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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready hosted his 14th annual Crohn's Disease benefit in Seattle over the weekend and he brought along a few famous friends.
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After Anthony Kiedis' recent intestinal ailment, the Red Hot Chili Peppers returned to the stage at the 2016 Rock on the Range festival.
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In the build up of your hodge podge fixies, what would you not get again and why?
Mine, no suzue basic hub with durace cog. 'Cause they sucked.
In the build up of your hodge podge fixies, what would you not get again and why?
Mine, no suzue basic hub with durace cog. 'Cause they sucked.
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What exactly sucked? I'm running the same set-up and it's been fine so far.
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Maybe you should display what you have in the spare parts bin for us to pick through. I always need more crapOriginally Posted by jitensha_de_go!
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I'll never buy something before I've decided what I want. Like getting a 135mm track hub before I get a frame it'll fit in (and end up with a 120mm frame), or Profile bullhorns and bar end levers, and end up using cut down drops and an aero lever. Stupidity reigns in my workshop :
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....ahh.....except for their one discontinued item which I have & love: WTB Dirt DropsOriginally Posted by crustedfish
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sure. i'll post a list when i get home...Originally Posted by 165-48:17
better yet, I'll post a photo of my garage tonight!Originally Posted by jitensha_de_go!
Thanks. I'm catching on.Originally Posted by 165-48:17
1) Goldmember cut out autographed by Willy Karsten - obviously an E-bay fake.
2) The same model TTT aerobars as were used to break the work hour record in +/- 1993 (read, before people fully understood aero positioning or comfort).
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Should have seen that comin'.Originally Posted by 165-48:17
Seems to be many a folks are trying to rile me up here lately.
Guess I'm not status quo no mo.
Well, the real one may be for sale since I didn't win on the rims I wanted.Originally Posted by superchivo
What the hell did they feed you for 30 days? Whimp-Chow?Originally Posted by William Karsten
I'm softening up for the rebuild of my soul.Originally Posted by 165-48:17
Sounds like Wimp Chow to me.I'm softening up for the rebuild of my soul.
"I don't want to learn. The more you drive, the less intelligent you become."
This coming from the man who broke his collarbone trying to procreate with goats.Originally Posted by superchivo
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You must be a delusional short chimp. It will get even higher than 14.60. I sold all MAKO yesterday and loaded a *single* concentrated position @13.27. Why? Because I took Flynn's departure AS A PLUS for the company! Short chimps and knee-jerking longs opened a perfect entry point. The stock is NOT supposed to go 26% down because of one or two dodo-heads leaving the company. Never seen a plunge like that based on the CEO-resigning event. Fact -- one month ago there was a smaller JCP plunge after the CEO resigned. Look at JCP is now.


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One wonders what the heck was going on at Daimler, maker of the high quality, classy Mercedes Benz automobile. In case you missed it, media reports depict Daimler as admitting to having engaged in a massive and pervasive bribery scheme, and agreeing to pay $185 million to settle charges. And this wasn't information the company volunteered, but rather the result of a lengthy government investigation.


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|9. Juni 1998
|21. Apr. 1997
|25. Apr. 1995
|Isaia Glaser-Inbari
|Ursprünglich Bevollmächtigter
|M.M.R.I. Photonics Ltd.
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|Patentzitate (4), Nichtpatentzitate (6), Referenziert von (28), Klassifizierungen (19), Juristische Ereignisse (2)
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This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/428,636, filed Apr. 25. 1995 now abandoned.
The present invention relates to an optical scanning method and apparatus for directing and moving a spot or pattern of light, typically from a laser, across a line or an area on some given surface, for example, to access an area on a surface that moves linearly or angularly. The invention is particularly applicable to provide a rapid random-access optical scanner and method for optical disk data storage, and is therefore described below with respect to this application.
Optical disk data storage involves a number of somewhat conflicting requirements, including:
1. Fast Random-Access: In such data storage, the scanned line is not accessed in an orderly way, e.g., sequentially or predefined non-sequentially, but rather in a random manner known only during the actual operation of the system; random-access requires that the time to reach a requested point must be as short as possible (preferably around a millisecond or less).
2. High Resolution: That is, the size of the light spot formed by the scanning system (or, for some applications, the finest details in the pattern projected by the system) must be as small as possible, typically of the order-of-magnitude of the wavelength of the light; the precision of the scanning (the precision in the location of the spot) must be comparable with the spot size.
3. Large Space-Bandwith-Product: That is, the total number of points accessible by the scanning system should be large; this number roughly equals the length of the scan line divided by the spot size (a typical value should be at least in the thousands).
In addition, for some key applications, such as R/W (read/erase/write) and WORM (write-once read-many) optical computer disk systems, it is necessary to have:
4. High Light Power Concentration: That is, it must be possible to have enough energy delivered to a spot in a short time to affect a "write" operation.
For such R/W and WORM applications, it is desirable to focus most of the available laser beam power into a single spot for the "write" operation. Techniques for accomplishing this by illuminating many spots simultaneously (parallel access), or by optically encoding the data over an area on the disc (such as holographic storage), are described in a number of prior publications, including: Ph. Marachand, A. V. Krishnamoorthy, K. S. Urquhardt, P. Ambs, S. Esener and S. H. Lee, "Motionless Head for Parallel Readout Optical Disk," SPIE/IST Symp. on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, February 1992, San Jose, Calif., published in Proc. SPIE, vol. 1662 (SPIE, Bellingham Wash., 1992); V. A. Ivanov, B. S. Kiselyov, A. L. Mikaelian and D. E. Okonov, "Optoelectronic Neuroprocessor Based on Holographic Disk Memory," Optical Memory and Neural Networks, vol. 1, pp. 55-62 (1992).
The standard solution is to put the entire laser/optics assembly (or most of it) at the end of a movable arm, just as is done today with magnetic heads for magnetic computer disks, and earlier with mechanical stylus pick-ups in phonograph players. However, laser/optics assemblies are heavier than magnetic disk heads. Therefore they cannot be accelerated and moved as quickly since the inertia of an object to rotation is proportional to the square of the distance of its mass from the center of rotation. As a result, optical disk systems are usually slower than magnetic disk ones.
Because light beams can be focussed and steered at a distance, it would be preferable to use a movable mirror (or some other beam steering device) away from the scanned surface and to keep the laser and most of the optics stationary. However, the combination of requirements 2 and 3 above, and the physical laws of optical diffraction, would dictate a rather large and heavy mirror. Such a mirror cannot be accelerated quickly and would therefore be incompatible with the fast random-access requirement 1.
There is thus an urgent need for a high resolution optical scanning method and apparatus which provide fast random-access, comparable to or better than that of a non-optical magnetic disk scanning system.
According to the present invention, there is provided a method of directing an optical beam from an optical beam source to a selected location on a given moving surface, comprising: interposing a static array of image focussing elements adjacent to the given surface on the side thereof facing the optical beam source; and steering the optical beam from the source to a selected one of the image focussing elements to focus the optical beam to a selected location on the given surface.
According to further features in the preferred embodiments of the invention described below, the static array of image focussing elements is a two-dimensional array, and the optical beam is steered along two axes to a selected image focussing element.
The invention also provides apparatus operating in accordance with the above method.
As will be more particularly described below, the novel method and apparatus enable the combined moment-of-inertia of all movable parts to be kept as low as possible, thereby increasing speed and decreasing access time. In addition, it permits the focussing elements to be kept very close to the given surface (e.g., a rotatable optical disk record medium) so that the physical diameter of the optical beam can be kept small, thereby enabling the beam to be focussed to a spot in the order of the light wavelength.
The novel method thus enables the use of small, multi-dimensional beam steering devices together with a static array of image focussing elements to provide rapid random-access scanning of the record medium. Two-dimensional steering of the beam may be effected by a single beam steering element (e.g., a mirror) driven along the two axes; preferably, however, it is effected by two beam steering elements (e.g., two mirrors) each driven along one axis. When two beam steering elements are used each offering a moderate space-bandwith-product, the total number of separable spot positions is proportional to the product of the space-bandwith products of the individual steering elements. Thus, using two movable mirror beam steerers with even a poor (and therefore not recommended) space-bandwith product of about 100 each enables attaining a system addressability of a few thousand locations.
The use of the static array of image focussing elements reorders the scanning pattern that is generated by the beam steering elements into another pattern and focusses the beam from a short distance into the necessary spot size. Spot sizes in the order of magnitude of the wavelength of the light are thus achievable. Even though the focused spots may not be arranged in a line, advantage is taken of the movement of the medium (e.g., rotation of an optical disk) to reach any desired location.
Practically all current writable optical disk media use heating by focussed laser beams for writing. In magneto-optical disks, writing is performed by applying an external magnetic field and heating one spot above the Curie point to obtain a change in the magnetization state. Such a technique is preferably used in the method and apparatus described below, but it is to be understood that the invention could also be implemented with other optical writing techniques, such as the use of phase-change materials.
Further features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the description below.
The invention is herein described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 schematically illustrates one form of optical scanning system in accordance with the present invention using a lenslet array for the image focussing elements;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of a portion of the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a top plan view of one of many possible lenslet arrays that may be used in the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged, fragmentary, cross-sectional view of a modified lenslet array;
FIG. 5 illustrates a blocking layer that may be used in the lenslet array;
FIG. 6 illustrates a modification in the system of FIG. 1 to change the effective location of the beam steering mirrors;
FIG. 7 illustrates another construction of blocking layer that may be used with another lenslet array;
FIG. 8 illustrates another modification in the system of FIG. 1 to enable detection of tracking and focus errors;
FIG. 9 illustrates one form of planar optical member which may be used in order to provide a more compact system;
and FIG. 10 illustrates another form of planar optical member that may be used to provide a more compact system.
It is to be understood that the above figures are not to scale. Although in most cases the optical system is depicted as if it is located on top of the record medium, the optical system could be located below the record medium. The number of focussing elements in the array of an actual system will in most cases differ from the illustrations in the drawings.
FIG. 1 illustrates one form of optical scanning apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention, wherein a laser beam from laser 2 is controlled to scan any selected location on a record medium, such as an optical disk 3 on a rotating holder 4. The laser beam exiting from the laser 2 first passes through beam shaping optics, schematically indicated at 5, to a beam steering system, generally designated 6, which steers the beam along two axes to any selected location. Thus, the beam steering system includes a mirror 7 reciprocated by a drive M1 along one axis, and a second mirror 8 reciprocated by a drive M2 along the other axis.
A static array of image focussing elements, generally designated 10, is provided adjacent to the optical disc 3 on the side thereof facing the optical beam source 2 and the beam steering system 6. The static array 10 is a two-dimensional array of refractive lenslets effective to focus the image of a beam entering each lenslet to a small spot on the optical disc 3.
The illustrated system further includes a beam splitter 11 aligned with beam steerer mirror 8. Beam splitter 11 is a static device and is effective to pass the beam from mirror 8 to the static array 10. Some of the light is reflected back from focussed spots on the optical disc via array 10 to the beam splitter 11, which is effective to relect the latter light to a static detector assembly 12.
FIG. 2 is a sectional view through one row of lenslets in the array 10 and illustrates the paths of the various beams from the steering mirror 8 of the beam steering system 6. This figure schematically shows the paths of the laser beam 20 as reflected by mirror 8 in three different positions of the mirror. Thus, in one position of the mirror, the beam (as defined by the two single-arrow lines 21) will be focussed to a point P1 on the optical disk 3; in a second position of the mirror, the beam (as defined by the two double-arrow lines 22) will be focussed to a point P2 on the optical disk 3; and in a third position, the beam (as defined by the two triple-arrow lines 23) will be focussed to a third point P3 on the optical disk 3. It is to be noted that more than a single point can be accessed through the same lenslet.
FIG. 3 is a top view illustrating one form of lenslet array 10 that may be used. Reference numeral 31 at the right side of FIG. 2 illustrates an individual lenslet, and reference numeral 32 depicts the locus of all points that can be accessed through that lenslet. This scanned pattern is a collection of spots of light that may be focussed by the lenslet on the surface of the optical disk 3. Arrow 33 of the left side of FIG. 3 indicates the direction of movement of the optical disk with respect to the lenslet array 10. FIG. 3 illustrates the scanned patterns for each of the lenslets. FIG. 7, described below, illustrates another lenslet arrangement that may be used.
It is to be noted that the lenslets in the array illustrated in FIG. 3 are not arranged in regular vertical columns, but rather are somewhat staggered. A conventional, non-staggered lenslet array can be used if it is slightly rotated so that the rows of the lenslets are not perpendicular to the direction of movement of the disk surface.
The skewing of the lines of the lenslets in the array, as shown in FIG. 3 (also in FIG. 7 to be described below), or a slight rotation of the cartesian lenslet array, is an important feature of the illustrated system. This allows filling in points that cannot be accessed by a single row of lenslets and thus enables access to all desirable points on the moving record medium.
FIG. 4 illustrates a modified construction in the lenslet array. In this modified lenslet array, therein designated 40, the individual lenslets 41 are not adjacent to each other, but rather are spaced apart by sections 42. A light blocking layer or mask 43 is applied over the upper surface of the lenslet array 40 and is formed with openings 44 aligned with the individual lenslets 41. Thus, mask 43 permits the optical beam to pass only to the individual lenslets 41, and prevents light from reaching the sections 42 between the individual lenslets.
FIG. 4 illustrates four light beams 45, 46, 47, 48, corresponding to four positions of the beam steering system 6 (FIG. 1). Beams 45 and 46 are focussed by the left lenslet 41 into two distinct spots on the surface of the optical disk 3; beam 47 is blocked by the mask 43; and beam 48 is focussed by the right lenslet 41 onto the surface of the optical disk 3.
FIG. 5 illustrates the construction of the blocking mask 43, wherein each of the openings 44 has a diameter db. Their centers are spaced along the X-axis and Y-axis by the distances Px and Py, respectively. The optical beam diameter in this plane is d1, and the beam location is defined as x1, y1.
When the blocking layer 43 is very close to the lenslet array 40, the laser light cannot reach two lenslets at the same time if:
d1 <Px -db (1)
d1 <Py -db
To obtain a spot size (dS) of about 1.2λ (wherein "λ" is the wavelength of the light), it is necessary to have a converging beam with a cone angle of roughly 60° so that the focal length for each of the lenslets must be F≈db. It can be shown that the number of tracks K1 that can be spanned through a single lenslet 41 is as follows: ##EQU1## wherein Zc is the distance between the closest steering mirror (8 in FIGS. 1 and 2) and the surface of the optical disk 3.
For example, let us assume λ=0.9×10-3 mm, lenslet array pitch px =py =1 mm, and blocking layer apertures of a diameter db =0.3 mm. To satisfy eq. (1) we select d1 =0.7 mm. For Zc =13 mm we get K1 =10.
As evident from this example, it is sometimes desirable to have a Zc that is smaller than can be easily realizable physically.
FIG. 6 illustrates the use of a large negative lens 50 to make the lenslet array see the virtual image VI of the beam steering mirror (8), at height Z'c, which is smaller than Zc. With the configuration of FIG. 6, Z'c is calculated using the standing imaging formula for the negative lens, and 1Z'c 1 is then used instead of Zc in eq. (2).
Instead of using a large negative lens 50, this lens may also be a positive lens to provide Z'c <0 such that |Zc '|<Zc. This lens may also be a cylindrical lens or a torus-shaped lens.
The blocking layer 43 may have non-circular openings 44, such as rectangular. Also, the optical beam may also have a shape other than circular at the plane of the lenslet array.
Further, it may be desirable to arrange the lenslets according to a non-cartesian array. In such case, the blocking mask would be similarly formed with a non-cartesian array of openings, as shown at 44' in FIG. 7.
For reading (or writing) data from optical disks, it is necessary to be able to locate and track the requested data precisely and in focus. Since it is not practical to manufacture and/or position optical disks within the tolerances (centering and surface flatness) necessary to achieve this precision in an open loop system, FIG. 8 illustrates a feedback-based tracking and focussing system which may be used.
Schemes using three beams for tracking error detection and astigmatic focussing error detection are already in use with conventional (head at the end of arm) optical disk drives. FIG. 8 illustrates how these well known methods can be implemented in the above-described system. An example of a paper describing the prior art with respect to tracking/focus error detection in conventional optical disk drives is: W-H Lee, "Holographic Optical Head for Compact Disk Applications," Optical Engineering, vol. 28, pp. 650-653 (1989).
The system in FIG. 8 includes a phase grating 54 next to the beam shaper 5. Phase grating 54 splits the single beam into three different diffraction orders (-1,0, and +1). A low power cylindrical lens 51 is added in front of the static detector assembly (12, FIG. 1). Lens 51 generates and introduces a small amount of astigmatism into the image of the laser spot detected by the detector assembly.
Grating 54 thus splits the laser beam into three orders. The stronger zero order is used to read and write data, whereas the two ±1 orders are used to detect tracking errors. They create two extra spots on the disk surface which are normally slightly off track. When there is a tracking error, one of these side spots reflects more light than the other, so that the direction of the error can be detected by the detector assembly 12 and used for controlling the tracking system in a feedback loop including tracking control unit 52.
An alternative arrangement to grating 50 would be to provide a large grating (not shown) placed on top of the lenslet array 10.
Cylindrical lens 51 is used to provide a focus error signal. By introducing some astigmatism into the image of the spot, the image becomes elliptical when the system is off focus. The direction of the major axis of this elliptical spot image indicates the sign of the error. This focussing error may thus also be used to correct focus in a feedback loop from detector assembly 12 to a focus control unit 53.
An alternative arrangement would be to introduce some intentional astigmatism through the individual lenslets in the array, or in the large lens (50, FIG. 6).
The system may also be made more compact by using planar optical members which allow trapping and manipulating light in a small volume. FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate two examples of planar optical members that may be used for this purpose.
In FIG. 9 the planar optical member is in the form of a transparent slab 60 having one surface 61 which is slanted with respect to its opposed surface 62. Slab 60 is placed with its surface 62 over, in close proximity to or in contact with, the static array 10 of the lenslets overlying the optical disk 3.
The optical beam 63 from the beam steering system (6, FIG. 1) is reflected by a removable reflector 64 (which replaces mirrors 7 and 5 of FIG. 1) into the edge of the planar optical member 60. The converging surfaces 61, 62 of member 60 produce multiple reflections of the optical beam at decreasing angles to the normal of its surface 62 facing the lenslet array 10. Surface 62 may be spaced from the upper surface of the lenslet array 10 by space, shown at 65, in the form of a simple air gap, or by an interferometric multi-layer coating applied for example by vacuum deposition or by optical holographic recording.
The laser beam 63, after it has already passed through beam shaping optics, is deflected by the beam steering mirror 64 (or two mirrors, only one of which is shown) to enter the slab 60 from the side. The upper surface 61 of the slab reflects back all beams, either by total internal reflection or by the help of a reflective layer. Since this surface is sloped, the angle of the reflected beam relative to the plane of the bottom surface 62 changes after each reflection; i.e., its angle with respect to the normal to surface 62 decreases. As a beam reaches the bottom surface of the slab 60, it will be either reflected by surface 62 back towards surface 61, or transmitted through surface 62. This is controlled by layer 65 which, as indicated earlier, may be a simple air gap or an interferometric multi-layer coating. In either case, beams at relatively large angles to the normal to surface 10 are reflected back into the slab, whereas beams of small angles to the normal to surface 62 pass through. As a beam is reflected back and forth between the two surfaces 61, 62, the angle of its incidence changes gradually until, at one place, it can pass through surface 62.
The location where a beam passes through surface 62 and layer 65 is dictated by the orginal direction of the beam, as dictated by the beam steering mirror 64. Once a beam gets through, it is focussed by the respective image focussing element in the static array 10.
FIG. 10 illustrates an arrangement including a planar optical member 70 in the form of a transparent slab having a rectangular cross section with parallel top and bottom surfaces. In this case, the top layer 71 is holographic and reflects light to the bottom layer 72 which contains, or overlies, the static array 10 of the image focussing elements. Thus, the laser beam 73 is directed to the beam steering side mirror 74 which reflects the beam into the edge of the planar optical member 70. The beam exits at a preselected location, as determined by the beam steering mirror 74, to be focussed by the respective focussing element of the static array 10 onto the optical disk 3.
It will thus be seen that the two arrangements illustrated in FIGS. 9 and 10 act similarly to the previously described arrangements except that the planar optical member (60 in FIG. 9 and 70 in FIG. 10) act to compress the space that exists between the beam steering elements and the static array of image focussing elements.
Other schemes to compress space are also possible, including the use of one or more mirrors to fold the optical path, or the use of planar optical elements of different shape and/or design than the ones depicted in FIGS. 9 and 10. Such planar optical elements may use a curved, or a multi-faceted surface or surfaces.
In all the previously described embodiments, the static array of image focussing elements is described as an array of refractive lenslets. It will be appreciated, however, that the image focussing elements in any one of the above-described embodiments could be an array of diffractive lenses, such as an array of holograms or a multi-facet mirror. The optical beam in the above-described embodiment is from a diode laser, but other optical beams could be used. Also, while the record medium is shown as being a rotatable disk, it will be appreciated that other record media could be used, such as a tape, or a drum. Further, while the above described embodiments relate to optical recording and reading of data, the invention can also be used for computer graphics and other applications.
Many other variations, modifications and applications of the invention will be apparent.
|Zitiertes Patent
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|At&T Bell Laboratories
|Optical disc read/write apparatus
|12. Juli 1991
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|Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
|Optical disk head including a light path having a thickness and width greater than the light beam wavelength by a predetermined amount
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|Information Optics Corporation
|Optical random access memory having multiple state data spots for extended storage capacity
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|Vixel Corporation
|Multiple beam optical memory system with solid-state lasers
|Ph. Marchand et al., "Motionless-Head for Parallel Readout Optical Disk," SPIE/IST Symp. on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Feb. 1992, San Jose, California, published in Proc. SPIE, vol. 1662 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 1992).
|Ph. Marchand et al., Motionless Head for Parallel Readout Optical Disk, SPIE/IST Symp. on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Feb. 1992, San Jose, California, published in Proc. SPIE, vol. 1662 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 1992).
|V.A. Ivanov et al., "Optoelectronic Neuroprocessor Based on Holographic Disk Memeory," Optical Memory and Nerual Networks, vol. 1, pp. 52-62 (1992).
|V.A. Ivanov et al., Optoelectronic Neuroprocessor Based on Holographic Disk Memeory, Optical Memory and Nerual Networks, vol. 1, pp. 52 62 (1992).
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I tell the story of Seni, who was prime minister at three turning points in Thailand's struggle for democracy, as much as possible in his own words. But this is in no way an authorized biography. Reluctantly, and after I had asked him to do so over several years, Seni made himself available for extensive and intensive interviews starting in 1985. He did so only on the condition, expressed at the beginning and at the end, that this would not be an authorized biography. He had ruled out writing an autobiography for the same reason: he did not want to publicize, or seem to publicize, himself.
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Kent DeKoninck wants the schools to reach out to students who don't plan to attend a four-year college and encourage them to get extra training before they start jobs after high school, including an associate's degree, an apprenticeship or vocational training.
More than 90 percent of 2011 senior class at Greenwood Community High School graduated, but only about 63 percent of those students entered a bachelor's degree, associate's degree or technical certificate program, according to data from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
DeKoninck wants that rate to increase.
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Age: 48
Family: Wife, Amanda; two college-aged daughters, Hillary and Morgan
Position: Greenwood superintendent
Past administration jobs: Associate superintendent at Avon Community School Corp.; guidance director at Westfield High School; principal at Perry Meridian Middle School in Indianapolis; principal at Clay Middle School in Carmel; and director of personnel for Metropolitan School District Perry Township
Goals: Maintain financial stability, increase student achievement and promote Greenwood to families
DeKoninck, who started his job this month, will be in charge of helping create the policies that will impact more than 3,800 students and more than 200 teachers in Greenwood schools.
He also wants to find ways to bring technology into the classroom but knows that Greenwood can't afford to buy iPads for every student.
Other local school districts, including Center Grove and Nineveh-Hensley-Jackson schools, will provide iPads for all of their high school students this school year. And if Greenwood could afford the expense, it would to give students a tool they could use for research and other projects, he said.
But DeKoninck wants to be sure he can justify every purchase the school district makes. That's why he's reviewing the middle school and high school classes that already blend online and traditional lessons to see what kind of technology improves student grades before any new devices are purchased, he said.
Last year, certain classes started using laptops and iPads, and Greenwood has been surveying teachers and students to see whether the devices improve learning and how. Before Greenwood decides to purchase more devices for any schools, officials need to know exactly how they improve students' understanding of science, English and other subjects, DeKoninck said.
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Earlier this year, the school board changed its transfer policy, barring students who live outside the school district from transferring in. That move was in response to a new state law that stops school districts from prohibiting student transfers for any reason other than a school being full.
DeKoninck supports the school board's policy, but he also wants to be prepared in case the school district opens itself again to transfer students.
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In 2004, Gene Snitsky debuted and displayed his sadistic tendencies against the likes of John Cena, Kane and Big Show. In 2007, he moved to ECW and bludgeoned CM Punk, Balls Mahoney, Matt Striker and even Hardcore Holly by breaking his arm.
Snitsky lured in the sports-entertainment organization for a few years, but was last seen on Raw. He'd often test his ability to harm anyone he encountered. Such behavior gave the monster true pleasure.
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Snitsky had been sparsely seen the preceding weeks on Raw and had not been involved in a dynamic storyline in quite some time. Dave Meltzer reported in the December 22, 2008 issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE officials felt Snitsky wasn't going to be the headliner they had hoped for, and since he was set to turn 39-years-old the following month, "felt they could give his spot to someone younger."
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Brock Lesnar Returning To WWE Television, Former WWE Star Attends SmackDown
– The official Twitter account of the Bankers Life Fieldhouse announced Thursday morning on Twitter that Brock Lesnar will appear at the venue when Raw takes place in Indianapolis on June 22, 2015.
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On the venue's official website, Lesnar is advertised to appear "live."
Lesnar has not appeared on WWE programming since the night after WrestleMania 31, where he attacked announcers Booker T, John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Michael Cole, and a cameraman when WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins turned down an immediate title rematch. This led Stephanie McMahon to suspend Lesnar indefinitely in storyline.
– Former WWE Superstar Gene Snitsky attended Tuesday's SmackDown taping in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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« This essay traces the historical trajectory of e-books in the U.S. and imagines their possible futures. Legal, economic, and technical developments that led to contemporary e-books reveal a tension between commercial and non-commercial programming. Commercial e-book designs control end uses, reduce production and distribution costs, stimulate consumption, and monitor user behaviors; however, alternative producers and users on the periphery continue to challenge these centralizing tendencies. »
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The future of scholarly communication: US efforts to bring warring factions to common purpose in support of scholarship :
« Key stakeholders in scholarly communication have been at odds over the purpose, mission and business models of publishing. This piece reviews developments in the United States but with a particular focus on efforts at reestablishing common purpose, such as (1) the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable created in June 2009 by the Chairman of Science and Technology Committee of the US House of Representatives; (2) the Task force of the Association of American Universities and Association of Research Libraries established in 2012 to focus on university presses, scholarly journals and institutional repositories; and (3) the Office of Science and Technology Policy Memorandum of February 22, 2013 on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research. »
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« This Preliminary Analysis and Discussion Document (the "Analysis") addresses the issues raised by the intersection between copyright law and the mass digitization of books. The Copyright Office (the "Office") has prepared this Analysis for the purpose of facilitating further discussion among the affected parties and the public – discussions that may encompass a number of possible approaches, including voluntary initiatives, legislative options, or both.
On March 22, 2011, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected a proposed settlement of the class action lawsuit brought by the Authors Guild and a related suit by book publishers against Google for the mass digitization of books in several large U.S. libraries. The court ruled that the class action settlement would have redefined the relationship between copyright law and new technology, and encroached upon Congress's ability to set copyright policy with respect to orphan works. Subsequently, on September 12, 2011, the Authors Guild and several prominent authors sued five university libraries that participated in Google's mass digitization project as well as a library consortium known as the HathiTrust after the universities announced their intention to offer access to some of the book scans Google had provided to them.
These developments have sparked public debate on the risks and opportunities that mass book digitization may create for authors, publishers, libraries, technology companies, the general public, and the corresponding legal framework. The questions are many: What mass digitization projects are currently underway in the United States? What are the objectives and who are the intended beneficiaries? How are the exclusive rights of copyright owners implicated? What exceptions or limitations may apply, to whom, and in what circumstances? To the extent there are public policy goals at issue, what could Congress do to facilitate or control the boundaries of mass digitization projects? Would orphan works legislation help? Are efficient and costeffective licensing options available? Could Congress encourage or even require new licensing schemes for mass digitization? Could it provide direction and oversight to authors, publishers,
libraries, and technology companies as they explore solutions? Indeed, these stakeholders may be in the best position to find points of consensus and create strategies for the U.S. book and library sectors.
The issues discussed in this Analysis are complex and require public discussion. The Office recognizes that the Google Books proceeding, initiated more than six years ago, and the recently filed lawsuit involving the HathiTrust Digital Library will continue to influence the public debate over mass digitization. International developments may also contribute to the debate in the United States. Although the marketplace and the issues will continue to evolve, the Office believes there is sufficient information to undertake an intense public discussion about the broader policy implications of mass book digitization. By necessity, this discussion must address the relationship between the emerging digital marketplace and the existing copyright framework. »
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Laxus' protectors have all been defeated, but he still remains one of the most powerful wizards in Fairy Tail, and his Thunder Palace is threatening to rain down death and destruction on the innocent people of Manolia Can the two dragon slayers, Natsu and Gajeel, manage to keep from fighting each other enough to stop him?
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The New York Times Well blog, for example, has had these brief posts recently:
All were single source stories; there was no independent expert evaluation of the evidence in any of these briefs.
Several of these fell into our hopper for consideration for our systematic story reviews whereby we apply our 10 standardized criteria to the review of stories. But that felt like shooting fish in a barrel because it was immediately clear that these < 300 word stories wouldn't fare well at all. So I chose to drop back and address the trend and the format once again.
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Not all entries on the NYT Well blog are so short. In fact, some of the longer ones are those that also appeared in the printed paper (!). A recent Well blog piece, "Questions About Robotic Hysterectomy," is a good example of better, more complete reporting posted on this blog.
And it's not just the Times that does this. But why not start at the top?
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IOWA CITY, Iowa A judge removed one of two women from federal death row on Friday, saying lawyers for the Iowa woman convicted in the 1993 execution-style murders of five people failed to present evidence about her troubled mental state that could have spared her from execution.
In a 448-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett threw out Angela Johnson's death sentence, saying her defense lawyers were "alarmingly dysfunctional" during the 2005 trial that made her the first woman to be sentenced to death in the federal system since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the punishment in 1976.
Attorney General Eric Holder and aides must determine within 60 days whether to appeal or continue seeking the death penalty for the 48-year-old mother of two, said assistant U.S. Attorney C.J. Williams, who prosecuted the case. If they do not appeal, there will be a trial to determine whether Johnson will be sentenced to death. In that trial, her lawyers would be allowed to present evidence about her mental health that was omitted in 2005. If they decline to seek the death penalty, Bennett could sentence Johnson to life in prison without parole.
Bennett's ruling doesn't throw out her convictions - he said evidence of her guilt was overwhelming. Johnson and boyfriend Dustin Honken committed the murders to thwart a federal investigation that threatened to end Honken's reign as one of the Midwest's largest methamphetamine kingpins, and buried the bodies to cover them up.
After separate trials, jurors sentenced Honken to death for the two children's murders while Johnson was sentenced to death on four counts. Both were to die by lethal injection.
The bodies of the victims - drug dealers-turned-government witnesses Terry DeGeus and Greg Nicholson; Nicholson's girlfriend, Lori Duncan; and Duncan's daughters, Kandi, 10, and Amber, 6 - were found in shallow graves near Mason City in 2000. They were discovered after Johnson, serving time on drug charges, sketched out a locator map to a jailhouse informant.
Prosecutors said Johnson posed as a saleswoman to gain access to Duncan's home in 1993, days before Honken was to plead guilty to drug charges. Honken and Johnson forced Nicholson to make a videotaped statement exonerating Honken. Afterward, they took him, Duncan and her children to a field and shot all of them in the back of the head at close range.
A month later, Johnson lured DeGeus, a former boyfriend, to a secluded location where Honken shot him several times and beat him with a baseball bat.
Bennett said that he understands his ruling will upset victims' families, but Johnson's defense was so riddled with missteps that her rights were violated.
"I believe that I have done my duty, in light of what is required by the Constitution - the foundational document of our Nation's enduring freedoms, including the right not to be put to death when trial counsel's performance was so grossly constitutionally inadequate," he wrote.
During the penalty phase of Johnson's trial, Bennett said defense lawyers failed to present expert testimony about her mental health at the time of the murders that could have helped explain her involvement to jurors. He said they should have presented evidence about the impact of serious brain impairments, personality disorders and her prior methamphetamine use.
Bennett said defense lawyers also failed to present evidence that could have undercut the prosecution's claim that she participated in DeGeus' killing out of revenge, because of their prior relationship's abusive nature. He said they should have had experts argue she was suffering from battered woman's syndrome and wouldn't have wanted him dead.
At trial, her attorneys argued the government's case was built entirely on circumstantial evidence and that Johnson was ignorant of Honken's intent to kill. They urged jurors to sentence her to life in prison, not death.


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Aamir Khan's poster in 'PK', where he appears in the nude, has sparked online jokes and memes with the actor's dare-to-bare act getting unflattering comments on the internet.
Many jokes compared the actor's nude look to Sunny Leone. "Strange times have come.... Aamir Khan removes clothes to promote his movie... Sunny Leone wears clothes to promote her's."
In one of the memes, a 'Krrish' style Hrithik Roshan replaces Aamir Khan's head with the poster reading 'A Suzzane Khan Film', hinting at the actor's recent split from his wife.
An Aamir meme makes an appearance on the crowded 'Lagaan' poster, gets his head replaced with Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, gets into a '3 Idiots' scene with R Madhavan and Sharman Joshi and even finds company with Walter White of 'Breaking Bad'.
As if the memes were not enough, the fans also took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the poster.
"PK is Aamir in 'Gajini' redux. His enemies have removed all his tattoos. Especially the crucial one telling him where he kept his clothes," one Twitter user wrote.
Another user joked that he could not take his eyes off Aamir's rather raised eyebrows in the 'PK' poster.
"Post 'Talaash' Aamir's eyebrows have taken a life of their own. Yes. In the PK first look poster, I was looking at the eyebrows."


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LÉONCE: Yes, dear. Just as soon as I finish my smoke.
The final image of this scene is the thin smoke as it dissolves in the night air.
This scene begins in the front hall of the Pontellier's New Orleans residence. Léonce is preparing to leave, carefully adjusting his hat in front of the mirror stand, selecting a walking stick, tucking a portfolio under his arm. The camera comes in close as he opens the door to the veranda.
Then the shot dissolves into an image of Edna's hand on the banister of the wide, curving hall stairway. As Edna descends the stairs, the viewer glimpses the furnishings. They reflect Léonce's monied position and his French taste. There are plush, deeply dyed fabrics on the sofas and chairs, heavy Oriental carpets, dark carved wood trims, large ferns, tall urns, and a wall of gilt-framed paintings. When Edna reaches the bottom of the stairs, the camera follows her onto the veranda.
The shot changes: Edna and Léonce stand together on the veranda. They are viewed from a curbside vantage point. A portion of the waiting carriage can be seen in the frame.
LÉONCE: Care to meet me in town, Edna? I've decided to improve the library. (He waits for her to answer.) What do you think of the new gasoliers? I hear the Belthrops have placed an order.
EDNA: New fixtures, Léonce! You're far too extravagant.
Léonce starts to respond, but then he pauses to give Edna a perfunctory kiss. He strides down to the carriage; his words trail behind him.
LÉONCE: The way to become rich is to make money, my dear Edna, not to save it. (Pause) And I intend for us to be rich.
Edna waves; she is unsmiling. The camera slides away to a side