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May God bless you and your...
The struggle to defeat your demons was always there. You threw yourself into perfecting your craft. Your heart overflowed with love and compassion for those needing those the most. It has been over four years since your last breath...your love and voice live on...
I pray you know peace. I pray you feel whole.
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Forever praying for your soul. ...you are loved!
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Chris Kreider: From BC to the NHL playoffs
Chris Kreider: From BC to the NHL playoffs
Just more than a month removed from winning an NCAA title with Boston College, Chris Kreider is now thriving in the NHL playoffs with the Rangers.
Kreider has two goals in the playoffs for the Rangers, who are currently facing the Washington Capitals in the second round.
On April 7, Kreider helped BC win its third national title in five years against Ferris State.
His former coach at BC, Jerry York, has been impressed with Kreider's poise in the "extremely difficult" transition to the NHL playoffs.
Kreider is a Boxford native who has won over fans in New York with his strong performance for the Rangers.
Says Kreider of the NHL: "The puck moves faster, everything is more precise. If you make a mistake, it's capitalized on within seconds."
After hoisting one trophy in April, Kreider is hoping now to lift another, the Stanley Cup, in June.


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The evolving standards for TV silicon tuners
Keywords:system-on-chip front-end CAN tuners
Changing TV landscape
Every year more than 250 million TVs ship into analogue only and hybrid (analogue plus digital) markets worldwide. By the end of 2011, a select few SOC companies accounted for the vast majority of all TVs shipped. The most popular SOCs have integrated functions that are implemented most cost-effectively in the digital domain. At the same time, many silicon tuners have retained this functionality using expensive RF/analogue processes, which adds unnecessary system cost and complexity.
Traditionally, many CAN tuners were MOPLL-based (Mixer Oscillator Phase-Locked Loop). As the cost/performance trade-off improves, silicon tuners are rapidly replacing MOPLLs and are projected to approach nearly 100 per cent market penetration in television within the next 18 months. Designing silicon tuners directly on the main TV printed circuit board (PCB) and in the CAN are both common – the implementation depends on the relative RF expertise of the TV maker.
Evolution of architecture
The key to cost reduction is achieved by migrating functions from the analogue/RF to digital domain. Fundamentally, the TV front-end is comprised of analogue / RF circuits that tune and process off-air or cable television signals into a suitable format. These signals are then sampled by an ADC (analogue-to-digital converter) which resides within the digital SOC. The economics and performance of the ADC determines which functions can be integrated into the digital SOC as the ADC is the demarcation point between the analogue/RF and digital domains.
Figure 1: SOC Architecture in 2004 with a discrete IF AGC Amplifier, SAW filters, and analogue demodulator.
Over the last decade, the IF (intermediate frequency) AGC amplifier, multiple SAW (surface acoustic wave) filters, and the analogue demodulator have been integrated into the most popular SOCs in order to meet the cost requirements of the television market.
Figure 1 illustrates the typical front-end architecture in 2004. The tuner function was comprised of an MOPLL chip plus hundreds of discrete components that required hand tuning. Several discrete SAW filters output a filtered IF signal that fed into an external downstream analogue demodulator. The outputs of the demodulator were digitized by the ADC inside the SOC. These large SAW filters limited how thin the TV panel could be. Thin-profile SAW filters were very expensive but necessary with the growing demand for ultra-thin flat panel televisions. At the same time, different SAW filters (6/7/8Mz bandwidth support) were required depending on the end TV market, thereby forcing region-specific TV SKUs that increased the operational and manufacturing costs.
Starting in 2009, ADC performance improvements at a viable cost point became widely available. The introduction of this disruptive technology enabled the tuner output signal to be sampled directly, eliminating the need for expensive, discrete SAW filters and an external analogue demodulator. The availability of advanced ADCs enabled a significant architectural transition to integrate these functions into the SOC as shown in figure 2. The transition is gradual and as such, there is still duplication of functionality in the analogue and digital domains. This redundancy can be further optimised by eliminating the duplicated functions in the tuner.
Figure 2: Latest SOC architecture with integrated IF AGC amplifier, SAW filters, analogue and digital demodulators.
Design principles for achieving lower system costs in TV
The cost advantages offered by the latest generation of TVs SOCs can be attributed to technology advancements in the ADC. Until recently, ADCs with the necessary dynamic range had a large die size and high power consumption making it difficult to effectively integrate the SAW filter function into the SOC. ADC dynamic range refers to the range of signals that can be digitized by the ADC. The relative level between the undesired (U) and desired (D) channels (U/D ratio), CNR (carrier-to-noise ratio determined by modulation method), and required margin determines the dynamic range of the ADC as shown in figure 3.
Figure 3: ADC dynamic range.
To meet system dynamic range requirements, previous generation TV systems had to use multiple external SAW filters. SAW filter characteristics depend on the U/D ratio as specified by the field condition or performance standard as shown in figure 4. The stronger the undesired channel, the more complex a filter profile required. This filtering function adds significant cost to the overall TV BOM (bill-of-materials) especially as a filter that is integrated into most silicon tuner chips.
Figure 4: Filtering characteristics.
ADCs with a much smaller die area, low power consumption and wide dynamic range are now widely available. As discussed earlier, these advanced ADCs have enabled SOC manufacturers to integrate the IF AGC amplification, digital and analogue demodulation, and SAW filtering.
At the same time, many silicon tuners have retained full SAW filtering, and some chips still include analogue demodulation. The duplication of these functions adds unnecessary system cost and complexity as shown in figure 5. These functions are implemented most cost-effectively in digital in the SOC rather than in more expensive RF processes used by many silicon tuners today.
Figure 5: Many existing silicon tuners duplicate SAW filtering already in today's SOCs.
Lowest system cost
The lowest system solution cost can be achieved by using silicon tuners that:
Eliminate redundant circuits in other silicon tuners but also present in the SOC
Offer an ultra-small die size in the lowest cost process
As shown in figure 6, Fresco's Simply RF silicon tuners are examples of the silicon tuners which interface with the most popular TV SOCs to achieve lower system costs.
Figure 6: An example of a simple silicon tuner that eliminates duplication of circuits for the lowest system cost.
Outlook for silicon tuners in television
Industry experts predict exponential growth for silicon tuner adoption inside the TV for the foreseeable future in CAN tuner and on-board designs. The market for TV silicon tuners will continue to expand with increased consumer demand for multi-screen support on a wide variety of consumer devices including traditional TV sets, PCs, tablets, and mobile phones.
Industry-wide consolidation underscores the importance of delivering the lowest cost solution at the optimal performance to meet market requirements. More functions will be integrated into the TV SOC as technology advances and the most cost-effective implementations are realised in the digital domain. At the same time, there is greater demand for ultra-simple tuners that complement rather than duplicate SOC system functionality. While transitions in the television industry can take time, with fewer SOC manufacturers, the migration to the latest SOC architectures and simplified tuners is already well underway and expected to grow rapidly in the years to come.
About the authors
Melissa Chee is director of marketing and Scott Howe is director of applications and systems engineering at Fresco Microchip.
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Got a motor down? No matter how urgent the problem — and motor failure can cause some very urgent problems — always develop a plan of attack before you start repair work. Gather up any background material you may have on hand and then use your senses to inspect the site. Then conduct resistance, fuse, and motor tests to help pinpoint the cause of the failure.
Initial inspections. Spend a few minutes with the operator and get as much history as you can on the failed motor. Find out if anyone else recently attempted repairs or modifications. If so, what did they do and when? Sometimes an inexperienced person can unwittingly create additional problems while trying to help. Knowing what has already been done can shorten troubleshooting time.
Armed with background information, you're ready to start your inspection process. Begin by removing power to the motor and starter — following approved and accepted lock-out/tag-out procedures — and disengaging the motor. Then after recording the motor nameplate information, turn the shaft to determine if it rotates freely. Your basic senses can also help you determine a great deal about what's wrong. Listen carefully for unusual noises (such as scraping), smell for burned insulation, and feel for excess heat. Now look at the motor starter for loose connections and hot spots indicated by discoloration. Check all fasteners, including the mounting hardware, and re-tighten. This completes your initial pre-measurement inspections. Now it's time to begin some testing.
Resistance of line and load circuits to ground. Manually engage the starter and measure the resistance through its contacts. You should read 0.09 ohms or less. Disengage the starter and inspect the contacts closely. You'll need to use your megohmmeter to ground test line and load circuits at the starter. This will effectively identify the resistance to ground of the starter, line circuits to the disconnect, and load lines to the motor and starter windings.
Generally, AC devices can safely operate at not less than two megohms to ground, and DC devices can safely operate at not less than one megohm to ground. But be careful: before ground testing, make sure you disconnect any electronic controls because they can be destroyed by misapplied high-voltage test equipment.
The resistance you see will depend on the horsepower of the motor. For example, a 50-hp motor should ideally show 0.05-ohm resistance. Measurements between phases should be roughly equivalent. Given the variety of motors in use, you may not have access to the specific engineering data for each one. However, the exact measurement value is less important than the balance between phases. While you can't expect identical readings, they should be close.
For single-phase and DC applications, the resistance measurement is suitable for identifying open circuits and for historical use.
Fuse checks. Check each fuse for continuity (one fuse per phase). Remember that a blown fuse is a symptom, not a cause. Don't assume that replacing a fuse will fix the motor. By doing so, you'll run the risk of causing even more damage and downtime.
Then check the fuse holders for spring tension. Repeated fuse replacement can "expand" the fuse holder (usually a clip) and compromise the spring tension necessary for good contact. Pinhead-sized arc damage anywhere on the clip, fuse, or surrounding areas is evidence that the fuse holder has lost tension. Inspect breakers and busses for overheating and arc damage. Inspect the cord caps (connectors) for correct circuit installation and tightness.
Line to line checks. Now you're ready to check voltage value and balance on the line (supply) side of the fuseholder. You're testing line to line, so operating voltage doesn't have a path to ground. If you find an unreasonable voltage imbalance between any two phases, that's a problem. A 5% voltage unbalance is normal and reasonable.
But don't assume the supply is healthy if you get good readings — even the weakest electrical connection will pass a voltage reading without applied load.
Motor junction box. By this point you've made preliminary determinations of where the problem exists. Now it's time to open the motor lead junction box and check the connections inside. Even if you found nothing wrong during the preliminary testing, you should still check the motor connections — many motor failures result from poorly installed wire nuts or insufficiently insulated connections grounding inside the junction box or shorting together.
If during your testing you recorded low ground readings or open readings at the load side of the starter, your next step is to test stator winding phase resistance and resistance to ground. This will help you determine whether the discrepancy is in the motor or in the line circuit. To conduct the tests, break the motor connections and test first in one direction (the motor) and then in the other (the supply).
For the motor, test the stator winding resistance phase-to-phase and phase-to-ground. If you find a phase-on-phase short, the motor needs evaluation for a rewind or for replacement. If you find a phase-to-ground short, a motor shop may be able to do an in-place repair for a large motor. However, you might end up needing to rewind or replace it.
For the supply, test first with the motor disconnect open and locked out. Use your megohmmeter to test the insulation resistance to ground. If the wiring fails that test, look for problems in the connections or in failed conductor insulation. Note: A stator phase resistance test will identify a bad motor but isn't an absolute verification of a good motor. Final load voltage and current tests verify a good motor. You never know when you'll find a motor that tests well but has a thumb-sized hole blown from the coils.
Final tests and procedures. Once you've corrected all identified problems and the motor is installed and aligned, you're almost done. Energize the motor and test the controls and overall system operation. While the motor is running, record the operating voltage and current, check the balance, and verify that your measurements are within the nameplate specifications. Then apply the sense tests again:
Listen for unusual noises.
Smell for smoke or hot insulation.
Feel the motor for excessive heat or vibration.
Look for possible obstructions.
Now engage the load. Apply the four sense tests again. Once you're sure you've addressed all of the problems with this motor, it's time to go home.
Toland is the foreman at Buzzell Electric Works in San Francisco. This article was prepared for and supported by Fluke Corp.
Sidebar: Tools You Need
- Megohmeter
Minimum 500V output with high impact rating.
- Clampmeter
Must measure AC and DC and feature multiple jaw sizes.
- General DC power source
An example is a 35A bridge rectifier configured with a 120V power cord and test leads.
- Series field DC power source
A 9V battery will suffice.
- Magnetic compass
Used to quickly identify field coil polarities.
- Digital multimeter
Minimum 600V, CAT III true RMS rating, with low resistance (0.01 ohms or lower) featuring a cycle function and capacitance test.


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Reviewed By David W (APPLETON, WI) Reviewed for a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix —8/21/2015 8:47 AM
Shortly after putting these on my car I could feel a huge difference compared to my old Rotors. They work very well. I was always told that performance rotors sqeek a little so if they do, do not be a little surprised. Be sure to use plenty of lube for the slides and also never seize on the metal areas where the pads slide on.


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Coup against Silver? Cuomo's the one feeling the heat
ALBANY – If Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was hoping a report that he's working on a coup attempt against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver would start a fire, he was correct.
But the fire has been lit under the governor.
While the Governor's Office denied that it is working to oust Silver, as the New York Post reported Monday, lawmakers in Silver's conference were quickly rallying to the Manhattan Democrat's defense.
Suspicion that the executive branch may be acting against a leader of the legislative branch is dangerous for a governor with an unfinished agenda and declining poll numbers.
At risk, lawmakers and political insiders said Monday, is Cuomo's agenda for the rest of the 2013 session because Silver and his Assembly Democrats have been most supportive of some of Cuomo's key policy initiatives, from gun control to the minimum-wage increase to the legalization of same-sex marriage.
The Post, citing unnamed sources close to Cuomo, reported that the governor wants Silver out because he has been in power for so long. During Silver's 19 years as speaker, the Legislature has endured a number of scandals, including two new ones last week involving a Senate Democrat and two Assembly Democrats.
The Post, which has been a regular recipient of leaks over the last two years by the Cuomo administration, reported that the Democratic governor also was dangling the prospect of a legislative pay raise but did not mention any concerns Cuomo has about leadership in the Senate, which has seen its own rash of corruption scandals – and jail terms for lawmakers – in recent years.
"The governor needs the speaker in place, but he also needs some means of dealing with the corruption scandals," said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic consultant. The latest scandals have come while Cuomo is trying to make a name for himself on the national political stage on the theme that he has cleaned up Albany.
But going after a legislative leader, unless Cuomo has access to information not yet made public, has political risks.
In 2007, then-Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer saw that when he tried to block then-Assemblyman Thomas P. DiNapoli from becoming state comptroller. Assembly Democrats brushed aside Spitzer and voted DiNapoli into the office, and it was the beginning of the end of Spitzer's influence with fellow Democrats in the Assembly.
"Whoever did this this morning did the governor no service, because now the Assembly will gather around the speaker," Sheinkopf said of the Post article. "Attacking the speaker is not a good move. It's not the governor; it's those around him who are probably doing this, and they will all have to come together and come up with a better strategy to deal with corruption issues because this is not going to work.
"All it will do is harden the Assembly against the governor, and he needs the Assembly.''
Rank-and-file lawmakers were not thrilled with the developments.
"I don't think there's a role for the governor making decisions about who Assembly members choose for their leadership. I think the governor's role is to manage the administration," said Assemblywoman Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes, D-Buffalo.
Silver, 69, was re-elected earlier this year as Assembly speaker, a post he has held since 1994. "I think the view of the Democratic conference is Shelly is a very capable and able leader. I don't see anybody stepping up to the plate to say, 'I want to be speaker.' I've not even sensed the inkling of anybody interested in becoming speaker," Peoples-Stokes said.
"I haven't observed any diminution in the respect that so many members hold for him," said Assemblyman Robin L. Schimminger, D-Kenmore.
A veteran lawmaker who helped Cuomo push through the gun-control bill this year called the story about Cuomo leading a coup against Silver "implausible."
"It just doesn't make sense," said Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol, D-Brooklyn.
"I think Shelly is in very good standing with members," Lentol added, noting that the Post report "probably helped Shelly" in the end.
Cuomo and Silver have enjoyed a hot-and-cold relationship. Silver had battled with Govs. Mario M. Cuomo, George E. Pataki, Spitzer and David A. Paterson long before the younger Cuomo was elected to the office once held by his father. Lawmakers say the current governor, like some before him who never served in a legislative body, does not fully understand or appreciate the circle-the-wagons approach when members of the Legislature feel threatened by the executive branch.
Cuomo administration officials, speaking on condition that their names not be used, were adamant in saying the Post report about Cuomo moving against Silver was "100 percent not true."
But Cuomo, in an interview on a public radio program Monday, did not directly answer the question when asked whether he had conversations over the weekend about Silver and whether he wanted to work with a different leader. The Post said Cuomo was comfortable with the prospect of Assembly Majority Joseph D. Morelle, D-Rochester, as successor to Silver. But the idea of an upstate Democrat becoming Assembly speaker is far-fetched, lawmakers say, and the report about Cuomo wanting Morelle was already upsetting some New York City African-American lawmakers with ambitions to become speaker.
In the radio interview, Cuomo called Silver his "partner" in government.
"It is wholly up to the legislative bodies to select a leader. I would never even for a moment try to influence that decision, and again in this case I don't see what the speaker had to do with any of these purely personal, individual acts by two Assembly people," Cuomo said of the corruption case involving two Assembly Democrats from New York City.
But Cuomo did confirm a number of elements in the Post report, such as his new interest in getting a sweeping package of bills to address everything from the power of party leaders in getting politicians onto ballots to campaign finance rules that favor incumbents to lax enforcement of campaign finance and other laws by boards of election. He offered no specific plan, but also did not rule out the use of a Moreland Act Commission, a panel appointed by governors with sweeping legal powers; he did not say why or how such a commission would come together.
"We have a moment where we can bring change," Cuomo said of using the latest corruption cases to enact new laws in New York.
It is uncertain whether Cuomo would have the political power to take out Silver. As his poll numbers have slid, more Democratic lawmakers have been grumbling about him. The Democratic caucus in the Assembly is fairly well split along geographic, political, gender and racial lines, and Silver has mastered the art of moving between the various factions and rewarding key lawmakers with choice committee assignments and policy victories.
But all these issues are pointless, the Cuomo administration would say. An administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Silver's name never even came up in conversations over the weekend about an anti-corruption push. "Nothing was discussed this weekend," the official said, "including anything disparaging about the leadership of either house."
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Everything Carrie Ever Wondered About on Sex and the City
I couldn't help but wonder, How often did Carrie say "I couldn't help but wonder"?
Sex and the City is typically remembered for its racy content and fashion significance. But the show was never really about those things. No, SATC was about what was on Carrie's mind — specifically, what she was "wondering." The woman spent a tremendous amount of time in a state of wonder. So much so that we've compiled a list of everything Carrie said she was wondering about, in honor of SATC competing against Seinfeld in today's Sitcom Smackdown bracket.
Season One
- "I wondered if there wasn't some kind of physics for beauty. Maybe two models repelled; maybe models could only be attracted to ordinary humans." [Episode two, "Models and Mortals"]
- "Okay, we were attracted to younger men for various reasons. But I couldn't help but wonder: What do they see in us?" [Episode four, "Valle of the Twenty-Something Guys"]
- "Is it that men have an innate aversion to monogamy, or is it more than that? I wondered, In a city like New York, with its infinite possibilities, has monogamy become too much to expect?" [Episode seven, "The Monogamists"]
- "Samantha left with the Turtle, Brooke left with a better gift ... and I left wondering if everyone in Manhattan was settling." [Episode nine, "The Turtle and the Hare"]
- "As I watched Laney tear open a terrycloth baby bib ... with the same enthusiasm she once reserved ... for tearing off rock stars' pants ... I couldn't help but wonder ... Was I next?" [Episode ten, "The Baby Shower"]
- "But I wondered, What was still buried ... deep inside the mommies downstairs?" [Episode ten, "The Baby Shower"]
Season Two
- "As Miranda went on and on about the new Yankees' stats ... I couldn't help wondering about my own. Ten years playing in New York. Countless dates. Five real relationships. One serious. All ending in breakups. If I were a ballplayer, I'd be batting ... whatever really bad is." [Episode one, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"]
- "Do you know what the odds of catching a fly ball are? I didn't. I couldn't help wondering if they were any higher ... than finding a relationship that would last." [Episode one, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"]
- "I wondered ... Could Susan Sharon's marriage be that bad … or was their fighting just a form of foreplay?" [Episode two, "The Awful Truth]
- "While women are certainly no strangers to faking it ... we faked our hair color, cup size. Hell, we've even faked fur. I couldn't help but wonder, Has fear of being alone ... suddenly raised the bar on faking? Are we faking more than orgasms?" [Episode four, "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?"]
- "As I walked home, I couldn't help but wonder ... When did being alone become the modern-day equivalent of being a leper?" [Episode four, "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?"]
- "The fact is, the act of cheating is defined by the act of getting caught. One doesn't exist without the other. I wondered, Was Samantha right? Is cheating like the proverbial tree in the forest? That it doesn't exist if there's no one around to catch you?" [Episode six, "The Cheating Curve"]
- "I started to wonder, In a city as cynical as New York, is it still possible to believe in love at first sight?" [Episode 7, "The Chicken Dance"]
- "I wondered, Was New York really any different from New Delhi? Had our class system been replaced by a caste system? And if so, can we date outside our caste?" [Episode eight, "The Man, the Myth, the Viagra"]
- "I never saw him again but I always wondered two things: Was he able to stay sober? Am I really that good in bed?" [Episode sixteen, "Was It Good For You?"]
- "That week, back in the city, I wondered, What was the allure of the twenties?" [Episode seventeen, "Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder ... Can you be friends with an ex?" [Episode eighteen, "Ex and the City"]
Season Three
- "I couldn't help but wonder: Inside every confident, driven, single woman, is there a delicate, fragile princess just waiting to be saved? Was Charlotte right? Do women just wanna be rescued?" [Episode one, "Where There's Smoke … "]
- "I did find it interesting that a discussion about politics ultimately became a discussion about sex. And a discussion about sex ultimately became a question of politics. Which led me to wonder if the two weren't in fact inextricably linked, and if so, can there be sex without politics?" [Episode two, "Politically Erect"]
- "I started to wonder: Are there women in New York who were just there to make us feel bad about ourselves? For Miranda, that woman was a certain Ukrainian housekeeper." [Episode three, "Attack of the Five-Foot-Ten Woman"]
- "Later that night, I couldn't help but wonder, When the hell did dating become so dump-friendly?" [Episode five ,"No Ifs, Ands, or Butts"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder if I really did know the way to let myself out. Charlotte was right. What did l really know about Natasha? Natasha is a woman who likes tea roses." [Episode eleven, "Running With Scissors"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder, No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?" [Episode thirteen, "Escape from New York"]
- "I wondered ... Were we all just victims of conditioned responses?" [Episode fourteen, "Sex and Another City"]
- "I wondered: In today's youth-obsessed culture, are the women of my generation growing into mature responsible adults, or are we 34 going on 13?" [Episode fifteen, "Hot Child In the City"]
- "While I always ascribed thoughts of karma to the fortune-cookie school psychology, I wondered: Does a string of bad dates really equal one good one?" [Episode seventeen, "What Goes Around Comes Around"]
Season Four
- "So there you have it. We've got a relationship without sex and sex without a relationship. Which had a better shot at survival? I couldn't help wonder: What comes first, the chicken or the sex?" [Episode four, "What's Sex Got to Do With It?"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder what it meant that I wanted to talk to my ex-boyfriend again?" [Episode six, "Baby, Talk Is Cheap"]
- "In view of current circumstances, I couldn't help but wonder: Are men just women with balls?" [Episode ten, "Belles of the Balls"]
- "They're people who have recently moved in with someone. As I looked around I wondered how many of them were mid-fight like myself." [Episode thirteen, "The Good Fight"]
- "Although, at what point do separate interests become separate bedrooms? I couldn't help but wonder: To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?" [Episode fourteen, "All That Glitters … "]
- "Because at the end of yet another failed relationship, when all you have are war wounds and self-doubt, you have to wonder, What's it all worth?" [Episode fifteen, "Change of a Dress"]
- "And if you were given a less-than-perfect model, does it mean a life of less-than-perfect relationships? I couldn't help but wonder: How much does a father figure figure?" [Episode seventeen, "A 'Vogue' Idea"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder: Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?" [Episode eighteen, "I Heart NY"]
Season Five
- "Later that night, I got to thinking about days gone by. That carefree time when our schedules were as wide open as our hearts. The time before the baggage and breakups and babies began to weigh us all down. I couldn't help but wonder: Does that sense of adventure still flicker inside of us? Or when it comes to being carefree single girls, have we missed the boat?" [Episode one, "Anchors Away"]
- "But in view of certain evidence, I had to wonder: Are we the new bachelors?" [Episode seven, "The Big Journey"]
- "And I wondered how something so small could suddenly seem so big." [Episode seven, "The Big Journey"]
Season Six
- "So, when it comes to finance and dating, I couldn't help but wonder: Why do we keep investing?" [Episode one, "To Market, to Market"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder: Can you get to a future if your past is present?" [Episode three, "The Perfect Present"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder: When will waiting for the one be done?" [Episode twelve, "One"]
- "I wondered if 'should' was another disease plaguing women." [Episode fifteen, "Catch-38"]
- "I couldn't help but wonder: Without sharing your worlds, can even the hottest relationship stop cold?" [Episode seventeen, "The Cold War"]


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Take the spirit of Crimson Skies and a bend toward historical accuracy, and you'd end up with something close to Combat Wings, the upcoming arcade flight combat game from City Interactive. The game features around 60 aircraft duking it out in the skies over 13 missions spread across four theaters of World War II, letting you fight as the ace in almost any side that took part in the war. As an arcade game, the flight model isn't a very big stickler for realism, instead letting you quickly take to the skies and get into a good old-fashioned dogfight.
One of the bigger features that the game brings is the Ace mode, which expends a refillable bar and lets you perform feats in combat much more effectively. In Ace mode, the game takes over the flight to some extent, piloting your plane in a rough manner so you can manually make fine adjustments and more easily shoot down an enemy aircraft. Ace mode also zooms your vision and slows down the gameplay so that it's a little easier to line up shots, and any enemy killed in this mode rewards you with a cut scene showing his plane bursting into flames and breaking into pieces. Additionally, it is impossible to crash into the terrain in Ace mode, so as you line up those shots, you don't need to worry about smashing into a rocky outcropping.
The combat seems primarily based around air-to-air fighting, with enemy targets showing up on your screen and a reticle shows where you need to lead your shots. As you do so and try to avoid return fire, there is a lot of radio chatter from both friendly and enemy units. Though it's not exactly realistic, the developers found that it's more entertaining to listen to a larger helping of chatter rather than the reality that is mostly silence punctuated by gunfire.
The game covers a lot of ground, with the four theaters of WWII, including Africa, Britain, the Pacific and Russia. Due to the myriad factions that fought in those theaters, there are quite a few nations represented with their aircraft. Aircraft produced by the U.S., Germany and England are expected, but there are also offerings from Dutch, French and Italian manufacturers. During some missions, you can choose which aircraft you wish to pilot, and the selection list isn't exactly a small one.
Other features, such as the ability to customize your craft with decals, were still largely under development, and some features, such as a cockpit view, have not been implemented. The game will support the PlayStation Move, though the same can't be said for the Kinect. The weapon loadouts of planes is static, so proper plane selection is extremely critical.
Combat Wings does a good job of re-creating the intensity and speed of a World War II dogfight, only without all of the gameplay baggage that can come with it. While the title obviously cares about its history and how it presents it, that doesn't mean that the fun needs to take a backseat. With the game releasing this September, armchair and gamepad flight combat enthusiasts can look forward to taking to the skies for some of the biggest battles of the war.
Greg Hale also contributed to this preview.
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Staff and faculty from the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) program have sallied forth aboard a brightly decorated bus this fall to promote the value of a faith-based education for children.
Notre Dame launched the "Fighting for Our Children's Future National Bus Tour" in early October to highlight the profound role Catholic schools play as agents of human formation and social transformation. The school's nickname, "The Fighting Irish," has flavored the trip, asking the question, "What are you fighting for?"
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"The bus tour was the brainchild of the founder of ACE, Father Tim Scully, who thought a wonderful way to celebrate ACE's 20th anniversary was not just to meet a group of our graduates and friends on campus at Notre Dame but really to go out and to see what's going on at Catholic schools and what's happening on the local level," Sarah Greene, director of ACE Advocates for Catholic Schools, told Our Sunday Visitor. The first round of stops in the Midwest and on the East Coast so far have included: Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Dallas, Memphis and more. The travelers will take a break for the holidays, and then start up again in February visiting the South, Southwest and the West Coast. By the end of the 2013-14 school year, the bus will have stopped in approximately 50 cities.
At each city, the group visits at least one Catholic school (and fellow "ACErs") and confers awards. "We get the chance to honor the great things that are going on in the schools themselves," said Greene.
Meeting with leaders
According to Greene, the name of every Catholic elementary and high school is spelled out on the bus, which was a gift to the university. Children love watching the bus pull into a parking lot and then finding their name on it, she said.
"It's been amazing to see how much the students identify with their particular school and how proud they are to be a part of that particular community," Greene told OSV.
She relayed numerous inspiring examples displayed thus far on the road, including teachers who have given 55 years of their lives to students. Or the Diocese of Memphis that reopened "Jubilee" schools to serve underprivileged and low-income families when complete shutdowns were looming. Imagine the pride of teachers when a little girl, rallying with her class on the U.S. Capitol steps, replied, "To be a Catholic school teacher," when asked what her aspirations were.
"The tour has really afforded us the opportunity to meet great leaders in Catholic schools," Greene said. "We have a chance to meet the students and faculty and to pray with them and to thank them for all they do for Catholic education."
It addition to carrying out its mission, the trip also has provided its share of smiles.
At Our Lady Queen of Martyrs school in the Bronx, about 250 students were waving their self-made Irish banners and chanting "No-tre Dame! No-tre Dame!'
"They were fired up because they feel important that Notre Dame was coming to see them, but we feel way more important because we get to meet them," ACE co-founder Holy Cross Father Sean McGraw told OSV.
Furthering the mission
Looking forward, ACErs aren't merely looking back at 20 years of success; they're looking forward to plunging even further into their mission.
"Pope Francis has said that not only does the Catholic Church have to open up the doors to welcome, but we also have to walk out those doors into the community. The Church has to go where people are at," Father McGraw said. "So we're taking Pope Francis quite literally and hitting the road and going to where the people are. He has been an inspiration to us."
Greene agrees that there's more than a bus tour going on here.
"It's a pilgrimage for Catholic schools," she said.
Mariann Hughes writes from Maryland.
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(AP) – New clashes erupted Tuesday in an intensifying battle for control over Aleppo's international airport and nearby military bases in Syria's north, activists said.
Rebels have tried for weeks to capture Aleppo's international airport and nearby air bases as part of their campaign to erode the regime's air supremacy in the 2-year-old conflict that the United Nations says has claimed more than 70,000 lives.
Rebels have made significant strategic advances in the north in the past months, capturing military bases, two dams on the Euphrates river and the city of Raqqa in the northwest — the first urban area to fall into opposition hands since the uprising against Assad's regime began in March 2011.
The rebels also control large swathes of land outside of Aleppo. The battle for the city itself, Syria's main commercial hub, is locked in a stalemate. Rebels pushed into the city in July and captured several neighborhoods and it has been a major battleground in the civil war ever since.
The army still holds large parts of Aleppo and maintains control over the airport, the country's second largest. Crucially, Syria's air space is firmly controlled by the regime in Damascus, which uses its warplanes to regularly bomb rebel strongholds.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes erupted anew on Tuesday around the airport and rebels also intensified their assault on the Nairab and Mannagh air bases near the strategic facility, which has not been handling fights for weeks because of the fighting.
There were also intense clashes at another nearby airfield known as Kweiras, according to the Observatory, a Britain-based anti-regime group that relies on a network of activists on the ground.
Fighting also raged for a second day in the central city of Homs as rebels tried to take back the poor neighborhood of Baba Amr, which they lost to President Bashar Assad's troops a year ago.
Last year, government forces besieged Baba Amr for a month before rebel forces withdrew and the government seized control on March 1. Hundreds of people were killed in the siege.
On Sunday, rebels pushed back into Baba Amr and Syrian forces responded on Monday by firing heavy machine guns into the neighborhood, sending residents fleeing.
In Geneva, The U.N. food agency said the renewed violence in Baba Amr has forced at least 3,000 families to leave their homes in the contested area.
The World Food Program said in a statement that more than 1,000 of the displaced families have taken refuge in six schools in Homs and some 2,000 families are staying in public shelters or with relatives in different parts of the governorate.
It was unclear how much of the neighborhood rebels had seized or continued to hold after the latest fighting in the area.
In Kiev, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry confirmed that a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped in Syria is free after being held by rebels for more than 150 days.
Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebiynis said the reporter, Ankhar Kochneva, was expected to contact the Ukrainian embassy in Damascus later in the day.
Kochneva, who has written for Syrian and Russian newspapers, was kidnapped in western Syria on Oct. 9. Russian media reported she had been held by members of the Free Syrian Army opposition group. Perebiynis said he had no further information on her.
The Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda quoted Kochneva as saying she walked away from the house where she was held, skirted a rebel guard post and then walked about 15 kilometers (9 miles) through fields until finding a villager who helped her.
According to the newspaper, Kochneva said she was abducted near the city of Homs while riding in a taxi to Damascus.
The abductors released a video in which Kochneva said she was working as a Russian agent, but the newspaper quoted her as saying the recording was made under duress.
Russia is a staunch ally of Damascus, supplying the Assad regime with weapons and shielding his government from tougher U.N. sanctions.
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Associated Press writers Anna Melnichuk in Kiev, Jim Heintz in Moscow and John Heilprin in Geneva contributed to this report.


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One of the most commonly requested products that I often get asked to explore further on ChocolateMission are the ever popular 'Pocky' biscuit sticks. Pocky is a Japanese snack food made by the Ezaki Glico Company of Japan, first produced in 1966 and consists of the simple combination of a biscuit stick traditionally coated with chocolate. As with almost Japanese brand in Japan there have been hundreds of different flavour variations and sub ranges of Pocky down the years - some of which I have featured on this website already (See HERE).
Today thanks to my friends at J-List I got the chance to try some of the more traditional flavours they have to offer. If you look at the J-List website you should be able to find all of these flavours available to buy. Today I will keep the words to a minimum, just enjoy the photographs and the charts:
Pocky Chocolate Flavour - Kcal 230 Fat 9.0g Fat(sats) 4.0g Carbs 33.0g (per 47.0g pack)
Those of you who have ever tried the Glico Mikado available here in the UK will be very familiar with what these had to offer. The sticks of these seem to lack a little of the butteryness of the Mikado biscuits, but the taste was still every bit as moreish. Although just stated as 'chocolate flavour' on the packaging these were most definitely more milk chocolate than dark. The cocoa was sweet, yet not overly so and the chocolate flavour hit was adequately provided with each mouthful. Just as I as I stated with the Mikado, my only real problem with these was that I still found them relatively unsatisfying. Delicious, yet totally unfulfilling.
8.2 out of 10
Pocky Milk Flavour - Kcal 120 Fat 5.0g Fat(sats) 2.0g Carbs 17.0g (per 25.0g)
I was expecting this Milk Flavour to be no different to the Mikado White Chocolate that we also get here in the UK, but they actually turned out to be really rather different. Aesthetically the pale coloured sticks looked appetising but it was the creamy aromas that really caught my attention. In terms of taste the coating was similar to evaporated milk, with a very intense sweet, sugary taste. The underlying cream flavours made this a very tasty combination with the biscuit, though once again I didn't find these to be a very satisfying snacking option. I don't think a bar of this milk flavour coating would work at all, but in this format it was pretty tasty.
7.8 out of 10
Pocky Choco Banana - Kcal 130 Fat 6.0g Fat(sats) 2.0g Carbs 16.0g (per 25.0g)
Out of all the flavours on offer today I was really looking forward to trying this Choco Banana flavour as they were a little different in proposition to the others. Unlike the other flavours which all had plain biscuit sticks, these were chocolate flavoured with a banana flavoured coating. Taking the sticks out the foil packet, a raft of very sweet banana confection smells greeted me. In both smell and taste the banana didn't come across as the most genuine or 'real', but I still found myself enjoying the oldschool confection fruitiness - think of those banana flavoured foam sweets! It has to be said the chocolate biscuit sticks weren't anything spectacular or amazingly different from the usual plainer ones which was a slight disappointment. Banana flavour fans will like these.
7.7 out of 10
Pocky Strawberry Flavour - Kcal 220 Fat 8.0g Fat(sats) 3.0g Carbs 32.0g (per 45.0g)
Finish off with the best? Unfortunately not! As you can tell from my scoring chart below I really hated these. The aromas that emanated from the foil packet straightaway struck a bad chord with me - the fake strawberry scents smelt horribly cheap and didn't excite me at all about the taste test to follow. Unfortunately I was soon to learn that the only thing that was worse than the smell of these Strawberry flavoured Pocky was indeed the taste. Just as the aromas suggested the strawberry coating tasted god awful. It had a very chemically, artificial taste that a) tasted nothing like strawberry and b) was sickeningly sweet - I needn't labour the point but these were really not to my taste at all, I wouldn't recommend them.
4.8 out of 10
Want to try these Pocky flavours for yourself? Head over to J-List - CLICK HERE


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ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The King University women's tennis team jumped out-of-conference to face a tough test at UNC Asheville. Playing the doubles point as one point, the Bulldogs took the 7-0 after sweeping singles play.
UNC Asheville (12-9) won both doubles matches 8-0 and 8-1 to take the doubles point. The then defeated the Tornado (0-16) 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 singles, and Mariana Hosomi fell 6-2, 6-1 at No. 2 singles to Emily McNall. The Bulldog took the final two singles matches 6-0, 6-1, and 6-0, 6-0 to sweep the match.
The Tornado return to Conference Carolinas play this weekend when they host Queens University (N.C.) on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. King then hosts Belmont Abbey College on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.


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MBA Sciences recently joined the HPC Advisory Council, and we are pleased to announce the selection of their SPM.Python product as an SC10 Disruptive Technology (booth 1046C). SPM.Python is a scalable, parallel version of the Python language designed to enable a broad range of users to exploit parallelism.
I will be talking at the Intel Parallel Programming Talk on Intel Software Network TV in Show #97 Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Looking forward to see you all at SC'10,
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Business briefs: Bayer; Mylan
Bayer released its annual report and fourth quarter earnings today. The German drugmaker's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, and special items increased 18% to €1.83 billion, besting average Bloomberg analyst estimates of €1.81 billion. The company also raised sales forecasts for 2013, estimating a 4-5% gain. Bayer said marketing new drugs will receive a greater focus this year, particularly Xarelto, the blood-thinner it sells with J&J, and Stivarga, a cancer drug for patients with rare kind of stomach tumor. Sales of Xarelto quadrupled last year to €131 million per quarter. However, settlement and legal expenses for contraceptives Yasmin and Yaz over alleged cardiovascular incidents set the drugmaker back a whopping €1.19 billion for the year.
Mylan has acquired Strides Arcolab's Indian injectable manufacturer Agila Specialites for $1.6 billion. The move will expand Mylan's presence into emerging markets like Brazil (where Agila has an antibiotics facility) and add 200 marketable products to its portfolio, leaving Mylan with a total of 700. Heather Bresch, CEO, announced the company's plan to become "a top-three global player" in injectables. Agila currently has 350 products in various stages of development, along with seven manufacturing plants. Leerink Swann analyst Jason Gerberry estimates the acquisition will add 4% to Mylan's 2014 earnings.