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Federal cuts haunt Vt budget processBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press bureau | February 27,2013MONTPELIER As the partisan finger-wagging on Capitol Hill intensifies, lawmakers in Vermont are bracing for federal budget cuts that many here say seem unavoidable.
A report put out by the White House enumerates the financial impacts of the sequestration process on Vermont. Across-the-board cuts to human services, public safety, education, health care and the military will mean a reduction of more than $10 million in federal money coming to Vermont over the next seven months, according to the White House projections. And that figure doesnt capture the dollar effect of furloughs or job losses for the thousands of federal employees who call Vermont home.
It certainly will make a difficult budget even more challenging, House Speaker Shap Smith said Tuesday. And I am concerned about what it will mean ... as far as trying to put together a budget in a timely fashion.
The question of how this state should respond to the brewing fiscal storm will reignite a familiar debate in Montpelier over revenues. Gov. Peter Shumlin has said the state lacks the wherewithal to back-fill federal reductions.
We do not have the capacity to do any substantial cushioning, Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding said Tuesday.
After allocating $9 million in state funds to supplement diminished federal heating aid especially, Spaulding said, we dont have any further pots of money that are waiting for a catastrophe like this.
Smith said he isnt ready to shut the door on raising new revenues. The advent of sequestration, he said, would require a re-examination of the states fiscal priorities.
If theres a hole caused by sequestration, we could make it up by raising revenue to account for the hole, Smith said. I think we need to understand how essential the services are that are being cut, and make a determination about whether to raise revenue based on that assessment.
Lawmakers will soon depart the Statehouse for a weeklong Town Meeting Day recess. Barring a breakthrough in Washington, D.C., theyll return to a gloomier revenue forecast than the one they left.
Sequestration-related impacts include $2.6 million less for public education, a $1 million cut to programs for clean water and air, and a $1 million cut to funding for the Vermont National Guard base in Colchester. The cuts arent necessarily a large percentage of overall spending; the cuts to schools, for instance, come in a $1.4 billion public education system. But legislators and policymakers say the effects will be real.
If it were to take place, it would be tragic for many Vermonters, Spaulding said.
Secretary of Human Services Doug Racine will see many of the cuts land in the agency that he oversees. A $52,000 reduction to child vaccine programs, for instance, would mean 760 fewer children would receive vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, according to the White House website. A $270,000 cut to drug treatment in Vermont translates into 500 fewer admissions to substance abuse programs. A cut to senior nutrition programs would mean $204,000 less for meals, and the Department of Health would lose $55,000 that had been slated to pay for 1,400 HIV tests.
Racine said Shumlin has been clear that raising new revenues isnt an option. If Congress hasnt negotiated a deal to avoid the cuts by Monday, Racine said, hell begin looking at whether the agency should reallocate money from programs to which its already been appropriated.
What I would try to do is say, How do these impacts stack up against other programs, and can we shift dollars around to cause less harm than if these cuts go through as is? Racine said.
He said his use of the term less harm is deliberate.
Because if these cuts go through, there will be harm, he said. These are really vulnerable populations were talking about. Its not going to be a pleasant discussion to have.
Smith said the House will be making similar calculations.
In some areas, areas where we have new spending, we may end up needing to pull back, Smith said. Certain items may get funding or they may not get funding based on whether sequestration goes into effect.
The full effects of sequestration wouldnt be felt for months; furloughs at the Vermont National Guard, for instance, wouldnt come until late April, according to a guard release Tuesday.
Jack Lindley, chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, says its much ado about almost nothing.
Theres going to be very minimal damage, Lindley said. I think things are being terribly overblown.
Lindley said hed like to see Democrats and Republicans get together and cut a deal. But he said it needs to include at least as significant a spending cut as the one awaiting the country if they do nothing. If Vermont and the U.S. cant absorb the kinds of spending reductions associated with sequestration, Lindley said, then the state is doomed to economic failure.
This is exactly what needs to happen if were going to get ourselves where were not borrowing 40 cents of every dollar were spending at the federal level, Lindley said. If we cant get this accomplished, lord help us all in terms of what it means for our kids and grandkids.
Sen. Jane Kitchel, a Caledonia County Democrat and chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, said it isnt just the immediate budgetary impacts that concern her. She said congressional gridlock is at least partly responsible for the revenue downgrade issued by economists last month. Those downgrades will continue, she said, if the private sector is forced to contend with perpetual brinksmanship in Washington.
Revenues are to a huge extent down because of uncertainty in Washington, Kitchel said. And employers unwillingness to hire and make investments wont go away until they know whats going to happen.
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COMFORT, W.Va. — Boone County Sheriff's Deputies arrested Herman Dewayne Pickens, 53, of Peytona, Wednesday morning at approximately 10:30, according to a news release.
Pickens was arrested for "Threats of Terrorist Acts" at Sherman Elementary School in Comfort.
Deputies were made aware that Pickens had been in the school on several occasions and made specific threats concerning a firearm, to the staff of the school.
Corporal B.G. Browning encountered Pickens inside the school this morning and Pickens had a firearm holster on his belt where it was visible to students and staff.
Boone County Schools Superintendent John Hudson said Pickens did not have a gun inside of the school.
"No individual, to my knowledge, brought a gun inside of the school," Hudson explained. "He had a firearm holster that was empty."
Police said Pickens also had in his possession a folding knife which is prohibited on school grounds.
However, in close proximity to the school and inside Pickens' vehicle, officers located a loaded .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun, according to the police report.
On at least two prior occasions this month, Pickens brandished the empty holster to the staff and made threats of not leaving his gun in his vehicle the next time he came in, according to police.
"This is why we called the police to the school," Hudson said.
Police said these acts made the staff fear for the safety of their lives as well as the lives of the children inside the school.
Pickens was taken before Magistrate C. Porter Snodgrass and arraigned Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 23, 2013. A $100,000 property bond was set.

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July 28, 2013
Do you ever get the feeling that we are in a mess in the United States and the rest of the world? If you do, you are not alone.
There are, however, millions of people who are trying to make a positive difference, but millions of others who are doing their evil worst to continue on their destructive rampage. Their goal seems to be to make things as bad as they can for as many people as possible.
In recent weeks, I have read again historian William J. Federer's perceptive book, Change to Chains. What we see going on today and what has been happening in recent years is about to bear an abundant and devastating harvest in our nation and throughout the world.
The domino effect will release and produce consequences of which we have never dreamed. Our time of denial and closing our eyes to what has been going on is about over. The efficacy of accumulated depraved power may predictably unleash a torrent of evil and judgment upon us that will forever change life as we have known it in the long history of the United States and the world as we and our generations have experienced.
Forsaking common sense, intelligence, wisdom, prudence and judicious living can only hasten the day of conclusive judgment upon all those who have lived as though they had no social responsibility and that there was no God to whom they must ultimately answer.
Federer wrote in his book mentioned in paragraph three, "There have been approximately 6,000 years of recorded human history. That is all – only about 6,000." He reminds us that: "Pulitzer Prize winning historians Will and Ariel Durant in an 11-volume work, The Story of Civilization (published 1935-1975), in which they examined the rise, flourishing and fall of major world civilizations. More than 20 years after his death, Will Durant's quote appeared in an opening graphic of Mel Gibson's 2006 film Apocalypto, "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
Federer continues, "In a companion work, The Lessons of History (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968, p. 90), Will and Ariel Durant wrote, 'Civilizations begin, flourish, decline, and disappear – or linger on a stagnant pool left by once life-giving streams.' "
Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee wrote in his 12-volume Study of History (1934-1961), "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." President Abraham Lincoln on January 27, 1837, warned America, "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Empires and weather patterns seem to follow the suggestion given in Matthew 16:1-4 by Federer. Most of us have heard "Red at night, sailors delight. Red in the morning, sailors take warning". I suggest you read often the reference in Matthew 16. Read it until it says something significant to you.
What about turning hate and death into love and life? Here are a few suggestions.
1. Speak and write well of others.
2. Take responsibility for your actions and quit blaming others.
3. Treat other people the way you would like them to treat you.
4. We need more truth and less opinion.
5. Our stupidity and ridiculous remarks may help us gain a minor headline, but they will accomplish nothing of value.
6. Start reading the Word of God and conduct your behavior as it teaches.
7. Make an honest effort to understand other people and find at least one thing good about them.
The blame game will not be profitable for the life of individuals or nations. Become an agent for positive change.
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My 11 year old daughter, Zoe, said I could NOT put flowers on my 7 year old son's cake so we decided to make a bowling cake for his bowling party to celebrate his birthday. After I made the bowling lane she said "If only we could have have hard wood floors like those!"
To make the layered cake I baked four sheet trays of cake and layered them with two layers of vanilla icing and a layer of chocolate pudding. Then we used rolled fondant by Wilton to cover the cake.
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Calvert, Blue Jackets top PenguinsThe Associated Press | April 20,2014AP Photo
Columbuss Matt Calvert celebrates his game-winning goal with teammates Ryan Murray (27) and Cam Atkinson during the second overtime period of Saturdays NHL playoff game in Pittsburg. The Blue Jackets won 4-3 to even the series at 1-1.PITTSBURGH Matt Calvert banged home a rebound 1:10 into the second overtime and the Columbus Blue Jackets earned the first playoff victory in franchise history with a 4-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.
Pittsburghs Marc-Andre Fleury stuffed the initial shot by Cam Atkinson but Calvert stood all alone at the left post and wristed a shot into the open net to even the Eastern Conference quarterfinals at one game each. Game 3 is Monday in Columbus.
Jack Johnson tied the game with 6:01 left in regulation for the Blue Jackets. Ryan Johansen also scored the first playoff goal of his career for Columbus. Sergei Bobrovsky overcame a shaky start to finish with 39 saves.
Brian Gibbons scored twice and Matt Niskanen added his second goal of the playoffs but Pittsburgh was outplayed for much of the final three-plus periods. Fleury made 41 stops but was helpless on the game-winner.
ST. LOUIS Defenseman Barret Jackman scored on a drive through traffic, giving the Blues their second straight 4-3 overtime victory over the Blackhawks for a 2-0 series lead against the defending Stanley Cup champions.
St. Louis rallied after Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook received a five-minute major and game misconduct penalty for a vicious elbow to the head on Blues captain David Backes, who had to be helped off the ice, went straight to the locker room and did not return for the extra period.
Vladimir Tarasenko forced overtime with his second goal of the series, beating Corey Crawford with a wrist shot that banged off the right post and in with 6.4 seconds to go. Kevin Shattenkirk had a goal and two assists for the Blues.
Duncan Keith, Seabrook and Michael Rozsival scored in a span of five shots to put the Blackhawks up 3-2 early in the third. But Seabrooks penalty proved costly, and he could be suspended for Game 3 in Chicago on Monday night.
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Description: The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (JASMed) is an annual gathering of early career historians of medicine and public health, coordinated by graduate students. Founded in 2002 by Prof. Harry Marks with students from Hopkins, Yale and Harvard, the first JASMed conference was held at Hopkins in 2003. Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Rutgers and Columbia also have hosted JASMed conferences over the past twelve years. The mission is to foster a collegial intellectual community and to provide a forum for sharing and critiquing graduate research among peers. This year's conference is being coordinated by graduate students in the Johns Hopkins History of Medicine Department. All participants are welcome - including those from different institutions and different disciplinary backgrounds.
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Today's cloud computing world is rapidly maturing, especially as more users migrate mission-critical resources to the hosted environment. As the cloud continues to evolve, many decision-makers will become increasingly confident in the technology's ability to keep sensitive assets protected, enabling vendors to watch their services reach full-scale adoption.
A recent study by KPMG International highlighted this ongoing phenomenon, noting that cloud computing revenue will double in size during the next two years, largely because companies are moving more mission-critical, data-rich applications to hosted environments.
In the past, decision-makers were somewhat intimidated by the cloud. In today's world, executives are less worried about falsified security concerns and more interested in saving money, as roughly 60 percent of service providers said cost savings was the primary driver behind the adoption of their offerings, KPMG reported.
"While providers are seeing the challenges of a maturing, yet still relatively young, market, we are at a pivotal point in the evolution of the cloud ecosystem as users become more comfortable with a variety of cloud applications," said Gary Matuszak, an executive at KPMG's technology, media and telecommunications practice. "Leading cloud providers know they must evolve to provide a new level of scale, capacity and capability."
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Junior Taylor Hall (New Tazewell, Tenn.), playing just 20 minutes, led all scorers with 16 points as UTC Head Coach Wes Moore got more players into the game. She went 5-of-8 from the floor and missed her fourth 3-point attempt after making each of her first three. She was 3-of-4 from the free throw line as well and grabbed five rebounds.
Junior Faith Dupree (Knoxville, Tenn.) added 12 points and three assists while freshman Tatianna Jackson (Atlanta, Ga.) also had 12 going 4-of-5 from the floor, 2-for-3 from the 3-point line and had four steals. Junior Ashlen Dewart (Spartanburg, S.C.) was the fourth Chattanooga player in double figures with 10 points and was 4-for-6 from the charity stripe.
Senior Kayla Christopher (Oliver Springs, Tenn.) and junior Destiny Bramblett (Radcliff, Ky.) each tossed in eight points in the win. Christopher, along with Dupree, dished out three assists each while senior Kylie Lambert (Etowah, Tenn.) and sophomore Ka'Vonne Towns (Lilburn, Ga.)
Chattanooga jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead behind a jumper from Hall and a 3-pointer from Hall less than two minutes into the contest. UTC grew its led to double figures just over halfway through the first half to 28-17 at the 9:10 mark and never trailed throughout the game.
Belmont's Alyssa Visbeen hit a 3-pointer to pull the Bruins within one, but that was as close as it would get the rest of the game as Chattanooga pushed its lead to 16 in the first half on a jumper from Dewart.
In the second half, the two team started out trading shots with the Lady Mocs taking a 52-37 lead at the 13:42 mark. A 7-0 run by UTC put Chattanooga up 59-37. Jackson hit a free throw and grabbed a steal that led to a layup stretching the Lady Mocs' lead to 62-39 with 9:55 to play.
Belmont cut the lead to 17, 62-45, on six straight free throws from Visbeen, but UTC responded with another 7-0 run, fueled by five made free throws to go up 69-45 with 5:54 to play. The Lady Mocs largest lead came with 40 seconds remaining, 84-52, on a layup from junior Meghan Downes (Newnan, Ga.)
The Lady Mocs were 29-of-60 from the field (48.3%) and was 7-of-15 (46.7%) from beyond the arc. UTC was 19-of-26 from the free throw line and outrebounded Belmont 39-31. Chattanooga dished out 14 assists, had 12 steals and 12 turnovers.
Belmont (1-2) shot just 32 percent (16-of-50) from the floor and was 5-of-18 (27.8%) from the 3-point line while getting a near-perfect performance at the free throw line making 17-of-18.
Chattanooga improves to 2-0 on the year and will return home to host former Southern Conference rival East Tennessee State Saturday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m.


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-Tonight, the wonderfully rollicking, hyper-catchy Idaho trio Finn Riggins visits Silver Moon Brewing & Taproom. Opening will be Empty Wotta, a hybrid band that includes Mosley Wotta and half of Empty Space Orchestra, so get there on time.
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-Local folk duo The Erins perform tonight at The Summit, and then Erin Cole-Baker will play a solo gig Sunday at Les Schwab Amphitheater.
–Lindy Gravelle, a longtime fixture on the local scene, has a new CD out called "One Lucky Lady." She'll have it with her when she plays at Bo Restobar tonight.
-Tonight is busy! If you're in Sisters (or want to be), you can check out the Western swing of Portland's Lisa and Her Kin at Angeline's Bakery.
–Two rock bands are teaming up for a Domino Room show on Tuesday night. Local quartet The Commerical Underground will open, and Idaho's Under Wicked Sky will headline.
-Saturday will mark Deschutes Brewery's 21st birthday, and they're throwing a party featuring music by Tuck and Roll, Goodbye Dyna, Blackstrap and Scott Fox.
-You can catch two solid local acts within a few dozen feet of each other on Saturday night. Head to Silver Moon at 8 p.m. for bluesman Eric Tollefson, and then wander next door to the Tulen Center for the Person People show. Tollefson says he's getting started early so everyone can see the PP set. How considerate of him! (Note: If you click that link, you'll also see a blurb about David Bowers playing McMenamins on Wednesday. That is not happening. The Bowers Colony canceled, and the Portland-based electro-jam band Alpaca will perform instead.)
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June 19, 2013
Our expert panel is back for another week of Quakes talk. They will review the weekend's victory over the Colorado Rapids, the USA vs. Honduras result, and they will look ahead to Quakes at D.C. United.
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Tyndall and the followers of Tyndall have been denying the efficacy of prayer, and have been calling for test of an hospital ward with prayers, against an hospital ward without prayer. The challenge of course has been disregarded. Tyndall was no_ entitled to any notice inasmuch as he had no reason to offer for his conclusions beyond his own infidel presumption.
We have already referred the Tyndall school to the miracles, the fruit of earnest and sincere prayer, that were daily reported as being witnessed at the waters of Lourdes and elsewhere. We now invite the attention of the members of that school that may be enlightening St. Louis by their presence, to two occurrences that have lately taken place in the suburbs of the city; and which being great and sudden cures of deep seated and long existing disease, the subjects thereof attribute to prayer earnestly and continuously addressed.
The first was the case of a girl long paralysed, whose mother despairing of aid in any other way carried her in her arms to the Church of St. Alphonsus, Grand Av., about a month since and asked Father Meredith to do something for the child. Father Meredith said he could do nothing for her, but prayed over the child and directed her to make a novena to "Our Lady of Perpetual Succour."
The mother took away the child and returned about two weeks since, and saying she had made the novena, again called on Father Meredith to do something for the child, that was suffering very much. The Father expressed his sorrow that he could not alleviate the sufferings of the child, but gave a medal, and desired her to renew the novena. She has since returned to Father Meredith, having made the novena, with the child by the hand cured and perfectly well.
The second case was that of Mary Dolan who in September came to St. Alphonsus Church. She complained that she was suffering so that she could not walk without help and had thirteen ulcerous holes in her leg, and asked the Father Superior to give her some relief in the name of God. She felt quite disappointed when he told her that he could do nothing, but that she should appeal to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour who could help her if that was the will of God. The Father read the prayers for the sick and giving her a medal told her to make a novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. She was assisted away and has since returned, her leg being perfectly healed, and able to do her work.
Those are two cases, both of which bear strong and it may be seen, conclusive evidence, that the cures were wrought by Divine Intervention. The diseases in each case were of long standing, matters of notoriety in their respective neighborhoods and apparently incurable by merely human means. The only explanation is the one we have mentioned.
Notes: Father William Meredith, C.SS.R, was my husband's great-great-great uncle, half-brother to his great-great-grandmother Margaret Meredith Palmer. You can read about his early life here and his life as priest here.
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The magma piping is one level down, so this is the level where all the magma-powered workshops go. Eight ea/ smelters, forges, and glass furnaces cover most of the demand the fortress sees. - sirbobsalot
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Nice. A neat and tidy fort. However, I imagine you are going to outgrow that initial design very quickly.
I didn't get the gauntlet first but closer inspection did the trick. That thing is neat. The overall design is also some welcome variation from the endless square grid forts.
This is my first attempt at a fort using some roundy bits instead of my usual grid of 5x5 squares. I like the way it's turning out so far, though I think next time I'll make the center chamber a little bigger so I can squeeze some lateral hallways past the N/S/E/W blocks.
Going to do a full round of POI's for the 208 update, since most of the original floorplan is complete. The entrance defenses got their first test in early Autumn 207, and the trap maze did the trick nicely. The two rings closest to the crossbow tower were set up with serrated disc and spiked ball traps to pretty good effect. Too bad the marksdwarves were all off drinkin at the time, or they would have had some live-fire practice.
Beautiful wheel of death!
I like it. A very well designed fort. I love the Catacombs. I think I shall be referencing this fort for when I rty fiddling with my river.
Nice to see some fine use of POIs. I think I can explain your jailed dwarfs refusing to sleep on their prison beds, they are probably trying to get to their old bedrooms. If you unassign their old rooms for the duration of their imprisonment, and designate their jail beds as a little 2x2 bedroom assigned to them, they might then decide to use them.
Next time I try to divert a river I'm going to bring the discharge back in waaaaaaaaaay further downstream. What was happening is I'd get about a minute where the pumps would work just like they're supposed to, then the water would back up the stream and flood the pumping area again. I'm thinking maybe if I had brought the bypasses in closer to where the river drains off the edge of the map I wouldn't have had as much trouble.
Well laid out- and good constructions across the map.
A fine fortress I should say.
Was looking at your fort again and noticed the farms. Did you just put flooring over soil? Or was there some impressive mosesdorf action going on?
Did a *facepalm* when I saw how you powered your millstones...
Over-all, still impressed *thumbs up*
The soil was a couple of layers deep close to the river, so all of level 17 and the eastern bits of level 16 are constructed floors/walls. That's what the leftover stone stockpile on level 16 is from. The citizens of Craftpicks are no mere savages to be squatting in the dirt! They demand proper stone accommodations. =)
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I was in Munich for a bit last week and was hoping to catch a Yas Marina Blue M4 in the wild to see the color for myself. Seen plenty of photos at car shows in the bright lights but wanted to see how it looks in real world. As luck would have it I did happen upon one later in the day. I didn't get great photos but did get to see what I came for. I can say its a very nice … CONTINUED
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- The Chattanooga Mocs (2-8) battled back from a double-digit deficit before losing 63-53 to Mercer (6-5) Sunday afternoon in McKenzie Arena. Chattanooga was sparked by freshman walk-on Alex Bran (Memphis, Tenn.).
Bran entered the game at the 15:01 mark of the second half with his team down 16, 41-25. He scored five points on back-to-back possessions sparking a 10-0 run that ended at 12:52 with a three-pointer by Bran.
The Bears regrouped and built the margin back to 14, 53-39, on a T.J. Hallice layup with 8:26 to play. But the Mocs continued to battle. Two Ronrico White (Knoxville, Tenn.) free throws with 1:37 left got UTC to within six, 59-53, but those were the last points of the game for the Mocs.
Mercer's Langston Hall led all scorers with 19 points while adding five rebounds, four assists and two steals. He hit six of 12 shots including five for nine from three-point range.
Z. Mason (Nashville, Tenn.) paced Chattanooga with 13 points, eight rebounds and three blocks. Gee McGhee (Baton Rouge, La.) chipped in 12 points and four boards, while Bran posted eight points. Martynas Bareika (Kedainiai, Lithuania) added a career-high seven rebounds.
It was a tough shooting night for the home team. UTC hit 33.3 percent (18-54) from the field and 26.9 percent (7-26) from beyond the arc. Usually dominant on the glass, the Mocs struggled with the Bears claiming a 38-33 advantage on the boards.
Chattanooga got off to a good start. An 8-0 run capped by a Mason layup put the Mocs up 10-5 early with 16:48 to go until intermission. Mercer took control of the game with 19 unanswered points, holding its opponent without a point for 8:42 with a jumper by McGhee ending the drought.
Down 15, 33-18, McGhee scored on a jumper and a layup on the Mocs final two possessions to send his squad to the break on an upswing down 33-22.
Bran, Bareika and Sam Watson (Knoxville, Tenn.) were impactful off the bench for Chattanooga. The trio combined for 15 points, 10 rebounds, four assists and a steal.
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A security article is a substrate having a diffractive grating thereon, coated with a windowed high index layer and a color shifting coating visible through the window. The color shifting coating is disposed on the high index layer or on the opposite side of the substrate. Alternatively, a thin film color shifting structure conforming the diffractive grating is disposed between the grating and the windowed high index layer, also conforming to the shape of the diffractive grating. Alternatively, an ink with low density of color shifting pigments is applied over the high index layer conforming to the shape of the diffractive grating. The resulting color shifting image provides a reference to a holographic image.
1. A security article comprising:
a substrate;
a diffractive grating directly on the surface of the substrate or upon a coating adjacent to the substrate, having a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region; wherein the first region is coated with a high refractive index (HRI) coating of a light reflecting HRI material having an index of refraction at least 1.65 and where the second region is absent the HRI material thereby forming a window above the second region of the substrate;
a colored or color shifting coating supported by the substrate and visible through the window;
whereby, when the article is irradiated with light, an image formed by light reflected from the colored or color shifting coating in the window provides a reference to a holographic image formed by light reflected from the HRI coating.
2. A security article as defined in
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This application claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 60/827,487 filed Sep. 29, 2006, which is hereby incorporated in its entirety for all purposes.
This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/552,219 filed Oct. 24, 2006, which claims priority from provisional application No. 60/759,350 filed Jan. 17, 2006 and provisional application No. 60/729,907 filed Oct. 25, 2005, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated in their entirety for all purposes.
The application Ser. No. 11/552,219 is a continuation-in-part application of patent application Ser. No. 11/273,985 filed Nov. 15, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,667,895 which is a continuation-in-part application of patent application Ser. No. 10/666,318 filed on Sep. 18, 2003, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,987,590; and claims priority from provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/673,080 filed Apr. 20, 2005; the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated in their entirety for all purposes.
The application Ser. No. 11/552,219 is a continuation-in-part application of patent application Ser. No. 11/313,165 filed Dec. 20, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,604,855 which is a continuation-in-part application of patent application Ser. No. 11/022,106, filed Dec. 22, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,517,578 which is a continuation-in-part application of patent application Ser. No. 10/386,894 filed Mar. 11, 2003, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,047,883, which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/410,546 filed Sep. 13, 2002, from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/410,547 filed Sep. 13, 2002; and from U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/396,210 filed Jul. 15, 2002, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated in their entirety for all purposes.
The application Ser. No. 11/552,219 is a continuation-in-part application of patent application Ser. No. 10/706,142 filed Nov. 12, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,754,112 which is a divisional application of patent application Ser. No. 09/351,102 filed Jul. 8, 1999, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,761,959, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated in their entirety for all purposes.
The application Ser. No. 11/552,219 is a continuation-in-part application of patent application Ser. No. 11/047,389 filed Jan. 31, 2005, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,224,528, which is a continuation application of patent application Ser. No. 10/705,610 filed Nov. 10, 2003, now abandoned which is a divisional application of patent application Ser. No. 09/489,250 filed Jan. 21, 2000, now abandoned the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated in their entirety for all purposes.
The present invention is related generally to thin film optical coatings for use in producing security articles. More specifically, this invention is related to the production of diffractive surfaces such as holograms or gratings coated with a material having a high refractive index, which can be used as security articles in a variety of applications.
Color-shifting pigments and colorants have been used in numerous applications, ranging from automobile paints to anti-counterfeiting inks for security documents and currency. Such pigments and colorants exhibit the property of changing hue upon variation of the angle of incident light, or as the viewing angle of the observer is shifted. The primary method used to achieve such color-shifting colorants is to disperse small flakes, which are typically composed of multiple layers of thin films having particular optical characteristics, throughout a medium such as paint or ink that may then be subsequently applied to the surface of an object. Color switching pigments appear to change color for example from a dark green to a light green, or from a light blue to a dark blue. Color switching pigments are described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,150,022 in the name of Coulter et al. Color switching pigments consist of bright metal flakes that are substantially reflective disposed in a liquid carrier vehicle that includes a dye. For example when a blue carrier vehicle is used, the flakes have a range of color from light to dark blue when they switch color upon a change in viewing angle.
Diffraction patterns and embossments, and the related field of holographs, have begun to find wide-ranging practical applications due to their aesthetic and utilitarian visual effects. For all intents and purposes, a diffraction pattern, whether embossed, etched or inked, is understood to be a marked region. A marked region is to be understood to be a region having some form of indicia thereon, whether inked or stamped or etched. One very desirable decorative effect is the iridescent visual effect created by a diffraction grating. This striking visual effect occurs when ambient light is diffracted into its color components by reflection from the diffraction grating. In general, diffraction gratings are essentially repetitive structures made of lines or grooves in a material to form a peak and trough structure. Desired optical effects within the visible spectrum occur when diffraction gratings have regularly spaced grooves in the range of hundreds to thousands of lines per millimeter on a reflective surface.
Diffraction grating technology has been employed in the formation of two-dimensional holographic patterns which create the illusion of a three-dimensional image to an observer. Three-dimensional holograms have also been developed based on differences in refractive indices in a polymer using crossed laser beams, including one reference beam and one object beam. Such holograms are called volume holograms or 3D holograms. Furthermore, the use of holographic images on various objects to discourage counterfeiting has found widespread application.
There currently exist several applications for surfaces embossed with holographic patterns which range from decorative packaging such as gift wrap, to security documents such as bank notes and credit cards. Two-dimensional holograms typically utilize diffraction patterns which have been formed on a plastic surface. In some cases, a holographic image which has been embossed on such a surface can be visible without further processing; however, it is generally necessary to coat a reflective layer upon the embossed surface, typically a thin metal layer such as aluminum in order to achieve maximum optical effects. The reflective layer substantially increases the visibility of the diffraction pattern embossment.
Every type of first order diffraction structure, including conventional holograms and grating images, has a major shortcoming even if encapsulated in a rigid plastic. When diffuse light sources, such as ordinary room lights or an overcast sky, are used to illuminate the holographic image, all diffraction orders expand and overlap so that the diffraction colors are lost and not much of the visual information contained in the hologram is revealed. What is typically seen is only a silver colored reflection from the embossed surface and all such devices look silvery or pastel, at best, under such viewing conditions. Thus, holographic images generally require direct specular illumination in order to be visualized. This means that for best viewing results, the illuminating light must be incident at the same angle as the viewing angle.
Since the use of security holograms has found widespread application, there exists a substantial incentive for counterfeiters to reproduce holograms which are frequently used in credit cards, banknotes, and the like. Thus, a hurdle that security holograms must overcome to be truly secure, is the ease at which such holograms can be counterfeited. One step and two step optical copying, direct mechanical copying and even re-origination have been extensively discussed over the Internet. Various ways to counteract these methods have been explored but none of the countermeasures, taken alone, has been found to be an effective deterrent.
One method used to reproduce holograms is to scan a laser beam across the embossed surface and optically record the reflected beam on a layer of a material such as a photopolymerizable polymer. The original pattern can subsequently be reproduced as a counterfeit. Another method is to remove the protective covering material from the embossed metal surface by ion etching, and then when the embossed metal surface is exposed, a layer of metal such as silver (or any other easily releasable layer) can be deposited. This is followed by deposition of a layer of nickel, which is subsequently released to form a counterfeiting embossing shim.
Due to the level of sophistication of counterfeiting methods, it has become necessary to develop more advanced security measures. One approach, disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,624,076 and 5,672,410 to Miekka et al., where embossed metal particles or optical stack flakes are used to produce a holographic image pattern.
A further problem with security holograms is that it is difficult for most people to identify and recollect the respective images produced by such holograms for verification purposes. The ability of the average person to authenticate a security hologram conclusively is compromised by the complexity of its features and by confusion with decorative diffractive packaging. Thus, most people tend to confirm the presence of such a security device rather than verifying the actual image. This provides the opportunity for the use of poor counterfeits or the substitution of commercial holograms for the genuine security hologram.
In other efforts to thwart counterfeiters, the hologram industry has resorted to using more complex images such as producing multiple images as the security device is rotated. These enhanced images provide the observer with a high level of "flash" or aesthetic appeal. Unfortunately, this added complexity does not confer added security because this complex imagery is hard to communicate and recollection of such imagery is difficult, if not impossible, to remember.
It would therefore be of substantial advantage to develop improved security products which provide enhanced viewing qualities in various lighting conditions, especially in diffuse lighting, and which are usable in various security applications to make counterfeiting more difficult.
Security articles having diffractive surfaces and color-shifting backgrounds are described U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 20040105963 A1, 20040101676 A1, 20040094850 A1, and 20040081807 A1. Such security devices include a transparent holographic substrate coated with a color-shifting layer on the side opposite to the holographic embossing. The color-shifting optical coating provides an observable color shift as the angle of incident light, or viewing angle, changes. The color-shifting coating can be fabricated by vacuum deposition of an optical interference structure onto the corresponding surface of the substrate, by spraying of a paint containing color-shifting pigment, or by printing ink as by flexographic, gravure or Intaglio means.
A patterned layer of a reflective material might be applied over predetermined portions of the holographic substrate to form alphanumeric characters, bar codes, pictorial or graphic designs as described in WO 2005/026848 A2. To produce such, a highly reflective material needs to be deposited on the top of the holographic substrate and etched out from predetermined portions of the substrate. As a result of demetalizing these areas of the substrate, where the metal was etched out, they become essentially transparent and the holographic effect there becomes almost invisible. In contrast, the portions of the substrate where the reflective metal was left on the surface in different predetermined shapes, maintain visible holographic properties.
Color-shifting coatings can be applied to such a demetalized structure in different ways. It can be applied to the side of the substrate opposite to the embossed side. In this manner the coating becomes visible through transparent demetalized portions of the substrate. Alternatively the color-shifting coating can be applied on the top of embossed side. The coating and patterned holographic elements become visible through the transparent substrate when the substrate is flipped over. This combination of hologram substrate and a color-shifting coating is called a "chromagram". General concept of chromagrams can be readily understood with reference to
Demetalized holograms are more difficult to counterfeit since one not only has to make the hologram but also demetalize an intricate pattern in register with the holographic pattern.
It is an object of this invention, to provide an image that can be used as a security device, that is very difficult for counterfeiters to copy, and that can readily be authenticated.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a security device that offers a high degree of security while at same time providing considerable visual appeal.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a security device having a first region coated with magnetically aligned pigment particles; and, a second marked region different from the first printed region, wherein the magnetically aligned pigment forms an image that appears to move with a change in viewing angle or incident light, and wherein the second marked region serves as a frame of reference against which the image appears to move.
In accordance with the invention, there is further provided a security device having a first region coated with a magnetically aligned pigment and a second different region having a diffraction grating thereon, wherein the magnetically aligned pigment forms an image that appears to move with a change in viewing angle or angle of incident light, and wherein the diffraction grating serves as a frame of reference against which the image appears to move.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a security device comprising a patterned reflective optical structure having: a substrate having a diffraction grating therein or thereon; an at least partially reflective layer adjacent to or near the diffraction grating; and, a layer of field aligned pigment supported by the substrate.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a security device comprising a substrate having a diffraction grating therein or thereon; a segmented high refractive index (HRI) layer adjacent to or near the diffraction grating; and an optically variable coating visible in windows of the HRI layer. The OV coating can be a color-shifting layered structure, or a carrier having color-shifting or reflective pigments or flakes therein.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a security device having a first region coated with a magnetically aligned pigment and a second different region having a diffraction grating thereon, wherein the magnetically aligned pigment forms an image that appears to move with a change in viewing angle or angle of incident light, and wherein the diffraction grating serves as a frame of reference against which the image appears to move, wherein the first region is contained within boundaries of the second region, or, wherein the second region is contained within boundaries of the first region, and wherein both the diffraction grating and the magnetically aligned pigment can be seen from one side of the device.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a security device comprising a substrate having a surface that is partially embossed such that embossed regions on said surface are separated by non-embossed regions forming windows and a layer of magnetically aligned pigment above, below or within the windows and visible through the windows, whereby diffractive effects are seen from the embossed regions separate from effects seen from the magnetically aligned pigment seen through or in the windows when the device is irradiated with light.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a security device that includes a layer having a diffractive region and a different layer having a magnetically aligned pigment, wherein when the device is irradiated with light, diffractive and kinematic effects are seen.
In accordance with a broad aspect of the invention, there is provided a security device comprising a layer having a diffraction pattern therein or thereon, and another layer formed of a color-shifting coating wherein only some regions of the color-shifting coating are magnetically aligned.
Exemplary embodiments of the invention will now be described in conjunction with the drawings in which:
Referring now to
According to another embodiment, the color-shifting coating 9 can be applied on the top of embossing as shown in
The images shown in
In accordance with this invention, it is proposed to use a novel and inventive structure to form chromagrams for preventing of counterfeits of valuable documents, credit cards, banknotes, and the like.
In accordance with an aspect of the invention, it is possible to enhance the security properties of a patterned holographic structure by printing a color-shifting magnetically alignable optically visible coating or a non-color-shifting magnetically alignable optically visible coating and applying a magnetic field thereto to form in this layer either three dimensional patterns or three dimensional informative signs or patterns with illusive optical effects. The coating should be based on an ink containing platelet-like magnetic pigments for example as described U.S. Pat. No. 6,808,806, or in co-pending U.S. patent applications Ser. Nos. 20040051297, 20040166308, 20050123755, and 20060194040, incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. The term "magnetic pigment" is used to mean a pigment that will align in a magnetic field. E-field alignable pigments may be used in place of magnetic pigments when an electric field is used to align the pigment. Field alignable pigments are pigments that have flakes that will align in a magnetic or electric field. Of course permanent magnets or electromagnets can be used to generate magnetic fields. In accordance with this invention, the magnetic pigment can be color-shifting or non-color-shifting. The ink vehicle can be clear or dyed. To make a structure with the enhanced security properties, the ink needs to be printed on the surface of the substrate as it was done for the above mentioned described chromagrams. The substrate with a layer of wet ink is moved into a magnetic field to form the illusory image. Preferably, the field is shaped to a desired, desirable, or predetermined pattern. When the wet ink is exposed to a magnetic or electric field, flat magnetic or e-field alignable particles of the pigment align along magnetic lines of the field. This is shown in
Turning now to
UV or e-beam or thermal curing of the ink vehicle directly within the field or shortly after its exposure to the field fixes magnetic particles inside of the layer of the ink at their aligned positions. When the ink is illuminated by the light source and observed with a naked eye or with an optical instrument the differently aligned platelet-like shaped magnetic pigment particles reflect incident light differently. One portion of the particles is so oriented with respect to the substrate, to the light source and to the observer that it reflects coming light rays right into the eye of the observer. Another portion of the particles of the print reflects light rays in different directions because they are tilted at different angles relative to the direction of the observer. When the substrate with printed coating is tilted with respect to the light source or the observer the first portion of the pigment particles does not reflect the light toward the observer any more. These particles start to reflect the light in different direction while the particles of the second portion start to reflect the light rays in the direction of the observer. When particles are aligned gradually in the layer of the ink, tilting of the substrate causes appearance of an illusive motion effect. When particles are aligned along the lines of a magnet that was shaped in predetermined pattern a portion of the printed layer repeats the shape of the magnet creating an effect of three-dimensionality. In this region it appears as if the image comes out of the substrate toward the observer.
The chromagram with the enhanced security feature has a magnetically printed star around the star in hologram 2. It is generally important that the magnetically introduced pattern of the print was a part of the graphical design of the security article.
The magnetically formed image can be placed inside of a holographic image. An example of such combination of a magnetic print and the graphical design for a security thread of banknotes is illustrated in
The security thread 81 is attached to the paper substrate 82 by traditional technology. The thread 81 is made from a thin transparent polyester substrate, embossed in certain regions 83 with a shape of a rectangular frame 84 and the number 100 inside of the frame 84. Both the frame 84 and the 100 in the region 83 are embossed with diffractive grooves 85 using known technology for forming holograms.
Due to the embossing, a rainbow-colored diffractive pattern of the frame with the number 100 in the area 83 results. The embossed side of the substrate was coated with a thin aluminum layer 86. Part of aluminum was etched off the substrate leaving rectangular windows 87 of the same size as the frames 84 of embossed boxes in the area 83. Color-shifting ink 88 was applied to the embossed and partially aluminum-coated side of the substrate 82. The substrate with the wet ink 88 was placed in the magnetic field providing alignment of magnetic particles in the shape 89 of the number 100 with the same size as the size of 100 in the holographic part of the thread. The magnetically formed number 100 has a three-dimensional like appearance. The thread was flipped over after curing of the ink and laminated with adhesive 90 to the paper 82 with the color-shifting ink coated side as shown in the cross-section of the chromagram in
Enhanced chromagrams can also be fabricated by an alternative method. In contrast to the chromagrams in
The chromagrams in
A cross-section of the substrate 1 with demetalized pattern of
The AB 134 was printed in the margins of the sign's contour lines 133. A magnetic field applied to the layer 140 of the wet ink provided alignment of the pigment particles as shown in
Observations of the structure in
The tilt of the sample from the observer changes the observation angle of the particles. Particles in the layer 140, that is, the sign AB, are at a normal angle with respect to the observer while the particles in the background layer 141 are tilted as shown in
Now the particles in the layer 140 reflect yellow light rays in the direction 146 and the observer sees the sign AB as gold in color. Background particles in layer 141 reflect blue light in the direction 148 and the observer sees dark blue background areas surrounding the sign AB as shown in
In addition to the embodiments described above, an alternate structure is shown in
It has been discovered that the presence of reference points in an optically illusive image produces a very strong illusion of the depth within an image. For example using a magnetically aligned pigment with a reference point has significant advantages. The reference point could be anything located in close proximity the printed layer that could be seen by the naked eye and which provides awareness to the viewer of the location of the layer. The reference points include printing, writing, dusting or splattering of paint on the top surface of the magnetically oriented layer. Additionally, the surface of the printed layer could be textured by cutting, scratching, etching, or the like; provided a textured surface on the substrate so that a layer of the ink adhered thereto will have a textured surface; a top coat containing particles visible to the naked eye such as flakes, specks, etc. Turning now to
Regions 194 in
The bridge 191 in
The inventors of this invention have found that the presence of a hologram on the top or around a magnetically formed image generates a three-dimensionality to the image. In accordance with this invention the diffractive pattern serves as a frame of reference; that is, reference points relating to where things are with respect to one another. Illusive or virtual depth of the disclosed optical device depends on several constituent factors. The factors for the magnetically formed pattern include magnetic pigment color and brightness, thickness of the layer of the ink, sharpness of magnetically generated pattern, contrast ratio between the background and the magnetically generated pattern. Factors for the hologram include level of transmittance of the coated layer.
A diffractive pattern can be embossed in such a manner that it would be invisible at normal angle of observation allowing viewing of a magnetic print and become gradually highly visible at rotation of the print from 0.degree. to 90.degree. around the axis perpendicular to the surface of the diffractive embossing. A transparent blazed-patterned diffractive grating laminated to a magnetically formed image, is very good for this purpose.
Another significant advantage of using a transparent hologram is an increased capacity of information that can be placed into the optical device. A magnetically aligned image may form a pattern that would carry a particular amount of information or text and the transparent hologram laminated on the top of magnetic print would carry another amount of information or additional text. Both of these difference sources of information could overlap one another providing multiple information sources of different information covering a same viewing region, essentially increasing the information storing capacity of a same viewing region.
Various other embodiments may be envisaged without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, the light transmissive substrate can be coated with a high index layer, and coated with magnetically aligned pigment is any desired pattern and subsequently stamped with an embossed grating.
The high index layer can used in place of demetalized or patterned aluminum layer as noted above. The high index layer, also referred to as a high refractive (HRI) layer, is a coating composed of a high refractive index (HRI) material having an index of refraction at least 1.65. Suitable examples of such materials are known in the art and include TiO2 and ZnS. The reason for the use of the HRI layer is to provide reflectance from the embossed pattern. Without the HRI layer, the embossed layer is very similar in refractive index to a laminating polymer and thus its diffractive optical effects would essentially disappear if a layer of a material having a differing refractive index difference is not provided. The HRI is a substitute for the aluminum used to provide the reflectance.
There are two types of demetallized Al coatings used on holograms. In the one instance, the coating is completely removed over an extended area, e.g. a "window", to permit viewing of a feature or background behind the coating. In another embodiment, the coating is a so-called "partial demetallization" where the coating is made to look semitransparent by demetallizing in a very fine dot screen pattern like newspaper halftone printing, so that both the reflected holographic pattern and the background can be seen together like looking through a window screen with very fine weave. A HRI coating used for the latter effect, by enhancing the reflectance of the holographic surface and making it visible even when laminated to a medium of the same refractive index as the underlying embossment by increasing the refractive index difference of the surface. HRI coatings have several advantages. They are continuous and so do not show a "dot screen" pattern or moirķ effect in combination with other printed patterns or overlays, and more durable and corrosion resistant than the very thin Al coatings needed for partial demetallization. The degree of reflectance and the color of reflectance can be varied within certain limits by varying the HRI thickness, using the changes in interference color produced by the HRI layer itself. However, they are thicker and more expensive to apply than a simple Al layer.
In addition to the reflected/transmitted color control by interference colors in a transparent HRI layer, the HRI layer may have intentional absorption by using for example a suboxide of for example titanium or other metal, or even color centers or cermet materials such as SiO2/Cr cermet.
There are a number of well known ways to produce a patterned HRI layer. The HRI coating may be deposited by using a contact mask to delineate the regions where the HRI coating is windowed. A printed-on patterned layer of soluble polymer may be applied to the device, over which the HRI is subsequently deposited. The polymer may then be removed using a "lift-off" process to open windows in HRI layer. HRI layers may be deposited by well known methods including direct or reactive sputter coating, vacuum evaporation, reactive plasma deposition of, for example, organometallic compounds, or sol-gel solution coating methods.
According to one embodiment,
In operation, when the chromagram 200 is irradiated with light, the HRI coating 230 enhances reflectance from the embossed surface 210, and the color shifting coating 250 is visible through the transparent substrate 220 and window 240 in the HRI coating 230, so that a color shifting image formed by the region 234 serves as a reference to a diffractive image formed by the region 233.
According to one embodiment,
In one embodiment, the color shifting coating 251 is a Fabry-Perot structure consisting of an absorber layer, a reflector layer and a spacer layer therebetween, wherein the absorber layer is the closest to the HRI coating 231, for example coated on or adhesively bonded to the HRI coating 231. When the chromagram 201 is irradiated with light, looking in direction marked by an arrow 242 through the transparent substrate 221, one can see a color shifting image formed by light reflected from the color shifting coating 251, visible through the window in the region 236 absent the HRI material. A region 235 having the HRI coating underlying the diffractive pattern 211 provides a holographic image visible through transparent substrate 221, wherein the color shifting image provides a reference to the holographic image.
In the instance when the coating 251 is made of color shifting ink, the color shifting effect is visible not only in direction 242 as described above, but also on the opposite side when the chromagram 201 is viewed in direction 241. If the HRI coating 231 is coated conformally upon the embossing 211, the optical effect observed in the region 235 depends on concentration of color shifting particles in the ink vehicle. In the instance when the pigment particles are transparent or their concentration is low, not higher than about 5% by volume or less than about 75% by surface area coverage, the HRI-coated diffractive surface in the region 235 is visible through such a coating thus providing a color shifting holographic image adjacent to a color-shifting image without a holographic component in the region 236. However, if the concentration of particles is high enough, they mask or hide the embossing 211 so that a holographic effect is not seen on the top of the chromagram 201; the pigment particles act rather like a random dot screen as in the case of partial demetallization discussed above. The visibility through the pigment coating depends on coating thickness, on the reflectance and color of the pigment compared to the brightness, color and contrast of the background.
According to one embodiment,
When the chromagram 202 is irradiated with light and viewed in direction of arrow 244, the color shifting coating 252 is visible in the window in the region 238, providing a color shifting image in proximity to a holographic image formed by the HRI coating 232 in the region 237. The color shifting image provides a reference to the holographic image, which can be used as a security feature or for aesthetic appeal.
Alternatively, coating layers 250, 251, and 252 are not color shifting but colored non-shifting coating, for example images printed with regular ink and visible in the windows of the respective HRI layers.
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