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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Fans of Scott Bakula's star turn in the 1989-1993 TV series "Quantum Leap" or his more recent four-year stint as Capt. Jonathan Archer on "Star Trek: Enterprise" already know he can sing. At Sidney Harman Hall on Friday, they'll be able to hear him perform an evening of show tunes, in a benefit for the Ford's Theatre renovation.
"I never set out to be on TV or in a movie. Theater's my first love," says Bakula, and he hopes to do more of it now that his kids are older.
Before his "Quantum Leap" days, he was nominated for a Tony Award as the male lead in "Romance/Romance." Recently in Los Angeles, he starred in the play "Quality of Life" and in a revival of Richard Rodgers's "No Strings."
Bakula says he's tried to squeeze singing into his television work whenever possible. He just shot an episode of "Boston Legal" in which he plays the piano and croons "Once Upon a Time" to Candice Bergen. Tunes from "Man of La Mancha" figured in a "Quantum Leap" episode when his character, Dr. Sam Beckett, mind-and-body-melded with an understudy to go on as Don Quixote. He'll sing some "La Mancha" songs at the Ford's benefit.
"A lot of the 'Quantum Leap' fans who will be there on Friday night will enjoy that," says the actor. The Duke Ellington School of the Arts Female Ensemble will harmonize as Bakula's chorus on some numbers. (Visit http://www.fords.org, then click on "Performances.")
Bakula has a soft spot for Ford's. He marked his return from intergalactic travel in 2006 to star in a well-reviewed revival there of the Civil War musical "Shenandoah."
The first half of Friday's performance, shaped with director Dennis Deal, will trace Bakula's "own personal journey through the musical world," including his debut at age 13 as Amahl in "Amahl and the Night Visitors." The second half will be "more of a sit back, relax and here come some standards, here comes some Rodgers & Hart . . . here comes some jazz, here comes some me at the piano," Bakula says.
"I think it's going to be fun. I'm scared to death of the whole night."Fresh Ink
The Inkwell, a fledgling organization dedicated to nurturing and producing new plays, is in the midst of a mini-festival at H Street Playhouse through Jan. 28. (Go to http://www.inkwelltheatre.org for the schedule.)
Born last September, when it presented pieces at the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage festival, the Inkwell is a descendant of the Hatchery, a new-play incubator that presented works in 2005 and 2006. Jessica Burgess, a carryover from the Hatchery, is artistic director.
For "suggested donations" of $10 or so, the public can attend open rehearsals and bare-bones "Inkubator" productions of two plays -- Anne McCaw's "OK," about the women behind the men who fought the gunfight at the OK Corral, and "Underground" by James McManus, about a West Virginia mining accident. A third new work, "The F Word" -- as in fat -- by Melissa Blackall, will have a staged reading.
Burgess, who directs around town and was in charge of finding new works for Catalyst Theater, will stage "OK" and was deeply involved in choosing all three plays, which are "about what it means to be American here, now."
She also liked the way they sounded in her head.
" 'OK' has beautiful cowboy poetry and 'Underground' has this earthy West Virginia accent [that] brings out the poetry in that community," while "The F Word" is "surprisingly funny," poking fun at "the American obsession with its gut."
Aside from McManus, a winner of the Princess Grace Award for playwriting, whose work came to Burgess's attention while she was at Catalyst, the playwrights are friends and Inkwell members. Next year, she says, they'll seek full-length plays in an open submission process "from anywhere and everywhere."
The Inkwell offers something playwrights don't get at other Washington theaters, Burgess maintains. Others may workshop plays and stage world premiere productions -- a goal of any development process -- but "what we're doing is the step before that production," says the director. She wants theatergoers to think of an Inkwell showcase as "the final draft" of a play -- "designed and fully staged, because designers ask good questions about a text" -- but not the final product.
Putting playwrights, designers and audiences together early to see what percolates is an Inkwell mission.
Burgess cites a stage direction in "OK" that calls for a character to put a drop of honey on a wilted sunflower, which blooms again onstage. "I loved the challenge of that stage direction," she says. "We want to just engage the playwrights' imaginations in creating the impossible onstage." Even on a tiny budget, "there are different ways to make that moment seem like it's happening," she explains, with lighting, other effects and just plain acting.
"The complicity between audience and actor is incredible. The audience will always go the extra mile in their imagination. That's why they go to the theater. They want theater magic."Follow Spots
¿ Signature Theatre has signed Broadway actor Hunter Foster ("Urinetown," "Little Shop of Horrors") to star with Natascia Diaz in "Kiss of the Spider Woman." The show opens March 11 as part of a Kander & Ebb rep. Another Broadway light, George Hearn ("Sweeney Todd," "La Cage aux Folles"), will join fellow Tony winner Chita Rivera in Kander & Ebb's "The Visit," opening May 13.
¿ Patrick Page, who played Iago and Macbeth at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in recent years, has bowed out of its spring/summer Roman rep of "Antony and Cleopatra" and "Julius Caesar." He was to play Marc Antony in both plays. A veteran Broadway player ("The Lion King," "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"), Page has signed for a lead in the musical "Dancing in the Dark," premiering in San Diego. His replacement won't be announced for a month or longer.
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It's funny how much Portland can feel like a small town sometimes. There's over 600,000 people that live here, but you can find yourself running into people you know so easily. I was on instagram a couple months ago and got a message from one of the floral design accounts I follow, Selva Floral Design. Well it turned out that it's run by Sarah Blasi, and I know her mother because she used to work with my sister at the elementary school she taught at, and was doing floral work on the side, and so her mom and her actually did my wedding flowers back before Selva was founded. I had no idea the account I was following was Sarah, out of all the florist accounts on instagram, it just happened to be someone local that I knew. The internet can feel like a really small space, sometimes, in the best way possible. We caught up a bit and now Sarah and her mother are joining me and my mother for a Scratch Session floral design & edible flower workshop mother's day weekend. We still have about 5 spaces left, and you can join us here.
Sarah and her mom Jo came over a couple weeks back, bringing a bundle of gorgeous flowers in tow and I did my best to provide some sweets for us to enjoy. Namely, canelé . If you're unfamiliar with them, they're basically a French pastry whose flavor is reminiscent of creme brûlée and whose texture lays somewhere between a cake and a custard. They look like tiny adorable bundt cakes, and to make them you need special canelé pans which are usually tin on the inside and copper on the outside. This helps them get very dark and slightly crisp on the outside while staying soft and custardy on the inside, giving every bite of the candle a wonderful hint of burnt sugar and creamy vanilla-y filling. I got my pans from Sur La Table and they performed very well, just make sure you proof them upon arrival and make the 'white oil' (a mixture of beeswax and butter) to line them with, which I go through in the recipe below.
Canelés have a bit of a reputation for being tricky and temperamental, but aside from brushing the pans with the white oil and having to get special pans, I found the recipe itself to be pretty straightforward. The best part is that you get to put a whole vanilla bean in the batter and let it rest in the refrigerator overnight, which lets the pure vanilla flavor seep into absolutely *everything*. This was definitely in the top three tastiest baked goods I've ever made as far as texture and flavor goes. And don't be afraid if the outside of the candle looks really dark once you remove it from the pan, you want the exterior to be a really dark brown, just before black. If it's dark gold but not brown, it will have a little of that burnt sugar flavor, but not very much, whereas when it is dark brown you not only get a good dose of that creme brûlée-esque burnt sugar flavor, but you also get a slightly crisp exterior wall which is such a great textural contrast to the soft custardy cake inside. If you're looking for something delicious to make for Valentine's day, I can't recommend this more highly. It does take a little foresight since the batter needs to rest overnight, but trust me, the taste makes the planning more than worth it 🙂
3 tablespoons food grade beeswax pellets
First make sure your canelé molds are ready (this only applies to the traditional copper and tin canelé molds, not the silicone ones). If you've bought them brand new, you need to proof them by preheating the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Wash and dry your new molds by hand, then grease them with shortening or vegetable oil. Place them on a baking sheet, hollow side facing up, and place in the oven for 30 minutes. Remove them from the baking sheet, place a wire rack on the baking sheet, then place the molds upside down on the rack to drain into the pan. Turn the oven off and let them sit there until cooled to room temperature.
Once your canelé molds are seasoned, you need to coat the interior with 'white oil'. To make the white oil, melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Add the beeswax and stir until melted. Remove from heat. Use a pastry brush to lightly but evenly brush the interiors of the molds with the white oil, allowing excess to drop out. You want to do this while the white oil is still hot and melted because that will get you the most even coating, but be careful as this will also make the mold hot as your holding and rotating it to brush the inside. Place the brushed molds upside down on a wire rack over a sheet of paper towels to cool and allow any excess to drip off.
Now you can make the canelés! Scrape out the inside of the vanilla bean over a small saucepan filled with the milk. Add the vanilla bean husk to the pot and place over medium low heat. Cook, stirring, until the mixture is 183 degrees Fahrenheit on a candy thermometer. Remove from heat and stir in 3 tablespoons butter. Set aside.
Whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and cardamom in a medium bowl and set them aside. In a separate large bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, rum, vanilla extract, lemon zest, and orange blossom water until combined.
Whisk the flour mixture into the egg mixture, then whisk the warm milk mixture in as well. Cover and refrigerate overnight or up to 48 hours before baking.


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Republican legislators give, then take away special education support
HELENA -- Republicans in the Montana Legislature decided to play games today with some of Montana's most vulnerable citizens -- our students with special needs.
Democrat Rep. Kathy Kelker's House Bill 32, which supports special education, passed on second reading off the House floor yesterday, even with 37 Republicans voting against it.
Today, though, Republicans on the House Appropriations committee killed the bill by voting against it, mostly along party lines, 12-10.
"Our Republican legislators just pulled the rug out from under Montana's students with special needs in our public schools," said Nancy Keenan, executive director of the Montana Democratic Party. "Republicans are playing a vicious game by limiting the progress and opportunities for special education students and they need to be held accountable."


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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty reminded his European counterparts on Friday that they are not alone in bearing the brunt of a weak U.S. dollar and said any global currency discussions should rightly extend beyond the G7 group to include Asian countries.
Flaherty spoke to reporters in Istanbul ahead of a meeting of the Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers on Saturday. He said he expected there would be a brief communique after the meeting.
"There's an important policy role for the G7. If we have substantive discussions, and I imagine we will, then I would expect some sort of brief communique," he said.
Part of the discussion on global imbalances would inevitably include the impact of the weak U.S. dollar on other economies and the Chinese yuan, which Flaherty has said is not flexible enough.
"I know the Europeans are concerned about the euro and upward pressure on the euro ... that's not unique to Europe," he said.
"The Australians are concerned; we're concerned in Canada about upward pressure on the Canadian dollar because of the weakness of the U.S. currency," he said.
The Canadian dollar has surged nearly 20 percent against the U.S. dollar since March, prompting Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney to repeatedly warn that the strong currency could hamper the economic recovery.
In solving global imbalances, the main challenge is to persuade major economies to have flexible currencies, Flaherty said in a repetition of his frequent references to China.
"That type of discussion necessarily involves some of the emerging economies, particularly the Asian economies, and can quite rightly take place in the G20 context," he said.
The G7 meeting takes place after global leaders designated the G20 as the premier forum for global economic co-operation. This has raised doubts about the G7's relevance, especially its influence on foreign exchange policies, which many say would carry more punch if endorsed by the wider G20 group of developed and developing economies.
Canada, which will host the G7 next year, and also co-chair a G20 meeting along with South Korea, has suggested the G7 should continue to exist for at least as long as it takes to nurse the global economy back to health.
"There is important work for the G7 to do there too because the financial crisis came out of the G7 countries, not Canada of course, but there's a role there for the G7 in being part of the solution," said Flaherty.
He said he expected the G7 and IMF meetings on the weekend to start to put some "meat on the bones" of regulatory reform pledges made by G20 leaders at the Pittsburgh summit last week.
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"We are very much concerned about the various challenges our collectivity is confronted with, high unemployment rates among our young people, the deplorable failure rates in our educational system, the economic downturn, the lack of housings and environmental planning," said Mussington.
MJP party who presented their full slate of candidates to the press on Friday, is inviting the general public to come meet and greet the men and women at the congress. "We have assembled a strong team of courageous, brave, respected, motivated and determined men and women, ready for the territorial elections and most importantly prepared to serve you the people," concluded Mussington.


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The present invention relates to a receiving system, comprising a high frequency section followed by a low frequency section, and wherein the high frequency section is realized in analog technique, whereas the low frequency section is realized in digital technique. The high frequency section includes an input preamplifier followed by two quadrature actuated mixers, with associated π/2 phase shifter and voltage controlled oscillator, wherein the high frequency signal is directly converted into the base band by multiplication by means of a phase locked control loop, and respective lowpass filters connected to the outputs of the mixers to select out interfering mixed products.
Present-day receivers for radio and television are based on the structure of the superheterodyne receiver whose block circuit diagram is shown in FIG. 1. The received signal is fed to a mixer M via a selective low-noise preamplifier VV whose center frequency is variable, and is converted to a constant intermediate frequency. Thereafter the actual frequency selection is made in the further selective amplifier V', the selected signal is demodulated in a demodulator Dem, and the demodulated signal is amplified in the amplifier V". This receiver concept requires a very constant-frequency mixing oscillator and highly selective bandpass filters, which are expensive to tune, in the amplifier for the frequency selection. For a long time, this process has been adapted to technological advances and has now reached a high degree of development.
Digital signal processing systems operate with quantized, digitalized sampling values of a time function. The form of the sampling pulses is here of decisive importance with respect to undesirable distortions in the spectrum of the sampled function. In the ideal case, the sampling function is a periodic sequence of Dirac pulses. The sampled signal can then be defined as follows: ##EQU1## The Fourier transform of this signal is ##EQU2##
The sampling frequency is here f0 =1/T0. The representation of the Fourier transform indicates that each sampling produces a periodic repetition of the original spectrum. At the same time, the frequency position of a signal can also be changed. With respect to the bandwidth B, the sampling frequency must meet the following condition:
ω.sub.o ≧2B
A violation of this relationship, known as the sampling theorem, produces overlapping of the individual spectral components of the sampled function, so that the original time function can then no longer be reconstructed. Therefore every signal must be limited in bandwidth before it is sampled.
Real sampling with a sample and hold circuit results in a periodic repetition of the original spectrum distorted with ##EQU3## The then occurring time delay must be considered in the construction of digital control circuits so as not to endanger stability. Moreover, fluctuations in the duration T of the sampling interval (closing errors) cause additional amplitude distortions.
Therefore, high demands must be placed on the precision of the sampling process and on the limit or cut-off frequency of the participating components. Total digitalization of a receiver is thus rather meaningless.
The block circuit diagram of FIG. 2 has a structure corresponding to a superheterodyne receiver. A broad received band is preselected in the high frequency plane (HF) or in the intermediate frequency plane (IF) by means of analog bandpass filters. Corresponding to the broadband preselection, the subsequent sampling requires a high sampling rate. Simultaneous down conversion into a new intermediate frequency plane (IF2) can be effected together with the sampling. The actual useful signal is selected digitally by means of a digital bandpass filter F(z). Thus the difficult matching process for conventional bandpass filters is eliminated. Depending on the degree of filtering and in conjunction with the wide bandwidth of the only weakly selected input signal, the thus realizable high selectivity requires extremely fast digital modules. The concept is thus not adapted to technological facts.
Demodulation can be effected, for example in the case of an amplitude modulated signal, by a simply realized formation of the absolute value of the signal and subsequent digital lowpass filtering, with the method customary in the analog case being digitalized for the demodulation.
In addition to the high sampling rate and calculating speed, this system has the further drawback that mismatching between carrier frequency and center frequency of the bandpass filter causes distortions in the demodulated signal--as discussed below.
Asynchronous reception with demodulation in the base band (IF=0) requires the simultaneous down conversion with the aid of two orthogonal signals. The structure of this receiver, shown in FIG. 3, is known.
Let it be assumed that the input signal is:
x.sub.1 (t)=a.sub.1 (t)�cos (ω.sub.T t+φ(t)).
After multiplication in the respective mixers M1 and M2 the result is:
x.sub.c (t)=a.sub.o �cos (ω.sub.T t+Δωt+φ.sub.1 (t))
x.sub.s (t)=a.sub.o �sin (ω.sub.T t+Δωt+φ.sub.1 (t))
and after lowpass filtering in lowpass filters TP1 and TP2 respectively in which the components at double the carrier frequency are eliminated and the bandwidth of the mixed product is limited to the bandwidth permitted in the subsequent sampling, there result the two signals ##EQU4##
Δω considers the case in which the carrier frequency does not exactly coincide with the frequency of the mixer oscillator. These two signals sampled at times k�T0 in respective samplers can be limited to the exact signal bandwidth in the digital portion of the receiver (selection). With frequency offset, the components of the signal spectrum originating from the upper and lower sideband are filtered differently, causing amplitude and phase distortions in the demodulated signal which can no longer be reversed. However, as long as the filtering, described by convolution with the weighting function h(kT0) of the digital filter, does not touch the two signals u1 and u2, due to frequency offset, i.e. as long as ##EQU5## is met, the conventional envelope curve of the input signal can be obtained by calculating ##EQU6## Demodulation of an angle modulated signal is effected under the same marginal conditions by calculation of ##EQU7##
The momentary phase φ(kT0) is falsified by the phase noise φ1 of the mixer oscillator and, with frequency offset, by a constantly increasing term which causes, inter alia, difficulties regarding the limited value range. The momentary frequency Ω is obtained by differentiating the momentary phase. It is falsified by Δω-φ1. Missing synchronism and phase noise of the mixing oscillator also cause considerable problems.
A further realization of the asynchronous hybrid receiver is shown in FIG. 4. In this embodiment, the down conversion with two orthogonal harmonic signals is no longer required. Instead, the received signal is mixed in mixer M, preselected in the intermediate frequency plane in a bandpass filter BP, and then sampled in respective samplers with two pulse sequences which are shifted in time (by one quarter of a clock pulse duration). The sampling produces a simultaneous down conversion into the base band at the intermediate frequency of zero, if the sampling rate is selected to be ##EQU8## To assure orthogonality of the two signals u1 and u2, m must additionally be selected to be odd. The further design corresponds to the structure shown above in FIG. 3 and thus causes the same difficulties.
The principle of a synchronous receiver will be explained with the aid of FIG. 5. The significant component of this system is a phase locked loop (PLL) with which a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is synchronized in frequency and phase with a signal to be received. The synchronized output signal of the oscillator VCO is fed to a mixer M1 and with a 90� phase shift to a mixer M2, the mixers M1 and M2 also receive the input signal and with this synchronized signal from the voltage controlled oscillator VCO, the received signal is directly converted to the base band in the mixers M1 and M2, while circumventing the IF plane, and is synchronously demodulated. A subsequent demodulator, as required for example in the superheterodyne receiver or in the receiver of FIG. 4, is thus no longer necessary. The synchronous demodulation results in a lower threshold value.
If the noise affected input signal is expressed as follows:
x.sub.1 (t)+n(t)=a.sub.1 (t)�sin (ω.sub.T t+φ.sub.T)+n(t)
and the signal from the oscillator VCO as
x.sub.o (t)=a.sub.o �cos (ω.sub.o t+φ.sub.o),
where the phase φ0 (t) is given by the relationship ##EQU9## there results the following known differential equation for the phase locked control loop (see Viterbi, A. F., "Principles of Coherent Communication", McGraw-Hill, New York, 1966, pgs. 14-19): ##EQU10##
The phase-locked loop (PLL) has the characteristic of automatically regulating a certain range of the mismatch Δω and maintaining the once reached synchronous state. In the synchronous state Δω=0 and with a small phase error Φ(t), the sine function can be replaced by its argument. From the resulting linear differential equation, the lowpass transfer function of the linearized PLL can be derived as follows: ##EQU11## is the static loop gain of the PLL which depends upon the input level a1. The dependence upon the input level requires a regulation of the loop gain so as to assure defined system behavior and stability of the PLL (see U.S. application Ser. No. 104,021 filed Dec. 17th, 1979 by R. Maurer et al, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,387,410 issued June 7, 1983).
Between the control signal y(t) of the oscillator VCO and the phase of the input signal and under consideration of the noise n'(t), the following relationship can be stated. ##EQU12## If φT (t) constitutes the phase of a carrier frequency modulated with the signal v(t), then, because of
φ.sub.T (s)=ΔΩ(1/s)�V(s)
the demodulation behavior of the PLL will be ##EQU13##
If the bandwidth of the transfer function H(s) is selected to be sufficiently large, the demodulated signal y(t) is composed of a component which is directly proportional to the modulating signal v(t) and of a noise component. To limit this noise component, it is necessary to limit the band at the output by means of a filter T1 (s).
With the 90� phase shifted signal x2 (t) from oscillator VCO, i.e.
x.sub.2 (t)=a.sub.o �sin (ω.sub.o t+φ.sub.o)
it is possible to synchronously demodulate the carrier amplitude a1 (t). After lowpass filtering in filter TP2 to eliminate the components at twice the carrier frequency, the product of the signals x1 and x2 yields the signal ##EQU14## which, for small phase errors, is directly proportional to the carrier amplitude. In the case of an amplitude modulated signal, this product is also the demodulated information. Yi (t) is used for the automatic gain control and thus to regulate the loop gain. The regulating filter FR (s) must here be selected to be so narrowbanded that the time constant of the gain regulation is greater by at least the factor 10 than the time constant of the phase locked control loop.
It is the object of the present invention to provide a receiving system with digital signal processing in which there occurs no intermediate frequency (IF) and the high frequency section as well as the low frequency section of the receiving system are each realized in the optimum manner.
The above object is achieved according to the present invention by the fact that in a synchronous receiver, comprising a high frequency section followed by a low frequency section, the high frequency section is realized by analog components, whereas the low frequency section is realized by digital components. In the synchronous receiver the high frequency input signal is converted by multiplication directly into the base band using a phase-locked loop. Intermediate frequency components are not necessary and they are therefore omitted. The high frequency section consists of an input preamplifier, first and second quadrature operated multiplying mixers each having one input connected to the output of the preamplifier, a voltage controlled oscillator having its output connected directly to a second input of the first mixer and connected via a π/2 phase shifter to a second input of the second mixer and having its control input connected to a point in the branch of the receiver circuit containing the first mixer, and first and second lowpass filters, for selecting out interfering mixed products, connected to the outputs of the first and second mixers. The receiver is a radio or television receiver and the low frequency section is realized by digital components.
Various specific embodiments of such a receiver for use with received high frequency signals with different type modulation are disclosed.
FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram of a superheterodyne receiver according to the prior art.
FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of a known digital version of a superheterodyne receiver.
FIG. 3 is a block circuit diagram of a possible asynchronous hybrid receiver with analog to digital conversion in the base band.
FIG. 4 is a block circuit diagram of a further known embodiment of an asychronous hybrid receiver with analog to digital conversion in the base band.
FIG. 5 is a block circuit diagram of a direct mixing synchronous receiver according to the prior art.
FIG. 6 is a block circuit diagram of a direct mixing synchronous hybrid receiver according to one embodiment of the invention for amplitude or angle modulated signals.
FIG. 7 is a block circuit diagram of a direct mixing synchronous hybrid receiver according to another embodiment of the invention for phase shift keyed (PSK) and double sideband transmitted signals without carrier.
FIG. 8 is a block circuit diagram of a direct mixing synchronous hybrid receiver according to another embodiment of the invention for residual sideband and single sideband transmitted signals with carrier.
The structure of the prior art direct mixing, synchronous receiver of FIG. 5 can be divided into a high frequency section and a separate low frequency section. The novel receiving system according to the invention represents the hybrid design of a synchronous homodyne receiver with a high frequency section (preamplifier, mixer, voltage controlled oscillator, phase shifter) realized in the analog technique and a low frequency section (loop filter, output lowpass filter, gain control) realized digitally. Such a circuit is shown in and will be explained with the aid of FIG. 6.
As shown in FIG. 6, the input signal is fed to a preamplifier VV, whose output is split into two branches. The one branch shown at the top of the drawing figure comprises the mixer M1 followed by the lowpass filter TP1 and the subsequent module for signal sampling SS1 at the sampling frequency fA. The output of this stage SS leads to an analog-digital converter C1 whose output signal is fed to a digital loop filter F(z). The output of this loop filter F(z) leads both to the associated digital output lowpass filter F1 (z) and, via a digital-analog converter C'1, to the voltage controlled oscillator VCO, whose output signal x0 (t) is fed to the mixer M1 where it is multiplied (mixed) with the input signal X1 (t)+n(t). At the same time, the output signal of the oscillator VCO is conducted through a phase shifter Ph which produces a π/2 phase shift and whose output signal x2 (t) is fed to the mixer M2.
The other branch at the output side of the preamplifier VV comprises the mixer M2 followed by a lowpass filter TP2. The signal selected by this lowpass filter TP2 leads to a sampling circuit SS2 which samples the existing signal at the frequency fA.
The output of this sampling circuit SS2 leads to an analog-digital converter C2 whose output signal yi (kT0) is fed to a digital output lowpass filter F2 (z). The last-mentioned signal, i.e. the signal at the output of the converter C2, simultaneously serves for the gain control, represented by the filter stage FR (z), whose output signal, after conversion in a digital-analog converter C'2 is fed, in the illustrated embodiment, to the preamplifier VV.
It should be pointed out already at this point, that this control signal can, if desired, also be fed to the voltage controlled oscillator VCO or to the two lowpass filters TP1 and TP2.
From the signals present at the two digital output lowpass filters F1 (z) and F2 (z), respectively, the desired amplitude or frequency modulated signal can be selected via a switch S and can be reconverted into the analog low frequency signal via a subsequent digital-analog converter C3.
The system behavior of this linearized analog-digital (hybrid) phase locked loop (PLL) in the receiving system according to FIG. 6 can be illustrated in the Laplace region as well as with the use of the Z transform. The determination of the optimum digital loop filter F(z) according to Wiener's optimum filter theory indicates that under consideration of the time delay caused by the sampling and the digital conversion, the optimum digital loop filter has a higher degree than in the corresponding analog case (see Gupta, S. C., "On Optimum Digital Phase-Locked Loops", IEEE Transactions on Communications Technology, Vol. COM-16, pages 340-344, April, 1968).
This novel receiver concept according to FIG. 6 can be characterized as follows:
The synchronous technique utilizing a phase locked loop assures a correct phase, synchronous down conversion of the received signal into the base band.
There is no intermediate frequency and thus there arise no problems with the image frequency (image frequency is equal to received frequency).
No preselection is required. The band limitation takes place in the base band by means of the lowpass filters TP1, TP2 following the mixers M1, M2. The bandwidth of the lowpass filters is determined by the sampling frequency.
A further band limitation is produced by the transfer function of the phase locked loop.
The output signal of the voltage controlled oscillator VCO must be very poor in harmonics so as to prevent multiple reception if there is no preselection. The mixers must operate without distortion over a wide dynamic range as discussed, for example, in pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 115,213, filed Jan. 25th, 1980 by R. Maurer et al., now U.S. Pat. No. 4,408,351, issued Oct. 4, 1983. The synchronous demodulation permits lower threshold values than do conventional demodulators.
The analog technique is the only technology available for the design of system components required to process high frequency signals, such as the controllable preamplifier VV, mixers, M1 and M2, voltage controlled oscillator VCO and phase shifter Ph. By moving the sampling into the base band, the high frequency selective prefiltering is eliminated.
The digital realization of the low frequency section requires spectral limitation of the input signal before sampling and an analog-digital conversion. The resulting phase errors must be considered in the selection of the digital loop filter.
The use of digital systems is principally limited to the low frequency range. The limit frequency, however, slowly goes higher due to technological advances so that in the forseeable future, processing of the FBAS television signal will also be possible. Digital processing permits complete integration.
The characteristics of the digital low frequency section (filtering, control) can be programmed.
No tolerance problems occur in mass production, and tuning work is not required.
Full drivability is limited. It is determined by the kind of number representation and the number of quantizing levels. Therefore it is necessary to have a gain control in the analog section.
The general basic circuit of FIG. 6 is suitable for the reception of amplitude modulated signals as well as for the reception of angle modulated signals. However, the phase-locked loop (PLL) included in the basic structure must be specialized, i.e. programmed, for each respective use. In the case of double sideband amplitude modulated signals with carrier, the PLL must be designed to be so narrow banded that it synchronizes only with the possibly noise affected carrier (narrowband PLL). The synchronously demodulated useful signal is available in the in-phase branch. Selection is effected by means of the output lowpass filter F2 (z).
Frequency modulated signals require a broadband PLL in the circuit of FIG. 6. The loop filter F(z) and the static loop amplification must be dimensioned in such a way that the phase locked loop is able, on the one hand, to regulate the maximum frequency rise and, on the other hand, the useful signal is demodulated without distortion over its entire bandwidth. The output signal y(kT0) is available in the quadrature branch. A lowpass filter F1 (z) whose limit frequency is equal to the highest low frequency of the demodulated useful signal, serves to optimize the noise.
Phase modulated signals with low phase deviation are demodulated in a narrowband phase locked loop (PLL). The limit frequency of the transfer function of the PLL must be lower than the lowest useful frequency. The demodulated signal is obtained before it reaches the loop filter F(z).
Double sideband amplitude and 2-PSK (phase shift keyed) modulated signals can be represented as follows
x.sub.1 (t)=v(t)�sin (ω.sub.T t+φ.sub.T)
where v(t) is a time function free of average. The transmitting signal thus has no carrier. A synchronous receiver structure suitable for the reception of such signals is shown in FIG. 7.
The input signal fed to the preamplifier VV is again divided into two branches at the output of the amplifier VV. The one branch, as in the circuit described in connection with FIG. 6, comprises the series connection of a mixer M1, a low-pass filter TP1 and a sampling circuit SS1 followed by an analog-digital converter C1. The output signal of this converter C1 is now fed to the one input of a further mixer M3.
The second branch comprises, analogously to the circuit of FIG. 6, the series connection of a mixer M2, a lowpass filter TP2, a sampling circuit SS2 followed by an analog-digital converter C2 which leads to a second input of the above-mentioned mixer M3. The output of the mixer M3 is connected with the required loop filter F(z) whose output signal is fed to a digital-analog converter C'1 which in turn feeds the voltage controlled oscillator VCO. The output of the oscillator VCO leads, on the one hand, with its output signal x0 directly to the mixer M1 and, on the other hand, via a phase shifter Ph which effects a shift in phase by π/2, to the mixer M2.
The output of the analog/digital converter C2 of the second branch (or of the analog-digital converter C1) is connected with an output lowpass filter FA (z) which in turn emits the desired analog low frequency signal via a digital-analog converter C3.
The control information for the gain control is obtained in that the output signal yi of the second branch, after passing through a lowpass filter F2 (z), is rectified by formation of the average value in circuit B. In the illustrated embodiment, this signal travels through the the control filter FR (z) and the digital-analog converter C'2 to the preamplifier VV.
The two quadrature signals converted down to the base band are ##EQU15##
After further multiplication and lowpass filtering, the signal ##EQU16##
is available. It is no longer dependent on the sign of the function v(t). The Costas loop structure receives the information required for synchronous demodulation via center frequency and phase position from the sidebands.
A synchronous hybrid receiver according to the invention can also be used for residual and singlesideband signals with carrier. Residual sideband signals with carrier can be expressed as follows: ##EQU17## is the Hilbert transform. The plus sign represents the upper sideband, the minus sign represents the lower sideband. Multiplication of this signal with the two orthogonal signals from the voltage controlled oscillator VCO (assuming a phase error Φ=0)
x.sub.o =a.sub.o �sin ω.sub.o t
x.sub.1 =a.sub.o �cos ω.sub.o t
after lowpass filtering, furnishes the following result: ##EQU18##
For the sake of simplicity, the converter constant km =1 is used. If now yq (t) is Hilbert transformed as follows:
y.sub.q (t)=ζ(�s(t))=∓s(t),
the upper sideband can be eliminated by the addition of yi and yq, while a lower sideband is transmitted with the same power amplification as the double sideband signal. With substraction, the upper sideband remains intact and the lower sideband becomes zero.
A circuit suitable for this purpose is shown in FIG. 8. Here again, the input signal is divided into two branches after suitable preamplification in the preamplifer VV. The one branch includes the series connection of a mixer M1 with a lowpass filter TP1, a sampling circuit SS1 for sampling at a frequency fA followed by an analog-digital converter C1. The output of the A/D converter C1 leads to a broadband Hilbert transformer ζ and simultaneously, via a loop filter F(z) and a digital-analog converter C'1 to a voltage controlled oscillator VCO. The output signal x0 of the oscillator VCO is fed to the mixer M1 and simultaneously to a phase shifter Ph which performs a shift in phase of π/2 and whose output signal x1 is fed to the mixer M2. This mixer M2 forms the second branch together with the subsequent lowpass filter TP2, the scanning device SS2, and the subsequent analog-digital converter C2. The digital output signal Yi(kTo) of the converter C2 together with the output signals Yg(kTo) of the Hilbert transformer are fed to an adder A whose output is connected to a common output lowpass filter FA (z) which in turn leads to the subsequently connected digital-analog converter C3. The desired analog low frequency signal can be obtained at the output of this digital-analog converter C3.
The required gain control is formed by the control loop connected to the common connection of the A/D converter C2 and the adder A and comprises the control unit or filter FR (z) followed by the digital-analog converter C'2. In the illustrated embodiment the then obtained control signal is fed to the preamplifier VV.
As already described in connection with FIG. 6, the gain control signal in the circuit of FIG. 7 and also in the circuit of FIG. 8 may be fed, in deviation therefrom, either to the voltage controlled oscillator VCO or simultaneously to the two lowpass filters TP1 and TP2.
The receiver structure of FIG. 8 is able to synchronously demodulate single sideband and residual sideband signals (e.g. television signals). With the inclusion of a broadband phase shifter (real Hilbert transformer) having the bandwidth of the single sideband signal, the undesirable sideband can be suppressed without performing a single sideband filtering at the high frequency side. Algorithms for the digital Hilbert transformation are known, (see for example, Herrmann, O., "Transversal Filter for the Hilbert Transformation", A.E.U., Vol. 23 (1969), pages 581-587), but require complicated calculations depending on the accuracy required and on the ratio of upper to lower limit or cut-off frequency.
It will be understood that the above description of the present invention is susceptible to various modifications, changes and adaptations, and the same are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalents of the appended claims.
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Authorities in Belknap County, NH have detained Michael Merit Storey, according to reports obtained by Northeast Blotter on April 28, 2016.
Mr. Storey was detained April 27, 2016, after having been arrested on multiple counts. No release date was provided in the report, as determined by Northeast Blotter.
Storey, DOB 1985-01-13, was described as a white man of 31 years age. Few additional details have been furnished at this time.
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Rusted rear bumpstop bolts
Ive got a 2000 TJ with 140k miles here in New England, I'm trying to remove the rear bump stop cups to repaint and add bump stop extensions for my spring install. Both of the bump stop bolts will back out about an inch and then they just spin and don't come out any further. I cannot see the top nut, which is I believe how they were installed from the factory. if I could see that, normally I would just cut the bolts and put a new bolt and nut on each side and be good to go. Anyone have any ideas on what I should do?
do you have an electric or air impact? just snap them off, cut em off, whatever you have to do. drill out the hole to 7/16".
to reinstall the bumpstop cup & extension, get a grade 8 7/16" bolt long enough to reach all the way through the spring perch. Use a grade 8 thick fender washer and grade 8 nut on the backside and you should be good to go.
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Friends tell us, with a mixture of surprise and parental pride, that a social media site recruited their oldest son. The guy was employed here and didn't really want to leave New Mexico, but the company threw money and perks at him until he relented. He had the skills they needed.
That's the way it usually works in private industry. If a company was running the Obamacare website, it would have recruited some people away from Amazon, eBay or another high-traffic website. Government is normally stuck with the low bidder, and investigation has made it clear that the contractors didn't have a lot of experience with the type of website needed.
In my work, I'm in and out of many websites every day. Most of them work, some better than others. Some of them don't work. The technology we depend on doesn't always meet our expectations.
Not that this gets the president off the hook. Low bidder or not, it's reasonable to expect a project of this magnitude to be better executed. But then the nation's CEO didn't have that much experience in this type of thing either.
One thing the president and the governor share, in abundance, is their inexperience. Both rode into office on their charisma, and we've learned that charisma only goes so far; it doesn't make up for experience. They're both intelligent people, but I've thought many times that they would have been far better chief executives with more miles on their personal odometers. Instead, we've seen that deer-caught-in-the-headlights look on President Obama's face, and listened as Gov. Susana Martinez cut loose with ignorant pronouncements that had to be undone later.
Governing for both has been an exercise in on-the-job training.
In the last couple of months, I thought I could see a change. The governor proposed legislation to certify community health workers, fund more water projects, create new family medicine resident and nurse practitioner training positions at UNM, offer new telemedicine services, and recruit new college faculty, scientists and researchers.
It's all admirable, but if Martinez had served a term or two in the Legislature instead of going straight from local district attorney to governor, she would have a perspective on statewide issues, and we might have seen these bills a lot sooner. On the other hand, this passel of proposed legislation represents a turning of the corner, an emergence from the thicket of political posing to a broad concern for the state's well being.
Or so I thought.
Then she announced another round in the fight over driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, coupled with a pitch with donations "to help make sure we go into the session prepared to fight" against "organized and well financed" opponents. That would be immigrants' rights activists, who must be amused that anybody thinks they're well funded.
Ignoring for a moment that other states have joined New Mexico in passing such a law, our driver's license statute could use some tightening. Compromise (none of it coming from the Governor's office) has failed in the last three sessions, and the debate has wasted many hours of precious time needed for more pressing issues. There's no reason to expect different results in the next session.
And maybe that's the point. The governor's handler, Jay McCleskey, told the Albuquerque Journal the driver's license pitch is actually to raise money for the re-election campaign. When the bill fails again, the campaign can argue that New Mexico needs Martinez all the more. And it diverts attention from the fact that the governor has accomplished almost nothing.
In the magic show we call politics, illusion matters more than legacy.
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Police to name and shame drink-drivers on Twitter in bid to cut Christmas accidents
POLICE will name and shame motorists caught drink or drug-driving over the Christmas period on social media.
Drink drivers will be named and shamed on Twitter
As part of a campaign to cut driving offences, Sussex and Surrey police will publish details on Twitter including when and where motorists were pulled over for the alleged offences.
If convicted, the drivers could find themselves publicly named on social media.
Posters will also be put up at locations where people were arrested for driving offences over last year's festive period.
People are also being encouraged to text police with details of people they suspect of drink or drug-driving or by visiting the website www.operationcrackdown.co.uk.
Sergeant Jane Derrick, the head of roads policing across Sussex and Surrey, said there remained a "small minority" of motorists who refused to believe the law applies to them.
There is no excuse for driving while over the limit or after taking drugs but there remains a small minority who refuse to believe that the law applies to them
Extra time is also being set aside at Crawley Magistrates' Court in West Sussex to deal with those charged from tomorrow, in a move hoped to get rogue drivers off the road as quickly as possible.
As a result, charged motorists could find themselves banned from driving within 10 days of being caught, a police spokesman said.
Sgt Derrick said: "There is often a delay of a matter of weeks between an individual being charged and them appearing in court.
"But these slots mean those charged with offences early in December could be dealt with by magistrates and banned from the roads in time for Christmas.
"There is no excuse for driving while over the limit or after taking drugs but there remains a small minority who refuse to believe that the law applies to them."


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Now that the Red Sox rid themselves of the contracts of Carl Crawford, Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, and Nick Punto (kidding), they have tons of available funds.
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By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. ?The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. ?She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.
On March 19 her brother called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believed she had MS. ?He recalled an article a friend of his e-mailed to him and he asked his sister if she drank diet soda? She told him that she did...As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment. He told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! ?He then ?e-mailed her the article his friend had sent.
His sister called within 32 hours after their phone conversation and told him she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better. She told him she was going to her doctor with this article and would call him when she got home.
Well, she called and said her doctor was amazed! ?He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death.
If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; ? DO NOT EVEN THINK about IT! ? He has spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'Nutra Sweet,'
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More people are increasing their business exposure and beginning to think about presenting webinars for training and/or selling purposes but they are finding that the monthly charges for these webinar systems is way beyond their financial means and the more people that attend your webinar, the more money you will pay out.
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hi , its me, i always like to share knowledge , i hope you all do the same
sorry , but my knowledge in computerarea is poor.
Im just an amateur who like to get old pentiumss and all kind of computerparts for free, then trying to get the maximum out of it and giving then the complete computer away to people who cannot pay new stuff, like retired people, sick people, mentally health people, single parents families and so on.
I all do this legal and just for free , without any advantage except being happy.
At this moment ive ready again 3 Pentium II computers (333 MHz, 400 MHz and 450 MHz) , all three 128 mb, > 8 GB, legally installed Windows 98SE with book, completed with CRT monitor, mouse and keyboard and each with 2 cdrom stations and 1 diskettestation.
Also I always put word and excel on it, ive several official legal licences for that.
I never use my own licences for the giving away, I myself have Windows 95b, 98SE, Millennium, 2000 prof, XP prof and XP home and in the office series: 95, 97, 2000 premium, 2000 standard, 2000 MKB (cd1 and cd2), and XP.
One of the ready to give away has already Office 2000 Professional on board. All my data1.msi dont fit for upgrading. Who can help me in more data1.msi?
(Normally I fully fdisk and defrag befor I start building up a new pc, in this case, the HDD was already so good prepared by the donateur that I didnt do it).
PLease dont give me any codes, only codes with licence sticker are legal, and those I have enough (received by all nice people together with their computers). My only prob is I miss a good data1.msi for Office 2000 Proffessional. (otherwise I have to delete it and install a Office 2000 Standard, but of those I have only 2 legal left, want to keep those for next giving away computers).
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The Lomography team, here at the Headquarters, are frozen to the bone, with the cold Vienna winter. Fill our hearts with warmth this Valentine's Day by snail mailing us your favorite Valentine's edition photos! We began the snail mail initiative in December and responses have been sail paced. So, make like a stork and air mail those photos to keep our engines running!5 8 Share Tweet
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Make This: Wooden Mountain Key Rack
Anyone who has grown up near in the mountains knows what it means to see the ridgeline. Being tucked in nearby some exciting geological features has a comfort and appeal, and, of course, great views. It's safe, secure, constant. The mountains invite adventure, and simplicity. To honor my own local Cascade range, I built this simple key rack that takes a bit of that wild adventure and brings it home.
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Internet service provider Excite@Home, as expected Friday night, cut off its link to the World Wide Web for Charter Communications cable subscribers in the Athens area, but during the weekend most Charter Internet customers could still get back online.
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At the most, about 10 percent of Charter's Internet subscribers could not access the Internet by midday Monday, said Billy Porter, local general manager for Charter.
''The vast majority of our customers are up and operational. We estimate between 500 and 800 people might still be experiencing problems and we're solving those quickly,'' Porter said Monday. ''There are some people who are experiencing some sort of service problems but we're dispatching technicians to residences or we're able to trouble shoot over the telephone.''
Approximately 8,000 homes in Clarke, Oconee and Madison counties subscribed to Excite@Home through Charter.
Excite@Home last week received permission from a bankruptcy judge in San Francisco to disconnect its service with cable companies and other carriers, such as AT&T.
Charter had been preparing for the loss of Excite@Home's service by installing its own high-speed Internet service, called Charter Pipeline. Porter said he got a message at 12:18 a.m. Saturday morning that Excite@Home had cut off service, and Charter began switching customers to Pipeline at that time. The changeover by Charter was conducted throughout Saturday morning, with portions of the system switched at different times.
In order to link up with Charter's Pipeline after losing the Excite@Home connections, customers need to physically disconnect their computer's cable modem from its AC power source. After reconnecting it to the outlet, wait for the lights to remain steady (as opposed to blinking) and then turn the computer off and then back on.
If that doesn't work, subscribers can call toll-free to (800) 266-8716.
Besides getting reconnected to the Internet, Charter's subscribers also have to set up new e-mail accounts. That can be done through Charter's Web site www.charter.com/installer or via a CD, which technicians are taking to households having trouble.
Charter's Pipeline Internet service will have comparable monthly rates to Excite@Home, Porter said. The pricing scenario is dependent on what level of speed a subscriber signs up for. The rates are $29.95, $39.95 or $49.95.
According to an Associated Press report, Excite@Home wants cable companies to pay higher fees to connect to its network. Until Excite@Home filed for bankruptcy protection, the cable companies had been paying a monthly fee of $12 per subscriber.
Excite@Home's bondholders have accused AT&T of using its controlling position on Excite@Home's board to steer the company into bankruptcy as part of a scheme to buy the company. AT&T denies the allegation.
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