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CHICAGO (AP) - Jon Daniel was watching cartoons with one of his sons when he created a spoof Twitter account in the name of the Peoria mayor. Out of boredom, he said, he soon began sending profane messages about sex, drugs and alcohol.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - After hundreds of negative responses, Texas officials appear to be backing off a plan to allow alcohol to be sold at some gun shows, which would have come with strict conditions.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - No crime was committed by a woman who told authorities she kept the remains of her miscarried pregnancy in a jar in the freezer for nearly a year, the coroner in Las Vegas said Friday.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A Montana man in prison for raping a girl starting when she was 12 is now charged with trying to persuade her to kill herself by cutting her wrists and taking prescription medication while he watched on a webcam.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Busch Gardens removed some props from their Halloween attractions after people in Virginia complained about decapitated heads, the theme park said Thursday.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A hotel room suicide of a man who was freed from jail after being accused of intentionally crashing his vehicle into the Stratosphere and declaring he wanted to jump from its tower raised questions Thursday about why he hadn't been charged with a crime and whether he was properly screened for mental illness.
CUPERTINO (AP) - Apple has tightened its technological security so not even the company can pry into a password-protected iPhone or iPad, a move meant to reassure the millions of people who are increasingly storing vital pieces of their lives on the devices.
NEW YORK (AP) - Home Depot said Thursday that a data breach that lasted for months at its stores in the U.S. and Canada affected 56 million debit and credit cards, far more than a pre-Christmas 2013 attack on Target customers.
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Chevron has become the first energy company to meet a new set of voluntary shale gas drilling standards that aim to go beyond existing state laws in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, the Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale announced Thursday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown headed to the cradle of the Hollywood film industry Thursday to sign legislation that more than triples the state's tax credit to $330 million a year for films and TV shows produced in California.
NEW YORK (AP) - UPS will hire up to 95,000. Kohl's plans to take on 67,000 and FedEx 50,000. Wal-Mart will add 60,000.
CHICAGO (AP) - Nik Wallenda is all about spectacle, a showman who crossed Niagara Falls and an Arizona gorge on a high wire and now has his sights on Chicago's iconic skyscrapers - partly because of the city's reputation for being windy.
CHICAGO (AP) - Nik Wallenda is all about spectacle, a showman who crossed Niagara Falls and an Arizona gorge on a high wire and now has his sights on Chicago's iconic skyscrapers - partly because of the city's reputation for being windy.
HONOLULU (AP) - Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have been monitoring every twist and turn of lava creeping unpredictably toward communities in a rural and isolated Big Island district.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Americans suffer needless discomfort and undergo unwanted and costly care as they die, in part because of a medical system ruled by "perverse incentives" for aggressive care and not enough conversation about what people want, according to a report released Wednesday.
ATLANTIC, Va. (AP) - An unmanned commercial supply rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded moments after liftoff Tuesday evening, with debris falling in flames over the launch site in Virginia. No injuries were reported following the first catastrophic launch in NASA's commercial spaceflight effort.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A northern New Mexico sheriff's deputy was charged with an open count of murder Tuesday after he allegedly fired several rounds from his handgun as his colleague tried to flee an alcohol-fueled argument at a hotel, police said.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday recommended new restrictions for people at highest risk for coming down with the Ebola virus and symptom monitoring for those at lower risk, but some state governors and even the Army are carving their own paths.
MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) - A popular student responsible for a shooting at a Washington state high school invited his victims to lunch by text message, then shot them at their table, investigators said Monday.
HILO, Hawaii (AP) - Hawaii officials will make arrangements for those living in the path of a lava flow to watch the destruction of their homes.
POLSON, Mont. (AP) - A 3-year-old Montana boy who died of a bullet wound last week was shot in the back by an intoxicated man who said he didn't think the gun was loaded as they played together, prosecutors said.
MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) - A student recently crowned freshman class Homecoming prince walked into his Seattle-area high school cafeteria Friday and opened fire, killing one person and shooting several others in the head before turning the gun on himself, officials and witnesses said.
NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 9,000 unpaid interns stand to benefit from a $6.4 million settlement with NBCUniversal over back wages.
HONOLULU (AP) - A growing lava stream threatening homes and inching closer to a rural road on Hawaii's Big Island oozed forward in fits and starts this week, frustrating some residents but giving officials a window of time to prepare.
NEW YORK (AP) - Alarmed by the case of an Ebola-infected New York doctor, the governors of New Jersey and New York on Friday ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of the deadly disease in West Africa.
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - Google executive Alan Eustace broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert early Friday after taking a big leap from the edge of space.
OKEMAH, Okla. (AP) - An Oklahoma inmate was sentenced Friday to three life prison terms without parole in the killings of two girls and his fiancee, but his punishment was delayed about an hour because he attacked one of his defense attorneys with a razor blade.
NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon has long acted like an ideal customer on its own website: a freewheeling big spender with no worries about balancing a checkbook. Investors confident in founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' invest-and-expand strategy flooded into the stock as the company revolutionized shopping, upended the book industry and took on the cloud - even though its vast range of initiatives ate up all the company's profits.
DALLAS (AP) - UPS might levy surcharges or even turn away some holiday shipments this year if retailers surprise the delivery giant by dropping off more packages than they had planned.
DETROIT (AP) - U.S. investigators, automakers and a parts supply company are trying to figure out why some automobile air bags inflate with too much force, blowing apart metal canisters and sending shards flying at drivers and passengers.


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The '''state of [[Georgia]] elections''' in 2012. Here are the dates of note:
*[[Signature requirements and deadlines for 2012 state government elections|Signature filing deadline]]: May 25, 2012
*[[Signature requirements and deadlines for 2012 state government elections|Signature filing deadline]]: May 25, 2012
*[[2012 election dates|Primary date]]: July 31, 2012
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The state of Georgia held elections in 2012. Here are the dates of note:
- Signature filing deadline: May 25, 2012
- Primary date: July 31, 2012
- General election date: November 6, 2012
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2012 Elections
For election results in the 50 states, see our November 6, 2012 election results page
Elections by type
Georgia received an additional seat from redistricting. Currently, Republicans hold an 8-5 edge in the 13 Congressional districts.
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|After the 2012 Election
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There are two state executive positions up for election. Voters will elect two members of the Georgia Public Service Commission
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Heading into the election, Republicans maintain partisan control in the state senate.
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|Republican Party
Heading into the election, Republicans maintain partisan control in the state house.
|Georgia House of Representatives
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|After the 2012 Election
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July 31:
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November 6:
|Amendment 1
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Eligibility to Vote
Primary election
- See also: Voting in the 2012 primary elections
Georgia is one of 19 states to use an open primary system. When runoff elections are used, voters must vote in same party's runoff election as they voted for in the first round election. Voters must register to vote by July 2, 2012 to vote in the primary election.[2] (Information about registering to vote)
General election
- See also: Voting in the 2012 general elections
The deadline to register to vote is 28 days prior to the election day, which in 2012 will be October 9.[3]
Note: Some states have a voter registration deadline 30 days prior to the election, but because this may fall on a weekend and Columbus Day is on Monday, October 8th, have extended the deadline to October 9, 2012.
- Voter ID info
- Residency requirements: A legal resident of Georgia and of the county [4]
- Same-day registration: None
Voting absentee
- See also: Absentee Voting
All voters are eligible to vote absentee in Georgia. There are no special eligibility requirements for voting absentee.[5]
To vote absentee, an absentee ballot application must be received at any point up until the close of polls on election day. However, a returned absentee ballot must be received by 7 p.m. on election day.[5]
Military and overseas voting
For full details, visit the Federal Voting Assistance Program here.
Voting early
- See also: Early voting
Georgia is one of 34 states that has early voting with no specific requirements as to who can vote early. Early voting is held Monday through Friday of the week immediately preceding the election.[6] The average number of days prior to an election that voters can cast an early ballot is 21 days in states with a definitive starting date.
Department of Justice sues over voting deadlines
On June 29, 2012 the Department of Justice filed a suit in federal court against the state of Georgia, alleging that service members, their family members and overseas civilian voters won't have time to vote by absentee ballot in run-off elections, if they are required.[7] According to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), states must transmit all validly requested ballots to UOCAVA voters at least 45 days before an election, unless a hardship exemption is obtained, for which Georgia failed to file.[7] However, this conflicts with the timeline for runoff elections, in which the primary runoff, by law, must be held 21 days after the regular or special primary election, and if a run-off is required after the Nov. 6 general election, it will be held 28 days later, on Dec. 4, which also wouldn't provide the required 45 days.[7]
As part of the lawsuit, the Department of Justice is asking Georgia to "extend the ballot receipt deadline to Aug. 31 for these voters, to send ballots by express delivery as soon as possible before the Aug. 21 run-off election, and inform UOCAVA voters no later than July 7 of their right to request a state write-in absentee ballot or their official absentee ballot for any run-off election by downloading it from the Internet, by email, or by fax."[7]
See also
- ↑ Though the measure was statewide it was voted on by each 12 regions separately, resulting in the referendum being passed in 3 and defeated in 9
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State "Election Dates," Accessed April 25, 2012
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State "Election Dates" Accessed May 7, 2012
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State "Voter Eligibility" Accessed May 7, 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Georgia Secretary of State, "Voting Information," accessed December 18, 2013
- ↑ Georgia Secretary of State, "Voting Information," accessed December 18, 2013
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Marine Corps Times "Justice sues Georgia over voting deadlines" Accessed July 24, 2012

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Credit Suisse's asset management division is acquiring a minority interest in hedge fund firm York Capital Management. Credit Suisse is paying $425 million for its stake in the firm, and will also provide for earn-out payments based on five-year financial performance by York.
York will continue to operate independently, and its top brass—Jamie Dinan, chief executive officer, and Dan Schwartz, chief investment officer—will remain at the helm, along with the rest of the firm's senior management team.
"This relationship with York is an important next step in executing our growth strategy in asset management and extending Credit Suisse's leadership in global alternative investments," said Rob Shafir, chief executive officer of Credit Suisse's asset management division. "Our clients will have access to a top-tier suite of products, independently managed by York, and benefit from using York's proven approach that has delivered superior returns to investors across market cycles."
York's Dinan added, "We see tremendous opportunities in the marketplace for event-driven and credit strategies and we think our ability to capitalize on these opportunities will be enhanced by Credit Suisse's global reach and resources, particularly in parts of the world where we are increasing our investment activity."
York Capital Management was founded in 1991 and has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., London and Hong Kong. The firm manages approximately $14 billion.
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Providing Code Libraries is Not Enough for Your API
Posted on 09-17-2011
Code libraries have been a staple of open API communities for quite a few years now. API owners provide developers with working samples of code in a variety of programming languages, to get started working with an API. Sample code helps developer get up and running quicker, and increases the chances a developer will actually adopt an API.
I was reviewing how Google approached the release of the Google+ API this week, and noticed their download section not only contained the usual code libraries, but also contain whats called "starter projects". These starter projects provide a complete framework with everything you need to get start with OAuth, and to start building an application on top of the Google+ API.
Does this reflect the future of what API owners should be providing for their developers? Should we be providing web and mobile app starter projects to help get developers up and running with our APIs? These kits could assist them in moving from idea to integration, but starter kits might go even further than that.
By providing starter applications projects to our developers we can go beyond faster integration, and also help steer the quality of how applications are designed, ensure they using best coding practices, following security standards, and ultimately delivering better applications that are in line with the goals of the API owner.
Companies don't just want developers using their APIs, they want them building quality applications around them, that reflect positively on the API. Starter projects, may be just the way to steer how developers build around an API, and guide them in a positive direction.
Starter projects do this from a functional perspective, but another example of this from the UI and branding perspective, can be seen with Twitter's Bootstrap toolkit. Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites, and includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and everything developers need to build sharp looking Twitter web apps.
I'm sure Twitter is interested in helping developers kickstart development, but ultimately they are helping developers build better looking apps that fall in line with Twitter's vision of what a Twitter client should look like. The Twitter Bootstrap toolkit helps jump start developers, but it also guides their UI to reflect the standards of the API owners, and can also help developers adhere to branding requirements.
I anticipate that providing code libraries and samples will not be enough in the future, and API owners will have to provide more complete UI toolkits, as well as starter web and mobile application starter projects that encourage developers to integrate, while also guiding them when it comes to best practices for their user interface, coding and security.
This isn't my idea, I"m just taking cues from two of the leading API providers, Google and Twitter. Will providing more building blocks like starter projects and UI toolkits be the future? Or will it look more like what Facebook and Heroku are doing when it comes to application development?
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I'll play devil's advocate here...
To start, that's a poor analogy. A vasectomy is intended to permanently prevent reproduction. Pregnancy and birth does not cause a woman to premanently lose any bodily function. So, let's just get back to the situation at hand.
Girl is a 24 year old adult and we can assume she understands how pregnancy occurs. Girl voluntarily has sex with our friendly OP, with whom she has been in an 8 year relationship. Presumably, the girl voluntarily chose not to use birth control (or didn't use it correctly), which is readily available to her, easy to use and a virtual lock to be effective when used properly. As a result, nature takes its course and the girl gets pregnant. So who exactly forced this situation on her?
The point with my analogy was someone forcing a male to get a vasectomy when he didn't want one.
Like I said in my earlier, post I don't think abortion is a form of birth control. And I didn't say someone forced her situation. But, it is 100% her choice because it is her body that goes through the stress of pregnancy and child birth. The father can leave the woman if he disagrees with her decision and get with another woman to have a kid. As we don't know the full situation( did they use protection or not, etc), I am not going to assume anything. All I stated was it was her choice and how would you feel if someone tried to force you to do something you didn't want to do?
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They also discussed Jimmy and Carl's continuing bromance and tensions between Mel and Vicki.
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Over 4000 wannabe authors applied sending in the first 3,000 words of their novel. Our team sifted through the applications ending up at today's five finalists.
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Caroline Quentin reveals 21-year-old Megan Hodson as the winner!
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We-are contemplating a day trip tomorrow...have the roads been congested? We would arrive about 11 am
Should be OK as the French school holidays do not start until 6th July. I am in Marseille at the moment and things are not too busy at all.
If you want you could take the back beach road into St Tropez. You need to turn right in Croix Valmer. Have a look at a map and you will see what I mean. It saves the drive down to La Foux and the drive along to St Tropez from there as you meet the main road just before St Tropez.
I have been here this week and driving around quite a lot. Traffic has been ok with exception of a few instances during the morning and evening between St Maxime and St Tropez. Suspect that it will get much worse in first week of July.
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What guy cannot empathize? :oStand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
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ooops .Stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand alone.
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A look at the guardians of the NFL owners' money and how to separate it from them. Jack Bechta
How to deal with them?
Don't use any bush league negotiating tactics. Be direct, present your case and demands with conviction, and then just shut your mouth.
Stay firm on your demands, don't back down, they will respect you for it.
These guys are dealmakers, they care more about getting the deal done, getting the player and the long terms effects of the deal on their organization. Don't be afraid to present a deal and just say, "Take it or leave it".
The Key Master always aims to please the Gate Keeper (the GM).
The Key Master: The Key Master makes up the majority of capologists in the NFL. They probably have been managing a cap for the same team for a long time. They are good at their job, have a lot of authority and only have to seek permission to close a deal on their more costly players.
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Pitching coach Dan Warthen figures if the team had a shutdown ninth-inning pitcher all last year, it would have meant at least 10 more wins. With those, the Mets would have been in contention for the post-season rather than 77-win flops. Especially considering too many players failed in that role last season.
"I certainly hope it works out great, as bad as we did last year," Warthen said Wednesday. "He can throw four pitches for strikes at any time, and locates his fastball quite well with movement on both sides of the plate. He's the total pitching package."
Francisco is among the majors' top strikeout pitchers, averaging more than one per inning over his career. He had 17 saves in 21 chances last year with Toronto and had 25 saves in 2009 for Texas.
"I don't know anybody else's role here, but I know what I want to be," Francisco said. "I'm confident I can do the job."
The biggest hurdle for Francisco switching leagues will be learning to pay better attention to baserunners. Warthen said that's been a major point of emphasis.
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What was not mentioned in the article but also applies for today is that Turing was gay. The British viewed that as a perversion that could be fixed by chemical castration. The irony was that a grateful nation honors him for his major contribution to cracking the enigma code and then turn around and prosecute him as a criminal. His death by cyanide was ruled suicide although some think it was an accident. I am not gay, but I believe that homosexuals are a result of biology than choice. I have met many gay people who said that they were always gay from childhood or birth. They also state that if it was a choice that it would be stupid one considering how marginalized and bullied they are.
I am glad Turing is getting the recognition he deserves, but I am always a bit saddened that in the discussions more isn't made of Tommy Flowers who, although working under the direction of Turing and Max Newman designed and built Colossus - and personally financed it. Things would have taken a great deal longer if the guys at Bletchley hadn't had the expertise of Flowers to turn their maths theorems into mechanical reality. They are all giants in their field and should all be recognised.
When I was in school 40 years ago they barely mentioned Alan Turring or John Von Neumann. The history of computing focused on the engineers like Eckert and Mauchly, or the business men like Thomas Watson. Obviously these guys made big contributions, but without Turring and Von Neumann computers would be the size of office buildings and take a small army to program.
... because of what happened at Bletchley Park during the war, all those involved were sworn to secrecy and the UK Government kept very quiet.as well:) I'm not surprised they were never mentioned. Only in recent years have people learnt more about their contribution. Worth looking at www.bletchleypark.org.uk if you are interested.


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The bikes were amazing, took a really beating and performed faultlessly.
We did minimun maintenance on them, changed oil 6000kms, once with filters once without. Cleaned air filters a few times.
The only problem we had was my friends started to have a fueling problem just when we hit the tarmac in Novosibirisk. It was down the the injector, we worked out a system to remove the injector and "clean" it usng carb cleaner and a slime pump (10mins). Worked for a few hundred kms and eventually for days. It will need either proper cleaning or replacing now though.
I wouldnt hesitate to use these again for any kind of hard riding, they ride through anything. We upgeared then to 17t fronts for the tarmac and they were quite happy running 85mph all day long on the way home.
Good info - thanks for posting.
What mileage did you have on them at start and end of trip?
What was your average fuel consumption like on highway, dirt and regular i.e. off highway but good roads riding?
Mine is a 2009 R version had 5500kms on before we left and just serviced.
My mates is a 2008 E version and had similar on and was also just serviced.
Think mine must have about 14500miles on now (over 23000kms).
It needs a good service and a bit of TLC, so will take it to a guy I know when I have time.
Fuel consumption, tough that as never really bothered working it out.
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OmniTrax president Merv Tweed said in an interview Thursday that OmniTrax expects to ship about 700,000 tonnes of grain through the port during the current shipping season, which got underway earlier this month and will hopefully last until early November.
He said there's also been "a real jump this year" in shipments of supplies destined for Nunavut — things like housing and construction materials, dry goods, and motor vehicles.
"Having reviewed all of our opportunities and the things we'd like to do, we decided it wasn't necessary or in our best interests to pursue this (oil shipments) any further," he added.
Tweed wouldn't rule out the oil plan being revived if there was suddenly no longer enough other types of goods moving through the port to ensure its long-term viability. "I think you always have to have these options available to you," he said. "But that (focussing on other products) is definitely the route I would like to go."
OmniTrax revealed late last summer it was planning to start transporting light crude oil from The Pas to Churchill on its Hudson Bay Railway, and then move it out by ship to markets in eastern North America and western Europe. It said it needed to do that because it wasn't transporting enough grain and other products to sustain its business.
The plan met with stiff opposition from environmental groups, northern First Nation communities and the provincial government, who feared a train derailment and oil spill would cause irreparable damage to the fragile northern environment.
And those fears were only heightened this past June when a train carrying grain derailed and overturned, halting all freight shipments for two weeks and passenger traffic for even longer while OmniTrax crews scrambled to repair tracks that had been damaged by the long, harsh winter and quick spring thaw.
But by then the need to ship oil had already become moot, thanks to a bumper crop last fall that created a huge backlog of grain waiting to be moved through the more traditional grain-handling ports of Vancouver and Thunder Bay.
Tweed said more grain exporters began looking at the Port of Churchill as a viable alternative, especially after OmniTrax successfully moved 640,000 tonnes of grain through the port during last fall's shipping season.
He said if OmniTrax can continue to successfully move larger and larger quantities of grain and other products though the ports, hopefully other exporters will also opt to try it out.
"I'm convinced that within the next couple of years we'll hit the million-tonne mark," he added.
Tweed said five to seven shippers will be using the port this year, compared to four in 2013. Most will be shipping wheat.
But OmniTrax also has been receiving inquiries about moving canola, flaxseed, lentils and soybeans through the port. And it is exploring opportunities for also handling things like animal feed, wood pellets and potash, although those would be possibilities for next year and beyond.
In addition to pursuing new shipping opportunities, Tweed said OmniTrax is also developing a long-term sustainability strategy for the Bay line and port, and will be making some policy recommendations to the federal and provincial governments.
It will also be identifying critical infrastructure investments required to continue the development of the Northern Gateway trade corridor, he added.
As reported earlier this month, this could be a record-breaking year for the Port of Churchill, thanks in part to the earliest start to the shipping season in more than 20 years.
The first grain ship left the port during the first week in August, and Tweed said there are two more ships now being loaded, two more waiting in the bay, and three more "on the very near horizon."
"We're going to have a near-record August," he added.
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ilnite Sttes tnt Murnola et a1.
[ Feb. 25, 1975 LASER HEAD lFOlR SIMULTANEOUS OPTHCAL PUMPHNG OF SEVERAL DYE LASERS Inventors: Peter B. Mumola; Belton T.
McAlexander, both of Newport News, Va.
The United States at America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC.
Filed: June 5, 1973 Appl. No.: 367,293
US. Cl 331/945 P, 330/43 llnt. C1. H015 3/09 Field at Search 331/945,
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3/1970 Baugh, Jr. et a1 331/945 3,634,777 1/1972 Uchida et a]. 331/945 Primary ExaminerWilliam L. Sikes Attorney, Agent, or Firm-William H. King; Howard J. Osborn; John R. Manning [57] ABSTRACT The invention is a laser head for simultaneous pumping several dye lasers with a single flashlamp. The laser head includes primarily a multi-elliptical cylinder cavity with a single flashlamp placed along the common focal axis of the cavity and with capillary tube dye cells placed along each of the other focal axes of the cavity. The inside surface of the cavity is polished. Hence, the single flashlamp supplies the energy to the several dye cells.
7 Claims, 7 Drawing Figures SHEET 1 0F 3 FIG.5
PATENTEU FEB 2 5 i9?5 SHEET 2 [IF 3 FIG. 2
LASER HEAD FOR SIMULTANEOUS OPTICAL PUMPING OF SEVERAL DYE LASERS ORIGIN OF THE INVENTION The invention described herein was made by employees of the United States Government and may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes without the payment of any royalties thereon or therefor.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention relates generally to lasers and more specifically concerns a device that provides simulta neous optical pumping of several lasers.
The laser device, that constitutes this invention, was made for use in conjunction with an experiment to remotely detect the concentration of chlorophyll a in marine algae by laser-induced fluoresence. This experiment requires a laser excitation at several wavelengths spread across the visible spectrum. One way to accomplish this is to employ a separate laser for each wavelength desired. This would require individual laser heads and electrical drive circuits for each laser. The present invention utilizes a multi-elliptical cavity design which allows simultaneous optical pumping of several dye lasers using a single flashlamp and electrical driver.
Multi-elliptical cavities have been previously employed to increase the total optical energy pumped into the common focal axis by using multiple lamps. This scheme is necessary for such laser materials as ruby or neodymium doped glass. It is the primary purpose of the present invention to utilize the prior art miltielliptical cavity to simultaneously pump several dye lasers with a single flashlamp.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Dye lasers require much less energy to operate than ruby or neodymium doped glass lasers. Hence, in the present invention a single lamp is placed along the common focal axis of a multi-elliptical cylinder cavity and capillary tube dye cells are placed along the other axes of the cavity so that the single lamp supplies optical energy to a plurality of lasers. The dye cells and lamp are held in place by stainless steel end plates which serve several additional purposes: (1) they hold mirrors of each laser cavity, (2) they permit dye solutions to flow through the cells, and (3) they reflect light from polished surfaces to increase pumping efficiency. Stainless steel is used so as to be non-reactive with the solvents such as ethenal and methanal used with the dyes. Optics holders are mounted on the end plates to support and adjust the laser mirrors or windows if externally mounted mirrors are required. The choice of flashlamp and electrical driver depends on the needs of the user.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the laser head in the invention;
FIG. 2 is an end view of the multi-elliptical cylinder cavity in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view 3-3 in FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a side view of one of the end plates in FIG.
FIG. 5 is an end view of the end plate in FIG. 4; FIG. 6 is a schematic drawing of a laser system using the laser head shown in FIG. I; and
FIG. 7 is a schematic drawing of the electrical circuitry used in FIG. 6.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF' THE INVENTION Turning now to the embodiment of the invention selected for illustration in the drawings, the number 11 in FIG. I designates a block of aluminum having a 9.906 centimeters square cross-section by 8.890 centimeters long. A cavity 12 is machined into aluminum block 11. As can be seen from FIG. 2, cavity 12 consists of four identical elliptical cylinder cavities with all four having a common focal axis 13 and with each having another focal axis 14. Focal axes 14 are equally spaced around focal axis 13. Each of the four elliptical cylinders has a 5.4 centimater major axis and 0.45 eccentricity. The inside surface of cavity 12 is polished for maximum uniform reflectivity. Even though a four cylinder cavity 12 is disclosed, it is to be understood that a different number of cylinders can be used. The number of cylinders used depends on the number of lasers to be pumped and can be as few as two or more than eight depending on available flashlamp energy and the dye laser medium used. Holes 15 are drilled into block 11 for mounting end plates.
As shown in FIG. 3, a flashlamp 16 is placed inside cavity 12 along common focal axis: 13, and dye cells 17, which are 3 millimeters inside diameter by 5 millimeters outside diameter by 89 millimeters long quartz capillary tubes, are placed inside cavity 12 along focal axes l4. Lamp 16 and dye cells 17 are held in place by stainless steel end plates 18 and 19 (FIG. 1) which are mounted on block 11 by means of screws 20. Copper tubes 21 and 22 are mounted on end plates 18 and 19, respectively, to provide mechanical support for flashlamp 16 and to complete the electrical circuit that supplies power to flashlamp 16 by acting as a ground return through the assembled laser head. Power is supplied to flashlamp 16 through a terminal 23. Four windows 24, which are made from quartz, are mounted on each end plate 18 and 19, by means of adjustable brass holders 25. Each holder 25 has an aperature 26 to allow light to pass through. In the present embodiment of the invention each of the windows 24 attached to end plate 18 has one of its surfaces coated with a reflective film so that it acts as a mirror and each of the windows 24 attached to end plate 19 remains uncoated so that it acts as a window. End plate 1.8 has holes 27, 28, 29 and 30 in it which correspond to holes 31, 32, 33 and 34, respectively, in end plate 19. Corresponding holes in end plates 18 and 19 terminate in one of the dye cells 17. Hence, a different dye solution can be circulated through each of the dye cells 17. Externally mounted mirrors, which can be mounted in conventional holders, are placed beyond the windows 24 to complete the optical cavities for the lasers.
FIGS. 4 and 5 are side and end views, respectively, of end plate 18. End plate 19 is exactly like end plate 18 except that holes 31-34 are located to correspond to holes 27-30, respectively. A hole 35 is drilled into end plate 18 for the flashlamp 16 to pass through. Holes 36, 37, 38 and 39 are drilled part of the way through the end plate for windows 24 to fit into. Holes 40, 41, 42 and 43 are drilled through the end plate at the center of holes 36-39. Each of the holes -43 has a groove 44 cut in it so that one of the dye cells 17 and an O-ring can fit into it to provide a seal for the dye solution contained in the dye cell. Holes 27-30 narrow to holes 45-48, respectively, which in turn terminate in holes 40-43, respectively. The large portions of holes 27-30 have threads in them for receiving a male fitting to connect the dye solutions to the laser head. A dye solution entering hole 28 will flow through holes 46 and 41 into one of the dye cells 17. The dye solution then flows through corresponding holes in end plate 19 and out of hole 32. Dye solutions entering holes 27, 29 and 30 follow similar paths through the laser head.
The laser head that constitutes this invention is shown connected in an operable system in FIG. 6. Four separate supplies of dye solutions 50-53 are pumped by four pumps 54-57 through the four dye cells 17. A power supply 59 and an electric driver 60 are connected to flashlamp 16 to supply pulses of light to the four dye cells 17. Inasmuch as the windows 24 on the right side of the laser head are coated with a reflective film and the windows 24 on the left side of the laser head are not coated, four partially reflecting mirrors are mounted externally (not shown) to complete the laser cavities. These mirrors could serve as windows as well if mounted in place of windows 24. Simultaneous laser emmission from all four lasers would thereby result. External mirror mounts allow insertion of intracavity optical elements if required. Laser pulse energy varies with the choice of dye solution. For reference purposes, with a X molar solution of Rhodamine 6G in ethanol, one can obtain pulse energies of -50 millijoules in a 400 nanosecond pulse.
The electric driver 60 as shown in FIG. 7, consists of a spark gap 61 to which trigger pulses are applied; a current limiting resistor 62; a 0.3 pf, 25 kv capacitor 63; two 2.2 k ohm 2W resistors 64 and 65; and a 100 Joules input, water cooled, commercially available xenon flashlamp 16.
The advantages of this invention are that it achieves simultaneous multi-laser pumping, it is simple in that fewer components, electrical and mechanical, are needed to simultaneously generate several laser outputs and it is compact, thus opening the possibility for use in airborne or satellite applications.
Many changes can be made in the disclosed embodiment of the invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the claims. For example, the invention can be modified to pump different numbers of dye lasers simultaneously. Laser materials other than dyes may be substituted, assuming a suitable flashlamp is used to meet the threshold pumping requirements of that material. Also, additional optical elements may be used besides the windows and mirrors shown to control the spectral and/or temporal output of each laser individually.
What is claimed is:
l. A laser device for providing simultaneous optical pumping of a plurality of lasers in a compact, efficient and reliable manner comprising:
an elongated multi-elliptical cavity having a common focal axis and a plurality of other focal axes spaced around said common focal axis;
a single flashlamp pumping light source located inside said multi-elliptical cavity along said common focal axis; and
a different laser located along each of said plurality of other focal axes inside said multi-elliptical cavity whereby the plurality of different lasers are pumped by said single light source.
2. A laser device according to claim 1 wherein the inside surface of said multi-elliptical cavity is polished.
3. A laser device according to claim 2 wherein said plurality of different lasers are dye lasers.
4. A laser head for providing simultaneous pumping of a plurality of dye lasers in a compact, efficient and reliable manner comprising:
an elongated multi-elliptical cavity having a common focal axis and a plurality of other focal axes spaced around said common focal axis;
a different dye cell located along each of said plurality of other focal axes inside said multi-elliptical cavity; and
end plate means located on each end of said multielliptical cavity for holding said light source and said dye cells in place; each of said end plate means including window means for each of said dye cells and hole means for circulating a different dye solution through each of said dye cell.
5. A laser head according to claim 4 wherein the inside surface of said elongated multi-elliptical cavity is polished aluminum.
6. A laser head according to claim 5 wherein the end plate means are made from stainless steel so as to be non-reactive with the solvents used with the dyes.
7. A laser head according to calim 6 wherein each of said window means includes a piece of quartz and an aperture.
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Japanese Face
by hyprokinetic
Member Since 2009
Member Since 2009
Put your face on a shirt! Japanese Face is an all over print of abstract Japanese face. This funny t-shirt will have you and your friends trying to make funny faces .
Shirt of the Day •
Mar 23 2009
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"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Black Dahlia II" (2001)
"I keep a diary and I just make notes about whatever happened the day before. I write in it in the morning. I have had it now for about twenty years, so I can look back and see what was going on—and I like to read it and remember how I felt way back."
-Mary Heilmann


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