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|Application number
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|Oct 17, 2000
|Filing date
|Mar 30, 1999
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|Mar 31, 1998
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|Mark Brian Insley, Philip John Thomas
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|Illinois Works Inc.
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|Patent Citations (12), Referenced by (7), Classifications (14), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to a thermal printer with a multiple element print head which is movable across a platen in a printing stroke.
British Patent Application No. 2301559 discloses a thermal printer in which a thermal print head is driven in a longitudinal printing stroke across a substrate material supported by a stationary platen. A ribbon coated with thermally transferable ink passes between the print head and the substrate so that when the print head passes across the ribbon with its elements energised and in contact with the ribbon, ink is transferred from the ribbon to the substrate material. At the end of the printing stroke, the head is lifted away from the platen and driven back in a return stroke, whereupon it is lowered again towards the platen to begin another printing stroke. The substrate material is moved intermittently in that it is held stationary during the printing stroke and then advanced during the reverse movement of the print head to bring a new printing area into registry with the platen and the print head. During the printing stroke, the substrate material and the ribbon are maintained stationary on the platen. During the return stroke, both ribbon and substrate material are fed across the platen in readiness for the next printing stroke.
One factor in the operation of all such printers is running costs. One of these costs is the need regularly to replace the thermal ribbon which is consumed during printing.
It is an object of the present invention to reduce ribbon consumption.
According to a first aspect of the invention, a thermal printer comprises a platen for supporting a substrate on which information or a pattern is to be printed, a multiple element print head mounted so as to be movable across the platen in a printing stroke and a return stroke and towards and away from the platen at the beginning and end of the printing stroke respectively, means defining a ribbon path passing between the print head and the platen and ribbon drive means which operate in use, to drive ribbon along the ribbon path during the printing stroke of the print head.
In a method aspect of the present invention, a method of operating a thermal printer including a platen for supporting a substrate on which information or a pattern is to be printed, a multiple element print head mounted so as to be movable across the platen in a printing stroke and a return stroke and towards and away from the platen at the beginning and end of the printing stroke respectively, means defining a ribbon path passing between the print head and the platen and ribbon drive means operable to drive ribbon along the ribbon path, comprises causing the ribbon drive means to drive ribbon along the ribbon path during a printing stroke.
Preferably, the ribbon is driven in generally the same direction across the platen as the print head during a printing stroke.
By arranging for the ribbon to be driven during a printing stroke, a smaller area of ribbon comes into contact with the print head during a printing stroke. The effect of this is to reduce the size of the image formed on the ribbon by removal of ink onto the substrate thereby reducing the consumption of ribbon during printing.
It might be thought that the quality of the image printed on a substrate would be degraded by moving the ribbon in this way. However, the applicant has realised that due to smudging and compression of the image on the ribbon, more ink per unit area is removed from the ribbon than in the prior art arrangement. It will be appreciated for example, that since the printed image is made up of adjacent dots, some ink is left on the ribbon between dots in the conventional arrangement. Thus the present invention achieves more efficient transference of ink from the ribbon to a substrate which results in a reduction in ribbon consumption.
As the speed of the ribbon approaches that of the printing head, the quality of the printed image deteriorates. Thus, preferably the ribbon drive means is arranged to drive the ribbon at a speed less than the speed of movement of the print head across the platen during a printing stroke. Typically, the ribbon drive means is arranged to drive the ribbon at a speed of generally one half of the speed of movement of the print head across the platen during a printing stroke.
The invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic front view of a printer in accordance with the invention with the print head raised;
FIG. 2 is a side view, partly sectioned along the line A--A in FIG. 1, with the print head lowered; and
FIG. 3 is a detailed side view of the relationship between the lowered print head, ribbon and substrate in the printer of FIG. 1.
The printer shown in the drawings is designed to print onto a substrate disposed upon a platen. Printing is effected by transferring ink from a ribbon onto the substrate using a thermal print head which employs a multiplicity of individual heating elements adapted to be selectively energised to produce a fine deposition of ink from the ribbon on the substrate.
In the embodiment illustrated, the print head is positioned above the ribbon and substrate, and when not printing, the head is spaced from the ribbon and applies no pressure to the ribbon or to the substrate so that both ribbon and substrate are free to move relative to each other and to the print head. The platen, which may be coated with rubber or the like, is disposed below the substrate and remains in a substantially static position during operation of the printer. For printing purposes, the ribbon and substrate are sandwiched between the printer head and the platen and the print head is moved down into contact with the ribbon so as to apply a predetermined pressure to the ribbon and the substrate. During a printing stroke in which the print head is moved longitudinally across the ribbon, the required pressure or load is maintained to grip the ribbon and substrate and to ensure good print quality. In accordance with the invention both the up and down movement and the movements in the longitudinal direction are effected by a single electric motor, preferably a stepper motor.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the main components of the printer are mounted on a vertical back plate 10 to which are attached side plates 12,14, a bottom plate 16, and a top plate 18. The space between the side plates 12 and 14 to the front of the back plate 10 is divided into two compartments 17,19 with a partition 20. Above the partition 20 is a motor compartment 17 housing two stepper motors 22,24, while below the partition there is a cantilevered support frame 26 attached to the back plate 10, the support frame 26 mounting a movable print head 29 and a carrier assembly 28 to which a print head carriage 30 is attached. Carriage 30 houses a multiple-element print head 29 which has a series of electrically energisable thermal printing elements extending laterally, i.e. in a line perpendicular to the back plate 10. The print head 29 is fixed in the carriage 30 and the elements are exposed to the underside.
The lower compartment 19 also has space above the support frame 26 for ribbon supply and take-up spools which are not shown, these being part of a front plate assembly (also not shown) which is removable from the side plates 12,14.
Behind the back plate 10 is a third compartment 31, closed off by a rear cover 32. The output shaft of motor 24 projects into this compartment 31 (FIG. 2) and has a drive pulley 34 around which is wrapped a ribbon drive belt 36 for transmitting drive from the motor 24 to a ribbon spindle 38 via a pulley 40, the spindle 38 being mounted in a bush 42 housed in the back plate 10. When the front plate assembly mentioned above is fitted to the side plates 12,14, the ribbon take-up spool, which is mounted on a bearing on the front plate, engages with spigots 44 projecting from the ribbon drive spindle 38.
The ribbon supply spool (not shown), also attached to the front plate, is located alongside the take-up spool, and when the front plate is mounted to the side plates 12,14, is centered on the axis 46 shown in FIG. 1.
It will be understood, that the ribbon, when located in the lower compartment between the side plates 12,14, extends from the supply spool around bars (not shown) attached to the front plate, and thence beneath the print head carriage 30, around one or more further deflecting bars (not shown), and is collected at the take-up spool in the right-hand side of the lower compartment 19.
The motor compartment 17 and the rear compartment 31 are substantially sealed to prevent the ingress of dirt. The electronics controlling the motors are preferably located in an external unit.
A flat platen 48 is fixed beneath the print head carrier assembly 28 to act as a support for the substrate material on which information or patterns are to be printed. By allowing the print head carriage 30 to pivot about a longitudinal axis 49 (see FIG. 2), misalignment of the platen 48 can be obviated.
The mechanism which drives the print head carriage 30 both across the platen 48 and up and down with respect to the platen 48 will now be described in more detail.
Referring to both FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the print head carrier assembly comprises two parallel shafts 50,52 with axes perpendicular to the back plate 10, front and rear connecting members 54,56 (see FIG. 2) linking the front ends and the rear ends respectively of the shafts 50,52, and front and rear looped drive belts 58,60 which are wrapped around the shafts 50,52, and have parallel upper and lower belt runs parallel to the platen 48.
Each shaft 50,52 has a rotatable outer sleeve 50S,52S mounted on the shaft core by bearings (see 52B in FIG. 2), the sleeves 50S,52S being splined to receive the toothed inner faces of the print head drive belts 58,60. Each shaft core has a pin (see 52E in FIG. 2) at each end which not only receives one of the connecting members 54,56, but also is housed in the end of a respective crank arm 62,64,66 or 68. Two of these crank arms 62,64 are pivotally mounted on studs 69 fixed to the front edge of the cantilevered support frame 26, while the other two, the rear two 66,68, are mounted on studs 70 projecting from the rear of the back plate 10 (see FIG. 2). Thus, each shaft 50,52 hangs on a front crank arm 62,64 and a rear crank arm 66,68, the front and rear crank arms supporting each shaft having a common pivot axis. These pivot axes are spaced apart by a distance equal to the spacing of the axes of the shafts 50,52 so that the arms form the sides of a parallelogram, as seen in FIG. 1. It will be noted that each shaft 50,52, passes through a respective slot 72,74 in the back plate 10, the ends of which slots act as stops to limit the degree of angular rotation of the arms. Where the shafts 50,52 pass through the slots 72,74 they have rubber cushioning sleeves 76.
The print head carriage 30 includes two pairs of guide rails 77,78 which lie respectively above and below the print head drive belts 58,60. The lower guide rails 78 are fixed to the belts 58,60 in their lower belt run between shafts 50,52 with the upper guide rail 77 free to slide over the back of the belts 58,60 along the upper belt run.
It will be appreciated from the foregoing that the print head carrier assembly, comprising shafts 50,52 and the print head drive belts 58,60, is movable towards and away from the path of the substrate material as the arms swing in unison, as well as in the printing and return stroke directions, thereby causing the print head 29 alternately to press down against and withdraw from the ribbon and substrate material. The manner in which this approaching and withdrawing movement is brought about will now be described.
Referring to FIG. 2, immediately in front of the back plate 10 is a third belt 80 which transfers drive from the print head drive motor 22 to the print head carrier assembly 28 by virtue of the belt also being wrapped around the sleeve 50S of one of the shafts 50 of the carrier assembly. In fact, as can be seen from FIG. 1, this transfer drive belt 80, which is also toothed like the print head drive belts 58,60, wraps around the sleeve 50S over an angle of less than 90� at the axis of shaft 50 so that on each side of shaft 50 it forms a shallow "V" defined by the positions of idler rollers 82,84 mounted on the back plate 10. When the shaft 50 is at the mid-point of its arcuate path of travel, the line joining its axis with the pivot axis of the suspending crank arms 62,66 approximately bisects the angle made by the "V" of the transfer drive belt 80 between the idler rollers 82,84. Each arm of the "V" makes an angle of greater than 50� with the bisecting line, and preferably 60�.
In FIG. 1, the print head carriage 30 is shown in its raised position and approximately at the mid-point of its return stroke. It will be noted that the shafts 50,52 are at the upper ends of the slots 72,74. At this point of the printing cycle, the motor 22 is driven in a clockwise direction so that the shafts 50,52 are driven in an anti-clockwise direction and the print head carriage is being driven to the right. Due to the frictional resistance against rotation of the shafts 50,52, rotation of the transfer drive belt 80 in the anti-clockwise direction keeps the shafts 50,52 at the ends of the slots 72,74, thereby keeping the print head carriage 30 in the raised or retracted position. When the carriage 30 has reached the end of its return stroke, the print head drive motor 22 is switched to drive in the opposite direction. As a result, transfer drive belt 80 is driven clockwise and arms 62,66,64,68 are immediately swung clockwise so that the shafts 50,52 move to the lower ends of slots 72,74, bringing the print head 29 downwards to an active position so as to apply pressure against the ribbon and substrate material (not shown) lying over the platen 48. Once the shafts 50,52 have reached the limit of their movement along slots 72,74, both are driven clockwise and the print head 29 is caused to move across the platen 30 in its printing stroke with the force applied to the arms 62,66,64,68 by the motor 22 and belt 80 resulting in the print head 29 being pressed against the ribbon and substrate which lie over the platen 48.
At the end of the printing stroke, the print head drive motor 22 is reversed once again to cause transfer drive belt 80 to move anti-clockwise, thereby moving shafts 50,52 to the right again and lifting the print head 29. When the shafts 50,52 have reached their upper limit of movement, they are rotated anti-clockwise by the belt 80 to execute another return stroke.
With particular reference to FIG. 3, during the printing stroke, the ribbon 51 is moved relative to the substrate material 49 and the platen 48. This is achieved as described above by rotating ribbon drive spindle 38 to cause ribbon to be wound onto the ribbon take-up spool. The motor 24 which indirectly drives the ribbon take-up spool, rotates at a speed which results in a ribbon speed across the substrate 49 of approximately half the speed of movement of the print head 29 across the platen 48.
During the return stroke, both ribbon and substrate material are fed across the platen 48 towards the right-hand side of the printer as seen in FIG. 1 in readiness for the next printing stroke.
The print head drive motor 22 is a stepper motor which is capable of rapid acceleration. The relatively short periods of acceleration take place largely during the movement of the shafts 50,52 along their respective slots 72,74 so that during the printing stroke the print head drive belts 58,60 and the print carriage 30 are moving with substantially constant velocity.
It will be appreciated that the invention described above is generally applicable to thermal printers in which the printhead is movable across the platen during a printing stroke and is not limited to application with the printer described in detail above.
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|Filing date
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|International Business Machines Corporation
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|Apr 17, 1986
|Mar 1, 1988
|Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
|Printing control device and method
|Mar 19, 1986
|Nov 29, 1988
|Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
|Printing ribbon positioning apparatus and method of operation thereof
|Feb 17, 1989
|Oct 20, 1992
|Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
|Thermal inked ribbon printer mechanism
|Sep 6, 1991
|Sep 28, 1993
|Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.
|Thermal printer having a controller for controlling paper feed operation and a printing method thereof
|Mar 31, 1993
|Jul 4, 1995
|Alp Electric Co., Ltd.
|Thermal transfer printer with ink ribbon feed controller
|Jun 24, 1997
|Oct 6, 1998
|Itw Limited
|Printer for printing on a continuous print medium
|Sep 10, 1997
|Jun 1, 1999
|Markem Technologies Ltd.
|Method of printing
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|Citing Patent
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|Jan 19, 2001
|Apr 20, 2004
|Eastman Kodak Company
|Thermal printer with bi-directional print head movement and method thereof
|Jan 14, 2003
|Jun 5, 2007
|Markem Technologies Limited
|Printing apparatus
|Aug 1, 2005
|Dec 27, 2011
|Zipher Limited
|Printing method and apparatus
|Nov 8, 2011
|Oct 1, 2013
|Videojet Technologies (Nottingham) Limited
|Printing method and apparatus
|Sep 3, 2013
|Nov 18, 2014
|Videojet Technologies (Nottingham) Limited
|Printing method and apparatus
|Jan 14, 2003
|Feb 10, 2005
|Troman David Anthony
|Printing apparatus
|Aug 1, 2005
|Nov 1, 2007
|Zipher Limited
|Printing Method and Apparatus
|U.S. Classification
|400/56, 400/232
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Mar 30, 1999
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Machiavelli rush towards in his car?
(a) The Eiffel Tower.
(b) Notre Dame.
(c) The Sacre-Coeur.
(d) The Louvre.
2. What did Scathach once do for St. Germain's wife?
(a) Saved her life.
(b) Gave her an amulet.
(c) Introduced her to St. Germain.
(d) Taught her magic.
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(b) Runs.
(c) Asks for Sophie's help.
(d) Kills the officer.
4. What does Flamel use as an excuse to get the call made?
(a) His mother is dying.
(b) His father is dying.
(c) He is writing about the destruction of the store.
(d) Nothing.
5. In spite of what does Machiavelli order his men to continue searching for Flamel?
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(b) The resistance of one man.
(c) The illegality of the search.
(d) The fact that there are no clues as to where they went.
6. What does Josh suggest they do to avoid detection?
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(b) Change into different clothing.
(c) Break into pairs.
(d) Nothing.
7. Who is Sophie?
(a) Perenelle's assistant.
(b) Josh's sister.
(c) Josh's mother.
(d) Nicolas' aunt.
8. Why is Flamel having trouble finding a safe place for them to hide?
(a) He has not been to Paris in a long time.
(b) The hiding place has to have very specific characterizations.
(c) He knows Machiavelli can follow Sophie's aura when she is tired.
(d) He has not been to London in a long time.
9. How many officers does Scathach take out?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.
10. How does Sophie use her aura for fighting?
(a) She uses it for pulses of laser-like beams.
(b) She uses it to boost Scathach's blows.
(c) She uses it for light to see their attackers.
(d) She melts the wax monster with the heat of her aura.
11. Josh confronts Flamel about ____________.
(a) The things Josh overheard Flamel whispering to Scathach.
(b) The way they left London.
(c) The officers who were killed back at the cafe.
(d) Some things Dee told him.
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(a) Dee.
(b) No one; the Disir will find them.
(c) Dagon.
(d) Catherine de Medici.
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(a) She broke her arm.
(b) The soft wax absorbs the blows.
(c) She lost her sword.
(d) She cannot see the attacker.
14. How does Machiavelli know of the intruders in the building where he is going?
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(b) He does not know about them.
(c) A guard calls.
(d) A silent alarm.
15. Why is Dee angry with Machiavelli?
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(b) For telling Billy the Kidd to go after Perenelle alone.
(c) For sending Dee a message that was not encoded.
(d) For implicating Dee in a plot against the Elders.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom does Flamel want to call?
2. Who collects Japanese Kabuki masks?
3. What does Flamel take from the wall of a building?
4. Whom do both Machiavelli and John Dee serve?
5. Where is Machiavelli at the opening of Chapter 1?
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excellent sushi - excellent pad thai - everything we've had there is fantastic. wait staff great, friendly. sushi chef excellent. if you love des…
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My UNC grad student friend invited me to this restaurant and when I saw ""Thai China Buffet"", I prepared myself for a chinese buffet, which is norm…
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As I search high and low for the scribbled notes, crumpled cards and lost reminders of why I am thankful, here are some other tidbits that I have meant to pass along:
A FORD DEALER IN NEW YORK writes on Facebook, "One of my salesmen here had a woman in his office yesterday wanting to lease a brand new Focus. As he was reviewing her credit application with her he noticed she was on Social Security disability. He said to her you don't look like you're disabled and unable to work. She said well I'm really not. I could work if I wanted to, but I make more now than I did when I was working and got hurt (non-disabling injury). She said the gov't sends her $1,500.00 a month in one check. And she gets $700.00 a month on an EBT card (food stamps), and $800.00 a month for rent. Oh yeah, and 250 minutes free on her phone. That is just south of $3,500.00 a month. When she was working, she was taking home about $330.00 per week.
"Do the math and then ask yourself why the (heck) should she go back to work. If you multiply that by millions of people, you start to realize the scope of the problem we face as a country. Once the socialists have 51% of the population in that same scenario, we are finished. The question is when do we cross that threshold if we haven't already, and there are not enough people working to pay enough taxes to support the non-working people? Riots?? Be prepared to protect your homes. She didn't lease the Focus here because the dealer down the road beat our deal by $10.00/month. Glad to know she is so frugal with her hard-earned money."
DON'T BE SURPRISED if Vanderbilt football coach James Franklin isn't named as the SEC "Coach of the Year." He's on track to win eight games with a victory at lightly-regarded Wake Forest this Saturday. First-year coach Kevin Sumlin has done wonders at Texas A&M, while Alabama's Nick Saban, Georgia's Mark Richt and Florida's Will Muschamp could each be 11-1 by Sunday, but what Franklin has done this fall is nothing short of a miracle.
AT A HORSE SHOW in Shelbyville this weekend, it has been reported a metal band holding the loathsome stacks on a Tennessee Walking Horse was affixed so tightly the animal's hoof came flying off as it tried to perform. Witnesses said it was real bloody and the animal was finally taken to a horse trailer. If anyone in America doesn't think that is sick and disgusting, they are crazy. And the question persists – why wasn't the sheriff called?
THE WINNINGEST COLLEGE COACH in the history of football just resigned and what a ride it has been for 86-year-old John Gagliardi. He was head coach at tiny St. John's in Minnesota – a Division III school – and in his 64-year tenure his Johnnies won four national titles while amassing a 489-138-11 record for a 77.5 winning percentage. Get this: he didn't allow lengthy calisthenics, tackling during practice, whistles or wind sprints and made his players call him "John." Eddie Robinson of Grambling is the winningest BCS coach of all time with a record of 408-165-14 and the coach with the most wins who is still active is 63-year-old Larry Kehres at the tiny University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio; his 327-24-3 record carries a winning percentage of .928, the highest in college football history.
ON A COLD WINTER morning, a wife texts her husband, "Windows frozen." Her husband texts back:
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I CAN'T CONFIRM this but am told in a fairly recent interview, General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. The General answered, "I believe that forgiving them is God's function... Our job is to arrange the meeting."
LANCE GILMAN WON his County Commissioner's race in Storey County, Nevada by a hefty margin, which was intriguing because he owns and operates a very famous brothel known as the Mustang Ranch. Prostitution is legal in 10 counties in Nevada, where there are now two dozen such establishments. Nonetheless, Lance claims he is a "dyed in the wool" Republican who loves American values." For the record, "values" at Mustang Ranch begin at about $350 per hour.
A CRAIGSLIST AD just published in California reads, "I need a mad scientist to clone a dog. It is the best dog in the universe and there should be 2 or more if it in existence. I have 60 dollars. Thank you. No flakes. P.S. $50 Bonus if you can make it speak English and Japanese.
A NEWSPAPER RANT in Washington State, where voters just voted to legalize marijuana and same-sex marriage, tells us, "Now I understand what the Bible means in Leviticus 20:13 – "If a man lies with another man he should be stoned." (Why do I think that's funny?)
THE GUYANESE GENIUS -- No dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. However, in a recent linguistic conference held in London, England, and attended by some of the best linguists in the world: Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese, was the clear winner. His final challenge was this: Some say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED. Please explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand. Here is his astute answer: "When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. But, when you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!" His answer was received with a standing ovation lasting over 5 minutes and it entitled him to receive an invitation to dine with the Queen, who decided to call him after the contest. He won a trip to travel around the world in style and a case of 25-year-old Eldorado rum for his answer.
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It's one of those rare moments, which one day I hope to have myself, being able to sit down with the big man at one of the biggest companies in the world. Michael Arrington got to sit down with Steve Ballmer this week. A full hour of talking.
First of all he believes that in the past five years there has not been much innovation in search and that the next 10 years will be more interesting in that area. He also talked about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. He believes that if there will be government approval they can be competitive, otherwise the innovation will not go forward.
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Of course the bathrobes for the Carnival Triumph are complimentary," it said in a tweet on the official @carnivalcruise account.
But the announcement has been received with less than full-throated cheers.
"Who wants a stinky robe?!" tweeted a reporter in North Carolina, Astrid Martinez, while another user of the social media site, Natalie Eshaya, enthused sarcastically, "Oh how generous."
Another skeptic, Paul Nather, wondered "What do you think the going rate for a Carnival cruise bathrobe will be on eBay tomorrow?"
The white bathrobe has become an unlikely symbol of the nightmare of the cruise-goers, who donned them to attract attention as they stood on the drifting ship.
Others used the white terrycloth as a canvas to write messages, with one passenger proclaiming, "I survived Carnival's triumph redbags" -- a reference to the bags that substituted for toilets.
Carnival has also promised to give refunds, offer passengers another trip and cover their transportation costs home. Travellers were also to receive $US500 ($A485) in compensation.
The Triumph docked on Friday morning in the port of Mobile, Alabama. It had originally been scheduled to return to port early Monday after a weekend stop in Cozumel in Mexico, before an engine room blaze left the massive vessel without electricity to power the kitchens, toilets, and other necessities.
Passengers aboard the ship were not selfish and became comrades in a long, exhausting smelly struggle to get home.
As ship conditions deteriorated after an engine fire, travellers formed Bible study groups, shared or traded precious supplies and welcomed strangers into their private cabins.
Even after they have returned to the everyday luxuries of hot showers and cold drinks, the passengers will remember the crew and the personal bonds formed during a cruel week at sea.
The tired tourists gave a glimpse into an intensely uncomfortable journey after reaching land on Friday.
Sandy Jackson was fortunate to have an upper-level room with a balcony and a breeze that kept the air in her cabin fresh. Rooms on the lower decks were too foul or stifling, so Jackson took in five people, including four strangers.
"We knew one, the others we're very good friends with now," Jackson said.
Brandi Dorsett said people were antsy and irritable at times, and there was tension. But it never got out of hand.
"People were bartering. Can I have your cereal for this? Can I have your drink for that?" she said. "We had one lady, she was begging for cigarettes and for nappies. There were no nappies on the boat. There was no formula."
Many of the more than 4200 people aboard were bused to New Orleans to catch a flight home or to the ship's home port in Galveston. And as if they hadn't suffered enough, one of the buses broke down during the two-hour ride to New Orleans. Passengers on a different bus reported losing their luggage.
But that was nothing compared to life on the crippled cruise liner. To pass the time, Joseph Alvarez said about 45 people gathered in a public room on the lower deck for Bible study.
"It was awesome," he said. "It lifted up our souls and gave us hope that we would get back."
Because many passengers were sleeping on the outside deck, Dwayne Chapman used his pocket knife to make tents out of bed sheets. At first, other passengers told him they thought he was going to get into trouble, but later, everyone wanted to borrow his knife to do the same thing.
"I really think we've made some lifelong friends going through this ordeal," Chapman's wife, Kim, said.
When it was over, many passengers were just grateful for simple pleasures. After days of warm drinks, Cheryl McIntosh and her husband were glad to see coolers full of ice.
"The first thing we did was open up those Diet Cokes and we drank some," McIntosh said.
Tugs pulled the ship away from the dock on Friday, moving it down a waterway to a shipyard where it will be repaired and cleaned.
The work ahead is. Passengers described water-logged carpets, sewage seeping through the walls, overflowing toilets and a stench so bad people choked.
But, by most accounts, the crew did as much as they could, using disinfectant and picking up plastic bags of faeces after toilets stopped working.
David Glocker praised the crew's efforts to help passengers and recognised the conditions for them were worse than for most passengers because their quarters were on the lowest part of the ship.
"They all had to wear masks," he said. "They worked their butts off trying to get us food."
Dorsett praised a calming voice over the ship's public address system that she knew as "Jen".
Connie Ede was on the cruise with her husband. During the fire, the two got their life jackets ready and put mobile phones, passports, money and credit cards in their pockets.
"All in all, I wish it hadn't happened, but it did, and we survived," she said.
But those gestures may not be enough. Less than 24 hours after the boat docked, the first lawsuit was filed.
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"We live in a vibrant and connected world where together as a people we are strong. For our children and their children we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone."
On 23 June, the UK will settle a question that's been rumbling close to the surface of British politics for a generation: should the country remain within the European Union, or leave the organisation and go it alone.
Both sides insist that the outcome of the vote will settle the matter of Britain's EU membership for the foreseeable future.
The Conservative election victory last year activated a manifesto pledge to hold an in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union by the end of 2017.
David Cameron made the promise of an EU referendum at a time when he was under pressure from Eurosceptic backbenchers within his own party – and when the Tories appeared to be losing votes to Ukip. Most political commentators agree that, given a free hand, he would not have wanted a referendum, and that he is now desperate to secure Britain's place in the EU.
This winter, he embarked on a tour of EU capitals as he sought to renegotiate Britain's terms of membership, which concluded at a summit in February. Presenting the result as a victory, he vowed to campaign with his "heart and soul" to keep Britain inside a "reformed" EU, but several members of his own Cabinet are campaigning for a British exit – or Brexit.
So what are the advantages and disadvantages of being a part of Europe? Would Britain be better off staying inside the club or going it alone?
The greatest uncertainty associated with leaving the EU is that no country has ever done it before, so no one can predict the exact result. Nevertheless, many have tried.
Leaving the EU would result in an immediate cost saving, as the country would no longer contribute to the EU budget. Last year, Britain paid in £13bn, but it also received £4.5bn worth of spending, says Full Fact "so the UK's net contribution was £8.5bn". That's about 7 per cent of what the Government spends on the NHS each year.
What's harder to determine is whether the financial advantages of EU membership, such as free trade and inward investment (see below) outweigh the upfront costs.
The EU is a single market in which no tariffs are imposed on imports and exports between member states. "More than 50 per cent of our exports go to EU countries," says Sky News, "and our membership allows us to have a say over how trading rules are drawn up."
Britain also benefits from trade deals between the EU and other world powers. "The EU is currently negotiating with the US to create the world's biggest free trade area," says the BBC, "something that will be highly beneficial to British business."
Britain risks losing some of that negotiating power by leaving the EU, but it would be free to establish its own trade agreements.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage believes Britain could follow the lead of Norway, which has access to the single market but is not bound by EU laws on areas such as agriculture, justice and home affairs. But others argue that an "amicable divorce" would not be possible.
"If Britain were to join the Norwegian club," says The Economist, "it would remain bound by virtually all EU regulations, including the working-time directive and almost everything dreamed up in Brussels in future." And it would no longer have any influence on what those regulations said.
Leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson, meanwhile, has proposed adopting a Canada-style trade arrangement. "I think we can strike a deal as the Canadians have done based on trade and getting rid of tariffs" and have a "very, very bright future", he said. The idea was quickly dismissed by the PM, who said it would mean "years of painful negotiations and a poorer deal than we have today".
Eurosceptics argue that the vast majority of small and medium sized firms do not trade with the EU but are restricted by a huge regulatory burden imposed from abroad.
A study by the think-tank Open Europe, which wants to see the EU radically reformed, found that the worst-case "Brexit" scenario is that the UK economy loses 2.2 per cent of its total GDP by 2030 (by comparison, the recession of 2008-09 knocked about 6 per cent off UK GDP). However, it says that GDP could rise by 1.6 per cent if the UK was able to negotiate a free trade deal with Europe – ie to maintain the current trade set-up – and pursued "very ambitious deregulation".
Whether other EU countries would offer such generous terms is one of the big unknowns of the debate. Pro-exit campaigners argue that it would be in the interests of other European countries to re-establish free trade, but their opponents suggest that the EU will want to make life hard for Britain in order to discourage further breakaways.
France has said recently that there would be "consequences" for Britain if it left the EU.
Inward investment is likely to slow in the run-up to the vote, due to the uncertainty of the outcome and its consequences: that's what happened in before the Scottish independence referendum in 2014.
In the longer term, there are diverging views: pro-Europeans think the UK's status as one of the world's biggest financial centres will be diminished if it is no longer seen as a gateway to the EU for the likes of US banks, while Brexit campaigners suggest that, free from EU rules a regulations, Britain could reinvent itself as a Singapore-style supercharged economy.
Fears that car-makers could scale back or even end production in the UK vehicles could no longer be exported tax-free to Europe were underlined by BMW's decision to remind its UK employees at Rolls-Royce and Mini of the "significant benefit" EU membership confers. Likewise, Business for New Europe says tax revenues would drop if companies that do large amounts of business with Europe – particularly banks – moved their headquarters back into the EU.
Barclays, however, has put forward a worst-case scenario that might benefit the Outers. It says the departure of one of the EU's most powerful economies would hit its finances and boost populist anti-EU movements in other countries. This would open a "Pandora's box", says the Daily Telegraph, which could lead to the "collapse of the European project".
The UK would then be seen as a safe haven from those risks, attracting investors, boosting the pound and reducing the risk that Scotland would "leave the relative safety of the UK for an increasingly uncertain EU".
For Brexiters, sovereignty may seem to be a simple win: few disagree that EU membership involves giving up some control over our own affairs.
Labour MP Kate Hoey says the EU is "an attempt to replace the democratic power of the people with a permanent administration in the interests of big business." Those on the right of the Conservative party may disagree with her emphasis, but they agree that EU institutions have drained power from the British Parliament.
"The trouble is that most of us have no clue as to how the Brussels monolith works, or who's in charge," says Stay or Go, the Connell Guide to the EU referendum. But, it says, we have only ourselves to blame. "We've made it that way" because too many of us "can't be bothered to vote" in European elections.
For those in the Remain camp, EU membership involves a worthwhile trade of sovereignty for influence: in return for agreeing to abide by EU rules, Britain has a seat around the table at which they are set - and, say campaigners, its voice is amplified on the world stage as a result.
"The truth is that pulling up the drawbridge and quitting the EU will not enhance our national sovereignty," says shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn. "All it would do is to weaken it by taking away our power to influence events in an ever more complex and interdependent world."
Nor, they say, would UK sovereignty be absolute if the country withdrew from the EU: the British government would still be bound by membership of Nato, the UN, the World Trade Organisation, and various treaties and agreements with other nations.
Under EU law, Britain cannot prevent anyone from another member state coming to live in the country – while Britons benefit from an equivalent right to live and work anywhere else in the EU. The result has been a huge increase in immigration into Britain, particularly from eastern and southern Europe.
According to the Office for National Statistics, there are 942,000 eastern Europeans, Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK, along with 791,000 western Europeans – and 2.93m workers from outside the EU. China and India are the biggest source of foreign workers in the UK.
Inners say that, while the recent pace of immigration has led to some difficulties with housing and service provision, the net effect has been overwhelmingly positive. By contrast, Farage says immigration should be cut dramatically, and the leaving the EU is the only way to "regain control of our borders". Other pro-Brexit campaigners would not necessarily reduce immigration, but say that it should be up to the British Government to set the rules.
David Cameron says that concessions he won during the renegotiation of Britain's EU membership will reduce immigration as new arrivals will receive a lower rate of child benefit.
The effect of leaving the EU on British jobs depends on a complex interplay of the factors above: trade, investment and immigration.
Pro-EU campaigners have suggested that three million jobs could be lost if Britain goes it alone. However, while "figures from the early 2000s suggest around three million jobs are linked to trade with the European Union," says Full Fact, "they don't say they are dependent on the UK being an EU member."
If trade and investment fell post-Brexit, then some of these jobs would be lost – but if they rose, then new jobs would be created.
A drop in immigration would, all else being equal, mean more jobs for the people who remained, but labour shortages could also hold back the economy, reducing its potential for growth.
Stuart Rose, former Marks & Spencer chief executive and a prominent pro-EU campaigner, conceded recently that wages may rise if Britain leaves – which would be good for workers, but less so for their employers.
Writing for the London School of Economics, Professor Adrian Favell says limiting freedom of movement would deter the "brightest and the best" of the continent from coming to Britain and reduce the pool of candidates employers can choose from.
Free movement of people across the EU also opens up job opportunities for British workers seeking to work elsewhere in Europe.
For Outers, leaving the EU will allow Britain to re-establish itself as a truly independent nation with connections to the rest of the world. To Inners, Brexit would result in the country giving up its influence in Europe, turning back the clock and retreating from the global power networks of the 21st century.
Brexit would bring some clear-cut advantages, says The Economist. The UK "would regain control over fishing rights around its coast", for example. But it concludes that the most likely outcome is that Britain would find itself "a scratchy outsider with somewhat limited access to the single market, almost no influence and few friends".
Britain would remain a member of Nato and the UN, but it may be regarded as a less useful partner by its key ally, the US. The American government fears that the "EU referendum is a dangerous gamble that could unravel with disastrous consequences for the entire continent", says The Guardian.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, who has come out in favour of Brexit, says we are leaving the "door open" to terrorist attacks by remaining in the EU. "This open border does not allow us to check and control people," he says.
However, a dozen senior military figures, including former chiefs of defence staff Lord Bramall and Jock Stirrup, say the opposite. In a letter released by No 10, they argue that the EU is an "increasingly important pillar of our security", especially at a time of instability in the Middle East and in the face of "resurgent Russian nationalism and aggression".
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has also said the UK benefits from being part Europe, as well as Nato and the United Nations. "It is through the EU that you exchange criminal records and passenger records and work together on counter-terrorism," he said. "We need the collective weight of the EU when you are dealing with Russian aggression or terrorism."
In contrast, Colonel Richard Kemp, writing in The Times, says these "critical bilateral relationships" would persist regardless of membership, and that it is "absurd" to suggest that the EU would put its own citizens, or the UK's, at greater risk by reducing cooperation in the event of Brexit.
"By leaving, we will again be able to determine who does and does not enter the UK," says Kemp, a former head of the international terrorism team at the Cabinet Office. "Failure to do so significantly increases the terrorist threat here, endangers our people and is a betrayal of this country."
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A chain is as strong as its weakest link. Think of Spain, Portugal, Greece, and the answer is clearly "Yes, Britain would be better out of the EU". Its hard to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys.
The current version of the EU with its emphasis on political and financial unity bears no resemblance to the trade zone we originally voted to join,aside from Germany and the UK only the eastern member states are showing any domestic growth,France,Italy and Spain are barely treading water,if the EU is to prosper it must return to its original concept,the euro has been a disaster and the drive for political union has been totally undemocratic.
Cameron should get off the EU fence and commit himself to either the YES or NO to Europe. He should lead not be led. The longer he sits on that fence he would only damage his rear.
Hopefully he will damage himself sufficiently that in a year he will be returned to the ranks of no-account posh boys with no idea about real life. Heard him on the radio the other day being interviewed, he was asked pointedly and repeatedly about the trashing he'd taken at the hands of UKIP, and all he could talk about was his superiority over Miliband. We need rid of such people, who neither lead nor follow, just muddy the waters and make themselves rich in the process
Let's get a bit provocative, shall we? Mr. Cameron quite clearly fails the courage to make up his mind: staying in or leaving the European Union. Besides, maybe the EU would be better off without the fickleness and obstruction of Great Britain, since this former world power may still have the pretension to be "Great", but has no longer the means nor the influence to claim that adjective. Besides, suppose the Scots do decide for their independance in September and ask for membership to the EU, where would that leave Merry Old England? In the dark and cold shadows of a once bright and glorious past? And with charming Nigel Farage as PM? Little Britain as a reality show.
TWe would be far better off leaving the EU. It costs us a fortune just to be a member--we are one of only two or maybe three contributors (Germany is a contributor and maybe a scandinavian country)--the rest are beneficiaries--they get far more than they pay in. The EU has destroyed many of our traditional industries--too numerous to mention here. It has the last word over our laws. The open borders mean that we are vastly over-populated. A tiny wee island sinking with about 70 million people all crammed together--far too many--by far. We have a trade deficit with the EU--they sell much more to us than we sell to them--so they gain from trade. The best countries, and most lucrative economies are ALL OUTSIDE THE EU. The EU is the past--countries in Asia , South America etc.--are where the future is. (and do not forget Australia , Canada, the USA and New Zealand.The sooner we leave--the sooner we start to save money and reduce our one and a half trillion pounds deficit--a national disgrace.
The chain analogy is completely wrong. It was clear from the analysis above we would be taking massive risks if we decided to leave. try to put a value on the things we would lose (e.g. much manufacturing).
You sound like a Kipper...willing to grab any silly point that seems to support your pre-conceived policy position; sadly, there are many Kipper types who grab at the same nonsenses.
"There would also be costs"
FFS Kippers, read what followed that. Then try to think.
...with freedom come risks! We risked annihilation when we declared war on Germany over Poland in 1939. This nation now lacks confidence and leadership - not courage and enterprise.
Firstly, Winston Churchill did propose a United States of Europe, he also said that the UK should play no part in it.
Secondly a country technically has already left the EU, namely Greenland.
Yes of course there would be risks like anything, there are risks staying in and its costing us massively to do so.
There would be a few years of turmoil until it finally settled down. The Norway and Switzerland analogy is totally wrong, we are far more than these 2 countries. We import more than we export to the EU so they wont want a trade war with us it would cost them dearly. Besdies we are exporting less and less to the EU every year. We also had to end our trade relations with the anglosphere to join the EU and look what a disaster that's been. You look how well anglosphere countries are doing compared to EU countries. We would gain much back, control of our borders, our fishing grounds our right to trade with who we want.
What a load of rubbish. Mind you the EU would be better off without the UK, unfortunately they need our money and our military which is why they put up with us. As far as the EU is concern the UK makes no contribution apart from the above. My wife who is French worked for them for 4 years she knows exactly what the Eurocrats think of the UK and the British people and its certainly not nice.
What is all this FFS Kippers crap. Why dont you try thinking nugget. We know there would be costs, but they are worth it. Well obviously not to you you cave dwelling moss licker.
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Muskego - The Muskego-Norway School District will receive more state aid, meaning fewer property tax dollars from homeowners compared to last year, said Scot Ecker, director of business services.
More state aid contributed to the second year in a row of a lower school property tax levy, Ecker said.
The district annual meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in the Performing Arts Center at Muskego High School, S8750 Racine Ave., where residents will vote on the proposed levy for the 2012-13 school year. The proposed levy is $32,741,926, which is $386,144 or 1.17 percent less than the levy for the 2011-12 school year.
This is the second year in a row that both spending and the levy have gone down, Ecker said. The last time that happened in two consecutive years was in 1995 and 1996.
Not only that, school property taxes on an average home would be $213 less than they were at the peak taxing year of 2004, Ecker said.
The proposed levy would support a proposed budget of $60,839,119 for this year, which is about $651,000, or 1 percent less, than last year. The general fund, considered the operating budget, is proposed at $1.1 million, or 2.1 percent more. The proposed total is $52,941,411.
The proposed budget calls for no program cuts, Ecker said. There is money for raises, but those still must be negotiated with employee unions, he added.
Half the additional state aid of $449,575 will be used to lower property taxes and half will be used to help rehabilitate the district's aging schools, he said.
Ecker attributed the higher aid to the district's addition of a kindergarten for 4-year-olds and changes in health insurance.
He said he believes that none of the school districts on Muskego-Norway's borders received more state aid this year.
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Scotland's first end to end walk has been unveiled in Edinburgh. It starts in the Scottish Borders and finishes in the far west highlands.
Scotland's first end to end walk has been unveiled in Edinburgh. It starts in the Scottish Borders and finishes in the far west highlands.
The creator of Scotland's first end-to-end walk which starts in the Borders says it could turn out to become of the world's most iconic long distance treks.
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First Minister Alex Salmond will officially launch the 470-mile-long Scottish National Trail.
The route starts at the village of Kirk Yetholm on the English border and takes in the capital and both national parks at Loch Lomond and The Trossachs before finishes at the most north-westerly point at Cape Wrath.He accepts that his national trail will only be for the most enthusiastic of hikers.
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