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The best thing to happen to the ACC this spring had nothing to do with the 15 practices each team was allotted, and everything to do with the 15 teams that will soon comprise the conference.
On April 22, the ACC announced that all 15 university presidents -- including Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville, and excluding Maryland -- signed a grant of media rights agreement, effective immediately. With one swift, unanimous motion, the conference put a halt to any rumors of defection and reinforced the message it had been repeating but many still refused to believe: The ACC is sticking together. It was a historic moment for the conference, and one that overshadowed Florida State's spring quarterback battle, Virginia Tech's subpar spring game and Miami's never-ending wrestling match with the NCAA.
Despite all of the instability on the field this spring in the conference -- new coaching staffs, new quarterbacks and new schemes -- the ACC will enter this fall on more stable ground than ever before.
And that is easily the biggest win the ACC has had in years.
The next step is to come out on the winning end of what will be arguably the toughest nonconference schedule in league history, but this spring revealed few concrete answers for many programs in transition.
Florida State, NC State, Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Virginia still have ongoing quarterback competitions. Duke and Georgia Tech will have first-year starters at quarterback, leaving half of the conference with unproven players at the most important position. The transfer of quarterback Clint Trickett at Florida State opened the door for Jameis Winston, and he knocked it down in the spring game with one of the ACC's most impressive performances. Still, coach Jimbo Fisher is keeping the competition open with Jacob Coker.
The Hokies' offense under first-year coordinator Scot Loeffler left Virginia Tech fans in a panic after totaling just 23 yards on the ground, and the situation only worsened when running back Michael Holmes was charged with a felony. Pitt's running game also took a hit when leading returning rusher Rushel Shell decided to transfer, and three Panthers, all reserves, were suspended from the team.
Several potential stars emerged, as Clemson tight end Jordan Leggett, North Carolina running back A.J. Blue, Wake Forest receiver Orville Reynolds, Duke quarterback Anthony Boone and Boston College running back Andre Williams drew rave reviews from within their respective programs. Miami running back Dallas Crawford showed the potential to emerge from the shadow of Duke Johnson, and Maryland's running backs highlighted their spring.
For Boston College, Syracuse and NC State, this was a spring of transition for first-year head coaches Steve Addazio, Scott Shafer and Dave Doeren, respectively, but they were hardly the only ones in the league in need of introductions. Fisher had six new assistants on his staff and Virginia coach Mike London had a staff overhaul, as did Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer. This spring was spent learning the foreign languages in the playbooks and working on fundamentals and techniques.
More importantly, it was spent solidifying the future of the conference.
Thanks to the grant of rights, the ACC has all of the pieces in place to remain one of the country's power conferences, but on the field, it will have to find more answers this summer if it is going to move up in the conference power rankings.

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text: Features The CAFE Way: Future Trucks and Fuel Economy What 'The New Standard' Means for Trucks, and How Automakers will Meet them Gary Witzenburg writerFebruary 16, 2012 Gary Witzenburg writerFebruary 16, 2012 What 'The New Standard' Means for Trucks, and How Automakers will Meet them Share this article in: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Email Free Price Quote From a Local Dealer View Special Offers No Obligation, Fast & Simple Free New Car Quote Change Car Select Make Acura Alfa Romeo Aston Martin Audi Bentley BMW Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Dodge Ferrari FIAT Ford Genesis GMC Honda Hyundai Infiniti Jaguar Jeep Kia Lamborghini Land Rover Lexus Lincoln Lotus Maserati Mazda McLaren Mercedes-Benz MINI Mitsubishi Nissan Porsche Ram Rolls-Royce Scion smart Subaru Tesla Toyota Volkswagen Volvo Select Model 124 Spider 1500 2-Series 200 2500 3-Series 3-Series Plug-in 300 3500 370Z 4-Series 488 Spider 4C 4Runner 5-Series 5-Series Diesel 500 500C 500e 500L 500X 570 6-Series 650S 675LT 7-Series 718 Boxster 718 Cayman 86 911 918 A3 A3 e-tron A3 TDI A4 A5 A6 A6 TDI A7 A7 TDI A8 A8 TDI Acadia Accent Accord Accord Hybrid ActiveHybrid 5 allroad Alpina B6 Altima AMG GT Armada Atlas ATS ATS-V Avalon Avalon Hybrid Aventador Azera B-Class Beetle Bentayga Bolt EV Boxster BRZ C-Class C-Class Plug-in C-HR C-MAX C-MAX Energi C-MAX Hybrid Cadenza California T Camaro Camry Camry Hybrid Canyon Cascada Cayenne Cayenne Diesel Cayenne E-Hybrid Cayman CC Challenger Charger Cherokee City Express Civic CLA-Class Clarity CLS-Class Clubman Colorado Compass Continental Continental GT Continental GTC Convertible Cooper Clubman Cooper Countryman Cooper Hardtop Cooper Paceman Corolla Corolla iM Corvette Countryman CR-V CR-Z Cruze Cruze Limited CT 200h CT6 CTS CTS-V CX-3 CX-5 CX-9 Dart Dawn DB9 DB9 GT Defender Discovery Discovery Sport Durango E-Class E-Class BlueTEC e-Golf EcoSport Edge Elantra ELR Enclave Encore Envision Eos Equinox Equus ES300h ES350 Escalade Escalade ESV Escape Evora Expedition Explorer Express F-150 F-250 F-350 F-450 F-PACE F-PACE Diesel F-Type F12berlinetta Fiesta Fit Flex Flying Spur Focus Focus Electric Forester Forte Forte Koup Forte5 fortwo fortwo electric drive FR-S Frontier Fusion Fusion Energi Fusion Hybrid G-Class G80 G90 Genesis Genesis Coupe Ghibli Ghost Giulia GL-Class GL-Class BlueTEC GLA-Class GLC-Class GLC-Class Coupe GLE-Class GLE-Class BlueTEC GLE-Class Coupe GLE-Class Plug-in GLS-Class Golf Golf Alltrack Grand Caravan Grand Cherokee GranTurismo GS GS 200t GS F GS350 GS450h GT GT-R GTC4Lusso GTI GX460 Hardtop Highlander Highlander Hybrid HR-V Huracan i-MiEV i3 i8 iA ILX iM Impala Impreza Ioniq IS IS200t IS300 IS350 Jetta Jetta Hybrid Journey JUKE K900 Kona LaCrosse Lancer Land Cruiser LC LEAF Legacy Levante LR4 LS LS460 LS600h LX570 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 Macan Malibu Malibu Hybrid Malibu Limited Maxima Mazda3 Mazda6 MDX MDX Hybrid Metris Miata Mirage Mirage G4 Mirai MKC MKS MKT MKX MKZ MKZ Hybrid Model 3 Model S Model X Mulsanne Murano Mustang Navigator Navigator L Niro NSX NV NV1500 NV200 NV2500 NV3500 NV3500 Passenger NX200t NX300h Odyssey Optima Optima Hybrid Outback Outlander Outlander Plug-in Outlander Sport Pacifica Pacifica Plug-in Panamera Panamera E-Hybrid Passat Pathfinder Patriot Phantom Pilot Prius Prius c Prius Prime Prius v ProMaster ProMaster City Q2 Q3 Q5 Q5 Hybrid Q5 TDI Q50 Q50 Hybrid Q60 Q7 Q70 Q70 Hybrid Quattroporte Quest QX30 QX50 QX60 QX60 Hybrid QX70 QX80 R8 Range Rover Range Rover Diesel Range Rover Evoque Range Rover Sport Range Rover Sport Diesel Range Rover Velar Rapide S RAV4 RAV4 Hybrid RC RC 200t RC 300 RC 350 RC F RDX Regal Renegade Ridgeline Rio Rio5 RLX RLX Hybrid Rogue Rogue Sport RS 7 RX RX350 RX450h S-Class S-Class Plug-in S3 S4 S5 S6 S60 S60 Cross Country S7 S8 S80 S90 Santa Fe Santa Fe Sport Savana Sedona Sentra Sequoia Sienna Sierra 1500 Sierra 2500HD Sierra 3500HD Silverado 1500 Silverado 2500HD Silverado 3500HD SL-Class SLC-Class SLK-Class Sonata Sonata Hybrid Sonata Plug-In Sonic Sorento Soul Soul EV Spark Spark EV Sportage Sprinter SQ5 SRX SS Stelvio Stinger Suburban Tacoma Tahoe Taurus tC Terrain Tiguan Titan Titan XD TLX Touareg Touareg TDI Town & Country Transit Transit Connect Traverse Trax TT TTS Tucson Tundra V60 V60 Cross Country V90 Vanquish Vantage Veloster Verano Versa Versa Note Viper Volt Wraith Wrangler Wrangler Unlimited WRX X1 X3 X3 Diesel X4 X5 X5 Diesel X5 Plug-in X6 XC40 XC60 XC70 XC90 XC90 Plug-in XE XE Diesel XF XF Diesel XJ XJ-Series XT5 XTS XV Crosstrek XV Crosstrek Hybrid Yaris Yaris iA Yukon Yukon XL Z4 Z5 GO 1. Vehicle Option Trim Exterior Color No Preference Black Blue Brown Gold Green Orange Red Silver White Yellow Interior Color No Preference Beige Black Blue Gray Green Other Red White Buying Time Frame Within 48 hours Within a week Within two weeks Within a month More than a month Payment Method Undecided Loan Lease Cash Trade In? Yes No 2. Contact Info First Name Last Name Address City State -- AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY Zip Code Phone Email 3. Dealer Selection Receive your free dealer pricing information by completing your contact information! If you're above a certain age, you have vivid memories of the 1973 oil embargo and the resulting fuel shortages. Many people were inconvenienced, frustrated, and angered by empty gas pumps and long lines.And perhaps for the first time, many people thought seriously about fuel consumption as both a budgetary and a freedom of movement concern. Lacking safe, efficient, convenient, flexible public transportation outside of major cities, we were hopelessly dependent on private cars and trucks. Without gas, we couldn't get where we wanted and needed to go. The gas crisis temporarily caused vehicle preferences to change. Small, fuel-efficient cars sold out, and almost no one wanted big cars and trucks. Then fuel became plentiful again, gas prices dropped, and some people who had downsized to smaller vehicles wished they hadn't.CAFEThat cycle repeated itself in 1979-1980 and again in 2008-2009, but the lasting legacy of that 1973 fuel shortage is the federal government's response: Corporate Average Fuel Economy laws. The first required automakers' 1978-model "sales-weighted fleet averages" to be no lower than 18 mpg — no challenge for imports, which produced a lot of small cars, but a tall order for domestics. It meant makers had to balance sales of profitable larger vehicles with sales of smaller ones (usually at a loss), whether or not anyone wanted to buy them. Light-truck standards followed for 1979, beginning at 17.2 mpg for 2WD models and 15.8 for those with 4WD.When it comes to CAFE, critics contend it's a sorry substitute for reducing fuel usage through higher fuel taxes, as other countries have done, because it puts the onus on automakers, regardless of market demand, and drives up vehicle prices. Nevertheless, these laws were toughened each year through the early 1980s, softened slightly in the mid-'80s, then leveled at 27.5 mpg for cars from 1990 to 2010. The truck number accelerated slowly to 20.7 mpg (combined for 2WD and 4WD) for 1996, stayed there through 2004, then climbed again to 23.5 mpg for 2010.NEW CAFEThen, on May 19, 2009, President Obama announced a new "national fuel economy program" mandating a fleet average of 35.5 mpg for by 2016, a daunting 29-percent increase that moved the requirements of an existing 2007 law forward by four full years. Since 2012 models were essentially done, automakers would have just four model years to achieve it.A year later, he ordered the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which (for some reason) manages CAFE, and the Environmental Protection Agency to jointly mandate much tougher standards for 2017-2025. They laid out four scenarios of 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-percent annual increases over that 35.5-mpg 2016 level. The 6-percent-per-year schedule would have resulted in a CAFE of 62 mpg by 2025, but they later settled on a somewhat more reasonable 54.5 mpg.Using prices for an array of fuel-efficiency technologies projected by a 2010 National Research Council study commissioned by NHTSA, the Center for Automotive Research predicted a retail cost of meeting a (then-proposed) 56-mpg CAFE at $6714, which (when added to an estimated $1500 increase for future safety requirements) would result in 2025-model vehicle stickers $8214 higher on average than 2016 prices.FOOTPRINT-BASEDThe only good news for automakers in these new requirements (which were not fully formulated for 2017-2025 as this was written) is that they move from a straight fleet average to a much more complex but more rational footprint-based formula, which comprehends the basic law of physics that larger vehicles will consume more energy than smaller ones. (A vehicle's footprint is its wheelbase times its average tread width.)It's important to note that CAFE-compliance fuel-economy numbers, derived from EPA emissions-tests, are higher than those you see in ads and articles and on window stickers because the feds mathematically adjust the test results downward to obtain the published numbers that are better predictors of real-world efficiency. Thus a 2012 subcompact Honda Fit with a 40-square-foot footprint must achieve an EPA test fuel economy of 36 mpg, equivalent to a published 27 mpg, while a Ford F-150 with a 65-75-square-foot footprint must test at 22 mpg for a published 17 mpg.TRUCKMAKERS' CHALLENGEWe asked experts from Ford, Chrysler, and Toyota (GM declined an interview) what this means to full-size truckmakers."There is no fixed number that we will have to hit," says Jeff Lewis, head of Ford's Vehicle Energy Management Engineering group. "[Compliance] will be tied to the footprints and the overall mix of our products." He added that the light-truck target will be significantly lower than the 54.5 mpg required of the entire U.S. fleet."The input we have been providing [internally] is, 'Here is what our cycle plan looks like, here are the footprints of those vehicles, and here is the predicted sales mix of those vehicles.' Our CAFE planning team comes back and says, 'Then here is what each of our vehicles needs to deliver for us to be compliant.' The footprints and mix will determine what our corporate number needs to be, then we will know where each of our products needs to be.""A given vehicle is assigned a target," explains Gary Oshnock, Chrysler's manager of Fuel Economy-CHG Programs and Regulatory Affairs. "What a manufacturer does to reach compliance is sales weight. Each model will have X, Y, or Z number of sales to come up with an average footprint for its fleet. And for a given model year, that average footprint determines the fleet average fuel economy requirement."We use an SAE procedure to determine the wheelbases and track widths," Oshnock says. "But when we get into heavy-duty trucks, it will be a completely different system. A regulation just came out for 2014-2018 model years for over-8500-pound-GVW trucks — wreckers, ambulances, potato-chip trucks, up to Class 8 line-haul trucks."Instead of a footprint, Class 2B and 3 full-size pickups and vans will use a 'work factor' attribute: 0.75 times payload capacity (GVW minus curb weight), plus 500 pounds if it's equipped with 4WD, plus 0.25 times tow capacity (GCW minus GVW). But Chrysler supports this methodology because it recognizes the underlying physics of a truck's capability."Michael Cairns, Chrysler's vehicle line executive for Ram Trucks and Regulatory Affairs, points out that truck makers will have to meet four separate requirements, two for light-duty and two for heavy-duty, because EPA's "greenhouse gas" mandates (as of now) are different from NHTSA's CAFE requirements. On top of that is another set of CO2 requirements for California and 13 other states that have adopted California's standards."The government has tried, with industry help, to tie those together," Cairns says, "to provide some rationality among them." He points out that light-truck fuel-economy standards apply to a lot more vehicles than just pickups, including minivans, Jeep Wranglers, and even Patriots, since NHTSA and EPA categorize trucks based on attributes such as cargo-carrying and off-road capabilities. Oshnock continues that, while two government agencies and California are involved, "the programs are fairly well aligned — though it does add complexity. Trying to get to a single national program? We generally support this effort." Another way to improve fuel economy to meet CAFE requirements is to improve vehicle aerodynamics. That can include reducing drag and improving airflow underneath the vehicle and at the back of the truck, as well as designing the shape of the side mirrors to be more aerodynamic. CAN IT BE DONE?"Previously, when a manufacturer had a single number target, you had two choices of how to improve fuel economy to hit that target," says Michael Love, Toyota USA's national manager of Regulatory Affairs and Powertrain Planning. "You could apply technology to a given size truck to make it more efficient, or you could build smaller trucks. Under this new footprint-based program — depending on whether the curves set by the government are truly size neutral — there is little or no benefit to building smaller trucks. Your only options are to apply technology and make the vehicles lighter through vehicle design and materials technology, while keeping the same size."He adds that the 2012-2016 rules require a very aggressive 4.0-4.5-percent annual increase. "With a five-year product cycle between major changes, every time you have a major change, you will need more than a 20-percent increase in fuel economy. What technologies will get you a 20-percent increase? And what will you need for your next 20 percent?"The rules for 2017-2025, to which the manufacturers have nominally agreed, also require about a 4-percent annual increase for cars. Full-size trucks get no increase through 2020, after which their annual rate of increase will also be about 4 percent for 2021-2025. "That was negotiated with the government to benefit full-size pickups," Love explains, "and there are some yet-to-be-defined bonus credits for full-size hybrid pickups." Do truckmakers believe they can meet these incredibly aggressive requirements without losing important capabilities and/or driving costs (and therefore retail prices) through the roof? They all say they can and will, but with reservations."Arguably, there is a lot of available technology," Love responds, "but the biggest question is the cost. All the cheap technology has already been adopted. We're moving into much more expensive technology, and there's always a debate about what those costs will be — there are huge differences of opinion between costs as estimated by the government and as estimated by the manufacturers — and therefore a big question about whether the public is willing to pay for it.""It is a great challenge for engineers," says Cairns. "Do we know how to do it today? Not really. There is technology that can get us there, but not in a cost-effective manner. If we would just apply known technologies now, we would price ourselves out of the market. So the answers that exist today are not going to be the right answers as we move forward. We have to invent things, come up with new creative ideas, as well as improvements and cost reductions to known technologies, plus the weight reductions and aerodynamic improvements we have been doing over the years. No doubt it's a big challenge, but Ram trucks will find a way because we want to provide what our customers want.""In one sense, it's a very simple formula to improve fuel economy," Ford's Lewis asserts. "Get weight out, improve rolling resistance, get better aerodynamics, get rid of parasitic losses in the systems and squeeze as much efficiency as possible out of your powertrains."We can figure out how to do it, but it will be costly. Technology needs to be developed. We're capable of developing it, but how much investment and variable cost can we put into it? Our business is hugely competitive from a cost and investment perspective, so the bigger challenge is figuring out how to stay in business while implementing it."Everyone is faced with the same challenges," he concludes. "We all focus on and will implement fundamentally the same technologies, and we can't lose capabilities. Customers buy trucks for capabilities. So whoever figures it out, executes best, and implements most efficiently with the best business plan will win. We're hopeful that will be us."And if it turns out that it simply can't be done? We love former GM product guru Bob Lutz's take on CAFE a few years ago, when he still worked for GM:"If something is impossible," he said, "nobody will do it. And when they get to the point where the legislation is tantamount to saying that cars may no longer touch the road surface because we don't want to deteriorate the infrastructure, so we're mandating that by 2015, all cars have to hover off the highway by 2 inches, I think, well, that's nice. So [if CAFE gets to that point], I won't worry about it. I'll just know it's that it's physically impossible, so something is going to give before we get there." Share this article in: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Email The CAFE Way: Future Trucks and Fuel Economy /7 Advertisement to Skip 1|7 2|7 3|7 4|7 5|7 6|7 7|7


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Event: Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Imran Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Anil Kapoor, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and others were spotted at Mukesh Ambani's bash. The party was hosted in the honour of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who is on his tour to the country.
Guest List: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Imran Khan, Avantika Malik, Karisma Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Raveena Tandon, Anil Thadani, Vinod Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Kiran Rao, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, Prasoon Joshi, Narayan Rane, Smriti Irani, Shaina NC, Ashutosh Gowariker, Sunita Gowariker, Mukesh Ambani, Yash Chopra, Kiron Kher
Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra was snapped at Hakkasan, Bandra.
Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez was spotted at Khar.
Bollywood actress Radhika Apte was spotted at lifestyle showroom.
Bollywood celebs Aditya Roy Kapur, Varun Dhawan and Athiya Shetty were snapped at bandra.
Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen was spotted at Bandra.


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How Google Website Optimizer Encourages Visitors to Act
I learned a lot about Google Website Optimizer in a presentation at Net Tuesday Vancouver earlier this week. I also have a write-up on Adsense from the same event, if you're interested.
Import Drupal Comments into Disqus
Among the recent updates to this powered-by-Drupal blog is a switch to having Disqus manage comments. The standard comment module has a few shortcomings which are solved by Disqus. However, Disqus isn't without its own problems and the absent "import comments from Drupal" functionality is one of them.
Getting the Most Out of Google Adsense
I checked out the Net Tuesday meetup last night. If you're not familiar with the group, they're bring together social change organizations and social/web media types. Last month's meetup showcased some exciting projects going on in Vancouver so I was looking forward to my second time at Net Tuesday.


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Chocolate and coffee, what a magical combination for a caffeine boost. If you're looking for the perfect afternoon pick me up, look no further. This is this what you need.
Coffee Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 ½ cup flour
½ cup cocoa powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
12 ounces bittersweet chocolate
1 stick butter
1 tablespoon espresso powder (or instant coffee)
1 ½ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 325°.
- Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- In a microwavable bowl, heat 8 ounces of the chocolate and butter. Stir the mixture every 30 seconds. It should take about 2 minutes to completely melt the chocolate and butter.
- Stir in the espresso powder into the chocolate mixture until fully dissolved.
- Transfer the chocolate mixture into a bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle. Add the sugar, eggs and vanilla until combined. Gradually mix in flour mixture. Fold in the remaining chocolate chips.
- Using a mini cookie scoop, place batter onto a lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 13 minutes. Transfer the cookies onto a wire rack to cool.
*When you take the cookies out of the oven, they might look and feel a little undone, but they will harden as they cool. Do not overbake.


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April 22, 2009
As everyone knows, road trips are a part of baseball. When looking ahead at the schedule, we players always note the different types of road trips. There are short 2-4 day trips like our first one in Toronto to begin the season, there are the normal 4-7 day trips and, finally, there are trips that last 10 days or longer.
Currently, we're on a 10-day road trip that includes West Coast travel (Seattle and Anaheim) before finally heading back toward the Midwest where we finish up with Kansas City.
People always ask if it is hard being gone that long away from Detroit on road trips, but one of the things that a lot of people don't realize is that even though our home is Detroit, it's still sort of like being on the road. We're usually gone about half of every month during the season and most people's hometowns aren't Detroit. So it isn't too difficult — at least for me — to have to pack a bag for 10 days, and move from hotel to hotel and take flight after flight.
My experiences in college, the minor leagues, and first few years of the big leagues have gotten me used to packing and unpacking. My mom said she doesn't know how we do it, and how we don't forget stuff in hotels or apartments since we are always on the move. I did lose my entire DVD collection in a hotel in Harrisburg, Pa., when I was in the minor leagues, but haven't lost anything major since. Amazingly, I don't really have any stories of teammates losing anything either. I guess we're just experienced at packing our bags and getting out!
Long road trips are cool for me, because I think it is actually less tiring than a short road trip. I can sleep on any plane. I have fallen asleep on a flight from Detroit to Cleveland which is a 30 minute flight. As long as I have a window seat, I am good to go. Most hotel beds I have no problem sleeping in as long as I have an AC control. I like to keep the room cold, and the noise helps to sleep. We also get to arrive at the ballpark an hour or so later than we would normally in Detroit.
Long road trips also allow me to see a lot of friends and family throughout the country and Canada. Usually when seeing and catching up with them, I get a chance to eat some great food in the different cities. In Seattle, I got a chance to eat at a new place called Barrio. It was a really nice place with very good food and seafood ceviche.
Here in the LA area I ate a place called Piknic. It was another nice place with outdoor seating, which we need in the heat out here, and good food yet again. The other day, it reached 100 degrees in downtown LA ... but that's for another blog.
Finally, I just want to add in one other unrelated thing — I want to put in my support for Matt Giraud, the American Idol contestant from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He has been tearing it up so far, and hopefully he makes it to the next round.
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Curtis Granderson plays center field for the Detroit Tigers and his blog will appear regularly on Yahoo! Sports' Big League Stew during the 2009 season. Make sure to check out and support his Grand Kids Foundation.
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FIREFIGHTER - City of Morgantown
The Morgantown Fire Civil Service Commission will be administering examinations to establish the list from which vacancies on the Morgantown Fire Department will be filled.
Assistance Available to Tackle Dilapidated Buildings in West Virginia
The next time you come across a burned-out house in danger of collapse, take a moment to think about Kanawha County.
The Kanawha County Commission recently approved a $1 million demolition program to remove up to 114 uninhabitable structures, thanks in large part to the West Virginia Housing Development Fund's Property Rescue Initiative.
Kanawha County currently allocates 100 percent of its building permit fees to demolish dilapidated structures. In order to ramp up its efforts and make this pool of funding go further, the county leveraged its demolition fund to apply for an interest-free loan through the Property Rescue Initiative.
Read more: Assistance Available to Tackle Dilapidated Buildings in West Virginia
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Apple ends system of recruitment fees that tied labor to contractors
Apple has forced its suppliers to end a form of "bonded labor" that saddled assembly line workers with unnecessary hiring fees, and put them in debt to third-party recruiters.
Apple has forced its suppliers to end a form of "bonded labor" that saddled assembly line workers with unnecessary hiring fees, and put them in debt to third-party recruiters.
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Not the sexism, though. It actually boiled over for me early on, when Bond literally slapped a girl on her ass as he pushed her out the room, explaining that it was time for "man talk". That just went above and beyond the cheeky chauvinism that I can tolerate in a Bond flick. Honor Blackman plays Goldfinger's personal pilot, a strong female character (for once), but one whose strength is taken away by her name (Pussy Galore – sorry, it's too unlikely a name for me to accept) and the fact that Bond pretty much rapes her in a barn. Overall, not a lot of good stuff in the whole "women are people too" department.
Whatever social commentary the movie may provide, one thing clearly makes Goldfinger stand out, and that's Auric himself. While Dr. No was a phantom until the final stages of the first movie, and FRWL featured more of a cabal of SPECTRE higher-ups than any one focal villain (don't argue for Red Grant, dude was pretty milquetoast), Goldfinger finally gives us an evil mastermind. Even his scheme is way better than anything from the first two films; he wants to make the US's gold supply radioactive to help the Chinese and make his own gold that much more valuable. What a dick. An awesome dick, who delivers what is probably the greatest super villain line ever ("No, Mr. Bond – I expect you to die!"). And lest we forget, he also has one of the most memorable henchmen of all time, the silent Korean Oddjob, who goes around breaking peoples' necks with his bowler hat. Between Goldfinger's nefarious cunning and Oddjob's freakish brute strength, the antagonists of Goldfinger are what make this Bond film stand aside the greats that preceded it.
There's a little less action and a little more sexism than what From Russia With Love offered, but Goldfinger's villains and more mature plot make it just as excellent as the previous Bond films will have led you to expect.
Final rating: 8/10
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Stray Observations:
- Cheesy Bond Post-Kill Line of the Film: (after electrocuting a man in a bathtub) "Shocking. Positively shocking."
- There were some BEAUTIFUL zoom shots in the Swiss mountains there, when Tilly was shooting at Goldfinger. I can't even imagine how long that lens must have been.
- Jump effects used all over the opening sequence, so still on the lookout.
- I can't recall if Bond actually wore a hat in the film itself (though I'd bet that he did), but he does in the gun barrel silhouette in the opening.
- I guess I'm obligated to say something about Jill Masterson's iconic death. Hey, there's a chick covered in gold here. And I guess that killed her via "skin asphyxiation". Sure, all right.
- That's how Goldfinger goes out, really? I kind of wish he had escaped to scheme another day.
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|Joachim Norbert Burghartz, Keith Aelwyn Jenkins, Mehmet Soyuer
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|Patent Citations (11), Referenced by (28), Classifications (7), Legal Events (6)
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1. Technical Field
This disclosure relates generally to spiral inductors fabricated on silicon substrates, and more particularly to a spiral inductor structure with a substrate contact substantially adjacent to the spiral inductor and a predetermined doping distribution under the spiral inductor.
2. Description of the Related Art
Spiral inductors are widely used components of communication systems operating in the frequency range of 1 to 10 GHz and higher. At lower frequencies, inductive characteristics may be achieved with active circuits, while at higher frequencies, distributed LC components, such as microstrips, are utilized. Existing systems operating at radio and microwave frequencies; for example, frequencies greater than 1 GHz, use inductors fabricated on printed circuit boards, on quartz, or on GaAs substrates so that the carrier substrate has nearly ideal dielectric characteristics. Such inductor implementations may not have an electrical contact to the substrate, but instead have a solid groundplane on the backside of the substrate to contain the energy flow.
Recently, implementations of radio frequency (RF) and microwave transceivers on silicon substrates have been utilized to a greater degree due to the low-cost and high-volume manufacturing capabilities of silicon technology. Silicon is a relatively good substrate for RF and microwave applications, except for its low resistivity which causes high RF losses.
In the prior art, as shown in FIG. 1, a spiral inductor on a silicon substrate may be represented by a lumped-element model, in which the spiral coil 10 of the spiral inductor is modeled by an ideal inductance 12 labeled LS ; a series resistance 14, which may vary as a function of frequency f, that is, the series resistance 14 is RS (f); and an inter-wire capacitance 16 labeled CP between two ports 18, 20. The coupling of the spiral coil 10 to the substrate is represented by the oxide capacitances 22, 24 labeled COX and the resistances 26, 28 labeled RB. A resistance 30 labeled RSUB is provided between the low-doped region under the spiral coil 10 and the substrate contact 32, which may be laterally spaced from the spiral coil 10. Two generic implementations of such an inductor in a circuit are known in the prior art: one-port implementations with one port of the spiral inductor connected to ground, and two-port implementations with both ports terminated at high impedance.
Further, two implementations of a substrate contact are known in the prior art; that is, the substrate contact may be substantially adjacent to the inductor so that the resistance RSUB is minimized, or the substrate contact may be omitted so that RSUB is treated as being infinite.
In the prior art, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,481,131, which is incorporated herein by reference, spiral coils are known which are enclosed by metal rings without contacting such metal rings. Such metal rings may be a second plate of a capacitor and are not connected to the substrate.
In addition to the use of substrate contacts in the suppression of noise levels, substrate contacts provide improved operating characteristics in two-port implementations in which the ports 18, 20 of the inductor are terminated at high impedances. The inductance and Q may then be derived from the scattering parameter S21, which is the ratio of transmitted power at the output port to the injected power at the input port in two-port implementations.
Without a substrate contact, when the inductor is operated near the maximum Q, an input RF signal passes with a substantially identical magnitude through both the inductive path having the inductor LS 12 and the capacitive path having the capacitances 22, 24 labeled COX ; that is, the signal across the capacitor CP 16 is typically negligible for operation near the maximum Q. With an ideal substrate contact, signal transfer via the capacitors 22, 24 labeled COX to the output port is suppressed so that the maximum Q is limited mainly by RS, which represents ohmic losses in the spiral coil 10 and, to a minor degree, is limited by substrate losses.
Typically, there are two known methods for incorporating an inductor in a circuit: the ground potential is either common with one of the inductors ports or has a certain impedance between the inductor ports and the ground. Using a silicon substrate connected to ground, due to the intermediate resistivity of the silicon substrate, the associated ground potential is not well-defined equally across the length of the entire silicon substrate. Such uneven ground potential is due to the characteristics of bulk silicon in that bulk silicon is too low-resistive to be treated as a quasi-dielectric yet too high-resistive to be considered as a groundplane.
Additional doping of the silicon substrate may reduce the resistivity of the silicon substrate, but a high doping level under a spiral inductor causes relatively large eddy currents in the silicon substrate. As described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,446,311 and in pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/594,455, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,656,849 issued Aug. 12, 1997 entitled "Two-Level Spiral Inductor Structure Having a High Inductance/Area Ratio", which are incorporated herein by reference, the occurrence of such relatively large eddy currents reduces the quality-factor (Q) of the inductor. For an inductor with a high Q, any doping is therefore generally blocked out from under the spiral coil.
Heretofore, such implementations of spiral inductors with high Q without contact to the substrate have encountered relatively poor operating characteristics due to such large eddy currents.
It is recognized herein that the use of a substrate contact, positioned to be laterally spaced from the inductor to be substantially close thereto, may be used to provide a distributed resistance to the region under the spiral coil for improved Q operation.
An inductor structure is disclosed which includes an inductor spiral formed on a substrate; and a substrate contact connected to the substrate and disposed within a predetermined distance to the inductor spiral to increase the quality-factor (Q) characteristics associated with the inductor structure. Such proximity also does not increase eddy currents in the substrate.
The substrate contact provides for implementation of the inductor structure as a spiral inductor which is integrated on a silicon substrate. The substrate contact determines the energy potential substantially adjacent to the inductor for reducing the noise level. In an implementation of an inductor in an RF circuit, the substrate contact contributes to providing an increased Q.
The features of the disclosed spiral inductor structure will become more readily apparent and may be better understood by referring to the following detailed description of illustrative embodiments of the present invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing of an inductor structure represented by a lumped-element model in the prior art;
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the disclosed inductor structure;
FIG. 3 is a cross section view of the disclosed inductor structure taken across lines 3--3 in FIG. 2; and
FIG. 4 is a cross section view of an alternative embodiment of the disclosed inductor structure taken across lines 3--3 in FIG. 2.
Referring now in specific detail to the drawings, with like reference numerals identifying similar or identical elements, as shown in FIG. 2, the disclosed spiral inductor structure 34 includes the spiral coil structure 36 which confines the current flow in the substrate 38 to the region close to the wafer surface. The spiral coil structure 36 is enclosed at least partially by a substrate contact 40 and is spaced within a predetermined distance from the substrate contact 40. For example, the predetermined distance may be about 10 μm.
Such an inductor structure 34 with the predetermined spacing between the spiral coils structure 36 and the substrate contact 40 causes the associated model resistance RSUB to becomes relatively small and the associated model resistance RB to become relatively large. Under such circumstances, the power through the inductor structure 34 is mainly transmitted across the path of the model inductance LS so that Q is maximum with respect to the ohmic losses of the spiral coil structure 36, represented by the model resistance RS.
In contrast to spiral coil structures in the prior art, the substrate 38 is connected to the substrate contact 40, which may be a metal contact.
As shown in FIG. 2, in an illustrative embodiment, the spiral coil structure 36 has two ports 42, 44, in which the port 44 may be implemented as an underpass at a lower metal level. An inner portion 46 of the spiral coil structure 36 is brought out through a via contact 48 and is connected to a portion 50 of the port 44.
In the illustrative embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the substrate contact 40 at least partially enclosing the spiral coil structure 36 may be formed to include a series of substantially rectangular substrate contacts 52-56 such that the spiral inductor structure 34 and the spiral coil structure 36 thereof are at least partially enclosed by the series of rectangular substrate contacts 52-56. Referring to FIG. 2 in conjunction with FIGS. 3-4 for an exemplary rectangular substrate contact 52, each rectangular substrate contact 52 includes a diffused region 58 in electrical contact with a metal pad 60 by a metal via 62.
In a first illustrative embodiment shown in FIG. 3, which is a cross-section view of the spiral inductor structure 34 along lines 3--3 of FIG. 2, the diffused region 58 has the same type of doping as a channel stop region 64 which covers the field regions under the field oxide isolation layer 66, but the channel stop region 64 is blocked out from underneath the spiral coil structure 36. The types of doping of region 64 and the substrate 38 are identical. The doping level of the channel stop region 64 is typically between the doping level of the substrate 38 and the doping level of the diffused region 58.
One skilled in the art of integrated devices on silicon substrates will understand that the spiral inductor structure 34 may also be fabricated without the channel stop region 64 without losing its advantages. Alternatively, for implementations with channel stop regions having a different type of doping than the diffused region 58, the spiral inductor structure 34 may be fabricated as shown in FIG. 4, which illustrates an alternative cross-section view of the spiral inductor structure 34 along lines 3--3 in FIG. 2.
In the alterative embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the diffused region 58 is in direct contact with the substrate 38, and the channel stop region 68 in FIG. 4 is doped opposite to the doping of the diffused region 58 and of the substrate 38. The channel stop region 68 is fabricated such that there is at least a minimum spacing 70 between the diffused region 58 and the channel stop region 68 having an opposite doping.
The spiral inductor structure 34 shown in FIG. 2 may be configured in one-port implementations and two-port implementations. For one-port implementations, one of the ports 42, 44 is grounded, with the position of the substrate contact 40 being relatively close to the spiral coil structure 36 facilitating improved control of the operating characteristics of the spiral inductor structure 34.
For two-port implementations, the configuration of the spiral inductor structure 34 with contact the substrate 38 through the substrate contact 40 provides for high Q performance without increasing eddy currents, which provides improved operating characteristics of the spiral inductor structure 34.
While the disclosed spiral inductor structure has been particularly shown and described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications in form and detail may be made therein without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Accordingly, modifications such as those suggested above, but not limited thereto, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
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|3 to 10 days after payment received, deliver by express/aircargo/sea
|Why choose us?
|1. Being in this field for 8 years.
|2. Our products include more than 1000 kinds of inflatable items.
|3. OEM orders are very welcome.
|4. Newest equipment and professional production team
Product show
1.What is the print process ?
All tents can be custom printed to your creative specification.
provide us your artwork on AI or CDR or PS coform, we will draw a 3D design for you to confirm before production
2. What size and what kind of tent should i choose?
To figure out the most suitable measurement for your case, we need below information:
-how many people you want to fit in the tent, is there anything else (like tablem stage,chair,ect.)
-the usage of the tent (what kind of event, day or night)
-located ( available area measurement, indoor or outdoor)
- your budget, we can recommand the suitable material, design and size according to this request)
3.Is the material harmful? can it be waterproof since it will be using outdoor
-yes, the material is water proof and also fire resitant
-no, the material is not harmful, it is environmental protection material
4. How to install
firstly, unfold the tent, find the air intake, connect the air intakes with the air blower
secondly, open the air blower
thirdly, it will start inflate, you just wait till it is full of air and become a standing tent.