| Gathering celebrates value of women | | Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 3:07:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | Thursday night's sold-out Gather the Women event at Miners Foundry went beyond my wildest expectations. It was the fifth annual gathering in Nevada County, so it's not that I didn't know the drill. The energy in the room - the "feel" of the space - instantly made me at ease. The walls were lined with small altars of fresh flowers, candles, silk fabrics and statues of deities from many religions. Harp music flowed from the great hall, punctuated by the sounds of conversation and laughter. But it was the women's stories that grabbed me. It started with the small stories, as women chatted and introduced one another prior to the program. Then came the musical stories - some songs written expressly for the event - and the dancers, twirling the gold thread that symbolically connects us all.... | |
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| | | National Geographic Night Vision Monocular ($299.95) | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:08:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Just the thing for owl prowlers and bat spotters, National Geographic sells a professional-grade night-vision monocular that lets wildlife watchers see in the dark. Take it on your next nocturnal expedition. The monocular has an intensifier tube to provide the brightest image possible with a 3.1-power magnification. A powerful integrated infrared illuminator can be switched on if you need to see in complete darkness. The field of view is 628 feet at 1,000 yards. You can even use it in the rain since it is housed in a rubberized, water-resistant body. The monocular, with tripod mount, requires a pair of AA batteries, not included. Order at www.shop.nationalgeographic.com or call (800) 437-5521. Crest Glide To-Go Floss($3.99) This is a pretty handy little aid for getting rid of jet lag breath, especially since it isn't a liquid or gel and you don't have to worry about security regulations for airline carry-on.... | |
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| | | KING DAY EVENTS | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:25:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | ``Carry the Vision.'' Celebration honoring the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Event also will feature guest speaker LaDoris H. Cordell. 3-4:30 p.m. , First United Methodist Church, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto. Free. (650) 323-6167; www.firstpaloalto. com Martin Luther King discussion. Michael Honey and Clayborne Carson, King scholars will speak on a wide range of topics. 1 p.m. , Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. Free. (650) 324-4321; www.keplers. com The King Collection. Event features an exhibit of photographs and newspapers of the civil rights leader. Additionally, audio and video tapes of King will be available to check out. 1-5 p.m. today. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 150 E. San Fernando St., San Jose.... | |
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| | | DRS Gets Night Vision Contract | | Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:17:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Parsippany-based defense contractor DRS Technologies (NYSE: DRS) announced has been awarded a multi-year contract valued at about $145 million to provide vision-enhancing technology for U.S. Army combat vehicles operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. The technology, called Driver Vision Enhancer A-Kits, is designed to improve drivers vision in hazardous, low-visibility conditions during both day and night. The systems will support Army and Marine Corps. troops. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Armys Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (CELCMC) Acquisition Center in Fort Monmouth. This new award reflects the continued priority placed by the Department of Defense on expanding the Armys ability to operate vehicles more effectively during night operations and under obscured battlefield conditions, said Richard S.... | |
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| | | USA. FLIR Systems announces new affordable night vision for ... | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:10:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR), a leader in thermal imaging and stabilized camera systems, has announced an affordable new thermal imager for the recreational maritime market. The FLIR Navigator series empowers boaters with the ability to safely and confidently navigate at night and during other hazardous low-visibility conditions such as light fog, smoke and haze. FLIR has leveraged the same rigorously tested thermal imaging technology found in FLIRs military vision systems into its Navigator. Unlike night-vision scopes that require light to provide an image, the Navigator features a proprietary imaging technology originally designed for use in combat. Housed in a rugged, waterproof enclosure, the Navigator provides a wide angle image that can be viewed on virtually any existing multi-function display.... | |
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| | | In Fridley, a utopian vision for housing | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:07:12 AM by Blog57 Team | | A developer and residents in Fridley want to buck the isolation of a garage-door-goes-up, garage-door-goes-down lifestyle. Island Park will be the first new cohousing development in the state in years -- a close-knit place where a self-governing group of neighbors might share a community garden, gather for a movie night or even forage for food in a shared plot filled with chestnut trees, raspberry bushes and strawberry plants.The residents might chip in for a few kayaks to use on the Mississippi River, which passes nearby. There's talk of an exercise room and meditation room. Need to use a circular saw or find child care? There could even be shared power tools and baby sitters.The community has started to take shape in existing apartments and duplexes that are being renovated by developer Grant Rudolph.... | |
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| | | Chelton Flight Systems' Synthetic Vision EFIS Approved for Eurocopter EC120 | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:10:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Boise Idaho, (November 10th, 2006) – Chelton Flight Systems, part of the Cobham Avionics and Surveillance Division, has been granted FAA STC (Supplemental Type Certificate) approval of the Chelton Synthetic Vision EFIS (Electronic Flight Instrument System) in the Eurocopter EC 120B Helicopter. The STC (STC# SR01673SE) was developed in conjunction with Hillsboro Aviation Inc, and will be available in a standard two screen system with a Primary Flight Display (PDF) and a Multifunction Flight Display (MFD) and an optional three screen system with one PFD and two MFDs. "This approval will supplement our existing family of STC's on the Eurocopter AS 350/355 helicopters," said David Thomas, Chelton's Helicopter Program Director. "We endeavor to support Eurocopter by giving their customers the ability to install the Chelton Flight System into one of their best selling product lines, the EC 120B." The test aircraft is installed with the three screen configuration.... | |
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| | | B.J. Schecter: New Jersey finally seeing Schiano's vision | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:07:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Greg Schiano preached and pleaded and spread his vision for Rutgers football to anyone who would listen. He threw around the catch phrases "State of Rutgers" and "national power" and never swayed from his belief -- even when the Scarlet Knights were losing to Miami 61-0. But even the perpetually upbeat coach couldn't have imagined this. Rutgers as the center of the college football universe, under the lights on national television in a red-clad atmosphere that rivaled any in the SEC, Big Ten or Big 12. The Empire State building was lit up in scarlet, fans arrived eight, 10 hours early for Rutgers' showdown with No. 3 Louisville, and the team that was once the laughingstock of college football played like it belonged. "I don't usually do this, but right before kickoff I took off my headset, looked around and said, 'Wow, this is really something,'"Schiano said after his team's improbable 28-25 victory on Jeremy Ito's 28-yard field goal with 13 seconds remaining.... | |
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| | | Design Team visit offers vision of city's future | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:21:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | Behind a large-screen montage of images from their tiny city's rural past, close to 100 of Maple Plain's residents and business owners filed across the gleaming hardwood floor of the Orono Discovery Center's gymnasium, Oct 28, hoping to find some direction in the quest to breathe life into the place they call, "home."Those who didn't make their way to one of the folding metal chairs set out in neat rows facing the former elementary school's stage, ambled around the room glancing over the poster pages of handwritten notes from the previous night's community gathering that hung from masking tape along the gymnasium walls.The occasion was the second of a two-evening event aimed at garnering a collective notion of how the place Maple Plainers call home will look in years to come - physically and economically.An effort spear-headed by Maple Plain Planning Commission chair Brian Nowak, culminated in the Oct.... | |
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| | | Dewbridge Deploys Energid Robotic Vision Technology for AutoDocker(TM) Jet Bridges at Denver Airport | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:32:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | United Airlines has cut aircraft turnaround time with Dewbridge Airport Systems' new dual-end passenger boarding bridge, the AutoDocker(TM) bridge, a movable walkway connecting a parked aircraft to an airport terminal building. The new bridge is robotic. It automatically senses doors with computer vision and moves into a docking position. By connecting to both the front and rear doors of an aircraft, it halves boarding and deplane time. Dewbridge selected Energid Technologies' advanced machine vision and 3D object recognition technology to perform aircraft door detection. Energid's all-weather vision software works with different paint patterns in different lighting conditions. "This system finds aircraft doors day and night, in rain, fog, and snow," said David Askey, Energid Technologies' architect of the door-detection vision system.... | |
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