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MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Love is making a name for himself in the NBA with his breakout season for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
It turns out he's been on the Denver Nuggets' radar for quite some time.
Nuggets coach George Karl said Wednesday night that the team asked Minnesota about trading for Love this summer.
"I know there were inquiries," Karl said before the Nuggets played the Timberwolves. "In some of the meetings we talked and his name was out there. It never got close, I know that."
Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony has been the subject of trade rumors for months and has rejected the team's three-year, $65 million contract extension offer. But Karl did not discuss the nature of the Love talks and did not say who, if anybody, was offered to Minnesota in return.
Obviously, no deal was done, and unless they could have received Anthony in return, that is likely a good thing for the Timberwolves.
Minnesota traded forward Al Jefferson to Utah to create more minutes for Love and he has blossomed in his third season, leading the league with 15.5 rebounds per game and averaging 20.6 points. He had 31 points and 31 rebounds in a win over the Knicks in November, the first 30-30 game in the NBA since 1982, and scored 43 points and grabbed 17 rebounds in a loss at Denver on Dec. 18.
"We liked him last year when he kind of was inconsistent, up and down," Karl said. "I think we made inquiries on Kevin Love this summer, but we didn't think this. We never thought he'd make the huge step he made from last year to this year. This is incredible."
It's been rumored for weeks that Anthony wants to be traded to the New York Knicks, while the Nets and Bulls have also been mentioned as potential suitors.
Anthony is in the final year of his contract, which essentially gives him veto power on any deal. If he doesn't like the proposed destination, he could refuse to sign an extension and become a free agent in the summer of 2011.
The Timberwolves are rebuilding again and entered the night with just eight wins on the season, making cold and snowy Minnesota an unattractive spot for Anthony to sign long term.
Meanwhile, Love has emerged as one of the bright young stars in the league, an affordable and marketable talent that the disillusioned Timberwolves fan base is starting to rally around.
"His knack to rebound the ball, I haven't seen it like this for a long time," Karl said. "Marcus (Camby) kind of has the knack. This guy, Dwight Howard, Marcus when he was younger, he has the knack. The ball finds him."
It's led to a debate about his All-Star credentials. The Timberwolves have the second-worst record in the Western Conference, leading some to wonder if a player from such a bad team can receive the honor, no matter how great the numbers.
"I think his numbers are impressive enough to be considered," Karl said. "But I like taking guys off the teams that win games."
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Speaking before tip-off against the Hornets on Wednesday night, Jackson said the league's takeover of the Hornets raises questions about who has the final say if a player such as Chris Paul were to demand a trade.
"Who's going to pull the button on it?" Jackson said. "When Chris says he has to be traded, how's that going to go? ... Someone's going to have to make a very nonjudgmental decision on that part that's not going to irritate anyone else in the league."
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"I showed him the film, and I sort of underestimated that he really knew the script inside and out, and he did," Anderson says. "There was stuff missing from the film, in the cut I showed him, because we were still messing around with it, and he remembered things, started asking, 'Where's that scene?' And he was right. I was showing him a version where I was experimenting with what could possibly not be in the film, and he knew what was missing. It was like having P.T. Barnum come into your editing room and say: 'What the fuck is going on? Where's the dancing girl?' I've learned so much from him, just in the past couple of months that we've been dealing with each other. I love him."
All told, today's Paul Thomas Anderson seems a changed man from the piss-and-vinegar enfant terrible who once told Lynn Hirschberg, in a New York Times Magazine profile pegged to the release of Magnolia, "I'm still young, and I still have to show off," and who expressed that cinematically in his early films with their intricately interconnected story lines, pulsating pop soundtracks, and thrilling, Scorsese-influenced tracking shots. He has changed, too, since four years ago, just as There Will Be Blood was heading into wide release. He has turned 40 since then, had two more children (for a total of three) with partner Maya Rudolph, and doesn't watch as much baseball as he used to, though he hasn't lost his penchant for peppering his conversation with baseball metaphors. "I look around, and I'm like, 'Where did these kids come from?'" he says of his two youngest. "It felt like . . . they're two off-season acquisitions. When did we pick them up? Okay, I guess we've got a third baseman now. But it's amazing. I can't say anything new about parenthood, but having three kids is great."
Likewise, The Master feels every inch the work of a more mature artist, a filmmaker with nothing to prove, taking his time, gazing deeply into the heart of the old, weird America. Even more than There Will Be Blood, it is a work of heightened directorial precision, in which the camera never makes an unmotivated move, and a constricting tension slowly seeps into the film through the almost imperceptible accrual of small gestures, glances, unspoken motives (plus the magnificent dissonances of Jonny Greenwood's original score). The final meeting between Freddie and Dodd is as breathtaking as the much-celebrated one between Eli Sunday and Daniel Plainview — only this time, it is words and conflicting ideologies, not bowling pins, that strike the fatal blows.
Anderson's angel, Megan Ellison, already has committed to backing his next project: a film version of Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice, a kind of stoner Chinatown set in L.A. at the end of the 1960s, and the first time the reclusive Gravity's Rainbow author has allowed his work to be adapted for the screen. "And it's not going to take five years," Anderson says with a sly grin as he disappears into the night. "So you're gonna eat your fucking words."
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Second order distortion products in a digital receiver front end are converted into broadband noise. An illustrative embodiment includes a noise generator, first and second combiners, and a non-linear device (e.g., an analog-to-digital converter). An input signal is combined with the noise signal by the first combiner, and the combined signal is applied to the non-linear device. The output signal from this device is applied to the second combiner. The second combiner is also driven with a time-delayed version of the noise signal, and performs a reconstructive multiplication, synchronously recovering the desired output signal. Even-order distortion products introduced by the non-linear device persist only as a low level of wideband noise in the final output signal.
1. In a digitizing receiver that includes a non-linear device in a front end thereof, a method of reducing undesired spectral components due to the non-linearity of said device, the method comprising:
providing an input signal;
combining said input signal with a first wideband signal to produce a combined signal;
applying the combined signal to the non-linear device in said receiver front end to produce an intermediate output signal; and
processing the intermediate output signal with a second wideband signal to recover from the intermediate output signal a final output signal, said second wideband signal being related to the first wideband signal;
wherein spectral components due to the non-linearity of the non-linear device are spectrally smeared and appear in the final output signal as wideband noise.
2. The method of claim 1 in which the first and second wideband signals are pseudo random noise signals.
3. The method of claim 2 in which the first and second wideband signals change values only at periodically recurring instants.
4. The method of claim 2 in which the first and second wideband signals change values at random instants.
5. The method of claim 1 in which the first wideband signal is a scaled, time-shifted version of the second wideband signal.
6. In a digitizing receiver that includes a non-linear device in a front end thereof, the non-linear device being coupled to an input node and having an output coupled to an output node, an apparatus for reducing undesired spectral components due to the non-linearity of said device, the apparatus comprising:
a wideband signal generator having first and second outputs;
a first combiner, said first combiner having a first input coupled to the input node, a second input coupled to the first wideband signal generator output, and an output coupled to an input of the non-linear device in the front end of said digitizing receiver; and
a second combiner, said second combiner having a first input coupled to an output of the non-linear device, a second input coupled to the second wideband signal generator output, and an output coupled to said output node;
wherein the first and second combiners cooperate to smear spectral products due to the non-linearity of said non-linear device into wideband noise provided to the output node.
7. The digitizing receiver of claim 6 in which at least one of said first or second combiners is an analog multiplier.
8. The digitizing receiver of claim 7 in which at least one of said first or second combiners comprises a pair of emitter-coupled transistors in a current-steering topology.
9. The digitizing receiver of claim 6 in which at least one of said first or second combiners is a digital multiplier.
10. The digitizing receiver of claim 6 in which the first combiner is an analog multiplier, and the second combiner is a digital multiplier.
11. The digitizing receiver of claim 6 in which the wideband signal generator is a pseudo random noise generator.
12. The digitizing receiver of claim 6 in which the non-linear device includes an analog-to-digital converter.
13. The digitizing receiver of claim 6 in which the wideband signal generator includes a signal generator circuit having a signal output, said signal output serving as the first output, the wideband signal generator further including a delay circuit having an input coupled to the first output and having a delay circuit output, said delay circuit output serving as the second output.
14. A method for reducing distortion products introduced during processing of an input signal by a non-linear device or non-linear system, comprising the steps of:
combining a noise signal with the input signal;
processing the combined noise and input signal with said non-linear device or non-linear system; and
combining the inverse of the noise signal with the processed combined noise and input signal to provide an output signal with a reduction in the amplitude of distortion products introduced during processing.
15. The method of claim 14 including generating the noise signal using a wideband signal generator.
16. The method of claim 14 where the first combining step includes combining the input and noise signals in an analog multiplier.
17. The method of claim 14 where the second combining step includes combining the inverse noise signal with the processed combined signal in a digital multiplier.
18. The method of claim 14 where the processing step includes applying the combined noise and input signals to a non-ideal device.
19. The method of claim 18 in which the non-ideal device includes an analog-to-digital converter.
20. The method of claim 14 where the inverse noise signal is a scaled, time-shifted version of the noise signal.
21. The method of claim 1 wherein said processing includes multiplying the intermediate output signal with the second wideband signal.
22. The method of claim 1 wherein said processing includes digitally multiplying the intermediate output signal with the second wideband signal.
23. The method of claim 1 wherein said combining includes multiplying the input signal with the first wideband signal.
24. The method of claim 1 wherein the non-linear device includes an analog-to-digital converter.
25. The method of claim 1 wherein distortion products due to said non-linearity are not subtracted from the intermediate output signal, but are instead changed in frequency.
26. The method of claim 14 wherein said reduction in distortion products is achieved by spectrally transforming energy in at least certain of said distortion products to wideband noise.
The present invention relates to reducing spurious signals from non-linear devices, and more particularly relates to methods and apparatuses for transforming even-order distortion products produced by such devices into broadband noise.
A common problem in designing receiver circuitry is reducing distortion in the receiver's front end. The non-linearity of the receiver components creates spurious waveforms (distortion) that impair the circuit's overall performance. In measurement instrumentation, for example, such spurious waveforms can be confused with or even mask the actual signals being measured.
Any non-ideal device produces a number of distortion products, the most important of which are often second and third harmonics, and second and third order intermodulation distortion. Typically, second order distortion is caused by asymmetry in the output waveform due to non-linear processing of a signal's positive- and negative-going excursions. Third-order distortion is caused by variation in the transfer function of a component with the magnitude of the applied signal.
Third-order distortion can be reduced by driving the device with a smaller signal, or by using a device with a larger dynamic range. In either case, the input signal excursions result in smaller changes in the devices transfer function, thereby resulting in less third-order distortion.
Eliminating second-order distortion, however, has traditionally been more difficult. One way to reduce second-order distortion is to use balanced devices. Balanced devices, however, are never truly balanced. Due to fabrication tolerances, thermal effects and other phenomena, even the most precise (aka expensive) balanced devices have some inherent asymmetry. With this asymmetry comes even-order distortion.
Another approach for controlling second-order distortion is use of a feedback circuit. In such an approach, distortion error is theoretically subtracted out by a feedback signal mixed with the input signal. This method, however, is limited by the gain and non-linearity of the receiver circuit.
As receivers and other electronic circuitry become optimized in other respects, the problem of second order distortion increases in prominence. It is an object of the present invention to address this problem.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, even-order distortion products from an electronic device are spectrally redistributed as broadband noise. By spreading the distortion energy over the entire frequency spectrum, the distortion's impact is reduced. Further, conversion of the distortion to broadband noise permits use of known digital signal processing techniques to discern and recover signals below the noise level.
In the preferred embodiment, an auxiliary signal generator generates a pseudo random noise signal that changes between a logic �1. This signal is combined with an input signal in a combiner, such as a multiplier, creating a combined signal having the appearance of broadband noise. This combined signal is then processed by a non-linear device, such as an amplifier or an analog-to-digital converter. After this processing, the signal is synchronously reconstructed by combining the processed signal in a second combiner with the inverse of the auxiliary signal applied to the first combiner. The result is to recover the desired signal while spreading the distortion over the frequency spectrum.
The foregoing and other features and advantages of the present invention will be more readily apparent from the following detailed description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a spread spectrum linearization circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a preferred auxiliary signal generator.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a non-linear device used in FIG. 1.
FIGS. 4A-D are spectral plots showing how second order distortion products are distributed as wide band noise by the embodiment of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a spread spectrum linearizer using two auxiliary signal generators.
Referring to FIG. 1, a spread spectrum linearizer 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention includes an auxiliary signal generator 12, first and second combiners 14, 16, and a non-linear device 18 to be linearized.
The first combiner has two inputs, 20, 22. The first input is coupled to the electrical signal to be processed, while the second input is coupled to a first output 24 of the auxiliary signal generator 12. The output of the combiner 26 is coupled to the input 28 of the non-linear device 18.
The non-linear device's output 30 is coupled to the first input 32 of the second combiner 16. The second combiner also has a second input 34 coupled to the second output 36 of the auxiliary signal generator 12. The output 38 of the second combiner delivers a processed electrical signal with reduced distortion.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an auxiliary signal generator 12 that can be used in FIG. 1. The auxiliary signal generator includes a digital pseudo random noise generator 40 which creates a random pattern of digital 1's and 0's. The noise generator contains two single bit outputs 42, 44 that are inverse versions of each other. Voltage converter 46 is used to modify the voltage level of pseudo random noise generator output 42 to a logic �1. A delay 50 is used to synchronize the auxiliary output signal 36 with the delay between the first and second combiners 14, 16. Thus, auxiliary output 36 is the inverted time-shifted version of auxiliary output 24. As a result, the inverted auxiliary signal 36 applied to the second combiner 16 is an inverted version of the same signal with which the input signal was earlier processed in combiner 14.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an exemplary non-linear device 18. The illustrated device includes an amplifier 56 coupled to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 58. The input 28 to amplifier 56 is driven by the output signal 26 from the combiner 14. The output 60 of the amplifier is applied to an input 62 of the analog-to-digital converter 58. The non-linear characteristics of the amplifier and analog-to-digital converter create spurious waveforms in the processed signal.
It will be recognized that the principles of the present invention can advantageously be employed in conjunction with a variety of different non-linear devices 18, not limited to the one particular illustrated.
The illustrated first combiner 14 (FIG. 1) is an analog multiplier, so that the signal on the output terminal 26 thereof is the product of the input signal on input terminal 20 and the output 24 of auxiliary signal generator 12. Preferably, a two four-quadrant multiplexer will be used, such as an analog multiplexer manufactured by Analog Devices.
The illustrated second combiner 16 is a digital multiplier so that the signal on output terminal 38 thereof is the product of the output 30 of the nonlinear device 18 and the output 36 of the auxiliary signal generator 12.
The second combiner 16 synchronously reconstructs the desired signal from the apparent noise and distortion provided by the non-linear device 18. More particularly, the second combiner effects a multiplication operation which, due to the inversion of one of the multiplicands, results in recovery of the desired amplified signal from the output 30 of device 18.
FIG. 4 depicts the frequency spectra of certain signals present in the illustrated embodiment that will aid in understanding of the above-described operations.
FIG. 4A shows the spectral composition of an illustrative input signal. FIG. 4B shows the broadband noise provided to the first combiner 14 by the auxiliary signal generator 12. FIG. 4C shows the spectral composition of the output signal from the first combiner 14, illustrating the smearing of the FIG. 4A input signal across the noise spectrum of FIG. 4B. FIG. 4D shows the spectral composition of the final output signal from the second combiner 16, illustrating the accurate recovery of the input signal, and the distribution of non-linear distortion products as a low level (exaggerated for illustration) of wideband noise.
A second embodiment 66 of the invention is shown in FIG. 5. In this embodiment, two separate auxiliary signal generators 68, 70 are used to create auxiliary signals 24, 36. As before, auxiliary signal 36 is a time-shifted inverted version of auxiliary signal 24.
The mathematical justification for recovery of the input signal, but not the distortion, is best shown by example.
Assume an input signal is given by
x=cos(wt) (1)
whose sampled representation is given by
xn =cos(nwT); n=0→∞ (2)
At the multiplier, the undistorted input signal is multiplied by a square wave of +/-1 amplitude at half the sample frequency of the system (fs/2). The signal is amplified and digitally sampled by the ADC. In most receiver sections the distortion is introduced at this stage and is modeled by a nonlinear transformation given by:
V=ax+bx2 +cx3 +d (3)
where x corresponds to the composite input signal. (The composite signal being the product of the square wave and original input signal). This transformation contains second and third order terms to model the 2nd and 3rd order distortion contribution.
The output of the ADC produces a digitally sampled version of the composite signal consisting of the product of the square wave with period of fs/2 and the input signal. This can be represented mathematically by observing each of the terms of the transformation as follows. The linear term of the sampled signal is represented as:
axn =a cos(nwT)(-1)n ; n=0→∞ (4)
If this signal undergoes a second digital multiplication by a synchronous digital signal of alternating +/-1 at half the sample rate fs/2, then the result would be the complete recovery of the original input signal yielding:
axn =a cos(nwt)(-1)2n (5)
axn =a cos(nwt) (6)
which is the digitally sampled representation of the analog input signal.
If the multiplying signal at the input and output of the ADC had consisted of synchronous random alternating signal of +/-1 polarity this result would be unchanged.
For the second order term
bxn 2 =b cos(nwT)(-1)n !2 (7)
bxn 2 =b cos2 (nwT)! (8)
bxn 2 =b/2b 1+cos(2nwT)! (9)
If this sampled representation of the 2nd order distortion term at the output of the ADC is also multiplied by a synchronous digital multiplying signal of +/-1 at fs/2 this would yield:
bxn 2 =b/2b 1+cos(2nwT)!(-1)n ! (10)
This result still contains the +/-1 multiplying term. In the implementation of the invention, the multiplying signal is actually a random signal changing from +/-1 at fs/2. The result of multiplying by a random signal which randomly changes from +/-1 at fs/2 yields a signal which in the frequency domain is spread uniformly across the frequency spectrum as noise. Hence the energy of the second order distortion term is converted from a single frequency point distortion to wideband noise. This does not occur with the linear term corresponding to the original input signal.
Performing the same operation with the third order term results in:
cxn 3 =c cos(nwT)(-1)n !3 (11)
cxn 3 =c cos3 (nwT)(-1)3 n! (12)
cxn 3 =c/4 3cos(nwT)+cos(3wnT)!(-1)n! (13)
If we again perform a second synchronous digital multiplication of (-1)n, the result is
cxn 3 =c/4 3cos(nwt)+cos(3wnT)! (14)
which is the sampled version of the third term which contains the third harmonic of cos3wt.
Similar results can be shown for higher order terms which will show that this invention converts the distortion of all even ordered terms into noise, while leaving the original and odd ordered terms in place.
It is preferable in most instances to change the state of the pseudo random signal at a random rate. This overcomes the above-noted bandwidth constraint, and thereby makes better use of the bandwidth of the ADC.
From the foregoing discussion, it will be recognized that the present invention affords an advantageous method and apparatus for reducing distortion products without the sensitive balancing or feedback issues associated with prior art "solutions."
Having described and illustrated the principles of our invention with reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be apparent that these embodiments can be modified in arrangement and detail without departing from the principles of the invention.
For example, while the invention has been illustrated with reference to a single-bit pseudo random noise generator, it will be recognized that alternative embodiments can employ noise generators that output streams of multi-bit noise "words." Likewise, while the invention has been illustrated with reference to digital noise sources, it will be recognized that artisans can modify the detailed embodiments to utilize analog noise sources as well.
Still further, while the invention has been illustrated with reference to mixing the input signal with a pseudo random signal, it will be recognized that other mixer signals, including non-random signals, can be employed instead (with a consequent change in the spectral redistribution of the distortion products).
While the invention has been described with reference to hardware circuit elements, some or all of the devices shown in the Figures can be implemented by corresponding software routines executed on a suitably powered microprocessor.
In view of the wide variety of embodiments to which the principles of my invention can be applied, it should be apparent that the detailed embodiments are illustrative only and should not be taken as limiting the scope of my invention. Rather, I claim as my invention all such modifications as may come within the scope and spirit of the following claims and equivalents thereto.
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Morrisey Hawthorne has a secret that she's never shared, even with her family. Her four year old son Gareth is the product of a brutal gang rape. She's tried to move on with her life and create something nice for herself and her son. One day they have a chance encounter with Charlene Sudsbury who is trying to recover from the suicide of her son JP. Charlene is immediately attracted to Gareth because he looks exactly like her son. Charlene won't be satisfied until she finds out the truth and it eventually comes out that Gareth is her grandson. Morrisey and Charlene then build an unlikely relationship, eventually falling in love. When one of the other rapists turns up he creates an obstacle that may be too big for them to overcome.
Q. Kelly has certainly not written the usual romance. How many women fall in love with the mothers of their rapists? This plot twist just seems beyond strange and is bothersome throughout the book. It would be difficult enough to have a child that looks like the rapist and not let that affect you, but to then have an affair with the woman who raised the criminal is bizarre. However, if the reader can get past that fact, the rest of the story is fairly routine. The two female characters are actually likable and then there is a cute kid. The book itself is well written though there are some mistakes the editor should have caught.
The Odd Couple puts a unique twist in the romance formula. The reader will have to suspend disbelief to get past much of the plot, but then this fiction. If the relationship seems acceptable, then the book is fine for some quick reading.
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Sad, funny, sweet, and harsh all rolled into one book. The characters slowly unravel to reveal secrets that would intertwine them more than expected. A sweet little boy in the middle of it all, connecting two women in ways more than romance and love. Gareth, the young boy, easily tunes into things around him and his unfiltered curiosity forces his mom, Morrisey, to come to terms with her own past, present, and future. What seems, on the surface, to be a normal single mom raising her wonderful son, we soon find to be anything but simple. Her new love, Charlene, finds that her own life is not what she thought it was. A true page-turner, The Odd Couple made me laugh, empathize, shake my head in disgust, and say ¿AWWWWW¿. The plot offers many mysteries, as well as building anticipation during what seem to be unforgiving circumstances. Lots of shocking and ah-ha moments, as well as surprising events divulged. The author presents well-developed characters who are believable, realistic, down-to ¿Earth, and who invoke many emotions. A very well-written and exciting first book for this new author!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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I may be the other side of the world, in Japan, but I still need a fix of Kermodian wit!
Indeed Brendan, what is it with these jingoistic BBC people! If they are worried over bandwidth they could put it on a file sharing nextwork and everybody else would pay for the bandwidth for them! ;)
It could be a rights issue as the clip features clips from Leigh's latest picture.
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I've been a lurker and sometimes poster on this board so thought I might share some of the area I live in.This area was shaped by volcanic activity so the soils are pumice and needs lots of admendments to even get anything to take hold, thankfully my yard has had some type of gardening since the 1930's so I got a boost and didn't have to start from the beginning. Our short growing seasons and high elevations closley relates to yours. So please enjoy a taste of my Oregon. Not often I get good pictures reflecting my side of the state, most reflect the western side which is totally different.
Paulina and East Lakes just north of me. You can see how the volcanic activity shaped the area.
Tumalo Falls just west of Bend, Oregon.
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Alkali Lake near Christmas Valley, Oregon. This is south to southeast of me. Maybe a little over an hour away.
Smith Rock north of Bend, Oregon. Hugely famous rock climbing area. Very craggy and again the picture doesn't give the true story.
Lave Butte - shows the volcanic formations that abound in my area.
Balloon event over Bend, Oregon. This is the largest town near me.
Wild horses on the Alvord Desert east of me. These pictures were taken from a ultra light plane. Almost makes me want to try one out - almost!
Thanks for the pics Echoes, wow what an incredible place! Those cones look like they were volcanoes yesterday. The alkali lake doesn't look like a good place for gardening though ;0)
You know you are always welcome to post here when you get sick of lurking!
I was born and spent my first 13 years on the "western" side of the state..but enjoyed the fall times when my family would go deer hunting in "eastern" Oregon around the Bend area..I remember the lovely fall days and super cold nights while camping..great photos Echos..savona
Such a wonderfully varied landscape, one would never run out of places to explore. Looks like you've seen a fair bit of it!
It's nice to hop on a plane and travel to exotic places but there is so much to see right outside our back door, and most people don't even know it.
Oregon is on our list of places to see (we still have Nunavut & Quebec to get to here), in particular I'd like to get to Roseburg. Apparently it was named after my great-great grandfather.
Thanks for sharing your photos!
Echoes, those are beautiful! Isn't it wonder ful to be able to go a different direction and see somehting different each time!
On Roseburg- I have a friend there. What was really nice was the hour to crater lake while we were waiting for him to get off work one time we went to visit.
I'm sure everyone here agrees that we all want to spend the next 20 years driving around and seeing all the beautiful details of everyone's places! I know I could spend ages just from the pacific to the rockies!
Breathtaking! WOW! Thank you so much for sharing these fantastic pictures. You sure do live in a beautiful area.
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Although results from Tuesday's voting showed Emily McDonald as the winner of the election Tuesday afternoon, the SGA Constitution requires at least a 51 percent or better majority for a winner to be declared in cases of more than just two candidates.
Since candidates Shabir Bhegani and Roy West additionally ran for the office of SGA President, a run-off vote to determine the SGA President for the coming 2014-2015 school year.
McDonald received 37.71 percent of the vote and Kyle Bieze received 34.4 percent of the vote.
According to Article VII, Section 3, subsection A of the current SGA Constitution, "If no candidate receives a majority of the votes on the first ballot, a run-off election will be held between the two candidates receiving the largest plurality. The candidate receiving the most votes shall then be declared elected."
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