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Spie Press BookDigital Converters for Image Sensors
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- 1 Introduction to Digital Image Sensors
- 1.1 Data Converters and their History
- 1.2 Digital Image Sensors and Closely Related Integrated Circuits
- 1.3 Reasons To Use and Not Use On-Chip Analog-to-Digital Conversion
- 1.4 Parallelism
- 1.4.1 Serial architecture
- 1.4.2 Column-parallel architecture
- 1.4.3 Pixel-parallel architecture
- 1.5 Pseudo-differential Architectures
- References
- 2 Converter Characteristics
- 2.1 Basics of Data Conversion
- 2.1.1 Sampling, Nyquist sampling, and oversampling
- 2.1.2 Resolution
- 2.1.3 Quantization and full-scale range
- 2.1.4 Quantization error
- 2.1.5 Converter coding
- 2.2 Converter Static Characteristics
- 2.2.1 Introduction to the transfer function
- 2.2.2 Accuracy and precision
- 2.2.3 Gain and offset errors
- 2.2.4 Integral nonlinearity
- 2.2.5 Differential nonlinearity
- 2.3 Converter Dynamic Characteristics
- 2.3.1 Settling and full-scale step response
- 2.3.2 Noise
- 2.3.3 Effects of static nonlinearity on noise
- 2.3.4 Distortion
- 2.3.5 Signal-to-noise ratio
- 2.3.6 Signal-to-noise and distortion ratio, and spurious free dynamic range
- 2.3.7 Effective number of bits
- 2.3.8 Dynamic range for Nyquist and oversampled converters
- 2.4 Figures of Merit for ADCs on Imagers
- 2.4.1 Energy figures of merit
- 2.4.2 Data density
- References
- 3 DACs Used in ADC Architectures and Read-in ICs
- 3.1 Resistor DACs
- 3.1.1 Resistor dividers
- 3.1.2 R-2R ladder DACs
- 3.2 Current-Steering DACs
- 3.2.1 Unary DACs
- 3.2.2 Binary DACs
- 3.2.3 Dynamic calibration of DAC current elements for high resolution
- 3.2.4 Switching current elements for improved speed
- 3.3 Switched-Capacitor DACs
- 3.3.1 Capacitive divider
- 3.3.2 Charge redistribution 2-cap DACs
- 3.4 The Specialized Multiplying DAC
- 3.5 Combining Architectures
- 3.6 Characteristics Unique to Digital-to-Analog Converters
- 3.6.1 Pedestal error and droop
- 3.6.2 Glitches
- References
- 4 ADC Architectures for Image Sensors
- 4.1 Flash ADC (Serial)
- 4.1.1 Interpolation
- 4.2 Folding Technique
- 4.3 Integrating and Sloping Architectures (Pixel and Column Parallel)
- 4.3.1 Single-slope ADC (pixel and column parallel)
- 4.3.2 Multislope ADCs (column parallel)
- 4.4 Successive Approximation ADCs (Column Parallel and Serial)
- 4.5 Sub-ranging and Two-Step ADCs (Serial, and Column and Pixel Parallel)
- 4.6 Algorithmic or Cyclic ADCs (Column Parallel and Serial)
- 4.7 Pipeline ADCs (Column Parallel and Serial)
- 4.8 Time-to-Digital Converters (Serial, and Column and Pixel Parallel)
- 4.9 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator ADCs (Serial, and Column and Pixel Parallel)
- 4.10 Time-Interleaved ADCs (Column Parallel and Serial)
- 4.11 Oversampling Architectures
- 4.11.1 Oversampling with conventional ADCs (pixel and column parallel, and serial)
- 4.11.2 Pulse frequency modulation ADCs (pixel parallel)
- 4.11.3 Delta-sigma modulation ADCs (pixel and column parallel)
- 184.108.40.206 Delta-sigma ADCs for digital pixel sensors
- 4.12 Surveys of State-of-the-Art ADCs and Their Design Evolution Convergence
- 4.12.1 What can be learned from state-of-the-art academic publications
- 4.12.2 What can be learned from commercially available products
- References
- 5 Case Study: Pipeline ADCs
- 5.1 Why the Pipeline ADC is Worth a Special Case Study
- 5.2 Reasons for Image Sensor Professionals to Understand the Pipeline ADC
- 5.3 Pipeline ADC Architecture
- 5.3.1 The ideal nine-bit structure and transfer function
- 5.3.2 Pipeline delay
- 5.4 Pipeline Pieces
- 5.5 Pipeline Errors and the Need for Redundancy
- 5.5.1 Offset and gain errors
- 5.5.2 Introduction to redundancy
- 5.5.3 An ideal nine-bit ADC with redundancy
- 5.5.4 Redundancy in the 1.5-bit-per-stage ADC and the stage transfer function
- 5.6 The Real-World Transfer Function
- 5.7 Pipeline ADC Noise Calculations
- 5.7.1 The ADSC surprise
- 5.7.2 Total pipeline ADC noise
- 5.8 Pipeline Stage Optimization
- 5.9 Resource Sharing in Pipeline ADCs
- References
- 6 Automatic Calibration and Error Correction
- 6.1 Analog Error Correction for the Pipeline ADC
- 6.1.1 MDAC gain trimming
- 6.2 Digitally Calibrating the Pipeline ADC
- 6.2.1 Digital foreground calibration
- 126.96.36.199 Digital self-calibration algorithm
- 220.127.116.11 16-bit digital self-calibration example
- 188.8.131.52 Look-up table values
- 18.104.22.168 Digital self-calibration for the 1.5-bit-per-stage ADC
- 188.8.131.52 Popular digital foreground calibration variants
- 6.2.2 ADC background calibration
- 6.3 ADC Calibration on Image Sensors
- References
- 7 Testing ADCs on Image Sensors
- 7.1 Test Overview
- 7.1.1 IEEE Standard 1241-2010
- 7.1.2 ADC and image sensor test similarities
- 7.2 Steady State Input Tests
- 7.2.1 Gain error and offset
- 7.2.2 Servo or code edge tests
- 7.2.3 Noise contribution curve
- 7.2.4 Steady state input and linearity measurements
- 7.3 Dynamic Input Tests
- 7.3.1 Histogram testing
- 7.3.2 Linearity from histogram data
- 7.3.3 Noise for image sensor ADCs from dynamic signals
- 7.3.4 ADC and image sensor FSR matching
- 7.3.5 Full-scale step response
- 7.3.6 Out-of-range recovery
- 7.4 In Situ Test and Measurement
- 7.4.1 Power
- 7.4.2 Notes on testing and data acquisition
- 7.5 Built-In Test and Self-Test Circuits for Digital Image Sensors
- 7.5.1 Test taps and signal monitors
- 7.5.2 Self-calibrated ramp for linearity and SNDR
- References
- Appendix
- Index
This book is intended for image sensor professionals and those interested in the boundary between sensor systems and analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. If you have at least a basic electrical engineering background and are technically interested in how digital image sensors and digital readout integrated circuits are constructed, you might find this book useful. My goal was to provide a broad tutorial for image sensor professionals without getting bogged down in the transistor-level design aspects associated with most converter design texts. It is my hope that this approach will give you a new understanding of the topic and escape the common pitfalls associated with these complex on-chip imaging systems. If you are a designer, I hope that this text will spark your creativity to develop new and useful architectures of your own and point you to more in-depth resources as needed.
To my knowledge, there are currently no textbooks that focus on the details and issues of integrating converters into image sensors. There are many textbooks and tutorial papers available for digital converter design; there are also many books and tutorial papers available for image sensor design for both infrared and visible sensors. These are focused more broadly on the entire imaging system or narrowly on one particular type of digital converter signal chain. Unfortunately, these references do not provide in-depth tips and techniques necessary to understand and implement these two types of complex circuit systems together for a wide variety of architectures or trade off one style versus another. This situation has generated some confusion in the published literature between image-sensor-focused and converter-focused publications. Bridging this gap is useful because much of the visible image sensor industry has adopted digital image sensors, and the infrared industry is rapidly moving in the same direction.
Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the history and definition of a digital image sensor. Chapter 2 covers converter characteristics for readers not already familiar with the basics of data conversion. Each of these characteristics is discussed with respect to image sensor needs and requirements in preparation for the remainder of the book, which discusses converter architectures and evaluation. The architecture portion of the book begins in Chapter 3 with a brief discussion of digital-to-analog converters (DACs) used for displays and read-in integrated circuits, and as analog-to-digital converter (ADC) subcomponents. DACs are important subcomponents for many of the ADC architectures described in Chapter 4. Each ADC architecture is classified as suitable for serial, column-parallel, or pixel-parallel conversion and examples of each type are provided from the published literature. At the end of Chapter 4, a survey of academic and industrial state-of-the-art architectures is presented with a discussion of the concept of industrial design evolution convergence down to the most flexible architectures for the widest number of applications. This sets the stage for an in-depth dive into pipeline ADCs in Chapter 5, which also illustrates real-world issues that designers face when working with all types of ADCs with resolutions suitable for image sensing. Chapter 6 covers digital correction and calibration, which is an integral part of many pipeline ADC architectures. Even though Chapter 6 focuses on the pipeline ADC, the techniques gleaned from this chapter can and should be applied to a wide variety of ADC architectures. The book wraps up with Chapter 7: testing ADCs on image sensors according to IEEE standards. This final chapter addresses specific misunderstandings in the published image sensor literature and covers test issues that are of particular concern to digital image sensor designers.
Writing this book in parallel with running a young business turned out to be more of an undertaking than I first realized. I want to thank my wife, Tricia Veeder, for putting up with my mental absence during evenings and weekends over the last couple years and for listening to some of my ideas. It is a wonderful thing to have a technically savvy life partner who works in the same industry and can critically assess the occasional idea. I want to thank Eric Kurth from FLIR, who originally asked me to put together an in-depth course on ADCs for image sensors from which this book is derived. I will always remember talking all day for four days straight to his integrated circuit design team while sucking on cough drops so that I didn't sound too much like Marlon Brando in The Godfather by the end of the course. I also want to thank John Caulfield from Cyan Systems for telling the team over at SPIE that I had this course and might be interested in converting it into a short, half-day course for SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing. Finally, I would like to thank the SPIE team (my editors, Scott McNeill and Dara Burrows, as well as Jim Harrington and Tim Lamkins) for asking me to write this book and for providing the resources and valuable feedback to make it happen.
Kenton Veeder
December 2014
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Salem City School District Superintendent Dr. Patrick Michel recently had an opportunity to spend a week in China as part of an educational program sponsored by Hanban-Confucious Institute Headquarters, and organized by not-for-profit organization The College Board.
With more and more international students vying for seats in university classrooms, the competition for a college education has become increasingly tough for American students.
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President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law on July 21, 2010. That was supposed to help prevent big banks and financial firms from doing the things that got them into the mess that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Guess what? Not much has changed. In fact, the so-called "fat cat bankers" that Obama famously criticized in a "60 Minutes" interview in December 2009 could still stand to lose a few pounds. Kind of like Garfield. Pass the lasagna!
The nation's Big Six banks -- JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) -- are all very profitable. And several of them have continued to engage in shady-ish behavior despite Dodd-Frank.
Related: Big bank stocks shrug of Volcker Rule
Remember JPMorgan Chase's infamous London Whale, and that $6 billion trading loss? Sorry. I meant to call that a hedge. That happened in the spring of 2012.
But here's what really tells you how toothless Dodd-Frank is. The bank stocks have surged since the bill went from just sitting on Capitol Hill to becoming a law (remember that old Schoolhouse Rock song?) in the summer of 2010.
The Financial Select SPDR (XLF) exchange traded fund, which owns the Big Six banks as well as many regional banks and large insurers -- is up nearly 60% since July 21, 2010. That has lagged the broader market's performance slightly (the S&P 500 is up 66%) but it's not exactly a low return.
What's more, financial stocks have really started to gain momentum in the past two years, and have trounced the S&P 500 since the end of 2011. That's despite the fact that JPMorgan Chase and most of its peers have been hit with one fine after another to pay for the sins of the financial crisis.
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That's because most have already eliminated the proprietary trading desks that Volcker prohibits and are employing other tactics, such as JPMorgan's 'it's a hedge defense,' to continue making risky bets with house money.
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And the big bankers aren't the only ones that are continuing to laugh their way to the, uhh, banks that they already run. Another part of Dodd-Frank, the Durbin Amendment, has also been spayed and neutered to the point of impotence.
That amendment, named after its author Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, was supposed to crimp the ability of credit card processing giants Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) to charge significantly higher debit card transaction fees to merchants.
But in 2011, the Federal Reserve wound up raising the cap on the fees from what it had originally proposed a few months earlier. That was viewed as a victory for Visa, MasterCard and the big bank card issuers, and a defeat for Durbin and retailers.
The fate of these fees are still up in the air though. In July of this year, a federal judge struck down the Fed's proposed rule. A month later, the Fed said it was appealing that decision.
Investors, as they are wont to do, are not fighting the Fed. Shares of Visa and MasterCard are surging despite the uncertainty. Both stocks are near record highs. MasterCard just announced a 10-for-1 stock split to get its share price down to a more manageable level. (It trades just under $800.)
And oh yeah, in a further sign of validation for the financial industry, Visa and Goldman Sachs were both added to the Dow Jones industrial average earlier this year.
So forget what The Mamas & The Papas sang about how no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass. Those cats on Wall Street look pretty darn obese to me.
Reader Comment of the Week ... and Name That Tune shout-out! I wrote Tuesday's column about BlackBerry (BBRY) and took the contrarian view that the stock may have bottomed. I didn't predict great things ahead though. I merely said that the bleeding may stop.
A former CNNMoney colleague joked that maybe BlackBerry phones will become kitschy in a retro sort of way.
Good one, Ken! Well, Radiohead still loves vinyl. I wonder if Thom Yorke carries a BlackBerry. Speaking of Radiohead, that was the topic of today's silly Name That Tune challenge.
I've been feeling stressed lately about trying to bang out these columns while handling all my managerial duties. So that prompted me to tweet a Radiohead song lyric about fading into the background. Call it my new mantra. Brent Lehman (d0es he have any brothers?) is the winner!
Nice work. I love your Twitter handle by the way. Sign of your love of The Beatles and a certain Keanu Reeves film? I get by with a little help from my ... whoa!
Also, in case the rest of you were wondering, the next lyrics from "How To Disappear Completely" are: In a little while I'll be gone. The moment's already passed. Yeah it's gone. And I'm not here.
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One of the challenges of Classical music is the pronunciation of all those non-American names. Sometimes I think the fear of looking like an idiot because you are not fluent in Catalán, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Middle English, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Church Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Provençal, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish AND Swedish, keeps audiences away. (Disclaimer: I have no idea what Church Latin, Middle English or Provençal sounds like!) No worries though, here is the solution to all your Classical music pronunciation problems.
Visit http://www.pronunciationguide.info/.
This is a web site made for Classical Radio Announcers. In addition to all sorts of pronunciation rules, the site has audio examples of many of the most common names and terms. The audio samples can be found at http://www.pronunciationguide.info/thebiglist.html.
Here is one that I've been saying wrong for years: Heitor Villa-Lobos. The great 20th- century Brazilian composer pronounced his name: hay-tor vee-lah loh-boosh.
Also on this web site you'll learn fun and obscure facts including:
• In Hungary all names are given with family names first: Bartók Béla, Kodály Zoltán, Kertész István, etc. This is normal practice in Hungary only, and the convention everywhere else is to put Hungarian surnames last, as with English names. They should be announced this way on the radio, not the Hungarian way.
• Polish, Czech and Russian all have in common the rather peculiar feature of zero-syllable words, i.e. words such as "w" or "z", spelled with a single consonant and nothing else. These words are prepositions and are thus, by the nature of prepositions, never found in isolation: they always precede another word. For example, there is a set of piano pieces by Janá?ek called "In the Mist", but the Czech title is V mlhách. This is pronounced by pretending the "V" is part of the second word, which results in vml-hakh.
• Certain Dutch names have become so well known in an incorrect (usually German) pronunciation, that the incorrect way is now correct. For example the great concert hall in Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw, is now pronounced kuhn-sehrt-guh-bow, even though it should be pronounced kuhn-sehrt-huh-bow.
• In Finnish you should always stress the first syllable of proper names. The most famous Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius, does not have a Finnish name; his first name is French (pronounce it as such) and his last name is Latin. Do not attempt to stress the first syllable of Sibelius, please.
Feel better? Don't worry, there won't be a pronunciation quiz at any concert soon!
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Also at Coker UMC (and several other locations), the Cactus Pear Music Festival begins July 8 and runs to July 18. You can read more about the CPMF at http://www.cpmf.us/.
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Mildred Lehman 1912-2013
Funeral service for Mildred L. Lehman of Emmetsburg was held Sunday, Feb. 3, at the Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg. The Rev. Daryl Aaron officiated.
Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, Emmetsburg. The Martin-Mattice Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mildred Louise Lehman, daughter of Joseph and Myrtle Stonebraker, was born April 15, 1912, in Iowa Falls. Following graduation from Iowa Falls High School, Mildred was employed at Swift and Company. She was united in marriage to Joseph George Lehman in Iowa Falls. To this union three daughters were born.
Mildred and Joe moved to Rolfe where they owned and operated a produce business. They ran their business until the late 1970s when they retired and moved to Emmetsburg.
Mildred was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Emmetsburg, where she was active in church circle and church choir. She also played piano regularly at PARC Hall.
Mildred made her home at Willow Ridge for several years before moving to Lakeside Lutheran Home in 2010. She passed away Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 at the age of 100 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her daughter, Mary Fisher; brothers, Everett and Arnold Stonebraker; and sisters, Gerre Coulson and Irene Wagaman.
She is survived by two daughters, Marilyn (Daryl) Aaron of Mounds View, MN and Carol (William) Mints of Lynn Haven, FL; son-in-law, Dean Fisher of Sioux Falls, SD; four grandchildren; two great grandchildren.
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Medal Of Honor Reborn
Cor, big gaming news: EA have announced Medal Of Hono(u)r is to return next year, all up-to-date and modern. What they've done here, you see, is they've taken a popular WW2 series and updated it to present what I'm going to call "modern warfare". And frankly, good. Because I liked the Medal of Honour games even if they weren't quite the most cutting edge, and the splendid Medal of Honour: Airborne was lost in the noise of Call of Duty's reinvention. You should buy it. Although not at that price – cripes – that's what it cost new! But to the new game. So, what do we know so far?
The game, named only Medal Of Honor, is planned to arrive some time in the next year, and to be set in the most contemporary of settings, Afghanistan. Set to be jam-packed with war for the foreseeable future, Afghanistan is 2010's Iraq. It'll be interesting to see how the game handles this, whether with sensitivity or balls-out realism.
It's been in development for a while, the secret somewhat blown last month, and EA now explain that "Tier 1 Operators from the US Special Operations Community" have been consulting on the game since it was first conceived. They are, I'm reliably repeating, super-soldiers who work under the National Command Authority. They're elite types, and so presumably get involved in the more interesting campaigns. Quoth the press release:
"Inspired by real events, Medal of Honor reveals the mission of today's most elite soldier – his will, his mindset and his uncompromising professionalism. The Tier 1 Operator is the most disciplined, deliberate and prepared warrior on the battlefield. He is a living, breathing, precision instrument of war."
The single player campaign is being handled by EA LA, while Battlefield developers DICE are taking care of the multiplayer. Here's a bit more press release bumph from EA LA VP Sean Decker:
"EA has always been an advocate for telling the soldiers' story. The new Medal of Honor follows that tradition. We felt it was important to tell the story of today's war and today's elite soldiers via today's most relevant medium – videogames. We are so proud to bring together two powerhouse development teams to make this game a reality; EA Los Angeles and EA DICE. Medal of Honor promises to be an unforgettable entry in the modern shooter genre."
More details are to be revealed during Spike TV's 2009 Video Game Awards on Saturday, 12th December at 8pm. For American types, at least. The official site is here. And can we all just take a moment to properly appreciate that beard.
PS. I'd never be so horribly cynical after the second sentence of this post, but m'colleague Richard Cobbett tweeted this:
"Ah, the new modern day sequel to Medal of Honor. Inspired by "real events". Specifically, the sales of Modern Warfare."


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Durham 6, Pawtucket 2. Hidden by the comotion surrounding the Delmon Young "incident", was a strong performance by Elijah Dukes. Dukes was 2-3 and hit 2 home runs, his 3rd and 4th of the season. He now has 5 hits in his last two games and appears to have emerged from his early season slump. B. J. Upton was also 2-3 with a run scored and an RBI.
Montgomery 8, Birmingham 3. A big game from 2B Elliot Johnson. He was 3-5 with 2 doubles, his 4th home run of the season and 6 RBI. CF Jason Pridie was 1-3 and is hitting .262.
Lancaster 10, Visalia 6. SS Reid Brignac was 0-4 with a walk and run scored. More importantly, he did not commit an error. He is now hitting .368.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28, 2013 - A&E's most-watched series is back: "Duck Dynasty" returns with Louisiana's First Family on Wednesday, February 27 with back-to-back premieres at 9 and 9:30PM ET/PT.
Last season, "Duck Dynasty" catapulted itself to become one of TV's biggest phenomena. The season two finale premiered to 6.5 million viewers on December 5, 2012. The episode was also watched by an A&E record 3.9 million adults 18-49, 3.8 million adults 25-54 and 2.0 million adults 18-34, becoming the most-watched series telecast in network history among all key demos. "Duck Dynasty" was also the top trending TV show on Facebook in 2012.
In the third season premiere episode, the Robertson men prepare for the beginning of duck season. Phil has two rituals that don't go over well; a date night with Ms. Kay and abstaining from baths. Meanwhile, the guys carry out their tradition of camping out on the land but the group is quickly divided into those who'll rough it and those who want comfort.
The Robertsons have been busy being America's favorite big, bearded, camo-clad family. Despite their modest lifestyle and homes in the backwoods, this close-knit family has made a fortune on duck calls by turning a backyard business into a multi-million dollar sporting empire. But for Willie Robertson, the company's CEO, running a family operation is tough when all your employees live one distraction at a time and find any excuse to leave the warehouse. They may be living the rags-to-riches American dream, but they're just as busy staying true to their rugged outdoorsman lifestyle and southern roots. Of course, in this household, even the most ordinary family affair is met with a special Robertson twist of downhome practicality and witty sense of humor. Day to day life in the bayou may be mundane for some, but for the Robertsons, every day brings a new adventure.
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Hybrid selection is one of the most important management decisions a corn grower makes each year. It's a decision that warrants a careful comparison of performance data. It should not be made in haste or based on limited data. Planting a marginal hybrid, or one not suitable for a particular production environment, imposes a ceiling on the yield potential of a field before it has been planted.
In the Ohio Corn Performance Test (OCPT) it is not unusual for hybrid entries of similar maturity to differ in yield by 80 bu./acre, or more, depending on test site. Growers should choose hybrids best suited to their farm operation. Corn acreage, previous crop, soil type, tillage practices, desired harvest moisture and pest problems determine the relative importance of such traits as drydown, insect and disease resistance, herbicide resistance, early plant vigor, etc. End uses of corn should also be considered - is corn to be used for grain or silage? Is it to be sold directly to the elevator as shelled grain or used on the farm? Are there premiums available at nearby elevators, or from end users, for identity-preserved (IP) specialty corns such as food grade or non-GMO corn? Capacity to harvest, dry and store grain also needs consideration. The following are some tips to consider in choosing hybrids that are best suited to various production systems.
1. Select hybrids with maturity ratings appropriate for your geographic area or circumstances. Corn for grain should reach physiological maturity, or black layer, (maximum kernel dry weight) one to two weeks before the first killing frost in the fall. Grain drying can be a major cost in corn production. Use days-to-maturity, growing degree day (GDD) ratings and harvest grain moisture data from performance trials to determine differences in hybrid maturity and dry down. In 2012 average grain moisture at most OCPT locations was well above 20% at harvest so grain moistures should be useful in assessing differences in maturity and dry down among hybrids. One of the most effective strategies for spreading risk – and widening the harvest interval – is planting multiple hybrids of varying maturity.
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2. Choose hybrids that have produced consistently high yields across a number of locations. Choosing a hybrid simply because it contains the most stacked transgenic traits, or possesses appealing cosmetic traits, like flex ears, will not ensure high yields; instead, look for yield consistency across environments. Hybrids will perform differently based on region, soils and environmental conditions. Growers should not rely solely on one hybrid characteristic, or transgenic traits, to make their product selection.
Most of the hybrids available to Ohio growers contain transgenic insect and herbicide resistance. However, the 2012 Ohio Corn Performance Tests reveal that there are some non-transgenic hybrids suitable for non-GMO grain production with yield potential comparable to the highest yielding stacked trait entries. Nevertheless, when planting fields where corn rootworm (RW) and European corn borer (ECB) are likely to be problems (in the case of RW: continuous corn, presence of the rootworm variant; in the case of ECB: very late plantings), Bt traits offer outstanding protection and may mitigate the impact of other stress conditions. For more on Bt traits currently available, check out the Handy Bt Trait Table (pdf) from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin.
Given the record high temperatures and dry conditions during the 2012 growing season many farmers will be focusing on drought resistance ratings of corn hybrids. Several seed companies have introduced hybrids with enhanced drought tolerance that warrant attention. Some of these drought tolerant hybrids were evaluated in the 2012 OCPT. When evaluating results of hybrid performance trials affected by drought, care must be taken in interpreting the results. Did a hybrid yield well under drought stress because it genuinely possesses some drought resistance or because it "escaped" the impact of high temperatures and drought by flowering before or after the worst of the stress? If it was the latter, then the hybrid's superior performance may be of limited value under different drought conditions in the future.
In past years, we have sometimes observed that if a drought occurs late in the season then early maturing hybrids will have an advantage over later maturity hybrids; if the drought occurs earlier, but is broken by rains later in the season, then the full season hybrids may have the advantage. This year yields of some short season hybrids were impacted more by stress than later maturing hybrids because they pollinated during periods of especially hot (several consecutive days with 100 degree F plus temperatures), dry conditions in late June and early July, whereas full season hybrids flowered later when conditions were less stressful.
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3. Plant hybrids with good standability to minimize stalk lodging (stalk breakage below the ear). This is particularly important in areas where stalk rots are perennial problems, or where field drying is anticipated. If a grower has his own drying facilities and is prepared to harvest at relatively high moisture levels (>25%), then standability and fast drydown rates may be somewhat less critical as selection criteria. There are some hybrids that have outstanding yield potential, but may be prone to lodging problems under certain environmental conditions after they reach harvest maturity.
Although stalk lodging was generally limited in 2012, some fields experienced green snap (aka brittlesnap) injury due to strong winds from June 30 to July 1. In the OCPT, there was considerable variability among hybrids for green snap damage. Green snap is relatively rare in Ohio. However, since green snap may result in stalk breakage near or at the base of plants, yield losses can be appreciable. Corn growers should consult with their seed dealer on hybrid sensitivity to green snap.
4. Select hybrids with resistance and/or tolerance to stalk rots, foliar diseases and ear rots. Consult the Ohio Field Crops Diseases web page for the most common disease problems of corn in Ohio. In recent years, several diseases have adversely affected the corn crop - including northern corn leaf blight, gray leaf spot, Stewart's bacterial leaf blight, and Gibberella and Diplodia ear rots. Corn growers should obtain information from their seed dealer on hybrid reactions to specific diseases that have caused problems or that have occurred locally.
5. Never purchase a hybrid without consulting performance data. Results of state, company and county replicated hybrid performance trials should be reviewed before purchasing hybrids. Because weather conditions are unpredictable, the most reliable way to select superior hybrids is to consider performance during the last year and the previous year over as wide a range of locations and climatic conditions as possible. Hybrids that consistently perform well across a range of environmental conditions, including different soil and weather conditions, have a much greater likelihood of performing well the next year, compared to hybrids that have exhibited more variable performance. To assess a hybrid's yield averaged across multiple Ohio test sites consult the Combined Regional Summary of Hybrid Performance tables.


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Rosacea begins with occasional facial redness and tends to get worse over time. If untreated, rosacea can progress to more permanent redness, with blood vessels, pimples, and sometimes, nasal swelling. Furthermore, about half of all patients with rosacea have complications involving their eyes. You should see your doctor if you have any of the symptoms of rosacea to get the proper diagnosis and care.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and family and medical history. A physical exam will be done, including an exam of your skin. In some situations, you may be referred to a doctor specializing in skin problems (a dermatologist). A skin biopsy may be needed in atypical cases.
Do not try to diagnose or treat yourself because certain over-the-counter medications can make rosacea worse.
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It was 41 years ago today that Johnny Cash performed live at Folsom Prison. So the iPod will be all Johnny Cash, all day. But if listening to too much Johnny Cash seems depressing, worry not. Today is also Rubber Duckie's Birthday! Too much information?
- Rob Neyer agrees that a healthy Jason Bartlett will be much better in 2009 which should help the Rays avoid the "Plexiglass Principle." [ESPN]
- And the Baseball Crank delivers what we have been looking for. Pre-injury and post-injury defensive splits for Jason Bartlett. It is not an exact split, but Bartlett's Zone Rating was .859 in late May. His Revised Zone Rating for the entire season was .807 (6th in AL). This suggests that his rating from June on was well below .800. [Baseball Crank]
- Tony Massarotti of the Boston Globe says the Pat Burrell contract will likely save the Red Sox money as they attempt to sign Jason Bay to a long-term deal. [Boston Globe]
- Marc Topkin has some quotes from Gabe Kapler on his signing and notes that Kapler could play center field if BJ Upton is not ready to start the season. [St. Pete Times]
- In the same piece, Marc Topkin notes that the Rays are negotiating with their 5 arbitration-eligible players and Andrew Friedman with the team's self-imposed January 20 deadline looming. Friedman sounds confident that all 5 players will have new contracts prior to the deadline. [St. Pete Times]
- Gabe Kapler's 2009 salary will not be $1,000,018 as previously reported. It will just be an even $1 million. [The Heater]
- David Chalk at Bugs and Cranks continues his countdown of the top 177 Devil Rays of all time. Today we are at #172. [Bugs and Cranks]


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Here are the books that I have bought or received as review copies the past week or so. Later this week, I'll likely post books that I'll buy later today or tomorrow from McKay's. First up are two books by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, La casa verde and El hablador. I am currently doing a biweekly reading/review project of most of Vargas Llosa's literary output over at Gogol's Overcoat, with the first piece to be posted by tomorrow afternoon (got delayed by the trip to Shiloh/Pittsburg Landing).
Next is another Vargas Llosa book, Historia de Mayta and A.M. Dellamonica's Blue Magic, the sequel to the Sunburst Award-winning Indigo Springs. Might need to track that book down before reading this one.
I am a fan of Evenson's original fiction and after knowing some of the premise behind the genesis of Immobility, I will be reading this in the very near future. I had chosen Leah Bobet's "Six" for consideration for the aborted Best American Fantasy 4 anthology, so I bought her debut novel, the YAish Above, when it came out last week. I had mixed reactions to it. Most of the themes were good, but there was something off about the first-person narrative "voice" that dampened my enjoyment to some extent. Still, it was promising enough that I will explore future books by her.
I received the Hartwell and Weisman-edited The Sword & Sorcery ARC copy on Monday. I will try to dip into it in the coming weeks. Matthew Stover's fourth volume in his ongoing The Acts of Caine series, Caine's Law, arrived yesterday. I am three-fourths through this and it has surprised me in some ways, most of them pleasantly. I typically don't enjoy violent stories that much these days, but Stover's novels contain more than just graphic violence for the sake of graphic violence. Once my backlog of reviews is eased somewhat, I may review this within the next month or so.
Picked up four bound books and a chapbook (not pictured) during my recent trip to the Shiloh National Military Park in Pittsburg Landing, TN. The first two are Robert E. Lee's Lighter Side: The Marble Man's Sense of Humor, edited by Thomas Forehand, Jr. and Ronald N. Satz's Tennessee's Indian Peoples: From White Contact to Removal, 1540-1840. I read the Satz on the way back from Shiloh and it was an enjoyable, informative read.
Although there were plenty of Civil War history books on display at the Shiloh bookstore, I found myself gravitating to the volumes related to the so-called "Civilized Tribes" (I have a significant amount of Cherokee and Chickasaw ancestry on both sides of my family), so I went with Vicki Rozema's Voices from the Trail of Tears, which collects accounts of those who traveled that forced march out of Tennessee and other southeastern states, and Patrick Minges' Black Indian Slave Narratives, dealing with the African Americans who were the enslaved servants of several of these tribes. Hope to read these later in the month.
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Workshop "Participate" - Erasmus+ Project "Empowering Young People of African Origin for Political"
The workshop is going to take place from 26 to 28 November 2016 in Berlin. It is the first workshop and one of the key activities of the project, which is coordinated by Farafina Institute and funded by the European Commission, Directorate General Education and Culture through Erasmus+. The related Key Action is "Support for Policy Reform".
Farafina partners for this project are AKOMA Bildung & Kultur (German partner) and African & Caribbean Diversity (UK partner).
The workshop is organised in cooperation with AKOMA Bildung & Kultur. The related agenda can be read here.
In this project we aim to place a particular focus on empowerment and participation of young people of African backgrounds. This focus evolves from the finding that youth with African backgrounds so far have unequal chances for participation in societies of EU countries. Besides opportunities for participation in fields such as education, the labor market, entrepreneurship, culture and the media, this is particular true for the political field.
More about the project can be found in the project flyer (see attachment).


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Trip Report: Ritual Coffee Roasters @ Bayview
Posted by TheShot on 11 May 2007 | Tagged as: Local Brew
What's this I hear? A new Ritual Coffee Roasters in town? A complement to the one that has topped the CoffeeRatings.com "best espresso in SF" list for about a year now? Sign me up…
The weekday hours may prohibit those with day jobs, but the new Ritual Coffee Roasters in Bayview is a far cry from the manic Valencia St. mothership. Ritual barista Pele Aveau was on shift today, and he was appreciative of the relaxed atmosphere at the new location. But perhaps not for long — this weekend Ritual is celebrating the grand opening of their Bayview café with three baristas on shift to keep up with the anticipated demand. (Phil Anacker, the green bean buyer and co-owner of the excellent Flying Goat Coffee, also paid a visit while I was here — there were some interesting discussions about The Goat's plans to open up shop in downtown Napa plus some dirt dishing on last week's SCAA conference.)
You'll have to forage your way through the jungles of the new Flora Grubb Gardens to find this outlet. Tucked in the back of a hangar-like structure with a tall ceiling, past the shovels and books on tree care, you'll find a Ritual flag and an unmistakable cherry red, three-group FB/70 La Marzocco (imported from their Valencia location). There are just three stools to sit on at the edge of the small bar, so seating is tight.
They pull single espresso shots here as well as the usual doubles ($2), and the resulting shot is dense, potent, and comes with a moderate layer of darker brown, textured crema. Served in black Nuova Point cups. Flavorwise, it has a mixture of both a harsher spice edge mixed with a syrupy sweetness — making for a more complex cup.
Ritual also moved one of their two Clover brewer machines here. And given the business volume, they intend to use the Clover over any French press — and it's definitely worth the price of admission. But we'll save the long-awaited Clover review for another posting…
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As the largest city in Québec province, there's plenty to do in Montréal. Fill up on complimentary samples at the Jean-Talon food market and then take advantage of the city's huge variety of free cultural and outdoor activities, from festivals to art exhibits to tango. Here's our roundup of the best free things to do in Montréal:
Head to one of the free festivals
In many cities, festivals are a special occasion; in Montréal, they're a way of life. And, the bonus is that most of Montréal's festivals feature free shows and performances, from stand-up comedy at Juste pour Rire to cool cats jamming on stage at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal to the blazing lights of the International Fireworks Competition.
Learn to tango
It may take two to tango, but in Montréal it also takes no money. The perennially popular Tango Libre offers free introductory classes, in various parks in the summer and in the studio in winter. Parc Jean-Drapeau also occasionally hosts free ballroom dancing lessons.
Fill up your belly and your bags at a market
Munch on stinky wedges of Québécois cheese, olives, warm bread rolls and other local samples at Jean-Talon Market and Atwater Market.
Go back to school and study the arts
Stroll through a Neoclassical stone gate to enter McGill, Montréal's most prestigious university, which abounds with free arts and culture. The Musée Redpath showcases a top-notch anthropological collection of Egyptian mummies and coffins, dinosaur bones and marine vertebrates, as well as ancient musical instruments. Also, the campus is peppered with sculptures, most notably Raymond Mason's The Illuminated Crowd, portraying a mass of larger-than-life people – generally faced by an equally large crowd of tourists. You can often catch free performances at McGill's Schulich School of Music.
Partake in an art crawl
The art itself may be pricey – but to view it? Free. Numerous art museums and galleries offer free admission, including Canada's oldest museum, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, with the country's most impressive Canadian art collection. On Wednesday nights, entry is free at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada's first museum devoted to contemporary art.
Step into Canadian and Québécois past
Delve into Canadian and Québécois history at the Musée McCord d'Histoire Canadienne (free Wed night and first Sat of month), with First Nations items like furs, ivory carvings and beadwork; the Hôtel de Ville, where General de Gaulle stood on the second-floor balcony to make his "Vive le Québec libre!" speech; and the Musée de la Banque de Montréal, the city's oldest bank building, with an exhibit that offers a voyeuristic glimpse into counterfeit bills.
Take a hike
Walk or pedal the leafy banks of the Lachine Canal, along a well-tended path that hugs its entire length. Our favorite trip: saunter 1km west of Vieux-Montréal to Griffintown, a revitalized industrial neighborhood with antiques, art and relaxed pubs with nicely priced beers.
Go to church
As Mark Twain once noted about Montréal: "You couldn't throw a brick without hitting a church." He was right – and many are free. Celebrate Sunday mass at 11am at Notre-Dame Basilica, to the sounds of a choir. Also, pop in to the eye-catching Victorian St George's Anglican Church and the Basilique-Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde, where you can pay your respects to the wax-encased remains of St Zoticus, a patron saint of the poor – an appropriate icon on this free tour of Montréal.
Head underground
Scurry below Montréal's surface in the Underground City (officially called RÉSO – a homophone of "réseau", the French word for "network"), with 33km of passages that provide access to the Métro, hotels, shopping malls, offices, apartments and restaurants, plus a good smattering of cinemas and theatres. Everything is signposted, but it's worth picking up a map of the ever-expanding system from the tourist office. Refuel at the inexpensive food courts on the lowest floor of most of the malls (also handy for public toilets).
Watch street performers
Cirque du Soleil somersaulted from the soil of Québec so it's no surprise that Montréal's performers and buskers are top-class. Walk through the old town and the sloping, cobbled Place Jacques-Cartier, originally built as a market in 1804, and check out musicians, mimes, caricaturists along the way. Also, many of the city's theatres offer free performances, including the Théâtre de Verdure Parc Lafontaine in the summer.
Explore more of Montréal with the Rough Guide to Canada.
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Spring of the Year
1. It was the spring of the year.
Oleanders bloomed.
The sun shone brightly as the days grew warmer,
And shepherds heard the angels sing one night.
It was the spring of the year.
Little lambs were new,
And Christ was born.
2. When Jesus died on the cross—
Gave His life for me—
His friends were faithful as the days grew darker.
Then Jesus came to show them that He lived.
It was the spring of the year.
Earth and heaven knew
That Jesus lives!
3. It was the spring of the year.
Joseph knelt to pray.
In faith he questioned; then a light descended.
In glory came the Father and the Son!
He testified this is true:
God and Jesus live,
And we shall too!
Text: Madelyn Larsen
Music: Joanne Parker
Artist: Larsen/Parker
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1981-04-01
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`Twas ever thus. When Neil Young gets together with his longtime collaborators in Crazy Horse, a separate esthetic takes over – one very different from Young's projects with other players. The songs quickly take a back seat to what Young sees as the groove, and simple musical ideas often get stretched out beyond their logical lifespan while Young just hammers away at his guitar.
The combination has occasionally worked marvelously, producing hall-of-fame moments like the electric half of Rust Never Sleeps and the overlooked classic Sleeps With Angels. But mostly, Crazy Horse has served as a vehicle for Young's most self-indulgent tendencies.
Psychedelic Pill, unfortunately, will take its place with the endurance tests in the Young/ Horse catalogue. It comes as a disappointment, given that their earlier collaboration this year, Americana, was a delight: a fascinating, raunchy makeover of American folk standards. But the almost one-hour Americana was, it seems, merely Young and the Horse clearing their throat for this 88-minute double disc of original material – their first in almost 10 years.
The first sign of trouble comes with the opening track. At 28 minutes, Driftin' Back is about 23 minutes too long, with Neil mostly soloing over two chords, breaking in here and there to rant about the terrible quality of MP3s or threaten to get a hip-hop haircut.
It's one thing for musical explorers like MIles Davis, Frank Zappa or the Grateful Dead to go on for almost a half hour, but when you have a drummer (the ever-plodding Ralph Molina) who struggles to keep time and pounds away witlessly while the boss explores two or three chords and the seemingly limitless pleasures of sustained feedback, it can be rough going.
Two patience-testing tracks, Ramada Inn and Walk Like a GIant, clock in at 16 minutes apiece. On the latter, Young and band take more than four minutes to end the song, with a mixture of thuds and noise. In the time it takes for Young to wind down, you can listen to Cinnamon Girl and toss in Till the Morning Comes.
The hope of bliss is generally audible. The clunker She's Always Dancing, for example, gets tantalizingly close to the heights of LIke a Hurricane for a few moments of its relatively economical eight and a half minutes. But it soon sinks in some sludgy Crazy Horse quicksand.
The shorter pieces are far more successful, and an album of those might have been a real pleasure. The title track – anchored by the same chord riff Young used for Sign of Love on the superb Le Noise – has a psychedelic charm (look out for all that phasing and panning), Born in Ontario is downright catchy and Twisted Road has a ragged hayseed strut that recalls Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere. Best of all is For the Love of Man, a tuneful, acoustic beauty that actually sounds like Crazy Horse were on a coffee break.
Only a few of Young's contemporaries remain as prolific, interesting and vital. But the downside of brilliance must, alas, always be a willingness to fail.
Rating: ** and 1/2
Podworthy: For the Love of Man


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29 April 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Bruker Daltonics to distribute technical support for BD Bruker Maldi Biotyper System automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing
Singapore: BD Diagnostics has collaborated with Bruker Daltonics to sell and distribute front-line technical support for the co-labeled BD Bruker Maldi Biotyper System.
Microbial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing is the end-point of majority of work that a microbiology lab performs on a daily basis and is very time consuming. The BD Bruker Maldi Biotyper System, combined with automated antimicrobial susceptibility testing on the BD Phoenix Microbiology System and the BD EpiCenter Microbiology Data Management System, will facilitate a fully integrated and optimized approach for laboratory workflow.
"BD believes mass spectrometry technologies are the future of microbial identification," said Mr Jamie Condie, VP and GM, Diagnostic Systems, Infectious Disease, BD. "Combining Bruker's expertise in this area with our advanced lab automation experience, the BD Bruker Maldi Biotyper System will enhance our customers' clinical decision making and laboratory workflow."
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing is conducted via traditional automated systems such as the BD Phoenix System. The combination of the BD Phoenix System and the Bruker Maldi Biotyper, and data management through the BD EpiCenter System, will provide laboratorians with a new approach to identification and susceptibility testing.
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Ferrari just hit 15 million followers on Facebook. To celebrate, they put their social-media-guru-ninja-hyper-influencer in the passenger seat of LaFerrari for a hot lap around Fiorano. And of course he captured it all with Google Glass.
That lap is suitably awesome. The soundtrack, graphics, and shit video from the face computer is decidedly not. Still, if you're going for a counter-steering spin with Ferrari's chief test driver Raffaele de Simone, there are worse ways to record it for your loyal minions. Not many, but at least the crap microphone picked up enough of the 940 hp engine to drown out the Italian techno.


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Wajpamheros nourissati© Foto von Manuel Salazar González
A new species of paedophagous Lake Malawi cichlid has been described — A new species of paedophagous cichlid from Lake Malawi has been described by Katrien Dierickx and Jos Snoeks of the Royal Museum for Central Africa [Tervuren]. The new species was previously known as... mehr
Metriaclima benetos Stauffer, Bowers, Kellogg & McKaye, 1997 — von Ad Konings
M. benetos is the southernmost representative of the Aurora group of zebras.
Maskaheros argenteus (Allgayer, 1991) — von Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
The name pasorela, coined by Carl H. Hubbs for this species was never formalized.
Feeding in cichlids – The feeding apparatus — von Juan Miguel Artigas Azas
One of the reasons why cichlids are so successful in terms of the number of species and their diversification is their evolutionary plasticity; a feature that has allowed them to take advantage of most of the potentially edible organisms in the habitat they inhabit
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