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EXPERT bike builders at Longstaff Cycles have been commissioned to make a tricycle for the Japanese Paralympic Games team.
The Chesterton business said the custom-made machine would be the lightest it has ever built.
Longstaffs, which was started by the late George Longstaff in 1980, has a long history of making trikes for elite disabled athletes.
Paralympians from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Spain and Great Britain have all competed on tricycles made at the Albert Street workshop, which opened in 1986, with the business helping them bring home gold, silver and bronze medals.
Bike maker and builder Jez Hastings, known by everyone as Zonk, said: "All of our machines are made here, using the jig that George built himself 35 years ago.
"It will take about 60 hours to make the frame it's got to have enough flexibility for comfort and suspension but also a strength and stiffness to withstand pedalling forces."
As well as Paralympians, Longstaffs has made bikes and trikes for customers including amputee soldiers, older people with mobility problems and stroke patients.
And while the business, which employs five staff, concentrates on making specialist bikes, its focus is on ensuring everyone can enjoy cycling, with it custom-building everything from racing and touring bikes, to tandems and hybrid commuter bikes.
It also stages workshops teaching people how to maintain their bikes and has been involved in the Green Door project at Westport Lake, which offers several adapted cycles for hire by people with disabilities, as well as standard bikes.
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Now heres a truly genius idea: Take a Bluetooth speaker and embed it inside an LED light bulb. Screw it into any available socket and youve got an instant in-ceiling audio system that also lights up the room.
The Sengled Pulse in kit form ships with two bulbs, one denoted the master and the other a satellite. These are straight Bluetooth products, so your audio source will need to be fairly close to the master bulb to operate. The master bulb also relays music to the satellite via Bluetooth, so they will also need to be in range of each other.
You can add additional satellites to the mix as needed, but given the range limitations, I cant see a typical home supporting more than three or four bulbs total. (Alternately, you could configure separate Pulse setups in different parts of the house, but these wouldnt communicate with the others.)
Installation is ultra-simpleprovided you can find a suitable place to screw the bulbs in. Never mind the LIFX monster reviewed elsewhere in this roundup, the Pulse bulb is so large I had trouble finding a fixture it would fit into. Ultimately I installed the bulbs in in-ceiling canisters designed for PAR30-sized, floodlight-style bulbsand this is probably the intended idea. Smaller bulbs might not make sense anyway, as Im not sure theres much of a way to shrink the speaker elements down without severely compromising sound quality.
The oversized form factor is needed to accomodate the presence of the speaker, but it does limit where you can install the Pulse.
Each Pulse bulb provides 600 lumens of brightness and contains a 1.75-inch JBL loudspeaker driven by a 13-watt amplifier. These speakers wont fill a room with sound, especially when theyre mounted in the ceiling, but the quality of the sound is surprisingly good, with good clarity and a modest bass response.
You can use the audio features on the Sengled Pulse without a mobile app, but thats the only way to control the brightness of the lights. The app is simple, with just two primary functions: One lets you turn the speakers on and off and control their volume, the other controls the brightness of the bulbs. Note that color temperature cant be changedits locked at a nicely warm 2700K. Bulb brightness can also be individually controlled.
The app also gives you more fine-grained control over audio than youll get from simply using your phones media player. If you have have two speaker-lights, for example, you can set one as the left and one as the right channel, or you can have both speakers play both left and right channels. A rudimentary equalizer is also included if you want to fine-tune your music.
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The New York Court of Appeals, the states highest court, ruled on two injury cases on April 2, examining whether the injuries in those cases fit within the scope of the states Labor Law 240, popularly known as the Scaffold Law. Under New Yorks Scaffold Law, property owners and contractors are liable for most gravity-related injuries to workers on construction sites.
One case involved a construction worker who was injured while installing insulation in the ceilings of a newly constructed apartment building development in the Village of Fredonia, New York, in 2006.
The court documents showed that the worker wore stilts that elevated his feet above the concrete floor in order for him to reach the 9- to 10-foot high ceiling. According to the plaintiff, the accident occurred when he stepped forward with one foot, while swinging a hammer tacker above his head to affix insulation between the ceiling rafters, and slipped on a thin patch of ice.
The testimony in the record varies with respect to how high the stilts elevated the plaintiff off the floor, according to court documents. The plaintiff claimed that the stilts raised him somewhere between 3 and 5 feet off the ground, while the plaintiffs supervisor testified that the stilts elevated the plaintiff by only about 18 inches. The plaintiffs coworker, who was performing the same task on stilts in the room with plaintiff, asserted that both he and the plaintiff had their stilts set at the lowest setting, which he stated was approximately 3 feet.
The testimony also differed on the circumstances leading up to the accident. The plaintiff testified at his deposition that, prior to falling, he was aware that ice and water had accumulated on parts of the floor, and he claimed to have so informed his supervisor. The plaintiff asserted that his supervisor instructed him to complete the installation despite the presence of ice. The supervisor, by contrast, testified that he not the plaintiff first noticed the ice, and that he directed the plaintiff not to insulate the ceiling above the icy area.
The high court ruled that the accident didnt fall within the scope of the Scaffold Law. The court also stated that regardless of the type of safety device involved, liability arises under Labor Law 240 (1) only where the plaintiffs injuries are the direct consequence of an elevation-related risk, and not a separate and ordinary tripping or slipping hazard.
Here, plaintiffs accident was plainly caused by a separate hazard ice unrelated to any elevation risk, the court stated. Plaintiff testified that stilts were the appropriate device for the type of work that he was undertaking, given the height of this particular ceiling. Plaintiffs testimony further established that it was the ice not a deficiency or inadequacy of the stilts that caused his fall.
Commenting on stilts, the court further stated that, unlike ladders, stilts are not placed in a stationary position and expected to remain still to ensure their proper and safe use. Rather, stilts are intended to function as extensions of, and move with, the worker during performance of the designated task.
Thus, the imposition of liability under section 240 (1) where a ladder slips due to an unsafe condition on the floor in the area where it is placed is distinguishable from the circumstances of plaintiffs accident here, the court stated. In sum, plaintiff cannot recover under Labor Law 240 (1) because his injuries resulted from a slip on ice, which under these facts is a separate hazard unrelated to the elevation risk that necessitated the provision of a safety device in the first instance.
However, in a dissenting opinion, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman stated that he believes stilts placed on ice create the same elevation-related risk as do ladders and that he would hold that Labor Law 240 (1) applies in this case.
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The current exhibit from MFA candidates at CCAD, Tell All the Truth. But Tell It Slant, features 16 artists and showcases the diverse approaches in the program. The exhibit has a strong installation component, but there are also photography, fashion, design, video and mixed-media pieces.
Each of the rooms inside the Canzani Center Gallery teems with energy, and that energy is vastly different depending on the work presented. Some rooms are defined by installations asking for contemplation while others feature light and/or video components conveying a more ethereal setting.
Surely part of the reason the exhibit, which opened April 3, has such varied ideas and presentations are the backgrounds of the participating artists, who hail from Asia, Columbus and the Midwest, Canada and the United Kingdom.
A prime example of the exhibits multicultural component is Jill Raymundo, whose multi-piece installation is the first work visitors will see. She created an architectural model of the home she grew up in in Manila (using polystyrene foam), a Balikbayan box which translates to a person who returns home in Filipino engraved with images of that homes interior, and a massive print of a photograph of one of her ancestors paintings.
In the next room over, Rachel Layne Rushs layered self-portraits demand the viewers attention and feel almost like the antithesis of Amy Lewis floor installations that share the space. Rushs portraits (and vanity video component) are bizarre and powerful, while Lewis quietly mischievous metal box installation and mini screens with stop-motion animation feel almost hidden (and some actually are).
Another work that will immediately capture viewers attention is Jovanni Lunas ceiling-high installation. The pieces contains hundreds thousands? of rolled paint strips resting on tiny shelves. Even though the piece is about the laborious process of creating such a massive number of pieces and meticulously organizing them, the aesthetic is breathtaking.
Also make sure to wander into the video/animation/light installation rooms. Its an immersive experience that, despite each pieces restrained presentation, immediately pulls the viewer in. Erek Nass work using projected light and water is quietly discomforting.
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Commercial air travel in and out of Powell River will be improved after a new guidance system is installed and the runway lengthened.
During the Thursday, April 2, City of Powell River Council meeting, Councillor Jim Palm said the two airport initiatives are an important item for the future of Powell River. The airport will be modernized with the installation of a GPS system, which will have a significant effect on the capacity for aircraft to land at Powell River airport when atmospheric conditions are less than ideal. Palm said the installation of the GPS system would lower the minimum ceiling height required for aircraft to land in Powell River during inclement weather.
Based on statistics from previous years, having the system in place would provide an additional 24 flights a year that would ordinarily be cancelled without the GPS system in place.
Palm said the city is also planning to apply for funding to lengthen the runway. The longer runway would provide for higher capacity on the passenger aircraft serving the community. Currently, because of runway length, commercial flights can only operate at 86 per cent capacity. The runway extension would allow aircraft to be filled to 91 per cent capacity, meaning 1,380 additional passengers a year could travel to Powell River.
According to a report from Tor Birtig, the citys director of infrastructure, the GPS approach will lower the ceiling height from 510 feet to 330 feet for commercial and helijet aircraft flying into the airport. This reduction will increase the reliability of the commercial carrier from 95 to 97 per cent, allowing an additional 24 flights, or 570 passengers per year, to land in Powell River during inclement weather, Birtig stated. To lower the ceiling height, there are many trees on private and city property that will require to be topped or removed. The cost for the tree removal is neutral as a result of the revenue expected from the sale of the trees.
Birtig said city staff has also investigated the costs associated with extending the runway. The proposed extension of the runway from 3,600 to 3,900 feet would have a capital cost of $320,000. An extension of the runway to 4,100 feet would increase the aircraft capacity to 96.5 per cent, or 2,750 additional passengers per year, with a capital cost of $2,115 million.
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