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This year, since 4-5 months ago, my family began to see black ants everywhere in the house, especially in the kitchen and living room. At first, I thought it was due to the unattended food which my mum always left lying around in the house. But there was one very strange thing about the behaviour of these ants – they seemed to love "drinking" the water in our house.
What I mean is that they liked to climb their way into every drinking water jug in our kitchen. There were often times, almost everyday, we would find a swarm of these black ants floating on the surface of water in our jugs. It was such a disgusting sight to me. There were a couple of times when I forgot to check the condition of water before drinking from the jug and ended up tasting the smell of ants in my water. My family seemed indifferent towards this issue; they simply poured the water away to clear the ants before drinking and took no further action to solve this issue. But to me, it was troubling me so much. I mean, why did these ants voluntarily drown themselves in the water and commit suicide? And at the same time, they were also depriving me of my right and freedom to drink clean water at home. So often I was so thirsty but couldn't drink anything at home because the water in all our jugs was infested with ants. From the spiritual point of view, what did this mean? I know I always like to tell Taenggu everyday to drink more water, and now, even the ants also wanted to "drink" more water too? It was only until a month ago, I took the initiative to buy a fully sealed drinking jug for my whole family that could keep even tiny ants from going inside. Only then was I able to enjoy clean water to drink everyday and the ants problem finally improved after that.
Sometimes I would get one or two ants on my body, laptop, book, table etc too. Whenever I see them, I would simply swipe or blow them away from me. About a month ago, I began to get skin irritations. Whenever I was at home, I would find myself uncontrollably scratching the skin everywhere on my body because it was so itchy. I went to the clinic for this problem too but the doctor couldn't actually pinpoint the exact cause of my skin irritation. He said it could be due to bed bugs or an allergic reaction to dust in the house. But deep down inside, I suspected it was due to those ants in the house. A few weeks later, though, my skin irritations somehow ceased by itself (even without regular medication) but the appearance of ants never stopped.
Recently, I had the most astonishing discovery that got my heart skipping a beat. One night, I was going to take my schizophrenia pill called Risperidone as usual before I went to bed. I took out the small ziplock plastic bag that contained my pills and to my shock, I found some dead ants stuck at the back of the label sticker.
My first reaction was, how the hell did they actually get in there?! Taking a closer look, there was a small air passageway which the ants might have used to walk through. But still, why did they want to find their way inside and die there?? And none of the other pill bags (medicine for flu and cough) had this problem. The sight sent chills down my spine and got me wondering if someone had casted a magic spell on my medicine. Or in more terrifying terms, was my medicine cursed?
Another odd thing I noticed is my artworks and drawings seem to attract ants too. Nowadays, especially this year onwards, I've been doing most of my work on the kitchen table. These ants are not attracted to the food I eat on the table but when I draw or paint, 3-4 of them would come running all over my drawing paper which irritates me very much. Since 2 weeks ago, I decided to take photos when the same situation happened again on my recent drawings to show you what I meant.
See the ants moving in action:
Originally for Seohyun's drawing (FOR SEOHYUN: SEOHYUN HOPPS), I wanted to use watercolour to paint the whole body of Seohyun Hopps but because I was so affected by those ants, I tried to wipe them away with a tissue paper while holding the paintbrush in my hand and in the process, I accidentally dirtied other parts of the paper. I was so sad thinking that I had destroyed the drawing and I would have to start all over again. Fortunately the next day, a new idea struck in me to use coloured papers cutting to remove and cover the damaged parts so that was how I managed to save this drawing in the end.
A few nights ago, I took some quiet moments to ponder over why the ants "liked" my drawings so much. To me, my first reaction when I saw ants was they were unpleasant and unwelcomed and they were something that needed to be removed. I thought they were just there to distract me from completing my drawing smoothly. Then, I had a switch of thought pattern. What if my drawings attracted ants because they were sweet??? Could it because the art that I made, the thought process, the intentions and motivations behind them were so sweet that they attracted ants??? Suddenly, my whole perspective towards ants changed to a positive one.
Yesterday, as I was thinking about writing this post, I decided to google and find out the spiritual meaning of ants. The following was what a website explained about the spiritual significance of an ant encounter:
"Encountering an ant you should consider that all good things come with time, and effort. Work with diligence, with conviction, and work with others in order to forge your dreams and turn them into reality. Despite their tiny size these little spirits are immensely strong, great strength of will and accomplishment can come even in the smallest of packages.
Alternatively it may be time to consider your own role, concentrate on your specialties and make sure you are making the most of your natural gifts. However, remain aware that nothing can be accomplished without the unity of the whole. Think about how your own contributions in your career, your family, and day to day life fit into the larger picture. No matter how small your task, or your contribution, it is still essential."
Source: https://www.spirit-animals.com/ant-symbolism-ant-meaning/
After reading this, I realised seeing ants could be a good sign after all! These ants probably appear to tell me to be patient and that good things take time to be realised. I can't deny that I do have spiritual intentions for all the drawings that I've been making this year too. I hope whoever who receives my art or whom I made the drawing for could get good luck and fortune from it too. As for my pills, I still take them too, despite the scary and mysterious dead ants behind the sticker on my medicine bag. Whatever the sign means, I believe as long as I perceives it in a positive light, the outcome would turn out positive for me too. 😊


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|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|May 18, 2010
|Filing date
|Jun 30, 2004
|Priority date
|Jun 30, 2004
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|Jayne C. Hahin, Luke M. Ekkizogloy, Gerald L. Dybsetter
|Original Assignee
|Finisar Corporation
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (27), Referenced by (10), Classifications (6), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. The Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to optical transmitters and receivers. More specifically, the present invention relates to optical transmitter and receivers that use microcode to calculate temperature-dependencies in operational parameters.
2. Background and Relevant Art
Computing and networking technology have transformed our world. As the amount of information communicated over networks has increased, high speed transmission has become ever more critical. Many high speed data transmission networks rely on optical transceivers and similar devices for facilitating transmission and reception of digital data embodied in the form of optical signals over optical fibers. Optical networks are thus found in a wide variety of high speed applications ranging from as modest as a small Local Area Network (LAN) to as grandiose as the backbone of the Internet.
Typically, data transmission in such networks is implemented by way of an optical transmitter (also referred to as an electro-optic transducer), such as a laser or Light Emitting Diode (LED). The electro-optic transducer emits light when current is passed through it, the intensity of the emitted light being a function of the current magnitude. Data reception is generally implemented by way of an optical receiver (also referred to as an optoelectronic transducer), an example of which is a photodiode. The optoelectronic transducer receives light and generates a current, the magnitude of the generated current being a function of the intensity of the received light.
Various other components are also employed by the optical transceiver to aid in the control of the optical transmit and receive components, as well as the processing of various data and other signals. For example, such optical transceivers typically include a driver (e.g., referred to as a "laser driver" when used to drive a laser signal) configured to control the operation of the optical transmitter in response to various control inputs. The optical transceiver also generally includes an amplifier (e.g., often referred to as a "post-amplifier") configured to amplify the channel-attenuated received signal prior to further processing. A controller circuit (hereinafter referred to the "controller") controls the operation of the laser driver and post-amplifier.
The operation of optical transceiver is susceptible to its operating environment. For example, temperature can change the operating characteristics of the optical transmitter itself. In particular, the wavelength output of a laser may drift from approximately 0.3 nanometers (nm) to approximately 0.6 nm for every one degree Celsius change in temperature. Since lasers generate heat during operation, this can have a significant effect upon the operation of the laser. Wavelength variations can cause crosstalk, where one transmission becomes confused with another. Furthermore, varying wavelengths due to varying laser temperature may cause different fiber attenuations. Accordingly, temperature has great influence over the proper operation of the optical transceiver.
Accordingly, it is important to compensate for the different operating temperatures. In order to do so, a temperature table is often kept correlating specific temperatures to specific values for an operating parameter. For example, temperature may be correlated to a laser bias current. By applying an appropriate laser bias current for a given temperature, the transmit power and wavelength can be kept less temperature dependent. Such temperature tables can be quite large, especially if the operating parameter is finely calibrated to temperature, or if the operating temperature range of the optical transceiver is large. However, the optical transceiver may have relatively limited memory resources. Accordingly, such temperature tables can occupy a significant amount of memory in the optical transceiver.
Therefore, what would therefore be advantageous are optical transceivers that are temperature compensated without requiring significant amounts of memory for temperature tables.
The foregoing problems with the prior state of the art are overcome by the principles of the present invention, which relate to an optical transceiver that has at least one processor, a system memory, and persistent memory. The persistent memory includes microcode that represents a formulaic relation between temperature and an appropriate value for an operational parameter given the temperature. The operational parameter may be, for example, laser bias current, Thermo Electric Cooler (TEC) current, or any other temperature-dependent operational parameter. The microcode is further structured such that when loaded into system memory and executed by the processor(s), the optical transceiver accesses the temperature as measured by a temperature sensor, calculates an appropriate value for the operational parameter given the accessed temperature using the formulaic relation, and adjusts the operational parameter according to the calculation.
Accordingly, the relation between temperature and the operational parameter is represented in several lines of microcode using a formulaic relation. This represents far less memory than required to store a table-based correlation between temperature and the operational parameter. Accordingly, memory is preserved. In addition, as accessing a table can take significant time, the amount of time needed to execute the formulaic relation may even in some cases be comparable, or even faster, than a table-lookup. Therefore, the principles of the present invention provide for an efficient way to adjust for temperature-dependent operational parameters in an optical transceiver.
Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description that follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by the practice of the invention. The features and advantages of the invention may be realized and obtained by means of the instruments and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims. These and other features of the present invention will become more fully apparent from the following description and appended claims, or may be learned by the practice of the invention as set forth hereinafter.
In order to describe the manner in which the above-recited and other advantages and features of the invention can be obtained, a more particular description of the invention briefly described above will be rendered by reference to specific embodiments thereof which are illustrated in the appended drawings. Understanding that these drawings depict only typical embodiments of the invention and are not therefore to be considered to be limiting of its scope, the invention will be described and explained with additional specificity and detail through the use of the accompanying drawings in which:
The principles of the present invention relate to an optical transceiver that has at least one processor, a system memory, and persistent memory. The persistent memory includes microcode that represents a formulaic relation between temperature and an appropriate value for an operational parameter given the temperature. The microcode is further structured such that when loaded into system memory and executed by the processor(s), the optical transceiver accesses the temperature as measured by a temperature sensor, calculates an appropriate value for the operational parameter given the accessed temperature using the formulaic relation, and adjusts the operational parameter according to the calculation. This allows the optical transceiver to adjust temperature-dependent operational parameters using less memory than required to perform a table-based representation of temperature versus the operational parameter.
The optical transceiver 100 receives an optical signal from fiber 110A using receiver 101. The receiver 101 acts as an optoelectric transducer by transforming the optical signal into an electrical signal. The receiver 101 provides the resulting electrical signal to a post-amplifier 102. The post-amplifier 102 amplifies the signal and provides the amplified signal to the host as represented by arrow 102A.
The optical transceiver 100 may also receive electrical signals from the host for transmission onto the fiber 110B. Specifically, the laser driver 103 receives the electrical signal as represented by the arrow 103A, and drives the transmitter 104 (e.g., a laser or Light Emitting Diode (LED)) with signals that cause the transmitter 104 to emit onto the fiber 110B optical signals representative of the information in the electrical signal provided by the host. Accordingly, the transmitter 104 serves as an electro-optic transducer.
The behavior of the receiver 101, the post-amplifier 102, the laser driver 103, and the transmitter 104 may vary dynamically due to a number of factors. For example, temperature changes, power fluctuations, and feedback conditions may each affect the performance of these components. Accordingly, the laser transmitter/receiver 100 includes a control module 105, which evaluates temperature and voltage conditions and other operational circumstances, and receives information from the post-amplifier 102 (as represented by arrow 105A) and from the laser driver 103 (as represented by arrow 105B). This will allow the control module 105 to counteract the dynamically varying performance, and detect when there is a loss of signal. The control module 105, the post-amplifier 102, and the laser driver 103 may be other the same chip. Alternatively, they may be distributed across two or more chips regardless.
Specifically, the control module 105 may counteract the changes in performance by adjusting settings on the post-amplifier 102 and/or the laser driver 103 as represented by the arrows 105A and 105B. These settings adjustments are quite intermittent since they are only made when temperature or voltage or other low frequency changes so warrant.
The control module 105 has access to a persistent memory 106, which in one embodiment, is an Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM). The persistent memory 106 and the control module 105 may be packaged together in the same package or in different packages without restriction. Data and clock signals may be provided from the host to the control module 105 using the serial clock line SCL, and the serial data line SDA. Also data may be provided from the control module 105 to the host using serial data signal SDA to allow for digital diagnostics and readings of temperature levels, transmit/receiver power levels, and the like.
The control module 105 includes both an analog portion 108 and a digital portion 109. Together, they allow the control module to implement logic digitally, while still largely interfacing with the rest of the optical transceiver 100 using analog signals.
For example, the analog portion 200A may contain digital to analog converters, analog to digital converters, high speed comparators (e.g., for event detection), voltage based reset generators, voltage regulators, voltage references, clock generator, and other analog components. For example, the analog portion includes sensors 211A, 211B, 211C amongst potentially others as represented by the horizontal ellipses 211D. Each of these sensors may be responsible for measuring environmental and/or operational parameters that may be measured from the control module 200 such as, for example, supply voltage and transceiver temperature. The control module may also receive external analog or digital signals from other components within the optical transceiver that indicate other measured parameters such as, for example, laser bias current, transmit power, receive power, laser wavelength, laser temperature, and Thermo Electric Cooler (TEC) current. Two external lines 212A and 212B are illustrated for receiving such external analog signals although there may be many of such lines.
The internal sensors may generate analog signals that represent the measured values. In addition, the externally provided signals may also be analog signals. In this case, the analog signals are converted to digital signals so as to be available to the digital portion 200B of the control module 200 for further processing. Of course, each analog parameter value may have its own Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). However, to preserve chip space, each value may be periodically sampled in a round robin fashion using a single ADC such as the illustrated ADC 214. In this case, each analog value may be provided to a multiplexer 213, which selects in a round robin fashion, one of the analog signals at a time for sampling by the ADC 214.
As previously mentioned, the analog portion 200A of the control module 200 may also include other analog components 215 such as, for example, digital to analog converters, other analog to digital converters, high speed comparators (e.g., for event detection), voltage based reset generators, voltage regulators, voltage references, clock generator, and other analog components. The high speed comparators may be supplied with one input being from an internal sensor or from an external line to receive a measured parameter value. The other input to the comparator may be a comparison value. Should the measured parameter value exceed the comparison value, the comparator may generate a logical high (or low) which indicates that the event has occurred. For example, suppose that the standard maximum transceiver temperature is 85 degrees Celsius. The actual measured transceiver temperature may be provided as one input to a comparator, while a value representing 85 degrees Celsius is provided to the other input of the comparator.
The digital portion 200B of the control module 200 may include a timer module 202 that provides various timing signals used by the digital portion 200B. Such timing signals may include, for example, programmable processor times. The timer module 202 may also act as a watchdog timer.
Two general-purpose processors 203A and 203B are also included. The processors recognize instructions that follow a particular instruction set, and may perform normal general-purpose operation such as shifting, branching, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, Boolean operations, comparison operations, and the like. In one embodiment, the general-purpose processors 203A and 203B are each a 16-bit processor and may be identically structured. The precise structure of the instruction set is not important to the principles of the present invention as the instruction set may be optimized around a particular hardware environment, and as the precise hardware environment is not important to the principles of the present invention.
A host communications interface 204 is used to communicate with the host using the serial clock line SCL and the serial data line SDA of the optical transceiver 100. The external device interface 105 is used to communicate with, for example, other modules within the optical transceiver 100 such as, for example, the post-amplifier 102, the laser driver 103, or the persistent memory 106.
The internal system memory 206 (not to be confused with the external persistent memory 106) may be Random Access Memory (RAM). The memory controller 207 shares access to the system memory 206 amongst each of the processors 203A and 203B and with the host communication interface 204 and the external device interface 205. In one embodiment, the host communication interface 204 includes a serial interface controller 201A, and the external device interface 205 includes a serial interface controller 201B. The two serial interface controllers 201A and 201B may communicate using a two-wire interface such as I2C or may be another other serial interface so long as the interface is recognized by both communicating modules. One serial interface controller (e.g., serial interface controller 201B) is a master component, while the other serial interface controller (e.g., serial interface controller 201A) is a slave component.
An input/output multiplexer 208 multiplexes the various input/output pins of the control module 200 to the various components within the control module 200. This enables different components to dynamically assign pins in accordance with the then-existing operational circumstances of the chip. Accordingly, there may be more input\output nodes within the control module 200 than there are pins available on the control module 200, thereby reducing the footprint of the control module 200.
Having described a specific environment with respect to
The software architecture 300 includes a temperature access component 302, a formula application component 303, and an operation adjustment component 304. The software architecture 300 of
First, the optical transceiver 100 loads the microcode 301 from persistent memory 106 to system memory 206 (act 401). If the persistent memory 106 is an I2C EEPROM, then this may be accomplished using the conventional I2C two-wire interface. However, for other persistent memories, other communication protocols may be used. The microcode is structured to represent a formulaic relation 301A between temperature and an appropriate value for an operational parameter. For example, the formulaic relation may be a linear relation, or another higher-order polynomial relation. The formulaic relation may even be a non-polynomial expression. The operational parameter may be any operational parameter whose value should change with temperature in order to assure optimal operation of the optical transceiver. For example, the operational parameter may be laser bias current or Thermo Electric Cooler (TEC) current.
The processors 203 then execute the microcode (act 402). The microcode 301 is structured such that the optical transceiver performs the acts illustrated within act 402 when executed. Specifically, the optical transceiver accesses the temperature as measured by a temperature sensor (act 421). This may be accomplished, for example, using the temperature access component 302. Any one of the sensors 211 may be responsible for measuring temperature. The microcode may cause the processors to access the temperature from the temperature sensor directly, or may read the temperature from a register location that it periodically updated with values obtained from the temperature sensor. The measuring of the temperature may involve calculating the temperature based on an averaging of a current temperature with a previously sensed temperature.
The microcode 301 then causes the optical transceiver 100 to calculate an appropriate value for the operational parameter given the accessed temperature using the formulaic relation (act 422). This may be accomplished, for example, by the formula application component 303 applying the formulaic relation 301A represented by the microcode 301.
In one embodiment, the formulaic relation is obtained by taking several sample points in a temperature versus operation parameter value curve. Standard statistical curve fitting technology may then be used to fit a line or curve having particular characteristics (e.g., linear, polynomial, exponential, or the like) so as to reduce the sum of the squares of the error across all sample points. The curve-fitting techniques used to form the formulaic relation may be any known technique. Such curve-fitting techniques are known in the art and thus will not be described here.
In one embodiment, the formulaic relation is obtained during calibration of the optical transceiver 100. The formulaic relation may even have been obtained during a self-calibration process, which is described in commonly-assigned, co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/882,447, filed on the same day herewith and entitled "Microcode-Driven Self-Calibration of Optical Transceiver to Environmental Conditions", which patent application is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. Briefly stated, the self-calibration process involves placing the optical transceiver 100 in an environment in which an environmental parameter should change, measuring the environmental parameter under the range of expected environmental conditions, determining what the associated operational parameter should be given each of these environmental parameter values, and then recording the relation either in table form, or as a formulaic relation.
Returning to
A specific example in which the environmental parameter is temperature, and the operational parameter is laser bias current has been described. However, the principles of the present invention may apply to any measurable environmental parameter and operation parameter. For example, the environmental parameter may be, for example, supply voltage, humidity, acceleration, ambient light levels, ambient vibration, magnetic flux intensity, or any other environmental parameter that may affect the performance of an optical transceiver and that may be compensated for by suitable adjustment of an operational parameter. Furthermore, although a specific example of an operational parameter has been mentioned in the form of laser bias current, other operational parameters may be adjusted to compensate for the variations in environmental conditions. Such operational parameters may include, for example, a Thermo Electric Cooler (TEC) current.
An embodiment in which the microcode may be structured to apply a formulaic relation between one operational parameter and temperature has been described. However, the principles of the present invention may be applied to microcode that applies formulaic relations between multiple operational parameters (e.g., laser bias current and TEC current) to temperature, or that applies formulaic relations between a single operational parameter (e.g., laser bias current) and multiple environmental parameters (e.g., temperature and humidity), or that applies a formulaic relation between multiple operational parameters and multiple environmental parameters.
Accordingly, the principles of the present invention permit an optical transceiver to determine an appropriate value for one or more operational parameters without representing a table relation of the temperature to the operational parameter. Instead, a formulaic relation representing the correlation is represented. This reduces the amount of memory needed to maintain the table. The microcode, system memory, or persistent memory need not have any table information describing the temperature relationship at all. In another embodiment, a table may represent the relation for only a portion of the temperature range of the optical transceiver, while the formulaic relation is used for other temperature ranges. The formulaic relation might then be used only after the microcode forces a determination that the measured temperature falls outside of the temperature range for the table.
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|International Classification
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Chicken With Creamy Lemon Sauce
Creamy, lemony, fresh and bright, generously spoon this delectable sauce over baked chicken and carrots. Delicious alongside asparagus, green beans or sautéed greens.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Makes: 4 servings
All You Need
- 4 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless
- 5 1/2 tsp (27 mL) Club House Lemon and Pepper Seasoning Grinder
- 1/2 lemon, sliced thinly
- 4 large carrots, cut in length
- 1 tbsp (15 mL) olive oil
- 1 cup (250 mL) whipping (35%) cream
- 1 tbsp (15 mL) fresh lemon juice
- zest of 1 lemon
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Line two small pans with parchment paper.
Place chicken breasts in one pan. Top the chicken with 4 tsp (20 mL) lemon and pepper seasoning. Place the lemon slices on top of the chicken.
Place the carrots in the other pan. Brush with olive oil. Sprinkle 1 tsp (5 mL) lemon and pepper seasoning.
Cook both pans in the preheated oven until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165°F (74°C) and the carrots are tender.
To make the lemon sauce, place the cream in a medium non-stick saucepan. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat to low. Cook for 6-7 minutes until the cream is thick. Remove from the heat and add the lemon juice, lemon zest and ½ tsp (2 mL) lemon and pepper seasoning.
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In Britain there are certain things that indicate that Summer is approaching, such as the Cheltenham Festival or the Grand National. Horse racing takes centre stage in offices and pubs as tips are shared and sweepstakes are entered into with everyone having their opinion on who will win. Jockeys such as Sir AP McCoy and Frankie Dettori have become household names but there is one thing that their sport does not allow them to achieve, an Olympic medal. There is of course, Equestrian at the Olympic Games and the story of Nick Skelton is one that everybody, young or old, should be aware of.
Many young children grow up with dreams of becoming a professional sports person. These dreams can even change, as they did for me, between wanting to play professional football, golf, cricket or anything else for that matter. The real key to fulfilling a dream is dedication and dedication to playing just one sport is something that I never had. When the dream of being a sporting hero eventually fades we follow a different career path. That is unless you are Josh Lambo who, after failing as a professional footballer for FC Dallas, has ended up in the NFL. I know what you're thinking, it's a weird world that we live in right?
It is now December 2016 and in sporting terms that means that the BBC Sports Personality of the Year is almost upon us and this year it has an extended list of nominees. This is an event that I look forward to every year as a celebration of British sporting achievement and I always make sure that I cast my vote. Over the next two or three weeks just about everybody will have their say on who they think should win the main award and so why should it be any different here? Although current sporting affairs are not usually what are covered here at TSV, 2016 has been such a good year that it would be daft to ignore that.
It is fair to say that when it comes to Olympic success, Great Britain excel in the Summer version of the games. As ice and snow is not readily available in the British Isles it figures that we would not feature highly on the medal table in the Winter Games. Since the introduction of the Summer Olympics, Team GB has won 847 medals, including 263 golds. Quite an amazing achievement! In contrast to our Summer record, the Winter Olympics have provided British athletes with just 26 medals, 10 of which were of the golden variety. Perhaps ice and snow just aren't our thing?
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro were hailed as a triumph for Team GB and rightly so. 366 athletes travelled to Brazil to take part in the games and although this was a decrease from the 542 competitors in London, the medal count actually increased. There were many surprises along the way as you would expect from an Olympic Games, but one medal in particular that stole the nation's hearts, was the Gold medal won by the GB Women's Hockey Team.
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NU opens SFL against Rocklin (VIDEO)
October 11, 2013
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What: Nevada Union at Rocklin
When: 7:15 p.m. today
Where: Rocklin High School
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The Nevada Union football team is coming off a much needed bye week after a 0-5 start, which concluded with the Miners being shutout for the first time since 1983.
The Miners' 43-0 loss to Elk Grove on Sept. 27 was the first goose egg for NU in 344 straight games, a California state record. Coincidentally, the last time NU was shut out came when current Elk Grove head coach Chris Nixon was suiting up in the blue and gold as a wide receiver for the Miners, according to the Sacramento Bee.
Los Alamitos from Orange County now holds the longest winning streak at 339, a record that dates to 1987, according to Cal-Hi Sports.
In their first five games, NU has been outscored 226-43 and hasn't been in a contest past halftime. But that is all in the past. What the immediate future holds for NU is a contest with Rocklin.
"We've had a tough schedule this year and we're still trying to get things together," NU senior lineman Davi Pettinato said. "But I think it was good, and you get a clean slate when you head into league."
The Thunder will host the Miners today in both teams' Sierra Foothill League opener.
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"We've had two weeks to prepare for Rocklin," Pettinato said. "We're really pumped up; we've had a lot competitions during practice, and we're preparing like we always do. I think we will have a good chance to win."
Rocklin enters the contest at 3-2, averaging 24 points per game and allowing a league low 14.2 points per game. Contrastingly, the Miners score a league low 8.6 points per game and allow a league high 45.2 points per game.
The Thunder are the No. 11 team in Sac-Joaquin Section, according to MaxPreps.com, and have wins over Whitney, Del Campo, and No. 18 Inkerdum, and losses to No. 3 Pleasant Grove and Oak Ridge.
On the offensive end, Rocklin likes to air it out with senior quarterback Logan Webb.
The second-year starter has 706 yards passing with a 50 percent completion rate and nine touchdowns to four interceptions.
Webb's favorite target is junior Blake Laurin, with 15 catches for 253 yards and four touchdowns. Junior Gage Sorenson also gets in the mix, with 11 catches for 171 yards and one score.
In the backfield, Rocklin leans on sophomore call up Evyn Holtz, who has 88 carries for 452 yards and one touchdown in four games.
Webb has also shown he is fleet of foot, with 117 yards on 20 carries.
"They've got some pretty good lineman, some tough running backs, obviously a really good quarterback," Pettinato said. "But we got the same on our side. Our lineman are stepping up, and our linebackers are getting situated, so I think it will be a pretty good battle."
The Rocklin defense is the stingiest in the SFL, allowing just 71 total points against, 51 of which came in their two losses to open the season. In the Thunder's subsequent three wins they have allowed just 20 points, an average of 6.6 points per game.
"They're just as tough (as they were last year)," NU head coach Dennis Houlihan said. "They are very fast and physical on defense. They haven't given up a lot of points. They do a lot of good things. They slant up front, they make movements, but there are holes in it. The bottom line is, can we get through the holes? Can we move bodies and stick to blocks? But, we're not really worried about the people were going against. If we did, we would be pulling our hair out even more. Right now, we're just worried about ourselves and how to run our offenses and defenses right."
For NU, sophomore quarterback Justice Spillner will be under the center for his third straight start and Houlihan, who has had a carousal of ball carriers this season, said to expect the same today. "We got very limited options, but the guys we've been going with are the guys that are still there," Houlihan said.
This season the Miners have amassed 741 yards on the ground with Gareth Noxon (26 carries, 208 yards, 2 touchdowns), Jake Berger (45 carries, 179 yards), Travis Owens (45 carries, 159 yards), and Joe Voight (7 carries, 94 yards, 3 touchdowns) leading the way.
After a winless first half of the season, Pettinato said that moral on the team had dipped, but with the bye week, the Miners are on the up swing.
"Obviously after starting 0-5, (moral) is kind of low," Pettinato said. "But the coaches are stepping up, the leaders are stepping up and keeping the guys going. So I think it's on the rise, definitely."
To prevent the team from digging deeper into its current rut, Houlihan had the squad play dodgeball one morning in lieu of practice.
"I just wanted them to see themselves being kids, and have fun and smile and play and not be so dreary because it's hard," Houlihan said. "It's hard to lose the way we're losing, and they didn't expect that, they don't want that. It's hard on them. It's hard on us."
The Miners will look to shake their losing streak at 7:15 p.m. tonight at Rocklin.
To contact Sports Editor Walter Ford, call 530-477-4232 or email email@example.com. All stats and rankings are provided by MaxPreps.com.
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Where: Rocklin High School
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Mall Walkers Leave Shopping and the Weather Behind
By JACK CURRY
Published: May 28, 1989
YONKERS— SPORTING the sort of smiles not often seen on a Monday morning, people with various shapes and personalities descend upon the Cross County Square Mall here. They are not here to eat, although they might sneak in some coffee, and they are not here to browse, although they cannot avoid window shopping.
The early risers, a diverse group that includes a great-great-grandmother, an accountant and a nun, are here to begin their day with a novel exercise, mall walking.
At 7 A.M., three hours before stores open, the walkers stretch out, scratch the sleep from their eyes and start walking. They sign an attendance sheet provided by Walter Williams of Yonkers, a coach and motivator, and file to the Singer Sewing Company. With a metal slab on the floor as a landmark and an illuminated clock inside the dark store to keep time, Singer is a convenient starting point. One Mile, 100 Calories
Seven times around the mall equals one mile and burns 100 calories. No cutting corners or it is not an actual mile. The distance holds steady for the second floor, which has a similar layout. If someone ventures upstairs, walking, not riding, up the escalator is a must.
''This is not easy on Mondays,'' Marge Bruno of Yonkers said. ''It revs you up for the rest of the day. You can't be lazy. You gotta get out and do it.''
Officials at malls in the metropolitan area said mall walking became a pastime soon after the enclosed shopping centers began cropping up in the 1970's. It was not uncommon for the elderly or for housewives to exercise by walking in malls. But organized mall-walking programs have developed only in the last few years.
In Westchester, Cross County Square began a program in January, the Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown Heights has announced that its ''Valley Pacers Walking Club'' will begin this Tuesday and the Galleria in White Plains plans to have a program in effect by June. Bazaar Mall in Mount Kiscoe is a step ahead of the competitors, with a program that began in February last year. Bazaar charges $2 as an initiation fee; the others are free. 'It Becomes Addictive'
''Once you get started,'' said Isabelle Petrone of Mount Vernon, ''it becomes addictive.''
The 35 walkers at Cross County are as different as the stores they glide past. There is Tom Cotter of Yonkers, the Secretariat of the group, who would have no trouble outracing pedestrian traffic in midtown Manhattan on the most congested day. Sister Marus Stella of the Bronx, a diminutive woman with a methodical pace who may be the first nun you ever see wearing a Walkman. In this setting, she is inspired by a Jane Fonda tape. Then there are Leona Smith of Yonkers, whose flawless walking form and strict dieting have helped her lose 85 pounds, and Georgia Amick of Yonkers, who once walked for 14 consecutive hours in Dublin.
There is Mary Gore of White Plains, the champion mall walker. She is not the fastest and does not possess the finest walking form, but she is persistent. Pain in the Beginning
Enter the mall any weekday before 9:30 A.M. and Mrs. Gore is bound to be breezing past Lens Crafters or Baskin Robbins. Mrs. Gore loses track of laps, but estimated that she circled the mall 40 times a day. Not too shabby for a great-great-grandmother - she declined to give her age - who has arthritis of the spine.
''In the beginning, there was pain,'' Mrs. Gore said. ''Now I feel looser. I don't get as stiff. The pain doesn't seem to be there. I might go back to work, and I haven't worked in 10 years.''
The first and most important lesson learned at Cross County is the proper way to place one foot in front of the other. Dr. Suzanne Levine, a Manhattan podiatrist and registered physical therapist who is writing a book called ''Walk It Off,'' teaches the walkers and Mr. Williams is present to enforce the doctrine.
Dr. Levine needed a study of a group of walkers to include in her book and she chose Cross County because of its environment. With sun peeking through the glass ceilings and plants scattered throughout the mall, there is an outdoor feeling. Never a Happy Jogger
Being outside, in fact, is an alternative at the mall because some walkers use the parking lot on the second floor. Five times around the lot equals one mile.
''I've seen plenty of happy walkers,'' said Dr. Levine, who has lost 53 pounds by walking four miles a day. ''But I've never seen a happy jogger.''
But H.A.P.P.Y. is the acronym that Dr. Levine employs when teaching about walking. He said the five letters corresponded to: Holding one's head up; Abdominals tucked in; Pelvis pressed in; Pressing shoulders in, and taking a Y step, landing on the outer part of the heel and pushing off the toes as one walks.
''Walking is so natural that there is no reason to have any pain,'' Dr. Levine said. Mall-walking has grown in popularity for several sensible reasons. There is no weather to worry about, so walkers can count on a daily routine. Malls have security guards, so safety is not a concern. The pavement is smooth and free of any obstacles. And malls have water fountains, benches and bathrooms.
''There is no stopping at corners and waiting for lights to change,'' said Mr. Williams, a retired teacher. ''It's a protective setting and people don't have to worry.'' How Store Owners View Trend
Store owners applaud the presence of walkers because more people usually translates into more business. But Mr. Williams said some merchants at Cross County were miffed by the early starting time.
''They complained that we finished a half hour before the stores open,'' Mr. Williams said. ''But I told them there is imagery that goes with walking around for an hour and looking inside stores. Some people have never been here before and now they are here every day looking at the signs.''
Dr. Levine predicted that 75 million people would be exercise-walking in the 1990's. Sneaker manufacturers have noticed the trend and are marketing footwear designed specifically for mall walking.
''I didn't think I'd be able to stand up, and now I'm bragging about my walking,'' Mrs. Gore said. ''I want to live to be 100. You can't push back the clock, but walking can help you stop it for a while.''
Photo of mall walkers during a trek arund Cross County Square Mall in Yonkers (NYT/Alan Zale)


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The dark, wild tale of Radegunda, a captured queen who becomes the founding abbess of a convent in the dark ages, helped Sarah Dunant while she was researching her own novel about nuns in 16th-century Italy
I first read Julia O'Faolain's vibrant and strange Women in the Wall two years ago, just before I started writing my own novel about nuns in a 16th-century Italian convent. I had come out of a year incarcerated in libraries and archives in Britain and Italy, and my head was reeling with wondrous and terrifying images and ideas. Most writers will relate to that feeling of panic as you put away the notebooks and move to the keyboard, and I thought O'Faolain's journey into a darker, wilder moment of history - the political and religious chaos of sixth-century Gaul, and the life of Radegunda, who began as captured queen to King Clotair and ended as the founding abbess of a convent in Poitiers, and a Meravingian saint - might just help.


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CAPE TOWN - With Ajax Cape Town still in a rather precarious position, Sunday's PSL fixture against Platinum Stars takes on even greater significance. The two sides meet at the Cape Town Stadium (3pm kickoff), with coach Stanley Menzo fully aware that victory is paramount.
Ajax are in 11th position on the PSL standings, with 26 points, but the critical point is that just four points separates them from last-placed Baroka FC (22 points). That's how tight it is in the skirmish to avoid relegation from the top flight. At this stage, with five games to play, the Cape side can ill-afford to lose to a team in their vicinity of the league table.
The 2-0 defeat to Mamelodi Sundowns on Tuesday, therefore, probably didn't concern Menzo all that much because the Pretoria team is among the contenders for the title. But Sunday's game - Platinum are currently 10th, also 26 points - is highly important for Menzo. These are the fixtures his team should be winning if they are to move away from the dreaded drop zone.
Again, as it has been all season, and probably a few seasons before as well, Ajax's big problem is turning possession and territorial dominance into goals. It was this area, in fact, which Menzo highlighted as the reason why they lost to Sundowns.
"We played well for 60 minutes," said Menzo. "But Sundowns' quality in attack was the big difference. We created chances, and I don't think it was due to a lack of concentration, it's just the quality that is lacking.
"In football, you are always going to have those moments when it is all about what you do with the scoring chances We couldn't finish our chances - Sundowns did."
Despite this, Menzo believed his players had showed enough against Sundowns to give him confidence going into Sunday's vital encounter against Platinum.
"If I look at the first 60 minutes we played against Sundowns, then I think we can get the points that we need," said the Urban Warriors coach. "We are four points above the relegation zone, but, in the PSL, things change after every game."
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