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Steve Shaver does what many baseball fans only dream of doing: He tours ballparks. A lot of them. Nearly every year, the semi-retired Twin Cities resident and Chuck Sinke, an in-law from Ada, Mich., take off for a week or so on a carefully planned junket to watch Major League Baseball games at two or three or a handful of stadiums.
For Shaver, this is no idle pursuit: Old and new, the former newspaper-advertising salesman has visited 36 professional baseball stadiums across the United States in the last 21 years and, including some of his youth, 49 different parks in the last 36 years.
A Wisconsin native, Shaver's first exposure to the allure of ballparks came when visiting Wrigley Field, its gently sloping seats and its ivy-covered outfield walls, when he was a Chicago Cubs fan as a kid. "It still feels like 1932 there," he said.
Shaver took up his ballpark-visiting avocation — his personal pastime within America's Pastime — in earnest about 20 years ago, after he and his wife returned from a European vacation.
"The cathedrals and other architecture in Europe were really inspiring to me," Shaver, a good friend, told me. (That's him on the right, with Sinke, in the photo at the new Marlins Park in Miami last spring.) "There are a few cathedrals in America, but not a lot, and we don't have castles. We're a young country. Ballparks are America's versions of cathedrals, and that's why some have taken to calling them our 'green cathedrals.'"
Just in time to enjoy and debate before the midsummer classic, the MLB All-Star Game, at one of his favorite ballparks, Kauffman Stadium, here are Shaver's top 15 features — and a few not-so-favorite — distilled from the dozens of ballparks he's taken in:
The overall aesthetics of Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City: Shaver counts this as "the most beautiful park built between 1923, when Yankee Stadium was built, and 1992, when Camden Yards was built." It incorporates fountains which echo a metro-area fascination with fountains and are colorfully lit at night. The teardrop shape of the upper deck eliminates the worst seats high in the outfield, and its concrete construction allowed for a deep overhang that doesn't obstruct the views of those below.
"There's also the unique view of Kauffman from I-70 that goes by the park," Shaver said. "You can look over the outfield wall right down on to the field and see the entire stadium open up in front of you. You almost crash your car."
The 24 palm trees at AT&T Park in San Francisco: They were planted around the perimeter in honor of "Say Hey" Willie Mays, the all-time great Giant. Shaver also enjoys the park's magnificent view of San Francisco Bay from the third-base side of the field. "Our first game there" in May, 2000, Shaver said, "Barry Bonds hit two homers into the water in McCovey Cove."
The "toothbrush" light standards at Progressive Field in Cleveland: "Those and the enormous scoreboard in left field are the first things you notice" upon entering the park that was built as Jacobs Field, Shaver said. Also an amateur historian of baseball, the Civil War and other interests, Shaver noted that Jacobs was "the first [modern] ballpark to incorporate a large view of the field from a street-level plaza" — in this case, in the left-field corner overlooking the field 18 feet below.
The warehouse-sector setting of Safeco Field in Seattle: Shaver loves the surroundings of "beautiful brick warehouses, ships in Puget Sound, gigantic cranes and the whole industrial feel." Hundred-foot-tall lattice legs allow fans to see through to the Seattle skyline to the north. Safeco's exterior features 600,000 blond and red bricks and steel to mimic the industrial buildings in nearby Pioneer Square.
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With March Madness rapidly approaching, the Orange are poised to make a deep run in the tournament. They are currently ranked eighth in the nation with a 21–4 record and have the players needed to win a national championship.
Syracuse's roster is a fantastic mix of young and veteran players. The Orangemen have enjoyed large contributions by upperclassmen, Brandon Triche, C.J. Fair, and James Southerland. While underclassmen like Michael Carter-Williams and Rakeem Christmas have been able to contribute in majors way as well. Carter-Williams leads the team in assists and Christmas leads them in blocked shots.
James Southerland's insertion back into the starting lineup on Feb. 10 has given the Orangemen a major boost in their offensive production. He was held out of six games by Syracuse University for academic reasons, which resulted in a pair of losses.
Southerland is averaging 13.5 PPG and 4.8 RPG this season, and leads the team in 3-pointers made. But he has a major impact on the defensive side of the floor as well. Southerland's length (he's 6 feet 8 inches) really aids the 2–3 zone defense that Jim Boeheim likes to run. His large arm span allows him to congest the offense's passing lanes.
Brandon Triche and C.J. Fair also play key offensive roles on the team, they rank one-two on the team in points per game. The two players have a combined seven years playing in Boeheim's system and are two of the team's main leaders.
Without a standout team this year, there is an immense amount of parity in college basketball. There are several teams that have a viable chance at winning it all. Indiana, Michigan, Miami, and Duke are all having great seasons and are more than capable of making a deep run in March. But as long as Syracuse can stay healthy it poses a major threat to any opponent, and has an excellent chance at cutting down the nets this year.
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By: Amber LaVail, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Copper thieves went 'prime time' in Roswell.
They recently hit television towers and a private home. They left behind tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
Two television towers were left without cooling systems.
Chaves County Lt. Britt Snyder says, "There is a huge rash of copper thefts going on."
Rubble is all that is left of the air conditioners at KOBR-TV.
"Years ago they would try and break into your house, now it just seems like they are trying to steal the air conditioner," says Snyder.
Chief Engineer Gary Babcock found the dismantled air conditioners and says, "Copper thieves are back. We see this every year whenever the prices go up a little bit."
County Sheriffs say thieves took their time with the coolers and copper.
Snyder says, "In the case of the tower sites they were dismantled in place vs. trying to take the entire unit. They actually took the time to try and disassemble them in place."
Even though the repair costs of the KOBR-TV air conditioner will be over eleven thousand dollars, the thieves only made out with about a hundred bucks.
According to Babcock, "We have called the sheriff out there. We have set up camera surveillance and so on like that so hopefully we catch somebody and put a stop to it."
Snyder says, "We will also work with our recycling companies to help identify the individuals who are bringing these items in."
No television service was lost due to the theft. But engineers say it was close.
If the buildings had heated up, equipment failure would have followed, interrupting television broadcasting.


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It was a day of commemoration and reflection as the Whitley County Historical Society spearheaded a ceremony that honored local veterans of World War II, while marking the 67th anniversary of Operation Neptune, or the D-Day landings in Normandy, France.
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An estimated 1 million illnesses can be attributed to Salmonella every year. USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently announced its Salmonella Action Plan to help reduce the number of illnesses associated with FSIS-regulated products using new standards, strategies and innovation. When the Agency learned of the upcoming Safety Datapalooza on January 14, Chief Information Officer Janet Stevens knew they wanted in. "As lead of our Agency's innovation Strategic Goal, I knew the value of leveraging the public through challenges, unconferences and datapaloozas," said Stevens, "This was a wonderful opportunity to bring together data scientists, technologists and practitioners to generate ideas to help save lives." Read more »


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SALEM, ORE. -- Shannon Waltz (Sr., MH, Honolulu, HI/La Pietra School for Girls) from the Willamette University volleyball team has been named First Team Capital One Academic All-District VIII in NCAA Division III as chosen by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Waltz was one of just seven volleyball players in the western United States chosen for the honor.
Waltz is majoring in Economics at Willamette. She has earned a 3.98 cumulative grade point average.
As a First Team Academic All-District selection, Waltz is eligible for the Capital One NCAA Division III Academic All-America Team, which will be released on December 10.
First Team Capital One Academic All-District
Shannon Waltz leads the Northwest Conference with a .339 hitting percentage. She has recorded 187 kills in 23 matches (87 sets) for an average of 2.15 kills per set. She ranks second on the Willamette roster this season with 67 total blocks and an average of 0.77 blocks per set.
She earned a career-high 20 kills in her final match for the Bearcats on Nov. 9, as she helped lead Willamette to a 3-2 win at George Fox University.
Waltz completed her WU career with 534 kills and an average of 1.79 kills per set. She saw action in 90 matches and a total of 298 sets. She achieved an impressive .286 career hitting percentage.
She also accumulated 253 total blocks during her career with 37 block solos and 216 block assists. She registered a career-high nine total blocks against Whitworth University on Sept. 22, 2012. In addition, she produced 69 service aces and 139 digs while playing for the Bearcats.
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KORENGAL VALLEY, Afghanistan, July 12, 2008 The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff yesterday took the opportunity to present 12 paratroopers with awards here for valorous and heroic achievements in combat.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, July 11, 2008 The U.S. militarys top-ranking officer met today with U.S. Marines based just northwest of here who are charged with the critical, top-priority mission of training the Afghan National Police.
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FRISCO – For the second consecutive season, a Lamar runner has claimed Student-Athlete of the Year for both the indoor and outdoor track and field season as the Southland Conference bestowed the honor upon Sam Stabler on Thursday.
Stabler, a junior out of Queniborough, England, is the fifth-ever Southland athlete to claim both the indoor and outdoor student-athlete award in the same season. It's the sixth consecutive time that an LU athlete has taken home the track honors as Joe Wade swept the accolades last year, and his twin, Tom Wade, earned the outdoor award in 2012. Matt Johnsen, winner of last fall's cross country student-athlete award, took home the same for the 2012 indoor season.
Stabler, who ultimately ended the year with four Southland individual championships and one relay crown, carried over his dominance from the indoor season to post top conference marks in both the 1,500 and 5,000 meter runs en route to winning league titles in each. He also participated in the NCAA West Preliminary in Fayetteville, Ark.
"I've been lucky to have a great year, and I peaked at both championships, which I think is a testament to [LU distance coach] Darren [Gauson] as a coach," Stabler said. "I was healthy for nearly the whole season, and I'm very pleased to be part of a great group at Lamar. I'm looking forward to getting back for cross country season in the fall."
Stabler, who also carries a 3.82 grade point average in chemical engineering, was an All-Southland honoree last fall, helping the Cardinal men claim a seventh cross country conference championship in eight years.
Two Lady Cards also took home all-academic honors as seniors Nora-Beth Saunders and Saschelle Slaughter grabbed spots on the women's team. Saunders, a fifth-year senior out of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, earned the Southland's F.L. McDonald postgraduate scholarship after posting a perfect 4.0 GPA and earning a degree in chemical engineering. Slaughter, who was part of LU's runner-up 4x400 relay team, carried a 3.44 GPA and graduated with a degree in communications.


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After almost three decades of representing Massachusetts in the Senate, Secretary of State John F. Kerry has moved onto to bigger and better things. The former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry has left big shoes to fill. His replacement, Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey, does not appear to be up to the task. Upon assuming Kerry's old job, Menendez was hit by a barrage of ethical misconduct allegations in connection with his relationship to Dr. Salomon E. Melgen, an eye-surgeon who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaigns.
Late last month, Dr. Melgen's offices were raided by the F.B.I. Though the government kept mum about the search, disturbing details soon emerged. Menendez had intervened on Dr. Melgen's behalf in a dispute with Medicare about billing procedures. In 2010, Dr. Melgen had treated Menendez to free flights to the Dominican Republic aboard his private airplane. Some unsubstantiated reports claimed that while on vacation there the two hired underage prostitutes.
The facts surrounding this case are murky, and no doubt things will come into clearer focus over the next few weeks. The Senate Ethics Committee has begun its own review and Menendez has not been criminally charged. We cannot yet call on him to resign his seat. Nonetheless, the unrecompensed rides, which he finally paid for, represent a severe ethical lapse on their own. The charges also indicate, if not prove, a willingness to place the profit margins of his donors before the national interest. Menendez, for example, may have pushed the U.S. to enforce a Dominican port security plan because it benefit a corporation owned by Dr. Melgen.
Menendez asserts that he has committed no improprieties. He never had sex with prostitutes. He interceded with Medicare to simplify a byzantine reimbursement process. Clerical errors were responsible for the non-disclosure of the plane rides. His involvement in the port security matter was motivated by substantive policy concerns. All this may be true, but how credulous can be we be? A mountain of evidence and an air smacking of "Boardwalk Empire" suggest otherwise.
The Foreign Relations Committee is one of the Senate's most important bodies. Menendez's troubles cannot distract from its critical work. Neither should it be led by a man who might monetize the position to detrimental effect. For the duration of the ethics inquiry, Menendez should step down from his post. It wouldn't be proper to replace John Kerry with a Senator who, if the allegations are true, appears to be only slightly less corrupt than "Boardwalk Empire's" Walter Edge.


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Swimming | Saturday, January 13, 2007
Pacific Lutheran Downs Willamette Swimming Teams in Northwest Conference Action
TACOMA, WASH. -- Pacific Lutheran University defeated Willamette University in men's and women's Northwest Conference swimming action on Saturday, Jan. 13 in Tacoma, Wash. On the men's side, PLU downed the Bearcats, 134-66, while the PLU women won, 126-76. The PLU men improved to 3-1 in the NWC, while the PLU women upped their record to 2-2 in conference action. Both Willamette team fell to 0-2 in the NWC.
For the Bearcat men, senior Kei Otawa (Moscow, ID/Moscow HS) continued to shine, as he picked up three first place finishes on Saturday. Otawa won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:48.61, the 200-yard butterfly in 2:08.66, and the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:16.95.
Three Bearcats took home second place finishes, as did the men's 400-yard medley relay team of David Sluss (Sr., Green Bay, WI/Ashwaubenon HS), Matthew Tanigawa (Fr., Honolulu, HI/Baptist Academy), Kevin Tangeman (Fr., Sherwood, OR/Sherwood HS), and Cason Schmit (Sr., Oakland, CA/Bishop O'Dowd HS). Schmit took second in the 50-yard freestyle in 24.09 seconds, Tangeman was second in the 100-yard freestyle in 54.49 seconds, and Pete Kahn (So., Billings, MT/Billings Senior HS) was second in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:18.32.
On the women's side, Shannon Gima (Jr., Alameda, CA/Lick-Wilmerding HS) and Becca Fischer (Sr., Billings, MT/Billings West HS) took home first place finishes, and both were part of the winning 400-yard medley relay team that defeated PLU in a time of 4:31.99. Whitney Pryce (Fr., Glastonbury, CT/Glastonbury HS) and Brittany Thiemens (Jr., Bellevue, WA/Bellevue HS) were the other two swimmers on the 400-yard medley relay team.
Gima won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:28.17, while Fischer took first in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:39.38. Fischer also had a second place finish in the 200-yard IM in 2:24.28, while Gima was part of the 400-yard freestyle team that finished second. Jenna Larrow (Fr., Boise, ID/Timberline HS), Shanley Roxburgh (Sr., Waipahu, HI/Punahou School), and Lauren Vice (So., Portland, OR/Santa Catalina School) were the other members of the 400-yard freestyle team.
Also taking second place for the Bearcat women were Pryce in the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle events, with times of and 1:00.84 and 2:11.68, respectively, Thiemens in the 50-yard freestyle in 26.77 seconds, Vice in the 500-yard freestyle at 6:07.23, and Coral Sorensen (Fr., Auburn, WA/John F. Kennedy HS) in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:32.83.
The Bearcat men's and women's swimming teams will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 19, when they travel to McMinnville, Ore. to face Linfield College in NWC action. Meet time is set for 6 p.m. (PST).


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Conductor of the URI Concert Choir and Lively Experiment
Master of Music in Vocal Performing and Master of Music in Choral Conducting, University of Michigan
Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, University of Illinois
MARK CONLEY, a conductor, composer and singer, has conducted numerous choral ensembles from large high school and middle school festivals to small professional opera groups. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in the spring of 2009 conducting a performance of Haydn's Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese. At the University of Rhode Island, he supervises the choral program and directs the auditioned Concert Choir and the select chamber ensemble Lively Experiment.
Winner of the Sadie Rafferty Choral Competition, his choral and instrumental works have been performed throughout the United States. He has also served as music director for numerous theater companies, as well as performing as an opera and oratorio soloist. He has directed or performed with such companies as the Aspen Opera Theater Center, Intermountain Opera, Ocean State Lyric Opera, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Papagena Opera, Ocean State Chamber Orchestra and the Bozeman, Helena and Butte Symphony Orchestras.
An active supporter of young musical talent, Mr. Conley is a frequent clinician and adjudicator. He also serves as faculty founder and sponsor of the URI student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. With the addition of the graduate degree in Conducting Performance, he now serves as mentor to a new generation of conductors, some of whom have already established active professional careers.
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This invention relates to methods for preparing photo-patterned mono- or polychromatic, polarizing films. The polarizer can be pixelated into a number of small regions wherein some of the regions have one orientation of the principal neutral or color absorbing axis; and some other of the said regions have another orientation of the principal neutral or color absorbing axis. The axis orientation is determined by the polarization vector of actinic radiation and the multi-axes orientation is possible by a separated masked exposure. This polarizer can be placed on the interior substrate surface of the LCD cell.
1. A method of forming a thin light polarization film on a substrate, comprising the steps of:
(a) depositing a thin solid film polarizer onto a flexible polymeric carrier sheet,
(b) applying a photo-curable glue onto said substrate,
(c) bringing said thin solid film polarizer into contact with said glue,
(d) illuminating and curing said glue without heating said glue, and
(e) removing said carrier sheet.
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(a) depositing a first solid thin film polarizer on a first flexible carrier, said first polarizer having a first polarization direction,
(b) applying a photo-curable glue to said substrate,
(c) bringing said first solid thin film polarizer into contact with said glue,
(d) illuminating said glue in a first pattern to form a pattern of cured glue having said first solid thin film polarizer adhered thereto,
(e) removing said first flexible carrier leaving said first solid thin film polarizer adhered to said substrate by said glue in said first pattern,
(f) depositing a second solid thin film polarizer on a second flexible carrier, said second polarizer having a second polarization direction,
(g) applying a photo-curable glue to said substrate,
(h) bringing said second solid thin film polarizer into contact with said glue,
(i) illuminating said glue in a second pattern to form a pattern of cured glue having said second solid thin film polarizer adhered thereto, and
(j) removing said second flexible carrier leaving said second solid thin film polarizer adhered to said substrate by said glue in said second pattern.
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This invention relates to the preparation of ordered organic molecular layers both on flexible and rigid substrates. In particular the invention relates to methods for the preparation of thin light polarization films of lyotropic liquid crystal, which can be used, for example, as the internal polarizers, as well as dichroic polarizers, for the production of liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
Light-polarization films or polarizers are major components of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and other liquid crystal (LC) devices. Common polarizers are based on polyvinyl-alcohol-iodine (PVA) films of 30-50 μm thickness. These polarizers are generally placed on the external glass surfaces of the LC cell and require protective films (e.g. cellulose triacetate or cellulose acetate butyrate). Their fabrication is rather complicated and expensive. The external placement of the polarizers results in additional reflections and parallax effect, which deteriorates the LCD contrast, optical performance and viewing angles. Consequently, thin internal polarizers for LCDs are highly desirable. However, this variant still cannot be realized on the basis of conventional PVA films.
FR 2,186,165 discloses a method of forming internal polarizers by coating a long linear polymer film (e.g. PVA) to the internal surfaces of the glass substrates. The polymeric solution is then subjected to a linearly mechanical deformation (e.g. using a rubber rod), giving rise to a preferential direction parallel to the substrate plane. This results in an ordering of the long polymeric molecules along the direction of the deformation. Subsequently, the ordered molecular state can be fixed after the evaporation of the solvent. The final polarization film is obtained by a volume impregnation of iodine vapor or iodine solution or a deposition of a dichroic dye. This method is complicated, unreliable and inefficient for LCD manufacturing processes. One of the disadvantages of the method is the diffusion of the iodine molecules into the bulk of the LC. Thus, it leads to the deteriorated resistivity, increased power consumption and diminished life time of the LCD.
Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) can also be used for the purpose of the preparation of thin polarization films. The LLCs in an organic solvent can be coated on the glass substrate by a mechanical shear flow. After the evaporation of the solvent, the molecular order is maintained in LLC solid film.
Another method is described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,524,286 and 5,739,296 (FIG. 1). The isotropic solution of the lyotropic dye 5 is deposited from the tank 3 onto the anisotropic surface I of the flexible polymer film 2. So a thin film 4 of the dye solution can be formed. Low-cost polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) film can be used as the polymer film 2. The other variants include the deposition onto the thin layer (0.1-0.5 μm) of paraffin wax, mineral oil, barium stearate, a resin or other materials. Afterwards, the dye layer is oriented by rubbing or brushing to form the anisotropic film 4. The organic solvent can be composed of water dissolved with low molecular weight solvents, such as acetone, alcohol, dioxane etc. First the ordered nematic LLC phase is formed in the film 7 after the partial evaporation of the solvent 8. The final evaporation of the solvent 9, when baking the film 7, results in a highly ordered solid film of the lyotropic dye 11 with good extinction ratio. The typical thickness of LLC polarizers is 0.3-0.5 μm, which is comparable with the thickness of usual LC alignment layers. The thickness can be regulated by the gap 14 between the die 15 and the surface 1 of the substrate 2.
The rate of the evaporation is an important factor. Rapid evaporation at a high temperature results in a "boiling" of the solution, while a slow evaporation rate at a low temperature leads to the formation of randomly oriented dye polycrystals, thus affecting the optical quality of the light polarization films.
An adhesive layer is used for the transfer of the polarization film from the flexible polymer carrier to the glass substrate of an LCD cell. The adhesive may be pressure sensitive or other permanently tacky type which is rendered tacky by the application of water or other solvent, by heat or other means. For the tacky type adhesives, chlorinated latex, poly-isobutylene of low molecular weight etc. may be used.
Light polarization films of a large size can be formed, as can leaves of a medium size and special forms, which can be cut from the plane leaves. A volume form is also possible, if convex or concave substrates are applied e.g. for lenses, lamp bulbs etc.
This technology makes it possible to fabricate multi-layer light-polarization structures with specific orientations of the optical axes in each layer as well as polychromatic absorption properties. The polarization film possesses a high radiation stability, high temperature stability (up to 200� C.), high color fastness and UV-stability. These properties make such films attractive for the replacement of iodine based external polarizers in current LCD production.
During the manufacturing process, however, the appearance of defects in the form of horizontal stripes several to ten microns wide is possible. The defects divide the areas with different molecular orientations which are clearly seen in a polarized light as the vertical bands. The sources of such defects are the turbulence of LLC flow, non-uniform properties of the alignment layer and non-optimal deposition conditions. Minimizing the defects is possible by changing the deposition speed and LLCs viscosity, using the corona discharge to prepare the substrate, reducing the shift rate of the substrate and fixing the deposition device position.
USSR Pat. No 697,950 proposes the formation of the internal polarizers using LLCs. The procedure describes the deposition of the lyotropic gel of 1-30 wt/wt % on the surface of the transparent electrodes. The gel is then subjected to a shear flow in the velocity of 102-107 sec−1, e.g. by spin coating. The procedure is followed by baking-out the solvent.
The proposed technology allows the use of thin light polarization film based on LLCs for the internal LCD polarizers. However the polarization direction cannot be made arbitrarily to follow a specific local distribution, e.g. to follow a mosaic picture with the characteristic size of tens of microns or less. This limitation is due to the poor spatial resolution of the proposed method.
The purpose of the proposed invention is to develop a new technology for the fabrication of thin neutral or color polarizers, with a desired distribution of the polarization axis, for LCD applications.
The objective of the present invention is to provide a new technology for the fabrication of thin photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizers with a desired local distribution of the polarization axis.
According to the present invention there is provided a method of forming a thin light polarization film on a substrate, comprising the steps of: (a) depositing a thin solid film polarizer onto a flexible polymeric carrier sheet, (b) applying a photo-curable glue onto said substrate, (c) bringing said thin solid film polarizer into contact with said glue, (d) illuminating and curing said glue, and (a) removing said carrier sheet.
In a preferred embodiment the step of illuminating and curing said glue is carried out by illuminating said glue in a pattern whereby a pattern of cured glue is formed and whereby when said carrier sheet is removed said thin solid film polarizer only remains attached to said glue in said pattern. Regions of glue that are not cured may be removed by a solvent.,
Preferably the illumination is carried out through a patterned mask. This mask may be a shadow mask or a photomask formed by photolithography.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention the light polarization film is formed on the substrate in a pattern formed by regions of at least two different directions of polarization. This may be achieved by: (a) depositing a first solid thin film polarizer on a first flexible carrier, said first polarizer having a first polarization direction, (b) applying a photo-curable glue to said substrate, (c) bringing said first solid thin film polarizer into contact with said glue, (d) illuminating said glue in a first pattern to form a pattern of cured glue having said first solid thin film polarizer adhered thereto, (e) removing said first flexible carrier leaving said first solid thin film polarizer adhered to said substrate by said glue in said first pattern, (f) depositing a second solid thin film polarizer on a second flexible carrier, said second polarizer having a second polarization direction, (g) applying a photo-curable glue to said substrate, (h) bringing said second solid thin film polarizer into contact with said glue, (i) illuminating said glue in a second pattern to form a pattern of cured glue having said second solid thin film polarizer adhered thereto, and (j) removing said second flexible carrier leaving said second solid thin film polarizer adhered to said substrate by said glue in said second pattern.
In preferred forms of the invention the light polarization film is divided into pixels having different light polarization directions, and these pixels may be divided into sub-pixels, each sub-pixel being formed with different absorption colors. Alternatively, all the pixels may have the same polarization direction.
The flexible carrier sheet may be formed of an isotropic or non-isotropic polymeric material, and may include a detachment layer. Preferably the detachment layer also serves as a polarization alignment layer. The detachment layer may comprise a film of material selected from the group consisting of paraffin wax, mineral oils, barium stearate, resins, uniaxially aligned polyethyleneterephthalate or the like. This detachment and alignment layer can be rubbed mechanically to obtain a desired orientation.
The thin light polarization film is preferably formed on a substrate forming the inner surface of a liquid crystal display.
According to the present invention there is further provided a method of forming a thin light polarization film comprising the steps of: (a) depositing a layer of photoalignable material on a substrate, (b) illuminating the photoalignable layer with actinic radiation to define a polarization axis of said photoalignable layer, (c) applying a thin layer of an isotropic absorber solution onto said photoalignable layer, (d) partially evaporating said solution to form a gel, and (e) baking said gel to form an anisotropic absorber layer.
In one embodiment of the invention the actinic radiation is linearly polarized and the principal absorption axis of said photoalignable layer is orthogonal to the polarization vector of said actinic radiation. In another embodiment of the invention the actinic radiation is non-polarized and is incident on said photoalignable layer at an oblique angle.
Preferably the photoalignable layer is illuminated through a mask whereby only selected regions of said layer are aligned. More preferably still, the photoalignable layer is illuminated through several masks in sequence whereby different regions of said photoalignable layer may be formed with different alignment axes. The photoalignable layer may be illuminated through a photo-patterned mask that transforms linearly polarized or non-polarized actinic radiation into actinic radiation having a spatial distribution of polarization vectors, and this photo-patterned mask may be a light polarization mask or a birefringence mask.
Preferably more than one absorber material may be provided and different absorbers may be chosen with different colors. The absorber may comprise lyotropic liquid crystal. The photoalignable material may preferably be an organic azodye.
The photoalignable material may be deposited in a layer of from 0.05 to 1.5 μm thick, while the absorber material may have a thickness of from 0.3 to 1.5 μm.
Preferably the thin light polarization film is formed on a substrate forming an inner surface of a liquid crystal cell.
Viewed from a still further aspect the present invention provides a thin light polarization film deposited on a substrate and comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein said pixels are formed with different axes of polarization. This light polarization)film may be formed on the internal surface of a substrate defining a liquid crystal cell.
Some embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates a lyotropic liquid crystal coated on a polymeric film for the preparation of a thin film polarizer,
FIGS. 2a-c show (a) a high level flow chart showing the process of the fabrication of a photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizer in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention (photo-hardened adhesives), and (b) & (c) schematically ilustrate the process,
FIGS. 3a-c illustrate possible methods for the formation of photo-patterned (pixelated) mono- or polychromatic and/or dichroic thin film polarizers,
FIGS. 4a-b show (a) a high level flow chart showing the process for the fabrication of a photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizer in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 5 shows structural formulae of the photochemical stable azodyes that may be used for the preparation of photo-alignment layers,
FIG. 6 schematically illustrates the use of oblique exposure of a photo-alignment layer with a non-polarized light,
FIG. 7 schemattically illustrates possible methods for the.formation of photo-patterned (pixelated) thin film polarizers using obliquely incident non-polarized light,
FIG. 8 shows transmission spectra of the azodye AD-1 before and after the exposure by a polarized light (Tp and Ts represent respectively the transmission spectrum perpendicular and parallel to the dye absorption axis, whereas T0 is the transmission spectrum before UV irradiation),
FIG. 9 shows polarized transmission spectra of a thin lyotropic polarizer (Tp and Ts represent respectively the transmission spectrum perpendicular and parallel to the azodye absorption axis), and
FIG. 10 schematically illustrates a single large pixel covering the whole display area when all the local axes are aligned in a particular direction.
The present invention proposes the use of two technological solutions to obtain photo-patterned (pixelated) thin light polarization films, with different polarization axis and/or different local color regions, for LCD production. Both solutions are based on the application of lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs). In the first variant, the neutral and/or color polarizers are obtained using photo-hardened adhesive, while the second variant uses a photo-alignment layer to obtain neutral and/or color LLC polarizers.
In FIGS. 2a-c, a flow chart 200 of one example process for the fabrication of patterned (pixelated) polarizers in accordance with this invention is shown. At the first step, the method shown in FIG. 1 is used to prepare a thin polarization film 201 (FIG. 2b). The polarizer 201 comprises a thin solid substance, which exhibits a nematic state in an organic solvent. The solid film is coated on the flexible polymeric carrier sheet 202. The surface of the sheet 202 may be treated for anisotropic LLC orientation. The treatment includes, in particular, the deposition of a thin layer of a paraffin wax, mineral oil, barium stearate, a resin or other materials. The surface of this layer is then rubbed or brushed. To diminish the adhesion of the anisotropic solid film 201 to the carrier 202, which is needed for the separation of the polarizer 201 from the carrier 202, a detachment layer 203 of 1 μm thick can be included. This layer can be formed e.g. from paraffin wax or other easy-melting substances. The flexible carrier sheet may be composed of low-cost polymer sheets of polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) film with a weak adhesion to the thin film polarizer 201 in which case an additional detachment layer may not be necessary.
To transfer the thin film polarizer 201 onto the substrate 204, the top surface of the substrate 204 is coated with a photo-polymerized glue 205. Then, the flexible polymeric carrier sheet 202 with the thin film polarizer 201 is put in contact with the substrate 204. The orientation of the carrier sheet 202 is maintained for a particular polarization axis with respect to the substrate 204. The stacked construction is pressed 206 to obtain a uniform thin layer 207 of the photo-polymerized glue. Vacuum pressing may help reduce the air bubbles trapped inside the thin layer 207. UV glue (e.g. Worland 65) should not dissolve the thin polarizer layer 201.
Afterwards, an aperture mask 209 is illuminated by UV light 208 and an image of the mask is projected by a lens 210 onto the thin layer 207. The illuminated regions 211 will be hardened and the hardened parts 211 of the UV-glue bond strongly to the thin film polarizer 201 on one side and the substrate on the other. The non-hardened parts of the UV glue 214 can be removed from the substrate by an organic solvent. In this way, a photo-patterned polarizer structure 212 can be obtained after the polarization film is separated mechanically from the substrate, leaving a complementary negative structure 213 on the carrier sheet 202.
To obtain a photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizer with different local orientations of the polarization axis, the operations I-VI (FIG. 2b) are repeated with a set of thin film polarizers 201 oriented at different directions and with corresponding aperture masks. The feature size of thin film polarizers (pixels) obtained in this manner can be less than 10 μm.
A dry photo-polymerized glue (e.g. produced by Du Pont de Nemours) can be used for the purpose of pattern transfer. The structure of the dry photo-polymerized glue is shown in FIG. 2c. The structure includes a flexible and dry photo-polymerized glue film 215 and two protection layers 216 and 217. At the first step, the protection layer 217 is taken away and the dry glue film 215 is laminated onto the surface of the substrate 204 before the other protection layer 216 is removed. Afterwards, the above mentioned operations (IV-VII) are repeated as shown in FIG. 2b.
In FIGS. 3a-c, possible variants of the formation of photo-patterned mono- or polychromatic thin film polarizers with different local axis orientation are illustrated. The letters R(302), G(303), B(304), GB(305) and D(306) denote Red, Green, Blue, Gray (Black) and Dichroic polarizers respectively, whereas the arrow 301 shows the direction of the optical axis orientation in the corresponding pixels. The technology of the present invention allows thin (0.3-1 μm thick) photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizers to be obtained, which are either neutral or color, for LCDs applications.
In FIGS. 4a-b, another method for the fabrication of photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizers in accordance with this invention is shown. The thin film polarizers are prepared by evaporation of the LLC isotropic solution onto a photo-alignment layer. In this procedure, an initially isotropic solid film exhibiting photo-induced optical anisotropy is used as an alignment layer. The photo-induced anisotropy and the absorption dichroism are formed in the alignment film as a result of the reversible (photochromic) or irreversible (photochemical) reactions. When the molecules absorb either polarized or non-polarized quanta of light, a molecular order is formed on the surface and in the bulk of such a photo-alignment layer. The degree of molecular order depends on the exposure energy, while the direction of the preferred molecular orientation is defined by the polarization vector and the plane of light incidence.
Due to the molecular dispersion forces between the photo-alignment film and the lyotropic liquid crystal, a homogeneous orientation of the whole lyotropic layer can be made possible. It has been discovered that certain organic photochemical stable substances, illuminated by a polarized or non-polarized light, show a much higher degree of induced molecular order than that found in an active photochemical molecular layer. The molecular order, which was evaluated by the photo-induced optical anisotropy, becomes saturated in the photo-chromic substances. This is contrary to the case where the molecular order is due to the irreversible photo-chemical reaction. In the latter case, the induced optical anisotropy decreases for sufficiently high exposure energy, i.e. the molecular order depends on the exposure energy critically.
In addition it is possible to induce the photo-alignment for a lyotropic liquid crystal, using obliquely incident non-polarized light. In this case, the molecular order in the photo-alignment layer increases with the exposure energy. The preferred orientation of the lyotropic molecules is parallel to the plane of oblique incidence and depends on the interaction between the lyotropic and dye molecules. Thus expensive UV-polarizers can be eliminated and the whole production process of thin internal polarization films can be considerably simplified.
Azodye AD-1 with the following structural formula is used:
This azodye is a photo-chemically stable substance for the photo-alignment. The structural formulae of the other photo-chemically stable azodyes, which can be used for the preparation of photo-alignment layer are given in FIG. 5.
The fabrication process 400 in accordance with this embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 4a. At the first step of the process 400 (FIG. 4b), a photo-alignment layer 402 with a thickness of 10-200 nm is deposited on the top of the glass or plastic substrate 401. An amorphous film of the photo-chemically stable azodye AD-1 may be used as the photo-alignment film 402. The film was produced by spin coating, but thermal sputtering in vacuum can be used. The film 402 can also be deposited by dipping the substrate 401 in the solution of the substance AD-1. After the formation of the solid film 402, it is illuminated by light source 405. The polarizer 406, aperture mask 404 and the lens 403 constitute a simple imaging system for the photo-pattern transfer. The operation II. should be repeated to obtain a locally distributed polarization axis on the photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizers. A different set of aperture masks and polarization vectors can be used for this purpose. The polarizer 406 can be eliminated, if the photo-alignment film is exposed by non-polarized light at an oblique incidence (FIGS. 6 & 7).
After the steps II and III have been completed (FIG. 4a), the local polarization axis 408 is formed in the illuminated regions of the thin film 407 (FIG. 4b), and the regions 409 where they are not illuminated show a random axis orientation. The isotropic solution 410 of the lyotropic liquid crystal 411 is then coated onto the top of the photo-alignment layer. The lyotropic nematic ordering is restored at a certain concentration of the solvent. The desired concentration is achieved after the partial evaporation of the solvent 412, giving rise to the formation of a viscous gel film 413. The local orientations of the lyotropic molecules 414 are influenced by the local molecular order 409 in the photo-alignment layer 407. The baking-out of the solvent 415 from the lyotropic film 413 is made using a heater 416. This results in the formation of a highly ordered film 417 of the lyotropic liquid crystal with a high extinction ratio.
Thus, the technology proposed allows the obtaining of a thin (0.3-0.5 μm) one-layer film, which can be used as a neutral or color photo-patterned (pixelated) internal polarizer for LCDs. The minimal element size can be of the order of a few microns. To make a polychromatic polarizer, the lyotropic layer 417 can be coated by a new photo-alignment layer, and the operations II-VII can be repeated with other compositions of lyotropic liquid crystals. The isolation layers can be placed between different lyotropic polarization films if necessary (not shown in FIG. 4b). The total thickness of the final sandwiched photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizer can reach several microns.
Dependent on the chemical structure of the lyotropic liquid crystals, the polarization axis can be oriented either parallel or perpendicular to the molecular axis of the photo-alignment layer. For instance, the preferred orientation of the lyotropic liquid crystals (Crystal Ink™) from OPTIVA Inc. is perpendicular to that of the AD-1 dye molecules in the photo-alignment layer. This allows a thin photo-patterned (pixelated) polarizer to be obtained using the azodye AD-1 and the lyotropic liquid crystals (Crystal Ink™) from OPTIVA Inc. The thickness of the polarizer was about 0.3-1.5 μm. The AD-1 layer was illuminated by a polarized light near the wavelength of the maximum absorption. The initially colored layer became transparent along the polarization direction of the illumination and highly absorptive at the orthogonal direction (FIG. 8). At the same time the average optical density Dav:
remained practically the same. The polarization transmission spectra on the glass substrate of the thin internal lyotropic polarizer, prepared from the azodye AD-1 and lyotropic liquid crystals (Crystal Ink™) from OPTIVA Inc are shown in FIG. 9. In both technological solutions proposed in this invention, the special case is illustrated in FIG. 10 when all the local axes degenerate into a single direction using a linearly polarized light.
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Sony Alpha A55: Controls
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Sony Alpha A55: Screen
At the back the ability to move the 3:2 aspect ratio 3-inch, 921,600 dot resolution LCD screen up or down through a 270° arc to achieve more flexible framing when using the camera's live view facility is a huge bonus.
That said, we would have preferred it to be more adjustable still. Rivals have the option to flip the screen outwards and through 180° so it's usable parallel to the body, like your typical camcorder; the Sony does not.
Still, screen visibility is crystal clear, plus there's the option to alternatively use the electronic viewfinder (or 'EVF') just above, unusually appearing here rather than the more common optical variety.
Though much smaller, the EVF has a higher resolution of a 1.15-million dots, so the image viewed through it appears very life-like. It also means that the EVF can be used to relay an image when recording AVCHD or MPEG4 format video.
It offers a useful 100% field of view and we particularly enjoyed the flight simulator style spirit level that pops up in the viewfinder when lining up a shot, preventing wonky horizons when photographing handheld.
Sony Alpha A55: Speed
A knock-on effect of the first-of-its-kind see through mirror mechanism is that not only is shooting video more straightforward here than on a DSLR proper, but the camera powers up from cold in a second and the 15-point auto focus is faster still to lock on to target.
Generally the camera is as swift to respond as you'd expect a semi pro DSLR to be; bring an eye level with the viewfinder and sensors below instantly register this and turn the main LCD off, plus there is a separate button for then switching back to using the larger screen if wished.
Action photographers will also reap the benefit of up to 10 frames per second shooting - the equivalent of a professional DSLR costing nearly twice as much.
Sony Alpha A55: Battery
The Sony Alpha A55 is powered by a NP-FW50 rechargeable lithium ion pack, which slots into the base of the SLT camera's handgrip, where we also find a joint Memory Stick or SD media card slot.
Interestingly, if using primarily the EVF to compose and review shots, then the camera will last around 330 images from a full charge, whereas using the larger screen will allow up to 380 shots to be squeezed out. Either way, the battery performance is respectable if unremarkable.
Sony Alpha A55: Pictures and video
As we expect from Sony Alphas, processed JPEGs straight out of the camera are colourful and warm, so anyone trading up from a humble point and shot camera won't have an issue.
Built-in sensor vibrating body stabilisation also means that with the attached 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 aperture zoom we were able to achieve pin sharp results even when shooting handheld at maximum zoom.
As well as the ability to shoot in the creative quartet of program, aperture priority, shutter priority and manual modes, there are two auto settings on the Sony: regular auto and Auto+, the second of which we selected for trickier exposures, such as a contrast-y scene with a bright background and dark foreground.
This mode evens up said exposures to maintain detail in both shadows and highlights, and without the result looking typically wishy-washy.
Sweep Panorama mode adds the ability to shoot 3D stereoscopic still images, created here with a software fix rather than special lens, but only viewable on an actual 3D TV set.
When shooting video the LCD screen view narrows from 3:2 to 16:9 format, but the built-in microphone inevitably picks up sounds of the lens auto adjusting and your fingers moving around the camera body as you film.
The video quality is however as visually impressive as the stills, and a cut above your average camcorder.
Sony Alpha A55 Verdict
If you've considered owning a digital SLR principally for shooting video, then the Sony Alpha A55 offers a viable alternative to the Canon EOS range, and is rather easier to get to grips with.
Consider also Panasonic's DSLR-styled Lumix DMC-GH2 however, which is almost identically priced to the Sony and is another very good option for amateur photographers-come-videographers.
Sony A55 availabilty: out now:
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The 19th Annual Harvard University Pow Wow will feature Cazenovia College senior Vince Halsey's designs in its promotional materials. Halsey, a visual communications/graphic design major from Oneida, N.Y., and member of the Oneida Nation, was the winning designer in a nationwide contest that sought artwork for print materials, social media and apparel.
The Pow Wow, scheduled for May 3, 2014, on Radcliffe Yard at Harvard University's campus, will bring together Alaska Native, Native American and Native Hawaiian students and individuals in the Harvard community. Event attendees will get to view Halsey's turtle-inspired design.
"I chose the turtle because it symbolizes the Earth in the native culture," says Halsey. "It has almost a universal meaning among many native tribes."
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In the early days of Amateur Packet Radio, it was necessary to use a "Terminal Node Controller" (TNC) with specialized hardware. Those days are gone. You can now get better results at lower cost by connecting your radio to the "soundcard" interface of a computer and running free software.
Dire Wolf is a software "soundcard" modem/TNC and APRS * encoder/decoder. It can be used stand-alone to observe APRS traffic, as a digipeater, APRStt gateway, or Internet Gateway (IGate). It can also be used as a virtual TNC for other applications such as APRSIS32, UI-View32, Xastir, APRS-TW, YAAC, UISS, Linux AX25, SARTrack, RMS Express, and many others.
- Lower cost, higher performance alternative to hardware TNC.
- Version 1.2 decodes more than 1000 error-free frames from WA8LMF TNC Test CD.
- Ideal for building a Raspberry Pi digipeater & IGate.
- 300, 1200, and 9600 baud operation.
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LL teacher leaving career for the Navy
Being an educator has been the most rewarding career for Sundance Elementary School sixth-grade teacher Aletha Grugan-Redd, but she can't afford to stay.
"I'm not making it financially," Grugan-Redd said. "That's the bottom line."
Even after 10 years as a teacher, Grugan-Redd's salary isn't making ends meet, so she has been forced to look for a different job, she said.
She has been accepted into the U.S. Navy, and will resign her position at Sundance Elementary on Dec. 31, and start her military career mid-January.
As a tier-two level teacher, she would need to become nationally certified or get her master's degree, and submit a dossier in order to reach tier three and become eligible for a pay raise.
Grugan-Redd said she has been working toward her master's degree at New Mexico Tech, but the dossier or the process of becoming nationally certified, are both time consuming and costly. In fact, national certification costs $5,000.
"I would go from $40,000 to $50,000," she said. "But $40,000 isn't really what I make. I bring home about $900 every two weeks."
Other teachers like herself have been forced to abandon the education field for more lucrative positions, she said. One teacher she knows has gone into nursing, because she couldn't survive on her teacher's salary.
Money is taken from their gross salary for the mandatory educator's retirement fund, and insurance premiums have gone up every year without any salary increases, Grugan-Redd said.
"I love this career, and, I don't mean to brag, but I'm good at it," Grugan-Redd said.
"She is a stellar teacher who has a passion for everything she commits to," said Sundance Elementary Principal Mildred Chavez. "She is organized, positive, dedicated and energetic."
Military service was something Grugan-Redd was interested in as a high school student, and she found out she isn't too old yet at 34. The cut off age to enter the U.S. Navy is 35 — 29 for other branches of the military, she said.
"The Navy will pay for my master's and doctoral degrees in science and education, as well as help pay my daughters' college tuitions," Grugan-Redd said.
When she took the Navy's intelligence aptitude entry test, she scored 99 percent, which opened up several job options for her, including the advanced electronics computer field, which is what she chose.
Grugan-Redd will be trained to repair, maintain and operate 2-D and 3-D radar and weapons systems on board Navy aircraft carriers and at Naval bases, she said.
"It will probably be one of those two," she said. "Once I get in there and start doing the schooling, they'll place me in one of those two specialty areas."
She's also looking forward to being able to visit her parents, Thomas and Marla Grugan, who live in Pennsylvania.
"My father is really proud of me. I'm the son he never had," she laughs. "But my mom is scared. She's glad the Navy seems to be the safest branch. I'm not going to be on the front lines of any war."
Grugan-Redd and her husband, Scott, are looking forward to the travel they couldn't afford otherwise, and her friends all tell her enviously, "Take me with you," she said.
The Navy offers a higher starting salary than what she currently earns, plus stipends for groceries and utilities as well as free housing and benefits, she said.
"All of these things will essentially double what I make right now," Grugan-Redd said.
"I hate to say that I am doing it for the money, because it's a lot more than that, but money is a huge factor," she said.
Scott, a Los Lunas native, is an auto CAD draftsman. He was laid off from a position at Sandia National Laboratory a couple years ago, but got a job at Energy Control Incorporated in Rio Rancho, but the recession forced them to lay off workers, too.
He was lucky to find a job at Walmart, Grugan-Redd said.
The rise in property taxes added an extra $100 to their mortgage, so the couple recently moved in with Scott's parents, Bob and Judy Redd, just to make ends meet, and were forced to sell their own home before their credit was ruined, Grugan-Redd said.
She hasn't bought a new car in seven years, and the family goes without a lot of things most families consider necessary, such as cable television.
Last summer, the sixth-grade elementary school teacher worked three jobs to pay for car repairs and dental work she had been needing.
"I'm really, really going to miss teaching," she said. "It's been very fulfilling."
After graduating from training in August, Grugan-Redd will rank as an E4, or petty officer third class and receive another pay raise. After six months, she'll be eligible to try to get an E5 or apply to officer candidate school, where, after more schooling, would get a huge pay raise, she said.
"She's an ambitious young woman who has always followed her dreams," said Chavez. "She will be successful wherever she ventures. The Navy is lucky to have her on board."
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Freedmen Massacred at Opelousas
The Opelousas massacre occurred in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on September 28, 1868. It centered around Emerson Bentley, a white editor for a local newspaper called The Landry Progress and an influential schoolteacher who promoted the education of black children. Bentley wrote an article that local members of the Seymour Knights, a branch unit of the white supremacist group The Knights of the White Camellia, deemed offensive. The backlash to the article led three men to take the attempt to intimidate and severely cane Bentley, causing him to flee St. Landry. Local blacks were told that Bentley had been murdered and banded together to retaliate. While marching towards Opelousas with arms in hand, efforts were made to inform the freedmen that Bentley had not been murdered but escaped; causing some of the men to retreat, while others continued to march.
The freedmen were met by armed whites determined to defend their town. Shooting occurred by both sides and twenty-nine black prisoners were captured. On September 29, all of the captured prisoners, with the exception of two men, were taken from the prison and executed. The violence at Opelousas continued for weeks to come. The death toll of the massacre resulted in some controversy. Three white Radical Republicans and two Democrats were killed in the assault. Republicans stated that around 200-300 blacks where killed whereas the Democrats denied this claim as fraudulent and stated that only twenty-five to thirty were killed. Historians today have deduced that the Republicans were more correct in their number range.
The Freedman's Bureau ordered Lieutenant Lee to investigate the atmosphere of Opelousas. In an article written on October 8, Lee described the cause of the riot and the death count. He gave a low estimate in regards to the number of blacks killed, stating that only five died, but expressed his opinion that the death toll would increase due to blacks being unwilling to give up their arms to whites. Ultimately, Lee was positive in his reports, he believed that peace had been restored overall and stated, "no further trouble is apprehended."
The end of the Civil War resulted in widespread violence in the South due to racial and political tensions. A majority of newly freed African Americans strongly supported the Republican Party, angering prominent southern Democrats. The inability to accept racial equality led to the growth of white supremacist groups, the most noteworthy being the Ku Klux Klan. White radicals sought to silence African Americans and those who supported them through various scare tactics and physical violence, such was the case at Opelousas.
Historian Carolyn DeLatte argued that the white Southerners acted in the same manner that they had for many years. This time, however, "the vengeance visited upon the Negroe population was greater, as blacks were no longer protected by any consideration of their monetary value." The riot echoed its influence in the political as well as social arena, where whites bounded together to protect their rights from black infringement, and blacks stepped away from their right to vote in order to evade persecution.
- "Louisiana: The Recent Disturbances in Opelousas-Results of the Investigations Ordered by the Freedmen's Bureau," New York Times (1857-1922), October 8 1868.
- Carolyn E. DeLatte, "The St. Landry Riot: A Forgotten Incident of Reconstruction Violence," Louisiana Historical Association 17 (1976): 41-49.
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1988), 342.
- Robert Selph Henry, The Story of Reconstruction (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938), 341.


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South Carolina conducted its first scrimmage of preseason camp Saturday morning at Williams-Brice Stadium, and as usual, it was a mixed bag of results.
Quarterback Dylan Thompson and the first-team offense looked solid in limited reps, while the defense stymied the running game but gave up several big plays in the passing game. It's about what Steve Spurrier was expecting.
"Our D-line stopped the run very well," Spurrier said. "Our offense didn't run the ball very well at all. Quarterbacks hit a few here and there, but overall pretty sloppy. Everybody got to play a bit and nobody got hurt, so that's always good."
Thompson was sharp, especially early. He was 9-of-15 passing for 114 yards and a 3-yard scoring pass to Jerell Adams on the opening drive of the scrimmage. On that opening drive, the senior was 5 for 7 for 70 yards. He had a 24-yard completion to Pharoh Cooper and connected with Shaq Roland on two passes for 31 yards.
That was the first of two scoring drives directed by Thompson. Shon Carson capped another drive with a 7-yard touchdown run.
"He did pretty well," Spurrier said of Thompson. "He did it about the way we've practiced. He's ready to go."
The battle for the No. 2 quarterback position might have gotten closer. Connor Mitch and Perry Orth each performed well, but Orth had two scoring passes - a 55-yard strike to Cooper and a 15-yard toss to Deebo Samuel - to complete the four scoring drives by the offense.
Orth led the way by going 9 of 13 for 147 yards and two touchdowns, while Mitch was 6 of 9 for 52 yards.
Spurrier understands he has nearly three full weeks before he has to decide who would be the No. 2 signal-caller if Thompson is injured or struggles.
"We don't have to make that decision until probably game time, so we'll let them keep competing for it," Spurrier said. "I don't know who would go in there. Probably both of them. When the first one messes up, the other would go in. They could be co-No. 2's. We have a lot more practice time to hopefully find that second guy."
The passing game accounted for 344 yards, but the running game never got on track and totaled just 1 net yards rushing on 24 attempts. Mike Davis had four carries for 11 yards, but with the sacks factored in, it was a dismal morning for the rushing.
Defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward still wasn't pleased with the overall performance. The young secondary dropped several interceptions, was flagged a couple of times for holding or pass interference and gave up huge chucks of passing yards. Senior Brison Williams played limited snaps at cornerback, and that gave the four freshmen who will probably factor heavily into the rotation a chance to get plenty of live action. Al Harris Jr. has been taking a lot of first-team reps, with Chris Lammons and Wesley Green getting ample opportunities as well. Holdovers Rico McWilliams and Jamari Smith are also in the mix.
"We played all right against the run, but we've got to play better against the pass," Ward said. "Too many big plays. Young and old, we have to get better. We have to catch the ball. We've got to be able to get off the field. There were some third-down situations they had where they stayed on the field. We've got to eliminate the holding calls that gave them first downs. Those are the plays that get you beat."
PASSING: Perry Orth 9-13-1-147, 2 TD; Dylan Thompson 9-15-0-114, 1 TD; Connor Mitch 6-9-0-52; Michael Scarnecchia 3-7-0-31. TOTALS: 27-44-1-344, 3 TD.
RUSHING: Mike Davis 4-11; Brendan Nosovitch 1-9; Darius Paulk 3-5; Brandon Wilds 2-4; Devin Potter 2-4; Shon Carson 5-1, 1 TD; Connor Mitch 1-(-4); Perry Orth 1-(-7); Michael Scarnecchia 5-(-22). TOTALS: 24-1, 1 TD.
RECEIVING: Deebo Samuel 3-45, 1 TD; Shaq Roland 3-44; Damiere Byrd 3-28; Brandon Wilds 3-25; Pharoh Cooper 2-80, 1 TD; Jerell Adams 2-22, 1 TD; Carlton Heard 2-14; K.J. Brent 1-17; Kane Whitehurst 1-15; Shamier Jeffery 1-14; Shon Carson 1-12; Jacob August 1-10; Drew Owens 1-7; Nick McGriff 1-4; Rod Talley 1-4; Darius Paulk 1-3. TOTALS: 27-344, 3 TD.
Jerell Adams 3-yard pass from Dylan Thompson (Elliott Fry kick)
Shon Carson 7-yard run (Landon Ard kick)
Pharoh Cooper 55-yard pass from Perry Orth (Elliott Fry kick)
Deebo Samuel 15-yard pass from Perry Orth (no PAT attempted)
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"You don't have a gun; that's good."
That was how Richard Fuld greeted a Reuters reporter who had tracked him down to his country house in a bucolic setting beside a river and amid tree-covered slopes in Ketchum, Idaho last Friday.
The man vilified for the collapse of Lehman Brothers almost a year ago, a failure that triggered the global economic crisis, seemed burdened but not crushed by the pressure of the upcoming anniversary.
Standing on his gravelly driveway wearing a black fleece vest, dark gray shorts and sandals, Fuld indicated he was torn about speaking out in his own defense, partly because of ongoing litigation but also because he felt the world was not ready to listen.
"You know what? The anniversary's coming up," he said. "I've been pummeled, I've been dumped on, and it's all going to happen again. I can handle it. You know what, let them line up."
Fuld again emphasized his concern about what will be said and written about him in the days leading up to the Sept. 15 anniversary of the Lehman collapse but also stressed his ability to see it through.
"They're looking for someone to dump on right now, and that's me," Fuld lamented and later added: "You know what they say? 'This too shall pass."'
Fuld, 63, took Lehman's reins in 1994 when it was troubled and rebuilt it into the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, a Wall Street powerhouse whose massively profitable mortgage banking machine inspired rivals' envy. Even Goldman Sachs was nervous.
But it was forced to file the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history after it choked under the weight of souring assets and lost investor confidence, and as the U.S. government and Federal Reserve failed to find a buyer and decided not to come up with a rescue package.
Fuld was then humiliated before a Congressional panel last October as stock markets spiraled downwards. He was told by one politician that he was the designated "villain" of the day and screamed at by protesters who called for him to be jailed.
Since then, he has mostly ducked the spotlight, allowing an image of greed, arrogance and failure to cling unchallenged to his name.
In Ketchum on Friday, Fuld said he wanted to speak but didn't see the point. "Nobody wants to hear it. The facts are out there. Nobody wants to hear it, especially not from me."
The former CEO, who embraced the "gorilla" nickname that characterized his fierce and intimidating business style, looked and sounded sad as he lingered with the surprise visitor outside the house, which is beside a river in the Rocky Mountains.
Fuld, who said he had hiked up a nearby mountain earlier in the day, declined to speak about his current work.
But friends and acquaintances say he has started his own consulting firm named Matrix Advisors LLC, based out of an office on Third Avenue in New York. He is also doing some work for restructuring firm Alvarez and Marsal, helping to unwind Lehman free of charge, according to sources.
He commutes from his Greenwich, Connecticut estate into Manhattan about three to four times a week, and has been seen at breakfasts and lunches with former colleagues at top-class restaurants in New York and Greenwich.
"He's keeping a low profile but doing a lot of power-lunches," a top executive at a big investment bank said. "He's keeping in touch with friends on Wall Street."
But behind those power lunches is a man clearly worried about being slammed all over again.


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