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Ham on Thanksgiving (Tall Tales from Mt. Hamilton and Mt. Diablo)
Ham on Thanksgiving
The Thanksgiving day ride is a tradition. An early morning offering to the calorie gods. A sacrifice at the alter of Impending Gluttony. A pre-emptive strike
Usually we ride down the big expressway and off into the hills that take us to Los Gatos. The climb up Kennedy is short, but hearty enough to make you think you've done a little work. The vista at the top delivers.
I always take the descent down the backside too slowly with Sal rocketing off the front, dropping like a rock. It is possible there's nothing uglier than the way I go downhill on a bike. Sal is kind and always says, "You're getting better!
He sounds sincere but it may be wishful thinking.
Los Gatos is a small town full of rich people and one good coffee shop. It's a great place to watch people with too much money try to figure out how to spend it. Lots of expensive bikes but most of them are loaded onto the tops of expensive cars.
Two americanos later you're headed back up the hill to climb your way to turkey heaven. The weather is consistently stunning, if chilly, and all of the south bay is filled with people preparing to overeat and then moan through the aftermath. Fall colors across the hillsides are muted and fading, which makes you think of Christmas.
This year, we decide to forgo the climb up Kennedy and the beautiful rich people. We drive instead to old San Jose where the taco stands will still your heart and big roads turn smaller and then lead to a mountain called Hamilton.
It's a famous climb. The source of cycling lore that has surrounded for me for years. Sal grew legs on its grade and I'd watched the peaks from afar for years and years. If there's one way to pull a classic "off the couch" return to pedaling, it's with a climb like that. Luckily, I'm a fan of the absurd, so I didn't take much convincing.
The hill delivers a steady grade and big, yawning views of the valley below and on into the other ranges beyond them. It's a slow, smiling climb in the company of maybe 500 strangers. A smattering of colors mixed with pain. Yellow on the trees, blue in the sky, red in the eyes. We are passed and make passes and the day gets clearer as we approach the summit.
Not far from the top, a friend catches up to us and we ride in a trio until the observatory, which was once a white spec that required squinting, is a towering white sphere of a building. Bigger than you figured it for – more Star Wars than you'd planned on. You know you're high when you reach a radio tower but an observatory? That's a whole new ballgame.
The summit is covered in cyclists: recumbent riders bundled in screaming yellow and long beards leaning against their rigs eating bananas, racer types in shiny kits tipping back electrolyte bottles and killing Gu packets. We cross the "finish line" to applause and cowbells.
The visual spectacle is 180 degrees of Wow. We point fingers toward landmarks and peaks and things we recognize. We make the obligatory photos and self-congratulate.
I burn through a set of brake pads as we make our way back down, but not before looking up to notice the way the grass bends as I go by – the peculiar shape of the bark on the trees – the way the blue in the sky gets darker toward the horizon.
Back at home there are Sicilians celebrating being American. I'll see your pumpkin pie and raise you two canoli. The turkey is too big and Rosie has produced an excess of gravy and mashed potatoes. There are screaming babies. The short Mediterranean people have got this figured out.
Day Two: The Devil and the Fat Kid
One great climb deserves another so we follow Hamilton with the little devil in the East Bay – Mt. Diablo. A little steeper, a little more tempermental.
The weather is not in our favor so we bring embrocation – and friends. Misery loves company. These are kids from my advertising days back before I had this "thing" with the bike.
O'Rourke, Swift, Purnell, Bondi. The Mt Diablo Attack Team.
Walnut Creek is like east bay suburban mega-heaven. Big, wide roads and identical houses as big as castles lined up in neat rows. We cruise through in the rig, duck into the parking lot of a school at the base of a climb, and prepare to launch an assault.
O'Rourke and Purnell are ready to roll in ten minutes. Little do they know it will take me another 15 or so to root around my bag for lip balm, gloves, glasses (I'll switch the lenses three times before deciding on the dark-ish ones), and arm warmers. It takes me 7 minutes to pick out socks (I go with argyle). This shit's important, man.
In the end I still forget to embrocate my legs.
We are four cyclists climbing Mt. Diablo: three bundled boys, one bare-legged girl with no gloves and summer weight arm-warmers. I run hot.
O'Rourke is coming back from a self-proclaimed fitness nadir. He claims a nickname early on: The Fat Kid. We roll with it (intended). Let me tell you this: 220 or not – don't underestimate the power of a once-fit fat kid with a corncob. Damn if that boy can't push a monster gear. Pow – er.
We put our hands on the bars and pedal – the vistas start up not more than a few miles in. Off in the distance, tiny towns look like little hobbit villages. Cathedral lighting falls out of the clouds and lights up the still-orange trees. Pastoral. Peaceful. Sweeping. Pow. This is why you climb.
I'm no mountain goat, but I do love to go uphill. There's a comforting, rhythmic lull to the pain and a real, physical adversary to contend with. Either you keep going or you don't. And you never step off your bike. Ever. Right?
Don't ever do that.
Burr Purnell smiles a lot. That's what I'm thinking when we reach Devil's Elbow. I haven't seen him for a while now, but I bet he's up there smiling and climbing. He's made of long muscles and 0% everything and he's making this shit look easy. He is possibly the nicest human being you will ever meet and he climbs like he is filled with helium. I hate him.
I take the sweeping left-hand turn and pass Sally, who is making a video of me. "This is crazy." I say as I go by. I'm not talking about the climb anymore, I'm talking about the plummeting temperature, gusting wind and grim fog. We're climbing up into white nothingness. The views are gone.
I look down and see a pile of congealed vomit which would be disgusting in most other instances. At this moment it is hilarious. I am by myself, laughing out loud in the middle of a cloud. At vomit.
Up ahead, the Fat Kid and his corn cob are kicking my ass and I am running calculations about the wattage he must be putting out to dish out this ride. Sal catches me, chats, and rides on ahead. I reach the base of The Wall with O'Rourke in my sights and watch him go to the left, which appears to be the wrong way up a one-way road. I stay to the right.
The road is too narrow to paperboy, but I try anyway. It's an 18% grade at the end of a 12-mile grind. Asphalt cruelty. Some engineer's kick in the teeth to human-powered summit-baggers. Take that!
A man ahead of me steps off his bike. He's walking as I pass him, my body forward, folded over the bars doling out one agonizing pedal stroke after another. He says nothing to me and so I pass him in silence. What would I say to him anyway? He's walking his bike. "Don't ever do that!!" It's not what he needs to hear.
The parking lot at the summit is littered with people and cars. Big, lazy cars. My gasping lungs laugh in the direction of your big, lazy cars! I coast over to where Purnell and Bondi are waiting for me and greet them through the smashing heartbeat and hyperventilation-grade wheezing
I kiss the Sicilian one. Or maybe I don't. Either way, I mean to.
O'Rourke appears with the goofy smile of gleeful oxygen debt and we all lean on our bikes and tell the original versions of stories that will see many more incarnations. There are hand gestures and dramatic waving motions. Arm warmers and jackets appear.
We linger just long enough to make a photo at the elevation sign, which reads "Summit: Elevation 3849". Upon extended consideration a 3 placed next to an 8 followed by a 4 and a 9 does not seem that impressive. Or that high. Or that hard.
Just numbers lined up next to each other, standing at attention on brown sign on top of a big hill. In the photo I am pointing a white-gloved finger at the 8 accusingly. (In retrospect perhaps I should have blamed the 3). Burr Purnell is smiling, as usual. O'Rourke looks smug.
Moments later we begin the long descent through the cloud. Rain-slick roads and hairpin turns. It only takes 1.4 miles for my face to go numb. My lips are the color of lilacs and frozen into a half-grimace, fingers numbing through thin gloves.
The boys shoot away from me and I think of Krabbe. Among the ten million reasons to love "The Rider" there's this: Krabbe hates to go downhill. God bless 'im, so do I.
But every turn leads to another hundred feet in elevation loss. Another degree of temperature gained. When we pass through the only intersection four miles down, the air is getting clearer and the vistas return. Down to the south gate with cliffs rising to our right and the world dropping away to the left. Even as we glide into light and visibility, the wind maintains its ripping cruelty.
My feet are no longer. They may still be attached to the pedals, but they could just as easily be gone for good. I send signals down to motionless toes that refuse to respond.
I race for Maker's Mark.
It's in my back pocket – in a flask that looks like a cell phone from the late 80's. It's been there since I started going up and it will be there when I get back to the car. And when I drink from it, I will be alive again. Stranger things certainly have been carried to the tops of small mountains and back again – but I doubt anything else would be as satisfying.
Back at the truck I ask the boys if anyone else wants to "make the call" and pass the life-giving cell phone around in a circle until it's empty. Then I kick a frozen foot against the rear tire until it starts to tingle, swear until I'm out of sailor words, and laugh awkwardly through a frozen face that won't smile.
Full defrosting occurs later at the Hick'ry Pit – a local joint that serves the Sicilian a hamburger the size of his head (no small feat). O'Rourke and I put away slow-cooked ribs like rabid animals fighting over fresh kill. Purnell eats something really healthy. And smiles. A lot.
We drink cheap beer as the stories from the top of the mountain gain girth and might. We are 30 foot giants climbing a 47% grade! We are plummeting speed rockets descending at 94.6 miles per hour through an arctic storm!
In truth, we're just a little group of old friends celebrating a bike ride that is about more than elevation or miles or success or speed. It's about the daily task of writing our life-stories and everyday adventures. It's about going for it – whatever it is – and loving it while you do it with people who make you smile.
Climbing mountains, on foot or with wheels, offers an array of life metaphors that are too obvious to be worth pointing out. You suffer, you laugh with friends, you battle, you are amazed by the landscape, you consider your mortality, you want to vomit. Maybe you resort to paperboy tactics, maybe you don't. On the way back down, your teeth rattle.
Whatever you do, you don't step off your bike. Ever.
7 Responses to "Ham on Thanksgiving (Tall Tales from Mt. Hamilton and Mt. Diablo)"
Very inspiring. Thanks!
Aaaah, climbing! That's what cycling is all about. Loooove your article, can feel your pain, your joy and your happiness at the same time.
Enjoy your sicilian food to go,
Oh, yeah, it was cold Friday! I was under-dressed with tights and a long jersey. It was a lot nicer on Weds and Thursday. If you come back around Christmas/New Years, you might find the top closed to cars with ice and snow. If you're dressed right, that is very sweet to summit.
Great post. Thanks for sharing.
I see that you have 705s- you should upload your rides to Strava (http://www.strava.com) and compete for the KOMs :-)
Here is the current standings for Mt Diablo (http://www.strava.com/segments/254731) and Mt Hamilton (http://www.strava.com/segments/314569)
Great photographs! The local climbs in the South Bay are great. My office sits just four miles from the base of Sierra Road, another great, but short local climb that one can reasonably tackle during lunch. Just make sure that you're wearing a headband before ascending. Come February, with the Tour of California tackling this road, it's always humbling to see just how much better the pros are. What takes me 34 minutes takes them about 22 or less. We realize what amateurs we are when we see Lance chatting while going up the hill, in saddle, up 15% grade- but it doesn't keep us from loving every second.
If you and Sal haven't done so already, you oughta climb Alba Road off Hwy 9 just past Ben Lomond – it's four miles up with a grade anywhere from 5 to 20 percent. Then you can do the hairy descent down Felton Empire Road down into Felton and ease you way to Monte's Log Cabin where a cool one (or a Maker's Mark) will be waiting for you. It's a short ride, but I've found no better "pre-emptive strike" (or break from family and screaming kids) for Thanksgiving.
Stunning photos, great writing. Thanks! Compact or no compact on these climbs? What cassette?


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U.S. U-20 WNT Edges Korea DPR in Overtime to Advance to Semifinal of 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan
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SAITAMA, Japan (Aug. 31, 2012) – The U.S. Under-20 Women's National Team earned a hard-fought 2-1 overtime victory against a strong and talented Korea DPR side to advance to its fifth semifinal appearance in a FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. Forward Chioma Ubogagu scored the game-winning goal in the 98th minute while midfielder Vanessa DiBernardo opened the scoring with a spectacular long-distance strike seven minutes into the second half.
The U.S. victory sets up a semifinal clash with Nigeria, the team that defeated the USA on penalty kicks in the quarterfinals of the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The match from Tokyo's National Stadium will be broadcast live on ESPNU and ESPN3 on Tuesday, Sept. 4, with coverage starting at 2:50 a.m. ET. Fans can also follow the match on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker and on Twitter @ussoccer_ynt.
Germany will face host Japan in the other semifinal which kicks off at the National Stadium at 6:30 a.m. ET (7:30 p.m. local).
Entering the quarterfinal, forward Maya Hayes had accounted for four of the USA's five goals in the tournament, but the young Americans got some much-needed offense from Ubogagu and DiBernardo against a Korea DPR team that featured 10 players from their 2012 London Olympic Team. Seven North Koreans who played against the full U.S. Women's National Team at the Olympics during the USA's 1-0 group play victory at Old Trafford in Manchester, England, played against the U.S.U-20s in this match.
In a match played a high pace with attacks going end-to-end for the entire 120 minutes, the USA put together its best match of the tournament while possessing the ball extremely well and defending bravely against the highly experienced Koreans who had scored a tournament-high 15 goals during group play. Forward Kim Un Hwa, who had come into the game as the tournament's leading scorer with seven goals, was shut out by the U.S. defense.
U.S. defender Crystal Dunn, who played a tremendous match at right back, set up Ubogagu's goal with the cross from wing a little more than eight minutes into the first of the two 15-minute overtime periods. Ubogagu lost Korea DPR defender Pong Son Hwa with her run into the left side of the box, drifting towards the back post just as the cross was served in. With good space to line up her header, Ubogagu drove the ball at the net from seven yards out and while North Korea goalkeeper O Chang Ran managed to get a right glove on the shot, she couldn't turn it away. The ball bounced off her hand and over the goal line to give the USA the lead with 22 minutes still left to go.
It would be a gut-wrenching 22 minutes for both teams, who battled on tired legs, but the Americans possessed the ball extremely well, salting the seconds off the clock while center backs Julie Johnston and Cari Roccaro ran down every through ball and got a head on every long service. Korea DPR did not register a shot on goal during overtime.
In the buildup to DiBernardo's go-ahead tally in the 52nd minute, the U.S. whipped the ball in from the right side and Korea DPR's defense failed to get a good clear. DiBernardo was there to latch onto the loose ball in the middle of the field and with a quick touch she lined up a shot a thunderous right-footed shot from 28 yards out that dipped past O and into the left corner of the net for a 1-0 lead.
Korea DPR found the equalizer in the 75th minute when Kim Un Hwa poked a pass to second-half sub Kim Su Gyong, who found space in the middle of the box and blasted a left-footed shot from 15 yards into the upper right corner past U.S. goalkeeper Bryane Heaberlin.
Heaberlin played an air-tight match, coming off her line numerous times to gobble up through balls or clear balls away with her feet. She made three saves on the night and set the tone early with a big diving save to her left after Jon Myong Hwa had drilled a free kick that was headed just inside the left post. O had seven saves for Korea DPR.
The USA's best chance of the first half came in the 41st minute when Morgan Brian met a DiBernardo corner kick with a bullet header that was just palmed away by O, who managed to get enough of the ball to slip it around the right post.
At halftime, the game was almost dead even, with the USA taking four shots to North Korea's three while both teams had earned four corner kicks. The USA would – by a small margin – have the better of the second half and the overtime, ending the match with a 14-7 advantage in shots and limited the Koreans to just four total shots on goal.
Dunn, Brian and the speedy Kealia Ohai, who played an inspirational 120 minutes running the flanks, all had good chances in the second half and overtime, but O was up to the task, smothering several of the shots. After Samantha Mewis replaced Cobb in the 60th minute, Brian took Cobb's spot on the forward line and played up top for most of the remainder match until she dropped back into the midfield for the final 15 minutes to help the USA hold the ball and keep the Koreans at bay until the final whistle.
Additional Notes:
- Chioma Ubogagu scored her ninth career international goal for the U-20s in her 15th appearance. She also scored the winning goal in the championship game of the CONCACAF U-20 Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament in a 2-1 victory against Canada.
- Vanessa DiBernardo's goal on Friday was her third at the U-20 level in 18 international appearances.
- Cari Roccaro got the start next to Julie Johnston at center back. Roccaro had come off the bench against Germany in place of Johnston and had started against China.
- Alaskan forward Kelly Cobb made her second start of the U-20 Women's World Cup and put in a solid 60 minutes before being replaced by Samantha Mewis, who put in an excellent performance over the final hour.
- Maya Hayes made her team-leading 41st career U-20 appearance.
- Kassy Kallman entered the game in the 108th minute as the USA used its last sub for the cramping DiBernardo. Kallman moved to left back, Chioma Ubogagu took DiBernardo's spot at attacking midfield and Mollie Pathman moved up to left wing. Pathman helped kill precious minutes near the end of the match by possessing the ball in the corners.
- U.S. Under-20 Women's National Team Match Report -
Match: United States U-20 Women's National Team vs. Korea DPR
Date: Aug. 31, 2012
Competition: 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup; Quarterfinal
Venue: Komaba Stadium; Saitama, Japan
Kickoff: 6:30 a.m. ET (7:30 p.m. local)
Attendance: 6,284
Weather: 81 degrees, hot and humid
Scoring Summary: 1 2 OT1 OT2 F
USA – Vanessa DiBernardo (unassisted) 52nd minute
PRK – Kim Su Gyong (Kim Un Hwa) 75
USA – Chioma Ubagagu (Crystal Dunn) 98
USA: 1-Bryane Heaberlin; 4-Crystal Dunn, 8-Julie Johnston (capt.), 3-Cari Roccaro, 2-Mollie Pathman; 16-Sarah Killion, 10-Vanessa DiBernardo (15-Kassey Kallman, 108), 6-Morgan Brian; 7-Kealia Ohai, 20-Kelly Cobb (13-Samantha Mewis, 61), 5-Maya Hayes (9-Chioma Ubogagu, 71)
Subs not used: 11-Becca Wann, 12-Katie Stengel, 14-Mandy Laddish, 17-Taylor Schram, 18-Abby Smith, 19-Stephanie Amack, 21-Jami Kranich
Head Coach: Steve Swanson
PRK: 18-O Chang Ran; 2-Kim Nam Hui, 5-Yun Song Mi, 14-Pong Son Hwa, 15-Ri Nam Sil; 8-Jon Myong Hwa, 12-Kim Un Hyang, 13-O Hui Sun (capt.), 19-Yu Jong Im (20-Kim Su Gyong, 56); 10-Yun Hyon Hi, 11-Kim Un Hwa (17-Kwon Song Hwa, 78; 3-Ri Yong Mi, 105)
Subs not used: 1-Choe Kyong Im, 7-Kim Un Ju, 4-Kim Un Ha, 6-Ryu Un Jong, 9-Pak Kyong Mi, 16-Ri Hyang Hui, 21-Kim Chol Ok
Head Coach: Sin Ui Gun
Stats Summary: USA / PRK
Shots: 14 / 7
Shots on Goal: 9 / 4
Saves: 3 / 7
Corner Kicks: 9 / 7
Fouls: 14 / 12
Offside: 1 / 8
Misconduct Summary:
USA – Kealia Ohai (caution) 57th minute
USA – Cari Roccaro (caution) 80
PRK – Yun Song Mi (caution) 118
Referee: Silvia Spinelli (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Karine Solana Vives (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Manuela Nicolosi (FRA)
Fourth Official: Fusako Kajiyama (JPN)
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A decade after his minor league playing career ended because of injury, Morris finds himself coaching high school baseball. Morris promises his players that he will try out for a major league team if they win the district championship. After his team wins, Morris makes good on his word, only to soon find himself signed by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' organization.
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2. Cool homages to Carlton Fisk's homer in Game Six of the 1975 World Series and Bobby Thomson's playoff game-winning homer for the New York Giants in 1951.
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Among the many highlights of the CSN tour have been the performances of the new David Crosby composition, called, "Radio." Crosby says that he's amazed that the muse can still run so hot in him after decades of songwriting: "The thing that I like about 'Radio,' is that it's saying, 'You can reach out.' Not only can you, but it's your job to look out for other human beings. I'm encouraged by me writing a song like that when I'm this old, I'm this battered, and been through as much as I have. There's a youthfulness to it; a certain positiveness and I still believe!"


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January 22, 2013 09:14 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 22, 2013) - Optimal, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has added $7 million in funding and that Paul Suh has joined the company as its Chief Financial Officer effective immediately.
New participants in funding Optimal include DoubleRock, The Social Internet Fund, Siemer Ventures, Signal Ventures, John Pappajohn, Warren Adelman (former CEO of GoDaddy), Social Starts, James Altucher and Silicon Valley Bank.
Existing Series A investors Neu Ventures (Jerry Neumann), Stonnington Asset Allocation Fund, and WGI Group (led by Mike Walrath, the founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Right Media, and Noah and Jonah Goodhart) also participated in the funding round.
As part of its Series B, James Altucher (independent) and Suraj Kumar Rajwani (DoubleRock) are joining the company's board of directors. James Altucher was an early investor in Buddy Media, which was sold to Salesforce in 2012.
Altucher added: "I'm excited to join Optimal as an investor and board member. They have the most efficient platform for reaching and managing a brand's reach across social media. In other words, I selfishly use them for my own purposes. Additionally, they are a one-stop shop for me to buy media across social platforms, including Facebook retargeting. I had been looking for this, so I invested."
Optimal founder and CEO, Rob Leathern commented: "We've quadrupled social media ad revenue year over year while building awesome real-time ad buying and analytics technology. Paul Suh brings the strong financial and operating expertise that will help us continue to rapidly scale the business in 2013 and beyond, and build upon our leadership in the space. He shares our core values of transparency, commitment to technology innovation and client focus, and I'm ecstatic that he's a part of our management team."
Paul was most recently SVP of Finance and Operations at LiveGamer, a digital commerce and video gaming advertising platform. Prior to that, Paul was the CFO and COO of GamerDNA Media, which was acquired by Live Gamer in June 2010. His extensive startup experience includes three years as the COO of Flexplay Technologies and director of corporate development at About.com.
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From: Lum Wee Mei ([email protected])
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 00:13:16 PDT
JNH wrote:
> Eric,
> For microstrip line measurement, I think we need to consider the
> solder mask, covering the microstrip line with 0.7~1.0 mils thickness.
> So, the microstrip line is an embeded microstrip line not pure
> microstrip. I use the polar tool -- CITS25 to do calculate the
> microstrip and substrate 2~3 ohms to compensate the effect of solder
> mask. The TDR measurment shows bigger deviation for microstrip line
> than that of stripline. I believe it is caused by more processing
> needed for the outer layers of a PCB, such as solder platting and
> solder mask. A 0.5 oz (0.7mils) thickness copper will finally be
> added up to 2.0 mils for the outer layers.
> Best Regards,
> John Lin
> SI Engineer, ARD4
> Quanta Computer Inc.,Taiwan, R.O.C.
> Email: [email protected]
> Tel: 886+3+3979000 ext. 5183
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Bogatin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 5:17 AM
> To: Sun. COM
> Cc: eric
> Subject: [SI-LIST] : Possible TDR microstrip measurement error?
> After a recent talk I gave on TDR measurements, I was approached by a
> fellow
> from the IPC (I apologize that I did not catch your name, whoever you
> were),
> with a problem that might be common in the board fab industry. I
> wanted to
> get comments from folks on the SI list as to whether you have
> encountered
> this problem or is it so obvious that everyone knows to watch out for
> it.
> In some shops, a TDR is used to measure the dielectric constant of the
> board
> material using test lines on coupons. Given the physical length, L,
> and the
> time delay, TD, for the one way trip (i.e., 1/2 the time measured by
> the TDR
> for an open terminated line), the speed of light in the material can
> be
> calculated as vel = L/TD. The dielectric constant is calculated as
> sqrt(2.99
> x 10^8 m/sec / vel). This is the straight forward part.
> When the trace is a stripline, the dielectric constant extracted is
> the bulk
> dielectric constant of the material surrounding the traces. This value
> could
> be put in a field solver to use to help predict the design rules for
> traces
> made with this material. I have had success in predicting board trace
> impedance to better than 2% with some field solvers, limited to how
> well I
> knew the cross section and dielectric constant.
> However, when the test line is a microstrip, some of the field lines
> are in
> air, and the dielectric constant calculated in this way is the
> "effective"
> dielectric constant, not the board's bulk dielectric constant. Yet, I
> am
> told some board shops use this measurement from microstrips to get a
> value
> for what they think is the bulk dielectric constant of their material
> and
> then use this value in a field solver or approximation. Of course,
> their
> predictions from the field solver- anyone's- would be off by as much
> as
> 10%-20%, for the measured impedance of the test lines. I suspect this
> is the
> basis for the comments I have heard that some fab shops are not happy
> with
> their field solvers- that they have had to add their own correction
> factors
> to the many approximations that are out there and each shop has their
> own
> oracle they consult to design a controlled impedance board.
> There is still value in the effective dielectric constant. From the
> microstrip test line cross section, a 2D field solver can be used to
> extract
> what bulk dielectric constant the material under the trace must have
> had to
> result in the measured effective dielectric constant. If the board
> shop used
> this extracted value for the bulk dielectric constant, their following
> field
> solver results would probably be much more accurate.
> has anyone else encountered this problem in board shops?
> all comments are welcome.
> --eric
> Eric Bogatin
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While I agreed that soldermask has to be considered, whatever plating
added to the base copper should never be taken as part of the thickness
in impedance calculation. I may be wrong, then.
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Infomania at Summit '05
by Andrew Dillon
Now in its sixth year,
the 2005 IA Summit in
A couple of issues really struck me about this summit. First, the number of first-time attendees was staggeringly high. From a show of hands on the opening day it appeared as if they were in the majority. Nothing wrong with this situation you might say, but the number of new attendees was high last year too, so it would appear that repeat attendance is not the norm. It could be that the summits attract a high proportion of local people each time or that the IA community is volatile. Likely it is a bit of both, but the number of us who have attended all six summits is rapidly decreasing.
noteworthy point for me was the growing tolerance and presence of
academics. Certainly we remain in the minority but many of the
attendees recognize the importance of the professions links to
education now. Tucked into what many of us thought would be the
dead-zone slot of 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, the panel on curriculum
development for IA attracted more than 50 people who engaged in a
lively back and forth for almost two hours on what needed to be
taught and what credentials were needed to practice IA. There seems
to be much interest in this topic, and it resulted in a new list
being set up for further discussion of educational issues among
academics. From memory, there were faculty or students from the
universities at
Characterizing a summit is difficult but there are numerous attempts from bloggers, which you can find from a quick search of Google or by pointing your browser to the conference site (www.iasummit.org/). We all have our own interpretations of what happened (I really enjoy Peter Boersmas take on events, and the comments from others that it solicited; see www.peterboersma.com/blog/), but I could not move far from discussions of the death of the page metaphor, the nature of genres in a digital world, content management and lots of talk about enterprise-wide IA of one sort or another. Of course the What is IA? debate reared its head again through some rather emphatic claims (unchallenged, surprisingly) that experience design is greater than IA, though I did round on that claim in my keynote. Similarly, I was very pleasantly surprised to hear so many mentions of ethics over the weekend. This discussion is new, and there is a slow realization in the field that the choices we make as designers are not value-free.
The only downside for me was the number of parallel sessions, which made it difficult to find presentations of the right depth and coverage to satisfy my interests, and I sense this was a problem for others. While the community certainly wants to welcome new people, the cost of this open-door policy is a mix of quality that often makes it impossible to judge a paper without showing up at a session. Again, this is part of the overload of information we face. We all know that there is too much to attend to and too many choices to make on the basis of incomplete data but it seems the problem is far worse than any of us imagined. While I was blaming the program committee (of which I was a member, truth be told) I should really have been contemplating my own mental disposition, which drives me to cover so much. A new study from Glenn Wilson, a psychologist in London, has identified infomania (just Google it!) as an addiction to information that manifests itself in an obsessive need to attend and respond immediately to email and phone messages, with restless nights resulting from those forced to endure withdrawal. Worse, the research (funded by Hewlett Packard) suggests that workers distracted by the onslaught of information show a drop in IQ at rates twice those observed in marijuana users (not sure HP really funded that part, but it gets the headlines). I suppose each generation has its drug of choice; I just knew all those emails would cost us in the long run. Heres looking to 2006.
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With the end of the lockout between the NFL and the referees association came the possibility of full-time officials for the first time in league history.
Former V.P. of officiating Carl Johnson stepped down from his role in December to return to the field and became the league's first full-time referee. The league's competition committee has been meeting this week in Indianapolis in advance of the NFL combine. New V.P. of officiating, Dean Blandino, said in an interview with Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network that the league is looking at increasing its stable of full-time officials.
"We're looking at possibly going to seven full-time officials, one at each position, and they will work throughout the season and the off-season," Blandino said. "They'll be able to go to OTAs, work practices, go to training camp, that type of thing – put together guidelines, mechanics manuals, competition committees like this they could be a part of, so we're excited about the possibility of full-time officials and what they can bring to the program."
Johnson is expected to return to his prior role as a line judge for next season. If the league adds a full-time official at all seven position, they would also be adding a referee, umpire, head linesman, field judge, back judge and side judge. Blandino also said the league is looking at creating a developmental program for college officials that will be able to work the NFL during the off-season. Those officials will be able to work during off-season workouts and mini-camps to get a feel for being an NFL official and could even end up working preseason games to get a feel for the game environment before becoming a game official.
All the changes are pointed toward trying to improve the consistency of officiating across the league.
"My whole focus is striving for consistency. I think that's what everybody wants," Blandino said. "Coaches, players, owners, officials, we want consistency. We want to be transparent. We're going to communicate. Whether it's clubs, whether it's the media, if we make a mistake we're going to admit but people have to understand it's a fast game. It happens quickly and our officials do a tremendous job. Our officials are going to strive for consistency and that's what everybody wants."