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A gentle trip down memory lane sees Bennett back at his best
"You don't put yourself into what you write, you find yourself there." It's a maxim that has guided a writing career that, insect-like, has made itself at home among the lived detritus of autobiography and memoir. In Alan Bennett's 2001 Hymn and his latest short-play Cocktail Sticks the author sets out in search of himself once more, finding on his quest not only his own history but that of a generation and an age at an ever-increasing remove from our own. It could be cosy, it could easily be glib, but for the most part it's just funny, and terribly, terribly poignant.
To anyone familiar with Bennett's writing the story of the young Alan's upbringing in wartime Leeds, of his relationship with his butcher father and socially aspiring mother, is well-worn ground. Cocktail Sticks deliberately treads in the footsteps of Bennett's 2010 memoir A Life Like Other People's, and Hymn doesn't wander too far from its themes either. But somehow this gentle pairing of fragments – a set of variations on a theme – coalesce into a clear-sighted picture, perfect for the Sunday afternoon slots that the National Theatre has scheduled.
Echoes and repetitions are built into the visual fabric of the plays, staged here by Nicholas Hytner and designer Bob Crowley among the dust-sheet-covered sets for Bennett's current play People. The tentative occupation of Hymn (just an armchair, a wireless and a string quartet) gives way to the more sprawling clutter of Cocktail Sticks as the author's fiction and dramatic fantasy co-exist in a quietly contested space.
Featuring both music and words in its playtext, Hymn was originally a commission from the Medici Quartet to composer George Fenton. He invited his long-time collaborator Bennett to join him, and the two created a homage to that very particular spirit and sense of Englishness that lives between the wax-crusted pages of Hymns Ancient and Modern – the "weightless baggage carried down the years."
Fenton (best-known for his music for Gandhi and The Madness of King George) is a chameleon, never happier than speaking in someone else's musical voice. Here he flits between the accents of César Franck, Delius, Frank Bridge and even a palm court orchestra, quoting from Elgar's mighty oratorio The Dream of Gerontius and of course from the great English hymn tunes that score Bennett's childhood. Members of the Southbank Sinfonia evoke attempted violin lessons from Bennett's father and also his brief flirtation with the double-bass, supporting and occasionally dominating a narrative that slips associatively between word and music.
The prose, as ever, is wickedly precise, whether it's a description of Bennett's reverent fascination for his father's violin, or the experience of a symphony heard from above the bass section – "like watching a circus from behind the elephant." Alex Jennings (pictured above with Derek Hutchinson) is uncanny as Bennett (it helps that he's a dead ringer for him), complete with sloping shoulders, apologetic stance and of course the laconic burr of his Leeds accent. It's a performance whose mimickry is so exact as to lose its actor in his subject, and continues seamlessly into Cocktail Sticks, which unites Bennett in conversation with his now-dead parents.
Gabrielle Lloyd (pictured left with Jeff Rawle) is all fragile hope and weathered acceptance as Mam, yielding some of Bennett's finest comedic writing over her yearnings for those social symbols of avocado pears, artichokes, and of course the oft-imagined cocktail parties. There's a tender bit of business over her handbag and of course her depression: "an illness to which she wasn't socially entitled." Jeff Rawle's Dad is bluffly affectionate, and Bennett's afterlife frame neatly gets around the bald reality of his conversation. Furtive gropings in a cinema, day-trips to Morecambe, Bennett's national service and visits to him at Oxford all come in for scrutiny, as Bennett unpacks the real writerly tragedy of what happens when your mum and dad don't fuck you up, leaving you banal and well-adjusted, with less than your share of "dramas and disappointments".
Such banality has proved rich material indeed for Bennett over the years, and judging by the keen observations and cruelties of Cocktail Sticks hasn't been exhausted yet. The pain and truth are so muddled in with the tea-and-cake, have-another-psalm English nostalgia that even as you flinch at one you find yourself swaddled in the flannel embrace of the other. It's delicate, precision work, and no one does it better than Bennett.
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Once again, Australia had a little too much skill and nous when it mattered in the World T20 semi-final, from the batting of Alyssa Healy, captaincy of Meg Lanning and spin of Erin Osborne
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It takes a lot to get past Australia. It always does. West Indies appeared to have twice given themselves a handle on this semi-final, with ball and then bat, only for the green-and-gold tractor beam to latch on again. Erin Osborne was the Player of the Match but Meg Lanning's captaincy and Alyssa Healy's sprightly intervention were just as decisive.
Osborne sheepishly accepted the plaudits, after bowling her best spell of the tournament and taking the catch to dismiss Deandra Dottin, the batsman who West Indies hoped would muscle the holders out. Just as Dottin was threatening to unleash, Osborne returned in the 15th over to put the brakes on sharper than a CNG thundering into a traffic jam. She held her nerve in the 18th, after Stacy-Ann King hit her third ball for six - the over only cost nine - and then again when Dottin picked her out on the boundary in the following over.
The wicket was also a fillip for Lanning and Sarah Coyte, whose pace had helped West Indies to four boundaries from her previous three overs. When it mattered, she bowled full and straight and Dottin could not connect with the swingeing blow required to clear the boundary.
Australia's phalanx of quicks, the pressure front of their attack, all went at seven an over or more, a rate that would have seen West Indies home. Lanning reeled off the changes, attempting to destabilise the partnership between Dottin and King and it was the suffocating accuracy of Osborne and Jess Jonassen that made a crucial difference.
"Personally I didn't feel the extra pressure, throughout the tournament I think Jess and the quicks have been carrying me, so it was probably my turn to step up and do the job," Osborne said. "That's T20 cricket, you'll have some players go the distance and others do really well so I think as a whole we were quite happy with how we bowled today."
Having spent the group stage up in Sylhet, where pace and swing - as well as the distracting fluttering of moths - played a bigger factor, Osborne and Jonassen will have the chance to do more than just contain, although that is their primary role in this Australia side. Lisa Sthalekar, the former Australia offspinning allrounder with more than 200 wickets to her name, has been with the team in Bangladesh as a coaching assistant and Osborne credited her for an improved performance after being the team's most expensive bowler.
"I'm very grateful to have her here," Osborne said. "For me it's been wonderful, I've been having my own battles leading up to this match and to have her and just go through everything, it's definitely helped me out today and I finally felt I was able to contribute to this team the way I should have been doing.
"I think Sylhet was a little bit quicker pitch, the ground was just as fast, a little bit bumpy, we had some challenges with all the moths there as well, which made it quite interesting dealing with those every night. The pitch out here is a little bit slower and more spin friendly, so that was a bit of a challenge but I thought our batters did well to adapt to the conditions. The dimensions of this ground are quite big, whereas if Dottin hit that in Sylhet it would have sailed over my head. So fortunate for us it's a bigger boundary."
The women's game had none of the needle that crept into the men's clash between West Indies and Australia - Merissa Aguilera was present at Osborne's press conference to laugh along with a shared story about misplaced sledging - but Healy's aggression was noticeable during a hard-running and ultimately decisive 30 off 21 balls after Australia were an inauspicious 92 for 5 with less than five overs remaining.
Healy had been opening for Australia, a problem position for them, but here dropped to No. 7 and provided a blast of southern sunshine at the back of the innings. Jonassen was promoted to open for the first time in her career - an experiment with limited success - and Healy's verve helped carry Australia into their third successive World T20 final.
"That innings was crucial," Osborne said. "We were struggling, going only at a run a ball and at that stage it looked like we were only going to post 130, if we were lucky. But she came in and played the way we know she can, she's done it so often for us at New South Wales and for Australia at the top of the order. I think it was actually useful having her bat a bit lower for us today and come in and play that explosive innings, it was exactly what we needed. We all knew she had it in her and could achieve that and I'm so pleased for her."
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Sheree Black's son Cameron was just 14 weeks old when he was murdered in 2008 by his father Ryan Leslie, who is now serving a minimum of 17 years behind bars for the crime.
Cameron's death was just one incident investigated by Queen's University and the NSPCC in a first of its kind review of child protection issues in the region.
The report hopes to provide better safeguards for children who are at risk by finding out how they can be protected as early as possible.
It found a total of 2,127 children were listed as being at risk last year, compared to 1,805 during 2007.
Nearly 36,000 recommendations were made referring around 28,000 children to Health and Social Care Trusts, but the majority of these children were never in danger of death or serious injury.
It also found the number of children dying as a result of abuse and neglect decreased dramatically because of a strong child protection system.
A team led by Dr John Devaney from Queen's University investigated 24 case reviews that involved the death or serious injury of a child between 2003 and 2008.
We get involved earlier and stay involved for longer so that the improvements that many families do make when they get the right support, are sustained in the longer term.Dr Devaney
We get involved earlier and stay involved for longer so that the improvements that many families do make when they get the right support, are sustained in the longer term.
Dr Devaney
That included the death of four children because of physical or sexual assault, six infants who died unexpectedly for which there was no cause established and eight young people who died by suicide or accident.
The majority of the children subject to a review were living in families where parents were experiencing difficulties with their mental health, alongside misuse of alcohol or drugs, and domestic violence.
"These adult difficulties reduced the capacity of parents to meet their child's needs, and often resulted in children being exposed to risks as a result of lack of care and supervision, a chaotic family lifestyle and inappropriate physical and sexual behaviour towards children by adults," said the review.
Sheree Black said how her son's case was reviewed means Cameron's legacy lives on.
"It's helpful to know that his case is going to maybe prevent things like this happening in the future with other children," she told UTV.
It's good to know that Cameron is helping others even though he's not here.Sheree Black
It's good to know that Cameron is helping others even though he's not here.
Sheree Black
Dr Devaney said it is encouraging to know that over the past 40 years child deaths from all causes, including neglect and abuse have decreased dramatically from 600 down to around 200.
"Whilst we can never rule out that some children may die because of a lack of care provided by their family or parents, what we were able to indentify in the report is that we have a better chance of providing greater support to families if we get involved at an earlier stage," he explained.
Dr Devaney said some failures in child protection were occurring when services dealt with adults in isolation of their wider family circumstances.
Health Minister Edwin Poots said the review provides "invaluable learning" for the protection and safeguarding of children and Northern Ireland.
"The rate of non-accidental child deaths continues to fall. In my view, a strong child protection system has contributed positively to this reduction in numbers - and we owe it to future generations to continue to do what we do well, and to strengthen the system where it transpires we need to."
The review deemed another important step forward for protecting children was the creation of the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (SBNI) in September last year.
The independently chaired board promotes co-ordination in the protection and safeguarding of children across the health, social care, education, justice, voluntary and community sectors.
Case management reviews are now a function of the SBNI and required by law for the first time in Northern Ireland.
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Bad Boy Records CEO Diddy is letting his fans know he is still on his two feet after getting involved in a nasty two-vehicle wreck yesterday (October 24) in Los Angeles.
Although brief, Diddy acknowledged the seriousness of yesterday's accident.
"Woah…that was a close one! http://instagr.am/p/RNMmFxJl3K/," Puffy tweeted Thursday (October 25) morning with an attached photo link which also featured the same message. (Diddy's Twitter)
Puffy made national headlines after Wednesday afternoon's car wreck.
Entertainment impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs was injured in a two-car traffic accident in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, police said Wednesday. Combs, who complained of unspecified pain, told authorities he would "seek his own medical attention," police said. (Los Angeles Times)
While Puff did not sit in the driver's seat, he still got treated for a serious injury.
His chauffeured Cadillac Escalade was involved in a smash up with a Lexus RX outside the Beverly Hills Hotel at lunchtime on Wednesday and an ambulance was called to the scene. According to X17online.com, hotel employees rushed to assist Diddy, his driver and a second passenger – and the rap entrepreneur was briefly spotted lying on the lawn in front of the hotel. (SF Gate)
Police authorities also confirmed this all went down Wednesday afternoon.
Sean "Diddy" Combs was a passenger in an SUV that was hit by another car in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel, but the hip-hop and fashion mogul was not taken to a hospital. Beverly Hills police Lt. Lincoln Hoshino said Combs was riding in a Cadillac Escalade on Sunset Boulevard when a Lexus sedan turned left in front of it, and the vehicles collided. Hoshino says Combs complained of pain, but said he would seek his own medical attention. No one from either vehicle was hospitalized. (Fox News)


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A method and apparatus to deactivate an EAS security tag are described.
1. A method comprising:
applying a rectified alternating current (AC) input voltage to a coil in parallel to a high voltage capacitor;
generating a first signal to represent zero-crossings for said AC input voltage;
determining a zero-crossing period using said first signal;
retrieving a dwell time using said zero-crossing period;
generating a second signal using said first signal and said dwell time; and
creating a magnetic field using said coil and high voltage capacitor to deactivate an electronic article surveillance (EAS) in accordance with said second signal.
2. The method of
3. The method of
retrieving a zero-crossing from said first signal;
measuring a time interval between said zero-crossing and said dwell time; and
generating said second signal to indicate an end of said time interval.
4. The method of
5. The method of
6. The method of
7. The method of
8. The method of
detecting said EAS marker; and
sending a detection signal to a zero-crossing detector.
9. An apparatus, comprising:
a zero-crossing circuit to detect zero-crossings of an alternating current (AC) input voltage waveform, and generate a first signal to represent said zero-crossings;
a processor to connect to said zero-crossing circuit, said processor to receive said first signal and retrieve a dwell time based on said first signal, and to generate a second signal using said first signal and said dwell time; and
a coil circuit to connect to said processor, said coil circuit to receive said second signal and create a magnetic field to deactivate an electronic article surveillance (EAS) marker.
10. The apparatus of
an AC voltage source to generate said AC input voltage;
a rectifier to couple to said AC voltage source and convert said AC input voltage to a direct current (DC) input voltage;
a coil to couple to said rectifier;
a high voltage capacitor in parallel with said coil; and
a switch to couple to said coil and receive said second signal, said switch to remove said DC input voltage from said coil in response to said second signal.
11. The apparatus of
12. The apparatus of
13. The apparatus of
14. The apparatus of
15. The apparatus of
16. The apparatus of
17. The apparatus of
18. The apparatus of
19. An article comprising:
a storage medium;
said storage medium including stored instructions that, when executed by a processor, result in determining a zero-crossing period using a first signal to represent zero-crossings from an alternating current (AC) input voltage waveform, retrieving a dwell time using said zero-crossing period, generating a second signal using said first signal and said dwell period, and sending said second signal to a coil circuit to create a magnetic field to deactivate an electronic article surveillance (EAS) marker.
20. The article of
21. An electronic article surveillance deactivator, comprising:
a zero-crossing circuit to detect zero-crossings of an alternating current (AC) input voltage waveform, and generate a first signal to represent said zero-crossings;
a processor to retrieve a dwell time, and generate a second signal using said first signal and said dwell time; and
a coil circuit to use said second signal to deactivate an electronic article surveillance (EAS) marker using inductive discharge of said AC input voltage.
22. The deactivator of
an AC voltage source to generate said AC input voltage;
a rectifier to couple to said AC voltage source and convert said AC input voltage to a direct current (DC) input voltage;
a coil to couple to said rectifier;
a high voltage capacitor in parallel with said coil; and
a switch to couple to said coil and receive said second signal, said switch to remove said DC input voltage from said coil in response to said second signal.
23. The apparatus of
An Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) system is designed to prevent unauthorized removal of an item from a controlled area. A typical EAS system may comprise a monitoring system and one or more security tags. The monitoring system may create an interrogation zone at an access point for the controlled area. A security tag may be fastened to an item, such as an article of clothing. If the tagged item enters the interrogation zone, an alarm may be triggered indicating unauthorized removal of the tagged item from the controlled area.
When a customer presents an article for payment at a checkout counter, a checkout clerk either removes the security tag from the article, or deactivates the security tag using a deactivation device. In the latter case, improvements in the deactivation device may facilitate the deactivation operation, thereby increasing convenience to both the customer and clerk. Consequently, there may be need for improvements in deactivating techniques in an EAS system.
The subject matter regarded as the embodiments is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. The embodiments, however, both as to organization and method of operation, together with objects, features, and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following detailed description when read with the accompanying drawings in which:
Numerous specific details may be set forth herein to provide a thorough understanding of the embodiments of the invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art, however, that the embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures, components and circuits have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the embodiments of the invention. It can be appreciated that the specific structural and functional details disclosed herein may be representative and do not necessarily limit the scope of the invention.
It is worthy to note that any reference in the specification to �one embodiment� or �an embodiment� means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. The appearances of the phrase �in one embodiment� in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
One embodiment of the invention may be directed to a deactivator for an EAS system. The deactivator may be used to deactivate an EAS security tag using inductive discharge. The security tag may comprise, for example, an EAS marker encased within a hard or soft outer shell. The deactivator may create a magnetic field using inductive discharge of an energized coil to deactivate the marker. Once deactivated, the EAS security tag may pass through the interrogation zone without triggering an alarm. The deactivator may be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 1.
Referring now in detail to the drawings wherein like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout, there is illustrated in
In one embodiment, deactivator 100 may comprise a zero-crossing circuit 106 connected to a processor 102 via line 114. Processor 102 may be connected to a coil circuit 110 via line 120, and memory 104 via line 112. Marker detector 108 may be connected to coil circuit 110 via line 120. Although a limited number of nodes are shown in
In one embodiment, deactivator 100 may comprise marker detector 108. Marker detector 108 may comprise transmit/receive coils and associated processing circuitry to detect the presence of an EAS marker for an EAS security tag. Alternatively, marker detector 108 may also be part of coil circuit 110. Once detector 108 detects the presence of an EAS marker, it may send a signal to zero-crossing circuit 106 via line 116 to initiate the deactivation operation to deactivate the EAS marker, thereby rendering it undetectable by the EAS detection equipment when passing through the interrogation zone.
In one embodiment, deactivator 100 may comprise a zero-crossing circuit 106. Zero-crossing detector 106 may monitor an alternating current (AC) input voltage waveform provided to coil circuit 110. Zero-crossing detector 106 may produce a pulse at each transition of the AC input voltage waveform (�zero-crossing�). The transition may be either from positive to negative or from negative to positive. Zero-crossing detector 106 may output a signal comprising a train of pulses via line 114 to processor 102, with each pulse representing a zero-crossing of the AC input voltage waveform.
In one embodiment, deactivator 100 may comprise a processor 102 and memory 104. The type of processor may vary in accordance with any number of factors, such as desired computational rate, power levels, heat tolerances, processing cycle budget, input data rates, output data rates, memory resources, data bus speeds and other performance constraints. For example, the processor may be a general-purpose or dedicated processor, such as a processor made by Intel� Corporation, for example. Processor 102 may execute software. The software may comprise computer program code segments, programming logic, instructions or data. The software may be stored on a medium accessible by a machine, computer or other processing system, such as memory 104. Memory 104 may comprise any computer-readable mediums, such as read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), Programmable ROM (PROM), Erasable PROM (EPROM), magnetic disk, optical disk, and so forth. In one embodiment, the medium may store programming instructions in a compressed and/or encrypted format, as well as instructions that may have to be compiled or installed by an installer before being executed by the processor. In another example, the functions performed by processor 102 may also be implemented as dedicated hardware, such as an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Programmable Logic Device (PLD) or Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and accompanying hardware structures. In yet another example, the functions performed by processor 102 may be implemented by any combination of programmed general-purpose computer components and custom hardware components. The embodiments are not limited in this context.
In one embodiment, processor 102 may generate a timing signal to provide timing information to coil circuit 110. In one embodiment, processor 102 may receive the zero-crossing signal from zero-crossing detector 106. Processor 102 may use the zero-crossing signal to determine a reference time. The reference time may comprise the leading edge or falling edge of a pulse in the zero-crossing signal. Processor 102 may use the reference time to interpolate a zero-crossing period for the AC input voltage waveform. For example, the zero-crossing period for an AC input voltage waveform typically used in the United States may correspond to approximately 60 Hertz (Hz). In another example, the zero-crossing period for an AC input voltage waveform typically used in Europe may correspond to approximately 50 Hz. Once processor 102 determines the zero-crossing period, processor 102 may retrieve a dwell time corresponding to the zero-crossing period. The dwell time may be predetermined and stored as part of a timing table in memory 104 and retrieved via line 112. The dwell time may also be calculated by processor 102 during run time using the appropriate equations. Processor 102 may use the retrieved dwell time and zero-crossings to generate a timing signal for coil circuit 110. The dwell time and timing signal may be described in more detail with reference to
In one embodiment, deactivator 100 may comprise coil circuit 110. Coil circuit 110 may receive the timing signals from processor 102. Coil circuit 110 may energize one or more coils by applying the AC input voltage. The AC input voltage may be removed in accordance with the timing signals. The release of stored energy in the coil may generate a magnetic field having an amplitude profile sufficient to deactivate or render inactive an EAS marker for an EAS security tag. The term �amplitude profile� may refer to the peak amplitudes of a waveform over a given time interval.
In one embodiment, for example, coil circuit 110 may generate a magnetic field having an amplitude profile sufficient to deactivate a �magneto-mechanical� EAS marker. Magneto-mechanical EAS markers may include an active element and a bias element. When the bias element is magnetized in a certain manner, the resulting bias magnetic field applied to the active element causes the active element to be mechanically resonant at a predetermined frequency upon exposure to an interrogation signal which alternates at the predetermined frequency. The EAS detection equipment used with this type of EAS marker generates the interrogation signal and then detects the resonance of the EAS marker induced by the interrogation signal. To deactivate the magneto-mechanical EAS markers, the bias element may be degaussed by exposing the bias element to an alternating magnetic field that has an initial magnitude that is greater than the coercivity of the bias element, and then decays to zero over a time interval. After the bias element is degaussed, the EAS marker's resonant frequency is substantially shifted from the predetermined interrogation signal frequency, and the EAS marker's response to the interrogation signal is at too low an amplitude for detection by the detecting apparatus.
In one embodiment, coil circuit 110 may generate the desired magnetic field while reducing the high voltage capacitor. High voltage capacitors are typically a significant percentage of the deactivator size and cost. Capacitor size and cost is proportional to the capacitance, which is reduced using the techniques described in the various embodiments. Further, high voltage capacitors need time to charge after each use. Typically the charge time may be 0.5 to 1.5 seconds, for example. The charge time may limit the throughput of products having an EAS marker over the device. Throughput may be particularly important in those applications having a low tolerance to latency, such as the food service industry, for example. The embodiments may reduce the charge time for the capacitor to approximately 7 milliseconds (ms). By reducing the size of the high voltage capacitor, deactivator 100 may be smaller and less expensive then conventional deactivators, and may also increase throughput of security tags through deactivator 100.
In one embodiment, a magnetic field may be generated by coil 210 when switch 208 is closed. Rectifier 214 may be full or half-bridge that converts the AC input voltage to DC input voltage, thereby ensuring that coil 210 only generates a positive magnetic field which is incapable of deactivating an EAS marker. The coil current for coil 210 is allowed to dwell until a peak coil current is reached. At peak coil current, switch 208 may open coil 210 from ground. This interruption releases the stored energy in the magnetic field of coil 210 that in turn causes an AC current to oscillate between coil 210 and capacitor 212. The exponentially decaying AC current waveform in coil 210 generates a magnetic field in proximity to coil 210. The magnetic field may decay in accordance with an amplitude profile to deactivate an EAS marker.
In one embodiment, processor 102 may generate the timing signal using a dwell time and zero-crossing information generated by zero-crossing detector 106. The dwell time may represent a time interval from a zero-crossing of a rectified AC input voltage (i.e., DC input voltage) to a peak coil current. Switch 208 may be closed at a precise dwell time (angle) relative to the zero-crossing for the DC input voltage waveform to start the dwell cycle. The dwell time continues until the peak current in the coil is reached. It is worthy to note that the peak coil current is not necessarily at the peak of the DC input voltage waveform because of phase shifting. Therefore, the peak coil current may be predetermined for a given zero-crossing period and stored in the timing table, or determined during processor run-time. The relationship between the dwell time and coil current may be further described with reference to
The current waveform starts with IGBT switch 208 conducting the AC input voltage applied to coil 210. When the coil current reaches a peak, IGBT switch 208 may be opened, thereby releasing the potential energy in the magnetic field of coil 210 into kinetic energy to create an exponentially decaying AC current waveform. The exponentially decaying waveform may be sufficient to produce an alternating magnetic field to deactivate the EAS marker for EAS security tags brought in close proximity to coil 210. The magnetic field is generated by the product of the number of coil turns times the coil current (NI). It is worthy to note that by reducing the coil current by a factor of approximately 10-20, and increasing the number of coil turns by the same factor, the magneto motive force (mmf) remains approximately constant.
While certain features of the embodiments of the invention have been illustrated as described herein, many modifications, substitutions, changes and equivalents will now occur to those skilled in the art. It is, therefore, to be understood that the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications and changes as fall within the true spirit of the embodiments of the invention.
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During the time I have lived here my neighbors have used the strip of property park vehicles, household goods, etc. for sale, stage building supplies, park broken down vehicles, yard debris, and more. The latest being storing a slurry machine next to my newly planted trees for a week before any road work was to begin. When I asked the Contractor to remove the machine my neighbor parked his truck in front of it so it couldn't be towed, and demanded that he and all the neighbors owned the property and I had nothing to say about it. Do I have any rights to this property or can my neighbors continue to use the land as their dumping ground? I need advice and probably an attorney to fix this. The officer said I could go to the county and get some form and maybe post signs - HELP!
If the easement is for normal ingress and egress across a portion of your land in order for the other landowners to access their residences, the easement would not normally include the right to park anything on the easement. Doing so regularly is an overburden of the easement and such activity can be enjoined by a court order. It is important that you immediately take some affirmative action to declare this parking as unauthorized, like posting a 'no parking' sign, or fencing off the parking area if possible. If you wait too long - five years or more - the neighbors excess use of the easement could ripen into a prescriptive easement of its own. You should call a real estate attorney right away.
Richard A. Rodgers, Esq.
SHANE, DiGIUSEPPE & RODGERS LLP
200 N. Westlake Blvd., Ste 201
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(805) 230-2525
An 'easement' is a present interest in real estate, giving the holder a right to the real property and the ability to bring a suit for trespass or ejectment. Because it is an interest in the property itself, it is subject to the statute of frauds, so must be granted in writing.
The question is whether the neighbors' use of the property interferes with the normal use of your easement. If their action prevents its use as roadway by you, then you will have to take legal action. You definitely should consult with a real estate attorney.
As I understand your question, you own the property and one or more neighbors have an easement across a portion of your property.
An easement is a limited, "non-possessory interest" in land. That means that the easement holder does not own the land and cannot "possess" it. Rather, the easement holder is limited to some use such as a right of way for ingress and/or egress.
By parking vehicles and placing debris there, the easement holder is likely exceeding his rights and you could likely sue to stop them from parking vehicles and placing property on the easement area.
The starting point should be the easement itself.
Does the easement describe what the permitted uses are?
Does it describe the exact location so that you can further limit what parts of the property they can enter or fence off the remaining portion of your property?
If it provided a right of way for a landlocked parcel, does the parcel now have access to a road from some other means?
Does the easement provide for an expiration date or a manner to have it cancelled?
Although the easement is on your property, you have no duty to maintain it. Let it go wild.
After reviewing the easement document, I would recommend sending them a cease and desist letter. If they continue to violate the easement, you may have no recourse but to seek a court injunction.


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The Homeland Security Department cannot keep track of all its procurements because of inconsistent and decentralized reporting by its 22 component agencies, according to its acting inspector general.
"The department does not always know what is in its acquisition portfolio because of the conflicting written and verbal guidance provided to the components," Charles Edwards, acting inspector general, testified at a House subcommittee hearing on March 1.
The department has limited visibility into its procurements because it has not made sure that all components are reporting into the Next-generation Periodic Reporting System [nPRS], Edwards told the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management.
Since 2008, the department has classified acquisitions under three levels: Level 1 acquisitions are $1 billion or more; Level 2 acquisitions are $300 million to $1 billion; and Level 3 acquisitions are less than $300 million. The department spent $13 billion on acquisitions in fiscal 2010.
While headquarters has issued guidance to the component agencies for entering and updating information in the nPRS for all three levels, the guidance has been inconsistent, Edwards said.
The "conflicting verbal and written guidance confused component personnel, who were not sure whether to report all acquisition programs or only level 1 and 2 programs," Edwards said.
To identify the number of acquisition programs in the department, the inspector general said his office requested a list of all programs from nPRS, but the department could provide only level 1 and 2 acquisition programs.
Despite further efforts to get a full list, as of April 2011, the nPRS appeared to include only about half of the Level 3 programs that were listed in other systems, Edwards said.
The inspector general said DHS' Chief Procurement Office agreed to require reporting to nPRS of all levels of acquisitions as of April 2011.
Rafael Borras, DHS under secretary for management, who also testified, said he has issued a directive requiring components to submit monthly reports.
"On February 13, 2012, I issued a memorandum once again calling on all Components and programs to ensure that on a monthly basis all acquisition program information reported in the Department existing data systems is complete, accurate, and valid," Borras said in his testimony at the hearing.
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The department also has a Decision Support Tool and dashboard for tracking major acquisition programs and their cost, funding and schedules, Borras added.
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The original movie Tron was something of an irony. Considered by many as a landmark in computer animated cinema, the movie actually owed more to traditional animation techniques than CGI. Tron Evolution I'll punch your lights out As the technology to mix computer animation and live action didn't exist in the early 1980s, of …
Tron 2.0
Was pretty good, I was hoping this was going to be, essentially, an updated version of it with shiny new graphics. Looks like i've been disappointed.
Compared to Tron 2.0?
The big question is how this compares to Tron 2.0 that was released in 2003 by Monolith Productions? In my opinion, Tron 2.0 seems to cover a lot of the original Tron feel that Evolution is missing. Tron 2.0 did a pretty good job of the light-cycle challenge, plus it introduced an "upgrade" system that you had to use to progress through the game. Along with a good selection of different locations and puzzles, it sounds like it exceeds what they have created 7 years later.
Another vote for Tron 2.0
Just as we know that the movie will be a disastrous re-hash, I'd much rather play Tron 2.0 again - PC, not X-box. It really felt like Tron, the visuals were fantastic, and the in-game mechanics were really easy to pick up.
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Never buy games made about a movie that is just about to be released, they are always bad marketing stunts and usualy a bad rehash of <insert 3d engine of choice>
It's a universal law.
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(Ghostbusters on the C64 is the only know exception.)
True enough
I vaguely recall Terminator 2 on the Amstrad being pretty reasonable but in 99.9% of cases, I'd have to agree. Why is that people are always surprised by it though?
I'll just wait for the new movie, Olivia Wilde is hot!
Tron 2.0 too
The only game I have purchased for more than one system.
I too was hoping for something like Tron 2.0 than Tron Alpha.
Too busy saving the mojave...
To notice the neons....
is not a strong enough platform for good movies or good games.
Can't wait
Can't wait to see the movie at the cinema. I don't really care about the story; I just want to be absorbed back into the world of Tron in (true stereoscopic) 3D for a couple of hours. The Recognizers looked 'kin menacing in the trailers. Yeah, I enjoyed Avatar, too - so sue me.
Tron Legacy - contains just 15 minutes of gameplay!!
That's pretty sad. I remember playing Tron Deadly Disks on my Intellivision for hours. It took racking up a million points before you even saw the orange guards and there was No Save game feature.
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From this particular
Hawley line we
trace the connection to the
Macfie family of Clarenceville, for whom this web page was
The Macfie's are not
the only Clarenceville family to intermarry with the Hawley and it
would not be altogether inaccurate to state that at least 85% of
the families originating from the Clarenceville area have Hawley blood
lines. Today however there are no Hawley's left in this area, most of
them returned to the United States to seek their future and few have
ever returned other than to do genealogy work. Many of the Hawley males
went to western Canada, where land was being offered by the gouvernment
The Hawley Home was sold to outsiders after the death of the last
Hawley, Clarence who
died in 1985. The
Hawley cemetery, which is located on a piece of farm land
adjacent to the Hawley Home on South Beech Ridge,and became the
resting place for the family and many of their neighbors.
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counter parts from the Hawley family . The eldest son Robert
married Sarah Eliza Hawley, and his eldest sister married Herman
Allen Hawley. Through this Hawley line the Macfie family has
the privilege of being able to claim United Empire Loyalist
and proudly display U.E.L. after their family name.
As the children of
these families grew up, we find that many of the Hawley moved as
did the Macfie into the same areas of both developing countries (
Canada & the USA) where they worked together in many concerns.
William Alexander Hawley was a mining supervisor in Grass Valley where
John Macfie his uncle was located, and Eugene
Creller also.
Marshall Peter Hawley moved out west to Assiniboia with
Claude Robert Macfie where they continued to farm.
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Written by Judy Epstein Friday, 15 February 2013 00:00
I'll just come out and say it: I hate Valentine's Day. As far as I'm concerned, it exists purely to make some people look bad, and almost everybody feel awful.
When I was single, Valentine's Day seemed tailor-made to highlight the flaws in your relationship, if you had one, and in your entire life, if you didn't. Now that I am married, Valentine's Day just makes both of us crazy, running around to make sure we buy SOMEthing so as not to come home covered in guilt. But of course, all the somethings are way over-priced – they saw us coming a month away – so that even when I come home with one, I still feel taken advantage of. No "good love" there!
Starting in elementary school, it seemed as if this one day in the calendar existed just to show that some girls were WAY more popular than me (nobody then had a rule that "you must send one to everyone"). I still remember enviously eyeing the heaping mountain of valentines on the desk of one little girl, and comparing it with my own little pile.
When I grew up, V-Day became conspicuous as the day for which you didn't have a date. It was like a tacky re-run of New Year's Eve — except you can't hide from all your friends by taking a convenient "ski trip" on a Thursday evening and be back at work the next day.
Once or twice I did have a date for the big night – which always served to kill the relationship, because at some point during the evening, I always felt compelled to ask, "So – are we a couple?" And, as J.P. Morgan can tell you, "If you have to ask, the answer is No." (To be completely fair, his remark was about asking if you can afford a yacht, which is almost as expensive as a relationship, but the concept is there.)
I began to celebrate Valentine's Day on Groundhog Day, instead. For one thing, it was a lot cheaper, since all I required was a weather report and a cup of hot chocolate. When the Bill Murray movie about Groundhog Day came along, that just helped me pull off the transformation.
I evolved my own rule of thumb for the day: If, first thing in the morning on Groundhog Day, you saw somebody's shadow on your bedroom floor, well then, you might have six more weeks of a relationship…as long as you both stay scrupulously away from anything to do with Valentines!
Judy Epstein plans to stay in bed with her eyes shut until Valentine's Day is safely past … but you can always reach her at alookonthelightside.com.
Sunday, 23 November 2014 00:00Driving rain and an early start time did not deter 600 people who arrived at Crest Hollow Country Club recently to celebrate the Women's Fund of Long Island's 20th year and to honor four exceptional women.
The breakfast started with a meet and greet and a chance to showcase Women's Fund contest winner Patti Hogarty, designer of "Women as Bamboo." Inspired by her neighbor's bamboo, she entered the contest drawing a design of the bamboo, which Ambalu Jewelers of Roslyn then turned into various pendants of which 40-percent of the profits would go to WFLI. Hogarty wrote a short essay comparing women to bamboo in that they are strong and can weather difficult storms, yet remain graceful and continue to grow sending out new shoots.
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Dr. O'Hara explained that with the institution of the Common Core state standards, students are faced with a greater level of academic rigor and more challenging coursework. The program would offer remedial and enrichment classes for students both in and out of district.
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In the history of Oyster Bay High School athletics, no one has ever won a Girls' Tennis New York State Championship. Celeste Matute and Courtney Kowalsky became the first when they won the 2014 New York State Doubles Championship in Latham on Nov. 3. What makes this tremendous achievement even more remarkable is that Matute is a junior and Kowalsky is a sophomore.
The girls, who are usually singles players, teamed up to take on the very best players in Nassau County and New York State. They won all 10 matches in the section XIII and NYSPHSAA tournaments and left Latham as the 2014 New York State doubles champions.
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The conditions were as fierce as the competition earlier this month at Oakcliff Sailing's Halloween Invitational.
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