One of his most recent studies is into the study of introducing 'noise' to the feet of those with balance issues. He uses a random vibrating insoles to generate noise in the shoe, which (as his studies proved) is successful in helping the elderly maintain balance and control.
A very interesting and very current look into biodynamics and engineered enhancers.
The only really creepy voice on the T is the automated one that accosts you for smoking on the T. First few times I heard it I assumed that the new subway cars had some sort of smoke sensor, and I glanced around looking for the culprit. Turns out it's just triggered everytime the green line pulls into Boylston.
Maybe you expected that nobody reading your article would actually live in Boston, but I think you should reconsider exactly who is 'doing their part in the whole fear mongering campaign.'
My father stumbled in last night around 2 am after being called into work shortly after the power failure.
He works for the NYISO - the New York Indpt. System Operator as a senior dispatcher. His job during normal operations, simplified, is to maintain the power grid by balancing loads and demands.
Last night, he and four other experts were called in to rebuild the grid that they usually maintain. The grid is a very particular thing to meddle with -- a few well placed problems can crash the entire thing -- which is why this blackout occured.
Although original reports suggested that line damage in Canada was the cause, my father feels that the problem originated further away: in our mid-west area. A series of events occured nearly simulataneously in Ohio or Indiana that caused several severe spikes in the North American grid. The spike traveled northward, across Michigan, through Canada, and then back into Northern NY state. Because the entire event occured over the course of one minute, the relays built to protect our own grid failed to close the lines between here and Canada, leaving our grid vulnerable to failure.
He and his coworkers went about repairing the grid manually -- in the same style he did for the Blackout of '77 (his father handled the '65 blackout). Generators must be turned on one-by-one (explaining the long period of downtime), starting with the water plants (thank Niagara Falls for providing us with those first starting bursts of power). By the time he left, he had reestablished the grid in upstate NY all the way to Pleasantville, as well as having several lines into Penn., Canada, and Mass. Upon activating the grid around Pleasantville, the junction point for NYC's grid, they had to come to a halt: NYC had yet to establish a small enough grid of their own to connect to the upstate NY one (a connection could crash both grids)... likely this problem occured because of the inability for service workers to reach their particular assignments within the city (traffic issues, et al.).
As for concerns with deregulation: my father previously worked for the NYPP - New York Power Pool - which is essentially the same thing as the NYISO, except regulated. The control room changed a little bit to accomodate the need to communicate with several different power companies at once, but all in all his job stayed the same. In emergencies like this, all of the power companies work together to restore the grid: the effects of deregulation were not felt at all before or during this crash.
The real problem facing our power grids today, my father feels, is the lack of modern equipment running the grid. Old lines incapable of holding the loads necessary, failing generators, and outdated computer systems in other regions all can lead to this sort of problem. However, the causes of yesterday's blackout seem to be only several bad situations occuring simultaneously.
- Brandon Brown
Doctors are being trained to use these now...
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I recently attended the NYLF Medical Forum in Philly this past summer, where I had the pleasure of getting a three week crash course in an introduction to the medical field. Among some of our visits, we went to various hospitals in which we had a chance to sit down with residents and discuss what their feelings about the field are.
Many of them, though, also took the liberty to comment on the technology being introduced into their field. A surprising number of them were carrying around PDAs of some sort or another, and used them to keep track of the massive amount of data required to be kept by a doctor in a hospital scenerio.
This brings up an interesting point. Why dosn't Katz just herd us all into a room somewhere and have us ask eachother questions?
The questions so far have been primarily 'Are you like what I was..' in origin - why don't we all just ask eachother the same ones and find out who has one in common?
Is it just me, or does it seem that Kermit the Frog, a little green puppet, is going just as many or more seemingly un-related promotions than basketball, baseball, golf (what else?) player, Michael Jordan? Kermit... has done the new US mints (the special, per-state ones), and now the V-chip? Is he going to pick up on hamburgers next?
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But damn, they sure do know how to reinstall Windows.
I studied with Prof. Jim Collins at the BU Center for Biodynamics.
One of his most recent studies is into the study of introducing 'noise' to the feet of those with balance issues. He uses a random vibrating insoles to generate noise in the shoe, which (as his studies proved) is successful in helping the elderly maintain balance and control.
A very interesting and very current look into biodynamics and engineered enhancers.
Sounds like we may need to add a new option to that "Video game world I want to live in" poll.
"ZigBee: Wireless Control that Simply Works"
From my days in compsci classes, anything that simply works usually isn't working at all.
Err... which line are you riding?
The only really creepy voice on the T is the automated one that accosts you for smoking on the T. First few times I heard it I assumed that the new subway cars had some sort of smoke sensor, and I glanced around looking for the culprit. Turns out it's just triggered everytime the green line pulls into Boylston.
Maybe you expected that nobody reading your article would actually live in Boston, but I think you should reconsider exactly who is 'doing their part in the whole fear mongering campaign.'
My father stumbled in last night around 2 am after being called into work shortly after the power failure.
He works for the NYISO - the New York Indpt. System Operator as a senior dispatcher. His job during normal operations, simplified, is to maintain the power grid by balancing loads and demands.
Last night, he and four other experts were called in to rebuild the grid that they usually maintain. The grid is a very particular thing to meddle with -- a few well placed problems can crash the entire thing -- which is why this blackout occured.
Although original reports suggested that line damage in Canada was the cause, my father feels that the problem originated further away: in our mid-west area. A series of events occured nearly simulataneously in Ohio or Indiana that caused several severe spikes in the North American grid. The spike traveled northward, across Michigan, through Canada, and then back into Northern NY state. Because the entire event occured over the course of one minute, the relays built to protect our own grid failed to close the lines between here and Canada, leaving our grid vulnerable to failure.
He and his coworkers went about repairing the grid manually -- in the same style he did for the Blackout of '77 (his father handled the '65 blackout). Generators must be turned on one-by-one (explaining the long period of downtime), starting with the water plants (thank Niagara Falls for providing us with those first starting bursts of power). By the time he left, he had reestablished the grid in upstate NY all the way to Pleasantville, as well as having several lines into Penn., Canada, and Mass. Upon activating the grid around Pleasantville, the junction point for NYC's grid, they had to come to a halt: NYC had yet to establish a small enough grid of their own to connect to the upstate NY one (a connection could crash both grids)... likely this problem occured because of the inability for service workers to reach their particular assignments within the city (traffic issues, et al.).
As for concerns with deregulation: my father previously worked for the NYPP - New York Power Pool - which is essentially the same thing as the NYISO, except regulated. The control room changed a little bit to accomodate the need to communicate with several different power companies at once, but all in all his job stayed the same. In emergencies like this, all of the power companies work together to restore the grid: the effects of deregulation were not felt at all before or during this crash.
The real problem facing our power grids today, my father feels, is the lack of modern equipment running the grid. Old lines incapable of holding the loads necessary, failing generators, and outdated computer systems in other regions all can lead to this sort of problem. However, the causes of yesterday's blackout seem to be only several bad situations occuring simultaneously.
- Brandon Brown
I recently attended the NYLF Medical Forum in Philly this past summer, where I had the pleasure of getting a three week crash course in an introduction to the medical field. Among some of our visits, we went to various hospitals in which we had a chance to sit down with residents and discuss what their feelings about the field are.
Many of them, though, also took the liberty to comment on the technology being introduced into their field. A surprising number of them were carrying around PDAs of some sort or another, and used them to keep track of the massive amount of data required to be kept by a doctor in a hospital scenerio.
Those of you who haven't found it already, a quasi-mirror of this trailer can be found at lordoftherings.net.
This brings up an interesting point. Why dosn't Katz just herd us all into a room somewhere and have us ask eachother questions?
The questions so far have been primarily 'Are you like what I was..' in origin - why don't we all just ask eachother the same ones and find out who has one in common?
Mark Twain once said,
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
You figure it out.
Is it just me, or does it seem that Kermit the Frog, a little green puppet, is going just as many or more seemingly un-related promotions than basketball, baseball, golf (what else?) player, Michael Jordan? Kermit... has done the new US mints (the special, per-state ones), and now the V-chip? Is he going to pick up on hamburgers next?
Totally agree...why else would they spend so much time complimenting Slashdot? I think the article should've been categorized under The Almighty Buck"