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Adelson may give more than $1 million to pro-Romney super PAC - Net Coalition could name new head soon - Campaign cash stolen from Jeff Denham? - Cantor raises $$ at birthday party
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ADELSON TO POTENTIALLY GIVE 'MUCH MORE' THAN $1 MILLION TO PRO-ROMNEY SUPER PAC: Our Ken Vogel reports that casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who with his wife donated more than $20 million to pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future, might give up to $10 million to pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future. Read the scoop here: http://politi.co/NmXYFp
PI SCOOPLET … NET COALITION COULD NAME NEW HEAD SOON: The NetCoalition has been in the hunt for a full-time head for a while, and PI has learned that top House Energy and Commerce Committee staffer Michael Beckerman is the frontrunner for the slot.
The coalition, which represents internet and tech companies like Google, Yahoo, Amazon.com and eBay, played a key role in opposing two controversial Internet bills, SOPA and PIPA, last year. Markham Erickson has been serving as the coalition's executive director and general counsel while also representing clients on Internet regulatory issues and Native American law for Holch & Erickson. Erickson declined to comment on the hire. Beckerman did not respond to request for comment. Before serving as the deputy staff director for E & C under Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Beckerman was legislative director for Rep. Michael Conaway (R-Texas). Stay tuned.
CAMPAIGN CASH STOLEN FROM JEFF DENHAM? Appears so. Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) yesterday told the Federal Election Commission that on Jan. 30 "a fraudulent check was charged against our checking account in the amount of $4,957.19. We notified our bank, which conducted an investigation, and were reimbursed by the bank" on Feb. 16, the Denham campaign wrote to the FEC. It's not immediately clear who is suspected in the theft, and an official at the Denham campaign wasn't immediately available for comment.
CANTOR RAISES $$ AT BDAY PARTY: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was feted Thursday evening at Altria's fourth floor office in 101 Constitution. The birthday party — which raised around $300,000 — drew a few hundred lawmakers, staff and K Streeters. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) toasted the Virginia Republican, pulling out a quote by John Quincy Adams about daring to dream big, according to a PI tipster. Altria government relations head Bruce Gates also spoke, thanking Cantor for everything he had done for the economy. Republican Reps. Kay Granger (Texas), Martha Roby (Ala.) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), were among the more than 20 lawmakers in attendance. K Streeters in the crowd, included former Cantor aides Rob Collins of Purple Strategies and John Murray and Brad Dayspring of Young Guns Action Fund, as well as Blain Rethmeier of U.S. Travel Association, Ron Bonjean of Singer Bonjean Strategies and Brian Walsh of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Mike Thompson with Goldman Sachs, Sean Harrison from Google, Bill Bailey from Disney and Kevin MacMillan with US Bank were also in attendance.
PORTMAN BASH MAY HAVE BROUGHT IN $125K FROM K STREETERS: A PI tipster reports that a fundraiser hosted by Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) for three vulnerable Ohio Republicans last night at the Capitol Hill Club was overflowing with "at least one hundred K Streeters." The event, benefiting Reps. Bob Gibbs, Bill Johnson and Jim Renacci, may have far exceeded their fundraising goal of $125,000 for the night. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) also spoke. Attendees could contribute $6,000 per PAC to Ohio Congressional Victory Fund, the joint fundraising committee for Gibbs, Johnson and Renacci, or $3,000 per individual to the committee.
A fighting Friday to you, PI faithful, as we today mark the 45th anniversary of one of the more bizarre military episodes in modern U.S. history: Israel's attack on the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence ship patrolling in international waters during the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel warships and fighter planes nearly sunk the vessel, saying afterward that it mistook it for an Egyptian ship despite its United States markings. In all, 34 crew members were killed and at least another 170 injured.
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PI'S WEEKLY STORM-THE HILL ADVERTISING INDEX: It's an uncharacteristically tight race this go-around in PI's Storm-the-Hill Advertising Index, in which we track the pitches placed in the print editions of D.C.'s daily political papers — Roll Call, The Hill and POLITICO. But the American Beverage Association popped to the top by virtue of six full-page ads plus a front-page spot in Wednesday's edition of The Hill. Three of these ads asked, "Are soda and sugar-sweetened beverages driving obesity? Not according to the facts." Another three, jointly sponsored with Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Dr. Pepper, Snapple and SunnyD, featured a more general, less Michael Bloomberg-centric message.
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association's six joint ads tied the half-dozen this week from UnitedHealthcare. The United Egg Producers and the Humane Society of the United States, with five full-pagers plus a front-page strip in one edition of The Hill, ranked close behind. The National Cable & Telecommunications Association and SaveMyMilitaryHealthCare.com — sponsored by the TriWest Healthcare Alliance — each placed four ads. And defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman each placed three full-pagers then teamed up on another full-page ad promoting the F-35 Lightning II fighter place.
Last week's leaders: Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, WTOP-FM 103.5, the Transportation Construction Coalition and a coalition of beverage companies that included Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Dr. Pepper, Snapple, SunnyD and the American Beverage Association.
ONE YEAR LATER, STILL BASKING IN INTERCHANGE VICTORY: A year has passed since the Senate rejected the Tester Amendment, which would have undone reforms in Dodd-Frank capping the fees credit card merchants can charge businesses. Opponents of the amendment aren't letting the anniversary go unmarked. The National Restaurant Association, the Merchants Payment Coalition and the Retail Industry Leaders Association are all basking in the glow of their victory over "too big to fail" banks and the reforms, which they say have saved consumers, small businesses and community banks from exorbitant fees. Scott DeFife, EVP of policy and government affairs for the Restaurant Association said that legislation brought "transparency and competition to a broken debit card market." The Payments Coalition touted working reforms that are giving consumers and merchants "relief from Visa and MasterCard's price fixing." And the Retail Industry Leaders Association's Brian Dodge passes on this shot/chaser invalidating comments by Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) circa 2011 warning of the potential harm to community bankers in his state. "Happy Tester Defeat Anniversary," indeed.
NO SHAME IN RE-GIFTING: Michigan congressional candidate Trevor Thomas is offering donors a chance to win Madonna's double platinum award for her 1990 hit "Vogue." The one-of-a kind prize was given by the singer herself to Howie Klein, former president of Reprise Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records. For $10, $25 or $150, supporters win a chance to get their hands on the award for one of Madonna's biggest hit of her career. "Trevor is the example of the inclusive spirit of what 'Vogue' was all about in the 90s and today," Klein said, according to a fundraiser Thomas sent out to supporters on Thursday. "He's trying to change the dynamic of politics."
K STREET CORRIDOR … TWINLOGIC STRATEGIES: Co-founders: Sharon Ringley, former deputy chief of staff for Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), director of federal affairs for Amazon.com and VP of the Bockorny Group. Elizabeth Frazee, former legislative director and counsel for Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), director of government relations for the Walt Disney Company, and VP for America Online and AOL-Time Warner.
Revenue: $1.4 million
Ringley and Frazee may spend so much time together they can finish each other's sentences. "It's really rare in this world where you find someone — we both have twins — but someone who can be your partner, your twin as it were, in the business world," Frazee said from a desk adjacent to her partner's in their North Capitol Street office. Soon, they'll be moving to a bigger office downtown because business in the tech lobbying industry is booming.
This two-woman shop became four in the last year with the addition of Tiffany Moore, formerly of the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and Alyssa Gowens, a former staffer for Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.). Since Frazee and Ringley joined forces to lobby on technology policy in 2010, their firm's revenue has zoomed from $635,000 to $1.4 million. In that time, their client list also jumped from 10 to 15, including Amazon.com, the Consumer Electronics Association, Yahoo, Pandora Media and Chevron.
Both women helped write the rules of the online road during their years on the Hill and their days navigating Washington for some of the first Internet companies. "It's a little bit like groundhog day for us," said Ringley, who worked in-house for Amazon.com from 2001-2004. Frazee was also one of AOL-Time Warner's first representatives in Washington. "We know what it's like to be a new industry. We know what it's like to have members of Congress not know what you do," she added, holding up a postcard emblazoned with Pandora.com's logo.
After last year's debacle over Internet bill SOPA and PIPA, Frazee and Ringley say their phones are ringing off the hook with calls from people on Capitol Hill who want to know how to avoid upsetting the Internet troops. SOPA and PIPA were "transformational" for tech lobbyists who have since learned to aggressively employ social media in their advocacy strategize," Frazee said. Luckily, these two have already mastered one platform: Twitter. "We were one of the first lobbyists on Twitter," Ringley said. "We probably have a better grasp than most — how to read the tea leaves on how the issues are going to evolve."
SENATE CAMPAIGN CITED FOR FAILING TO FILE DISCLOSURE REPORT: The FEC today cited the U.S. Senate committee of Maine Democrat Justin Pollard for failing to file a mandatory pre-primary report disclosing his campaign finances. The report was due May 31. The FEC has not yet fined or otherwise penalized Pollard's campaign but reserves the right to do so in the future.
'SHADOW MONEY' CONFERENCE UPCOMING: The Center for Responsive Politics / OpenSecrets.org opened registration today for a June 20 event at National Press Club entitled "Shadow Money: Stealth, Wealth and Political Nonprofits." Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will serve as keynote speaker, and panelists include Marcus Ownes of Caplin & Drysdale; Heidi Abegg of Webster, Chamberlain & Bean; Frances Hill of the University of Miami Law School; David Keating of the Center for Competitive Politics; Ken Doyle of Bloomberg BNA; Paul Ryan of the Campaign Legal Center; Jason Torchinsky of Holtzman Vogel Josefiak and counsel to the American Future Fund and Holly Schadler of Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold. Registration is limited and closes Thursday. Details here: http://bit.ly/MhX08o
AUDIO … PI ON THE AIRWAVES: Super PACs and presidential fundraising were the topics du jour as Dave appeared Thursday afternoon on To the Point, a show hosted by Warren Olney and co-produced by KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif., and Public Radio International, and this morning on The Takeaway, a show co-produced by WNYC-FM in New York City and Public Radio International and hosted by John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee. Listen here: http://bit.ly/KDyVhC and here: http://bit.ly/L8THlz
DAILY FUNNY: What happens when the Koch brothers meet the soft drink industry. The Hill's Chris Weyant with the visual: http://bit.ly/L4bpZ3
Patriotic American for a More Patriotic and American America of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. — Treasurer: Adam Innes
Energize PAC of Brentwood, Tenn. — Treasurer: Noelle Federico (super PAC)
Progressive PAC of Youngstown, Ohio — Treasurer: Richard Ouzounian (super PAC)
True Leadership for Oklahoma PAC of Broken Arrow, Okla. — Treasurer: James D. Tackett (super PAC)
NEW LOBBYING REGISTRATIONS: (Firm: Client)
Aronnax Public Strategies: Alexander Company
Cauthen Forbes & Williams: Verizon Corporation
Dickstein Shapiro: The Village of Bald Head Island
DLA Piper: EquityLock Solutions
Faegre BD Consulting: Enterprises Swanco
Holland & Knight: Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
Holland & Knight: National Association of EMS Physicians
Holland & Knight: Tele-Acute and Critical Care Coalition
JM Burkman & Associates: Mieka Corporation
JM Burkman & Associates: Western Pozzolan
King & Spalding: Mosaic
King & Spalding: National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys
McDermott Will & Emery: Athenahealth
Park Strategies: Accurate Diagnostic Labs, Inc.
R&R Partners Inc.: Hurt, Norton & Associates, Inc.
Squire Sanders Public Advocacy: Argus Global
Tristate Strategies: Tri County Respite
Ward and Smith, P.A.: Military Support Coalition
CORRECTION: A previous version of this tipsheet misstated who toasted Rep. Eric Cantor at his birthday party. Rep. Kevin McCarthy delivered the toast.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have dinner with (from left) John Loringer and Cathleen Loringer of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Judy Glassman and Mitch Glassman of Cambridge, Mass., on March 8 at the Boundary Road in Washington, D.C. The Loringers and Glassmans were winners of a Democratic-campaign contest to have dinner with the Obamas. This is the third such dinner event.....................................Next will be BOWLING WITH BARACK!
Mitt Romney�s two-day fundraising waltz across Texas begins today in Dallas with a pair of high-dollar events � one for $2,500-givers at the Belo Mansion and for the really big donors � those who cut a check for $50,000 for the GOP or bundle $200,000 from others � dinner with Romney at the Highland Park home of developer Harlan Crow. What better place for Romney to get a Texas- sense of the American spirit than Crow�s spacious estate.
Crow has collected busts and statues of famous dictators of the past, which he displays with a certain elan on the lawn. There's a head of Stalin, a rare statue of Fidel Castro, a towering Lenin and various other bad guys also two original paintings of a European city scene by Adolph Hitler.
What's next Goose-stepping with Mitt?
Hey, the GOP has to do whatever it can when it comes to leveling the playing field of campaign donations. Obama has already gotten big donations from the likes of Bill Maher, George Clooney and Hollywood bigwigs (insert names here). Now that he's 'evolved' on homosexual 'marriage', look for huge donations from Degeneres, Chaz, GLAAD, LGBT and NAMBLA.
And even though the White House is giving the marching orders to the Occupy flea-partiers, look for Wall Street bigwigs (insert names here) to donate BIG BUCKS to his campaign.
Lastly, don't forget labor union. And more 'green' energy companies to donate to his campaign in exchange for some of that 'stimulus' $$$.


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On the Menu: Snook Inn
An 'Island in the Stream' and an episode in paradise
Long long ago, when Marco Island was a young township named Collier City, the Doxee Clam Factory was busy at work harvesting, steaming, and canning clams. As America's culinary interests became hungry for more and more seafood, John Harvey Doxee and the 40 Marco Islanders that worked at the clam factory on the Marco River became ever more productive to satisfy the demands of a nation that was falling in love with seafood.
As the years passed, and as thousands of bushels of clams were harvested, Doxee's clamshells were discarded but soon began to pile up. Slowly but surely, as the little mountains of shells began to rise they were bulldozed steadily to the north and into the Marco River. After a time, new land was formed as the clam shells returned to the water and soon a new and prominent point was a fixture on the Marco waterfront.
Because of the nature of the underwater conditions, or because of the abundance of baitfish, the new land soon became famous for fishing, and the deep water that surged next to the climbing cliffs of clams became known as the "Snook Hole." Every Marco Islander knew that to catch a snook and to have one of the tastiest maritime meals anywhere, all anglers had to do was wet a line at the Snook Hole.
Today a modern Marco tradition stands atop the aquatic shell mounds created by the early Islanders, and is still the place to go to catch not only a tasty maritime meal, but also to capture the atmosphere, nautical nature and the salty seagoing theme that once was the Snook Hole and is now the Snook Inn.
Located at 1215 at the end of Bald Eagle Drive where the Doxee clam shells finally stopped, is an island icon and a visitors favorite for decades. Even with August as hot and steamy as South Florida can serve up in summer, there is always a breeze on the water, a smile on the faces of the Snook Inn staff and patrons, and a charming riverside ambiance that will never fail to beat the heat of the tropics.
After a noontime arrival at the Snook Inn, and a warm welcome from Bette, our party settled in under the shade and sampled the sea breeze at the Snook Inn's famous Chickee Bar. Chickee is the Seminole word for home. The palm-thatched huts the Native American's of Southwest Florida originally constructed as housing now have a rustic appeal that is both cooling and comforting, and are readily considered Florida favorites for waterside entertaining and dining.
As Bette delivered menus and took our drink orders, she smiled as she took in the surroundings and looked out over the water. "I love my job," she said, "And I love this place!" Then she chuckled. "People always ask: how do I get a job behind the bar in paradise, and I always answer: Just keep looking in the obituaries because that's the only way any of us are leaving."
Bette Synder has been behind the bar at the Snook Inn for 33 years and has been with the "new owner" Dennis Passini for 25 years. She loves her work, the island history, her fellow staff members, and all the diverse visitors that frequent the Snook Inn.
As we looked over the menu with Bette's help and suggestions, we chose one of the Snook's most popular appetizers of Buffalo Shrimp. After iced tea and icy beer were in place, I asked, "What's the craziest thing that ever happened here—the funniest thing or the strangest thing?"
Bette smiled again. "There's too many of those stories to tell. Maybe you would like to know about the famous people that have eaten here. I remember when Kate Jackson came in all the time when she dated one of the guys on the sea wall construction. Jimmy Buffet caused quite a stir. Then there was Alan Jackson, Lee Majors, Bob Seger, and Roy Scheider from "Jaws." Everyone likes the Snook and it's easy to see why."
Bette was right, not only about the Snook Inn atmosphere, nautical décor, and Islands in the Stream theme, but the buffalo shrimp were spot-on great; hot and spicy served with zesty lemon and cooling tartar sauce. For 8.99 the Snook Inn Buffalo shrimp are savory starters indeed.
Again, with Bette's advice we chose for lunch a Snook Inn special of the day, which was broiled red snapper for $13.95, served with island-style rice. We also chose one of the Snook Inn's best sellers that is the classic grouper sandwich with fries for $13.99.
After only one bite, the Snook Inn fried grouper sandwich with Bermuda onion and crispy french fries was pronounced to be "outstanding."
The red snapper special was broiled perfectly, finished with paprika, and served with lemon slices and tartar sauce. The island style rice was tasty and delicious. Our compliments to Bette, Dennis, Carmen and all the Snook Inn crew.
The Snook Inn is open seven days with waterside luncheons beginning at 11 a.m. Dinner hour at the Snook begins at 4:30 with the Chickee Bar, Old Bahamas-style dinning room and riverside porch serving dinner until 10 p.m. Live entertainment is an island style way of life at the Snook with weeknight music beginning at 6 and playing until 10 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, entertainment begins at 1 and plays until 5:30 p.m., and again from 6 until 10 p.m. A Web site is available at snookinn.com with a live Web cam looking out over the water.
The Snook Inn is famous for the chilled-plate salad bar with the giant dill pickle barrel, the Snook Inn's classic half-pound isle burger, and breaded pork tenderloin that is "Big as a ship's wheel." Many of the Snook signature selections have been on the menu for almost five decades. The Snook Inn has a kids menu for children 10 and under, a gift shop for souvenirs, indoor dining with air-conditioning in an atmosphere of old wood and varnish that would make Ernest Hemingway proud, and on the cool and enclosed riverside porch, dolphins play in the Marco River.
Early islanders knew that to catch a snook and to have one of the tastiest maritime meals anywhere, all anglers had to do was wet a line at the Olde Marco Snook Hole. Today islanders and visitors alike will not only find one of the tastiest maritime meals around, but also great entertainment and the very special ingredients that make vacation dreams come true at Marco Island's very own Snook Inn.
Special thanks to Craig Woodward for helping with this article.
Tom Williams debut adventure/thriller novel "Lost and Found" has been released by Archebooks and is now available on Amazon. A Web site with reviews and storyline is available at www.lostandfoundadventure.com

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Agents Discover Stash House North of Palmview
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MISSION – Border Patrol agents on Thursday discovered a human smuggling stash house just north of Palmview.
Officials said they found 17 immigrants and possibly two alleged smugglers.
Border Patrol and Homeland Security agents and Edinburg police converged on an apartment complex north of Palmview.
"Our agents … were conducting surveillance on an apartment complex and suspected there were illegal aliens … in one of the units," said Border Patrol Agent Enrique Mendiola. "They conducted their surveillance and subsequently encountered 17 people in multiple apartments."
Mendiola said agents questioned the immigrants and believe the smugglers were part of the group.
He said the immigrants were from various countries.
"This is a mix of males and females from at least three different countries," Mendiola said. "Also … our agents were able to recover a stolen vehicle. It was a pickup stolen out of Edinburg."
Border Patrol officials said they have seen an increase in stash houses this year.
"In this fiscal year we've made approximately 4,000 arrests from well over 125 stash houses that we have encountered," Mendiola said.'
Officials will conduct criminal background checks on the immigrants before they are allowed to return to their countries.
A version of this column originally appeared in www.krgv.com.
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Updated: 02/13/2013 7:10 PM KSTP.com By: Tim Sherno
Warmer temperatures and rainfall last December could have an impact on farms and flooding this spring.
When temperatures dropped and snow fell in December, the water froze creating a layer that could prevent the spring snow thaw and rains from soaking into the soil.
James Fallon is a Hydrologist with the United States Geologic Survey, he says that water had nowhere to go, "A lot of those rain events, if they hit in a field they pretty much stayed in that field."
Fallon says the state needs a slow steady thaw followed by several days of gentle soaking rains.


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A day after Gregg Zaun broke out of his offensive slump, Milwaukee Brewers manager Ken Macha benched him.
It obviously had nothing to do with his catcher collecting four hits and driving in five runs Monday night. It was Zaun's day to sit because backup catcher George Kottaras was scheduled to catch left-hander Randy Wolf on Tuesday night, as well as Thursday starter Doug Davis.
Macha said he didn't pair Kottaras with Wolf and Davis because he has some special knack for catching left-handers. He did it because he thinks it will be easier for Kottaras, not a great defensive backstop, to handle Wolf and Davis' pitches and because those two are veterans who can help Kottaras call the game.
Kottaras has had trouble blocking balls this season and has allowed some pitches to get by him. So instead of matching him with right-hander Yovani Gallaro, who throws a sharp breaking ball that often finds the dirt, he put him with Wolf and Davis and their slow, sweeping curveballs.
"It's not so much him catching the lefties," Macha said. "I feel that with 'Yo,' his breaking ball is so hard and violent and it's in the dirt, Gregg has a little more experience back there and he does a better job of keeping the ball in front of him. That's a work in progress for George.
"Both Doug and 'Wolfy' have a little bit of a slurvy breaking ball. It's slower, a control-bat-speed breaking ball and it's easier to keep the ball in front of him."
Gallardo and left-hander Chris Narveson are young and Macha wants a veteran catcher to help guide their starts.
While Kottaras learns to call games better, Wolf and Davis have enough experience to help Kottaras call pitches and get through games without relying heavily on their catchers.
"Those are veteran guys out there, they really do their homework," Macha said. "They know what they want to do so they can help George along with the game-calling."
Uniformed support
Several Brewers players and Macha were in the interview room during Bob Uecker's news conference to announce his upcoming heart surgery and leave from the broadcast booth.
Uecker acknowledged the support, saying he is part of the team and he wasn't surprised the players attended.
Macha said it's easy to pull for Uecker.
"He has a positive outlook on life that's contagious," Macha said. "I think he hit the nail on the head. You travel around and you're with these guys eight months a year, every day. You develop relationships, and when one of the people in that group is hurting, everybody starts pulling for each other."
Tamping bitterness
Macha was asked about the bad blood that exists between the Pirates and Brewers over the last couple seasons, and he said he'd like to see it go away.
The question was raised because the Pirates started right-hander Jeff Karstens on Tuesday. A year ago to the day, Karstens drilled Ryan Braun in the back at an at-bat after Braun homered off him. Braun expressed his displeasure with Karstens after the game, saying, "It's rare for major-league pitchers to miss by that much with a fastball. . . . Tell Mr. Selig we'll see what happens. It's going to be interesting."
Things continued later in the season when benches cleared after Karstens was hit with a pitch. Insults were exchanged by players through the media. The fire hasn't reached that level this season, but it hasn't been extinguished completely.
"I just try to approach every game professionally," Macha said. "I'd rather play the game without the emotions in it."


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Reviewed By Gene L (Cedar Rapids, IA) Reviewed for a 2007 Chevy Tahoe —5/15/2012 3:08 PM
Got my cargo protector, it is just as described. Seams to work fine. My only issue is that it is a genral size, it dont fit my Tahoe very well, it is too wide, but thats alot better than to narrow !!! But it does cover all the carpet and seat backs, so I am happy overall. Thanks


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August 1, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A grand jury has indicted the suspect in the deadly South By Southwest crash in Austin on capital murder and murder charges.
The Travis County grand jury indicted Rashad Owens on one capital murder count and four of murder on Monday, along with 24 aggravated assault counts. The 21-year-old Killeen man remains in Travis County Jail with bonds totaling $5.5 million. A court hearing is scheduled for June 3.
Authorities have said Owens accelerated through the crowd March 13, killing two people and leaving more than 20 injured. Two others later died of their injuries. Police say Owens was fleeing a patrolman and driving down a closed street when the crash happened.
Online jail records list no attorney for Owens.
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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2013 Army Staff Sgt. Alisa Ballard will spend her very first Mother's Day this weekend deployed thousands of miles away from her 11-month-old son, Christopher.
Ballard is among thousands of military moms deployed around the world who will observe a subdued Mother's Day on May 12, relying on technology, care packages and family photos to help bridge the miles between them and their children.
Ballard, an information systems analyst from Fort Hood, Texas, plans to Skype from NATO Camp Kaia in Kabul, Afghanistan, to her parents' home in Woodbridge, Va. As she fusses over her own mother, for whom she has ordered both fresh flowers and a fruit arrangement, Ballard will dote over Christopher, who is living with his grandparents while both his parents serve in Afghanistan.
Ballard quickly established the ritual of regular Skype sessions and telephone calls to maintain a presence in her son's life after she arrived in Afghanistan two weeks ago.
"He jumps and laughs and tries to grab the phone or computer," she said, a low chuckle in her voice.
But Ballard is quick to admit that leaving her son behind for a year-long deployment, just as he is standing on his own and preparing to take his first steps, has been no laughing matter.
Ballard said she felt tremendous guilt for months before leaving -- not only toward Christopher, but also because she "felt like I was impeding" on her parents' lives.
"There's nothing I could ever do to repay them," she said. "But as this has shown me, family is always there for you."
Rather than letting herself think too much about spending her first Mother's Day in a combat zone, Ballard said she'll focus on her own mother and how grateful she is for that sense of family.
So when Ballard rises on Sunday, she'll put in a typical workday, hit the gym once or twice and possibly do some online college work.
"In order for me to cope, it has to be just another day," Ballard said. "I'm not there and he's not here, so I have to put myself in a different frame of mind and treat it as any other day."
Ballard's stoicism is common among deployed mothers who are steeling themselves for what they acknowledge could be a tough day -- whether it's their first Mother's Day away from their children or another in a long line of missed birthdays, anniversaries and holidays.
Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sonja Parks, a medic assigned to the NATO Multinational Role 1 Satellite Clinic at Forward Operating Base Oqab in Afghanistan, said she's planning to retreat to the dormitory room she shares with an Army captain at Kabul International Airport for a private family celebration via Facetime.
Parks will open the special package that's still en route to Afghanistan while 9-year-old Sarah, 2-year-old Rachel and her husband, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Michael Parks, watch from afar near Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
"My 2-year-old loves to see me open the boxes she sends me, and she's so proud of herself about her colorings or any other things she has put in there," Parks said. "I put them up on the wall or around the room. It's a piece of them, with me all the time."
The celebration will be far different from Mother's Days at home, which for the Parks family typically begins with morning church services followed by a picnic at a nearby park.
"It's always a very special day," Parks said. "My husband cleans the whole house and the girls spoil me all day."
Parks and thousands of other deployed mothers will have to break from family traditions this year. Several told American Forces Press Service they're preparing themselves from what could be a tough day.
"It's hard being away," Parks said, pausing to control her emotions as her voice cracked over the phone. "You realize that you are not experiencing those things, and that you will never get that time -- those holidays or those days -- back."
Parks said days like Mother's Day remind her of all the sacrifices her children make for her military career.
But, like Ballard, Parks said she also knows that dwelling on what she and her family are missing only makes the separation more difficult.
"If you think like that, it makes the deployment even harder," she said. "So you have to keep positive, focus on the mission here and remember that you will be home soon."
Parks said she's hopeful that the drawdown in Afghanistan will mean fewer and shorter deployments in the future. But because medics are in high demand for all kinds of missions around the world, she recognizes that the end of combat operations in Afghanistan doesn't mean family separations will be over.
"'Normal,' for my family, is that either I or my husband is gone, and I don't think that will change until were retire from the military," she said.
Army Maj. Yolanda Poullard, deployed to Kabul as a member of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands program, also is preparing herself for her first Mother's Day away from her 5-year-old daughter, Alahna.
Since arriving in Afghanistan in December, she's already had a taste of what to expect. She spent an admittedly miserable Christmas holiday, still in transition and without the benefit of a permanent Afghanistan address so she could receive a holiday boost by mail. Less than a month later, Poullard missed out on Alahna's fifth birthday.
"Being away is really, really rough," Poullard said. So for Mother's Day, she plans to keep herself busy, going to both morning and evening church services. A highlight, she said, will be Skyping or calling her mother, husband and daughter, all in central Louisiana.
She'll also open the two cards that arrived from home, which she set aside to open on Mother's Day. Not able to buy a card in Afghanistan, Pollard made her own to send to her mother, along with an Afghan scarf.
On special days -- or especially hard days -- in Afghanistan, Poullard said deployed troops rely on each other's support. Being able to offer positive words of encourage to those who need it goes a long way to "let them know that you are in that same situation, and they are not alone," she said.
But the best way to cope, she said, is to focus on what they are accomplishing in Afghanistan. Poullard said she gets a lot of personal gratification from her work with the reintegration program and supporting initiatives for Afghan women and children.
"The bottom line is that we have a job and a mission to do: to help provide peace for Afghanistan," she said. "It's a sacrifice we all volunteered to make, and in the end, we are helping to make this a better place."
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recognized deployed mothers -- and all other mothers and grandmothers in the military family -- in a Mother's Day message posted on the Defense Department's website.
"To all the mothers of our men and women who selflessly serve our country, happy Mother's Day," Hagel said in his message. "To the many mothers serving in uniform around the world, we thank you for the sacrifices you make every day to keep all of our family safe back home. Your hard work and dedication to raising children while defending our nation is an inspiration to all of us."
Hagel also recognized mothers with a spouse or child serving in uniform. Many of these mothers, he noted, juggle fulltime jobs while raising children and volunteering in their communities.
"These mothers perform heroically every day," he said. "We are truly indebted to them for their service."
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Electrocuted SeaWorld worker Ricardo Corpus honored by family
Family: Corpus 'loved life,'
SAN ANTONIO - The family of 49-year-old Ricardo Corpus could hardly speak Sunday a day after Corpus was electrocuted while working at SeaWorld.
The words of Sonia Vargas, MaryLu Riojas, Teresa Corpus and Felicia Teran were heavy with grief, but also of love and praise for a man they say would do anything for them.
Daughters Sonia and Felicia are trying to find a way to move on. Understandably, it's unimaginable.
"Having this tragedy happen just hurts so much," Teran said. "He's what held us together. We could call him for anything and he'd be there in a heartbeat."
It was around noon Saturday when police say Corpus was on top of an employee cafe at the park. He was testing amperage on an HVAC unit when another employee on the roof heard a noise and saw a puff of smoke.
The report says the employee ran to Corpus' side and found him unconscious. When help arrived, crews lowered him to the ground level. He was pronounced dead.
"He was a good man," said Vargas. "He took care of us like no other. He gave up everything to take care of me and my sisters and my mom."
Vargas' two young sons, her father's grandchildren, don't quite understand what's going on, but Vargas said they know their grandfather will not be coming back.
"I had to tell them what happened, and had to tell them that he wasn't coming home," she said.
Corpus and his wife, Teresa, met at Fox Tech high school. They were high school sweethearts, she said. There wasn't much they talked about the night before his death. She said they had familiar conversations. He left for work at 6 a.m. Saturday.
"He loved life," said Teresa. "He loved me, I know that for sure. I enjoyed every, every, every moment with him."
His sister-in-law, MaryLu Riojas, says the only comfort for now is this: "I guess the only satisfaction that we have is knowing that whatever happened, happened with what he loved doing."
The family says Corpus was a veteran HVAC technician with decades worth of experience. They say they don't blame SeaWorld and know the incident was accidental. He was with SeaWorld for 17 years.
The family says they are grateful to the worker or workers who rushed to Corpus' side after the accident and want to thank them for their efforts in trying to save their loved one.
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In a speech on the day of the Rainbow Warrior's visit in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said: "I want to guarantee my grandchildren a clean and peaceful environment in the future."
This is the vision we have as Greenpeace—and it is a vision we share with you who have joined us, and continue to support us, on this journey. This vision is also reflected in the work we accomplished in 2013—a year where we marked significant milestones both in our campaigns, and for our organization as a whole.
2012 was the year in which the reality of dangers to our environment - and the imperative to take immediate action to protect it - became more obvious than ever before.
We saw massive climate-related disasters around the world, from Typhoon Pablo in the Philippines to Super Storm Sandy in the United States.
The long term effects of incidents such as Fukushima and the Gulf oil spill continued to play out in 2012, as it became apparent that it is not possible to simply "mop-up" these kinds of disasters. The effects on human health, food stocks, soil and water will be felt for decades to come.
Southeast Asia was not exempt, with massive flooding in Manila and Jakarta an acting as an omen of the future urban climate risks faced by our region's mega-cities: risks for which the urban poor and vulnerable disproportionately bear the brunt.
Our oceans – which provide food and livelihoods for so many of our people--faced the continued onslaught of pollution, global warming and destructive fishing practices.
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2011 marked the beginning of the next decade of environmental work in our region. Southeast Asia is changing—and we, its citizens, are at the cusp of this change. We are seeing a region now even more determined to strengthen political, economic and social ties; a region determined to carve its distinct identity in the international theater; a region now more conscious of its growing global importance. And amid all this, we, the citizens of Southeast Asia—a region which was in the past considered so fragmented in its diversity—are now being steadily pulled together by the inescapable threads of social media. And in the process, we are creating a real Southeast Asian community of people that is more powerful than the political and economic ties between nations within the ASEAN.
In 2010, we marked ten years of working with you to protect Southeast Asia -- and indeed, with your support we have achieved many milestones and victories along the way.
2009 was a landmark year in the history of Greenpeace Southeast Asia in terms of the growth of supporters and environmental dynamism in the region. This was the result of a great collective effort by all staff in our three national offices: Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia. In the global context, Greenpeace SE Asia has demonstrated the "One Greenpeace" identity, by bringing the local and regional environmental issues into the global landscape.


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An image projection system for producing a projected image in response to electrical signals which represent the image to be projected. The projection system includes input capability to produce electrical signals in response to an image to be projected. These electrical signals are then transmitted to a light modulator which receives light from an external source. The light modulator consists of arrays of deformable mirrors which selectively deflect the light from the external source in response to the electrical signals received from the input capability. The deflected light is absorbed by opaque stops. The undeflected light travels through optics which form the projected image. A printer using this image projection system is also disclosed. The printer further includes the ability to develop the projected image in such a manner that the image is transferrable to a paper surface in a printer in such a manner that the image is reproduced upon the surface in a printer form.
1. An image projection system comprising:
input means to produce electrical signals in response to an image to be projected;
serial-to-parallel shift register to receive the electrical signal from said input means;
decoder means connected to said input means to receive electrical signals;
a plurality of light modulator means arranged in an array of columns and rows, said columns connected to said serial-to-parallel shift register and said rows connected to said decoder, said modulator means selectively deflecting external light in response to signals from said shift register and said decoder; and
optical means to project an image from said selectively deflected light.
2. An image projection system according to claim 1, wherein said serial-to-parallel shift register, said decoder, and said light modulator means are monolithically integrated on a single semiconductor substrate.
3. An image projection system according to claim 1, wherein said input means further includes means to receive data from an image projection system operator than defines the image to be projected.
4. An image projection system according to claim 1, wherein said optical means includes surface to receive the image to be projected.
5. An image projection system according to claim 1, wherein said light modulator means includes a plurality of deformable mirror devices that individually form a curved surface in response to signals from said shift register and said decoder.
6. An image projection system according to claim 5, wherein said deformable mirror devices include light stops to absorb the deflected light.
7. A printer system comprising:
input means to produce electrical signals in response to an image to be printed;
a serial-to-parallel register to receive said electrical signals;
a plurality of light modulator means connected in parallel to said serial-to-parallel register, said modulator means to selectively deflect external light in response to data from said serial-to-parallel shift register;
optical means to produce a projected image from said selected light; and
printing means to print said projected image upon a surface.
8. A printer system according to claim 1, wherein said serial-to-parallel shift register and said light modulator means are monolithically integrated on a single semiconductor substrate.
9. A printer system according to claim 7, wherein said input means further includes means to receive data from a printer system operator that defines the image to be printed.
10. A printer system according to claim 7, wherein said light modulator means includes a plurality of deformable mirror devices that individually form a curved surface in response to signals from said shift register.
11. A printer system according to claim 10, wherein said deformable mirror devices include light stops to absorb the deflected light.
12. A printer system according to claim 10, wherein said shift register provides a voltage gain to said deformable mirror devices.
13. A printer system according to claim 12, wherein said shift registers contain a greater capacitance than said deformable mirror devices.
14. A printer system according to claim 10, wherein said light modulator means includes a first set of deformable mirror devices and a second set of deformable mirror devices, the first set of mirror devices being vertically offset and laterally interspaced in relation to the second set of mirror devices.
This application is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 317,717, filed Nov. 3, 1981.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to printing and more specifically to electrophotographic printing.
2. Description of Prior Art
Line printing can be divided into two areas; impact and non-impact printing. Impact printing relates to a device that has one or more character elements, a ribbon or other inking device, a paper transport and some capability of impacting the desired character elements on the paper transferring the physical image of the character element through the ribbon leaving an ink impression of the character element on the paper. Non-impact printing relates to devices that use other than mechanical means to transfer images onto paper. The area of non-impact printing includes direct electrostatic, magnetic, ink jet and electrophotographic printing. An example of direct electrostatic printing is contained in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 267,225, filed May 26, 1981, now abandoned. The electrostatic printer uses a dielectric drum which is selectively charged at certain pixel sites and then exposed to a toner with charger toner particles that are attracted to the charged pixel sites. The drum with charged toner then contacts paper in such a manner that the toner is transferred to the paper leaving a clean drum. Magnetic printing is similiar, except the drum contains magnetized pixel sites and the toner contains magnetic toner particles. An example of a magnetic printer is the 3M Magnastylus. Ink jet printing involves the production of a stream of ink directed at the paper. The stream is controlled by electrostatic acceleration and deflection of the ink particles to form characters on paper. The last non-impact printing area is electrophotographic printing. Electrophotographic printing is a xerographic process using light and a photoreceptor drum and toner to transfer characters to paper. The electrophotographic printers include a light source that is modulated to selectively project light upon a photoreceptor drum made of a photosensitive dielectric that has been electrically charged. Areas of the drum where light is projected become electrically neutral so that the drum then becomes selectively charged. The drum passes through a toner station where charged toner particles come into contact with the drum. The toner particles adhere to the drum at the charged areas and do not adhere to the uncharged areas. The drum then comes is contact with paper which is also charged. The drum then transfers the toner particles to the charged paper, reproducing the image to be printed on the paper. The toner is then fused to permanently adhere the toner particles to the paper.
Electrophotographic printing can also be divided into several areas including laser printing, liquid crystal display (LCD) printing, visible light emitting diodes (VLED) printing and printing using a cathode ray tube. Laser printers include solid state lasers and gas lasers. Solid state laser printers control the laser light by using either polygomirrors, acoustooptic scanners or a diffraction grating. Gas laser printers control the laser light by using acoustiooptic deflectors or rotating polygon mirrors. Manufacturers of polygon mirror laser printers include Cannon, Xerox and IBM. LCD printers are of two types: transmissive and reflective. The transmissive type controls the light from a separate light source which passes through the LCD device onto the photoreceptor drum. The reflective type is similar except light is reflected by the LCD device. LCD printers have been the subject of many papers such as "A New Electrical to Optical Image Converter--The CCD Liquid Crystal Light Value" by P. O. Braatz, et al, published in the 1980 Biennial Display Research Conference Proceedings, "A Fast Silicon Photoconductor--Based Liquid Crystal Light Value" by P. O. Braatz et al, published in the 1979 IEDM Proceedings and "A Facsimile Printer Utilizing an Array of Liquid Crystal Cells" by Juri Tults published in the Proceedings of SID Vol. 1214 Fourth Quarter 1971. One manufacturer of LCD printers is Static Systems Corporation. VLED printers include the fixed linear array type which project light through a line of VLED dots onto a rotating photoreceptor drum and the scanning type which further include scanning a limited aray by a raster motion. Printers using cathode ray tubes (CRT) include projection CRT's using self-focusing lenses and fiber optic CRT's. Manufacturers of CRT printers include Wang and Konishiroku.
An additional type of electrophotographic printer uses a deformable mirror display (DMD) projection system and is the subject of the present application.
A form of the deformable mirror display is discussed in a paper entitled, "A Membrane Page Composer" by L. S. Cosentino and W. C. Stewart, published in the RCA Review, Vol. 34, p. 45, March 1973. Another paper that discusses deformable mirrors is titled, "The Membrane Light Modulator and its Application in Optical Computers" by Kendall Preston, published in the OPTICA ACTA, Vol. 16, No. 5, pages 579-585, 1969. A form of the DMD is described in detail in U.S. patent application, Ser. No. 183,595. The object of the DMD projection printer is to provide at a moderate cost a printer that can print at the rate of 10 to 40 pages per minute on most plain paper with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch vertically and horizontally.
In accordance with the present invention, a light modulator projection system is disclosed which includes elements that deflect light according to input data. Also disclosed is a printer device that uses this projection light modulator to project light upon a photosensitive surface in order to print data determined by the input.
In one embodiment of this invention, a projection system is disclosed that uses an area array of deformable mirror elements that deflect light according to inputs received. The deformable mirror device itself receives serial input and transforms this data into parallel inputs to be used to charge the deformable mirror elements to deflect light, if required. This light is then transferred through optics onto a surface. Light for the deformable mirror device is provided by an external source.
In another embodiment of this invention, a printer system is provided using a light bar to provide lighted pixel points on a single line across a photosensitive area. The light bar consists of a single line of deflectable mirror elements that receive commands to deflect or not to deflect light according to data input.
FIG. 1 is a cross section side view of two elements of the deformable mirror device.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a single element of the deformable mirror device.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the deformable mirror device used as a light modulator for an image projection system.
FIG. 4 is an illustration of the invention used as an image projection system.
FIG. 5, is an illustration of an optical system with combined input aperture/complimentary output stop element for the deformable mirror device.
FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the light bar.
FIG. 7a is a side view of a totally modularized or self stopped light bar that is used in the printer application.
FIG. 7b is a top view of light bar illustrated in FIG. 7a.
FIG. 8 is an illustration of this invention as applied to a printer application.
FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a technique to align interlaced deformable mirror devices for the printer application.
This discussion will include the embodiment of this invention in two separate applications. The first application is a projected system to produce an image from input data. The second is a xerographic or electrophotographic type line printer.
FIG. 1 illustrates a cross section of the line addressable light modulator containing a deformable mirror device. It should be noted that the light modulator array itself is illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 4,441,791 which is herein incorporated by reference. Referring to FIG. 1, incident light illuminates the mirrored surface represented as a membrane metallization 28 underneath a membrane substrate 27. The membrane metallization 28 rests on a mirror contact 29 which in turn rests on an SiO2 layer 44 overlying a polysilicon gate 30. A gate oxide 24 isolates the polysilicon gate 30 from the underlying p-type substrate. The N+ drain 22 is charged to a predetermined voltage by the address circuitry (not shown). Gate 30 which surrounds air gap 26 is then pulsed to a positive voltage, thus turning on the transistor formed at the intersection of drain 22 and gate 30. The floating N+ diffusion 23 is then charged to the voltage level of drain 22. Gate 30 is then pulsed negative or to substrate potential to turn off the transistor, thus isolating the floating diffusion 23. The voltage on the floating diffusion 23 remains at a fixed level subject only to a decay caused by photo-generated or dark leakage currents.
The membrane metallization is spaced apart from a floating field plate 25 by a distance 26 typically 0.6 microns. The floating field plate 25 serves to block any residual light which is not absorbed or reflected by the membrane metallization 28. The membrane metallization 28 and the field plate 25 form the respective plates of an air gap capacitor. The membrane is attracted to the field plate by a distance proportional to the voltage drop across the air gap. The voltage drop is the difference between the fixed DC bias maintained on the membrane metallization and the voltage set on the floating diffusion by the address transistor. The deformed mirror results in light deflection proportional to the address voltage on the drain 22. The mirrors are addressed periodically at some fixed frame rate.
Channel stop 21 prevents interaction between the address transistors. The N+ implant 22 and 23 are placed upon p-type silicon. The mirror element pitch 20 is approximately 50 microns.
FIG. 2 illustrates schematically the transistor and the deformable mirror air gap capacitor formed at the intersection of gate Gm and drain Dn.
An x-y array of deformable mirrors and the associated address circuitry is illustrated schematically in FIG. 3. The lines 121 are the transistor drains. The lines 120 are the transistor gates. The intersections of lines 120 and lines 121 represent the deformable mirror elements. Serial data is fed into inputs 80 and 81 (even bits into input 80, odd bits into input 81). Block 83 is the same for both the even bit data inputs and the odd bit data inputs. The serial data is converted to parallel data by the charge coupled shift register or converter 84. When one line has been inputted into the delay line, the parallel transfer gate 85 is activated to produce a parallel dump of data bits in the form of charge packets onto the floating diffusions 86. When this parallel dump has been completed, gate 85 is turned off and the next line of data is fed into shift register 84. As the next line is inputted, line driver amplifiers 90 respond to the change in voltage on the floating diffusions and charge the transistor drain lines 121 to voltages proportional to the inputted data. A binary word inputted into the decoder 91 together with an enable pulse causes one of the gate lines 120 to be selected and turned on. All of the floating diffusions of the individual mirror elements in that particular gate line are thus charged to the voltages of their respective drains.
Having inputted the data to the mirror elements of that particular line, the gate is turned off. The inputted data is now stored on that line and the elements on that line respond accordingly. The voltages of the floating diffusions 86 are now reset to an initial value to prepare for the parallel dump of data charge from the next line. The reset gate 92 drains the signal charge to a reset drain 122. The cycle begins again and is repeated one line at a time in a sequential or random sequence.
Referring to FIG. 4, the projection system application is illustrated. The deformable mirror device 4 receives light 3 from an external source 12 via beam splitter 10. The light from the external source 12 is concentrated in the active area 5 on the deformable mirror device 4 by illuminating lense 9. The area 5 contains an x-y array of addressable mirror elements which can be electrically controlled to deflect light or to not deflect light according to inputs from line 2 originating from an input device 1. Light that is undeflected is illustrated by line 7. This light travels through lens 8 into an opaque light stop 11. The sole purpose of the opaque light stop 11 is to absorb the undeflected light from the surface 5 emanating from the undeflected mirror elements and the surrounding support structure. The deflected light 6 travels through lens 8 and passes as shown by lines 6 onto a surface 13 which may be a photoreceptor drum to illuminate a general area 14. Area 14 will appear to a viewer to be consisting of an x-y array of lighted or unlighted pixel elements representing a magnified image of the area 5. These pixel elements that are lighted represent the deflected light and the dark pixel elements represent the undeflected light. Therefore, the user of this invention can project an image onto a surface 13 by providing an input into device 1. Input device 1 can be an operator interface (such as a keyboard) to allow an operator to specify the image to be projected. This image data may be transformed into serial data which is then transmitted to a serial-to-parallel converter to provide appropriate signals to the floating diffusions underlying the deformable mirror elements.
FIG. 4 may also be viewed as a conventional Schlieren optics system. Collimated light is produced at the active device 5 via the illuminating lens 9 and reflected off of the beam splitter 10. Light from the source 12 is admitted to the system through an aperture in order to achieve collimation at the device 5. Lenses 8 and 9 act in combination to image the input aperture onto the Schlieren stop 11 when the mirrored surface at 5 is flat and undeflected. This stops the unwanted component of light from the support structure surrounding the mirror elements. The undeflected component is shown by lines 7. When a mirror element is deflected, the input aperture for that element is no longer imaged on the stop 11. The light from the deflected element passes by the stop shown by lines 6 and is re-imaged via the combination of lenses 8 and 9 onto a new location at screen 13 with a magnification determined by lenses 8 and 9 in combination.
FIG. 5 illustrates an alternate embodiment of a relatively compact optics system that projects light upon the deformable mirror elements and takes the deflected light to produce a spot on a surface. Light is input through a pin hole 120 through lens 121 which collimates the light which travels to lens 122. Lens 121 and 122 are some distance apart shown by line 123. Lens 121 may be moved toward or away from the pin hole 120 in order to properly gather light from the pin hole 120. Lens 122 may be moved so that the light from lens 122 is focused upon a transparent substrate 124 which contains a small electrical mirror element 125. Lens pair 121 and 122 are provided to remove any chromatic light aberations and to focus the light from pin hole 120 onto mirror 125. The light from the mirror element 125 is then reflected into lens 127 as shown by lines 134. This light is again collimated by lens 127 and transmitted to lens 128. Lenses 127 and 128 have a focal length which lie at the location of the mirror element 125 on the glass plate 124 and on the deformable mirror elements 130 and 129. Therefore light from lens 128 is transmitted to the deformable mirror elements 129 and 130. Element 129 illustrates a non-deformed mirror which produces undeflected light represented by lines 132. This undeflected light is transmitted from mirror element 129 through lenses 128 and 127 to the mirror element 125 on glass plate 124. Therefore, mirror element 125 acts as a stop to light traveling from the undeformed mirror elements. In effect, it performs the dual function of appearing to be an input aperture as well as performing as a complementary output stop. If the mirror element is deformed, such as mirror element 130, the light is deflected and shown by lines 133. This light is transmitted through lenses 127 and 128 but is not focused into the mirror element 125, but rather passes through the transmission glass plate 124 onto a projection lens 126 which focuses this light 133 onto a surface 131 which may be representing a photoreceptor drum with an appropriate lateral magnification. Therefore, the deflected light from the deformed mirror element 130 produces a lighted dot on surface 131 and correspondingly, a white (untoned) dot on the printed page.
The printer application of this invention requires only a linear array of deformable mirror elements to modulate the light that is projected onto a rotating photosensitive drum using previously described optical systems. FIG. 6 represents a block diagram of a linear array of deformable mirror elements 62 or light bar driven by a CCD shift register 60. The deformable mirror elements 62 differ from those described for the area array device (FIG. 3) in that elements 62 are addressed directly by charge packets propogated by a CCD shift register 60. Therefore, the drains 22 (FIG. 1) are not required in order to input charge to the floating diffusions of the mirror elements. The line driver amplifiers 90 (FIG. 3) are not required because the capacitance which must be driven in the linear array is much smaller than for the area array.
Serial data is fed into input 65 and is converted to parallel data by a charge coupled shift register 60. When one line of data has been inputted into the shift register 60, the parallel transfer gate 61, previously turned off, is turned on. The elements of the shift register 60 which are turned on and thus storing the data charge, are now turned off. The charge packets are thus transferred from the shift register directly to the floating diffusions underlying the air gaps of the deformable mirror elements 62. Gate 61 is now turned off. The mirror elements are deformed by an amount proportional to the inputted charge.
While the mirror elements are exposing one line, the next line is inputted into the shift register. Just prior to the dump of data from the shift register 60 to elements 62, the clear gate 66 is turned on and the potential of the floating diffusions of elements 62 are reset to a reference voltage level determined by drain 64.
By increasing the area of the elements of shift register 60, a greater amount of charge can be transferred to the floating diffusion under minor element 62. In particular, the inputted charge is proportional to W×L where W is the channel width 67 and L is the channel length 68. The voltage change at the floating diffusions of deformable mirror elements 62 is approximately linearly proportional to the charge dumped onto the diffusion. Therefore, the voltage change produced at elements 62, for a given input voltage at 65, is approximately proportional to W×L. For example the voltage change at elements 62 can be increased approximately four times by making W four times greater for a fixed L. In this fashion, a voltage gain can be realized between the input 65 and the floating diffusions of 62, thus reducing the requirements on drive voltage for shift register 60.
A preferred embodiment of the light bar is illustrated in FIG. 7. The incident collimated light represented by lines 50 is transmitted into a beam splitter 56 which reflects the collimated light into the deformable mirror element 53. The deformable mirror element deflects the light according to inputs received from a charge coupled device shift register 54 upon a semiconductor substrate 52. The deflected light represented by lines 55 are transmitted into opaque light stops 51. If the light is not deflected, it travels through the beam splitter 56 and outward towards the lens 35 in FIG. 8. Opaque light stops 57 serves to block light that would reflect from the non-active area of the light bar.
Blocking light from the non-active area serves to increase the contract ratio by making the projected image insensitive to defects and surface contours present in the non-active area. Another advantage of this light bar embodiment is that one less lens is required since the light bar contains its own stop. The self-contained coverglass is also advantageous since its alignment will not be required due to vibrations or thermal variations. Lastly, this embodiment is advantageous because only the deformable mirror element images to be printed need to be activated. In many applications, most of the deformable mirror elements will not be activated, thus improving reliability.
FIG. 7a is a top view of the light bar in FIG. 7. Note that opaque light stops 57 and 51 have been aligned and properly spaced with respect to the deformable mirror elements 53.
FIG. 8 illustrates an embodiment of this invention as applied to a printer. This printer consists of a standard photoreceptor drum 38 which rotates in a direction illustrated by 37. The external light source 34 is located to provided light to the optics module 33. The optics module 33 contains a DMD light bar and optics such as shown in FIGS. 5 or 7. The optics module 33 produces a line of dots, lighted or unlighted, according to an input. The light is transmitted through projection lens 35 onto a line on the photoreceptor drum 38 represented by line 36. As previously discussed, lighted areas on an electrostatically charged photoreceptor drum will become neutral. The unlight areas will remain charged. The drum then rotates and comes into contact with the toner station 39 containing charged toner particles which adhere to the charged area of the photoreceptor drum 38. The photoreceptor drum 38 continues to rotate and comes in contact with paper 31 travelling in a direction illustrated by 32. The paper is charged by transfer corona 43 and thus attracts the charged toner particles that are on the photoreceptor drum 38. The paper then passes through a fuser 40 which heats the toner particles on the paper causing them to permanently fuse upon the paper. Therefore, sequential lines of lighted dots projected by the light bar 33 upon transverse line 36 on the rotating photoreceptor drum 38 create a latent electrostatic image as the drum rotates. The image is subsequently developed at the toner station and transferred to the plain paper 31 to produce a hard image. The printer receives the data representing the image to be printed from input line 42 which can be from an operator keyboard or some other means for an operator to specify the image. This data is transformed into serial digital data which is transferred via line 42 as input data to a serial-to-parallel shift register in the light bar 33. The data in the parallel portion of the shift register is used as the charge to deflect the individual deformable mirror elements as previously discussed.
FIG. 8 illustrates a printer system showing a single light bar 33 illuminating a pixel line 36 the entire width of the photoreceptor drum. In order to increase the resolution number of pixel elements in a horizontal dot line, it is feasible to optically align the images of two or more DMD elements at the photoreceptor surface. In this case, each individual DMD module with self-contained optics and source would illuminate a respective portion of line 36. It is desirable to keep the size of the silicon substrate upon which the DMD is fabricated to a readily manufacturable size, hence the requirement for multiple arrays to cover the entire page width 36.
An additional technique to increase resolution without having to align the light bar pixel elements vertically and horizontally is illustrated in FIG. 9 which is a block diagram of two separate light bars contained on the same silicon substrate, that are separated by a distance 97. Note that the deformable mirror elements 102 are interspaced between the deformable mirror elements 103. The mirror elements 102 and 103 overlap each other by 20% to 30% in order to evenly illuminate the photoreceptor drum. This interlacing technique uses the fact that the drum is rotating in a single direction such that the line partially illuminated by deformable mirror elements 103 will at later time, be partially illuminated by deformable mirror elements 102. Therefore, if elements 103 are addressed with the odd bits of a line and elements 102 by the even bits, and the imaging by 102 is properly delayed with respect to 103, then a single line can be exposed at twice the resolution and with no dark regions between the active elements.
Odd data bits are read into the shift registers 105 via input 96. This data is then transferred into the deformable mirror elements 103 via gate line 104. Gate line 106 is used to clear the charge from mirror elements 103 to the drain 107. Likewise, the even data bits are transferred via input 176 into the shift register 175 which is then transferred through gate line 108 into a delay area 200 which holds this data for a time representing the time it takes to rotate the photoreceptor drum the distance 97. At that time, the data or charge in the areas 200 is transferred via gate line 109 into the deformable mirror elements 102. The charge in mirror elements 102 is then cleared through gate line 204 to drain 205. The distance 97 is chosen to be an integral number of line spacing(n) on the photoreceptor drum. For n line spacings, n elements are required in delay area 200.
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Long, slim, chocolate, and divine
Most men, and even some women pine... feign over this birthday suit of mine
Smooth layers with no assistance from oil of olay
I sport my suit proudly as if everyday were my birthday
My scars add character and tell my story
My birthday suit expresses my battles and my glories
And we all know that when chocolate gets too hot, it melts
And I like chocolate, so I admit that sometimes I do like to taste myself
I just can't seem to help it
Because my birthday suit always demands another helping
But there are many who cannot handle the sweetness
They get a little sugar in their system and my suit becomes their weakness
For those that cannot handle, I strongly suggest a sugarless diet
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You may even be tempted to buy it
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"He's right behind you!"The Firehouse and TITO team up to present A Christmas Carol Panto.
Bah humbug boys and girls! Now that Little Red and Will Scarlett have fixed up everything in Sure-Wouldn't Forest, they're off on another adventure for the holidays, with figgy-pudding, smoking-bishop and ghosts that'll scare the Dickens out of you ("They're right behind you!"). When the Sheriff is confronted by three spirits in the night will he stop being such a Scrooge? Can Robin get over not playing the biggest role in the play?
Find out when the Firehouse Center for the Arts teams up with Theater in the Open to present A Christmas Carol Panto: Little Red and Robin Green at the Firehouse (Market Square, Newburyport) Friday – Sun, December 14-23. The curtain goes up Fri-Sat at 8p and Sat-Sun at 3p. Tickets are on sale now ($15 Adults ~ $13 Members/ Students/Seniors) and may be purchased at the Box Office (Wed-Sun, 12N-5P) or online at www.firehouse.org.
Popular throughout the UK and closely associated with the Christmas season, pantomime is a comical, musical
play that features lots of cross-dressing, animals, coarse humor, and audience participation. Even the Beatles (Lennon, Starr, Harrison, McCartney) starred in their own pantomime show in London in 1964; and the beloved Charlie Chaplin played the front end of a horse, a favorite animal character of panto, in the Hippodrome Theatre in Stockport (UK).
Panto is a perfect holiday tradition for families to enjoy. Mother Goose stories and other time-honored children's tales
are often the foundation upon which classic British panto performances are built, but the fun is in no way limited to the younger set. Audience members of all ages are to be found, and it is customary for performances to encourage participation by one and all. Hence the "He's right behind you!" phrase that has become the tag line for all things panto as the audience desperately tries to warn the players of the dangers that lurk just out of their sight!
Inspired by Roman plays, productions through the centuries have relied upon a stock collection of characters and situations. In days of yore, characters featured Punchinello (from whence originates Punch of Punch and Judy fame), and the classic clown Harlequin, made recognizable to most by the colorful costume with oversized diamonds. Today, it is customary to find a principle boy (often played by a woman), animals, and a smattering of double entendres which make for an entertaining time for the adults as well as the little people in your group.
Now TITO creates its own take on the panto fun with A Christmas Carol Panto: Little Red and Robin Green. Directed by Edward Speck and written by Edward Speck and Beth Randall, this production has a cast of 45 ranging in age from 38- to 8-years old. Starring Edward Speck as Robin Hood, Beth Randall as Sheriff/Scrooge, Aisha Chodat as Little Red, Justin Turner as Big Bad Wolf, Lily MacLeod as Will Scarlet, Tristan Horan as Little John, Spencer Redgate as Will Stutely, Kelley Knight as Deputy Bumps, Rachel Ameen as Officer Slap, and Abigail Langsner as Titania (all Newburyport). The Merry Men, Ensemble, and Christmas Spirits will be played by adults and children from Newburyport, Amesbury, Haverhill, Byfield, Bradford, South Hampton, NH, and Kingston, NH. This will be Tito's 8th production of a Christmas Carol.
Don't miss the fun of Panto this holiday season at the Firehouse!
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WHAT: A Christmas Carol Panto: Little Red and Robin Green
WHEN: Fri – Sat, December 14-15 and 21-22 at 8p & Sat – Sun, December 15-16 and 22-23 at 3p
WHERE: Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport, MA
TICKETS: $15 Adults • $13 Members/Seniors/ Students. For more info please call the Box Office at 978/462-7336 or visit online at www.firehouse.org
About The Firehouse Center for the Arts- The Firehouse Center for the Arts is member-based organization located on the waterfront in Newburyport, with a 195-seat theater. The Firehouse offers "arts inspired experiences" including film, dance, theatre, concerts, children's programming, a new works festival, and an art gallery which exhibits works by local and international artists. The Firehouse is handicap accessible.


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With a cinematic love of pop culture, seamy undersides, and what makes humans tick, Jenny McAllister's 13th Floor Dance Theater has explored everything from lightning strike addicts to The Hardy Boys, the sinister side of Christmas, fractured fairy tales and The Twilight Zone.
Utilizing a unique company of theatrically talented performers and a wicked sense of humor, McAllister has been creating darkly funny dance theater in San Francisco for over 15 years.
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Thurs, Fri & Sat October 16, 17, 18 at 8pm
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Running one shoelace horizontally, then weaving another color through it vertically, forms an attractive two-color
checkerboard pattern. Best with wide, flat shoelaces.
• Start with two pairs of different color laces, preferably the wide, flat variety.
• With one color (orange in my diagram), begin with one end tucked into the bottom left of the shoe. Run the shoelace straight across on the outside, then straight up on the inside.
• Repeat running across on the outside and up on the inside, back and forth and up, until you reach the top of the shoe, where that end is also tucked in.
• With the other color (purple in my diagram), begin with one end tucked into the bottom left of the shoe. Run the shoelace straight up, weaving in and out of the other shoelace until you reach the top.
• Fold around the top lace and head back down, weaving in and out until you reach the bottom.
• Continue across the shoe, weaving up and down until you are out of room or out of lace, whichever comes first.
• Tuck the final loose end into the shoe.
When completed, this lacing forms a sort of loose, springy weave that
does not bind strongly. It's designed for wide-fronted sneakers that people usually wear loose with the laces
either dragging or tucked in. Sort of like a trendy slip-on.
For a slightly tighter fit, use wider or rougher laces to increase friction and thus support more tension.
For greater security, do the checkerboard lacing only up to the second eyelets from the top, then tie the
shoelaces normally across the top two eyelets.
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For a different look, use a single long shoelace of one color instead of two different shoelaces. After completing
the horizontal sections, use the same shoelace to weave the vertical sections. The result is a single color woven
mat, which is more of a checkerboard texture than checkerboard colors.
(Click photo at right to enlarge in the gallery below)
Similar woven checkerboard that lies at an angle instead of straight.
Lacing method similar to first stage of lacing (horizontal sections).


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The Park Bar has a wide and varied selection of drinks. We have worked closely with Weavers of Nottingham to provide a variety of wines that won't be seen elsewhere in Nottingham.
Weavers is an Independent Wine and Spirit Merchant established in 1844 by Edward Cossal Weaver. Mr Weaver emigrated to South Africa and sold the business to my Great Great Grand Father in 1897. Today we ship wines from around the world from family owned estates who share the same philosophy and commitment to producing quality wines.
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1/8 teaspoon
ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon
2 tablespoons
all-purpose flour
bone-in chicken breast halves
2 tablespoons
olive oil
2 small
red onions, cut into quarters
1 pound
new potatoes, cut into quarters
8 ounces
fresh whole baby carrots, green tops trimmed to 1-inch
1 1/2 cups
Swanson® Chicken Stock
3 tablespoons
lemon juice
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh oregano leaves
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh thyme leaves
I used boneless, skinless chicken breasts instead of bone-in. In the flour mix, I added garlic salt, celery salt and rosemary leaves (they were sitting on the counter and sounded good). Everything else I did the same. My family loved it and I will make it a regular. It's not just chicken and vegetables like another reviewer said. The seasonings and the lemon juice liven up the veggies. The onions tasted like candy... the words of my 8 year old. A wonderful change from plain old chicken and best of all, I had all the ingredients in my cupboard.
This was so bland. The chicken and potatoes picked up no flavor from the broth. And the breading was soggy on the bottom because of the broth. Just, the whole recipe seemed ill-conceived. I followed it to a tee with the exception of using boneless breasts and adding some salt and pepper to the flour. Breading was bland too.
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This recipe was simple, healthy, and delicious! Adding lots of fresh crushed garlic complimented the other seasonings and gave the chicken, potatoes, and veggies a wonderful flavor. My ten year old enjoyed it so much he kept trying to sneak more of it off his siblings' plates!
The vegetables in this recipe are wonderfully flavored. When I make this a second time, I will definitely add seasonings to the flour that goes on the chicken to make it more flavorful!
This was a good recipe. I tried it from a magazine for dinner about a month ago. It's a keeper for a quick, decent supper.
The recipe was really good..I didn't really like the breaded chicken with the broth, it sort of made is soggy. Maybe i didn't make it right. The veggies were SO good with the chicken. I'd definitely recommend it.
My husband and I really enjoyed this recipe. It was quick with minimum fuss and tasted reaally good and although I did improvise a little by crushed bouillon cubes with water (because I didn't have broth) and I used mushrooms instead of carrots. And because me and my husband like the taste, I sprinkled a little soy sauce over the chicken before baking.
We loved this recipe, especially the cook! It was so easy, great for a hectic week night. I didn't have new red potatoes so I just used russets and cooked them in the pan a little longer. I used boneless chicken breasts, you could use any cut of chicken you have on hand.
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Yonkers: Blue Chip Matchmaker Final field set
Yagonnakissmeornot locked up top honors in the preliminaries for the Blue Chip Matchmaker series on Friday night, scoring her fourth victory of the series for driver Dan Dube at Yonkers Raceway. The five-year-old by The Panderosa had to earn the win after starting from post seven with Dube putting her in a four-hole early and then racing her without cover the final half. The Rene Allard-trained mare paced to 1:53 2/5 effort defeating Camille and Ramalama in the process.
"It was two moves," said Dube, "But it was really easy."
Yagonnakissmeornot, sent off as the 3-5 betting favorite, has seven wins in 11 starts this year.
Monkey On My Wheel overpowered a worn down 1-9 Somwherovrarainbow in the deep stretch at odds of 13-1 to capture the second and concluding Blue Chip Matchmaker preliminary for catch-driver Yannick Gingras.
Somwherovrarainbow made an early tuck then advanced to the lead by the :28 1/5 opening quarter. Early on the second turn, Shelliscape and driver Tim Tetrick made an aggressive move towards the front but Sears and the favorite didn't buckle. The pair of heavyweights duked it out posting fractions of :56 2/5 and 1:24 2/5.
By headstretch, Monkey On My Wheel and Gingras had moved wide with authority to pounce on the weakened leader. Summertime Lea, a 75-1 shot, rallied late and nearly got to the winner, losing in a close photo.
Despite the victory, Monkey On My Wheel, with just a first and second place finish in her lone series outings, is unlikely to make the $371,400 final on April 26 but could go in the $75,000 consolation. Casie Coleman trains Monkey On My Wheel.
Preliminary eligibles for the final (with point totals) are as follows: Yagonnakissmeornot (350), Summertime Lea (270), Angels Delight (255), Somwherovrarainbow (237), Anndrovette (225), Rocklamation (208), Kripsy Apple (200), Feeling You (193).
Shelliscape actually finished with more points (199) than Feeling You, but she would be the third horse from the PJ Fraley barn and only two are permitted in the final.