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EECS 413 students earn prizes for their final projects
"We were all impressed by the fact that most students chose highly-relevant and innovating projects," stated Dr. Naraghi.
Students in EECS 413, Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, taught by Prof. Michael Flynn, presented their final projects in the Fall 2010 class, and two teams were awarded cash prizes for their designs by Cirrus Logic Inc.
First place went to EE master's students Karan Jain, Aswin Rao, and Abishek Madhavan for their project, "A High PSRR, Low Drop-Out Voltage Regulator using Feed-forward Ripple Cancellation," Second place went to EE PhD studentsYejoong Kim, Dongsuk Jeon, and Suyoung Bang for the project, "A 1.2ps resolution, 76dB Dynamic Range Time-to-Digital Converter Based on a Tunable Vernier Delay Line."
The class selected three finalists, and final selection was made by three judges from Cirrus Logic: Johann Gaboriau, Mixed-signal audio manager; Shahrzad Naraghi, (Ph.D. EE, U-M), Mixed-signal IC designer; and Virginia Ruff, University relations.
Dr. Naraghi stated, "We were all impressed by the fact that most students chose highly-relevant and innovating projects. A few of them had really challenging specifications somewhat comparable to cutting-edge ICs in the industry. For us, it was quite difficult to select the top projects. We simply liked all of them!"
First Place
A High PSRR, Low Drop-Out Voltage Regulator using Feed-forward Ripple Cancellation
Aswin Rao, Abishek Madhavan, Karan Singh Jain
Background: There is a lot of interest in efficient power-management integrated circuits. Effective voltage regulation has become critical in low-power applications and in applications with widely varying environmental conditions. Especially in the low power design space, such as laptops and cellular phones, tight supply voltage requirements and multiple voltage domains make voltage regulation quintessential to the lifetime and performance of the system.
Project: This team presented a high power-supply rejection (PSR), high bandwidth low drop-out (LDO) voltage regulator using feed-forward ripple cancellation. The architecture provides a PVT-tolerant design with high PSRR of 50dB for a wide range of frequencies. This LDO has been implemented in 0.13μm CMOS technology and has a die area of 0.0078 mm2.
Results obtained show a line regulation of 0.45 mV/V and a load regulation of 0.06 mV/mA. The overall quiescent current consumption for the LDO is 55μA and the maximum current efficiency at peak drive current is 99.7%. The design has been verified at all corners with temperatures ranging from -40oC to 100oC. Compared to previous known designs in the course, the team achieved the most efficient LDO design to come out of EECS 413.
Second Place
A 1.2ps resolution, 76dB Dynamic Range Time-to-Digital Converter Based on a Tunable Vernier Delay Line
Yejoong Kim, Suyoung Bang, Dongsuk Jeon
Background: Time-to-Digital Converters (TDC) convert timing information (generally, a pulse width or timing difference between two pulses) into a digital output code. In conventional TDCs using buffer delay lines, the resolution is usually limited to one buffer delay (typically tens~hundreds picoseconds), but Vernier delay lines greatly improve the resolution since the resolution is determined by the difference of the two buffer delays. However, one of the significant problems is that Vernier delay lines are quite vulnerable to variations, as most analog circuits are.
Project: In order to address this issue, we built an auto-calibration process, tunable delay lines, and DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter). Using a reference pulse width, the calibration controller tries to find an optimum DAC code to generate the appropriate bias voltages for the tunable delay lines. Through this process, most of the process variations (including all the slow variations such as temperature variations) can be effectively compensated, and the team achieved a similar resolution over all the process corners (TT, FF, SS, SF, FS). The worst-case resolution is 1.2ps, which is one of the best resolutions reported so far from 130nm technology.
Yejoong Kim said, "One of the nice things in this project was that we tried to apply what we've learned from other circuit courses like EECS427 (VLSI Design I) and EECS627 (VLSI Design II) to make a complete system. Especially for the digital parts like the controllers, we manually built a standard cell library, performed a timing characterization using ELC (Encounter Library Characterizer), and synthesized the circuits using Synopsys Design Compiler, and did APR (Automatic Place and Route) using Cadence Encounter. In this way, we implemented the fully functional controllers in a relatively short time (a few days), and we have total 15,347 transistors in our circuit. We believe that this is the new record on the device count in EECS413 projects. Because of the large device count, we used various simulation tools: Spectre, Multi-threaded HSpice, NanoSim, and NC-Verilog, according to the required accuracy and simulation speed. If a Pad library had been provided, we could have built a complete chip ready for a tape-out. It was a great experience for us to follow the entire flow in designing a mixed-signal circuit."


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Flora Wearable Ultimate GPS Module (Adafruit 1059)
This module is the best way to add a GPS to your wearable project. It's part of the Adafruit Flora series of wearable electronics, designed specifically for use with the Flora motherboard. Installed on the PCB is the latest of our Ultimate GPS modules, a small, super-thin, low power GPS module with built in data-logging capability! This module's easy to use, but extremely powerful:
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The breakout is built around the MTK3339 chipset, a no-nonsense, high-quality GPS module that can track up to 22 satellites on 66 channels, has an excellent high-sensitivity receiver (-165 dB tracking!), and a built in antenna. It can do up to 10 location updates a second for high speed, high sensitivity logging or tracking. Power usage is incredibly low, only 20 mA during navigation.
The module is kept small and simple, we have a ferrite bead, filter capacitor and red fix LED on board. The LED blinks at about 1Hz while it's searching for satellites and blinks once every 15 seconds when a fix is found to conserve power. If you want to have an LED on all the time, we also provide the FIX signal out on a pin so you can put an external LED on.
Two features that really stand out about the MTK3339-based module is the external antenna functionality and the the built in data-logging capability. The module has a standard ceramic patch antenna that gives it -165 dB sensitivity, but when you want to have a bigger antenna, you can snap on any 3V active GPS antenna via the uFL connector. The module will automatically detect the active antenna and switch over!Most GPS antennas use SMA connectors so you may want to pick up one of our uFL to SMA adapters.
The other cool feature of the new MTK3339-based module (which we have tested with great success) is the built in datalogging ability. Since there is a microcontroller inside the module, with some empty FLASH memory, the newest firmware now allows sending commands to do internal logging to that FLASH. The only thing is that you do need to have the Flora mainboard send the "Start Logging" command. However, after that message is sent, the Flora can go to sleep and does not need to wake up to talk to the GPS anymore to reduce power consumption. The time, date, longitude, latitude, and height is logged every 15 seconds and only when there is a fix. The internal FLASH can store about 16 hours of data, it will automatically append data so you don't have to worry about accidentally losing data if power is lost. It is not possible to change what is logged and how often, as its hardcoded into the module but we found that this arrangement covers many of the most common GPS datalogging requirements.
Comes with one fully assembled and tested module. If you'd like to back up the RTC for faster fix-recovery, pick up a sewable CR2032 holder & CR2032 battery and sew it so the + side connects to the VBAT pad and the - side connects to ground.


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Wordle creates word clouds based on the frequency on words in a text, similar to tag clouds. What makes it unique is that it can lay out words in arbitrary directions without too much white space. See the gallery for many examples.
Given a list of words together with their frequency, is there some package that provides at least some of the functionality in (La)TeX? If not, is there some way to abuse the TeX layout engine to produce word clouds?
(This is not meant as advertisment for wordle, I just do not know of anything that is similar.)


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NEW YORK (AP) -- With 1.23 billion users in all the flavors and up-and-down stages of romantic relationships, Facebook knows a thing or two about love.
For example, two people who are about to enter a relationship interact more and more on Facebook in the weeks leading up to making their coupled status official -- up until 12 days before the start of the relationship, when they share an average of 1.67 posts per day.
Then, their Facebook interactions start to decline -- presumably because they are spending more time together offline. But while they interact less, couples are more likely to express positive emotions toward their each other once they are in a relationship, researchers on Facebook's data science team found.
Touching on everything from religion to age differences, Facebook has been disclosing such light-hearted findings in a series of blog posts this week, with one coming up later Friday and another, on breakups, Saturday. Friday, of course, is Valentine's Day.
Facebook data scientist Mike Develin, whose background is in mathematics, notes that the relationship stuff is sort a side project for his team, the findings geared more toward academic papers than Facebook's day-to-day business. His "day job" is Facebook's search function -- how people use it, what they are searching for that isn't available and how to make it more useful.
But the patterns Facebook's researchers can detect help illustrate just how useful the site's vast trove of data can be in mapping human interactions and proving or disproving assumptions about relationships.
"We have such a wide-ranging set of data, including on places there may not be data on otherwise," Develin said, adding that because Facebook knows a lot about people's authentic identity, there are "almost no boundaries" to the kinds of questions the researchers can explore -- about the structure of society, culture and how people interact.
Someday, researchers studying Facebook data may be able to predict whether a couple will break up, learn whether people are happy together or see what makes relationships last. Of course, the data has its limits -- not everyone is on Facebook and not every Facebook user shares everything on the site.
Still, people share quite a bit. When looking at breakups through the lens of changed relationship statuses (see: "Joe Doe is single"), the researchers found couples who split up and got back together -- and dutifully documented it on Facebook -- 10 or 15 times a year. The maximum, Develin, recalls, was a couple who went in and out of a relationship 27 times in one year. While one may assume that a couple wouldn't want to broadcast so much relationship drama to the world, people actually "very faithfully update Facebook at each twist and turn," he says.
Facebook's researchers use aggregated, anonymized data from hundreds of millions of users on the site. This means that while they see information such as age, location, gender, and a person's relationship status, for example, such data is not tied back to a specific person.
It was in a study of 18 million anonymized Facebook posts exchanged by 462,000 Facebook couples that researchers delved into how "sweet" couples are to one another on the social networking site.
"For each timeline interaction, we counted the proportion of words expressing positive emotions (like 'love,' 'nice,' 'happy," etc.) minus the proportion of words expressing negative ones (like 'hate,' 'hurt,' 'bad,' etc.)," writes Facebook data scientist Carlos Diuk in Friday's blog post. The data is plotted on a graph, which shows a visible, general increase in the proportion of warm fuzzy feelings right at the start of a relationship.
Tidbits from Facebook's blog posts:
- In 67% of relationships, the male is older than the female, compared to 20% where the female is older and 13% where the partners are the same age.
- Romania and Portugal stand out as countries with relatively high rates of interfaith marriage despite lower diversity.
- Most single females per single male: Memphis, Tenn.
- Most single males per single female: San Francisco.


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A client received a large collection of emails today, where the sender's software had split the mail into several parts. Outlook / Exchange at our end did however not understand the scheme the user had used to split the files, so the mails arrived as separate entities in the mailbox.
Each mail was named in the same manner:
filename [1_3].dat
filename [2_3].dat
filename [3_3].dat
After saving the files by themselves, it became clear that the files contained a set of mime encoded files (separated by –––––-=_NextPart_) (I first attempted to decode one of the files by itself as base64, which failed).
To decode these files, I saved all the different parts of the .dat to a directory, then appended the files together with cat *.dat > merged.dat
. At least we have a complete version of the attachment.
To extract the files from the attachment, use munpack
– available in the mpack
package under Ubuntu.
munpack merged.dat
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Källtorp spontaneous nude beach is located at the Lake Källtorp in Nacka, straight across the lake from the farm Källtorp.
There is a bus from Slussen to the stop "Snörom". It is about 5 min walk to the right along the lake. Study the map on page 45 G1 in the phone directory.
It is also possible to park you car a little north of the farm Källtorp.
Rocky beach which is not very well suited for smaller children. No conveniences like tap water, toilet and dust bin at all.


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Built-in non return valve. Designed to automatically start and stop the pump when taps are open or closed.
Automatic and manual reset.
These type of pumps give a constant pressure and flow rate so they are excellent for irrigation systems.
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An international school in Beijing has built two "pollution domes" to protect their students during physical activity. A Financial Times article describes these domes as "giant pressurised canopies that can cover sports fields, playgrounds or tennis courts" — specifically, at the International School of Beijing, it covers six tennis courts, a track, a miniature soccer field, and basketball/handball courts. You won't be surprised to learn that tuition here can run up to $35,000 (218,000 yuan) per year.
PE teacher Mary Wenstrom tells FT:
"Last year we had 39 days when the kids could not go outside for recess at all or for physical education, out of 180 school days in the year. That is well over a month of school when kids could not go outside," Wenstrom said. The domes contain air filtration systems and temperature control systems, so that students can safely exercise all year round.
Just to reiterate: to enable spoiled and bratty kids to exercise with peace of mind, a school has installed pressurized canopies over courts that look an awful lot like they're already indoors. Do rich people live on the same Earth as the rest of us?
The story for this occasion is Steven Millhauser's "The Dome," from Dangerous Laughter. Excerpt:
Each of the early models, made of transparent Viviglas, was designed to fit directly over a house and its property. Now, emerging from the front or back door in summer, the owner of a dome could step comfortably into a world of air-conditioned lawns and gardens, thanks to a highly efficient system of filters and evaporator coils built into the Viviglas. There were other advantages. Recessed fluorescent lighting with dimmer switches permitted the property to be illuminated at night, so that you could read a book or newspaper in the cool outdoors on the hottest, muggiest evenings. Owners were encouraged to practice their golf sings, play badminton after dark, and enjoy a bit of night gardening, in the always perfect weather under the dome. In fact it was a boast of the manufacturer, much quoted at that time, that "Inside our dome, rain never falls." As if that wasn't enough, the manufacturer promised future models that would heat the enclosures in winter, though a number of difficulties still needed to be ironed out. It was above all as technological achievements that the early domes impressed most observers, who nevertheless remained skeptical. Questions were raised about the extent to which such excesses were likely to be shared by the average American household, since the domes at that time cost nearly as much as the states they encapsulated. Nor could a number of journalists resist reflecting on the metaphorical implications of those glistening, crystalline structures, which enclosed the rich in little princedoms that insulated them even further from the everyday world.
Please check out Alec Baldwin's reading of Millhauser's story here.
New on Beijing skyline: pollution domes (Financial Times)


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The Murder Is Everywhere blog is written by writers about the world they live in, and the world where their characters live. This week, I introduce you to a writer who, like many of us, writes about a country different from where she was born. Not only that, she has been instrumental in pulling together writers to produce two anthologies set in the area in which she now lives.
Drienie Hattingh, originally an Afrikaans-speaking South
African, emigrated to the USA in 1987 and ended up settling in Eden, Utah, with
her husband and children. Eden is
a small town, nestling on the Pineview Reservoir, high up between the Wasatch
Mountains, in the Ogden Valley.
I read the thoroughly enjoyable first anthology last year. It is called Tales from Huntsville, Eden, Liberty, and beyond and is known
locally as Tales from H.E.L. The stories are not mysteries, but
rather tell of mysterious happenings in the Ogden valley, of sightings of
people who have been dead for many years.
Tales from Two-Bit Street and Beyond is a similar collection, this time of stories about Ogden – a town Al Capone said was too rough for him – and its notorious 25th Street and its sordid and dangerous past. Again, the whole book is delightfully entertaining. It will be released tomorrow, June 1, 2012.
But what caught my attention, more than the stories
themselves, was the overall idea and its subsequent successful execution. It is a great example to budding
I spoke to Drienie about this.
Drienie, what was your journey to becoming a writer?
I had never written before I came to the States. However, after we settled in Woodbury Minnesota,
I started writing 20-page letters to family back home in South Africa. My husband's brother, Gerhard, and his
wife were teachers and took these letters to school for their fellow teachers to
read. After a year or so, and many
'letters' later, Gerhard told me that he thought I should write a book. I still don't know if he just became
tired of reading my long letters and thought that if I wrote a book, I would
stop writing them. This inspired
me to go to our local community newspaper, the Woodbury Bulletin, and pitch the
editor with an idea of publishing essays based on my letters home. I remember I took two essays with me. One I called, One Fine Day, which was a story about the day we found out, while
living in Cape Town, that our visa to come to America was granted—an amazing
day I will remember forever. The
other was called One Can Smile Without an
He read the essays while I sat there. Then he looked up and said, "We are
looking for a weekly columnist, and I think you will be perfect for the
job." I was sort of
speechless. I thought he would
just send me packing, and I certainly didn't know there was a vacancy for a
Since that day, seventeen years ago, I've written about
1,000 columns.
After moving to Utah, I went to the local newspaper, The
Ogden Valley Newspaper, and talked to the editor. I took copies of The Woodbury Bulletin with me to show her,
and she immediately employed me as the new columnist for her newspaper.
How did you move from there to publishing an anthology?
I was part of a critique group in Minneapolis and hoped to
join a similar group in Utah, but there wasn't one. So I started one by placing a notice in the local newspaper,
inviting local writers to join. Eight
authors pitched up for the first meeting, and we've continued to meet for many
years, as The Eden Writers' Circle.
25th Street, Ogden, circa 1900 |
The theme of the conference was ghost/mystery, and there was
a contest for attendees to submit spooky stories. Most local authors thought I had gone mad. They had never written short stories and
definitely never written anything in the horror/spooky genre. Nevertheless, I persisted and invited
the group to go with me to visit local restaurants, businesses and sites that
reportedly had had ghostly encounters, and the owners of these establishments
shared their haunting tales with us.
25th Street, Ogden, today |
Of course, now I wanted to publish the stories and have my
fellow writers experience the thrill of seeing their work in print.
Fast forward to June of 2011, two fellow authors, Lynda
Scott and Sandee Drake, and I funded and produced the spooky anthology, Tales from Huntsville, Eden, Liberty and
It is hard to put into words the pleasure I had of seeing the
excitement of being published on the faces of the authors.
Some of the Eden writers went on to be published. Wendy Tolliver is now a successful Young
Adult author, and I've had several stories published in four Christmas anthologies
by St. Martin's Press. Other Eden
Writers have grown the confidence to self-publish.
Wendy Toliver, Kera Ericson, Lynda West Scott, Sandee Drake, Drienie Hattingh and Ryan Russell |
The books would typically be classified as self-published. How did you find the supporting talents
that you would need, such as copy editor, cover artist, graphic artist, and
One of my colleagues, Lynda Scott, is a wonderful editor,
and has done a fantastic job of taking care of the details of the manuscript. I do the formatting and some of the
graphic parts. I also discovered a
great publishing company close to us that supplies authors with a complete
package—everything from cover artist, graphic artist, to printing of the book.
I then format the manuscript for Amazon Kindle.
Were you able to place the books in local bookstores? How did you go about that?
I am fortunate to know a lot of people, including local
business owners of coffee shops, the one and only grocery store, and other
shops, who immediately agreed to sell our book in their places of
businesses. I also know most of
the store owners on Historic 25th Street in Ogden, many of whom agreed
to sell our book. So we have the
books at about 20 local stores, including three bookstores.
Marketing demands a lot from authors |
How did you market your books?
I email editors of newspapers before each book goes to print
about the great feedback we are getting back from best-selling authors and
others who read advance copies of the books. Then I send them a copy of the book and ask them to review the
book in their publication. This
has been quite successful.
Do you have a third anthology in mind?
Yes, we do. I
will start asking for submissions for the third book, Tales from Two-Bit Street and Beyond… Part II, in September.


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Join the Tasty Chick'n KFC family and find a great career, because this is a place where great people work together in a great company. At Tasty Chick'n we realize the importance of every employee to the successful operation of our business, and genuinely want each employee to be successful and happy in their work. The Restaurant General Manager and the Assistant Unit Manager both play a key role in the operation of the restaurants, and have accountability for directing the daily operations of the of the restaurant, and ensuring compliance with company standards in all areas of operations. This includes, but is not limited to, product preparation and delivery, customer relations, restaurant maintenance and repair, inventory management, team management, recruiting and retention of team members, financial accountability, ensuring that the highest quality products and services are delivered to each customer, and other duties as required or assigned. This restaurant is owned and operated by Tasty Restaurant Group, a franchisee. To learn more about Tasty please visit www.TastyRG.com We offer the following: - Competitive starting salaries - 401k with company match - Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance Benefits - Paid Vacations - People First company culture - Promote from within philosophy - Comprehensive training program
- Creates value for shareholders through efficient operations, appropriate cost controls, and profit management - Maintains highest level of Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Hospitality by personally spending time interacting with customers during peak hours and ensuring all menu items are available at all times - Takes an active role in customer service and customer relations, monitors and corrects employee appearance, courtesy and suggestive selling techniques and takes part in company marketing efforts - Controls day-to-day operations by tracking restaurant labor and products cost to meet targets; order food, paper and supplies, maintains proper inventory levels and controls waste, plans weekly schedule for restaurant employees; follows published procedures for receiving, preparing, holding, packing and serving products - Maintains high level of productivity through effective recruiting, training and motivation of hourly employees - Has routine preventative maintenance program in operation; checks, adjusts and makes minor repairs of restaurant equipment, building and grounds - Prepares and submits required reports, uses approved projection techniques; cash control techniques and security measures - Recruits, interviews, recommend hiring, disciplinary action, and termination of hourly restaurant employees and keeps required personnel and performance information; develops, motivates and effectively trains; maintains a safe work environment; champions recognition and motivation efforts - Ensures OSHA, local health and safety codes, and company safety and security policy are met The ideal candidate for the Restaurant General Manager and Assistant Unit Manager will possess: - Dedication to providing exceptional customer service - Good communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and conflict resolution skills - Basic business math and accounting skills, and strong analytical/decision-making skills - Basic personal computer literacy - High School Diploma or GED preferred - 1-4 years supervisory experience in either a food or retail environment, including Profit & Loss responsibility


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"You know you've really made it when Lorne takes you out to dinner," Margaret quipped, stopping short for effect while the 25 or so of us leaned in. "I've slept with him before, but have yet to get an invitation to dinner."
She was, of course, talking about Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live Fame. And I laughed. I was at Chicago's famed Second City, and the satirical, oft raunchy humor was to be expected.
When I was a teenager, I never once complained that my weekend curfew was 10:30 p.m. during the school year – I'd arrive home, switch on NBC just as the band was finishing up the opening theme and grab a bowl of ice cream. Saturday Night Live was always my Saturday date, and I grew up watching comics like Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon personify the immortal Spartans, Mango and Mary Katherine Gallagher.
My friends surprised me for my 18th birthday with a pack of Marlboro Lights and tickets to see a show at the e.t.c. stage of Chicago's Second City. The show, Pants on Fire, was politically fueled and so hilarious, I had hiccups that my virgin strawberry daiquiri couldn't cure.
Back home this summer, amidst wedding prep, the city of Chicago has become my escape (and my sister just moved back!). When searching for fun things to do with the Spaniards pre-bodorrio, I came across tours of the Old Town Neighborhood with improv artists from the Second City Theatre.
A gorgeous Chicago afternoon, a tour guide that actually had personality and one of the city's most emblematic cultural pockets? And for $15 a head, it was a Chicago experience I could actually afford.
Tour Writer and Guide Margaret started by asked where we'd come from, adding insult to injury when she found out that my sister and I are from Bibletown and cracked a few jokes (well deserved, I might add). Shockingly enough, there were 10 of us from the hometown crowd and, much like those in attendance on show nights, we were the most vocal during the 90-minute tour.
Margaret herself is a 20-year Second City student who took an improv class. Having a sound knowledge of the theater and its philosophy, the tour started at iconic 1616 N. Wells just like any tour – with the company's history and its philosophy.
The Second City came to life at the University of Chicago thanks to a few beatniks who used techniques designed by Viola Spolin, a woman who dedicated her life to helping immigrants integrate into mainstream society. The games Viola played, eventually called Theatre Games, sought to relax participants and teach them how to react to different situations, soon became the foundation of improvisational techniques (and the club's improv school). The Second City opened in the Old Town neighborhood in 1959 under the supervision of Paul Sills, Viola's son.
The tour wound around a few residential blocks, past balloon house frames, old brick churches and local bars. Margaret pointed out favorite haunts of troupe members past, like Bill Murray, who recently stayed behnd to clean up after a Grateful Dead show in town. Like many Chicagoans or people who truly love the city, you keep coming back. She spun tails of some of the more famous alum like Gail Radner and Chris Farley before asking the audience for their favorite members – and then told stories about them.
We got a bit more hisotrical than I expected as we stood under Saint Michael's bells, but the history lesson intertwined with humor and anecdotes was a winning combination.
Old Town is about as Chicago as it gets (and the same can be said about Second City). Being a stone's throw from the skyscrapers of the Loop and in the shadow of the Sears (the skyscraper is a Chi Town original), the neighborhood was burned down during the Great Fire, becoming a vibrant part of the Northside.
"LIKE A PHOENIX!" were Margaret's words.
The tour ends back at Piper's Alley, a mecca to comedy lovers, where you can read hate mail all the way up the stairs to the main stage. But as Margaret mentioned, it's ok to fail in Chicago. It's ok to rebuild (or build bleachers outside of the Trump and invite people to watch). It's ok to keep doing what you're doing and trust that someone believes in you.
And it's totally fine by us that New York thinks they're better at everything – it was journalist A.J. Liebling who gave us our famous nickname as a nod to the Big Apple's superiority anyway. Pizza and hot dogs? Fine, we'll give those to you so long as you let us keep the lake, our sports and the best damn improv theatre in North America.
The Second City Neighborhood Tours are held rain or shine every Friday afternoon and Sunday morning. Expected to walk about two miles, and bring your sense of humor. Tickets are $15 and reservations are recommended.
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