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|Henry M. D'Souza, Gokalp Bayramoglu
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to color management in computer monitors and, in particular but not by way of limitation, to systems and methods for correcting color displayed on computer monitors and to systems for displaying those corrected colors.
2. Background and Related Art
In computer systems, the digital representation of color is in terms of variable mixes of three basic colors: red, green and blue (RGB). The human visual system predictably perceives the close juxtaposition of these three basic colors as one resultant color. This illusion is the basis for color image processing. That is, it possible to manipulate the intensity mix of the three basic constituent colors (red, green, and blue) to cause a viewer to perceive various desired color shades. In fact, a whole range of colors may be perceived in this manner.
In present computer graphics systems, red, green, and blue colors are mixed by a graphics controller that usually handles the intensity control of each basic color using a 6-8 bit control—referred to as an intensity value. Generally, the working range of intensity values are from 0 to 255—0 meaning that the corresponding basic color is completely dark (at 0%) and 225 meaning that the corresponding basic color is at maximum intensity (at 100%). Intensity values between 0 and 255 produce corresponding, but not necessarily, proportional changes in actual displayed brightness for the corresponding color and, thus, corresponding changes in resulting perceived color.
For a high fidelity color system, the monitor must predictably display the correct shade of color that is represented by any mix of red, green and blue. However, a monitor can only display the correct shade of color if the intensities of each color component can be precisely controlled. Present display systems generally lack such precise control and, accordingly, display inaccurate colors. That is, because most computer systems cannot precisely control color intensities, a particular mix of colors may be viewed on one monitor, for example, as blue and on another monitor as blue-green.
In most cases, the variances in basic color points from one monitor to the next are only slight. However, even these small variances can result in a viewer perceiving different colors. The need for each monitor to display the same color is becoming more critical with the growth of web-based commerce. For example, retailers need to provide electronic shoppers with accurate depictions of their products. In particular, clothing retailers need to provide electronic shoppers with accurate colors, i.e., the "true-color", of their products. Unless the retailer can convey the actual color of their products to its customers, those customers likely may become disappointed because the product that they received is different from the product that they thought that they ordered.
Presently, sRGB monitors have the ability to precisely control intensities and, thus, the ability to display accurate colors. sRGB monitors are specially designed to utilize a standard non-linear color space that is reliably consistent across all sRGB monitors. sRGB monitors, however, are very difficult to manufacture and are prohibitively expensive. Accordingly, attempts have been made to adjust typical computer monitors to more accurately display colors. These attempts have generally been less than satisfactory because they require human intervention (thereby interjecting a subjective element to color determination).
Other attempts to correct color deficiencies have similarly proven less than accurate typically as a result of insufficient data. For example, measured monitor specific color response data may not be available and instead color data is only estimated across large batches of manufactured monitors. Likewise, flaws in the monitor specific output measurement itself can cause inaccuracies.
Even with reliable monitor specific data, color correction attempts have proven unsuccessful as a result of system speed requirements. The number and time of processing computations to obtain a corrected output have been prohibitive. For example, video data color filtering for personal computer systems has involved fetching color video data from video memory, performing several multiplication and addition operations on the color video data, and writing the modified color video data back to the video memory. This process has been quite time consuming due to the processing time required for multiplication operations, with each multiplication operation taking on the order of one hundred times that of one addition operation. Since processing time associated with video data color filtering determines how quickly video images are displayed to personal computer users, video data color filtering is even avoided altogether with certain personal computer systems. Other attempts have taken shortcuts through approximation of color values, for example, in order to save valuable computational processing cycles. These shortcuts, however, fail to account for monitor specific color differences and thus result in less than accurate color transformation.
Briefly, a color correction filtering system filters color video data by compensating for non-linearities and color characteristics specific to a color monitor. Color video data is received by the system, for example through a web browser, and in an accelerated manner passed through a pre-calculated gamut-shifting array. The color correction filtering system gamma decompensates incoming color video data referenced to a non-linear color space through use of a linearization filter. The gamut-shifting array may contain pre-calculated compensation values stored in a plurality of look-up tables. A non-linearization filter is applied to the gamut-shifted color video data to produce color video data compensated for non-linearities specific to the color monitor.
A better understanding of the present invention can be obtained when the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment is considered in conjunction with the following drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary color correction system;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a more detailed description of the color correction system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an exemplary matrix equation for a gamut-shifting matrix array associated with the multiplication look-up table of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a long-hand matrix equation version of the gamut-shifting matrix array of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a listing of exemplary tristimulus values at each stage through the color correction process of FIG. 2; and
FIG. 6 is a set of actual values according to an embodiment of the gamut-shifting matrix array of FIG. 3.
The following related patent applications are hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in their entirety:
U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/893,396, entitled "Hardware-Based Acceleration Color Correction Filtering System," filed concurrently;
U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/499,160, Entitled "METHOD FOR COLOR MANAGEMENT ON A DISPLAY DEVICE," by Henry M. D'Souza, William H. Nott, and Gokalp Bayramoglu, filed Feb. 7, 2000; and
U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/362,080, entitled "Method Apparatus For Computing Optimum Polynomial Coefficients To Represent The Input-Output Characteristics Of A Color Display Device," by Henry M. D'Souza, William H. Nott, and Gokalp Bayramoglu, filed Jul. 27, 1999.
The illustrative system described in this patent application generally provides techniques for accelerated color correction filtering. For purposes of explanation, specific embodiments are set forth by the understanding of the illustrative system. However, it will be understood by one skilled in the art, from reading this disclosure, that the techniques can be practiced without these details. Further, although the embodiments are described in terms of an RGB color scheme, it should be understood that this embodiment is illustrative and is not meant in any way to limit the practice of the disclosed system to an RGB color scheme. Also, the use of Internet images to illustrate how the system works is not intended to infer that the illustrative system requires Internet interface or communication. Rather, any of a variety of input sources may be employed in practicing the techniques described herein. Moreover, well-known elements, devices, process steps and the like, are not set forth in detail in order to avoid obscuring the disclosed system.
Referring to FIG. 1, a color correction system 100 is depicted. A web browser application 108 is stored within the computer system 102, such as a desktop personal computer. The web browser 108 receives images 106 through communication with the Internet 104. The computer system 102 contains video memory 112 which receives the color video data of images 106. A graphics controller 114 reads the information stored in the video memory 112 and communicates the image data to a non-linear color monitor 124. According to one embodiment, a color management module 120 is enabled to provide color correction data to the graphics controller 114 for the image data stored in video memory 112. The color correction operates to shift perceived color of the incoming color data to perceived color that is suitable for displaying the output color data on the monitor 124. One exemplary color correction or compensation method and apparatus is disclosed in the commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/499,160, entitled "Method For Color Management On A Display Device," incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The color management module 120 uses monitor specific color characteristics 128 and monitor specific input-output characteristics 130 to perform color correction for the monitor 124. These characteristics are calculated and stored in the custom monitor profile 122, as part of the operating system 118. Examples of a suitable operating system with color management support is Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows 2000. These operating systems provide Integrated Color Management (ICM) 2.0 APIs (application programming interfaces). The custom monitor profile 122 is auto-generated and registered into the operating system 118 for use by the color management module 120. The monitor specific input-output characteristics 130 stored in the custom monitor profile 122 are used in a number of gamma decompensating look-up tables (discussed in more detail with reference to FIG. 2) to compensate for non-linearities specific to the monitor 124. The monitor specific color characteristics (color point data) 128 stored in the custom monitor profile 122 are used in a number of color filter array look up tables to compensate for color characteristics specific to the monitor 124. In one embodiment, the color point data is expressed in terms of CIE 1931 chromaticity coordinates (each ordered pair represents a specific color stimulus) which define the color gamut of the monitor (i.e., the entire range of perceived color of the monitor).
With the color management module 120 enabled, the processor 116 and graphics controller 114 perform monitor specific color correction on images read from the video memory 112. The details of one exemplary color correction filtering process is more fully described below with reference to FIGS. 2-6. Color corrected data is output from the graphics controller 114 and the computer system 102 to the monitor 124. The monitor 124 then displays the real or true color image 126 which is color corrected according to the specific color characteristics and input-output characteristics of monitor 124. Thus, because the color correction system 100 performs the color correction based on color and input-output characteristics specific to the monitor 124 to which it is coupled, the output of the graphics controller 114 produces a real color image 126 that is consistent and uniform across all non-linear monitors regardless of make, model, or manufacturing inconsistencies causing non-linearities such as differing input-output characteristics. Furthermore, as discussed below, accelerated color correction is achieved through the use of pre-calculated color transform look-up tables. By replacing numerous processing intensive multiplication operations with less processing intensive look-up table operations, the disclosed color correction may be processed at the full rate of the graphics controller 114. In other words, the disclosed color correction system 100 accelerates the rate of color image display.
It is noted that this color correction system can be used for substantially any display device. Such display devices include, but are not limited to, color display devices, VGA (video graphics array) flat panel, liquid crystal display (LCD), reflective LCD and plasma display devices. Furthermore, although the present embodiment discusses images from the Internet, images from various other sources may also be color corrected by system 100. Other possible color image sources include peripheral input devices such as scanners, printers, cameras and photo-shop applications.
Turning to FIG. 2, shown is a more detailed representation of the operation of the graphics controller 114 of FIG. 1. Image data in the form of RGB values, representing the three constituent colors of red, green and blue, is input into a color filter 202. The color filter 202 receives the RGB input and outputs linearized RGB′ values. The color filter 202 decompensates for the non-linear RGB input which is based on a standard color image gamma function. The color filter 202 includes a set of linearization tables with each table corresponding to a constituent color. The RGB′ linearized values are then input into a gamut shifting array including a number of multiplication look-up tables (MLUTs) 204-220. Each MLUT is loaded with pre-calculated values that represent specific multiplication operations. In other words, each MLUT 204-220 replaces a specific, more time consuming multiplication processing operation.
The set of MLUTs 204-220, and more generally, the 3�3 gamut shifting array or matrix, function to transform the color point data from one color space, such as a standard color space, sRGB, for example, to a color space that is specific to the monitor 124. MLUTs will be discussed in more detail below with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4. The output values from each set of MLUTs 204-220 are then input into a corresponding set of hardware adder devices 222-226. The adders 222-226 sum each of the three MLUT output values to collectively obtain the RGB″ output. According to one embodiment, the addition operation is performed by the adders 222-226 when data is requested. Finally, the output of adder devices 222-226 are communicated to a set of non-linearization color look-up tables (CLUTs) 228-232 which perform a final transformation to compensate for monitor specific input/output characteristics, or non-linearities. More generally, other embodiments may utilize one linearization table, one non-linearization table, one adder and one pre-calculated gamut shifting array or a set of pre-calculated gamut shifting arrays per constituent color.
The MLUTs 204-220 represent a three-dimensional look-up table containing pre-calculated RGB component outputs for each of the 256 possible intensities of each primary color. The specific values pre-calculated and loaded into the MLUTs 204-220 are derived from an array representing the product of an array referenced to a standard color space (e.g., sRGB) and an array referenced to the specific color space of the connected monitor.
According to an embodiment, the derivation or these values is calculated according to a detailed multi-equation calculation. First, according to known techniques, input color data along with the maximum brightness for each corresponding color is converted to tri-stimulus data X, Y, Z. This data is then used in column format to make up a 3�3 matrix. This matrix is then inverted and pre-multiplied by a similar matrix made up of standard tristimulus values corresponding to a sRGB monitor. The table values 204-220 of FIG. 2 are then determined by multiplying the resultant filter matrix above into each [R 0 0], [0 G 0] and [0 0 B] possibility where R,G & B each have values from 0-255. In equation form:
where x and y are two dimensional input color CIE chromatically chart coordinates;
where 0.7 is the maximum voltage output of the graphics controller 114. The 0.7 value also represents the maximum input to a display device resulting in the brightest possible intensity for the color channel.
where nε{0 . . . 255}.
According to one embodiment, the MLUTs 204-220 can be implemented in hardware as illustrated in FIG. 2. The MLUTs 204-220 compensate for the color characteristic of the monitor 124 with each color channel. Each color channel is passed through one of the corresponding 256-byte look-up tables. Thus, according to a hardware embodiment, the video data is processed through hardware at the speed of the graphics controller 114 (i.e., at a substantially fall video rate), eliminating multiplication operation processing time overhead and permitting substantially real time true color. Alternatively, in another embodiment, the three-dimensional look-up table can be implemented as a software filter to process the bit map data at speeds similar to the hardware application. The software filter is launched at boot up. It initially takes time to read the color characteristics 128 from the monitor 124 via the custom monitor profile 122 and to pre-calculate the look-up tables 204-220. The software filter then stores the look-up tables in the memory 110 or in the custom-monitor profile 122 for fast access. In either case, the hardware or software embodiment, true color output can be obtained at substantially full video rate automatically or alternatively can be observed in response to the touch of a button, for example.
According to one embodiment, each of the values for each MLUT 204-220 are pre-calculated and loaded upon start-up or boot-up of the system 100. According to another embodiment, the pre-calculated MLUT 204-220 values are loaded upon system 100 recognition that a new monitor has been connected to the system 100. The MLUT 204-220 values may also be recalculated and loaded upon user request, such as to provide for changes in monitor color characteristics over time.
Continuing with FIG. 2, RGB′ values are fed into corresponding MLUTs. Each value R′, G′, B′ is used as a pointer to a specific value of its corresponding MLUT. For example, the R′ input to MLUT 208 will point to one of the values, 0-255 possibilities, contained in MLUT 208. That value will represent the value of the R′ input multiplied by the coefficient A. The gamut shifting array of FIG. 3 may also be termed an attenuation and mixing matrix. The gamut-shifting matrix coefficients are discussed in more detail below with respect to FIGS. 3-6. An independent MLUT is provided for each coefficient of the gamut shifting array, such as shown in FIG. 3, also shown with actual coefficient values in FIG. 6. Although, according to the disclosed embodiment of FIG. 2, a total of nine MLUTs are utilized, the number of pre-calculated MLUTs may be of any number such that at least one MLUT is used for every multiplication operation that is replaced.
The equations of FIG. 4 illustrate the longhand version of the matrix equation of FIG. 3. As shown in FIG. 4, the 3�3 matrix of FIG. 3 and FIG. 6 requires a total of nine look-up-tables to replace each of the required multiplication operations shown in FIG. 4. For example, to perform the color correction of R′ to R″, a sum of coefficient A multiplied by R′, plus coefficient C multiplied by G′, plus coefficient D multiplied by B′, is calculated. A similar calculation is made for G″ using coefficients E, F and H and for B″ using coefficients I, J and K, as shown in FIG. 4. Each of these nine multiplication operations is pre-calculated and stored into a corresponding 256 byte multiplication look-up table. Because input values of R′ consist of a finite data range, 0-255, the multiplication look-up tables 204-220 are also limited to 256-bytes of data. For example, multiplication look-up table 208 replaces the multiplication operation of (A�R′) in the equation of FIG. 4. MLUT 208 contains the product of every value of R′ multiplied by the coefficient A. The R′ input value acts as a pointer for MLUT 208. For example, an input R′ value of 33 operates as a pointer within the MLUT 208 to the pre-calculated value of 33 multiplied by the coefficient A, which pre-calculated value is then output from the MLUT 208 to the adder 222 as one of its three inputs.
The combination of the three MLUTs 204-208 along with the adder 222 provides the color transformed output value R″. As shown in FIG. 4, R″ consists of the sum of three multiplication operations. However, as discussed above, multiplication operations can take up to 100 times the processing time required for a simple addition operation. Each multiplication look-up table replaces each multiplication operation with a much faster pointer/look-up-table operation. The set of gamut shifting array multiplication look-up tables 208, 214 and 220 contain 256 values representing every possible value of the R′ input, ranging from 0-255, multiplied by the coefficients A, E and I, respectively. Likewise, the set of gamut shifting array MLUTs 206, 212 and 218 contain 256 byte values representing every value of the G′ input, ranging from 0-255, multiplied by the coefficients C, F and J, respectively. Similarly, the set of gamut shifting array MLUTs 204, 210 and 216 contain values representing the value of the B′ input, ranging from 0-255, multiplied by the coefficients D, H and K, respectively. From FIG. 4, the resultant nine multiplication look-up tables 204-220 represent each multiplication operation. The adder devices 222-226 perform the summation of the three multiplication operations for each R″, G″, B″ color corrected output. These outputs represent color video data that is compensated for monitor specific primary color chromaticity variations and monitor specific tonal/brightness response non-linearity characteristics. In terms of brightness, R″, G″ and B″ values represent brightness as compared to maximum brightness. These outputs will result in the originally intended image colors being rendered on the specific monitor after conversion to a non-linear color space.
Each of the R″, G″, B″ values are then input into a corresponding non-linearization color look-up table, or CLUT, to compensate the linear input into a non-linear color video data compensated for the specific non-linearities of the monitor 124. A method and apparatus for obtaining monitor specific input/output brightness characteristics is disclosed in the commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/362,080, entitled "METHOD APPARATUS FOR COMPUTING OPTIMUM POLYNOMIAL COEFFICIENTS TO REPRESENT THE INPUT-OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS OF A COLOR DISPLAY DEVICE," incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Specifically, the original RGB values from web browser 108, intended for monitor 124 are in the form of non-linearized data such as sRGB data. The color compensating matrix operation of FIGS. 3 and 4 is a linear operation. As such, filter 202 functions to convert the RGB data first from a non-linear format to a linear format. This linearization allows application of the linear transform performed by the matrix of FIG. 3. The CLUTs 228-232 then function as non-linearization tables, converting the linear RGB″ output to a monitor specific RGB″′ non-linear function for reception by the monitor 124.
The CLUTs 228-232 perform the non-linearization transformation according to the monitor specific input-output characteristics 130 stored in the custom monitor profile 122. Specifically, these monitor characteristics are accessed or retrieved from the custom monitor profile 122. The CLUTs 228-232 are then loaded with the appropriate values according to a non-linearization compensation algorithm that takes account of the monitor specific input-output characteristics. One such method of computing the values of a non-linearization CLUT is described in previously incorporated U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/362,080, entitled "Method Apparatus For Computing Optimum Polynomial Coefficients To Represent The Input-Output Characteristics Of A Color Display Device."
Turning now to FIG. 5, shown are exemplary RGB signal values for the various inputs and outputs of FIG. 2. Each list of values 502-508 is a range of discrete values from 0 to 255 for each R, G, and B tristimulus value. Beginning, the RGB values of 502 represent the input color image data into filter 202. The output of filter 202 for each of the exemplary values of RGB 502 is listed as the linearized data set RGB′ 504. These values represent the gamma decompensating function of filter 202. As is understood by a skilled practitioner in the art, the gamma function is standard in the industry for color image representation. However, as discussed in the prior filed commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/499,160, entitled "Method And Apparatus For Color Management In Computer Monitors", the gamma function contains significant inaccuracies causing inconsistent color image display. Also as understood by a skilled practitioner in the art, several well known transformations exist to decompensate for gamma-based values. One such transformation is the linearization process set forth in the sRGB specification by International Electrotechnical Commission Draft Number IEC\3WD 61966-2.1 (1998), incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The filter 202, represented by the RGB′ output 504, performs a linearization transformation and compensation on the gamma based input RGB data 502.
The RGB′ 504 linearized data is communicated to the series of MLUTs 204-220. Each respective R′, G′, B′ value is utilized as a pointer into the respective multiplication look-up table. For each R′, G′, and B′ value, a total of three multiplication look-up tables is used. Thus, according to an embodiment, the R′ value output from filter 202 is input into MLUT 208, 214 and 220. The G value output from filter 202 is likewise input into MLUT tables 206, 212 and 218. Finally, the B value output from filter 202 is input into MLUT tables 204, 210 and 216. For each set of RGB′ look-up table inputs, the resultant value is fed to the respective adders 222-226 to obtain the corresponding RGB″ values output represented by dataset 506. Thus, the RGB″ data values 506 represent color data values that are transformed or shifted from a sRGB color space intended for a sRGB monitor to a color space that is specific to the monitor 124.
The RGB′″ dataset 508 is output from the color look-up tables 228-232 to produce RGB′ values that are compensated according to monitor specific non-linearities and monitor specific color characteristics. This final compensation process is more fully disclosed in the commonly-assigned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/362,080, entitled "Method Apparatus For Computing Optimum Polynomial Coefficients To Represent The Input-Output Characteristics Of A Color Display Device." The difference between the RGB″ values 506 and the RGB′″ values 508 corresponds to compensation for the specific tonal reproduction characteristic (TRC) for the monitor 124 being used. The TRC can also be described as an input/output brightness characteristic. As discussed in the commonly-assigned, previously incorporated U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/499,160, entitled "Method For Color Management On A Display Device", the TRC may be a polynomial curve or other mathematical representation, instead of a gamma function. Thus, the RGB′″ output value from CLUTs 228-232 are color transformed values representing color image values equivalent to that which would be displayed on an sRGB monitor where only a standard non-linear monitor is available.
Turning now to FIG. 6, shown are actual values for the filter array of FIG. 3, and as expanded in FIG. 4, according to an embodiment. The values of FIG. 6 represent the coefficients A, C-F and H-K of FIGS. 3 and 4. These coefficient values are derived from the color point data 128 stored in the custom monitor profile 122. This color point data 128, according to one embodiment, is in the form chromaticity values which define the color gamut of the specific monitor (i.e., the entire range of perceived color for the monitor). As described above, the matrix values are determined from the color point data 128 according to the above calculations. Suitable values of this gamut shifting array should avoid truncation error. Thus, the RGB′ values 504 are mathematically operated as illustrated in FIG. 4 through the summation, via adders 222-226, of three multiplication operations via multiplication look-up tables 204-220, containing the coefficients of FIG. 6, to obtain the RGB″ values 506. According to the embodiment of FIG. 6, the MLUTs 204-220 replace processing intensive floating point multiplication operations.
According to an embodiment, the matrix values of the matrix 600 represent the filter array for transforming RGB′ values to RGB″ values. According to an embodiment, the matrix 600 is a product of four matrices:
(1) a matrix representing an sRGB gamut (tristimulus);
(2) a Bradford transform matrix;
(3) an inverse Bradford transform matrix; and
(4) a matrix representing a gamut of a specific monitor.
The Bradford transform matrix and the inverse Bradford transform matrix can be readily utilized since the Bradford transform is implemented by Microsoft's color management module. However, other embodiments may not utilize the Microsoft color management module, which would then eliminate the need for the Bradford transform matrix and the inverse Bradford transform matrix. Conceptually, the desired product matrix can be viewed as the product of a matrix representing a gamut of a monitor in a desired color space, such as that of an sRGB monitor, and a matrix representing the actual gamut or color space of the specific monitor connected to the system. Although the sRGB color space is the desired color space in one embodiment, other gamuts may be of interest and utilized, such as the gamut of a Corbis monitor (Corbis RGB).
Therefore, with the monitor specific color transformation from RGB′ to RGB″ to compensate for color characteristics of the monitor 124 and the monitor specific non-linearity compensation to RGB′″, a real color image 126 is produced and displayed on monitor 124. These two forms of compensation in combination provide consistent color image display across different display devices. Image data intended for an sRGB display is corrected for display on for a non-sRGB monitor. The result is that the image displayed on the non-sRGB monitor matches the color characteristics of the image if it were displayed on a sRGB monitor before the disclosed color correction.
The color correction is accelerated by avoiding processing intensive and time consuming multiplication operations which would otherwise be required by the various transformations. Multiplication look-up tables are pre-calculated with all possible values of an incoming color component signal, providing a system with minimal processing overhead. In this way, complete color correction filtering is accomplished at substantially full video rates. The accelerated data processing and the attendant accelerated display allow enhanced display capabilities, including, for example, streaming movie images.
The foregoing disclosure and description of the invention are illustrative and explanatory thereof, and various changes in the formulas, monitor types, memory, graphic circuitry, look-up tables, multiplication operations, addition operations, the organization of the components and the order and timing of the steps taken, as well as in the details of the illustrated circuitry and software and hardware and construction and method of operation may be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention.
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Smoking among Orthodox Jewish populations in the United States remains high despite increased awareness of its harmful effects and increased rabbinical community-wide edicts forbidding smoking publicly and privately.1 Prominent deciders of Jewish law did not prohibit smoking as recently as the 1980s, citing insufficient scientific evidence that smoking is the direct cause of all of a patient's health problems and in fact may have some salubrious effects.2 However, over the past 2 decades, the increase in medical knowledge proving smoking as harmful and lifethreatening has prompted many in rabbinic circles to prohibit smoking. Regardless, smoking continues in Orthodox populations today, attributable to the lag time between rabbinical edicts and their implementation into the workings of Orthodox Jewish socioreligious society, smokers' reliance on older (and sometimes obsolete) rabbinical edicts permitting smoking, and still present community acceptance of smoking.
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Son of a Russian immigrant with a hidden past, brother to a glue huffing failure, young Sergei hasn't got the best starting point in life. When he decides to go on a counterfeit jeans run to London for his brother, he overhears a conversation in the Angel Islington Tube station, he realises that his mother's hidden past is perhaps more important than he'd ever imagined.
March 6th 1869, Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. Exactly three decades later, Bayer registers Aspirin as a trademark. Many years later, in 1927, Fritz Lang's Metropolis is released. 1933 brought the beginning of the United States bank holiday, brought on by Franklin D. Roosevelt to avoid even more financial turmoil that the country was already experiencing. 1946 brought the independence of Vietnam. On March 6th 1984, the British coal mining industry started it's year long strike. Three years later, 193 people died in the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster. On the same day in 1992, the Michelangelo virus began to hit PCs worldwide, while the Council of Baltic Sea States was being formed. In 1997 Picasso's painting 'Tête de Femme' was stolen from a London gallery.
On March 6th, 1984, I was born. Many things have happened on that day, before and after my birth. Events that relate directly to me are much less interesting and compelling. But I suppose if I'm going to tell you my story, I should give you a little back-story leading to the main event. Two before I was born, my mother burnt her hand. Two days after I was born, her hand became severely infected, and she had to stay in hospital for several weeks. As a result, I was never breast fed. I spent those weeks (around five, I think) with my older brother and his girlfriend. Our father had died as far as we knew, Mother was always rather sketchy with those details. As for grandparents and aunts, we had none. Our neighbors seemed to distrust her somewhat on account of her Russian accent. Oh, I guess time for that particular piece of back-story. My mother had fled Russia as a child, hiding in the back of a lorry. She was granted citizenship, in exchange for 'information'. She was rather sketchy with these details too, for that matter. My mother was a master of lies, right up until the day she died, when I was ten.
Perhaps I should tell you my name. I am Sergei Borzakov, son of Matryona and brother of Alexei. I think I have my father's name, but I'm not sure. What else is there to tell you about me? Well, I grew up in Gadley, a crappy town in Yorkshire, where I was mercilessly bullied by pretty much everyone on our nasty little council estate, 'Greenspire Fields'. I was Russian, I had a weird name, I was at least a head taller than everyone, and I was smart. In short, I stood out. And, as I got older and realised I was gay, things got a whole lot worse. But, my lack of a social life isn't really what I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying to tell you the thing that happened that changed everything, and I mean everything. I think I need to start just before the beginning, just before it all started.
Picture me, 6'4, long black hair, sharp cheekbones, thick eyebrows, sporting the so-called 'Russian expression' (which I've been told is a cross between rage and boredom), smoking a cigarette in a dirty flat with two people, a man and a woman. The man is my brother, 15 years older than me, but perpetually childlike. He looks a fair bit like me, does Alexei. But, I suppose, what I'd look like if I was 35 and had spent my whole life huffing glue. His current girlfriend was there at the time. She was, like all the others, a rough looking northern lass, from an estate worse even than ours, and foundation thicker than the walls of the flat plastered all up her face, and her fat arse squeezed into a 'designer' tracksuit with the brand name spelt wrong. I didn't really have a reason to be there, but I was unemployed, and lonely, and, well, when he's not on the glue too heavily, he's a nice guy.
Alexei was telling me about his latest run-in with the police that had resulted in his driving license being confiscated. Apparently, he'd been caught doing something dodgy, and he wasn't allowed to leave the county.
"So, basically, like, I been meanin t'go t'London for a while now, this greasy little fooker me mate Chaz knows does these right good dodgy trousers, Ralph wazhizface an' all that, so I was wundrin' like, would ya mind goin' down't get um for us? I'll give ya 25% of whatever wees be sellin' em for. I can't be goin' outta county can I? Ah, gairn Serj, you need t'cash!" He pleaded. In all honesty, I hadn't been paying much attention. His mismatched northern accent and glue-hazed slur makes him hard to listen too sometimes. Unlike him, I had a standard British accent, with a mild Russian purr too it. He, however, had been desperate to assimilate.
I'd taken in just enough details to get the gist. I mulled it over. True, I did need the money. I was flat broke. On the other hand, Alexei... well, he got messed up in some bad scenes a lot of the time, and I didn't like the sound of this one. My record was clean, I did not need to get involved with counterfeit jeans smuggling. But, he was right, I did need the money. I really needed it. Desperately, in fact. Desperately enough to almost excuse my next words.
"Alexei, I don't want to get messed up in anything dangerous. This all safe, yeah?" I asked. He nodded, while the fat girlfriend looked on, too drugged up to care. "Right then. Give me the details, and I'm off. Don't you go screwing me over on the money though. I'm serious about that. This isn't a brotherly gesture you know."
"Ahh, fookin' wonderful bruv, I knew you'd not let us down. Now, I ain't got nowt yet so youse'll have to pay your own train," He said, beaming at me. I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. The same sinking feeling I always got when Alexei persuaded me to do something for him. He might be my brother, but he was still a reckless twat.


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ITC Sales Growth Slows to 4-Year Low on Higher Cigarette PricesAdi Narayan
ITC Ltd., India's biggest tobacco company, posted the slowest pace of sales growth in four years after an increase in the price of its cigarettes damped demand at its biggest business. Shares fell.
Net sales rose 8.8 percent to 77.8 billion rupees ($1.3 billion) in the three months ended September, the Kolkata-based company said yesterday. That was the smallest jump since the quarter ended June 2009 and missed the 81.1 billion-rupee median of 31 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
ITC raised prices of some brands of cigarettes by as much as 10 percent in September, helping lift net income 21 percent in the second quarter. The company's strategy of boosting its profits by charging more for its best-selling products is not sustainable in the long term as the slowing growth suggests the company is losing smokers at a rate "that's a cause for concern," according to Sanjay Manyal, an analyst at ICICI Direct.
"Slower sales growth is very much visible in almost all the segments," Mumbai-based Manyal said in a phone interview. Volume of cigarette sales likely fell by at least 7 percent in the last quarter, he said. "This could well be the sharpest drop in cigarette volumes in about 5 years."
ITC fell 0.8 percent to 340.05 rupees in Mumbai yesterday. The stock has climbed 19 percent this year, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex has gained 6.5 percent.
Profit Jumps
Net income rose to 22.3 billion rupees in the quarter from 18.4 billion rupees a year earlier, the soaps-to-hotels conglomerate said. That compared with the 21.2 billion-rupee median of 31 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Cigarette gross sales grew 11 percent from a year earlier. In the past one year, ITC raised prices of its cigarettes by an average 18 percent to compensate for higher excise taxes levied by the government, Manyal said.
As a result of these repeated price increases, some consumers smoking its Gold Flake and Classic Milds cigarettes are either switching to cheaper products made by rivals, or substitutes like hand-rolled Indian cigarettes called bidis or chewing tobacco, Naveen Vyas, Kolkata-based analyst at Microsec Capital Ltd. said in an interview.
Profit before tax at its hotels business fell 43 percent to 87.2 million rupees. "The hospitality sector continued to be adversely impacted by the weak economic conditions prevailing in major international source markets and India on the one hand, and significant additions to room supplies in key Indian cities," ITC said.
Soaps and Shampoos
Sales at its agriculture business unit, which exports soyameal, shrimps and prawns also fell 12 percent to 17.7 billion rupees.
"The agri business has also disappointed by posting negative sales growth," Vyas said in a telephone interview. "There is a trend of the company's topline growth slowing down and that's a matter of concern."
The consumer goods business, which includes Bingo packaged snacks and Fiama di Wills shampoo, narrowed its loss to 127 million rupees, from 303 million rupees a year earlier. ITC introduced new variants of soaps and bath gels during the quarter, the company said.
Earnings before interest and tax "margin for cigarette business came at a hefty 65 percent," Rakesh Tarway, an analyst at Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd., said in e-mailed comments. "Any volume growth in cigarettes during the coming quarters will bring in huge EBIT growth for the cigarettes business."


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Implying Cain Lied: 'Can Gloria Cain Pull a Hillary Clinton?'
The Los Angeles Times has aggressively covered the unproven sexual harassment charges against Herman Cain. When his wife Gloria granted an interview to Fox News to respond, Times reporter James Oliphant asked "Can Gloria Cain Pull a Hillary Clinton?" Oliphant didn't seem to consider that an insulting question -- since he never told the reader the obvious. Hillary Clinton helped her husband deny an affair with Gennifer Flowers in 1992 -- which he admitted in 1998. (The ultimate "pulling a Hillary" was that year's "vast right-wing conspiracy" interview on NBC.)
This kind of journalistic equivalence also fails when it comes to its place in the news cycle. In 1992, the TV networks waited for days until the Clintons could shovel their spin on "60 Minutes" before they covered (and dismissed) the allegations in just 14 stories, eight of them anchor briefs. By contrast, the networks had aired more than 100 stories breathlessly accusing Cain before his wife spoke out.
Oliphant began:
Almost 20 years ago, the wife of a presidential candidate appeared on a national news program to defend her husband against allegations of sexual impropriety. The candidate's campaign survived the allegations and he ultimately won his party's nomination and then the White House.
The woman, of course, was Hlllary Rodham Clinton — and her husband's campaign was teetering on the edge of collapse in the days before the New Hampshire primary in 1992. The interview on "60 Minutes," in which the couple pushed back against allegations that Bill Clinton was involved in a long-term affair with Gennifer Flowers, was credited with helping to rescue Clinton's campaign. He finished a closer-than-expected second in the New Hampshire primary and became the "Comeback Kid."
It's too early to know if Gloria Cain's interview Monday night on Fox News will have the effect of reviving her husband's presidential campaign, but she made an attempt at putting the sexual harassment allegations that have dogged Herman Cain to rest.
You can read wishful thinking into the choice of adjectives. Cain's campaign needs "reviving"? Like it's dead? Cain's polling numbers may not be soaring now, but they haven't collapsed. Media hopes have shifted from sinking Cain with sex allegations to Cain's halting answer to a reporter's Libya question.
Earlier: End the Hillary Whitewash
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text: Setting sail towards APG gold Share Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Email by Nicolette Mok Para sailor and Asian champion Yap Qian Yin is going full speed ahead for the 8th APG. Bringing home the nation's first-ever Asian Para Games gold medal at one's maiden international outing is certainly something to boast about. But Team Singapore para sailor Yap Qian Yin, who achieved this very feat in Korea last year, begs to differ; she sees it simply as "a form of motivation". A focused and committed sportsperson, the 25-year-old is not one to rest on her laurels, especially with the 8th ASEAN Para Games (APG) – her first – just round the corner. After all, she is relatively a newcomer to the scene, and is certainly not about to let up in her quest for sporting excellence. Picking up the sport in 2011 when three-time Paralympic sailor Jovin Tan introduced it to her, Qian Yin, a paraplegic, admitted that she had faced some initial doubts. "I was very reluctant at first. Because I'm a wheelchair-user, I never considered sailing as a sport for me. I was afraid that I would drown! But the other sailors introduced the different boats to me and explained how they functioned. I soon learnt that the boats wouldn't capsize, and I became more confident," she revealed. Explaining that their boats were all custom-made, she went on to relate how para sailing wasn't very much different from the able-bodied version: "We use the same rules. There's nothing very different between the two, except maybe in terms of control. We might not be able to move a lot in the boat, so the boats are designed specially to cater to this issue." Three years after she first took to the ocean, the full-time accounts assistant won that historic gold medal in the two-person keelboat race at the 2nd Asian Para Games, alongside Jovin, her competition partner. "There was a lot of pressure, though, going into the Asian Para Games. It was my very first major Games. When everything ended, I actually felt very relieved. I always have very high expectations for myself, therefore I constantly seek improvement so as to not let my partner down," she recounted. Despite her success in Incheon last year, the diligent and humble individual demurred: "A win is just for one day. When the day passes, it's over. It's good to recognise a win, but you can never be complacent because there are so many more [races] ahead and there are a lot of areas I have to work on." Indeed, given her passion and talent, she still has many great years ahead as a competitive para sailor. Sharing what she loved most about the sport, she said: "There's a sense of freedom when you're out at sea. That's the best part about sailing." "It takes a lot of discipline, and will help you to improve your time management skills. I also like that sailing is both a physical and mental sport. You have to keep thinking all the time," she continued. "My focus is on the APG. Consistent training and actual water experience are very important." "Come Games time, it is really a show of how much work you've put in. Of course, if I've already done my best and the results still don't show for all the effort, then I won't be upset. I'll just have to keep learning and find out how to get better for the next Games." Cheer Qian Yin on as she works towards yet another sailing title! The Team Singapore para sailors will be riding the winds on local waters at this year's 8th ASEAN Para Games from 3 to 9 December. Aishah Samad Hear the story of shooter Aishah, another extraordinary athlete


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Here's an awesome video from IGN with Terry Crews saying who should and shouldn't be in a potential EX4;
Some EX3 pics that we haven't posted yet;
(The English is a bit off because it was translated from French)
The success of the franchise Expendables
"By the first movie, I was not sure of anything It was a gamble.. Reconnect with old formula films like The Dirty Dozen and The Wild Bunch And it worked The new generation has its own style, but. as in painting or architecture, we try to keep the classic style, hoping he comes back in fashion. "
The balance between action and humor
"The first film with Mickey Rourke was a little too serious for my taste. In the second, we have a little too hard on the jokes. So that in the third, each actor was only entitled to a single valve. "
On young recruits film
"Apart Kellan Lutz, they are not well known .... like me when I started. When I started, nobody knew me. I wanted to get new talent that viewers would approach without prejudice . and then two of them will, Ronda Rousey and Victor Ortiz are sporting champions (one in MMA and one in boxing - ed.) in the film, they do things physically impossible for actors' classic ".
The choice of Mel Gibson to the wicked
"Actually I wanted it directed the film. But everyone knows that everything that Mel is very" passionate. "We've known for 25 years and when I asked him to participate, he opened his mouth and said "as long as I do the wicked." that was exactly the answer I was dreaming. "
On a possible Expendables feminine
"This is a concrete project, yes. And you will discover that we are transvestites (laughs). The thing is it does not has to be a stupid movie. We will need actresses who are in both capable of acting and making the action scenes "(the name of Sigourney Weaver already circulating - ed.)
On a future French rookie
"I would like Christopher Lambert Expendables 4 is a good guy. Actually I thought about it for 3, but there were already more space. Why not Jean Reno. I would also like Luc Besson join us. To play the villain (smiles).
On his upcoming films
"First I will make a new Rambo, darker, in the style of No Country For Old Men, the Coen brothers. Scarpa Then, the story of a very famous gangster. Expendables And after only 4. Doing a TV series, why not.
On the passing of time
"Over the years we lose physical abilities, but gaining control. When you finally understand the meaning of life, it is almost complete. Ironic. Sad, but true."
"Hasta la vista, baby.
I want to thank the cast and crew of Terminator Genisys for a fantastic shoot. It was challenging, it was fun, and it was rewarding. From our director to the producers, from the camera team to catering, from visual effects to hair and makeup - we couldn't have done it without you. I can't wait to see our finished project and I know we'll remind the fans why they fell in love with the Terminator. On July 1, 2015, I'll be back."


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Steve Williams Staying Busy
By Kickntrue on 9/3/08
I was just wondering last week what Tiger's caddie Steve Williams is doing this summer... question answered. Zach Hall of The Bend Bulletin caught up with Williams who is spending the summer in Oregon with his wife and son.
This year, Williams has spent most of his summer in Central Oregon with his wife, Kirsty, and their son, Jett. He has been working on his golf game for the first time in years, as well as on his Steve Williams Foundation (which helps junior golfers in New Zealand) and his car-racing team.It is also revealed in the article that Williams was a 2 handicap by the time he was 13. I guess the best way to know you're hiring a good caddie is to make sure he or she can PLAY. It sounds like Steve certainly can.
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It is almost 14 years since Diego's father Gus won the FA Cup with Chelsea when, for the first time, the players involved their families in the post-match celebrations. Along with his older brother Matias, now 20 and studying economics at Leeds University, Diego joined his father on the famous turf. "I've got pictures of us on the pitch and it was my main memory of his time at Chelsea," he says. "I was only five. I was a bit scared!"
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Born in Zaragoza in Spain to Uruguayan parents, Diego came to England at two years old when Gus was signed by Chelsea in 1997. A midfielder, he has captained England at Under-16 and Under-17 level. At home in Kent he speaks nothing but Spanish to his parents. The rest of the time he speaks English like any teenager brought up in Greater London.
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"I consider myself an English-style footballer and an English person although we always speak Spanish at home," Diego says. "I went to a tournament in France with the England Under-16s. In the first game we played Uruguay, and when I told my dad – and that I was captain – he just said 'I've got to be there'.
"The Uruguayan lads didn't realise the connection at first, then after the game they recognised my dad and started speaking to me in Spanish. They said it was weird as all game I was speaking English to my team-mates!
"People always ask me whether I consider myself English and I do because I've lived here all my life – apart from the two years in Spain when I was really young and one year in Uruguay. All my friends are English. I do consider myself English.
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"I can still play for Uruguay. I was born in Spain. I have a Uruguayan passport. I have played for England and it was a great time. Now I'm not involved in the current squad, the Under-19s. But if the chance came then I'd have to take it."
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As a child he began playing Sunday league for Ascot United and at nine had a year in Montevideo with his family when they moved back there after Gus's retirement from playing in 2004. The Poyets returned when Gus was offered the Swindon Town assistant manager's job by Dennis Wise and Diego came back determined to join an academy. He got a trial at his nearest club, Charlton, and has been there ever since.
"Now I've started playing in the first team, people compare me to my dad but they realise that we're nothing like each other, position-wise," he says. "It has disadvantages but great advantages as well, like his knowledge and being able to learn from him. I like it, it doesn't bother me at all.
"I've always said I wouldn't want to play under him. There were rumours of me moving to Sunderland but for the time being I'd rather do it for myself."
There was no pressure from his dad to be a footballer and Diego played rugby union well into his teens, developing into a decent fly-half. He and his brother spent many happy hours at Leeds United's training ground, when Gus worked there with Wise, practising with their father in the afternoon, and the bond remains just as close these days although they see much less of each other.
"As a player, Dad was more attacking whereas I am happy to sit in front of the back four," Diego says. "I do other things attacking-wise. But when we sit at home and watch a match on TV he gets me to watch other players.
"He makes me concentrate on one player. He says, 'Look at the player in your position, evaluate and try to copy him.' He wants me to look and learn not just sit and watch the game – to take something from it.
"The main one in the past was Paul Scholes. I would ask, 'How come he seems to have so much time?' And Dad would say, 'Watch how he stands still sometimes when the play is moving and he gets himself an extra yard'. Or Xabi Alonso at Real Madrid, he would tell me to watch what he did off the ball."
Two years ago Diego's appendix ruptured after an FA Youth Cup game at Old Trafford. The first operation went wrong and he was rushed back to hospital for further surgery. He lost 13 kilos in weight and missed six months of his football development which, given the competition at that level, could have ended his hopes of a professional career.
There were times when Gus would spend the night on a temporary bed in Diego's hospital room in London, and then dash down to Brighton, where he was manager, to take training. The surgeon had warned that Diego might need part of his intestine removed, although that was eventually deemed unnecessary. The following summer his dad trained with him every day to help Diego gradually build up his strength to play again.
Given the obvious closeness between father and son, how would it feel to face his dad in the FA Cup semi-finals if it came to that? "To be honest, I would love it," Diego says. "The way I see it there are some very tough teams left in the Cup but if we both got through and played each other in the semis then at least one Poyet will be guaranteed to be in the FA Cup final.
"The worst result would be getting through and drawing City and if Sunderland got through and drew, say, Arsenal. But if we play each other then we will go to Wembley again – although it would feel really weird if we were both at Wembley for the semi-final! There have been times, at Charlton last season, when dad was Brighton manager and it was awkward. Even watching the game."
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