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|Graphics display system
|Maine et al.
|Apparatus for combining graphics and video images in multiple display formats
|Automatic information, goods and services dispensing system
|System and method for composite display
|System and method for composite display
|Vending ordering terminal
|Gould et al.
|Color composing video system
|Interior decor composition and display systems
|Taite et al.
|Dialog between TV movies and human viewers
|System and method for composite display
|Cosmetic apparatus and method
|Automated merchandising system
|Cosmetic apparatus and method.
|Video display system for marketing items.
This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Application No. 871,094, filed June 5, 1986, of G.H. Donald and J.L. Hewitt, entitled "Retail Trading Systems", now abandoned. The latter application was also the subject matter of a British application, now issued as British Patent No. 2,177,245.
computer control means for controlling a plurality of interconnected elements of said system;
video display means connected to said computer control means having an output display area for displaying a composite display image including an object-image of a selected salable object superimposed on a background-image of a selected background scene;
an object-image storage means connected to said computer control means for storing a plurality of object-image frames each of which contains a photographic or video image of a respective salable object, wherein each object-image frame is categorized with other related object-image frames according to at least one category of sales characteristic, wherein each object-image frame is designated by an individual object-image address, and wherein said object-image storage means under control of said computer control means provides an output of a selected object-image frame to said video display means in response to a corresponding object-image address input generated by said computer control means;
a background-image storage means connected to said computer control means for storing a plurality of background-image frames each of which contains an image representation of a respective background scene, wherein each background-image frame is selectable by an individual background-image address, and wherein said background-image storage means under control of said computer control means provides an output of a selected background-image frame to said video display means in response to a corresponding background-image address input generated by said computer control means;
indexing means of said computer control means connected to said object-image storage means and said background-image storage means for generating a respective object-image address and background-image frame address thereto in response to receipt of an object-image index code and background-image index code, respectively, thereby causing the corresponding object-image to be displayed on said video display means superimposed on the selected background-image;
input means connected to said computer control means including a keyboard for entering a category code designating a selected category of salable objects categorized by a common sales characteristic to be displayed in sequence on said video display means, and a background-image index code designating a selected background scene on which salable objects in the selected category are to be displayed; and
image retrieval means of said computer control means for receiving the category code from said input means and for generating and outputting to said indexing means a series of object-image index codes for each of the salable objects in the selected category, and for receiving the background-image index code entered from said input means and outputting it to said indexing means,
whereby the object-image of each salable object in the selected category is displayed on said video display means in sequence superimposed on the selected background scene.
processing means of said computer control means connected to said input means for receiving a mode selection input entered on said input means and for operating said system in a selected one of a plurality of modes, including a data display mode in which data corresponding to a salable object is selected by input to said keyboard for display in conjunction with a displayed salable object; and
image generating means connected to said processing means, said indexing means, and said video display means for generating a graphic image of the corresponding data and displaying it on said video display means.
computer control means for controlling a plurality of interconnected elements of said system;
video display means connected to said computer control means having an output display area for displaying an image of a selected salable object;
database storage means connected to said computer control means for storing merchandising data relating to respective salable objects;
image storage means connected to said computer control means for storing image frames corresponding to respective salable objects;
said computer control means being connected to said database storage means and said image storage means for retrieving and processing the merchandising data relating to a selected salable object, and for retrieving and displaying the image frame corresponding to the selected salable object on said video display means in response to a user's transaction request input;
input means connected to said computer control means for entry of transaction request a input by a user, said input means including at least one interactive device for providing a prompt output to the user, said prompt output being related to the selected salable object based upon the processed merchandising data related thereto and processed by said computer control means, and for receiving a response input from the user, said response input being related to the selected salable object utilized by said computer control means to further process the merchandising data; and
video cassette recording means connected to said computer control means for recording a retail transaction on video tape,
whereby said retail transaction is processed by said system interactively with the user through a controlled sequence of interactive prompts and responses.
This invention relates to retail trading systems.
The invention is particularly concerned with systems for trading large items that need to be delivered to rather than carried away by the customer, and items that may customized at least to some extent or fitted. An example is carpets, which are large and require fitting.
If a carpet retail outlet is to carry a comprehensive inventory of carpets, it must necessarily be housed in premises of some size, which, in a prime shopping area, would involve high rent and rates. It is usual therefore to site such premises out of town. Nevertheless, there are problems involved with the display of many carpets, and customers can find it daunting to select from extensive arrays of patterns, textures and colourways.
Moreover, the carrying of such a comprehensive stock as will at least permit inspection "in the piece" is itself an expensive business.
Accordingly, there is a tendency to sell carpet by sample. The retail premises need carry no or hardly any stock, and can be accommodated in more compact premises far less expensively, even on prime retail sites.
However, a disadvantage of this is that it is difficult for customers to appreciate, from a small sample, how a carpet will look in their room setting, and how it will relate to their furniture and other effects, for example. Sometimes photographs of a "typical" room are included in a pattern swatch.
Sale by sample involves, moreover, the preparation of a transaction record on the basis of a sample identifier--usually an alphanumeric code. The identifier is often on an adhesive ticket, and mistakes can arise through loss of or damage to, misreading or wrongly transcribing the identifier.
The present invention provides a system by which these disadvantages can be avoided.
The invention comprises a system for retail trading comprising an image storage arrangement storing images of items being traded, an image index arrangement connected with the said storage arrangement and containing identifiers for the images therein, an image retrieval arrangement and display means for displaying retrieved images, and a transaction data processing arrangement including a data input arrangement and by which the displayed image identifier is automatically input from the index arrangement.
Said image storage arrangement may comprise video disc means and said display means a video screen.
Said input arrangement may comprise an alphanumeric keyboard.
Said input arrangement may comprise a special function key operable to put the input arrangement into a transaction specifying mode in which the identifier for the currently displayed image is automatically input from the index arrangement into a transaction record.
Said input arrangement may comprise a special function key operable to put the input arrangement into an image retrieval mode.
The image index arrangement may contain a categorized image index, and the said retrieval arrangement may then be operable to retrieve images on a category basis, preferably, selectively, images falling into two or more categories. Such retrieved images may be automatically displayable sequentially.
The stored images may be composite images comprising a first image component generated from an item being traded and a second image component generated by computer software. The two components of the composite image may be held in different parts of the said image storage arrangement. The second component may comprise colourway information. The first image component may be associated with mask information limiting the displayed area of the second image component to the area not occupied by the first image component.
The system may also comprise colour input means connectable to said image retrieval arrangement and operable to cause said image retrieval arrangement to select only images having colourways related to a colour input via said colour input means.
The system may also be operable to display price and/or availability information with a selected image.
The system may have means for connection to a remote station for transmission of transaction information to said remote station and transmission of price and/or availability information from said station.
The invention comprises an interactive video system for retailing merchandise comprising:
a database containing data relating to said merchandise;
an image store storing images of said merchandise;
image retrieval and display means for retrieving
and displaying images from said image store; and
a control arrangement interconnecting said database, said image store and said images retrieval and display means and having an operator input arrangement and an information output arrangement additional to said image display means.
The said information output arrangement may comprise a digitized voice reproducing arrangement, which may be under the control of the said control arrangement so as to output stored voice information relevant to an image being currently displayed.
The control arrangement may include a touch screen arrangement and the images include touch screen "keys". One of such "keys" may comprise a "voice repeat" key, touching which causes a section of voice information to repeated. Voice information may be divided into short complete messages and the control arrangement may then be inoperable to interrupt a message.
The system may have more than one input arrangement for control purposes. One input may comprise an alphanumeric keyboard. This is a relatively "user unfriendly" arrangement, however, if it has to be operable by customers, who may have no keyboard skills. However, it is a very flexible arrangement, so far as the scope of data and control input it can handle is concerned, and will be useful as a trained operator input arrangement.
One input may comprise a bar code reader and the system may include printed matter carrying visual information (which may be words and/or pictures) representative of sections of the database and image store and bar codes coding for such sections whereby such sections can be accessed by the bar code reader. Such an arrangement can be useful for selecting categories of merchandise, for example design styles (e.g. in a furniture context, Victorian, contemporary and so on) or materials or bedroom furniture, lounge furniture and so on. A bar code adjacent a picture or verbal description of a category can move the image pointer to the beginning of a sequence relating to that category.
Such printed matter may comprise cards, and the bar code reader may then comprise a swipe reader. Such printed matter may, however, comprise books, brochures, catalogues and the like which cannot be "swiped" and the bar code reader may then be of the wand type. Both kinds may, of course, be provided in the same system.
One input may comprise a "smart card" reader. Such a device may be operable to handle transaction data from customers' cards. It may also be operable to handle retail staff operator training (whether in aspects of the interactive video system or otherwise) by for example keying the system into operator training mode and recording in the "smart card" memory details of training successfully completed for a particular operator and from such details, to activate the system to begin a new training session having regard to the recoded data on training successfully completed.
Of course, one input can comprise a magnetic card swipe reader for handling regular credit card transactions.
The system may also comprise recorder means for recording details of a retailing session. Such recorder means may comprise a video cassette recorder and the control arrangement may include a "session" memory in which image pointers are stored during a session for recall at the end of a session to rerun the program for input to the recorder means. In this way, the images a customer has seen together, of course, with the associated text and voice data, can be recorded for review on a separate, e.g. domestic video cassette recorder.
The system may also comprise cash till means, which may be part of the transaction data processing arrangement described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,177,245 aforementioned.
The various measures referred to may be used individually or in any desired combination to enhance the effectiveness of the system and make it easier for untrained operators to retrieve information and associated images and carry out a transaction thereon with or without the help of a trained assistant.
Embodiments of systems for retail transaction will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic representation of a system for retail transactions, e.g. selling carpets;
FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic representation of an image storage and indexing arrangement;
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic illustration of an image retrieval arrangement operable to retrieve images on a category basis;
FIG. 4 is a representation of a composite of a retrieved image on a background;
FIG. 5 is a representation of another composite image;
FIG. 6 is a representation of a component of the image shown in FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic representation of another system embodiment of the invention having audio and visual components for interactive operation;
FIG. 8 is a depiction of a typical "touch screen" image in the system of FIG. 7; and
FIG. 9 is an illustration of a bar code reader for reading a swipe card presented by the system user.
The system for retail trading illustrated in the drawings comprises an image storage arrangement 11 storing images of items being traded such for example as carpets, furniture, clothing, household textiles, homewares and even motor vehicles. The image storage arrangement 11 may comprise a video disc arrangement of the kind, commercially available, that have controlled access to images stored thereon so that a single video frame can be addressed. A Phillips Laservision VP35 disc player is suitable.
The storage arrangement can also comprise a frame store 11a for storing image information in digital form for use in image processing applications, referred to below.
An image index arrangement 12, connected with the storage arrangement 11, contains identifiers--for example--alphanumeric codes 21 in digital form--in random access memory (FIG. 2) having common memory addresses 23 with the address of the individual images 24 in the image store 11.
A video screen 13 receives video signals from the image store 11. Individual images/frames are retrieved from the index arrangement 12 by an image retrieval arrangement 14 controlled by signals from an input arrangement 15 comprising a standard alphanumeric keyboard which is part of a transaction data processing arrangement 16 which also includes a data output arrangement 17 which may comprise a printer or a visual display unit or a modem connecting the arrangement to a remote arrangement adapted to receive the data or simply a storage arrangement connectable to any of the above for subsequent interrogation.
Associated with the index arrangement 12 can also be a database 18 accessible in the same way and containing information on price and/or availability of items which images are stored in the image storage arrangement 11. Information from the database 18 can be called up to appear on the video screen 13, either superimposed on the video image or on a separate screen alternatable with the video image. A dedicated or special function key on the keyboard 15 can be used to call for (and cancel) the information display.
Likewise, a special function key on the keyboard 15 is operable to put the input arrangement 16 into a transaction specifying mode in which the identifier for the currently displayed image is automatically input from the index arrangement 12 into the output arrangement 17 as part of a transaction record. The remainder of the record--date, customer's name and address, number of items ordered, price, credit details, discount, method of payment, delivery date and so on--can be entered from the keyboard. More sophisticated programming can permit information from the database being available--say price--and operated on by standard operators--say price multiplied by (keyboard input) number of items can given gross price, operated on in turn by a standard discounting arrangement (say 5% off for cash), or by a standard credit arrangement so as to add on a percentage interest and divide the total by twelve or twenty four to give a monthly payment.
Software for this transaction specifying mode of the input arrangement can be, with considerable user advantage, menu driven. The first menu might for example contain the following options:
Display details
Place Order
Selecting "Display details" (by whatever means is chosen, say by moving, using the keyboard space bar or line feed key, a cursor or selection device next to "Display details" on the screen) throws up on to the screen the details of price/availability held in the database 18, together with a prompt that might say "Press Cancel to exit". Selecting "Place order" can call up a series of prompts such as "Enter customer's name", "Enter customer's address", and "Enter amount required", as well as subsidiary menus such as
Payment method:
Credit card
which might then have another menu called up, in the event "Credit card" is selected listing accepted cards.
The keyboard 15 also has a special function key putting it into an image selection mode. This may also be menu driven, the menus offering choices depending on the items being traded.
For selling carpets, a typical first menu might comprise a choice of price ranges, followed by a menu offering a choice of plain or pattered, another offering a choice of construction, another, pile type, and another colour.
The identifier used in the index arrangement 12 may contain coding, as illustrated in FIG. 3 categorizing the items into the choice indicated above or such other choices as may be appropriate to whatever item is being traded. For example the first symbol in the identifier might indicate a price range, the second whether the carpet is plain (1) or patterned (2), the third the choice of construction (e.g. Wilton, Axminster, tufted, foam-backed, etc) and so on.
The keyboard 15 might then, by pressing an appropriate key, be put into an automatic sequencing mode, in which all carpets conforming to the selection are displayed in sequence, a `pause` key being available for taking a longer look than the automatic sequence allows (which might be just a few seconds for instance). Or the sequencing might be, at will, effected manually be pressing an "Advance" key. In any event, the selected image is displayed on the video screen 11 and the associated identifier made available to the transaction data processing arrangement 17 as well as the associated database information being made available both to the screen 13 and the processing arrangement 17.
The images stored in the storage arrangement can with advantage show the item against a background--a carpet, for example, can be shown in a room setting and the same carpet can be shown in different room settings to help the customer choose the ideal carpet, whether as to colourway, or size or nature of pattern, for his decorating scheme or furniture.
Each image can of course be complete in itself, so that to cover one carpet in ten different room settings, ten image frames are provided in the storage arrangement 11. Such ten image frames can be produced by imaging an actual carpet in ten different actual rooms. This will clearly produce visual images of high quality, but may be tedious and costly in practice.
The ten images may, on the other hand, be composite images, in which, for example, only the carpet is imaged from an actual carpet, the remainder of the image being computer generated, either from scratch or from an image of an actual room which has been imageprocessed so that for example the colours of the walls, ceiling and woodwork are false, and are different or in different combinations (or colourways) for each of the ten images. FIG. 4 is a representation of such a composite image where the carpet area 41 of the image, which is produced from a video picture of an actual carpet, is used together with a setting or background image component 42. A series of such images is produced with different false colour colourways for the background image component 42.
FIG. 5 shows another composite image in which an image 51--shot from actuality--of a chair is shown against a room background 52. FIG. 6 shows the background 52 only, which may be so simple as to be readily computer-generated without the need to realize the same in practice. The chair image 51 is accompanied by masking information which cancels the background component of the computer generated image, so as not to interfere with the real image component. In this way, differently shaped chairs or other articles can be shown against the same background, and the background may itself be changed as to colourway (among other things) so as to provide a series of composite images. The colourway information can be a part of the computer software and provide operators acting on a basic computer generated setting design to change the colourway. In this way, the provision of a selected twenty (say) channels is provided in software instead of requiring twenty separate video frames to be stored.
This could, alternatively, be a way of generating video frames for storage, which would reduce computation and hence access time. However, where the changing information in the screen is background information, it may be desirable first to locate the item being traded and then to apply software to change the background through a sequence of colours.
A colour sensor 19 (FIG. 1) can be used to select retrieved frames to a colour of a sample, perhaps a favorite curtain material or piece of furniture, proffered for its examination by an intending purchaser. Instead of actually bringing in a sample (which might be difficult in the case of a large item of furniture) a colour matching card can be supplied to be compared with the original and brought in instead for examination. The colour sensed can then be translated into an appropriate colour code and used instead of a keyboard input to select a colour category.
The invention is not to be limited to the precise details described and illustrated. The video screen 13 could, for example, be replaced by any other suitable display arrangement such for example as a slide projector.
Another embodiment of a system for retail transactions will now be described having peripheral devices under the system's control for facilitating interactive operation by users of the system.
The system illustrated in FIG. 7 comprises a computer 111 including a high capacity disc store 112 which contains, inter alia, a database containing data relating to merchandise being marketed, and an image store, namely a video disc 113 storing images of said merchandise.
Thus the video disc 113 may contain images of furniture and furnishings in a range being marketed from a retail establishment, and the database may comprise data relating to such images for example available colours or colourways, stock numbers, quantities in stock, where the stock is held, price, manufacturer, available options and so on.
The system also comprises image retrieval and display means for retrieving and displaying images from the video disc 113, namely video disc player 114 controlled by signals from the computer 111 serving video screen 115.
The computer 111 comprises a control arrangement which interconnects said database, said image store and said image retrieval and display means so that images can be retrieved and displayed and information from the database retrieved for association with the retrieved and displayed images. Such association may take several forms, as will be hereinafter further explained.
The control arrangement, which is to say, the computer 111, has an operator input arrangement comprising various elements as will be hereinafter further explained. It also has an information output arrangement additional to said image display means.
Such additional information output arrangement comprises in this embodiment a digitized voice reproducing arrangement. The digitized voice information is stored as digital data in the computer hard disc memory 112 and reproduced via a digital-to-analogue converter 116 in the computer 111 as stereo audio signals passed to speakers 117.
The voice information can comprise instructions guiding an operator in the use of the system. Thus the voice information may comprise a request associated with a touch screen display to touch a "key" area on the screen to secure a desired result, for example to cause the system to enter one of a number of different modes of operation or to select a given category of images, or it might comprise a description of the displayed image or a recital of factual data concerning the same such as prices, availability and so on.
A primary "user friendly" operator input to the system is a touch screen arrangement. Such an arrangement, illustrated in FIG. 8, comprises arrays of sensors 121 along adjacent sides of the screen 122. Touching the screen 115 interrupts light falling on some of the sensors from emitters on the opposite sides of the screen 122. "Key" areas are located on the screen by computer-generated graphics arrangements built into the system, and these key areas include verbal or other indications. A screen may include one or more such key areas. As illustrated, touching key area 122 will interrupt light to sensors 121 on the adjacent sides of the screen 122 contained within the compass of the brackets 123. Touching a different key area 124 will affect other sensors, and the computer will recognize which of the key areas has been touched by sensing which sensors 121 have been blocked.
Thus a plurality of key areas 122, 124 and so on can constitute a menu from which items may be selected by touching the screen. A single key area can permit an image sequence to be stepped through.
A "secret" key area, i.e. one not disclosed on the screen but of which its location is known to a trained operator can be used for special trained operator procedures, such, for example, as rapidly restoring the system to an initial state. A special key area can be displayed during an initial part of a session by which "subtitles" copying or summarizing voice information can be displayed for the hard-of-hearing.
One key may control a "voice repeat" function in which voice information about a displayed image can be repeated. Voice information can be divided into sections each comprising a short, but complete, message, such, for example, as "The bedspread is offered in a choice of colours, white, red, blue, green and yellow." It may be desired to arrange that such messages are not interrupted by an input command, e.g. via the touch screen arrangement, but are played out. Each such message may have an end marker that releases an electronic latch arrangement which vetos any touch screen-entered command for so long as the end marker has not been reached. Such message completion arrangements may add realism to the system, by avoiding premature interruption of the current voice message, which would not usually happen in practice in a conversation between purchaser and salesman. The present system embodiment quite realistically mimics such a conversation, with the customer's end of it being effect not by speech but by the simple technique of selecting touch screen options by pointing to them.
Other operator inputs and system outputs are used for other communication purposes.
A primary operator input is a conventional keyboard 18 which can be used for a multiplicity of purposes including initial program and data loading and modification. Such purposes would normally be within the realm of trained operators and system supervisors and this important input would not normally be available to retail customers, not all or even many of whom could be expected to have keyboard skills, so that it would constitute a relatively slow method of communication.
Another input comprises bar code reader means, and these can be of two types. A first, 131 (FIG. 9), is a swipe reader in which a card 132 bearing a suitably placed bar code 133 is "swiped" through a slot 134. The card 123 contains printed matter in the form of text or pictorial matter and the system can involve a set of cards which may be suitable indexed or just browsed through in order for the customer to select a particular category of merchandise. The relevant card chosen is swiped through the reader 131 in order to instruct the system to display images and related matter pertinent to that selection.
Another type of bar code reader is an optical wand 125 (FIG. 8) which can be used to read bar codes printed in books, catalogues and the like that cannot be "swiped"--otherwise, the operation is similar.
Another input arrangement is a magnetic card reader 129 which can handle Access and like cards for billing purposes.
Another type of input, which also involves a system output, is a "smart card" reader 119. "Smart cards" are essentially portable electronic memories which can be credit card size that can be read and written into. In one such commercially available arrangement a smart card reader is simply a small box, connected to the computer, on which a smart card can be placed and is then immediately in communication with the computer. The card may comprise an electronic "key" which can be first of all interrogated electromagnetically upon the card reader's sensing the presence of a smart card to identify the card. According to the coding of the "key" the computer may then switch the system to one or another mode of operation.
A smart card may be issued to a customer and placed on the card reader 119 at the beginning of a session. The customer is at once identified to the computer, the card containing details of the customer's name, address, telephone number, credit rating and any other details that may be pertinent. The card may for example contain account details and be involved in transaction data processing in which, as a result of the session, the customer purchases an item or items of merchandise and the amount of a credit balance contained within the information stored in the card is depleted in accordance with the value of the transaction. The card may also enable the computer 111 to be put into direct contact with a customer's bank account, via a modem to be discussed below automatically to transfer the appropriate funds therefrom into the retail establishment's own account.
Another way in which "smart cards" can be used is in the training of retail personnel both to operate the system and assist customers and in product knowledge. A retail assistant can be assigned a personal "smart card" which will place the system into "training" mode and call up training exercises--using the screen, voice, touch screen and other outputs and the touch screen, keyboard and other inputs--and keep a log, on the "smart card", of such exercises successfully completed so that another training session will begin with fresh exercises.
Another feature of the system is a video cassette recorder which can be used to prepare a video tape of a retailing session. The various pointers actuated by touch screen or other entries during a session are stored in the computer 111 memory and are available, if required, to re-run the sequences of images and data retrieval called up during the session and transfers the images and associated voice and other outputs as appropriate to the video tape. A customer can take this tape away to review it on a domestic VCR possibly to assess the appropriateness of furnishing fabrics, carpets and like merchandise in the domestic setting, possibly to consult with other family members before confirming a purchase.
A printer 126 can be used to output pricing and size information which is stored in the databank relative to a selected product and also to print transaction details. The printer 126 can of course have a wide range of usefulness--it can be used also to print out stock levels for stock control purposes and details of locations where stocks are held and indeed any information which is held in or acquired by the computer 111.
Cash till means 127 are also connected to the computer 111 for handling cash and cheque transactions.
As in the earlier patent above referred to a modem 128 connects the computer 111 to the outside world and can integrate the system with like systems in other retail establishments and with a computer in a central supervisory office which can control a master databank and operate a centralized accounting and stock control function.
The computer 111 can of course be programmed to operate a stock control system by subtracting items sold from stock lists and comparing residual stock with prescribed re-order levels to warn when stock should be re-ordered or even to prepare and mail out (possibly by "electronic mail" via the modem) orders for depleted stock replenishment. A network of retail outlets can be regarded, for selected stock items for which there is, perhaps, infrequent demand, as a single stock holding unit so that it is not necessary to maintain such stock at all the retail outlets, merely hold information as to which outlet or outlets of the network hold such stock.
It is, of course, not necessary for any stock to be held at all at the retail establishment, since customer selection can be effected entirely through the medium of the system. Via the modem, details of a completed transaction can be sent to a warehouse to initiate dispatch of goods to the customer's address or even to a factory so that the goods (e.g. carpets) can in fact be manufactured.
This concept can be further extended to situations where permanently installed equipment may be impracticable by the use of portable equipment which can be carried by travelling salesmen accessing a central computer via a modem a customer's premises.
Instead of touch screen techniques, the screen could carry "keys" numbered 0 through 9 corresponding to the buttons on a telephone key pad and such may be used while the telephone is connected to the remote system to indicate customer choice and control the system.
Spreadsheet type programs can also be incorporated enabling calculations e.g. of room size, wallpaper and paint requirements and price the total quantities required and ordered.
Of course, especially in the field of home furnishing, but also in other fields, as described in British Patent No. 2,177,245, images generated directly from merchandise (or perhaps indirectly from pictures e.g. photographs and drawings of merchandise) e.g. by a rostrum camera, can be electronically manipulated and conjoined with images generated by computer programming and graphics, so as to be able to compile a room setting from picture fragments and substitute different wallpaper patterns and colourings with curtain and blind material, carpets, furnishings and so on and to be able to rearrange the disposition of furniture in a room and view it from different perspectives. The database can, for example, include electronically manipulable line drawings of room outlines which can be filled in with rostrum camera generated picture fragments from wallpaper, carpet and so on originals, selections being made from among those available on the video disc until a desired effect is achieved. In accordance with the previous patent, data corresponding to a final selection is input from the databank automatically to generate a customer order (and possibly as mentioned transmit the same to a warehouse or factory).


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Recipes for calves foot pie, artichoke pie, and oyster pie.
About The Queen-like Closet
Hannah Wolley (born 1623) was one of the most successful cookery book writers of her time. She is the first woman to have her name attributed to such a book, and the first to have attempted to make a living from writing about cookery. She wrote four books which contained recipes for general cookery, medical remedies and confectionery.
Wolley learned her culinary skills from her mother and her older sisters. She had worked in the household of a noblewoman from the age of 17, and her employer, having recognised her talents, helped her to develop her expertise by providing her with rich ingredients and cookery books. Wolley later married the master of a school in
Wolley's books seem mainly to be directed at servants working both for aristocrats and for those lower down the social scale. Many of the recipes are simplified versions of grand dishes. She incorporates many French flavourings and techniques that were at the height of fashion at the time. For example a number of the recipes contain wine, anchovies and capers. In this way she attempted to enable readers in modest households to have a taste of glamour, without the expense of a nobleman's fare.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Picture Overload
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
A Day in the Life of Mckinley
First words today:
Mckinley: Good Morning Mom
Me: Good Morning Mckinley
Mckinley: Thanks
Ha ha, she is so polite and so stinking cute.
After doing two puzzles this morning she wanted to watch a movie. I said no, let's play with toys. So she says, let's play with toys AND watch a show. Is that a good problem? (She says is that a good problem instead of is that a good plan.)
After getting her hair done, (but without seeing it in the mirror) "I look beautiful Mom."
Mom, can you turn on Little Einsteins going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship? She said all of that so fast with no breath in between any of it.
"I'm going to pop like a bunny rabbit." She says pop instead of hop.
"I'm good in doing this puzzle."
She started going on the potty all by herself, she'll go pull her pants and underwear down and go and then just tell me when she's done. It's kind of awesome. But she always says I'm good at going behind myself, instead of by myself.
Okay, so I started this post yesterday and didn't really finish it but I'm going to post it anyway just so I can look back on it later and smile at the cute things she does and says. There are so many more...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Mckinley and Sam sharing (finally!) the phone to watch a show.
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Lehi Hampton Inn
Mckinley and her very favorite cousin Brynlee.
In the morning they joined us in bed. All five of us fit in one King bed. Barely. And not for long I'm sure. These two are growing like weeds!
Kinley helping Brandon make pancakes the other morning.
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In case you missed it last week, here is my project for WYLTC. All the other ladies had some really fun crafts too so be sure to check them all out. And the link party is going on now, so if you have any "love" wood crafts, be sure to link them up!
Hello everyone! Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here. It's my favorite time of the month again! Wood You Like to Craft time!!!! Since we are in February I naturally wanted to make a project for the big "LOVE" day and I needed something for my front door. So this is what I came up with.
I never know what to call these kind of things..... I guess its a wreath but not really. The official title could be a wooden-heart-mobile-door-hanging-thingy. :)
Whatever you want to call it, it was super fun to make!
All I did was get some plywood and cut out the heart shape with my jig saw. From there you can decorate it however you want!
I covered the center heart in a piece of scrapbook paper. Distressed the heck out of it and then hot glued on the little wooden letters. I got them at Hobby Lobby.
The outer heart I just painted by hand in stripes using colors from my paper design.
As you can see the stripes are far from perfect. I knew perfect wasn't going to happen so I varied the width and style of each strip so the imperfections would look on purpose. And I distressed the heck out the that too!
It still needed a little something at this point so I made some felt flowers and put an arrow through the whole thing.
The arrow was a last minute add on. I ended up just using a couple of skewer, like the ones for kabobs, that I had in my kitchen stash. Its just hot glued to the back of the heart and then further secured with some felt hot-glued over the top. The arrow tip and bottom are also just hot-glued on pieces of felt.
It was really a simple thing but I think the arrow made a big difference with the cuteness factor!
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that the two hearts are simply attached to each other by a peice of ribbon stapled to the back. I also made a little loop at the top to hang the whole thing from. You need that! :)
So that's it! My Valentine's wood project. And it does look pretty dang cute hanging on my front door. Love it!
I can't wait to see what the rest of the WYLTC ladies come up with!
And in case you haven't figured it out yet, our theme this month is "LOVE" and we can't wait to see all the cute, wooden, Valentine's Day projects out there.
Thanks for reading!
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When a fire alarm wakes you during your holiday midday nap and forces you rush out of the hotel just to hear that it was indeed a false alarm, at least you can take advantage of the fact that without this sudden distraction, this beautiful sunset would have gone totally unnoticed.
Luckily the only fire to be found was in the Virginia skies.
Leather jacket: Obscur
Shirt: Rogue by Ilaria Nistri
Skirt: H&M
Bag: D. Jensen
Boots: Guidi
Pictures by D. Jensen.


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I recently came across this quote of mine from 22 years ago: " What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us to understand one another better, or will they deceive us and keep us apart?"
I believe this is still a supremely relevant question and the jury is out. There is a lot of commercial clutter on the net, and a lot of propaganda, but I have a sense that just beneath the surface understanding is gaining ground. We just have to keep blogging, keep twittering, keep communicating, keep sharing ideas.
30 Years ago when I wrote The Wall I was a frightened young man. Well not that young, I was 36 years old.
It took me a long time to get over my fears. Anyway, in the intervening years it has occurred to me that maybe the story of my fear and loss with it's concomitant inevitable residue of ridicule, shame and punishment, provides an allegory for broader concerns.: Nationalism, racism, sexism, religion, Whatever! All these issues and 'isms are driven by the same fears that drove my young life.
This new production of The Wall is an attempt to draw some comparisons, to illuminate our current predicament, and is dedicated to all the innocent lost in the intervening years.
In some quarters, among the chattering classes, there exists a cynical view that human beings as a collective are incapable of developing more 'humane' ie, kinder, more generous, more cooperative, more empathetic relationships with one another.
I disagree.
In my view it is too early in our story to leap to such a conclusion, we are after all a very young species. I believe we have at least a chance to aspire to something better than the dog eat dog ritual slaughter that is our current response to our institutionalized fear of each other. I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to express my, albeit guarded, optimism, and encourage others to do the same. To quote the great man, " You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
– Roger Waters, 2010
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Top Science And Space Exploration Stories in March
March was packed with breakthroughs in science and space exploration. A new discovery gave the big-bang theory a big boost, scientists found new man-made gases in the atmosphere and a new study shows that emotions vented on Facebook are contagious.
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Four Wayne State University Law School students will spend this summer as interns exploring the world of international business and law.
Their placements around the globe are made possible by Wayne Law's Program for International Legal Studies which is offering more travel and real-life work experience than ever before.
Law student Zachary Rowley, a Bay City resident, will work this summer as an intern in the Office of the General Counsel at Tata Motors in Mumbai, India. Tata is the largest manufacturer of automobiles in India, and Rowley will work on legal issues arising from the firm's supply chain and distribution network.
Rowley majored in economics and East Asian Studies at Kalamazoo College, and studied language and international business as an undergraduate for five months in Beijing, China. He's very excited to be going to India and to be gaining more experience in international law, he said.
"I plan on pursuing international business courses while at Wayne, and I think this will only help ground my studies in the real world," Rowley said. "Wayne has a great reputation for international law."
An Eagle Scout, Rowley has traveled to many countries in addition to China, including the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Hong Kong.
Another law student entering the international business world is Nicholas Jones of Hopkins, who considers his pending internship with one of Mexico's leading law firms --Barrera Siqueiros y Torres Landa in Mexico City -- as "an amazing opportunity to experience not only everyday Mexican culture but also to experience the business and legal culture" there.
"I hope to spend a good amount of time working with the firm's international arbitration group," Jones said. "I also would like to get a chance to work on some conflict-of-laws issues that involve bringing American laws into the Mexican court system."
Barrerra Siqueiros y Torres Landa has 24 different practice areas, and is regularly engaged in some of the most high profile foreign investment deals, international commercial arbitration and intellectual property transactions in Latin America. The firm and its partners are consistently ranked as global leaders by a variety of international publications.
Like Rowley, Jones is a graduate of Kalamazoo College, where he majored in biology and business, was quarterback of the school's football team, and also attended classes in Madrid, Spain. He expects to graduate from Wayne Law in 2015, and hopes to practice international business law.
Steven Helton of Riverview and Zachary Van Horn of Traverse City will work as interns in the international arbitration group in London, England, for Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale, and Dorr, a multinational law firm with offices around the world. The firm recently was named "International Arbitration Firm of the Year" by U.S. News magazine.
"I am very interested in pursuing a career in international arbitration, so this internship is an incredible opportunity for me," Van Horn said.
He'll be entering an LL.M. program in international commercial arbitration in London next fall, an opportunity he sought due to his enthusiasm for international law studies at Wayne.
Helton is also excited about his opportunity to participate in international law work.
"I really look forward to working for Wilmer Hale because it's such a well-respected firm," he said. "I know that other people who have participated in this internship have gone on to do some very cool things, and I hope the same will be true for me."
Wayne Law's Program for International Legal Studies covers all travel and living expenses for each of these internships.
Four other Wayne Law students -- Joshua Aprile of Marine City; Yunjoo Goze of Andong, Korea; Karinne Marcolini of Grosse Pointe; and Adam Taylor of Monroe -- will be working abroad for human rights groups overseas this summer. Eric Shovein, who grew up in Grosse Pointe Woods, will be studying in the Hague, Netherlands.
As recipient of the Freeman Fellowship, Shovein will attend the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law, the academic branch of the international Court of Justice, also known as the World Court. Each year, the Program for International Legal Studies at Wayne Law sends one student to the academy to be taught by some of the world's foremost international lawyers in courses on either public or private international law.
Aprile will travel to Mexico City to work with Mexico Unido Contra la Delincuencia, an organization that assists both police and victims in response to the high level of criminal activity in certain parts of the country, and that seeks to strengthen the rule of law.
Goze is already in New Delhi, India, working with the Dalit Foundation, an organization dedicated to using the courts and social awareness to end discrimination against India's Dalits, or "untouchables." Dalits are subjected to pervasive forms of discrimination.
Marcolini will work in Nassau, Bahamas, with the Crisis Centre, an organization that helps victims of domestic violence, offering them legal assistance, and running public education campaigns to end spousal and child abuse and empower victims to leave their abusers.
Taylor will be working in Madurai, India, with Peoples Watch, a well-respected human rights organization that serves as a liaison to international monitoring bodies at the United Nations and elsewhere, and researches and reports on all aspects of Indian political and social practices.
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The Ministry of Defence has agreed that wind farms can be built on its land near the Eskdalemuir seismic array site, which monitors the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The decision was taken after a University of Keele study demonstrated that the turbines would not interfere with the sensitive equipment, provided they are not built within 17.5km of the facility. Until now, the MOD has banned the construction of wind farms within 80km of the station.
The decision will give a considerable boost to the government's pledge to generate 10 per cent of the UK's electricity from renewable sources by 2010. According to a report in The Herald a wind farm on the MOD's land could generate up to a gigawatt of electricity, doubling the capacity of Britain's wind farms.
However, the MOD continues to oppose wind farm construction on land elsewhere, citing concerns that the windmills will interfere with radar data. The problem is that the turbines can create false images on radar screens, appearing to be aircraft nearby.
The British Wind Energy Association is starting tests on technology that could help filter these ghost images, potentially freeing up more MOD land for wind farms, The Herald said. ®
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Boise — Tucanos Brazilian Grill
Welcome to our Boise location at Overland and Entertainment Ave, next to Lowe's. Come visit us and experience all the festive and mouth-watering Brazilian cuisine you can eat. If you're not already a member of ClubTucanos, be sure to register and receive a free meal in the month of your birthday as well as other delicious dining features throughout the year.
Dining Experience
We offer CHURRASCO (shoe-HAS-ko) style dining, where fresh meats and vegetables are grilled and brought directly to your table by our meat servers. While your Tucanos Cue remains green side up, our meat servers will continue to bring fresh selection of meats and vegetables to your table. When you have finished or would like a break, simply turn your Tucanos Cue red side up and our meat servers will skip your table.
Salad Festival
Though sometimes our tasty meats take front stage, we are also famous for our Salad Festival. It features both Brazilian and American specialties, providing a fusion of distinct flavors, textures and colors. Festival selections include the Tucanos House Salad, hearts of palm, shrimp, seasonal fruit selections, fresh mozzarella, quail eggs and many other items. Hot selections such as seasoned rice, pastas, potatoes, stroganoff, feijoada (a traditional black bean stew) and freshly made soups including lobster bisque are also available on the salad festival to accompany the meat selections. New Salad festival selections are continually added to ensure freshness and variety.
Full Bar
Our Boise restaurant also features a full bar with cocktail tables and a heated outside patio area. It is a great place for after-work cocktail parties, gathering before catching a movie next door, or while waiting on a table for your party.
Additional Information
If you would like additional information about our Boise Brazilian Restaurant, please use the menu below or contact our Boise Restaurant.
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[Talib Kweli]
But most of yall brothers
Came from your mothers
[Mos Def]
Looking all sweet (Black Star keep shining)
And be like yo, let me ask you somethin
I wanna know, I wanna know who you are
[Hook: Mos Def and (Talib Kweli)]
Brown skin lady, hey hey
Where you goin
(This goes to the brown skin ladies yo)
Brown skin lady
(Indigineous women of the planet Earth)
What you doin?
(Givin birth to the brown skin ladies first)
Brown skin lady
(For what it's worth, from me to you)
How do you feel?
(From me to you, watchin you)
[Bridge: Mos Def and (Talib Kweli)]
I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
(I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
I like the way you move, when you do that dance
(Yes, I like the way you move)
I like the way you walk, when you walk on by
(I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the way you walk)
I like the way you move, when you do that dance
(Please, won't you do that dance)
[Mos Def and Talib Kweli]
And everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
Everybody on the avenue I know, when they see her say
There she is
[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]
Fresher than Tony Rebel's vegetables at African street festivals
Where incredible women is, plentiful
Over the years I met a few, none of them compare to you
Preparing you to make fruit bearable, somethin terrible, let's see:
You fruitful, beautiful, smart, lovable, huggable
Doable like art, suitable to be part
Of my life, Coppertone owe you copyright infringement, pay
You been this tan since way back in the day
It's like I'm standin there you know appreciatin God's design
And then you showed up, it's like you read my mind
DAMN SHE'S FINE, I think I add the R-E, in front of that
And see if she D, to get, with a cat like me
[Verse 2 Mos Def]
Ooooh! Damn baby girl, look at you!
Comin on the block lookin fresh and brand new
Ooooh! Headwrap cover your hairdo
Pretty feet peekin through open-toed shoe
Ooooh! No limit to what I would do
Make love to you like long interview
Whooh! Is she for real, me like you
Good look champion, win the title
True, many man try invite you
Shot down lyric each time they cyph you
Jewel, what man, ya get born inside zoo?
Feet they walk way and just let she pass through
Ooooh! Can't be a next one like you
Famous like tapes made by DJ Clue
I tighten up my game as I approach you
Yo check her she the nectar the bee get close to
[Verse 3: Talib]
I don't get many compliments, but I am confident
Used to have a complex about, gettin too complex
You got me, willin to try, looked me in the eye
My head is still in the sky, since you walked on by
I'm feelin high, got my imagination flickerin like hot flames
It's how it seems, you make me wanna ride the Coltrane to A Love Supreme
My brown lady, creates environments, for
Happy brown babies, I know it sounds crazy
But your skin's the inspiration for cocoa butter
You provoke a brother we should get to know one another
I discover when I bring you through my people say TRUE, all I can say
Is all praise due I thank you God for a beauty like you
[Hook] + [Bridge]
[Outro: Mos Def]
She's a brown skinned lady
Such a brown skinned lady
She's a brown skinned lady
She's a brown skinned lady
She's a brown skinned lady
She's a brown skinned lady
[Outro: Talib]
Baby, what you mean you don't think you look good?
You know what some people put themselves through
To look just like you?
Dark stocking, high heels, lipstick, alla that
You know what?
Without makeup you're beautiful
Whatcha you need to paint the next face for
We're not dealin with the European standard of beauty tonight
Turn off the TV, put the magazine away
In the mirror tell me what you see
See the evidence of divine presence
Women in the, Caribbean, they got the, golden sun
I know women on the continent got it
Nigeria and Ghana, you know they got it
Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique
And Botswana, to let it speak
How 'bout Latinas, Colombianas
Cubanas, Dominicanas, Tahinians
Of course the Brooklyn women walk that walk
And the Bronx women walk that walk
Honies from Queens walk that walk
NYC, ATL, LA, Cincinnati, the Bay Area
Got the cocoa butter brown skinned ladies doing their thing in
London and Paris, cocoa butter brown sk.. Танзания, Замбия и Мозамбик
И Ботсвана, чтобы она говорила
Как насчет латиноамериканцев, колумбийцев
Кубинцы, доминиканы, тахинцы
Конечно, бруклинские женщины ходят этой прогулкой
И женщины Бронкса ходят этой прогулкой
Сладости из Квинса ходят по этой прогулке
NYC, ATL, LA, Цинциннати, Залив
У дам с коричневой кожей какао-масла делают свое дело.
Лондон и Париж, масло какао коричневое ск ..


text: Boy Scout Troop 993 is part of the Sam Houston Area Council, Mustang District, in West Houston sponsored by Ashford United Methodist Church. Troop 993 is a boy-led troop that is mentored and supervised by adult volunteer leaders. Parents are a very integral part of our troop program. It is through their participation as ASMs and Troop Committee members that we can provide a safe, interesting and varied program. Boys ages 11 - 17 are invited to join our troop. We meet every Monday evening at 7:30 PM at the Scout building behind the Church located at 2201 S. Dairy Ashford Rd, between Westheimer & Whitington.


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Established in 1984, Brainboxes is one of the leading serial communication device developers and manufacturers in the World. Headquartered in Liverpool, UK, it has a team of highly qualified software and hardware designers, matched by a world-class in-house volume manufacturing facility and a global distribution chain. Substantial investments in R&D and manufacturing have gained Brainboxes a reputation for products that are easy to use, highly configurable and extremely reliable. Their in-house manufacturing facility gives them an unparalleled level of flexibility and control to meet even the tightest deadlines.
Brainboxes has a world class Research and Development department with considerable experience in both hardware and software design skills. Covering chip design to board layout, including firmware, device driver and application software engineering - Brainboxes has proven expertise at all levels of product design.
As a leading Serial and Bluetooth designer and manufacturer, Brainboxes actively seeks to add value and promote excellence in every aspect of their operations. The company is committed to giving you the best product, with the best compatibility and best user experience. Brainboxes guides you with pre-sales advice, delivers on time and supports you through the lifetime of your product.
Designing, manufacturing and supporting our devices gives Brainboxes a unique insight, authority and ability to provide the world's best products and best customer experience. Brainboxes equips their people to embrace the industry's leading business practices and cutting edge technologies, from chip level to board level, so that you, the customer, benefits directly. All this unique expertise in one location ensures unparalleled ability to deliver what you demand and deserve.


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Henrik Skupin
Test Automation
I got in contact with Mozilla in early 2000 when I had to find a better web browser than the Internet Explorer for my company's work group. Since then I stepped through a couple of teams. Started with the user support of our German community for about 2 years, translating the website of Mozilla-Europe into German, and finally ending-up in Mozilla QA, showed me how unique Mozilla is.
Since 2009 I'm a full-time employee and mostly dedicated to the quality and stability of Firefox. Therefore I was part of the QA team and the A-team, and responsible for the Mozmill testing efforts. Nowadays Mozmill has been obsoleted and the main focus lays on automated testing with Marionette specifically the firefox-ui-tests.
I'm also a mentor for Automation interested community members and a big fan of social interaction with all the great fellows of Mozilla around the world.
Tagsa-team, automation, firefox, firefox automation, mentor, mozmill, qa, sf-monument, summit2013-toronto, de:hacking, german, flame users, de:community, interop
Skillsautomation, bugzilla, c, c plus plus, couchdb, css, html, javascript, jenkins, marionette, mentoring, puppet, python, taskcluster, test automation, xul
LanguagesGerman, English, Russian
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Henrik is the other Mozilla-Henrik. :-) He is an active contributor to the Mozilla Project.
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In 2011 nearly 6,000 organizations around the globe invested significant time and effort in monitoring and disclosing their sustainability performance, or ESG – environmental, social and governance – performance, usually in a sustainability report that is separate from a financial statement. The steady increase in volume of sustainability reporting over recent years seems to indicate that many believe issuing a sustainability report is important. However, we also find a strong counter-current from various categories of stakeholders that question the value of the ESG information as a basis for business and investment decisions.
This webcast will explore reasons for what appears to be a disconnect between corporate disclosure and business and investment decisions.
In viewing, participants will learn:
- The importance of the link between ESG information and valuation
- The role of materiality determination in limiting the amount of information disclosed
- The potential of mandated disclosure to improve quality and utility of the ESG information that is disclosed
Audience: CFOs, chief sustainability officers, financial analysts, investors, asset managers, and those charged with investor relations or communications
Dinah A. Koehler, Sc.D.
Dinah Koehler, Sc.D. is research leader for sustainability and climate change at Deloitte Research – the research division of the Deloitte US firm. She earned her Doctor of Science degree in Environmental Science and Risk Management from Harvard's School of Public Health, did coursework at ...Full Bio
Thomas Singer
Thomas Singer is a principal researcher in the ESG Center at The Conference Board. His research focuses on corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues. Singer is the author of numerous publications, including Total Impact Valuation: Overview of Current Pra...Full Bio
Daniel Hanson
Dan Hanson, CFA, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, is the lead portfolio manager for the BlackRock Sustainable Large Cap Core (Socially Responsible Equity) portfolio, and a member of BlackRock's Large Cap Series equity team (AUM $23B).
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Corli Le Roux
Corli joined the Johannesburg Stock Exchange's Legal Counsel and Strategy Division in August 2001 following four years as legal advisor to SAFEX (The South African Futures Exchange). Over the years, Corli's responsibilities have expanded into various strategic arenas, and as a result ...Full Bio
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1976 Winter Olympics Games
INNSBRUCK, AUS - 1976: Dorothy Hamill skates on her left leg only with back arched and arms held high in front during the Winter Olympics skating competition in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria. Dorothy Hamill wins the gold medel for the USA in the Womes Figure skating competition. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Dorothy Hamill


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Viera Shatters Screen-Printing Record
The single-operator, one-hour challenge now stands at more than 2100 T-shirts.
On Friday, June 28, 2013, Luis Omar Viera used an M&R high-performance Challenger III D J4 automatic screen printing press, an M&R Passport automatic T-shirt unloader, and an M&R Fusion electric conveyor dryer to set a new world record of 2139 T-shirts screen printed in one hour by a single operator. This eclipsed the previous record of 1909 screen-printed T-shirts, which was also set by Viera.
Rich Hoffman, M&R's CEO, said, "In 2010, Omar proved he was an elite screen printer. And we knew we had a phenomenal automatic screen printing press in the concept Challenger III D J4. But we also knew everything would have to go perfectly for Omar to set a new world record in London—much less to shatter the old record the way he did today. Even if you have all the elements necessary for success, an otherwise minor glitch can leave you short of your goal. To borrow a phrase from the sports world, 'It's why they play the game.' Fortunately, it all fell into place."
Hoffman went on to thank Jon Weiss, founder and CEO of the New Buffalo Shirt Factory, for making it possible for Viera to compete; Gildan for providing T-shirts; Wilflex for providing ink; Mitsubishi for their servo drives and support; the people at M&R behind the design and manufacture of the new concept Challenger III D J4 automatic textile press; M&R support staff at FESPA 2013; and especially Omar for another amazing performance.
Video of the event is available here: http://youtu.be/daqrydl8ZDM


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(2) Promulgate reasonable rules to implement any provision of this article in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code;
(3) Advise the Commissioner in all matters within his or her jurisdiction;
(4) Study the organization, programs and services of financial institutions and the laws relating thereto in this state and in other jurisdictions and to report and recommend to the Governor and the Legislature all such changes and amendments in laws, policies and procedures relating thereto as it considers proper;
(5) Grant permission and authority to a financial institution:
(A) To participate in a public agency hereafter created under the laws of this state or of the United States, the purpose of which is to afford advantages or safeguards to financial institutions or to depositors therein and to comply with all lawful requirements and conditions imposed upon those participants; and
(B) To pay interest on demand deposits of the United States or any agency thereof, if the payment of interest is permitted under any applicable federal law, rule or regulation; and
(6) Seek judicial enforcement to compel compliance with any of its orders and to seek and obtain civil penalties as set forth under this chapter.
(b) The Board also has the power, by entering appropriate orders, to:
(1) Restrict the withdrawal of deposits from any financial institution when, in the judgment of the board, extraordinary circumstances make the restrictions necessary for the protection of creditors of and depositors in the affected institution;
(2) Compel the holder of shares in any corporate financial institution to refrain from voting the shares on any matter when, in the judgment of the board, the order is necessary to protect the institution against reckless, incompetent or careless management, to safeguard funds of depositors in the institution or to prevent willful violation of any applicable law or of any rule and regulation or order issued thereunder. In such a case the shares of the holder may not be counted in determining the existence of a quorum or a percentage of the outstanding shares necessary to take any corporate action;
(3) Approve or disapprove applications to incorporate and organize state banking institutions in accordance with the provisions of sections six and seven, article four of this chapter;
(4) Approve or disapprove applications to incorporate and organize state-chartered bankers' banks in accordance with the provisions of sections six and seven, article four of this chapter;
(5) Exempt a bankers' bank from any provision of this chapter if the board finds that the provision is inconsistent with the purpose for which a bankers' bank is incorporated and organized and that the welfare of the public or any banking institution or other financial institution would not be jeopardized thereby;
(6) Revoke the certificate of authority, permit, certificate or license of any state banking institution to engage in business in this state if that institution fails or refuses to comply with any order of the Commissioner entered pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (A) or (B), subdivision (15), subsection (c), section four, article two of this chapter, or at the board's election to direct the Commissioner to apply to any court having jurisdiction for a prohibitory or mandatory injunction or other appropriate remedy to compel obedience to such order;
(7) Suspend or remove a director, officer or employee of any financial institution who is or becomes ineligible to hold that position under any provision of law or rule and regulation or order, or who willfully disregards or fails to comply with any order of the board or Commissioner made and entered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or who is dishonest or grossly incompetent in the conduct of financial institution business and prohibit that director, officer or employee from participating in the affairs of any other financial institution until further order of the board;
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Mrs. Ocd: "So, another MRI in 2015?"
Dr. Grumpy: "Yeah."
Mrs. Ocd: (whips out iPhone): "Can I do a Tuesday afternoon?"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
If I could be sure of being here in 2015 I would gladly accept an appointment on any day of the week.
Those OCD's are something else, aren't they?
My partner gets annoyed when people call it OCD. She insists it should be called CDO due to that being in alphabetical order....
We have BORING folks at my office. In fact, they rarely come in and most contact is via telephone or email and yes, sometimes via snail-mail or overnight express. We have to work around their schedule and many times bend over backwards to accommodate their schedule as some of them are located in another state or country.
I don't think I would know how to respond if someone in our office said something like that. What did you tell her and were you able to do it with a straight face?
Dang, your office gets to have all the fun.
You should have told him that all Tuesday afternoons were booked.
which tuesday would you prefer ma'am? and what time?
Good Grief, I don't know what I'm going to be doing in the next 15 minutes much less in 5 years. I'll admit I'm a tad jealous of(horrified by)organizational skills like that...
bb- I told her we'll schedule it then, since the MRI places won't have schedules made up yet.
Shoulda told her make sure its after 2pm on that Tuesday, you have another patient at 1pm
Here's the big question--do you get to lock in a rate?
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In this modern era of rampaging technology, it is easy to get overwhelmed by irreverent messaging, social media memes and "alt facts". I honestly feel that now more than ever, I have to make a concerted effort to take care of my mind and my spirit, because I feel so easily led astray by the randomness of the media. Stay Woke represents the refusal to accept society's rote programming and demands that one take responsibility for one's own awareness of self. Do not be led astray...Stay Woke.


text: Jo Beth Cup, M.S.M., is the Vice President of Administration. She is responsible for the development and administration of student and academic support services. With a B.A. in Psychology from Central University of Iowa and an M.S. in Business Management, Ms. Cup has held both student service management and financial leadership roles in nonprofit, higher education administration for fifteen years. Prior to her role with Adler University, Ms. Cup was the Vice President for Business Affairs of the National University of Health Sciences.


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For the second time in two months, Microsoft has rolled out fixes to improve Windows Vista's speed and reliability.
Four separate updates, available from the vendor's website, address several operating system performance and stability problems, deal with a dozen Universal Serial Bus (USB) issues, improve Windows Media Player and patch Media Center.
Although Microsoft has put Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) in the hands of some testers, it has said it will continue to update the original Vista -- dubbed "RTM" for "release to manufacturing" -- even as it puts SP1 through its paces. Seven weeks ago, it issued a pair of updates that tackled numerous problems, offering them as optional items through Windows Update in September.
"Tuesday's updates are a collection of fixes that we have made to address a small set of reliability, compatibility, stability, security and performance issues," a Microsoft spokeswoman said. "They will provide incremental improvements to the most common issues -- but in general, these improvements or fixes are going to be very narrow in scope."
The widest ranging of the quartet was a 5.4MB update for multiple hardware and operating system issues that Microsoft said extends laptop battery life, improves the stability of wireless network connections and deals with compatibility problems with some antivirus software.
The update also promised to shorten Vista start-up and resume-from-sleep times, problems that Microsoft had supposedly fixed with the August patches. Vista users have complained about Vista's slow start-up, shutdown and return from power-saving modes since at least April.
A second update, detailed in the KB941600 support document, is a cumulative roll-up of 12 fixes to Vista's USB components. In Microsoft's terminology, a "roll-up" is a collection of patches, similar to a service pack, but not tested as extensively.
A similar cumulative update for Media Center is also available from the Microsoft download site; it deals with several specific problems, including some involving how Vista interacts with Microsoft Xbox 360 video game consoles.
The fourth update patches Windows Media Player 11, the default audio- and video-playing software included with the operating system. Microsoft offered few details -- a support document has not been added to the database -- but the company's spokeswoman said the 8.8MB download for the 32-bit version of Vista eliminates corruption of Media Player database in certain scenarios and of media stream in certain scenarios.
The updates will be distributed via Windows Update in the near future, the spokeswoman added. Microsoft's next scheduled Windows Update releases are due out in the second week of October.
Microsoft has aggressively promoted its ability to update Vista through Windows Update, even going so far as denying after Vista's launch that it needed to produce a comprehensive service pack, or SP1. It has continued to claim that most issues can be addressed by Windows Update.
Mike Nash, the Microsoft executive who leads Windows product management, was the latest to brag about Windows Update's prowess in keeping Vista running smoothly. "The really important updates we can release with Windows Update, and the need for a service pack is actually reduced," he said.


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Consciousness isn't easy to define, but we know it when we experience it. It's not so simple to decide when someone else is conscious, however, as doctors must sometimes do with patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury. Now, researchers have come up with an approach that uses the brain's response to magnetic stimulation to judge a person's awareness, reducing it to a numerical score they call an index of consciousness. "You're kind of banging on the brain and listening to the echo," says Anil Seth, a neuroscientist at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the work.
Faced with an unresponsive patient, clinicians do their best to determine whether the person is conscious. Through sound, touch, and other stimuli, they try to provoke verbal responses, slight finger movements, or just a shifting gaze. Yet some conscious patients simply can't move or speak; an estimated 40% of those initially judged to be completely unaware are later found to have some level of consciousness.
Recently, physicians seeking to resolve a patient's conscious state have gone right to the source, searching for signs of awareness using brain imaging or recording electrical activity of neurons. Most of these approaches define a conscious brain as an integrated brain, where groups of cells in many different regions activate to form a cohesive pattern, explains Marcello Massimini, a neurophysiologist at the University of Milan in Italy. "But that's not enough," he says. Sometimes even an unconscious brain looks highly integrated. For example, stimulating the brain of a sleeping person can create a huge wave of activity that "propagates like a ripple in water." It's a highly synchronized, widespread pattern, but it's not consciousness, he says, and so this measure is often unreliable for diagnosis.
Recently, Massimini and colleagues have been exploring another possible criterion for consciousness. To create our information-rich, moment-to-moment experience, different groups of neurons must have their own timing, or their own unique firing patterns. They must work together, but keep their individuality. "It's quite a slippery thing to [describe] verbally," Seth says. The big question for neuroscientists developing computerized tests of consciousness, he says, is "can we make that quite slippery verbal intuition mathematically precise?"
That's just what Massimini and his colleagues have tried to do with the perturbational complexity index (PCI), which they describe online today in Science Translational Medicine. PCI looks at the brain's response to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), where a magnetic coil is held up to the surface of the skull, generating a pulse to stimulate the neurons beneath and provoke a response that radiates through the brain.
Massimini and his colleagues record the brain's "echo" with electroencephalography, a measure of electrical activity, and then turn that data into a numerical score between 0 and 1. Their calculations award higher scores to information-rich responses: those that are distributed across the brain, but also individualized. If two distant groups of neurons are active, but their activity is synchronized, the PCI equation compresses them, meaning they contribute less to the overall score. "The less we can compress the pattern, the more information is in it," Massimini explains.
The researchers first calibrated their system using healthy patients. They recorded TMS responses in waking subjects, and then used the brain activity from people in deep sleep or under different types of anesthesia as a reference for unconsciousness. There was no overlap in scores between conscious and unconscious subjects, suggesting a potentially useful cutoff or threshold for consciousness, somewhere between the highest unconscious score (0.31) and the lowest conscious score (0.44).
Then the researchers tested the index with 20 people who had suffered different types of brain damage. Those who were believed to be in a vegetative state—awake but completely unconscious—got very low scores (between 0.19 to 0.31). Subjects who had emerged from a coma had varying degrees of awareness and intermediate scores. Two of the patients had a condition known as locked-in syndrome: Their cognitive abilities were normal, but they were unable to move. These patients, who could communicate by shifting their eyes, received PCI scores of 0.51 and 0.62—as high as the waking, healthy subjects. Without requiring any active participation from subjects, this index can reliably place them on a continuum between conscious and unconscious, the team concludes.
"This is a very well-conceived approach," says Joseph Giacino, a neuropsychologist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. "It's based on what we understand the nature of consciousness to be … to the extent that we can understand it at this point."
Seth calls the work "a substantial contribution to the state of the art." The attempt to set a threshold for consciousness with our limited definition is much like early attempts to establish freezing and boiling points without a thermometer or a good definition of temperature, he says. PCI is the most reliable test to date, and is "a first step" toward an absolute scale for consciousness, Seth says.
Giacino points out that there are still gray areas on the PCI scale. There was some overlap between the range of scores for patients considered to be in a "minimally conscious state," showing intermittent signs of awareness, such as following simple movement commands, and those who had emerged from this state but were still disoriented and had limited communication. He says this distinction is important when doctors decide whether trying simple communication methods, such as indicating "yes" and "no" with the eyes, will be worthwhile or simply overwhelm the patient. Still, if the results can be replicated in a larger group, Giacino predicts the test could be a vast improvement over current tools for locating consciousness in the midst of damage.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- As it was on Tuesday and Wednesday, healthcare continued to be a central theme here as the Democratic Convention wrapped up on Thursday night, from the first speaker right up to President Obama.
Speaking of his opponent, Obama said that Mitt Romney's approach to healthcare could be summed up this way: "since government can't do everything, it should do almost nothing. If you can't afford health insurance, hope that you don't get sick."
"You know what?" he said. "That's not who we are. That's not what this country's about."
Obama also pledged that he would "never turn Medicare into a voucher," referring to Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan's proposal to convert Medicare into a premium support program. "No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned."
Instead, Obama said he would "reform and strengthen Medicare for the long haul, but we'll do it by reducing the cost of healthcare -- not by asking seniors to pay thousands of dollars more."
And he gave a nod to reproductive rights as he urged voters to re-elect him. "Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control healthcare choices that women should make for themselves -- only you can make sure that doesn't happen," he said.
Like Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden took Romney and Ryan to task for their Medicare proposal. "You heard them talk about how they cared so much about Medicare. How much they wanted to preserve it. That's what they told you," he said.
"But what they didn't tell you is that the plan they already put down on paper would immediately cut benefits to more than 30 million seniors already on Medicare," Biden continued.
"What they didn't tell you is the plan they're proposing would cause Medicare to go bankrupt by 2016. ... They're not for preserving Medicare at all. They're for a new plan. They're for Vouchercare. Look, folks, that's not courage. That's not even truthful."
One of the earliest speakers to mention Medicare was a retiree from West Palm Beach, Florida, Carol Berman -- who played the "Everywoman" role in the Medicare story.
Berman told the delegates that the Romney/Ryan premium support proposal for Medicare "has me terrified. If Romney gets into office, the Medicare my three daughters earn will be turned into "Voucher Care," which won't keep up with costs," she said.
Noting that Medicare beneficiaries might have to pay as much as $6,000 per year in additional costs under the Republicans' plan, she added, "Six thousand dollars may be pocket change for Mitt Romney, but it's a lot of money for my family. Republicans are trying to end Medicare as we know it, but we are not going to let them."
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, spoke about being a breast cancer survivor and why that increased her appreciation of the Affordable Care Act.
"I know what it's like to sit in the waiting room ... wondering how many anniversaries you'll have with your husband. That moment is terrifying and no one should go through it without health insurance," she said.
"When President Obama passed health reform, it was personal," Wasserman Schultz continued. "When Governor Romney says he'll repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of healthcare, that's personal too."
Reproductive health also was mentioned early on. "As a Catholic woman, I take reproductive health seriously, and today it's under attack," said Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy. "That's not the kind of future I want for our daughters. Now is not the time to roll back the rights of women. Now is the time to move this country forward."
Earlier this year, the Catholic Church protested an Obama administration rule requiring nearly all employers -- even Catholic ones -- who provide insurance to their employees to include coverage of birth control services.


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