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This original Friday Night Chill has proven to be in such high demand it is now weekly, with every second Friday being Friday Night Chill Deux, which repeats the previous Friday Night Chill venue. To keep things fair, I will only allow folk to attend 1 of the Chill events at the same venue. This gives others an opportunity to attend. So please bear this in mind - If you RSVP to both Chill and Chill Deux at the same venue, I will randomly remove you from one of the events. The exception to this rule is if by Friday there are still spare slots and no one on the Waiting List. No gate crashers please - the group size is chosen for some very specific reasons.
Since the upstairs area at The Kent is quite large, this is almost a "Big Chill" in a sense as I have doubled the attendee limit.
The Core will be playing from 10.00 in the Main Bar downstairs.
Folk are also free to head off to Unity @ SJs later on, where Rob is participating in a show from 11pm.
Meet people, have conversation, share stories, learn about Newcastle, just have fun.
Newbies more than welcome as their first meetup.
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Friday Night Chill is about relaxing over a drink (and maybe a casual bite) having a chat earlier in the evening before the party crowd shows up and "ruins" the ambiance. It is also about choosing a venue that allows for a pleasant setting.
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We stayed at the Zanzibar palace for two nights at the start of this month after a week in mainland Tanzania and a week in northern Zanzbar.
Robert and the staff are superb and could not be more helpful giving us first class guidence on what to do in Stone Town. They arranged a guided tour with a local guy called GODFREY KASISI who was really very very knowledgable and helpful.
The buliding is lovely with many original features but if you cannot " hack " stairs this is not the place for you, we stayed on the top floor in the Rosewood Room that was good.
We did not eat in the hotel at night, and for that matter few others did either. This is an area that we felt they needed to be bit more ambitious, there is a spa treatment room but it only open on request. This is situated in a building next to the hotel that also has a roof top terrace, perhaps the restauarnt should be up there??
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
Garner, Higher Probability Commodity Trading
Higher Probability Commodity Trading is, as the subtitle explains, a comprehensive guide to commodity market analysis, strategy development, and risk management techniques. It covers pretty much everything you need to know to start paper trading commodity futures and options. Or to decide that you'd better stick to stocks and bonds.
The first section, focused on analysis, deals with the basics, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, seasonal tendencies, sentiment, and intermarket correlations. The second section, on trading strategy development, looks at position trading, day trading, and algorithmic trading in futures, futures spread trading, options strategies, managed futures, constructing a commodity portfolio, and using futures and options as a hedge. The third section introduces the reader to e-micro and mini futures contracts and VIX futures. The final section offers some tips and tricks, explains commodity brokerages and trading fees, outlines a few risk management techniques, and describes mean reversion and delta neutral options trading. The book, in brief, is packed with information.
The novice will struggle with some of the chapters, the experienced trader can skim through others. But there's something here for every level of trader, which is rare for a broad-based book.
Interest in commodity trading is about as cyclical as commodities themselves. Traders jump on the band wagon when they think a commodity is hot. But few prepare themselves properly. Trading is trading, they think. Trading CL is like trading AAPL. Trading GC options is like trading SPY options. No, no, a thousand times no. Anyone who contemplates putting money to work in the commodity markets has to understand that he is operating in an entirely different world. Otherwise, he can expect to have his head handed to him.
Garner does an excellent job of explaining what it takes to succeed in commodity trading. The reader will, of course, have to map his own course. Not everyone, for instance, is comfortable selling unhedged options. But from the many ideas Garner offers, the reader should find something worth pursuing further.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Polk, For the Love of Money
Visiting the family of one of his girlfriends, our anti-hero is impressed with her father's power job and money and is inspired to start building toward a life like his. He applies for summer internships in the trading department of every investment bank, but with a sub-3.0 GPA and a resume "littered with half-truths and obfuscations" he is an unlikely candidate. Nonetheless, in 2002 (and page 101 of 232), he gets an internship at CSFB. He breaks up with his girlfriend, stops drinking and taking drugs, and doesn't get offered a permanent job. Finally, he is accepted into the Bank of America analyst class of 2003, finds a father figure at the bank, transitions to the trading floor, and eventually moves from Charlotte to New York.
A tiny section of the book is devoted to the tensions of bond trading (the rocky Verizon bond issuance is particularly interesting), but Polk doesn't linger over anything that gets in the way of recounting his own personal transition from fear and rage to charity and "redemption." When he leaves Bank of America, voluntarily, after a devastating trade (he "had overlooked an important variable when [he'd] constructed [his] portfolio—the difference between how bonds and derivatives perform in a funding crisis") to accept a million dollar job at Pateras Capital, it is the beginning of the end of Polk's trading career. He loses faith in the system even as it is an argument over his bonus that eventually leads him to walk out the door.
He waxes populist. "Our obsessive accumulation of money had led to the widest inequality in centuries. Our hoarding had left millions of people unemployed, starving, and marginalized. Prison populations were swelling; families were starving. Our greed was the source of that poverty. We were the source of that marginalization."
"It's not where you are but who you are" may never have made it to a poster. But it may be a way to sum up my attitude to this book. Polk had a knack for making the worst of the many opportunities he was offered, and the financial world shouldn't be unfairly vilified because it couldn't solve his personal problems. It's got enough problems of its own.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Ponsi, Technical Analysis and Chart Interpretations
Ponsi's expertise is the forex market. He is the author of Forex Patterns and Probabilities (2007) and The Ed Ponsi Forex Playbook (2010).
In this book, however, he focuses on equities. In a little over 350 pages he deals with such topics as support and resistance, trends and trend lines, volume, gaps, price patterns, candlestick patterns, Fibonacci techniques, technical indicators, point and figure charting, cycles, and sentiment indicators. He illustrates these topics with ample black-and-white charts.
Someone new to technical analysis would, I believe, find Ponsi's work to be a useful textbook. For those who already incorporate technical analysis into their trading and/or have read two or three decent books in the field, it is not a must-have addition to the library.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Bulkowski, Chart Patterns: After the Buy
Chart Patterns: After the Buy (Wiley, 2016) is, I believe, his best book yet. He looks at 20 popular chart patterns and analyzes, using 43,229 case studies, how they tend to play out. One qualifier: he studies the behavior of these patterns only during bull markets. That is, he is excluding the periods from March 24, 2000 to October 10, 2002 and from October 12, 2007 to March 6, 2009.
Most chapters follow the same (dare I say?) pattern: behavior at a glance, identification guidelines, buy and sell setups, best stop locations, configuration trading (that is, how the setup is likely to behave), the measure rule (for setting targets, and how likely they are to be reached), trading examples, and setup synopsis charts.
Bulkowski covers the most familiar chart patterns, such as double tops and bottoms, flags and pennants, head-and-shoulders tops and bottoms, measured moves, rectangles, and triangles. But he also looks at patterns that are less obviously visual, such as the behavior of stock prices after an earnings miss.
Bulkowski's statistics can be sobering, though again we have to remember that he is dealing only with bull markets. Topping reversal patterns that might have some efficacy in bear markets will be more prone to fail when markets are moving to the upside. For instance, unconfirmed double bottoms fail 44% of the time whereas unconfirmed double tops fail 53% of the time. Admittedly, neither statistic is heartwarming, but a bull market regime obviously favors double bottoms.
The author offers specific recommendations on how to trade each pattern to improve the odds of a successful outcome. In the process, he gives what amounts to a mini-course in trading in general.
Although statistics (and good computer programming) is at the core of Bulkowski's research, he writes remarkably clear, sometimes even breezy prose. And he includes lots of illustrative charts.
Chart Patterns: After the Buy is a reference book that belongs on the shelf of every trader who thinks he can see something in the squiggles of price movement. And, in one way or another, don't we all?
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Orrell & Chlupatý, The Evolution of Money
First, on a purely historical note, they set the record straight about the origin of money. It is not the case, as is commonly accepted, that money arose out of a barter economy. "Coin money did not supersede barter; rather it was predated by state-backed systems of credit. And rather than emerging naturally, with government and its legal system only stepping in at the last moment to claim credit by putting its stamp on everything, the use of coin money was imposed by government in the first place. It was forced on the population…." (pp. 28-29)
Money, they argue, is inherently dualistic and reflects the unstable relationship between number and value. Moreover, the history of money oscillates between periods of virtual and physical money. "During a virtual phase, money is seen primarily as mathematical debt—a score in a ledger—while in a physical phase, money is seen primarily as material wealth. However, the two sides cannot be separated, so money always retains the essential characteristics of each." (p. 54)
The authors use this dualistic framework to trace attitudes toward money over time. For the most part they reorganize the familiar in a new way. But, in describing the cycles of virtual and physical money, they sometimes wander off in strange directions.
Here's one instance. They claim that "the psychology of money … has much to do with our attitude toward femininity. For example, it is often said that market behavior is driven by the twin emotions of greed and fear. These responses both shape and are programmed by our scarcity-based monetary system. But while they have been treated as normal by economists … psychologists might argue that there is something else going on. In his book The Mystery of Money, Bernard Lietaer points out that this fear, which affects so much of our economic life, is related to our repression of the life-giving abundance of the feminine principle." (pp. 115-16)
And a few paragraphs earlier: "Today, currencies such as the dollar and pound, with their Federal Reserve and Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, are in a state of transition. They retain many of the trappings and pretensions of their old scarcity-based, gold standard versions, but in fact are completely virtual. They are male-principle virtual currencies dressed up as female-principle physical currencies—money in drag." (p. 114)
At its best, the authors believe, "money is virtual and can exist in a variety of forms." (p. 195) Once we accept this view of money, they argue, our attitude to it changes. For instance, "the strongest impediment to basic income is psychological—it seems unfair to give scarce funds away for nothing. But if basic income were delivered using a complementary currency, similar to Alberta's old Prosperity Certificates, it would be more clear that the funds represent a kind of birthright." (p. 195)
I appreciate the authors' agenda, and I have no doubt that we will see a range of currencies, mostly digital, in the future as well as an increase in non-monetary transactions (such as gifting and, sometimes, sharing). I also think they are correct in predicting that "some of the most interesting [social, intellectual, and economic] developments will take place in the areas that are least well-served by our conventional money system, where the gap between number and value is the greatest." (p. 236) But since money can never shed what the authors see as its inherently dualistic nature, even they concede that "money will continue to be a source of human drama and tension, no matter what form it takes." (p. 237)
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Pruitt, The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox
Pruitt's focus in this book is not so much on system development per se as it is on popular programming tools for building and back testing technical trading systems. Yes, he has chapters on "Genetic Optimization, Walk Forward, and Monte Carlo Start Trade Analysis" and "An Introduction to Portfolio Maestro, Money Management, and Portfolio Analysis," but what will most likely draw traders to Pruitt's book is his extensive array of clearly explained sample code.
His examples of input into technical trading systems are drawn from the usual suspects, such as Bollinger bands, Keltner channels, MACD, RSI, stochastics, and various moving average indicators. More important, he shows traders who don't use comprehensive platforms how to write system testers. He developed his own bare-bones Python and Excel testing engines. A website accompanying the book includes this software, with all its source code, as well as source code that can be run in TradeStation and AmiBroker. Unlike much of the Python code that is available online, Pruitt's actually seems to be error-free. I didn't test his other code.
One of Pruitt's aims in this book was to offer "the most important and simplest programming techniques to transform a non-quant into a not-so-non-quant." He has, I believe, succeeded admirably.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Roze, Tensile Trading
The book is organized around a ten-step process: money management, the business of investing, the investor self, market analysis, routines, stalking your trade, buying, monitoring, selling, and—finally—revisit, retune, refine.
One imperative that gets repeated in many contexts is: Put it in writing! The authors stress that in business (and investing should be treated as a business) "documentation is the centerpiece of effective organization and operation." The investor should document and regularly update his business plan. He should also keep a daily journal. Another suggestion is to take observational notes (on notepads or via smartphone). "Opportunities surround us in abundance if we open ourselves up to them…. [S]mall, brilliant little gems present themselves in the most unlikely situations. It is uncanny how often these observations translate into profitable investment decisions somewhere down the line."
Once an investor has identified a stock in which he is interested (and the authors suggest a process for making this identification) and is prepared to execute a buy order, he should not go all in. Rather, he should use the strategy of pyramid trading, buying only a percentage of the desired total investment and letting the market prove him right before he buys more. The authors' recommendation is to pyramid into long positions using 25%-35%-40% progression and to pyramid out using a reversed 40-35-25 sequence, "which reflects the fact that prices tend to fall faster than they rise." Using this buy strength, sell weakness method, "if the trend pushes higher, the market has reinforced your good judgment and handed you some profit as a reward. If the trend reverses, your stop is executed, your risk is limited, and you book a small loss on only 25 percent of your full intended position rather than a larger loss on its entirety."
Tensile Trading frequently drills down into specifics. For instance, it describes a personal selling paradigm that monitors price relative, trend, volume, momentum, bearish patterns, and personal money management rules and that is illustrated with color charts from StockCharts.com, where Grayson Roze serves as business manager.
But at its core Tensile Trading sets out to delineate a framework in which to thrive as an active investor, no matter what particular strategies and tactics the investor develops and pursues. And this it does very well.
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Lil Wayne Feat. Imagine Dragons, Wiz Khalifa, Logic & X Ambassadors
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GoldLink's strong internet following and general mystique might make him appear to be something of a post-regional artist, but according to the rapper himself, the DMV plays a major role in his music. In our recent interview, the rapper, who has lived in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, explained just how the area has informed his style. "The way that I talk, my slang, the way I say things, they way I go about things is very home-based," he explained. "Everything is from my region, because you've never seen anything like it. That's why no one knows what the fuck the sound is.
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Coming fresh off the release of his #1 hip-hop album The Incredible True Story, Logic made his way by the Rapgenius Genius headquarters recently, and talked about the origin of the album's background story.
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Logic's "Breakfast Bars" Freestyle
To promote his sophomore album The Incredible True Story, Logic made his way out West and stopped by The Cruz Show on Power 106 to spit a freestyle from off the top for the listeners. Going at it for nearly 6 minutes straight, the Def Jam spitter proved once again why he's one of the nicest to spit on a mic right now. Being titled the "best breakfast bars" they've ever had, Logic was later asked to talk about how he feels when being talked as the top emcee in the game.
Logic On The Breakfast Club
After previewing his Rubik's Cube-solving technique yesterday on Ebro in the Morning, Logic actually solved one during his interview this morning on The Breakfast Club.
Logic Talks Sophomore Album, Being Too Nice, & More On Hot 97
To promote his newly-released sophomore album The Incredible True Story, Logic made his way by the Hot 97 studios recently and chopped it up with the gang from Ebro In The Morning. Sitting down for a lengthy 40-minute chat, Logic talked about the concept behind the new album, being too nice, his method of solving the rubic's cube in under 60 seconds, putting Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Peter Rosenberg almost on the album, and much more. Check it out.
Logic Feat. Big Lenbo "Young Jesus" Video
Logic Feat. Big Lenbo
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Lil Durk Reveals He Has Collaboration With Chance The Rapper In The Stash
Lil Durk
Lil Durk's debut album, Remember My Name, is finally out today. When the rapper first revealed the tracklist, it was noticeably light on features, calling upon DMV rapper Logic, Jeremih and Hypno Carlito. Obviously, Durk was not too worried about attaching big names to his album, and more focused on bringing a different side than what we saw/heard during his mixtape run.
Watch Kanye West, Ludacris, And More Perform Live At Powerhouse 2015
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Logic "Fire In The Booth" Freestyle
Logic is across the pond at the moment for his Under Pressure World Tour tour in Europe, and the European radio personalities really just want to see him freestyle. After stopping by Tim Westwood's Capital Xtra last week the Maryland rapper made an appearance on Charlie Sloth's afternoon BBC One program yesterday.
Logic Freestyles On Tim Westwood
Logic is currently touring Europe, and while in the U.K., he stopped by renowed DJ Tim Westwood's Capital Xtra show on BBC Radio 1. Getting right to it, Westwood drops the instantly recognizable instrumental to Method Man's "Bring the Pain", and lets Logic have at it. Logic proceeds to drop a two and a half minute freestyle while barely taking a breath. We don't know how "off the dome" this actually is, but the Maryland rapper goes way deeper than we're used to seeing on most impromptu radio rap sessions.
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Coming off the release of his debut album Under Pressure, Logic is currently out on the road again as part of the "Under Pressure" World Tour. Inviting cameras to follow his everyday travels, here goes the latest episode (28) in his on-going vlog series titled "Just Another Day".
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Logic's "Just Another Day" Vlog (Ep. 27)
Coming off the heels of his debut album Under Pressure, Logic is currently out on the road again as part of the "Under Pressure" World Tour. Inviting cameras to follow his everyday travels, here goes the latest episode (27) in his on-going vlog series "Just Another Day".
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Logic Feat. Big Daddy Kane
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Good vegetarian chili. Subbed one can kidney beans for one can black-eyed peas. Furthermore I added one teaspoon salt and one tablespoon soy sauce at the end of cooking time since we found it a little bland. That lifted up the taste and made the chili very nice indeed. We did miss vegetables and next time I will add a bag of mixed vegetables. When making it I felt I was making a "can meal" since one can after the other was put into the pot. But OK, it was nice and I served it with grated cheese and sour cream. Thanks for posting. Made for PAC, Fall 2009.
I did do some subbing I switched out the can of whole tomatoes and used tomatoe sauce and one less can of kidney beans. That is all to do with personal ppreference. I never measure chili powder but just keep adding until I get the heat we like LOL so might of been more or less then stated I am not a huge fans of garbanzo beans but they were'nt to bad in this LOL Made for PAC Fall 2009


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Mysterious UFO sighting leaves southwest Bakersfield neighbors puzzled
SW neighbors say blue light is extraterrestrial
Several neighbors living off Alderpointe Street near Panama and Gosford in southwest Bakersfield say they first witnessed a mysterious blue light in the sky back in February, and again in March. Both times they saw it on the 14th.
"I was taking the recycling out to the trash can, and I saw this blue light in the sky, and I thought, that's kinda bright to be a star, I've never seen a blue star be that bright," said Kelly Castruita.
"Watched it for about 10 minutes, just doing weird stuff, it would turn on and off and it would disappear," added Kelly's husband Jeff.
Neighbors said the blue light was about the size of a dime, and started off just above the skyline, and then migrated northwest.
"It pretty much flew, stopped, then started doing some upward motion and downward motion, so I've never seen anything like it," said neighbor Randy Gabriel.
"We'll see the police helicopters once in a while, or an airplane go by, but nothing like this," said Ricardo Pantoja, who has been living in the neighborhood for 23 years.
23ABC's Lindsey Adams took the videos to Senior Deputy Victor Keesey with the Kern County Sheriff's Department, whose office works closely in conjunction with neighboring Meadows Field Airport.
"I'm not aware of any calls that we've received regarding any blue lights, or strange lights in that area. Very seldom, if ever, have I seen anything like it. However, we are in the age of drones now, obviously we have military drones, but we have civilian drones now and drones for purchase, so that is a possibility," said Senior Deputy Victor Keesey.
"It looked way too high up in the sky to be a drone," mentioned witness Kelly Castruita.
"It wasn't a regular airplane or a drone, it was much bigger than what a drone would be, especially at that distance," added neighbor Ricardo Pantoja.
23ABC got in touch with public affairs at Edwards Air Force Base, and we were told they have not received any calls about the light, but officials mentioned it could be a possible aurora in the sky, or possible testing from Vandenberg.
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|Application number
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|May 21, 1996
|Filing date
|May 2, 1995
|Priority date
|May 2, 1995
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Benoit Allard
|Original Assignee
|Les Ateliers Benoit Allard Inc.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (7), Referenced by (23), Classifications (13), Legal Events (13)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to an apparatus to be used as a feeding system to a lumber processing unit, to provide a high piece count at an adjustable constant rate. The incoming material to be individually fed to the process consists of a continuous supply of boards and cants having at least two parallel faces. In the initial stage, these pieces are carried laterally in a single layer by several parallel chains towards the feeding device, the function of which is to pick out each piece from the incoming stream and to deposit them individually between rows of lugs on carry-off chains located downstream of the apparatus.
A number of systems are presently found in the industry which generally fulfill the above described function. Among these are: inclined board elevators composed of parallel lugged chains and rejecting cam systems; large diameter rotating drums with external carrying lugs (both foregoing systems basically accomplish single layering of lumber pieces); cam or air actuated lift arm and feed wheel arrangements which, like the chain elevator and drum systems, are believed to have reached a performance ceiling of about 120 pieces per minute of rough sawn random sized lumber.
While the aforementioned feeding systems have held their place in the industry up to the present times, the need for much higher output is now being felt. In fact, resawing of small sized two-faced cants is commonly carried out at speeds of 400 to 500 FPM (in exceptional cases, feed rates through saws have reached 600 FPM), which leads to the need for cant feeding systems to supply some 60 pieces per minute in eight foot lengths and nearly double that amount in the newly developed four foot lumber market. Since the number of pieces produced in cant resawing is often more than twice that of the original cants, further stages of processing such as end trimming and sorting, require under such conditions, reliable feeding capacities well beyond 200 pieces per minute.
An object of the present invention is to overcome the above problems of presently used board and cant feeders by providing an apparatus which enables higher feed rates.
The present invention therefore relates to such apparatus which comprises:
a frame;
means for laterally advancing along the frame pieces of lumber side by side;
cam actuated restraining arms having a back and forth motion to control the advance of the lumber pieces;
a rotatable shaft mounted transversally to the frame and carrying rotating feed discs;
a number of loading stations mounted on the feed discs for receiving individual pieces of lumber on the upstream side thereof and for delivering them singularly on accelerating chains on the downstream side thereof; each loading station including (a) a receiving surface to support the lower face of a piece of lumber; (b) a rotatable hook means to contact the upper face of the piece of lumber; and (c) actuator means to cause the hook means to hold the piece of lumber while in transit between the loading position and the offloading position; and
valve means mounted on the shaft, having outlet ports connected to the actuator means so as to provide hook actuation in synchronism with every phase of the loading and offloading cycles.
In one form of the invention, the valve means consist of a stationary distributing core connected to a hydraulic supply and a concentric portion keyed to the rotating feed disc shaft and provided with outlet ports statically connected to the actuator means.
In another form of the invention, the hydraulic valve controlling the loading and unloading motions of the hooks, could be actuated by external means originating from the main actuating shaft.
In a preferred form of the invention, an overriding control of the restraining arms is achieved through signals emitted by a rotating element mounted on the feed discs shaft to prevent lumber entry at inappropriate portions of the feed cycle, such as immediately following a feed interruption.
Other objects and further scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. It should be understood, however, that this detailed description, while indicating preferred embodiments of the invention, is given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a top plan schematic view of the feeding apparatus of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic side elevation thereof;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged cross-section taken along line 3--3 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-section taken along line 4--4 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is an enlarged cross-section taken along line 5--5 of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the valve.
As illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, the feeding apparatus of the present invention, generally designated 10, consists basically of a fixed supporting frame 11, a hydraulic rotary valve 12 controlling the main functions of the grappling and releasing of each incoming piece of lumber 13, one or more feeding discs (three of which being shown as 14a, 14b, 14c) mounted on a rotating shaft 16, on which are disposed a number of loading stations 17, each carrying a grapple type mechanism including a grappling hook 18 and a hook actuator 20 (see FIG. 3).
Associated auxiliary components comprise: additional discs 22 and 23 mounted near the ends of the rotating shaft 16, but not provided with hooks and actuators, whose function is merely to support each piece of lumber along its length and mainly close to its extremities; lumber restraining arms 24 (see FIG. 4) mounted on a rocker shaft 26 and having a back and forth motion normally controlled by a rotating disc cam 28 in conjunction with a follower roller 30, both held in close contact by the forward force applied on the arm 24 through a pneumatic cylinder 32; a polygonal wheel 34 (see FIG. 5), mounted on rotating shaft 16, which causes signals to be emitted by a detecting element 36 to prevent access to a loading station in an unfavourable part of its cycle, for lumber previously held back by the combined action of the restraining arms 24 and the pneumatic cylinder 32; photoelectric cells 38 over the lumber approach decks 40 and 42, whose functions are:- a) to cut off lumber flow by causing a "pinch" type mechanism 44, 45 to be closed in case of oversupply, and:- b) to bunch up or straighten out the pieces by retracting the restraining arms 24 through the action of pneumatic cylinder 32 in cases of undersupply or of skewing of the incoming pieces. Transverse acceleration chains 46 followed by receiving chains 48 equipped with lugs 49 are provided downstream of the feeding apparatus to transfer the lumber pieces 13 individually to a manufacturing process.
Referring to FIGS. 1 to 5, the operating sequence throughout the system can be described as follows: each piece of lumber having opposite sawn or cut faces 13a, 13b moves crosswise in a single continuous layer on smooth parallel chains in transfer section 40. The pieces pass from section 40 to section 42 as long as load conditions on section 42 do not create undue pressure on the loading stations 17 of the feeding discs 20. Load conditions on section 40 are monitored by the photoelectric cells 38 which can actuate the pinching clamp 44, 45 in order to hold back or release the flow of lumber from section 40 to section 42. The timed positioning of each piece for loading upon the feeding discs is provided by the restraining arms 24 which are normally pushed forward by pneumatic pressure of cylinder 32 and into contact with the rotating cam disc 28 through the roller follower 30. In cases when lumber has been held back and is being released by the restraining arms 24, a further refinement of the lumber entry timing is ensured by signals generated by the polygonal disc 34 and detector 36 combination. At the earliest point of the loading cycle, the leading incoming piece is held back by the top extremity of the retaining arms 24 against the chain pull on the lumber, until follower roller 30 moves down the lobe profile 29 of cam 28 allowing the restraining arms to incline forward and release the piece to the grappling hook of the loading station. The piece is then pressed by the hook against a flat serrated pad 15 forming part of the feed disc 14, until released on the downstream side of the feed wheels by reverse hook motion (as shown in FIG. 3).
The timing for closing and subsequent opening of the grappling hook is tied to the rotational speed of the shaft and the angular position of the loading station in its circular travel. This is accomplished through the action of the rotary hydraulic valve 12, mounted on the shaft 16 of the feeding discs.
Upon the station reaching the discharge position, the grappling hook 18 opens to release the piece 13 to a set of accelerating chains 46 which move it forward at high speed unto chains 48, each piece 13 being accurately placed in the uniform space between the rows of lugs 49. Even though the disc and chain speeds are adjustable to establish the rate of feed, all mechanical elements of the system maintain speed synchronism by the use of positive interconnecting drives.
In order to attain a high piece count (such as 300/min.) in process feeding by rotating feeder, it is necessary to actuate a number of loading stations in each revolution of the discs. One solution is to utilize large diameter discs to accommodate as many such stations as necessary; however, this would lead to an increase in the dimensions of the associated components with an equivalent escalation of required working space and equipment costs. Larger diameter discs would also cause higher peripheral speeds and more severe impact on the pieces as they reach critical positioning at the loading stations. Instead, the present invention provides as a preferred alternative, for the purpose of high piece count loading, a number of smaller diameter discs 14 installed near the mid-point of the main rotating shaft 16 each carrying a convenient number of loading stations coming into receiving position at a constant rate so that, in each revolution of the discs and shaft assembly, a sufficient number of pieces are loaded into stations moving at a moderate speed, thus reducing the impact forces and the resulting chatter and bouncing of the pieces being loaded.
In order to preserve timing accuracy regardless of disc rotational speed, the rotary valve 12 which controls the opening and closing of the grappling hooks 18 through their actuator 20 as the stations move in and out of the loading zone, is mechanically tied to the disc mounting shaft 16. In a preferred mode of this invention, a part of the valve connected to a hydraulic supply (not shown) is anchored to a fixed base located at the extremity of the disc mounting shaft 16, while the other portion is keyed to said shaft and rotates around the fixed part. Hydraulic fluid leakage to the exterior is prevented by a sealing arrangement 66 (see FIG. 6) between the fixed and rotating parts. Alternative means of maintaining speed synchronism between the discs shaft and the rotating portion of the valve may include a mechanical drive from one to the other, such as a chain over sprockets, a gear train, etc. Such an alternative mode of mounting the hydraulic valve would however, complicate the hydraulic distribution circuit from valve to actuators, without providing offsetting benefits.
Referring to FIG. 6, the valve 12 operates in the following manner. Hydraulic fluid under pressure is supplied through inlet port 50 on the stationary part 54 of the valve. An exhaust port 52 is also provided in the same section of the valve. Hydraulic fluid under pressure is fed internally through the stationary valve core to groove porting 56 on its circumference. Complementary exhaust grooving 58 is also connected internally to external port 52. The rotating part 60 of the valve is keyed to the feeding disc rotating shaft 16. The rotating part of the valve is hydraulically connected through its external ports 64 through appropriate conduits (not shown) to the hydraulic actuators 20 of the grappling hooks 18. Rotation of the valve outer part 60 with the feeding discs 14 through their common mounting shaft 16 causes the outer ports 64 to become momentarily and successively connected to the pressure and exhaust chambers provided by the circumferential grooving 56, 58 on the stationary section 54 of the valve. Because of the synchronized alternance of pressure and exhaust conditions in the feed circuit to the actuators, the grappling hooks 18 on the feeding discs 14 open and shut alternatively in the proper sequence relative to the position of each loading station.
Although the invention has been described above with respect to a specific form, it will be evident to a person skilled in the art that it may be modified and refined in various ways. It is therefore wished to have it understood that the present invention should not be limited in scope, except by the terms of the following claims.
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|Mar 15, 1952
|Jun 1, 1954
|De Koning Edwin W
|Lumber transfer mechanism
|Mar 26, 1959
|Feb 6, 1962
|Portland Iron Works
|Lumber feeder
|Sep 13, 1971
|Sep 11, 1973
|Gen Electric
|Bar stock storage dispensing and feeding apparatus and method
|May 19, 1976
|Mar 7, 1978
|Alpo Rysti
|Apparatus for sequentially forwarding bodies to a conveyer
|Oct 28, 1986
|Sep 26, 1989
|Newnes Machine And Ironworks Ltd.
|Lug loader
|May 9, 1984
|May 29, 1990
|Ireneo Bozza
|Device for transferring articles from a first to a second conveyor with predetermined rotation of the articles during the said transfer
|Nov 4, 1988
|Aug 7, 1990
|Harvey Industries, Inc.
|Lugged chain board loading apparatus
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|Sep 2, 1997
|Les Ateliers D'usinage Normandin Inc.
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|Sep 29, 1998
|Newnes Machine Ltd.
|Singulator and allocator elongated members
|Jun 22, 1998
|Apr 24, 2001
|Denis Compact Chicoutimi, Inc.
|Lumber feed system with load responsive speed modulation
|Feb 1, 2001
|Jul 16, 2002
|Linden Fabricating & Engineering (Prince George) Ltd.
|Spiral singulator
|Dec 5, 2000
|Aug 13, 2002
|U.S. Natural Resources, Inc.
|High speed board feeder
|Nov 29, 2001
|Apr 8, 2003
|Linden Fabricating & Engineering (Prince George) Ltd.
|Spiral singulator
|Jan 23, 2002
|Mar 9, 2004
|The Koskovich Company
|Intelligent deck apparatus and method for positioning workpieces in preparation for processing
|Aug 31, 2001
|Aug 3, 2004
|Quebec Inc.
|Turning device for lumber and the like
|May 9, 2001
|Aug 17, 2004
|Invision Technologies, Inc.
|Analysis and presentation of internal features of logs
|Oct 18, 2004
|Nov 14, 2006
|Coe Newnes/Mcgehee Inc.
|Process and apparatus for identifying, tracking and handling lumber to be cut-in-two
|Jun 6, 2005
|Jul 8, 2008
|Radio Frequency Services, Inc.
|Apparatus and method for manufacturing panels from wood pieces
|Jan 24, 2012
|The Procter & Gamble Company
|Methods and apparatuses for transferring discrete articles between carriers
|Jan 31, 2012
|Carbotech International
|Lumber transfer system
|Aug 17, 2012
|Aug 19, 2014
|Price Logpro, Llc
|Log singulator and method of singulating logs
|Jun 5, 2014
|Jun 28, 2016
|Usnr, Llc
|Lug loader
|Dec 22, 2000
|Aug 29, 2002
|Krautkramer Robert Eugene
|Saw for flexible substrates
|Jan 23, 2002
|Oct 24, 2002
|Koskovich Jerome E.
|Intelligent deck apparatus and method for positioning workpieces in preparation for processing
|Oct 18, 2004
|Apr 21, 2005
|Coe Newnes/Mcgehee Ulc
|Process and apparatus for identifying, tracking and handling lumber to be cut-in-two
|Jun 6, 2005
|Dec 8, 2005
|Radio Frequency Services, Inc.
|Apparatus and method for manufacturing panels from wood pieces
|Nov 19, 2009
|Oct 7, 2010
|Carbotech International
|Lumber transfer system
|Jun 30, 2009
|Dec 30, 2010
|Bradley Edward Walsh
|Methods and apparatuses for transferring discrete articles between carriers
|Feb 28, 2013
|Price Logpro, Llc
|Log singulator and method of singulating logs
|Apr 30, 1998
|Nov 25, 1998
|Franz G�rtner
|Separating device
|U.S. Classification
|198/459.5, 198/461.3, 198/463.5
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|May 2, 1995
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Stephen Price, a reporter from the Tallahassee Democrat, tells Keith Olbermann about being kicked out of a John McCain event. Price was told only national press were allowed -- but none of the other local reporters weren't asked to leave. "The fact that I'm black was the only obvious reason," Price concludes. Watch:
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Quadrophenia is a 1979 British film, loosely based on the 1973 rock opera of the same name by The Who. The film stars Phil Daniels as Jimmy, a young 1960s London-based Mod who escapes from his dead-end job as a mailroom boy by dancing, partying, taking amphetamines, riding his scooter and brawling with the motorcycle-riding Rockers. Wikipedia
Dave: Chalky
(Standing outside a tenement building occupied by West Indian families)
Dave: This place gives me the shits, bloody nig-nogs everywhere. It's like bleedin' Calcutta around here.
Chalky: Dave: Calcutta's in India.
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Draft and Trade Talk Message Board
Auction League: Eight Keepers
Twelve teams. Budget is $260. List is below.
If I keep Victor Martinez, then I'm only allowed seven keepers since he didn't meet our league AB requirement.
Leaning toward Beltre, Castro, Cueto, Willingham, Dickey and Craig. Leaves me with room for two more. Thoughts? Thanks!
$37 Felix Hernandez
$37 Cliff Lee
$29 Zach Greinke
$22 Adrian Beltre
$22 Alex Rodriguez
$22 Paul Konerko
$20 Brandon Phillips
$14 Starlin Castro
$11 Jayson Werth
$9 Johnny Cueto
$8 Melky Cabrera
$6 Greg Holland
$5 Tyler Clippard
$5 Casey Janssen
$5 Tommy Milone
$5 Addison Reed
$5 Rafael Soriano
$5 Tom Wilhelmsen
$5 Victor Martinez
$5 Josh Willingham
$5 Mike Minor
$4 R.A. Dickey
$4 Allen CraigSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
A Yahoo! User Feb 7, 2013 7:41 PM Flag
I'm not going to bother getting into pitchers here but $4 Allen Craig is probably going to do as much for you as $22 Paul Konerko, easily. Definitely a solid choice
BrewCrewDue BrewCrewDue Feb 7, 2013 7:40 PM Flag
Soriano as closer for Wash at $5? Probably your #1 Keeper on this list!??
Dickey at 4. Willingham at 5. Craig at 4. Beltre 22. Castro at 14. Cueto at 9. and I'd probably keep Felix at 37. Lee wont go for that much and I think Grienke the same. probably raises Felix's price overall. Dickey,Cueto,Felix for 50 is a great starting 3. You have one of the best closers for 5 so 55. Willingham,Craig,Beltre,Castro total 45 so you've spent 100 leaving 160 to spend on remaining 15players. 2b/C has many an option probably for very cheap. I'd probably spend big on 1 pitcher. 1 1b. and 1 OF. then let the cheaper options fall on to my team.
felix, beltre, phillips,castro,craig,dickey, willingham, and cueto.
I like Minor and Soriano at those prices. Your 3 aces are two expensive for my taste. Wouldn't be surprised if you could pick them up at a discount in the draft.
Assuming your league has saves as a category I think Soriano $5 & Wilhelmsen $5 would be easy keepers. Thats a lot of cheap saves.
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I suppose Holland could be considered to an extent as well.
dont leave Melky hangin in the wind
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$8 Melky + $5 Minor $5 Martinez? That's what I'm weighing right now.
I'd think Felix is a keeper. I don't play in any auction leagues, but that seems like a good price for an ace. Willingham is also a good value if you don't keep VMart.
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Considering what Seattle just paid for Felix, that might be fitting.
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Just watched a brilliant short video called Transform by Zack Arias
a must see for those that go through "moments" of giving up on your 'art'
Journal Comments
Sue Wilson (Kane) about 7 years ago
Well worth the watch….great find Johnno….can so relate!!
Rosalie Dale about 7 years ago
Gee this bloke reads minds!!! This is so 'me' especially in winter. I'll pass this on thanks John.
Neil about 7 years ago
Great message! Thanks John!
SD Smart about 7 years ago
I wasn't sure what to expect from the intro but it is very meaningful even beyond the photography. Thanks for the link.
rodmueller about 7 years ago
Well spotted John.Thanks for posting.
Paul Moore about 7 years ago
Thanks for sharing John, this is awesome. Have pondered this topic even in my very short time with the camera, and I know that not only photographers would get something out of this. Showed it to my wife and she did!
Mieke Boynton about 5 years ago
Someone must've just favourited this, coz it just popped up in my feed…
John, thanks so much for sharing this. I think I got a skewed message out of it (probably because I'm living in perpetual summer up here!!!) but I often struggle with the concept that my photography isn't making any difference to the world – it's only contribution is to make ME happy (which makes it a pretty selfish hobby really!).
But then to watch something like this, and realise that photography CAN be meaningful and CAN affect lives… well, I just have to find the right way to do it. At the moment, it brings joy to one person (well, maybe three… my Mum and my stepdad aswell!!), but that's not to say that it'll always be that way. It'll never cure cancer, and I'll never be a photojournalist, but there must be something… some way…
Besides, I'm a much nicer person when I'm happily taking photos. That's gotta count for something, right??
Thanks again. I know this will stick with me for at least the next few days… a lot of wise words in there, actually!
John Conway about 5 years ago
Hi Mieke
It popped up because I "favourited" it :)
Two reasons, it's about that time of year for me, so was to remind me to stop belly aching and get out and get some shots, the second reason was hoping it would help at least one other person…. mission accomplished :)
Mieke Boynton about 5 years ago
Lol… at least there's a reason behind you favouriting your work… I once accidentally favourited one of my photos and because it was just after I joined, I couldn't figure out how to "un-favourite" it… Lol.. I was mortified!! I think I ended up writing a journal asking for help!!
Two very good reasons to favourite it, I say! I probably should have also said before… it's not so easy for me to relate to the bellyaching because I'm still so 'green' … The excitement will wear off eventually, I'm sure … but I just bought myself a new tripod and another filter and am considering a new lens, so it won't happen in the near future!!! I'm heading to Broome this weekend to try for some nice beach photos… =D Gotta love when it's still 30 degrees here and it's coming up on Wintertime!!!
John Conway about 5 years ago
Am off to Phillip Island for 4 days, probably be a balmy 14C LOL
Oh photography still excites me, just want to be the best I can and I feel I'm nowhere near it at times. I guess I should be patient. :)
Tania Rose about 5 years ago
yes, that wintry bleak. I know it well, and as a musician i experience it too
Robert H Carney about 5 years ago
Sort of a "slow read" at first but boy does he catch up quickly! This to an old guy like me, is inspiring but I am closer to being like his dad. Yet I still want to get out and create and improve. I should have 6 or 8 more years to be productive and I am wanting to improve! Nice video for those who are patient!


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When someone leaves their home within 30 days of Pesach without someone to be bodek it from chometz, they themselves have to be bodek it early (See Siman 436.) In the normal case of bedikas chometz one may not do malacha, eat or learn before making the bedika once the time as come (and even a half hour before) to make the bedika (See Siman 431.) Do these same dinim apply to someone who will be making a bedika early before leaving their house?
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Hoarders, listen up: IKEA is hosting a free three-day organization exhibit on Miami Beach.
If your home is channeling a scene straight out of Hoarders, it's time to give the following FREE event a whirl...
WHAT: A complimentary three-day public exhibit focused on storage and organization solutions
WHERE: ArtCenter/South Florida, 800 Lincoln Road (corner with Meridian Avenue), Miami Beach, FL 33139
WHEN: Friday, July 23 and Saturday, July 24 (12 to 11 p.m.) and Sunday, July 25 (12 to 10 p.m.)
MORE INFO: Those interested in attending should visit 800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139 on Friday, July 23 – Saturday, July 24 (12 to 11 p.m.) and Sunday, July 25 (12 to 10 p.m.)
WHY: Being a hot mess is so passé.
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Athiest Loses Final Legal Challenge To Recover State Money Used To Renovate Alto Pass Cross
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Re: My Printer is printing very slow
I have had this happen twice and both times it was when I accidentally left a paper in for copying. Even when I removed it, the printer went into very slow mode. Finally, I tried unplugging the printer and removing the cord from the back of the printer as well. I turned off the printer, rebooted, turned it on again, and the problem is solved. At least in my case, I needed to reset things after removing the paper I had copied and left in. I do not know if this is your issue, but I am passing it on in case it is as it is certainly frustrating when this happens.
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
Hi Bob,
I have a D1360 and had the same slow printing issue. Ive tried your suggestion, first I remove the black cartridge and did the test print, its fast. Then I remove the Color and putback te black, testprint...its OK too. Then I put them back and print my work... the problem persist, very slow printing. What happen ? isit software problem ?
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
I tried with the eraser and it works !
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
Thankyou somuch !!! the eraser works...
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
I have a HP Deskjet 6940. I tried your method (with pencil eraser) of gently cleaning of the cartridge contact inside the printer. Amazing results!!!! It's back up to speed and it only took 30 seconds. Thanks.
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
Read the issues with slow printers, tried the suggestions and discovered the color cartridge had ink build up on the back of it..cleaned it off, and all is well!
Thanks to HP for the help!
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
This worked for me, I removed my tri-color because it was empty and it printed fast again!
Bob_Headrick wrote:
trunk wrote:
I'm trying to see why my printer is so slow. I see your responses below but I am not at all technical..
What is a swath, how do I print in reserve mode? is cartridge an ink cartridge or something else in the printer?
A swath is the printhead moving across the page. Reserve mode is possible on most recent printers that have a two ink cartridges, one for black and another that is tri-color. When one of the ink cartridges is removed the printer will automatically switch to reserve mode and print with the remaining cartridge.
What is your printer model?
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
I have a PSC 2410 photosmart printer that was working fine until a couple of days ago....now it prints one page in 8 minutes.....one line then a pause of 45 seconds and then another line. I switched ink cartridges and then one at a time but it still prints slow. What is wrong....I see this same problem on chats on line.
Re: My Printer is printing very slow
My H P all in one D110 series printer hase slowed right down
Re: My Printer is printing very slow[ Edited ]
11-06-2014 04:52 PM - last edited on 04-20-2016 04:00 PM by OscarFuentes
Thank you. I hope an HP person reads this and adds these troubleshooting steps to the following HP document:
I read that document, and since our cartridges are genuine, the only possibility according to the document was the power supply, so ordered one ($$$).
While waiting for it to arrive I found this thread, and sure enough, one of our genuine HP cartridges was the problem, and replacing it was the fix.
I now have an extra power supply that I don't need...
Thanks HP! (sarcasm)
Thanks Bob! (sincere)


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