attacks of September 11, and domestic violence.
to Congress, GAO expanded the study to include all three semipostals.
receiving the proceeds, and others.
2005, and sales were likely affected by several key factors.
stamp design, and (4) promotion by the Postal Service.
will be used can greatly affect consumers� response.
the moneys raised takes much longer.
three semipostals are not subject to that requirement.
recommendation. The other agencies did not comment.
to issue the first three fund-raising stamps in the nation's history.
Research stamp is currently scheduled to expire December 31, 2005.
General in our September 2003 report.
regarding our scope and methodology.
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), DOD, FEMA, HHS and NIH.
intended to encourage innovative approaches to breast cancer research.
distributing the funds, given that the cause addresses a unique event.
issued under this act, and the reporting requirement does not apply.
its use of Stop Family Violence stamp proceeds.
than one-fourth of those of the Breast Cancer Research stamp.
semipostal proceeds has contributed to a formal advertising campaign.
a charitable cause are the best source of promotion for semipostals.
may not be as apparent.
use of funds would be a part of any Service initiated semipostals.
semipostals are not required to report on the use of the funds.
2001.[Footnote 7] Figure 2 shows the three semipostals.
agencies, which then directed the funds toward the identified causes.
Congress to further extend the sales period through December 31, 2007.
of the funds raised and the latter receiving the remaining 30 percent.
the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001.
requirements for NIH and DOD.
available for under 2 years.
1998 but have remained at a comparably high level over time (see fig.
per quarter and total 25.3 million since issuance.
may have limited sales of the Stop Family Violence stamp.
greater response than others, regardless of fund-raising methods.
for the Breast Cancer Research and Heroes of 2001 stamps, respectively.
carrying on activities to promote the Breast Cancer Research stamp.
articles for magazines such as Glamour and Women's Day.
with local post offices to promote the Breast Cancer Research stamp.
Vice President Gore was a guest speaker.
project traveling around the country.[A].
advocacy groups and the U.S. Postal Service.
additional information about how the stamp was developed.
they were unaware of the specifics of how the proceeds would be used.
advocacy group activity on behalf of the semipostal.
promotional activities, they have done less than originally planned.
were likely adversely affected by this lack of promotion.
use of the funds was not clearly spelled out on either semipostal.
Violence stamp, and this amount was recovered from semipostal proceeds.
partnerships in support of the semipostals.
unveiled at the 1998 Revlon Run/Walk for Women in Los Angeles.
and Los Angeles in 1999.
and the slogan "Help stamp out Breast Cancer!"
Basketball Association (WNBA) games in 1998.
advertising in the New York area included the New York Times.
inaugural NASCAR event at the Daytona International Speedway in 2002.
campaign raised an estimated $21,000 in proceeds through stamp sales.
awarded with Breast Cancer Research stamp proceeds.
through the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts and NCI's Web site.
progress include publications and patent filings.
Grant selection and evaluation: (Same as above).
include publications, presentations, patents, and products.
Source: GAO presentation of information provided by NIH and DOD.
involve advocacy groups in their grants processes.
proceeds have produced significant findings in breast cancer research.
with Breast Cancer Research stamp proceeds.
has potential alone or in combination as an antitumor drug.
detect this alteration for use in breast and ovarian cancer prognosis.
clinical testing of this imaging method has begun.
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, DOD.
ACF grants, to be awared including the size and number of awards.
Source: GAO presentation of information provided by ACF, HHS.
connection with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Source: GAO presentation of information provided by FEMA.
over $7 billion in compensation to victims of the terrorist attacks.
used or any accomplishments resulting from semipostal-funded grants.
take varying actions in this regard.
additional report available to Congress.
the total proceeds received from the sales of the Heroes of 2001 stamp.
by encouraging more people to contribute to the effort.
sales that have remained at a high level over its entire sales period.
a greater response than others, regardless of fund-raising methods.
fund-raising cause represented on the stamps.
not to buy the semipostal.
and sales have remained lower in comparison for the stamp.
marketing information clearly indicates how the proceeds will be used.
agencies biannually, after the Service's reasonable costs are deducted.
(nearly 2 years after issuance).
term effects of the terrorist attacks.
the Stop Family Violence stamp to raise considerably more than it has.
establishing the rules and regulations for new programs.
Program reporting is an important standard for ensuring accountability.
accountability and greater support for the semipostals.
received through the semipostal program.
and our finding is not meant as a criticism of the Service.
amount invested in a fund-raising effort and the amounts raised.
site at no charge at [Hyperlink, http://www.gao.gov].
Heather MacLeod; Joshua Margraf; Stan Stenersen; and Gregory Wilmoth.
for the purpose of this report.
with conceiving the idea for the Breast Cancer Research stamp, and Ms.
Betsy Mullen, who along with Dr. Bodai lobbied Congress for the stamp.
stakeholders whom we spoke with.
Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
semipostal program as per our prior recommendation.
and recover the Service's reasonable costs related to the semipostals.
* other costs (legal, market research, and consulting).
Costs recovered from semipostal proceeds: $1,091,963.
Costs recovered from semipostal proceeds: $523,607.
Costs recovered from semipostal proceeds: $223,569.
Costs recovered from semipostal proceeds: $1,839,139.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $0.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $166,440.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $290,800.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $238,000.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $183,000.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $155,000.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $22,000.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $8,000.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $28,723.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $1,091,963.
other stamps at the retail window.
to the Breast Cancer Research stamp, and costs are not recovered.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $292,901.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $184,038.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $46,668.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $523,607.
track shipping and distribution costs by stamp issue.
stamps at the retail window.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $77,069.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $140,000.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $6,500.
Cost recovered from surcharge revenue: $223,569.
does not track shipping and distribution costs by stamp issue.
to study, analyze, and measure these costs in a live environment.
materially exceed the costs of comparable stamps.
the costs listed mandatory rather than optional.
Accounting Office Recommendations on the Breast Cancer Research Stamp.
that they would use the baseline for the other semipostals.
approval. Figure 8 shows the three semipostals.
the diversity of Americans affected by breast cancer.
the 6-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
own picture of what she thought best represented domestic violence.
ceremony at the White House in 2003.
awarded under each program are listed below.
area, and the amount of the award.
investigator, research area, and the amount of the award.
research area, and the amount of the award.
Sources: U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, DOD.
funds transfer policies as we have for these three semipostals.
provided -and paid for -by the advocacy groups themselves.
am available at your convenience.
August 12, 2005 (GAO Code 5420561GA0-OS-953).
the opportunity to comment on the draft report.
and General Government Appropriations Act, 2002 (P.L. 107-67).
1021 (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 30, 2003).
P.L. 105-41 through December 31, 2007.
Government Appropriations Act, 2002 (P.L. 107-67).
 H.R. 560 was introduced on February 2, 2005.
 H.R. 3750 was introduced on Septembert 13, 2005.
include those without a legal family relationship.
for its Breast Cancer stamp promotional campaign in 1999.
incorporated into NIH and DOD's normal grant cycles.
announced with other discretionary programs in the spring of 2005.
utilizing the Stop Family Violence stamp proceeds.
this rule-making process, including submission to OMB.
with fires, the other services address crime and injury.
cost recovery regulations, since our 2003 report.
 USPS June 25, 2004, report to Congress.
postage rate by a semipostal consumer.
surcharge revenue. DOD estimates overhead costs at 8 percent annually.
Any savings in overhead are added to the funds available to research.


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SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organization with a mission to discover, develop, and deliver safe, effective, and affordable vaccines for global health, announced today the launch of an IVI Country Office in Austria. This new office signals a step forward for Austria's ambition to dial up efforts in vaccine research and development, and IVI's initiative to work closely with the Austrian government and local research network and biomedical industry.
Dr. Jerome Kim, Director General of IVI, said, "We are thrilled to share that IVI has launched its Austria Country Office in the country's capital, well established in areas of international cooperation and eager to advance its growing R&D ecosystem. In addition to IVI's Europe Regional Office in Stockholm, these two sites will generate joint grant proposals with local partners and mobilize collaborative vaccine R&D projects for global health. We are deeply thankful to the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of Austria for supporting the opening of this office."
The Foreign Minister of Austria, Alexander Schallenberg, said, "Austria continues to live up to its reputation as a place of encounter and international dialogue, now also increasingly in the field of vaccine research. The Vienna office will be strengthened by the location of the IVI branch and the contribution of international organizations to value creation in Austria will be increased."
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IVI is a non-profit international organization established in 1997 at the initiative of the United Nations Development Programme. 39 countries and the WHO are signatories to IVI's founding treaty, and Austria's application for membership is currently in progress. According to the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA) of Austria, the government will invest an annual amount of 860,000 euros in IVI, a contribution to Austria's vaccine development in Europe and globally.
The governments of the Republic of Korea, Sweden, India, and Finland currently provide state funding, and Denmark made a core contribution of 4 million Danish kroner in 2022.
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This is my Grandma's 1956 United Big Ball Bowler game named Duck Pin Alley. I have only found one person who has ever seen this exact machine before. The other machine they saw was in "very rough shape" so I am guessing it's not operational. So this is the only working one of these specific machines we've been able to locate so far.
The back story to this machine is that my grandparents purchased the machine from a local bar for my uncle, for his 8th grade graduation present. This was in 1962. My grandma seems to remember the bar making mention of something along the lines of the fact that "they don't manufacture this machine any more, so we are worried we won't be able to find parts for it if it breaks." So there were just two owners. It sat in the bar for a few years, and then it's been in my Grandma's basement ever since. So that's the reason why it's so well (overall) maintained!
I've been trying to date this machine and we've settled on the year 1956 for the manufacture date. 1955 and earlier machines used a 30v power supply and this machine we believe uses 50v, the same as other similar type machines. Other similar machine, which we talk about next was also manufactured in 1956, so I would have to think this machine would be from that same year. So with that said, I believe this machine is one of, if not the first big ball bowler machines that United ever made.
While looking for more information on the machine I came across this machine online. In that particular machine you used a cue stick and pool balls, instead of bowling balls. This is a strange mesh of two games if you ask me, pool and bowling put together in the same game. I do not know which game came first. The Pool Alley game came out in 1956, so I would have to assume that the Duck Pin Alley game came out around the same time. The two games are remarkably similar. They seem to share the same pin hood, pins, wooden side of the lanes, and almost the same back glass artwork. The game mechanics appear to be a little different as Pool Alley has a Single/Double/Triple scoring feature and Duck Pin Alley has normal scoring and then also a "Beer Frame" feature (not sure exactly what that does yet).
The scoring reels are sticking and aren't spinning properly. I hope to be able to clean these up so they spin properly.
There are a few pins which immediately upon the start of a frame, the pins go up as if they have been knocked down. This may just be caused by a stuck lever or something else. I have not yet been able to diagnose it, but soon.
The #1 pin is missing a piece, which causes the pin to swing freely when in the down position. This does not affect the gameplay, but I would like to fix it anyway.
The #3 is cracked and has been super glued back together. It works for the time being, but if I can find a replacement, I will.
I was told that the pin reset motor for these machines is rare and that I likely won't ever be able to find a replacement for it. So I was advised to pay close attention to this and to clean it up very good. So I need to take it apart and bore it out and make sure to get rid of any and all caked in grease that may be gunking it up.
Then of course I do intend to clean up the machine as much as possible.
A few collectors and enthusiasts have asked for more pictures and videos, so I thought I'd make a little web page to show it all. Also so that I have a venue to post pictures when I have questions as I go along restoring it. I also thought that some other casual onlookers might appreciate some pictures, at least the pictures of the outside of the machine. I know that very few people will be interested in seeing the detailed pictures of the inside of the machine, but they are here for those who are interested.
The bowling lane itself is about 117 inches or 9 feet 9 inches long.
When measured from the back of the back box to the front of the machine, the machine is about 132 inches or 11 feet long.
It is believed that the original size ball used on this machine was a 4 inch ball. More on that later.
The pins used seem to be the standard United type pins used in a few other machines. The pins are about 8.5 inches tall. The distance from the top of the pin down to the hanging holes is approximately 1.25 inches down. The distance between the mounting holes is approximately 0.75 inches. I am listing these specific measurements because they are needed when speaking with others about finding replacement pins.
This machine is numbered #352. I do not know if this game was mass produced, but you'd have to assume that United started the numbering scheme at 1. So there are at least over 352 of these machines which existing at some point in time.
OK, onto the pictures. How I usually do things is that each picture is a smaller type thumbnail of the picture. This size picture makes them easier for most people to view in a browser. If you ever want more detail on a particular picture, you can click on it, and it will take you to the full resolution picture.
The ball ramp return. A few people feel that the supports under the rails might not be original to the machine. They look more like a piece that might have come off a metal front door to your house. I would probably agree with this assessment. They do look a little out of place. I did not notice any disturbance in the artwork otherwise, so I don't think there was any other supports that they replaced. So either those are original (doubtful) or else there just simply weren't any supports originally. In either case, I guess I'm not too worried about it. The supports are there now, and they serve a prupose, so I intend to leave them in place.
The first ball below is a trackball for an arcade machine. I used it in my testing because it is a 3 inch ball. Some people felt this was the likely size of the balls used in the machine. I have found that is not the case, as you will see in the video shown further below. The middle ball here is a replacement 4 inch ball that we found at some point. And lastly, on the far right is a 4.5 inch ball. I purchased 5 of these balls on my local Craig's list. A pretty lucky find. We should now have enough balls to last us forever.
Here is a short video of the ball return system in action, along with me testing the various different ball sizes.
- The first ball I use in the video is 4.5". As you can see in the video, the 4.5" ball works fine and returns well on the rail return system.
- The second ball is the 4" size ball, which is what I believe to be the original ball size used. It works well and returns well on the rail return system. - The third ball I use in this video is a 3" ball. I did this to put to rest any question that this game used a 3 inch ball. As you can see in the video, the ball is too small, and when returning on the rail return system it actually hits some of the support beams which slows down the speed of the ball and as a result, the ball does not make it all of the way up to the top of the return rail. Now I did mention earlier that these supports might not be original from the manufacturer. So you could argue that even though the 3 inch ball didn't work, it might just be becuase of the after market rail supports. But I can tell you that they've been there since 1962 when my Grandma got the machine. And as I mentioned they've been using what I believe to be 4 inch original balls with the machine since then. So I really feel that 4 inch has to be the proper size ball, and the original size ball for this machine.
For the more casual type viewers, this is your chance to escape. The pictures from this point on go more into the more details and technical pictures, which I imagine will not interest most people, only collectors and enthusiasts. If you'd like, you can click on THIS LINK to skip down to the "Completed!" section to see the final result!
I was told, and I will include it here for completeness, that there are two different pin hanging gear assemblies used for these types of pins. The 1-6 pins use one kind, and the 7-10 pins use a different kind.
You can see the United stamp on the pins here. Man, I did not realize how filthy this thing has become over the years until I looked at the back of the pins! Definitely going to be giving the machine a thorough cleaning!
The machines label as #352. Elsewhere in the machine you can see that same number written on the inside of it, in marker, chalk and one other label like this one. Curiously, as you can see under this label is the number 253, which is the reverse of 352. Maybe just an accident?
No where in the machine does it list any kind of manufacture date, but I did see this patent notice. I thought maybe some day it might be possible to see when these patents were obtained to help find the date. But that does seem pretty ambitious, and I know nothing about how to find that inforemation, so I will probably just stick with the 1956 assumed date for the time being.
Here is a shot of the fuses. I was initially confused why there was a fuse missing. I was told that you either have to use the Normal Line OR the Low Line fuse, not both. If you put a fuse into both, it might not work at all. I was told that using the normal line just gave the motors and etc a little more "umph". So I will be keeping these fuses as they are today, with the Normal Line present and nothing in the Low Line.
I've been working on a few things here and there, nothing I felt was update worthy until tonight. So now you're getting a few little updates all at once.
I decided to give the tip a little more stability. To do so, I've been filling in the gaps in the kerf cuts with wood glue. Once I'm done with this, the tip should be a lot more solid.
Next I decided to tackle the pin guard. Most hobbyists don't have one of these on their machine any more. But my grandma would prefer it be there because there are a LOT of great-grandkids who are inevitably going to crawl all over this thing. Below you can see the original. It's yellowed and its cracked in a few places. On the right you can even see that theres a screw holding a cracked part of it together.
Here's a shot of the backview of the mold. You can see everything is screwed together holding it in place.
It took quite a bit of tinkering to get it right but I was able to get it so the hood sat on my mold just right, as you can see below.
Next it was time to cut my plexiglass to size. The sheet I got was pretty large, so it took a little doing. I carefully measured the length and the height of the guard, and cut the new piece of plexi to size. I initally tried to cut the plexi with a utility knife and then bend it to snap it, but that didn't work too well for me. I ended up cracking my piece of glass. Luckily, since the sheet was so big, I had enough for two guards. So I tried again, this time I used a router and a flush bit to cut through the plexi. This was infinitely easier. The plexi cut smoothly. Once the plexi was the right size, I also rounded the corners of the plexi so there wouldn't be sharp edges at the corners. As a bonus, the cracked plexi was still servicable, so I had a piece to use to test out my process first. First, I clamped one side to my mold. Note I left the plastic scratch cover that comes on the plexi there for all of this.
I then used a heat gun. I made three or four passes with the heat gun and then I'd gently bend the plexi along the round of the paint cans. I just kept repeating that process. Three or four swipes, and a gentle bend, until it was bent all the way around.
Once it made it's way all the way around, I clamped it into place on the right side as well. I gave the front a few more swipes with the heat gun at this point. These last passes with the heat gun are important, that way you know the plexi is really bent to shape, and it's not just the clamps holding it there. Once everything was set, I left everything all clamped up until the plexi cooled to the touch. That's when I knew it's new shape had set.
Here you can see my test guard with it's plastic scratch guard off. You can tell it's the test one if you look really close. Theres a crack in the lower left of the glass. But crack aside, it looks perfect to me!
Here you can see it matches up pretty close with the original. It's more straight, since the original has warped so much. So it passed my tests. Then I just rinsed, and repeated this whole process with my non-cracked piece of plexi to get my official replacement guard.
What I did next was clamp it into place. You can see below it fits in there perfectly.
The real reason I clamped it in place is because I wanted to drill the holes in it, for the screws that hold it in place. You can see the red dots for the holes below. No real secret to this part, I just used a drill bit to cut the holes out for me.
And here's the shot of the old one last time, and the new one behind it. Note the new one still has it's peelable scratch protectant on it, so that's why it appears to have that matte finish to it. It will be crystal clear once I take it off. I plan on leaving this there until I actually intend to put everything back together.
I've been toying with the idea to replace all the light bulbs on the machine with LED ones. There's two main benefits that would have came from doing this. First, they would be less likely to burn out. Second, and more importantly, they would put out less heat. This is important because heat chips the art on the backglass. So the lower the heat the better. I ordered several three different LEDs, all of which you can see on the right side below. On the far left is the original bulbs. As you can see, the light color is different on the LEDs, two of them are more white colored than the original, and the one is more yellow colored. Also, they appear to be not quite as bright as the original.
I wouldn't have cared about the color difference if it made the back glass light up as well. The new bulbs are under the letters D, C, and I below. As you can see they don't light up very well at all, and in the case of the yellow LED, it actually makes a very distinct circle of light appear. So that settled it, LEDs are out. Oh well. I did replace all the light bulbs with brand new ones though. Some of the bulbs are probably 60+ years old at this point and from what I've heard, older light bulbs can tend to put out more heat. So that's why I still replaced all the light bulbs, even the working ones.
Here you can see the little bow-tie piece is missing from the #1 pin. As I mentioned before, this piece is what locks the pin in place. Since it's missing, it causes the pin to swing freely when in the down position. It stops quickly, and doesn't affect gameplay, but still, it needs to be fixed so it locks in place like all the other pins.
Here you can see the replacement piece that I got from Big Ball Bowler. The bowtie is there.
Here you can see the two parts side by side. They match up except for the brown bar on the new piece. You can see that it's much larger than the original on the left.
I figured that when it was installed, if it didn't touch anything, then no harm, no foul. Unfortunately, that was not the case. You can see below that this piece rests on the bulb holder next to it. I (foolishly) thought perhaps even this might be ok, because the brown tube appeared to be plastic. So I turned the machine on, and sure enough, sparks shot out and all the lights went out. Initially I was freaked out because I thought I ruined the whole machine! But it ended up just being a blown fuse. Once I got a new one, everything was cool. So lesson learned, if it doesn't fit right, don't be lazy, fix it.
Here you can see I chopped off the excess part of the bar and it fits nicely!
And lastly I just had to solder on the wire again as you can see below.
After 57 years of use, these pins got a little grimey. Luckily it was mostly superficial and the pins themselves are really in incredibly good shape. But here are a few pictures of the pins before cleaning.
Here is the back of the pins. Here you can REALLY see the dirt on there!
I first just used some Dawn and warm water and I gave the pins a good cleaning. Next I used Novus Plastic Cleaner/Polish on each of the pins. Here they are all cleaned up! They look brand new (except for the broken #3pin)!
This is MUCH better now as well! I also took the time to super glue a lot of those areas under the mounting holes towards the top of the pins. A few of them had cracked, so I thought they could use a little reinforcement, so I glued each of them.
Got a few updates I thought I'd share. A few obstacles cleared, with a few more to go!
This is the part inside of the pin hood which resets all the pins at the start of a frame. I was told that this was the one piece that I probably would not find a replacement for, and that I needed to be very careful with it.
My cousin Dan and I took apart the pin reset motor and cleaned out all the old caked on grease. Then we used the 3-in-1 oil to lube it up. I don't have any pictures of the actual clean up but the assembly seemed to glide more much cleanly afterwards than before. I also used this 6 pin connector assembly for all the cords. So now I can easily remove the motor from the machine just by unplugging this one connector if needed.
There were two main parts that we cleaned once we took it apart. There was this assembly here that was caked on with grease. You can see below it's nice and clean.
Here you can see the four main areas that we cleaned out for the grease. You can still see some of the grease in the picture below. Once all cleaned up we lubed up any area that had metal to metal contact. If it was some kind of plastic and metal that were touching, we did not lube those up.
Each reel has either 3 or 5 solder connectors on them. I took these score reels home for cleaning, to do that I had to cut the wires off of these. Then once home I used a soldering iron and a de-soldering pump to remove all the solder on each of these connections. I decided to use quick disconnects (shown below) instead of solder to re-attach these back in the machine. I'm not that great at soldering, and I figured it would be nice to be able to remove a score reel easily if I ever needed to. Some people on the forums are skeptical of this solution. They are worried that these disconnects might shake and eventually fall off. However, I found the right size connector that fits all the way over the solder point as you can see below. If done correctly, they fit on there very snugly. So I think we'll be ok. But nonetheless, it's something I will have to keep an eye on. If issues arise with the connectors falling off, then I will have to solder the wires on there. Then if I really wanted to, I could use those 6 pin connector assemblies like I did with the pin reset motor. I will just place the connectors a little far away from the score reels so they don't shake as much. But we'll play that by ear, I'm pretty confident that these quick disconnects will work just fine.
- Cleaning the stepper units.
- Using a wire brush to clean all the connectors inside of the machine.
- Giving the bottom box a good vaccuuming.
Time for my final update! But first, there's been some interesting discussion about this machine on the forum lately. Someone pointed out that the artwork on the machine appears to have been altered. They said that the "Duck Pin" text does not match up with the rest of the artwork. And I'm inclined to agree with that. If you check out the picture below you can see that the Duck Pin text is a very different style than the work Alley next to it. It looks like someone hand painted those words on there. Not to mention that the red and yellow colors appear to be different looking...more on that in a minute. If you remember what I mentioned before, this machine appears to be clearly related to this Pool Alley machine. The artwork actually appears to match up entirely with the exception of the title and the "Double" and "Triple" blocks which have been replaced with a ball and pin and a "Beer Frame".
Here you can see the two other blocks which have possibly been scraped off the "Pool Alley" machine linked above, and repainted with something else.
My own personal belief is that this modifcation was not done by some individual, but was done by United themselves. Perhaps they had a lot of the Pool Alley parts lying around and decided to reuse them for this. Also, although the color of the yellow and red above appear to be slightly different than the rest of the artwork, but when the artwork is lit up, it matches perfectly. There is just a silver coating on the back of the glass that gives it a darker appearance in the rest of the artwork. For the modified art parts, they used a different back coating, other than silver. So it looks different with the lights off, but with the lights on you can clearly tell it is the exact colors used elsewhere. So they did use the exact same paint.
I have no way of proving whether or not the United company did this themselves, but I am pretty sure they did. My grandparents bought it in 1962. We suspect it was built in 1956. So I can't possibly fathom why a single person would hack up a new machine within it's first 6 years of life to make something different. Especially since it was just a bar that owned this machine before my grandparents. And they just had it in the bar, it's not like they were some hobbyist/collector.
I have not been able to find anyone else who has this machine. Only two people out of probably hundreds who have seen this machine now, have said they have even seen such a machine before. Neither of those people have any pictures or know the actual owner of the machine they saw. So while I can't say that this machine is one of a kind for certain, it certainly does seem to be at least very rare. That doesn't mean this machine is worth a million dollars or anything, but it just makes it a little more interesting is all. As they say on Pawn Stars, just because it's one of a kind, doesn't necessarily mean it's worth a lot of money. But I like it, it just adds a little intrigue to the game's history.
Anyway, onto the restoration photos!
I'm told that my pins are more the size you typically see on a shuffle machine and not a ball bowler machine. Well, I sent the big #3 back to Mickey and he was able to locate this beautiful blank pin for me that was the correct size. So thanks again Mickey! But since there's no number on it, and my existing #3 pin was working fine with the super glue, I decided just to hang onto this pin as a backup, in case one of the other pins ever breaks. It's actually sort of nice that it doesn't have a number on it. It will make it easier to use for any of the other pins in the future if needed.
Again a special thanks to my cousin Dan for these next few parts. He was a huge help and I was happy to have him around. For the next part we took apart the stepper units on the machine. On the one on the right you can see we have all the parts removed for cleaning. The one of the left is still assembled. Just to give you an idea of how many little parts go into these things.
We cleaned off all the parts of all the caked on grease from 1956 that no doubt was causing some issues. We put a small amount of contact grease back in the few areas where there are metal to metal contact.
The next item Dan and I tackled was the piece of wood behind the pin hood. Not sure how exactly but after all these years, this particular piece of wood was twisted and beat up as you can see below. The balls roll flat down the lane, so I'm not sure how they would have ever hit this piece of wood. But nonetheless it happened, so we decided to replace it.
Next I put in the new plexiglass guard that I made and screwed it in place. It fit great and getting rid of that old yellowed one made the machine look so much better. You'll see more pictures of this in the completed pictures at the end.
And in this picture you can kind of get an idea of just how complicated each one of these relays is. There is a series of switches for each one. If you have one little switch bent wrong, it can break 5 different things and cause the pins not to function right. Unforunately this game did not come with a schematic for these, so I was kind of on my own to figure them out. When I started this, there were several issues with pins not triggering correctly. And there was an issue where some of the pins would get triggered at the start of every frame, even without having thrown a ball yet. So there were some serious issues here.
After maybe 10 hours hunched over this machine, playing with each one of these individual switches, I believe I now have it working pretty danged well! So I'm happy to call this game completed!
So here are some pictures of the machine now that it's completed! The main difference is really in how the game functions because it works and scores correctly now! But there are definitely some improvements in the appearance of the pins now that I've polished the pins and gotten rid of the yellowed pin guard.
Just another picture for good measure.
I just liked the perspective of this photo. Some of these bulbs were burned out when I started to work on the machine and having them all lit combined with all the other clean parts just makes the pins look awesome.
I thought I would just put a few links of all the various pieces of information I've found to be useful for this project, just in case it's helpful to anyone else.
This site has a listing of (almost) all the known arcade games out there. This machine isn't on there yet, but I will be adding it at some point!
The Pool Alley machine information is found on this site however. Also, the forum on this site has a great and active community. So far there have been several people who were more than willing to help.
Mickey from this site has been amazing so far. I am hopeful that he will be able to find me the few replacement parts that I may need for this project. It's always great to talk to someone who just appreciates the hobby so much! I also found these great videos on his YouTube channel about how to repair these types of machines!
Chris from this company didn't have any parts for me, however he was very helpful in getting me lots of information he knew about the machine.
I did speak with Doc Doom from this site. He was very helpful. He's the only other person who had seen this machine before, though the other machine is in rough shape he said. He may have some replacement parts for me as well when I get to that part.
This website is a wealth of information. You can check out this page specifically here for a detailed history on bowling machine.
I actually gave the people from this website the link to mine, and they've now included pictures of this machine on their history page. Here is the link to their page about it, which just has my pictures.
This page talks about how to clean and repair all sorts of Electro-Mechanical (EM) machines, including bowling machines. It's going to be VERY helpful once I start to actually get to the repair work on this thing!
This page talks about a DVD that is available for sale regarding repairing ball bowler machines. I ordered it and it's on the way!
This site does have some parts for bowlers but not for this one. I also reached out to them and they did not have any manuals or schematics for this machine either. Still I thought I would include a link to their site since other people with ball bowler machines may find them useful.
- Here is the "main" forum thread where I've been posting most of my updates and questions.
- Here is my other thread which is just dealing with finding LED replacement bulbs for the lights.


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King of Hawaii's Kohala Coast: The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel
By John Grossmann At some point during your stay at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, even you, who foolishly keep lifting the lid of a laptop or finger massaging an iPad, will sidle up and awkwardly ease your way into a clichéd but still wondrous resort amenity: a beige hammock
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Letter from Hawaii: Another (Delicious) Side of Maui
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Letter from Hawaii: Whale Tales
By Tom Passavant "It's whale soup out there," says the captain. It isn't exactly "thar she blows!", but it still neatly sums up what we're about to encounter on a blazing blue-sky morning last week. It's 8 a.m. and Trilogy Elua, a 50-foot catamaran, is about to head out of
Letter from Hawaii: Talking Tiki
By Tom Passavant In the 1960s, when I was in high school, my father had a tiki bar in the basement of our suburban Ohio home. It had a thatched roof, bamboo sides, and bottles of rum with colorful labels. Little did I know that the parties he and my
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Letter from Hawaii: A Visit to Shangri La
By Tom Passavant Here's a radical proposal for spending some quality time in Honolulu: head indoors. After all, it does occasionally rain in the islands (mostly in winter), and when it does, there are some very worthwhile alternatives to sitting in your hotel room watching reruns of Blue Hawaii.
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Letter from Hawaii: Korea-lulu
By Tom Passavant A few weeks ago, Epicurious, the enormously popular food Web site, predicted that Korean cuisine would be one of the top ten food trends for 2011. "Evidence is mounting that smoky, piquant Korean is America's next big cuisine," wrote Epicurious editor in chief Tanya Steel. Well, if
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Letter from Hawaii: The Real Hula
By Tom Passavant Glimpses of authentic Hawaiian culture have a way of popping up in the most unlikely places here in the islands, none more so than smack in the heart of Tourist Central, aka Waikiki. For example, just a stone's throw from a vast Cheesecake Factory on bustling Kalakaua
Letter from Hawaii: Market Economy
by Tom Passavant There are innumerable ways to make your friends jealous when you are in Hawaii and they are not. Especially in winter. They range from the world –famous (the warm sea and flower-scented air, the surfing competitions up on the fabled north shore) to some lesser-known but still
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Letter from Hawaii: Honolulu Honeymoon
Tom Passavant At first, it's hard to imagine an odder hotel couple than Marriott and Ian Schrager. But that's exactly who got hitched when the new Waikiki Edition hotel opened in September. It's the first in a series of collaborations that will soon produce Editions in Istanbul, Mexico City, Bangkok,


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Zimne Zdroje [] Es un asentamiento en el distrito administrativo de Gmina Nowa Karczma, Voivodato de Pomerania, en Polonia del norte. Él mentiras aproximadamente 3 kilómetros del sur-del este de Nowa Karczma, 17 kilómetros  al este de Kościerzyna, y 38 kilómetros del sur-del oeste de la capital regional Gdańsk.

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Para detalles de la historia de la región, véase Historia de Pomerania.

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NBA playoff preview: Can Spurs get back at Heat? Can they survive West?
A 50-victory season has pretty much been the standard of excellence for National Basketball Association teams over the years. The San Antonio Spurs know a little something about that.


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Veteran Arizona thrashers Flotsam and Jetsam have officially announced the new dates for their "Demolition of North America," trek which had to be cancelled due to the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. The new set of dates will begin at Club Red, Tempe, Arizona on April 30th and will conclude on June 6th at Brick by Brick, San Diego, California. A trailer for the tour can be seen below.
Flotsam and Jetsam's guitarist Michael Gilbert says: "Flotzilla fans, we are absolutely thrilled to announce this re-scheduled dates for 2021, and we are very much looking forward to seeing you all! The ongoing situation has been devastating in many senses, but we truly hope you are all doing as well as possible during these though times. We can't effing wait to headbang together again and let loose some of that energy we have been containing for months. Stay home, stay safe, and we'll catch you again in 2021"
Flotsam and Jetsam latest studio album "The End of Chaos" was released in January 2019 via AFM Records and was met with critical claim. The band has reportedly started working on material for the follow-up record.
"2021 Demolition of North America" Tour Dates:
April 30 @ Club Red ,Tempe, AZ
May 01 @ Encore, Tucson, AZ
May 03 @ Liquid Joe's, SLC, UT
May 04 @ Herman's Hideaway, Denver, CO
May 06 @ Scout Bar, Houston, TX
May 07 @ Come and Take It Live, Austin, TX
May 08 @ Trees, Dallas, TX
May 10 @ Crowbar, Ybor City, FL
May 11 @ The Masquerade, Atlanta, GA
May 12 @ Canal Club, Richmond, VA
May 13 @ Kingsland, Brooklyn, NY
May 14 @ Blackthorn 51, Elmhurst, NY
May 15 @ The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY
May 16 @ Upstate Concert Hall, Albany, NY
May 17 @ Dingbats, Clifton, NJ
May 18 @ The Vault, New Bedford, MA
May 19 @ Mohawk Place, Buffalo, NY
May 20 @ The Crafthouse, Pitt, PA
May 21 @ Diesel, Chesterfield, MI
May 22 @ Crucible, Madison, WI
May 23 @ The Forge, Joliet, IL
May 25 @ Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, IA
May 26 @ The Cabooze, Minneapolis, MN
May 27 @ Park Theatre, Winnipeg, MB
May 28 @ The Exchange, Regina, SK
May 29 @ Dickens, Calgary, AB
May 30 @ The Starlite Room, Edmonton, AB
May 31 @ Rickshaw Theater, Vancouver, BC
June 01 @ El Corazon, Seattle, WA
June 02 @ Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, OR
June 03 @ Holy Diver, Sacramento, CA
June 04 @ Whiskey a Go Go, West Hollywood, CA
June 05 @ Malones, Santa Ana, CA
June 06 @ Brick by Brick, San Diego, CA
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Gen Nashimoto, of Luminalt, holds a drill as he installs solar panels in Hayward, Calif., on Wednesday, April 29, 2020. From New York to California, the U.S renewable energy industry is reeling from the new coronavirus pandemic, which has delayed construction and sowed doubts about major projects on the drawing board. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
PARIS, April 22 (Reuters) - French energy major Total said on Wednesday it was awarded several solar power generation projects with a total capacity of around 135 megawatts (MW) in France's latest round of tenders awarded by energy market regulator CRE. Total said the projects will be operated through its Total Quadran subsidiary.
The U.S. Forest Service estimates that outside grills cause more than 6,000 fires, over 5 fatalities, more than 170 injuries, and $35 million in property loss per year.
Gas grills alone cause over 2,700 fires, 80 injuries, and $11 million damage. Most of the gas grill fires and explosions were caused by gas leaks, blocked tubes, and overfilled propane tanks. Solar ovens are safe as there are no burning charcoal or exposed open flames used as a heat source.
The Digital G-Shock: It is an innovative line-up based on the DW6900 series that add some great and essential features. First of all, these timepieces focus on the sporty, no-nonsense G-Shock styling, come in variable colours. The quite popular DW6900 collection features round face with bi-colour matte finish bands offering different designs on their exterior and interior sides.
Sunny weather, skies clear of pollution and relatively low temperatures helped lead to a new generation record for the technology on Monday lunchtime of 9.68 gigawatts, supplying nearly 30% of total power demand.
Researchers propose that the mysterious planet is 'collective gravity', which is a sprawling disk of icy debris that consists of millions of small bodies. The team theorizes that the disk has a mass several times that of Earth and is capable of shifting as it moves around the sun
The former Soviet republic of 34 million aims to increase its capacity to 29.3 gigawatts (GW) from the current 12.9 GW, and rely less on natural gas, which dominates its power mix at present, it said in a strategic plan.
Portugal's first mega auction of 1,150 MW of solar energy capacity last June attracted mainly international players, such as Spain's Iberdrola, France's Akuo Energy, Britain's Aura Power and Germany's Enerpac Projects.
This alluring timepiece with its marvellously designed dialgrabs the heart of a wearer easily. Its silver minute and hour hands along with the red seconds' hand give the model a splashing essence. This timepiece is really going to make the men motivated.
Watch the transit live online
The other way to catch the transit action is to kick back in your home or office and enjoy a livestreamed event. The Virtual Telescope Project will offer an online observation session starting at 4:30 a.m. PT.
They chose to look at stars that rotate once around their own axis within 20 to 30 days, though it does not determine the rotation period of all the stars, so the team had to consider other factors such as re-appearing dips in the star's lightcurve.
"It is conceivable that the Sun has been going through a quiet phase for thousands of years and that we therefore have a distorted picture of our star," explained Dr Timo Reinhold, first author of the new study, who published the findings in the Science journal.
The solar PV market is segmented on the basis of different systems such as CPV, hybrid and others. Solar photovoltaic market was dominated by the CPV system segment, which accounted for significant share in revenue generated in 2014. Furthermore, hybrid system used more than one renewable form of energy. Hybrid system is another growing segment and expected to be witness robust growth during the forecast period.
The sun - essentially a hot ball of hydrogen and helium - is an average-sized star that formed more than 4.5 billion years ago and is roughly halfway through its lifespan. Its diameter is about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km). Its surface temperature is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius).
The proposed $22 billion Asian Renewable Energy Hub combines wind turbines, solar panels, above and below-ground transmission cables and four subsea power cables intended to export hydrogen to southeast Asia.
The summit will feature Australian Industry Group chief Innes Willox, who will renew calls for a bipartisan energy policy and a reset in how the nation deals with climate change to reach net zero emissions.
Many such companies, operating in Africa and Asia, rely on small daily or weekly payments from poor consumers who use mobile money on their phones to buy solar power from mini-grids or cover instalments on loans for home solar systems.
No information was released about what went wrong with a "flexible and inflatable cargo return capsule" that was being tested as part of the mission. The China Manned Space Agency has said only that it operated abnormally during reentry on Wednesday and data is being analyzed.
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The 1893 World's Fair in Chicago featured some of the grandest neoclassical buildings ever created, but they seemed too ornate and ostentatious to many of the city's young, rising architects – among them, Frank Lloyd Wright. In reaction, Wright and other enterprising architects created the first authentic American design: the Prairie style.
Prairie homes are dominated by horizontal lines, which Wright felt made them uniquely American – echoing the open lands and huge lots on which many Prairie School homes were built. Prairie homes also commonly have low-pitched roofs, wide overhanging eves, porches and prominent square support pillars.
In this McCulloch Construction project in Eastmoreland, we removed a second-floor attic and rebuilt the entire existing 1½ story Ranch into a handsome Prairie style home.
This lovely home we remodeled has elements of both prairie style and craftsman.
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I might have gotten drunk last night, and brought the fried chicken and a drink in the shower with me. I like to take baths to relax, but they didn't have one in this hotel.
Are you sure that's not a bag of dried poop?
It just as well be, if someone says delicious in the same sentence as licorice and/or dates.
Chick Fil A waffle fries!
did you bring enough to share??
Oranges. Lots of Oranges. These were Navel oranges from Spain, just waiting for Egyptian oranges to arrive in stores.
Also, these are dirt cheap. 6 € / 10 kg ($6.85 / 22 lbs).
I'll take the coffee, tomato and if(paprika, TRUE).
Do we need to call ambulance on standby for you?


When it comes to muscle car movies, I've always enjoyed Vanishing Point over than the more mainstream Bullitt. But that comes with the territory. If you appreciated the Dodge E Body more than the other designs from that era, it would tend to sway your opinion on movies as well. Not to mention, a Charger was the "bad guy" in Bullitt. Battle lines drawn.
That being said, I'm not a monster. The fact that BOTH of the Bullitt Mustangs, one assumed dead, have reappeared in the last year certainly has me intrigued. And Ford making a big deal of the 50th anniversary of the car and film with a new 2019 Bullitt Mustang is impossible to ignore if you have a car lover's pulse.
The story of the original Bullitt Mustangs makes me long for a time when we could have such mystery in this world. In the age of the Internet, it's more difficult for a car to just disappear. As much as everyone wanted these cars to be found, there's something to be said for the intrigue of the unknown. Once the mystery is solved, a little something is lost.
As the story goes, the shooting of Bullitt wrapped, and the main two 1968 Ford Mustangs driven by Steve McQueen were no longer needed. One, the stunt car, was reportedly sold for scrap and crushed long ago. The other, the "hero car" was sold, but it's exact whereabouts haven't been known for years, although it was known that it was privately owned.
The first car that came back to the spotlight was the least likely. The stunt car that was assumed crushed was discovered and purchased in Mexico. The new owner, Hugo Sanchez, ironically purchased the car to turn it into a replica of the Eleanor Mustang from Gone in 60 Seconds. Needless to say, when the data came back on the car's origin, he scrapped that plan (junkyard pun).
With the buzz in the air, and the 50th anniversary looming, the current owner of the hero car, Sean Kiernan, decided to break his silence. The car had been with the family for several moves after the clutch went out of it in 1980. Sean's father, Richard, bought the car from a Road & Track classified in 1974 for a mere $6,000. From 1974-80, it had become a daily driver in the family.
Richard had planned to fix the car up, but like many of us, never got around to it. So there it sat, moving only when the family did, finally winding up near Nashville. Until now.
Ford has definitely capitalized on the Bullitt momentum with the new version of the Mustang rolling out with the recovered hero car at the Detroit Auto Show and getting McQueen's granddaughter involved in the promo.
But don't expect the car to be absorbed into Ford's collection – or anyone's for that matter. Sean's father passed away in 2014, and although the car is worth millions now (a reported $5 million), he says he won't ever sell it. The memories are more important. What a refreshing take on life. (Meanwhile, the Bullitt Charger was on the block – for $1 million – a few years back).
As for the new Bullitt Mustang Special Edition, it will be equipped with a 5.0-liter V-8 engine that will allow it to travel up to 163 mph thanks to 475 horsepower and 420 lb-ft of torque. Expect it to be available this summer.
With all the mysteries solved in the Bullitt case, I guess all that's left is to enjoy the stories – and the new Mustang. I suppose that's not too bad.


For the pot roast with porcini mushrooms: Season the beef well with 1 tablespoon salt and 1 1/2 teaspoons pepper all over and allow it to rest at room temperature for 15 minutes. Bring 1 cup of water just up to a boil and transfer to a small bowl along with the porcini mushrooms. Set them aside to rehydrate for 6 minutes.
Heat a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat, add the canola oil and allow it to get hot. Add the beef and brown on all sides for 3 to 4 minutes per side, a total of 6 to 8 minutes. Remove the beef from the pan and reduce the heat to medium. Add the garlic, celery, carrots and onion along with a small pinch of salt and pepper and saute until the veggies develop some color and cook down a bit, about 7 minutes.
Add the beef back in along with the wine, beef stock, rosemary and 2 cups of the marinara sauce. Add the rehydrated porcini mushrooms along with the soaking liquid, making sure to avoid the last few tablespoons because there will be some grit at the bottom of the bowl. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat to medium low. Cover and let cook for about 3 1/2 hours, flipping the meat halfway through.
After 3 1/2 hours, add the pearl onions. Turn the heat back up to medium high and cook, uncovered, for 20 more minutes, flipping the meat over halfway through. Remove the roast and allow it to rest for a bit before shredding it into large chunks. Skim the fat from the sauce. After shredding the meat, stir it back into the sauce.
For the polenta: Meanwhile, in a large pot, bring the milk and 5 cups water to a gentle boil. Add the polenta along with a good amount of salt and pepper and cook, stirring constantly, for about 5 minutes.
Turn the heat off, add the butter and cheese and stir until the butter and cheese melt. Top with a serving of the pot roast and sauce.
The polenta hardens as it sits.


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The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) is the statutory insurer of third-party personal liability (CTP insurance in other states) for road accidents in the State of Victoria, Australia. It was established under the Transport Accident Act 1986.

Its purpose is to fund treatment and support services for people injured in transport accidents. The TAC's support covers medical and non-medical expenses incurred as a result of an accident, for example income support for people whose injuries prevent them from performing normal job duties, or return to work programs, and equipment or aids, such as wheelchairs or crutches that are recommended by a healthcare professional. Funding used by the TAC to perform these functions comes from compulsory payments made by Victorian motorists when they register their vehicles each year with VicRoads.

The TAC also has a duty to help reduce accidents on Victorian roads. It is responsible for the majority of road safety advertising in the state.

History
In 1973, the Parliament of Victoria passed the Motor Accidents Act, which established the Motor Accidents Board to pay compensation to people injured in motor vehicle accidents. The Act granted a form of no-fault insurance to Victorian residents in certain circumstances, but victims retained their common law right to sue other drivers for fault or negligence, and the Board was prevented from providing compensation in some situations, such as where the victim's blood alcohol content at the time of the accident was above 0.05%.

Over the following decade, the compensation scheme was heavily criticised from two main perspectives: first, that the retention of common law rights discriminated between victims who could prove fault and those who could not; and second, that the scheme was financially unviable in the long term. In 1986, the Labor government under Premier John Cain proposed legislation that would re-establish the compensation scheme and completely eliminate the right of individuals to sue for damages in motor vehicle accidents. However, due to widespread political and public opposition, a compromise solution was arranged, whereby the no-fault compensation scheme would be radically expanded, but the most seriously injured victims would retain a right to damages. This solution was enshrined in law by the Transport Accident Act 1986, which established the Transport Accident Commission and became effective on 1 January 1987.

Public education campaigns

The TAC is known for its powerful road safety public education campaigns which emphasize the personal costs of dangerous driving practices (such as speeding and drunk driving) using emotive, educational and enforcement based themes.

In 1989, the increasing cost of accidents caused VicRoads and the TAC to adopt a new approach including:

 a significant boost to enforcement resources targeting speeding campaigns to sign-post change and help set the public agenda
 a sustained and community-based road safety bodies, and
 an emphasis on evaluating their effectiveness.

For its part, the TAC funds television and billboards coupled with high-impact advertising.

The TAC's most well known slogan is "If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot," which was introduced in 1989. This slogan has become a catchphrase in Australia, and has even been used in other countries (including Canada and New Zealand). It was replaced in 2011 with "Only a little bit over? You bloody idiot," to reflect the danger of low-level drink-driving.

Another well known slogan is "Don't fool yourself, speed kills," which was introduced in 1994. This was modified in 2013 to reflect low-level speeding to "Wipe off 5."

Other recognised TAC slogans from the 1990s include "Belt up, or suffer the pain," "Take a break, fatigue kills," "It's in your hands, concentrate or kill," and "Country people die on country roads."

A recent safety campaign drew attention to life-saving in-car technologies, such as Electronic Stability Control and curtain airbags. The aim of this campaign was to encourage car buyers to ask for these important safety features when purchasing their next car (the TAC has set up a website to promote this, www.howsafeisyourcar.com.au).  The Victorian Government has mandated this as a future design requirement.

In 2016, the TAC commissioned the lifelike figure depicting what a human would look like if the species evolved to survive car crashes known as Project Graham.

Video game advertising campaigns

On 10 March 2009, the TAC began in-game advertising in Saint's Row 2, and have their slogans featured on banners in Trackmania Nations.

In Grand Theft Auto IV, there is a homage to the "bloody idiot" slogan. If the player gets Niko drunk and makes him drive, either he or his drinking partner will say "Niko, if you drink then drive, you're a bloody idiot".

Australian Football League partnerships

The TAC has had partnerships with the Australian Football League and its teams to help road safety messages reach audiences at a grass-roots level.

Most famously, the TAC was the major sponsor of Richmond for 16 years through the "Drink, drive, bloody idiot" campaign, which saw the "Drink drive" message displayed on the team's jerseys which was terminated when a Richmond player was caught drink-driving. The TAC also sponsored Essendon from 1994 until 2000 with the "Don't fool yourself, speed kills" campaign, and Collingwood from 2002 until 2006 with the "Wipe off 5" message.

Non-AFL sporting partnerships
The TAC has been the major sponsor of the quasi-national under-18s Australian Rules Football league, known as the TAC Cup, since its inception in 1992. Outside Australian Rules, the TAC has partnerships with A-League side Melbourne Victory and the Australian Formula One Grand Prix.

References

External links
 Official Website
 TAC Official YouTube Channel
 TAC Road Safety Website
 How Safe is Your Car
 MAFMAD Make a film. Make a difference
 Spokes, Motorcycle safety website
 Investigation of audience perceptions of TAC road safety advertising

Transport in Victoria (Australia)
Government agencies of Victoria (Australia)
Government agencies established in 1987
1987 establishments in Australia
Road safety in Australia


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RIVANNA announces award from U.S. government to develop A...
RIVANNA announces award from U.S. government to develop Accuro Platform for rapid triage of blast-related injuries
Accuro XV
The Accuro XV is a portable, computer-aided, 3D fracture detection and diagnosis system for rapid, radiation-free, bedside fracture triage.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.	-	October 26, 2021	- (Newswire.com)
RIVANNA®, developers of imaging-based medical solutions, announced that they have received a contract from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for the design and development of a computer-aided 3D fracture detection and diagnosis product, called Accuro® XV. Under the contract 75A50121C00035, HHS/ASPR/BARDA will provide $11.6 million over 24 months with options for additional funding for supporting further development up to $65 million.
The project's overarching objective is to achieve a market-ready, clinically proven and FDA-cleared Accuro XV product for rapid, radiation-free fracture detection and aid triage in emergency medicine; a critical medical countermeasure to ensure timely triage for reduction of morbidity and mortality in mass-casualty blast trauma incidents, for which no field-deployable equipment for extremity fractures currently exists.
The Accuro XV is a portable medical system building on novel technologies that underpin RIVANNA's extensive patent portfolio, including BoneEnhance® Multi-Frequency Image Reconstruction, which optimizes ultrasound for the visualization of bony versus soft-tissue anatomy. Supporting this image reconstruction technology is Multi-Probe Multi-Angle BoneVision™, an automated image-acquisition technique based on a series of novel three-dimensional ultrasound-based bone-imaging technologies that increases angular image sensitivity to bone surfaces. BoneVision provides precisely captured bony anatomical structures within a large field of view and demonstrated performance detecting small fractures with high sensitivity and specificity.
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Will Mauldin, PhD, co-founder, and CEO of RIVANNA, commented, "We are pleased to receive this award from BARDA. With attainment of targeted product performance specifications, the clinical and economic value of Accuro XV is expected to result in an inevitable shift away from the current state of X-ray overutilization towards a radiation-free, bedside triage standard of care."
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RIVANNA® is elevating global standards of care through the development and commercialization of world-first imaging-based medical technologies, including BoneVision™ and BoneEnhance®, which optimize ultrasound image acquisition and visualization to provide radiation-free alternatives to X-ray-based imaging modalities. When paired with SpineNav3D™ AI-Enabled Image Recognition technology, these products offer comprehensive clinician-assistance solutions that improve decision-making, clinician workflows, health outcomes and patient satisfaction. RIVANNA is privately held and operates an FDA-registered and ISO 13485:2016 certified manufacturing facility where it produces the Accuro® product line and related medical equipment and components. For more information, visit rivannamedical.com.
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La Izquierda () es una alianza electoral y política entre partidos políticos italianos de orientación socialdemócrata y socialista, formada en febrero de 2019 para participar en las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 2019. Sus miembros principales son Izquierda Italiana (SI) y el Partido de la Refundación Comunista (PRC).

Historia
La izquierda es heredera directa de La Otra Europa con Tsipras, una coalición de izquierda que representaba movimientos contra las políticas de austeridad, que alcanzó el 4,03% en las elecciones europeas de 2014 al elegir a tres eurodiputados para el grupo GUE/NGL. Posteriormente, sin embargo, los dos partidos principales dejaron la coalición y en 2019 la lista de La Otra Europa con Tsipras cesó todas sus actividades.

En 2017 Izquierda Ecología Libertad de Nichi Vendola daría vida a Izquierda Italiana, partido que apoyó la lista Libres e Iguales en las elecciones de 2018. El Partido de la Refundación Comunista (PRC), en cambio, se sumó a la lista Poder al Pueblo en estas elecciones. Durante el año, sin embargo, Libres e Iguales se disolvió debido a desacuerdos internos en la lista, mientras que el PRC dejó Poder al Pueblo.

En febrero de 2019 tras meses de negociaciones fallidas con otros partidos, Maurizio Acerbo, secretario del PRC, lanza la propuesta de lista referente al Partido de la Izquierda Europea  antes de las elecciones europeas. Izquierda Italiana y otros partidos menores se unieron a esta propuesta. En abril, el símbolo  se eligió a través de consultas en línea y luego se presentó junto con el nombre y la lista corta de candidatos.

En las elecciones europeas la lista logró el 1,75% de los votos, sin lograr ningún eurodiputado. Debido al resultado por debajo de las expectativas, Nicola Fratoianni dimite como secretario de la Izquierda italiana, abriendo la fase de congreso del partido. Acerbo también renunciaría, pero el Comité Político Nacional del partido rechazó su renuncia.

El 9 de junio se celebra la primera asamblea nacional de La Izquierda, que analiza el resultado considerado decepcionante pero decide seguir por su camino político.

Ante la crisis del primer Gobierno Conte, la izquierda ha declarado que considera el retorno a la ley electoral proporcional como única prioridad.

Sin embargo, con el nacimiento del segundo Gobierno Conte, hay una división sustancial entre las dos fuerzas principales de la lista: mientras que el PRC se opone al nuevo gobierno, SI coloca un subsecretario (Giuseppe De Cristofaro) y por tanto forma parte de la mayoría.

La ruptura se confirma con motivo de las elecciones regionales de Emilia-Romaña en enero de 2020: mientras que LS, junto con Artículo Uno, apoya la lista Emilia-Romagna Valiente dentro de la coalición de centroizquierda, el PRC junto con el Partido Comunista Italiano y otras fuerzas menores apoya a un candidato alternativo (Stefano Lugli por La Otra Emilia-Romaña).

Composición
La coalición está formada por los siguientes partidos:

Resultados electorales

Parlamento Europeo

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Coaliciones electorales de Italia
Coaliciones electorales de izquierda