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US 6807068 B1 Abstract An apparatus with a line card having a front panel including at least one input/output port. The apparatus further includes a line card interface assembly. The line card interface assembly includes at least one of an input and output line support, at least one guide vane cooperating with said line, and a front face providing an electrical coupling with said front panel sufficient to attenuate electromagnetic waves passing through the front panel.
Claims(20) 1. An apparatus comprising:
a line card having a front panel including at least one input/output port; and,
a line card interface assembly having:
at least one of an input and output line support;
at least one guide vane cooperating with at least one of an input and output line; and
a front face providing all electrical coupling with said front panel sufficient to attenuate electromagnetic waves passing through the front panel.
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9. A method of controlling EMI comprising:
providing a line card having a front panel including at least one port serving as an electromagnetic path for electromagnetic radiation from the line card;
connecting at least one of an input and output line to the port; and
positioning a line interface assembly proximate the front panel to attenuate electromagnetic radiation passing through the port wherein positioning involves positioning a base and a cover.
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15. A system comprising:
at least one optical transmitter; and,
at least one optical receiver, wherein at least one of said optical transmitter and optical receiver includes:
a line card having a front panel including at least one input/output port; and,
a line card interface assembly having:
at least one of an input and output line support;
at least one guide vane cooperating with at least one of an input and output line; and
a front face providing an electrical coupling with said front panel sufficient to attenuate electromagnetic waves passing through the front panel.
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Description This application claims priority from Provisional U.S. patent application No. 60/295,662 filed on Jun. 4, 2001. Not Applicable The present invention is directed generally to electrical equipment. More particularly, the invention relates to optical and electrical systems having line cards with connections to input and/or output lines. The continued growth in traditional communications systems and the emergence of the Internet as a means for accessing data has accelerated demand for high capacity communications networks. Telecommunications service providers, in particular, have looked to higher capacity and performance communications equipment to handle the increased volume of communications traffic. For example, service providers have looked to wavelength division multiplexing (�WDM�) to provide higher capacity transmission systems. In WDM transmission systems, pluralities of distinct information signals are carried using electromagnetic waves having different wavelengths in the optical spectrum, typically in the infrared range. Each information carrying wavelength can include a single data stream or multiple data stream that are time division multiplexed (�TDM�) together into a TDM data stream. 1 the pluralities of information carrying wavelengths are combined into a multiple wavelength, �WDM�, optical signal that is transmitted in a single waveguide. In this manner, WDM systems can increase the transmission capacity of existing space division multiplexed (�SDM�), i.e., single channel, systems by a factor equal to the number of wavelengths used in the WDM system. A difficulty that exists with higher capacity systems is the amount of equipment that is necessary to process the various signals being transmitted through the networks. The equipment generally is deployed on line cards, which are placed side-by-side in one or more shelves supported in a rack. While it is desirable to minimize the space occupied by the components in the system, or footprint, various component properties affect the spacing in a system. In addition to physical size limitations on component spacing, other properties, such as heat generation and dissipation and electromagnetic radiation and conduction by the components affect the spacing. For example, the input and output ports of the line cards provide a significant leakage path for electromagnetic radiation that can result in electromagnetic interference (�EMT�) with surrounding electrical equipment. As a result, it is often not possible to mount electrical and optical components that radiate a significant amount of electromagnetic waves near the input and output ports of the line cards. EMI gaskets and small apertures have been used in the past to attenuate the level of the RF energy to within allowable levels per Telcordia GR-1089, which is incorporated herein by reference, and 19 other industry standards. These efforts have met with qualified success depending upon the component placement on the line cards relative to the ports. The continuing development of electrical and optical technologies will produce physically smaller components. The decrease in physical size will tend to exacerbate these other properties, which will continue to pose a substantial impediment to deploying optical and electrical equipment with smaller footprints. As such, there is a need to improve continually the physical design and packaging of electrical and optical equipment at the component, line card, shelf, and rack level for use in higher performance optical and electrical subsystems and systems. Embodiments of the present invention will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying schematic drawings for the purpose of illustrating embodiments only and not for purposes of limiting the same, wherein: FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate optical system embodiments; and, FIGS. 3-9 illustrate line interface assembly embodiments. The systems, apparatuses, and methods of the present invention address the above need for improved optical and electrical interfaces. The apparatuses and systems of the present invention include at least one line interface and a line interface assembly (�LIA�) configured to retain at least one input and/or output line being connected to the line interface. Numerous applications exist for the present invention. For example, the present invention can be deployed in optical and electrical signal processing and transmission systems that employ line cards, shelves, and racks to house the equipment. For the sake of convenience in description, and not for limitation, the system 10 will be described further in the context of the optical system 10. FIG. 1 illustrates an optical system 10, which includes a plurality of nodes 12 connected by optical communication paths 14. The system 10 is illustrated as a multidimensional network, although advantages of the present invention may be realized with other system configurations, such as one or more serially connected point to point links, as shown in FIG. 2. The system 10 may support one or more transmission schemes, such as space, time, polarization, wavelength and frequency division multiplexing, etc., singly or in combination within a network to provide communication between the nodes 12. The system 10 can include various transmission media 16 and be controlled by a network management system 18. As shown in FIG. 1, optical processing nodes 12 generally can include one or more optical components, such as transmitters 20, receivers 22, amplifiers 24, optical switches 26, optical add/drop multiplexers 28, and interfacial devices 30. For example, in WDM embodiments, the node 12 can include optical switches 26 and interfacial devices 30 along with multiple transmitters 20, receivers 22, and associated equipment, such as monitors, power supplies, system supervisory equipment, etc. In various network embodiments, multiple paths, e.g., 14 i and 142, can be provided between nodes 12. The optical path 14 between adjacent nodes 12 is referred to generally as an optical link. The optical communication path 14 between adjacent optical components along the link is referred to generally as a span. Various guided and unguided transmission media 16, such as fiber, planar, and free space media, can be used to form the optical communication paths 14. The media 16 supports the transmission of information between originating nodes 12 o and destination nodes 12 d in the system 10. As used herein, the term �information� should be broadly construed to include any type of data, instructions, or signals that can be transmitted. The transmission media 16 can include one or more optical fibers interconnecting the nodes 12 in the system 10. Various types of fiber, such as dispersion shifted (�DSF�), non-dispersion shifted (�NDSF�), non-zero dispersion shifted (�NDSF�), dispersion compensating(�DCF�), and polarization maintaining (�PMF�) fibers, as well as others, can be deployed as transmission fiber to interconnect nodes 12 or for other purposes in the system 10. The fiber typically can support either unidirectional or bidirectional transmission of optical signals in the form of one or more information carrying optical signal wavelengths λsi, or �channels�. The optical signal channels in a particular path 14 can be processed by the optical components as individual channels or as one or more wavebands, each containing one or more optical signal channels. A network management system (�NMS�) 18 can be provided to manage, configure, and control optical components in the system 10. The NMS 18 generally can include multiple management layers, which can reside at one or more centralized locations and/or be distributed among the optical components in the network. The optical components can be grouped logically as network elements for the purposes of network management. One or more network elements can be established at each optical component site in the network depending upon the desired functionality in the network and management system. The NMS 18 can be connected directly or indirectly to network elements located either in the nodes 12 or remotely from the nodes 12. For example, the NMS 18 may be directly connected to network elements serving as a node 12 via a wide area or data communication network (�WAN� or �DCN�, shown in broken lines in FIG. 1). Indirect connections to network elements that are remote to the DCN can be provided through network elements with direct connections. Mixed data or dedicated supervisory channels that can be transmitted in or out of band with the signal channels on the same medium or a different medium can be used to provide connections between the network elements. The optical transmitters 20 transmit information as optical signals via one or more signal channels λsi through the transmission media 16 to optical receivers 22 located in other processing nodes 12. The transmitters 20 used in the system 10 generally includes an optical source that provides optical power at one or more optical carrier wavelengths. The optical source can include various coherent narrow or broad band sources, such as DFB and DBR lasers, sliced spectrum sources and fiber and external cavity lasers, as well as suitable incoherent optical sources, e.g., LED, as appropriate. Information can be imparted to the optical carrier either by directly modulating the optical source or by externally modulating the optical carrier emitted by the source. Alternatively, the information can be imparted to an electrical carrier that can be upconverted onto an optical wavelength to produce the optical signal. Electro-optic (e.g., LiNbO3), electro-absorption, other types of modulators and upconverters can be used in the transmitters 20. In addition, the information can be imparted using various modulation formats and protocols. For example, various amplitude modulation schemes, such as non-return to zero (NRZ) and return to zero (RZ) using various soliton and pulse technologies. Various frequency, phase, and polarization modulation techniques also can be employed. One or more transmission protocols, such as SONET/SDH, IP, ATM, Digital Wrapper, MPLS, Fiber Channel, Ethernet, etc. can be used depending upon the specific network application. The optical receiver 22 used in the present invention can include various detection techniques, such as coherent detection, optical filtering and direct detection, and combinations thereof. The receivers 22 can be deployed in modules that have incorporated wavelength selective filters to filter a specific channel from a WDM signal or channel filtering can be performed outside of the receiver module. It will be appreciated that the detection techniques employed in the receiver 22 will depend, in part, on the modulation format used in the transmitter 20. Generally speaking, N transmitters 20 can be used to transmit M different signal wavelengths to J different receivers 22. Also, tunable transmitters 20 and receivers 22 can be employed in the optical nodes 12 in a network, such as in FIG. 1. Tunable transmitters 20 and receivers 22 allow system operators and network architects to change the signal wavelengths being transmitted and received in the system 10 to meet their network requirements. In addition, the transmitters 20 and receivers 22 can include various components to perform other signal processing, such as reshaping, retiming, error correction, differential encoding, etc. For example, receivers 22 can be connected to the transmitters 20 in back to back configuration as a regenerator, as shown in FIG. 2. The regenerator can be deployed as a 1R, 2R, or 3R regenerator, depending upon whether it serves as a repeater (repeat), a remodulator (reshape & repeat), or a full regenerator (reshape, retime, repeat). In FIG. 2, it will be appreciated that the transmitters 20 and receivers 22 can be used in WDM and single channel systems, as well as to provide short, intermediate, and/or long reach optical interfaces between other network equipment and systems. For example, transmitters 20 and receivers 22 deployed in a WDM system can be included on a module that also includes standardized interface receivers and transmitters, respectively, to provide communication with interfacial devices 30, as well as other transmission and processing systems. The optical amplifiers 24 can be deployed periodically along optical links 15 to overcome attenuation that occurs in a span of transmission media 16. In addition, optical amplifiers 24 can be provided proximate to other optical components, for example, at the node 12 to provide gain to overcome component losses. The optical amplifiers 24 can include doped (e.g. erbium) and non-linear interaction (e.g., Raman) fiber amplifiers that can be pumped locally or remotely with optical energy in various configurations. For example, optical fiber amplifier 24 generally include an amplifing fiber supplied with power in the form of optical, or �pump�, energy from one or more pump sources. The amplifying fiber can have the same or different transmission and amplification characteristics than the transmission fiber. Thus, the amplifying fiber can serve multiple purposes in the optical system, such as performing dispersion compensation and different levels of amplification of the signal wavelengths λi. The pump source 36 can include one or more narrow band or broad band optical sources, each providing optical power in one or more pump wavelength ranges designated by center pump wavelengths λpi and including one or more modes. Pump energy can be supplied to the amplifying fiber, either counter-propagating and/or co-propagating with respect to the propagation of the signal wavelengths λ1. Other types of optical amplifiers, such as semiconductor amplifiers, can be used in lieu of, or in combination with the fiber amplifiers. The optical amplifiers 24 can include one or more serial and/or parallel stages that provide localized gain at discrete sites in the network and/or gain that is distributed along the transmission media 16. Different amplifier types can be included in each stage and additional stages to perform one or more other functions. For example, optical regeneration, dispersion compensation, isolation, filtering, add/drop, etc. can be included at a site along with the optical amplifier 24. Various optical switches 26 and OADMs 28 (�switching devices�) can be employed in the network. For example, the switching devices can be configured to process individual signal channels or signal channel groups including one or more signal channels. The switching devices also can include various wavelength selective or non-selective switch elements. The OADMs 28 can include wavelength reusable and non-reusable configurations. Similarly, the switching devices can be configured to provide multi-cast capability, as well as signal channel terminations. The switching device can include various configurations of multiplexers, demultiplexers, splitters, and couplers, in combination with various switching elements configured to pass or block the signals destined for the various other nodes 12 in a selective manner. The switching of the signals can be performed at varying granularities, such as line, group, and channel switching, depending upon the degree of control desired in the system 10. The switch element can include wavelength selective or non-selective on/off gate switch elements, as well as variable optical attenuators having suitable extinction ratios. The switch elements can include single and/or multiple path elements that use various techniques, such as polarization control, interferometry, holography, etc. to perform the switching and/or variable attenuation function. The switching devices can be configured to perform various other functions, such as filtering, power equalization, telemetry, channel identification, etc., in the system 10. Various non-selective switch elements can be used in present invention, such as mechanical line and micro-mirror (�MEM�) switches, liquid crystal, magneto-optic, thermo-optic, acousto-optic, electro-optic, semiconductor and erbium doped fiber amplifier, etc. Alternatively, the switch elements can employ fixed and tunable wavelength selective multi-port devices and filters, such as those previously below. The interfacial devices 30 may include, for example, protocol and bit rate independent devices, such as optical switches and/or protocol and bit rate dependent electrical switch devices, such as IP routers, ATM switches, SONET add/drop multiplexers, etc. The interfacial devices 30 can be configured to receive, convert, and provide information in one or more various protocols, encoding schemes, and bit rates to one or more transmitters 20, and perform the converse function for the receivers 22. The interfacial devices 30 also can be used as an input/output cross-connect switch or automated patch panel and to provide protection switching in various nodes 12 depending upon the configuration. The interfacial devices 30 can be electrically connected to the transmitters and receivers 22 or optically connected using standard optical interface transmitters and receivers, as previously described. Optical combiners 32 can be provided to combine optical signals from multiple paths into a WDM signal on a common path, e.g. fiber, such as from multiple transmitters 20 or in a switching device. Likewise, optical distributors 34 can be provided to distribute one or more optical signals from a common path to a plurality of different optical paths, such as to multiple receivers 22 or in a switching device. The optical combiners 32 and distributors 34 can include wavelength selective and non-selective (�passive�) fiber and free space devices, as well as polarization sensitive devices. For example, one or more multi-port devices, such as passive, WDM, and polarization couplers/splitters having various coupling/splitting ratios, circulators, dichroic devices, prisms, diffraction gratings, arrayed waveguides, etc. can be employed used in the combiners 32 and distributors 34. The multi-port devices can be used alone, or in various combinations of filters, such tunable or fixed, high, low, or band pass or band stop, transmissive or reflective filters, such as Bragg gratings, Fabry-Perot, Mach-Zehnder, and dichroic filters, etc. Furthermore, one or more serial or parallel stages incorporating various 20 multi-port device and filter combinations can be used in the combiners 32 and distributors 34 to multiplex, demultiplex, and multi-cast signal wavelengths λi in the optical systems 10. In the present invention, the various network elements in the system 10 can be deployed using one or more line cards 40, which generally includes electrical circuitry used in the operation of the card 40. The circuitry typically is used in combination with various optical and electrical components mounted on or connected to the line card 40 to perform one or more functions of the network element. The line card 40 also can have one or more �daughter� cards mounted on the line card 40 depending upon the function and design of the line card 40. In addition, the line cards can include heating/cooling elements, power supplies, processors, backplane optical and/or electrical connections and other regulating, monitoring, and control elements. As shown in FIG. 3, each line card 40 typically includes a front panel 42, which can have one or more input and/or output ports 44 that provide access to the components on the line card 40. The ports 44 can include various types of connectors, such SC, FC, etc., configured to receive a mating connector from a corresponding input or output line 46 (FIG. 4), such as optical fiber, electrical wiring and cabling, etc. Alternatively, the line 46 can be spliced or otherwise coupled to the components through the ports 44. FIG. 4 shows a line interface assembly (�LIA�) 50 connected to the front panel 42. The LIA 50 retains the input and output lines 46 that are connected to the line cards 40 via the ports 44. The LIA can be connected to the front panel 42 via one or more fasteners 52, merely cooperate with the front panel 42, or be held in relation thereto in some combination of fastening and cooperating or by some other technique. In various embodiments, the LIA 50 is configured to form an electrical coupling with the line card 40 and an electrical path or connection to an electrical ground and/or a dissipative resistance or provide a dissipative resistance. The electrical coupling is such that electromagnetic radiation that is radiated and/or conducted out from the port 44 is attenuated via the line card or otherwise. The electrical coupling is provided to attenuate electromagnetic radiation emanating from the front panel 42 that can cause electromagnetic interference (�EMI�) in the vicinity of the line card 40. In these embodiments, the LIA can be constructed from various conductive materials to form an EMI shield. For example, a plastic material that is loaded with a conductive metal or other material, such as stainless steel fibers or nickel coated carbon fibers, can be used to form the LIA 50. It will be appreciated that various portions of the LIA can be constructed and/or coated with a conductive material to provide a desired electrical shielding profile. The LIA 50 can assume various mechanical designs depending upon the functionality desired. For example, the LIA 50 can be formed as an integrated assembly with hinges to provide access to the assembly or multiple parts that are assembled to retain the input and output lines 46. The LIA 50 can be constructed from various materials depending upon the functionality desired in the assembly as will be described further below. In addition, the LIA 50 can be designed to capture the lines 46 within the assembly to allow the LIA 50 and lines 46 to be handled as unitary piece. In the captive embodiments, various connectors, such as snap in, snap out types, can be used to mate with the ports 44. FIGS. 4 and 5 shows an LIA 50 embodiment employing a two piece mechanical design. A base 54 is provided that mates with a cover 56 to form the LIA 50, each of which can include varying amounts of conductive material. The mating can be via conventional means, such as an overlapping or interlocking joint, or other mating technique. One or more fasteners 52, such as screws, bolts, etc. can be used to hold the base 54 and cover 56 in position. Alternatively, the pieces can cooperate to maintain the assembly, or be held in relation thereto in some combination of fastening and cooperating Or by some other technique. Typically, a separate fastener 52 would be used to hold the assembly 50 pieces together, then is used to hold the LIA 50 in relation to the front panel 42, although a common fastener could be employed. FIG. 6 shows a base 54 and cover 56 embodiment, in which the base 54 includes a slot to receive and retain the cover 56. The base 54 and cover 56 also include at least one cooperating threaded section to receive a fastener to secure the base 54 and cover 56. In addition, the base 54 can be mounted to the front panel without the cover 56 to provide access to the lines of the LIA 50 with disengaging the LIA 50 from the front panel 42. In various embodiments, the LIA 50 is configured to control the physical positioning of the input and/or output lines 46 relative to the line card. FIGS. 4-6 show LIA 50 embodiments that include guide vanes 60, which protrude from the LIA and provide input and output line 46 guides. The guide vanes 60 are used to control the bend radius of the lines 46 to prevent damage that could result from kinking of the line. For example, when optical fiber is used as the input and output lines 46, it is necessary to maintain a minimum bend radius to prevent excessive attenuation in the fiber or breakage of the fiber. In addition, the vanes 46 can provide additional management of the lines 46, which is useful in densely populated shelves. FIGS. 7a and 7 b show two embodiments of the base 54 and cover 56 of the LIA 50. The assemblies 50 generally include line inputs and outputs, 62 1 and 62 2, respectively, that an input and/or output line support for lines 46 passing through the assembly 50. In the FIG. 7a embodiment, a guided path 64 through the assembly is provided for two line 46 1 and 46 2, respectively. As shown in FIG. 7b, one or more standoffs 66 can be used to provide a tortuous path through the assembly 50 for the line 46. It is not necessary to provide guided paths 64 or standoffs 66 through the assembly 50. These devices can be used to provide a tortuous path, which can provide additional support for and management of the line 46 in the assembly 50, as well as an additional shielding to prevent the leakage of electromagnetic radiation, as previously described above. The base 54 and/or the cover 56 can include these various mechanical attributes that provide additional functionality in the assembly 50. In addition, the base 54 and/or the cover 56 also can include support material, such as conductive or nonconductive foams or padding, which can increase the ruggedness, as well as the mechanical and electrical characteristics of the assembly. In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 4-8 the LIA 50 provides inputs and outputs for the line 46 that are in a common plane and do not require sharp or substantial bending of the line 46. Other embodiments are possible that provide various paths through the LIA 50, which may depend, in part, on the internal design of the LIA 50. It will be appreciated that the LIA 50 can provide separate, shared, or common input and output paths for the lines 46 through the assembly 50 depending upon the level of input and output line 46 management desired. FIGS. 8(a-g) show various stages of assembly of the LIA 50 and attachment to the line card 42. FIG. 8a shows a line card 40 with front panel 42. FIG. 8b shows two lines 46 attached via connectors 68 to line card ports 44. FIGS. 8c-8 d show the mounting of the base 54 onto the line card 40. FIGS. 8e-8 g show the attachment of the cover 56 to the base 54. It will be appreciated that analogous procedures will be used for other embodiments, such as those in which the lines 46 are captive within the LIA 50 as previously described. FIG. 9 shows two partial shelves 70 containing line card 40 employing the LIA 50. As illustrated, the vanes 60 provide management of the input and output lines 46. One or more shelves 70 can be provided in a rack depending upon the configuration of the network element. In practice, the present invention provides significant benefits over the prior art. For example, it is possible to position optical and electrical component, such as laser and photo diodes, on line cards 40 proximate front panels 42 that have ports 44. This positioning capability provides for more design freedom in the layout of line cards 40 that can lead to optical and electrical systems and subsystems that provide increased performance as a function of footprint. In addition, the physical structure can further this performance by providing increased robustness and input/output line, e.g., fiber, management. Those of ordinary skill in the art will further appreciate that numerous modifications and variations that can be made to specific aspects of the present invention without departing from the scope of the present invention. It is intended that the foregoing specification and the following claims cover such modifications and variations. Patent Citations
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Talk will explore origins and prospects for the futurePosted: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:03 am PST
Author and philosopher Stephen Hicks will present "Postmodernism and Its Discontents" at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in Overton Hall.
(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Feb. 12, 2014) Postmodernism will be the subject of a free lecture at California Lutheran University in March.
Author and philosopher Stephen Hicks will present "Postmodernism and Its Discontents" at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in Overton Hall.
Among this generation's opinion-shapers and scholars, postmodernism has been a particularly vigorous intellectual movement. It is a loose collection of intellectual themes that are opposed to both pre-Enlightenment ideas of faith and social cohesion and Enlightenment commitment to freedom, progress and rationality. Postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations that claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. It rejects concepts of objective truth, the possibility of knowledge, and any attempt to provide a large narrative or explanation of the human condition, especially religious or philosophical ones. Politically opposed to capitalism, it regards social relations as primarily conflict between power groups. During the last three decades, it has been influential in literary and cultural criticism, art, social sciences and philosophy. While it has mounted critiques of the physical sciences, it has been less influential in this area.
Hicks will discuss postmodernism's themes and origins and its disquieting prospects for the future. He will explore why its arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world, why they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences, and why many on the political left that has traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all and optimism have adopted themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards and cynicism.
At Rockford University in Illinois, Hicks is a philosophy professor and the executive director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. He is the author of three books including "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault," which has been translated into Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Persian. He was born in Toronto and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Guelph in Canada and a doctorate from Indiana University, Bloomington.
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The second, which constituted his performances from Week 8 to the end of the season, saw a QB who completed 65.7 percent of his passes for 2,533 yards with 16 touchdowns and nine interceptions.
It all added up to a quarterback who, in his first year with a new team, threw for the eighth-most yards of any passer and the 12th-most touchdowns. His 22 interceptions were tied for second most, and his 83.9 QB rating placed him 20th.
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Now with the 2013-14 budget approval process under way, it has become clear that a demand for subsidized government services is hardly sustainable.
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Are "likes" on Facebook just not enough for you? What if you got a hug every time someone liked your picture or status update?
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New Trends report: iOS 7 adoption by the hour
By mixpanel on September 18, 2013
We just pushed a new report live on Mixpanel Trends to answer the big question on everyone's mind today: How quickly will consumers move to iOS 7?
As of noon PT today the answer is a lot. The percentage of activity on iOS 7 jumped from 6% at 11am PT to over 10% at noon PT.
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Community Tip : Addiction Best Practices
This Community Tip will illustrate how to interpret Mixpanel's Addiction Report. We'll walk through some best practices and methods for using the Addiction report to analyze your users' behavior with an eye towards actionable insights.
Our Retention report shows the portion of your customers or customer cohorts who engage with your application. Mixpanel's Addiction Report takes it to the next level and analyzes the minimum number of hours or days your users engage with your app.
How to interpret an Addiction Report
The first column of the Addiction report displays the number of users in the cohort displayed on that row, just like our First Time and Recurring Retention reports. In the screenshot below, it means that 6,054 unique users fired an "App Open" event on February 1st. Each of the buckets (column headings) to the right indicate how many hours in day, days in a week, or day...
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We've made Segmentation a whole lot better, and we're excited to share all the updates we've made:
See an overview of your top events
We've made it possible to see an overview of the highest volume events that your users take in your app. It can help you see spikes in your data, and it's just a convenient way to get a snapshot of how things are going.
Compare trends more easily
Comparing two or more different events is now possible, so you can analyze the correlation between events. Just click the compare menu option after picking the first event.
Plot your data in logarithmic scale
It can often be tough to compare two trends if one event or segment dwarfs another or if your app takes off and creates a big spike in your metrics because the big differences in scale make it hard to see what's going on. With a logarithmic scale, you'll be able to compare and correlate...
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This Community Tip will outline how to create incremental super properties using our JavaScript SDK, so you can keep a tally of how often a user takes specific actions on your site or in your app and then segment any event by count.
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Before we dive in to incremental super properties let's have a quick reminder of what super properties are. Super properties are client-side properties that are automatically attached to every event that a user sends to your Mixpanel project. They make working with Mixpanel data much more convenient because they act as global properties that are omnipresent in all your events (given that the cookie is not cleared). Some examples of information that you may want to attribute to every event are ad campaign, signup date, or paid account type, etc. It's important to note that super properties are only for events , not...
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Making one-time notifications better
Today we launched a major enhancement to our notifications dashboard that will give you more power over your one-time notifications. Previously a one-time notification meant sending a message to the wind. While useful for notifying, they couldn't be edited, cancelled, or analyzed after the fact. No longer - now one-time notifications are at your beck and call:
The new notifications dashboard gives you a clear view of what one-time notifications are in flight and allows you to cancel them or even change their contents before they send. You can now view sent, opened, and conversion statistics for one-time and recurring notifications through the same analytics page:
Our goal behind these changes is to better unify the notifications product and expand what you can do with it in the process. We give you better tools, you make better things happen. With that in mind, happy notifyi...
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Formulas: Calculating with numeric values
When it comes to Mixpanel products, we're all about constantly making improvements that our users have asked for. Regarding the formulas report, one thing we've had numerous requests for is the ability to add numeric values into a formula. Well Mixpanellers, ask and ye shall receive:
The most basic and useful application of this is a formula where you would like to see percentage values rather than decimals. In our case, let's look at a common event and take the number of mobile occurrences divided by total occurrences:
As you can see, the x-axis values are calculated as decimals between 0 and 1. In order to transform the values in this chart into percentages, all we have to do is multiply the numerator by 100:
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I have a confession: there was a time when data and I didn't get along.
I'm a brand marketing guy at heart, and my data-related technical skills are limited. Luckily, I have pretty good instincts. For years, I often viewed heavy data-diving as an aggravating drain on my time. Interpreting data? No problem. Manipulating it? Big problem.
I would spend hours slicing data on Google Analytics, Flurry or other tools in every way possible, but more often than not I couldn't find the key insight I really wanted. The only way I could extract meaningful insights was to task a database engineer/analyst to manipulate raw data to fit my needs. If I needed to make a quick decision, I had no choice but to trust my gut.
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First-Time Users
First-time users are defined as any user who arrives at your website or app for the first time - you have never seen this user before. It is important to know who is a first time user versus a returning user in terms of measuring your metrics – How do first-time users convert through sign up? What is first-time versus returning user retention? What traffic source do my first-time users come from? Answering these questions will give you valuable product insight not readily available by looking at all users simultaneously.
By measuring first-time users you can get a granular view into what your users are doing when they have never used your website or app before. You may find user experience insights that yo...
January 6, 2015
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Most mailing tools allow you to export your users to a CSV. A little manipulation will optimize this CSV for importing into your Mixpanel project. No code required!
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Today, we're going to open-source the pitch deck that led to our $65M round and the $865M valuation for the company.
So many people have helped us either directly or indirectly along our journey that we'd like pay it forward to other startups who aren't sure how to get started as they go out to raise money for the first time.
When Tim and I first went to go pitch our company to investors in 2009 (right after the recession hit), we hopped on the Caltrain, rode our bikes down Sand Hill Road, and talked to 10 investors who all categorically told us "No." A few of them even wanted to replace the CEO of our company (we didn't know who would be CEO yet!). At that time, we hadn't quite realized we even needed an official pitch deck. And when we did build a deck, we had no idea how to construct one intelligently. We really struggled.
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Anybody have any thoughts about this man?
I think he's been on the island a long time, much longer than Richard. Just a guess. One thing I did notice, when Jack was told that Sayid had an infection, Jack said "He doesn't even have a fever." Dogen laughed. Jack asked Lennon something like "Does he think what I said is funny?" Well, we find out that Dogen believes that Claire is infected. In the cabin, when we see Claire say "Hi, John." when she was with Christian. The episode was called "Cabin Fever"....I think that's why Dogen laughed. I am not sure I trust this guy. I think he just tortured Sayid because he knows Sayid tortured many. I don't think the water healed Sayid. I think that Jack healed him, but nobody, including Jack knows it yet. Maybe Dogen might know. And I don't think Sayid is infected and if he is, hopefully that pill was poison to get the infection out.....but not kill him, I doubt it though. |
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Yeah, not panhandling, more like armed robbery and malicious wounding/maiming/attempted murder.
This is a discussion on Ugly: Panhandler stabs man who refused to give him cash within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Yeah, not panhandling, more like armed robbery and malicious wounding/maiming/attempted murder....
Yeah, not panhandling, more like armed robbery and malicious wounding/maiming/attempted murder.
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I once saw a special on 20/20 where they monitored a public telephone on a NY street corner. Back when cell phones were the size of small briefcases. They asked everyone who used the phone who they had called. One man they stopped said he had just called his broker. When they asked what he did for a living, he stated that he was a panhandler and that he made in excess of $60k per year begging.
I never forgot that story because at the time I was struggling to complete a degree in accounting while working full time. That year, a college graduate with a BS in Accounting could expect to earn $45K at an entry level job.
"I did the thing I feared the most. Excuse me while I cheer. Now here I stand a stronger soul and all I lost was fear." ...Anonymous
The thing that scares me the most out of this news article is the fact that I work security at Target. They don't allow us to be armed, but we have to ask anyone soliciting or panhandling to leave our property.
I've been threatened many times, luckily nothing has come of it. I approach every one of them ready for a fight if they choose to attack. Most of the time there's two of us.
Geez, Intrepid, can you get a different job? Stupid corporations....
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I have had panhandlers get in my face like this. I call it a "soft mugging." So far, they have no assaulted me when I've refused. This story does not make me optimistic that I won't have that experience, therefore, I carry.
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How we behave as gun owners is important. Posturing and threatening does not serve us well in the public eye.
I'm working on it. I'm only working security as a stepping stone to law enforcement. I have my conditional POST certification and am actively going through hiring processes, but I'm being told I don't have enough law enforcement experience to compete against the lateral transfers.
There's other things that I don't like about my job, but I'm trying to stick with it to show a prospective police department that I won't leave a job because I have many frustrations.
Have you looked at the Workforce Investment Act? You might be able to get into a personal protection training program.
It's not my first choice- I'm thinking of picking up side work in the trades, but I did look at PP work briefly. The working conditions aren't so great, but it sounds like something that might pay better than Target.
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Years ago... I was driving a friend's car to the shop while he was at work and just picked up some good DD coffee when a panhandler came up to the passenger side. He asked for change and held the make shift sign against the window so I could read it. I told him I didn't have any cash and he spotted my friends cupholder full of change and reached in for it while stating "well then I guess you don't need this"... I rolled up his window on his arm while throwing my coffee at him (which cleared the upholstery by inches) and jumped out of the car. He was screaming like crazy and I saw him drop to his knees (as far as he could go with the window pinning him)... I looked up and a guy in the next car over had kicked his legs out. The guy flashed a badge at me and said roll the window down. He was an undercover LEO. He told me I did good, and that this was his 3rd time arresting that panhandler in the last year. They ended up calling paramedics because of the coffee burns.
About 3 days ago... Theres a panhandler on a nearby intersection who likes to stand directly in front of your car (and line of sight) and will harass you till you acknowledge him. Well the Miami Hurricanes game was about to start and a bunch of fans were on the way to the game when the guy approaches a car filled with fans and says "Got any change? oh.. your Miami fans! Get the F off my street." They started to heckle him and he tells them that for 5 bucks he'll let them pass. One guy starts to open his door and the panhandler shifts his attention to me.
As he walks up, I yell out..."No money, don't even try it." I reach down for my Glock to uncover it slightly (not to be visible, but for better access) and he keeps approaching. He stands directly in front of my Jeep and starts jumping up and down and waving frantically. The light turns green so I lay on the horn (nice size air horns) and he doesn't budge. Traffic behind me is honking and I know I can't get away with running him over. Then I hear horns even louder than mine and after recovering from the shock and pain realize there is a fire truck next to me laying on their massive horn right in the guys face. A few seconds later an officer pulls up and chases the guy to the side of the road. The LEO waves me off and I wave thanks to him and the fire fighters (who I just saw earlier for training on the airport)...
Needless to say...I never carry cash on me...so my response is always the same. I've run across some crazies down in Miami who will follow you for blocks...and met a couple who made more than 50k a year...
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I believe you, I know it too. They usually eat better than I do too.
This situation also highlights why I'm cautious approaching them on duty (don't let my guard down....In God we trust, everyone else let me see your hands).
We get calls on panhandlers bugging folks everyday, against a city ordinance. Some are cool and cooperative, others turn out to be drunk and belligerent.
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If loose gun laws are good for criminals why do criminals support gun control?
Agreed - confusingly so, but agreed.
I had a job at a local K-Mart when I was 18. We only had 1 car in the family and every day after work I'd have to drive over to Newark and pick up my parents who both worked there. There was this 6'4" scruffy caucasion at one particular intersection - every day. This was "his" panhandling intersection.
One day I see him coming down my isle buying clothes, shoes, and a sports duffel bag. It comes out to $75 or so and he pays with a crisp clean $100 bill. I was floored.
Started doing some math. The intersection he waits at is an extremely well-trafficked one. The lights on the side of road he works stay green for 30 seconds, then go red for exactly 3 minutes. There are two lanes of fully stopped traffic during those 3 minutes and he will easily see twenty (20) cars during each "red period" during rush hour. As I said, it is still a very busy area and even on off-peak times he will easily see 8 to 12 cars per "red period".
From my casual observations, I figure he gets change from at least 4 cars during each rush-hour "red period" and at least 2 cars every non-rush-hour period. If I assume he's getting an average of $0.25 per car (which is on the low-side, he most likely makes more than that per car) and if I assume he works a 10 hour day that covers both rush hours (which is nice in that he can work as often as he wants and get as much "overtime" as he wants, unlike us salary-laden morons who get squat regardless of how much extra time we put in) - he's making $17 per hour during rush hour and only $8.50 or so an hour during the off-peak times.
That's approximately $102 per day. If he works 5 days a week and takes 4 weeks a year worth of vacation, holiday, and sick time - he pulls in a tax-free $34K a year.
That would be about $50K worth of taxed salary to me and you. Not too shabby.
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When I see a panhandler approaching, I ask him for money before he says anything. "Oh, man, can you spare a dollar, I'm broke and I just put my last dollar in gas in the car?"
They usually turn and walk away.
"You guys have over saturated the market. I just gave my last dollar to the guy in the other block. Sorry man"
This is a most valid point: All the more reason to avoid risky situations like bars, unless your with a large crowd , and will be leaving at the same time
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The local news did a special report on these guys including a hidden camera. They followed one guy, he stood out by the interstate at a busy exit ramp for 4 hours and then walked through Wal Mart Parking lot for the next 3 hours asking for money. When he was done, he got into a brand new Mercedes Benz and went home. The home was valued at over $300k. When they approached him, he said he makes about 400 a day, and that he started doing that when he stopped at a light and seen how much another bum was getting from people. He acknowledged that it is not a respectiable job, but that he makes a good living, working it 5 days a week. I am not sure he is getting much moeny after the story aired, but heck, that is a good living, just taking the time to ask, over 100k a year.
I make a lousey 19k a year, after taxes and child support, maybe bring home about 13k. Maybe I need some bum clothes and need to find a corner to work, LMAO.
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