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Distillery planned for historic birthplace of Scotch
30th September, 2013 by Becky Paskin
Scotch whisky distilling is set to return to its "spiritual home" as plans for a £5 million redevelopment of Lindores Abbey in Fife in to a whisky distillery and visitor centre have been unveiled.
Lindores Abbey, the "spiritual home" of Scotch whisky is being brought back to life once more
The whisky-distilling roots of Lindores Abbey, situated in Newburgh on the north coast of Fife, can be traced back to 1494 when details of the malt duty paid by Friar John Cor was logged in the Exchequer Roll – the first written evidence of whisky distillation in Scotland.
Now under the ownership of the Mckenzie Smith family, Lindores Abbey, which is currently nothing more than ruins, is to be brought back to life as a distillery and visitor centre to put the landmark "once again on the map as the spiritual home of Scotch whisky".
Andrew McKenzie Smith, whose family bought Lindores Abbey in 1913, said: "It is a privilege to be the custodian of such a historic property and in our centenary year it is tremendously exciting to be embarking on this project, where we can once more produce Scotch whisky at Lindores."
He added that the family is seeking additional funding from "suitable partners" to get involved in the project.
"As anyone who has ever been involved in such a project will realise, the figures involved could seem a little daunting, however the potential rewards are very impressive."
Scotland-based designers Bell Ingram have been commissioned to manage the project, following a detailed feasibility study conducted by Historic Scotland and The Fife Economic Development team.
"Lindores Abbey is recorded as being the first place whisky was distilled in Scotland over 500 years ago and so it makes perfect sense to create a distillery here, using the water from the Holy Burn and malting barley from the family fields, much as the original monks would have done all those years ago," said Bell Ingram Design director Iain Cram.
"The original steading stone walls on the land will play a significant part in the construction as we'll use part of this structure to make the visitor centre which will hopefully encourage locals and tourists to find out more about the whole distillation process.
"However, there was never a fully functional distillery on the site like we see nowadays with copper stills, which is what we wish to create here. It will attract people from across the world as well as create jobs and give a great boost to the local area."
McKenzie Smith has also enlisted whisky expert Jim Swan to distil what will eventually be a light, fruity Lowland malt, which is projected to reach shelves by 2018.
According to the Exchequer Roll, which is held in the Scottish National Archives in Edinburgh, Friar John Cor was ordered by King James IV to use "eight bols of malt" to make "aqua vitae" – which would have equated to around 1,500 bottles of whisky.
However the Abbey was destroyed by John Knox and his supporters in 1559, leaving the remains of Lindores Abbey to fall into disrepair.


Teacher Ethan Dane Huff made his first appearance in court Nov. 7 following an October arrest for an alleged inappropriate sexual relationship with a student.
Huff appeared in the Arkansas City courtroom, presided over by Cowley County District Court Judge Christopher Smith.
His attorney, who was retained from Wichita, also appeared. Richard Paugh requested that his client's case be continued to Dec. 12.
Huff has been free on bond since the day of his arrest. His bond conditions were continued to his next appearance.
He also has been suspended indefinitely from his teaching position with the Arkansas City Public School District.
The criminal complaint filed against Huff lists two counts of unlawful sexual relations with a person 16 years of age or older.
Each of the counts comes with a potential penalty of 31 to 136 months in prison, a fine of up to $300,000 and a post-release supervision term of 24 months.
Huff is to have no contact with the alleged victim of these crimes.
His next appearance was set for 1:30 p.m. Dec. 12.


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Las Pruebas de Rainhill fueron un importante concurso realizado en octubre de 1829, para poner a prueba la idea de George Stephenson de que las locomotoras de vapor proporcionarían la mejor fuerza motriz para el Ferrocarril de Liverpool y Mánchester (FL&M), entonces casi terminado. Se presentaron cinco locomotoras, que debían recorrer  de distancia sobre la vía construida en Rainhill, en Lancashire (ahora Merseyside).

La Rocket de Stephenson fue la única locomotora que completó las pruebas, siendo declarada ganadora. Los directores del ferrocarril FL&M aceptaron que las locomotoras deberían operar los servicios en su nueva línea, y George y Robert Stephenson recibieron el contrato para producir las locomotoras necesarias.

Antecedentes
Los directores del Ferrocarril de Liverpool y Mánchester (FL&M) originalmente tenían la intención de utilizar máquinas de vapor estacionarias para arrastrar los trenes a lo largo de la vía utilizando cables. Habían designado a George Stephenson como su ingeniero de línea en 1826, quien abogó firmemente por el uso de locomotoras de vapor. A medida que el ferrocarril se acercaba a su finalización, los directores decidieron celebrar un concurso para decidir si las locomotoras podrían usarse para tirar de los trenes; que se convirtió en las Pruebas de Rainhill. Se ofreció un premio de 500 libras al ganador. Tres ingenieros notables fueron seleccionados como jueces: John Urpeth Rastrick, un ingeniero de locomotoras de Stourbridge; Nicholas Wood, un ingeniero de minas de Killingworth con considerable experiencia en diseño de locomotoras; y John Kennedy, un hilador de algodón de Mánchester y uno de los principales defensores del ferrocarril.

Reglas
La compañía FL&M estableció las reglas para los ensayos, que pasaron por varias revisiones. Los requisitos finales, bajo los que se realizó la competición, fueron:

 "El peso de la locomotora, con su complemento completo de agua en la caldera, se determinará en el punto de pesaje, a las ocho en punto de la mañana, y la carga que se le asigne será tres veces su peso. El agua en la caldera estará fría y no habrá combustible en la chimenea. Se pesará el combustible correspondiente y se medirá y entregará tanta agua en el carro de licitación, como el propietario del motor considere suficiente para el suministro del motor para un viaje de treinta y cinco millas. Entonces se encenderá el fuego en la caldera y se determinará la cantidad de combustible consumida para producir vapor y se anotará el tiempo".
 "El carro de licitación, con el combustible y el agua, se considerará como parte de la carga asignada a la máquina".
 "A las máquinas que lleven su propio combustible y agua, se les permitirá una deducción proporcional de su carga, de acuerdo con el peso de la máquina".
 "La máquina, con los carros unidos a ella, se arrastrará hasta el poste de arranque por sus propios medios, y tan pronto como el vapor llegue a cincuenta libras por pulgada cuadrada (), deberá iniciar su viaje".
 "La distancia que cubrirá en cada viaje será de una milla y tres cuartos () en cada sentido, incluyendo un octavo de milla () en cada extremo para aumentar la velocidad y para parar el tren; de esta manera, la máquina, con su carga, recorrerá una milla y media () en cada sentido a velocidad libre".
 "Los motores harán diez viajes, que serán equivalentes a un viaje de ; treinta millas de las cuales se realizarán a velocidad plena, y la velocidad promedio de viaje no será inferior a ". (Nota: el único otro ferrocarril de pasajeros en el mundo en ese momento, el Ferrocarril de Stockton y Darlington, tenía una velocidad promedio de solo )
 "Tan pronto como la locomotora haya realizado esta tarea, (que será igual a viajar de Liverpool a Mánchester), se le entregará un nuevo suministro de combustible y agua; y, tan pronto como pueda estar lista para volver a salir, llegará al Punto de Salida y hará diez viajes más, lo que equivaldrá al viaje de regreso de Mánchester a Liverpool".
 "El tiempo de realización de cada viaje se anotará con precisión, así como el tiempo necesario para prepararse para el segundo viaje".
 "El ancho de vía debe ser de ".

Participantes
Se inscribieron oficialmente diez locomotoras para las pruebas, pero el día en que comenzó la competición, el 6 de octubre de 1829, solo cinco máquinas estaban en disposición de iniciar el concurso:

 Cycloped, una locomotora impulsada por un caballo sobre una cinta, construida por Thomas Shaw Brandreth
 Novelty, la primera locomotora con depósito incorporado del mundo, construida por John Ericsson y John Braithwaite
 Perseverance, una locomotora de caldera vertical, construida por Timothy Burstall
 The Rocket, diseñada por George y Robert Stephenson; y construida por Robert Stephenson and Company
 Sans Pareil, construida por Timothy Hackworth

Concurso
El trazado del FL&M que pasaba por Rainhill Village era recto y nivelado a lo largo de más de , por lo que fue elegido como el lugar más adecuado para realizar las pruebas. Las locomotoras iban a correr en Kenrick's Cross, en la milla al este del lado de Mánchester de Rainhill Bridge. Dos o tres locomotoras corrieron cada día, y se realizaron varias pruebas a cada una de ellas en el transcurso de seis días. Entre 10.000 y 15.000 personas se presentaron para ver las pruebas, y bandas musicales brindaron entretenimiento al público.

La Cycloped fue el primer contendiente en abandonar la competición. Utilizaba un caballo que caminaba sobre una correa de transmisión para obtener energía y fue retirada después de que se accidentase cuando el caballo rompió la cinta de propulsión. La siguiente locomotora en retirarse fue la Perseverance, que sufrió daños durante el tránsito hacia el lugar de las pruebas. Burstall, su constructor, se pasó los primeros cinco días en los senderos reparando su locomotora, y aunque funcionó el sexto día, no logró alcanzar las  requeridas de velocidad y se retiró de la prueba. Se le otorgó un premio de consolación de 25 libras.

La Sans Pareil casi completó las pruebas, aunque al principio había algunas dudas sobre si se le permitiría competir, ya que sobrepasaba en  el peso máximo autorizado. Sin embargo, finalmente completó ocho viajes antes de romper un cilindro. A pesar del fracaso, fue comprada por el FL&M, donde funcionó durante dos años antes de ser arrendada al Ferrocarril de Bolton y Leigh.

La última locomotora en abandonar fue la Novelty. A diferencia de la Cycloped, utilizó tecnología avanzada para 1829 y fue más ligera y considerablemente más rápida que las otras locomotoras de la competición. Fue la favorita de la multitud y alcanzó unas sorprendentes  en el primer día de competición. Más adelante sufrió daños en una tubería de la caldera, que no pudo repararse adecuadamente allí mismo. Sin embargo, funcionó al día siguiente y alcanzó  antes de que la tubería reparada fallara y dañara el motor lo suficiente como para que tuviera que ser retirada.

La Rocket fue la única locomotora que completó las pruebas. Promedió  y alcanzó una velocidad máxima de  transportando 13 toneladas, y fue declarada ganadora del premio de 500 libras (equivalentes a  libras hoy). Los Stephenson recibieron el contrato para producir locomotoras para el FL&M.

El Rocket 150
En 1980 se celebró el Rocket 150, un evento organizado para conmemorar el 150 aniversario de las pruebas de Rainhill. Se construyó una réplica de la Novelty para el evento, al que también asistieron réplicas de la Sans Pareil y de la Rocket (más un vagón). En el primer día, sucedió un desastre. La Rocket, ante la consternación de los espectadores, no pudo empezar a correr. Se salió de los rieles cuando iniciaba la marcha en el apartadero de Bold Colliery, y deformó las pestañas de sus dos grandes ruedas motrices. Esa noche, el personal de una empresa local de transporte por carretera se reunió en un hotel de Liverpool con el constructor de la réplica de la Rocket, y acordó que, en las primeras horas de la mañana siguiente, fabricarían urgentemente algunas piezas de acero (cuñas) en sus talleres cercanos, para arreglar la rueda motriz doblada antes de que comenzara el desfile del segundo día. Al mismo tiempo, la British Rail acordó poner un equipo de personal en los apartaderos de Bold para "enderezar" los rieles doblados. Ambas tareas se completaron a tiempo y la réplica de la Rocket participó con éxito en los siguientes dos días de los ensayos.

Al evento también asistieron:

 La Lion (restaurada en la época de las conmemoraciones del Rocket 150), la locomotora de vapor operable más antigua que existe (la locomotora estadounidense de fabricación británica John Bull, siete años más antigua, fue motorizada con vapor nuevamente en 1981)
 Flying Scotsman No. 4472
 LMS 4-6-0 Jubilee Clase No. 5690 Leander
 Sir Nigel Gresley No. 4498
 Green Arrow No. 4771
 GWR 0-6-0 No. 3205
 LMS Clase 4 MT 2-6-0 No. 43106
 BR 92220 Evening Star, la última locomotora de vapor construida por British Railways
 LMS 4-6-2 Princess Elizabeth No. 6201

Dos locomotoras de la Clase 86, la 86214 Sans Pareil y la 86235 Novelty fueron pintadas con una variación de la librea Rail Blue, con el logotipo de BR reemplazado por el motivo Rocket 150 sobre un fondo amarillo.

Reedición
En una reciente reconstrucción histórica (2002) de los ensayos de Rainhill usando motores de réplica, ni la Sans Pareil (11 de 20 carreras) ni la Novelty (10 de 20 carreras) completaron el concurso. Al calcular las velocidades y la eficiencia del combustible, se descubrió que la Rocket habría vuelto a ganar, ya que su tecnología relativamente moderna la convirtió en una locomotora mucho más fiable que las otras. La Novelty casi la igualaba en términos de eficiencia, pero su diseño de cámara de combustión hizo que se detuviera gradualmente debido a una acumulación de cenizas fundidas (similar al "clínker" de las fábricas de cemento) que cortaba el suministro de aire. La reconstrucción de las pruebas se realizó en el Ferrocarril de Llangollen, Gales, y fueron objeto de un documental de la serie Timewatch de la BBC en 2003.

Esta reconstrucción no debe considerarse excesivamente precisa, debido a los importantes compromisos de los organizadores con la televisión, a las diferencias en la experiencia de las tripulaciones, al combustible utilizado, a las modificaciones realizadas a las réplicas para adecuarlas a las normas de seguridad modernas, a los materiales y métodos de construcción modernos, y a la subsiguiente adquisición de experiencia operativa. Se hicieron comparaciones homogéneas entre las máquinas solo después de que los cálculos tuvieran en cuenta estas diferencias.

Las réplicas registraron grandes diferencias respecto a las máquinas originales de 1829.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 "Rocket and its Rivals". Detalles del episodio de Timewatch de 2003 en Highbeam

Historia del ferrocarril
Wikipedia:Páginas con traducciones sin revisar

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I found these on HomebrewFinds.com (mine appear to be from a different vendor but look like the same product without the scratches) a couple months back. A liquid quick connect with a barb or PET screw cap (for 2 litter soda bottles) How cool is that? Seems so simple yet so practical for brewing applications. I quickly picked up 3 of them for 12 bucks each, which I now see at about 10 bucks each. Shipping from China took about 15 days.
Next I picked up about 3 feet of 1/4 beer line and attached it to the barb. Since this was low pressure I didn't even use a pipe clamp. The end of the beer line was fitted with a plastic connector that goes into my aquarium pump. (Which I purchased two of off Amazon for 12 bucks each) This makes taking this beer line on and off easy for storage.
I grabbed one of my white three gallon food grade plastic buckets from Lowes and marked on the outside the recommended amount of Beer Line Cleaner (BLC) to water ratios. I ended up having to cut a notch out of the top of bucket to fit under my shotgun double beer towers, so I didn't have to hold it at an angle. Which ended up being about an inch down by 3 inches wide.
Now that the bucket is filled, I just walk up to my keggor and quick connect the black liquid line to the stainless quick connect and turn on the pump. Allowing it to run for about 15 minutes on each tab.
After, I run water thru the lines for about 10 mins. Easy as that. Clean beer lines with minimal effort. My keggor sits outside on a balcony, with 6 hours of solid sunlight, so with the ease of this set up I've started cleaning the lines every Saturday morning as the kids watch TV.
In total this whole set up cost me under $25.00. Including the pump, stainless connector and new beer lines.
Who is the rarely cleans keg lines group...? I slowly raise my hand. I think your cleaning regiment is great! I only clean when switching kegs out...can't be pretty in there... Now excuse me while I go clean my kegs.
I would love that. But at $73.00 it is a little out of my budget for cleaning.
Yeh those manifolds are a chunk. Hope your new kegerator turns out well.
Thanks John, I have 2 out of the 4 taps installed. Lowes didn't have another toilet flange for the other tower. I have 2 new beers carbing up this morning.
I _always_ break down kegs, my lines, unfortunately don't see as frequent cleaning. I'm overdue for a line replacement too. cool setup.
Guilty. I'm buying this stuff now. Thanks for design.
I would be interested to see that as well. Though I already have a sump pump I use for my carboy/bucket cleaner and recirculating icewater for chilling. You could throttle the flow with a cheap garden hose valve... Or you could somehow rig up a march pump with a bottling bucket or something. I got my sump pump on CL pretty cheap, like $30 or something.
I am only using cobra taps right now so correct me if I'm wrong but why couldn't you just daisy chain all the taps together and connect the ball lock connectors together using brewhardware's product (see my post above). Kind of like how this guy did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8qZUlTSW0Y . With 8 taps it would cost ~$20+shipping for 4 jumpers. All you would need to connect the taps together would be some silicone hose. You wouldn't even need the barb-->ball lock QD post part.
The pump above would not be able to move that much liquid. I used it on my 120' coiled jockey box and it can not push that much volume thru.
They do make bigger GPM pumps or a march pump would do the trick.


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Record active COVID-19 cases in Manitoba after 35 announced
Aug 10, 2020 HerbalDepEcoNa
Thirty-five more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Manitoba as of Sunday, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 182 — the highest since the beginning of the pandemic.
The previous peak in active cases was in early April, when there were at one point 163 people known to have the illness caused by the new coronavirus.
The update also marks the second time in four days Manitoba has recorded its second-highest tally of new cases. On Thursday, the province announced 30 — but that record was short-lived before Sunday's update surpassed it.
The highest one-day increase in cases in Manitoba was on April 2, when 40 were announced.
Many of the cases announced Sunday appear to be linked to known clusters in Brandon and the Southern Health region, or to close contacts of a previously announced case, Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr. Brent Roussin said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
Officials are considering all options to fight the apparent rise in cases in rural Manitoba, including more targeted restrictions in certain parts of the province, he said.
There is also a small number of cases that appear to be community spread in those regions, Roussin said, though he cautioned those numbers could be an overestimation.
"When we talk about these community-based transmission — or what we might term as non-epi-linked — cases, a lot of times it's early in the investigation so we just have yet to link them to a known case or to a cluster or to travel," he said.
Cluster in Brandon
Seven of the new cases are connected to a business in Brandon, Roussin said, though there is still no evidence that suggests the virus is being spread in that workplace.
There have been cases detected at several businesses in that city, including at the Maple Leaf Foods pork processing plant. As of Friday, 10 of its employees had tested positive for COVID-19.
On Sunday, the union that represents employees at the plant issued a statement saying it's been informed of eight more cases of COVID-19 from the weekend.
That brings the total number of known positive cases at the plant to 18, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832 said in a statement.
"These new cases strengthen our call on Maple Leaf Brandon to close for a one-week period until all test results are in, and the situation is under control," the union's statement reads in part.
Roussin said there are around 40 cases of COVID-19 linked to a cluster in Brandon, where there have been cases detected at several businesses, including a Maple Leaf Foods pork processing plant. (Riley Laychuk/CBC)
Roussin said he didn't know how many cases are considered linked to a significant cluster in Brandon, since public health officials are still investigating them — though he said that number was approaching and may have exceeded 40.
The five-day test positivity rate jumped to 1.45 per cent on Sunday, when Roussin urged people to go back to basics by staying home when sick; avoiding crowded, indoor places; and washing their hands.
In a statement Sunday, Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont said the province should "overhaul" its pandemic communications as well as its reopening strategy for Brandon.
"Dr. Roussin and the Health Minister need to tackle the more serious issue, which is that significant numbers of Manitobans, including community leaders, have shown they are not taking COVID-19 seriously," Lamont said in the statement.
"It is not enough to say, 'go back to fundamentals,' when many Manitobans never accepted those fundamentals in the first place."
Roussin said the decision to hold a COVID-19 news conference on a weekend was made in response to calls from the public for more information about the spread of the virus in Manitoba.
Plans are in the works to start releasing more details of new cases later this week — while still maintaining people's privacy, he said.
20 new cases in Prairie Mountain Health
In the Prairie Mountain Health region, which includes Brandon, there were 20 new cases announced on Sunday. They include a boy under the age of nine, a girl and a boy between 10 and 19, three men and two women in their 20s, five men and one woman in their 30s and four men and two women in their 40s.
Another 10 were in the Southern Health region, where the new cases announced Sunday include a boy between 10 and 19, a man in his 20s, a woman in her 30s, three women and a man in their 40s, a woman and a man in their 50s and a woman in her 60s.
In Winnipeg, the four new cases announced are three men — in their 20s, 30s and 50s, respectively — and a woman in her 50s.
A woman in her 20s from the Interlake-Eastern Health region was also among the new cases.
Several COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospital since Saturday, when there were nine people receiving care. There are now only six people in hospital with the illness, including three who are still in intensive care.
There have now been 542 cases of the illness detected in Manitoba. Eight people have died and 352 have recovered in the province.
On Saturday, 756 more tests for COVID-19 were done, bringing the total number completed in Manitoba to 100,830.
Cases at businesses in Steinbach, Brandon
One of the province's more recent COVID-19 cases is a worker at E.G. Penner Building Centres in Steinbach, the store said in a statement on Saturday.
The employee, who did not work in the retail part of the store, is now self-isolating, the statement said. Anyone who has been in direct contact with them is advised to self-isolate for 14 days.
All store areas and company equipment that the sick employee had contact with have been sanitized and disinfected, the statement said.
Meanwhile, a McDonald's restaurant in Brandon shut down on Saturday after a worker there was presumed positive for COVID-19.
The employee at 2626 Victoria Avenue reported it late that night, McDonald's Canada said in a statement. The person had last worked at the restaurant on Friday from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., the statement said.
The restaurant immediately shut down to be cleaned and sanitized. Other staff who may have been in close contact with the worker have been asked to self-isolate until more information is available.
Another Brandon restaurant shut down on Sunday after learning one of its employees was potentially exposed to someone who has since tested positive for COVID-19.
The worker has not tested positive for the illness, Marino's Pizza said on Facebook.
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Semyon Dukach: "I Really Care About Helping Startup Founders Succeed"
Semyon Dukach is known for his angel investments. Startups who have received a generous check from him include Milewise, CoachUP, Amino, as well as Ukrainian-founded Petcube, and Preply. A year ago, Semyon together with his business partner Eveline Buchatskiy founded One Way Ventures – a VC fund for immigrants. Driven by extraordinary experiences of fellow immigrant founders, Dukach believes that people should be free to work and create value anywhere, regardless of borders. In September 2018, Semyon Dukach was the keynote speaker at IT Arena.
Growing up in the 70s, Semyon Dukach was already anti-system in mind. In the prime of his youth, he worked on early virtual reality at IBM, studied payment protocols at MIT, and traveled around the world winning millions with his blackjack team. However, finding situations where he could make a big difference, things that would bring value and scale turned out to be his biggest passion. Looking back on his experience as an angel investor, former Managing Director at Techstars Boston, and now Managing Partner at One Way Ventures, Semyon talks about what makes an attractive startup for investment, and why immigration reminds an entrepreneurial experience.
Immigrants are extraordinary
I think it's very lonely to be a CEO. You can't really share your fears with the team, or you're not going to have a team. I really enjoyed helping others, and that shaped my career as an angel investor. I enjoyed making a big impact on a founder so much that at some point, I really made looking for this opportunity my main goal as an angel. I tried to make a bunch of investments, just to get to know people and see where I could make a big difference. As soon as I realized I couldn't make a big difference, I pulled back and ignored the company.
At One Way Ventures we only invest in immigrant founders. There's kind of a backlash against immigrants in the world today, and the borders are going up again with visas, and all that nonsense. We needed an initial filter for the team. I observed that immigrant founders are just much more likely to build big companies. Statistically, it's true. It's almost double the rate of creating a unicorn by someone who has not been an immigrant.
Immigrant experience predisposes your success in building a technology company. It has to do with perseverance and grit and not having much to fall back on. Having gone through the entrepreneurial journey of your own immigration, you're more prepared to build a business and to operate in a confusing environment where you don't know all the rules because you've already learned a new culture and new language.
The criteria for us: it has to be an actual immigrant. Founders or one of the founders should be a person who actually moved and settled in a different country, with the intention of not going back.
We really believe that immigrants make stronger startup founders than people who haven't had that experience. They are more selected. They aren't ordinary people, they are more extraordinary.
Founders who come from abroad deserve to have a special fund. VC fund for people who think globally. Who believe that being born anywhere you're free to work anywhere, regardless of borders and where you happen to be. We're globalists. We believe in humanity, not in an individual country.
A strong team makes a strong company
We talk to founders and make an assessment about them, especially the CEO. It's quite subjective, but there are certain things we look out for. You have to be able to tell a powerful story and communicate in a way that's exciting to people. You have to be inspirational. People need to follow you. Because to build a strong company you need to recruit amazingly strong people to work for you, people who could start their own companies or get very high-paying jobs. I need to see evidence that you can do that, and I need to believe that you're not going to give up or sell for a few million dollars as soon as you can. I need to believe that you want to build something large.
One of the most important things – you have to absolutely love your customers. You don't have to have a product yet, but you need to know who you're building it for and why. And you have to genuinely care. I really care about helping startup founders succeed. I want that kind of empathy in my founders towards their customers too. I won't invest in people who don't know who their customers are. They need to believe this is important, they have to want to build the thing not just to succeed themselves, but for the customers to be successful. That has to motivate them. To take away the pain, or perhaps to create joy for people, either way. The team is 90% of it.
You have to have something special
I don't look for founders who want to make the world a better place in a way that I want to make it a better place. I'd gladly invest in founders doing what they believe and that I don't really understand.
We needed to have some filter and the immigrant story is scalable, but in the long run, I want it to be not so much about immigrants, but about people who think globally – people who are not so much patriots of a country, but patriots of the world. That's the impact I want to leave after I'm dead. I'm only considering things that could be at least many hundreds of millions in value in terms of the market. It has to be defensible. You can be in a big market, but you have to have some defensibility, you should not only show that you can gain initial traction, but once you become somewhat successful you can't just be copied and destroyed by competition. You have to have something special, something unique, which often comes back to the team. If the team actually has the people who are unique in the world, like 5 people who are in a top 20 in the field – that's one way to be defensible, another way is being first in the marketplace, or having patents, etc.
I'm not gonna invest in anything that revolves around gambling, casinos, alcohol or drugs. I don't think it really makes the world a better place, so I'm not gonna encourage it. Right now, I'm really sick of influencer marketing, automation marketing, and marketing of all sorts. It's temporary, I'm just overfilled with it at the moment.
Technical confidence matters
You need to have a technical ability to execute. We are not going to invest in someone who will just pay an outsourcing organization to build everything for them (with our money). You have to have a bold vision, passion for your customers, but you also need to have some way of protecting it, something unique technically. We want to back startups that are going to become market leaders, not me toos.
As an investor, you have to be a curious person. I take an interest in the world, and I form theses around how the world is changing. Right now, we're doing a lot of things with machine learning, probably half of our investments have to do with ML, but it's not the thesis of the time, it's just a current interest. I agree that we've been doing a lot of hard science, tough tech recently, because it's certainly easier to meet defensibility requirement.
For the right founder, you might really invest in the story but you need to have some evidence that the customers are gonna buy it and the team can build it. For the right founder, we will invest in almost anything.
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How Do Ice Storms Form?
Ice storms form when air layers stacked in a specific way deliver supercooled liquid water that freezes on contact with cold objects. Business Insider notes that ice storms start when clouds release snow. The snow melts while passing through a lower, warmer layer of air. The melted raindrops fall into another layer of air below freezing temperature, but they do not actually freeze until they impact a solid object.
The supercooling of water required for ice storms is actually a relatively common phenomenon in liquids. To freeze, liquids commonly require a starting point that a relatively pure drop of melted snow does not provide, such as a small particle or other solid. The moment that the water impacts a solid object, it rapidly freezes.
The complex atmospheric conditions required for ice storms make them one of the less common forms of precipitation. When ice storms do occur, however, they can be devastating. The solid ice formed during an ice storm is far denser than snow, and it freezes onto surfaces, such as power lines and vertical plant stems, on which snow would accumulate only lightly, if at all. The ice also coats surfaces like roads and walkways, causing slipping hazards.


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Q: Где хранить токены Android? Есть веб сервер , который после успешной аутентификации отдает 2 токена (доступа и обновления) . Где их безопасно хранить? Shared Preferences с private mode не кажется мне лучшей идеей.

A: Самый лучший вариант - использовать системный менеджер аккаунтов, который предоставляет возможность безопасно хранить данные пользователя и даже использовать их в нескольких приложениях одновременно. Есть замечательные статьи на эту тему:
Часть 1 - https://habrahabr.ru/company/e-Legion/blog/206210/
Часть 2 - https://habrahabr.ru/company/e-Legion/blog/216857/
А также документация - https://developer.android.com/training/id-auth/custom_auth.html

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Art photography from cemeteries in the USA and UK.
Online burial records and tombstone inscriptions of Oregon cemeteries.
Contains a review, cast, and movie information.
Hartsdale Pet Cemetery and Crematory - Located in Hartsdale, New York. History of the cemetery, description of services, and profiles of staff; features photographs and information about famous pet monuments, burials, and owners, as well as virtual memorials and pet loss support resources.
All for the love of the Arch-Angel Azrael. Cemetery photos, and virtual memorial.
Cemetery photos from Upstate and Central New York, Germany, and other places.
Located four miles northeast of Sisters, Oregon. It was named after an Army post that was established in October of 1865.
Ypsilanti, Michigan. Provides information about their merchadise and services.
Cemetery Junction - A directory of active and retired cemetery addresses and links.
Cemetery records from the now defunct Tremonton, Utah, Apostolic Christian Church cemetery.
Created to help people search their family histories. Dresden and Muskingum County links. Located in Muskingum County.
New Orleans Cemetery. Lafayette #1.
An inventory of all tombs and plaques with a cross-index of every name appearing on plaques. Access by alphabetic surname, chronological date of death, sequential lot location, military notations.
Providing cemetery and cremation products.
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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) - The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):
Move over, alternative facts. Now, truth isn't truth.
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani used the line Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd.
Giuliani was trying to make the case that having Trump sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller's team wouldn't accomplish much because of the he-said-she-said nature of witnesses' recollections.
Giuliani says it's "silly" to say Trump should testify "because he's going to tell the truth and he shouldn't worry" because "it's somebody's version of the truth. Not the truth."
Pressed by host Chuck Todd, who insisted, "Truth is truth," Giuliani responded: "Truth isn't truth." The comment left Todd flummoxed.
Trump and his aides have been criticized for spreading lies and disinformation. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway famously referred to it as "a
Trump and his aides have been criticized for spreading lies and disinformation. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway famously referred to it as "alternate facts."
President Donald Trump is insisting that White House lawyer Don McGahn isn't "a John Dean type 'RAT.'"
Trump in a series of Sunday morning tweets is responding to a New York Times story reporting that McGahn has given hours of testimony to the special counsel investigating Russian election meddling.
Dean was White House counsel for President Richard Nixon during Watergate. He ultimately cooperated with prosecutors and helped bring down the Nixon presidency, though he served a prison term for obstruction of justice.
Trump says he allowed McGahn and others to testify. He says, "I didn't have to. I have nothing to hide......"
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Trump is also calling the investigation "McCarthyism at its WORST," a reference to indiscriminate allegations made by Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s to expose communists.
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Planning board vice chair running for district seat on County Council
Plus: Candidates file for state Senate, Gaithersburg council
By Briana Adhikusuma Follow @briadhikusuma May 3, 2021 | 9:57 am May 3, 2021
Natali Fani-Gonzalez, the vice chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, has filed to run for County Council in District 4.
The District 4 seat — which includes Wheaton, Colesville, Olney and Laytonsville — is currently held by County Council Member Nancy Navarro, who is term-limited and can't run for re-election.
Fani-Gonzalez, who has lived in the district for 20 years, said in a phone interview on Friday afternoon that she will focus on several issues in her campaign, including cyclist and pedestrian safety, job growth, living wages, and environmental concerns.
"Although I have a very strong foundation for countywide issues, especially coming from the Planning Board, I really feel that there is a need to focus on the issues happening in my community," she said of why she chose to run for a district seat instead of an at-large seat.
Fani-Gonzalez was appointed as a member of the Maryland-Capital Park and Planning Commission and a member of the planning board in 2014. She is the founder and principal of Matea Group, a Rockville public relationship and translations firm.
Because of her current appointment, Fani-Gonzalez checked with Maryland's Ethics Commission if there would be a problem with her run for office. She said she can run for the council if she does not accept campaign donations from developers and land use attorneys.
Fani-Gonzalez said she has enjoyed her time serving on the planning board, but hopes to expand her focus to broader issues such as health and education.
"I want more than just work on park and planning issues … issues that you don't see in park and planning, but they're so important to make the county stronger. That's what motivates me and why I'm doing this," she said.
Maryland will hold its 2022 primaries on June 28, followed by the general election on Nov. 8.
The filing deadline is Feb. 22.
Businessman running for Gaithersburg City Council
Businessman Dave Belgard of Gaithersburg is running for a seat on the City Council.
Belgard has run three small businesses and started two, according to a press release he sent Monday.
He said in the press release that his campaign will focus on several issues, including job growth and diversity, community engagement, affordable housing, and the environment.
"We can build on the strength of our cultural, racial, and economic diversity and we can do it while preserving all of the already wonderful parts [of] our city," he said on his website. "I am running for City Council because I am committed to helping Gaithersburg continue to be a place where I am proud for my family to live."
Gaithersburg's election is on Nov. 2, 2021. Voters will cast ballots for mayor and two at-large members of the council.
Lee runs for District 16 re-election; newcomer eyes District 39
Sen. Susan Lee (D-Bethesda) is looking to keep her District 16 seat in the 2022 election.
She was elected to the Maryland State Senate in 2014 after serving in the Maryland House of Delegates for 13 years.
District 16 includes Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Rockville, Potomac, Friendship Heights, Cabin John, and Glen Echo.
Lee is the first Asian American senator elected to the Maryland Senate.
Lee said she has worked on several legislative efforts, including fully funding public schools, passing gun safety laws, protecting disability rights and benefits, and allowing for automatic voter registration.
A newcomer is running for the District 39 seat in the state Senate.
Germantown resident Adam Alphaeus Cunningham filed to run on April 7 as a Democrat. The office is currently held by Democratic Sen. Nancy King.
On a donation page for his campaign, Cunningham wrote that he is running "because I believe in us and I'm determined to help build the people-powered movement we need to win so we can get to work building a better world — a world that we deserve."
Briana Adhikusuma can be reached at briana.adhikusuma@bethesdamagazine.com.
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The most common question we get as custom home builders…. what does it cost!?
Well that question is extremely hard to answer, and although we understand the need to know ballpark numbers, here's why it so hard to answer. The reality is the cost of building a home can range from $150/finished sq ft to $250/finished sq ft depending on tons of different variables, and if you do the math, that's a huge price range that's not very helpful. So to help narrow it down, I'll discuss the three biggest variables we need to pin down in order to give accurate estimates.


I'm a Catholic mother who loves our Faith, my husband and my children more than anything else in the world. I pray the Rosary every day. I visit Christ in Adoration. My children attend a wonderful Catholic school. I volunteer, play tennis, help with school parties, and drive carpool.
Oh, and by the way, I'm an alcoholic.
I never would have admitted that when I was still drinking. But now that I have been sober for a while and am in recovery I have found that admitting I'm an alcoholic helps me hit back at the shame that can cripple me if I let it.
And if I'm lucky, being somewhat public about my problem might help another woman face hers.
Shame goes hand-in-hand with being an alcoholic mother. Shame is awful, sneaky. And it's not of God.
And, Sarah Allen Benton, M.S., L.M.H.C. author of, Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic, said "It is as though the image of the "mother" and that of the "alcoholic" seem contradictory." However, alcoholism does not discriminate and there are definitely good mothers who are also alcoholic.
My "problem" affected my marriage and my children, and it separated me from God. It wasn't just about me anymore. As a Catholic mom it was imperative I tackle this truthfully, and in light of my Faith—without saddling myself with shame.
To be honest, I always knew there was something different about my drinking. I seemed to really love it. Everyone else could take it or leave it. Where other people had a couple of drinks to loosen up or wind down, I had a couple of drinks to "get going." I eventually crossed the line from being a social drinker to being an alcoholic.
How did I know? For me, I came to accept that I had a problem because of two things: God and my children. I came to recognize my dependence on alcohol was affecting my relationship as a daughter of Christ and as a mother to my children. So I became committed to seeking help.
The desire to mature in my relationship with God and the desire to be the mother I knew I could be were finally enough to get me to admit my problem and seek help. This was a very humbling endeavor, one I am so grateful to God for walking me through.
I think for each of us facing the facts about our drinking is a process, sometimes a long process. Sometimes that process is helped along a little bit by a DUI or an embarrassing episode. But for the most part, it's something we come to accept through our relationship with God and with our families.
We start making mistakes, forgetting our child's sporting event, missing appointments.
We start drinking before a social activity.
We begin to avoid situations where alcohol will be present because we have difficulty controlling how much we drink—we wanted to protect our reputations.
Once we start drinking we have trouble stopping.
The time between drinking binges gets less and less.
We might experience "blackouts," which are simply periods of time we are unable to remember what took place when we were drinking.
We behave in ways that are uncharacteristic of our sober selves. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
If you think you might have a drinking problem, or you love someone who does, I encourage you to talk it over with your Confessor. I found great strength and courage from admitting my problem first in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
A few Lents ago, in the homily at Mass Father Frank challenged us to determine that "one thing" in our lives that was separating us from having an more intimate relationship with God. For me, I knew right away what that one thing was. I thought about this a lot. And then, finally, I gave up the alcohol. And in doing so, my whole family benefited.
Bless you for your honesty! It surely can be liberating to share such a heavy cross. I have 2 high school boys, teach in a Catholic school and strive to be a Proverbs 31 wife. My addiction of choice is sugar. Though it not be as serious as alcohol, there are implications as well. I will keep you in my prayers as a friend I have yet to meet.
Thank you for your comment! Bless you for teaching in a Catholic school! I love our teachers! Sugar is such a sneaky little bugger.
You have beautiful courage. Way to go, Sister. We all have our crosses, and you have carried yours with the dignity of Christ. You make me feel strong in the face of my own crosses. Thank you. Have a blessed Holy Week!
Thank you for commenting Shawna! You are right, it is my cross and I carry it one day at a time but with full faith and reliance on God. It's turned into a beautiful thing.
I struggle with alcohol too. One drink never satisfies. But most of the time that's all I will have. Every day! Just try to take it away! Lol! but I absolutely believe I am being asked to let go of this attachment. I just am not having success. Gave up wine for lent. But bought beer. Am very afraid of personality changes from alcohol because that is what I grew up with. Any advice? Have gone 2 confession. My priest said no more than 1 drink. Most of the time I stick to that until it is 2 or 3.
Oh Linda thank you so much for your comment. Yes, it is hard, I know. For me, I couldn't really stop after one. Many people I know have a drink or two most nights but I wouldn't consider them alcoholic. It's something we just have to discern for ourselves with the help of our family and the Church. If you do decide to quit and need help you'll find a ton of resources. I like the 12 Step programs but there is more than one way so you'll figure out what works best for you.
Thank you for your witness on this crucial subject. It can be so corrosive in a marriage, especially when the alcoholic spouse is in denial.
Thank you for this post. I love the Lord. I want to be a saint. But I cannot win my battle with alchohol. I don't drink everyday, so I tell myself I'm not an alcholic, but I can't go more than a few days without drinking. And when I do dribk, it's hard to stop. Bi feel lost.
Meg – I want to make sure that you know not only that you are in our prayers, but also that you should be seeking some help and counseling. Have you connected with your parish and your physician? Many parishes have AA groups that can help you with the first and most difficult steps to finding recovery and peace. Please know that you are in my thoughts today and please send an email to lisa@catholicmom.com if you need help finding resources in your community.
I, too, am in the same boat. I try, and maybe quit for a few days, but then the usual habits take over. And the guilt is just so hard to take. I feel like such a complete failure as a homeschool mother and wife. My drinking never interferes with the homeschool day or outings, but most days by 6 or 7 I will have a glass of wine. I really want to stop as my father was an alcoholic and died of cancer. I would appreciate any prayers or advice.
I'm Sarai , my advice is that the first step is acceptance . Have you accepted you have a problem ?… do you believe you need Christ ,more than he needs you to adore him . I go to mass regularly and it has helped me stop drinking too much . I also homeschool and blame , shame and guilt myself a lot . God would never do that to us . I heard it from my mother , I pray to forgive each little thing she did and for me to be different toward my kids . I have four little ones , I've done so Much bad I just pray to God daily I have begun to have special devotion to our Lord and that has helped . I can tell because my husband is my enabler and I haven't been tempted by it when I humble myself and ask the Lord for help . Hope this helps your in my prayers Jennifer .


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Q: How to order files in explorer by file extension (not type) Is it possible to make windows explorer order the files view in a folder by the file extensions (e.g. .jpg, .png, .gif and so on)?
In most cases it is sufficient for me to order by file type, but I have some associations that read the same but mean different extensions.
I'm using Windows 7. There is a freeware utility called CPExt wich adds a new selectable column to windows explorer that shows the file extension. Thus, you can order the view by this new column. That's exactly what I am searching for for windows 7. That tool is only available for windows versions up to XP.

A: Possibly not the answer you wanted, but...Microsoft removed the functionality to allow explorer addons to add columns - it was removed in Vista and is not in Windows 7 either. That's why the CPExt extension only works up to Windows XP.
See the following article for an explanation:

http://xpwasmyidea.blogspot.com/2009/10/evil-conspiracy-behind-customizable.html

An alternative would be to use an Explorer replacement - Explorer++ is an open source piece of software that you can use instead of explorer (or as a standalone app, which may suit your needs). Explorer++ allows you to select File Extension as a column and then you can sort by extension.

A: Maybe stating the obvious here, but you could change the description of the file type extension. E.g. by adding the file type extension to the description between parentheses.
See What program do you use to edit file associations in Vista and Windows 7? for possibilities doing so in Windows 7.


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Q: SYNTAX_ERROR: line 197:33: All COALESCE operands must be the same type: varchar I am getting the following error, however I cannot figure out why because both values are string.

SYNTAX_ERROR: line 197:33: All COALESCE operands must be the same type: varchar

This is the line with the issue: coalesce(a.accountid, b.sf_account_id) sf_account_id,
Would you happen to know why?
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        coalesce(a.createddate, b.date_invoice) date_invoice

    from salesforce.sf_account_history a
    FULL OUTER JOIN add_next_month b
        on "substr"(a.accountid, 1, ("length"(a.accountid) - 3)) = b.sf_account_id
            and date_trunc('month',cast( "from_iso8601_timestamp"(a.createddate) as date)) = date_trunc('month',  CAST(date_invoice as date))

I tried using cast(column as varchar) and did not work.
Thanks in advance


The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday urged Christians to stop displaying the Confederate battle flag, recognizing that it is perceived by many as a "symbol of hatred, bigotry and racism" that offends millions of people.
The resolution, originally presented by African-American Pastor Dwight McKissic, had stirred debate and led to at least one call to withdraw it. The version presented to thousands of delegates to the denomination's annual meeting in St. Louis was less strongly worded.
They also changed the call for Christians to "consider prayerfully whether to limit, or even more so, discontinue" the flag's display. The final version approved by delegates simply asks Christians to discontinue its use.
The nation's largest Protestant denomination was founded in a split with northern Baptists over slavery, has a history of complicity with Jim Crow laws and is still 80-90 percent white. But with 15.3 million members, that translates to at least 1.5 million non-white members in the Nashville-based denomination. And while membership at white churches is decreasing, membership at churches that Southern Baptists identify as predominantly "non-Anglo" is on the rise.
"We stand in solidarity with those whose jobs, professions, businesses, ministries, schools, and personal freedoms are threatened because their consciences will not allow them to recognize, promote, or participate in activities associated with unbiblical marriage," the resolution states.
Delegates also approved a resolution of support for Israel that criticized the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Resolutions on drafting women into the military and affirming "In God We Trust" as the national motto were postponed until Wednesday.


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One-woman "Secret Life" sweet as honey
Lindsay Brown|March 14, 2013
Denise Wilbanks as Lily
A spotlight shone center stage, illuminating a empty stool. A timid woman portraying a young girl entered stage right.
Students packed the Dibden Center for the Artson Wednesday Feb. 20 to see a one-woman performance of "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd, adapted for the stage by Wynn Handman. American PlaceTheatre has been performing this story with actress Denise Wilbanks through seven different scripts over nine years. The show started with a 15-minute discussion about civil rights, and it wrapped with a discussion of how the issues in the play remain relevant.
"The Secret Life of Bees" is a story set in the South during the civil rights era. Lily is the main character, a 14-year-old girl raised by her abusive father, a peach farmer. Lily struggles with her own identity. Wilbanks perfectly embodied the character's youthfulness, donning pigtails, a flannel shirt, rolled-up overalls, high socks and Mary Janes.
Through the show, Wilbanks only used one prop: a stool. This forced the audience to use their imaginations to follow Lily through her turbulent adventures as a confused young girl.
Wilbanks expertly portrayed not only Lily, but a total of 12 characters throughout the play, bringing a distinct voice and demeanor to each.
For T-ray, Lily's father, Wilbanks used a rough, gravely tone and deep Southern accent.
For the shopkeeper, who appears when Lily first arrives in Tiberon, South Carolina, Wilbanks slouched and put on a loud, enthusiastic Southern accent, rotating her hips as she rubbed her imaginary beer belly.
"I never want to see a video of myself doing that," said Wilbanks at the end of the show, which earned chuckles from the audience.
For the three beekeeping sisters, Wilbanks used the distinct tones of sandpaper rasp usually associated with elderly Southern women.
Other characters played by Wilbanks included a police officer, Lily's housekeeper and three entitled white men.
At the start of the play, Lily runs away from home to Tiberon after an altercation with the police – for standing up for her black friend.
When Lily arrives in the small town, she goes to the home of beekeepers, where she feels a strong connection to her mother. The beekeepers take her in. Lily later learns that her mother, who later abandoned her daughter and husband, had lived there as a child.
The three sisters who own the bees are African-American. For the first time in her life, Lily struggles with racism when one of the sisters doesn't want her to stay because she is white. This is a "marvel" for Lily because she has never in her life been rejected for being white.
As the story progresses, Lily learns more about her mother and herself. It becomes clearer where Lily came from and where she is going as she grows from a timid child into a knowledgeable woman.
By the end of the play, Lily has learned many things about herself, truths both good and bad. The same is true for Wilbanks.
"I learn new things about Lily every time I perform this story," she said.
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Q: Sending resistance values over bluetooth I am diving into the deep here, as I am only familiar with audio electronics (guitar related). I thought of an educational project for myself to learn. It should be a miniature solution for the following (basic) problem:
I want to read out the resistance of several potentiometers and send this value to my phone. The total size should be around 2 x 2 x 1 cm excluding battery.
I think I will need the following:

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*Bluetooth module 4.0

*Microcontroller to read out the potentiometer

*Battery (coin?)

Upon researching I was overwhelmed with the various chips available. When I thought I found a solution, it turned out it was obsolete and rather power hungry.
So I am turning to this great community. Can anyone give me a pointer where to start looking? The cheaper and smaller the better. Programming a microcontroller is OK with me, can probably look that up somewhere as part of the learning process!
Thanks a lot!

A: As you have recognised, it will need an analogue to digital converter (ADC) to read the potentiometers, and a way to package up that information, and send it over Bluetooth, in a form your phone can use. That is a microcontroller.
Reaching your size of 2x2x1 cm, is extremely challenging as a starting point. You are likely to need to develop custom electronics. I recommend you use a ready built development system, get it all working, then shrink to your target size.
For a low power application, you are looking for Bluetooth 'Smart' aka Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
There are specific Bluetooth 'profiles' for analogue data. There is a lot of complexity to those profiles. So if you want to take advantage of those, it is probably better to use a development system which has some support for Bluetooth or BLE profiles.
One approach is a microcontroller with a Bluetooth Low Energy 'daughter board', for example ST Micro's Bluetooth Nucleo expansion board which plugs onto their St Nucleo-64 development boards. Several of those have low-energy microcontrollers. ST run free workshops and provide teaching material which you could probably get for free.
Several microcontroller manufacturers integrate bluetooth with the microcontroller. To make products easy to prototype, several mount the parts on modules.
One development system I am familiar with is from Cypress Semiconductor. They have two types of module a PSoC 4 BLE and PRoC BLE, along with a Development kit. Again they have free workshops and teaching material. Cypress' workshops show a demo mobile phone application which communicates analogue data, using their BLE module, to a mobile phone. ST may also have a demo mobile phone app, I can't remember if they do.
You can probably get a Bluetooth Low Energy module, which has a UART (serial) interface, but I haven't checked. Most microcontrollers have a UART and Analogue to digital converters. You will also need to understand how its 'Low Energy' features work. You will have to decide how to get the data across to the phone, and write the mobile app.
For such a low speed application, toy might also consider WiFi. Their are many WiFi modules, but the cheapest I am aware of is Espressif's ESP8266. AGain, you will need to write the phone app.


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The Society's academic publications are profiled through a number of exciting events at this year's RGS-IBG Annual International Conference.
Geo: Geography and Environment will sponsor an interactive plenary panel on Digital Data: Opening up the Weather Archive, convened by Georgina Endfield (The University of Liverpool), Lucy Veale (The University of Liverpool) and Sarah Davies (Aberystwyth University) on Wednesday 30 August. An associated exhibition featuring materials from the Society's Collections will be on display, and a Data Paper will be published in advance of Conference. All Geo papers are free to access online.
An author meets critics session will be held for Steve Hinchcliffe, Nick Bingham, John Allen and Simon Carter's RGS-IBG Book Series title Pathological lives: disease, space and biopolitics, also on Wednesday 30 August.
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Area will co-sponsor a panel session and workshop with the Race, Culture, and Equality Working Group on Decolonising institutional arrangements: insights from the arts, education, and policy, also on Thursday 31 August and convened by Margaret Byron (University of Leicester), James Esson (Loughborough University) Anja Kanngieser (University of Wollongong), Peter Kraftl (University of Birmingham), and Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham).
A series of articles that engage with the conference theme have been published in Transactions and Area. These are free to access until August 2018.
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