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Widespread Generic Erosion of Atypical Antipsychotics Will Cause the Bipolar Disorder Drug Market to Decline By More Than $1 Billion Through 2018
WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that widespread generic erosion of branded atypical antipsychotics will cause the bipolar disorder drug market to decline from $6.3 billion in 2008 to approximately $5 billion in 2018 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Japan.
The new Pharmacor report entitled Bipolar Disorder finds that the market will be constrained over the next several years by the patent expiries and subsequent generic erosion of key antipsychotic agents such as AstraZeneca's Seroquel, Eli Lilly's Zyprexa, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Otsuka's Abilify and Pfizer's Geodon. In 2008, sales of atypical antipsychotics exceeded $4 billion but generic competition, beginning in 2011, will cause sales of these agents to decline to just under $3 billion by 2018, according to the report. Additionally, patent expiries of branded antidepressants that include Wyeth's (now Pfizer's) Effexor XR, Eli Lilly's Cymbalta/Xeristar and Forest/Lundbeck's Lexapro/Cipralex will further constrain the market.
"Despite the overall decline in the market, we forecast that sales for bipolar disorder therapies in Europe and Japan will grow modestly from 2008 to 2018," said Decision Resources Analyst Alana Simorellis, Ph.D. "Market growth in Europe and Japan will be due in part to the continued uptake of atypical antipsychotics and an increasing drug-treated population for the indication."
The report also finds that the expanded labeling for AstraZeneca's Seroquel/Seroquel XR to include bipolar maintenance and bipolar depression as well as the potential approval of Dainippon Sumitomo's lurasidone for bipolar depression, will serve to differentiate these therapies from other atypical antipsychotics. Experts indicate that bipolar depression is difficult to treat, and there is substantial market opportunity for therapies that address this market segment.
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Scouring the net for a pink pair of shoes to match that killer dress you bought over the weekend. Well, it may help to think beyond Google and Bing.
Benipal.com, a search engine backed by a supercomputer and powerful algorithm, promises to be a revolutionary image search website that can rummage through online stacks to find that desired product.
The high-end search engine has been created locally by an Indian firm, which claims it can beat the global players.
The website has over 200 million products currently available from over 10,000 merchants.
Almost five years in the making, this is the fifth iteration of the product. Fully bootstrapped, self funded, operated in stealth mode for five years.
Next, the search engine plans to offer highly advanced travel and local search.
Benipal.com offers a deep learning e-commerce search engine with a unique interactive User Interface and relational natural language search capabilities promising "any which way search", said Sukhbir Benipal, CEO of benipal.com.
It does by understanding the user query and refining search results to show only the most relevant products.
This search is very different from keyword search being offered by most search engine providers today, he said.
"I assembled a 10 TFlops distributed cluster with 20 nodes, 640 cores, 7.6 TB RAM, 10G networking, 25 TB SSD and roughly 1 PB HDD storage, that is already straining hard under current load. The current set-up can be expanded to 1 PFlops with additional CPU and GPU processing power. That would make it a pretty huge supercomputer, if I went into parallel processing with Rocks on it," Benipal said.
He claimed his search engine is "much more advanced and highly evolved (when) compared with IBM's supercomputer Watson and other cognitive systems and search engines. It runs on self built hardware at tenth the cost of Watson. (It is) tested to beat both Google Shopping and Watson in any type of search, any type of query."
Although the search's success is based on Big Data. "In no way is any personal information about a user collected" Sukhbir claims. "All user data is totally stripped of any identifying parameters before being processed. In my set-up I have no use for anyone's personal information anyway." he said.
On the future course, he said, "When I started five years ago, I had no idea I would be where I am today. So I am not going to venture any guesses for myself. But it will definitely be in cutting edge technology competing with the best. As for benipal.com, it will be competing with Alibaba, TaoBao and eBay, globally."

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The guard of a local train was assaulted by a commuter late on Friday night.
According to officials, the guard, B Chetan, who was working on a slow local to Thane, was punched by a passenger at Kalwa station. The incident happened around 11:20pm on Friday night.
Officials said that after reaching Thane station, Chetan informed Railway Protection Force assistant sub-inspector S Pawar who was on bandobast duty there at that time.
A small team of RPF personnel fanned out at Thane station to spot the assaulter as described by Chetan. They caught a man who matched the description and who had just alighted from the train that had reached Thane station at around 11:30pm.
The man, 18-year-old Mafhooz Alam, who is a resident of Mumbra, confessed to hitting Chetan. He was part of a group of people moving about at night celebrating Badi Raat, RPF officials said.
Incidents of vandalism and mischief on suburban trains and platforms tend to increase during such days, they said officials. Alam was later handed over the Thane Railway Police in the wee hours of Saturday for further action.


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Chefs are incorporating exotic meats, such as rabbit, buffalo and elk, on restaurant menus. Allspice adds a Caribbean accent to this jerk-marinated rabbit.
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons dark rum
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon McCormick Gourmet™ Allspice, Ground Jamaican
1 teaspoon McCormick Gourmet™ Sicilian Sea Salt
1 teaspoon McCormick Gourmet™ Thyme
1/2 teaspoon McCormick Gourmet™ Garlic Powder, California
1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon McCormick Gourmet™ Red Pepper, Crushed
1 rabbit, about 3 pounds, quartered
3 tablespoons butter, melted, divided
1/2 teaspoon McCormick Gourmet™ Allspice, Ground Jamaican
1/2 teaspoon McCormick Gourmet™ Sicilian Sea Salt
2 medium (1 1/2 pounds) sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/4-inch thick slices
1 1/2 cups thinly sliced onions
1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
1 large sheet heavy duty aluminum foil
For the Rabbit, mix sugar, rum, vinegar, oil, allspice, sea salt, thyme, garlic powder and crushed red pepper in small bowl. Place rabbit in large resealable plastic bag or glass dish. Add marinade; turn to coat well. Refrigerate at least 1 hour or longer for extra flavor.
For the Sweet Potatoes, mix 2 tablespoons of the melted butter, allspice and sea salt in large bowl. Add sweet potatoes and onions; toss to coat. Place sweet potato mixture in center of foil. Bring up sides of foil; double fold top and ends to tightly seal packet.
Preheat grill to medium heat (325°F to 350°F) for indirect grilling. Remove rabbit from marinade. Discard any remaining marinade. Place rabbit on grill rack over unlit burner. Place foil packet over lit burner. Cover.
Grill rabbit 25 to 30 minutes or until cooked through, turning once. Grill foil packet 25 minutes or until sweet potatoes are tender, turning packet over halfway through cook time. Spoon sweet potatoes into large bowl. Add remaining 1 tablespoon melted butter and cilantro; toss gently to coat. Serve rabbit with sweet potatoes.
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It has been only seven months since Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.7 Lion and today the company announced Mountain Lion—the next major update to its desktop operating system. As 9to5Mac first learned in October, Mountain Lion brings even more popular iOS features to the Mac platform. The notion is shared by those Apple invited […]
Amazon to launch its iPad competitor on September 28th?
. If all of the rumors are true, Amazon has a 7-inch "media tablet" that runs a forked version of Android and will connect to all of Amazon's services, including its Appstore, Movies, TV, Music and of course eBooks. It won't be true multi-touch but the rumored price is half of the iPad's (just like […]
Apple gunning for Android in India with unlocked iPhone 3GS
The iPhone 4 officially landed in the 1.2 billion people market of India on May 27, beginning at 34,500 Indian rupees (about $760) for the 16GB version after a two-year service agreement. But pricing the phone at $760 (which also raised red flags with the government) meant putting the iconic product out of reach for […]
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Apple is the world's most valuable brand in the post-recession world, says the latest 2011 Top 100 ranking of global brands by BrandZ, a Millward Brown subsidiary of advertising company WPP. The iPhone maker, which last year ranked third, knocked Google, the world's most valuable brand in 2010. Apple emerged ahead other top brands from […]
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Not really an Apple story here but an important one for the technology world. As you've undoubtedly heard by now, Google has thrown down the gauntlet and said they'd no longer be willing to censor Chinese search results and are willing to leave China before doing so. The move is related to recent attacks on around 20 corporations by Chinese hackers where trade secrets and personal information of human rights activists might have been compromised. Google seems to insinuate that the attacks were carried out by state-sponsored groups.
Google also were previously minority owners of Baidu, the leading Chinese search engine — which is not probably prepared to leave China. We're interested in knowing what you think of all of this.
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The conglomerate InterActiveCorp was another company named as a potential bidder for Yahoo, which is said to be unwilling to give in to Microsoft without a fight.
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Apple does have a bit of cash laying around ($16 Billion) and Steve Jobs did pay the Yahoo! VPs a visit last year. According to Kara Swisher, it was quite the motivational speech. Steve Jobs also knows how to bring a company back from the brink of collapse (see Apple 1997).


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Since today is Tell a Fairy Tale Day, it is only appropriate that we tell one of our favorite fairy tales…
"Once upon a time there was a little girl and a little boy who loved listening to audiobooks. They lived happily ever after. The End!"
Well, maybe that wasn't exactly a fairy tale. Do fairy tales always need to have a fairy? What's the difference between a fairy tale, a tall tale, and a folktale? What about myths, legends, and fables? It all makes our head spin. While our heads are busy spinning, here are some fairy tale listens that will be a treat to your ears!
ELLA ENCHANTED by Gail Carson Levine won the Newbery Medal when it came out in 1997, and is a rollicking retelling of the Cinderella story. Ella is a girl who was placed under the spell of a blundering fairy, and now must go through life obeying each and every order, no matter how kooky it might be. A movie version starring Anne Hathaway came out in 2004, but it took a few… 'creative liberties.' If you REALLY want the story to come alive, we recommend checking out the audiobook.
Turns out that Fairy Godmothers aren't made, but are born that way… kind of. They have to be trained first! THE FAIRY GODMOTHER ACADEMY series introduces listeners to a magical land called Aventurine, where girls are trained by fairies so they can become fairy godmothers, a.k.a. the hidden protectors of the world. There's more to it than just turning coaches into pumpkins! Each book follows a different girl on a new adventure in Aventurine. Great for fans of the Harry Potter series, the ACADEMY books are filled with magic and adventure but grounded by contemporary girls and issues.
Getting back to the Classics… LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD has been retold many times over the years. The earliest known version was first told by French peasants in the 10th century! Many have taken a crack at the story, including Rabbit Ears, a children's series that aired from 1984-1995 on PBS that featured celebrities narrating children's classics, which have now been turned into audiobooks. Check out LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD read by Meg Ryan, and RUMPELSTILTSKIN read by Kathleen Turner, among many others. Click here to see more!
Lest ye think fairy tales are just for young children (have you READ the Brothers Grimm versions?!?!), take a listen to KILL ME SOFTLY… what if you found out you were born with Sleeping Beauty's curse and destined to fall asleep on your 16th birthday? Part modern-day retelling, part mash-up, and completely dark, twisted, and romantic, KILL ME SOFTLY brings past fairy tales to convincing life in a contemporary YA story. An engrossing listen to say the least.
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A fluid (liquid or water) wash is used to clean the front surface of an ink jet printer cartridge. In addition, a nozzle plate that overlies the nozzle shields the nozzle array from the splatter of ink. In ink jet printers, ink droplets are propelled from an array of orifices in a nozzle plate in the printer head. During the ink droplet ejection, ink is sprayed or deposited around the orifices. The ink droplets are deposited on a paper web adjacent the nozzle and mist from the droplets drifts back to coat the face of the nozzle plate. Some ink seeps behind the nozzle plate onto the array of nozzle orifices. The ink coating attracts particles that tend to clog the nozzle orifices. The ink coating is washed away by fluid streams that flow over the nozzle surface and in some embodiments flow over the nozzle orifices themselves. The fluid may be water, ink or other liquid that is channelled across the nozzle surface, or the fluid may be an air stream that blows across the nozzle surface.
1. An ink jet printer head comprising:
a. an array of nozzle orifices through which ink droplets are projected in a path towards a substrate for printing and a front surface of said array of nozzle orifices having channels passing between the orifices;
b. a nozzle plate disposed between said array of nozzle orifices and the substrate and separated by a gap from the array, said nozzle plate having a slit aligned with respect to the path to allow the ink droplets to fly through the slit, and
c. a liquid cleaning fluid stream flowing in the channels of the front surface, and through the gap between the nozzle plate and array of nozzle orifices, wherein said liquid fluid stream flows while ink droplets are being projected from the nozzle orifices during printing.
2. An ink jet printer head as in claim 1 wherein the slit in the nozzle plate has an area that is slightly larger than an area of said array of nozzle orifices.
3. An ink jet printer head as in claim 1 wherein said nozzle plate is formed of an ink adsorbent, porous material.
4. An ink jet printer comprising:
a. an ink jet printer head having a front surface and an array of nozzle orifices arranged on the front surface, wherein ink droplets are projected through the orifices along a path towards a substrate;
b. a bracket having a recess adapted to receive the ink jet printer head;
c. a mounting plate removably attached to said bracket and securing said ink jet printer head in the recess, said mounting plate having an opening into which projects the front surface of the ink jet printer heads;
d. a nozzle plate attached to said mounting plate and covering the opening in the mounting plate and separated by a gap from the front surface the ink jet printer head, wherein said nozzle plate having a slit aligned with the array of nozzle orifices and through which pass ink jet droplets on their path, and
e. a liquid cleaning fluid stream flowing in the gap between the nozzle plate and front surface of the printer head, wherein said liquid fluid stream flows adjacent to the nozzle orifices while ink droplets are projected from the nozzle orifices to the substrate.
5. An ink jet printer head as in claim 4 further comprising a cleaning fluid stream flowing across the front surface of the ink jet printer head.
6. An ink jet printer head as in claim 4 wherein said nozzle plate has a front surface facing the substrate and a rear surface facing the printer head, and said nozzle plate is porous such that ink splattered on the front surface is drawn through the nozzle plate and washed away by the liquid cleaning fluid stream.
7. An ink jet printer as in claim 4 further comprising a second liquid fluid stream on a front surface of the nozzle plate facing the substrate and wherein at least a portion of the second liquid fluid stream is drawn through the slit in the nozzle plate to merge with the liquid cleaning fluid stream.
8. An in jet printer as in claim 4 wherein said front surfaces of said printer head is furrowed with channels for the liquid cleaning fluid stream(s).
9. An ink jet printer as in claim 8 wherein said channels are coated with a hydrophilic material.
10. An ink jet printer as in claim 4 wherein the gap between the front surface of the ink jet printer head and the nozzle plate widens to form a reservoir below the array of nozzle orifices.
11. An ink jet printer as in claim 4 further comprising a suction opening in said bracket and located below the array of nozzle orifices and said suction opening having a slight vacuum for drawing excess ink from the gap between the ink jet printer head and the nozzle plate.
12. An ink jet printer as in claim 4 further comprising a suction opening in said bracket and located below the array of nozzle orifices and said suction opening having a slight vacuum for drawing in the liquid fluid stream after the stream washes across the front surface of the printer head.
13. An ink jet printer as in claim 12 wherein said nozzle plate includes an opening aligned with the suction opening in the bracket and liquid fluid flowing over the nozzle plate is drawn into the opening in the plate and further into the suction opening.
14. A method for cleaning an ink jet printing head having a front surface with a nozzle array of orifices, and a nozzle plate separated by a gap from the front surface of the printing head, the method comprising the following steps:
a. propelling ink from the nozzle array through a slit in the nozzle plate and towards a web for printing on the web;
b. shielding the orifices from ink splatter and airborne fibers and particles with the nozzle plate;
c. washing the front surface of the printing head with a liquid fluid stream while propelling ink during step (a), and
d. draining the liquid fluid stream and excess ink on the nozzle array down through the gap between the front surface of the printing head and nozzle plate.
15. A method for cleaning an ink jet printing head as in claim 14 wherein the nozzle plate includes a channel adjacent the orifices and step (c) is further practiced by flowing the liquid fluid stream through the channel in the nozzle plate.
16. A method for cleaning an ink jet printing head as in claim 14 wherein step (c) further includes washing a front surface of the nozzle plate with a liquid fluid stream and drawing a portion of the liquid fluid stream across the nozzle plate through the slit in the nozzle plate.
The invention relates to the fields of print nozzles and, in particular, drop-on-demand printer nozzles, such as ink jet and bubble jet printer nozzles. The invention has particular application to the problems associated with dust, other particles and ink that disrupt and clog these printing nozzles during continuous operation.
Drop-on-demand ink-jet and bubble-jet printers (collectively referred to as ink jet printers) propel fine ink droplets from nozzles onto a paper substrate adjacent the nozzle. Examples of these types of printers are the Cannon nozzles known as BCO1 and BCO2. By precisely controlling the trajectory and the time of ejection of the ink droplets, the ink jet nozzles print clear dots on paper. To achieve precise positioning of droplets of ink, ink jet nozzles must provide clear and clean orifices for the droplets to pass through as they fly from the nozzle to the surface of the paper. In a conventional drop-on-demand ink jet nozzle, there is an array of several orifices on the face of the nozzle from which the ink droplets are propelled. During printing, ink is ejected out of selected orifices in the array to form the desired images on the paper. The flight of the ink droplets and especially their impact on the paper surface creates a fine mist of ink that coats the surface of the nozzle. Also, during the ejection of the droplets, extraneous ink is sprayed and deposited on the nozzle face adjacent the orifices. This moist ink coating attracts paper fiber, dust, grit and other types of particles that can obstruct the nozzle orifices and block the ink droplets being sprayed from the nozzle. Also, the extraneous ink can build up such that it blocks the orifices. Accordingly, there is a need to regularly clean the nozzle plate of ink jet printers so that the array of orifices remains clear of ink and particles that would otherwise interfere with the printing of ink on the paper.
In the past, ink jet printers have been cleaned by wiper mechanisms that clean the nozzle plates and orifices. Between print jobs, the printer head moves away from the paper web to a cleaning station where is slides against a cleaning wiper. These wipers squeegee across the face of the nozzle plate and the openings of the orifices to remove particles that may be obstructing ink in the nozzles. Because the wipers themselves temporarily obstruct the nozzles, the wipers are used only when the ink jet printer is not printing. For example, a wiper may be positioned at the far edges of a carriage path, beyond the edges of the paper held adjacent the carriage path. An example of a wiping system is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,126,765, entitled "Ink Jet Recording Apparatus Having Cleaning Means For Cleaning A Recording Head".
Wipers have proven generally acceptable for desk top printing applications where each individual print job is relatively short and the times between when the print nozzles are wiped clean are relatively brief. In a typical desk-top ink-jet printer the carriage with the ink jet printing head can be shifted to a cleaning station after each print operation. Thus, in the usual desk top application, the printing nozzles are cleaned frequently by conventional wipers and tend not to clog with particles.
With continuous web-feed printing, the print nozzle is required to constantly print for many hours. This is unlike typical desk-top printing applications in which each printing operation is conducted in a relatively short period of time. Shifting the print head to a cleaning station away from the paper to be printed necessarily interrupts the printing operation of a continuous printer. While these interruptions do not substantially interfere with typical desk top print jobs, they do interfere with commercial printing of continuous webs. In this regard, conventional ink jet print heads have been found to require cleaning for every 30 to 60 minutes of continuous printing. Remote cleaning stations for ink jet printers are undesirable for commercial continuous printers because the print operation must be interrupted every one-half hour to one hour to clean the nozzles. Accordingly, there is a long-felt need for an apparatus and method for cleaning an ink jet nozzle without interrupting a print job.
Other prior art techniques for cleaning the nozzle face of an ink printer are to blow air at or around the ink nozzles to blow particles off the nozzle face or prevent particles from adhering to the nozzle face. Some of these techniques have included using ionized air to neutralize the static charges on dust particles that attract the dust to the nozzles. These techniques have achieved only partial success as is reported in U.S. Pat. No. 4,411,706, entitled "Method And Apparatus For Eliminating Dust From Ink Jet Printers." While blowing air at the nozzles can be accomplished as the nozzles are spraying ink, the turbulent air flow caused by the prior art blowers disrupts the trajectory of the ink droplets to the paper. Given that the prior systems for cleaning ink jet nozzles have been less than satisfactory, there has been a long felt-need for a technique for effectively cleaning the nozzles. That need was not fully satisfied until the current invention.
The current invention relates to a technique for cleaning an ink jet nozzle with a fluid, such as water or air, that flows across the face of the printing nozzle and entrains the dust and paper particles that adhere to the face of the nozzle. Once caught in the fluid, the particles are removed from the nozzles by the flow of the fluid.
In one embodiment of the invention a fluid stream flows across the face of the nozzle of an ink jet printer to clean the printer. This stream is located proximate to the nozzle array from which the ink droplets are propelled. Oust and paper particles that would otherwise clog the nozzle array are entrained in the fluid stream before they obstruct the orifices of the nozzle. A fluid source, drain supply fluid and network of fluid channels on the nozzle create a fluid stream path adapted to remove the particles and dust in the vicinity of the nozzle array. By continuously flowing fluid across the nozzle face, ink, grit and paper particles are continuously captured and removed from the nozzle array. In some embodiments, the fluid stream does not disrupt the projection of ink droplets from the nozzle array and, thus, does not interfere with printing.
In a first embodiment of the invention, the cleaning fluid is confined to channels adjacent the nozzle orifices. The orifices are not flushed with fluid. Accordingly, the ink jet nozzle can print while the cleaning fluid is flowing because the fluid flow does not obstruct or interfere with the ink droplets ejected from the nozzles to the paper. Accordingly, the first embodiment of the current invention provides a technique and apparatus for continually removing particles from an ink jet printer face while printing continues.
In a second embodiment of the invention, cleaning fluid flows directly over the print nozzle orifices to wash the orifices and nozzle in general. Printing is interrupted while the orifices are washed using the second embodiment. This orifice wash embodiment of the invention flushes out any ink residue, dust or paper fibers clogging the orifices. Thus, the second embodiment provides a more thorough cleaning of the print nozzle than does the first embodiment. The second embodiment of the invention may be used in conjunction with the first embodiment.
In a third embodiment of the invention, the array of nozzle orifices is shielded from ink spray and splatter by a nozzle plate. The nozzle plate is positioned in front of the orifices and includes a narrow slit through which ink droplets fly. The nozzle plate is separated by a small gap from the array of nozzle orifices and excess ink drains through this gap away from the nozzle orifices. This third embodiment may be used in conjunction with the first and second embodiments of the invention.
An object of the current invention is to clean the nozzle array of an ink jet printer and prevent ink, dirt and paper particles from obstructing the orifices of the nozzle array. It is a further object of the invention to continually capture and remove ink and particles from the nozzle array while the nozzles are printing and to wash the nozzles completely at other times. A further object of the invention is to extend the period of maintenance free printing for ink jet printers and to reduce the frequency of off-print cleaning occurrences required for ink jet printers. Moreover, another objective of the invention is to enhance the print quality of ink jet printers by overcoming many of the problems caused by extraneous, girt and paper particles that have clogged prior ink jet printers. These and other objectives are achieved by the invention that is shown and described in detail below.
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FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of an ink jet printer head with an associated fluid cleaning mechanisms, forming a first embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the face of the ink jet printer head shown in FIG. 1, and
FIGS. 3 and 4 show cross-sectional and front views, respectfully, of another embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 5 shows a front view of a further embodiment of the invention, and
FIGS. 6 and 7 show a front view of yet another embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 1 shows an ink jet printer head 10 mounted as a carriage on a shaft 12 in a printing mechanism. In particular, the printing mechanism may be an otherwise conventional continuous web-feed printer, for high volume computer printing. It is common for the web speed in such printers to be 300 feet per minute and have an operating speed range of 200 to 500 web-feet per minute. In addition, these printers operate continuously and will typically print for periods as long as twelve hours without interruption, provided that the ink jet printer does not require cleaning in that period.
The paper or other web substrate moves as a web 14 in the direction of arrow 15. The web moves across the surface of a platen 16 adjacent the printer head. The platen positions the web for printing directly in front of and generally parallel to the ink jet printer head. The printing mechanism may include conventional web handling devices (not shown), e.g., tractor feeders, to move the web at a predetermined speed, in a precisely controlled fashion and along a predetermined path. The ink jet printer head is attached to the shaft by a bracket 17 such that the printer head may be fixed in position on the shaft and arranged in an array with other printer heads uniformly spaced across the width of the web. Alternatively, the printer head may be slidably mounted on the shaft, and moved back and forth across the shaft in a controlled fashion during printing, to position the printer head with respect to the moving web. The bracket may also includes fins 18 that dissipate heat away from the ink jet printer head. A thermocouple may be attached to the root of a heat fin to sense the temperature of the printer head. The bracket may be formed of aluminum or any other material that is suitable for securely holding the ink jet nozzle assembly.
The ink jet nozzle assembly includes a mounting plate 19 on the front face of the print head bracket 17. The mounting plate holds the print head in a recess 20 of the bracket. The plate overlaps the bracket recess and is removably attached to the bracket by screws or other fastening devices. The mounting plate includes a rectangular slot 21 through which protrudes the front nose 22 of the printer head. The array of nozzle orifices 23 are located on the front surface of the nose of the print head. The mounting plate may be made of machined copper and coated with a hydrophilic coating, e.g. Teflon, at and near the area of the orifices 22 to reduce the tendency of excess ink to clog the orifices.
A nozzle plate 24 overlaps the mounting plate and he nose of the print head. The nozzle plate is attached to the mounting plate or bracket by screws or other fastening device. A seal 25 may be located between the nozzle plate and mounting plate prevents cleaning fluid from leaking out from the gap between the two plates. In addition, the nozzle plate includes a narrow slit 26 aligned with the array of orifice nozzles 23 in the print head to allow ink droplets to fly from the orifices, through the slit 26 and towards the paper web 14. The slit is in alignment with the array of orifice nozzles. In addition, the slit has an opening area that is just slightly larger than the area of the nozzle array. The nozzle plate partially shields the nozzle array from the splash of ink hitting the paper web. The nozzle plate may be formed of a porus material so that ink splattered onto the nozzle plate can be drawn through the plate and into the gap between the back of the nozzle plate and the mounting plate.
The nozzle plate shields the printer head from the splatter of ink droplets as they impact on the paper web. Ink spray collects on the outer face of the nozzle plate instead of splashing back onto the nozzle array. In addition, ink that does seep into the gap 40 between the mounting and nozzle plate is shielded from paper and web fibers and other particles that tend to be attracted to surfaces wetted with ink. The ink that does collect on the nozzle surface 48 of the printer head does not collect web fibers and other particles because of the nozzle plate. It is believed that the presence of the nozzle plate alone can extend to several hours (opposed to 0.5 to 1.5 hours) the period of time during which a print head nozzle can reliably and continuously print between cleanings.
Ink droplets 27 are propelled from the nozzle orifices 23 in a direction towards the paper web 14 for printing. As the ink droplets impact on the web, most of the ink remains on the web as dots 30, or other indicia. Some of the ink will splatter as it hits the paper and form a mist of ink particles 32. In addition, there will be some residue of ink mist resulting from the ejection of the ink droplets from the nozzle orifices. This ink mist floats in the vicinity of the nozzle plate, print head nose 22 and paper web, and tends to settle on these surfaces, as an ink coating 34 that builds in thickness as ink printing continues. Since the paper web is moving, there is no noticeable build-up on any one section of the web. The print head does not move. Accordingly, the ink build up on the print head surfaces can pose problems, that are solved by the current invention.
The impact of the ink droplets, movement of the paper web and other factors cause paper fibers and other fine particles 36 to dislodge from the web and other surfaces and float in the ink mist. In addition to the build-up of ink around the nozzle caused by the misting of the ink, some of these particles contribute to the build-up 34 of ink and particles in the vicinity of the ink-jet nozzles. If this build-up is permitted to continue without being removed by cleaning, the build-up will clog the nozzle orifices 23 and disrupt printing of the ink. While the nozzle plate shields the print head from much of the ink spray and stray particles, the nozzle plate does not entirely avoid the need to wipe clean the array of nozzle orifices. The current invention also includes a technique for removing ink and particle build-up surrounding the nozzle orifices while printing continues.
It has been found that by flushing a fluid, such as water or air, across the face of the nose 22 of the print head, that the ink and particles coating the nozzle array can be washed away. In one embodiment, water is supplied to the gap 40 between the mounting plate 19 and nozzle plate 24 from a water source via conduit 42 that passes through the bracket 17 and mounting plate and discharges from an relatively wide opening(s) 44 on the front surface of the mounting plate. Fluid discharged from these openings enters the gap 40 between the mounting and nozzle plates and flows downwardly, as indicated by arrow 46, between those plates and towards the nose 22 of the print head. As the fluid reaches the print head nose 22, it wets and flows over the front surface 48 of that nose. In doing so, ink, web fibers and particles coating the front surface of the nose are washed away with the fluid.
The fluid with the ink, fibers and other particles flows downward through the gap between the mounting and nozzle plates until reaching a suction opening 50 in the mounting plate. Due to a slight suction applied at that opening, the fluid is drawn into the opening and away through conduits 52 to a discharge (not shown). The fluid, if water or other liquid, may be disposed of or filtered and recycled through the printer. Alternatively, the fluid drawn by suction into the suction opening 50 may be just the excess ink in the gap 40 between the mounting and nozzle plates. The suction of fluid will create capillary forces in the gap that draw the ink downward through the gap to the suction opening and away from the nozzle array. In this alternative embodiment, a separate source of fluid, supply conduits 42 and fluid discharge openings 44 above the printer head are unnecessary, because the excess ink is itself used as the cleaning fluid.
If a washing fluid, such as distilled water, is supplied, then printing may have to be interrupted or may continue while the fluid washes the front surface 48 of the nozzle, depending on the flow path of fluid across the face of the nozzle array. If the flow of fluid is heavy across the entire nozzle array, then the fluid will wash across the orifices 23. While such a heavy flow is particularly effective at cleaning clogged print orifices, the fluid would interfere with the projection of ink droplets and, thus, printing may be interrupted or even stopped for heavy flows of cleaning fluid. Alternatively, a lighter flow of fluid confined to channels 54 on the mounting plate and/or front surface 48 of the nozzle may be used while printing continues because the channels do not cut across any of the print orifices thereby interfering with the ink flow. Excess ink, fibers and other particles can be attracted to these channels by coating the channels and surfaces near the channels with hydrophilic coatings. The fluid in the channels carries the ink, fibers and other particles away from the front surface of the nozzle array and to the suction opening 50.
In another alternative embodiment, such as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, (the same numerals from FIGS. 1 and 2 have been used in these figures to refer to features that are common to all figures), the single fluid path of the first embodiment has been changed to a dual-path fluid system for cleaning away excess ink, paper fibers and other particles. This dual-path fluid wash is intended for use while the print head is not printing, as the wash might interfere with the printing operation. A pair of fluid conduits 60, 62 extend through a top portion of the print head bracket 17 from a pair of outlets 64 to a fluid source (not shown) to first and second fluid discharge ports, 66, 68, respectively. In this embodiment, the nozzle plate is attached directly to the mounting plate by means of screws 74 or other attachment means.
The first discharge port 66 opens from the bracket 17 out to a gap 70 between the nozzle plate 24 and a front surface section 72 of the bracket and print head, which section includes the front surface of the nozzle 48. Fluid flows downwardly through this gap until it passes over the orifices 23 of the nozzle array. Below the nozzle array, the front surface of the print head drops back along an inclined section 74 until it meets with another vertical section 76 that ends at the suction opening 50 for the bracket. The inclined surface widens the gap 70 into a relatively-large reservoir 78 which collects the fluid, excess ink, web fibers and other accumulated particles. Fluid flows downwardly into the reservoir and is drawn by capillary forces into the suction opening 50 of the bracket.
Similarly, the second fluid conduit 68 carries fluid to the second discharge port 68, that may constitute a row of openings as shown in FIG. 4, through which the fluid exits to the surface 80 of the nozzle plate 19. The fluid wets and washes the front surface of the nozzle plate as the fluid flows down and across the surface of the plate. At the slit 26 in nozzle plate 24, portions of the fluid may flow around, over and into the slit. The fluid that flows around and over the slit, washes away ink and particles that have collected on the plate. This outer path fluid, ink and particle mixture continues its downward flow over the nozzle plate (surface tension holds the fluid stream onto the plate surface) until the fluid is drawn into an opening 82 in the nozzle plate in communication with the suction opening 50 of the bracket. Fluid that is drawn into the slit 26, washes the slit and is drawn into the cavity 78 between the nozzle plate and printer head, from where the fluid, ink and particle mixture is drawn in by the suction opening 50 of the bracket.
FIG. 5 shows another embodiment of the invention in which a pair of fluid streams 86, 88 flow across the nozzle front surface 48 on either side of the nozzle array 23 to clean ink from the surface 48 while printing is ongoing. This embodiment may be employed with or without (as shown) a nozzle plate. A pair of horizontal fluid conduits 90, 92 mounted on or within the mounting plate 19 are connected to a fluid source (represented by arrows 94) and discharge from openings 96 adjacent the front surface 48 of the print head nozzle. Fluid from the discharge openings enter a pair of horizontal channels 98, 100 that are parallel and on opposite sides of the nozzle array 23. The channels and surfaces proximate the channels and nozzle orifices may be coated with a hydrophobic material so that ink will not be allowed to accumulate in these areas and is drawn into the channels and washed away by the channel flow. As the fluid in the channel reaches the opposite end of the channel, the fluid is drawn by suction into openings 102, 104 on the mounting plate. These openings are connected to conduits 106, 108 that are also connected to a drain 110 that imparts suction to the conduits and openings 102, 104 to draw the fluid through the channels.
FIGS. 6 and 7 show another embodiment of the invention especially adapted to using air (or other gas) as a cleaning fluid. An air bellows manifold 112, such as a oval shaped funnel, provides a low-pressure air flow directed horizontally (FIG. 6) or vertically (FIG. 7) across the front surface 48 of the nozzle array 23. The bellows manifold is connected to a source of compressed air (not shown). The air flow pressure blows on the ink wetted to the front surface of the nozzle array and causes the ink (including entrained fibers and other particles) to flow away from the bellows 112 and towards a vacuum manifold 114, that may have a shape similar to that of the bellows. The vacuum manifold collects the ink flow and directs (see arrow 116) towards a drain (not shown). In addition, the vacuum manifold may be connected to a vacuum pump to draw air across the nozzle array and into the manifold. Depending on whether the pressure of the air flow across the nozzle array disrupts the trajectory of the ink jet nozzles, the bellows and vacuum manifolds may or may not be operated while printing is ongoing.
The invention has been described in what is considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments. The invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but covers various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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I was just wondering what everyone finds comes off easiest inches or lbs? What do people prefer to see the loss in their waist of their scales? Personally I love an inch loss!
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I was just wondering what everyone finds comes off easiest inches or lbs? What do people prefer to see the loss in their waist of their scales? Personally I love an inch loss!
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This is a very good question. I'd say to start with it was weight but now I'm nearly at goal I'd say inches.
Total loss on cambridge - 3 stone 1lb :-)
I'm gonna focus o the inches they are what makes a smaller dress!
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The lbs matter because that'll be your goal probably. But it feels so amazing when you're clothes are too big and you have to buy a smaller size!!!
It's the pounds for me, the nearer I get to target, the more inches I've lost so the two go pretty much go hand in hand really anyway.
It's nice losing the inches from my waistline, but losing the pounds does other things like having just the one chin without the baggy bit hanging underneath which of course aren't measurable, so jotting down pounds lost are what I look at and refer back to when I'm having an off day. :-)
10th June - start weight 14 st 5 1/4 lb
Week 1: 5.5 lb loss
Weeks 2 - 5: 15 lb loss
Weeks 6 - 9: 13 lb loss
Week 10 - 12: 8 lb loss Goal reached
Week 13 - 19: 3.5 lb loss
3 stone and 3 lb loss so far
Lbs for me, I'm scales obsessed.
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And lbs are easier to keep an eye on too!
I go for both because I'm greedy!
I have lost about the same in inches as I have in pounds, and the inches help when you sts or only have 1lb loss as it keeps you motivated.
Week 1 - 5: -22lbs and -15.5 inches
week 6 - 10: -11lbs and -12 inches
Week 11 - 15: -10.5lbs and -12.5 inches
Week 16 - 20: -5lbs and -6.5 inches
Week 21 - 25: +8lbs and +4.5 inches (Barbados)
Week 26: +5lbs and -2 inches (last cwp weigh in 12st7lb)
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1) Avatar - No question about this whatsoever. I absolutely loved it and can't wait to see it again.
2) Up - Pixar does it again with this adventure movie with a heart of gold.
3) Star Trek - George Lucas ... look at what JJ Abrams did with Star Trek, erase the prequel trilogy from our collective psyche and start again!!!
4) District 9 - Extremely original, great story, great acting, great action and effects that didn't take away from the emotion of the story.
5) The Hangover - For once, a comedy movie that was absolutely worth the hype. Absolutely hilarious movie, the first truly quotable comedy since Superbad.
6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - After Order of the Phoenix, I wasn't sure that David Yates was the man for the job. But the movie was absolutely amazing.
7) (500) Days of Summer - A traditional romantic movie with a non-traditional leading character = really good movie. I thought it was well written, acted and directed. The fact that the amazingly HAWT Zoe Deschanel comes off as such a B**** makes this movie great.
I only have about 7 movies in my top-10 so far. I could put 3 "okay" movies here, but I don't want to do that. I'll wait until I see some other movies on my "must see" list before completing it.
Movies I haven't seen yet that may enter my top 10:
Inglorious Basterds (I fully expect this to)
Up in the Air (as well as this)
Sherlock Holmes
The Princess and the Frog
Biggest Dissapointments:
Transformers 2 - Just a steaming pile of crap. Michael Bay ... go with George Lucas, watch Avatar, Star Trek and District 9 and see that you can make an action movie with brains and heart without having to dumb-down your audience.
I honestly think that was the only movie to dissapoint me this year. All the other movies I saw that were crap (Ice Age 3, GI Joe, New Moon) I figured would be crap anyway.


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O'Connell, B., Myers, H.*, Twigg, D.* and Entriken, F.* (2000) Documenting and Communicating Patient Care: Are Nursing Care Plans Redundant?, International Journal of Nursing Practice, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 276-280, Blackwell Science Asia Pty Ltd, Australia [C2]
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Justin Bartha Goes Scouting For 'Normal'
Justin Bartha Goes Scouting For 'Normal'
All season long, NBC's The New Normal has delicately tackled timely topics, both in and out of the gay sphere, without ever veering into cheese-tastic territory. A true accomplishment when you consider how many shows try, and fail, to produce a convincing "Very Special Episode."
Tonight, The New Normal addresses one of the most polarizing topics currently up for debate: The Boy Scouts banning of gay troop leaders. In the episode, titled About A Boy Scout, lifelong Scout supporter David has an unexpected experience upon re-entering the organization. To find out more, ETonline chatted with star Justin Bartha about his own Troop experience, the final New episodes of this season and what the future holds for The Sawyer-Collins family.
ETonline: First off, I have to commend you guys for always tacking timely issues without ever seeming preachy or getting cheesy.
Justin Bartha: That means a lot to me because we're trying really hard. This show is a passion project for so many people and, as you know, comedies on network television can have a hard time attraction attention. With a show like ours, when you have something that is seemingly attention grabbing, you don't want it to seem overbearing. We're just trying to do a quality show with relevant, non-trite storylines.
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ETonline: What were your first thoughts after learning you'd be addressing The Boy Scouts issue?
Bartha: When I read the script, I immediately called our writer/creator Ali [Adler], who this is a very personal episode for because she's raising two young children and they're dealing with this issue right now. It's not the easiest task to bring humor to the forefront while talking about issues, and I loved that we aren't overly one-sided in tackling this episode. It very much treated the issue in a thoughtful way, so I called her and thanked her for writing it. I also have to say that this episode is very much in line with what we want the show to do; to take a current event and fold it into the storyline in a meaningful and seamless way. This kind of episode is why I signed on to do the show in the first place. It's what I always knew the show could be.
ETonline: Your character was a Boy Scout, were you?
Bartha: I was not, but my gay brother was a Boy Scout. I have a lot of respect and admiration for what The Boy Scouts do and teach. And not to get too preachy, but I think their base value system, in what they teach, would benefit every child. What's confusing is that their core teaching is to accept everyone's values and views, which is obviously coming into conflict with their attitude towards gays.
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ETonline: Next week your final two episodes of the season air back-to-back. What can you say about them?
Bartha: The first episode is about Bryan and David picking the baby's name and then the finale is everything you could want from our show: a wedding and, also, possibly the birth.


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Il 06/04/2013 15:20, Matthew Wilcox ha scritto:
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 12:05:52PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:In every place where sb_start_pagefault was called now we must manage the error code and return VM_FAULT_RETRY.Erm ... in patch 1/4: static inline void sb_start_pagefault(struct super_block *sb) { - __sb_start_write(sb, SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT, true); + __sb_start_write_wait(sb, SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT, false); }- sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb); + ret = sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb); + if (ret) + return VM_FAULT_RETRY; ret = btrfs_delalloc_reserve_space(inode, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);Does the compiler not warn that you're assigning void to 'ret'? Or was there some other SNAFU sending these patches?
I'm sorry, my fault :) As I said in 00 these patches are completely *not* tested, it was only a "quick coding & review" to understand if someone can see any problem to this kind of implementation, since I touched several points in the kernel. So there is still on-going work and I need to do several tests. Maybe I had to add the RFC tag, sorry again.


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A Recession Hero: Behrooz the Good Broker
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
By Jennifer Hsu, Femi Oke of The Takeaway
Sam Jordan, a Takeaway listener in New Jersey, wants you to meet a real estate broker who he describes as more or less his real estate hero. Not something you hear about brokers these days. We found this broker who, even during the height of the real estate boom and easy mortgages, preached caution and budgetary restraint. He lost clients over his moderation and colleagues laughed, but that real estate philosophy saved families, like Sam Jordan's, from mortgage overload.
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Famous & Fun Christmas - Book 4
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Famous & Fun Christmas - Book 4 (15 Appealing Piano Arrangements). Arranged by Carol Matz. For easy solo piano (with lyrics). Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Famous & Fun. Christmas. SMP Level 3 (Early Intermediate). Songbook. Solo part, lyrics, fingerings and easy piano notation (does not include words to the songs). 31 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.23221).
ISBN 0739037803. With solo part, lyrics, fingerings and easy piano notation (does not include words to the songs). Christmas. 9x12 inches.
Specially designed to supplement any piano method, this outstanding supplementary series expands to include popular holiday selections!
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VISAKHAPATNAM: The Indian Navy which controls air traffic at the airport has announced extension of operation hours of Visakhapatnam airfield up to 2200 hours.
This was done to meet the growing aspirations of Vizagites. According to a press release, the airfield will now be available for scheduled operators from 8 am to 2 pm and again from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day. The extended hours of operations would be effective from Monday. As on date, 14 scheduled flights operate from the airfield every day. This extension is expected to attract more civil operators to scheduled their flights to and from Visakhapatnam and facilitate even long haul Air Carriers to introduce their operations from the city.
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Within hours of low-cost carrier SpiceJet announcing its new discount scheme on Tuesday, aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), asked the airline to stop offering it, terming it "predatory" and a "malpractice". SpiceJet's limited-seat offer of base fares starting at Re1 for travel between July 1, 2014, and March 28, 2015, resulted in customers visiting the airline's website in droves, making it temporarily inactive because of the heavy traffic.
The SpiceJet move, just ahead of the proposed debut of AirAsia in India, is seen as a knee-jerk reaction by some industry players. It has also raised serious concerns over AirAsia's proposed low-cost pricing model. Globally, airlines such as AirAsia and Tiger Air are known to offer aggressive fares, including for their flights originating in India, where the base fare was nil.
A top DGCA official told dna that the scheme announced by SpiceJet was against the Aircraft Rule 135. "The tariff offered by SpiceJet would have led to distortion of the market. However, there will not be any change in the bookings already made by customers," the official said. A SpiceJet spokesperson refused to divulge the number of tickets booked under the special offer.
This is the fourth time in 2014 that SpiceJet has come up with discounted air fares, which prompted other domestic carriers to follow suit. According to industry officials, other domestic carriers raised concerns with the DGCA about SpiceJet's latest offer.
In a strong response to the DGCA's move, SpiceJet said in a statement: "We do not believe that our pricing was predatory in nature since it is with the intent to stimulate demand, and is not intended to reduce or eliminate competition. With a market share of 20 per cent, we are not in a position to be predatory." The airline added: "As a low-cost airline in a market where demand is currently soft and costs are structurally high, amongst the highest in the world, we are trying our best to be innovative and adopting best practices from global LCCs in order to attract more customers and improve our revenue performance."
An aviation expert said there are seats which typically go unsold. "At least 30 per cent seats in a month go unoccupied. It would have been predatory if the airline was offering tickets for peak hours and on peak days. The DGCA should have checked all the details before taking a decision," the expert said on condition of anonymity.
In India, the Re1 air fare trend was first introduced by Capt GR Gopinath-promoted Air Deccan, which heralded an aviation revolution in the country. The cheap air fares made travelling by plane accessible to the middle-class, which had till then shied away from the mode of travel because of the exorbitant cost of tickets.
"This kind of low-fare market stimulation and inventory management is essential for the LCC business model, and is a key part of the strategy for low-cost airlines such as AirAsia, Ryanair, Southwest, EasyJet, etc, globally, and benefits the wider travel industry and economy at large due to the stimulation and economic multiplier effect," said SpiceJet.
With AirAsia about to launch operations in India, other airlines are gearing up for the competition. Tony Fernandes, chief executive of AirAsia, recently expressed his disappointment at Indian airlines's attempts to block the entry of AirAsia in India. The Federation of Indian Airlines, a lobby group for domestic airlines, recently wrote a letter to the prime minister, asking him to block the permission to give the air operator's grant to AirAsia India.


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Part 3 - Execution:
Two months ago, you were given the task of getting your plan in order. You should have been able to establish a timeline, milestones, deliverables, identify low and high hanging fruit and document the plan in some form. You should have a 50,000-foot view of who does what and when, in a format accessible to your team. This month, we move on to the real fun: Execution.
Again, the finer details of this phase will depend greatly on what it is you set out to accomplish and in what time, so we will stick to the broad strokes of executing your plan. Some of these are a refrain from the planning phase:
- Stick to the timeline
- Avoid scope creep
- Meet regularly for updates
- Celebrate milestones/achievements
- Document progress and pitfalls
- Stick to the time line: Part of your ability to do so will depend on how well you estimated your time and man-hour resources. Begin with a project kickoff meeting where you establish and clearly articulate your desired outcomes, owners, time frame and measures for success. Be mindful of dependencies. You want to be sure that if you plan on having 10 machines booting Linux in the lab by the 20th, that someone has procured/reallocated those machines before then. The main two reasons for this are to maintain momentum, and to keep perception of your success high. Slipping deadlines, or under delivering, no matter what the circumstances, will reflect poorly on the project. Get going. Keep going. Move on to the next milestone as aggressively as you can.
- Avoid scope creep: This is akin to the timeline. It will be very tempting to try and add something to the plan, or stretch a deliverable a bit in the execution, especially when energy is high. This, 9 times out of 10, will come back to haunt you in the form of a missing dependency, overspent budget, or timeline slippage. Keep track of the things you think you can add on for "gravy." If you have time, money, and energy, add them at the end. Remember, you have to know when you can call this thing "done" before you can apply any measure of success.
- Meet regularly: Even just touching base via email will help you identify roadblocks in advance. To use the previous example, you don't want to arrive at the lab to install your 10 machines to find out they aren't there. This is also an opportunity for the team leader to keep morale in check, to reallocate resources in light of changing circumstances, etc. Take these opportunities to share progress with the team against your master plan. It can do wonders to keep folks motivated and feeling rewarded for their hard work.
- Celebrate milestones and achievements: Blow your own horn a bit if this project is above radar. If this is a small proof of concept or clandestine effort, celebrate amongst the team. Nobody ever got fired for being too positive.
- Document progress and pitfalls: This is not only a good tool for your performance measures, but also invaluable when you look back to see what you need to add or improve when you re-assess in our next phase. It will also get you in the habit of having an "actual" to compare your "projected."
Some pitfalls to avoid:
- Dependency lock (you can't get A done without B, on which depends C, which needs A)
- Atrophy
- Unrealistic expectations
- Lack of communication
- "The Show stopper"
The last one is the doozy. You will invariably come to a point where you cannot proceed. If your plan is well constructed, it should build to completion. So at any point along the way you will still have deliverables to show for it. This brings into light the unwritten rule of all project planning. Plan B. Have one.
Planning, as you might expect, is usually the longest phase, but if you've done the right amount of legwork in the assessment and planning phases, it should be a breeze logistically.
Your homework this month (and for as many as it takes) is to execute your plan. Get the proof of concept lab running within your district, get your school running OpenOffice, Evolution and Mozilla, whether it be on Linux or Windows as a toe-in-the-water approach. And above all, have fun. You are, after all, saving the world.
Next month we finish off our series with: Getting started with Open source in education - Part 4: Looking Back
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I never took the possibility of Dan Henderson signing with Strikeforce seriously. To me, it was a ploy to get more money out of the UFC.
The side with deeper pockets almost always wins the negotiation battle. You put the Yankees against the Royals and the player is coming to New York.
The UFC against Strikeforce should go the same way, but this is the second time in less than six months a marquee free agent turned down Zuffa in favor of Scott Coker's "regional promotion."
Are we seeing a power shift play out before our eyes?
Dana White wants the MMA world to believe he passed on Henderson. The price was too high for a fighter who is not a PPV draw. It's as simple as that.
While true to a certain extent, there is more to the story. The UFC badly wanted to resign Henderson. There is a serious lack of top talent right now within the organization due to injury problems.
Loretta Hunt points out that this past Friday, Henderson was offered a bout at UFC 109 in February to face Nate Marquardt. The UFC did not simply let Henderson go. He chose to sign with Strikeforce.
One of the interesting subplots to this story is the UFC's decision to ban Clinch Gear from its events.According to Henderson , the UFC banned his MMA clothing company, because he would not resign with the promotion.
When you combine this with Henderson being passed over for a title shot in favor of Vitor Belfort, who he defeated, it's easy to see why he chose to sign with Strikeforce. The UFC did not treat Henderson with the type of respect he felt he deserved.
The larger issue here is whether we're beginning to see cracks in UFC's armor. The recent string of injuries has shown just how vulnerable even they can be. The signing of a 39-year-old, slightly above average PPV draw may not seem like a huge deal, but it sends a message.
The stigma of signing with Strikeforce is gone. It has landed the last two major free agents.
While the UFC was busy signing Frank Trigg, Dennis Hallman, and Phil Baroni, Strikeforce snatched up Fedor Emelianenko and Dan Henderson. It does not matter if you offer more money, at the end of the day, it comes down to where a fighter ends up. Strikeforce is winning the bidding wars.
Now, the question is whether Strikeforce can transition into a PPV business model to afford the contracts.