Led Bulbs And Jet Engines A Great Contrast!
Light Emitting Diodes - LED is here and will be so for good and it's a long time gone since incandescent lights replaced the gas and old oil lamps and candles. All of this with the aid of carbonised strand from his wife's embroidery. LED is nowadays used in devices for example television sets as well as appliances like street lighting and traffic lights.
The GE Corporation has inaugurated a Light Emitting Diode bulb for household lighting, utilizing the same cooling expertise as a jet - and programmed to mark the 131st anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention.
It has been reported that the LED lighting bulb - vivid sufficiently for studying - are installed into a regular lamp power point. Two major makers, Osram Sylvania and Philips are planning to introduce forty-watt Light Emitting Diode bulbs that have been aimed to replace the existing sixty-watt incandescent globe before the end of the year. GE are planning to introduce the 60-watt on sell sometime in 2011.
GE is happy with the breakthrough in its heat management as well as associate of the cooling tech group, Mehmet Arik says that Light Emitting Diodes are essentially the chips working in the pc that are sensitive to temperature -"the cooler you run them, the more efficiency you get". GE says that it had chosen the airflow system found in its aeronautics and power establishments to find an inexpensive answer which is petite sufficiently to be used in LED bulbs. Thomas Edison's bulbs had endured the test of time through the past 131 years. Consumers are not ready yet to go for a bulb which happens to be different to the current light bulbs, even when the current bulbs produced greater heat than light. Therefore the goal is to preserve the familiar shape with the LED bulb. LED bulbs promise greater light at a cheaper cost and a great saving in power, and will lead to little carbon footprints.
With energy saved, what can be the price of the bulbs themselves - some consumers have foreseen as much as $18 a unit. I think we will have to wait and find out. As a personal observation, I am undoubtedly expecting to the Light Emitting Diode advent as I use a desktop lamp for my daily work and something gentle on the eyes is a plus.
About the Author
Dr Brian Jefferson is regularly on the lookout into new technologies and business opportunities. Regardless of whether there are excellent options such as the MR16 LED bulbs by now, generally speaking, LED bulbs seem to be actually very hot topic which is still just about to glow.
Thursday 28 April 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011
LED Flashlights and 4 Fun Nighttime Games
LED Flashlights and 4 Fun Nighttime Games
Most people realize that you need to bring a good flashlight or headlamp when going camping. However, many are unaware of all the fun camping games that can be played with them. On your next camping trip, bring a few LED flashlights or headlamps so you can try some of these games.
Flashlight Tag
Flashlight tag is similar to regular tag, except that instead of tagging the other players with your hand, you tag them with the beam of light. All you need to get started is at least one LED flashlight or headlamp and two or more players. One person is selected to start as "IT". The "IT" person closes their eyes and waits while the other players hide. After waiting a few minutes, the "IT" player announces that the game has started and begins to look for the hiding players. When another player is tagged with the flashlight, they become IT. By the end of the game, the player who was tagged the least is declared winner. Make sure to set the boundaries of the hiding area and the game time limit before starting!
Spotlight
Spotlight is similar to Flashlight Tag, except that the goal is to tag ALL the players in order to win. The game works best when using a headlamp; with your hands free, you can spot people much easier and faster than with a handheld flashlight.
To start, choose one player to be the "warden". He or she is in charge of the spotlight; everyone else is trying to avoid getting caught by the light. Next, choose an area that will be the jail. Make sure the jail is not too close to the warden but also not too far away. Each time a player is tagged by the warden's spotlight, he or she must remain in the designated jail area near the warden.
If the warden tags all the players before time is up, the warden wins. To make things more difficult, players who are captured can assist the warden with additional LED headlamps or flashlights, making it easier to tag the remaining players. To make things less difficult, allow for jailbreaks - if someone can sneak into the jail and rescue another player, that player can rejoin the game. This game is best played in large numbers, the more the merrier!
Flashlight Limbo
Next up is flashlight limbo, a camping version of the famous dancing game. In order to form a strong beam of light that will act as the limbo pole, you will need at least two LED flashlights and four or more people. Two people will hold one flashlight each and form a concentrated beam across from one another. The other players form a line and try to limbo under the beam of light without touching the brightest part. The person who can go the lowest without falling down or touching the beam wins. Try setting up the flashlights with tables or chairs, then everyone can join the limbo line. It never hurts to have some of your favorite dance music playing in the background!
Shadow Charades
Charades can turn any party into an uproar of laughter. The same goes for shadow charades, a laugh out loud camping game. The setup is simple; all you need is one LED flashlight or headlamp, a handful of players, a few pieces of paper, a pen or pencil, and a wall to project the shadow images onto. Tear the sheets of paper into a number of small pieces; write on them a number of animals or objects that can be formed with shadow images. Then, form two teams of two or more players each. Mix the pieces of paper up in a hat or bowl. As the game commences each team will take turns drawing from that hat. Each team has one player who forms the shadow images, while the other players try to guess them. For each correct guess, the guessing team scores one point. The team with the most points wins!
This is just a small sample of the more popular and interesting camping games that people have come up with since the invention of the flashlight. Enhance your next camping party with some of these variations on traditional outdoor games. Just remember to have fun and bring extra batteries!
Most people realize that you need to bring a good flashlight or headlamp when going camping. However, many are unaware of all the fun camping games that can be played with them. On your next camping trip, bring a few LED flashlights or headlamps so you can try some of these games.
Flashlight Tag
Flashlight tag is similar to regular tag, except that instead of tagging the other players with your hand, you tag them with the beam of light. All you need to get started is at least one LED flashlight or headlamp and two or more players. One person is selected to start as "IT". The "IT" person closes their eyes and waits while the other players hide. After waiting a few minutes, the "IT" player announces that the game has started and begins to look for the hiding players. When another player is tagged with the flashlight, they become IT. By the end of the game, the player who was tagged the least is declared winner. Make sure to set the boundaries of the hiding area and the game time limit before starting!
Spotlight
Spotlight is similar to Flashlight Tag, except that the goal is to tag ALL the players in order to win. The game works best when using a headlamp; with your hands free, you can spot people much easier and faster than with a handheld flashlight.
To start, choose one player to be the "warden". He or she is in charge of the spotlight; everyone else is trying to avoid getting caught by the light. Next, choose an area that will be the jail. Make sure the jail is not too close to the warden but also not too far away. Each time a player is tagged by the warden's spotlight, he or she must remain in the designated jail area near the warden.
If the warden tags all the players before time is up, the warden wins. To make things more difficult, players who are captured can assist the warden with additional LED headlamps or flashlights, making it easier to tag the remaining players. To make things less difficult, allow for jailbreaks - if someone can sneak into the jail and rescue another player, that player can rejoin the game. This game is best played in large numbers, the more the merrier!
Flashlight Limbo
Next up is flashlight limbo, a camping version of the famous dancing game. In order to form a strong beam of light that will act as the limbo pole, you will need at least two LED flashlights and four or more people. Two people will hold one flashlight each and form a concentrated beam across from one another. The other players form a line and try to limbo under the beam of light without touching the brightest part. The person who can go the lowest without falling down or touching the beam wins. Try setting up the flashlights with tables or chairs, then everyone can join the limbo line. It never hurts to have some of your favorite dance music playing in the background!
Shadow Charades
Charades can turn any party into an uproar of laughter. The same goes for shadow charades, a laugh out loud camping game. The setup is simple; all you need is one LED flashlight or headlamp, a handful of players, a few pieces of paper, a pen or pencil, and a wall to project the shadow images onto. Tear the sheets of paper into a number of small pieces; write on them a number of animals or objects that can be formed with shadow images. Then, form two teams of two or more players each. Mix the pieces of paper up in a hat or bowl. As the game commences each team will take turns drawing from that hat. Each team has one player who forms the shadow images, while the other players try to guess them. For each correct guess, the guessing team scores one point. The team with the most points wins!
This is just a small sample of the more popular and interesting camping games that people have come up with since the invention of the flashlight. Enhance your next camping party with some of these variations on traditional outdoor games. Just remember to have fun and bring extra batteries!
Tuesday 26 April 2011
2012 will open LED lighting industry in the golden years
2012 will open LED lighting industry in the golden years
Through the industrialization development and production, LED would reach billion level. According to research institutions StrategiesUnlimited research estimates that LED lighting market in 2012 will reach us $5 billion. Meanwhile, the report forecasts, 2012 LED lighting will be the smooth baton changing LEDTV, this year will be the key to the development of years LED lighting.
The LED industry is obviously a crazy cake. Facing such a market share, Chinese enterprises ever?
Investment expectations continue to high
"The scale of the 2010 substrate production cannot again big, again larger exploded." Senior ZhangXiaoFei LED chief executive, said a total of 12 projects last year to the first quarter horse, has not slowed speed.
"Sapphire substrates have more than 2,900. Extension production last year million pieces of 200, 250 sets the planning is this year."
ZhangXiaoFei prophecy, single last year and this year, he has added the investment needed to more than global. "I think after three quarters of this year, more than the entire global capacity will demand." He said.
But this for most Chinese companies to is undoubtedly the Gospel. Most Chinese LED enterprises with application primarily. Upstream to downstream saturated productivity surge in more power.
"Must firmly to upstream to price, will more cost turn upstream to consumption." ZhangXiaoFei said. Because, downstream profits would not have high.
Capacity from stimulation of the surge in market continuously. Senior LED industry research center statistics show that 2009 "ten city million lamp" 21 pilot city has installed about 22.2 million street lamp, projected to 2011 will reach 112 million lamp. According to the national bureau of statistics data, the street lamp in about 90 million lamp that number. If press every street lamp 5000 yuan calculation, the whole market scale over 45 million yuan.
2009 world lighting market LED lighting production value of $2.4 billion, permeability only 3.3%. LED lighting is expected to in the global general lighting market proportion in 2015, rose to 50% in 2020 achieved 80%.
It is based on the common market actively judgment, the LED industry mergers and acquisitions and investment also appears unusually fierce.
2011 February, China securities, reported industry association statistics, 2009 released the whole industry LED investment plans for 220 million yuan. Leds have obvious warming signs. Investment 2010, only listed companies LED investment plan is more than the amount 30 billion yuan. Among them, just three Ann photoelectric plans to invest $20 billion. Alone DE hao embellish of 41 billion yuan is announced to the LED.
Zhejiang sunshine in the 2010 annual report claims that the next three years total investment of leds for 10 billion yuan. "I estimated 10 million may be in 1 year is cast out. Now in the market 1.2 billion investment are embarrassed to speak." ZhangXiaoFei said.
"Analysis" says 2010 LED lighting has begun fermentation, compared with 2009 market demand soars, do LED encapsulation, LED display firms are entering the LED illumination fields. On the Chinese market at present only LED encapsulates the enterprise number has rarely, most do encapsulates the firms have started to r&d and production LED lighting products.
Relative home market, commercial space lighting in price acceptance undoubtedly more easily let LED enterprise enters.
Through the industrialization development and production, LED would reach billion level. According to research institutions StrategiesUnlimited research estimates that LED lighting market in 2012 will reach us $5 billion. Meanwhile, the report forecasts, 2012 LED lighting will be the smooth baton changing LEDTV, this year will be the key to the development of years LED lighting.
The LED industry is obviously a crazy cake. Facing such a market share, Chinese enterprises ever?
Investment expectations continue to high
"The scale of the 2010 substrate production cannot again big, again larger exploded." Senior ZhangXiaoFei LED chief executive, said a total of 12 projects last year to the first quarter horse, has not slowed speed.
"Sapphire substrates have more than 2,900. Extension production last year million pieces of 200, 250 sets the planning is this year."
ZhangXiaoFei prophecy, single last year and this year, he has added the investment needed to more than global. "I think after three quarters of this year, more than the entire global capacity will demand." He said.
But this for most Chinese companies to is undoubtedly the Gospel. Most Chinese LED enterprises with application primarily. Upstream to downstream saturated productivity surge in more power.
"Must firmly to upstream to price, will more cost turn upstream to consumption." ZhangXiaoFei said. Because, downstream profits would not have high.
Capacity from stimulation of the surge in market continuously. Senior LED industry research center statistics show that 2009 "ten city million lamp" 21 pilot city has installed about 22.2 million street lamp, projected to 2011 will reach 112 million lamp. According to the national bureau of statistics data, the street lamp in about 90 million lamp that number. If press every street lamp 5000 yuan calculation, the whole market scale over 45 million yuan.
2009 world lighting market LED lighting production value of $2.4 billion, permeability only 3.3%. LED lighting is expected to in the global general lighting market proportion in 2015, rose to 50% in 2020 achieved 80%.
It is based on the common market actively judgment, the LED industry mergers and acquisitions and investment also appears unusually fierce.
2011 February, China securities, reported industry association statistics, 2009 released the whole industry LED investment plans for 220 million yuan. Leds have obvious warming signs. Investment 2010, only listed companies LED investment plan is more than the amount 30 billion yuan. Among them, just three Ann photoelectric plans to invest $20 billion. Alone DE hao embellish of 41 billion yuan is announced to the LED.
Zhejiang sunshine in the 2010 annual report claims that the next three years total investment of leds for 10 billion yuan. "I estimated 10 million may be in 1 year is cast out. Now in the market 1.2 billion investment are embarrassed to speak." ZhangXiaoFei said.
"Analysis" says 2010 LED lighting has begun fermentation, compared with 2009 market demand soars, do LED encapsulation, LED display firms are entering the LED illumination fields. On the Chinese market at present only LED encapsulates the enterprise number has rarely, most do encapsulates the firms have started to r&d and production LED lighting products.
Relative home market, commercial space lighting in price acceptance undoubtedly more easily let LED enterprise enters.
Sunday 17 April 2011
Add Ground Effects To Your Bed For Gentle Night Lighting
It’s the middle of the night, and you have to go to the bathroom. Sure, you can stumble to the bathroom in the dark, possibly hitting your shins or toes on anything on the floor or in the path between you and the sky lanterns bathroom door, but you don’t want to blind yourself by turning on the light. The solution? Ground effect lighting for your bed!
Over at IKEA Hackers, they use a bed model commonly purchased at IKEA, but the trick can be applied to pretty much any bed with a flat underside that’s lifted up from the ground a bit. Bonus: it looks really cool.
Pedro Farinha decided that he was tired of blinding and being blinded by his wife when one of them would get up in the middle sky lanterns of the night to feed their newborn baby.
With a little elbow grease, a kitchen-style fluorescent light, and some screws, he mounted the light on the wood bar on the underside of the bed and connected a switch to the light with enough wire that he could put the switch at the top of the bed. Now he or his wife could get up to change or feed the baby and go to the bathroom, with enough light to see but not so much that they’d wake the other person still asleep.
One of the best things about this tip is that it doesn’t require anything IKEA really; a flexible strip-light or even a set of LED Christmas lights would work just as well as the fluorescent. Any bed sky lanterns that’s up off the floor high enough for the light to spread out from around the underside and that has a place you could mount or tie in the lights would work as well. Just make sure to clean the dust bunnies out from under the bed first and make sure the light you use doesn’t generate any heat (like incandescent Christmas lights or bulbs) – you don’t want to inadvertently create a fire hazard.
Over at IKEA Hackers, they use a bed model commonly purchased at IKEA, but the trick can be applied to pretty much any bed with a flat underside that’s lifted up from the ground a bit. Bonus: it looks really cool.
Pedro Farinha decided that he was tired of blinding and being blinded by his wife when one of them would get up in the middle sky lanterns of the night to feed their newborn baby.
With a little elbow grease, a kitchen-style fluorescent light, and some screws, he mounted the light on the wood bar on the underside of the bed and connected a switch to the light with enough wire that he could put the switch at the top of the bed. Now he or his wife could get up to change or feed the baby and go to the bathroom, with enough light to see but not so much that they’d wake the other person still asleep.
One of the best things about this tip is that it doesn’t require anything IKEA really; a flexible strip-light or even a set of LED Christmas lights would work just as well as the fluorescent. Any bed sky lanterns that’s up off the floor high enough for the light to spread out from around the underside and that has a place you could mount or tie in the lights would work as well. Just make sure to clean the dust bunnies out from under the bed first and make sure the light you use doesn’t generate any heat (like incandescent Christmas lights or bulbs) – you don’t want to inadvertently create a fire hazard.
Dimmer switches to be added to street lights to save energy
A council has signed a ￡225million deal which will save on carbon emissions and cut energy bills by 15 per cent.
The lights will be dimmed by 25 per cent between midnight and 5am.
A central control room will be able to detect faults as well as turn the lights on, off and down.
Old-style ‘orange’ sodium lamps will be replaced with fluorescent white ones in residential areas to improve security and give a more ‘natural’ light.
Light pollution will also be reduced because the new lamps focus downwards.
Hampshire County Council has signed the deal with Southern Electric Contracting, which will install and maintain the lights over the next 25 years.
The energy saved is the equivalent of powering 1,500 homes for a year.
‘It will make streets and town centres safer for everyone,’ said environment councillor Mel Kendal.
The lights will be dimmed by 25 per cent between midnight and 5am.
A central control room will be able to detect faults as well as turn the lights on, off and down.
Old-style ‘orange’ sodium lamps will be replaced with fluorescent white ones in residential areas to improve security and give a more ‘natural’ light.
Light pollution will also be reduced because the new lamps focus downwards.
Hampshire County Council has signed the deal with Southern Electric Contracting, which will install and maintain the lights over the next 25 years.
The energy saved is the equivalent of powering 1,500 homes for a year.
‘It will make streets and town centres safer for everyone,’ said environment councillor Mel Kendal.
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Lantern vigils fuel farming concern
Concern is mounting over the dangers posed to livestock and property from Chinese lanterns lit in memory of missing people.
A growing trend has seen hundreds of lanterns released into the night sky over England during the past fortnight.
Some 40 lanterns were released to sky lanterns highlight the plight of missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
More than 150 relatives and friends released 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home" at a vigil on Sunday (3 April).
The lantern release followed a similar vigil at Swindon's Polo Ground in memory of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan on 26 March.
Some 10,000 people attended the Swindon vigil. Many released Chinese lanterns and balloons with messages of condolence.
While the vigils have drawn attention to tragic events, farmers have long warned of the dangers posed by Chinese lanterns to livestock, standing crops and thatched properties.
The lanterns are generally made from paper supported by a wire frame that incorporates a holder at the bottom for a solid fuel cell.
Wiltshire & Swindon Fire Authority said the risk of fire caused by Chinese lanterns should be fully considered prior to use.
While lighting and launch were largely in the control of the user, the actual flight path and ultimate destination were generally not.
There was also no guarantee that the fuel cell would be fully extinguished and cooled when the lantern eventually descends.
"Any subsequent contact with a combustible sky lanterns surface could result in a fire developing," said the authority.
The Women's Food & Farming Union has called for the lanterns to be banned.
"The lightweight metal structures are hazardous to cattle, sheep and horses, should they eat them," it said.
"Not only that, the metal may lie dormant on the land and then gets into silage or hay at harvest time.
"This has its own added problems when it is fed sky lanterns as winter feed and cattle eat it as part of their forage."
A growing trend has seen hundreds of lanterns released into the night sky over England during the past fortnight.
Some 40 lanterns were released to sky lanterns highlight the plight of missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
More than 150 relatives and friends released 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home" at a vigil on Sunday (3 April).
The lantern release followed a similar vigil at Swindon's Polo Ground in memory of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan on 26 March.
Some 10,000 people attended the Swindon vigil. Many released Chinese lanterns and balloons with messages of condolence.
While the vigils have drawn attention to tragic events, farmers have long warned of the dangers posed by Chinese lanterns to livestock, standing crops and thatched properties.
The lanterns are generally made from paper supported by a wire frame that incorporates a holder at the bottom for a solid fuel cell.
Wiltshire & Swindon Fire Authority said the risk of fire caused by Chinese lanterns should be fully considered prior to use.
While lighting and launch were largely in the control of the user, the actual flight path and ultimate destination were generally not.
There was also no guarantee that the fuel cell would be fully extinguished and cooled when the lantern eventually descends.
"Any subsequent contact with a combustible sky lanterns surface could result in a fire developing," said the authority.
The Women's Food & Farming Union has called for the lanterns to be banned.
"The lightweight metal structures are hazardous to cattle, sheep and horses, should they eat them," it said.
"Not only that, the metal may lie dormant on the land and then gets into silage or hay at harvest time.
"This has its own added problems when it is fed sky lanterns as winter feed and cattle eat it as part of their forage."
Witness lied, says MACC lawyer
Kajang municipal councillor Tan Boon Wah lied in court about being tortured by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), a lawyer for the MACC said today.
Tan had concocted the story about being mentally tortured and threatened with assault, alleged Mohammad Shafee Abdullah.
He said this while questioning Tan sky lanterns at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) investigating Teoh Beng Hock’s death.
“You created this story about threats and assaults because you wanted to gain as much sympathy as possible,” Shafee said to Tan.
Shafee asked Tan why he had not included these allegations of torture in his lawsuit against the MACC. “There was not even a ‘hint of torture’.
“I’m putting it to you that the only reason you and your capable lawyers did not include torture in the affidavit is that the threats never happened,” Shafee said.
“Your honour, it happened. It really happened,” replied Tan.
Tan admitted that “an important point” was left out from the lawsuit but when pressed by Shafee, he said he could not answer why that (point) was left out.
Tan said his suit was focused on interrogations after office hours and he was trying to prohibit MACC from continuing with that practice.
“Actually about the torture, I made a police report sky lanterns. I also informed the press,” Tan said.
James Foong (RCI chairman): But why didn’t you say the same thing in your civil case?
Tan: I’m not so good about the law. And this affidavit was not done by me but by my lawyers (including Karpal Singh). The main thing we were focusing on is the word ‘day to day’.
Tan had given a statement to the police concerning Teoh’s death several days after he was found dead.
Asked why he had not sued sky lanterns the police for taking his statements after office hours (9-11pm), Tan replied: “Because they didn’t torture me.”
This drew laughter from the gallery.
Tan had concocted the story about being mentally tortured and threatened with assault, alleged Mohammad Shafee Abdullah.
He said this while questioning Tan sky lanterns at the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) investigating Teoh Beng Hock’s death.
“You created this story about threats and assaults because you wanted to gain as much sympathy as possible,” Shafee said to Tan.
Shafee asked Tan why he had not included these allegations of torture in his lawsuit against the MACC. “There was not even a ‘hint of torture’.
“I’m putting it to you that the only reason you and your capable lawyers did not include torture in the affidavit is that the threats never happened,” Shafee said.
“Your honour, it happened. It really happened,” replied Tan.
Tan admitted that “an important point” was left out from the lawsuit but when pressed by Shafee, he said he could not answer why that (point) was left out.
Tan said his suit was focused on interrogations after office hours and he was trying to prohibit MACC from continuing with that practice.
“Actually about the torture, I made a police report sky lanterns. I also informed the press,” Tan said.
James Foong (RCI chairman): But why didn’t you say the same thing in your civil case?
Tan: I’m not so good about the law. And this affidavit was not done by me but by my lawyers (including Karpal Singh). The main thing we were focusing on is the word ‘day to day’.
Tan had given a statement to the police concerning Teoh’s death several days after he was found dead.
Asked why he had not sued sky lanterns the police for taking his statements after office hours (9-11pm), Tan replied: “Because they didn’t torture me.”
This drew laughter from the gallery.
Vigils Held For Missing Cruise Ship Worker
Vigils Held For Missing Cruise Ship Worker
Candlelit vigils have taken place around the world for the missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
The 24-year-old's parents and sister sky lanterns joined more than 150 relatives and friends in her home city of Chester at 8pm on Sunday, lighting candles and releasing 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home."
People from as far afield as Australia, Canada and the US pledged to do the same at 8pm in their respective time zones after a huge response to the idea on an internet forum.
Rebecca's uncle, John Jennings, told Sky News the family had been amazed by the reaction. "So many people have written kind messages about Rebecca and it's given the family real comfort," he said.
"We just feel so helpless at the moment, so when someone on the forum suggested this we were very touched."
Mr Jennings described the vigil at Chester Racecourse as "beautiful"and "incredibly emotional".
Five thousand miles away some sky lanterns passengers and crew on the Disney Wonder cruise ship were planning to light safe battery-operated candles to show their support for Rebecca's family.
Miss Coriam had been working as part of the youth programme on the vessel, which left Los Angeles on March 22nd for a week-long cruise along the Mexican Riviera.
The alarm was raised three days into the trip when Rebecca failed to turn up for her shift.
Despite onboard inspections and alerts to the 3,000 passengers the ship returned to LA without her.
Candlelit vigils have taken place around the world for the missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
The 24-year-old's parents and sister sky lanterns joined more than 150 relatives and friends in her home city of Chester at 8pm on Sunday, lighting candles and releasing 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home."
People from as far afield as Australia, Canada and the US pledged to do the same at 8pm in their respective time zones after a huge response to the idea on an internet forum.
Rebecca's uncle, John Jennings, told Sky News the family had been amazed by the reaction. "So many people have written kind messages about Rebecca and it's given the family real comfort," he said.
"We just feel so helpless at the moment, so when someone on the forum suggested this we were very touched."
Mr Jennings described the vigil at Chester Racecourse as "beautiful"and "incredibly emotional".
Five thousand miles away some sky lanterns passengers and crew on the Disney Wonder cruise ship were planning to light safe battery-operated candles to show their support for Rebecca's family.
Miss Coriam had been working as part of the youth programme on the vessel, which left Los Angeles on March 22nd for a week-long cruise along the Mexican Riviera.
The alarm was raised three days into the trip when Rebecca failed to turn up for her shift.
Despite onboard inspections and alerts to the 3,000 passengers the ship returned to LA without her.
We are alone after all
We are alone after all: 'UFOs' spotted in sky above Chicago turn out to be memorial lanterns from a charity vigil
As residents left their homes to gaze up at the mysterious lights in the sky, it seemed it was finally true: they were not alone.
But UFO spotters had their hopes dashed when it turned out the slow-moving orange lights above Chicago - which made it on to local news - had a more earthly origin.
They were in fact 'sky lanterns', released as a memorial to victims of child abuse at a rally organised by a city charity.
The lanterns turned into an unintentional publicity-grabber after one woman filmed the strange formation and sent it into a local television station.
UFO bloggers picked up on the sighting, and linked it to strange lights spotted over Miami the day before.
Nicole Dragozetich was driving through Chicago's southside on Saturday night when she saw about a dozen people standing on the sidewalk staring up at the sky.
She got out of her car and began filming the strange formation of blinking orange lights on her cellphone.
The lights were too close together to be aeroplanes, and too slow-moving to be a meteor shower.
She told CBS: 'I was just going to a local restaurant to pick up food, and as I was driving I saw residents out in front of their house, staring up in the sky.'
She said: 'You could see them – just moving down the street. And they took form. At one point, it looked like an arrow.'
But as television presenters mused on the possible cause and UFO spotters chalked up another sighting, a Chicago charity came forward with a more straightforward reason.
As residents left their homes to gaze up at the mysterious lights in the sky, it seemed it was finally true: they were not alone.
But UFO spotters had their hopes dashed when it turned out the slow-moving orange lights above Chicago - which made it on to local news - had a more earthly origin.
They were in fact 'sky lanterns', released as a memorial to victims of child abuse at a rally organised by a city charity.
The lanterns turned into an unintentional publicity-grabber after one woman filmed the strange formation and sent it into a local television station.
UFO bloggers picked up on the sighting, and linked it to strange lights spotted over Miami the day before.
Nicole Dragozetich was driving through Chicago's southside on Saturday night when she saw about a dozen people standing on the sidewalk staring up at the sky.
She got out of her car and began filming the strange formation of blinking orange lights on her cellphone.
The lights were too close together to be aeroplanes, and too slow-moving to be a meteor shower.
She told CBS: 'I was just going to a local restaurant to pick up food, and as I was driving I saw residents out in front of their house, staring up in the sky.'
She said: 'You could see them – just moving down the street. And they took form. At one point, it looked like an arrow.'
But as television presenters mused on the possible cause and UFO spotters chalked up another sighting, a Chicago charity came forward with a more straightforward reason.
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Vigils Held For Missing Cruise Ship Worker
Vigils Held For Missing Cruise Ship Worker
Candlelit vigils have taken place around the world for the missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
The 24-year-old's parents and sister joined more than 150 relatives and friends in her home city of Chester at 8pm on Sunday, lighting candles and releasing 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home."
People from as far afield as Australia, Canada and the US pledged to do the same at 8pm in their respective time zones after a huge response to the idea on an internet forum.
Rebecca's uncle, John Jennings, told Sky News the family had been amazed by the reaction. "So many people have written kind messages about Rebecca and it's given the family real comfort," he said.
"We just feel so helpless at the moment, so when someone on the forum suggested this we were very touched."
Mr Jennings described the vigil at Chester Racecourse as "beautiful"and "incredibly emotional".
Five thousand miles away some passengers and crew on the Disney Wonder cruise ship were planning to light safe battery-operated candles to show their support for Rebecca's family.
Miss Coriam had been working as part of the youth programme on the vessel, which left Los Angeles on March 22nd for a week-long cruise along the Mexican Riviera.
The alarm was raised three days into the trip when Rebecca failed to turn up for her shift.
Despite onboard inspections and alerts to the 3,000 passengers the ship returned to LA without her.
Candlelit vigils have taken place around the world for the missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
The 24-year-old's parents and sister joined more than 150 relatives and friends in her home city of Chester at 8pm on Sunday, lighting candles and releasing 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home."
People from as far afield as Australia, Canada and the US pledged to do the same at 8pm in their respective time zones after a huge response to the idea on an internet forum.
Rebecca's uncle, John Jennings, told Sky News the family had been amazed by the reaction. "So many people have written kind messages about Rebecca and it's given the family real comfort," he said.
"We just feel so helpless at the moment, so when someone on the forum suggested this we were very touched."
Mr Jennings described the vigil at Chester Racecourse as "beautiful"and "incredibly emotional".
Five thousand miles away some passengers and crew on the Disney Wonder cruise ship were planning to light safe battery-operated candles to show their support for Rebecca's family.
Miss Coriam had been working as part of the youth programme on the vessel, which left Los Angeles on March 22nd for a week-long cruise along the Mexican Riviera.
The alarm was raised three days into the trip when Rebecca failed to turn up for her shift.
Despite onboard inspections and alerts to the 3,000 passengers the ship returned to LA without her.
Lantern vigils fuel farming concern
Lantern vigils fuel farming concern
Concern is mounting over the dangers posed to livestock and property from Chinese lanterns lit in memory of missing people.
A growing trend has seen hundreds of lanterns released into the night sky over England during the past fortnight.
Some 40 lanterns were released to highlight the plight of missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
More than 150 relatives and friends released 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home" at a vigil on Sunday (3 April).
The lantern release followed a similar vigil at Swindon's Polo Ground in memory of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan on 26 March.
Some 10,000 people attended the Swindon vigil. Many released Chinese lanterns and balloons with messages of condolence.
While the vigils have drawn attention to tragic events, farmers have long warned of the dangers posed by Chinese lanterns to livestock, standing crops and thatched properties.
The lanterns are generally made from paper supported by a wire frame that incorporates a holder at the bottom for a solid fuel cell.
Wiltshire & Swindon Fire Authority said the risk of fire caused by Chinese lanterns should be fully considered prior to use.
While lighting and launch were largely in the control of the user, the actual flight path and ultimate destination were generally not.
There was also no guarantee that the fuel cell would be fully extinguished and cooled when the lantern eventually descends.
"Any subsequent contact with a combustible surface could result in a fire developing," said the authority.
The Women's Food & Farming Union has called for the lanterns to be banned.
"The lightweight metal structures are hazardous to cattle, sheep and horses, should they eat them," it said.
"Not only that, the metal may lie dormant on the land and then gets into silage or hay at harvest time.
"This has its own added problems when it is fed as winter feed and cattle eat it as part of their forage."
Concern is mounting over the dangers posed to livestock and property from Chinese lanterns lit in memory of missing people.
A growing trend has seen hundreds of lanterns released into the night sky over England during the past fortnight.
Some 40 lanterns were released to highlight the plight of missing cruise ship worker Rebecca Coriam, who has not been seen for almost two weeks.
More than 150 relatives and friends released 40 lanterns into the sky "to guide Rebecca home" at a vigil on Sunday (3 April).
The lantern release followed a similar vigil at Swindon's Polo Ground in memory of 22-year-old Sian O'Callaghan on 26 March.
Some 10,000 people attended the Swindon vigil. Many released Chinese lanterns and balloons with messages of condolence.
While the vigils have drawn attention to tragic events, farmers have long warned of the dangers posed by Chinese lanterns to livestock, standing crops and thatched properties.
The lanterns are generally made from paper supported by a wire frame that incorporates a holder at the bottom for a solid fuel cell.
Wiltshire & Swindon Fire Authority said the risk of fire caused by Chinese lanterns should be fully considered prior to use.
While lighting and launch were largely in the control of the user, the actual flight path and ultimate destination were generally not.
There was also no guarantee that the fuel cell would be fully extinguished and cooled when the lantern eventually descends.
"Any subsequent contact with a combustible surface could result in a fire developing," said the authority.
The Women's Food & Farming Union has called for the lanterns to be banned.
"The lightweight metal structures are hazardous to cattle, sheep and horses, should they eat them," it said.
"Not only that, the metal may lie dormant on the land and then gets into silage or hay at harvest time.
"This has its own added problems when it is fed as winter feed and cattle eat it as part of their forage."
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