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LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - British day-ahead gas prices gained 1.4 percent on Tuesday as imports from Europe dropped due to maintenance at two Norwegian gas fields.
The contract on gas for Wednesday delivery climbed 0.60 pence to 42.60 pence/therm in early trade, recovering slightly from a 3.5-year low of around 41.50 pence the previous day.
Analysts at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon said a full shutdown of Norway's Troll and Kvitebjorn fields for maintenance, coupled with increased consumption at UK local distribution zones, lifted the front end of the forward curve.
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|Cherik Bulkes, Stephen Denker, Arthur J. Beutler
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This application claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/776,855 filed Feb. 24, 2006.
Not Applicable
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, which are used for non-invasive imaging of the internal organs of a patient for medical diagnostic purposes, and more particularly to a radio frequency amplifier for use with an MRI scanner.
2. Description of the Related Art
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a well-known procedure based on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) principles for obtaining detailed, two and three dimensional images of patients. MRI is well suited for the imaging of soft tissues and is primarily used for diagnosing internal injuries.
Typical MRI systems include a magnet capable of producing an intense, homogenous magnetic field around a patient or portion of the patient; a radio frequency (RF) transmitter and receiver system, including a transmit/receiver RF coil also surrounds a portion of the patient; a magnetic gradient system localizes a portion of the patient; and a computer processing/imaging system, which receives the demodulated signals from the receiver system and processes the signals into interpretable data, such as visual images.
The superconducting magnet is used in conjunction with a magnetic gradient coil assembly, which is sequentially pulsed to create a sequence of controlled gradients in the main magnetic field during an MRI data gathering sequence. The superconducting magnet and the magnetic gradient coil assembly include the radio frequency coil on an inner circumferential side of the magnetic gradient coil assembly. The controlled sequential gradients are effectuated throughout a patient imaging volume (patient bore) which is coupled to at least one MRI RF coil or antenna. The RF coils and an RF shield are typically located between the magnetic gradient coil assembly and the patient bore.
As a part of a typical MRI, RF signals of suitable frequencies are transmitted into the patient bore. Nuclear magnetic resonance responsive RF signals are received from the patient via the RF coils. Information encoded within the frequency and phase parameters of the received RF signals, by the use of an RF circuit, is processed to form visual images. These visual images represent the distribution of NMR nuclei within a cross-section or volume of the patient, within the patient bore.
In modern MRI, the demand for high spatial and temporal resolution necessitates the use of high static magnetic field. Active electric coils are used to drive spatial gradients into the static magnetic field. Enhanced imaging sequences typically demand high amplitude gradient fields, rapid field transitions, and large duty cycles in order to improve resolution and scan time. Unfortunately, these properties also increase the power dissipation and thus cause higher temperatures in the scanner.
With reference to
Linearity is another important characteristic desired for the RF amplifier. A Class-A amplifier has very good linearity, but this type of amplifier is less than 10% efficient, therefore its power consumption is relatively high. Class-B amplifiers have somewhat worse linearity but are only on half of the time, and rely on the flywheel effect of the resonator to come around. This type of amplifier is, therefore, much more efficient than class A. The disadvantage is linearity, which is decreased to a level that is less desirable. Class-AB amplifiers are in between Classes A and B. Class-C amplifiers are more efficient than Class-B, but have worse linearity. They are on less than half of the signal cycle. Any amplifier that greatly relies on the flywheel effect is required to be close to or right on the resonator for maximum effect.
Recently, a different kind of amplifier, known as a switching amplifier, has been developed. A particularly useful switching amplifier is called a Class-E amplifier. Switching amplifiers have relatively high power efficiency due to the fact that perfect switching operation does not dissipate power. An ideal switch has zero impedance when closed and infinite impedance when open, implying that there is zero voltage across the switch when it conducts current (on state) and a non-zero voltage across it in the non-conductive state (off state). Consequently, the product of voltage and current (power loss) is zero at any time. Therefore, a Class-E amplifier has a theoretical efficiency of 100%, assuming ideal switching.
Although those advantages of Class-E amplifiers could be beneficial for an RF amplifier in a magnetic resonance imaging system, their high non-linearity make conventional amplifiers of this type undesirable for MRI applications.
The present invention is directed to a version of a Class-E amplifier that is particularly useful in the radio frequency section of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The MRI system produces a control signal that defines an intensity for a radio frequency excitation signal.
The radio frequency section includes an exciter that produces a radio frequency carrier signal. A Class-E amplifier responds to the radio frequency carrier signal and the control signal by producing the radio frequency excitation signal. The preferred embodiment of the Class-E amplifier comprises a choke and a switch connected in series between a supply voltage source and circuit ground with an output node formed between choke and the switch. A shunt capacitor coupling the amplifier output node to the circuit ground. In addition an input capacitor may be connected between the supply voltage source and the circuit ground.
A transmit coil, for placement around a person being scanned by the MRI system, is connected to the output node of the Class-E amplifier to receive the radio frequency excitation signal. Typically the transmit coil is a volume type, or transverse electromagnetic (TEM) style transmit array, having a plurality of rungs, and a separate Class-E amplifier is connected to drive each rung.
For a volume type transmit coil, a separate Class-E amplifier is connected to drive each rung. In this case, the radio frequency section preferably further comprises a drive circuit and a power splitter. The drive circuit modulates the radio frequency carrier signal with the control signal to produce a drive signal. The power splitter divides the drive signal into a plurality of sub-drive signals one of which for each rung of the transmit coil, wherein each sub-drive signal is employed to drive one of the Class-E amplifiers. In a preferred embodiment, a pair of Class-E amplifiers that are Π radians out of phase are connected to each transmit coil rung, and a plurality of phase splitters produce a phase shifted sub-drive signal for each rung. For each rung, a phase-shifted sub-drive signal is applied to one Class-E amplifier and the sub-drive signal is applied to another Class-E amplifier.
With initial reference to
The RF subsystem comprises transmitter section having an exciter 16 which generates RF waveform pulses that fed through an RF amplifier 20 and a transmit/receive (T/R) switch 32 to the transmit/receive local coil 22 positioned around the head of the patient 11. A bigger body transmit/receive coil located inside the gradient coils 26 alternatively is used for imaging larger regions of the patient. The required peak power needed to be applied to a body transmit/receive coil for excitation of the spin system is 16 KW for 64 MHz excitation and 35 KW for 128 MHz excitation, for example.
The RF receiver section has a preamplifier 30, which alternately is connected by the T/R switch 32 to the transmit/receive local coil 22. The output of the preamplifier 30 is applied to a receiver 18 that samples the echo signal, referred to as the free-induction decay (FID) or echo response signal, and those sample are written into the raw data file in memory of the processor 34. Upon completion of the scan, the raw data is reconstructed by a processor 34 to form the final images displayed on the monitor 36.
Focusing on the transmitter section, the RF power amplifier 20 amplifies the modulated MRI excitation signal to a level sufficient to generate the required circularly polarized RF magnetic field (B1). Peak B1 field amplitudes between 15 μT and 30 μT inside a whole-body transmit coil require a peak power of 15 to 20 kW in a typical 1.5 T whole-body MRI system. The RF power requirement is proportional to the square of the RF B field magnitude. This becomes a very important consideration for higher field strengths (e.g. 3 T) whole-body MRI systems. Other significant requirements for the MRI RF power amplifier 20 include the linearity, stability, and efficiency. The linearity is very important to preserve the fidelity of the modulated pulse, since the accuracy of the slice profile depends on it. The amplifier stability contributes to the repeatability of the MRI pulse sequences. The efficiency of the RF power amplifier 20 is important to maintain the cooling requirements, packaging size and cost at practical levels. Class A amplifiers are linear but inefficient. Class B amplifiers are more efficient, but linearity suffers from signal "crossover distortion," which is not acceptable for high-quality MRI applications. In class AB amplifiers, the operating point is adjusted to eliminate the crossover distortion, yet provide higher efficiency. Therefore, class AB amplifiers are commonly used for MRI systems.
The RF power amplifier system according to the present invention utilizes a plurality of novel Class-E amplifiers integrated on the transmit/receive local coil 22 and on a larger transmit/receive body coil. The transmit/receive body coil is located in the scanner 12 shown in
With additional reference to
The coil rung amplifiers 84 and 85 are driven by pulse width modulated (PWM) signal and for linear applications, the PWM frequency is selected in conformity with the maximum bandwidth and phase linearity desired in the output signal. The exciter 16 (
In one embodiment, the input signal is varied and the modulation is achieved by digitizing an analog waveform. The bandwidth of the analog waveform should be at least one half of the PWM frequency, and may need to be significantly lower depending on the maximum allowable phase variance. The digitized waveform is expressed by pulses that vary in duration. Now a setpoint for a preset output (e.g. 30%) is digitally modulated to carry the digital representation of an analog signal. For example, if a 25% modulation is allowed, then the output of the amplifier will vary �25% and results in an output signal duty cycle that varies from 5% to 55%.
As shown in
In an optional, more robust implementation, the drive circuit 42 varies the on-time (or duty cycle) of the coil rung amplifiers 84 and 85 in response to the output of the transmit/receive body coil 80 as measured by an output sensor, such as a pickup coil 49. The voltage induced across the pickup coil 49 is rectified and filtered by an RC network 48 to provide a feedback voltage signal that is translated at the mixing node 46 to control a duty cycle of the DRIVE signal. A greater feedback voltage translates to a lower duty cycle, and a lesser feedback voltage translates to a higher duty cycle. Thus the duty cycle is proportional to the signal measurement from the pickup coil 49.
This feedback circuit measures the field level generated under load conditions and proportions the DRIVE signal (on-duration of the coil rung amplifiers 84 and 85) accordingly to maintain the oscillatory condition. The feedback circuit may not be self starting. However, it could be operated as a modified self oscillating circuit, in which there is a base frequency F0 operated at a minimum idle current. A unique feature of the present invention is the use of an envelope voltage signal, VENVELOPE, with a sinusoidal voltage that is non-linearly manipulated to derive the rectangular pulses. This enables the number of components in the Class-E amplifier to be reduced substantially.
The resultant DRIVE signal is fed to a sixteen-way power splitter 50 to provide a signal for each rung 82 of the transmit/receive body coil 80.
Each amplifier 84 and 85 on the rungs 82 of the transmit/receive body coil 80 is a novel Class-E, RF power amplifier 300 shown in
The Class-E, RF power amplifier 300 has a supply terminal connected to a rail voltage VE and coupled to ground by an input capacitor 310. A choke 320 couples the supply terminal to the switch 325. The choke 320 maintains the current that flows through the switch 325 during its on time, such that after the switch opens, the current flow is distributed between a series resonant rung 82 of the transmit/receive body coil 80 and a shunt capacitor 330. The ratio of this distribution is a function of the phase of the resonant tank circuit's periodic cycle and the switch timing. For maximum efficiency, the switch 325 should close (i.e. make a transition from a non-conductive state to a conductive state) while the voltage across the shunt capacitor 330, and thus the switch 325, is substantially to zero. Preferably, the derivative of that voltage also should be zero.
The switch 325 is a low impedance device, preferably a MOSFET, which is operated by a drive voltage or current determined based on the voltage (E) across or field strength (B) level produced by the series resonant coil rung 82. It is important to use a switch 325 that is over specified by preferably an order of magnitude or more. For example, if the maximum expected current is one ampere, the switch should be rated to handle a transient current of at least ten amperes. The switch element has a low channel resistance and low feedback capacitance. The channel resistance preferably should be such that the product of channel resistance and the peak current is less than 3% of the supply voltage to the circuit. The feedback capacitance preferably should be such that it is less than 10% of the input circuit capacitance.
The drive circuit 350 is closely integrated with the switch 325, wherein the circuit board layout is chosen based on the selected component configuration, for example by mounting the components as close together as possible. In addition, the loop containing the peak current is spatially located in close proximity to the switch 325. The respective output signal from the associated 0/180 degree phase splitter 54 is applied to a pulse shaping network 355 in which the mixed signal is AC coupled to a fraction of the sine wave signal and the base line is shifted by a suitable design parameter. The pulse shaping network 355 counteracts parasitic components (e.g. Miller capacitance) of the switch and provide pre-emphasis that properly turns the switch on and off. This non-linearly manipulated signal forms the signal used for driving the gate of the amplifier switch 325.
The series resonant coil rung 82 connects an amplifier output node 340 between the choke 320 and the switch 325 to ground. The series resonant coil rung 82 of the transmit/receive body coil 80, approximates the resonant waveform that is measurable in an inductively coupled load, as represented by the "body tissue coupled load" 380. The majority of the coupling with the body tissue is inductive (LCOUPLING) and losses associated with that coupling are represented by RLOAD.
To maintain the oscillatory condition, it is desirable to have either predictable phase and gain parameters or control over these parameters. When a load is presented, the DRIVE signal is increased to meet a predefined setpoint, or a variable setpoint, alternatively a combination of these two methods. In one implementation, it is sufficient to provide a start condition that initially closes the switch 325 for a limited period of time, followed by providing feedback such that the switch is turned off when sufficient current is detected through the tank circuit.
The period that the amplifier switch 325 is closed is given by TsON=η1Tf, where Tf is the total time of on and off periods that form one signal cycle, and η1 is the ratio of on time to the total time. Note that Tf=1/F0. The drive signal is formed by bursts of higher frequency pulses that are present during the switch on time. These higher frequency pulses provide finer control of the drive signal without affecting the base frequency F0, as occurred with prior methods. Note that this unique pulse design also makes the design more robust and relatively immune to load variations. Thus it allows tuning of components by slight adjustment of drive frequency and control of the output power of the amplifier 300.
It should be noted that in a traditional MRI amplifier, multiple sections of amplifiers are used in parallel with a common output transformer to achieve higher power levels. This concept is readily applicable to the Class-E amplifier described in the current invention.
The rate of RF energy deposition is another factor that an RF amplifier design needs to take into account for MRI applications. The rate of energy deposition is usually determined by the specific absorption rate (SAR). A single drive point on a large antenna usually gives rise to large local electric fields, causing federally regulated SAR limits to be exceeded. Multiple drive points around the antenna are used in the present design to limit the SAR. This design will require the application of multiple amplifiers having mutual phase relationships.
Instead of using the MRI the transmit/receive body coil 80, the RF signal can be applied to the transmit/receive local coil 22 shown in
With reference to
The foregoing description was primarily directed to a preferred embodiment of the invention. Although some attention was given to various alternatives within the scope of the invention, it is anticipated that one skilled in the art will likely realize additional alternatives that are now apparent from disclosure of embodiments of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be determined from the following claims and not limited by the above disclosure.
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The 18 year old Dong Lingyu is a student of Jilin Institute of physical education. With a baby face, 1 meters tall and 68, wearing a down jacket, it is difficult to see that it is difficult to see that this is a developed muscle, whip legs lethal 60 kg of a strong female man". Young age, life has been training occupied, no vacations and weekends a year. Practicing Sanda for four years, never give up, enter the national team is her dream. (Figure / text of the new culture newspaper Jiang Shengsong Bai Shi)
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Dong Lingyu was born on 1997 in Dalian Pulandian town because parents living in sandbags, city workers, little time with her. She lived with her grandmother. The restless nature, 10 year old Dong Lingyu went to a local school to learn martial arts routines, 15 year old began training in sanda. She also loves Jet Li, Jackie Chan's Kung Fu films. Qinxuekulian, Dong Lingyu at the age of 17 on behalf of Dalian city won the women's 60 kg class Sanda games runner up in Liaoning province. In 2015, she was admitted to the Institute of physical education, Wushu Sanda professional team dropped to the teacher Qiu Guoyou door.
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Female athletes can practice fighting are great, have more great achievements. Because they need to overcome a lot of difficulties, but also to give up a lot of things. Coach Qiu Guoyou told reporters, currently involved in Sanda, combat training girls mostly from rural areas. Now Sanda children less, fewer girls, enrollment in recent years is also more difficult. The physiological cycle, muscle type features such as maid boxer must eat more bitter than boys in the way of success.
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When it comes to training hard, Dong Lingyu described as hell, but since it has been practiced for so many years, it will not give up. In order to improve the intensity of confrontation, Dong Lingyu often with the male players to practice.
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Three hours after the end of the training, Dong Lingyu sweat.
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The training gap, Dong Lingyu and partner He Xujie slapstick.
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In order to fight her right hand middle finger and ring finger has been severely deformed, the ring finger in training last year had a fracture. In September last year, Dong Lingyu and a male teammate for actual combat training, the left eye was hit by a swollen eye, blue and purple. The mirror doesn't recognize himself, it was her cry for the first time since. After crying, wearing gloves, but also to continue training.
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For Dong Lingyu, life is basically occupied by training. Rest in the dormitory when not in training, seldom go out.
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Playing in the game, Dong Lingyu in order to save money, often eat instant noodles.
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18 years old birthday that day, Dong Lingyu and partner shopping together.
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Dong Lingyu and partner shopping together to buy Nail polish.
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Now Dong Lingyu has played fifteen games, won more than a few negative. Although the technology has yet to mature, but the kick and hand boxing has become his "killer". She is currently the most needed is the actual combat experience, as long as there is an opportunity to play more games. She said, in the team, she may not be the best, but it is the fastest. Go to the beautiful sound, lights flashing, bar contest scene, Dong Lingyu appeared confident.
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Dong Lingyu clashed with a 25 year old Brazil native female boxer Angel in the field of more than eight hundred of the audience shouted. This is a women's 60 kg class competition, regardless of the height, weight and other games than Dong Lingyu.
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An opening, Angel out of the boxing speed is very fast, up is a combination of boxing. The lack of competition experience of Dong Lingyu the first two is not dominant.
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Before the end of the second game, Dong Lingyu was hit by the nose, bleeding more than.
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Different expressions of the audience.
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After the start of the third inning, she adjusted the tactics, combined with the fist, going on the offensive, found rival some of the tired, center of gravity not steady, her right hand swinging fist, a direct hit on the other temples, leading to each other to the ground. Her direct KO opponents, made the victory of the game.
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For the future, Dong Lingyu said to be let nature take its course. When the fitness coaches, sports teachers, private bodyguards, her sisters had offered her a lot of successful cases. "I prefer to be a female police officer in the future. This is my father's expectation of me. At present, or to do the training, to win every game! The road ahead is still very long, I have to go one step at a time!" Dong Lingyu said.
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How often do I not enjoy myself in my relationship? Once is too often when it's unnecessary.
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Alignment with mere men only results in dissipation and loss unless you are first walking in step with Me. Are you ready to go it alone? You said you wanted to be on the cutting edge. You said you wanted to blaze the trail. Trail blazers and those with the breaker anointing often lead solitary campaigns against insurmountable odds.
No guts no glory says the Father. You know Me. I say again YOU KNOW ME! Now go forth and do the exploits I have pre-ordained you to accomplish. The greatest heartbreak is the heartbreak of the careful failure who looks back on what "could have been" had they only dared. Be daring says the Father. Go out and do something dangerous to the domain of darkness. Make the adversary set his alarm clock an hour early because YOU HAVE AT LAST taken up the MANTLE of DESTINY that portends the end of the tyranny of the mundane in your life!
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I guess there are two types of cyberscams. One is where you have a very limited selection of victims, ideally just the one, and you concentrate all your resources on that one victim. The other type is where you spread a large cybernet in the hope of catching large numbers of unwary victims.
One example of the first was in February 2016 when the Bangladesh Central Bank was attacked. A total of 35 transaction orders were issued on Feb 4-5, apparently from the Bangladesh Central Bank to its account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, for a total of US$951 million. Thirty orders were flagged for staff review (i.e. were thought to be suspicious), but five slipped through for a total of $101 million. About $38 million has since been recovered, but this means that someone got away with about $63 million. You could retire quite comfortably on that.
An attack like this probably required some insider involvement plus a great deal of planning. It was almost certainly meticulously planned over a prolonged period and required a coordinated team to carry it out.
The other side of the coin, where a large cybernet is spread to catch a large number of victims, probably doesn't take as much planning. An example of this occurred around the NCAA's March Madness tournament. A recent blog posting by Zscaler shows how some of this works. You can live stream games from the official NCAA website, but you can also live stream from a number of other sites. However, if you go for the latter option, there is a good chance that you will end up downloading malware, or in one case, having your username and password transmitted in plain text. If you are in the habit of using the same username and password for a number of different sites, such as your bank account, you could be in trouble.
The Zscaler blog is worth reading because it shows in some detail how scams of this nature work. One of the themes commonly seen here are the something-for nothing websites that offer free, or nearly free, movies, for example. I'm not going to give the website URLs here in case anyone clicks on them, but you can see some of them as screen shots in the Zscaler blog.
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I use Tracktion 5 with Linux Mint 18 and a ZOOM U-44. When I record my guitar and vocal tracks, I notice recurring crackling. This does not do it with a windows machine.
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WeeeZer14 wrote:Until we get time based restrictions, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
therubinator wrote:kentsmith9 wrote:1. Does the group generally agree with the philosophy of the statement that Waze should give the best route and let the user decide if it is legal?
Waze preferably wouldn't direct you into a gaping canyon based on incomplete map information, and shouldn't direct you the wrong way down a one-way street. So why should it direct you into a turn that is illegal 50% of the day and 100% during rush hour?
therubinator wrote:One further point which may be useful to consider: the whole point of time-based restrictions from the point of view of urban traffic management is to control traffic flow and ease congestion (ideally). That said, from Waze's perspective it should already be rated a less than ideal route (assuming the AI is working properly). Blocking it outright wouldn't be the worst thing and would certainly eliminate the possibility of directing the user into an illegal route.
WeeeZer14 wrote:What is the impact of NOT taking that turn? Is your route significantly increased?
therubinator wrote:I disagree - I don't think you can always make the determination before it's too late. I have a good example but it's going to take me a moment to dig it up.
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Terror attacks, Little League World Series, census dominate headlines
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It was a year dominated by numbers: the 9-11 terrorist attacks, the 2000 Census and the 14-year-old Little League pitcher who broke Oceanside's heart.
At the outset of 2001, with the power crisis cascading across the state, the numbers told how many people were being affected by blackouts and how many billions of dollars the government was spending to keep the lights on in California.
North County residents' attention then turned to population growth when the U.S. Census Bureau released results from the once-a-decade count in March that showed the region was, predictably, still growing, albeit at a slower rate. A bruising turf war followed over the redrawing of political boundary lines.
Other political power plays took center stage, as well. Of particular interest was the debate over forming a strong regional government, a concept that raised red flags for North County officials who feared their communities would be run over in schemes centered around the city of San Diego.
In summer, as in years past, residents turned their attention to sun, surf and sand.
But 2001 was different. This time it wasn't the same old sand that they played in and made sand castles out of. It was new stuff freshly stirred up from the bottom of the sea and pumped up onto the shore.
It was a summer to remember, as a talented Oceanside youth baseball team qualified for the Little League World Series.
It also was a summer North County may never forget.
Terrorist attacks
Who could forget the disturbing footage of passenger-filled airliners penetrating the glass-and-steel skin of the World Trade Center? Or those images of the 110-story twin towers plunging to the earth in a gray cloud of debris over lower Manhattan?
Those Sept. 11 attacks by suicide hijackers on New York City and Washington, D.C., shattered the early-morning calm of a postcard-perfect late summer day. Thousands of people died, including some from North County, and a state economy already softened by the California electricity crisis fell into a tailspin.
The nation's skies completely shut down -- for the first time ever.
Instead of airliners streaking overhead, residents saw military jets. Then the skies reopened. But only after airports adopted an unprecedented slate of security measures aimed at restoring the confidence that was shaken to the core by the vivid, horrific images on television sets.
Yet many still did not fly.
And who could blame them?
Companies called off conventions. Families cancelled vacations. Holiday travelers took trains and automobiles instead of planes.
Cancellations hit the area's tourism industry hard, as fewer people checked into hotels, visited amusement parks, made reservations with travel agencies and supped at area restaurants. But by November the industry was beginning to rebound.
Overall, North County weathered the economic fallout from Sept. 11 better than the nation and state as a whole. Northern California, already reeling from the dot-com collapse, fared much worse.
To be sure, travel-dependent businesses suffered, but other North County industries continued to grow, although not nearly as fast as they had been in the days and weeks and months before the tragedy.
104th floor
The grief hit home, too.
Twenty-four-year-old Juan Pablo Cisneros, a 1995 graduate of Escondido's Orange Glen High School, was one of those in New York City that day. Working as a financial trader to set his 16-year-old sister up for college and put himself in medical school, Cisneros was on the 104th floor when the first hijacked jet sliced into the World Trade Center's north tower.
He made a pair of telephone calls. But he did not get out.
About 240 miles south, the 29-year-old son of Del Mar residents Richard and Kathy Keller was on a business trip to the nation's capitol.
Chandler Keller, who as a boy launched model rockets with his father, was working as a propulsion engineer for Boeing Satellite Systems and living in Los Angeles at the time. He was on his way home when he boarded a plane bound for Southern California. But hijackers slammed it into the Pentagon.
Despite all the grief, some stories warmed hearts.
Joy Shepard of Escondido and Deanna Williamson of Oceanside were on the 61st floor of the south tower when a fireball exploded in the skyscraper next door.
They headed for the stairs, despite intercom announcements that it was safe to return to offices. They were halfway down when the second jet hammered the building, rocking it as if an earthquake had struck and throwing people against walls and rails.
Lights went out. Smoke filled the stairwell.
But the North County women made it out with the aid of a firefighter's flashlight.
"To have survived this is a miracle for me," Shepard would later say. "But then you ask yourself, 'Why couldn't there be 6,000 other miracles?' "
Later estimates placed the number of the dead at closer to 3,000.
12-year-olds shine
One of the stories that warmed hearts most this past year was the Oceanside American Little League All-Star team.
North County swelled with pride as 12-year-old baseball players earned a berth in the Little League World Series at Williamsport, Pa., and then picked up right where they left off, winning their first two games in the August multinational tournament.
The youngsters then braced for a showdown in the U.S. semifinal against a tough Bronx, N.Y., team and the sports story of the summer: flame-throwing left-hander Danny Almonte, who already had pitched a perfect game and been clocked at 76 mph. With just 46 feet separating mound and plate in Little League, baseballs traveling that fast are as much a blur as Nolan Ryan's 100 mph fastball.
In a major-league-style pitching duel, Almonte tossed a one-hitter at North County's allstars, but had to eke out a 1-0 victory with the help of what some believed was a blown call. Oceanside's Thomas Eukovich matched Almonte pitch for pitch much of the way, throwing four innings of no-hit ball, before narrowly losing.
All of that was thrown out when it was disclosed that Almonte was, in fact, 14, not 12 as advertised.
And the Bronx was stripped of its victories.
But it was too late for Oceanside. The tournament was over. Another team had already won.
Perhaps the most heartbreaking part was, no one will ever know just how far the North County kids could have -- would have -- gone.
That was all the more reason to marvel at the class coaches, parents and players displayed, both in defeat and in the disappointment of the ill-timed disclosure. And electricity filled the air as Oceanside showered its hometown heroes with a champion's reception and motorcade upon their return.
Electricity crisis
A different kind of electricity filled air waves and front pages as Sacramento's deregulation experiment blew up in lawmakers' faces
Blackouts rolled across California in winter and spring as a "Perfect Storm sort of scenario" came together, as UC Berkeley professor Tim Duane described it recently.
Deregulation already had produced exorbitant prices that hit San Diego County residents hard in the summer of 2000, doubling and tripling electric bills.
As those skyrocketing spot market prices swept across the state, two major utilities -- which unlike San Diego Gas & Electric Co. were barred from recovering their full cost from customers -- started having financial problems. The struggling utilities defaulted on payments for power purchases, and suppliers refused to sell them more power.
At the same time, only small amounts of hydroelectric power were being sold to California because of a drought in the Northwest and more than the usual number of power plants were down for maintenance.
Things got so bad that the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, which supplies much of Northern California, declared bankruptcy. Southern California Edison was teetering on the brink of financial collapse as well. Lawmakers explored a possible bailout but could not agree on one because of intense opposition.
But early on both utilities' credit deteriorated so badly that the state had to come to the rescue, and obtain power for them.
Gov. Gray Davis tried to buy his way out of the crisis, choosing to secure long-term contracts rather than rely on a wildly fluctuating spot market. Fearing a hot summer of blackout after blackout, state officials also accelerated construction of new power plants and urged consumers to cut back on air conditioning.
The plan worked. Californians conserved more than anticipated, summer weather turned out to be mild and none of the feared outages occurred.
But the saga is hardly over.
State officials still have to pay back the billions of taxpayer dollars that were borrowed to buy electricity. And Duane said they still have to fix the dysfunctional market.
New power plants
Bob Therkelsen, deputy director for the California Energy Commission, said recently that the push for more power plants was expect to net an additional 3,500 megawattts of generating capacity by the end of the year -- enough to keep the lights on in 3.5 million homes.
A plant also could be sprouting soon in North County as a result of actions taken in 2001.
San Diego-based Sempra Energy Resources filed plans with Escondido and the state Energy Commission to build a 500-megawatt power plant and a 186-acre, high-tech industrial park on the city's last large parcel of undeveloped industrial land.
Sempra hopes to begin operation in 2004.
Neighboring San Marcos, meanwhile, after creating a municipal utility in 2000, cut a deal with the cities of Anaheim, Burbank, Cerritos, Colton, Glendale and Pasadena to construct a 240-megawatt power plant in Burbank.
San Marcos will receive 20 megawatts of generating capacity -- enough for 20,000 homes. City officials put their long-term cost to help develop the facility at $18 million. The plant is expected to start producing electricity in 2004.
100,000 fewer people
The 2000 Census numbers, released in March, confirmed what everyone already knew: that North County's population grew a bunch last decade. The area had become more racially diverse and had aged, as Baby Boomers began to gray and lose their hair.
But there was a big surprise.
For the first time in a century, San Diego County grew more slowly than the state and nation, and a San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) projection for 2000 turned out to be off by 100,000 people. SANDAG is the region's primary planning agency.
Demographers dismissed the slower-than-nation rate as a temporary fluke that had more to do with Southern California taking a monster hit from the 1990s recession than anything else. But they said moderate growth was here to stay and the county would continue to grow more slowly than the rest of California.
Demographers predicted the San Diego area's population would reach the 4 million mark in 30 years instead of 20.
Perhaps most important, the census chronicled North County's emergence as powerful political force in the region -- one to be ignored no longer by the players in downtown San Diego.
Once the numbers were out, the stage was set for redrawing federal, state and county election boundary lines, something that is required every 10 years.
The state Legislature managed to retool maps for Assembly and Senate seats, and congressional districts, without raising eyebrows. Legislative leaders drew lines that are expected to keep incumbents, Democrats and Republicans alike, in power, rather than give Democrats a chance at a two-thirds supermajority in Sacramento.
Horn, Slater clash
Instead, the 2001 redistricting spotlight fell on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
At first the board steered away from controversy by giving the line-drawing task to a five-member citizen panel. But the group's recommendations failed to fully recognize North County's explosive growth.
Both ot its options left North County's rapidly growing 5th District with a lot more people than slower-growing districts to the south, diluting the area's new voting strength.
That opened the door for 5th District County Supervisor Bill Horn, an avocado rancher, to throw a plan of his own into the hopper last summer.
Horn shocked the political establishment when he proposed to strip the wealthy enclaves of Rancho Santa Fe and Fairbanks Ranch from bitter rival, 3rd District Supervisor Pam Slater. In return, he offered her middle-class Escondido.
Residents of those communities cried foul and flung "gerrymander" accusations Horn's way. Environmentally sensitive Rancho Santa Fe was leery of annexing into a pro-development supervisor's district. Escondido wanted no part of a district historically dominated by the city of San Diego.
In the end, Horn scored a redistricting coup. He secured four board votes in favor of his enormously controversial plan of jagged, irregular boundary lines. And Slater found herself all alone.
Escondido now is in the unfamiliar position of being joined with Rancho Bernardo and Encinitas in the 3rd District, after many years in the 5th with North County neighbors San Marcos, Vista and Oceanside.
On the other hand, North County finds itself for the first time in position to control two seats on the important five-member regional board.
Regional government
Who would control what was at the heart of intense debate in 2001 over the idea of strengthening regional government or creating a superagency with power to override city councils on "regionally significant" decisions.
That discussion was spurred by state Sen. Steve Peace's establishing of a Regional Government Efficiency Commission, which met from February to July.
The panel got off to a rocky start.
The governor in January used all five of his appointments on San Diego residents, infuriating officials in North County, now home to a third of the county's population. But commissioners managed to settle in, hold numerous meetings and file a report on time with the state Legislature.
Commissioners' Aug. 1 report proposed forming a powerful agency governed by a paid 11-member board, giving it the task of designing a regional transportation system and the power to force local entities to go along for the ride.
The panel also proposed a volunteer airport authority to decide if the region needs a new international airport to replace San Diego International, or Lindbergh Field, and if so, where it should be built.
Commissioners split on the transportation superagency idea, but were mostly supportive of the airport authority.
Peace, D-El Cajon, left the superagency idea on the shelf. But he took the airport ball and ran with it, winning passage of hastily written legislation in the session's frenzied last days.
Two of nine
That legislation sets up by December 2002 a nine-member, partly volunteer, partly fulltime San Diego County Regional Airport Authority. Three members will get annual salaries of $133,000.
Two of the nine will represent North County cities. It's possible a rural representative will hail from North County from time to time, too.
But it is unclear when the authority will take over Lindbergh from the Port of San Diego. Because Davis raised concerns when he signed the measure into law, Peace promised to introduce follow-up legislation to tie the Lindbergh transfer to a decision on the future of regional air travel.
A countywide election could be held as early as 2004 or 2006 on a plan for a new airport or Lindbergh expansion.
In late 2001, Peace made it clear he is not satisfied with just forming an airport authority.
He told SANDAG officials -- the county's mayors -- that he intends to take the superagency idea off the shelf and propose 2002 legislation on that topic as well.
But he said he is not tied to the commision's notion of creating an entirely new political animal that replaces SANDAG. Instead, Peace hinted he would take a SANDAG-backed plan to Sacramento that formally makes SANDAG the regional governing body -- if mayors come up with something to his liking.
Convinced that it was to their benefit to work with Peace rather than against him, mayors set out to explore giving the long-term planning functions of North County Transit District and Metropolitan Transit Development Board to SANDAG.
Four new casinos
In the world of gambling, 2001 was all about the numbers -- as in casinos, slot machines and dollars.
In 2001, four Indian casinos opened in rural North County, bringing to eight the total operating countywide -- not counting the one undergoing a major expansion in the Temecula Valley just across the Riverside County line.
Because of the gaming explosion and the huge potential for profit growth, some market analysts are nicknaming San Diego County as "Las Vegas West."
The number of slot machines in the county -- a key indicator of market strength -- more than tripled from 2,700 in 2000 to 10,000 last year. That number doesn't include Pechanga's 1,921 slots near Temecula.
While tribes held earnings from those slots close to the vest, San Diego County officials openly asked for a cut of profits to help improve the overtaxed rural lanes leading to the casinos.
County supervisors secured agreements from the Rincon, Pauma and San Pasqual bands to put up nearly $15 million for road improvements.
Traffic has more than doubled on some county roads and highways, such as Highway 76 east of Interstate 15, since those four casinos opened. But the long, nightmarish trafficjams the county had anticipated did not materialize.
2 million cubic yards
In September, SANDAG completed perhaps the year's most visible public works project: padding beaches from Oceanside to the Mexican border with 2 million cubic yards of new sand.
The $17.5 million project shored up six miles of San Diego County's eroding coastline, targeting a dozen beaches in all -- 10 of them in North County.
SANDAG employed a 300-foot dredge ship named Sugar Island that vacuumed sand off the ocean floor and pumped it onto shore, where bulldozers took over and moved piles around.
So far reaction has been mostly positive; beach goers enjoyed romping in the extra sand over the summer.
But the project was not without critics.
Some weren't thrilled about spending millions of taxpayer dollars on sand officials said would wash back out to sea within five years, anyway, if not earlier. In fact, more than half the new sand at Fletcher Cove in Solana Beach is already gone -- even before the first serious test of those rough-and-tumble winter swells.
Regional officials turned their sights to planning for future replenishment projects, and to finding ways to keep sand on the beach.
Hospital numbers in black
While the economy plummeted across California and the nation in 2001, North County's two largest hospital districts rose from the ashes of financial distress, posting their first profits in years.
Tri-City Healthcare District, which operates Oceanside's 397-bed Tri-City Medical Center, finished its fiscal year in June roughly $3 million in the black, after posting $4 million in losses the year before.
Palomar Pomerado Health went from posting a $27 million loss in 1999-00 to turning an $11.2 million profit in 2000-01. Palomar Pomerado operates Escondido's 327-bed Palomar Medical Center and Poway's 107-bed Pomerado Hospital.
Officials from both districts cited cost-cutting measures and increases in federal and state contributions to Medicare and MediCal reimbursement for the turnaround. Palomar Pomerado officials said re-negotiated contracts with managed-care partners increased revenue.
But not everything was rosy.
Tri-City Medical Center was given a less-than-stellar grade by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in March, after surveyors visited the hospital in October 2000. The commission accredits 80 percent of the nation's 6,000 hospitals. Tri-City's "conditional accreditation" ranked it among the lowest 2 percent of 1,200 hospitals reviewed and accredited in 2000.
Meanwhile, unhappy orthopedic surgeons threatened to close Palomar Medical Center's only trauma unit in a dispute over emergency-room pay; and unhappy nurses in Palomar Pomerado forced the district to allow nurses to vote on union representation -- an election that will occur in 2002.
Staff writers Gig Conaughton, Katherine Marks, Erin Massey and Edward Sifuentes contributed to this report. Contact staff writer Dave Downey at (760) 740-3529 or email@example.com.


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The statement referred to in this article was from the in-flight news conference on the return flight from Rome after the Pope's trip to Armenia this weekend. To read the full press conference click HERE….reyanna
By Francis DeBernardo June 26, 2016 Bondings 2.0 on-line
No pope has said more welcoming words to LGBT people than Pope Francis' recommendation today that the Church–indeed all Christians–should apologize for the harm religious traditions have caused to LGBT people. The pope's statement was simple, yet powerful, and it fell from his lips so easily. The simplicity of his language will provide an immense blessing of healing and reconciliation to LGBT people and Catholics who support them, who have been waiting decades to hear such a simple, honest statement from the Vatican.
[You can read the pope's statement by clicking here.]
This step by Pope Francis shows that Church leaders can and should admit when they have been wrong, especially when their wrongs cause people tremendous and unnecessary harm.
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Kalimeris Species, False Aster, Japanese Aster, Oriental Boltonia, Ghengis Khan Aster
Kalimeris pinnatifida
|Asteraceae (ass-ter-AY-see-ee) (Info)
|Kalimeris (kal-lih-MEER-iss) (Info)
|pinnatifida (pin-nat-ih-FY-duh) (Info)
|Asteromoea mongolica
|Kalimeris mongolica
|Asteromoea pinnatifida
|Aster cantoniensis
|Boltonia cantoniensis
Foliage Color:
Bloom Characteristics:
This plant is attractive to bees, butterflies and/or birds
Water Requirements:
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Where to Grow:
Grow outdoors year-round
Suitable for growing in containers
24-36 in. (60-90 cm)
15-18 in. (38-45 cm)
USDA Zone 3b: to -37.2 �C (-35 �F)
USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4 �C (-30 �F)
USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 �C (-25 �F)
USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 �C (-20 �F)
USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 �C (-15 �F)
USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 �C (-10 �F)
USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 �C (-5 �F)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 �C (0 �F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 �C (5 �F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 �C (10 �F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 �C (15 �F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6 �C (20 �F)
Sun Exposure:
Sun to Partial Shade
Bloom Color:
White/Near White
Bloom Time:
Late Spring/Early Summer
Mid Summer
Late Summer/Early Fall
Other details:
Soil pH requirements:
5.1 to 5.5 (strongly acidic)
5.6 to 6.0 (acidic)
6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
Patent Information:
Propagation Methods:
By dividing the rootball
From herbaceous stem cuttings
From seed; winter sow in vented containers, coldframe or unheated greenhouse
From seed; stratify if sowing indoors
From seed; sow indoors before last frost
Seed Collecting:
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Heber Springs, Arkansas
Spring Hill, Florida
Atlanta, Georgia
Macon, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia
Jeffersonville, Indiana
Beverly, Massachusetts
Roslindale, Massachusetts
Neptune, New Jersey
Schenectady, New York
Scottsville, New York
Raleigh, North Carolina (2 reports)
Cambridge, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Defiance, Ohio
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Conway, South Carolina
Elizabethton, Tennessee
Mc Lean, Virginia
Milwaukee, Wisconsinshow all
Gardeners' Notes:
On May 3, 2014, coriaceous from ROSLINDALE, MA wrote:
I'd rank this among the ten best/most useful garden perennials. Highly floriferous, blooming nonstop from the beginning of July to the middle of October. A neat upright habit and clean foliage, fine-textured foliage. Clumps expand slowly by short rhizomes, to 3' across in 12 years.
On Jun 20, 2006, lottathyme from Scottsville, NY wrote:
Have had this in my garden for the past 10 years after buying it labeled as "Feverfew." I never knew what it really was till last year. It has been great for me. Makes neat, tidy plants that bloom and bloom ALL SUMMER! Flowers are a crisp white with a bit of yellow in the center...great blenders. Foliage has a crisp herbal scent if you handle it. Unlike the other comment, I get tons of self-sown seedlings, but they are not thugs like other plants I've had (perennial bachelor button, etc.) You can easily pull them out, or repot and give to other gardeners. Plus, they are easily transplanted...I just moved a full sized plant in bloom, in 90 degree heat, and with a lot of watering it has come through just fine. Other times they will wilt but leaf back out if you cut them back. Bugs don't both... read more
On Aug 7, 2004, thehumblebumble from Heber Springs, AR (Zone 7b) wrote:
This is an excellent "filler" plant giving the garden height. It reaches 4 foot here and has beautiful double white blooms, appears like "mini" mums. Does not developed mildew like most asters here.
On Aug 8, 2003, olds88lady from Macon, GA (Zone 8b) wrote:
Started blooming in May in middle Georgia and has bloomed since. I love it because foliage has stayed nice and the flowers are so daintly and pretty - we have had record rains w/a surplus of 15 inches and it still is doing good in my sandy but compost and cow manure enriched soil. I saw an article on the Japanese Aster a year or so ago in Better Homes and Gardens magazine and really wanted the plant but could not find. Last year I bought this Genghis Khan Aster not realizing it was the Japanese Aster I had been searching for at nurseries. It is as good or better than the magazine said it would be.
On Aug 4, 2003, Ladyfern from Jeffersonville, IN (Zone 6a) wrote:
Once this plant starts blooming in July, it just won't quit! Needs no deadheading since the dead flowers shrivel up to small nubbins and I've never found self-sown seedlings. Fills up its space with wonderful fluffy flowers. A great filler plant for the perennial bed. Can dig up side shoots in the spring and they'll root themselves wherever you put them.
On Aug 31, 2001, Terry from Murfreesboro, TN (Zone 7a) wrote:
Closely resembling the Boltonia Aster, K. pinnatifida is prized for its steady stream of hundreds of 1" white blooms from mid-summer until late in the fall. Many varieties are doubles, resembling chrysanthemum.


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Bethany Theological Seminary (Church of the Brethren)
Graduate Degree Programs
Master of Divinity (MDiv)
615 National Rd W
Richmond, IN 47374
United States
Program Information
Degrees Offered:
Master of Divinity (MDiv)
Format: Campus
Program Description:
81-credit degree designed to integrate the thinking, being, and doing of ministry. This program includes focus in biblical, historical, theological, ministry and interdisciplinary studies. We also have two emphases in peace studies and youth and young adult studies. Our partner school (located right next door), Earlham School of Religion, also offers emphases in spirituality, writing, and pastoral care, which as a Bethany student, you can take full advantage. The MDiv involves an introductory course to aid in your discernment of gifts for ministry, as well as, two internships, and a capstone course that examines your ability to integrate the head, heart, and hands of the Gospel story.
Accreditation:Bethany is fully accredited by The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Association of Theological Schools (ATS) is a membership organization in the United States and Canada of schools educating individuals after their baccalaureate education. These member schools prepare individuals for the ministries of preaching and teaching. The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (HLC) is an accreditation organization which uses a body of peer reviewers to grant membership to degree-granting post-secondary schools.
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