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East Bay's Most Scenic Road Turns 75
San Francisco shimmers in the distance, across from mountainous Marin. Tiny cars crawl across the Bay Bridge, Berkeley's biggest buildings are toy-sized at the foot of the hills, and on a clear, fogless day there's sometimes a glimpse of the Farallon Islands through the Golden Gate.
Couples snuggle romantically in cars parked in dusty turnouts, facing the view. Locals point out the distant sights to newcomers, while motorcycles growl, sports cars zip, and bicyclists strain along the winding road behind them.
A drive to Grizzly Peak Boulevard for the views is one of those short local excursions that we take for granted—like a springtime visit to the Berkeley Rose Garden, a fresh pastry at the Cheese Board, or a stroll on the Berkeley Pier.
Once upon a time, however, ascending the ridge above Strawberry Canyon to see the views took several hours, a pair of good legs, and some vigorous hiking. It was only in 1932 that things changed.
"A dream cherished by Berkeleyans for many years will come true tomorrow," the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported Saturday, Aug. 20, 1932. Three miles of public roadway running north from Fish Ranch Road to today's intersection of Grizzly Peak and Centennial Drive were to open.
At 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21, 1932—exactly 75 years ago today—the "gates to the road" were flung wide and cars streamed along its length from both north and south, clotting together for a formal 2 p.m. dedication ceremony.
"At the spot where the new boulevard passes just below the summit of Grizzly Peak, almost 1,800 feet about the level of San Francisco Bay, the vista of the East Bay Cities, rising up from the shores of the blue bay, provided an inspiring sight which attracted hundreds of automobile parties," the Gazette reported.
"From this vantage point yesterday afternoon, one could look directly out the Golden Gate with the dull purple of the Marin hills to the right and the shadowy pinnacles of San Francisco to the left—panorama of matchless beauty unequalled any place else in the world."
Credit for the road project was given to County Supervisor Redmond Staats, who had, the Berkeley Gazette reported, conceived the project and championed it through nearly a decade of planning, engineering, and funding decisions.
The road was planned after the 1923 Berkeley Fire as a barrier against, and a way to reach and fight, wildfires before they could sweep down the hills into built-up districts.
It also added a tourist attraction to Berkeley. By 1932, despite the Depression, automobile touring was popular. Millions of American households had acquired cars ("machines" in contemporary parlance) and street, highway, and bridge improvements were the order of the day.
The "Sunday Drive"—a leisurely excursion after church to nowhere in particular—was coming into vogue, as was weekend tripping into the countryside, jaunting about town and even commuting by car. Berkeley was no exception. The completion of the crucial stretch of Grizzly Peak was just one of the local improvements under way.
Down on the waterfront, then befouled by sewage outflow, plans were being made for an Eastshore highway that would allow drivers to bypass the congestion along San Pablo Avenue. The Bay Bridge was almost literally on the horizon; construction would begin in 1933.
As they gathered at the crest of the hills, and lauded the completion of the Grizzly Peak route, local officials took particular note of its value in a car-oriented age.
"The road brings to us one of the most beautiful scenic drives to be found any place in the world which will be enjoyed in the years to come, not only by the residents of Berkeley and the Bay Area, but also by thousands of tourists who will be driven over this boulevard by their friends," said Charles C. Adams, managing director of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.
A "car equipped with a loud speaker" and loaned by the Howard Automobile Company was positioned near the ceremony to broadcast the proceedings to the estimated 2,000 attendees.
Berkeley Mayor Thomas C. Caldecott praised the road as "a dream which Berkeleyans have long looked forward to seeing accomplished."
Oakland's Mayor Fred Morcom—through whose municipality the new road actually ran—then took the podium to proclaim it a "wonderful scenic highway" and publicly wishes for the day when there would be "unification of the entire East Bay, from Richmond to Hayward, into a single city," a prospect which might have made much of his Berkeley-centric audience squirm with discomfort.
The formal opening came with a snip of a ceremonial ribbon, scissors wielded by six-year old Patricia Connolly, daughter of the president of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.
The road thus thrown open to traffic was not quite the Grizzly Peak of today. The 25-foot-wide surface was graveled, not paved, and still bereft of finished shoulders, railings, and signage. Tilden Park did not exist to the east. No university developments climbed higher than the Botanical Garden, and no Centennial Drive snaked through Strawberry Canyon to the summit.
The university had not yet purchased the hillside "Wilson Tract" where much of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory would later be built. Residential subdivisions did not densely crowd the ridge lines north of campus and south of Claremont Canyon.
Today, Grizzly Peak's two lanes of asphalt accommodate not only automobile excursionists but motorcycle riders who gather at the vista points, recreational bicyclists and, increasingly, work commuters shortcutting more congested routes at lower elevations. Some commuters to the university's Space Sciences laboratory even use the shoulders for parking during part of the year.
Not all the cars stay on the shoulder. Tom Klatt, who manages a number of university projects in the Strawberry Canyon area, says that over the past several years he's arranged to have 34 vehicles that came down from the road hauled out of the steep ravines of Strawberry and Claremont canyons. One area dubbed "parking lot gulch" yielded no less than eight old wrecks.
Some tumbles are caused by crashes. Others, Klatt says, are pushed over the edge by joyriders and thieves. That practice has slowed since large logs, from eucalyptus clearance operations, were placed along the shoulders.
Grizzly Peak remains a popular spot for sightseeing. Local historian Paul Grunland points out that with private development over the years, homes and trees have come to block once-public views from most other points along the ridgeline.
Klatt adds that recent eucalyptus thinning operations, primarily carried out to reduce wildfire risk, have also opened up the Grizzly Peak views. Outdoors writer Tom Stienstra noted last December in the San Francisco Chronicle that Grizzly Peak was one of the "five best photo spots" of the Bay Area.
"The sunsets, views and photo shots available from several turnouts on Grizzly Peak Boulevard can stun even longtime residents of the East Bay who have never taken the time to chase this one down," he wrote. "This is one of the best spots close to an urban area to take in a sunset anywhere."
Most of those enjoying the photo and view opportunities today probably have no idea of the third justification for building the road: providing work for hundreds of Alameda County unemployed men, as the Depression deepened.
The work crews, the newspapers reported, were divided into teams of "blue collar" unemployed who constructed the road and "white collar" jobless who did the finishing work.
This fairly substantial project took place before Franklin Roosevelt's election, and well before any of his New Deal programs that provided public works funding. In fact, as the road opened, Herbert Hoover was beginning his formal re-election campaign by telling the Republican National Convention that cutting taxes, not public spending, was the proper approach to economic ills.
Many locals were in sympathy. Two days before praising the opening of the road, the Berkeley Gazette had editorialized that federal relief should be "a minor function of the federal government, and even a doubtful one," and local communities should provide for their own.
There's a postscript to the grand opening. A few days later, the Gazette reported, "Berkeley's new scenic boulevard … has been padlocked for being none too dry."
County Surveyor George Wilhelm had decided that "there are still quite a few finishing touches to be made, such as the building of shoulders and the installing of safety posts and fences … in places the road is being kept wet for several days in order to make the wide gravel highway solid." Wilhelm soon relented, however, and the road was closed only at night.
Perhaps the opening had been intentionally premature. Supervisor Staats was running for Congress, and the public lauding he received as visionary promoter of the new road was good publicity just before the primary election. The Berkeley Gazette—which endorsed Staats early and often—ran a front page photo of him below the headline "Dream Realized" on the day of the opening.
It was a heated contest—with murky allegations of separate political scandals involving Staats and a candidate for his supervisorial seat—and less than two weeks after the road dedication, Staats was bested by a margin of only a few votes in the Republican primary.
Back then, the Republican nomination for Congress was tantamount to election in a one-party town like Berkeley, just as the same is true for Democratic candidates today. Ralph Eltse took not only the primary from Staats but also the general election, despite the national Roosevelt landslide.
Staats does not seem to have held elective office after his defeat, and today seems largely forgotten in the East Bay. Others who helped bring about the road—or who at least were prominent dignitaries at the opening—are better remembered.
The name of former Berkeley Mayor Thomas Caldecott (who was elected supervisor to replace Staats) adorns the highway tunnel through the Berkeley Hills. Oakland Mayor Fred Morcom, who had also been in that 1932 Congressional primary scrum and placed fourth, behind Eltse and Staats, is remembered by Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden.
Even County Surveyor George Posey, who had managed the technical planning of the road, has his name on the Posey Tube, the underwater traffic tunnel from Oakland to Alameda. But Posey never lived to see Grizzly Peak Boulevard's dedication. He died—an apparent suicide—a few weeks before the opening, as his office came under scrutiny for possible connections to a real estate scam.
How To Get There:
Grizzly Peak Boulevard above the UC campus can be reached from the south via the road up Claremont Canyon north (left) of the Claremont Hotel. Ascend the canyon and turn left at the four way summit intersection.
From the UC campus, head up Centennial Drive behind Memorial Stadium to the top of the ridge above the Lawrence Hall of Science, and turn right.
Spruce Street and Euclid Avenue in North Berkeley climb to Grizzly Peak Boulevard. Turn right and go south through the residential neighborhoods to reach the vista road.
There are several dirt turnouts / viewpoints along Grizzly Peak. Take care with the blind curves, fast traffic, and steep shoulders along the road, and share the lanes with bicyclists.


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Funny "pickle fact" about our family: My sisters and I went to drama camp when we were kids. As an activity the camp stood around in a circle and said tongue twisters. Our little sister, Brooke had one in mind and wanted to share it with everyone, it was: Mr. Pickle went into a Pickle, with his friend Pickle. Haha It didn't make any sense! Priceless moment...
Pickled Cucumbers:
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
Combine ingredients for brine in a small jar, add thinly sliced cucumbers. Let sit overnight in fridge, and That's it, pickles! You can even reuse the brine, store it in the fridge and keep putting pickles into it.
Now for the bowl. I love making these bowls because it means I will have a good lunch for the few days :). Everything can be prepared ahead of time and just stored in the fridge until ready to eat. I topped it with kasha (toasted buckwheat) which gave it a nice surprise of crunch! Drizzle with olive oil and you're good to go!
|pickled cucumbers, quinoa, red pepper, kale salad, mushroom/onion sautee, lentils, topped with kasha and olive oil
|bowly bowly bowly bowl
1 head kale
Salt, to taste
Juice of 1 lime
1 tbsp olive oil
Pepper, to taste
De-stem kale and slice into bite size pieces. Add rest of ingredients and massage until broken down.
Mushroom/Onion Sautee:
7-8 mushrooms, sliced
1/3 onion, sliced
salt, pepper
1 clove garlic
oil, for frying
Fry onions in oil for 2-3 minutes, add rest of ingredients, cook until mushrooms and onions are tender.
We made a bowl like this before for our Sketch-Free Student Eating series a while back too. Check it out!
We submitted this to Ricki's Wellness Weekend this week.

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Dear All,
I hope you are well. As we prepare to wrap up the semester here at Washington University in St. Louis, lots of exciting things are still happening. I will here mention two events specifically related to Iran.
Last week, Washington University Coalition for Peace organized a panel discussion that brought close to fifty students together in the dorm area. The title of the panel was Out of Iraq, Hands off Iran. Professor Howard Brick of the History Department, Mr. Bill Ramsey of Human Right's Watch, and I spoke. More importantly, a long and meaningful discussion ensued that looked at our options with regard to the reality in Iraq and ways of bringing the suffering to an end. If you are a part of Washington University community, you have likely seen the flyer for the second event. Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a dynamic and dedicated historian of the Middle East with special interest in transnational and global aspects of history, will talk on our campus tomorrow. The topic of his talk: A Manufactured Crisis: Facts and Fiction, and the Politics of a Nuclear Iran. Do stop by at Ridgley, 219 at 3:00 to hear often neglected facts about this much debated conflict.
Current Issues
* If you are concerned about the "Islamic threat," and particularly the
horrible things that Iranians are capable of doing to the world, here
is another sobering and neglected study that shows the reality may be
very different. This study, which would have made it to the headlines
if its result pointed a finger at Iran or the Muslim Middle East, was
carried out by the European Police Office (Europol) as its first major
report on terrorism in EU. According to the study, there were 498
incidents in eleven EU countries last year described as "terrorist
attacks." The Basque separatist group ETA carried out 136 terrorist
attacks one of which was deadly killing two in Madrid. The remaining
497 fortunately cost no human lives. How about the Islamic terrorists
then? According to Europol report, Islamists carried out ONE out of
the 498 terrorist attacks in the European Union in 2006. If you wish
to read the rest of this report or visit the Europol web site, click
on http://www.counterpunch.com/larsson04212007.html. My thanks to
Ahmet Karamustafa and Frank Flinn who both sent me this article.
* For some, like Professor John Lewis, facts seem to have little to do
with reality. Professor Lewis will deliver a talk titled "No
Substitute for Victory" at George Mason University, on Tuesday April
24, advocating a US attack on Iran. For event details see
www.theobjectivestandard.com/events.asp. He has suggested connections
between Iran and the 9/11 tragedy and advocated a nuclear attack on
Iran using Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a model. Such an attack would be
a genocide. Please speak up. If you are in the vicinity, or have
friends who live in the vicinity, please attend and support our
friends at CASMII ( the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military
Intervention in Iran) next Tuesday at GMU as they leaflet at the event
and raise questions about Mr. Lewis's "facts." Location: The Johnson
Center Cinema is located at 4400 University Drive, a short distance
from Ox Road (Route 123), which also intersects Braddock Road nearby.
* Mr. Lewis does not seem to be the only one taking genocide lightly.
This week, Senator McCain, who many, regardless of their political
leanings, might have viewed as a mature and thoughtful politician,
found bombing Iran funny. Noticing the effect of his joke, however,
the Senator may not be laughing anymore:
Relief from Current Events
* This window has been heavily focussed on current events. Let us close with some fun cultural and artistic issues. To begin with, here is a historical breakthrough. New traces appear to have been found of Cyrus the Great! Here is an article on that courtesy of my friend Pamela Barmash. Thanks Pamela:
* Iranian women are the heart beat of modern Iran. With their writing, teaching, art work, activism and more, they are major contributors to
reform inside the country and ambassadors of peace to the world.
Tonight, I send you the beautiful images of a recent exhibition by a
wonderful Iranian woman painter Farah Notash who currently works and
teaches in Iran and has exhibited her art work in many parts of the
world. Notash works with many different media articulating her views
on a wide range of subjects from gender, and nature, to heavenly
banquets. Click here for a show of her art: Farah Notash Art Show.
Have a great week.
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Professor and Chair
Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Washington University in St. Louis
Tel: (314) 935-5156
Fax: (314) 935-4399


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Turn a Skateboard Into a Rocket With Mentos and Coke
Do your kids like things that go fast?
Want to see what happens when you mix things together that you know will explode?
Make a skateboard rocket car with your kids.
Just mix soda and Mentos candies together to create an explosive geyser.
In this article I'll show you how to turn a Mentos soda geyser on its side and transform it into a skateboard rocket.
Why Make a Skateboard Rocket Car?
Because it's so cool!
When you shake up a bottle of soda, the soda and air create a powerful explosion. Now, imagine what happens when you attach that soda to a movable object. Vroom, vroom! And away it goes.
Perform scientific experiments with your kids. It's an excellent way to bond with them, and you'll discover how things work in the process. Your kids may not even realize they're doing science. They're just having a good time!


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Game #133: Jays at A's pregame
Toronto (67-65) at Oakland (65-69)
at 3:35 p.m. ET at McAfee Coliseum
Today's lineups:
Vernon Wells, CF
Reed Johnson, LF
Alex Rios, RF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Gregg Zaun, C
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay (14-6, 3.86 ERA)
Mark Ellis, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Jack Cust, LF
Mike Piazza, DH
Dan Johnson, 1B
Marco Scutaro, SS
Jack Hannahan, 3B
Rob Bowen, C
Jeff DaVannon, CF
PITCHING: LHP Lenny DiNardo (8-7, 3.57 ERA)
NOTES: Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi confirmed that Wells has been playing with tightness in his shoulder. The injury dates back to last season and Ricciardi said the club will have it examined after this season is over. It hasn't been considered serious enough to pull Wells out of the lineup. … LHP Gustavo Chacin was scheduled to undergo exploratory surgery on his throwing shoulder on Wednesday. … Zaun's left knee was still sore, but the catcher appeared in the starting lineup.
entering Wednesday
1. Seattle 73-57 (–)
2. New York 73-59 (1)
3. Detroit 71-61 (3)
4. Minnesota 67-65 (7)
5. Toronto 67-65 (7)
REALITY CHECK…Since 1995, the runner-up in the AL Wild Card race has finished with an average of 89 victories. The Blue Jays would need to go 23-7 over their final 30 games to reach 90 wins.
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Talk about a clutch performance-top of the 9th, 2 out and Stairs cranks one to tie the game.
What the **** is gibby doing sending Halliday out-he's already thrown 111 pitches.
This s how pitchers get injured.
This is how soft pitchers get hurt.
Halladay is anything but soft.
true Robert, but check the last few outings, he's been used a lot lately
Where's Waldo?
Oh, he's on the mound.
Wow, didn't know Gibbons knew he was still on the team.
Wonder if Wells really is hurt or if it's a way for them to use it as an excuse for his poor season?
Ithink it's an excuse he never started to roll his shoulder until last night Stairs is the man.
Gibbons has no say about Doc he decides if he goes out again because he is a man Gibbons is not.
well someone had better come with an injury excuse for Johnson as well. 0 for 6.
Why not sray with frazor downs is over worked to say the least."GIBBONS IS AN IDIOT"
yes it was a tough loss for Frazor-he deserved better. The batter was a lefty though, so Downsy was likely the best choice
Actually, I was wrong. Hannahan hits .256 against righties and .300 against lefties, so Wolfe was probably a better choice
Or as you said Garry-stay with Frasor
maybe Gibbons is illiterate and Whitt wont tell him because he wants his job.
By the way who did this dork JP ever play for I never heard of him or Gibbons before they came here.
Well, personally I don't call JP a dork-I think he's done a good job. As far as Gibby I think he played sand lot as a kid. lol
I know where I saw them before it was in a us postal station their pitcure was on the wall lol.
It seems nobody wants to post anymore thats what poor playing will do.
Matt Stairs gets my vote for team MVP this year,Dollar value Stairs is the best player the jays have landed for a long time.
I agree with you on Stairs-hes been exceptional for us.
J.p. was with Oakland before I believe as an assistant.
Why don't we get a petiton going to get Cito Gaston back as manager and if they have to get rid of JP to do so do it.
What if Frank Thomas comes out of the gate next year like he did this year but still gets 1000 at bats we have to pick up his option for 09/or if he gets 580 at bats in 08/we still have to pick up his option, bad-bad deal by JP,By the way we can't trade him unless we pay half his salery,But JP likes doing that look at his track record.
I must be the only Jays fan out west or the rest of them don't know about this blog.
I wonder how many read this blog and are afraid to post on it well don't be the rest of us would be very happy to hear your input no matter what it is remember were just fans like you,Guys and Gals alike.
I wonder about Cito. I think one of baseball's misteries is why he hasn't had another big league job after winning two in a row here.
I listen to some of the Jays who used to play for him, and consistently they say he was one of the best batting coaches n baseball. So why hasn't he been working?
As I remember a big chunk of Thomas's contract was in signing bonus and I thought it was for two years. Are you sure about the 2009 option and is it Frank's option or the Jays?
Joe Kennedy in 06/stats.
35 INS in 39 games
34 hits
10 runs 9-ER
only 1 hr.
I don't know what happend to him this year but as you can see he has talent he could be a big help to us.
Arnsberg seems to get the best out of these pitchers as you can see maybe he can help Joe lets hope so.
gsumner go to the TO STAR and read griffins mail bag thats were I got it from and the info on gaston.
THe jays system is loaded with pitchers all of whom can pitch decently. In the future (i guess 2-4 years) we are gonna be trading them away like flies for mediocre/decent offensive players. Other than travis and a couple others no one in the system seems like they will be able to land a starting job as a hitter in the majors.
Guys if snider doesn't improve his feilding then we will probably make him a DH then what happens to lind seeing that Lind is a DH too. And you guys think that lind will start with the jays next season?
and i agree with garry if you guys/gals read this blog then just post even once. We don't care if all you gotta say is hi. Atleast that shows support for the jays and jordan who is a good writer.
One thing about Jordan he tells it like it is thats how a good reporter works,so far everyone on this blog has nothing but good things to say about him even though he is not a Jays fan but his wife is and thats good enough for me.
I think you will see Lind slowly take over Johnsons job and his fielding will only get better.
Towers contract is up at the end of this season so he will be a free agent,I hope he gets a good job the offence did not do him any favors this year.
Another thing this offence cost the Doc and Marcum a shot at the Cy Young this year,And the team the wild card.
I don't know why Brantly is still with this team,This man is not a hitting coach at the best of times.
One thing we know for sure the Jays cant lose today lol.
harry don't worry about the guys in the minor leagues they will come along it takes time.
How much will Stairs cost next year I say 3,5 mil.Johnny Mac will cost 2 mil.Will JP pay the price.
Don't expect Glaus to heal up this winter I'm not a doctor but if you read up on what he has it's no joke,And that bone chip will never heal,Just look at the problems he has had this year,The only reason he is still here is because of JPs inflated EGO.
I'm a fan out west and I'm so cheesed off watching Toronto loss games they should have won with just a few'BUNTS"to move someone ahead and get away from their double plays.Fire Wells,Overbay, Johnson all the coaches for starters.
Looks like the cheeks are getting tight in Boston who got swept today by the Yanks. Manny's out for 10 days or so, and panic is setting in. They could be going into a tail spin.
Giambi in NY was diagnised with the same ailment that Glaus has. He went on the DL for two months and has been fine ever sense-so I do think theres a reasonable chance he'll heal-providing of course no one trys to convince him to change shoe sizes again like they did this time.
What I heard about Snider is, he kept trying to make plays/throws like he did in high school at the start of the season. He also has been caught trying to steal bases a number of times for the same reason.
As you see from his stats though, he's a valuable commodity, so you can bet they're working with him to improve. I think Lind was the same in the lower minors but changed-to the point this year he's only had 1 error in total between here and Syracuse.
Having a group of young talented pitchers as we have in the lower minors is pure gold. Even if we don't need them here-they do become invaluable trading chips, in a couple of years.
It's going to be interesting to see what The Jays do with Lind. Clearly, Wells, Rios and Stairs are coming back. Johnson is having a really poor year-and it might be that we saw his very best last year-time will tell.
I do think Lind will stay here next time up, it appears he's gotten out of the habit of striking out on that high outside fastball and his average in AAA is up to .304
With Diaz and Fasano on the DL, David Corrente was called up from Dunedin. David is from Wallaceburg, Ontario and is batting .348 with 3 hr's, 6 rbi's and a ops of 1.206 in 8 games with Syracuse.
Makes you think the kid is ancious to play at home.
Hector Luna is batting .377 with 2 Hr's and 3 errors in 14 games.
Kennedy went .2 innings last night, gave up two hits and a walk before he was pulled.
Brandon League went two strong innings for Dunedin,gave up 1 hit and strick out 1.
Ricky Romero continues improving from his injury. Went 7 innings, gave up 5 hits, 1 run and struck out 7.
so there's no misunderstanding Kennedy went 2/3 of an inning
Twofossils: The Yankees, Red Sox, Mariners, and Angels have all grounded into more double plays than the Blue Jays have this year, so it's silly to blame double plays for the Jays' offensive struggles.
Check out James Dougher of the Gulf Coast Blue Jays, one of those great young pitchers we have in the lower minors.
He's a 6'7″, 225 pound righty starter who's leading the Gulf Coast league in era-1.56 and whip at .88.
He had only one bad outing this year when he allowed five runs in just 3 1/3 innings. Take that start away and his ERA would have been at 0.68.
Opponents batted just .189 and he finished up the year allowing just 1 run in his last 27.2 innings.
Although it's late in the season for promotions, I'd expect he moves up quickly next year.
Also, check out Brian Letko, Dougher's team mate. He's a 6'5″ lefty with an era of 1.50. he had two tough starts in which he gave up 7 runs.
Other than those two outings, he went another 33.1 innings and only gave up 1 for a staggering era of .27.
thanks for the updates, seems like ricky romero is doing pretty good too. And i'm not too familiar with the minor league to wat's the gulf coast. i know that new hampshire is AA and syracue is AAA.
i don't think johnson will be back too cause JP wants to bring lind up (i think) next year if JP makes no moves except get rid on johnson then i think this will be the lineup (also taking into consideration that thigpen will be starting catcher)
I think that we should go to the trade route to get a good shortstop someone who is consistent and has some speed so then they can lead off. I just don't like wasting so much power at top of the line-up. if we can't trade for them then go after mcdonald cause money-wise he will be the best we can get.
It goes like this:
New Hampshire-AA
Gulf Coast-Rookie
Most of this year's draftees were sent to the Gulf Coast, and Auburn.
The point, is JP and his crew appear to have had an exceptional draft this year-particulary in pitchers.
As I had previously posted, we have 30 pitchers down there with era's under 3.0.
I like how Romero is coming around after being on the DL as well. If both he and Purcey have a good Arizona fall campaign, they might both start in AAA next year, or be moved up throughout the year-and possibly called up next September.
I would like to point out that one of the big reasons johnson had such a great year last year was because he was platooning with Catalonatto. This means he was facing mainly lefties. But, I love the guy's heart and he was injured all this year, so I think we should be willing to give him a chance at the beginning of next year. We gave Rios another chance after the same sort of thing last year.
Also, are there any catchers coming onto the free agent market this year??
Johnson was platooning until he won the starting job from Catalanotto by outperforming him against righties. This year he hasn't been able to bunt his way on and pitchers aren't pitching him inside, which limits his ability to get on base via HBP.


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I read many variants today and get some knowledge in general, so here is a steps of mine thoughts in pictures (horrible paint.net ones).
We need to develop grid system, so we check only thing near, perform simple check to cut out deep check, and at - last deep check like per-pixel collision check.
Step 1 - Let
p2are some sprites lets first just check with circle collision - because large distance between
p2this fails and of course so we don't need test more deeply. But if we have not 2, but 20 objects, why we need to even circle test something so far outside of our view.
Step 2 - Add basic column system, now we don't bother with
p2if it's in a column far from
p1column, so we even don't do circle test. But
p3is in the same col, so let do circle test, which of course will fail.
Step 3 - Lets improve column system to the grid system with grid cell size just like
p3collision boxes, so we cut out things much top or below
p1. And this is all great until comes BIG OBJs which is some kind of platforms. They are much bigger then grid cell.
Circle test for will be successful, but deep check for whole big obj will fail
And that the part I can't get.
How do I store the grid position of big object? Like 4 grid coords for big object vertexes? And if one of them close to
p1 do circle check for centre of big object then a deep one if succeed? Am I do it wrong?
My possible solution:


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The entertainment systems of the Ars staff are fairly varied in the kinds of gear the include, with some of us relying mainly on Apple (via AppleTV, the Mac mini, and iTunes or Boxee) for our entertainment needs, while others are more Microsoft-centric (Windows Home Server, Xbox 360, and maybe XBMC). Some of us consider our netbooks or iPads part of our home entertainment setup, because we use them for remote controls, or for looking up movies on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB. The one thing we have in common is that we're all early adopters, and we all love to know what others are using and how.
We recently decided to poll the A/V Club, our forum dedicated in part to audio/visual gear, to find out what the early adopters in the OpenForum have in their entertainment systems. We asked people to submit the components that they consider to be part of the entertainment systems into a form, and now that the list is complete, we're polling the wider Ars audience to find out just how popular these items are. So if you have one or more of the items in this list, then vote for your items, and look for the poll results next week.
Before you start voting though, a few more words about the list itself.
We weren't interested in core system components, like a receiver, speakers, or TV. And we also purposely excluded the DVR, under the assumption that if we asked everyone in the audience to vote on a list of non-core entertainment system components so that we could rank them by popularity, the DVR would probably be number one—so we're just throwing that one out preemptively, because we really want to know what else people have in their entertainment systems, in addition to core components and a DVR. So take a look and cast a vote, we'll announce the winners on July 15.
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1. Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Coast Highway, specifically between Monterey and San Luis Obispo (my old stomping grounds), is nothing less than wicked-awesome. Hairpins, bridges, Redwoods, cliffs, beaches, Pacific Ocean, sea animals, Big Sur, Nepenthe – there's nothing in North America equal to this stretch of coastal motorcycle bliss. There's much of Hwy 1 north of Monterey that should definitely be explored, but anything south of SLO isn't worth the spent gas and rubber it takes to ride it. Best advice – don't come in summertime. Plan your visit for October when the weather is at its best and the tourists in their Winnebago land whales have gone to hibernate, I'm assuming in Florida.


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A while back you may remember me talking about how my thai yellow soup came into being. This is the very recipe where that chilli mishap occurred. You see, my beloved Elly is not a big fan of "spicy" food so I was trying to create a thai curry that she would at least like, so I could have a curry more often without feeling guilty that I was torturing her.
Honestly it had nothing to do with me wanting to slowly increase her tolerance for spicy food
On that fateful day the particular green chili I had decided to use was (unknown to me) not terribly hot and as I was cooking with Elly in mind I also removed the seeds. Since that incident I now cut a tiny amount of chilli off the end and touch my tongue with it to get an idea of heat. If I don't feel a burn I use the seeds in the dish.
But that's just me – I've known people who put lots more chilli in their cooking than I do, it's all down to personal taste so it's always a good idea to experiment with the strength and amount of chilli in a curry if it's not to your liking.
Curry Paste
1 stick of lemongrass
3 cloves of garlic
1 green chilli (seeds optional)
Half an onion
Thumb sized piece of ginger
Handful of fresh coriander (leaves and stems)
Handful of fresh basil leaves
Handful of fresh mint leaves
Half teaspoon ground coriander
Half teaspoon ground cumin
Half teaspoon pepper
3 tablespoons fish sauce
Juice of half a lime (zest the lime first and save along with the remaining juice)
1 teaspoon brown sugar
Roughly a quarter can of coconut milk
and the rest
1 and a half onions, finely diced
4 chicken breasts, diced
2 bell peppers, diced
Three-quarter tin of coconut milk
2 kaffir lime leaves
Serves 4
The Curry Paste
To make the curry paste, roughly chop the ingredients and add everything except the coconut milk to your blender. Give them a few pulses to break it down a little. You are looking for a this to become a thick but smooth paste, so add the coconut milk a little at a time and try to blend. As soon as it starts to turn into a paste stop adding coconut milk and blend to a smooth paste.
Now you have your curry paste, you can store this for a day or two in an airtight container in the fridge. Or you can use it fresh, which is always my preference. It's nice to know that you could make this up in advance if you were going to be a little pushed for time.
and the rest
Next, you'll want to heat a frying pan over a medium to high heat and when it is up to temperature add a little oil and then your paste. You just want to release the aromatics from it so don't wait too long (about a minute) before adding the rest of the onions and allowing them to soften a little (about 5 minutes). Add the diced chicken and stir fry until sealed (about 5 minutes).
Now increase the heat under your pan and add the coconut milk, diced peppers and the kaffir lime leaves. As soon as the mixture begins to boil, reduce to a simmer for about 20 – 25 minutes and serve on a bed of pilaf rice.
Remember the lime zest and juice I said to save? Well, here's a great way to use it up and add a real subtle zing and punch to this dish. When making the rice pilaf, add the lime zest and juice instead of the turmeric and cook as normal. Hey presto, zingy rice!


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Nova Not AL ROY, Finishes Fourth
Today Major League Baseball announced the American and National League Rookie of the Year Award winners. Atlanta Braves' closer Craig Kimbrel captured the N.L. award, winning unanimously with all 32 first-place votes.
The A.L. ROY went to starting pitcher Jeremy Hellickson of the Tampa Bay Rays, as he received 17 first-place votes. Mark Trumbo of the Los Angeles Angels came in second place and Eric Hosmer of the Kansas City Royals finished third.
Ivan Nova, who most Yankee fans expected to be the first Rookie of the Year since Derek Jeter in 1996, finished in fourth place with just one first-place vote.
Cue the anger and confusion among the pinstripe faithful.
Truthfully, any one of the top four A.L. ROY finishers could have taken home the accolade. Hellickson, Trumbo, Hosmer and Nova each had seasons worthy of the award.
Since the last two A.L. Rookie of the Year awards have gone to pitchers (Andrew Bailey of the Oakland Athletics in 2009 and Neftali Feliz of the Texas Rangers in 2010) I had the feeling either Hellickson or Nova would win this year – keeping the trend of pitchers winning the A.L. ROY.
Naturally I felt Trumbo (left field, first base) and Hosmer (first base) weren't going to win – although each of them put up outstanding offensive numbers for rookies. Trumbo clubbed 29 homers and knocked in 87 runs, despite sporting a .254 batting average. Meanwhile Hosmer smacked 19 home runs and drove in 78 runs, nearly hitting .300 with a BA of .293.
But as expected, the pitching trend kept up.
Hellickson made 29 starts for the Rays and went 13-10 with a 2.95 ERA and 117 strikeouts in 189 innings pitched. His won-loss record may not have been indicative of an overpowering season. Yet serving as a middle-of-the-rotation pitcher, Hellickson helped the Rays in a major way – especially considering they had traded away Matt Garza, a hurler the Rays thought to be a front-line starter, at the beginning of the year.
Nova struggled a little bit at the beginning of the season. He got shelled and lost some tough games in the early-going, but found a way to persevere and endure, grinding his way to a 16-4 record in 28 starts. He finished with an ERA of 3.70 and notched 98 strikeouts in 165.1 innings pitched.
Looking at overall individual stats – minus the record – Hellickson did have a numerically stronger year. Plus, that brief period when Nova was sent down to the minors in July probably hurt his chances at the ROY.
Yet, look at Nova and how he evolved throughout the course of the season; how he was slated to be a number four starter and was basically forced to become a number two when Phil Hughes and A.J. Burnett faltered.
Nova was forced to "carry the ball" so-to-speak, and he carried it very well.
Last week About.com published an article revealing who should win each end-of-the-year award, who the dark horses were, and who they thought would win. Not only did this article say Nova should win – but it said he would win.
"Who should win Rookie of the Year: Ivan Nova of the New York Yankees.
The 24-year-old Dominican righty finished 16-4, and did it while filling a gaping hole in the rotation of one of the best teams in the league. His ERA is just a so-so 3.70, but has a 2.7 WAR, which is solid in a relatively weak crop of rookies, at least statistically this season.
Who will win Rookie of the Year: Nova. Being in the big market will put him over the top."
The author of that article seemed to have a lot of faith in the Yankee rookie – and not that I pay that much attention to WAR, or wins above replacement, but it was a good point – one I didn't even take into consideration.
Those who vote for the end-of-the-year awards, AKA the baseball writers, clearly recognized Nova for his effort and what he brought to the Yankees – but in a lot of the fans' minds, they did not recognize it enough because he didn't finish first.
Lately the Yankee fans seemingly have a lot to be upset about when it comes to these awards after every season. Last year many felt CC Sabathia – who won 21 games – was robbed of the A.L. Cy Young when Felix Hernandez, who only won 13 games, captured the award over the Yankee ace.
What's more, Robinson Cano was a front-runner to take home the A.L. Most Valuable Player Award in 2010, but he came in third to Josh Hamilton (the winner) and Miguel Cabrera (first runner-up). I know of more than one Yankee fan who truly felt Cano was, in a word, "shafted."
The last Yankee to collect a meaningful end-of -the-year accolade: Alex Rodriguez, when he won the A.L. Most Valuable Player Award in 2007. To get there, A-Rod had to crush 54 homers, bat .314, and drive in 156 runs.
It's a little obvious by now the writers who vote for the awards aren't exactly Yankee lovers, and the media has apparently become somewhat "anti-pinstripe." Cano and Curtis Granderson are two Yankees that can easily be considered for this year's A.L. MVP, which will be announced a week from today on Nov. 21.
Now that Nova did not win Rookie of the Year, I don't expect either Yankee to win the award.
Sabathia is up again for the Cy Young with his 19 wins this season and 3.00 ERA – but forget it. Everyone already knows Justin Verlander (24-5, 2.40 ERA) of the Detroit Tigers is taking home that piece of hardware.
The Yankees may have run out of luck this year when it came to the awards. Like it or not, the media is not on the Yanks' side and ultimately they choose who goes home with the trophies.
If I ever make the Baseball Writer's Association I promise to be fair and unbiased, as all writers should be. If I were voting this year, I probably would have given Nova a first-place vote, simply because he was valuable to the Yankees – and you can't argue that. Just look at the points made in the About.com article.
Just know that if I ever get to the BBWA, there will be at least one writer who doesn't hate the Yankees on the voting panel – although I would maintain my professional integrity as a reporter and consider every candidate respectfully.
As a Yankee fan though, I can only hope next year Jesus Montero breaks out and has the year of his life. If he can get his game up and have a "coming out party" of sorts in 2012, he can avenge this rather unfair treatment of Nova in this year's A.L. Rookie of the Year voting – at least unfair in the minds of the majority of the Yankee fans.
On second thought, if I did have a vote this year, I would have voted for this guy…
Just kidding, just kidding.


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Kimberly-Clark Recalls Kotex Natural Balance* Security® Unscented Tampons Regular Absorbency from a Limited Number of Retail Stores Within the United States
DALLAS (November 9, 2011) - Effective November 9, 2011, Kimberly-Clark announced a product recall of a limited number of its Kotex Natural Balance* Security® Unscented Tampons Regular Absorbency distributed to specific stores in the United States.
This recall is limited to two product SKUs (carton codes), 15063 (18 count) and 15068 (36 count). The tampons were manufactured with a raw material contaminated with a bacterium, Enterobacter sakazakii, which may cause health risks, including vaginal infections, urinary tract infections (UTIs), pelvic inflammatory disease or infections that can be life-threatening. Women with serious existing illnesses, cancer or immune-compromised conditions, such as HIV, are at increased risk. There is limited evidence of transfer between individuals with this bacterium.
The impacted product includes both 18-count and 36-count packages of the Kotex Natural Balance* Security® Unscented Tampons Regular Absorbency that were shipped to retail customers between October 29, 2011 and November 2, 2011 in specific Walmart stores in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico and Texas; specific Fry's stores in Arizona; and specific Smith's stores in Utah and Arizona. More information about the specific product SKUs and lot numbers are noted below. Not all stores in the above mentioned states were impacted. All impacted stores have been alerted to remove the recalled product SKUs from shelves. A listing of stores impacted and the latest information can also be found on the Kimberly-Clark website at www.kimberly-clark.com and the Kotex brand website at www.kotex.com.
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EndoChoice, Inc., a platform-technology company focused on gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy, announced today that it will merge with Peer Medical Ltd., a privately held Israeli company developing innovative endoscopy technology. The combined company will operate under the EndoChoice name and be headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, with its R&D center based in Israel.
EndoChoice also announced that it has closed a $43 million fund-raising round led by Sequoia Capital and its existing investors to finance projected growth.
Peer Medical has developed a proprietary video system and Full Spectrum Endoscope™ that greatly expands the field of view during endoscopy and colonoscopy, helping gastroenterologists detect more cancerous polyps and abnormal lesions. Conventional endoscopes have a 170 degree field of view. The Full Spectrum Endoscope™ provides up to a 330 degree view making it a far more effective diagnostic tool.
Mark Gilreath, Founder & CEO of EndoChoice, said, « It is well known that we are missing 25 to 40 percent of polyps during colonoscopy. Conventional scopes are comparable to driving a car without side windows – can you imagine all the things you are missing? The Full Spectrum Endoscope™ provides the side windows for a full view and it is a tremendous difference. This technology will save lives. »
Said Peer Medical Founder & CEO, Avi Levy, « We were attracted to EndoChoice because they share our passion for service and providing GI physicians with new technology that improves patient care. We are thrilled that the fastest growing medtech company in the U.S. will now be offering the world's most innovative endoscope. We look forward to building on EndoChoice's platform and established customer base and working together to commercialize this breakthrough technology. »
« We are very impressed with the R&D team in Israel. Their capabilities and insights will fuel the future growth of EndoChoice for many years to come as we continue to build a great platform company, » Gilreath said.
The Full Spectrum Endoscope™ is not yet available for sale, although it has received a CE Mark, ISO 13475 certification and FDA 510(k) clearance.
About EndoChoice
EndoChoice, a platform-technology company, provides devices, diagnostics, infection control and imaging for specialists treating a wide range of gastrointestinal diseases. EndoChoice currently has over 2,500 customers and distribution in 34 countries worldwide, and was recently recognized for the third consecutive year as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. by Inc.


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7.1 Actel ACT
The Actel ACT family interconnect scheme shown in Figure 7.1 is similar to a channeled gate array. The channel routing uses dedicated rectangular areas of fixed size within the chip called wiring channels (or just channels ). The horizontal channels run across the chip in the horizontal direction. In the vertical direction there are similar vertical channels that run over the top of the basic logic cells, the Logic Modules. Within the horizontal or vertical channels wires run horizontally or vertically, respectively, within tracks . Each track holds one wire. The capacity of a fixed wiring channel is equal to the number of tracks it contains. Figure 7.2 shows a detailed view of the channel and the connections to each Logic Module—the input stubs and output stubs .
FIGURE 7.1 The interconnect architecture used in an Actel ACT family FPGA. ( Source: Actel.)
FIGURE 7.2 ACT 1 horizontal and vertical channel architecture. (Source: Actel.)
In a channeled gate array the designer decides the location and length of the interconnect within a channel. In an FPGA the interconnect is fixed at the time of manufacture. To allow programming of the interconnect, Actel divides the fixed interconnect wires within each channel into various lengths or wire segments. We call this segmented channel routing, a variation on channel routing. Antifuses join the wire segments. The designer then programs the interconnections by blowing antifuses and making connections between wire segments; unwanted connections are left unprogrammed. A statistical analysis of many different layouts determines the optimum number and the lengths of the wire segments.
7.1.1 Routing Resources
The ACT 1 interconnection architecture uses 22 horizontal tracks per channel for signal routing with three tracks dedicated to VDD, GND, and the global clock (GCLK), making a total of 25 tracks per channel. Horizontal segments vary in length from four columns of Logic Modules to the entire row of modules (Actel calls these long segments long lines ).
Four Logic Module inputs are available to the channel below the Logic Module and four inputs to the channel above the Logic Module. Thus eight vertical tracks per Logic Module are available for inputs (four from the Logic Module above the channel and four from the Logic Module below). These connections are the input stubs.
The single Logic Module output connects to a vertical track that extends across the two channels above the module and across the two channels below the module. This is the output stub. Thus module outputs use four vertical tracks per module (counting two tracks from the modules below, and two tracks from the modules above each channel). One vertical track per column is a long vertical track ( LVT ) that spans the entire height of the chip (the 1020 contains some segmented LVTs). There are thus a total of 13 vertical tracks per column in the ACT 1 architecture (eight for inputs, four for outputs, and one for an LVT).
Table 7.1 shows the routing resources for both the ACT 1 and ACT 2 families. The last two columns show the total number of antifuses (including antifuses in the I/O cells) on each chip and the total number of antifuses assuming the wiring channels are fully populated with antifuses (an antifuse at every horizontal and vertical interconnect intersection). The ACT 1 devices are very nearly fully populated.
If the Logic Module at the end of a net is less than two rows away from the driver module, a connection requires two antifuses, a vertical track, and two horizontal segments. If the modules are more than two rows apart, a connection between them will require a long vertical track together with another vertical track (the output stub) and two horizontal tracks. To connect these tracks will require a total of four antifuses in series and this will add delay due to the resistance of the antifuses. To examine the extent of this delay problem we need some help from the analysis of RC networks.
7.1.2 Elmore's Constant
Figure 7.3 shows an RC tree —representing a net with a fanout of two. We shall assume that all nodes are initially charged to V DD = 1 V, and that we short node 0 to ground, so V 0 = 0 V, at time t = 0 sec. We need to find the node voltages, V 1 to V 4 , as a function of time. A similar problem arose in the design of wideband vacuum tube distributed amplifiers in the 1940s. Elmore found a measure of delay that we can use today [ Rubenstein, Penfield, and Horowitz, 1983].
FIGURE 7.3 Measuring the delay of a net. (a) An RC tree. (b) The waveforms as a result of closing the switch at t = 0.
The current in branch k of the network is
The linear superposition of the branch currents gives the voltage at node i as
where R ki is the resistance of the path to V 0 (ground in this case) shared by node k and node i . So, for example, R 24 = R 1 , R 22 = R 1 + R 2 , and R 31 = R 1 .
Unfortunately, Eq. 7.2 is a complicated set of coupled equations that we cannot easily solve. We know the node voltages have different values at each point in time, but, since the waveforms are similar, let us assume the slopes (the time derivatives) of the waveforms are related to each other. Suppose we express the slope of node voltage V k as a constant, a k , times the slope of V i ,
Consider the following measure of the error, E , of our approximation:
The error, E , is a minimum when a k = 1 since initially V i ( t = 0) = V k ( t = 0) = 1 V (we normalized the voltages) and V i ( t = • ) = V k ( t = • ) = 0.
Now we can rewrite Eq. 7.2 , setting a k = 1, as follows:
This is a linear first-order differential equation with the following solution:
The time constant t D i is often called the Elmore delay and is different for each node. We shall refer to t D i as the Elmore time constant to remind us that, if we approximate V i by an exponential waveform, the delay of the RC tree using 0.35/0.65 trip points is approximately t Di seconds.
7.1.3 RC Delay in Antifuse Connections
Suppose a single antifuse, with resistance R 1 , connects to a wire segment with parasitic capacitance C 1 . Then a connection employing a single antifuse will delay the signal passing along that connection by approximately one time constant, or R 1 C 1 seconds. If we have more than one antifuse, we need to use the Elmore time constant to estimate the interconnect delay.
For example, suppose we have the four-antifuse connection shown in Figure 7.4 . Then, from Eq. 7.6 ,
If all the antifuse resistances are approximately equal (a reasonably good assumption) and the antifuse resistance is much larger than the resistance of any of the metal lines, L1–L5, shown in Figure 7.4 (a very good assumption) then R 1 = R 2 = R 3 = R 4 = R , and the Elmore time constant is
Suppose now that the capacitance of each interconnect segment (including all the antifuses and programming transistors that may be attached) is approximately constant, and equal to C . A connection with two antifuses will generate a 3 RC time constant, a connection with three antifuses a 6 RC time constant, and a connection with four antifuses gives a 10 RC time constant. This analysis is disturbing—it says that the interconnect delay grows quadratically ( ∝ n 2 ) as we increase the interconnect length and the number of antifuses, n . The situation is worse when the intermediate wire segments have larger capacitance than that of the short input stubs and output stubs. Unfortunately, this is the situation in an Actel FPGA where the horizontal and vertical segments in a connection may be quite long.
7.1.4 Antifuse Parasitic Capacitance
We can determine the number of antifuses connected to the horizontal and vertical lines for the Actel architecture. Each column contains 13 vertical signal tracks and each channel contains 25 horizontal tracks (22 of these are used for signals). Thus, assuming the channels are fully populated with antifuses,
- An input stub (1 channel) connects to 25 antifuses.
- An output stub (4 channels) connects to 100 (25 ¥ 4) antifuses.
- An LVT (1010, 8 channels) connects to 200 (25 ¥ 8) antifuses.
- An LVT (1020, 14 channels) connects to 350 (25 ¥ 14) antifuses.
- A four-column horizontal track connects to 52 (13 ¥ 4) antifuses.
- A 44-column horizontal track connects to 572 (13 ¥ 44) antifuses.
A connection to the diffusion of an Actel antifuse has a parasitic capacitance due to the diffusion junction. The polysilicon of the antifuse has a parasitic capacitance due to the thin oxide. These capacitances are approximately equal. For a 2 m m CMOS process the capacitance to ground of the diffusion is 200 to 300 aF m m –2 (area component) and 400 to 550 aF m m –1 (perimeter component). Thus, including both area and perimeter effects, a 16 m m 2 diffusion contact (consisting of a 2 m m by 2 m m opening plus the required overlap) has a parasitic capacitance of 10–14 f F. If we assume an antifuse has a parasitic capacitance of approximately 10 fF in a 1.0 or 1.2 m m process, we can calculate the parasitic capacitances shown in Table 7.2 .
We can use the figures from Table 7.2 to estimate the interconnect delays. First we calculate the following resistance and capacitance values:
- The antifuse resistance is assumed to be R = 0.5 k W .
- C 0 = 1.2 pF is the sum of the gate output capacitance (which we shall neglect) and the output stub capacitance (1.0 pF due to antifuses, 0.2 pF due to metal). The contribution from this term is zero in our calculation because we have neglected the pull resistance of the driving gate.
- C 1 = C 3 = 0.59 pF (0.52 pF due to antifuses, 0.07 pF due to metal) corresponding to a minimum-length horizontal track.
- C 2 = 4.3 pF (3.5 pF due to antifuses, 0.8 pF due to metal) corresponding to a LVT in a 1020B.
- The estimated input capacitance of a gate is C 4 = 0.02 pF (the exact value will depend on which input of a Logic Module we connect to).
From Eq. 7.7 , the Elmore time constant for a four-antifuse connection is
This matches delays obtained from the Actel delay calculator. For example, an LVT adds between 5–10 ns delay in an ACT 1 FPGA (6–12 ns for ACT 2, and 4–14 ns for ACT 3). The LVT connection is about the slowest connection that we can make in an ACT array. Normally less than 10 percent of all connections need to use an LVT and we see why Actel takes great care to make sure that this is the case.
7.1.5 ACT 2 and ACT 3 Interconnect
The ACT 1 architecture uses two antifuses for routing nearby modules, three antifuses to join horizontal segments, and four antifuses to use a horizontal or vertical long track. The ACT 2 and ACT 3 architectures use increased interconnect resources over the ACT 1 device that we have described. This reduces further the number of connections that need more than two antifuses. Delay is also reduced by decreasing the population of antifuses in the channels, and by decreasing the antifuse resistance of certain critical antifuses (by increasing the programming current).
The channel density is the absolute minimum number of tracks needed in a channel to make a given set of connections (see Section 17.2.2, "Measurement of Channel Density" ). Software to route connections using channeled routing is so efficient that, given complete freedom in location of wires, a channel router can usually complete the connections with the number of tracks equal or close to the theoretical minimum, the channel density. Actel's studies on segmented channel routing have shown that increasing the number of horizontal tracks slightly (by approximately 10 percent) above density can lead to very high routing completion rates.
The ACT 2 devices have 36 horizontal tracks per channel rather than the 22 available in the ACT 1 architecture. Horizontal track segments in an ACT 3 device range from a module pair to the full channel length. Vertical tracks are: input (with a two channel span: one up, one down); output (with a four-channel span: two up, two down); and long (LVT). Four LVTs are shared by each column pair. The ACT 2/3 Logic Modules can accept five inputs, rather than four inputs for the ACT 1 modules, and thus the ACT 2/3 Logic Modules need an extra two vertical tracks per channel. The number of tracks per column thus increases from 13 to 15 in the ACT 2/3 architecture.
The greatest challenge facing the Actel FPGA architects is the resistance of the polysilicon-diffusion antifuse. The nominal antifuse resistance in the ACT 1–2 1–2 m m processes (with a 5 mA programming current) is approximately 500 W and, in the worst case, may be as high as 700 W . The high resistance severely limits the number of antifuses in a connection. The ACT 2/3 devices assign a special antifuse to each output allowing a direct connection to an LVT. This reduces the number of antifuses in a connection using an LVT to three. This type of antifuse (a fast fuse) is blown at a higher current than the other antifuses to give them about half the nominal resistance (about 0.25 k W for AC T 2) of a normal antifuse. The nominal antifuse resistance is reduced further in the ACT 3 (using a 0.8 m m process) to 200 W (Actel does not state whether this value is for a normal or fast fuse). However, it is the worst-case antifuse resistance that will determine the worst-case performance.
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Amidst all the swirling controversy regarding anthropogenic global warming (AGW), a subplot has arisen that involves me rather more directly than most of the science regarding global climate change. In particular, some climate scientists (among them is Dr. Kevin Trenberth) have been making what I believe to be highly speculative claims about the climatology of severe weather in a world affected by AGW. The essence of the situation is that Trenberth has been claiming in various media that there will be more tornadoes in an AGW-influenced future, and that the "tornado season" will start earlier and be more violent than ever.
In my studies of severe convection and tornadoes, I have not been willing to make any statement regarding the potential impact of AGW on the occurrence frequency of tornadoes. Why so cautious?
First, the existing record of tornado events is seriously problematic, even here in the US - it's much, much worse outside the US, unfortunately. The existing record of tornado occurrences simply will not support any speculation about trends in the observed events, in large part because the existing record is overwhelmingly dominated by non-meteorological artifacts in the data. I've spent the last 40 years exploring that record (along with several colleagues, including Dr. Harold Brooks). I have a number of peer-reviewed publications related to the topic of severe storm and tornado climatology. Those data simply don't allow us to make any statement whatsoever about long-term trends.
Second, although it seems likely that increasing global average temperatures would increase evaporation, making the average atmospheric humidity rise and thereby making it possible for increased thermal instability and possibly stronger updrafts in thunderstorms, there are some other factors associated with AGW that could mitigate that. In particular, with the AGW being more pronounced in the polar regions than near the equator, the result would be a decrease in the horizontal temperature contrast between the poles and the equatorial regions. That, in turn, would result in a decrease of vertical wind shear. Decreasing vertical wind shear would be notably unfavorable for the development of tornadic supercells. There might be an increase in overall severe storm activity because of increased buoyancy, but the resulting storms might be less likely to become tornadic.
Third, the details of just what a future dominated by changes from AGW would be like remain speculative. There could be regional variations in the frequency of conditions favorable for tornadoes, irrespective of what the global average conditions might be. Thus, tornado frequency in some regions might increase, and yet could decrease over most regions, leading to an overall decrease - that is, some areas could buck that global average trend and actually show an increase in frequency.
I've been a consistent supporter of the consensus of global climate change scientists regarding AGW. This is because I have no research findings of my own that could gainsay that very strong consensus. I know some of the scientists who are part of that consensus and I have great respect for their work. The general findings regarding AGW are consistent with what I know about meteorology, but climate change is not my domain of expertise. It would be foolish for me to dispute the findings of the consensus represented by the IPCC reports, since (a) this is outside my domain of expertise and, (b) I have no rational evidence-based reason for such a dispute. What evidence I see is overwhelmingly supportive of the consensus, which is why I believe it's such a strong consensus.
But in the case of tornadoes, a few climate scientists (e.g., Dr. Trenberth) are overstepping their domains of expertise. If I give them the respect that their work is due in an area within which I have no record of peer-reviewed publications, I would expect them to do likewise regarding the work I (and my colleagues) have done in an area wherein these climate scientists have no record of peer-reviewed publications. I don't speculate about global climate change, so I have every reason to expect them not to engage in unfounded speculation about tornado occurrence frequency.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Posted by Chuck Doswell at 6:58 PM
Labels: Science and society, Weather and Climate
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- Chuck Doswell said...
Update: Dr. Kevin Trenberth informs me that he has never said in so many words that the tornado occurrence frequency will increase as a consequence of AGW. If that's the case, it's another instance of media misquotations. I hope he will take steps to correct these misrepresentations of his position, if that's indeed what they are.
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Of the many challenges facing today's sports turf manager, none are greater than those of irrigation and drainage. The direct impacts of improper installation of either of these elements can wreak havoc on the playing surface. Your ability to manage high-traffic turf while keeping in mind the implications of irrigation and drainage issues are key to successful overall turf management.
The first step to this success is analyzing existing conditions. Sylvania Pacesetter Park is a multi-use facility comprised of 135 acres in Sylvania, Ohio. When I took over management of this facility 11 years ago, I reviewed all existing records. This included the original architect's master plan, the as-built renderings and pertinent contractor and in-house construction documents. I contracted for a topographical study of the facility. Armed with this data, my staff and I began investigating the existing installations.
The facility had been constructed over its 15 years of existence on native soil areas. No modified root zones were installed. Because there are six distinct areas with four different soil profile variations within the site (see "Pacesetter Park Soil Profile," page 14), it was important to adapt the management and maintenance program to fit the needs of each one.
The facility was originally designed with swales off of the open acreage areas for movement of surface water with an internal drainage system installed for the soccer areas. The baseball and softball fields were set up separately for both surface and internal drainage. The internal drainage had been installed with pipes at a 4-foot depth, much too deep for timely percolation through the heavy clay soil. Each area's internal drainage system was channeled into a main trunk line that exited into a drainage ditch at the back of the facility. Prior lack of proper ditch maintenance resulted in water retention throughout this system whenever heavy moisture occurred.
The topography study revealed that the grades varied greatly from specifications. The large open areas had not been laser graded and this caused a number of undulations that resulted in numerous isolated retention areas.
Additionally, the initial master plan had not considered the need for facility improvements, such as black top walk paths, trees and open air shelters that directly impact the drainage schemes.
Dealing with the ramifications of these construction issues become significant factors in drainage and irrigation management. Correcting the surface undulations requires long-term, ongoing modification. Because of cost factors, we have made the existing internal drainage systems as functional as possible and have adapted our management programs to work with what we have.
The original hydraulic irrigation system also presented significant challenges, but a combination of technological upgrades and physical adaptations have allowed us to develop a highly functional system.
The traffic through the facility includes not only local recreational and travel leagues, but also regional, state and national tournaments. In 2002, it drew 250,000 people. In 2003, the number was just under 225,000. The baseball and softball fields are in constant demand. There are 25 fields in use for other sports during both the spring and fall seasons. The majority of these fields are set up for soccer, but fields for lacrosse, flag football, and tackle football also are placed as needed. Frequently, major tournaments for two or more sports are scheduled on a single weekend.
Both irrigation and drainage contribute to how much compaction will occur during field use. The wetter the field, the greater the degree of compaction caused during use. Too much irrigation or insufficient drainage creates the same overly wet conditions.
The two key elements in irrigation are moisture management and system timing. With a high-traffic facility, maintaining drier soil moisture levels prior to events can allow play through many wet-weather conditions with minimal damage. You can use a combination of factors to determine when and how much to irrigate. Monitor existing soil moisture, generally through visual assessment and examination of soil samples pulled with a golf cup cutter. We use our satellite-based weather tracking system for input on the evapotranspiration rate and to follow the forecasted rainfall for the days of our upcoming events. Also, review the amount of play scheduled. Look for windows of opportunity for irrigation that will provide the least exposure to compaction issues.
It is hard to define how dry is too dry. It is a recognition factor that comes from knowing the facility and the turf. There have been times when I have come close to stressing the turf because I am counting on a rain event during the weekend. But, in those cases, I recognize the need for that little boost of water and schedule a late evening or very early morning short irrigation cycle to get the turf through.
Timing is challenging. It is hard to have a system run during prime watering periods when fields are being used, especially with extensive acreage and the hours required to cycle a large system. Our upgraded irrigation system ties into a satellite network and, though it can be preprogrammed at the main controller, I generally only activate it via my hand-held controller when I see the right conditions occurring. We now can run the entire system in a six-hour window (depending on station timing). But this all has to be defined specifically for each area because of the multiple soil profiles. We plan for deep, infrequent irrigation to force the turf roots to grow deep in search of water.
Early morning is the best time to irrigate, possibly adding a syringe cycle during those days when the humidity and evapotranspiration rate is high. Early morning timing also reduces wind issues if your facility is fairly open. Late evening irrigation increases the probability of exposure for turf disease. If we must irrigate overnight to fit in all needed cycles, we prefer to start at midnight and end by 6 a.m. since we start our maintenance work by 7 a.m. The major factor we consider in determining irrigation timing and duration is the field use schedule.
Our syringing is based on weather conditions, the turf stress level, maintenance to the areas and proximity to field use. We generally use either a 2- to 3-minute-cycle per zone or a 5-minute cycle to just perk up the turf until the next irrigation or rain event.
Properly designed in-ground drainage systems receive the excess water that percolates down through the soil and channel it away from the fields. Since our original internal drainage was inadequate, we identified the major problem areas and installed French drains that tie directly into the main trunk line.
While it is much easier to establish proper grades and leveling prior to turf establishment, you can make drainage improvements at any time. After analyzing the infiltration rates of our various soil profile areas, we began an aggressive program to achieve positive water displacement (surface runoff) where needed.
Crowning, generally with a 1- to 1.25-percent slope, will move surface water, but is only as effective as the consistency of the surface. Identify the low areas and, working with the greatest problems first, systematically raise them to grade, leveling them, and re-sod.
There are many systems to improve the overall drainage picture. One long-term example is sand-slit drainage, which installs a series of deep, parallel sand channels in the field. These draw moisture off the surface and speed percolation down through the sand channels and into the soil profile. A short-term example is the use of wetting agents to break down the surface tension of the water and move it through the soil more quickly.
Pacesetter devotes 31.5 acres to the numerous "Game Only" soccer and other seasonal sport fields that must be laid out. We rotate the fields in each area each spring and fall season. This cuts down on the wear and compaction issues and allows us to isolate wear areas that may need extra care.
We shift fields from one end of an area to another, so that a field that was in the north area would be on the opposite end of the area for the following season. We shift most fields 100 to 200 feet from their previous location. None of the field space is left vacant. The area occupied by Field A in the spring may be occupied in the fall by Field B, which would have a smaller or larger configuration. This results in different field area layout and different playing surface wear patterns. This field rotation also addresses an even bigger problem: spectator traffic patterns. The wear created by the stream of people moving themselves and all their chairs, blankets, coolers and other spectator gear to and from the fields is more extensive than the wear on the playing field areas.
We have 64 acres that are allocated as team practice areas. We don't line out these fields but we do place goals on them. We move the goals every week to spread the wear. Our game fields are restricted to game only use — no practicing.
Aerification relieves compaction. This reduces the hardness factor of the playing surface, encourages root activity and creates openings for the movement of air, nutrients and water into and within the soil profile. With native soil or heavy clay fields, you can never aerify too much.
Soil moisture levels are important to the aerification process. We aim for slightly moist conditions so the units pull a 4- to 6-inch core. If the ground is too wet, aerification will smear, tear and compact the turf, leaving no positive effect from the process.
We schedule aerification fives times a year in four different directions for the entire facility. We do other aerification based on field conditions and the sport. For example, the week after the season begins on our Lacrosse fields, we will aerify weekly after the weekend series of games and retain that scheduling for the majority of the season. In wet seasons, we do additional aerification for the soccer fields or if tournament games are held on the fields. If budgets and labor resources are limited, focus aerification on the most highly used fields, or even on the heaviest wear areas of the fields. If core aerification creates too much surface disruption during seasonal play, use spike or slice aerification instead. Any method that opens up the soil will benefit the fields.
When we do our "wall-to-wall" aerification, we let the cores decompose on the surface to help with thatch reduction and to use in lower spots as topdressing. For the playing season aerification, we use a walk-behind unit and a core pulverizer to break the cores into topdressing material. Our topdressing consists of this recycling of the cores and the use of compost material if needed.
Traffic and compaction are constant challenges in sports turf management. Effective irrigation and drainage management are key to meeting these challenges and providing safe, playable athletic fields.
Boyd R. Montgomery, CSFM*, is facilities and maintenance director for Sylvania Recreation Corporation, Sylvania, Ohio, and treasurer of the Sports Turf Managers Association.
*The CSFM designation acknowledges the individual has attained Certified Sports Field Manager status through the certification program developed and administered by the Sports Turf Managers Association.
There are six distinct areas with four different soil profile variations within Sylvania Pacesetter Park in Sylvania, Ohio. Management and maintenance programs had to be adapted to fit the needs of each one.
Area #1 (9.5 acres), Area #2 (12 acres), and Quad #1 (5.5 acres) are made up of 39% sand, 24% silt and 37% clay for a Clay low classification on the USDA Texture Class.
The fields of Area #3 (10 acres) consist of 73% sand, 8 % silt and 9% sandy loam.
The Quad #2 (5 acres) is 45% sand, 22% silt and 33% clay.
The practice area (64 acres) and the various common areas (15 acres) are composed of 35% sand, 25% silt and 40 % clay.
Note: Quad #1 and #2 are ball diamonds. Areas #1, #2 and #3 are soccer and multi-sport fields.
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I think I would be happy just removing the _NO_DUPLICATE directions. As Jeremy noted it is quite easy to emulate and it would then be up to the webapp author whether she wanted the first or last duplicate value. -Ben On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Jonas Sicking <email@example.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Jeremy Orlow <email@example.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jonas Sicking <email@example.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> This was one issue we ran into while implementing IndexedDB. In the >>> code examples I'll use the mozilla proposed asynchronous APIs, but the >>> issue applies equally to the spec as it is now, as well as the >>> synchronous APIs. >>> >>> Consider an objectStore containing the following objects: >>> >>> { id: 1, name: "foo", flags: ["hi", "low"] } >>> { id: 2, name: "foo", flags: ["apple", "orange"] } >>> { id: 3, name: "foo", flags: ["hello", "world"] } >>> { id: 4, name: "bar", flags: ["fahrvergnügen"] } >>> >>> And an index keyed on the "name" property. What should the following code >>> alert? >>> >>> results = []; >>> db.objectStore("myObjectStore").index("nameIndex").openCursor(null, >>> IDBCursor.NEXT_NO_DUPLICATE).onsuccess = function(e) { >>> cursor = e.result; >>> if (!cursor) { >>> alert(results.length); >>> alert(results); >>> } >>> results.push(cursor.value); >>> cursor.continue(); >>> }; >>> >>> It's clear that the first alert would display '2', as there are 2 >>> distinct 'name' values in the objectStore. However it's not clear what >>> the second alert would show. I.e. what would cursor.value be on each >>> 'success' event firing? >>> >>> We could define that it is one of the rows matching the distinct >>> value. In that case either "1,4", "2,4" or "3,4" would be valid values >>> for the second alert. If we choose that solution then ideally we >>> should define which one and make it consistent in all implementations. >>> >>> Alternatively we could say that .value is null for all *_NO_DUPLICATE >>> cursors. >>> >>> The question equally applies if the above code used openObjectCursor >>> rather than openCursor. However if we define that .value is null for >>> *_NO_DUPLICATE cursors, then openObjectCursor with *_NO_DUPLICATE >>> doesn't make much sense in that it returns the same thing as >>> openCursor with *_NO_DUPLICATE. >>> >>> I don't personally don't care much which solution we use. I'm unclear >>> on what the exact use cases are for *_NO_DUPLICATE cursors. >> >> This is a very good point. What are the use cases? After all, you can >> easily emulate such a cursor yourself. Unless there are some compelling use >> cases, I'd be happy to just get rid of it. > > Same here. Though I suspect there are use cases as SQL has a similar > feature (SELECT DISTINCT). > >>> However if >>> we do say that .value should represent a particular row, then I think >>> we should define which row is returned. >> >> Agreed that it should be deterministic. I'm fine with null, the first >> value, or the last value. If we do null, then I think calling >> openObjectCursor with *_NO_DUPLICATE should be an error. > > Agreed. We just have to define what "first" and/or "last" means. Two > alternatives are insertion order or order in objectStore. I prefer the > latter as to avoid introducing insertion order as a concept. > > Hmm.. come to think of it, we likely have to define an order anyway. > So that it is deterministic what the order of the example index is > defined when iterated with a "normal" cursor. I filed a bug on getting > that defiend: > > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10058 > > / Jonas > >Received on Friday, 2 July 2010 09:12:45 UTC
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Montenegro : ŽCG
The Railways of Montenegro (Željeznica Crne Gore, (ŽCG)) is the national railway company of the country.
The total network is 250km long and almost 58km, a third, of these lines are in 121 tunnels.
There's one railway station in Montenegro in the capital Podgorica, which has connections with Serbia on the Bar – Podgorica – Belgrade line. There are connections with Albania but this is only a freight line, the ŽCG are in planning to extend this to passengers in the future. The Montenegro train schedule is thus relatively empty with passenger trains departing just four times daily.
After money problems with the railway and troubles on the track caused by derelict line, ŽCG are investing money again meaning railway improvements now allow the speed to get up to between 75–100km/h.


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Holiday events, promotions create boost for businesses
The stalled fiscal cliff negotiations don't seem to be affecting local holiday shopping, and special events in and around Baltimore are boosting the bottom lines of area businesses.
Harbor East is just one of several areas with special events going on this holiday season. Window Wonderland lets local artists and shoppers who are spending money at the stores get free parking.
Between all the holiday events, lights, good food and drinks and shopping, local business owners said they're off to a positive start this holiday season.
"I think with the festivities going on in the city, everyone's getting all excited, and they're coming down," said Samantha Cohen of the bar James Joyce in Harbor East.
Merchants said they need those special promotions and events to help draw in customers, especially during a time when there aren't as many business conventions, and tourism can slow down significantly.
"The goal is to bring people to free and highly discounted activities. By doing that, people will enjoy themselves. There are activities for people who may not be able to afford shopping, but also an opportunity for people to go to the shops once they're finished with the event," said Laurie Schwartz, the president of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore.
The annual Washington Monument lighting in Mount Vernon will lead into a special shopping promotion up and down Charles Street. There's also Santa at the Inner Harbor and the annual Dollar Days promotion.
The city's Miracle on Main Street campaign is aimed to attract shoppers to historic neighborhoods. The Power Plant Holiday Light Show is on Fridays and Saturdays and throughout the week of Christmas.
"What we're hearing from merchants downtown is that they're more optimistic about this holiday season. They're seeing a lot more foot traffic than every before, and they're optimistic that their sales and promotions will help drive people in," said Michael Evitts of the Downtown Partnership.
Hampden Village Merchants Association president and book store owner Ben Ray said that after Black Friday and Small Business Saturday, business is up in that community.
"That makes everybody feel hopeful. Ideally, the economy will turn around," Ray said. "That will make people more willing to shop and spend money and go out and actually enjoy themselves."
The popular Miracle on 34th Street lighting display draws thousands to that neighborhood each year.