the El Dorado Hills Fire Board of Directors erased the “interim” from Fire Chief Michael Lilienthal’s title and approved 4-0 a three-year employment contract with the newly named permanent chief “Mike has done a tremendous job,” said board President Greg Durante commending Lilienthal for his handling of organizational and unexpected issues in his first few months on the job The board named Lilienthal interim chief after the retirement of Maurice Johnson in December 2024 “I think he has done a stellar job,” said board Vice-President Tim White Directors Dan Donelli and Kevin Gotro both praised Lilienthal for his leadership noting that morale within the department has improved as has the public’s satisfaction with EDH Fire’s services Lilienthal’s first few months included the unanticipated closure of EDH Fire Station 86 due to extensive mold damage transitioning residential sprinkler and smoke/carbon monoxide alarm inspections to the El Dorado County Building Department and developing a long-term succession plan as many in the fire department’s upper ranks will be retiring over the next few years A few days after his permanent position was approved Lilienthal sent out a community message reading "It is an honor and privilege to serve as the fire chief for the El Dorado Hills Fire Department With more than 28 years in the fire service I am proud to lead a dedicated team committed to protecting lives property and the unique spirit of our community "El Dorado Hills is not just where we work — it’s where we live raise our families and build lasting connections" the message continues "I believe that strong relationships and open communication are the foundation of a truly successful fire department a public safety event or simply a moment to educate and engage reducing wildfire risk and remaining fiscally responsible," Lilienthal notes "We are continually evolving to meet the changing needs of our growing community while honoring the values that have shaped this department over the years."  The fire chief’s employment contract runs through April 30 unless terminated earlier in accordance with the agreement The board will conduct performance reviews on at least an annual basis Lilienthal’s monthly salary is set at $21,971 plus incentive pay as well as salary increases matching any adjustments granted to other unrepresented management/safety employees Donelli and Gotro approved the contract at their April 17 meeting Email notifications are only sent once a day Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Account processing issue - the email address may already exist Have the latest local news delivered every afternoon so you don't miss out on updates Receive occasional local offers from our website and its advertisers summary of the weather details and news of any severe weather We'll send breaking news and news alerts to you as they happen Invalid password or account does not exist Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the email address listed on your account Noah Lilienthal enters his first season as an assistant coach with Rutgers in the 2024-2025 season Lilienthal played at Wesleyan University (CT) where he helped the team reach as high as the Elite 8 in the NCAA tournament Lilienthal was named Division III National Rookie of the Year Division III Player to Watch and was five time All-American he made multiple appearances in the NCAA Division III National Individual championships including a run to the doubles finals with his partner Lilienthal has mentored several junior tennis players who have now reached top 100 nationally  He previously coached at the Marc Hill tennis academy and at Kings County Tennis League (Brooklyn N.Y.) where he helped expand their high performance and community tennis programs Lilienthal received his B.A in Psychology and Music while at Wesleyan University where he graduated with honors and Phi Beta Kappa Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Posted by | Apr 25, 2025 6:31 am | The El Dorado Hills Fire Department has a new official fire chief The El Dorado Hills Fire Board of Directors has approved interim Fire Chief Michael Lilienthal to become the new permanent El Dorado Hills Fire Chief The permanent title was approved with a 4-0 vote by the board and comes with a three-year employment contract that officially takes effect May 1 Lilienthal assumed the role of interim chief at the conclusion of 2024 when former Fire Chief Maurice Johnson made the decision to retire “It is an honor and privilege to serve as the fire chief for the El Dorado Hills Fire Department El Dorado Hills is not just where we work — it’s where we live raise our families and build lasting connections I believe that strong relationships and open communication are the foundation of a truly successful fire department a public safety event or simply a moment to educate and engage.” Chief Lilienthal brings over 28 years of fire service experience to the El Dorado Hills Fire Department Beginning his career with the Stockton Fire Department he has served in various leadership capacities including Fire Marshal and multiple Deputy Chief roles supporting employee wellness and safety,” he continued “Reducing wildfire risk and remaining fiscally responsible We are continually evolving to meet the changing needs of our growing community while honoring the values that have shaped this department over the years.” The 4-0 vote came from EDH Fire Board Directors Tim White and Kevin Gotro at last week’s meeting Director Debbie Manning was absent from the most recent meeting No portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher Bill Sullivan has over 25 years of professional journalism and content creation experience in which he has earned 37 professional awards He is the co-founder/publisher of Folsom Times an All Town Media LLC product About UsPrivacy PolicyTerms and ConditionsContact UsSubscribe for FREE! Advertise with UsBusiness DirectorySubmit a Press ReleaseBecome a ContributorJobs Nominate your favorite Businesses TODAY! Make sure you get those nominations in before voting begins How many artists have been encouraged by their parents to follow their vision and pursue beauty? Not so many, perhaps. Adán López Alemán felt the creative impulse from a young age and you might expect he’d be the exception His father was a muralist and his grandparents sculptors and painters did they encourage him to become an artist and remain true to his creative spirit he trained at the University of Las Palmas as an industrial engineer but to seriously study both painting and sculpture at the Luján Pérez school He dutifully opened a design studio upon graduation but in 2017 decided to take the leap and pursue his art full time His artistic growth exploded and he soon found public acceptance for his work Samples of that work now graces the walls of Lilienthal Gallery at 23 Emory Place in an exhibition curated by Ilana Lilienthal and Kelly Ferguson The paintings exhibited are black and white His pen and acrylic work on silk captures motion and movement Even the still portraits reflect recent motion—an arching of the back Most of the portraits are not of famous people it is about painting the soul.” And that comes through He’s coined the phrase “soul painting,” to explain his concept He speaks of “the collision,” that being the moment whether early or late in the painting when “the energetic presence of the person portrayed becomes inevitable the point at which the canvas transforms from mere pigment to a person with a soul present in his studio.” López feels this allows a focus on line and form which is obscured if not lost with the addition of color he is in the tradition of certain medieval and eastern artists Even Picasso began emphasizing the sculptural shapes At one point he claimed that color weakened his art Galerie Alaux in Valencia and been profiled in international publications like Club del Deportista His work is in the private collections of footballers Achraf Hakimi he was honored with the “Estrella de la Cultura 2024” of the Canary Islands You can catch the first glimpse of the artist and his work this Friday April 4 from 5-9 in conjunction with First Friday You’ll also have an opportunity to meet the artist as he’ll be present and painting for the gathering Wear “sparkling black and white.” The exhibition will remain in place into the month of June and regular gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday from 12:00 – 5:00 pm An interesting observation: looking into the eyes of each portrait they all appear to be the same My husband and I attended last night and met the artist and the gallery owner These pieces must be experienced in person Their power and liveliness isn’t felt the same through the photos I am grateful for the contribution of the Lilienthal Gallery Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id" "afdc0cedba1be5a4de145893601e6132" );document.getElementById("j765652687").setAttribute( "id" Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page If she wasn't born with a field hockey stick in her hand Krista just wanted to play and play and play some more played for legendary Pompton Lakes coach Eileen Allan in the early 1990s and for NCAA Hall of Famer Sharon Pfueger at The College of New Jersey before going on to her own stellar coaching career at Parsippany High School was an outstanding soccer player at Butler and played collegiately at the University of Rhode Island and Montclair State before returning to Butler "I grew up on the field and every time my mom went to practice or a game when I was little I would beg her to take me along," said Krista the three-time North Jersey Field Hockey Player of the Year who has a great chance to make it four I played on a rec team with seventh and eighth graders Krista got better and more involved in the game I was never first pick or had my choice of positions," she said "She's a one in a million kid," Pompton Lakes coach Tina Brindisi said "There was this little girl playing up in her age group and even then Krista finished her high school career as the leading goal scorer (158) and playmaker (72 assists) in Pompton Lakes' long and illustrious history assisting on two of the Cardinals' three goals in their loss to Newton in Monday's sectional semifinals But Brindisi wouldn't be surprised if she ends up on defense at Rutgers after committing to the Big Ten program a year ago "Her defense is just insane," Brindisi said because what mattered was getting the win," said Lilienthal "I learned all the positions in the outdoor game And if you think she's good in the 11-person outdoor game wait until you see her in the indoor five-person version "I love indoor because of its extra level of speed," she said "I play left back because when I was little Lilienthal also starred in softball and basketball her first two years at Pompton Lakes but a torn left ACL in a basketball scrimmage last December led to her giving up the other two sports But she'll still do stats for the teams in the winter and spring I'd lay down on a wire for them," she said While admits to shedding some tears throughout senior season − "I cried at the my first game this year because it was my last first game in high school" − and struggled on the bus coming home from the loss to Newton earlier this week − "I couldn't stand taking my uniform off for the final time" − she is definitely looking forward to college and four years at the collegiate level There's also another game circled on her schedule: The first game she can play in an adult-league with her mom "We have a very close-knit family and that's part of the reason I chose Rutgers so they can see me play and I can see (her 13-year-old sister) Briana play," she said "She's a really good goalkeeper and I practice against her all the time." It's hard to doubt that field hockey was Krista's destiny and so far she's fulfilled every part of it Accomplishment: Scored five goals and had five assists in wins over Bernards and Pequannock to power the Cardinals to the Group 1 sectional semifinals starred with comedian Rodney Dangerfield in Easy Money (1983) and played a mobster in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Pesci achieved broad popularity with his turn as a comically pestiferous government witness in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989).… Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Pompton Lakes' Krista Lilienthal (22) waits for the ball against West Milford in the 2023 Passaic County Tournament final at Passaic Tech in Wayne 10/21/23Brian Bobal | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Anthony Gabbianelli | NJ Advance Media for NJ.comKrista Lilienthal aided Pompton Lakes with a goal and an assist to help beat Vernon Lilienthal picked up the assist on a Lacey Fasouletos goal that helped Pompton Lakes win its season opener Teagan Ressler scored the lone goal for Vernon (0-1) Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices Robin Lilienthal is retiring from Iowa Valley Community College District (IVCCD) and Marshalltown Community College (MCC) “Leaving a college and a job that I love has given me all the feels,” Lilienthal said “It’s going to be difficult not seeing my work friends and the students everyday because so much of my life has been connected with them I’m excited for this new chapter and career move I’m sure that I will feel emotional on my last day but I will be so excited to cheer on the success of MCC from the sidelines as it will always hold a special place in my heart.” Her career in Marshalltown has been riddled with highs and lows One of the biggest hurdles Lilienthal faced when she became provost in 2010 was the State of Iowa’s reduction in funding for community colleges She described it as a very difficult budget time We had to close programs,” Lilienthal said “Anything we could do to minimize the impact on students while still working within the budget It was the most difficult and challenging time.” Three programs that were closed were construction technician computer drafting and design and men’s and women’s golf If more students express an interest in pursuing those “It’s something to think about,” she said “We did bring on women’s soccer and esports which had potential for a bigger impact for student athletes Another hard time was the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and derecho The derecho delayed the start of the coming school year and caused $1 million worth of damage to MCC — the roof was torn off the 500 Hallway in the classroom building and the baseball and softball field was nearly flattened “That was difficult for everyone,” Lilienthal said “There was so much damage on the MCC campus just as we were trying to get back after the pandemic.” The biggest accomplishment Lilienthal said she did was improving the student experience at MCC but I had a housing background,” she said I was not going to rest until we could have the opportunity for kids to live in campus housing.” That meant more than making dormitories comfortable Lilienthal also wanted to make sure high-quality meals were provided along with positive social and learning experiences Creating the positive student environment helped an increase in enrollment and retention — a point of pride for Lilienthal as this is an area in which colleges are very competitive Retaining students already attending MCC was the first step Staff wanted to show students the great facilities and give them a great experience Lilienthal said now MCC has “phenomenal” retention and graduation rates “Our team worked diligently,” she said and MCC is on the cusp of becoming a federally-recognized Hispanic-Serving Institution Lilienthal said it is required for a postsecondary school to have Hispanic students comprise 25 percent of the student population at the end of the year “For the 2024 school year when the students come back MCC could be the first Hispanic-Serving Institution in Iowa This is a great place for diverse students to attend Our international students are also a point of pride Lilienthal recalled the beginning of her time with IVCCD she was the dean and vice provost for Grinnell Community College Lilienthal left her job as an educational advisor with Des Moines Area Community College to work for IVCCD “I was looking for a great opportunity to advance my career in terms of advancement,” she said “My husband and I live in northwest Jasper (County) I wanted to work someplace that I could commute to within a respectable distance When Lilienthal heard about the opening at MCC The position would give her the opportunity to work in a variety of areas “I wanted to make a difference in a larger community and school,” she said The soon-to-be-former MCC provost will not rest for long Lilienthal has accepted a position with the Iowa Department of Education as an administration consultant “I am ready for new opportunities for myself and excited for the possibility,” she said which she said is a new twist to her education career She will begin her new position in five weeks which gives Lilienthal time to tour Europe — specifically Greece the United Kingdom and Amsterdam — with her family “I have two adult kids,” she said “The three of us will take a trip to Europe and do tourist stuff My husband is going to stay home and take care of everything.” Taking over Lilienthal’s duties at MCC is Matthew Schmit who is moving into the position from serving as the dean of manufacturing & skilled trades and interim executive director of workforce development at Eastern Iowa Community College in Bettendorf Schmit started working full-time at the Marshalltown campus on June 3 “We’ve spent almost all day together as schedules allow,” Lilienthal said “He is really prepared to take over when I am done on July 1.” A farewell party for Lilienthal was already thrown She said retirement parties at MCC occur shortly after graduation “I did not want a big shebang and I wanted to be with the rest of my colleagues,” Lilienthal said Contact Lana Bradstream at 641-753-6611 ext LLC | https://www.timesrepublican.com | 135 West Main Street The latest exhibition presented by Lilienthal Gallery “Nouveau,” makes its debut tonight It’s definitely a “go big” kind of exhibition with six different artists presenting large pieces Included are returning artists Yigal Ozeri and Swoon joined by artists making their Knoxville debut Vita Kari will make an appearance at tonight’s launch Described as “hyper-contemporary,” the exhibition presents artists making bold new statements while often anchored in rich traditions Yigal Ozeri offers new paintings reflecting a slight departure from the photorealism for which he is best known is renowned for producing oil paintings that cannot be distinguished from photographs though often the artist is lifting the concepts and materials from multiple photographs though they appear seamless his most recent work has focused on a hyper-realistic presentation of women in nature and Americana The New York-based Israeli artist has enjoyed major exhibitions all over the world Swoon’s work was most recently featured by the gallery in the exhibition on Street art has had works exhibited in many of the world’s finest galleries is both an artist and a filmmaker based in New York She studied at the Pratt Institute and her works focus on a human element in the midst of urban life and much it references social issues She has works in the permanent collections at MOMA Tate Modern Museum and other prominent museums James Gortner’s provocative paintings challenge the senses Multiple surfaces combine found art with the artist’s own work Often the frame (which he builds) continues the theme of the art it encloses While much of the work presented here is representational I felt most drawn to the abstract pieces (including in the lower level of the gallery) Gortner lives in New York and works from his studio at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City While Kari’s works remain rooted in tradition and family history they also explore the deceptive world of digital representation The “Trapped in a Can” performance generated widespread conversation the art community offering a connecting line to Yoko Ono’s 1960’s experimental performance art and bold social statements With a growing number of national and international exhibitions and collaborated with brands such as Marc Jacobs Stanley Casselman and Basmat Levin round out the exhibition which pushes the edges of what has been seen in Knoxville These very contemporary artists will have their work on display at the gallery for the next three months but the first glimpse is from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm today Don’t miss Vita Kari at 6:30 for what promises to be a memorable artistic moment in the city "a7e98541df218d7171c29187058e225b" );document.getElementById("j765652687").setAttribute( "id" a place known for stretching artistic boundaries in East Tennessee continues doing so with their current exhibition “Street.” Debuting tonight for First Friday the exhibition runs through December offering a new perspective on street art While the words “street art” might spring anything to mind from tagging to the beautifully constructed murals in major cities it rarely conjures the image of a gallery exhibition That is changing and this exhibition introduces that idea to Knoxville to get a taste of the significant art being produced on the street by people who started there or continue to produce their work there The scale and precision of the art presented as well as the vision executed by the artists holds its own in any forum Several of the artists represented in the new mural alley are also represented inside Lilienthal Gallery at their “Street” exhibition You’ll also find other street art luminaries The exhibition features four major female street artists who were among the first to be widely recognized for their work having exhibitions in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Their work is easily recognized for its blend of street or urban imagery with classical imagery The two have worked together under the one name since 2007 and had their work featured most recently at the Paris Olympics Two works by Doze Green appear in the exhibition and the connections to his Rock Steady Crew of break dancers shines though in his work which has been featured in several museums in Europe Rounding out the exhibition are several of the artists from Knox Walls including local and nationally recognized artists The four women at the center of the exhibition include Swoon (Caledonia Curry) widely recognized as a pioneer in graffiti She started by painting train cars and by the age of sixteen was invited to be in street gallery shows In 1982 she had a starring role in “Wild Style,” known as the first hip-hop movie Her work can be found in the Whitney Museum a Tokyo-born artist who has made New York City her home for the last thirty years blending her Japanese heritage with urban New York City influences She has large-scale works in many cities and her work has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and others around the world she learned street art while also obtaining a BFA in Graphic Design Her bold colors and style has widely influenced streetwear and urban culture She’s had commissions for murals across the world and collaborates with such diverse business groups as MTV Come check out the new mural alley and the exhibition starting tonight There’s a lot happening this weekend two of them related to relief efforts for the regional victims of Hurricane Helena "a0a3d029296dbe19321e5ac2bd3cdde8" );document.getElementById("j765652687").setAttribute( "id" Chess is more popular now than it has ever been. We see articles about chess and chess players in all major media outlets. As a result, chess fans know very well the current chess stars, from established elite players like GM Magnus Carlsen to upcoming prodigies like Faustino Oro However, if you ask an average club player about chess titans of the past, you'll get a blank stare in most cases. Case in point is GM Andor Lilienthal. Before World War 2, he was one of the world's best players, but these days, he is mostly remembered for his brilliant win over Capablanca, which we briefly discussed in this old article:  But Lilienthal wasn't just an outstanding chess player. It is not a well-known fact in his biography that he was GM Tigran Petrosian's coach for about 10 years in the 1950s Since future world champion Petrosian grew up as an orphan and even had to sweep the streets to earn some money There is a funny story about them that happened in the mid 1950s One of Petrosian's games that lasted over five hours was adjourned in a very complicated queen endgame The game was quite important and was supposed to resume the very next day Petrosian asked his coach to analyze the adjourned position and went to bed it is important to mention that even though Lilienthal spent over 50 years in the Soviet Union his Russian wasn't perfect—but this imperfection made it quite adorable it is difficult to translate Lilienthal's note While the story doesn't say how the game ended it is difficult to disagree with Lilienthal's advice Since the queen is the most powerful chess piece you can expect cunning tricks and unexpected results but even in official tournament games by top grandmasters unexpected checkmates in queen endgames are not uncommon Black tried to convert his extra pawn for many moves when he was able to push his pawn and the moment of triumph was close he got an identical gift just one year later: In the following game, we can see an Epaulette Checkmate in an endgame: In conclusion, try to solve a beautiful study by Czech composer Ladislav Prokes I hope that now you can appreciate Lilienthal's advice be very careful even if you have extra material because these endgames have numerous tricks indeed Lilienthal is First Person to Complete Revolutionary Ride Contact: Johnny Carawan National Park Service volunteer Sal Lilienthal completed a 680 mile revolutionary ride at the Yorktown Victory Monument becoming the first person to complete a full ride of the Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail the Washington Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail includes the land and water corridors that follow the routes taken by American and French armies under the commands of General Washington and Comte de Rochambeau to and from the siege of Yorktown a pivotal event in the American Revolutionary War The trail traverses nine states: Massachusetts his actual journey took him on a distance of over 800 miles He also kayaked areas of the Trail to commemorate the water crossing of French and Continental troops wanting to encourage people to learn more about the history of the Trail and living a healthy lifestyle,” said Sal Lilienthal of Kent visited nine states and the District of Columbia and just met incredible people at every stop I made.” His most notable stops were Morristown National Historical Park Sal also stopped in the Village of Brandywine where he performed a bike clinic and led about 30 inner city youth on a ride his support van experienced a mechanical breakdown and his team had to revert to a rental truck containing virtually everything needed to complete the trip was stolen from the hotel parking lot When most would have taken that as a sign to give up rented another car and got back on the road This ride was challenging in countless ways and for that we are extremely grateful that Sal had the strength and passion to complete it,” said Trail Administrator Johnny Carawan Sal has brought awareness to our Trail and its significant role in our nations history he now has the distinction of being the first person to bike and kayak the entire length of the Trial!” For further information please contact Trail Administrator Johnny Carawan at (610) 715-1101 or by email at johnny_carawan@nps.gov Download the NPS app to navigate the parks on the go The great thing about traveling with a van (we’re still using the term “van life,” right?) is the freedom to live and work out of your vehicle and move from place to place As long as you’ve got fuel in the tank and food in the fridge what if your van was powered by batteries instead of gas or diesel Could you travel long distances and still live the semi-nomadic van life in an electric vehicle My wife, Mercedes Lilienthal, and I entered a 7,500km (4,660-mile), 16-day road rally covering nine countries — and we’d do it all in an electric van, a 2024 Volkswagen ID. Buzz Before the rally, we contacted Volkswagen about borrowing an ID. Buzz electric van to compete in Superlative Adventure Club’s 2024 Baltic Sea Circle Rally Our Bay Leaf Metallic Green ID. Buzz Pro was a short-wheelbase 2WD single-motor model from early 2024. It had an 82kWh battery pack, 201 horsepower, and had a range of up to 263 miles. Volkswagen also included a Ququq (pronounced “kook kook” like the sound of cuckoo clock) “camping module” for us to sleep on and cook out of Buzz had two captain’s chairs up front and a middle bench seat which we folded down so we could deploy the Ququq’s bed and have more room for our gear and the myriads of European snacks we’d buy Buzz has been on sale in Europe since 2022 North America will get it at the end of 2024 we’ll only get the long wheelbase version — 9.8 inches longer than the model we used It’ll be available in 2WD or AWD and have a larger 91kWh battery pack Power is said to range between 282 horsepower on 2WD vans and 330 horsepower on AWD models Germany-based Superlative Adventure Club runs the Baltic Sea Circle Rally (BSCR). We knew it would be far different than other rallies we’d done in North America, like the Alcan 5000 and we’d need to regularly charge an electric van but this would be an entirely different ball of electrified European wax The BSCR started outside of Hamburg Germany and back to the finish line in downtown Hamburg and other ways to earn points for this lighthearted competition Avoid using motorways and stick to paper maps to find your way The route was a choose-your-own-adventure affair with the included road book offering suggestions on which towns/locations to stay for the night and interesting sights to see along the way There were two parties along the route where all teams could come together and share food Superlative Adventure Club also asked each team to raise 500 € ($544 USD) for charity. We selected The Jessi Combs Foundation We weren’t the first team to campaign an EV during this rally I was initially hesitant to do a trip of this magnitude in an EV Research revealed Europe would be a mishmash of charging stations operated by a slew of independent companies Each would have its own proprietary apps and RFID keys or charging cards strewn across the different countries and regions Few chargers would let you pay via credit card instead requiring you to install their app We also couldn’t download the apps or order the RFID cards before leaving the U.S due to app location restrictions on the Google Play store We provided an extensive list of apps we’d need; he installed them and sent away for the EV charging cards so we could charge We silently left the starting line armed with a fully charged ID and a stack of apps and charging cards for the van The first challenge was booking a ferry from Germany to Denmark my navigator and German-American dual-citizen wife Our EV rally/van life strategy was to be conservative with speed for maximum range and to bump-charge to 80% most of the time This would be the most efficient use of time We also wouldn’t push too far on range for fear of running out of battery We’d try to stick to DC ultra- or hyper-fast chargers (150kW+) and look for multiple charging opportunities in cities We had paper maps of each country for navigation but had to use digital apps to locate charging stations My EV anxiety was temporarily eased at our first charging spot in Bogø as one of our charging cards successfully worked to initiate the ID this time at one of the many Circle K convenience stores charging across Europe was even trickier than we expected It turned out that none of our apps or charging cards worked at Circle K There was a QR code on the charger to download the right app I thought I’d attempt to get the app with my U.S Sweden allowed me to get the Elton charging app took significant time and was a taste of things to come finding charges wasn’t an issue; it was getting chargers to work which was tough — nearly every station had its own app we used 13 charging apps out of the nearly 20 we downloaded and set up we found the Elton app worked at Circle K stations in Sweden and Norway cars with CCS plugs can utilize Tesla Superchargers and Poland aren’t included — ask me how I know Europe’s EV charging infrastructure is a large but messy patchwork of different providers with most requiring proprietary apps or charging cards we wouldn’t have been able to do this rally When it was time to turn in for the night in the Nordic countries we took advantage of the ability to wild camp pretty much anywhere that wasn’t on someone’s property We spent the night at a few organized sites with other rally participants We also had 3 nights in Airbnbs — 2 nights in Helsinki A few organized camp sports had electricity where we could’ve paid to charge our van on standard AC power at a glacially slow 2kW (the ID While all the teams selected their own motorway-free routes on this rally we had to plan ours around charger availability such as ChargeFinder and ABRP (A Better Route Planner) as well as the digital map from each EV charging app Before finding a place to camp or stay at night We shopped at local grocery markets throughout the trip and kept our tiny fridge well stocked with fresh food and local beer We also tried the local foods when possible Fun fact: The 7-11 stores in Norway had incredible smoked-salmon-and-egg sandwiches on beautiful bread Why people would still opt for McDonald’s or Burger King is beyond me we’d need to average about 500 km (311 miles) a day That sounded simple compared to the 600-650-mile days on the Alcan 5000 Rally the BSCR was more exhausting than anticipated This was partially due to lots of slow speed limits and the fact we had to stop to charge the van regularly which made it hard to keep up with the rally’s pace we’d get on the road a few hours earlier than most teams who were still sleeping at their campsites ralliers would catch up to us later when we stopped to charge even if you were not on an endurance rally van life in an EV will be at a slower pace We still budgeted time to see things: the Arctic Circle in Norway and Finland RUMMU Quarry in Estonia (a former Soviet prison turned beach) Our hectic pace didn’t allow Instagram-worthy meals cooked out of the back of a van in a picturesque Euro locales Much of our cooking and eating was actually done while charging in parking lots — far from scenic — but quite efficient Our van included a German-made Ququq BusBox-4 a removable “camping module” designed specifically for the ID It included a powerful double-burner butane stove and a spacious pantry underneath it for dry goods The van’s continuous 12V plug powered a small slide-out refrigerator. There were two stainless steel wash basins and two 10L plastic water jugs, albeit they leaked a bit from their plastic caps. The Ququq system helped the ID. Buzz become a practical, comfortable camper van during our journey Buzz had a host of built-in van-life-ready niceties There were no fewer than seven USB-C plugs for charging phones There was an AC outlet under the passenger’s seat although it was easy to knock out a plug with your feet when in use The center console between the captain’s chairs could be removed and had cupholders and two storage bins inside there were cupholders and cubbies great for wallets I would’ve loved to have that USB-C power on all the time so we could’ve charged our phones while we slept The interior had a host of light colors which could easily become dingy you needed to disable the interior motion sensing which had 201 horsepower motor and 0-62 time of just over 10 seconds (VW has since bumped the base output to 286 horsepower in the German market.) The van easily cruised on Europe’s roads though we did have a tire patch kit and tools Driving dynamics were very good — a common VW trait making our back-road transits more entertaining than I anticipated The comfortable seats and admirable ride really helped on the long days such as the cruise control and climate control offered a steep learning curve and a healthy dose of frustration The bottom line is this: you can live your van life dreams in an EV There’s more time spent charging and you must find chargers — and hope they work If you were just living the digital nomad life the ease of long trips (and even van life) should get easier we took 47th place out of 140 entries; a total of 120 teams crossed the finish line After spending over 2 weeks in nine countries I can tell you long-distance travel in an electric van on a rally is a hell of an adventure It’s a different kind of adventure than camping in the wilderness or off-roading in the middle of nowhere The Baltic Sea Circle Rally was incredible and extraordinary cultural experiences — I wholeheartedly recommend it unless you’re trying to prove a point (or are an automotive journalist) you might want to stick to an ICE vehicle for the time being faster luxury EV with a boot full of retro good looks Check out our top picks for the best minivans that are perfect for life on the road Andy Lilienthal has been writing about cars and gear for 23 years at a host of publications Andy spent time at/worked at a student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin – Stout Andy enjoys working on his Japanese domestic market 4WD Mitsubishis When I picked up the 2025 MINI Cooper S Hardtop 2-Door Since the modern BMW-made MINI’s debut in 2001 the performance-oriented Cooper S models have been a blast to drive My test car wore Sunny Side Yellow paint with a black roof Would it continue the Cooper S legacy of being a fun-sized boosted road rocket In short: The latest MINI Cooper S Hardtop 2-Door aims to continue the heritage of offering spirited performance and great driving dynamics in a practical subcompact package The latest model offers a host of changes that — for better or for worse — modernize this MINI while still holding on to being a driver’s car (with one major caveat) But the lack of a manual gearbox or a way to manually select your own gears takes away some enthusiast appeal yet is a sign of the times regarding modern cars My wife and I picked this car up at the airport after arriving home from a trip. We opened the rear hatch, which had already had the rear seats folded down, and our carry-on luggage was easily swallowed up. This is why I love hatchback configurations; they’re so versatile I was also looking forward to spending time with an actual car a tiny MINI thumbs its nose at the boring crossovers of the world and the jacked-up 4x4s used only to retrieve one’s offspring from school The gear selector is a small tab on the dashboard’s lower left You press it down to go from park to drive Then it occurred to me that there wasn’t a way to manually shift this thing: no paddle shifters How can the performance-oriented Cooper S not offer the driver control over gear selection The new Cooper S is a point-and-shoot affair and the TwinPower engine comes to life with a satisfying growl Making 201 horsepower and a healthy 221 pound-feet of torque this front-drive hatchback has lots of zip MINI claims a 0-60 time of 6.3 seconds and a top speed of 150 mph There’s plenty of power to move around this 3,014-pound hatchback the MINI Cooper S 2-Door feels like a go-kart quick shifts and a satisfying exhaust note the MINI Cooper S 2 Door is rated at 28 mpg city one of a host of “experiences,” as MINI calls them that changes the center-mounted gauge cluster’s appearance and driving dynamics Go-Kart mode increases accelerator pedal sensitivity and adjusts automatic shift points to be held longer optimizing the engine’s power for performance The MINI Cooper S has always been known for its handling The car has fully independent suspension with front and rear stabilizer bars and electronic torque vectoring The busy-looking black-and-machined 18-inch alloy wheels are wrapped in grippy 215/40R18 Perelli Cinturato P7 tires The hatchback handles like the aforementioned go-kart The car is a blast to drive in the corners as it darts easily and confidently through the twisties The fun factor is high with this hatchback a Fiat 500e has a 31.5-foot turning radius The steering wheel is super-fat and chunky the 10 and 2 o’clock positions are comically large and border on too big The wheel also has stereo controls and cruise control even if they’re not the most ergonomic or easy to use I love the big round center cluster’s look but some modes are too bright at night and require dimming Most controls and readouts are handled on this screen steering wheel — and nearly everything else — are controlled on the touchscreen there are several different “experiences” you can choose from or a gauge cluster that simply looks like an old-timey dial These changes are mimicked by the retractable heads-up display — yes I found the MINI’s infotainment challenging to use even when wirelessly hooked to Android Auto showed me to be around 25 miles from where I really was It was suggested that I create a MINI ID account but the pairing process failed a few times telling me Technology aside, the interior is attractive and comfortable, at least for two people. Anyone with legs probably wouldn’t want to be relegated to the back seat. With the rear seats folded, you’ll get 34.4 cubic feet of cargo-carrying ability; 8.9 cubic feet with the seats folded up. Those seeking more space may want to investigate the Cooper S 4-Door The front seats are comfortable and heated and they offer ample bolstering and support which was great after driving so many crossovers I had to retrain my brain to get in and out without needing to step down a quarter of a mile There are two USB-C outlets and a 12V socket in front of the armrest In front of the armrest is a wide spot for stuff like phones but it’s so large that you could probably get an iPad or tablet there and it has one of the crispest rearview cameras I’ve seen Restyling a car meant to be a retro tribute can be tricky MINI has done this right since its first refresh and that continues here — it’s unmistakably a MINI Cooper From the round headlights (with illuminated halos) to the overall square hatchback shape the car retains styling cues from the original 1959 BMC Mini The restyled semi-triangular taillights show part of the Union Jack flag The car is available with or without a black roof The lack of a manual transmission or at least a way to manually change gears removes from driving luster The MINI Cooper S Hardtop 2-Door starts at $34,600 Our tester included the $1,700 Iconic Trim but this is a performance hot hatch in a tiny Maybe a John Cooper Works model will give us back our ability to row our own gears Mini knows the stick shift is a big part of driving fun it wants to help more people learn the joy of three pedals This guide will get you started on how to drive a manual transmission vehicle Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Off Broadway Cabaret Dance Opera Classical Music Nashville Minneapolis / St. Paul Connecticut Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles WEST END UK Regional Canada Australia / New Zealand Europe Asia Latin America Africa / Middle East TV/Movies Music Theatre: and exclusive discounts on tickets to your favorite shows © 2025 - Copyright Wisdom Digital Media, all rights reserved. Privacy Policy volume 4 - 2011 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fneng.2011.00020 This article is part of the Research TopicBioinspired solutions to the challenges of chemical sensingView all 14 articles Roboticists often take inspiration from animals for designing sensors or algorithms that control the behavior of robots Bio-inspiration is motivated with the uncanny ability of animals to solve complex tasks like recognizing and manipulating objects or navigating to the source of an odor plume In particular the task of tracking an odor plume up to its source has nearly exclusively been addressed using biologically inspired algorithms and robots have been developed In this paper we argue that biomimetic approaches to gas source localization are of limited use primarily because animals differ fundamentally in their sensing and actuation capabilities from state-of-the-art gas-sensitive mobile robots we compare actuation and chemical sensing available to mobile robots to the corresponding capabilities of moths We further characterize airflow and chemosensor measurements obtained with three different robot platforms (two wheeled robots and one flying micro-drone) in four prototypical environments and show that the assumption of a constant and unidirectional airflow which is the basis of many gas source localization approaches This analysis should help to identify how underlying principles which govern the gas source tracking behavior of animals can be usefully “translated” into gas source localization approaches that fully take into account the capabilities of mobile robots We also describe the requirements for a reference application monitoring of gas emissions at landfill sites with mobile robots and discuss an engineered gas source localization approach based on statistics as an alternative to biologically inspired algorithms The animals that have inspired most of the robotics research for odor plume tracking are: Moths, which use odor localization to find mates (Kuwana et al., 1999; Ishida et al., 2001; Pyk et al., 2006) Lobsters, which use odor localization to locate food (Grasso et al., 1998) Escherichia Coli, which use odor localization to locate nutrients (Russell et al., 2003) Dung Beetles, which use odor localization to find hatching niches, habitation, and food (Russell et al., 2003) The bio-inspired gas source tracking algorithms that have been implemented on mobile robots are based on two principles Chemotaxis refers to a mechanism in which the movement of an organism (or robot) is determined by the distribution of chemical compounds most often by the concentration gradient of one or more volatiles Anemotaxis instead refers to a mechanism in which the movement of an organism (or robot) is determined by the perceived airflow (air can be generalized to fluid) More recently Vergassola et al. (2007) proposed infotaxis, which is a search strategy based on probability and information theory. It was designed for addressing the gas source localization problem in uncontrolled indoor or outdoor environments characterized by a high Reynolds number and thus dominated by turbulence (Roberts and Webster, 2002) Instead of using concentration and flow gradients infotaxis models the location of the source as a probability distribution derived from previously collected measurements and the next actions of the robot (i.e. move to a neighboring location or standing still) are decided based on a minimum entropy criterion a statistical approach that follows the same principles as infotaxis The authors performed their experiments inside a 18 m × 4 m wind tunnel with an ethanol gas source and a robot equipped with a commercial gas sensor The experiments were carried out under laminar flow conditions Turbulent airflow disperses the gas plume creating a complex structure of gas patches with different concentration levels advection can create areas of high concentration away from the location where the gas was released The main contribution of this paper is to highlight the weaknesses of state-of-the-art bio-inspired algorithms for gas source localization that aim to directly reproduce insect behavior The argumentation brought at support is twofold: first the sensing mechanisms available to robotic systems are completely different from biological receptors the chaotic environmental properties of natural environments do not allow the formation of a steady odor plume that would lead a robot that implements a form of bio-inspired anemotaxis to the gas source for localizing a gas source a mobile robot does not necessarily need to travel toward it tracking the odor plume the robot can collect measurements in locations far away from the gas source and still be able to infer the position of the emission source We provide observations collected in four different experimental areas with three different platforms in order to support our claims We then use an engineered approach as an alternative to biologically inspired gas localization algorithms we argue that isolated principles of animal behavior can help us to understand the task of gas source localization better provided that we carefully take into account the limited mobility of a robot and the difference between biological receptors and the sensors that are available to a robot In order to investigate the characteristics of measurements collected by mobile robots in natural environments we perform experiments in four different locations with three different robotic platforms The different locations have been chosen in order to have a wide spectrum of possible environmental conditions to a long corridor with open ends and two different courtyards the selection of the robotic platform aims at investigating different sensor configurations imposed by the constraints of the different platforms the experiments were performed with two wheeled robots and one flying quadrocopter and they can have large computational resources on-board On the other hand flying platforms have less restrictions regarding mobility compared to wheeled robots but typically they have limited payload and battery life Another shortcoming of helicopter platforms is that the action of their rotors can influence significantly the airflow In all the experiments the robots were following a predefined trajectory that covered the area of inspection The robots were stopping at regular intervals in order to collect series of measurements No attempt was made to move the robot toward the location of the gas source but instead data have been collected over all the area of inspection and then gas distribution maps have been produced at the end of the experiments gas distribution maps can provide good indications on the location of the gas source In the next subsections we will first introduce the robotics platforms (Section 2.1) then describe the experimental environments (Section 2.2) and finally illustrate the sensing modalities employed for chemical (Section 2.3) and airflow (Section 2.4) sensing a control interface that simplifies access to standard robot sensors and actuators and provides implementations of standard algorithms adaptive Monte Carlo localization (amcl driver) and the wavefront path planner (wavefront driver) were used for localization The localization module implemented in the amcl driver uses the odometry and the laser scanner readings in order to localize the robot on a map provided to the algorithm at the startup Gas sensors used in the electronic noses mounted on the three robotic platforms Notice that the three pictures are not in scale (A) Outdoor wheeled robot (B) indoor wheeled robot (C) outdoor flying robot The e-noses and the PID inlet were mounted 0.065 m over the ground The photo ionization gas detector shows quick response to a wide range of gases and provides calibrated readings of the gas concentration (given that the chemical compound is known) The responses of the metal-oxide gas sensors are slower and the sensors are not calibrated The robot is also equipped with a two-dimensional ultrasonic anemometer (WindSonic The device can measure the airflow velocity from 0 to 60 m/s with 0.01 m/s resolution The specifications of the Gill WindSonic anemometer are very similar to the ones of the Young 81000 and the only major difference is that the WindSonic provides a 2-D reading instead of 3-D The third robot that we used for our tests is the AR100-B micro-drone developed by AirRobot GmbH & Co. The micro-drone was modified by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM, Germany) to incorporate gas-sensitive devices as payload. The sensors mounted on the micro-drone are listed in Table 1. The AR100-B (Figure 1C) is a highly maneuverable and compact platform With a diameter of 1 m and a weight of approx it supports up to 200 g of payload and its LiPo battery can provide a maximum flight time of about 20–30 min The flight control relies on an on-board Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) that comprises a three axis accelerometer and a three axis rotation rate sensor The IMU is also used along with a GPS unit and a compass for localization purposes Communication with the ground station is established through a 2.4-GHz RF link in which the data packets sent can include steering instructions or data coming from the payload and micro-drone sensors Due to the restrictions imposed by the platform the micro-drone doesn’t carry an anemometer wind measurements are estimated by fusing the different on-board sensing modalities using the wind triangle approach explained later in Section 2.4 it is possible to measure windflows in the range of 0–8 m/s A first set of three experiments was conducted in a 5-m × 5-m × 5-m × 2-m closed room shown in Figure 2A Although no artificial airflow was induced a weak circulating airflow field (0.01–0.03 m/s) was formed in the room by natural convection Ethanol and 2-propanol vapors were used as detection targets and were released from two tubes at a constant flow rate (0.2 l/min) the robot was programmed to move along a predefined spiral path that covered the whole experimental area The robot was stopping at regular intervals for data collection The reason for stopping the robot at each waypoint to collect wind measurements is due to the difficulty in compensating for the movement of the robot on the anemometer readings the sensor data were recorded for 30 s and the sensors were sampled at 4 Hz A total of three experimental trials were conducted in this scenario Experimental locations considered in this work The dashed line displays the path followed by the robot and the dots indicate the points where the robot was stopping for collecting measurements The squares denote the actual location of the gas sources (A) Closed room (B) Orebro University corridor (C) Orebro University courtyard (D) BAM courtyard four experimental trials were carried out in an 8-m × 8-m region that is part of a much bigger open area the gas source was a cup of ethanol placed in the middle of this area the robot followed a predefined sweeping trajectory covering the area of interest the robot stopped at predefined positions and carried out a sequence of measurements on the spot for 10 s (outdoors) and 30 s (for both indoor locations) The predefined sweeping motion was performed once in each directions and the robot was driven at a maximum speed of 0.05 m/s in between the stops In these two scenarios the measurements were recorded at a frequency of 1 Hz A set of five additional trials were conducted in the outdoor environment shown in Figure 2D with an electronic nose mounted on the micro-drone previously described in Section 2.1 A CH4 (99.5%-pure methane) gas cylinder was placed in a 14-m × 14-m area and at each trial the valve of the cylinder was let open to release CH4 in the environment In order to spread the analyte away from the cylinder an AC fan was placed near the odor outlets The air current introduced by the fan also prevented the CH4 to immediately rise up to the atmosphere when released The micro-drone was programmed to explore the experimental area following a sweeping trajectory starting from a remote location and moving at 1 m/s toward the gas cylinder Data samples were acquired at a sampling frequency of 8 Hz and transmitted down to the ground stating using the micro-drone’s RF link At each measuring position the micro-drone stopped to take gas concentration measurements for about 20 s RH and Rs are respectively the heater and the sensor resistances while RL is the load resistance that is applied in series to Rs in order to be able to read it VH is the voltage applied to the heating resistance and it is proportional to the operating temperature VC is the reference voltage for the measurement In order to calculate the value of the sensor resistance (inverse of the sensor conductance – the quantity that changes when the sensor responds) the following formula is applied: the output signal is linearly proportional to the concentration of the chemical compound being analyzed As a standalone detector PIDs are broad band detectors and are not selective as these may ionize everything with an ionization energy less than or equal to the lamp output PIDs provide true concentration measurements Moreover the response dynamics of PIDs is much quicker compared to the one of MOX sensors Two of the main drawback of PID gas sensors compared to MOX gas sensors are the high price and the considerable weight (738 g for the ppbRAE that we use in our experiments) that makes them unsuitable for platforms with a limited payload that we adopt for our indoor wheeled robot is to use both sensor modalities in order to try to combine the advantages of both while limiting the shortcomings Wind information can be of high importance for gas-sensitive robots. For example, the steering trajectories of anemotaxis plume tracking algorithms are based on wind measurements. Moreover, more accurate gas distribution models can be obtained by considering the advective influence of local airflow (Reggente and Lilienthal, 2009) Anemometers based on ultrasonic measurements are a convenient solution for robotics applications due to of their high resolution wide measurement range and their relatively compact size compared to anemometers based on mechanical principles (e.g. The basic operational principle of an ultrasonic anemometer can be explained with the schematic shown in Figure 4A Pairs of piezoelectric transmitters and transducers are placed at locations s1 and s2 separated by a distance L The oscillator at s1 produces a sonic pulse that reaches the transducer at s2 in a time of flight t12 while a second pulse travels from s2 to s1 in t21 the wind speed and direction can be estimated t12 ≈ t21 and therefore |u|≈0 the sonic pulse emitted from a location j will travel faster than the pulse emitted from i and therefore tji < tji The wind direction is then inferred from the sign of u By placing additional orthogonal arrays of transducers/oscillators 2-D and 3-D wind information can be acquired Schematic diagrams of the wind measurement principles considered in this work (A) Ultrasonic measurement principle (B) wind triangle measurement principle While ultrasonic anemometers are a reliable means to acquire wind information alternative approaches have been developed for platforms with particular restrictions the micro-drone described in Section 2.1 has a limited payload capacity which imposes weight and size constraints for on-board equipment and furthermore the turbulence and vibrations caused by the micro-drone’s rotors can disrupt the anemometer readings By fusing different sensing modalities, it is nevertheless possible to estimate the wind information. Neumann et al. (2010) proposed a method that can be used by aerial robots to estimate the wind vector . The authors used data coming from the embedded sensors of their micro-drone to compute the parameters of the wind triangle shown in Figure 4B The ground vector and its direction wdir were directly obtained from the GPS readings while the flight vector was calculated using a reference function computed from a set of wind tunnel measurements the orientation information coming from the on-board compass was used to compute the flight direction vdir and finally the wind vector and direction udir were computed from the wind triangle by applying the law of cosines In this section, we analyze the data recorded with the three robotic platforms in the four experimental locations summarized in Table 2 We characterize the wind measurements to describe the environmental conditions that prevailed during the data collection in the four locations we analyze the response dynamics in the frequency domain of a PID sensor and two MOX sensors that are commonly used in robotic olfaction we explore a non-biological approach to gas source localization Measurement configurations used in the four experimental locations considered in this work uneven speed distributions were sensed even in the indoor experimental set-ups where one might expect less distinct fluctuations Wind measurements collected during one experimental trial The squares denote the points where the robot stopped to collect measurements The dashed line denotes the robot trajectory (B) Polar plot of the measurements acquired at the waypoint denoted by a red square in the airflow map (C) Wind speed histogram for the measurements acquired at the waypoint denoted by a red square in the airflow map Örebro University courtyard set-up As expected the frequency content of the signal collected with MOX sensors is much smaller than the one of a signal collected with the PID Responses in time domain and frequency domain of a TGS2620 and a PID ppbRAE 3000 The responses were recorded with the robot stopped at a fixed position in the Closed room experimental set-up (A) Time domain responses of the TGS2620 and the PID (ppbRAE 3000) normalized to be between 0 and 1 (B) Frequency spectra computed from the response of the TGS2620 and the ppbRAE 3000 in the Closed room experimental set-up This algorithm is a non-parametric estimation approach that neither makes strong assumptions about the particular form of the modeled gas distribution nor relies on expensive fluid dynamics computations to generate the model Kernel DM + V takes a set of spatially located measurements and computes a discretized grid model where a confidence value as well as distribution mean and predictive variance are computed The model is computed by extrapolating from neighboring measurements weighted by a Gaussian function 𝒩 of width σ the parameters that regulate the Kernel DM + V algorithm are kernel width σ and cell size c the authors proposed a method to learn the parameters of the algorithm from the measurements by minimizing the average negative log predictive density (NLPD) which is a standard criterion to evaluate distribution models In order to estimate the gas source locations we used the variance maps as indicators of the source proximity It can be noticed that the cells adjacent to the actual source location have a higher variance value which is represented by brighter color shades in the figures Kernel DM + V learned parameters used in the four test locations c Stands for grid cell size and σ is the kernel width Predictive variance and mean distribution maps obtained with the Kernel DM + V algorithm in the four experimental locations considered in this work The dashed lines represent the exploration path followed by the robot and the red circle represents the actual gas source location OU courtyard (F) Variance distribution map Probably one of the most crucial aspects of research in mobile robot olfaction is the design of the experiments that enable to study and develop systems for airborne chemical monitoring A major technical difficulty is that the dispersion of chemicals in natural environments is difficult to observe since most chemicals produce an invisible plume the plume evolution is also difficult to predict a priori due to the chaotic dispersal of gas A second major difficulty is that environmental conditions are often very variable and therefore experiments are hard to repeat Thus it is difficult to obtain ground truth that can be used to validate experimental results experiments are often carried out under controlled conditions that limit variations from the expected ground truth plume behavior and thus increase repeatability of the experiments it is hard to predict how the results obtained in such experiments extend to uncontrolled environments It is very important in the mobile robot olfaction domain that great care is used in describing the experimental set-up in which the claimed results are obtained and it should be avoided to state that results obtained in an environment with steady and controlled airflow trivially extend to more general and complex environments In an attempt to identify possible reasons why the clearly successful reactive tracking behavior of animals cannot be mimicked by current mobile robots we make two observations: the chemosensing mechanisms currently available are much slower than the biological receptors and mobile robots do not have the same maneuvering capabilities of animals According to Justus et al. (2005) the filtering applied by moth antennae is a linear noise-free representation of odorant concentration in the range of 1–10 Hz while the gain is reduced for frequencies below 1 Hz It is argued that the most likely cause for this effect is the adaptation of the receptor cells a common feature of biological sensory receptors that is most often seen as a slowing or cessation of response to a constant stimulus According to the data we collected in the four different scenarios mentioned in this paper the bandwidth of the signal collected with MOX gas sensors contains frequencies in the range of 0–0.04 Hz while the signal collected with a PID contains frequencies between 0 and 0.015 Hz It is striking that currently available chemical sensors stop filtering out the signal in the bandwidth that insects actually can perceive and use for tracking an odor plume chemical sensors capture the signal in a bandwidth that insects filter out through the adaptation process the perception of the chemical stimulus is totally different for insects compared to state-of-the-art gas-sensitive robots the angular speed is mainly limited by the actuation principles Based on these differences it seems possible that current gas-sensitive mobile robots are just too slow to perform insect-like reactive steering strategies that allow successful plume tracking in a highly dynamic environment with turbulent airflow the design of gas-sensitive mobile robots should take into account the limitations of the sensors and robotic platforms currently available This does not imply that the design of olfactory mobile robots can not be biologically inspired but that mobile robots should not try to directly replicate the movements of insects without a deep understanding how the underlying principles depend on the sensing and actuation capabilities of animals Instead of mimicking “zigzagging” and “casting” paths the importance of mechanisms to recover from situations in which the animal or robot looses contact with the plume should be applied when developing gas source tracking approaches A very interesting example in this regard is the infotaxis algorithm which minimizes an entropy function but is nevertheless observed to produce “zigzagging” and “casting” paths similar to those observed in the flight of moths and other animals Here the underlying principle is probably that the information gain is highest close to the boundary of the plume and this principle could also be used in approaches that do not attempt to zigzag toward a gas source In addition to non-biological algorithms that take inspiration from the successful principles reflected in animal behavior the mobile robot olfaction community should also consider emerging gas sensing technologies like methane laser sensors or infrared cameras that can provide valuable inputs for locations that are meters away from the actual position of the robot The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Navigational strategies used by insects to find distant Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text “The player/stage project: tools for multi-robot and distributed sensor systems,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) “Toward the convergence: robot and lobster perspectives of tracking odors to their source in the turbulent marine environment,” in Intelligent Control (ISIC) Held Jointly with IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA) Plume-tracking robots: a new application of chemical sensors Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Dynamic properties of antennal responses to pheromone in two moth species Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Robot odor localization: a taxonomy and survey CrossRef Full Text Effects of moth size on velocity and steering during upwind flight toward a sex pheromone source by Lymantria dispar; 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Available at: http://www.waste-management-world.com Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Odour classification system for continuous monitoring applications ‘Infotaxis’ as a strategy for searching without gradients Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher 94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or goodLearn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish Peter Lilienthal refurbished the broken clock that has adorned the facade of 57 Park St in Lee since 1991. "This clock might fall into that borderline between antique and sentimental," he said Peter Lilienthal is proprietor of Good as Old Antiques Repair & Art Gallery in Sheffield “We specialize in restoring things that can be very sentimental," he said Knollwood Antiques in Lee displays wares from 30 vendors.  agreed that the clock that long has adorned the building at 57 Park St “[Paul] believed as I believe that it is part of the history of the town,” LaVigné said The clock will hang on Knollwood Antiques at 57 Park St in Lee in the semicircle at the top of the facade.  Peter Lilienthal and Crystal Lehmann have refurbished the broken clock that has adorned the front facade of 57 Park St in Lee. They transformed the clock so it still looks old but shows no signs of rust or decay Peter Lilienthal recently refurbished the broken clock that long has adorned the front facade of 57 Park St It turns out that he was helping a fellow lover of preserving old objects: Richard LaVigné Peter Lilienthal sees potential where others see none left “I hate to see good things go in the garbage,” he said Now 68 and the proprietor of Good as Old Antiques Repair & Art Gallery in Sheffield Lilienthal’s most recently refurbished the broken clock that has adorned the facade of 57 Park St Lilienthal has been in the business of repairing objects for 35 years After he helped a friend who owned an import business repair merchandise damaged during shipment he developed a reputation as a good repairman He says he was born with the ability to fix things “I always just knew" how to fix things He previously did repairs — mostly for antique shops — out of his home he opened a store and began doing more repairs for individual customers They began their antique and interior design business in 1984 in Boston they have a total of five galleries in both New York City and Florida drawn out of the city after an antiquing business opportunity didn’t pan out they fell in love with the space at 57 Park St pottery and other antique items from 30 vendors who rent spaces and you don’t see it a lot anymore,” LaVigné said Why can't we reuse one of those things and make a unique space?” LaVigné found his love for finding beauty in old objects at a young age while running his paper route in his hometown of Marlborough he drew inspiration from his neighbors’ interior design One couple replaced a wall in their Colonial-style home with colored panes of glass and put old glass bottles on shelves in front of the window that had a view out at Mount Wachusett. LaVigné thought it was beautiful LaVigné and Concannon got the keys to the building on Park Street on March 1 asked what they would do with the broken clock why don’t we get it restored?” LaVigné said Lilienthal and Crystal Lehmann — who worked with Lilienthal since 2016 doing restoration work herself and managing the business' operations — took on the project “We take things every day and make them beautiful.” The inner molding of the clock was rotted or missing and some of the nails that held it together were gone The one remaining hand on the clock didn’t tick and LaVigné found the missing hand on a shelf in the building’s back office Lilienthal and Lehmann transformed the clock so it still looks old but shows no signs of rust or decay They hope it will remain on the building for decades to come The building was constructed in 1935 and housed a series of various businesses When John Elling leased the building in 1991 and opened Elling Hardware did some renovations that included building the clock and its surrounding archway Ray Elling painted the numbers on the clock and included the the names "Franklin & Holmes" in gold lettering because that's what the brothers had considered naming the hardware store though these names had no significance in their family.  "We added the clock because it was an icon on Main Street," John Elling said "It was good to have the clock because it was useful."  Carr Hardware moved into the building in 2003 but relocated to a building on Main Street in 2022 vacant until the Knollwood Antiques moved in David King has lived in Lee on and off since 1989 and worked at Carr Hardware since January 2006 the clock was a central element of its storefront.  “You look at it when you go by and it’s iconic," King said.  Lilienthal also appreciates the clock’s prominent position in Lee “Anybody coming down Route 20 going south is looking at this clock on that building "It's sort of a touchstone for travelers.” Although the clock has long been displayed it’s been broken more often than it’s been working King remembers that Carr Hardware hired someone to fix the clock around 2010 but it stopped working again after a few years Lilienthal and Lehmann didn’t have too much trouble restoring the clock — they’ve faced far greater and labor-intensive challenges restoring old high chairs porcelain and grandfather clocks — but Lilienthal says that some objects are mysteriously challenging to fix “There are some things I’ve worked with that just don’t want to be fixed and you could almost sense that they were fighting with you,” Lilienthal said And there are some things that just act like normal things Time will tell if the clock will decide to keep diligently ticking the dean of regional antiques dealers and appraisal specialists discovered his passion for art while in high school little did he know that he would create an … The Tavern at the A in Pittsfield is preparing to reopen for food service this May even as the fate of its liquor license remains uncertain after Monday afternoon's Licensing Board meeting  Hancock residents will vote on a 20-item warrant at the 2025 Annual Town Meeting 7 p.m The town election will be held noon to 6 p.m At least 70 job-seekers connected with 18 employers at Lenox's annual job fair Dalton's annual town meeting will begin at 7 p.m The town election will be May 12 at the Dalton Senior Center three men discussed plans for a secret raid that would become America’s first offensive victory in the Revolutionary War locals gathered to commemorate the largely forgotten meeting that helped 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Doing it in an all-electric car might seem like madness. Right? Well, that’s exactly what my husband and I did, tackling the 2024 Baltic Sea Circle Rally in a European-spec short wheelbase Volkswagen ID The Baltic Sea Circle Rally is the brainchild of Hamburg Germany-based rally organization Superlative Adventure Club (SAC) the Baltic Sea Circle Rally is part fun run and part competition touring through backroads with no GPS and only paper maps packed with a massive sense of adventure as teams camped along the way Each year, the Baltic Circle Sea Rally (both summer and winter iterations) asks teams to raise at least 500 euros (approximately $540 USD) for their favorite charity. We chose to support The Jessi Combs Foundation – the charity named in honor of the late racer and TV personality which supports young women seeking careers in automotive trades and similar fields we raised $3,239 USD (over 2,985 euros) for the nonprofit Unlike some competitions in North America, like the Alcan 5000 Rally the Baltic Sea Circle Rally is an adventure rally where unique daily challenges and off-the-wall missions created an exciting journey around the Baltic Sea while basking in the midnight sun There were 140 teams entered in this year’s Baltic Sea Circle Rally with all but one team not from Europe or its nearby regions: us My husband and I traveled from Oregon to Germany to compete We were also the only team piloting an all-electric vehicle this year — an incredible feat given we needed to travel 5,000 miles through nine countries are based on precision and particular routes But the Baltic Sea Circle Rally has a suggested course that’s noted in a thick spiral-bound roadbook you could massively deviate from the course or head home early if you chose Teams started in northern Germany and worked their way through the nine countries we drove a clockwise route from Germany through Denmark much of the rally takes place quite far from the actual Baltic Sea We made our way through all of Scandinavia and we achieved one of our personal goals: Drive to the northernmost point in all of Europe This special place beckons adventurers with its steep cliffs and iconic globe sculpture located at 71°10′21″N 25°47′04″E Nordkapp is just 1,306 miles from the North Pole and is considered the mid-point of the Baltic Circle Sea Rally Buzz Pro arrived sporting a very cool Bay Leaf Green paint job with a matching two-tone interior Buzz that will eventually come to the United States short-wheelbase two-row model with two power sliding doors it features several smartly designed areas for storage including a clever floor-mounted center console with bins drawers and cubbies that’s removable and reversible making the most of the vehicle’s storage capabilities Our ID. Buzz Pro van also featured a Ququq BusBox-4 camping system for sleeping and storing gear — an extra installed for the rally This unique interior camp unit is easy to set up in any ID The system works super-well; Andy declared it well-built Buzz has a single rear motor that generates 201 HP and 229 pound-feet of torque which is the same output as the ID.4 Standard sold here in the United States it shouldn’t be surprising that it hits 62 mph (100 km/h) in 10.2 seconds that 82-kWh battery was said to achieve 250 to 262 miles of range based on the WLTP European testing cycle that's typically uber-optimistic  After 36 charges and extensive statistical analysis Buzz Pro netted a wide range of total kilometers after charging to 100% arriving with 57% and 272 kilometers (169 miles) of charge left We had a lot of remote traveling coming up Buzz up to an impressive 467 km (290 miles) We also managed two other charges that topped over 440 kilometers (273 miles) we amassed a few charges that barely topped 200 miles when fully charging it Buzz Pro was said to have a 30-minute charge time from 5% to 80% SOC (state of charge) This time frame seemed accurate compared to our figures Most of the chargers in our nine-country jaunt were 150 kilowatt (a few were faster) though when we crossed from Finland into the Baltic nations of Estonia We packed patience and left earlier each morning as other teams still slept so we could keep pace with the competition “I was worried about whether or not we'd have enough range between charges,” my husband Andy said This was his first long-distance endurance event in an all-electric vehicle “There were so many unknowns having an EV in Europe; I worried we might run out of charge in the middle of nowhere.” Andy was confident in traveling longer distances with an EV especially as we were driving one with a relatively modest range like the ID Buzz has great outward visibility and it was able to do everything we wanted to do in it The one that’ll show up in the United States will be bigger complete with a 91-kWh battery and a more powerful 282-hp motor from the updated ID.4 all-wheel-drive variant good for 335 hp will be available  It’ll also have an updated infotainment system and interior controls unlike ours that was still blighted by what came in the original ID.4 Previous ralliers told us to cover at least 310 miles (500 km) a day to finish the rally in time we pressed beyond and forged our way through 500 miles (800+ km) multiple days maintaining continual reserves in case broken chargers Right now charging an  electric vehicle in Europe is rather difficult for Americans We could not download charging apps to our U.S.-based phones before our trip nor could we pay with our American credit cards at most chargers as they inevitably required apps we learned this in advance and enlisted my German nephew Not only did he procure a number of those special charging cards he loaned us an old iPhone that would in fact work with the various charging apps Once in Scandinavia, we needed to download additional charging apps and discovered we could use our U.S.-based phones to pay for charging. We also were able to use Tesla Superchargers The eastern side of the Baltic Sea brought new challenges. Once we crossed into Estonia, no app would work, including the new ones we loaded. Our initial research showed they should have, but that seemed to be incorrect. The Baltic nations’ Circle K chargers were apparently not the same as Scandinavia’s Circle Ks, and that app didn’t work, either. Even Tesla no longer worked in Estonia New QR codes and app download instructions on charge machines came to the rescue GreenWay is the largest charging system in Poland and once we figured that out it became our go-to charging system until back in Germany it was fascinatingly complicated to figure out how to pilot an all-electric vehicle through nine countries and 4,771 miles with multiple smartphones and charging apps as non-Europeans That’s an infrastructure and technology issue giving us smooth charging experiences time after time new European EV chargers will be mandated to accept credit cards without needing charging accounts Only two of the 36 chargers we used had direct credit card capability Photos by Mercedes Lilienthal (finish line photo by Katharina Müller) nine-country international rally in our electric Volkswagen van we became the first duo that lived outside of the European Union or adjacent countries to compete in and finish an SAC rally with an EV We also proved an important point: Long-distance EV travel is possible but what we accomplished is a whole lot harder than trying to travel 4,771 miles through nine American states Our charging infrastructure still needs a ton of work but at least you don’t need to borrow your nephew’s phone or download 13 different charging apps LLC and respective content providers on this website Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Memorial service for Robin will be at Pathways Church 9160 FM 1409 She graduated in 1986 from Eisenhower High School in Houston and lived in the Dayton/Daisetta area for the past 10 years Robin was full of joy and love and it genuinely radiated from her and was felt by anyone who ever knew her She was a woman who truly enjoyed the simple things in life such as being at the beach or lake in the summer and bonfires with friends in winter Relaxing with her cat while reading a book And by spending time with her family and daughters Robert and Paula Lilienthal; her daughters Jane Suchma and husband James; grandchildren Queen Lola; numerous other relatives and friends Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors HistoryNet an American studying chemistry and physics at the University of Berlin received a letter from Otto Lilienthal on August 8 Lilienthal was the German experimenter who had become known as the “Flying Man” after gaining international attention with his glider flights over the previous five years His letter was an invitation for Wood to join him the following day in the hills north of Berlin where Wood said the engineer “was in the habit of exercising every Sunday with his flying machine.” had watched Lilienthal make several successful flights with his glider the previous Sunday He had even attempted two glider flights himself Lilienthal’s glider exercise “produces an impression that can never be forgotten,” Wood wrote But the American was busy preparing for a trip to Siberia so he was unable to join his friend this time he was “spared the ordeal of witnessing the dreadful accident which caused his death the news of which reached Berlin the following evening.”  Wood wrote those words from London on October 16 part of a lengthy description of the flights Lilienthal had made the week before his fatal crash published later that month in the Boston Evening Transcript newspaper provides one of the most detailed accounts of Lilienthal and his glider flights and is a reminder of how the German’s work and the hundreds of test flights he made helped advance the science of aeronautics.  Lilienthal’s life and his death inspired Wilbur and Orville Wright to make history a few years later “My own active interest in aeronautical problems dates back to the death of Lilienthal in 1896,” Wilbur Wright said adding Lilienthal had “accomplished so much.” Otto Lilienthal was born in 1848 in Anklam As a child he became transfixed by the flight of birds mesmerized by and jealous of their ability to glide effortlessly across the sky His fascination with the shape of different birds’ wings would later help him design the wings of his gliders.  After graduating from Berlin’s Royal Technical Academy in 1870 with a degree in mechanical engineering Lilienthal volunteered for military service and fought in the Franco-Prussian War Even before that he had started working with his brother These early studies dated as far back as 1867 Lilienthal made his living as a mechanical and construction engineer but remained committed to the study of aeronautics who were then young and wholly without means the money to prosecute our investigations; and often the struggle for life compelled us to interrupt them indefinitely,” he said The brothers became members of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain in 1873 and Otto gave his first public lecture that same year on bird flight.  In 1883 the elder Lilienthal founded a successful company in Berlin that manufactured boilers and steam engines He later used the factory to build his gliders In 1889 he published Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation one of the first scientific studies of aeronautics The Wright brothers would later use calculations from the book as a guide for their early glider designs better airships that could fly faster and farther and the exclusive attention which it so attracted as a hinderance rather than a help to the development of the art of flight,” he said in an 1894 story in the New York Herald it is probable that more serious investigations would have been prosecuted toward other solutions of the problem.” many leading scientists of the day remained skeptical about the art of flight “While we were devoting every moment of our spare time to the solution of the problem almost everyone in Germany regarded the man who would waste his energies in such unproductive labor as a fool,” Lilienthal told the Herald a distinguished professor of mathematics at the Berlin Industrial Academy told Lilienthal it would “do no harm” to amuse himself with his glider experiments “but warned me earnestly against putting any money into them.”  Lilienthal continued to believe that understanding the curved tapered shape of the wings of flying birds would provide the key to success for manned flight Lilienthal wrote that it is “unmistakable that the wide portion of the wing close to the body which does little work and has little movement with their much greater amplitude of movement have to furnish the tractive power necessary to compensate for the resistance of the bird’s body and for any possible restraining component.” Lilienthal constructed his first piloted glider in 1891 It had curved wings with a span of 23 feet and weighed about 40 pounds The design was similar to modern hang gliders.  Lilienthal was able to glide about 80 feet in the Derwitzer Otto and Gustav built a succession of gliders over the next few years tinkering with the shape and length of the wings and the materials they used in the quest to make them lighter including a biplane glider and even a version with flapping wings and applied myself to the discovery of the simplest form of wing that would enable me to sail steadily through the air on a gentle incline that hereditary foe of all aeronauts.” He later tinkered with a powered glider hoping to mimic the flapping of the wings of a bird From 1893 to 1896 he experimented with a small engine powered by carbonic acid the motor “acted with such unexpected vigor that the wings were broken and the modifications thus shown to be necessary will require some time for their completion.” Lilienthal made more than 2,000 glider test flights and eventually was flying up to 300 yards on a regular basis Newspaper accounts from around the world described his experiments “He flies stretches of several hundred yards and feels as much at home sixty feet above ground as he does six feet,” wrote Britain’s Guardian on December 30 “He can also guide the machine.” An 1894 headline in the Chicago Tribune declared The Flying Man described his latest glider model and the art of flying in a newspaper story published in several American newspapers in 1894 By this point his glider was composed primarily of woven muslin stretched over ribs of willow In addition to the two muslin-covered wings this glider had rudders for additional stability; a vertical rudder in the back shaped like a palm leaf and a flat Lilienthal sat on a narrow support seat suspended beneath the apparatus On some gliders Lilienthal could swing each wing forward as he took to the air to maximize lift At the edge of the hill he would leap into the air and sail majestically across the sky.  Mastering wind currents was a delicate balancing act “The operator must be able in a moment to transfer the center of gravity so far to the rear as to overcome the action of the air which might otherwise tend to throw him forward and precipitate him to the earth,” Lilienthal said “It is not easy to realize in practice at first but after a short experience the movement becomes almost involuntary.” Lilienthal sold at least two of his gliders in 1896 owned by media mogul William Randolph Hearst who never turned down an opportunity for publicity who attempted to fly the glider on April 24 “a date which will hereafter occupy a permanent place in the history of aeronautics,” the Journal proclaimed but “the wind struck the wings with such force as to almost throw machine and operator over backward.” Someone then suggested flying the glider as a manned kite Local illustrator Frank Ver Beck was on hand and he volunteered to pilot the machine Three strong men were recruited to pull the 50-foot rope attached to the glider “man and machine shot twenty feet into the air The rope was torn from the hands of the men with lightning velocity taking particles of flesh from one hand as it went.” Ver Beck remained aloft for a few seconds before returning to earth “not very slowly or yet very gracefully.” The right wing hit the ground first Had Ver Beck known how to pilot the glider The glider was repaired the next day and the wind was a bit calmer Bodine made several untethered test flights “There is an overwhelming ambition to reach the clouds,” Bodine said after you leave the earth there is not the least bit of fear.” Octave Chanute, a French American engineer and aviation pioneer Chanute and three others—one of them an early researcher into manned flight named Augustus M Herring—assembled the glider on the banks of a lake about 30 miles south of Chicago in June 1896 “The natives waited patiently for the boat to be brought out thinking a sail on the lake was in prospect,” wrote the Chicago Tribune Herring mount the odd-shaped affair and sail through the air.” Herring made several flights Lilienthal’s machines “have found their way to almost every country in Europe and to the United States but few except the inventor have been able to master the problems of their manipulation.” Wood visited Lilienthal’s factory in Berlin later that summer and “it was here that I first became really acquainted with him,” he wrote In a small corner of the boiler and engine factory he saw the Flug Apparat where several men were assembling a new glider with enormous wings Lilienthal “explained every detail of its construction little realizing that he was destined never to put it to actual test.” A week later Wood accompanied Lilienthal his 14-year-old son and a “manservant” on an expedition to the hills north of Berlin First they took a train to Neustadt and from there a horse-drawn cart carried the party the 20 miles to Rhinow Storks flew above and Lilienthal told Wood they were “his teachers.” The party had lunch at an inn in Rhinow where Lilienthal’s “arrival always causes a hum of excitement among the peasants.” They loaded a glider “A more ideal spot for flying could hardly be conceived,” Wood wrote and “so perfectly was the machine fitted together that it was impossible to find a loose cord or brace and the cloth everywhere under such tension that the whole machine rang like a drum when rapped with the knuckles.” They carried the glider up a hill and then to the top of a 30-foot tower Lilienthal had built The pilot wore a flannel shirt and knee-length breeches with thickly padded knees The padding was in case of a hard landing “for in such an emergency he had learned to drop instantly to his knees after striking with his feet….” Over hundreds of flights he had made over the past few years Lilienthal had survived several emergency landings with only minor injuries.  as Lilienthal took three quick steps forward and was immediately airborne the wind playing wild tunes on the tense cordage of the machine….” It happened so fast that Wood didn’t have time to take a photograph in what Wood called a forerunner of the disaster to come Lilienthal twisted his body violently in the opposite direction and “brought the machine once more on even keel and sailed away below me across the fields at the bottom kicking at the tops of the haycocks as he passed over them.” Wood ran over to Lilienthal “I thought for a moment it was all up with me and I threw out my legs thus and righted it.” Wood was very impressed by what he had witnessed “I have seen high dives and parachute jumps from balloons but I have never witnessed anything that strung the nerves to such a pitch of excitement or awakened such a feeling of enthusiasm and admiration as the wild fearless rush of Otto Lilienthal through the air,” he wrote Lilienthal climbed back up the hill again and again to take off and glide down to the grassy pastures below while Wood took photographs Wood “managed to screw up enough courage to try the machine.” He found it difficult even to hold the 40-pound machine steady as the wind battered the wings “The first feeling is one of utter helplessness,” Wood wrote He stood on the side of the hill far below where Lilienthal had started his flights the weight of the machine lightening with each step The next instant my feet were off the ground…the apparatus tipped from side to side a good deal and immediately determined to order a machine for myself and learn to fly.” Wood’s second attempt was less successful as one of the wings dragged across the ground and he could not get airborne He hoped someday to construct a flying rink in Berlin “with an artificial slope which could be turned so as to always face the wind Here people could come and hire machines and learn to use them commencing with small elevations and gradually going higher up the slope as practice gave them skill.” The proposed flying rink would serve as a laboratory of sorts as Lilienthal would learn from the visitors and improve his gliders He compared the development of the glider to that of the bicycle saying that since no single person was responsible for the design of the bicycle it “must be the same with the flying machine.” Lilienthal made the trek to Rhinow to continue his weekly test flights he was about 50 feet in the air on one flight when disaster struck “Suddenly his machine stopped and Lilienthal threw himself toward the rear,” newspapers reported “The apparatus turned several somersaults and finally shot down like a rocket Lilienthal striking the ground head first.” He died a day later his final words were: “Mine is the true inventor’s death; I am satisfied to die in the interest of science.” Another version is: “Sacrifices must be made.” It’s doubtful he said either Wood believed his friend had begun work that would ultimately lead to powered flight “If the unfortunate death of the pioneer does not deter others from experimenting along these lines the results accumulated by him will not be lost and he will not have given up his life in a vain cause.” Chanute remained as the thread that would connect Lilienthal to the Wright brothers After his experiments with Lilienthal’s glider Chanute went on to build gliders of his own design and eventually met and advised the Wrights in the years leading up to their first successful flights “Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important,” wrote Wilbur Wright in a posthumous article that appeared in the September 1912 issue of the Aero Club of America Bulletin a few months after his death “His greatness appeared in every phase of the problem.” Augustus Herring continued his own research in aviation and on October 22, 1898, supposedly flew a powered glider he had designed. Later he partnered with aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss to form the Herring-Curtiss Company Gustav Lilienthal continued to work on their concept for a wing-flapping aircraft The “other Lilienthal” did find success in the housing industry as one of the pioneers of prefabricated housing Wood had a long and successful career as a physics professor at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University became a pioneer in the field of ultraviolet and infrared rays and served as a consultant on the Manhattan Project Wood never forgot his time with Lilienthal and gave lectures over the years on the man and his machines Wood died in 1955 after living long enough to see the airplane advance far beyond anything Otto Lilienthal could have imagined.    Steve Wartenberg is a freelance writer based in Columbus Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance Did Curtiss-Wright deliberately sell defective engines to the U.S “History is a guide to navigation in perilous times History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the world’s largest publisher of history magazines photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians sign me up! There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting We have the address for the funeral home & the family on file If you're not happy with your card we'll send a replacement or refund your money Lilienthal created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories Sign up for our daily email affirmations by entering your information below Vibe, the latest exhibition at Lilienthal Gallery opened last week and will run through August and color,” the exhibition virtually explodes with color encouraged guests to ramp up the color quotient The exhibition includes two artists from Knoxville and four from Israel These artists exemplify a deep connection to the spiritual and natural world and encourage us to find a place for our inner vibe together it seems necessary to examine the roles and roots of these materials in creating the process of art As with all the exhibitions at the gallery Vibe challenges conceptions of art incorporating more traditional forms with multi-layered works that require more thought The six featured artists include Gili Avissar Each challenges limits in their own way whether by the subject matter include or the construction of sculpture with non-traditional materials The exhibition is curated by Ilana Lilienthal for the opening and gave a brief presentation of her work Here’s a bit of an intro (shortened from the promotional material) to each artist and what you’ll encounter at the exhibition (be sure to visit the basement for an entirely different “vibe”): Gili is a multidisciplinary artist who primarily works with textiles to create large-scale installations and videos His practice involves a dynamic interplay between object-making and performance with a deep interest in investigating the interaction between materials and movement Avissar turns every work inside out and rearranges it into intense and colorful compositions and video performance to uncover the “flesh” and create immense and transformative environments that engage the viewer in new and unexpected ways Gittit Alexandra Fridberg is a textile artist whose work explores the intricate relationship between fashion and art With an education from Shenkar school and a background in fashion design her artistic practice centers around thread and color The thread that built the fabric becomes the primary independent material in her work Gittit’s recent works were inspired by the beauty of a flowering garden in spring Sitting and living in the “wild garden,” the artist drew her inspiration from the contrast between wild and groomed quiet and storms – distinctions that are the building blocks of life The thread becomes a vital connector between things like fabric Combining the history of spooling threads with machine work using technology as a tool to merge past and present Maria Merfeld’s multidisciplinary journey spans three decades and encompasses theoretical and practical approaches Her material culture studies from historical and anthropological perspectives have influenced her artistic practice The use of materials and techniques showcases her ability to push the boundaries of traditional craft and create unique contemporary works of art The sculpture – “zeitgeist” relates to the duality of the red color and how this pigment was created the ability to create red pigment was very limited in ancient times Therefore only kings and popes could afford red garments or objects As the manufacturing of the red pigment became more accessible Red moves to the “other side.” Soldiers and the working class could suddenly afford to use elements of red Using the Red and weaving paper pieces (that resemble change) with paper threads all around with no front or back enable us to see it from all sides The use of paper came from the fact that most of western human history was written on paper Gombert combines decorative art-making traditions from across the globe quilting patterns together with symbols of Pop Cultures and stamps – all combined to create “Mandalas.” A Mandala is a geometric configuration of symbols and Shinto mandalas are used as a map for prayers and energy movements It represents the spiritual journey through layers from them outside to the inner core Historically artists painted nature scenes as they saw or experienced them by trying to be true to reality using the canvas instead of the camera we know today Starting with the impressionist movement (circa 1869) artists began to express their personal take on nature Ashman takes this modern approach and brings a refreshing “Spring” feeling Intertwining impressionism with expressionism adoring nature through her colors and strength Vibe offers a fascinating, complex journey through a world of color. 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The exhibition continues through August and you can learn more about the exhibition and gallery by visiting the website Current Gallery hours are Wednesday – Sunday 12pm – 6pm or by Appointment 865.200.4401 It all looks so fun and is perfect for spring "a500b59e3c9da28a57bb7ccbae9e1c94" );document.getElementById("j765652687").setAttribute( "id" NEWS CHRONICLE PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY — Meskwaki Settlement School Senior Sophie Balderas received her paraeducator generalist certificate during the MCC commencement ceremony last Friday night MARSHALLTOWN — A celebratory mood was in the air on Friday night as over 500 Marshalltown Community College and Iowa Valley Grinnell (IVG) graduates from all over the world — including a large contingent from Tama County — received degrees certificates and diplomas during a commencement ceremony held at the MCC Student Activities Center But it was also emotional as longtime MCC Provost Robin Shaffer Lilienthal oversaw her final ceremony before her retirement from the school where she has spent over two decades and Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship winner and keynote speaker Nikita McNamee got candid about her struggles with anxiety and depression and how she overcame them Lilienthal traced her journey in higher education back to her own days as an 18-year-old work study student in the career placement office at her alma mater “I learned that you could make a career out of working each and every day with college students so I thought to myself ‘How cool is that How lucky would I be to get paid to work at a college?’ So I began following a path of education and training that became my career passion,” she said “That passion led me to working with college students across the state of Iowa faculty and staff of Marshalltown Community College and Iowa Valley Grinnell tonight I’m taking another step in my life because The provost thanked everyone who played a role in helping her reach this point in her journey and hoped the students walking across the stage would be equipped with the tools they need to go out into the world — whether that means the workforce or a four-year institution — and make a positive impact “Regardless of the next step that will lead to your life’s purpose we are thrilled to have been such a small part of your life’s experience and are pleased to celebrate you this evening,” Lilienthal said IVG Dean of Students Ashtyn Beek then introduced McNamee an English major from Melbourne who is transferring to the University of Iowa with aspirations of becoming a college professor someday He praised McNamee for her “brilliant” writing that has astounded her instructors and her “attentive listening and authentic empathy.” if you ask Nikita about her accomplishments her genuine humility might just mask how much of a rockstar she really is,” Beek said McNamee started her address by referencing some of the external factors causing uncertainty in the world at large and she then got more personal as she described her own battles with agoraphobia (fear of leaving home) and anxiety a disorder that affects millions every year The biggest source of anxiety for students but she commended the professors at MCC for their commitment to ensuring that students succeed regardless of their circumstances She praised the graduates who were heading into the trades and nursing along with how many and she summed up her overarching message later in the speech “We are never alone… Even when life doesn’t go your way and even when depression tells you you are She encouraged those in the audience to be unafraid in asking for help and grateful for all the people that have played a part in getting them to that stage on Friday including those who played a key role in her own journey — especially her father who she credited for moving “heaven and earth” to support her “Take some time to thank those in your life who made this day possible and good luck on the rest of your journey,” McNamee said Dean of Academic Affairs Vincent Boyd then recognized several high achieving students from MCC and IVG with special commendations and Faculty Senate President Ramona Linville presented honorary degrees to three departing staff members — Lilienthal Bookstore Manager Paulla Hartman and Pelenatete Waddilove of the nursing department it was time for the graduates to walk across the stage and receive those all-important pieces of paper that they will use to further either their educations or careers and they were then received warmly outside the gym family members and everyone else who supported them along the way the trial in the lawsuit against former Toledo Police Officer .. 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Box 118, Tama, IA 52339 | 641-484-2841 | Terms of Service She crossed over to be with her beloved daughter She grew up in Los Alamos with her loving parents Jason Lilienthal and Katy and Kevin (son-in-law) Clopper her sisters Lois Davis and Joyce and Doug (brother-in-law) Langston Jeanette earned her Master’s in Speech Pathology and passionately served children all over New Mexico for more than 35 years she earned her doctorate in Family and Child Studies from the University of New Mexico Jeanette was a long time resident of Santa Fe in August 2020 to be closer to her daughter Jeanette always had her wits about her and a sense of humor gifted in working with special needs children She was always her grandchildren’s biggest cheerleader She encouraged them to be their best and loved watching them grow She loved her grandchildren unconditionally and created a special bond with each of them She devoted her remaining years to bringing Doenika’s music to life and to be shared with the world Her steadfast dedication to bringing Doenika’s music to be heard will never be forgotten She worked diligently with a dear friend and succeeded in creating a YouTube video and songs on CD Baby to share Doenika’s music It is fitting that the two of them will be laid to rest together Her family would like her to be remembered as a beloved mother who sacrificed many things for her children who worked tirelessly to bring every opportunity to her family and the special ways she showed her love to others Her children and grandchildren would gladly welcome notes and letters from friends and family to remember her by Copyright © 2012-2025 The Los Alamos Daily Post is the Official Newspaper of Record in Los Alamos County This Site and all information contained here including graphs and graphics is the property of the Los Alamos Daily Post Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted provided that the Los Alamos Daily Post and author/photographer are properly cited columnists and other contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the Los Alamos Daily Post The Los Alamos Daily Post newspaper was founded Feb Krista Lilienthal is at peace inside her small Riverdale garage It's an unusual place for a high school athlete but not much is common about the Pompton Lakes' field hockey star Her family lined the floor with 21 yards of turf to extend her training hours into the night A speaker and some LED lights help illuminate her private workouts it's a home office and a sanctuary wrapped into one "It's really made me so much better," Lilienthal said I go down there and hit the ball a bunch of times and listen to music Bad games are few and far between for the junior midfielder committed to Rutgers Lilienthal is an artist on the ball whose blistering shot can intimidate opposing goalies – and sometimes She finished as the top scorer in North Jersey last year with 45 goals helping the Cardinals repeat as Passaic County champions those numbers only tell a part of the story Her ability to break up a pass gets some of the loudest cheers from the Cardinals sideline "Krista's field hockey IQ is not the same as most juniors in high school," coach Tina Brindisi said "It's not the same as most collegiate athletes She's been around this sport her entire life and she's constantly surrounded by people who are heavily involved in the field hockey community." Lilienthal comes from a sports-minded family is the athletic trainer at Butler High School and her mom Krista wants to major in business and get into the entrepreneurial side of sports Lilienthal became a student of the game at a young age watching whatever field hockey she could find on Youtube or ESPN+ She thinks back to all the times when she tagged along at her mom's practices and hung around older athletes Now it's her turn to mentor the players around her "She's always there to direct everyone on the field," Pompton Lakes junior Sophia Torticill said Lilienthal has proven to be a big-game player since the start of her career She scored the winner in the county final as a freshman and sophomore and was the starting shortstop for the Cardinals' softball team that won a county title last spring Just about all that's left to accomplish is bring a sectional field hockey title to Pompton Lakes for the first time since 2010 who return nine starters from a team that broke the program record for goals in a season "These girls are like my family at this point," said Lilienthal the two-time North Jersey Player of the Year "I've known the seniors now since I was 7 years old and I've been playing field hockey with them for so many years It's so exciting to be able to play with them in a setting that's so much fun." Lilienthal also has some personal history at stake she'll pass Danielle Allan (144 goals) as the program's scoring leader early next year That can provide a little extra incentive when Lilienthal goes into her garage for some 1-on-1 time or with teammates Her mom found the idea for turf on Instagram and bought some without the tiny pebbles that invade cleats and kitchens around North Jersey "I think my mom would kill me if I tracked in more of those into our house." Lilienthal said she goes into her personal lab around two or three times a week and often for 45 to 90 minutes she uses her little sister's goalie equipment to create an obstacle Having a next-level shot can be a blessing and a curse Andre Lilienthal was a great Soviet Chess Champion and a popular figure in chess he had a unique style and an even more unique hairstyle Lilienthal was one of the first players awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE in 1950 Lilenthal met every world chess champion from Lasker to Carlsen The only world champion he did not meet was the first In his battle with the great Capablanca in Hastings in 1935 winning the first of two famous defeats that the Cuban genius would suffer on the black side of the Nimzo-Indian in the 1930s Lilienthal selects the Saemisch attack for this game but then he decides not to win a pawn and make the position more chaotic he cedes the center to Lilienthal who tries to blow him off the board When Capablanca relies on tactics to capture on e4 with his king in the center Lilienthal uncorks a queen sacrifice that will surely be celebrated for as long as chess is played If you like the content and want to support it subscribe and follow on YouTube and Twitch I'm the Head of Community for Chess.com. 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How To Cheat At Chess All News FIDE News Chess News Top Top Federations Main Page / Search Tournaments Titles Transfers Calculators Download FIDE Circuit Women's Events '24-'25 Open Cycle 2025-2026 Women’s Cycle 2025-2026 Women’s Cycle 2023-2025 All Tournaments Main Events About FIDE Handbook Documents Financial Reports Officials Commissions & Committees Federations Affiliated Organizations Affiliated Members Honourable Dignitaries Chart May 5 is the birthday of Andor (Andre) Lilienthal who lived a very long and eventful life He was one of the 27 original grandmasters awarded the title by FIDE in 1950 His mother was a singer and father a racer The future grandmaster was born in 1911 in Moscow his mother with kids Andor and Margaret returned to Hungary The family lived very poorly and Andor got used to working from the very childhood Andor left school to get a profession of a tailor but did not find a permanent job Just three years later Andor scored 9 out of 12 in the international tournament in Czech Stubnianske Teplice (1930) His chess university was a famous Paris Café de la Regence in Rue de Rivoli where playing for money was normal practice “Alekhine also was a customer of that café,” – recalled Andor They said that there was a boy who perfectly played simple games he only managed to defeat me in the 4th game whereas the three first games were won by me Alekhine demanded revenge but I refused flatly: “I want to save this result for the rest of my life” Though Alekhine was a nervous and quick-tempered person this time he saw my point and burst out laughing.” Soon Lilienthal stood neck and neck with Alekhine sharing the first place in the prestigious Hastings tournament in 1933 he won the Ujpest tournament ahead of Pirc Lilienthal shared 5-6 places with Botvinnik but the tournament will be remembered for his sensational victory over Capablanca in just 26 moves with a queen sacrifice “The motif of the queen sacrifice is to exploit the poor position of the enemy king and Black’s lag in development A decisive factor in the attack is the opening of the e-file the black king receives its first check only four moves later,” – Lilienthal 22…Qe4 23.Rae1 Nc5 24.Rxe4+ Nxe4 25.Re1 Rxg7 26.Rxe4+ Kd7 I couldn’t conceal that I was happy,” – Lilienthal Just a handful of players scored well against Capablanca Andor held his own; only Keres had a positive score against the Cuban world champion Lilienthal played with almost all world chess champions and defeated Lasker Lilienthal played in three Chess Olympiads for the Hungarian team with the total score amounting to an impressive 75.51% Andor fell in love with a lady who came to watch the competition; he decided to stay in the Soviet Union Evgeniya became his wife and in 1939 Lilienthal got Soviet citizenship he married two more times connecting his life with Lyudmila (1976) and Olga (1987) Lilienthal’s major results came during the Soviet period of his life Andor won the Moscow Championship and tied for first in the USSR Championship ahead of Smyslov In that event Lilienthal won a great game against Mikhail Botvinnik proving that when it comes to positional play This “unnatural” move was obviously underestimated by Botvinnik although after 15.dxc6 Nxc616.Nd3 Black’s position remains difficult and 19…axb4 was lost: 20.axb4 Qb5 21.Nf4 (21.Ra3 is also not bad “tripling” the heavy pieces on the “a” file) 21…Qxb4 22.Qxb4 Nxb4 23.Rxa8+Bxa8 24.Ra1 Rf8 25.Ra4 Here I saw that Black is getting mated in a funny way: 26.dxc6 Nxc6 27.Bd5+ Kh8 28.Ng6+ The weaknesses on c7 and e6 squares cannot be protected well and Black’s position is strategically lost 21…Bc8 22.Rc3 Bd7 23.Rfc1 h6 24.h4 Ra7 25.h5 Now the knight has fortified his position on f4 Positional 26.e3 and 27.Bf1 promises less due to b6-b5 causing massive simplifications (31…Kh7 32.gxf5 Bxf5 33.Be4) White is completely winning anyway and Lilienthal convincingly converted his advantage: 31…Kh7 32.g4 c5 33.b5 Nc7 34.gxf5 Nxb5 35.f6+ Kg8 36.Rc4 Re8 37.Rg4 g5 38.Rxe8+ Bxe8 39.Re4 Kf8 40.Re7 Qg6 but then he would find his original plans for the middlegame where he would create more problems for his opponent but I also had to endure two heavy losses – in Moscow 1940 Lilienthal played his only Candidates Tournament The competition in Budapest was won Bronstein and Boleslavsky His playing prime was behind and he turned to coaching helping Tigran Petrosian from 1951 until 1960 and being second to his good friend Vasily Smyslov in his world championship matches against Botvinnik Andre stands out for his amazing intuition and feeling for the position He is equally dangerous in positional play His victories over Capablanca and Botvinnik make a deep artistic impression.” Smyslov said Andor returned to Budapest and lived there since Almost all chess kings of the XX century visited his apartment in the Hungarian capital but Bobby Fischer was the only one who lived there for a month It happened when he was hiding from the US authorities after the 1992 match with Spassky in Yugoslavia “He could eat half a pot of Olga’s borsch and loved caviar,” – recalled Andor in one of the interviews The flighty American genius approved only three chess players who could carry his coffin at the funeral: Andor Lilienthal Lilienthal remained actively involved in chess into his ninth decade The oldest living GM Yuri Averbakh (98 at the moment) is Lilienthal’s disciple in this regard; we wish him to beat his predecessor’s record of chess longevity © 2025 FIDE International Chess Federation stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any way or by any means (including photocopying recording or storing it in any medium by electronic means) without the written permission of FIDE International Chess Federation MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – The 2019 ITA Division III Rookie of the Year Noah Lilienthal picked up his second career All-American honor as announced by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) on Wednesday afternoon A year removed from earning All-American honors in doubles after rolling to a national runner-up finish Lilienthal was announced an All-American in singles in 2019-20 The ITA decided to announce their list of All-Americans despite the shortened season due to to COVID-19 pandemic The Cardinals were affected heavily by the cancellation as Wesleyan didn't compete in any dual matches in the 2019-20 season as their last competition was the ITA Cup at the end of October leading the Cardinals with an 8-2 mark in singles play while he defeated Justin Wang of Bowdoin in the lone dual match in the spring for Wesleyan to give him a 9-2 record on the season in singles play Lilienthal captured the A flight doubles title and was a semifinalist in the singles bracket Lilienthal again advanced to the semifinal round in singles this time at the ITA Northeast Regional before being defeated by Tufts' Boris Sorkin who went on to win the singles title Thanks for visiting