Model Airplanes

By Jane Wiley


Posted Oct. 24, 2014 @ 9:22 am

Heber Springs, Arkansas

Article source: http://www.thesuntimes.com/article/20141024/NEWS/141029759/10082/NEWS

Jim Fosgate is on a quest, almost spiritual, to find the perfect sound. It has, to say the least, consumed him for most of his life. From rags to riches and back again more than once, the soft-spoken audio designer has endured. Like the literary Don Quixote, Fosgate chased his own impossible dream, tilting at his own windmills for decades. During a recent interview at his home/sound lab in nearby Heber, the legendary, Emmy award-winning surround-sound pioneer reflected on his journey.

He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of a radio and television repairman. “My dad was brilliant,” says Fosgate. “He built the first television and antenna in Indianapolis from spare parts. He really understood what made radios sound good. I must have inherited it from him, but I understood electronics and audio just like I was born with it. It was normal and natural to me, like it was already programmed into me. He taught me a lot, how to be a seat-of-the-pants designer who could think and figure things out.”

In his early teens, he built a portable radio from scavenged parts and installed it on his cruiser bicycle. “I rode it all over Indianapolis and was quite a hit,” he grins.

Fosgate survived high school with “D” grades in English, but straight “As” in mathematics and electronics classes. He moved to California in 1964, later relocating to Arizona.

An avid radio-controlled model airplane builder and flyer, he was frustrated with early radio transmitters.

In characteristic

Article source: http://www.parkrecord.com/scene/ci_26793591/jim-fosgate-spent-decades-pursuing-perfect-sound

A MakerBot 3-D printer prints an object at the University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering’s rapid prototyping center.

15 photosArticle source: http://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/blog/2014/10/model-hearts-and-airplane-parts-lets-look-u-of-ls.html

Milan Kohout is a thinker, performer, and professor. He was born in Czechoslovakia, where he lived before signing of ‘Charter 77’, and immigrating to the United States, where he became a naturalized US citizen. Mr. Kohout got thoroughly disappointed with capitalism, and the Western regime.

For years and decades he has been performing all over the world, confronting Western imperialism, racism, capitalism and all the world’s religions, particularly Christianity, frontally.

The Discussion took place on October 12, 2014, in Klikarov, a small village in West Bohemia. Vltchek came to Czech Republic in order to give a political lecture at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts in the city of Pilsen, where Kohout teaches. Both of them drove to a tiny and remote village of Klikarov, in West Bohemia, where they sat by a fishpond, and engaged in a discussion about toxicity of Western imperialism, capitalism and European/US propaganda.

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ANDRE VLTCHEK (AV): You are one of the few artists in the West who is taking direct action against Western imperialism, against unbridled capitalism, and against the religions. How and when did you choose this particular form of art?

MILAN KOHOUT (ML): It is obviously from the days when I was part of the so-called ‘Second Culture’, the Czech Underground; the era that was called by the West a ‘totalitarian system’ or, the Czechoslovak socialist system. ‘Second Culture’ was the movement that shaped our own creativity as well as the meaning of art. In those days we were expelled from the official culture, or from the

Article source: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/24/freest-under-czech-communism/

In a nondescript building in a small industrial park off Route 22 in Hunterdon County, the battle against Ebola has put a Readington Township business in the spotlight.

ClorDiSys Solutions, a decontamination and sterilization company, has been fielding phone call after phone call to the tune of about 30 a day from businesses and individuals asking about what they can do in the event of an Ebola contamination.

“We added a phone line,” said Paul Lorcheim, the company’s operations director.

The company makes the Torch, an ultraviolet light emitter that can kill Ebola or any infectious disease within minutes.

It also specializes in systems that use chloride dioxide gas, which are most effective in killing any virus or microorganism, the company says. That’s the equipment utilized at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and laboratories where researchers must eradicate samples and sterilize work areas when they’re done with the viruses, they said.

The equipment has also landed in West Africa in myriad medical facilities established to treat Ebola patients.

The small company with a worldwide reach has been establishing distributors in the Caribbean, Malta, Turkey and Tunisia and advising domestically as the West African Ebola outbreak has people preparing in the event medical personnel must react to an infection.

Lorcheim and Mark Czarneski, the company’s technology director, founded ClorDiSys in 2001 after years of decontamination and sterilization work at Johnson Johnson. Their research extended beyond Johnson Johnson’s business model, prompting the transition.

Since then the company has provided decontamination work and equipment for pharmaceutical

Article source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/hunterdon-county/express-times/index.ssf/2014/10/ebola_decontamination_fears_pu.html