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The Washington trade
"It's like any trade. You have to give it some time to see how it shakes out over time. Even the (Aaron) Harang-for-Jose Guillen trade - from what I understand - there were people saying, 'What are you doing getting a guy like that for a proven guy like Guillen?' It turns out it was a good move. When you're dealing with young players, it takes years. I'm satisfied with what we got. I don't like the circumstances of getting a player who was hurt at the time of the trade. We'll deal with that."
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CEO Bob Castellini
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS Now That the Heat is Off, Liquid Crystals Can Show Their Colors Joseph Castellano Electronics July 6, 1970 pages 64-70 Unite Sttes at 1 [111 3,79e,999 Ka m Mar. 12, 1974 LOCALLY ERASABLE THERMO-OPTIC Primary ExaminerTerrell W. Fears SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL STORAGE Attorney, Ag n o F rm-D. I. Caplan DISPLAYS [75] Inventor: Frederic Jay Kahn, Stirling, NJ. ABSTRACT [73] Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, This invention provides a liquid crystal optical display Incorporated, M a Hill, B k l apparatus, which can be both selectively written and Heights, NJ. selectively erased. Both write-in and erase steps involve the use of localized thermal heating, by means [22] 1972 of an infrared laser for example. The localized writ- 21 1 299,077 ten state of the liquid crystal is characterized by a significantly greater optical scattering than the localized erased state of the crystal. Depending upon the [52] 340/173 346/76 350/160 conditions under which a localized area'of the liquid [51] Int Cl 340/173 LM, crystal is cooled, the final state of the local heata I s a a t t I t s 0. V t h [58 Field of Search .....346/76 R, 76 L; 350/160 R, i iiafi scattermg g written state, thus affording localized 350/160 340/173 173 173 LM erase or write-in, as desired. The factors which determine this final state (scattering vs. non-scattering) in- [56] References cued clude the rate of cooling. In turn, the rate of cooling U I STATES PATENTS can be controlled by the rate of laser scan or by the 3,655,269 4/ 1972 Halmeier 340/ 173 LM cross section of the laser beam used for the heating of the selected areas of the liquid crystal. Additionally, the final state can be affected by the presence or absence of applied fields across the liquid crystal during the cooling period.
10 Claims, 2 Drawing Figures LASER FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to optical storage and display devices and more particularly to liquid crystal devices capable of storing and displaying information.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In the prior art, it is known that there are liquid crystals whose optical properties can be modified by heat treatment (thermo-optic"). These liquid crystals can be utilized in devices for storage of large quantities of information, particularly for optical display purposes. It is also known that certain liquid crystals at suitable ambient temperatures can support domains or regions in two or more different states of optical scattering. Thus, upon illumination of these liquid crystals with a visible light source, different domains of the crystal can transmit different intensities of light in a given direction. Thus, to an optical detector, such as the human eye, different regions of the liquid crystal can differ in their apparant brightness. These regions can be controlled, as to their contours, by means of various write-in techniques, such as thermal write-in with a laser beam. However, in the prior art, localized selective erase of the liquid crystal subsequent to write-in has not been implemented. It would, therefore, be desirable to have a liquid crystal display device with a localized erase capability, in order to afford selective erase capability without the need for rewriting the entire device to modify selected portions of the display (i.e. updating).
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A liquid crystal, advantageously having a smectic type of ordered state at the ambient operating temperature, is selectively locally heated advantageously to the nematic or to the isotropic state, by means of a localized write-in beam, typically a steerable laser beam. As used herein, the term smectic liquid crystal refers to a liquid crystal in which (except for thermal and other fluctuations) the centers of gravity of the molecules are situated in mutually parallel planes characterized in that the molecules within a given plane are aligned with their long axes mutually parallel. Similarly, the term nematic refers to a liquid crystal in which the centers of gravity of the molecules are randomly distributed, on a long-range basis, with their long axes aligned mutually parallel. The term isotropic" refers to the absence of any long-range order between the molecules, i.e., neither mutual orientation of long axes nor locations of centers of gravity. After the selected regions of the liquid crystal are thereby heated by the beams, typically on different occasions, the crystal is allowed to cool back to the original ambient temperature at different effective rates on the different occasions. These different effective rates of cooling can be achieved either by using different scanning rates, and/or by using different cross sections for the scanning beam, and/or by applying different electrical fields during heating and cooling periods. In this way, the liquid crystal, upon which the beam has been selectively incident, will be brought into a corresponding pattern of final states of differing types of molecular ordering, by reason of the controlled heating and cooling. These different molecular orderings produce different optical scattering properties (textures) in the corresponding portions of the crystal.
Thereby, these different portions of the liquid crystal can be written in with a pattern of information. Thereafter, this pattern can be selectively erased by means of further scanning in conjunction with a different effective cooling rate.
In a specific embodiment of this invention, a smectic liquid crystal, such as N-( p-cyanobenzylidene)-p-n octylaniline (CBOA) in the form of a thin layer, is sandwiched between two visiblytransparent, but infrared absorbing, electrode layers. The CBOA is heated either to the isotropic or to the nematic state and then cooled slowly back to the smectic state, in order to produce a non-scattering smectic texture over the entire layer (uniform erase or clean slate"). Thereafter, a write-in infrared laser beam is allowed to scan selectively the liquid crystal at those portions thereof at which it is desired to write in a pattern of information. Advantageously, the write-in beam temporarily heats the crystal selectively into the isotropic state. ln.this way, a stored pattern of disordered (optically scattering) smectic regions is formed in the otherwise ordered (nonscattering) crystal, in accordance with the pattern of the selective write-in laser scan. Furthermore, this pattern of information can then be selectively erased, by means of a second selective scan with the same (or another laser) beam, having a scanning rate, cross section, and an optical intensity such that the rate of cooling is sufficiently slower than the cooling rate immediately subsequent to the first (write-in) scan. This erasing beam is advantageously sufficient to produce temporarily either the nematic or the isotropic state, locally. This second (erase) scan'produces again the ordered (optically nonscattering) smectic texture at those portions of the crystal to be erased, i.e., at those portions which are selectively scanned by this second scanning beam. Thus, the nonscattering smectic .texture is reproduced at these erased portions, which are therefore optically transparent in substantially .the same degree as the unwritten portions of the liquid crystal.
The various stored patterns of molecularly ordered and disordered states can be read out at any time by means of external optical illumination, as furnished 'by an ordinary light bulb, for example, or by Schlieren op tical techniques. Since the ordered regions of the liquid crystal produce significantly less optical scattering than the disordered regions thereof, an optical detector such as the human eye will observe the liquid crystal as impressed with a pattern of relatively bright and dark portions. The bright portions will be observed in those regions which are in the disordered state, that is, the optically scattering state; whereas, the relatively dark portions will be observed in those regions of the liquid crystal which are in the ordered state, that is, the optically transparent state (provided, of course, that the detector is located off to one side obliquely with respect to the illuminated liquid crystal).
If the period of time required for cooling into the molecularly ordered state (for the purpose of selective erasure) is undesirably large, this time may be significantly shortened by means of an applied electric field applied to the liquid crystal across the electrodes. Advantageously, this electric field is AC in order to' minimize electro-chemical effects. Thus, the turning on of an electric field can convert the write-in beam into an erasing beam. Thereby, an optical display apparatus is provided in this invention which can be locally written in and locally erased within periods of time of the order of less than one millisecond per bit of information.
The optical readout intensity contrast ratios of patterns of information stored in smectic CBOA are typically at least 25 percent greater than the best ratiosknown to be obtained with cholesteric storage-type liquid crystals. In addition, the yield of thermooptic smectic devices, of useful quality for storage, has been found to be several times higher than the yield of other types of thermooptic liquid crystal storage devices, using the same degree of care in fabrication.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING This invention, together with its features, advantages and objects, can be better understood from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagram, partly in cross section, of an optical display apparatus, in according with the specific embodiment of this invention; and
FIG. 2 is a diagram of an optical display apparatus according to another embodiment of this invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION An optical display device includes a liquid crystal layer 11 sandwiched between a pair of visibly transparent electrodes 12 and 13. Advantageously, one or both of these electrodes are absorbtive of infrared radiation. Typically, an annular polymeric spacer 11.1 maintains proper distances between electrodes for controlling the thickness of the liquid crystal 11. The electrodes are supported mechanically by means of transparent fused silica slabs l4 and 15, respectively. An AC voltage source 16 is connected through a switch 17 across the transparent electrodes 12 and 13. An infrared laser source 18, which can be steered by various means known in the art, provides a controlled scanning laser beam 19 incident upon the device 10; so that this beam 19 locally heats the electrodes 12 and 13, and hence locally heats the liquid crystal 11. A readout visible optical source 20 (or ambient stray light) provides a readout incident optical beam 21, which traverses the optical device 10 and is scattered by the various selected portions of the liquid crystal 11 to form an output optical wave 22. This output wave is incident upon the optical detector 23 (which can be the human eye) for utilization of the optical output wave. As indicated in FIG. 2, a control device can be used to control simultaneously the laser source 18 and theAC voltage source 16, to apply both laser beam 19 and electric fields to the device 10.
EXAMPLE The liquid crystal 11 is a layer of N-(pcyanobenZylidene)-p-n octylaniline (CBOA), which is typically about 14 microns in thickness. This layer 11 is sandwiched between the two electrodes 12 and 13, which are both coated (at their common surfaces with the liquid crystal 1]) with a silane coupling agent, such as N,N-dimethyl-N-octadecyl-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilylchloride (Dow Corning XZ 22300). The coupling agent is typically applied from water solution and then cured by drying. Thereby a preferred direction is established in the liquid crystal 11 by means of the coupling agent. The electrodes 12 and 13 are typically made of indium-tin oxide layers having a thickness of about 0.5 to 1.0 micron each. Finally, the substrates 14 and 15 are typically made of fused silica, having a thickness of about three millimeters each.
In order to present an initially erased state which is uniform in the liquid crystal 11 (Le, a clean initial slate), the liquid 11 is heated uniformly into the nematic or isotropic state, by means of an auxiliary heater (not shown), such as an auxiliary electrical joule heating layer located on one or both of the exposed surfaces of the substrates l4 and 15 or by passing a heating current through one or both of the electrodes 12 and 13. In case the liquid crystal 11 is CBOA, a temperature in the range above about 65C is sufficient to produce the nematic state, and a temperature above about 72C is sufficient for the isotropic state. The liquid crystal 11 is thereafter cooled to the ambient temperature at a rate such that the entire crystal is brought into the ordered smectic texture. For the particular material CBOA, the operating ambient temperature at which the liquid crystal is held (after cooling), in the absence of an external beam incident thereon, should be between about 36C and 48C. The plates 14 and 15 are maintained in this ambient temperature range in order to provide the ambient operating temperature.
In order to write a pattern of information into the crystal 11, the laser source 18 advantageously provides a beam 19 having a cross section of approximately 15 mErons, such as furnisheffiay a reassess minim YAIG infrared laser 18. This beam 19 scans the liquid crystal at a velocity typically of about two centimeters per second. During this scanning, the laser source 18 is directed so that the laser beam 19 selectively scans only those portions of the liquid crystal 11 which are to be written in with the desired pattern of information. Thereby, upon illumination with the readout beam 21, those portions which have been scanned by the laser source 18 will scatter light toward the detector 25 in a significantly greater amount than those portions which have not been scanned by the laser source.
It should be mentioned that the required laser power from the source 18 can be reduced by closing the switch 17 (FIG. 1) or by suitable control 30 (FIG. 2) during the laser scan, thereby to apply an electric field across the crystal 11 from the source 16. Typically, an AC voltage of about 9 volts RMS at 1.5 KHz is useful for this purpose of reducing the laser scan power needed for effecting the desired change in state of the liquid crystal.
In order to erase locally only certain selected portions of the previously written-in pattern of information, the liquid crystal 11 is subjected to a second scan by the laser source 18 (or by a different laser, not shown), at least at those portions of the crystal at which it is desired to provide the local erase of the previously written portions. Of course, these portions of the crystal which are already in the ordered (nonscattering) smectic texture can also be scanned with the erasing laser scan, and these portions will thereby remain in the desired optical nonscattering texture.
In the erasure it is important that the sweeping rate of the scanning laser beam from the source 18 be significantly slower, and/or oflarger cross section (but of the same optical power per unit area), or of larger power per unit area (but of same optical cross section), than during the write-in. Thereby, the cooling rate associated with the erasing scan will be slower than the rate associated with the write-in scan. Alternatively, the switch 17 (FIG. 1) should be closed both during the erase scan with the laser source 18 and during the immediately subsequent cooling, thereby simultaneously applying an AC voltage from the source 16 (of about 35 volts at about 1.5 KHz, for example) across the liquid crystal 11. This application of the electric field from the AC source 16 can also be, of course, synchronized with the erasing laser scan by suitable control 30 (FIG. 2). In this manner, the rate of cooling during the erasure step will be either slower, or the reordering of the liquid crystal molecules will be assisted by an electric field significantly greater, than during the write-in step. Thereby, the portions of the previously written-in regions of the liquid crystal 11 which have been subjected to the second (erase) scan by the laser source 18 will be returned into a non-scattering state by reason of slow cooling of the crystal 11 back to the nonscattering smectic texture, or by reason of the electric field assisting the reordering of the liquid crystal molecules back into the nonscattering smectic texture.
Although the drawing indicates but a single laser source 18, it is obvious that two different laser sources may be used in this invention, one for the write-in and the other for the erasure. Moreover, as known in the art, Schlieren techniques for the projecting of the image pattern of the liquid crystal 11 may be employed. While this invention has been described in detail in terms of a specific example, various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention, as should be obvious to the worker of ordinary skill in the art. For example, other liquid crystals having a smectic molecular ordered state may be found to be useful, and liquid crystals operating in a cholesteric state should similarly be useful.
Whereas the above described coupling agent (Dow Corning XZ 2-2300) in conjunction with the above described crystal molecules (CBOA) results in an alignment of molecules which is perpendicular to the plane of the electrodes, other coupling agents or alignment methods (rubbing, for example) can also be used which result in other alignments of the liquid crystal molecules. However, it should be mentioned that when using a liquid whose alignment is arranged to be perpendicular to the plane of the electrodes, it is desirable that the dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal be strongly positive for thermal erase assisted by applied electric fields directed perpendicular to the electrodes, as is the case with CBOA described above. In addition, in order to minimize the possibility of electrical breakdown, the electrode surfaces facing the liquid crystal can be coated with an insulating layer such as silicon dioxide typically of a few hundred angstroms in thickness.
While in the particular example described above, electric field orienting effects on the molecular orientation of the liquid crystal predominate over electric current disorienting effects, by other choices of material having different dielectric anisotropics and electrical conductivities, and by other choices of electric field strengths and AC frequencies, electrical current disorienting effects can also be utilized. Also, instead of the infrared laser beam 19, other means for localized heating can be used, such as incoherent optical sources, electron beams, plasma discharges, or arrays of electrical heaters. Moreover, the liquid crystal 11 can contain other constituents by mixing or substituting CBOA with other substances, in order to achieve a smectic liquid crystal state at different desired ambient temperatures. Finally, instead of utilizing the different optical scattering properties of ordered and disordered textures of the liquid crystal, the different optical polarization properties (such as refractive index) of the liquid crystal with respect to the polarizations of the transmitted light can be utilized in liquid crystal optical display and control devices in this invention.
What is claimed is:
l. The method of storing information in a film which comprises the steps of (a) raising the temperature of a first portion of the film initially at a first ambient temperature; (b) allowing said first portion of the film to cool at a first rate to the ambient temperature; (0) raising the temperature of a second portion of the film including at least a part of the first portion of the film; and (d) allowing the second portion to cool at a second rate to the first ambient temperature, whereby an optical property of the film in the second portion becomes different from said property in the first portion of the film prior to the step (c).
2. The method recited in claim 1 in which the film is a liquid crystal.
3. The method recited in claim 2 in which essentially the entire film is in the smectic state at the ambient temperature prior to the step (a).
4. The method of storing information in a film which comprises the steps of (at) raising the temperature of a first portion of the film initially at a first ambient temperature; (b) cooling said first portion of the film; (c) raising the temperature of a second portion including at least a part of the first portion of the film; and (d) cooling the second portion in the presence of an electric field which is significantly different from any electric field applied to the film during the cooling of the first portion, whereby, an optical property of the film in the second portion becomes different from said property in the first portion of the film prior to the step (c).
5. The method recited in claim 4 in which the film is a liquid crystal.
6. The method recited in claim 5 in which the film is a smectic liquid crystal at the ambient temperature prior to the step (a).
7. An optical information storage device which includes (a) a liquid crystal film; and (b) means for selectively heating the film in succession, including a first and a second beam having first and second cross sections, said beams having first and second scanning rates respectively across the film, in order to heat, respectively, a first portion of the film and a second portion of the film including part or all of the first portion of the film, the scanning rates and cross sections of the beams being selected such that the second portion of the film cools at a different rate than the first portion of the film, whereby an optical property of the film in the second portion becomes different from said property in the second portion of the film in the absence of the second beam.
8. An optical information storage device which includes (a) a liquid crystal film; (b) means for selectively heating the film including first and second beams having first and second cross sections, said beams having first and second scanning rates respectively across the film, in order to heat a first portion of the film and a second portion of the film including part or all of the first portion thereof; (c) a source of electric voltage; and (d) means for applying the electric voltage to the film while applying the first or the second beams, whereby an optical property of the film in the second portion becomes different from said property in the second portion of the film in the absence of the second beam.
9. An optical storage device which includes (a) a liquid crystal at a first temperature under ambient operating conditions; (b) means for heating in succession first and second portions of the crystal, in order to heat said portions to temperatures above the first temperature, the second portion including at least a portion of the first region; and (c) means for applying an electric field to the crystal while the second portion cools to the first temperature, whereby an optical property of the film in the second portion becomes different from said property in the second portion of the film in the absence of the second beam.
10. An optical storage apparatus which includes (a) a liquid crystal in the smectic state at a first ambient temperature; and (b) means for heating a selected portion of the crystal, in order to heat said portion to a temperature sufficient to bring said portion of the crystal into a state other than the smectic state, so that when the said portion cools to the first ambient temperature said second portion has a significantly different optical property from the remainder of the liquid crystal.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 3-, 796,999 Dated March 12, 1974 I t FREDERIC JAY KAHN It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:
Column 7 line 15, "region" should read portion Column 8, line 4, "second beam" should read electric field Signed and sealed this 13th day of August 1974.
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 3 796 999 Dated March 12 1974 Invent FREDERIC JAY KAHN It is certified that error appears in the above-identified patent and that said Letters Patent are hereby corrected as shown below:
Column 7, line 15, "region" should read portion Column 8, line 4, "second beam" should read electric field Signed and sealed this 13th day of August 1974.
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We had a 4 day family pleasure break and found Amelia Island to be beautiful and enchanting and the Ritz our home away from home. The hotel is right on a wide beautiful beach and the grounds and facilities are top notch. The pool area is beautifully arranged and landscaped, bar just a few steps away, kids area separate, and beach just down the walkway. The spa is full service and has indoor pool that is great for chilly days and outdoor pool that is serene and offers some wind protection on days that it's needed.
We stayed in an oceanfront suite that was grand....plenty of room for multiple folks. We had a few room issues....minifrig was not cooling (they changed the frig) and one bathroom had a vanity cabinet that blew cold air right on your feet. (not so welcome on a chilly day and made it difficult to use the sink without feeling frigid). Fortunately, there are separate bathrooms so choices abound. There is a half bath near the entry that is generous with a great wide vanity....good lighting and plenty of counter space.. There is an additional separate commode room (tiny) and separate walk in shower/vanity space. There is also a 3rd vanity (the one blowing cold air) that is part of the tub/vanity space. The view from the room was gorgeous. The balcony is great for coffee in the morning watching the sun come up. Closet space is generous. Every space and comfort you would expect in a Ritz.
Complaints about the room? A few....the minifrig, the cold air under the vanity, and the nightstand was very dusty and required my cleaning (a small thing but noticeable). Unlike the remainder of the suite which was very clean. Internet is charged separately which I find a complete nuisance. Travelers staying in lesser hotels get free internet. But leave it to the Ritz to make you feel "nickle and dimed" to death during your stay. This is an annoyance that should not be for an upscale hotel chain that prides itself on taking care of you. Internet connections are slow as well.
The staff at this hotel is outstanding. They are friendly, attentive, great problem solvers, prompt and competent. Cannot say enough nice things about the staff. They make your stay a pleasure no matter what is going on. Did not meet one person who did not measure up! Just great!
My one area of disappointment was the quality of the food and I have written the hotel about this.
Their food is very southern traditional and not much better than you would find at Applebee's. Very high in fat, salt, and sugar. We are healthy eaters, one a vegetarian and were having trouble finding quality choices at this hotel. The chef was not very accommodating or creative either. So we did a little grocery shopping and ate off site. The Ritz really needs to revamp their menus to come up to speed with healthy and fresh options. It would be good to move away from heavy meat dishes, dishes laden with butter and oil and add some healthy grain and vegetable choices. And vegetables that are not overcooked. This was a real problem for us and given that we were in Florida where there should be major fresh produce, we were truly disappointed. Thus 4 stars instead of 5.
Will we return? Yes. Amelia Island is beautiful, restful and we loved it. We would come back to the Ritz and just engineer our food differently....more off site eating, buying healthy snacks and breakfast items at the nearby grocery store, etc. But I do wish they would improve in this area.


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"My only option is deportation. I'll have to let them deport me."
Deportation can be a serious offense. It is one form of travel that most people never have to consider. But Gordon was at the end of his rainbow and someone had stolen his pot of gold.
Gordon possessed a student visa and had just finished a summer internship with a large beverage company here in Atlanta. He used a pre-paid credit card as his primary form of currency and had planned to use it one final time to purchase his ticket to Edinburg, Scotland. He was to start a new job on the following Monday when he returned to Scotland.
Gordon was a very intelligent young college student and was well-prepared for his trip home. He packed every thing into his suitcase and a backpack. But he had not planned on someone stealing his wallet.
Gordon was sitting in the Airport Chapel and was not able to think very clearly. He told us that he had $1,800 on the per-paid credit card, and even had a bank receipt from that morning that verified this truth. Gordon was not asking for any assistance, he was just trying to figure what to do. Larry and I listened to his story and told him to get with his friends in Atlanta to see if they could help him get the ticket home. Gordon left resolved to work it out.
Three days later, we walked into the Airport Chapel and Gordon had returned. He was very depressed and said that his friends in Atlanta did have not enough money and his time was running out. He said that he only had two days left on his visa and that he was going to turn himself into immigration and get deported. He said that if he got deported, he would not be able to enter the United States for ten years.
I had concerns about fines, incarceration and detainment. I did find out that the process sometimes takes months where the deportee is held in a jail-like facility for 30 to 60 days, pending a hearing and deportation.
By this time, we had had several hours with Gordon and found him to be one of the nicest young men we had ever counseled. He never asked for a dime of help. We took Gordon to lunch and found out that he was a good Christian boy and that he was going to work for a beverage distributor when he returned home.
He felt sure that his job would be lost, because he would not be there on Monday. Before we ate, we said a prayer of thanks for the food and lifted Gordon's dilemma to the Divine Deliverer.
After lunch, I felt compelled to check on some possibilities. I asked Gordon, if we could get him to London, England, could he get a family member or friend to pick him up. He was willing to give this a try.
I went online and I found a ticket to London for $1,200.00. Ouch. But when I tried ATL to EDI, I could not believe my eyes -- $275.00. I thought I put in the wrong code.
I looked at Gordon and said, "Oh Danny boy the pipes the pipes are call'in."
He said to me, "Chaplain Cook, that's an Irish song, and I am from Scotland."
I said, "You will have to show me around Scotland one day. Would you like to go home to Scotland tonight?"
He looked at me and rubbed his red hair, and said, "Yes, but how?"
I said, "The Lord answered our prayer, and you will be home on Sunday morning just in time for church."
Gordon wrote Ben DeCosta, the airport's general manager, the nicest letter of appreciation, resulting in a SHINNING STAR award for Larry and me, and we will always remember our friend, Gordon, in Scotland.
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Edwards' Alliances: Is It Too Much of a Good Thing?
Jakovljevic - April 11th,
Enterprise application vendor JD Edwards has forged a number of alliances
since September 1999 as the company looks to expand the availability of
its OneWorld product suite.
a two-pronged attack, the company has secured an agreement with Andersen
Consulting and extended its existing deal with IBM Global Services. It
will concentrate on the consumer packaged goods market, and a co-development
deal with Andersen will provide collaborative brand management and promotions
JD Edwards storefront for e-business will be powered using IBM's Websphere
Commerce suite and will be available in the spring. Doug Massingill, chief
executive of JD Edwards, said: "We have to give customers a solid, integrated
platform that scales, and for us, that means reselling Websphere. We're
going for the one-to-few rather than one-to-many sector with Andersen
and IBM, providing customization services."
JD Edwards has also reviewed its reselling agreement with Siebel to include
Siebel's entire suite of front office applications. Alongside these agreements,
JD Edwards will focus on its demand planning, scheduling and product configuration
products that include applications from last year's Numetrix acquisition
and the partnership with Synquest. JDE has also decided to enter the arena
of B2B electronic exchanges with Active Marketplace. The TRADEX Commerce
Center platform is the basis for this and as with other exchanges, the
idea is to link trading communities in an on-line marketplace. Yet another
partnership is with Extensity, a vendor that delivers automated travel
and expense reporting software.
Schmitt, senior vice president of product strategy at JD Edwards, said:
"Mid-market enterprises need to respond to competition from customer-driven
digital exchanges. These applications add value to their businesses."
Schmitt conceded that JD Edwards' own development needs to move forward
so that customers get access through a full HTML client, which will be
available in June. This will allow ASPs to host on a one-to-many basis,
which is not possible under client/server architectures.
Edwards is repositioning itself as an enterprise vendor to convince medium
sized manufacturing enterprises that it is worthwhile extending their
activities into e-business. But managing a large application portfolio,
much of which involves partnering or extensive integration and customization,
is difficult. "We have to show offerings in all these markets, but today
it's hard to know where the demand will concentrate itself. It will be
tough for the foot soldiers out there selling," added Schmitt. Asked whether
the company is comfortable with having many critical components outside
its immediate control, Schmitt said: "We think the OneWorld architecture
insulates us from incremental application change issues."
J.D. Edwards has entered 2000 with a bitter taste of a dismal 1999 and
a great deal of painstaking integration efforts remaining, both with its
recently acquired products and with products of its partners, such as
Siebel, Ariba, Extensity, and Synquest. We condone J.D. Edwards' move
to reposition itself as an enterprise vendor to convince medium sized
manufacturing enterprises that it is worthwhile extending their activities
into e-business. Consequently, it has launched ActivEra Solutions, with
the idea to present it as an integrated set of front office and back office
first component of the solution is Active Supply Chain, which combines
supply chain planning and execution. This includes advanced planning capability
along with traditional functions like warehousing and transportation.
It also allows full collaboration with business partners who are given
a window into the system through a self-service Internet front end.
next component is Active Customer Relationship Management, which is mere
a repackaging of Siebel's CRM solution along with an electronic storefront
solution from IBM.
is then Active Enterprise (another inventive way to avoid using the infamous
word ERP) and finally, Active Procurement (Ariba) to round off the core
system components. The whole suite is complimented by Active Knowledge
Management, which provides business intelligence and document management
we believe that managing this large application portfolio (a kind of a
software Frankenstein), much of which involves partnering or extensive
integration and customization, will be cumbersome despite its highly marketed
flexible product architecture. One should never neglect the inevitable
intricacies of managing softer, people issues.
product alliances can often be a good thing. Nevertheless, it is puzzling
why J.D. Edwards needs them more than most of its competitors. Ten alliances
have been highlighted in announcements since September 1999. Of these,
at least seven deal with functional areas that are included as standard,
not only by larger rivals like SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Baan, but
also by its smaller competitors like Great Plains, Epicor Software, Symix
Systems, and IFS AB.
the best-of-breed approach can have its merits, we believe it invariably
leads to additional integration costs and complicates service & support
arrangements. Interfaces between significant components like ERP and CRM
usually need some tailoring. This can be a barrier to future changes as
further modifying already modified code is notoriously time consuming,
costly, and risky.
J.D. Edwards' heavy reliance on other vendor's software flies in the face
of its aggressive positioning around flexibility, which customers may
find very disconcerting. To further rub salt in the wound, the vast majority
of its customers are still running both its mature World and new, less
mature OneWorld products simultaneously on a single, shared database.
This coexistence, bundled with additional future integrations could be
a perfect definition of an IT manager's nightmare.
J.D. Edwards has to be careful how it manages its alliances with "big
stars" like Siebel and Ariba. In most of its key relationships the partner
seems to be more influential and currently has a stronger brand. J.D.
Edwards could therefore find it a challenge keeping control of its own
Ariba and Siebel have partnerships with its fierce competitors too. Great
Plains, for example, points out that its integration with Siebel is well
ahead of J.D. Edwards'. It is in its second phase, meaning the integration
on a database level has been completed; the blending of user interfaces
is the focus now. Moreover, Great Plains cites that it will not have a
conflict of interest with Siebel's sales force in its SME market segment
(companies with less than $250 million in revenue). This is not necessarily
so in case of J.D. Edwards, which tends to target much larger companies
as well.
strategy also gives J.D. Edwards less control of its own business. ERP
has taken a back seat in the market and hot areas like CRM and e-Commerce
are driving much more activity. Oracle and SAP are increasingly starting
to report wins of new accounts. They also see a broader product portfolio
as the means to further mine their large existing customer bases.
Edwards is not well positioned to compete and develop its business in
this way. Its income seems to be much constrained. As a result it will
find it increasingly difficult to close the functionality gaps. The market
is demanding more and more from vendors and broadening a product offering
through R&D or acquisition is very expensive. We wonder whether J.D. Edwards
having spent a hefty amount of its R&D expenses on resolving quality inconsistencies,
missed functionality, poor performance, and Web-enablement of its OneWorld
flagship product; is therefore reticent to undertake any internal development
or acquisition of CRM and e-commerce functionality. While this may be
a more prudent approach than the risk of following the steps Baan took,
the 64,000 dollar question is whether J.D. Edwards' core competency is
now going to be system integration.
We generally recommend including J.D. Edwards in an enterprise application
selection long list for mid-market and low-end Tier 1 companies (with
$100M-$2B in revenue). Organizations whose requirements fall within the
scope of the standard ERP offering, where manufacturing, logistics and
financial modules are main pillars of an enterprise application, would
do well to consider J.D. Edwards. We do not hereby intend to overlook
the company's proven fair treatment of customers as well as its expertise
within some industries like automotive, consumer packaged goods, electronics,
manufacturing & distribution.
any organization evaluating J.D. Edwards should only consider the existing
functionality, and, in case of final selection, should negotiate the incorporation
of new applications components now. Future clients are also advised to
request the company's written commitment to promised functionality, length
of implementation, and seamless future upgrades, particularly for recently
announced partnered offerings.
technological integration is seldom guaranteed by joint marketing arrangements,
and only comes after the arrangement yields considerable implementation
experience. Furthermore, users are advised to ensure that J.D. Edwards
is the main contractor that will assume overall accountability for the
project. Failing to do so may result with customers being caught in a
middle of contractors' recriminations and finger pointing when things
start to go awry. The company's readiness to provide a number of reference
sites where the installation of its partnership-enhanced product has gone
without major glitches would additionally alleviate existing anxieties
within users' community.
if a complementary product beyond core ERP (e.g., CRM, e-Commerce, etc.)
is of a critical importance, users should think carefully about the possible
implications and may benefit from considering J.D. Edwards competitors'
value propositions too.


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Right now things are a bit uncertain about the future for New Jersey's own Kelly Ripa when the ageless Regis Philbin leaves talk program "LIVE! with Regis and Kelly" in November.
But according to the woman Ripa replaced, Kathie Lee Gifford, Ripa will survive whether Philbin creates a new talk show or not, which has been rumored.
Gather.com has mentioned a few of the names listed as possible replacements for Philbin since his retirement announcement, including American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest, Neil Patrick Harris, Survivor host Jeff Probst, and even Ripa's husband Mark Consuelos.
Someone who recently co-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly when Ripa was vacationing was a contender for Ripa's spot on the show ten years ago. Actress Lisa Rinna told PopEater, "It would be fun to co-host with her, at least see what the chemistry would be like cause we know sometimes women get along, sometimes they don't."
Meanwhile, Kelly was shaken by the recent cancellation of ABC soap "All My Children," where she basically began her career, starring from 1990 to 2001.
Ripa said to EW.com: "All My Children was where I met my husband; it was there when my first two children were born; it was there where I met many of my life-long friends. I feel heart sick."
Kelly and her family also received invitations to participate in the annual Easter egg roll on Easter weekend. On Easter they were able to tour the Obama's living quarters.
On Easter Monday, E! Online reported Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos visited the Storytime Stage, and read "Robot Zot" to children.
According to askmen.com, Ripa was born in Stratford, New Jersey, moved to Berlin, and eventually enrolled in Camden County College, winning roles in "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Wizard of Oz" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".


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When Mark Ness and Charlie Bullinger, principal engineers for Great River Energy, started working with various forms of drying processes at GRE's Coal Creek Station in 1995, they never thought that their ideas and those of other engineers would turn into something with world-wide impact.
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Company Returns to Commercial Operations
SEATTLE, Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq, MTAX: CTIC) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Zevalin(R) (ibritumomab tiuxetan) from Biogen Idec, giving CTI sole responsibility for marketing, sales, and development of the drug in the United States. Zevalin will continue to be sold outside the United States by Bayer Schering under an agreement between Biogen Idec and Bayer Schering. Approved in 2002 to treat patients with relapsed indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), Zevalin was the first radioimmunotherapy to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In 2006, Biogen Idec reported $16.4 million in U.S. Zevalin sales.
"This acquisition puts CTI back into the commercial arena, which is a relatively exclusive space for biotech companies, and also strengthens our product pipeline," said James A. Bianco, M.D., President and CEO of CTI. "Adding the commercial infrastructure now may also provide a benefit to the company for future launches of other products in our pipeline. This is especially relevant to the potential launch of pixantrone and its expected synergies with Zevalin."
CTI made an initial payment of $10 million to Biogen Idec in exchange for control of U.S. marketing, sales, and development of Zevalin. Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, CTI will pay royalties to Biogen Idec based on the net sales of Zevalin until at least December 2015, and has also agreed to pay up to an additional $20 million in milestone payments if the product receives approval from the FDA for certain first-line indications in NHL. CTI also has agreed to share the cost of certain clinical trials of Zevalin with Bayer Schering in the event such trials are undertaken. CTI was advised on the transaction by CIBC World Markets Corp.
"Zevalin is a highly effective drug now, with attractive long-term
commercial potential as
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