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Chris Brown Is A Renaissance Man: Attends Broadway Opening Of Night 'Rain
A few days ago Chris Brown was a charity event benefiting the Special Olympics; he just released a video for Yeah 3X showing off his dance skills and his love of fashion; and last night he was at the Broadway Opening of Night 'Rain – A Tribute to the Beatles'. I like this look on him…
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I've installed a package (libtcltk-ruby1.8) manually using dpkg (I
compiled it at home) and aptitude keeps trying to remove it on the
grounds that it is unused. (Of course automatically removing unused
libraries is what aptitude is supposed to do, normally.) Looking
through the manual page, it looks like aptitude unmarkauto <package>
should override this behavior, to be as if I installed the package in
the regular way using aptitude install. Unfortunately it does not work,
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wotan:~(0)$ sudo aptitude unmarkauto libtcltk-ruby1.8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
The following packages have been kept back:
grass grass-dev grass-doc linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7766kB will be freed.
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Barny: love me, you cheap southerner
And the original custom maps.
Sounds like a very good idea, will it run the same admin mod that 22nd did? Namely with the side swapping and defender lives features as I found that made siege far more enjoyable.
Also class limits?
Quote from: sammac on July 11, 2012, 03:21:00 PMAnd the original custom maps.Yeah I wouldn't mind seeing some of them return, some of them I think you could forget about, the really big helms deep one isn't much fun and neither is the one with the wooden fort in the middle of the forest, both have stupidly long travel times for attackers.
Yes! I love siege
23rd siege
Good luck!
- Teamkills: will you remove teamkills by changing the percentage at the Administrator Panel?
Folms is the Olonzo of referees.
>> Sherlock Folms <<
- Where will the server be located?
- How many admins are you looking for? 22nd_Siege had many admins, but only a few actually played on the server.
- *Links with the question above* If admins don't visit the server when they supposed to, how will you solve that problem?
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BOSTON, Mass. - (February 23) Sophomore guard Paul Seymour (Liverpool, NY) scored a game-high 18 points to lead five Terriers in double figures as the Boston University men's basketball team defeated America East-rival New Hampshire, 77-52, before a crowd of 860 at B. U.'s Case Gym.
New Hampshire (7-19, 6-11 America East) never led in the game, as B. U.'s defensive pressure held the Wildcats to a 27.3 percent shooting effort in the first half, and 27.6 for the game. The Terriers led by 11 points at the intermission, 35-24, its largest lead of the first half.
Boston University (13-13, 8-9 America East) went on a 12-0 run midway through the second half to take a commanding 60-35 advantage at the 7:10 mark.
The Terriers led almost every statistical category, including shooting 21-for-24 from the free throw line in the second half, and 32-for-39 for the game (82.1 percent). B. U. outrebounded the Wildcats 50-32.
Sophomore guard Matt Turner (West Haven, Conn.) added 14 points, and junior guard Stijn Dhondt (Borem, Belgium) scored 10 points and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds to lead the Terrier charge. Also scoring in double figures for the Terriers was freshman forward Jason Grochowalski (Shrewsbury, Mass.) with 11 points, and junior forward Ignacio Rodriguez (Canary Islands, Spain) with 10 points and a game-high 10 rebounds.
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Berlin-New York Dialogues: Building in Context November 2007
Architecture, Berlin, Curating, Dialogue, Exhibition, Fedra Display, Germany, Halftone, Information graphics, Photography, Planning, Politics, Postcards, Urbanism, Yellow
Project Projects was commissioned to design this exhibition for the Center for Architecture, New York and the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin. The exhibition investigates three neighborhoods per city though complex sets of text, photographs, and data. Large-scale site and aerial photography creates a sense of immersion in the urban contexts of each city.


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Apple, Samsung Both Found Guilty In Korean Patent Case
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Apple makes about 60% of its total revenue from the iOS lineup....and they have a rather limited line up of devices....Samsung on the other hand offers a very wide variety products ranging from phones, laptops, TV',s digital cameras, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, microwave ovens, etc etc etc etc for Apple to be forbidden from selling a couple products is a major blow....for Samsung it's no big deal, they can always says 'hey, they only banned 2 of our approximately 200 consumer products, no biggie'
It is a much bigger blow to Apple
It is a much bigger blow to Apple
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Naoki Komiya
Naoki moved from Japan to London in 2002, bringing extensive experience from many years in a top Tokyo salon. He joined the Shine team in 2003 and his quietly contained manner belies a wealth of experience. His loyal following love his signature soft, textured and natural shapes.
His years of session work gained him an agent and international travel to fashion weeks in New York, Milan, London and Paris on behalf of Shine where his creative flair is fully indulged and expressed up on the fashion worlds catwalks.
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Indonesian plantation companies have suffered dips in their income amid falling commodity prices in the global market.
Many companies such as Sampoerna Agro, Sinar Mas Agro reported lower earnings in the first half of this year as the selling price of palm oil declined amid the global economic slowdown.
Sinar Mas Agro and Technology, a plantation company that is part of Sinar Mas Group, reported a 4.1 percent decline in net income to Rp 1.11 trillion ($118 million) during the first half of this year from Rp 1.16 trillion a year earlier, the company reported on Tuesday. Its revenue fell 17 percent to Rp 13.59 trillion.
Sampoerna Agro, a palm plantation company, reported a 58 percent decline in its net income to Rp 149.88 billion, the company said in a filing to the Indonesia Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, its revenue slipped 19 percent to Rp 1.39 trillion.
It attributed the decline to "mainly due to lower selling price and sales volume of its main products, the CPO and palm kernel, which when combined, contributed 97 percent of total revenue."
The average CPO selling price at Sampoerna Agro fell 9.2 percent to Rp 7,623 per kilogram in the January-June period from the same period last year.
The company sold 86 percent of its CPO to the domestic market.
Leonardo Henry Gavaza, an analyst with Bahana Securities, said the first-half results represented 34 percent of the broker's full-year estimate.
"Although we expect attractive long-term growth coming from new maturing nucleus estates, coupled with yield recovery in its Kalimantan estates, we expect negative earnings growth to materialize in 2012 as the increase in costs will not be matched by escalated production costs," he said in his notes to clients on Tuesday.
Higher cost in Sampoerna Agro came from higher salary expenses.
First-half net income at BW Plantation, a smaller palm oil producer, dropped 9.8 percent to Rp 153.85 billion as selling prices for CPO dropped. However, its revenue rose 9.1 percent.
According to Indopremier Securities, the average selling price of CPO at BW Plantantion fell 1.7 percent to Rp 7,636 per kilogram from Rp 7,765 per kilogram.
Shares of BW Plantation rose 0.7 percent to Rp 1,480 at the Indonesia Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
Smart traded unchanged at Rp 6,450, while Sampoerna Agro lost 0.8 percent to Rp 3,000.


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THE collision of entire clusters of galaxies has helped set the firmest limit yet on the amount of antimatter in the universe.
In the early universe, the theory goes, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts. However, our universe appears to be made of matter - though astronomers have never been able to rule out the possibility that there are antimatter galaxies out there.
In 2006, astronomers discovered the Bullet cluster - two clusters of galaxies that had collided, leaving a giant cloud of hot gas. If any fraction of this gas is a mixture of matter and antimatter, then collisions between these particles should result in mutual annihilation, producing gamma rays instead of the X-rays expected from collisions between matter particles.
Gary Steigman of Ohio State University in Columbus now says that the amounts of X-rays and gamma rays emitted from the Bullet cluster prove that ...
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text: Kyrie Irving had himself a great rookie season. It was so greatthat today he was officially honored as the 2012 NBA Rookie of the Year. This marks the second time in Cavaliers history that one of their players has been bestowed the honor, I'll let you take a stab at who was the first, and was a land slide victory. Kyrie received all but three first place votes. Those other three went to Kawhi Leonard, Iman Shumpert, and Kenneth Faried… Yea, I'm confused too. Regardless, this latest accolade for Irving continues to stoke the fires of hope surrounding the future of this team. Continue reading


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Does Maya calendar predict end of world Friday? USF archaeologist says no
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The calendar created by Maya people has kept track of time for more than 5,000 years, but it ends this Friday, December 21. But that doesnât necessarily mean the world is ending. Thatâs according to an expert on the subject who dispelled some doomsday predictions at a lecture at USF Tampa last month.
Christian Wells is an associate professor of archaeology at USF who specializes in Maya culture. According to him, the world isnât going to come crashing to a halt later this week.
âIt may well end, but not because of apocalypse doomsday. It may well end for financial or climate reasons, but it certainly wonât end for the reasons of an ancient Maya prophecy coming to be foretold.â
Thatâs because there isnât some sort of prophecy being fulfilled, itâs just that there arenât any more pages on the Maya calendar to flip.
âWell the calindrical cycle thatâs ending on December 21st is whatâs called the end of the 13th baktun. They Maya had whatâs called a vigesimal system based on counts of 20s. So, for example, their month would be twenty days long verses ours is variable, but around 30 days. So, they had progressively higher and higher order cycles based on 20s and the highest â one of the highest cycles they have is the baktun which is 144,000 days. So, the 13th baktun â so 13 times 144,000 since the beginning of the Maya calendar, thatâs the end of the Maya cycle.â
But according to Wells, a lot of people suspect there might be something to the Maya Doomsday prophecy. In one survey done asking people whether or not they think the world will end on December 21, one in ten think it just might.
âThey survey was a survey of adults in 21 countries, but there are other surveys that have been done that point to a higher incidence of belief of apocalypse by younger people â teenagers in particular. That could be because of the ways in which theyâre connected more to the media and to the internet.â
Those believers come up with some pretty fascinating end of the world scenarios. Theories include nuclear and meteor threats, but Wells said his personal favorite involves the earth falling into a black hole.
âSomething about the earth being catapulted into a black hole like a rubber band.â
Joking aside, Wells said the Maya calendar is actually more representative of a sustainable world, not the end of it.
âI think that the Maya sense of the universe is really about recording their place in the environment, their place in the world and their place in the universe. And because they were such sophisticated astronomers, they were able to really pin point and track where they were relative to much larger cycles and trends â cycles and trends that outlasted them individually, but even as a people. And so they were very in touch with cosmological cycles and thatâs really the hallmark tradition of sustainability. Sustainability is really about recognizing where you stand relative to larger cycles and trends in the environment.â
The Mayan people are known for their keen sense of astronomy having used the sky to predict whether patterns and other natural phenomena. Larry Cantor, a Tampa resident who attended the lecture, is getting ready to travel to Maya territory in the Yucatan Peninsula.
âIâm still a little bit on that in between where it is very difficult for me to imagine that these people, out of the clear blue sky were this advanced because going back to what he said, if you come across the Bering Strait, what happened to all this knowledge? Why did they bypass the United States and the Navajo â excuse me â and they settled in the middle part of, letâs say, Mexico.â
The end of the Maya calendar is a big deal to its people with or without apocalyptic speculation. There are still an estimated 800,000 surviving Mayans. Ceremonies marking the end of this baktun have already started, but priests have been barred from performing rituals inside archeological sites for safety and preservation reasons.
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An independent United Nations expert today urged the Somali Government to finalize and carry out a human rights roadmap endorsed by the cabinet in August.
Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia Shamsul Bari said in a news release that the roadmap defines the Government's responsibilities and sets goals to be achieved in a short period of time.
"Finalizing it would demonstrate a sincere commitment by Government to rebuild the foundation and structures of human rights in Somalia," he stated.
Mr. Bari called on the country's new Prime Minister, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, and the international community to seize the opportunity to build a new Somalia where "the rule of law and the respect of human rights for all Somalis would be the norm."
The roadmap, an initiative proposed by Mr. Bari to the Somali authorities, is based on key human rights themes, each containing its own action plan to be implemented by ministries, and sets out a post-transition strategy running until 2015.
Stressing that the roadmap offers "a unique opportunity" for the advancement of human rights in Somalia, Mr. Bari advised the Government to consult with regional administrations and civil society organizations throughout the country to finalize it.
Independent experts, or special rapporteurs, are appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to examine and report back on a country situation or a specific human rights theme. The positions are honorary and the experts are not UN staff, nor are they paid for their work.


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A manual device for reading printed coded documents with the capability of reading by either scanning the device over the printed intelligence contained on the document or by inserting the printed document into a slot formed in the base of the reader. The reader contains no moving parts and comprises essentially a housing with a slot into which a document, usually a conventional merchandise ticket, to be read may be inserted and read. A reading aperture through which printed matter may be read by scanning a document without the necessity of inserting the document into a slot is formed in the base. A photoelectric cell array is used to sense the coded print with the aid of a lens positioned so as to focus the printed information obtained through the aperture in the base onto the photocell array. A light source whose direct light is shielded from the photocells is positioned contiguous to the aperture to shed light on the printed matter to be read.
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United States Patent Berler [54] PHOTOELECTRIC MANUAL READER FOR PRINTED CODED TAGS Primary Examiner-Daryl W. Cook Attorney-Arthur J Plantamura 1451 Aug. 22, 1972 ABSTRACT A manual device for reading printed coded documents with the capability of reading by either scanning the device over the printed intelligence contained on the document or by inserting the printed document into a slot formed in the base of the reader. The reader contains no moving parts and comprises essentially a housing with a slot into which a document, usually a conventional merchandise ticket, to be read may be inserted and read. A reading aperture through which printed matter may be read by scanning a document without the necessity of inserting the document into a slot is formed in the base. A photoelectric cell array is used to sense the coded print with the aid of a lens I positioned so as to focus the printed information obtained through the aperture in the base onto the photocell array. A light source whose direct light is shielded from the photocells is positioned contiguous to the aperture to shed light on the printed matter to be read. I
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PHOTOELECTRIC MANUAL READER FOR PRINTED CODED TAGS The present invention is an improvement over the copending application of Robert M. Berler, Ser. No. 21,139 entitled Hand Held Photo-Optical Reader For Printed Documents filed on Mar. 19, 1970, which discloses a reader which is designed to read sequentially a plurality of lines on a ticket on which information is printed in columns. In the case of five columns, for example, a simple lens is used to image one line (across the five columns) simultaneously into five corresponding photocells as the reader is passed over the printed information.
Thereader described in that application is designed to be moved over a document (which is usually secured) by scanning the reader over the printed information preferably aided in following a straight path movement by'a guide which may be. an integral part of the ticket'itself. The present invention provides a novel reader for printed code which has no moving parts and which, in addition to reading documentsby merely stroking the reader over the ticket to be read, is also capable of receiving tickets to be read within a guide slot formed in the base of the reader.
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION One of the more advantageous uses of readers of the kind with which thepresent invention is concerned resides in its application at the checkout counter, i.e., at the point of sale, in retail stores. To function efficiently at this task, it is desirable that the reader be easily manipulated so that it may be brought into contact with various articles of merchandise, i.e., capable of easily scanning merchandise ticket secured in various ways on articles to be sold, usually at the checkout counter of a store. Accordingly, the invention will be considered in connection with this particular utility; however, it will be understood that the reader maybe applied in various other situations.
In most cases, merchandise tickets are attached to merchandise in retail stores to record various useful data such as price, stock or part number, department number, and the like. When customer-selected merchandise is brought to the checkout counter, the clerk refers to the ticket when writing a sales slip. A copy of the slip is retained by the store for later recordation of details of the transaction for accounting and inventory records. This accountingfunction is usually performed manually, and is tedious, time-consuming and vulnerable to errors of entry. As conventionally performed, these transactions account for a considerable loss of store revenue through lost clerk time, delay in customer service and in errors of collection and recording. Such manual operations also make a current inventory record extremely difficult, if not impossible. The advantages of recording a transaction at the time of, and at the point of, sale by reading directly from the ticket, which contains the pertinent information, are therefore apparent. Such merchandise tags ortickets are secured on the goods in various forms, two of the most common being (1) by a cord fastening the tag to the merchandise, or (2) by pasting, stapling, pinning or otherwise securing the tag on the goods. The device of the present invention offers the distinct advantage of being capable of reading all such tags or tickets irrespective of the manner in which such tickets are secured to the merchandise provided only that access of the reader to the ticket is not obstructed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The reading device of this invention comprises a combination of elements including an array of photoelectric sensors, a lens and a light source, none of which are movable within the reader; it is designed to 'read sequentially, a whole line at one time, a plurality on the document is accomplished by stroking the. reader over the length of the ticket-so that the opening formed in the base of the reader is substantially in alignment with the columns of information to be read or by inserting the tag or ticket into the slot formed at the base of the reader. No special means is required to read either tickets which are pasted or otherwise secured to an article, in situ, or tickets which are capable of being fed into the base of the reader. With respect to the former, the reader is merely drawn along the length of the ticket in the scanning action. A reference guide to direct the reader in a straight line is preferably placed on the ticket. Such reference guide may be the edge of one side of the ticket or a preprinted guide line, for example, preferably an abutting guide such as a long slit, an embossed or debossed edge, a fold, and the like may be placed on the ticket to help guide the reader in a straight line as it sweeps over .the ticket. Because of its simplicity and relatively large tolerance, the reader can read glued down tickets, even those secured on curved surfaces such as cans of food. It can read tickets of almost any desirable length. With respect to tickets which are attached by string or those which may be detached from merchandise and inserted into the slot formed at the base of the reader, no
separate guide is necessary because the slot itself lends suflicient giidance to tickets inserted therein.
It is an object of the invention to provide an improved photo-optical reader for printed coded documents which is characterized by its versatile usefulness.
It is another object of the invention to provide a hand held printed codereader which is simple in design, inexpensive to manufacture, easy to maintain, it has no moving parts, requires little skill to operate and is especially useful for reading printed merchandise tickets at the point of sale including tickets which may be fed into the reader as well as tickets securely adhered as by glueing to flat as well as curved surfaces.
Additional objects and advantages will be apparent from the description which follows.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIG. 1 is a side view partially in section of'the hand held reading device illustrating the functional elements housed within the reader.
FIG. 2 is a bottom view of the reader of FIG. 1 illustrating the reader opening in the base plate.
FIG. 3 illustrates one form of coded document which may be read by the device of the invention.
FIG. 4 illustrates a modified form of the reader of the invention in use to decode a ticket which may be fed into the slot formed in the reader base.
FIG. 5 illustrates a use of the device of FIG. 1 to read a ticket which is pasted down where the reading action is effected by scanning the reader over the surface of the ticket.
FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a simple logic circuit useable with the reader of the invention.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The apparatus of the present invention isan optical ticket or card reader which is used to decode printed information by optical means. While the reader of the invention may be adapted to read various types of printed documents, it will be described herein in connection with a printed ticket type format, such as the kind conventionally used on articles of merchandise for retail. The reader has the capability of reading the printed information from tickets of this type whether such tickets are glued flat on the article, in which case the reader is drawn over the top of the ticket, or merely secured thereto, for example, by a string or cord passing through a hole in the ticket, in which case the tickets may be fed as though free into the slot formed in the base of the reader.
Reference to FIG. 3 illustrates one type of printed document 27 which may be decoded by the reader of the invention. A guide line 28 is shown running down the left side of the ticket. Where the ticket is of the kind which is glued down, a guide line of this or similar kind is advantageously employed to assist in directing the reader in a straight line during the scanning motion. The guide, of course, is useful only when the ticket is pasted on the article and cannot be fed into the guide slot 26 formed within the reader although the presence of such guide in a ticket which may be fed into the reader is not objectionable. It is to be noted, however, that the presence of a guide such as 28 to help direct the reader in a straight line scan even in tickets which are glued down and cannot be fed bodily into the reader is not critical. In operation, when a guide 28 is used, the reader is positioned in such a way that it is in contact with the ticket just above the top coded line 29 of the five column coded document shown. The left side of the reader skid 22 is place over the guide line 28. The reader is then drawn along so that the left side of the skid 22 as shown in FIG. 5 abuts the guide line as the reader moved from the top to the bottom of the ticket to produce a readout of all lines of the printed coded information.
The guide line 28 on document 27 may take several forms; it is preferably formed as a part of the ticket such as by embossing, grooving, crimping and the like, as described in greater detail in the copending application of Allan Borows, Ser. No. 21,138 filed on Mar. 19, 1970, so as to provide a physical contact against which the reader may abut and thereby hold it in better alignment to minimize chance of error as the reader scans the ticket. A guide of this kind, against which the reader rides, is particularly advantageous in reading a ticket through a plastic transparent wrapping such as a man's shirt. for example, in which the ticket, together with the merchandise, is encased.
As shown in FIG. 1, the reader 10 of the invention comprises a lightweight closed-loop housing 11 the top portion 12 of which forms a pistol grip and includes an appropriate switching means such as an index finger switch 14 positioned in housing 13 and/or a thumb switch or rest 16 in housing 15. The handle loop is completed by generally upright left and right housing portions 18 and 19 respectively and a base portion 20. A base or skid plate 22, which has an opening 23 formed therein through which infonnation from a ticket to be read is viewed, is sufficiently spaced from the base 20 so as to receive a ticket within the space 26. The skid 22 is suitably fastened at 24 and contoured at 25 so as to conform smoothly into housing 11. A substantially L-shaped reader module having a horizontal portion 30 and a generally upright vertical portion 31 is incorporated into the housing 11 which comprises the closed loop. A lamp 33, baffles 34, reflecting element 35, lens 36 and photoelectric sensor array 37 are contained in the housing 11 and function so that light from lamp 33 (which is shielded from direct reflection onto reflector 35 illuminates the print on the portion of a ticket to be read. The print is reflected by mirror 35 through lens 36 to the photoelectric sensor array 37. In a reader used to read a five-line ticket as shown, for example, in FIG. 3, the array 37 would contain a bank of five photoelectric cells enabling the reader to decode one full line across the ticket as it is scanned by the reader. The photo sensor array 37, suitably connected to the electrical power cable at 38 through wires 39, is situated in the reader housing loop at the opposite side from the opening 23, Le, removed from the opening 23. The closed loop arrangement of handle 1 l functions to afiorcl substantial stability when the reader is used to decode a document which is glued on a flat surface due to the substantial surface area of horizontal base 32 which extends nearly the whole length of the handle, substantially all of which is in contact with the surface upon which the printed document is secured.
As noted hereinabove, one of the important features of the reader of the present invention resides in its ability to read tickets which may be fed into the reader as well as those which cannot be fed therein but can be merely scanned. With respect to reading the former, the plate or skid 22 of sufficient width (and whose width may include an adjustable feature, not shown) is spaced a sufficient distance from the housing body to accomodate a ticket in the slot or space 26 which is formed between the base 20 of the housing 11 and skid 22. It is thus seen that when so arranged and constructed, the reader of FIG. 1 is capable of reading tickets which are free to be fed into the slot 26 or tickets which are secured to a surface and must be decoded by scanning the reader over the surface of the document to be decoded.
In FIG. 4 a ticket 40 is illustrated partially inserted in the process of being read by feeding the ticket into the slot between the base 20A and the skid 22A. In this respect the relationship of base 20A and the skid 22A of FIG. 4 is essentially similar to the base 20 and skid 22 respectively of FIG. 1. The reader housing 11A of the embodiment of FIG. 4 differs from the housing 11 of FIG. 2 in that the housing 11A is illustratedas being open at the rear so as to form essentially a U-shaped configuration although as shown by broken line at 43, the housing may be continuous also to form a closed housing similar to that of FIG. 1. The decoding components of the reader of FIG. 4 may be arranged as shown in FIG. 1, or may be modified from those of FIG. 1 so that the line of sight is direct from the printed image on the ticket 40 being read as shown rather than reflective as provided by the mirror incorporating arrangement of FIG. 1. The reader components of FIG. 4 comprises a light 45 with shielding elements 46 and a lens 47 mounted in a suitable peripheral light masking support 48 so that images from the ticket 40 are directed into the photoelectric sensor 50. The photosensor 50 although illustrated as a single unit is also preferably an array of photoelectric sensors similar to 37 of FIG. 1 and is connected through wiring 51 to a conventional power cable 52. It will be understood that the reader of FIG. 4, as well as the reader of FIG. 1, may be utilized to read either tickets which are fed into the reader or tickets .which are secured to a substrate of some kind such as the package 56 as shown in Fig. 5.
In the illustration shown in FIG. 5 a ticket 54 which is passing, the reader 11 over the coded information printed on the ticket preferably aided by a guide means for translating light impulses generated by-the printed code on the ticket and imaged onto the photocell array 37. The light impulses received by the photocell array are processed in a conventional manner such as through an amplifier 58 anda decoder 59 to produce the desired electronic signal into a computer 60, for example.
While the invention has been described with reference to a particular embodiment in order to facilitate a full, clear and concise explanation, various modifications apparent to those skilled in the art may be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention.
I claim:
1. In a photo-optical reader comprising a housing which is substantially in the form of a loop and comprises a lower horizontal base portion with a document viewing opening formed therein and an upper horizontal hand grip portion and incorporating a light source to illuminate a document to be read through said opening when the reader is positioned in reading relationship to the document and photoelectric detectors to receive through said opening a line of images from the document to be read, the improvement which comprises a base plate spaced from said base portion and substantially in parallel alignment with said base portion and having a viewing window which is in alignment with the opening in said base portion so that images may be viewed optionally (a) through said opening and said window when the reader is placed over a document to be read, and (b) through said opening when a document is inserted between said base portion and base 1 t p 2. The reader of claim 1 wherein the housing comprises a closed loop and includes a finger switch within said loop.
3. The reader of claim 1 wherein the photoelectric detectors are positioned essentiallyin vertical alignstantially removed from said opening in the base and a mirror is utilized to reflect said images from said document through a lens to said photoelectric detectors.
5. The reader of claim 1 wherein the photoelectric detectors comprise an array of five detectors each corresponding to one symbol on each line of five columns of printed symbols on the document to be read.
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Took a ride with Moosehead and Carol from the rally site down into Prince Edward County. Dropped in to see Errol Weaver at Bench Mark Works (Canada) in Milford to get all new cables for the little Beemer that thought it could. Clutch, front brake a throttle cables were all in stock and I left a happy guy. Errol even gave me a complimentary Bench Mark Works coffee mug featuring a cool visual of a T-Rex riding a /2 BMW. Nice.
While at Bench Mark Works everyone had to try a WWII era side car rig that was in the shop for some repair work. Carol pilots while Bob hangs onto pillion and Errol holds down the chair.
Unfortunate historical baggage aside, that's a neat piece of gear. There was a lever on the tank that shifted a two speed axle into "Gelande" or low gear for "Overland" or off-road use. Or "Strasse" for high gear or "Street" use. How many of you knew BMW's heritage of G/S's (Gelande/Strasse) dated back to the Second World War? I didn't.
Heading back to Trenton the "scenic way" took us across the Bay of Quinte on a ferry from Glenora. It was to be the first of many ferry crossings on this auspicious trip.
Back at the rally I met this fascinating fellow who'd built himself an ultralite aircraft powered by an R100 mill. The reduction drive was of his own design, too. This was a really nice piece of engineering. Had two wings he used depending on his flying opps. High and low speed. Very nicely sorted from what I saw. He offered me a ride if I looked him up in the fall. If I can get in touch with him I'm going to take him up on it!
Anyone know who he is? I forgot to get his contact info!
Leaving Trenton I enjoyed a pleasant ride north and west on the smallest roads I could find, including a wildly rugged trail that crossed a creek bed before dumping me onto the next consession road north. Enjoying the "make it up as you go along" route I was reminded again of my preference for solitary travel or with a very few like minded fellows.
You ADV guys living in the area north of Trenton and Bellville have an awesome network of roads and trails to ride your dual sport bikes. I'm envious. The whole area was beautiful and quite unspoiled.
Here's a view from the Ravenscliffe Road near Huntsville, Ontario. Talk about comedy noir.
The wildlife can be varried and unpredictable.
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From start to finish, Fatima: The Blood Spinners from Dark Horse Comics has been one of those miniseries that's so much more than what it's premise implies. It's hard to say that about most comics, especially those still cashing in on the wheezing, terminally ill patient of a genre that is zombies. I mean, "secret agents fighting the supply of a zombie drug" is about as elevator a pitch as they come, right up there with "what if Marvel superheroes were zombies," "what if zombies fought Ninja Turtles," or "what if Barack Obama fought zombies and we made the title a pun on Resident Evil because aren't we so clever as to lift a joke title from a Veronica Mars episode title?" It's like Love and Rockets' Gilbert Hernandez saw all these purveyors of crap comics and said to himself, "I can show them how it's really done."
And he did.
Where other zombie narratives would pile grisly action atop grisly action, replicating George Romero without understanding him, Hernandez opts to redraw the map: the heroes are sleek, sexy men and women from a S.H.I.E.L.D.-like organization, utilizing flying saucers, hover-bikes, escape pods that look like beans, and other sci-fi gadgetry that would make Bond jealous. The zombies are drug addicts, their hollowed-out humanity functioning as a stand-in for meth, and are entirely sympathetic. What's more is that Fatima, the top dog agent, has to grapple with the revelation her own organization is responsible for the zombie drug "Spin" being unleashed upon the population; her outlook is bleak, even before she awakes to a nightmarish apocalypse populated with zombies and mutants (which can make anyone pregnant to lethal effect, turning around Fatima's own infertility). People, in the sense of sound-minded, vital individuals with sense of both self and community, no longer exist, no longer exist, having been replaced by the children of the zombie: they're capable of basic tasks (one is shown pushing a mop) and of going about their daily routines, but little more. For all its bluster, the War on Drugs (along with its half-sibling, the War on Terror) has only made the drug industry (illegal and otherwise), more powerful; perhaps even willingly so, to keep the populace subservient through medication and intoxication. Hernandez's end of the world as we know it serves as allegory, then, for such institutional corruption leading us closer to civilization's demise. Hence, why the organization known as Operations is responsible for distributing the drug, a fact Fatima and her fellow agents discover and deal with far too late.
Dark as this is, Hernandez's art is never over-shadowed or murky when highlighting his tale's carnage and insanity–the homogeneous sludge of DC's New 52–instead, his style is deceptively simple, as it has always been: clear layouts and a high contrast black-and-white, especially effective for a scene where a mutant sneaks up on the duplicitous agent Chitts or when Fatima adopts the superhero image of a hooded cloak to fight zombie-crime, a no-frills approach to sequential art that grounds all manner of mayhem, a rarity unseen even in similarly ambitious, socially conscious comics like Chew or Punk Rock Jesus (both of which have elaborate and often chaotic pages). Even in the latter half of this issue, where Hernandez glides past plot points that would've taken several issues for mainstream writers to get to, often with single panels (one character departs from the narrative with "Oh, well! G'bye!"), the issue never goes off the rails precisely because the inexplicable is depicted with such focus.
Another trap Hernandez avoids is demonizing. Though Chitts reveals through his actions to be a slimy, selfish worm, he acts at the behest of a bodyless voice–the institution itself, guiding him through VR goggles–and never out of any malice towards other human beings. Even when left to a cruel fate, the comic takes no joy in it, and neither does Fatima, it seems. This reflects the series' general sympathy towards the Spin-zombies, as they, along with Chitts and even Fatima herself, have been mere cogs to a security-industrial complex. It's to Hernandez's credit that his approach favors people ("All life is sacred") over ogranization: the existence of a functioning city proves to be a false omen of hope, shrouded almost entirely in black against a white landscape. Even when none are left, people and their stories matter more than buildings in the world of Fatima.


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