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Canon Business Process Services, Inc., a leading provider of managed services and technology, has been named to the top-ranked Leader category of the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' (IAOP®) 2014 Global Outsourcing 100® list. The list defines the standard of excellence in outsourcing service delivery. This is the eighth straight year in which Canon has been ranked a Leader in The Global Outsourcing 100.
"At a time when there is a growing need to outsource, The Global Outsourcing 100 list has become an invaluable reference tool to help companies research service providers," notes IAOP CEO Debi Hamill. "The companies named to the list have demonstrated their expertise following a rigorous, independently judged process and represent the top in the industry."
"Each year the competition to be named to The Global Outsourcing 100 list continues to reach higher levels," added Jag Dalal, Chief Advisor, Thought Leadership, IAOP and chairman of the judges' panel. "Given the strong competition, getting named to the list is great recognition and we are proud to recognize Canon Business Process Services for its excellence."
The Global Outsourcing 100 and its sub-lists are essential references for companies seeking new and expanded relationships with the best companies in the industry. The list includes companies from around the world that provide the full spectrum of outsourcing services, from information technology and business process outsourcing to facility services, real estate and capital asset management, manufacturing and logistics.
The organizations selected for The Global Outsourcing 100 will be recognized at the IAOP 2014 Outsourcing World Summit®, currently taking place in Orlando, Florida. Canon Business Process Services is exhibiting at the Summit with experts on hand to help organizations better understand how accounts payable, records, print and other outsourcing services can help reduce costs and drive efficiency. Official Global Outsourcing 100 rankings will be published in the June 16th FORTUNE 500 issue of FORTUNE® magazine, in a special advertising feature produced by IAOP.
About Canon Business Process Services
Canon Business Process Services, Inc. is a leading provider of managed services and technology that enable organizations to improve operational efficiency while reducing risk and cost. Experts apply quality management principles and tools such as Six Sigma to advance performance to a higher level. The company offers services including BPO, accounts payable services, imaging, records management, print, mail and eDiscovery, and is an IAOP Global Outsourcing 100 Leader in 2014 for the eighth consecutive year. Based in New York City, Canon Business Process Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., Inc. Learn more at www.cbps.canon.com or follow us on Twitter.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Niagara Networks will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Niagara Networks offers the highest port-density systems, and the most complete Next-Generation Network Visibility systems including Network Packet Brokers, Bypass Switches, and Network TAPs.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Commvault, a global leader in enterprise data protection and information management, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform moder...
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We've been doing it for years, decades for some. How many websites have you created accounts on? Your bank, your credit card companies, social media sites, hotels and travel sites, online shopping sites, and that's just the start. We do it often without even thinking about it, quickly entering our personal information, our data, in a plethora of systems. Sometimes we're not even aware of the information we are providing. It could be very personal information (think of the security questions you ...
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There is little doubt that Big Data solutions will have an increasing role in the Enterprise IT mainstream over time. Big Data at Cloud Expo - to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - has announced its Call for Papers is open. Cloud computing is being adopted in one form or another by 94% of enterprises today. Tens of billions of new devices are being connected to The Internet of Things. And Big Data is driving this bus. An exponential increase is...
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IoT is fundamentally transforming the auto industry, turning the vehicle into a hub for connected services, including safety, infotainment and usage-based insurance. Auto manufacturers – and businesses across all verticals – have built an entire ecosystem around the Connected Car, creating new customer touch points and revenue streams. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Macario Namie, Head of IoT Strategy at Cisco Jasper, will share real-world examples of how IoT transforms the car from a static p...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Tintri Inc., a leading producer of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualization and cloud environments, will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Tintri VM-aware storage is the simplest for virtualized applications and cloud. Organizations including GE, Toyota, United Healthcare, NASA and 6 of the Fortune 15 have said "No to LUNs." With Tintri they mana...
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Creating replica copies to tolerate a certain number of failures is easy, but very expensive at cloud-scale. Conventional RAID has lower overhead, but it is limited in the number of failures it can tolerate. And the management is like herding cats (overseeing capacity, rebuilds, migrations, and degraded performance). Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here In his general session at 18th Cloud Expo, Scott Cleland, Senior Director of Product Marketing for the HGST Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit, discusse...
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Whether they're located in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment, cloud technologies are constantly evolving. While the innovation is exciting, the end mission of delivering business value and rapidly producing incremental product features is paramount. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Kiran Chitturi, CTO Architect at Sungard AS, will discuss DevOps culture, its evolution of frameworks and technologies, and how it is achieving maturity. He will also cover various st...
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If you had a chance to enter on the ground level of the largest e-commerce market in the world – would you? China is the world's most populated country with the second largest economy and the world's fastest growing market. It is estimated that by 2018 the Chinese market will be reaching over $30 billion in gaming revenue alone. Admittedly for a foreign company, doing business in China can be challenging. Often changing laws, administrative regulations and the often inscrutable Chinese Interne...
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Video experiences should be unique and exciting! But that doesn't mean you need to patch all the pieces yourself. Users demand rich and engaging experiences and new ways to connect with you. But creating robust video applications at scale can be complicated, time-consuming and expensive. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Zohar Babin, Vice President of Platform, Ecosystem and Community at Kaltura, will discuss how VPaaS enables you to move fast, creating scalable video experiences that reach your...
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More and more companies are looking to microservices as an architectural pattern for breaking apart applications into more manageable pieces so that agile teams can deliver new features quicker and more effectively. What this pattern has done more than anything to date is spark organizational transformations, setting the foundation for future application development. In practice, however, there are a number of considerations to make that go beyond simply "build, ship, and run," which changes ho...
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Homer musician Tyler Munns has always been an avid David Bowie fan. So when the pop musician's album "Blackstar" was released Jan. 8, Munns didn't waste any time listening to it. He wasn't disappointed. "It was so much more challenging and innovative than any artists in their prime...Thu, 04/28/2016 - 10:43am
Jubilee Youth Performing Arts Show is Friday The Homer Council on the Arts annual Jubilee Youth Performing Arts Show is 7 p.m. Friday at the Mariner Theatre. Tickets are $5 youth, $10 HCOA members and $15 general admission, on sale at HCOA and the Homer Bookstore....Thu, 04/21/2016 - 9:10am
With the airing of the second season of the History Channel's survival show "Alone" on April 21, Mary Kate Green joins the cast of Homerites representing their town on television. Unlike the Kilcher's "Alaska: The Last Frontier" or the Time Bandit crew of "Deadliest Catch" fame...Thu, 04/21/2016 - 9:09am
In map making, artists depict the landscape with lines and shading. A city map can be all streets, but in the wilderness, cartographers add rivers and lakes, forests and grasslands, and ridges and valleys. The result can seem static, a map that comes alive only in the imagination of the reader. That...Thu, 04/14/2016 - 9:25am
KBC student art show opens Friday Students from Asia Freeman's drawing class show their work in a Student Art Showcase this month. The exhibit opens with a reception from 5-6:30 p.m. Friday in the Kachemak Bay Campus Pioneer Hall Commons gallery. HHS students...Thu, 04/14/2016 - 9:14am
Pier One holds auditions Pier One Theatre holds auditions for two of its summer plays. Auditions are 5-7 p.m. Friday and 4-6 p.m. Saturday at the Mariner Theatre. The plays are "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", directed by Peter Sheppard, with roles for two couples, an...Thu, 04/07/2016 - 9:34am
National Library Week is April 10-16, and the Friends of the Homer Library will be ushering it in Saturday with its annual fundraiser, the Celebration of Lifelong Learning. A silent auction, live music, appetizers from Maura's Café and a trivia tree will all accompany presentations of this year�...Thu, 04/07/2016 - 9:31am
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Mary Perry signs new book at Anchor Poit Library Anchor Point writer Mary Perry signs her new book, "Mystery on Cheechako Island," from 1-3 p.m. Saturday at the Anchor Point Library....Wed, 03/30/2016 - 3:59pm
Bunnell Street Arts Center 106 W. Bunnell Ave. Lyrical Topography, art by Sarah Frary 5-7 p.m., First Friday Opening Reception; 6 p.m., artists talk Gwendolyn Chatfield, artist in residency 8 p.m. First Friday concert, $10 member, $15 general suggested admi...Wed, 03/30/2016 - 3:58pm
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President Obama Visits Baton Rouge After Criticism That He's Late
President Obama tours Louisiana's communities affected by the flood that damaged over 60,000 homes and killed 13 people.
Thanks to Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian, the female booty has gained enormous mainstream popularity over the past decade. And now, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Interscope Geffen A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine want to bring the juiciest backsides to coffee tables everywhere — tastefully, of course.
The music mogul pair are the "deep pockets" behind just-released book CULO by Mazzucco, a 248-page collection of color photographs of women's derrieres as envisioned by fashion photographer and visual artist Raphael Mazzucco.
"Raphael is a true artist," says Diddy. "He relies on instinct — capturing a raw, natural sense of beauty through his lens in CULO by Mazzucco, that celebrates the female form. His work is passionate and powerful."
"I wrestled for weeks with ideas about how to tackle this concept," says Mazzucco. "I have relished every brush stroke, every hypnotic flash in which I reach deep down into my gut and pull out a glimpse of the world as only I see it."
Wow. Gotta hand it to them for finding a way to persuade so many ladies to take off their panties in the name of art.
Additionally, multi-platinum artist Timbaland produced a track with Pitbull (the man who popularized the word "culo" in the mainstream) called "Pass At Me," with a video showcasing a sneak peek of the art featured in CULO by Mazzucco.
Enjoy, gentlemen, while the ladies of the world wait patiently for the male version.
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Daniele Alexander
It would be a shame if Alexander suffered because she is hard to categorize. At times she sounds a little like a repressed rock and roller; at times like a Broadway belter; sometimes she's reminiscent of a traditional country belle; at others of that pop-country paragon Anne Murray.
Maybe the example of Murray is the one Alexander should warm to—a singer who is clearly her own woman yet close enough musically to Nashville to convince the radio programmers and chart makers that's where she belongs. Alexander even has a head start, having grown up in Fort Worth, site of a lot more country music roots than might be found in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Murray's home town.
Not that Alexander is likely to twang her way to the top. She sings with no accent either way. What's distinctive about her voice is a warm, rich intonation that arouses sympathy in her he-done-me-wrong tunes and vicarious pleasure when she's in a musically romantic mood.
She had a hand in writing all 10 songs on the album. She and Anna Lisa Graham, for instance, lent an ironic touch to "Fairytale Fool": "Mirror, mirror, mirror on the wall/ You forgot to tell it all/ I thought by now I'd have my sweet prince/ And by the way, where's that white picket fence." On her own, Alexander wrote "She's There": "I can't believe what you're not telling me/ But the way you hide it makes it so clear to see."
On this debut album Alexander sings in front of a solid Nashville studio band whose orientation, as much as anything, determines the section of the music store this album will end up in. Even if a clerk makes a real mistake and sticks it in the French import section with Charles Aznavour and Sylvie Vartan, though, First Move is worth whatever effort you have to exert to find it. (PolyGram)
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Also, higher BMI linked to better metastatic RCC survival
Case Findings: The image below shows a bone marrow biopsy of a 75-year-old man. Which of the following has the greatest impact on this patient's survival?
Case Findings: A 40-year-old male presents with a painful mass on his left shoulder of 5 months' duration. He has a history of stage IV scleronodular type of Hodgkin's disease that was treated 23 years ago with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. He relapsed a year later, and required another round of chemotherapy followed by autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. He relapsed again the next year, and underwent another chemotherapy regimen and allogeneic stem cell transplantation. He has been disease-free for 20 years. What is your diagnosis?
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Serve Jackson Stewart's thirsty customers at the beach! First, you will take cold snack orders from Rico's Surf Shop or the ice cream cart. Then, you must deliver refreshing treats without running into beachgoers and spilling. Pick up sandals to move even faster!
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AMD ships its extra-efficient 7th-generation processors in PCs
Desktops running A-series chips promise more performance for less power.
Razer and Maingear partner on an all-out gaming PC
The R1 Razer Edition is as much about flashiness as performance.
Creating and sharing GIFs with Giphy Capture is dead simple
The latest update adds a host of options for tweaking your animated creation to looped perfection.
HP's new Omen gaming PCs include a cube-shaped desktop
The Omen X Desktop caters to gamers who like to upgrade, but still want a unique design.
Origin PC, Velocity Micro jump on Intel's 10-core processor
You won't be hurting for choice if you want a gaming PC with the latest Extreme Edition chip.
Digital Storm's latest gaming all-in-one packs a 10-core CPU
The 34-inch Aura also touts a GeForce GTX 1080.
WhatsApp has a new desktop app for Windows and OS X
Just like the web app, it syncs conversations and messages from your phone.
HP's new Pavilion PCs include a 15-inch hybrid laptop
The largest-ever x360 is the highlight of HP's new computer lineup.
Windows 10 Mobile preview lets you text from your PC
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Goalscorer Jon Stead spoke to BBC Radio Nottingham after Notts' 3-1 victory over Leyton Orient.
John Sheridan speaks to the press after Notts County's 3-1 victory over Leyton Orient.
Notts County forward Jon Stead couldn't be happier with his current form after adding to his goal tally today.
Notts County manager John Sheridan declared himself 'chuffed for the supporters' after today's 3-1 win over Leyton Orient.
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Sony Alpha DSLR-A900
Sony Alpha a900 review
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It should come as no surprise that the A900 is a solidly built DSLR, capable of producing highly detailed images. From a practical consideration, its resolution and the Carl Zeiss optics currently available make it a perfect match for landscape and studio photographers, as well as anyone else needing high-resolution files. With its full-frame sensor, those still holding on to their Minolta...
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Sony's Alpha DSLR-A900 feels like it's been with us for a long time – after all, the prototype was first shown back in March 2007 and its sensor unveiled in January 2008. So unlike its rivals which are often sprung with little notice, we've long-known what Sony's flagship DSLR would look like and speculated how its new 24 Megapixel full-frame sensor may perform in practice. Despite this...
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Welcome to Latitude 44!
At the coordinates of 44° N Latitude and 91° W Longitude, you will find the home of Latitude 44 Yoga Studio - the Chippewa Valley's hot yoga studio!
313 E. Madison Street, Eau Claire, WI 54703
Latitude 44 aims to bring accessible and valuable yoga classes, barre classes, and workshops to the Chippewa Valley. We focus on finding one's strength, both physically and mentally. By dedicating time to spend on your mat, you create the opportunity to focus on yourself, focus on your intentions, and focus on building your strength. Latitude 44 will help you every step of the way.
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CLERMONT — Three years ago, Jordan Harger was a firefighter-paramedic in The Villages while his wife, Heather, stayed home with their four children in a gated golf community in south Lake County.
But the desire for a life of service had been tugging at the couple for years. Now they live in South Africa, where they have been ministering to some of the poorest people in the world.
"I want my kids to see faith in action and that helping and serving others is worth so much more than focusing on yourself," Jordan Harger said.
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$TERM only gets set for units which have Standard{Output,Error}=tty. By default services only have a stdout/err pipe to the journal, and rc- local.service uses journal+console which is still a pipe. So it would be actively wrong to set $TERM there as it is not actually a terminal. (See man systemd.exec).
You can create your own unit with Standard{Output,Error}=tty and a setterm call, of course. ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1624967 Title: $TERM is not set for /etc/rc.local To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1624967/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs


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- Jul 1st, 2012
Copy stage is a passive stage and Transformer is Active and it involves the process usage and copy does not . So its good to go with copy since it takes less time then transformer to propagate the columns over the link
Why copy stage is better than transformer?
Incase of only dropping columns(without any transformations or business rules), we can go for copy stage instead of transformer.But can anyone tell me exactly why copy stage is better in performance than transformer?
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Transformer is a heavier stage as apart from the orchestrate we do have the C++ operators for various derivations. Right from compilation to execution a Transformer will always take more time than a copy stage which is a simple straight forward passive(if we can call) stage
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In a stunning multi-million dollar development overnight, Australia's most progressive stud farm, Arrowfield, has entered into an agreement with a silent partner to purchase all of Vinery Stud's Australian weanlings.The cost of the acquisition has not been confirmed by either Peter Orton, Vinery's general manager, or Arrowfield's owner John Messara, but strong industry rumor has it at around $4.5 million (Australian funds, about $3.5 million U.S.)."From our perspective, we are more than happy with the arrangement and the price, Orton said."There are 50 weanlings in the package. It is the biggest and most expensive independent weanling sale ever conducted in Australia.Listed among the pedigrees are numerous foals by Red Ransom, a large number by More Than Ready , several by Fusaichi Pegasus and a few by Mossman, Way Of Lights, and Brahms."We will be moving all of the weanlings to Arrowfield this week," declared Messara. "We paid market price for them and at this stage will just let them all grow out before deciding just what we do with them. Some we will keep, many we will sell as yearlings."Messara added that the 50-strong weanling package would bring to well over 200 the number of foals he has on the picturesque Scone based farm. "Obviously we will need to have a reduction of some stock in the not to distant future," he added.Vinery has had numerous offers to sell its broodmare band, but has committed the mares to public auction in April."It's probably fairer on everyone if we sell them at auction," Orton said. "We have made the announcement that that is the way we will go with them and we will keep to that."The broodmare band, which will serve as stage two of the overall Vinery sell-off, is valued conservatively at around $20 million.
Vinery Australia Sells Foals to Arrowfield and Partner
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Example: "Look, its Mark Gairs the gonk!"
di paterd453 14 aprile 2011
A hairy 5|-|17 toy you get at fairs...
have a go for £2 and win a fab prize..
or a gonk... some thing they found in the back of a skip on the way to your town.
or a gonk... some thing they found in the back of a skip on the way to your town.
di Crimson`Hunter 16 gennaio 2005
to sleep (british army term)
sleeping bag = gonkbag
di tali 26 novembre 2003
Another name for a buttplug. Can also be used as a pejorative term for someone who does or continues to do stupid things.
I yanked the gonk out of her and her shit spewed all over my new satin sheets. She's such a gonk.
di fannymcslap 25 gennaio 2012
A bunch of outcasts who group together because nobody else wants them. Listen to shitty screamo music. Usually found hanging around the obscure areas of schools to avoid mockery. Don't realise just how unpopular they are. Usually lead by one (or two) pricks with long greasy hair and porn'taches.
"Dude, that fucking gonk needs to get a shave and sort his life out."
di 4cbb 17 giugno 2009
complete arse with no chance in love or life
hayton you are a GONK etc
di JJ@D 14 gennaio 2009
In 80's Northern Ireland it was a synonym for underpants.
"Ma, have you seen me gonks?"
di Jeff Spencer 14 agosto 2006


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SEB Stegmann said London Welsh have come a long way in their pre-season friendlies after his two tries helped them to a 40-12 victory at Pontypridd.
The six-try win rounded off the Exiles' three-match programme, which has also seen them beat Henley 64-0, but lose 38-24 to Wasps.
"The standard's definitely gone up; we've seen it in training and in our games," said wing Stegmann.
"When we call moves in phase play, boys are offering themselves. Everyone knows what their role is a lot more than against Henley.
"It's been building week by week and there's a lot of confidence now, both in the team and the structure.
"It's about confidence; we've got to keep the momentum going. The boys are excited; it's the Aviva Premiership.
"We strived so hard last season to get back there. We now just need to keep our heads and know our roles for the opening game against Exeter on September 7."
Stegmann's two tries inside the opening 11 minutes at Sardis Road laid the foundations for the Exiles' win.
Further tries from Nic Reynolds and Nathan Vella completed a comprehensive first-half display by Welsh, who led 26-0 at the break.
Tom May and Rhys Crane crossed late on, with Olly Barkley converting three and Tristan Roberts two.
Owen Shepherd and Lewis K Williams scored Ponty's tries, with the latter converting one.
Stegmann added: "We knew we would come into the game with the more dominant firepower.
"We made a strong start and took it to them – we wanted to show what we could do.
"Throughout the whole game we were trying to go through our structures, our discipline in defence, the breakdown – all the little systems that we've been working on in training.
"We're a bit disappointed that we tailed off in the second half, but as a whole it was positive.
"There's definitely still one or two things to tweak this week, but it's looking good.
"The conditions were completely different in the British and Irish Cup game here last year. It was raining and a bit epic to come here and have a go.
"This time we started well and the conditions were a lot better, and that really good start was paramount to our overall performance.
"Everyone knew their role, people were talking and putting their hand up as to what lines they were going to run and clearing out the rucks.
"People were still doing their jobs second half, it was just Ponty taking it back to us.
"They're not an easy team to play against. But at the same time there was a bit of inaccuracy from us."
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|Application number
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|Nov 6, 1979
|Filing date
|Mar 10, 1977
|Priority date
|Mar 10, 1977
|Publication number
|David P. Corkhill
|Original Assignee
|Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (5), Referenced by (14), Classifications (6), Legal Events (1)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
This invention lies in the field of control of electrohydraulic devices and similar apparatus. More particularly, it lies in the field of the electrohydraulic vibrators which are used to generate seismic signals in the earth. Still more particularly, it concerns a digital apparatus to generate both a reference and a drive sweep signal for the vibrator, and includes means to change the relative phase of these two sinusoidal signals.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the prior art, there have been a number of designs of phaselock systems by means of which a seismic vibrator can be phaselocked or synchronized with a reference sweep signal. These have generally been analog devices, which are slow in response and in correcting the phase of the drive. Furthermore, they are prone to overdrive or overcorrect, which results in hunting of the driven apparatus. Such analog systems further provide very poor phaselock at low frequencies, and poor recovery of control on the occurrence of transient interruptions or variations in the output of the device.
It is the primary object of this invention to provide an apparatus for generating a digital sinusoidal reference sweep signal, and a digital sinusoidal drive sweep signal for controlling a vibrator, and to provide a digital phase comparison system for controlling the generation of the drive sweep signal so as to maintain a selected phase relation between the output of the vibrator and the reference sweep signal.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a magnetic recording cassette on which is prerecorded a train of pulses of selected changing time spacing, which is the primary control of the system.
These and other objects are realized and the limitations of the prior art are overcome in this invention by using a read-only memory of a selected number of address locations containing a series of digital numbers corresponding to a sequence of digitized values that correspond to a single cycle of a sine wave. The memory locations are addressed in sequence by a counter which is driven by a series of pulses of varying time spacing. As the memory addresses are sequentially selected, the memory outputs a series of digital numbers which, when converted to analog form, comprise a sinusoidal variable frequency sweep signal.
A second counter is also used to address the memory locations independently of the first counter, whereby the memory outputs two series of digital words. The first counter is controlled directly from the series of pulses, producing a reference sweep. The second counter, which is controlled by the sequence of pulses through a frequency ratio control, provides a second sinusoidal sweep signal, the phase of which can be varied with respect to the reference sweep signal, by changing the count of the second counter with respect to the first counter. The second counter produces a sinusoidal sweep signal which is called the drive signal, and which nominally leads the reference sweep signal, to compensate for the normal delay or lag in operation of the baseplate of the vibrator in response to the sweep signal.
As is conventionally done, the motion of the baseplate is detected by a sensor such as an accelerometer, the signal of which is doubly integrated and digitized. The reference sweep signal and the digitized sensor signal are then phase-compared to determine how the phase of the drive sweep signal should be varied on order to bring the sensor signal into phase with the reference signal.
To provide a proper comparison, both digital signals are filtered through identical digital filters and compared in a phase comparator, which controls the frequency ratio of the pulses which control the second counter. When the reference sweep leads the sensor or baseplate signal so that the drive sweep needs to be advanced, the phase comparator outputs a signal to increase the frequency ratio of the pulses reaching the second counter, until it advances to the point where the phase of the baseplate signal is the same as that of the reference sweep signal, and so on.
Additional means are provided for tapering the starting and the stopping ends of the drive sweep. This is done by an up-down counter and a digital multiplier. The up-down counter puts out a series of fractional numbers from 0 to 1, and when these are multiplied by each of the digital numbers which go to the drive sweep, the amplitude of the analog output of the drive sweep will be varied in accordance with the magnitude of the fraction which is outputted by the counter at any given time. A control in the cassette provides the pulses to drive the counter up at the start of the sweep, and, at the end of the sweep, to drive the counter down, to provide the terminating taper.
Alternate means are shown for electronically generating the taper number, which goes to the previously mentioned multiplier. Also an alternate electronic network is described for generating the series of pulses, which in the first embodiment were provided by the recorded magnetic tape of the cassette.
These and other objects and advantages of this invention, and a better understanding of the principles and details of the invention, will be evident from the following description taken in conjunction with the appended drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates in schematic fashion one embodiment of this invention;
FIG. 2 illustrates a detail of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 illustrates in more detail the apparatus of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 4 illustrates a second embodiment comprising two electronic circuits, one for providing a taper multiplier number, and the other for generating the pulse train.
Referring now to the drawings and in particular to FIG. 1, there is shown in schematic form one embodiment of this invention, indicated generally by the numeral 10. Enclosed in the dashed outline 12 is a digital apparatus for generating a sinusoidal drive sweep signal which is outputted on line 40, to drive an electrohydraulic vibrator 46 which is resting with its baseplate 48 on the surface 49 of the earth 50. On the baseplate is a sensor 51, which is nominally an accelerometer, the output of which is doubly integrated in an integrator 52 which provides the integrated sensor signal on a lead 53 to the control apparatus.
The heart of the system is a read-only memory 26 which comprises a number of memory locations, such as for example 128, in each of which is stored a number which represents one of 128 digital amplitude values that in sequence correspond to a single cycle of a sine wave. In other words, as each one of the address locations is read out, the sequence of numbers will be a digital sine wave.
A time-varying series of pulses is provided on a magnetic tape in a cassette reader 18. The cassette is driven at constant speed by means of a clock 19 through lead 20, so that the output pulses on lead 22 will be precisely timed in accordance with the master program, from which the cassette tape was copied. The pulses on line 22 go to a first digital counter 24, the count of which at any instant on leads 23 goes to the read-only memory 26 and, depending on the count, contacts a specific memory location. The digital values stored therein are then outputted on line 28, and this is the reference sweep signal. The sinusoidal components are provided by the memory, and the varying repetition rate of the sine wave is derived from the varying time-spaced pulses which are pre-recorded on the magnetic tape of the cassette.
A second counter 32 is driven by the pulse output of the cassette through lead 29 which feeds a frequency ratio control 30 which will be described in detail in connection with FIG. 3 and which sets the rate of the output pulse train on lead 31. The second counter 32 is connected to the memory 26 by leads 33, and for each count of the counter 32, a digital word is outputted over lead 34 to a digital multiplier 36 and to a digital-to-analog converter 38, the output of which is the drive sweep signal on lead 40.
If the frequency ratio control 30 is set at unity, then both counters 24 and 32 will read the same number, and the same addresses will be contacted, and the drive sweep and the reference sweep signals will be in synchronism. However, it is well known that the drive sweep must be set at an advance phase ahead of the reference sweep so that, with the normal phase delay in the electrohydraulic vibrator 46, the baseplate 48 will then be in phase with the reference sweep signal.
Since the frequency ratio control is therefore the means of shifting the phase of the digital drive sweep signal on 34, with respect to the digital reference sweep signal on 28, it is controlled by the phase comparator 60 through leads 62 and 64.
The drive sweep signal on lead 40 goes to the electronic control 47 of the seismic vibrator 46 positioned with its baseplate 48 on the surface 49 of earth 50. In operation this produces a pulsating sinusoidal pressure on the surface of the earth which generates seismic waves that propagate through the earth as is required in seismic operations.
The output of an accelerometer sensor 51 fastened to the baseplate 48 so as to be responsive to the output of the vibrator is doubly integrated in 52, so that the output analog signal on line 53 is substantially a measure of the alternating displacement of the baseplate, except that it may have harmonics due to the operation of the vibrator. The signal on lead 53 goes to analog-to-digital converter 54 which outputs to comparator 60 a digital signal 59, representing the baseplate displacement amplitude.
The reference sweep signal on 28 also goes to phase comparator 60, where the phase of the two signals is compared, and appropriate signals are sent to the frequency ratio control 30 and then to the second counter 32, to alter the phase of the drive sweep signal whenever the baseplate signal and the reference sweep signal are not in phase.
In lead 34, which carries the digital drive sweep signal, there is a digital multiplier 36. As is well known, in seismic vibrator systems the drive sweep, which is a sinusoidal varying-frequency, long-duration signal, is normally tapered at its beginning and ending portions. This taper involves gradually increasing the amplitude at the start of the sweep from zero to a maximum constant value, and during a corresponding period at the end of the sweep, similarly reducing the amplitude from its constant value down to zero. These tapers can be set for varying rates of increase and decrease.
In this embodiment, on a second track of the magnetic tape in the cassette reader 18 there is a control signal sent by line 41 to a counter in a taper control box 42. Pulses of the cassette properly timed with the pulses going out on line 22, control the counter in box 42 to provide an output digital number on line 44 which increases with time in the selected manner from 0 to 1. As this digital number on line 44 is a second input to the multiplier 36, it acts to control the amplitude of the sine wave outputting on line 40 in accordance with the selected taper, at the beginning and the end of the sweep.
This is a complete description of the system in FIG. 1 except for the control of the cassette reader 18 by a radio-transmitted signal which is received by antenna 16 to the radio receiver 15. This provides a start signal on line 14 to the cassette reader to start reading-out the prerecorded values.
Referring now to FIG. 2, there is shown in a simple schematic manner the operation of the read-only memory 26. Consider a type of electromechanical contactor in which a movable contact 72 is rotated about axis 73, and is sequentially stepped from one to another of the terminals numbered 70A, 70B, 70C, 70D, . . . 70N. There is also a second rotating contact 74 which may be contacting the same contacts (or may be in a separate apparatus synchronized or driven by the same signals as the contact 72). Associated with each of the contacts 70 is a digital number which, when the rotating contact 72 contacts that terminal, the number than appears on the lead 28 or 34, as appropriate. Consequently, as the counters 24 or 32 continually increment, they step the contacts 72 and 74 from one terminal to the other in accordance with arrow 76.
One of these contacts 72 runs at the speed of the pulses on the line 22 from the cassette reader. The other, contactor 74 while it nominally operates in synchronism with the first contact 72, has a further frequency ratio control means 30, which causes it to step faster or slower as required in order to maintain a selected angle 75 in advance of 72. This advance is an amount of phase lead, which equals the phase lag normal to the vibrator at each value of frequency.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is shown in considerably greater detail certain parts of the apparatus of FIG. 1. The corresponding parts are indicated by the same numerals, such as, for example, the antenna 16, the radio receiver 15, the incoming signal line 14, the cassette reader 18, read-only memory 26, etc. The dashed-line box labeled 42 provides details for the box 42 of FIG. 1. Similarly, the dashed-line box 60 provides further details of the phase comparator 60 of FIG. 1, while box 30 shows details of the frequency ratio control 30.
Consider the box 60 in comparison with the corresponding box 60 of FIG. 1. As in FIG. 1, the signal from the integrator of the sensor output on line 53 goes to the analog-to-digital converter 54 which has an output on line 59 to the box 60. It goes inside the box to a digital filter 102. Correspondingly, the reference sweep signal on line 28 goes into the box 60 and to the digital filter 100. These two filters are identical in their operation and, to the extent that they eliminate harmonics, provide two signals outputting on lines 106 and 108 which carry the phase information of the reference sweep signal and the baseplate output signal. These two signals on leads 106 and 108 go to a polarity detector 110 where they are converted to square waves, and the times of zero crossing of the two signals are compared to determine what the relative phase of the signals is at the moment. One signal outputs on line 62, and by its polarity indicates, by a logical 1 or a logical 0, whether the reference signal leads the baseplate signal or vice versa. The other output of the polarity detector 110 on lead 64 provides a logical 1 during the time between the zero crossings, and is a measure of the lag of the baseplate signal behind the reference signal.
The pulses on line 22, of a frequency which corresponds to the digitizing interval of the digital signals on the output line 28 to the reference sweep are carried by line 56 to control the analog-to-digital converter 54 over lead 58, and over lead 57 and leads 103 and 104 to control the shifting of the digital values on the input of the filters 100 and 102, through the filters and into the polarity detector 110.
Referring to the frequency ratio control box 30, this is a complex circuit controlled by the polarity detector 110 to drive the second address counter 32 and cause a signal to be outputted on line 34 to provide the drive sweep signal 40. The pulses leaving the cassette reader 18 on line 140 go through a divide-by-8 counter 152 to line 22, line 25, and the reference address counter 24. There are two other counters connected to reader 18 by leads 140A and 140B, namely a divide-by-6 counter 154, and a divide-by-10 counter 156. The divide-by-8 counter goes by leads 22 and 25 to the reference address counter 24. It also goes by lead 29 to an AND gate 136, the output of which goes through lead 31 to the drive address counter 32. The divide-by-6 counter 154 goes by lead 29A to the AND gate 138, and counter 156 goes by lead 29B to AND gate 140. The outputs of all three gates to go the lead 31 and the drive address counter 32. There are other inputs to the three gates, but mainly the pulses which go to the drive counter 32 will be identical to those going to the reference address counter 24 if the gate 136 is enabled. The pulses to 32 will be faster if the gate 138 is enabled, and they will be slower if the gate 140 is enabled.
The control of which gate is enabled is responsive to the output of the polarity detector on the leads 62 and 64. Lead 62, which is labeled reference lead signal, puts out a logical 0 when the reference signal leads the sensor signal, and in that case, going by lead 62B and the inverter 144, there is a logical 1 signal on lead 142 which enables the gate 138 to put a more rapid pulse drive on the address counter 32, and therefore cause the drive sweep to advance in phase with respect to the reference sweep. On the other hand, if the reference sweep lags, the opposite is true and a logical 1 on leads 62 and 62A enables the gate 140 and causes the phase of the drive sweep to decrease.
A further control of the gates 136, 138, 140 comes from the up-down counter 120, the output of which on leads 128 goes to an OR gate 130 which connects through leads 132, 132B and 132C to the gates 138 and 140 respectively, and by lead 132A to an inverter 134 and to the gate 136. The control on lead 64 goes to enable one or the other of gates 126 or 121. Gate 121 carries a drive signal from the clock 19 to the up terminal of the up-down counter 120, while gate 126 carries the clock signal divided by 4 (in the counter 122, and lead 123) to the down terminal of the up-down counter. The signal on line 64 is in the form of a logical 1 that measures the amount of lag between the reference sweep and the sensor signal, and this then controls the up or the down count of the counter 120. The output of the counter is on a plurality of leads, some of which are logical 0 and some of which are logical 1 at any instant. If the counter is in the middle of its count, the center lead will be a logical 0 and, consequently, the output of the OR gate 130 on lead 132 will be a logical 0 and the signal out of the inverter 134 will be a logical 1 which will enable gate 136 and will cause the drive address counter to receive the same pulse rate that the reference address counter 24 receives, and so the two digital signals outputted on leads 28 and 34 will advance in phase at an equal rate. This is the condition that applies during most of the operation. On the other hand, if the counter is down or up from the nominal value, then a positive or logical 1 signal will be outputted on lead 132 and will enable both gates 138 and 140, and depending on whether the reference leads or lags the sensor signal, one or the other of gates 138 or 140 will be further enabled to apply a faster or a slower pulse rate to the address counter.
In this way, the phases of the reference signal on lead 28 and of the sensor signal on lead 59 are compared in phase and the drive address counter 32 is controlled in such a way that the drive sweep signal on 34 will be varied in phase to a greater or a lesser angle with respect to the phase of the reference signal on 28 to bring the comparison of the reference and sensor signals back to the selected phase angle of 0.
The box labeled 42 includes a monostable multivibrator 148 which controls the up-down counter 150 to read up, or to read down. The rate at which the counter operates depends on the signal to it on the lead 41B, which is derived from the signal on lead 41 from the cassette reader 18. In other words, at the start of the sweep the counter is set at its minimum value, or maximum down count, and at the time the cassette starts and pulses are applied to the counters, the multivibrator 148 is switched on. That starts the count up, and the pulses that follow increment the counter up. Its output in digital numbers goes continuously by lead 44 to the digital multiplier 36. These numbers which are fractional numbers, multiply the digital values which have been derived from the read-only memory. After the digital signals are converted to analog in the box 38, the drive sweep will be a sinusoidal signal of increasing amplitude at the beginning of the sweep, to a maximum value, at which time the counter 150 will be in its maximum point and thereafter the pulses in line 41 will stop. Near the end of the sweep, when it is desired to taper the amplitude downward, the monostable multivibrator 148 having been reset by itself, will now control the counter to count down. As the pulses start, the counter will count down from 1 to 0, and the corresponding amplitudes of the drive sweep will be reduced correspondingly to zero.
Referring now to FIG. 4, consider the dashed outline 42 which includes apparatus which in effect duplicates that of box 42 of FIG. 3 and provides an electronic means for generating the digital fractional numbers which are supplied to the digital multiplier 36 by the lead 44 in order to taper the amplitude of the drive sweep at the beginning and end of the sweep.
There are three counters 170, 172, 174. The first counter 170 is preset by a control 162 which is TD the time duration of the sweep. The third counter 174 is preset by a control 164 labeled TL which is the time duration of the length of the taper. These outputs on lead 166 to the counter 170 and on lead 168 to the counter 174, also go by leads 166B and 168B to the third counter 172 which is preset to a value of count or time equal to the total duration of the sweep minus the duration of the taper. The three counters have output leads. The outputs of counter 172 on lead 187 goes to AND gate 176 and the output of counter 174 goes by lead 188 to AND gate 178. The master clock 184 puts out a signal on lead 186 that goes to each of the three counters and to each of the two AND gates. The outputs of the AND gates go by lead 181 to read-down control on a read-only memory 180, and the gate 178 has an output on lead 182 that goes to the read-up control of read-only memory 180.
At the start, the clock pulses going by lead 186B to counter 174 go out on lead 188 to the gate 178. Also the clock output on 186D goes to the gate 178 so that each pulse of the clock then has an output on lead 182 to the read-up control. Thus the read-only memory 180 will read up from its minimum position to successively higher values. At each successive value a digital word is outputted on line 44 which represents a fraction between 0 and 1, which goes to the digital multiplier 36 which has been previously described. By this means, the counter 174 will continue the read-up operation until it reaches its maximum preset value and stops counting. Consequently, the gate 178 is disabled and thereafter there is no output on lead 182.
At the same time, the clock pulses go to the counter 170 which runs for the complete duration of the sweep, and that puts the clock pulses on an output line 190 which goes into box 18, which will be described presently. When the count reaches the total duration of the sweep minus the taper length, then the counter 172 begins to operate and puts out clock pulses on lead 187 while the clock itself puts out pulses on lead 186F to the gate 176, and the read-only memory then starts to read down, due to the pulses on lead 181. These corresponding digital words in storage are then carried by lead 44 to the digital multiplier as before. In this way the proper digital control of the taper of the sweep is effected.
Referring now to the FIG. 4 and the large box enclosed by the dashed line 18, this apparatus comprises a digital means for generating a series of pulses of a selected frequency, or period between each pulse, which is outputted on lead 22, which corresponds to that which is the output of the cassette reader 18 on lead 22.
Consider an adder 216 that has three inputs. One input on lead 198 comes from an input control 192 which represents a certain constant digital number, A. The control 194 represents a second constant number, B, and the control 196 represents a third constant number, C. There are multipliers 204, 206 and 208, and the manner of connection which will be described is set to mechanize an equation of the form: Frequency=A+Bt+Ct2. In this way, a frequency will be generated which can vary in a preselected manner as a function of time.
The clock signal on lead 190 goes to a multiplier 204 on lead 190A, the other input of which is a digital word outputted from the control 194 by lead 200. The output of the multiplier 204 on lead 210 then provides a continually changing digital word which is equal to the product Bt.
The clock output on leads 190B and 190C go as two inputs to a multiplier 206, the output of which on lead 212 is proportional to t2, and this goes as one input to multiplier 208, the other input of which is the digital word from control 196 over line 202 representing the constant C. The output on lead 214 then is a digital word equal to Ct2. The total count of adder 216 is then proportional to the frequency, as given by the previous equation.
The master clock 184 puts out its signal also on lead 186A, which goes to a phase detector 224. The output of the phase detector is filtered in the low-pass filter 226 and a dc voltage output of the filter controls the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) 228 to put out a frequency on lead 230 which is proportional to the voltage input. There is feedback from line 230, by means of line 232, to a �N counter 222 which has an output lead 234 which goes to the phase detector. Consequently, the phase detector creates a voltage output which is a function of the phase difference between its two input signals on 186A from the clock, and 234 from the counter 222. In other words, when the frequency on line 230 reaches a value of N times the frequency of the clock on lead 186A, there will be phase lock in that loop and the frequency output on line 230 will be constant, and N times the input frequency from the clock. By changing the value of N, it is possible to vary the frequency at the line 230 in proportion to N.
Beyond the line 230 there is a second counter 236 which is arranged to divide by a factor M, to output a frequency on line 22 which is a function of N divided by M, times the clock frequency. By choosing selected values of N and M, it is possible to provide any desired frequency at lead 22 in terms of the constant clock frequency on line 186A.
The values of N and M are derived from the adder 216, and these values change proportional to the total count in the adder, so that as a function of time the frequency of the signal on line 22 will be proportional to the total output of the adder at any time which is proportional to the frequency in accordance with the equation previously stated.
In review, a frequency function is decided on and is mechanized by means of three constants A, B and C and a continuously increasing pulse count, representing time. All of these are added in an adder, the total count of which is proportional to the desired frequency. There is a phase locked loop comprising the phase detector 224, the voltage controlled oscillator 228, and the counter 222 in feedback, and a further countdown by counter 236, to provide a frequency signal on the line 22 which is a function of the clock frequency times N/M. The numbers N and M are derived as a function of the total count of the adder 216 and therefore control the output of the phase-locked loop on lead 22 as a function of the defined frequency.
What has been shown is a novel system for digitally creating two sweep signals which are sinusoidal signals of varying frequency. The phase of the drive sweep is modified in terms of the phase of the reference sweep by choosing the particular rates of frequency signals applied to two counters, one of which is a constant frequency and the other is a variable frequency, the value of which is obtained from the constant frequency by ratio modification, controlled by a phase comparator, the output of which is a function of the phase angle between a reference sweep and the phase of the displacement of the baseplate motion.
The computation of the sinusoidal signals is by digital read-only memory, and the frequency of the output is responsive to the frequency at which impulses are provided to counters which control the readout from the memory.
In one embodiment, the pulses which control the read-only memory are derived from a prerecorded magnetic tape. In another embodiment, they are obtained from a logic circuit that calculates frequency in response to an equation A+Bt+Ct2. The total count of the adder then is proportional to the frequency selected. The counter then provides signals to a �N counter and a �M counter, which control a phaselocked loop to provide an output frequency which is a function of the equation. This frequency then can be substituted for the recorded pulse train in the cassette, and can go to operate the first and second counters which control the readout from the read-only memory.
Also, means are provided for tapering the beginning and terminal ends of the drive sweep, and this is done by means of a digital multiplier and a series of digital words provided by a counter which is constantly incremented or by a read-only memory which is read out progressively as a function of time.
While this invention has been described in terms of a specific driven system, namely an electrohydraulic vibrator such as is used in seismic exploration, this is done simply for convenience and provides no limitation as to the application of the apparatus described. This is solely for convenience and provides an ideal application for the apparatus.
This apparatus is novel in a number of respects, particularly in the use of a read-only memory which, by addressing from two separate counters, provides simultaneously two digital sweep signals. It also is novel in the manner of generating the digital sweep signal by the use of a pulse train of varying frequency, the pulse train being derived either from a prerecorded tape or by a digital logic circuit as described. It is novel also in the use of digital filters in each of the two lines, namely, the lines carrying the reference sweep signal and the sensor signal, to insure that the two signals are free of extraneous harmonics which might affect the phase comparison. It is novel also in the manner in which the phase comparison controls the rate of the second counter which produces the drive sweep, by the use of a circuit which in effect provides a variable frequency ratio control.
While there have been a number of elements in the circuits which have been described in terms of their character, such as a read-only memory, adders, multipliers, clocks, preset counters, voltage-controlled oscillator, phase detector, dividing counters, etc., all of these are commercial devices which are available on the market and are fully described in catalogs and in textbooks, and therefore require no further detailed explanations.
While the invention has been described with a certain degree of particularity, it is manifest that many changes may be made in the details of construction and the arrangement of components. It is understood that the invention is not to be limited to the specific language used or the specific embodiment set forth herein by way of exemplifying the invention, but the invention is to be limited only by the scope of the attached claim or claims, including the full range of equivalency to which each element or step thereof is entitled.
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Today, I spent all day at the hospital with my grandma for some tests. When I drove her back home she decided to thank me with $50. Knowing she is unemployed, I told her I couldn't take a whole $50. She replied with "Ungrateful, just like your mother", then took the money and left. FML
by Anonymous / 09/08/2009 at 9:22pm / United States (Washington) / Miscellaneous
- 1Today, my fiancé and I had to attend a wedding. Problem is, I suffer from a severe form of social… 2Today, I bought a friendship bracelet. I'm not sure what's sadder, the fact that I don't actually… 3Today, I went downstairs completely naked to get water, completely forgetting that my daughter had…