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[20] June 29, 2015 at 10:52pm
As long as this tried in Baltimore, the cops will still be convicted because they didn't chain him to the chair. Of course if they did chain him to the chair, some lawyer would've sued on his behalf because of that.
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[6] May 26, 2015 at 5:40pm
Money laundering.
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[3] May 26, 2015 at 8:45pm
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Why does she get to decide how often she'll testify? They better make damn sure she's under oath and keep her there for hours.
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May 5, 2015 at 11:49pm
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April 22, 2015 at 7:23am
Remember three years ago, when Obama told Medvedev he would have more flexibility after the election. "I vill transmit to Vladimir." From Reuters at that time, "The Obama administration is leaving open the possibility of giving Moscow certain secret data on U.S. interceptor missiles due to help protect Europe from any Iranian missile strike." http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-usa-russia-missiledefense-idUSBRE82D03A20120314
We gave them our missile defense secrets, which in turn Russia is now selling it to Iran. So don't believe a word about how this is not a problem.
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[1] April 6, 2015 at 5:36pm
Similar to the grandfather paradox – If you could go back, what would be your motivation to kill him? Hitler wouldn't be THE Hitler, infamous in history. The timeline would be changed, and as far as you knew there never was a Hitler to kill.
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The appropriately named DICK Durbin must be upset because she would be replacing a European American Attorney General…oh wait. Where is Eric Holder "sitting on the bus?"
[5] March 7, 2015 at 9:01pm
So we're now to believe by this Bravo Sierra excuse, that "key WH officials," did not tell Obama for 7 MONTHS? We've heard this excuse before with Fast and Furious, DOJ and the AP, IRS scandal. Our President is supposedly kept in the dark on so many scandals and no one is ever fired for this alleged communication breakdown. Go figure. When you have an enabling press that won't challenge this, then the excuse gets recycled again and again.
[257] February 23, 2015 at 8:18am
Scared the boy out of wearing his seatbelt.
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He's in trouble now. His school teacher Ms. Jarrett will suspend him 3 days for making a "finger gun"
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January 28, 2015 at 12:04pm
Actually, it's the whole family. BTW the video Glenn loves is 2 years old
[-2] January 28, 2015 at 11:56am
They have a lot of talent. Glenn may be stuck in the 70s and thinking this is Karen and Richard Carpenter :D
January 28, 2015 at 11:16am
There are 3 of them
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You can tune a piano but you can't……
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Spare us the crocodile tears, Holder. You and Barack fueled this fire. DiBlasio followed.
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The title of the article was "The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences." Of course she was playing the race card, and it's pathetic and shameful. She lives in a mansion with paid servants catering to her every whim, luxury vacations, and rather than being grateful for all she has, she has to manufacture a victim story.
[1] December 13, 2014 at 10:57am
Yeah, Barack is a real powerhouse intellectual..not
[5] November 30, 2014 at 1:48pm
See with your eyes not your hands? What is this? Grade school? All he had to do is hand the officer the receipt and the situation is over in 30 seconds. Instead he decided to make a total ass of himself playing the race card to try to get his 15 minutes of fame.
November 17, 2014 at 7:36pm
Hey Joy, The UNCF http://www.uncf.org/ disagrees
[6] November 17, 2014 at 12:18pm
Someone "tryed" to shoot her dad and her first response was twitter and not 9-1-1. I bet dad's real happy now that he bought her a cellphone.
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Who is dumb enough to leave out electronics when not in the room? Lock them in your suitcase. Sure someone could break lock on suitcase but it would be a lot harder to get to and you would know it was tampered with.
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This is the full list of the 2012 New York Jets players in rounds 1 through 7. This does not include the undrafted signed free agents (that list is coming soon).
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Round 2, Pick 43 – Wide Receiver – Georgia Tech
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Round 6, Pick 177 – Safety – Wake Forest
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Nationwide to sponsor NASCAR Sprint Cup's Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Nationwide Insurance is expanding its connection with NASCAR by agreeing to put its name on one of the cars in the Sprint Cup Series, the circuit's top level of competition.
The Columbus-based insurer said it has signed a two-year agreement with Roush Fenway Racing's No. 17 Ford Fusion driven by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Terms were not disclosed.
Nationwide said it will be the car's primary sponsor for three races this year, four in 2014 and also serve as an associate sponsor for No. 17 at all other Sprint Cup races.
The new partnership with Roush Fenway and Stenhouse is in addition to the insurer being the title sponsor for NASCAR's Nationwide Series.
"We've had a 15-year presence in NASCAR and this is the first time we've sponsored a car in any NASCAR series," said Nationwide Insurance Chief Marketing Officer Matt Jauchius in a press release. "We built a solid relationship with Roush Fenway and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and we're eager to carry that momentum forward and enhance our existing integrated NASCAR marketing platform."
Jauchius also said Nationwide continues to have "positive conversations" with NASCAR regarding a renewal of its Nationwide Series sponsorship. The company is in the sixth year of a seven-year agreement that makes it the title sponsor.
With the new partnership, Nationwide ties its brand to Roush Fenway, the winningest race team in NASCAR history, and a rising young driver in Stenhouse.
Based in Concord, N.C., Roush Fenway fields multiple teams in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide series, and its other drivers include Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle. Stenhouse, 25, is a Sprint Cup rookie who was the 2010 Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year and won back-to-back Nationwide Series championships in 2011 and 2012.


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i was waiting ages for this.
A fan of the original, a great continuation
I remember the original episodes, as myself and some of my friends would sit for hours watching them back in '02 and '03. I can honestly say this is a good continuation. No improved graphics or silly enhancements needed, and a true sequel to the golden oldies.
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i was wondering hwat happened to eskimo bob.
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Just a heads up, but it seems one of the more recent updates broke shadows on windows with Unity on Ubuntu with my 7850 (the shadows are like sections of a checkerbox). Not sure if anything else is affected or not, or what the cause is.
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Originally posted by _SXX_ View PostAs far as I remember this problem related to incompatibility between LLVM and Steam runtime dependencies (libgcc_s.so.1).
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Seems like there is some new bug:
Perhaps another reason to switch to LLVM3.5 (if it's LLVM issue, which it looks like)? Some of us, less Linux savvy users, rely on your PPA and would love to see it better, so if you need any help (with testing or whatever) just tell us
Like always though, thanks for maintaining your PPA, it's a life saver for AMD users <3
RadeonSI now needs LLVM-3.5 to properly display textures. I figured I'd report it here hoping OIbaf would add it to the PPA+Build Mesa with it. What would be the best way to contact him without a Ubuntu without a Launchpad account, and if I do get a way to contact him. when should I try to take that action?
Not being able to play any games because if looks pretty terrible is becoming a pain. :P
I've compiled mesa before, at one point I compiled it every day. But, recently I tried to and it installed in 100% wrong directories, so I've never tried it again tbh. Thats why I'm asking it be added to the PPA.
Originally posted by TheAaronB123 View PostI've compiled mesa before, at one point I compiled it every day. But, recently I tried to and it installed in 100% wrong directories, so I've never tried it again tbh. Thats why I'm asking it be added to the PPA.
Originally posted by Espionage724 View PostJust a heads up, but it seems one of the more recent updates broke shadows on windows with Unity on Ubuntu with my 7850 (the shadows are like sections of a checkerbox). Not sure if anything else is affected or not, or what the cause is.
Originally posted by Espionage724 View PostSeems fixed now. Might of been related to whatever that LLVM 3.5 thing was, but in any case, all is well currently.
Any chance for an updated mpv? 0.4.1 was released a couple of days ago
There is https://launchpad.net/~mc3man/+archive/ubuntu/mpv-tests for mpv.
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@oibaf: will you move to LLVM 3.5?
Was there a reason why LLVM 3.5 wasn't being used currently (no offense or anything)? Was it just time constraints, or maybe it broke support for other hardware?
3.5 seems like it would be pretty useful for radeonsi, and seems like it would fit right in with the already git mesa and xserver drivers.
I must say that I'm quite impressed by the latest performance of the radeonsi driver (oibaf's ppa packages recompiled with llvm 3.5 and linux 3.16, latest rc). Maybe like a month ago Eurotruck simulator 2 was so sloooow and now it performs quite close to what I remember from Catalyst (it's been several months since I last checked that on my dual ubuntu with catalyst). The game feels quite smooth with a Radeon HD 7870 and all settings maxed out at 1920x1080.
X-Plane 10 also works quite nicely at 1920x1080 if you launch it with %command% --force_run --no_fbos
(Not sure why but without --no_fbos the game prints out a problem with a texture... I'll try to investigate that)
So kudos to the radeonsi devs!
Hey. Long time Linux user but new to the desktop stack / Xorg etc...
I picked up a new Lenovo Z50 with the AMD A10-7300 Kaveri because I wanted to check out the new HSA features. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on it and so far everything has gone smoothly (altho I had to boot "nomodeset nolapic").
One problem was that X was running with a software renderer so I tried installing the PPA radeonsi drivers but nothing changed. I'm not sure if my problem is that the chip is too new, or if I did something wrong, but since I've never done this before and don't have any understanding about how Xorg/Gallium/PPA all fit together I'm not sure how to debug this.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Here's the Xorg.0.log.
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on mREITs this morning, to include AGNC, CIM, CMO, CYS, MFA, MITT, NLY, MTGE, and PMT. All now upgraded to "outperform".
Re: DPM by moneynomics on the IV board:
DPM is 90% fixed fee and hedged sales in 2015 and currently 65% fixed fee sales going into 2016 and 45% hedged on non fixed fee sales (80% effectively hedged-fixed fee), but catch 22 is DCP is the shipper-counter party to several of the fixed fee contracts and they are also probably under hedged. Subsequent to December 31, 2014, DCP Midstream, LLC's credit rating was lowered below investment grade. Also DPM still has around 1st qrtr $1.2 b in revolver capacity credit ratio coverage of 3.3x and distribution coverage of 1.1x. DPM already announced no distribution increases for 2015.
So possible resolutions that have been speculated on
1. you could see a roll up of DPM back into DCP ie then back into P66 and Spectra by buying out the unit holders of DPM.
2. both Spectra and P66 have ipo'd new mlps in the last couple of years so DPM could be split in some fashion and rolled into their two new mlps through a structured buyout.
3. DCP could be dropped down into DPM and DPM restructured
4. Spectra is debt constrained so P66 could become a guarantee to DCP/DPM debt and take a disproportionate higher ownership in DCP/DPM
5. P66-Sepctra could sell some of their ownership interests into the private market and fund any DCP/DPM liquidity issues
6. P66 and Spectra could buy/guarantee DCP's fixed fees for DPM
7. DPM could cut the distributions but would not help DCP.
It is taking them so long one could also speculate it will be one of the more complex resolutions ie 1 thru 5 . Also I would be surprised if p66/spectra sold dcp-dpm to a third party.
At the current price of LNCO I'm going to begin to nibble on some shares to lower my all over cost basis. I think the divvy is safe for at least this year and we may be at or close to the bottom on the E&Ps. GLTME.
In a new note today they reiterate a Strong Buy rating on LinnCo and an Outperform rating on Linn Energy, writing that there are several pending positive catalyst to offset debt worries.
They believe that the market continues to underestimate Linn Energy's base cash flow business, along with the impact of its multi-year hedge book and its acquisition opportunities.
GMP Securities initiated coverage on GasLog Partners LP (NYSE: GLOP) with a Buy rating and a price target of $29.00
Vin: I take serious consideration in how long it took NRZ to gain it's footing so I'm a long term hold on SNR. It has tanked badly but most is recent from the large secondary last week. Great article this morning in S/A on SNR. Very bullish on it's future. I've got enough losses carrying forward to sell to book. You should be safe buying back next month. Doubtful we'll see a significant recovery that soon but it's something I'm intending for a long term hold.
So was my ED in the green but getting a hit today.
From tonight's P.R. The Partnership's management intends to recommend to the Board an increase in the Partnership's quarterly cash distribution per unit of between 7% to 10%. This increase, together with the previous increase with respect to the quarter ended March 31, 2015, will result in a cash distribution per unit of between 24% to 27% above the existing minimum quarterly distribution.
take a look at this BDC......(TPVG). Shareholder friendly management fees, venture capital in the technology field, can't figure the yield as they've paid a special back in Dec. and just paid a full divvy in Mar. and again in May, which I can't fathom. Your thoughts..............
You're not crazy mark. I sold early this morning and booked 3 divvys and a small capital gain. As you, I will wait out a possible secondary. I have been thinning out my REITs though just in case the sector gets hit on an interest rate raise. SNR and NCT getting hammered today with no "apparent" reason.
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could it be the BDI has hit a new 2015 high of 829?
Geez kee, I upgraded my flip phone about 3 years ago. For a long time I wouldn't get my wife a smart phone, no need, so she convinced my son to get her one for her birthday and put the line on his account. Best of both worlds. If I need to get online while away she's always got a smartphone and it costs me NOTHING. Finally getting back some of the cash I spent on my kids college education LOL
P.S. I don't even have texting on my account and I probably make about 4 calls a month. Still a waste of money for me.
LOL. You mean I've been missing out on some great stock advice by not having a smartphone???
As soon as I decide to get a smartphone I'll think about the watch. Right now I'm happy with my LG slide dumbphone. LOL
FIG management has not been afraid to pull the trigger on what may look like bad deals or walk away from what they may feel are overpriced ones. They walked away from the ResCap deal with NRZ when bidding got out of hand and that's worked out wonderfully for them as they have now acquired all the HLSS assets and it looks like OCN may come into the fold too. Hopefully the senior living assets just acquired will also prove out to be big winners.
a sizable position in SNR from the NCT spin off but I'm glad I didn't round that position UP as I usually would do. Secondary priced this morning at $13.75. So far this is a strange one and they'd better explain this move more in detail as shareprice continues to fall down to the offering price.
sarge, at today's closing the yield is OVER 7.6%. :~)
memeds, here's the bottom line. There are NO long investors right now that have made money on SNR. We're ALL in the RED as the price has declined. The only ones in the green are the 4.3 million short shares. Either take your lumps and sell or hold on, keep collecting your dividends and wait for the share price to recover, which it will, IMHO. It took NRZ almost 18 months to begin to fulfill it's expected returns and this will most probably be the same. You certainly have no faith in management and continue to denigrate Wes Edens for what you perceive are his unfounded, underhanded dealings with the company. Enough already.


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I have a custom MSBuild task which among other things adds embedded resources to other projects in the solution. After adding the resources I'd like to then build those projects, but found I can't get this working within Visual Studio.
To test, I stripped out the custom task entirely and redefined a simple AfterBuild target in the web project of a Silverlight solution. The target uses the MSBuild task to build the Silverlight application project in the solution, and looks like this:
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The odd thing is that this works perfectly when using MSBuild from the command line, yet does not work in Visual Studio when building the web project. I thought this might be some sort of Silverlight problem, and had the task build a .NET class library project instead, but the result was the same - it worked from the command line but not within VS. In VS there's no actual error - it's just that the Csc task does not compile the assembly and generates no output.
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Calgary Auto Show opens March 12 at BMO Centre at Stampede Park
Lakeland College revs up Street Rod Technologies course
From the ashes of economic trouble rose an arms race of lightning-fast Japanese supercars
Clarion does maps, music and high-def videos; Phone mount doesn't get in the way
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Power and sex appeal drove the U.S. auto design decisions of the Sixties
Case has been linked to 13 deaths; watchdog questions speed of GM's response to recall
Insurance and repair missteps after a car crash can end up being very costly
From sublime to ridiculous at 435 km/h: Petty hypercar one-upmanship is indulgence gone awry. And probably a sign of coming economic doom
Watching this $4-million ultra exotic and extremely rare Veneno being loaded onto a truck will make you nervous
Its style was part retro, part fantasy and all unique
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EAST WAKEFIELD — The disabled 60-year-old driving a royal blue Chevy Malibu on New Hampshire's Spaulding Turnpike didn't look like an emissary of Al Qaeda.
But there was something menacing coming from his car.
On his way home last month after receiving a PET scan at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Michael Rosenthal noticed a State Police sport utility vehicle driving next to him and the trooper inside staring at him strangely. The trooper then sped in front of Rosenthal, slowed down, and pulled behind him.
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In Little Big Town's 'Sober' video, fans catch a glimpse of what it's like being on tour with the group. The quartet is seen performing and hanging out behind the scenes in the clip.
In Little Big Town's 'Sober' video, fans catch a glimpse of what it's like being on tour with the group. The quartet is seen performing and hanging out behind the scenes in the clip.
The Eli Young Band family keeps on growing, and understandably, the group likes to take their brood along on tour whenever possible. Traveling with small kids can be quite a challenge, but luckily, the foursome has Little Big Town to look to for advice.
Crank up the oven and get out your pots and pans -- Little Big Town's Kimberly Schlapman is returning to television for her cooking show, 'Kimberly's Simply Southern.'
Little Big Town aren't just a great country group, they're now the Vocal Group of the Year, receiving the prestigious award at the 2013 CMA Awards.
Little Big Town turned in an intimate, candlelit performance of the ruminative but uplifting ballad 'Sober' at the 2013 CMA Awards on Nov. 6.
Little Big Town's new single 'Sober' is a sweet love song bathed in four-part harmonies reminiscent of the group's most popular cuts from the mid '00s. After three edgier singles, the quartet lightens up.
Little Big Town has reason to celebrate today. The award-winning foursome's latest album 'Tornado' has achieved certified Platinum status after selling more than one million units.
While soap operas and talk shows certainly dominated the Daytime Emmy Awards Sunday night (June 16), country music was strongly represented, with Little Big Town and Trisha Yearwood both earning prestigious trophies for daytime entertainment.
It takes some serious chops to cover a Fleetwood Mac song -- any Fleetwood Mac song. But at Wednesday's (June 5) CMT Music Awards, Little Big Town proved that they can cross genres and make any song sound great.
The new video for Little Big Town's current single 'Your Side of the Bed' offers fans what you have to hope is a fictional look inside the marriage of two of their principals, singers Karen Fairchild and Jimi Westbrook.
Fans everywhere are looking forward to the 2013 CMT Music Awards, which are coming up in June. The first country music awards show to let fans vote for their favorites, the yearly event also features live performances by some of country's biggest artists -- and this year is no exception.
Country music foursome Little Big Town have been building unstoppable momentum, and 2013 has proved to be a fantastic year, with a Grammy for 'Pontoon' and their two ACM awards for Vocal Group of the Year and Video of the Year. It looks like things will just keep getting better for LBT, as they just received an Emmy nomination.


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According to a new report from Navigant Research, the global submarine electricity transmission market is expected to grow from $16.8 billion in 2015 to $24.8 billion in 2024.
Rolls-Royce announced it will take the lead on a €6.6 million project that could pave the way for autonomous ships. The Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications
Cruise operator Silversea Cruises has unveiled its new flagship, the Silver Muse, which will begin sailing the seas in April 2017.
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A thermal hand-held printer applicator is disclosed preferably having a roller for gripping the work, a governor for limiting the speed of the roller and thereby the speed of motion of the printer applicator over the work, a tachometer for measuring the roller speed, a print head for printing an image on one of a thermally sensitive web of self adhesive labels, drive means for advancing the web and ejecting one label onto the work, and smoothing means for applying the label to the work.
1. A hand-held, hand-propelled, label printer applicator comprising:
housing means including a base and a cover;
drive means mounted in the housing means;
a media web of labels also mounted in the housing; and
printing means for forming a printed image on the media web;
said drive means including a roller means for gripping an object to be labeled and, simultaneously, advancing a media web of labels through the housing means.
2. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 1, further comprising delaminating means for applying a label formed from a portion of said media web onto said object.
3. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 2, wherein said delaminating means further includes smoothing means for promoting proper securement of the label to the object.
4. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 1, further comprising governor means for limiting the speed of said drive means and thereby ensuring optimal quality of the printed images formed by the printing means.
5. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 4, wherein said governor means further includes tachometer means.
6. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 4, wherein the governor means includes motor means for generating a braking force.
7. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 4, wherein the governor means includes a single motor means for generating a braking force, and for providing a tachometer means for measuring the speed of said roller.
8. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 6, wherein said motor means further comprising a DC motor.
9. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 5, wherein said tachometer means includes a DC motor, and measurement means for the back EMF of said motor.
10. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 4, wherein said governor means includes a DC motor for generating a braking force on said roller means, and for providing tachometer means responsive to the speed of said roller means.
11. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 1, wherein the printer applicator further comprises a rechargeable power supply and a recharging cradle.
12. A hand-held, hand-propelled, label printer applicator for printing and applying a label to an object simultaneousy in a single operation, said label printer applicator comprising:
a base and cover operatively associated with each other;
a supply roll of label media;
a drive system for advancing the label media as the label printer applicator is moved relative to an object to be labeled;
a delaminator for ejecting labels from the label printer applicator and onto the object to be labeled; and
a printer for forming an image on a label at the same time that the label is applied to the object.
13. A label printer applicator as recited in claim 12, wherein a label smoother is also provided acting in cooperation with the delaminator to ensure that the labels are properly secured to the object.
14. A hand-held, hand-propelled, direct labeler for labeling an object in a single operation, said direct labeler comprising:
housing means including a base and a cover;
drive means mounted in the housing means;
printing means for forming a printed image on an object; and
governor means for limiting the speed of said drive means and thereby ensuring optimal quality of the printed images formed by the printing means.
15. A direct labeler as recited in claim 14, wherein said governor means further includes tachometer means.
16. A direct labeler as recited in claim 14, wherein the governor means includes motor means for generating a braking force.
This invention relates to label printers and applicators, and more particularly concerns a hand-held printer applicator which is user driven and can function to print a label and apply the printed label to an object in a single pass.
Hand held printers, and copiers are well known in the prior art. These use a linear array of electrically driven impact pins, ink jets, or thermal transfer heaters to form rows of dots directly on the work and transverse to the direction of scan under control of a computer. Typically, as taught by Kashio, U.S. Pat. No. 3,656,169, and Rowe, U.S. Pat. No. 3,767,020, relative motion between the device and the work is sensed by a roller coupled to an encoder which actuates the computer and printing mechanism to produce successive rows of dots which are evenly spaced independent of the speed of motion of the scan. Individual dots are selectively printed under the control of a computer to form characters or images.
Hand-held printers of the prior art are not well suited to the printing of bar codes. As they print directly on the object, they allow for the possibility that the user will print the bar code on a colored surface which provides insufficient contrast, or overprint text or other images, resulting in an unreadable symbol. These concerns are addressed by printing and applying a blank label of known contrast.
Hand-held labelers are also well known in the prior art. Some use impact of fully formed character drums as the label is advanced by a trigger mechanism. The printed label is then partially delaminated from a release strip by deflection around an acute angle and held thereby, so as to extend from the device with an adhesive surface exposed for application to the work. A brake mechanism is used to stop additional labels from being pulled out of the device as the exposed label is applied.
Other hand labelers better suited to bar coding use thermal printing mechanisms to mark the label as it is pulled through the mechanism by a motor at a constant speed. Such devices may also be manually actuated by the return of a trigger spring governed by a dashpot as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,497,682 to Hamisch, Jr. This latter approach is difficult to adapt to labels greater than an one inch in length because the energy to advance the entire label must be stored in the trigger spring in a single actuation.
In prior art labelers, the printing operation is complete before application begins. The label may be stored in a cassette for later application, or partially delaminated from the carrier with one end held thereby for immediate application, or it may be completely delaminated and held in a system of rollers from and with which it may be freely applied.
The object of this invention is to print and label the work in a single operation.
A further object is to drive the printing motion from the applying motion so as to avoid the need for a motor to advance the label.
A further object is to govern the speed of application and therefore the speed of print to a range optimal for thermal printing, and more specifically of bar codes.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent upon reading the following detailed description and upon reference to the drawings. Throughout the description, like referenced numerals refer to like parts.
Briefly, and in accordance with the foregoing objects, the present invention comprises a hand-held user-driven printer applicator including a housing means having a base and a cover, drive means mounted in the housing means, the drive means including a roller for gripping an object to be labeled and advancing a media web of labels through the housing means, and printer means for forming a printed image on the media label. Preferably, the invention further comprises delaminating means and smoothing means for applying the label onto an object, and governor means for limiting the speed of the drive means to ensure optimal quality of the printed image formed on the label.
The above features and objects of the present invention will become more apparent with reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals denote like elements and in which:
FIG. 1 is a sectional side-view of the present invention illustrating, in phantom lines, a cover member in an open position;
FIG. 2 is a sectional plan-view of the printer applicator illustrated in FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3 and 4 are sectional isolated views of drive roller member of the present invention;
FIG. 5 illustrates a portion of a media web used in the printer applicator of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a schematic representing a circuit board included in the present invention;
FIGS. 7 and 8 are similar to FIGS. 1 and 2, respectively;
FIGS. 9a to 9c are flowcharts illustrating the functions of a computer program carried out during operation of the present invention; and
FIG. 10 is similar to FIGS. 1 and 7 illustrating an alternate embodiment of the printer applicator of the present invention in which a recharging and data reloading cradle is provided.
While the invention may be susceptible to embodiment in different forms, there are shown in the drawings and herein will be described in detail, specific embodiments with the understanding that the present disclosure is to be considered an exemplification of the principles of the invention and that it is not intended to limit the invention to that as is illustrated and described herein.
With reference to FIG. 1, the printer applicator 1 is built on base 2 having cover 3 pivotally attached so it can be raised for media loading. Base 2 and cover 3 are formed of injection molded plastic with internal molded features which support the internal parts further described below. With reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, first and second drive rollers 4 and 5 and rear roller 6 having gripping rubber surfaces are rotatably attached to base 2 and protrude through it. As shown in FIG. 1, printer applicator 1 is resting on work 7 ready to begin labeling.
With reference to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, first and second drive rollers 4 and 5 are retained in elongated guide slots 8 and 9 in base 2 and biased away from it by springs 10 and 11 respectively. Springs 10 and 11 have sufficient total force to overcome the weight of the printer applicator and extend drive rollers 4 and 5 away from the frame when the printer applicator is at rest on the work.
With reference to FIG. 5, media web 12 consists of a plurality of die cut self adhesive labels 13 releasably attached to a release liner 14. Release liner 14 is exposed at gaps 15 between labels and along margins 16 and 17. Release liner 14 is further die cut with a plurality of notches 18 and 19 in margins 16 and 17 respectively.
Returning to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, media web 12 is supplied from supply roll 20 held in pocket 21 of cover 3, routed through first slot 22 in pocket 21, through second slot 23 in circuit board 24, around guide 25, and pressed against print head 26 by pressure pad 27 acted upon by head pressure springs 28 and 29.
Release liner 14 makes a 180 degree bend around pressure pad 27, to cause delamination of any label passing that point and its ejection through label exit slot 30 in cover 3. In the preferred embodiment, printer 1 further includes smoothing blade 130 to promote proper securement of the label to the object. Release liner 14 then passes between drive wheels 4 and 5 and pinch rollers 31 and 32 respectively. From there, release liner 14 passes between rear roller 6 and friction roller 33 then out through backing exit slot 34 in cover 3.
With continued reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, in the preferred embodiment first and second pinch rollers 31 and 32 and first gear 35 are affixed to common axle 36 which is in turn rotatably retained in cover 3. First gear 35 meshes with second gear 36 attached to shaft 37 of braking motor 38. Braking motor 38 is physically attached to and electrically connected to printed circuit board 24. Circuit board 24 is attached to cover 3 by a plurality of integrally molded supports 39. Circuit board 24 mounts and electrically interconnects braking motor 38, print head 26, batteries 40 and cable 41 and the electronic components represented in FIG. 6.
With reference to the schematic of FIG. 6 representing circuit board 24, microprocessor 50 is a single chip embedded controller such as the Hitachi H8 series. Although the H8 includes RAM memory 51, program ROM memory 52, asynchronous serial port 53, synchronous serial interface 54, parallel port 55, analog to digital converter 56, and timer 57, it will be readily understood by those skilled in the art that other microprocessors can be used with the addition of equivalent functions as separate integrated circuits, and any such system is intended to lie within the scope of the claims.
Cable 41 carries DC power from a wall mounted power supply (not shown) via line 58 and asynchronous serial data from the users PC via line 59. Battery 40 consists of a three NICAD cells in series with a single cell 61, all of which are continuously trickle charged from the wall mounted supply through resistor 62. The connection to the single cell 61 is to keep positive voltages at the inputs of analog to digital converter 56.
Before printing, CPU 50 accepts asynchrouous serial data representative of the bitmap image to be printed from asynchronous serial port 53, and stores it as a bitmap image in RAM 51. During printing, CPU 50 periodically transfers rows of dots from RAM 51 to print head 26 via serial data line 63 and clock line 64, which periodicity will be further described below. CPU 50 then asserts strobe 65 which enables the selected heaters of print head 26 for a period as will be further described below. During strobe 65, print head 24 draws power from battery 40 via line 66.
With continued reference to FIG. 6, braking motor 38 is represented by an ideal motor 67 in series with an armature resistance 68. Rotation of braking motor shaft 37 generates an electromotive force EMF in ideal motor 67 which appears as a voltage between internal node 69 and motor terminal 70. This voltage is directly proportional to the shaft speed of braking motor 38. It cannot be measured directly in the presence of an armature current because it appears in series with the voltage drop in the armature resistance 68. However, if the armature current is independently measured and its value multiplied by the armature resistance 68 and subtracted from the measured voltage between motor terminals 70 and 71, the resulting EMF can be determined and thereby the motor shaft speed and the linear velocity of the printer applicator over the work.
The braking current in the motor, as shown by the numbered arrow 72 passes through metering resistor 73, producing a voltage drop which is determined in microprocessor 50 by subtracting the voltage read at line 74 from that read at line 75 by analog to digital converter 56. The braking current is then calculated by dividing the voltage drop by a constant equal to the ohmic value of metering resistor 73.
The motor terminal voltage is similarly calculated by subtracting the voltage read at line 75 from that read at line 76. The armature voltage drop is then calculated by multiplying the braking current by a constant equal to the ohmic value of armature resistance 68. The voltage across ideal motor 67 is then calculated by subtracting the armature drop from the terminal voltage. The velocity of the printer applicator over the work is then calculated by multiplying the voltage thus calculated across ideal motor 67 by a constant representing the combination of the motor constant, the ratio of gears 35 and 36, and the circumferences of drive rollers 4 and 5 and pinch rollers 31 and 32.
Microprocessor 50 controls via port 55 a switching transistor 57 which switches voltage from batteries 40 motor 38 in such a polarity so as to cause motor 38 to exert a braking force on the printer applicator. Transistor 57 is switched on and off very rapidly with a controlled duty cycle, the prior art technique known as pulse width modulation. Microprocessor 50 thus controls the average voltage to motor 38 and thereby the degree of braking force applied to the printer applicator.
The user sends serial data representing a bitmap of the image to be printed as serial data over cable 41. The serial data includes a byte count followed by the bitmap data in row column order, but any prior art data format may be used and is considered to fall within the scope of the appended claims. Microprocessor 50 stores the bitmap in RAM memory 51 as the data is received.
When the complete image has been sent, the user presses down on printer applicator 1. With further reference to FIG. 7 and FIG. 8, this action engages release liner 14 between drive rollers 4 and 5 and pinch rollers 31 and 32 respectively and pushes pawls 80 and 81 out of notches 18 and 19 in release liner 14. The user then rolls the printer applicator 1 along work 7 in a direction away from label exit slot 30. As he does so, feed rollers 4 and 5 grip work 7 and engage pinch rollers 31 and 32, rotating first gear 35, second gear 36 and motor shaft 37 of motor 38. Media web 12 having been positioned as further described below, exposed margin of release liner 14 will be engaged by feed rollers 4 and 5 and pinch rollers 31 and 32, respectively, thereby pulling web 12 through the housing.
With reference to FIG. 8, notches 18 and 19 in release liner 14 are positioned so as to fall between drive rollers 4 and 5 and pinch rollers 31 and 32 respectively when printed label 82 has been ejected from the printer applicator. This stops the motion of the web even though the user may continue to drag the printer applicator over the work. To prepare the printer applicator for another label, the user lifts up on the printer applicator and pulls on spent release liner 14 so as to advance it until pawls 80 and 81 drop into notches 18 and 19. Pawls 80 and 81 stop the web at the point where the leading edge of the next label 83 is under print head 26 and ready for the next application.
With reference to the schematic of FIG. 6 and the flowchart of FIG. 9a, representing the functions of the program in program ROM 52, blocks 90, 91, 92, and 93 represent the loading of the complete bitmap into RAM 51 as previously described. Block 94 reads the voltage at lines 74 and 75 and subtracts to obtain the voltage across metering resistor 73. Block 95 divides this voltage by a constant equal to the resistance of resistor 73 to obtain the motor current 72. Block 96 multiplies current 72 by a constant equal to the armature resistance 68 of motor 38 to estimate the voltage drop across the armature resistance 68.
Block 97 reads the voltages at line 75 and 76 and subtracts to obtain the terminal voltage across motor 38. Block 98 subtracts the armature drop previously calculated from the terminal voltage to obtain the EMF across ideal motor 67. Block 99 multiplies the motor EMF thus calculated by a coefficient representing the shaft velocity to EMF coefficient of ideal motor 67. Block 100 multiplies the shaft velocity thus calculated by a constant equal to the ratio of gears 35 and 36 to determine the shaft velocity of drive rollers 4 and 5. Block 101 multiplies by a constant equal to the circumference of pinch rollers 31 and 32 to determine their tangential velocity and thereby that of drive rollers 4 and 5 which equals the printer applicator velocity.
With reference to FIG. 9b, Block 102 compares the printer applicator velocity previously computed against a constant representing the minimum printer applicator velocity for acceptable thermal printing. If the printer applicator is not above the minimum velocity, block 102 loops to wait for the user to accelerate the printer applicator to the minimum velocity. Once minimum velocity has been reached, block 103 determines that a maximum velocity is not exceeded. If that velocity is exceeded, execution loops to block 102 to wait for the user to obtain a speed between the minimum and maximum velocities. Once this condition has been met, block 104 loads one row of dots from bitmap into printhead 24 using serial clock and data in the prior art manner.
The lack of braking force below the minimum velocity and the progressive application of braking force above the minimum velocity as will be described below provide the user with a kinesthetic indication when the velocity for proper printing is reached and make it progressively difficult to exceed the maximum velocity. Nonetheless, variations in the forcefulness with which users pull on the printer applicator result in variations in its speed of motion. The effect of these variations in speed on the print quality are thereby minimized.
Block 105 uses the printer applicator velocity previously calculated to index a table of known ideal strobe lengths versus printer applicator velocity which is stored in program ROM 52. The strobe length in the table improves the consistency of optical density between the minimum and maximum speeds. Block 106 times this strobe to the print head.
Block 107 subtracts a stored constant equal to the motor EMF at the minimum velocity (the reverse calculation of blocks 99, 100, and 101 at the minimum velocity) from the motor EMF previously computed at Block 98. Block 108 computes the duty cycle of battery voltage which averages to that difference. Block 109 sets that PWM value as the duty cycle to braking transistor 57. The resulting braking force opposes any excess force applied by the user to limit the velocity of the printer applicator above the minimum velocity for optimal thermal printing.
Block 110 determines if the last dot row of the bitmap has been printed. If more remains to print, block 111 calculates the time between strobes during which the printer applicator advances by the amount of the dot pitch by dividing the dot pitch by the printer applicator velocity. Block 112 calculates the remaining time to the next strobe by subtracting the time since the last strobe. Block 113 waits for this remaining time before looping back to block 94 to repeat the cycle. If the last row of the bitmap has been printed execution proceeds to block 90 to await a new bitmap image.
Alternate Embodiments
While the preferred embodiment teaches optimization of print quality by both governing the speed of the printer applicator to within a range and measuring that speed and firing dots accordingly, images of reduced print quality can be printed within the governed speed range by firing the dots periodically at a rate appropriate to the approximate speed.
It will be equally apparent to one skilled in the art that the speed measurement of the preferred embodiment as performed by electrical measurements at the terminals of motor 38 can equivalently be carried out by a rotary encoder. Speed measurement then becomes a matter of timing the logic pulses from the tachometer as is well known in the prior art, rather than by measuring an analog voltage as herein described.
It will also be apparent to one skilled in the art that the braking function of motor 38 can equivalently be performed by a mechanical governor of such form as is well known in the prior art and that such structures lie within the scope of the claims.
It should be noted that the use of motor 38 both as braking motor and tachometer provides a means of covering both functions at minimal cost, providing a significant cost and performance advantage to the preferred embodiment. Although the preferred embodiment performs these functions with an analog-to-digital converter and calculations in software, it should be obvious to one skilled in the art that equivalent amplifiers and multipliers can be used.
It should be noted that the simultaneous printing and application functions is at the heart of this printer applicator, and that the invention applies equally to thermal, thermal transfer, impact, and inkjet printing as are well known in the prior art.
It should also be noted that this invention can be similarly applied to a self adhesive web without the benefit of a release liner as is known in the prior art (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,560,293 to Boreali et.al).
FIG. 10 shows a further alternate embodiment in which labeler 1 is provided with cradle 115, preferably formed of injection molded plastic and having internal cavities (not shown) adapted to nest with base 2 and rollers 4 and 6. Cord 41 is attached to cradle 115 in lieu of the attachment to the printer applicator itself as in the preferred embodiment. Cradle 115 is further provided with spring contacts 116 and wire connections 117 to cable 41. Spring contacts 116 are positioned to directly contact circuits on printed circuit board 24 in lieu of the direct connections of the preferred embodiment.
While particular embodiments have been shown and described in detail, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications of the present invention, in its various aspects, may be made without departing from the invention in its broader aspects, some of which changes and modifications being matters of routine engineering or design and others being apparent only after study.
As such, the scope of the invention should not be limited by the particular embodiment and specific construction defined herein, but should be defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof. Accordingly, the aim of the appended claims is to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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What a billion Muslims really think03/06/08 Mitch E. Perry
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In the new book, Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think? authors Dalia Mogahed and John Esposito use interviews from tens of thousands of residents of more than 35 nationas that are predominantly Muslim or have large Muslim populations.
Among the questions that Gallup poll posed were: Is Islam to blame for terrorism? Why is there so much anti-Americanism in the Muslim world? What do Muslim women really want?
Author John Esposito writes that Westernized advocacy of ...Be the first to comment
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