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Anyone who isn't aware that the Democratic Party includes a large contingent of those who openly profess to being socialists/communists, along with those who hold ideological views that are blatantly Marxist in nature, would have to be dangerously ignorant/, uninformed, and/or experiencing a psychotic break with reality.
Wow, talk about a break with reality...
There is a *very small* contingent of Democrats who profess to being a socialist or a communist. Most who had done so in the past have left the Democratic Party because the party is very much in the capitalist camp.
If you believe a large contingent holds views that are Marxist in nature, you need to either read up on Marx or actually talk to Democrats... instead of listening to the demagogues who profit from your buy-in to their claptrap on right-wing radio.
I recall a while back how Obama was using a talking point about how there was a relatively small building in Grand Cayman which housed some thousands of corporations who didn't really do business there. He blamed it on tax avoidance. Trouble is, the same kind of building exists in Deleware, who has an income tax.
DE does not assess income tax on income earned outside of DE. I'm not sure how DE's income tax is relevant here.
Wlell, Deleware has very lax laws and the "deregulation" that many socialists decry, which make it much easier to run a business out of there.
What do you mean, "lax laws"? What laws are lax that would encourage corporations to incorporate there? The fact that shareholders can issue binding statements in writing rather than being required to have meetings? I fail to see how "socialists decry" that kind of activity.
The reasons to incorporate in DE are simple... it's far cheaper outright (low fees and extremely low franchise tax) and laws kind to corporations in re: legal activity (e.g., certain classes of civil cases are adjudicated by judge's written statement, not trial by jury).
Another way the DE:Cayman similarity breaks down is that income in other states is still taxable in other states. A DE corporation HQ'd in NY with an operations nexus in MA still pays NY corporation taxes and MA personal property taxes. So I'm not sure what you are complaining about, or what similarities you're trying to draw.
That money is most often re-invested in said company
If they do that, they are idiots. Why would you reinvest after-tax distributed income when you could use the money in the company prior to distribution of profits to shareholders?
Something about your claim doesn't add up.
I worked for an S-Corp at one time; shareholder distributions were made AFTER all expenditures, including capital expenditures. If a shareholder wanted to invest more money in the company, usually it was done via loan. This loan was a personal investment like any other... and as such, must be done with after-tax income unless part of a qualified IRA or 401(k) plan.
It's not global warming that is killing coral reefs. It is ocean acidification [wikipedia.org].
Acidification is a threat to the long-term viability of coral reefs.
However, the reefs that are dying off now are doing so not because of acidification, but by-and-large because of high water temperatures.
Here, "ocean/shore localities suitable for farming" don't become less suited for salmon farming just because there is a farm there for any period of time.
Obviously, you don't have any knowledge of salmon farming or you would know that salmon farming *does* make the real estate used for it unusable after a period of time with current methods. Decades for recovery.
You're talking out your ass again. I'm done with this discussion.
Farmed != harvested. It's pretty deceptive to equate the two.
Not when I address that issue in my very next sentence.
If one were being fair and truthful, one wouldn't say that salmon farming isn't sustainable, but that it isn't sustainable at its current volume under current circumstances (an assertion which I'm not convinced is true BTW).
Except that is what I said: "Salmon, on the other hand, is not really sustainable using current practices." Why are you insinuating I am not being fair or truthful?
I fail to see any item of discussion in your post I did not address in my original response, other than your accusation of me being unfair or lying (which is clearly unfounded).
If you have anything of substance to add to the discussion, I'd be happy to continue it. Otherwise, bugger off.
They claim salmon and carp are the most farmed fish in the world.
Just because they're the most farmed fish in the world doesn't mean they are sustainable. Passenger pigeons, at one point, were the most-harvested bird species in the US... turns out that wasn't sustainable. One difference between passenger pigeons and salmon is what the diminishing resource is... in the case of the pigeons, it was the pigeons themselves that were hunted to extinction. For salmon, the resource is ocean/shore localities suitable for farming.
Carp, I'd guess, is sustainable, since it can be farmed much like tilapia.
Salmon, on the other hand, is not really sustainable using current practices, though there is promise for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) and other methods to improve sustainability.
Even if you wanted to say that something that happened in the 12th Century is relevant, those were regional power struggles under the guise of religion.
Somehow you think the situation today is any different?
You can't explain that away by anything other than we're experiencing massive spending increases that have no relation to anything but that the feds just want to spend more money.
To be a little more complete, the "partners" of the feds who own private concerns doing contract business with the US government want the feds to spend more money. Government payrolls? Way down since 2000. Direct government assistance? Doesn't even come close to making up that increase.
The federal government wastes its money lining the pockets and coffers of private businesses. I believe that if it's worth it for government to spend money on something, then the government should operate it. Schools (local government), prisons, military, roads, etc. The only exception should be commodity procurement necessary for operations where there is a competitive marketplace.
I find it ludicrous that there are companies that contract with the US government whose executive compensation is in the tens or hundreds of millions per year. Civil servants should be doing their jobs.
When you pay back investors of government bonds here is what happens. They get a TON of extra capital. Where does it go? Back to the stock market and to the private sector in lines of credit for small business to hire and expand.
It goes into inflation. Buying back bonds doesn't increase GDP, it simply increases the cash in circulation relative to GDP.
Furthermore, with interest rates currently so low, and bond buyback serving to reduce yields, you end up with a situation where banks and other entities are even less likely to invest money in the economy at large.
You have it backwards. Issuing government bonds is a counter to inflation; buying them back can cause inflation.
Elections do, indeed, have consequences... the American people gave a large majority in the House of Representatives (where all taxes and spending are constitutionally-required to originate) to the Republicans
And yet Democrats received a majority of the votes for House members... not just a plurality, a majority... yet the Republicans used their control of Statehouses to gerrymander the shit out of Congressional districts.
The House Republicans have no mandate. The people of the US voted against them. Only chicanery has let them keep a majority in the House.
The American People did not choose to have Republicans control the House. It is fact that a majority of Americans voted for Democrats in the House this election cycle.
Your point does not stand.
Atheists don't believe in evil.
Bullshit. I'm an atheist, and I believe in evil. It may not be your version of "Evil" (so I agree with you on the subjective part). But then again, all morality is subjective.
But I digress.
And how does voting for evil fix anything?
Voting for the lesser of two evils, as he said, does make a difference (inasmuch as any single vote can make a difference). Faced with a choice between two undesirable outcomes, you opt for the less undesirable one. This is basic rationality, here... not sure how you could be confused by it.
You know that smelly unkempt guy who shows up at your LAN party and has just about every cheat installed and who shouts PWN! every time his aimbot blows your guy's head off? Yeah...the guy you want to knife in the Kidneys.
These guys will run for office one day as a Democrat.
Horseshit. We all know that guy is a libertarian.
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The present invention relates to a display device and, more particularly, to a display device comprising a curved array of lenses and associated pictures which, by relative movement between such an array and an observer, can present to the observer a plurality of images, which may be identical or which may vary for the purpose, for example, of giving the appearance of a moving picture.
Various display devices have, in the past, been proposed for providing an observer with an image which changes in dependence on the relative position of the observer and the display device. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,241,429, issued Mar. 22, 1966 to H. D. Rice et al., relates to a pictorial parallax panoramagram unit which comprises a lineated image layer and a lenticular screen fixed directly over the lineated image layer. The lenticular screen comprises a series of semi-cylindrical or partially cylindrical curves forming the forward faces of elongate lens elements which have planar rear faces. On the image layer, and corresponding to each of the lens elements, there are provided two different panels which, in combination, form two separate images, which are successive images of a scene so as to provide the impression of movement when the display panel is viewed from different angles. Since this display device is of a generally planar shape, there is no suggestion of effecting relative rotation of the display device and the observer in such a manner as to be able to present, for example, a cyclically varying sequence of images nor is there any suggestion that the device may be viewed from any location about the device.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,586,592, issued June 22, 1971 to L. Cahn, there are described various display devices intended to provide a three dimensional picture by enabling the viewer to simultaneously view different picture elements, but again there is no suggestion of a relatively rotatable arrangement of the display device and the observer.
Other display devices are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,514,814, issued July 11, 1950 to G. Towne; 3,686,781, issued Aug. 21, 1972 to Hugh C. Calhoun, Jr.; 3,538,632, issued Nov. 10, 1970 to K. Anderson and 4,034,495, issued July 12, 1977 to Jerome H. Lemelson.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel and improved display device in which an array of lenses is arranged, in association with a plurality of picture elements, so as to facilitate rotation of the display device relative to an observer in order to present to the observer a sequence of different images which may, if required, vary cyclically.
More particularly, the present invention provides a display device comprising a plurality of positive lenses disposed in an outwardly curved lens array, a plurality of concavely curved pictures respectively associated with the lenses, the pictures each being disposed behind the respective lens and being located substantially at or within the focal length of the respective lens, and the pictures each comprising a plurality of picture elements such that, when the lens array is viewed from different angles by an observer, the observer is able to perceive a composite image formed from magnified images of the picture elements of different ones of the pictures.
Preferably, the array of the lenses is a cylindrical array which, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, is rotatable together with the pictures about the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical array, so as to provide the observer, external of the array with a sequence of images which changes in a cyclical or repetitious manner to give the impression of a moving picture or to present successive different images to the observer. Alternatively the curved array of lenses is a spherical array.
The invention will be more readily understood from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof given, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows a view in perspective of a display device embodying the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the display device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 shows a view in perspective of a picture forming part of the display device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 shows a diagrammatic plan view of three of the lenses of the device of FIG. 1 in each of two positions;
FIG. 5 shows a diagrammatic plan view of one lens of the device in FIG. 1 showing preferred object and image distances;
FIG. 6 shows a diagrammatic plan view of one lens of the device in FIG. 1 showing the preferred curvature of the picture backing the lens;
FIG. 7 shows a view in cross-section through an illuminated table model of the device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 8 shows a view in cross-section through an illuminated outdoor sign using a large version of the device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 9 shows a method of manufacturing a small version of the device of FIG. 1 using plastic rods as lenses;
FIG. 10 shows a small novelty pen using the design of the device of FIG. 1 and the materials of FIG. 9;
FIG. 11 shows a spherical design of the device of FIG. 1, with and without lenses;
FIG. 12 shows a method of producing a continuous photographic film based on the design of FIG. 1 and
FIG. 13 shows a movie camera using the film of FIG. 12 after the design of the device of FIG. 1.
The device of FIG. 1, which is indicated generally by reference numeral 10, has a plurality of elongate, cylindrical curved lenses 11. These are shown in a preferred form, in which they are transversely curved convexly on both inner and outer surfaces and touch or nearly touch each other along their vertical edges.
The lenses 11 are arranged in a cylindrical array, with the longitudinal axis of each lens parallel to and equidistant from the vertical axis (not shown) of the cylindrical array, and with the optical axis of each lens passing through the axis of the cylindrical array.
The lenses 11 are conveniently molded of transparent plastic material.
Within the cylindrical array of elongate lenses 11, there are provided a plurality of transversely concavely curved, elongate pictures indicated by reference numeral 15, each picture 15 being associated with a respective one of the lenses 11 and each having its substantially concave surface 16 (FIG. 2) facing outwardly of the cylindrical array of lenses 11.
The cylindrical device 10, comprising lenses 11 and the associated pictures 15, is rotatable about its vertical axis.
Referring now to FIG. 2 of the drawings, which for convenience shows the observer 20 much closer to the display device 10 than would be normal during the operation of the display device, it will be apparent that, with the cylindrical array in the position of rotation in which it is shown in FIG. 2, the observer 20 views a composite image 21, which is made up of a plurality of discrete image elements 22 (which are indicated by respective reference characters A,B,C . . . through F), each being a magnified image of a corresponding picture portion 23 (which are indicated by respective reference characters a,b,c . . . through f) of the pictures 15. Due to the nature of the cylindrical lenses, the picture portions 23 are elongate, strip-like portions of the pictures 15, their width being determined by the angles of view and by the focal length of the lenses 11.
It will be apparent that, following a snall additional rotation of the device 10, the observer 20 will observe different discrete image elements of different corresponding picture elements.
More particularly, lenses facing the observer 20 have been indicated, together with their associated pictures by reference numerals 1, 2, 3 . . . through 7. The observer 20, who as previously mentioned is shown closer than would normally be the case, sees only portions 23 of these pictures, these portions being elongate strips or picture elements a, b, c . . . through f (FIG. 3), which are each magnified in the horizontal dimension to fill the width of the corresponding lens, and thus to produce corresponding image elements A,B,C,D,E and F that combine together to form the composite image 21 in the plane of the vertical axis of rotation of the device. With a preferred distance between lens and picture, to be described later, this image will appear to remain still as the device rotates, with the lenses seeming to sweep over it. But when the device has advanced one lens-width, the image A-B-C-D-E-F will then be made up of a new set of picture elements a, b, c, . . . through f.
If each picture 15 is identical, a steady image A-B-C-D-E-F will be seen from all sides, irrespective of how the device is rotated. The pictures 15 will normally be shrunk in the horizontal dimension by a factor related to the magnification of the cylindrical lenses, as seen in FIG. 3, so that the magnified images will have normal proportions. The picture elements a, b, c . . . through f will blend smoothly into a recognizable, though elongated picture.
If however, each new set of picture elements a, b, c . . . through f represents a different picture, the image will change correspondingly as the device is rotated.
If these pictures form an animated sequence, the image will be a motion picture with as many "frames" of action as there are lenses 11 and corresponding pictures 15. If the animation is smooth, with little difference between the frames, each individual picture 16 as shown in FIG. 3 will appear to be fairly continuous, with pictures elements a and b representing the left, picture elements c and d the middle and picture elements e and f the right of the overall image, respectively.
If the animation has sudden changes, there will be discontinuities in the individual pictures, as picture element c of each picture 15 is seen one frame ahead of picture element b, and two frames ahead of picture element a.
Furthermore, it will also be apparent that, after one complete rotation of the cylindrical array about the vertical axis thereof, the sequence of images thus produced will be repeated, and that such repetition will recur, in a cyclical manner, after each rotation of the cylindrical array.
Furthermore, as will be apparent from FIGS. 1 and 2, the image or scene which is perceived by the observer 20 appears across almost the entire width of the cylindrical array.
A preferred distance between lens and picture at which the image appears to remain still as the device 10 is rotated was mentioned previously. Referring now to FIG. 4, a diagrammatic plan view of three lenses 25, 29 and 30, (with corresponding pictures 15) in two positions each, is shown. As each lens moves to the left through a distance equal to a half-lens-width, the lens-picture combination also rotates slightly. As the lens 25 moves to the position indicated by reference numeral 25', three things can happen to the image of picture element b. If the image appears in front of the axis of the cylinder 27, it will move slightly in the direction of rotation to 26'. If the image lies behind the cylinder axis 27, as indicated by reference numeral 28, the image will move in a direction opposite to the rotation of the device, to the position indicated by reference numeral 28'. But if the image lies on the plane through cylinder axis 27, perpendicular to the line of sight 35 from the observer 20, the image will not move as the lens moves from 25 to 25'. Picture element b, which was seen through the centre of the lens in position 25, will now be seen at the edge of the lens at position 25' due to the rotation of the lens as it revolves around the cylinder axis 27.
Further from the centre of the cylinder as seen by observer 20, a lens at position 30 moves to position 30'. If the image of picture element c appears at 31 on the plane through the cylinder axis 27 mentioned previously, the movement of the lens-picture combination from 30 to 30' will cause the image to move from 31 to 31', still appearing to remain still to the observer 20, though moving slightly towards him. Similarly, at the extreme opposite edge of the cylinder as seen by observer 20, if the image 30 of picture element a is on this same plane through cylinder axis 27 perpendicular to visual axis 35, movement of a lens from 29 to 29' will cause movement of the image from 30 to 30', away from the observer but with little lateral displacement.
With this preferred arrangement, a steady image appears with the lenses seeming to sweep across it. Alternatively, if a person walks around the device, the image will appear to follow him. Each person standing around the device will see the image as if facing that particular person. Furthermore, the picture element seen through each lens will be distinct, the sum of the picture elements forming a continuous picture 15 as seen in FIG. 3. The sum of the image elements form a continuous, steady image across nearly the entire visible surface of the cylinder, appearing behind the lenses as a flat picture at the level of the cylinder axis, facing the observer from whatever position he views it.
It is possible to calculate this preferred distance from lens 11 to its respective picture 15, such that the image lies in the plane through the cylinder axis 27. Referring now to FIG. 5, which shows a ray-diagram of a lens 11 with focal length f and its associated picture element (the object) at distance x. The distance y from the centre of the lens to image element 22 may be calculated by the formula:
For lenses in positions 25 and 25' of FIG. 4, y=the radius r of the cylindrical device:
This is a convenient formula for calculating the distance of the picture 15 behind the lens 11. Knowing the focal length of the lens, it is possible to calculate the ideal shape of the concavely curved picture 15 behind each lens 11. FIG. 6 shows how object distance x changes to keep image distance y such that the image is in the plane through cylinder axis 27 perpendicular to the line of sight of observer 20, who as usual is shown much closer than would actually be the case. On the left in FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic plan view of the device with lens 11 in three positions, as indicated by reference numerals 36, 37 and 38. As the lens rotates from position 36 to position 38, it approaches the plane through the cylinder axis 27, and both distances x and y decrease. With the radius of the cylindrical array again represented by r, and the angle of the lens 11 from the optical axis represented by a:
y=r cosine a
The right side of FIG. 6 shows a diagrammatic plan view of lens 11 as if it were fixed and the observer 20 were rotating around it. Values of the image distance y are shown, forming a curved image field. Values of the corresponding object distances x have been calculated by the formula derived from FIG. 5: ##EQU1## It may be seen that the curved object field, the ideal curvature for picture 15, is very close to the shape that a simple loop of flexible material would assume if attached to the edges of the lens 11.
This ideal curve depends on the focal length of the lenses and the radius of the cylindrical array. The width of the lens, and therefore the number of lenses possible around the circumference, will be related to this curve, although practical constraints and the use of thick lenses require departures from the ideal.
FIG. 7 shows a diagrammatic cross-section of a table-top display device. The device 10 shown previously, with lenses 11 and pictures 15, is supported on a bearing 40 and driven by a motor 42 by friction, belt or gear connection to an appropriate rim 41. An electric light bulb 43 which is preferably elongate, illuminates, i.e. backlights, the device 11 from within as the motor rotates the device. A holder 44 for the light bulb is enclosed within the diameter of the bearing, which can be wide or narrow depending on whether the lamp base or merely a slender tube supporting the lamp base and containing the electrical supply to the bulb is so enclosed. An electrical switch 45 is provided, as are air-holes 46 and 47 for adequate ventilation of the lamp. This table-top device may be utilized to provide a novelty nightlight for children. Alternatively, it may be modified so as to run on a clockwork motor without a light, or as part of a music box.
FIG. 8 illustrates, in diagrammatic cross-section, a large display device in the form of a rotating sign. The device 10 is similar in design to others shown but the lenses 11 in this embodiment may be of the thin fresnel variety and may be either flat or curved in shape. The picture 15 is of translucent plastic material and is illuminated, i.e. backlit, from within by a plurality of lamps 43, preferably of the fluorescent tube variety, fixed to a centre pole 50 about which the device rotates. The device is supported on top and bottom bearings 40 and is powered by a motor 42 fixed to the supporting pole 50 and connected with the device by gear, friction, chain or belt drive such that it will disconnect in high winds to avoid damage. The centre pole is supported in turn on a sturdy base 51.
FIG. 9 shows, in very diagrammatic manner, how a continuous sheet of paper or similar material 55 may be pleated by mechanical means 56, producing pleats 57 between which plastic or glass rods 58 may be fixed to produce a belt of lens-picture elements 59. This belt may be cut to length and rolled around a pen or mechanical pencil 60 to produce a novelty pen or pencil as shown in FIG. 10. Turning the pen allows an animation printed on the pleated backing to be seen. The animation may appear to travel down the long, slender device, passing through a number of cycles as it does so.
FIG. 11 shows a substantially spherical device in the form of a novelty ball 61, with lenses 62, some of which are removed from the left-hand side of the device to show the pictures backing the lenses. The lenses 62 are spherical rather than cylindrical, and the pictures 64 are in cup-shaped cells 63 behind the lenses, producing together the image 65. To cover the surface of the spherical device, these cells and their corresponding lenses have a generally hexagonal or pentagonal periphery. The lenses may be molded together as a hemispherical shell, two hemispherical shells being assembled to form a ball around the picture cells, which may be similarly molded in one or several pieces. Alternatively, the pictures may be printed in the flat on thin plastic, which could then be vacuum-molded over a suitable form to produce the cells.
FIG. 12 illustrates in a very diagrammatic fashion how lenses 72 can be embossed in miniature by a suitable device 71 in a transparent film base 70. Dipping the resulting lenticular base in a photographic emulsion 73 produces a light-sensitive backing 74. A cylinder of this material may have its pictures printed by photographic techniques.
Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 13, a continuous roll of this sort of film fed from a film reel 80 over a cylindrical picture drum 81 and into a take-up reel 82 may form a moving-picture camera. The film has a lens surface 72 facing a photographic lens 83, which would be focussed onto the image plane of the lenticular film (generally at the centre of curvature of drum 81). Exposure would be controlled by the aperture of the photographic lens and the rate at which the film is driven. Development of the film is by standard methods. The moving picture so recorded may be observed as the developed film is passed over a cylinder of the same diameter as that in the camera, with no other viewing device being needed. This type of movie camera, with a continuously moving film and no shutter, would work well in high-speed photography.
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|Apparatus for generating an optical illusion
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|Apr 21, 2005
|Baker Henry H.
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|The Procter & Gamble Company
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Weather: 65 degrees. Winds: Gusts up to 16 mph during the game; up to 21 mph by 4 p.m.
Record: Browns (4-5); Bengals (6-4)
Series history: Cincinnati enters the 81st installment of the "Battle of Ohio" with a 42-38 series lead. After dropping seven of the previous eight, the Browns have won two straight games against the Bengals, including the teams' Week 4 showdown in Cleveland. With backup-turned-starter Brian Hoyer filling in for an injured Brandon Weeden, the Browns rolled to a 17-6 win in that game. The Bengals' offense only mustered 266 yards of total offense against a physical Browns defense.
Worth noting: The Bengals and Browns enter Sunday's game with the fourth- and fifth-ranked defenses, respectively. Combined, the teams have allowed just one 300-yard passer this season. With unfavorable weather conditions, and the pairing of the two defenses, it's unlikely that either quarterback will reach that mark in this game. Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton has gone beyond the 300-yard mark four times in the past five games.
Just before pregame warmups officially began, Bengals middle linebacker Rey Maualuga (doutbful/knee) came out and started going through some conditioning drills. It appeared the Bengals were just testing him out, putting him through ladder and other agility drills. Maualuga hasn't played since the Bengals' 49-9 win against the Jets four weeks ago, in Cincinnati's previous home game. During that game, he suffered an MCL sprain and a concussion. His replacement, fourth-year linebacker Vincent Rey, has 18 tackles, three sacks and an interception in the two games he's played in relief. Maualuga practiced Friday in a limited capacity for the first time since suffering his injury.
Browns Friday Injury Report
OUT: TE MarQueis Gray (hamstring)
QUESTIONABLE: OL Jason Pinkston (ankle)
PROBABLE: QB Jason Campbell (ribs), RB Willis McGahee (knee), LB Paul Kruger (finger), RB Chris Ogbonnaya (ribs), CB Christopher Owens (finger)
Bengals Friday Injury Report
OUT: DT Devon Still (elbow), OG Kevin Zeitler (foot)
DOUBTFUL: CB Chris Crocker (hamstring), LB Rey Maualuga (knee)
QUESTIONABLE: LB James Harrison (calf)
PROBABLE: LB Michael Boley (hamstring), LB Vontaze Burfict (knee), C Kyle Cook (shoulder), TE Jermaine Gresham (groin), CB Terence Newman (ankle), DT Brandon Thompson (ankle)


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You can choose to measure yourself by how fast you run on your chosen life treadmill, or you can jump off the treadmill and get a little perspective. There is the career treadmill, the perfect parent treadmill, the wealth accumulation treadmill and any of the dozens of other treadmills out there that cause you to constantly push yourself to go faster and harder – even when they are burning out your soul.
In those moments when you aren't delivering perfection on a treadmill, you may well start experiencing unnecessary feelings of failure. Life treadmills move faster and faster until the time comes when you collapse.
Ease your pace. Know that there will be times when you can run fast and hard, and times when you can't. There will be times when you deliver a Herculean performance, and times when you don't. There will be times when you are "all that" and times when you aren't.
Look at your treadmills. Are they serving you well or causing you to focus too much energy on one dimension of your life while ignoring others that may be personally, physically or spiritually more important?
Don't forget that life is invigorating when you dive into it as a big picture experience. Running hard on one treadmill often means you aren't moving on the other ones, and the day may come when you realize you have spent your life running a million miles and gotten nowhere at all.
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India Tour Packages to explore facets of India
by Richa
(from: Apr 23, 2012 to: Dec 31, 2015)
An enthusiastic traveler wants to explore something new and different and if he wants versatility during his journey, the best destination for him/her is India. India the land of art, culture, beauty and heritage will offer the best packages for you so that you can find everything under one roof. India Tour Packages are unique like the country itself and is one and only medium for you to for an extravagant journey.
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Here presents some of the glimpses of the major touring attractions offered by India holiday packages which will magnetize you throughout your India travel:
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Rajasthan is situated at the western part of India and is the only deserted area which is the symbol of art and livelihood and so is one of the amazing tourist attractions in India. It has been once the royal kingdom of great maharajas holding their royal charm. One can witness majestic forts and palaces and great architectural masterpieces which are available nowhere in the world. The colorful and beautiful places like jaipur, Bikaner, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer will attract you with great touring activities like camel riding, puppet show, infinite and vast deserts with sand dunes, serene lakes and natural surroundings with finger licking traditional foods.
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God's own country Kerala is one of the most natural and green destinations of India. The south west trip of India is illuminated with this amazing state attached with the Arabian Sea. You can find hills and valleys, midland plains and coastal belts along with moderate climate. Every year thousands of vacationers find splendid and pacified moments here to find great beaches, backwaters, hills, wildlife sanctuaries, historic cities and temples and spectacular geographical wonders.
South India tour
A land of great cultural diversification and natural beauty, South India is the greatest destination of life, cuisine and languages flowering with cultural beauty.
Backwaters, lakes and canals are the most attractive points of South India Tour. You can also find a variety of comfortable accommodation at the major cities like Mysore, Bangalore, Ooty, Kanchipuram, Mamalapura, Chennai and many more.
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An adventure lover can find many excitements at the wildlife sanctuaries and jungles. One can find many national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in different parts of India to praise the beauty and creativity of nature and will also witness a number of species of variety of wild life.
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They used to call such occasions Pauper's Funerals but among those who came to pay their respects to a local hero were government ministers and top clergy. However, the true identity of The Kleeneze Rider would remain a mystery to most of the mourners and so martyrdom made his legend perfect.
I didn't attend the trial of his killers. I didn't even go to his funeral. The police would be on the look-out for a lead as to who he was. An unknown man turning up at the crematorium would attract suspicion.
Of course, in one sense they knew who he was. He was Wet Wipe Willie, the famous Kleeneze Rider. But I was determined that no-one would ever know that the Kleeneze Rider was Vernon Boyd, d.o.b. 16-06-1936, retired security guard, 47 Strathdon Court, Knightswood.
It was what used to be called a pauper's funeral. But not many of the penniless dead, the unknown dead – and this one was going to stay unknown – have funerals attended by government ministers and the Lord Provost, with prayers from an archbishop and a sermon about modern society from the Moderator of the Kirk. He'd have loved it, so I was glad he was in no position to love it. I even wondered whether he'd deliberately allowed the boys to do him in, so that martyrdom would make his legend perfect. I'd have been inconspicuous after all, because the TV news showed the chapel filled with members of the public. An elderly woman wept on camera as she said: "I sat on a seat he had just wiped. He has only the public to mourn him."
That last bit was definitely true.
I learned from TV that he'd been murdered. When he didn't come home, I thought he'd just gone on one of his long routes that involved sleeping at a cheap hotel. He'd said he always paid with cash on these occasions and used a false name. That gave me the clue to his strategy for becoming famous. Legends – like Jack the Ripper – thrive if you can ask: who was he, really? So he'd decided he would create the legend anonymously and only then reveal that he, Vernon, was the legend.
Witnesses said the boys looked cocky, side by side with their feet up on a facing seat, legs crossed. He wiped around their feet. The feet didn't move. He took hold of their trackies, hauled their feet upwards, finished wiping. The feet returned to the exact same places. The boys sat immobile, not even exchanging glances, let alone words, until Vernon went to get off the bus. They sprang to their feet simultaneously. Vernon placed his ticket in the used-ticket bin and said, "Thank you, driver." They were seen frog-marching him round the corner into a narrow road between buildings. CCTV caught them knifing him, slicing and gouging into his face time and again, as though making it unrecognisable would stop them getting caught.
I was delighted that the identikit picture was totally unlike him. DNA helped convict the killers but was of no use in identifying Vernon. And, as always, the bus passengers disagreed about what he looked like.
I say as always because newspapers and TV had run stories about Wet Wipe Willie, the Kleeneze Rider, the mysterious figure who travelled around on the buses cleaning seats where people had put their feet on them. But the photos were always blurred or caught him turned away. You looked at them like supposed photos of the Loch Ness Monster, not sure whether you could see anything. And people who'd seen him described him differently. Some reported he was tall and well dressed, with a military moustache and bearing, cleaning the seat like a colonel mucking in. Others had seen a frail little fellow with hardly the strength to stand, wiping seats with a doleful countenance as the bus bowled along.
Some even said the Kleeneze Rider was a woman, a cheery Glasgow wifie. But when the media asked, Who Is The Kleeneze Rider? nobody suggested there was more than one. It's comforting to cherish a lone hero, like thinking that America owes every single apple tree to Johnny Appleseed.
His bus pass! It suddenly hit me: they would have been able to identify him from his senior citizens' bus pass. He didn't have credit cards – "Don't believe in them!" – but he must have had his bus pass with him, for without free bus travel he wouldn't have been able to afford to spend his days as he did, hopping from one bus to another. I began to think that the authorities knew perfectly well who he was but were suppressing the fact for some mysterious reason and would pounce on me in due course.
Vernon had turned up at our house to announce, totally unworried, that he'd had warnings and visits about not paying his rent and now an eviction notice. Did he have the money? – Yes. Why had he stopped paying? – He grinned. He watched me on the phone to the housing association as though it had nothing to do with him. I told them he was just an old man getting forgetful, but they wouldn't rescind the eviction.
"Enough of the forgetful," he said when I came off the phone, and then, with what sounded like triumph, "Well, Graeme, you're going to have to have your father to live with you."
"With me and Ben," I said, in case he thought his moving in meant Ben moving out. Because I was fired up to resist him on that front, I didn't challenge that "have to".
I told Ben: "This is just another attempt at separating us – but I'll never let him."
We had to get used to Vernon raging nightly at the television. A fat 15-year-old girl confided that her baby was the best thing that had ever happened to her. Vernon shouted, "And was it the best thing that ever happened to the bloody baby?"
Ben used to egg him on – or was it to try please him? – saying things like, "Self, self, self: no-one has any consideration for anyone else. I blame Mrs Thatcher."
But Vernon wouldn't so much as acknowledge that Ben had spoken.
What would he have shouted at a report of his own murder by weasel-faced boys of 16 and 17?
One night he looked across Ben and said to me: "Doesn't your lodger want his own place instead of sleeping on the couch?"
"You know perfectly well Ben sleeps with me," I replied, but he'd turned up the TV to drown me. Some boy whose face was clunky with metal was being interviewed about not having a job and said he wanted to be famous. Vernon cried: "Too busy planning where his next rivets will go to concentrate on a bloody job. And foot up on the couch as they film him. I'll show him famous!" Next day he returned from the supermarket shouldering a black rucksack filled with cleaning materials.
At the start he wouldn't begin to work until the miscreants got off the bus. If the seat was leatherette-covered, he'd wipe it with a wet cloth and then a dry one. If it was cloth-covered, he sprayed on dry foam that brushed out without leaving the seat wet. Always he paid no attention to the murmurs and mutual nudging of passengers. If they spoke to him they got no response. It was like he was lost in a spiritual exercise.
Once Ben put his feet on the seat to see if that would shake him into acknowledging him, but no luck.
Later he'd get to work even while the miscreant was still on the bus.
When I saw a pouty-mouthed girl sitting with her back to the window and her feet up, I sensed the mind-set Vernon would be attributing to her: I am a little princess, and the self-esteem I have been filled with means I don't care whether the dinky stylish boots at the end of my long black-trousered legs could transmit dogshit from the street to the seat where people have to sit. When a crowd of people started to get on, she did shift her boots to the floor, but before anyone could sit there, Vernon darted up to brush the cleansing foam in and out, then hurried back to his seat, passing me without a glance.
Later still he'd sometimes start the wiping while the miscreant still had their feet on the seat. He'd work carefully around the footwear. Then a period of tension ensued, a silent battle in which it was uncertain whether he would have to abandon the cleaning or whether the miscreant would be shamed into shifting their feet. Throughout, Vernon never said a word.
They found £80 in cash on the corpse. Since the boys hadn't stolen that, they'd hardly have taken his bus pass, in its worn wee leather holder from Watt Brothers.
I told Ben: "I need to go to the crime scene after all."
The fatal road off the main street was separated from a big supermarket car park by a cordon of cotoneaster bushes, "landscaping", unkempt, litter-strewn. Was he still carrying his bus pass when the boys struck and it fell among the bushes? – Did he even throw it into them, to preserve anonymity until his legend was complete and the moment ripe for his name to be famous? It beggared belief that the police hadn't searched the cotoneasters, but if I could find it I'd be that bit surer that his name would never be known.
The CCTV cameras, wherever they were, that caught the killers would also catch me. That might bring the police to my door.
I devised a mime to demonstrate my innocence to the cameras. They'd see someone hurrying by, staring at his mobile like ordinary morons. He'd stumble, the mobile would go flying into the bushes. While retrieving the mobile he'd have a good rummage for the bus pass; then the cameras would see him holding up the mobile in evident relief.
As I reached for my mobile I saw a policeman standing in the lee of a pinnacled wee church.
The lurch my insides gave made me take out the wrong thing; the stumble I'd already programmed myself to give caused my wallet to fly into the cotoneasters. As I stooped and peered and groped among the stiff scratchy interlocking almost-impenetrable branches, a new thought struggled up, though, alas, unprovable: if alarm at the policeman had confused me, could alarm at the boys have confused Vernon into putting the wrong thing into the used-ticket bin on the bus? – The bus pass carried across town, destroyed by flames among used tickets, safe from unmasking the Kleeneze Rider...
"What are you doing?" A twig jabbed my eye as I poked and groped.
I was still heaving with guilt at having been apprehended by police, even though I'd noticed the wry and unpolice-like exasperation on that "What" and had already realised it was Ben who'd spoken; Ben in black trousers and black bomber jacket, whom, absurdly, I'd mistaken for a policeman.
"I Dropped my wallet." I waved it at him.
"You came looking for that bloody bus pass."
"Because of what he tried to do to us!"
I added: "Though following me about like I'm a loony needing supervision makes me wonder about us."
"If you let it, he wins."
Ben sighed, then parodied my voice. "Legends thrive because you can ask who the person really was. You're right. The Phantom of the Opera: romantic, glamorous figure. But at the end of the novel he turns out to be an architect called Erik. Romantic glamour goes phut! Yes?"
He repeated: "Yes?"
I didn't challenge it. "Okay."
He put his arm around my shoulders. "So puncture his legend and you win. Tell the world the Kleeneze Rider is a security guard called Vernon."
I leaned into his shoulder and allowed him to steer me towards home.
Later I suddenly said: "Oh, but I can't come forward and identify him after all this time. It'll look too suspicious." I said it as if this made me really sorry.
Paul Brownsey was a newspaper reporter. As a mature student he went to Keele University, Oxford University and Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, before lecturing in philosophy at Glasgow University for 37 years. He lives in Bearsden, near Glasgow, with civil partner Jim McKenzie. He has published 60 short stories, one in the Freight Books anthology of Scottish LGBT writing, Out There. Lethe Press will publish a volume of his stories.


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Finding sunshine on the Gold Coast under the clouds is a real pleasure hunt.
The Gold Coast is shining, vibrant and prosperous more than ever, regardless of the recent weather and economy hiccups. Can we still find the shine on the Gold Coast under the shady clouds? Shine without the sun?
Absolutely! I am not talking about the weather and economy, rather the local quality of life, community well-being and community engagement. Who cares for us and for the future of our young and talented generation? If you don't know yet, – please follow me. I have found the answer.
I found a shining crowd yesterday, 9th of December, at the Showroom of the Gold Coast Art Centre. No need for extra light! The room was full of sunshine! The vibrant crowd of guests and performers were smiling at each other and anticipating the beginning of the event. The organizers caring for the young and talented artists, singers, musicians and performers met us at the door.
The organizers and facilitators of the Creative Juices Networking Event – Mariam Arcilla, Andrew Trump and Daniel Carroll kindly confirmed that I was booked in to find out all about it. My friend Ceresse and I took our places close to the stage.
First, the young lads from the punk rock band "Skinwalkers" politely presented their song and clip. The song was inspired by the documentary "Oasis". "Here is your shining city; and their filthy, abused young lives", summarized Doug Anderson of this film clip on Sydney Morning television, on 10th April, this year; but the darkness of the real life become an inspiration for a song. To enable them to fly to Sydney to make a CD and DVD, and to become a part of a national Salvation Army media campaign, Skinwalkers were helped financially. By whom you may ask? I am happy to answer. They were helped by Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) that provides small, fast-turnaround funding for arts and cultural projects. They were helped and now they are helping to shed a light on some of the most important issues within our community. Good on you Skinwalkers! Thank you GCCC and QLD government! You make me feel proud of being part of a caring community.
Next was Antony L. Walker, an Indigenous artist who started to paint under the guidance of his grandfather and grandmother. Already, he is the 2010 Overall Winner of the Gold Coast Indigenous Art and Design Award. In 2008 he was the Peoples' Choice winner for the same award. Living behind many solo and group exhibitions, he received a Career Development Grant from Arts Queensland. His few paintings with pertinent stories were presented to us on the stage screen and on stands around the room. He talked quietly but passionately. You could hear in, and sense from, his voice just how deeply he cares for his ancestors and their stories. I was not imagining that sentiment. At the end of his presentation, Antony concluded that his art is the way he keeps the culture of his grandparents alive and accessible. I wonder if we who were listening to him, now fully understand that he is preserving the history of our country for the generations to come. By helping artists like Antony, our local and federal governments are helping us. I still cannot wipe the happy smile from my face; I am shining from within.
Mariam Arcilla presented the next performer, and wow, the tall yet tiny blond and quite shy girl who had been sitting next to me walked onto the stage. She was Holly Terrens, a song writer, singer, flutist and piano player, who has been surrounded by music since childhood, at home and at church. She writes about what means the most to her: her faith, her life experiences and the coastal environment she has grown up in. As an artist, Holly wants to challenge herself, without being clever just for the sake of it. Today, her music ranges from classic piano-driven songwriting to richly layered and superbly produced pop rock. Holly is already working with producer Brendan Anthony to bring her music to life in the studio with a group of gifted musicians and sound engineers. Holly played and sang two lovely songs for us and I wished that more 'Gold Coaster's' had been there to listen to and see this rising talented star, and to appreciate just what real financial help can support.
Believe it not but the next performer was a doctor who is an expert in everything: psychology, zoology, cardiology and 'artsology'… He immediately separated us by the sound of our voices: girls are the angels and boys are the beasts. He invited us to his coffee shop that has a very sexy coffee machine… I hope you guessed this straight from the first sentence – 'artsology'; the doctor is a comedian and his performance was based on a high interaction with his audience. You could not see his face but you heard his confident voice, "I am looking for customers for my coffee shop!" The volunteer was a lovely petite woman from the row behind us. She brilliantly played along with him all the way to the end. We all enjoyed it. I have to unmask him for you, and tell you all I got to know about him, Brin Pritchard.
With a bachelor of Education in Drama and Post Graduate Diploma in film, Brin went to Paris and studied with his hero Jacques Lecoq. Brin has a long list of credits as an actor, theatre writer, director and teacher in Australia and the UK. He has performed for companies such as Emerge, Underground and Evacuations in shows: "Callisthesia" at the Brisbane Powerhouse; "Batavia" at JWC and "A man with 5 children" by Nick Enright. With Mercury's Wings directors, Claudine Stephen-Smith and James Anderson, he played Horatio in Shakespeare's "Hamlet", performed in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" and most recently acted in "Twelfth Night". No doubt Brin Pritchard is a talented performer but to my surprise I found that he is also an awesome sculptor, and he sings and plays his beautiful Maton guitar. But hey, for a doctor who knows everything, including 'artsology', I should not be surprised.
Brin relaxed us and prepared us well for the next part of the Creative Juices Networking Event in which Andrew Trump took the leading role. It was time to introduce ourselves to each other in 30 seconds with the given microphone. One elevator speech was followed by another, if you know what I mean; if not, read my article on elevator speech.
Anyway, after short introductions we were served like real stars, with cute and tasty finger food with tempting aromas on round trays that appeared and disappeared in front of us. The whole showroom filled up with people talking showcases, exchanging business cards and making initial arrangement for meeting in the future. Honestly, in my notepad I wrote, "The Creative Juices Networking Event of 9th of December was successful and must become a tradition for years to come. It was well organized and well received. It was free but very meaningful in its core. It brought together young, talented and exemplary members of our Gold Coast community to engage in cooperative relationship for the better future of "Gold Coasters" and to acknowledge the result of help given to them by local and federal government. It created an internal feeling of pride and made us shine from within, regardless of clouds and uncertainty outside. It reminded us that we must become united in order to help ourselves by helping others, and that is exactly what happened at the end. People were talking about cooperation and mutual help, they felt the power of working together and their eyes were filled with sunshine.
If you need support and help as an artist, musician or performer please find out more at this link: http://cultural.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/
Or join the Gold Coast Arts and Culture on http://www.facebook.com/goldcoastartsandculture
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Bert Sorin and his friends were on an elk hunt in Montana, on the trail of a herd. When the animals moved, the hunters noticed a calf that had become entangled on a barbed wire fence.
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#062 – Leave Your Laptop At Home
In the spring of 1997, I was hired by the global accounting and consulting firm, Arthur Andersen.
Less than a couple of hours into my first day, I was led to a small office and handed my first laptop – the magnificent, all powerful IBM ThinkPad.
This amazing machine allowed me to work anywhere I could find a place to sit. In addition, it provided me with the ability to work from home in case I didn't get everything completed at the office.
It's ironic that almost 20 years to the day, I now find myself advising my clients to leave their laptops at the office.
In today's podcast, I'll talk about the difference between activity and achievement. You'll learn why being able to work all the time is hurting your productivity and what you can do about it.