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Ruffling feathers

June 16, 2017
 by Paul McGowan

Sipping my morning cup of java I stared aimlessly out the kitchen window. My reverie was suddenly interrupted by the loudest cacophony of angry, chattering, magpies I have ever heard—an easy dozen of the white trimmed black birds all with feathers ruffled. Below them, next to my neighbor’s fence, was a small bobcat who clearly was unhappy for all the attention, and they chased the poor critter off the property. Man! That was an exciting morning.

I think yesterday’s post probably ruffled just as many feathers as that bobcat. I had suggested that up until recently our cherished remote controls corrupted sound quality, a claim I stand by with some explanation.

Remote control wands are harmless devices. Neither their infrared or RF signals are bothersome to sound. It is what those wands control that causes me to make such claims. Before all the remote control fuss, preamps were simple collections of switches and pots. For example, a good friend of mine, Jim McCullough still builds high-end handcrafted non-remote control products under the Cello brand. Here’s a picture of its insides.

A beautifully built piece of kit. You can see the care and attention paid to the switches, wires, and pots. Are these the perfect solution for sound quality? No. Nothing is perfect and everything comes with its baggage, though I’ll refrain from delving deep into particulars after receiving this note from the designer.

“No snarky comments tomorrow about how metal to metal contacts in the input selector and palladium wipers in the volume control matter less than not having to drag yourself across the room to change the volume.”

If we hop on our way back machine to the earliest days of replacing the manual volume control with a remote, the very first schemes were simple motors replacing your hand. Klunky, but effective, these earlier motorized pots struggled with fine volume adjustments but worked. The degrading compromises I spoke of had yet to enter the scene.

The plot thickens when motorized pots were replaced by electronic volume controls. Depending on design types sound quality took a big hit with their introduction. The myriad of schemes were all over the map: relays and resistors, CMOS and resistors, op amps, and so on.

The advent of electronic volume controls is where the problems for sonics really kicked in. We’ll delve a bit deeper tomorrow.

See! No snarky comments about wipers.

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  1. I really wonder how an effective quality control could be made seeing all these manually applied soldering points, Paul. On one side permanently improvements by better and more expensive components with extremely low tolerances on the other side a human being with hourly changing performance trying to get the critical contacts work. Funny.

    1. Yeah, I think part of the appeal and selling point of this product is the handwork and attention to detail. They build them one at a time and only a few are sold each month. Rather expensive, too.

      1. It’s analogous to what Singer does with vintage air-cooled Porsches. There always seems to be a market, although limited, for beautiful hand-crafted products.

    2. In another two weeks we will have completed 16 years of building Cello products without a single service issue. We don’t make a lot, but every one works.

  2. Here at Chaos Cottage we find the garden magpies a very reliable way of telling us when the cat is out in the garden. Electronic volume controls came after my time, and I have never really considered them before. The first reaction was that it should be possible to do something with an FET and a bit of ingenuity. The second was that this might not work too well for high-end systems. The third was that the sensible thing was to wait for tomorrow’s post and, hopefully, enlightenment.

  3. Good story Paul, crows are obnoxious noisemakers and scavengers. That early morning caw will drive any sensitive human crazy.

    Interesting that a group of crows is called a murder, when one crow dies, the murder will surround the deceased to find out what killed their member. A murder of crows will band together and chase the predator. Was the Bobcat encroaching on their roadkill perhaps?

    Unfortunately they’ve inhabited the planet 10 times longer than our ancestors.

    1. Fascinating and I did not know that. There are crows here but they are outnumbered by the magpies and kept away. I notice the magpies gather together to oust any crows that venture near. Roadkill is handled by a band of enormous turkey vultures that roost within view of our deck. The particular tree where they live is the only place in this area of Colorado they stay during summer months, migrating south to Costa Rica in the winter.

      I am not sure what the bobcat was up to, but I was surprised by his fear of them. He could clearly kick their scrawny little butts but he didn’t think so and skulked off.

    2. I have tried the vast majority and I have the latest made in Poland from Khozmo
      It uses matched pairs of Takman 1% resistors Shunt type attenuator only using 2 resistors on the output which are .5% or less Vishay naked type. My friend built a very good isolation transformer and 6v power supply from one of the Lundahl transformers ,and chokes supply
      It is also relay controlled on the remote , all Cnc machined and ball bearing if using it manually.
      It may not be the best ever but pretty dam good by even Audiophile standards.

  4. Always curious about the business angle, the fact that I’ve not heard of a brand (and I have a good memory) I put down to ignorance, not being interested in audio for long enough, being out of my price bracket, it not being very good or the company did not have a proper business plan. When I read a classified saying “a rare example of an [whatever] component …” I assume it was too expensive or just no good and no one bought it.
    It seems the previous owner of the Cello brand sold out at a time when lots of people were selling out and the whole thing went pear-shaped very quickly. In steps Paul’s mate and apparently takes a good brand name and makes very high quality units, probably bespoke to order, exclusively for the well heeled. I was amused to see that their “integrated” amplifier is a stack of three units, a power amp and pre connected to the same power supply. Integrated? For that money, who cares.
    The point being, there is probably a lot to be said for small privately owned companies run by blokes with soldering irons serving the discerning customer, IRRESPECTIVE of market trends, indeed possibly counter-trending.
    There are some notable successes, my favourite being Sowter Transformers (used in all three valve units I’ve owned), started in 1935 and still only second generation, and Music First, mentioned yesterday, basically a second generation part of Stevens & Billington Transformers, started in 1963. On a slightly larger scale, Linn is second generation (the son fortunately being a graduate in both electronics and business and saving his father’s hide by redesigning the business), as is PMC, Pete Thomas’ son Alex already chalking up some notable successes.
    Do these small bespoke businesses produce better products? I’m not sure that’s even the point.

    1. Steven, Cello is Mark Levinson’s old company that he formed after being squeezed out by his investor and the company he founded, MLAS.

      Btw, thought you might find this film interesting, The Accountant.

      Storyline goes something like this, a functioning autistically challenged youth is disciplined by his overbearing military trained father to overcome his disorder. An adult math savant, he works as a forensic accountant tracking insider financial deceptions for numerous criminal enterprises.

      Operating out of a modest accounting office, ZZZ Acounting in Plainfield, Illinois, his clients are brokered to him via phone by an unidentified woman’s voice, accepting payment’s both in cash and in various non-cash forms such as rare comics, gold bricks and paintings by famous artists. As Treasury agents close in on him, having retained the skills taught by his father, he sets out to even the score with a corrupt client, protecting himself while attempting to outsmart his pursuers.

      The foundation of many Hollywood movie’s today are the three *B’s, bullet’s, blood and boob’s. This is a little heavy at moments on the first two, polite on the third. No more violent than Spectre or Skyfall.

      Btw, Naim audio is cool, have a couple friends who just like Linnie’s swear by their system methodology, but a Naim Nait 2 @ $6,000 with an $8,000 external power supply upgrade here in the States is not what one would necessarily consider to be a good value.

      * a slightly different metric than the 3D’s – doom, destruction and death.

      1. That film is a bit too close to home, even with J K Simmons I’ll have to skip it. It’s gratuitous bookkeeping I can’t stand.

        Naim was perhaps the first UK company to make a really good and affordable integrated solid state amplifier, the Nait 1 (Quad do not do integrated). The brand has been bread and butter sales for many dealers ever since, perhaps declining in the last 4 to 5 years. They were one of the first to get streaming right. I was put off by all those boxes and it makes if far too expensive for what it is. Sold out to Focal some years ago. There is a current trend of “de-Naimification”. The only unit I had was the UnitiQute2 all-in-one, was really very good.

  5. Houston, we have a problem. Stepping back and looking at the big picture, seeing the forest and the trees, a wireless remote control is obviously an adjustment, a control. Some controls are manual, some are programmed by humans, and some are self adjusting by various means including as a response to sensors or programming. Almost all machines of any complexity today use not only various types of controls not directly adjusted by humans directly but also use servo systems, that is negative feedback. These include some of the most delicate and critical adjustments to achieve their goals. An antiballistic missile hitting another missile with a direct hit, that is a bullet hitting a bullet, the Hubble space telescope staying focused on galaxies billions of lightyears away (one exposure lasted 11 days), a rover on Mars avoiding a ditch, Staying precisely aimed at Pluto to get a sharp image of a faint object even though it is travelling tens of thousands of miles and hour, practically every modern assembly line especially automobiles, you car itself including your anti lock brakes, dropping a JDAM through a vent shaft on a roof to destroy only one part of a building, and I could go on and on and on because the examples are endless.

    So here is the problem Paul. What are all these people doing wrong that you are doing right?

      1. Hubble’s precious time was used to take an 11 day exposure (while orbiting the earth) into a region of space that appeared to be entirely empty. In its field of view, it found 10,000 galaxies that had never been seen because they were so faint. Keeping the telescope fixed on one spot in the sky to gather enough photons to reveal them required extreme precision of control. It is now believed that there is no region of space no matter how empty it seems that is not filled with galaxies. Paul, have you ever taken an 11 day time lapse photograph? I think even on the steadiest tripod there’d be some shakiness resulting in blur.

        1. I appreciate that. I studied cosmology in college. One of my professors concurrently built a radio telescope very much like Frank Drake’s, but Drake managed to become famous for it first.

          I had a poster of the “10,000 Galaxies” on my wall back when it came out.

          My reply was supposed to be a joke about the fact that the existence of highly precise remote-controllable devices has nothing to do with Paul’s argument as I read it.

  6. I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of remotes and electronic volume controls. Personally I’m using a 1997 vintage Mac C22 Pre-amp for this reason amongst others. I don’t mind getting out of my chair to walk across the room to change volume (my room not being suited to having the pre-amp adjacent to my seat) just as much as I don’t mind having to get up to flip the record of one of the many 45rpm re-issued albums I have. I do cheat though when using the DS DAC and make slight adjustments to volume with the remote. The question being though would PSA build a BHK Pre-amp for me with a mechanical/rotary volume switch and all the buttons needed to select sources? And if you could included a good headphone amp in the box in place of these other electronics I would be in hog heaven. Otherwise I’ll be sticking with my Mac amplification (including a pair of vintage M75 mono-blocks) for the foreseeable.
    By the way “The Accountant” is a pretty good movie.

    1. “The question being though would PSA build a BHK Pre-amp for me with a mechanical/rotary volume switch and all the buttons needed to select sources? And if you could included a good headphone amp in the box in place of these other electronics I would be in hog heaven.”

      Well, the BHK Preamplifier does utilize a very sophisticated rotary volume control, features an input selector button on the left side of the front panel display and a Bascom King designed state of the art headphone amplifier.
      The included remote also provides control of those two primary features.

      Not sure which amplifier and speakers you listen through, but dropping the BHK in your system would be analogous to lifting a blanket off your speakers when compared to the decades old design of the C-22.

  7. My current preamp uses sealed relays with gold contacts to change sources. My last preamp had a 5 or 6 position selector, with an identical record[as in taping] selector, which I never used. With that main selector I had to shut off all other sources, particularly the tuner, as it would be audible even when the selector was on another input. I’m sure it was a cheap part and better selectors were, and are available. I always wanted to replace it with a Dact. I had the manufacturer replace the cheap volume pot with a stepped one from Dact. The only problem was the steps were too big, so fine adjustments were not possible. It did improve the sound, and the manufacturer said when he tested it, that it’s matching of the two channels were the best he had ever tested.
    When just about every high end company has come up with a transparent volume control, I don’t see it as a problem. I’d consider it mature technology. I’m sure in the early days of experimenting with remotes there were some really bad choices, but aren’t we past that?

    1. Some are, most aren’t. The solutions we’ve come up with finally solve the problems and a few others have as well, but the vast majority stick with tried and true old technology that really degrades performance.

  8. Stepping back to get an even more distant view, having to get out of your chair to make an adjustment to your system causes your heart rate to take an up-tick that will help prolong your life. Seems like every month I see a health article proclaiming the dangers of sitting for long periods of time. Obviously, you can’t enjoy the music if you’re not breathing. Sorry if this was brought up earlier. I just dropped in briefly.

      1. When you sit that close to the rig, you don’t have to worry about first reflections.
        Nowadays, he’d be wearing headphones!
        Make that a whiskey, please–once every couple months.

  9. My Blue Circle preamp features dual-mono Shalco brand stepped resister volume controls. Designer Gilbert Yeung builds each (resistor ladder) by hand. Indeed, as Paul observes, the handiwork is part of the appeal and the end product is expensive. The part that got me onboard was realizing that the whole audio signal goes through the volume control. Absence of remote is inconvenient but I tell myself that it reduces how sedentary I am when engaged with this hobby.

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Safari, Trekker, Kurierwagen, Thing – Volkswagen Type181

The Volkswagen Type 181 was born out of the incompetence of the Governments of West Germany, France and Italy to bring the Europa Jeep project to fruition. While the German military were waiting for this all wheel drive wonder mobile in 1968 the German Government approached Volkswagen to come with an interim vehicle which became the Type 181 seen today.

Volkswagen Type 181, Summer Classics, Easter Compton

The Type 181 is based on a Karmann Ghia floor pan, a little wider than that used for the Beetle, and had running gear from the Volkswagen Type 2 which included reduction gears for the driven rear wheels that helped raise the ride height of the Type 181 to give it some off road capability.

Volkswagen Type 181, Summer Classics, Easter Compton

Military Type 181’s were adopted my several NATO forces apart from Germany once the Europa Jeep project was abandoned in 1979.

Civilian versions of the Type 181 were first seen in Europe, Kurierwagen, and Mexico, Safari,in 1971 with US versions, Thing, appearing the following year. In 1975 Trekker versions of the Type 181 were sold in the UK but they were not popular and soon withdrawn from the UK market.

90,883 Type 181’s were built in Wolfsburg 1968–1974, Hannover,1974–1983, Puebla, Mexico 1970-1980, and Jakarta, Indonesia 1973 – 1980.

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A leadership team has been appointed to implement Scotland’s artificial intelligence strategy.

The strategy, which was published in March, outlined plans to make Scotland a leader in ethical artificial intelligence and set out actions to be taken over the next five years. Made up of leading technology experts, the Scottish AI Alliance Leadership Circle will now take that forward and work to deliver the strategy.

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The group met for the first time on Monday 7 June.

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Chair of the Scottish AI Alliance Gillian Docherty said: “We were delighted with the response to the publication of Scotland’s AI Strategy and the breadth and experience of those who applied to join the leadership circle.  We are excited to host our first meeting and the members will bring a wealth of strengths to the leadership circle which will oversee all the work required to deliver the strategy. Significant interest in contributing to the delivery and community circles has also been very welcome and we look forward to delivering on the commitments set out in the strategy.”

Scottish Government economy secretary Kate Forbes said: “We are committed to seizing Scotland’s economic potential, creating secure, sustainable and satisfying jobs and supporting businesses recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Our response to the pandemic will be driven by an ambitious programme to build a modern, high-tech economy while staying true to enduring values of fairness and compassion. I am delighted the alliance’s leadership circle has such a dynamic, incisive, international and representative membership to drive forward delivery of our strategy and help further develop and strengthen our AI ecosystem over the next five years.”

She added: “By working together we can maximise the potential economic and social benefits of artificial intelligence and send a strong signal to the world about our ambitions for Scotland. Transforming our economy must be a national endeavour and that is why we have called on anybody who wants to play their part in rebuilding our country. The Scottish Government is committed to working in partnership with the entrepreneurs and thinkers, the job creators and the hard workers to help achieve economic transformation.”

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Porsche’s brief time as a factory entrant in F1 culminated in its only race-winning car: the 1962 Porsche 804.

Yet shortly after Dan Gurney’s triumph in the 1962 French Grand Prix, the team cancelled its F1 programme, and has never returned to the sport as a full constructor.

The 804 differed from its 1962 competitors chiefly in its engine. Porsche produced an eight-cylinder ‘boxer’ engine of 1.5-litre capacity, the maximum permitted at the time. Though somewhat breathless at lower revs it produced 180bhp.

The chassis was wider than most to accommodate the engine, and Porsche paid careful attention to the contemporary Lotus cars when designing its suspension.

During the season the fuel tanks in the car were rearranged so the driver’s seat could be angled backwards, allowing him to sit lower in the car.

Ferdinand Porsche was reluctant to allow his creations to compete if he felt they wouldn’t be competitive. The latest cars did not appear in two of that year’s world championship races and only a single car was sent to Monaco, which was knocked out of the race at the first corner.

However after Dan Gurney successfully completed a race distance in testing at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, Porsche consented to send his cars to Rouen-les-Essarts for the French Grand Prix.

Gurney (pictured in the race) qualified sixth and inherited the lead after Graham Hill and Jim Clark suffered technical problems. He finished a full lap ahead of Tony Maggs’ Cooper for his first Grand Prix triumph and Porsche’s only world championship win.

Further success followed in the Solitude Grand Prix, a non-championship race held in Stuttgart not far from Porsche’s base. Before a 300,000-strong crowd, Gurney led team mate Jo Bonnier to a one-two finish.

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  1. I would absolutely love for Porsche to return to F1. I think it would be absolutely great for F1 as a whole. Maybe in 2014…

    1. Yes! Would be great!

    2. Porsche is most certainly the biggest ‘missing’ brand in Formula 1.

      1. really, i don’t think so there were so many in the past, yet i would love to see a porsche racing.

  2. It’s seems like everyday I learn something new about Dan Gurney. Not only did he win for Porsche in F1, but he also oversaw the building and development of the Toyota IMSA GTP cars back in the early ’90s (I read that today too!)

  3. Beautiful car, very neat and Germanic.

  4. Porsche more than “…have the funds to put a team together…” It just isn’t something which they aspire to. They’ve carved out a niche whereby, give or take (RS Spyder), their race cars are directly related to the development of their road cars. An F1 car no longer has anything to do with road car development. F1 is a spectacle, designed to entice fans and make money. Endurance racing proves a manufacturer’s ability to build a very fast yet reliable car. A prospect which is far more appealing to them.

    1. The engine of the new 918 Hybrid was derived “in principle” from the RS Spyder engine, but it doesn’t share any parts. And on that note, did the 911 GTR really have any relevance to their road cars?

    2. Sadly, I must agree with you. When engine development was frozen F1 lost its last research area of relevance to the real world.

      1. @hohum Things are about to get quite interesting on that front though so who knows may be tempted to F1!

  5. Wasn’t Porsche’s 1991 V12 just two V6s welded together? If Volkswagen Group ever does enter F1 I wonder if they’d pick Porsche or Audi as their brand. For some reason neither of them seem quite right for the sport to me. Lamborghini would be better.

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Chileans voted in a national referendum on October 25. Commentary reflects what happened: We began to dig the grave of the Pinochet-era constitution and the market economy,” one report said. This was an “overwhelming, historical triumph of the people,” declared Chile’s El Siglo newspaper.

Voters chose either yes or no on holding a constituent assembly that would create a new constitution. They also indicated their preference as to whether the constituent assembly would consist of 155 delegates all elected by the people, or would be “mixed,” with half the delegates being members of Chile’s Congress and other half elected by the people.

Results showing 78.2% of the voters in favor of a constituent assembly and 79.2% of them choosing an entirely elected one had “force enough to be respected by the financial, civil, and military bastions of conservatism,” according to a report; 49% of those eligible did not vote. Delegates will be selected at a national election on April 11, 2021. The new Constitution will be submitted to a popular vote no later than August 2022.

The referendum and the prospect of a constituent assembly, taken together, represent a milestone in a long process that recently featured a year-long series of large demonstrations initially led by students that called for political change. At their start, in October 2019, millions of people were in the streets throughout the country. Despite violent repression by security forces, massive outpourings would continue for months, diminishing in numbers only because of the COVID -19 pandemic.

The protests centered on the government’s privatization and austerity programs that diminished healthcare, pensions, and education. Grievances included corporate control of natural resources and abuse of indigenous peoples. Protesters regularly demanded the resignation of billionaire President Sebastian Piñera, and called for a constituent assembly.

Leading directly to the just completed plebiscite was a “social pact” announced November 15, 2019 involving the Piñera government and political parties represented in the Chile’s congress. That agreement linked peace in the streets with approval for a referendum that was to have taken place on April 26. Because of the pandemic, it was postponed until October 25.

The protests and plebiscite reflect movement toward political change in Chile going back decades. Strength built up by leftists during the 1950s and 1960s prepared the way for socialist Salvador Allende to become Chile’s president in 1970. A U.S.-supported military coup in 1973 installed General Augusto Pinochet as ruler and led immediately to President Allende’s death. Brutal repression and dictatorial rule would follow.

Pinochet’s government imposed a new constitution in 1980 that enabled neoliberal economic changes. A 1988 referendum ended Pinochet’s tenure, but the 1980 Constitution remains in force, with modifications, as do austerity and privatization programs protected by the Constitution.

Critics lost no time in identifying potential problems with the constituent assembly and the choosing of delegates. Those whose protests stimulated movement toward an assembly, for example, may end up without representation there, particularly young people.

Most of the protesters belonged to social movements and were unaffiliated with political parties, which are spurned by most Chileans. There is worry that candidates for election to the constituent assembly will be limited to those approved by existing political coalitions and that independent candidates will be few.

The aforementioned “new social pact” agreed to by President Piñera and politicians serving in Parliament gives rise to a very serious concern. A general strike had preceded that agreement. Then, reportedly, two days before the agreement was announced, the Chilean military, enabler of the dictatorship, issued an ultimatum communicating that that unless the government ended protests in the streets within 48 hours, the military itself would do so. The message is taken that military domination in Chile has yet to disappear.

Political analyst Marcos Roitman Rosenmann points out also that most political parties agreeing to the pact and supporting a new constitution “oppose recognizing the rights of the Mapuche [indigenous] people and others deny the public sector’s role in creating … policies on healthcare, education, and housing.” He fears “a sweetened version of neoliberalism endorsed by some spurious delegates to the constituent assembly.”

Lastly, the agreement to move ahead with the plebiscite stipulated that the resulting constituent assembly would operate with a two-thirds majority being required for approving elements of a new constitution. The resulting veto power gained by conservatives led one observer to predict that the wealthy class “will dig in its heels to prevent any constituent process that would include economic redistribution of any kind.” Presently 1% of Chileans command 26.5% of the country’s wealth.

Chile’s Communist Party and other leftist parties formed an alliance they named “Chile Digno” for the purpose of agitating for a referendum vote that would approve a new constitution. Looking at the near future, an alliance press release allows as how Chileans did take a “giant step” and did “throw the Constitution of Pinochet on the trash heap.” But there’s “one step more.”

For the sake of “a new constitution that is democratic, multi-ethnic … for women, for the people, not for the elites, we will build unity among anti-neoliberal forces and offer a single list of representatives for the convention. They will speak for this transformative project, guarantee faithfulness with the people who provided this opportunity, and assure that the constitutional convention carries the mandate of a true constituent assembly.”

Chile’s CUT trade union federation publicized the fact that, at the time of his death on September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende was on the verge of proposing a plebiscite aimed at moving toward a new constitution. His notes on his ideal of a constitution were published posthumously in 1990.

There Allende states that “The people for the first time understand that the Fundamental Charter will originate not from above, but from the very roots of their own convictions. They will that way assure their existence as a worthy, independent, and sovereign people.” Allende envisioned a new congress that included a “chamber of workers” elected nationally.

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The procurement for the construction of the terminal and related infrastructure will be announced at the beginning of 2022 and the construction contract is expected to be signed in the autumn of 2022. In the first phase of construction, the existing railway and tram tracks will be relocated.

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 Linda in Estonian mythology and the national epic Kalevipoeg was the mother of Kalevipoeg and the wife of Kalev. In total, 361 names were submitted to the name competition and more than 2,000 people took part in a popular vote on nine names shortlisted by the City of Tallinn naming committee.

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Engineering Consultancy in Rail Vehicle Design and Engineering

Decnika Railway

Decnika is an engineering consultancy company, which offers specialised expertise in system design and development for rail vehicles.

The company provides full engineering support on projects from concept to detailed design, and cover areas such as ergonomics, human-machine interface (HMI) design, installation engineering, and 2D and 3D design.

Decnika also develops electrical cabinets and enclosures for rail projects, implements pneumatic systems, and provides structural analysis and cooling engineering for rolling stock systems.

The company conducts early concept studies, such as visibility, ergonomics, equipment integration, or pre-sizing of structural components.
Decnika provides full structural analysis reports, checking structural integrity to proof loads, service loads (fatigue life analysis), vibrations and bolt integrity.
The company produces passenger areas and equipment, including lighting, seating, doors and floor structures.
The company creates high and low-voltage control cabinets and electric enclosures.

Engineering of driver’s desks and cabs for railway vehicles

Decnika offers a wide range of engineering and design services for driver’s desks and cabs in locomotives, trams or metros.

The company is experienced in preparing driver’s desks for locomotives undergoing cross-border operations.

Decnika’s desks comply with UIC 612 guidelines, and UIC 651 ergonomic and visibility requirements.

Ergonomic driver’s desk systems for locomotives

Large pieces of control and monitoring equipment often hinder the possibility of a high-quality ergonomic configuration.

Decnika focuses on maximising driver comfort and visibility by optimising space. When possible, the company works with equipment suppliers to either reduce or modify the distribution of internal devices, improving the ergonomic quality of driver’s desk designs.

Other critical features of driver’s desk and cab designs include cab climatisation systems, lighting, readability and understandability of pictograms and device texts, and the appearance of desk and cab interior surfaces.

Rail vehicle interior design services

In addition to driver’s desks, Decnika designs the train’s passenger areas, integrating seating design, lighting, climatisation, panelling, doors, handrail design, floor structure, or signage to meet the client’s rail vehicle concept.

The company is experienced in designing composite parts and metallic fixtures to complement the car-body structure.

In this design process, Decnika aims to prevent potential installation errors that can result from the relatively high tolerances these parts are usually manufactured with.

Electro-pneumatic rail vehicle installations

Decnika is experienced in performing electro-pneumatic rail installations, such as compressed air production systems, brake panels, piping connections, sanding or wheel flange lubrication solutions.

The company can also install auxiliary systems for diesel engines, from cooling and lubrication systems, to pre-heaters and auxiliary power units (APU).

For electric traction units, Decnika designs high-voltage cabinets and cabling, low-voltage control cabinets and electric enclosures.

Rail-specific engineering services

Decnika aims to become a fully operational extension of engineering teams developing systems for rail vehicles.

The company’s works with the client from the initial design phase, to the development stage.

During this phase, Decnika relies on its knowledge of key technological areas in the field of rail vehicle engineering, including:

  • Welded structures of steel and aluminium
  • Bolted joints
  • Composite parts
  • Pneumatic equipment and piping systems

Structural analysis of rail components

To complete the company’s range of engineering services, Decnika offers finite element analysis (FEM) of structural parts, including full structural analysis reports, checking structural integrity to proof loads, service loads (fatigue life analysis), vibrations and bolt integrity.

Finite element analysis reports for rolling stock structures validate the requirements included in the following norms:

  • EN 12663 for general structural requirements of railway vehicle bodies
  • DVS 1612 for fatigue life of steel-welded unions
  • DVS 1608 for fatigue life of aluminium-welded unions
  • VDI 2230 for bolt calculations

The company uses Siemens NX CAE with NX NASTRAN to perform preliminary FEM analysis early in the engineering process, and evaluate the structural design options available. This ensures the best option is used, and prevents costly changes that arise when structural analysis is conducted at the end of the design process.

When analysing third party designs, Decnika benefits from NX’s built-in synchronous technology, which allows the company to quickly perform geometry clean-up operations prior to meshing without using the original CAD model.

Decnika can easily modify the original geometry and send detailed 3D files to the customer so they can evaluate the engineering change proposal.

Cooling system solutions for rail applications

Decnika offers cooling system solutions for critical rail components, such as converters, transformers, and traction motors.

The company can also provide clients with bespoke-sized pumps, radiators, fans and blowers.

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Does Large-Scale Neighborhood Reinvestment Work?

Effects of Public–Private Real Estate Investment on Local Sales Prices, Rental Prices, and Crime Rates

Published in: Housing Policy Debate, Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 164–190 (2020). doi: 10.1080/10511482.2019.1655468

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by Matthew D. Baird, Heather L. Schwartz, Gerald P. Hunter, Tiffany L. Gary-Webb, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Tamara Dubowitz, Wendy M. Troxel

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During the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded over $6 billion in competitive grants (HOPE VI) to spur neighborhood redevelopment. We add to HOPE VI research by examining the impacts of a large set of public–private real estate investments, including HOPE VI, made over a 16-year period in a distressed neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Hill District). We estimate the effects of $468 million additional public–private investments that Hill District received compared with a demographically similar neighborhood on sales prices, rental prices, and crime. We find large, statistically significant impacts of these investments on residential sales prices, commercial sales prices, and on rental prices, and a marginally significant yet meaningful decline in nonviolent arrests. For each $10 million of public–private investment, we find a 0.95%, 2.7%, and 0.55% increase in residential sales prices, commercial sales prices, and rental prices, respectively. Given the accumulated difference over 16 years of $468 million in these investments across the two neighborhoods, the percentage increases amount to large changes in prices over that time. Cities should anticipate the potential impacts of major neighborhood investment on low-income households, especially unsubsidized renters who most directly experience the brunt of rising rents.

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A loft-like restaurant, Twenty-Seven’s simple lines and soothing artwork provide a relaxed and informal setting for the enjoyable and skilfully prepared cooking. Set in the popular food quarter of this charming harbourside town, the approachable wine list includes some notable English bottles. There's a stylish cocktail bar downstairs.

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With magnificent coastlines, two historic cities and the world-famous Dartmoor National Park, Devon sums up all that is best about the British landscape. For centuries it has been a fashionable and much loved holiday destination – especially south Devon’s glorious English Riviera.

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Not surprisingly, in Dartmoor the walking opportunities are enormous. Cycling in the two National Parks is also extremely popular and there is a good choice of off-road routes taking you to the heart of Dartmoor and Exmoor. Devon’s towns and cities offer stimulating alternatives to the rigours of the countryside.

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Hitachi Expands Collegiate Series Projector Line with Three New Projectors

Today, Hitachi America announced the expansion of its Collegiate Series of projectors with the addition of three new high-brightness, low-maintenance projectors — the CP-EU4501WN, CP-EW5001WN and CP-EX5001WN. With these additions, the Collegiate Series now offers twelve different projector models ranging from 3,500 to 5,800 lumens.

All three of the newest models in the series have two digital inputs (HDMI and one HDMI/MHL), use 3LCD projection technology and claim a contrast ratio of 16.000:1. They offer brightness levels ranging from 4,500 to 5,200 lumens and resolutions ranging from XGA (1024×768) to WUXGA (1920×1200). The expanded Collegiate Series comes with a 1.6x zoom lens, moderator control mode (for wireless projection), multi-projector capability and projector monitoring from a remote location.

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This book draws us to Matthew 11, where Jesus describes himself as 'gentle and lowly in heart,' longing for his people to find rest in him.

Christians know that God loves them, but often think that he is perpetually disappointed and frustrated, maybe even close to giving up on them.

As a result, they focus a lot on what Jesus has done to appease God’s wrath for sin. But how does Jesus Christ actually feel about his people amid all their sins and failures?

The gospel is primarily about God’s heart drawn to his people, a heart of tender love for the sinful and suffering.

These chapters take readers into the depths of Christ’s very heart for sinners, diving deep into Bible passages that speak of who Christ is and encouraging readers with the affections of Christ for his people.

His longing heart for sinners will comfort and sustain readers in their up-and-down lives.

“Gentle and Lowly comes from the pen of someone who has not just profited from reading the Puritans - but who, more importantly, has read the Bible under their tutelage. One short book can never be enough to convey all the glory of the character of Christ, but this book deftly unpacks something we often overlook: Christ is meek and lowly in heart and gives rest to those who labor and are burdened. Written with pastoral gentleness and quiet beauty, it teases out what twenty biblical texts contribute to this portrait of the heart of Christ, all of it brought together to bring comfort, strength, and rest to believers.”

D. A. Carson, Emeritus Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Cofounder, The Gospel Coalition

“My life has been transformed by the beautiful, staggering truths in Gentle and Lowly. Dane Ortlund lifts our eyes to see Christ’s compassion-filled heart for sinners and sufferers, proving that Jesus is no reluctant Saviour but one who delights in showing his mercy. For any feeling bruised, weary, or empty, this is the balm for you.”

Michael Reeves, President and Professor of Theology, Union School of Theology, Oxford, United Kingdom, author of Rejoice and Tremble and The Good God

“Dane Ortlund helps us rediscover the heart of Jesus that is the very heart of the gospel. This delightful book opens up the sheer immensity of Jesus’s tender love for us. As you immerse yourself in Christ’s very heart, you’ll find your own heart warmed at the fire of the love of God. Ortlund opens up a neglected theme among the Puritans (in bite-sized chunks that won’t overwhelm you), where you’ll discover their grasp of the beauty of Jesus’s love. Your soul needs this book. I highly recommend it.”

Paul E. Miller, author, A Praying Life and J-Curve: Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life

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December 29, 2011

The Best 2011 Photos We Never Saw – Reuters Edition

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1. An airplane engine catches fire with a Reuters photographer on board. All in the line of duty.

(photo: Beawiharta, Indonesia.  caption: Passengers on Cathay Pacific flight CX715 prepare to disembark from the aeroplane after it landed safely at Changi Airport in Singapore May 16, 2011. The A330 flight, which was enroute to Jakarta, experienced engine trouble shortly after takeoff and had to return to Singapore. Its starboard engine was burnt, according to pilot Bradley Chic.)

2. Oh, the symmetry, the symmetry. A photographer in the UK captures the lack of ease with which the country understands its diversity.

(photo: Kieran Doherty. caption: Muslims pray in Hyde Park as protesters demonstrate to show solidarity with the Arab peoples, as they march to Downing Street, in London February 25, 2011.)

3.  The shoes worn by a woman who escaped from the World Trade Center on 9/11. …Because it was, and remains, that much of a shock and a stain on our way of life.

(photo: Lucas Jackson. caption: Blood-stained shoes worn by Linda Lopez as she evacuated from the 97th Floor of Tower 2 on September 11, 2001 are seen in this photograph before becoming a part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York August 22, 2011. Linda Lopez was at work at the Fiduciary Trust Company on the South Tower’s 97th floor when the first plane crashed into North Tower, sending a fireball past their window and radiating a heat that she said felt like being sunburned. There was quickly a sense of confusion: Was it a bomb? Were the rumors that it was a plane crash true? Should people in the South Tower ignore the advice coming over the public address system to stay put and evacuate instead? Lopez felt she had to get out. She had reached only as far as the 61st when she was thrown against a wall as the second plane crashed into the floors above her. Taking off her shoes, she continued to head down the stairs, passing firefighters heading in the opposite direction. She ran barefoot out of the building, across broken glass and other debris. “Lady, your feet are bleeding,” someone said to her as she paused a few blocks away in relative safety. She put her shoes back on, and began learning the details of what it was she had just escaped from. The museum, which occupies seven stories below the ground of the World Trade Center site–is still being built at the site of the fallen towers. It is due only to open in 2012, on the 11th anniversary of the attacks.)

Images from Reuters Best Photos of the Year gallery — #2 of 3.

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