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The History of the Thermal baths- Part I. – Antiquity
The Beginnings It is possible to follow the developments made in science and technology over the millennia. One may usually find explanations for customs associated with human culture, including settlement. For instance, it is now generally thought that it was the shamans and witch doctors that persuaded the nomadic peoples to chose dwelling places close […]
It is possible to follow the developments made in science and technology over the millennia. One may usually find explanations for customs associated with human culture, including settlement. For instance, it is now generally thought that it was the shamans and witch doctors that persuaded the nomadic peoples to chose dwelling places close to running water and near springs.
This marked the beginning of the bathing cult of ancient times. Later, various religions drew an ever-closer connection between spiritual and physical cleansing. The bathing of the body became a part of the daily routine.
Ancient Indians used elaborate practices for personal hygiene with three daily baths and washing. These are recorded in the works called gruhya sutras which are in practice even today in some communities.
Bathing in Greek times
Some of the earliest descriptions of western bathing practices came from Greece. The Greeks began bathing regimens that formed the foundation for modern spa procedures. These Aegean people utilized small bathtubs, wash basins, and foot baths for personal cleanliness. The earliest such findings are the baths in the palace complex at Knossos, Crete, and the luxurious alabaster bathtubs excavated in Akrotiri, Santorini; both date from the mid-2nd millennium BC. They established public baths and showers within their gymnasium complexes for relaxation and personal hygiene. Greek mythology specified that certain natural springs or tidal pools were blessed by the gods to cure disease. Around these sacred pools, Greeks established bathing facilities for those desiring healing. Supplicants left offerings to the gods for healing at these sites and bathed themselves in hopes of a cure.
The Spartans developed a primitive steam bath. At Serangeum, an early Greek balneum (bathhouse, loosely translated), bathing chambers were cut into the hillside from which the hot springs issued. A series of niches cut into the rock above the chambers held bathers' clothing. One of the bathing chambers had a decorative mosaic floor depicting a driver and chariot pulled by four horses, a woman followed by two dogs, and a dolphin below. Thus the early Greeks used natural features, but expanded them and added their own amenities, such as decorations and shelves. During later Greek civilization, bathhouses were often built in conjunction with athletic fields.
Bathing in Roman times
The Romans emulated many of the Greeks' bathing practices, and surpassed them in the size of their baths. As in Greece, the Roman bath became a focal center for social and recreational activity. With the expansion of the Roman Empire, the idea of the public bath spread to all parts of the Mediterranean and into regions of Europe and North Africa. By constructing aqueducts, the Romans had enough water not only for domestic, agricultural, and industrial uses, but also for their leisurely pursuits. Aqueducts provided water that was later heated for use in the baths. Today, the extent of the Roman bath is revealed at ruins and in archaeological excavations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Bathing was one of the most common daily activities in Roman culture, and was practiced across a wide variety of social classes. Though many contemporary cultures see bathing as a very private activity conducted in the home, bathing in Rome was a communal activity. While the extremely wealthy could afford bathing facilities in their homes, most people bathed in the communal baths thermae. In some ways, these resembled modern-day spas.
Common or private bath?
The Romans raised bathing to a high art as they socialized in these communal baths. Communal baths were also available in temples such as The Imperial Fora. Courtship was conducted, as well as sealing business deals, as they built lavish baths on natural hot springs. Such was the importance of baths to Romans that a catalogue of buildings in Rome from 354 AD documented 952 baths of varying sizes in the city.
Although wealthy Romans might set up a bath in their town houses or in their country villas, heating a series of rooms or even a separate building especially for this purpose called amphiheaters, and soldiers might have a bathhouse provided at their fort (as at Chesters on Hadrian's Wall, or at Bearsden fort), they still often frequented the numerous public bathhouses in the cities and towns throughout the empire.
Small bathhouses, called balneum (plural balnea), might be privately owned, but they were public in the sense that they were open to the populace for a fee. Larger baths called thermae were owned by the state and often covered several city blocks. The largest of these, the Baths of Diocletian, could hold up to 3,000 bathers. Fees for both types of baths were quite reasonable, within the budget of most free Roman males.
The rooms of the Roman bath
These Roman baths varied from simple to exceedingly elaborate structures, and they varied in size, arrangement, and decoration. In taking a Roman bath, the bather induced sweating by gradually exposing himself to increasing temperatures. To accommodate this ritual, all Roman bathhouses contained a series of rooms which got progressively hotter. Most contained an apodyterium—a room just inside the entrance where the bather stored his clothes. Next, the bather progressed into the frigidarium (cold room) with its tank of cold water, the tepidarium (warm room), and finally the caldarium (hot room). The caldarium, heated by a brazier underneath the hollow floor, contained cold-water basins which the bather could use for cooling. After taking this series of sweat and/or immersion baths, the bather returned to the cooler tepidarium for a massage with oils and final scraping with metal implements. Some baths also contained a laconium (a dry, resting room) where the bather completed the process by resting and sweating.
The layout of Roman baths contained other architectural features of note. Because wealthy Romans brought slaves to attend to their bathing needs, the bathhouse usually had three entrances: one for men, one for women, and one for slaves. The preference of symmetry in Roman architecture usually meant a symmetrical facade, even though the women's area was usually smaller than the men's because of fewer numbers of patrons. Usually solid walls or placement on opposite sides of the building separated the men's and women's sections. Roman bathhouses often contained a courtyard, or Palaestra, which was an open-air garden used for exercise. In some cases the builders made the palestra an interior courtyard, and in other cases the builders placed the palestra in front of the bathhouse proper and incorporated it into the formal approach. Sometimes the palestra held a swimming pool. Most often a colonnade outlined the palestra's edges.
Republican bathhouses often had separate bathing facilities for women and men, but by the 1st century AD mixed bathing was common and is a practice frequently referred to in Martial and Juvenal, as well as in Pliny and Quintilian. However, gender separation might have been restored by Emperor Hadrian but there is evidence it wasn't. To many Roman moralists, baths illustrated how far the Rome of their own day had fallen into decline and so became a negative image; Cato the Elder publicly attacked Scipio Africanus for his use of the bathhouses.
Roman bathhouses offered amenities in addition to the bathing ritual. Ancillary spaces in the bathhouse proper housed food and perfume-selling booths, libraries, and reading rooms. Stages accommodated theatrical and musical performances. Adjacent stadia provided spaces for exercise and athletic competitions. Inside the bathhouses proper, marble mosaics tiled the elegant floors. The stuccoed walls frequently sported frescoes of trees, birds, and other pastoral images. Sky-blue paint, gold stars, and celestial imagery adorned interior domes. Statuary and fountains decorated the interior and exterior.
Not only in Rome…
The Romans also developed baths in their colonies, taking advantage of the natural hot springs occurring in Europe to construct baths at Aix and Vichy in France, Bath and Buxton in England, Aachen and Wiesbaden in Germany, Baden, Austria, and Aquincum, Hungary, among other locations. These baths became centers for recreational and social activities in Roman communities. Libraries, lecture halls, gymnasiums, and formal gardens became part of some bath complexes. In addition, the Romans used the hot thermal waters to relieve their suffering from rheumatism, arthritis, and overindulgence in food and drink.
Thus the Romans elevated bathing to a fine art, and their bathhouses physically reflected these advancements. The Roman bath, for instance, included a far more complex ritual than a simple immersion or sweating procedure. The various parts of the bathing ritual (undressing, bathing, sweating, receiving a massage and resting), required separate rooms which the Romans built to accommodate those functions. The segregation of the sexes and the additions of diversions not directly related to bathing also had a direct impact on the shape and form of bathhouses. The elaborate Roman bathing ritual and its resultant architecture served as precedents for later European and American bathing facilities. Formal garden spaces and opulent architectural arrangement equal to those of the Romans re-appeared in Europe by the end of the eighteenth century. Major American spas followed suit a century later.
While the baths were enjoyed by almost every Roman, there were those who criticized them. The water was not renewed often and the remains of oil, dirt or even excrement were kept warm, providing a milieu for bacteria. The emperor Marcus Aurelius complained about the dirtiness. Celsus, while commending its therapeutic virtues, warns not to go with a fresh wound, because of the risk of gangrene. And it was said that 'Wine, women, warmth, to life destruction give, But it is by wine, women, warmth that we live' The objections of the philosopher Seneca were instead about the associated noise that interrupted his work when he resided above a bath.
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Abia: Consultant Wants Aba South Council Boss To Obey Court Order over Revenue Collection
Managing Director of Chicotas Nigeria limited, Deacon Uchendu Aharaonye is not happy with the turn of events at the moment. His unhappiness stems from the fact that Aba South Local Government has disobeyed the Court Judgement order given in his favour over the Revenue Contract agreement his company entered into with the LGA in 2014.
The matter which lasted for four years at Abia State High Court presided over by Hon Justice Onuoha K Ogwe, Chief Judge of Abia State ruled in his favour, to the effect that Chicotas Nigeria limited has special performance to execute the contract agreement entered into within the year under review.
But sadly, Aba South Local Government under Hon Cherechi Nwogu and the Principal officers of the council and in flagrant disobedience of a valid court Order of Competent jurisdiction are behaving as if they are above the law.
Deacon Uchendu Ahuruonye is therefore calling on Hon Cherechi Nwogu led Aba South LGA to stop harassing his workers and allow him execute the contract entered into with his company since 2014 to the fullest, considering that the Court has also ruled in his favour over the protracted legal dispute.
Speaking to newsmen in an interview at Aba, MD of Chicotas Ltd, Deacon Ahuruonye said on January 1st, 2014 that his company was awarded a revenue contract to collect Revenue in Aba South LGA when Chief David Otumdi Kanu was the Chairman of the said Council.
He added that the agreement of the contract took effect on 1st January, 2014 for a period of 12 months, but regretted that on July 19th, 2014 when Chief Otumdi Kanu's tenure came to an end and Dr NCNC Okoli (Macro) was sworn in as Chairman of Aba South LGA, few months into execution of the signed contract and with the appointment of a new Transition Committee Chairman, Dr Okoli started causing problem for his workers.
He said he wrote a petition against him to the then Inspector General of Police which took him to Abuja where they arrested and detained him.
On release, he proceeded to court for redress in 2015 and Abia State High Court Holden at Umuahia Division gave ruling in his favour.
According to him, the judgement order was to the effect that Chicotas Ltd has power of specific performance of 2014 Revenue contract for 2020 in Aba South LGA. The ruling was presided by Hon Justice Onuoha K Ogwe, the Chief Judge of Abia State on 26th June,2019.
However, on 10th October, 2019, Chicotas Ltd was said to have served Aba South Local Government a copy of judgement order obtained from Abia State High Court of Justice presided by Hon Justice O. K Ogwe, the Chief Judge of Abia State.
Immediately, the then TC Chairman, Dr NCNC Okoli convened an emergency Finance, and General Purpose Committee, FG&PC meeting to discuss the judgement order and decided to obey the court order and in effect signed a memorandum of Understanding Mou with the Revenue Contractor to ensure that the Council obeys the said court order.
Unfortunately, this is not so in the instant case, as Hon Cherechi Nwogu led TC Chairman and the Principal officers of the Council are said not to be willing to obey the court order.
The embattled Revenue Contractor noted with dismay that Aba South LGA disobeyed the Court order with impunity through issuance of authority to other contractors to execute same contract awarded to him which is yet to expire and with constant harassment and beating up of his workers in the field.
He further told newsmen that his life is now in danger as some officers of the Council are threatening his life, boasting that nothing will happen because they are in government, adding that he is now in a hapless situation as the bank he borrowed money to execute the contract is on his neck.
The embattled MD of Chicotas wondered why Abia South LGA under Hon Chief Cherechi Nwogu should disobey order of the court of competent jurisdiction and allow his company execute the contract agreement to the fullest.
He added that on 21st November,2019, Aba South LGA, during the tenure of Dr NCNC Okoli gave his company a go ahead orders to exhaust the contract agreement in line with the court verdict through a Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) duly signed.
MD of Chicotas Nigeria limited also wondered why Zone 9 Police Command should release the three suspects arrested without Bond and why the "POS Machines" citing Covid19 as reason why they were released.
As a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic party in the state, Deacon Aharaonye wondered why the ruling party in Abia, he invested so heavily should be treating (him) their fellow party member in this manner, while insisting that well-meaning Abians should call the Aba South Local Government Chairman, Cherechi Nwogu to order to obey the Court Judgement order, and allow him execute the contract awarded his company which ends in 2020 fiscal year.
When contacted through his phone line, the Transition Committee Chairman of Aba South Local Government, Chief Cherechi Nwogu said that the matter is before the court and cannot speak on the matter, but would later refer Journalists to his Lawyer who never spoke at the time of filling this report.
Meanwhile, Dr NCNC Okoli predecessor in a telephone interview admitted that the council signed the said agreement with the contractor upon receipt of the court judgement, wondering why his successor should disobey the Order of a court of competent jurisdiction. He added that this is not fair to the man.
Speaking to Journalists in an interview, counsel to the Revenue Contractor, Barr O. C Odionye punctured the claims of the TC Chairman that the matter is before the court, saying that the court is yet to allow the Aba South LGA file a motion of Appeal.
He revealed that the court dismissed the stay of execution Order filed by the Respondents because they did not file within the specific time they ought to have done so.
He disclosed that the Chairman of the council is frustrating his client to ensure his tenure expires without executing the order.
Meanwhile, Aba Urban Youth Movement (AUYM) has said the disobedience to court Order by Aba South LGA depicts Political rascality, administrative recklessness, civic irresponsibility and legal ignorance at its apogee.
In a statement signed by Raymond Ahuchogu and Peter Okere on behalf of the group which was made available to newsmen, Aba Urban Youth Movement said that "nobody is above the law", noting that disobedience to court Order amounts to contempt of court which attracts committal to prison.
The group further said that "Aba South LGA can no longer revoke the 2014 Revenue Contract agreement between her and Chicotas Nigeria limited because it has come under Judiciary and so beyond the powers of Aba South LGA.
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Top Ten Alcoholic Drinks | Which Mostly Use In Party
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Liquor overdose is the same old thing. The beverages we typically take out have as much as 8-40 percent most extreme liquor. It is hard to discover in excess of 40 percent in bars on the grounds that the higher the ABV the more prominent your odds of dispensing with it. Yet at the same time, barely any men where ABV can show up are 96 percent self-destructive. So in this article, we describe the top ten alcoholic drinks.
Drinking was increasingly visiting as the number of positive outcomes expanded and drinking gauges turn out to be progressively good. The more an understudy imagine that his companions were drinking, the increasingly more of the time he drank.
1. Beer
The beer is the most mainstream mix beverage in adolescents and youths. It's utilizing to forestall infections of the heart including coronary illness, and circulatory framework, solidifying of the corridors", cardiovascular failure and stroke. It is additionally using to lessen the opportunity of death from respiratory failure and another heart condition call ischemic left ventricular brokenness.
Lager is additionally using to forestall diminish intuition aptitudes in adulthood, Alzheimer's sickness, feeble bones, gallstones, type 2 diabetes, coronary illness in individuals with type 2 diabetes, kidney stones, prostate malignancy, disease Breast, different kinds of malignancy and Helicobacter pylori contamination H. Pylori is a microorganism it's through can be ulcers. Be that as it may, a few people use lager to push craving and assimilation. In this category, we describe the best alcoholic drinks which are under the bear.
This generally perceived and broadly accessible lager brand is without a doubt the "ruler of good occasions." Manufactured by United Breweries Group, driven by the scandalous Vijay Mallya, this is a simple to-convey brew. In any case, it's flavor is severe for taste buds which remain agreeably exceptional on the sense of taste. A basic malt sweetness at that point supplements this.
The reviving light taste is presumably the motivation behind why Kingfisher is generally adored among lager aficionados and leads the bundle notwithstanding a few able contenders. The brew falls well alone, yet when joining with salt peanuts, it is a blend made in paradise and the best alcoholic drinks.
Tuborg is a mature ale lager out of sight. Setting it up in malt ale brings about its known smooth and new flavor with the smell of blossoms. Since right now and new beverage has a moderate sharpness in the delayed flavor impression. Tuborg is the most famous alcoholic drinks brand.
It has a remarkable flavor when ingests with light suppers, for example, plates of mixed greens and zesty Asian dishes and is perfect for any event, be it a supper, show or wherever with your friends and family. In India, Tuborg is position number 2 among all brands and number 1 for worldwide brands.
This is not quite the same as different lagers, it's brew in standard tanks for a progressively extraordinary taste and non-abrasiveness. One of the most globally perceived brews, Heineken comes legitimately from Holland and arrives at your heart. It is somewhat more grounded than different mass-deliver ale drinks and most likely somewhat superior to other people. Attempt this lager for yourself and you will see that this brew is more delicious. Since while lagers are by and largely fermented for a fortnight, Heineken blends its lagers for double the time, nearly 30 days, bringing about a full-tasting brew. However, it's a popular alcoholic drinks.
Bira 91
Move around customary brews, Bira 91 from Bangalore is another brand in the lager hinder that assumes control over the market by storm. How is Bira separate from others In a couple of years, there have been numerous adjustments in the brew and specialty lager is one of them. Not at all like a mass-created lager, make brewers have set predominant quality and practical development. Bira 91 is the most popular alcoholic drinks brand in our country.
Since it's constructing a various lager culture on the planet and this is the place Bira comes in. Be that as it may, it's India is a developing business sector for a lager in light of the fact that Bira has customize its entrance flawlessly. Given the Indians, Bira tastes low in sharpness with a dash of zesty citrus and a delicate completion.
Haywards 5000
Haywards 5000 is the most top-selling brew brand in India since it's in excess of 10 million units sold every year. The organization starting its deal in 1983. The lager is making with excellent malt and is generally known for its mellow yet well solid flavor. With a liquor level of over 7%, brew extinguishes the unbelievably high thirst of Indian clients. This is a popular and strongest alcoholic drinks.
1. Regal Challenge
The trademark of Royal Challenge Brewed Stronger Brew Better unmistakably expresses that your lager is ferment for longer than the others, which gives it an additional flavor. Illustrious Challenge is renewing in the north, for the most part in Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh. This delicate brew has a fresh taste and an energetic flavor. Arrange with the best grain of six malts, Royal Challenge with prevalent taste inclinations.
2. Bacardi 151 with 75.5 Percent Alcohol
This is the most celebrated brand. Right now, content as high as 75.5% ABV, the 151 container accompanies a hardened steel fire silencer/fire trap that ensures its strength.
3. Vodka With 80 Percent Alcohol
Vodka began in the districts of Eastern Europe, which is Russia and Poland is a lackluster and scentless beverage that is normally producing using potatoes or grains. It contains 35% half liquor by volume and is generally devourer "clear" or alone. Vodka breathes life into the gatherings and, in this way, any gathering is truly inadequate without Vodka Shots and Vodka Cocktails second to none.
It is an enjoyment for mixologists and a most loved segment of numerous mixed drinks. A few brands in India produce vodka, consequently, this is their curated manual for the best vodka marks in India. Which incorporates IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Liquor) and imported brands right now accessible in the market alongside their costs, forms fabricating, fixings.
4. Rum With 40 Percent Alcohol
The rum production has been very extensive, especially in recent years, says Kenneth McCoy of the House of Rum in Manhattan. According to a report by Nielsen Data, the category of ultra-premium rum is already showing a growth of approximately 10 percent, and McCoy says he believes that rum "will be the next great spirit, following the path So take some of these bottles and see for yourself why the rum is ready to become the next liquor that attracts sips from around the world. Another option that you can try is raki.
5. Tequila
Tequila is a refined drink built-up from the agave plant. Liquor can only be authorising in select areas of Mexico. Today, it is one of the most popular spirits in the world, although it consumes most frequently in Mexico and the USA. UU. While tequila is an important part of margaritas and tequila shots are very famous, there are several other cocktail methods in which it can be mixed.
6. Royal Challenge
The RoyalChallenge mixture of Scottish and Indian malts became the first whiskey in the country to cross the sales mark of 1 million boxes in a year; in With a rustic granulated flavor, this combines well with some good kebabs.
7. Royal Stag
Royal Stag is available in many countries around the world in various sizes of packaging. This is a mixture of grain spirits and imported Scottish malts. It is commonly available in 1 L, 750 ml, 375 ml, and 180 ml bottles and also in 90 ml and 60 ml bottles. However, It's producing several distilleries of the company and the bottler.
8. Officer's Choice
Officer's Choice Blue is a premium variant of the Officer's Choice brand. It's making from a fine mixture of Scottish malts and select Indian grain spirits. An elegant and well-formed package gives it a premium and Scottish look. It has earned the distinction of being the first brand in the alcove industry to introduce innovative Twist-Lock and Tear-Off caps.
9. Mc Dowell's No1
We know McDowell's No.1 as the Celebration Rum. This is the production under the United Spirits Limiting of India. McDowell's No.1 is the world's top 3 selling rum brand. However, it's overtaking Old Monk as the largest selling rum of India. However, McDowell's No.1 is the biggest-selling umbrella spirit brand of the world.
10. White Russian
A White Russian is a very famous cocktail. That is producing with vodka, coffee liqueur and cream serve with ice in an Old Fashioned glass. But in these techniques often milk or half and half will be use as an alternative to the cream. The white Russian saw an increase in popularity after the 1998 release of the movie The Big Lebowski.
Risky alcohol consumption among young people is becoming a key public health priority due to its important education and health consequences. Among those between 15 and 29 years old, alcohol represents more than 10% of the general burden of disease and injury. In addition to morbidity and mortality, alcohol has a significant effect on student academic performance and antisocial behavior. However, a review of cohort studies shows that increased consumption in late adolescence continues until adulthood.
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i want to replce the pvc window cills in the living room along with the pvc strip that goes all the way round, the kids seem to like hitting the pvc with there toy's and the pvc has holes in it but i can find a company that i can buy the pvc parts i need from, can anyone help.
Google "upvc boards" and pick a company in your area.
Wicks stock a range of window parts as do our local builders merchants, why not try your local builders merchant.
Wicks and my local builders merchants sell plastic window mouldings, try your local builders merchants.
andyoh2 wrote: i want to replce the pvc window cills in the living room along with the pvc strip that goes all the way round, the kids seem to like hitting the pvc with there toy's and the pvc has holes in it but i can find a company that i can buy the pvc parts i need from, can anyone help.
Probably best with a place like eurocell building plastics... google for your local one.


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MN: Milan very close to being able to announce double renewal – final details being resolved
By Oliver Fisher - 28 January 2021, 21:00
After a saga which feels as though it has dragged on for months now, MilanNews report that the renewals of Gianluigi Donnarumma and Hakan Calhanoglu are almost done.
The source claims that negotiations over new deals for the duo have entered the final phase, and the desire of all parties to continue together has been there since the start and throughout the most delicate parts of the negotiation.
Calhanoglu's situation was the most difficult one but the playmaker's desire to stay with the Rossoneri will prove to be decisive in the end, while there were never any doubts that Donnarumma wants to remain and that is why Milan have always shown a certain calmness.
There are no signatures yet, but it is now evident that the agreement is closer and closer and the parties want to close as soon as possible having worked for a long time on these renewals.
Despite an expiring contract, both Donnarumma and Calhanoglu have so far had a superb season, demonstrating an incredible professionalism and dedication to the cause.
Talks of this kind cannot be sorted in a few weeks, which is why Maldini and Massara have been busy for months waiting for the white smoke. The final details are being filed and any distance is easily bridged.
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Hey guys, D2Junkie from Planet Descent here. I know I'm a little late to the party - I'm an active musician and took about a year away from the PD forums to focus on recording and promoting my debut rock album. To the point, I completely missed the release of Talon, and upon returning, I took immediate interest, downloaded the demo, and subsequently bought the game.
Reviving quite an old thread, I gave my thoughts about the game, and so far it's started some fresh discussion between a few PD old-timers. Truth is, there is serious potential for this game, and Richards weighed in on the situation by saying it's been tough to market this game.
I want to start by saying it won't be hard finding Descent fans online. Pretty much every major gaming news outlet has had something to say recently about it's unique gameplay, and total conversions and 6DOF mods are frequently reported. All told - Descent is nearly as fondly remembered as Doom, but Doom comes up in conversations more frequently only because it's the granddaddy of the FPS - which is seemingly all that anyone plays these days. 6DOF has all but been lost in gaming today - which I would say results from the general quality of the genre's resurrection attempts. For a long time, Forsaken was really the only one worth playing, and it's still no Descent. Talon is the first game I've played in a long time that absolutely nails the 6DOF controls and concepts without aping the conventions of Descent.
But it's hard to communicate that. To the average gamer, Talon will look like yet another indie Descent-clone; a gameplay relic destined to die in obscurity along with the hopes and dreams of all who had longed for an admittedly unnecessary Descent 4 (let's be honest, all we really wanted was more D1/D2 with next-gen graphics at the time). I refuse to let that happen: Talon is the first game that's gotten me this excited about 6DOF since the time I found Descent 2 in a dollar bin at GameStop as a child. So I'm asking the Talon team and this small community to really sell this thing; to get out there and make Talon successful first for the sake of Refractory Studios and second for the sake of the still-alive-and-kicking 6DOF community.
I don't come without ideas. In fact, PD's Scyphi had his own that I would like to share: PC gamers love content and even more so creating content. If there are map-making and modding tools, package them with the game! You sell a multiplayer game with 5 maps, and you might sell a few copies. You sell a multiplayer game with 5 maps and the tools necessary to make more, and you might bring many more on-board. This could be the easiest way to convince gamers that Talon is worth the asking price - they can be an active part of its development.
Secondly, and this is maybe a bit ambitious - arcade-style singleplayer/co-op. I'm not an FPS guy, but I think Halo: Reach absolutely killed it with it's arcade "Firefight" mode, where strategically differing maps had waves of progressively stronger, well-armed enemies pouring in over time, and with points being awarded for kills. I honestly can't tell you what the campaign was like because I just had entirely too much fun playing Firefight to even care about it. I think a mode like this could be hugely entertaining and easily implemented on a map like Frontier - especially with a friend tagging along. Descent 1 and 2 were simple - every objective was the same, it's just that the missions got more challenging as they went. Think of it as Descent in microcosm: you simply learn to survive and adapt (and score!) more quickly. There are other variations of this type of gameplay that could make things more interesting.
Thirdly, there's marketing. Simply put, people need to know about Talon. Heck, I didn't until a couple of days ago, and here I am shamelessly begging people to spread the word. I don't know anything about marketing, but there absolutely MUST be a campaign to get the word out. Fifteen bucks is cheap for the only game in years that really gets the formula right for a genre that most people forgot about only because no one actually got the formula right. Now it's just a matter of convincing people it's worth it.
So tl;dr: Talon is great, needs players, has some potential for bringing in new players. Who's with me?
The problem is that Scott (the developer) hasn't been around for a while, due to, I believe, having a child. As a result, there is no-one to drive marketting, as no-one else feels comfortable doing so.


Christian Boarding Schools In New Castle, Delaware – boarding schools with therapy and boarding schools.
The schools in our directory are like low cost residential treatment centers that offer therapy to troubled teens in New Castle, Delaware. They are designed for teens struggling with issues such as anger, low self-esteem, risky or defiant behavior, trauma, and family or school troubles.
Christian boarding schools near New Castle, Delaware will provide your teenager with effective therapy in a safe and loving environment. They help teens find restoration and healing in their life and in their relationships. Although located near New Castle, Delaware, the boarding schools listed here are worth considering due to their lower cost and exceptional success with teenagers who are struggling.
The boarding schools listed here have assisted thousands of families to find healing and hope again when their boy or girl has gotten off track. They pride excellent therapy that upholds families and family values. Most Christian Boarding Schools offer masterful counseling for students, families and groups. They help teens work through their personal issues. In addition, they make use of nontraditional therapies and offer spiritual guidance.
These schools believe in the power of relationships to touch lives. With that in mind, they have a number of mentors who live in the dorms with the teens and spend the days with them, participating in chores or enjoying recreation together. It is during these commonplace moments that a great deal of effective input occurs. Few typical therapeutic boarding schools have such a powerful asset as these dedicated young men and women mentors.
Beyond the therapy and the relational environment on the campus, the schools listed here commit to giving teens a solid education as well. Throughout their stay in residential treatment, teens pursue credits in core subjects, concentrating on mastery of essential material and skills to fill in any academic gaps and prepare them well for their future.
All of these boarding schools operate a fully-equipped school, so that troubled teens receive a normal high school experience during their treatment. Educational credits for those who leave before high school graduation can be transferred, for an easier transition back to their former school in New Castle, Delaware.
The therapy in these school focuses on restoring the family and mirror the high moral and character values of the families they serve. Faith forms the cornerstone for everything they do, from the therapy to the fun and physical components of their daily program. They usually provide seminars to parents during family retreat weekends, in which parents also have time and encouragement to build the relationship with their teen. While the teen receives the majority of the direct care, entire families experience transformation.
We encourage you to look beyond New Castle, Delaware, for help for your teenager. Few therapeutic boarding schools go so far to treat teenagers as a whole and to care for the entire family.
Call us today to learn how families like yours, from New Castle, Delaware, and all over the country, are finding the care and help need from the therapeutic schools listed in this directory.
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APD offers reward in unsolved anti-gay assault in Midtown
By Max Blau	Tuesday January 6, 2015 09:45 am EST
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Atlanta Police want help finding a person who allegedly assaulted a gay man walking in Midtown last year.
On March 7, 2014, a male suspect reportedly wearing a red shirt and Atlanta Braves hat approached James Reed, yelled anti-gay slurs, and punched him in the back of his head near the intersection of 11th and Juniper streets. Reed, a gay male who was walking with his partner, was knocked into the street as traffic approached.
Following the incident, which was filmed on a Midtown Blue video surveillance camera, the suspect got into a silver BMW and fled the scene. Reed's partner, Better Georgia Executive Director Bryan Long, recently issued a statement questioning why the case remained unsolved nearly 10 months after the assault happened.
"I firmly believe that the criminal justice system can and should do more to resolve this case," Long said in the statement. "I have no doubt that the driver of the car knows the name of his passenger and can help the police bring this case to a close and achieve justice for me and my partner."
Crime Stoppers has offered an up-to $2,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and indictment. Tips can be submitted anonymously at 404-577-TIPS or at crimestoppersatlanta.org.
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Discuss the details of the retrofit and reroofing market, its size, and the different roofing types.
Differentiate between the advantages and risks of retrofit and reroofing, and pinpoint key design considerations for these projects.
Identify the energy-generating and saving options available with metal roofing projects.
Describe best-practice insights for metal wall retrofits.
Review helpful metal roofing and cladding renovations.
Long-lasting and durable with a great aesthetic, metal roof and cladding systems are a popular choice for today's commercial and industrial buildings. While these products are in demand for new building projects, the lion's share of activity is taking place in the retrofit market.
A perforated and corrugated zinc retrofit envelope helped transform an industrial, turn-of-the-century building—once a bottle-storage facility for an adjacent brewery—into a prime example of innovative sustainable, adaptive reuse at 355 11th Street in San Francisco.
Let's start with some terminology: What is the difference between retrofiting a roof and reroofing a roof?
Retrofitting is the installation of new roofing materials over existing roofing materials without removal of the original material.
Reroofing is the complete removal of the existing roofing materials and the installation of new roofing materials over a clean substrate of furring, decking, or purlins.
The applicable market consists of the residential sector and the commercial/industrial market. Residential buildings are typically high-slope, nonstructural roofing materials applied on a deck of furring or plywood. The commercial/industrial market is typically low slope with differing combinations of structural decking, insulation, and membranes or structural metal panels applied over open framing. Although the materials may look similar, the difference can be significant in several different ways (i.e., material type, material thickness, finish, structural spanning ability, and resistance to water intrusion).
When it comes to market size, Chuck Howard, PE, president, Metal Roof Consultants, Cary, North Carolina, writes in the RCI magazine article, "Stretching your Retrofit Dollars with Metal Retrofit," replacement and repair account for approximately 75 percent of all roofing work, with about 30 billion square feet of roofs requiring major repairs every year, according to industry sources.
Photo courtesy of Drexel Metals, Inc.
Bringing new life to the Ocean City boardwalk is a bright-blue metal roof retrofit for the Surf Mall in Ocean City, New Jersey.
Furthermore, a national manufacturer of retrofit framing systems has identified one portion of the retrofit market—metal over metal—to be about 24 billion square feet of metal roofs ranging from 27 to 47 years old.
Acknowledging the "very healthy market" for roofing retrofits, Mark Sullivan, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB, partner, Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design, Princeton, New Jersey, says this is especially true for buildings with historic status or with a desirable aesthetic that cannot be preserved without the continued use of metal roofs.
In comparing retrofits and reroofing projects, each offers its own advantages and disadvantages.
For starters, retrofits enable the original roof to remain in place to both protect the building interior during the installation and allow building operations to continue. This strategy is less expensive, less invasive, and can be typically done at any time of the year.
Workers are afforded a safer work surface since they are walking on the old roofing, as compared to the open framing members like purlins and joists that workers must deal with when installing a new roof, explains Vincent E. Sagan, PE, senior staff engineer, Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA), Cleveland. Furthermore, demolition waste and the need for a large laydown area for temporary storage of roofing materials is avoided.
"Retrofit takes full advantage of the existing insulation with the option of easily adding more insulation over an existing roof," he adds.
Even uninsulated roofs still deliver an increased energy efficiency if the cavity between the old roof and bottom of the new metal roof is ventilated. In particular, above-sheathing ventilation (ASV) is recommended, and according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory research, it decreases heat gain through the roof assembly by as much as 30 percent in the summer and delivers a similar heat loss reduction in the winter. With the incorporation of a cool surface, this heat gain reduction can jump to as high as 45 percent.
Another advantage with retrofits is that the through-fastened metal roof system diaphragm remains in place, thereby maintaining the original structural diaphragm strength used to design the original structure.
Along these lines, building owners can also take advantage of retrofit systems to correct any existing roof geometry that may be causing problems with roof drainage.
"Spending the money to remove the existing material to get to a good, sound substrate for the new installation [reroofing] might be the wiser choice in the long run," Feth adds.
With reroofing, the old metal roof can be recycled, design defects can be remedied, damaged insulation can be replaced, or new, higher R-value insulation can be added.
Photos courtesy of Drexel Metals, Inc.
By tearing off the existing metal panels and salvaging the existing insulation and metal zee purlins for this roofing retrofit project at East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, the project team recycled 575,000 pounds of steel from the existing roof panels and saved $60,000 in salvage cost.
On average, older flat and sloped roofs only offer insulation values of R-6 and R-10, which is generally far below most locally adopted energy codes. In contrast, most building codes have minimum R-values of R-19 for metal roofing per ASHRAE 90.1 and the Federal Model Energy Code recommendations.
With regards to meeting current wind and code requirements, there is much easier access to the existing structure if modifications need to be made.
In many cases, the materials used for the reroofing/recover installation are lightweight, so structural modifications are frequently kept to a minimum or not needed at all to support the new roof.
The largest potential problem with reroofing, however, is the reality that when the old roof is removed, the building is susceptible to water intrusion until the new roofing materials are installed. Minimizing this risk can substantially slow the process of reroofing since only small areas can be done at one time.
Other issues can include larger laydown area, debris removal, and difficulty with equipment access.


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I sought out Donna to assist with the changing landscape of my life. My time working with Donna has been illuminating and very positive. She has gently encouraged me to try new things, i.e., walking. As my life is changing, finding that balance of what is tried and true, v.s. incorperating something new has been the key for me. I have benefited from her thought-provoking questions and ability to allow me to view a situation differently. Our time is productive, yet relaxed, and full of laughter.


This is Part 3 of a series of entries about my use of Gamification in my course over the past school year. I'll be providing some philosophy, my experience, and my changes for the future. I'd appreciate any feedback, and would be happy to answer any further questions you may have.
Another common element found in video games is the use of avatars. In the early days, you always played a pre-selected character. Mario, Sonic, Samus, Link, Donkey Kong, all the of these pre-existing characters were you as you played through the game. As games got more complex, players started to be given choices in who they would select. Pokemon now offers multiple options, Mario-Kart grants more and more characters, and even Angry Birds lets you choose which "side" of the force you'll adopt in their second Star Wars game. Of course, Avatars have existed in non-mainstream games for years as well. Most all Dungeons and Dragons style games have the players begin by selected the type of character they will be, and have them select abilities based on a limited amount of "experience". For example, a player could be balanced all around while excelling in nothing. They could be super fast, but weak on strength in combat. They could have excellent magic abilities but poor defense to physical attacks. These games became highly customizable.
While I really like the concept of avatars, I've found them difficult to work in the Gamification classroom. I mean, I can easily have students design a character they will be be in the physical sense, or perhaps choose an image of themselves for use in the 3D Game Lab...but when it comes to school, the abilities are already pre-decided. A student can't say "I want to have excellent reading skills but be weak in writing" or "I want to give myself lots of discussion powers but lack focus on work independently". The reason is simple: those things have already been determined the monent the student walks in the door. Students are naturally better at some things and weaker than others. Sadly, they don't have the ability to rearrange these talents on a whim; we have to work with and around them. (Actually, as I write this, I wonder if it might not be a bad idea to have students create a chart in which they map out their existing skills. I would be willing to bet they'd be pretty honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and it may help me out as a teacher. Thanks stream-of-consciousness blog.) Anyway, Avatars are not something I've really used in the past because they seemed fake, especially for a class of high school seniors. They were an extra add-on without any real merit. My job, rather, was to create experiences that allowed students of any existing skill set to succeed, something I'll talk about later when I discuss course design.
TimeWanderer: Complete all assignments as written.
Since my overall narrative is based on TimeTravel, the different Tiers and ranks are all built around this theme. You'll notice that there's some choice within the middle tiers, and the final level allows the students to take full direction of their own learning. To acquire 8 badges by the fourth quarter will be difficult. Many students will not make it to TimeLord or even Tier 3 before the year ends. That's ok though. This is just one more way to promote self-efficacy, self-regulation, and self-motivation while also making the game a bit fun. (On a side note, I have to credit Phillip Vinogradov and Pokemon for the inspiration behind this tiered system).
So Avatars, though not used much by me in the past, and slightly difficult to use in the same way video games do, still can be a powerful tool to integrate badges, XP, personalization, and choice into the Game system. Nearly every LMS offers students a way to add their own image, and with a system like this, the Avatar can be more than just a picture, but a full blown rank as well. Tomorrow, I'll talk a bit about narrative and it's importance in a Gamified class.


Paul Herzog has been bringing Katoomba-grown fruit to the Co-op for over a decade, making him one of our original suppliers of local produce. It all began over thirty years ago when Paul bought his bush block, built himself a home, a greenhouse and sheds and began his gardening adventure by planting his first fruit trees.
In March the garden can still be abundant with the last of the summer crops. All too soon though it's time to take stock and tidy up spent crops, using the greens in compost or digging them into the garden. With all the rain and bursts of heat it's also a great time to attack those weeds.
After his annual break from producing food for the Co-op, Colin Gliddon returns every spring with his bountiful rhubarb bunches. Colin is one of our main suppliers of local rhubarb, and also brings in parsley, squash, zucchini and corn. We decided to visit his Katoomba garden after its winter hiatus to see what he can produce over the subsequent spring and summer seasons.
For many gardeners, having chooks is a great experience and complements their food garden.
Tania, Nick and Jezmina have only been in the Mountains for a few years and are now getting their roots in deep with a cosy cottage and a glorious productive garden. I visited them to learn all about how they got started with their long-desired chook run and what they did to prepare for their 'girls'.
The time has finally come to put in your frost-tender seedlings.The soil has warmed up and despite the recent snow, the icy weather has hopefully come to an end. Late October to mid-November are considered ideal times to avoid the late frosts, however it's been a month of extremes and there are never any guarantees with our unpredictable Blue Mountains weather!
September and October are the most important months in the garden, according to gardener and author of Your Sustainable Garden, Robin Johnson. This book is available to purchase at the Co-op, and you may remember we visited his garden for a newsletter a few years ago.
After being inspired by the talk and workshop of a "Tale of two Steve's" (hosted by Permaculture Blue Mountains and BMFC) I began to think about what goes on in the winter garden? At the talk, Steve Alton whose garden is in Katoomba, shared with us information about the weather and water issues that we get faced with in the mountains. He reminded us that water is essential for the life of a plant and that winter is our driest season. He also showed us a graph of the winds we get living in the mountains, showing that in every month we could get hit with 40km winds. August is the notorious windy month, so what are his tips for the gardens survival?
A great find on what to plant through the seasons was recommended by keen gardener and one of the Co-op staff, Louisa. It's a website that can send you email reminders on what to plant seasonally in your region and it is called Gardenate.


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Brigates Focuses on Security Market
December 30, 2015 By Vladimir Koifman Leave a Comment
Brigates appears to abandon all its markets, but surveillance and security, as its recent product list suggests:
ZTE Dual Camera Smartphone
ZTE Mobile World Magazine features Axon dual camera smartphone, starting page 16:
AXON has a 13-megapixel camera on the back and a secondary 2-megapixel camera that sits above it to help capture 3D depth for a refocusable photo. To get a better idea of the story behind the challenging work, Mobile World talked with two engineers from ZTE's camera lab.
Interviewee: Zhu Yufei, responsible for the North American camera team and camera solution planning
Why did you decide to introduce a dual lens camera into AXON? How will the smartphone camera develop in the future?
Dual-lens camera technology is prospective. Photos taken by a single-lens camera are some kind of object simulation, while photos taken by a dual lens camera are more vivid because dual lens cameras capture more information. ...In terms of intelligence, we improve image stabilization and low-light photography through better algorithms and relevant technologies on AXON.
Are there any differences between ZTE's dual-lens camera and other similar products?
The distance between the two lenses of AXON is wider. AXON outperforms other dual-lens smartphones in the large aperture effect, depth calculation accuracy, and distance of objects from the camera.
What are the trends for future smartphone cameras?
Both single-lens cameras and dual-lens cameras will coexist. Single-lens cameras will dominate in the near future, and dual lens cameras will continue to improve.
Interviewee: Xiao Longan, responsible for the camera software development
What are the tough nuts to crack in introducing the dual-lens camera to AXON? How did you overcome these difficulties?
...No smartphone project at ZTE has required so many human resources on the R&D of the camera app, and no camera app has received so much attention.
Which camera feature do you like most?
Background blur and refocus...
Can you explain more about how the refocus feature works?
The dual-lens camera captures and adds depth data to each object in the image. These data allows you to refocus a picture and add a blur effect to select parts of the image.
Camera Module Report Forecasts Dual Camera Adoption
Korea-based KB Securities analysts come up with a report on camera module market. Few quotes, in a somewhat broken Google translation:
"The camera module shipment growth to 2019 is expected to reach four times the mobile device shipment growth...
The premium smartphone dual (Dual) and 3D, pixels in the low-end phones and increased competition expected with OIS...
Dual Camera module adopted is because it is expected to accelerate in 2016 from this...
Front high pixel camera module, dual camera module, OIS rate mounted on the side as expected the speedy pace..."
Mobile devices and camera module shipment forecast
Pixel mobile camera modules share outlook
Sigma 20mm f1.4 ART review – a top quality ultra-wide prime lens!
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The Sigma 20mm f1.4 DG HSM Art is an ultra-wide-angle prime lens for Canon, Nikon and Sigma DSLRs. It's the widest prime lens in Sigma's highly acclaimed Art series which includes 50mm, 35mm, and 24mm f1.4 models. All the Art lenses to date have performed well in our tests, so to see if the 20mm would continue this run, Thomas compared it against the Nikon 20mm f1.8 and for good measure, Tamron's 15-30mm f2.8 zoom. See which delivers the best ultra-wide results in his Sigma 20mm f1.4 Art review!
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Gpixel Expands its Lineup
Changchun, China-based Gpixel has expanded its image sensor portfolio, now offering 9 standard products for machine vision and industrial applications:
Sony Device Group Reorgs into Three Divisions
Nikkei reports that Sony announces a structural reform and personnel changes that will take effect on Jan 1, 2015 (probably a typo, should be 2016). Sony Device Solution Business Group will be split in 3 organizations: "Automotive Division," "Module Division" and "Product Development Division."
Nikkei sees several reasons for the re-org:
The reorg will strengthen Sony image sensor business.
Sony can better address the fast growing automotive image sensor market where On Semi currently has the largest share.
By offering modules rather than image sensors, it becomes possible to better support customers that do not have capabilities to use tune and adapt image quality.
The other reasons for shifting focus from image sensors to camera modules might be an attempt to replicate Sharp camera module success, and an intention to capture a larger chunk of the imaging foodchain.
ST Automotive Imaging Solutions
ST publishes a promotional video on its automotive image sensors and image processors solutions:
Update: Upon a closer look, VG6640 image sensor and STV0991 image processor appear to be the new, previously unannounced devices.
SystemPlus Publishes Fujitsu Iris Recognition Module Teardown
SystemPlus publishes reverse engineering of Fujitsu Iris Authentication Module IR Camera Module & IR LED. The module has been extracted from Fujitsu Arrows NX F-04G smartphone that uses iris scan as the next biometric login technology. Compared to fingerprint sensors, Fujitsu claims that the solution features a faster, safer and more secure authentication. It is also a cost effective solution due to the reuse of standard CIS and LED components. OSRAM is said to be the IR LED manufacturer and has designed this 810nm LED exclusively for this iris scan application (this sounds somewhat contradictory to the re-use statement).
Grand View on LIDAR Market
GlobeNewsWire: Grand View Research estimates the global LiDAR market size at over $260M in 2014. The market is expected to grow to $944.3M by 2022 driven by improved automated processing ability in data processing and image resolution capabilities.
Olympus Visible + IR Stacked Sensor
Nikkei publishes an article on Olympus IEDM 2015 presentation on stacked visible and IR sensor. While it mostly re-iterated the previously published data, some info is new:
"The laminated image sensor is made by combining (1) an image sensor equipped with an RGB color filter for visible light (top layer) and (2) a near-infrared image sensor (bottom layer). Each layer functions as an independent sensor and independently outputs video signals.
The visible-light image sensor is a backside-illuminated type, and its light-receiving layer (made of semiconductor) is as thin as 3μm. Each pixel measures 3.8 x 3.8μm, and the number of pixels is 4,224 x 240."
CBS Interviews Graham Townsend, Head of Apple Camera Team
CBS publishes an interview with Apple management team, that includes a part about Apple camera team and its head Graham Townsend:
One of the most complex engineering challenges at Apple involves the iPhone camera, the most used feature of any Apple product. That's the entire camera you're looking at in my hand.
Graham Townsend: There's over 200 separate individual parts in this-- in that one module there.
Graham Townsend is in charge of a team of 800 engineers and other specialists dedicated solely to the camera. He showed us a micro suspension system that steadies the camera when your hand shakes.
Graham Townsend: This whole sus-- autofocus motor here is suspended on four wires. And you'll see them coming in. And here we are. Four-- These are 40-micron wires, less than half a human hair's width. And that holds that whole suspension and moves it in X and Y. So that allows us to stabilize for the hand shake.
In the camera lab, engineers calibrate the camera to perform in any type of lighting.
Graham Townsend: Go to bright bright noon. And there you go. Sunset now. There you go. So, there's very different types of quality of lighting, from a morning, bright sunshine, for instance, the noonday light. And then finally maybe--
CBS: Sunset, dinner--
Graham Townsend: We can simulate all those here. Believe it or not, to capture one image, 24 billion operations go on.
CBS: Twenty-four billion operations going on--
Graham Townsend: Just for one picture--
Image Sensors in 13 min
Filmmaker IQ publishes a short video lecture on image sensors. While not perfectly accurate in some parts, it's amazing how much info one can squeeze in a 13 min video:
Yole Interviews Heimann Sensor CEO
Yole publishes an interview with a Heimann Sensor CEO Joerg Schieferdecker. Heimann Sensor is a 14-year old German IR image sensor manufacturer. Schieferdecker talks about a number of emerging thermal IR imaging applications, such a contactless thermometer embedded into a mobile phone:
"We are working to develop such a spot thermometer within Heimann Sensor. Many players in the mobile phone business are looking at these devices but we think that two more years of development are needed in order to get them working. First, single pixel sensors will be used and then arrays will be introduced into the market. The remaining issues are significant. For example, getting a compact device, within a thin 'z budget', is very challenging and needs further development at device and packaging level. In the same way, heat shock resistance is a challenge at the moment.
The applications of remote temperature sensing are just huge. Fever measurement, checking outdoor temperatures from your mobile phone, water temperature measurement for a baby's bath or bottle - the list is endless. Most require 1 or 2°C accuracy, which is already available, while body temperature needs further development to reach 0.2°C accuracy.
We expect to see the first mobile phone with this feature around Christmas 2017."
Next-Gen Tensilica Vision Processor IP
BDTI publishes an article on the next generation Cadence Tensilica Vision P5 Processor IP featuring lower power and higher speed:
The base P5 core is said to be less than 2 mm2 in size in a 16nm process, with minor additional area increments for the optional FPU and cache and instruction memories. Lead customers have been evaluating and designing in Vision P5 for several months, and the core is now available for general licensing.
Sony RX10 II review – a videographer's dream bridge camera!
Sony's Cyber-shot RX10 II is a high-end bridge camera with an 8.3x / 24-200mm zoom, constant f2.8 aperture and a 1in / 20 Megapixel sensor. The RX10 II inherits the body, lens and tilting screen of its predecessor, but upgrades the viewfinder to a higher resolution XGA OLED and claims faster AF. The major upgrade is the sensor, five times faster than before and supporting 4k video, stills at 14fps, and high frame rate video at up to 960 / 1000fps for a 40x slow-down. Find out why it's the ideal bridge camera for videographers in my Sony RX10 II review!
Article About Caeleste
Belgian local DSP Valley Newsletter publishes an article about Caeleste (see page 6). Few quotes:
"Caeleste was created in December 2006, by a few people around the former CTO of Fillfactory/Cypress. After an organic growth start, Caeleste is now 22 persons large and fast growing with a CAGR of 30-50%. It is specialized in the design and supply of custom specific CMOS Image Sensors (CIS). Caeleste is still 100% owned by its founders.
...In fact, Caeleste has almost the largest CIS design team in Europe, exclusively devoted to customer specific CMOS image sensors."
Some of Caeleste R&D projects:
Caeleste has the world record in low noise imaging: We have proven a noise limit of 0.34 e-rms; this implies that under low flux conditions (e.g. in astronomy) each and every photon can be counted and that the background is completely black, provided that the dark current is low enough.
Caeleste has also designed a dual color X-ray imager, which allows a much better discrimination and diagnosis of cancerous tissue than the conventional grey scale images.
Caeleste has also its own patents for 3D imaging, based on Time of Flight (ToF) operation. This structure allows the almost noise free accumulation of multiple laser pulses to enable accurate distance measurements at long distance or with weak laser sources.
TowerJazz CIS Business Overview
Oppenheimer publishes December 14, 2015 report on TowerJazz business talking about the CIS part of it, among many other things:
"CMOS Image Sensors (CIS). Approximately 15% of sales, ex-Panasonic. Tower offers advanced CMOS image sensor technology for use in the automotive, industrial, medical, consumer, and high-end photography markets. Tower estimates the silicon portion of the CMOS image sensor market to be a ~$10B TAM, with ~$3B potentially being served via foundry offerings. Today, roughly two-thirds of this market serves the cellular/smartphone camera market; however, the migration to image-based communication across the automotive, industrial, security and IoT markets is expanding the applications for Tower's CIS offerings. Tower is tracking toward 35% Y/Y growth in this segment in 2015, outpacing the industry's 9% compounded growth rate, as the company has gained traction in areas previously not served by specialty foundries.
Tower has IP related to highly customized pixels, which lend the technology to a wide variety of applications. We see opportunities in automotive, security/surveillance, medical imaging, and 3D gesture control driving sustainable growth in this segment long term."
Oppenheimer: "We expect image sensor growth to outpace the overall
optoelectronics segment, and forecast growth at a 6% CAGR from
2014 to 2019 to approximately $13.3B, from $10.4B in 2014"
Mobileye vs George Hotz
Bloomberg publishes an article about famous 24-year old hacker George Hotz making a self-driving car in his garage based on 6 cameras and a LIDAR. Hotz says that his technology is much better than one of Mobileye used in Tesla Model S: "It's absurd," Hotz says of Mobileye. "They're a company that's behind the times, and they have not caught up."
Mobileye spokesman Yonah Lloyd denies that the company's technology is outdated, "Our code is based on the latest and modern AI techniques using end-to-end deep network algorithms for sensing and control."
SeekingAlpha reports that Tesla comes to Mobileye's rescue. "We think it is extremely unlikely that a single person or even a small company that lacks extensive engineering validation capability will be able to produce an autonomous driving system that can be deployed to production vehicles," says Tesla. "[Such a system] may work as a limited demo on a known stretch of road -- Tesla had such a system two years ago -- but then requires enormous resources to debug over millions of miles of widely differing roads. This is the true problem of autonomy: getting a machine learning system to be 99% correct is relatively easy, but getting it to be 99.9999% correct, which is where it ultimately needs to be, is vastly more difficult. Going forward, we will continue to use the most advanced component technologies, such as Mobileye's vision chip, in our vehicles. Their part is the best in the world at what it does and that is why we use it."
PMD and Infineon Present Improved ToF Sensors
Infineon and pmd unveil their latest 3D image sensor chip of the REAL3 family. Compared to the previous version, the optical sensitivity as well as the power consumption of the new 3D sensors has been improved and the built-in electronics take up little space. The chips make it possible for cell phones to operate mini-camera systems that can measure 3D depth data.
The optical pixel sensitivity of the new 3D image sensors is now double that of the previous version. This means that their measurement quality is just as good, while at the same time working with only half of the emitted light output and the camera's system power consumption is almost halved. The improved optical pixel sensitivity is the result of applying one microlens to each of the pixels of the 3D image sensor chip.
The new 3D image sensor chips were specifically designed for mobile devices, where most applications only need a resolution of 38,000 pixels. The previous 100,000-pixel matrix was accordingly scaled down, and other functional blocks, such as the analog/digital converter for the chip area and performance range were optimized. Thus, the system cost is lower: the sensor chip area is almost halved, and, because of the lower resolution, smaller and less expensive optical lenses can be used.
The three new REAL3 3D image sensors differ in their resolutions: the IRS1125C works with 352 x 288 pixels, the IRS1645C with 224 x 172 pixels and the IRS1615C with 160 x 120 pixels. In this respect, the IRS1645C and IRS1615C are produced on half the chip area of the IRS1125C.
Google's "Project Tango" using Infineon's IRS1645C 3D image sensor chip. The complete 3D camera for Google "Tango" – consisting of IRS1645C and an active infrared laser illumination – is housed in an area of approximately 10 mm x 20 mm. With a range up to 4 meters (13 feet), a measuring accuracy of 1% of the distance and a frame rate of 5 fps, the 3D camera subsystem consumes less than 300 mW in active mode.
The IRS1125C will be available in volume in Q1 2016. The start of production for the smaller IRS1645C and IRS1615C is planned for Q2 2016. All three types are exclusively delivered as a bare die to allow maximum design flexibility while minimizing system costs.
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CCD vs CMOS: Smear
Adimec publishes a nice demo of smear in CCDs and virtual absence of it in CMOS sensors. The smear manifests itself in:
Contrast reduction of the image
Questionable patterns depending on image contents
Higher noise level in the dark areas of the image
The three effects above combined: degradation of DRI (detection, recognition, identification)
For color: a shift of white balance, depending on the smear level
2015 Electronic Imaging Symposium Presentations
IS&T Electronic Imaging (EI) Symposium publishes a number of interesting presentations, such as "A novel optical design for light field acquisition using camera array:"
"3D UHDTV contents production with 2/3 inch sensor cameras:"
TechInsights iPhone 6s, 6s Plus 12MP Sensor Report
TechInsights announces a reverse engineering report of 12MP Sony sensor from Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, to be published on Dec 22, 2015:
"The Sony 12 megapixel CMOS image sensor is fabricated using a 4 metal (Cu), 90 nm CMOS image sensor process. The backside illuminated die is wafer bonded to an underling control ASIC using through silicon vias (TSVs) to provide die-to-die interconnections. The image sensor features a 1.22 µm large pixel with RGB color filters and a single layer of microlenses. Four pixels share a common readout circuit comprising four transfer gates, a reset gate, select gate and source follower in a 1.75T architecture."
Brightway Presents its Gated Imaging ADAS Camera
Brightway publishes a promo video of its gated imaging ADAS camera:
IISW 2017 Time and Location Announced
2017 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW) announces its time and location. The workshop is to be held on May 30th – June 2nd, 2017 in Hiroshima, Japan. The Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima is located on a small island in south Hiroshima with a nice archipelago view from the hotel. Miyajima and the downtown Hiroshima, which are UNESCO world heritages, are within the reach and are good excursion candidates.
TI Unveils ToF SoC
TI releases its first SoC for 3D ToF imaging integrating ToF Sensor, AFE, Timing Generator, and Depth Engine on a single chip. While the OPT8320 chip is based on 30um sized Softkinetic pixel technology, it's made by TI and most of the IP is developed in-house in TI. TI publishes a detailed datasheet with example applications, and compares it with a older non-integrated ToF imager:
Rumor: Microsoft Lumia 1050 Smartphone to Feature 50MP Sensor
JBHNews quotes a rumor that Microsoft Lumia 1050 smartphone, to be released in January or February 2016, would feature 50MP camera having a variable aperture, a zoom lens, an OIS and a laser AF. "Overall, Lumia 1050 would be a defining phone in the history of Microsoft."
MIT Proposes to Use Polarization to Improve 3D Imaging
Optics.org: Researchers from MIT media lab (Prof. Ramesh Raskar) claim that exploiting the polarization of light allows them increasing the resolution of conventional 3-D imaging devices by as much as 1,000 times. The new 3D imaging system, which they call Polarized 3D, in a paper they are presenting at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Santiago, Chile, on December 11-18, 2015:
"Today, 3-D cameras can be miniaturized to fit on cellphones," said Achuta Kadambi, a PhD student in the MIT Media Lab and one of the system's developers. "But this involves making compromises to the 3-D sensing, leading to very coarse recovery of observed geometry. That is a natural application for polarization, because you can still use a low-quality sensor, but by adding a polarizing filter gives a result quality that is better than from many machine-shop laser scanners."
Polarization affects the way in which light bounces off of physical objects. Light within a certain range of polarizations is more likely to be reflected. So the polarization of reflected light carries information about the geometry of the objects it has struck. Microsoft Kinect is used for a coarse depth estimation, while polarization helps to interpolate and improve its depth accuracy.
"The work fuses two 3-D sensing principles, each having pros and cons," commented Yoav Schechner, an associate professor of electrical engineering at Technion — Israel Institute of Technology. "One principle provides the range for each scene pixel: This is the state of the art of most 3-D imaging systems. The second principle does not provide range. On the other hand, it derives the object slope, locally. In other words, per scene pixel, it tells how flat or oblique the object is."
Thanks to AG for the link!
Yole Report on Autonomous Vehicles
Yole Developpement research "Sensors and Data Management for Autonomous Vehicles report 2015" shows the roadmap from manned driving to "feet off" to "hands off" to "mind off" and the sensors needed for that:
"Currently, the most advanced commercial car with autonomous features embeds in the order of 17 sensors. Yole anticipates 29+ sensors by 2030. Today, two sensor businesses dominate: ultrasonic sensors and cameras for surround. Together they are worth a $2.4B market value, but ultrasonic sensors comprise 85% of current market volume. By 2030, cameras for surround will lead the market at $12B, followed by ultrasound sensors and long-range radar ($8.7B and $7.9B respectively), and then short-range radar ($5B). Overall 2030 market value is estimated at $36B.
All of these evolutions will likely lead to mass-market adoption of semi-autonomous vehicles by 2030. We expect more than 22M units (18% of all vehicles sold) of level-2 vehicles and 10M units of level-3 vehicles by 2030, along with 38M units of level-2 vehicles and 1M units of Level-4 vehicles."
High Speed Bullet Photography
Odos Imaging CEO Chris Yates publishes an article in Vision Systems Design showing its high speed camera capabilities in shooting a bullet:
Camera measures the bullet deceleration due to the air drag


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