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Getting Tea Drunk in Japan's Sencha Paradise
Japan's everyday green tea, sencha, can be one of the most satisfying beverages on earth, simultaneously soothing and invigorating. And the city of Kagoshima is one of the best places to drink it. More
Japan's everyday green tea, sencha, can be one of the most satisfying beverages on earth, simultaneously soothing and invigorating. And the city of Kagoshima is one of the best places to drink it. More
As Genki Takahashi and I drove down the Kyushu Expressway, I was reminded of Napa Valley. As in Napa, the highways are lined with fields growing the local specialty in perfectly manicured rows. But the crop here isn't grapes: it's tea. Matcha, specifically, and some of the finest in Japan. More
If you're visiting Tokyo for business or pleasure, there's a good chance you'll be staying in the Shinjuku area. Arrive at night, and you'll feel like an alien (or perhaps a replicant?) amidst all the neon in the Blade Runner-like atmosphere. And while amazing Japanese food surrounds you, that alien feeling may challenge you in navigating the streets (addresses are difficult in Japan), not to mention the menus, and perhaps even the basic how-tos of ordering and etiquette. Read on for a list of essential Japanese dishes to eat in Tokyo and our favorite spots to enjoy them, all right in the Shinjuku area. More
Ever wanted a Spam burger for breakfast? Good news (if you live in Japan): Burger King can set you up for ¥260 (about $2.50 US). More
Ota is the most unique produce market I have ever visited: few signs, little on display, no crowds of frenzied shoppers, no shouting, no aromas. Like so much in Japan, you need to know where you're going and what you're looking for to have a successful trip. Here's how to make the most out of your visit. More
As part of their American Vintage campaign, McDonald's Japan released the Diner Double Beef burger, their image of a 1950s diner steak plate in hamburger form: double 100 percent beef patties with a fried egg, a slice of cheese, onions, Chicago-style steak sauce, and a mashed potato sauce on a classic whole wheat bun. More
Instead of tomato, two new burgers from Burger King Japan are sporting grilled apple slices. More
Yep, you read that right: chocolate sauce is being used as a burger topping. More
Suntory and Nikka remain the sole Japanese distillers exporting their whisky for American consumption, but there are a number of new bottlings on the market in the US. More
This vodka from Suntory is made from 100% Japanese rice and water sourced from the island of Kyushu. The rice mash is distilled in small pot stills and clarified through a bamboo filtration process. More
Watching top bartenders in Tokyo, I think of the Japanese tea ceremony, with its elaborate details and rules. Both reflect what Japanese call kodawari, which translates roughly to a striving for unreachable perfection achieved through relentless practice, repetition, and extreme attention to detail. More
Yakitori, takoyaki, tsukumen, and more: what and where to eat should you find yourself hungry in Tokyo in the wee hours. More
As Tokyo's legendary Tsukiji fish market prepares to move in 2015, we pay a visit to the tuna bidders inside and discover some of the lesser-known vendors just outside of the main market. Plus, sushi for breakfast! More
I interviewed author Matthew Amster-Burton, one of the funniest writers I know, about his new book, Pretty Good Number One, which details his experiences eating around Tokyo. Plus, a ramen-filled excerpt from the book! More
These days, miso-marinated black cod is almost synonymous with Nobu Matsuhisa's New York restaurant, though he by no means invented the dish. It stems from a traditional Japanese preparation called kasuzuke, in which fish and vegetables are marinated in the leftover lees from sake production before being broiled or grilled. This is the fish dish to pull out when you're ready to blow away your spouse or dinner guests, but don't want to put more than five minutes of effort into making dinner. Five minutes. Really. More
Until 1994, Japanese tax laws, enacted to protect domestic brewing, set minimum production limits that instead ensured the dominance of the big four breweries Kirin, Asahi, Sapporo and Suntory. However, when those minimums were lowered from two million liters/year to 60,000 liters/year, it opened the door for craft brewing to emerge in the land of the rising sun. Since then, a fledgling, but vibrant scene has developed, and Yo-Ho Brewing in Nagano is a leading player. More
Bacon cubes and truffle sauce on a burger? Yep, it's a thing. More
Freshness Burger, a Japanese burger restaurant, has invented a new wrapper that lets female customers dig into the largest burger on the menu without fear of judgment. More
A new black bunned burger is headed to Burger King Japan. This time, it's topped with a hash brown patty, thick, ham-like bacon, and onion-garlic soy sauce. More
At East Side King at Hole in the Wall in Austin, chef/owner Paul Qui, head chef Yoshi Okai, and partner Moto Utsunomiya are known for turning out slightly gonzo, supremely satisfying ramens like beer bacon miso and chicken tortilla ramen. They're also all ramen aficionados in their own right, clocking serious mileage between Texas and Japan to scope out the latest in ramen trends across the country. We talked to the trio about their most memorable bowls of all time, ramen in the US versus ramen in Japan, and more. More


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Leaders in Business: 11.26.06
Andy Brooks
Brooks Tire Inc.
Address: 1302 Leopard St.
Phone number: 882-6168
Company description: tire retailer, brakes, wheel alignment, inspection sticker services, shocks and struts, oil and lube, light mechanical
Hometown: Corpus Christi
Years in business: 8
Tenure in position: 8 years
Education: High School graduate class of 1982
First job: Busboy at a local restaurant when I was 16. This experience taught me the importance of discipline and work ethic needed to succeed in any job. I knew early on that this was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, but at the same time I was able to learn to be responsible. Shortly after that, I started working as a tire changer at Pfau Tire and almost immediately knew that would become my career.
Biggest career break: It probably would have to be when my previous employer asked me if I was interested in purchasing his business. I had been working with him for more than 13 years and had worked my way up from tire changer to store manager. He knew I was interested in starting my own business and had the confidence in me that I would succeed.
Business turning point: I don't think there is one particular thing that has been a turning point. We have been pretty solid with our business since it first opened. Since then we've improved and updated our equipment and technology so that has helped. We also have hired additional employees including Andy Mata, our store manager who has been with us for six years, Johnny Molina, our front-end alignment mechanic for eight years and Andrew Gomez, tire-lube and backup mechanic for five years. All of our employees are loyal and have a great attitude at work. We strive to make it fun.
Business philsophy: Customer service is definitely our priority. We've cultivated our customers since the very beginning and we understand how important they are to our business. Many of them followed me here when I bought the business and left my previous employer and have remained loyal customers through the years. The downtown area support has been amazing and advertising investments have definitely proven their worth in attracting new customers.
How would you improve Corpus Christi's business climate?: I would have to say that pay increases for our working force would be ideal. We do our best to pay our employees good wages so that they remain happy and stay with us for a long time. People always say that our young college graduates are leaving the city and pursuing higher-paying jobs elsewhere, so let's pay them more to stay here.
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The skinny: This is the first meeting between the two new Central Division rivals since the Hawks eliminated the Wild in five games in the first round of the playoffs. The Wild comes in banged up with goalie Josh Harding (lower body), defenseman Jonas Brodin (broken cheekbone), defenseman Keith Ballard (upper body), defenseman Charlie Coyle (knee strain) and left wing Mike Rupp (lower body all sidelined. Minnesota recalled goalie Johan Gustafsson to back up Niklas Backstrom Saturday.
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Purpose of Activity:To teach students to calculate distance while hiking.
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Materials Needed:timer; 1/4 mile track or measured distance; note cards or forms; calculator
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The Appalachian Trail stretches more than 2,000 miles through 14 states, from Maine's mighty Katahdin to Georgia's forested Springer Mountian. Nearly two-thirds of the US population lives within a day's drive of this continuously marked footpath. Each year, about 2,000 hikers attempt to thru-hike the trail, but only 200 succeed! What we are going to do today is figure out how many steps it would take to get to Maine's Katadhin!
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A signal processing circuit for a signal varying in its properties, e.g., in its degress of distortion, in which the input signal is fed in parallel to two similar processing circuits e.g., equalizers, the characteristic of which can be varied by a control signal, wherein the control signal from the one processing circuit is periodically varied and the output signal is fed to a detector circuit which in optimum signal processing emits a trigger pulse to a holding circuit 52 which stores the corresponding control signal level, which is fed to the second processing circuit.
A variable delay unit for the data is controlled by a continuously varying up-down counter, the contents of which continuously vary at the rate of a high frequency clock pulse. The direction of count and the time of the count is controlled by comparing the relative time-positions or phases of a timing pulse received with the data and a timing pulse generated at the receiver.
1. A device for phase synchronization between the data received on one terminal and a local receiver timing pulse appearing at another terminal in a data transmission unit, including a variable delay unit having an input connected to said one terminal to receive said data, said variable delay unit also having an output, synchronizer means connected to the delay unit to recover a data timing pulse from said received data, a phase comparator for comparing the relative time-position of the data timing pulse and the time-position of the receiver timing pulse appearing at said another terminal, a source of clock signals having a constant frequency which is higher than the frequency of the timing pulses, a bidirectional counter having an input connected to continuously receive the clock pulses and for storing the phase difference between the data pulse and the receiver pulse in the form of a counter position, the phase comparator being connected to the counter to control the direction of count, said delay unit being connected to the counter to be controlled by the content therein such that the delay depends on the counter contents, whereby the relative time-position can be determined continuously and the counter contents can be correspondingly corrected upward or downward, and that the delay unit delays the transmission of received data to said delay output according to the relative time-position.
2. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein the phase comparator circuit includes: a first scaler which counts down the data timing pulse rate in a 1:2 ratio, a D flip-flop, the D input of which is connected with the output of the first scaler, a second scaler connected to receive the received timing pulse and a NAND element, the input of which is connected with the output of the second scaler, the other input of which is connected by way of a NOT gate with the input of the second scaler and the output of which by way of another NOT gate is connected with the timing pulse input of the D flip-flop.
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 205,038, filed Nov. 7, 1980, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,404,681.
The invention relates to a device for adjusting a signal processing circuit the output signal of which, with an invariable optimum setting, has a certain characteristic detectable by a detector.
Such a device may, for example in adaptive controls, serve to determine the optimum desired value, which depends on very diverse factors, and feed this to the closed loop. A special application case of such a device is on data transmission units on which an equalizer is used in the region of a data receiver which equalizer is to eliminate the delay or retardation distortion arising from the transmission line. Its optimum setting varies depending on the type of the signal transmitted and the type or extent of the particular distortions, arising from the different transmission lines for example.
The principle is known of making the required settings with the aid of a computer, but computer time up to several seconds is required, and although this leads to optimum results, it it not logical from the expense standpoint in many cases.
It is the object of the invention to create a device of the above-mentioned type which can be used simply, inexpensively and in a versatile manner.
In accordance with the invention a main signal processing circuit and an equivalent auxiliary circuit are combined with a detector acted on by the output signal of the auxiliary signal processing circuit and emitting a detector signal when this output signal exhibits a predetermined characteristic. The setting of the auxiliary signal processing circuit is periodically varied throughout the total regulating range. A scanning and holding unit transmits the momentary setting of the auxiliary signal processing circuit and retains this setting until the next detector signal.
The correct setting of a signal processing circuit is distinguished for example by the fact that its output signal at this setting shows an extreme value. The setting leading to this extreme value is variable as a function of definite factors, so that a continual readjustment is required. Moreover it is possible that the output signal of the signal processing circuit shows throughout its total regulating range a number of extreme values differing in their absolute level, the absolute maximum of which would correspond to the optimum setting. A signal processing circuit in which this problem occurs for example is a car radio, which should always be set on the traffic radio station which gives the best reception. The solution according to the invention, transferred to a car radio, means that a second receiving part is provided and is periodically tuned throughout the whole receiving frequency range. Only those of the received signals with a traffic radio are evaluated. If the vehicle equipped with this radio is in the region of a plurality of traffic radio stations, then the output signal of the additional receiving part will show a number of maxima during one tuning period, the absolute values of which will generally be different. The detector connected at the output side may be designed so that during the first tuning period it generates a detector signal at every maximum, the absolute value of which signal is higher than the preceding maximum. The detector then stores this highest maximum and in the following periods only generates its detector signal for this greatest maximum. By having the setting or the tuning state of the additional or auxiliary receiving part transmitted to the main receiving part at the moment when the detector signal occurs, the car radio is automatically tuned to the strongest incoming traffic radio station. If the vehicle slowly moves out of the region of this station, then the absolute value of the maximum of the output signal from the auxiliary receiving part becomes lower and lower until finally another station comes in more strongly and tuning to this station results.
It is advantageous if the signal processing circuits can be set by a preferably electrical regulating signal, so that the auxiliary signal processing circuit can be triggered by a sweep unit with a periodically varying regulating signal and the main signal processing circuit be acted on by the output signal of the scanning and holding unit.
A preferred application of the device according to the invention lies in the setting of the equalizer on a signal or data transmission unit which is fed with a signal which has become distorted on a transmission channel. When this is the case with the transmitted signal which contains signal components of different frequencies and which in the undistorted state shows periodic zero-axis crossings, then the delay distortions which occur on transmission and affect the individual frequency components differently lead to a signal state in which the zero-axis crossings of the individual signal components are shifted with respect to one another. The quality of the equalizer setting can thus be measured by how precise the zero-axis crossing of its output signal is. In order to determine this quality by quantitative measurement, one embodiment of the invention proposes that the detector show a full-wave rectifier which is connected by way of a gate circuit to an integrator and an extreme value circuit connected at the output side of the latter, whereby the gate circuit connects through during a time window located symmetrically to the zero-axis crossing of the undistorted data signal and the extreme-value circuit emits the detector signal when the output signal of the integrator reaches a minimum during one period of the regulating signal or of the signal of the sweep unit.
The signal received on a data transmission unit is a modulated signal as a rule, the modulation of which contains the transmitted data from which a data timing pulse signal pulse-locked with the data can be derived. Likewise a phase-locked auxiliary timing pulse signal is derived from the signal fed from the auxiliary equalizer. For opening the gate circuit during the time window, a further development of the invention provides that the output of the auxiliary equalizer is connected with a synchronizing unit which derives the auxliary timing pulse signal situated on a certain phase relationship to the zero-axis crossing of the input signal, from the output signal of the auxiliary equalizer. This auxiliary timing pulse is delayed in the vicinity of the zero-axis crossings of the modulated input signal, in a signal delay circuit following the synchronizing unit. At the output of the signal delay circuit a pulse generator can be connected which, from the delayed auxiliary timing pulse signal, emits a pulse on the gate circuit which pulse is situated symmetrically to the zero-axis crossing of the input signal and determines the time window.
A further development of the invention provides that the extreme value detector shows a differential amplifier the two inputs of which are each connected with the signal input of the extreme value detector and the one input of which is moreover connected with the parallel circuit formed by a resistance and a condenser. Depending on whether the extreme value detector is to emit a detector signal for each extreme value of its input signal or only for the absolutely highest or lowest extreme value, the time constant of the RC network can be regulated accordingly.
The main and the auxiliary signal processing circuit may show a coarse-adjustment switch which can be switched over manually or automatically as a function of the input signal, which switch selects the one or plurality of coarse ranges within which the setting according to the invention occurs.
The invention moreover relates to a device for phase synchronization between the data received and the local receiving timing pulse of a receiving point in a data transmission unit which is particularly suited to be connected at the output side, since the phase position of the data is changed by the automatic equalization, which however can be operated and loaded independently of this.
In data transmission systems the problem frequently arises that the data coming into the receiving point in any phase are to be processed in the receiving point by means of a local receiver timing pulse, which presupposes a phase synchronization between the two. The simplest arrangement known for this purpose contains two D flip-flops connected in series. The incoming data are taken in by the first flip-flop under the control of a timing pulse recuperated from them which is called the subsequent data timing pulse to differentiate it from the receiver timing pulse, and under the control of the receiver timing pulse it is overwritten in the second flip-flop. This arrangement operates satisfactorily only when the data timing pulse and the receiver pulse do not show too great a phase shift. It is also possible to store a large amount of data intermediately in order then to scan them again in a certain way under the control of the receiver timing pulse. But this possibility is expensive, however, and requires a large storage capacity. Moreover it is not capable of on-the-line-operation.
In a device known from German Patent Specification No. 2,553,105 for phase synchronization, the phase difference between the data timing pulse and the receiver pulse is determined with a phase comparator. The phase comparator includes a counter which counts pulses during a period of time corresponding to this phase difference, so that after the expiration of the counting process the counter position is proportional to the phase difference. The counter position of this counter is used for the presetting of another counter, with the aid of which an operating pulse retarded in accordance with the phase difference detected is derived. The determination of the phase difference then takes place only one time at the start of a transmission cycle.
This known data processing at the receiving point, which is asynchronous with the receiver timing pulse proper, is unsatisfactory in may cases. Therefore the problem is to create a device in which the receiver timing pulse is not translated into the phase position of the data received, but rather the data received are converted into the phase position of the receiver timing pulse. This can be achieved, in the device described, by having a delay unit used in place of the second counter, which unit delays the data received according to the phase difference, and that this phase difference is determined continually and the counter position can correspondingly be corrected upward and downward, so that there is a phase synchronization control.
The counter is preferably a bidirectional counter, the counting unit of which is controllable by the output signal of the phase comparators depending on whether the phase of the data received leads or lags behind that of the receiving timing pulse. In this way, by simple means, an at least quasicontinuous phase synchronization can be achieved, and phase fluctuations which arise due to changes in the setting of the main equalizer can be compensated for.
A phase comparator circuit which can be fabricated with little expenditure of circuitry includes, according to the invention, a first scaler which scales the data timing pulse in 1:2 ratio using a count-by-two circuit, a second scaler which counts down in a 1:2 ratio, a D flip-flop the D input of which is connected with the output of the first scaler, a NAND element the one input of which is connected with the output of the second scaler and the other input of which is connected by way of a NOT gate with the input of the second scaler and the output of which is connected with the timing-pulse input of the D flip-flop. When the sign of the phase difference is reversed with this construction of the phase comparator circuit, then the output signal of the D flip-flop also reverses, which is thus suitable for controlling the counting direction of the bidirectional counter.
The invention is described in detail in the following on the basis of embodiments with reference to the annexed drawings. In these:
FIG. 1 shows a general block circuit diagram of an equalizer with a setting device according to the invention and a phase synchronizing unit;
FIG. 2 shows a detailed block circuit diagram of the equalizer with the setting device;
FIG. 3 shows a schematic circuit diagram of the arrangement according to FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 shows signal curve shapes at different points in FIG. 3;
FIG. 5A shows a detailed block circuit diagram of a first embodiment of the phase synchronizing device, and
FIG. 5B shows a block circuit diagram of a second embodiment of the phase synchronization device.
FIG. 1 shows part of the receiving point of a data transmission unit.
An input signal in the form of a modulate signal distorted in the transmission channel is applied to an input terminal 10. This input signal reaches both a main equalizer 12 and also a setting device 14, which contains an auxiliary equalizer equivalent to the main equalizer 12. The setting device 14 automatically sets the main equalizer 12 in such a way than an optimum equalization of the distorted input signal results. This equalized signal reaches a demodulator 16. At the output of the demodulator appears the data signal which contains the transmitted data and a data timing pulse coupled phaselocked with it. The output signal of the main equalizer is fed to a synchronizing unit 17 to generate the data signal. Another synchronizing unit 18 generates an auxiliary clock signal required for the setting device 14 from the output signal of the auxiliary equalizer 32 (as shown in FIG. 2) in a manner to be described later. The delay unit 20 is part of a phase synchronizing device 22 and causes a shift in the phase of the data signal for matching the timing grid of a local receiver timing pulse, which is fed into the timing terminal 24. The data signal available at the output 26 can be processed further with the aid of the receiver timing pulse. The synchronization between the data of the data signal and the receiver timing pulse is done with the aid of a regulating unit 28 setting the delay time of the delay unit 20, which unit 28 contains a phase comparator. The data timing pulse is recuperated from the output signal of the delay unit 20 by the use of a synchronizing unit 30, the phase of which pulse is compared, in the phase comparator of the regulating unit 28 with that of the receiver pulse on 24. The delay unit is set on the basis of this phase difference.
The setting device 14 will next be described in detail on the basis of FIGS. 2 to 4. FIG. 2 shows a block circuit diagram of this setting device.
As previously mentioned, the setting device 14 contains an auxiliary equalizer 32 which is fully equivalent to the main equalizer 12. Both equalizers can be set by the use of an electrical regulating signal, so that the operation of the equalizer can be varied. For example delay equalizers may be used, the time constants of which are influenced by the regulating signal. When the setting of the main equalizer and of the auxiliary equalizer is the same, their operation is identical. The control input of the auxiliary equalizer 32 is connected with the output of a sweep unit 34, which for example gives a sawtooth regulating signal the amplitude of which is so proportioned that the whole regulating range of the auxiliary equalizer 32 is traversed during one period of the regulating signal. The output signal of the auxiliary equalizer 32 reaches a full-wave rectifier 36 the output of which is connected with the input of a gate circuit 38. The gate circuit 38, as a function of the control signal from a scanning unit 40, creates a connection between the output of the full-wave rectifier 36 and an integrator 42. To the output side of the integrator 42 is connected an extreme-value detector 44, to which in turn a pulse former 46 is connected. The pulse former 46 generates a control signal for another gate circuit 50, which is part of a scanning and holding circuit 48. This scanning and holding circuit moreover contains a memory 52 which when the gate circuit 50 is closed stores the momentary value of the regulating signal from the sweep unit 34 and applies it to the control input of the main equalizer 12. The adjustment of the main equalizer thus depends on the regulating value stored in the memory 52, which in turn is derived by that moment in time, during the period of the regulating signal, in which the pulse former 46 delivers the control signal to the gate circuit 50. When the memory 52 has once received a regulating value, then it holds it long enough until a new regulating value is given upon the reclosing of the gate circuit 50.
The setting of the auxiliary equalizer 32 is continuously varied in the device according to the invention, the whole regulating range being periodically traversed. Accordingly the output signal of the auxiliary equalizer 32 varies, and during this variation the equalization is at times better and at times worse. The detector containing the elements 36 to 46 determines the point in time at which the output signal of the auxiliary equalizer 32 is best equalized. At this point in time the impulse former 46 emits its control signal to the scanning and holding circuit 48, which then takes in the regulating value of the regulating signal applied at this moment and transfers it to the main equalizer 12. If the equalizer setting changes in the course of time, the setting on which the equalization of the incoming signal is optimum, then the main equalizer is also adjusted, since the optimum equalizer is also adjusted, since the optimum equalizer set is verified continuously by the auxiliary equalizer 32. For example another equalizer setting may be required when the distortions in the input signal change, because for example the distortions in the input signal change when this now comes over another transmission channel from another transmitter. But other factors can also affect which equalizer setting is optimum in a given case.
In the present case a special criterion, explained below, is proposed for ascertaining when the setting of the auxiliary equalizer 32 is optimum. It must not be stated that the construction of the detector depends particularly on the particular criterion and is adapted to the criterion used in the present case. If the signal processing circuits described here in relation to equalizers involve, for example, those whose output signal with the optimum setting has an extreme value, then the output of the auxiliary signal processing circuit could be connected directly with the extreme value detector. The elements 36 to 42 would then be superfluous.
The criterion used in the present case may be explained on the basis of FIGS. 4.1 and 4.2. The modulated input signal appearing at the input terminal 10 is composed of various signal components and in its undistorted state has a distinct zero-axis crossing, that is, the zero-axis crossings of the individual signal components with different frequencies occur close by in the same phase of the transmission or data timing pulse. It is the task of the equalizer to equalize the attenuation or delay characteristics for different frequencies of the transmission line in such a way that the zero-axis crossings of the signal, which are out of phase with one another in the distorted signal, again fall as close as possible to the same phase of the data timing pulse. FIG. 4.1 shows the desired optimum equalization in setting 3. In settings 1,2,4 and 5 the respective distortion is worse and worse. In FIG. 4.2 one particular time segment each of the signal at the output of the full-wave rectifier 36 is singled out in FIG. 4.2 corresponding to the five setting positions of FIG. 4.1. This involves a time segment or data window x, which is situated symmetrically to the undistorted signal. By comparing the signal segments in FIG. 4.2 it is recognized that the closer the setting of the auxiliary equalizer 32 comes to the optimum setting, the smaller the integral over this signal segment becomes. Therefore by the use of full-wave rectification and integration over a certain data window, the criterion of an exact zero-axis crossing can be converted into the criterion of a minimum. From this it is also seen that the scanning unit 40 must control the gate circuit 38 in such a way that the integrator 42 must be connected with the full-wave rectifier 36 during the period of the input signal and exactly for the duration of the data window x.
The synchronizing unit 18 gains from the equalized signal from the auxiliary equalizer 32, in fairly stable form, the auxiliary timing pulse the phase position of which is a measure of the mean zero-axis crossing of the individual signal components. With the aid of this auxiliary timing pulse the scanning device 40 creates the data window x around the zero-axis crossing. Within the data window a measure of the focusing of the zero-axis crossings is made. Since signal zero-axis crossings with different slopes and directions occur, and their frequency is distributed statistically, no firm limit for the value can be defined. Also, the value depends on the position of the window with respect to the mean zero-axis crossing. Through the full-wave rectification and the subsequent integration of the respective partial surfaces of the signal voltage over the time within the window, a signal is formed for each signal passing through zero, on which the crossing on the center of the window is half as large as that in a position at the edge of the window. Since many such contributions are made during a correspondingly long integration time, a relative measurement of the quality of the equalization is provided. Because the input signal is equalized better to the extent that the auxiliary timing pulse derived from the synchronizing unit 18 is more stable, the equalization touches the optimum.
FIG. 3 shows a possible circuit arrangement of FIG. 2.
The generation of the data window will next be discussed. The scanning circuit 40 contains a delay element 401 which receives the auxiliary timing pulses from the synchronizing unit 18 (as shown in FIG. 2) by way of a terminal 56 and delays these by an adjustable time t1. If it is assumed that the edge of the auxiliary timing pulse is in phase with the mean zero-axis crossing of the input signal, then the delay time t1 corresponds to the half-period duration of the input signal minus the half width x of the desired data window (see for example signal 4.1 in FIG. 4). This delay can be achieved digitally with the aid of a timing counter. In this way, when the transmission speed is switched over the delay can be matched in a simple way by switching over the clock frequency at the same time the delayed auxiliary timing pulse reaches the scanning unit 40 by way of an RC differentiator element 402 on a switch amplifier 403 showing hysteresis. At the output of the switch amplifier 403 appears a pulse corresponding in its position and width to the data window x, which pulse connects through with a field-effect transistor representing the gate circuit 38 by way of an inverter 404.
The equalizers 12 and 32 are represented in FIG. 3 as amplifiers 121 or 321 provided with a frequency-dependent wiring. The time constants of the frequency-dependent wiring are variable by means of field-effect transistors 122,123,124 or 322,323 and 324, the field-effect transistors 122 and 322 being acted on by the regulating value from the scanning and holding circuit 48 or by the regulating signal from the sweep unit 34. In place of the field-effect transistors 122 and 322, other regulating elements may be used. Thus the resistances connected at the input side of the above-mentioned field-effect transistors may for example be designed as photo resistors which are irradiated by light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes (LED's) must be powered by the voltage which in the embodiment example represented in FIG. 3 is fed to the gates of the field-effect transistors 122 or 322. For their operation it is only important that both regulating elements 122 and 322 have exactly the same regulation characteristics. The other respective field-effect transistors serve for a coarse range switching, which in the embodiment represented is automatically done by an amplifier and range selector 60 depending on the input signal to the input terminal 10, but may also be done manually. The amplifier and range selector 60 also amplifies the input signal appearing on the input terminal 10 and feeds it to a terminal 10.
The embodiment of the full-wave rectifier 36 represented in FIG. 3 is understandable in itself to one skilled in the art and requires no further explanation. The same holds true for the integrator 42. The output voltage of the integrator 42 becomes minimal when the best setting of the auxiliary equalizer 32 is reached. An inverter 441 connected at the output side of the integrator 42 in the extreme value detector 44 converts this minimum to a maximum. The output of the inverter 441 is connected to the two inputs of a differential amplifier 442 subject to hysteresis, by way of a respective diode D1, D2.
Connected to the inverse input of the differential amplifier 442 there is also a delay network consisting of the parallel connection of a capacitor and a resistance. This delay network 443 causes each change in voltage of the output voltage of the inverter 441 to become appreciably retarded at the inverting input of the differential amplifier 442, as compared with the noninverting output, by the amount of the time constant of the delay network 443. Thus a voltage reversal occurs at the output of the differential amplifier 442 as soon as the output voltage of the inverter 441 exceeds a maximum. The voltage reversal at the output of the differential amplifier 442 is converted into a short-duration control pulse for the scanning and holding circuit 48 by means of the pulse former 46 which may involve a monostable sweep stage.
The time constant of the delay network 443 has a determining effect on the mode of operation of the circuit represented. Both in the application case described and in other application cases the case may occur that the criterion which indicates the correct setting of the auxiliary signal processing circuit frequently occurs within the regulating range of the auxiliary signal processing circuit. If this criterion relates to the maximum occurring at the output of the inverter 441, then a number of maxima can therefore occur which differ in their absolute level. If the optimum setting is at the maximum having the highest absolute value, then by a suitable proportioning of the time constants of the delay network 443 it is achieved that the main signal processing circuit, or here the main equalizer 12 is set at this optimum. The time constant of the delay network 443 must, for this purpose, be large compared with the period duration of the regulating signal of the sweep unit 34, in such a way that the capacitor of the delay network 443 is so fully discharged during this period that in the next cycle the optimum maximum of the differential amplifier 442 can be detected anew, that other maxima with a lower absolute value are not detected, since for these the voltage on the noninverting input of the differential converter 442 always remains lower than that stored in the capacitor of the delay network 443. The time constant of the delay network 443 should not be chosen to be too high, however, since the conditions may change continuously and the absolute value of the highest maximum may become lower. In this case of course, not too long a time should elapse until, after the corresponding discharge of the capacitor in the delay network 443, a new voltage reversal occurs at the output of the differential amplifier 442, which triggers the pulse former 46. In order to avoid a more or less poor compromise for choosing the time constant of the delay network 443, a resetting circuit can be provided which quickly discharges the capacitor of the delay network 443 when the sweep unit 34 has emitted no control pulse from the pulse former 46 in a duration of one or two periods of the regulating signal.
The sweep unit 34 feeds a sawtooth or triangular voltage to the gate of the field-effect transistor 322 in the auxiliary equalizer 32. By way of a field-effect transistor 501 operating as a gate circuit 50, output of the sweep unit 34 is connected with a storage capacitor 521 for the duration of a control pulse from the impulse former 46. The gate of the field-effect transistor 122 is connected to the storage capacitor.
FIG. 4 shows the respective signals at different points on the circuit of FIG. 3 for the different setting positions 1 to 5. For sake of correlation of the signals represented under 4.1 to 4.10, the related circuit points are correspondingly designated as 4.1 to 4.10 in FIG. 3.
The signal 4.3 at the output of the integrator 42 increases to the degree that the equalization of the input signal becomes poorer. The signal 4.4 which is inverted with respect to this becomes worse. The signal 4.5 is essentially identical to the signal 4.4. However the signal 4.6 follows the signal 4.5 with a substantial delay. When the voltage value of the signal 4.6 becomes greater than that of the signal 4.5, after the ratio has first been reversed, a voltage occurs according to the signal 4.7 on the output of the differential amplifier 442. The broken-line edges in FIG. 4.7 denote the region within which the voltage jump can occur. This voltage jump triggers the pulse former circuit 46 which feeds the impulse signal 4.8 to the gate of the field-effect transistor 501. At the moment this pulse occurs, the storage capacitor 521 according to FIG. 4.10 accepts the momentary signal value of the regulating signal 4.9 from the sweep unit 34. The duration of the pulse 4.8 is chosen so that on one hand the storage capacitor 521 can be charged fully up to the regulating value and that on the other hand during this charging period only a negligible change in signal value of the regulating signal 4.9 occurs.
In the following, two embodiments of the phase synchronization device 22 will be described on the basis of FIGS. 5A and 5B.
It has already been stated at the outset that it is often advantageous to shift the phase position of the data gained from the distorted input signal after demodulation, in the synchronized state, by means of a local receiver timing pulse of the receiving point, instead of generating a processing timing pulse agreeing with the data phase. The local receiver timing pulse agrees relatively accurately in its frequency with the data timing pulse, but the respective phases are not correlated.
The device contains as its essential element a phase shifter or the delay unit 20 which receives the data for processing from the demodulator 16 at its terminal 19 and delivers these data to the output terminal 26 with a certain phase shift. The synchronizing unit 30, which is connected with the output of the delay unit 20 derives from the phase-shifted data the corresponding phase-shifted data timing pulse. It is simpler to determine the phase difference between this data timing pulse and the receiver timing pulse than directly between the receiver timing pulse and the data. The delay unit can be built by the principle of a circuit arrangement essentially known from German Application No. 24 10 957 and contain a digitally programmable monostable sweep stage consisting of an eight-bit counter in combination with a flip-flop. Since the phase difference between the receiver timing pulse and the data or the data timing pulse can be very variable and fluctuate between zero and a whole bit time, it is advantageous to choose the mean delay time as 1.5 times the bit time. Since the known circuit arrangement mentioned allows a delay of one bit time at most, two such circuit arrangements are to be connected in series in the present case. Basically this delay unit can be designed in a similar way. The digital design, however, has the advantage that it operates precisely and that in switching over to other data transmission speeds only the timing pulse frequency of the counter in the delay unit need be switched over accordingly. The counters in the delay unit are presettable counters, and the total delay time depends on this presetting. In place of such a circuit arrangement, a shift register could also be used as a delay unit.
The phase comparator circuit of the regulating unit 28 in the embodiment represented includes three D flip-flops 281, 282 and 283 as well as two inverters or NOT gates 284, 285 and a NAND element 286. The flip-flop 281 is fed by the synchronizing unit 30 with the data timing pulse and counts this by two to obtain a 2:1 scaling ratio. The wiring of the D flip-flop serving this purpose can be recognized in the representation and need not be explained. The receiving timing pulse from the terminal 24, by way of the NOT gate 284, reaches the timing input of the flip-flop 282 which makes a count-by-two scaling of the receiver timing pulse. One input of the NAND element 286 is connected with the output of the flip-flop 282, the other input of the NAND element 286 is connected with the terminal 24. The output of the NAND element 286 is connected, by way of the NOT gate 285, with the timing pulse input of the flip-flop 283, to the D input of which the output of the flip-flop 281 is connected. The action of this circuit is that the position of the flip-flop 283 is reversed each time when the sign of the phase difference between the data timing pulse from the synchronizing unit 30 and the receiver timing pulse on the terminal 24 changes, that is, when the phase lag on the receiver timing pulse with respect to the data timing pulse becomes a phase lead or vice versa.
The regulating unit 28 is moreover includes a bidirectional counter 287, the input of which is acted on by a counting pulse Tz the repetition frequency of which is large compared with that of the data timing pulse and receiver timing pulse. This counting pulse is continuously applied to the counter 287.
The above description applies both to the regulating unit 28 according to FIG. 5A and also to the regulating unit 28' according to FIG. 5B. The regulating unit 28 of FIG. 5A has another D flip-flop 288 which respectively switches over the counting unit by way of NAND elements 289, 290 and 291, when the counter has gone all the way through or its counting position has become zero and an output pulse appears on the transmission terminal CO. The regulating unit 28' of FIG. 5B however is simplified by using a counter 287' which upon exceeding its capacity is automatically reset to zero. The mode of operation of both embodiments of the circuit is the same apart from this difference and will be explained below. It may be assumed that the phase difference between the data timing pulse and the receiver pulse is positive, which can signify that the phase of the data timing pulse leads that of the receiver timing pulse. For matching the phases, then, the phase shift must be increased by the delay unit. With this positive phase difference, the position of the flip-flop 283 causes the counter 286 (287') to count in the forward direction. Its counting position thus increases with each pulse of the counter timing pulse Tz. An increased counter position of the counter 287 (287') causes a correspondingly greater delay through the delay unit 20. The phase difference established by the phase comparator therefore decreases will at some time reach a value of zero and then become negative. This change in sign leads to a change in state of the flip-flop 283 and thereby to a change in the counting direction of the counter 287 (287'). In this way the delay is reduced further by means of the delay unit 20, until a change of sign of the phase difference occurs again. In this way the delay oscillates through the delay unit 20 by a value such that the phase difference between the data received and the receiver timing pulse has an average of zero.
In the whole system represented in FIG. 1, four control loops are operating, all of which have an influence on the phase, and the control criteria of which are phase-sensitive. The one closed loop controls the setting of the main equalizer 12. The synchronizing units 17 and 30 may contain a second and third control loop if they do not generate the data signal but have their own time bases which can be frequency controlled and phase-controlled with the aid of the data signal. The regulating unit and delay unit in the phase-synchronizing circuit 22, finally, form the fourth control loop. If the synchronizing units are digital in design, abrupt fluctuations in the data timing pulse corresponding to the resolution of the digital circuit still remain at the output, which cannot be controlled. Since the delay unit and the phase comparator are digital in design, a varying phase difference still remains here too, depending on the resolution of the circuit. Therefore in order to attain a stable control it is necessary that the different control loops operate with such widely different time constants that no hunting will occur. Moreover the time constants must be chosen so that the statistical effects of interferences on the phase are largely removed and a well-defined control results in the optimum. The time constant at which the counter 287 (287') oscillates around the optimum counter position is considerably larger than the regulating time of the synchronizing unit.
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Vaughan and Wickham both set for run-outs tonight.
Kevin Ball has named a strong squad for tonight's Barclays U21 Premier League derby against Newcastle United at the Stadium of Light (KO 7pm).
Connor Wickham is again named in the squad having scored twice in the corresponding fixture on Tyneside.
He is joined by midfielder David Vaughan (pictured), who appeared as a late substitute in the first team's 3-1 win at Fulham yesterday.
Elsewhere striker Mikael Mandron wins a call-up after scoring twice in the under-18s' 6-1 weekend win over the Magpies, taking his goal tally to 11 in nine games.
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Imagine having the power to transform any object into something else. No, you don't need to be a magician. That requires special training. You already have what it takes to do it! Look around you. Everything you see can be something else if you want it to be. The possibilities are endless!
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As an orphan at Gateshead, Jane is oppressed and dependent. For Jane to discover herself, she must break out of these restrictive conditions and find love and independence. Jane must have the freedom to think and feel, and she seeks out other independent-minded people as the loving family she craves. Jane, Helen Burns, and Ms. Temple enjoy a deep mutual respect, and form emotional bonds that anticipate the actual family Jane finds in Mary and Diana Rivers. Yet Jane also has a natural instinct toward submission. When she leaves Lowood to find new experiences, she describes herself as seeking a "new servitude." In her relationship with men, she has the inclination toward making first Rochester and then St. John her "master."
Over the course of the novel, Jane strives to find a balance between service and mastery. Jane blends her freedom with her commitments to love, virtue, and self-respect. At the end, Jane is both guide and servant to Rochester. She finds and creates her own family, and their love grows out of the mutual respect of free minds.
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Life in 19th-century Britain was governed by social class, and people typically stayed in the class into which they were born. Both as an orphan at Gateshead and as a governess at Thornfield, Jane holds a position that is between classes, and interacts with people of every level, from working-class servants to aristocrats. Jane's social mobility lets Brontë create a vast social landscape in her novel in which she examines the sources and consequences of class boundaries. For instance, class differences cause many problems in the love between Jane and Rochester. Jane must break through class prejudices about her standing, and make people recognize and respect her personal qualities. Brontë tries to illustrate how personal virtues are better indicators of character than class.
Yet the novel doesn't entirely endorse breaking every social rule. Jane refuses, for instance, to become Rochester's mistress despite the fact that he was tricked into a loveless marriage. Jane recognizes that how she sees herself arises at least partly out of how society sees her, and is unwilling to make herself a powerless outcast for love.
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Apex gives Lady Jackets rough start
Lee County lost its opening game of its softball season Thursday night, falling to Tri-Nine mate Apex 9-0.
Lee County head coach Miles McCaskill, with a young squad after his Yellow Jackets made the state tournament a season ago but lost eight seniors and a majority of the usual lineup, still saw some positives and reasons to remain excited for what this new group is capable of.
"It's like I told them before tonight, it'll be a joy watching them grow," McCaskill said.
Even in a 9-0 loss, and even facing Apex pitcher Lindsay Hodge who tossed a three-hitter, there were spots for the Lady Jackets to build on.
The Jackets, with freshman pitcher Savannah Patterson in the circle, held Apex, or at least kept potential rallies in check, to the tune of a 3-0 Apex lead through five frames.
"Savannah did a great job for us tonight," McCaskill said. "We made a couple of mistakes behind her and that's part of the learning process. You can't give a team like Apex four or five outs in an inning and not get hurt."
After leaving two runners on in the top of the first, Apex took the lead in the second when Cassie Healy was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and two out.
Meanwhile, Lee County managed one runner each of the first four frames. Leadoff hitter Megan Santell singled to right with the first Jacket at-bat of the season but got no further than second base.
Allie Eyers singled with one out in the second. The Jackets couldn't put anything else together against Hodge though and didn't put another runner in scoring position until the sixth. Hodge finished with six strikeouts and three walks.
Patterson pitched five innings plus two batters into the sixth, allowing five runs but only two earned. She struck out six.
Four of the seven Lady Jacket errors on the night came in Apex's six-run sixth. Jordan Smith and Nicole Pisacane scored two runs each for the Lady Cougars.
"We took a big step tonight," McCaskill said. "The girls proved they can compete for five innings."
Hanging in a game and topping Tri-Nine competition are two different levels though and McCaskill doesn't hide what it'll take from his team.
"We're talking about executing on every pitch, whether it's offense, defense or on the bases, because that's what it takes playing in the most competitive league in the state," he said.
The few returning veterans from last year's squad are helping lead the younger Yellow Jackets, he said, crediting shortstop Chandler Patterson, catcher Nikki Hoover, second baseman Allie Eyers and first baseman Mary Beard.
"They know what it takes and they're already passing it on to the younger girls," he said.
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Making SMARD "take a hike!"
Gus La Casse is climbing mountains to help SMARD research at The Jackson Laboratory
Last summer an intrepid group of hikers, led by 11-year-old Gus La Casse, climbed 26 mountains to raise funds and awareness for Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress (SMARD) research at The Jackson Laboratory.
Inspired by the story of Silas Werner, Gus wanted to help kids with SMARD. His mountain treks, based primarily in Acadia National Park, raised over $9,000 in donations for SMARD research at The Jackson Laboratory. Jackson Laboratory Associate Professor Greg Cox is one of the few genetic scientists in the world committed to better understanding this rare motor neuron degenerative disorder. Due to limited funding, Dr. Cox's laboratory had only been able to spend 5 percent of its time on SMARD research. But because of additional resources from Climb for Silas, and other SMARD fundraisers, Dr. Cox was able to hire a new researcher. Now, Dr. Prabakaran Soundararajan works full time in the Cox laboratory to understand the biomolecular complexities of SMARD.
But there is more to do and that is why, this year, Gus will continue to Climb for Silas. And he needs your help.
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Most people have never heard of SMARD, and neither had Gus La Casse.
"One day, my mom came home and told me about SMARD and Silas," Gus said. "SMARD is pretty rare, but there are quite a few kids in America and kids all over the world who have SMARD. And nobody has a cure."
Silas Werner is a three-year-old Pittsburgh boy diagnosed with SMARD at three months old. Living on a ventilator, Silas requires round-the-clock care.
"I do a lot of things that involve movement, like hiking and climbing," says Gus. "I decided to raise money for Silas by doing something he would never be able to do, like go hiking."
Read more about Silas and his family's incredible story.
According Dr. Greg Cox, "Because SMARD affects relatively few people, it doesn't attract the level of research attention it should. But for the infants and toddlers who are affected, and for the families whose lives are absorbed by dealing with what's now an always-fatal disease, it's essential that we learn all we can about SMARD as a means of developing both treatments and cures."
In 2012, Gus will again climb for SMARD because there is a need to continue to fund the important research that has begun to discover a treatment and cure for SMARD. Please support Silas and Gus by making a personal donation. All funds generated from Climb for Silas will be designated solely for SMARD research at The Jackson Laboratory.
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SMARD is a life-threatening motor neuron disorder. Symptoms of SMARD are commonly seen within the first six months of life. Because SMARD undermines voluntary muscle function, infants who inherited a defective gene from both parents may be unable to lift their heads or may have other mobility limitations. Their inability to breathe or cough makes them susceptible to pneumonia and other respiratory infections. Children with the disorder stop breathing due to a paralyzed diaphragm and often die in their sleep. As a result, many children with SMARD never see their first birthday.
The Cox Laboratory's research utilizes a laboratory mouse model of SMARD to explore potential therapies that would modify or neutralize the defective gene that underlies SMARD.
Drs. Cox and Soundararajan are eager to advance SMARD research by studying motor neurons from mouse stem cells to determine if the disorder can be reproduced in a system that can be directly observed. They hope to expand this work to use cells derived from human skin tissue, which would allow human forms of SMARD to be cultivated in a laboratory setting. This would provide the opportunity to test the efficacy of various genetic modification strategies—work that could make a difference for Silas and change the future for other children with this diagnosis.
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Kath Drummond, one of the early Mika fans, has written a fantastic book every Mika fan should read! She based the story on her experiences attending Mika gigs.
The summary of the story:
Adam Olsen has it all – charm, charisma, Number One hits and hordes of adoring fans. He also has a long-term girlfriend who has been with him since his penniless days, searching for fame. Janey, Sarah and Vara are three of his most devoted fans. Addicted to Adam and his fan site, they think of little else, and as his fame grows their lives become more and more devoted to following him. Proud to have been amongst his earliest fans, they soon start travelling the world to see him perform. Vara, a young single mother, is building up huge debts. Older woman Janey begins to show signs of becoming a serious stalker, while Sarah, happily married and financially secure, sees herself grounded and in control of her behaviour. The one thing most precious to Adam is his girlfriend – but their relationship is in jeopardy when Adam's halo slips and his world becomes a downward spiral as he struggles to cope with the consequences of his actions…Mad About the Boy will appeal to fans of romantic fiction and those interested in music. Devoted gig-goers will recognise music venues in the novel.
We asked Kath some questions about the book:
How did you come up with the idea of Mad About the Boy?
I have always wanted to write. It suddenly struck me that I could write a story based around my own experiences of being a die hard fan. I was standing in Moscow airport at the time – on my way home from a gig and I couldn't wait to get started. It took me three months in 2010 to write it.
Considering you've been to many Mika gigs, are events and characters based on your experiences at gigs and with other fans?
Yes, I have mixed the traits of the characters up a bit but a lot of it is based on my experiences – as will be very obvious to anyone that knows me. But Adam, the main character is purely a figmant of my imagination. He is a fictional character who lives only in my head – poor guy!
What's the best and worst thing you've witnessed in the Mika fandom?
The best thing I have witnessed in Mika fandom is the kindness and generosity of fans. We started out as a collection of strangers who just happned to have one thing in common. I was totally amazed at how quickly friendships were formed and people were being incredible kind and generous to what were effectively total strangers. I think the worst thing is probably the pushing/shoving and queue jumping at gigs.
Are you going to continue your writing career after this?
Yes, I would love to write more – on lots of subjects!


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Stacy Cartwrights ex boyfriend?
Ive seen a few references to him on here. Who is he? Is he a jiu jitsu guy? Im curious because if he is, I want to know how I should train my girlfriend
The "Martial Arts BS" forum is for discussing frauds and charlatains in the MA world, not this crap. Read the forum descriptions.
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By Lee McMahonEmerging Media, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2010 Plastic sheet protectors for documents, a frank discussion ahead of time and an 8x10 photo taped to the car seat -- these are a few of the tips Army spouse and mother Rebekah Sanderlin has come up with to help cope with family separations after more than a half-dozen deployments.
First: the sheet protectors.
"It is absolutely essential that the spouse at home has all the important documents in one, easy to find, place," the 28-year-old mother of two said during an interview with the Defense Media Activity.
Sanderlin points to plastic sheet protectors for documents and a three-ring binder as her go-to resource for birth certificates, Social Security cards, shot records, Defense Eligibility Enrollment Reporting System enrollment forms, physical forms, her marriage license, and photo copies of passports, driver's licenses and military ID cards.
Another tip she recommends: start planning early.
"Several months before the deployment" Sanderlin said, "the servicemember-spouse should begin transitioning chores over to the at-home spouse. She [or he] will be the one doing everything and it's best that all the kinks get worked out ahead of time."
It does not hurt to try to be a mind-reader either, she noted.
"Try to foresee possible problems," Sanderlin said. "I think it would be helpful for soldiers to pass a list around where they could give the names and numbers of plumbers, electricians, and handy men that they have had good experiences with. When it's the middle of winter and the wife comes home late at night to find burst pipes, she's not going to have time to check the references on a plumber."
While no military family wants to talk about it, Sanderlin recommends not putting off the uncomfortable discussions. Like those around planning a spouse's final wishes.
"Do not write that you want Guns N' Roses played at your funeral unless you really, truly, do. I've seen exactly that happen and it is not pleasant," she said.
"My advice is for the military couple to do this packet together; that way the spouse already knows all the wishes. My husband and I managed to lighten the mood on this a bit by discussing my wishes at the same time. That made the conversation a little less awkward. We also discussed what we would want to happen to our children in the event of both of our deaths," she said.
When it comes to children, Sanderlin said, it is all about advance planning.
"If you have kids, try to think about the deployment from their perspective," she said. "What events will the deployed parent miss? Can you celebrate those or make accommodations before hand? We have had years where my son has had two birthdays – one way in advance, so that his dad could be there."
Sanderlin gave birth to both her son and her daughter shortly before two separate deployments. That doesn't mean her husband returned home as a stranger, though.
"Another thing I did with both of my children when they were infants was to enlarge a picture of my husband to 8 x10 size, basically a headshot, and put it in a sheet protector that I taped to the seat of the car," she explained. "That way, every time we were in the car they were looking at him. It worked! When he came home our kids instantly recognized him!"
There also are finances to consider, Sanderlin said. Whether one or both spouses manage the family finances when together, she said, it is a different situation during deployments.
"As for being organized, set a budget," she recommended. "Look at your normal monthly expenses and use that as a guide. The spouse at home will spend more money during a deployment. Expect it, accept it, and budget for it. If you create a new deployment budget - and stick with it - you can still save a lot of that extra money."
On a lighter note, Sanderlin said she has also "learned that deployments can be a great time to lose weight because I have more time to exercise and don't have to worry about cooking the foods my husband likes."
Overall, a military spouse's deployment is a difficult situation to understand unless you have experienced one, said Sanderlin.
"I don't think soldiers, for the most part, really get what a deployment is like for the family," she said. "When we give you that last hug before you leave, we are thinking that it might be the last time we ever see you alive. As casualties begin to occur during the deployment, we constantly wonder if you will be the next one.
"We freak out every time a strange car slows down on our street or an unexpected guest knocks on our door," Sanderlin continued. "It never gets easy, but all of these feelings are even stronger for young spouses or spouses enduring a deployment for the first time. There's nothing a soldier can do about any of this except to be aware and be sensitive."
With that in mind, she said, deployed troops should not tell their spouses about their near-death experiences.
"When you call home, do not tell your spouse about how you almost hit an IED or got shot at," Sanderlin advised. Such "what ifs," she said, will upset an already-anxious spouse.
"Try to imagine how you'd feel if she told you someone in the neighborhood was trying to kill her and you were helpless to prevent it," Sanderlin said. "In many ways, ignorance can be bliss."
Deployments put huge stresses on military families, Sanderlin acknowledged, adding, there is "just no avoiding it."
"Do not lose sight of the big picture. What really matters is that you come home, safe and sound, to an intact family," she said. "Keep your eye on that prize and make sure that all the choices you make help you get to that goal."
While such tips may be similar or the same, every military family is different, Sanderlin said.
"What works best, in my opinion, is for the spouse at home to look at her personality, her lifestyle and her responsibilities and make the best decision she can," Sanderlin said. "There are no awards given to spouses and no one will think higher of her for enduring more than she can handle, especially if the price of that endurance is her own sanity."
And, after years of deployment separation experience, Sanderlin has perceived one constant.
"Deployments suck, that's the main lesson and it has not changed from the first deployment to the most recent one, but there are some life lessons that I would not have learned without having my husband deployed," she said. "I am definitely a much-stronger person because of what I have endured and my confidence soars with each deployment.
"I also know that when the history of this war is written, I – and all the people reading this – will have done more than my part to help our nation and the world."
(Editor's Note: Sanderlin writes the "Operation Marriage" blog for The Fayetteville Observer. You can read her latest entries at: http://blogs.fayobserver.com/operationmarriage.)
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I'm not the type to post reviews. I usually just eat something, and then proceed with my life. This pizza, though. XL feta + pepperoni + artichoke hearts. I've never tasted pizza so inspiring. Crust on the thin side, cheese that tastes like it came from very happy cows. Atmosphere? Well, we took this pizza to go and ate it off of a trash can on the street. Value? I didn't pay for this pizza, but it was worth however much it cost. To me, pizza is pizza. Until this pizza.
Posted by anonymous on 08/02/2013
I don't care where you go in the city for Italian, Guy's place is the best in town.
Posted by Carla Mah on 06/02/2013
I always get delivery. It's fast and reliable. The pizza is great, so is the sauteed shrimp. Service is friendly.
Posted by Anni P on 10/20/2012
My husband and I are regulars here. We love it so much that we even had our rehearsal lunch here for our wedding. Our families still rave about the pizza. When we dine in I always start with the minestrone-it's a green very vegetable-y soup that is so comforting. The fettuccine is better when you dine in, but it is soooo good. Rich, creamy, and cheesy. My husband usually gets the baked ziti and I get the lasagna when we get delivery. The chicken Parmesan is also very good. And the bread! Love the bread. Solid service and consistent dishes. One of the only decent late night restaurants in the city.
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Posted by Anonymous on 04/21/2011
Good and filling sandwiches, pizza, and salads!! Would recommend the pasta w the pancetta cream sauce.
Posted by anna on 02/14/2011
I love this place! Every time I come to SF for my daughter's dr appts, we always stop by for lunch and get one for the road. It's close to UCSF and the definately worth the wait each time! I think this is one of SF's best kept secrets!!!


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David Rhodus wrote: <snip>
Before we can start to remove packages like sendmail we need to have established our packaging system. Perhaps starting to work on a new installer framework or a package control system would be more suited at this current time.
Somebody smarter than me will have to work on this, they're large projects that require direction. I'd have to start from scratch to know where that is...
Once we at least have our package control mechanism wrote and tested only can we then look at removing large chunks of the tree. Trying to do so at this stage is too early on and would only destabilize the system and one that is not really in active development at this time.
It will be interesting to see our new system when it's written. Perhaps I can help at a later date, once I have more time, know what language its in, the big picture, etc.
Theres no reason why a framework to use either a different mta, or log the crap that gets emailed to root, couldn't be put in place
before the new installation/package management system is written.
it doesnt interfere with anything, and as far as userland stability goes, its not gonna hurt us..
Definately. I'd like to start that so that when we -do- change the way mail inherently works in base, it will be seamless. Also then qmail people, etc., will be able to use things in /etc and not feel that something is "broken".
If anybody is interested, I also have a patch to STABLE's login from some time ago that adds checking ~/Maildir at login (FreeBSD's login doesn't care whether MAIL is a directory, so people who set their MAIL to ~/Maildir always get "You have mail.".
P.S. The while in checkmaildir() isn't really necessary, if any file that doesn't begin with a . exists, there's mail, but I had a version which said "You have %d new email%s"...


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The National Weather Service has posted a blizzard warning until 1 p.m. for our area and for many coastal sections between Newark, N.J. to the Maine/Canada border.
Conditions at Worcester Regional Airport at about 2 p.m. Friday included snow and freezing fog with temperatures at 22 degrees. Heavy snow is expected to continue into Saturday, with a 100 percent chance of precipitation.
Arnold said snowfall will occur at 2 to 3 inches per hour. However, should a winter thunderstorm occur, the so-called "thundersnow" could drive accumulation to nearly 6 inches per hour. Forecasters have predicted total snowfall in Massachusetts at between 18 inches and three feet.
Northeast winds Friday night will blow at 20 to 25 mph, and may gust up to 60 mph, Arnold said.
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Temperatures on Friday will be in the 20s for most of the day, falling to around 20 degrees by early evening, and to around 12 by Saturday morning.
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The NWS has posted coastal flood warnings for much of the northeast.
The heaviest snow should be over by late Saturday morning. West and northwest winds will continue to blow up to 20 to 30 mph, with 50 mph gusts with continued drifting.
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B. Kumaravadivelu was educated at the Universities of Madras in India, Lancaster in Britain, and Michigan in the USA. He is currently Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at San Jose State University, California. His areas of research include language teaching methods, teacher education, classroom discourse analysis, postmethod pedagogy, and cultural globalization. He is the author of Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching, (Yale University Press, 2003), Understanding Language Teaching: From Method to Postmethod (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006), Cultural Globalization and Language Education (Yale University Press, 2008), and Language Teacher Education for a Global Society (Routledge, 2012).
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A common thread that runs through Professor Kumaravadivelu's work is a postmodern and postcolonial perspective that motivates a desire to understand the language classroom not just in its linguistic complexities but also in all its historical, political, social and cultural ones. It is this critical orientation that is reflected in his pioneering work on postmethod pedagogy, which seeks to direct practicing and prospective language teachers away from knowledge transmission and towards knowledge generation; away from pedagogic dependence and towards pedagogic independence. It is also reflected in his most recent work on the teaching of culture in a global society, which is sensitive to the complexities of the political, religious and cultural tensions that cultural globalization has brought about.


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