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(310) 458-8634.Crossroads School Jazz Band at Rusty’s Surf Ranch, 3/7Avishai Cohen Trio at The Jazz Bakery, 3/3 – 3/5, 8 p.m.Carol Robbins, Steve Huffsteter, Dave Stone, Tim Pleasant at The Jazz Vespers, 3/5, 5p.m. FREE. Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Santa Monica. (310) 452-1116. Katrina Fundraiser: Bleu Orleans with Mark Broyard, Roger Guenveur Smith, more at The Jazz Bakery, 3/5, 4 p.m.The Vic 4th Anniversary with The Stuart Elster Trio, Barbara Morrison, Sherwood Sledge, Billy Valentine & Mark Winkler at The Vic, 3/2Benny Lackner Trio at The Vic Late Night, 3/2, 12 mid – 2amBrasil Brazil at La Ve Lee, 3/4The L.A. Trumpet Quartet & The Open Gate Theatre Ensemble at The Center For The Arts, Eagle Rock, 2/5, 7 p.m. 2225 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock. (626)795-4989.Jon Mayer Trio with Roy McCurdy & Chris Colangelo at The Jazz Bakery, 3/6Ear Orchard at Club Tropical, 2/6, 8:30p.m.Readings / PerformanceMichael Franti: I Know I’m Not Alone at The Hammer, 3/7. “A screening of Michael Franti’s documentary, I Know I’m Not Alone, followed by a discussion. Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, traveled to Iraq, Palestine, and Israel to explore the human cost of war. With its raw video and editing techniques, the documentary offers an intimate view of people working and surviving under the harsh conditions of war and occupation. I Know I’m Not Alone is the winner of the 2005 San Francisco World Film Festival.”Jessica Abel at The Hammer, 3/5, 12 p.m. FREE.F* The Oscars at The Comedy Show, 3/5. 8433 Sunset Blvd., HollywoodMasters of American Comics: Women & Comics with Jessica Abel, Trina Robbins at The Hammer, 3/8, 7p.m. FREE.The Week AheadThursday, March 2Dengue Fever, Future Pigeon, Gamelan Silih, Ganti, DJ Saul Good at TangierShawn Barry, Jennifer Johns, Damon Aaron, DJ Sloe Poke at Temple BarFashioned Beat Down at 14 BelowThe Clique at Harvelle’s The Distants, Sexytime Explosion, Rocket at The Silverlake LoungeSea Wolf, The Little Ones, Meow Meow at The EchoSkinnie Magazine & AcropolisRPM present Dumbluck at The Key ClubSoda & His Million Piece Band, The Tombstones, Old Friday, March 3The Giraffes, Julie, So So Human & New Day Mile at 14 BelowMother Jones at Rusty’s Surf RanchSteve Gillette, Cindy Mangsen at Boulevard Music, Culver City, 8p.m.Juke Logan & The Truth Will Rock You Allstars (Rick Holmstom, Mike Tempo) at Cozy’sMinibar, The Shore, Duchess at El CidI See Hawks In L.A., Amy Farris at Cole’s, Downtown L.A.Hudson Bell at TangierHot Chip, Jeremy Jay at The EchoVon Cotton at Genghis CohenSaturday, March 4Key Frances at Harvelle’sSonny Landreth at The Canyon Club, Agoura HillsBonne Musique Zydeco at Uncle Darrow’s Cajun Creole Eatery, 1-5p.m., 2560 S. 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Dharamsala (HP), November 12, 2012: An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale, jolted the Dharamsala area of Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh 1.53 am on Monday, said Dr. Sushil, a Scientist of Geological Department at Dehradoon on phone.
Adding, he said that the shake lasted for just 4.5 seconds and the epicenter was detected 17 kms North of Baijnath in Douladhar ranges at latitude 32.3 degrees North and longitude 76.2 degrees East of Kangra district, at a focal depth of 5 km. The tremor was so strong that the people wake up of sleep to come out in open in the early hours of winter night.
However, no loss of life and property was reported from anywhere in the area.
Earlier, on November 7, the quake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale jolted the area at 5.51pm and lasted for five seconds. In September, this year too, four minor jolts had rocked this valley. Though, the area falls in the most sensitive zone, the repeated quakes have left the residents tense. In October, too, the hill state had experienced two slight intensity quakes within a short span of five hour.


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His voice is among the most influential in modern day hip-hop. And now, two decades after Robert Earl Davis Jr.’s death, a new book examines the Houston legend through the people who knew him. The book is called “DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution.”
Author Lance Scott Walker, a self-described white punk rocker from Galveston, talks with Texas Standard about DJ Screw’s style and influences. In the web exclusive audio above, learn how his family and artist crew, Screwed Up Click, carry on his legacy.
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Texas Standard: You’ve been researching and writing this book, I understand, for something like 15 years now and previously wrote the book, ‘Houston Rap Tapes.’ But you call yourself in the book, a white punk rocker from Galveston Island. How did the Houston rap scene become such a big part of your life?
Lance Scott Walker: Well, the Houston rap scene is punk rock. The Houston rap scene is an independent scene where, people cut their own path and press up their own records and look after their own careers. And that, to me, is a very punk rock ethic. But the answer to that really is that I’m old friends with the photographer Peter Best. And Peter Best had started a project on Houston rap music in 2004 where he was going to take pictures of Houston rappers and tell the history through photos. And after he’d been working on it a few months, he said, ‘you you’re a writer, you should join me on this project.’ And so that’s how I got started on it. It was a love for for Houston and for Houston music and an awareness of the really great homegrown aspect of Houston hip-hop.
Let’s talk a little bit about DJ Screw. For those who don’t know, why has he left such a lasting impression on hip-hop, not just in Houston, but way beyond?
Well, I think it’s certainly his approach. It’s sort of the mood of the music that that he created. He would take two copies of the same record, put them on the turntables and play one of them a little bit behind the other one. And then at different rhythmic points during the song, he would move from one turntable to the other one where you hear sort of an echo or a repeat of different words or phrases or beats or what have you. Whatever he was hearing, whatever was happening in his head.
But he also would take a body of an instrumental piece and let that run. And then he would pass a microphone around the room and record different people freestyle rapping over those beats. Sometimes they were rappers, sometimes they were just guys that he knew from the neighborhood who wanted to be on the tape. And then they turned into rappers. And then he would take all of that and he would record it. g to cassette. And then when he made a dub of that cassette, a master cassette, he would slow that down with the pitch control. And so the effect that it created was this kind of slow, syrupy, almost psychedelic sound. And that sound just reflected the atmosphere of the city.
A lot of people talk about DJ Screw and they refer to ‘chopped and screwed,” right Was he the key innovator of that style, that sound, or was he part of a larger sort of community that was all moving in one direction?
He was the key innovator. There were certainly people before him who had slowed records down. There was a DJ in Houston named Darrell Scott who had slowed down songs on some of his mixtapes. As far as hip-hop and funk and that sort of thing, he was the hottest mixtape DJ in Houston through the late ‘70s and all the way through the ‘80s. And he was a big influence on Screw and somewhat of a mentor to Screw.
So he slowed some songs down on some of his tapes and on other ones he did what was called doubling, which is what I explained earlier with the two copies of the same record, which is what Screw turned into chopping.
And so Screw took those two different ideas and put them together and just added his own touch, his own flavor, his own rhythmic accents to the songs.
But I think another part of it, really was that when you had local folks freestyling on those tapes, like I said, whether they were rappers or not, people heard people that they knew, talking about streets that they drove down and neighborhoods that they lived in, and the culture of hip-hop in Houston. And so it really felt like something that belonged to them because they were talking about the city that they lived in.
I think something that may be taken for granted, perhaps because people who have heard his music in the years since is the fact that the music wasn’t dance music, clearly. It was creating a kind of – you said psychedelic – but there was a sort of an atmosphere almost as if when you were listening to DJ Screw, you were sort of surrounded by this sound. Do you know what I’m talking about?
Absolutely. Well, there’s a couple of things at play there. Number one is that we’re going to cassette, and you’re losing a couple of generations when you go to cassette. You’re recording onto a cassette and then you’re taking that and you’re making a master from it. And then you’re taking that and you’re slowing the pitch down in the process, and then you’re taking that master and you’re making dubs from that.
So that’s one part of it. But the other part of it is that on most of those recordings, he’s passing a microphone around the room and the microphone is recording the people freestyle rapping, but it’s also recording what’s coming out of the speakers. So you’re hearing the music. So the music is being recorded direct into a four-track recorder, but it’s also being picked up by the microphone that’s being passed around the room. So there is an atmospheric quality to it that in a ‘real studio,’ the people freestyling would have been in a vocal booth. They would have been isolated, but with Screw’s tapes, they’re right there in the room with them. They’re interacting with each other, I guess.
I wonder, though, if if the DJ Screw sound was more driven by the realities of putting together what he heard in his head, or was this part of it, that lo-fi esthetic that he was consciously creating?
Well, it’s hard to say, because when you go back and you listen to some of the recordings, some of the mixes that he does, there’s really, really super sophisticated movements that he’s making between two very quick spinning records. you get behind a couple of turntables and you think about chopping together different sounds from each of those records, they’re moving really fast. He had to think really fast. And he made a lot of really super precise decisions in those songs, of things that he wanted to run back. OK. I want to repeat this word right here. I want to take this record, rewind it back, or I want to loop this part to where you’re hearing this little instrumental part, and then I’m going to loop it from the next one. I’m going to connect it at exactly that same spot.
So you’ve got that. But then you’ve also got the in the moment kind of lo-fi, live element of the tapes. And I think that’s what makes the Screw tape so exciting, is that you’re hearing someone who’s clearly very skilled at what they’re doing and as a matter of fact, more skilled. I think than a lot of people realize. Because in the end, the Screw tape that you hear is slowed down. But everything that he was doing was in real time and everything that he was doing was a lot faster than the way you’re hearing it. And when you’re hearing that precision, even when something slowed down, you can only imagine how much more precise it had to be at regular speed.
Often you would lose the authenticity or spontaneity in a recording that sort of thought out, but that was present in these tapes. He was very much about being in the moment with the people that were in the room with him.
I guess that’s why he was so committed to Houston. Some people would think, well, you have the kind of success that DJ Screw did. Why not move to, say, New York or LA, where you already had some established scenes? But in a way, he was integral to that growth of the Houston sound, which was its own thing. And I guess part of it was that sense of place.
It was the sense of place and it was the sense of the family that he had built around him, both his family that he’s related to and the family of friends that he created around him. He felt comfortable working in that space. And once things picked up for him, there was there was no need for him to sell off what he was doing to a record label or to a manager or anything like that. He was making plenty of money doing what he loved. And I think that he was smart enough and knew enough about the industry to know that everything comes with a price. And so if you take yourself out of Houston and you go to New York, there’s a lot of compromises that you have to make. And I don’t think that he was interested in that. I think that he had enough space to innovate and to experiment and to do what he really loved within the framework in which he worked. He was never seduced by that. There were definitely labels that tried to sign him, but it never felt like the right thing to do for him. Who knows how that may have changed had he lived and, his career would have certainly developed and changed as the Internet, became more of a force around the world and a way of connecting us. But he never saw the need.
What might have been right had his life not been cut short?
Well, he was such an innovator. He worked in a very analog format. He worked with vinyl and cassettes. He had no use for CDs. They weren’t long enough. In the 1990s, CDs are 70 minutes at the max. So that wasn’t long enough for him. He couldn’t do what he wanted to do with those.
He wasn’t necessarily against technology. He had all kinds of processors and everything like that that helped him create the sound that he wanted. But he was a little slower to adopt technology, I think, than maybe some people are nowadays. We’re used to new technologies coming out. Everybody sort of jumps on them. But I think he sort of laid in wait in a sense. So, wow, who knows? Who knows what he would have done if he was still here and how he would have adapted new technologies and how his sort of idiosyncratic way of thinking about DJ’ing and music, how he would have adapted that to the new technologies.
In the years since his passing, he was named by the governor and an official Texas Music Pioneer. And like his album, ‘Three in the Morning, Part two’ is considered one of the greatest rap albums of all time. If you fast forward to today and what you know about the rap scene in Houston currently. Do you still hear that sound? Do you still hear the legacy? How much does it live on?
It very much lives on because the people, that I was talking about earlier, who were rappers and freestylers on the tapes who may have not necessarily been orienting themselves towards a rap career – some of them now have full on rap careers and have had multiple albums over decades now. And you can still hear that style, the sort of style of rapping that that developed on Screw tapes over the years.
And he’s still got artists like Lil Kiki and Big Pokey and Xero and, all kinds of artists from the Screwed Up Clique that are still making records, that are still relevant and still out there. And people like Trae the Truth are out there is a big part of the community,
Screwed Up Records and Tapes is still open. For 22 years since his death, they only sell his records. They sell CDs, which we think nobody buys anymore, but they obviously do. That’s a hub for the culture right there. But I think that the support that people show for the artists who were on Screw tapes back in the nineties and are now our album artists with their own careers and their own direction that still paid tribute to Screw. He’s very much alive everywhere in Houston.
You said something really intriguing about his sense of family, and not just the family he grew up with, but the he extended community. As you went and tried to to talk to some of the folks who knew him, were you surprised by anything that you learned in the course of those conversations?
Oh, I was surprised by plenty. Yeah, because, Screw didn’t have a, a record label in the traditional sense. He wasn’t marketed. So there was a lot of him that really wasn’t put out there. He did a few it did a few interviews in his lifetime, but really only a handful. And so the stories that people told about him and his sense of humor and his way of making people feel like they were his best friend. Those stories just came up over and over again. So many people told me that they just felt so close to him and he made them feel so special. And that was what made me want to do the book, because I just felt like this was a really special person who connected with people on a profound level and in a way that makes them still want to keep his legacy alive now. And so in that sense, I was fortunate because there were plenty of people who were very enthusiastic to talk about him and to tell that story, because they’d been waiting forever. But his love for the people around him and their love for him, I think, is still omnipresent in Houston today. And that was why I wanted to make the book.
Did you spot a place where it was sort of like a turning point for him that made DJ Screw who he was? What was the transition to DJ Screw?
There’s an early point where he saw the film ‘Breakin,’ in 1984 when he was 13 years old. And he saw Ice-T DJ in that film. And he I said, ‘man, I can do that.’ And that was the point where, he really knew that’s what he wanted to do with himself. And it wasn’t really long after that that, Shorty Mac named him DJ Screw, or asked him, ‘What is your name? Deejay Screw? I like that.’
But I would I would jump forward many years beyond that to the point in at the end of 1993, when he and his girlfriend Nikki moved out of Screws father’s apartment and Screw got his own house at that point, where he could really work around the clock and have the freedom of having people over and wasn’t bound by his father’s rules. So I think really at that point was when he things really clicked and there were no longer any limits on what he could do and he could really fulfill his vision. And that’s when the Screw tapes that we know now really started to happen, because he could really take the time to record and, really make something special with each recording.
Did you feel like in the course of putting together this book, that the book itself sort of evolved?
In the beginning, all I wanted to do was build a library of interviews. I knew that the story hadn’t been told in full. I knew that there were little parts of it here and there. And, of course, there was a Wikipedia page and there were some things out about him. But I knew that if I wanted to tell the real story, that I needed to not worry about necessarily telling the story to myself early on, but to just continue to build a library and let that library tell me the story. And so it definitely evolved. And my first two books were just straight oral histories, culled from all my own interviews. But, in the end, it’s really just the interviewees speaking. So I wanted this book to be something, between that where I, I’m the writer, I’m your narrator, I’m your guide. I’m going to take you through this, but I’m going to pass the microphone around and I’m going to let people talk at length because I really want their voices to be the ones that tell the stories. And, so I built I took time over the years to build up a library of interviews and then go through and find stories within those interviews that I thought, number one, were informative, but number two were good stories. And, there’s so many great storytellers in the book who just have a great natural rhythm to their way of speaking and their way of telling stories and being generous with facts and events and that sort of thing. So it definitely evolved over the years because it evolved into something where the format that ended up being, which is a hybrid narrative oral history format that I’ve never seen anywhere else.
Was there someone that you spoke with that struck you as especially close that they gave you information that that sort of seemed to anchor a lot of the DJ screw story?
Shorty Mac, his cousin from Smithville, Texas, who was also his best friend when he was in Smithville. And he was crucial throughout the process. He was one of the most accessible people for me over the years. I got to know him really well. And he was able to really fill in some gaps of information that I didn’t know because he was there in Smithville growing up with him. And then he also came to Houston and he worked at Screwed Up Records and Tapes. And so he was there for so many different parts of his life. And then, of course, his family were the true anchor – his sister Michelle and his nieces and his nephew and everybody else and his cousins were all just a huge help and really anchored to the kind of mix of his blood family and then also the family that he built around himself over the years.
You talk about is kinfolk. How much of an influence do you think they had on him?
Oh, they’re a huge influence on him. because, his mother in particular was really big on music and would play records around the house all the time, and made tapes for friends of hers. And I think that that was a massive influence on him. And the proof is in listening to some of his Screw tapes over the years. There are R&B songs on there. There are all kind of funk songs on there, some blues that were straight from his mother’s record collection. So I think Screw picked up influences from all the people that were around him because he connected so closely with everybody. And you just can’t help that if you’re close with the people around you, you’re going to be influenced by them. He has so many wonderful people in his life growing up that I think he was influenced by all of them. But I would say that his mother was was a massive musical influence on him.
When someone says, how should DJ Screw be remembered? What’s his legacy? What do you say?
Chopped and Screwed. There’s a distinction between his style and his influence on hip-hop in general and the greater mainstream. Chopped and Screwed refers to his work – the Screwed part in particular, or Screwed music or Screw tapes – that’s referring to him. But other DJs have their take on it now, whether it’s slowed and chopped or chopped, not sloppy, people have different ways of referring to it. But I think that he has created a genuine art form, a genuine way of thinking about music from the top. A lot of times people do remixes and they’ll get all the separate tracks. They’ll get a track with the drums, they’ll get a track with the bass and the vocals. Screw didn’t really work like that. Screw was taking a preexisting recording and figuring out a way to cut into it and kind of tear it open and show you different parts of a song and maybe repeat parts of it so that you really understood that, hey, this is something I want you to hear. And I think that his is his influence going forward will be more than just music and more than just DJ’ing. I think it’s more about how you approach an art form, whatever that discipline might be.

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All of the aspiring candidates, but Obama and Hillary in particular, are woefully shallow. BHO and HRC are in the simple pursuit of power and believe the people are there to serve them and the government.
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“It was Governor Ronald Reagan of California who signed the Mulford Act in 1967, ‘prohibiting the carrying of firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.’ The law was aimed at stopping the Black Panthers, but affected all gun owners.
“Twenty-four years later, Reagan was still pushing gun control. ‘I support the Brady Bill,’ he said in a March 28, 1991 speech, ‘and I urge the Congress to enact it without further delay.’" http://keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=2955
Some of us who fought his political regime of stealing our guns in California, remember him as the destroyer of rights to keep and bear arms via the Mulford Act in 1967, ‘prohibiting the carrying of firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.’
before it was an Act.
Y'all missed that bus, apparently.
So, the soviet Russia is now free to non thinkin' rubes who can't abide the truth which facts support.
Reagan walked oppression which he called order while he talked liberty.
Also, have read several times recently about Pres. Clinton signing NAFTA but, iirc, the FTA was negotiated over a long period of time, mostly between Pres. Reagan and PM Brian Mulroney. Lots of tough talks and negotiating about that treaty and I think it was Pres. Reagan and PM Mulroney who did the work. Think it was Pres. Clinton and PM Chretien who brought Mexico into the agreement, late in the game.

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Alona Tal is an Israeli actress and singer. She has starred on such series as "Cult," "Burn Notice," and "Supernatural," as well as recorded with artist Wyclef Jean.
Alona Tal was born in HerzLiya, Israel on October 20, 1983. Growing up in Israel, she is of the Jewish faith, although when asked about religion, she simply describes herself as "spiritual." Although now a rising actress and singer, her career path started out much different than the majority in this particular field. In fact, it would be safe to say that most actress haven't served on the Israel Defense Forces. However, this was Alona's profession prior to getting into acting.
Once out of the military, Alona's first acting gig came in the form of a children's musical video tape, in which she played an evil witch. She then went on to appear in an Israeli laundry detergent commercial before finally landing a lead role in the film, "Lihiyot Kochav," or "To Be a Star." From here, she was offered roles on two Israeli TV shows, both of which she took. Of course, being a passionate singer as well, she began songs with Israeli rapper, Subliminal, too.
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Eventually, Alona moved to New York City to pursue both careers more. It was while here that she met fellow singer, Wyclef Jean, and recorded the song "Party to Damascus" with him. She sang the chorus of the song in Hebrew. While Alona is a talented singer, she is better known for her acting, which really took off once she found her way to the U.S. She originally auditioned for the lead role on the series, "Veronica Mars." Even though she didn't get the part, creator Rob Thomas liked her so much that he created a recurring role for the actress on the series. This exposure lead not only to guest spots on shows such as "Supernatural" and "Burn Notice," but eventually lead roles on the short-lived series "Cane" and "Cult."


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MOSCOW, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Russians flocked to the grave of actor-poet Vladimir Vysotsky on Sunday to commemorate what would have been the 60th birthday of a man who became the voice of a silent generation in Soviet times.
People queued solemnly to lay flowers and light candles in the snow at Vysotsky's grave in Moscow's Vagankovskoye Cemetery. Others stood in groups nearby singing his songs or reciting his poems once suppressed as anti-Soviet.
"He embodied all that is Russian. He was Russia," said Vasily Ovchinnikov, a 43-year-old market seller clutching his guitar at the cemetery after a rendition of one of Vysotksy's songs.
In a sign of his enduring appeal, many films starring Vysotsky have been shown on Russian television in the last week and the anniversary made the front page of some newspapers.
Vysotsky was branded a subversive under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and none of his works had been published in book form when he died of a heart attack in 1980 at the age of 42.
But his work was familiar to millions of people through unofficial cassette recordings of his private recitals and through typescript home-made books. Russians would read, sing or listen to his work at night in the privacy of their homes.
The social criticism and biting satire which made him a target for the authorities won him the admiration of ordinary people who said he voiced the thoughts and feelings they could not express openly in Soviet times.
His performance as Hamlet at the avant-garde Taganka theater in Moscow in the 1970s was also widely acclaimed.
Vysotsky, who was married to French actress Marina Vlady, was eventually rehabilitated during the cultural liberalization after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985.
A gala concert by top Russian performers singing his songs was planned for Sunday evening. A Vysotsky museum was being formally opened and a conference held to discuss his work.
Even Russian President Boris Yeltsin got in on the act by ordering the government to support the celebrations.
"He gave me strength in Soviet times and he gives me strength now. When I come home exhausted from work at night, I put on his music and it makes me feel better," market seller Ovchinnikov said of Vysotsky.
Alexander Kortashev, 40, said the gravel-voiced singer and poet remained a vital inspiration for him even today.
"He saw life as it really was. What he sang and wrote about still has meaning for us now," said Kortashev, a poet, after reciting some of Vysotsky's verse near his hero's grave. (Reuters)
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Characters can also gain other non-magical skills, which stay with the character as long as he lives.
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Also, in Anime Maker, the user could create larger sprites for a theater-type visual novel in which the player could animate and control characters, but these sprites were much larger and unusable in RPG Maker.
For example, Wizardry featured menu-driven combat, Tunnels of Doom featured tactical combat on a special "combat screen", and Dungeons of Daggorath featured real-time combat which took place on the main dungeon map.
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This was first clearly demonstrated in by the phenomenal success of Final Fantasy VIIwhich is considered one of the most influential games of all time. On the PC, players typically use the mouse to click on icons and menu options, while console games have the player navigate through menus using a game controller.
Each Windows version has, however, been subject to unlicensed distribution through the internet in some form or other.
It was later made available through Steamand is also now available as a physical CD. Their game Phantasie is notable for introducing automapping and in-game scrolls providing hints and background information. Most of the games from this era were turn-based, although Dungeon Master and its imitators had real-time combat.
Spells, skills, and items can all now have their own damage and recovery formulas, although a quick calculation method reminiscent of the older RPG Makers is available. We always strive to do our best and to give our fans a satisfying hour or so of entertainment, with each release for either of our games.
Ideas are always flowing whenever we create each update and some of them are just too good not to include. More recent games tend to maintain a consistent perspective for exploration and combat. This practice was common among players of early role-playing games, such as early titles in the Wizardry and Might and Magic series.
In games where the player controls multiple characters, these magic-users dating site messages that get responses complement the physical strength of other classes.
A key feature of the genre is that characters grow in power and abilities, and characters are typically designed by the player.
The software allowed user-made characters, and monsters through Anime Maker which was separate from the RPG Maker, which required saving to an external memory card. While it remains portable on a small screen, users can create games on-the-go and also download games to play as well.
The implications for RPGs were enormous—longer, more involved quests, better audio, and full-motion video. Exodusone of the prime influences on both computer and console RPG development.
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The Adventure of Link for the Famicom Disk System was one of the earliest action role-playing gamescombining the action-adventure game framework of its predecessor The Legend of Zelda with the statistical elements of turn-based RPGs. Multiple player-made workarounds exist, but this remains a sore point among many RMVX users.
None mainly used for Key ItemsWeapon, Armor, Key up to eight sub typesMagic for binding Magic created in the Magic interface to an itemHealing, and Food which raises stats and EXP, or experience points in which this particular software is the only one of the series to do so natively.
Older games often separated combat into its own mode of gameplay, distinct from exploring the game world. Saying the right things to the right non-player characters will elicit useful information for the player, and may even result in other rewards such as items or experience, as well as opening up possible storyline branches.
As console RPGs became more heavily story-based than their computer counterparts, one of the major differences that emerged during this time was in the portrayal of the characters.
In some games, level-up occurs automatically when the required amount of experience is reached; in others, the player can choose when and where to advance a level. Another oft-cited difference is the prominence or absence of kawaisaor "cuteness", in Japanese culture, and different approaches with respect to character aesthetics.
Mana is restored by resting or by consuming potions.
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This creates a positive-feedback cycle that is central to most role-playing games: All versions include initial premade tilesets, characters, and events which can be used in creating new games.
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However, an isometric or aerial top-down perspective is common in party-based RPGs, in order to give the player a clear view of their entire party and their surroundings. This limit however is rarely a problem normallyand even when it is, an unofficial patch exists which can bump most limits much higher at the risk of potential game corruption.
Many RPGs allow players to choose how to improve their character, by allocating a finite number of points into the attributes of their choice. This will make more sense when the early afternoon scenes begin.
Most of these features, however, have been programmed with Ruby, and distributed online. Role-playing video games often simulate dice-rolling mechanics from non-electronic role-playing games to determine success or failure.
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New elements in the story may also be triggered by mere arrival in an area, rather than completing a specific challenge. The tilesets also have a similar non-limitation. As with the technology trees seen in strategy video gameslearning a particular skill in the tree will unlock more powerful skills deeper in the tree.
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Leaders from Oklahoma's Five Civilized Tribes met in Tulsa Thursday. The Indian Child Welfare Act was a huge topic of discussion.
Many tribal leaders fear the "Baby Veronica" custody case will have a negative impact on a law that means so much to Indian culture.
"I miss you more than words can express," a tearful Brown said in a press conference Thursday.
As Brown announced he will no longer fight for legal custody of his biological daughter, Veronica, tribal leaders from all over the state were left wondering what the future will hold for Indian children caught in the middle of custody battles.
"When you look at the whole picture, it wasn't about one child. It was about 500-and-some-odd nations," said Muscogee (Creek) Nation Principal Chief George Tiger.
Although little Veronica is Cherokee, Tiger said the battle over Veronica sets a precedent for all tribes.
"That was a landmark decision that meant so much to the tribal leaders and tribal governments in general. It's kind of a sad day," he said.
The Indian Child Welfare Act goes back 35 years. It's a federal law designed to keep American Indian children with American Indian families.
This is something Lisa James said is critical when it comes to preserving Indian heritage.
"The elderly teach the young people to continue the culture, to keep their identity, to understand that they are American Indians and tribal people," James said.
"If there's a parent that's capable and able to raise his own child, he should be able to do that," said Redeena Butler.
Butler said she thinks a lack of knowledge of ICWA is what led to the court ruling that gave Matt and Melanie Capobianco custody of Veronica.
"I think that the Supreme Court really screwed the tribes over and I think this really set a precedent that there will probably be more adoptions into non-Indian homes," Butler said.
Brown had this to say to his daughter Thursday: "You will always be my little girl, my princess and I will always love you until the day I die. I love you and hope to see you soon."
"In the end, there was a disappointment and kind of a guilty verdict on a law that means so much to so many," Tiger said.
Cherokee Chief Bill John Baker was also at the conference. He told us the wounds are still too deep to talk about the Veronica case.


Alan Titchmarsh shows off topless image of Cliff Richard in 2010
The Mistletoe and Wine crooner celebrated his 80th birthday this year and admitted it might be his final topless calendar. Alan and Sir Cliff have shared a number of banterous exchanges over the years, including one where the gardener claimed the singer’s physique put him “to shame”.
The now-octogenarian rejected any calls to step aside because he felt he was already living a ‘semi-retired’ existence.
Sir Cliff said: “Retirement is where you stop what you’re doing, it doesn’t mean that you stop doing anything.
“Some people go and try some other things, do something they always wish they had done and that’s always open to me.
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“But I can’t see any point of actually stopping when in fact, what I could do is what I’m practically doing now.”
The singer listed several achievements, including performing at the Royal Albert Hall, in London and releasing albums, when Titchmarsh reached over to the table.
He announced: “I’ve been looking at the calendar as well – just to make them scream even more.”
Titchmarsh prediction was correct, as yells and screams erupted from the studio audience.
He lifted one of the month’s photographs up to the camera to reveal Sir Cliff bare-chest and pecs as he appeared to be strolling along a beach.
Titchmarsh turned the calendar so it was face-down on the table, as he quipped: “Shame on you!”
He continued: “You make those of us who are younger feel very embarrassed.”
Sir Cliff laughed and then leaned across, as he quizzed: “Why did you turn it over?”
Sir Cliff turned the calendar face-up so that his hairy chest and trim physique could be seen by the audience.
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Titchmash, who was left a little red-faced by the exchange, said: “I should wear it on my front while I do the questions, I should!"
The TV host held the topless photograph over his body and cheekily beamed at the camera.
The pair’s banterous exchange happened during an episode of The Alan Titchmarsh Show, which first aired on ITV in 2010.
This year, Sir Cliff admitted that he was ready to stop making calendars after the 2021 edition was released.
He said: “I suspect I have done my final topless photo… I suspect it’s time to gracefully exit the Chippendales’ market.”
Sir Cliff has produced 42 calendars, including this recent one, which have sold 1.5 million copies over the years.
“‘They must have superimposed my head onto somebody else!’ – that made me laugh.”
Cliff Richard: The Dreamer was published by Ebury Press in October and is available here.


China developers ploughed above US$5.1 million (S$7.1 thousand) into the Asia-Pacific non commercial market from the first three months of this year, a report showed yesterday.
In Singapore, the wealthy Chinese language builders have set data for home land rates, both in Govt Land Sales (GLS) tenders and in the particular collective sale made market, helping to boost sentiment in the real estate sector yet squeezing the net income margins associated with local builders.
According to the record, the growth within outbound activity by mainland Chinese developers has been among the key developments over the past several years, with sizes going coming from practically actually zero in 2009 for you to more than US$2.Your five billion recently. From 2012 to a year ago, their favorite destination ended up being Australia (36.5 per-cent) along with other crucial markets such as Hong Kong (23.7 per cent), Malaysia (Nineteen.7 %) and Singapore (16.4 percent).
Following the many different kind of chilling measures launched in major where you live now cities and the recently enforced capital handles, Chinese developers are expected to speculate more money throughout Hong Kong and scaled-down Tier 3 mainland cities this year, aside from overseas market segments like Singapore.
The particular inflow of Chinese cash has made a big effect in Singapore: Yesterday, units of China�s Nanshan Group and Logan Property sent in the winning bid earlier mentioned S$1 billion for a land lot in Stirling Path, the first time that the purely home site about the GLS programme provides exceeded that price huge.
In May last year, Chinese language developer Qingjian Realty bought the particular 358-unit privatised HUDC estate Shunfu Ville pertaining to S$638 million, observing the first large en bloc provide nine a long time.
Within a two weeks of the Shunfu Ville offer, Qingjian sent in the very best bid involving S$301 million for the mixed supply site inside Bukit Batok.
Along with emerging signs of healing in Singapore, competition for residential land is placed to heighten because both Singapore-based and foreign developers jump on the bandwagon, quite possibly prompting the actual unwinding involving GLS supply along with spurring collective sale activities.
Last year, some S$2.Six billion importance of transactions were reported from the Singapore residential GLS room, of which 58 per cent composed Singapore developers while Japanese buyers made up Twenty four per cent.
Nevertheless, in the year up to now in 2017, Tiongkok and Hong Kong builders accounted for S$1.3 billion out of the S$2.1 thousand transacted in residential GLS tenders, or a discuss of Sixty two per cent.
The immediate effect is that the whole investor scenery is increased with more players in the area.
With more participants, prices will likely be competitive, especially from abroad players the location where the source of financing and financial debt may differ from the traditional developer profiles how the market was used to.
The actual influx associated with Chinese money will lead to improved competition regarding GLS sites as well as result in higher winning put money prices. As such, local designers will have to recognize lower profits in order to position competitive offers against intense Chinese programmers.
While the record high territory prices may possibly signal that this bottoming of the housing market is getting more likely, a recovery will need to be underpinned by simply stronger macro-economic indicators, such as continual economic development and manual work market confidence.
The increase of Oriental money into the property marketplace here doesn’t necessarily turn directly into higher home prices, professionals said.
Oriental developers may be coming below with a various objective. Singapore is often a highly regarded residential property market and yes it reflects the assistance of developers in lots of ways. Chinese designers will want to possess a footprint right here to show off their Singapore tasks back home or any other markets in the area and may certainly not mind selling the models even from lower profit margins.
For designers, it is a bitter-sweet kind of a situation. Nearly all developers possess unsold inventory which can turn an easy task to sell while people will assume higher selling prices of long term properties given the higher bids. Bitter, as developers is not going to like to lose out on prime territory opportunities and definately will have to make higher bids to compete with Chinese players.
The Government is not anticipated to impose any new restrictions on Chinese or other overseas investment in the Singapore property marketplace.
This is because builders are already needed to sell just about all units within their projects inside of five years to avoid the Additional Buyer�s Stamp Duty remission clawback, that can limit your extent which developers may pass on cost increases to home buyers.
Buoyed by simply Chinese money, total cross-border residential land investment activity within the Asia-Pacific has increased by 136.In search of per cent over the last decade to be able to more than US$42 million last year, compared to US$17.8 billion in 07.


New Delhi: India has shown a significant increase in the number of people with comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS, according to the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019–21) report. One-fifth (22 per cent) of women and one-third of men (31 per cent) in the 15-49 age group in India are aware of the advantages of using condoms in preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Among youths, around 20 per cent of women and 29 per cent of men between the ages of 15-24 have a knowledge of HIV/AIDS.
Despite an increase, there still remains a population that shows resistance to using condoms. Dr. Tanaya Narendra, socially known as the millennial Dr. Cuterus, spoke to the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swasth India team about the status of people not using the protection, the lack of access, and its gendered effects.
Women’s Sexual Well-Being
Speaking about women’s health, Dr. Tanaya Narendra said that a significant change has been noticed in the urban areas, where women are leading the way in all sectors and talking openly about their sexual well-being. However, a contradictory image is seen in the rural area. According to Dr. Narendra, women in remote areas continue to struggle with having any autonomy at all, whether it is over their bodies, profession, or anything else.
Realistically, there are certain strata of society where women are able to make their choices and push forward. Hopefully, that is seen in other societies as well. I feel education and communication about sexual health can bridge the gap.
Resistance To Using Condoms
Dr. Narendra said that the use of condoms was low despite the rise in awareness around it and it is still considered as a Taboo. She said that there were a lot of people in the country, who were diagnosed with HIV due to unprotected sex.
Dr. Narendra said that many male partners believe that using a condom would reduce sensation, which is absolutely incorrect. Accessibility to condoms and other contraceptives is another point of concern in India, she said.
This issue can be managed by installing condom vending machines in every public bathroom. Unfortunately, we do not have standard bathrooms in the country that can be used for this purpose.
Reducing Over 90 Per Cent Chance Of Contracting Sexually Transmitted Infections With Condoms
Dr. Narendra said that people were not educated enough about the condom and its usage. She said that using one can cut the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) like HIV, pregnancy, and other infections by nearly 98 per cent.
There are problems at so many levels when it comes to using a condom. So often, people would not put it on correctly, while some would put it on just before penetration, not knowing that the genital contact had already happened.
Myths About HIV/AIDS
“Protect, don’t neglect,” said Dr. Narendra while busting some myths around HIV/AIDS:
- HIV does not spread from touching, kissing, or being physically close to someone.
- HIV spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids.
- HIV and AIDS are not the same. HIV is the virus that, if left untreated, can lead to AIDS.
- Condoms should be used for every sexual act, to protect yourself from Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).
- HIV spreads irrespective of one’s sexual orientation.
- Use new condoms and double-check the expiration dates on the ones already bought.
- It is important to break away from the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS and stop shaming people with STIs.
Dr. Narendra spoke about the treatments available presently for HIV/AIDS. If someone is infected with HIV, there is a medicine called post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which is prescribed by the doctors. It is a short course of HIV medicines that can be taken after a possible exposure to prevent the virus. Dr Narendra suggested that people consult their doctors about it.
Effective Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) drugs are available that can prolong the life of an HIV-positive person, she added.
You can listen to the full Banega Swasth India podcast discussion by hitting the play button on the Spotify player embedded above.
NDTV – Dettol have been working towards a clean and healthy India since 2014 via the Banega Swachh India initiative, which is helmed by Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan. The campaign aims to highlight the inter-dependency of humans and the environment, and of humans on one another with the focus on One Health, One Planet, One Future – Leaving No One Behind. It stresses on the need to take care of, and consider, everyone’s health in India – especially vulnerable communities – the LGBTQ population, indigenous people, India’s different tribes, ethnic and linguistic minorities, people with disabilities, migrants, geographically remote populations, gender and sexual minorities. In wake of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the need for WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) is reaffirmed as handwashing is one of the ways to prevent Coronavirus infection and other diseases. The campaign will continue to raise awareness on the same along with focussing on the importance of nutrition and healthcare for women and children, fight malnutrition, mental wellbeing, self care, science and health, adolescent health & gender awareness. Along with the health of people, the campaign has realised the need to also take care of the health of the eco-system. Our environment is fragile due to human activity, which is not only over-exploiting available resources, but also generating immense pollution as a result of using and extracting those resources. The imbalance has also led to immense biodiversity loss that has caused one of the biggest threats to human survival – climate change. It has now been described as a “code red for humanity.” The campaign will continue to cover issues like air pollution, waste management, plastic ban, manual scavenging and sanitation workers and menstrual hygiene. Banega Swasth India will also be taking forward the dream of Swasth Bharat, the campaign feels that only a Swachh or clean India where toilets are used and open defecation free (ODF) status achieved as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, can eradicate diseases like diahorrea and the country can become a Swasth or healthy India.


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Garrison Keillor celebrates National Poetry Month with poems & song at a benefit for Performing Arts of Woodstock.
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by Ellie Schoenfeld
I want to swim
in the long dark river of your hair,
want to rub up against
your smooth stones,
your secret mossy places.
I want our tongues to entwine
like strands of DNA,
to speak to each other
in a juicy language
that has not been
I want to absorb
the steady beat
in the timbre of your voice,
to be moved by the currents,
the cadences, the way
they toss me tempestuously
into complicated waters
until I am adrift
in what sometimes
feels like home.
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It was on this day in 1910 that the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated as a youth organization in the United States. The idea for the Boy Scouts came from a British Army Officer named Robert Baden-Powell who returned from a war in South Africa to find that the young people in his country had grown soft and undisciplined in his absence. He said, “[Young people today are] without individuality or strength of character, utterly without resourcefulness, initiative or guts for adventure.” He created the Boy Scouts as an organization and wrote a book called Scouting for Boys that became the Boy Scout manual.
The Boy Scout Handbook says, “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.”
These days, girls are allowed to join the organization, which is now called Scouts BSA. Girls will be eligible for the same awards as boys, up to and including the rank of Eagle Scout, and boys and girls will be in separate (but equal) troops.
It’s the birthday of John Grisham, (books by this author) born in Jonesboro, Arkansas (1955), the author of legal thrillers such as The Firm (1991) and The Brethren (2000) that have been international best-sellers. Nine of his novels have been turned into movies.
He was often the best-selling author in the world in the 1990s, until Harry Potter came along. Grisham jokes that he began his newer children’s series, Theodore Boone, in an effort to catch Harry Potter.
Grisham’s most recent novel, The Reckoning (2018), came out last fall.
It’s the birthday of the man known as the father of science fiction, Jules Verne (books by this author), born in Nantes, France (1828). In his adventure novels, Paris in the 20th Century (written 1863, not published until 1994), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), Verne described inventions that were similar to modern airplanes and automobiles, and tall skyscrapers where people use electricity to listen to the radio and send faxes, and yet he wrote his stories by candlelight.
She was painfully shy and quiet in college, but during her senior year, she mustered up all her courage and introduced herself to her idol, the elder poet Marianne Moore. The meeting was awkward at first, but then Bishop offered to take Moore to the circus. It turned out they both loved going to the circus and they both also loved snakes, tattoos, exotic flowers, birds, dressmaking, and recipes. Moore became Bishop’s mentor and friend.
Bishop was an extremely slow writer and published only 101 poems in her lifetime. She worked on her poem “The Moose” for more than 25 years, keeping it tacked up on her wall so that she could rearrange the lines again and again until she got it right. But she was an obsessive letter writer. She once wrote 40 letters in a single day.
She had six children to take care of, so she wrote on a lapboard in the living room while her children played around her. Because she was so busy, she tried to write as quickly as she could, and in less than 10 years she produced three novels and more than a hundred short stories.
Chopin’s early work was melodramatic and sentimental, but everything changed when she first read the French writer Guy de Maupassant. She wrote: “Here was a man who had escaped from tradition and authority, who had entered into himself and looked out upon life through his own being and with his own eyes … [who wrote] without the plots, the old fashioned mechanism and stage trapping that in a vague, unthinking way I had fancied were essential to the art of story making.”
Chopin began to write more explicitly about dissatisfied wives and marital infidelity, and she found it harder and harder to get her work published. Then she published The Awakening (1899), about a woman who leaves her husband and her children to have an affair and become an artist and then eventually commits suicide by swimming out to sea until she is exhausted. It was one of the first novels ever written by a woman about a woman committing adultery, and it was almost universally attacked by critics as “moral poison,” “sordid,” “unhealthy,” “repellent,” and “vulgar.” The St. Louis literary community refused to review the novel at all, and libraries and bookstores in Chopin’s hometown wouldn’t stock the book. Chopin was unable to publish her next book of short stories, and she died five years later, in 1904.
Her work was forgotten for almost 50 years, and it was only revived because of a series of European critics who championed her work. A Norwegian literary scholar published the first biography of her, and he also helped publish The Complete Works of Kate Chopin (1969). Today, The Awakening is considered one of greatest novels of 19th-century American literature.


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Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. The first removable drive will have a capacity of 300GB and a throughput of 160mbps.
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|Publication number||US4120590 A|
|Application number||US 05/803,000|
|Publication date||Oct 17, 1978|
|Filing date||Jun 3, 1977|
|Priority date||Jun 3, 1977|
|Publication number||05803000, 803000, US 4120590 A, US 4120590A, US-A-4120590, US4120590 A, US4120590A|
|Inventors||Robert J. Bieringer, James A. Ringlien|
|Original Assignee||Owens-Illinois, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (6), Classifications (4), Legal Events (1)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention generally relates to optical techniques for the measurement of the thickness of transparent articles. More specifically, this invention relates to the use of a plural component light beam for making such a measurement.
The use of optical techniques for measuring the thickness of transparent articles is known in the art. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 3,307,446 teaches the use of a slit type or linear illumination system in the measurement of the thickness of glass tubing. This system is relatively sensitive to the position of the article being measured and will suffer error due to the lack of parallelism of the two surfaces of the wall of the tubing being measured. This particular type of measurement error will be discussed in further detail herein. U.S. Pat. No. 3,807,870 teaches a somewhat similar system. Also known in the prior art is the use of interference patterns for making thickness measurements of transparent articles. Examples of these systems will be seen in U.S. Pat. No. 2,518,647; 3,709,610; 3,720,471; and 3,994,599. The present invention, by the use of a plural component beam of light as the illumination source, avoids errors due to non-parallelism of the surfaces being measured and the positional sensitivity problems of the prior art. Additionally, the complexity inherent in interference type measurement systems is likewise avoided.
Our invention resides in a method for measuring the thickness of transparent articles. A plural component beam of light is generated and then optically converged. The transparent article to be measured is illuminated with this convergent plural component beam of light thereby causing two separate reflections for all components of the plural component beam of light. One of these reflections represents reflection from the front surface of a transparent article and the other reflection represents reflection from the rear surface of the transparent article. The reflections of both are projected onto a detector plane which is conjugate to a plane in the vicinity of the article to thereby give two separate co-planar images of the plural component beam of light. Measurement of the average separation of these two separate images gives an index of the thickness of the article being measured at a point along the optic axis of the system.
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the generation of the two reflected images from the convergent plural component beam of light;
FIG. 2 is a representation of the image of two reflected hollow cones of light in a conjugate plane in the absence of non-parallelism of the surfaces of the article being measured;
FIG. 3 is a representation of the image of two reflected hollow cones in a conjugate plane when the article being measured does have non-parallel front and rear surfaces; and
FIG. 4 is a schematic representation of a complete system illustrating the present invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates the general optical principles upon which the present invention is based. Although there are numerous optical techniques now known to measure the thickness of transparent plates, all of such known techniques are sensitive to measurement error when the surfaces being measured exhibit, to an unknown degree, lack of parallelism, hereinafter as referred to as wedge. In these systems, the basic principle involves the measurement of the separation of reflections from the front and rear surfaces of such a transparent article that is to be measured. In the case of a flat transparent plate, if such plate is placed in the vicinity of the focus of a convergent beam of light with its axis normal to the plate, reflection from the two surfaces of the plate will result in two point sources which are separated longitudinally by a distance given by the formula
S = 2t/n,
where t is the plate thickness, assuming the surfaces to be parallel, and n is the refractive index of the material being measured. Note that the separation S of the point sources is independent of the location of the plate.
Problems in the utilization of this relatively simple procedure appear when one optically images the point sources and tries to measure the longitudinal separation. This image separation is proportional to the square of the imaging system's lateral magnification and is therefore quite sensitive to the position of the plate. In order to avoid this positional dependence, one must work with light distributions in planes which are transverse to the optic axis at fixed object-image distances (conjugate planes).
In the most general sense, the present invention involves the generation of a plural component light beam which is generally symmetric about the optic axis of the system. The light distribution which results from this arrangement is used to illuminate a transparent article. The result is separate reflections from the front and rear surfaces of the article for all of the components of the light beam. If these reflections are imaged in a detector plane which is conjugate to a plane in the vicinity of the article, a pair of co-planar images are formed, one image representing reflection of all of the plural components from the rear surface and the other image representing reflection of all of the plural components from the front surface. Measurement of the average separation of the images will give a value that is proportional to the thickness of the article at a point lying along the optic axis of the system. In the following discussion, the plural component beam of light will be represented by a hollow cone of light. However, two bars of light or linear slits would also work. Likewise, if such could be readily generated, a square or rectangular pattern could also be used. The important factor is that there are at least two separate components present in the illumination beam, as opposed to the prior art which used only a single component in the illumination beam.
The use of a hollow convergent beam of light eliminates many of the sensitivity factors present in the systems of the prior art. Such a hollow convergent beam of light may be produced by placing an annular aperture in the path of the output beam of the light source used. When this annular aperture is used, such a technique results in pairs of annular rings being formed in planes transverse to the optic axis. In the case of a transparent plate which is being measured using this hollow convergent beam, the radii of the resulting rings change as the plate is moved along the optic axis. However, their annular separation will remain constant in both the object and image spaces. In FIG. 1, points A and B represent point sources which result from reflection by a plate being measured. The plate itself and the source are not shown in FIG. 1 for purposes of simplicity. Further, the hollow light cones are represented only by their central rays in the meridional plane shown in the figure. Observe that this representation could also be for a system using two linear slits of light as the illumination beam. The laws of reflection and refraction require that the light rays designated as 10 and 12 in FIG. 1 are parallel. Since this is so, their separation in the plane designated as P1 is equal to that in the planes which contain the sources A and B. The annular separation of the rings in P1 may then be given by the formula
Δr = S tan θ,
where θ is the angle of incidence of either ray upon the plate being measured. If the input beam has a radius of Ro at the lens and is focused at a distance I beyond the lens (see FIG. 4), the angle of incidence will be given by tan θ0 = Ro /I, so that Δr = SRo /I. The annular separation of the rings Δr' in an image plane conjugate to P1 such as the plane designated as P2 in FIG. 1, will be related to Δr through a constant lateral magnification factor M provided by a lens 14. Thus it may be seen that Δr' = MΔr = MSRo /I = (2MRo /nI)t, the coefficient of t being independent of the position of the plate. The only restriction upon the position of the plate results from the requirement that all reflected light be collected by the optical system. By assuring Ro is smaller than the entrance pupil of the optical system the range of allowable plate positions can be made relatively large. Furthermore, the magnification factor M can be tailored to produce images compatible with a variety of detector arrays placed in an image plane.
FIGS. 2 and 3 illustrate the formation of the rings discussed with respect to FIG. 1 and further illustrate the image obtained when a plate being measured has wedge present in it. In FIG. 2, the rings shown illustrate the situation when a transparent plate is measured that has parallel surfaces. The rings designated as 16 and 18 in FIG. 2 are concentric. This situation would allow one to measure the dimension Δr' at any azimuthal location in the plane designated as P2. In such a case, the annular aperture of the present invention could be replaced with a slit displaced a distance Ro from the optic axis, thereby resulting in a pair of lines with separation of Δr' in plane P2. However, this is the technique of the prior art and fails to take into account the realities of the measurement of such plates which generally do include wedge. That is, plates which are measured by this technique are usually not perfectly parallel and thus do not lend themselves to the use of a slit type aperture. Rather, the hollow cone of light used in the present invention compensates for this non-parallelism.
FIG. 3 illustrates the condition which occurs as a result of a plate exhibiting wedge or non-parallel front and rear surfaces. In this situation, rings designated as 20 and 22 are clearly not concentric. There are therefore two measurements of separation which may be made, namely Δr'1 and Δr'2. However, it is still possible to obtain valid information relative to local average thickness by averaging the values of Δr obtained in this fashion. This is a simple averaging technique, in that Δr' average is equal to (Δr'1 + Δr'2)/2. Thus this measurement of the average Δr' yields an accurate measurement of local thickness even in the presence of significant wedge or non-parallelism of the surfaces of the object being measured.
While the foregoing examples have been specifically directed toward flat plates, the present technique may also be used to measure transparent articles with cylindrical walls, such as glass containers or glass tubing. A complicating factor resulting from this particular situation is that the images of the point sources now suffer from astigmatism and result in elliptical rings as opposed to the circular rings produced with flat planes. Any measurement made of Δr' must therefore be confined to a direction defined by the intersection of the plane P2 and a plane containing the cylinder axis (hereinafter the axial plane). Since linear detector arrays usually have a small but finite width, however, one must also be concerned with light which lies in the plane orthogonal to the axial plane, or transverse plane. An estimate of the effect created by this astigmatism is simply obtained by comparing the separation of the two point sources as perceived in these two planes. Using the techniques of Gaussian Optics, the point sources separations in the axial and transverse planes were calculated as follows: ##EQU1## In the foregoing relationships, R is the radius of curvature of the outer wall surface being measured and d is the distance from this wall to the focus of the input beam, being considered positive toward the center of the cylinder. This result clearly exhibits sensitivity to wall position. For the most simple case of d equals 0, the above equation reduces to ##EQU2## This indicates that the astigmatic effects are more pronounced for large t/R. Representative calculations indicate that these effects are negligible in the vicinity of d=O. Computer calculations based upon the exact equations further indicate that for larger radii the restrictions placed upon d are much less severe and permit the use of commercially available linear detector arrays.
In FIG. 4, a schematic representation of a system using the principles previously described to measure the thickness of a plate of transparent material 24 is illustrated. Illumination is furnished from a point light source 26. This is then modified by an opaque aperture plate 28 having a circular opening 30 formed therein to give the hollow cone of light as one example for the operation of the present invention. This divergent hollow cone of light then passes through the lens L and is focused a distance I beyond the lens. The radius of the input beam is shown as being Ro. As has been previously illustrated with respect to FIG. 1, the plate 24, which has a thickness designated as t, will form two point sources A and B. The source A results from reflections from the front surface and the source B results from reflections from the back surface. These sources pass light back through the lens L. In the optical path between the lens L and the point source 26 is positioned a beam splitter 32. The beam splitter 32 allows about one-half of the light which comes from the aperture plate 28 to pass through the lens L. About one-half of the light coming through the lens L from the sources A and B is reflected by the beam splitter 32. The light from the beam splitter is then imaged upon a conjugate detector plane P3. In this respect, the plane P3 may be considered to be the equivalent of the plane P2 described with respect to FIG. 1. That is, the cone of light has now been divided into two separate components as represented by the sources A and B representing the front and rear surfaces of the plate 24. Their separation designated as Δr may now be used as a measure of the thickness t of the plate 24. The conjugate plane P3 would contain a suitable detector array to allow determination of the dimension Δr to act as a measure of the thickness t. Note that the relationship has previously been demonstrated, and simple fixed processing techniques may be used to obtain numerical values of t if desired.
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Welsh Conservatives stage united front over tax powers
Has the season of goodwill arrived in the Welsh Conservative Party?
A joint statement arrives in the names of "the two most senior Conservatives in Wales" - David Jones and Andrew RT Davies. The word "historic" has been used for less, given the recent spat between the two men and their entourages over a fringe appearance at the party's conference in Manchester.
Relations were not improved last week by Mr Jones's suggestion that the Conservatives would campaign for a future Welsh government to take a penny off the 20p, 40p and 45p in the pound tax rates in Wales.
That prompted an unsolicited reminder from the Davies camp that future Welsh tax rates would be set in the National Assembly for Wales and not Westminster. Oh, and cutting the 40p rate was the only "realistic" option, despite the UK government "lockstep" that would prevent changes to one tax band alone. Mr Jones and the UK government believe the "progressivity" of the tax system should be reserved to Westminster.
So today, ahead of the imminent publication of the legislation to give Wales some tax-varying powers, the two men have issued their joint statement.
In it, Mr Jones says: "In October, the UK government announced historic measures meaning that, for the first time, the Welsh government will have real accountability for spending and accompanying borrowing powers.
"Conservatives now want Wales to become a place of low tax, and I urge the Welsh government to hold a referendum on income tax powers as soon as reasonably possible and allow the Welsh people their say. The Conservative party will be campaigning for a "yes" vote and for a lower-tax Wales.
"In the next few days the government will publish the draft Wales Bill which will set out our commitment to improving Welsh democracy and giving the Welsh government the tools it needs to improve the Welsh economy.
"Whether it be the electrification of the Great Western Line, investment at Wylfa and now commitment to allow borrowing for the M4 relief road, the Conservatives are delivering for Wales."
In the same statement, Mr Davies says: ""There can be no doubt that what the UK government announced in Cardiff Bay in October was historic, and the Welsh government must work with all political parties to deliver a referendum to take place on income tax. This would allow a properly accountable and responsible devolved settlement.
"The Welsh economy has for too long lagged too far behind other parts of the UK. I want Wales to be a destination for business and for Welsh business growth. This means having a low tax economy and allowing proper competition.
"I'm proud that a Conservative-led government in Westminster has given such steadfast commitment to allowing Welsh Conservatives to deliver a low-tax Welsh economy. The Welsh Conservative group in the assembly has been committed from day one to Silk Part One [the first report from the commission on devolution in Wales] being implemented and has been working with colleagues across Whitehall to press the case.
"I will be campaigning hard for a 'double yes' vote in the coming years. 'Yes' to a referendum and 'yes' to cutting tax."
So, a united front. Up to a point. The statement makes no mention of the two leaders' differences on tax rates or the UK government's introduction of a "lockstep" that would restrict the Welsh government's room for manoeuvre when it comes to using its new powers.
But they do agree on the "double yes" strategy - a phrase used by the prime minister - of campaigning for an early referendum and a lower tax Wales. They'll be issuing joint Christmas cards next.

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