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Both Yu and Cheng say that more communication and dialogue are needed for the public to gain empathy and to understand the difficulties faced by the LGBT community.
Victoria Hsu (許秀雯), chief executive officer of the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights, agrees. She says that the group has been preparing to file lawsuits against government agencies to challenge laws that discriminate against individuals based on their sexual orientation.
The cases will show the various forms of discrimination same-sex couples are subject to by not having marriage rights. For example, when a Taiwanese gay man and his Canadian partner tie the knot in Canada, where same-sex marriage is legal, and return to Taiwan, their union will pose challenges to the country's existing immigration laws. The fact that same-sex couples cannot protect common property is also a source of anxiety.
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For more than a week now, we've been watching the struggle to get aid to Haiti amid a nearly unfathomable devastation and dazed survivors. In some neighborhoods, the chaos had led to looting, in others, people are organizing to help each other.
NPRs Corey Flintoff is in Port-au-Prince, and he found his way back to a slum that he visited last year when times were better.
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FLINTOFF: He shows his meager store of medical supplies, a cardboard carton with two rolls of gauze bandages and a dozen or so containers of over-the-counter medicines. There is more, he says: People being nursed, people being sheltered. Wilson leads the way up a steep track, pointing to the jumbles of cinderblocks and concrete that used to be houses. The air smells of rot.
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FLINTOFF: Wilson says there are a lot of corpses decaying in the rubble that searchers were unable to extract. That would take heavy equipment, and its hard to imagine how digging machines could even make their way up a precarious path that drops away on one side into a steep ravine.
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FLINTOFF: Further up the road, a woman sits with one swollen leg propped on a chair. Flies buzz over the stained gauze that covers a wound. This is an interpreter.
Unidentified Man #1: Her house fell upon her. Her legs was broken by the bricks. Now we are taking care of them by our own means.
FLINTOFF: Without any outside help. Still further, people cluster on thin blankets on the dusty road, shaded by a tarp that Wilson says his group provided.
Mr. WILSON: (Through translator) People have been showing us open sores and lacerations from being caught underneath the rubble or being caught in the collapse of their houses.
Unidentified Man #2: Yeah, I need help for her. Because she's very, very sick. She needs care. She needs care, medical.
FLINTOFF: One man is agitated and insistent. His young wife is propped on the ground in the arms of an older woman. She has a deep contusion on her thigh, raw and uncovered, the leg swelling like sausage to below her knee. What are you going to do about it, he asks.
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FLINTOFF: Wilson tries to calm the situation, telling the man that the organization he leads could have his wife carried down to the grounds of the general hospital on a stretcher.
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FLINTOFF: On the way back down the hillside, Wilson repeats over and over his plea for international help, but dont give it to the Haitian government, he insists.
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FLINTOFF: Wilson says, give it to the neighborhood groups that are close to the problem. For him, as for many Haitians, the national government is gone, and nothing but foreign assistance and neighborhood unity can ever put things right.
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The Simple Citrus Juicer
As a health-conscious vegan, one of my favorite pieces of kitchen equipment is...
The Simple Citrus Juicer!
It's a cinch to assemble, quick to use, and easy to clean! The collection cup even has measurements printed on the side so you know exactly how much juice you've got, which really comes in handy with some recipes. And as far as tools or accessories are concerned, it is probably the most inexpensive investment in your well being that you could possibly make. I mean, mine only cost me ten dollars, new, at Target! If that's still too pricey, I'll bet you could find one at your local thrift store for a couple of bucks. Of course, with the model pictured above, you have to wring out the juice manually. But there are electric models if you wish to eliminate the labor. Shop around. But do seriously consider purchasing a citrus juicer to have on hand at home. After a tall morning glass of unpasteurized, raw, living, freshly-squeezed orange or grapefruit juice, you won't have to ask why! :)
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The picture of your juicer is lovely.
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I am not completely sure whether I should refer to more than one scarf as 'scarfs' or 'scarves'. However, what I am sure of is the sweet addictiveness of crocheting them! Apart from the fact that crocheting scarves has saved my sanity over the last few weeks, I am loving the fact that I can contemplate and make a variety of pretty stitches, borders and colours AND complete my project in just a few days. Ah, the satisfaction!
Over the last couple of weeks I have completed this green lacy scarf (the subject of this post which contains a link to the lacy pattern) . . .
the blue lacy scarf below (same main pattern as the green, but with an interesting ruffly border) . . .
and this ruby-coloured scarf of my own invention below - voila!
I have posted basic instructions for this scarf on my Ravelry page, here. Happy to provide more info if required.
All of the above scarves have been made using standard 8 ply (ie double-knit) merino from my stash.
I am enjoying my scarf-making adventures and plan to make a few more.
Now that 'summer is a-coming in' here and the days are getting delightfully warm, I am planning to make my next scarf using 8 ply cotton. As you know, cotton behaves quite differently from wool as it has minimal stretch, so I will be seeking out some patterns that work well with cotton yarn. I will post links to any interesting scarf patterns that I find that work well in cotton at a later date.
[Slightly off-topic but just for fun, and because of the gorgeous Spring weather today, I feel inspired to provide this link to my favourite rendition of the ancient folk song 'Sumer is icumen in' for your edification - it comes from the opening ceremony of the 1974 Olympics and involved thousands of school children. I always get goosebumps watching it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.]


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Millennials: Statistics About Them You Need to Know For Retention
Millennials, those born between 1980 and 1996, make up a majority of the workforce and by 2020 will comprise nearly half of all workers. Millennials, as with previous generations before them, have been labeled as job hoppers. Perhaps job hopping is a symptom of youth or perhaps millennials truly are different from previous generations. Either way, understanding the job issues millennials must contend with and their motivations will help you better retain them as employees.
According to Gallup, these are the five most important issues millennials consider when applying for a new job:
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· Quality of manager
· Quality of management
· Interest in type of work
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Below are a few statistics that paint a better picture of the millennial workforce climate.
· Sixty-three percent of millennials have a bachelors degree.
· Forty-eight percent of them work in jobs that don't require a four year degree.
· 6 in 10 millennials are open to different job opportunities.
· 21% of millennials have switched jobs in the last year – 3x higher than non-millennials
· Non-engaged millennials are 26% more likely than engaged millennials to take a different job for a raise of 20% or less.
· Of the millennials that changed roles last year, 93% did so by changing companies.
· 59% of millennials say opportunities to learn and grow are extremely important to them when applying for a job.
· 48% say that overall compensation is extremely important to them when seeking new opportunities.
· In their current jobs, 87% rate professional or career growth as important to them.
· Less than 50% of millennials strongly agree that they've had opportunities to learn and grow in the last year.
· 77% of millennials say that flexible work hours are essential to boosting their generation's productivity.
· Fifty percent do not believe Social Security will be available when they reach retirement.
· Fifty-six percent would not work at a company that banned social media access.
· Sixty-nine percent believe office attendance is not necessary on a regular basis.
· 89% of smart phone owning millennials regularly check email outside of 9-5.
We now have a better view of the picture plaguing employers. Millennials want more growth opportunities. Millennials are working in jobs that don't require a degree. Millennials desire more work/life balance. Millennials value social media and half feel they need to earn money now because no social security will be waiting for them when they retire.
Employers must do a better job of retaining their millennial workers by offering growth opportunities and benefits such as flexible hours that are more in tune with millennial desires. They must also continue using social media and technologies such as video interviewing to reach younger workers routinely accessing the web and their social media presences over their phones.
As mentioned, 46% of the workforce will be made up of millennials in four years and if 60% of them are open to new opportunities, you have a significant chunk of the U.S. workers who could be jumping ship. This benefits nobody in the long run. So if you are looking for a New Year's resolution it should be to retain, retain, retain.
Are the Millennials Really the Laziest Generation?
In my colleague's March blog post, "Productivity is on life support: Blame the Millennials and the Baby Boomers," he pointed out that the annual growth rate of productivity from year to year between 2007 and 2015 was 60% lower than the year to year growth rate between 1947 and 1973. He contended that both the older, less productive baby boomers and the easily distracted millennials were to blame for the decrease in growth rate. Indeed many articles have been written about the Millennial "Me, Me, Me" generation.
Recently the Texas department of labor established an overtime rule that allows overtime pay for more salaried workers. The biggest complaint from business leaders on this ruling is that younger employees, millennials, don't deserve to be paid overtime for the work they should have accomplished during their regular hours. As one complainant to the department of labor suggested, "The younger workers are often off task, engaged on social media, on the internet, texting on phones and other unproductive activities."
Here we have further suggestions that Millennials are basically…well…. lazy. Below is an alleged quote from a prominent intellectual on the state of our youth which many would agree succinctly describes today's young workers.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table….and tyrannize their teachers."
Sounds exactly like today's youth but the quote above is allegedly from a disgruntled Socrates sometime prior to his death in 399 B.C nearly 2,500 years ago. I'm not convinced Socrates did indeed say this but regardless, the quote is old and suggests that Millennials aren't the first generation to patent laziness and disrespect.
Bruce Pfau, the head of human resources for KPMG, spent years studying the differences between the wants and needs at work of Millennials and employees in other generations. He concluded that Millennials weren't necessarily lazy or narcissistic but rather those are traits exhibited by young people which are corrected as the individual grows older.
Going back through history we see clearly that Millennials aren't the first generation to be criticized by the media for their self-absorbed attitude. A 1907 article in the Atlantic Monthly on why marriages are failing declared that the "…cult of individualism…" was to blame. In the 70s, acclaimed author Tom Wolf wrote an article for New York magazine called, "The ME Decade. Reports on America's New Great Awakening." In it he said, "…The new alchemical dream is: changing one's personality-remaking, remodeling, elevating and polishing one's very self…and observing, studying and doting on it. (Me!)…" The Gen-Xers took a hit from Time magazine in 1990 when they dedicated their cover story to the generation who has "trouble making decisions" and whose attention span is as short as "one zap of a TV dial."
Truly, younger people on average are more narcissistic, however the younger workers of the 'oos aren't necessarily more selfish than were 90s workers, and 90's workers aren't more self-absorbed than those in the 70's and 80s. Sure, the distractions from decade to decade may be different. The generation once entranced by MTV now may look down its nose at the Facebook generation and in ten years the Facebook generation may haughtily judge generation Z for its addiction to virtual reality. Regardless however of what actually distracts them, the young people of every generation had a distraction over which the upper generations judged them for being lazy and self-absorbed.
So relax America. Our Millennials will grow out of it. In fact one day they will be writing articles about how bratty and entitled the young workers at their companies are behaving.
Internapalooza: What Type of Millennial Do We Really Want?
Internapalooza, an event I had not heard of until recently, is as its name suggests, a gathering of interns. More specifically the event hosts interns interested in working for Silicon Valley companies and from what I can tell, this July 11th, Internapalooza's fifth annual event will take over AT&T Park in San Francisco with over 8,000 interns registered to attend. The event offers interns the chance to mingle with their peers, speak with executives from dozens of top tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Paypal, Dropbox, and Microsoft and even play games. According to the schedule the free event begins at 6:00 and ends at 10:00 but that is when the Intern After Party begins and continues until 1:00 am.
A viral story about the After Party is how I first heard of Internapalooza. (I'm a forty-something who lives on the East Coast so cut me some slack.) A Microsoft recruiter sent the following email to an intern which the intern's roommate posted online.
Hi! I am Kim, a Microsoft University Recruiter. My crew is coming down from our HQ in Seattle to hang with you and the crowd of the bay area interns at Internapalooza on 7/11.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, we're throwing an exclusive after party the night of the event at our San Francisco office and you're invited! There will be hella noms, lots of dranks, the best beats and just like last year, we're breaking out the Yammer beer pong tables!
Okay so several things are wrong with this letter that Microsoft confirmed originated from them. One is the cringe worthy use of slang in an attempt to sound hip! "Hey Bae"? "Hella noms"? "Lots of dranks"? Not only is the jargon embarrassing but evidently it is also misused. "Dranks" which I'm assuming is meant to refer to drinks, is actually slang for codeine cough syrup that some young people ingest to get buzzed. I'm pretty sure Microsoft won't be passing around Robitussin at their party. Perhaps the worst thing about this letter is the ending reference to getting "Lit" on a Monday night. While looking cool may enable Microsoft to appear more attractive to millennials or the upcoming Generation Z, getting drunk is hardly the vibe they should be promoting. The letter is embarrassingly funny but not catastrophic to Microsoft's image.
Actually the email does not stray far from the laid back vibe presented for the whole event. Following is some verbiage from Internapalooza's website, "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status-quo." As I reflect on Microsoft's email and the statement on Internapalooza's website, I wonder if the wrong message is being sent to millennials in an attempt to recruit them?
For years news articles and blogs have been written about how to manage (deal with) Millennials in the work place. Millennials have been stereotyped as "entitled, lazy, narcissistic and addicted to social media." And yet events such as Internapalooza supposedly aren't looking for the conformist millennial but rather the "crazy misfit" who breaks the rules. Do we want millennials who will show up for work on time, focused and ready to do their jobs, or do we want to stay up late downing brews with them on a Monday night?
Do you think a responsible manager will ever exclaim over a raucous game of late night beer pong with his subordinates, "HELL YES TO SHOWING UP LATE FOR WORK ON A TUESDAY MORNING!"? The answer is "no" and that's your answer to the type of Millennial we really want.


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Got spit at today. Sheesh!
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Got spit at today. Sheesh!
Jan 14, 2004 1:27 PM
Nice riding weather here in the Denver area today (60 degrees), so I decided to try out my new mtn bike wheels this afternoon. I've had them since October, but have been riding the road bike when the weather permits.
Anyway, I'm riding along, minding my own business, when a car full of punk a$$ho's comes alongside and some huge goobers fly by just in front of me. Punks aren't that good at aiming, whether it be a 9mm or spit, thank goodness. I gave them the single digit salute, and almost caught them at the next light, but it turned green and they sped away. I didn't get the license number.
The new wheels on the mtn bike seem to work fine.
For those who know the area, this took place way East on Smoky Hill Road, near Himalaya.
and I thought we only had idiots here in the south!
Jan 14, 2004 2:25 PM
I've had soda cans(full),cigarette butts,spit,newspapers and some other things thrown at me while riding.Luckily only the cig. butts have connected though.I too have given the "single digit salute" on many occasions. I had a car full of teenagers swerve into me yesterday(I was in a designated bike lane btw),the passenger opens the car door,hangs out and screams at me as they passed.Brilliant. I caught them at the next stop sign and they were all laughing until I said"guess what genius,I'm a cop(I'm not). I just got your plate # and you and your parents will be seeing me later." The drivers face went pale as I rode off.
Not as bad here
The Human G-Nome
Jan 14, 2004 2:46 PM
In Norcal all I really get is the obligatory "get out of the road" and the exhuberant honking. On my 40 person group ride though, we once had a little 10 year old kid who must have been 4'8" tall and 225 pounds yell "try wearing some loose clothing you dorks!" I was having flashes of Eric Cartman in my head: "Respect my authoriti!" That was a nice moment.
I had an ironic "get outa the road"...
Jan 14, 2004 4:02 PM
...experience that was almost funny because this guy got held up for mere moments while I took ownership of the car lane so as to make a (signaled) left onto the MUT. He yelled "get outa the road" at me just after I had gotten on the MUT and he was driving by paralleling me.
Adding to the irony/comedy/frustration that I wasn't in the road when he yelled at me to get out of it, is the fact that I'm one less car in his traffic laden way home. I'm doing the fool a favor by biking, the least he can do is let me get on the dang MUT.
p.s. I ride past that MUT access point now, further down the road to where it's better/safer to cross over.
Bike lanes?
Jan 14, 2004 9:05 PM
in Memphis? Wheyar? oh and good line. will use that next time... I've been lucky though.
correction..SCHOOL bike lanes on Gtown loop(nm).
Jan 15, 2004 7:33 AM
and I thought we only had idiots here in the south!
Jan 15, 2004 6:23 AM
One of my roadie friends is also a North Carolina Highway Patrolman. He's had fun w/ a few ahole mototrists.
yo Eggbert
JS Haiku Shop
Jan 15, 2004 6:29 AM
thursday night, saturday, and sunday group rides, if you're interested. drop me a line: cat 5 tattoo at yahoo dot com
I will! how do you stake your barriers on pavement?!?lol(nm)
Jan 15, 2004 7:36 AM
human obstacles. simply i send j2 out to break legs :) nm
JS Haiku Shop
Jan 15, 2004 7:59 AM
ouch!J2 breaking legs and you breaking lungs...
Jan 15, 2004 8:09 AM
are you refering to thememphis hightailer group rides?if so I want to join the hightailers this year and get in on some of those rides.I typically only ride solo or with one other person,so I'm looking forward to some group rides.
JS Haiku Shop
Jan 15, 2004 8:36 AM
we typically ride as convenient from bartlett. this weekend is 9 am saturday for 50 from bpacc and 1 pm sunday for 42 from same. friendly pace with a few points of interest, and regroups. mostly gears, but sometimes we'll break out the fixies and suffer a little. ya never know if there'll be 2 or 20 people on any given ride.
That could be dangerous here in ND as the spit would freeze! nm
Jan 14, 2004 3:20 PM
This is unusual???
Jan 14, 2004 6:41 PM
Gee, try riding in the northeast, especially around high school graduation time. I get spit at/thrown at/run off the road at least twice a year! Even sent a guy to prison once for running me off.
tell me about it
wooden legs
Jan 14, 2004 11:59 PM
in pittsburgh i've had suvs swerve into me and follow me until i stopped, nose to nose argument ensuing, full 7-11 big gulps thrown at me while i was riding across a bridge, cig butts, general trash, beer cans, etc... we seem to have the mentality here that bikes are what you ride till you buy a car when you're 17, and if you're still on one when you're 20 there's something wrong with you. it's infuriating, i don't think i went two days over the past year and a half without hearing "get out of the road you @!*@@$%!" things are getting better, due to local bike projects and general counterculture the amount of cyclists here has exploded in the last year and a half, critical masses growing from five to ten people in 2001 to 120+ on key days in 2003.
people think they have it bad in nyc or philly where the traffic is heavy and cabs try to run you over, but at least most drivers there understand that bikes are actually allowed on the road.
Trouble is, what do you do when you do catch them?
Jan 15, 2004 6:23 AM
I've caught a couple of drivers at lights after they tried to run me off the road. And when I caught them I had a verbal pizsing contest with them and came close to have a brawl in the middle of the street. Both, times I got the ahole to back down and whimp away without throwing punches but in hind sight is was stupid and I am certain the Aholes will stay aholes, it did not change a thing. And I am certain I looked the sight standing in the middle of an intersection in my spandex yelling and screaming at some fat slob in a pickup truck.
Now, I try to bite my tounge, maintain a steady composure, give a friendly wave with a silly smile on my face and think, gee what a freacking ahole.
Spit is minor, I've loss track of how may cars and trucks got within an inch of me trying to intimidate me off the road. I've been hit by cars three times now, one serious two minor. I've also been hit by golf balls, spit, beer cans and fast food cups. A friend even had a brick thrown at him (it missed, he picked it up, sprinted to the stop light and threw it through the cars windshield and then sprinted off). I've lost one friend to a car and another aquantince had his head run over by a wide trailer pulled by a pickup, I took care of him until the parametics arrived (he survived but it did cause damage).
It's the negative side of road biking.
Don't dwell on it.
Don't even think about it.
Just go out and enjoy the ride and MAY LUCK BE WITH YOU.
I like the brick story...nm
Jan 16, 2004 7:18 AM


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"You look like you like cheese.. a lot of cheese.."
"You look like you like cheese.. a lot of cheese.."
Either that was meant to be really really offensive, or he really likes cheese.
But are they trying to say you're fat? what does it mean?
Yeah I think it might be that. I misread it at first.
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Maybe he thinks you look mousey, like a mouse. I wouldn't take that in a bad way as I know plenty of guys who LOVE a mousey looking girl... were you wearing green and yellow? Could have been a football joke!
Probably that you're overweight... :(
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Friday, 13 December 2013
Our Beautiful World #24
7 comments:
- Audrey Pettit said...
Congrats on your top 3 win, Mandy! I thought that layout was soooo stunning...so not surprised to hear it won! :)
And what a sweet photo you chose for this week's prompt. Love it!
- 14 December 2013 at 00:02
- Lizzy Hill said...
Good on you - CONGRATS on the challenge! Wish I had your brevity of speech & blogging...then I might get time & a chance to go into a beautiful world, it's such a FAB idea:):)...sheesh, I can't even make my comments brief....there's no hope, really, is there???!!!!!!!!!!!
- 14 December 2013 at 08:26
- Julie Tucker-Wolek said...
Congrats on the top 3 and loveeeeeeeeee your photo!!!!
- 14 December 2013 at 11:02
- Heather Jacob said...
totally sensational creation, loving all of this and the story adds to the scene... fabulous x
- 14 December 2013 at 19:30
- Ros Crawford said...
Congrats on your win!! And what a great photo ... that really takes me back I can tell you ... I know that feeling! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Our Beautiful World!!
- 14 December 2013 at 21:25
- Wendy AppleApricot said...
I remember that exact kind of moment just before going on stage... when I was a little girl I took part in some ballet performances and loved these moments backstage! Beautiful photo too! And congrats on the top three win, yay :)
- 15 December 2013 at 03:28
- Lizzyc said...
That photo is fabulous.. just in that moment of hushed expectancy to go on stage.. and well done on your lovely layout getting a mention too..
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Sept 9th
The dirt Derby
3/17 A very rousing St. Patrick's Day reveling in an annual classic and some green beers. It was good to be back "in the zone" for just a little bit. Saturday's off-road race loop was shortened due the wet conditions from the previous days rain. The track held up well with a soft mulch base providing traction with plenty enough bite in the corners. The bike was my rocket and I just held on. A couple of pro rider to keep thing in perspective, some fast locals, along with those just out to enjoy the trails, made up the peleton of about thirty riders.
A sunless, cold, damp return to winter was one tough nut to bust for some. The mechanics of touring to the race start, one wants to hang back a bit and keep warm on the bike, as opposed to getting there in a big hurry and standing around and shivering to get warm. The key thing was to take it easy during the prelude and I am all about easy.
The fix is in.
As in having enough of that beast for a while. Really it wasn't that bad. Got a lot of comments about the bike. That's part of the Y? I would have to admit. Being genuinely addressed as Mister Toughman, or a favorite from the day - Is that a single speed or a fixed gear? I got passed by a lot of people on the paved downhills while I tried with all my mite to spin 32:16 upwards to over 23mph, but what goes around comes around - usually on the way back up.
3/18 Coolville Cool Down
Around 30 miles total on the road bike that included a 5 mile per lap gravel track, advertised as the cream of the crop and living up to the expectations. Two steep climbs and sketchy descents per lap kept it interesting. I pulled off a classic rock star from the start up the biggest climb pacing Craig Watson along with pro dogs Brian Matter and Tristan Schouten. I held on for about 15 seconds after the crest and held my position till the end. Later Tristan reported that he had a maximum power output of nearly 900 watts. Well, your welcome - I guess.
racing with my head in the white fluffy clouds - lap 2
parading to the venue
10 days ago the 10 day forecast was nothing but those little yellow shining icons that sometimes corresponds with sunny days. It's now 40 degrees and 100% humidity in the form of an all day rain, with the prospect of just about the same for Saturday. Cool, I wasn't really ready for a wardrobe change, it looks like I will get some more use from my snazzy little cycling jacket that I bought this winter.
I really don't know what to expect, but I am determined to ride a fixed gear for about 50 miles at this Saturday's festivities in Athens Ohio. Fifty miles will the longest distance that I have covered on this bike at one seating. Sometimes this bike does magically things and other times it just kicks my butt. Maybe it will be butt kicking magic. Any way, hopefully there will be plenty of kind folks to revel in my misery and to witness the magic. It should be no sweat.
rousing gravel
3/5 Found myself in Athens Ohio and had a chance to check out the conditions and see what was in store for the upcoming Gravel Rouser. Super secret recon under the cover of a Monday ride. Had a chance to see with my own eyes what was going down and me thinks it needs to be stepped up a notch or two just to hang with one certain ride committee member. It looks to be quite a tussle!
A sampling of Athens trailage - Finger Rock 4.9MB movie
and because outtakes are always fun - blooper 5.8MB movie
I am the Bike Dork
This betty is right off the beaten track - Black Mountain, the highest point in Kentucky, from Cumberland up route 160 to the mountain pass, then on up on Black Mountain Road for the "Doubles" - two head walls that will keep a head a hanging as to miss the ride-by of the giant orb (FFA enflight radar). Very uncharacteristic riding for Eastern KY, no coal trucks and a touristy revitalized area with a coal museum, low speed limits, and some short sections of rail trails. Nothing spectacular at the top, just a slab of concrete with a westerly view. Interesting enough there are proposals in place to strip mine this particular area, and around these parts Coal is King.
These are for Jay ...
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3/4 Winding a line through an Osage grove. Covering some new ground in Barboursville Park.
2/23 Welcome to Whitesburg
Another day on the road, taking advantage of the "5" o'clock bolt on the bike from the last call of the day. A fine day on the j o b with 7 hours driving and almost and hour on task, but the priority of the day was to get on the bike. One climb to the top to enjoy the nature before the back track down. A short (1:20) ride with high payoff staying ahead of the traffic on the curvy descent.
I checked the log book at the start of the trail - 34 registered trail users in the past 4 months. If those 2 grouches would get out and see what was at their back door, maybe they wouldn't be so grouchy.
2/20 Fat Tuesday; Heading South to find some prime conditions, 45 degrees and some land not saturated with all the white stuff that was starting to get a little bit old. The Pine Mountain Trail on VA's Southern slope provides a good hour of climbing from Payne Gap till it finally tops out just before the trail peters out. A nice warm-up on Kentucky's country music highway leads to the stairway that starts the progression upward and along the ridge. Sweet swept bench cuts through rhodo' thickets and ridge top cliff lines till you reach Scuttlehole Gap, where the trail just fizzles to an end. One of four out and back trail section on top of Pine Mountain's 180 mile ridge.
dry leaves on the PMT!
Jenkins Hollow; Wes Rhoads on one of the longest and coldest rides of a lifetime. Let's hope it's not the last!
Excitement, Adventure, and Unusually Wild Things
2/19 I was all excited that Saturday's group ride would roll from the house and pick up a total of five rider for parts of the days ride. I dropped my car off on Friday and rode the road back to the Heights so that Saturday's ride was a one way point to point on the Kanawha Trace. The weather on Saturday seen more snow than was predicted on top of what was left in the secluded hollows along the Trace. I never thought there would be so much left on the ground, it turned out to be quite an adventure. The trails where fun but require quite a bit of effort to "ride light" on top of the crusty snow or a bit more effort to crush through it. An unusually wild couple of inches of solid ice on the gravel road sections seen everybody biting the ice hard at least once. As it states in the Hitchhiker's Guide - DON'T PANIC, all we had to do was make the 30 or so miles to the CRV (before it got towed). Apparently what I thought was legal parking beside a county road is thought to be private property by a certain land owner. The Putman County police's phone call to my home gave my wife quite the scare. Anyway the car was intact where it was left and everybody made it home in just a little bit more than the projected "solid 4 hour" ride time frame (5.5 hours). Ron made it out to partake in his first group ride in quite some time. His take on the day can be found right here
Bear Hollow; AHole real world testing the 2X single speed
The crew; Wes, JT, and 'Hole hiking Big Cabell
The custom Lynskey; just North of the Mason County line
2/19 Baby its cold out, but it is Winter, so deal with it. Times like these that makes me fast. Not ante faster than my normal plodding self but comparatively faster than those ski birds and faster than those that veg out thru most of the season. For just a little bit, then the time changes and it warms up and everybody and their brother is passing me by. It is no bother. I have lost the fascination with speed. Being an old Vet racer may have something to do with that. Racing for over ten years also may be a factor. But I suffered a lapse in a self imposed metal block this week , as of this year I can no longer be considered an old Vet Expert - I am a young Master. Shit. Ignorance is bliss and I like to be blissful. So now I ponder what it would be like to go for the fast old manpoints. Yeh. Ramp up on the WVMBA Series all hardcore again, try to dethrone that Marcus fellow a year before some of the other old Vets get young again. Or are they already? Already I yearn for the bliss, just go ride and see where I end up, whether it is how fast, how far, how long, how easy, or at all. It's really not about other people, that is something I cannot control. So, I will try and focus and control myself. Oh! by the way another Master candidate by the name of Gunnar something becomes eligible this year as well. Oh well.
2/12 on the river trail at one of the barer spots. Prime Winter track
One has to stick with it - a lot like the snow that is just hanging on for what seems like forever. At least for around these parts. I am not complaining, I have made the transition to the colder conditions and seem to have it down to a seasonal science. But sometimes it seems like it takes more time prepping to ride outside in the Winter than some of the rides themselves. One other choice is to hit the trainer, not that there is anything wrong with that but I have to have a flaming case of cabin fever before I even think about dragging out the rollers. Yet a consistent program this time of year is crucial, and you keep on keepin' on, making the small circles taht make the bigger circles.
Snow Day
It was god to see so many taking advantage of the snowy conditions in the park. Plenty of sledders, boarders, and even a lone cross country ski track around Lake William. A couple of tracks are now on the river trail, packing powder may see ideal conditions for an ice crit by Saturday ? ...
2/3 & 4 Superbowl Weekend Harrisonburg VA - From the top; Saturday climbing Dowells with Nate and Mike, Super Bowl ride along FR85 with top style honors for the homemade shoe covers, The hot spot on Flagpole, & Random rider off of Meadow Knob.
This annual Winter pilgrimage is a 50 mile MTB ride from downtown, most of it road riding with one big climb to 4200 feet on Flagpole Knob. The sketch is high along the ridge out past Meadow and Pond and the descent is a white knuckling, arm pumping experience (good for motivating on the free weights). Not once all weekend did someone ask me "why I wanted to ride in weather like this". Those 100 orso peoples that made all or part of the ride may not have known the answer, but a least no one asked the question. Wow - to be normal for a bit...
1/31 Bad Branch Falls, Whitesburg KY; A short hike on the lunch "hour" to check out the Winter show out the falls. The sounds of the water with randomly thunderous crashes from the ice breaking away, led to a bit of a leery feel but really help to lift the spirit on a work day.
1/30 The trails a firming up in the deep freeze - finally. Trail reports from B'ville Park are to "get it while you can". Laying down the fresh track is always exciting and some shelter from the cold wind in the woods can make sub freezing temps bearable.
I need more of them. Fixed on Friday. 50 mile 4 hour road ride on Saturday and a single speed coaster on Sunday. My legs had the most surprises in store for me on Saturday. I try not to be a bike hater, but I do have a tendency to neglect the road bike. Time to start making some bigger circles and finding those ever dwindling stretches of dirt roads. The Alps of Lincoln County are calling...
1/28 Ahole takes a picture of his bike on the KT. Thanks for the loaner so I could start the ride and coast! apparently fixies do take some maintenance
1/27 Taking it on the road in Ohio
this has been floating around in my head...
simply put moto-vate me
Get me that. What gets you up and out the door to ride your bike? Blue bird skies on frozen hard pack is an easy motivator. What about when it is some of the worst conditions possible such as freezing rain and slush at around 35 degrees? There was nobody to hook up with on a day like that, so it wasn't like I was blowing off the planned group ride. But later in the day Jeremiah provided my muse to get out and brave the elements. That would be Jeremiah Johnson, all he wanted was to be a mountain man. If Robert Redford can go face down into the storm then it should be a breeze with Gore-Tex. Include some fresh words on the magic of the way of the fixed cog by t he man working on his doctorate of curmudgeonry (Tomi Millar), and I was out into the day on the fixed geared mountain bike. A less than epic ride but discovering the control of the bike in slick stuff, surfing the sludge and being at one with my surroundings instead of dreading them - well it was something. I will let you decide what that something may be.
So whether you get your inspirations from some old movie, a computer screen, or any other manner, for that fact - get inspired and keep inspired.
1/7 Glady, WV; I always knew there was something good out that road from Alpena. Sunday's WVMBA meeting at the new president's house at Timberline was an opportunity to find out. Didn't start early enough to make it down the West Fork Rail Trail as far as I wanted, but taking the first trail I came to was perfect. Me and the rail trail was soft, squishy and slow. A stout headwind was blowing and the cold rain that was on the way would surely get me wet. High Falls Trail led up thru some huge old growth Hemlock and I got to the falls right at my cut off time for the out and back. I guess one can take a train to and from the falls from somewhere, but apparently it wasn't running that day. Very best solo exploring rocky rooty all new stuff ride of the year by far.
I would need what these guys got before the end of the ride ...
... A trail runs through it ...
if you can't feel the luv, can you see it?
As you can see things look a little different. Cleaning things up with the new year and going for a more efficient streamlined look. Everything that was bike bFAT can still be found in the archives at the link above. We will just have to wait and see what the final format will be. By eliminating the right cell, in theory can cut my workload by 30%. And you won' t have to read some lame Quip of the Month.
\bike bFAT
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Barboursville's Fun Awesome Trails
bFAT is an informal group of riders who appreciate the land and ride for a healthy well being.
Beech Fork is mostly a single track trail that follows around the lake leading into a combination of creek bed, hill climb, and fast downhill back to the lake. Barboursville's Park has some nice runs from the top with numerous scenic overlooks from the sheer cliffs and steep drops. The flat single track that follows the river and comes out behind the lake - is where the real fun can begin or end. Click on the link at top of page - above (right or left) to see a map! The Kanawha Trace and Adahi Trails are 32 mile and 17 mile multi user trails crossing over private land. Check with the Tri-State Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America for trail information and registration.
bFAT email groupo<----click here Become a part of an e-group forum that will let all subscribers communicate (free!). Send an e-mail with the word "join" in the subject or body and you'll get hooked up with other riders, to do fun group rides, get trail info and conditions, technical advice, etc.
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The past couple of weeks since I have been back home, I've been baking up a storm. Lately I've been eager to brush up on my b...
The past couple of weeks since I have been back home, I've been baking up a storm. Lately I've been eager to brush up on my baking skills and learn a few classic French recipes. But with all this baking I have a ton of left over treats, main one being Chantilly cream. Chantilly cream is delicious and sweet, and can be put on pretty much any dessert possible. It pairs well with tarts, cakes, meringues, the list is endless, but one unexpected pairing is with coffee. There is something so perfect about the bitter flavour of coffee and the sweetness of the cream together. If you haven't tasted it yet, you really have to.
Café Viennois
prep time: 5 minutes
makes: one cup
1 cup or mug of coffee or long double espresso
4 tbsp chantilly cream (see recipe below)
1. Prepare the coffee or long double espresso and pour into your favourite cup or mug.
2. With a spoon or piping bag fitted with a 14mm star tip, pipe the chantilly cream into a
rosette on top of the coffee. Serve and enjoy!
Chantilly Cream
prep time: 10 minutes
makes: 2 1/2 cups
1 cup heavy (double) cream | whipping cream
2 1/2 tbsp confectioner's (icing) sugar
1. Begin by placing your large mixing bowl in the freezer to chill for 5 minutes.
2. Once chilled, remove the bowl from freezer and cream from fridge (cream must be very cold to whip)
3. Pour the cream into chilled bowl and begin whisking with an electric mixer or whisk by hand. Once the cream is thick, add the icing sugar and continue whisking until cream is firm.
4. Keep refrigerated until ready to use.


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|Publication number
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|Application number
|Publication date
|Sep 6, 1988
|Filing date
|Oct 23, 1987
|Priority date
|Jun 27, 1985
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Francis E. Goodwin, Gordon R. Orme, Peter G. Petrelis
|Original Assignee
|Trw Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (7), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (35), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 749,339, filed June 27, 1985 and now abandoned.
This invention relates generally to fiber optical radio-frequency communication or data links, and more particularly, to those communication applications of optical fibers in which a high dynamic range is required. Dynamic range is analogous to a signal-to-noise ratio. In a practical environment, every radio communication signal is distorted by noise components derived from a variety of sources, and by harmonic distortion components at frequencies that are integral multiples of the signal frequency. Dynamic range may be defined as the ratio of the available signal power to the total power associated with noise and harmonic distortion components. Thus, a larger value of dynamic range is equivalent to a purer or less distorted signal.
Relatively high values of dynamic range are obtainable using conventional coaxial cable as a communication link, and transmitting the signal at radio frequencies. Typically, dynamic range values in excess of approximately 83 decibels (dB) are attainable in coaxial cables. However, there are some situations in which coaxial cables are unsuitable for various reasons. For example, if the required transmission distance of the link is too great, the advantage of coaxial cables is diminished by their high transmission losses, in comparison to low-loss optical fibers. Another example is an application that requires repeated flexing of the communication link, as in rotatable antennas. In this case, there may be mechanical problems, such as excessive mass, fatigue failure, and so forth, that dictate the use of optical fibers instead of coaxial cables. Susceptibility to electromagnetic interference (EMI) is yet another factor that may dictate the use of optical fibers instead of coaxial cables.
Use of a fiber optical link avoids many of these problems. Fibers are lighter in weight and immune to electromagnetic interference. They are also relatively resistant to fatigue failure due to repeated flexing. In a fiber optical communication link, a carrier signal at or near visible light frequencies is employed. In most applications of interest, the communication signal is available in the form of a modulated radio-frequency (rf) signal. For example, an rf signal may be received at an antenna and the application calls for transmitting it over optical fibers to a distant location. Accordingly, such applications require that an optical frequency carrier signal be modulated with an rf subcarrier signal, which in turn carries the communication signal. This invention is not concerned with the method of rf modulation that is used, except to the extent that some rf modulation techniques require a greater dynamic range than others.
The conventional technique for modulating an optical carrier signal source, such as an injection laser diode, is to bias the laser to a point in its operating characteristic above its lasing threshold, and to apply simultaneously a modulating (rf) signal. However, the resulting modulated signal includes a strong second harmonic component, as well as higher-order harmonics. The dynamic range is, therefore, relatively poor, only about 33 dB, compared with 83 dB for a typical coaxial cable.
It will be appreciated from the foregoing that there is a need for an alternative approach for the modulation of an optical beam in a fiber optical communication link. The present invention is directed to this end.
The present invention resides in a fiber optical communication link having a relatively high dynamic range, and a corresponding method for its operation. Briefly, and in general terms, the apparatus of the invention comprises a source of optical radition, signal dividing means for producing a reference signal and a carrier signal, and electro-optical phase modulation means, for modulating the carrier signal to produce a phase-modulated signal. The apparatus of the invention also includes means for removing the carrier signal from the phase-modulated signal, to produce a double-sideband suppressed-carrier signal, and means for adjusting the plane of polarization of this signal to match that of the reference signal. Finally, the apparatus includes signal combining means, for combining the adjusted double-sideband suppressed-carrier signal with the reference signal.
The combining means functions to mix or heterodyne the two signals. So long as the carrier-suppressed signal and the reference signal are matched in phase, the resulting modulated signal can be properly demodulated. Perhaps more important, is the result that the modulated signal that is output from the combining means contains no even-numbered harmonic components. Principally for this reason, the dynamic range of the link is relatively high, about 68 dB for the exemplary embodiment. While this is not as high as the dynamic range of a coaxial cable, it is 35 dB better than that of a conventional fiber optical link.
In the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, the signal dividing and combining means are optical star couplers, including diverging or converging optical waveguides fabricated as integral components. Alternatively, the optical signals can be divided and combined by appropriately fusing together twisted pairs of individual optical fibers.
An alternative approach to the one described is to omit the means for removing the carrier signal. The resulting signal is then not carrier-suppressed, and has to match the reference signal in amplitude, as well as phase, if proper demodulation is to be obtained.
The electro-optic phase modulator is preferably a Pockels cell operated in a pure phase-modulation mode. In the illustrative embodiment of the invention, the means for removing the carrier signal includes a polarizer, and the means for adjusting the plane of polarization of the carrier-suppressed signal includes a half-wave plate.
In accordance with the method of the invention, modulation of an optical carrier signal is achieved by the steps of dividing a coherent source of light into two approximately equal portions, referred to as a reference signal and a carrier signal, modulating the phase of the carrier signal with a radio-frequency signal, removing the carrier signal from the phase-modulated signal to provide a double-sideband suppressed-carrier signal, and adjusting the plane of polarization of the suppressed-carrier signal to match that of the reference signal. The final step is that of combining the reference signal and the adjusted suppressed-carrier signal, to provide a modulated reference signal that has a high dynamic range.
It will be appreciated from the foregoing that the present invention represents a significant advance in the field of fiber optical communication links. In particular, the invention provides a fiber optical communication link with a relatively high dynamic range. Other aspects and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following more detailed description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a simplified schematic view of a fiber optical communication link in accordance with the invention; and
FIGS. 2a-2d are a series of phasor diagrams showing various signals at different stages of processing in the apparatus of FIG. 1.
As shown in the drawings for purposes of illustration, the present invention is concerned with an improved technique for modulating an optical carrier signal for transmission through a fiber optical communication link. Although coaxial cables provide excellent dyanmic range characteristics, they may not be suitable in some communication applications, such as those involving long transmission distances, exposure to electromagnetic interference, or exposure to conditions of repeated mechanical flexing of the cables. Optical fibers are usually preferred for such applications, but the dynamic range provided by conventional optical fiber modulation techniques may not be high enough for analog applications, such as feed links for antenna arrays.
In accordance with the invention, an optical signal source is split into two portions, a reference signal and a carrier signal. Then the carrier signal is phase-modulated by a radio-frequency signal, and the phase-modulated signal is recombined with the reference signal, to provide a modulated signal that has a high dynamic range.
It will be understood that the term "optical signal" is not limited to radiation within the visible light portion of the spectrum. It may also include, for example, ultraviolet radiation.
As shown in FIG. 1, the apparatus of the invention includes an optical light source, indicated by reference numeral 10, which may be an injection laser diode. The laser diode 10 is coupled directly to an optical star coupler 12, a device having an input waveguide 14 and two integral output waveguides 16 and 18. As indicated at 20, the waveguides 14 and 16 are part of one continuous waveguide, while the other output waveguide 18 has an end portion in close proximity to the waveguide 14-16, at region 20. In the region 20, input energy is coupled in practically equal proportions to the output waveguides 16 and 18. The signal in the upper output waveguides 16 is referred to as the carrier signal, and the signal in the lower output waveguide 18 is referred to as the reference signal.
The carrier signal in the upper output waveguide 16 is coupled to an electro-optical phase modulator 22. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, this takes the form of a Pockels cell, such as a one-centimeter-long barium-strontium-niobate light pipe modulator with a 0.1 mm aperture. A radio-frequency (rf) signal source 24 is also applied to the phase modulator 22.
The phasor diagrams of FIGS. 2a-2d are all referenced to the phase of the reference signal. As shown in FIG. 2a, the phase of the reference signal is zero, indicated at 30 and that of the carrier signal is ninety degrees, as indicated at 32. This phase difference is designed into the waveguides 16 and 18, and, as will be seen, is needed to ensure that the reference signal is in the correct phase relationship to permit reconstruction of a suppressed carrier signal.
The effect of phase modulation is shown in FIG. 2b. The phase modulator 22 electrooptically modulates the phase of the carrier signal in accordance with the instantaneous amplitude of the rf signal source 24. The resulting composite signal may be considered to include a carrier-frequency component and components at upper and lower sideband frequencies above and below the carrier frequency. The bidirectional phasor 34 is intended to indicate these upper and lower sideband frequencies, which effectively rotate the carrier frequency phasor 32 to the postions shown at 32' and 32". This phase-modulated signal is then applied to a polarizer 36, which effectively filters out the carrier signal component, Since the resulting double-sideband suppressed-carrier signal is in an orthogonal polarization to that of the reference signal, the plane of polarization is next rotated by ninety degrees, with a half-wave plate 38. The resultant signal is shown by the bidirectional phasor 40 in FIG. 2c. This signal is applied to one input port of a signal combiner 44, which is identical in structure to the star coupler 12 used as the signal divider, except that the combiner 44 has two input waveguides 50 and 52 and a single output waveguide 54. The double-sideband suppressed-carrier signal is applied to the input waveguide 50, and the original reference signal is transmitted through a waveguide 56 and then coupled to the other input waveguide 52. The output waveguide 54 is coupled to an output fiber 58, or to some other optical component. The phasor representation of the output signal is shown in FIG. 2d.
An alternative approach is to omit suppression of the carrier signal during phase modulation, i.e. to omit the polarizer 36 and the half-wave plate 38. In this alternative approach, the carrier signal contributes to the noise component in subsequent detection or demodulation. In effect, this approach results in a phase-modulated optical signal, and the reference signal must match the carrier signal in amplitude as well as phase for proper demodulation. Apart from these considerations, however, the alternative approach also operates to provide an improved dynamic range.
Improved dynamic range performance in both approaches is obtained principally because phase modulation results in the generation of no even harmonic components, and relatively small odd harmonic components, in the modulated signal. Thus the harmonic distortion component of the dynamic range ratio is relatively small, and the dynamic range is correspondingly large. The sideband power in the phase-modulated signal may be computed as the product of the square of the conventional small-angle phase modulation index and three times the source optical power. If the optical source 10 is assumed to have a power of 10 mW (milliwatts), half of which is transmitted as the carrier signal, and the drive power is assumed to be 1 mW, this computation yields a sideband power of approximately 10-4 watt. Corresponding computations of harmonic powers yield zero even harmonic powers and a third harmonic power of approximately 10-11 watt, or approximately 70 dB below the first harmonic power level.
In a conventionally modulated fiber optical link, the second harmonic component is only approximately 33 dB below the first harmonic, and the dynamic range suffers accordingly. This is the basis for the difference in performance between the conventional fiber optical link and the link of the present invention.
The following table compares the signal-to-noise ratios (S/N), signal-to-distortion ratios (S/D), and dynamic ranges for three communication links having 1 GHz (gigahertz) bandwidth and assuming 0 dBm input.
______________________________________Link Type S/N S/D Dyn. Range______________________________________Conventional 63 dB 33 dB 33 dBfiber opticPhase-modulated 59 71 59fiber opticCoaxial cable 83 infinite 83______________________________________
It will be appreciated from this table that the apparatus of the invention provides a dynamic range approximately 26 dB better than that of conventional fiber optical modulation techniques, but not as good as that of a coaxial cable link. However, the coaxial cable approach is not suitable for some applications, and the conventional fiber optical link may have insufficient dynamic range.
It will also be appreciated that, although one embodiment has been described in detail for purposes of illustration, various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is not to be limited except as by the appended claims.
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|Feb 5, 2010
|Oct 4, 2012
|University Of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
|Optical modulator with linear response
|Dec 2, 2014
|Sep 24, 2015
|Ariel-University Research And Development Company Ltd.
|Method and system for controlling phase of a signal
|U.S. Classification
|398/188, 398/200, 385/46, 359/279, 359/246, 398/192, 398/201
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Dec 13, 1991
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