus 7 case sell for on eBay.

The Nexus 7 case is light grey and made of hard plastic. The case fits both the 8GB and 16GB models, protecting the front and back of the device.

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The official Nexus 7 case is shipping to early buyers.

This official case snaps on to the Nexus 7, providing form-fitting protection that aftermarket cases often cannot deliver.

Rumors suggest the Nexus 7 case includes a magnet on the screen portion capable of waking up and putting the Nexus 7 to sleep, much like the iPad Smart Cover. Unlike the Smart Cover, the front screen protecting part of the case does not fold up to provide a typing angle or prop the Nexus 7 up in landscape mode to watch a movie.

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The official Nexus 7 case is not available in stores yet, and it isn’t clear when it will be available as Google struggles to meet demand for the tablet online and in traditional retail stores.

The Google Play Store still lists the Nexus 7 case as in stock, with 3-5 days or estimated delivery. The case is $19.99 and re only shipping option is 2 say shipping for $9.99.

Asus may soon sell the case in a variety of colors, but like the Nexus 7 audio dock, there’s no word on a release date.

The Nexus 7 tablet is available in 8GB for $199 an 16GB for $249. Early indicators show high demand for this affordable tablet, which is good news for Android users who are used to a lot of choice on the hardware side, but a lacking aftermarket due.

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MadTech Records’ New Sublabel + Interview & Free Download

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A few weeks ago we had a massive twitter interview with MadTech Records and their latest slew of artists: Lakosa, iO, and Pedro123. The man behind the scenes at MadTech, James, was an absolute pleasure to speak with and has continued to deliver some lovely tracks in our inboxes. So, when he shot us over the announcement of MadTech’s sublabel, MTDL, which will be pushing free music downloads, I quickly jumped on it. Awesome music… for free? Consistently? Sounds like a win.

Copped James for a quick interview, where he gave us the down-low with the new sub-label, as well as the sounds both labels will be pushing, and more. Incredibly well-spoken and advocating an intelligent and forward-thinking perspective on music in one of the most ahead-of-the-game cities in the world, James has plenty of good things to say. Don’t forget to check out the awesome free track below, a groovy garage jam with some rad vocal samples, from young producer Aaron Lipsett; not a bad way to kick off the first of MTDL’s releases!

What’s up James? What’s the news with MadTech?
Well we’ve had a pretty big year so far with releases from Lakosa & iO, Krystal Klear, Citizen, Ill Blu and we don’t plan on slowing down anytime soon! We’ve got an upcoming EP, released 26th November, from a Leeds duo called Voyeur. They come fresh from doing remixes for the likes of Santigold and Bombay Bicycle Club and are creating this deep, smoky house music, which includes Kerri himself reworking one of their tracks into an absolute monster. We also have a dark, looming techno EP from Thefft. This is a really exciting London based producer who’s pretty much carving out his own sound. (check out his remix of ‘Omar’ on the Ill Blu ‘Illusions’ EP). On top of that we’re hosting a Boiler Room in the next couple of months which will include a few surprises…

What inspired the start of MTDL?
Essentially MTDL started because we kept coming across the most incredible, exciting young producers either on Soundcloud, sent to us via email or recommended to us by friends. Our release schedule fills up so quickly and with the current pace of music in mind we wanted to find an avenue where we could get this dope music out there as quickly as possible to as many people as possible, without being held back by schedules, release dates, licensing agreements etc..

What kind of stuff can we expect to hear from MTDL? Will it include any of the artists on the mother label?
MTDL will be more of a direct reflection of what we are feeling and who we come across at the time. Genre wise it’s completely unpredictable, which is the beauty of it, peoples music tastes are wider than ever, we want to mirror that.

If MadTech or MDTL could collaborate with labels like artists can, what would they be?
I think MadTech and Motown would be sick! MoTech.

What kind of sound, style, or effort does MadTech and MTDL try to push?
MadTech will always be one to push forward thinking electronic music, in the house genre meshing bass, techno, grime etc. MTDL will be a much more instantaneous place for the music we are feeling at that time and could potentially go anywhere genre wise.

As a Euro label, and especially as a London-based one, you pretty much have been remaining ahead of the curve in dance music and more specifically this style. What or who do you think have been important pushes to get this sound heard and maximized as much as it has in the UK?
Online is a hugely important area, there’s so many great music sites (like yourselves!) that are tirelessly pushing new music which have been absolutely key for us. There’s also a lot of sick radio djs and producers (regional and national) who are equally as passionate about this music and really open to getting on board and supporting. But of course ultimately the most important factor is the music fans themselves, without them there would be nothing!