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Full detailed profile on Stefano DiMera Played by Joseph Mascolo on Days of Our Lives Daytime Soap Opera.
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Birthday: March 13 1935
In the DiMera mansion's great room, Stefano tells Sami almost every word she said to him at the hospital about being responsible for Chad's shooting was true. He tells her about his pact with God to change. Sami's sceptical. "I'll wait with bated breath," she says sarcastically. From the bottom of his heart, he apologizes for everything he has put her through. Sami's eyeballs pop out of her head in shock. She doesn't know what to do with this but he wants to make it up to her. Lucas arrives to pick up Sami. Stefano tells her Allie is a sweet girl and he's invited anytime he pleases to visit her. He goes and Lucas is stunned by his gesture. She calls him the new and improved phoenix - he seems sincere. Lucas snorts and worries about his kid living there. They start arguing. She doesn't want to uproot Allie based on one incident. Lucas gives her a few days to think about letting Allie go live with him. He's tired of her and EJ and their 'thug life'. He'll bring Allie to her in a few days only if she's not living there.
Stefano surprises Daniel with a visit to his office at the hospital. He thanks him for saving his son's life. It's a little awkward and Stefano offers to repay his debt by getting rid of Theresa. Daniel refuses.
At the hospital, Maxine tells Will and Sonny there's no news yet on Chad. Feeling helpless, Sonny gets an idea. Near the hub, Jennifer comforts a scared Abigail while Sami tells Kristen she blames Stefano for Chad's shooting. EJ watches his father unseen at the chapel while Stefano blames himself and begs God to keep his son alive. In the OR, Daniel continues to work on Chad, refusing to call the time of death. Eventually, Chad's monitors beep. EJ goes to Sami. If Chad makes it, he'll understand what the price of being a DiMera is. Sami suggests he speak to Kristen, who is beside herself with fear. EJ can only ponder why Chad stepped in front of the gun for him.
Sami's stopped by a nurse who tells her she knows how she's feeling since she has been through this before. Kristen goes to the chapel when EJ says that's where their father is. Nearby, Jenn tells Abby she doesn't need to hear every detail of her daughter's life but notes she hasn't been there for her. Abby sings Chad's praises and says they had sex. Kristen goes to the chapel and hears Stefano confess about how he ditched Kate when he should have forgiven her and how it was he who pushed her into Rafe's bed, which started a chain of events that gave him nothing. "Samantha's right. At this point, all my power is useless." He barters with God and Kristen quietly leaves. Stefano can't lose another child. Back in the OR, Daniel uses the paddles on Chad. Sami tells EJ by the hub, she'd take a bullet for Eric and is sure EJ would have for Chad. EJ admits he blackmailed Chad to move into the mansion in order to make Stefano happy. Sami says he didn't seem that miserable about it. In the OR, Cameron is in awe of Daniel when Chad's heart starts beating again. Sonny and Will return. Kristen has kind words for Abigail. Hope and Roman arrive and Daniel and Cameron tell the family Chad made it through surgery but the bullet did damage. He'll be in pain for a while. EJ kisses Sami and shakes Daniel's hand and gives Cameron his gratitude. Cameron can't hurt Abby, so decides to keep Chad's secret. EJ runs to tell Stefano the news and they head back to the hub. A nurse finds Cameron and hands over Chad's chart while Abby visits an unconscious Chad. She cries and Cameron overhears her call Chad the sweetest and most generous man. She spots Cam and hugs him for saving her beau. She goes. Stefano finds Kristen and hugs her. Kristen and EJ later sit by Chad's side. Kristen tells Chad she loves him and EJ tells his brother he'll never forget what he did. Outside, Roman tells Sami Marge could have killed her or EJ or their kids. He reminds her of spending time in witness protection and tells her to think long and hard about marrying him. "Is this really the life you want?" In his room, Chad's visited by Stefano who thanks God and talks about his promise to God to be a good father, grandfather, and will try to make up for past misdeeds. He has a feeling someone will be watching and will make sure he keeps his end of the deal.
At the engagement party, Chad goes down after Marge fires her gun. Sami screams at Marge. EJ jumps in front of Sami. Marge hollers that she wanted to take EJ from Sami because she took Joe from her. EJ challenges her to shoot him then. Will grabs Marge from behind and the situation is diffused. As Cameron and EJ attend to Chad, Sami and Will hold Stefano back from Marge. "You stupid bitch!" Abigail is frantic over Chad.
Hope arrives at the shooting scene as Chad is taken to the hospital. She wants a statement from EJ. Sami confronts Marge about shooting an innocent man and leaving Timmy with no one. Sami joins EJ, who is marveling over Chad taking a bullet for him.
Gabi comforts Abby at the hospital as Cameron wheels Chad away. Daniel is called out of his office to the OR. Eric leaves the flash drive on the desk. Sami phones Jennifer to tell her Abigail needs her. Nearby, EJ argues with Stefano about whether he loves Chad.
Will and Sonny arrive at the hospital and go to check on Abigail. Sami tells EJ they're back to where it all started. EJ glances at Stefano and tells Sami, "You're not the person who started this." Kristen greets Stefano, who fills her in. He says, "It should have been me." Kristen approaches Sami and complains that she called Jennifer before her. Sami didn't want to talk to her. Kristen says if Chad dies it's on her. Sami tells Stefano that he's to blame - he set this in motion with his jealousy of Kate and Rafe. Gabi leaves, and Will assures Sonny that Chad will be fine. Jenn tells Abigail that Daniel will save Chad. Abigail tells Jenn exactly how close they'd gotten. In another room, Cameron does a computer search and curses. Cameron tells EJ he has to tell Jonas that Chad is on a special treatment for his brain tumor, or he could die. EJ admits that Chad's not on the protocol and doesn't have a tumor. Cameron is disgusted. Stefano enters the hospital chapel and asks what he's done. EJ listens as he pleads for his son's life to be saved. Meanwhile, Sami chats with Sonny and Will until Kristen drags her aside to ask what she said to Stefano. Sami says she told him the truth - he had no one to blame but himself. In the OR, Chad convulses and they lose him.
Outside TBD, Cameron confronts Chad about faking the brain tumor. Inside, EJ and Sami make touching speeches about loving one another.
Back at TBD, Sonny and Will arrive with an apology for their tardiness. They note Stefano's not having much fun though everyone else is. Stefano finds "The Queen of the Night" and greets her. She's snide with him but he doesn't notice. He says they're almost family and invites her for dinner. "I'll think about the fifth of... never," she says. He's amused. Abby wants to find Chad but Gabi stops her. Cam asked for time alone with Chad. Sami thanks Gabi for coming though it must be strange for her. They wonder where EJ and Chad are. Outside, Chad tells him this is none of his business and he doesn't want Abby to know anything about this. EJ strolls over and calls Cameron's accusations baseless. The doctors are covering their asses. EJ threatens to end Cam's medical career if he doesn't let it go. Cameron apologizes and heads inside. EJ and Chad laugh about there being nothing like righteous indignation. Inside, Stefano finds Will calling his sitter for reassurance that Arianna's fine. Stefano comments that he's a devoted father and invites both him and Sonny to his home anytime. Will's fortunate to have a man like Sonny. Maybe it's time to bury the hatchet with Victor.
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As more enterprises migrate applications to the cloud, they seek to take advantage of the frameworks, middleware, and other software tools already in their data centers, as well as the different clouds available. Today WSO2 unveiled its answer to this growing demand with the beta release of WSO2 Stratos 2.0. Newly re-architected, WSO2 Stratos 2.0 is the industry's first foundation for implementing a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that combines support for heterogeneous applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform runtimes with native, secure multi-tenancy. WSO2 Stratos 2.0 also adds the capability to run on any cloud infrastructure, including VMware, Eucalyptus, Amazon and OpenStack.
WSO2 previewed the latest release of WSO2 Stratos at WSO2Con 2013, which runs February 13-14 in London. The company also announced that it has begun accepting customers for the WSO2 Stratos 2.0 beta program.
"Increasingly enterprises view the cloud as a platform for innovation. However, until now they've had to make trade-offs between using their favorite development tools and middleware or capitalizing on the multi-tenancy of a native cloud environment. With WSO2 Stratos 2.0, these organizations no longer have to compromise," said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO.
Expanding the Scope of Multi-tenancy
The Stratos 2.0 approach to multi-tenancy goes beyond other PaaS environments to support multiple levels of virtualization—from standard virtual machines, via Linux Containers to intra-JVM isolation. This choice of sharing resources while providing the correct isolation level for multiple tenants is a significant factor in enabling lower costs, greater flexibility, and easier on-ramping into a private or public cloud environment.
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Disclosed is a lightguide in the form of a plate (1), a first surface of which is provided with first straight parallel grooves (8) (diffusing the light circulating in the guide). The inventive lightguide is characterized by the fact that it is provided with second straight parallel grooves (9) (diffusing the light circulating in the guide) which extend in an oblique direction, particularly in an orthogonal direction, relative to the first grooves such that the guide diffuses in a uniform manner the light that is introduced into the guide via three or four edges thereof.
1. Lighting device that comprises:
a lightguide comprising a plate (1,12), comprising at least two opposed side edges (4,6), one face (3) of which has first irregular diffusing patterns (8) formed in the plate,
two light sources (13,14) arranged along two opposed side edges of the plate,
at least one third light source arranged along a third side edge of the plate,
second irregular diffusing patterns formed in the plate crosscrossing with the first diffusing patterns,
each diffusing pattern comprising a groove (10) bordered by two strips of irregular projections and depressions,
each diffusing pattern having irregularities in surface area and depth,
the grooves of the first diffusing patterns being spaced apart at varying distances, and
the grooves of the second diffusing patterns being spaced apart at varying distances.
2. Device according to
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9. Lightguide, comprising:
a plate (1,12) having two parallel faces (2,3) and at least two opposed side edges (4,6), with a first face (3) having a plurality of first irregular elongate diffusing patterns (8,10) formed in the plate, wherein,
said lightguide comprises second irregular elongate diffusing patterns (9,10) formed in the plate and crisscrossing the first diffusing patterns,
the first and second diffusing patterns comprising grooves (10) bordered by two strips of projections and depressions,
each groove having irregularities in depth and an irregular transverse profile,
the grooves of the first diffussion patterns being spaced apart at varying distances, and
the grooves of the second diffusing patterns being spaced apart at vary distances.
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The present invention relates to lightguides used for backlighting or lighting, which are produced by laser machining.
The invention relates more specifically to lightguides in the form of thin, generally planar sheets consisting of a translucent or transparent material, particularly glass, polycarbonate or methyl polymethacrylate.
Such guides are part of the constitution of luminous displays such as signboards or signal devices; in the constitution of display units of computers and the like electronic devices, particularly for the backlighting of liquid crystal screens and the lighting of objects, particularly for visualization of the object by a camera for automated control of the object's properties.
The document WO-9815862 describes a device for collimating and deflecting the light emitted by two diodes toward the edge of a planar backlighting guide; the device comprises a prism and rows of microprisms or microgrooves extending approximately along the average direction of propagation in the prism and guiding the light by reflection and refraction.
The document U.S. Pat. No. 5,999,685 describes a planar backlighting guide manufactured by molding resin in a metallic mold; each of its two faces (front and rear) comprises a series of portions of parallel isosceles-triangular prisms with vertices of ca 150 degrees; the edges of the prisms of one face extend perpendicular to the edges of the prisms of the other face; these prisms deflect the light by refraction and reflection.
Further, it is known from the documents EP-945674 and EP-1107048 to machine linear diffusing patterns with regularly variable spacing using a laser beam.
Such guides are illuminated by sources positioned along one or two generally opposing edges, thereby limiting the maximum light flux that can be re-emitted onto the main surface of the guide.
The document EP-561329 describes a luminous device comprising a rectangular guide illuminated along its four sides or edges by cold cathode fluorescent tubes; the device comprises a planar diffuser covering the emitting face (front face) of the rectangular guide and a reflector covering the rear face of this guide; printed on this rear face are miniscule rough surfaces arranged according to different patterns, depending on whether the thickness of the guide is uniform or variable.
The purpose of the invention is to propose an improved lightguide.
One objective of the invention is to propose lightguides in the form of a thin plate and lighting devices incorporating such guides illuminated at their edges, in order to remedy, at least in part, the drawbacks of known guides and lighting devices.
To this end, and according to a first aspect, one of the faces of the guide comprises a network of irregular and/or rough linear diffusing patterns that are formed in the material of the guide and crisscross each other.
Each linear diffusing pattern (extending rectilinearly or curvilinearly) is generally constituted of a depression or groove (referred to as central) with a depth in the range of 1–70 microns, and more specifically, 10–30 microns, and a width lying in the range of 10–150 microns, particularly, in the vicinity of 20–60 microns, and an irregular and/or variable profile (transverse) along the longitudinal axis of the groove.
Each depression forms a channel along each of whose edges extends a zone (or lateral strip) of irregularly formed projections and depressions whose width is close to (and generally equal to, at most) half that of the central depression and generally smaller than this half.
Preferably, the average width of a diffusing pattern (composed of said depression or groove and the two lateral strips) is greater than 40 microns and less than 200 microns, and in particular, ranges from 50 to 120 microns.
These linear patterns are obtained by laser-machining the plate of the guide, similarly to the process described in the document EP 1107048.
Such guides have been found to have distinctly improved performance; it seems likely that using a laser beam to form an irregular groove intersecting with another irregular groove preformed on the same face of the guide to form additional irregular roughness at the intersection between these two grooves enhances the diffusing characteristics of these patterns and the optical efficiency of the guide to such an extent that it obviates the use of an additional guide to collimate and/or concentrate the light emitted by a source toward the end of the planar guide.
In a second aspect, the two opposing main faces (of larger size) of the guide each comprise a pattern of irregular linear diffusing patterns, with the patterns of a first network being oblique (perpendicular when the guide has this shape) to the patterns of a second network (hence, virtually crisscrossing as seen from above).
These diffusing patterns have the same characteristics as those described above; light diffusing performance essentially equivalent to that obtained with crisscrossing grooves on only one side of the guide were observed.
Particularly satisfactory results were obtained with PMMA guides with thicknesses of ca 1–2 millimeters illuminated along their four edges by four series of CMS type light-emitting diodes (LED) of single-piece construction with a printed circuit surrounding the guide.
The space between two successive patterns of one of the two networks of parallel patterns (parallel to the end of the guide and/or to the light source) varies substantially regularly and in a non-monotonic manner. Thus, the distance between two adjacent segments or diffusing patterns decreases on going away from an edge in which the light is injected, then increases on approaching the opposing light-injection edge.
Because the two networks intersect, they form a grid whose geometric designs (mesh) have an area that decreases substantially regularly and monotonically as the center of the lightguide is approached.
In another aspect, the invention proposes a surface lighting apparatus, particularly a backlighting apparatus, which comprises:
two light sources arranged along the two opposed side edges of the plate,
According to preferred embodiments of the invention:
In another aspect, the invention proposes a lightguide comprising a plate having two parallel faces and two opposed parallel side edges, with a first face comprising a plurality of first diffusing patterns, wherein the lightguide comprises second diffusing patterns crisscrossing the first diffusing patterns, that is, extending along a second oblique direction relative to the first direction in which the first patterns extend.
According to preferred embodiments of the guide:
In another aspect, the invention proposes a process for manufacturing a lightguide in the form of a plate one face of which comprises a plurality of diffusing patterns produced with a laser beam, wherein said face is exposed to radiation having an intensity lying in a range from 104 to 107 w/cm2 so as to form irregularities in surface area and depth and so that each of said patterns comprises a central depression and peripheral projections arranged on both sides of said central depression; the material used is chosen from among glass, polycarbonate and methyl polymethacrylate; a first network of first essentially parallel diffusing patterns is formed first, followed by a second network of essentially parallel diffusing patterns that extend obliquely, preferably essentially orthogonally relative to the first diffusing patterns.
The inventive lightguides have been found to have excellent efficiency and to provide for excellent uniformity throughout the surface of the guide, whether the light is injected along the two opposite sides or along all four sides. It was also found that the efficiency (light emitted by the sources used to inject the light/light emitted by the guide) was identical in the case of dual or quadruple injection of light. It was also found that the inventive lightguides were particularly well suited for providing very homogeneous diffusion of the light coming from a plurality of sources (LEDs).
Other advantages and characteristics of the invention will be understood on the basis of the following description, which refers to the attached drawings, which illustrate preferred embodiments of the invention in a nonlimiting manner.
The invention makes it possible to produce backlighting devices having an emitting surface ranging from 25–700 cm2, a luminance ranging from 4,000 to 16,000 candelas/m2, an emitted luminous flux with a uniformity over 90% and generally over 95%, a total thickness (including the mechanical support and protective structures of the LEDs) ranging from 5 to 10 mm, and with a maximum operating temperature not exceeding ambient temperature by more than 10–25 degrees Celsius.
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As they release their third feature film, The Yes Men Are Revolting, we talk with the devious duo about how they use film for activism and their current focus on climate change.
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Men are joining the movement against violence against women like never before. The One Million Men. One Million Promises campaign is unifying their voices, and using video to amplify them.
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*Isn't easy to implement: Only 29% said they had no issues or delays in getting results.
Avoid the pitfalls your peers have already dealt with. Understand the opportunity value and how to get ahead fast.
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Inflation-Adjusted S&P500 Chart
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- on October 7th, 2013
As market participants we look at charts every day for a variety of reasons. But whether we're doing so for idea generation, risk management or entry/exit points, we're charting to go out there and try to make money. Other times, however, looking at longer-term charts just helps to put things in perspective. With the day-to-day noise out there coming from the government, media and investing public, sometimes it's important to bring in a longer-term view to supplement our short-term outlook.
Here is a chart of the S&P500 adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, which is released monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What still stands out to me is the consistency of the lower lows and lower highs since the year 2000. Hardly the uptrend and bull market that we hear about so often:
You rarely see a chart like this because the "all-time high" headlines are so much sexier. No one likes to add the, "But in real terms we're still far from it". Who wants to buy a newspaper that says that? I know I wouldn't. But fortunately I'm not in that business and I can share with you guys any chart I want. And I think it's important that when I speak with investors, they understand how in Real terms, not only is the S&P500 not at all-time highs, but actually down 20% over the last 13.5 years. It's all about purchasing power isn't it? Or in this case, the lack there of?
S&P500 Composite: Monthly From 1871 (TheChartStore)
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