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Publication number | US5440109 A |
Publication type | Grant |
Application number | US 08/208,813 |
Publication date | Aug 8, 1995 |
Filing date | Mar 11, 1994 |
Priority date | Mar 31, 1993 |
Fee status | Lapsed |
Also published as | DE4310580A1, DE59408408D1, EP0625768A2, EP0625768A3, EP0625768B1 |
Publication number | 08208813, 208813, US 5440109 A, US 5440109A, US-A-5440109, US5440109 A, US5440109A |
Inventors | Bernhard Hering, Karl Wurst, Joachim Seemann, Peter Wenter |
Original Assignee | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft |
Export Citation | BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan |
Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (57), Classifications (10), Legal Events (5) | |
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet | |
The present invention generally relates to an automatic toll ticketing system. More specifically, the present invention relates to an automatic toll ticketing system for roadway use by vehicles including on-board equipment having a communication means, a vehicle transceiver and an electronic purse in the form of a processor card, or what is referred to as a "smart card." The automatic toll ticketing system has toll stations arranged at the roadways that implement a data exchange with at least one wireless communications equipment attached to or over the roadway which debit a use fee while preserving the anonymity of the vehicle user.
Toll ticketing systems for roadway use are generally known, particularly systems that are referred to as "closed systems." Toll ticketing systems are increasingly gaining in significance because distance-related roadway use fees are being increasingly demanded by many traffic and environmental engineers. Introduction into countries of such toll ticketing systems that were previously toll-free, however, encounters many difficulties. Only automatic toll ticketing systems that do not impede the flow of traffic and that can be economically erected and operated on the existing road network are considered for high-use roadway networks.
One example of a toll ticketing system is described in German patent 38 33 716 C2 which discloses an automatic roadway toll collecting unit wherein an IS card is employed as a recording medium for collecting tolls based on a bank account of a roadway user. A significant disadvantage of this known automatic collecting unit is that the owner or driver of the vehicle does not remain anonymous. It is also disadvantageous that the collecting of the roadway toll is only possible given stationary vehicles in a toll lane provided for this purpose.
An exact localization of the vehicle which is to pay its roadway toll at the moment is required for toll ticketing in flowing, multi-lane traffic. European Patent Application No. 413 948-A1 discloses a system for automatic data transmission, preferably for the automatic payment of roadway tolls, i.e. wirelessly. To this end, an optical system that images optical absorption areas specifically aligned onto respective lanes is implemented for the data transmission for this purpose. This type of optical system requires a complicated structural fashioning and is not suitable for fast and extensive data traffic because of the comparatively short contact time as a result thereof.
In an automatic toll ticketing system, it is, therefore, an object of the present invention to enable a reliable, dependable communication between the vehicles and the payment station on multi-lane roads with undiminished vehicle speeds and with changing of lanes by the vehicles, as well as to enable a localization of the communicating vehicle in order to recognize vehicles paying and non-paying vehicles.
In an embodiment, an automatic ticketing system is provided for roadway use by vehicles having an on-board apparatus with a first communication means, a vehicle transceiver, and an electronic purse in the form of a processor card. The roadway has pay stations arranged at the roadway that implement a data exchange with at least one wireless communication means attached at or above the roadway and debit a use toll while preserving the anonymity of a user of the vehicle. The toll ticketing system comprises a vehicle localization means operatively connected at the wireless communication means at the pay station. The vehicle localization means identifies the position of the vehicle. The vehicle communicates by outputting brief-duration optical signals by the vehicle transceiver. A temporary identifier is known from the communication protocol allocated to the optical signal.
It is, therefore, an advantage of the present invention to provide for the exact localization of the vehicle by providing a localization means in addition to communication equipment of the pay station. The localization means identifies the position of the vehicle communicating at the moment based on a brief duration, and an optical signal output by the vehicle communicating at the moment is allocated to this optical signal. The temporary identifier is known from the communication protocol.
Another advantage of the present invention is to provide an additional output signal formed by an infrared photoflash which is output in response to a request on the part of the pay station. A vehicle localization means is thereby expediently formed by an infrared-sensitive video camera that identifies the position of this vehicle based on the optical imaging and correspondingly allocates or correlates the image with a computer-controlled evaluation.
The debiting of the present invention ensues within a defined communication region wherein the successful debiting is acknowledged on a part of the vehicle and is documented on a processor card in order to have particulars about the payment that has been carried out as proof in a check which may potentially be carried out later. It is, therefore, an advantage of the present invention to acknowledge the ensued debiting with the optical signal and/or the infrared photoflash.
It is, therefore, yet another advantage of the present invention to prevent a driver of a vehicle from avoiding any and all communication and, thus any and all payment as well, for example by removing or disabling the vehicle transceiver. A check system independent of the toll ticketing with a suitable vehicle detector is required in order to check whether all detected vehicles also have a paying transceiver. All vehicles that have properly paid their toll are, therefore, known with the vehicle localization means of the present invention.
In order to identify non-payers, either because they have performed manipulations at their debiting means or because they are not equipped with such an apparatus, a vehicle detection means for all vehicles that is coordinated with the vehicle localization means is arranged at the pay station in an embodiment of the present invention. Those vehicles that have not output an acknowledgement signal can thus be found, identified and registered by, for example, photographic acquisition systems.
A video monitoring camera with image recording and image evaluation can be advantageously provided for the vehicle detection means. In a further embodiment of the present invention, the vehicle detection means can be formed by a known traffic radar means which detects the individual vehicles separated according to lane. The non-payers are registered with a film or video camera for still and moving pictures, i.e., with a known photographic acquisition system, whereby the exact allocation or correlation to the vehicle ensues with the traffic radar means.
The data exchange can ensue with the assistance of microwave transmission technology. It is advantageously provided, however, that the data transmission be implemented with the assistance of the infrared light transmission. The infrared light transmission known from a traffic routing and information system (EURO-SCOUT) can thereby be employed.
In the data exchange between the vehicles and the pay station with the assistance of the infrared light transmission, an electronic video camera is arranged at the pay station that preferably localizes the vehicles when the pay station requests that the vehicle transceiver transmit a message as documentation for correct payment. The video camera becomes active while the communication system receives this message in order to identify the position of the paying transceiver. A separate infrared photoflash is thereby not required; this is advantageous for an exact and reliable localization. The active transmission diodes of a vehicle transceiver are thus acquired as a light source with the assistance of the infrared-sensitive camera which is expediently attached immediately next to the infrared station antenna or, respectively, the infrared transmission and reception means.
In other embodiments of the present invention, for suppressing stray light that can be produced by solar reflections, spotlights or blinkers, various measures can be employed. An optical filter which allows only light having the wavelength of the infrared rays employed is attached in the beam path of the camera. The infrared transmission diodes of the vehicle transceiver are arranged in a very specific form that can be easily relocated by image evaluation and can be reliably demarcated with respect to noise sources.
A further advantage of the present invention is matching of exposure time of the electronic camera to the transmission phase of the vehicle transceiver, whereby an individual vehicle is designationally requested to transmit by the pay station within the framework of the transmission protocol. With a further measure, static light sources are highly suppressed by a differentiation technique. To this end, two images are registered during and immediately after the transmission activity and a difference image is formed therefrom. As a result, the disturbing light sources are largely suppressed, and only the transmission diodes are clearly recognizable for the infrared flash or the infrared transmission.
The directional information can be converted into absolute coordinates from the camera image acquired with the infrared-sensitive video camera, whereby information, such as, for example, installation height of the transceiver, can be utilized in addition to the location and the alignment of the camera. The distance to the transceiver can thus be calculated from the visual size of the transceiver in the camera image. A medium installation height of the transceiver is thereby provided for identical vehicle classes. The type of vehicle, i.e. the vehicle class, can be co-transmitted from the vehicle to the pay station in the data exchange. The individual installation position of the transceiver can likewise be transmitted from the vehicle to the pay station.
These and other advantages of the present invention will be described in and will be apparent from the detailed description of the presently preferred embodiments and from the drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates a pay station/at a three-lane motor highway.
FIG. 2 illustrates a schematic diagram for an automatic toll ticketing and vehicle check.
FIG. 3 illustrates a schematic diagram for the vehicle localization and detection as well as vehicle identification and registration at a multi-lane pay station.
FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a perspective view of a motor highway 10 having three lanes 12a, 12b, and 12c in one travel direction having a signal bridge 14. A pay station 16 in this embodiment comprises a respective infrared beacon 18 at the left side and at the right side of the signal bridge 14. The infrared beacons 18 are a part of an infrared communication means 20.
The two infrared beacons 18 illuminate a specific communication region 22 in a travel direction. An infrared video camera 24, which is part of an infrared light localization means 26, a traffic radar means having a radar detector 28 and a normal video camera 30, which is part of a vehicle identification and registration means 32 are located at the signal bridge 14. These devices are connected to a control and evaluation means 34 where all of the data processing and correlation ensues. The data processing functions and correlations are schematically illustrated in FIG. 2.
The data exchange between the pay station 16 and the individual vehicles is carried out via the infrared beacons 18 with the assistance of the infrared communication means 20. High quality encoding is required (crypto module) in order to be able to administer the credit on a processor card protected against fraud.
The beacon controller 36 of the infrared communication means 20 controls the transaction with the vehicle and the control and evaluation means 34. As already mentioned above, a successfully implemented debiting is confirmed with an acknowledgement signal 38 that is simultaneously employed for the optical signalling from a vehicle transceiver. This is indicated with a trigger pulse 40 which informs the infrared localization means 26 of the acknowledgement.
The infrared localization means 26 or a vehicle localization means 42 acquire the position of the vehicle that has paid and likewise informs a correlation means 44 of the control and evaluation means 34 of the position and payment of the vehicle. In order to identify vehicles that have not paid, all vehicles are monitored with a traffic radar means, i.e. with a vehicle detection means 46 and the appertaining radar detector 28. The positions of the vehicles are communicated to the correlation means 44 of the control and evaluation means 34. In this way, the position of the vehicles that have paid is identified and the non-payers are recognized. The information with respect to payers and non-payers is then available for an exact acquisition and identification.
Registration means 32 is provided for determining the violators with the normal video camera 30, a video controller 48 and a video recorder 50. For visualization, a monitor 52 is provided in the vehicle identification and registration means 32. The control and evaluation means 34 informs the vehicle identification and registration means 32 what vehicles have paid and what vehicles have not paid within a communication limit 54 that may then be identified and registered. The localization detection, identification and registration of vehicles are illustrated in FIG. 3.
Referring now to FIG. 3, a plan view onto the pay station 16 is illustrated having three lanes 12a, 12b, and 12c in one direction of the motor highway. Three vehicles 56a, 56b, and 56c are located on the highway. The infrared beacons 18 to the left and to the right of the motor highway 10 illuminate a specific communication region 22. The infrared video camera 24, the radar detector 28 and the normal video camera 30, which acquire the entire area in front of the pay station 16, are arranged approximately in the middle of the signal bridge 14.
FIG. 3 also illustrates how the infrared communication means 20 recognizes the vehicle which is actually unknown to it as a vehicle that has paid. Based on an optical signal 58 that the vehicle 56a outputs, the infrared localization means 26 recognizes the position of the vehicle 56a. With the assistance of the traffic radar means 28, the vehicle detection means 46 recognizes the three vehicles 56a, 56b, and 56c that are shown here in the vehicle detection means 46 and are referenced by the numerals 6, 7, and 8. With the assistance of the normal video camera 30, the vehicle identification and registration means 32 visualizes the traffic situation and likewise displays the three vehicles by the designations 6, 7, and 8.
As indicated in FIG. 2, the data of the three or four devices are correlated in the control and evaluation means 34 so that the visual presentation in the vehicle identification and registration means 32 shows the first vehicle 56a as having paid with the number 7, shows the second vehicle 56b, which has reached the communication limit 54 as a non-payer with the number 6, and shows the third vehicle 56c, which is still located in the communication region 54 as not yet having been handled or otherwise recognized and is referenced with the number 8.
It should be understood that various changes and modifications to the presently preferred embodiments described herein will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Such changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention and without diminishing its attendant advantages. It is, therefore, intended that such changes and modifications be covered by the appended claims.
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NIU Blows Out CMU in MAC Opener 9/29/12
Junior running back Leighton Settle (Madison, Wis./Madison West/Fresno City CC) scored three touchdowns while rushing for 152 yards on 23 carries to lead Northern Illinois to a 55-24 victory on Saturday afternoon at Huskie Stadium. Junior quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel) gained 144 yards on 21 carries with a touchdown and went 14-of-32 through the air for 215 yards and another score.
As a team, the Huskies gained 407 yards on 55 carries. The victory was NIU's 18th-straight at Huskie Stadium and was the first time the Huskies have scored 50-or-more points since defeating Toledo, 63-60, on Nov. 1, 2011. NIU improved to 4-1 overall and won its first Mid-American Conference game of the season. Central Michigan is 2-2, 0-1.
"When you run for 400 yards, I don't know how you can't be happy," said NIU head coach Dave Doeren. "We're protecting our quarterback; he's not getting hit a lot in the pass game. I think coach (Rod) Carey does a phenomenal job just mixing up things with the launch point, different protections and making it tough defensively. (Opponents) can't blitz a lot with the run game we have. We're ahead of where I thought we'd be at this point.
"It's funny -- we were up by 10 at half, and everyone in the locker room was mad. We felt like we hadn't played our best yet. We have a group of guys that don't want to underachieve. They want to play at their utmost best all the time. We left a few plays out there in the first half and we knew it."
Northern Illinois led by 10 at halftime, but Central Michigan trimmed the lead to just three, 24-21, on the first play of the second half. Following an illegal block penalty that pushed CMU back to its own eight-yard line to begin the drive, Ryan Radcliff connected with Titus Davis on a 92-yard pass to bring the Chippewas within three.
Radcliffe finished the afternoon 20-of-39 passing for 332 yards and two touchdowns.
The Huskies answered with a 20-yard field goal from junior Mathew Sims (Hannibal, Mo./Hannibal) on the next drive and never looked back, outscoring the Chippewas 31-3 in the final 26 minutes of the contest.
Following the Sims field goal, Central Michigan marched down to the NIU 16-yard line before a Radcliff pass was intercepted by senior defensive end Sean Progar (Glenview, Ill./Glenbrook South), who claimed his first career INT.
The Huskies converted the turnover into points as Lynch pushed the lead to 13, 34-21, with a nine-yard touchdown run, capping a nine-play, 61-yard drive with 4:29 to play in the third quarter.
Central Michigan clawed back within 10 with a 42-yard David Harman field goal with 1:02 left in the third.
Both teams punted on their first drives of the fourth quarter and, on its second drive of the quarter, the Huskies drove to the Central Michigan seven before back-to-back incomplete passes set up a fourth and six. Lined up for a 20-yard field goal, the Huskies caught the Chippewas by surprise as senior punter Ryan Neir (Roscoe, Ill./Hononegah) flipped the ball over his shoulder to Sims on a fake. Sims got the corner and found the end zone, giving NIU a 41-24 lead with 11:28 to play in the fourth quarter.
After Harman missed a 41-yard field goal, Settle scored for the third time on the afternoon with a 46-yard rush with 3:43 remaining, putting the Huskies up 48-24.
Freshman running back Keith Harris Jr. (Chicago, Ill./Leo) closed the scoring with a four-yard touchdown carry. Harris gained 53 yards on the first play of the drive before being caught from behind at the Chippewa nine. A Central Michigan offside penalty moved the Huskies five yards closer and Harris finished the drive with his four-yard scoring run.
Harris rushed for 67 yards on six carries.
NIU took a 14-0 lead early in the contest as Settle opened the scoring with an 11-yard touchdown run and Lynch connected with senior wide receiver Martel Moore (San Antonio, Texas/Earl Warren) for a 14-yard touchdown.
Central Michigan cut the NIU lead in half with 1:19 to play in the first quarter. Zurlon Tipton caught a 37-yard touchdown pass from Radcliff to trim the Huskie lead to 14-7.
Tipton caught three passes for 41 yards while also rushing for a team-best 66 yards on 15 carries.
Northern Illinois answered with an 11-play, 41-yard drive, capped by a Sims 43-yard field goal to give the Huskies a 17-7 lead.
Following a three and out by CMU, Settle scored his second touchdown of the day on a six-yard run. The score was set-up by a 43-yard pass from Lynch to sophomore tight end Luke Eakes (St. Mary's, Kan./St. Mary's).
Three minutes before the break, Tipton capped a 16-play, 75-yard drive with a 13-yard touchdown, bringing the Chippewas within 10, 24-14, heading into the half.
Northern Illinois goes on the road for three of its next four games, beginning with a MAC West battle versus Ball State next Saturday in Muncie. The game kicks off at 2 p.m. (CT) and will air on ESPN3.
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At the White House, a would-be assassin--the acrobatic, teleporting blue mutant Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming)--menaces the president. Meanwhile, in the Canadian Rockies, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) searches for answers to his mysterious past at the top-secret facility where he received his metallic skeleton and claws. Back at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Storm (Halle Berry) instruct students Rogue (Anna Paquin), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), and Pyro (Aaron Stanford), while Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Cyclops (James Marsden) pay a visit to the imprisoned Magneto (Ian McKellen). However, Magneto has a secret weapon in the shape-shifting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos). Soon allies and enemies alike will unite to defeat the hate-filled military scientist William Stryker (Brian Cox), who wants to rid the world of mutants. When Stryker launches a ruthless two-pronged attack that leaves the school under siege and Xavier and Cyclops captured, Wolverine and the remaining X-Men must spring to action to save their friends and prevent all-out genocide. REVIEW: Before there was The Dark Knight, before their was Spider-man 2, there was X-2: X-men United. It seems as though direct sequels to the newer superhero franchises have the best incarnation of story and character. Although in my opinion, Blade 2 was the first film to accomplish this task, X2 is well known as being the one that stood out. The film was and still is one of the best superhero films of all times. Unlike the previous X-men movie, this film doesnt harp on the gay/mutant parallel as much and focuses more on character development and a plot. While there is a social commentary again with the military trying to control the mutants, its one thats easier to swallow. The best aspect of this film is the tragedy aspect. Theres an old motto that I go by when I write myself. I once watched a documentary on the Star Wars films entitled Empire of Dreams. In it, The Story: Theres so many things going on in this film, and they all are separate paths leading to the same destination. Whats great is the structure of these stories allowing focus on individual characters and their relationships, advancing their stories and the plot. The best part is, when you hit a lull in one story, you cut to a high point in another. Its fantastic way to keep the action and interest up throughout such a heavily cast movie and keep the audience intrigued with different situations. Besides, if we had all the characters together, with their combined powers ..the movie would suck. ---Justice League writers, eh hem .make note. Acting: Hugh Jackman Even stronger than last time. Wolverine is the backbone of the entire film. If there is a scene with him in it, Im immediately interested and captivated. The character is kept mysterious as well as edgy. You never know what hell do in any given situation. Brian Cox really is the main villain in the film. Well, of course he is. Anyway, theres a lot of confrontation between him and Magneto and Professor X, but his true enemy is Wolverine. Everything that happens in the film is building to a confrontation between the two. Cox is an amazing actor and I was disappointed to lose his character at the end of the film as he was by far the best human bad guy the films have seen.Patrick Stewart really has little to do in the film other than be the pawn of a little girl via mind control. I really dont understand why all other forms of mind control dont work for Professor X but a little girl with different eye colors can talk him to committing mass genocide. Ian McKellen Does have a lot to do in this film, and as always, never fails to disappoint. Magneto is once again on his quest for mutant superiority and this time reveals a more manipulative and backstabbing persona as opposed to an outright sinister take. This characterization is by far more interesting in my opinion. Shawn Ashmore / Aaron Standford /Anna Paquin Ice Man, Pyro and Rogue are very well developed in this film and the actors do a great job utilizing the time they have. The fundamentals of being of the Brotherhood or the X-men are explored and you can easily see why would choose one side over the other. Alan Cummings Does a fantastic job as Nightcrawler in the film, but as you can tell from interviews and special features on the film, was none too happy with the amount of make up and prosthetics he had to wear. Its sad too, because it was well performed and a great character. But in the end, I can understand why they didnt have him back in the next film. Famke Jenson / Halle Berry Jean Grey and Storm are well developed in this film. Jean is on her descent the entire time and Storm actually has a point and a personality this go around. Granted, theres not much to do with Storm, but she was well contrasted with Nightcrawler in several moments in the film that gave her character a new depth. Props to Halle for doing a good job and making them memorable. Directing: Bryan Singer does his best in this film. He was able to juggle a great story with several character arcs and kept every scene interesting and purposeful. Cinematography: Here we go again I am just a sucker for the camera work in Marvel movies. Symbolism, the use of color, the framing and blocking. The whole nine yards is always something special and this film really set the bar in my humble opinion. Production Design: Just great. And like the last film, the costumes are once again well done. Its kept realistic, but somehow theirs a stylistic touch that you cant quite put your finger on that keeps it fantastical. Which is the way it should be, subtle. Editing: Alright, now Ive been waiting for this section of my review because I cannot stress enough the literal translation of this next sentence. The opening scene in the White House is BREATHTAKING. If you did not see the film in theaters, then go save up $1000, buy a projector and get the biggest room of your house before you see this movie. Its simply amazing how great the opening scene is. I can remember being in shock watching this sequence. Watching these kinds of movies on a daily basis really desensitizes me from them and this sequence is the only one I can remember that I was frozen solid watching. Its .just amazing. Watching it on a smaller screen will not do it justice. Simply put, the editing of this scene is what makes it so wonderful and it continued on throughout the film. Score: Operatic. Epic. Yet there still isnt a great Oh yeah! Here come the X-men! feel to it. As if to say, if there were a teaser trailer with a black screen playing this music, Im pretty sure no one would know who the movie was for. Special Effects: The opening sequence .again. Sets the bar for the wow factor. Alongside that the special effects are really strong in relation with the production design and the visual effects are somewhat stylized and you can tell most of them are CGI, but it doesnt take you out of the story. But it doesnt always take your breath away either. In closing: If you hate superhero movies or action movies or movies in general. I dont care. Watch this movies opening sequence on a giant screen and tell me its not amazing. And Ill tell you that you have no taste at all. That or you must have been a fighter pilot or something truly amazing to not be captivated by that. The film is well acted, written, and directed and edited and shot. What more could you really ask for? Its the second chapter in this X-men trilogy to date and is of course the tragic one. 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From an Australian product notice - A Ghost Blurred Gray Mini Stripe Scoop Neck tank. There is also a CRB coming in this color, too. I wonder how similar it looks to Heathered Pigeon.
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I don't usually comment on the models, but this color looks amazing on the model! I hope she gets the scoop neck tank in this color! But for me, I am pasty, pale and pinkish. I think that I would look like a ghost, ha.
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I think everyone is over reacting over the lulu site pictures - that ambassador has a great body and it doesn't show anything that is obscene.
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VMware shops eye NFS and NAS for VMDK storage
For networked storage, most VMware practitioners opt for Fibre Channel storage area networks, but a few shops are considering network-attached storage and the Network File System.
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data stores, but some are beginning to ask whether Network File System (NFS) might be a better fit.
IT business services provider T-Systems, for example, made the architectural decision to go with NFS a couple of years ago when it was designing its VMware-based Dynamic Services managed hosting platform.
"We really felt that networked NFS was the best option," said Dr. Gregory Smith, Dynamic Services director. "SAN [storage area network] has the advantage in terms of throughput, but in terms of flexibility and management, NFS is much better." As an industry-standard shared file system, NFS volumes are easy to mount and dismount, are supported by any number of clients, and are well understood by IT staffers.
Smith also promoted NFS' security benefits. Since NFS runs over Ethernet, T-Systems takes advantage of virtual LANs (VLANs) to isolate virtual machines (VMs) from one another. "The VMs just see their stuff. You just expose this file system to this VLAN, and you don't have to deal with SANs, switches and all that stuff."
In contrast, housing VMs in VMware's VMFS on a SAN does not currently allow you isolate one VM's storage from another if you want to use VMotion across ESX hosts. Support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) in ESX Server 3.5 will change that; but even then, NPIV will be supported only on raw devices, not on VMFS, VMware's proprietary file system.
T-Systems hosts applications for about 70 customers servicing 80,000 users on its VMware-based Dynamic Services platform on top of network-attached storage (NAS) storage from Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp). The firm uses "a good chunk of the [NetApp] OnTap suite," Smith said, including Snappmirror Software for replication, SnapVault to create a 30-day archive, and MetroCluster to create an active compute cluster between geographically dispersed data centers.
Performance penalty moot?
But what about performance? "When you tell people you're going to run VMware on NFS, people look at you like you're nuts," said Scott Lowe, virtualization blogger and consultant with ePlus Inc. in Herdon, Va. That's because, from a raw throughput perspective, NFS on Gigabit Ethernet can't compete with Fibre Channel's 4 Gbps of raw throughput. "If all you're looking at is raw throughput, Fibre Channel beats the pants off NFS," Lowe said.
But Lowe and some of his peers have noticed an interesting paradox: The larger the number of VMs in an environment, the less of an advantage Fibre Channel's throughput becomes. In fact, in very large environments, NFS may actually perform better than Fibre Channel, Lowe said.
At issue is contention for disk access by multiple VMs. "When you start to load up the number of VMs in a data store, you run in to a SCSI locking issue that prevents all the open hosts from accessing the LUN [logical unit number]," he said. "The more hosts you have, the less of an issue [Fibre Channel's] raw throughput becomes, since you can't always access that throughput." Not everyone concurs, however. "That sounds like a lot of FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt]," said Greg Schulz, founder of the StorageIO Group in Stillwater, Minn. "Certainly, if you set up the array for contention, you're going to have some issues. But if you follow vendors' best practices, you shouldn't have a problem." Schulz said that most VMware-certified Fibre Channel SAN arrays publish "cookbooks" that detail the speeds and feeds of their systems as well as the maximum recommended number of hosts and VMs per port on their array.Further, disk contention isn't unique to SAN, Schulz said. "The same thing can happen on a NAS device; except that there, instead of talking about SCSI initiators and targets, you're talking about the number of threads or sessions."
James Price, CEO of Fairway Consulting Group Inc. in Sunrise, Fla., most definitely does not agree about NAS' performance advantage. "NAS has a place," he said, "but I don't think you'll find any schooled storage architects that will tell you with a straight face that it should be used as a primary storage platform."First, the disk contention issue that Lowe cited may have been a factor in previous versions of ESX, but it has been alleviated in the new version of VMFS that came out with Virtual Infrastructure 3. Now, Price explained, instead of all the hosts in a cluster sharing a single journal for access to disk, each host now has its own dedicated journal, he said, which eliminates the locking issue.
Second, Price worries about the additional layer of complexity introduced by a third-party file system, NFS. "The real danger of NAS is doing block I/O against someone else's file system," he said. "You have no visibility into that from ESX," he said. Furthermore, there are all sorts of things you can't do with NFS as your storage repository: "out-of-band operations for backup, clustering, boot from SAN, raw devices -- you can't do any of that with NFS."
Nevertheless, ePlus' Lowe said that more customers are taking the NFS route, including "one large-scale customer that is initiating a migration off top-tier Fibre Channel," he said. Performance questions aside, part of NFS' allure is that certain NAS devices come with vendor-specific features -- for example, those from Network Appliance. "For them, the idea of backing up all that data was a tremendous question that they did not have an answer to. They had looked at [VMware Consolidated Backup] and weren't at all pleased with it," Lowe said. Instead, they will store data on NetApp NFS volumes. That way, "they can get to the data from any mature client, and backing up is much easier."
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Romans 6English Standard Version (ESV)Dead to Sin, Alive to God6 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that our old self[a] was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free[b] from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. Slaves to Righteousness15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,[c] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Footnotes:
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Kingston Digital SSD Powers New ASUS Zenbook Ultrabook PCs
Kingston M.2 2260 SATA SSD Form Factor in ASUS Zenbook UX301LA, UX301LAA Models
Fountain Valley, CA – March 18, 2014 − Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced its internal M.2 2260 SATA solid-state drive is at the heart of the ASUS Zenbook UX301LA and UX301LAA. Kingston's SSD solution helps the stylish Ultrabook with fast startup and shutdown, quick opening and closing of applications, longer battery life and rapid access in and out of hibernation.
The ASUS Zenbook UX301LA uses a 128GB Kingston M.2 2260 SATA SSD while the Zenbook UX301LAA is powered by two M.2 2260 SATA SSDs in RAID 0, thus allowing the user up to 256GB of hard drive storage. The slim form factor of the SATA 6Gbps SSD allows unrivaled performance for Ultrabook PCs. M.2 2260 is among the next-generation form factors that Kingston offers to fit various PC OEM platforms as more Ultrabook, light and thin, tablet and all-in-one solutions come into the marketplace.
"Our award-winning Zenbook merges form and function with beauty and precision. The stunning resolution of the touch-screen display is matched by the artistry of the design," said Y.C. Chen, NB Senior Director, ASUS. "This Zenbook is one of the lightest and smallest Ultrabooks we've ever made and with Kingston's M.2 2260 SSD inside, it is a fast and powerful machine that gives the user an unmatched computing experience."
"The ASUS Zenbook combines a stylish and elegant design with power-packed computing performance, a superb display and rich sound," said Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston. "We are proud to have ASUS as a partner utilizing our latest OEM solid-state drives, just as many of the world's leading companies have standardized on Kingston client and server SSDs."
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The Kellis Cougars volleyball team won Saturday's neutral non-conference match against Scottsdale Christian Academy by a score of 2-1.
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The Kellis Cougars volleyball team scored 2 points and limited the host Scottsdale Christian Academy Eagles to 1 in the Cougars non-league victory on Saturday.
The Cougars now have a 6-10 record. They put it on the line next when they travel to Cortez for a non-league game on Saturday, September 17. Kellis will face a Colts squad coming off a 3-0 league win over Moon Valley (Phoenix, AZ). The Colts record now stands at 7-1.
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There are two things you should know about tax brackets: The first is that they are misleading.
In a perfect world, we would just look at your tax bracket (10%, 25%, etc), multiply that by your income, and voilà! You get the amount you'll pay this year in taxes.
But it's not that simple. (Nothing in taxes ever is, right?) Tax brackets give you only a very general idea of how much in taxes you'll pay.
For that reason (and this is the second thing you should know about tax brackets), you yourself won't find your tax bracket very useful if you're doing your taxes on your own. An accountant will find it useful, but we can save you a heart attack right now by telling you that if you're in the 25% tax bracket, you don't actually pay 25% of your income in taxes. You pay less. Much less.
If you want to understand why this is so, read on.
Your Marginal Tax Bracket vs. Your Effective Tax Rate
The most important thing to know is the difference between your marginal tax bracket and your effective tax rate. Think of your marginal tax bracket as just one part of the equation that determines how much you pay in taxes. Think of your effective tax rate as how much you will actually pay compared to your taxable income. So if your marginal tax bracket is 15%, you could pay an effective tax rate as low as 5%. That is much more palatable, right?
How It Works
Why is your effective tax rate lower? Well, first of all, you aren't taxed on your entire income. You're taxed on your taxable income. You can look at your tax return from last year and find the item that says "Taxable Income." It's not very prominent, but it's there (line 6 on the 1040-EZ form, line 27 on 1040A form and line 43 on the 1040 form).
Once you know your taxable income and your filing status (find that out by using our easy flowchart) you can figure out what tax bracket you fall into. Use this chart:
Tax rate | Single filers | Married filing jointly or qualifying widow/widower | Married filing separately | Head of household |
10% | Up to $8,700 | Up to $17,400 | Up to $8,700 | Up to $12,400 |
15% | $8,701 – $35,350 | $17,401 – $70,700 | $8,701- $35,350 | $12,401 – $47,350 |
25% | $35,351 – $85,650 | $70,701 – $142,700 | $35,351 – $71,350 | $47,351 – $122,300 |
28% | $85,651 – $178,650 | $142,701 – $217,450 | $71,351 – $108,725 | $122,301 – $198,050 |
33% | $178,651 – $388,350 | $217,451 – $388,350 | $108,726 – $194,175 | $198,051 – $388,350 |
35% | $388,351 or more | $388,351 or more | $194,176 or more | $388,351 or more |
The second reason why you pay less than your tax bracket says you will is that your income isn't all taxed at the same rate. It's taxed in chunks. It's called a progressive tax, because the more money you make, the more you are taxed.
For Example …
Let's illustrate with a very simplified example: Let's say you are a single taxpayer with a taxable income of $80,000. As you can see from the chart, you are in the 25% tax bracket. Does that mean you're paying a quarter of your taxable income, or $20,000, to the government? No. (Phew!)
Instead, each chunk of your income that falls into a bracket is taxed at a different rate. $8,700 of your income will be taxed at a 10% rate. The next portion of the income you made between $8,700 and $35,350 (or $26,650 in total) will be taxed at a 15% rate. And the remaining portion that you made above $35,351 will be taxed at a 25% rate. That means that after deductions and exemptions, even though you are in the 25% tax bracket, you are only paying 22% of your taxable income. We like that much better.
Who's Afraid of a Tax Bracket?
What this also means is that if you got a raise which bumped your taxable income up to $90,000, your taxes won't suddenly skyrocket. Only the income you made above $85,651 will be taxed at 28%. Which, frankly, isn't much of a difference. (In this example, being in the higher tax bracket would only cost you $1,218 more on that $10,000 boost, in case you're wondering.) You can also get bumped into a higher tax bracket by losing a deduction, because it increases your taxable income. Yes, being in a higher tax bracket will mean you will pay more in taxes, but don't turn down a raise because you're afraid of a new tax bracket!
So now, hopefully you can see why your tax bracket is useful for accountants, but not that useful for you.
Once you know how much you paid in taxes for 2012, you can divide that by your taxable income to find out your effective tax rate for 2012. But you don't have to do that in order to do your taxes—it's just for curiosity's sake.
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DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Drugstore operator Walgreen Co. said Thursday that its sales increased in January, topping a key sales measurement monitored by Wall Street.
The largest U.S. drugstore chain said sales at stores open at least a year climbed 6.1 percent for the month. At those stores, pharmacy revenue grew 6.9 percent. Meanwhile, revenue from sales of non-pharmacy items like cosmetics grew 4.5 percent.
Sales at stores open at least a year is a key gauge of a company's health because it leaves out results from stores that have opened, closed, or been acquired within the last year. Walgreen has expanded by 506 locations over the last 12 months, including the acquisition of the Duane Reade pharmacy chain. It also bought three stores in January, closed one and relocated three.
According to Thomson Reuters, analysts expected sales at stores open at least a year to grow 3.4 percent. On average, they estimated that pharmacy revenue at those stores would rise by 3.8 percent and non-pharmacy, or front-end, revenue would increase 2.8 percent.
The company said its total revenue rose 11.3 percent to $5.93 billion, up from $5.33 billion in January 2010. Walgreen said 2.8 percent of that growth came from Duane Reade stores. Walgreen bought the chain and its 258 New York City-area locations for $623 million last year. The company had 8,146 stores as of Jan. 31.
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Titanium nitride as a plasmonic material for visible and near-infrared wavelengths
Publication: Research - peer-review › Journal article – Annual report year: 2012
The search for alternative plasmonic materials with improved optical properties, easier fabrication and integration capabilities over those of the traditional materials such as silver and gold could ultimately lead to real-life applications for plasmonics and metamaterials. In this work, we show that titanium nitride could perform as an alternative plasmonic material in the visible and near-infrared regions. We demonstrate the excitation of surface-plasmon-polaritons on titanium nitride thin films and discuss the performance of various plasmonic and metamaterial structures with titanium nitride as the plasmonic component. We also show that titanium nitride could provide performance that is comparable to that of gold for plasmonic applications and can significantly outperform gold and silver for transformation-optics and some metamaterial applications in the visible and near-infrared regions.
Original language | English |
Journal | Optical Materials Express |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 4 |
Pages (from-to) | 478-489 |
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State | Published - 2012 |
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This paper was published in Optical Materials Express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-2-4-478. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
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Although St. Mary's College of Maryland sailed well in the second round, when their score from the second round was combined with their previous record it was not enough to advance them. The two other teams who moved on to the Final Four were Georgetown and Roger Williams. Roger Williams had been sailing very well through the whole event, until this morning when they lost the first races of the day. The Roger Williams sailors knew that they had to win all three races in the Final Four to win the event, 'The break in the middle of the day [between the Gold Round and the Final Four] gave us a chance to get focused. They played the corn hole bean bag game and took their minds of the morning's races,' explains Amanda Callahan head coach for Roger Williams. Once Roger Williams hit the water, 'they knew what the job was and they went out and did it,' says Callahan. They were tied with Boston College going into the last race of the Final Four and the race was not short of excitement. Boston College was ahead at the start of the race and the pairings kept changing all over the course. By the leeward mark Boston College was spinning a penalty turn and Roger Williams advanced up the beat to win the race finishing with a first and second combination. The teams' focus helped them stay in the race and win the event. The winning team included skippers Cy Thompson '11, Alec Anderson '13, Sean Bouchard '12 with crews: Kelly Stannard '12, Sophie Bellacosa '13, Bianca Rom '13, Tyler Wilson '12, Cameron Pimentel '13, Joshua Saltmarsh '11, Haley Powell '13 and Alyssa Seifert '13. It is Roger Williams' first appearance at the APS/ICSA Team Race National Championship and therefore the school's first win. They join an elite list of schools that have previously won the title including St. Mary's College of Maryland, Boston College and Georgetown University among others. 'Colin Merrick [assistant coach for Roger Williams] and I really focused on team racing with the group. Colin was huge in preparing them for this event, we spent a lot of time working with them and it was fun to watch them practice and race,' says Callahan. It was particularly big for the Roger Williams program because the Athletic Director for the school was at the regatta watching from start to finish, it is the first time an athletic team at the school has made it to a championship event. Tonight the competitors will enjoy an awards banquet for the Team Racing Championship and tomorrow many of them will continue racing in the Gill/ICSA Dinghy National Championship. The racing is set to begin at 10:45 a.m. after a competitor's briefing and some practice time.
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