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A system comprising an radio frequency (RF) signal input; a plurality of time-skewed, undersampled analog to digital converters (ADCs); a plurality of complex finite input response (FIR) filters in parallel, wherein each complex FIR filter receives the output beam and/or band provided by the plurality of ADCs and generates a corresponding output beam of a given frequency.
1. A signal processor comprising:
a plurality of analog to digital converters (ADCs) adapted to receive an RF signal;
a means for delaying the RF input to each of the analog to digital converters, said analog to digital converters directly sampling said RF input signal at a baseband sampling frequency and generating a digital output signal;
a plurality of complex finite input response (FIR) filters for receiving the corresponding digital output signal from the plurality of analog to digital converters, each complex FIR filter including a means for multiplying each digital output signal by at least one complex filter weight;
wherein each of the FIR filters generates a corresponding output beam of a given frequency according to said baseband sampling frequency.
2. The processor of
3. The processor of
4. The processor of
5. The processor of
6. The processor of
7. A method for converting a radio frequency (RF) signal into independently steered beams, the method comprising:
time staggering a conversion of the RF signal to a plurality of digital signals;
applying the plurality of digital signals to each of a plurality of complex finite input response filters
wherein each complex finite input response filter creates an associated independently steered beam by:
multiplying each digital signal by at least one complex filter weight; and
summing the results of the multiplying.
8. The method of
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11. The method of
12. A method for converting a radio frequency (RF) signal input into a plurality of independently steerable digital beamformed signals, the RF signal having a bandwidth centered at a carrier frequency, the method comprising:
directly sampling an RF data signal at each of a plurality of analog to digital converters at a sampling rate that is an integer multiple of the carrier frequency to generate M-sample digital outputs, each of the M-sample digital outputs being sampled at a reduced sampling rate equal to the sampling rate divided by M, M being an integer sample reduction value; and
multiplexing each sample digital output to simultaneously provide each sample digital output to a plurality of complex finite input response filters, each of said complex finite input response filters configured to multiply each sample digital output by at least one complex filter weight to provide a weighted sample output and combine said weighted sampled outputs to generate a baseband digital beamformed signal at said sampling rate.
13. The method of
14. A system comprising:
a radio frequency (RF) signal input;
a plurality of time-skewed, undersampled complex analog to digital converters (ADCs) configured in parallel and responsive to an RF data signal from said input for generating sampled digital outputs according to a baseband sampling rate;
a plurality of complex finite input response (FIR) filters configured in parallel, wherein each complex FIR filter receives said digital outputs provided by the plurality of ADCs and generates a corresponding output beam of a given frequency according to said baseband sampling rate.
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This application claims priority under 35 USC 119 of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/002,169 entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIDEBAND DIRECT SAMPLING AND BEAMFORMING USING COMPLEX ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER, filed Nov. 7, 2007, the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates generally to communication systems, and particularly to digital communication systems.
In modern radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems, increasing emphasis is being placed on developing systems that provide element or sub array all-digital sampling and beamforming. There is also the added desire to sample very wide (ultra-wide) bandwidths covering, in many cases, up to and beyond X-band. One problem occurs when trying to measure across very wide bandwidths. Extremely fast analog to digital converters (ADCs) for direct analog to digital conversion would be required, or several channels of analog filtering and mixing prior to analog to digital conversion would be needed to facilitate such implementations. However, conventional ADCs do not sample at the very high rates necessary for standard approaches to direct radio frequency (RF) sampling, and normally require at least one stage of intermediate frequency (IF) conversion first. This additional filtering and mixing requires additional hardware, cost, and adds to the overall noise floor of the system. Alternative techniques and systems for performing such signal processing are desired.
Embodiments of the present invention comprise an assembly that requires no IF, no generation of local oscillator (LO) signals, and no mixers, but rather samples an RF signal directly and demodulates to baseband in one step via aliasing by using a complex analog to digital converter (CADC). The CADC can be used to accomplish wideband sampling and beamforming by simply adding more channels of digital filtering to a single array of time-skewed ADCs. This enables not only ultra-wideband processing, but also the formation of multiple simultaneous beams anywhere within the sampled frequency band. Beamforming is accomplished by building in the appropriate elemental time delay or phase shift into the filtering operation, requiring no additional processing other than adding up the element outputs to form a beam.
Solutions to date require high speed ADCs, local oscillators (LOs), and analog mixers, or a combination of such devices to demodulate an RF signal to some IF prior to A/D conversion. Wideband signals have been handled by using multiple receive channels with several mixers, LOs, and ADCs to span the band of interest. These approaches typically require additional hardware (relative to direct sampling), and also add noise to the system, thus degrading performance.
According to an aspect of the invention, a simplified solution utilizes the characteristics of the CADC to digitally tune several digital filters simultaneously virtually anywhere within the sampled data frequency band, while individual ADCs only need sample at the modest rates commensurate with individual filter bands. This results in a chip or integrated circuit which can directly sample and reduce to baseband multiple beams and frequency bands without the additional hardware associated with analog mixers, LOs, filters, and the like. By concatenating the filter outputs, ultra wide band signals can be processed, for example from 0 to 16 GHz, in a single chip.
Reference will now be made in detail to the present exemplary embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. An exemplary embodiment of a direct radio frequency (RF) complex analog to digital converter (CADC) 10 of the present invention is shown in
As embodied herein and depicted in
Radar receivers employing the present invention exhibit reduced cost, size, and weight. The single CADC-IC 10 of the present invention provides an increase in system reliability because fewer serial components are needed in the overall design. Because mixer circuits are not needed, EMI and inter-modulation product issues normally associated with mixers are eliminated. The CADC will also allow slower ADCs to be used when sampling high RF, such as X-band signals. Even though some integrated circuits already operate at these rates, the digital word size is relatively small (on the order of 4 or 5 bits). The CADC will allow larger digital word sizes (up to 18 bits for example) because the internal analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) operate at lower rates.
The CADC is based on the use of FIR filters with complex coefficients. These can be used to filter and demodulate a sampled signal of arbitrary bandwidth to baseband—without the use of a demodulator or mixer. The CADC uses aliasing to effectively demodulate the signal of interest to baseband, which obviates the complex demodulators which are often used in sampled data systems. For high frequency applications, such as radar, this can eliminate the need for analog mixers often used to mix frequencies to an Intermediate Frequency (IF) prior to analog to digital conversion. Since the conversion rate need only be commensurate with the signal bandwidth, slower ADCs can be used with respect to other direct RF sampling methods. These slower ADCs tend to have more effective number of bits (ENOB) than those which operate at higher rates, resulting in the wider dynamic range often desired in radar applications.
The CADC architecture is more immune to ADC matching errors such as amplitude, phase, and DC offset, which are often encountered with the more traditional time-interleaved ADC arrays. The CADC also reduces the impact of jitter because of its filtering characteristics. The filtering also acts to increase the number of effective bits over that of each ADC.
The weights for the complex filter are as follows:
Accordingly, one of the primary objectives of signal processing relates to the process of extracting the complex envelope from the real signal. In traditional systems, the RF signal is demodulated to baseband. The baseband signal is subsequently filtered by a lowpass filter. Since the lowpass filter is real, the filter response of the low-pass filter is symmetric about zero. As such, the low pass filter provides the analytic signal at baseband. The negative frequency component has been eliminated by the filter.
Referring to
The locations of the original frequencies in the BOI after sample rate reduction has occurred can be determined from the following formula:
Referring to
Accordingly, the complex FIR filter is employed to filter and shift a real bandlimited RF signal to baseband by simply reducing the sampling rate. The down conversion occurs by aliasing the RF signal to baseband.
Referring to
As embodied herein and depicted in
The device of
The number of ADCs is equal to the sample rate reduction ratio, M, to be implemented. As described previously, the aliasing functionality implemented in the present invention serves to demodulate, or mix, the band of interest to baseband. Note that all ADC output must be stored in register 202 in order to allow each ADC to have the full sample period (M/Fs) for analog to digital conversion.
The in-phase and quadrature outputs of summer 310, 312 may be directed into a digital signal processor (DSP) for further processing. For example, the DSP may further reduce the sampling rate, and additional filtering may be performed as well. The filtering may further attenuate those frequencies or frequency bands which would become aliased to baseband when the sampling rate is reduced.
Differently, the embodiment of
By delaying the RF signals input to the ADCs 200 relative to one another, a common clock signal CLK may be used in lieu of phased clock signals φ1-φN. This may advantageously allow for a conventional integrated circuit that incorporates multiple ADCs but uses only a single clocking input to be used.
Each delay element 201 may take any suitable form, such as an analog delay line to provide a temporal skew, such as a predetermined length of cabling, for example. By way of non-limiting example only, where a 100 MHz clock is used for ADC's 200, roughly 10 nanoseconds may elapse between samples. In such a case, it may be desirable to introduce an about 2 nanosecond delay with each delay element 201. A predetermined length of cabling, such as about 2 feet for example, may be used to provide such a delay. Alternatively, sample and hold circuitry analogous to that described herein-below clocked to integer phases of a clock signal, as is described in connection with
Referring to
Referring now also to
As embodied herein and depicted in
The sampling rate is reduced to clock either the sample and hold circuits 230 or ADCs 200 at a rate commensurate with the signal bandwidth. In these architectures, the sampling rate is reduced by a factor at least equal to the size of the FIR filter. Otherwise, events will overlap. For example, the ADCs (or S&Hs) are clocked at 1/kfo. The cycle time through all the FIR filter taps would then be N/kfo. This cycle is then repeated at a rate M/kfo. In this case the following inequality must be satisfied:
Assuming that the narrowest bandwidth filter that can be implemented is a Sinc FIR filter (i.e., a filter whose coefficients are all equal), then a simple analysis can be performed to determine the alias protection that the CADC can provide. The frequency response of a Sinc filter can be written as:
Referring to
Errors may be introduced from several sources. These errors include ADC offset and mismatch error, timing jitter, and quantization. The ADC mismatch includes both amplitude and phase mismatch, and will in general impact the frequency response of the CADC FIR filter. Timing jitter basically results in an increase in the ADC noise floor, and may impact ADC dynamic range and system clutter cancellation performance. Offset differences and mismatches in the ADC may also impact performance. In the more typical time-interleaved ADC architectures, the output of each ADC is multiplexed to construct a signal sampled at the higher Fs rate. ADC mismatch error may produce spurious artifacts in the output spectrum because the mismatch errors will tend to repeat as the array of ADCs are cycled through. However, in the present invention, ADC amplitude and phase mismatches do not cause spectral artifacts because the errors are lumped together in the filter output. Instead, the mismatches may manifest themselves as perturbations to the frequency response of the FIR filter. The net result will be a somewhat different frequency response than what was expected.
Referring to
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Although these errors will not result in spectral artifacts, they may impact the resulting match between the real and imaginary components. These errors can impact the quadrature characteristic of this relationship, and will result in less image rejection than anticipated. These errors must be kept low enough so that the impact is tolerable.
Another error that may impact any ADC implementation is illustrated by
Since the CADC includes a filter, this ratio improves by about one half the reciprocal of the normalized filter bandwidth, or about 10 log(NFIR/2) dB to become:
Referring to
Quantization noise is a factor in any ADC architecture.
The SNRq is plotted in
As embodied herein and depicted in
The sample rate reduction system includes M-RF sampling circuits configured to directly sample the RF signal at the sampling rate. The M-RF sampling circuits 200 may be analog to digital converters or sample and hold circuits. The complex bandpass filter includes M-complex bandpass filter circuits. The filter order is N, where N>M.
Each bandpass circuit includes a weighting circuit (350-356) in series with a summer circuit (360-366) and an output sample and hold circuit 200 (or ADC). The R-complex bandpass filter circuits are interconnected in series such that an output of the first sample and hold circuit 250 is coupled to an input of the summer circuit 362 of the subsequent complex bandpass filter circuit. The weighting circuits are configured to multiply each of the M-sample outputs by a predetermined filter weight value to thereby provide M-weighted sample output values. The summer circuits are configured to sum the M-weighted sample output values and the output values provided by the preceding complex bandpass filter circuit.
In this example, the sampling rate reduction ratio, M, is 4, while the filter order, N, is 16. The alternate architecture stores intermediate partial weighted sums of each of the M samples of sampling circuits 200. Groups of M partial sums are added together in sequence to obtain the overall filter length.
The architecture of
As embodied herein and depicted in
Referring to
Referring now to
The output 104 of each ADC is provided in parallel to each of a bank of complex Finite Input Response (FIR) filters 105. In this manner, multiple bands of interest may be simultaneously selected by multiplexing the same ADC output 104, to a plurality of digital complex FIR filters, 105, running in parallel. Simultaneous beams can be formed at any frequency within the operational band whereby choices are not limited by local oscillator settings in mixing stages. The output from each of the plurality of FIR filters 105 creates a series of steerable beams 106. Additional ADC hardware is not required for beamforming. Each beam, depicted as reference numerals 107-111, is independently achieved solely via digital signal processing. A single ADC array 103 with multiple complex FIR filters 105 configured according to the exemplary embodiment, produces multiple band, independently steered beams 106. By the implementation of multiple complex FIR filters, 105, multiple beams 106 are thus formed directly and essentially immediately without the drawbacks previously discussed.
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Hence, a system has been described herein that requires no IF and no mixers but rather samples the RF signal directly and demodulates to baseband in one step via aliasing using complex A/D converter (CADC). The CADC processing may be applied to span a band of interest by simply adding additional digital channels to a single array of time-skewed ADCs. This enables not only ultra-wideband processing but also multiple simultaneous beamforming anywhere within the sampled frequency band. That is, the CADC enables direct RF basebanded sampling of radar waveforms where an ADC is clocked only at the output sampling rate, approximately equal to the instantaneous bandwidth. This allows for larger word size ADCs even for high frequency RF signals. By using aliasing the system provides a direct digital basebanded I and Q output without the need for mixers. FIR filters with complex weights are used to filter and demodulate signals to baseband without demodulators or mixers. The complex FIR filter operates with one or more complex coefficients for each of N separately clocked ADC or S/H (sample and hold) devices. Each ADC or S&H output is weighted in accordance with FIR filter coefficients. The resulting products are summed and operations performed at the output sampling rate.
According to embodiments of the present invention the system described herein provides direct sampling of received RF signal: requires no analog down-conversion while eliminating the need for mixers, local oscillators, and tunable analog filters. All tuning is performed digitally and may be implemented as a system-on-a-chip (SOC) at the element or sub-array level. The invention supports formation of multiple simultaneous beams at frequencies anywhere within the operational band with digital beamforming allowing for adaptive beamforming or adaptive beam interpolation. The inventive architecture is scalable such that improvement in performance of constituent ADCs should improve performance of the overall CADC architecture.
The beamforming characteristics are achieved through a simplified architecture when compared to other approaches, and wherein the output is a complex basebanded digitized signal without the use of IF stages. Furthermore, the architecture of the present invention is more tolerant of clock jitter and A/D mismatches than other approaches with A/D operation at output sampling rates, commensurate with instantaneous BW, instead of the input (RF) rate. Such concepts and advantages are depicted with regard to
Thus, time-staggered ADCs in combination with a digital FIR filter directly sample RF signals advantageously eliminates mixers and local oscillators, and the system architecture enables each ADC to run at a modest rate corresponding to the instantaneous bandwidth of interest. The system may be configured to support instantaneous bandwidths on the order of 1 GHz or more and time-delay and phase-shift beamforming may be implemented within the CADC filter wherein the number of computations required is minimized and wherein multiple beams are simultaneously formed in space and/or frequency solely through digital processing.
While the foregoing describes exemplary embodiments and implementations, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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The Nabucco pipeline, a highly-touted effort to reduce European reliance on Russian natural gas, is reportedly "near collapse." Although it is true that Nabucco has been positively zombie-like in its refusal to die, and it is certainly possible that its corpse will somehow be re-animated again in the very near future, it doesn't seem like much of an exaggeration to suggest that Nabucco has, from a certain perspective, already failed.
Nabucco was always much more than just a pipeline to transport gas: it was a project that was meant to demonstrate European unity against the crude manipulations of Putin's petro-empire. It's on-again off-again comedy of errors has conclusively shown that even, on matters of such supposedly strategic importance, the European Union is almost comically incompetent and incapable. Nabucco was conceived of as a a project where the efficient and modern Europeans would show those backwards-looking Russians how things were done. Instead, it has devolved into caricature. If you were a Kremlin propagandist charged with designing a scenario to show that the Europeans were a bunch of squabbling blowhards, you could do quite a lot worse than the Nabucco pipeline.
Meanwhile, since discussions of Nabucco started, the supposedly bumbling and incompetent Russians have already constructed one major natural gas pipeline and will start construction on another by the end of 2012. One does not need to think of Gazprom as some sort of super efficient Prussian-style bureaucratic machine to note the pretty obvious fact that, for all of the company's corruption and mismanagement, it has, over the past decade, clearly made progress in achieving its grand strategy of reducing reliance on Ukraine and other transit companies and in concluding long-term contracts with major European energy firms. Gazprom is, in 2012, arguably more deeply entrenched in Europe than it has ever been, and it is very hard to imagine a Europe in which Gazprom, or other Russian companies such as Novatek, don't play an extremely important role.
While I think fears of a dastardly Russian energy monopoly are a bit overblown, Russia's share of Europe's natural gas imports has actually declined noticeably since 2001, I also think it's pretty clear that Russia will continue to matter. A lot. This might seem somewhat obvious, but there has been quite a lot of weakly-supported happy talk about the future of the European natural gas market (see, for example, this extraordinarily optimistic piece which recently appeared in the New York Times) and the supposedly magical ability of shale and LNG to drive down prices.
Despite all of this talk about the dawning of a brave new post-Gazprom world replete with shale gas and LNG, in reality we've seen the repeated failure of shale exploration in Eastern Europe, a vicious cold-weather snap that has sent gas prices soaring and highlighted Gazprom's continued relevance, and the looming closure of Germany's nuclear power plants (which, because of the EU's permitting system, will significantly increase long-term demand for natural gas throughout Europe).
So although Gazprom is in many ways something of a relic, a colossal and continent-spanning industrial enterprise that controls everything from soccer teams, to banks, to television stations and newspapers, the failure of the Nabucco pipelines demonstrates that it still plays a central role in the European economy and will continue to do so for some time to come. If you're waiting for the day when the Russians aren't major players in the EU's energy market, you're going to wait for a very long time.


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Yani Tseng has achieved in her short career what some life-long golfers dream about. In the four years since she turned pro, she has won over 15 LPGA Tour events and 5 major championships. Last year, she took home the LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club. Even though she has won several trophies, she says the pressure is always there to do better. She wants to take any pressure and channel it into another championship-level performance.
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The clean, artistic lines of four Ionic columns complete, rather than dominate the home's entry and sit in near perfect complement to 16 white pillars that uphold the front, second-story balcony. An elegant, carved balustrade lines the wide staircase which leads to the second of three stories. Sunlight warms the air with scents of wax and wood polish rising from the main hall, paneled in oak, and hardwood floors that run throughout the 15-room home.
Commissioned by Wendell Hurlbut and built in 1906 by renowned architect Kirtland K. Cutter at a cost of $20,000, the Harold Hurlbut Mansion was gifted by Wendell to his son, Harold, and daughter-in-law as their domestic residence.
A beautiful example of Cutter's genius, the Colonial Revival mansion, left vacant when Harold and his wife returned to New York, was left to Wendell Hurlbut's ownership and ultimately fell into foreclosure in 1909.
JP McCann, lived next door to the Hurlbuts, in his own mansion which is now called Troy Insurance. He purchased the Hurlbut Mansion from the bank in 1909 and held on to it only a few years before offering it for sale for $14,000. The governing board of the northern branch of the Children's Home Finding and Aid Society of North Idaho decided to purchase the mansion, and applied for a grant from the state to help. As is common today, the grant award came in the form of a challenge–the state would pay $7,000 if the community came up with $7,000 to match the grant funds. A successful campaign to raise money was organized. Through pledges from individuals,organizations and contributions by most of the 10 northern counties in Idaho, the funds needed to buy the mansion were provided.
The Children's Home Finding and Aid Society stayed in the mansion for five and a half decades. Growing pains and a mounting bill for repairs drew the attention of George F. Jewett, president of Potlatch forests, Inc., who had decided to relocate headquarters in San Francisco. Hearing of the need for the Children's Home to find a new facility, he offered his estate in west Lewiston. Now known as the Northwest Children's Home, the orphanage evolved with the times. Its mission today is to provide rehabilitative, therapeutic and educational services for children and families.
Vacated in 1966, the Community Action Agency was granted permission to use the unoccupied building. In 1972 Community Action relocated. The mansion was then sold to Roy and Janet Burke in 1972, who intended to make the building an extension of their Clarkston furniture store. However, the Planning and Zoning Commission objected to the use claiming the mansion to be in a "residential district."
Lewis-Clark Early Childhood Program purchased the buildings and properties surrounding the Hurlbut Mansion after leasing the grounds for years. A regional provider of Head Start, Early Head Start and Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, LCECP provided a critical service to the community, and steadily expanded. Today LCECP is the regional provider of quality early childhood education in five Idaho counties and Asotin County in Washington.
By 2001 plans were underway for LCECP to purchase the mansion property outright from James Burke. A stipulation of the bank's officials required that the Hurlbut Mansion itself be torn down as a condition to their lending on the remainder of the property. Plans to create an expanded parking area to serve the families of Head Start were deemed acceptable by the lending agency, and demolition of the mansion was set for December 2001. The public outcry against this action was immediate, both from the community and from those elsewhere who had lived in the mansion as children. In 2002 Lewis-Clark Early Childhood Program purchased the Hurlbut Mansion property, in its entirety, from the Burke family and, honoring the requests of our community, began a revision of its plans for the mansion.
"I don't know what would have happened to us if we hadn't had the time in-between to be at the children's home,"
"I don't want that house to go down. I feel like that house saved my life."
"The first time I saw TV was in the living room. We had our half an hour on Thursday afternoons before dinner time and we got to see the Mickey Mouse Club."
"I first saw the article in last week's paper about the demolition and I was sick. I said 'they can't do this.' They cannot tear this house down. It is too gorgeous. It is too beautiful."
Quotes from Lewiston Tribune article dated 12/31/01
In 1982 the Idaho State Historical Society nominated the Hurlbut Mansion for placement on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its historical and architectural significance. The property was not originally listed, due to an objection by the owner, but it did obtain placement on February 23, 2007, as the Children's Home Finding and Aid Society of North Idaho. View the listing here.
The Hurlbut Mansion, once rehabilitated, will reflect its original beauty and its historic significance. Ambitious plans are developing that propose to re-establish the mansion as a facility for benefitting children and their families. A creative learning lab for children, primarily ages 3 & 4, is foremost in the planning. Many of the 15 rooms will house interactive displays designed to stimulate brain development by drawing children into exploration of painting, sculpture, dance, theater and music. Other areas of the building will be used as a resource center for all members of the families that participate in LCECP programs. A section of the home will educate visitors on the history of the mansion, its significance to Lewiston and North Idaho, and architect Kirtland K. Cutter. The mansion will also be made available for private and public community gatherings. Learn more about our Vision for Hurlbut Mansion.
We heard you ask us to save this building. We listened. We have a plan, but we cannot do it alone. If you value this building, its history and its future, please help us now by donating online today.
If you have memories of the Hurlbut Mansion or the Lewiston Children's Home, we would be honored if you would share them with us here.


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The St. Olaf SNA (student nurses association) chapter is inclusive for all class years! What we do: - Participate in service projects - Host fun fellowship events to develop a sense of community among class years - Counsel prospective nursing majors on how to apply for the Nursing Program and what the program is like - Provide opportunities for: leadership, professional development, network building, and resume boosters - Encourage members to become apart of NSNA (national student nurses association) and attend the Annual NSNA Convention. This year it's located in Nashville, TN from April 8-12 - Promote the St. Olaf Nursing Program on campus - Participate and host National Nurses' Week on campus every May - Have a lot of fun and so much more ***See Nicole Beckmann or Kristina Haugen with questions.***
Meetings: Meets monthly during chapel time in HH 301
Contacts: Vice-President Meredith Arevalo (arevalo), President Janna Jansen (jansen), Treasurer Lauren Tulgren (tulgren)
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Mr. Sidney Blake Crandall, Age 19, Jonesborough, passed away Friday November 22, 2013, from injuries sustained in an auto accident.
Sidney was a native of Washington County and the son of Greg Crandall and Leeann Dunavent Crandall.
Sidney graduated from Science Hill High School and a United States Navy Veteran.
He was a member of Central Baptist Church.
Sidney enjoyed the lake, country music, and wearing his cowboy boots.
In addition to his parents, survivors include his wife, Hunner Perkinson Crandall, Jonesborough; unborn daughter, Brynna Crandall; brother, Hayden Crandall; maternal grandparents, Ben & Marlene Dunavent; paternal grandfather, Neal Crandall; uncle, Ben Dunavent; aunts, Tammy Crandall Smith (Jeff), Carrie Sledge (Chuck); father-in-law, James Perkinson (Patricia); mother-in-law, Kimberly Dagnan (Ben); brothers-in-law, Dillon Perkinson and Chase Dagnan.
Funeral services will be conducted at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, November 24, 2013, at Dillow-Taylor Funeral Home with Rev. Bill Greer officiating.
The family will receive friends from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Sunday prior to the service.
Graveside services will be at a later date. Pallbearers will be Hayden Crandall, James Perkinson, Jerry Storey, Raymond Perkinson, Dillon Perkinson, Greg Crandall and Ben Dunavent.
Condolences may be sent to the Crandall family online at www.dillow-taylor.com.
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The Muka stove from SOTO is the world's first non-priming liquid fuel stove. It has revolutionized the common understanding of a gasoline stove's characteristics, no longer does the user need to put up with a dirty sooty stove, cumbersome preheating and endless maintenance before and after use. Even with the use of commonly available unleaded petrol the stove burns clean and maintenance free.
This gas stove combines a reliable powerful output with ease of care. Muka is not a simple gasoline stove but the next generation of stove.
The stove ignites and burns like a gas stove and the soft, elongated and narrow diameter hose enables safe and easy operation. The burner is controlled by the flame control knob located on the pump and gives excellent flame adjustment and incorporates an emergency stop button and pressure indictor.
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According to figures released by telecommunications firm TeleGeography, Skype continues to become more and more popular. And the increase in popularity is not small -- between 2012 and 2013, international Skype to Skype calls rocketed by around 36 percent. The number of international phone calls being made in general is on the up, but Skype's gains are well above those seen from landline and mobiles which stands at around 7 percent over the same period.
Microsoft's ever-popular online messaging and calling service is available for a wide range of platforms, including desktop and mobile devices, and its widespread availability -- coupled with the fact that people are looking for ways to save money these days -- helps to account for the increase in usage. All told, 2013 saw a staggering 214 billion minutes of calls made Skype to Skype.
These numbers are already good news for Microsoft, but looked at in terms of increase things are even more impressive. Put together the traffic increases enjoyed by all of the telecommunication companies in the world, and Skype has gained 50 percent more than all of them combined. As TeleGeography points out, this is good going for a service that is already ten years old and faces competition from ever more IM and VoIP tools.
"2013 saw a staggering 214 billion minutes of calls made Skype to Skype"
Despite the popularity of computer and mobile based communications, it's unlikely that the humble landline is going anywhere soon. TeleGeographyanalyst Stephen Beckert said: "No other network comes close to matching the global reach of the PSTN (public switched telephone network). While Facebook has approximately 1.2 billion monthly users, at year-end 2013, the PSTN connected to just over 8 billion fixed and mobile subscribers worldwide."
Do you fit into these statistics? Do you find that you are using Skype more than in the past, and do you choose to use it in place of making a regular phone call?


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Author Notes: Whenever I travel through Chicago O'Hare airport, I have to make sure I get this delicious chickpea salad from Argo Tea. It is super delicious and a perfect airport meal/snack because its light and nutritious. Last time I ate this salad, I wrote down the ingredients and guessed the proportions per my taste. I made a huge batch of this protein packed salad a few weeks ago and my sister and I ate this for lunch for a few days and we didn't even get sick of it. —themessimake.com
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- 2 cups cooked/canned chickpeas
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- 1 cup chopped tomato - remove the seeds (1 large tomato)
- 1/4 cup chopped red onion (1/2 onion)
- 1/3 cup chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons Zahtar (add more if needed) - I usually buy Zahtar from William Sonoma.
- 1 teaspoon salt (add more if needed)
- 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper (optional)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice or juice of 1/2 lemon (add more if needed)
- 1/2 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil (add more if needed)
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Fashion Houston Day 3 featured runway collections by hometown designer Chloe Dao, Australian designer Camilla Franks, Fabiola Arias and Norman Ambrose. I had the chance to talk with Dao about her collection. (I'll post more highlights and photos from the night.): When it comes to fashion, Chloe Dao is Houston's "it" girl. She's a Project […] [Read More]
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Below is the poem entitled Brutus the Mule Don't flank it pt1 which was written by poet
Mayy. Please feel free to comment on this poem. However, please remember, PoetrySoup is a place of encouragement and growth.
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Brutus was always bad
But what can you expect from a liasion
When Molly the mare, met the Jackass
Brutus's dad?
Well here is the story about Brutus
Its a Mule, son of Molly and Rufus
Molly was a comely mare you see
Rufus looked like a Jackass in every degree
They didn't share any love or hate
But what brought them together was a twist of fate
My uncle wanted a worker you see
Something relentless, strong and mighty
To climb the valley, hills and the glen
In this capacity ,the mule was man's best friend
So a date was set for Rufus and Molly to meet
Out of the prying eyes of children to accomplish the feat
After Brutus trysts and dirty deed
Molly grew fat from Brutus's seed
Nine months later at the break of dawn
We had Brutus, Molly's craggy spawn
Now just after about a year had gone
Brutus grew sturdy and also strong
He looked more like a horse you see
An equine specimen we'll all agree
It was time for Brutus's schooling
In simple stages was the plan
Uncle Poppy, to be the leading Hand
The plan was hatched and the scene was staged
To gradually induce Brutus to his trade
We decided when Brutus was watered and fed
Uncle Poppy would mount his back and straddle his leg
Brutus didn't flinch nor did he complain
Haughtily Uncle Poppy patted Brutus's mane
Time after time he would sit on his back
Brutus stood still, but never moved a jot.
But composed and agreeable was our take
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To those who keep up with the MLP comic series, there are currently 7 issues out of the main series and there's about to be 4 issues of a micro-series that focuses on specific characters and isn't related to the primary story arcs of the main series. Issue #5 will focus on Pinkie Pie, and will be coming out this June at some point.
To those who will be attending Botcon this year, there is an opportunity to show off brony pride by getting an exclusive cover from the convention (shown above). As you can see, Pinkie Pie is dressed up as Optimus Prime (we shall dub her Optimus Pie) in the hand of Optimus Prime. Want a chance at something that's truly quite rare? Better go to Botcon! Check out the full article here.


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Leave Grandma out of it. A woman told her boyfriend she wanted to leave his house because his grandmother didn't like her. His response? He pushed her down, hit her in the face, and broke her phone when she tried to call police. It turns out, he was only delaying the inevitable. A few minutes later, she called the police from a friend's phone, and the boyfriend was arrested for simple assault domestic, vandalism, and interference with emergency calls.
Baby buggy bungle. A woman went to Wal-Mart to get a new stroller and a car seat for her baby, but decided against paying for them. She made it as far as the parking lot before a store employee caught up with her. When the employee confronted her, she shoved the shopping cart towards him and fled on foot. She may not get too far, though. Along with the baby items, the buggy had her cellphone, purse, and ID inside.
Drunk and naked, peas and carrots. Police were called to a local convenience store after an employee found a naked man lying down on the bathroom floor. They found him facedown on the ground in a puddle of his own vomit, with his pants around his ankles. After a brief trip to the hospital to make sure he was all right, they took him to jail on a public intoxication charge.
Less-than-grand larceny. A grocery store manager called police after he watched a woman leave his store with a buggy full of unpaid merchandise. Though the manager couldn't stop her from leaving, he did manage to write down the license plate. The woman was arrested, and the merchandise was recovered. Included in the $175 worth of merchandise was cat food, toilet paper, paper towels, and a Keurig coffee-maker.
Questionable priorities. Hospital personnel told police that two adults were using drugs after they had brought their infant in for emergency care. Witnesses said they saw the father snorting white powder, and that, earlier, the mother almost dropped the child. Security staff added that the father tried to hide a bag full of white pills inside the couch he was sitting on when they entered the room. The officer said that both parents appeared lethargic, had slurred speech, and were unsteady on their feet. Both were arrested for public intoxication.
Attempted hugging leads to arrest. A woman told police that her son had escaped from a man who tried to hug him while he was outside his house. When police found a man matching the boy's description, they said he appeared agitated and jittery. That may have had something to do with the methamphetamine they found in his pocket.
Not the brightest bulb. After being stopped because of a non-functioning headlight, a local man was arrested after police said they smelled a strong odor of marijuana about him. When the police searched him, they found 2 grams of marijuana inside a baggie in his pocket, along with a pipe and two ceramic cigarettes.
Toy crime story. A shopper at the local Toys "R" Us used a debit card to pay for more than $300 worth of merchandise, only, it wasn't their debit card. A man told police that his card had been used to make the purchase, even though he hadn't been to the store. The card was, however, still in his possession.
Intoxicating sales. Police arrived at the parking lot of the local Best Buy to find a man, who appeared to be highly intoxicated, punching his own car. During a search of his vehicle, police found a half-filled bottle of cognac inside. The man denied drinking the cognac, instead saying that he had been drinking whiskey.
Know your neighbors. A man told police that his neighbor beat him with a PVC pipe after he told her to turn off her TV so he could sleep. The man said that, as he was lying in bed, his neighbor entered his apartment and began hitting him in the head and arms with the pipe. On her way out of the apartment, she took the man's wallet, cellphone, and package of pipe tobacco. During the police investigation, a 911 call was made alleging the woman-in-question had overdosed on pills inside her hotel room. The woman was taken to the hospital and admitted for observation. When she wakes, she will have a warrant charging her with theft and assault waiting for her.
Covet not thy neighbor's porch. After taking a nap on his porch, a man was woken by police to learn that he was not, in fact, on his porch. It turns out, he was a block away from his house, and didn't know how he came to be on the porch. The police may have understood his confusion; they said he was highly intoxicated.
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Below are some "holiday" cards from the Soviet era, but one can easily detect efforts at sneaking familiar Christmas traditions into what had become a Soviet New Year celebration. You can see the character of Ded Moroz, formerly an evil sorcerer from Slavic mythology—he was said to freeze and kidnap children without conciliations from their parents. His striking resemblance to Santa is the result of a massive rebrand by the Orthodox Church to mimic the Dutch Saint Nicholas.
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Junior Matt Hughes won the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2010 NCAA East Regional with a time of 8:34.87 to advance to the national championship in Eugene, Ore. on June 9-12.
May 30, 2010
GREENSBORO, N.C. - University of Louisville junior Matt Hughes set the tone for the Cardinals on the final day of competition at the 2010 NCAA East Regional Track and Field Meet hosted by North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Hughes, a junior from Oshawa, Ont., broke the school-record in the men's 3,000m steeplechase with a time of 8:34.87 to place first out of 47 competitors. That time is the fastest in the NCAA this season. Hughes has been near the top of the NCAA in the event all season and will travel to Eugene, Ore. to compete for the NCAA National Championship June 9-12.
Hughes was not the only Cardinal to have a great final day at the regional meet.
Junior D'Ana McCarty placed ninth in the women's discus with a throw of 170-0 (51.82m) to advance to the NCAA National Championship. McCarty, an Indianapolis, Ind. native, will also compete in the hammer throw at the national championships. Teammate Jere' Summers, who had the best throw in the discus in the nation coming into this weekend's meet, fouled on all three of her attempts. Summers will compete in Eugene, Ore. for the NCAA National Championship in the hammer throw.
Also advancing to the NCAA Championships for the Cardinals on Saturday was senior Andre Black. Black, the 2007 indoor national champion in the triple jump, placed fourth out of 48 competitors in the men's triple jump with a leap of 52-11.50 (16.14m). The mark was Black's best of the season and the fifth-best in school history.
The Cards will have a week off to prepare for the 2010 NCAA National Championships on June 9-12 which will be held in Eugene, Ore. at the University of Oregon. There will be seven Cardinals competing for national championships in Eugene. Competing for the Cardinal women will be junior D'Ana McCarty (hammer throw, discus); seniors Jere' Summers and Lindsey Cook (hammer throw) and sophomore Charachesicia Lockhart (long jump). Competing for the Cardinal men will be senior Tone Belt (long jump); senior Andre Black (triple jump) and junior Matt Hughes (3,000m steeplechase).
For the most up-to-date information on Louisville track and field and all of your favorite Cardinal athletes, visit www.uoflsports.com.
East Regional - Greensboro, N.C.
U of L Women's Individual Results - Day Three Discus 9 McCarty, D'Ana $51.82m/170-0 -- Summers, Jere' Foul
U of L Men's Individual Results - Day Three 3,000m Steeplechase 1 Hughes, Matt $*8:34.87 Triple Jump 4 Black, Andre $16.14m/52-11.50 27 Johnson, Michael 15.14m/49-08.25 Discus 34 Greenwald, Josh 48.46m/159-0
$ = Advance to National Championships in Eugene, Ore. * = School Record


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How many eligible voters are there in Jakarta? This question is at the heart of a debate among the candidates running for the upcoming gubernatorial elections, and it is critical to the credibility of the elections.
On Saturday, the Jakarta General Elections Commission (KPUD) announced that there were 6.98 million eligible voters spread throughout 15,000 polling stations within the capital.
This figure is contested by five of the six candidates, who claim the figure should be much less.
They have based their objections on numbers provided by the Home Affairs Ministry, which recently stated that it would issue 5.6 million electronic ID cards for the capital. Only holders of Jakarta identity cards aged 17 or older, who do not ha v e criminal records or are married are allowed to vote.
The discrepancy between the two numbers must be resolved prior to the election to ensure that the vote is legitimate. If the public perceives that there is some attempt to play with the numbers, it will not only undermine the gubernatorial elections but our whole democracy.
Polling watchdogs have attributed the discrepancy to "ghost voters," people who do not exist or are ineligible to vote, while the KPUD has claimed it is a clerical error in data entry. It is critical that there is no room for questions to be raised.
The KPUD and the Home Affairs Ministry must work together until their numbers match so both the candidates and the public can have confidence that the elections will be held with full transparency and in accordance with the law.
This will ensure that whichever candidate comes out the victor will represent the people of Jakarta and thus have the mandate to govern with full authority. If the outcome of the elections is contested because of the discrepancy in the voter list, it is the people who will suffer.