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General Cable Corp.'s (BGC) fourth-quarter earnings plunged 87% as mark-to-market losses on derivatives and debt expenses weighed on bottom-line results, though volume and margins also slipped.
Shares slipped 9.2% to $31.10 in after-hours trading as the maker of copper, cable and fiber-optic wire products' results missed analyst expectations.
Chief Executive Gregory B. Kenny said the company's full-year view is limited due to ongoing economic uncertainty in Europe and the extreme volatility of raw material costs, though demand in terms of metal pounds is expected to improve from 2011.
"We saw some improvement in pricing in certain markets in 2011 but industry capacity utilization remains at relatively low levels, particularly in construction related markets, which causes us to believe that the global pricing environment, as we enter 2012, will remain unchanged in the near-term," Kenny said.
General Cable reported a profit of $4.4 million, or 9 cents a share, down from $35 million, or 66 cents a share, a year earlier. Excluding debt interest expense and mark-to-market losses on derivatives, per-share earnings slipped to 30 cents from 75 cents. Revenue edged up 0.8% to $1.37 billion.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had predicted a per-share profit of 28 cents on $1.43 billion in revenue.
Gross margin narrowed to 9.3% from 10.8%.
Revenue from North America, its biggest contributor to the top-line, improved 3.6%. Sales from Europe and the Mediterranean slid 10%, while sales from the rest of the world were up 8.7%.
The company said volume based on metal pounds sold decreased 5%.
General Cable expects first-quarter revenue of $1.35 billion to $1.45 billion. The high-end of the company's view met the average revenue estimate from analysts.
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Interview with Bowling for Soup/People on Vacation's Jaret Reddick
Pop-punk legends Bowling For Soup turned up the volume at Animefest on Sept. 3. But before their set, I got a chance to meet up with Jaret Reddick, the creative genius behind it all. We talked about life, how to be happy and his new side project People On Vacation.
Q: You're definitely the happiest person I've ever met. How is it that you keep so happy all of the time?
Reddick: I made a conscious decision in the eighth grade. I'll never forget it. One day I woke up and said "Ya know, I don't think I'm gonna be in a bad mood anymore." Ever since then I've always been able to be like "S___'s bad, this sucks, but there's all this other stuff that's awesome and I'm gonna be happy today!" That's what I do. It's just a mind thing. So many things are just in your head.
"We decide what kind of an adult we're gonna be, how we treat people, and how things are gonna affect us. We just do! I'm a guy that tends to just look on the bright side pretty much all of the time. But I wish The Killers didn't take that from me.
"You can let yourself be mad about anything, but you can also talk yourself out of being mad about anything! ...Death is a funny thing to talk about, to be completely honest, I'm scared s___less about dying. It's less about what happens and more about what I miss. Obviously that's not what I'm supposed to do. I had high blood pressure a few months ago and it was a bit of a scare. I was like "I can't die! My son's 5!"
At this point, Jack, Reddick's 5-year old son, came up to us out of nowhere, further humanizing Reddick.
Jack Reddick: Dad! Did you know that someone is dressed up as Sailor Moon? Did you know that was going to happen?
Jaret Reddick: No! I Didn't! I'll be out in a few minutes though, OK? I packed you some chex mix and goldfish in the back. ...That! I don't want to miss that!
Q: People on Vacation is in its toddler stages. How is it coming up in this new band, compared to Bowling For Soup when you were first getting started?
Reddick: The beauty of it is that we sort of have an advantage. We're a baby band, but he's (Ryan Hamilton of Smile Smile) in a successful band and I'm in a successful band. He's got his fans and I've got mine, and we play these shows and people already come to watch us! The new [bands] actually get paid most of the time too!
"It's such a different thing from when BFS was coming up and we were still playing for free after signing to Jive. People on Vacation is such a cool outlet. It's fun to be able to write different kinds of music, 'cause I'm always writing for movies or TV or other bands. It's nice to be able to do it from a creative standpoint then actually deliver it. It's an entire different vibe and so much fun. Ryan and I are still learning to play off of each other. With BFS we play off each other so well it's like we script everything out. Anyways, it's a freakin' blast and I'm loving every minute of it!
People On Vacation is a whole different kind of breed from the likes of indie folk guru Hamilton and funny man, Reddick. Their debut six track EP comes out Thanksgiving weekend possibly accompanied by a short documentary of the band. You can check out People On Vacation at wearepeopleonvacation.com or see them live at Club Dada in Dallas on Friday (Sept. 16).
With all of this talk and excitement about People On Vacation it's easy to think this is the end for Bowling For Soup, but it's quite the contrary. Bowling For Soup's 11th album, "Fishin' For Woos" was just released back in April and the band is currently working on their second Christmas album. You can purchase "Fishin' For Woos" on iTunes and expect to hear more from Bowling For Soup in the near future.
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Video disc record is provided with a spiral information track containing recorded representations of composite video signals. The information represents occupying the length of each convolution of the spiral depart slightly from an integral number of field intervals by a fixed amount. The departure amount is such that the information content per spiral convolution corresponds to a given integral number of line intervals plus a predetermined fraction of a line interval (other than one-half). Synchronizing information locations in successive convolutions are thus staggered in a spiral manner. In record player apparatus for such a record, a power line synchronous drive system is employed to control rotation of the player's turntable. Separation of horizontal sync signals from the composite video signals recovered during playback of such a record, provides recurring information which is indicative, through its phasing, of the occurrence of a spurious pickup jump to an adjacent convolution, and the direction of such a jump.
1. Playback apparatus for use with a video disc record having a spiral information track containing representations of recorded composite video signals comprising successive frames of picture information and inclusive of regularly recurring deflection sync signals; said apparatus comprising the combination of:
means, subject to energization with alternating current, for causing rotation of said video disc record at a substantially constant rotation frequency bearing a subharmonic relationship to the frequency of said alternating current; and
signal recovery means, including signal pickup means normally traversing successive convolutions of said spiral information track in a regular progression toward one extremity of said spiral track, for developing composite video signals corresponding to the composite video signal information content of said video disc record and having a frame frequency not bearing a subharmonic relationship to said alternating current frequency.
2. Apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein said frame frequency is 29.97 Hz. and said rotation frequency is 7.5 Hz.
3. Apparatus in accordance with claim 1, for use with a video disc record of a type having spirally aligned deflection sync signal recording locations in successive convolutions of a spiral information track representative of composite video signals, and also including deflection sync signal separating means responsive to the composite video signals developed by said signal recovery means for developing a separated deflection sync signal with a relative phasing indicative of the occurrences, if any, of departures from said regular progression of convolution traversals by said signal pickup means and of the sense of said departures.
4. Apparatus in accordance with claim 1:
wherein said disc record rotating means comprises a synchronous motor, and means for energizing said motor with alternating current having said given frequency.
The present invenion relates generally to video disc records and novel playback apparatus therefor, and particularly to playback apparatus for advantageous use with a form of video disc record wherein synchronizing information locations in successive convolutions of a spiral information track are staggered in a spiral manner. This application is a division of my copending application, Ser. No. 522,820, filed Nov. 12, 1974.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,842,194, issued on Oct. 15, 1974 to Jon K. Clemens, video disc playback systems of a variable capacitance form are disclosed. In an arrangement therein disclosed, an information track incorporates geometric variations in the bottom of a spiral groove in a disc, the surface of which comprises conductive material covered with a thin coating of dielectric material. Variations in the capacitance presented between a conductive electrode on a tracking stylus and the conductive material of the disc occur as the disc is rotated by a supporting turntable; the capacitance variations are sensed to recover the recorded information.
In one particularly successful format employed for the groove bottom information track in practice of the Clemens invention, depressed areas extending across the groove bottom alternate with non-depressed areas, with the frequency of alternation varying with the amplitude of video signals subjects to recording. The form of the recorded signal is thus a carrier frequency modulated in accordance with video signals. In an advantageous arrangement for recording such information on a pre-grooved video disc master, an electron beam subject to intensity modulation in accordance with FM picture carrier signals, impinges upon electron beam sensitive material in the master disc groove bottom, so that subsequent development leaves the desired relief pattern in the groove bottom. The copending application of Loren B. Johnston, Ser. No. 335,024, filed Feb. 23, 1973 and entitled "Electron Beam Recording In Thick Materials", now U.S. Pat. No. 3,943,302 contains a description of advantageous recording techniques that may be employed in such relief pattern development. The copending application of R. W. Jebens, et al., Ser. No. 349,775, filed on Apr. 10, 1973 now entitled "Precision Turntable Rotation In A Vacuum Atmosphere", now U.S. Pat. No. 3,943,275, describes suitable apparatus for achieving precise control of the rotation of a disc-supporting turntable in a recording system of the above-described electron beam recording type.
In an illustrative method of formation of a record of "spiral sync" configuration pursuant to the principles of the invention of my aforesaid parent application, the rotation rate of a recording master disc in a electron beam recorder is controlled, by apparatus of the general form described in said Jebens, et al. application, so as to differ slightly from a subharmonic of the field rate of the video signal information content of the recording signal input supplied to the recorder. The degree of difference is precisely controlled so that the video information content per convolution of the spiral recorded information track corresponds to a given integral number of line intervals plus a predetermined fraction of a line interval, with the predetermined fraction desirably being other than 1/2. In the developed master, and in replica discs derived therefrom (for example, by replication methods of the type described in said Clemens patent), horizontal synchronizing information storage locations in successive convolutions of the spiral information track are staggered in a spiral manner. In playback of a disc having the aforesaid spiral sync format, separation of horizontal sync signals from the composite video signals recovered from the disc provides recurring information which is indicative, by way of its phasing, of the occurrence of a departure from the normal progression of traversals of successive track convolutions by the player's signal pickup. With the aforementioned line interval fraction choice of other than one-half, the direction of such departure is indicated moreover. As explained more fully in a copending application of Thomas W. Burrus, Ser. No. 522,817, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,963,860 use may be made of such occurrence indication to automatically detect and correct an undesired mode of player operation involving repetitive replays of information recorded in give convolutions of the spiral information track.
In an illustrative example of a record of the aforementioned "spiral sync" configuration, the video information content per convolution of the spiral information track corresponds to 2097.9 line intervals (or 2.1 line intervals less than eight full field intervals, for a 525 line-per-frame-interval picture). In an illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a video disc player is provided with a turntable rotational drive system of a power line synchronous form (illustratively incorporating a synchronous motor) to effect rotation of the turntable at a rate corresponding to an integral submultiple of the power line frequency, with the specific example being 7.5 rps rotation rate for a power line frequency of 60 Hz. The player cooperates with a spiral sync disc of the abovespecified 2097.9 lines-per-convolution standard to recover composite video signals with a U.S. color braodcast standard field rate of 59.94 fields per second (not harmonically related to the turntable rotation rate). Horizontal sync signals, separated from the composite video signals recovered from the record, indicated by a sustained phase advance a shift of signal pickup to an outwardly adjacent track convolution, in contrast with a sustained phase lag indication of a shift of signal pickup to an inwardly adjacent track convolution.
Objects and advantages of the present invention will be readily recognized by those skilled in the art upon a reading of the following detailed description, and an inspection of the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates, partially by block diagram representation, recording apparatus which may be advantageously employed in forming a video disc record having a spiral sync configuration;
FIG. 2 illustrates diagrammatically the disposition of horizontal synchronizing information in successive convolutions of a spiral information track of a video disc record formed by the recording apparatus of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 illustrates, partially by block diagram representation, video disc playback apparatus which may be advantageously employed in playback of a record of the FIG. 2 type, pursuant to the principles of the present invention.
In the arrangement of FIG. 1, an audio signal source 20 provides sound information appropriate for recording with the color picture information provided by a composite color video signal source 10, the latter providing composite color video signals having a field repetition rate of fv.
The output of audio signal source 20 is applied to a sound carrier frequency modulator 22 to develop a first FM signal comprising crrier frequency waves varying in frequency about a relatively low center frequency in accordance with the amplitude of the source 20 output. A second FM signal is developed by the picture carrier frequency modulator 12 in response to the output of the composite color video signal source 10. The carrier frequency deviation range for modulator 12 occupies a relatively high frequency band, with the output of source 10 illustratively poled so that transitions from black toward white cause an increase in the picture carrier frequency.
Duty cycle modulation of the picture carrier wave output of modulator 12 is effected in accordance with the FM sound carrier wave output of modulator 22 by a duty cycle modulator 24, comprising an adder 26 for summing the two FM signals and a limiter 28 for double clipping the resultant sum. Reference may be made to my copending application, Ser. No. 441,069, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,911,476 for a more detailed discussion of the duty cycle modulation process here employed. The magnitude of the sound modulator output supplied to adder 26 is chosen so that its peak-to-peak amplitude is small relative to the peak-to-peak amplitude of the output fo the picture carrier modulator 12, and double clipping level in limiter 28 are set with a spacing appreciably smaller than the peak-to-peak swing of the sound modulator output.
The output of the duty cycle modulator 24, appearing at the limiter output terminal R, serves as the recording signal input to a electron beam recorder 30 of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) type generally described in the above-mentioned Clements patent. In the electron beam recorder, scanning electron micorscope 31 directs a beam of electrons upon the curved groove bottom of a pre-grooved recording master disc 70, the curved groove bottom surface comprising electron beam sensitive material. The disc 70 is supported by a turntable 32 which is subject to (a) rotational motion imparted by a turntable rotational drive mechanism 34, and (b) translational motion imparted by a turntable translational drive mechanism 35. The rotational and translational drives are interrelated in such manner that the electron beam path is intercepted in turn by successive regions along the length of successive convolutions of the disc's spiral groove in a regular inward progression toward the disc center. Reference may be made to the copending application of Robert W. Jebens, et al. Ser. No. 349,775, filed on Apr. 10, 1973 and entitled "Precision Turntable Rotation In A Vacuum Atmosphere", for a illustration of suitable apparatus for effecting the requisite controlled motion of the turntable 32.
Illustratively, the electron beam of SEM 31 duration unblanked for the duration of each positive swing of the clipped signal at terminal R, and blanked for the druation of each negative swing of the clipped signal. The sweep rate for the SEM beam is considerably higher than the highest freqency of the picture carrier deviation range, while the beam sweep amplitued and unblanked beam intensity are substantially constant. As the disc record 70 rotates at a constant speed, a pattern of successive exposed and unexposed regions is produced along the length of the groove, with the lengths thereof (along the groove) determined by the respective swing durations of the recording signal input. Assuming, for example, that the master disc groove surface material is a positive resist, a subsequent development step will leave a pattern of alternating depressed and (relatively) non-depressed regions in the groove bottom corresponding to the pattern of exposed and unexposed regions, respectively.
In order to form a record of the desired spiral sync configuration, the speed of rotation of the disc 70 provided by the turntable rotational drive mechanism 34 is maintained substantially constant at a rotation rate of fR, where fR differs sightly from an integral sub-multiple of fV by a controlled amount. The controlled amount is desirably such that the time required for SEM beam path interception by the groove bottom regions of a full convolution of the spiral groove of disc 70 corresponds to the time occupied by an integral number of line intervals plus a predetermined fraction, other than one-half, of a line interval, at the line repetition rate of the signals provided by source 10.
An illustrative arrangement for effecting control of the disc rotation rate, as shown in FIG. 1, employs a tachometer disc 36 carrying suitable indicia, illustratively comprising a selected number of regularly spaced markings 37 on its periphery. The disc 36 is mounted for rotation on the turntable shaft 33 to which turntable 32 is secured for rotation. A tachometer pickup 40, located adjacent the periphery of the rotating disc 36, responds to the passage of each disc marking 37 by developing an electrical pulse. Illustratively, the pickup 40 may comprise an optical sensor responsive to differences in light reflectance of marked and unmarked regions of disc 36 periphery passing through the sensor's limited field of view.
The signals developed by pickup 40 are amplified by amplifier 42 and then supplied to a frequency divider 44. A second frequency divider 61 receives the output of a reference crystal controlled oscillator 60. The outputs of the two frequency dividers are supplied to a frequency comparator 50. The frequency comparator 50 develops a control voltage output having an amplitude an polarity respectively indicative of the magnitude and sense of the departure, if any, of the frequency of the output of divider 44 from substantial frequency identity with the reference frequency of the ouput of divider 61. The output of frequency comparator 50 is amplified by control voltage amplifier 52 for delivery to a control terminal C of the turntable rotational drive mechanism 34.
Illustratively, the turntable rotational drive mechanism is of a fluid propulsion form, as described in detail in the aforesaid Jebens, et al. application. With such form of drive mechanism, the control voltage information available at terminal C may be applied to a suitable fluid control valve so as to effect the desired turntable speed regulation via control of the intensity of the propelling fluid stream (as illustrated in the aforementioned Jebens, et al. application).
In an illustrative application of the spiral sync recording principles, operating parameters for the FIG. 1 recording apparatus are chosen so that the recorded information content per convolution of the spiral groove of disc 70 corresponds substantially to 2097.9 line intervals, where the format of the video signals is such that a frame of two interlaced fields therof comprises 525 line intervals. In this illustrative instance, the recorded information content duration per groove convolution differes from an integral nimber of field intervals by a small amount; i.e., being less than 8 field intervlas by an amount corresponding to 2.1 line intervals.
FIG. 2 presents a diagrammatic showing of the recorded information alignment that results in successive groove convolutions of disc 70 (and in replica discs derived therefrom) when the aforesaid illustrative choice of recording parameters is made. In the FIG. 2 diagram, vertically disposed lines R0 and R1 represent respective radii of the disc record, while horizontally disposed lines c1, c2 and c3 represent aligned segments of the information track in three successive convolutions of the disc's spiral groove, with track segment c1 lying in the outermost of the illustrated trio of convolutions. The portion of each track segment lying between R0 and R1 is of sufficient arcuate distance to encompass a video signal portion of a duration corresponding to six line intervals.
Illustratively, the six line portion of video signal information falling between radii R0 and R1 along convolution c1 corresponds to intermediate lines 89, 91, 93, 95, 97 and 99 of an odd-line field. The track regions along this convolution (c1) occupied by the recorded picture information for said lines of the odd-line field are designated generally by reference L89, L91, L93, L95, L97 and L99 in FIG. 2. (It may be noted that primed references are used for corresponding designation of picture information regions in convolution c2, and double primed references are used therefor in convolution c3.) The track region occupied by recorded information representative of the horizontal sync pulse preceding each of the designated lines is bracketed by short vertical lines. The beginning of the recording location for the horizontal sync pulse preceding line 89 of the field occupying the illustrated segment of convolution c1 is aligned with the radius R0.
In the inwardly adjacent convolution c2 of the information track, the track regions in the R0 - R1 segment are again representative of intermediate lines in an odd-line field, but there is a slippage from radial alignment of information concerning corresponding lines. The beginning of the recording location for the horizontal sync pulse preceding line 89 of the field occupying the illustrated segment of convolution c2 is shifted from R0 by a arcuate distance corresponding to two and one-tenth line intervals (2.1h). The beginning of the recording location for the horizontal sync pulse preceding line 89 of the field occupying the illustrated segment of convolution c3 is shifted from the c2 location in the same direction by the same (2.1amount. The shift is in a direction opposite to the direction of groove motion (designated by arrow d in FIG. 2) relative to the recording beam path which occurs when disc 70 is rotated during the operation of the FIG. 2 apparatus. This is also the intended direction of groove motion relative to signal pickup for playback of a replica of disc 70.
As a consequence of the above-descussed degree of slippage from radial alignment in successive convolutions of information concerning corresponding lines, there is a net slippage from radial alignment in successive convolutions of horizontal sync pulse recording locations of a magnitude corresponding to one-tenth of a line interval (0.1h). Thus, for example, the beginning of the recording location for the horizontal sync pulse preceding line 85 of the field occupying the illustrated segment of convolution c2 is shifted from R0 by a arcuate distance of 0.1h, while the beginning of the recording location for the horizontal sync pulse preceding line 81 of the field occupying the illustrated segment of convolution c3 is shifted from R0 by an arcuate distance of 0.2h. These shifts are again in direction opposite to the groove motion direction d.
Accordingly, the horizontal sync pulse recording locations in successive convolutions of the spiral information track of recorded disc 70 and its replicas are not radially aligned, but rather are staggered, convolution-to-convolution, in a manner establishing a spiral alignment.
FIG. 3 illustrates record playback apparatus that may be advantageously employed in recovery of signals from a video disc record 70', replicated from a master recording disc 70 of the FIG. 2 form (as by use of the replication methods discused in the aforesaid Clemens patent), pursuant to a illustrative embodiment of record player aspects of the present invention.
In the player arrangement of FIG. 3, the replica disc 70' is supported by a turntable 105. The turntable 105 is rotated at a substantially constant playback rotation rate by a suitable rotational drive mechanism in which the motive power is supplied by a synchronous motor 103, energized by alternating current supplied by an alternating current source 101. Illustratively, source 101 is the house current supply (i.e., mains supply) for the record player's site, and the frequency of the energizing current f p is the power line frequency (i.e., mains frequency) provided for local current distribution. The rotation are ft established for disc 70' by the rotational drive provided by synchronous motor 103 corresponds to a integral submultiple of fp.
A signal pickup 109 is provided for traversing the successive convolutions of the spiral information track of the rotating disc record 70' to recover the recorded signal information. Illustratively, the signal pickup 109 is a stylus with a groove-entering tip of the general form described in the aforesaid Clemens patent, and incorporates an electrode which cooperates with material of the disc record 70' to establish capacitance variations representative of the recorded signal information as the groove bottom geometry variations constituting the recorded information track pass beneath the stylus. Pickup circuits 110, which may illustratively be of the form disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,872,240, issued to D. J. Carlson, et al. on Mar. 18, 1975, convert the capacitance variations to electrical signal variations (of a form generally corresponding to that of the recording signal provided at terminal R in the recording apparatus of FIG. 1).
The signal output of pickup circuits 110 is supplied to a pair of bandpass filters 121, 131. Bandpass filter 121 is provided with a passband encompassing the relatively low frequency sound carrier deviation range and appropriate andjacent sideband regions. The signal portion selectively passed by filter 121 is applied via a limiter 123 to a sound carrier FM demodulator 125. The recorded FM sound carrier is demodulated to recover audio signals which appear at the demodulator output terminal A. The audio signals at terminal A are supplied to appropriate audio signal utilization circuits 127.
Bandpass filter 131 is provided with a passband encompassing the relatively high frequency picture carrier deviation range and appropriate adjacent sideband regions. The signal portion selectively passed by filter 131 is applied via a limiter 133 to a picture carrier FM demodulator 135. The recorded FM picture carrier is demodulated to recover composite color video signals which appear at demodulator output terminal V. The composite color video signals at terminal V are supplied to appropriate composite color video signal utilization circuits 137.
Illustratively, the utilization circuits 127, 137 may comprise apparatus for processing the respective demodulator outputs to a form suitable for application to the antenna terminals of a conventional color television receiver, so as to permit picture display and sound reproduction by the receiver. Reference may be made to the copending U.S. application of John G. Amery, Ser. No. 506,446, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,938,179, for an illustrative showing of suitable apparatus for processing composite color video signals from a form appropriate for recording to a form appropriate for receiver use. Reference may also be made to U.S. Pat. No. 3,775,554, issued to Bernard Hjortzberg on Nov. 27, 1973, for a disclosure of transmitter apparatus suitable for use in converting the processed video and audio signals to a modulated RF carrier form suitable for antenna application purposes.
Pursuant to a aspect of the present invention, the recovered composite color video signals appear at terminal V with a field repetition rate fv, which is not harmonically related to the turntable rotation rate ft. That is, the nominal turntable rotation rate (ft) differs from a integral submultiple of the field rate (fv) of the recovered video signal information by a selected small amount.
An illustrative value for the turntable rotation rate (ft) is 7.5 rps (or 450 rpm), which results in the recovery of video signals from replica disc record 70' (when the latter has the specific form discussed in connection with FIG. 2) with a field repetition rate of approximately 59.94 fields per second (corresponding, for example, to the U.S. color broadcast field rate standard). The illustrative value of 7.5 rps for ft corresponds to an integral submultiple of a conventional power line frequency (60 Hz.) employed, for example, in the United States.
It will be seen that in the illustrative example given above, one is enabled through use of the present invention to employ a power line synchronous drive system for the playback turntable in the player's development of composite color video signals with a field rate asynchronously related to the power line frequency. Reference may be made to the copending U.S. patent application, Ser. No. 504,486, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,912,283 for Robert J. Hammond, et at., for an illustration of relatively inexpensive apparatus that may be employed to effect rotational drive of turntable 105 in a power line frequency synchronous manner.
Illustratively, the composite color video signal processing apparatus incorporated in utilization circuits 137 includes a suitable sync separator circuit for separating horizontal synchronizing information from the composite color video signals appearing at terminal V, and developing a train of horizontal sync pulses at terminal H of the uitilization circuits 137. One illustrative form of sync separator apparatus is shown, for example, in the copending U.S. patent application of Charles D. Boltz, Jr., Ser. No. 402,081, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,914,542.
By virtue of the aforementioned spiral alignment of sync pulse recording locations in successive convolutions of the information track of disc record 70', the pulse train provided at terminal H serves to indicated by a shift in phasing of the sync pulses a departure from the normal progression of track convolution traversals by signal pickup 109. That is, for example, if during the traversal of convolution c2, the signal pickup 109 jumps to the inwardly adjacent convolution c3, a shift of the sync pulses at terminal H to a new phase location, lagging the phase location that would be occupied if normal traversal of convolution c2 had continued, occurs. An opposite shift to a leading phase location results if the pickup jump is oppositely directed to the outwardly adjacent convolution c1. Reference may be made to the copending U.S. patent application of Thomas W. Burrus, Ser. No. 522,817, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,963,860, for a illustration of apparatus that may advantageously employ the noted indication provided by the signals at terminal H.
Where "real time" recording is employed in the recording apparatus, illustrative values for recording turntable rotation rate (fR) and source field rate (fV) of 7.5 rps and 59.94 Hz., respectively, will provide a record 70 of the specific form discussed in connection with FIG. 2. However, where required, for example by limitations on recording beam intensity and/or sensitivity of the electron beam sensitive material employed in the groove of disc 70, a slower-than-real-time recording mode may be employed, with the recording turntable rotation rate a fraction (e.g., 1/21 of the intended playback disc rotation rate. In such an instance, the recording signal parameters are subject to division by the involved time expanison factor (e.g., 21).
In an illustrative application of the spiral sync recording principles to the aforesaid slower-than-real-time recording mode, where fv corresponded to 59.94 Hz. divided by 21, the recording turntable rotation rate (fp) was maintained at 7.5 rps divided by 21. Such maintenance was effected using: a tachometer disc 36 with 10,800 markings (37) regularly spaced about its periphery; a reference frequency for the output of oscillator 60 of 1,000,000Hz.; frequency division of the output of amplifier 42 by a factor of 23 in frequency divider 44; and frequency division of the output of oscillator 60 by a factor of 5,963 in frequency divider 61.
While the present invention has been specifically described above in terms of application to a video disc system of the capacitance type described in the previously mentioned Clemens patent, it should be appreciated that the principles of the present invention may also be employed to advantage in video disc systems of other type (e.g., optical disc systems).
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Jack Midson will be reunited with former Oxford United strike partner James Constable next season after signing for Eastleigh.
The 30-year-old, who was released by AFC Wimbledon earlier this month, signed two days after Constable made the switch to the Skrill South champions.
It brings the pair together for a second time, after they combined to good effect in the United squad which won promotion back to the Football League via the play-offs in 2010.
The Hampshire club are managed by former U's midfielder Richard Hill, who felt a second big signing in succession showed they meant business next season.
He said: "Like James Constable, Jack is an extremely ambitious lad and, to come and play in the Conference, he needed to be convinced that we're not going into this league just to tread water."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left in place its monthly $85 billion bond-buying stimulus plan, arguing the support was needed to lower unemployment even as it indicated a recent stall in U.S. economic growth was likely temporary.
The U.S. central bank predicted that the nation's job market would continue to improve at a modest pace, and repeated a pledge to keep purchasing securities until the outlook for employment "improves substantially."
"Growth in economic activity paused in recent months, in large part because of weather-related disruptions and other transitory factors," the Fed said after a two-day meeting.
A report on Wednesday showed the U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter as inventory investment slowed and government spending plunged. Analysts said superstorm Sandy, which slammed into a large swath of the U.S. East Coast in late October, also disrupted the recovery.
The Fed has kept overnight interest rates near zero since late 2008 and it has tripled its balance sheet to about $3 trillion through its purchases of securities, which are aimed at pushing longer-term borrowing costs lower.
While the recovery from the 2007-2009 recession has been stubbornly tepid, the Fed's policy panel voiced confidence it would remain on track with continued help from monetary policy.
"The committee expects that, with appropriate policy accommodation, economic growth will proceed at a moderate pace and the unemployment rate will gradually decline toward levels the committee judges consistent with its dual mandate," it said.
That was cautiously more optimistic than the Fed had sounded in December, when it emphasized it was "concerned" the economy would not deliver stronger hiring without policy support.
"The changes to the policy rationale were tilted to sound more affirmative in nature," JPMorgan economist Michael Feroli wrote in a note to clients.
A report on Friday is expected to show the U.S. jobless rate remained stuck at 7.8 percent for a third straight month in January. The Fed repeated that it would keep overnight rates near zero until the unemployment rate hits 6.5 percent, as long as inflation does not threaten to exceed 2.5 percent.
"It's a message that policy is steady as she goes," said Julia Coronado, an economist at BNP Paribas in New York.
By and large, the statement was widely as anticipated, and U.S. stocks .SPX, government bonds and the dollar .DXY were little changed after the news.
The Fed noted that consumer spending and business investment had picked up and the housing sector had shown further improvement. It also acknowledged calmer financial conditions in Europe, omitting a December warning that these posed a significant threat, although it said downside risks remained.
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President Esther George, in her first policy vote, dissented against continued Fed stimulus, picking up the mantle left behind by Richmond Fed chief Jeffrey Lacker, who dissented at every policy meeting last year.
The Fed's bond-buying program, under which it currently purchases $40 billion of mortgage-backed bonds and $45 billion of longer-dated Treasuries a month, is part of the central bank's unprecedented effort to spark a stronger recovery and drive down unemployment.
Most analysts do not expect the outlook for the labor market to show the substantial improvement the Fed wants to see this year, keeping it on track for further bond buying.
Even so, minutes of the Fed's last meeting in December, released early this month, showed that a few policymakers thought the program should be halted by the middle of 2013.
Some Fed officials have voiced concern that any benefit from the bond purchases could be offset by mounting costs.
Two potential threats policymakers see are the risk of fueling an asset price bubble and the possibility of harming the functioning of Treasury and mortgage-backed bond markets. Some also worry that the Fed could suffer a loss when it eventually sells bonds to shrink its balance sheet, which might have serious political consequences for its independence.
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Protecting citizens from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke is one of the most important measures a state can take to improve public health. The 2005 legislature amended the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act to clarify that the rights of citizens to breathe smoke-free air takes priority over the desire to smoke.
Open Government: A right that shouldn't be taken for granted
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What would life in Montana be like without our open government laws? Imagine the city council making a new ordinance behind closed doors and simply decreeing it as a fait accompli. Imagine citizens forbidden to offer opinions about the county budget. Imagine local police activities and criminal prosecutions shrouded in secrecy.
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A best-kept secret is that domestic trade shows are great places to meet and sell to international buyers. U.S. businesses that have discovered this relatively low-cost channel for drumming up new sales claim that exhibiting at the "right" shows can fill their order books for the entire year.
It may sound counter intuitive to make international sales without leaving the U.S., but the fact is that international buyers are attracted to large trade shows in the U.S. And let's not forget the draw of Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami and other big trade show venues.
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Exporting U.S. innovation, products and services is a top priority for the Obama administration, and MBDA is putting the spotlight on how minority-owned businesses are growing and thriving overseas so that we can be more prosperous here at home.
Recently, President Obama held an economic summit in Puerto Rico, organized in part by MBDA and the U.S. Department of Commerce. MBDA National Deputy Director Alejandra Castillo and our partner the Puerto Rico MBDA Business Center were integral in the success of the summit where President Obama's Task Force on the Status of Puerto Rico made its final recommendations to boost job creation on the island. The Task Force recommended that MBDA continue to aid job creation and innovation by helping to facilitate public-private partnerships to finance the Integrated Bio-refinery Program. This program—which aims to create biofuels from sugar cane—will allow America to grow our own fuel and grow jobs at the same time.
This month, the U.S. Census Bureau released the final data from the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), which offers a wellspring of data on the characteristics of minority-owned businesses in the United States. One characteristic that is sure to have a profound effect on our efforts to double exports over the next five years is that the minority business community continues to lead in global commerce.
President Obama Nominates John Bryson and Terry Garcia as Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Commerce
On May 31st, 2011, President Barak Obama officially nominated Mr. John Bryson to succeed Gary Locke as Secretary of Commerce. John Bryson was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison and Edison Mission Group, from 1990 to 2008. He is a director of The Boeing Company, The Walt Disney Company and Coda Automotive, Inc. and is a senior advisor to KKR among his many other roles in the private sector.
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You don't need a boat to go where most small businesses export. China's economy may get a lot of our press, but our neighbors, Canada and Mexico, get a lot more of our exports. Total U.S. exports of goods to Canada and Mexico in 2009 were $154.8 billion and $116.4 billion, respectively, while exports to China were $65.6 billion.
The International Trade Administration's recently released Small & Medium-Sized Exporting Companies: Statistical Overview, 2009 finds 275,843 exporters in 2009. Of this number, 269,269 or 97.6 percent were small businesses. But small businesses only accounted for 32.8 percent or $308 billion of the total export revenue in 2009.
For both small and large exporters, most of the exports came from the manufacturing and wholesale trade industries, which is not surprising considering the data does not cover services exports. These two industries combined represented about 85 percent of exporting value and 60 percent of the exporting businesses.
Online Tool Offers Help With Export Business Plans
Small businesses interested in starting or expanding sales of their goods and services overseas have access to a new, free online tool that will gauge their readiness to export and help them develop an export business plan.
The Export Business Planner, developed by the U.S. Small Business Administration, offers a ready-made, customizable and easily accessible document that can be updated and referenced continuously as the business grows.
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Cross platforms developers can use Cocos Console to create projects, boost their development with web version engine and deploy games onto all native platforms and all browsers with Cocos Console.
Casual web game developers can download the Lite Version and start to develop just like using other web frameworks (e.g. jQuery).
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A former CEO of Italian oil and gas company, Eni. He achieved the position of CEO in 1998 and held it until 2005, when Paolo Scaroni took over. Eni has a presence in 77 countries, and its activities include oil and gas exploration, production, transportation, transformation and marketing, in petrochemicals, oilfield services construction and engineering.
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Mincato joined the company shortly after it had faced corruption scandals, downsizing and several conflicts with the Italian government - which owned about a third of the company. He helped move the company forward, leading Eni to its first acquisitions of foreign companies (Britain-based Borneo and Lasmo) and helping it to become the one of the world's largest oil corporations.
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Jurors hear audio of Warren Jeffs training girls for sex
'If world knew what I was doing, they would hang me ...,' FLDS leader wrote
Tony Gutierrez, Associated Press
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Softly telling five girls to "set aside all your inhibitions," convicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was heard Monday giving his child brides instructions on how to please him sexually during a graphic 10-minute tape played for a Texas jury.
Prosecutors later rested their case, and jurors could hand down their punishment to Jeffs as early as today. He faces life in prison after being the same jury convicted him last week of sexually assaulting two of his "brides," who were 12 and 15.
Jeffs' attorneys rested without calling any witnesses. They did so as Jeffs sat in another room of the courthouse, boycotting the proceedings for a third straight day.
He was not in the courtroom Monday when an FBI agent introduced a 2004 audiotape that he said preceded Jeffs having sex at the same time with five girls, who were 15 and younger. Several jurors squirmed or wiped away tears during the sometimes-scratchy recording. Jeffs breaths heavily on the tape while giving the girls explicit instructions.
During the sentencing phase, prosecutors showed a page from one of Jeffs' journals.
"If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree," Jeffs wrote in 2005, according to one of thousands of pages of notes seized along with the audio recordings from his Texas ranch.
The 55-year-old is the ecclesiastical head of the Fundamentalist LDS Church. More than 10,000 followers consider him God's spokesman on Earth.
Prosecutors on Monday showed the jury evidence that Jeffs had taken 24 underage followers as his bride. Jurors also saw photos of Jeffs intimately kissing several of the young girls in wedding photos.
In all, prosecutors showed records from 1989 to 2006 of Jeffs having 78 wives. Not counting his own wives, Jeffs officiated or was a witness to 550 illegal marriages, according to prosecutors.
A photo collage featuring one of his 16-year-old brides had the caption: "Pure Innocence. Pure Obedience. Pure Heavenly Happiness!"
Jeffs made a brief courtroom appearance Monday after being summoned by state District Judge Barbara Walther. She told Jeffs' attorney, Deric Walpole, that she wanted to make sure Jeffs hadn't changed his mind.
Wearing a charcoal suit and carrying a blank yellow legal pad, Jeffs walked back into court but never spoke. Walpole said Jeffs wanted to stay outside, and Jeffs was escorted back to another room in the courthouse.
Soon after, prosecutors played the tapes. Jeffs is heard telling the girls that what "the five of you are about to do is important." The recording ends with him asking the girls if his instructions are detailed enough. The voices of at least two girls responded, "Yes."
Jeffs kept meticulous records — as jurors found out during the conviction phase of the trial. Last week, they heard a tape of what prosecutors said was Jeffs sexually assaulting the 12-year-old victim.
Prosecutors suggested that the polygamist leader told the girls they needed to have sex with him — in what Jeffs called "heavenly" or "celestial" sessions — to atone for sins in his community. Several times in his journals, Jeffs wrote of God telling him to take more and more young girls as brides "who can be worked with and easily taught."
FBI agent John Broadway testified that fathers who gave their young daughters to Jeffs — their prophet — were rewarded with young brides of their own. Girls who proved reluctant to have sex with Jeffs were sent away, according to excerpts from Jeffs' journals that prosecutors showed to the jury.
"If they wanted to not be rejected by God, then the new laws (Jeffs) was introducing was requiring them to participate in these sessions," Broadway said.
The recordings and journals were seized during a 2008 raid on an FLDS ranch in rural West Texas. That raid led to the charges against Jeffs and several of his followers.
Jurors also saw photos of Jeffs that were a contrast to the modest, conservative attire favored by the church he heads. The photos showed him wearing novelty T-shirts and a baseball cap with a Guinness beer logo.
The polygamist leader spent years evading arrest — crisscrossing the country as a fugitive who eventually made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list before his capture in 2006, prosecutors said. A state investigator testified that Jeffs visited 23 states over nearly a year while eluding authorities.
Jeffs also allegedly excommunicated 60 church members he saw as a threat to his leadership, breaking up 300 families while stripping them of property and "reassigning" wives and children.
Walpole, Jeffs' attorney, has declined to say whether he'll call witnesses during the sentencing phase. He has indicated that his plea for leniency will focus on Jeffs being a product of his environment and a culture that hasn't changed for centuries.
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Male birds use their song to dupe females they have just met by pretending they are in excellent physical condition.
Just as some men try to cast themselves in a better light when they approach would-be dates, so male birds in poor condition seek to portray that they are fitter than they really are. But males do not even try to deceive their long-term partners, who are able to establish the true condition of the male by their song.
Researchers at the University of Exeter studied zebra finches to establish how trustworthy birdsong was in providing honest signals about the male's value as a mate. Singing is a test of the condition of birds because it uses a lot of energy. Fit and healthy birds are thought to be able to sustain a high song rate for longer, making them more attractive to females.
The research team, which included scientists from the Université de Bourgogne in France, looked at short and longer encounters with unknown females, as well as patterns of song around females who were familiar to them.
The team discovered that males in poor condition could "cheat" and vary their song to give a false impression to stranger females. But they did not even try to fool those who knew them, who used song as a reliable test of their underlying qualities. The research is published on December 19 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Dr Sasha Dall, of the University of Exeter, was involved in the research. He said: "Every man wants to cast himself in a favourable light when he meets an attractive female, and we have shown that birds are no different. But just like many humans, it seems zebra finch males are unable to dupe females who know them well enough. When the birds were in an established relationship, the female could tell the true condition of a male by his song, and judge whether he would make a good father for her next brood."
Zebra finches are Australia's most popular finch. They make common pets and are widely used in scientific research. They are particularly easy to keep, and adapt extremely well to their surroundings. For zebra finches, both colour and birdsong are important factors in choosing a mate.
The research was funded through a young researcher prize of the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation for life sciences and a PhD grant, as well as two honorific master grants provided by the Conseil Régional de Bourgogne in France.
The team studied 91 male and 91 female birds from a colony at the Université de Bourgogne and 12 of each gender from a colony at the University of Exeter. The body condition of each of the birds was measured. Scientists then videoed both brief and longer encounters between birds of each gender who were unknown to each other, and patterns of behaviour when they were with their mate, with whom they pair for life. They were also monitored to see if they showed signs of mutual attraction and going on to breed.
In the study, there was no difference in the singing of male single birds in either short or long encounters with unknown females. But, when in front of their partners, paired birds who were in good condition sang at a higher rate than those in poor condition.
Dr Morgan David, who led the research, said: "This is the first study to find evidence that the link between male body condition and birdsong differs depending on the context of the encounter with the opposite sex. It could have significant implications for learning more about the evolution of courtship patterns such as birdsong."
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