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With the group stages of this years Rugby World Cup almost over, the quarter final fixtures are beginning to take shape. With New Zealand, England, Ireland & South Africa all winning their respective groups, they are seen to be getting the easier draws. France, Argentina, Australia and Wales also made it through the pool stages. The only home nation to be going home early is Scotland who were knocked out after losing to England. Chris Ashton scored a later try to secure victory in a game which Scotland dominated.
Wales captain Sam Warburton was spotted this weekend in a pair of white Adidas R15's, Australia utility back James O'Connor was seen in the White Puma v1.11 boots and Argentina's Juan Jose Imhoff scored in a pair of Nike Mercurial Vapors. Also spotted were Bryan Habana of South Africa in Adidas RS7s and Tonga Prop Soane Tonga'uiha in Mizuno Wave Samurai 4 Boots.
Sam Warburton
Plays for: Cardiff Blues and Wales
Wears: Adidas R15 SG Rugby Boots White, Black & Red
Wales captain Warburton has led by example so far at the RWC this year and will hoping that he can help his team overcome Ireland this weekend. The open-side flanker scored for him team in their 66-0 win over Fiji.
James O'Connor
Plays for: Melbourne Rebels and Australia
Wears: Puma v1.11 Boots White, Black & Dresden Blue
After losing to Ireland in the pool stages, Australia come up against South Africa in the quarter finals on Sunday. With a handful of injuries throughout the backline, it is not yet known where O'Connor will play however he is sure to be handed the kicking duties after his 9 conversions against Russia.
Juan Jose Imhoff
Plays for: Pampas XV and Argentina
Wears: Nike Mercurial Vapor VII Boots Granite, Pink & White
Imhoof scored against Georgia which helped to knock Scotland out of the competition. Argentina now face New Zealand for a place in the semi finals and will be hoping to cause another major upset.
Bryan Habana
Plays for: Stormers and South Africa
Wears: Adidas adizero RS7 Pro SG Rugby Boots Orange & Blue
The sight of Bryan Habana limping off the field in the second half of the game against Samoa was not wanted the South African coaches, players and fans wanted to see knowing that Australia were going to be their quarter final opponents. His try in the first half proved vital in the closely fought game.
Soane Tonga'uiha
Plays for: Northampton Saints and Tonga
Wears: Mizuno Wave Samurai 4 SG Rugby Boots Cyber Yellow & Black
Eventhough Samoa beat France at the weekend, it was not enough to book a place in the quarter finals. This means that prop Soane Tonga'uiha will be returning to Northampton and rampaging through the Aviva Premiership defences once again.


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Saturday, 11 February 2012
Physical Medium- Deborah Griffin
Physical Medium from Gaynor Perry on Vimeo.
I did a drawing of this fantastic woman, Deborah Griffin (Fischer-Jones) during my "Homage to" series. See HERE
This is out of this world, I felt a panic attack coming on during the gauze scene, I am transported into some spooky old photo from a Victorian occult parlour game, and I'm never coming back, back, back...
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- Francesco Amati
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Does Anything 'Become' Something?
Does anything 'become' something? Does Winter become Spring? If so, then there would no longer be a Winter. How can anything that becomes something return to what it previously was? If it's in an entity's nature to 'be' what it will 'become', then how can it actually 'become' what it already 'is'?
A butterfly, metaphysically, is a 'being' waiting to 'be'. Its process is the egg > caterpillar > butterfly. A caterpillar can't become anything other than a butterfly. Whether it turns into a butterfly is irrelevant because its only potential is to be a butterfly. Once anything 'becomes' something, it is assumed that what 'anything' becomes, the manifested 'something' never was. If this is the case, then the caterpillar can be something other than a butterfly; however, if that were true, then would the egg pave way for the caterpillar or something else?
The same can be said about an acorn to a tree or a sperm to a baby. Therefore, is the process to 'become' an illusion that physically manifests what anything already is? Is 'to become' the same or different as 'to change'? Is anything 'new' or only 'relative'? Did the chicken come before the egg? Did this post metaphysically exist before it was posted into physical existence?
What say you?
Apr 20 2012: Maybe this is what is meant by "we are all a part of the whole." Maybe in our linear experience of time, this is how we see things, but in (another) reality it is all happening at the same time. Maybe it is all just aspects of the same existence, but we just see it separately. We, as humans, like to take things apart down to their smallest components, but an egg/ caterpillar/ butterfly are all parts of the same thing. (as well as those things it ate, and how it decays after death back into the earth.) Maybe this is all simply parts of the whole universe, and we just see it in parts. If one looks at the earth or the universe from outside one sees the whole; when we look at it from here, we see its parts. We can experience it from both directions.Apr 22 2012: Laura,
As I read your response, I felt as if I was reading my thoughts, down to the way you explained your thought process. That's exactly what I was I inferring with this question. Your response is exactly what I've come to realize and understand.
Thank you.
Apr 23 2012: Thank You, Francesco. I think it comes from a different perspective, one that I started to see more of when I realized as a child that , for instance, I find that the concept of reincarnation makes sense to me. What i mean by that is more of a whole in all aspects of being - spirit as well as physical. i saw it in patterns, such as rivulets on the sand as the tide, that came in, now goes out. If I think of the human body as having many, many parts, but at the same time having a whole, as well as being, possibly, an image of the universe, which is made up of all sorts of parts and yet is a whole --well. I think that is characteristic of all of everything. It is all divided and sub-divided, and yet all part of a whole. The parts can't exist without the whole, and the whole, without the parts.Apr 20 2012: Here's another thing: We, as humans, name things. In order to communicate the idea/ item/being/concept to others, also to remember them ourselves. Do animals do this? Probably not. So a egg/pupa/caterpillar/butterfly is actually the same thing, in different stages. It does not think of itself as different things. We do
. Does the universe 'think' of itself in its different parts.? Would a universal God think of all the parts, or the whole? Or both?
Apr 17 2012: Some humans are still trying to become human.......they are slowly but surely undergoing a metamorphasis.
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Your post existed in your head.........an idea was born, then it came to fruition once you decided to share it with us.
Great question.
Apr 17 2012: Thank you. It's not always easy to relay, but I felt this would be a good place to discuss this.Apr 16 2012: 'A butterfly becomes a butterfly' makes more sense, if only to realize that something doesn't actually 'become' anything than what it already 'is'.
As for your second question, I believe that time is only infinite, successive moments within an infinitely stretched moment (individual entities within one universal entity). There are no yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows; only befores and afters. Age and time are irrelevant, but are used to understand our world through the third-dimensional, human, experience. Change is the only universal constant.
I don't believe there is a fundamental difference between getting out of the pupa and getting a little older other than the change of its physical appearance and what those physical abilities allow the entity to do and not do.
Lastly, the whole is the sum of all of its parts that make it what it is. What is Earth? A concept. All that encompasses Earth makes it what it is, which includes us.
Another way to think of this is the following:
A term, say a 'bird', is what it is before its definition is defined, only waiting to be realized.
All that exists, is everything that always was, is, and will ever be; a perpetual cycle of infinite universal existences among all that exists.
Apr 16 2012: actually i didn't want you to answer as quickly as you can, but more like inspire thinking.
Apr 16 2012: The questions you posed were questions I have asked myself, in different ways, to reach the understandings relayed in this discussion. Where there is knowledge, there are less thoughts. We are only limited by concepts, not our imagination.
Do you think that language is the definitive outlet for expressing knowledge that can not be proven empirically? Does language (words, numbers, symbols, etc.) restrict the expression of 'knowing'? Can anything be esoterically 'known' before it is exoterically explained?
Knowledge inherited vs knowledge contracted
Apr 16 2012: i believe my question is still open.
what is the fundamental difference between
pupa -> butterfly
butterfly now -> butterfly a moment laterApr 17 2012: To be or not to be, that's the question. To be what or anything, is irrelevant and ever changing.
Being resides in non being until it becomes manifest as something opposite to something else.
The heart of the matter is nothing, the dance of its expressions cyclic.
Realization of all potential is the life experience.
Apr 17 2012: I don't believe I could have expressed this understanding any better. It is difficult to communicate this to many people and I think it's because the general thought process is subjected to the physical reality, often delegated by the analytic side of the brain. This tends to restrict 'creative' thinking, which opens portals to many subjective, universal, 'truths'.
Thank you for your clarification.Apr 18 2012: You call it a butterfly. What if we were to call it the clouds, sunshine, or water that made possible the leaf the caterpillar ate to 'become'. It would still in the moment of it's being, be all it is.Apr 17 2012: Anything can become something just as something can become nothing. Think back to states of matter. Chemical and Physical Changes. Depending on the action things can revert back to their original state. Just as a human developes from an egg into an adult, at some point the adult ages and reverts back into a childlike state till they expire and are put back in an egg (AKA a Coffin). It is all in the way you percieve things. In regards to the eggs and caterpillars...Caterpillars have the potential to be a moth or a butterfly.
Apr 17 2012: This is a good explanation, but whether a caterpillar becomes a moth or butterfly is irrelevant because it can only 'be' those entities. Now, if it wasn't in a caterpillar's nature to be, say, a frog, but something manipulated its evolution (forced evolution), then the word 'become' would be appropriate because it was never in its nature to be a frog. However, the evolution process of an egg > caterpillar > moth/butterfly is a 'genuine change/transition'.
That being said, does a caterpillar become a moth/butterfly? No. It is already a moth/butterfly, but just waiting to 'physically' be.
Idea ('Being') > Manifestation ('Be') > Realization ('Is')
This can be translated as: A 'being' will 'be' what it 'is'.
Does this imply that everything is metaphysically pre-determined? According to my realizations/philosophy, yes.
All of that which is will never become, but will always be. All in one and one in all.Apr 16 2012: The words used to describe a 'thing' relies on the characteristics of said thing at a given point in time, e.g. the season depends of which part of the year we are in (as well as hemisphere). It's hard to refer to something by what it will become at a future time, rather than what it currently is. This is purely in reference to words used to describe something at current time.
That being said, there are different notions of equivalence in math. For instance, a square and a circle are equivalent in the homotopic sense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotopy). Even though we view a square and a circle as having distinct definitions, the two may be viewed as equivalent when asking the question "Can one be continuously transformed into the other?" and this question hits at the heart of your caterpillar/butterfly and winter/spring examples.Apr 16 2012: you could develop that line of reasoning further in two directions:
1. does the statement "a butterfly becomes a butterfly" makes more sense? we could also ask: can now-caterpillar become second-later-caterpillar? what is the fundamental difference between getting out of the pupa and getting a little older?
2. what things are in the first place. how the butterfly is different than its wings, legs, etc? how those are different than their atoms? what is the boundary of a butterfly? as the butterfly becomes butterfly from the caterpillar, the atoms composing it do not change a bit. the individual carbon and oxygen etc atoms survive the process unchanged. so as many of its cells. what is the whole?


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He sorta looks like Mr. Bean to me.
Just Desserts's Banana Choco Chip Cake in Austin Texas!!!
Thanks you all for all the recommendations!
We will be staying somewhere around Draper (disclaimer: I didn't make the reservation. If I did then then I would stay alot close to the city).
Let's just say I am one of those that will drive and seek out good food. So please keep the recommendations coming.
cb1414 - We are staying in SLC but driving up to diff mountains.
Love this column. Good Work! (*clap *clap *clap)
little fruit tarts especially lemon tarts.
Yes this is happening to me right now...actually for the last 2 weeks. Just no motivation to come up w/ new or old stuff to cook. HELP!! send me some easy and yummy recipes pls.?!?!?
I need this book bc I am so bad in baking....I turned choc chip cookies into muffin tops by using cake flour instead of all purpose
Heck I am not choosy, just give me a piece of steak that is cooked medium medium-rare, well seasoned, and tender. I dont really care which part of the cow it comes from. :)
My god mother's rice cakes.
Ina Garten's famous banana pumpkin pie. I am a huge fan of hers can ya'll tell?
Yea I have substituted w/ apple sauce too but I didnt know bananas worked too. :)
I wont call it a disaster..I mean its still edible eventhough it did not turn out right and I have to eat the whole batch myself. What am I talking about? Macarons... choco ones to be specific.
Hello Foodies
A few of us will be heading to Salt Lake City, Utah and would love to have some great eats while we are there.
Food type: anything goes as long as it is good food. Any place that can accommodate 8-10 bodies.
Cost: $ - $$$
Recommendations for breakfast/brunch, Happy Hr and dinner would be great. We will be eating lunch on the slopes.
Thank you for your help in advance.
I have a plastic container of leftover crab meat in my freezer I need to get rid of. Can someone please reply with some recipes suggestions other than crab cakes?
I have to share my little success story. I have been craving brownies for days! I finally bought a box of Pillsbury brownies mix 2 days ago. Looking around my kitchen there were two very overly rip bananas I thought.. hmm... I wonder. The Pillsbury calls for 1/4 cup of oil and I substituted the oil with the 2 mashed up bananas.
Baked the brownies according to the directions on the box and the result was incredible! Super moist and chewy. Best of all its LOW FAT! Give it a try for ya'll Brownies Addict.
It has a very slight hint of bananas...
It seems if it is a "party" destination good food/restaurant are practically non-existence. Are there any good restaurants anyone can recommend in Cancun? Please no exports from the US. :)
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The Serious Eats Book
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Serious Eats: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Eating Delicious Food Wherever You Are is now in stores! Check out our incredible book, which captures all of the energy and excitement of Serious Eats in a brand-new paper-bound form.
What's Inside?
The short answer: One, long, impassioned search for our favorite eats from across the country—from food trucks to fine dining and everywhere in between. The best pies and sliders and brisket and croissants and fried chicken we know. 50 recipes developed by J. Kenji López-Alt. Predictably mouthwatering photos from Robyn Lee. Tales from the road. Introductions to many of the fine folks making this fine food. Our theories on oatmeal and American cheese, pizza ovens and sandwich construction. And much, much more.
There will be a few classic Serious Eats gems you've seen before between these covers—I mean, how could the Hamburger Fatty Melt not make it into our book? But the vast majority of the photos, recipes, and content are brand new.
Ah, it's facts you want? It's 368 full-color pages, in a glossy, gift-worthy, hefty-but-portable paperback. It's listed at $27.99 (though, as always, likely cheaper at major retailers). There will be a simultaneous e-book that'll look every bit as beautiful. It's published by our good friends and partners in this whole delicious adventure, Clarkson Potter of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House. And it's out right now—just in time for all your end-of-year gift-giving—in stores everywhere.
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What the Critics Are Saying
- One of the New York Times 2011 featured books
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- In David Lebovitz's Favorite Cookbooks of 2011
—New York Times
It's hard to know which is more astonishing, the amount of food stuffed into the 368 pages of "Serious Eats" by Ed Levine and the editors of Serious Eats, or its comprehensive coverage... I plan to tear out the essential seven-page directory of places listed in the book, and make several photocopies, to keep in the car and with my travel stuff.
—Publisher's Weekly
Distilling the essence of the world's largest online community of food enthusiasts into a readable book is not easy, but this entertaining, handy debut from the creators of seriouseats.com manages to do just that. Part cookbook, part travel guide, it covers the best in American grub... Lively writing and appealing photos make this a great choice for the junk food aficionado and the highly opinionated cook alike.
—Entertainment Weekly
The expert chowhounds from one of the best food blogs out there have compiled a comprehensive guide to good eats no matter where you live.
—Gilt Taste
Serious Eaters are people who may come to food face first, tongues wagging, but who are about appreciation, not judgment. Who are about finding the delicious, not one-upsmanship. A community who may first consume the food, but who also want to engage with the people who make it—to learn from and respect and, in some cases, reverse-engineer from them... part food guide, part cookbook, part conversation with people who think French Fries are a perfectly interesting thing to talk about for the better part of an afternoon.
—San Jose Mercury News
An exhaustive and witty guide to all that is delicious... It's a fun book, with plenty of chatty prose and recipes scattered among the paeans of praise to pastries, farmers markets, artisanal pizzas and old-school burger joints... If you like the blog -- or have a twentysomething foodie in your life -- you'll love this.
— David Lebovitz
Written like a guidebook with addresses and "best of" recipes for each genre, I suggest someone organize a road trip based on all their lists of the best places to chow down, and if someone drives the bus, I'll seriously be happy to take care of any and all edible leftovers.
—Charlotte Observer
Give this to a young and eager diner. New York food writer Levine pulled together a smart bunch of young editors to build a great food-obsessed website. Their first book is a guide to obsessive eating from coast to coast.


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Hampshire student Faye Gotlieb 06F has been awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and a scholarship from the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program for study abroad in Vladimir, Russia, during spring semester.
Gotlieb focuses on the intersection of Russian and environmental studies in her Division II work. In Vladimir, she will participate in the advanced Russian studies program of the American Council of Teachers of Russian.
"I decided to participate in RLASP because it is a rare opportunity to have total focus on cultural immersion and language acquisition that I could not have in the U.S.," she said.
Along with the Gilman Scholarship, she received a Critical Need Language Supplemental Award.
During the spring 2009 application cycle, the Gilman Scholarship Program received 1,465 applications for 600 possible awards.
In fall 2008, Hampshire student Brittney Sampson 06F received a Gilman Scholarship to study sociology and English at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
"Stellenbosch was a fascinating place to study and discuss race, racism, and 'post-race' theory, especially as I was there during the '08 elections," Sampson said, adding that the Gilman scholarship and the staff in the college's Global Education Office (GEO) were instrumental in making this opportunity a reality.
International study, either through an exchange program or self-designed field study, is highly encouraged at Hampshire.
"Global opportunities abound for our students, and it is absolutely wonderful when resources can be secured to enable critically important and transformational experiences abroad," said Brianna Mercker, interim director of education abroad. "We [GEO] are especially pleased to support strong applications to competitive awards such as the Gilman Scholarship, which aims to make study abroad accessible to all."
Find out more about programs abroad and field studies at http://geo.hampshire.edu.


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Excite yet nervous. This was what I felt during the Food Blogger's Gathering @ Sandias organised by Boolicious in conjunction with the Klue RSVP Event. There were 38 food bloggers (including their spouses and guests) attending the gathering so it was pretty an amazing experience for me to meet the owners of other blogs that I have been reading and putting comments daily. The introducing part was fun, cos nobody knows who you are when you introduced your name, but once you tell them which blog you are from, you will get response such as Oohhhh and Aaahhh!! Hahahaha!! But I guess the funniest moment was when WMW and I bumped into Kampung Boy and City Gal in front of Sandias and not knowing their real name, we just called out Kampung Boy! City Gal!
The place was rather small and so it was really packed with all the food bloggers mingling around. I find it pretty warm too, luckily cocktails were unlimited so i gulped down to 6-7 glasses that nite. Probably the alcohol was the culprit. Apart from my makan kaki i.e. WMW, Lyrical Lemongrass and Boo it was really great to finally meet up with KampungBoyCityGal, Jackson, Jason (all the way from Ipoh), Someone who is constantly craving, Tankiasu, Tummythoz, Teckie, Mei Yen and her Darling Bob, FoodieLiaane, WaiSikKai, Nigel, Xiu Loong Bao, RevenousRabbit, FoodCookies, Kenny Mah, BabeintheCity and who else (cracking my head)? Anyway, if i left out anyone, please let me know yah.
Ok now, on the food part...Sandias is a Mexican Restaurant and with food bloggers around, I thought the food would be extra good.
Since am with Hubby, I tend to order different dishes for us so that we get more food photos. Hahaha...I think that benefited WMW too since she was also busy taking photos of my food. For appetiser, I had the Pumpkin Soup...which kinda tasted like unsalted dhal. This is my second time having pumpkin soup so i don't know if it's supposed to taste like this since the first time i had the soup was at Secret Recipe which was added with curry powder. I took a few spoonful of this and passed the rest over to Hubby.
Hubby had the Chicken Tortillas which is basically minced chicken wrapped with tortilla skin and then deep fried. First bite was good...but 2 more bites later, I find it too oily for me, in fact the tortillas were covered with oil. So I just korek out the minced chicken..hehe..hopefully am not too rude in doing that.
For the mains, I had the Baked Sole in Tomato Salsa served with Oily Rice and Mixed Veggies at the side. The fish tasted bland and frozen, just like Dory fish to me and so I immediately handed this over to Hubby. For your info, I have phobia over Dory cos back to my dieting months before wedding, I was having steamed/grilled dory without any sauce almost like daily. Being a glutton, you can imagine the impact of such diet have on me. LOL
Hubby was really disappointed with his Chicken Dish too....sauteed with a sauce that tasted like a mix between Oyster Sauce and Black Pepper Sauce, the only thing I like about the gravy was actually the pine nuts. By the way, their servings were not consistent cos WMW's gravy was without nuts while fried banana was missing from our plates. :( Probably the crowd was too big for them, thus it got a bit disorganised at one point.
Lastly, the dessert!!! I seriously do not know how Mexican dessert tasted like but this layered gallet with frozen lime cream was way too sweet for me. Actually the photo of the dessert below belongs to WMW as my ice-cream shape was kinda like shredded instead of one round scoop.
Although food wasn't great, I was really happy and left Sandias with a big smile with all the new friends I made. Well...got to admit that I couldn't remember all the names (I am really bad at remembering names) but I certainly now can put a picture in my mind to each blog. Just can't wait to meet up again at next gathering...Ninja Jones isn't it?
Other Bloggers' review on the gathering:
- Happy and Wacky WMW
- Luscious Lyrical Lemongrass
- Pretty Xiu Loong Bao
- Cutie Joe the Constant Craver
- Hot & Pretty Babe in da City
- Sweet and Petite Teckie


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Pizzaiolo Michael Ayoub in the 'Brooklyn Paper'
The previous post reminds me that I was negligent in blogging this item about Cronkite and Fornino owner Michael Ayoub from the March 3 issue of the Brooklyn Paper: Sitting at a table in his award-winning Williamsburg restaurant, Fornino, Ayoub was rightfully proud to be discussing his growing pizza empire. To call Fornino, or its newborn Manhattan sibling Cronkite, a "pizzeria" is a mighty understatement. What he offersgourmet pies with homegrown and high-end ingredients, including homemade mozzarella and three types of specialty flouris about as far from a plain old slice as you can get.... More


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Directed by Joe Johnston and adapted from the 1941 film starring Lon Chaney Jr., The Wolfman is a film caught between the gothic beauty of old fashioned horror films and the glossy CGI favoured by so many films today. It's captivating when it leans towards the former, but when it gives in to the latter it becomes unforgivably pedestrian. Once the bloodletting begins there's really nothing to the film that you won't have seen before and it isn't done well enough to make it worth sitting through again.
Benicio Del Torro stars as Lawrence Talbot, English born but raised in the United States, returning to his native soil as the lead actor in a theatre troop. He receives a letter from Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt) informing him of his brother's mysterious death and returns home to Talbot hall, a looming mansion whose decay practically seeps out of the screen. Arriving home Lawrence is confronted with the mounted heads of various animals, dark rooms that seem not to have encountered light in ages, and floors littered with leaves; it's almost as if the house itself as gone feral. The film has several weaknesses, but the art direction and cinematography are certainly not amongst them. This is a beautifully mounted production in those respects, creating a haunting atmosphere that unfortunately cannot be sustained under the weight of the special effects.
Lawrence is welcomed back by his father Sir John (Anthony Hopkins) and by Gwen and opts to stay to discover the truth about his brother's rather horrific end. Rumours swirl in the town that a group of recently arrived gypsies is behind it, though the injuries inflicted on the body appear to be the work of a particularly vicious animal. While investigating, Lawrence himself is attacked by this animal and treated by one of the gypsies (Geraldine Chaplin), who recognizes the particular hell Lawrence is about to enter into but feels that she must let nature take its course, no matter how dark. Lawrence's wounds, which seemed life threatening, heal quickly, sparking the curiosity and suspicion of the townspeople and after a bloody rampage on a moonlit night, Lawrence is taken away to an insane asylum where his "affliction" will hopefully be cured.
The film begins promisingly enough, establishing an effectively dark mood and finding a way to balance it against the inherent campiness of the story (in his first appearance Sir John is wearing an animal skin robe, underscoring Hopkins' gloriously mischievous performance). It has the crisp, lingering power of the best psychological horror stories but then gives in to what can perhaps be best described as economic necessity. When a film costs as much as this one obviously does, the people paying for it want to be able to see on screen where the money has gone and so we're treated to a variety of money shots, both in terms of Lawrence's multiple transformations into the wolfman and his subsequent rampaging as the beast. It's a better movie when the audience is left to wonder, but the period in which the film is content to suggest, rather than show, is brief.
In the lead role Del Torro renders a surprisingly subdued performance. His brooding fits well with the first part of the film but as the psychological tension gives way to gory spectacle, his performance begins to feel increasingly out of place. A little fire and ferocity would have gone a long way, but Del Torro leaves that to Hopkins, whose Sir John ends up being a much more vivid character. In the rather thankless role of beauty to Del Torro's beast, Blunt shines, bringing much more to the character than the screenplay requires of her. She brings a much needed dose of soul to the proceedings and she is definitely missed during the time she spends off screen.
In the final analysis, The Wolfman is a film that is in touch with the roots of traditional monster movies but guilty of giving in too much to more modern sensibilities. The result is a film that just can't maintain a consistent mood and in a story like this one, mood is of the utmost importance. The film does manage to have some great moments but it ultimately falls far short of being anything special.


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Raison d'être: Its successful retail renaissance puts Liberty very much back on the map. Must see? Creative consultant Yasmin Sewell's Bazaar, a room that promises to offer a wide and eclectic range of items, from designer buckle cuffs to sunglasses and more.
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Digital Photograph - Girl Playing with Goat, in Field, Springvale South, 1957 Reg. No: MM 110927
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- Girl with short hair and trousers, holding the front hooves of a white nanny goat in a field.
This photograph shows Janet Bunting with Mitzy the goat in Springvale South, 1957. Janet was about 12. The Bunting family kept goats on their property in Springvale South for milk and to help keep the grass down. They only ever kept one goat at a time.
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A document processor for transporting documents through a path, detecting flaws thereon by electronically scanning each side of the document, printing selectable indicia only on unflawed documents, and sorting and storing separately the flawed and unflawed documents. The electronically scanned information is compared with a master document stored in a computer memory. As a result of this comparison, outputs are provided from the computer which are indicative of a favorable or unfavorable comparison for controlling the printing and sorting functions.
1. A document processor, comprising in combination;
transport means for moving documents serially along a path including,
an impression drum,
a transfer drum having a portion of its periphery contiguous to a portion of the periphery of said impression drum,
motor means for rotating said impression drum in the clockwise direction and said transfer drum in the counterclockwise direction,
singler means for feeding documents serially onto said transfer drum,
means for retaining documents on said transfer drum and said impression drum over a portion of their peripheries and for transferring documents from said transfer drum to said impression drum in the contiguous area of their peripheries,
flaw detection means disposed adjacent said path for detecting flaws in said documents,
printing means disposed adjacent said path for printing selectable indicia on said documents,
control means connected to said printing means responsive to said flaw detection means preventing said printing means from printing on flawed documents.
2. A document processor according to claim 1 wherein said flaw detection means comprises;
first scanning means disposed adjacent the document path on the periphery of said transfer drum for detecting flaws on one side of said document,
second scanning means disposed adjacent the document path on the periphery of said impression drum for detecting flaws on the other side of said document.
3. A document processor according to claim 2 wherein said printing means comprises;
at least one printer disposed adjacent the document path on the periphery of said impression drum at a point on said path after said second scanning means for printing serialized numbers on each document.
4. A document processor according to claim 3 wherein said control means comprises;
edge detector means disposed adjacent the document path on the periphery of said impression drum between said second scanning means and said printer,
printer control means,
AND circuit means having an output connected to said printer control means and an input from said flaw detection means and said edge detector means for causing said printer to print only on unflawed documents.
5. A document processor according to claim 4 wherein said printer comprises a drum having a plurality of equally spaced print cylinders disposed about its periphery and,
said printer control means includes indexer means for indexing said printer for causing a next print cylinder to be moved into printing position with said impression drum at the same peripheral speed of said impression drum and in synchronism with a document on said impression drum moving into said printing position.
The production of documents such as checks, bank drafts, traveler's checks, currency and the like has special problems associated therewith not normally associated with the production of ordinary printed matter. For example, such documents are prone to unlawful duplication or counterfeiting. Therefore, in order to eliminate or minimize such unlawful acts, the documents are printed using special paper, special inks, and in highly sophisticated and complex patterns.
In addition, security requirements dictate that each of such documents be accounted for by the printing thereon in one or more areas data in the form of serialized numeric and/or alpha-numeric indicia. Such serialization enables the issuer of such documents to maintain a record as to what documents are in circulation. In the case of traveler's checks the issuer has a means of maintaining a record of the precise checks which have been issued to particular customers. Thus, checks that are lost or stolen are easily replaceable and counterfeit or unlawfully duplicated checks are easily identifiable.
Also for various reasons, for example, aesthetics, guaranty of authenticity of origin and genuineness of the document, it is desirable that such documents meet certain quality standards. Thus, much effort is expended by the various agencies and businesses issuing such documents to assure the release of only those documents which meet predetermined quality criteria. Thus, governments issuing currency and businesses issuing documents such as traveler's checks expend great effort to prevent the issuance of flawed or imperfect documents.
Presently known methods of accomplishing the aforegoing, for example, in currency or traveler's check production require that each document be visually inspected for flaws by a human inspector. In practice, the documents are printed in sheets of, for example 8�4 documents with each sheet containing 32 documents. Each document is printed with serialized indicia. If all the documents pass the visual inspection for quality, the sheets are cut into individual documents and stacked sequentially according to their serial number.
On the other hand, when visual inspection uncovers one or more flawed documents, the documents are rejected. However, in order that consecutive serialization be maintained, the rejected documents must be replaced with documents previously printed save for the serial numbers. These documents then have the appropriate serial numbers printed thereon and manually placed in correct sequential order.
As can be readily appreciated, the foregoing described procedure of inspection and replacement of rejected documents is time consuming, prone to human error, and costly.
The present invention relates to an apparatus wherein the foregoing procedure of inspection and printing serial numbers is fully automated.
The present invention relates to an apparatus that eliminates the disadvantages of the foregoing described procedure by completely automating the process of flaw detection and number serialization of the documents. Specifically, the present invention comtemplates an apparatus for processing documents such as currency, checks and travelers checks which are completely printed save for serial numbers. A document processor is provided wherein the documents are individually transported through a work path having disposed adjacent thereto electronic flaw detectors for the detection of flaws on the front and back of the documents, one or more printers for printing serial numbers in sequence in one or more areas of the document as well as other desired indicia only on unflawed documents, a reader-verifier for checking the readability and accuracy of the printed indicia, a sorter arrangement for separating and storing the serialized, unflawed documents and the unserialized, flawed documents.
The flaw detector includes optical electronic scanners. Associated with the flaw detectors are means for converting the scanned information into digital form, and comparing the scanned information with a master document stored in a computer memory to provide outputs for controlling the printer and the sorter based on whether the document is flawed or unflawed.
The foregoing features as well as other features of the invention will become more apparent with the reading of the following description in conjunction with the drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the control arrangement of the present invention:
FIG. 2 is a pictorial representation of a preferred embodiment of the document processor of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a side elevation view of the feed assembly of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a top view of the transfer drum of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a view of the document sorter verifier partially shown in FIG. 2;
FIG. 6 is a side elevation view of FIG. 2 depicting among other things the power train for the document processor of the present invention.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown in block diagram form the control arrangement of the inspector, printer, sorter of the present invention.
As will be described in more detail below each document (hereinafter sometimes referred to as a check) to be processed is transported through a path comprising inspection stations, printers stations, and verifier/sorter station.
The inspection stations comprise front detector 11 and back detector 12 which optically scan the front and back of the checks. The detectors 11 and 12 may comprise solid silicon detector arrays and are sensitive to gradations of light reflections of a light source impinging on the test checks. Each check comprises a plurality of scan lines which run along the length of the checks perpendicular to the direction of motion of the checks. Each scan line is divided into a plurality of small picture areas sometimes referred to as pixels. In a manner well known, for example, as disclosed in U.S. application Ser. No. 954,018 entitled Optical Inspection System For Printing Flaw Detection filed on Oct. 23, 1978, having the same assignee as the present application, each scan line is optically examined by the detectors 11 and 12 and on a pixel by pixel basis each scan line is compared to a master check stored in a memory. Depending on a quality criteria adopted for the comparison there is produced an output for each check indicative of its acceptability or unacceptability.
The front and back detectors 11 and 12 whose information is digitized in a manner described in the above identified application have their outputs connected to a mini computer 13 which is shown as having an input from memory 14. Memory 14 stores the master check which is read out therefrom into a comparator contained within minicomputer 13 in registration with the scanned data from the test check. After comparison of the test check with the master check is completed, the minicomputer 13 makes a determination whether the check is acceptable or not. For example, a positive pulse is indicative of a favorable comparison while a negative pulse is indicative of an unfavorable comparison. As aforesaid, the flaw detection arrangement is fully described in the above identified application and, per se, forms no part of the present invention.
The output of the minicomputer 13 is connected to AND circuit 15 and to inverter 19. Edge detector 18 has its output connected to AND circuit 15 whose output is connected to printer control 16. The output of inverter 19 is connected to sorter control 17.
Edge detector 18, which is disposed along the check transport path ahead of the printer stations is responsive to the leading edge of each test check to produce a positive pulse output. This positive pulse output is provided as one input to the AND GATE 15. When the microprocessor 13 has a positive pulse or high indicative of an acceptable check on its output, the printer control 16 receives a pulse via gate 15 to cause the printer or printers to index and print as will be seen more fully hereinbelow.
The sorter control 17 which is responsive to positive pulses is not activated by the high or positive pulse from the minicomputer 13 since this pulse is inverted by inverter 19 prior to its being provided as an input to the sorter control 17. Therefore, in the presence of an acceptable check, the sorter control, as seen more fully hereinbelow, is left inactivated thereby causing the printed check to be placed in an accept stack. On the other hand, when the minicomputer provides a low or negative pulse, the printer control 16 is prevented from indexing by the lack of an appropriate pulse from AND circuit 15 and printing on the check does not occur. At the same time the negative or low on the output of the minicomputer 13 becomes a positive pulse to the sorter control 17 and causes the unprinted or rejected check to be stacked in a reject stack.
Thus, it may be seen that only unflawed checks have serial nunbers sequentially printed thereon.
FIG. 1 also shows a verifier 20 connected to the minicomputer 13. The function of the verifier 20 which is disposed in the path of accepted checks is to confirm the readability of the numbers and that the serial numbers placed thereon are in sequential order. The verifier 20 may also be used to cause a stopping of the inspector-printer if a serial number is unreadable or is not in the correct sequence.
Referring to FIG. 2, there is shown in pictorial form the document processor of the present invention. The document processor of FIG. 2 comprises an apparatus for transporting checks through inspection stations, one or more printing stations, and a sorter verifier station.
It should be noted that the checks to be inspected, printed and sorted are completely preprinted save for the serial numbers and logo.
The transport system of FIG. 2 comprises an impression drum 21 mounted for rotation about an axis or shaft 25. A transfer drum 22 mounted for rotation about a shaft 26 is disposed adjacent to the impression drum 21 substantially as shown in FIG. 2. The transfer drum 22 has about a portion of its periphery a number of belts 27. The belts 27 also encompass idler pulleys 28 and 29. The transfer drum 22 and belts 27 are substantially contigious with a portion of the periphery of the impression drum 21. The belts 27 as may be deduced from the drawing aid in the transfer of a check from the transfer drum to the impression drum 21. Partially shown in FIG. 2 and shown in more detail in FIG. 3 is a check feed assembly 24 shown in close association with the transfer drum 22. Adjacent to and in operative relationship with the feed assembly 24 is a feeder tray 23 which holds a stack of checks 30 which are to be processed i.e. inspected, printed and sorted.
Still referring to FIG. 3, and as to be more fully described hereinafter, the checks 30 are picked up one by one by the feed assembly 24 and placed on the transfer drum 22, held there by vacuum and with the aid of the belts 27 transferred to the impression drum 21.
Disposed about the impression drum 21 in cooperative relationship with the periphery thereof are shown in FIG. 2 three printers 31, 32, and 33.
The printers 31, 32 and 33 are of a commercially available type, for example, as manufactured by Heller Roberts Instrument Corp. of Brooklyn, N.Y.
If the check is unflawed, printer 31 prints a serial number in, for example, the upper right hand corner is gothic letters; printer 32 prints the same serial number in MICR in the lower left hand corner, while the printer 33, if it is desired, may print the logo of the particular financial institution issuing the check. For purposes or explaining this invention is only necessary to show the one printer for example, printer 31 in some detail and in its relationship in the combination of the present invention in FIG . 2. More of the details of the printers 31, 32 and 33 are shown in FIG. 6.
As best seen in FIGS. 2 and 6, back quality inspector 12 is disposed adjacent to the transfer drum 22 for electronically scanning the back of a check 36 as it passes around the periphery of the transfer drum 22. Two light sources 12a which straddle the inspection area provide the required light source for back inspector 12. In a similar manner face quality inspector 11 along with light sources 11a are disposed adjacent the periphery of the impression drum 21 for inspecting the face of the check 36 as it is passed through the point of inspection on the impression drum 21.
Edge detector 18 is disposed adjacent the periphery of the impression drum 11 somewhat in advance of the printer 31. Edge detector 18 detects the leading edge of each check 36. When it is determined that a check 36 has passed quality inspection and its leading edge is detected by the edge detector 18, the printer 31 is caused to be indexed to printing speed and position for printing the serial number on the check. Thus, as each unflawed check comes through, it is imprinted with a serial number in a sequential fashion i.e. each number being incremented by one.
However, if edge detector 18 does not detect an edge, due to a check being missed by the singler, the printer 31 will not be indexed. Also if the edge detector 18 detects a check but it has not passed quality inspection, the printers 31, 32 and 33 will not be indexed for printing. Thus, as described in reference to FIG. 2, two coincident events are required for printing on a check and these are edge detection and an unflawed check.
A sorter-verifier assembly 35 is shown in FIGS. 2 and 5. As more readily seen in FIG. 5, this assembly comprises a belt pick-up arrangement indicated at 37 which collects each check from the impression drum 21 and carries it away from the impression drum 21 toward a verifier drum 38. If the check 36 is unflawed and, therefore, serialized by the printers 31 and 32, it is caused to be picked up, for example, by vacuum by the verifier drum 38. The serial numbers are read by the verifier 43 which is disposed adjacent to the periphery of the verifier drum 38. Thereafter, the check follows a path around the verifier drum 38 to a vacuum drum 40 to which it is transferred. The check is separated from the drum 40 with the aid of an air jet nozzle or puffer 45 and placed in accept stacker 41, substantially as shown in FIG. 2. On the other hand, if the check does not pass quality inspection, it is caused to adhere to drum 39. After following a path partially around drum 39, it is separated therefrom by an air jet nozzle or puffer 44 and then stacked in reject stacker 42.
If the numbers printed on the check are not readable, or are not sequential as detected by the verifier 43, the document processor is shut down until the fault is corrected.
FIG . 5 shows that portion of the sorter-verifier 35 which is not readily visible in FIG. 2. A catcher or slot 46 disposed closely adjacent to the periphery of the impression drum 21 receives the checks 36 individually as they are separated from the impression drum 21 as for example, by termination of the vacuum and/or separator fingers.
The pick-up belt arrangement 37 comprises a timing belt 47 disposed about drive pulleys 48, 49 and 50. The pulley 50 is provided to minimize undue flexing of the timing belt 37. Another timing belt 51 is disposed about drive pulleys 52 and 53. Both timing belts 47 and 51 may be composed of some suitable elastomer composition. The timing belt 51 has raised cam or gripper surfaces 54 and 55 which in conjunction with belt 47 grip individual checks 36 and transport them away from the impression drum 21. The raised or cam surfaces 54 and 55 are of such a length and so spaced on the timing belt 51 that as one cam surface for example 54, as shown in the drawing, picks up a check 36 for transport, the other cam surface 55 is delivering the previously picked up check 36 to the verifier drum 38 or the reject drum 39.
Disposed near pulleys 49 and 53 and between verifier drum 38 and reject drum 39 are guide means 56 which together from a channel 57 for guiding the check 36 to verifier drum 38 or reject drum 39. A mechanical gate 58 pivoted about pin 59 is controlled by sorter control solenoid 17. When the check is unflawed the gate 59 remains in its normal position indicated by the solid lines. In this position the check 36 on being released by the cam surface 55 or 54 is directed on to verifier drum 38, held there by vacuum within plenum area indicated by reference numerical 61 for verification and subsequent stacking into the accept stacker 41.
As the check is separated from the impression cylinder 21 and falls into catcher tray 46, air jets or puffers--serve to direct the check to the rear of the tray. The grippers on the transfer belt are designed so as to grasp the check from this position, the gripper surface 54 or 55 on the belt 51 being raised much higher than its corresponding surface on belt 37. This design serves two purposes: it prevents overlap interference between succeeding checks, and it produces a slot between the transfer belts for accepting the next check.
If the check has failed to pass inspection, sorter control solenoid 17 is energized to move the gate 58 to the position shown in dotted line in FIG. 5 so that the rejected check is picked up by vacuum area 62 on the reject cylinder 39 and subsequently placed in reject stack 42. Solenoid 17 is then deenergized and mechanical gate 58 assumes its normal position as indicated by the solid line as, for example, by a return spring (not shown).
While vacuum means have been described to grip the checks in their paths about the various drums, other means are also possible. It will be appreciated that stationary plenums 61 and 62 are so placed on their respective drums that the associated vacuum picks up and lets go of the individual checks at the appropriate places in their transport path. For example, plenum 61 is placed to pick up the check 36 just after it leaves guide means 56 and let go of it just as it is picked up by a similar plenum segment (not shown) on vacuum drum 40. Separator fingers may be used to release the checks from the drums 40 and 39 in conjunction with the air jet nozzles 45 and 44.
Referring to FIG. 3 there is shown in more detail the feed assembly 24 of FIG. 2. A singler drum 63 has a stationary plenum 64 which in a manner described in more detail hereinafter with reference to the transfer drum 22 provides vacuum to the surface periphery of the singler drum 63 through the arc defined by the plenum 64. The singler drum 63 is rotated in a clockwise direction, as viewed in FIG. 3, and by means of transfer belts 63a rotates roller 65 also in a clockwise direction. The singler drum 63 abuts against the upper part of the check stack 30 in the feeder tray 23. A portion of the plenum 64 overlaps the upper edge of the first check 36 in the stack 30. A picker 68 is disposed to have a portion of its periphery in contiguous relationship to the first check in the stack 30. A pulley 66, driven by the singler drum 63 via a toothed timing belt 63b has a raised or cam surface 66a which intermittently rotates the picker 68 in a clockwise direction through an idler roller 67 which is disposed in contiguous relationship with the picker 68 and which is intermittently driven in the counter clockwise direction by the cam surface 66a of the pulley 66.
Feeder tray 23 is disposed at an angle to the horizontal such that the stack of checks 30 rests against the picker 68 and the singler drum 63. A constant force spring such as a negator spring may be used to bias the checks in the direction of the picker 68. Each time the cam surface 66a rotates the picker 68, a check is caused to be fed out of the feeder tray 23 and onto the singler drum 63. At the point where the plenum 64 ends and the plenum 75 of the transfer drum 22 begins the check is picked up by the transfer drum 22. The transfer is assisted by the belts 63a contiguous with a portion of transfer drum 22. The check is retained on the transfer drum 22 by vacuum, in the vicinity of the stationary plenum 75 and then is transferred to the impression drum 21 by means of the belts 27 acting in concert with the vacuum provided at the surface of the impression drum 21 by the plenum 76 which begins in the vicinity of where the plenum 75 ends.
If two checks are mistakenly fed out of the feeder tray 23 by the picker 68 and begin to be transported by the singler drum 63, the doubler drum 69 which is rotating in a counter clockwise direction geared 1:1 with the singler drum and whose plenum 70 begins somewhat at the mid point of the plenum 64, picks up the extra check. The vacuum provided by plenum 70 is somewhat less than that provided by plenum 64 to insure that it will not pick up a single check from the drum 63. The check is then picked off from the doubler drum 69 by the dual action of the pick off finger 71 and the end of the plenum 70 at which point vacuum to the surface periphery of the doubler drum 69 is terminated. The check is then by momentum placed in chamber 72 where by gravity or other means it falls into a receptacle (not shown). These checks may be accumulated and placed again in the feeder tray 23 for processing.
Since in a preferred embodiment the present invention utilizes vacuum to maintain the checks on the various drums throughout its path and to cause the checks to transfer from one drum to the other, the arrangement of the stationary plenums and the manner in which vacuum is applied to the surface periphery of the drums is briefly discussed with reference to the transfer drum 22 shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, it being understood that each of the drums utilizing vacuum are constructed in the same way.
The transfer drum 22 has a plurality of bores 78 extending from one side of its periphery. Each of these bores 78 communicates with a row of holes 77 in the surface 22a of the transfer drum 22. Thus, when a vacuum source is connected to one bore 78 its corresponding row of holes provides vacuum at the surface 22a of the transfer drum 22.
The plenum 75 is stationary relative to the drum 22. A gap 79 separating the plenum 75 from the drum 22, is small enough so that it does not affect the vacuum force, but wide enough to avoid frictional rubbing with the drum 22.
The plenum 75 includes a chamber 75a which communicates with each bore 78. The plenum chamber 75a is connected to a suitable vacuum source (not shown) as by means of a tube 75b.
It should be noted that the vacuum arrangements not only retain each check on the various drums throughout its transport path, but also aids in the transfer of the checks from one drum to another. For example, from FIG. 3 it can be deduced that when a check reaches the end of its travel on transfer drum 22, the vacuum on the periphery of the impression drum 21 begins at a point where the check transfers to the impression drum 21 and with the aid of the belts 27 effects the transfer.
Means other than vacuum might be used to secure the checks during their transport e.g. gripper fingers or the like.
FIG. 6 is a hybrid view showing the document processor of FIG. 2 in side elevation and a power train arrangement for supplying motive power to the various drums and printers.
A motor 81 has an output shaft 82 connected via a belt arrangement to drive pulleys 83, 84 and 85 which as can be seen rotate, respectively, the accept drum 40, the verifier drum 38 and the reject drum 39 via shafts 86, 87 and 88, respectively.
The shaft 82 has disposed thereon a worm 89 which drives impression drum 21 via a worm wheel 90. The pulley portion of worm wheel 90 drives a gear-pulley 91 via belt 92 which provides motive power to the transfer drum 22 by meshing with a gear 93.
A pulley 94 drives doubler drum 69 via belt 95 and pulley 96 which in turn drives single 63 via pulley 97 and crossed belt 98.
The pulleys, gears and belts, as may be seen from the drawings are of various sizes to provide appropriate geared down or up speed ratios with the object being to drive each of the drums at identical peripheral speeds so that the check moves through its path at the same rate without regard to which particular drum on which it is momentarily riding.
The shaft 82 also has disposed thereon a pulley 99 which drives pulley 100 via belt 101. The pulley 100 drives a shaft 102 of an indexer 103 associated with the logo printer 33.
The shaft 82 directly drives the indexer 114 and via pulleys 104 and 106, belt 105 and shaft 108 drives the indexer 107.
The indexers 103, 107 and 114 are commercially available items as are the printers 31, 32 and 33.
Since the indexers and printers all function in a similar way only indexer 107 and its associated printer 31 are discussed in some detail in order to describe its cooperative relationship within the combination of the present invention.
The indexer 107 has an input shaft 108 which rotates continuously by means of pulley 106. The input shaft 108 is normally slipping in a single revolution spring wrap clutch within the indexer 107. The clutch output shaft not shown is held in the unwrap condition by a load dog which is restrained by a solenoid actuated plunger. Upon momentary actuation of the solenoid by the pulse from the AND circuit 15 of FIG. 1, the load dog is released causing the clutch to engage, thereby causing the indexer 107 to operate for one revolution or for one print cycle. The indexer 107 is internally cam programmed to cause the output shaft 109 to accelerate to print speed, remain at that speed momentarily and then to decelerate to zero speed. In the meantime the load dog has returned to its normal position causing the clutch to release the output shaft 109 when it has made one complete rotation, causing the clutch to reassume its slipping condition.
This occurs each time an unflawed check is detected by edge detector 18.
The output shaft 109 is coupled to the printer 31 by means of worm 110 disposed on shaft 109 meshing with worm wheel 111 disposed on the printer 31. Since the indexer 107 is a one revolution device and the printer 31 rotates only 1/10 revolution/cycle in the embodiment described here, a 10/1 gear reduction must be provided by the worm 110 and wheel 111.
The printer 31 comprises ten numbering cylinders 112 each displaced 36� from its adjacent cylinder. Each numbering cylinder 112 comprises a plurality of individual numbering wheels with the actual number of wheels depending on the length of the serial number to be printed on the checks. Each wheel has ten print elements equally spaced around its periphery and in raised impression for printing the nunbers 0 through 9.
Inker 113 supplies ink to each numbering cylinder 112 at a point in advance of a numbering cylinder 112 reaching the print position.
When AND circuit 15 receives its inputs from the edge detector 18 and the microprocessor 13, the indexer 107 advances the printer 31 36� to place a print cylinder 113 in print position. Due to the inherent function of the indexer 107, the print cylinder 112 accelerates to the tangential speed of impression drum 21 at the print position and prints on the check which arrives in synchronism with the print cylinder 112 to the printing position.
Sequencing of the printer 31 in order to provide sequential serialization of the numbers printed on the check is automatic (much like that of an odometer) and inherent in the function of commercially available printers comtemplated for use with this invention. Thus, each number on a print cylinder 112 is mechanically incremented by one before it arrives for printing a serial number on the check.
Printer 32 functions identically as printer 31 except that its inker would contain magnetic ink for the printing of MICR on the check.
Although this embodiment describes a printer with ten print cylinders 112, some other number could be provided. A particular advantage of the use of ten print cylinders 112 is that the units wheel of the print cylinders can be fixed since it prints a constant number. Therefore, the first actuating pawl of the numbering unit can be in the tens column. This will result in extended life of the numbering print cylinder. It may be desirable to provide separate edge detectors e.g. 18b and 18b in FIG. 2 in advance of the printers 32 and 33, utilizing separate AND circuits and printer indexer controls for each printer to provide independent operation thereof.
In any event, the placement of the edge detectors is critical only as it relates to the initiation, speed and timing of the printers which are matters of engineering design.
Logo printer 33 differs from printers 31 and 32 in that it does not use printing cylinders having sequencing print wheels. A single plate or ten individual plates containing ten identical logo impressions is carried by the printer 33 in place of the print cylinders.
The above described embodiment should not be construed as limiting the present invention in any way other than as limited by the claims which follow:
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TPS investment could cut energy costsWritten by John P. McCartney | | firstname.lastname@example.com
The Toledo Public Schools (TPS) Board of Education is expected to approve a resolution May 28 that would allow the district to cut its energy costs. The board is expected to give James Gant, TPS chief business manager, the authority to spend $3 million to purchase 26 transformers and control systems to replace its current provider, FirstEnergy Solutions.
"We've already moved forward with the bidding process," Gant said May 17. "What the board will approve is the actual bid. Bids are due no later than [May 22]. The board will say 'yea' or 'nay' to that bid."
Gant said he expects the transformers to cost $2 million and the control system to cost $1 million. The cost of each transformer will vary, depending on its size. Transformers will be custom-built to the specifications of the building they will service.
"Not every school building will get a transformer," Gant said. "Some do not make sense to do, given where it's at and its size. I would be surprised if Edgewater [Elementary School] were to get one because it's a smaller building." TPS currently purchases its utilities — electricity, gas and water — from the area's largest sources identified by a consulting firm TPS has under contract, Gant said.
The largest energy companies the district does business with are American Electric Power (AEP) Energy, Duke Energy and FirstEnergy, Gant said. "We'll revisit all that kind of stuff," he said. "I think that's a part of this whole process — to look at all aspects our energy and utilities perspective. We need to make sure that we're doing that effectively."
Energy Conservation Program
Ohio school districts can be their own energy providers under House Bill (HB) 264, also called the Energy Conservation Program (ECP), passed in 1985. However, the 129th Ohio General Assembly's revision of HB 264 in 2012 is what has allowed for projects like TPS's current planned upgrade of its facilities.
According to the Ohio School Facilities Commission's website: "The ECP allows school districts to make energy efficiency improvements to their buildings and use the cost savings to pay for those improvements. … The ECP gives districts the ability, in this one limited instance, to borrow funds without having to pass a ballot issue for the authority to borrow. This limited borrowing authority has given districts the ability to save millions in utility bills and operating costs, and all at no additional taxpayer expense."
Gant said he's enthused when he thinks about the prospective savings TPS will see almost immediately.
"It does get exciting," Gant said. "There are so many things we can do from a savings perspective. In regard to energy, our return on investment for our transformers is, on average, 4.6 years. We can divide that [savings] out, and then multiply that for the district, and that's the savings we'll realize in the general fund. That's exciting.
"We'll start seeing savings from lower energy costs the first year. That savings will go back to paying down that $3 million borrowed from that capital improvement [034 fund]. In 4.6 years, we will have paid back that money in full. Any savings from utility costs after that point will become general fund dollars."
Gant said it is essential that TPS' maintenance fund be paid back first.
"When we built all these new buildings [in the past decade], there was a fund set up for the maintenance of our buildings. One of the allowable expenditures we can do with this fund is do things like [purchase] transformers, and what the board has decided — which I believe is a very intelligent thing to do — is to make sure that 034 fund is reimbursed before the general funds starts seeing some of the savings in utility costs."
Three phases
Gant said this energy conservation project will be completed in three phases. "The first phase is getting the infrastructure in place; the transformers, controls, metering and lighting.
"The second phase is being in a position to make the changes necessary within the district to reduce energy [consumption] in a simple way — things like cutting off lights and/or managing how we do our buildings. That's going to reduce costs in itself.
"The third phase is then going out to our staff, our students and our folks and showing them how they can help in the reduction of energy [use].
"It's cost reduction. But absolutely it could be education. If we have the ability, or we do a good job explaining to our folks that this is a reduction [in cost] or a savings to our general fund that could be utilized for other things, I'm hoping that we can get them inspired."
Gant said the first phase will see transformers installed on each school building's property.
"We're not talking about the transformers on poles 30 feet up in the air, but the ones in the green rectangular boxes on the ground," Gant said.
"People won't see any difference. The transformers will be exactly where they are right now. In the corner of a property, you'll see a green transformer (large metal box). Right now they're owned by Toledo Edison. Soon they'll be owned by us."
Gant said that during the summer, FirstEnergy will remove its hardware and TPS will install its transformers where FirstEnergy's previously sat.
"And you know what? I don't think that they're unhappy about it," Gant said. "I don't think it's that type of situation. We haven't received any flak whatsoever from FirstEnergy. I have never heard any issues with that whatsoever. I don't think this is a hostile situation with FirstEnergy at all."
Doug Colafella, external communications, Toledo Edison, said "of course it isn't an adversarial situation. We're helping them. They're installing their own heavy duty transformers capable of taking the feed directly out of our high voltage system.
"When that occurs and you become a primary customer and we're feeding electricity directly into the customer's own transformer, they take the transformer equipment out that belongs to Toledo Edison. They put their own in they had to invest in and now they're getting fed by the high voltage primary circuit of our system, but they're still our customer.
"We've worked closely with school district to allow them to pay a more attractive rate.
"TPS did not kick us to the curb. This is the type of project that we work collaboratively with our customer. The customer has to make an investment on the front end to install their own transformers, which can be a significant investment, but that investment pays off because the customer takes advantage of a much lower price per kWh for electric distribution service. It puts them on a different rate schedule — a primary rate schedule. But they remain a customer of Toledo Edison."
As for the $1 million controls system, Gant said it could probably best be understood if it was compared with how homeowners control their heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems when they adjust the thermostats on their walls. "I think that's a fair way to describe the system in simple, understandable terms.
"We already have HVAC systems in each building. Controls are just a matter of integrating and programming those systems like you do with the thermostat on your wall at home — being able to see what it's doing and managing and analyzing information from it all throughout the district on a consistent basis as a group.
"One person can sit at a computer — which is his thermostat on the wall — and say, 'I'll get the heat on here. I need to stop the air conditioning here. We're out of school here so I'm going to stop this HVAC system from kicking out air conditioning at this school.' The controls system manager can control the HVAC system from the central location and from the building itself, Gant said. "So I can say, 'All right, Bowsher needs to shut down their air. There's a problem. I need to reboot it.' Bam. I did it here and the system reboots at the building. I can do that from a central location. Obviously, I can do it at the school also.
"My thought is, if you did it at a school building, you would probably do it from a computer, too. They might even go into a similar system within just their school, because the system is so integrated, and do exactly what I was doing for all the schools from a central location. "It will be the ability to control our various systems within the district and make sure that all the information to be compiled and managed is where all the savings comes in."
Gant said that metering "puts is all together. It correlates with the controls. Now that I can control my HVAC system, the metering piece allows me to gauge the actual costs associated with it. That's the missing piece that allows us to say, 'Alright, we've been in this room the last 50 minutes. How much will that cost us?'
"That's what I'm most excited with. When I talk about being able to see what the actual costs are, it's really the metering piece that's going to allow us to do that. When we're done with some of this summer's work, hopefully what we'll be able to do is when the community utilizes our facilities — a group has an event or a meeting — we will be able to tell those individuals or that community organization how much that has cost the district to host that event.
"At the end of the day, if the district takes that cost on, we will be able tell the community, 'X amount of dollars were spent. This is what we have given back or this is what you paid for in these new buildings." Gant said TPS will face two choices. The district can donate the utility costs of running an event as a way of investing back into the community or it can ask the organization using the building to pay for the utility costs associated with the building's use.
"There are going to be some events that we're going to say to the community, 'We, the district, want to do this and pay that dollar figure.' "There is also going to be a time when we say, 'OK. If you want to utilize our building, this is how much it costs us to run it. This is how much we need to get paid in order for you to do what you need to do.
"We'll deal with both. They're certain things we do in the district that we'll charge for and some things that from a community perspective, that are affecting our kids, that we'll go ahead and pay for, like the use of school buildings as polling places, any Parent Teacher Organization function, some sporting events, proms and the May 18 chess tournament at Bowsher High School.
"The chess tournament is a good example. We will be able to say to the community, to our parents, 'This is outside of the school day. These are some of the things that we do, and this is the cost associated with it, and this is an investment the district is making into your children — something you're paying for as a taxpayer."
Cost analysis
Gant said the cost analysis of building use was one of the recommendations in the Evergreen Solutions performance audit.
"It will really help us really define exactly how our buildings are utilized a lot better because now we can actually say, 'This is the cost associated with it.' And hopefully, it will help us charge appropriately as well as inform the community what we are doing," he said. "Metering is going to allow us to do so much. So now we're talking — and this is just my vision — about possibly going to the schools and having competitions about reducing energy use. We're talking hopefully about some educational things that teachers may want to utilize from the curriculum side.
"There's so many more things that we can do once we get all these things pieces in place — just to have a school recognize that if I do this, there might be a reduction in [cost and an increase in] savings, and that school could actually see that. It's exciting from my perspective to get to a point where we can do that."
Gant said the amount of energy used for lighting is also being reduced.
"We're wanting to reduce the energy in order to produce the light, and there are certain bulbs — using LED (light-emitting diodes) bulbs to use instead of florescent and incandescent bulbs — and certain other things we can do from a lighting perspective to reduce our costs there."
Gant said the other savings from the new system — one that was mentioned in the performance audit — was going from the hydraulic system [boilers] to the HVAC system. He said TPS will realize most of its savings in the utilization of the system.
"It's knowing and having the ability to be able to control those settings when I know no one is in the building as well as being able to ascertain how well it's performing. I don't see the day-to-day temperature gauge being much different than what it is now. I don't see that being the change that we would make. I see it as being able to change situations during the summer months or on a day off because of snow. I see the biggest advantage as being able to make a consistent change throughout the entire district if there are no people in that building. It would be a better way of doing things if we make sure we do the same things across the district when no one is in a building."
School and community leader
Gant said he anticipates dramatic change in a relatively short period of time.
"I can definitely see, a year from now, that our conversation's a little different now that we've moved on to the second phase. How we utilize it and how we're able to show taxpayers or the schools some of the things I'm talking about.
"I think it will really happen that quickly. I don't know what other folks are doing, but from what I can tell, I think we can be a leader in this area — in both schools and the community — for an institution this size. I'm looking forward to it. I see that as a challenge."
Tags: American Electric Power (AEP) Energy, Duke Energy, Energy Conservation Program, FirstEnergy Solutions (Toledo Edison), James Gant, Toledo Public Schools


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Some general counsel of public companies return to private practice involuntarily: The new CEO changes the management team, or your GC job becomes redundant after a bigger fish acquires your company.
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