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| | ArtLex on Symbols |
 | | See more of his paintings in articles about | | | Meanings for some of the symbols in Bosch's paintings | | | Here are two paintings particularly famous for the symbols included in them: |
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http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/symbol.html
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| | Jimmy Page Symbol |
| | The symbol itself is made up of parts. | | | This book is now out of print and highly sought after, but no doubt Page had access to a copy when Jimmy owned his bookshop. | | | Spare was a psychic painter, a great fan of Crowley, and a truly interesting character like Crowley, both of whom captured the interest of young Mr Page. |
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http://www.inthelight.co.nz/ledzep/zososymbol.htm
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| | Status Symbol Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.net |
| | The expression "status symbol" was first recorded in 1955 [1] but gained wide currency through the 1959 best selling book The Status Seekers, in which the journalist Vance Packard described American social stratification and behavior. | | | For example, in a commercial society, having money or wealth and things that can be bought by wealth, such as cars, houses, or fine clothing, are considered status symbols. | | | Status symbols also indicate the cultural values of a society. |
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http://www.launchbase.net/encyclopedia/Status_symbol
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| | symbol on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Such symbolism is all-pervasive in every kind of art, especially because it lends itself to rapid, comprehensive, and compact use. | | | In art a distinction of terms is introduced that modifies the term symbol. | | | Although the drawings at Altamira are considered symbolic in one sense (i.e., a drawn reindeer is the symbol for a live reindeer), they are said not to be symbols in another more common sense, since they are partially iconic. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s1/symbol.asp
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| | Susumu Yokota: Symbol: Pitchfork Review |
| | Symbol, his latest album, is in a sense the finest encapsulation yet of his core aesthetic. | | | As time goes by and the albums pile up, Susumu Yokota's bedrock musical preoccupations have moved to the fore. | | | Most of the sounds on Symbol come from sampled classical music. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/y/yokota_susumu/symbol.shtml
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| | ABC-Dir: Symbol |
| | How Finnish-Karelian oral poetry became a symbol of national consciousness. | | | Historical essay critical of the symbolism surrounding the Crane symbol of the Nichiren Shoshu sect. | | | The Symbol is not a mirror which shows only what stands before it. |
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http://www.abc-directory.com/view/symbol
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| | Fish Symbol |
| | In modern times, the fish outline symbol is experiencing a comeback. | | | This has inspired some Secularists, Atheists and promoters of the theory of evolution to mimic the Christian fish symbol with one of their own. | | | The symbols of "sacremental fish, with wine and a basket of bread represents the Eucharist and the Last Supper in Christian art." (2). |
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http://www.aveyinc.com/fish.htm
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| | Online Symbolism Dictionary |
| | It is up to each of us to explore works of art sensitively, and decide for ourselves how the symbols in each work function. | | | This symbolism dictionary endeavors to provide some possible cultural significances of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have been used in context. | | | This website is offered as an aid in that enriching activity. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html
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| | What about the P.O.D. Symbol? |
| | The artwork for Payable on death was created by artist Daniel Martin Diaz. | | | This is a variation for the number 666. | | | This is a widely known occult symbol of divination and palmistry. |
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http://www.av1611.org/crock/pod_sym.html
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| | Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art |
| | Sanford & A Lifetime of Color: Study Art | | | A symbol is a picture, object or color that stands for something else. | | | The eagle on this coin is a symbol for freedom. |
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http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/study/m_a_symbols.html
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| | Symbol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Literary works are often admired for their artful use of symbolism, i.e. | | | Religious and metaphysical writings are also known for their use of esoteric symbolism. | | | Alchemical writings made extensive use of symbols for spiritual and chemical processes (which they also saw as symbols of each other). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol
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| | Symbols and their meaning |
| | While you were drawing that symbol, the man sitting next to me was moving his hands in strange ways and murmuring something as if he was casting a spell. | | | The pictured image is part of an 18th century Masonic ritual painting, but it illustrates a symbol that has been central to most major spiritual systems of history. | | | Later, it became a fascist symbol in France, Portugal and other nations. |
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http://www.crossroad.to/Books/symbols1.html
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| | CLHS: System Class SYMBOL |
| | Symbols are used for their object identity to name various entities in Common Lisp, including (but not limited to) linguistic entities such as variables and functions. | | | A symbol can be made to be unbound by the function makunbound. | | | A symbol can be made to be funbound by the function fmakunbound. |
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http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/t_symbol.htm
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| | PENTACLES AND PENTAGRAMS |
| | This symbol apparently originated as the symbol of a Goddess who was worshiped over an area which extends from present-day England to Egypt and beyond. | | | One Native American spoke of Christians stripping his culture of their talking stick and other symbols of his faith. | | | The English warrior Sir Gawain, a nephew of King Arthur, adopted the pentagram as his personal symbol and placed it on his shield. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_pent.htm
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| | * How we confuse symbols and things |
| | Most of us are unable to sort out reality -- we can't distinguish between a thing and a symbol for that thing. | | | It is no accident that modern education doesn't teach the distinction between symbol and thing -- if it did, education as we know it would fall apart. | | | This reversal of symbol and thing has become so profound that one commonly hears a remark like "Marriage is what I really want!" as though marriage were anything more than a weather forecast or a road sign. |
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http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/symbols.html
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| | Symbol |
| | Symbol -- A name that is replaced by a value before processing | | | It should be used in contexts in which the name will actually be replaced by a value before processing. | | | element, which may be more suitable for some of these symbols. |
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http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/symbol.html
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| | Stock symbol - definition of Stock symbol in Encyclopedia |
| | Sometimes the stock symbol has become more recognizable than a company's real name. | | | For example, the ticker symbols of mutual funds must be five letters long and end in "X". | | | A stock symbol may either be comprised of letters, numbers or a combination of both. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Stock_symbol
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| | Alchemical Symbol Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ HigherPower.org |
| | Alchemical symbols, originally devised as part of the protoscience of alchemy, were used to denote some elements and some compounds until the 18th century. | | | Although they occasionally have a symbol of their own (denoted by also:), they were usually symbolized by the planet's symbol. | | | Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto were not yet discovered while Alchemy was commonly practiced, though many modern alchemists consider them representative of Uranium, Neptunium and Plutonium, respectively. |
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http://higherpower.org/encyclopedia/Alchemical_symbol
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| | The Symbol Grounding Problem |
| | Merely adding on more symbolic contingencies is like taking a few more turns in the Chinese/Chinese Dictionary-Go-Round. | | | In an intrinsically dedicated symbol system there are more constraints on the symbol tokens than merely syntactic ones. | | | Moreover, there has been some disagreement as to whether or not connectionism itself is symbolic. |
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http://cogprints.org/3106/01/sgproblem1.html
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| | s: Symbol |
| | relations work on symbols 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 t + t NB. | | | prefaced to the symbol name; the display of a symbol array is similar to that display of numeric arrays, except that columns are aligned on the left. | | | Existing structural, selection, and relational verbs are extended to work on symbols. |
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http://jsoftware.com/books/help/dictionary/dsco.htm
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| | Commens Peirce Dictionary: Symbol |
| | Now that which is general has its being in the instances which it will determine. | | | Moreover, Symbols afford the means of thinking about thoughts in ways in which we could not otherwise think of them. | | | The symbol is connected with its object by virtue of the idea of the symbol-using mind, without which no such connection would exist." ('What Is a Sign?', EP 2:9, c. |
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http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/symbol.html
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| | Technorati Tag: symbol |
| | exchange stock symbol Searching for exchange stock symbol in the real world, and not on the... | | | Ricin Missing In London Terrorist in London may be in possession of the deadly poison ricin... | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged symbol. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/symbol
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| | Symbol Developing Laser Screen Projector |
| | Symbol Technologies has announced that it is working on a Laser Projection Display (LPD). | | | I know that the support electronics would draw some of that juice, but that still is way over the figure of 5mW that you gave for the safe limit. | | | Companies interested in including LPDs in their handhelds should contact Symbol's Embedded Technology Group. |
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http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=4148
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| | Learning Commons - What is Culture? - Glossary Item - Symbol |
| | The clock tower atop WSU's Bryan Hall, for example, is often taken as a symbol for the university; when it appears on a postcard or a sweatshirt, the picture represents -- symbolizes -- the entire university. | | | The sound or written appearance of a word is always a symbol when someone hears or reads it and comprehends its meaning. | | | On a larger cultural scale, a storm can symbolize troubled times in some cultures whereas in other cultures it can symbolize the blessing of the gods. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/glossary/symbol.html
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| | The EUCHARIST: ONLY a symbol? |
| | A symbol is not a poor substitute for something which is absent. | | | The best way to try to recover some of the Augustinan meaning of the term symbol is to imagine how it would make you feel if someone were to come into your house and cut up a picture of someone you love, a parent, child, spouse. | | | This is the way Jesus is symbolically, sacramentally present in the consecrated bread and the wine, only much more so! |
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http://astro.temple.edu/~arcc/euch.htm
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| | The UVic Writer's Guide: Symbol |
| | In literary criticism, a symbol is an image with an indefinite range of reference beyond itself Some symbols are conventional ("the sun," "the eagle," "the Good Shepherd"), as they have a range of significance that is commonly understood in a particular culture. | | | Other symbols are private or personal, having a special significance derived from their particular use by an author. | | | The metaphor is more open; it states a likeness by implication, leaving it to the reader to make the connection. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/RhetSymbol.html
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| | Peace Sign |
| | Occultist Albert Pike also identifies this symbol as mystical in his book on Freemasonry Morals and Dogma. | | | Remember, symbolism is a picture language, and a picture is worth a thousand words.'' | | | Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan, used the peace symbol as the backdrop for his altar. |
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http://www.nisbett.com/symbols/peace_sign.htm
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| | Symbol (biojava 1.3pre3 API) |
| | This alphabet contains all of, and only, the symbols matched by this symbol. | | | It is also possible to build a Symbol instance that represents all stop codons {taa, tag, tga}, which can not be represented in terms of a single ambiguous n'tuple. | | | For example, the codon agt can be represented by a single Symbol from the Alphabet DNAxDNAxDNA. |
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http://www.biojava.org/docs/api/org/biojava/bio/symbol/Symbol.html
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| | Symbols.com - Symbol 20:18 |
| | The heart sign appears as a symbol in all the major cultural spheres. | | | Other ideograms that often appear together with the heart, for instance on posters for public events, and in advertisements of sales, are | | | One sign that is often associated physically with |
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http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/20/2018.html
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| | Symbol Character Set |
| | Alas, this has a different character set than the Adobe font of the same name, with many moved or missing mathematical symbols, although like its namesake it does contain the entire Greek alphabet. | | | But Symbol differs from all three; it does not even contain the letter "Y". | | | Symbol or something close is being proposed again, at this writing, in an HTML 4 proposal, but it remains to be seen whether the leading software vendors will incorporate it into their browsers this time. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/mcfarland/soc281/symbol.htm
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| | The Enneagram Symbol |
| | Arrows often are used in the symbol to indicate movement. | | | The symbol consists of a circle and nine lines and thus is called the Enneagram. | | | The Enneagram symbol is said to represent every process that maintains itself by self renewal. |
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http://www.ennea.com/symbol/symbol.htm
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| | CLHS: Special Operator SYMBOL-MACROLET |
| | psetq of a symbol defined as a symbol macro is treated as if it were a psetf, and multiple-value-setq is treated as if it were a setf of values. | | | When the forms of the symbol-macrolet form are expanded, any use of setq to set the value of one of the specified variables is treated as if it were a setf. | | | symbol-macrolet lexically establishes expansion functions for each of the symbol macros named by symbols. |
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http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/speope_symbol-macrolet.html
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| | Symbol Lookup |
| | More information on NASDAQ traded symbols and their current financial status. |
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http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/lookup.asp?siteid=mktw
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| | A Natural History of the @ Sign: Part One |
| | In French, @ is called "arobase." Probably derived from Spanish "arroba," the word has no other meaning; it is simply the name of the symbol. | | | The imaginations of Dutch speaking people seem to have worked overtime to come up with names for this little symbol. | | | As a result, while in some languages @ is simply called "at," in others, a wide variety of interesting nicknames have been developed for this little symbol. |
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http://www.herodios.com/atsign.htm
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| | The Prime Glossary: Jacobi symbol |
| | This new symbol (which looks just like the Legendre symbol) is called the Jacobi symbol. | | | Recall that the second (lower) entry in the Legendre symbol (a | | | The Jacobi symbol has many properties that make its use the easiest way to evaluate a Legendre symbol. |
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http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=JacobiSymbol
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| | The Knights symbol |
| | Furthermore, not counting the red symbol (the Blood of Christ?) at the very top, there are 14 men-shaped (?) figures along the upper outer rim of the Knights Symbol. | | | I can't actually say a lot about this other than the fact that it seems inspired by the symbols of Freemasonry, which is not surprising if it's true that the Knights of Eastern Calculus, like Freemasons, are at least partially derived from the Knights Templar. | | | If there really is a resemblance, I have no idea what it's supposed to mean, except that maybe the Knights are or were (through Eiri Masami, probably) somehow associated with Tachibana Lab. |
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http://www.cjas.org/~leng/knights.htm
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Hull classification symbol - Encyclopedia Article |
| | Many of these symbols are not presently in use. | | | See also pennant number, a somewhat analogous system used by the Royal Navy and some European navies. | | | Also, the system of symbols has changed a number of times since it was introduced in 1907, so ships' symbols sometimes change without anything being done to the physical ship. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/h/hull-classification-symbol.html
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| | Class: Symbol |
| | Returns the name or string corresponding to sym. | | | Returns an array of all the symbols currently in Ruby’s symbol table. | | | Returns an integer that is unique for each symbol within a particular execution of a program. |
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http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Symbol.html
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| | SYMBOL |
| | *The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships. | | | the bird of night (owl is a symbol of death) |
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http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/symbol.html
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| | Microsoft Typography - euro Currency Symbol FAQ |
| | The design of the symbol takes on the characteristics of the font in which it resides. | | | This helps values line up properly in tabular applications like spreadsheets. | | | Why do the symbols shown above look different from the one posted on the official euro site? |
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http://www.microsoft.com/typography/EuroSymbolFAQ.mspx
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| | status symbol - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about status symbol |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | Object that symbolizes the high status of an individual. | | | Common status symbols in a business are company cars, individual offices, name plates on the door, and personal assistants. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/status+symbol
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| | Symbol |
| | Only licensed or registered proprietary schools may use this symbol in their advertising, promotional material, or letterhead. | | | The symbol can be copied and reproduced in its original form by schools licensed or registered by BPSS. | | | Pursuant to Section 5009(c) of the Education Law as amended by Chapter 434 of the Laws of 1999, the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision (BPSS) has developed and issued a "symbol" to indicate that licensed and registered proprietary schools have in fact achieved that status. |
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http://www.highered.nysed.gov/bpss/symbol.htm
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| | Control Engineering - Intermec rejects claims in Symbol's patent infringement litigation |
| | Symbol adds that it and virtually all other industry participants other than Intermec are committed to a royalty-free RFID air interface. | | | Intermec has charged that Matrics deliberately made and sold RFID products in the U.S. that were known to infringe Intermec's RFID patents. | | | Intermec reports that Symbol's breach of the OEM contract removes the covenant not to sue for patent infringement, and allows Intermec to enforce its data collection and smart battery patents. |
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http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA511634?spacedesc=latestNews
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| | InformationWeek RFID Symbol Ships Improved RFID Chip, Reconciles With Intermec September 7, 2005 |
| | Over the past year, suits and counter-suits have ping-ponged between Symbol and Intermec. | | | Intermec and Symbol also have agreed to negotiate settlements to their other intellectual-property disputes. | | | But while Glacier is a more efficiently manufactured inlay--letting Symbol pass on some cost savings to its customers--and will have better performance rates than the older design, Symbol denies it was ever responsible for such a high percentage of faulty inlays. |
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http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170701017
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| | P&H Ltd. Symbol - Retail Solutions for the 21st Century. |
| | Symbol membership will not only improve the way your shop looks aesthetically, but with strong guidance from independent retail specialists, a Symbol group can aid your outlet's footfall and eventually increase profit. | | | Every part of the PandH Group will support you as a Symbol member with preferential rates, including YP, ACE and Winerite | | | Amongst the benefits on offer to any Symbol member is the opportunity to take part in the following incentives: |
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http://www.palmerharvey.co.uk/ph_about_symbol.asp
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| | The American Atheists Symbol / Logo |
| | The small letter in the center represents of the first letter of the country in which an affiliated group is located. | | | When American Atheists was formed in 1963, a contemporary scientific symbol was chosen; this acknowledges that only through the use of scientific analysis and free, open inquiry can humankind reach out for a better life. | | | This demonstrates that while Atheists rely on the scientific method for learning about the cosmos and increasing our knowledge about nature, we know that "not all of the answers are in." We recognize that with new knowledge come new questions and areas for human inquiry and exploration. |
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http://www.atheists.org/visitors.center/logo.html
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