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We’re delighted to announce our investment in Lyra Health, the leading provider of innovative mental health benefits for employers, led by David Ebersman.
These tumultuous last few months, and 2020 generally, have highlighted the dire need for widespread access to affordable mental health resources in light of widespread social unrest, macroeconomic uncertainty, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic related to unemployment, social distancing, and loneliness. In fact, the CDC reported in late June 2020 that 40% of adults are struggling with mental health issues or substance abuse. The prevalence and severity of such a mental health crisis certainly takes a toll, not only on individuals directly, but also on the communities in which they live and the businesses where they work. Stress alone is estimated to cost US businesses $300B/yr, a significant financial burden on top of the emotional costs associated with the amount of suffering and stigma related to the issue. As such, it is imperative we invest in solutions not only to treat those in need, but also to apply preventative measures to ensure this crisis does not continue.
Though some individuals can afford the ongoing cost of therapy and associated mental wellness tools, let alone find a provider that fits with their schedule and needs, most Americans do not have that luxury. Given the impact of mental health issues on workplace productivity (in addition to the more obvious personal and familial implications), the case has been made for companies to offer behavioral health solutions as a benefit, thereby improving the lives of their employees and their performance at work. Creating an environment that supports one another to live our best lives is an important component of the future of work.
As such, we are elated to welcome Lyra Health, the leading provider of innovative mental health benefits for employers, to the PLUS Collective. PLUS and members of our celebrity collective invested alongside an exceptional roster of investors including Addition, Venrock, Howard Schultz, IVP, Meritech, and Greylock.
At the highest level, Lyra is tackling the $280B behavioral health market by providing a digital platform connecting members to a curated network of top therapists and behavioral health tools, thereby allowing employers like Morgan Stanley, Starbucks, Genentech, Uber, eBay, and more to invest in a mentally healthy workforce. Lyra CEO David Ebersman, former CFO of both Genentech and Facebook, said it best:
“At a time when the need for better mental health care is surging, it is imperative that we invest in new solutions to tackle stigma, improve access and quality, and remove barriers to care.”
Since its launch in 2015, Lyra has quickly emerged as an industry leader for B2B mental health solutions and was recently named to Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2020. Lyra now serves over 2 million employees and family members across its growing list of enterprise customers, and will use proceeds from this latest financing to continue scaling their customer base, invest in more tech-enabled treatment solutions, and expand and diversify its very high-quality provider base.
As PLUS continues to spend a significant amount of time in the health and wellness vertical, we’re focused on backing the operators and entrepreneurs behind innovative preventative and treatment products and solutions like Lyra. However, we’re also acutely aware of the need to destigmatize mental health in particular, given that harmful stereotypes often prevent people from seeking treatment or speaking out at all. Continuing to bring the conversation around depression, anxiety, addiction, and other common conditions into the public sphere is not only important, but also effective in inspiring people to seek treatment according to mental health experts. This is where the power of the PLUS artist and athlete collective comes into play. We’re thrilled that a number of our high-profile actors, artists, and athletes share our passion for this mission around destigmatization and more effective, accessible treatment, and thus have invested in Lyra as well. Our hope is that their affiliation with the Lyra brand, along with potential future marketing and business development support, will fuel the company with even more fire to continue tackling the behavioral health market with expanded and improved access to mental health solutions in the US and beyond.

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Former member of Parliament and Owen Sound alderman Dr. Gus Mitges died Sunday at Guelph General Hospital.
Dr. Constantine (Gus) Mitges, a veterinarian by profession, was born Feb. 5, 1919, in Psili Vrisi, Greece, came to Canada at the age of six and was raised in Guelph.
Before spending more than 20 years as an MP, Dr. Mitges served as a city school board member in Owen Sound in the early 1960s, then became an alderman in 1966.
He served on city council until 1972, the year he was elected Progressive Conservative MP in the riding of Grey-Simcoe. He was re-elected in the riding in 1974, 1979, 1980, 1984 and was elected in 1988 in Bruce-Grey after federal ridings were changed. He retired from federal politics in 1993 and did not seek re-election that year.
He was married to Yolanda (Odorico) and was predeceased by his first wife, Velma (Martin). His children include George, Angela, Kent and Gwen and step-children Santina and Yolanda.
Dr. Mitges was also involved in amateur theatre. He served as president of the Owen Sound Little Theatre in 1960-62 and again in 1969-70, and was involved in the Western Ontario Drama League and was a director of Theatre Ontario in 1971. He also was a Mason and member of the Oddfellows.
He received one of Greece's top civilian awards in 1995, when he was made a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix for his work as president of the Greece Parliamentary Association.
Visitation will be at Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral Home in Owen Sound, 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday. A funeral service will be held at the St. Georges Anglican Church at 11 a.m. Thursday before interment in Greenwood Cemetery.

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The recovery company, founded in 1974 by Frank McAllister, launched a campaign called Stuck in Snow, which offered services to help out stranded motorists. It has been a tough few years for smaller operators in this area (ie anyone who's not the AA or RAC). As the credit crunch hit and oil prices rocketed, people stopped using their cars as much - and the number of jobs for McAllisters, now run by Frank's son Mark, decreased too. 'People actually changed their driving habits,' he said.
Unfortunately for McAllister, the extent of the problem eluded him at first. 'Our accountant was out of his depth and didn't want to admit we had a problem.' After an external consultant was brought in - weeks before McAllister was due to get married - he had to decide whether to sink or swim. He went for a full-on front-crawl, making almost a fifth of the workforce redundant. 'I had to sacrifice a few to save the many,' he says. And he was right: McAllisters was back in profit in 2010 for the first time in three years. 'Painful as they were, if we hadn't made those redundancies, we definitely wouldn't be here now.'

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We are proud to announce the launch of our new website for Kids Play USA Foundation (www.kidsplayusafoundation.org). Please feel free to take a look and navigate through the website to learn more about organization and how you can get involved to support our mission to get as many children involved in organized youth sports as possible. Our new website is very interactive and highlights the current challenge of the rising costs of youth sports, our game plan to address the challenge, a special events section, e-newsletter sign-up, a photo gallery, testimonials, a news stream and blog where we will be featuring relevant information and resource tips related to youth sports and much more.
Feel free to let us know your thoughts on our new website, by leaving a comment to this posting below. We appreciate your input and thanks in advance!
Finally, we’d like to thank Aiden Marketing, a full-service marketing agency, for designing our new website. They have worked diligently with our organization to ensure that our on-line presence was reflective of our desires and would be attractive to current and prospective supporter of our cause. Additionally, they are helping Kids Play USA to get on-board with social media — Aiden Marketing is be building our our profiles on the Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ social media platforms.
Again, welcome to the home of our new website www.kidsplayusafounmrdohairdesign.com — be sure to come back often to our site to stay connected with Kids Play USA Foundation!


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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Not Always A Serious Mental Illness: Sally Satel in Wall St. Journal
The Battle Over Battle Fatigue
Soldiers can now claim trauma from events they didn’t actually experience. Is the diagnosis losing meaning?
By Sally Satel
Military history is rich with tales of warriors who return from battle with the horrors of war still raging in their heads. One of the earliest known observations was made by the Greek historian Herodotus, who described an Athenian warrior struck blind “without blow of sword or dart” when a soldier standing next to him was killed. The classic term—”shell shock”—dates to World War I; “battle fatigue,” “combat exhaustion” and “war stress” were used in Word War II.
Modern psychiatry calls these invisible wounds post-traumatic stress disorder. And along with this diagnosis, which became widely known in the wake of the Vietnam War, has come a new sensitivity to the causes and consequences of being afflicted with it.
Veterans with unrelenting PTSD can receive disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. As retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, secretary of Veterans Affairs, said last week, the mental injuries of war “can be as debilitating as any physical battlefield trauma.” The occasion for his remark was a new VA rule allowing veterans to receive disability benefits for PTSD if, as non-combatants, they had good reason to fear hostile activity, such as firefights or explosions. In other words, veterans can now file a benefits claim for being traumatized by events they did not actually experience.
The very notion that one can sustain an enduring mental disorder based on anxious anticipation of a traumatic event that never materializes is a radical departure from the clinical—and common-sense—understanding that disabling stress disorders are caused by traumatic events that actually do happen to people. This is not the first time that controversy has swirled around the diagnosis of PTSD.
In brief, the symptoms of PTSD fall into three categories: re-experiencing (e.g., relentless nightmares; unbidden waking images; flashbacks); hyper-arousal (e.g., enhanced startle, anxiety, sleeplessness); and phobias (e.g., fear of driving after having been in a crash). Symptoms must last at least one month and impair the normal functioning to some degree. Overwhelming calamity, not only combat exposure, can lead to PTSD, including natural disasters, rape, accidents and assault.
Not everyone who confronts horrific circumstances develops PTSD. Among the survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing, 34% developed PTSD, according to a study by psychiatric epidemiologist Carol North. After a car accident or natural disaster, fewer than 10% of victims are affected, while among rape victims, well over half are affected. The reassuring news is that, as with grief and other emotional reactions to painful events, most sufferers get better with time, though periodic nightmares and easy startling may linger for additional months or even years.
Large-scale data on veterans are harder to come by. According to the major study of Vietnam veterans, the 1988 National Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Study, 50% of those whose stress reactions were diagnosed as PTSD recovered fully over time. A re-analysis of the data, published in Science in 2006, found that 18.7% of Vietnam veterans suffered PTSD at some point after returning from war, but half had recovered by the time the study was conducted in the mid-1980s.
A 2010 article in the Journal of Traumatic Stress summarized over two dozen studies and found that among servicemen and women previously deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, between 5% and 20% have been diagnosed with PTSD.
The story of PTSD starts with the Vietnam War. In the late 1960s, a band of self-described antiwar psychiatrists—led by Chaim Shatan and Robert Jay Lifton, who was well known for his work on the psychological damage wrought by Hiroshima—formulated a new diagnostic concept to describe the psychological wounds that the veterans sustained in the war. They called it “Post-Vietnam Syndrome,” a disorder marked by “growing apathy, cynicism, alienation, depression, mistrust, and expectation of betrayal as well as an inability to concentrate, insomnia, nightmares, restlessness, uprootedness, and impatience with almost any job or course of study.” Not uncommonly, Messrs. Shatan and Lifton said, the symptoms did not emerge until months or years after the veterans returned home.
This vision inspired portrayals of the Vietnam veteran as the kind of “walking time bomb” as immortalized in films such as “Taxi Driver” and “Rambo.” In the summer of 1972, the New York Times ran a front-page story on Post-Vietnam Syndrome. It reported that 50% of all Vietnam veterans—not just combat veterans—needed professional help to readjust, and contained phrases such as “psychiatric casualty,” “emotionally disturbed” and “men with damaged brains.” By contrast, veterans of World War II were heralded as heroes. They fought in a popular war, a vital distinction in understanding how veterans and the public give meaning to their wartime hardships and sacrifice.
Psychological casualties are as old as war itself, but historians and sociologists note that the high-profile involvement of civilian psychiatrists in the wake of the Vietnam War set those returning soldiers apart. “The suggestion or outright assertion was that Vietnam veterans have been unique in American history for their psychiatric problems,” writes the historian Eric T. Dean Jr. in “Shook over Hell: Post-Traumatic Stress, Vietnam, and the Civil War.” As the image of the psychologically injured veteran took root in the national conscience, the psychiatric profession debated the wisdom of giving him his own diagnosis.
During the Civil War, some soldiers were said to suffer “irritable heart” or “Da Costa’s Syndrome”—a condition marked by shortness of breath, chest discomfort and pounding palpitations that doctors could not attribute to a medical cause. In World War I, the condition became known as “shell shock” and was characterized as a mental problem. The inability to cope was believed to reflect personal weakness—an underlying genetic or psychological vulnerability; combat itself, no matter how intense, was deemed little more than a precipitating factor. Otherwise well-adjusted individuals were believed to be at small risk of suffering more than a transient stress reaction once they were removed from the front.
In 1917, the British neuroanatomist Grafton Elliot Smith and the psychologist Tom Pear challenged this view, attributing the cause more to the experiences and less on those who suffered them. “Psychoneurosis may be produced in almost anyone if only his environment be made ‘difficult’ enough for him,” they wrote in their book “Shell Shock and Its Lessons.” This triggered a feisty debate within British military psychiatry, and eventually the two sides came to agree that both the soldier’s predisposition to stress and his exposure to hostilities contributed to breakdown. By World War II, then, military psychiatrists believed that even the bravest and fittest soldier could endure only so much. “Every man has his breaking point,” as the saying went.
In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association adopted post-traumatic stress disorder (rather than the narrower Post-Vietnam Syndrome) as an official diagnosis in the third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. A patient could be diagnosed with PTSD if he experienced a trauma or “stressor” that, as DSM described it, would “evoke significant symptoms of distress in almost everyone.” Rape, combat, torture and fires were those deemed to fall, as the DSM III required, “generally outside the range of usual human experience.” Thus, while the stress was unusual, the development of PTSD in its wake was not.
No longer were prolonged traumatic reactions viewed as a reflection of constitutional vulnerability. They became instead a natural process of adaptation to extreme stress. The influence of individual differences shaping response to crisis gave way to the profound impact of the trauma, with its leveling effect on all human response.
If the pendulum swung too far, obliterating the role of an individual’s own characteristics in the development of the condition, it served a political purpose. As British psychiatrist Derek Summerfield put it, the newly minted diagnosis of PTSD “was meant to shift the focus of attention from the details of a soldier’s background and psyche to the fundamentally traumatic nature of war.”
Messrs. Shatan and Lifton clearly saw PTSD as a normal response. “The placement of post-traumatic stress disorder in [the DSM] allows us to see the policies of diagnosis and disease in an especially clear light,” writes combat veteran and sociologist Wilbur Scott in his detailed 1993 account “The Politics of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans Since the War.” PTSD is in DSM, Mr. Scott writes, “because a core of psychiatrists and Vietnam veterans worked conscientiously and deliberately for years to put it there…at issue was the question of what constitutes a normal reaction or experience of soldiers to combat.” Thus, by the time PTSD was incorporated into the official psychiatric lexicon, it bore a hybrid legacy—part political artifact of the antiwar movement, part legitimate diagnosis.
While the major symptoms of PTSD are fairly straightforward—re-experiencing, anxiety and avoidance—what counted as a traumatic experience turned out to be a moving target in subsequent editions of the DSM.
In 1987, the DSM III was revised to expand the definition of a traumatic experience. The concept of stressor now included a secondhand experience. In the fourth edition in 1994, the range of “traumatic” events was expanded to include hearing about the unexpected death of a loved one or receiving a fatal diagnosis such as terminal cancer. No longer did one need to experience a life-threatening situation directly or be a close witness to a ghastly accident or atrocity. Experiencing “intense fear, helplessness, or horror” after watching the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on television, for example, could qualify an individual for PTSD.
There is pitched debate among trauma experts as to whether a stressor should be defined as whatever traumatizes a person. True, a person might feel “traumatized” by, say, a minor car accident—but to say that a fender-bender counts as trauma alongside such horrors as concentration camps, rape or the Bataan Death March is to dilute the concept. “A great deal rides on how we define the concept of traumatic stressor, says Harvard psychologist Richard J. McNally, author of “Remembering Trauma.” In the civilian realm, Mr. McNally says, “the more we broaden the category of traumatic stressors, the less credibly we can assign causal significance to a given stressor itself and the more weight we must place on personal vulnerability.”
For some non-combat servicemen and women, anticipatory fear of being in harm’s way can turn into a crippling stress reaction. But how often symptoms fail to dissipate after separation from the military and subsequently morph into a lasting disability is unknown.
Americans are deeply moved by the men and women who fight our wars. We have an incalculable moral debt, as Abraham Lincoln said, “to care for him who shall have borne the battle.” Yet rather than broaden the definition of PTSD, it would do our veterans better to ensure they first receive quality treatment and rehabilitation before applying for disability status. Otherwise, how can we assess their prospects for meaningful recovery no matter their diagnosis?
The new regulations announced by Mr. Shinseki take the definition of PTSD further than any of his predecessors surely imagined.
Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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THE THINKING CHARACTERWhen animating characters, every movement, every action must exist for a reason. If a character were to move about in a series of unrelated actions, it would seem obvious that the animator was moving it, not the character itself. All the movements and actions of a character are the result of its thought process. In creating a "thinking character," the animator gives life to the character by connecting its actions with a thought process. Walt Disney said, "In most instances, the driving forces behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character—or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them."To convey the idea that the thoughts of a character are driving its actions, a simple trick is in the anticipation; always lead with the eyes or the head. If the character has eyes, the eyes should move first, locking the focus of its action a few frames before the head. The head should move next, followed a few frames later by his body and the main action. The eyes of a character are the windows to its thoughts; the character’s thoughts are conveyed throught the actions of its eyes.If the character has no eyes, such as an inanimate object like a Luxo lamp, it is even more important to lead with the head. The number of frames to lead the eyes and head depends on how much thought precedes the main action. The animator must first understand a character’s thought process for any given action. Consider a character wanting to snatch some cheese from a mouse trap; the eyes will lead the snatch by quite a bit because this is a big decision. The character needs time to think, "...Hmm...This looks tricky, is this cheese really worth it or is it just processed American cheese food?...Oh what the heck...," he decides, and snatches the cheese.Conversely, if the action is a character ducking to miss a low flying sheep, the anticipation of the eyes leading the action should be just a couple of frames. "What the...," and the next thing, he is spitting wool out of his mouth.The only time that the eyes or head would not lead the action would be when an external force is driving the character’s movements, as opposed to his thought process. For example, if that character was hit in the back by the low flying sheep, the force of the impact would cause the body to move first, snapping the head back and dragging it behind the main action of the body.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
The Thinking Character
I remember one day Tom told us in the dailies, "This character does not look like he's acting. He looks alive". I think the difference between "acting" and "alive" is all about "what the character is thinking". If the character looks like they're acting, then maybe the character is thinking about his performance (which sometimes works, for example, a shot with a cocky actor acting in cheesy way on a stage). All the movement and action should have a reason. Think about the thought process and show it through the characters. I just found good article about this by John Lasseter.
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Now, we know the flow of ice is from west to east up thar.......or through the area around Greenland. So what will happen is the ice in the Berring Sea will eventually reach the Barrents Sea......right?
"Chilly paradox: melting Arctic leads to snowy winters That missing iceberg is 12" deep on your driveway"
"The study, announced February 27, notes that above-average snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has been measured each year since 2007 (when Arctic sea ice reached a record low level). During the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 Northern Hemisphere winters, snow cover reached its second and third highest levels on record.
“Our study demonstrates that the decrease in Arctic sea ice area is linked to changes in the winter Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation,” said Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. “The circulation changes result in more frequent episodes of atmospheric blocking patterns, which lead to increased cold surges and snow over large parts of the northern continents.”


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Once you've passed your CDL exam, the next thing you need to do is decide if you're going to work with a trucking company or become an owner operator. This is a big decision because the roles are very different. Being an owner operator provides you with a lot more freedom, but it also comes with a lot more responsibility. Here's a look at some of the things you should consider before you choose.
Where Will You Get Your Truck?
When you work with a trucking company, a semi truck is usually provided as part of the contract and you're charged a lease fee for its use. If you're not in a position to purchase a truck, this may be the best option for you. However, you don't need to be able to buy the truck outright to become an owner operator. You can purchase a good quality used semi truck from a local dealer and even secure a payment plan in most cases.
Do You Have Cash Resources On Hand?
The old statement that you have to spend money to make money is definitely true when it comes to the trucking industry. Not only do you need to have a truck you can run, but you'll also need to have some money set aside for potential disasters, breakdowns and slow periods. When you work with a trucking company, you'll often have a company card to pay for repairs and other problems, but those costs are your responsibility as an owner operator. You'll also want to have enough financial stability to be able to turn down any loads that won't be significantly profitable for you so you can spend your time on the runs that will make you money.
Who Can You Trust To Manage The Business Side?
Unless you have a background in tax law, accounting, and business management, you're going to need help managing your business as an owner operator. Unlike drivers who work for a company, you won't be able to just turn in a log book and invoices to let someone else handle everything. You need to be able to manage a schedule, book loads, negotiate the contracts for those loads, keep your log book up to date, keep track of all of your expenses, and file accurate taxes at the end of the year. A business consultant, financial analyst, or other professional can help with this, so make sure you have that support.
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My dad was a mechanic, but I never had any interest in cars when I was young. My dream was to become an accountant, and that is what I do for a living today. When I began my career, the stress of my job began to take a toll on me. One day, I visited my dad, and like usual, I talked to him while he was fixing up a car in our garage. He told me to switch places with him and began telling me what to do with them to help him repair the car. After just a half-hour or so, I felt more relaxed than I had in months. The rest is history, as they say, and I am now passionate about automobiles and auto repair. I also find blogging very relaxing, so I decided to combine my favorite hobbies and start an auto blog!

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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson Back Together
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were photographed together last night for the first time since their split in July, and Entertainment Tonight has the exclusive photos and video. Tune in to Entertaiment Tonight on Oct. 15 at 7pm ET/PT to see the exclusive footage of the reunited couple.
Stewart, 22, and Pattinson, 26, were spotted at the Ye Rustic Inn, a bar in Los Angeles' trendy Los Feliz neighborhood. To see the photo, click here.
Sources say the couple spent more than four hours at the bar and came with about 10 friends. The two were in obvious good spirits and even "cozied up to each other." Onlookers said there was no sign of tension between them at all, and they laughed and joked and enjoyed their drinks.
The couple broke up following Kristen's brief fling with her married "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders.
The "Twilight" stars are scheduled to make their first red-carpet appearance since the split later this month while promoting "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2," which hits theaters Nov. 16.
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Live stream Lady Gaga's A-list-packed One World concert for free
It’s already being described as ‘this generation’s Live-Aid’…
In the early hours of this Sunday (UAE time), April 19, some of music’s biggest names will unite for One World: Together At Home.
It’s an event cooked up by the uniquely creative mind of Lady Gaga, in association with Global Citizen, an anti-poverty organisation.
And she’s picked an all-star team of musicians, comedians and speakers (as well as, bizarrely, David Beckham) to perform in the concert that aims to raise awareness for Covid-19 preventative practices and celebrate the efforts of health workers across the world.
The growing list of headliners will include socially distanced performances from Elton John, J Balvin, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Maluma, John Legend, Billie Joe Armstrong, Andrea Bocelli, Eddie Vedder, Idris Elba, Kacey Musgraves, Burna Boy, Chris Martin and, presumably, Gaga herself.
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon have also signed up to take on hosting duties.
Granted, it is a pretty eclectic mix, but also exactly the type of line-up you’d get putting many people’s Spotify library on shuffle.
⭕ We’re excited to announce One World: #TogetherAtHome, a global broadcast on April 18, curated in collaboration with @LadyGaga and featuring your favorite artists and comedians — all in support of the @WHO and healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis. (1/7) pic.twitter.com/ZspKXtmd2V
— Global Citizen (@GlblCtzn) April 6, 2020
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The concert kicks off at 4am on Sunday UAE time, and will be broadcast on US TV. A companion service will also be available on multiple streaming platforms including Facebook and YouTube – although the mechanics of how this will differ from the TV broadcast are yet to be unveiled on the concert’s website.
At a WHO press conference for One World, Gaga clarified that this gig is not a telethon. She’s already raised the USD35 million in contributions she needed.
Gaga’s message was simply “put your wallets away and enjoy the show you deserve”.


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I had the pleasure of being inspired by Jewel at ISPA 2014. I have to be honest, I didn’t expect such a dynamic person to be before us on the stage. Truth be told, Jewel’s musical storytelling turned out to be a highlight of the conference. Here’s why….
As I waited in my seat for Jewel to take the stage, I was not sure what to expect. I was just guessing she would tell some stories and sing some of her popular songs. Well once the show started, I realized that Jewel is just that….a jewel! I loved her from the moment she came on stage. She was so sweet, funny and endearing. She was humble and thankful of her success. These are all things in my mind that make someone truly memorable.
Who knew she had lived in a car, under a shrub and on the lamb from reality? Who knew her family is the inspiration of Alaska: The Last Frontier? I mean, REALLY? She was a frontier girl that was blessed with the love of her family and an amazing voice.
What Jewel reminded me is that despair and sadness can be turned into hope. They are the perfect fuel for that kind of transformation! You need to stay true to yourself, find and focus on your passions in life and believe that dreams do come true.
But let’s not be naive. It’s not enough to believe….you must fight for what’s right and what you believe in as well as take action in order to make things happen. I encourage anyone reading this to strive to be your very best, inspire those around you, do good things, follow your dreams and live your life with passion. It’s the most fulfilling way to live, so why not give it a try? Bonus! We have a New Year approaching, the perfect opportunity to take inventory, make plans and start over.
Once again, the ISPA conference offered so much more than I expected. (Eric Wahl graffiti artist pictured below!) It is really a gem of an event and I encourage you to make plans to attend next year – TODAY. 🙂 The contacts you make, the opportunities to share with fellow spa industry folks, educational takeaways and inspiration make it worth every penny and then some When we take time away from our daily tasks, we find a renewed perspective and infusion of energy, it’s priceless.
Often, a few days away is all it takes to give you a fresh outlook on seemingly insurmountable problems in your spa or in your personal life. It is a gift we don’t often give to ourselves, yet it benefits so many others as well. It’s literally almost selfless to take care of yourself so that you can then take care of those around you. Try it!
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So you’ve decided when you need to take the plunge for the exciting world of business. Starting a advanced business is one of the most satisfying ventures to undertake as you will be be working for both yourself and watching your goal bear fruit. You will be required to set up your business in the better way to ensure those enterprise runs smoothly not having any hiccups.
Initial Setting Up including Your Business
The first thing that you have to accomplish is decide on solutions sort of business structure you’re going to will have for your particular service. Perhaps you’re a professional and want to set up a plumbing service industry as a sole owner. That means that you have been starting your business whenever an individual who’s shelling out on their own. Now you’ve got to choose a name for your own personal business. You may prefer to select a discover like ‘Payne Plumbers’ in the market to better identify the enter of business you’re conducting.
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Ron Artest isn’t trying to be Ghandi. He simply wants to spread the word about peace, love and understanding with his name change. That’s what he said anyway Wednesday on ESPN’s “PTI.”
OK, so he also said he was inspired to change his name to “Metta World Peace” by NFL star Chad Ochocinco, who had changed his name from Chad Johnson.
“I always like to be on the move as far as creatively, thinking about things and marketing,” Artest said. “I really wanted to be inspirational.”
He added, “It’s about education and connecting with the youth.”
Which apparently is working. Artest said the kids at a recent basketball camp yelled “World Peace” when they broke out of a huddle instead of the usual inspirational “Let’s Go” or “Win.”
Artest still needs to have the name change approved at a Aug. 26 court date at Los Angeles Superior Court, but said he will petition the NBA to have “World Peace” on the back of his jersey. He doesn’t, however, expect his teammates to call him “Metta” in the locker room.
So you can call him Ron or Metta or simply silly.
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When will the Antiques Roadshow be at Firstsite?
Filming will take place this summer, so start searching your garages and lofts for hidden gems and shining up your favourite treasures!
The team are on the hunt for a broad mix of antiques, family heirlooms and vintage treasures. Every show will feature specialists in the fields of jewellery, silver, ceramics, glass, pictures, rare books, clocks and watches, and militaria, as well as a team of experts with knowledge of all things collectable – from retro toys to movie and music memorabilia, from ancient antiquities to costume jewellery, from mid-century furniture to vintage fashion.
How to attend the Antiques Roadshow at Firstsite
Applications for tickets and to showcase items are now open with limited places. To apply for either please visit: www.bbc.co.uk/antiquesroadshow
Please note that on the date of the filming – to be revealed nearer to the time, only visitors with a ticket for the Antiques Roadshow will be able to access the Firstsite building and grounds. This is for crowd control and security reasons, because the event is so popular. Tickets will be available via our website from early June, for visitors who only want to access our building.
More about the Antiques Roadshow
The Antiques Roadshow celebrates its 45th anniversary this year – the very first show was broadcast on 18th February 1979, from Newbury, Berkshire.
For the past four decades, the award-winning show has visited hundreds of venues in the UK and abroad.
Others venues which will feature in the 47th series include:
- Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery in Walpole Park, Ealing, west London
- Cromford Mills, near Matlock in Derbyshire
- Thirlestane Castle in Lauder in the Scottish Borders
- Beaumaris Castle on the island of Anglesey
- Botanic Gardens in Belfast
Presenter Fiona Bruce, who will be filming her seventeenth series of Antiques Roadshow, says: “A new series of the Antiques Roadshow begins again and I, for one, can’t wait. Travelling the length and breadth of the UK to see what the great British public have pulled out of their attics and off their shelves. I know we’ll see items of great quality and value – but I’m always drawn in by a moving personal story too. They are what often stick longest in my memory. And I’m determined to improve my record on Basic, Better, Best. Surely I’ve got to get more of them right this year!”
BBC Studios, Series Editor Robert Murphy says: “We want the Roadshow to be for everyone, and we want to see those special items that mean something to you – last year, we saw a dazzling range of items: jewellery bought for a few pounds at a carboot sale, an Olympic torch, a Rolex that had been through a lawnmower, punk t-shirts, a two thousand year old carved stone head, a silver jug used in a royal ritual. And most memorably, a Victoria Cross medal awarded to a Sikh solider in World War II that was valued at a quarter of a million pounds. We can’t wait to see what treasures you’ve got to surprise and delight us at this year’s shows!”
Watch the current series of Antiques Roadshow on BBC One on Sundays from 8pm.


I am a horror fanatic. If there’s one constant in my life that predates even my affection for ladies, it’s an insatiable hunger for everything related to vampires, zombies, serial killers, haunted houses, and evil puppets. So when I heard about Bleeding Earth, a new YA horror novel by Kaitlin Ward with a lesbian protagonist, I knew I had to get my hands on it–and I was not disappointed.
The scenario in Bleeding Earth is both fiendishly inventive and terribly simple: One day, with no explanation, blood begins to ooze from the earth. It’s human blood, it’s everywhere, and it doesn’t go away–instead, it slowly rises, contaminating the water supply, flooding the roads, and causing all manner of other problems. Like any good apocalypse, this doesn’t just endanger the world’s population; it drives people to extreme measures to save themselves and their loved ones, revealing the true strength and ugliness at their cores. Ward’s novel brilliantly evokes both revulsion and a less obvious, but more ominous, sense of dread, as everything we take for granted is called into question.
The reader sees all this through the eyes of a teenage narrator named Lea, who begins the book with an extremely relatable problem: Lea is out, but her girlfriend Aracely isn’t, so they can only be together when no one else is around. As the blood rises, however, concerns about keeping their relationship from Aracely’s father are replaced with the struggle to stay together and stay alive when the very earth under their feet seems to want to destroy them.
It’s incredibly refreshing to read a story with a queer protagonist that highlights experiences other than coming out and discrimination. Lea is out when the story begins and has the acceptance and support of her friends and family; Aracely’s coming out is so far from being the main point of the book that when it eventually happens, it’s offscreen and only mentioned in passing. Being gay is just one facet of who these characters are, and, as they struggle to survive in an ever-changing hellscape, far from the most important facet. Ward depicts LGBTQ people as we are in real life–complicated, nuanced, and not excited about wading to school through ankle-deep blood.
I was fortunate enough to get to interview Kaitlin Ward about Bleeding Earth, which has quickly become one of my favorite horror novels.
AfterEllen.com: My first question has to be: How do you feel about spoilers? Is it okay to tell people that the lesbians don’t die? We’re so inundated with media where the queer love story ends in tragedy that I feel like “the lesbians don’t die” is a huge selling point for Bleeding Earth!
Kaitlin Ward: I’m fine with you mentioning that! It was a deliberate choice I made for exactly the reason you mentioned, and I think it was absolutely the right choice for the story.
AE: It’s always a relief to read a book where the queer characters get to do more than worry about coming out. What made you choose to write an apocalyptic horror story with a queer main character? How did you decide that Lea should already be out before the story began?
KW: When I started writing Bleeding Earth, the plot came to me first (it always does, for me!) and when I started writing some of the early scenes before I’d figured out much about the characters, Aracely (Lea’s girlfriend) just kept showing up. I realized that the two characters had chemistry, and it just developed from there. The main reason I decided that Lea should already be out when the story began is that while I do think coming out stories are very important, they’re also much easier to find than stories where a queer main character is already out and fairly comfortable with it—especially in speculative fiction, where queer leads are pretty hard to find altogether. I wanted Lea’s conflict to center around the apocalypse, because while her sexuality is always going to be a presence for her in a way that a straight person’s sexuality isn’t, her sexuality does not singularly define her. It is just one part of the whole, as it is for everyone, and I think that it’s really important for there to be stories with queer leads where some of those other parts of the whole get to be more in the forefront. I hope that there are readers who see a bit of themselves in Lea and feel encouraged.


Texas Memory Systems’ RamSan-210 has passed the testing process for the “Designed for Windows 2000 Server” logo making it the first and only solid state disk system to do so. The accreditation is given by Microsoft to products exhibiting full compatibility with the operating system. The RamSan-210 completed testing as a “Fibre Channel Disk.”
“Our products have always offered the best performance without resorting to overly complex architecture” says Woody Hutsell, Marketing Director for Texas Memory Systems. “The RamSan-210’s successful test is further proof of the RAM-SAN line’s high levels of interoperability.”
According to Hutsell, the company intends to earn the logo on all their solid state disk products. “The best clients need constant reassurance that vital network components are thoroughly tested to work in their environment. This and other forms of compatibility testing gives them that piece of mind.”
The RamSan210 is available in capacities from 8-32GB. To provide data protection even in the event of a power failure, data is mirrored from the SDRAM (solid state) element of the device to two standard disk drives. Writes to all three devices occur simultaneously. The two disk drives are hot-swappable, as are the two power supplies within the system. Connectivity to the device is provided by up to four fibre channel ports running at 1 or 2 Gbps. All RamSan210 systems occupy 2U of rack space.
Dubbed “The World’s Fastest Storage”, Texas Memory says that the RAM-SAN line of solid state disks outperforms any storage device currently on the market.


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In the beginning of 2014 i created my first watch, a 42 mm Titanium Toolwatch.
I’ve been testing this watch since i finished it, doing all kinds of work, making stuff, building workbenches, riding motorbikes, mountainbikes and doing archery (vibrations) to see if the watch kept functioning.
For the last 2 years, it has performed flawlessly, no matter what i threw at it..
I Also designed and made different dials, to get the look i wanted.
Plans are: producing this Timepiece in series, starting begin 2017.
The watch has proved to be reliable, time to let others enjoy this watch as well
After purchasing a number of STP 1-11 Movements, i have re-engineered the Instrument 2 case to accept this movement, turning this model from hand-wound into automatic.
The casedesign is also slightly altered, a bit longer to facillitate easy strap replacement.
But the main features remain unchanged, the crown for instance will remain at the 4 o’clock position, to get it “out of harms way”.
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System and method for cutting and spooling a web of paper
System for cutting a travelling web (20) of paper being wound on a spool (24) and transferring the cut edge to an empty spool (27) to continue the winding; the system including a drive roll (36) for pulling a cutting tape (33) from a supply source (35) and propelling it through a guideway (30) underneath the travelling web (20) of paper from a near end to a far end just short of the nip (29) between the roll (24) of paper being wound and an empty spool (27) to begin winding; an applicator (46-50) for applying a short length of adhesive to the forward end of the tape before it is propelled to the far end; a sensor (51, 52) determines the passage of the forward end of the tape (33) through the guideway (30) toward the far end; another sensor (53, 55) to detect whether a short length of adhesive is present or absent from the forward end of tape; a brake (59) to clamp the tape (33) and prevent the forward end from advancing to the far end of the guideway (30) while the remainder of the tape (33) behind the brake (59) is diverted into a temporary storage area (69) for a large loop of the cutting tape; a cutter (41) to cut the tape to an appropriate length to perform the operation of cutting the web (20) of paper; and a guideway switch (65, 66) to shunt off to a waste collection area a length of cutting tape (33) having no adhesive on its forward end.
My three U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,659,029; 4,757,950; and 4,783,018 illustrate the most pertinent prior art to this invention. These patents show how a cutting tape can be passed through a guideway underneath a travelling web of paper, perhaps 10 to 20 feet or more wide and be attached to the far side of an empty spool while the operator remains on the near side of the spool. These patents teach the use of mechanical arms to receive a cut end of the tape with adhesive on the tape, and to push the cut end into contact with the empty spool which winds the tape helically around the spool, cutting the paper web as it does, and wrapping the oncoming web around the empty spool. Processing difficulties have arisen to indicate the need for handling errors, such as the failure to apply a suitable amount of adhesive to the tape, which, in turn, means that the tape does not attach itself properly to the empty spool and, therefore, does not cut the travelling web of paper and transfer it to the empty spool. In the modern high speed plants it is very important that any such errors be handled quickly and efficiently.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved system for cutting and spooling travelling webs of paper. It is another object to provide a system which permits the operator of the cutting and spooling steps to perform all of the necessary operations in preparing the cutting tape for its use and sending it to the far side of the empty spool without the necessity of actually moving from his controls on the near side of the spool. Still other objects will become apparent from the more detailed description which follows.BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a system and method for cutting with a tape a travelling web of paper being wound on a first spool and for transferring the oncoming web to an empty spool for continued winding by attaching to the far end of an empty spool a cutting tape emerging from a guideway conducting the cutting tape from a supply and processing area adjacent the near end of the empty spool. The guideway extends transversely underneath the travelling web and has a lengthwise slot facing upwardly toward the web. The cutting tape has a forward cut end coated with an adhesive for a short distance along the center portion thereof and leaving the edges free of adhesive to be slidingly supported in the guideway along such edges. The improvements comprise a sensor to detect the presence or absence of a length of adhesive on the cut end; a sensing means to detect the passage of the cut end beyond the means for applying adhesive; a means to divert the cutting tape into a storage space for temporarily housing a long length of the tape; a means for selectively switching the guideway to direct the cutting tape to a waste collection area or toward the far end of the guideway; and a final propelling means for advancing the cut end from adjacent the far end to contact with the empty spool; the means for cutting the tape is located between the supply source and the adhesive application means; and a brake means selectively clamps the tape to the guideway so that a loop of tape is formed.
In some preferred embodiments of the invention the system provides means for physically removing a portion of the guideway so as to permit loop formation while being engaged in the guideway at the forward end of the loop. The preferred adhesive applicator includes a release tape to which double-sided pressure sensitive adhesive tape is attached and a roller means for attaching a portion of the adhesive tape to the forward end of the cutting tape. Another specific embodiment includes an operational connection between the sensor to detect the presence or absence of adhesive tape on the cutting tape, and a switch to divert to a waste collection area any tape that does not contain the adhesive tape attached thereto. The system also prefers the far end of the guideway to end closely adjacent to the empty spool and to include a propelling means adjacent the near end of the guideway for extending the forward end of the tape to the nip of the empty spool without the assistance of a mechanical arm.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The novel features believed to be characteristic of this invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, both as to its organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view in perspective of the system of this invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged schematic view in elevation of the control mechanism of the system of the invention;
FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view taken at 3--3 of FIG. 1 or FIG. 2; and
FIG. 4 is a cross sectional view taken at 4--4 of FIG. 2.DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The general features of this invention are best seen and understood by reference to FIG. 1 which shows the general type of equipment employed in a paper manufacturing plant to wind up the manufactured paper on rolls for storage and use elsewhere. A continuous web of paper 20 travels at a relatively rapid rate of speed to a combination of spools upon which the paper is rolled. Paper web 20 advances toward tension roll 21 mounted in journals on supports 22, leading web 20 over driving roll 23 and winding about spool 24 turning in the direction of arrow 25. Driving roll 23 turns in the direction of arrow 26 and is pressed against the paper roll on spool 24 causing it to rotate in the indicated direction. When spool 24 has been filled to the desired capacity with paper from web 20, it is necessary to cut web 20 laterally, transfer the cut edge to an empty spool 27, and start the web winding on that spool in the direction of arrow 28 to eventually produce another filled spool, such as spool 24. Empty spool 27 is positioned vertically above the location shown in FIG. 1 until it is ready to accept paper from web 20 and begin winding it up. Spool 27, which may or may not be separately rotated as known in the art, is lowered until it contacts driving roll 23 and rotates with it, as shown in FIG. 1. Paper web 20 is then cut and the leading edge of web 20 is wrapped around an empty spool so that it may continue to wind up web 20 until that spool is ready to be replaced with still another empty spool. In accordance with this invention, as well as those of my previous patents mentioned above, the web 20 is cut by introducing a cutting tape 33 at its forward end 34 into the nip 29 of empty roll 27 and driving roll 23 at the far end of the rolls causing tape 33 to wrap itself helically around spool 27 while cutting web 20 transversely in front of spool 27 and automatically carrying web 20 onto spool 27 to continue the winding of web 20 thereon. The cutting tape 33 is conducted from near end 32 to far end 31 in a guideway 30 passing underneath travelling web 20. In this invention forward end 34 of tape 33 is conducted to adjacent the exit from guideway 30 at far end 31 and stops there to await the appropriate time to be moved forward to enter nip 29. The final movement of forward end 34 into nip 29 may be automatic depending on the movement of some part of the system as, for example, the primary arms of the spools actuating a limit switch, or it may be accomplished by the operator actuating a switch. It is an important feature of this invention to have all the controls, operations and checkpoints on the near end 32 of rolls 21, 23 and spools 24, 27 so the operator will not be forced to go several feet under or over the travelling web 20 of paper to cause forward end 34 to be introduced into nip 29 to cause the paper web 20 to be cut and the web to start winding onto spool 27.
The principal features of this invention are the controls, sensing devices, and operational devices on the near side 32 of the spools and the web of paper 20. These are shown in their relationship to each other in both of FIGS. 1 and 2. Cutting tape 33, as described in my previous patents is a plurality of parallel strands of twisted repulpable paper fibers and is stored on a large supply spool 35, from which it is led into the entrance 40 of guideway 30 and conducted in an upside-down T-slot as shown in FIG. 3 where the cross bar 73 of the T is the conduit for cutting tape 33 and the leg 74 of the T is an opening extending lengthwise of guideway 30. A shallow recess 75 along the bottom of cross bar 73 is incorporated in the guideway so that the corresponding portion of cutting tape 33 above that recess may be coated with adhesive and not be in contact with guideway 30. It may be seen that cutting tape 30 is supported in its movement by the side edges of the tape in the side edges of cross bar portion 73. Tape 33 is sufficiently stiff to bridge this recess 75 and provide no frictional drag problems as tape 33 moves through guideway 30.
Tape 33 from supply roll 35 passes between rolls 36 and 37 and is propelled by driving roll 36 having tape 33 pressed there against by pressure roll 37. Pressure is applied by means of lever 38 to which is attached a pneumatic cylinder device 39 causing roll 37 to press against roll 36. Roll 36 is rotated by means not shown here, such as a shaft driven by a pulley and a belt from a motor. Tape 33 enters guideway 30 at entrance 40 into the T-slot described above and its presence is sensed by a photocell sensor 40'. If no tape thereat, the operator changes the supply roll and/or starts it between rolls 36 and 37. Tape 33 is propelled all the way across to far side 31 to the end of guideway 30 such that cut end 34 is about 3 inches short of nip 29. Sensor 77 notes that cut end 34 has passed by, and signals brake cylinder 60 and loop gate cylinder 57 to function. Alternatively sensor 77 may be omitted and pressure roll 37 controlled so as to rotate a selected number of revolutions and portions of revolutions, as measured by equidistant pick-up points 79 on roll 37, passing sensor 80, so as to propel cut end 34 to exactly the position desired short of nip 29. Brake pads 59 which oppose each other from both sides of tape 33 are squeezed together by pneumatic cylinder means 60 to stop any further movement of tape 33 toward far side 31. Pneumatic cylinder 57 actuated is to cause section 56 of the T-slot in guideway 30 to be withdrawn leaving an unobstructed opening 58 into the temporary storage space below. This storage space is defined by guide walls 69 and permits a large loop 70 of tape 33 to hang down as seen in FIG. 2. Driving roll 36 continues to propel tape 33 into entrance 40 causing loop 70 to form. Pressure roll 37 is calibrated to turn a given number of revolutions so as to propel a selected length of tape 33 and then to stop automatically. When driving roll 36 stops, guillotine cutter 41 is actuated by pneumatic cylinder 42 to cut through tape 33 providing thereby a selected length of tape 33 from cutter 41 to cut end 34 for use in cutting paper web 20 at the appropriate time, which may be selected by the operator, or may be automatically set by a switch actuated by the movement of empty spool 27 into place for receiving web 20. When the operator is ready, cylinder 64 is activated moving lever 63 to cause press roll 62 to press tape 33 against propelling roll 61 to rotate a selected amount. A preferred procedure is to employ a rack 81 and pinion 83 combination in which a selected linear movement of a rack 81 through support bearing 82 causes pinion gear 83 to turn and rotate roller 61 in the direction of arrow 78 to push cut end 34 forward until it is caught in nip 29. As soon as the rotation of roll 61 is completed, brake pads 59 are pressed together to provide resistance to the movement of tape 33 in guideway 30. Tape 33 is helically wrapped around empty spool 27 and pulled taut because of the resistance provided by brake 59. This causes tape 33 to cut paper web 20 and to guide the cut edge onto spool 27 for winding up.
When the paper web 20 is safely and securely attached to spool 27 and being wound thereon, the operator causes a new cycle of operations to start that will result in having another length of tape 30 ready to be advanced into nip 29 to cut web 20 and start a new spool 27. The operations on the leading cut end 34 begin as it passes adhesive applicator roll 46 where single length, e.g., 3-4 inches, of double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive tape on a supply tape 48 from supply roll 47 passes under tape 33 and is pressed against tape 33 by press roll 43, pushed downwardly by lever 44 operated by pneumatic cylinder means 45. The length of double sided adhesive tape 48 is adhered to tape 33 while release liner 49 is peeled away from the adhesive tape and wound onto windup roll 50. As cut end 34 moves forward it is sensed by roller 51 which causes a signal to be sent from sensor housing 52 to pneumatic cylinder 45 to cause press roll 43 to lift slightly from tape 33 so as not to apply any further pressure to tape 33 at applicator roll 46 and thereby to attach only one length of adhesive tape to cutting tape 30. Tape cut end 34 then passes over sensor roller 53 which has a metal surface or other surface which tends to cling to the adhesive of the pressure sensitive tape on the bottom side of tape 33 applied at roll 46. The passage of the length of double-sided adhesive tape causes sensor roll 53 to rotate and thereby to swing arm 54 in a circle that passes near magnetic switch 55. This action causes a signal to be sent to pneumatic switch 66 operating guideway track switch 65 to keep it open for tape 33 to pass straight through portion 72 toward far side 31. If for any reason the cut end 34 does not have a length of adhesive tape thereon causing sensor roll not to rotate, no signal is sent to pneumatic switch 66 and guideway track switch 65 is thereby positioned to cause tape 33 to extend via portion 71 outwardly about 10 inches and to await the operator's option to apply a section of adhesive tape by hand, or to guide tape 33 to a waste collection area. If tape cut end 34 has no adhesive on it, it will not catch onto empty spool 27 and will not cut paper web 20. If all is well, with an adhesive tape portion on cut end 34, tape 33 will proceed to far side 31 to the end of guideway 30, brake pads 59 will be applied to stop the movement of tape 33, track section 56 will be removed, loop 70 will be formed and cutter 41 will cut tape 33 to complete the cycle.
It should be clear that many of the component parts of the system of FIG. 2 can be replaced by other items than those mentioned above. Pneumatic cylinders 39, 42, 45, 57, 60, 64 and 66 could be hydraulic cylinders, solenoids, or other linear movement devices. Adhesive application system of rolls 43, 46, 47 and 50 could be replaced by adhesive spray systems, or adhesive roll-on systems as described in my U.S. Pat. No. 4,783,018. Sensing devices 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55 could be replaced by light beam or X-ray beam interrupting systems or other similar detectors known in the art. The operation of levers 38, 43, and 63 could be spring biased so as to assume one position automatically and to be moved by the corresponding pneumatic cylinders in only one direction rather than two. Similarly track switch 65 could be spring biased to be in one position automatically, and be moved to the other position only when signalled to do so.
While the invention has been described with respect to certain specific embodiments, it will be appreciated that many modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is intended, therefore, by the appended claims to cover all such modifications and changes as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
1. A system for cutting with a tape a travelling web of paper being wound on a first spool and for transferring the web to an empty spool for continued winding by attaching to the far end of an empty spool a cutting tape emerging from a guideway, the tape being fed from a supply and processing area adjacent the near end of the empty spool, the guideway extending transversely beneath the web and having a lengthwise slot facing generally upwardly toward the web or spools, the tape having a forward cut end portion coated with an adhesive for a short distance along the center portion thereof and leaving the edges free of adhesive, the tape being slidingly supported in the guideway along the edges that are free of adhesive, a propelling means for feeding the forward cut end portion of an endless supply of tape through the guideway and through an applicator means for applying to the cut end portion adhesive along the central portion of the tape while leaving the edges of the tape free of adhesive, means for cutting the tape forwardly of said endless supply of tape, and means for advancing said cut end portion from adjacent said far end to contact with said empty spool, the improvement which comprises a sensor adjacent said near end to detect the presence of said adhesive on said cut end portion, and means adjacent said near end for selectively directing said tape toward said far end of the guideway when said sensor detects the presence of said adhesive on said cut end portion.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein said means adjacent said near end for selectively directing said tape also selectively directs same to a waste collection area when said sensor fails to detect the presence of said adhesive on said cut end portion, said sensor is operatively connected to said means for selectively directing said tape so as to direct to the waste collection area tape having an absence or an insufficient amount of adhesive, and correspondingly, to direct to said far end tape having a presence of a sufficient amount of adhesive.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein said applicator means for applying to said cut end portion adhesive includes applying a short length of double-sided adhesive to said cut end portion, said sensor being operatively connected to said means adjacent said near end for selectively directing said tape so as to direct to a waste collection area tape having an absence or an insufficient length of double-sided adhesive or to permit an operator to supply adhesive thereto before directing to said far end such tape.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein said sensor includes a stationary magnetic operable switch means for detecting the passage of a magnetic member and a roller adapted to be freely rotated about its axis by the passage of said tape with a length of adhesive thereon by frictional contact between said adhesive and the surface of said roller, said roller including a magnetic member adapted to rotate with said roller to actuate said switch means when said roller rotates at least more than one-half revolution to assure the presence of a sufficient length of adhesive.
5. The system of claim 1 further comprises a brake means to selectively clamp said cutting tape, a far end sensor to detect the passage of said cut end portion at said far end of said guideway, said far end sensor being operatively connected to said brake means to cause said brake means to stop further forward movement of said cutting tape until said means for advancing is operated to move said tape cut end portion into its contact and attachment via said adhesive thereon with said empty spool.
6. The system of claim 1 further comprising means to divert a trailing portion of said cutting tape attached to said cut end portion into a storage space to form a loop prior to cutting said tape by said means for cutting, said means to divert including means to slideably remove a section of said guideway so as to allow said cutting tape advancing toward said section to form said loop of cutting tape hanging downwardly from said guideway while remaining supported by said guideway ahead of and behind said section.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein said adhesive tape is applied to said cutting tape by pressing against said cutting tape a release tape having a plurality of spaced lengths of adhesive tape adhered to a release tape which readily is releasable from said adhesive tape.
8. The system of claim 1 further comprising sensing means adjacent said near end to detect the passage of said cut end portion of said cutting tape beyond said means for applying adhesive.
9. The system of claim 8 wherein said sensing means to detect said cut end is operatively connected to said means to apply adhesive so as to apply only one length of adhesive tape to said cut end and to position said means for application to the next succeeding length of cutting tape.
10. The system of claim 1 further comprising brake means to selectively clamp said tape, said brake means being applied immediately after advancing said cut end of said tape to contact with said empty spool, so as to apply resistance to said cutting tape causing it to pull taut and thereby cut said web of paper.
11. The system of claim 1 wherein said means for advancing includes a pair of spaced driving rollers, one of said driving rollers being disposed between said supply of tape and said applicator means for unwinding said tape from said supply and pushing said tape through said guideway to receive adhesive, the other of said driving rollers being spaced forward of said applicator to push said cutting tape into contact with said empty spool.
12. The system of claim 11 wherein said other driving roller is forward of said means for cutting the tape.
13. The system of claim 11 further comprising means for forming a large loop adjacent the trailing end of said cutting tape.
14. The system of claim 13 wherein means for forming a large loop is located between said cutting means and said other driving roller.
15. The system of claim 13 wherein said means for forming a large loop is located between said applicator and said other driving roller.
16. The system of claim 1 further comprising means for forming a loop adjacent the trailing portion of said cutting tape prior to feeding said cut end portion into contact with said empty spool, said loop being formed prior to cutting said tape by said means for cutting.
17. The system of claim 16 further comprising selective means for slideably removing a section of said guideway for allowing said loop to be formed beneath said guideway while remaining supported by said guideway forward and rearwardly of said section.
18. The system of claim 16 wherein said means for advancing includes a pair of spaced drive rollers selectively engaged with said cutting tape, one said drive roller withdrawing said cutting tape from said supply of tape and another said drive roller being spaced forwardly of said means for cutting and pushing said cutting tape into contact with said empty spool.
19. A method of preparing a tape to be used in cutting a travelling web of paper being wound on a spool and transferring the web to an empty spool for continued winding, the method including the steps of moving sufficient tape from a supply roll into a guideway extending from the near side to the far side of the web; applying adhesive adjacent the near side to the central portion of the underside of the tape adjacent its far end so that the tape may be supported along its side edges by the guideway during its movement after the adhesive is applied; the improvement comprising the steps of
- a. sensing the tape after the adhesive is applied to the tape to assure the proper application thereof; and
- b. pushing the tape from a position adjacent the near side to cause the tape and adhesive to engage an empty spool so that the cut web of paper is transferred and wound onto the empty spool.
20. The method of claim 19 further comprising the step of:
- c. forming a loop of the tape adjacent its near end prior to cutting the tape at its near end by selectively removing a supporting portion of the guideway to permit loop formation therebelow.
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