text:
The Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) is one of the eighteenth century symbolism's most discussed painting; it is a work with lugubrious and dark tones that inspired intellectuals, artists, and musicians alike.
Its author is Arnold Böcklin, the Swiss painter who was an exponent of the art of symbolism. For years art historians tried to locate the place that inspired the landscape of the picture, and all tracks eventually lead to the English Cemetery in Florence's Piazzale Donatello.
We are quite certain that Robert Langdon would have been very interested in this painting.
Biography of Arnold Böcklin
Arnold Böcklin was born in Basel, Switzerland, on October 16, 1827. The son of a merchant, his artistic development took place in Germany and in Italy, where he came across Romanticism.
Always very attracted to Italy, he would return several times during his travels. In 1874 he moved to Florence, where his daughter Beatrice was born. She unfortunately died at a young age.
It is in Florence in 1879 that he painted the first version of his most famous work, the Isle of the Dead, inspired by the layout of Donatello square, in which the English cemetery is located.
He died in Fiesole and was buried in Florence's Cimitero degli Allori, a cemetery reserved for non-Catholics.
The Isle of the Dead
It's his most famous painting. Between 1880 and 1886 the painter realized 5 versions that are similar but not identical.
The painting focuses on a rowboat conducted by an oarsman with a white-robed figure standing on the bow, behind whose feet can be seen a small white coffin. The boat heads toward a rocky island that contains in the center tall cypress trees, which usually adorn cemeteries. The sky is dark, the sea is calm, and the atmosphere evokes feelings of mystery and fear.
Böcklin never provided an explanation or a title for his work; he got the title from an art dealer much later on and never revealed the person who inspired him.
The debate among art critics on the source of the model for the rocky island is still ongoing: according to some, it was Pontikonisi, near Corfu, a small island adorned with a chapel in the middle of a grove of cypress trees; according to others, it was Capri or Ischia.
However, we do know that the painter produced the first three versions of the painting in Florence, perhaps being inspired by the English Cemetery located just a few steps from his studio, the place where his daughter was buried a few months later.
The Swiss painter was always very fascinated by mythology and the classics, and the various interpretations of the painting nearly all agree that the rower is a representation of Charon, passing over the waters of the river Styx, and that the passenger in white is simply a dead soul.
Of the five versions, one was destroyed in Rotterdam during the Second World War. The other four are kept in: (1880) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; (1880) Kunstmuseum, Basel; (1883) Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin; and (1886) Bildenden Museum der Künste, Leipzig.
The English cemetery in Florence
The cemetery was built outside the city walls by the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church in 1827 to bury those belonging to the Protestant Christians. It is in fact an international cemetery for those that belonged to the Russian and Greek Orthodox Churches. Before that, non-Catholics who died in Florence were buried in Livorno.
The structural peculiarity of this cemetery is that it has an oval shape; it was created by the Florentine architect Giuseppe Poggi, the same man who rebuilt the mansion holding the Stibbert Museum. Avenues surround the cemetery, and the cemetery looks just like an island causeway, the island of the dead, in fact.
The Painting's Legacy
The Isle of the Dead inspired many other artists, poets, and musicians during the 1900s. It would seem that it represented a sort of obsession for certain historical figures of recent memory, including Sigmund Freud, who owned several copies of the painting, Salvador Dali, and Gabriele D'Annnunzio. Both Hitler and Lenin were fascinated and each bought one of the five copies.
Picture by Wikipedia


text:
In this week's US Apprentice, promises the TV guide, 'one celebrity gets sick'. You would think the name of the episode would be 'The episode where we suddenly sneak in half of the next episode without telling you', but no, they led on the sick thing.
One celebrity gets sick. But how sick? Really sick, you ask? Colourfully sick? Sick all over the other celebrities sick? And most importantly, WILL there be midgets? And what's the horrifying twist at the end? If you want to know these and other such desperately important matters of business - our ongoing mission to recap anything Apprenticey will provide.
It begins, as it always does.
Last week, on the Apprentice
We get to see the enormous surprise of last week's boardroom, with Khloe being fired for drunk driving last year (and for taking time off her Apprenticing to see to her court-mandated responsibilities) "I was really upset, because Clint was a jackass" says Joan Rivers, correctly. But Khloe went for the previous DUI, and Tionne went because she volunteered to come into the boardroom to support her project manager.
It wasn't the greatest week in the history of justifiable decisions.
And then we see the slogan popping up in the opening titles:
But, having seen the shenanigans of last week's boardroom, that doesn't really ring true. It feels like it's more "It's neither business nor personal; it's just random". That's not so catchy.
The teams have to provide an in-store display for some kind of service that claims to stop people stealing your identity.
Natalie, tall, blonde and mightily golfy, has the honour of being project manager for KOTU. In reality, this may end up being more a role of babysitting Joan Rivers and Clint Black, who very openly hate each other.
For the other team: Brian McKnight is stepping up: again. He's looking mildly confused about doing so, as he was away playing a concert all through last week's task, so looks slightly shell-shocked about being handed the leader hat so suddenly, especially by champion back-seat-driver Annie Duke.
We see Annie talking about her lack of project-managerness. "You may think I haven't stepped up to the project manager role: and that's completely deliberate". The wee ginger snake.
In the planning rooms, however, the title of project manager seems to be a bit of a large and empty hat. Brian - who was away Annie asks the company representatives what their three buzz words are: 'protection, confidence and security', they say. If this doesn't end up with a large display involving the concept of putting a condom over your whole identity, I will be very disappointed.
It doesn't, and I am. Booooo.
They end up with very obvious ideas: Natalie and KOTU are going with the concept of having a safe, well done them. And Brian and Athena are concentrating on padlocks.
Melissa Rivers likes punctuation. There we are; proving there's truth in the statement that you learn something new every day (whether you want to or not) that's a lesson to take away from this week. Melissa? She LOVES herself some punctuation. She's just reading potential slogans out to herself "Easy, period! Safe, period! I love punctuation!" She yells, to the interest of apparently no one. "Period!"
No matter how much time I spend in the states or how far I get from actually being the right age to find primary school humour funny, there's still something that makes me want to go "Hee hee hee! She said period! She shouted it! Hee!"
Clint and Herschel go to Brooklyn to work with the display manufacturers, who … well, they manufacture displays. I don't know where I was going with that sentence. Of course they do that.
The display men agree to build the shape of a safe out of wood, without even once saying"Really? That's dull, isn't it?", so they're obviously professionals.
Meanwhile, Athena send Jesse and Brande onto the streets of Manhattan to - it appears - take pictures of padlocks until he runs out of film, padlocks, or island.
Sadly, this doesn't seem to have happened by 3.30, at which point Annie, back at base, thinks to ask whether anyone had contacted the display manufacturers (they manufacture displays, you know). They haven't. She tuts, and rolls her eyes and points fingers, quietly, at all the people she thinks should have been in charge of this task. Anyone but her, basically.
Eventually she rings the display makers in Brooklyn, who say that they need the design and materials by 4pm.
Railing, Annie rings Jesse and Brande and tells them to stop taking pictures of padlocks tout suite, and get to Brooklyn. They're on the way there when Jesse starts getting poorly. Which brings us to …
Yes, the main attraction of the episode has arrived, and … Jesse James has a tummy bug!
He visits the toilet a LOT in the middle-section of this episode.
Now, that wasn't quite as colourful or as gory as I was hoping - mainly just shots of the outside of a toilet door - but frankly I'm quite glad of that.
Annie is upset at Brian McKnight not taking control of the team; she's angry at other people for not communicating deadlines to the display team; she's angry at the display team for not getting things organised in time. It's the kind of thing you'd think she might have a right to be angry about … if she'd only step up and be a project manager - just once. Because if she knows so much better, why doesn't she just take control?
Are dull, and mainly stick to the facts about identity control and how this magnificent display stand combats that; you might have hoped that Brian McKnight would turn this into a Brian McKnight concert, as he did the last time they had to do a presentation - but he doesn't.
He just talks about identity fraud prevention. Which is dull.
Similarly, you might hope for a Joan Rivers spectacular, as you would normally get if you requested she do anything more interactive than stapling … but she just talks about identity fraud prevention as well. Yawn.
Better than this is when we cut to a commercial break and discover that the company in question's current advertising campaign in the real world consists of nothing more than a bad actress in a terrible wig talking about how identity fraud is generally a bad thing. So yes, fair enough: they seem to need all the help they can get.
Suddenly I realise that, alarmingly, the tasks are done, the presentations made, and it's only 45 minutes into the programme. That leaves us with a ridiculous hour and a quarter left for boardroom - which, in a non-contentious week, is just insane. In fact any week that would be insanely bloated. Rubbish. Look, I can do it in FAR less.
The executives thought: that KOTU used their celebritiness well, but that the product should have been for sale on the display.
They thought it was good that Athena had the product freely available on the display, and liked the presentation, but essentially:
KOTU won. Better packaging and celebrity endorsement, as well as a (admittedly joke-free, but still good) Joan Rivers presentation won it.
Fingers point, though mainly at Brian for being a bit weak as a team leader (and not getting up and doing a song at the presentation, I totally think that's why they lost it).
JOAN RIVERS THROWS A FIT about the fact that Annie was saying she wanted Brande to go, but didn't speak up about that to The Trumpster, and now Melissa is going back into the boardroom. Mama hen is not happy, and tells everyone so. Twice.
BACK IN THE BOARDROOM Brian admits that he's somewhat lost his drive for the show, and kinda doesn't want to be there any more.
So now he won't be. Brian is FIRED, it is 1hr 12m into the show.
Trump calls all the contestants back into the boardroom, and announces a twist: the next task starts right now.
Oh, this is just taking the piss. Trump announces that they will be holding a fashion show and jewellery auction.
"My daughter Ivanka is a very special person" says Trump "with a very small mouth". Ok, he doesn't say that second bit. "She has a jewellery line that's going very very well" though not well enough, apparently, that it can't do with a slab of free advertising on a major network.
So those are the bits of jewellery that the celebrities will be auctioning off. Nice. So it's a case of calling all their celebrity friends, and trying them to get them to buy some novelty trinkets for obscenely large cheques.
The celebrities are clearly underwhelmed to hear this: they're a bit tired, poor poppets, they've been having to work business hours for whole DAYS in a row now.
However, as could have been foretold:
… for the week will be Annie on the one side (Athena), and Joan Rivers on the other.
Is done in a tired and grumpy fashion. Annie assigns roles with an iron fist, everyone just grunts and takes them: except Melissa who starts whining.
Joan just gets people to start calling their big earning pals as soon as they get to a safe place: this is where they will lose if they lose, and she knows it.
"Whoever earns the least money, that's who I'm taking into the boardroom" says Annie, loudly and bolshily, to anyone who'll listen. The people listening, in this instance, are Brande and Jesse.
Jesse, who works as hard as ten other celebrities, but doesn't have as many high-rolling friends, is not impressed. The contacts he's got, he says, he would rather save for the week when the profits would go to his chosen charity; it seems a little mealy-mouthed, but you understand what he means.
Celebrities: they front a lot of causes arguing that we should all just get along. Well: can't they all just get along?
Apparently not.
"It's the bleeeeep lord of the flies" snaps Melissa, tightlipped, which, weirdly, makes her look more like a frog than ever. You would hope this would mean that at some point she might reach out and eat both the offending teammates with a 20-foot tongue, but no, this doesn't happen.
Her problem is that suddenly, Brande and Annie are the best of friends. This is not unexpected: Professional Playboy Bunny Brande happens to know about pretty ladies in pretty things and men who will pay for that, and Annie is keen on that combination.
They are annoyingly pally, though it's not as if Melissa is any less annoying though, is it?
Meanwhile, Joan and Clint have reached some kind of uneasy peace, and Jesse is gritting his teeth and quietly hating everyone. Happy celebrity families, this is not.
Annie is as pushy as you might expect with the fund-raising: her main selling point on this whole show has been that she hangs out with people who throw money around both for a living, and for fun: she's going to raise the most money. Brande also knows people who like chucking funds about: Melissa and Jesse, meanwhile, do not. They sit looking by turns wounded and grumpy about the whole thing.
KOTU, meanwhile, are also having problems: there are only so many people they know with money, and only so many times they can hit them up. Natalie, particularly, doesn't like asking her friends with money for money. Her strategy is a difficult one: she wants to find a poker rival who wants to stick it to Annie, and get them along for the ride.
It's a hard strategy, and I can't see it's going to work, but I fully support their filthy underhandness in thinking it up.
"I've got some friends who could contribute some stuff, but I'd rather win by hard work." Says Jesse, again. Oh, my dear, dear love. That's NEVER going to work.
Picking jewellery is left to Melissa and Natalie. Melissa picks large ugly statement pieces that will easily be seen from the catwalk; Natalie picks small ugly yet more 'tasteful' pieces that someone might actually wear. When Natalie gets back to Joan's war room, Joan clearly wishes she had her daughter on her team instead. Anyone who has happened upon Joan's QVC collection will know why.
Picking models is a considered thing for Athena, who think about hair colour, variety, and who can show an imaginary bracelet off the best. It is less so for KOTU, who leave Clint and Herschel to the task, who mainly seem to sit in their chairs and gibber and dribble at the sight of attractive women.
The teams pick some clothes. Joan Rivers gets some loud punchy pieces, the other team run into an argument when Melissa feels like Brande is spending more time picking out what she personally should wear than what all the real models should wear.
We see Trump briefing a mysterious man, but can only see the back of his head. He gives a run down on the task, the main players, and the characters to look out for.
"Thanks for taking care of this for me" says Trump "I trust you".
And then the mystery overseer turns around and we see the full horror, curly-topped and full face…
"There's only one Celebrity Apprentice, and that's me" says Piers Sodding Morgan, who won last year's season: "I'm back".
Oh sodding brilliant. As if I needed any more reasons to be done with this version of the show.
Welome back, Piers!
And then it suddenly finishes until next week. So, 45 minutes on it this week, the full two hours next? Christ alive, that takes bloated to a whole new extreme…

subset: commoncrawl


text:
INTRODUCED to the world with all the fanfare the Defense Department reserves for new multimillion-dollar fighter jets, Microsoft's much-anticipated entry in the video game console market, the Xbox, was unveiled this week by the company's chairman, William H. Gates.
Although the chunky, black game machine won't go on sale until later this year, the reverberations of the software giant Microsoft's striding into the $6.9 billion console game market -- the almost exclusive domain of Nintendo, Sega and Sony -- are already being felt.
Mr. Gates introduced the Xbox on Saturday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But Microsoft has been vague on many details about its first game console. For instance, company spokesmen would not say how much Xbox is expected to cost, saying only that it will be competitively priced with other consoles. That could mean a figure around $300, the cost of a Play Station 2.
And questions about the box's specifications, like how fast it renders images on the screen, were brushed aside, with the spokesmen saying that they are not important to most consumers. What Microsoft was happy to talk about was that when Xbox goes on sale it will be powered by a 733-megahertz Intel microprocessor, which is more powerful than the processors in most home desktop computers and by far the most powerful chip in a game console. Sega's Dreamcast has a 200-MHz processor; PlayStation 2 has a 295-MHz processor; and Nintendo's forthcoming GameCube is reported to have a 405-MHz processor.Continue reading the main story
Retailers at the electronics show were buzzing about their first look at the console. ''It's going to be the impact that PlayStation 2 promised everyone and couldn't deliver,'' said Todd Hays, the president of InterAct Accessories, a major manufacturer of game controllers, memory cards and other game add-ons for video game systems, including PlayStation 2 and the forthcoming Xbox.
But some industry experts are not as quick to concede the console market to Microsoft. A briefing paper released early last year by Forrester Research stated that Microsoft ''will not succeed in the console gaming market.'' For one thing, PC-based games, with which Microsoft has had some success, is a much different world than the console game market, where players tend to be younger, said Jeremy Schwartz, a senior analyst at Forrester, in the report. And game developers, already familiar with game design for existing consoles, won't be quick to design for another, unestablished platform.
Mollie Smith, a spokeswoman for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, said Microsoft's entry into the game console market is, overall, good for the industry. ''It continues to validate it in a lot of people's minds,'' she said, and added that ultimately, whichever game console offers the most compelling games will claim victory. ''He who has the best games wins.''
Robert Bach, Microsoft's chief Xbox officer, said he was confident that Xbox would succeed. He added that the company's commitment to making Xbox work had inspired confidence among its many partners, including outside game developers.
''We have the resources and are willing to commit the resources to be successful,'' Mr. Bach said. ''Nobody else can sustain the $500 million in marketing we plan to spend in the first 18 to 24 months.'' Already a number of major game developers, like Konami, have signed on to produce major titles for Xbox, including Metal Gear Solid, Oddworld, Malice, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X and a World Wrestling Federation game.
Xbox is expected to have the most advanced graphics chip of any game console. The chip, Microsoft's designers said, will give the Xbox enormous advantages in rendering highly detailed, three-dimensional characters and environments on the fly. That means that the graphics chip, not yet completed by NVidia, along with the 733-MHz processor, should be able to create highly realistic settings and characters as a gamer plays. It will also use a technique borrowed from Hollywood called pixel shading that tricks the eye into seeing object surfaces as rounded when they aren't.
A demonstration of Xbox's capabilities, using a test model with one-fifth the power proposed for the final, factory version, was held at a packed Las Vegas Hilton Theater. The audience was enthusiastic as it watched vivid and cinematic snippets of two games being developed for the game console.
In one, Munch's Odessey, designed by Lorne Lanning, the creator of the popular Oddworld computer game, characters hopped and ran around a richly detailed factory floor, complete with turning gears and starkly realistic, dynamic lighting and shadows. Some of the action appeared on par with some of the best digital work in fully digital films like ''Toy Story 2.''
The game console, which will be built to work with high-definition television as well as conventional TV's, will also have an Ethernet connection, which would allow it to tap into a broadband Internet link. Xbox will not have a dail-up modem. Like Sony's PlayStation 2, Xbox will be able to read DVD movie disks, but it is not a feature that Microsoft officials are emphasizing.
The Xbox's chances for success rest on two things: the console's design and how well game developers can take advantage of that design.
At first glance this black box, a little larger than a late-model videocassette recorder, has a muscular profile. The Xbox can accommodate four controllers at once, compared with the standard two in the video gaming world. And the controllers themselves are larger yet comfortable.
''The design here was driven by spending time with gamers, actually putting control in their hands,'' Mr. Gates said during his presentation on Saturday.
But the final test for Xbox will be when it goes before consumers.
''I'd buy it,'' said Brad Cauzza, a 17-year-old high school senior who couldn't take his eyes off a demonstration of the Xbox running nonstop on big screens at the Consumer Electronics Show. ''It's so realistic.''Continue reading the main story


text:
× View Today's Deals
You missed it This great deal for KS Style Consulting is over. But don't despair, we've got more great deals every day.
Related Deals That You May Like
KS Style Consulting
Two Hours of Closet Cleaning and Organizing
- Save 60%
- 2 purchased
deal over
deal over!
An experienced stylist and consultant whose client base extends throughout Chicagoland and Southeast Wisconsin, Katie is just the person to help you get your wardrobe in order:
• $69 ($175 value) for two hours of closet cleaning and organizing
• You'll also get a consultation to discuss tips and strategies for staying organized
• Valid in Downtown Chicago and the northern and western suburbs
PAID VALUE EXPIRES ON May 25, 2022
PROMOTIONAL VALUE EXPIRES ON April 17, 2014


text:
[new] how to install avira download [vWHJ] file now
About how to install avira
FileName: how to install avira
Languages: ENGLISH
Release date:
03/31/2015 23:36:48
Visit Website | More Programs
Last month's downloads::
Windows XP/Vista/7/8 (32-Bit/64-Bit)
Download URLs
Related software:
03/31/2015 23:36:48
10/27/2011 http://www.win2008workstation.com My comprehensive video on how to install Avira on you R2 machine...and my somewhat disproval of the AV. I'm not a big …Install Avira Antivirus using the custom installation type. Step by step instructions for the free version.How To: A program installation is not rocket science, but some advice is always welcome. Here's an easy guide to installing Avira AntiVir Premium on any PC.Download and Burn the Image to a Disc. The first thing you'll need to do is head over to the Avira site and download the latest version of their rescue CD—there ...4/1/2010 How to Manually Install Active X in Internet Explorer. ActiveX controls allow web developers to create applications that extend functionality in the ...Teclane Review: Avira Free Antivirus software is one of the most popular free antivirus software that removes malware, Trajan, worms and other types of malicious ...9/30/2009 Avira AntiVir is a free anti-virus software that resides on your computer. It can be set to automatically scan your computer for viruses at set times and ...The Avira AntiVir Rescue System a free Linux based application that allows accessing computers that cannot be booted anymore. Thus it is possible to repair a11/13/2012 Mission: How to Uninstall Avira Free Antivirus 2013 Completely Tip: You can run an uninstaller to effectively clear remains related with the program, click ...How Can I Make Avira AntiVir Silent Install ? What is switch ? - posted in Application Installs: Hello .. How Can I Make Avira AntiVir Silent Install ?? What is switch ??
how to install avira
Most downloaded this week:
how to trim the tummy
mariage a la grecque
ancient egypt music torrent
purpose of cmeo program
midnight club los angeles unlimited money cheats
powered by asus
how to keep marijuana moist
vitas ru mp3 donna mobile full
hs code pdf
pq2003 pulsar watch booklet
rose of the prophet ebook
how to connect radeon hd 2600
air force extended promotion program
asus wl 566gm mimo wireless router
international relations handbook
bizhub driver
driver kingmax usb
burnout paradise pc game
online game switch
lvn program modesto
Amrit Kirtan sacred circle
the book man chillwack
cupcake wars s08e04
red wings nhl
use your nina mp3


text:
GENEVA – Volkswagen AG's Skoda brand unwraps its latest SUV concept at the auto show here. Dubbed the Yeti, the front-wheel-drive vehicle is meant to take owners to biking and hiking trails but is not meant to traverse off-road trails. The word Yeti is Tibetan for "magical creature" and most often is associated with the mythical "Abominable Snowman" of the Himalayas. The Yeti is the second SUV concept from Skoda Auto a.s., coming off the debut of the Roomster MPV concept that debuted ...
Premium Content (PAID Subscription Required)
"Skoda Explores SUV Concept" is part of the paid WardsAuto Premium content. You must log in with Premium credentials in order to access this article. Premium paid subscribers also gain access to:
All of WardsAuto's reliable, in-depth industry reporting and analysis
Hundreds of downloadable data tables including:
• Global sales and production data by country
• U.S. model-line inventory data
• Engine and equipment installation rates
• WardsAuto's North America Plant by Platform forecast
• Product Cycle chart
• Interrelationships among major OEMs
• Medium- and heavy-duty truck volumes
• Historical data and much more!
For WardsAuto.com pricing and subscription information please contact
Lisa Williamson by email: firstname.lastname@example.com or phone: (248) 799-2642
Current subscribers, please login or CLICK for support information.


text:
You are here
This is where you can get answers to frequently asked questions. If you don't find the answer here, e-mail SAEINDIA at email@example.com
Q: What are the steps to log in into SAE International web site?
A: Kindly go through the following steps to login.
We hope that with this, you will be able to access what you want.
Q: Why SAEINDIA and what does it do?
A: SAEINDIA, the Society of Automotive Engineers is a group affiliated to SAE International, the Society of Automotive Engineers of nearly 90,000 engineers, business executives, educators, and students from more than 97 countries form our network of members who share information and exchange ideas for advancing the engineering of mobility systems. More than 16,000 volunteer leaders serve on SAE Board of Directors and SAE`s many other boards, councils and committees. The technical committees write more new aerospace and automotive engineering standards than any other standards-writing organization in the world. SAE International publish thousands of technical papers and books each year, and leading-edge periodicals and Internet and CD-ROM products too. Their Cooperative Research Program helps facilitate projects that benefit the mobility industry as a whole. Numerous meetings and expositions provide worldwide opportunities to network and share information. Like them we also offer a full complement of professional development activities such as seminars, workshops, and continuing education programs. The meetings and activities of local sections provide an opportunity to network with colleagues near you.
Q: Who are SAEINDIA members?
A: SAEINDIA members are in various fields - design, manufacture, test, market, and maintain self-propelled land, sea, air, and space vehicles, their components and systems. Engineers from every technical discipline and the professionals who work closely with them improve vehicle efficiency, performance, reliability, and safety. Many SAEINDIA members are leaders in the field who serve as key resources for the engineering community
Q: How to become a SAEINDIA member?
A: The procedure to become a member is detailed below for your kind information.
Membership Fee Structure:
Payment can also be done through online funds transfer. Please note our bank details as given below.
ICICI A/c. : 000101202792,
A/C Name : SAEINDIA
Branch : Teynampet
· Mail us the filled-in application form duly signed along with the DD/Cheque or online payment details to our address given below.
· On receipt of the membership application form with the payment, the membership will be processed.
As per our internal guidelines, the membership will be approved and the membership card will be sent to the applicant's address. SAEINDIA reserves the right to accept or refuse a membership application.
On approval, the membership details will also be uploaded to SAE International Website for issue of log-in credentials, enabling the member to access applicable online services provided by SAE International.
We look forward to welcoming you to SAEINDIA.
Q: Can companies become a member of SAEINDIA.
A: No. SAEINDIA is an organization of individual members and corporate membership is not available
Q: Do I qualify for membership/affiliation?
A: If you have a degree in engineering, mathematics, science or have another professional degree or are a professional working within the mobility field, then you qualify. Even if you don't have a college degree you can become a member of SAEINDIA.
Q: If I join today when will my membership expire?
A: Your membership will expire 12 months from the time you are elected into Professional membership. There is no life membership in SAEINDIA
Q: How much does it cost to join SAEINDIA?
A: The yearly membership fee for the associate member or an affiliate membership fee is Rs.1260 (incl. of 14.5% service tax) if the individual is less than 28 years of age and Rs.1603 (incl. of 14.5% service tax) if the individual is more than 28 years of age. The yearly membership fee for a student member is Rs.458 (incl. of 14.5% service tax) only. Please note that there is no life membership.
Q: How do you decide what grade to give an applicant?
A: SAEINDIA applicants are reviewed to determine their experience, level of engineering involvement and educational background before they are accepted and assigned one of the membership grades.
Q: Is there a cost to change my member grade?
A: No, there's no charge. Just inform us with details, including your member number and send us
Q: What's my membership status?
A: It's easy to find out your membership status with the MyMember Info section of the SAE International website. This is a member's only area. Simply log in and go to the Membership button on the homepage, click on the MyMember info button and you'll get loads of useful information about your membership, including your dues status. Use Log-in Help.
Q: I am unemployed but I still want to keep my membership, what can I do?
A: Yes, but have to be an associate member if you start afresh. But if a regular member becomes unemployed or retired, he has to only renew.
Q: How much does it cost to renew my dues?
A: Renewal amount is the same you have paid the previous year unless your age changes from below 28 to above 28 yrs.,or the membership fee undergoes a change.
Q: How can I pay my membership dues?
A: There are several options for paying your dues. You can complete your subscription by filling the renewal form in your profile in online, update and mail along with your Temporary and payment receipt. New Professionals & Students Registration is Online.
Q: Do I get a receipt after paying my renewal dues?
A: A receipt will be attached to the membership card which you will receive in the mail after you pay your dues in a fortnights time.
Q: Who's a Company Champion?
A: Company Champions are SAEINDIA ambassadors who serve as information resources for SAEINDIA members and non-members. They help spread information about the benefits of SAEINDIA and receive important information first, in addition to signing up new members, routing timely SAEINDIA notices, supplying necessary forms, and answering questions that co-workers may have about SAEINDIA programs and activities.
Q: What is a Fellow Grade of Membership?
A: This membership grade is a prestigious grade established to recognize individuals for extraordinary leadership, creativity, and accomplishments in science, engineering, and technology covered by SAE International. SAEINDIA Members nominate their colleagues for this grade and forward the name to SAE International for their board to decide on award of this grade.


text:
Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Make Your Own Gear › quilts bivvies and condensation, one confused Englishaman's cry for help…
Mar 13, 2007 at 3:56 pm #1222350
Dear all, as a new bod from england who is very keen to try out this lightweight, home sewn business, I've been fascinated to trawl everyone's input to this forum. It's delighted me to see so much creative energy and advice being shared so freely.
I'm trying to design a lightweight sleep system for myself, based on a poncho tarp and a synthetic quilt, and I was hoping that someone could give me some pointers about how best to manage condensation.
I was impressed by David Willis' quilt project with it's unbroken layer of water resistant momentum fabric on top- http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/xdpy/forum_thread/4439/index.html – , and thought this sort of design, combined with a generously sized tarp would allow me to dispense with a bivvy sack. But I am worried that this approach will simply move the location where the air reaches dew point to inside the quilt, between the top fabric and the insulation. Only experience will tell me if this is the case, and having none of my own, I'm hoping to borrow someone else's. Any thoughts?
If a bivvy is needed, ( I would make the lightweight, semi-waterproof type, probably from momentum and sylnylon) should I still shell my quilt with a DWR fabric, or would this be just too much DWR between me and the outside air, creating excessive condensation?
My standard DWR shelled sleeping bag and heavyweight Gore-tex bivvy setup works by wicking moisture up to between the sleeper and the bivvy, and sleeper's DWR shell stops any excess sinking back down into the insulation. This would suggest the need for both a sack and a DWR shelled quilt. Or could I get away with a non-dwr upper on the quilt, leaving me totally breathable on fine nights where the bivvy stays rolled up in the sack?
I will use this setup in the UK, so low altitude, mild climate, but with westerly winds and a fair amount of rain.
I know this is a lot of questions, to which there will not be any definitive solution, but I would be interested to hear anyone's opinions, and would be grateful for any advice offered. Part of the obsession with detail is that we just don't have the supply of materials in this country, so I'm going to have to calculate my fabric requirements really carefully, and hopefully only pay one lot of postage from AYCE at thruhiker!
All the best,
JoeMar 13, 2007 at 8:41 pm #1382192
Aaron SorensenBPL Member
@awsorensenLocale: South of Forester Pass
Hey Joe,
I am going this same route but with the added bottom to make it bivy-like, (hold more heat in).
I will also be making one using Thru-hiker 1.8 ounce prequilt that I will attach baffles to to put down on the bottom while still having an unbroken layer on top.
To put the bottom on making it more bivy-like I will just have a few pull cords to sench it around me. It will also contain the 1/8" pad that will curve around the sides of my body to hold in the warmth, (I am not a side sleeper so it will work for me).
The quilt part will also tuck underneath the bottom.
If you are going to go this route, especially with the Momentum fabric, I would not use a bivy.
Isn't that what we're tiring to eliminate anyway?
This would also compliment smaller tarps/capes because you don't have to worry about getting a little drip here and there.
It will work better than you may be doughting it will.Mar 14, 2007 at 4:29 am #1382223
hey Aaron sounds like there's a lot of confidence in the wind/water repellancy of Momentum fabric. Sounds' like it'll be fine at reppelling water from the outside. All I'm thinking is that there's going to be a layer of fabric with a big temperature across it (causing condensation) at some point in the system, so shouldn't that be between the quilt and a bivvy, rather than the outer layer of the quilt itself, which will be laying directly on the insulation. What do you think?Mar 14, 2007 at 12:05 pm #1382274
Aaron SorensenBPL Member
@awsorensenLocale: South of Forester Pass
Hey Joe,
I'll let some one else answer that.
If it's the lighter way to go, I'm going that way, (that's my reply any way).Mar 15, 2007 at 5:17 am #1382384
good stuff. I reckon the best thing for me to do is make both systems and let the great water laden westerly airstream decide!
all the best,
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.


text:
|Property type
|Minimum Stay
A stone's throw from Mirror Lake, this luxury cabin is nestled in the mountain laurels on Mirror
Lake Preserve. The Roost features designer furnishings, rocking chair screened porch, rear deck,
stacked stone fireplace and authentic wood interior.
Secluded in this finely appointed rustic cabin, you will find yourself able to relax while still
in the heart of Highlands surrounded by all the amenities of this charming Mountain resort
community. From world class mountain activities to quaint shopping experiences, you are
promised a mountain getaway perfect for relaxation, romance or a family/friends retreat.
The cabin has two bedrooms both with cable on flat screen TVs. The master has a King-sized
bed and on-suite bath with a Jacuzzi tub. The second bedroom has a Queen-sized bed. Plush
towels are included in the Master bath and the second full bathroom. The Great room includes a
stacked stone fireplace, flat screen TV, pull out sofa in the sitting area and a cozy breakfast nook.
The kitchen is fully equipped with granite counter top, stainless steel appliances and washer/
Wireless Access for those who must stay 'connected' **
In addition to The Roost, our newly formed property group offers The Cabin, The Cottage, The Nest and The Lodge. Whether you are looking for that quaint, rustic charm, modern vibe or your own grand lodge -- one of the properties will be your perfect fit!
Peak Season: May 1 - Jan 4 $175/night - 3 night min - $1100/week $3400/month.
Off Season: Jan 5 - Apr 30, Dec 1-21 $135/night 3 night min $875/week $2500/month.
Add 7% NC Sales & 3% NC Room Tax.
Cleaning Fee ($100). $300 Reservation Deposit for nightly/weekly rentals.
50% Deposit for Monthly rentals. Non-Refundable $200 pet deposit.
Keywords: Rustic Charmer with luxury furnishings!
We stayed in The Roost over Labor Day weekend with another couple. The cabin is nestled in the woods, so it can stay dark late in the morning. It was nicely appointed as the photos depict. The main bedroom with ensuite bath was the nicer of the two bedrooms. The 2nd bedroom and bath are smaller. The 2nd bedroom had a mattress that sagged in the middle. The kitchen appliances are new and clean. One main attraction for us was the canoe rental on Mirror Lake which we enjoyed with our stand up paddles. It's a little less than a mile in to town if one wanted to walk. The outside windows and screened in porch needed to be cleaned as the cobwebs had accumulated. Overall, it was a good place to hang out with friends.
Lovely cottage minutes to town but in a calm, tranquil location near Mirror Lake. The owners are very nice and did everything to make our stay delightful. We were really impressed with the cottage. The photo of the outside of the cottage does not reflect how nice the cottage is. The cabin is a great mix of classic cabin with all the modern conveniences. Very close to town and a very nice neighborhood for walking. We would highly recommend this property.
When you see this cabin from the outside your first instinct is oh my goodness....then you walk in and see that it is absolutely an "Oh my goodness in an AWESOME way". This cabin was so clean, all the decor and bedding top notch. The front porch was an excellent place to read a book in the cool air. We took a couple of canoe rides on the lake which was so relaxing and fun. The location of the cabin is wonderful and close to many area attractions...shopping, hiking to waterfalls, gambling, etc. We will be back !!! Loved it !!! The two ladies you deal with in renting this awesome cabin are wonderful !!


text:
Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre Lawsuit DismissedThe duo requested a jury trial and unspecified damages.
5 Artists Eminem Should Collaborate with on New AlbumEm's got options for his ninth studio album.
Chris Brown 'Thinking Of Suicide And Everything Else': Trending Topics"I like a good documentary; two are on the way."
Suge Knight Claims Dr. Dre Tried To Kill Him: Trending TopicsSounds like another movie/Lifetime biopic/SOMETHING!
Suge Knight Sues Dr. Dre, Claims Murder for Hire PlotKnight claims that Dre hired a hit man to kill him at Chris Brown's VMA party in 2014.
'Surviving Compton' vs. 'Straight Outta Compton' - Which Is The Real Dr. Dre? Trending TopicsDoes his apology to "the women I've hurt" basically answer that?
Dr. Dre's Gangster Rap Side Resurfaces: Trending TopicsMichel'le, on the other hand, considers it an "empty threat, because she has the truth on her side."
Ice Cube Not Mourning Death of ex-N.W.A. Manager Jerry Heller"I ain't gonna pop no champagne, but I ain't gonna shed no tears either," Ice Cube said. "It is what it is. We come here to pass, and he's outta here. I'm not losing no sleep over that one."
'Surviving Compton' Biopic Tells Michel'le Toussaint's Story'Straight Out of Compton' faced criticism that it ignored misogyny, the new film aims to tell the story from another perspective.
Dr. Dre Cleared of Gun Possession ChargeProsecutors have declined to bring gun charges because there were no witnesses and there were errors in the man's account of the altercation.
[VIDEO] Trending Topics: 'These Bloggers Have No Respect For Black Lives' "He kinda has a point though," Tigger interjects.
Dr. Dre Searched by Police at Malibu HomeThe incident transpired Monday (July 25) afternoon after a man stopped his car in front of Dre's house, blocking the driveway. The man said Dre shouted at him, and then pulled out a gun, so he called the cops.


text:
Sir: While I entirely agree that it is iniquitous for restaurants to mislead customers, no one is obliged to eat in them and those who object to what they have to pay can vote with their feet ("Restaurants 'should abolish tipping' ", 22 November).
Like many restaurateurs, we do not pay a full-time staff a living wage. We rely almost entirely on part-time students to whom we pay a pittance. A service charge is not included, is absolutely discretionary and is not solicited. Tips are most welcome and are accepted with gratitude; I think I can honestly say that non-tippers are given equally friendly service and their decision to leave nothing - based on drunkenness, meanness, principle or whatever - is greeted with good humour. However, our students know that the way they treat customers can directly affect the amount they take home, and this increases both incentive and enjoyment.
As a result of this policy, on busy days both we and our staff make money and are happy, while on slack days - not yet a thing of the past - low wages minimise the damage. I hope I am right in saying that there are people out there who would wish us to survive. One of the reasons we have lasted 10 years is our clear statement that our prices include VAT but not service.
The Consumers' Association's long-waged campaign against tipping is merely an irritant. Legislation would be a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and as nuts we would not welcome it.
Yours faithfully,
Hermione Ainley
Edwards of Crick
Crick, Northamptonshire
- More about:
- Northamptonshire
- Nuts And Seeds
- Restaurants
- Tax


text:
ADPH Home | Download Adobe Reader
In 2014, leadership at the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) developed a team of 19 members who represented a wide array of topic areas and that included data experts for many of those fields. This team, the Domain 1 Work Group, led efforts to conduct the Community Health Assessment (CHA) for the state of Alabama. This website presents the data that was included in the CHA in addition to other data compiled by the Department of Public Health.
En Español | Notice of Privacy Practices | Statements & Policies | Alabama.gov | Alabama Directory | Alabama MediaAlabama Department of Public Health | Montgomery, AL | 1-800-252-1818 | County Health Department Contacts


text:
Get a Quote
Retrieve a Quote
Download a PDS
Switch to HIF
Pet Member Login
Visit our Blog
News & Events
February 2017 - Mardi Gras Film Festival Tickets "Suicide Kale" (public competition)
October 2016 - Take HIF on holiday and WIN $1,000! (member promotion)
August 2016 - Win one of 20 x family passes to see new movie "The Secret Life of Pets" (member competition) | view on Facebook
July 2016 - Win a pair of Beats by Dre Solo2 wireless headphones worth $399 (member competition) | view on Facebook
March 2016 - Win free tickets to Disney's new movie Zootopia (member competition) | view on Facebook
January 2016 - Win one of 100 x HIF beach balls (public competition) | view on Facebook
Charmaine Sutherland (WA) / Fiona Ball (NSW) / Mallawa Arachchige Dona Gnanawathi (WA) / Felicity Hudson (NSW) / Muhammad Sajid (QLD) / Ann & Warwick Sculley (VIC) / Jasmine Nelson (QLD) / Natasha Nelson (QLD) / Hayley Powell (VIC) / Matthew Venning (NSW) / Melanie Moran (VIC) / Angela Buiatti (NSW) / Laura Wolf (QLD) / Jacinta Otto (QLD) / Sylvana Jane Puskaric (NSW) / Toni Hill (WA) / Chris Lunn (QLD) / Paula Carey (SA) / Dianne Balazs (WA) / Kerryanne Bourke (NSW) / sarah Mccoy (VIC) / Daniella Joyce (VIC) / Angela Murray (WA) / Amanda Cullen (QLD) / Megan Canfarini (NSW) / James Paterson (SA) / Tashana Purkis (QLD) / Leanne Jones (SA) / Regina Fairbrother (QLD) / Damien Herring (QLD) / Kiran Shrestha (NSW) / Renee Vigliaturo (VIC) / Teresa Camarda (WA) / Caroline Cousins (WA) / Peter Barker (WA) / Abbey Robson (WA) / Sandi (WA) / Rachel Anna Eastough (WA) / Rachel Burton (VIC) / Karina Winter (NSW) / Danielle Laws (SA) / Michael Minogue (VIC) / Emma Askew (VIC) / Kathryn Ireland (NSW) / Daniel Dempsey (QLD) / Kellie Coyne (NSW) / Helen. M. Amoore (VIC) / Amanda Manson (WA) / Clare Decelis (WA) / Clare De (WA) / Aimee Tatham (WA) / Jacqueline Duffield (SA) / Daniella Chiricosta (WA) / Kathryn Clayton (QLD) / Arvinder Juneja & Mandeep Kaur (NT) / Sandra Holland (QLD) / Gerd Kurz (VIC) / Vicki Sartori (WA) / Alison Stewart (VIC) / Russell Garrard (QLD) / Allison Tyquin (QLD) / Aimne Ghazzawy (NSW) / Alanna Jane (TAS) / Shirley Kennedy (TAS) / Debra Ogilvie (WA) / Ryan Huddleston (QLD) / Rebecca Park (WA) / Ann-Maree Bostick (NSW) / Karen Ellioty (VIC) / Alison Henderson (NSW) / Erin Collard (VIC) / Eric Giang (NSW) / Vincenzo Figliomeni (WA) / Peta Hill (QLD) / Mandy Patton (VIC) / Wayne Eastough (WA) / Amy Shambrook (QLD) / Toni Olano (NSW) / Claire Ryan (WA) / Belinda Brasier (VIC) / Holly Moore (WA) / Kym Wong (WA) / Carol Spargo (SA) / Erin Bawden (WA) / Gemma Jolly (WA) / Melissa Wallis (VIC) / Niesa Harper (NSW) / Jade Chelaru (WA) / Anita Cooney (QLD) / Tracey Seckold (NSW) / Tobie Wallis (VIC) / Elaine DeGabrielle (VIC) / Michelle Morgan (NSW) / Andrina Welch (NSW) / Chelsea Harbor (VIC) / Debra Ogilvie (WA) / Kathryn Burke (QLD) / Tess Kanschat (NSW) / Raelene Hewett (WA) / Sharon Monaghan (QLD).
December 2015 - SmartHealth Newsletter: Win $1,000 cash (member promotion)
August 2015 - SmartHealth Newsletter: Apple Watch Competition (member promotion) | view on HIF Blog
July 2015 - Win a Damian Martin bobblehead: Facebook Competition' | view on Facebook
April 2015 - SmartHealth Newsletter AnyTime Fitness (member promotion) | view on Facebook
April 2015 - 'Celebrating 50,000 likes on Facebook'' | view on Facebook
January 2015 - 'HIF start-of-school-year nutrition booklet'' (member promotion) | view on Facebook
November 2015 - 'Perth Wildcats: Facebook Competition' | view on Facebook
October 2014 - '60 Prizes for 60 Years' (14 day promotion) | view on Facebook
October 2014 - SmartHealth Newsletter - vintage camera competition: Tina Hands (WA) | view on Facebook
October 2014 - 'Members who turned 60 this year' - iPhone6 competition: John Stone (WA) | view on Facebook
May 2014 - Perth Wildcats membership renewal winner (new member promotion): John Gregory | view on Facebook
April 2014 - SmartHealth Newsletter Thermomix Competition | view on Facebook
2013 - "Oz the Great and Powerful" in 3D movie ticket giveaway
2012 - Tess Lee (WA) "To celebrate HIF's sponsorship of the 2012 Telstra Drug Aware Pro, take out health cover before 30 April 2012 and quote promo code SURF2012 to go into the draw to win a surf pack valued at $1,500". (New member promotion)
2012 - Nicola Philip (VIC), Leanne Jones (SA) and Lyn Parry (WA). "Submit your favourite healthy recipe to win one of 3 x 12 month subscriptions to Australian Good Food Magazine" (SmartHealth promotion). You can view Nicola, Leanne and Lyn's winning entries on our new Healthy Recipe section.
2012 - Abigail Moss (WA) and Nyasha Chamunorwa (WA). "Take out your own policy with HIF and quote promo code ME2012 to win one of two $1,500 Flight Centre vouchers" (HIF dependents promotion)
2012 -Colin O'Neil (WA). "Take the SmartHealth Readership survey to win an Apple iPad2" (SmartHealth newsletter promotion)
2012 -Tania Mitchell (WA) "Join HIF online and quote offer code GIFTCARD to win a $500 Coles-Myer gift card" (new member promotion)
2012 -Nicholas Steiner (WA) "Join HIF and quote offer code DAP2012 to win a VIP weekend away in Margaret River" (new member promotion)
2012 -Dorothy Brodie (VIC) "Update your details online to win a $250 Coles-Myer voucher" (SmartHealth newsletter promotion)
2011 -Michael Frood (WA) "Take out HIF ancillary cover to go into the draw to win a surfing prize pack" (new member promotion)


text:
|Message view
|« Date » · « Thread »
|« Date » · « Thread »
|Brisbart Franck <Franck.Brisb...@kelkoo.net>
|Re: how to get all terms as search results (or "*" equivalent)
|Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:24:37 GMT
When you use wildcards like that, the parser builds 1 query for each term matching the wildcarded term. With this approach, it should have created n queries (ie n boolean clauses) where n is number of terms. The number of clauses for a BooleanQuery is limited to 1024 by default. You can change this value to a higher one, but it's not very great. For my own use, I created a 'AllQuery' which return all the non-deleted documents with a score of 1 This is also very useful to search queries like 'field1:not word' (the documents which doesn't contain 'word') I needed this class only for debugging purpose so I didn't work a lot on it and it'll be better to write it on your own to have something clean. Franck Polina Litvak wrote: > Since it is not allowed to use "*" or "?" symbols as the first character > of a search, I tried the following query as an alternative: > "Field_1: ([a* TO z*] OR [A* TO Z*] OR [0* TO 9*])" > but the QueryParser complains saying: > "org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery$TooManyClauses". > > Any idea why this approach does not work and how to get all terms in an > index when doing search ? > > > Thanks, > Polina > > > -- Franck Brisbart R&D http://www.kelkoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
|View raw message


text: So last weekend I set up shop at the 9th Annual Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, WV. Of course you know we had to create some new stuff! Everything that was leftover including a new Glow in the Dark shirt from MCA and a new print from Jeff Lamm is now available online. I have created a new category called Mothman. Check it out: http://monsterworship.com/store/catalog/index.php?cPath=29


text:
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
2011 New Mexico Library Association Annual Conference
On April 26th I'll head home (yeah!) for the 2011 New Mexico Library Association Annual Conference. It will be in Albuquerque. I'm doing a pre-conference workshop there on evaluating books with American Indian content, and a session the next day about books specific to Native peoples in New Mexico.
I'm looking forward to it, and to green chili at the Frontier Restaurant!
Posted by Debbie Reese at 6:45 AM
Labels: Conference
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
The unstoppable Samurai
A single samurai that fights to Protect his village.
protagonize tennis
His village in need, pilfered, raw, and damaged. He grips his sword with his hands and tightens such hold. A thousand thoughts whirl through his mind. "What will happen to my wife, kids, friends, rivals, master, and my apprentice if i fall here?" He expels these thoughts as he focuses on the massive army before him. He starts to walk towards the collective foe with the grim fate amid its bowels. His walk turns into a run and then into a sprint. His yell can be heard over the clatter of the villagers setting up there defence. The villagers stop what ever they are doing and solute there hero in there hearts and on there bodies.
The hero ends his sprint with a jump. His jump soars above the spears and he lands behind the pikemen. His sword does not even give the foes a moment to turn around and there blood is the first to taint the pure snow. "Come at me you shameless heffers!" He yells. The force of steel swarmed over the samurai. He twirls his blade over and again slicing and shredding foes around and before. Nothing can stop him. The village horn alerts the Samurai that the defence has been completed. He smiles knowing that he finished his job.
This is the storie of his life.
This is the storie of his fight.


text:
|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|PCT number
|Publication date
|Feb 14, 2012
|Filing date
|Aug 1, 2006
|Priority date
|Aug 2, 2005
|Fee status
|Also published as
|Publication number
|Martin G. Selbrede, Rick Zemen
|Original Assignee
|Rambus Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (20), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (4), Classifications (40), Legal Events (10)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates in general to the field of display technologies in general, and more particularly to displays that utilize the principle of field sequential color to generate color information, whether in a projection-based system or a direct-view system.
Display systems (whether projection-based or direct-view) that use field sequential color techniques to generate color are known to exhibit highly undesirable visual artifacts easily perceived by the observer under certain circumstances. Field sequential color displays emit (for example) the red, green, and blue components of an image sequentially, rather than simultaneously, tied to a rapid refresh cycling time. If the frame rate is sufficiently high, and the observer's eyes are not moving relative to the screen (due to target tracking or other head/eye movement), the results are satisfactory and indistinguishable from video output generated by more conventional techniques (viz., that segregate colors spatially using red, green, and blue sub-pixels, rather than temporally as is done with field sequential color techniques).
However, in many display applications the observer's eye does partake of motion relative to the display screen (rotational motions of the eye in its socket, saccadic motions, translational head motions, etc.), such motions usually being correlated with target tracking (following an image on the display as it moves across the display surface). In the case of such image tracking, which involves oculomotor-driven rotation of the eye in its socket as the observer follows an object moving on the display screen, the object's component primary colors (red, green, and blue, for example) arrive at the observer's retina at different times. Even at a high frame rate of 60 frames per second, the red, green, and blue information from the display arrives at the retina 5.5 milliseconds apart. If the retina is in rotational motion, as would be the case if the observer were tracking an image (hereafter "target") that was moving across the display, the red, green, and blue information comprising the target would hit the retina at different places. A target that is gray in actual color will split into its separate red, green, and blue components distributed in overlap fashion along the path of retinal rotation. The faster the eye moves, the more severe the "image breakup," the decomposition of the individual colors comprising the target due to where those primary components strike the observer's retina. These visual artifacts have proven to be a barrier to the adoption of field sequential color displays in many critical applications, including video systems for training fighter pilots using flight simulation. A trainee in such a flight simulator needs to encounter an environment that matches reality closely, and a discontinuous smear of red, green, and blue ghost images that are not overlapped properly do not constitute an acceptably simulated target when the trainee is expecting to see the grey winged fuselage of an enemy fighter plane in the crosshairs.
The display system disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,319,491, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety herein, as representative of a larger class of direct view field sequential color-based devices, illustrates the fundamental principles at play within such devices. Such a device is able to selectively frustrate the light undergoing total internal reflection within a (generally) planar waveguide. When such frustration occurs, the region of frustration constitutes a pixel suited to external control. Such pixels can be configured as a MEMS device, and more specifically as a parallel plate capacitor system that propels a deformable membrane between two different positions and/or shapes, one corresponding to a quiescent, inactive state where frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) does not occur due to inadequate proximity of the membrane to the waveguide, and an active, coupled state where FTIR does occur due to adequate proximity, said two states corresponding to an off and on state for the pixel. A rectangular array of such MEMS-based pixel regions, which are often controlled by electrical/electronic means, is fabricated upon the top active surface of the planar waveguide. This aggregate MEMS-based structure, when suitably configured, functions as a video display capable of color generation by exploiting field sequential color and pulse width modulation techniques. Red, green, and blue light are sequentially inserted into the edge of the planar waveguide, and the pixels are opened or closed (activated or deactivated) appropriately, such that the duration of a pixel's being opened (activated) determines how much light is emitted from it, gray scale being determined by pulse width modulation.
Other direct view displays may use field sequential color techniques, but substitute amplitude modulation for pulse width modulation. For example, a monochromatic liquid crystal display with suitably fast switching times can be turned into a field sequential color display by replacing the white back light with a back light that can sequentially emit red, green, and blue light in sufficiently rapid succession. Liquid crystal pixels are variable opacity windows that modulate the amount of light passing through them by amplitude modulation rather than pulse width modulation. Undesirable visual artifacts arise for these systems as well, and for the same reason: the respective primary components of the image (target) fall on a moving retina at different places, causing the apparent breakup of the target as perceived.
Projection-based systems can also use field sequential color. The DLP (digital light processor) developed by Texas Instruments, Inc., employs a dense array of deformable micro-mirror structures that are used to create an image when red, green, and blue lights are directed onto them in rapid consecutive sequence. Light from activated micromirror pixels passes through a lens system and is focused on the final projection screen for viewing, while light striking inactive pixels are not sent through the lens system. Such systems tend to use pulse width modulation to generate gray scale. The red, green, and blue light being directed onto the micromirror array can be created either directly (with discrete red, green, and blue sources) or as the result of white light passing through a rotating color wheel composed of red, green, and blue filter segments. In either case, the undesirable artifacts are clearly visible on the image projected onto the display screen, for the same reason they appear in a direct view device: the respective red, green, and blue images do not fall on the moving retina at the same place, causing spatial decomposition and the resulting color breakup artifact.
Field sequential color displays bring many advantages to the display sector, whether one considers direct view displays (such as flat panel display systems) or projection-based systems. For example, in a flat panel display that uses conventional spatially-modulated color with red, green, and blue sub-pixels comprising an individual pixel, three control elements (usually thin film transistors) are required to separately control the red, green, and blue intensities from the pixel. A display with one million pixels would require three million transistors to drive it in color. The corresponding display using temporally-modulated color (field sequential color) needs only one thin film transistor per pixel, reducing the amount of transistors distributed over the display surface from three million to one million—an improvement that has significant implications for yield and production cost. Moreover, a field sequential color pixel can be much larger, since it fits in the area that would normally be occupied by three sub-pixels (red, green and blue), further improving production yield and reducing aperture drain (surface area on a display not given over to light emission). Conversely, this geometric advantage can be exploited to improve pixel densities without the heavy control overhead associated with standard sub-pixel-based architectures, yielding superior resolutions without exponential price increases. Accordingly, field sequential color displays have much to recommend them. But their utility in applications where color image breakup is unacceptable is sharply curtailed.
Therefore, there is a need in the art for a means to mitigate and suppress the color image breakup artifacts traditionally associated with displays that employ the principle of field sequential color generation, whether in a direct view or a projection-based system. A display device that enjoys the benefits of field sequential color operation without generating unacceptable motion artifacts would bring the benefits of field sequential architectures (direct view and projection-based) to bear on applications where those benefits are most needed, e.g., critical flight simulation display systems.
The problems outlined above may at least in part be solved in one of several ways, depending on the inherent nature of the field sequential color display system in question (whether it is a direct view device or a projection-based device) and its gray scale generation methodology (pulse width modulation or amplitude modulation at the pixel level). Further distinctions may arise for a given system (e.g., a projection-based system may use discrete, individually controllable illumination sources to provide primary color light to the projection system, or may exploit a rotating color wheel through which white light is passed, the respective color filters on the wheel providing the desired primary colors to be modulated and then projected).
One artifact suppression technique that appears to dominate the existing art involves fabricating a feedback mechanism by which the head and/or eyes of the observer are positionally tracked, and compensatory adjustments to the sequentially displayed primary colors (usually red, green, and blue) are made so that the subcomponents of the color image all fall on the identical region of the retina. Such a system is clearly not self-contained, and is limited by the accuracy of head/eye tracking technology and the ability for computer software to properly predict where the next primary subframe should be displayed on a moving target (the observer's retinas). A self-contained system, where no extraneous hardware or tracking mechanisms are necessary, would be far more valuable and easier to realize. The present invention provides exactly such a self-contained system, where artifact suppression is realized in the display system itself.
The retina of the human eye does not actually provide infinitesimally continuous imaging (despite subjective perceptions to the contrary). The eye itself has finite resolving power limited by the area occupied by any one of its multitude of highly-tuned light receptors (the cones and rods of the retina). If a color image is decomposed into its primary components (e.g., red, green, and blue subframes) that are sequentially displayed, and these image components fall on the same location of the retina (within the limit of the size of a rod or cone), the subframes will be perceived to properly overlap and no color image breakup will be perceived. The resulting image will be unitary. Given the inherent limitations of oculomotor rotation of the eye even during saccadic motion (an upper limit of 700 degrees of arc per second), and the approximate size of retinal rods and cones, it is possible to determine how long the window of opportunity actually is to display primary colors and have them satisfy the temporal criterion set forth above. Truncation of primary propagation entails a minimal duration for all primaries of 4 milliseconds for any given frame (followed by no image information at all until the next frame begins), and a preferred duration for all primaries of as short as one millisecond.
In the case of a 60 frame per second system using red, green, and blue primaries, a conventional display system would divide a frame into three equal parts, one apportioned to each primary color. In such an instance, a frame lasts 16.6 milliseconds, and each primary color occupies a third of this total frame, or 5.5 milliseconds. But the present invention teaches the global modification of this strategy. For example, to achieve time truncation of 3 milliseconds for all color information, the red, green, and blue primaries would each bear duration of only 1 millisecond (not 5.5). They would fall one after the other without interposed delays, and then be followed by 13.6 milliseconds of black (no imaging data), thus totaling 16.6 milliseconds. In this way, the red, green, and blue information comprising the image arrives at the retina in the same location, despite any rotation of the retina to track or follow objects being displayed in the program video content being displayed.
In the example provided, it is insufficient to merely truncate the signals from 5.5 milliseconds per primary to 1 millisecond (assuming a 3 millisecond total truncation). By reducing the time by a factor of 5.5 (from 5.5 milliseconds to 1 millisecond), the perceived intensity of light falling on the retina has been reduced by the same amount. It is therefore needful to increase the intensity of the light source being modulated to compensate for the shortened time available to generate an image. In the example provided, this would require an increase in light intensity of 5.5 times base intensity so that the average amount of photons received during the frame is unchanged whether the present invention is invoked in a display system or not. This energy need only be dissipated during the 3 milliseconds it is needed, so that average energy consumption is equivalent under either scenario (with or without the present invention implemented).
The implementation of the present invention therefore has several prerequisites. The individual pixels that modulate the light are capable of generating gray scale accurately despite having a significantly shorter time in which to operate. The light sources are capable of more rapid cycling, followed by a long quiescent period between consecutive frames, and they are capable of reliably delivering much higher intensity lights, albeit in a shortened duty cycle marked by extended periods between frames where no light is required.
The foregoing principles have a straightforward implementation path for direct view displays, whether they use amplitude modulated or pulse width modulated gray scale generation. For projection-based display systems that utilize discrete light sources for the respective primaries, this adaptation is equally transparent. However, projection-based systems that use rotating color wheels to acquire primary colors by filtering a white illumination source require a different strategy for implementation of the present invention. The foundational principles are nonetheless analogous.
A conventional color wheel usually divides its area into equal segments apportioned to each desired primary color. The most common configuration is a color wheel comprised of red, green, and blue filters. Each color filter takes up 120 degrees of arc (the circle of the color wheel divided into three even segments). As the color wheel spins, it provides red, green, and blue light in rapid sequential succession. Images produced using such a wheel is subject to color image breakup as documented earlier. The color wheel is modified to implement the present invention.
In a modified color wheel using the example above, the red, green, and blue segments no longer proscribe equal segments of 120 degrees each, but a much smaller "slice" of the wheel. Three thinner slices (e.g., at 24 degrees each), one for red, one for green, and one for blue, are placed in close proximity, while the remainder of the color wheel (108 degrees) is made opaque. The white illumination source is intensity corrected (in this case, since the available illumination time is reduced by a factor of five, the intensity of the illumination source is increased by the same factor). The illumination source should preferably shut down to conserve energy when it would otherwise be directing light uselessly at the opaque part of the modified color wheel during its uniform rotation.
Additional refinements to the base invention can be implemented. It has been assumed that the truncated primary are synchronously distributed (the leading edge of each consecutive primary is equally spaced apart in time). In the example given above for a 3 millisecond total color pulse composed of consecutive red, green, and blue primaries, we may find red starting at t=0 (leading of global frame), green starting at t=1 millisecond (right after red has shut down), and blue starting at t=2 milliseconds (right after green has shut down), followed by 13.6 seconds of quiescence (black) before the next global frame begins (assuming a rate of 60 frames per second). However, such rigid structuring of start times might only be necessary when program content requires it, and a mechanism to make such a determination allows the present invention to further effect temporal truncation of image generation.
The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of one or more embodiments of the present invention in order that the detailed description of embodiments of the present invention that follows may be better understood. Additional features and advantages of embodiments of the present invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims.
A better understanding of the present invention can be obtained when the following detailed description is considered in conjunction with the following drawings, in which:
In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without such specific details. In other instances, components have been shown in generalized form in order not to obscure the present invention in unnecessary detail. For the most part, details concerning considerations of how a given display using field sequential color generation techniques actually creates and displays images on its surface have been omitted inasmuch as such details are not necessary to obtain a complete understanding of the present invention and, while within the skills of persons of ordinary skill in the relevant art, are not directly relevant to the utility and value provided by the present invention.
The principles of operation to be disclosed immediately below assume the desirability of removing field sequential color artifacts in displays that temporally segregate the primary color components of a given image and present each frame of video information by rapid consecutive generation of each primary component. Such artifacts are understood to arise when the primary components making up a composite frame of video information do not all reach the same region of the observer's retina due to relative motion of the retina and the displayed image (or part of an image, viz., a putative target being displayed).
Among the technologies (flat panel display or other candidate technologies that exploit the principle of field sequential color generation) that lend themselves to implementation of the present invention is the flat panel display disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,319,491, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The use of a representative flat panel display example throughout this detailed description shall not be construed to limit the applicability of the present invention to that field of use, but is intended for illustrative purposes as touching the matter of deployment of the present invention. Furthermore, the use of the three tristimulus primary colors (red, green, and blue) throughout the remainder of this detailed description is likewise intended for illustrative purposes, and shall not be construed to limit the applicability of the present invention to these primary colors solely, whether as to their number or color or other attribute.
Such a representative flat panel display may comprise a matrix of optical shutters commonly referred to as pixels or picture elements as illustrated in
Each pixel 302, as illustrated in
Pixel 302 may further include a transparent element shown for convenience of description as disk 405 (but not limited to a disk shape), disposed on the top surface of electrode 404, and formed of high-refractive index material, preferably the same material as comprises light guidance substrate 401.
In this particular embodiment, it is necessary that the distance between light guidance substrate 401 and disk 405 be controlled very accurately. In particular, it has been found that in the quiescent state, the distance between light guidance substrate 401 and disk 405 should be approximately 1.5 times the wavelength of the guided light, but in any event this distance is greater than one wavelength. Thus the relative thicknesses of ground plane 402, deformable elastomer layer 403, and electrode 404 are adjusted accordingly. In the active state, disk 405 is pulled by capacitative action, as discussed below, to a distance of less than one wavelength from the top surface of light guidance substrate 401.
In operation, pixel 302 exploits an evanescent coupling effect, whereby TIR (Total Internal Reflection) is violated at pixel 302 by modifying the geometry of deformable elastomer layer 403 such that, under the capacitative attraction effect, a concavity 406 results (which can be seen in
The distance between electrode 404 and ground plane 402 may be extremely small, e.g., 1 micrometer, and occupied by deformable layer 403 such as a thin deposition of room temperature vulcanizing silicone. While the voltage is small, the electric field between the parallel plates of the capacitor (in effect, electrode 404 and ground plane 402 form a parallel plate capacitor) is high enough to impose a deforming force on the vulcanizing silicone thereby deforming elastomer layer 403 as illustrated in
The electric field between the parallel plates of the capacitor may be controlled by the charging and discharging of the capacitor which effectively causes the attraction between electrode 404 and ground plane 402. By charging the capacitor, the strength of the electrostatic forces between the plates increases thereby deforming elastomer layer 403 to couple light out of the substrate 401 through electrode 404 and disk 405 as illustrated in
The display used to illustrate conventional, unadjusted implementation of field sequential color generation techniques operates according to the representative pattern disclosed in
As stated in the Background Information section, certain field sequential color displays, such as the one in
The device of
A further embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in
By the same token, real time analysis of a given video frame may exhibit the potential to overlap the next pair of primary colors (902 and 903). In the example provided, green and blue can be simultaneously emitted to form cyan. The mechanism then determines cyan content for the video frame and re-encodes the frame to accommodate the presence of cyan to be either pulse-width or amplitude modulated to create cyan gray scale. In any case, the resulting image after data acquisition and re-encoding is to be no different in color than achieved in
The other embodiment of the present invention provides a method for mitigating image breakup in displays where a color wheel filter is used to create a plurality of primary colors from a white light source.
The rotating color wheel is used to create a consistently timed cycle of light emissions, such that for each frame, a plurality of primary colors are made available, each at a different time within the cycle. Gray scaling of each component color is accomplished, as is known to one schooled in the art, by a means of pulse width modulation.
An example of prior art of such a color wheel filter is shown in
The present invention provides for a solution to eliminate said artifacts, wherein the duration of the light emission for a given cycle is abbreviated and a portion of the cycle becomes a dark phase, i.e. has no light emission. This embodiment provides a color wheel filter that is comprised of a plurality of primary colors, but that also includes an element that creates a significant span of dark time within the cycle, during which no light is emitted. The size of this opaque portion of the wheel shall be chosen advantageously to accommodate the timing and associated properties of the components and system that drive light emission from each pixel. In particular, a critical driver for the size of the opaque region will be the available white light intensity—the decrease in emission time created by the smaller color portion of the color wheel may be a component of the present invention, but it naturally carries with it the need for a correspondingly greater intensity of the light source so that the aggregate light energy delivered to the retina, over that shorter time, is equivalent to that which would have been delivered by the prior art color wheel 1000 over a longer emission time. In fact, the area ratio of opaque to colored on the color wheel 1004 will generally be proportional to the factor by which the present invention's white light intensity is greater than the prior art's white light intensity.
The remaining emissive portion of said color wheel is evenly divided among the primary colors so as to deliver each color for an equal time span per cycle, but the sum of said component time spans is significantly shorter than the full cycle.
An embodiment of the present invention of a color wheel filter where three colors are compressed into a small angular portion of the total area of the color wheel is illustrated in
The light output from the two aforementioned color wheel filters, shown in
Table 1100 and diagram 1101 show light output delivered by the wheel 1000 over two full cycles. Thus the repetitive aspect of the process is shown, and an important distinction is illustrated, namely that from the start of each cycle, the separation in time of the start of the first color to the start of the subsequent two colors is, respectively, one third, and two thirds, of the cycle's total duration. In numerical terms, said separation in time is 5⅔ milliseconds (ms) from red to green, and 11⅓ ms from red to blue. Therefore, even if the system were run with a higher maximum intensity and the duration reduced for each color's emission within a cycle, thereby realizing the same overall light output in a shorter time, the fundamental nature of this color wheel's design determines the aforementioned separation time between each color's start. Since this separation time is determined by the geometry 1000 shown, said separation may not be reduced, and the associated artifact resulting from said separation is likely to be present.
Two details of note, first the cycle time inferred by the times used to make up each cycle in this and the following diagrams corresponds to 60 Hz, as is common in the United States, wherein the cycle duration is 16⅔ milliseconds (ms). Similarly, a transition time both for OFF to ON, and for ON to OFF, for each light emission is inferred in the table and likewise in the associated graph, both for this and the following diagrams. As long as said transition time is not longer than a given color's intended emission time within a cycle, it is not material. As will become apparent in the next figures, the comparative duration of each color's emission time will be much shorter in the present invention than in the aforementioned previous art, but, as those schooled in the art will appreciate, said duration will not be so short as to make reasonably attainable transition times a hindrance in achieving the benefits of the present invention.
It is the object of this invention to advantageously shorten the emissive phase of the cycle, and to create a subsequent dark phase (T.dark.) 1202 wherein no light is emitted. Said dark phase arises as a result of the opaque portion of the color wheel 1005, from
A further embodiment of the present invention is comprised of the application of a color wheel filter similar to that found in prior art, as
The unique construction and operation of these commonly available components, that accomplishes the benefits of the present invention, involves interrupting the light flow for all color wheel rotations after the first in a given frame, then removing the interruption to the light path at the start of the next frame, again for exactly one rotation of the color wheel. As this process is repeated, the output from said system makes available a plurality of primary colors, delivered in sequence at the beginning of a frame and lasting only a fraction of the frame's duration, as illustrated in graph 1200 in
|Cited Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Sep 21, 1987
|Jun 16, 1992
|Thorn Emi Plc
|Display device incorporating brightness control and a method of operating such a display
|Sep 4, 1997
|Dec 7, 1999
|The University Of British Columbia
|Method and apparatus for controllable frustration of total internal reflection
|Jan 31, 1995
|Feb 19, 2002
|Lawson A. Wood
|Display apparatus with digital micromirror device
|Nov 5, 1999
|May 21, 2002
|Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
|Display apparatus having a full-color display
|Apr 21, 1998
|Mar 18, 2003
|Lawson A. Wood
|Method for using a spatial light modulator
|Jan 6, 2006
|Jul 13, 2010
|Pixtronix, Incorporated
|Display methods and apparatus
|Oct 4, 2007
|Apr 19, 2011
|Pixtronix, Inc.
|Methods and apparatus for spatial light modulation
|Mar 29, 2001
|Nov 22, 2001
|Hideki Yoshinaga
|Liquid crystal display apparatus and driving method for the liquid crystal display apparatus
|Sep 25, 2001
|Mar 28, 2002
|California Institute Of Technology
|Devices based on surface plasmon interference filters
|Nov 16, 2001
|Aug 1, 2002
|Mcknight Douglas
|Display system having electrode modulation to alter a state of an electro-optic layer
|Dec 24, 2003
|Dec 9, 2004
|Fujitsu Limited
|Display device and display method
|May 12, 2003
|Mar 10, 2005
|Handschy Mark A.
|Active matrix liquid crystal image generator
|Dec 15, 2005
|Jul 6, 2006
|Nec Corporation
|Liquid crystal display apparatus, driving method for same, and driving circuit for same
|Jun 29, 2005
|Jan 4, 2007
|Nano Loa, Inc.
|Liquid crystal display device
|Dec 5, 2005
|Feb 15, 2007
|Digital Display Innovations, Llc
|Field sequential light source modulation for a digital display system
|Jan 16, 2007
|Sep 20, 2007
|Handschy Mark A
|Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Image Generator
|Oct 19, 2007
|Feb 14, 2008
|Pixtronix, Inc.
|Alignment methods in fluid-filled MEMS displays
|Oct 30, 2007
|Mar 13, 2008
|Pixtronix, Inc.
|Methods and apparatus for spatial light modulation
|Oct 25, 2005
|Apr 24, 2008
|Barco N.V.
|Backlight Modulation For Display
|May 6, 2003
|Nov 13, 2003
|Uni-Pixel Displays, Inc.
|Field sequential color efficiency
|European Search Report for Application No. 06789020.2 mailed Jul. 27, 2009, 12 pages.
|Examination Report Issued for EP Application No. 06789020.2, dated Feb. 23, 2011, 5 pages (enclosed).
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|May 24, 2007
|May 22, 2012
|Thomson Licensing
|Methods for sequential color display by modulation of pulses
|Mar 13, 2006
|Feb 19, 2013
|Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
|Color display apparatus and method therefor
|Mar 13, 2006
|Dec 21, 2006
|Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
|Color reproduction apparatus having plural color reproduction ranges and a color signal-processing method therefor
|May 24, 2007
|Feb 4, 2010
|Thomson Licensing
|Methods for Sequential Color Display by Modulation of Pulses
|U.S. Classification
|345/589, 345/48, 349/106, 349/25, 382/211, 348/500, 358/512, 382/274, 345/213, 358/518, 348/759, 345/690, 345/77, 348/742, 358/509, 382/167, 348/269, 382/162
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Oct 20, 2008
Owner name: UNI-PIXEL DISPLAYS, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:SELBREDE, MARTIN G.;ZEMEN, RICK;REEL/FRAME:021708/0597;SIGNING DATES FROM 20080124 TO 20080415
Owner name: UNI-PIXEL DISPLAYS, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:SELBREDE, MARTIN G.;ZEMEN, RICK;SIGNING DATES FROM 20080124 TO 20080415;REEL/FRAME:021708/0597
|Mar 30, 2009
Owner name: UNIPIXEL DISPLAYS, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: RELEASE BY SECURED PARTY;ASSIGNORS:TRIDENT GROWTH FUND, L.P.;CAPSOURCE FUND, L.P.;REEL/FRAME:022460/0738;SIGNING DATES FROM 20090317 TO 20090323
Owner name: UNIPIXEL, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: RELEASE BY SECURED PARTY;ASSIGNORS:TRIDENT GROWTH FUND, L.P.;CAPSOURCE FUND, L.P.;REEL/FRAME:022460/0738;SIGNING DATES FROM 20090317 TO 20090323
Owner name: UNIPIXEL DISPLAYS, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: RELEASE BY SECURED PARTY;ASSIGNORS:TRIDENT GROWTH FUND, L.P.;CAPSOURCE FUND, L.P.;SIGNING DATES FROM 20090317 TO 20090323;REEL/FRAME:022460/0738
Owner name: UNIPIXEL, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: RELEASE BY SECURED PARTY;ASSIGNORS:TRIDENT GROWTH FUND, L.P.;CAPSOURCE FUND, L.P.;SIGNING DATES FROM 20090317 TO 20090323;REEL/FRAME:022460/0738
|Mar 19, 2010
Owner name: MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC.,CALIFORN
Free format text: SECURITY AGREEMENT;ASSIGNORS:UNI-PIXEL, INC.;UNI-PIXEL DISPLAYS, INC.;REEL/FRAME:024103/0561
Effective date: 20100315
Owner name: MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC., CALIFOR
Free format text: SECURITY AGREEMENT;ASSIGNORS:UNI-PIXEL, INC.;UNI-PIXEL DISPLAYS, INC.;REEL/FRAME:024103/0561
Effective date: 20100315
|Jul 14, 2010
Owner name: RAMBUS INTERNATIONAL LTD., CAYMAN ISLANDS
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:UNI-PIXEL, INC.;UNI-PIXEL DISPLAYS, INC.;REEL/FRAME:024685/0928
Effective date: 20100526
|Oct 15, 2010
Owner name: RAMBUS INC., CALIFORNIA
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:RAMBUS INTERNATIONAL LTD.;REEL/FRAME:025137/0606
Effective date: 20101001
|Oct 29, 2010
Owner name: UNI-PIXEL, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: RELEASE OF SECURED PARTY;ASSIGNOR:MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC.;REEL/FRAME:025238/0170
Effective date: 20100526
Owner name: UNI-PIXEL DISPLAYS, INC., TEXAS
Free format text: RELEASE OF SECURED PARTY;ASSIGNOR:MERRILL LYNCH PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC.;REEL/FRAME:025238/0170
Effective date: 20100526
|Mar 11, 2013
Owner name: RAMBUS DELAWARE, OHIO
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:RAMBUS INC.;REEL/FRAME:029967/0165
Effective date: 20121001
Owner name: RAMBUS INC., CALIFORNIA
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNOR:RAMBUS INTERNATIONAL LTD.;REEL/FRAME:029960/0421
Effective date: 20101001
|Sep 25, 2015
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Feb 14, 2016
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Apr 5, 2016
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 20160214


text: Thanks to Nvidia and AMD we have a pretty constant flow of new graphics cards to ponder on, but when no hardware is released then the attention turns to software, more specifically drivers which bring more features, capabilities and performance improvements to sweeten up the cards already on sale. It is on this note that we welcome back the driver testing team of the Techconnect EE Labs who's once again ready to check the latest drivers for those craved performance increases. This past summer saw to the introduction of the 260 series of drivers from Nvidia and those are the focus of this first driver comparison. On one side we have the last pre-260 release, the WHQL-certified GeForce 258.96 , while on the other there's the GeForce 260.63 beta , the GeForce 260.89 , and the latest release, the GeForce 260.99 WHQL . During testing we used the 260.89 beta but this shouldn't be different to the WHQL version. That pretty much it for the drivers lined up for the race, the benchmarking system is listed below while each game/application ran for the comparison is detailed on the appropriate page. Every result in the following pages is the average of three runs so as to counter any anomaly. Test system - Motherboard: X48C Platinum - CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (@ 3.0 GHz) - Memory: 4GB DDR2 - Graphics card: Gainward GeForce GTX 460 Golden Sample Goes Like Hell (800/1600/4000 MHz GPU/shaders/memory) - Storage: 2 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (oneWD1001FALS and one WD1002FAEX) - PSU: FSP Epsilon 600W - Audio: onboard - OS: Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit Alright, the stage (or is it ring?) is set, round one is coming up and it's a classic - 3DMark06. Introduction3DMark063DMark VantageHeaven BenchmarkAliens vs PredatorLost Planet 2 BenchmarkJust Cause 2Dirt 2Mafia 2Metro 2033ConclusionRef: From zero to 260 in nine tests - GeForce tales | TechConnect Magazine


text:
Tag Archives: Detox
Holiday Detox Survival Kit, Part 1
The holidays make us prone to over-indulgence. I could go further, but I think that sentence more or less sums it up. Both recipes described below serve as prime examples of the "holiday detox" staples I swear by: oil free, starch-free vegetable stew and of course, green smoothies. More recipes ensue.


text:
Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group says it needs to have a look-and-feel similar to YouTube, in terms of content acquisition and presentation. » Read More
By: Leslie Shaffer
Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs says Montana GOP congressional candidate Greg Gianforte "body slammed" him during a taped interview. » Read More
Facebook's upcoming video service will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks, sources said. » Read More
By: Chantel McGee
Calacanis says the move is less about selling books and more about building out the company's online retail ecosystem. » Read More
It's part of a push by groups, including the U.S. Chamber, to relax the FCC's robocalling rules. Recode Reports.
Chief executive Evan Spiegel "refused to accept" that there was a growth problem, The Information reported.
GIF platform Tenor pulled data on romance-related GIF searches on its platform, and found certain terms spiked each day of the week.
Wearables that measure calories are far from accurate.
Google's hope is that offline purchase data will confirm that the ads you see online do, in fact, influence what you buy in real life. ExtremeTech Reports.
Opendoor also has become a model for a new kind of tech upstart: Call it the fat start-up. The New York Times reports.
Williams said this is her first corporate board seat, and wants to move to new arenas that suit her recent business efforts in fashion. Recode reports.
T-Mobile says it will pay the remaining balance of a Verizon Wireless phone if a customer switches.
To deliver Google Fiber in Huntsville, Alabama, Alphabet is doing something unconventional: leasing part of the city's fiber network.
"I've heard of a lot of (Silicon Valley) firms looking for PhDs and MDs," one investor said.
Woodman said both business and product demand are solid and that the company will be profitable this year.
When the world's fourth-richest person is complimented by the third-richest, he feels the need to return the favor.
Here's what the protesters were up to at Amazon's shareholders meeting
If you're confused about Microsoft's Surface family of products, we'll break it down so you understand the differences between each computer.
Not every trophy campus is a monument to a company's success. In fact, it can have just the opposite effect, reflecting a sour turn in fortunes.
Ariana Grande has also shared a brief message with her followers on Twitter, after the fatal attack Monday evening at her concert.
Get the best of CNBC in your inbox


text:
Download document:
Corporate internal investigations: best practices, pitfalls to avoid - .PDF file.
Corporations are being scrutinised today as never before. Public and private companies alike are examined and investigated not only by the US government, but by increasing numbers of local, state, and foreign government agencies. Private plaintiffs are also filing more and more cases with significant allegations that attempt to call a corporation's conduct into question. Frequently, corporate scrutiny focuses on compliance issues: that is, whether companies comply with the legal obligations to run the business ethically around the world. Corporations are clearly facing significant challenges.
Click on the link above to download this Jones Day briefing.


text:
$ 24.97 $ 29.12 Not Available
- Condition:
- New
- Item No.
- 648764
- Mfg Part No.
Product Information for HP 6-Slot DDS Magazine
Highlights for HP 6-Slot DDS Magazine
- Product Type:Slot Magazine
Marketing Information
DDS data cartridges are perfect for IT managers of mid-range servers using HP StorageWorks DAT drives or other manufacturers' DDS drives. Ideally suited for backup operations, they provide ease of use, reliability and value for money.
General Information
CompatibilityTrade-Ready DDS-3 Mechanism DDS-3 Autoloader
Physical Characteristics
Technical Information


text:
Germany's Surprising Strength
Is there something in the Wasser? Even as the debt crisis ravages euro-zone economies and drives unemployment above 20% in Greece and Spain, the bloc's largest economy has rarely looked so strong.
German economic expectations surged in February for a third straight month, hitting a 10-month high, research institute ZEW said Tuesday. Experts see a very low likelihood of a German first-quarter contraction amid stronger U.S. data and progress in Greece's debt talks, the institute said.
That is only the latest sign of Germany's surprising economic rebound. Two years into the debt crisis, German unemployment is at a record low level and falling, while corporate earnings are near-record highs. Germany's widely watched Ifo index has increased three months in a row as of January. The benchmark DAX index is up more than 14% this year, outperforming the S&P 500, FTSE 100 and Euro STOXX50 by a wide margin.
[Read more over the jump]


text:
I was trawling through my 'Read It Later' folder again (as you do), when I remembered a most delightful collection of hilarious videogame parodies that I now wish to share with you all.
The first two videos courtesy of French prankster Remi Gallard, who thought it'd be a fun idea to play Pac-Man IN REAL LIFE: OM NOM NOM NOM.
And then Mario Kart IN REAL LIFE: Hit the jump to watch Remi get carried away.
A very 'electronic' version of "Bohemian Rhapsody": Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
And Sony Pictures may as well forget about that Shadow of the Colossus movie - Mega64 already beat them to the punch: Got yer Colossus movie riiight 'ere...