An electrodeless lamp apparatus of high efficiency employs a reflection system that allows the lamp to reabsorb light energy. The energy is redirected back to the light to provide increased system efficiency. The redirected light is of the wrong polarization and/or wrong parts of the color spectrum....http://www.google.com/patents/US5833360?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5833360 - High efficiency lamp apparatus for producing a beam of polarized light

High efficiency lamp apparatus for producing a beam of polarized lightUS 5833360 A

Abstract

An electrodeless lamp apparatus of high efficiency employs a reflection system that allows the lamp to reabsorb light energy. The energy is redirected back to the light to provide increased system efficiency. The redirected light is of the wrong polarization and/or wrong parts of the color spectrum. The lamp efficiency is increased because of the optical pumping as well as the reuse (after some downshifting) of the returned light. In one embodiment, a projection system provides an image source or projection engine that includes the improved high efficiency lamp of the present invention.

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What is claimed as invention is:

1. A method of increasing the efficiency of a light source, comprising:

producing a light beam with a light source having a fill, the light beam comprising usable and unusable portions;

redirecting some of the unusable portions back to the light source to be reabsorbed by the fill;

directing the usable portions to leave the light source; and

powering the light source by electrodes external to the light source.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the fill comprises one of sulfur, selenium, and metal halide.

3. A method of increasing the efficiency of a light source, comprising:

producing a light beam with a light source having a fill, wherein the light source includes a sealed bulb having a fill, the light beam comprising usable and unusable portions, and wherein the producing comprises exciting the fill to form a plasma;

redirecting some of the unusable portions back to the light source to be reabsorbed by the plasma and directing the usable portions to leave the light source; and

powering the light source by electrodes external to the light source.

4. A method of increasing the efficiency of a light source, comprising:

producing a light beam with a light source having a fill, the light beam comprising usable and unusable portions;

redirecting some of the unusable portions back to the light source to be reabsorbed;

directing the usable portions to leave the light source;

powering the light source by electrodes external to the light source; and

filtering the emitted light to form a light beam of polarized light.

5. A method of increasing the efficiency of a light source, comprising:

producing a light beam with a light source having a fill, the light beam comprising usable and unusable portions;

redirecting some of the unusable portions back to the light source to be reabsorbed, wherein the redirecting comprises positioning a polarizing reflector to receive a beam of light from the light source, and wherein the polarizing reflector passes light of one polarity and reflects other light back to the light source;

directing the usable portions to leave the light source; and

powering the light source by electrodes external to the light source.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising filtering the beam of light with a reflecting filter.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the reflecting filter is an interference filter.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the reflecting filter is a dichroic filter.

10. A method of increasing the efficiency of a light source, comprising:

producing a light beam with a light source having a fill, the light beam comprising usable and unusable portions;

redirecting some of the unusable portions back to the light source to be reabsorbed, wherein the redirecting comprises positioning a polarizing reflector to receive a beam of light from the light source, and wherein the polarizing reflector passes light of one polarity and reflects other light back to the light source;

directing the usable portions to leave the light source;

powering the light source by electrodes external to the light source; and

filtering the beam of light with a reflecting filter.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the reflecting filter is an interference filter.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the reflecting filter is a dichroic filter.

14. A high efficiency lamp apparatus for producing a light beam, comprising:

a lamp that defines a chamber, wherein the lamp emits a light beam having both usable and unusable portions;

a fill disposed inside the lamp;

electrodes external to the lamp and adapted to generate a plasma from the fill; and

a reflector positioned to redirect some of the unusable light back to the lamp to reabsorb light energy by the plasma and to pass a portion of the usable light.

15. A high efficiency lamp apparatus for producing a light beam, comprising:

a lamp that defines a chamber, wherein the lamp emits a light beam having both usable and unusable portions;

a reflector positioned to redirect a portion of the unusable light back to the lamp to reabsorb light energy and to pass a portion of the usable light, wherein the reflector includes a polarizing filter that is positioned to receive and polarize the light beam;

a fill disposed inside the lamp; and

electrodes external to the lamp and adapted to generate a plasma from the fill.

16. The lamp apparatus of claim 15, wherein the polarizing filter passes light of one polarity and reflects light of another polarity.

17. The lamp apparatus of claim 16 further comprising an absorbing filter for correcting polarity of light emitted from the polarizing filter.

18. The lamp apparatus of claim 14, wherein the fill includes one of: selenium, metal halide, and sulfur.

19. The lamp apparatus of claim 14, wherein the lamp includes a bulb.

20. The lamp apparatus of claim 14 further comprising a filter positioned to reflect the unusable light and to pass only light of selected portions of the color spectrum.

21. A high efficiency lamp apparatus for producing a light beam, comprising:

a lamp that defines a chamber, wherein the lamp emits a light beam having both usable and unusable portions;

a reflector positioned to redirect a portion of the unusable light back to the lamp to reabsorb light energy and to pass a portion of the usable light;

an interference filter that reflects light other than red, green, and blue light, the interference filter being located in the beam;

a fill disposed inside the lamp; and

electrodes external to the lamp and adapted to generate a plasma from the fill.

22. The lamp apparatus of claim 14, wherein the reflector is a shaped reflector that extends about the majority of the outer surface of the lamp body.

23. A high efficiency lamp apparatus for producing a light beam, comprising:

a lamp that defines a chamber, wherein the lamp emits a light beam having both usable and unusable portions;

a reflector positioned to redirect a portion of the unusable light back to the lamp to reabsorb light energy and to pass a portion of the usable light, wherein the reflector is a shaped reflector that extends about the majority of the outer surface of the lamp body, and wherein the reflector has a wall that is positioned about the lamp body and including an opening at one end of the reflector wall through which a light beam can travel;

a fill disposed inside the lamp; and

electrodes external to the lamp and adapted to generate a plasma from the fill.

24. The lamp apparatus of claim 23, wherein a polarizing filter is positioned across the opening.

25. The lamp apparatus of claim 23 further comprising an interference filter positioned across the opening.

26. The lamp apparatus of claim 23 further comprising a dichroic filter positioned across the opening.

27. A method of displaying an optical image comprising:

generating a light beam by powering a lamp through electrodes external to the lamp, the light beam comprising usable and unusable portions;

redirecting some of the unusable portions of the light beam back to the lamp to reabsorb light energy and passing the usable portions of the light beam;

using the redirected light to increase the efficiency of the lamp; and

using the usable portions of the light beam to form an image projected at a display surface.

28. The method of claim 27 further comprising:

reflecting a first portion of the image from an optical device; and

permitting a second portion of the image to pass through the optical device.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the optical device is essentially parallel to the display surface.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the optical device is near the display surface.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein the optical device is attached to the display surface.

32. The method of claim 28, wherein the display surface is on a video viewing screen.

33. The method of claim 28 further comprising reflecting the image at least once more.

34. The method of claim 28 further comprising reflecting the image twice more.

35. The method of claim 28, wherein reflecting from the optical device is done before permitting the image to pass through the optical device.

36. The method of claim 28 further comprising delivering the image to the optical device polarized in one direction at one time and polarized in a different direction at another time.

37. The method of claim 28 further comprising, prior to a time when the image is passed through the optical device, rotating a polarization of the image at least once.

38. The method of claim 28 further comprising, prior to a time when the image is passed through the optical device, twice rotating a polarization of the image.

39. The method of claim 28 further comprising passing the image through at least one linear absorption polarizer.

40. A projection apparatus for producing an image display comprising:

an image source that includes a lamp that is comprised of a lamp body with a chamber, wherein the lamp is for emitting a beam having both usable and unusable portions of light;

a reflector positioned for redirecting some of the unusable light back to the lamp so that the lamp reabsorbs light energy to increase efficiency;

a display surface; and

the image source generating an image from the usable portions of the light in the beam that travels an image path which reaches the display surface,

wherein the reflector is positioned for redirecting some of the unusable light in the beam back to the lamp before the beam is used by the image source for generating an image.

41. The apparatus of claim 40, wherein the lamp chamber includes a fill, the apparatus further comprising external electrodes for exciting the fill.

42. The lamp apparatus of claim 41, wherein the fill is one of: sulfur, selenium, or a metal halide.

43. The lamp apparatus of claim 40 further comprising an interference filter that only passes light of selected portions of the color spectrum, the interference filter being located in the optical path of the beam.

44. The lamp apparatus of claim 43, wherein the interference filter that passes only red, green, and blue light.

45. The lamp apparatus of claim 40 further comprising a dichroic filter that only passes light of selected portions of the color spectrum, the dichroic filter being located in the optical path of the beam.

46. The lamp apparatus of claim 40, wherein the reflector includes a reflector body positioned next to the lamp body and a reflecting filter that reflects some light and allows other light to pass therethrough.

47. The lamp apparatus of claim 46, wherein the reflector body does not pass light emitted from the light source, and the reflecting filter passes only polarized light.

48. The lamp apparatus of claim 47 further comprising an absorbing filter for correcting polarity of light emitted from the reflecting filter.

49. The lamp apparatus of claim 46, wherein the shaped reflector body extends about the majority of the outer surface of the lamp body.

50. The lamp apparatus of claim 49, wherein the reflector body has a wall that is positioned about the lamp body and includes an opening at one end of the reflector wall through which the beam can travel.

51. The lamp apparatus of claim 50, wherein the reflecting filter is positioned across the opening.

52. The lamp apparatus of claim 51 further comprising an interference filter positioned across the opening.

53. The lamp apparatus of claim 51 further comprising a dichroic filter positioned across the opening.

The present invention relates to a high power lamp apparatus with high efficiency that produces a beam of polarized light using a lamp bulb containing a fill under pressure that is energized with externally placed electrodes for vaporizing the fill. More particularly, the present invention relates to a high power electrodeless lamp in which light energy is redirected back into the lamp with a reflector to provide increased system efficiency, where the redirected light is of the wrong polarization and/or the wrong parts of the color spectrum for use in the system in which the lamp is implemented. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a projection system that uses the improved high power lamp of the present invention.

2. Description of the Related Art

Higher power lamps are used for illumination applications beyond typical incandescent and florescent lamps. One type of lamp known as a high intensity discharge (HID) lamp consists of a glass envelope which contains electrodes and a fill which vaporizes and becomes a plasma when the lamp is operated.

Recently, a patent issued for a high power lamp that utilizes a lamp fill containing sulfur or selenium or compounds of these substances. U.S. Pat. No 5,404,076, issued to Dolan et al. and entitled "Lamp Including Sulfur" discloses an electrodeless lamp utilizing a fill at a pressure at least as high as one atmosphere. The fill is excited at a power density in excess of 50 watts per square centimeter. An arc lamp utilizing the fill at a pressure at least as high as one atmosphere is excited at a power density of at least 60 watts per square centimeter. The Dolan et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,404,076 is incorporated herein by reference.

Projecting systems are used to display images on large surfaces, such as movie or television screens. For example, in a front projection system, an image beam is projected from an image source onto the front side of a reflection-type angle transforming screen, which then reflects the light toward a viewer positioned in front of the screen. In a rear projection system, the image beam is projected onto the rear side of a transmission-type angle transforming screen and transmitted toward a viewer located in front of the screen.

In prior co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/581,108, filed Dec. 29, 1995, there is disclosed a method of displaying an optical image by projecting the image along an optical path and at an optical device interposed across the optical path, at one time reflecting the image from the optical device and at a different time permitting the image to pass through the optical device to be displayed. U.S. application Ser. No. 08/581,108, filed Dec. 29, 1995 is incorporated herein by reference.

The image source for a projection system employs a light that must be of high intensity and preferably very efficient. However, in each step of transmission of the light from the lamp to the screen there is some loss of light, resulting in inefficiency. It is desirable that at least some of these inefficiencies be addressed to allow an improvement of system efficiency.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides a high efficiency lamp apparatus that uses light reabsorption for improved efficiency. The present invention also provides a projection system with a projection source or engine that uses a lamp that can reabsorb light energy for increased efficiency. Some of the light energy is redirected back to the light source providing increased system efficiency.

Preferably, an optical device using the lamp can only utilize light of desired polarization and/or desired color for use in the projection system, so the redirected light is of the unneeded polarization and/or the unneeded part of the color spectrum. The lamp efficiency is increased because of an "optical pumping" effect.

With the improved high intensity lamp of the present invention, several variations in reflector placements, both for the polarizing and spectral reflectors, are provided for various projection systems.

The method of the present invention thus provides for intensifying a polarized light beam emitted from an electrodeless lamp. The method includes the powering of a electrodeless lamp with radio frequency energy (or other suitable frequency) that generates a light source within the lamp which produces a light beam.

A reflector is positioned next to the lamp. Some of the unused light emitted by the light source is redirected back to the lamp so that the lamp reabsorbs that light energy. This redirected light can also include ultraviolet and infrared radiation as well as visible radiation. The redirected light is used to increase the efficiency of the light source through an optical pumping effect. Some of the redirected light is of an unusable polarization, so that only light of a usable polarization is passed by the assembly.

The electrodeless lamp can include a bulb with a high or low pressure fill. The bulb fill is extended to a plasma state by radio frequency energy produced by electrodes positioned externally of the bulb. In the preferred embodiment, the fill is a sulfur-selenium, or non-mercury metal halides.

The apparatus of the present invention provides a high efficiency lamp apparatus for producing a beam of light that is polarized and/or of a desired color (or colors). The apparatus includes an electrodeless lamp body or bulb that defines a chamber. A fill is contained within the chamber. Electrodes are positioned externally of the lamp chamber for producing radio frequency energy to excite the fill, thereby forming a plasma light source of intense heat. The electrodes, however, are not subjected to the intense heat generated by the plasma. Alternatively, internal electrodes could be used with some types of non-mercury metal halide fills.

A reflector is positioned next to the lamp body both to direct light from the lamp in a desired direction and for redirecting some of the light emitted by the light source back to the lamp. The lamp reabsorbs this redirected light energy to intensify the light source.

The reflector preferably includes a housing surrounding most of the bulb and a polarizing and/or interference filter (e.g., dichroic reflector) positioned to receive the light beam. The polarizing reflector passes light of one polarity and reflects light of the other. The interference filter passes light of a desired part of the color spectrum.

The bulb is preferably a high temperature tolerant enclosure such as a quartz enclosure having a hollow interior that contains sulfur, selenium, non-mercury metal halide, or like fill that can be excited to form a plasma.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

For a further understanding of the nature and objects of the present invention, reference should be had to the following detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which like parts are given like reference numerals, and wherein:

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 1A is a fragmentary view of the preferred embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 2 is a sectional elevational view of a second embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a sectional elevational view of a third embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a sectional elevational view of a fourth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention; and

FIG. 5 is a sectional elevational view of a fifth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a sectional view of the sixth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a sectional view of the seventh embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a sectional view of the eighth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention; and

FIGS. 9 and 10 are side views of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention showing a rear projection video system.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/730,018, entitled "Image Projection System Engine Assembly," filed Oct. 17, 1996, by Richard M. Knox, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.

FIG. 1 shows generally the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention designated generally by the numeral 10A. A high efficiency lamp apparatus 10A includes a bulb 11 having a hollow interior 12 that contains a fill such as sulfur or selenium. The fill can be excited to a plasma state to produce a high intensity light source. In this manner, electrodes E (see FIG. 1A), which provide radio or other suitable frequency energy to excite the fill (preferably 150 MHz to 100 GHz, or other frequency suitable for exciting the fill), are not subjected to the intense heat of the plasma inside bulb 11. Preferably, bulb 11 is based on the teachings and concepts of Dolan, incorporated by reference above. Alternately, bulb 11 can be another type of bulb that reabsorbs and reemits light, such as a non-mercury containing metal halide type lamp (with or without electrodes), or other lamp that can reabsorb and reemit light. The fill may be high or low pressure.

A shaped annular reflector housing 14 can be parabolic, compound parabolic, elliptical, polyellipsoidal, or other conical shapes known in the art and is positioned about and spaced from bulb 11 as shown in FIG. 1. The housing 14 is hollow, defined by a wall 15 and an open end portion 16. The wall 15 has a reflecting surface 17.

A first transversely positioned screen 18 is interposed across the path of a light beam 19 that is travelling from the bulb 11 through the open end partition 16 in the direction of arrows 20. A second screen 21 is interposed across the path 19 and on the opposite side of screen 18 from bulb 11 as shown in FIG. 1.

The first screen 18 is preferably an interference filter (for example, dichroic filter or dichroic mirror) that reflects certain colors of light while allowing others to pass through. The screen 18 is preferably selected to pass desired colors (e.g., RGB or GMY), reflecting unneeded colors back to the bulb 11 and the reflecting surface 17. By reflecting light other than desired colors back to the bulb 11, the apparatus 10 of the present invention becomes more efficient because it allows conversion of redirected light back to useful wavelengths. The redirected light is reemitted with a slight red shift, but this can be compensated for through appropriate filter selection, gamma correction or other known techniques. Therefore, the screen 18 reflects back and "recycles" unused light wavelengths. In FIG. 1, the lamp 10A has the screen 18 mounted inside the reflector housing 14 and the screen 21 mounted at opening 16. The screen 18 and the screen 21 each extends at its periphery to the wall 15.

The screen 21 is a reflecting polarizer that only allows a certain polarity of light to pass through as indicated by the arrows 20. The reflecting polarizer 21 reflects light of unneeded polarity back to the bulb 11. Therefore, in the lamp 10A, emitted light indicated as 20 has been filtered to be of a desired portion(s) of the color spectrum and of a desired polarity.

The screen 21 could be placed towards the bulb 11 adjacent to the screen 18, but as is discussed below in conjunction with FIG. 4, an additional filter may be needed to "clean up" the light emitted from the apparatus from 10A. This is because if the polarized light passed by the screen 21 is allowed to then strike and be reflected by the wall 15, some of that light will then be shifted to the incorrect polarity. Therefore, it is generally preferred to place the screen 21 at a point where the light will not be again reflected within the lamp 10A, though under certain conditions the additional filter could be used.

In FIG. 2, a second embodiment is shown, designated generally as 10B. The light apparatus 10B has a bulb 11 with an interior space 12 for containing a fill such as sulfur or selenium or the like. A reflector housing 22 has an open end 23 and an interior surface 24 that can be any of the shapes mentioned above. The surface 24 reflects light emitted by the bulb 11 toward the opening 23 and in the direction of the arrows 25. In the embodiment of FIG. 2, a pair of screens 26, 27 are positioned either externally or covering the opening 23 of the reflector housing 22. In FIG. 2, the screen 26 is an interference filter (e.g., dichroic filter or dichroic mirror) that only passes light of a desired part of the color spectrum (e.g., red, green, blue). The screen 27 is a reflecting polarizer that only passes light of one desired polarity. The screen 26 is preferably positioned to receive the light beam 25 first because interference filters can affect polarity. By positioning the screen 26 to receive light first, there is not as much need later to "clean up" the light path by refiltering for polarity. Therefore, the second screen 27 is preferably the polarizing reflector that only passes one polarity.

In FIG. 3, a third embodiment of the light apparatus of the present invention is shown, designated as 10C. In FIG. 3, as with the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2, the bulb 11 has the interior 12 for containing a fill that can be excited, such as selenium, sulfur, or the like. A hollow reflector housing 28 has an open end 29 and an interior reflecting wall surface 30 that can be parabolic in shape.

Three optical elements 31, 32, 33 are positioned as shown in FIG. 3 externally of housing 28 and either away from or covering the open end 29 portion thereof. The element 31 is a reflecting polarizer that only passes light of one polarity. The element 32 is an interference filter (e.g., dichroic filter or dichroic mirror) that reflects certain wavelengths of the color spectrum while allowing others to pass through.

As with the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 2, the preferred wavelengths of the color spectrum that will pass through the element 32 are red, green, and blue. The element 33 is a clean-up absorbing filter that corrects polarity so that the emitted light designated by arrows 34 is of a single polarity. This may be used because the element 32 will affect the polarity of the light passed by the element 31.

A fourth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. 4, designated as 10F. Light apparatus 10F has the bulb 11 with the interior 12 for containing a fill such as sulfur or selenium that can be excited to form a plasma. A reflector housing 100 has an open end 102, an inner reflector surface 106 is formed within a reflective reflector housing 104. A pair of elements 108 and 10 can be the same screen elements as 26 and 27 in FIG. 2. The element 108 is an interference filter (e.g., dichroic filter or dichroic mirror) for only passing certain colors of the light. Element 110 is a reflecting polarizer that only passes one selected polarity of light. Arrows 112 indicate a light emitted by the apparatus 10F as being light of a desired color (such as red, green, and blue) and light that is polarized with a single polarity.

In addition to the elements 108 and 110, however, the apparatus of FIG. 10F may include an additional polarizing filter 114, similar to the element 33 of FIG. 3. When the light passes from the lamp 11 through the interference filter 108 and then the reflecting polarizer 110, it will be of a single polarity. When it reflects off of the reflecting surface 106, the polarity of some of that light will be altered. Therefore, a "clean up" polarizing filter 114 may be provided to ensure that all of the light is of a single polarity. This configuration might be desirable in certain circumstances.

A fifth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. 5, designated as 10G. The light apparatus 10G has the bulb 11 with the interior 12 for containing a fill such as sulfur or selenium that can be excited to form a plasma. A reflector housing 116 forms an inner reflecting surface 118 with an open end 120. A pair of elements 122 and 124 can be the same screen elements as 26 and 27 of FIG. 2. The element 122 is an interference filter for only passing certain colors of light. The element 124 is a reflecting polarizer that only passes one selected polarity of light. Arrows 126 indicate a light emitted by the apparatus 10G as being light of a desired color (such as red, green, and blue) and that is polarized with a single polarity. The light apparatus 10G of FIG. 5, however, provides the lamp 11 situated within an opening 128 of the reflective housing 116. Preferably, the lamp 11 includes its own directional aspects, emitting light only in the direction specified by the arrows 130. This could done, for example, by providing a reflective surface on the body of the lamp 11 itself It will be appreciated the reflective housing 116 and lamp 11 of FIG. 5 could be used in any of the implementations of FIGS. 1-4. In fact, a variety of housing configurations can be used without detracting from the spirit of the invention.

A sixth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. 6, designated as 10D. The light apparatus 10D has the bulb 11 with the interior 12 for containing a fill such as sulfur or selenium that can be excited to form a plasma. A reflector housing 35 has an open end 36. An inner reflecting surface 37 has a double parabolic shape in cross section that includes two concavities 38, 39. A pair of elements 40, 41 can be the same screen elements as 26 and 27 in FIG. 2. The element 40 is an interference filter for only passing certain colors of light. The element 41 is a reflecting polarizer that only passes one selected polarity of light. Arrows 42 in FIG. 4 indicate light emitted by the apparatus 10D as being light of a desired color (such as red, green, and blue) and light that is polarized with a single polarity.

In FIG. 7, a seventh embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention is shown designated as 10E. In FIG. 5, the light apparatus 10E has the bulb 11 with the interior 12 for containing a fill that can be excited such as sulfur, selenium, or the like. A hollow annular reflector housing 43 has an opening 44 that is closed with an element 45. A reflecting wall surface 49 of the housing 43 has a pair of concavities 47, 48 in cross section, as shown in FIG. 5. The element 45 forms a closure to the opening 44. An element 46 is spaced therefrom. As with the embodiments of FIGS. 2 and 4, the element 45 can be an interference filter, dichroic filter or dichroic mirror that reflects certain colors of light while allowing others to pass through. The element 46 is preferably a reflecting polarizer that only passes light of one polarity.

An eighth embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. 8, designated as 10H. In FIG. 8, the light apparatus 10H again has the bulb 11 with the interior 12 for containing a fill that can be excited such as sulfur, selenium, or the like. Alternately, bulb 11 can be another type of bulb that reabsorbs and reemits light such as a non-mercury metal halide type lamp. A hollow annular reflective housing 132 has an opening 134 closed with an element 136. An element 138 is provided within the reflector housing 132 closer to the lamp 11, and the reflector housing 132 includes a reflecting inner surface 140, as well as to parabolic concavities 142 and 144. As with the embodiment of FIG. 2, the element 138 can be an interference filter that reflects certain colors of light while allowing others to pass through, and the element 136 is preferably a reflecting polarizer that only passes light of one polarity. This configuration corresponds to the single parabolic reflecting configuration of the embodiment of FIG. 1, and it will be appreciated that the same types of reflector positions as discussed in conjunction with FIGS. 1-5 can similarly be implemented within the dual parabolic reflector of FIG. 8.

Further, it will be appreciated that although the various filtering elements of FIGS. 2, 3, 6, and 7 shown spaced from the reflector housings of those Figures, they could also be layered or sandwiched together in contact with those housings.

Therefore, the lamps 10A-10H are more efficient than prior art designs. Substantially all light with unwanted properties, such as spectral or polarization for example, are reflected back into the bulb 11, which reabsorbs the light and reemits it. Ultimately, the only light leaving the lamps 10A-10H is of the desired properties. Thus, by reabsorbing and reemitting the unwanted light, the efficiency of the lamps 10A-10H as measured by the provided power to the desired light, is increased. For all these embodiments, it will again be appreciated that the disclosed techniques can be used with any lamp which can reabsorb and retransmit energy without destroying itself.

Referring to FIGS. 9 and 10, another embodiment of the present invention shows a rear projection video system 60 that includes a linear reflecting polarizer 62 and an achromatic retarder 64 that allow light in a projected image 66 to reflect from a display screen 68 at one instance and to pass through the screen 68 at another instance. The linear reflecting polarizer 62 is a linear polarizer that functions like a conventional absorption polarizer, except that it reflects (instead of absorbs) substantially all light that does not pass through it. In other words, the reflecting polarizer 62 may transmit substantially all vertically polarized light waves and reflect substantially all horizontally polarized light waves. The polarizer 62 may be made from any suitable reflecting polarizing material, such as double brightness enhancing film, or "DBEF," material obtained from Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company. The linear reflecting polarizer 62 is located immediately behind the screen 68 and may be bonded to the screen 68 by, e.g., an index matching adhesive layer 70. The achromatic retarder 64 is preferably a 1/4 wave-length retarder.

An image source 76 in the projection system 60 receives electronic signals through an input cable 78 and converts the signals into a optical image 66. The types of electronic signals used to create the image 66 may include television signals, such as those received by an antenna or over cable lines and processed by a video receiver (not shown), and computer video signals generated by a computer system (not shown). The image source 76 is preferably an image projection engine, such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) projector. With the projection system 60 of the present invention, however, the image source 76 employs one of the high intensity, high efficiency lamps 10 of FIGS. 1-8.

The image source 76 projects the image 66 along a first optical subpath D1' toward a first mirror 82, which in turn reflects the image along a second optical subpath D2' toward the screen 68. Because the light in the image 66 must be horizontally polarized before it reaches the screen 68, the image source 66 must produce polarized light (as in the case of lamps 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, 10E, 10F, 10G, or 10H). Alternatively, a substantially conventional projection engine can be used. If so, a conventional linear polarizing filter 80 must be placed across one of the optical subpaths D1', D2' between the image source 76 and the screen 68. If the polarizing filter 80 is placed in the optical path before the first mirror 82, a second polarizing filter (not shown) may be placed near the first mirror 82 along subpath D2' to filter stray light distortions caused by the reflection at the first mirror 82.

As the horizontally polarized light in the image approaches the screen 68, it encounters the linear reflecting polarizer 62. Because the light is horizontally polarized, the reflecting polarizer 62 reflects substantially all of the light in the image 66 away from the screen 68 and toward the second mirror 72 along optical subpath D3'.

As the light approaches the second mirror 72, it passes through the 1/4 wavelength achromatic retarder 64. The light then reflects from the second mirror 72 and travels along optical path D4' back toward the screen 68. Before reaching the screen 68, the light again passes through the 1/4 achromatic retarder 64, which rotates the polarization angle of the light again, so that the light is now vertically polarized.

When the light, now vertically polarized, encounters the linear reflecting polarizer 62 for a second time, the polarizer 62 transmits the light onto a rear surface 69 of the imaging screen 68. In effect, for every image the screen 68, including the reflecting polarizer 62, acts at one time as a mirror and at another time as a rear projection imaging screen. This allows the projection system 60, which has a relatively long optical path (D1'+D2'+D3'+D4'). A linear absorption polarizer (not shown) may be placed between the reflecting polarizer 62 and the screen 68 to filter any stray light distortions that may result from reflections in the system.

The lamps 10A-10H are preferably used in the projection system 60 to increase the efficiency of the projection system 60 due to the increased efficiency of the lamps 10A-10H

Because many varying and different embodiments may be made within the scope of the inventive concept herein taught, and because many modifications may be made in the embodiments herein detailed in accordance with the descriptive requirement of the law, it is to be understood that the details herein are to be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.


Early Onset Sepsis.
Early onset sepsis (EOS) is a worrisome, life-threatening condition in newborns with onset during the first week of life. Evaluation can be challenging due to the dynamic nature of the condition as the infant transitions to life ex-utero. Symptoms/signs can be nonspecific, thus, a high index of suspicion is warranted for subtle changes in condition including poor feeding, respiratory distress, or decreased activity. Common risk factors include chorioamnionitis, maternal fever, group B strep (GBS) colonization and preterm delivery. Despite universal screening and intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP), GBS remains the most frequent cause of EOS followed by Escherichia coli (E. coli). While the gold standard for diagnosis remains a positive blood culture, lab evaluation frequently involves complete blood count (CBC) with differential, c-reactive protein (CRP), and evaluation of spinal fluid if the infant is stable. Unfortunately, there is not a lab test that is rapidly diagnostic for sepsis, so treatment should be empirically started until it is clear that the infant is not infected. Treatment often includes ampicillin and gentamicin for coverage of the most frequent pathogens. There is much debate about timing of discontinuation of antibiotics. Frequently, antibiotics can be discontinued after 48 hours in well appearing, asymptomatic infants with negative blood cultures and either normal CBC analysis or normal CRP values.


Q:

Does mod_ssl 2.8.31 work with Apache 2.2?

I'm trying to setup a mod_ssl - Apache server for authentication purpose. I just downloaded the latest mod_ssl package (2.8.31) and the CHANGE document says it's only been upgraded to Apache 1.3.41. However, 1.3.x is no longer maintained.
Should I stick with the older version of the Apache just because mod_ssl said so or should I upgrade to Apache 2.2?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Z.Zen

A:

mod_ssl is included in the Apache source distribution now - you don't have to obtain it separately.


The Noble Discoverer started drilling yesterday and Shell said at the time: "It is the first time a drill bit has touched the sea floor in the US Chukchi Sea in more than two decades. Today marks the culmination of Shell’s six-year effort to explore for potentially significant oil and gas reserves, which are believed to lie under Alaska’s Outer Continental Shelf."


This section provides background information related to the present disclosure which is not necessarily prior art.
Conventional support structures for the placement of a catwalk, conveyor and other auxiliary structures above farm bin structures are known in the art. Typically, such catwalks are supported by independent towers formed of two legs cross-braced together that extend down to the ground. The towers can be attached to the sides of a grain bin via brackets to the body sheet or to vertical stiffeners. Alternatively or additionally, independent towers formed of two legs cross-braced together extending only partially to the ground can be provided. Vertical loads are commonly transferred directly from the catwalk to such catwalk towers but may generate unwanted forces within the bin structure. Conventional catwalk supports and towers are separate from the standard grain bin structure and can have complicated installation processes requiring an extensive amount of installation time and labor. In addition, such separate towers can interfere with other surrounding bins or equipment. Typically, they can only be installed after the entire bin structure is assembled. Having separate, long, and heavy columns to ensure a sturdy independent tower increases both production and shipping costs.
While conventional towers and bin structures may be somewhat suitable for their intended use, they are subject to improvement. For example, there is a need for enhanced supports and structures that require little assembly, strengthened and more durable construction, and/or an overall design that permits the use as an add-on feature to preexisting and current bin shipments and that can be provided in a space saving manner during shipment.


Himachal to look into Jaypee’s deal with Abu Dhabi firm

Shimla, March 6: A multi-million-rupee hydropower project sale deal between Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd and a consortium led by an Abu Dhabi-based company in Himachal Pradesh may head for a showdown as Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Thursday said the Indian firm cannot sell the projects without the state’s permission.

“Jaypee company cannot sell its projects without involving the government as it has signed the implementation agreement with the state,” he told reporters here.

Virbhadra Singh said the projects were allocated to the company after it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state.

“The state will not allow any company to sell its stakes without the consent of the government,” he said in an informal interaction.

The hydropower projects of Jaiprakash Power Ventures, a subsidiary of infrastructure conglomerate Jaypee Group, are located in Kinnaur district, close to the China border, on the Satluj river.

A consortium led by TAQA, an Abu Dhabi-based energy and water company, last week signed an agreement to purchase the 300 MW Baspa Stage II and the 1,000 MW Karcham Wangtoo plants, the country’s largest hydro project in the private sector.

TAQA, which holds a 51 percent stake in the consortium, will have control of operations and management of both facilities.

The chief minister said the government came to know about the deal from media reports.

“We should know the credentials of the company as it is investing in a sensitive area. The state would look into the deal,” he said.

The first unit of 250 MW of the Karcham Wangtoo project, located some 200 km from state capital Shimla, was operational May 26, 2011. Subsequently, the other three units were also made operational.

Official sources said the agreement between the state and Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd for the Karcham Wangtoo project was signed in 1993. The implementation agreement was signed in 1999.

The work on the Rs.6,903.37 crore hydro project began in April 2006 and was completed three months ahead of schedule in 2011.

The company’s Baspa project is located upstream of the Karcham project. It was commissioned June 8, 2003 at a cost of Rs.1,624.72 crore.


"( dramatic theme playing )" "The door's open." "He's up there." "Mm-hm." "I'll go in after him." "You cover the back." "And if it's not Kimble?" "Then we've wasted an hour." "( dramatic theme playing )" "NARRATOR:" "( dramatic theme playing )" "Starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble." "An innocent victim of blind justice, falsely convicted for the murder of his wife, reprieved by fate when a trainwreck freed him en route to the death house." "Freed him to hide in lonely desperation." "To change his identity." "To toil at many jobs." "Freed him to search for a one-armed man he saw leave the scene of the crime." "Freed him to run before the relentless pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture." "ANNOUNCER:" "The guest stars in tonight's story:" "Mickey Rooney," "NitaTalbot." "ANNOUNCER:" "( somber theme playing )" "NARRATOR:" "The days of a fugitive run together as one." "The fear and desperation unrelieved by the sounds of laughter." "But Richard Kimble, now using the name Nick Phillips, will find that a man may laugh only to escape the terror of silence." "Would I lie to you, Mrs. Belson?" "I tell you, this is it." "Uh..." "It" " It" "It can't be." "It can't be, she says." "Do the Mets lose?" "I tell you those are the very same pants that you put in that machine not 45 minutes ago." "Oh, but look, they couldn't have." "Mrs. Belson, from now on you're gonna have to pay more attention to the labels." "Whey they say use warm water, dear, you're gonna have to use warm water." "Pay more attention." "( laughs )" "( sighs )" "Charlie, I could" "Oh, you could" " Look, 6.95 Max the tailor charges me to have these made up, and you have to louse up the gag." "But she's my neighbor." "Here are the real ones, darling." "What am I?" "The neighborhood junkie?" "No, the neighborhood 3-year-old." "Get out of here, you gals, before I call the vice squad, huh?" "Bye, Charlie." "Bye." "Bye." "Bye, Mrs. Belson." "Thanks." "Did she call yet?" "Huh?" "Oh, no." "No, no." "But a couple of my ex pigeons called." "They didn't know I was out of the horse biz, and I ran to that phone like Horace Heidt calling for the Pot o' Gold." "( chuckles ) You nervous?" "Nervous?" "( chuckles )" "My butterflies have got butterflies." "Nick..." "Did you ever wait eight years for a girl?" "MAN:" "Charlie." "Well, enter la fuzz." "Well, gentlemen, uh, don't put the blue suits in with the pillowcases, huh?" "Okay, Charlie, let's put a stopper in it." "Ah, critics." "Critics all over the world." "We'd like to take a look around." "I, uh, better get that delivery out." "Oh, uh..." "Now, wait" " Wait a min-- Wait a minute." "Thorpe, don't you think it'd be more fun if you had a search warrant?" "Here." "This one was taking off in the truck." "Well, why shouldn't he?" "He drives the truck." "He works for me." "What's your name?" "Nick Philips." "Better stick around, Mr. Phillips." "All right, look, if you want the three mil" "I got out of the Brinks job, it's yours, okay, pal?" "Where are the markers, Charlie?" "Markers?" "What are you talking about?" "Laundry markers?" "I've got plenty of those." "I mean betting markers, Charlie." "Let's lay off the night club routines, huh?" "Look, Thorpe, I haven't got a thing going for me except those machines out there." "They'd better keep you good and clean." "Heh." "Funny cop, the worst kind." "You want any more from this one?" "He's all right, I guess." "Just look out Charlie doesn't get you into trouble." "( scoffs )" "Nick, from now on you're my mink-dyed rabbit's foot." "You know, when I was operating the book, there were markers all over the place." "( chuckles )" "Thorpe could've hung me over his mantel." "Believe me, right over his mantel." "( chuckles )" "How he'd have loved that." "Hello." "Hello, is, uh--?" "Has a Miss Jellison checked in yet?" "Jellison." "Oh, she hasn't." "All right, fine." "N" " No, thank-- Thank you very much." "Charlie, what makes me your rabbit's foot?" "W" " Well, uh, wasn't it you that told me to give up the book?" "Well, you said some gamblers were looking for you." "Yeah." "Yeah, you told me that if I kept on taking bets that sooner or later they'd get a line on me." "Only makes sense, right?" "Well, anyway, all I know is that since you started to work for me five weeks ago, everything is changed." "I mean, business has picked up," "Paula said she's coming back to me and I've stayed out of jail." "Believe me, that's been a big five weeks for me." "Nick, I'm never gonna let you out of my sight again." "Oh, incidentally, would you do me a favor, please?" "Sure." "Do me just a little favor." "Here, take these over to the Maxwell Hotel a-a-and give them to Paula." "Leave them there for Paula in her room." "Some creep in Atlantic City drew them for us on our first date about 10 years ago." "She'll get a kick out of it when she walks in the room and sees them." "You're sentimental, Charlie." "Yeah, I'm the kind of a guy that cries at wrestling matches." "You, uh--?" "You know where the hotel is, don't you?" "Yes, it's somewhere on the west side." "Oh, wait a minute." "Here's a couple of bucks for the desk clerk." "There you go." "Oh, and Nick, uh, take your time." "Okay." "( soft theme playing )" "Excuse me, darling, may I help you, please?" "( somber theme playing )" "I, uh" "I have a couple of pictures for Miss Jellison." "A friend of hers would like them put in her room before she checks in." "Oh, I'm sorry." "Maybe I'll get the bellboy to do it." "Oh, no, I didn't mean we couldn't hang the pictures." "I meant, uh, Miss Jellison already checked in." "How long ago?" "About 20 minutes." "But I think she went right back out again." "What am I gonna do with these?" "Well, we'll have them taken care of right away." "( rings bell )" "( romantic theme playing )" "Beer?" "May I interest you in your future?" "Your tomorrows are only echoes of your yesterdays." "And the ears of a gypsy are attuned to echoes." "Oh, there is pain here... and unanswered questions... and here are the marks of love." "There was a woman, wasn't there?" "And I see..." "I see" "Look, mister, I'm sorry but I gotta go." "I promised my husband I'd pick him up at 3:00." "Here, take this." "This'll give you a free reading next time." "That's too bad." "Just when it was getting interesting." "Oh, she had a certain style." "Was she right?" "Was there a woman?" "Well, there's always a woman, isn't there?" "What about now?" "I'd guess there isn't any." "Why?" "Well, maybe I'm part gypsy, attuned to your echoes or something." "You got something against gypsies?" "No, some of my best friends are gypsies." "I'm glad." "Nice little place, don't you think?" "I might even be here again tomorrow." "About this time, probably." "( ominous theme playing )" "MAN:" "Oh, Miss Jellison." "Another message for you." "Same man, same number." "Oh, well, I'll add it to my collection." "He certainly is persistent, isn't he?" "It's that extra little dab of perfume behind the knees." "( chuckles )" "Mr. Paris again?" "Yes, why?" "Well, he's an old friend." "I told him I'd stop by next time I came through." "You want to leave a message in case he calls back again?" "Well, then it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?" "( laughs )" "( chuckling )" "Honey, uh, I'm sorry about having to put you on the other side of town, but that's the way it has to be." "( chuckles )" "( laughing ):" "Yes, I" " I thought you'd get a kick out of them." "Oh, uh, honey, I hate to keep bugging you about this, but, uh, nobody knows where you are, do they?" "I mean, nobody's nosing around or anything like that?" "Good." "Well, uh, be careful on your way over here tonight, huh?" "Okay." "And" " And, honey, I love you." "Bye." "Everything all right?" "Everything all right?" "Do horse players die broke?" "How's this for all right?" "Yeah." "Come on, Nick." "Let's get some work done." "( dramatic theme playing )" "( ominous theme playing )" "( car tires screech )" "Sorry, Mr. Phillips, just checking." "( bell jingles )" "Something wrong, sarge?" "No." "No, I guess not." "Let's go." "( scatting )" "Hey." "Hey, Nick, boy." "You know what I just discovered?" "Heh." "I discovered that you don't have to" "Have to wear a tie at all if you want to keep your collar closed." "Now you got a button to do that." "Heh." "And if you want color for your shirt, well, you don't have to wear a colored shirt." "All you have to do is just take a paintbrush and dab it in some paint and slop it on the front of you." "Are you taking notes?" "You're gonna fall apart before she gets here." "Well, it has been eight years, Nick." "Believe me, I'm-- I'm a little scared." "Been eight years for her too." "Yeah." "Hey, you know, for one of the real big ugly faces of all times, it still has a little character, huh?" "What time's she get here?" "Like about, uh, three minutes ago." "Heh." "Wait until you meet her too, Nick." "Please believe me, she's" "Charlie-- Now, listen, this" " This" " This tie, it doesn't look like I got it off a street corner from one of those yucky guys, does it?" "Huh?" "Look all right?" "Charlie, to tell you the truth" "Oh, you can tell, huh?" "Well, you can always spot a phony." "You're looking at one of those hundred-percent phonies from the 50-cent tie down to the 7-and-a-half-buck shoes." "What do you mean?" "You know how it is, Nick." "That letter that I wrote to her in Detroit asking her to come back to me." "Maybe I laid it on a little too heavy." "I was scared to death that she wouldn't come back to me." "Maybe she thought that I had a chain of those Laundromats." "Who knows?" "The way I wrote her, maybe she thought I had a lot of bread and I was doing great." "What are you gonna do?" "What am I going to do?" "Ha!" "You tell me." "Hey, you've been trying to tell me something all day." "What is it?" "This afternoon at Paula's hotel... ( car horn honking )" "Hey, hey, see if that's her, will you, please?" "Go on." "( dramatic theme playing )" "Well, it's a woman." "( ominous theme playing )" "That's Pete Ragan." "Do me a favor, Nick, and get her out of here for me, will you, please?" "Who is Pete?" "Well, look, he's" "He's an errand boy from the New York syndicate." "Evidently, they must have followed her here from Detroit." "They must want you pretty bad." "Well, I'll, uh, fill you in on the details later." "Right now, get her out of here for me, will you, please?" "Tell her I'll meet her at the-- That place called the Love Nest." "It's across from the park." "Tomorrow about noon, okay?" "I'll try." "Thanks." "( door closes )" "( ominous theme playing )" "What are you doing here?" "You've been followed." "Move over." "Make it look like you came to pick me up." "Look to who?" "The fellow in back of us." "Then let's make it look good." "Oh, is Charlie watching?" "Don't worry, he can't see a thing." "Let's go." "( car engine starts )" "I don't know, I guess he thought he was doing it for me." "He said he didn't want me living out of suitcases in $2 hotel rooms." "He said he'd have to be mixed up with some pretty miserable types." "But it was the only way he could build us a stake." "And it looks like he really built a big one." "I just drive the truck, keep the place clean." "Well, I'm not asking for a financial statement." "I just, uh, meant he's doing pretty good now." "You didn't finish your story." "It a family secret, huh?" "Oh, that's okay." "I'll find out soon enough." "Where was I?" "Oh, yeah, well, Charlie walked out, and suddenly it was two years later and I started getting panicky." "And?" "And I married the first guy that showed any interest." "Half the time he was drunk, half the time he was mean, and all the time he was broke." "You didn't tell Charlie, did you?" "About this afternoon?" "No." "Why not?" "I didn't have time." "I wouldn't if I were you." "He wouldn't believe you." "Besides, it'd be nice if we had a secret." "I'll get a cab." "Oh, don't go away mad." "Charlie wants you to meet him tomorrow around noon across from the park." "A place called the Love Nest." "Why not?" "And tell him this time I'll be looking over my shoulder." "Now, where am I meeting you?" "Here's a nice place." "Charlie happens to be the man you're going to marry." "He's also my friend." "I'd like to leave it that way." "( ominous theme playing )" "( knock at door )" "Did you forget some--?" "Miss Jellison?" "I'm Pete Ragan." "What do you want?" "May I come in?" "No." "I'm looking for Charlie Paris." "I haven't seen Charlie for eight years." "That's too bad." "I had $5000 for you." "All you had to do was tell me where I could find him." "Get out of here." "That's a lot of money, lady." "Maybe once." "Now you'd better move before you get your hand smashed." "Okay, but just in case you need anything," "I'm right down the hall." "Room 208." "Two-oh-eight, remember?" "( tense theme playing )" "I don't care what you say." "I mean, it's" " It's" "You know, you can only take so much." "You were gone an awful long time." "It is 20 minutes over and 20 minutes back, Charlie." "Oh, I know." "I don't know what's the matter with me." "I'm just" " I've just been going crazy." "I'm sorry to get you mixed up in this big mess." "Seems like they've gone a long way to collect just a bet." "Oh, I'm not running away from any bookies." "Well, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to." "Now, look, I..." "I'm not any hood or anything like that." "I couldn't swing that way." "And it's not the ponies either." "Problem is, it's the clubs." "Yeah, the clubs and the guys who run the clubs." "And these guys are all over, you know?" "Anyway, a couple of these guys, they picked up on me, and, uh, things started getting better." "I got better jobs, good money, better billing, everything." "And all of a sudden I got invited to these guys' houses every once in a while." "Of course, I do 20 minutes next to the piano, but I got invited to the parties anyway." "Well, when you go to these parties, you begin to collect information." "Information that you didn't even ask to hear." "Well, last year the New York Crime Commission, they called me in as a witness." "Oh, they called in about 200 other witnesses too." "And I told them what I thought all of the other witnesses were telling them." "( laughing )" "I found out that I..." "I was doing a solo." "A lot of people were getting hurt." "They want to kill me, Nick." "( ominous theme playing )" "Well, can't you get out of town?" "I want to see Paula first." "Charlie..." "What is it you're trying to tell me, Nick?" "Nothing." "What is it, huh?" "Nothing." "She'll meet you tomorrow." "She said she'll be more careful this time." "Well, that's good." "What's, uh--?" "What's a Love Nest place?" "Oh, the Love Nest?" "It's a little candy shop with uncomfortable chairs, everything." "You" " You know the kind." "Are you kidding?" "What's the matter?" "Don't you think I'm the type?" "I know all about those things, like milk shakes, macaroons." "What's that cold stuff?" "Ice cream." "Oh, sure," "I know all about that jazz." "Heh." "Besides, it's kind of romantic." "You be careful, Charlie." "Careful?" "Well, wait a minute, Nick." "I'm not gonna get into any trouble." "Heh." "I'm too chicken." "Besides, you're my good-luck charm." "( glasses clink )" "( chirping )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "Guess it was a bad idea, that ice cream, huh?" "Oh, no, it's just that I slept late and I didn't have any breakfast." "Heh." "Strawberry sundaes before breakfast." "Yuck." "Oh, it's all right." "I love it." "It's fine." "Well, you know... it's funny, it's just I feel like a teenager on his first date." "( both chuckle )" "Can you imagine Henry Aldrich losing his hair?" "( laughing )" "It gives you more character." "Well, I" " I still have the same character." "Heh." "Lousy." "Oh, don't be silly, Charlie." "You've done it." "Just what you said you were going to do." "All right, it took longer than we thought, but you did it." "Paula, listen to me." "I know what you're gonna say, Charlie, but it was my fault, not yours." "Baby, you don't un-- You don't understand." "Understand what, Charlie?" "I lied to you." "About what?" "Well, that letter I wrote to you," "I" " I wrote it kind of heavy because I was scared that you wouldn't come back." "The truth is that..." "I haven't got a quarter." "The only thing I got is that one lousy suds factory, and it's in hock up to its lint trap." "( laughs )" "I haven't got a cent either." "I can't even pay my hotel bill." "So, what now, Charlie?" "Look, we'll-- We'll go out to California." "I've got a couple of friends out there that'll give us a stake until I can get a line on something." "It's all right, isn't it?" "Oh, honey, listen-- Listen to me." "I" " I adore you." "Charlie, what are you gonna do about that man?" "Huh?" "That Ragan?" "Well, for one thing, I can stay out of his way." "Look, I'll" " I'll find a place and then I'll make a couple of phone calls, and that ought to be good for a couple of plane tickets, and we can leave by tomorrow." "Where will you go?" "I" " I mean now." "Don't worry about it." "Don't worry about it." "I'll call you, okay?" "Sure, Charlie." "Love you, darling." "Here." "Here's some scratch." "You pay the tab and I'll..." "I'll get things on the way, huh?" "Love you." "( dramatic theme playing )" "Do you have a minute?" "( tense theme playing )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "Yeah, he's here, okay, but he's getting ready to run." "All you gotta do is get a man on the 3:00 plane." "That gets in here at 5:30." "I'll be there to meet him." "Now, about the money." "Seventy-five hundred." "I know I said 5, but she won't go for it." "Look, you want him or don't you?" "Then just send a money order in care of this hotel." "Okay, then that's it." "Where are you going?" "To my room." "It's just like this one." "You think Charlie will know to call me here?" "So we'll have the switchboard transfer the call." "Sit down." "( bell jingles )" "Charlie." "Oh, I'm sorry, Thorpe, but your lieutenant said I can't take any more bets from you." "You're dipping in the pension fund." "Is Phillips around?" "Nick?" "What do you want with him?" "Is he hot?" "Maybe." "I'd just like to take another look at him." "Oh, be my guest." "You're entitled." "You know where I could find him?" "No." "Well, he left here yesterday like a spooked filly." "Oh, now it all adds up." "Yeah, if he is hot, then you fellas must have put a scare in him." "Well, he just took off." "He left some of his stuff here." "You sure you haven't seen him?" "No, I haven't." "You can look around if you care to." "I'll be back tomorrow." "But if you hear from him, let us know." "Yeah, if there's anything I hate, it's a guy that puts a slug into a parking meter." "No games, Charlie." "Just call us." "( dramatic theme playing )" "( brakes squealing )" "( bell jingling )" "Anything wrong, Nick?" "No." "Mrs. Williams says her husband lost a pair of shorts." "Well, you tell Mrs. Williams to ask her husband about that." "Oh, uh, I know you've been driving an awful lot today, but would you do me a favor?" "Sure." "Would you, uh, drop this over at, uh, the hotel for Paula?" "Just leave it at the desk, huh?" "I'm gonna take your advice, Nick." "I'm, uh" " I'm getting out." "And I'm taking Paula with me after I gather up a little more scratch than that's in that envelope there." "Oh, I-- Here, wait a minute." "I want to write a little note." "A card or something." "What's this?" "Here." "Oh, I had my palm read." "You had your palm read?" "Heh." "You know, I believe in that stuff." "What, palm reading?" "No, in business cards." "Oh, when are you gonna learn?" "I wanna let Paula know where I'm gonna be." "Where are you going now?" "Well, I've got a room rented over a dump called the Clinton Hotel." "I'm gonna stay there until I get some more loot." "Charlie, I got 40 bucks." "Oh, forget it, Nick." "Just deliver that envelope, will you?" "Okay." "Nick, oh, incidentally, the, uh, the cop, Thorpe?" "He was around." "He was asking some questions about you." "Uh, don't be worried." "I didn't tell him anything." "I said you had gone off somewhere, you know." "Got troubles, Nick?" "They think I was mixed up in something a couple of years ago and I wasn't." "Well, that's-- That's your business." "So you and I, I guess we're a couple of runners." "I guess that's why we get along so well together, huh?" "Maybe." "Uh, well, he's gonna" "Thorpe's coming by tomorrow to ask some more questions." "Don't worry, I'm not gonna tell him you were around." "I'll tell him you've taken off." "You've got that in mind anyway, haven't you?" "Well, I..." "I hope we meet up with each other again sometime." "So do I, Charlie." "( bell jingling )" "Thanks for the bruises." "I don't get it." "All of a sudden you turn it off." "Let's go downstairs and have a drink." "What about your phone call?" "We'll have them transfer it to the bar." "See?" "I learn fast." "Yeah." "( rings )" "I'd like to leave this for Miss Jellison." "Certainly." "Wire for Mr. Ragan." "And this is for Miss Jellison." "I think they're still in the bar." "Miss Jellison." "For you, Mr. Ragan." "Oh." "Thank you, sir." "Okay, so where is he?" "After we cash that money order." "Looks like you already got a head start." "A hundred dollars." "Poor, dumb..." "Forget it." "Okay, after we get the dough, I'll go to the plane." "You make sure he stays wherever he is." "I'll tell you where he is." "That's enough." "If you want it that way." "But you only get half the dough for the address." "I'll keep the other half until I'm sure there's gonna be a party." "All right, let's go." "If there's anything turns me on, it's a hungry dame." "( dramatic theme playing )" "( knock at door )" "Yes?" "Nick!" "What are you doing here?" "I thought you'd be out of town by this time." "I had to talk to you." "Did you give her the money?" "Yes, I did." "Look, I got $300 right here." "Charlie-- Bank's almost..." "Charlie-- Here's the" " What's the matter?" "Huh?" "What--?" "What's the matter?" "Charlie, there is no easy way to tell you." "No easy way to tell me what, Nick?" "About Paula." "What about Paula?" "She and Ragan were together in the bar." "That's not a very funny joke, Nick." "I know it isn't funny." "All right, she-- If she was with Ragan, there must have been" "There just must have been some reason for it." "Maybe he was on her back and she was just trying to get him off, that's all." "You believe that?" "You don't think she's trying to put the finger on me?" "You said it, Charlie." "I didn't." "Now, wait a minute, Nick." "Listen, I" " I've known Paula longer than I've known you." "And if you're gonna marry somebody, you gotta have faith in them." "And if it's stupid to have faith in somebody, then all right, then I'm stupid." "You stay here, you're like a tin can on a fence." "Nick, up until now, my life has been like something wrapped up in a dirty old newspaper." "And now, for the first time, well, if-- If this ever rotted on me," "I wouldn't want to make it nohow anyway." "She sold you out, Charlie." "That's enough, Nick." "Now, go on, get out." "Come on." "Go on over to the place and get your stuff and get out!" "I was only trying-- Well, don't try so hard, because if something does happen you can say to yourself," ""I didn't have anything to do with it", okay?" "Okay." "All right." "Thank you, Nick." "All right, Charlie." "( dramatic theme playing )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "You were right." "He didn't believe anything I said." "You see?" "You just aren't pretty enough." "I hope you got a good price for him." "Good night." "( ominous theme playing )" "We ought to get there in about 20 minutes." "Well, how do we know he'll still be there?" "She'll take care of that, don't worry." "I'd only worry if she were my dame." "I don't even know this Ragan!" "Why would I be drinking with him?" "Somebody told me they saw you." "Then they lied." "What's the difference?" "Who was it?" "What's the difference?" "I'd just like to know what kind of person would accuse me of something like that." "Nick." "He told me." "Nick told me he saw you two together at the bar." "Well, honey, say something, will you?" "Say something, honey." "You won't like it, Charlie." "Well, try me." "It's about Nick." "What about Nick?" "Did he see you or didn't he see you?" "Of course not!" "Well, why would he make up a thing like that?" "To get back at me, I suppose." "To get back at you for what?" "Oh, Paula." "Paula, honey, I-- I" " I just don't get it." "I know how much you like him, Charlie." "Forget that." "From the first time I was alone with him, he tried to force himself on me." "Now look, honey, I'm not gonna buy anything like that." "Even yesterday afternoon." "What about yesterday?" "At the gypsy." "What gypsy?" "The bar at my hotel." "When you sent him over with the cartoons?" "Yes." "The old lady was reading his fortune-- Don't give me any fortune business." "So I am the liar?" "I didn't say that!" "And last night in the car, Charlie," "I had to fight him off." "I mean really fight." "Oh, now, wait a minute, Nick doesn't strike me as the type of guy to" "To what?" "To do this?" "Get me a drink." "Go on, get me a drink." "Hello, uh, get me Logan, 711121." "Hello, is Thorpe there, please?" "The police?" "Never mind" "Wait a minute." "Hello, Thorpe." "This is Charlie Paris." "You know the fella that you were making, uh, inquiries about?" "Uh, Nick Phillips." "You can find him at the Laundromat." "He'll be there in about ten minutes." "He's on his way over there right now." "Oh, nothing." "Noth" "Yeah." "Oh, uh, listen, what--?" "What is he supposed to have done?" "You're kidding." "( suspenseful theme playing )" "Whew." "( car door slams )" "( suspenseful theme playing )" "( bell jingling )" "( exhales )" "What's the matter, baby?" "You" " You look like you're a little jumpy." "Charlie, I want to" "Why don't you get on the phone and call the airport?" "Get a ticket and get out of here anyway, huh?" "Here's 50 bucks." "Get to a motel in Los Angeles." "No, I don't want any more." "I'll join you." "Listen, you might want to buy a magazine or something, sweetie-- No, I" "Honey, when I give a gal $50, she takes the money." "Here." "Put it in your little purse and" "Wait a minute." "Wait just" " Get away." "Get off that!" "What is this?" "What is this?" "I saved it." "You saved it?" "In 24 hours?" "Yesterday you were broke." "I wanted it to be a surprise." "Surprise?" "It's a surprise, all right!" "Charlie-- Go on, get away from me!" "Ah, he was right." "Everything he said about you, he was right." "Hello?" "Give me 657-6570." "No, he's no longer taking bets." "Yes." "Yes, that's right." "( busy signal buzzing )" "Where are you going?" "Going over to Nick." "I'm not gonna let him sit on that fence like a tin can." "You can't believe him, Charlie." "He's nothing to you." "And what are you?" "What are you?" "And where'd you get those bruises, huh?" "What about those bruises?" "Sure, Charlie Paris." "The biggest laugh of the century." "The hippy of all times." "I have to believe a lying little" "It could've been so great." "Why'd you have to blow it?" "( suspenseful theme playing )" "That's him." "( car engine starting )" "( tires screech )" "( ominous theme playing )" "( tires screech )" "The door's open." "He's up there." "Mm-hm." "I'll go in after him." "You cover the back." "And if it's not Kimble?" "Then we've wasted an hour." "Ninety seconds." "I'll start in." "Okay." "( dramatic theme playing )" "( chair scrapes )" "( suspenseful theme playing )" "( gunshots )" "Cops!" "Beat it!" "( gunshots )" "Get back there!" "Well, what happened?" "Just get back there." "Charlie, I..." "I'll send for an ambulance." "( gasps )" "I can't think of anything... funny." "Charlie." "( sirens blaring )" "He's dead." "( whimpers )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "( dramatic theme playing )" "Yes, sir." "Well, it may be late, sir, but I think we ought to set up roadblocks on every main road out of town." "Yes, sir, I know how many there are." "( sighs ) Right." "Not a trace of him." "And for your sake, let's hope we never find out for sure it was Kimble." "Bracken." "Anything in there?" "Well, nothing that'll get me off the hook." "Bracken, the two men who killed Charlie are at the station and they'd like Miss Jellison to join them." "Take her in and book her." "By the way, the ambulance got here." "Well, where are you going?" "I'll, uh..." "I'll ride in with Charlie." "Well, why?" "I don't know." "I guess I liked the little guy." "( dramatic theme playing )" "NEWSMAN ( over radio ):" "The two men were arrested for the murder of former nightclub comedian," "Charlie Paris." "Did you hear that?" "They said he used to be a nightclub comedian." "I never heard of him." "But you know, some of them guys really kill me." "I remember a couple of years ago" "I was watching this real funny-looking guy and he was telling this story about this great big grizzly bear" "NARRATOR:" "One man dies and another survives for at least another day." "For one, the sound of laughter has faded." "For the other, the echo of that sound remains." "Richard Kimble's lonely flight continues." "But now, perhaps, he will find an occasional moment to remember and smile." "( dramatic theme playing )" "( dramatic theme playing )"


Swaffham

Swaffham () is a market town and civil parish in the Breckland District and English county of Norfolk. It is situated  east of King's Lynn and  west of Norwich.

The civil parish has an area of  and in the 2001 census had a population of 6,935 in 3,130 households, which increased to 7,258, in 3,258 households, at the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of Breckland.

History

The name of the town derives from the Old English Swǣfa hām = "the homestead of the Swabians"; some of them presumably came with the Angles and Saxons.

By the 14th and 15th centuries Swaffham had an emerging sheep and wool industry. As a result of this prosperity, the town has a large market place. The market cross here was built by George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford and presented to the town in 1783. On the top is the statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of the harvest.

About 8 km to the north of Swaffham can be found the ruins of the formerly important Castle Acre Priory and Castle Acre Castle.

On the west side of Swaffham Market Place are several old buildings which for many years housed the historic Hamond's Grammar School, as a plaque on the wall of the main building explains. The Hamond's Grammar School building latterly came to serve as the sixth form for the Hamond's High School, but that use has since ceased. Harry Carter, the grammar school's art teacher of the 1960s, was responsible for a great number of the carved village signs that are now found in many of Norfolk's towns and villages, including Swaffham's own sign commemorating the legendary Pedlar of Swaffham, which is in the corner of the market place just opposite the old school's gates. Carter was a distant cousin of the archaeologist and egyptologist Howard Carter who spent much of his childhood in the town.

The Swaffham Museum contains an exhibition on local history and local geology as well as an Egyptology room charting the life of Howard Carter.

Swaffham was struck by an F1/T2 tornado on 23 November 1981, as part of the record-breaking nationwide tornado outbreak on that day.

Folklore
Swaffham is one of the many locations for The Man Who Became Rich through a Dream folk tale (Aarne-Thompson type 1645). The tale tells of a pedlar from Swaffham who dreamed for several consecutive nights that if he waited on London Bridge he would eventually hear good news. He travelled to London, and waited for several days on the bridge. Eventually a shopkeeper asked him why he was waiting, and the man told of his dream. The shopkeeper laughed, and replied that he often dreamed that if he went to a certain orchard in Swaffham and started digging, he would find buried treasure. The pedlar returned to Swaffham, and found the treasure.

Parish church
The church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is one of only a few churches that have angels carved in wood instead of stone around the top of the walls. The current building, dating from 1454, is built on the foundation of the original church. A wood carving of the “Pedlar of Swaffham” is also in the church.

Transport

Until 1968 the town was served by Swaffham railway station on the Great Eastern Railway line from King's Lynn. Just after Swaffham, the line split into two, one branch heading south to Thetford, and the other east towards Dereham. The railways were all closed as part of the Beeching Axe, though the possibility of rebuilding a direct rail link from Norwich to King's Lynn via Swaffham is occasionally raised.

The east-west A47 Birmingham to Great Yarmouth road now avoids the town, using a northerly bypass opened in 1981. The A1065 Mildenhall to Fakenham road still passes through the centre of the town on its north-south route, intersecting with the A47 at a grade separated junction north of the town.

Sport and leisure
Swaffham has a Non-League football club Swaffham Town F.C. which plays at Shoemakers Lane.

Swaffham Raceway, a former greyhound track, hosts stock car racing.

Green Britain Centre

Today the town is known for the presence of two large Enercon E-66 wind turbines and the associated former Green Britain Centre, known as the Ecotech Centre when it opened in 1999. The Green Britain Centre provided a venue for school trips, event hire and had an educational remit including sustainability in food, energy and transport. It had displays focussing on green energy (including solar and wind power), transportation options without oil, and organic gardening.

The turbines are owned and operated by Ecotricity which took on the project in the 2000s and renamed it in 2012. Together the turbines generate more than three megawatts. One wind turbine, an Enercon E66/1500 with 1.5 MW generation capacity, 67 metres nacelle height and 66 metres rotor diameter, which was built in 1999, has an observation deck just below the nacelle – it was the only wind turbine in the world that was open for the public to climb. These turbines have since been joined by a further eight turbines at North Pickenham, though they are not owned by Ecotricity.

The Green Britain Centre hosted the 2008 British BASE jumping championships; contestants jumped from the roof of the observation deck.

In June 2018 it was announced that the centre had closed for financial reasons and that Ecotricity intended to hand the building back to Breckland District Council.

Climate

As with the rest of the British Isles and East Anglia, Swaffham experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. The nearest Met Office weather station to provide local climate data is RAF Marham, about  west of the town centre. Temperature extremes in the Swaffham-Marham area range from   in August 1990, down to  during February 1956. The highest and lowest temperatures reported in the past decade are  during August 2003, and  during January 2010.

Kingdom (TV series)

In the summer of 2006, location filming was done in the town for the ITV1 series Kingdom, starring Stephen Fry. In Kingdom the town is called Market Shipborough. The pub the Startled Duck in the TV series is better known as the Greyhound Inn, in which the Earl of Orford created the first coursing club open to the public, in 1776. Kingdom's office is Oakleigh House, near the town square (formerly the house of the Head Master of Hamond's Grammar School), with the coastal scenes filmed at Wells-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk coast.

Notable people
Dominic Byrne, newsreader on The Chris Moyles Show
Michael Carroll, lottery winner
Howard Carter, archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun
Christopher Dawes, author of Rat Scabies and The Holy Grail
Stephen Fry, actor and writer
W. E. Johns, author of the "Biggles" books
William Methwold (1590–1653), born South Pickenham, East India Company merchant
Hilda Plowright (1890-1973), actress
Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, (1842–1921), First Sea Lord

References

External links

Swaffham Town Council
Information from Genuki Norfolk on Swaffham

Category:Swaffham
Category:Breckland District
Category:Market towns in Norfolk
Category:Wind farms in England
Category:Towns in Norfolk
Category:Civil parishes in Norfolk


Andreas Malandrinos

Andreas Malandrinos (; 14 November 1888, in Greece – 11 July 1970, in Surrey) was a Greek-born actor who started appearing in British films from 1930, until his death 40 years later in Surrey, England. He was fluent in six languages and used this talent to good effect to flourish as a dialect comedian in British music halls.

Many of his film appearances were so fleeting that his characters often had no names, only descriptions, e.g. "Valet with violin" in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) and "Woodcutter" in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967). During his stage career, Andreas Malandrinos billed himself simply as Malandrinos; conversely, his movie billing was often simply "Andreas."

Filmography

 Raise the Roof (1930, film debut)
 The Lodger (1932)
 Don Quixote (1933)
 On Secret Service (1933)
 Say It with Flowers (1934)
 My Song for You (1934)
 The Admiral's Secret (1934)
 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
 Death Drives Through (1935)
 Royal Cavalcade (1935)
 Late Extra (1935)
 The Invader (1935)
 Prison Breaker (1936)
 Limelight (1936)
 Secret Agent (1936)
 The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)
 Secret of Stamboul (1936)
 Land Without Music (1936)
 Non-Stop New York (1937)
 Sunset in Vienna (1937)
 A Romance in Flanders (1937)
 I See Ice (1938)
 Crackerjack (1938)
 Miracles Do Happen (1938)
 Over the Moon (1939)
 What Would You Do, Chums? (1939)
 21 Days (1940)
 Room for Two (1940)
 Crook's Tour (1941)
 Flying Fortress (1942)
 Thunder Rock (1942)
 We'll Smile Again (1942)
 The Peterville Diamond (1943)
 The Bells Go Down (1943)
 Up with the Lark (1943)
 The Way Ahead (1944)
 Champagne Charlie (1944)
 English Without Tears (1944)
 White Cradle Inn (1947)
 Dual Alibi (1947)
 A Man About the House (1947)
 The End of the River (1947)
 My Brother Jonathan (1948)
 One Night with You (1948)
 Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
 Look Before You Love (1948)
 Forbidden (1949)
 For Them That Trespass (1949)
 Trottie True (1949)
 The Spider and the Fly (1949)
 Her Favourite Husband (1950)
 Night Without Stars (1951)
 The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
 Salute the Toff (1952)
 Hammer the Toff (1952)
 Paul Temple Returns (1953)
 Sea Devils (1953)
 The Captain's Paradise (1953)
 Innocents in Paris (1953)
 Always a Bride (1953)
 A Day to Remember (1953)
 The Love Lottery (1954)
 You Know What Sailors Are (1954)
 Beautiful Stranger (1954)
 The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
 A Touch of the Sun (1956)
 Checkpoint (1956)
 Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)
 The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
 Just My Luck (1957)
 Tank Force (1958)
 Beyond This Place (1959)
 Tommy the Toreador (1959)
 The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960)
 Sands of the Desert (1960)
 Surprise Package (1960)
 A Weekend with Lulu (1961)
 No, My Darling Daughter (1961)
 In Search of the Castaways (1962)
 The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
 Help! (1965)
 San Ferry Ann (1965)
 The Sandwich Man (1966)
 Finders Keepers (1966)
 The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
 Dance of the Vampires (1967)
 Hammerhead (1968)
 Mosquito Squadron (1969)
 The Oblong Box (1969)
 Hell Boats (1970)
 Man of Violence (1970)
 Underground (1970, final film)

References

External links

Category:1888 births
Category:1970 deaths
Category:Malandrinos family
Category:20th-century British male actors
Category:Greek emigrants to England
Category:Male actors of Greek descent


The Catch-Up

The Catch-Up was an Australian daytime live television talk show on the Nine Network created by Mia Freedman.

The show featured a panel of women as co-hosts, with Libbi Gorr, Zoe Sheridan, Mary Moody and Lisa Oldfield. It premiered on 26 February 2007 and was produced at Channel Nine's studio in Willoughby.

The concept of The Catch-Up was to showcase women discussing views, news and gossip with each other as well as with their guests. The program followed a similar format to The View.

The show was under pressure even before it began. The Nine Network decision to cancel its broadcast of the US soap opera The Young and the Restless after 32 years to make way for the program caused outrage amongst fans of show which had been aired on the Nine Network since 1974.

Cancellation
Due to low ratings, the show was cancelled on 13 June 2007 and the last episode aired on 15 June.

References

External links

Category:Australian television talk shows
Category:Nine Network shows
Category:2007 Australian television series debuts
Category:2007 Australian television series endings
Category:2000s Australian television series
Category:Television shows set in Sydney


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Q:

Nothing happens when I right click on computer and click on properties

I got a strange problem:
When I click on the computer (or network) icon on my desktop, and then click on the "properties"-entry in the context menu, nothing happens.
Maybe somebody has an idea what could be wrong?
Thanks!

A:

It seems to be a problem with a DLL which is not correctly registered anymore.
Here's a thread about it:
http://www.joejoe.org/forum/topic/18364-no-such-interface-supported-error/page__st__20
Re-registering the DLL's solved this strange problem ;)