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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Nobody in the New York Yankees' clubhouse seems surprised by their domination during a seven-game winning streak. They're just bewildered it took six weeks to get this good.
Derek Jeter and Tino Martinez hit three-run homers, Alex Rodriguez added his major league-leading 12th shot and the Yankees beat the slumping Oakland Athletics for the fourth time in eight days, 15-6 on Saturday night.
Jorge Posada also homered while Martinez had three hits and drove in five runs for the Yankees, who have scored 59 runs during their longest winning streak in more than a year. Hideki Matsui matched his career high with four of New York's 18 hits.
Kevin Brown (2-4) won his second straight start for the Yankees (18-19), who are back within a game of third-place Toronto in the AL East after their April struggles.
Though they concentrated largely on improving their pitching staff in the offseason, they're winning with the same big bats that got them within a game of the World Series last fall. The Yankees rarely lack for confidence or motivation, and both are in ample
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"This isn't a team that's going to be content with just winning," Rodriguez said. "We want perfection, and we want to keep getting better."
An Oakland fan threw a beer at Jason Giambi from a seat near the New York dugout after the slugger flied out in the eighth inning.
Giambi was dampened but uninjured, and the Yankees moved ahead for another confidence-boosting win with their usual solid pitching -- and one clutch hit after another.
New York demolished Joe Blanton and the A's early on -- every batter except Gary Sheffield had a hit by the fourth. New York sent 35 hitters to the plate in the first five innings, with Jeter and Tony Womack batting in each of the first four frames.
"We're swinging the bats with a lot of confidence right now," manager Joe Torre said. "We just feel people are going to have trouble beating us. As long as we don't begin to assume that, I think we're going to be OK."
Blanton (0-4) yielded nine runs, seven hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings. Martinez homered off reliever Tim Harikkala in the fourth, and Posada added a two-run shot in the fifth.
Oakland has allowed 35 runs in its four straight losses to the Yankees.
Martinez's homer onto the short right field porch was his sixth homer in seven games. His five-game homer streak -- New York's longest since 1987 -- ended Friday night, but the veteran first baseman also had a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring single.
"I've been feeling good for a few days now," Martinez said. "All the guys on the team just seem to be getting clutch hits. We just figured once we started playing the way we're capable, we could get something going."
That provided more than enough support for Brown, New York's struggling 40-year-old right-hander. He had lost seven straight starts dating to last season before beating the A's twice in six days.
Brown's teammates staked him to a 4-0 lead in Oakland before he threw a pitch and then gave him an eight-run cushion in the third and a 12-run margin in the fifth. Brown hardly needed to be sharp, but he allowed eight hits and three earned runs in six innings.
"That makes it a lot easier," Brown said. "You can go out there and just go right at guys and make them swing the bat. When you've got runs up there, it's not quite such a desperate situation."
Though Blanton still hasn't earned his first major-league win, he had pitched superbly in his rookie season until running into the Yankees, who have beaten him twice in a row. His ERA ballooned from 3.22 to 5.08 before manager Ken Macha removed him to scattered booing in the third.
"I haven't been making pitches and falling behind on hitters, and that catches up to you," Blanton said. "I gave up hits, but I gave up walks, and that's the worst part for a guy like me who relies on his control."
Thanks to Blanton's first-inning jitters and horrific control, New York scored four runs without an extra-base hit. Matsui drew a bases-loaded walk, and another run scored when Blanton hit Rodriguez with the bases loaded.
Rodriguez hit a solo homer to center in the third, and the next five batters all reached base. Jeter chased Blanton with his fourth homer of the year, a hard shot to right-center.
"They have a pretty good team over there," Macha said. "They picked us apart, and they made [Blanton] pay for his mistakes. These guys are going to have to ride this out."
Giambi went 1-for-4 with a walk in his second straight start as the Yankees' designated hitter, slightly raising his average to .200. He had a solid first-inning single but never got past first base while the usual boos rained down on the former A's star.
Game notes
Ruben Sierra, on the Yankees' disabled list with a torn right biceps, should rejoin the club in Seattle on Monday. He would be available as a DH or pinch-hitter. ... Bobby Crosby, Oakland's injured shortstop, joined the club's broadcasters in the booth. Crosby, out with broken ribs, hit off a tee and took fielding practice Friday.


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stunning jungle vine that clambers high into the forest canopy. Large sections of the vine have a distinctive markings with the mild fragrance of clove, hence the name "Clavo Huasca, or clove vine." It is far and wide one of the more famous botanical vines in the upper Amazon often being cultivated near village huts. Destined to become well-known in North America someday because of its excellent antipyretic compounds and the mischevious reputation often employed in women's love potions. It is often refered to as "rompe Calozones" or " break your underwear." Sections of the vine bear a distinctive maltese cross when severed from the mother plants. It regrows readily in the humid tropics. The bark of this great vine is highly regarded in the Amazon region as a remedy for impotence, weak erections, and as an aphrodisiac for men and women. It is relied on for its analgesic properties in fevers, aches and arthritis. It is also used as a stomach and digestive aid.


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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/323,378, filed Sep. 19, 2001 and titled Method and Apparatus for the Correction of Optical Signal Wave Front Distortion Using Adaptive Optics.
The present invention is related generally to the correction of distortion of optical signals and, in particular, to the use of adaptive optics to correct that distortion.
There are nearly limitless uses for optical signals in many different fields for many different purposes. For example, such signals may be used in communications systems when analog or digital data is modulated upon an optical carrier signal, such as in an optical switch. Signals in such systems are then transmitted from one point to another using fiber optics or via free-space transmissions. Additionally, optical signals collected by telescopes are used in astronomy to view distant astronomical bodies and phenomena. There are also many uses for optical signals in the medical field. For example, by transmitting an optical signal into the human eye, it is possible to detect the light reflected off of the retina in that eye and then create an accurate map of the retina.
The operation of systems using optical signals may be hampered by a variety of factors. For example, distortion of a transmitted planar wave front of the light beam may occur due to any changes in the refractive properties of the medium through which the beam passes, including changes due to temperature variations, turbulence, index of refraction variations or other phenomena. This distortion may cause discrete sections of the wave front to deviate from the orthogonal orientation to the line of travel of the beam as initially transmitted. This distortion may result in significant degradation of the wave front at its destination. In free-space communications systems, any disturbance in the atmosphere between the transmission point and the receiving point may cause certain portions of the beam to move faster than others resulting in the aforementioned wave front distortion. The same is true in astronomical and medical uses. For example, when used to create a map of the human retina, wave front distortion does not typically result from atmospheric disturbance but, instead, results from the light beam passing first into, and then out of, the eye through its lens. The small imperfections on the lens and cornea distort the wave front of the beam much like the distortion seen in communications or astronomical uses. Whatever the particular use, the result is the same: distortion prevents a planar wave front of the beam from being received at its destination in phase.
Adaptive optics uses a wave front sensor to measure phase aberrations in an optical system and a deformable mirror or other wave front compensating device to correct these aberrations. Deformable mirrors change their shape in order to bring the reflected wave front into phase. Until recently, these mirrors were typically deformed via piezoelectric drivers, mechanical screws, or other well-known methods. In recent methods, however, a deformable mirror may be actuated by a technique wherein an array of electrodes is located in electrostatic proximity to that mirror in the optical system. Electrostatic proximity means, as used herein, that by placing a voltage across these electrodes, an attractive force is created between those electrodes and the mirror. This procedure is known as electrostatic actuation. By controlling the attractive force along different portions of the mirror surface, the shape of the mirror may be altered in a known way, thereby at least partially correcting for the wave front distortion. Another adaptive optics method involves using magnetic forces to attract or repel portions of a mirror.
Systems using such deformable mirrors, however, have significant limitations. For example, prior art adaptive optics systems relying on electrostatic actuation to correct the shape of a wave front cannot cause an attraction between a particular electrode and a discrete portion of the mirror in one instant, and then cause a repelling electrostatic force between that particular electrode and that same portion of the mirror the next instant, or vice versa. Additionally, the voltage necessary to create a given pressure at a particular location on the mirror is nonlinearly dependent upon the distance from the mirror to the relevant electrode. Since this distance is always changing (e.g., portions of the mirror would be drawn closer to the electrode when the mirror was actively deformed), the same voltage used in different instances could cause significantly different results in the shape of the mirror at a particular location. Deformable mirrors using magnetic force to alter the shape of a mirror in order to correct the shape of the wave front also have significant limitations. For example, such mirrors required electric coils that, when energized, created significant heat. This heat has the effect of rendering the mirrors unsuitable for certain uses (e.g., infrared imaging) and, in extreme cases, could result in undesirable thermal stresses to various components of the system.
The aforementioned problems related to wave front distortion correction are solved by the present invention. In accordance with the present invention, a bound charge is integrated within a mirror or in a material mechanically coupled with the mirror. A portion of the bound charge layer near a particular electrode in a first group of electrodes located in electrostatic proximity to the bound charge layer will alternately be attracted or repelled from that particular electrode by changing the sign of the voltage across that electrode. Thus, the mirror that is mechanically coupled to this bound charge layer will similarly be attracted or repelled from that particular electrode. In one embodiment, a second group of electrodes located on the opposite side of the mirror from the first group of electrodes may be used to define the electrical field and enhance the ability of a particular electrode in the first group to selectively attract or repel a particular portion of the mirror. It is advantageous to arrange the groups of electrodes in planes.
FIG. 1 shows a prior art mirror redirecting an incoming light beam in a new direction;
FIG. 2 shows a prior art mirror wherein electrostatic force generated by a plane of electrodes is used to alter the shape of the mirror;
FIG. 3 shows a prior art mirror wherein a second plane of electrodes in the optical path is used to increase the degree of deformation of the mirror;
FIG. 4 shows a mirror in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention wherein a bound charge layer is affixed to the mirror;
FIG. 5 shows the mirror of FIG. 4 wherein a first plane of electrodes and a second plane of electrode, on opposite sides of the mirror respectively, are used to define the electrical field around the mirror; and
FIG. 6 shows a graph showing the relationship between spatial frequency and amplitude of deformation of both prior art mirrors and the mirror in FIG. 4.
FIG. 1 shows a prior art structure utilizing a mirror 101 to reflect or focus light beam 102. Light beam 102 may be an optical signal passing through an optical network switch, an optical signal in a free-space optical communications system, light reflected from a portion of the human eye, or a light beam in any other application whereby a mirror is used to focus or alter the path of the beam. The mirror 101 may be created by etching a silicon substrate with one side of the substrate deposited with one or more layers of material such as silicon nitride, single crystal silicon, polysilicon, polyimide, or other known materials, using methods that are well known in the art.
In order to create an easily-deformable mirror, the material is typically etched, leaving side walls 103, until a membrane of as little as 1 micron remains. The membrane is reflective such that, upon reaching the mirror, light beam 102 traveling in direction 104 is reflected from the surface of the mirror and is redirected in direction 105. A metallic coating (e.g., aluminum) may be formed on this membrane to enhance reflectivity. Tension is maintained in mirror 101 by connecting side walls 103 to a supporting frame using well known methods.
As previously discussed, wave front distortion may result when any changes to the refractive properties of the transmitting medium are encountered along the line of travel 104 of the light beam. These changes may cause discrete sections of the wave front of the beam to deviate from their transmitted, orthogonal orientation to the line of travel 104 of the beam 102. The result is a distortion of the image of the wave front when it reaches its destination, which may be for example a mirror, a focal plane of a telescope, an optical wave front sensor (e.g., a curvature wave front sensor or a Shack-Hartman wave front sensor), or any other destination. By way of example, in optical communications systems, distortion may result in significant degradation of the communications signal or even the total loss of communications.
FIG. 2 shows the structure of FIG. 1 wherein electrostatic force is used to deform the reflective surface of the mirror to correct for wave front distortion of the light beam 102 in accordance with the prior art. The mirror 201 illustrated in FIG. 2 can at least partially correct for the effects of wave front distortion. By measuring the aforementioned distortion using well-known techniques, the shape of the mirror necessary to correct for that distortion is determined. The mirror 201, which is suspended between side walls 203 and is grounded, is deformed using an electrostatic force that is created by passing a voltage across at least one electrode in a plane 202 of electrodes a distance d below the mirror 201. By then selectively placing a voltage across one or more of those electrodes, such as electrode 204, located directly beneath the area of mirror 201 to be deformed, that area is attracted toward electrode 204 in direction 205. The result of passing various voltages across individual electrodes in plane 202 deforms the different sections of the mirror in a way such that, when the light beam is incident upon the mirror 201, the aforementioned wave front deformation is reduced. The aforementioned technique for correcting wave front distortion by detecting said distortion and translating that information into discrete voltages to create deformation of a mirror is well known in the art. An example of this method and apparatus, used in a free space optical communications system, is described in the co-pending U.S. patent application titled "Method and Apparatus for the Correction of Optical Signal Wave Front Distortion Within a Free-Space Optical Communications System," having Ser. No. 09/896,804, filed Jun. 29, 2001.
FIG. 3 shows the structure of FIG. 2 wherein the reflective surface of mirror 301, which is suspended between side walls 303 and is grounded, can compensate for a greater degree of wave front distortion than the embodiment in FIG. 2. As previously discussed, the side walls 303 are mounted to a support structure using well known methods. The greater degree of compensation afforded by the embodiment in FIG. 3 is accomplished by adding a second electrode plane 307 at a distance d1 from that mirror on the opposite side of the mirror 301 from the first plane 302 of electrodes. As plane 307 is in the optical path of the light beam, that plane may consist of a transparent electrode, a circular electrode ring, or any other electrode type that will not significantly obstruct the path of the beam. When voltage V1 is placed across electrode 307, mirror 301 is drawn toward that electrode in direction 306. As in the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, by passing a voltage across electrode 304, the mirror will be attracted toward that electrode in direction 305. Such a wider range of movement in either direction 305 or direction 306 facilitates correction of a greater degree of wave front distortion of the light beam 102.
Systems using the prior art mirror structures of FIGS. 1, 2, and 3 have significant limitations. These systems cannot cause an attraction between a particular electrode and a discrete portion of the mirror in one instant, and then cause a repelling electrostatic force between that particular electrode and that same portion of the mirror the next instant, or vice versa. Additionally, the voltage necessary to create a given pressure at a particular location on the mirror is nonlinearly dependent upon the distance from the mirror to the relevant electrode. Since this distance is always changing (e.g., portions of the mirror would be drawn closer to the electrode when the mirror was actively deformed), the same voltage used in different instances could cause significantly different results in the shape of the mirror at a particular location.
FIG. 4 shows a structure in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention wherein a bound charge layer of material 404 is affixed or otherwise mechanically coupled to a surface of the mirror 401. A bound charge, as used herein, is a permanent or semi-permanent electric polarization of a dielectric material. Such a polarization can be created, for example, by implanting charges in a dielectric material. Additionally, a ferroelectric layer may be polarized or the dielectric material may be exposed to ionizing radiation. Mechanical coupling with a mirror, as used herein, means that the bound-charged layer is integrated with the mirror; or is in contact with the mirror through a layer or layers of intermediate material or through another structure or structures (e.g., one or more posts or springs connecting the bound charge layer to the mirror).
Mirror 401 of thickness B may be produced, as discussed previously, by etching a substrate of thickness D of silicon with one side of the substrate deposited with a layer of material such silicon nitride, single crystal silicon, polysilicon, polyimide, or other known materials using well-known methods. Etching from surface 402 will result in side walls 403 of depth A (typically on the order of 5 millimeters) and reflective mirror surface 401. The material forming the side walls 403 may be retained in the operational mirror as such material adds rigidity to the mirror structure. Etching a substrate to create membrane mirrors is only intended to be representative in nature. Any other method for creating a mirror capable of being deformed electrostatically may be used to implement the present invention.
A layer 404 of dielectric material of thickness C is affixed to the surface of the etched substrate opposite from the etched surface. An illustrative material suitable for this purpose is Teflon� (or another dielectric material) which may be spin-coated or deposited or grown onto the substrate to create a layer of material one or a few microns thick. Once this layer 404 is formed, a persistent bound charge may be implanted therein via a corona discharge in a plasma with a DC electric field, or via other well known methods. Using such a discharge, a charge is created within the layer 404 of Teflon� of a density from 10−7 to 10−9 C/cm2 that is persistent for many years under a variety of conditions. While a charge in Teflon� created in the above manner creates an acceptable bound charge layer, other methods of mechanically coupling a bound charge layer to the mirror are also possible. For instance, the mirror itself may be constructed of a material suitable for holding a charge. Alternatively, a charge may be created semi-permanently in the mirror by attaching a capacitor to it.
FIG. 5 shows an adaptive optics embodiment of the structure of FIG. 4. In this embodiment, the mirror 401 is supported between two electrode planes, 501 and 503. Electrode plane 503 serves to add an electric field with known characteristics above the bound charge layer. This field enables a greater degree of control of the mirror 401. The two planes 501 and 503 are separated by distance D and may advantageously be placed at an equal distance from bound charge layer 404 (i.e., d1=d2). In operation, an optical signal is received by an optical system within which mirror 401 is supported. A well-known wave front sensing technique (e.g., using a Shack-Hartman or a curvature wave front sensor) is used to measure distortions in the wave front of the optical signal. If distortions are detected, well-known techniques are used to determine the deformation of mirror 401 necessary to compensate for that distortion. As previously discussed, placing a voltage across individual electrodes, such as electrode 502 within plane 501, will result in a deformation of the mirror 401. Such electrodes may be arranged advantageously in an array in a way such that, by placing individually-controlled voltages across multiple electrodes in the array, multiple areas on the surface of the mirror 401 can be deformed to compensate for the aforementioned wave front distortion. Since a bound charge is implanted into the dielectric material 404 mechanically coupled to the mirror 401, and because the electric field above the bound charge layer is known, changing the sign of the voltage passed over that electrode will result in a different, known direction of deformation. If the sign is the same as the sign of the bound charge, the area of bound charge layer 404, and hence mirror 401, nearest to the respective electrode will be repelled away from that electrode. On the other hand, if the sign of the voltage passed across the electrode is the opposite of the sign of the bound charge, the bound charge layer 404 and mirror 401 will be attracted to that electrode. Electrode plane 503 is transparent and is in the optical path of the light beam. This plane is a ground connection that, together with electrode 502 and mirror 401 with dielectric material 404, serves to define the electric field geometry and adds predictability to the resulting deformation of the mirror 401 compared with the case where such a transparent electrode is not used. For the case where distance d2 in FIG. 4 is equal to distance d1, and for small displacements of the bound charge layer 404, the pressure exerted on the bound charge layer 404 may be defined by the relationship:
wherein P is the pressure exerted upon the mirror, a is the charge density bound within dielectric layer 404, and D is the distance between the two planes of electrodes in FIG. 5. For the case where d2 is different from d1, this equation becomes:
The pressure exerted on a prior art mirror such as used in FIG. 2 is defined by the relationship:
wherein P, once again, is the pressure exerted on the mirror, εo is a constant (8.87�10−12 μm), V is the voltage passed over the relevant electrode, and d is the distance from the mirror to the plane of the relevant electrode. In the case of the mirror as used in FIG. 3, wherein two planes of electrodes are used, the pressure exerted upon the mirror potentially depends upon two different planes of electrodes. In this case, the pressure is defined by the relationship:
wherein P is the pressure upon the mirror at a particular location, εo is a constant, V is the voltage applied to an electrode 304 in FIG. 3 in plane 302, d is the distance from the mirror to electrode 304, V1 is the voltage applied to electrode 308 in FIG. 3 within plane 307, and d1 is the distance from the mirror to electrode 308.
As is readily apparent from the equations, in accordance with the present invention where d2=d1 in FIG. 5, the pressure exerted on the bound charge layer 404 in FIG. 5 defined by Equation 1 is entirely independent from the distance of the mirror from any individual plane of electrodes. For any given distance between planes 501 and 503 in FIG. 5, this pressure is directly linear with the voltage applied to the electrodes in plane 501. Controlling the pressure exerted upon the bound charge layer 404 is a matter of varying the voltage V applied to the electrode 502. In the prior art cases described by Equations 2 and 3, the pressure exerted upon the mirror is dependent upon both the square of the voltage V and V1 and inversely upon the square of the distance from each plane of electrodes, 302 and 307 respectively. As a result, the necessary voltage V (or V1) to achieve a unit increase in pressure P constantly changes with the change in the distances d and d1 from the mirror to the planes of electrodes. Therefore, varying the pressure upon the mirror in these prior art cases requires a complex control algorithm.
FIG. 6 shows a graph of the amplitude of displacement of the mirror, 401 in FIG. 5, as a function of the spatial frequency of the membrane forming the mirror. Spatial frequency measures the degree of complexity of the mirror shape that the device may accommodate, and hence the complexity of wave front distortion that the device can correct. Increasing the electrostatic pressure (e.g., by increasing the voltage across an electrode) increases the spatial frequency response of the membrane, represented by axis 601. Line 603 represents the relationship between spatial frequency and the amplitude of the displacement of the prior art mirror 301 in FIG. 3 used in conjunction with a single plane of electrodes. Line 604 represents the same relationship for the embodiment of the present invention shown herein in FIG. 5 where a bound charge layer is used in conjunction with two planes of electrodes. Both line 603 and 604 vary inversely with the square of the spatial frequency, i.e. the amplitude of displacement of the membrane decreases as spatial frequency increases. However, for a given spatial frequency 605, the prior art membrane of FIG. 3 will only exhibit displacement amplitude 605, while the mirror used in the embodiment of the present invention will exhibit a significantly higher displacement amplitude 606. As a result, when using the mirror in accordance with the principles of the present invention, less voltage is required to achieve the same displacement as in the prior art.
The foregoing merely illustrates the principles of the invention. It will thus be appreciated that those skilled in the art will be able to devise various arrangements that, although not explicitly described or shown herein, embody the principles of the invention and are within its spirit and scope. Furthermore, all examples and conditional language recited herein are intended expressly to be only for pedagogical purposes to aid the reader in understanding the principles of the invention and are to be construed as being without limitation to such specifically recited examples and conditions. Diagrams herein represent conceptual views of mirrors and light beams. Diagrams of optical components are not necessarily shown to scale but are, instead, merely representative of possible physical arrangements of such components.
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The women came to Bill's Gun Shop in Robbinsdale for a number of reasons, just as their varied purposes for arrival echoed the diversity of the crowd.
Last weekend, the popular shop and range held its third "Girls with Guns Gala and Expo," offering attendees a thorough makeup of gun safety and applicable handgun instruction.
This was the third time in the past 15 months that Bill's has held the event, and given the popularity of the two-plus-hour course and adjoining expo (jewelry, cosmetics, apparel) more like-minded seminars are soon to come.
"Speaking from a woman's point of view, I think women are more empowered now," says Bill's office manager Chelaine Palmgren, who oversees the Gala. "In today's society, you need to feel a little safer, so that you can walk the streets, so you can be alone. And there are a lot more women that are alone--single mothers, women getting married older. They don't have that man around--they chose not to. For themselves they're feeling, 'I have to learn to be safe.' From the shooting aspect of the class, they're feeling safe for handling the gun and on the other hand once they do it they say, 'My gosh, this is so much fun.'"
Palmgren has seen a rise in gun sales in the last year, noting that, in 2010, gun buys among women were up 30 percent from the year previous. She also seen far more young women in their teens and 20s on the range, and adds with educated certainty that current events have played a role in the bevy of females walking into her shop.
"The Arizona shootings: that's why a lot of the women are here," Palmgren says. "They're here because they really want to understand what gun safety is all about. They want to be able to recognize a gun. Is it a real gun? Is it not a real gun? The [reports] mentioned that the shooter in Arizona used a Glock--which is a 9 millimeter--when he shot the congresswoman. People are like, 'What's a Glock?'"
The event begins with an hour-long basic safety course, during which instructor Teresa Reiter offers a straight-talk approach to an overview of handgun safety, description of ammunition, and the proper way to both handle a handgun and align one's body. Knowledge of the subject matter usurps politics here, and Reiter keeps the session moving with a steady flow of conversational instruction peppered with cultural reference.
"Please forget everything you've learned from a Hollywood screen," Reiter tells a captivated audience of more than 30 women of varying ages in the day's third and final session. After Reiter moves through a taut syllabus, the women will move to the range, where they'll fire three handguns: a .22 caliber, a Glock 9, and a .38 caliber.
The mood amongst the attendees varies as the session moves to the range. Keeping the event both fluid and thorough, the Minnesota Kali Group provides hands-on self-defense instruction for those waiting in line to fire a weapon.
While some of the women are familiar with handguns, for others, this will be the first time shooting a gun.
"I've done shooting in the past, but I also know that I have bad habits so I wanted to learn from the bottom up again," said Gala attendee Kathrine Hill. "I do have a couple of new guns that I want to get started with, but I want to get started with them correctly. I call them 'Bubba' and 'Maxine.' Bubba is made in Minnesota, an Arctic Panther rifle. Maxine is a Wilson 45."
Speaking of the quality of the seminar, Hill continued:
"I thought it was very good. It was really interesting because there are differences, physiologically, between women and men. It made a lot of sense what she [Reiter] was talking about with the chest and the hips. A woman teaching women made a lot of sense.
"What I've found with most women is that the first time they have a gun, a husband or a father or brother gives it to them, and it's a big 'ol shotgun and they don't show them how to hold it correctly. It goes off, it's loud, it's painful, they sometimes fall--and you've got guys laughing at you. And from then on they absolutely hate guns. Hate guns, be against them, don't own them, but anybody--especially women who don't know how to load them or shoot one--is just abdicating the safety of them to somebody who may not care. And that's unacceptable."
Not all who signed up came to Bill's with as much experience in firearms.
"I though it would be good to learn how to use a gun safety and smartly without having the influence of men doing the guy talk," said Carrie Landes after her range session. Landes had only shot a gun once before. "I was nervous. I was all shaky. But they were awesome, watching over you and making sure you're doing stuff right and explaining what you're doing. It is a good thing for women to learn, and to hear it from someone else other than their boyfriend or husband. Because you just get a paraphrased guy-version sometimes."
Gala-goer "Vanessa" (name changed for safety purposes) signed up because of a more immediate sense of self-protection.
"I have a restraining order against my ex. I probably didn't have to go as fierce as I do, but I did," she said, adding that it was her first experience with shooting. "Just to be safe. So I was interested in the course. It's good to learn and be aware. Last night I was downtown and all my friends aren't paying attention. I'm the one that's looking around. So I just want to be more aware, be ready."
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- +2Good Question... I asked that too, and I did research and I found a giant block of salt near the area of where Sodom was.
Want to find it? Look for it by typing that question in a Search Engine. and look under Archaeology if you truly want to know. I did my research.
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- pdarkow evangel... 2012/11/14 23:35:09That's why I asked because in my opinion if they find or have found a pillar of salt that Lot's wife was turned into. That would put at least some proof that they have found the right place and not be mistaken about which place they have found. Yes I watched the videos unfortunately the sound isn't working too good on my computer so couldn't hear very well
- And I am glad you asked that YES they did. But the reason I asked you to look was this. I myself was so excited when I found new evidence on my own, and it met more to me by looking.
And I wanted you to experience that also. The Bible stories of the old Testament are being discovered to be true and i knew they were anyway but Biblical Archaeology is a wonderful study.
I always asked that question as well like you.
HEY DID YOU KNOW THAT THEY FOUND CHARIOT WHEELS IN THE RED SEA? YES THEY DID, AND FOUND SPIRES, AND GOLD RING AND NOSE OBJECTS, There is much evidence that confirms the story of the crossing of the Red Sea also
- pdarkow evangel... 2012/11/14 23:52:08
- Good! I love Archaeology, I took two years of Biblical Archaeology at Liberty University
Anyway, Off to Wednesday Bible Study Catch you later,
If you have any other questions, let me know and I can research for you.
- pdarkow evangel... 2012/11/17 19:29:46Where is Liberty University?
Major: Biblical Studies
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- +2Brother... I use to an Atheist also, like them and I use to bash the Bible and curse God. Then I found Jesus and He changed my life in 2005 and I am 57 now so I wasted a great deal of my life but God has called us to share the Gospel and i hope that some will be pulled out of the fire before they die
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Oct. 30, 2007 -- Cancer researchers today reported that blood levels of vitamin D -- whether high or low -- may not help prevent adults from dying of cancer over a dozen years.
But colorectal cancer may be the exception, according to the scientists, who included D. Michal Freedman, PhD, MPH, of the National Cancer Institute.
Vitamin D has attracted attention from researchers for its possible anticancer effects.
Freedman's team studied data on more than 16,800 people aged 17 and older who participated in U.S. health studies between 1988 and 1994.
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Freedman and colleagues followed the participants through 2000. During those 12 years, 536 participants died of cancer.
Participants' vitamin D levels at the study's start didn't appear to affect cancer mortality in general, regardless of age, sex, race, or other factors.
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Death rates for the other cancers that were studied, including lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, other digestive cancers, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and leukemia, weren't linked to vitamin D blood levels.
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Awesome, but, how would you make it the wallpaper?
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can't seem to do that. I have an Iphone so I may need help there.
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I will be posting a video tutorial once I clear some work out of my queue.
Open this page on your iPhone. Tap on the picture of the picture (inception much?) and it should load a page with the full sized one on a white background. Tap & hold to save it to your camera roll (or icloud or whatever). Open the picture from your pictures folder and click the box with the arrow coming out of it. Tap set as, and pick where you want it.
Thank you.
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