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Awards season is here — and we're not talking Golden Globes or Oscars. Wineries in the East Bay, South Bay and Santa Cruz Mountains scored big time, earning more than 200 medals at the 2016 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, the biggest wine competition in North America.
Want to taste these award winning wines?Vintners will be pouring their medal-worthy wines ($70-$95) at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center from 1:30-5 p.m. Feb. 13.
Competition was fierce during judging, with a record-breaking 7,162 wines submitted by wineries across the country, and judged by 65 wine professionals over four days. When the results were tallied…
Sonnet Wine Cellars took top honors as the Red Sweepstakes Winner for its 2013 Tondré Grapefield Pinot Noir ($40) to tie with Amador County's Runquist 2013 Nostro Vino "R" Zinfandel ($27) over all other red wines in the competition. Sonnet winemaker Tony Craig also makes wine for other Santa Cruz Mountains wineries, including Muns Vineyard, Savannah Chanelle and Silver Mountain.
Wineries throughout these regions pulled in nearly a dozen Best of Class medals for everything from The Sheriff GSM blend (grenache, syrah, mourvedre) by Vasco Urbano Wine Company to tempranillo from Kirigin Cellars. Double gold medals went to more than a dozen wineries, including Beauregard Vineyard's chardonnay, 3 Steves Winery'a cabernet franc and Dashe Cellars' zinfandel.
Seems the judges have a taste for Livermore Valley fruit. Livermore killed it, scooping up 120 or so medals overall, followed by the Santa Cruz Mountains with roughly 80 awards.
San Jose and Paso Robles-based J. Lohr Vineyards collected 23 medals, including three Best of Class awards for the 2014 Gesture Viognier ($30) and, 2014 Gesture Grenache Rosé ($18) and 2013 South Ridge Syrah ($15). Wines from Soquel Vineyards were also favored, with the winery taking 16 medals, including Best of Class for the 2013 Silvaspoons Vineyard Grenache ($25).
From Santa Clara Valley, Martin Ranch Winery picked up 14 gold, silver and bronze medals. And, they're celebrating at Fenestra Winery in Livermore Valley, with a total of 13 medals, including a Best of Class for the 2012 Graciano in the All Other Reds category.
Find a complete list of winners at www.winejudging.com.


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Sabria Jeffries 'To Pleasure a Prince'
I am definitely feeling jaded. *gasp* I apologize fair reader, but I've got to re-charge my reading senses by inserting a decent book. I'm afraid my reviewing abilities are being worn down by nothing but trash.
Beautiful Lady Regina has dyslexia, Marcus the Viscount is the bastard son of Prinny, who avoids society ever since his mother spread nasty gossip about him as a young man. He's gained a reputation for being quite volatile so society calls him the Dragon Viscount. When his younger sister has her first season, Lady Regina goes to talk to Marcus to see why he has forbidden her brother from seeing his little sister. For some bizarre reason he agrees to a month long courtship between the siblings as long as Regina allows him to court her.
In my opinion, dialog is everything, and these two are terrific together. He is quite overbearing but she gives as good as she gets and doesn't back down. By the end his belligerence begins to wear however, and it would have been nice for his character to have been changed by her's more gradually. Of course this would have interfered with the BIG ARGUMENT part of the plot....
The sexual tension is very good, and consummation was terrific if sparse by todays standards. This book had a great start, then falls into some old patterns (misunderstandings, big argument for plot climax) by the end.
Historical Romance 2004: 4 of 5 dark dungeons.

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Application for Grants open only between 16th February - 1st March 2017!
The LKY School is pleased to announce that they will support PhD students from all countries by providing free on-campus accommodation to PhD students presenting at the Conference. These will be awarded on a competitive basis based on the quality of the abstract.
All PhD students may apply. To be eligible for this free accommodation, the candidate must have a paper accepted at ICPP3, following a classical selection process and must apply by an online system between 16th February and 1st March 2017. The selection committee, taking into account the number of available accommodation, will select based on the quality of the abstract.
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The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy is pleased to support the participation of scholars from developing countries in Asia by providing travel subsidies of SGD 500.
To be eligible to receive the grant, the candidate must have a paper accepted at ICPP3 following a classical selection process and apply by email between 16th February and 1st March 2017 (the email address will be shown here in due course). A selection committee will select scholars based on the quality of the abstracts.
The Global Centre for Public Service Excellence (GCPSE) is one of six Global Policy Centres of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which contribute to UNDP's global development policy advisory functions, shape global thought leadership by providing evidence-based support and undertake development analytics for the global positioning of the organization and articulation of UNDP's discourse in global development processes. The Global Policy Centres provide research support and leverage partnerships to support better use of the organization's funding for emerging priorities and innovation. GCPSE acts as a knowledge and convening hub on public service excellence, promoting cutting edge practices in public management and administrative reforms.
Given the importance of public administration in delivering the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the GCPSE intends to collaborate with the academic community in developing evidence on the relevant policy aspects. As partners of the ICPP, the GCPSE has selected a number of panels (indicated in panel descriptions) that it will consider travel grant applications for.
A limited number of travel grants will offered to PhD students and academic staff employed on a full-time basis in low and lower middle income countries (list here). Please note: recipients of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) travel grant are not eligible for the GCPSE grant. The two grant issuing institutions will not allow a bundling of both grants. The grant will comprise of an economy class ticket (to and from Singapore, or the equivalent sum) as well as a daily subsistence allowance for the days of the conference. Only one author per paper is eligible to apply.
Applications are open between 16th February and 1st March 2017. A selection committee will screen the submissions for eligibility and select scholars based on the quality and relevance of the abstracts.


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This study investigates how the balance was drawn between openness/the principle of public access to official documents, and privacy/personal integrity. The empirical material consists of legal texts on Swedish national archival regulation 1987–2004, and a "linguistic-historical analysis" was applied to answer research questions related to the scope of documents to archive, and to benefits and drawbacks of openness and privacy respectively.
The Archival Law of 1990 is aligned with the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act – celebrating 250 years in 2016 – through the term "official documents". Such documents, whether containing personal data or not, are accessible to everyone unless protected by secrecy regulation. The Archival Law and the Freedom of the Press Act thus have potentially far-reaching effects on privacy, although this aspect has received considerably less attention than the impact on openness. Exploring the development of the Swedish archival regulation is therefore of great interest.
The study shows that the scope of documents to archive was made gradually larger during the period. This happened through the transfer from "archival material" to "official document", and through the increasingly emphasised presumption for preservation of documents. As a result of this development, the principle of public access and, more specifically, the archives, were described as invaluable to democratic government. The linguistic analysis shows that the meaning of "the principle of public access to official documents" (offentlighetsprincipen) changed over time, implicating that the meaning must not be taken for granted.
Benefits and drawbacks related to openness and privacy were identified in Swedish and international archival science research and compared to those in the empirical material. Arguments in the material were mainly oriented towards positive aspects of openness. Benefits of privacy as being vital for democracy were entirely absent. With one exception, in-depth discussions on drawbacks of openness and privacy were also absent.
The short answer to the issue of balance between openness and privacy in Swedish archival regulation 1987–2004 is that very few attempts were made to strike such a balance. Theories proposed by various researchers – the centurylong tradition of openness in Sweden, the difficulty to introduce privacy legislation "in a country where publicity has reigned supreme", and a view of democracy as based on the community rather than on the individual – may help explain this situation.
The study was made as part of a project financed by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), "Privacy, the hidden aspect of Swedish democracy. A legal and historical investigation about balancing openness and privacy in Sweden", nr 2015-1057.


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|Microcomputer controlled image processor
|Optically phased laser transmitter
|Fender et al.
|System for determining optical aberrations of a telescope optical system
|Microscope for producing high resolution images without precision optics
|Focus detecting system using light from an imaging optical system for focus detection
|Device for the photoelectric determination of the position of at least one focal plane of an image
|Real-time multiple-look synthetic aperture radar processor for spacecraft applications
|Wu et al.
|Imaging apparatus including spatial-spectral interferometer
a plurality of optical telescopes each forming a subaperture beam of a composite image beam;
beam combining means having a plurality of reflective surfaces;
translatable beam displacement means in the beam path between each of said optical telescopes and an associated one of said reflective surfaces of said beam combining means, and reflecting a subaperture beam to a prescribed area on said associated one of said reflective surfaces;
imaging means for receiving subaperture beams reflected from said beam combining means;
said subaperture beams impinging on said imaging means being separated at said imaging means in accordance with particular displacements of said beam displacement means, whereby said subaperture beams are combined by said imaging means in a manner to enhance or suppress spatial frequencies of interest;
means for driving said beam displacement means in a direction along the path of an associated subaperture beam and to a position for deriving the maximum output signal from said imaging means; and
means for dithering said beam displacement means at a prescribed rate to vary the spatial frequency response of said imaging system.
(a) providing beam displacement means in the paths of the subaperture beams of said system to be deflected onto separate reflective faces of a beam combining element;
(b) reflecting the subaperture beams from said beam combining element onto an imaging lens;
(c) providing a desired separation between subaperture beams where they impinge on said imaging lens by adjusting the positions of said beam displacement means; and
(d) dithering the position of one or more of said beam displacement means to enhance or suppress spatial frequencies of interest.
The present invention relates generally to optical imaging apparatus, and more particularly to a technique and apparatus for implementing a dynamically matched optical filter in a multiple telescope imaging system.
The broad concept of combining multiple telescopes so that they perform as a single larger aperture device is presently known. For example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,639,586 entitled "Optically Phased Laser Transmitter", issued to Janet S. Fender et al on Jan. 27, 1987 and incorporated herein by reference, there is disclosed an apparatus and technique for phasing the outputs of a multiplier telescope array used as a laser transmitter.
One of the limitations of presently known multiple telescope systems is that they have a narrow field of view rendering them unsuitable for use in imaging systems, where a wide field of view is needed. The present invention is directed towards satisfying this need and providing additional desirable features in a multiple telescope imaging system.
In accordance with the present invention a dynamically matched optical filter is formed within an imaging system to enhance certain spatial frequencies of interest and suppress others. The spatial filter is established by the geometric configuration of a multiple aperture imaging system. The contrast of each imaged spatial frequency component is determined by the relative sizes and positions of apertures within the imaging system pupil, and the filter is tuned by adjusting the relative positions of the component apertures.
The optical filter can also be phase-modulated to change the visibility of certain spatial frequency components during a given observation time. This allows frame-to-frame differencing for rapid object recognition.
The optical system geometry provides wide field of view imaging since pupil geometries are maintained. A local sensing and control system preserves the desired geometry to optical precisions. Optical filtering in the spatial frequency domain is accomplished by deterministic perturbations of the exit pupil geometry. The observed visibility of imaged spatial frequency components is controlled by adjusting relative phases among the multiple imaging paths at the exit pupil. Dynamic filter tuning is accomplished by small axial motions of optical elements located near the exit pupil in the demagnified portion of the beam train.
FIGS. 1-3 are graphs which depict the optical transfer function versus spatial frequency for imaging systems having different pupil geometries and phase characteristics.
FIG. 4A is a geometric representation of a pair of telescopes whose pupil geometry is not maintained.
FIG. 4B is a geometric representation of a pair of telescopes whose pupil geometry is maintained.
FIG. 5 is a geometric representation of the dynamic matched filter elements of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a representation of the control system which provides the dynamic maintenance of pupil geometry in the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a representation of the dynamic Fourier filtering control system of the present invention.
Optical systems are generally linear and as such can be analyzed using Fourier theory. This means that optical systems can be characterized by impulse response functions and transfer functions. An impulse response function determines the far field irradiance produced by the imaging system illuminated by a perfect point source. A transfer function describes the filtering properties of an imaging system.
Optical systems selectively resolve certain spatial frequencies and not others. The transmitted spatial spectrum is a direct function of the properties of the imaging configuration in terms of physical geometry and phase relationships.
Mathematically, the imaging process can be described as follows: Ai (xi)= Ao (xo). h(xi -xo)dxo (1)
where xo and xi are object and image coordinates respectively, Ao and Ai are amplitudes at locations xo and xi, and h(x) is the optical system impulse response function. In fact, h(x) is just the scaled Fourier transform of the optical system pupil function. Therefore h(x)=P(λfx/d) (2)
where λ is the wavelength of energy being transmitted, f is the imaging system focal length and d is the aperture diameter. The tilda () represents the Fourier transformed function. The Fourier pairs that describe optical systems are spatial coordinates and spatial frequencies in units of cycles/length.
Coherent imaging systems are linear in complex amplitude. Therefore, Ii (xi)=│A(xi)│2 (3)
and the spatial frequency content of the image is Ii (xi)=│Ao.h│2 (4)
where Ao is the amplitude spectral distribution of the object and h is the coherent transfer function which is an amplitude filter function.
Incoherent imaging systems are linear in irradiance; therefore, Ii (xi)= Io (xo).h(xi -xo)2 dxo (5)
and the spatial frequency content of the image is Ii (xi)=Io.OTF (6)
where OTF=ƒh(x) is the Optical Transfer Function of an incoherent imaging system.
Both the coherent and incoherent transfer functions are determined by the system pupil characteristics. The coherent transfer function is simply the scaled pupil function. H(§,N)=P(-λfx/d) (7)
The incoherent transfer function, or the optical transfer function, is the auto-correlation of the scaled pupil function. OTF= P(§-λfx/d)P(§+λfx/d)d§ (8)
Examples of coherent and incoherent tranfer functions are shown in FIGS. 1-3 for different pupil geometries and phase characteristics.
Currently, optical filtering is accomplished by post-processing of recorded optical information. Optical filter functions are selected to enhance certain spatial frequencies and reject others. The optical filters are integrated into image reconstruction systems. This approach works well in situations where processing time is not an important consideration. Nonetheless, there are situations that demand real-time optical processing rather than post-processing.
The present invention is concerned with such real-time optical filtering. The filtering is accomplished by arranging the pupil geometry to produce a very specific optical transfer function. That transfer function can be altered or tuned by changing the pupil geometry. The crux of the present invention is the utilization of multiple path imaging systems for real-time optical filtering and a technique for dynamically tuning the optical filters.
The term, phased array optical systems, specifically means the coherent combination of a number of separate telescopes. Each telescope of the array has stand-alone imaging capability; however, the coherent combination of the separate images results in a total resolving power of a single imaging optic with a diameter equivalent to that of the array. To ensure that the array performance matches that of an equivalent single optic, two configuration rules must be followed. First, the exit pupil must be an exact demagnificaton of the entrance pupil. Simultaneously, the separate beams should be brought in an afocal sense to a single, final imaging optic. Both design features are critical elements of this invention and are discussed as this description proceeds.
FIGS. 4A and 4B illustrate the result of maintaining an exact linear magnification relationship between entrance and exit pupils of a pair of telescopes 46 and 48. In FIG. 4A, pupil geometry is not maintained; therefore, when axial images are in phase, field images will not be. Conversely, when pupil geometry is maintained, axial and field images will be in phase simultaneously as shown in FIG. 4B. Maintaining pupil geometry provides a wide field of view array imaging system. Such field of view is however, limited to the isoplanatic angles of the component telescopes. Off-axis aberrations of the telescopes cause relative dephasing of the images and therefore destroy the benefits of coherent image combination.
Two general approaches can be taken to maximize the coherent field of view. The first is to use large f/# component systems. Since the field of view, θ, has a cubic dependance on the f/#, increasing f/# by a factor of two increases the isoplanatic angle by a factor of eight. The drawback to this approach is a total system with increased dimensions and poorer, structural dynamics and stability. The other approach is to correct for aberrations in each optical train by using adaptive optical components such as spatial light modulators, holographic aberration compensators, or aberration balancing lenses.
The coherent field of view is also determined by the method used for combining separate images. Images must be coplanar, of equal magnification and identical orientation, and of the same polarization across the coherent field of view. Many existing multiple telescope systems simply superimpose images. This produces a very narrow coherent field of view since separate images arrive at the focal plane with large relative angles with respect to each other. To optimize the coherent focal volume, beam combination must be accomplished in a manner whereby separate telescope wavefronts arrive in an afocal sense at a single focusing optic. In this case, the coherent focal volume is primarily limited by the aberrations of the focusing optic and relative aberrations of the separate telescopes, rather than the angles of incidence for different wavefronts. The beam combining element can be a multi-faceted reflective pyramid, a grating romb, or a waveguide assembly. Tolerances are critical for the beam combining element since it is in the demagnified portion of the optical system.
Three basic parameters must be sensed and controlled to maintain a high quality phased array imaging system. Telescope positions, tilt, and piston with respect to a parent sphere must be precisely measured and pupil plane geometrics controlled accordingly. For an imaging system, pupil geometry monitoring is most judiciously accomplished using a reference beam metrology.
In the specific phase and position sensing technique of the present invention, a single reference beam is divided into multiple beams which traverse separate telescope paths and are coherently combined, pair-wise, on focal planes. Relative telescope phase is measured as a fringe asymmetry under the intereference envelope, and aperture separations are directly proportional to fringe frequency.
To measure tilt, a holographic diffraction grating is deposited on the reference beam focusing mirror. The grating is designed to diffract a portion of the beam to an area on the focal plane where it will not interfere with light from the neighbor telescope. The diffraction energy produces an Airy disk whose position on the focal plane is determined by telescope tilt. Similarly, energy is diffracted from the adjacent telescope to produce the focal plane energy distribution. Individual telescope tilts move the spot centroids on the focal planes in direct proportion to the tilt angle of each telescope.
The hierarchy of control is as follows. Entrance pupil geometry is sensed and exit pupil geometry is adjusted to match it with a magnification factor determined by the magnification of the component telescopes. Pupil plane geometry is controlled by using small movable optics in the beam train of each component telescope. Axial motion corrects piston and position depending upon the position of the correcting element in the array optical train. Image position can be varied by axial mirror motions only if the correction element is located in front of the beam combiner. Tilt is controlled using a beam steering component. The physical nature of the controlling elements can range from mirrors with piezoelectric actuators to electro-optic devices such as Kerr cells.
All objects have a characteristic Fourier (spatial frequency) spectrum. This spectrum is established by the dimensions of the object and any velocity induced perturbations within a time interval less than or equal to the detector dwell time. If a Fourier transform is taken of such an object (an optical lens accomplishes that), then the dimensions of an object establish the width of the Fourier spectrum. The larger the object, the smaller is the width of the Fourier spectrum. The velocity component (if there is one) provides an apparent distortion of the object. When an optical lens takes the Fourier transform of an object that has a velocity component unresolved by the detector, the resulting Fourier spectrum is altered proportionally. The motion of an object during the framing time of detection system results in a finite width change of the Fourier spectrum. The spectral content of the image in the focal plane of a lens, as discussed earlier, is the product of the Fourier transform of the object and the Optical Transform Function of the imaging instrument.
In order to implement optical filtering for a given object, it is necessary to match the Optical Transfer Function (OTF) of the imaging system (the spatial frequency bandpass) to the spatial spectrum (Fourier transform) of the desired object. This will tune the imaging system to the object spectrum of interest and suppress Fourier components that lie outside of the bandpass of the geometrical optical filter. Since the Optical Transfer Function is the normalized auto-correlation of the pupil function, the pupil geometry of the imaging system must be adjusted in such a way as to give the appropriate transfer function to match the Fourier spectrum of the object. If this is accomplished, then not only is the desired object imaged, as described earlier, but simultaneously unwanted signals and noise are rejected.
Phased arrays lend themselves uniquely to such matched filtering in the sense that multiple apertures illuminating an imaging lens in essence provide an amplitude mask as a pupil function. Imaging phased arrays require dynamic piston, tilt phasing, and maintenance of the subaperture spacing so that pupil geometry relations are maintained, as discussed earlier herein. The same functions lend themselves in a natural way to tune the amplitude and phase mask on the imaging lens so that an appropriate pupil function is generated. Thus, varing the spacing will result in a change in the spatial frequency bandpass of the OTF. Varying the piston phase difference between two subapertures will result in the shift of the strength (intensity) of the fringes within a given frequency. There is therefore at hand the necessary parameters, unique to phased array optical systems (multiple beams, piston phase shift, and subaperture spacing) to generate an Optical Transfer Function that matches the object Fourier Spectrum. Multiple beams provide the basic pupil plane mask, whereas piston phase shifting and spacing of subapertures provide a way of manipulating the intensity and frequency of the Optical Transfer Function.
In FIG. 1, which shows an Optical Transfer Function for a seven subaperture closely packed array, the OTF is very close to that for an equivalent and single aperture. In FIG. 2, the spacing between the subapertures has been measured to equal the subaperture diameter. Thus it can be seen that for the same subaperture array, a major filter peak has been established at a certain spatial frequency. At the same time, in FIG. 3 it is seen that piston phase shifting can enhance or suppress the filter peak.
While the examples given herein are for circular subapertures. This invention, however, is by no means limited to such. Square, rectangular, or other subaperture forms may be used in the same way.
The piston phase shifters used herein are no different than in other implementations, such as referenced in U.S. Pat. No. 4,639,586, mentioned earlier. Such piston phase shifters basically are devices which change the length of an optical path and such changes can be accomplished by appropriate translation of mirrors or by electro-optical devices which change the refraction index or the thickness of the electro-optical material as a function of an applied electrical field. Such piston phase modulators are not new, and are used to control the phase shifts of the individual beams impinging on the imaging lens so as to construct an approximate pupil plane phase mask, which will then result in a matched filter.
In the present invention, the spacing between information collection subapertures is not controlled by physically displacing the telescopes, but by manipulating the spacing between the beams impinging upon the imaging lens. This can be accomplished in several ways, the most convenient technique being shown in FIG. 5 and involving the displacement of the beams 50 from the subapertures on the beam combining element 54. The change in beam or in essence the subaperture separation is achieved by a linear displacement of a beam displacing mirror 58. A linear displacement ΔL of mirror 58 will result in a change ΔS of the spacing between beams on the imaging lens 60 (from S to S+ΔS). This linear displacement will also result in a small change in the optical path length of the manipulated subaperture beam 50 which would have to be corrected by providing a proportionately changing voltage to a phase modulator as the beam displacing mirror 58 is translated. In this situation an appropriate sensor like a Young's interferometer and sampling beams from adjacent telescopes can provide the necessary signals to the phase modulator so as to null out the phase differences in the optical paths. This would require the projection of probe beams in the outward direction (from the imaging lens) through the optical train to the telescopes.
As discussed before, in order to maintain good image quality, the pupil geometry (spacing and magnification must be maintained between the subtelescope apertures and the pupil plane in front of the imaging lens 60. The spacing between the beams illuminating imaging lens 60 is controlled by the beam displacing mirror 58 depicted in FIG. 5. Using a linear displacement of this mirror will result in a change of the separation between beams illuminating imaging lens 60. Thus the pupil geometry is controlled and changed. If the exit beam spacing is compared to the subaperture spacing, then any sensed differences between such measurements can be used to drive the beam displacing mirror 58 to null such differences.
The way this control system works is best understood with reference to FIG. 6. A low power laser 70 illuminates the beam combining mirror 72 which sends the multiple probe laser beams through phase modulators 74 into the subtelescopes 76 where the outputs of subtelescopes 76 are sampled pair-wise by appropriately applied holographic patches on their primaries. These sampled beams are focused onto a Young's Interferometer Detector 80 which provides the optical path difference between adjacent subtelescopes 76 and the spacing through the fringe frequency counter 82. At the same time, a part of the sampled beam is retro-reflected back through the optical train by the retro-reflector 84. Eventually this retro beam is imaged by a second Young's Inteferometer 86 which measures the fringe frequency. The spacing between subtelescopes 76 (entrance pupil) and the spacing between the multiple beams 77 where they impinge on the imaging lens 87 (exit pupil) is determined. The outputs of both fringe frequency counters 82 and 88 are sent to a comparator 89, and when a difference is sensed, it is used to drive a nulling amplifier which drives the beam displacing mirror 90 to zero fringe frequency difference. Since the beam displacing mirror 90 changes the optical path to detector 80, it is necessary to drive the phase modulator 74 to compensate for such optical path changes. First, it is driven coarsely by a position sensor on beam displacing mirror 90 with proper scaling. Then fine compensation is obtained by optical path difference measurement of the Young's Inteferometer detector 80 whose optical path difference measurement drives a phase modulator 74.
Dynamic Fourier filtering is achieved by driving a beam displacing mirror first in a ramp mode, to find a signal, then in a mulidither mode, so as to achieve the maximum signal to noise from the focal plane detector. This results in the best possible Fourier frequency match that a particular phased array configuration can achieve to the Fourier spectrum of an object being imaged.
The operation of this dynamic filtering mode requires that this ramp signal be applied as bias to the control loops that are used to maintain pupil geometry. In such a manner, pupil geometry is maintained, but such active maintenance operates in a biased mode rather than the previously described null mode. The control optimum is achieved through hill climbing servos which seek a signal maximum while varying or dithering a parameter which would cause a change in the signal. In this situation, the spatial filter is varied by dithering the beam displacing mirror, and the hill climbing servo drives the beam displacing mirror for maximum signal.
The implementation of this dynamic filtering mode is shown in FIG. 7. Ramp drive 100 sweeps the beam displacing mirror 102 through all allowable Fourier frequencies until a signal is detected in the focal plane detector 104. Then beam displacing mirror 102 is dithered by dither drive 106 operating at (ω1). This causes the hill climbing servo 108 to find the maximum signal by driving beam displacing mirror 102 to a Fourier frequency which best matches that of the object. The focal plane detector 104 passes this signal at (ω1), along with other signals at other frequencies to a frequency splitter 110, which separates out the various detected frequencies and routes them to appropriate hill climbing servos.
Such "detuning" pupil function to cause an optical filter is implemented as a bias function to the dynamic pupil maintenance controls described earlier. A second dither drive 114, operating at (ω2) drives a phase modulator 116 and applies an appropriate phase shift to the impinging beam on to the imaging optics. This signal is also detected by the focal plane detector 104, but is separated out by frequency splitter 110 and routed to a hill climbing servo 117 operating at (ω2) frequency. This then closes the second matched Fourier filter optimization loop. This second loop adjusts the amplitude of the spatial filter to a signal optimum value whose optimum frequency was set by the first loop.
In such a manner, not only has a dynamic matched filter been established, but such a filter is totally adaptive in that it can change and follow a new object Fourier spectra as the object changes its aspect or velocity or both. If there is more than one object, then a track computer file would have to be established by switching filter frequencies periodically from one object to the other in a multiplexed fashion.
Although the controls described here deal only with two subapertures, any multiplicity of subapertures can be controlled in the same fashion. This can be done either through a hierarchy of controls for adjacent subapertures, or by an integrated design of a multiple input/multiple output system.
Although particular embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated herein, it is recognized that modifications and variations may readily occur to those skilled in the art and consequently, it is intended that the claims be interpreted to cover such modifications and equivalents .


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Jon Waterhouse and Mary Marshall take the Network of Indigenous Knowledge (NIK) and its citizen-science effort to monitor water health deep into Russia. Along the way, amid sanctions and tension between the U.S. and Russia, they find a more peaceful journey and more friends than they ever imagined.
Ok. We can admit that given the current political climate between Russia and the U.S., a decision to fly from JFK to Moscow to begin a month of work within the remote Lena River Watershed of Siberia might make us look a bit "nutsy." After all, over the summer, political tensions were on the rise as sanctions were quickly being put into place.
But for the four of us, two scientists (a Yukon Canadian and a Russian-American transplant with dual citizenship) and two Alaskan drop-outs, it was a no-brainer—pun intended. We are not political, and we know the lofty goal of NIK and this trip needed to happen regardless of political circumstances… provided we could get into Russia without our visas being revoked prior to our arrival, that is. We'd worry about getting back out again later.
Mary and I are always anticipating the alignment of the planets. We rely heavily on some lucky star action, so we were faithfully pre-packed for this trip to the Lena and anxiously anticipating the arrival of those visas. And, as luck would have it, we just happened to be waiting by the door like a pair of tail-wagging golden retrievers when they showed up. Of course, the fact that the two governments didn't balk at our intentions and that the visas came through without issue did put us in a state of mild shock. We recovered quickly, however, and in August, we seized the opportunity to finally work on water-quality and social science with the good people of the Lena River in Siberia. Jody, Kate, Mary and I thanked the many hand-wringers around us for their worry and concern over the timing of our trip and totally went to Russia!
While passing through airports from Alaska to Manhattan to Moscow, TV monitors gave us only brief glimpses into the situation in Ukraine and the deteriorating relationship between Presidents Obama and Putin. With no preconceived notions—and no clue about the reception we might be receiving by those outside the scope of our work—we felt we were well-armed with hope and open minds.
We had a long road ahead of us, literally. Eventually we would continue east across the whole of Russia to reach the Lena, but before that, we were asked to meet with a few key officials of the Russian government in Moscow. Dare we decline? No way! We are nothing if not opportunists.
Before I go on, let me add that after landing (but prior to actually being admitted into Russia), Mary took a chance by bringing out her Nikon to photograph the architecture of the airport—one of five international airports in Moscow. The uneventfulness of Mary's risk prior to her passport being stamped set the tone for our entire time there. Not once while in Russia were we restricted or reprimanded regarding photography or anything else for that matter. Even the atmosphere when we visited Red Square and the Kremlin was friendly and relaxed. Police watched over tourists throughout the zone but there was no air of the over-zealous scrutiny one may have expected.
Oddly enough, being at the Kremlin felt very similar to visiting the Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was hugely surprising to the four of us—even Kate, herself a Russian!
The government requests to meet us would require a day or two in Moscow. After an all-night flight to get there and completing the meetings, we boarded another all-night flight to begin our journey four time zones east of Moscow in the Sakha Republic, the vast and crazily remote region of Siberia which is home to the river. We had no idea just what awaited us there…
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So two distinct incidents/weirdness in the 80+ hive as of late, and I'm not sure if it's commonplace, since I just don't go there that often.
The first involved someone named "Double Nickel," a mage. I can't say if the person's good or bad, because he simply didn't speak. As in, at all: I was in a fellow in the hive, and made it to the Matron. I saw him fighting her, and actually having a bit of a rough go at it. So I walk up behind him, and hit him with a blue healing kit for a triple digit heal.
Ok, so he says nothing. I've been there, I can understand furiously trying to click, press keys, and otherwise stay alive. But then everyone's dead. At this point, I repeat an invite to the fellow, and he's still playing Silent Bob.
*shrug* Recall to top, keep working in fellow.
I later found him in the hive, this time IN a fellow, but then the only time he spoke was when he had died, and another fellow member was pointing out/clearing his body (he said, "thanks," and never spoke again). Otherwise, he was silent. I'm really not chatty in a fellow either, but it just seemed weird. I thought of him tonight, because he passed me in the hive (judging by his direction) as he was headed for the Matron again (all of these times happened within the past 7 days, tops). He didn't even stop to see if there WAS a fellow (I'd have been happy to even be in a 2-person one, but no biggie).
*double shrug* Just struck me weird. I wouldn't have thought about it more, except for tonight:
This just happened. I had recalled to the top of the hive, and was not in a fellow (the one person I saw and asked if a fellow was open, said nothing, and just logged at the entrance). XP/hour = apx. 12mil/hr.
Then two people beam in, Zakfein Bonesplitter and Hope I Kancastit. The former was 126, the latter high 80s. I asked if there was a fellow, and after some fumbling by the level 80, she recruited me (no biggie, I can only imagine how hard it must be to be a mage in there). They seemed perfectly nice, although again quite silent.
So, I run off into the hive for good ol' bug-smashin.
After about 30 minutes, I look up on Infinity: XP/hour = apx 11 mil/hr.
Look, I'm the FIRST person to bash XP wh0r3s. But this just seemed weird. Is it ok to do a "report" at that point? I spent some time just debating whether to even DO it. I decided against it, and instead looked to the fellow panel. Hmm, the 126 is --kinda-- damaged (at least noticeable), but the 80something seemed full.
I thought about it some more and made a decision -- this is the first time I've done something like this, but I just left the fellow without a word (and promptly saw my XP/hr increase). I stayed down below for a bit, and had a good ol'time, but after ANOTHER person passed me (not a member of a fellow, and didn't ask if there was one), I decided to recall to the LS and hit the 60+ hive to burn out my last arrows.
It's --ENTIRELY-- possible that I'm just wrong on this, but I thought the hives were places for fellows and general XP smashing? I have NO problem if you don't WANT to be in a fellow (in fact, I believe you still have a right to be there, even if you're just trying out/testing the waters). But do you really want to bring people into your fellow? Isn't it easier to say, "We're staying here at the entrance, just doing a shakedown cruise kinda thing." I don't blame those two at all -- it just seemed a little strange.
I wish I knew what the ettiquite on this type of thing was. :-( But then again, if I did, I'd probably be a lot higher than 109 after 5+ years at this. :-(


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Actor Preity Zinta to pen column for BBC website
MUMBAI: Entertainment takes pride of place. Even on the "Old Aunty."
Come 2 February and Bollywood glam doll Preity Zinta will be joining the BBC as a columnist for it's website www.bbcnews.com/southasia.
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That the top Bollywood actor who's stared in hits like Dil Chahta Hai, Koi... Mil Gaya and Kal Ho Naa Ho gets much higher billing than a heavyweight line up of some of South Asia's most respected commentators including best selling author Ahmed Rashid, renowned economist Kaushik Basu and leading sports writer Rohit Brijnath, says a lot.
Zinta will write on a varied range of topics and will not be restricting herself to topics relating to the film industry only. She has been quoted in a company release as saying, "This column is something very interesting and a totally new experience for me. It is also a good platform to air my views on a variety of subjects as I am a pretty outspoken person,"
In her first column which will be available at www.bbcnews.com/southasia from 2 February, she looks at the changing face of Bollywood and the films to watch out for in 2004. "It is going to be an exciting year because our young filmmakers are challenging the old order. They are instrumental in sculpting Bollywood's new, changing face," she says. Zinta will be donating her fee as a columnist for the BBC to a charity she supports in Punjab.
Said bbcnews.com/southasia editor Bernard Gabony, "She (Zinta) completes what we think is the most impressive team of columnists writing on South Asian affairs anywhere on the Internet."
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BBCnews.com has been repeatedly voted the best news website in the world. It is run by a large team of journalists in London and also has a network of correspondents across India. Along with Zinta the site also boasts of best selling author Ahmed Rashid. Another writer the BBC has is Kaushik Basu, who analyses India's prospects in the global economy. Basu is Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics and Director of Program on Comparative Economic Development at Cornell University in US.
Completing the new BBC line up is Rohit Brijnath, one of India's best known sports writers who has been covering sport for 17 years. He has covered the Olympic Games, Asian Games, World Cup cricket, grand slam tennis events and numerous cricket tours. Brijnath, who is known for his breezy writing style and frank views, will be writing on sports and sporting personalities in the subcontinent.


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Thousands of women and their partners are being invited to share their experience of using maternity services.
Their feedback will help us understand what they think is important, what worked for them and what could be better, as well as how changes made at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury have affected them.
Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG), which is responsible for ensuring health services are provided to people living in Oxfordshire, is asking approximately 16,000 women who have given birth in one of the maternity units in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Reading and Swindon over the last two years to take part in a survey.
Details of the survey will be sent directly to women who have used these services inviting them to take part.
All Oxfordshire women who have given birth during the two-year period will be asked to complete the survey. In addition, the women who live in south Northamptonshire and south Warwickshire will also be invited as they live in the Horton General Hospital catchment area.
The survey will ask questions about their experience of labour and giving birth and the choices they made. This will include travelling to hospital, car parking and location of services, and will ask women to describe their experiences.
Catherine Mountford, Director of Governance at OCCG, said: "We urge all women who have given birth since October 2016 to look out for their invitation letter coming through the post and once it arrives I would like to encourage them to take part and complete the survey with as much information as possible.
"The debate around the future of maternity services in Banbury has been going on for some time. People have strong feelings about the closure of the Horton obstetrics unit and its impact on families in the north of the county and beyond.
"We are looking again at the options and need to take account of the experience of women from across Oxfordshire as well as those living in the Horton catchment area. We need to understand if the experience of women from all these areas is similar or different and how the changes at the Horton have impacted them. That's why this work is so important: so we can get the fullest picture from the people who are at the heart of maternity services - women and their families."
Following the challenge to the decisions made in 2017, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care asked OCCG to look again at the options and to ask women affected by the changes to share their experience. This work is being overseen by the Horton Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (HOSC), set up to reflect the catchment area of the hospital.
The survey is being carried out by a specialist research company.
The results of the survey will be used by OCCG when it makes decisions about maternity services at the Horton General Hospital later this year. The obstetric unit at the hospital was closed on safety grounds in October 2016 because of long-term difficulties in recruiting suitably qualified doctors.
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Seldom sought (or grown), obscure Ben Davis is the sire of sturdy stalwart Cortland.
Ben is a big ribbed guy with a streaky red blush over a bright yellow green. The blush is almost granular, like small discrete blobs of pigment washed over a green canvas. His calyx is dry and open.
My sample is nobbed and gnarled and host to a harmless skin condition called sooty blotch. It is quite firm and, unbroken, has a sweet yeasty fragrance.
Ben's flesh is a fine-grained snowy white, not very juicy, and firm but yielding and chewy rather than crunchy. Spongy, even. The flavors are very mild and balanced--there is nothing here to offend anyone--with some delicate floral notes and a cool hint of the vine.
Though pleasant to eat, the dry texture is subpar, and Ben is not going to rock anyone's world. He has all but faded from view.
Jim Cummings has a pretty good story about Ben. It is interesting to contemplate the alchemy that crosses McIntosh with this variety to produce Cortland.


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The purpose of this invention is to keep your pontoon boat dry by creating a boat cover customized with a support system that arches the cover to shed off rain, the arch design is the best shape to keep rain out of the boat, (our ancestors figured this out with the invention of the covered wagon).
The standard post design that comes with most pontoon boats does not provide much support close to the rails and puts a tremendous strain on the fabric where it pokes into it, and also indents your carpet on the floor – sometimes the wind blows the cover and the poles fall over.
A smooth dome supported your boat's rails will evenly support your cover and will last years longer than a pole system. You could even use the system as a tent to sleep on the boat while anchored on the lake – no poles will be in your way!
Note your rails must be 1.25″ square for this complete system to work. (The most common rail size! )
You must also provide your own pvc pipe – "instructions included", usually 3/4″ sch 40 pvc is less than $2.00 per 10′ foot stick – available at all Home Depot, Lowe's or just about any local hardware store!
Thinking about northern winter snow? No problem! The instructions show you how to rig up some supports with some additional pvc to take on the weight of winter snow and ice.
(However, we highly recommend not leaving ice, snow or rain accumulation on boat covers for any length of time. Doing so will result in damage to your boat and accessories and may void your cover warranty.)
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EYE am sick and tired of the pretense and hand wringing. Let's get real. This is #Sweet Home Alabama people.
The home of Jimmie Lee Jackson.
The Home of some First Class Funerals.
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The Cradle of the Confederacy.
he Home of Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever.
The Home of Shelby Co. vs Holder.
The Home of Selma.
It's not rocket science.
Talk is cheap. Now is the time to put up or shut up. Instead of calling for investigations after the fact, call on Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act. Instead of complaining about the results after enabling the results, call on the Alabama State Legislature to repeal the Voter ID Bill.
We must strongly encourage both Houses of the U.S. Congress to enact strong legislation to restore, strengthen and modernize the Voting Rights Act of 1965 when they return to Washington, D.C. after the November election for the "lame duck" session. We need to ensure that Americans' right to vote is not compromised!
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The wwoofers were looking for a new project, so we decided to make an SCA tourney fence.
This will be used in tourneys, also for equestrian events.
We used lower-grade pine timber, available for $1.21 a metre, half the price of construction grade. Actually the timber quality was quite reasonable, but we had to work around some knots.
I made up some patterns in vinyl, so that we could mark up each piece for easy cutting with the circular saw (straight bits) and jigsaw (curves).
Our friend Brett helped us set up our Aldi router, to put chamfers along the rails and uprights. And we used the drill press to put three sunken quatrefoil patterns on each rail.
The whole lot was painted purple, with white quatrefoils.
The credit goes to wwoofers Pat, Nicky and Laura, plus Canadian wwoofer Nellie for finishing the painting. Laura had to leave us for medical reasons, but we caught up again in Sydney later for a lovely lunch at Cabramatta.


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Episode 13 - Slim Man of Bootcamp/Solo
August 4, 2015
In honor of MTV's 34th birthday, we talk to a guy that was there on day one. Slim Man was the driving force behind a hard rock group in the early 80s called Bootcamp who appeared a couple times on MTV's first day on the air. But, for the last 20 years he's taken on the Slim Man moniker and made a living as a smooth jazz lounge singer. It's a mind-boggling transformation, but he's good at it.


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The Poison Garden
Part IV
What and where am I,
what is this fool's errand?
This is and is not you.
It is me,
it is the road,
the mushrooms,
this sudden sickness,
and the one too long behind it.
It is this thinning sky,
the cold coast behind me
twilit and austere.
It is the space of vastness,
the spaces:
where we were,
where I thought we were,
where you are now,
and where I am,
far North of all I know.
Behind the wheel again
I feel so far from anything.
This road behind is long,
ahead is even longer.
The journey to the center of this day
was longest;
unmeasured is the night ahead.
If I took you with me
into those mushroom woods
I've left you there, I pray,
along with my misbegotten spoils
emptied from my toxic wardrobe.
Back on the highway
I consult my inner compass.
Do I turn right toward the known -
it is the way I, hopeless, came -
or left toward a half-full glass
of medical attention,
deeper wilderness as well.
I seek counsel with the universe
wanting an exchange,
the brokering of a bargain:
please heal my eye, I beg,
and I'll subdue my penis.
Maine seems long ago,
in all ways far,
although I am still in it.
What I see most is in my eyes,
and little of real scenery.
Death lies in that distance
of what has been before.
You are not alive
in my corrosive panorama,
a relic caught in sepia,
an act of mental taxidermy.
Were we two trains
passing in the night
in opposite directions,
or were we traveling
at two speeds
briefly side by side
on separate tracks?
I did not know
how many years
had made me so
to draw around me,
like a blanket in the cold,
here and there a woman
appearing to be warm,
to live with me within this space
pretending it to be our family home.
Although for awhile
we shared semblance of that space
and the warmth felt real,
pretense was mine
and its attendant blindness,
so aptly mimicked
by the mushrooms' spell.
What can I now give of me
that has not been already taken?


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PLC Product Examples
Write Source Student Models
Standards based writing samples and lessons covering all genres K-12.
The Annenberg Teachers' Lab
Experiment with new teaching and learning ideas in math and science -- and identify activities you can use in the classroom. This site features labs based on the professional development series and workshops broadcast on the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project Channel. Each Lab combines online activities with background information and interactive polls or worksheets participants can use in their classrooms, plus links to related Web sites. And be sure to visit the Annenberg/CPB homesite to find resources in every content area.
ALPS - Harvard's Teacher Lab
The site includes model lesson plans and activities; curriculum design tools; online educational publications; interactive forums, workshops and conferences; and teacher journals refecting on practice. The site is built around three themes: Teaching for Understanding ; The Thinking Classroom ; and Education with New Technologies . Important for everyone interested in improving teacher practice. Of special interest to middle grades educators: A Year of Teaching 7th Grade English; A Year of Teaching 8th Grade Science; The Colonial Biography Unit for 7th Grade History.
Education World
Supported by advertising and corporate contributions, the Education World site just gets better and better -- both broad and deep, offering original material on important education topics, lesson plans and teaching ideas, a massive index to internet sites, and -- most important -- an energetic and innovative staff that continues to search for ways to best serve educators. This link leads to a site guide that will ease exploration of this large site. Also see EW's "Great Sites for Teaching." And sign up for one or more of their mailing lists (including "Teacher Lesson Plans") -- they add great new stuff all the time.
PBS Teacher Source
Includes more than 1,000 free lesson plans (matched to standards), teacher guides and online activities--and you can explore these resources by subject or grade level or with keywords. The site includes information about how teachers and media specialists can legally tape PBS shows for classroom use. The site also includes advance schedules and info about ordering PBS videos .
Edutopia Online - George Lucas Educational Foundation
This may be the best site on the Web about cutting-edge teaching and learning. Of course, there's an emphasis on technology, but the resources here go far beyond that. You'll find stories about innovative middle schools, videos that show ideas in action, interviews with experts, and whole sets of information on topics like "Project-Based Learning." Explore this site -- it's worth a couple of hours!
Subtitled "Smart Tools for Busy Teachers," this is certainly one of the best all-around teacher sites on the Web. It may have more stuff than MiddleWeb!
Learning Network for Teachers
A large commercial website full of resources for teachers at every level and in every subject. "Our goal is to provide you with lesson plans, resources, and materials that make your professional life easier." Part of the larger Learning Network which has special sections for students, parents, and teens. See especially the Fact Monster homework help site.
The Coalition of Essential Schools "Fieldbook"
Shared strategies, resources, and tools for improving schools, drawn from the work of Coalition of Essential Schools members and CES publications like "Horace." From this Fieldbook "homepage," visitors can explore resources about classroom and school practice. As the page notes, "We are collecting the powerful wisdom and learnings occurring across the CES network and sharing them via the Web." CES also plans to provide a forum for online interaction around the effectiveness of these various strategies.
GEM: The Gateway to Educational Materials
With its Gateway to Educational Materials, the US Department of Education aims to make the Web "a more friendly place for teachers." GEM evaluates resources from federal, state, university, nonprofit, and commercial sites and compiles a database of lesson plans accessible through a simple search. There are currently over 140 organizations supplying over 7,000 documents to the database. This site can serve as a source of good ideas for supplementary activities in a well-designed and implemented curriculum. Searchable by subjects, keywords, grade levels, etc.
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides teachers through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for learners. The site developers have created a friendly, funny, easy-to-use system that's teacher-savvy and requires little or no web experience to use. "You'll end up with a Web-based activity that lives right on the Web so that you can immediately share it.... And this is all done without you ever having to know anything about HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Web servers, or those 'www-dot. things. 'Oh my, how nice,' we'll bet you're saying right now!"
Looking At Student Work Web Sites
Looking Collaboratively at Student Work: An Essential Toolkit
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Genetics Links
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Month: April 2018
The Five Types Of Nicolas Cage Movies | FiveThirtyEight
Just had to share this article.
It categorizes the work of this nearly uncategorizable actor. He is one of my favorite actors. Especially liked him in "Face Off" (my all time favorite movie) and "Firebirds".
The Hilleys
My Philosophy Precisely
Live With Purpose
Each of us has a specific life that we were meant to live. Live it.
You have been given strengths and abilities that no one else has. Use them.
It may set you apart (it probably will). Embrace it.
It may mean that you have to do hard things and stand against popular opinion (it will). Do it anyway.
Stop asking "what someone like me would do," and start asking, "based on the information I have, what will align most with what I believe to be right and true in the world?"
Stop letting the world affect you and start affecting the world.
When deciding what to do—what decisions to make, how to spend your time, how to treat others—ask yourself what is going to allow you to look in the mirror at the end of the day and be okay with the person looking back you.
Now go do that.
Be Careful What You Wish For (Clifton Chronicles Book 4)
Archer can create wonderful, memorable characters — whether good guy or villain — and it is no different with this book.


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After the partying stopped, Haiti presidential candidate Wyclef Jean sat down and chatted with the Associated Press. He says that he supports the U.S. and U.N.'s strategy for rebuilding Haiti's economy after its magnitude 7 earthquake. This plan includes private investment in factories, agriculture and other areas. Jean says the best way to get Haiti back on its feet is education, job creation and investment in Haiti. He also "hit back" at critics who allege that he used post-quake money for personal use and the fact that he owes the U.S. $2.1 million in back taxes. It is plausible that Jean is using the money raised in the quake relief to fund his presidential run. He insists that he isn't. We're pretty sure that if he is, someone will find out and publicize it. In the meantime, we're hearing run, Wyclef, run.
Read more at NPR.org.
—Nsenga K. Burton