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A standard cell for standard-cell type integrated circuits, designed with a computer, includes a basic functional circuit, for example, a flip-flop circuit and a signal delay circuit connected to the basic functional circuit. The signal delay circuit is located within the standard cell along with the basic functional circuit. The design allows the timing of the integrated circuit to be adjusted without changing the geometry of the integrated circuit.
1. A process for manufacturing a standard-cell-type circuit, said standard-cell-type circuit including a plurality of standard cells, comprising the steps of:
(a) determining a location for a first standard cell in said standard-cell-type circuit, said first standard cell performing a predetermined function;
(b) evaluating the timing of said standard-cell-type circuit;
(c) adjusting the timing of said standard-cell-type circuit by replacing said first standard cell with a second standard cell such that the geometry of said standard-cell-type circuit is not changed, said second standard cell performing the same predetermined function as the function performed by said first standard cell, said second standard cell having a time delay different from any time delay of said first standard cell, and said second standard cell including an input terminal to input a scan signal for a functional test of said second standard cell and circuitry to delay said scan signal by a predetermined time period; and
(d) manufacturing said standard-cell-type circuit, said manufactured standard-cell-type circuit including said second standard cell.
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/395,107, filed Aug. 17, 1989, now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a standard cell, a standard-cell-type integrated circuit which comprises a plurality of standard cells and a wiring method thereof, and more particularly to a standard cell having a delay function in addition to functions inherent thereto, a standard-cell-type integrated circuit produced with the standard cell, and a designing method for the standard-cell-type circuit.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Conventionally, there is known a standard cell system in which various cells having fundamental functions, such as AND gates, OR gates, flip-flops, and selectors are registered in a library as standard cells, and an integrated circuit is designed using them.
Arrangement of a plurality of the standard cells onto a chip and wiring among them are carried out using a computer as mentioned below.
As compared with a case in which a gate array system is used, a standard-cell-type integrated circuit which is designed and produced by this standard cell system can realize a high degree of freedom in design, reduction of chip area, a low production cost, various system functions on one chip, and the like.
On the other hand, it takes a relatively long time to develop the standard-cell-type integrated circuit as compared with the case of a gate array system.
In the standard-cell-type integrated circuit according to the conventional system, each standard cell (hereinafter called a cell) is arranged parallel in a row as shown in FIG. 6 and a width of the cell is determined by the cell. Therefore the width can not be changed.
In FIG. 6 each space between each adjacent pair of the cell rows is used for wiring therebetween. At an upper periphery, a lower periphery or an intermediate portion of each the cell is provided with an input-output terminal for each signal. A predetermined logic function is realized by connecting the respective terminals in the wiring area.
However, the conventional standard-cell-type integrated circuit causes the following problem.
Since the integrated circuit comprises a combination of a plurality of standard cells, a signal propagation delay occurs in each gate and each signal wire even though there is no error in the logic design itself. Therefore, the so-obtained integrated circuit may operate incorrectly.
Accordingly, a delay circuit should be suitably inserted in such a conventional integrated circuit for prevention of incorrect operation caused by signal propagation delay, thereby compensating for the delay and matching signal propagation.
FIG. 1 shows a portion of a shift register which is composed of a series connection of flip-flops 1 and 2. FIG. 2 shows a timing chart in a case in which the shift register shown in FIG. 1 is operated ideally. In practice, a propagation delay of a clock signal occurs, for example, in a clock wire 3 for transmitting a clock signal. FIG. 3 shows a timing chart at each terminal when the propagation delay of the clock signal occurs. The clock signals CK1 and CK2 should be inputted in the flip-flops 1 and 2 at the same time respectively. However, since the propagation delay occurs in the clock wire 3, the clock signal CK2 is inputted in the flip-flop 2 later than the clock signal CK1. Thus, incorrect wrong operation occurs.
In order to avoid the occurrence incorrect operation caused by the signal delay, a delay circuit 4 is inserted between an output terminal Q1 of the flip-flop 1 and an input terminal D2 of the flip-flop 2 as shown in FIG. 4. FIG. 5 is a timing chart to show an operation of the shift register shown in FIG. 4. When the register is composed as mentioned above, the propagation delay of the clock signal in the clock wire 3 can be compensated.
As a method of inserting the delay circuit into the integral circuit, there is known a method in which a cell having only a delay function is registered in a library, and then the cell is inserted in a predetermined location.
FIG. 6 shows a composition of a cell arrangement which realizes the circuit shown in FIG. 4 in accordance with the method mentioned above. A delay function standard cell 5 in the same drawing corresponds to the delay circuit 4 in FIG. 4. Standard cells 6 and 7 correspond to the flip-flops 1 and 2 respectively.
FIGS. 7 and 8 are circuit compositional diagrams of the standard cells 5 and 6 respectively. FIG. 7 illustrates a detailed circuit diagram for implementing a time delay using a resistor RR, a capacitor CC, and gates 71 and 72. FIG. 8 illustrates a detailed circuit diagram for implementing a flip-flop using gates 81 through 90.
In the design of the standard-cell-type integrated circuit, the arrangement of each standard cell on a real chip and the wiring among them are determined by using CAD (Computer Aided Design). When CAD is used, labor is reduced.
In order to facilitate a function test which is conducted after the design of the integrated circuit, a test circuit having a predetermined function is added in the integrated circuit. There are various compositional methods and testing methods for a test-facilitated integrated circuit. For example, the methods include the serial scan method and the LSSD (Level Sensitive Scan Design) method.
However, the above-mentioned methods cause the following problem.
A delay function is registered in a library as a cell, and then automatic placement and routing is carried out using a computer. The so-obtained layout presents a mode, for example, as shown in FIG. 6. In this case, the wiring length from the flip-flop cell 6 to the flip-flop cell 7 through the delay cell 5 depends on the position of the delay cell 5. However, the position of the delay cell 5 is not decided until automatic placement and routing of the cell is carried out. Accordingly, the degree of signal delay and the effect of the delay cell cannot be estimated because the wiring length is not decided before the automatic placement and routing.
Moreover, when delay compensation is not carried out correctly, for example, when a delay time owing to the delay cell is longer than estimated, the operation speed of the integrated circuit becomes lowered. Additionally, since the delay cell is provided anew, the chip area must be enlarged.
The problem which occurs during the function test of the test-facilitated integrated circuit, that is, the signal delay caused by gates and wires, occurs and incorrect operation results. Thus, a predetermined function test cannot be carried out in this case.
FIG. 9 is a partial view of a test-facilitated standard-cell-type integrated circuit based on the serial scan system. In the same drawing, reference numeral 8 and 9 denote flip-flop standard cells. Reference numeral 10 denotes a combinational logic circuit. The flip-flop standard cells 8 and 9 have terminals S1 and S2 for inputting scan signals during the function test respectively.
Output signals of the standard cell 8 are inputted into an input terminal D2 of the standard cell 9 through the logic circuit 10 (channel 8a), and directly into a scan signal input terminal S2 of the standard cell 9 (channel 8b).
The combination of the standard cells 8 and 9 composes a shift register. When the flip-flops are connected in the integrated circuit as shown in the drawing, the content and the state of each of the flip-flops (standard cells 8 and 9) can be read and written into an external portion at the time of the function test.
However, in the circuit shown in FIG. 9, some output signals are transmitted from the output terminal Q1 of the standard cell 8 to the input terminal S2 of the standard cell 9 without passing through the combinational logic circuit 10 during the test. Therefore, when a signal delay which occurs in the channel 8b from the output terminal Q1 to the input terminal S2 becomes shorter than another clock signal delay which occurs between the clock signal input terminal CK1 and the clock signal input terminal CK2, incorrect operation occurs. In this case, the function test cannot be carried out correctly.
Moreover, incorrect operation is also caused by the clock signal propagation delay between the cells 8 and 9 as mentioned above.
An object of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned problems. Another object of the present invention is to provide a standard-cell-type integrated circuit and a designing method thereof which can further shorten the development term.
In order to achieve the objects, a standard cell of the present invention has circuit means (comprising, e.g., a capacitor and a resistor) having a predetermined function characteristic, and signal delay circuit means which is provided on the input side or the output side a standard cell of the circuit means and delays a signal inputted therein by a predetermined time.
The signal delay circuit means may be arranged under power source lines built in the standard cell. Moreover, the standard cell may be constructed so that it has the same cell width as a standard cell not having the signal delay circuit means, and optionally has the same terminal positions.
There may be employed a designing method using a computer which determines each location requiring a signal delay process based on each the wiring length calculated from a circuit diagram, and replaces a standard cell provided at each position by the standard cell according to the present invention.
There may be employed another designing method using a computer which effects simulation by a pattern obtained by an automatical determination of the arrangement of each standard cell and the wiring mode thereof and corresponding to a real integrated circuit, determines each location requiring a signal delay process based on operation of the real integrated circuit, and replaces a standard cell provided at each location with a standard cell according to the present invention.
According to the standard cell of the present invention having the above-mentioned composition, in the production of the standard-cell-type integrated circuit, compensation for the signal propagation delay can be effected more correctly than in the prior art, and the development term for the standard-cell-type integrated circuit is shortened.
When a standard cell having the delay function is constructed such that its cell width, and optionally, its terminal positions are the same as those of the standard cell not having the delay function, the development term for the standard-cell-type integrated circuit is further shortened as compared with the above-mentioned case.
These and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following description of a preferred embodiment, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a partial circuit diagram of a shift register.
FIGS. 2 and 3 are timing charts to show operation of the circuit in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram of a shift register having a delay circuit.
FIG. 5 is a timing chart to show operation of the circuit in FIG. 4.
FIG. 6 is a cell arrangement of a standard-cell-type integrated circuit corresponding to the circuit in FIG. 4.
FIG. 7 and 8 are circuit diagrams of a conventional delay standard cell and a flip-flop standard cell respectively.
FIG. 9 is a partial diagram of a test-facilitated integrated circuit.
FIGS. 10 and 13 are respectively circuit diagrams of standard cells incorporating delay circuits of embodiments according to the present invention.
FIG. 11 is a diagram to show a cell arrangement of a standard-cell-type integrated circuit which is obtained with the standard cell of the embodiment in FIG. 10.
FIG. 12 is a flow chart for designing a standard-cell-type integrated circuit.
FIG. 14 is a diagram of a delay element built in the standard cell according to another embodiment.
FIGS. 15 and 16 are internal diagrams of standard cells employed in the test-facilitated circuit in FIG. 9.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 10 shows a circuit diagram of a standard cell 11 of an embodiment of the present invention. In the diagram, the standard cell 11 (hereinafter called "cell 11") of the embodiment has a delay circuit 12 and a flip-flop circuit 13 which is a function inherent to the cell 11. The delay circuit 12 comprises a resistor R, a capacitor C, and two inverters 14, 15. Input into the delay circuit 12 is carried out from an external portion through an input terminal D of the cell 11. Output from the delay circuit 12 is supplied to the flip-flop circuit 13 which is provided in the cell 11. Accordingly, the delay circuit 12 delays a signal from the input terminal D by a time corresponding to the time constant CR of the delay circuit 12, and transmits the so-delayed signal into the flip-flop circuit 13.
FIG. 11 shows an automatic placement and routing diagram in the case where a standard-cell-type integrated circuit is produced with the standard cell 11 which is the embodiment in FIG. 10. In the same diagram, a standard cell 16 disposed in the lower cell row corresponds to the flip-flop 1 in FIG. 4, while the standard cell 11 disposed in the upper cell row corresponds to the flip-flop 2 and the delay circuit 4 in FIG. 4. The wiring mode from the cell 16 to the cell 11 depends on a relative positional relation between the standard cells 16 and 11. Therefore, estimation of a temporary wiring length before the automatic placement and routing can be carried out correctly. Accordingly, a delay time in the wiring path can be correctly estimated. As a result, the delay in the wiring path can be compensated for easily and correctly, and the integral circuit can effect its predetermined function.
Hereinafter, a designing method for the standard-cell-type integrated circuit of the embodiment will be described in detail with reference to a flow chart shown in FIG. 12. First, a circuit diagram having a predetermined function is prepared (Process 121). In this process, a standard cell (FIG. 10) incorporating a delay circuit is designated in consideration of occurrence of a delay time in each gate.
Next, simulation for investigation of whether the circuit designed in Process 121 has the predetermined logic function is carried out (Process 122). In this simulation, delay time caused by each gate and wire is not considered.
As a result of the simulation, when it is recognized that the designed circuit has the predetermined logic function, another simulation is carried out considering the delay time caused by each gate and wire (Process 123). In this simulation, a temporary wiring length is used based on the circuit diagram.
As a result of the second simulation (Process 123), when it is recognized that new delay compensation is required, or that compensation is not required, delay adjustment is carried out by replacing a cell not having a delay circuit with the cell of the present invention having the delay circuit, or the reverse replacing (Process 125).
Thereafter, the simulation in Process 123 is carried out again on the replaced circuit, and the result of the simulation is judged again in Process 124. These Processes 123 and 124 are repeated until the desired result of the simulation can be satisfied, then a pattern for an integrated circuit is prepared (Process 126).
In the pattern preparation of Process 126, the arrangement of each cell and the wiring mode thereof is determined so that the chip area of the integrated circuit becomes minimum.
The so-prepared pattern in Process 126 is equivalent to a real integrated circuit.
Next, simulation of circuit operation is carried out based on the pattern prepared in Process 126 (Process 127).
In Process 127, simulation based on a real wiring length of the circuit is carried out.
As a result of the simulation, whether the circuit effects a predetermined function is judged (Branch 128). The simulation in Process 123 is based on a temporary wiring length. When it is judged that the circuit does not effect the predetermined function in Branch 128, delay adjustment is carried out again in Process 129. In the delay adjustment, replacement of a cell not having a delay circuit with another cell having it, or the reverse replacement is conducted. Usually, since both kinds of the cells differ in the cell width or in terminal positions, the circuit pattern which is already obtained in Process 125 cannot be used. Accordingly, the integrated circuit is fed back to Process 123. When the result of the simulation in Process 127 is satisfactory, preparation of a mask employed for photolithography is carried out in Process 1210.
Next, in Process 1211, a standard-cell-type integrated circuit chip is prepared using photolithography.
In the above embodiment, since a cell incorporating the delay circuit is used, the number of cells can be reduced as compared with the case in which a cell having a delay function is provided separately. Since the undecidability of the wiring length is smaller, the number of simulation can be reduced.
Namely, the case where the result obtained by the simulation in Process 123 based on the temporary wiring length and the result obtained by the simulation in Process 127 based on the real wiring length differ from each other is rare.
Moreover, since the number of cell-terminals can be reduced as compared with the case in which another cell having a delay function is provided separately as in the prior art, the chip area of the integrated circuit can be reduced.
Additionally, the standard cell employed in the present invention and incorporating the delay circuit is not limited to the structure shown in FIG. 10, and for example, the delay circuit may be incorporated on the output side of the cell, or on both the input and output sides thereof.
FIG. 13 is a circuit compositional diagram of a standard cell 17 which is another embodiment of the present invention.
In the same diagram, the standard cell 17 comprises a flip-flop circuit 18 and a delay circuit 19. The standard cell 17 has the same logic function as the cell 11 in FIG. 10. However, the total number of inverters used in the cells differ from each other. Namely, the cell 17 has a circuit construction in which two inverters 15 and 20 connected in series in the cell 11 are removed.
Input of the delay circuit 19 is effected with positive logic through an inverter 21, and output of the delay circuit 19 is effected with a negative logic. Input of the flip-flop circuit 18 is effected with negative logic from the delay circuit 19, and output thereof is effected with a positive logic through an inverter 22. As mentioned above, when the delay circuit is provided in the standard cell, the inverters can be removed as long as the delay circuit 19 and the flip-flop circuit 18 are connected in series and in the case in which the delay circuit is built in one cell, when the delay circuit in the cell is not used, the standard cell has completely the same logic function.
Moreover, the area of the cell 17 becomes smaller than the area of a cell having a flip-flop function, that is, the sum of the area of the cell 6 in FIG. 8 and that of the cell 5 in FIG. 7 (the area of a cell having a delay function). When cell 17 having the so-constructed delay function is employed, the chip area can be reduced as compared with the case of the cell 11 shown in FIG. 10.
FIG. 14 is a compositional diagram of a delay element built in the standard cell of another embodiment according to the present invention.
The same diagram shows a case in which a delay element, the resistor R and the capacitor C in FIG. 13 are built under power source lines 23.
A first diffusion layer 24, a polysilicon line 25 and a second diffusion layer 26 are also built under the power source lines 23. A portion designated by oblique lines in the diffusion layers 24, 26 and the polysilicon line 25 composes a MOS transistor.
Moreover, the first diffusion layer 24, the polysilicon line 25 and the second diffusion layer 26 respectively correspond to the electrodes of a source, a drain and a gate of the MOS transistor. Reference numeral 27 denotes contact holes to the power source.
In this embodiment, a gate capacitance of the MOS transistor corresponds to the capacitance of the condenser C in FIG. 13, while, a resistance of the polysilicon 25 corresponds to the resistance of the resistor R in FIG. 9. For example, the gate capacitance can be set at a predetermined value by changing the width W of the gate portion shown in FIG. 14, so that the delay time can be also set at a predetermined value.
Generally, it is seldom that other circuit elements are built under power source lines 23.
By providing the delay circuit in this area, it becomes possible that the cell according to this embodiment and incorporating the delay circuit has the same width and size as a cell not incorporating a delay circuit.
Accordingly, a delay function can be added to a cell without changing the width, the size, the terminal positions and the number of terminals of the cell.
Thus, according to the standard cell of the embodiment, it is not necessary to repeat Process 126 in the process diagram of FIG. 12 even though a negative judgment is given at Branch 128. Namely, the cell of the embodiment incorporating the delay function has the same size and terminal positions as the conventional cell, so that only the simulation in Process 127 in FIG. 12 need be repeated for the cell.
It is also possible to determine each location requiring a signal delay by means of an operation test on the obtained real integrated circuit, and replace each standard cell provided at the location with a cell incorporating the delay function according to the present invention without changing the pattern of the other portions.
As a result, the determination of the delay time and the delay adjustment at each location on a circuit can be carried out extremely rationally, and the development term of the standard-cell-type integrated circuit can be remarkably shortened.
In order to replace a cell not incorporating the delay function with the cell of this embodiment incorporating the delay function while effectively utilizing the result of the automatic placement and routing, there may be used a cell incorporating the delay function and having a shape to be expanded in the vertical direction to the cell row to such an extent that each wiring area (channel) between the cell rows is not affected. In this case, the lateral length and the terminal positions of the cell are not changed.
A relatively large transistor wiring area may be assigned in advance to a cell not incorporating the delay function in the pattern generation process, i.e., Process 126 in FIG. 12. Then, when it is judged that the cell should be subjected to delay adjustment by the result of the simulation in Process 127 based on the real wiring length, the cell can be replaced with the cell 11 incorporating the delay function.
In the case where the delay circuit is built in one cell, it is preferable that the increase of the cell area be controlled to as small an increase as possible, and it is more preferable that the process be carried out without the increase. For this purpose, any given free spaces in the cell may be used as an area in which the delay circuit is provided as well as using the construction shown in FIG. 14.
In the composition shown in FIG. 14, the reed portion 25a of the polysilicon gate 25 may be bent in any given shape, thereby changing the resistance and the delay time thereof.
Next, will be described a test-facilitated integrated circuit produced with the standard cell according to the embodiment and incorporating the delay function.
The test-facilitated standard-cell-type integrated circuit of the embodiment is based on the serial scan method. FIG. 9 is a partial compositional diagram of the test-facilitated standard-cell-type integrated circuit. The diagram has already been described in the description of the prior art. FIG. 15 is an internal compositional diagram of a standard cell 30 which is employed in the test-facilitated standard-cell-type integrated circuit in FIG. 9.
The standard cell 30 of this embodiment has a flip-flop circuit 31 and a signal delay circuit 32 as shown in FIG. 15.
The flip-flop circuit 31 in the standard cell 30 has a data input terminal D, a data output terminal, a clock signal input terminal CK, a scan signal input terminal S and a terminal T for controlling switching of a scan operation mode and an ordinary operation mode all over the integrated circuit.
In the standard cell 30, the delay circuit 32 is disposed between a terminal S2 for inputting a scan signal and the scan signal input terminal S of the flip-flop circuit 31 in the standard cell 30. When a signal delay is made much larger than a delay of a clock signal from CK1 to CK2, the test on the integrated circuit is carried out correctly.
In the composition of FIG. 9, when the delay time of a combinational logic circuit 10 is short, a propagation delay of a clock signal is generated by the clock wiring length between the standard cells 8 and 9, and incorrect operation may be caused. In order to prevent incorrect operation, another delay circuit 33 is disposed between a data input terminal D2 and the data input terminal D of the flip-flop circuit 31 in a standard cell 34 as shown in FIG. 16 to compensate for the clock signal delay.
Otherwise, in order to compensate for the clock signal delay, a delay circuit may be provided between a data output terminal Q1 in the cell 8 (FIG. 9) and a data output terminal (not shown in FIG. 9) of a flip-flop circuit in the cell 8 (FIG. 9).
The present invention is applicable to other methods. For example, it is applicable to a bus method in which a flip-flop is connected a RAM structure.
As mentioned above, according to the standard cell and the standard-cell-type integrated circuit of the present invention, it becomes possible to reduce the number of cells whose arrangement locations are not decided at the time of the pattern preparation by automatic placement and routing. Accordingly, it becomes possible to correctly set the operational timing of a circuit. Moreover, when a standard cell having the delay function and the same lateral length and terminal positions as a cell not having the delay function is employed at the position requiring signal delay compensation, rational delay adjustment can be realized without changing the arrangement pattern which is already prepared. Accordingly, the development term for standard-cell-type integrated circuit can be greatly shortened.
Various modifications will be apparent for those skilled in the art after receiving the teachings of the present disclosure without departing from the scope thereof.
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Step 1: Building the 110 Volt Arc Welder Housing
1. 2 x (30 inch x 24 inch x 1 inch) SIDE
2. 1 x (25 inch x 36 inch x 1 inch ) FLOOR
3. 2 x (24 inch x 36 inch x 1/2 inch) Levels
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5 .R2: 5k Linear potentiometer
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Wait, so what sort of material did you use for your Welder Housing? It looks an awful lot like you used wood...
http://www.dansworkshop.com/electricity-and-electronics/homebuilt-arc-welder.htm I originally came up with these plans and photos about 10 years ago and I also sell a downloadable pdf with even more photos and instructions.
thanks to Kdemon too for sharing that info here!
it is nice having 76kW at your disposal
did you know the transformers explode in case too many amps get pulled?(only the old types without a reset lever)and the new electronic one asks for a password or pulling of a lever for reset of internal breaker
common dryer outlet = 30 amps 240V
common range outlet = 50 amps 240V
Still, a tough call to get that kind of power and still meet electrical code.


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German maintenance provider Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is developing a laser-based paint stripping system for application on the latest composite aerostructures.
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Paint manufacturers have since devised coating systems where only the visible topcoat can be removed, while the primer remains on the fuselage. These selective systems allow the use of mild strippers, which only dissolve an intermediate paint layer between the topcoat and primer and do not affect the composite structure underneath.
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Farmaggedon: Food Justice Film SeriesOctober 2, 2012
The Food Justice Film Series, funded by the Mellon Foundatino Elemental Arts Initiative and the EA Program and PO Dining Services, is designed to bring to the Claremont Colleges innovative documentaries that probe the dilemmas associated with the production, distribution, and consumption of food in America. Farmageddon is the second in the series. Filmmaker Kristin Canty's quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small family-operated farms selling fresh foods to their communities. Instead of focusing on the source of food safety problems — most often the industrial food chain — policymakers and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government regulations and excessive enforcement actions.
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As the Arctic ice begins to melt, species like polar bears are starting to suffer, and they are not alone. Many other species that depend on the cold temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic may be at risk of extinction.
Examples from the past can help us understand how the species living on Earth today might respond to global warming.
The last period of warming on the planet took place at the end of the Pleistocene ice age, over 10,000 years ago. This period coincides roughly with the extinction of the woolly mammoths, which lived in northern Europe and Asia.
It may not have been the warmer climate itself that directly killed the mammoths. However, climate change altered the vegetation in the areas where woolly mammoths lived. Grassland areas turned into forested areas, which mammoths were not well-suited to.
To survive, mammoths had to move further north but the loss of their habitat meant they eventually went extinct, some time around 4,000 years ago.
A similar process is taking place today. The Earth is warming up and this is likely to change local habitats. Species may have to move further north to find the conditions they are used to, if they are in the northern hemisphere. In the southern hemisphere, they will need to move further south to find a cooler climate.
Not every species can migrate though. Some organisms are not mobile enough to move to a new habitat. Others are cut off from nearby habitats by discontinuities in the landscape created by humans, such as roads.
Another problem is that the topography (the shape of the land) may be very different in the area to the north or south, because of hills, mountain ranges or other features. Again, this would make it difficult for populations to move closer to the poles in order to survive.
Although some populations living in tropical, sub-tropical and temperate regions may be able to migrate closer to the poles to avoid the effects of global warming, this is not an option for species that already live close to the poles. When the climate warms, it destroys their habitat and leaves them with nowhere to go.
Polar bears are one example. They survive by hunting seals on the sea ice for part of the year, before going further inland until the next hunting season begins. They need to build up enough fat on their bodies during the hunting season to survive the rest of the year. Now that the sea ice is melting, the hunting season is becoming shorter, and many polar bears can no longer catch enough food to survive. The polar bear population is now in decline.
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The Abumurava Cooperative was begun by a core group of women in October 2007 as a forum for working together in order to provide mutual support, development, and increased standard of living. Many of the women have struggled with illness, poverty, and loneliness due to HIV/AIDS. Through the group, they have been slowly able to use and improve their skills in weaving in order to better provide for themselves and their families. The time they spend working together provides significant moral support for the members of Abumurava, who are working to overcome discouragement and hoping to find new markets in the coming year.
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When Mrs. Walton pulled into the driveway, she noticed an animal lying in the lawn upslope that abutted the road. She had a bad feeling as she brought a box with her outside to collect the animal. She was crying, and the lineman who was at the top of the telephone pole making repairs even told her how sorry he was as she put the cat into the box and carried it back to the house.
She then called her husband, still crying: how are we going to tell the kids? -As she was still on the phone, in sauntered the family cat - a dead ringer (sorry; I couldn't resist) for the cat in the box. She just about dropped the phone, and told her husband she had to go.
She then proceeded to take the box with the dead cat, who wasn't the family pet after all, back outside to the ditch, and put the dead cat back on the edge of the lawn! This was witnessed by the same lineman, who no doubt thought she'd lost her mind. Crisis with children averted.


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Oh! Thank you Jase for the offer of a small crumb from your supersized piece of cake. I'm sure we will all remember your generosity come November. Wherever did you find the time to come up with this legislation? We all know you don't have much time to spare. l
Emily, Please tell us how and why KDDA gets money from State Education Tax Revenues.
Jase Bolger is a COLLECTION AGENT who lies about his business on our state sponsored web site paid for with our tax dollars. This places him well below pond scum and bottom feeder on the family tree of living things. Anyone who supports him is suspect or a complete fool. Take back our Michigan and vote Bolger from office in November.
"I did not have sex with that woman."-Bill Clinton
"I am not a crook."-Richard Nixon
"There is no Republican conspiracy to eliminate public education."-Jase Bolger
Bolger is a pathological liar. He even lies on our state sponsored legislative web site, using our tax dollars. In his bio he says he collects data for Fortune 100 companies. HE IS A COLLECTION AGENT. He cannot speak the truth. Adler is pathetic as he follows suit. Obviously, Schuitmaker and O'Brien are cut from the same cloth. They do not represent the people of this once great state, they represent themselves. We must all share the shame and blame for these elected fascists. Vote Bolger and O'Brien out this November. Vote Schuitmaker out ASAP. We must return Michigan to a place of honesty and dignity.
Bolger's Minister of Propoganda strikes again! Each time Adler opens his mouth his lies become more ridiculous. These three didn't sign because they are small minded, petty, fascist bigots. To believe their story of not having enough time to read the documents would mean that the believer is the biggest chump in the land. The signed all the other proclamations. Even the staunchest Republicans should be ashamed that we are now represented by pathological liars. At least Princess Tonya had enough sense to stand mute. Are we starting to get who these people are yet? Vote all fascists from office in November, especially Bolger and O'Brien. Vote Princess Tonya out ASAP!
mirights-Get your head out of the sand. This isn't about party politics, this is about watching while Bolger et al turn this state into their own personal fascist land. Wake up and vote these bums out of office while there is still a shred of hope.
This crime was designed and implemented by Jase Bolger and Ari Adler. Obivously Schmidt doesn't have the intelligence to hatch this scheme. Bolger is out of control with his ego and thinks he can do anything he wants. In this now fascist state he may be right. Anyone who can justify their behavior is without conscience. Remember these creeps in November and vote them out. The vote is all we have left and if the fascists in Lansing remain, we won't have that for long. Two questions remain: Are the State Police investigating Mojzak for steroid use and sales as well, and does Schmidt have his hair done by Phyllis Diller's former stylist?
Adler knows no pride or shame. He sold his soul long ago to be part of the fascist regime in Lansing. As Bolger's Minister of Propaganda it is his duty to deceive the citizens of Michigan. Bolger and Adler know all about this ploy and are no doubt the architects of the scheme. Our AG should be pressing hard on this but as a fascist himself, will ignore it.
When you consider cost of living they are the highest paid in the country.
Snyder paid income tax at a rate of 12.5% in 2010 while the rest of us paid 30%. That is our leadership in Lansing, looking out for themselves while taxing the rest of us to the hilt.
cbaccaWookie, You must enjoy living in a fascist state. Of course Bolger and the rest of his ilk are despised by the vast majority of Michiganders. Look at the polls and the great majority of posts on this site. Know full well that you support a deceitful, manipulative individual who cares nothing about the citizens of this state. The voice of the people means nothing to him. Look at his state sponsored web site for proof of his level of integrity. In his bio he says that he is the head of a company that provides data for Fortune 100 companies. In fact, he is a collection agent who profits from the financial distress of others. Sounds like a conflict of interest. First he passes legislation to financialy ruin the citizenry, then he hounds them for profit. You must be his mother or Ari in disguise. By the way, your propagnada will not work. As you try to control this site by flooding it with drivel, you only make yourself appear to be the rapid response team, of one.
Glad to see you are reading these comments Ari. Now you know how despised your boss is as he remains the highest paid legislator in the country. When will he make shared sacrificed and go to part time pay for part time work? Are you also going to be a collection agent after November's elections?
Any article with the name Jase Bolger and the word truth in it is laughable. This fascist is incapable of uttering a true word. He calls for "shared sacrifice" yet continues to be the highest paid legislator in the nation. Remember, he is a collection agent. That is his business and he was obviously born for this role in life. As he drives the general public into bankruptcy with his legislation, he profits. Remember to vote this charleton from office in November.
Ursula, Of course this is a tax increase. To say otherwise is to present disinformation. Voters have been paying this tax for years and now that it is about to be retired there are being asked to extend the payment for years to come. That, Ursula, is a tax increase.
Don't kid yourself. There's really very little difference between King Rick, Princess Tonya, the Jester Bolger, and Kwame. Kwame was devoted to stealing as much as possible. The royal families are also devoted to lining their pockets but are much smoother at it while devoting themselves to destroying our constitutional rights at the same time.
Of course there is a conspiracy to destroy public education. We are ruled by extreme right wing fascists who are out to enrich themselves. They are no different from the fascists of the 1930's who came to power by playing off the ecomomic fears of the people by providing falsehoods through disinformation and propaganda, all the while making decisions which benefitted themselves and their political cronies. King Rick and Princess Tonya see a way to benefit by privatizing education and destroying the people's right to organize. They deceive about there positions and lie to the people, just as any good fascist would in order to manipulate popular thought and opinion. These are Social Darwinists who profit from the demise of the so called "lesser classes." Fortunately the people are starting to wake up and recognize the fascist regime in Lansing for what it really is. When you go to the grocery and have to guess about what the prices are, thank King Rick and Princess Tonya. When you pay double for your license plates, thank King Rick and Princess Tonya. When your taxes go way up next year, thank them again. And don't forget the biggest fascist of them all, Jase Bolger. He lies to the people using our own tax dollars and our state sponsored website. He says his business provides information to Fortune 100 companies. He is really a collection agent! Vote these fascists from office in November or as soon as possible!
Annie and Robert, Yes, unfortunately I have more than a clue. FU has been taking money from big oil for years. He is in their pocket as evidenced by the legislation he supports which always benefits his benefactors, big oil. Right now he is pushing for legislation to help one of his biggests benefactors, Enbridge. The only jobs his support of Enbridge have created were to clean up the spill on our own Kalamzoo River. Thank you Fred. Please don't try and turn this into a Republican vs. Democrat scenario. This is about being an American. Fred will oversee the shipment of oil to foreign countries and sell us out once again. For every dollar invested in Fred, the oil companies have reaped tens of thousands of dollars. Please do your homework. Fred has no interest in jobs or the American people. His only interest is Fred.
Fred Upton is owned by big oil. Every time you pay $4.00 for a gallon of gas thank Fred. Vote for Mike O'Brien in November. Let's get rid of those who sell us out for $$$$$. Our vote is all we have left! Get registered and then get out and vote those from office who are betraying this country.
Thank you Linda for censoring my post. Jase Bolger has no respect for constitutional rights and I see you do not either. To repeat, and in lower case, Jase Bolger is a fascist. He lies about his business which is a collection agency on our state sponsored web site, paid for with our tax dollars. He lies about everything else as well. He is a Social Darwinist who wants to see the "lower class" perish or enter into involuntary servitude, just like any good fascist. He has no business questioning those who know that putting people on the street is wrong. Vote Bolger, Snyder, Scheutte, Scuitmaker and the rest of the fascist from office. Please Linda, as a journalist, try to have some respect for first amendment rights. Lord knows we are losing the rest of our rights to the fascist regime in Lansing quickly enough. Let's try to preserve FREEDOM OF SPEECH!


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Madrid's Ephemeral Bike Lanes
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Madrid's Luzinterruptus remain one of the most consistent collectives of urban creatives working today. Their latest work, Pedaleo Seguro (Pedal Insurance), applies their iconic light-based DIY urbanism to the city's bicycle lanes. As they state on the project website (via my translation from the original Spanish):
On November 21 we decided to install more bike lanes in downtown Madrid. What we wanted our "ephemeral bike lane" action to show that at the heart of our city there are no possibilities to bicycle safely, so we must move to outlying areas so that cycling is a weekend activity instead of a real mode of transportation … [with this action]… we hope that some late-night rider might now be able to use these lanes.
More images by Gustavo Sanabria on the Luzinterruptus site here.
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The Story of American Christian Zionism
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Oxford. 352 pp. $29.95
As international pressure mounted in late December for Israel to cease its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, a major pro-Israel group issued an urgent action alert. "It is important that we express our appreciation to President Bush for standing with Israel in this crisis," the message said. "It is also important that we encourage President Bush to continue to support Israel in its effort to end the rocket fire from Gaza. He is hearing from the critics of Israel. He must also hear from us."
These could have been the words of any of the traditional, mainstream Jewish or Zionist organizations in the United States—AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee, or the Zionist Organization of America. Instead, they came from the national chairman and founder of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Pastor John Hagee, and his call went out to some 100,000 leaders across America, whom CUFI says helped spread the message to millions more.
CUFI is a powerful proponent of Christian Zionism, a term that strikes many Jews as being oxymoronic or, at the very least, freighted with insidious theological and political baggage. Stephen Spector, a professor of English at Stony Brook University, provides a lucid account of the rise of this movement, its historical roots, and its political weight.
Decades before Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State in 1896, it was Anthony Ashley Cooper, the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury and a lay evangelical leader of 19th-century Britain, who formulated the Zionist slogan "A land without a people for a people without a land." His counterpart in the United States was a professor of Hebrew at New York University—one George Bush, a direct ancestor of the forty-first and forty-third Presidents of the United States. During World War I, a preacher and activist named William Blackstone was instrumental in winning Woodrow Wilson's support for a Jewish national home.
Although no less a credentialed Zionist than Louis Brandeis called Blackstone the Father of Zionism, many Jews were as skeptical of his motives then as today's Jews are of his evangelical heirs. Polls show that evangelical Christians profess a deep and abiding spiritually-based love for Israel and Jews, but that love is largely unrequited. At the root of this uneasy relationship is the theology that separated the early Christian Church from Judaism as well as the modern evangelical eschatology of premillennial dispensationalism—the belief that scriptural narrative and biblical prophecy divides history into a series of epochs, or dispensations, the last of which will see Christ's Second Coming and the creation of his earthly 1,000-year Millennial Kingdom.
Liberal Jews tend to distrust Zionists who believe too strongly in the ultimate truth of Christianity, who want Jews to live in Israel as players in a theological drama, and whose support for them involves an end-times vision of mass conversion and mass death. Liberal Christian critics of Israel like former President Jimmy Carter reject this theology as "a completely stupid and ridiculous premise on which to base foreign policy and on which to base support for Israel."
The director of CUFI, David Brog (who is Jewish), says that the end-times critics are elevating passages in Christian literature into motives. He points out that Christian Zionists make charitable donations to support elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union—men and women too old or frail to uproot their lives and move to Israel. If it were simply a matter of hastening Armageddon, why waste the money? Better to open up brothels and casinos. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, calls the media fixation on eschatology "narishkeit" (Yiddish for foolishness).
Indeed, although certain evangelical groups—the Southern Baptist Convention is one—support "outreach" to Jews, the major Christian Zionist organizations have publicly rejected any proselytizing efforts. Be that as it may, a certain liberal suspicion attends upon the friendly overtures of evangelicals. "They're not interested in the survival of the State of Israel," says the Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg. Jews "are merely actors in their dreams."
The disconnect is partially cultural. Susan Michael, director of the Washington, D.C. office of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, told Spector, "The segment of Christians that are the staunchest supporters of Israel are actually the weakest and least experienced at interfaith dialogue and relations." That is to say, the ones who love Israel most have had the least real-life interaction with Jews.
Biblical prophecy and dispensational expectation certainly form one basis for Christian Zionists' support of Israel. But, as Spector shows, it is far from the only one—or even the most important one cited by evangelical Christians. The chief motivation for Christian Zionists is God's promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3: "I will bless those who bless you and curse him who curses you." That blessing became a biblical imperative and an essential element of dispensationalism in the 1909 edition of Cyrus Ignatius Scofield's Reference Bible. Spector writes that while the philo-Semitism and Zionism of evangelical Christians is often generous and selfless, the blessing of Genesis 12:3 is often interpreted as a tangible, material benefit. "God has blessed America because America has blessed the Jew," Jerry Falwell said in 1980. "If this nation wants her fields to remain white with grain, her scientific achievements to remain notable and her freedom to remain intact, America must continue to stand with Israel."
A 2002 poll commissioned by Stand for Israel, an offshoot of the IFCJ, found that twice as many evangelicals are motivated by God's promise to bless those who bless the Jews than by end-times considerations. On a different set of questions, 24 percent of white evangelicals declared their support of Israel because it is a democracy and 19 percent because it is a strong ally in the war on terror.
This complexity accounts for some surprising adaptability on political questions. According to the critics' script, premillennial dispensationalism requires Jews to be in possession of the biblical Promised Land; ergo, a two-state solution, the withdrawal from Gaza, and even the Camp David Accords are strictly forbidden. In fact, leading evangelicals have been neutral about and even supportive of such diplomacy. "If Israel desires to give up part of her land to her neighbors, that is her business," Falwell said in 1984. Two decades later, when Ariel Sharon uprooted Israeli settlements in Gaza, he said, "I trust Israeli leaders to know what they're doing."
Jewish and Christian leaders often bridge the Zionist theological divide by telling variations of the same joke. In Pastor Hagee's rendition, "When we're standing in Jerusalem and the messiah is coming down the street, one of us is going to have a very major theological adjustment to make. But until that time, let's walk together in support of Israel and in defense of the Jewish people, because Israel needs our help."
If humor can temporarily suspend the impact of evangelical eschatology, the same cannot be said of the political differences that separate evangelical Christians from a vast number of Jews. From abortion to school vouchers, the political agendas of traditionally conservative evangelicals and traditionally liberal Jews simply cannot be reconciled. Spector is surprisingly constrained in addressing this dynamic.
He is at his best examining the relationship between evangelicals and President George W. Bush. Yes, the Bush White House gave evangelical leaders unprecedented access. But it is far from clear whether that access was due to Bush's own evangelical beliefs or, rather, the political consideration that they represented the largest constituency in the Republican party. It is an article of faith among Bush critics like Bill Moyers that evangelicals drove him to support unquestioningly the extreme right wing of Israeli politics. Some prominent Christian Zionists, like some of their Jewish counterparts, encourage that belief in order to bolster their reputation for effectiveness.
But did that evangelical access translate into policy? The critics offer no first-hand testimony, only conjecture and a sloppy syllogism: some, though not all, evangelicals are dispensationalists; Bush is an evangelical; therefore Bush's Mideast policy sought to hasten the Rapture. Spector marshals a vast amount of contrary evidence from religious and political figures who have known Bush for decades. In any case, the causes for pro-Israel changes that did occur after the first year of the Bush administration, he argues persuasively, are impossible to distinguish from the background noise of 9/11.
American policy and the American people became more animated by the threat of terrorism from Arab and Islamic extremists. Beleaguered Israel was a sympathetic ally. Even so, this didn't prevent Bush from pressuring Sharon to end Operation Defensive Shield following the Passover massacre of 2002, or from encouraging him to evacuate the Gaza Strip in 2005.
So what should Jews ultimately make of the support of Christian Zionists? Disappointingly, Spector offers no direct answer, though by deconstructing evangelical stereotypes and presenting Christian Zionism in its post-Holocaust, post-9/11 milieu, he offers a compelling circumstantial reply. Jewish community relations councils and social action committees at temples and synagogues around the nation routinely engage in dialogue with black, Latino, mainline Protestant, Catholic, even Muslim groups. They work cooperatively with them on specific issues such as civil rights, immigration, and antipoverty efforts despite powerful disagreements on issues such as gay marriage, parochial education, and abortion.
Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations tells Spector: "We need as many friends as we can get, but you don't make common cause because someone happens to share a view with you. We can differ on other issues with respect, appreciate what we can do together, and establish the conditions for dialogue. We do it with Jesse Jackson and others. Why can't we do it with them?"
In answering that question, Jews who live in comfort and security in America have the luxury of blithely deciding whose support they are willing to accept and whose they will reject out of hand. Those who live within missile range of Hamas and Hizballah, who face an emerging nuclear threat from Iran, and who deal with the prospect of being blown up on a bus or at a restaurant don't have that luxury.


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A childhood favorite...except we broiled ours in the oven for a couple of minutes. My girls love it!
It was fine, but not great. It was a little too sweet and when I ate it I could tell something was off and not right. Thanks anyway though.
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I paired this with my son's "famous" scrambled eggs and a fruit smoothie this morning for a quick breakfast. It reminded me of being a kid and Grandma making it for me for breakfast. The kids fell in love with it--I made an extra two servings after they ate the first.
I remember my grandmother making this for me when I was a kid - I love it to this day especially on a toasted cinnamon raisin bagel.
Husband here, not sure what is more amazing, the fact that there are 16 photos submitted,928 folks saved this recipe, or the fact that it is actually a "recipe" that my 11 month old could make:) regardless, cinnamon toast always makes you and me smile.....
This is comfort food at its most basic. I gave it 4 stars because I think it's better to do what my Granny and Mom do - Set it up as in the recipe, but then put it under the broiler for a couple minutes until the sugar just starts to bubble and caramelize... it's really good! Poor Man's Cinnabon! :)
I started making this when I was five. Needless to say, I've introduced this breakfast favorite to our kids and they love it as well. Make it easy on yourself and keep your sugar/cinnamon mixture in a shaker.
This is my 13 month old's favorite breakfast. She would eat it every day if I let her.
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in 09 After winning an NC bama lost 9 def starters , but 2010 Bamaa was the no 5 ranked def , but lost 3 games , but stars were out with injuries all yr ,...but a healthy 2010 Tide smashed an 11-1 Mich st team 49-7 in the bowl , kurt Cousins the state qb said the 2010 team was by far the best team Msu faced in 2 seasons ...and thats what laid out a 2011 NC Tide team w/probably the best defense ever
Jim is a washed up rb that couldnt fill Trents shoes , when Brown was famous the d lineman were 210 lbs lb were 190 lbs and the dbs were 165 lbs and if Brown played today hed be a water boy
Mike Shula was the coach that brought GMAC in when he didnt get Tebow
He put serious emphasis at Bamas continually having 1st round draft choices .
Utah or part of it is a desert , I was driving trhough there in the 90s and came over a hill and millions of lucusts were crossing the road ,the truck was sliding and the locasts were just marching .prarie dogs were out by the 100s or 1000s eating the locusts , mustve squashed 3 or 4 of them as well as thoudands of locusts ... in football from Utah alot of mormans play and theyre 24 26 when they graduate college some of the reasons Utah and teams around there are good they have full grown men playing
if I had as much time to waste on posting opinions that mean nothing , my family would starve , if I were you Id spend time doing something meaningful than wasting it on posting ..well its just pitiful just pitiful
thats what Id expect from the big 10 administrator that hasnt had anyone in the National title game in so long , I cant remember... if Im not mistaken his big 10 co champ Mich st got beat so bad by the Crimson Tide in 2010 that it was a fact his division co champ could score 7 pts against 3rd stringers of Bama 10-3 team ,this yr the big 10 champ probably wouldnt have scored at all against the 2011 crimson tide , The Tide PROVED that they belonged in the NC game ... and damn well proved it, no matter what this sore loser says
Cam Newton is an old subject almost antique , in other words past history , Bama has won another NC since then and it was a team effort not just a good qb , Bama won its 2011 title on a great defense , the best def ive ever seen in college football ...Auburn lost 10 games in 09 and 11 , Bama lost 4 in 10/11
The 2011 tide team probably had the best pass rush Ive ever seen ..it will be great to see the new guys have a good pass rush and tight coverage
In the Utah game 2008 , besides being clearly unmotivated , the tide lost its 2 best o lineman Andre Smith and ALL American Mike Johnson early in the 1st qtr , and JP Wilson reverted back to his old ways which was always his problem , the def had only faced the spread off only one other time that yr and that loss to Fla being still in their heads , but none the less Utah was a good team and had the momentum with a 3 td lead and Ala 2008 Def was really good ,but the tide didnt have a great pass rush , and Utah passed nearly every down but the tide learned alot from that loss mostly how to prepare with several weeks before a bowl game , they havent lost a bowl game since , and have won the national title twice and it mayve had alot to do with the Utah loss
Yes I remember that comment he made .. that was a long time ago , I dont think its good or fair for anyone to absorb all the negativity that youve absorbed tonight ,I realise youre defending yourself and your school of choice ,quite well , but its the fequency of negativity from all the ppl sending it directly to you ,that leads to negative collection of unwanted ..luck... hopefully you dont absorb it like I did ,until I learned that positive brings positive ...and I know that sounds crazy but iy absolutely works , you can work positivley ,believe it and watch ,feel and see the results, good luck ..I mean that
...I live close to Auburn, worked there and go over there on weekends sometimes and have met some fine women from Auburn for years (1 ex wife), Ive met several Auburn players ,and have a 1993 autographed helmet from several players, Ive met Pat Dye , Bill Oliver, Tracy Rocker,William Andews & Others and amongst all the Auburn football ppl from Aub I have great respect...but Ive been an unwavering Bama fan since the 70s ..but only here is the hate so insane., and ridiculous except( LSU of late)..I cant really understand the negativity , Ive visited Forums from Mich St,Fla st, Wva,Neb, and other FB proud schools, Never is thee this kind of hatred,... even my user name I regret using cause I dont mean it,..there ae alot of mature Aub/Ala fans on these forums ,even as a laid back SEC fan I lose my temper because of the undeserved insults , something I have learned that any form of negative insults, comments, statements really work against the negative thinker,..negative thoughts bring negative luck while positive brings positive...there is enough hatred and not enough positive and both schools and fans need positive because the rest of the college fb world would love to see both schools flounder
Ill tell you who is a real gem for Bama football as a coach and thats Scott Cochran , he has more time with the players than anybody and may be the best motivator on all of Sabans staff , he loses his voice all the time and he really gets these players ready both physically and mentally ,
well both played for Shaw /Mobile as well not sure if Shaws still around but Blount is, now coach Saban needs a guy to eally recruit Columbus Ga/Phenix city Alabama area,,, both Crowell and Jarvis went to Georgia both from Carver Cols Ga,there are over 40,000 people moved to Fort Benning this last 6 months and there are alot of schools with top notch players around these parts only 20/35 miles to Auburn, but the GA Bulldogs seem to be getting the best so far
I think it works both ways Samuels was an Outland trophy winner and no1 NFL daft choice , Sigler a good HS coach and a good DB at Bama ,both can be used in recruiting Mobile , and as Samuels was a no1 draft choice he can help guys see the big money as high daft choice ,... and he and Sigler are Bama guys .. , outstanding hires in my opinion , and any coach knows working with Saban is like a coaching pedigree , it can only get better after spending time on Sabans staff , Ill bet there are some really good players at Blount HS as well
Hey Bore us is back with his tail tucked heres some facts LSU crosses 50 yd line 1 time but lost yardage to end with FACT Bama blows by LSU defense with 394 yds while LSU had 92 total yds , FACT . Bama 21 LSU 0 , FACT no excuses BAMA BLOWS AWAY LSU,... FACT ,.. Jefferson sacked and pressured all day ,......Fact one of the most dominating games of the BCS era.....BORE US ...YOUR NO 1 LSU team was completeley embarrased ,beaten like dogs ,confused and most of all big losers
I have not posted since 1/10 Im amazed that some of the ppl that post all day and night are Auburn fans,...darn football season is over , can a few of you say ...do I really have a life ???
I think Hanks will be great at the nfl level,hes a fearless reciever with great hands , he had one of his best games against LSU in the 21-0 win or rather mauling
I think Hanks will be great at the nfl level,hes a fearless reciever with great hands , he had one of his best games against LSU in the 21-0 win or rather mauling
I think the NCAA should get cut out of sports all together ,nothing but a bunch of politicians, 85 is low enough ,it should be 90 , injuries are more prevalent now than ever because of not having enough depth example during Shula yrs while trying to play without a full load of scolarships ,at the end or in the middle of those yrs Shula had 10 or more injured starters out ,because of NO DEPTH ,...this a ridiculous political ploy of that group of crooks called the NCAA


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If you thought that buzzer-beaters were only for basketball, think again. In last night's Rangers/Coyotes game, New York's Mike Richards attempted a backhand shot that even MSG announcer Sam Rosen didn't believe was going in. After further review, the puck did cross the line with 0.1 seconds left and the Rangers pulled out a miraculous 3-2 victory. However, judging by the location, the Garden and miracle moments just seem to go hand-in-hand.
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A Thermal Bank is a bank of earth used to store heat energy collected in the summer for use in winter to heat buildings. A Thermal Bank is an integral part of an Interseasonal Heat Transfer system invented, developed and patented by ICAX to answer the need for on site renewable energy without burning fossil fuels.
A Thermal Bank is used to store warm temperatures over a very large volume of earth for a period of months, as distinct from a standard heat store which can hold a high temperature for a short time in an insulated tank.
It is a characteristic of earth that heat only moves very slowly through it – as slowly as one metre a month. ICAX exploits this thermal inertia to input surplus heat into the ground over the summer months and extract that heat over the winter months for use in the space heating of buildings.
Interseasonal Heat Transfer works by capturing heat energy from the sun via a collection pipe network just beneath the surface of black tarmac roads (or car parks or school playgrounds). It then stores the energy in computer-controlled Thermal Banks in the ground under the foundation of buildings, and releases it to heat the buildings in winter via heat pumps linked to underfloor heating.
The temperature of the ground at a depth of seven metres in the UK will normally be very close to 10°C – the temperature will vary very little between summer and winter as heat only moves very slowly in the ground. ICAX uses this characteristic of the ground to store heat from summer to winter. Using fluid – in an array of pipes – as the transport mechanism solves the difficulty of getting the heat into the ground – and out again.
The way in which heat is absorbed and released by the ground is complex and required to be studied using complex iterative methods that have only become practical with the use of computational fluid dynamics ("CFD"). The computer models developed by ICAX have since been tested in practical installations and refined to reflect empirical results. These have been used to refine the design parameters for successful ThermalBanks.
Tarmac roads tend to absorb the heat of the sun up to the point when they radiate heat as quickly as they are absorbing it: the surface temperature of tarmac can often reach 15°C higher than the ambient air temperature.
ICAX collects heat using water circulating through an array of pipes embedded in the surface of the tarmac and deposits it in ThermalBanks constructed beneath the insulated foundation of buildings. The temperature across the ThermalBank can be increased from its natural temperature of 10°C to over 25°C in the course of the summer months.
ICAX uses a ground source heat pump to extract heat from the ThermalBank when it is needed to heat the building in winter using underfloor heating. Unlike a normal ground source heat pump which typically starts with an autumn ground temperature of 10°C the heat pump in an Interseasonal Heat Transfer system starts with a temperature of over 25°C from the ThermalBank.
This doubles the Coefficient of Performance of the heat pump and allows a 50% saving of carbon emissions compared to providing heat from a gas boiler.
A Thermalbank is also described as Underground Thermal Energy Storage – UTES, or as providing Seasonal Heat Storage. A ThermalBank allows you to reuse heat.
Where it is not practical to create a horizontal Thermalbank to store energy ICAX uses a borehole field to perform the same function. This is described as Borehole Thermal Energy Storage – BTES.
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"A useful technology will surely be long-term thermal storage." according to Professor David MacKay.
Others have described Thermal Energy Storage as "the holy grail of the renewables industry".
A Thermal Bank is a bank of earth used to store heat between seasons. Alternative descriptions include: Heat Bank, Heat Battery, Heat Store, Heat Vault, Underground Energy Storage, Seasonal Heat Storage, Interseasonal Heat Store, Seasonal Thermal Store, Interseasonal Thermal store, Underground Thermal Energy Storage ("UTES"), seasonal soil heat accumulator.
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See also: Recycling Thermal Energy
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Jan M. Lambert, 78, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Fort Wayne.
Born in Redkey, he graduated from Muncie Central High School.
Jan worked as a electrician with General Electric for 42 years, retiring Jan. 1, 1997.
Surviving are his wife, Becky S. Lambert of Fort Wayne; daughter, Cathy (William) Howard of Columbia City; daughter, Debra (Tim) Minnick; son, Michael Lambert of Tennessee; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by parents Lloyd M. and Madge Cedora Lambert, a son, Scott Lambert and brother Lloyd Kent Lambert.
Private services were held at Estates of Serenity Cemetery, 1101 South Lincoln Boulevard, Marion.
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