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|Publication number
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|Jan 21, 2003
|Filing date
|Oct 25, 2000
|Priority date
|Dec 20, 1999
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|Kanghua Lu, Robert J. Saccomanno, Ron Welch, Glen Merle Thompson, Thomas P. Marron
|Original Assignee
|Honeywell International Inc.
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|Patent Citations (14), Referenced by (31), Classifications (6), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present application claims the priority of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/172,753, entitled Method of Resizing a Liquid Crystal Display, filed on Dec. 20, 1999, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a liquid crystal display (LCD), and more particularly to a method of resizing an LCD.
2. Description of the Related Art
Liquid crystal displays (LCD) are well known throughout the art. An active matrix LCD includes row and column address lines and corresponding driving circuitry. This type of display is commonly known as an "X-Y active matrix type LCD." The row and column address lines are typically driven from two to four sides of the LCD. That is, the row address lines are driven from one or two sides of the display and the column address lines are driven from one or two of the remaining sides of the display. In the case that two drivers are used for the row or column address lines, the lines are driven from opposing sides and are interdigitated.
The row and column address line driver chips are typically mounted on separate printed circuit boards disposed adjacent to the sides of the display panel and function to interface the driver chips with a central controller for controlling the output of the LCD. A flexible circuit assembly is often used for the driver chips.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of one typical configuration of a conventional LCD. The LCD illustrated in FIG. 1 includes a display panel 10 and a plurality of flex circuits 11 and 14 that support row drivers 12 and column drivers 13, respectively. The row and column drivers 12 and 13 supported on the flex circuits 11 and 14 are connected to the individual address lines (row or column) and extend to the edge of the display panel 10. The flex circuits are typically orthogonal to the plane of the display panel 10 to minimize the additional border area required around the display. Circuit boards 15 and 16 and connectors 17 and 18 interface the driver chips to the central controller.
Another typical configuration for a conventional LCD includes individual driver TABs (tape automated bonding) along each of the sides of the LCD and providing a separate rigid circuit board adjacent each side of the display. Each circuit board interfaces the circuit board with the driver TABs mounted along the corresponding side of the display panel 10. One such driver TAB is illustrated in FIG. 2. The TAB 20 is mounted along an edge of the display panel 10 with the address lines electrically connected to the output leads 29 of driver TAB 20. Window 25 is provided so that output lead support 32 may be mounted to the display panel 10 and base portion 21 can be bent orthogonally to the display panel 10. The base portion 21 includes a plurality of copper input and output traces 31 and 29, respectively. The driver chip 27 is electrically connected to input and output traces 31 and 29, respectively. Input traces 31 receive input signals from the central controller via input connector 34.
The conventional LCDs described above are typically available in various standard sizes. However, an intermediary manufacturer may find it necessary to reduce the size of, or resize, an LCD to conform to the precise specification requirements of the intended use of the LCD. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 3, the intermediary manufacturer may be required to reduce the size and/or change the aspect ratio of an LCD by physically cutting away the undesired portions 38 of the LCD, while maintaining the integrity of the desired portion 37. In doing so, the LCD may optionally be converted from landscape mode to portrait mode, or vice versa.
However, resizing an LCD presents many obstacles due to its construction. The display panel 10 is a laminated glass structure, which includes a pair of opposing transparent glass plates sealed peripherally so as to define a planar cavity in which a liquid crystal layer is retained. When cutting the display panel 10 by scribing the glass plates, the lower plate (active plate) may be damaged by compressive stress when the upper plate (passive plate) is separated at the scribe. In addition, large gas bubbles may appear near the cut edge of the display panel 10 prior to sealing the cut edge, making the LCD unusable.
Further, a method of cutting the associated TABs, flex circuits and/or circuit boards described above is required. That is, a method is needed to remove undesired portions, while maintaining the integrity of the desired portions of the associated TABs, flex circuits and/or circuit boards such that their final size corresponds to the desired size of the display panel.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method of resizing an LCD while maintaining the integrity of all remaining desired portions of the LCD.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of resizing a display panel of the LCD without damaging the active plate of the display panel.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for repairing the cut edge by replacing accumulated gas bubbles with liquid crystal material.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method for sealing the cut edge of the display panel, which allows gas bubbles to escape from the seal region into the sealing adhesive.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a method for removing undesired portions of any associated TABs, flex circuits and/or circuit boards, while maintaining the integrity of the desired portions corresponding to the desired size of the display panel.
To achieve the above objects, provided in accordance with the present invention is a method of resizing a liquid crystal display (LCD). The method includes the steps of first determining a desired size for the LCD, thereby identifying an undesired portion of the LCD. Any tape automated bonding strips (TABs) corresponding to the undesired portions of the LCD are then removed. Any flex circuits, or portion thereof, corresponding to the undesired portion of the LCD are cut and removed. Any circuit boards, or portions thereof, corresponding to the undesired portion of the LCD are cut and removed. The display panel is cut to remove a portion of the display panel corresponding to the undesired portion of the LCD. Finally, the cut edge of the display panel is sealed.
The above objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent in light of the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments thereof taken in conjunction with the attached drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a conventional LCD utilizing flex circuits and circuit boards;
FIG. 2 illustrates a conventional TAB which may optionally be utilized in a conventional LCD;
FIG. 3 illustrates an overall view of resizing an LCD in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating a general procedure for resizing an LCD in accordance with the present invention;
FIGS. 4A, 5 and 6 illustrate the procedure of FIG. 4 on an LCD in accordance with the present invention;
FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate a method for resizing a display panel in accordance with the present invention;
FIGS. 9-12 illustrate a method of sealing a panel assembly in accordance with the present invention; and
FIG. 13 illustrates a method of cutting a flex circuit in accordance with the present invention.
Turning again to the drawings, in which like reference numerals identify similar or identical elements throughout the several views, the present invention provides a method of reducing, or resizing, an oversized LCD to conform to size constraints. Referring again to FIG. 3, an overall size of the LCD is reduced to a desired size 37 by removing an undesired portion 38. In some cases, the aspect (width vs. height) of the LCD may change from landscape (aspect>1) to portrait (aspect<1) or may become square (aspect=1).
FIG. 4 outlines an overall procedure for resizing an LCD. In Step 40, the polarizer (and compensator) films are removed from the top and bottom substrates in the area to be cut. In step 41, the TABs, flex circuit and/or circuit board are cut and the undesired portions are removed. The display panel is then cut in step 42, and the cut side is examined for damage and resulting gas bubbles. If gas bubbles are detected, the edge is repaired in step 46. The cut edge is then sealed with an adhesive in step 48. Each step in the procedure of FIG. 4 is further detailed hereinbelow.
FIG. 4A further details step 40. The films are removed from the front and back surfaces in the undesired portion 43 so that the cutting tool can directly contact the glass substrates along the cutting path 45. This ensures a repeatable, high quality scribe mark. In some cases, all of the film may be removed from both substrates. This may be done, for example, to replace the existing films with new films, which will further enhance the optical and/or environmental performance of the resized LCD.
FIGS. 5-6 further detail step 40. FIG. 5 illustrates a top view of an LCD to be resized, which includes a display panel 50, a plurality of TABs 52, a row driver board 54 and a column driver board 56.
In FIG. 6, the undesired portion of the LCD is represented. Here, the undesired portion 60 of the display panel 50, the corresponding TAB 62 and the undesired portion 66 of the column driver board 56, which corresponds to TAB 62, are illustrated. TAB 62 is removed from the display panel 50 using any suitable means, for example, using a heat bar, a hot knife, a cold knife or simply by peeling TAB 62 away by hand. Using a hot knife is currently the best-known method for removing TAB 62. Here, the TAB 62 removed directly corresponds to the column address lines present in the undesired portion 60 of the display panel 50.
The column driver circuit board 56 is correspondingly reduced in size using any suitable means, such as performing an end mill, as is typically utilized in the printed circuit board industry. Special care must be taken to avoid damaging needed traces that serve the last active TAB 68. Therefore, the circuit board must first be examined and the location of the traces serving the last active TAB 68 must be noted. The column driver board 56 is then carefully cut, removing undesired portion 66, while making sure to maintain the integrity of the noted traces serving the last active TAB 68. Once a proper cutting pattern has been identified, all similarly manufactured column boards may be cut using the same pattern. Additionally, mechanical fixtures may be used to aid in the aforementioned processes, to increase both precision and yield, as well as the processes described hereinafter.
A functional test of the LCD may preferably be conducted to ensure that the remaining desired portions of the LCD are completely functional in order to avoid unnecessary expenditures on a permanently damaged assembly.
The procedure outlined above may be used for removing multiple TABs 62. Additionally, while a method of removing a columnar portion of the LCD has been described, a row or horizontal portion may similarly be removed along with the corresponding TABs 62 and corresponding portion of the row driver circuit board 54. Likewise, both a columnar and horizontal portion of the LCD may be removed.
However, where an LCD contains interdigitated row address lines, which are supplied from both opposing sides (right and left), a columnar portion may not be removed without reducing the density of the display. Likewise, where an LCD contains interdigitated column address lines, which are supplied from both opposing sides (top and bottom), a horizontal portion may not be removed without reducing the density of the display.
Another step in the resizing of the LCD involves resizing the display panel 50. A procedure for reducing the size of the display panel, as represented by step 42 of FIG. 4, begins with identifying the undesired portion 50 of the display as shown in FIG. 6. Once the undesired portion has been identified and the TABs are removed as described above, the polarizers 72 and 74 are removed from the display panel as shown in FIG. 7. The display panel 50 will typically be a plate assembly 70, a front polarizer 72 and rear polarizer 74. The front and rear polarizers 72 and 74 may be removed from the entire display panel, or only the section to be removed. In some cases, the polarizers 72 and 74 may be laminated to other films, such as compensation films. For the purposes of brevity, polarizers 72 and 74 are assemblies, which may include various laminates.
In all cases, proper electrostatic discharge (ESD) procedures must be followed to avoid damaging the voltage sensitive devices within the display panel or within the row and column assemblies. This is especially true when removing the adhesive-backed films from the glass substrates. As is well known in the art, removing tape from a surface leads to an effect called tribocharging. When two materials are brought into close contact and separated, a transfer of electrons occurs between them. The materials acquire opposite charges, and in the case of non-conductors, the charge imbalance stays localized on the surface at the point of separation. Since both the film and glass substrate are non-conductors, ESD must be controlled by using ionizers, regulating the speed of the separation process and controlling the relative humidity.
Referring to FIG. 8, the plate assembly 70 comprises active plate 82 and passive plate 80, which enclose the liquid crystal material 81. The passive plate 80 and the active plate 82 are each scribed, creating scribes 84 and 86, the closest of which is offset from an active area of the display panel by a first offset distance 87, preferably 3 mm or greater. The active area is the portion of the resized LCD that is functional for display purposes. The first offset functions to minimize migration of the edge seal adhesive into the active area, thereby causing degradation in optical performance. In the preferred embodiment, scribes 84 and 86 are offset by a second offset distance 88, which is preferably 1-2mm. The purpose for the second offset 88 is to provide ample area for the sealing operation. Either the active plate 82 or the passive plate 80 may contain the additional surface area, to allow ample area for the adhesive. In any case, it is preferable to have an overall offset (first offset 87 plus second offset 88) of at least 5 mm. In the preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 8, the passive plate 80 overhangs the active plate 82 in order to protect the active plate from being exposed to potential sources of damage prior to edge sealing. The offset 88 further serves to prevent short circuits in the desired portion of the active plate 82 resulting from compressive stress induced on the active plate 82 when the passive plate 80 is broken at scribe 86.
Next, the plate assembly 70 is broken at each scribe 84, 86. In a preferred embodiment, the passive plate 80 is broken first to further protect the integrity of the active plate 82. An angular displacement of approximately 1� is required to break the plate assembly 70 along each scribe 84, 86.
Referring to FIG. 11, the panel assembly 70 may then be inspected along cut side 110 for damage or gas bubbles 112 resulting from the break. The gas bubbles may then be eliminated by positioning the cut edge 110 oblique or vertical, as illustrated in FIG. 12. Some liquid crystal material 120 is applied to edge 110 while the vertical orientation of the panel assembly 70 is maintained. Here, the liquid crystal may be doped or undoped material. Preferably, the liquid crystal is doped to match the liquid crystal of the raw panel. The panel assembly 70, still oblique or vertical, is placed in a vacuum to allow the gas bubbles to escape from the cut edge 110. Once the gas bubblesl2 have escaped, the liquid crystal 120 added will fill the void created, thereby replacing the gas bubbles 112 with liquid crystal 120. This process may be facilitated by optionally preheating the plate assembly 70 prior to placing it in the vacuum.
Referring to FIG. 9, a method of sealing the panel assembly 70 is illustrated, as represented by step 48 of FIG. 4. The panel assembly is sealed by applying an adhesive 90 to the cut edge 110. Many suitable adhesives may be used, including UV (ultraviolet), air, and heat cured adhesives. In a preferred embodiment, a UV cured adhesive is used. The panel assembly 70 is tilted to a small angle 92 to raise the sealed region. The tilt allows any remaining gas bubbles 112 to escape into the adhesive 90, where they may safely reside without seriously compromising the effectiveness of the seal. The edge 110 does not have to be cleaned prior to applying adhesive 90, since any residual liquid crystal material 81 will dissolve into the adhesive 90. After the adhesive 90 has been properly applied, it is cured using methods appropriate for the adhesive type, and commonly known in the art.
FIG. 10 illustrates the preferred embodiment of a sealed panel assembly 70.
Referring now to FIG. 13, a flex circuit 138 is illustrated, as represented by step 40 of FIG. 4. The flex circuit 138 is interposed between the display panel 50 and a circuit board 56. The flex circuit 138 includes driver chip 132, input traces 136, and output traces 134. The input traces 136 transfer electrical signals from the circuit board 56 to the driver chip 132, and may not be cut or damaged. The output traces 134 correspond to the address lines served by the driver chip 132 for the corresponding portion of the display panel 50. Some of the output traces 134 may drive address lines in the undesired portion 60 of the display panel 50. In such a case, the output traces 134 and the corresponding portion of the flex circuit 138 may be cut and discarded.
The flex circuit is carefully examined to determine which of the output traces 134 are no longer needed. The number of output traces 134 typically outnumbers the number of input traces 136. Therefore, all the input traces 136 are typically gathered on the side of the driver chip facing the circuit board 56, while the output traces 134 are typically found on all sides of the driver chip 132. Next, an optical axis 130 of the cut line must be determined such that only output traces 134 no longer required are cut, without damaging the remaining output traces 134 or any of the input traces 136. The cut then is made using a sharp edge. An X-acto knife is preferably used to make the cut. Once again, proper ESD procedures are preferably employed.
In a case where the polarizers are removed prior to resizing, new films are laminated to the display at this time. The lamination and orientation of the polarizers are well known in the art.
Accordingly, using the procedure outlined in FIG. 4 and further detailed above, a novel method of resizing an LCD is disclosed.
While the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiments, they represent mere exemplary applications. Thus, it is to be clearly understood that many variations may be made by anyone having ordinary skill in the art while staying within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims.
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Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carterby James S. Hirsch
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In 1967, the black boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Carter gradually amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of celebrities from Bob Dylan to Muhammad Ali. He was freed in 1976 pending a new trial… See more details below
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In 1967, the black boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Carter gradually amassed convincing evidence of his innocence and the vocal support of celebrities from Bob Dylan to Muhammad Ali. He was freed in 1976 pending a new trial, but he lost his appeal -- to the amazement of many -- and landed back in prison.
Carter, bereft, shunned almost all human contact until he received a letter from Lesra Martin, a teenager raised in a Brooklyn ghetto. Against his bitter instincts, Carter agreed to meet with Martin, thus taking the first step on a tortuous path back to the world. Martin introduced him to an enigmatic group of Canadians who helped wage a successful battle to free him. As Carter orchestrated this effort from his cell, he also embarked on a singular intellectual journey, which led ultimately to a freedom more profound than any that could be granted by a legal authority.
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"Hirsch writes vividly and tells the entire story with economy and grace."
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"A compelling, well-researched, and balanced antidote to the Hollywood caricature of Mr. Carter's odyssey."
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"A sturdy, detail-exhausting page-turner that recalls A CIVIL ACTION."
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Death House Rendezvous
By 1980, New Jersey's notorious Death House had been revived as a lovers' alcove, but Rubin "Hurricane" Carter still wanted no part of it.
The Death House was Trenton State Prison's official name for the brick and concrete vault where condemned men lived in tiny cells and an electric chair stood hard against a nearby wall. The first inmate reached the Death House on October 29, 1907. Six weeks later he was dead, his slumped body shaved and sponged down with salt water, the better to conduct the electricity. New Jersey continued to hang capital offenders for two more years. But soon enough the electric chair, with its wooden body, leather straps, and metal-mesh helmet, which discharged three mortal blasts of up to 2,400 volts, was seen as the most felicitous form of execution.
At least one infamous death gave the site a brief aura of celebrity. Richard Bruno Hauptmann, convicted of murdering Charles Lindbergh's baby, was electrocuted in the brightly lit chamber at 8:44 p.m. on April 3, 1936. In later years, sentences were carried out at 10 p.m., after the "general population" prisoners had been placed in total lockup. An outside power line fed the chair to ensure that a deadly jolt did not interfere with the penitentiary's regular lighting. On occasion, "citizen witnesses" crowded into a small green room, with only a rope between them and the chair about ten feet away. The observers watched the executioner turn a large wheel right behind the seated man's ear, thereby activating the lethal current. The body, penitent or obdurate, innocent or guilty, alive or dead, pressed against the restraints until the current was shut off.
The Death House confronted its own demise in 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment. The electric chair, having singed the breath from 160 men, was suddenly obsolete. So prison officials found a new mission for the chamber: it became the Visiting Center.
Despite its macabre history, the VC was a huge hit with most of the prisoners. It marked the first time that Trenton State Prison, a maximum-security facility, had allowed contact visits. Inmates could now touch their spouses, children, or friends. The metal bars were removed from more than two dozen Death Row cells near the archaic chair, its seven electric switches still in place. The rooms were not exactly cozy hideaways, but they became the unsanctioned venue for conjugal meetings. Inmates seeking a bit of privacy tried to reserve cells farthest away from the guards, and the arrangement, as described by some old-timers, gave rise to Death House babies.
But Rubin Carter didn't care a bit. He refused to accept virtually anything the prison offered, and that included visits inside the reincarnated Death House.
He was repulsed by the prospect of sharing an intimate moment among the souls of 160 men, some of whom he knew. Transforming this slaughterhouse into a visiting center, Carter believed, was like turning Auschwitz or Buchenwald into a summer camp for children. It was another way for the state to humiliate prisoners, to express its contempt for the new law that pulled the plug on its chair.
Carter knew well that he could have been one of the chair's immolations. In 1967 he had been found guilty of committing a triple murder in Paterson, New Jersey. He adamantly claimed his innocence. The state sought the death penalty, but the jury returned a triple-life sentence instead. That conviction was overturned in 1976, but Carter was convicted of the same crime again later that year and given the same triple-life sentence.
By the end of 1980, Carter had gone for almost four years without a contact visit. Since his second sentencing in February of 1977, he had not seen his son or daughter, his mother, his four sisters, or his two brothers. Most of his friends were also shut out. He and his wife had divorced. He saw his lawyers in another part of the prison.
But now, on the last Sunday of the year, Carter had a visitor as the result of an unusual letter he'd received three months earlier. As a former high-profile boxer who was known around the country and even the world, he received hundreds of letters each year, but he rarely answered them. In fact, he didn't even open them, allowing them to pile up in his cell. Carter wanted nothing to do with the outside world.
Then came a letter in September, his name and prison address printed on the envelope. Carter could never explain why he opened it except to say that the envelope had vibrations. The letter, dated September 20, 1980, was written by a black youth from the ghettos of Brooklyn who, oddly enough, was living in Toronto with a group of Canadians. The seventeen-year-old, Lesra Martin, wrote that he had read Carter's autobiography, The Sixteenth Round, written from prison in 1974, and it helped him better understand his older brother, who had done time in upstate New York. Lesra concluded the letter:
All through your book I was wondering if it would have been easier to die or take the shit you did. But now, when I think of your book, I say if you were dead then you would not have been able to give what you did through your book. To imagine me not being able to write you this letter or thinking that they could beat you into giving up, man, that would be too much. We need more like you to set examples of what courage is all about!
Hey, Brother, I'm going to let it go. Please write back. It will mean a lot.
Your friend,
Lesra Martin
Lesra's words, his efforts to reach out, touched Carter. He responded on October 7. The one-page typewritten note thanked Lesra for his "outpouring of hope, concern and humanness . . . The heartfelt messages literally jumped off the pages."
More letters followed between Lesra, his Canadian guardians - who had essentially adopted the youth to educate him - and Carter in which they discussed politics, philosophy, Carter's own case, and his appeal. But when Lesra asked if he could visit the prison at Christmastime - he was going to be in Brooklyn seeing his family - Carter replied noncommittally. That did not deter Lesra. The bond between the two - and, more important, between Carter and this mysterious Canadian commune that typically shunned friendships with the outside world - had been sealed.
Winter's chill could be felt inside the Trenton State Prison on that last Sunday of December. Built in 1836 by the famed British architect John Haviland, the prison is a brooding, monolithic fortress. Haviland used trapezoidal shapes and austere giganticism to evoke a massive Egyptian temple. Scarab beetles, which symbolized the soul in ancient Egypt, were carved into the prison's pink limestone walls. Tributaries from the Delaware River flowed in front of the prison, in faint mimicry of the Nile.
But by 1980 the waterways had long since dried up and the pink limestone had turned brown. Loops of razor-ribbon wire topped twenty-foot-high concrete walls, and stone-faced guards stood in gun towers. The prison yard, with a softball field, weight machines, and handball courts, was said to sit over a cemetery. The yard's red dirt was so dry that it was regularly sprayed with oil, creating a viscous sheen that rubbed off on inmates in crimson splotches.
While the prison sought total control of its inmates, Carter defied the institution at every turn. He did not wear its clothes, eat in its mess hall, work its jobs, or participate in any organized activity. He refused to meet with prison psychiatrists, attend parole hearings, or carry his prison identification card. His rationale was simple: he was an innocent man; therefore, he would not be treated like a criminal. His defiance earned him several trips to a subterranean vault known as "the hole," where inmates were held in solitary confinement. He was also once banished to a state psychiatric hospital, where the criminally insane and other incorrigibles were disciplined.
But Carter had a predatory instinct for survival, and he was eventually allowed to live quietly in his fourth-tier cell. He continued to fight for his freedom in the courts, but by now he had immersed himself in books on philosophy, history, metaphysics, and religion. Searching for meaning in his own life, he turned his cell into "an unnatural laboratory of the human spirit." He studied, wrote, and tutored other inmates about the need to look within themselves to find answers to the world outside.
Carter had been on this personal journey for more than two years by the time a guard came to his cell and told him he had a contact visitor. Suspecting it was the letter-writing youth, Carter walked down his tier, through the center hub of the prison, and past the infirmary, which was conveniently next to the Death House. (The infirmary used to receive the electrocuted bodies.) Before entering the Death House, he gritted his teeth and disrobed for a strip search - standard procedure for every prisoner before and after a contact visit. Searching for contraband, a guard ran his hand through Carter's hair and looked inside his mouth, under his arms, beneath his feet, and up his rectum. This degrading invasion was another reason Carter avoided contact visits.
Once inside the chamber, Carter reserved a cell on the lower tier, placing his plastic identification tag and a pack of Pall Malls on two chairs. The prison visitors soon filed in and quickly joined their friend or loved one. Finally, only two people were left - Carter and a slip of a youth. The young man was trembling.
Growing up in the slums of Brooklyn, Lesra Martin knew plenty of people who had gone to prison, but this was his first time inside a pen. The high stone walls, metal gates, and claustrophobic corridors were imposing enough, but the brusque security checks were even more unnerving. He emptied his pockets, was frisked, was scanned by a hand-held metal detector, and had his right hand stamped with invisible ink. He had brought a package of Christmas cards, socks, and a hat from his Canadian guardians but was not allowed to deliver it because all packages have to come through the mailroom, where they are opened and inspected. Lesra registered and was given a number, but as he passed through the prison in single file, he was jarred by the guards' shrill orders.
"Get back in line!"
"Don't speak to the person in front of you!"
"Have your ID ready!"
"Put your things in your locker!"
As Lesra stood in the waiting room, he finally heard "four-five- four-seven-two, up!"
That was Carter's prison number. Lesra waited before a dim holding bay. As the steel doors opened and visitors began walking in, several women took deep breaths while others held hands. A guard checked the right hand of each visitor with a blue fluorescent light. After about twenty people filed in, the guard yelled, "Bay secure!" The doors shut, and there was a long moment of helplessness, of captivity. Then doors on the other side opened, and everyone moved out. The experience dazed Lesra, who had arrived wanting to cheer up a prisoner but was made to feel as if he had done something wrong himself.
Rubin Carter understood the feeling.
"You must be Lesra," Carter said. He saw a frightened but goodlooking young man about six inches shorter than he. (Carter was only five foot eight.) The prisoner's appearance stunned the teenager. Every picture Lesra had seen of Carter showed him with a clean-shaven head, a thick goatee, and a menacing stare. Now he had a full Afro, a mustache, and a smile. The two embraced, then walked to the cell Carter had reserved. They sat facing each other and leaned forward so passing guards could not hear their conversation.
Lesra recounted his harrowing experience getting to the Visiting Center. "How do you survive in here?" he asked.
"I don't acknowledge the existence of the prison," Carter said. "It doesn't exist for me."
Lesra noticed that the guards patrolling the corridor did not walk as closely to their cell as to other cells, giving them a bit more privacy as a sign of respect. Lesra also heard inmates as well as guards refer to Rubin as "Mr. Carter." When Lesra called him "Mr. Carter," he laughed. "You can call me Rubin, or better yet, Rube." As the inmate explained his refusal to participate in prison activities, Lesra remembered the words of Bob Dylan's song "Hurricane," which had been released in 1975 amid an outpouring of celebrity support:
But then they took him to a jailhouse
Where they tried to turn a man into a mouse.
The jailhouse, Lesra realized, had failed.
He described how he left his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant and moved to Toronto, where his new Canadian family was educating him. The arrangement puzzled Carter, and he told Lesra he need not worry about being alone. "I know they're treating you well because of your smile, but if you're ever not happy there, you let me know," he said. The young man gave him the phone number to his home in Canada.
About an hour passed. As the visit was about to end, a prisoner who had a Polaroid camera approached them.
"You like me to take a picture of you and your son, Mr. Carter?"
"Absolutely!" he responded.
Lesra turned and began walking toward a wall that he believed would make a fine backdrop. Carter yanked him back.
"We don't go that way," he said. "That's where the chair was."
The electric chair had been removed a year or so earlier and was now in the Corrections Department Museum in Trenton. But the bolts were still in the ground, and the imprint of the chair was visible. The picture was taken against a different wall, with the two standing next to each other, smiles creasing their faces, Carter's arm draped across Lesra's shoulders.
As the two walked toward the holding bay, Lesra said, "I wish I could just walk you right on out."
"Don't worry," Carter said. "I'm with you."
This encounter marked the beginning of Carter's reemergence from his self-imposed shell. He would always have a special bond with Lesra, but he would develop far more important ties with the Canadian commune, and its members would provide vital support on Carter's journey through the federal courts. At the same time, the group's strong-willed leader, Lisa Peters, and Carter would become intense but doomed soulmates in an unlikely prison love affair. But all that was in the future. After his visit to the Death House, Carter returned to his cell, lay down on his cot, and stared at the picture of Lesra and himself.
Copyright (c) 2000 by James S. Hirsch. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
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James S. Hirsch, a former reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, is the author of Cheating Destiny, the bestseller Hurricane: The Miracle Journey of Rubin Carter, Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy, and Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam. He is also a principal of Close Concerns, a consultancy and publishing company that specializes in diabetes. He lives in the Boston area with his wife, Sheryl, and their children, Amanda and Garrett.
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BURBANK, CA--(Marketwired - June 10, 2014) - Condusiv Technologies, the leader in high-performance software optimizing technology, people and businesses, today announced the release of a new product addition to the V-locity family, V-locity Endpoint. V-locity Endpoint expands Condusiv's I/O optimization software platform from virtualized Windows servers to Windows PCs. V-locity Endpoint alleviates the issue of performance degradation on a Windows PC by caching "hot data" within available system memory and preventing performance-robbing fragmentation in real-time at the OS level before files are written to disk. V-locity Endpoint is true "Set It and Forget It"
"Many of the techniques we innovated to reduce I/O to disk and solid-state drives in virtual environments are equally relevant to Windows PCs. While everyone knows the frustration of a Windows PC becoming progressively slower over time, not everyone realizes that this can be reversed with a simple software solution: V-locity Endpoint leverages patented DRAM caching and patented fragmentation prevention to not only keep PCs running like new, but in fact, run better than new. As a result, organizations get more productivity from employees, more life from existing hardware, and reduce persistent help desk calls that hamper IT staff productivity," said Craig Jensen, CEO of Condusiv Technologies.
V-locity employs a proprietary software engine to alleviate the problem of the "I/O Blender Effect" in virtual environments by sequentializing otherwise random traffic from VMs to the host, V-locity Endpoint employs the same engine, IntelliWrite
"The Windows built-in defragmentation utility only deals with the problem after the fact -- after the data has already been stored in a performance-penalized state. Not to mention, since nearly all computer resources are used to run the defragmentation process, administrators have to schedule disk maintenance after hours. But nearly all corporate laptops and desktops are turned off during the night, so the issue of performance degradation keeps getting worse. V-locity Endpoint comes to the aid of IT administrators by keeping their fleet of laptops and desktops running like new without having to schedule any disk maintenance. And, with the addition of DRAM caching, users will find their laptops and PCs running even better than new," said Jensen.
While CPU performance has been doubling every 18 months, disk performance has remained relatively flat for years. With the growing performance gap between CPU and disk drives, system administrators can ill afford to ignore the one performance degradation issue that hampers a PC the most -- file fragmentation. V-locity Endpoint offers the only proprietary solution to prevent fragmentation from occurring and does so in real-time with near zero overhead since all optimizations occur using only idle resources.
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There are 27 comments on the Orlando Sentinel story from Jun 26, 2009, titled George Diaz: Magic swing for the fences, looking to succeed tod.... In it, Orlando Sentinel reports that:The Orlando Magic are a basketball team going for the long ball. It's all about the home run in 2010.
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#1 Jun 26, 2009
The Magic would have been better off signing free agent power forward Carlos Boozer. He would've come cheaper than $16m a season. Plus, he's five years younger than Vince Carter and a legit 15 points-10 rebounds per game guy. Put Boozer at PF, move Lewis to SF. Keep one-two punch of Courtney Lee and Pietrus at SG and there's the makings of a great team. Yeah, Vince has the marquee name...but his best days are way behind him and he's never been known for his defense or rebounding.
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#2 Jun 26, 2009
Trade blows. Hedo got us to the Finals. Never going back without him. Mark my words. Hope you enjoyed this playoff run. Ain't gonna happen again. Carter's contract expires when? Just in time to see all the shiny, new empty seats in the new arena.
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#3 Jun 26, 2009
but boozer gets hurt a lot...
i like the vince idea...he has only got 2 years left, so if it doesn't work out its not like its a long term contract
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#4 Jun 26, 2009
I don't understand why anybody would be upset about not having turk...sure he made some big plays...but he was a HUGE liability on defense and made stupid mistakes every other time he had the ball in his hands...i liked turk...but there is no way he was worth over 10 mil a year like he is asking for...it would've locked the magic up 5 years for a guy who has been inconsistent all year...getting carter is an upgrade and doesn't make the magic commit for too long
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#5 Jun 26, 2009
I don't see where replacing Hedo with an aging Vince Carter elevates the Magic anywhere. It's pretty much maintaining status quo. NOW, if Hedo re-signs with the team, then we're talking about a totally different story. According to Mike and Mike this morning, the Magic addition of Carter vaults them to #1 team in the East going into next year. But that analysis was based upon keeping Hedo. If Hedo goes, we are simply in the same place where we were this year. (IMO)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
#6 Jun 26, 2009
Thats our magic president go VAN lets give this trophy to rich de vos a great man who brings the team to the city a visionary man,hey just lets hedo go he got the best years with us now he wants to go OK ,but we really need a power forward and then you move rashard to small forward and you will see the player he was in seattle everybody crush him But he is not a power forward is rasheed, and boozer available go for it please
#7 Jun 26, 2009
Where are the smart fans? This was a great deal. Good job Otis. Now we're not stuck with Hedo demanding $10 mil. He's no way worth that amount.
#8 Jun 26, 2009
Hedo is worth 10mil... look how much lewis gets and you can def make a case that Hedo is better than him. Lewis is overpaid tho. But if we could resign Hedo we'd have an amazing team. Lee going def stinks but my biggest concern now is that we lost the mismatch Hedo brough with his 6'10 size. Him and Lewis gave teams fits. Now we got a 6'6 guy whose 2 yrs older and lost depth on our bench.
Saint Petersburg, FL
#9 Jun 26, 2009
If they can limit his minutes during the season so he can stay healthy for playoffs, i can see us wining the trophy! But.....Let's just hope for the best! Go Magic
#10 Jun 26, 2009
I think Vince is going to be a perfect fit. And look, no way Otis is done yet, look for some more surprises. It does hurt to lose Lee but in reality we already have one undersized player starting in our back court. also Lee tended to force the offense esp in the finals. it was pretty painful to watch. True he was just a rookie but he also was a four year player in college. Sometimes old habits die hard
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#11 Jun 26, 2009
If DeVos wants a title resign Hedo and get R. Wallace or MC D.
#12 Jun 26, 2009
BJ Armstrong sure was a great player... playing along side Jordan. Scotty Pippen was an all-star until he struck out on his own. Hedo has talent, but he won't be nearly as good of a player without Dwight Howard. Locking him up in a big long-term contract would have been a huge mistake.
Vince Carter, on the other hand, has never played on a good team with a player like Howard. Context matters. Carter is the better player by far, and comes with a shorter contract.
#13 Jun 26, 2009
On other point that seems to be overlooked. The Magic received Anderson in this trade, a power forward who can flat out shoot. Look for this guy to be very successful in Orlando playing along side Howard.
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#15 Jun 26, 2009
Hedo deserves $10mil like I deserve Jennifer Anniston for my next wife.
( years he has been mediocre. One year (last year) he improved. This year he went back to the same old mediocre.
Dear Mr. Diaz, Put in a good word to the Magic that they need a Point Guard. With a decent Point Guard and some luck they can be an NBA Champion.
Stick with Nelson and be the same old same old. Here's a question: If Nate Robinson is 5'8" and Nelson is 5'10", how come Nelson has to look up to see Nate?
#16 Jun 26, 2009
You don't know much about the salary cap rules, huh. We can't sign Boozer unless they agree to a sign and trade, which could really only involve Turkoglu at this point.
#17 Jun 26, 2009
It's not all about height and age. Ability matters, and VC is far more able than Turk.
#18 Jun 26, 2009
Same place as this year? You mean the number one team in the East?:)
#19 Jun 26, 2009
Regarding all the comments: Nice of all you guys from WA to be rooting for the Magic (I used to live in Seattle and mourn the loss of the Sonics...). But, on to Vince. He's an icon around here and we are so, so, so very happy to have him playing for our local team. His heart will be in it to win big for the locals. Hedo is great when he wants to be, but not a good fit (I know - I went to almost every game.) Mickael Pietrus, possibly Ryan Anderson could replace him. JJ Redick did phenomenally well in defense during the playoffs and deserves a shot to backup Vince.
#20 Jun 26, 2009
People just some outside persepctive. I am not an Orlando fan but trust me this was a great move. I think you can still add a PF in the likes of a Joe Smith or some other scrappy guy type, but you don't need much. VC is a much better scorer, passer, and rebounder....and oh yeah, he shoots the 3 better than Turk also. Now if Jamir is out Carter can run the O with no big drop off. Hedo is not a studd, he's been lucky to be on a team where he is not the focal point. Trust me you will LOVE Ryan Anderson. Makes up for teh loss of Lee EASILY!! 6'10" and a better rebounder, shooter, and passer!
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