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Sawed-off shotgun

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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A sawed-off, break-open shotgun of the type commonly known as a Lupara



A short-barreled, pump-action shotgun with an 8.5″ barrel and shortened tubular magazine

A sawed-off shotgun (US) also known as a sawn-off shotgun (UK, IRL, AU, NZ; also used in US) or a short-barreled shotgun (or SBS) (U.S., legislative terminology), is a type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel and often a shorter or deleted stock. Compared to a standard shotgun, the sawed-off shotgun has a shorter effective range, but the same destructive power. Its reduced size makes it easier to maneuver and conceal. Such a powerful and compact weapon is especially suitable for use in small spaces, such as by vehicle crews, and entry teams running through doorways (see entry shotgun). To make shotguns less concealable, many jurisdictions have a minimum legal length for shotgun barrels. Most gun makers in the U.S. do not offer sawed-off shotguns to the public, although aftermarket companies and Special Occupational Taxpayers exist to legally convert most name brand shotguns into such weapons, assuming payment of either a $200.00 or $5.00 Federal fee for transferring ownership.

As its name implies, the sawed-off shotgun is usually produced by home-made modification of a standard shotgun. In countries where handguns and pistol ammunition are rare due to legal restrictions or high price, criminals are known to convert legal or stolen hunting weapons into concealable weapons. For criminal organizations, the availability of standard hunting ammunition (by theft or transaction) is another advantage of sawed-off shotguns. However, this practice is not limited to localities where handguns are difficult to obtain. Sawed-off shotguns may be made for a number of reasons, such as the reputation they have gained through portrayal in action movies.

The term most genuinely applies to illegal weapons that were created by literally sawing off a regular shotgun’s barrel. Sawing off has the most dramatic effect when applied to double-barreled shotguns or single-shot shotguns. Pump-action or semi-automatic shotguns have a tube magazine attached to the underside of the barrel which limits the minimum barrel length to the length of the magazine tube (although this too can be shortened, with a corresponding loss in magazine capacity). Shotguns with box magazines do not lose capacity when sawn off, but they are far less common than those with tubular magazines. Shotguns manufactured with barrels under the legal minimum length, while not literally “sawed-off” shotguns, are usually regarded the same as shotguns that were made illegal through modification.

Contents

1 Legal issues

2 Police and military use

3 Barrel length and shot spread

4 Civilian usage

5 See also

6 References

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Legal issues

Australia - a shotgun may not have its barrel shortened so as to change the category that shotgun would be classified under. Any alteration to the length of the barrel would require permission from the Chief Commissioner of Police in each state .

Canada - short-barreled, manually-operated shotguns (non-semi-automatics) are non-restricted as long as the barrel remains unmodified from the original factory length. There is no legal minimum for shotgun barrels as long as the overall length exceeds 26″ and so shotguns with barrels as short as 6.5 inches are available in Canada. If a shotgun with an 18-inch or greater barrel is reduced to below 18 inches by sawing, cutting, or replacing the barrel (by anyone other than a recognized gun manufacturer), that shotgun becomes prohibited.

UK - a shotgun sawn-off to the extent that the barrel is less than 30 cm or the overall length is less than 60 cm is deemed to be a ’short-barreled’ shotgun and thus prohibited.

United States - due to the National Firearms Act, it is illegal for a private citizen to possess a sawed-off modern smokeless powder shotgun (a barrel length less than 18 in. or 46 cm and an overall length less than 26 inches) without a tax-stamped permit from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which requires an extensive background check and a $200.00 fee for every transfer. (Short-barreled blackpowder shotguns, in contrast, are not illegal by federal law and require no tax-stamped permit, although they may be illegal under state law.) A new tax stamp must be purchased with every transfer of a modern smokeless powder short-barrelled shotgun, and transfers must be made through a Class III Federal Firearms Licensed (FFL) dealer.

Additional restrictions may apply in many other jurisdictions. State and local laws may entirely prohibit civilian possession of short-barrelled shotguns. (These restrictions do not apply to military and police departments.) In addition, some firearm types that would normally be considered to fall into the Short Barrel Shotgun (SBS) category are not legally considered to be a SBS. A shotgun is legally defined as a shoulder mounted firearm that fires shot. Shotguns and shotgun receivers that have never had a buttstock of any type installed are not shotguns, as they cannot be shoulder mounted. Therefore, cutting one of these below the 18″ barrel and/or 26″ overall length cannot produce a SBS as the firearm was never a shotgun. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives recognizes these firearms as being a smooth bore handgun which is an Any Other Weapon (AOW). Unlike a SBS, an AOW only carries a $5.00 tax and can be moved interstate without Federal approval. However, to maintain its AOW status, one may generally not have a buttstock (making it a SBS) or a rifled slug barrel (making it a Destructive Device (DD); a handgun with a bore over 0.5″). Both SBS and DD weapons require a $200 transfer tax and prior Federal approval to transport interstate.

Police and military use

Minimum length and barrel length restrictions only apply to civilian use; military and police departments may issue short-barreled shotguns, and major manufacturers offer special models with barrels in the range of 10 to 14 inches (25-36cm) as riot shotguns or combat shotguns for use in areas with restricted space. These are generally referred to as “entry shotguns”, as they are generally used for entering buildings, where the short, easy handling is more important than the increased ammunition capacity of a longer shotgun. Another use for very short shotguns is for use with breaching rounds, which are usually made of sintered powdered metal, although a normal buckshot or bird shot round will also work. A shotgun is used for breaching by placing the gun next to a door lock (0 to 2 inches away, 0 to 5 cm), and firing at a 45 degree downward angle through the door between the lock or latch and the door frame. The impact of the projectile(s) opens a hole through the door, removing the latch or locking bolt. Once through the door, the shot or sintered metal disperses quickly, and since it was aimed downwards, the risk of harming occupants on the other side of the breached door is minimized. Breaching guns used by police and the military may have barrels as short as 10 inches (25cm), and they often have only a pistol grip rather than a full butt stock. Some models use a special cup-like muzzle extension to further minimize the risk of debris injuring the shooter. Since only a couple of rounds are fired, any sporting shotgun with a 3 round capacity could be shortened and used as a capable breaching shotgun.

Barrel length and shot spread

Shortening the length of a shotgun barrel does not significantly affect the pattern or spread of the pellets until it is decreased under 50% of the original . The pattern is primarily impacted by the type of cartridge fired and the choke, or constriction normally found at the muzzle of a shotgun barrel. Cutting off the end of the barrel will remove the choke, which…
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The Best Polish Songs… Ever!

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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The Best Polish Songs… Ever!

Compilation album by Various Artists

Released

November 30, 2007

Genre

Pop, Rock

Length

more than 240 min

Label

EMI

Various Artists chronology

The Best Classics… Ever! vol. 2(2007)

The Best Polish Songs… Ever!(2007)

The Best Love… Ever!(2008)

The Best Polish Songs… Ever!- is a compilation released by EMI in late 2007. Generally, it has been released for Poles, who live abroad (in other country than Poland) and for polish music’s fans.

Contents

1 Track listing

1.1 CD 1

1.2 CD 2

1.3 CD 3

1.4 CD 4

2 External links

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Track listing

CD 1

Wilki- “Ba?ka”

Myslovitz- “Ch?opcy”

Virgin- “Znak pokoju”

Bajm- “Szklanka wody”

O.N.A.- “Kiedy powiem sobie do??”

Edyta Bartosiewicz- “Sen”

Brathanki- “Czerwone korale”

Kayah & Goran Bregovic - “Prawy do lewego”

Maanam- “Boskie Buenos”

Kasia Kowalska- “Jak rzecz”

Hey- “Teksa?ski”

Andrzej Piaseczny- “Szcz??cie jest blisko”

De Mono- “Statki na niebie”

Kombii- “S?odkiego mi?ego ?ycia”

Formacja Niw?ywych Schabuff- “Lato”

Ch?opcy z Placu Broni- “Kocham Ci?”

Kukiz i Piersi- “Ca?uj mnie”

Lady Pank- “Mniej ni? zero”

Rezerwat- “Zaopiekuj si? mn?”

CD 2

Krzysztof Kilja?ski feat. Kayah- “Prz Ciebie nic”

Ryszard Rynkowski- “Dziewczyny lubi? br?z”

Blue Caf- “Do nieba, do piek?a”

Kasia Cerekwicka- “Na kolana”

Ewelina Flinta- “?a?uj?”

Feel- “A gdy jest ju? ciemno”

Chyli?ska- “Winna”

Patrycja Markowska- “?wiat si? pomyli?”

Marcin Rozynek- “Si?acz”

Beata- “Siedz? i my?l?”

Goya- “Tylko mnie kochaj”

Sidney Polak feat. Pezet- “Otwieram wino”

Reni Jusis- “Kiedy? Ci? znajd?”

Kayah- “Supermanka”

Anita Lipnicka- “I wszystko si? mo?e zdarzy?”

Justyna Steczkowska- “Dziewczyna szamana”

Edyta Gniak- “Jestem kobiet?”

Varius Manx- “Zanim zrozumiesz”

Natalia Kukulska- “Im wi?cej Ciebie tym mniej”

Olga Szyam?ska, Przmys?aw Brenny- “Niech mi?, ?e to nie jest mi?o??”

CD 3

Raz Dwa Trzy- “Nikt nikogo (i tak warto ?y?)”

Republika- “Zapytaj mnie czy ci? kocham”

Grzegorz Turnau- “Mi?dzy cisz? a cisz?”

Strachy na Lachy- “Dzie? Dobry Kocham Ci?”

Szwagierkolaska- “U cioci na imieninach”

Kult- “Gdy nie ma dzieci”

Elektryczne Gitary- “W?osy”

Stanis?aw Soyka- “Tolerancja (Na mi?y B)”

Coma- “Spadam”

R?e Europy- “Jedwab”

T.Love- “King”

Kluas Mitffoch - “Jezu, jak si? ciesz?”

Perfect- “Autobiografia”

Aya RL- “Ska”

Tilt- “Mi? Ci, ?e”

Breakout- “Kiedy by?em ma?ym ch?opcem”

Daab- “W moim ogrodzie”

Sztywny Pal Azji- “?o?e w kolorze czerwonym”

Kobranocka- “Kocham Ci? jak Irlandi?”

Kazik- “Maciek, ja tylko ?artowa?em”

CD 4

Anita Lipnicka & John Porter- “Bones Of Love”

Myslovitz- “Sound Of Solitude”

Wilki- “Son Of The Blue Sky”

T.Love- “He Was Born To Be Taxi Driver”

Maanam- “Lipstick On The Glass’

The Car Is On Fire- “Cranks”

Stanis?aw Soyka- “You Are So Beautiful”

Edyta Gniak- “When You Come Back To Me”

Tatiana Okupnik- “Don’t Hold Back”

Natalia Kukulska- “Sexi Flexi”

Reni Jusis- “It’s Not Enough”

Edyta Bartosiewicz- “Good Bye To The Roman Candles”

Makowiecki Band- “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”

Blue Caf- “You May Be In Love”

Goya- “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Pati Yang- “All This Is Thirst”

Agressiva 69- “Situations”

External links

album description



v?d?eThe Best… Ever!

The Best Smooth Jazz

The Best Smooth Jazz… Ever! ? The Best Smooth Jazz… Ever! vol. 2 ? The Best Smooth Jazz… Ever! vol. 3

The Best Classics

The Best Classics… Ever! ? The Best Classics… Ever! vol. 2

The Best Polish Songs

The Best Polish Songs… Ever! ? The Best Polish Love Songs… Ever!

Other

The Best Samba… Ever! ? The Best Christmas… Ever! ? The Best Rock Ballads… Ever! ? The Best Disco… Ever! ? The Best Love… Ever! ? The Best Kids… Ever! ? The Best Film… Ever!

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Inchworm motor

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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The inchworm motor is a device that uses piezoelectric actuators to move a shaft with nanometer precision.



Figure 1. Diagram of Piezo Inchworm Motor in action.



Figure 2. Six Step Actuation Processes of the Piezo Inchworm Motor.

In its simplest form, the inchworm motor uses three piezo-actuators (2 and 3, see Figure 1.) mounted inside a tube (1) and electrified in sequence to grip a shaft (4) which is then moved in a linear direction. Motion of the shaft is due to the extension of the lateral piezo (2) pushing on two clutching piezos (3).

Operation

The actuation process of the inchworm motor is a six step cyclical process after the initial relaxation and initialization phase. Initially, all three piezos are relaxed and unextended. To initialize the inchworm motor the clutching piezo closest to the direction of desired motion (which then becomes the forward clutch piezo) is electrified first then the six step cycle begins as follows (see Figure 2.):

Step 1. Extension of the lateral piezo.

Step 2. Extension of the aft clutch piezo.

Step 3. Relaxation of the forward clutch piezo.

Step 4. Relaxation of the lateral piezo.

Step 5. Extension of the forward clutch piezo.

Step 6. Relaxation of the aft clutch piezo.

Electrification of the piezo actuators is accomplished by applying a high bias voltage to the actuators in step according to the “Six Step” process described above.

Uses

Scanning Tunneling MicroscopyThe inchworm motor is commonly used in scanning tunneling microscopes (STM’s). An STM requires nanometer scale control of its scanning tip near the material it is observing. This control can be accomplished by connecting the scanning tip to the shaft of the inchworm motor. The inchworm motor, in turn, allows control in a direction normal to the plane of the observed material’s surface. Movement across the surface is commonly referred to as movement in the x-y plane, whereas movement normal to the surface is commonly referred to as movement in the z-direction. Movement of the scanning tip by the inchworm motor is either manually controlled or automatically controlled by connecting the motor to a feedback system.

Patch ClampingThe inchworm motor can be used in the patch clamping of cells. This technique is most often performed with an optical microscope and requires micro-manipulation of a glass pipette. The inchworm motor is particularly ideal in patch clamping because it provides the operator with virtually an instantaneous, precise, smooth and predictable motion without drift.

External links

Miniature Piezo Stepping Motor Principle

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Synchronous motor ? AC motor ? DC motor

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Adjustable-speed drive ? Amplidyne ? Direct torque control ? Direct on line starter ? Electronic speed control ? Metadyne ? Motor controller ? Variable-frequency drive ? Ward Leonard control ? Thyristor drive

See also

Barlow’s Wheel ? Nanomotor ? Traction motor ? Lynch motor ? Mendocino motor ? Repulsion motor ? Inchworm motor ? Booster (electric power) ? Brush (electric) ? Electrical generator

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Single-wire earth return

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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Canadian SWER line

Single wire earth return (SWER ) or single wire ground return is a single-wire transmission line for supplying single-phase electrical power from an electrical grid to remote areas at low cost. It is principally used for rural electrification, but also finds use for larger isolated loads such as water pumps, and light rail. Single wire earth return is also used for HVDC over submarine power cables.

Contents

1 Description

2 History

3 Characteristics

3.1 Safety

3.2 Cost advantage

3.3 Reliability strengths

3.4 Power quality weakness

4 Networks and circuits

5 Regulatory issues

6 Use in interties

7 Use by developing nations

8 Use for HVDC systems

8.1 Examples of HVDC systems with single wire earth return

9 References

10 External articles and links

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Description

SWER is a choice for a distribution system when conventional return current wiring would cost more than SWER isolation transformers and small power losses. Power engineers experienced with both SWER and conventional power lines rate SWER as equally safe, more reliable, less costly, but with slightly lower efficiency than conventional lines.

Power is supplied to the SWER line by an isolating transformer of up to 300 kVA. This isolates the grid from ground or earth, and changes the grid voltage (typically 22 kilovolts line to line) to the SWER voltage (typically 12.7 or 19.1 kilovolts line to earth).

The SWER line is a single conductor that may stretch for tens or even hundreds of kilometres, visiting a number of termination points. At each termination point, such as a customer’s premises, current flows from the line, through the primary coil of a step-down transformer, to earth through an earth stake. From the earth stake, the current eventually finds its way back to the main step-down transformer at the head of the line, completing the circuit.[citation needed] SWER is therefore a practical example of a phantom loop.

The secondary winding of the local transformer will supply the customer with either single ended single phase (N-0) or split phase (N-0-N) power in the region standard appliance voltages, with the 0 volt line connected to a safety earth that does not normally carry an operating current.

A large SWER line may feed as many as 80 distribution transformers. The transformers are usually rated at 5kVA, 10kVA and 25kVA. The load densities are usually below 0.5kVA per kilometer (0.8kVA per mile) of line. Any single customer maximum demand will typically be less than 3.5kVA, but larger loads up to the capacity of the distribution transformer can also be supplied.

Some SWER systems in the USA are conventional distribution feeders that were built without a continuous neutral (most likely obsoleted transmission lines that were refitted for rural distribution service). The substation feeding such lines has a grounding rod on each pole within the substation; then on each branch from the line, the span between the pole next to and the pole carrying the transformer would have a grounded conductor (giving each transformer two grounding points for safety reasons).

History

At the end of the 19th century, Nikola Tesla demonstrated that only a single wire was necessary for power systems, with no need for a wired return conductor (using the Earth instead). Lloyd Mandeno fully developed SWER in New Zealand around 1925 for rural electrification. Although he termed it arth Working Single Wire Line it was often called andeno Clothesline. More than 200,000 kilometres have now been installed in Australia and New Zealand. It is considered safe, reliable and low cost, provided that safety features and earthing are correctly installed. The Australian standards are widely used and cited. It has been applied in Saskatchewan, Brazil, Africa, portions of the United States’ Upper Midwest, and SWER interties have been proposed for Alaska and prototyped.

Characteristics

Safety

SWER violates common wisdom about electrical safety, because it lacks a traditional metallic return to a neutral shared by the generator. SWER safety is instead assured because transformers isolate the ground from both the generator and user. However, certain groups claim that stray voltages from SWER can injure livestock.

Grounding is critical because of the significant currents on the order of 8amperes that flow through the ground near the earth points, so a good-quality earth connection is needed to prevent risk of electric shock due to earth potential rise near this point. Separate grounds for power and safety are also used. Duplication of the ground points assures that the system is still safe if either of the grounds is damaged.

A good earth connection is normally a 6m stake of copper-clad steel driven vertically into the ground, and bonded to the transformer earth and tank. A good ground resistance is 510 ohms. SWER systems are designed to limit the voltage in the earth to 20 volts per meter to avoid shocking people and animals that might be in the area.

Other standard features include automatic reclosing circuit breakers (reclosers). Most faults (overcurrent) are transient. Since the network is rural, most of these faults will be cleared by the recloser. Each service site needs a rewirable drop out fuse for protection and switching of the transformer. The transformer secondary should also be protected by a standard high-rupture capacity (HRC) fuse or low voltage circuit breaker. A surge arrestor (spark gap) on the high voltage side is common, especially in lightning-prone areas.

Bare-wire or ground-return telecommunications can be compromised by the ground-return current if the grounding area is closer than 100m or sinks more than 10A of current. Modern radio, optic fibre channels and cell phone systems are unaffected.

Cost advantage

SWER main advantage is its low cost. It is often used in sparsely populated areas where the cost of building an isolated distribution line cannot be justified. Capital costs are roughly 50% of an equivalent two-wire single-phase line. They can be 70% less than 3-wire three-phase systems. Maintenance costs are roughly 50% of an equivalent line.

SWER also reduces the largest cost of a distribution network, the number of poles. Conventional 2-wire or 3-wire distribution lines have a higher power transfer capacity, but can require seven poles per kilometre, with spans of 100m to 150m. SWER high line voltage and low current permits the use of low-cost galvanized steel wire. Steel greater strength permits spans of 400m or more, reducing the number of poles to 2.5/km.

Reinforced concrete poles have been traditionally used in SWER lines because of their low cost, low maintenance, and resistance to water damage, termites and fungus. Local labor can produce them in most areas, further lowering costs.

If the cable contains optic fibre, or carries telephone service, this can further amortize the capital costs.

Reliability strengths

SWER can be used in a grid or loop, but is usually arranged in a linear or radial layout to save costs. In the customary linear form, a single-point failure in a SWER line causes all customers further down the line to lose power. However, since it has fewer components in the field, SWER has less to fail. For example, since there is only one line, winds can cause lines to clash, removing a source of damage, as well as a source of rural brush fires.

Since the line can’t clash in the wind, and the bulk of the transmission line has low resistance attachments to earth, excessive ground currents from shorts and geomagnetic storms are far more rare than in conventional metallic-return systems. So, SWER has fewer ground-fault circuit-breaker…
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Ball joint

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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A VW ball joint

In an automobile, ball joints are spherical bearings that connect the control arms to the steering knuckles. More specifically, a ball joint is a steel bearing stud and socket enclosed in a steel casing. The bearing stud is tapered and threaded. It fits into a tapered hole in the steering knuckle. A protective encasing prevents dirt from getting into the joint assembly. Motion control ball joints tend to be retained with an internal spring, which helps to prevent vibration problems in the linkage. Commonly found in automotive throttle linkages and throttle body set ups, these are also widely used on construction equipment and on the end of gas springs.

Contents

1 Theory

2 Purpose

3 Maintenance

4 See also

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Theory

A ball joint is used for allowing three rotations. It fixes the three possible translations (X,Y,Z).

Purpose

Ball joints are the pivot between the wheels and the suspension of an automobile. Ball joints play a critical role in the safe operation of an automobile’s steering and suspension. Ball joints can also be found in most linkage systems for motion control applications, and should not be confused with spherical rod end bearings, which are a different design.Ball joints are also used in prosthetic limbs as the head of the femur. These joints are often made of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWP), to prevent material degradation.

Maintenance

Sealed ball joints do not require lubrication as they are “lubed for life” but standard ball joints must be lubed from time to time. It’s best to inspect standard ball joints once a year. Generally speaking, standard ball joints will outlive sealed ones because eventually the seal will break, causing the joint to dry out and rust. While there is no exact lifespan that can be put on a sealed ball joint, they can fail as early as 80,000miles. Signs of a failing ball joint start with a clicking or snapping sound when the wheel is turned and eventually turns into a squeaking sound at the end of a stop, when the gas pedal is used and/or also when hitting bumps. Another symptom could be ‘thud’ noises coming from front suspension when going over bumps.

If a ball joint fails, the results can be dangerous as the wheel’s angle will be unconstrained, causing loss of control. Because the tire will be at an unintended angle, the vehicle will come to an abrupt halt damaging the tires. Also, during failure, debris can damage other parts of the vehicle.

See also

Rod end bearing (heim joint)

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King Wakeman Album

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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Battery cage

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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In industrial agriculture, battery cages (often called laying cages in the United States) are a confinement system used primarily for egg-laying chickens. The battery cage has generated controversy among advocates for animal welfare and animal rights.

Contents

1 History

2 Animal welfare

3 Politics

4 See also

5 References

6 External links

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History

An early reference to battery cages appears in Milton Arndt’s 1931 book, Battery Brooding, where he reports that his cage flock was healthier and had higher egg production than his conventional flock.At this early date, battery cages all ready had the sloped floor that allowed eggs to roll to the front of the cage, where they were easily collected by the farmer and out of the hens’ reach. Arndt also mentions the use of conveyor belts under the cages to remove manure, which provides better air control quality and eliminates fly breeding.

Battery cages were an extension of the technology used in battery brooders, which were cages with a wire mesh floor and integral heating elements for brooding baby chicks. The wire floor allowed the manure to pass through, removing it from the chicks’ environment and eliminating manure-borne diseases.

Early battery cages were often used for selecting hens based on performance, since it is easy to track how many eggs each hen is laying if only one hen is placed in a cage. Later, this was combined with artificial insemination, giving a technique where each egg’s parentage is known. This method is still used today.

Early reports about battery cages were enthusiastic. Arndt reported:

“This form of battery is coming into widespread use throughout the country and apparently is solving a number of the troubles encountered with laying hens in the regular laying house on the floor. In the first edition of this book I spoke of my experimental work with 220 pullets which were retained for one year in individual cages. At the end of this year it was found that the birds confined in the batteries outlaid considerably the same size flock in the regular houses. The birds consume less feed than those on the floor and this coupled with the increased production made them more profitable than the same number of pullets in the laying house.

A number of progressive poultrymen from all over the United States and some in foreign countries cooperated with me in carrying on experimental work with this type of battery and each and every one of them were very well satisfied with the results obtained. In fact, a number of them have since placed their entire laying flocks in individual hen batteries.”

The use of laying batteries increased gradually, becoming the dominant method somewhat before the integration of the egg industry in the 1960s. In 1990, North and Bell reported that 75% of all commercial layers in the world and 95% in the United States were kept in cages.

By all accounts a caged layer facility is more expensive to build than high-density floor confinement, but can be cheaper to operate if designed to minimize labor.

North and Bell report the following advantages to laying cages:

1. It is easier to care for the pullets; no birds are underfoot. 2. Floor eggs are eliminated. 3. Eggs are cleaner. 4. Culling is expedited. 5. In most instances, less feed is required to produce a dozen eggs. 6. Broodiness is eliminated. 7. More pullets may be housed in a given house floor space. 8. Internal parasites are eliminated. 9. Labor requirements are generally much reduced

They also cite disadvantages to cages:

1. The handling of manure may be a problem. 2. Generally, flies become a greater nuisance. 3. The investment per pullet may be higher than in the case of floor operations. 4. There is a slightly higher percentage of blood spots in the eggs. 5. The bones are more fragile and processors often discount the fowl price.

Note that disadvantages 1 and 2 can be eliminated by manure conveyors as pioneered by Arndt.

In general, farmers and poultry scientists who have used both floor confinement and cages do not seem to have felt that cages were either ineffective or inhumane, though there was considerable criticism of individual installations that were too expensive or were poorly designed to yield the all-important reduction in labor inputs.

Animal welfare



Battery cage

The main disadvantages of battery cages relate to the welfare of the hens. Several studies have indicated that a combination of high calcium demand for egg production and a lack of exercise lead to a painful condition known as cage layer osteoporosis, which increases the chances that hens in battery cages will break their bones..

However, it is the behavioural effects of keeping hens in cramped and barren conditions that is the main concern of both animal welfare organisations and scientists studying animal welfare. The Scientific Veterinary Committee of the European Commission stated that “enriched cages and well designed non-cage systems have already been shown to have a number of welfare advantages over battery systems in their present form”.



Battery cages

Animal Welfare scientists have been critical of battery cages because they do not provide hens with sufficient space to stand, walk, flap their wings, perch or make a nest, and it is widely considered that hens suffer through boredom and frustration through being unable to perform these behaviours

Supporters of battery farming contend that alternative systems such as free range also have welfare problems, such as increases in cannibalism and injurious pecking. A recent review of welfare in battery cages made the point that such welfare issues are problems of management unlike the issues of behavioural deprivation, which are inherent in a system that keeps hens in such cramped and barren conditions . Free range egg producers can limit or eliminate injurious pecking through such strategies as providing environmenal enrichment, feeding mash instead of pellets, keeping roosters in with the hens, and arranging nest boxes so hens are not exposed to each others’ rears.

Politics

Following advice from the European Scientific Veterinary Committee and lobbying from animal welfare groups the European Commission passed Council Directive 1999/74/EC phasing out battery cages by 2012.. Germany moved to include enriched cages in the phase out (Bill passed by Bundesrat on 19 October 2001). Battery cages have also been banned in Switzerland since 1992, in Sweden since 1999, in Finland since 2005, and in Austria since 2009.

The New Zealand government was under a great deal of pressure to phase out battery cages after the Animal Welfare Act of 2000 stipulated that animals must be able to “display normal patterns of behaviour”. However, in spite of the requirements of the Act, and extensive support from the public, the New Zealand government declined to phase out battery cages, and there is strong…
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City and County of San Francisco

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Blake v. City and County of San Francisco

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued January 30, 1885Decided March 2, 1885

Full case name

Flagg v. Walker

Holding

Court membership

Chief JusticeMorrison Waite

Associate JusticesSamuel F. Miller Stephen J. FieldJoseph P. Bradley John M. HarlanWilliam B. Woods T. Stanley MatthewsHorace Gray Samuel Blatchford

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Blake v. City and County of San Francisco, 113 U.S. 679 (1885), was an appeal from a decree that dismissed a bill filed by the appellant to restrain the infringement by the appellees of reissued letters patent granted to the appellant as the assignee of original letters patent issued to Thomas H. Bailey. The original patent was dated February 9, 1864, and the reissue September 18, 1877. They were for “a new and improved valve for water cylinders of steam fire engines and other pump cylinders.” The specification, which was substantially the same in both patents, stated that previous to the invention therein described, the only valve used to relieve the pressure upon fire hose to prevent them from bursting was one operated by hand. To obviate the defects of such a valve, the inventor applied at some point between the engine or pump and the hose nozzle a valve which opened automatically by the pressure in the hose or the pump cylinder, so as to discharge an additional stream and thereby relieve the pressure.

The reissued patent contains two claims, the second of which only is found in the original. They were as follows:

The combination, with a pump cylinder and hose of a fire engine, of an automatic relief valve arranged relatively thereto substantially as specified.

The combination of the value C, stem d’, spring E, adjustable cap D, and pin-hole d whereby the valve may be either held upon its seat with a variable yielding pressure or may be elevated therefrom or held immovably thereon, as an ordinary screw plug.

The answer of the defendants denied infringement, denied that Bailey was the original inventor of the devices described in his patent, and averred that his alleged invention had been in notorious public use many years before the application of a patent therefor by Bailey.

The appellant did not contend that the appellees infringe the first claim of the reissued patent. He based his demand for relief on the alleged infringement of the second claim only.

The proper construction of this claim was that it covered an automatic valve in combination with a contrivance consisting of a pinhole and pin, by which the valve may be raised from its seat, so as to leave the valve hole permanently open, or by which the valve may be rigidly closed upon its seat, making a closed or plug valve.

The evidence showed that Bailey was not the first to conceive the idea of a device for opening or closing rigidly an automatic valve. The same thing had been done by means of wedges and screws and other devices. He cannot therefore cover by his patent all the devices for producing this result, no matter what their form or mode of operation. The claim must be confined to the specific device described in the specification and claim — namely a pinhole and pin. If this construction of the claim be adopted, it is clear that no infringement is shown, for the appellees do not use a pinhole and pin for holding their valve open or closed, but a screw, sleeve, or cap, and therefore one of the elements of the combination, covered by the second claim of appellant’s patent, is wanting in the device used by the appellees.

But if it be contended that the device covered by the second claim of the appellant’s patent is infringed simply by the use of an automatic relief valve which can be converted at will into an open or closed valve, the evidence in the record is abundant.

Upon this state of facts, it was plain that the mere employment by the defendants of the old and well known automatic safety valve afforded no ground upon which to base the relief prayed for in the appellant’s bill. Appellant’s counsel therefore disclaimed any right to the exclusive use of an automatic safety valve, and said: “We do not claim the valve any further than in this combination with a steam fire engine.”

If it be conceded, therefore, that the second claim of appellant’s patent covered the use of an automatic relief valve applied to a steam fire engine and hose, the question is presented whether the appellant’s patent thus construed is valid.

Justice Horace Gray speaking for the court;

“It is settled by many decisions of this Court . . . that the application of an old process or machine to a similar or analogous subject, with no change in the manner of application, and no result substantially distinct in its nature, will not sustain a patent, even if the new form of result has not before been contemplated.”

It follows from this principle that where the public has acquired in any way the right to use a machine or device for a particular purpose, it has the right to use it for all the like purposes to which it can be applied, and no one can take out a patent to cover the application of the device to a similar purpose.

If there is any qualification of this rule, it is that if a new and different result is obtained by a new application of an invention, such new application may be patented as an improvement on the original invention, but if the result claimed as new is the same in character as the original result, it will not be deemed a new result for this purpose. For instance, an automatic relief valve, used to relieve the pressure of steam, produces no new result in character when used to relieve the pressure of water unless some further effect besides the mere relief of pressure is obtained. This qualification therefore will not affect the present case, because no new result in character is accomplished by the supposed invention of the plaintiff. Besides, it appears from the evidence that before Bailey’s patent was applied for, relief valves were in common use, both on land and at sea. They were commonly used on the steam feed pumps of steamships. These pumps were usually fitted with nozzles for the attachment of hose, so that the feed pump could, in case of need, be used as a steam fire engine. It is therefore plain that in this state of the art, Bailey could not obtain a valid patent for applying a similar valve to a portable steam fire engine. He could not do this for two reasons: first, because the public had the right to use the valve for all similar purposes for which it was adapted, and second because the application of a valve, which had been used on a stationary steam fire engine on ships, to a portable steam fire engine on land, did not require any ingenuity, or involve invention.

It is no answer to this to assert that the application of a relief valve to a portable steam fire engine is the invention of a new combination. There was no invention. The combination was already in public use on steamships. The application of the valve to a similar use on land was not a new combination or a new invention.

We are of opinion, therefore, that, construing his patent as the appellant has been compelled by the testimony to do, Bailey invented nothing but the pinhole and pin mentioned in his specification, and this is not used by the appellees.

The decree of the circuit court was affirmed.

See also

List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 113

References

^ Blake v. City and County of San Francisco, 113 U.S. 679 (1885) Justia.com

External links

113 679 Justia.com (full case)

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Cold-Cranking Simulator

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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The cold-cranking simulator was designed as a method of determining the low temperature performance of lubricants, in the specific condition of “cold cranking” - ie starting a cold engine. In this condition, the only energy available to turn the engine comes from the starter motor and the battery, and it has been widely assumed that the system acts as a constant power viscometer.

The test

The cold-cranking simulator was invented (USP 3350922) and developed by Dr. Dae Sik Kim of Esso Research and Engineering Company in 1964. The first prototype was built on his apartment kitchen table with Unimat, a miniature lathe/milling machine, to minimize and avoid proper company procedures. He reported the results of his developmental work, titled: “Results of Cold Cranking Simulator and a Comment” at SAE Fuels and Lubricants Meeting in Palmer house, Chicago on May 18, 1965. Although the device was initially called “Kimometer”, he refused to put his name on it and he named it for what it was intended. Cold-cranking simulator simulates rheological process of “an average engine” during cold starting. The Starter motor was replaced with a small series wound universal motor, a typical sewing machine motor, and the engine, with a specially designed cold cylinder and an insulated cylindrical rotor with a pair of parallel flats. The sample oil is continuously sheared under a periodically varying shear rate, lower when the flats pass. Oils in real engines are similarly sheared, high in the journal bearings, oscillatory on piston rings and low in galley. Most developmental work went into proper sizing of the flat to simulate relative shear rate distribution in an “average engine”. Both an engine and simulator is calibrated with a set of Newtonian standard crank case oils with known viscosities. When SAE and ASTM decided to use the simulator for their future standard instrument, Esso R & E Company gave a free exclusive license to Cannon Instrument Co of State College, PA to avoid conflict of interest. During past four decades many marginal improvements are being made but the basic design and idea remains.

Development

Various generations of the CCS have been made over the years, with the latest CCS2100 utilising Peltier cooling and an associated chiller to operate essentially the same instrument as the original 1960’s design.

In the late 1980’s Ravenfield Designs, Heywood, England, redesigned the entire system from the ground up, utilising a novel system to accurately model the old instruments and created a new machine offering higher repeatability and reproducibility than former methods. The Ravenfield apparatus, designated Model CS is markedly smaller than the Cannon apparatus, incorporating the cooler, the PC , the instrument and sample pumping in a 600 mm square footprint.

Calibration in the Ravenfield requires a single measurement at each test temperature.

The Society of Automotive Engineers adopted the CCS test as part of the J300 specification, and is the subject of ASTM test method D5293

References

^ http://www.sae.org/servlets/pressRoom?OBJECT_TYPE=PressReleases&PAGE=showRelease&RELEASE_ID=109 SAE J300 specification

^ http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/STORE/filtrexx40.cgi?U+mystore+nlot3716+-L+COLD:CRANKING+/usr6/htdocs/astm.org/DATABASE.CART/REDLINE_PAGES/D5293.htm ASTM test D5293

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Conversations with Other Women

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Conversation(s) with Other Women

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Directed by

Hans Canosa

Produced by

Ram BergmanBill McCutchenKerry Barden

Written by

Gabrielle Zevin

Starring

Aaron EckhartHelena Bonham CarterErik EidemNora ZehetnerOlivia Wilde

Music by

Starr ParodiJeff Eden Fair

Cinematography

Steve Yedlin

Release date(s)

August 11, 2006

Running time

84 min.

Country

USA

Budget

$450,000 (estimated)

Gross revenue

$964,235

Conversation(s) with Other Women is a 2005 film directed by Hans Canosa, written by Gabrielle Zevin and starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter.

The film, an independent production budgeted at $450,000, was sold for distribution in more than 30 countries.

Contents

1 Plot

2 Release information

2.1 Theatrical release

2.2 DVD release

3 Awards

4 Production

5 Post-production

6 Soundtrack

7 Split screen

8 References

9 External links

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Plot

A “nameless” man (Eckhart) offers a “nameless” bridesmaid (Bonham Carter) a glass of champagne at the start of a wedding reception. She responds that she doesn’t drink anymore but still enjoys a cigarette. They begin to flirt, and a conversation begins. Among other things, the couple discuss past relationships, their mutual proximity to age 40, the differences between lawyers and doctors. The man talks about certain memories as if they were common to the two of them.

Despite revelations of the nameless man’s current girlfriend, 22-year-old Sarah the dancer, and the nameless woman’s husband, 45-year-old Jeffrey the cardiologist, the conversation heats up and they end up in the bridesmaid’s hotel room, where the close encounter gets even closer. The woman reminds the man that her plane, traveling back to London, leaves at 6:00 a.m. Their mutual memories and disclosures continue to indicate that these two have met before.

The two leave the hotel together, but enter separate taxicabs. The film ends in ambiguity, as the man and woman, apparently in different places but sharing one frame, speculate with their driver(s) on the future and the difficulty of being happy.

Release information

Theatrical release

Conversations, Canosa’s directorial debut, premiered at the 2005 Telluride Film Festival. The film subsequently played at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Seminci Valladolid International Film Festival, the US Comedy Arts Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Hamburg Film Festival, S?o Paulo International Film Festival, and the Muestra Internacional de Cine.

The film’s international theatrical premiere was on June 7, 2006 in France. Released by distributor MK2 Diffusion under the title Conversation(s) avec une Femme, the film played theatrically for five months to both box office success and critical acclaim.

Released on August 11, 2006 in the United States by Fabrication Films, the film played in fourteen cities, garnering modest theatrical box office and critical acclaim.

DVD release

The original split-screen Region 1 DVD version was released in the United States on January 9, 2007 by Arts Alliance America. A single frame, full screen DVD version, created for 4×3 broadcast television release, was subsequently released on October 9, 2007. The single frame cut only retains three split-screen sequences: the opening titles, the sex scene, and the closing taxicab sequence.

International DVD releases include MK2 in France, Shochiku in Japan, Revelation Films in the United Kingdom, TVA Films in Canada, Dendy Films in Australia, Filmes Unimundos in Portugal, D Productions in Turkey, Civite Films in Spain, Global in Russia, J-Bics in Thailand, Paradiso Home Entertainment in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, Cathay-Keris Films in Singapore and Malaysia, Atlantic Film in Sweden, NoShame Films in Italy, Prooptiki Bulgaria in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro and Slovenia, Prooptiki in Greece, Shapira Films in Israel, Solopan in Poland, VideoFilmes in Brazil, and With Cinema in South Korea.

Awards

Result

Award

Recipient

Festival/Ceremony

Year

Won

Special Jury Prize

Hans Canosa

Tokyo International Film Festival

2005

Best Actress

Helena Bonham Carter

Nominated

Tokyo Grand Prix

Won

Best Actress

Helena Bonham Carter

Evening Standard British Film Awards

2007

Nominated

Producers Award (also for Brick)

Ram Bergman

Independent Spirit Awards

2005

Nominated

Best First Screenplay Award

Gabrielle Zevin

Independent Spirit Awards

2006

Nominated

Golden Spike

Seminci Valladolid International Film Festival

2005

Production

Eckhart and Bonham Carter shot 82 pages of dialogue in only 12 days of principal photography.

To facilitate the split screen presentation of the film, two cameras (one on each actor) were used throughout principal photography.

For the sex scene, the director asked the actors to stay in bed while the crew quickly changed camera positions to get all of the coverage. The entire scene, including 10 camera setups and a complex dolly shot, was completed in 45 minutes.

To facilitate a sense of realism, both actors provided elements of their own costumes. Eckhart wore his own Armani suit and Calvin Klein underwear as part of his costume, while Bonham Carter wore her own Prada shoes.

The hotel room, the interior of the elevator and the interior of the cab(s) in the final shot were shot on a sound stage in Culver City, California.

The hotel ballroom scenes were shot in the ballroom of the Park Plaza Hotel, adjacent to MacArthur Park near downtown Los Angeles, California. Other films shot at that location include Barton Fink, Chaplin, Nixon, The Fisher King, Wild at Heart and Bugsy.

Many scenes were shot in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner building, which has been used almost exclusively as a film location since the notorious Los Angeles newspaper, once owned by William Randolph Hearst, closed down in 1989.

Post-production

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The final shot in the movie was the only one captured with a single camera. Eckhart and Bonham Carter were filmed in the back of one taxi on set. In post production, the shot was digitally divided in two; digital movement was added for each car and two separate background plates were composited to create the illusion of different taxi interiors.

The film contains 117 visual effects shots, all of which are designed to be “invisible”. When the visual effects supervisor, Kwesi Collisson, solicited bids from VFX houses, he received an initial estimated VFX budget of over $1 million, followed by a $400,000 “low budget” estimate. Collisson decided to execute all of the effects himself, spending four months using Adobe After Effects and Shake (software) to complete the necessary shots.

Three apparent B-roll shots of the supporting characters in a ballroom full of dancers were actually created using visual effects. When the line producer asked the director the minimum number of extras needed for these shots during principal photography, the director requested 50 extras. When only seven extras showed up on the ballroom…
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