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Patent application title: OMNIDIRECTIONAL RFID ANTENNA
Court E. Rossman (Merrimack, NH, US)
Court E. Rossman (Merrimack, NH, US)
Zane Lo (Manchester, NH, US)
IPC8 Class: AH04Q522FI
USPC Class:
340 101
Class name: Communications: electrical selective interrogation response
Publication date: 2009-12-10
Patent application number: 20090303002
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Patent application title: OMNIDIRECTIONAL RFID ANTENNA
Court E. Rossman
Zane Lo
Origin: NASHUA, NH US
IPC8 Class: AH04Q522FI
USPC Class:
340 101
Patent application number: 20090303002
Antennas (50) for RFID tags are made to exhibit circular polarization to
give the tag an omnidirectional characteristic. The antennas are crossed
dipoles (52,54) with respective feed points (56,58). The signal source
(60) is coupled to a splitter (62) having output leads (64) directly
coupled to the feed point (56) of dipole (52). The other output leads
(66) from splitter (62) are coupled to a delay line (68) with the delayed
output coupled to a feed point (58) of dipole (54).
1. An RFID tag system, comprising:a reader having a transmit antenna and
operable to transmit a signal to an RFID tag; and,an RFID tag including a
circularly polarized antenna, whereby random orientations of the tag
relative to the transmit antenna do not result in enough polarization
mismatch loss to preclude communication between said reader and said tag.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein said transmit antenna is circularly polarized.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein said transmit antenna is linearly polarized.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein said tag antenna exhibits an omnidirectional characteristic.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein said tag antenna includes crossed dipoles.
6. The system of claim 5, and further including a signal source for said dipole and a phase shifter for shifting the phase of the signal applied to said dipoles such that said dipoles are fed with signal that have a relative phase angle of 90.degree..
7. The system of claim 6, wherein said phase shifter includes a delay line.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein said delay line is interposed between said signal source and one of said dipole antennas.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein said dipole antennas have feed points and wherein said delay line is connected from the feed point of one of said dipole antennas to the feed point of the other of said dipole antennas.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein said tag antenna includes crossed dipole antennas and wherein said crossed dipole antennas have a spiral configuration to minimize the area occupied by the crossed dipole antennas.
11. The system of claim 1, wherein said tag antenna includes a feed point having an interdigitated tine structure.
12. In an RFID tag system including a reader having a transmit antenna, an RFID tag having an omnidirectional antenna to accommodate random orientations of said tag relative to the transmit antenna of said reader, whereby communications between said reader and said tag are maximized.
13. The RFID tag of claim 12, wherein said RFID tag's antenna is circularly polarized.
14. The RFID tag of claim 13, wherein said circularly polarized tag antenna includes crossed dipoles.
15. The RFID tag antenna of claim 14, and further including a source of electromagnetic energy coupled to said crossed dipoles such that said dipoles are fed with signals that are 90.degree. out of phase.
16. The RFID tag of claim 14, wherein said dipoles are fed with signals that have equal amplitudes and are 90.degree. out of phase.
17. The RFID tag of claim 12, wherein said omnidirectional antenna includes crossed dipoles having dipole elements with a spiral configuration to minimize the area associated with the antenna.
18. The RFID tag of claim 12, wherein said omnidirectional antenna includes a feed point having an interdigitated tine structure to maximize the probability that RFID integrated circuit microradio chips, when deposited over said interdigitated structure, will effectuate a coupling between a microradio chip and adjacent tines.
19. In an RFID system employing a reader, a circularly polarized antenna coupled to said reader to accommodate random orientations of tags.
20. In an RFID tag system including a reader with a transmit antenna, a tag including a circularly polarized tag antenna.
[0001]This application claims rights under 35 USC § 119(e) from U.S. application Ser. No. 60/726,146 filed Oct. 13, 2005, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. This application is related to three U.S. applications: U.S. Application Serial No. US2006/033111 filed Aug. 24, 2006 by Kenneth R. Erikson of Henniker, N.H., entitled "RFID Tag and Method and Apparatus for Manufacturing Same;" U.S. Application Serial No. US2006/033048 filed Aug. 24, 2006 by Court Rossman of Merrimack, N.H., Zane Lo of Merrimack, N.H., Roland Gilbert of Milford, N.H. and John Windyka of Amherst, N.H., entitled "Methods for Coupling an RFID Chip to an Antenna;" and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/726,145, filed Oct. 13, 2005 by Karl D. Brommer of Exeter, N.H. and Kenneth R. Erikson of Henniker, N.H., entitled "RFID Tag Incorporating at Least Two Integrated Circuits." The contents of these three applications are incorporated herein by reference.
[0002]This invention relates to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and more particularly an omnidirectional RFID antenna that improves the performance of the RFID tag.
[0003]RFID tags are becoming a well established method for tracking materials during shipping and storage. In many applications they replace the printed bar code labels on items because they do not require a close proximity for the automatic reader. In the usual tag interrogation process, a reader or interrogator projects energy towards the item to be tracked, with the energy picked up by an antenna on the tag and transferred to the integrated circuits utilized to transmit specific item information back through the antenna to the reader.
[0004]In most cases the reader employs a dipole antenna, which is linear in polarization. The tag itself usually is provided with a linearly polarized antenna such as a loop or dipole and may have an arbitrary orientation relative to the ground. Since the linear polarization makes the tag directional, this presents problems when transmitting from the reader to the tag and vice versa. The polarization may be rotated 90 degrees from the reader antenna, or the dipole radiation may have a null in the radiation pattern pointed toward the reader. It would therefore be desirable to provide a tag with gain in all directions to be able to guarantee communications between the reader and the tag.
[0005]More particularly, most RFID tags employ a linearly polarized antenna. It will be appreciated that the orientation of the tag is not known, which means that there will not be optimal efficiency in transferring the energy from the reader to the integrated circuits in the tag or for that matter optimally transmitting the information from the tag back to the reader.
[0006]RFID tags come in both active and passive forms. In the passive form, the tag is parasitically powered by the energy from the reader or interrogator. Because of the diodes within the rectennas utilized in the tags, there is a threshold level that must be exceeded so that the integrated circuits in the tag can be powered.
[0007]In an extreme example, if the linearly polarized antenna for the reader is orthogonal to the linearly polarized antenna of the tag, then no energy will transfer from the reader to the tag. Not only will communication between the two be impossible, it will not be possible to parasitically power the tag.
[0008]Since the orientation of the tag relative to the reader is not easily controlled, it is important to be able to have an omnidirectional antenna located on the tag so that energy is transferred efficiently between the reader and the tag.
[0009]In order to make a tag having an orientation-independent response relative to the reader, the antenna for the tag is designed to have a circular polarization. If the reader also has a dual circularly polarized antenna, then a maximum amount of power is transferred between the two antennas. Circular polarization is optimal because the rotation of the tag does not matter, and circular polarization is optimal because there are no nulls in the radiation pattern, which occurs if one uses linear polarization.
[0010]If the transmit antenna is circularly polarized and the tag is linearly polarized, then the circularly polarized transmit antenna transfers considerably less than maximum power to the linearly polarized receive antenna.
[0011]The same is true if the reader has a linearly polarized transmit antenna and the tag has a circularly polarized receive antenna.
[0012]In either case, it is important that one or the other of the antennas be circularly polarized so that at the very least there will be some energy transferred from one antenna to the other. If both antennas were linearly polarized and orthogonal one to the other, then no energy transfer would be possible, whereas if both antennas are linearly polarized and parallel to each other, then a maximum amount of energy would be transferred therebetween.
[0013]In short, while one loses up to 3 dB or half the power when converting between linear and circular polarizations, there is at least a guarantee that no less than half of the energy from one antenna will be transferred to the other antenna.
[0014]Circular polarization means that there is a vertical and a horizontal E-field vector that are 90° out of phase. Thus when one transmits from a linearly polarized antenna, such as a dipole, to a circular polarized antenna, the circularly polarized antenna is only picking up the same polarization that was incident on it from the dipole. Note that the circularly polarized antenna is optimized to receive both polarizations at once.
[0015]For orientation-independent systems in which random orientations of the tags are contemplated, providing a circularly polarized antenna on the tag guarantees coverage even though one can lose half of the power going from a linear to a circular polarization.
[0016]Of course, if the reader were provided with a circularly polarized antenna, one would not need to know the orientation of the tag relative to the reader if the tag had a circularly polarized antenna. However, the circularly polarized tag will radiate left hand CP in one direction and right hand CP in the opposite direction. Hence the reader to needs try both senses of CP to optimize coupling. Thus ideally the antenna for the interrogator or reader should be circularly polarized and switchable from left-hand circular polarization to right-hand and vice versa.
[0017]It is noted that most if not all RFID readers utilize a dipole transmit antenna, and that these antennas are linearly polarized. RFID tags that utilize simple loop antennas are also linearly polarized.
[0018]At least for the tag antenna, one therefore needs some sort of antenna that has is omnidirectional, with both vertical and horizontal polarizations 90° out of phase. If the polarizations are not out of phase, the antenna would exhibit a 45° linear polarization. Thus the 90° phase difference is critical in providing an omnidirectional antenna.
[0019]The simplest type of circularly polarized antenna involves utilizing a crossed dipole. In this, case the dipole elements are oriented at 90°, with one of the dipoles being fed 90° out of phase with the other of the dipoles. While one could devise a phase splitter arrangement having two outputs, one 90° out of phase with the other, in one embodiment of the subject invention a 90° phase delay is provided through the use of a delay line. Thus both of the crossed dipoles are fed from a common source, but the signal to one dipole travels an elongated path with respect to the other dipole. The length of the path is one-quarter wave longer to one dipole than the other, such that the delay is provided by a delay line that is 90° long.
[0020]Because the size of the tags must be minimized, especially in item-level tagging, it is important to make the tag itself small, which means reducing the size of the tag antenna. To reduce the size, in one embodiment, the crossed dipole antenna that offers an omnidirectional pattern and circular polarization has the ends of the dipoles spiraled back on themselves so as to minimize the lateral extent of the dipole.
[0021]Note that as to antenna size, a standard circularly polarized antenna is the single-feed spiral antenna, with two spiraling arms. However, a spiral is also larger than a crossed dipole because the spiral in CP mode needs to be a traveling wave mode, and hence is electrically large. Hence a spiral is larger and has more bandwidth than is needed for RFID at 915 MHz. A CP spiral would be 10 cm side length to radiate CP at 915 MHz, using 4 turns per arm of the spiral.
[0022]A loop fed using the same 90 degree delay line would be larger than the cross dipoles fed using the 90 delay line. An inductively loaded loop needs to be 10 cm side length to radiate CP at 915 MHz, in a planar design using meander lines to inductively load the loop.
[0023]On the other hand, advantageously, a crossed dipole, folded like a single turn spiral, has only a 6 cm side length to radiate CP at 915 MHz, as described in this invention.
[0024]As one seeks to engineer smaller and smaller antennas for smaller and smaller tags, if the antenna dipoles are not a half wave, then there is a reactance for the antenna such that the antenna is not tuned to the output impedance of the RFID integrated circuit microradio chip employed.
[0025]This non-optimal half wavelength design can affect VSWR and can affect the ability to create circular polarization. For certain detuning situations, for instance the right-hand circular polarization might prevail over the left-hand circular polarization in which energy in the right-hand circular polarization goes into cross-polar operation. It is the purpose of the tuning to make sure that energy goes into the co-polarization versus the amount of energy that goes into cross-polarization. With perfect tuning, there would be very little if any energy in the right-hand circular polarization or cross-polarization mode. However, in practical antennas the 90° delay line is not perfectly optimized such that the vertical and horizontal polarizations are not of equal magnitude. This means that the amplitude of the signals in the second dipole may be smaller than the amplitude of the signals in the first dipole.
[0026]While precise circular polarization is not critical, what is important is to have some horizontal polarization and some vertical polarization to provide some circular polarization.
[0027]Note that if there is imperfect circular polarization, then the tag is going to exhibit a certain amount of directivity due to a certain amount of linear polarization. Accidentally, it could be that this linear polarization could be in the same direction as the polarization of the transmit antenna of the reader. However, it might also be that the linear polarization direction is 90° rotated from the polarization direction of the reader in which one would get poor reception.
[0028]Of course, if the transmit antenna for the reader were circularly polarized, then any imperfection in the circular polarization of the tag antenna would have very little effect.
[0029]In the spiral antenna embodiment, a 1.7:1 SWR is achieved, with the antenna having a 10% bandwidth that meets the requirement of current RFID tags. The antenna could be fabricated with a larger bandwidth if the tag size were allowed to increase. However, since RED tag protocols require a bandwidth narrower than 10%, the tag antenna could actually be made smaller. This is because the size of the antenna is directly related to bandwidth.
[0030]In summary, antennas for RFID tags are made to exhibit circular polarization to give the tag an omnidirectional characteristic.
[0031]These and other features of the subject invention will be better understood in connection with the Detailed Description, in conjunction with the Drawings, of which:
[0032]FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic illustration of the effect of a linearly polarized reader or probing source having a linearly polarized antenna on randomly oriented RFID tags having linearly polarized antennas;
[0033]FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration of the use of a circularly polarized RFID tag antenna when utilized with a reader or probing source having a circularly polarized antenna;
[0034]FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic illustration of one embodiment of a circularly polarized antenna for use with RFID tags, illustrating orthogonally oriented dipoles, with the feed to one of the dipoles being 90° out of phase with respect to the feed of the other dipole;
[0035]FIG. 4A is a diagrammatic illustration of a spiral dipole antenna, with the spiral used to minimize the area that the antenna occupies;
[0036]FIG. 4B is an expanded view of the feed point of the spiral dipole antenna of FIG. 4A, illustrating the direct coupling of an RFID integrated circuit microradio chip across the feed point of the antenna;
[0037]FIG. 5 is a VSWR graph of the response of the antenna of FIG. 4A, showing that within a 10% frequency bandwidth the VSWR of the antenna is below 2:1;
[0038]FIG. 6 is a graph of realized gain for an ideal circularly polarized antenna illustrating that for the left-hand circular polarization, the realized gain at the resonant frequency is greater than -2.00 dB, whereas for an non-ideal circular polarized antenna that results in right-hand circular polarization, the realized gain is less; and,
[0039]FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic illustration of an interdigitated feed structure for the spiral dipole antenna of FIG. 4A, illustrating the depositing of a number of RFD integrated circuit microradio chips, at least some of which are properly coupled to the antenna feed.
[0040]What is now presented is a description of antenna polarization and the effects of polarization mismatch loss.
Antenna Polarization
[0041]The energy radiated by any antenna is contained in a transverse electromagnetic wave that is comprised of an electric and a magnetic field. These fields are always orthogonal to one another and orthogonal to the direction of propagation. The electric field of the electromagnetic wave is used to describe its polarization and hence, the polarization of the antenna.
[0042]In general, all electromagnetic waves are elliptically polarized. In this general case, the total electric field of the wave is comprised of two linear components, which are orthogonal to one another. Each of these components has a different magnitude and phase. At any fixed point along the direction of propagation, the total electric field would trace out an ellipse as a function of time. At any instant in time, Ex is the component of the electric field in the x-direction and Ey is the component of the electric field in the y-direction. The total electric field E, is the vector sum of Ex plus Ey.
[0043]Two special cases of elliptical polarization are circular polarization and linear polarization. A circularly polarized electromagnetic wave is comprised of two linearly polarized electric field components that are orthogonal, have equal amplitude and are 90 degrees out of phase. In this case, the polarization ellipse bound by the tip of the E-field vector is a circle. Depending upon the direction of rotation of the circularly polarized wave, the wave will be left hand circularly polarized or right hand circularly polarized. The phase relationship between the two orthogonal components, +90 degrees or -90 degrees, determines the direction of rotation.
[0044]A linearly polarized electromagnetic wave is comprised of a single electric field component and the polarization ellipse formed by the tip of the E-field vector is a straight line.
[0045]The term used to describe the relationship between the magnitude of the two linearly polarized electric field components in a circularly polarized wave is axial ratio, which is defined as the ratio of the maximum to the minimum cross sections of the ellipse. In a pure circularly polarized wave both electric field components have equal magnitude and the axial ratio, AR, is 1 or 0 dB (10 log [AR]). In a pure linearly polarized wave the axial ratio is ∞.
Polarization Mismatch Loss
[0046]In order to transfer maximum energy or power between a transmit and a receive antenna, both antennas must have the same spatial orientation, the same polarization sense and the same axial ratio. When the antennas are not aligned or do not have the same polarization, there will be a reduction in energy or power transfer between the two antennas. This reduction in power transfer will reduce the overall system efficiency and performance.
[0047]When the transmit and receive antennas are both linearly polarized, physical antenna misalignment will result in a polarization mismatch loss which can be determined using the following formula:
Polarization Mismatch Loss (dB)=20 log(cos θ) (1)
where θ is the misalignment angle between the two antennas. Table 1 illustrates some typical mismatch loss values for various misalignment angles.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Polarization Mismatch Between Two Linearly Polarized Waves as a Function of Angular Orientation. Polarization Mismatch Orientation Angle (dB) 0.0 (aligned) 0.0 15.0 0.3 30.0 1.25 45.0 3.01 60.0 6.02 76.0 11.74 90.0 (orthogonal) ∞
One of the common misconceptions regarding polarization relates to the circumstance where one antenna in a transmit-to-receive circuit is circularly polarized and the other is linearly polarized. It is generally assumed that a 3 dB system loss will result because of the polarization difference between the two antennas. In fact, the polarization mismatch loss between these two antennas will only be 3 dB when the circularly polarized antenna has an axial ratio of 0 dB. The actual mismatch loss between a circularly polarized antenna and a linearly polarized antenna will vary depending upon the axial ratio of the circularly polarized antenna.
[0048]When the axial ratio of the circularly polarized antenna is greater than 0 dB, this indicates that one of the two linearly polarized components will respond to a linearly polarized signal more so than the other component will. When a linearly polarized wave is aligned with the circularly polarized linear component with the larger magnitude, the polarization mismatch loss will be less than 3 dB. When a linearly polarized wave is aligned with the circularly polarized linear component with the smaller magnitude, the polarization mismatch loss will be greater than 3 dB. Table 2 illustrates the minimum and maximum polarization mismatch loss potential between a circularly polarized antenna and a linearly polarized antenna as a function of axial ratio.
TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Polarization Mismatch between a Linearly and Circularly Polarized Wave as a Function of the Circularly Polarized Wave's Axial Ratio. Minimum Polarization Maximum Polarization Axial Ratio Loss (dB) t Loss (d/B) tt 0.00 3.01 3.01 0.25 2.89 3.14 0.50 2.77 3.27 0.75 2.65 3.40 1.00 2.54 3.54 1.50 2.33 3.83 2.00 2.12 4.12 3.00 1.77 4.77 4.00 1.46 5.46 5.00 1.19 6.19 10.00 0.41 10.41 t Minimum polarization loss occurs when the strongest linear field component of the circularly polarized wave is identically aligned with the linearly polarized wave. tt Maximum polarization loss occurs when the weakest linear field component of the circularly polarized wave is identically aligned with the linearly polarized wave.
[0049]An additional issue to consider with circularly polarized antennas is that their axial ratio will vary with observation angle. Most manufacturers specify the axial ratio at the antenna boresight or as a maximum value over a range of angles. This range of angles is generally chosen to represent the main beam of the antenna. In order to measure axial ratio, antenna manufacturers measure the antenna radiation pattern with a spinning linearly polarized source. As the source antenna spins, the difference in amplitude between the two linearly polarized wave components radiated or received by the antenna is evident. The resulting radiation pattern will describe the antenna's axial ratio characteristics for all observation angles.
[0050]From the antenna radiation pattern, it can be demonstrated that the axial ratio at boresight is about 2.5 dB, while at an angle of 60 degrees off boresight, it ranges from about 5 to 8 dB. This illustrates that since axial ratio varies with observation angle, the polarization mismatch loss between a circularly polarized antenna and linearly polarized antenna will vary with observation angle as well.
[0051]For any planar CP antenna without a ground plane, the sense of the CP will reverse when illuminated from the back (perpendicular to the plane of the antenna, on one particular side) as opposed to the front (perpendicular to the plane of the antenna, on the other side). When illuminated in the plane of the antenna, the polarization is completely linear.
[0052]With this restriction in mind, a CP reader should try both LH and RH polarizations in order to optimize the coupling to all the CP tags. That is, if the planar CP tag is arbitrarily oriented and happens to be radiating the, say, RHCP toward the reader, then the reader should be switched to the RHCP polarization.
[0053]If the reader can only be linear, then this CP ambiguity does not matter. The system will accept the 3 dB coupling loss (half power loss), but need accept no worse than that.
[0054]If there is a ground plane under the tag, then all the radiation will be in one sense only, and the reader only needs one sense CP. However, the antenna will now be more directive and gain will be lost in the directions behind the ground plane.
RFID Polarization Mismatch
[0055]With this discussion of polarization and the effects of polarization mismatch, and referring now to FIG. 1, in a typical RFID probing operation, a reader 10 is coupled to a linearly polarized antenna 12, which results in electromagnetic wave having orthogonal E-field components Ex and Ey propagating out in the direction of arrow 14. Because of the linearly polarized antenna, the antenna has a polarization direction illustrated by arrow 16.
[0056]Assuming that one has RFID tags whose orientation is random, then assuming that the RFID tags have linearly polarized antennas such as shown by loop antennas 18, 20 and 22, each with an RFID integrated circuit microradio chip 24 at the feed points thereof, then as can be seen, depending on the orientation of the loop antenna, the directions of polarization of the tags is different as illustrated at 26, 28 and 30 respectively.
[0057]What will be immediately obvious is that there is a misalignment between polarization direction 16 of the linearly polarized transmit antenna 12 and the polarization directions associated with loops 18, 20 and 22.
[0058]What this means is that if the polarization directions of the reader's transmit antenna and the RFID tag's antenna are orthogonal, little energy is transferred from the reader to the RFID tag.
[0059]For passive RFID tags, it is important that a significant amount of energy from reader 10 be efficiently coupled to power the RFID circuits. Not having sufficient amount of energy coupled into a passive tag means that diode thresholds in the antenna will not be reached. This means that the tag will not be powered and its information cannot be read out.
[0060]Referring to FIG. 2, if reader 10 is provided with a circularly polarized antenna 32, then in the propagation direction 14, one will have, for instance, a left-hand circularly polarized wave as indicated at 34.
[0061]Note that the polarization of an antenna is defined by the polarization of the wave radiated by the antenna. This wave has an oscillating electric and magnetic field. The electric field for either antenna 12 or 32 is described by an electric field vector having the orthogonal components Ex and Ey.
[0062]Since the E-field vector varies cyclically, the figure traced by the tip of the E-field vector at a given position along the direction of propagation describes the polarization of the antenna.
[0063]Thus, in FIG. 1 one sees a linear polarization illustrated by arrow 16 with its direction indicated by the arrow. In FIG. 2 one sees a circular polarization expressed by the figure traced by the tip of the E-field vector.
[0064]It is the purpose of the subject invention to provide an omnidirectional, orientation-independent, circularly polarized tag antenna such as that shown at 40, which can be printed onto a single layer. This antenna includes crossed dipoles and a delay line that delays the input signal at the feed point of one dipole 90° relative to the input at the other dipole.
[0065]What will be seen with respect to FIG. 2 is that this particular embodiment for RFIG tag interrogation is orientation-independent because of the circularly polarized wave from the reader and the circularly polarized characteristic of the tag antenna. In this particular embodiment, a maximum amount of power will be transferred from the reader to the tag regardless of tag or reader antenna orientation.
[0066]If, however, the reader is provided with a linearly polarized antenna, it will be appreciated that by providing the RFID tag with a circularly polarized antenna, then at least some of the power from the reader is usable to power the tag.
[0067]Referring now to FIG. 3, the simplest way to provide a circularly polarized antenna, here shown at 50, is to provide crossed dipoles 52 and 54 in which dipole 52 has a feed point 56, and in which dipole 54 has a feed point 58.
[0068]It is the definition of a circularly polarized antenna that the polarized electromagnetic wave is comprised of the two linearly polarized electric field components that are orthogonal, have an equal amplitude and are 90° out of phase.
[0069]In one embodiment, how this condition is derived requires a signal source 60 coupled to a splitter 62 having output leads 64 directly coupled to feed point 56 of dipole 52. The other output leads 66 from splitter 62 are coupled to a delay line 68, with the delayed output coupled to feed point 58 of dipole 54.
[0070]It is the purpose of the delay line to provide a 90° delay by imposing a transmission line that is 90° long.
[0071]Referring to FIG. 4A, since the RFID tags need to be provided with a miniaturized antenna, at least for item-level tagging, an antenna 70 is provided with the aforementioned crossed dipoles. However, this antenna is configured in a spiral fashion to minimize the real estate occupied by the antenna itself. Here it can be seen that one of the dipoles is provided by conductive traces 72 and 74, which are spiraled on themselves at portions 76 and 78 respectively. It is this dipole that is fed directly with the output of an RFID microradio chip 80.
[0072]The other crossed dipole includes conductive traces 82 and 84, likewise spiraled in on themselves as illustrated by sections 86 and 88.
[0073]In order to provide a 90° out-of-phase signal to the dipole constructed with traces 82 and 84, a pair of delay lines 90 and 92 are connected between the feed point 100 at which the microradio is coupled, with delay line 90 comprising a trace running from one side of the feed point of the dipole constructed of traces 72 and 74 to the dipole comprised of trace 82. Delay line 92 is connected between the feed point of the crossed dipole from trace 72 to trace 84.
[0074]Referring to FIG. 4B, the feed point 100 for the spiral crossed dipole antenna of FIG. 4A shows that an RFID microradio chip having end connectors 102 and 104 is coupled across the end portions of traces 72 and 74. As can also be seen, the traces associated with delay lines 90 and 92 are also electrically connected to end connectors 102 and 104.
[0075]What is provided by the spiraled crossed-dipole antenna of FIG. 4A is an antenna that has a circularly polarized characteristic, assuming that the delay lines 90 and 92 are appropriately configured.
[0076]Referring to FIG. 5, assuming a 10% bandwidth, it can be seen that the VSWR of the antenna of FIG. 4A is below 2:1. The VSWR on the graph of FIG. 5 is computed from the Smith chart immediately above the VSWR curve.
[0077]Referring now to FIG. 6, the realizable gain of the antenna of FIG. 4A shows that, for curve 120, at the resonant frequency of the antenna, the realizable gain is greater than -2.00 dB for the left-hand circular polarization component of the antenna. This would be the only component for an ideal antenna. However, for real-world antennas, the antenna exhibits a right-hand circularly polarized component 122 such that the total gain of the antenna, being the sum of the LHCP and RHCP gains, is somewhat diminished. With proper tuning and the proper delay adjustment, trace 122 will lie much below trace 120 and therefore be negligible.
[0078]Referring now to FIG. 7, in order to take advantage of the ability to deposit multiple RFID integrated circuit microradio chips at the feed point 100 of the antenna, feed point 100 may be provided with an interdigitated structure 130, which comprises fingers or tines 132 extending from dipole trace 74, whereas the other portion of the interdigitated structure includes tines 134, which extend from trace 72 of the antenna of FIG. 4A.
[0079]The reason for the use of the interdigitated tines is that the tines provide numerous opportunities for RFID integrated circuit microradio chips 80 to properly connect across the tines. Here it can be seen that RFID integrated circuit microradio chip 80' has its end conductors 102 and 104 directly connected to tines across the gap between the associated tines 132 and 134. Likewise, RFID integrated circuit microradio chip 80'' is directly connected to tine 132 and to the end of trace 72.
[0080]What will be appreciated is that, due to the interdigitated nature of the tines, the interdigitated tines offer many more possibilities for correct coupling or connection when microradio chips are deposited over the feed point, such as when they are carried in a non-conductive slurry or ink.
[0081]While the present invention has been described in connection with the preferred embodiments of the various figures, it is to be understood that other similar embodiments may be used or modifications or additions may be made to the described embodiment for performing the same function of the present invention without deviating therefrom. Therefore, the present invention should not be limited to any single embodiment, but rather construed in breadth and scope in accordance with the recitation of the appended claims.
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Mary Ann Gauthier
Mrs. Gauthier can be rather nice at times, and she definitely instills a passion for music in a lot of students. However, she's usually very strict and often yells at students for breaking the rules in class, and even locks them out of class if they come in late. Not the best careers teacher, and not a very good guitar teacher either. Our final exam was so hard that even the smartest kid in the class couldn't do it, and she would't even play it herself for us & kept giving excuses!
really nice. helped me learned the clarinet. made music class fun.
She can be nice sometimes, and she is pretty nice to good students. But way too strict and needs to yell less. Needs to be positive and stop being cranky all the time! Should really watch her language at times.
I loved her. I wasn't very good at music, but she def. pushed me to try harder. Got me into band when I was the new kid at school and never looked back.
is nice but can be mean sometimes. she should be a little more lenient and mayb yell a little less....
She's a nice teacher and all.. but she needs to watch her language.
she can be good but is strict about the instruments dropping ... ya but she's nice
always helpful, always friendly. goes to great lengths to help students with getting their work in and genuinely wants us to succeed. very caring, trustworthy.


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"the staff are amazing first class ..."
About: Moorfields Eye Hospital (City Road) Moorfields Eye Hospital (City Road) London EC1V 2PD
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What I liked
the staff are amazing first class and very polite and are very reasuring, they were very sympathetic to me situation as i had squint surgery and the surgeon miss adams was first class. i could not believe how well i was treated.i had my consultation and surgery three weeks later. they talked me through everything and were very reasurring as i have a fear of hospital.thanks to moorfields i no longer feel afraid as they were amazing. the after care from the nurses on victoria were fist clas they were incredibly helpful warm and friendly. i would definatly go back they are amazing there.
What could be improved
nothing not a single thing.
Anything else?
i was a nhs patient not private and you are treated no different the staff who work there are all incredible helpful, they take the time to talk to you and explain things thoroughly to you.
The staff here are first class and provide the best treatment, you really are incredibly good hands here. The eye surgeon is a credit to her hospital and so are her staff, a very well done to them all for being such a hard working dedicated team.


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Many gardeners have had the experience of planting new shrubs or perennials, taking care of them as they are becoming well-established, and then – one morning – finding the new plants have been eaten down to the ground. Yes, those beautiful, seemingly shy, deer that roam through your suburban or country neighborhood are also relentless foragers that can reek havoc on your home ornamental garden.
What is a gardener to do? Instead of installing an eight-foot tall fence around your yard or spraying all of your plants with a deer repellent after every rain, one solution is to increase the number of deer resistant plants in your landscape. While it may be that no plant is 100% deer proof, there are a number of native plant species found in the southeastern United States that deer do not like and are unlikely to eat.
One of these is beautyberry, Callicarpa americana, a deciduous shrub species that grows in open woodlands. It can take partial shade or full sun and moist or dry soil conditions. In the late summer or early fall it forms clusters of purple berries, which contrast nicely against its yellow fall foliage.
Another open woodland shrub found throughout the Southeast is buckeye. Aesculus pavia is the buckeye species most often available in plant nurseries. It sends up columns of red tubular flowers in the Spring. Other species of buckeye have white or pale yellow flowers. Buckeye leaves are arranged like fingers on a hand. Watching them slowly unfold over the course of two or three days in early spring is one of the pleasures of being an observant gardener.
Mountain laurel, Kalmia latifolia, has one of the most beautiful flowers of the native woodland. This shrub is normally found in cool moist woods close to streams, but may also be spotted on upland slopes or ridges. It can handle a moderately dry location but will need regular watering to get fully established. Mountain laurel prefers full to partial shade.
Christmas fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, in an evergreen fern species. Like mountain laurel, it is normally seen on shady, moist slopes or near streams. It is remarkably adaptable to much drier and somewhat sunny conditions, and once established, will typically do very well, even with moderately harsh conditions and neglect.
Two perennial species complete this list. While it is possible that either of these will be munched on by deer, most likely they will have sampled all the other plants in your garden first! Butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, is found in open fields and is often seen along rural highways. It likes sun and has orange flowers that bloom in early summer. Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum, is restricted to shaded locations and prefers regular watering. It has large, distinctive, umbrella-shaped leaves and can colonize large areas over time.
All of the plants listed above have much to offer and are a worthwhile addition to the garden, even when deer are not a problem. If the local deer population is large enough that your garden is under attack, these plants will hopefully send the deer on their way in search of tastier treats in someone else's yard!


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"Where there is great power there is great responsibility." Winston Churchill
Changing the slides during the singing of the New Zealand National Anthem was the responsibility with which I was charged. The power came in the form of a portable device that communicated by infrared the desired change of slides.
The singing of the first verse was followed by a sense of brief but nervous hesitation. Caught up in divine patriotism, I had inadvertently failed to discharge the very duty bestowed upon me. I quickly realised my faux pas and with device in hand anxiously changed the slide. The rest of the recital occurred flawlessly.
Voice for Life
This was the final day of my first attended Voice for Life Annual Conference.
What a privilege to have been there. Thanks to some very generous sponsors, I was able to attend, spending the weekend in Hamilton, staying at the very nice Ibis Hotel.
The first day of the conference, which kicked off Friday night, followed my first exposure to publically demonstrating my pro-life position. You can read about that here.
Friday night featured branch reports. Representatives from various branches around New Zealand gave updates on what their groups had been doing to promote the culture of life.
I was asked to share briefly about the goings on in Thames. This was well received. I basically just read the blog post I had written whilst en route from Thames.
As the reports were given, there was never a time where I sensed that these people were judgemental, hard-hearted, hate-filled fundamentalists. There was reference to the abhorrence of abortion and the profound value of human life from conception to natural death. But the overall tone was one of compassion.
Dr. Rachel Carling-Jenkins
An Australian politician. She is a Democratic Labour Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council, having represented Western Metropolitan Region since 2014. Rachel was the keynote speaker for this year's conference. She presented on some of the lessons she has learned and challenges she has faced in the pro-life movement. Additionally, she passed on some encouragement – urging us to continue in the fight.
Rachel spoke of the tragedy reflected in her home state of Victoria. Not only does Victoria have the worst abortion laws in the commonwealth of Australia, but the world. In Victoria, abortion is legal up to birth. And even if the infant survives the abortion process, because the order has been issued, the child is left to die.
In addition, the State has buffer zone legislation. This law says that no pro-life demonstration can be made within 150 metres of an abortion clinic. This quells any form of vigil or silent demonstration such as the kind I was involved in.
Infant Viability Bill
Recently Dr. Rachel submitted a bill to the Victorian Parliament. The Infant Viability Bill sought to roll-back the atrocious late-term abortion legislation in the state. Sadly, the bill was defeated and infants are still aborted up to birth.
Her presentations urged for unity amongst various pro-life groups.
In addition, there was a call for political engagement. Not the rant and rave and writing of threats kind. Rather, gracious, compassionate, and wise engagement.
Dr. John Kleinsman
John spoke on the battle against euthanasia law reform in New Zealand, the current status, and how we can help in the fight.
Catherine Gillies
Having been involved in post-abortion counselling for over 15 years Catherine spoke on the reality of post-trauma counselling in NZ and informed consent.
Tracy Kirkley
Tracy spoke on how to best engage with our local MP's. This was timely with reference to next year's General Election.
Hillary Kieft
A farmer and cafe operator in Taranaki, Hillary spoke about parental notification and Ariana's campaign.
All Over Impression
I am so glad I had the opportunity to be there. My heart was touched, my mind engaged, and my will stirred to continue to be a voice for the voiceless. I was privileged to meet many people involved in the movement. There was a real sense of mutual encouragement.
My challenge is how to engage my community with compassion, grace, and wisdom.


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I completed my first half marathon. Or should I say that I joined a large group of people for an organized run together. People from all over the area came to run at the same time through the same path. A community if you will and a community of like minded people doing the same thing as me. My training is done alone, early in the morning and I decided to run a half marathon which 5 years ago was not an option at all… I simply could not have run that distance.
I entered it a little last minute but was very glad that I did. It was minus 4 Celsius and sunny. It warmed up slightly as the day went on and was great to run in. The event was well organized but could have used a little more direction once inside the race kit pick up area.
I hadn't run 21k in over a year but had done a number of 10k runs and also a bunch of 8k marches with a 65lbs pack on my back which usually take about an hour and a half. I figured that with being on my feet with the pack for the same duration as the race and also running shorter distances that I would be prepared. Well, I was right.
I started the run with the idea that it would just be a training run and that I wouldn't push it. I started off at a pace I knew that I could maintain for 10k and scaled it back slightly. Once I got to the 7k mark I was feeling really good. I decided to pick up the pace a little. I hit 10k and felt good so I kept going at that pace. People were starting to pass me and I was passing others. That long distance meditative state was starting to kick in.
For about 700m before the half way mark it was a steady down hill where I let gravity take over and passed a bunch of people. The down side to the down hill at the turn around is the slow uphill. Luckily I have done a lot of hills in my training so I was well prepared. After running about 17km I thought it would be a nice leisurely run through the golf course. I was WRONG. There were some major hills. In terms of hills they were extremely steep and were similar to running stairs. Heinous is the word that comes to mind. I saw a number of people run the hills and then walk after each one. Luckily I was in good shape and didn't die with the hills but I did struggle and it was a great opportunity to cheer other people on.
My favourite part was cheering the others on. Some of the people were starting to slow and I loved motivating them to keep up their speed. It was a friendly environment and nice to talk with people along the way. It was a little weird sparking up a conversation with someone after running 17k with another 4k to go, but hey, they can try to run away from me if they don't want to talk.
For example one person that had a steady lead on me from the beginning started to slow down. I tried to get her to catch the group in front of us. I said "come on, let's go get the group in red ahead of us." It put a smile on her face when she was starting to struggle. Another was in the last 5k and close to passing another person but started slowing down and I told him to keep up and let's pass the guy in front. Again he was struggling but managed to crack a smile. Lastly at the finish line there were three of us side by side and I said to them let's sprint it out… May favourite saying: Finish Strong!
It was nice to be part of a community who come out and struggle through these races together. While the majority of my training is done in solitude at 5am in the cold mornings, these events are a nice way to come out and bring my training to the community. The community of like minded people who also train and come from come from many walks of life but in the core of us all we are similar. The core values of train, improve, join together. A process definitely worth repeating.
Happy Training.


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Temper Trap at the El Rey: Concert Review
London-by-way-of-Australia indie rockers The Temper Trap brought their spaced-out-pop show to Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre Tuesday for the second sold-out night in a row with a set that included old favorites and several TV-ready new tracks from their forthcoming, eponymous sophomore album (due in June). The band took the stage following a powerful set by local L.A. up-and-comers Papa, entering in pitch black except for some blaring red lights and heavy bass pounding to the audience's giddy applause.
"We're going to play a few new ones tonight, I hope you don't get bored," said lead singer Dougy Mandagi who later teased the band's upcoming album, which was recorded locally. "There's a little bit of sunshine in there."
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But most of the set seemed born from a land way-out-there, from the band's steadfast pounding rhythms to soaring effected guitar lines and Mandagi's powerful, pitch-perfect voice that ruthlessly hit falsetto melody lines with nothing short of bravery, setting a tone of cosmic proportions layered over deep and solid grooves. Standing and facing the audience, often with his hands behind his back like a choirboy or gesturing emotively with the songs' highs and lows, Mandagi's presence was intense but cheery, belting out his vocals with the sort of passion that could rival genre greats like Radiohead's Thom Yorke or Muse's Matthew Bellamy. Meanwhile, his band members picked up and put down guitars in exchange for synthesizers throughout the set, staying friendly and engaging without too much banter. By the way they moved, however, Temper Trap's players seemed as if they checked any snobbish rock star cool at customs and instead maneuvered the stage with inviting passion and vigor.
The crowd watched on mesmerized but didn't reciprocate much physical movement. And despite the band's best efforts, this hardly changed with a few small exceptions of dance eruptions deep in the pit during anthemic songs such as "Love Lost" and at the peak of the souful "Ressurection," which prompted some people to move -- but only a bit. The night's most rocking moment came during "Drum Song," which evolved into a dark and forceful jam that conjured some liveliness from the audience and heightened intensity as the band rolled into "Science of Fear" and new track "Dreams". But even this quelled before long, as the crowd watched on pleasantly but mostly stationary.
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The Temper Trap has seen its stature rise in alt-rock world, thanks in large part to commercial synchs, which surely brought many of these fans out Tuesday night. Tickets cost nearly $30 -- high for a typical show at the El Rey -- perhaps excluding a more passionate portion of the band's fanbase. But, sure enough, by the time The Temper Trap did play its biggest single to date, "Sweet Disposition" -- which has been featured in Chrysler and Diet Coke Commercials, as well as many television shows and the quirky 2009 rom-com 500 Days of Summer -- the audience livened up, proving this is what they had come here for, singing and dancing along to that one song in bliss.
When the band returned onstage for an encore, it was for a single musical goodbye -- the new tune "Rabbit Hole," which builds slowly, starting light and sweet before transforming into a blistering ballad and then quickly ending. It was a captivating performance but it seemed the crowd would have preferred "Sweet Disposition" played 12 times over. Hopefully by the next show, and once the new album is released, the audience will be more ready to sing along.
Set List:
Need Your Love
Love Lost
The Sea
Trembling Hands
Drum Song
Science Of Fear
Sweet Disposition
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HUNTING PARK - August 15, 2012 --Residents of an apartment building have been evacuated after a neighboring vacant building collapsed in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia.
The incident was reported just before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 1400 block of West Tioga Street.
Firefighters were called out for a partial collapse of the rear of a vacant building.
Five families in an adjacent building had to be evacuated as a precaution.
The Philadelphia Licenses and Inspections Department is on scene.
The Red Cross said it is helping a family of three at the Red Cross House. The other four families have made other plans.


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Vision and Mission
School of Technology and Applied Sciences was started by Mahatma Gandhi University, with the aim of giving courses that meet the requirement of well trained man power in Computer Science & Electronics. In 2017, the centre is transferred to Centre for Professional and Advanced Studies (CPAS), a society established by Govt. of Kerala under the chairmanship of Hon'ble Education Minister.


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All Films.All Above Board.NOW INCLUDES TV SHOWS & TV LISTINGS
Busby Berkeley directs this classic musical starring James Ellison and Alice Faye. While on leave from the army, playboy Andy Mason (Ellison) develops a romantic attachment to showgirl Edie Allen (Faye). Unaware of how long his next assignment will be, Andy panics when meeting Edie for the first time and gives his name as Casey. On his next visit home, Andy becomes the recipient of a medal for which his father celebrates with a party employing the services of Edie's show troupe. What will her reaction be when she finds out her true love's true identity and that he's secretly engaged to someone else?


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Barclay has 'Treatment' appointment
EmptyEmmy-winning director-producer Paris Barclay has come aboard HBO's upcoming series "In Treatment" as a co-executive producer and director.
Barclay will co-exec produce about half of the half-hour drama's 45 episodes and also is directing some of those episodes. He comes aboard the series after helming four episodes.
"Treatment," which is based on the popular and critically acclaimed Israeli series of the same name ("BeTipul" in Hebrew), centers on a therapist (Gabriel Byrne) who is calm, smooth, insightful and nonconfrontational with his patients but turns into a testy, self-doubting individual full of barely concealed anger when he is a patient seeing his own shrink.
"Treatment" is executive produced by Rodrigo Garcia, who wrote and directed the pilot and serves as showrunner, and original series creator Hagai Levi, along with Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson through their Closest to the Hole Prods. and Leverage Entertainment banners. Noa Tishby also is co-executive producing, with Sarah Lum and Leonard Torgan serving as producers.
Barclay won two Emmys and a DGA Award for directing episodes of ABC's "NYPD Blue." His recent TV credits include Fox's "House," NBC's "The West Wing" and "ER," CBS' "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," ABC's "Lost," FX's "The Shield" and USA Network's "Monk." Barclay also co-created the CBS series "City of Angels."
He is repped by Paradigm and Lovett Management.
Nellie Andreeva contributed to this report.


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If you're planning your wedding and looking for your perfect wedding gown why not consider a tea length dress? A throw back to the 50's and 60's, tea length gowns are fun, feminine and a fashionable alternative to the traditional cathedral gown.
What exactly is a tea length gown? Tea length dresses fall between the knee and ankle and often have a full skirt. In my opinion nobody wore this style better than Audrey Hepburn. It just screams grace, elegance and style.
Whether you take inspiration from Ms Hepburn, scour local vintage stores or turn to a modern bridal designer, my prediction is that you will be see a lot more tea length gowns walking down the aisle.
Row 1: Style Me Pretty, Style Me Pretty, Joan Schum
Row 2: Polka Dot Bride, Joan Schum, Engageology,
Row 3: Priscilla Of Boston (images 1-3), You and Your Wedding
Row 4: Rosa Clara, Jonathan Canlas, Dolly Couture
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There are many factors that can lead to isolation. If you notice your senior loved one withdrawing from social interaction, it's important to encourage him or her to spend time with others so he or she can reduce the risk of developing more serious health conditions. Here are 5 tips you can use to prevent your loved one from becoming isolated.
1. Provide Easy Access to Transportation
Because many seniors do not drive, lack of transportation is a primary cause of isolation among the elderly. Easy access to transportation allows your loved one to get around and still make independent choices while promoting social health. Create a schedule where each person in your family commits to taking your senior loved one to appointments, the grocery store, and community events. You can also research companies that offer free rides for seniors within the community or Las Vegas home care agencies that provide transportation services.
2. Encourage Healthy Eating and Regular Exercise
Being overweight could cause your loved one to feel embarrassed and shy away from social events. Your loved one may fear:
- Others will make fun of his or her weight
- He or she won't be able to fit in the seats at a specific venue
- His or her clothing will tear in public
- He or she will fall and be unable to get back up
To help your loved one maintain a healthy weight, encourage him or her to eat a healthy diet and exercise on a regular basis. Additionally, signing up for exercise classes with other seniors can help your loved one get the physical activity he or she needs, and he or she will also be interacting with others, reducing the risk of isolation.
3. Address Incontinence
Your loved one may refuse to leave his or her home due to an overactive bladder, which can be caused by a stroke, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, pelvic conditions, and various injuries. However, if your loved one manages urinary incontinence appropriately, he or she may be more likely to get out of the home and socialize with others instead of being fearful about going out into the public. You can address this concern with medications and incontinence supplies like adult diapers.
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Being a pet owner can help your loved one remain socially engaged, less depressed, and more secure. When your loved one has the responsibility of taking care of a pet, he or she may be more excited about getting up in the morning to feed the pet and taking it to the park or for walks through the neighborhood. Animal companionship is also a great way to establish friendships with other pet owners.
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The Latest: Judge still considering Trump motion by Bergdahl
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (all times local):
11:55 a.m.
A military judge says he hasn't decided yet on a motion by Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl that argues President Donald Trump's comments have tainted the case.
Sentencing for Bergdahl on charges that he endangered comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan resumed Wednesday morning.
The judge, Army Col. Jeffery Nance, said that he was still considering a motion by the defense to dismiss the case over Trump's comments and would rule later.
Trump heavily criticized Bergdahl on the campaign trail and recently referred back to those comments during a news conference.
Also Wednesday, prosecutors began calling service members who were wounded searching for Bergdahl.
A former Navy SEAL teared up as he talked about a dog that helped them find enemy fighters who attacked them on that mission. Senior Chief Petty Officer James Hatch says spray from an enemy's AK-47 killed a military dog named Remco and then wounded him.
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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returns to a military courtroom at Fort Bragg Wednesday for his sentencing hearing, where prosecutors plan to present evidence that fellow service members were seriously wounded in a fruitless search for him after he abandoned his post in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors are expected to start calling witnesses to discuss these search missions and resulting injuries , which the judge ruled would not have happened had Bergdahl not endangered his comrades in 2009.
The 31-year-old soldier who spent five years as a Taliban prisoner faces up to life behind bars in the U.S. after pleading guilty to the rare charge of misbehavior before the enemy as well as desertion.
Criticism by President Donald Trump looms over the case. The military judge has yet to rule on defense arguments that Trump's comments as recently as last week are preventing Bergdahl from getting a fair sentencing hearing.


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We're meeting a friend from Rochester for dinner tonight near the Eastview Mall (stopping there briefly on a longer road trip) and the mall food court options are uninspiring. Are there any chowish alternatives nearby (within maybe 15 minutes of the mall, and not too far from a Thruway exit)?
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Child Safety Online from Toddlers to Tweens
17 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 1, 2011 at 1:31 PM
Good morning, I'm following from Follow Me Back Tuesday. Thank you for your post, it's a reminder for all of us not to take the internet for granted. While it offers amazing opportunities, it can be a dangerous place especially for children. Have a great day.ReplyDelete
Thank you for covering this important topic. You have a great blog.ReplyDelete
I am a new follower.
This is very helpful! Thanks for the brilliant info!ReplyDelete
I will give Kidzui a go, sounds suitable for my daughter who wants us to play stories and songs on Youtube for her but can also click on the ones she fancies from the list of related videos and as you know not all of them are child friendly. Try the Little red ridinghood for example and see what it will come up with!
Off to get Kidzui...
Your blog is adorable and for a Mom of 4, lots of wonderful information! New follower from FMBT. Come check me out at:ReplyDelete
SO happy to be following this blog! Found you from the hop. What a darling blog you have, love the title of Emma's lunch.ReplyDelete
Russo @ www.threegnomes.blogspot.com
Thanks for the great thoughts and resources.ReplyDelete
Your blog has some great, fun things! I have three kids 6 and under, so I'll definitely be back. And I'm an "Emma's Mom" too :)
I'm following from the Wed blog hops. Hope you'll stop by my blog
I just found you on the blog hop.ReplyDelete
Great blog, I am following and will definitely be back.
We have a similarly educational but fun Aussie blog.
Our kids are just a couple of years older and we recently posted about Dance Mat Typing- have you heard of it??
Please drop over when you have a chance- see you again!
What an interesting post! Definitely something I need to start thinking about since my son is getting more and more interested in computers.ReplyDelete
I'm a new follower from It's Almost Friday Blog hop. Nice to meet you!
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Great post, I am not looking forward to dealing with cyber bullying etc with my boys :( It's good to be prepared though!ReplyDelete
I'm a new follower from Thirsty Thursday blog hop. I can't wait to read more of your posts. I'd love it if you would follow back :)
Great info and topic that is so important!ReplyDelete
Hi, I'm your newest follower!!
I found you on the Its Almost Friday Hop. I am your newest GFC follower. If you could check out my blog and follow me back I would appreciate it. Thanks AmberReplyDelete
Really great site! My daughter is getting to that age where she's at risk. I think as a parent all you can do is spend the time educating them and doing what you can do in order to protect them. Look forward to checking back on your site as I follow it.ReplyDelete
Yeah so true how dangerous the internet can be! That's scary what you said about the YouTube Dora video! Wow.ReplyDelete
In answer to your question earlier, you can totally make the pancakes ahead of time and then freeze them right away for later. I actually do this sometimes because I make too many pancakes! Hee! Hee! Anyway I just put them in the fridge the night before and they are dethawed by morning and can be microwaved.
Also, right now I mostly just use a "just add water buttermilk" pancake mix from the store for convenience sake. I've tried most of them and although each brand works slightly different, most of them are pretty good. Just make sure and mix up the batter with a mixer to get out any lumps and don't be afraid to add extra water if you feel the batter is too thick. I also have a family pancake recipe that I'll be working on perfecting soon and will share on my blog when I'm finished tweaking it. Happy Birthday to Emma!
very important issue to blog about, my daughter was buying with my credit card at age 4!!! it's taught me just how computer savvy these kids areReplyDelete
I'm a new follower from the hop. I'm Emma at http://majorloveoffilm.blogspot.com and http://llmcalling.blogspot.com
Excellent topic and passionate writing. Too many parents are taking "what's the harm?" attitudes. I'd rather take charge BEFORE they face the danger than after.ReplyDelete
I'm a new follower from Thirsty Thursday.
This is such an important issue. As a parent and the owner of an online childrens clothing store, I keep this in mind every day. I don't allow my 12-year-old on Facebook. Our store has a wishlist function so kids can "window shop" and then email their selections to their parents, relatives, and friends, but our policy is that kids under 14 cannot shop by themselves.ReplyDelete
It is true that nowadays children spend more time online than ever before and in many cases, more time online than offline. The vast expansion and popularity of the Internet among children and teenagers is something similar to what happened with video games in the 80s and 90s. However, this time the penetration and dominance of digital technology in everyday life have been taken to new extremes. With the advent of portable and handheld devices offering Internet access anytime and anywhere, it has become an extremely difficult task for parents to monitor their children's online activity and habits, especially when they are outside of the house.ReplyDelete


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I hope you have had a great weekend! The hubby and I just got back from visiting with his parents and grilling out for Father's Day.
I wanted to share with you a card I made for the latest Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #39.
I know I have been MIA for awhile but I have been traveling. The little free time I have, has been spent working on the house, yard and hanging with friends. I don't know about you but I find it so hard to stay in the studio and craft when it is so beautiful outside.
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Bad Pot Trip at the Denver County Fair
DENVER (CN) – Though a chocolatier at the Denver County Fair's Pot Pavilion assured a visitor there was no THC in its free samples, he got so high from them he projectile vomited on the way to a hospital, the man claims in a class action complaint.
Jordan Coombs sued edible marijuana chocolatier Beyond Broadway dba Full Melt Chocolate and LivWell, in Denver County District Court.
"This civil action is for personal injuries arising from the defendants' negligent distribution of marijuana-infused chocolate bars under the guise that they contained no Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive constituent (or cannabinoid) of this cannabis plant," Coombs says in the lawsuit.
"Plaintiff complains, inter alia, that Broadway gave him several pieces of chocolate at the Pot Pavilion at the Denver County Fair and was expressly told by Broadway representatives that the chocolate contained no THC. Upon ingesting the chocolate the plaintiff experienced and overdosed on THC causing him to become seriously and physically ill requiring treatment and evaluation at the emergency room."
Coombs claims that after he ate the chocolate he felt so strange he had to leave the fair. His wife drove him to the hospital and "during the drive away from the Denver County Fair, the plaintiff became so sick that he projectile vomited uncontrollably in his car," the complaint states. The vomit was so bad that that car required "professional cleaning."
Coombs claims physicians in the emergency room diagnosed him as overdosing on THC, which they detected in his blood.
Coombs seeks class certification and damages for product liability, breach of warranty, negligence, failure to label and negligent misrepresentation.
He is represented by Corey Zurbuch with Frascona, Joiner, Goodman and Greenstein, of Boulder.


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Jennifer Lawrence 'Catches Fire' with Josh Hutcherson!
Jennifer Lawrence sports her full Katniss Everdeen costume while walking around the set of her film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Thursday (October 11) in Atlanta, Ga.
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Rural Lives Versus Urban Lives
Urban and rural living each have their own benefits and drawbacks. A person's personality, work status, financial situation and his or her age may influence the choice of environment where he or she likes living. In my opinion, the rural life is somehow suitable for the elderly people's lifestyle while the urban life always inspirit the way young people live.
It's easier and more comfortable for old people to keep up with the rural style in daily life. Firstly, cities are more crowned and faster-paced while rural living is often more relaxed and less congested. The slower pace of rural areas provides a sense of community and the openness makes people seem accessible to each other. Secondly, cities have fewer homes with yards, but those living in rural areas have more access to open space and nature. A close link to the nature is considered as the most important part of old people's lives. In contrast, cities have state-of-the art skyscrapers and office that serve to create walls. Finally, cities are a hub for industrialization. There are more factories and businesses, making the areas more polluted. Additionally, the increased population in cities makes the ground more likely to be marred by litter and heavy use. These would have a bad influence on elderly resident's health.
Living in a lively city is always a sparking desire of young people. City life gives inhabitants the ability to be exposed to more culture. Museums, theatre, and monuments are often easily accessible in cities. Additionally, most cities have a broad range of multicultural restaurants accessible by public transportation or walking. In contrast, entertainment in rural areas may be more limited or require travel. These conveniences are main attractiveness to young people and let them try to become a complete urban resident.
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Route planning is like other normal tasks for the transportation businesses. They utilize the same route for the whole year; there are hardly any changes in the fixed route. But Route planning plays an important role in the school bus transportation. Optimizing school bus routes is essential as the number of students is growing year by year. To make school bus transportation available to all, it becomes essential to add new routes & stoppages and explore better routes. The school transport management system also needs to help in planning the most optimized route as per traffic conditions at any given time, thereby avoiding delays and saving on fuel costs.
While planning school bus routes, school transport management system refers to maps, students' addresses, available bus stops etc. so that they can plan the most optimized school bus route. No doubt manual route planning looks easy but the results are uncertain, ambiguous, un-optimized, time taking and redundant. The data needed for route planning is huge and its thorough assessment every time can be a cumbersome task.
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The ballet teacher, wearing the black leotard, skirt and sweater with the sleeves characteristically rolled up, walked over to the record player in the corner of the rehearsal studio in the basement of a downtown Santa Ana church.
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony filled the room.
"First position, and . . . " instructed the teacher, Sister Beth Burns, a Catholic nun who has the unlikely distinction of being a trained ballerina.
Alternately snapping her fingers and clapping her hands in time with the music, Sister Beth offered gentle criticism and enthusiastic encouragement to her students as they executed a series of graceful port de corps (forward and backward bends at the hip) and plies (knee bends):
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The Last Ship (2014)
1 plot hole in Phase Six
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Eric Dane, Rhona Mitra, Travis Van Winkle
Plot hole: After the nuclear missile has overshot the ship and is determined to be heading for land, a map on a computer display gives an indication of the missile's trajectory relative to the Nathan James and western Europe. After the nuclear detonation, an external shot shows the blast is to the port side of the ship, giving the impression the ship is on a southern bearing off the west coast of France. At the time of detonation, the bridge crew shield their eyes while facing the front of the bridge, which would give the impression the ship is pointed right at the blast rather than off the port side. Later, Master Chief Jeter reports that the jet stream is pushing the radiation north-northeast, as if to indicate the ship is currently sitting in the fallout zone, when this would actually be pushing the radiation cloud away from the Nathan James.solarpilot
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Sorry for the delay.
I want to thank those who participated in the Dialogue on Disability and
Gender. I hope that questions and thoughts about the issues raised through
this discussion continue to be raised through the EdEquity list or through
private e-mail or telephone conversations. It is a busy time of the year
and with vacations, there weren't as many people participating as we might
have liked, but there is always progress when people communicate and
communicate we did.
I will clarify that there is affirmative action hiring at the Minnesota
Department of Children, Families & Learning but, there are fields in all
places of employment that have been been predominantly dominated by one
gender or the other. Leadership is more equally divided between the
genders, but among the workers there are the same discrepancies found in
elementary education, early childhood education and probably, in the field
of nursing. Some progress toward equality has been made in the past ten
years, but within the confines of hiring freezes, a strike, a near shutdown
or two in the past few years, it will be much farther into the future when
the workers are more nearly equally divided between the genders in special
education. No conspiracy, however! And there isn't data to say that
administering monitoring and compliance or policy development is biased
because of a gender disparity exists.
Enough on that. I learned a lot and I hope others did and that the
discussion will continue. I appreciate the hard work everyone is doing and
am glad I got to read the thoughts of my colleagues across the country.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Sue Sattel,
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