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Case Status: Case closed. To test Hera's claim, Zeus formed a cloud nymph named Nephele and shaped her to look like Hera. Ixion then came along and had his way with Nephele, proving Hera's claim. Ixion was sentenced to spin eternally on a flaming wheel as punishment.
Addendum: Not long after, Nephele gave birth to the tribe of centaurs on Mt. Pelion. (We're not sure how human + cloud = horse-men, but whatever.)
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Shoghi is a small suburb of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is about 13 kilometers before Shimla on the Ambala Shimla national highway. The road to the Taradevi temple (hilltop) goes from here which is about 5 km. Shoghi is also famous for bus halts for food as there are many dhabas (local name for food outlets) here. Housing board has also constructed many flats here.
Nestled in the quaint, lush, green hills of Himachal Pradesh just 13 kilometers short of Shimla, captivating building blocks of pinks and yellows with sloping tin roofs add a touch of natural grandeur to the picturesque surroundings.
As you veer off the national highway towards the blocks, you realise you are entering the Housing Board Colony at Shoghi.
The colony was set up in the cozy hamlet of Shoghi in early 2001 by HIMUDA for meeting the housing needs of so many people. Not only accessible, the colony is far from the madding crowd situated on a knoll overlooking hills rising one after another to meet the insurmountable skies from a deep vale just across the road. You can go to Shoghi, and back to nature, without running into traffic jams, a characteristic of Shimla.
But over the years, the colony has lost most of its charm. The metalled road gives way to streets of cobbled stones, as your huffing and panting car wheezes its way up the hillock towards the rising blocks of flats.
Look down the slopes, along the colony streets, and you find the greenery suffocating under the thick layers of rubbish. Carelessly tossed wrappers of potato chips, aluminum foils and empty soda bottles not only narrate the tales of not-so-quiet evenings enjoyed with drinks, but also of sheer disrespect for the nature and inability of the authorities to prevent the littering. The housing board society is now making attempts to clean up the mess, but the dirty picture's end is nowhere in sight.
It doesn't take you much time to realise that the colony has been left to fend for itself otherwise also. The concrete road signs, spelling out the location of the blocks, too seem to have crooked under their own weight.
Security too is an issue. The colony precincts have not been demarcated; and in the absence of fencing, it's free for all. Water meters are stolen, and the open spaces in the campus have metamorphosised themselves into free public parking lots for the "outsiders".
Shoghi offers a beautiful option for a stay near Shimla with lots of nature activities.
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Sheffield United manager Nigel Clough has revealed Leeds United captain Jason Pearce is a target for the League One club following the departure of Harry Maguire.
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Clough confirmed to the Yorkshire Evening Post: "We have looked at Pearce certainly, yes.
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5 More Things You Didn't Know Your iPhone Could Do
July 14th, 2014 by Christen
I've shared plenty of tricks and tips for iPhone users, but did you know there are hundreds of things your iPhone can do that you probably won't ever use? On the flip side, there are so many things you iPhone can do that you never even thought to take advantage of. Check out my favorite features of things your iPhone can do below.
5. Create a passcode with letters (not just numbers)
By default, your iPhone asks you to type in numbers when you create the passcode that unlocks your phone. But you can change this setting. Go to Settings > General > Passcode Lock and turn off "Simple Passcode." You will be prompted to change your passcode, and a full keyboard will appear onscreen instead of just the number pad. This keyboard will pop up every time you unlock your phone.
4. Customize vibrations
This will let you change the vibration pattern for alerts and notifications. Go to Settings > Sounds > Ringtone > Vibration > Create New Vibration. You can also customize the vibration pattern for individual contacts by following the same procedure from your contact list. This way, you can tell who's calling or messaging you just by feel.
3. Reveal timestamps on text messages
Drag the text bubble to the left and you'll see a timestamp for every text message. Among other things, this will show you just how much time you waste texting.
2. Automatically turn off your music with the timer
If you like to doze off with music playing like I do, you can use the timer to automatically turn your music off so that it doesn't play all night. In the timer app, select "When Timer Ends," then scroll down and select "Stop Playing." The Timer will automatically turn off your tunes after whatever length of time you set.
1. Recharge your battery faster by switching to airplane mode
Switching to airplane mode turns off battery-draining wireless and cellular access, allowing your phone to recharge up to twice as fast.
BONUS: Get Siri to read your emails aloud for you
Just say the magic words "Read my email" and Siri will read all your messages aloud to you. If you like, you can tell her to read only your most recent email ("Read my latest email") or just those from a specific contact ("Do I have email from Aldo?").
6 iPhone Tips/Tricks You Never Knew Existed
June 20th, 2014 by ChristenWorking while on the go can be tough & I need to get the most out of my time and mobile use, now more than ever. Did you know that your iPhone has dozens of hidden features that help you save time, communicate better and make you feel super super fancy? In recent days, I've had many friends ask me about tips and tricks to get the most out of their iPhone. So I figured, why not make a blog post about it. Check out a few of my favorite iPhone tips and tricks that'll make life a little bit easier below.
Bold text — The new, thin font of iOS 7 can be a little difficult to read on the home screen. You can make the text more legible by heading to Settings > General > Accessibility and sliding the Bold Text option to "on." (Use with caution! Bold texts can be mistaken for aggressive communication at times.)
Read text out loud—iPhone can read text out loud in apps like Mail, Safari, Messages, and iBooks. Just turn on Speak Selection in Settings > General > Accessibility. Then go to the app, highlight the text you want to hear, and tap Speak.
Multitasking — Double-tap the Home button to view a screenshot preview of all open mobile apps.
Change the way Siri pronounces a name — If Siri mispronounces a name, simply say "that's not how you pronounce that." Siri will ask you for the correct pronunciation, then say the name back to you three different ways so you can choose the one you like.
Undo text — In case you just wrote a lengthy text or email you'd rather not send? Just shake your phone to prompt the "Undo" button instead of having to select the entire text and delete it. It'll alleviate text-remorse later.
Musical landscape — While browsing your music collection, switching to landscape view displays a mosaic of your album covers. Swipe to scroll, pinch to zoom in and out, and tap to play.
What are some of your favorite iPhone tips, tricks and shortcuts? Share them below!
Apple + Beats Will Make Standard Headphone Jacks Everywhere Obsolete… Here's Why
June 11th, 2014 by Christen
The pieces of the Beats/Apple $3 Billion dollar acquisition puzzle are slowly coming together. What we know thus far is:
1. Apple acquired Beats Audio and Beats Music to strengthen it's audio and music quality brand for consumers.
2. Apple has quietly introduced a new specification for manufacturers in its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) program that allows them to create headphones that connect to iOS devices using a Lightning connector instead of the usual 3.5mm headphone jack. (via 9to5 Mac)
3. Apple rarely does anything – JUST BECAUSE.
It's pretty clear that Apple is working on super audio headphones that will eliminate the need for batteries, have better quality sound and possibly have firmware updates similar to the iPhone devices themselves. It's too early to make claims on how soon Apple will make 3.5mm jacks obsolete but once again Apple is staking a claim as a leader in the mobile brand industry. Apple is developing some innovative new headphone tech using its own proprietary Lightning connector and that fact alone is is significant. If Apple get partners on board and Lightning headphones prove to be popular with users, it's easy to see how Apple could push Lightning headphones as a big differentiating feature for iPhone and other Apple devices. No more cross-using headphones for other mobile devices which could either make you love being an Apple user or hate being limited to Apple products altogether.
Although Apple has not flipped the switch on the audio input support for Lightning cables and existing iOS devices yet, it will release a software update in the future that will enable support in devices running iOS 7.1 or later. Could the iPhone 6 be the first device set up for the lightning connected Beats headphones? I hope so.
3 iPhone Household Hacks Coming Soon Courtesy of iOS 8
June 6th, 2014 by ChristenEarlier this week, Apple took the wraps off of its the new mobile operating system, iOS 8, which is kinda available now for developers, but once the kinks and bugs are fixed will be available for everyone else in the Fall. The latest software is packed with great tools for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, but there are a handful of features that parents of iPhone loving households will especially love. Check out our three favorite iPhone household hacks that could be coming to an iPhone near you soon, courtesy of iOS 8.
iOS 8 Household Hack 1 – HomeKit
Soon, you can turn your home into a home of the future (kinda like the Jetsons – where Rosie the Robot is replaced by Siri the iPhone instead.) HomeKit is a technical feature that allows iPhone users to control their homes with their devices, like magic. It's a software kit that taps into Siri, the iPhone's voice-activated personal assistant, to listen for audio cues like "it's time for bed," which could then lock doors and dim lights, or whatever you program. "Smart" Internet-enabled appliances like Nest and the Philips Hue bulb may be potential partners with Apple's new HomeKit SDK.
iOS 8 Household Hack 2 – Ask To Buy
'Ask To Buy' gives you the power to set limits or approve purchases from anywhere! My niece is notorious for buying games, in-app purchases and more (when you're not looking of course!) Now your kids can request to purchase an app, game, movie, etc., and you can allow the purchase from anywhere! You could be on a business trip and when your kid requests to buy a game while he or she is with a sitter you still have control over approving the purchase. "Ask to Buy," doesn't just limit app purchases on the iPhone or iPad either – permissions can be set for music in iTunes and iBooks too!
iOS 8 Household Hack 3 – Health
Want to keep your kids active, healthy (and keep an eye out on it all?) The newly announced Health app will be the best new tool in your arsenal. Health is a new app built in to iOS 8, and it'll not only track important data like lab results, vitals, and medications but info collected from your fitness apps and gadgets as well. If you use Fitbit, Nike+, and the nutrition-tracking MyFitnessPal, the new Health app for iOS 8 will gather all of that data into a single dashboard, so you can get a clear overview of you and your family's fitness activity and health. If you're a parent concerned about childhood obesity – you can easily reward your kids based on their daily fitness outputs (all managed by you in the Health app).
Now that you've seen our favorite home hack-worthy apps from the new iOS 8 upgrade, what's your thoughts? Do you plan on putting any of them into good use? Share your thoughts below.
Five Upgrades Announced At Apple WWDC 2014 Keynote
June 2nd, 2014 by Christen
Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage today for WWDC 2014 in the company's first big press event since the iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina launch last fall. Because WWDC is an event for developers, the keynote traditionally focuses on unveiling the next big software updates headed for the iPhone, iPad and the Mac. It's all about connectivity & continuity in the iOS eco-system (Sorry, no news about the Beats acquisition). Finally you can get more out of owning your iPhone, iPad and Macbook… check out a few of the announced upgrades below.
1. iOS 8 – Lock Screen Productivity - You can now respond to texts, meeting requests and other notifications directly from the lock screen (no need to open up the app in order to be productive.) Swipe – You will be able to take advantage of predictive text and the option to download different keyboards for your device . Messaging - You can mute a chatty conversation, and access all the attachments from the conversation in one place, you can add a video message in-line and save individual messages for future use.
2. HealthKit / Homekit – It's the Passbook version for all of your fitness wearables and home automation devices. Keep all of your data collected from your fitness devices such as FitBit, Jawbone UP, Witherings and more accessible in the HealthKit app. You will find all of your home automation information from iHome, Honeywell, Philips and more locked inside of your Homekit app.
3. iCloud – Storgage Gets An Upgrade. First 5 GB free. 20 GB for $0.99 per month. 200GB for $3.99 per month. (Sidenote: iCloud drive is coming to Windows)
4. Photos (formally iPhoto) – All your photos AND videos can be edited in app and the edited content will be stored in the iCloud and available to all your iOS / Mac devices. (But it will use up your 5GB of free iCloud storage.) Photos for Mac is set to launch next year. It's not clear yet whether it'll be a free download or part of an upgrade to the newly announced OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
5. OS X 10.10 will be known as Yosemite. Yosemite features a flatter, modern design, with slightly translucent windows. Safari now offers a detailed tab view, so you can get a quick glance at all of the sites you're browsing. You can now receive iMessages and SMS messages on any Apple device you own. If you own an iPhone, your calls will be shared too, with your Mac serving as a great big speakerphone. (Bonus: Yosemite lets you draw a signature to sign documents on your laptop, tracing your finger on the trackpad.) The update will be available to developers today and to the general public in the fall as a free update.
Other huge notables… With photo a surge in photo sharing, now every photo you take is available on all devices. Family sharing, which lets you get to everything any member of your family has purchased (it also eliminates issues of unauthorized in-app purchases by kids.) Hands-Free Siri will now allow you to reach out to Siri without the press of a button. You can also utilize Shazam song recognition, purchase iTunes content and more using Hey Siri.
These are just a few answers that consumers wanted to make the use of iOS and Mac products work better together. Which of these updates will improve the way that you use your devices? Are you looking forward to the new upgrades? Share your thoughts below.
Which Tech Brands Tops The List As Most Valuable In The World
May 29th, 2014 by Christen
Last year, Google overtook Apple as the number one most valuable brand after holding the top post for three consecutive years. Check out the latest infographic below that gives a quick review on the top 10 brands in 2014 by BrandZ (the same source used by Forbes). Google Glass, Internet of Things, Google Maps and Google Music All Access are some of the exciting goings-on announced at the last I/O conference, which made a huge impact on Google topping the list. Sure, Apple had its own releases last year, iPhone 5S and 5c, but the smartphone arena is getting a little boring and consumers demand bigger and better products to make an impact.
Apple and Google aren't the only tech brands topping the list as most valuable in the world. Discover which brands are making bank (and which brands surprisingly didn't make the cut) in the infographic below.
Apple To Buy Beats Brand Making Dr. Dre $3 Billion Dollars Richer
May 9th, 2014 by Tech StaffScrew healthy water, owning a basketball team or even a tv network… 50 Cent, Jay Z and Diddy's got nothing on the baller plane as Dr. Dre. Apparently, Apple is this close to buying up the Beats brand – which wold make Dr. Dre a BILLIONAIRE. Find out how much he could make off the acquisition below.
According to TMZ, Dr. Dre could be days away from being the first rapper turned BILLIONAIRE … thanks to a mega-deal for Apple to snatch up his Beats Electronics brand.
Apple will reportedly buy Beats for a whopping $3.2 BILLION — and since Dre and Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine created the brand … it's a safe bet they will walk away with a huge chunk of that cash.
Dre and Jimmy started the brand back in 2008 with headphones — but now they're also making bank off speakers, car audio systems, and a streaming service.
The deal could close next week … and would be Apple's biggest acquisition ever.
Dre came in #2 on Forbes' most recent list of hip hop's wealthiest artists — with a net worth of $550 million … while Diddy was #1 at $700 million.
It's still unclear what Apple will do with Beats, but its focus seems to be on the company's new music streaming service rather than its popular headphones and speakers. We may also see Beats Audio technology integrated into Macs and iOS devices in the same way that it has in HP laptops and smartphones from HTC.
Three Apps To Keep Your New Year Resolutions
January 3rd, 2014 by ChristenIt's day three of 2014 and many of us (myself included) are either still fixated on keeping or scrapping new year resolutions by now. The notion of "new year, new you" is so appealing, the only problem is – you can't bring old habits into the new year and expect revolutionary results. That's why I thought that I'd enlist the help of a few habit-forming apps to keep me accountable for my resolutions this year. Many of my resolutions are common productivity ideals, like going to the gym, better time management, (just like everyone else.) Luckily, each one of these apps offer a unique appeal to help you stick to your new year resolution goals. Check out three apps to keep new year resolutions below…
The Habit Factor (iOS / Android)
Cost: $5.00
The Habit Factor® is the professional's choice for positive behavior change and habit development. Example: If your goal is to "Write a book", you might create a related habit of "writing for 30 minutes a day" and set that to 3x per week (you choose which days). Only The Habit Factor offers HabitStregnth: the ability to strengthen habits over time using custom tracking periods & Habit Alignment Technology: the ability to create and align habit to your goals.
BONUS: The Habit Factor Challenge starts January 6, 2014! Develop new habits to achieve your goals & maybe even win a new iPad Air in the process. Enter Now it's FREE, Visit: http://thehabitfactor.com/win
Lift – Daily Motivation (iOS / Android)
Cost: Free
Lift is like having a coach in your phone giving you daily motivation, coaching, and prompting. Whether your goal is large or small, Lift gives you steps and milestones to make progress more manageable. With coaching, progress tracking, and optional reminders, Lift helps you stay focused and stick with it. There is a social element to Lift: if you add goals that others are trying to achieve too then you will see everyone who checks-in to that habit. You can connect Lift to Facebook or Twitter, too, if you want to see which friends from those sites are using the service.
Habit Streak Pro (Android)
Cost: $2.99
Habit Streak helps you achieve your goals (or New Year's Resolutions) in exercise, diet or other areas of your life. Each day you report on whether you succeeded yesterday, building up streaks of habits and ingraining the activities into your life. Habit Streak has two key advances: Firstly it allows you to build several chains up at once. Secondly it (optionally) prompts you every day to report on your success (whereas one could easily forget to update or look at a physical calendar).
What are your goals for the new year? How are you planning on keeping your new year resolutions? Are you creating a vision board or writing notes daily? Share your new year resolution ideas and tips to keep them below.
Security Shortcut: Use The New Knock App On You iPhone To Unlock Your Mac
November 6th, 2013 by Christen
I will admit, ever since I picked up the iPhone 5s – I've been using the fingerprint scan technology for everything (and by everything, I really mean making iTunes store purchases and unlocking my phone). I guess I'm just one of many people that hate the tedious act of typing in a passcode to unlock their smartphone every five minutes. So you could imagine my surprise when I discovered the new Knock app. Knock is a combo iPhone/Mac app that lets users unlock their computer, simply by tapping on the phone screen.
The guys behind Square Wallet brings a type of human touch to technology and security. Knock was created by William Henderson and Jon Schlossberg. The two came up with the idea after realizing how much they both hated having to constantly unlock their computers. That type of human approach to security is something the two want to carry on with Knock. Knock works by pairing your computer (a 2011 or new MacBook Air or Mac mini, a 2012 or newer iMac or the upcoming Mac Pro) with your iPhone (iPhone 4S and later). Simply install, for $3.99, the Knock iPhone app, install the free Mac app from the Knock website and follow a few quick steps and you're ready.
Knock works by using Bluetooth Low Energy, a technology that modern Macs and newer iPhones have. The two Knock apps create a secure connection with one another and when you "knock" on the screen of the phone, it transmits the unlock key to your Mac instantly.
Like Touch ID, Knock is one of those apps that really gives the average user no excuse notto use a password.
Would you use this new security shortcut? Is it worth the $3.99 price tag? Sound off below.
Apple News: Is The iPad Air Really Free At T-Mobile?
October 24th, 2013 by ChristenEarlier this week T-Mobile announced that an exciting Twitter Press Conference to "Unleash" a bit more news for customers and competition alike. T-Mobile had two big pieces of tablet news to announce yesterday, (in perfect timing that they both come on the heels of the iPad Air reveal.) Could T-Mobile really be unleashing new freebies our way?
Freebies is an understatement. T-Mobile is offering everyone 200 MB of 4G LTE data free every month, indefinitely, regardless of whether or not you're a T-Mobile customer. If you have a 4G LTE tablet, you can use it with T-Mobile's network. Since 200 MB isn't very much data to work with, T-Mobile hopes that this freebie lures you away from the competition. For example, you can score $10 per month for unlimited 3G data plus 500 MB of 4G LTE data, then $10 more every time you want to get 2 GB more of 4G LTE data (tablet pricing only.) A second major freebie T-Mobile is offering customers the iPad Air for free when it hits on November 1 without a penny out of your pocket (the day of purchase). Instead, you'll have to pay in monthly installments (which could work for different financial circumstances) at a T-Mobile starting November 1.
Let's see, grab an iPad Air from T-Mobile and walk out without any money leaving your wallet AND ON TOP OF THAT the free 200 MB of 4G LTE for life applies for the iPad Air, too? I know plenty of people that may snatch this deal up before it becomes extinct.


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An Ellsworth man spent an unknown period of time trapped in his overturned car in freezing temperatures early Sunday before being freed by firefighters and being transported to Regions Hospital in St. Paul.
Andrew F. Lacoursiere, 49, was apparently westbound on Hwy. 10 near the intersection with CTH J early Sunday morning when his vehicle left the road and struck trees and two lawn ornaments, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.


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magnumpi 5pts This is why GM is/was in trouble!! Why would put so much hype into a vehicle, knowing the end is two years away!! Really???
kcconnolly 5pts Guess this means I need to buy an SS before 2016... hmm, that pushes the finances a bit.
nissanbuff 5pts I would believe the best option for GM globally is that let their American designers and engineeers negociate with Holden's a lightweight large RWD (to accept optional AWD) platform (if a lesser-content version of the next-gen CTS, which will be a streched ATS/next-gen Camaro could suffice let be it, if not start there...) that could be easily built (even switch factories on currency fluctuations) in both sides of the Pacific (with options to export to EU as OVX's [Opel/Vauxhall] largest car.That could yield several vehicles for all GM brands south of Cadillac (even a lighter "unibody pickup" as a El Camino and a Ute replacement), while letting Cadillac develop their ATS and derivatives...Sounds like Ford could use the same solution on the Falcon (could be developed as the Lincoln MK-R and '15 MY Mustang in the States with the Falcon and other for Oz...) as well...
James McMurray 5pts What does that mean for the Chevrolet SS Sedan? Is it just gonna be sold here for two years?
Rober311 5pts Sad, Euro Trend everywhere.....V8 cars only for rich, and same cars and taxis in New York, Amsterdam, Zürich.......etc.. World of all the same Soaps on 4 wheels. The last bastion? Pickup trucks.
Geelong Vic 5pts Unfortunately a declining customer base for the rear drive Holdens and Falcons will lead to their demise. When asked in the 1930's why Lincoln discontinued the large K series V12 Lincolns, Edsel Ford stated that Lincoln never stopped making them, but that customers stopped buying them. That is the crux of problem, production ultimately follows demand and sales.My Oz friends and relations decry the loss of the RWD Holdens and Fords, but none of them are actually buying them save for one, a cousin in Adelaide. A deminishing customer demand will lead to an end of what everyone says that they want but actually don't buy. In the years to come, these cars will become nostalgia favorites like the 60's and 70's US muscle cars.
gfinms 5pts The Australia V8 Supercars franchise, must be sweating. Maybe, the US could return the favor, and export the Chevrolet SS to Australia.
quattrovalvole 5pts It wouln't be that hard for GM and Ford to develop a RWD global platform for mid/full size sedans. It would surely pay off.But the solution will probably be FWD Tauruses for everyone.
renoboy74 5pts honestly BOTH could be saved and continue for the foreseeable future, Mulally has a point with the one-off cars for one-off country thing, putting the falcon AND mustang on the same platform and marketing them in BOTH Austrailia and North America, could keep both going, they could slot the falcon /ute/mustang together as halo cars same as the commodore which we will get as the SS, even if they go to a stretched Alpha type platform..
moderncarguy 5pts JUST KEEP THOSE CARS ALIVE, PLEASE!!! THEY'D CERTAINLY BE A MAJOR HIT STATESIDE!!! (pardon the caps, needed to do it)
Raphael Chapman 5pts ford can give aussie the new fusion/mondeo, F150 Raptor, the 2015 mustang, and a sedan and ute based on the 2015 mustang platform. the falcon ute could have come to the states as the Ranchero. as for GM, the new Alpha platform would take over, and give the aussies a sports car based on the platform of the Corvette Stingray. also introduce Cadillac and GMC to the market. (CTS-V would compete in V8 supercars). currently, Holden is the only GM brand in Australia, give em more variety.
Alex daOriginal 5pts and with that FPV and HPV are DEAD! they're just DEAD! actually Commie has better hope then Falcon. if GM wanted to they could replace the Zeta based Commie with an Alpha based one no problem.
92Vectra1.6i 5pts Sad to see the long arm of the wussification of our planet is now extending "down under". I blame eggheads in suits at Opel who bailed on the Opel Omega that the Commodore used to be based on, as well as U.S. GM suits more than happy to drop to their knees and follow the lead of New World Order Govco.elitists / idealists who want to remake society into a bunch of mass transit using Dilberts (apologies to anyone sentenced to a work life in a Corporate cubical) living in Govco. mandated high rise boxes to reduce their "carbon footprints". As for Ford, it is an absolute disgrace that the Falcon platform wasn't used to develop replacements for the Mustang, Crown Victoria, Lincoln Town Car (a luxury car maker simply isn't serious with no full size rwd offering) and possibly even the Explorer / Expedition / Navigator (there's no real reason a crossover utility can't be based on a rwd platform).
Menzies 5pts These media reports have been speculating the death of these cars for years. This time perhaps the speculation might be right. What a sad day. There is much to be said for the product strategy in a vastly different market (in Australia) from both a tariff standpoint (which once protected these vehicles) and a market preference perspective. The SUV has decimated this market and a market flooded by higher spec "Global" vehicles has made Falcon and Commodore seem perhaps a little expensive. But to let them die lacks vision. These cars have terrific potential as niche vehicles not only in Australia but globally. Australia has demonstrated time and again that it can build these Niche products very effectively and for the most part with a lack of export. I hope the SS sedan is a success in the states. For those with a family, who travel large distances, don't want and SUV and want to save on buying an expensive Euro Sports Sedan this car will be an amazing option. Hopefully then Holden will have a chance to do it over again in 2016. It may mean a more expensive car, with differing dimensions, but a global rear drive sports sedan platform is something that could and should form part of both GM's and Ford future plans. And given the numbers even from a global perspective Australia is the right place to do it. They have been doing it well for many years and the Aussie $ isn't going to be this high forever. Ford may tout its one Ford Policy, but they prove time and again that One Ford only applies in some cases. I certainly don't see to many F150's or Mustangs in Australia (oh and I would happily have both). And that Taurus of yours is a bit Naf. Having driven one in the states recently, it surprised me for a car that would have so much money invested in it, just how compromised it is. There is so much room in your line up for a car like Falcon.Come on Detroit have a think about it.
Logan814 5pts @gfinms The SS is based off of the Commodore just like the G8 was. This might mean that the SS will only be on sale for a few years.
suntannedmedal 5pts @92Vectra1.6i It's a damn shame Ford is missing the opportunity to create an american Falcon (or eagle since it would have been american) to rival the charger and the SS sedan
lasvegascolonel 5pts Yes, you are quite correct in many respects. The Falcon, which I had a chance to ride in when I was in Sydney, reminds me of the more spacious cars we used to have here in the U.S. We really don't have any large cars anymore, as you noted with the Taurus. It has a full-sized trunk (boot), but it has a wheelbase shorter than Ford's own mid-sized cars of the past. And yes, OneFord is a goal, but certainly not a reality; otherwise, here in the U.S., we would have the Fords Australia has, including the MK UTE truck, the Ranger truck, the Falcon, and like they have in Europe, the sporty, Fiesta coupe. Lots of cars we never get.


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london. A recent swathe of auction records has led, as in 2004, to speculation that the rich may once again be treating art as an investment vehicle. Major records include Giacometti's L'Homme Qui Marche I, 1960, which sold for £65m at Sotheby's London in February, Picasso's Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur, 1932—the world's most expensive work of art—sold in May, for $106.4m at Christie's New York, and Rubens' Portrait of a Commander, around 1612-14, sold for £9m at Christie's London last July.
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This was backed up by a report by Capgemini SA and Merrill Lynch & Co published in June, which found that the number of global millionaires grew 17% last year, and, with financial markets in flux, art had emerged as the most popular category of "passion investment". Trade sources agree. As New York old master dealer Richard Feigen, told The Art Newspaper earlier in the year: "The art world is inundated with money—there's so much liquidity out there because people are afraid of currency. They've been told that art is a place to park cash."Art appeals because it is tangible, can be traded in any currency, and comes with kudos—collectors cannot hang stocks and shares on a wall to show their friends. Art may be particularly attractive now because of the uncertainties of the stock markets, big currency fluctuations and the looming spectre of inflation in some major countries, and deflation in others. Giovanna Segre, lecturer in the economics of culture at Turin University, observed in an article on this subject for our sister paper Il Giornale dell'Arte, the anti-cyclical nature of the art market could be coming into play. The art market "offered annual returns of more than 7% between 2001 and 2004, when the stock-market exchange index was in the doldrums", she wrote."Is art a hedge against inflation? Based on the past two decades, absolutely 100% yes," said advisor Todd Levin of the Levin Art Group. But, he adds: "For the average collector, it depends on whether one is inside the system or not. If one understands how the system works, then yes, it can be a great hedge. If not, then the answer is—at best—maybe." Those in the know can do very well indeed: Segre points to Francesco Forte and Michela Mantovani's publication, Economics and Politics of Cultural Heritage, which calculated that "between 1977 and 1996 the real annual return (ie net of inflation) on four major streams in 20th-century art—expressionism, surrealism, art informel and pop—was 5.98%, 5.9%, 8.9% and 11.75% respectively". She adds: "The last two figures, however, reflect the low valuations of art informel and pop works at the beginning of the period studied. By 1989 and 1990, such works were fetching very high prices, and anyone who had bought one in either of those years would have been seriously out of pocket by 1996."There are plenty of other pitfalls for the potential investor. The art world is relatively illiquid, and prices depend on several factors—lack of supply, changes in taste, new research, when a work was bought, how often it has appeared at market, condition, provenance, and, as Michael Plummer of Artvest Partners, says: "The most unpredictable factor of all—collector behaviour." Small groups of collectors can easily influence "the market" (which is in reality a series of specialist mini-markets that perform very differently).Potential investors need to do their homework, and take a sanguine approach to risk, to make serious returns. Or, they could instead stick to traditional methods. As George Gordon, Sotheby's co-chair of old master paintings, says: "People who have bought the best they could buy, and because they liked it—that usually works."
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27 Oct 10 15:2 CET
A hedge against inflation? How about a hedge against boredom. Art should not be treated as the spiritual side of business as usual. Speculators - speculate away, good luck selling that stupid D.Hirst in 10 years. The press talks about artists as if they're minting money. The $price$ of a thing often exists in a different universe, much diff. from it's value.
24 Sep 10 16:17 CET
Some people need to chill out.
23 Sep 10 16:15 CET
Really great to read blog, I have fun reading your stuff.
19 Sep 10 15:58 CET
Wow this is such a disgusting article on so many levels. No wonder art is thought of as a commodity complete w percentages and pie charts! Will is right SOME art makes a crapload of money. But the artist doesn't reap any reward from greed driven resale. The person who bags the bucks is usually someone who is already rich, probably from screwing people as we just saw happen in recent years...so crude. What we desperately need are more Herb and Dorothy Vogels...now that's real collecting and real class!
13 Sep 10 17:6 CET
As with every investment opportunity, buying smart is key. There is no fail proof plan for investing in any asset, art included. That being said, investing in well established artists with strong track records is a smart way to diversify an investment portfolio as these artists have secured their credibility in the market and are uncorrelated to traditional investments. Art gives you a safe and enjoyable avenue to invest in amongst very volatile markets. To make art a successful investment, you need the eye and the expertise to go after the right works that will appreciate in value. Artemundi Global Fund provides the investment vehicle as well as over 5 generations of art investing expertise. Plus, this investment can bring you pleasure while hanging on your wall. For more please visit ArtemundiGlobalFund.com Excellent article Art Newspaper!
13 Sep 10 15:58 CET
Huge Ponzi scheme, like all the others in the recent past, coming to an end soon. People will be burning Picassos for fuel not too long from now. Elizabeth Thomas told me so.
10 Sep 10 15:23 CET
What we are seeing here is an old "dead cat bounce" market. Art buyers will soon learn a lesson that the stock market has known for years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce
Thanks for pointing this out, Will. In fact, what you are saying holds true not just for the American/European art market but also for the Asian art market- where modern and contemporary art have lesser historical distance between each other. That said, it is also worthwhile to look into art objects and not just paintings, which in the Asian context, is still a fairly big money maker.
8 Sep 10 15:11 CET
This article largely misses the point of hedging. The value of art as a hedge in a balanced portfolio lies not in contemporary art's ability to achieve huge returns, but rather in the ability of more established markets like Old Masters and Impressionists to achieve relatively risk-free returns while being uncorrelated or negatively correlated with the other parts of an investor's portfolio (namely equity). The rates of return given throughout this article, though more immediately comprehensible and interesting to the average reader, I'm sure, have very little to do with the idea of art as a hedge. Rather, correlations as in "Collectible Investments for the High Net Worth Investor" p. 138 (to take the easiest example publicly available on Google Books) or in many other places in the economic literature on the topic are of much greater interest to collectors looking to balance their portfolio. Rename this article 'SOME ART MAKES A CRAPLOAD OF MONEY' and it's perfectly fine.
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Scientists stumble over a strange flora species probably never been found on Norway's Svalbard until now.
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The great thing about this site is not just the recommendations, but the comments that the community provides. I do not find it "negative", instead, I see it as a true marketplace of ideas, and reading through the comments is a necessity for each app suggestion.
It's upsetting to see so many negative comments here.
This site is run by volunteers who do a great job.
Sure, no one knows everything, but they are doing their best.
The knockers are always the ones that do nothing to help.
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I think this should be broken down into more categories. Best iPad apps is too general. There should be top puzzle games, top action games, top utility apps, top fitness apps etc.
I totally agree I got into an online debate of how ipad apps need more vraitey and different catoriges to find stuff like top puzzles and brain teasers it's stupid how the whole thing is set up!
Stanza is not currently available for the U.S. market. I couldn't find the app in the App Store. When trying to get to the app through the link above, I was given the message about it not being available in the U.S. Thanks, nonetheless, for the many helpful recommendations.
The review crew might dig a little harder. FileMaster is superior to FileApp in several very obvious ways, one being it needs no special wads of software to be installed on the other devices & its a LITTLE more intuitive and pretty fast. Both are unimaginative vs the best 3 in the Droid field and its not strictly an issue of closed/open. An unrooted 'droid has limitations also. The IOS-centric dev seems to think that users only need very narrowly-limited networking, the default being to a Cloud service. IMHO that's a mistaken view. The 'droid dev community treats "all of the above" as potential sharing partners; LAN, WAN, Cloud, NFC, et al. and uses a term approach to connectivity: if you have credentials, you can drive the action from the handheld
FileApp? you gotta be kidding. compare this pig to ES File Explorer for android. the latter is a useful app.
FileMaster is a little better than FileApp, but neither are very good.
if anyone smarter knows of a REAL file management app, cross-device, cross-platform, for iPAD, please suggest to the Editors!
Unfortunately Cognus this is restricted by the iOS which is known as a walled garden and doesn't allow complete access to the filesystem like the Android OS. Moreover, the iOS confines each app to working within a restricted sandbox where it has complete control over its files. Due to this, not a file manager for iOS will work the same way as a file manager for Android. See also: Apple and the file system
I am little surprised that you are missing Wunderlist as a ToDo app. It is fantastic. It is web based and cross platform. Works on all my devices and computers. It also has a beautiful iPad interface.
Another app you seemed to forget about is [edited: commercial app]. This is now my preferred method for blogging.
Oh, yeah and Splashtop for remote control in computers.
Browsers to consider - Mercury Browser is fantastic. Finally Puffin Browser allows flash.
I just came across this site and found very useful. Thanks for keeping good work and sharing the apps list categorically.
I am looking for apps to manage the files/apps/cookies on my new ipad. (to keep my ipad clean from the junk files and know which apps is consuming how much space).
Appreciate your support in advance.
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US 5103101 A Abstract A method for a raster scan particle or light beam lithography system for writing in multiple passes interleaved in such a manner as to achieve a composite result nearly identical to normal single pass raster scan writing with overlapped spots. Multiple pass writing, achieved with little or no degradation or throughput or lithography quality, provides an ideal platform for implementation of known image averaging techniques to improve lithography quality. This technique is combined with the known writing technique of "Virtual Addressing" to improve resolution with little or no degradation of throughput.
Claims(17) 1. In the generation of a pattern for use in the fabrication of integrated circuits in a rasterscan lithography system, the steps in the process comprising:
forming a beam of a predetermined diameter defining the width of a pixel of the pattern; providing a material sensitive to said beam to be irradiated by the beam; forming a plurality of said pixels by directing said beam onto said material; controlling said beam as it forms said pixels to form an array of pixels, each pixel being an element of a feature of the pattern of a predetermined length and width; repeating the steps of forming and controlling a plurality of times, with each step forming a separate array of pixels, each pixel being an element of a predefined feature not formed in a previous step of forming such that the composite of all steps of forming forms a plurality of adjacent lines of said pixels, said lines defining a feature of the pattern of predetermined length and width. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein said beam is an electron beam.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said beam is a light beam.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said beam is an ion beam.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein each pixel overlaps an adjacent pixel by about 50% of a pixel width.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of defining an edge of said feature by forming only alternate pixels along said edge.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of repeating includes repeating three times, thereby forming said pattern in four passes.
8. In the generation of a raster scan pattern, the steps comprising:
forming a beam of a predetermined diameter defining the width of an element of the pattern; providing a material sensitive to said beam to be irradiated by the beam; forming a plurality of said elements by directing said beam onto said material; controlling said beam as it forms said elements to form a plurality of adjacent lines of said elements, said lines defining a portion of the pattern of a predetermined length and width; repeating the steps of forming and controlling a plurality of times, with each step forming a separate array of elements, each element being a portion of the same predefined feature and not being formed in a previous step of forming; and developing the pattern in the material. 9. A rasterscan system for forming a pattern on a radiation sensitive material comprising:
means for forming a radiating beam of a predetermined diameter defining the width of a pixel of the pattern; means for forming a plurality of said pixels on said material by directing said beam onto said material; means for controlling said beam as it forms said pixels to form an array of pixels, each pixel being a feature of the pattern; and means for repeating the forming of said pixels by passing said beam across said material a plurality of times, with each pass forming a separate array of pixels, each pixel being an element of a predefined feature not formed in a previous pass, such that all passes together form a plurality of adjacent lines of said pixels, said lines defining a feature of the pattern of predetermined length and width. 10. In the generation of patterns for lithography using a raster scanning pattern generation apparatus, a method of printing a raster pattern, as defined by a plurality of pixels formed on a grid in a plurality of n2 passes where n is an integer greater than 1, comprising:
forming a beam of a predetermined diameter defining the width of each pixel; providing a material sensitive to the beam to be irradiated by said beam on a substrate; forming the pixels by directing said beam onto said material; controlling said beam as it forms said pixels onto said grid, thereby imaging every nth pixel of said plurality of pixels that define said raster pattern and exposing the first of n2 passes; repeating the steps of forming and controlling the beam to form a plurality of pixels onto said grid, with each pass offset from each previous pass, until a total of n2 passes have been exposed, and a plurality of pixels have been formed in a one-to-one correspondence with said raster pattern; and finally, developing the material. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein said beam is an electron beam.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein said beam is a light beam.
13. The method of claim 10, wherein the said beam is an ion beam.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein the pixels are arranged on said grid at a predetermined uniform spacing, each pass being offset from each previous pass along one dimension of said grid.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the diameter is equal to n times said predetermined uniform spacing.
16. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of positioning said substrate on a movable support.
17. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of defining an edge of said pattern by the additional step of forming only alternate pixels along said edge.
Description 1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to particle or light beam systems used in the manufacture of microminiature electronic devices (integrated circuits) and is particularly directed to a new and improved writing technique for raster scan beam lithography system; the primary object of this invention is to provide a multiple pass writing strategy for a raster scan lithographic system without reduction in throughput, and thereby provide an optimal platform for implementation of known techniques for improving both lithography quality and throughput. 2. Prior Art Lithographic systems using a controllable electron beam, sometimes called E-beam machines, for the fabrication of integrated circuits are old in the art; one such system is described at length in the U.S. Pat. No. 3,900,737 to Collier et al. and another in the U.S. Pat. No. 3,801,792 to Lin. In these machines, a medium of resist (or photosensitive) material upon which the electron beam is to perform its writing operation is positioned on a motor driven stage which is moved continuously and in synchronism as the beam is scanned in a raster fashion (a raster scan) in a direction perpendicular to the stage motion. In practice, the diameter of the round electron beam spot, also called a "gaussian spot" or "pixel", focused on the resist layer, is of the order of (but not necessarily equal to) the writing address dimension (or address unit, au) of the cartesian grid on which it is written. Adjacent rows of pixels in the stage travel direction define the width of a "feature" and the length of the feature is formed by a number of pixels in the raster scan direction. In practice, adjacent "on" pixels in the same raster scan are not written separately but "scanned" with the beam on until an "off" pixel is encountered. For the purposes of this disclosure, descriptions are given in terms of the normal full pixelization representation. The pattern on the resist defined by the beam scan and by the stage movement is determined by the system control equipment and software therefor. Prior art teaches that repetitive imaging strategies for raster scanning lithographic systems are desirable. Repeated writing of scanlines placing pixels in nominally the same location has long been used to increase the dose of energy delivered to the patterned area on the substrate. The higher dose allows the use of less sensitive but higher resolution resist coatings for improved lithography. Additionally, the redundancy averages out some of the random errors in the lithographic system. Further improvement may be obtained by offsetting the data within the raster scanline so that the repeated image spots (pixels) are still written redundantly at nominally the same substrate location, but from a different portion of the scanline. Lithography is improved because of averaging of systematic errors of the lithographic system. This is described in "Image Quality Enhancements for Raster Scan Lithography", L. Rieger, et al, 1988 SPIE Santa Clara Symposium. With a conventional writing technique, throughput is disadvantageously reduced proportional to the number of passes required for the repetitive imaging. Other pertinent prior art is disclosed in "RASTERIZING SYSTEM UTILIZING AN OVERLAY OF BIT-MAPPED LOW ADDRESS RESOLUTION DATABASES" U.S. Pat. No. 4,879,605. to Warkentin, et al. A multi-pass writing technique is disclosed which requires multiple edge definitions achieved by varying the dosage at an edge dependent upon the desired location of a given edge. With a normal raster scan writing technique, feature edges are logically defined in the obvious manner by a row of exposed or "on" pixels at the feature edge. Incorporation of nonhomogeneous edge definitions into the writing technique requires more stringent control over other lithographic system and image development parameters to make all edges appear alike and resolve to the proper location when the image is developed. It is further known that a large spot (pixel) overlapped by 40-50% on a smaller writing grid may be used to produce excellent lithography results with a raster scanning lithographic system. Overlapping of large spots in this manner has been used in single pass writing technique to increase dosage over that which is attainable without overlapped spots and without the attendant reduction of throughput required by the repeated scan method described above. The writing technique in accordance with this invention is performed in a raster scanning particle beam lithography system having, inter alia, a particle beam source, a means of beam blanking, a means of deflecting said beam in scan lines, and a means of focusing said beam onto a resist-coated substrate positioned on a moveable stage. The final pixelization of the lithographic pattern on the substrate consists of pixels whose centers are placed on a cartesian writing grid as if with a normal raster scan writing technique. Multiphase printing achieves this pixelization by interleaving pixels in a series of passes, over a coarser (larger writing address dimension) grid. Each pass is offset from others by a fraction of the writing address required to achieve the composite cartesian pixel array. Each pass is called a phase. Since the throughput of a raster scan system increases as the square of the writing grid, multiple passes are achieved with little or no loss of throughput. Since pixels are interlaced on a cartesian grid, all feature edges are logically the same. Spot size may be adjusted to that pixels overlap by a substantial fraction of the pixel size. The result is virtually identical to single pass overlapping of larger spots which the prior art teaches may be used to achieve good lithography quality. Since this present technique is accomplished in multiple passes, it allows the implementation of redundant imaging schemes without the throughput sacrifice required with a normal raster writing technique. Additionally, it provides an improved platform for the implementation of the virtual addressing technique described in "VIRTUAL ADDRESSING FOR E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY", U.S. Pat. No. 4,498,010 to Biechler et al. (incorporated by reference). Interleaving of pixels in separate passes over separate sets of pixels on a cartesian grid is performed in accordance with the invention. Using this interleaving as a platform for virtual addressing is a second aspect of the invention which is an improvement over the above-referenced virtual addressing method. The invention is applicable to raster scanning systems generally, not just those using E-beams; for instance, a laser beam or other light beam could be used. The exposed material could include materials other than photo-resist, such as photographic film, that is subject to accumulated changes from multiple exposures. FIGS. 1 and 2 show a lithographic system for writing on a resist. FIGS. 3 and 4 show multiphase printing. FIGS. 5 and 6 show multiphase printing with virtual addressing. FIG. 7 is a flow chart of one embodiment of the invention. FIG. 1 illustrates a writing operation by an E-beam machine similar to the writing operation taught in the Collier et al. patent disclosure. As shown in this figure, the arrow "X" represents the movement of the stage 12 and the arrow "Y" represents the movement of the electron beam in a raster scan fashion. In this system, an address or pixel is defined as the diameter of the beam spot on the medium. As illustrated, circles 14 represent beam spots or pixels on a resist 16 (resist coated substrate) and to illustrate the effect of the modulation (or blanking) of the beam, certain of the pixels are shown blank (unexposed) while others are shown solid (exposed). Modulation or blanking of the beam in the Collier et al. apparatus occurred at 10 MHz with 4 rows of pixels defining a 2.0 micrometer feature width and 512 pixels defining a 128 micrometer length utilizing a pixel size of 0.5 micrometers. One embodiment of the invention is very similar to that of the Collins et al patent disclosure, with the exceptions that (1) the pixel size is variable and independent of the center-to-center pixel distance (address unit or writing address dimension); and (2) the raster scan length is variable and may contain as many as 4096 pixels in one embodiment. FIG. 2 illustrates a particle beam lithographic system 30 (as illustrated in above-referenced U.S. Pat. No. 4,498,010 to Biechler et al.) utilizable for accomplishing the above writing technique which comprises a particle or electron source 32, a beam modulating or blanking unit 34 for providing the modulation of the beam, a beam deflection and focus unit 36, a work chamber 38 containing the stage 12 with resist 16 and a means for determining the registration of the beam at the proper coordinates, all under the control of control equipment 42. This system is similar to the prior art systems of the Collier et al. and Lin patent disclosures. When the desired writing on the resist is complete, the resist is processed by conventional lithographic development techniques resulting in features as defined by the pixels during writing. To accomplish multiphase printing, geometric data is decomposed into pixels in multiples of the basic geometric representation and printed in multiple phases. The particular case of four phases is illustrated here in detail. Each pixel in the normal single pass rasterization of a geometric figure on a 1x grid is referenced by a two coordinate pixel address, (x,y), with (0,0) referring to the lowest and left-most pixel address of the pattern. The scan conversion algorithm for the first phase places into the pattern memory only those pixels belonging to the figure which are even in both x and y. These pixels are labelled "A" in FIG. 3. The "A" pixels are then written on an address grid which is twice (2X) that of the normal single pass rasterization of the geometric figure. Similarly the scan conversion algorithms for the second, third and fourth phases choose (x,y) to be (odd, even), (even, odd) and (odd, odd) respectively. Each phase is written on the 2X write grid offset from other phases by a distance of X in the x and y directions. Specifically, the second (B) phase is offset by X in the positive x-direction from the first (A) phase; the third (C) phase is offset by X in the positive-y direction from the first (A) phase; and the fourth (D) phase is offset by X in the positive-y direction from the second (B) phase and by X in the positive x-direction from the third (C) phase. The composite result is an interleaved set of pixels placed on the 1X grid in one-to-one correspondence with the pixels which would have resulted from the normal pixelization of the 1X input pattern. The composite pixelization which results from the four phases is shown in FIG. 4. Note that if the spot size used to write this figure had been the same as the 2X write grid size, these pixels would be 50% overlapped. As mentioned above, it is known that a good lithography result can be achieved with such an overlap. Since each pass is written on an address grid which is twice that of the original pattern data, the time required to expose each phase is approximately one-fourth that of a normal single pass write. Because four phases are exposed, the resulting throughput advantageously is approximately the same as with a conventional single pass writing strategy. It should be obvious that more than four phases may be interleaved obtain a 1X cartesian composite pixelization. In general, n2 phases may be written each on an X writing grid and interleaved by offsetting from its nearest neighbors by a distance X in the x and y directions in a manner entirely analogous to the four phase technique described above. Virtual addressing is a known (see above) technique which achieves edge placement of one-half of the writing address. Given a 2X writing address grid, virtual addressing resolves edges to the 1X grid by turning off alternate pixels along those edges which fall between the 2X write grid lines. This effectively achieves a 1/2 dose along those edges causing them to resolve to the 1X address grid when developed in the resist. FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate the application of the virtual addressing techniques in multiphase printing. Given an input pattern defined on a 1X grid, the pattern is written with multiphase printing in four phases on a 4X writing address grid (see FIG. 5). Multiphase printing achieves the resolution of appropriate edges to the 2X grid by offsetting the writing of each phase by 1/2 of the writing address of 4X. The right edge of the geometric figure is resolved back to the 1X grid by choosing not to write the "D" pixels along that edge during the scan conversion for the "D" phase. Note that if the writing spot size were the same as the writing address size, the pixels are 50% overlapped in the central part of the figure, while at the "dithered" virtual edge the "C" pixels exactly butt to one another (see FIG. 6). This results in a much smoother edge when developed in the resist than would be expected from this picture (FIG. 6) which depicts pixel center placement. This allows the application of the virtual addressing technique at larger address sizes than was possible with conventional single pass writing. Since the writing grid for each phase is 4X the input pattern grid, the time to expose each phase is roughly one-sixteenth the time required for a normal single pass write. The requirement of four phases results in a net throughput gain of approximately 4X. FIGS. 3 and 5 show phase separation of pixels, virtual address transform and rasterization as separate processes for the purpose of clarification. In one embodiment (see FIG. 7) these processes are part of a single software transformation done for each phase. For each phase, software 62 transforms the CAD (computer aided design) figure data 60 into the proper bit map 64 held in a data buffer, for example, shift registers, from which the data is transferred to the raster scan lithography system 66 which exposes the photosensitive surface 70. A single bit map data buffer is quite large and each phase is completed before the next is begun. It should be obvious that, the size of the bit map buffer 64 is not fundamental to the invention. It should also be obvious that the portion of each phase completed before another phase is begun is also not important as long as the composite pixel pattern 68 is completely exposed on the photosensitive surface 70. This description is illustrative and not limiting; further modifications will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art in the light of this disclosure and the appended claims. Patent Citations
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