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St Paul's "Rendezvous" Health Food Restaurant: God's vegetarian and wholefood restaurant
A very unusual location for a restaurant. In a working church. No, not in a separate building attached to the church, I mean in the church itself!
St Paul's City Centre Church was gutted and restored around around two years ago. The restaurant opened about this time, an imaginative way to keep the church in constant use and raise some money.
The kitchen and half of the tables are actually in the main body of the church, in clear view of the altar. The other half are beneath the tower, with the fluffy 'sally' of the bell rope and some nice stained glass.
The staff were extremely helpful, friendly and attentive, as you would expect, I guess. The most amusing aspect was having my order taken by a little girl who was about 8 years old. Good for the spelling and adding-up practice, no doubt.
The cafe was reasonably busy (mainly the older generation), warm, with fresh daffodils everywhere.
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 4pm. But closes for funerals, weddings etc. of course :-)
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It calls itself a "Vegetarian and Healthfood" restaurant. Ok, vegetarian lasagne and nut cutlets were on the menu (though they had run-out of nut cutlets). But All-day Breakfasts are not known either for sparing farm animals or being good for one's health. And I was even asked if I wanted gravy with my vegetarian lasagne :-) And when it came it was luke warm.
But they also do sandwiches, coffee and cakes. AND hot puddings with custard, yum!
AND the prices were extremely reasonable indeed. 2.50 for an 'all-day' breakfast. 3.50 for the other hot meals.
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New Jersey is unconstitutionally denying federal benefits to gay couples and must allow them to marry, a judge ruled Friday.
Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson sided almost entirely with a group of same-sex couples and gay rights groups who sued the state in July days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down key parts of a law that blocked the federal government from granting benefits to gay couples.
Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican in the midst of a re-election campaign and a possible presidential contender, said through a spokesman Friday he plans to appeal the decision, which he believes should be determined by a popular vote rather than a court.
The judge made the ruling effective Oct. 21, giving Christie time to appeal and likely ask a court to delay implementation of her order.
Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said the governor "has always maintained that he would abide by the will of the voters on the issue of marriage equality and called for it to be on the ballot this Election Day."
"Since the legislature refused to allow the people to decide expeditiously," he said in a statement, "we will let the Supreme Court make this constitutional determination."
Christie refused to take questions about the ruling after attending a college groundbreaking ceremony near Trenton.
New Jersey allows same-sex couples to enter into civil unions that give them some of the same legal protections as married couples, but the judge said the two labels -- marriage for opposite-sex couples and civil unions for same-sex couples -- exclude gay couples "from certain federal benefits that legally married same-sex couples are able to enjoy."
Same-sex couples who include a federal employee, those who want to use the federal Family Medical Leave Act or those who file joint federal tax returns are being hurt by the state's recognition of civil unions but not gay marriage, she wrote.
Lambda Legal lawyer Hayley Gorenberg, who prepared the lawsuit, said the judge "has issued a very thorough and powerful opinion that shows the correctness under the constitution of our claims."
"It shows the deep error the state's been making in refusing to let people marry on an equal basis," Gorenberg said.
One of the plaintiffs, Marcye Nicholson-McFadden, said she and her partner of 24 years, Karen Nicholson-McFadden, were trying to absorb the news.
"I want to shout from the rooftops, but I just have to keep myself in check," said Marcye Nicholson-McFadden, of Aberdeen, as she braced for the expected appeal.
Dozens of gay-marriage supporters, including some of the other plaintiffs, rallied Friday night in Montclair to celebrate the ruling, cheering, hugging and popping Champagne.
But Len Deo, president of the New Jersey Family Policy Council, one of the state's more visible social conservative groups, criticized the ruling.
"For our state, essentially, this is judicial activism again, one judge implementing same-sex marriage on New Jersey," he said.
Thirteen states recognize same-sex marriage, including the entire Northeast except for Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
It's been a major political and legal issue in New Jersey for more than a decade.
The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 2006 that same sex-couples had the right to the same legal protections as married couples, but a 4-3 majority ruled that the state didn't have to go as far as calling those benefits marriage. Lawmakers responded by quickly creating civil unions.
In 2011, six couples and children of several of them asked the courts to find that the civil union law wasn't fulfilling its intention because it created a separate classification for gay couples. The state Supreme Court sent the issue to a lower court.
But the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June on the Defense of Marriage Act changed the argument, and the couples asked anew for speedy relief.
Federal agencies have rolled out a variety of policies on whether they will recognize marriages of any gay couples or only those in states that recognize their vows.
The Christie administration argued that it's the federal government's patchwork of policies that's keeping lesbian and gay couples in New Jersey from having the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.
Even if Friday's summary judgment is ultimately rejected, the broader case would remain, though it likely would take several months before a trial could be held.
The question of gay marriage is also in the Legislature. In 2012, lawmakers passed a law to allow gay marriage, but Christie vetoed it.
On Friday, Democratic lawmakers called on Christie not to appeal the ruling.
"It is also a stark reminder that Governor Christie stands on the wrong side of history," said state Sen. Barbara Buono, who's running for governor and has an openly gay daughter. "At every turn, he has prevented our gay brothers and sisters from enjoying the same rights as other New Jerseyans."
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'Troubling' Surveillance Before Benghazi Attack
Sensitive documents found amid the wreckage of the U.S. consulate shine new light on the Sept. 11 assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
- By Harald DoornbosHarald Doornbos is a reporter based in Pakistan covering the greater Middle East., Jenan MoussaJenan Moussa is the roving reporter of Dubai-based Al Aan TV.
BENGHAZI, Libya — More than six weeks after the shocking assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi — and nearly a month after an FBI team arrived to collect evidence about the attack – the battle-scarred, fire-damaged compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens and another Foreign Service officer lost their lives on Sept. 11 still holds sensitive documents and other relics of that traumatic final day, including drafts of two letters worrying that the compound was under "troubling" surveillance and complaining that the Libyan government failed to fulfill requests for additional security.
When we visited on Oct. 26 to prepare a story for Dubai based Al Aan TV, we found not only Stevens's personal copy of the Aug. 6 New Yorker, lying on remnants of the bed in the safe room where Stevens spent his final hours, but several ash-strewn documents beneath rubble in the looted Tactical Operations Center, one of the four main buildings of the partially destroyed compound. Some of the documents — such as an email from Stevens to his political officer in Benghazi and a flight itinerary sent to Sean Smith, a U.S. diplomat slain in the attack — are clearly marked as State Department correspondence. Others are unsigned printouts of messages to local and national Libyan authorities. The two unsigned draft letters are both dated Sept. 11 and express strong fears about the security situation at the compound on what would turn out to be a tragic day. They also indicate that Stevens and his team had officially requested additional security at the Benghazi compound for his visit — and that they apparently did not feel it was being provided.
One letter, written on Sept. 11 and addressed to Mohamed Obeidi, the head of the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs' office in Benghazi, reads:
"Finally, early this morning at 0643, September 11, 2012, one of our diligent guards made a troubling report. Near our main gate, a member of the police force was seen in the upper level of a building across from our compound. It is reported that this person was photographing the inside of the U.S. special mission and furthermore that this person was part of the police unit sent to protect the mission. The police car stationed where this event occurred was number 322."
The account accords with a message written by Smith, the IT officer who was killed in the assault, on a gaming forum on Sept. 11. "Assuming we don't die tonight. We saw one of our 'police' that guard the compound taking pictures," he wrote hours before the assault.
The State Department declined to comment directly on the documents, citing an ongoing investigation. "An independent board is conducting a thorough review of the assault on our post in Benghazi," deputy spokesman Mark Toner said. "Once we have the board's comprehensive account of what happened, findings and recommendations, we can fully address these matters."
Obeidi, the Libyan official named on one of the printouts, said he had not received any such letter, adding, "I did not even know that the U.S. ambassador was visiting Benghazi." However, a spokesman for the Benghazi police confirmed that the ministry had notified the police of the ambassador's visit. "We did not receive that letter from the U.S. consulate. We received a letter from Ministry of Foreign Affairs Benghazi asking for additional security measures around consulate during visit of the ambassador. And the police provided all extra security which was asked for," the spokesman said.
It is not clear whether the U.S. letters were ever sent, and if so, what action was taken before the assault on the evening of Sept. 11. But they speak to a dangerous and uncertain security environment in Benghazi that clearly had many State Department officials worried for their safety.
Since the fall of Muammar al-Qaddafi's regime, the country's powerful militias have often run roughshod over the police and national army — and often coopted these institutions for their own purposes. U.S. officials were certainly well aware of the sway that various militias held over Benghazi, given that the consulate's external security was supposed to be provided by the Islamist-leaning February 17 brigade.
What exactly happened that night is still a mystery. Libyans have pointed fingers at Ansar al-Sharia, a hard-line Islamist group with al Qaeda sympathies, if not ties. Ansar al-Sharia has denied involvement, but some of its members were spotted at the consulate.
The document also suggests that the U.S. consulate had asked Libyan authorities on Sept. 9 for extra security measures in preparation for Stevens' visit, but that the Libyans had failed to provide promised support.
"On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the U.S. mission requested additional police support at our compound for the duration of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens' visit. We requested daily, twenty-four hour police protection at the front and rear of the U.S. mission as well as a roving patrol. In addition we requested the services of a police explosive detection dog," the letter reads.
"We were given assurances from the highest authorities in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that all due support would be provided for Ambassador Stevens' visit to Benghazi. However, we are saddened to report that we have only received an occasional police presence at our main gate. Many hours pass when we have no police support at all."
The letter concludes with a request to the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to look into the incident of the policeman conducting surveillance, and the absence of requested security measures. "We submit this report to you with the hopes that an official inquiry can be made into this incident and that the U.S. Mission may receive the requested police support," the letter reads.
A number of other documents were found on the floor inside the TOC building. They are partly covered with ash, but legible.
A second letter is addressed to Benghazi's police chief and also concerns the police surveillance of the U.S. consulate on the morning of Sept. 11. The letter also requests an investigation of the incident, and states that the consulate "takes this opportunity to renew to the Benghazi Police the assurances of its highest consideration and hopes for increased cooperation." Benghazi's head of police, Brigadier Hussain Abu Hmeidah, was fired by the government in Tripoli one week after the consulate attack. However, Abu Hmeidah refused to step down and is still serving as the head of police. He is currently on sick leave, according to his office manager, Captain Seraj Eddine al-Sheikhi, and was unavailable for comment.
The man who officially was appointed to succeed Abu Hmeidah as Benghazi's police chief, Salah Doghman, said in a Sept 19 interview with Reuters: "This is a mess …When you go to the police headquarters, you will find there no police. The people in charge are not at their desks. They have refused to let me take up my job."
The concerns about police surveillance exhibited in the letters to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Benghazi police chief cast further doubt on early reports that a spontaneous protest was to blame for the attack on the U.S. consulate — reports that the State Department has disavowed. They also appear to contradict an Oct. 9 State Department briefing on the consulate attack, during which a senior State Department official claimed that there had been no security incidents at the consulate that day. "Everything is calm at 8:30 p.m," the official said. "There's nothing unusual. There has been nothing unusual during the day at all outside."
These letters were found a month and a half after the attack, despite a visit to the compound by FBI investigators. Other documents found at the TOC building include a printout of an unclassified Sept. 9 email between Stevens and David McFarland, the head of the U.S. Embassy's political and economic section, inquiring about meetings for the ambassador's upcoming visit; telephone numbers and names of embassy staff; and a hotel bill from Stevens' 2011 stay at the Tibesti Hotel in Benghazi.
The continued threat to U.S. personnel in Benghazi may be the reason these documents escaped the FBI's attention. With suspected militants still roaming the streets, FBI investigators only had limited time to check the consulate compound. According to a Benghazi resident who resides near the consulate, the FBI team spent only three hours examining the compound.
The FBI declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation.
During their short visit, FBI agents apparently mapped the compound by gluing small pieces of yellow paper with different letters on it next to each room in the TOC building. Next to the room where the letters and most documents were found, a yellow paper marks it room "D." Above the paper, somebody has carved a swastika in the blackened wall.
Villa C, which was used as Stevens' residence during his stay in Benghazi, is located 50 meters from the TOC building. Here, an open window leads to the safe haven — a sealed-off part of Villa C where Stevens and Smith suffocated to death. On the destroyed bed lay the Aug. 6, 2012, copy of the New Yorker. The magazine's cover carries a label with Stevens's name and his diplomatic mailing address.
A few meters to the right is the safe haven's bathroom. Everything here is blackened by smoke. One of the two white toilets is covered with bloodstains. On the mirror in the bathroom, an unknown person has written a macabre text in a thin layer of ash. "I am Chris from the dead," it reads.
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Josh's reporting has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, ABC, NPR, WTOP, and several other outlets. He was a 2008-2009 National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow, 2009 military reporting fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the 2011 recipient of the InterAction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. He hails from Philadelphia and lives in Washington, D.C.| The Cable |
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Kevin Baron is a national security reporter for Foreign Policy, covering defense and military issues in Washington. He is also vice president of the Pentagon Press Association. Baron previously was a national security staff writer for National Journal, covering the "business of war." Prior to that, Baron worked in the resident daily Pentagon press corps as a reporter/photographer for Stars and Stripes. For three years with Stripes, Baron covered the building and traveled overseas extensively with the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, covering official visits to Afghanistan and Iraq, the Middle East and Europe, China, Japan and South Korea, in more than a dozen countries. From 2004 to 2009, Baron was the Boston Globe Washington bureau's investigative projects reporter, covering defense, international affairs, lobbying and other issues. Before that, he muckraked at the Center for Public Integrity. Baron has reported on assignment from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and the South Pacific. He was won two Polk Awards, among other honors. He has a B.A. in international studies from the University of Richmond and M.A. in media and public affairs from George Washington University. Originally from Orlando, Fla., Baron has lived in the Washington area since 1998 and currently resides in Northern Virginia with his wife, three sons, and the family dog, The Edge.| The E-Ring |


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It's a pretty open ended question..
It seems to me that, Sailing is sailing. People like it or they don't. Many who don't seem to take to it view it as " alot of work"
There's certainly enough men who feel the same way, evidenced by the number of powerboats and jet skiers who prefer to simply turn a key and go.
Typically, I think people are introduced to sailing somehow..either by a parent, a friend, school etc. IF that was a good experience, there's a good chance you might continue.
There are two sisters who occasionally sail with me, whose dad owned the same boat as me growing up. One likes the relaxing aspect, one loves helming, trimming and going fast.
I think Wind Magic's point re: the loads on winches etc is valid and something for designers to consider.
They do make electric winches and those power assist drills that I see at boat shows..I expect that I'll need them someday..or I'll make the typical trawler transition when I can't manage the forces.
There's no shortage of women sailors in my marina. There are several women who own their own vessel. There are quite a few couples who appear to share all the work and the women are all very knowlegable, capable and enthusiastic sailors. My slip neighbor's wife made a leap to the dock last summer that I wouldn't attempt. He was getting blown away from the finger pier. She made the jump before I could get there to help.
I've worked with three female sailing instructors. though, there definitely seems to be more men.
As it happens, my marina is family owned and run. 3 brothers and 6 sisters. ( one a competitive sailor) Three of the women are over 6' tall, any one of them could/would kick my @#$ if I suggested that they had limitations because they were female.
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Ustad Aashish Khan, is a third generation stalwart from the lineage of musicians of the Maihar-Seniya gharana. He is the son of Padma Vibhushan-awardee Ali Akbar Khan and the grandson of Padma Vibhushan-awardee Baba Allauddin Khan.
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IN THE OLD DAYS, for better or worse, everybody agreed upon the canon of Texas writing. It was largely a man's world, headed up by Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb. Katherine Anne Porter was worthy of the canon's fame, though sometimes she was overlooked because she didn't live in the state and didn't often write about Texas. Other writers included Andy Adams, George Sessions Perry, Dorothy Scarborough, J. Evetts Haley, the three East Texas Williams—William Goyen, William A. Owens, and William Humphrey—Tom Lea, A.C. Greene, and John Graves , whose Goodbye to a River seemed to sum up the writers' general interest in land, nature, and the past. Among the upstarts back then were Larry McMurtry, whose Horseman, Pass By was an instant classic in 1961, and Billy Lee Brammer, whose The Gay Place, published the same year, also broke new ground. Dobie, incidentally, had reservations about the manners and morals in both books.
Today there is a little agreement, beyond five or six titles, on what is the best contemporary Texas writing. Academics in Texas colleges spent much of the eighties holding conferences on Texas writers, and there was a fair amount of attention paid in the press. Now in the downsized nineties, the funds for such conferences appear to have dried up and the people who worry about such matters sit in solitary cubicles sending e-mail lists to one another. An encouraging development is the designation of March as Texas Writers' Month, placing scribblers right up there with Kindness Week and School Board Recognition Month. In any case, the following list is not mine alone—but it is my compilation of the selections of others who also toil in the parched vineyards of Texas Literature. The twenty books are listed chronologically, not by rank. One restriction was that the books had to deal centrally with Texas, but the author did not have to be a Texan. As it turned out, most were Texans or near Texans anyway.
LARRY L. KING, Of Outlaws, Con Men, Whores, Politicians, and Other Artists, 1980. This collection by one of the state's liveliest essayists contains such well-known pieces as "Playing Cowboy" and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." The author's self-proclaimed redneck shtick has entertained natives and nonnatives for decades, and the essays that have grown out of his personal experience are always laced with humor and insight. Portraits of faded politicians don't have as long a shelf life, and King has known some faded ones.
ELMER KELTON, The Wolf and the Buffalo, 1980. The past fifteen years have been productive for San Angelo novelist Kelton, who began his career in the fifties by writing "powder-burners," or made-to-order paperback westerns. A keen observer of Anglo ranching customs and habits of the mind, Kelton sets this historical novel during the time of the Indian wars in West Texas and creates two minority characters of considerable depth: Gideon Ledbetter, a buffalo soldier (as the Plains Indians termed African Americans), and Gray Horse, a Comanche warrior. The story of the end of a way of life, in which buffalo roamed and the Comanche were lords of the plains, is told in lean, unpretentious prose.
BRYAN WOOLLEY, November 22, 1981. Through a series of chapters narrated by a cross-section of well-drawn characters, the zeitgeist of Dallas becomes the focus of the portrait of a city on the day of the assassination. Woolley's fictional Dallas is less sensational than those of fellow assassination novelists such as Bud Shrake (gonzo sleaze) or Don DeLillo (postmodern paranoia), but the dislike of Kennedy in some quarters—the rich, the right—and the real affection for him in others—the poor, the left—come through in vivid detail.
GARY CARTWRIGHT, Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, Including Various Digressions About Sex, Crime, and Other Hobbies, 1982. For many years one of the top hard-boiled journalists in Texas, Cartwright, who is a senior editor at Texas Monthly, brought together the best of his magazine pieces. These essays about such subjects as Jack Ruby, stripper Candy Barr, and Cartwright's apprenticeship at the old Fort Worth Press, where his co-workers included future novelists Bud Shrake and Dan Jenkins, are still as fresh and as lively as the day they were written.
ROLANDO HINOJOSA, Rites and Witnesses, 1982. Hinojosa, the most prolific Mexican American writer in Texas, has produced a string of novels set in the Valley called Klail City Death Trip. Hinojosa fans disagree about which one is the best. Rites and Witnesses is representative: a novel of voices—those of pragmatic, wry Hispanics living in the Valley and those of paternalistic, racist Anglos living there too. Hinojosa avoids shrill polemics in favor of dialogue, cultural interaction, and irony.
ROBERT CARO, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, 1982. The first volume in Caro's ambitious biography of LBJ exhibits impressive research—seven years of it—related in a readable narrative style but marred by the author's disapproval of his subject. To Caro, LBJ is a backwoods Machiavelli who knew from day one he wanted to be president and whose every decision thereafter was calibrated solely toward that end. An outsider, Caro doesn't understand Johnson's sense of humor, among other things. But chapters like the one called "The Sad Irons," which describes farm wives' misery of washing and ironing before rural electrification, are marvelous. The second volume, Means of Ascent (1990), also contains a lot of good sleuth work but binds Lyndon in the same monomaniacal straitjacket.
DAVID L. LINDSEY, A Cold Mind, 1983. The first of Lindsey's Houston-based Stuart Haydon novels set the mold: educated, introspective, dandyish homicide detective Haydon investigates a series of bloodcurdling murders, in this case beautiful South American call girls who are dying horrible deaths from needle-injected rabies. Sound yummy? It takes a cold mind to detect a cold mind.
PETER LASALLE, Strange Sunlight, 1984. A prescient diagnosis of moral corruption during the boom years of real estate development in Austin, this novel by a Rhode Island native


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Digitized message samples or bytes appearing in time slots of an outgoing PCM frame, temporarily allocated to respective local channels such as telephone lines of limited activity, are written during alternate storage periods of, say, 32 ms (each encompassing 256 PCM frames) in a pair of memories from which they are alternately read out in a different sequence to form special packets of interleaved bytes from respective channel pairs or other channel groupings. A number of such special packets are assembled together with other packets from more active channels into an outgoing TDMA frame which forms part of a superframe equal in length to a storage period; the TDMA frames are modulated at an accelerated bit rate upon an r-f carrier for transmission to a relay station aboard a satellite. Upon redistribution of the packets at the relay station according to their respective destinations, they are beamed back to earth for reception by other ground stations. There the special packets of incoming TDMA frames are alternately written, during like storage periods, in another pair of memories from which they are then read out in respective time slots of consecutive incoming PCM frames before being sent to their destinations. A TDMA frame period of each superframe is used to carry a synchronization code generated in the transmitting section and extracted in the receiving section of a ground station for correlating its operation with a clock aboard the satellite.
1. A method of exchanging digitized message samples between ground stations via a relay station aboard a communication satellite, in a system wherein such samples are entered in active time slots of an outgoing PCM frame temporarily allocated to respective sources and are modulated at an accelerated bit rate, as part of an outgoing TDMA frame, upon a radio-frequency carrier beamed toward the satellite from a transmitting section of a ground station, each TDMA frame having a period encompassing a multiplicity of PCM frames and consisting of a plurality of packets individually switchable by the relay station to another carrier beamed toward a receiving section of another ground station as part of an incoming TDMA frame for demodulation and entry of their samples in active time slots of an incoming PCM frame temporarily allocated to respective destinations thereof, each TDMA frame consisting of p PCM frames of n time slots each,
comprising the steps of:
(a) registering at said transmitting section the message samples of a plurality p.m of consecutive outgoing PCM frames during a predetermined storage period encompassing m TDMA periods with m>1 and p>1;
(b) regrouping the registered message samples, during an immediately following storage period, in a plurality of special packets of identical length equal to a TDMA period, each of said special packets containing all the message samples of a limited number q=n/m of homologous time slots with destinations reachable through a common remote ground station;
(c) successively assembling said special packets together with other packets of like length in respective outgoing TDMA frames with an accelerated bit rate;
(d) modulating each outgoing TDMA frame, as part of a superframe of m TDMA frames with a duration equaling said storage period, upon a carrier beamed toward the satellite;
(e) switching each of said packets at said relay station to a carrier beamed to a receiving section of a ground station serving the destinations of the message samples contained therein;
(f) registering at said receiving section, for the duration of said storage period, special packets of incoming TDMA frames differing from one another in the destinations of their message samples; and
(g) regrouping the message samples of the special packets registered in step (f), during the next-following storage period, in time slots of incoming PCM frames temporarily allocated to their respective destinations.
2. A method as defined in claim 1 wherein message samples from time slots allocated to a plurality of said sources are arrayed in alternating groups in an outgoing special packet.
3. A method as defined in claim 1 wherein a TDMA period in each outgoing superframe is used to carry a synchronization code generated at the transmitting section of a given ground station and is addressed to the same ground station whose receiving section extracts said synchronization code after retransmission by said relay station for correlating the operations of said given ground station with those of said relay station.
4. A method as defined in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said storage period extends over p.m=256 PCM frames and said superframe encompasses m=16 TDMA frames, with n=32.
5. A system for exchanging digitized message samples between ground stations via a relay station aboard a communication satellite, comprising:
first memory means at a first ground station for registering, during a predetermined storage period, message samples present in time slots of a plurality p.m of consecutive outgoing PCM frames of n time slots each with m>1 and p>1, said time slots being temporarily allocated to respective sources linked with said first ground station;
first control means at said first ground station for reading out the message samples registered in said first memory means, during an immediately following storage period, and regrouping the read-out message samples in a plurality of special packets of identical length equal to a predetermined fraction l/m of said storage period, each of said special packets containing all the message samples of a limited number q=n/m of homologous time slots reachable through a common remote ground station;
transmitting means at said first ground station coupled to said first memory means and commanded by said first control means for successively assembling said special packets together with other packets of like length in respective outgoing TDMA frames with an accelerated bit rate modulated, as part of a superframe of m TDMA frames whose duration equals said storage period, upon a radio-frequency carrier beamed toward said satellite;
switching means at said relay station for transferring each of said packets to a carrier beamed to a second ground station linked with the destinations of the message samples thereof;
receiving means at said second ground station;
second memory means at said second ground station coupled to said receiving means for registering special packets of incoming TDMA frames, differing from one another in the destinations of their message samples, for the duration of said storage period; and
second control means at said second ground station for reading out the message samples of the special packets registered in said second memory means, during the next-following storage period, in time slots of incoming PCM frames temporarily allocated to their respective destinations.
6. A system as defined in claim 5 wherein said first and second memory means respectively comprise a first and a second pair of memories alternately written and read during respective storage periods.
7. A system as defined in claim 6, further comprising a first multiplexer, responsive to said first control means and inserted between said first pair of memories and said transmitting means, and a second multiplexer, responsive to said second control means and inserted between said second pair of memories and a terminal giving access to said destinations.
8. A system as defined in claim 5, 6 or 7 wherein said first and second ground stations are substantially identical and are provided with timing means for correlating the operations of said first and second control means with a clock aboard the satellite, said timing means including a signal generator with an input connected to said first control means and with an output connectable to said transmitting means during a certain fractional period of an outgoing superframe unoccupied by said message samples for emitting a synchronization code to said relay station, said timing means further including a signal detector with an input connected to said receiving means and with an output connected to said first and second control means for maintaining same in step with said synchronization code as received back from said relay station.
9. A system as defined in claim 8 wherein said relay station is provided with storage means for registering the addresses of the destinations of special packets contained in TDMA frames of an arriving superframe and counting means controlled by said clock for reading out successive destination addresses from said storage means to said switching means during each superframe.
This is a continuation-in-part of our copending application Ser. No. 326,480 filed Dec. 2, 1981 and now abandoned.
Our present invention relates to a method of and a system for exchanging pulse-code-modulated (PCM) message samples between ground stations, via a satellite-borne switching stage referred to hereinafter as a relay station, by the time-division multiple-access (SS/TDMA) technique; the PCM samples are beamed by (usually phase-modulated) radio-frequency carriers from a transmitting section of one ground station toward the satellite and from the latter toward a receiving section of another ground station.
In such a TDMA system (see, for example, commonly owned U.S. Pat. No. 4,215,348) the messages to be sent out arrive concurrently over local channels at a concentrating terminal associated with the transmitting ground station for sampling, digital coding and arrangement in time slots temporarily allocated to respective channels in a recurrent outgoing PCM frame, normally of 125 μs. Such a frame may have n=32 time slots, two of them (e.g. the 1st and the 17th) being reserved for synchronizing and supervisory signals including address codes identifying the destinations of the messages conveyed in the remaining 30 time slots. The digitized message sample in each active time slot is normally an 8-bit byte, corresponding to a sampling rate of 64 kbit/sec. The overall bit rate of such a PCM frame is 2 Mbit/sec.
The characteristics of TDMA terminals present at the ground stations designed for satellite links are internationally specified by the most important space authorities, such as Intelsat and Eutelsat.
It is well known that at a TDMA ground station a 2 Mbit/sec PCM stream is to undergo various operations before being utilized to modulate the phase of the radio-frequency carrier used for transmission to the satellite. More particularly, sixteen 8-bit samples or bytes of each channel can be grouped together in orderly sequence. Within a given time interval of 2 ms, which may be referred to as a TDMA frame period, the 128 bits of such a of p=16 bytes sequence are converted to a higher speed and combined with the bits of other PCM streams by a multiplexing operation, thus yielding a standard outgoing TDMA frame of the same duration as the initial sequence.
On the other hand, precise specifications relating to SS/TDMA installations have not yet been internationally defined. In particular, the time corresponding to the shortest switching unit or packet aboard the satellite is still to be standardized.
A value corresponding to thirty DSI (Digital Speech Interpolation) channels, namely sixty telephone circuits, is an acceptable digital-sequence length. This value affords a reasonable frame efficiency, given as the ratio between the length of the utilized frame portion to the overall frame length, and is compatible with the aforementioned 2 Mbit/sec PCM transmission systems carrying 32 channels of 64 kbit/sec, i.e. 30 channels for speech, one channel for signaling and one channel for synchronization.
This technique, however, is unsatisfactory in areas of low traffic density where only a few messages at a time are intended for a given remote ground station.
Thus, the general object of our present invention is to provide an improved method of and system for satellite communication facilitating the exchange of messages among ground stations with PCM terminals serving a large number of lines some of which may have a low traffic volume.
A more particular object is to insure proper synchronization of the transmitting and receiving ground stations with each other and with the relay station aboard the satellite.
In accordance with our present invention, the message samples of a plurality p.m of consecutive outgoing PCM frames are registered during a predetermined storage period--e.g. of 32 milliseconds--at a transmitting section of a ground station sending outgoing TDMA frames to a satellite-borne relay station. In an immediately following storage period of the same duration, the messages previously registered are regrouped in a plurality p of special blocks or packets of identical length equal to a TDMA frame period, each packet containing all the samples of a limited number q-n/m of homologous time slots with destinations reachable through a common remote ground station. The special packets so formed, jointly containing the samples of all active time slots of n.p (e.g. 256) consecutive PCM frames, are assembled with byte sequences of like duration from other channel groupings of the same ground station in respective outgoing TDMA frames included in a superframe modulated upon a carrier beamed toward the satellite, with suitable acceleration of the bit rate as noted above. The number of TDMA frames in a superframe equals the maximum number m of such special packets, e.g. sixteen. The packets are switched at the relay station to a carrier beamed to a receiving station of a ground station which serves the destinations of the message samples contained in them, each such packet arriving at that station in an incoming TDMA frame together with other packets intended for subscribers associated with the same station; during a storage period of the predetermined duration referred to above, received special packets differing from one another in the destinations of their message samples are registered for regrouping during the next-following storage period in active time slots of incoming PCM frames temporarily allocated to their respective destinations. Numbers m, n, p and q are all integers.
When each packet so treated contains samples from two or more contributing sources, i.e. with q>1, these samples are preferably arrayed in alternating groups in an outgoing special packet.
The special packets or blocks conforming to our present invention are of the same length as conventional packets incorporating, say, 30 bytes of a PCM frame; thus, our present system is entirely compatible with existing installations which can be adapted to it by the mere addition of some supplemental equipment at the ground and relay stations.
Such supplemental equipment comprises, pursuant to another aspect of our invention, first memory means at a transmitting section of a ground station commanded by first control means for storing the message samples of outgoing PCM frames and enabling their readout, upon regrouping in the aforedescribed blocks or packets, in the next-following storage period; the equipment further comprises second memory means at a receiving section of a ground station commanded by second control means for performing complementary storing and readout operations on incoming blocks relayed by the satellite station. Advantageously, the first and the second memory means each comprise a pair of memories alternately written and read during respective storage periods with the aid of the associated control means. The relay station need only be supplemented with means for controlling its switching matrix to direct the blocks of a superframe from an arriving beam to the proper departing beam or beams.
Advantageously, pursuant to another feature of our invention, a certain fractional period of each outgoing superframe is left free of message samples but contains a synchronization code which is generated at a transmitting section and extracted at a receiving section of the same ground station in order to correlate the operation of a time base at the ground station with a clock aboard the satellite.
The above and other features of our invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram showing parts of two ground stations and of a satellite-borne relay station;
FIG. 2 shows details of a transmitting section and a receiving section of one of the ground stations illustrated in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 shows details of the relay station illustrated in FIG. 1; and
FIG. 4 is a timing diagram showing the regrouping of message samples from a succession of PCM frames in a TDMA superframe.
In FIG. 1 we have shown two ground stations STA and STB communicating with each other via a relay station aboard a satellite SA. Ground station STA comprises a transmitting section TDMAT to which outgoing PCM frames are fed from a concentrating terminal 100 via leads 1, 2 carrying digitized voice samples (referred to hereinafter as bytes) from respective local channels 101-130, 201-230 assumed to be part of a set of highly active telephone circuits. Another set of channels 301-330 from less active sources carry messages whose bytes are delivered, also in the form of PCM frames, via a lead 3 to a regrouping unit DEFT from which they pass in the form of special blocks or packets, each assigned to a pair of such channels, via a lead 4 to transmitting section TDMAT for assembly into an outgoing TDMA frame together with other packets in the form of conventionally organized byte sequences from leads 1, 2 and others not shown. Each TDMA frame, 16 of which constitute a superframe, is phase-modulated at a suitably increased bit rate upon a carrier directed in the form of a beam 9 (referred to in the art as an up-link) toward the satellite SA receiving similar beams 11, 12 from other ground stations.
At the relay station aboard the satellite, the packets carried by the arriving beams 9, 11, 12 pass after demodulation through a switching matrix SW for redistribution, according to the pertinent address information, to departing beams or down-links 10, 13, 14. Beam 10 reaches a receiving section TDMA'R of ground station STB where the demodulated packets of some of the incoming TDMA frames are directly sent to a deconcentrating PCM terminal 100' by way of respective leads 5 and 6 for distribution of their bytes to local channels 101'-130', 201'-230'. Other packets, having the form of special blocks analogous to those produced by regrouping unit DEFT, travel over a lead 7 to a complementary regrouping unit DEF'R which rearranges their bytes in active time slots of an incoming PCM frame respectively allocated to local channels 301'-330'; the resulting bit stream reaches the terminal 100' over a lead 8.
FIG. 1 also shows a satellite-borne unit DCU controlling the operation of switching matrix SW. A receiving section identical with section TDMA'R and a transmitting section identical with section TDMAT are, of course, also provided at stations STA and STB, respectively.
FIG. 2 shows details of two regrouping units DEFT, DEFR respectively associated with a transmitting section TDMAT and a receiving section TDMAR of a carrier terminal TDMA of a ground station such as that shown at STA in FIG. 1. Unit DEFT comprises a pair of memories M1, M2 with writing inputs connected in parallel to lead 3 and with reading outputs connected via respective leads 17 and 18 to inputs of a multiplexer MX1 working into lead 4. A further input of multiplexer MX1 is connected to a lead 19 originating at a sync-code generator GP controlled, via a lead 34, by a logic network LC1 also controlling the alternate reading and writing of memories M1 and M2 by way of respective address multiples 15 and 16. Multiplexer MX1 is switched by an output lead 20 of control logic LC1.
A time base in network LC1 periodically activates the sync-code generator GP and is in turn synchronized by signals arriving over a lead 21 from a sync-code extractor RP in regrouping unit DEFR. An input of extractor RP is connected to lead 7 in parallel with writing inputs of another pair of memories M3 and M4 whose reading outputs are connected via respective leads 22 and 23 to inputs of a multiplexer MX2 working into lead 8. Another logic network LC2, timed by the signal on lead 21, controls the alternate writing and reading of memories M3, M4 via respective address multiples and also switches the multiplexer MX2 via a lead 24.
In operation, memory M1 is loaded with the bytes of 256 consecutive PCM frames over a storage period of 32 ms even as the contents of memory M2, loaded during the preceding storage period, are read out in a manner more fully described hereinafter. Multiplexer MX1 thus connects lead 4 to leads 16 and 18 in alternate storage periods and to lead 19 during a fraction of each such period in which the synchronization code is emitted by generator GP. When that code appears on lead 7 after being retransmitted to the same ground station by the satellite, extractor RP realigns the time bases of both logic networks LC1 and LC2 with the satellite clock for properly timing the reading from memories M1, M2 and the writing in memories M3, M4.
As shown in FIG. 3, control unit DCU of satellite SA comprises an address memory MA, a TDMA-frame counter CT and a superframe counter CST. Memory MA is divided into as many zones (here 16) as there are TDMA frames in each superframe, each zone containing the addresses of bit packets contained in a respective TDMA frame. Counter CT has a stepping input 31, receiving clock pulses from a time base aboard the satellite, and a resetting input 30 energized with a periodic frame-synchronizing signal generated by the same time base. Each resetting of counter CT energizes a stepping input 32 of counter CST which is periodically reset by a likewise locally generated superframe-synchronizing signal on an input 33 thereof. An output multiple 28 of counter CT successively reads the cells of a memory zone identified by signals appearing on an output multiple 29 of counter CST. The addresses thus read out from memory MA are fed via a multiple 27 to switching matrix SW, causing the bit packets demodulated from up-links 9, 11, 12 to be modulated upon the proper down-links 10, 13, 14. These addresses may be loaded through a connection 35 into the memory MA by supplementary information preceding or accompanying the message bits, e.g. with the aid of supermodulation as described in commonly owned U.S. Pat. No. 4,131,761.
Address memory MA may be regarded as divided into a frame-address store controlled by counter CT and a superframe-address store controlled by counter CST. The first store identifies the special packets in any TDMA frame to be switched by unit SW while the second store designates within each superframe the TDMA frames containing such packets. Since, generally, not all TDMA frames of a superframe will contain special packets and since only some of the time positions of any TDMA frame will normally be occupied by packets of this sort, the required capacity of these stores will usually be much less than the theoretical maximum.
We shall now describe, with reference to FIG. 4, the regrouping of the bytes of outgoing PCM frames on lead 3 by unit DEFT and the insertion of the resulting packets into outgoing TDMA frames by transmitting section TDMAT.
As shown in graph (a) of FIG. 4, the bytes of 256 PCM frames are initially grouped in P=16 sequences S1 -S16 with a duration of 2 ms, corresponding to a TDMA frame period, together accounting for a storage period of 32 ms. Individual PCM frames P1 -P16, each lasting for 125 μs, are shown specifically for sequence S4 in graph (b). Graph (c) illustrates the n=32 time slots of such a PCM frame, specifically frame P3, occupied by bytes B0, B1, . . . B31. As noted above, the first byte B0 as well as the 17th byte (omitted in the graph) are not assigned to any speech channel but are reserved for signaling and synchronization. As the PCM frames arriving over lead 3 are assumed to be assigned to telephone lines of low traffic density, only some of the channels represented by the 30 other bytes of a PCM frame will be active at any given time.
In graph (d) the bytes of graph (c) are shown regrouped into 15 special packets PK1 -PK15, each lasting for a TDMA frame period of 2 ms, respectively containing bytes B1 /B2, B3 /B4, B5 /B6 and so forth; the last TDMA period is used for the synchronization code periodically appearing on lead 19 of FIG. 2 as well as other supervisory signals. Each of these packets contains 256 pairs of bytes, provided the two channels represented by these bytes are active, alternating in 16-byte groups respectively indicated at B5 and B6 in graph (e) for the third packet PK3 of graph (d). The same 15-packet series is shown in graph (f) where, by way of example, it has been assumed that only six of these packets contain the bytes of active channels, namely bytes B1 /B2, B3 /B4, B5 /B6, b15 /B16, B18 /B19 and B30 /B31. These active special packets are then compressed into narrower time zones of respective outgoing TDMA frames F1 -F15 of a 32-ms superframe SF, a 16th TDMA frame F16 carrying the synchronizing and other supervisory signals. The parts of frames F1 -F15 not occupied by the compressed packets of graph (f) are utilized for packets of conventional type formed from consecutive bytes of more active PCM channels arriving over leads 1, 2, . . . as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The packets, of course, must also convey the destinations of their respective bytes, e.g. by the aforementioned supermodulation technique.
If a superframe SF were extended to 64 ms so as to contain 32 TDMA frames, each message unit or packet in a regrouped frame according to our invention would contain 256 bytes of a single time slot. With a superframe reduced to m=8, 4 or 2 TDMA frames the packets PK would include the bytes of q=4, 8 and 16 time slots, respectively. This would, of course, require a corresponding lengthening or foreshortening of the storage period of memories M1 -M4 and a modification of their reading or writing patterns.
Whatever the configuration of such a packet, its extraction from an incoming TDMA frame will be followed by a regrouping in unit DEFR to produce in each storage period a series of PCM frames in which the bytes of up to time slots appear in their normal order as parts of the bit stream issuing from multiplexer MX2.
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Sometimes, he says, the sprain is partially the result of a weakness elsewhere in the body, and if that weakness isn't found and corrected, recovery will never be complete. After a thorough examination, Abelson will lay out a plan to get the runner back to trail running form.
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That was the point Ian, but for those that followed the whole thread the OP determined that the salt w and w/o had no impact on grain, however, it was noticed that a stand 1:100+salt yielded (on a scan) an nice looking image.....
However it was also noted (and validated by my own test) that there is uneven development in the stand 1:100+salt technique
So we sit here today, wondering if any of the 'stand' folks can overcome the streaking (or over dev on the right side as noted by - I forget).
This is not a dead thread but a challenge at this point, if someone can overcome the 1:100+salt-streak-paradox we might have the Ming-Rider-Rodinal-semi-stand-salt-technique
That's the deal here.
We have streaking on negs as shown by the OP and me
If someone can solve for that, then we might have an alternative dev tech that someone might add to his/her bag'a tricks
I can't stand that there is a contingent of folks that want this line of thought to fail. I want the OP to succeed (regardless if I am not a stand type of guy)...