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New Delhi, May 20 (UNI) As a consequence of enhanced salaries of the corporate sector and growing aspirations of consumers, the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry is poised to clock a 16 per cent growth in sales during 2008-09 as compared to 14.5 per cent achieved in the last fiscal.
The other factors which are spurring the demand of the FMCG sector include rapid urbanisation, increased literacy and growing consumer demand along with various incentives proposed in the Union Budget 2008-09 including the enormous farm loan waiver scheme worth Rs 60,000 crore, A FICCI survey today revealed.
According to the survey, the fast growing segments such as value added and aspirational products which have spurred the growth of the FMCG during April-March 2007-08 are expected to drive growth further during the April-June quarter of 2008 and during April-March 2008-09.
Consumers' preferences for FMCGs are shifting towards higher lifestyle categories like skin care, shampoos, deodorants, anti-aging solutions, fairness products and men's products in particular.
The sectors which are projected to achieve excellent growth of 20 per cent and above during the first quarter of the financial year 2008-09 are shaving cream (22 per cent), skin/fairness cream (21 per cent), tooth powder (21 per cent), anti-dandruff shampoos (22 per cent), hair dyes (30 per cent), cleaners/repellants (24.5 per cent), deodorant (40 per cent) and dish wash (20 per cent).
The sectors that are projected to achieve high growth between 10-20 per cent are: soap and toiletries (14 per cent), toilet soap (10 per cent), fabric wash (12 per cent), washing powder (13 per cent) detergent cakes (11 per cent), liquid detergent (13 per cent) laundry soaps/ bars (11 per cent), personal wash (14 per cent), tooth brush (12 per cent), hair care (16 per cent) coconut oil (12 per cent), tooth paste (16 per cent), personal health care (16 per cent), oral care (17 per cent), skin care and cosmetics (19 per cent), branded coconut oil (18 per cent) and feminine hygiene (13 per cent).
The range of products covered by FICCI Survey total to about 28 items including soap and toiletries, laundry soaps, detergent cakes, washing powder, dish wash, toilet soap, tooth paste, tooth powder, tooth brush, fairness cream, shaving cream, deodorant, coconut oil, shampoos, hair dyes, feminine hygiene, cleaners and repellents etc.
The sectors which are projected to achieve excellent growth of 20 per cent and above during the financial year 2008-09, that is April-March 2008-09 are: shaving cream (23 per cent), skin care and cosmetics (20 per cent), skin/fairness cream (22 per cent), tooth powder (22 per cent), shampoos (21.3 per cent), anti-dandruff shampoos (23 per cent), hair dyes (30 per cent), hair care (30 per cent), cleaners/repellents (25.2 per cent), deodorant (40 per cent) and dish wash (21 per cent).
The sectors that are projected to achieve high growth between 10-20 are: soap and toiletries (16 per cent), toilet soap (16 per cent), fabric wash (13 per cent), washing powder ( 13.5 per cent) detergent cakes (12.2 per cent), liquid detergent (14.2 per cent), laundry soaps/ bars (11 per cent), personal wash (16 per cent), tooth brush (13 per cent), coconut oil (13 per cent), branded coconut oil (18 per cent), tooth paste (17 per cent), personal health care (16 per cent), oral care (18 per cent) and feminine hygiene (15 per cent).
The substantial increase in the salaries and perks offered to employees in the corporate sector at regular intervals and the recent step taken by the government to raise salaries of government employees are helping consumers to be strong with increased demand for life-style products, the survey stated.
Increased consumer confidence would raise the expectation level of the industry and stimulate growth in the FMCG segment, it added.


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Rem 230 gr Golden Sabre in my XD .45 C. I like the balistics and because that's what our local PD carries so it must be good.
This is a discussion on 45 ACP for SD within the Defensive Ammunition & Ballistics forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by Bart 230 gr. HARD BALL! You don't need expansion with a .45, it's already BIG ENOUGH. It will give deep penetration, not ...
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Rem 230 gr Golden Sabre in my XD .45 C. I like the balistics and because that's what our local PD carries so it must be good.
Big enough? I feel the need for an analogy...
You are in a race around the world to save your own life, and the lives of everyone you love. You do not get to see the vehicle the other person is driving, or know how good of a driver he/she is. Do you think your stock Mustang GT is fast enough? Heck no.
If I were in that race, I think I'd be driving the Space Shuttle with the solid rocket boosters burning, just to be sure that there is no way I could lose. I want everything on my side, as the most important thing is not. Time... The BG will move first, in most cases, and you are playing catch up. How's your hardball (Mustang GT) going to tip the scales in your favor as much, or better than a JHP?
Biggest gun you can comfortably and consistently carry.
Hardest hitting round you can shoot accurately and consistently.
Best ammo that will feed and fire reliably.
Most practicing you can afford without going broke, or causing a divorce.
No disrespect intended to anyone, but let's remember that SD ammo combined with your pistol, and your practice regimin may become the only thinig standing between you (and your family) and the Pearly Gates.
The effectiveness of modern JHPs is well documented, and the firearms of every law enforcement agency in the US are stuffed full of them. They are so good, that the US military is trying to mimic their attributes, without breaking international warfare accords.
I'd suggest that everyone find a hard hitting JHP that their pistol will feed and fire, and go shoot a bunch of it.
If your pistol won't function well with JHPs, then you can argue that hardball is the right choice.
Get to know an officer in your area, and ask him/her what their service arm is loaded with. That's a great starting point.
Washington Post 06/28/2010 re: Supreme Court Decision
"The court's decision means that the enigmatically worded Second Amendment... identifies an individual right to gun ownership, like the freedom of speech, that cannot be unduly restricted by Congress, state laws or city ordinances. "
A lot depends on your ability to handle +p ammo. A lot depends on what rounds your .45 functions dependably with. And a lot depends on your barrel length.
Under those guidelines - obviously - you want the largest and most consistent mushroomed .45 bullet that you can drive to (arguably) somewhere around 12" in ballistic geletin.
You want to drill the widest possible hole to an adequate depth with a little bit of penetrating ability to spare IMO.
Of course you did specify a Colt Commander being carried.
I gotta think that you could do a lot worse than one of the HST rounds.
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I expected the snowmobile to make some bratty exhaust noise and steer more like a barge than a motorbike. The full body workout required to drive it, however, came as a surprise.
I'd made my way to Seeley Lake with Drew Dolan and Katy Garton to ride some 12 miles up snow-packed forest roads to the base of 8,300-foot Pyramid Peak, where we planned to park, step into our skis and skin up some 3,000 vertical feet to the summit, with Headwall photo editor Chad Harder capturing the day on camera. The payoff would be idyllic powder turns slashed across the glorious west face. Over cheeseburgers and beer at the end of our day, I would whip out the Headwall credit card and feel myself bursting with heroic achievement, adding a solid entry to my backcountry resumé: Sledneck Backcountry Skier. At least, that's how I imagined it.
I am nothing if not a man of grand vision.
But just two minutes into the day, as I struggled to gas my rented snowmobile over a slippery, foot-high berm on the back streets of town, I was already guessing that a different narrative might emerge. The real story would tell whether I would hold it together long enough to get to the mountain and back in one piece.
Dolan, an avid sledder who once-upon-a-time competed in the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships, carted two snowmobiles from Missoula for himself and Garton to ride. I shelled out for a pair of Polaris RMK 600s at Seeley Sport Rentals for the Headwall crew. I'd never even touched a snowmobile before. I had only a vague idea how they worked. Did they have gears? Brakes? Cup-holders?
They looked simple enough: a long seat set above a paddled track; handlebars; an ergonomic lever on the right grip for the throttle. After a five-minute orientation that included instructions to make a call if we broke down, we lit off straight from the shop.
In truth, the icy berm impeding my way out of town held me up for less than a minute. With encouragement from the others, I screwed up the nerve to get aggressive on the throttle and muscle across to reach the sled trail leading out of town. Once on the well-established route, I quickly got busy getting a feel for the machine, testing the acceleration, the steering, and the brakes (on the left grip). There was really nothing to it.
Except for the work.
Snowmobiles haul ass. They can also careen. They slip and wallow. And above all, they bounce—especially on heavily washboarded thoroughfares like the road to Pyramid Peak.
The strain settled mostly into my hips and lower back. With feet and ankles locked into heavy plastic ski boots, the seat too low and the ride too harsh to comfortably sit while moving, I fidgeted constantly in search of an optimized posture and found none. I tried riding on one knee. I tried the other knee. I tried both knees. I tried to sit. I tried to stand. My body spent most of the trip bent in a semi-athletic crouch, hands wide and shoulders wrestling for command of the squirrelly runners. My legs took the brunt of the punishment, absorbing the terrain so my spine could be spared. A fleeting 60 mph snort down a long, flat straightaway briefly displaced the steady exertion with what could easily have become an exhilarating yet terminal cartwheel. But by the time we reached the start of the serious incline, about six miles in, the washboards had grown as big as fallen tree trunks, and each one exacted a toll.
Some nine miles from town, we reached the Pyramid Pass trailhead, where the road gave way to a narrow trough packed down by previous travelers—a three-mile bobsled run through the woods. I cruised cautiously along, ducking limbs and feathering the accelerator to keep from leaping out of the tight track.
If it were easier to ski the dozen miles to the base of Pyramid Peak, that's what folks would do, but it's not—not by a long shot. And when we suddenly emerged from the dense timber, I instantly recognized why it's so worth getting there.
Before us spread a huge southwest-facing bowl, blanketed in snow. Fingers of forest crept up the bottom half of the slope to separate the lower reaches into distinctive descent options. Up higher, stunted firs caked in white looked more like dessert than woody flora, with vanilla icing layered on so thick you could almost imagine the taste of a big, messy bite. Old Man Winter kept a supremely decadent palace here. And we could ski it.
Or, as others might prefer, snowboard it. We'd heard back in town that some local fellas had made camp at the base of the peak. We found their shelter, a crude hovel constructed of scrap lumber loosely covered with remnants of industrial plastic wrap, tucked under a protective canopy of the forest at the bottom of the run out. If the mountain was winter's mansion, their camp was like a dung hut lumped outside the gate—party central for the shredheads of the Swan Range.
We parked our rigs, and as we kitted up to start skinning we watched one of them high-marking a steep pitch just above us on his sled. We didn't entirely mind the company. We could see slithering tracks descending the upper reaches of the peak, and their presence reassured us about the snow stability. If anything on that mountain was going to slide, it would likely have come down on those guys by now.
I was so stoked by the whole scene I stopped noticing how tired my hips felt. The sun washed the mountain in dazzling brightness, and I couldn't wait to get moving on my skis...that is until it got steep...and the solar inferno started to toast my suddenly overheated, overtaxed body...and I started to fall behind...and feel slightly nauseous. Uh oh.
Frankly, if the clouds hadn't moved in and curtained the mountain about 30 minutes later, I might have expired on the climb. But with the hot sun veiled, I was able to soldier on. We rested on a bench about a 1,000 feet up to chat with the campers, watching one of them gamely huck a 15-foot drop and merrily face-plant the fluffy landing. Inspired by the reckless embrace of amusement, my spirits lifted.
We rounded into the south side of the bowl through soft, deep snow up to the corniced southwestern ridge. Dolan and Garton slipped ahead up the summit cone while I struggled at the rear, grinding out the vertical with a weak stomach. I arrived at the peak about 30 minutes behind, totally spent. But the sun picked a good time to show itself again, and we marveled at the views east into the Bob Marshall Wilderness and west across the valley toward the Mission Mountains.
So far, so great. Now I just had to get down, but what looked like a benign descent from below appeared considerably more demanding from above. My legs trembled as we made our way along the northeast ridge above the bowl's southern exposure. The bottomless powder from the shaded face we'd ascended hadn't held on this side, where wind and sun had created an inch-thick crust. It would not be easy skiing. My stoke wavered.
I slumped against the mountain while Garton dug a test pit. She got mixed results, but nothing that deterred us from skiing the wide-open slopes where a slide would be most likely. It was go time. Knowing my performance would be recorded for posterity, I rallied to make a few graceful turns, my vanity an effective source of determination, though only temporarily. A couple of nice moves on the steeper opening pitch and some relaxed curls on the moderate terrain below just delayed the inevitable. The challenging snow had its way with me, and I pitched forward onto my head and somersaulted. I was thoroughly gassed.
Fortunately, we took our time getting down, savoring the ride through the high alpine and taking plenty of pictures of Dolan launching big airs along the way. Thank God, because the further we dropped the more unmanageable the crust became for me, and by the time we made it back to the sleds, I had nothing left. I doubted my ability to make even one more turn.
Under the circumstances, pounding the snowmobile for 12 miles over the washboards back to town seemed vastly preferable to the alternatives. I'd survive the ride plenty well enough to enjoy a cheeseburger and a pitcher afterward with the gang at the Potomac bar. No reason to burst with inflated self-regard, but I'd notched that convincing entry on my backcountry resumé.
Yes sir, I really did spur that snarling little beastie up to 60 mph on my way to a wilderness summit, and I wrote the magazine article to prove it.


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For the milk buns
The trick to a good bun is heaps of sugar; that's what makes it soft and shiny. These are called milk buns because of the milk and cream in them. You can also bake this dough into a loaf and cut it into squares, which is really good for parties. If you like, you can even fry the edges in clarified butter. Other good fillings for these buns include tongue and crab.
2 tablespoons lukewarm water
14g dried yeast
280ml milk
220ml cream (35% fat)
720g plain (all-purpose) flour
150g caster (superfine) sugar
20g fine sea salt canola oil spray
Combine the water and yeast in the bowl of an electric mixer and allow to stand for five minutes, or until frothy. Heat the milk and cream in a small saucepan over a low-medium heat until lukewarm.
Add the rest of the dry ingredients to the mixer, then add the cream and milk. Attach a dough hook and mix for five minutes on medium-high speed. Check the dough; if it's still sticky, mix for three to four more minutes on high speed until it comes away from the sides of the bowl.
Oil a large bowl well with the canola spray, place the dough in the bowl, cover with plastic wrap and allow to rest for one to two hours, or until doubled in size.
Knock the air out of the dough then weigh it and portion it into 30 even pieces.
Spray a 30cm × 33cm baking tray about 6cm deep with oil.
Hand-roll each piece of dough into a perfect sphere, lightly spraying your hands and the work surface as you go to prevent the dough from sticking. Place the balls into the tray as you go, arranging them five wide and six long. Cover with plastic wrap.
Leave to rise for another one to two hours.
Preheat the oven to 220°C (have the fan off in your oven, if possible). Bake for eight minutes, reduce the heat if they look like they are getting too much colour, then bake for a further eight minutes, or until the buns are light and golden on top. One minute after removing them from the oven, spray the top of the buns heavily with canola oil to give them a nice lustre and prevent them from cracking.
Allow to rest in the tray for five minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool. Makes 30.
For the cheeseburger
When it comes to a good burger, it's important to have fat, texture and flavour. Every element of a cheeseburger is important; no one ingredient is less important than another, that's what makes it the perfect sandwich. We never work the meat too hard. We mince it three times through a 5mm plate, and then we bring the meat together, roll it into the shape we want and wrap it (we Cryovac it, but really tight plastic wrap will also do the trick). After it sets in the freezer, we slice the patties. That way, you're slicing against the grain, so nothing breaks when you bite into it. Cheese-wise, we like a Kraft single. It's Elvis's favourite cheese. You don't want stretch, you want it to turn into a sauce, and soften the burger.
For the meat patties (makes eight burgers)
200g beef rib meat
200g beef chuck
200g skirt steak
40ml canola oil
Fine sea salt
Building the buns
8 milk buns, halved
8 cheese slices
2 dill pickles, sliced
Quarter of a small white onion, finely diced
American mustard
Tomato sauce
Dice the meat and fit a 5mm plate in your mincer. Mince the meat three times, alternating between the cuts as you go to combine them evenly.
Lay a double layer of plastic wrap on the work surface. Avoid working the meat, just gather it together on the plastic wrap and roll tightly, so it compresses to an 8cm diameter roll. Pierce a couple of holes in the plastic wrap to let some of the air out and to help roll it to the correct size. Add more wrap as you go.
Freeze for about 1−2 hours; enough to set the shape but not freeze the meat, as that will make cutting difficult.
Using a very thin, sharp knife, slice the meat into round patties just under 1cm thick.
Heat two heavy-based frying pans over a medium heat until hot and add the canola oil, then the patties. Sear for about one minute on each side, to keep a slightly pink centre, and sprinkle a little salt on each side of the patty while cooking.
Leave the patties to rest for about one minute before building the burgers any way you like.
For the pulled pork
We don't marinate our pork shoulder before cooking it. The way we like to do it, which makes the biggest difference to the end result, is to put the whole shoulder in a roasting tin that only just holds it, then cover it in marinade, paper and foil. Then we bake it in the oven for 16 hours at 100°C so the marinade cooks into it.
When you pull it out the next day, the trick is to let it sit till it's just cool enough to handle. If it's too cold, you can't pull it. Don't be shy to use your mitts when you're pulling pork. A lot of people pull their meat off so it's all flaky, but we like to keep ours in hunks.
Another one of our secrets is to take the skin after we've pulled all the meat, chop it up and then mix it through the pulled meat. It gives it this amazing texture. Most people throw the skin out, but that's the best bit. If you can't get a shoulder you can also use belly or neck. Belly is awesome because it's got such great fat coverage.
For the meat
1 whole pork shoulder, about 4kg, bone in. (If you're slow cooking for this long it's not worth cooking a smaller piece of meat. Just freeze the leftovers in batches, defrost overnight and use for other meals. This makes eight burgers and extra pork left over
For the marinade
80 ml fish sauce
80 ml soy sauce
40 ml sherry vinegar
25 ml sesame oil
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
250 g molasses
6 garlic cloves
200 g tinned chipotle chillies in adobo sauce
1 × 400 g tin of piquillo peppers, drained
1 brown onion, roughly chopped
Building the buns
Eight milk buns, halved
Pieces of butter pickle
Basic mayo
Handful of coriander leaves
Preheat the oven to 100°C (200°F/Gas 1⁄2). Combine all of the marinade ingredients in a blender and purée till smooth.
Place the shoulder in a roasting tin that just fits it and pour over the marinade. Cover with baking paper and a double layer of foil then cook for 16 hours, or until you can lift back the skin and see that the flesh is falling off the bone.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 2 hours.
Carefully move the pork to a board. Pull off the skin, chop it finely then put aside. Pull all of the meat off the bone, then mix the chopped skin through the meat.
Spoon the marinade from the roasting tin into a saucepan and reduce over medium heat until thickened. Return the meat and skin to the roasting tin, pour over the hot marinade then mix together thoroughly.
Cram as much pork as you can into each bun then top with a few bits of pickle, mayo and some coriander leaves.
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A novel scoring function for discriminating hyperthermophilic and mesophilic proteins with application to predicting relative thermostability of protein mutants
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Li, Yunqi
Middaugh, C. Russell
Fang, Jianwen
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Background: The ability to design thermostable proteins is theoretically important and practically useful. Robust and accurate algorithms, however, remain elusive. One critical problem is the lack of reliable methods to estimate the relative thermostability of possible mutants. Results: We report a novel scoring function for discriminating hyperthermophilic and mesophilic proteins with application to predicting the relative thermostability of protein mutants. The scoring function was developed based on an elaborate analysis of a set of features calculated or predicted from 540 pairs of hyperthermophilic and mesophilic protein ortholog sequences. It was constructed by a linear combination of ten important features identified by a feature ranking procedure based on the random forest classification algorithm. The weights of these features in the scoring function were fitted by a hill-climbing algorithm. This scoring function has shown an excellent ability to discriminate hyperthermophilic from mesophilic sequences. The prediction accuracies reached 98.9% and 97.3% in discriminating orthologous pairs in training and the holdout testing datasets, respectively. Moreover, the scoring function can distinguish non-homologous sequences with an accuracy of 88.4%. Additional blind tests using two datasets of experimentally investigated mutations demonstrated that the scoring function can be used to predict the relative thermostability of proteins and their mutants at very high accuracies (92.9% and 94.4%). We also developed an amino acid substitution preference matrix between mesophilic and hyperthermophilic proteins, which may be useful in designing more thermostable proteins. Conclusions: We have presented a novel scoring function which can distinguish not only HP/MP ortholog pairs, but also non-homologous pairs at high accuracies. Most importantly, it can be used to accurately predict the relative stability of proteins and their mutants, as demonstrated in two blind tests. In addition, the residue substitution preference matrix assembled in this study may reflect the thermal adaptation induced substitution biases. A web server implementing the scoring function and the dataset used in this study are freely available at http://www.abl.ku.edu/thermorank/ webcite.
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text: Home Gallery Video REI Opt Outside - Jerry's Office REI's #OptOutside Takes Titanium Grand Prix Retailer Closed Its Stores on Black Friday in 'Anti-Promotion' Published on Oct 27, 2015 Editor's Pick REI's #OptOutside Black Friday campaign has been awarded the Titanium Grand Prix at Cannes. The Venables Bell & Partners campaign, which also won the Promo & Activation Grand Prix earlier this week, has been a favorite at the festival and also snagged a Gold Lion in Integrated. BBH founder and president John Hegarty said the jury was looking for "boundary busting work that marks a new direction for the industry and brings it forward." REI's campaign around its decision to close stores on Black Friday, the busiest U.S. shopping day of the year, generated 2.7 billion PR impressions, inspired more than a hundred other retailers to also close for the day, and got by REI's estimates 1.4 million people to go outside rather than shop that day. Read more about the Titanium category winners over at AdAge.com. Original Story: "Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home." Environmental philosopher John Muir wrote those words in 1901, but REI CEO Jerry Stritzke brought them back in a letter he just sent to the 5.5 million members of his outdoor lifestyle retailer and co-op. The letter announced that the company would be closing its 143 stores on Black Friday in an effort to encourage consumers to experience the world, not the madding crowds, on the busiest shopping day of the year. What's more, the retailer is even paying its 12,000 employees who won't be working that day to ensure they enjoy some time outside too. "Black Friday is the perfect time to remind ourselves of the essential truth that life is richer, more connected and complete when you choose to spend it outside," said Mr. Stritzke in a statement. "We believe that a life lived outdoors is a life well lived and we aspire to be stewards of our great outdoors. We think that Black Friday has gotten out of hand and so we are choosing to invest in helping people get outside with loved ones this holiday season, over spending it in the aisles." The OptOutside campaign, which the brand created with Venables Bell, features a pair of anthem films, including one depicting Mr. Stritzke sitting in his office, imploring viewers to get out and join the movement. As he leans over his desk, the camera pulls back to reveal that his office actually sits atop a stunning Washington State peak. Another features a gorgeous mountainscape, juxtaposed with audio of newscasters banging on about the Black Friday shopping rush. 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The Bullseye CFlow Dryer Controller uses a combination of grain temperature sensors and a grain moisture sensor to automatically control your dryer to dry your grain to the desired moisture content. The auto adjust feature automatically adjusts the set point for the grain temperature sensors to control the moisture at the discharge.
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AgriDry's Bullseye Dryer Controller consists of up to 24 grain temperature sensors and averages the readings to manage the dryer. Using multiple sensors avoids variable grain moisture output caused by the following variables:
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The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for labelling products.
Products to be sold are commonly labelled. In this regard, automatic labelling apparatus may be employed where the products are smaller and processed in large volumes. One approach in this regard is to wipe a label onto each product as its passes a labelling head. This approach, however, is only well suited for labelling products of uniform dimensions. Where products have irregular dimensions, such that the distance between a given product and the labelling head will vary, tamping labellers are typically used. U.S. Pat. No. 5,829,351 to Anderson discloses such a labeller. In Anderson, a turret carries a number of flexible pneumatic bellows about its periphery. The turret has a vacuum plenum and a positive pressure plenum. The turret rotates each bellows, consecutively, to a labelling station. A bellows normally communicates with the vacuum plenum which keeps it in a retracted position; also, due to end perforations in the bellows, the negative pressure holds a label at the end of the bellows. However, when the bellows reaches the labelling station, it is coupled to the positive pressure plenum which causes a one-way valve to block the perforations and causes the bellows to rapidly extend until it tamps a product below. The force of the tamping forms an adhesive bond between the pressure sensitive adhesive of the label and the product. Labels are fed to each bellows from a label cassette with a label web comprising serially arranged labels on a release tape. The release tape is split along a weakened centreline to release the labels.
A problem arises if products are irregularly arranged such that they do not all pass directly below the labelling station. A further difficulty faced by a tamping apparatus employing a flexible bellows is in the accurate control of tamping with the bellows. Yet another difficulty is in the synchronisation of the label web with the bellows and in the ease of reloading a label cassette. This invention seeks to address at least some of these problems.
In one aspect, a target area for a given product conveyed on a conveyor is determined relative to a frame of reference. One of a plurality of labellers fixed at different transverse positions over the conveyor, which one labeller is at a transverse position which is within the transverse extent of the target area is then activated in order to label the product. In another aspect, a labeller has a flexible bellows with an interior air diffuser. The air diffuser has a central opening facing the tamping end of the bellows and at least one side opening. This arrangement can enhance the responsiveness of the bellows. In a further aspect, a labeller has a two-sided timing belt driven by a stepper motor with a de-mountable label cassette which, when mounted, has a drive pinion meshing with the two-sided timing belt. In another aspect, a labeller has a label cassette with a driven pin wheel for moving a pin holed release tape of a label web. A ratchet tooth having a fixed relation to a pin of the pin wheel engages a pawl to set a limit for driving the label web in a label web retracting direction in order to set a start position for a label on the web. It is useful to set the label cassette at this start position when the cassette is first mounted and then occasionally thereafter in order to reduce the likelihood of label mis-feeds.
Accordingly, the present invention provides labelling apparatus for use with a conveyor for conveying products in a downstream direction, comprising: a vision system for imaging products on said conveyor; a plurality of labellers downstream of said vision system, each labeller for being fixed above said conveyor at a different transverse position over said conveyor; a processor for, responsive to an input from said vision system, selecting a labeller to label a given product and sending an activation signal to one said labeller.
According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of labelling products, comprising conveying products in a downstream direction, determining a target area for a given product on the conveyor relative to a frame of reference, and activating a one of a plurality of labellers positioned above the conveyor at fixed transverse positions which one labeller is within a transverse extent of the target area. A computer readable medium is also provided to effect this method.
According to a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a product labelling apparatus comprising: at least one flexible bellows having a retracted position and an extended tamping position; an air diffuser associated with each bellows, each air diffuser extending interiorly of an associated bellows from a base of said associated bellows toward a tamping end of said associated bellows, said each air diffuser having a central opening facing said tamping end of said associated bellows and at least one side opening facing a side of said associated bellows.
According to another aspect of the invention, there is provided a labelling apparatus comprising: an indexing turret carrying a plurality of tamping labellers; a stepper motor for stepping in synchronism with step-wise movement of said turret, said stepper motor for driving a two-sided timing belt; a releasable mount for a label web cassette; said label web cassette having a drive pinion, said drive pinion for meshingly engaging with said two-sided timing belt when said label web cassette is mounted to said releasable mount.
According to a further aspect of the invention, there is provided a labelling apparatus comprising: an indexing turret carrying a plurality of tamping labellers; a label web cassette normally driven in synchronism with said indexing turret; wherein a label web of said cassette has a pin hole between each label and wherein said label web cassette has a driven pin wheel engaging said pin holes; and a ratchet tooth fixed in relation to a pin of said pin wheel and a pawl setting a limit for driving said label web cassette in a label web retracting direction whereby said label web may be retracted so that a label is at a pre-determined start position.
Other aspects and features of the invention will become apparent be reference to the following description in conjunction with the drawings.
In the figures which set out example embodiments of the invention,
FIG. 1 is a top plan schematic view of a labelling apparatus made in accordance with this invention,
FIGS. 2A and 2B are front and side views, respectively, of a labeller which may be used in the apparatus of FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is a side view detail of a portion of the labeller of FIGS. 2A, 2B,
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a turret of the labeller of FIGS. 2A, 2B,
FIG. 5 is a perspective view, and FIG. 5A a side view, of a portion of the turret of FIG. 4,
FIGS. 6A and 6B are front and side views, respectively, of another portion of the turret of FIG. 4,
FIG. 7 is an exploded view, and FIG. 7A a side view, of a further portion of the turret of FIG. 4,
FIG. 8 is a plan view of a label web used with the apparatus of FIG. 1, and
FIG. 9 is a flow diagram for operation of a processor of the apparatus of FIG. 1.
Turning to FIG. 1, a labelling apparatus 10 comprises labellers 12 a to 12 h (referred to individually as labellers 12) mounted by mounts 14 at a fixed position above a conveyor 16. The labellers 12 are arranged as an upstream bank 18 u of labellers (12 a to 12 d) and a downstream bank 18 d of labellers (12 e to 12 h). Each bank 18 u, 18 d of labellers extends transversely of the conveyor 16. The labellers in a bank are equally spaced and the labellers of the downstream bank 18 d are offset from those of the upstream bank 18 u so that each labeller has a different transverse position over the conveyor. Further, the labellers 12 extend substantially across the width of the conveyor so as to provide eight distinct transverse positions across the conveyor. The labellers 12 are operatively connected to processor 22 on paths 20.
The labellers 12 are downstream of a camera 24; the camera is arranged to image an area of the conveyor and output this image to the processor 22. In this regard, products 26 may be carried in trays 28 and the camera may image an area which captures one such tray. For example, as illustrated, the products may be vine ripened tomatoes which remain attached to vines 30 such that the products are irregularly spaced. A conveyor position indicator 32 (which, for example, may be a rotary encoder, a sensor which senses marks on the conveyor, or, where the conveyor moves at a known constant speed, simply a timer) also outputs to the processor.
A labeller 12, in its various aspects, is illustrated in FIGS. 2 to 7. Referencing FIGS. 2A and 2B, the labeller 12 has a turret 40 rotatably mounted to a base 38. A drive belt 42 connects the turret 40 to a stepper motor 44. A label cassette 50 is releasably mounted to base 38 by way of a loading peg 48 at the rear of the cassette which slides into a notch 52 on the base and allows the cassette to be pivoted forwardly into a releasable latch (not shown) at the front of the base.
The label cassette has a cassette magazine 54 to which is wound a label web 56 of the type illustrated in FIG. 8. Thus, the web comprises a release tape 58 carrying a plurality of labels 60 backed with a pressure sensitive adhesive. A pin hole 62 is provided in the release tape between each pair of labels. The label web extends from the cassette magazine 54 to a pin wheel 66 of the label cassette 50, then through a C-channel member 68 to a label pick-up station 70, with the release tape 58 returning to wind around a pin wheel 72. Pin wheel 72 is concentrically mounted to drive pinion 74. With the cassette 50 mounted to base 38, the drive pinion 74 is meshed with a two-sided timing belt 78 on the base. The two-sided timing belt is driven by a stepper motor 84. A communication path 20 from the processor 22 (FIG. 1) terminates at stepper motors 44 and 84.
As seen in FIG. 3, pin wheel 72 has a circumferential portion 82 which carries a ratchet tooth 86 for each pin 88 on the wheel 72. Each ratchet tooth has an operative edge 90 aligned with a pin 88. A spring loaded pawl 92 is urged against circumferential portion 82.
The turret 40 is detailed in FIGS. 4 to 7. Referencing FIGS. 4, 5, and 5A, turret 40 has a stationary core 110 fixed to base 38. The core has a port 112 for connection to a vacuum source (not shown) and a port 114 for connection to a source of positive pressure (not shown). Port 112 connects to an airway having a substantially circumference channel 118 opening to the periphery of the core. Port 114 connects to an airway having a slot 120 opening to the periphery of the core between the ends of the channel 118 so as to leave lands 124 between the ends of the channel 118 and slot 120. The core 110 is oriented so that slot 120 is positioned over a label applying station 128.
Referencing FIGS. 6A and 6B along with FIG. 4, turret 40 has a sleeve 130 closely fit to the core 110. Both the core and sleeve are fabricated of an ultra-high molecular weight (UHMW) polymer, or other material having a low co-efficient of friction. Thus, closely fitting sleeve 130 can rotate on core 110 absent other bearings between the two members. Sleeve 130 has a flange 132 which receives drive belt 42 (FIG. 1). The sleeve also has a number of peripheral through holes 134 comprising cylindrical openings 136 extending from its outer surface which terminate in slots 138 extending through its inner surface. A ratchet tooth 142 is associated with each through opening 134 having an operative edge 144 proximate a leading edge of its associated opening 134. A spring loaded pawl (not shown) mounted to base 38 (FIG. 2A) is urged against the ratchet tooth bearing periphery of sleeve 130.
Referring to FIGS. 7 and 7A with FIG. 4, an air diffuser 140 has a base 143 which is press fit into each cylindrical opening 136 (FIG. 6A) of sleeve 130. The air diffuser also has a snout 145 with a central opening 146 and side openings 148. The air diffuser base 142 has a central opening 150 in fluid communication with the openings 146, 148 of the snout 144. The air diffuser has a lip 152 for mounting a bellows 160. Each bellows 160 is fabricated of a flexible material, such as rubber or silicone, which can be stretched over a lip 152 of an air diffuser 140. The tamping end 162 of the bellows is perforated with pin holes 164. A one-way valve at the tamping end comprises a flexible disk 166 internally mounted in the bellows 160 at a small stand off from the tamping end 162 by a short post 168. It will be noted from FIG. 7A that with a bellows 160 mounted to an air diffuser 140, the disk 166 seats on the central opening 146 of the air diffuser when the bellows is in its fully retracted position.
To prepare labelling apparatus 10 for operation, label cassettes 50 are first readied. To ready a cassette, a full magazine 54 is loaded on the cassette then the end of the label web 56 is drawn from the magazine around pin wheel 66, through channel 68 and back to pin wheel 72 such that the pins of each pin wheel are embedded in the pin holes of the web. So as not to waste labels during set-up, the web may have a leader portion free of labels. A readied cassette 50 may be mounted to the base 38 of a labeller 12 by inserting peg 48 of the cassette into notch 52 of the base then tilting the cassette 50 forwardly until the cassette latches to a latch carried by the base 38. While the cassette is being tilted forwardly, pinion 74 contacts double-sided timing belt 78 ever more forcefully, deforming the belt thereby ensuring that teeth of the pinion 74 will mesh with the belt. In the latched position of the cassette seen in FIG. 2B, belt 78 is perpetually deformed by the pinion. This deformation results in the timing belt wrapping around a portion of the periphery of the pinion 74 so that a greater number of teeth of the pinion engage with the timing belt.
Next each labeller may be moved to a start position (S210). To do so, processor 22 signals stepper motor 84 to rotate in a direction which will wind the label web 56 back on to the magazine 54. With specific reference to FIG. 3, stepper motor 84 then rotates in a counter clockwise direction so that pinion 74, with its concentrically mounted pin wheel 72, rotates clockwise. This continues until pawl 92, which rides along periphery 82 of the pin wheel 72, engages an engaging face 90 of a ratchet tooth 86, whereupon stepper motor 84 stalls out as it can rotate counter clockwise no further. It will be recalled that there is a pin 88 for each ratchet tooth 86 and that the engaging face 90 of each tooth 86 has the same relative position with respect to an associated pin 88. It will also be recalled that there is one pin hole 62 between each pair of labels on the label web. In consequence, with an appropriate choice of the distance between pin wheel 72 and the label pick-up station 70, a label 60 will be at a pre-selected location with respect to the labelling station when the stepper motor 84 stalls. This is the start position for the labelling cassette 12. The start position of the label cassette will normally be such that a label is present just upstream of the label pick-up station 70. Similarly, processor 22 may signal stepper motor 44 to rotate backwards (clockwise) until a pawl (not shown) engages the engaging face 144 of a ratchet tooth 142 on sleeve 130 of turret 40 whereupon stepper motor 44 will stall (S212). This defines the start position for turret 40. The start position for turret 40 will normally be such that a bellows 160 is at the label pick-up station 70.
If not done previously, the positive and negative pressure ports 114, 112, respectively, of each labeller are then coupled to appropriate air pressure sources. This couples a negative pressure to each bellows 160 of the turret 40 of a labeller thereby drawing each bellows to a collapsed position shown in FIG. 4. A bellows remains in this collapsed state except when at the label applying station 128. This is due to the configuration of the core 110 with its substantially circumferential channel 118 coupled to the vacuum source. The lands 124 of the core substantially isolate the negative pressure in the channel 118 from the positive pressure in the slot 120 (which slot is aligned with the label applying station).
With a vacuum source coupled to a bellows 160, the one-way disk valve 166 is open such that there is a low pressure beyond the tamping head 162 of the bellows. Thus, a bellows 160 at the label pick-up station is ready to pick-up a label. The processor then sends an activation signal to stepper motor 84 causing it to advance the label web 56 by a fixed increment. This moves a label on the web from just upstream of the label pick-up station 70 to station 70 whereat the release tape turns back on itself around the end of channel 68 causing the label to peel off. Since a bellows 160 is already at this station, the released label 60 is sucked onto tamping head 162 presenting its pressure sensitive adhesive side outwardly. The processor then activates stepper motor 44 to rotate the turret 40 by a fixed increment in advancement direction A (FIG. 2B) so as to advance the next bellows 160 to the label pick-up station 70 and then again activates stepper motor 84 to advance the next label to the label pick-up station. This is repeated until all bellows extending in the advancement direction A between the label pick-up station and the label applying station 128 are loaded with a label (as shown in FIG. 2B, this would be four bellows) (S214).
Conveyor 16 may be started in downstream direction D. The conveyor may hold a number of trays 28, each loaded with products 26. When a tray reaches an imaging station, camera 24 images the tray and its contents. This image is passed to processor 22 (S220) as is a conveyor position indication signal from position indicator 32 (S222). The received image of the products 26 (and the vines 30) on the tray 28 allows the processor to determine the co-ordinates of a target area for labelling a product (i.e., the processor determines this target area relative to a frame of reference). Based on the determined target area, the processor determines which labeller 12 has a transverse position over conveyor 16 which is within the transverse extent of this target area. This labeller is chosen to label the product (S224). For example, the processor 22 may determine that a target area of product 26 a can be hit by labeller 12 h of bank 18 d and so choose labeller 12 h for labelling product 26 a. Similarly, the processor may determine that labeller 12 b of the upstream bank 18 u should label product 26 b. The distance between the imaging station and each bank 18 u, 18 d of labellers is pre-defined and stored in the processor 22. With knowledge of this, the movement of the conveyor, and the image of the products on the tray, the processor may determine when the target area of any product 26 on the tray 28 will reach the label pick-up station 70 of each bank 18 u, 18 d of labellers. Having chosen a labeller 12 for a given product 26, the processor 22 can then time the sending of an activation signal to stepper motor 44 of the chosen labeller so that a label is applied to the given product (S226).
More particularly, the activation signal sent by the processor to stepper 44 advances the stepper motor 44 by one step to move a bellows 160 which had previously been loaded with a label through the label applying station. While moving through the label applying station, the bellows 160 registers with slot 120 in core 110 thereby coupling the source of positive air pressure to the air diffuser 140 of the bellows 160. As air attempts to push out of the air diffuser into the bellows, air is initially blocked from exiting central opening 146 in the snout 145 of the air diffuser in view of disk 166 of the bellows blocking this opening. Consequently, initially, most air is directed out of the side openings 148 of the snout 145. This air fills the vacuum in the bellows. Meanwhile, the air pressure will seat disk 166 against the pin holes 164 in the tamping end 162 of the bellows to block these perforations. With the vacuum in the bellows replaced by a positive pressure, the bellows quickly extends until it tamps the product at the labelling station 128, thereby applying a label to the product. As the tamping bellows moves past the label applying station 128 it is again coupled to a source of vacuum which quickly draws the bellows back to its collapsed position. At the end of the step by the stepper motor 44, another bellows 160 will have advanced to the label pick-up station 70. The processor may then cause the stepper motor 84 of the label cassette 50 to advance another label to the label pick-up station in order to load the bellows now at this station (S228), and the process may repeat.
Processor 22 may be loaded with software from computer readable medium 34 in order to perform the described operations. Computer readable medium 34 may, for example, be a disk, a solid state memory device, or a file downloaded from a remote source.
From the foregoing, it will be apparent that each step of stepper motor 44 moves one bellows 160 on turret 40 through the label applying station 128 and stops the turret so that another bellows is registered with the label pick-up station 70. The speed of the stepper motor may be adjusted so that a bellows moving through the label applying station is coupled to the source of positive pressure air for an appropriate length of time.
In consequence of air pressure initially being communicated to the bellows through the side openings of the air diffuser 140, the bellows will contain a positive pressure when it begins its tamping motion. This makes the tamping motion faster and more predictable.
When a magazine 54 of a cassette 50 is spent, the cassette 50 may be removed, re-loaded, and replaced.
It will be apparent that the processor 22 may control banks of fixed labellers other than tamping labellers 12 in order to select a labeller to apply a label to a product. Thus, in a modified system, bellows labellers 12 may be replaced with piston-type tamping labellers (such as the labellers described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,645,680 to Rietheimer, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein). In such case, processor 22, working with camera 24 and position indicator 32, may send activation signals to the piston-type tamping labellers. Further, where the products were such that a wiping labeller would suffice, bellows labellers 12 could be replaced by labellers which wipe a label onto a product.
While the labelling apparatus 10 has been illustrated as having two banks of labellers, with sufficiently narrower labellers, one bank may suffice. Further, to provide a smaller granularity between transverse positions of the labellers, additional banks of labellers could be provided, with each labeller having a smaller transverse offset from transversely adjacent labellers.
Where the conveyor position indicator is simply a timer, it may be incorporated in the processor 22.
Although the stepper motors 44, 84 have been described as being electronically controlled by processor 22, alternatively, they could be mechanically, or electro-mechanically controlled. For example, an overhead deformable finger could be located at a fixed position upstream of each labeller such that the finger is deformed when a product contacts it, resulting in a microswitch temporarily closing. This could activate a timer which, when it times out, sends a signal to the associated labeller causing it to execute a tamping operation and re-load a bellows with a label. Once the timer times out, it is re-set. If the conveyor speed was fixed, each timer could be loaded with an appropriate value based on this speed and the distance the finger was positioned upstream of the associated labeller.
Other modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art and, therefore, the invention is defined in the claims.
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|Int Paper Box Machine Co
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|Mers Herbert
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|Klinger Max H
|Labeling apparatus
|May 1, 1981
|Jan 18, 1983
|Hermann Klaus D
|Hand-held labelling device
|Jun 5, 1981
|Oct 25, 1983
|Dennison Manufacturing Company
|Web tension control apparatus
|Mar 20, 1984
|Oct 15, 1985
|Lamers Herbert
|Label applying apparatus for automatic labeling system
|Jun 11, 1985
|Mar 10, 1987
|Mers Herbert
|Method of separating labels from a carrier strip
|Sep 30, 1987
|Mar 21, 1989
|Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.
|Hand-held printing and labeling device
|Jan 26, 1990
|Nov 19, 1991
|Eastman Kodak Company
|Apparatus and method for splicing webs of indeterminate length
|Oct 8, 1993
|Feb 7, 1995
|Method of automatically and continuously labelling articles such as fruit or vegetables, and apparatus for implementing the method
|Jun 6, 1995
|Jul 8, 1997
|Systematic Packaging Controls Corporation
|Produce labeller
|May 23, 1997
|Nov 3, 1998
|Fmc Corporation
|Labeler having stepper motor driving plural elements
|Nov 21, 1997
|Sep 28, 1999
|Elharrar; Nessim
|Labelling machine
|Mar 23, 1998
|May 15, 2001
|Fmc Corporation
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|Feb 19, 1999
|Jul 10, 2001
|Agri-Tech, Ltd.
|High speed produce label applicator
|Sep 10, 1997
|Nov 27, 2001
|Joseph Michael Kral
|Perimeter driven labeller
|Apr 21, 2000
|Apr 8, 2003
|Koch Equipment, Llc
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|Mar 15, 2002
|Sep 18, 2003
|Goetz Robert R.
|Label application device including a flow control element
|Dec 30, 1983
|Jul 11, 1984
|Sinclair International Limited
|Improvements in or relating to labelling apparatus
|May 14, 1998
|Oct 18, 2000
|Fmc Corporation
|Improved labeler
|Title not available
|Title not available
|Mar 10, 1999
|Sep 16, 1999
|Agri-Tech, Inc.
|High speed produce label applicator
|Mar 24, 2000
|Oct 5, 2000
|Sinclair International Limited
|Labelling apparatus
|A brochure "TL-4 High Speed Tray Labeling System" by Sinclair Systems International, LLC of California, U.S.A., published Apr. 29, 1999.
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Jun 14, 2002
|Feb 20, 2007
|Ag-Tronic Control Systems Inc.
|Labelling apparatus and method
|Apr 16, 2009
|Nov 29, 2011
|Hurst International, Llc
|Method and apparatus for high speed produce labeling
|Aug 12, 2008
|Feb 7, 2012
|John Bean Technologies Corporation
|Labeling apparatus with housing having fluid pump and related methods
|Aug 12, 2008
|Feb 14, 2012
|John Bean Technologies Corporation
|Labeling apparatus with sidewall shaft and related methods
|Aug 12, 2008
|Feb 28, 2012
|John Bean Technologies Corporation
|Labeling apparatus having porting arrangement and related methods
|Aug 12, 2008
|Apr 17, 2012
|John Bean Technologies Corporation
|Labeling apparatus with pay-out and take-up stepper motors and related methods
|Jun 14, 2002
|May 13, 2004
|Nielsen Peter C.
|Labelling apparatus and method
|Aug 20, 2003
|Feb 24, 2005
|Fmc Technologies, Inc.
|Labeler bellows with improved service life
|Sep 2, 2005
|Mar 9, 2006
|Fmc Technologies, Inc.
|Aug 12, 2008
|Feb 18, 2010
|John Bean Technologies Corporation, Corporation of the State of Delaware
|Labeling apparatus with housing having fluid pump and related methods
|Aug 12, 2008
|Feb 18, 2010
|John Bean Technologies Corporation
|Labeling apparatus with sidewall shaft and related methods
|Aug 12, 2008
|Feb 18, 2010
|John Bean Technologies Corporation
|Labeling apparatus with pay-out and take-up stepper motors and related methods
|Aug 12, 2008
|Feb 18, 2010
|John Bean Technologies Corporation
|Labeling apparatus having porting arrangement and related methods
|Apr 16, 2009
|Apr 22, 2010
|Aron Lichtenberg
|Method and apparatus for high speed produce labeling
|Aug 12, 2015
|Mar 3, 2016
|Sinclair Systems International, Llc
|Automatic high speed labeling system
|U.S. Classification
|156/362, 156/361, 156/350, 156/538, 221/211, 271/98, 271/91, 156/363, 156/542, 156/539
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jun 19, 2001
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NEW HAVEN -- The attorney for James Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina says a software glitch caused incorrect grades to appear on student transcripts, and now he is turning the tables on the assistant principal who accused the popular school leader of grade tampering.
Michael Jefferson said the changing of two students' grades at Hillhouse had to do with glitches in the Tenex grading software. Further, Jefferson alleged Assistant Principal Shirley Love Joyner -- who originally pointed the finger at Carolina -- actually changed the grades to correct the mistakes caused by the glitches. A third incident under investigation involves a student who wanted to transfer from Hillhouse to Riverside Academy but had to have work credits that he earned over the summer confirmed by an administrator. Jefferson and the mother of the transfer student both say Joyner confirmed the credits.
"Kermit had nothing to do with it. Joyner did it, and we found it baffling that Kermit Carolina was called on the carpet for it," Jefferson said.
Jefferson said Carolina maintains his position that the grade tampering allegations are unfounded and retaliatory for his refusal to support Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in last year's heated election. DeStefano has said Carolina's claim is completely false.
The Register did not receive a call back from Joyner or city schools Chief Operating Officer William Clark regarding the new developments.
Jefferson made the new allegations after attending a meeting between Carolina and Floyd Dugas, the Board of Education attorney tapped to conduct the investigation into grade tampering allegations at Hillhouse.
"There has been a cloud placed over Hillhouse and it's unfair to the staff, to the teachers, the students, the parents, and there is a great deal of anger, certainly among the parents, the way it was handled," Jefferson said.
Jefferson said he told Dugas that Carolina had no part in changing grades at the school. However, he pointed out that the so-called glitch in the Tenex system has been responsible for changing grades for numerous students at the school. Jefferson provided the Register with minutes from a Jan. 3 guidance department meeting in which the problem of grade changes from the Tenex system was discussed. The minutes state that Director of Guidance Dolores Garcia-Blocker gave an update about "how Tenex overrode grades that teachers gave" and caused discrepancies between transcripts and report cards.
In the meantime, Jefferson said his client is cooperating with the investigation despite concerns that members of Dugas' law firm contributed to DeStefano's campaign.
Jefferson asked Dugas for an open investigation and wanted to invite members of the media to attend, but the request was denied.
Jefferson also claims Joyner knew about the Tenex glitch but told the investigator it had been fixed, even though it had not.
Further, Jefferson said he encouraged Dugas to follow the electronic trail on Tenex to see exactly who changed the students' grades.
The school district called an emergency meeting Dec. 23 to inform the Board of Education of the allegations. Even though Superintendent of Schools Reginald Mayo did not publicly identify Carolina as the target of the investigation that night, Carolina spoke on his own behalf and charged DeStefano with having a political vendetta against him. He produced a handwritten note on City Hall stationery that read, "Kermit, You were there," and was signed, "John." Carolina claims the letter was sent to him as a threat after a campaign event for Jeffrey Kerekes, who was challenging DeStefano for mayor.
Two of Carolina's friends -- Jefferson and Hamden High School Principal Gary Highsmith -- endorsed Kerekes. Carolina claims he received the letter through interdepartmental mail soon after the Sept. 21 event.
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DeStefano has said Carolina's political accusations are inaccurate and a distraction from the real concern, which is whether grades were tampered with at Hillhouse.
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Commander Christine Jones said the cause was unclear, but one police theory was that tensions caused by the number of young adults still living at home could be behind it. "We are seeing an increase in offending by the brother, the father, the daughter, the sister or the son of the victim," she said.
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