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Ready to Rumble for Rent Regulation?
November 19, 2014
By Marc Bussanich
New York, NY—That's what Assemblyman Keith Wright said outside City Hall on Tuesday as he was joined by a bevy of city and state elected officials and pro-tenant advocates as they gear up for the legislative battle against the Republican-led State Senate to preserve strong rent regulation laws in the city.
Mayor's Affordable Housing Plan Called 'Squishy'
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New York, NY—The long anticipated City Council hearing to learn more details of Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan on Monday proved "squishy" as the commissioner of the housing agency couldn't provide exact numbers on the number of units targeted for preservation.
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New York, NY—A collaboration between the City and a physicians' network is making it easy for the City's more than 300,000 public employees to stay healthy by providing easy access to the flu shot.
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In An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith puts forth the ideal of the "invisible hand" as the mechanism through which individual selfishness will be regulated for the larger public interest. Through competition, whereby sellers, whether they are selling consumer goods, inputs for the production process, or even labor services, will not overcharge and exploit for fear that the competitive market will otherwise punish them and put them out of business.
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Rusizi District wishes to recruit the civil servants on the following vacant posts :
1. Executive Secretary of the District (1)
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3. Secretary to the National council of Persons with disabilities in District (1)
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Psychiatrists (especially this one) have a conflicted relationship with technology and particularly internet-based programs. On our main Shrink Rap blog, we have posted quite a bit about issues the psychiatrist grapples with as we figure out how new technologies can be helpful. I will post some links at the end of this article, and pleae do check out my post on Clinical Psychiatry News on Siri and the Psychiatrist.
Why are psychiatrists conflicted? Well, like everyone else, we're struggling with ways to harness technology to make for better medicine: to improve communications in a way that promotes safer care when it comes to issues like drug interactions and med/psych historical information that help with accurate diagnoses. We're also looking for ways to lighten our work load and make ourselves more efficient. Oh, and a lot of the toys and apps and social networking stuff is very fun!
So what's the conflict? Well, so far, there are many concerns about confidentiality and discretion in all realms of techno-life and psychiatrists and their patients may be very sensitive about these issues. Electronic Medical Records have traditionally excluded psychiatric notes, though that is changing, and concerns about sensitive information are increasing. What about a single psychiatrist's computer notes-- who can access them if he backs them up on a cloud, much less what happens if they are submitted to a centralized medical record that can be accessed by other health care workers?


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The switch unit, suitable for use in instances of emergency and also for a normal electrical shut-off and re-setting of a controlled system, features a snap-action electrical switch, as an example, a microswitch type control operated selectively (or jointly) by a pair of like end-anchored tension cables which have their inner ends connected to the unit's operating and re-set signal arm to trip the latter from a normal release position upon a tensioning of either cable by an attendant. The tripping of the arm causes it to operate the snap-action switch, and the arm is automatically locked in the tripped position thereof, having with said switch typically interrupted the electrical operation of the controlled system. That is, a tensioning of either one of the cables under a force exceeding a very moderate value occasions a limited rotation of a shaft carrying the arm; this suffices to actuate the snap-action switch, and thereby through conventional wiring means to initiate an instantaneous cut-off of the system's electrical supply. The shaft and arm are automatically locked in their tripped condition by a locking plate fixed on and rotatable with the shaft, which plate presents locking pins adapted to engage and latch in a fixed keeper plate of the switch unit. The locking plate is axially movable with the shaft in opposition to relatively mild spring bias to disengage the locking pins from the keeper plate, thereby releasing the shaft for manual counterrotation from locked condition to normal release condition.
1. A switch unit to control at least in part the operation of a powered system, comprising a shaft rotatively mounted to pivot between operated and release positions and axially shiftable as an incident to its pivoting between said positions, operating arm means connected to said shaft to selectively so pivot the same, at least one externally actuated cable operatively connected to said arm means to actuate the latter in pivoting the shaft, and means releasably locking said shaft at one of said operated and release positions while permitting a rotative pivoting of the shaft from said one position to said other position, said last named means comprising a locking member rotatable and axially shiftable with said shaft, and a fixed keeper member engageable with said locking member in one of its said pivoted positions to so lock the latter in that position, said locking and keeper members being disengaged upon an axial shift of said shaft to free the latter to pivot to its said other position.
2. The switch unit of claim 1, in which said shaft is rigidly but releasably held by said locking and keeper members at said operated position, and further comprising means for yieldably maintaining said shaft at the release position subject to pivoting of the shaft through its cable-connected arm means toward said operated position.
3. The switch unit of claim 1, and further comprising a switch device closed and opened by means on said shaft upon the latter's pivoting between said positions, said switch device being connectable to said system to at least in part control the powering thereof.
4. The switch unit of claim 2, and further comprising a switch device closed and opened by means on said shaft upon the latter's pivoting between said positions, said switch device being connectable to said system to at least in part control the powering thereof.
5. The switch unit of claim 1, in which there are at least two of said externally operated cables, each of said externally operated cables having at least one end which is connected to said operating arm means of the switch unit.
6. The switch unit of claim 2, in which there are at least two of said externally operated cables each anchored at one end and having its opposite end connected to different portions of said operating arm means of the switch unit.
7. The switch unit of claim 6, in which the connections of said cables to said arm means are at selective different distances from the axis of rotation thereof and of said shaft, thereby affording optional torque moment arms for application of force from said cables to the shaft depending upon the selected distance at which said cables are attached to said arm means.
8. A resetable safety lock switch unit comprising;
a shaft mounted for rotational movement between a released switch position and a tripped switch position;
a switch-operating arm connected to said shaft for rotating the same between said released switch position and said tripped switch position;
detent means for resiliently and resistively biassing said shaft against rotation until at least a predetermined amount of force is applied to said switch-operating arm and responsive to the application of at least said predetermined amount of force to said switch-operating arm for allowing said shaft to rotate from one of said switch positions to the other; and
latching means responsive to said detent means having allowed said shaft to be rotated from the released switch position to the tripped switch position for axially moving said shaft and locking the same against further rotation, said latching means being further responsive to axial pressure applied to said shaft for unlocking said shaft and allowing reverse rotation against said detent means to restore said shaft to the released switch position when at least said predetermined amount of force is applied to said switch-operating arm.
9. The resetable safety lock switch unit of claim 8 wherein said switch unit is useable to control at least in part the operation of a powered system, said switch unit further comprising;
an electrical switching element coupled to said powered system to at least in part control the powering thereof;
and means at least partially coupled to said shaft and positionable thereby for maintaining said electrical switching element in a first electrical state to permit the powering of said system when said shaft is in said released switch position and responsive to said shaft having been rotated to said tripped switch position for switching said electrical switching element to the opposite electrical state to terminate the powering of said system.
10. The resetable safety lock switch unit of claim 8 and further comprising externally-activated means operatively coupled to said switch-operating arm for applying force thereto and actuating said switch-operating arm to rotate said shaft when applied force equals or exceeds said predetermined amount.
11. The resetable safety lock switch unit of claim 10 wherein said switch-operating arm includes a central arm portion for rigidly connecting said switch-operating arm to said shaft, a first arm portion extending in a first radial direction away from said shaft, and a second arm portion extending in the opposite radial direction away from said shaft, and wherein said externally-activated means includes a first cable-like element fastenable to said first arm portion for applying force in a direction for establishing a torque moment to rotate said shaft means toward said tripped switch position and a second cable-like element fastenable to said second arm portion for applying force in the opposite direction establishing a similar torque moment to rotate said shaft means towards said tripped switch position.
12. The resetable safety lock unit of claim 10 wherein said switch-operating arm includes a plurality of connection-enabling means spaced at different distances from the axis of rotation of said switch-operating arm for selectively connecting said externally-activated means for affording different torque moment arms for applying force to said shaft.
13. The resetable safety lock switch unit of claim 8 wherein said switch-operating arm includes a flag indicator which is readily visible when said switch is in said tripped switch position and which is substantially less visible when said switch is in said released switch position.
14. The resetable safety lock switch unit of claim 8 wherein said switch unit further includes a sealable easy-access corrosion-resistant housing means for housing said shaft means, said detent means and said latching means.
15. The resetable safety lock switch unit of claim 8 wherein said detent means comprises:
cam means including a pair of concave cam seats and a convexly arcuate cam node located between said pair of cam seats;
means for connecting said cam means to said shaft for rotation therewith; and
detent means including a detent member for contacting said cam means and detent biassing means for resiliently urging said detent member into contact with said cam means, said detent member normally contacting one of said pair of cam seats when said switch is in either of said released switch position or said triggered switch position and being urged against said cam node to resist the rotation of said shaft until at least said predetermined amount of force has been applied to said switch-operating arm, at which point said cam node rides over said detent member to position said switch to the other of said released switch position or said triggered switch position and to enable said detent member to contact the other of said pair of cam seats.
16. The resetable safety lock switch unit of claim 8 wherein said latching means comprises:
boss means for rotatively journaling said shaft means;
locking means rigidly attached to said shaft for movement therewith;
a keeper plate rigidly attached to said boss means and adapted for engaging said locking means to lock said shaft against rotation when said switch has been moved to said triggered switch position; and
resilient biassing means for normally urging said shaft and said locking means in a first axial direction toward said keeper plate and responsive to said shaft having been rotated to said triggered switch position for axially moving said shaft and said locking means in said first axial direction with respect to said keeper plate for enabling said locking means to lockably engage said keeper plate, said locking means remaining lockably engaged with said keeper plate to prevent rotation of said shaft until said shaft is manually moved in a second and opposite axial direction to move said locking means away from said keeper plate to disengage the same and allow said shaft to be rotated upon the application of at least said predetermined amount of force to restore said switch to said released switch position.
17. A safety stop switch assembly for the positive and rapid shut-down of powered equipment comprising:
a rotatably and axially movable shaft mounted for rotational movement between a normal switch position and a triggered switch position;
a switch-acuating arm connected to said shaft for rotation therewith, said arm being adapted for receiving externally applied force and applying a moment arm to rotate said shaft in a first direction whenever a minimum predetermined amount of external force is applied; and
failsafe locking means responsive to said shaft having been rotated to said triggered switch position for axially moving said shaft and locking the same against further rotation to avoid the possibility of said switch accidentally being restored to said normal switch position, said locking means being further responsive to externally applied positive axial force to unlock said shaft so that rotational force applied in the direction opposite said first direction will rotate said shaft and restore said switch to said normal switch position.
18. The safety stop switch assembly of claim 17 further comprising an electric switch having a first electrical state of normally allowing power to be supplied to said powered equipment and the second state for terminating the supply of power to said powered equipment and switch control means associated with said shaft for normally maintaining said electrical switch in said first electrical state and responsive to said shaft having been rotated to said triggered switch position for immediately triggering said electrical switch to said second electrical state.
19. The safety stop switch assembly of claim 17 further includes an external force-applying means connectable to said arm for imparting a moment arm to said shaft and wherein said arm includes a plurality of cable-fastening portions spaced at different distances along said arm radially away from the axis of rotation of said shaft, said external force-applying means including a cable-like member connectable to a selected one of said plurality of cable-fastening portions for applying moment arms to said shaft.
20. The saftey stop switch assembly of claim 19 wherein said arm further includes a second extension having a plurality of cable-fastening portions spaced at different distances along said arm radially away from the axis of rotation of said shaft and in the opposite direction to the portion of said arm having said first plurality of cable-fastening portions thereon, and wherein said external force-applying means includes a first cable selectively connectable to one of said first plurality of cable-fastening portions for providing a moment arm in a desired direction when said first cable is pulled in a first direction and a second cable selectively connectable to one of said second plurality of cable-fastening portions to provide a moment arm in said desired direction when said second cable is pulled in a direction opposite that of said first cable thereby enabling said external force-applying means to be operated by either one or both of two cables extending in in opposite directions from said arm.
21. The safety stop switch assembly of claim 17 further comprising a snap-action rotational biassing means for resisting the rotation of said shaft until at least said minimum predetermined amojnt of external force is applied and for then overcoming the rotational resistance and allowing said shaft to rotate to the opposite switch position thereafter, said locking means not being enabled to actually move and lock said shaft until after said snap action rotatable biassing means has been overcome and said switch moved from said normal switch position to said triggered switch position and said snap action rotational biassing means being disabled for returning said shaft from said triggered switch position to said normal switch position until after said locking means has been unlocked by the application of externally applied positive axial force thereby assuring that the switch can not be accidentally restored to the normal switch position.
1. Field of the Invention
The improved safety stop switch has application in many specifically different fields in which there is a need for a positive and rapid shutdown of governed equipment. Typical such applications are in belt or related types of material conveyors, production lines, elevator equipment, other material handling systems, cranes, assembly lines, mines, quarries and the like.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Various producers market safety stop switches of the general rope or cable-operated type of the present improvement. However, all are to my knowledge subject to serious drawbacks of one sort or another. For example, in some instances the switch, after being tripped to presumably cut off a supply of electrical power to an operating system of the sort mentioned in the Field, can be just as readily be re-set accidentally (and often disastrously) to restore said system to a powered condition, as by an inadvertent application of force to the rope or cable or the latter's operating arm.
In other instances, competing controls comparable in effectiveness to that of the present improvement require duplication of parts, multiple limit or microswitch units, etc., with the further complications of installation and maintenance wiring attendant thereto. While the present unit envisions a resort of two switches to afford separate audible or visual alarm signals, the basic switch unit of the invention needs only one snap-action switch which may be normally open or normally closed as hooked up with simple conventional wiring.
In other respects, the switch unit of the invention has its operating parts tightly sealed, in particular for outside operations, within a two-part housing structure which is readily and quickly opened for access to its interior, and presents ample interior space for ease and convenience in manipulations of installation, maintenance or servicing.
The switch unit offers a true safety lock or fail-safe feature, once tripped, in that in restoring or re-setting it to its original release condition two steps must be performed by the attendant or operator. He must first free the signal flag arm by shifting it and its shaft axially against a mild spring bias to disengage certain locking pins fixedly connected thereto from a fixed internal keeper plate; and he must then counter-rotate the shaft sufficiently to restore it in the release position.
Both the locked and release positions are resiliently and releasably maintained by a suggested spring and detent cam unit, the cam of which is fixed on said shaft; and the unit allows the latter to rotatively yield under cable-applied torque, the value of which is adjustable by altering either, or both, the moment arm connection of the cable to the signal arm (as represented by any one of several available cable couplings to said arm at different distances from its rotational axis), or by an adjustment of the force exerted by the detent unit. There are two independently tensionable cable connections, extending from the operation and re-set arm to fixed anchors at opposite ends of the equipment's framework, which represents greater convenience and potential speed of operation by the attendant, as well as the ability of both cables to be simultaneously torsioned and thus multiply the force exerted upon said operating arm.
FIG. 1 is an elevational view very schematically illustrating a cable-operated safety stop switch pursuant to the invention in one of many possible applications thereof, typically in an electric motor-driven endless belt-type conveyor system, with cable components of the switch operatively connected between a signaling flag and re-set arm of the switch and a pair of fixed end anchors for the cables;
FIG. 2 is a fragmentary front elevational view of the switch unit per se in somewhat larger scale, showing its rotatably actuated flag and re-set arm in solid line in a normal released position, yet ready to signal instantaneously both visibly and electrically, upon an attendant's cable actuation of the switch, thus to de-energize the switch controlled system, the position of said arm as thus cable-operated being shown in dot-dash line;
FIG. 3 is a still further enlarged view in elevation, partially broken away and sectioned in a vertical plane including the transverse axis of operation of a shaft or spindle bearing said arm;
FIG. 4 is a view of the unit with a cast housing half thereof removed, being in the vertical plane of the line 4--4 of FIG. 3, and also being partially broken away to show the switch unit in a normal release position thereof;
FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view in transverse vertical section on line 5--5 of FIG. 4, showing details of a proposed detent cam and holding spring arrangement of the switch;
FIG. 6 is a further fragmentary view in vertical longitudinal section on a line corresponding to line 6--6 of FIG. 4, in this case showing detent cam, locking plate and microswitch components of the unit in their locked position, after being tripped from the FIG. 3 release position and prior to being manually reset in said position.
FIG. 1 schematically shows a safety switch pursuant to the invention, as generally designated by the reference numeral 10, in a typical above-instanced installation for the stop control of a conventional endless belt-type conveyor 12. This comprises a horizontally disposed, multiple roller sustained upper belt reach 13 trained about opposite end pulleys 14 and 15, the latter of which is powered by a motor, speed-reducer and chain driving combination or set, generally designated 16. Typically, this drive will be controlled through appropriate wiring and conventional switch means (neither shown) over and above the microswitch means of unit 10. A rigid framework 17 sustains the conveyor assembly 12, this frame structure affording fixed cable loop anchors 18 and 19 adjacent its opposite ends. As indicated above in the Field, the switch of the invention is applicable for the automatic stop or related type control of many other types of mechanism indeed; the conveyor or installation of FIG. 1 furnishes a simple and convenient background against which various advantages of the unit 10 may be set.
Referring to FIG. 2 in conjunction with FIG. 1, said safety stop switch generally comprises a by-partite housing, generally designated 21, whose features will later be detailed further; and an actuating or operating signal and re-set arm 22 presenting a distinctive flag tail 22' is rigidly mounted upon an external end of a longitudinally extending shaft or spindle 23 which is appropriately journaled by housing 21. Flexible cables, ropes or like tension members 24 and 25 connect from the respective anchor loops 18 and 19 to the flag and re-set arm 22; and in the interest of adapting switch unit 10 to varying load limits or other requirements of the installation, these cables are each selectively connected at the inner end thereof to one of several holes 26 of two sets formed at either side of the arm's shaft 23, being depicted in FIG. 2 as two sets of three equally spaced holes each. In order to offset the effect of their weight, said cables 24, 25 are shown in FIG. 1 as being sustained at longitudinal intervals by appropriately spaced looplike guide elements 26 fixed to a horizontal beam length 27 of the frame 17.
As best shown in FIG. 3, the switch housing 21 is comprised of two generally similar, hollow rectangular box-like halves 28, 29 of cast aluminum, the latter of which bears integral external attachment lugs or ears 30, at which the housing may be appropriately bolted rigidly to the conveyor frame length 27 in a typical intermediate position appearing in FIG. 1. The housing half 29 is shown (FIG. 3) as being formed with an enlarged bottom boss 31 having an externally opening pipe tap 32 to receive standard electrical conduitry (not shown). Similar taps 33 may optionally be provided in integral housing bosses 34 at opposite sides of the housing member 29.
This housing component engages at an upright interface 36 with the other housing half 28, the interface or juncture being at laterally outwardly extending integral flanges 37 of the halves 28 and 29. Here the two said aluminum housing parts are releasably secured together by bolt and lock washer means 38. There is thus provided an arrangement by which the housing halves parts are tightly sealed against the weather, but may be quickly and easily separated, with ample space therein for access to internal components to be described, and just as easily re-assembled with a minimum of "down" time.
Referring to FIGS. 3 and 6, the housing half 28 is provided with an enlarged integral boss 40 extending across one inner side thereof, with an external continuation 41 of said boss projecting outwardly of the housing. This boss structure rotatively journals the stem or shaft 23 of signal flag and re-set arm 22 in a horizontal boss bore 42; and said shaft has a reduced portion 43 to the left of a shaft shoulder 44. The shaft reduction 43 projects to the left (FIGS. 3 and 6) through a reduced diameter bore at the inner end of boss 40; and a coil compression spring 45 acts between the shaft shoulder 44 and an axially inwardly spaced reaction surface 46 to the left of the full diameter of boss bore 42. FIG. 3 shows spring 45 as being tightly compressed in a normal relaxed condition of switch unit 10, with effects to be described; while FIG. 6 shows said spring in an expanded condition, in which the switch shaft 23 has been temporarily locked against rotation, its arm 22 having been tripped by a manual tensioning of a cable 24 or 25.
A specially shaped detent cam 48 of hardened steel is fixed on the reduced diameter shaft portion 43 directly to the left of the internal housing boss 40, as through the agency of key means 49 appearing in FIGS. 5 and 6; and as shown in FIG. 6 the cam bears to the right on the inner upright surface of said boss in the cable-tripped and locked condition of switch 10. However, as an initial incident to the re-setting of the switch to its release position, the manual exertion of predetermined axial force on shaft 23, at its arm 22 and against the force of coil spring 45, results in the detent cam 48 being bodily shifted to the left along with said shaft to the position shown in FIG. 3, placing said cam in axially spaced relation to the boss 40 and conditioning unit 10 for the second-step completion of the re-set operation.
As appears in FIGS. 3, 4 and 6, an inner integral cross-boss extension formation 51 carries a fixed keeper plate 52, being rigidly secured thereto by a pair of screws 53 threadedly taking into said formation; and this plate is provided on diametrically opposite sides of the axis of the shaft 23 (which passes through a central plate opening) with a pair of keeper holes 54 (FIGS. 4 and 6). For coaction with said keeper holes in rigidly holding the shaft in its locking position of FIG. 6, the reduced diameter shaft portion 43 fixedly carries, as at the key connection 49, a rectangular locking plate 56; this is equipped, at points also diametrical of the shaft axis, with a pair of locking studs or pins 57, which fixedly project therefrom in the direction toward keeper plate 52. With the shaft 23 and plate 56 continually biased to the right under the force of coil spring 45, and with said spring compressed to its condition of FIG. 3, a rotative approximately 60� movement of flag arm 22 will cause the plate's locking pins 57 to become aligned with and seat into the correspondingly spaced holes 54 of keeper plate 52 when axial spring compression has terminated. As shown in FIG. 6, there is thus a positive lock of the shaft end 23 in the tripped signaling position of the arm 22. Assuming that an occasion, emergency or otherwise, which prompted an attendant to pull a trip cable 24 or 25 no longer exists, it is necessary for him to re-perform the two re-set operations, i.e., first depress arm 22 and shaft 23 to the left as indicated by arrow in FIG. 6, and then counter-rotate arm 22 to the normal released position thereof shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3. Said arm, shaft and parts rotatable therewith in the trip and re-set phases are releasably and resilently restrained angularly by means later described.
Included in said parts is a microswitch-operating cam sleeve 59 keyed at 49 to and adjacent the left-hand end of the reduced diameter shaft portion 43, and bearing directly against the locking plate 56. Said sleeve member 59 is axially held fixedly in assembly with locking plate 56 and detent cam 48 by a nut 60 threaded on the end of shaft portion 43, with a spring lock washer 61 interposed.
As appears best in FIG. 4 and in conjunction with FIGS. 3 and 6, the sleeve 59 has a flatted segmental side surface 63; and in the normal released condition of the switch unit 10 said flat 63 is in laterally upwardly spaced relation to the actuating arm 64 of a normally open limit switch 65. Typically, this is a conventional single pole, double throw microswitch rated for 20 amperes at 125, 250 or 480 volts AC. It may of course be wired for single throw operation; and a normally closed-type may be employed with appropriate obvious change in the wiring.
The snap-action electrical switch 65, as an example, a microswitch type control is fixedly mounted on a spacer bar 66 (FIGS. 3 and 6) welded to an adjacent surface of the keeper plate 52, as through the agency of a pair of screws 67, and switch 65 presents at its bottom a set of three electrical terminal posts 67 and 68. Electrical leads (not shown) will be connected to a center post 68 of the set, enabling an electrical switch signal circuit to be completed through it and one of the other terminals 67; while the second terminal 67 may optionally be wired through a conventional low voltage signaling lamp 70 or an audible alarm device.
Energization of these circuits occurs when the remaining quasi-cylindrical, unflatted surface 71 of the sleeve 59 is rotated more than a very few degrees upon a tensioning of a cable 24 or 25, thus to swing the signal flag and re-set arm 22 to an operated position from its normally released position. The same released position of arm 22 is depicted in FIGS. 4 and 5, in which position said arm and the shaft 23 are releasably held until a predetermined torque is cable-applied to switch unit 10; and this also holds true when the shaft has been rotated to its locked condition. Provision to this end involves the spring-detented cam arrangement best shown in FIG. 5, or an equivalent arrangement.
That figure depicts the detent cam 48 as being in a cross-section to provide a pair of diametrically opposite, like convexly arcuate nodes 73, each located between a pair of concave seat formations 74. Said seat pairs are separated by circumferentially and diametrically enlarged stop formations 75 which do not come into significant play in the operation of the switch 10.
A pair of like cylindrical and round-nosed detent pins 77 bear in directions toward one another against the above-described cam-shaped outer surface of member 48, the pins normally resting, in both the release and tripped conditions of switch 10 (FIG. 5), in a diametrically opposed pair of the seats 74. Pins 77 are each mounted for limited sliding action in an externally threaded sleeve element or nipple 78, which takes into an integral, internally threaded side boss 79 in the half 21 of cast aluminum housing 28. Coil compression springs 80 act between the respective detent pins 77 and stop plugs 81 threaded into the nipple elements 78, thus to hold said pins in an adjustably set position and thereby adjustably set the torque force against which the pins 77 yield radially and permit rotation of shaft 23. This force may range from 20 lbs. to 40 lbs.
It is evident that the cam and detent type of releasable arm-holding unit shown in FIG. 5 may well be replaced by equivalent resilient detenting arrangments, for example a pair of oppositely acting tension spring sets biasing crank or like elements on opposite sides of the rotative axis of signal arm 22. But in any such equivalent arrangement a choice of cable connections to said arm at the sets of holes 26 will afford a very desirable option as to the torquing moment applied through the cable 24 and/or 25.
The single snap-action switch 65 serves in controlling a power cut-off of the governed system 12 under cable pulls in two opposite directions; and while the above description bears in the main on the ordinarily desired shutting off of electrical energization of such a governed system, it is of course evident that the function of switch 10 may also be directed to a system's mode other than power cut-off, and that the system may be powered otherwise than electrically.
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SHOW ME A GUY WHO'S TALKING ABOUT DIETING and I'll show you someone who is highly likely to be in a twisted state of discomfort. The women I know talk about weight loss rather easily. It's their shared goal. But men? Dropping pounds is a topic most men have been willing to discuss since . . . well, never.
I was one of those men: Overweight, and uncomfortable with both the weight and the subject of weight. But then I took a job at Weight Watchers, the temple of weight reduction for women. And guess what? The plan worked for me too. And for Charles Barkley. (Read about Barkley's 43-pound weight loss here.) So now both of us are talking about it.
Let's put the problem into perspective: Men in this country are more likely to be overweight or obese than women are; yet we are half as likely to do anything about it. Maybe it's a motivation problem. Women have browbeaten themselves for years—assisted by their friends, their parents, the fashion industry, magazines, TV, and their boyfriends and husbands—to appear a particular way.
Many men, by contrast, still live in a state of denial about the impact of their weight on their health. And any number of guys—me, for example—get their oversized boxers in a twist when they discover that their body mass index, or BMI, classifies them as overweight or obese. (I was 6'3" and 242 pounds, and I wasn't pleased. Neither was my doctor.) Their first reaction is to condemn the BMI system the same way some people deny global warming: They call it an irritating fantasy dreamed up by science people to make the rest of us as miserable as they are. Yet if we simply look at the health-risk factors associated with high BMI numbers, it's pretty clear that men start to run into statistical trouble when their BMIs nudge past 25. It's difficult for a lot of guys to face the potential trouble—heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, impotence—that lurks beyond that threshold.
But health wasn't my only motivator. Not by a long shot. When I took my job with Weight Watchers in 2000, I saw it as a great opportunity; secretly, though, I was also looking forward to a possible fix for my hidden (semi-hidden, anyway), vexing problem. I wanted Weight Watchers to make me look good naked.
TMI? My apologies for oversharing. But vanity is a useful secret X factor for plenty of people. Maybe you want to look better naked too? Your secret is safe with me. Still, that desire to look good naked is often counterbalanced—and maybe overwhelmed—by wanting to eat like a man. Consider the cultural icons that define manly eating.
Fred Flintstone: I'll need to ask the nutritionists at Weight Watchers to calculate the caloric value of brontosaurus ribs. But really, anything large enough to tip your car over can't be a proper portion.
Henry VIII: He was a big eater and proud of it. And he had lots of wives, which implies another big appetite.
Dagwood Bumstead: "Which reminds me, is it lunchtime yet?
John "Bluto" Blutarsky, from National Lampoon's Animal House: Food fight!
The Mad Men guys: They're always eating steak and slurping cocktails, but they never gain weight. That's a trick you see only on TV.
And it's not just fictional men who set bad examples. Witness this fascinating experiment conducted by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., a food psychologist at Cornell University. Wansink makes a living tricking his study participants into eating vast quantities of food. (Really, it's not that hard. Most of us are voluntary overindulgers.) In one experiment, he and his team found that women ate less popcorn when they paid attention to how much they were eating. Makes sense, right? But in the same study, men who paid attention to their quantities ate more.
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SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/26/12 -- Tealium, the leader in enterprise tag management, today announced that Jeff Lunsford will join the company in January as chief executive officer, adding a proven technology executive to lead the company's aggressive growth strategy worldwide. Lunsford, who currently serves on Tealium's board of directors, will arrive in time for Digital Velocity, the company's annual user conference scheduled for Jan. 23-25, 2013, in San Diego.
Lunsford most recently served as president, CEO and chairman of Limelight Networks, which he joined in 2006 and later took public as part of a $240M initial public offering (IPO). Prior to that, Lunsford was the CEO of WebSideStory, a SaaS-based web analytics pioneer that is now part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud via acquisitions by Omniture and Adobe Systems. Altogether, Lunsford has nearly two decades of experience as a successful technology and digital marketing executive.
Lunsford led WebSideStory's IPO in 2004. Tealium's leadership team is largely comprised of former WebSideStory executives who contributed to the company's success.
"Jeff is the perfect fit for Tealium and we are thrilled to be working with him again," said Ali Behnam, president and co-founder at Tealium. "We had a chance to work with him very closely at WebSideStory and we know what type of leader he is, and what type of results he can achieve. This is a great day for customers, employees and everyone affiliated with Tealium."
Lunsford will take over leadership of a company that has dominated the space for enterprise tag management, which enables organizations to more easily manage their online solutions and digital marketing data. Tealium has achieved a competitive win rate of 90 percent so far this year, and currently has 140+ enterprise customers on five different continents. This summer, Tealium announced that Battery Ventures, one of the most respected venture capital firms in the world, invested $10.5M in the company.
"Tag management is already recognized as a foundational layer of digital marketing, with great potential to transform how marketers manage and exchange digital data," Lunsford said. "I am impressed with everything Tealium has accomplished so far. It has innovative technology, great customers and partners, and high-quality investors. I am excited to work again with this talented group of former colleagues."
"Jeff is a highly sought-after CEO, and for him to choose Tealium speaks volumes about our technology and our customers," said Mike Anderson, co-founder and CTO at Tealium. "We look forward to working with him again and helping us grow and define this rapidly evolving market."
"Tealium's growth has far exceeded our expectations since we finalized our investment in May 2012," said Neeraj Agrawal, a general partner at Battery Ventures, who also sits on Tealium's board of directors. "The ability to recruit Jeff Lunsford, a proven, multi-time software CEO to the team is only further fueling our excitement."
Prior to WebSideStory, Lunsford was the CEO of TogetherSoft Corporation, a software development company that sold to Borland Software in 2002. From 1996-2002, he was the senior vice president of corporate development for S1 Corporation, a provider of customer interaction software for financial and payment services. A former naval aviator, Lunsford received a B.S. in Information and Computer Sciences from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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EDMONTON - There is nothing like three days of feasting on ethnic delicacies to get past global unrest. Edmonton's annual Heritage Festival is all about the food — and for decades, a gastronomic truce has prevailed.
"Every year I have been executive director, there have been external issues that could impact the festival, but not once has there been an incident," Jack Little, who has overseen the city's signature summer event for a dozen years, says.
"They endorse the mission — public awareness, understanding and appreciating cultural diversity — and that is why they are here."
As many as 350,000 people pining for pupusas and restless for roti are expected to flock to the three-day festival, which commences at noon Saturday in Hawrelak Park. Copious amounts of blinis and borscht will be served, with little rancour expected between, say, Russians and Ukrainians in the upbeat throng.
"We don't preach, but we set an example of how people representing 85 countries can co-operate to produce the single-largest celebration of multiculturalism in one place in the world," Little says.
Workers were already busy Tuesday setting up 60 pavilions across nearly 60 hectares in the park, which will be accessible over the Heritage Day holiday weekend only by bike, bus and on foot. Everyone from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe is represented, as well as local aboriginals who will be serving bannock, bison burgers and buffalo skewers.
Cameroon will have its own pavilion for the first time, after sharing space with local residents from Zimbabwe for two years.
Frankline Agbor, a native of Cameroon who works in Edmonton as an environmental engineer, says a display of artifacts will be exhibited in the country's pavilion, with savory dishes such as blended beans with palm oil and beef and smoked fish in vegetable sauce the featured entrees.
The local Cameroonian community has grown to nearly 1,000 people from 200 in the last 10 years, Agbor says. The community also participated in K-Days and Taste of Edmonton for the first time this year.
"We are very excited to be participating, because the beauty and diversity of Edmonton is showcased here," Agbor says. "This is the most diverse event in Canada.
"Everyone in our community is watching and waiting to see what is going to happen."
When: Saturday through Monday
Where: Hawrelak Park
Hours: Noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday
Admission: Free, but a donation to Edmonton's Food Bank is appreciated
How to get there: Hoof it, ride your bike, or take transit buses, which run special routes to the event during the three days. Forget about driving — there is no parking on site.
Food tickets: An individual ticket is $1, six tickets can be purchased for $5, 12 tickets for $10, 18 tickets for $15, 24 tickets for $20, and 30 tickets for $25
Forecast: Sunny with cloudy periods all three days, 24 C on Saturday, 26 C on Sunday and 28 C on Monday. Humidex readings between 29 and 32 all three days.
39 — Years the event has taken place
60 — Pavilions offered this year
85 — Cultures represented
508 — Unique menu items
700 — Volunteers who help stage the event
2,000 — Number of vegetable samosas the Bangladesh pavilion expects to sell
3,306 — Pounds of flour used to cook Scovergi, Romanian-style fried elephant ears sprinkled with sugar
3,500 — Parking spaces for bicycles
129,000 — Number of people who ride transit buses to attend
350,000 — Record attendance for three days in 2012
3,183,470 — Pounds of food donated by event visitors to Edmonton Food Bank from 1984 to 2013
3.6 million — Number of food tickets printed in 2014


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After declaring that no more mosques should be built in the United States until it works out "who is not a terrorist," Fox News host Bob Beckel walked back his comments the following day. Yet he has failed to apologize for Islamophobic statements he has made in the past.
Beckel, a co-host on Fox's The Five, used reports of a tragic school massacre in Nigeria to criticize all Muslims on the July 9 edition of the program, ranting: "If it were up to me, I would not have another mosque built in this country until we got it worked out who is not a terrorist." The next day, Beckel attempted to walk back his remarks, explaining, "I think I overstated my case."
But Beckel has increasingly held all Muslims accountable for the brutality of a few without expressing regret.
In May, after a horrific beheading by a Muslim immigrant in London, the Fox host claimed the attack was a direct result of Britain's immigration policies with Islamic countries, saying it "is a product of the British allowing Muslims to come into their country." He added: "We better take a hard look at our immigration policy and the people we are allowing in here if they're going to come in here and preach hatred to us."
Beckel later wondered if the London attack and riots in a Muslim immigrant community in Sweden raised questions about the entire Muslim religion. He told his co-hosts on May 24, after Kimberly Guilfoyle criticized liberal immigration policies:
BECKEL: It's not about liberal policies it's about Muslims ... I mean that's what we're really talking about here. Who were the rioters in the last four nights? It was mostly young Muslim immigrants, right? Or people who were born -- in London the same thing. This is a part and parcel of a bigger picture having to do with the question of the Muslim religion versus --.
Beckel left the sentence hanging in the air.
Following the deadly bombing of the Boston marathon in April, Beckel called on the U.S. to suspend all student visas to Muslim countries because "we know" that "in the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us. They recruit people from poor areas and they turn them into terrorists." He went on:
BECKEL: I think we really have to consider, given the fact so many people hate us, that we're going to have to cut off Muslim students from coming to this country for some period of time, so that we can at least absorb what we've got, look at what we've got and decide whether some of the people here should be sent back home or sent to prison.
In 2012, Beckel held all U.S. Muslims accountable for a series of murders in Nigeria, warning:
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Fox News personalities have seized on the brutal killing of a soldier in London to rail against immigration, claiming that immigration policies are partly to blame for the attacks. Conservative media figures similarly used the Boston bombing to condemn immigration and undermine immigration reform.
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But as co-hosts Dana Perino and Bob Beckel noted, this is not in any way an unprecedented event. In fact, Perino's former boss, President George W. Bush, had children attend the signing of the No Child Left Behind law in 2002:
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As The New York Times reported, the National Climatic Data Center announced this week that the average temperature in 2012 was 55.3 degrees, which broke the previous record by over a degree.
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Beckel's attempt to discuss the record heat announcement was the first time it earned a mention on Fox News, though all other major news outlets, including all the network news, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC, reported on the worrying milestone. His co-host's attempt to silence him is just the latest example by Fox figures to downplay climate change and its consequences.
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Below is the list of non-reporter guests America's Newsroom featured this morning to comment on the debate, in order of appearance.
Stephen F. Hayes: Weekly Standard columnist, Dick Cheney hagiographer, and chief chronicler of the (nonexistent) "operational relationship" between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Stuart Varney: Fox Business Network host, jobs report conspiracy theorist, and Romney campaign messaging troubleshooter.
Herman Cain: One-time Republican presidential candidate who probably knows where Libya is and boasts expertise on American-Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stani relations.
John Bolton: Romney foreign policy advisor, George W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, and advocate of bombing Iran.
Gen. Jack Keane: Romney supporter, rumored candidate for White House national security advisor under Romney, and "intellectual architect" of the 2007 Iraq "surge."
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH): Office of Management and Budget director under George W. Bush, Romney surrogate, and Romney's debate coach.
Donald Rumsfeld: Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush who praised Romney's "terrific" speech at the Virginia Military Institute earlier this month.
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|I Have a bunch of seedlings that quickly need to be moved to larger containters. They're in peat pods currently. The potting soil and garden soil goes pretty fast when you move up to larger containers.
Anyone have suggestions for something cheaper, or DIY?
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|I dont think you will find anything cheaper than dirt (garden soil). But dirt isnt recommended by most folks here (more chances of fungus diseases and doesnt drain quickly which can rot those baby rootlets)
What I am using for transplanting, which I have seen recommended several places is a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 mix of Peat moss, Pearlite and Vermiculite. Its cheaper than buying prepackaged seed starting mixes, but it aint cheap as dirt. If you are potting up from peatpots then you dont need very big containers. 9-16 oz.(depending on the plant) plastic cups are the bargain way to go and they dont take huge amounts of mix.
|What will you ultimately be planting them in? Though I haven't tried it personally, what about buying a bag of potting soil and mixing it 50/50 with the dirt from your garden?
- Posted by davemichigan zone 6a SE Michig (My Page) on Tue, Apr 12, 11 at 0:03
|Peat moss and garden soil are cheap. Perlite is reasonable. So I think a peat moss + perlite + garden soil (equal volume of each) should be good.
The reason I am suggesting some soil instead of completely soilless is because these are seedlings now, so they can take some nutrition.
- Posted by tn_veggie_gardner 7 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 12, 11 at 12:58
|mandolls suggestion is good. The Perlite & such can run a few $ though, so maybe not as much of that & add some pine bark fines (some cheapie small-particled pine mulches would do).
|What a timely question! I was just wondering the same thing after I had already potted up my seedlings into garden compost. Probably should have researched first but I was so happy about my compost haul and figured hey, if they can't hack it in there, wait a second, holy carp, what have I done, I hope they don't get eaten by pests!!
I tried searching everywhere on the web and found no definitive answers, or even highly recommended solutions.
We'll see how it goes. My little seedlings are now fending for themselves in the great big world of compost and bugs and worms...wish them luck...lol =)
|There's a reason that "pennywise, pound foolish" became an aphorism. You've invested money, time, and care in those seedlings; you want to be careful not to do anything to jeopardize them now. I'm not saying that you couldn't find a less expensive growing mix (doing it yourself will be cheaper down the road, but you may spend more at first buying each component in bulk) but I would be more inclined to look for a better price on a good growing mix than substitute a less expensive but possibly inferior product. IOW, I'd just try to be a better shopper.
|I just returned from the landscape supply with a yard of nursery mix. The same thing the commercial nurseries use for their own potting. It is made of builders sand, fir bark and volcanic rock with a fertilizer added good for about 3 to 4 months in the pot. The cost per yard is $51 at their site. I have been using it for twenty years, and also re-use much of it a second time by adding back the fir bark that has been consumed. Landscape supplies are in most communities, mine is about 20 miles from me. Al
- Posted by runswithscissors 4 montana (My Page) on Wed, Apr 20, 11 at 20:55
|I live in a rural area so this may not be available for everyone, but did you know that many dairy farms "make" quick-compost from their cow manure? The stuff gets collected up and it's processed through these high-pressure steam, mixing, sludging, bacteria inducing, super sonic, blasting, turbo-charged flux capasitor machines. Ready-to-use compost comes out the other end and it's fabulous stuff. Already seasoned and airy and full of nutrition (but not so much nitrogen that it burns). The dairy here charges about $65 for a truck-bed load. I mix this stuff with peatmoss and vermiculite and "Bam" ... I have more mix than I have containers to fill. Depending on what I'm using it for depends on the ratio. I use a scooper -- 4 scoops Peat, 4 scoops Verm, 2 scoops compost for seeding. Make it 3 scoops compost for potting up, and 4 scoops compost for houseplants, outdoor containers, or raised beds. Vermiculite (course ground for gardeners) is pricey. About $60 for a 40 lb bag...but the bag goes surprisingly far and lasts several years.
- Posted by phishead03 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 21, 11 at 10:08
|Yeah, regular top soil (fill) can be problematic as it didn't provide my seedlings with enough nutrients. I ended up getting good results from 1/3 germinating mixture, 1/3 top soil (fill), and 1/3 humus/compost mix with a small amount of duck manure. All in all it wasn't too expensive (10$ for a large bag of germinating mix, 3$ for humus/manur, 2$ for 80 lbs of top soil). The mixture is a medium soil where the roots can spread easily. It also doesn't dry out too fast and provides the nutrients for the seedlings.
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