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i would have to say the coolest gundams that ive seen are Rx-78 gundam, wing zero (custom, i love the angel wings) heavyarms, God (or burning) gundam (i like the burning finger) and.....DEATHSCYTHE! i mean, hes got a friggin scythe! a couple from SEED are cool too, like strike gundam, but i never seen them fight that much as i never saw much fiughting at all in the series.....
i truly hope Gundam 00 has some amazing mobile suits, so far the gundams look cool. (what you can see of them in the like 1 second tease)
"You will only have eyes for Me!"
hmmm i going to guess that there are colonies, as there always are. for some reason i doubt there will be an advanced for of human in this one (newtype, coordinator, ect)
"You will only have eyes for Me!"
I've actually brought & built a few models of them too, mostly in 1/144 scale. I'd post pics of them on here, but I haven't finished with all of them yet. Most of them I've converted, adding my own touches, without spoiling the look though. My favorite from what I've got so far is Destany Gundam, which I'm rigging up so it can swap packs with my Strike Nior & use the packs from the cheap Strikes I got. I'll also make it so the origonal pack is still compatible though. Having a large sword & a high powered cannon, both of which fold for storage, on a pack that can create wings of energy sounds rather cool to me.
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Wish I could get on here more often. *Sigh* The down side to night shift...
yes, they do soud cool. when i was a kid i had a toy (not a model) of wing gundam. the sucker was huge ( i cant remember the scale #) but i liked transforming it from bird mode to fighter mode. it was cool, but my dad broke it. i cried.
UPDATE!!!! check this out, hot off wikipedia! "The main character is 16-year old Setsuna F. Seiei, a quiet young man who grew up in war-torn Middle East and a Gundam Meister since two years ago. He pilots the Gundam Excia"
i recconmend going to the page on wikipedia, as it show a picture of this gundam. i would putthe pic here but i donot know how.
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Recent answers to The top 1" under the toolbar is dead on my screen. It's been this way for months. It is only on Firefox. What's wrong and what do i do?https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9371432013-01-17T22:45:10-08:00Hey I DID THE RESTART. I DIDN'T BACK ANYTHING UP BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS SUPPOSE TO. DID I LOSE 2013-01-17T22:45:10-08:00bpaulnhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/937143#answer-399039
Hey I DID THE RESTART. I DIDN'T BACK ANYTHING UP BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS SUPPOSE TO. DID I LOSE MY BOOK MARKS FOREVER? BABYLON SEEMED TO BE THE CAUSE. DON'T KNOW WHERE I PICKED IT UP BUT STEER CLEAR!
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You can use one of these to start Firefox in Safe mode:

On Windows, hold down the Shift key while starting Firefox with a double-click on the Firefox desktop shortcut

On Mac, hold down the Options key while starting Firefox

Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled

If it works in Firefox Safe-mode then disable all extensions (Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one extension at a time until the problem reappears.

Close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode (click the links for troubleshooting including in the article as well)

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Try to Reset Firefox – easily fix most problems , and check it again.

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There should be the ability to pick your role before you enter a match, and the matchmaking will make a team of what you picked, or ever what secondary roll you pick.
Many MMO's have this, and I think it could work here as well.
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Pick order does work. Pick order is what's fair. Pick order is what Riot has stated many times is the correct way to select champs. Pick order is described in the summoner code as the way you should select champs.
How is there any confusion on this? Yes some people are a hole and troll for not getting their way but you stick to your principles and be consistent.
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dunno about you guys but every single game i joined in draft normal people call out roles.. pick order is non existent unless riot enforces it.
bump for great justice
If someone wants to go for my position and they're in front of me in the pick order, I ask them pretty nicely if I can grab it instead. If they say no, I fill in elsewhere. No big deal.
Until some kind of feature is added to help decide these arguments, it's just best to go into these things with an open, team-oriented mind, and a flexible roster. This is an example of why knowing several roles decently is important.
If you are going to queue up and insta-lock/call a role, don't act for even one second that you're surprised at the negative feedback, and possible trolling that generally follows.
ive had 2 people go ad bot , argue with each other the whole game and still turn the game into a win for their team.
wheres your god now?
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I, personaly, would like to see a pre game roll selection. Exa, I go to pick 5v5 draft/ranked and then am given the option of top/mid/jungle/adc/support. I then check a box next to the desired roll and comense with the Q wait. While I could see this making some peoples games take alot longer to start, I play support and I beleive I would get instant Q's. I could see this getting rid of ALOT of the problems with roll calling but it would probubly, greatly increase wait times for games. Do the pro's outweigh the cons???
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Hello Orchid Friends,
I need your help again. Why my Miltoniopsis leaves turned black? I have them in the same tray with cym and Oncidium but those are green and healthy looking except for the Mil. First I thought it might be too sensitive to light above them, I moved them somewhere that is not direct light on top of the leaves but they still turned dark brown and black. I cut the black part off and some of the leaves bent downward but the tips still turned black. It couldn't be because of light? Even the black tips cut off, they continue to turn yellow, then brown and then black. I don't know what that is. Otherwise, they look quite healthy, giving out new roots and even a small new shoot. Could you tell me what I did and should not do to keep them from turning black? Here are a couple of pictures so you can detect...
Thank you!
Salt damage. Miltoniopsis are sensitive to water quality.
What you need to keep in mind is that keeping a plant a little too dry can exacerbate salt damage; evaporation concentrates the salts in the remaining water. Complete evaporation is how salt buildup occurs.
In the absence of knowing your specific water quality I note, as you say, your other oncidiums aren't showing any signs. Thus my first recommendation is try to keep the plant a little more moist to prevent the salt concentration. In other plants that aren't super sensitive this is usually all that's necessary. So it's possible that may just be an indication that you are keeping it a little too dry.
If that doesn't work after a few weeks then I would say start using distilled water with weak fert applications at each watering. (If many of your oncidiums show this then I would jump to use distilled water. Just one plant=step up to it).
Milts are cloud forest plants so they appreciate a tad more moisture than oncidiums, esp. in the form of humidity. And a tad cooler.
This post was edited by terpguy on Fri, Apr 4, 14 at 20:56
Hi Terpguy,
Thank you for your advise. In term of salt water, I have been using snow water for at least last 2 months since we have much snow here, I just go outside, packed snow in a bucket and let it melt then I used it. I keep my house quite cool this winter. Day time is 18 degrees C (Approx. 63 degrees F) and night is 16 degrees. (60.8 F.) I do fertilize them with very weak 1/2 tsp. MG in 4 litters of water and I use that to water them every time. I will try to give them more water to see if that would help.
Thank you again,
Hi Terpguy,
Thank you for your advise. In term of salt water, I have been using snow water for at least last 2 months since we have much snow here, I just go outside, packed snow in a bucket and let it melt then I used it. I keep my house quite cool this winter. Day time is 18 degrees C (Approx. 63 degrees F) and night is 16 degrees. (60.8 F.) I do fertilize them with very weak 1/2 tsp. MG in 4 litters of water and I use that to water them every time. I will try to give them more water to see if that would help.
Thank you again,
What zone are you in? Looks like fertilizer damage to me. Try cutting back on fertilizer and watering well, letting it run through the pot.
I've never had good luck with Milts. Have grown them but ran into problems and never quite figured it out.
What are the plants potted in? What fertilizer are you using?
I have tried a few times and have had nil success with Miltoniopsis.
Here is a little data gathering exercise from records at a local orchid society.
Counts from 2013 and to the end of March 2014.
Total Orchids benched = 1676
Cymbidium Hybrids benched = 126
Oncidiinae hybrids benched = 190
Miltoniopsis hybrids benched = maybe 1
So I do not think you can grow Miltoniopsis in the same set of conditions as Cymbidiums and perhaps with most Oncidiinae Hybrids.....WHY?
Because they are narrow temperature range cloud forest orchids and as mentioned above perhaps they are fussy about water and fertiliser quality.
This post was edited by arthurm on Sat, Apr 5, 14 at 2:36
Hi All,
I live in zone 3, water them ( I should say fertilize them) every 3-4 days for the one potted in bark and 4-5 days the one potted in moss. I know you all said it is very difficult this particular orchid but I thought since I already have them, I'll try to see how far I can go with them. I use MG 24-8-16. May be I should fertilize them every second time instead of every time? For sure, after this I won't dare trying this orchid again...
Thank you,
You are killing it with kindness!. You should fertilise it less often. There are orchids growing in the wild in the National parks around here and it is a wonder that they flower in their season. Sparse rations indeed!
Think more about giving it fertiliser about once a month!
Certainly worth growing if you can master its needs. Do not forget its ancestors were cloud forest orchids and that is the problem here, not cloud forest at all when arid winds blow from the interior of the continent and the humidity drops and the sun is blazing down (Arizona Sky)
In that cloud forest I imagine that it would be getting very, very, very dilute food all the time.
Again, it would help if an indoor grower who has bloomed Miltoniopsis would give some hints.
Thank you Tolumniamatt, I will do that when my snow water ran out. Have been watered, fertilized them with snow water and cut right down on fert. Also cut off all the black tips and hope they will be happier from now. I noticed a new shoot coming out from the crown. Don't know it's a shoot or a spike. Will let you all know if it is a spike. Won't that be a miracle? and exciting!
Tanie, forgive me for piggy-backing on your thread. I am having a very similar problem with my recently-bought Miltoniopsis, only my leaves are yellowing / browning / blackening from the sides, not from the tips, and looks like the yellow areas are much larger than on Tanie's plant. Does this also look like fertilizer burn?
I bought it with prefect-looking leaves 2 weeks prior to this pic being taken. Fertilized every time I watered, which happened probably twice in that time. I use Foliage-Pro 9-3-6 at 1/3 tsp/gal, which is higher than their 1/4 tsp/gal "maintenance" dose but way lower than the 1 tsp/gal "production" dose. The mix is very peaty; waiting for it to finish blooming to change it to something less water-retentive. The water I use is New York City tap water (which is generally good), off-gassed for a few days and Britta-filtered.
Oh I do hope someone will help you with this. Don't you feel helpless seeing them geting sick and not knowing how to help them?I stopped fertilize mine sine I post this. I am taking advise from orchid growers here and will fertilize them way less to see if that will help to stop the black tips. Despite the tip of the leaves are blackening, they seem doing okay. They are giving out new shoots and new roots. I'll just have to wait and see.
I have some comments regarding black leaf tips on REGULAR orchids. Miltoniopsis are not regular orchids, their leaves will turn black when the wind blows, also when the wind does not blow.
I have a 'Mine Shaft Canary', an orchid which tells me when I fertilize too much. For close to 18 years I have been growing Maxillaria variabilis (yellow) and noticed that it seems to be very sensitive to over fertilizing. When it gets black leaf tips I cut back on fertilizing and sure enough new emerging leaves will look normal. I doubt that there is anything special about that plant, I just happen to have noticed that association and it has held true over the years.
Plants seem to have a different level of sensitivity to this problem. I have a couple of Dracula that get major black leaf tip damage all the time. Since all of the other ones have nice green leaves I ignore them, just enjoy their flowers and nip off the black leaf parts now and then. Can't please everyone.
I don't know why I grow Miltoniopsis. Finally am keeping them alive and this year one of them is actually making ONE, that's 1 with no zeros behind it, spikes. Went to my doctor's office and noticed a Miltoniopsis they bought at Trader Joe's with 13 spikes. The plant is about 1/2 the size of mine with it's spectacular ONE spike. I find Miltoniopsis even more aggravating than Dendrobium aggravation.
I've tried them multiple times, just can't keep the right humidity and temp balance growing them with my indoor set-up.
Greentoe's pic makes me think it's something different than a simple leaf tip fert issue, it has bad spots in the middle of the leaves, not the tips. Maybe a little sunburn or too close to a cold window or something along those lines??? Then again, it could just be those leaves time to give up the fight???
I'd keep a close eye on it for sure.
Wow, so looks like this is a princess, huh?
> Maybe a little sunburn or too close to a cold window or something along those lines?
Definitely not sunburn. I've been keeping it away from even the fluorescents (extends the life of the blooms, they say). It's been away from windows, but on the floor, with a fan gently blowing air around. Mid- to low 60s is how low the temp probably got. They can take that, I understand.
One more potential cause (forgot to mention) is I sprayed it with soap solution (6 tbsp/gal) twice in case there are pests. Once I washed it off after ~30-60 minutes, the other time I may have left the soap solution to dry (I think that's what I did).
I googled this thread up for somebody on facebook with similar yellowing leaves, and meanwhile thought I'd post an update on my Miltoniopsis pictured 3-4 screens up.
That yellowing / blackening of leaves stopped very soon after. I think it was probably just it adjusting to the new growing area. I continued fertilizing over all these months, it grew well over the summer, and I even divided it in late July.
Then a few days ago I noticed a spike on one of the divisions, and today on the other! I did not expect spikes because indoors I cannot provide much of a cool period, but there they are! The quality of this flowering remains to be seen, but it very much seems to be much less of a princess than I thought it was.
Hope everybody else's Miltonias are also doing well.
Congratulations Greentoes!
If you look at the thread under "Miltonia, 'Miltoniopsis' updated" you'll see mine bloomed! And because of that gave me a lot of encouragement to grow them so for last 2 weeks, HD was selling miltoniopsis, "seems to sell them only once a year", I went a bought 3 more in 3 different colors. 1 is pink and white looks like butterfly and one is yellow, the other one is a beautiful "waterfall". I hope they'll all doing as well as the first one for me. I took advise from all friends on line here and cut way down in fertilized them so there's no more black tips though the accordion leaves I couldn't make it go away no matter what I do.
Good luck to you and your Milt. Please post the flowers for us to enjoy when the bloom!


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The title of this biography is an apt one: Arthur Erickson's life was a blueprint for the architect with a capital A.
Erickson, who died in 2009 at age 84, enjoyed a career coloured by a rainbow's spectrum of people, places and events that gave it an almost fictional feel, an epic poem of the modern architect's experience.
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Erickson's visual and intellectual gifts and observational prowess yield a treasure trove of records and insight, which undoubtedly facilitate Stouck's rich storytelling.
He documents Erickson's compulsion to study urban space. After having realized his impression of Venice was profoundly different late at night than during the day, Erickson "would try to arrive in a city late at night or in the predawn, so that his first impressions were tender ones -- of a city's innocence and its potential."
It is clear that people had the potential to cloud meaning for Erickson, a fact that Stouck regularly points out in a foreshadowing of the artist's struggle with professional practice.
The story becomes less focused once Stouck begins describing the processes and ideals behind Erickson's most notable commissions. These include his watershed Simon Fraser University campus as well as his controversial Canadian Embassy building in Washington, D.C.
Winnipeg can boast no Erickson buildings. The closest one is in Lethbridge, Alta.
The compromise Erickson made building for clients and dealing with budgets, combined with the scrutiny and expectations that accompany his professional fame, means that the biography's second half is necessarily less open and intimate.
Erickson evolves into an internationally recognized "starchitect," rubs elbows with the elite, becomes a prolific builder and settles into a long-term personal relationship
Stouck, who teaches English at Simon Fraser, describes many occasions where Erickson wilfully ignores the pleas of his clients. They parallel his ever-increasing fondness for leisure and luxury.
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The present invention pertains to the provision of Light Emitting Polymer structure, which increases the versatility of the coloring and marking of surface areas of manufactured items, particularly fabric and garments.
1. An apparatus for increasing the versatility of markings on surface areas of manufactured items, comprising:
a flexible substrate layer attached to a flexible surface area of a manufactured item; and
an array of Light Emitting Polymer Units distributed on said flexible substrate layer to display at least one image of a plurality of images.
2. The apparatus of
a transparent electrode layer formed on said flexible substrate layer;
a PPV layer formed on said transparent electrode layer;
a cyanoPPV layer formed on said PPV layer; and
at least one bit size electrode formed on said cyanoPPV layer.
3. The apparatus of
4. The apparatus of
5. The apparatus of
6. The apparatus of
7. The apparatus of
a still image, a moving image, a video, a movie, a cartoon, a screen saver, a color, and information.
8. A method for increasing the versatility of markings on surface areas of manufactured items, comprising:
forming a flexible substrate layer;
forming an array of Light Emitting Polymer units on said flexible substrate layer;
attaching the flexible substrate with the array to a flexible surface area of a manufactured item; and
displaying at least one image of a plurality of images using said array of Light Emitting Polymer units.
9. The method of
10. The method of
11. The method of
selecting said at least one image of a plurality of images to be displayed by said array of Light Emitting Polymer units; and
controlling said array of Light Emitting Polymer units to form said selected one image.
12. The method of
13. The method of
14. An article having a versatile display comprising:
a manufactured item having a flexible surface;
an array of Light Emitting Polymer units having a flexible substrate layer, wherein the array is affixed to said flexible surface of said manufactured item in a manner that substantially maintains the flexibility of said flexible surface of said manufactured item; and
a control unit for controlling said array of Light Emitting Polymer units, wherein the control unit controls the Light Emitting Polymer units to display at least one image of a plurality of images.
15. An apparatus for increasing the versatility of markings on flexible surface areas of manufactured items, comprising:
a flexible substrate layer attached to a flexible surface area of a manufactured item; and
an array of Light Emitting Polymer Units distributed on said flexible substrate layer to display at least one image of a plurality of images, said array affixed to said flexible surface in a manner that substantially maintains the flexibility of said flexible surface.
16. A method for increasing the versatility of markings on flexible surface areas of manufactured items, comprising:
forming a flexible substrate layer;
forming an array of Light Emitting Polymer units on said flexible substrate layer;
attaching the flexible substrate with the array to a flexible surface area of a manufactured item such that the flexibility of the flexible surface is substantially maintained; and
displaying at least one image of a plurality of images using said array of Light Emitting Polymer units.
17. The article of
18. The article of
19. The article of
20. The article of
a transparent electrode layer formed on said flexible substrate layer;
a PPV layer formed on said transparent electrode layer;
a cyanoPPV layer formed on said PPV layer; and
at least one bit size electrode formed on said cyanoPPV layer.
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a still image, a moving image, a video, a movie, a cartoon, a screen saver, a color, and information.
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forming a transparent electrode layer on said flexible substrate layer;
forming a PPV layer on said transparent electrode layer;
forming a cyanoPPV layer on said PPV layer; and
forming at least one bit size electrode on said cyanoPPV layer.
This application relates in general to light emitting polymer displays, and in specific to light emitting polymers used as wearable displays.
Prior art attempts at providing surface areas with patterns, decorations, colors, advertisements, information, and the like onto all manner of surfaces have been generally confined to printing (paint, transfer process, etc.) or integration (weaving and/or coloring raw batches of composite materials, etc.). In accordance with these methodologies, the prior art teaches the marking, coloring, or printing of walls, fabrics, plastics, metals, infrastructures, and other manners of manufactured items. However, all of the above prior art methodologies are subject to the same inflexibility. Specifically, once a surface of any one of the multitude of disparate objects is prepared with colors, patterns, or markings, any changes required thereon may range from the impossible (such as in the case of fabrics, where color is dyed on or woven in), to the time consuming (such as repainting walls, metals, or transportation infrastructures, such as roadway markings, etc.)
Accordingly, the prior art technology relating to the field of surface area marking has certain drawbacks. Recent attempts to overcome the particular disadvantages of the prior art, such as the ones described above, include a wide range of solutions, ranging from the use of light emitting diode (LED) screens on changeable surfaces (e.g., highway signs reflecting the updating of highway information) to items such as reversible jackets or velcro patches, which are offered as a remedy to the inflexibility of the coloring or marking of textiles or fabric. Nevertheless, such solutions provide at best only moderate flexibility with respect to the ability to change the surface colorings or markings, particularly with respect to non-paintable, flexible surfaces such as fabric. Moreover, the prior art teachings have yet to offer a solution which is widely applicable to all manner of surface changeability, including flexible surfaces like fabric.
Therefore, there is a need in the art of surface area marking for a system that permits easy changeability of surface coloration or marking across the wide range of materials having markable surfaces. Furthermore, there is a particular need for such a solution to apply to surfaces which are flexible and not easily changeable, such as fabric.
These and other objects, features and technical advantages are achieved by a system and method by which light emitting polymers (LEPs) are applied to a variety of surfaces, both flexible and inflexible, in order to provide versatile, easily changeable surface markings and/or coloration. A system and method are disclosed which further provide for displaying both still and moving images (e.g., movies) on such surface. Additionally, other information received/generated by an application may be displayed on such surface. For example, a received e-mail or a desired map generated by a mapping application may be displayed on the surface. In a most preferred embodiment, the surface on which the LEPs are utilized to display a desired image/color/information is a fabric surface. For instance, in a most preferred embodiment, LEPs are implemented within an article of clothing that a user may wear.
Specifically, LEPs are a class of polymers which exhibit electrical properties beyond the purely insulating characteristics of simple plastics and provide a light weight combined with physical strength, yet are able to offer structural flexibility in the areas of application/manufacture, as well as versatility in usage thereafter. More specifically, LEPs are conjugated polymers which may be molded, extruded woven, deposited (e.g., through electrochemical or spin coating means) or even may be printed on a surface, all while providing metallic and semiconductor characteristics. These characteristics stem from the very structure of the class of polymers which possess a delocalized pi-electron system along the polymer backbone such that the delocalized pi-electron system. This confers semiconducting properties to the polymer and gives it the ability to support positive and negative charge carriers. It is the nature of the characteristics described as such which offer materials fashioned thereof with many classical transistor-like properties.
Accordingly, LEPs are generally suitable to application of a variety of surface areas in neo-transistor structural order. Application in certain structural order may be fashioned even on difficult surfaces, such as fabrics, which ideally would have flexible substrate surfaces, and are then spun coated from LEP material, into distinct layers. In a preferred embodiment, the composition of these layers would ideally be doped semiconducting conjugated polymers such as polyaniline and polypyrrole which lead to the presence of states in the band gap, and at sufficient dopant concentrations, permit the band gap to virtually disappear, thereby allowing the polymer to act as a metal with high conductivity. Although, any suitable composition now known or later developed may be implemented, and any such implementation is intended to be within the scope of the present invention. For instance, any suitable composition for a sufficiently flexible LEP display that may be implemented with fabric, such as an article of clothing, is intended to be within the scope of the present invention.
By providing material composed of the LEP elements of a preferred embodiment, versatile, flexible fabrics are provided which would permit a user to change the color, pattern, or design of a garment, for example, constructed of such fabric. For instance, the mere touch of a control button may dictate transmission of coloration or markings in say, an array of transition-like modules, which, according to embedded code (as known in the art of video display coding) may implement, pixel by pixel, the resulting appearance throughout the specified areas in a garment. Structured as such, a preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates provision of a given wearer of a LEP garment the ability to change the appearance of an article of clothing, such as a jacket. For example, in a preferred embodiment, a user may change a jacket from bearing the design of the New York Yankees to that of the logo of the New York Giants, or alternatively, to change the color, text, or other pattern on any given garment. Furthermore, in a preferred embodiment, the display on a garment need not be still images. For example, movies, videos, cartoons, �screen savers,� or any other type of moving images may be displayed on the fabric.
Furthermore, provision of LEPs in such a manner extends well beyond garments. As examples, the contemplated provision of flexibly-backed LEP elements also provides for application to walls, signs, carpets, road surfaces, automobile surfaces (interior and/or exterior), airplane surfaces (interior and/or exterior), safety devices, message boards, etcetera. Of course, it will be recognized that flexibly-backed LEPs as disclosed herein may be utilized in an unlimited number of applications, and the scope of the present invention is intended to encompass all such applications. Such surfaces may simply be augmented by the covering of desired surfaces with the described flexibly-backed LEP material or may even be originally provided with the above-described LEP elements spin coated or otherwise deposited on a given manufactured surface area. For example, a surface may be implemented as a movie screen to display a movie, as opposed to a movie projector being utilized to project a movie onto the display surface. Thus, the requirement of expensive movie projector equipment for displaying movies may be eliminated.
Accordingly, it is a technical advantage of the present invention to provide versatility and ease of LEPs for changing surface coloration and marking. It is a further technical advantage of the present invention to apply the advantages of LEPs to problematic surfaces such as fabric, such that a user would be able to increase the versatility and appearance of any given fabric, such as a garment.
The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that the detailed description of the invention that follows may be better understood. Additional features and advantages of the invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims of the invention. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and specific embodiment disclosed may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. It should also be realized by those skilled in the art that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention, and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following descriptions taken on conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which:
FIG. 1 depicts a cross section of a preferred embodiment of LEP layers deposited on a flexible substrate; and
FIG. 2 depicts a preferred embodiment garment fashioned from a fabric having a changeable surface area.
For ease of explanation, the below description focuses primarily on a preferred embodiment for implementing LEPs to accomplish a fabric (e.g., a wearable) display. However, the below description of a preferred embodiment is intended to render the disclosure enabling for many other applications of such LEPs (e.g., utilizing LEPs with any other type of flexible surface), which are intended to be within the scope of the present invention. It should also be understood that a preferred technique for implementing such an LEP is disclosed below to render the disclosure enabling and satisfy the best mode requirement, although other techniques that are now known or later developed may be utilized in implementing such an LEP on a flexible surface such as fabric, and any such implementation is intended to be within the scope of the present invention.
The actual thickness of the LEP elements are principally determined by the particular embodiment required for appearance purposes. Thus, by way of example, in the case of an article of clothing or garment which has a changeable surface area for providing a video, map, or variable team logo display, an active matrix display of LEPs would be optimal. Such an embodiment would ideally be provided with a spin coating deposition of an approximately 1000 Å layer having hole mobilities of between 0.1 and 1 cm2 V−1 s−1 with fields of 5 or 105 v/cm in order to achieve needed switching speeds. The preferred material will be PPV, which might have intrinsic conductivities on the order of 10−12 (Ohm cm)−1. More specifically, the use of polypyrrole and polyaniline is expressly contemplated for a preferred embodiment given their relatively superior stability. However, the particular use of one or the other is dependent on the processing for the given application. Generally, polypyrrole is not directly processable and is deposited in film form by electrochemical means, while polyaniline is generally made soluble through the use of soluble counter-ions that associate with the dopant ions on the polymer backbone, all of which provide conductivity levels between 10−2 and 102 (Ohm cm)−1.
Turning attention to FIG. 1, shown is a cross section depiction of the layered deposition of LEP materials on a flexible substrate 34 of a preferred embodiment. As mentioned, the application of the contemplated conjugated polymers is structured in order to provide a configuration which utilizes transistor-type principles the novel medium of a flexible substrate coated with the particular advantages of the below-described non-metallic materials.
In particular, a preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates use of a heterostructure that allows carrier confinement at the polymer/polymer interface in order to increase the likelihood of electron/hole capture so as to form an exciton that can radiatively recombine. In a most preferred embodiment, the electron/hole injection barriers will be similar through the provision of an injection electrode material and through the modification of the polymer material to be electron withdrawing so as to provide for a higher or lower electron affinity. More specifically, a preferred embodiment provides for a cyano group which is electron withdrawing and is capable of pushing down the barrier to electron injection. Accordingly, cyanoPPV (CN-PPV) layer 28 therefore acts as an electron transport layer. Because the bandgap of the CN-PPV layer 28 is lower than the PPV layer 30, recombination takes place in this layer thereby increasing efficiency at ranges of over 1%.
Because heterostructures can be designed using polymer material and given that organic synthesis allows additional degrees of freedom in tuning bandgap and work function of semiconductors, the polymer materials of a preferred embodiment are capable of a performance level comparable with inorganic LEDs and further have the fast switching speeds typical of LEDs. LEPs further provide the added capabilities of large area patterning at low cost because the light emitting device can be patterned simply by pixellation of the metal (unlike inorganic LEDs which require a highly doped semiconductor layer for ohmic contact). Hence, large area pixilated displays made from one sheet are possible, with added features such as flexibility. Preferred embodiments include their use as backlights for instrumentation panels or for ultra-thin transflective LCDs fixed on flexible garments. However, in an especially preferred embodiment, the system will comprise the use of simple patterning, such as dot matrix alphanumeric displays.
Specifically, the configuration of a preferred embodiment of an efficient light emitting structure on a flexible background for use on textiles and other manufactured items is as follows (with continued reference to FIG. 1): (1) flexible substrate layer 34, which may be a plastic flexible layer (preferably a polymer) which allows passage of light 36; (2) a transparent electrode layer 32; (3) PPV layer 30; (4) CN-PPV layer 28; and (5) a bit size electrode 26, which contains −ve contacts 22, 24 which are opposed to +ve contact 20 located on transparent electrode 32. Thusly provided for, a preferred embodiment of the present invention affords greater versatility in changing the coloration or marking of surface areas, while providing the versatility of a flexible substrate which permits the resulting array of LEP units to be draped or contoured to a multitude of surfaces as needed.
Although the present invention also contemplates the use of the described array and structure in environments where flexibility is not required, a preferred embodiment, as depicted in FIG. 2, includes application as a fabric which may be fashioned into garments which will provide for the uses described herein. For example, an array of LEP units 14 may be provided on a jacket. As shown, the LEP display 14 may display a particular image, such as the New York Yankees logo. However, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a user may change the display to a different color and/or different logo. For instance, a user may change the display 14 to a logo for the St. Louis Cardinals. As a further example, display 14 may provide �New York Yankees�World Champions 1998.� A user may alter the display 14 to read �New York Yankees�World Champions 1999.� Thus, a user may alter the display 14 to allow the jacket to be more versatile and to remain up to date with changing fashion and/or changing information.
In a preferred embodiment, the jacket may include a power supply 10 (e.g., batteries, such as Ni�MH batteries), which may be integrated within the shoulder pad, for example, of a jacket. Of course, various power supplies may be implemented, and such power supplies may be arranged in any desirable manner for a particular application of a preferred embodiment. Additionally, in a preferred embodiment, a control system 12 (e.g., a computer) may be provided to allow a user to control display 14. Control system 12 may vary with complexity, depending on the amount of control/versatility desired and the requirements for integrating such a control system within a particular application (e.g., the size requirements). For instance, a control system 12 may be integrated within a pocket of the jacket, so as to be inconspicuous. Control system 12 may include one or more buttons, which when activated may alter the display 14. For example, depressing such a button(s) may scroll the display 14 through images/colors pre-stored within the control system 12. Of course, control system 12 may, in various embodiments, include any amount of functionality for allowing a user to interact with such control system. For example, in some embodiments, a partial or full keyboard may be provided for control system 12 to allow a user to interact with the control system 12 (e.g., to edit/change a display 14). Additionally, the on-board control system 12 may include a connector that allows the control system 12 to be coupled to an off-board system (e.g., a PC), whereby a user may utilize such an off-board system to control display 14. For example, a user may couple the control system 12 of a jacket to a PC (e.g., via a serial port or USB port) and then edit/change the display 14, as desired, utilizing the PC's input devices (e.g., keyboard, mouse, etc.).
Various applications may be executed by control system 12 to display information on a display 14. For example, a mapping application may be executing to allow a map to be displayed on a wearable display 14. For instance, a user may utilize a mapping application to map out the directions for a desired destination, and the directions may be displayed on display 14 to aid the user in navigating to the desired destination. In one embodiment, control system 12 may provide a mechanism (e.g., a button) which when activated displays the map (or other desired information) on display 14, and the control system 12 may provide a further mechanism (e.g., the same or different button) which when activated displays another image on display 14. Thus, the user may alternate display 14 between a New York Yankees logo, for example, and a map illustrating directions to a desired location. Thus, when the user arrives at the desired location, he may simply choose to have the New York Yankees logo displayed.
As another example, a wrist band or other article of clothing may include a display 14, and control system 12 may allow a user to store reference information to be displayed on display 14. For instance, a quarterback of a football team may store various formations and plays within control system 12 and recall such information on the display 14 during a game. Alternatively, a user may store an outline and/or notes for a presentation, and the user may display such outline and/or notes for reference when giving the presentation. Of course a user may store various other reference information, including but not limited to shopping lists, to-do lists, or other information that may be displayed on display 14. As a further application, in one embodiment control system 12 may allow a user to receive a message (e.g., an e-mail and/or page) via control system 12 and display the received message on display 14.
It should be understood that in a most preferred embodiment, LEPs are implemented on an article of clothing, including but not limited to shirts, ties, jackets, coats, pants, shorts, underwear, socks, shoes, dresses, blouses, skirts, gloves, scarfs, wrist bands, head bands, and hats/caps. However, it should be understood that a preferred embodiment may be implemented for any fabric, not just an article of clothing. As examples, fabric for furniture, carpet, rugs, drapes, curtains, towels, sheets, blankets, other linens, pillows, and/or other fabric commonly found in a room may be so implemented to allow for versatile interior designing. As yet a further example, handbags, purses, briefcases, luggage, golf bags, bowling ball bags, and gym bags may be implemented having LEPs.
It should also be understood that a preferred embodiment of the present invention may be implemented using the technique described above, with reference to FIG. 1. However, alternative embodiments may be implemented using any other now known or later discovered technique for implementing LEPs on a flexible surface (e.g., fabric), and the scope of the present invention is intended to encompass any such implementation.
Although the present invention and its advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Moreover, the scope of the present application is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments of the process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, means methods and steps described in the specification. As one of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate from the disclosure of the present invention, processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps, presently existing or later to be developed that perform substantially the same function or achieve substantially the same result as the corresponding embodiments described herein may be utilized according to the present invention. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to include within their scope such processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps.
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""We Thrive in Ambiguity/Lack of Clarity and No Sense of Humanity, But At Least We're Dishonest AND Punitive." "
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I have been working at DISH full-time (more than 3 years)
Co-workers. Good people!
But... they don't pay the bills, and they don't have the ability to preserve your heart & soul (which will be chiseled away, week after week, by the Dish mentality and the lie after lie). The "crazy-making" can eat away at you until you don't know truth from lie.
Assume whatever Mgmt tells you or promises you is a misrepresentation at best.
It's most likely a blatant untruth AND a manipulation. It'll sound good, but just wait and see the REAL truth. And you will. You'll see the truth, and they'll try to make you think like they think. Not a healthy way to go - don't fall for it.
Maintain your dignity and your truth. Know that you're most likely quite a bit smarter than Mgmt is. You won't have the power, but know that you have the ability and smarts.
(ooops... I got into "cons" while rating Dish in the "pros"... Now how could THAT happen??) Ha. Not sure there will be enough room under "Cons" for what I have to post, but we shall see.
Dish is a cesspool of inhumanity. And exploitation.
Honesty and integrity are not valued; actually, they are feared. Top-heavy management style consisted of immense lack of a savvy, lack of caring, and an inhumane management style. That, and a surplus of micro management. Not an inspiring combo.
Paychecks for sales reps aren't necessarily accurate. Keep copies of:
1) all paycheck stubs from the day you start
2) all signed timesheets.
The coaches will put the timesheets in front of you when you're on the phone, and BUSY! They want you to NOT have time to look at what you're signing. Hmmm.... wonder why?? Just wait on signing it tho...sign it when you have time to go over it. The "sense of urgency" the coaches push at you is a manipulation. And they're told by Mid-Mgmt to rush you and make sure you don't have time to view hours.
Anyway, request copy of each timesheet once you've signed off. Keep all records. If you don't stay on top of it, they will underpay you. Even if you do stay on top, your paychecks often times won't be accurate.
Once you get fired, or leave on your own because yes, absolutely there are GREAT jobs out there in the Denver Metro area - don't allow Dish to make you think that this company is IT. Not at all the case...
Anyway, once you leave Dish, go to Colorado Labor Board with your documentation and paystubs, and they will go to Dish, Dish will have to fill out tons of paperwork, and the Labor Board will get ALL the $$ Dish took from you for Autofails & Tier "human errors" and/or erroneous QA's that might just speak NOTHING of the TRUTH of that particular call. Always listen to the call they dinged you on, listen with your coach. Get it overturned. If it's not overturned, then get your commission back through our Labor Board.
It's not legal in Colorado for an employer to take away commission earned, as long as sale & installation is complete. It's your sale - get your money. And you WILL get your $$ once you leave Dish for good, and go to Labor Board. (It'll cost you nothing to get Labor Board involved.)
There is nothing streamlined for sales reps to SIMPLY follow-up and reconcile their sales from previous week to the actual pay they receive. This is intentional. Because if it were streamlined and sensible, we'd see the theft from our paychecks more easily. They're not about to make that happen.
The sales "compensation" structure changes frequently. They raise the bar, then raise the bar again. Lots & lots of variables involved, which makes it absolutely crazy-making to find out what you really should be paid.
Management hopes you just "give up" on tracking your money, and they count on people not having the time, not taking the time to make sure they're really getting paid. Because Mgmt knows it's an extremely complex and convoluted system for tracking your pay you actually earned.
So.... it's a constant revamping of pay structure into a complex web of mathematical algorithms. There's no simple, stream-lined way to track/project what pay you can anticipate. And like I said before, GOOD LUCK on ever knowing if you're really getting the commissions you've earned.
They allocate approx $1.5 MILLION/year for "prizes". So basically you're walking into a nasty gamble. If you can afford to gamble away your livelihood, by all means run with it!
Rather than offering compensation for work well done, and having occasional fun incentives/prizes, they budget MORE THAN 1 million dollars a year for something that you may never see, you may never enjoy, because the "prizes" are via raffle. Seriously, who DOES that?? That's weird. And uninspiring. I would have rather had that $$ allocated toward salary and benefits. If I had wanted a crapshoot, I'd have gone to Central City.
The health care, even if you opt in for the "premium" plan, is nothing but Major Medical/Catastrophic. Pathetic for a company this size, Fortune 200. But old Charlie boy ain't interested in giving back to employees, and doesn't much care to keep good people. And most people there were good ones. Charlie may be wealthy, but he's old. And nasty. And his day will soon come. As they say, Karma's a B****.
The cost relating to attrition is sky-high. I never understood why they nurtured the
"revolving door/our-employees-are-completely-dispensable-and-of-little-interest-to-us"
mentality. Seems like an expensive business practice.
And the Refer-A-Friend to work at Dish?? Ummm... even tho they supposedly pay something like $350 if the person you referred stays at least 90 days, I would never, EVER do this to a true friend. That would be cruel. If you detest someone, and want them to suffer, then refer them to work at Dish. I've heard of 3 cases where the current employees referred a friend or family member to work at Dish, and all obligations were fulfilled, but they NEVER got their referral fee. That's just who Dish is. Disgusting.
If you'd like to have a conversation (not a "confrontation", but rather a conversation) they feel threatened it seems. And management parrots (regurgitates), ad nauseum, the following: "If you don't like it here then leave."
Well that's not an effective way to communicate. Nothing moves forward, no progress is made. But at least they don't care. And that's the bottom line, there is such a LACK of CARING it's mind-blowing. And as long as they DON'T care, nothing will move forward and they'll continue with the enormous attrition expenses and the hell-on-earth work environment.
Oh - re: Sales Agents, Dish factors in a 1 to 2% "invalid" rate on incoming calls. That's absurd. But it allows Dish their massive greed, and payouts as small as they can be.
You CAN make money there, but the price you'll pay is quite likely your health, your family, and any sense of sanity. Such an unhealthy place.
Good co-workers, but a terribly corrupt nature based on greed. Charlie's greed. And if his little minions don't follow his lead, and his ruthless nature, they'll be gone. And they should count their blessings once freed from this prison.
Many days there I laughed and I had moments of FUN! My coworkers were fantastic!
However, read the rest of my post. There's so much more than being able to laugh and have fun at times. You can do that at ANY job.
This company can suck the very life right out of you. I've seen so much angst in employees' eyes, in their words, in their hearts. It's just NOT worth the angst and stress, along with being consistently monitored, and then manipulated into "thinking" a certain way. Sick.
And any nonsense you hear about Mgmt wanting to "improve life at Dish" is another manipulation - another trade-off. They make it appear as tho they're giving you something, but they make d*** sure you'll pay for it somewhere else.
If all you need is a quick paycheck, then try it out. You'll gain valuable experience. Seriously you will. Because if you can survive, or thrive, in this fear-based, punitive environment, you will absolutely SOAR in your next work place environment. So that's the PLUS side for any employee at Dish. Best to ya. Really, tho, you're too good to work at this corrupt, soul-sucking company.
And beware, peoples' relationships & marriages tend to suffer when one parent works at Dish. Sad to see, sad to hear. If you're a mom or dad with minor kids, don't do it. Your family will suffer, and you'll lose out on the BEST times and wonderful memories in your family's life.
There are other jobs. Don't risk your families. Don't risk your very important relationships. Not for this, not for people who see you as a commodity rather than as a human being with value.
Seriously?? "ADVICE" to Management??
Well let's see.... Nope, I got nothin'.
Because to spend time and effort offering advice to Management would require them actually caring. So there's no point. They know how they can improve morale. But they don't care. So I'm done. I'm free. I'm healthy now.
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I worked at DISH full-time (more than 5 years)Pros
Set your own schedule and discounted tv service. I was able to work about 4 hours a day and no one knew.Cons
Where do I start? I was laid off after the annual re org of the company. Dish does this every year around November and December. They need to save money so they eliminate a bunch of jobs. The severance package is 1 months pay and you have to sign a waiver within 21 days to get it. No matter how many years you worked there it's the same package. Pretty pathetic that a huge company treats people like that. The culture is awful and employees are miserable. You aren't able to go to HR because they go and tell everyone what you said. People put fake reviews on here to make it sound like its a wonderful place to work. I was employed for 6 years and I can't believe I survived that long. They have won the award for worst company to work for 2 years in a row and I'm sure they will win again this year. They don't care about the customers or the retailers. They will gut employees whenever they have a chance. The benefits are a joke and expensive. The base salary is way below standards as is the mileage paid for travel. It's .45 per mile. Expense reports take weeks to get back. Everything is mailed and delayed. Bonuses are capped which allows them to keep the majority of the money. This company is well known to be a pain in the butt to deal with. Here is some advice don't work here. If you need too just give it a year and get out. You will be laid off before you know it.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Your company is getting worse.Negative OutlookDisapproves of CEO
"Exec's don't care about their people. "
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I have been working at DISH full-time (more than a year)Pros
I like the industry. It's fast-paced and always interesting. I am challenged and always learning. I like the team I work.Cons
Every expense report is audited down to the penny. I had my expense report adjusted for $0.67 because I tipped more that 15%. If you clock in at 9:01 AM, a report used to be sent to your VP and they would come to your desk asking why you were 1 minute late. Then the VP was required to report back to HR. They supposedly stopped this after we were voted the "worst company" the first time. From what I have been told by several people, they still keep track of all the times you are "late" and it is kept in your employee file. When you are up for promotion they will look at your tardy report. However, they don't look at a report showing who left at 8:00 PM or who was working on VPN until 3:00 AM.Advice to ManagementAdvice
Act like you care. Take action immediately to demonstrate that you want to change the culture.Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookApproves of CEO


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A free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent, willful, intelligent Saira Qader rejected the constricting notions of family, duty, obligation, and fate, choosing instead to become a journalist, making the world her home. But when tragedy strikes, throwing Saira's life into turmoil, the woman who circled the globe to uncover the details of other lives must confront the truths of her own. In need of understanding, she looks to the stories of those who came before—her grandparents, a beloved aunt, her mother and father. As Saira discovers the hope, pain, joy, and passion that defined their lives, she begins to face what she never wanted to admit: that choice is not always our own, and that faith is not merely an intellectual preference.
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prunus virginiana/pennsylvanica as a shrub?
My property is lacking something from prunus (for the wildlife value). Don't have the room for a black cherry, so I'm seeing if my neighbor will let me remove a stretch of her privet border and replace it with something more interesting.
Wondering if prunus virginiana or pennsylvanica would be good options or if these would eventually outgrow their role as a shrub border.
if these would eventually outgrow their role
==>>> you didnt really explain the role ... other than its use as a border ...
size?? .. shape.. etc??? ... what are the space limitations of your application????
i have prunus serrotina.... likely the one you ruled out ... huge trees ....
its a seed sprouting nightmare ... having to kill millions of seedlings with round up every year ... otherwise they are nice trees ...
information for you.. simply suggesting.. the wildlife cant process all the food ... if in fact.. processed ones are also still viable ... if you get my drift ... [if you dont... i have seedlings popping up very far from the actual trees ... which i take to mean.. they move thru the birds digestive track .... in an efficient manner.. dont make me say it... lol]
describe your intended size constraints ....
I have all three species (pennsylvanica, virginiana, and serotina) growing naturally on our farm, and wouldn't want to have any of them in a suburban yard: messy (stains concrete, yard furniture,etc.), too many seedlings, and too large to maintain easily as a hedge. I don't think your neighbors would appreciate your planting any of them.
You might want to look into beach plum, Prunus maritima, which naturally is about 6' tall, though it does sucker, and is popular with critters for food. NHDOT has planted some in in the median of one of the highways near me, so it will grow away from the beach and is salt tolerant. It is adaptable as far as soil, but likes reasonable drainage. I don't know where you live, and I don't know how well this plant adapts to parts of the country beyond New England.
IME, all Prunus are relatively short-lived and disease prone, with black knot and webworms being the two most noticeable issues around here. I don't see a lot of foliage diseases, however. You might want to look at a mixed species hedge so that if disease is an issue, there are other plants to help fill in.


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