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Loved ones are gathering, turkeys are basting and, today, we're counting our blessings. So, if I may, allow me to offer the prayer:
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Just because you walk up to the drinking fountain ... doesn't mean you'll get a drink of water. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.
I was thinking of this Saturday as, through texts from friends over the miles, I was tracking my old high school football team's semi-final win, which puts them in Friday's state finals. Seriously, this prayer often was uttered at the start of Biology class by Brother Marius, a balding, compact man with a big hairlip and a booming voice that rattled the windows. Looking back, he was straight from central casting.
We were just freshmen then, and I wondered at the time what the heck kind of prayer this was. You wonder about a lot of things through life. Some of them, you figure out. Many, you don't.
Last Thanksgiving, after a beautiful day with my family at home in California, I took a redeye flight back to Michigan to watch the Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central High School Falcons battle in their second state title game under Coach Jack Giarmo, my old classmate and buddy, on the day after Thanksgiving.
I'd give anything to be there in Detroit's Ford Field again this year. Except, two weeks ago, my wife -- same one who keeps things running so smoothly at home when I'm spending half the baseball season on the road -- underwent a hip replacement surgery. So now nursing duties are keeping me close to home, no matter how great the temptation is to board another jet.
She's awfully young for this kind of procedure. Then again, one of those things you figure out through life is to protect your investments. And it cost me $50 to marry her.
That was the bill that came due from one of those classic high school summer evenings so many years ago involving close friends who over the years have become blood brothers. We all had summer jobs back then and, with senior year closing in, we'd gather at Eebs' house after work four or five nights a week for pickup basketball games on his backyard court under the stars. We played, and talked, for hours.
Eebs, Sam, Ollie, Wildman (long story), Bob, Jerry ... when the games finished, the jawing began. "Your girlfriend has you so whipped you can't even go out with us one night this weekend, can you?" "You're going to be the first one of us married because you can't even get a date now. First girl you can get to go out with you after high school, you'll marry." High school stuff, from those simple times when anything seems possible, when the world appears no more complicated than a pop math quiz.
Out of one of those nights, over delivery pizza and still-under-construction dreams, came the bet: First six guys to marry had to present a check for $50 to the rest of us at the reception (hey, $50 was big bucks back then). Jerry's mother worked in a bank. We opened an account. Last man standing got the $300 at his wedding.
It took 15 years to settle that bet as each of us followed his own path and made his own way (I was the fifth guy married, finishing two places out of the money. Damn!).
There's a line in the Rob Reiner film Stand By Me, last line of the movie, in which the narrator says: "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12. ... Jesus, does anyone?"
Plug in 16 instead of 12, and, bingo.
I never felt more alive than I did on some of those high school nights when, with full heart and clear mind, surrounded by pals who were becoming friends for life, I felt what it must be like when the concrete in a housing foundation is curing.
Now, some guys play fantasy football. When I'm finished covering baseball for the season, and especially when I come home after the World Series, my fantasy football team remains the same as always: Jack's Falcons.
From then, when he was an All-State player himself, to now, he's built a strong, tough program predicated on the tradition of the past and the school values that made so many of us what we are today -- hard work, respect, sportsmanship, no short cuts. (Same stuff that helped the school's girls' volleyball team win a state title on Saturday).
Mike Pannone, Jack Cusumano, Edmund Shinevarre, Anthony Gaynier, Robby Cardella, Zack Moore ... I do not personally know the boys on today's team. But I know them, because I know the small-town, tight-knit community that produced them.
Nick Wilson, I sort of know him because his mother, Kaye-Lani, also was a classmate. And it turns out, sometimes Miss America (1988) is even more beautiful on the inside than on the outside. Who knew? I close my eyes and I can still see the cheerleaders all riding in her orange jeep the fall of our senior year, Kaye-Lani at the wheel, as we dragged ourselves through another cross country practice.
It was an all-boys' school of only 400 students when I was there, and the all-girls' school with which it's since merged was a block away (but Lord, surrounded by 25 other boys in Brother Marius' class, sometimes those girls seemed like they were 1,000 miles away).
I count those priceless days, and that school, among my many, many blessings today. Because we all need to get our footing early in life to stand a chance later.
Those friends I made back then remain a source of strength today. Eebs, now an orthopedic surgeon, has been a gift, an incredibly valuable sounding board over the past year throughout my wife's hip ordeal. Wildman, who has battled epilepsy throughout his life, underwent brain surgery in September and, before he went under, told me he really thought that my mother's famous chocolate chip cookies -- the ones we devoured by the dozens when we were kids -- would aid in his healing process. She delivered, and Wilds is doing great.
This weekend, she's promised to deliver me some pumpkin pie. With my wife and me still housebound, my parents are coming in for Thanksgiving, as are my brother, his wife and their baby. It's going to be a great weekend, filled with love, laughs and, thankfully, improving health. Blessings are abundant, up to and including the fact that we're so fortunate to be living in a time when modern medicine has conquered hip problems.
But there will come a time on Friday afternoon when a part of me will be back in Michigan, missing a whole bunch of friends -- extended family, really -- who will be in a Ford Field "whiteout" (the team will wear white jerseys and white pants, and the school is selling white T-shirts for $5,), willing the Falcons to a state title.
The game will be telecast on FoxSports Detroit, and I may be able to do even better than watching it online. Among my hundreds of cable channels, it looks like one of the channels in the sports package is picking up the telecast.
We're all products of where we come from, and this week, as it did last year, SMCC has asked alumni to send messages to the team. To that extent, I've got three things:
1. Reach for the stars as you move through life and never, ever settle for anything less.
2. If you do lose $50 in some crazy high school bet involving girls, trust me, it could turn into the best $50 you've ever spent. Good hip, or bad.
3. Just because you walk up to the drinking fountain, it doesn't mean you're going to get a drink of water. But as you move through life, quite often, you do. And those happy times can quench some of the greatest thirst you'll ever have, and you'll figure out what this means as you go.
To all, a blessed and rich Thanksgiving filled with love, laughter and good health.
And, to the Falcons: Go get 'em!


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On this episode of Strange Tales, we'll hear an adaptation of the H.G. Wells story, The Country Of The Blind as told by Author's Playhouse. This one was first broadcast October 16, 1944.
Browsing: authors playhouse
First off this week is Author's Playhouse with He Woke Up Famous. An episode from July 13, 1944. Then, Believe It Or Not presents Slept Through Term.
Our Suspense Replay continues with The Cellar, their episode from March 22, 1955.
Our hour of radio drama begins with Author's Playhouse this week. We'll hear High Air, which first aired February 19, 1945. Then, Believe It Or Not brings us Court Trial.
Suspense Replay features The Operation this time. It first aired January 27, 1955.
This week, we hear from Author's Playhouse. This series aired over NBC stations from March 1941, to June of 1945. We'll hear Off Tokyo Bay, which first aired January 6, 1943.
This show is a bit longer than usual, and brings us two fine stories beginning with Authors Playhouse and Two Of A Kind, which first aired July 28, 1944. Then it's Incredible But True and Rescue At Sea. We'll finish off with Studio One, and Payment Deferred which aired July 8, 1947 (begins at 32:40).
This week we begin with Authors Playhouse, and a humorous tale titled My Friend Merton, which first aired May 21, 1945. Then it's Water Wheel from Incredible But True. We'll close out with Favorite Story and The Necklace, which first aired July 3, 1948 (begins at 33:03).
Authors Playhouse aired on the NBC network from March 1941, to June of 1945. From it we'll hear Johnny Cartwright's Camera, which first aired July 22, 1944.
This week our hour of old time radio begins with Authors Playhouse. From November 13, 1944 we'll hear The Long Way Round. Then it's Incredible But True and Handwriting On The Wall. We finish off with The Adventures Of The Falcon, and The Case Of The Raw Deal from December 10, 1950.
This week we'll hear from Authors Playhouse. From July 8, 1944 it's The Kraken. Next week we'll join The Mysterious Traveler for another weird tale.
This week we begin with Expense Account, an episode from the Author's Playhouse that first aired October 30, 1944. Next it's Incredible But True and The Vanishing Clergyman. We'll finish off with Suspense and an episode starring Agnes Moorehead titled Don't Call Me Mother. That one originally aired January 4, 1959.


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To build a top performing DBMS specially suited for web applications based on the DXB mini database concept since 1990. Heavy design around index structures. Available in two flavours - Library (small footprint) and Server (page caching).


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WALLA WALLA -- The lockdown of the Washington State Penitentiary's West Complex will continue through Wednesday, prison officials said today.
Prisoners in the four West Complex living units, Delta, Echo, Fox and Golf, will remain locked in their cells with all work, education and recreational activities cancelled. Visiting to the entire complex is also cancelled.
The four units were placed in lockdown on the night of Feb. 4 following a fight in the commons area of Echo unit. Four correctional officers were injured as they broke up the fight, which involved four inmates with handmade sharpened weapons.
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The city of San Francisco sent a letter to Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in May seeking to stop a planned visit amid the furor caused by his controversial remarks on Japan's wartime system of military brothels, Osaka city officials said Monday.
Even after his remarks drew flak at home and abroad, Hashimoto was still keen on pushing ahead with his scheduled trip to San Francisco and New York. But the letter indicates that the U.S. officials' hostile stance pushed him to cancel his trip.
The letter was sent by a senior San Francisco city official who served as liaison over Hashimoto's trip. It was received by Osaka City on May 22 and translated immediately for the mayor but not made public.
The letter stated that it was the position of the San Francisco city office that it could not block the mayor from coming to the United States in a private capacity, but would not treat the matter as an official visit or as a courtesy call.
Expecting protestors everywhere he went, the letter said the city would have to shoulder heavy security costs and noted his trip could hurt Osaka City's image.
Warning that the people of San Francisco did not welcome the Osaka mayor's U.S. trip, the letter concluded by saying that it would be desirable to postpone the trip considering security and Osaka's economic development.
The letter said its contents reflect the personal view of the senior city official, but sources familiar with the matter believe the gesture was done out of consideration for the sister city ties between Osaka and San Francisco which date back more than 50 years.
Hashimoto, who co-heads the opposition Japan Restoration Party, has been under fire for saying on May 13 that women at the brothels, euphemistically referred to as "comfort women" in Japan, were "necessary" for soldiers during World War II.
He planned to visit San Francisco and New York from June 10 to 16 to meet with U.S. officials as part of efforts to deepen city-level exchanges.
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Andhra Pradesh Educational Institutions Society(APREIS) has issued APRS 5th Class Admission Test 2015 Notification on 14th, February 2015 for admissions into 5th class in Andhra Pradesh Residential Schools in the AP State for the academic year 2014-15. The APREIS invites online applications from the eligible students in the AP State for admission into 5th class in its AP Residential Schools.
SC and ST students have born between 01/09/2002 to 31/08/2006.
OC and BC students should have born 01/09/2004 to 31/08/2006.
Educational qualification:
The Students should be a bonafide of Class IV during the academic year 2014-15 in any Government School or any recognized school of Andhra Pradesh.
Income Limit:
The Parental income for the year 2014-2015 should not exceed Rs.60,000/- per annum.
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Selections of the process through Entrance Test.
Application fee: Rs. 50/-
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1. Submission of online applications starts from:20-02-2015
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Did you know that it's really really easy to make mayonnaise at home? It's just three ingredients — egg yolks, a squeeze of lemon juice, and some oil — and with an immersion blender, it's ready in about five minutes. Three ingredients, five minutes of your time, delicious creamy mayo. Let's do this.
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I have an ongoing real estate battle in my refrigerator door between condiments and cocktail ingredients. While I can ignore boozes and bitters since they seem to last practically forever, condiments definitely have shorter shelf lives and need to be pruned occasionally.
We can all read a date stamp, but an opened container is another thing. Here's a rundown of some of the most common condiments and how long they last once they're opened.
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You know that point when you're almost to the bottom of a jar of jam? It's not quite empty, but it feels close enough because there's not even enough jam to spread on a piece of toast.
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Smoky, spicy canned chipotles in adobo are one of my favorite flavor-boosters. Just a little bit of this wonderfully smoky, spicy stuff adds so much flavor to my cooking, but it also leads to one of the more annoying aspects of opening up a can: dealing with the leftovers.
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If we're honest, our memories of the Toyota Camry Solara aren't exactly fond. And as much as we'd like to look back on Toyota's Red Hat Society coupe and convertible through a pair of rose-tinted glasses, we'll be content with our currently Solara-less lives.
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|Jul 21, 1992
|Filing date
|Jul 30, 1991
|Priority date
|Jul 5, 1989
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|Ryoichi Yabe, Takashi Yamada, Takayuki Imai, Masahiro Mizutani
|Original Assignee
|Ryoichi Yabe, Takashi Yamada, Takayuki Imai, Masahiro Mizutani
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (15), Classifications (11), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 483,488 filed Feb. 22, 1990, now abandoned.
The present invention relates to an embedded type intelligent switch system to be mounted on the wall surface near the entrance of an intelligent building or the like and to be used for providing information and for controlling operation of the building facilities.
In intelligent buildings as constructed in recent years, various facilities are furnished such as lighting control, air-conditioning control, entry and exit control, fire detection system, information communication system, etc. and the on-off operation and the control operation for these facilities are performed in each office. For this purpose, various types of switches are installed in the offices such as the switch to turn on or off the lighting equipment, or the air-conditioning systems or the switches to control and adjust the illuminance or the temperature in the rooms. These switches are furnished in separate groups for each partition of the offices and are usually mounted on the wall surfaces near the entrance or at other suitable positions. Therefore, when the offices are partitioned, the positions of the switches are determined according to the partitions.
In the above switch operating system as conventionally adopted, the switches for lighting equipment and the switches for air-conditioning system are separately furnished, and each group of switches and the facilities under control of such switches are limited and fixed in the extent of one-to-one. Namely, the facilities and the extent of the control are limited for each switch, and only one function is provided for such switch.
In the office building, the room partitions and the room layout are frequently changed. When such a change occurs for the conventional switch operating system, the switch group to control the facilities in the same room has to belong partially to the other room after the change. In this case, it is necessary to move a part of the switches to the switch panel of the other rooms. For this reason, the wiring, the switch installation and the rearrangement of the room have to be done each time the room layout is changed.
One of the methods to cope with such a change in a flexible manner is to minimize the re-arrangement by adopting a wireless remote control system. However, the wireless remote control system requires a transmitter and a receiver, and it is also often necessary to divide the transmitter in order to match the room layout. With the increase of the facilities to be controlled, more transmitters or complicated transmitters are needed. This results in the increase of the installation cost of the system and the more troublesome arrangement of the transmitters.
It is an object of the present invention, to, provide the intelligent switch capable adjusting and controlling the lighting and air-conditioning near the entrance door of an office building so that the facilities and the extent of the area under control can be freely changed. Another object of this invention is to furnish the means to flexibly cope with the change of the office layout. Still another object of the invention is to make up a system where the control command can be input and the information can be output by intelligent switches.
To attain these objects, the intelligent switch system according to the present invention comprises intelligent switches, which are embedded in a wall surface near the entrance on each floor of the building, are capable to output and display the selection menu or the information from the screen of the display unit with a touch panel on the front side thereof and are capable to input the selected instructions. An information processing unit is connected with each of the intelligent switches to give, receive and process the information. A regulatory system is located within the building. The regulatory system in the building is controlled by the intelligent switches and the information is output from the information processing unit. The intelligent switch is provided with a display unit with a touch panel and a data processing device, which displays the menu screen on the display unit with the touch panel and sends the touch input information after recognizing and processing the touch input on the screen. The intelligent switch possesses a top menu consisting of the information offer items and the, intra-building control items, and when an item of the top menu is selected by touch input, the screen is turned to the development screen of the item in order to offer the service for such an item.
With the arrangement as described above, the intelligent switch system of this invention can offer the necessary information by touch input on the intelligent switches, which are embedded in the wall surface near the entrance on each floor and freely control the regulatory systems in the building. Each switch also possesses a top menu consisting of the information offer items and the intra-building control items. When an item of the top menu is selected by touch input, the screen is changed to the development screen of the item and offers the service for such an item. Thus, messages, news and information can be freely offered, and air-conditioning and lighting can be easily controlled by touching the screen.
Still other objects and advantages of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part be apparent from the specification.
The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the invention will be indicated in the claims.
FIG. 1 is a diagram to show an embodiment of an intelligent switch according to the present invention;
FIG. 2(a)-2(c) are an external view of an intelligent switch;
FIG. 3 is an illustration showing the mounting condition of the intelligent switch;
FIG. 4 shows an example of a top menu indicated on a liquid crystal display plate;
FIG. 5 is a schematical illustration of the configuration of a building control system;
FIG. 6 is a diagram to give an example of screen configuration;
FIGS. 7a-d, 8a-d, 9 to FIG. 11 are the examples of the development screen of each menu.
In the following, the embodiments of the invention will be described in connection with the drawings.
In FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, 1 refers to a CPU, 2 a Kanji ROM, 3 a VRAM, 4 a display controller, 5 a touch input interface, 6 a liquid crystal display plate with a touch panel, 7 a ROM, 8 a RAM, 9 an external communication interface, 10 a computer, 11 an intelligent switch, 12 a front panel, 13 an external frame, 14 an accommodating housing, 15 a mounting wall, and 16 an entrance. The display controller 4 generates Kanji characters and alphanumerics such as JIS No. 1 Standard Kanji, JIS No. 2 Standard Kanji and non-Kanji characters, and develops these characters and patterns on the display screen. The liquid crystal display plate with the touch panel 6 is a liquid crystal display plate furnished with a touch panel on the front thereof. For example, when a liquid crystal display plate commercially available consisting of a screen of 640�400 dots is used, the screen is approximately of B5 size. When this liquid crystal display plate is used to develop and display Kanji characters in 24�24 dots, it is possible to display the information consisting about 16 lines having 26 characters in each line. The touch input interface 5 is to input and process the touch signals from this liquid crystal display plate with the touch panel 6. In ROM 7, the programs such as monitor, communication control, input control of touch panel, display output control, download manager, etc. are stored. RAM 8 is used to store the screen data to be displayed on the liquid crystal display plate with the touch panel 6 and to store the individual program suitable for each application as work area. The screen data and the programs are loaded by the download manager when they are prepared by the other computers. CPU 1 is to process the input/output information on the liquid crystal display plate with the touch panel 6 and to communicate with an external host computer or with the computer 10 such as the building control system through the external communication interface 9 when necessary.
FIG. 2 is an external view of an intelligent switch, in which a circuit of FIG. 1 is accommodated and the liquid crystal display plate with the touch panel 6 is arranged on the front. This intelligent switch 11 is provided with a liquid crystal display plate 6 with the touch panel at the center of the front panel 12, and it is embedded, for example, with the surface of the front panel 12 on the same level as the wall surface, and the external frame 13 is protruded from the wall surface. Because the liquid crystal display plate is of a commercially available thin type, the intelligent switch 12 has the thickness of about 7 cm even when an accommodation housing 14 is furnished on its rear side, accommodating all of CPU 1, Kanji ROM 2, VRAM 3, display controller 4, etc. Accordingly, it is possible to fabricate the intelligent switch 12 in A4 size and to embed it in the wall 15 near the entrance 16.
Next, a description will be given on the building control system, in which the intelligent switch according this invention is used.
On the liquid crystal display plate of the intelligent switch according to this invention, a top menu as shown in FIG. 4 is usually displayed. Icon 21 displays when it is raining, and icon 22 displays the image corresponding to each of the choices 23. By touching the icon 22 or the display area of the choice 23 on this display screen, the touched item is selected, and detailed information is developed and displayed. In this top menu, the information is offered by "Today's information" and "News flash", and the lighting and air-conditioning are controlled and adjusted by "Lighting control", "Air-conditioning and temperature control", and "Overtime air-conditioning ON/OFF".
FIG. 5 is an example of the configuration of the building control system, in which the above intelligent switch is mounted on a wall surface near the entrance of a corridor, for example. In this example, the information processing unit consisting of a floor station 33, a host computer 41, a building control system 42, etc. are connected with the intelligent switch 34 through a communication line, and the information is given, taken and processed between these devices and the intelligent switch 34. Further, the intra-building regulator units such as lighting equipment 36, air-conditioner 37, etc. are connected with these devices which provide intra-building regulation control information. The telephone set with data communication function 31 on each floor and the computer terminal for tenant manager 32 are connected with the host computer 41 through DPBX (digital electronic exchange) 40, and the external news distribution line is connected. Also, building control system 42, computer terminals for building managers 43 and 39, floor station 33, and rain sensor 38 are connected. The intelligent switch 34 and the lighting controller 35 are connected with the floor station 33. The lighting equipment 36 is connected with this lighting controller 35, and the air-conditioning system 37 is connected with the building control unit 42. The floor station 33 performs the centralized control of several intelligent switches 34 by multi-task processing, and the intelligent switches 34 are connected by a multi-drop system.
In the lighting control, when ON/OFF status of the lighting is displayed on the liquid crystal display plate of the intelligent switch 34 and the user performs ON/OFF operation of the lighting while watching the screen with the layout display, ON/OFF signals by such an operation are sent from the intelligent switch 34 to the lighting controller 35, and the lighting equipment is controlled. The setting and the change of the lighting control area are achieved by each computer terminal (32, 39, 43) through the floor station 33. In the air-conditioning control, ON/OFF operation of the air-conditioner and fine adjustment of the preset temperature are performed through the display of ON/OFF status and the running status such as the preset temperature. ON/OFF operation, temperature control, area setting and change are achieved from the computer terminal through the building control system 42. In the news flash, the external news distribution line is connected through DPBX, and the most up-to-date news information is taken into the host computer 41. Thus, the latest information can be displayed on the intelligent switch 34. For the rain information, rain sensors 38 are installed on building roof and on the ground, and the umbrella-shaped icon 21 is displayed on each screen of the intelligent switch 34 when it is raining. In buildings, particularly, in large buildings, people inside cannot find out immediately whether it is raining or not outside the building. In such a case, they first become aware of the rain only when they come to the exit of the building, and they-have to go back to take rain gear. This means wasting several minutes or more for a large building. The umbrella mark by the icon 21 on the intelligent switch 34 provides convenience in such a case and is very effective to eliminate wasting time when the office workers are going home or going out.
Although not shown in the drawing, a key box for each room may be installed at a specific place in order to check that all keys are returned to key box from each tenant on the floor. Based on the presence or absence of the keys, the lighting and the air-conditioning on each floor may be checked and controlled, and those operating can be stopped when all keys are already there. There are key boxes already known, for each of which a card reader is provided. With the user ID numbers stored in the card reader, the keys with the registered user ID numbers can be freely taken away or given back, and this facilitates the key control.
Next, a description will be given on the screen configuration of the intelligent switch as well as the selection and the changeover of the switch. Normally, the top menu screen 51 is displayed, but when any of the choices "Today's information", "News flash", "Lighting control", "Air-conditioning and temperature control", "Air-conditioning ON/OFF", etc. is selected by touch input, the screen is turned to the menu screens 52-56 as shown in FIG. 6.
For example, in the menu screen 52 of "Today's information", the menu such as "Regular inspection of elevator", "New installation of coffee vending machine", "Information about New Year's party", etc. including the message from the building manager or the tenant manager are displayed as given in FIG. 7 (a). If any of these items is selected, the screen 52' for the detailed information corresponding to each selection item is displayed as shown in FIGS. 7 (b)-(d). The information is input from the computer terminal of the building manager 39 or 43 and the computer terminal of the tenant manager 32.
As described above, each of the menus for item selection is displayed on the menu screens 52-56. When there are two or more pages of screens, the next page key and the preceding page key 61 to select these screens or the menu screen selection key 62 to select the other menu screen are displayed at the end of the screen.
On the menu screen 53 of "News flash", the category (genre) selection menu such as "General news", "Political and economic news", "Industry and enterprise news", "Overseas news", etc. is displayed as shown in FIG. 8 (a). When the category is selected, the menu for the selection items is displayed as given in FIGS. 8 (c) and (d). Such "news flash" is usually wanted at lunch time for a normal office building (i.e., the most frequently used display). Accordingly, if the schedule is controlled (i.e., by a schedule control function) in such a manner that the menu screen 53 of "News flash" is displayed instead of the top menu during lunch time, the desired information becomes available through the least number of selection steps.
On the menu screen 54 of "Lighting control", various selection keys 66 are displayed together with the floor layout 63 or the controlled area layout 64 as given in FIG. 9. In the floor layout 63, the position of the layout for the controlled area is emphatically displayed. In the layout for the controlled area 64, ON/OFF status display of each block area and the installed position display 65 of the intelligent switch are displayed. The menu screen selection key and the shift key, ON/OFF operation key, etc. are included in these selection keys 66. The controlled area is shifted by each block, and the scope of shift is limited for each tenant. ON/OFF operation may be performed in such a manner that it is turned OFF when it is in an ON status and it is turned ON when it is in an OFF status by touching each block area instead of ON/OFF operation key. By this touch input, the signals for the lighting control are issued. The layout for the controlled area can be changed by minimum operation of ON/OFF control.
In the menu screen 55 of the "Air-conditioning temperature control", the temperature control keys for each room of the entire building are displayed on screen together with the layout as shown in FIG. 10. When the key on the screen is touched, the information of that key, i.e. the control signal, is issued. In the figure, the standard temperature as set at the center can be adjusted by �1� C., and the regulation for all tenants is achievable by the whole building regulation key. Individual regulation is performed by each key for each room.
In the menu screen of the "Air-conditioning ON/OFF", the user ID input screen by ten-key is displayed as given in FIG. 11 (a). When the user ID number is input, the user ID number is collated, and the layout screen 56' where the overtime ON/OFF operation can be input is displayed.
As described above, the present invention offers an intelligent switch, which comprises a display unit with touch panel on the front thereof and a data processing unit, and in which the top menu consisting of the information offer items such as "Today's information" or "News flash" and the intra-building control items such as "Lighting control", "Air-conditioning temperature control", "Overtime air-conditioning ON/OFF", etc. is displayed, and these items are developed according to each selection. Because the screen is changed over and the input information is processed by the menu display and the touch on the displayed area, the registration and the change of the screen and the change of the touch area can be accomplished freely from computer terminals, and a compact and flexible system can be provide. For example, the information can be input or the lighting block or the air-conditioning block can be set from the computer terminal of each manager, and when the contents are registered in the host computer, these are transferred to each intelligent switch and building control system through the floor station and are processed at the intelligent switches and the building control system according to each content.
It is naturally obvious that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and various modifications and changes are conceivable. For example, liquid crystal display plate is used in the above embodiment, but the other types of display may be employed. Also, 5 items are displayed in the top menu, whereas statistical data, message or other information may be displayed, and the items may be increased such as electric key control or other facility control. Further, if there is no touch input on the liquid crystal display plate with the touch panel within the predetermined time, the backlight automatic light-out function by time-out or automatic light-on function by screen touch is executed. The schedule control function may be furnished to display the most desired screen for each time zone, e.g., instead of top menu screen, the menu for "Lighting control" may be displayed in the morning, and the menu for "News flash" at lunch time so that the most desired screen may be displayed.
As it is evident from the above explanation, the menus are hierarchically displayed on the display unit with touch panel according to this invention, and the information is offered or building facilities are controlled by touch input. This makes it possible to use the system as multi-function terminals and to provide a wide variety of information. Moreover, external information or internal liaison information can be quickly and abundantly offered near the entrance of each room. Also, because input is performed from the screen, the switching system can be easily changed by altering the screen without rearranging the wiring system. This means more flexible action when office layout is changed. The operation is simple, maloperation rarely occurs, and, even when it occurs, it can be easily identified. Further, because display is made hierarchically, dividing into two or more screens, a number of functions can be provided with the system in compact size.
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siren6 9 years
She's wearing flats and loose - and tent-like - tops. She's either pregnant or angling for pregnancy speculation. I think she's knocked up.
TNgirl 9 years
I hope that this isn't true even though it probably is. They both have way to many issues to have a baby right now.
bittersweet 9 years
Definitely pregnant. Umm, yea, eww.
Hollygolitely 9 years
She's never been fat a day in her life. She has to be pregnant.
NLTB11 9 years
Celebrity Baby Blog reported that they had confirmed a pregnancy a couple of weeks ago... Looks like we'll soon be seeing a little dog-faced Tori-offspring
SweetPeasMom 9 years
I like Tori. ***and the cheese stands alone***
Tiinnaaaa 9 years
ewww i hate her, she looks like a man. :/
t0xxic 9 years
I say yes
bluejeanie 9 years
she seems like such a nasty person. hopefully motherhood will fix that.
JennaV 9 years
Blech, I hope not. That would be one FUG kid.
azucar_maddy 9 years
Nice point, Neural
Neural 9 years
I would guess she's pregnant. But I have to disagree with my dear popple friend Jen76-- I think bringing a new soul into this family could be exactly what it needs. Either Tori and Dean can go about creating their own branch and focusing happily on that... or the little one will bring Grandma back into Tori's life in a positive way. Of course, Dr. Phil says children shouldn't be born with a "job" to do... but I doubt that was the original intention for Tori & Dean. Just a bonus. I guess we'll see!
nyaradzom2001 9 years
good one yayita.
yayita 9 years
love the gump
Jinx 9 years
LOL Yayita! I just watched Forrest Gu-ump again the other night!
tabloidprincess 9 years
this is the only way paparazzi is going to follow her day in and day out. Eww.
jennifer76 9 years
I hope not. This entire family has a lot to sort out before they start dragging new lives into the world.
yayita 9 years
ugly is as ugly does Nyara :p
azucar_maddy 9 years
lol tab - honesty is highly valued
nyaradzom2001 9 years
I ain't no fan of tori but she isn't that fugly i think there are way fuglier women out way way fuglier. Think the bride of Wildenstein people. But she is looking puffy.
tabloidprincess 9 years
Warning I'm about to say something really mean. BOTH parents of this baby are so ugly. Woo!
BlondeSugar 9 years
i thought we already knew this :?
yayita 9 years
Maybe I'm a jelous Beyotch, but I love to see the rich people being miserable Mwahahahahahaha :EVIL:
TruJrzyGirl 9 years
She is a WACKO ... Funny how I never thought that of her until the reports of her family matters surfaced. I think the whole family is/was wacko. Goes to show we never know what is going on behind locked and sealed doors.
yayita 9 years
Look at her Massacre that sandwich in the 9th picture


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What am I missing here? If you think you have a good explanation as to what is causing a sell off into the low single digits please enlighten me. I'd still like to think that others that are closer to the story and paid much more for the shares are much more informed. I thought I'd see them buying but do understand they can't keep buying shares everytime it falls. I thought these guys are financing cause they have some major projects that they've already one to be funded, not that we're rolling the dice and expecting contracts after the infrastructure is built.
This seems like pure panic sell as those that fear the financing isn't coming and getting out. It also seems that some interpreted the last news release to say that they actually plan on doing an equity raise below $.01 or $.10 after the roll back (which really isn't the case). How could these company be near $.20 with no Egypt or SA deals and no EPay...and now trade at a fraction of that just as they are turning the corner. Just micro credit alone is enough to catapult this stock....Egypt, SA?
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LG Electronics announced operating profit for the parent company overall, due to cost reduction initiatives in the quarter that ended March 31, 2011, compared to last quarter. Naturally, we are more interested in the results generated by the LG Mobile Communications Company, where all good things cell come out from.
Revenue there decreased 8.9% in comparison to the first quarter of 2010, to $2.6 billion in the January-March period from handset sales. The number of cell phone units shipped also decreased year-on-year, and from the fourth quarter of 2010, down to 24.5 million units, but LG attributes this to seasonality. Operating loss for the first quarter was 3.5%, $0.09 billion, which is actually an improvement from the Q4 2010 loss of 5.1%, due to the expanding share of smartphones in the portfolio of LG Mobile Communications Company, and the reduction of overhead costs.
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Jury is out on "great handsets", but we will see. What I have noticed about LG is that their basic phones are not high quality. Most of the group I hang out with do not want to spend the money for the Smart phones, so they have just basic call/text service. The LG Envy series was very good, a whole family I know still has them in use. The Octane is okay, but the basic flips that were sold were junk, literal falling apart. Which LG shows up for the Optimus series?
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In North Korean photo, there is a horizontal line above the character ㄷ
In the following image, there are horizontal lines above both visible ㄷ characters. I couldn't find anything about that difference online. What are they?
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that is ㅌ. They use a certain kind of hangul font. We also use the same font as well.
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