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16.1 Floorplanning
Figure 16.3 shows that both interconnect delay and gate delay decrease as we scale down feature sizes—but at different rates. This is because interconnect capacitance tends to a limit of about 2 pFcm –1 for a minimum-width wire while gate delay continues to decrease (see Section 17.4, "Circuit Extraction and DRC"). Floorplanning allows us to predict this interconnect delay by estimating interconnect length.
16.1.1 Floorplanning Goals and Objectives
The input to a floorplanning tool is a hierarchical netlist that describes the interconnection of the blocks (RAM, ROM, ALU, cache controller, and so on); the logic cells (NAND, NOR, D flip-flop, and so on) within the blocks; and the logic cell connectors (the terms terminals , pins , or ports mean the same thing as connectors ). The netlist is a logical description of the ASIC; the floorplan is a physical description of an ASIC. Floorplanning is thus a mapping between the logical description (the netlist) and the physical description (the floorplan).
The goals of floorplanning are to:
The objectives of floorplanning are to minimize the chip area and minimize delay. Measuring area is straightforward, but measuring delay is more difficult and we shall explore this next.
16.1.2 Measurement of Delay in Floorplanning
Throughout the ASIC design process we need to predict the performance of the final layout. In floorplanning we wish to predict the interconnect delay before we complete any routing. Imagine trying to predict how long it takes to get from Russia to China without knowing where in Russia we are or where our destination is in China. Actually it is worse, because in floorplanning we may move Russia or China.
To predict delay we need to know the parasitics associated with interconnect: the interconnect capacitance ( wiring capacitance or routing capacitance ) as well as the interconnect resistance. At the floorplanning stage we know only the fanout ( FO ) of a net (the number of gates driven by a net) and the size of the block that the net belongs to. We cannot predict the resistance of the various pieces of the interconnect path since we do not yet know the shape of the interconnect for a net. However, we can estimate the total length of the interconnect and thus estimate the total capacitance. We estimate interconnect length by collecting statistics from previously routed chips and analyzing the results. From these statistics we create tables that predict the interconnect capacitance as a function of net fanout and block size. A floorplanning tool can then use these predicted-capacitance tables (also known as interconnect-load tables or wire-load tables ). Figure 16.4 shows how we derive and use wire-load tables and illustrates the following facts:
There are no standards for the wire-load tables themselves, but there are some standards for their use and for presenting the extracted loads (see Section 16.4 ). Wire-load tables often present loads in terms of a standard load that is usually the input capacitance of a two-input NAND gate with a 1X (default) drive strength.
Table 16.1 shows the estimated metal interconnect lengths, as a function of die size and fanout, for a series of three-level metal gate arrays. In this case the interconnect capacitance is about 2 pFcm –1 , a typical figure.
Figure 16.5 shows that, because we do not decrease chip size as we scale down feature size, the worst-case interconnect delay increases. One way to measure the worst-case delay uses an interconnect that completely crosses the chip, a coast-to-coast interconnect . In certain cases the worst-case delay of a 0.25 m m process may be worse than a 0.35 m m process, for example.
16.1.3 Floorplanning Tools
Figure 16.6 (a) shows an initial random floorplan generated by a floorplanning tool. Two of the blocks, A and C in this example, are standard-cell areas (the chip shown in Figure 16.1 is one large standard-cell area). These are flexible blocks (or variable blocks ) because, although their total area is fixed, their shape (aspect ratio) and connector locations may be adjusted during the placement step. The dimensions and connector locations of the other fixed blocks (perhaps RAM, ROM, compiled cells, or megacells) can only be modified when they are created. We may force logic cells to be in selected flexible blocks by seeding . We choose seed cells by name. For example, ram_control* would select all logic cells whose names started with ram_control to be placed in one flexible block. The special symbol, usually ' * ', is a wildcard symbol . Seeding may be hard or soft. A hard seed is fixed and not allowed to move during the remaining floorplanning and placement steps. A soft seed is an initial suggestion only and can be altered if necessary by the floorplanner. We may also use seed connectors within flexible blocks—forcing certain nets to appear in a specified order, or location at the boundary of a flexible block.
The floorplanner can complete an estimated placement to determine the positions of connectors at the boundaries of the flexible blocks. Figure 16.6 (b) illustrates a rat's nest display of the connections between blocks. Connections are shown as bundles between the centers of blocks or as flight lines between connectors. Figure 16.6 (c) and (d) show how we can move the blocks in a floorplanning tool to minimize routing congestion .
We need to control the aspect ratio of our floorplan because we have to fit our chip into the die cavity (a fixed-size hole, usually square) inside a package. Figure 16.7 (a)–(c) show how we can rearrange our chip to achieve a square aspect ratio. Figure 16.7 (c) also shows a congestion map , another form of routability display. There is no standard measure of routability. Generally the interconnect channels , (or wiring channels—I shall call them channels from now on) have a certain channel capacity ; that is, they can handle only a fixed number of interconnects. One measure of congestion is the difference between the number of interconnects that we actually need, called the channel density , and the channel capacity. Another measure, shown in Figure 16.7 (c), uses the ratio of channel density to the channel capacity. With practice, we can create a good initial placement by floorplanning and a pictorial display. This is one area where the human ability to recognize patterns and spatial relations is currently superior to a computer program's ability.
16.1.4 Channel Definition
During the floorplanning step we assign the areas between blocks that are to be used for interconnect. This process is known as channel definition or channel allocation . Figure 16.8 shows a T-shaped junction between two rectangular channels and illustrates why we must route the stem (vertical) of the T before the bar. The general problem of choosing the order of rectangular channels to route is channel ordering .
Figure 16.9 shows a floorplan of a chip containing several blocks. Suppose we cut along the block boundaries slicing the chip into two pieces ( Figure 16.9 a). Then suppose we can slice each of these pieces into two. If we can continue in this fashion until all the blocks are separated, then we have a slicing floorplan ( Figure 16.9 b). Figure 16.9 (c) shows how the sequence we use to slice the chip defines a hierarchy of the blocks. Reversing the slicing order ensures that we route the stems of all the channel T-junctions first.
Figure 16.10 shows a floorplan that is not a slicing structure. We cannot cut the chip all the way across with a knife without chopping a circuit block in two. This means we cannot route any of the channels in this floorplan without routing all of the other channels first. We say there is a cyclic constraint in this floorplan. There are two solutions to this problem. One solution is to move the blocks until we obtain a slicing floorplan. The other solution is to allow the use of L -shaped, rather than rectangular, channels (or areas with fixed connectors on all sides—a switch box ). We need an area-based router rather than a channel router to route L -shaped regions or switch boxes (see Section 17.2.6, "Area-Routing Algorithms").
Figure 16.11 (a) displays the floorplan of the ASIC shown in Figure 16.7 . We can remove the cyclic constraint by moving the blocks again, but this increases the chip size. Figure 16.11 (b) shows an alternative solution. We merge the flexible standard cell areas A and C. We can do this by selective flattening of the netlist. Sometimes flattening can reduce the routing area because routing between blocks is usually less efficient than routing inside the row-based blocks. Figure 16.11 (b) shows the channel definition and routing order for our chip.
16.1.5 I/O and Power Planning
Every chip communicates with the outside world. Signals flow onto and off the chip and we need to supply power. We need to consider the I/O and power constraints early in the floorplanning process. A silicon chip or die (plural die, dies, or dice) is mounted on a chip carrier inside a chip package . Connections are made by bonding the chip pads to fingers on a metal lead frame that is part of the package. The metal lead-frame fingers connect to the package pins . A die consists of a logic core inside a pad ring . Figure 16.12 (a) shows a pad-limited die and Figure 16.12 (b) shows a core-limited die . On a pad-limited die we use tall, thin pad-limited pads , which maximize the number of pads we can fit around the outside of the chip. On a core-limited die we use short, wide core-limited pads . Figure 16.12 (c) shows how we can use both types of pad to change the aspect ratio of a die to be different from that of the core.
Special power pads are used for the positive supply, or VDD, power buses (or power rails ) and the ground or negative supply, VSS or GND. Usually one set of VDD/VSS pads supplies one power ring that runs around the pad ring and supplies power to the I/O pads only. Another set of VDD/VSS pads connects to a second power ring that supplies the logic core. We sometimes call the I/O power dirty power since it has to supply large transient currents to the output transistors. We keep dirty power separate to avoid injecting noise into the internal-logic power (the clean power ). I/O pads also contain special circuits to protect against electrostatic discharge ( ESD ). These circuits can withstand very short high-voltage (several kilovolt) pulses that can be generated during human or machine handling.
Depending on the type of package and how the foundry attaches the silicon die to the chip cavity in the chip carrier, there may be an electrical connection between the chip carrier and the die substrate. Usually the die is cemented in the chip cavity with a conductive epoxy, making an electrical connection between substrate and the package cavity in the chip carrier. If we make an electrical connection between the substrate and a chip pad, or to a package pin, it must be to VDD ( n -type substrate) or VSS ( p -type substrate). This substrate connection (for the whole chip) employs a down bond (or drop bond) to the carrier. We have several options:
Depending on the package design, the type and positioning of down bonds may be fixed. This means we need to fix the position of the chip pad for down bonding using a pad seed .
A double bond connects two pads to one chip-carrier finger and one package pin. We can do this to save package pins or reduce the series inductance of bond wires (typically a few nanohenries) by parallel connection of the pads. A multiple-signal pad or pad group is a set of pads. For example, an oscillator pad usually comprises a set of two adjacent pads that we connect to an external crystal. The oscillator circuit and the two signal pads form a single logic cell. Another common example is a clock pad . Some foundries allow a special form of corner pad (normal pads are edge pads ) that squeezes two pads into the area at the corners of a chip using a special two-pad corner cell , to help meet bond-wire angle design rules (see also Figure 16.13 b and c).
To reduce the series resistive and inductive impedance of power supply networks, it is normal to use multiple VDD and VSS pads. This is particularly important with the simultaneously switching outputs ( SSOs ) that occur when driving buses off-chip [ Wada, Eino, and Anami, 1990]. The output pads can easily consume most of the power on a CMOS ASIC, because the load on a pad (usually tens of picofarads) is much larger than typical on-chip capacitive loads. Depending on the technology it may be necessary to provide dedicated VDD and VSS pads for every few SSOs. Design rules set how many SSOs can be used per VDD/VSS pad pair. These dedicated VDD/VSS pads must "follow" groups of output pads as they are seeded or planned on the floorplan. With some chip packages this can become difficult because design rules limit the location of package pins that may be used for supplies (due to the differing series inductance of each pin).
Using a pad mapping we translate the logical pad in a netlist to a physical pad from a pad library . We might control pad seeding and mapping in the floorplanner. The handling of I/O pads can become quite complex; there are several nonobvious factors that must be considered when generating a pad ring:
Figure 16.13 (a) and (b) are magnified views of the southeast corner of our example chip and show the different types of I/O cells. Figure 16.13 (c) shows a stagger-bond arrangement using two rows of I/O pads. In this case the design rules for bond wires (the spacing and the angle at which the bond wires leave the pads) become very important.
Figure 16.13 (d) shows an area-bump bonding arrangement (also known as flip-chip, solder-bump or C4, terms coined by IBM who developed this technology [ Masleid, 1991]) used, for example, with ball-grid array ( BGA ) packages. Even though the bonding pads are located in the center of the chip, the I/O circuits are still often located at the edges of the chip because of difficulties in power supply distribution and integrating I/O circuits together with logic in the center of the die.
In an MGA the pad spacing and I/O-cell spacing is fixed—each pad occupies a fixed pad slot (or pad site ). This means that the properties of the pad I/O are also fixed but, if we need to, we can parallel adjacent output cells to increase the drive. To increase flexibility further the I/O cells can use a separation, the I/O-cell pitch , that is smaller than the pad pitch . For example, three 4 mA driver cells can occupy two pad slots. Then we can use two 4 mA output cells in parallel to drive one pad, forming an 8 mA output pad as shown in Figure 16.14 . This arrangement also means the I/O pad cells can be changed without changing the base array. This is useful as bonding techniques improve and the pads can be moved closer together.
Figure 16.15 shows two possible power distribution schemes. The long direction of a rectangular channel is the channel spine . Some automatic routers may require that metal lines parallel to a channel spine use a preferred layer (either m1, m2, or m3). Alternatively we say that a particular metal layer runs in a preferred direction . Since we can have both horizontal and vertical channels, we may have the situation shown in Figure 16.15 , where we have to decide whether to use a preferred layer or the preferred direction for some channels. This may or may not be handled automatically by the routing software.
16.1.6 Clock Planning
Figure 16.16 (a) shows a clock spine (not to be confused with a channel spine) routing scheme with all clock pins driven directly from the clock driver. MGAs and FPGAs often use this fish bone type of clock distribution scheme. Figure 16.16 (b) shows a clock spine for a cell-based ASIC. Figure 16.16 (c) shows the clock-driver cell, often part of a special clock-pad cell. Figure 16.16 (d) illustrates clock skew and clock latency . Since all clocked elements are driven from one net with a clock spine, skew is caused by differing interconnect lengths and loads. If the clock-driver delay is much larger than the interconnect delays, a clock spine achieves minimum skew but with long latency.
Clock skew represents a fraction of the clock period that we cannot use for computation. A clock skew of 500 ps with a 200 MHz clock means that we waste 500 ps of every 5 ns clock cycle, or 10 percent of performance. Latency can cause a similar loss of performance at the system level when we need to resynchronize our output signals with a master system clock.
Figure 16.16 (c) illustrates the construction of a clock-driver cell. The delay through a chain of CMOS gates is minimized when the ratio between the input capacitance C 1 and the output (load) capacitance C 2 is about 3 (exactly e ª 2.7, an exponential ratio, if we neglect the effect of parasitics). This means that the fastest way to drive a large load is to use a chain of buffers with their input and output loads chosen to maintain this ratio, or taper (we use this as a noun and a verb). This is not necessarily the smallest or lowest-power method, though.
Suppose we have an ASIC with the following specifications:
In this case the clock-spine capacitance C L = 200 ¥ 2 cm ¥ 2 pFcm –1 = 800 pF. If we drive the clock spine with a chain of buffers with taper equal to e ª 2.7, and with a first-stage input capacitance of 0.025 pF (a reasonable value for a 0.5 m m process), we will need
The power dissipated charging the input capacitance of the flip-flop clock is fCV 2 or
or approximately 2 W. This is only a little larger than the power dissipated driving the 800 pF clock-spine interconnect that we can calculate as follows:
All of this power is dissipated in the clock-driver cell. The worst problem, however, is the enormous peak current in the final inverter stage. If we assume the needed rise time is 0.1 ns (with a 200 MHz clock whose period is 5 ns), the peak current would have to approach
Clearly such a current is not possible without extraordinary design techniques. Clock spines are used to drive loads of 100–200 pF but, as is apparent from the power dissipation problems of this example, it would be better to find a way to spread the power dissipation more evenly across the chip.
We can design a tree of clock buffers so that the taper of each stage is e ⊕ 2.7 by using a fanout of three at each node, as shown in Figure 16.17 (a) and (b). The clock tree , shown in Figure 16.17 (c), uses the same number of stages as a clock spine, but with a lower peak current for the inverter buffers. Figure 16.17 (c) illustrates that we now have another problem—we need to balance the delays through the tree carefully to minimize clock skew (see Section 17.3.1, "Clock Routing").
Designing a clock tree that balances the rise and fall times at the leaf nodes has the beneficial side-effect of minimizing the effect of hot-electron wearout . This problem occurs when an electron gains enough energy to become "hot" and jump out of the channel into the gate oxide (the problem is worse for electrons in n -channel devices because electrons are more mobile than holes). The trapped electrons change the threshold voltage of the device and this alters the delay of the buffers. As the buffer delays change with time, this introduces unpredictable skew. The problem is worst when the n -channel device is carrying maximum current with a high voltage across the channel—this occurs during the rise-and fall-time transitions. Balancing the rise and fall times in each buffer means that they all wear out at the same rate, minimizing any additional skew.
A phase-locked loop ( PLL ) is an electronic flywheel that locks in frequency to an input clock signal. The input and output frequencies may differ in phase, however. This means that we can, for example, drive a clock network with a PLL in such a way that the output of the clock network is locked in phase to the incoming clock, thus eliminating the latency of the clock network . A PLL can also help to reduce random variation of the input clock frequency, known as jitter , which, since it is unpredictable, must also be discounted from the time available for computation in each clock cycle. Actel was one of the first FPGA vendors to incorporate PLLs, and Actel's online product literature explains their use in ASIC design.
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Swimming: This silver ring has a wave pattern etched into the band. It continually grants the wearer a +5 competence bonus on Swim checks.
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In 2009, the National Academies of Science published a massive report on forensics. For many Americans, forensics is possibly the most familiar of all the sciences. It's the one we welcome into our living rooms every night, along with TV crime dramas and murder mysteries. But the report's conclusions might surprise you.
For one thing, it's hard to even generalize about the state of forensic science in the United States, because everything from standard practices to accreditation varies widely by sub-discipline, law-enforcement agency, and whether the law enforcement is happening at a local, state, or federal level. Worse, it's not at all clear that some of those sub-disciplines have a sound, scientific basis. For instance, DNA analysis tends to be pretty well-supported by evidence, while fingerprint analysis remains an art, more dependent on the person looking at the fingerprint than on hard laws of anatomy. Of course, the report also found that there simply hasn't been enough research done to determine how scientific most disciplines of forensic science are to begin with. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has allowed trial judges to certify forensic techniques as reliable even though we don't know whether they they are or not — and those decisions have been made in a haphazard, inconsistent way from one judge to the next.
Given how much our legal system relies on this stuff, we should all be feeling more than a little uncomfortable right about now. The state of forensic science, combined with its importance, virtually guarantees that there are innocent people behind bars (or worse) and criminals on the loose. Read the rest


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Presidential Inaugural Committee has announced that it will partner with the social networking site Foursquare and release its first badge to reward volunteerism in conjunction with the National Day of Service.
The limited edition Inaugural Service badge will recognize Americans for serving in their communities. Users will be able to unlock the badge on Saturday through Monday by participating in National Day of Service events, which are taking place in all 50 states, or by taking part in the Service Summit on the National Mall.
Click for list of events in Jacksonville area
"At Foursquare, we were so inspired by the idea of a lifelong commitment that we created the first Foursquare badge to reward volunteerism," said
Foursquare CEO and Co-Founder Dennis Crowley. "Along with the Presidential Inaugural Committee, we encourage all Americans to get out and serve in their own communities to celebrate the inauguration of President Obama and the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
In 2009, President Barack Obama and the First Lady started the tradition of holding a National Day of Service the weekend before the swearing-in. President Obama has always believed that everyone has something they can contribute to their community, and that America works best when neighbors help neighbors.
"We are excited to work with Foursquare to find innovative new ways to encourage all Americans to commit to ongoing service," said PIC President and CEO Steve Kerrigan. "Americans across the country are rolling up their sleeves and getting involved to celebrate this historic Inauguration and honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr."


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The week of blueberries continues with these amazing, yet bewildering bars. I say bewildering because somewhere in the combination of ordinary ingredients a strange alchemy occurs. The result is a bar with peculiarly amnesiac qualities.
This is the situation: husband approaches the cooling bars on the counter and asks politely if he may have one. (A wise and well-trained blogger's husband ALWAYS asks first.) Given the green light he helps himself to one and proceeds to eat it with pleasure and much finger-licking.
Ten minutes later, same husband approaches the bars and again asks if he may try one. "Try one? Didn't you just have one?" I reply. "Um, no, I don't remember having one," he says, eyes wide with innocence, and plucks up another.
You see what I mean? They're so good that they induce amnesia. You forget all about that first one and go back for seconds, even thirds, forgetting that you've even had one. So enjoy the bars, but beware....
Forget Me Not Bars
- adapted from Fine Cooking
13-1/2 oz (3 cups) all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats (not quick oats)
1-1/3 cups packed light brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 large egg, separated
14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
2 tsp grated lemon zest
2-1/2 cups room-temperature blueberries (about 13 oz), washed and drained on paper towels
1- Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat it to 350 deg. F. Line a 9 x 13-inch pan with foil, leaving a 1-inch overhang on the ends. Lightly butter the bottom and sides of the foil.
2- In a large bowl combine the flour, oats, sugar, salt, and baking powder. With your fingers blend the butter completely into the flour mixture. Transfer 2 cups of the crumble mixture to another bowl and set it aside for the topping.
3- Blend the egg white into the remaining crumbs and press the mixture into the bottom of the pan. Press firmly to level the crumbs. Bake the crust for 10 to 12 minutes, until it starts to form a dry top.
4- While the crust is cooking, in a medium bowl whisk together the condensed milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, and egg yolk. Let this mixture stand for 5 minutes; it will begin to thicken.
5- Sprinkle the blueberries evenly over the hot crust and then drop spoonfuls of the lemon mixture over the blueberries. Spread gently with a spatula to distribute it a little more evenly, being careful not to crush the berries. It's fine if the lemon mixture isn't perfectly even. Bake until the lemon mixture just begins to form a shiny skin, 7 to 8 minutes.
6- Sprinkle the reserved topping over the lemon-blueberry layer, pressing the streusel between your fingers into small lumps as you sprinkle. Bake until the filling is bubbling at the edges and the topping is brown, 25 to 30 minutes.
6- Let the bars cool in the pan on a rack until just warm, about an hour. Carefully lift them out of the pan using the foil overhang and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Remove the foil and cut into 24 bars when cool. The bars may be stored at room temperature for a few hours, but otherwise should be kept in the refrigerator.
(Note: As I was typing this up, the part in Step 5 of baking for 7 to 8 minutes sounded totally foreign to me. Did I do that step or did I just go straight to sprinkling the topping over it? I totally don't remember. See the mysterious power of the bars?)


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DailyDirt: You're Eating That Fruit All Wrong...
from the urls-we-dig-up deptIf there's a way to eat something, there's someone out there with a "right" way to eat it. Sometimes etiquette dictates how you should eat, but sometimes efficiency trumps the normal rules of society (don't ask when). If you're looking for more efficient ways to eat some common fruits, just check out these guides to eating apples, oranges and bananas.
- If you eat an apple by pulling out the stem and eating it top down, you'll probably be able to eat the entire apple without really tasting the core. Of course, some joker is going to say that it's better to eat it up from the bottom... [url]
- Do you hate cutting/peeling oranges? Can't decide to make an equatorial or polar cut? Here's your new method: slice a bit of the top and bottom off and then cut the peel so that it can unroll. The drawback is that you don't end up with any pieces that you can readily use to make an orange-peel-teeth smile. [url]
- Most people peel a banana from the stem down, but did you know that monkeys peel bananas from the other end? Monkeys don't care which end of the banana is the top. They just want to peel bananas in an easy way, instead of making a banana joystick with the stem and mashing the top of their bananas. [url]
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No Place Like Home… TO GET HURT (Nov, 1935)
No Place Like Home… TO GET HURT
YOU face 266 times the danger of injury while reading a book at home, walking down the cellar stairs, or thawing a frozen pipe, that your neighbor does when he embarks on the evening plane for a distant city.
Unbelievable? At the risk of boring you, I shall prove my statement with a few figures.
This year, if the nation's experience of former years holds true, fully 5,184,500 of our 125,000,000 men, women, and children will suffer accidents—from falling out of chairs to slipping down icy stairs— in their homes. Of the 561,370 or more passengers riding in transport airplanes, for a total distance of 49,000,000 miles, not more than 357 will be involved in seventy-three accidents, and only eighty-eight will receive so much as a scratch.
One in twenty-four will be hurt at home, whereas only one in 6,378 will meet an accident on an airliner!
Suppose, however, your neighbor roars away from the neighborhood airport with a barnstorming pilot or a friend who flies for fun. Will he come home whole or in pieces? The surprising number of 1,397,-288 passengers flew 75,602,152 miles in private planes last year, and only 2,711 were involved in 1,549 accidents. Of these a mere handful—786—were hurt. Half this small total sustained bruises only. So, if you decide to try your wings with a friendly pilot in your town, you'll be seventy-four times safer than at home.
Queer accidents, usually under circumstances that promise safety to the victims, strike down people everywhere. Serious at the moment, many of these strange incidents which, despite the intervention of science and education, increase in numbers every year, bring chuckles when viewed from the apparent safety of your own arm chair.
Let's skim around the country for a close-up view of some of the oddest. In the Northwest a truck driver, arriving home after a dangerous day piloting his machine over streets deep in snow, tried to open a window swollen tight. When, after several efforts, the window flew up, the man fell off balance and dived three stories into a bank of snow. A housewife in Gary, Ind., slipped on a cake of soap while bathing, ricocheted through a window, and plunged three stories into a pile of sand, receiving only minor bruises to attest her unusual experience. Not to be outdone by this feat, Mrs. Evelyn Stewart lost her balance and fell five stories from the balcony of her New York apartment— only to land in snow piled high along the curb. Little Bobby Is-bel of Morrisville, N. Y., celebrating his third birthday by playing with a new knife, fell out of his chair. The three-inch blade penetrated his skull above one eye to the hilt, yet the youngster recovered.
While painting an elevator shaft, James Parnell, an aged Brooklyn, N. Y., workman, tumbled from a ladder, clutched a starting cable and was pinned between car and wall for nineteen hours before Charles Somerville "had a hunch" something was wrong inside the building and went to his rescue. A few days later, Arthur Thom-kin, a youth living in the same neighborhood, slid down a dumbwaiter rope to save walking down four flights of stairs. The rope parted and dropped him onto the basement floor; he broke both legs and fractured his skull. Possibly, he would have met a worse fate had he walked. One man, ascending a flight of iron stairs, fell when a step broke, and hanged himself from the skeletonlike superstructure.
Every week, miraculous hair-breadth escapes from death are recorded. A Kansas farmer was knocked out of his chair on his front porch when a speeding car flipped a rock against the side of his head. In Los Angeles, Calif., a youth lighted a cigarette while trying to take himself out of this world with gas, and the resulting explosion saved his life by blowing him out through a wall. An eleven-year-old boy, warned to avoid traffic with his bicycle, chose to ride the vehicle on the roof of an apartment house. He rode off the edge and landed in a police-station yard forty feet below, suffering only a bruised thumb.
Not all escape so luckily. Often, simple mistakes end in death. When basement water pipes froze on a cold winter night, a sixty-year-old retired builder, whose life had been spent constructing houses, applied a gasoline blowtorch to the problem. But the supposed water pipes led to his gas stove—and the resulting explosion ended his life.
You never know whose carelessness will endanger your household. One of forty-eight youngsters living in a Charlotte, N. C, home for children mischievously turned on the gas in the kitchen. A pet parrot, perched near the stove flew to the superin-tendent, screaming, "Come! Come!" The superintendent followed the bird back to the stove and shut off the escaping gas.
Dumb creatures are popularly supposed to give warning of threatened danger, but they do not always live up to this reputation. Eight trained chimpanzees were asphyxiated by coal gas when a chimney became clogged with soot, and only a two-hour siege by a Brooklyn, N. Y., inhalator squad saved them. A coffee pot boiled over and doused the flames of a gas stove in the apartment where a woman lived with six pet snakes. Both the mistress and reptiles were unconscious when neighbors broke in and carried them to safety.
Not infrequently, it is the rescuer who finds himself injured, while the person or animal in danger escapes. Mrs. Sarah Nelson leaped through the window of her third-story New-York apartment when an oil stove exploded, setting fire to the room. John Mobley, who happened to be passing, saw her as she flung herself into space, braced his body, and broke her fall. The impact sprained his back, while she was able to walk away without help.
From eleven in the morning until nine at night, a cat mewed mournfully from a tree in Brooklyn, N. Y. As the hour of curfew rang, Walter Fournays, a chauffeur, climbed the tree, took the kitten under his arm and prepared to bring it down to safety. A small branch broke under Fournay's weight and he fell fifteen feet, fracturing his skull on the sidewalk. The cat landed safely.
A Chicago policeman, answering a call from frantic mothers, shot himself in the leg while trying to bring down a stray dog which had been snapping at children. Undaunted by the self-inflicted wound, he killed the animal with the second shot.
Of course, not all the odd accidents happen at or near home. With the suddenness of thunder, they occur unexpectedly anywhere. Too, many result from carefully laid plans to avoid injury while performing a dangerous job or hasty attempts to escape from impending tragedy.
Two-hundred-pound William Philupe, New York baker, turned out the fire under one of his bake ovens one Friday night. On Monday morning, thinking it had cooled sufficiently for him to enter to repair a faulty grate, he crawled into the narrow brick-lined fire box only to discover that heat from an adjoining compartment had shot the temperature up to 350 degrees.
In an effort to back out quickly, the baker became tightly wedged. Unable to pull Philupe out, his employer called police, whose rescue squad demolished the steel door and brick masonry by means of acetylene torches and iron bars. Thirty minutes later, suffering first-degree burns, the victim was lifted from the oven.
Sailors on the French destroyer Ouragan fired several practice torpedoes which raced through the Atlantic true to their marks and exploded. They then slipped into a tube a new torpedo to test its range. The projectile leaped into the sea, swiftly turned in a circle, crashed into the ship near the stern. Had the defective gyroscope which governed its direction been placed in one of those containing high explosives, the Ouragan today would be rusting on the bottom of the ocean. Scott Kline, manager of an electric company at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., faced imminent electrocution for thirty minutes not long ago under bizarre circumstances. He was replacing a safety fuse governing a powerful current when a bushing cracked, loosing a 13,000-volt current which set up a powerful magnetic field.
Kline fell to the floor and, unable to move, suffered a series of shocks. He was a prisoner of electrically induced magnetism a full half hour, until a helper arrived and turned off the current. Yet he received no burns.
After facing death while washing a window on the sixteenth floor of a skyscraper, Michael Karp fractured his ankle during a self-rescue. Karp had finished cleaning the window and unfastened one end of his safety belt, when he slipped off the narrow ledge. In his frantic efforts to crawl back up to safety he cracked his ankle.
Explosions, from toy gas balloons to tons of powder, bring injury to many under strange circumstances and in odd places. A large crowd at Hamilton Fish Park, New York, gathered to hear a speech by Mayor LaGuardia, was thrown into a near panic when two dozen gas-filled balloons, carried by Morris Berebaum, exploded and burned five people, including two babies. How they were set off no one knows, unless by a lighted cigarette, touched accidentally or purposely to one of the spheres. But to get back to the home—at Bordeaux, France, an entire family was engaged in a mouse hunt when the mother shoved a hot poker back of the kitchen sink hoping to force a mouse out into the open. The hot metal touched a quantity of explosives stored there by her husband. The blast blew out one side of the kitchen and injured all six in the family.
In Tennessee, a home accident not only resulted in the house burning to the ground, but also touched off twenty cases of dynamite and 250 kegs of blasting powder stored next door, which destroyed fifty homes and buildings. Isadore Overman, New York junk dealer, tossed one of a shipment of old shells in a fire to determine whether they were loaded. His question was answered when a large piece of metal embedded itself in his thigh. Flying chips broke windows in houses as far distant as three blocks.
Where are you safest—rocking in your favorite chair, sitting at your work desk, in a theater, wading in shallow ocean surf, or standing in front of a bank window depositing your weekly pay check? The answer is, you cannot be sure, no matter where you may be, that chance will not reach out to inflict injury in greater or lesser degree.
One mishap led to the discovery of an earlier one. Mrs. Josephine Illman, of Milwaukee, Wise, accustomed to sewing for many years, plunged a needle into her thumb. She was rushed to a hospital for X-ray photographs. The pictures not only revealed that needle, but also showed embedded in her hand a smaller one which she remembered "losing" long ago.
Several workers in a New York dressmaking establishment suddenly slumped in their seats. Investigation revealed that fumes containing a poisonous gas were blowing in through open windows from a freshly painted roof next door. They were asphyxiated by an out-of-doors painting job, an almost unheard-of accident.
HUNDREDS became panic-stricken in a theater at Bogota, Colombia, when some one shouted, "Fire!" Several fell from the balcony on those below; one was killed, a score were injured. Some practical joker had shouted the alarm. There was no fire.
Frank Coltrin, of San Jose, Calif., went fishing in a mild surf near San Francisco's Golden Gate. While standing in water hip-deep, an octopus seized him, wrapping long tentacles around both legs and one arm. His companion, Harry Simmons, went to his aid armed with a butcher knife. As quickly as he severed one tentacle, another seized his friend. Only when Simmons plunged the knife between the octopus's eyes did the creature loose its hold. Rings left by the powerful suction cups were found on several parts of Coltrin's body.
Although less danger attended the incident, directors, clerks, and customers in an eastern bank suffered considerable discomfort the other day when the building became flooded with tear gas, intended only for bandits. An electrical short circuit set off the gas sprinkling system, and the gas drove scores from the building. A few minutes later, business was resumed as usual.
Birds and animals play leading roles in many accidents, some as the moving cause, others as innocent victims. A wild pheasant weighing only six pounds knocked out Frank Pearl, engineer of a crack train roaring at seventy miles an hour through New Jersey the other day. The bird flew head-on through the narrow glass windshield which protected the engineer against wind and cinders, striking him in the forehead. Pearl slumped unconscious in his seat, but safety devices stopped the train. The train proceeded after the engineer was revived.
HARRY BALL had a similar experience on a country road near Loverna, Saskatchewan, when a rabbit leaped through the windshield of his coupe and disappeared through the rear window. Ball was severely lacerated by flying glass, and the rabbit paid the supreme penalty for its carelessness. A Hingham, Mass., family was less fortunate. One of a flock of geese walking along the road flew into the windshield and dropped dead in the car. Five of the passengers were painfully lacerated by flying glass.
When bulls and box cars mix, the results usually are somewhat more sensational. The engineer of a freight train rumbling through Georgia saw a large bull standing unconcernedly alongside the train. When the engine approached within a few feet of the animal, it stepped onto the ties. Result: locomotive and nine cars plunged into a muddy ditch, engineer and fireman killed, nine box cars demolished.
Where the next accident, of water, fire, force, or fumes, will occur none can say. Despite many efforts at safety education, the death toll increased nearly one tenth last year, when 101,000 people succumbed from mishaps of all kinds in the United States.
NO MATTER where you may seek thrills —in the air, on land, or at sea—home continues to be the most dangerous place in the world. Of the 9,821,000 disabling injuries from all causes last year, more than half happened at home.
Too, these accidents increase every year. Here are a few startling facts: Rhode Island is the only state that did not suffer an increase in fatal accidents last year. Wage loss, medical expense, and insurance cost the injured $2,400,000,000 and property damage, including buildings razed by fires accidentally started, reached the staggering total of $3,500,-000,000. No disease kills as many children as accidents. One person in five may reasonably expect to be injured during the next twenty-five years.
Finally, more than twice as many people will meet accidental death at home this year as will succumb from accidents of all kinds while at work. Of these, falls and burns are the most important causes. Nearly half of the falls occur in bedrooms, more than half of the burns in kitchens. Recent studies by the Kansas Department of Health show that more people die from slipping on floors, rugs, and stairs, falling while getting in or out of bed, or while sitting down in or getting up from a chair than from all other home causes.
For safety, you must take to the bath room, which the Kansas authorities found to be the safest room in the house, with only one fatal injury in twenty there, or to the air. Statistics recommend airplanes rather than bath rooms.


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October 24, 2013
By James W. Wade III
Special to the NNPA from The Call & Post
Cleveland felt let down when quarterback Brian Hoyer got hurt, since Hoyer had helped turn the Browns around, and he won two straight games. "He's been a big part of what we've done the last couple of weeks. I think it was a little bit of a shock for the guys at first. But (QB) Brandon (Weeden) came in and played real well. I think the guys rallied around him. In the second quarter we got rolling and were playing a lot better there. I can't say enough about Brandon coming in, and in the situation he did, not having practiced a lot this week and being able to play the way he did and get the job done," said Browns coach Rob Chudzinski.
Cleveland has some great fans. Any team that wins, we will always see them come out to support them. "They always remember the '64 championship, these people want a winner," Jim Brown said.
While being interviewed by the NFL network, Jim Brown shared his view on the Trent Richardson trade. "Because of what you have to do when you rebuild, one man is not going to be a big deal…in your rebuilding unless he is a certain kind of a back," Brown stated.
"He is not only a cherished member of the Browns, but his contributions to the NFL and its national prevalence are immeasurable," said Browns CEO Joe Banner. Brown's 1,863 rushing yards in the 1963 season remain a Cleveland franchise record. It is currently the oldest franchise record for rushing yards out of all 32 NFL teams.
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With support from the Qatar Foundation International, the Portland State University Middle East Studies Center has developed Arab Culture through Literature & Film, a five unit high school curriculum that provides students with knowledge and tools to analyze and understand the Arab world.
Materials utilize a student-centered pedagogical approach that promotes critical thinking and respect and encourages engaged global citizenship. Through this curriculum, students will recognize shared themes across the region and gain a sense of the rich diversity inherent to the multidimensional cultures of the Arab world. Students will study life and culture in the Arab world and engage with primary sources including films, short stories, and poems. Exposing students to Arab voices and putting human faces on the Arab world will increase understanding and tolerance in the American classroom.
The Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University promotes understanding of the people, cultures, languages and religions of the Middle East. As a National Resource Center for Middle East Studies under the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI program, the Center serves as a resource on issues pertaining to the Middle East through activities that reach students and scholars, as well as businesses, educators, and the media. The Middle East Studies Center supports academic conferences, workshops, cultural events, lectures, and a resource library.
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1. Astronomy
a. the angle between a planet, the sun, and the previous perihelion of the planet
b. the angle between the periapsis of a particular point on a circle round the orbit as seen from the centre of the orbit. This point is obtained by producing a perpendicular to the major axis of the ellipse through the orbiting body until it reaches the circumference of the circle
c. the angle between the periapsis of an orbit and the position of an imaginary body orbiting at a constant angular speed and in the same period as the real orbiting body
2. Geology
a. a deviation from the normal value of gravity at the earth's surface, caused by density differences at depth, for example those caused by a buried mineral body
b. a magnetic field, for example one produced by a buried mineral body, that deviates from an expected or standard value, usually that of the earth's magnetic field
anomalyAny of three related angles by means of which the position, at a particular time, of a body moving in an elliptical orbit can be calculated. For a body S moving around the focus, F, of an orbit (see illustration), the true anomaly is the angle v made by the body, the focus, and the point, P, of nearest approach. For a body orbiting the Sun, P is the perihelion. The angle is measured in the direction of motion of S. If an auxiliary circle is drawn centered on the midpoint, C, of the major axis of the elliptical orbit, then the eccentric anomaly is the angle E between CS′ and CP, where S′ lies on the circle and is vertically above S. The mean anomaly is the angle M between P, F, and a hypothetical body moving at a constant angular speed equal to the mean motion of S. It is thus the product of the mean motion and the time interval since S passed P.
The eccentric and mean anomalies are related by Kepler's equation:
E – e sinE = M
where e is the eccentricity of the orbit. The coordinates (x , y) of the body S can be found from the equations
x = a (cosE – e )
y = a sinE √(1 – e 2)
where a is the semimajor axis of the orbit. See also equation of center; orbital elements.
In celestial mechanics, the angle between the radius vector to an orbiting body from its primary (the focus of the orbital ellipse) and the line of apsides of the orbit, measured in the direction of travel, from the point of closest approach to the primary (perifocus). Also known as true anomaly.
An abnormal deviation from the characteristic form of a group.
A local deviation from the general geological properties of a region.
Any part of the body that is abnormal in its position, form, or structure.
The deviation of the value of an element (especially temperature) from its mean value over some specified interval.
The difference between conditions actually observed at a serial station and those that would have existed had the water all been of a given arbitrary temperature and salinity.
(science and technology)
A deviation beyond normal variations.


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Semper Fit, the fitness program of the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), is partnering with the branch's DSTRESS phone line to offer fitness-based solutions to stress issues faced by some Marines.
The DSTRESS Line, implemented as a pilot program in 2010, provides 24-hour, anonymous counseling, says Col. Grant Olbrich, the program's manager. The line, which is staffed by veteran Marines and licensed counselors trained in USMC culture, is available to current and veteran Marines, attached sailors and their families.
"Physical fitness is a fundamental element of resilience and readiness, and counselors may refer callers to Semper Fit programs and other resources that support this aspect of their overall well-being," Olbrich says of the partnership.
Semper Fit also posts stories about the role fitness plays in stress reduction on the DSTRESS Facebook page.
"Stress can produce chemicals in the body causing tension, anxiety, irritability and can even cause physical illness," says Maj. Robert Chapell, Semper Fit operations officer. "Engaging in physical activity can counteract these chemicals and help manage them. Taking part in regular physical activity releases endorphins that improve mood and increase self-confidence."
Chapell says Semper Fit fitness programs also provide stress-management solutions that go beyond physiology, as they offer opportunities to connect with others through personal training sessions and group exercise.
Semper Fit also is piloting a new High Intensity Tactical Training (HITT) program. Although the HITT program's primary goal is to prepare Marines for the physical rigors of combat through functional training exercises, Chapell says an ancillary goal is to alleviate stress by ensuring Marines are physically ready to perform.
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- A video showing Austin police arresting a jaywalker was posted
- Chief said he was trying to put the arrest "in context"
- Chief said in other towns, "cops are actually committing sexual assaults on duty"
- He apologized for "a poor analogy"
The Austin, Texas, police chief said he was trying to put a jaywalking arrest "in context" when he said police in other towns "are actually committing sexual assaults on duty."
Now he's apologized for his choice of words.
The controversy started Thursday when someone posted a video that showed jogger Amanda Jo Stephen, 24, in handcuffs and sitting on the sidewalk near the University of Texas campus. Moments later she's shown yelling and cursing at Austin police officers as they load her into a police car.
When asked about the video Friday, Police Chief Art Acevedo said, "Cops are actually committing sexual assaults on duty so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas. ... And I'm glad that I'm here having to address mediocrity."
A day later, he was forced to backtrack.
"During the press conference I attempted to place the arrest into context by bringing attention to the fact that law enforcement deals with many acts of serious misconduct," he said in a statement Saturday. "This includes recent instances in the news of sexual assault by police officers in other cities. In hindsight I believe the comparison was a poor analogy, and for this I apologize."
The arrest occurred as Austin police are trying to cut down on jaywalking. CNN affiliate KXAN reported that seven people were arrested Thursday near 24th and San Antonio streets, where Stephen was arrested.
Acevedo said the woman was arrested for not giving police her name when asked, KXAN reported.
Acevedo noted on Saturday that Austin police had been through an emotional week. On Friday, a man was convicted of killing Austin police officer Jaime Padron in 2012.