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Fun Map Inspired Wedding
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WWW readers Laura and Stephen tied the knot on 16th October 2013 which was a year to the date of their first date. After planning their adventures and travels together they decided to have a map theme for their wedding. There were lovely touches made from maps and even Stephen's jacket was lined with map ...7 weeks ago -
Afternoon Tea at the Mount Nelson Hotel in South Africa
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Picture the scene: you're decked out in opulent surroundings, your dining table overwhelmed with heaps of finger sandwiches, freshly brewed tea and homemade scones. Sound good? Great, because we've found the perfect place for you to enjoy an unforgettable afternoon tea. The Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town has ...8 weeks ago -
Arty Afternoon Tea At The Hilton
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London Hilton On Park Lane Redesigns Its Chocolate Afternoon Tea with An Arty Twist Famed for its quirky and stylish afternoon teas, London Hilton on Park Lane has redesigned its Confessions of a Chocoholic afternoon tea with a deliciously arty twist. Inspired by some of the greatest modern artists ... The post Arty ...8 weeks ago -
Flying Upper Class Round Trip on Virgin Atlantic to London from Boston
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Flying Upper Class on Virgin Atlantic Perhaps it was luck or maybe even chance, but when it came time to book our tickets to London for our annual New Years trip, the price had dropped. What I would have spent on Premium Economy seats now was around the same price for seats in Upper Class on Virgin ...8 weeks ago -
Sunday Afternoon Tea
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I started writing this before my blog break so if you will excuse just one more Christmas related post... A Beautiful Ache ... those are the words which came to my mind when I turned on the Christmas tree a few weeks ago. I stood back and gazed at the sparkle of the lights, the pretty ornaments, and the ...8 weeks ago -
Newest Tea Treasure
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My newest tea treasure is this beautiful hand crafted porcelain teapot by the local artists at Fitzgerald Pottery in Dillsburg, PA. Brother-in-Law David gifted this to me on Christmas morning. Its such a stylish and unique addition to the collection. Notice the clever little tab that holds the lid in ...8 weeks ago -
Holiday Afternoon Tea at L'Espalier (Boston, MA)
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Entrance to L'Espalier; Interior of main dining room; the legendary cheese cart Steps away from the luxurious hotel I stayed in Boston, The Mandarin Oriental, is the equally elegant, AAA Five-Diamond awarded restaurant (and James Beard Award to Chef Frank McClelland), L'Espalier. This... [[ This is a content ...8 weeks ago -
Celebrate 30 Years with The Ritz-Carlton Buckhead
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Spa, Travel and Skincare Experiences are Not a Luxury, but Essential to a Healthy Body and Mind. Visit Spa Travel Gal for more information on things spa gals need to know!When The Ritz-Carlton,... Please see the rest of the story here... www.spatravelgal.comChat soon!8 weeks ago -
A Review of Afternoon Tea At The Wellesley Hotel, knightsbridge
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The Wellesley Hotel, Knighstbridge First blog post of the New Year! So in my last post I talked about how I decided to take a bit of a hiatus from blogging in January…. However, I did manage to squeeze in a trip to the Wellesley Hotel for some afternoon tea . Trying to find a place for afternoon tea close ...9 weeks ago -
The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore
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What attributes to a pleasant hotel stay? The lush interior and the oh-so-comfy bed? The in-house fragrance and the overall cleanliness? Personalised and impeccable service? The view, or the F&B options? The proximity to the main areas of Singapore? Whatever you are looking for, The Fullerton Bay Hotel probably ...9 weeks ago -
Parkers Arms New Years Eve Celebrations, Newton in Bowland
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We first visited the Parkers Arms in September, and immediately booked for New Years Eve. Situated in the beautiful Ribble Valley, its idyllic location and superb quality food make it one of my favourite places to visit. This year we fancied getting away from it all for a couple of days, so packed up and drove ...9 weeks ago -
Candlelight Tea - 2013
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The last holiday event for 2013 was held this evening - the annual Candlelight Tea. The first course featured a Mixed Salad with Maple Candied Pecans and a Maple Dijon Dressing. The sandwich course was next and included a Banana Bread with a cream cheese rosebud, a Petite Blue Cheese and ...9 weeks ago -
My brother's first afternoon tea
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Last month, while cheering for my alma mater at a football game, I noticed that a few BFsF (Best Friends Forever) sitting next to me possessed authoritative knowledge about the sport. They shouted "pass interference!" and "illegal motion!" before the penalty flag was thrown. A realization suddenly came to ...9 weeks ago -
Afternoon Tea in Savannah
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It was fifteen years ago when we first visited The Tea Room in Savannah, Georgia. We were on our way down to Lady Lake, Florida to get married. We made a stop a quick stop in Savannah for about twenty-four hours. We always meant to come back. We finally did.We enjoy our high teas. There is something special and ...9 weeks ago -
Afternoon Holiday Tea at Fairmont Battery Wharf – Not Your Grandmother's Tea
The Wandering Eater — Authority: 121
Afternoon tea at the Fairmont Battery Wharf is what I would consider, a modern take of what the age-old version of afternoon tea. Their dining room is streamlined and modern, evoking a luxury yacht with cozy touches like comfortable leather sofas and chairs, a fireplace toward the back, and floor... [[ This is a ...10 weeks ago -
Afternoon Tea Sessions – The Wolseley Piccadilly
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Afternoon tea has to be one of my favourite things to do in London. The Wolseley located on the Piccadilly one of London's most famous boulevards. The grand European building is gorgeous, as soon as you step in. The high ceilings, gold, black and cream shouted out expensive. the woseley I felt like I was in ...10 weeks ago -
Swedish Meatballs – Fika London Brick Lane
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Oh Ikea, I blame you for my outrageous addiction to those Swedish meatballs. Fika is conveniently located at the end of Brick Lane. You may recall my Fika experience a few years ago. I'll explain what Fika is again. Fika is Sweden answer to the English afternoon tea. Instead of tea, people have coffee and some ...10 weeks ago -
Afternoon Tea In San Diego: A Holiday Tradition
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Afternoon Tea is a classic British tradition dating as far back as the sixteen hundreds. Anna Maria Russell, the Duchess of Bedford, is typically credited with introducing the meal to Britain during her visit to Belvoir Castle during the mid-eighteen … Continue reading → Related Posts: Thanksgiving Dinner ...10 weeks ago -
Rimmel London "Afternoon Tea" EOTD
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I think the "Afternoon Tea" quad by Rimmel London is perfect for an everyday look, keeping within the brown/burgundy/pink color family. The quad provides 4 colors; a shimmery pink (highlight and inner corner), matte tan (all over lower lid), shimmery burgundy (outer crease), and matte olive color (outer crease.) For ...10 weeks ago -
Country, Town & Tea
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Its a longstanding tradition in my family for the ladies to attend formal tea. We even search for unique teas to try while traversing across the globe, but our favorite is the annual Christmas tea in Boston. Alice & Olivia Jacket / Kamila Dmowska Dress / Chanel Bag / Rag & Bone Booties ...10 weeks ago


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ANNAPOLIS — Teachers could face salary freezes or eventual firing under a new evaluation system based on results of old tests that don't match up with the new curriculum they are teaching.
Maryland's school districts are revamping their teacher evaluation guidelines as required by the Maryland State Department of Education. The new standards were required to finish receiving $250 million in federal Race to the Top Funds, which call for greater teacher accountability.
At the same time, the state is implementing a new curriculum — Common Core, a state-led effort to make curriculum across the United States more uniform. It has been controversial in some states because of objections to a national curriculum, but Maryland educators seem to be embracing it.
The new teacher evaluation guidelines vary by district; several counties just won approval last week. New guidelines will be implemented next year in 22 school districts, with Montgomery and Frederick counties as the exception because they didn't sign up for Race to the Top funds.
At the request of MSDE, 20 percent of the evaluation in most districts will be based on the Maryland School Assessment in the 2013-2014 school year. That annual test is designed to judge how well students are meeting the state curriculum for reading and math.
The catch? The Common Core curriculum comes with its own standardized test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. But it won't be ready until the 2014-2015 school year — a year after Common Core is introduced and teacher evaluations become dependent on standardized tests.
Even after the new PARCC test comes on line, it will take several years for the state to work out the kinks in testing and decide what is considered a satisfactory score, said Cheryl Bost, vice president of the Maryland State Education Association.
MSEA is a union representing 70,000 teachers and school employees.
"We don't feel it's fair to use the test since there are so many problems with it," Bost said. "We want this to be a system of professional growth, not a gotcha. Our main goal is to get the evaluation right so it can truly improve practice."
Two bills were introduced in the General Assembly last session calling for a suspension of teacher evaluations based on standardized tests until the curriculum and tests match up. Neither bill passed. Additionally, the Public Schools Superintendent's Association of Maryland asked that 2013-2014 be counted as a no-fault year, but that request was denied by Maryland State Department of Education.
William Reinhard, a spokesman for MSDE, said that the majority of the evaluation will be based on factors such as lesson planning, principal observations and other professional practice criteria. Only 20 percent will be based on the MSA.
"It really is a fairly minimal part of the evaluation," Reinhard said.
Since the MSAs test only math and reading in certain grades, the state teachers union estimates less than 30 percent of teachers will be getting evaluated through the MSAs individually. But other teachers will be evaluated through the School Progress Index, which uses results of the MSAs to evaluate school performance as a whole.
Teachers evaluations are used to determine raises in Baltimore City.
Other jurisdictions use teacher evaluations differently, but if a teacher gets a low rating, the superintendent can place him on a second-class teaching certificate, effectively freezing the salary level and putting him at risk of firing the following year, said Kristy Anderson, general counsel for MSEA.
"The goal of this program has always been improved classroom instruction at the teacher level," said Reinhard.
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RELATED: Boehner: These conservative groups who are objecting to the budget deal are "ridiculous"Throughout our history, America has been a place where if you work hard and play by the rules, you can go as far as your God-given talents will take you. Those sacrifices help pave the way for your children and grandchildren to go even further.
This is the American Dream as we know it. It's not an abstract goal, but an achievable way of life that is ours to protect and pass on to future generations.
Many Americans today are deeply worried that all this is changing for good – but not in a good way. This concern stems from the belief that the American Dream is slipping away and, with it, the chance to give our children and grandchildren a shot at an even better life.
Especially over the last five years, we have been told that a bigger and more powerful federal government is the way to fix this. But it has not. Instead, it has left us with a $17 trillion national debt and 20 million people out of work. It has left us with taxes that are too high and regulations that are too complicated. And it has left us with a government too broken to function and families that are falling apart because our government undermines the values of hard work, discipline, honesty and self-control.
We should never accept this as the new normal. We can reverse the insecurity, the lack of opportunity and the anxiety about the future. We can restore the American Dream.
Of course, these worries won't disappear overnight, with one speech or with one budget. But every day is filled with new opportunities to take some steps in the right direction.
Unfortunately, the House-Senate budget deal announced this week fails to take any meaningful steps to achieve a government with less debt and an economy with more good paying jobs. Not achieving these goals means it will continue to be harder for more Americans to achieve the American Dream.
This budget continues Washington's irresponsible budgeting decisions by spending more money than the government takes in and placing additional financial burdens on everyday Americans. These burdens primarily come in the form of higher taxes disguised as fee increases, particularly on air travelers. Although user fees must sometimes be reevaluated to help pay for the rising costs of providing a government service, this budget deal's fee increases are simply designed to generate more revenues for government and to pay for unrelated increased spending on government programs.
In the short run, this budget also cancels earlier spending reductions that came about through the so-called sequester of 2011 in exchange for future promises of other spending reductions many years from now. In other words, we have a government that's $17 trillion in debt, which had to borrow an additional $680 billion this year to fund its annual deficit, yet this budget deal actually increases spending by $63 billion over the next two years, supposedly for spending cuts to be named later.
In 2011, I voted against the deal that included sequestration because it involved raising the debt ceiling without any meaningful spending reforms. But I have also been concerned about the deal's impact on key defense programs – cuts that imperil our security simply because Washington politicians refuse to set priorities and cut out wasteful spending. The American people should not be asked to choose between a strong military and responsible budgets that encourage job creation and reduce debt.
Instead of setting priorities based on the limited role government should be playing in our lives, this budget deal calls for higher spending and more revenue to feed a larger government. This is not a solution; it's an exacerbation of Washington's spending problem.


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submitted 11 months ago by heroinqueen
Stimulants aren't really my DOC, but I heard something interesting from a tweaker friend this weekend. She said that you can beat a urine drug test for meth or amphetamines by drinking a glass of water with 2 tablespoons of baking soda in it. You do that, piss once, and then piss for your test. Apparently your pee will test negative for a few hours after you ingest the baking soda. This apparently only works for meth and amphetamines, though. Has anyone else heard of this? Googling it, I got some confirmation from random websites.
[–]barfalloveryou 10 points11 points12 points 11 months ago*
I catch clients using this method pretty often. Their samples are red flagged because the baking soda makes urine more alkaline.
Any good reference lab will check for pH when doing EIA OR GC/MS. If you're going to a facility where they simple use dipstick amphetamine tests this may work...
[–]MisterYouAreSoDumb 6 points7 points8 points 11 months ago
Urinary pH is a factor in how fast you excrete amphetamines. I would actually suggest the opposite. Decrease your urinary pH so that you can pee out most of the amphetamine before your test. Then raise the pH back to normal before the test. Increase it too much and you will get a flag on the test. It's better to get the amp out of your system rather than try and fool the test.
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Yes but they would know you tampered with it. GC/MS you're boned, samhsa you might have a chance. Are you monitored while you pee?
[–]RefrainsFromPartakin 0 points1 point2 points 11 months ago
Yes, it will make your urine more alkaline, which will reduce the % of amphetamine excreted during that time.
That said, they'll probably check for urinary pH. Don't expect to use this, but do it as a last resort. You should get a day or so extra before they make you piss again, which can be a world of difference with amphetamines. That said, they'll monitor you more closely from then on.
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this game is awesome, this just might be the best zombie flash game i have played... i loved the blood effects, cause you just can't have a zombie game without some guts here and some splattering there. it's also cool how you can use the horn to line them up. when ever a zombie grabbed onto my hood i was like "#%@" (was playing this at like 3am lol), but yeah... AWESOME GAME XD
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The overwhelming readership of the Left Behind series of novels by Lahaye and Jenkins reveals to what extent our "exceptional" American culture cannot distinguish between reality and illusion. A huge swath of the American public has gone out and bought these and other similar escapist novels by the millions. Many Americans seek to escape reality by drugs or by religious fantasies or both.
It may well be a sign that many of us have died morally, spiritually, and intellectually. No other culture of industrialized countries is so hoodwinked by the vagaries of born-again evangelical cults.
Eventually, we Americans will have to wake from our state of self-indulged juvenility. Delusional interpretations of the Book of Revelation, which John wrote as an allegory of his spite for the Imperial Romans, who imprisoned him, has turned into public policy about the most crucial areas of civilization's survival on earth: nuclear arms and global warming.
We Americans love to avoid the real issues and, instead, focus on sensational gossip about celebrity stories, which pass for news and information. Today's middle-class Tea Party members participate in mass delusions as they support the despotic right-wing agenda, in the hope that, yes, they too can become multi-millionaires simply by sounding like the wealthy corporatists who, in turn, deteriorate the middle class's own standard of living. In reality, the original Bostonian Tea Party members of 1773 committed acts of terrorism against the British imperial despotism—taxation without representation.
As the corporatist, neoliberal, economic policies have undermined American ideals and institutions, our government has weakened to the point of losing its ability to bridle the corporations that impoverish our economy and destroy our environment. Many Americans prefer to cling to fantasies that God will snatch us up from this harsh reality and take us to a Disney World in the sky.
In times of despair and turmoil, many Americans have turned to demagogues, like G.W. Bush, who gave lip service to shallow notions of Christian faith, and charlatans like Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, or Joel Osteen who entertain us with reassuring wet-dreams of Christ coming down to enable us with wealth and prosperity or to swoop up only those among us who care less about our community and our own political interests so long as we get right with God.
These demagogues—like W —an American president who took a nation to war on the pretext that "God told me what to do"—they have led the gullible middle-class crowds throughout American history to destroy the very American ideals that enable us to become educated, wise, critically astute, and free citizens of a functional democracy, and not enslaved in the stupor of delusions and religious superstitions.
The word "rapture" appears only once in the Book of Revelation, yet, in America, it has taken on a life of its own, far from the actual text written by John. Without critical thinking, without a culture of literate, thinking people, we are doomed to enslave ourselves to the fear stirred up by charlatans, who sell us one version or another of one "sacred text" or another and keep us locked up in the shackles of fear that we might be left behind unless we conform to some televangelist conniver.
Now at the end of the war in Iraq, we have to dig our way out of the hole in which the evangelical, born-again Christians and neoconservatives buried us all. In wagging the preemptive invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the policies that W's administration established only undermined America's Constitution and its values, from the justice system to national defense.
"When it came to constitutional checks and balances, to the powers of the executive branch, lines had been crossed, fundamental principles violated, putting at risk precisely what made America so special. Dick Cheney had led Donald Rumsfeld and the neocons in creating a separate, shadow national security apparatus to create a disinformation pipeline putting forth its own wished-for reality as a mechanism to start the war." (1)
The neoconservative, born-again Christians take liberties to invent a reality when it is needed to carry out Armageddon type actions, but creating a reality in order to justify the death of thousands of people and wasting trillions of dollars is nothing less than lying. Lying on a national scale like this equates to criminal fraud and deception.
How did W succeed in misleading the American people only to establish radical, extremist policies that bankrolled our economy and destroyed thousands of U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian lives? W explained why he pursued the policies of radical extremists, "There is a higher father that I appeal to."
During W's presidency, the neoconservatives and the right-wing Christians teamed up to manipulate the wishful thinking of an America that no longer knows the difference between TV drama and reality. There are two worlds in America, the fantasy view of right-wing religious fundamentalists who spin their own reality and act on it without considering the consequences even when engaging in war, and the pragmatic, humanists who work from rational sets of known facts as a basis for public policy that serves the greatest good of all citizens, including the poor and the middle class, not just the wealthy.
"Hitler, to the Family [a secretive fundamentalist Christian organization in which many right-wing power brokers participate], is no more real than Attila the Hun as drafted by business gurus who promise unstoppable "leadership" techniques drawn from history's killers;" (2)In the hindsight of the W administration, the most dangerous threat from extreme fundamentalists arises not from the Islamists, but the neoconservative, fundamentalist Christians. W's administration has proven this.
(1) Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, (Simon & Schuster, 2007) pg. 14.
(2) Jeff Sharlet, The Family, (Harper Perennial, 2008) pg. 3.
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It only seems like there has been an endless stream of Grateful Dead compilations. In reality, there has only been a handful, and the most notable of those were released while the band was still an active recording and touring unit in the '70s -- and before they had belated chart success in the late '80s, 20 years after their debut album. So, Warner/Rhino's 2003 collection The Very Best of the Grateful Dead marks the first attempt to do a thorough single-disc overview of the group's career, encompassing not just their classic Warner albums but also the records they cut for their own Grateful Dead/UA and Arista. As always with the Dead, it's hard to condense the band's free-ranging, freewheeling output onto one disc, and there are some big songs and concert staples MIA here, including the perennial "Dark Star," "Jack Straw," "Black Peter," "Stella Blue," "Brokedown Palace," "Playing in the Band," "Wharf Rat," and "Terrapin Station." They are missed, some more than others, but the 17 tracks here do present nearly all sides of the Dead while hitting their biggest songs: "Truckin'," "Touch of Grey," "Sugar Magnolia," "Casey Jones," "Friend of the Devil," "Uncle John's Band," "Box of Rain," and "Ripple." As that list proves, this is a set that leans heavily on the twin peaks of Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, but there's a reason why those two are beloved of Deadheads and casual fans alike: the classic songs are there. They're also here, along with other staples like "The Golden Road," "One More Saturday Night," "Estimated Prophet," "Eyes of the World," and "U.S. Blues," which may not be as well-known to the general populace but help fill in the picture and provide a good portrait of the band. The collection would have been better if sequenced a little more chronologically, but nevertheless it provides a first-class introduction to a band whose catalog can often seem a little unwieldy. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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Founded | 1983 |
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Cypress Grove Chevre is a cheese manufacturer located in Arcata, California. They specialize in goat cheeses including the award-winning Humboldt Fog.
Cypress Grove Chevre was founded in 1983 in McKinleyville, CA by Mary Keehn. In 2004 they moved operations to nearby Arcata as part of an expansion.
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Ambeli, Capitol, Logan Brown and the White House have been named as the finalists for most outstanding restaurant, while industry stalwarts Ruth Pretty, Mike Egan of Monsoon Poon and Fidel's Café owner Roger Young have been named as finalists for their contributions to Wellington hospitality.
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CHAPEL HILL Sylvia Hatchell got to see her UNC women's basketball team play for the first time this season on Saturday, and the Tar Heels gave their veteran coach plenty of reasons to flash her trademark smile.
With Hatchell, who is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukemia, watching from a media box about 20 feet above the court, the No. 14 Tar Heels took control in the opening minutes and blew past visiting High Point 103-71 at Carmichael Arena.
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US 20090008564 A1 Abstract Indirectly converted X-ray radiation is detected by a sensor system having a plurality of detector modules arranged with individual pedestals in a staggered configuration. Each detector module has a plurality of scintillator-diode combinations associated with respective electrical circuits for concurrent single photon counting and charge-integration. Each electrical circuit includes at least two counters and an integrator that act cooperatively to provide the concurrent single photon counting and charge-integration.
Claims(12) 1. An indirect conversion X-ray radiation sensor system comprising a plurality of detector modules for detecting X-ray radiation from a radiation source, each module having a module axis, the modules arranged with individual pedestals in a staggered configuration wherein the module axis points to the X-ray radiation source, wherein each detector module is further characterized by having a plurality N of detector channels, each channel including a registered structure of a scintillator cell coupled to a respective photodiode and to a respective electronic circuit and wherein the respective electronic circuit is dedicated to handling the electronic signals supplied only by the respective photodiode.
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7. An X-ray radiation sensor comprising a plurality of detector modules configured to perform indirect conversion and concurrent single photon counting and charge-integration of the X-ray radiation, wherein each detector module is mounted on a separate tilting mechanism and wherein the tilting mechanisms are arranged in a staggered configuration, wherein each detector module is further characterized by having a plurality N of detector channels, each channel including a registered structure of a scintillator cell coupled to a respective photodiode and to a respective electronic circuit, wherein the respective electronic circuit is dedicated to handling the electronic signals supplied only by the respective photodiode. cm 8. (canceled)
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Description The present invention relates to ionizing radiation sensors. More particularly, the present invention relates to a hybrid modular X-ray detector capable of single photon counting (SPC) and charge (signal) integration. Imaging of the human body in medical applications is often achieved by detection of X-rays in scintillating materials, in which each X-ray photon is converted into a large number of visible photons. The visible photons are further transferred to an attached photo-detector (PD), which produces an electrical signal. The signal is due to the arrival of a single X-ray photon (single photon counting�SPC). In some cases, a PD output signal is a measure of the total energy generated by the incident photon. In other cases, the PD output signal reflects the integrated charge due to the arrival of several X-ray photons within a preset time interval. Imaging requires the measurement of two-dimensional X-ray intensity distribution. This is commonly achieved by the use of position sensitive detectors. General radiography detectors use non-pixelated scintillator elements. Most such detectors use column-grown scintillator layers In the case of multiple slice computerized tomography (CT) scanners, detector arrays are built by coupling pixelated arrays of scintillator elements to respective arrays of photodiode elements. Scattered X-ray radiation leads to strong degradation of image quality; to restore image quality one has to use antiscatter grids and also to increase the radiation dose exposure. Low Z, non-metallic septa between detector elements are used in existing pixelated scintillators to improve the light collection by the photodiode elements. The role of the septa is to confine visible light photons close to the location where the X-ray photon was stopped. In existing photon-counting X-ray detectors, a problem may arise from small signals (smaller than a LOW threshold) generated by some photons. These photons are not accounted for, introducing an error. The LOW threshold: is typically equivalent to about 700-1000 electrons (lower is better, limited by electronic noise). In contrast, a HIGH threshold: is typically equivalent to �2000 electrons Some of the X-ray photons that enter the scintillator (about 60%-80%, depending on the X-ray source anode-potential, scintillator material and thickness) are stopped within a scintillator cell. For each, at least part of the photon energy is retained within the scintillator cell and generates a stream of visible photons; the remaining energy is either emitted outside the scintillator volume (and does not contribute to the detection process) or reaches neighboring scintillator cells (the latter known as �signal sharing�). Most visible photons make their way to the PD cell attached to the scintillator cell; they are stopped and generate an electrical current. This is the input to an electronic circuit associated with the PD cell, which integrates the current generated by the arrival of one or more photons over a preset time period. There are two main detection methods: single photon counting (SPC) and charge-integration. The two are distinguished by the duration of the current integration. SPC involves short duration (slightly more than the duration of the current generated by the arrival of an X-ray photon; for a CsI (Tl) scintillator �8 microseconds). The resulting voltage pulse (which is a measure of the total charge) is compared with a preset threshold exemplarily equivalent to a total charge of 700 electrons. Pulses with amplitude higher than the threshold are representative of detection of an X-ray photon and are counted. The advantages and weaknesses of SPC in conjunction with indirect photon detection recommend SPC be used only for low photon fluence (low radiation dose). SPC advantages include counting all photons with associated-signals above the threshold and possibility to extract coarse spectral information (one assumes that larger signals indicate photons with higher energy) through use of several thresholds. SPC disadvantages include: a) the need for threshold values to be high enough to prevent counting noise signals (low noise electronic circuitry is required; typical noise standard-deviation values are equivalent to about 70-300 electrons). The presence of very-small signals and the need to prevent noise counting leads to failure to detect photons that generate small-amplitude pulses; b) a lack of one-to-one correspondence between the signal-amplitude and the X-ray photon energy. Photons of a given energy may generate a larger signal or a smaller signal (e.g. a 45 keV photon stopped within a scintillator cell may transfer the whole energy or only 15 keV to this cell, the latter due to the escape of a 30 keV fluorescence photon; also, there is a large spread in the amount of light generated in the scintillator cell, transferred to the PD and converted into charge). Often the associated-signal may be lower than the preset (e.g. ca. 700 electrons) threshold, such that the respective photon is missed/not counted; and c) �Pile-up�, i.e. the arrival of several X-ray photons within a small time-interval that cannot be properly handled. The respective pulses overlap, resulting in generation of a number of counts smaller than the actual number of photons stopped in the scintillator-cell. Charge integration involves long duration (typical time: 5 to 30 milliseconds). Within this time, a few to several thousand X-ray photons are sensed and the electric-charge released as they are stopped is collected, stored (typically on a capacitor) and measured. The result is seen as a measure of the number of X-ray photons stopped in the scintillator cell. Charge-integration advantages include all signals being included in or contributing to the final measurement, whether the signal-amplitude is small or large, and the fact that pile-up situations cause no ambiguities or errors. Charge-integration disadvantages include contribution of electronic-noise to the final signal, and the fact that the final signal may be an inaccurate measure of the photon-number: photons that generate signals with higher amplitude contribute more than photons (mostly low-energy photons) that generate signals of lower-amplitude. A typical parameter that characterizes image quality is the signal to noise ratio SNR. Given a phantom feature of contrast C and N detected-photons on the corresponding feature image, the feature SNR is C�√N. In order to maximize the SNR, it is required that all or most photons which reach a scintillator cell be detected and counted. Consequently there is a need for and it would be advantageous to have a modular X-ray detector with single photon counting, energy sensitivity and integration capabilities for use in medical imaging applications and NDT applications The present invention discloses devices, systems and methods for detecting X-ray radiation and forming an image therefrom In particular, the invention discloses a hybrid modular X-ray detector capable of SPC and charge integration. The detector is in essence an indirect conversion sensor (i.e. the X-ray radiation is first converted into light photons and then into electrical charge) based on a pixelated scintillator array. The basic detector module includes an antiscatter-grid, a pixelated scintillator, a back-illuminated diode array and an array of dedicated electronics-cells associated with each scintillator-diode pair. According to the present invention there is provided an indirect conversion X-ray radiation sensor system comprising a plurality of detector modules for detecting X-ray radiation from a radiation source, each module having a module axis, the modules arranged with individual pedestals in a staggered configuration wherein the module axis points to the X-ray radiation source. According to the present invention there is provided an X-ray radiation sensor comprising a plurality of detector modules configured to perform indirect conversion and concurrent single photon counting and charge-integration of the X-ray radiation, wherein each detector module is mounted on a separate tilting mechanism and wherein the tilting mechanisms are arranged in a staggered configuration In order to better understand the present invention and appreciate its practical applications, the following figures are attached and referenced herein. Like components are denoted by like reference numerals. It should be noted that the figures are given as examples and preferred embodiments only and in no way limit the scope of the present invention as defined in the appending Description and Claims. PD array layer 106 includes an array of preferably back-illuminated photodiodes 116, which are registered with pixels 114 and, when present, with cells 112. Each PD is below the transparent scintillator cell floor and receives the radiated visible photons as an X-ray photon is absorbed in the scintillator. The PD absorbs the visible light and generates an electrical current. Substrate layer 107 (e.g. a printed circuit board or �PCB�) is fixedly attached to the diode array layer by e.g. soldering and includes connecting paths 117 registered with diodes 116. Paths 117 are generally electrical conductors that carry current from PDs to respective amplifiers included in an electronic circuit 118. A column formed of elements 112, 114, 116, 117 and 118 is considered a �detector element� or �channel� 150. In the preferred embodiment, there are 128�128 such channels: each comprises its own elements 112, 114, 116, 117 and 118. Out of these, 64 channels are sacrificed so that the corresponding diodes are used as electrical connectors and apply bias to the PD array back surface (the light entry surface). Circuit 118 integrates the current supplied by each diode as a photon is detected and then measures the charge by comparison with thresholds, see below. Layer 108 can be implemented for example as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which is described in more detail below. Layer 108 is typically soldered to the substrate. The various elements are interconnected as shown. An electrical current signal originating from the corresponding PD is input (IN) to circuit 118. The signal is amplified and shaped in preamplifier shaper 401 to obtain a voltage (proportional to the charge) signal that is delivered to comparators 402 a and 402 b and integrator 402 c. Counter 404 a and 404 b, respectively associated with comparators 402 a and 402 b, are incremented each time the waveform amplitude is higher than preset threshold values. The content of each counter is read at the end of each acquisition cycle. Each counter value becomes the value of a pixel within an image, yielding several images/maps: one formed by values associated with counter 404 a, another one formed of counter 404 b values and a third one made of integrator 404 c values. These values are read bit by bit by registers 405 a, 405 b and 405 c. As mentioned, in one embodiment, sensor layer 104 is made of a CsI (Tl) scintillator material embedded into a metallic rectangular grid. The CsI (Tl) scintillator displays high attenuation for X-ray photons in the 30-120 keV range and yields a generous number of visible photons for each absorbed X-ray photon (�65000/MeV). The grid septa are typically made of silver or silver-plated copper and provide high reflectivity and prevent soft X-rays passage (e.g. Cesium or Iodine fluorescence photons) from one cell to the next. Alternatively, the septa may be made of a bismuth plus tin, silver plated grid. In a particular configuration (shown for the septa in Layer 104 may be prepared as follows: equally spaced trenches are cut along X and Y directions through a flat CsI (Tl) plate using a disk-saw based-system (manufactured by ADT, Advanced Dicing Technologies Ltd. Advanced Technology Center Haifa, Israel 31905, or an excimer-laser beam (Coherent Europe B.V. Smart Business Park Kanaalweg 18 A NL 3526 KL Utrecht, The Netherlands. The trench width is preferably at least 45 μm wide and the depth at least 600 μm. The grid is covered with a low viscosity optical coupling agent (e.g. optical epoxy EPOTEK-301 from, Epoxy Technology, 14 Fortune Drive, Billerica, Mass. 01821 USA placed onto the plate in registration with the trenches, and gently pushed in. The system (CsI plate and grid) is placed in an oven to let the epoxy complete a curing cycle, and then polished. Polishing removes the scintillator material above and below the grid top and bottom planes and generates shiny, flat, top and bottom surfaces. In the particular configuration matching the scintillator grid and PD array above, anode connections (not shown) are equally spaced on the lower wafer surface, every 250 μm along both directions of a rectangular grid. One PD out of each group of N (e.g. N=256) PDs is replaced with an electrical contact for the cathode (the cathode surface is the back diode-surface, i.e. the entrance surface for the visible photons). Electrical connections between the PDs and the dedicated electronics circuitry can be achieved through direct attachment of the diode array to the ASIC or a suitable substrate layer. In a preferred embodiment, all PDs are equal in size and placed at uniform spacing. The contact pads of the ASIC layer may be arranged in a similar or a non-similar geometric configuration. The latter situation is imposed by the need to include electrical lines that connect the ASIC with the outside world (power lines, data lines, control signals, etc). The substrate layer compensates for the different geometry of diode and ASIC layers and provides the electrical connections between diode pads and the corresponding ASIC pads. The substrate layer has the same outer dimensions or may be slightly wider than the diode layer. Typically, substrates materials may include organic materials (e.g. polyimide/Kapton), silicon or ceramics. Preferably, the chosen material has a thermal expansion coefficient similar to that of silicon, very low surface conductivity and mechanical stability. Such materials are well known in the art. A certain area, along the substrate perimeter is reserved for connections with the external world (typical connections are made via wire bonding). A detector module has a finite, small size, smaller than what is required for a detector. The size is connected to the fact that production yield for diode-arrays, ASICS and substrates depends on element area and also is less than 100%. A system whose area is suitable for cath-lab applications requires tiling of several modules; one needs to place two fragile detector modules next to one another with very little gap in between (less than about 20 μm). This implies accurate edge dicing and complicated handling. Accurate dicing of diode-array edges is both difficult and expensive; also, in-plane tiling is difficult to achieve; adjacent modules that inadvertently touch in the process will almost certainly be damaged. Also, one requires narrow border-cells to compensate for the fact that each pixelated scintillator has its own external wall; effective border walls are twice the septa thickness. The staggered (as opposed to in-plane) module arrangement prevents contact/friction between neighboring modules, minimizes damage during assembly, allows easy removal and replacement of defective modules. This type of arrangement allows for use of diode-array and substrate layers wider than the scintillator array (X-ray attenuation in these thin, low-Z layers is negligible). X-ray attenuation can be estimated for the few CsI (Tl) pixels placed below the edges of another module. There is no need for accurate dicing of these layers. The staggered mode allows for tilting the modules and minimizes the angles between the vectors �anode�module center� and the �normal to the array� at same location. The benefits include an increased solid angle/pixel and minimal shadow cast by cell A onto cell B ( In one embodiment, the spacing between the highest and lowest module along the z-axis is preferably less than 20 mm; the distance to X-ray source is about 900 mm or more. A detector of the present invention provides accurate and error-free information on the photon-flux for operation under low-dose conditions (where both counters and the integrator participate in image generation) and under high dose-conditions (where just the integrator participates in image generation) by using a hybrid approach for the indirect conversion process. Hybrid approaches are known only for direct-conversion (see Edgar Kraft et al. �Counting and Integrating Readout for Direct Conversion X-ray Imaging Concept, Realization and First Prototype Measurements�, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, April 2007, Volume 54, Issue 2, p. 383-390), but not for indirect conversion. As used herein, �hybrid use� means the following: each method is used only under the conditions where it excels. For instance, charge-integration is used at high count-rates (more than 1000 pulses/acquisition cycle); pulse pile-up has no impact on charge integration and electronic noise is negligible when compared to radiation quantum noise. SPC is used at low count-rates�both low and high-energy photons are given equal weight, provided the associated signals are higher than the threshold. Photon counting, at low count rate, provides basic spectroscopic information (the ability to distinguish�count separately�signals representing high-energy and low-energy photons). Inventively, both counters and integrator outputs are used to estimate, (under low-dose conditions) and correct for the number of missed/uncounted photons. The method is based on the fact that ALL pulses do contribute to the final value of the integrator. The integrator integrates the diode-current for the whole duration of the acquisition cycle (typically 5 msec<T<30 msec, where T is the cycle duration). The result of the integration can also be expressed as a sum of the electrical-charges collected with the arrival of each photon:
Where i(t) is the diode current that enters the electrical circuit (dark current contribution may be neglected), Qn is the charge-signal associated with the n'th X-ray photon, QLOW is the charge-signal equivalent to the LOW threshold defined above (e.g. the mean charge-signal associated with a 30 keV photon whose energy is fully converted to visible photons within the scintillator cell), QHIGH is the charge-signal equivalent to the HIGH threshold defined above (e.g. the mean charge-signal associated with a 60 keV photon whose energy is fully converted to visible photons within the scintillator cell) and QMAX is the charge-signal equivalent to the highest energy photons in a given application (e.g. the mean charge-signal associated with a 100 keV photon when the X-ray source is operated with anode potential of 100 kVp). The expression on the right separates the various contributions according to the amount of charge brought in by the X-ray photons. Assuming that the pulse-amplitude distribution is uniform, from zero to the maximum amplitude QMAX, one obtains:
where NVERYLOW is the estimated number of X-ray photons with associated small signals, NLOW is the number of pulses higher than the LOW THRESHOLD, NHIGH is the number of pulses higher than the HIGH THRESHOLD and
is the integrator output. For the particular values suggested here, i.e. the charge QMAX associated with the energy a 30 keV photon imparts to the scintillator cell, the charge QHIGH associated with the energy a 60 keV photon imparts to the scintillator cell and the charge QMAX associated with the maximum energy a 100 keV photon can donate to the same scintillator cell, the estimated number of X-ray photons with associated small-signals is NVERYLOW: from which one can obtain the total number of detected photons NALL:
which is a better estimate of the total number of detected photons than NLOW. One can now generate an image based on NALL. This image will provide significantly better visibility for small features under low-dose exposure than the image based on NLOW because NALL>NLOW. Note that the method is further �hybrid� in the sense that it makes correlated use of the integrator data INT and the two counter-data NLOW and NHIGH in order to reveal additional information, not existing in prior art systems. This information is the number of photons sensed but not counted, as they are associated with signals of amplitude lower than the lowest threshold. In general, the relationship between the four quantities NVERYLOW, NLOW, NHIGH and INT can be written as: with the three parameters β above being 0.067, −3 and −2.3. In practice one needs to determine the three parameters β for each channel within each detector-module. This is done as follows:
In summary, we use a scintillator-diode combination for concurrent single photon counting and charge-integration in medical imaging applications and NDT applications. A modular X-ray sensor uses a scintillator to convert X-ray energy into visible light and further detect the light using attached photodiodes. Electrical pulses obtained by integration of the photodiode current are sensed and counted by at least two counters according to pulse amplitude. SPC is used primarily while the photon rate is low; in this mode the integration channel provides additional information and ability to estimate the number of photons associated with very low-amplitude pulses (lower than the lowest channel threshold). The charge-integration channel takes over at high fluence where pile-up situations occur. Inventively, we have a hybrid use of counters and integrator for the same pixel and within same data acquisition cycle. All publications and patents mentioned in this specification are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference into the specification, to the same extent as if each individual publication or patent was specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated herein by reference. In addition, citation or identification of any reference in this application shall not be construed as an admission that such reference is available as prior art to the present invention. While the invention has been described with respect to a limited number of embodiments, it will be appreciated that many variations, modifications and other applications of the invention may be made. Referenced by
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