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What happens when you fabricate the wrong version of a board because someone skipped the process? It's a nightmare scenario—and it's more common than you think. But there's a solution: PLM integration. In this episode of The Printed Circuit Podcast, host Steph Chavez is joined by Scott Claes, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Siemens, to explore how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems can revolutionize PCB design workflows. With nearly two decades of experience integrating ECAD data with PLM systems, Scott offers practical insights into how PLM enhances design control, collaboration, and efficiency across global teams. The discussion covers the real-world problems PCB designers face when managing data, from version confusion to design reuse challenges, and how a properly implemented PLM system solves them. Whether you're navigating compliance needs like ITAR and HIPAA, or trying to bridge the gap between ECAD and MCAD, this episode provides a clear roadmap for leveraging PLM in your design ecosystem. This conversation is essential for PCB designers, electrical engineers, CAD admins, and product teams looking to streamline their design process and avoid costly mistakes. What You'll Learn in this Episode: What does a PLM system do? (1:35) How does PLM integration enhance rather than restrict design freedom? (4:55) How PLM enables easy reuse of previously released designs. (6:35) Avoiding Costly Errors: How PLM prevents versioning mix-ups and fabrication mistakes (8:15) How PLM supports ECAD/MCAD integration and complex designs like flex and rigid-flex (11:55) Learning Curve & Workflow Impact: What PCB designers can expect when adapting to PLM (13:30) Behind the Scenes of Integration: How PLM connectors automate design data management and bill of materials comparisons (16:55) Library Management & Synchronization: What to push, what not to, and where EDM fits in (21:10) How PLM supports ITAR, HIPAA, and team-based permission management (24:40) Why learning PLM early can boost your career and prevent process bottlenecks (26:55) What's next for ECAD-to-PLM flows and supplier integration (28:10) Connect with Steph Chavez: LinkedIn Website Connect with Scott Claes LinkedIn Website
"I got in a lot of trouble and so I will never forget my attending said you will never keep the lights on if you practice like that."This episode is with Dr. Lauren Hughes who is a primary care pediatrician in Kansas City.In this episode we talk about:- Having kids in residency and how this might have been the worst time to have kids but there's also no good time- Having a baby intern year and then having twins in March 2020, a few months before she was going to finish residency and start her own practice- Her breastfeeding story and how it inspired her to get extra training in lactation medicine- Being a physician and caring for a child with a rare disease (her son has MCAD where he is missing an enzyme that converts fat to sugar)- The inspiration behind opening her own direct primary care practice- Operationally what it looks like to run a direct care practice and how this differs from a concierge practice- How she got started on social media and what she uses it for today- and so much more! Connect with Moms of Medicine:- Instagram @moms_of_medicine- Momsofmedicine@gmail.comConnect with Dr. Hughes:- Instagram @bloomdpc- drlaurenhughes.com
Tim Kenneally, Shareholder and Employment Attorney with Foley & Foley PC, talks about his 34 years as a litigator. He represents clients in matters involving employment and labor law, data security & personal information protection, insurance, contracts and litigation.Tim has successfully resolved hundreds of cases in state and federal courts, at the MCAD, at the EEOC and other administrative agencies.He has negotiated, drafted and enforced a multitude of employment and business contracts.Winning Business Radio is broadcast live Mondays at 4PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Winning Business Radio is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).Winning Business Radio Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/winning-business-radio--3075598/support.
Can seamless ECAD/MCAD collaboration revolutionize your PCB designs? How can women in engineering shape this bright future and lead the charge in challenging industry norms? I'm your host, Steph Chavez, and in this episode, we take a deep dive into the world of ECAD/MCAD collaboration with industry experts Charlene McCauley and Terrie Duffy. They share their vast experience working on complex PCB designs for major companies like Dell, highlighting the importance of seamless integration between electrical and mechanical design. Charlene and Terrie also reflect on their journeys as women in the traditionally male-dominated field of engineering. They talk about their efforts to mentor the next generation of engineers, and they emphasize the growing opportunities for women in PCB design and engineering. This episode is packed with insights on overcoming design challenges, the evolution of collaboration tools, and inspiring stories about breaking barriers in the engineering world. What You'll Learn in this Episode: The importance of communication in PCB design (06:05) Deciding to integrate ECAD/MCAD in PCB design (06:40) Is PCB design possible without MCAD collaboration? (09:55) Examples of how ECAD/MCAD collaboration improved the design cycle (12:20) The types of data exchange formats that are used, i.e., IDX, DXF IDF, EMN (14:45) Advice to the new generation of engineers, especially women (17:50) Connect with Steph Chavez: LinkedIn Website Connect with Charlene McCauley LinkedIn Website Connect with Terrie Duffy LinkedIn Website
Beth R. Myers, Esq., of Burns & Levinson LLP, details Tolling the Statute of Limitations and Other Procedural Issues That Can Derail an Employment Case, excerpted from MCLE's 10/24/2023 live webcast: Ways to Toll the Statute of Limitations in Employment Cases. The full program is available as an on-demand webcast or an MP3 here. Get 24/7 instant access to hundreds of related eLectures like this one—and more—with a subscription to the MCLE OnlinePass. Learn more at www.mcle.org/onlinepass and start your free trial today! Connect with us on socials!Instagram: mcle.newenglandX (Formerly Twitter): MCLENewEnglandLinkedIn: Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE│New England)Facebook: MCLE New EngalndThreads: mcle.newnengland
I'm so excited to introduce you to one of my most beloved and favourite humans, Hannah Wallace, or Hannah Unicorn as I call her. She is full of magick.Hannah is a writer, blogger, diversity model and teacher who champions female empowerment and spiritual activism.As someone living with a disability and a wheelchair user, Hannah is passionate about breaking down barriers around the topic and bringing awareness through her content. She lives with Elhers Danlos Syndrome, POTS, and MCAD amongst other things.Hannah's mission for her podcast Finding Grace is to guide people to integrate their darkness and light by finding grace in the space they're currently in.This is a gorgeous conversation.Hannah's WebsiteHannah's InstagramPS You'll notice I use my first name Sofia in this introduction (Bunny is my middle name that I go by all the time). I must have been in a very - hello we are recording a proper podcast with one of my best mates so we must make it formal - kinda energies. Ah to be human.Enjoy my loves! We hope you adore this episode and find it supportive for your journey towards a deeper relationship with yourself, love, abundance, your magick and creating a wider foundation for your business to prosper. If Whisky Made Woman has impacted you today, make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode and thank you for leaving a rating and review of the show. We read everyone and celebrate your AHA! moments. To go deeper and wider... Transform your wealth identity hereJoin my signature program Your Prosperity Unlocked Here.Join the Abundant Heart Collective Today.New to my work - start hereWatch the Ultimate Manifestation Masterclass Here.Discover your Manifestation Powers Here.5 Steps to Manifest Your Dream Life Here.Share your aha moments with Bunny on Instagram.Got a question you'd love answered on the podcast? Send it to - Dear Bunny ...
This week, the world lost an amazing light of a human: Diane Ragsdale. This episode is a previously lost and unreleased conversation that host Tim Cynova recorded with Diane at the Banff Centre in February 2020, a few weeks before the world shut down for the global pandemic... and they promptly forgot they even recorded this conversation together.Originally intended to be titled, "Investing in Personal and Professional Growth," the conversation explores Diane's thoughts on the role of the arts and artists in society, the role arts management and leadership programs can and should play, and how we can craft our own learning and development plan. It also includes a few clips they thought would eventually be left on the cutting room floor.Sending love and strength to Diane's family and friends, students and colleagues who are located all over the world.GUEST BIO:DIANE RAGSDALE is Director of the MA in Creative Leadership, an online master's program that welcomed its first cohort in summer 2022 and for which she additionally has an appointment as Faculty and Scholar. After 15 years working years working within and leading cultural institutions and another several years working in philanthropy at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in NYC, she made the shift to academia and along the way became a widely read blogger, frequent speaker and panelist, published author, lecturer, scholar, and advisor to a range of nonprofit institutions, government agencies, and foundations on a wide range of arts and culture topics.Diane joins MCAD from both Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, where she served as Faculty and Director of the Cultural Leadership Program, and Yale University where she is adjunct faculty and leads an annual four-week workshop on Aesthetic Values in a Changed Cultural Context. She was previously an assistant professor and program director at The New School in New York, where she successfully built an MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship in the School of Performing Arts and launched a new graduate minor in Creative Community Development in collaboration with Parsons School of Design and the Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment. Diane is a doctoral candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam where she was a lecturer in the Cultural Economics MA program from 2011–15. She continues to work on her dissertation as time permits. Her essay “Post-Show” was recently published in the Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts (2022); and a teaching case that she developed from her doctoral research on the relationship between the commercial and nonprofit theater in America–currently titled “Margo Jones: bridging divides to craft a new hybrid logic for theater in the US”–will be published in the forthcoming Edward Elgar handbook, Case Studies in Arts Entrepreneurship. Diane holds an MFA in Acting & Directing from University of Missouri-Kansas City and a BS in Psychology and BFA in Theater from Tulane University. She was part of Stanford University's inaugural Executive Program for Nonprofit Arts Leaders, produced in partnership with National Arts Strategies. She holds a certificate in Mediation and Creative Conflict Resolution from the Center for Understanding in Conflict.HOST:TIM CYNOVA (he/him) is the CEO of Work Shouldn't Suck, an HR and org design firm helping organizations dust off their People policies, practices, and offerings to co-create workplaces where everyone can thrive. He is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and a trained mediator, and serves on the faculty of Minneapolis College of Art & Design, the Hollyhock Leadership Institute (Cortes Island, Canada), and The New School (New York City) teaching courses in Strategic HR, Co-Creating Inclusive Workplaces, and...
Explore the world of harness design with Michał Topolski, product manager at Altium, in this episode of the Altium OnTrack podcast. Learn about the two main aspects of harness design—multi-board and harness design itself—and how they are interconnected. Michał delves into the integration with MCAD tools, the importance of data integrity, and the positive user reactions during the open beta phase. Discover the features and improvements in harness design and get a sneak peek into what the future holds for this tool. Key Highlights: Multi-Board & Harness Design: Explore the synergy between multi-board and harness design, unraveling the interconnected world of these crucial aspects. Harness Design Overview: Gain insights into the fundamentals of harness design, delving into the significance of BOM and the development rationale. Hands-On with Harness Design: Take a closer look at the practical aspects of harness design, understanding its physical dimensions and the seamless integration with Altium Designer. Altium Designer Harness Design Integration: Discover the efficiency gains by eliminating back-and-forth processes through Altium Designer's integrated harness design features. User Reaction and Workflow Improvements: Hear about the overwhelmingly positive user reactions during the open beta phase and explore the workflow improvements that redefine the design experience. Transcript Zach Peterson: So with a harness design, I think people might think of that as like probably two possible things. One might be like a custom cable assembly, one might be a custom connector housing or maybe an off-the-shelf housing that has custom wiring that is built into it. Maybe it's hand assembled, maybe it's factory assembled. But you probably have a bunch of wires spanning between two or more connectors. And then you need to integrate that into the project somehow. Is that correct? Michał Topolski: Yes, that's precisely it. And we support both of these ways. So you can just have a off-the-Shelf cable connection and you can have it listed in BOM as a single item or you can have your own harnessing wiring drawn and have have it manufactured custom. Zach Peterson: Hello, everyone and welcome to the Altium OnTrack podcast. I'm your host Zach Peterson. Today I'm talking with Michal Topolski, the product manager here at Altium. As I said in a previous episode, it is that time of the year where AD is coming out with a new version and we get to learn about all the cool new features that are gonna be in the latest version of Altium Designer. So I'm very happy to have Michal with us here today. Thanks for joining us. Michał Topolski: Yeah, hello. Thank you. Thank you for a brief introduction. Hello to everybody. Yes, yes, as you mentioned, we are now launching briefly AD 24, which is obviously the next version, the next big version count and that's always a good moment to have new features introduced. Zach Peterson: So one of the themes I've been noticing with the new group of features has been really twofold. One is collaboration and then another is in kind of multi-disciplinary design and really I guess focusing more on product design. And you're working more in the second area. So maybe tell us which feature it is you're overseeing. Michał Topolski: Yes, thank you for this introduction. So yes, I'm working on electronic product design and part of this of it is a multi-board and the other part is harness design. And these two are very much correlated. So as I believe every electronic engineer knows, there are many elements to the electronic product and obviously, PCBs are the base of it, but then you have to have connect them somehow. So that's when the harnessing comes in. So that's wiring, cabling. We have different names and they obviously mean some other things for some people, but we generally, we call it in Altium Designer, we call it harness design. Zach Peterson: So with a harness design, I think people might think of that as like probably two possible things. One might be like a custom cable assembly, one might be a custom connector housing or maybe an off-the-shelf housing that has custom wiring that is built into it. Maybe it's hand assembled, maybe it's factory assembled. But you probably have a bunch of wires spanning between two or more connectors. And then you need to integrate that into the project somehow. Is that correct? Michał Topolski: Yes, that's precisely it. And we support both of these ways. So you can just have a off-the-shelf cable connection and you can have it listed in BOM as a single item or you can have your own harnessing wiring drawn and have it made, have it manufactured custom. Zach Peterson: So when you say it can be part of the BOM, this could be like a mechanical element that appears in the BOM, is that correct? Michał Topolski: No, actually harness design is a separate project on its own. So it's like you have schematic and you have PCB, then you have a separate PCB project. Michał Topolski: Right? Zach Peterson: Gotcha. Michał Topolski: And harness design in Altium Designer is a separate harness project, which means it has its own BOM. So yeah, well, technically these elements are mostly mechanical or electro-mechanical if you're concerned with some items. But they are in a different space right now. In the future, we'll connect these two spaces in probably one consolidated BOM in multipart. But that's speaking about the future. Zach Peterson: So I have to ask, and I think some other people have probably asked this question themselves, why did Altium decide to develop a harness design feature? Altium, obviously known for PCB design software, and then more recently, a lot of the cloud management tools that have really helped propel enterprises to be more productive. But harness design seems a little out of left field to me. Michał Topolski: To me, it's very complementary. So if an engineer has ever been designing a more complex design, he would notice at some point that there are electrical connections between boards and without Altium Designer, the history is quite the same. So initially, it was obviously, as you mentioned, a PCB design tool, which is very successful in this field. But then we decided that we need to grow because the modern electronic products are not just single PCBs, even very complex, like 16 layers or more, whatever. It's just so much more. So then we created multi-board and when you have this multi-board environment and you have different PCBs and models and electro-mechanical devices in that system, then obviously, you need to connect them somehow. And this is where the harness design comes in. So we've been asked by customers, okay, but I have my PCBs here and here but how do I draw my connections between them? So harness design model is a direct answer to that need and solves this problem. And yes, this is our very first approach to this area. As you mentioned, it might be a bit off in terms of PCB design that Altium's famous for but I think that when our users, and users from the outside that are willing to use Altium projects in the future, we'll see how it's implemented, how it's seamless to use. They'll notice that this is not just another harnessing tool from the electrical world because that's what our competition mostly is. Like, these tools are not tailored for the electrical engineers, electronic engineers. They're tailored for electrical work, like with the big machines and big industry and stuff like that. And in Altium, it's tailored to the needs of creating electronic products. Zach Peterson: The most recent instance where I needed to do any type of custom interconnect design to go between multiple boards was using actually a flex connection. So doing kind of like a harness design approach, but doing it on a flex ribbon so it could bend and twist and do whatever you needed it to do. So with that type of system, you're really selecting the mating connectors and then you're designing a PCB to then connect everything and then you match up the pinouts. With a harness design, you're actually using wiring. So you're not really using a PCB layout tool to draw out those interconnects. So what does that look like for the user in order to create the physical design, not just the logical design, but the actual physical design? Michał Topolski: I would say it's very similar to what we have in PCB. So there's this logical layer which is schematic in PCB and we have wiring diagram. You can draw the individual wires and connect splices to them and just route them in the proper way. But then you have the layout drawing and this is something like a PCB in PCB projects. So this is a place where you actually draw the topology. It seems very much like schematic, but it has different objects in Altium. So it uses bundles. So we can draw not just individual wires, but you can route them inside how they are bundled, how they go together. Obviously, we have objects like connection points, which are used to rout these bundles, to assign splice points to these connection points. And yeah, if you look at it, it's very obvious. I may share a sample project so I can show for a second. So this is wiring drawing, a wiring diagram where you can draw individual wires as I mentioned. Zach Peterson: Well, for those listening on audio, we're looking in the Schematic Editor right now. For those watching on YouTube, you're getting the full view, but on audio, it looks like we have a bunch of boxes drawn out that would typically represent components and then you have the wires drawn between them. So it looks a lot like a schematic and I think it's really familiar for a lot of users. Michał Topolski: Exactly, and that was our goal 'cause we're in Altium and schematic is a well-known environment, so it's very seamless to learn how to use harness design model because, essentially it looks very much the same at this point. But then we go to layout, which also kind of looks like schematic, but we can route our wires, well, actually route bundles and the wires are routed inside. So it's automatic. When the whole net is defined properly in the wiring diagram, and when the bundles are connected properly in the layout, then the wires inside are routed automatically. So then when in your BOM, you generate your wiring list from two table, which defines from which point the wire goes, and where it ends is defined automatically and generated automatically. Zach Peterson: So what we're seeing here in this layout, like you said, it looks a lot like a schematic, but we actually see pictures and graphics that show the connectors and then we see what looks like lines drawn to represent the different wiring bundles that go between each of the connectors. Michał Topolski: I just want to emphasize that these graphics, as you said, they're not just graphics, they are full 3D models of components. So we can actually generate different views in design. So you don't have to pre-prepare these images as you would do in many tools. They're not just simple graphics. They are interactive, sorry. And you can, for instance, have a wireframe view, you can look from different angles. So it's very flexible in that term. Zach Peterson: So you said there's a wireframe view. Can you describe that for us? Michał Topolski: Sure, so what you see here right now, it's a full shaded view of a component but in some cases, it's not the best one because some details might not be visible. So we would like to go into pure black and white line mole, which only limits the contours of the component, and this is it. For those who watch us, you can see that, for instance, I have just dynamically changed this shaded model to a wireframe model just like that just because as I said, this is all generated in design. It's not pre-prepared images or graphics. Zach Peterson: Yeah, I've had to draw out wiring diagrams in the past and I will admit I have had to go onto Google images and search for an image of that connector or find a image on DigiKey or something and copy it into a PowerPoint. So I think it's very convenient that you can automatically create a lot of these assets directly inside of Altium Designer. So this is all really interesting and one thing I, of course, have to ask is was this something that was in really high demand with users? Michał Topolski: It was in high demand, especially among those users that were multi-board adopters, that were using multi-board previously because they have noticed the need. And this is also an endless cycle because if we get more people that are using multi-board, they get to use harness and then the other way, they also use more of the multi-board. So that's good, that's good for us and that's also good for users because then we get more attention, which means we get more development on that and we can improve it faster. So yes, we're listening very carefully to all feedback about multi-board and harness very much these days because I think the tool is very good and we have many voices of our customers that are happy with what it is. But we also know that there's a long road ahead of us, and yes, we're trying to catch all the voices. It might take some time, just be warned but in the end, I think we're gonna make it a really seamless tool for everybody that's interested. Zach Peterson: And so this is gonna be included with all the standard multi-board design tools? This isn't like an external feature that you have to purchase or anything like that? Michał Topolski: No, but it's where we're emphasizing that. As you mentioned, this is part of multi-board. So product design suite and this is Pro and Enterprise license level. It's not standard. Unfortunately, harness design right now, it's not standard but it's Pro and Enterprise and while harness design can be used as a standalone project, so we don't need to have a multi-board project to actually have a harness project. They can be separate project, that's no big deal. But we encourage people to use multi-board project first because if you define your connectivity inside multi-board, then it goes into the harness design. So they are interconnected this way and we plan for this connection, this strict connection between these two environments to really bloom in the future. We would like to have end-to-end connectivity checks and stuff like that. So brace yourselves. I think some interesting things are coming in this environment. But coming back to licensing, I also wanted to mention that while A365 is not necessary for using harness design but to use harness-specific library components, like wires and cables, we actually need A365 because this is a cloud-enabled feature. So you can have your wires and cables inside harness design but if you want to store them in the library, you're gonna need the A365. Zach Peterson: Sure, that makes sense. So you brought up things like wiring and storage in the library. I guess that begs the question, what sort of information is needed to input into a design in order to use everything successfully? I ask that because obviously, we're talking about wiring harnesses. So you need wires. You need connector body. You probably also need something like, I don't know, crimp contacts. And maybe if it's gonna be hand assembled, there's gonna be a special tooling that's needed. What's the complete suite of information that someone would need in order to create a project and then pass the documentation off to their assembler who can then make this design into a physical object? Michał Topolski: Harness designing work is not very standardized. So I would say it very much depends on individual process of the company that is using it. I've been speaking to many customers and some of them just limit to drawing connectors but very generic. They don't even have to use models. They don't care very much about the lengths and margins, production margins about how many twister are and stuff like that. They just leave it to their manufacturers because they outsource it. And then you obviously need some lower level detail. But then some of these companies also are manufacturing samples or even small batches inside their facilities and then they need complete information because they use it directly like a flow below. So yeah, I would say it very much depends. But the basic set would be obviously to have some connectors that you would like to use. But again, if you utilize multi-board, you can define mating connectors in there and then they will be brought to wiring diagrams. So you wouldn't start from scratch. You would have them in there. Then you also have to draw wires but you don't necessarily need to have them predefined. You can always change properties and like components inside the design. So you can think of wires that you have as a generic components idea that we have in schematics. So we just place generic component, generic wire and then you can assign a component or assign properties to it, whatever you would like to do. And well, I'd say that basically that that's it 'cause then other things are purely your design. So you define splices, you define the topology and from that, you can bring these drawings to Draftsman and generate your manufacturing drawings. Zach Peterson: So as far as like what the wiring is concerned, there are some properties that you could assign as I think what you said. So that could be like wire gauge, strip length, number, you said number of twists, which which would make sense. Number of strands if it's stranded wire, those kinds of things. Michał Topolski: Yes, exactly, exactly. Color, gauge. These are very basic stuff. And one thing that maybe it's worth mentioning at this point is as I've been showing this layout, drawing, some may have noticed, this is a 2D, so two-dimensional drawing, it's flat only. And many complex harnesses are needed to be routed in 3D environment. And this is right now not possible inside Altium but we have CoDesigner feature, which has been with us for many years now and I think many Altium users are familiar of that. We right now have tests with Creo regarding current design integration, which means that you can take your wiring diagram and direct the information stream directly to MCAD, so you then get connectors, you get the connectivity, you get it from to table inside Creo and then you can route the design in 3D in there and then get back with the information, which is most crucial, which means lengths. And with these lengths, you can create your BOM and your lengths, wires and stuff like that. So this is a flow that many customers has been asking about and right now, as I said, this is Creo but we intend to also support our other environments, which CoDesigner already supports for PCBs. Zach Peterson: So that's really interesting. It sounds like someone can take the import from the harness design in terms of let's say the connections, connector bodies and what's involved in terms of wiring. The mechanical engineer can then place those, move them around to where they need to be inside an enclosure and then that information can get pushed back into the harness design. Is that the correct way to think about it? Michał Topolski: Right now, it's less about positions, especially in three-dimensional space. We don't support that yet inside harness design. It's more about the pure length because there's a difference if you route a cable or wire in between two points and you do not take into consideration how they're routed in 3D space because they might go around some elements that you have and if you don't account for that, then the wire would be just too short. You just draw it on plane surface. So this is actually the goal here right now, but there are some plans to bring the 3D model of harness design that you design in MCAD to a multi-board assembly environment. So then you have this represented inside our Altium environment and as I mentioned before, 'cause we own the connectivity that you defined in multi-board, we can also show point-to-point connections in the future obviously. So yeah, this is our goal here. Zach Peterson: So this is interesting because I think normally, someone might use an MCAD application to try and model a wiring harness. I know that there are specialty applications that are out there that are specifically for wiring and cabling and stuff. But I think as you said, they're for larger machines, industrial settings, that kind of thing. It sounds like the real difference with an MCAD application is that the MCAD application has the ability to give the information back to the PCB designer so that they can quickly generate an entire bill of materials for every part in their system. So each of the PCBs, the cable, cable assembly, all of that. Michał Topolski: Exactly, exactly. That's the way we see it. And this is a place where actually starting harness design, not in MCAD but in Altium Designer and harness design model can be superior to just purely MCAD. Obviously, there are some components that we don't have in Altium, which would be like fasteners and some mechanical parts. And obviously, the enclosure, so it has to be designed in MCAD environment and about that, this is the way to do it. But then, I think in the end, at least this is what I've learned, there are many, many engineers that would like to own this information inside Altium and generate, as you mentioned, this unified documentation from Altium Designer. Zach Peterson: So if you were starting in the MCAD side and then going into defining the constraints for the PCB, essentially the MCAD user would have an opportunity to possibly select some of those connectors on the front end and then just pass that information onto the designer, rather than having the designer receive the board and the enclosure information and then try to fit connectors within that. Then it has to get passed back again to get verified. And so you eliminate some of that back and forth if the MCAD user could start first. Would you agree? Michał Topolski: Yes, yes, that's perfectly the goal. I think it's not yet supported exactly the way you described it. This is the ultimate goal. Right now, we usually start with the information from harness design, but I think it's like a new feature if we do that 'cause right now, we're very much focusing on the integrity of the data, so there is no corruption happening. That's the most crucial for us. And all these improvements, like starting in MCAD, defining connectors there, other parts, obviously, it's coming as well. Zach Peterson: Okay, but at at least someone could start an MCAD and at least have kind of a paper doll model and then say these are your three connectors, copy and paste into a Slack chat or something and then the designer can just take that, put it in their BOM and then they're off and running. So I think you mentioned two other tools within Altium Designer where there's an integration with harness design that was Draftsman and then exporting to the BOM, is that correct? Michał Topolski: Harness design is a standard BOM, as you know from PCB projects, and standard Draftsman, as you know, from PCB projects. And I think this is the only way to do it actually in Altium. So they have this unified environment. This is our goal. This is still one Altium design. There is no separate harness design software. It's part of our suite. So it's only only natural for us to utilize the same environments. And I think it's very, very useful. I've heard these kind of voices that having wiring diagram and layout drawing in the same drawing, in the end, is something that not many tools in the market can do and can be beneficial. And also our active BOM and our connection to the Octopart and having lifecycle statuses and all that, that's also very, very useful to engineers to not design something that will be obsolete in a month or so. That would be very bad. Zach Peterson: So inside of Draftsman, for example, since this is all its own project, essentially, you're just placing the region where you want the wiring harness drawing to appear in Draftsman, right click, import and then bam, your drawing appears there. Michał Topolski: And when you make changes to one of these drawings, wiring or layout, you just have to again click the magic import button and it updates. That's it. That's all we need. Zach Peterson: Very cool. Very cool. So I think we have time for one more question, which is really about the user reaction. I know that earlier I asked you if it was in high demand and now that it's been in beta for a little bit, I have to ask, what's been the user reaction? What are people saying, positive or negative? Michał Topolski: Yes, thank you very much for this question. User reaction was largely positive, very positive. And I want to emphasize that when we launched into open beta in January, that was after a few months of development with some very, very engaged customers that were helping us to get through the MVP process. So when we launched, well, it was a newborn obviously. But I think the dynamics of the team that is developing the tool and all the people that are involved in the process, especially customers and everyone that's helping is really helping us to learn this baby to walk very fast and then ride a bike very soon also. So the reactions are very positive and this dynamic is also very visible to people. I've heard reactions like, "Oh, we have not seen this tool for three months 'cause we're exploring and now we're exploring again 'cause we have a project that we need harness for and it's a different tool now. It's so much better." So yeah, that's like genuinely the reaction I've had and I hope that this will persist in future. So that's the message to everyone that has been exploring Altium harness design in January this year and has dropped it since. And please, try again. If not now, then in January in '24 when the tool will to go out of open beta. You'll notice that the tool has changed a lot. It has become much more stable and there are many features that were missing, the big ones, but also the small ones, you know, the quality of life improvements, all that. I think it's very important. Especially in last months, we were very focused on improving all these tiny little things that are very useful in everyday life of every engineer. So just to reduce the count of clicks and all these things that make us bored and nervous at some point. So yes, and I also would like to encourage everyone that has touched the tool, but not only harness design, I mean about Altium Designer to go to forum if you have not done it and express your voice because this feedback really matters. We would like to hear that. I am one of the people that would like to hear it, we listen to it. And then we react to these voices when creating the tools for you. Zach Peterson: Yeah, we'll include a link to the forum in the show notes. So final question before we let you go. You alluded to some potential improvements on the workflow, like starting from MCAD, going back to PCB. Are there any other interesting nuances or feature upgrades or improvements to this tool that are on the horizon that you can reveal? Or are people just gonna have to subscribe to the channel if they wanna learn more? Michał Topolski: I'll just generally say that we seek for improvements, some big improvements in the management of components, how they are linked in between and there are also some improvements coming in terms of how you can define models inside multi-board. But I don't want to go into details right now 'cause as you know, deadlines are dangerous. I should not be showing any details about these. So just please stay tuned and if you are interested in some very particular features that you would like to see or have heard about from somebody, then just please contact us directly and we'll have a chat. Zach Peterson: Sounds great, and I guess as all of this rolls out and slowly improves over time, we'd love to have you back to talk about this more. Michał Topolski: Thank you very much. Zach Peterson: Thank you very much. To everyone that's been listening on audio or watching on YouTube, We've been talking with Michal Topolski, product manager at Altium who is overseeing the harness design rollout. If you are watching on YouTube, make sure to hit the Subscribe button, hit the Like button. You'll be able to keep up with all of our tutorials and feature announcements as they become available. And last but not least, don't stop learning, stay OnTrack and we will see you next time. Thanks, everybody.
Artist and educator Preston Drum of Burnsville recommends a visit to the Rochester Art Center. He highlights two solo shows by Minneapolis College of Art and Design graduates, Roshan Ganu and Ivonne Yáñez. Roshan Ganu's show “जत्रा (Ja-tra) : A Feeling At The Beginning Of Time” is one large artwork in a space that is made up of various mirrors, projections and animation. It's a multi-sensory installation, with sounds of vendor calls and sung prayers. जत्रा' (“ja-tra”) is a Marathi word for a town or village fair. The installation feels carnivalesque, with thousands of tiny interactions that you can choose to focus on specifically or let wash over you. Drum says it feels “as though you were walking into a time-traveling / space-traveling device. And when you walk inside, it's kind of like you're being teleported to India, but also in India in different times.” Ganu, who is the 2022-23 MCAD-Jerome Foundation Fellow, will participate in an artist spotlight tour Saturday, Oct. 7 at 11 a.m. The show runs until Nov. 5. Ivonne Yáñez's show “Like a Little Tlaquepaque Vase or Como Jarrito de Tlaquepaque” is an intimate show that Drum says is “full of little hidden treasures to discover.” The title of the show refers to a phrase in Spanish that describes an overly sensitive person. Here, brightly colored vases are made of bright, shimmery fabric. The ceiling and walls of the room are hung with sculptures, which feature detailed embroidery work, images of tarot cards and Mexican lottery games. Drum appreciates the juxtaposition of real human-made plants and the way all the elements work together. This show runs through Jan. 21.Lisa Hartwig of Hudson, Wis., loves to attend the Sogn Valley Art Fair (pronounced “so-gun”), which holds its 51st annual event this weekend in Cannon Falls. She appreciates the high level of quality of the art, ranging from pottery to jewelry, from painting to printmaking. More than 50 artists' work is on view. Hudson describes it as a park-and-walk event that feels like a street festival and is anchored by the printmaking nonprofit ArtOrg. “I think it's such a nice community and it's such lovely work that you can't beat it,” Hartwig says. The art fair is Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Oct. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Alexander Jabbari, assistant professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, is looking forward to the Mehtegan Fall Iranian Culture Festival this Saturday in St. Paul. The event, which is open to all, features Iranian music, dance and food. He's particularly excited to see Twin Cities-based singer-songwriter Marjan Farsad, who sings in Persian in a style he describes as “dreamy indie pop.” Farsad will perform at 1:30 p.m., ahead of a national tour. She will also perform at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis on Nov. 5. Other musical performances include piano, the poetry of Omar Khayyam set to setar, and a DJ playing Persian pop in the evening. There will also be tea and Iranian food for sale. Marjan Farsad
How might we approach life from Nature's paradigm rather than from the dominant paradigm?In this episode, I speak with Denise DeLuca. Denise is the founder of Wild Hazel. She is an adjunct faculty and the former Director of MCAD's Sustainable Design program. She was co-founder of BCI: Biomimicry Creative for Innovation, a network of creative professional change agents driving ecological thinking for radical transformation. Denise is the author of the book Re-Aligning with Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation. She also teaches with the Amani Institute.Denise's previous roles include Education Director for the International Living Future Institute, Project Manager for Swedish Biomimetics 3000, and Outreach Director for The Biomimicry Institute. Denise is a licensed civil engineer (PE) and holds a master's degree in civil and environmental engineering with a focus on modelling landscape-scale surface and groundwater interactions. In addition, Denise is a Biomimicry Fellow and a member of the Advisory Council of The Biomimicry Institute, Board Member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), on the editorial board of the Journal of Bionic Engineering, and anExpert with Katerva.We discuss:
While there were other schools for animation and visual design, Tefft Smith II was beckoned to Minneapolis after high school to Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) because of its proximity to all things Prince. That proximity brought him to the center of Prince Universe as he became a regular at the parties and performances Prince had at Paisley Park throughout the mid-to-late nineties. After completing his degree at MCAD, Tefft left Minneapolis for the sunshine of Los Angeles to begin his career in animation and visual effects. In California, he continued to follow Prince closely, attending his performances throughout California. In this Purple High episode, Tefft Smith connects you to the Prince world of the '90s and beyond. From attending parties at Paisley Park to receiving phone calls from Prince himself. His unique perspectives along with his appreciation for the creative process provide great insights into Prince and his work over the years. Tefft is a co-founder of "Opsis" where he works with his team to provide animation and visual design on major Hollywood projects. His passion for Prince continues to this day and includes the creation of amazing visual effects for Purple High's dance parties and live streams.
Eating disorders are complicated and not uncommon in artistic athletes. Common comorbidities of symptomatic joint hypermobility (SJH), like mast cell activation disorder (MCAD) or gastroparesis, may contribute to disordered eating, which can spiral into an eating disorder. For years, eating disorders have been stigmatized and dismissed by many in the health community. To discuss this difficult topic, Bendy Bodies sat down with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-S, FAED, and founder of the Gaudiani Clinic for Eating Disorders. Dr. Gaudiani shares how she became so passionate about caring for this complex population and the importance of understanding her patient's stories. She talks about why there's such a stigma around eating disorders and how she's working to change that. We discuss why this topic is so important for those with SJH and cover possible eating disorder mimickers. We break down definitions and explore possible predictors of eating disorders. Dr. Gaudiani shares the aspects of treatment that she has found vital, and offers tips on how to speak to someone you suspect may have an eating disorder. Finally, she reveals ways to find experts for getting the help needed for an eating disorder. Learn more about the Gaudiani Clinic here. For physicians, dance teachers, coaches, and anyone struggling with an eating disorder, this episode is a valuable look at a difficult topic. . . . . . #MentalHealth #BodyPositive #Nutritionist #DoctorsOfIG #IntuitiveEating #EDWarriors #Recovery #SportsNutrition #ChronicIllness #EatingDisorders #PlantBasedNutrition #MentalHealthMatters #NutritionMatters #InvisibleIllness #AntiDiet #AntiDietCulture
Eating disorders are complicated and not uncommon in artistic athletes. Common comorbidities of symptomatic joint hypermobility (SJH), like mast cell activation disorder (MCAD) or gastroparesis, may contribute to disordered eating, which can spiral into an eating disorder. For years, eating disorders have been stigmatized and dismissed by many in the health community.To discuss this difficult topic, Bendy Bodies sat down with Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani, MD, CEDS-S, FAED, and founder of the Gaudiani Clinic for Eating Disorders.Dr. Gaudiani shares how she became so passionate about caring for this complex population and the importance of understanding her patient's stories. She talks about why there's such a stigma around eating disorders and how she's working to change that.We discuss why this topic is so important for those with SJH and cover possible eating disorder mimickers. We break down definitions and explore possible predictors of eating disorders.Dr. Gaudiani shares the aspects of treatment that she has found vital, and offers tips on how to speak to someone you suspect may have an eating disorder. Finally, she reveals ways to find experts for getting the help needed for an eating disorder. Learn more about the Gaudiani Clinic here. For physicians, dance teachers, coaches, and anyone struggling with an eating disorder, this episode is a valuable look at a difficult topic. .....#MentalHealth #BodyPositive #Nutritionist #DoctorsOfIG #IntuitiveEating #EDWarriors #Recovery #SportsNutrition #ChronicIllness #EatingDisorders #PlantBasedNutrition #MentalHealthMatters #NutritionMatters #InvisibleIllness #AntiDiet #AntiDietCulture --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bendy-bodies/message
It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, President Series #216 YOUR guest is Sanjit Sethi, President of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) YOUR guest cohost is Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, Professor at Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio & YOUR sponsor is Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era In Higher Education! What does Sanjit believe is Higher Ed's real frontier? What does Sanjit plan to lean more into to move MCAD forward? What does Sanjit see as the future of Higher Ed? Listen in to #EdUp! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! We make education YOUR business! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edup/message
Stacey has been a healer for 27 years as an RN but after a dramatic near-death experience in April 2021, she was forced to leave western medicine behind and travel down the path of least resistance toward eastern medicine and self-healing.She is now a Best-selling author, Reiki Master, Inner-child expert, Kundalini Meditation Facilitator, Intuitive Medium, and healer. She believes Spirituality, laughter, and Eastern medicine practices saved her life. She has silently battled Mast Cell Activation Disease for over twenty years. A debilitating and chronic "invisible" illness. That she is now successfully in remission. Raising awareness is something she is very passionate about.Her darkest hours have been her greatest teachers. Stacey was determined to find out the root cause of all of her illnesses after she got sick and tired of hearing "it's all in your head" and being misdiagnosed with multiple autoimmune diseases.After healing her unresolved childhood trauma (root cause) and coming off all pharmaceuticals, she is now on a mission to show people how to self-heal, release their own inner child, and teach "broken" souls how to FLY, by (F*****g Loving Yourself) first. Stacey also believes that laughter is the best medicine and has a wicked sense of humor. Stacey knows everyone has a purpose and wants to awaken souls to promote a more empathetic and fun-loving humanity. Join Stacey on a journey of healing through self-love and community.Stacey is living her best life after finding more joy and genuine happiness than she ever imagined possible. She is dedicated and determined to encourage people to acknowledge, process and let their trauma go before it manifests in diseases. While empowering them to speak and live in their truth. Stacey is passionate about raising awareness for MCAD while being an advocate for those not ready to speak their truth. empowering others to speak and live in their truth. Stacey is living proof God loves everyone, most of all, Hot messes.The magic truly is in your mess! Connect with Stacey Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/srpiedrahitaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacey_piedrahita/ Get full access to Gemma's Gem blog & Real Talk Real Women podcast at gemmasgem.substack.com/subscribe
Manufacturers are looking to minimize the cost of production, the time to market, and the number of respins for their PCBs. While introducing powerful design and testing tools makes a real difference, they aren't as successful in silos. To properly harness the power of the latest technology, manufacturers have to be intentional with ECAD-MCAD collaboration. I'm your host, Steph Chavez, a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Siemens. I'm glad to be joined by David Walker, Senior Technical Software Product Manager at Siemens, responsible for defining the direction of the Siemens NX software. And Greg Arnot, Product Marketing Manager Siemens NX. They'll help us understand the current state of ECAD-MCAD collaboration. In this episode, you'll learn about the current trends happening in the electronic design field. You'll also learn about what ECAD-MCAD collaboration entails and the benefits that it offers manufacturers. Additionally, you'll learn about the consequences of not implementing collaboration between these two important teams. What You'll Learn in this Episode: The most important trend in electronic design (02:45) The meaning of ECAD-MCAD collaboration (11:34) Signs that ECAD-MCAD collaboration can be improved (15:51) What is needed for successful ECAD-MCAD collaboration (18:08) Connect with Greg Arnot LinkedIn Connect with David Walker LinkedIn Connect with Steph Chavez LinkedIn
*This episode was recorded back in 2020Monica Michelle is joined by artist and author, Sarah Bigham, who began writing about her experiences and painting, using dissolved medications and supplements as watercolors. Her creative endeavors are a distraction from the pain of several recent diagnoses and have been the silver lining of her medical journey.Sarah lives with:Mast Cell Activation SyndromeInterstitial CystitisVulvodyniaFibromyalgiaSarah's linksSarah's BookSarah's WebsiteIn this episode, Monica and Sarah discuss:Combating the medical and wellness worldAccess to more information online via news, social media, etcActivism and DisabilityTapping into creativity through writing and painting while disabledSelf-care as self-loveTIMESTAMPS01:00 - Sarah's Story5:39 - The Wellness Movement8:12- ‘Bad' Words13:59 - Social Media & the News: Pros and Cons19:03- Covid and Chronic Illness21:51 - Pandemic Upsides27:00 - Creativity and Chronic Illness32:26 - Self-care as Self-love33:40 - Final ThoughtsThe full transcript and all links mentioned can be found on the episode page on invisiblenotbroken.com Thank you and enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In episode 49 of the Barclay Damon Live: Labor & Employment Podcast, host Ari Kwiatkowski welcomes back her Barclay Damon colleague Carolyn Marcotte Crowley for part 2 of their discussion on the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), beginning with the investigation of claims filed with MCAD. The MCAD investigator reviews submissions, requests additional information if needed, and conducts interviews, among other tactics, to determine if the treatment alleged by the complainant may constitute unlawful discrimination. An investigative conference is also usually held with the parties. Listen in for more, including the differences between the MCAD and the New York State Division of Human Rights.
ECAD/MCAD collaboration is important for companies that need to create powerful products fast and efficiently. However, challenges such as their siloed nature and different data formats make it difficult for the two to work together seamlessly. This leads to a loss of time and resources as the company is forced to undertake multiple respins necessitated by avoidable errors. I'm your host, Steph Chavez, a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Siemens. I'm glad to be joined by Alex Grange, Technical Marketing Engineer for the Electronic Board Division at Siemens, focusing on electromechanical collaboration, and is currently the leader of the ECAD/MCAD Implementer Forum developing the IDX standard. He'll help us understand what is being done to improve ECAD/MCAD collaboration. In this episode, you'll learn about the challenges that ECAD/MCAD collaboration faces and how it impacts companies. You'll also hear about the impact of the IDX standard on the industry's ability to collaborate. Additionally, you'll hear about PCB design best practices and how IDX fits in with them. What You'll Learn in this Episode: What doesn't work today when it comes to ECAD/MCAD co-design collaboration (01:02) The challenges presented by older data formats in ECAD/MCAD collaboration (04:16) How IDX format benefits electromechanical exchange today (06:14) Best practices that PCB designers should implement (08:25) Connect with Alex Grange LinkedIn Connect with Steph Chavez LinkedIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's that time again to have Altium's VP of Marketing, Lawrence Romine, the bearer of good news when it comes to Altium Designer's latest features. We will discuss what's coming in Altium Designer 23 which includes multi-board and harness design capabilities. You don't want to miss this one. Watch through the end and be sure to check the show notes and additional resources below. Watch this episode here Show Highlights Altium Designer®'s regular and reliable updates are incomparable in the industry, stay on top of the monthly updates through the OnTrack newsletter There are 3 major themes to come in Altium Designer 2023Multi-board systems and harness design – empower PCB designers and electrical engineers to design harnesses Collaboration and teamwork Make Altium Designer a necessity for every PCB designer – the world's greatest and most elegant design experience Code Designer, coming soon – the ability to work natively in Altium Designer and in Mcad tool of choice Multi-board and harness design capability, Altium Designer is fully supported through Altium 365 It's never too soon to involve the other stakeholders in your PCB designAltium 365 releases commenting capability to both bombs and draftsman documents New power analysis capability powered by Keysight, anybody that can design a printed circuit board can now do some power analysis Altium Designer users are encouraged to check out all of the extensions, especially the new power analyzer Links and Resources: Connect with Lawrence Romine on LinkedIn Stay on top of Altium Designer versions updates What's new in Altium 365 Read: Come See the New Power Analyzer by Keysight in Altium Designer 22.9 Connect with Zach on LinkedIn Visit Nexar website Visit Octopart website Claim the special offer for Podcast listeners only
Note: This is my opinion only. I have Ehlers-Danlos, POTS, MCAD, and Fibromyalgia.If you just want a quick answer: Subaru Outback 2023Hi everyone!Welcome to the new series: Disabled Tech ReviewsThe list of “special” and “luxury” items are not so for those of us in chronic pain. I have a budget that for my personal sit-in gets laughed out of existence.The general list used to be:SafetyMPGEnough space for kidsA CD playerAh, the simple life that at the time I thought was untenable. Now with Ehlers dances so advanced I must at the very least have my power wheelchair available I have found sedans are just crossed off the list. They might have the ability with a master's thesis in Jenga to be able to fit the wheelchair but even if this was possible my cane will not fit as well in case I have a wild flight of optimism that I might be able to walk. Those of you in the know please feel free to roll your eyes or laugh the knowing laugh of those of us who will absolutely have the cause of death written optimism she knew better but thought she could anyway.Ok so even without the wheelchair I might have the body of a middle age woman but my ligaments are more that fossilized posits not you found at the bottom of a bag covered in debris. What I am saying is sedans are low to the ground. Getting in and out of them is my Everest.So sedans and sports cars are out. Minivans while intriguing do not have the space without a massive amount of engineering. Trucks! I LOVE trucks I have wanted one my entire life but the securing in the bed and walking around let's just say I was too worn out after a quick try to even think of driving. But the electric trucks have frunks! Ah yes, the frunk. I LOVE the lightning. The F150 is the car I dream of as I remember the boys in high school dreamed of having a Lamborghini, and for the cost, it is just as likely I will ever own one. If you can afford it please let me know how amazing it is as a wheelchair user. I promise no dark jealous thoughts will be cast your way only slightly simmering resentment.So an SUV it is. This should not have been limiting but let me give you my list if I am ever to consider driving:SafetySpace for wheelchair, child, canes, GIANT BEASTIE wolf, a small but active hamster disguised as a pug, and groceriesA door that opens wide enough I do not have to pivotBlind spot AI to help me stop if my leg seizes and lane departure warning. Basically, any safety feature that will save me if my body decides to just not (this is where luxury gets redefined. I have no issue paying extra for sunroofs, seat material, or sound systems. These are in fact LUXURY. Back in the day, Volvo invented a 3-point seat belt. It saves lives. They gave the plans away. For safety. The ability to survive should not be a luxury. This is my hill it has a pre-dug grave and a soap box I am not moving from it.)This started with plug-ins or PHEV there were 3 on the market I wanted none to exist in real life despite the company's best advertising efforts. Thank you all. We probably won't be on the cutting edge of any tech but we will do our best to review what we have to make our lives as autonomous as possible from kids care (fluff feather and human) to feeding yourself, to self-care apps, to VR, to the tech we use to run Invisible Not Broken. Please feel free to reach out.Head over to www.invisiblenotbroken.com for more podcasts and blogs about life while disabled.Remember to Be Kind. Be Gentle. And of course, be a Bad Ass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
MCAD deficiency is a fatty acid oxidation disorder. It is a hereditary disease that is caused by a missing enzyme needed to convert fat into energy. Children with MCAD deficiency therefore cannot fast for very long without developing hypoglycaemia, which can cause brain damage or even death. This is because they cannot use fat and hence ketones as an alternative energy source as the glucose available to them runs low. Follow us on Instagram @yourekiddingrightdoctors Our email is yourekiddingrightpod@gmail.com Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW so you don't miss any episodes and RATE to help other people find us! (This isn't individual medical advice, please use your own clinical judgement and local guidelines when caring for your patients)
The business development manager of J.A.M.E.S., Alexandre Schafer talks about the organization's vision to push the Additively Manufactured Electronic technology to become more accessible to the industry. Show Highlights: What is J.A.M.E.S. and how did Alexandre become involved in the organization? J.A.M.E.S (Jetted Additively Manufactured Electronic Sources) is an online community of professionals, stake holder, manufacturers who share the same vision of accelerating the AME technology Alexadre's AHA moment was seeing a drone's PCB created through AME process The current technology readiness level is currently between experimental and demonstration pilot phase Introducing new technology to the industry has it's challenges: Influencing engineers' mindset Which design tool to use? In an ideal world a tool with both ECAD and MCAD design capabilities is necessary–a fully working 3D auto router will be amazing Design standards are inexistent at the moment On another note, the lack of design standards opens up to wider creative possibilities. Standardation is the enemy of freedom -Zach Peterson Moving forward to future plans: Scaling up, manufacturing of the equipments and creation of additive process design rules Availability of resources and current efforts to educate PCB designers through AME Academy Links and Resources: Follow J.A.M.E.S on LinkedIn Connect with Alexandre Schafer on LinkedIn Access Register to AME Academy Visit J.A.M.E.S website Full OnTrack Podcast Library Altium Website Get Your First Month of Altium Designer® for FREE
Red Pill Buddhas w/Phil Escott – Ep: 20 w/Mary Ruddick Mary's website: https://www.enableyourhealing.com/ Mary Ruddick: Director of Nutrition Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health," Mary Ruddick is a seasoned medical nutritionist, researcher, and philanthropist who specializes in metabolic, immune, and nervous system disorders. She is the Director of Nutrition for Enable Your Healing, CaptainSoup.com, Cows4Kids.com, The REIGNS Method, and the Back to Joy Program, and she currently travels the globe studying traditional diets and seeing patients online via her private practice. She has been featured with the book, "Beat Autoimmune" and she can be found on several productions from GundryMD, the Food Lies documentary, and MeatRx. Mary is a keynote speaker at several conferences each year. She recently presented at Low Carb USA, Freedom From Food Addictions, and The GAPS OnCon. Mary spent the last several years traveling throughout Africa, the Blue Zones, and throughout remote regions of the world to observe the diets of those not affected by chronic, infectious, or emergent disease. She is currently studying with tribes throughout Latin and South America while concurrently conducting a twelve-month study on Neuropathy in the States. You can find her article on the Batwa tribe within the 2021 Fall edition of the Wise Traditions Journal. In her private practice, Mary Ruddick specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, hormonal disorders, and nervous system disorders including dysautonomia, neuropathy, and seizure disorders. Having used both lifestyle and dietary changes on her own miraculous healing journey, she emphasizes the balance of both.
Cadence and Dassault Systèmes in late February announced the combining of the former's Allegro platform with the latter's 3DExperience platform in a joint solution that enables customers to perform multidiscipline modeling, simulation and optimization of complex, connected electronic systems. The firms say this new multidisciplinary approach can accelerate customers' end-to-end system development process while optimizing their design for performance, reliability, manufacturability, supply resilience, compliance and cost. Today's guests are Stéphane Declée, CEO of the Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA brand, and Michael Jackson, corporate vice president of R&D at Cadence's System, Package, Board Group. They address a range of topics related to the integration, including how this could help users working in both environments, the manufacturing elements that can now be simulated, the functionality updates, and how other partnerships with ECAD and MCAD providers will be affected.
Wir entwickeln zu häufig Software, ohne zu wissen, von wem sie wann und wie genutzt wird. Am Ende bauen wir - im übertragenen Sinne - Mehrfamilienhäuser, in die dann kinderlose Pärchen einziehen. Linda Schmidt, Präsidentin des VDID, des Verbandes deutscher Industriedesigner hat dazu einen Vergleich gezogen, der deutlich besser in die vorweihnachtliche Jahreszeit passt: Wenn du einen Weihnachtsbaum fällst, fragst du ja auch vorher, ob du ihn zu Hause aufstellst ist oder auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt. Für ersteres brauchst du eine Axt, für zweiteres einen Kran. Gesagt hat sie es diesem inspirierenden UXNeuÜberdacht-Interview mit Thomas Immich, CEO der UX Agentur Centigrade. Linda ist eine der wenigen UX Professionals, die eine gute "alte Schule" als Industriedesignern nebst Furniture Design Studium in London genossen haben. Man merkt in unserem Gespräch, dass sie daher auf unterschiedlichste Erfahrungen zurückgreifen kann, die man in einer rein digitalen Welt nicht machen kann. Wir reden daher natürlich über Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten von UX, Digital Design und Industriedesign, aber eben auch über Unternehmenskulturen, die UX Prozesse beflügeln oder sterben lassen. Traditionelle Strukturen sind gefährlich, da sie Agilität und Change Management gefährden. Sehr bemerkenswert fand ich ihre Zitate: "Wenn der eine horizontal und der andere vertikal kommuniziert, dann redet man zwangsläufig aneinander vorbei." oder "Als Frau bist du in diesen Branchen manchmal ein Alien. Du musst eine andere Sprache lernen, um da zu bestehen" Und hier noch ein paar Themen und Quellen, die im Laufe des Gespräches aufgepoppt sind: - MCAD vs. ECAD - Entwicklung von Produkten mit mechanischen und elektronischen Anteilen - Peter Modler Buch - "Das Arroganz Prinzip" - Marion Knaths - Führungsseminar von Frauen für Frauen Mehr zu Centigrade: www.centigrade.de www.linkedin.com/company/centigrade-gmbh/ www.instagram.com/centigradegmbh
Courtney Cronin joins Spain to talk about how the first few games of the NBA playoffs have reset expectations, then Nick Friedell chats Kyrie's fine & BOS-BKN game 2. They also discuss which of Tuesday night's games is most likely to result in a tied series, plus NFL Quickies covers Ben McAdoo's McAd'oh Moment, WR contracts, Kaepernick's future & news from Bears camp. Plus, Marshawn Lynch & Macklemore inspire an ownership convo, Kendra Andrews on the Warriors and The Athletic's Stewart Mandel on the booming NIL market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Media Watch 2021 Episode 44: Jenkins review; November Platoon; Seven's McAd; Credlin – Apology of the Year.
This episode's guests also happen to be MCAD alumni—technical artist and animator Mike Medicine Horse '00 and print-based studio artist Jonathan Herrera Soto '17. Hosted by MCAD President Sanjit Sethi, the conversation explores creativity and equity, and how it relates to mentorship, collaboration, racial inheritance, and social responsibility.
On this episode of The Self Development Podcast, Johnny speaks with spiritual activist, author, speaker, coach and mentor, Hannah Wallace. Hannah is also the host of the ‘Finding Grace Podcast'. Hannah's story is unbelievable and inspiring. Frankly, life has given her every reason to be angry and bitter and, at times, has literally made her feel as if she had no choice, but to give up. Thankfully, she chose to never give up. But not only that, she chose to thrive. She tells of her ongoing acceptance towards living with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, POTS, and MCAD amongst other things. As with any person who finds themselves in a similar situation her road hasn't been easy. Johnny and Hannah resonate over how sharing your stories can not only help others to realise that they are not alone but also be a reminder of your true potential. Find Hannah on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thehannahwallace/?hl=en Hannah's website: https://www.hannah-wallace.com Download the FREE discovery sheet by clicking the link https://www.theselfdevelopmentcoach.net/discovery-sheet Find The Self Development Coach on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/theselfdevelopmentcoach/?hl=en The Self Development Podcast is produced by Charlie Currie from Chatter Podcast Productions. The Self Development Podcast theme music is called ‘Damned If We Do' by Maybe.
Sarah Peters, executive director of NorthernLights.MN, is excited to see the return of Queen B, a musical designed to be performed outdoors. Written by Minnesota playwright and beekeeper Elle Thoni, the subtitled “A New Work of Honeybee Futurism” takes place in a future when bees are extinct and humans live in artificial domed environments in order to survive. As the characters realize the problems and inequalities with their situation, they must find a new way to make a life for themselves. “My favorite thing about work like this is that, by being set in the future, it models for us a different way that our lives could be,” said Peters. “It has music [by Dameun Strange], it has dance, it has gorgeous costumes and makeup and the actors are an incredible, diverse cast that will make the show really come alive.” “Queen B” runs Friday through Sunday at 6 p.m. in Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer. Other performances are Friday, Aug. 27 at DreamAcres Farms in Wykoff; Saturday, Aug. 28 and Sunday, Aug. 29 at Squash Blossom Farm in Oronoco, and Saturday, Sept. 4 at Robert's Lot in Minneapolis. Photographer Julia Cheng is looking forward to this year's Duluth Superior Film Festival, which runs Friday through Sunday at the Zeitgeist Zinema 2 in Duluth. The festival has a goal of challenging filmmaking norms and making space for diverse communities. This year, they've partnered with multiple local organizations to promote the films. For example, Cheng is looking forward to two films sponsored by the Twin Ports APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans) Collective. On Saturday, the festival presents “Land of my Father,” by Matthew Koshmrl, a documentary addressing the unresolved trauma stemming from Japan's colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula, and the short film “Big Happiness” by Da Hee Kim, about transnational adoption. The three-day schedule includes Q&A sessions with the filmmakers, which Cheng says is “just really special.” Viewers can buy tickets for individual films, in blocks at $15, or $50 badges for unlimited entry. MCAD painting student Casey Grengs is a fan of the work of the Fresh Eye Gallery in Minneapolis, which supports emerging and mid-careers artists who have intellectual disabilities. Fresh Eye Gallery's current show, “Creature Comforts,” features 10 Minnesota artists whose work finds wonder and peace within daily life. Grengs says the work of one of the artists in particular, Lynda Mullan, who creates brightly colored, abstract paintings, gives her joy. The show runs through Sept. 25.
Allegra was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, raised in Lexington, KY, and currently lives and works in Minneapolis, MN as a freelance illustrator, designer, and muralist. She received her BFA from MCAD in Fine Arts Studio in 2010, and since then has worked with both commercial and nonprofit clients. Recent clients include: Starbucks, Mondelez International, Google, Target, Penguin Random House, Buzzfeed, Eater, The Verge, The Globe and Mail Canada, AARP, and The Walker Art Center. Outside of her client-focused practice she maintains a fine arts painting practice.
Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health," Mary Ruddick is an internationally acclaimed nutritionist currently based in Africa, where she is studying traditional tribal diets and their impact on health. She is the Director of Nutrition for CaptainSoup.com, Enable Your Healing, The REIGNS Method, and the Back to Joy Program. She has been featured with the book, "Beat Autoimmune" and she can be found on several productions from GundryMD, the Food Lies, MeatRx, and the LowCarbUSA Podcasts. Mary specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders to include dysautonomia, and seizure disorders. Having used both lifestyle and dietary changes on her own miraculous healing journey, she emphasizes the balance of both. Meditation, cold therapy, light therapy, and limbic system exercises are used extensively in her programs. Mary will be speaking in August,2021 at the LowCarbUSA - San Diego, 2021 event which will BE IN PERSON AGAIN!! If you want to get hold of her or join one of her therapy groups, you can do that on her website.
In this episode Mary Ruddick returns to coach Les on how to move forward during a flare of symptoms. Les opens up about a recent regression after years of chipping away at illness. The audience gets a chance to see how a nutritional consultation unfolds. Enjoy the episode! About Mary: Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health," Mary Ruddick is a seasoned medical nutritionist who specializes in metabolic, immune, and nervous system disorders. She is the Director of Nutrition for CaptainSoup.com, Enable Your Healing, The REIGNS Method, and the Back to Joy Program, and she currently travels the globe studying traditional diets and seeing patients online via her private practice. Mary Ruddick specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders to include dysautonomia and seizure disorders. Mary is the owner of Enable Your Healing. She runs several programs online including Systems that Heal and The Back to Joy Program. Her recipe books and meal plans can be found with our shop. Having used both lifestyle and dietary changes on her own miraculous healing journey, she emphasizes the balance of both. Meditation, cold therapy, light therapy, and limbic system exercises are used extensively in her programs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Les and Sara on social media to stay up to date on the latest from The Mindful Movement: https://www.instagram.com/themindfulmovementpodcast/ (INSTAGRAM - @themindfulmovementpodcast) https://www.facebook.com/themindfulmovementpodcast/ (FACEBOOK) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_mPlZbomAgNzfAUElRL7w?sub_confirmation=1 (YOUTUBE) Join Sara from The Mindful Movement for this https://www.themindfulmovementcourses.com/ (FREE 4-Day Meditation Journey)! Start, deepen, or reignite your meditation practice with these four guided meditations. For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series). https://themindfulmovement.com/contact/ (Get in touch!) Support this podcast
Janelle Goines is the Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of The Emerald Turtle, a majority minority-owned Cannabis venture. Janelle brings her finance degree from Northeastern University, her love for entrepreneurship, twenty-years of experience in both public and corporate accounting companies, and her experience creating a successful business to the emerging Massachusetts cannabis industry. With the partnership of her husband they are working toward becoming one of the Commonwealth's first social equity home delivery providers while also fighting for others with the founding of the Mass Cannabis Association for Delivery. The Canna Mom Show's special segment guest this week is Victoria Vegas, better known as the Cannah Buttah Babe, who shares some of her secrets for making the best canna butter. And Joyce gives a shout out to Ashleen and Rileigh, hosts of Chronic Gals Podcast, young and fun cannabis podcasters.The Canna Mom Show wants to thank Red Belly Honey for making today's show possible. Topics Discussed(1:10) Reverend Kelly(1:25) Chronic Gals Podcast (2:04) Enter to Win the Technicolor Cannabis Quilt(3:41) Janelle Goines Introduction(5:00) Cannabis Control Commission(6:19) MA Delivery Regs(8:30) Social Equity Defined(13:00) The Power of Spreadsheets!(17:52) Commissioner Shaleen Title(19:04) CDA vs. MCAD(23:23) The Lawsuit(25:23) Creating a Viable Cannabis Industry: The Emerald Turtle(29:40) Supporting Craft Cannabis Market(31:30) Federal Descheduling(32:12) Red Belly Honey (34:11) Cannah Buttah Babe, Victoria Vegas(36:51) Instagram Link(38:26) Dosing (39:00) “The plant works in our favor.”(41:20) A Family Business (43:50) Connect with Janelle at MCAD Website, Facebook and Linked-InThe Canna Mom Show wants to thank:Josh Lamkin and Bella Jaffe for writing and performing TCMS theme music Amie Searles for believing Kelly Dolan of Retail Results Inc Lori Lennon of Thinkubator Media Kim Kramer of McLane Middleton Cannabis Creative GroupPod617, The Boston Podcast Network
Mary Ruddick is a nutritionist, teacher, and author of books and online educational programs. People come to Mary to resolve their otherwise impossible health conditions. She teaches them tools they can implement to rebuild their own immune systems, nervous systems, holobiome, and microbiome and once again take control of their health. She specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders to include dysautonomia, seizure disorders, and autism. Mary is the owner of Enable Your Healing. She runs several programs online including Systems that Heal and The Back to Joy Program. Her recipe books and meal plans can be found both on this site and on Amazon. You can find Mary at https://www.enableyourhealing.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/maryruddickcnc. "This episode is hosted by Dr. Shawn Baker MD. Find him at https://shawn-baker.com Donate to the Carnivore Diet Clinical Trial: https://gofundme.com/f/carnivore-research "
Stephen Rueff from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design talks about PitchFest, the annual arts entrepreneurship competition. PitchFest is an opportunity for MCAD undergraduates to stretch their creative thinking, consider how they can impact the world, and win some fantastic award money.
Stephen Rueff from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design talks about PitchFest, the annual arts entrepreneurship competition. PitchFest is an opportunity for MCAD undergraduates to stretch their creative thinking, consider how they can impact the world, and win some fantastic award money.
Stephen Rueff from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design talks about PitchFest, the annual arts entrepreneurship competition. PitchFest is an opportunity for MCAD undergraduates to stretch their creative thinking, consider how they can impact the world, and win some fantastic award money.
1. ( :53) WAGRadio 21-03 Opening w/ Penniman / Foreman phone calls 2. ( :53) "A Long Time (Segment)" - 3. (2:47) "Nobody But You Babe" - CLARENCE REID [Alston 45rpm No. 45-4574] 1969 Prod. Brad Shapiro & Steve Alaimo 4. ( :48) WAGRadio LissenUp Id 5. (3:29) "Single As Fck" - FOUSHEE [RCA] 6. (1:28) WAGRadio 'Nother Ain't Nothin' Id 7. (5:14) "It's A Funky House (DJZigZag Get Afta' It EdiT)" - ANT SHILLACI [Motive Records] 8. ( :33) WAGRadio PoPZZ Id 9. (2:12) "People Sure Act Funny" - ARTHUR CONLEY [Atco 45rpm No. 45-6463] 1967 10.(3:43) "Strawberry Mango" - ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO [Atlantic Cd No. 83149-2 "Coming Home Jamaica"] 1998 11.( :25) WAGRadio Rollin' Wit'ZZ Id 12.(2:17) "Weed Brain" - SKILLIBENG [Renegade Wreck Chords] 13.(4:54) "Luxury Of Love" - DAVID PEASTON [MCA Records Inc. Cd No. MCAD-10383 "Mixed Emotions"] 1991 Prod. Michael J. Powell 14.( :39) WAGRadio Comin' In Hott Id 15.(5:56) "And Sammy Walked In" - GIOVANNI HIDALGO ft. MICHEL CAMILO [RMM Records & Video Corp. Cd. No. RMD 82053] 1997 Prod. M. Camilo & G. Hidalgo 16.(2:10) "Across The Street" - LENNY O'HENRY [Atco 45rpm No. 6291] 1964 17.( :13) WAGRadio Peeps Git Up Id 18.(2:46) "What Kind Of Man Are You" - RAY CHARLES [Atlantic Lp No. 8029 "What'd I Say] 1959 19.(3:52) "Fanc De Funk (DJZigZag Uncle Frank's Park Bench EdiT)" - ANGELO FERRERI, BLANCO K [Mood Funk] 20.(2:18) "Sweet Soul Music" - ARTHUR CONLEY [Atco 45rpm No. 45-6463] 1967 21.(2:52) "Weeks" - KEVIN GATES [Bread Winners Association] 22.(5:01) "Shakedown" - FOX CONTROL [ARMADA CHILL] 23.(xx) "I'm A Fool For You" - JAMES CARR [Goldwax 45rpm No. 328] 1968 Prod. Quinton M Claunch & Rudolph Y. Russell 24.(3:41) "Visions" - OUT TO DINNER [Posi-Tone Cd No. "Play On"] 25.( :20) WAGRadio Stay Clam Id 26.(5:51) "Luv U So" vs. "Outreach" (DJZigZag Java Fries MashEdiT) - ONE BIT, STEWART BIRCH [Something To Dance To] / [Tropical Velvet] 27.( :19) WAGRadio ReggaeDrum Id 28.(2:24) "Away" - OXLADE [YBNL Nation] 29.(4:20) "Sugarman" - BUDDY GRUBBS [Bell 45rpm No. B-772] 1969 Prod. Papa Don 30.(3:03) "One Mint Julep (45rpm Version)" - RAY CHARLES [Impulse! No. 45-200] 1960 Prod. Quincy Jones 31.(4:09) "Work It Out (People) [DJZigZag EdiT of the West Loop Chicago Mix]" - SOUL CENTRAL, WEST LOOP CHICAGO [Tru Thoughts] * vocal - Jennifer Wallace 79:37
In this episode, Les chats with nutritionist Mary Ruddick. Nicknamed “the Sherlock Holmes of health.” After healing from multiple chronic illnesses, Mary pieces together a multitude of dietary plans to help others navigate their own healing journeys. Mary has also traveled the world learning how thriving cultures live, and discovered the many lessons we can borrow to enhance our own life experience. About Mary: Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health," Mary Ruddick is a seasoned medical nutritionist who specializes in metabolic, immune, and nervous system disorders. She is the Director of Nutrition for CaptainSoup.com, Enable Your Healing, The REIGNS Method, and the Back to Joy Program, and she currently travels the globe studying traditional diets and seeing patients online via her private practice. Mary Ruddick specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders to include dysautonomia and seizure disorders. Mary is the owner of Enable Your Healing. She runs several programs online including Systems that Heal and The Back to Joy Program. Her recipe books and meal plans can be found with our shop. Having used both lifestyle and dietary changes on her own miraculous healing journey, she emphasizes the balance of both. Meditation, cold therapy, light therapy, and limbic system exercises are used extensively in her programs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Les and Sara on social media to stay up to date on the latest from The Mindful Movement: https://www.instagram.com/themindfulmovementpodcast/ (INSTAGRAM - @themindfulmovementpodcast) https://www.facebook.com/themindfulmovementpodcast/ (FACEBOOK) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_mPlZbomAgNzfAUElRL7w?sub_confirmation=1 (YOUTUBE) Join Sara from The Mindful Movement for this https://www.themindfulmovementcourses.com/ (FREE 4-Day Meditation Journey)! Start, deepen, or reignite your meditation practice with these four guided meditations. For more tips from Les on living intentionally, check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCQACBUblTbUpkZG3JshDAqrtTl5CtfRA (the Mindful Tips Series). https://themindfulmovement.com/contact/ (Get in touch!) Support this podcast
The Print Out that accompanies this talk can be found at my website at www.SashaBoyle.com.
The Print Out that accompanies this talk can be found at my website at www.SashaBoyle.com.
With me today on the podcast we have specialist when it comes to healing people from chronic health conditions. Mary Ruddick joins us today to talk about simple dietary and lifestyle changes you can make to help you on your health journey. Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health," Mary Ruddick is a seasoned medical nutritionist who specializes in metabolic, immune, and nervous system disorders. She is the Director of Nutrition for CaptainSoup.com, Enable Your Healing, The REIGNS Method, and the Back to Joy Program, and she currently travels the globe studying traditional diets and seeing patients onlive via her private practice. She has been featured with the book, "Beat Autoimmune" and she can be found on several productions from GundryMD, the Food Lies podcast, and MeatRx. Mary Ruddick specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders to include dysautonomia, and seizure disorders. How To Harness The Power Of Gratitude Connect with Mary Ruddick below; Mary Ruddick Website Mary Ruddick Instagram Thank you so much for listening and checking out this episode of The Ideal Day Podcast. You can also check us out on Instagram @youridealday
On Air with Mirick O'Connell, a Legal Podcast hosted by Howard Caplan
Employment Law Attorney Amanda Baer discusses what employers should do if they receive a discrimination claim filed with the MCAD and how the process typically works.
Mary Ruddick is a nutritionist, teacher, and author of books and online educational programs. People come to Mary to resolve their otherwise impossible health conditions. She teaches them tools they can implement to rebuild their own immune systems, nervous systems, holobiome, and microbiome and once again take control of their health. She specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders to include dysautonomia, seizure disorders, and autism. Mary is the owner of Enable Your Healing. She runs several programs online including Systems that Heal and The Back to Joy Program. Her recipe books and meal plans can be found both on this site and on Amazon. You can find Mary at https://www.enableyourhealing.com/, IG: https://www.instagram.com/maryruddickcnc, & FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23328917. This episode is hosted by Dr. Shawn Baker MD. Find him at https://shawn-baker.com
Mary Ruddick is a nutritionist, teacher, and author of books and online educational programs. People come to Mary to resolve their otherwise impossible health conditions. She teaches them tools they can implement to rebuild their own immune systems, nervous systems, holobiome, and microbiome and once again take control of their health. She specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the field of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders to include dysautonomia, seizure disorders, and autism. Mary is the owner of Enable Your Healing. She runs several programs online including Systems that Heal and The Back to Joy Program. Her recipe books and meal plans can be found both on this site and on Amazon. You can find Mary at https://www.enableyourhealing.com/, IG: https://www.instagram.com/maryruddickcnc, & FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23328917. This episode is hosted by MeatRx coach Tracy. Find her at https://meatrx.com/product/tracy-k/
Tricia Heuring–a professor, curator, and arts organizer–both lives and teaches this idea of cultural leadership. In this first episode of the podcast, Sanjit and Tricia talk about her intuitive path to curatorial work, the creation of Public Functionary, and how she approaches teaching cultural leadership as a faculty member in MCAD's Entrepreneurial Studies program. Learn more about Tricia on our website (mcad.edu/ontopic).
Website/Blog, Twitter, & Instagram Handlehttp://www.sgbigham.com/Topics CoveredActivism and DisabilityA Welcome to All Who Are New To Chronic Illness Due to CoVid RecoveryUsing Your Covid TimePrivilege and Chronic IllnessVisibility for Invisible Illness With Art And WritingSelfcare as an Act of Selflove to Future YouVaginal Disorders and the Medical EstablishmentLGBTQ+ and the Medical EstablishmentAttached is a sample chart of assignments for one of the community college classes I teach. (The syllabus has lot of school and course-specific information that won't be useful to the general public, but hopefully the chart gives a good idea of how students show their learning in ways that are not tests.)*Diane Ravitch's blog: https://dianeravitch.net/*Washington Post article about low-income students dropping out of college this fall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/16/college-enrollment-down/*Newsweek article I mentioned about teachers resigning: https://www.newsweek.com/teachers-resigning-across-us-cite-remote-learning-frustrations-covid-19-concerns-1528553*On Teaching series by The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/category/teaching-education-history/*Organizations I mentioned:https://rethinkingschools.org/https://www.tolerance.org/https://diversebooks.org/https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/Name *Sarah BighamDisorder InfoWhat is your disorder? *So many! Mast cell activation issue, interstitial cystitis, vulvodynia, fibromyalgia - to name a fewAt what age did your disorder become a daily issue? *43Who were you before your illness became debilitating? *Such a great question. Who was I? I was a full-time college professor.What would you do if you were not dealing with your disorder and/or disability? *This is hard to answer because, on one hand, I wish I could go back to my full-time working life, but on the other hand, my illnesses have opened up other worlds for me with writing and creativity. What would you like people to know about your daily life? *It is much harder than people without chronic illness may imagine. I put on a good show and there are many positives in my life, but it is a struggle. What would make living and moving in the world easier for you? *More compassion, understanding, and knowledge - from medical providers and the general community.Do you have any life hacks? *Naps! Do something creative! Meditate!What kind of support do you get from family or friends? *I am lucky - I have a great circle of support. Many do not. Have you ever had someone, or a medical professional, not believe you have an invisible illness because of your appearance and if so are there any examples that stand out? *One doctor suggested that the symptoms I had could be explained by psychiatric issues. I highly doubt that a male-identifying person would have been told the same thing. Another care provider seemed only concerned about my weight, as if that was the cause of all my issues. I have to return once a year for ongoing care from that second person, and I dread it every time, but I get the medical equipment I require as a result. How has your chronic illness affected your relationships? *Some have been made stronger. Others have lapsed.Is there anything you are afraid to tell people in your life? *At the height of my physical pain, it was hard to discuss how I was feeling - physically and emotionally.What is your best coping mechanism? *Naps! Reading! Podcasts like this one!What are you the most concerned about and the most hopeful for in the future? *I worry that those with chronic illness can be even more isolated during the pandemic. I am hopeful that perhaps chronic illness will get more REAL attention as COVID patients are reporting (unfortunately) long-last side effects. Is there anything you want to make sure we talk about during the interview? Like an organization you want to promote or something specific that you deal with.I'd like to talk about my first book that came out this spring. I consider it a major life accomplishment, even more because I did it while dealing with chronic illness.What makes you energized or enthusiastic? What drains you?Energized = connection with others. Draining = dealing with bigots, people who have not used the pandemic to focus on what is essential.Any favorite books or shows?My wife and I missed Parks & Recreation when it was on network TV, but are really enjoying it now through Netflix!What is the hardest and/or best lesson your condition has taught you?I am stronger than I ever thought possible. What is the best purchase under $100 that helped your lifeYou are Not Your Pain - book with an accompanying CD that provides guided meditations for those with chronic pain, written by those with chronic pain - it helped me when nothing else yet did.Any questions you think we should add to this list?Who has been the most helpful to you? Least helpful? And why? What is one thing you do every day, without fail. (What is one thing you WISH you did every day, without fail.) Other than sleep, what do you spend the most time doing every day? What is your favorite EASY recipe that you can make without exhausting yourself? What are you reading right now? What is the best medical advice you ever got? The worst? (I will stop with my stream of consciousness now or I could be here all day!) :)
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We’re back for season 8 of the podcast. I took an unannounced break to work on the Food Lies film and make sure I’m getting top quality episodes and guests. I really don’t want to just crank these out each week just for the sake of having an episode to release. I am constantly reading books, watching lectures, reading scientific papers, and previously going to conferences to seek out the best guests the world has to offer. Our guest today, Mary Ruddick, is just that. She is a nutritionist, teacher, and author of books and online educational programs. People come to Mary to resolve their otherwise impossible health conditions. She teaches them tools they can implement to rebuild their own immune systems, nervous systems, holobiome, and microbiome and once again take control of their health. Mary specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the fields of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders that include dysautonomia, seizure disorders, and autism. She’s been a nutrition professor, she’s travelled the world living with and observing other cultures and native-living tribes, she’s worked for big organizations teaching them about diet and lifestyles for disease prevention, she’s miraculously cured her own ailments that had her bed-bound for years and years, and so much more. I’ve been talking to her for months and am ready to call her the Sherlock Holmes of Health. She’s the real deal so I really hope you listen to this episode in entirety. We even have a part 2 coming out next week. So I hope everyone got a chance to catch up on the back catalogue of episodes during this little break. I’m so happy to hear all the great life transformations taking place, especially when people go back to listen from episode 1. Alright, so another reason I don’t need to crank out episodes each week is I don’t have any sponsors. So far I’ve turned them all down so I can remain independent from any outside interests. I have my own beneficial products and services we offer at Http://Sapien.org and http://nosetotail.org to support the show, the film, myself, and my great team. I make a lot less money this way, but it’s a lot more satisfying to not have to rely on anyone else or promote any other products. However, it only works if people support Sapien and Nose to Tail. Luckily we have amazing things to offer. Sapien is the health platform I’ve built with my business partner Dr. Gary. We have a practice in Woodland Hills, CA as well as an online program anyone in the world can join if they’re serious about weight loss and disease reversal using diet and lifestyle. You can find out more about the program at http://Sapien.org You can also get the free Sapien Food guide there. Another thing we’ve got going is the Sapien Tribe. We have a growing community of people who are living this lifestyle and dominating life. I know that sounds pretty bro-ey, but it’s what is happening. People have gone from a life of mediocrity or even ill-health to being in top shape, reversing their chronic disease, having great body composition, and not getting sick anymore! Tribe members also get all the extras like the bonus episodes of this podcast, the extended show notes, the private members area, and special access and live Zoom calls with Dr. Gary and me. You can find that at http://sapien.org as well. You can also get the Nose to Tail meats at http://nosetotail.org where we ship grass finished, ethically and sustainably raised beef, buffalo, pork, and chicken to your door. It’s all raised in Texas and ships out each week to the 48 contiguous states. Our specialty products include ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen mixed in. I don’t know of anyone else getting all these organs mixed in like we do. I think it’s the best and tastiest way to eat the fresh organs to get the ultimate in nutrient dense, bioavailable nutrition. We also have high omega 3, low omega 6 pork and chicken. We feed them a special gluten free, non-GMO feed that makes their meat and fat very low in PUFAs. I can go on forever about how great this stuff is, but just check it out for yourself at http://nosetotail.org I can’t wait to share the new whole food products we’re developing that will be out soon. Follow @eatnosetotail on Instagram or Twitter for updates. We’ve got some exciting stuff coming. You can also follow me on any platform if you search for Food Lies. I’m putting out all kinds of info each week and we have some good discussions going on there. Youtube as well. A bunch of great videos to check out. So that’s all for now. Thanks for listening and sharing this show and any of the other content. Please give this podcast a review in the podcast app or on iTunes. Check out Sapien.org and NoseToTail.org and most importantly listen to this great info from the nutrition genius, Mary Ruddick! BUY THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon: http://patreon.com/peakhuman Food Lies film: http://FoodLies.org SHOW NOTES [4:45] Her experiences in a blue zone island, Icaria, Greece. [10:50] The importance of being very local and seasonal with your food. [17:15] How the elderly stay so healthy in Icaria. [21:35] The importance of having purpose and responsibilities in life. https://www.pnas.org/content/111/46/16331 [25:15] How opportunistic and pathogenic bacteria damages the microbiome. [30:35] Her educational background and how she got into her career. [33:45] How the gut affects the nervous system and mental health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6893818/ [38:15] How she reverses Schizophrenia and Autism with dietary and holistic health at her clinic. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/gaps-diet https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325046 https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201493 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20683204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5006292/ https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/133/5/872.full [45:35] Her 8 year journey through a severe illness. [55:55] How meditation and implementing a daily routine helped her recover from her severe nerve damage from Pott’s Disease. [1:00:35] How she used the Weston A Price and GAPS diet to help her recover from her illness. [1:14:05] How the release of stress chemicals from eating food in a stressed environment can lead to issues. [1:22:05] The link between zinc deficiencies and eating disorders. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2600063/ https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/130/5/1493S/4686425 BUY THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon: http://patreon.com/peakhuman Food Lies film: http://FoodLies.org Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg
In this episode, we speak with Rich Boyer, MD, PhD who is a PGY-4 resident anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Rich has a unique background. He has a PhD in biomedical engineering, and an MD degree, both from Vanderbilt University. While matriculating at Vanderbilt, he worked with the institution to establish their pioneering MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training degree program. Rich has invaluable industry experience as well. He worked as an R&D engineer at Baxter International, and then served as co-founder of medical device startup Volumetrix, which was awarded NSF Phase I STTR & NIH Phase I/II SBIR grants for the development of wearable hemodynamic monitors. Anesthesiologists play a variety of critical roles in a hospital setting, in terms of providing anesthesia support for surgery, as well as critical care and pain management, giving them a broad perspective. He’s also a Research Fellow in their Cardiovascular Research Center. He and his fellow anesthesiologist residents have been doing their intense daily rotations in the ICU as the COVID19 pandemic spiked. Rich first conceived of the challenge while being quarantined after exposure to an infected patient. A strong team player, he wanted to contribute while in isolation. At first, he thought that he would design a ventilator using his biomedical engineering skills. This evolved into an open call to designers to design medically effective, affordable ventilators. He recruited his fellow residents to join the team, and they launched the CoVent 19 Challenge. They then assembled a core group of in-kind sponsors to provide a range of tools software, and resources to support the team’s efforts, including MCAD and requirements - driven design software, 3D printing, Biomedical Engineering consulting as well as a 24 hour Slack channel for real-time support from a broad range of medical and biomedical engineering experts. When not in ICU, he and his core team have been managing this global rapid ventilator design challenge, a strong indication of their selfless character. The team set up as a 501(c)(3) non - profit with the intention to share the designs openly in order to make them available wherever they are needed. Just 30 days from the launch of the Challenge, 213 teams submitted designs from 43 countries around the globe. On 5 May, 7 teams were chosen as finalists after an exhaustive review by a panel of world class experts. Teams range from faculty and alums at Stanford University and Smith College to a teacher and high school students at the Baxter Academy to a lone inventor in the UK, who recently won the Queen’s Prize for Innovation. Each one of the teams has a very compelling backstory and all have very inspiring motivations that compelled them to participate. The teams will now have about 3 weeks to create a working prototype, before a final winning design will be selected and move into production. They are being given a significant amount of on-going support to complete their designs and bring them to life. Disclosure: Co-host Mike Grandinetti is a member of the Board of Directors of the CoVent19 Challenge
It's the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. MCAD's Stephen Rueff talks about the importance of the day, and how to celebrate all week long.
It's the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. MCAD's Stephen Rueff talks about the importance of the day, and how to celebrate all week long.
Prof. Stephen Rueff from MCAD talks about a screening of "Dinkytown Uprising", a documentary about a protest to prevent construction of an unwanted hamburger joint in the neighborhood in 1970.
This month's episode is recorded live at Creative Mornings MSP with Rose McGee at MCAD in Minneapolis MN. Visit her website at https://www.sweetpotatocomfortpie.org/ If you are interested in coming to next month's event, tickets are free but they can sell out fast. Just Google "Creative Mornings MSP" or use the link here https://creativemornings.com/cities/msp In case we've never met, I'm Travis Johansen with Provid Films. This episode's music is from the musician Derek Gust - it's called Burdens. If you are a musician or know a musician who'd like to have a song featured on a future podcast episode - email me - travis (at) providfilms.com This episode's quote is from Tim Ferriss: "Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend, the more you have. "
The new President of MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art & Design), Sanjit Sethi, joined us on Legacy Matters to talk higher education and acclimating to the Midwest. A New Yorker by birth, Sanjit previously directed the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington D.C. Sanjit brings a fresh perspective to higher education, exploring the emergent ideas around cultural and social viability. How best can we prepare students as resilient problem-solvers? Art education need not be focused solely on the craft, but offers an opportunity for students to “cross-pollinate” across seemingly disparate disciplines. We also explore “hidden history”; the stories not brought to light and the trauma attached to certain events and places. A bigger discussion than we can adequately cover in our talk, but an important one to continue in the future. Thank you, Sanjit, for sharing your thoughts with us!Learn more about MCAD here._________________________Learn how the Andelin App helps preserve, prepare and share life’s most precious memories. Available now on Google Play and the App Store for smartphones and tablets.Discover Kinetic Legacy’s proprietary platform to help businesses, brands and institutions streamline and coalesce networking data, communication and legacy building endeavors. Re-think how you engage your employees, consumers and alumni with crowd-sourced data management.Visit EarthEd to book your next wilderness adventure with Sam.Art consultant and abstract painter James Holmberg offers a wealth of knowledge for art connoisseurs. Visit his work today.Packing for a trip? Let Pack Simply take the stress out of packing with our completely customizable travel toiletry kits._________________________Want to get in touch with Sam, Jim or Sarah? Email us at: info@legacymatterspodcast.com.
Arts Entrepreneurship professor Stephen Rueff from MCAD talks to Jazz88's Morning Show about opportunities to see visual art around the metro.
On Episode 20 Kevin McArdle, owner of SureSwift Capital and special guest host, Bri McCullough, welcome Jasmine RuKim, CEO and Co-founder of Monicat Data, on a special TCSW edition of The Tech.MN Podcast to talk about technology and art. Jasmine shares the origin story of Monicat Data, their focus on creative teams and artists, and how word of mouth has propelled them forward Jasmine thoughtfully breaks down the transition from years one to year two in a startup. A member of cohort 1 at Lunar Startups, Jasmine tells us about the value she received from the experience. We talk about The Yellow Summit, a data for art workshop that brings together the art and tech community, the 2019 event, and the future of the affair. On top of it all Jasmine works with GiveMN, serves as an adjunct professor at MCAD, and Minneapolis Parks Foundation. We talk about how she balances all of this and how she balances working with her partner. Sponsor:Thank you to Arthur Ventures for sponsoring the Twin Cities Startup Week Live tech.mn podcast booth. Arthur Ventures invests in B2B software founders beyond Silicon Valley and takes a partner approach to venture capital. They support tech entrepreneurship in Minnesota. You can learn more about them at their website and hear about their latest raise here. SocialsTech.MN on TwitterKevin McArdle on TwitterBri McCullough on TwitterJasmine RuKim on InstagramMonicat Data on LinkedInGiveMN on Twitter Links:Monicat DataThe Yellow SummitGiveMN
Stephen Rueff teaches arts entrepreneurship at MCAD and also curates a large collection of toys. He talks about how heroes and sheroes from comics and other fantasy help shape culture.
In this episode we discuss Mast cell activation disorder (MCAD) with Tara Notrica from New York. MCAD is an immunological condition in which mast cells inappropriately and excessively release chemical mediators, resulting in a range of chronic symptoms, sometimes including anaphylaxis or near-anaphylaxis attacks.
Stephen Rueff from MCAD and Becky Rice from Metro Blooms talk about students helping raise awareness about available grants for planting pollinator-friendly gardens.
The unconquerable Jenn Harmon shares her unique perspective regarding using triathlon training and racing to manage hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and mast cell activation disease.
Jewelry designer Heather Lawrenz recommends paying a visit to Flaten Art Museum on the campus of St. Olaf Collage to see an exhibition of work by Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco. “Swimming on Dry Land/Nadar en seco” features video and installations that explore what’s missing from Cuban culture: the immigrants who fled the country, artists who were suppressed along with their work, and a coherent history. Lawrenz says the show inspired her to think about how her sense of home and place has shaped her identity. The exhibition runs through Dec. 18. Artist Danielle Pebbles thoroughly enjoyed the latest show at Rogue Buddha Gallery in Minneapolis. “Mourning Glory” is an exploration of death through the eyes of more than 40 artists. Pebbles says the show features work both sad and celebratory, and got her thinking about how our culture avoids talking about death, and how she might break the silence with loved ones. On view through Nov. 30. MCAD’s director of gallery and exhibition programs Kerry Morgan is headed to White Page Gallery to see Sean Connaughty’s latest show dedicated to Lake Hiawatha. For the past five years Connaughty has been working with volunteers to remove trash from the lake, sort it and source it. Their findings are combined with drawings, photographs and documents that testify to the critical habitat the lake provides. “Lake Hiawatha - Anthropocenic Midden Survey - Final Report” runs one week only - Nov. 15-23.
Oppossums are on the move; Delivery of the Darth Vader head; Does perfume expire? Gronk as an NFL analyst ; Interview with MCAD; Matt Lauer meetings at NBC
Tim first became interested in nutrition to support his clients when working as a personal trainer in 2003. He pushed a little deeper into nutrition science and was able to tame some of his childhood diseases using diet. In 2012, due to an environmental issue, Tim went from super fit to very ill. Over the next few years he was diagnosed with Meniere's disease (inner ear condition), alopecia universalis, mast cell activation disease (MCAD) and other seemingly unconnected conditions. Conventional medicine was unable to help and so, like so many people today, Tim was told to live with it. However, his existing knowledge gave him hope and the motivation to learn so that he could reverse his conditions and stop watching his dreams disappear. Later in 2012 Tim began a year of bio-chemistry to allow access onto a Dip and then BSc in nutritional therapy. After much trial and error, Tim managed to restore his health and continues to grow as a person and practitioner focussing on chronic diseases that offer little hope to the sufferers. His recommendations are supported by the available research and he resists being swept along by the fashion and fad that has invaded nutrition science. An experienced presenter and writer, he enjoys making the complexities of nutrition science more digestible for any audience whilst injecting some common sense and fun into the process. Tim always offers achievable, real-world solutions with nutrition from solid basics to helping with specific issues. Tim is married to his amazing wife, Vera, with whom he lives in Bavaria, where the Alps can be seen from his home office. He loves nothing more than to be outside walking in the mountains, or swimming in the local lakes whilst enjoying the highest quality, nutrient dense foods from his local community. You can reach Tim by emailing Tim@TimRees.com
Em & Kate are the sisters behind the wellness blog Two Being Healthy. Both live with lupus, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), mast cell activation disorder (MCAD), and cytochrome mutations (which have affected their ability to metabolize certain drugs). Having spent much of their adult lives living with and navigating the symptoms of invisible illness, the two act as co-advocates for one another and have been by each others’ side through their ups and downs. Their goal is to shine a light on invisible chronic illnesses, share all they’ve learned along the way, and document their everyday journey. In finding community with each other, they have given community to countless others on the road to wellness. Join us as Em & Kate share… - that on top of lupus, POTS, EDS, and MCAD, Em also has muscle myositis - that Kate is also prone to chronic migraines - that both women began to show symptoms when they were around 17 - that Em’s initial lupus symptoms came on like an extended flu that never healed - considering both women have similar conditions, they are on different medications - that the medication journey is a never-ending one – as their bodies shift, their medications do - that the most constant in their medication regimens has been an immune booster (which lowers antibodies) - the psychological journeys they’ve been on in reaction to their physical struggles - that low-histamine diets has all but eliminated their MCAD symptoms, in addition to histamine blockers - that, in addition to each other, Em & Kate have been able to lean on their mom for support – and, as they were to discover, she lives with some of the same conditions that they do - the link between POTS, EDS, and MCAD - that they had to give up yoga because of the hypermobility associated with their EDS, and now do mat Pilates instead - why they advocate for therapy, and awareness of emotional fluctuations in relation to physical frustrations - the challenge of being undiagnosed - the grieving process of accepting your body as it is, post-diagnosis - that they used to be much more private about their conditions, and suffered social anxiety as a result – but tired of the isolation, and began to own their lives fully - that being chronically ill has developed their ability to communicate: because often, friends wouldn’t understand their conditions or that they were invisible - that they’ve been discriminated against for using handicap parking passes and taking elevators, because they are young and healthy-looking - how being chronically ill has taught them to remove their inherent judgments of others - the gender divide on discrimination - that the added stress of not living up to the standards of people who don’t understand us can make us sicker – and sometimes, losing those relationships lifts a burden and allows us to heal - what inspired them to start Two Being Healthy, and their individual strengths within the blog - how empowering the blog has been for them - why they are so in touch with their emotions, and the importance of a good cry - why having a doctor who doesn’t understand you can be soul-crushing - the importance of learning to be your own advocate and trusting your body - the connection between the onset of symptoms and anxiety, and how having a comfort pack in your handbag can reduce worry - why managing health insurance requests is a full-time job - why they joke that they are each other’s hype women, and how that has strengthened their bond through chronic illness - the importance of a doctor whose ego is not involved in their decisions and diagnoses - the importance of a circle of trusted friends, and a support system – even if it’s on FB - the importance of finding ways to reduce stress and increase comfort - the importance of moderation, even in the application of healing modalities – and why you still need to live your life and do the things you love
Lawrence Romine, VP of Marketing for Altium, is here to discuss the release of Altium Concord Pro and it’s aim to provide a fresh approach to library and component management. Romine describes the modern, streamlined experience that reduces context switching, keeps communication in sync and enables an information flow that dramatically improves workflow, productivity and accuracy. We also talk about Altium Designer 19.1, what that includes and what you can expect from this performance-based release. Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium Designer today! Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: Lawrence started his career in electronics like most of us. His father was an EE and since the age of ten, he knew what he wanted to do - it was always engineering. His career of 20 years has evolved through the selling or business-end of engineering. He started in design with a particular interest in Audio at McCormick Audio from where he became involved in the semiconductor business working for Insight Electronics, selling and supporting Xilinx. In his search for more involvement with software, he joined Altium where he’s had a varied career over the last 15 years. What is Concord Pro? A library and component on-premise solution that works with Altium Designer and includes the MCAD collaboration capabilities which support Solidworks, PTC, Prio, and Autodesk Inventor. Concord Pro is very simple; it’s focused on library and component management to include an on-premise server. How is Concord Pro different to Vault, NEXUS and NEXUS Server? NEXUS Server is a rebrand of Vault, and the aim was for it to become a regulated ‘or gated’ design process. It made sense at the time to consolidate Vault under the NEXUS umbrella. Define the NEXUS ‘Channel’: NEXUS is a process-oriented solution, not a product, comprising configurable off-the-shelf modules; that Altium Configures and deploys on the customer’s premises with a joint agreement on the outcome - it’s applicable across the board; irrespective of the size of the company. A good example of successful deployment is in a smaller medical device manufacturer, which has a rigorous process to which they must adhere. Why was there a change from Vault to NEXUS? Customer surveys about library management confirmed that elements of NEXUS Server didn’t truly fit the profile of customers in the traditional Altium Designer Channel. Everyone has a need for reliable library and component management which considers supply chain information, ideally during the design phase but it doesn’t mean they need full lifecycle approval capabilities or to enforce any rigor in the design process itself, for example, gating of approval processes. These elements have been removed from Concord Pro, to make it more streamlined for the majority of users. What happens to Vault and Nexus Server users now? For current subscribers, it’s a free, painless move to Concord Pro. If you’re not using TC2 or the lifecycle approval process, all you need to do is update your existing product. For those that are using TC2 and lifecycle approval capabilities - just keep doing what you’re doing. Vault and Nexus will be maintained but not added to or sold individually going forward. Features will, however, be added to Concord pro. How does the ECAD-MCAD integration work? With Altium Concord Pro, we have a bi-directional push-pull arrangement with Concord Pro as the intermediary. So, you can make changes in one environment or the other, be it ECAD or MCAD - and the genesis of those designs can start in one domain or the other and push those changes into the other environment. As soon as an engineer emails a file, it’s no longer the most recent version, because they continue designing - check out the Concord Pro Page. What many engineers and designers are creating and calling a Bill of Materials is indeed a parts list. What Concord Pro brings to the table is enabling users to create a Bill of Materials as they go and this applies to everyone. Do take advantage of the 60-day evaluation offer on Concord Pro. Moving beyond Concord Pro, what’s on the horizon for Altium? We want to continue our aggressive growth and enhance the capabilities of our tool as our users are requesting. We are releasing Altium Designer 19.1 with a significant focus on engagement with the customer across the board where our customers congregate. There are significant investments in the stability and performance of the product. We listen to the customers and address what they tell us they need. We will continue to give our users a stake in the product and give them a voice. We are also looking towards the next 3D. What initiatives does Altium have in regards to raising the game on BugCrunch? We definitely listen to BugCrunch. We prioritize our action according to the number of votes received. We are paying attention, our developers are addressing a large number of issues daily. We will do more regarding responding or communicating to the users because a user’s perception is their reality. BugCrunch participation is not overwhelming; we need to inform users that it is their voice, and we need to do better with acknowledging and engaging the user. Shout out to Kelly in Salt Lake City - the largest Altium Designer user group, who are voting collectively to get their votes to the top of the priority list. What keeps you here personally? I’m still here because I chose this career path, business is about sales and marketing, which is ultimately about the narrative - the story - and this is a hell of a story. People are better off at the end of the process. We put out a solid product and we have a great ‘why’. We focus on the user first, we engage bottom-up and it’s working really well. Our sales process is unique - we believe that the user is the decision maker. Links and Resources: Podcast with John WatsonConcord Pro PageConcord Pro TutorialsDo Smaller Companies Need Data Management? PodcastAltium BugCrunch Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium Designer today!
To learn more about MCAD Collaboration and Co-Design described in this episode check out the on-demand webinar and other resources listed below. On-Demand Webinar: Electro-mechanical Co-design for Competitive Advantage White Paper: Bridging the Gap Between ECAD and MCAD Domains to Gain a Competitive Advantage in Electronic Product Design Datasheet: PADS MCAD Collaboration Did you know that today’s best-in-class companies are getting their electronics products to market faster by implementing synchronized ECAD/MCAD data exchange and co-design advantages in their design flow? In this special “After the Webinar” podcast series we answer the questions submitted during our recent live webinar event presenting how PADS Professionals’ MCAD Collaborator and co-design functionality breaks down the barriers between PCB design and mechanical design domains, accelerates time-to-market, eliminates design respins and reduces product cost. Have questions or topics of interest? Interested in being a guest on the show? Contact us at pcb_techtalk@mentor.com. Subscribe today so you don’t miss any future episodes!
A satirical take on the public radio pledge drive.
Four month old boy is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after becoming unresponsive
Robert Burke sharing his story of his newborn son's genetic disorder MCAD and how if he had been tested at birth, it could have been prevented just with diet.Robert went on a 20 year mission to inform everyone about the supplemental newborn test to find out if newborn babies have these disorders or have the gene.
Meet husband and wife Edith Garcia and Jean-Charles Monnet, visiting Minneapolis from the San Francisco area. Edith attended MCAD in Minneapolis and currently serves as a Professor in the Ceramics and Craft Theory Programs at the California College of the Arts and the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley. You can visit her artwork here.What are Sam, Jim and Sarah up to? Learn more about the Andelin App, the newest way to preserve, prepare and share your life legacy.
Aaron Draplin is a graphic designer, author and founder of Draplin Design Co. (DDC). Born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 15, 1973. He is now based in Portland, Oregon. His clients include Nike, Burton Snowboards, Esquire, Red Wing, Field Notes, Ford Motor Company and the Obama Administration. His book, Pretty Much Everything, is a mid-career survey of his work including case studies and advice which was released in May 2016.
Sini Rytky, VP of Product Management at TactoTek, and Tuomas Heikkilä, Senior Electronics Designer, join Judy Warner on the OnTrack Podcast to talk about Injection Molded Structural Electronics, or IMSE, the integrating of electronics inside 3-dimensional electronics to create smart surfaces. TactoTek is a leading provider of solutions for 3D structural electronics, enabling the integration of printed circuitry and discrete electronic components into injection molded plastics. Listen to how TactoTek and Altium are combining forces to research and develop design rules for this entirely new technology. Learn more about this and how you can meet them at AltiumLive 2018. To see all the show notes and VIDEO click here. *This communication may contain forward-looking statements about strategies, products, future results, performance or achievements, financial and otherwise. These statements reflect management’s current expectations, estimates, and assumptions based on the information currently available to us. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve significant risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this communication, such as a failure to add previewed functionality to our products or the potential impact on our financial results from changes in our business models. Transcript: Hey everyone this is Judy with Altium's OnTrack podcast. Thanks for joining again. I have two amazing guests hailing all the way from Finland today and I look forward to sharing them with you. Before then I ask you to please connect with me on LinkedIn, on Twitter I'm @AltiumJudy and Altium is on all the traditional social media channels Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. So today we have a look into the future of technology with TactoTek and I have two wonderful guests, Sini Rytky and Tuomas Heikkilä. So we've been working here at Altium closely with Sini, Tuomas and their whole team there and we are excited to show you, kind of this cutting-edge technology, and the amazing things that they're doing in Finland to advance a whole litany of advanced electronics manufacturing and technology and while we continue to work feverishly on AD19 and getting in the traditional functions that you would like, I wanted to give you a sneak peek on something more for the future. This is not going to be in AD19, but we continue to work together, sort of on a research kind of function, with these two and all of TactoTek. So I'm excited for you to learn more about them - so let's get started. Sini, Tuomas, welcome. Thank you Judy for having us here. So Sini, I think I'm going to start with you. Can you tell us a little - well before we get going, why don't you both introduce yourselves and tell us your background in the industry and what exactly your role entails at TactoTek? Sure, so my name is Sini Rytky and I'm heading the Product Management at TactoTek. In practice it means that my team is responsible for technology productization and roadmapping and go to market strategy and planning. And also technology partnership development. My personal background: I am a Software Major, but spent about 20 years in mostly hardware driven business. In electronics manufacturing and test automation in consumer electronics and automotive industries. It is my first podcast ever - I'm very excited! How about you Tuomas? Okay so my name is Tuomas Heikkilä and I'm the Senior Hardware Specialist and I have worked for TactoTek, for almost six years now. All of this time I have designed and developed. I oversee technology from an electronics point of view. So my background: I have worked also in the mobile phone industry before joining TactoTek. Along those lines Tuomas, can you tell us about - for those that aren't familiar what the acronym IMSE means? IMSE means Injection Molded Structural Electronics. Very good because I know we'll be using that term a lot and because you guys are sort of cutting-edge I thought there's maybe some people in the audience that might not be familiar with that term. So Sini, let's just jump right in. Can you talk about - I'm asking you three really big things: the technology, the market, and really the problems it solves for technologists in the marketplace? Sure to start off with the technology; like Tuomas said, our technology is called Injection Molded Structural Electronics which we call IMSE. To put it simply in one sentence, we are integrating electronics inside three-dimensional plastics, and as a result we can create smart surfaces with electronic functionality such as capacitive touch functions, illuminated icons and wireless connectivity such as Bluetooth and near-field communication. So when we look at traditional electro-mechanics assembly, they typically consist of one, or a multi PCB structure along with the surrounding mechanics and from a design point of view the challenge is that many times it is restricted with, for example, dimensional constraints or space limitations or weight limitations. And then from a manufacturing point of view; they typically have a large number of individual toolings and assembly phases. So with IMSE we can solve many of the problems for traditional electronics and mechanics, but we can also create totally new use cases and integrate electronics in places where traditional electronics and mechanics fail to do so. So, if we just briefly visit our process. We start by printing colored and conductive inks on flexible films, and continue by mounting surface mounted electronic components and continue by forming that film along with the components into a three-dimensional shape. And then finally, we injection mold all of that into a single piece assembly. So when we look at the benefits the IMSE part structure - if we compare it with traditional electronics and mechanics - we can save up to, I'd say, 90% of the assembly depth, save up to... Wow! -yeah that's a big number. That's a big number yeah, and up to 80% of the part weight and at the same time, of course, we're enabling beautiful, seamless, smart surfaces and we can create - we talk a lot about point of views at TactoTek, and by that we mean, that IMSE enables intuitive user interfaces. So no longer do we have to have a complex HMI with all of the centralized functions, but we can create point of view functionalities. So for example, integrating capacitive touch enabled volume control on top of speaker modules. So those are some of the - let's say challenges and benefits, that we've seen. And then when we look at the market, so obviously, this is a cross-industry technology, so there's - we see a lot of benefits from various industries. A very common application for IMSE is a human machine interface and we are currently working, for example, with the automotive segment; creating for example door trims and overhead control panels, appliances control panels, and we also work quite a lot with variables. So creating electronics in textiles... Oh wow. -yeah and that's actually... I actually didn't know you were doing wearables, or that had escaped me in previous conversations, that's amazing! Yes, yeah-yeah so the fact actually, that we are injection molding everything into a single part assembly, it also means that it's fully encapsulated, which means it's protected from debris and moisture. So yeah, so definitely when you think about electronics in fabrics our structures - we call wash and go, so they are very durable, and they can withstand like dozens of cycles and washing machines. Wow. Yeah, yeah. And then maybe a couple of words about the business model. So we are licensing our technology for IMSE design manufacturing and validation. Which means that our customers, they can both benefit from the possibilities that IMSE creates in product design, but they can also enhance the vertical integration in a way that they can perform functions, that were previously outsourced, and further extend their offering for customers. That's unbelievable - and I can - - my mind is just spinning with the kind of enablers that I can see, that this is going to bring over time. So thank you for sharing all that. On a more practical level, Tuomas and you know, the people who are listening to this podcast are typically engineers and printed circuit board designers. Can you talk a little bit about the kind of practical effects on PCB designers and the implications they would have, from a design standpoint, in designing what you're calling smart structures? Yes. So if we first compare traditional PCB design and IMSE design there are few main differences which come from materials that we are using in IMSE technology and also the 3D shape. So if we first consider those materials: the substrate of printed film circuitries are the difference. So in IMSE technology we have quite a large patene plastic film, and if they convert this for rigid PCP - there is a big difference. Yeah. Another thing is trace resistance. So when we are printing traces using silver inks there is always some resistance, so we can never think that this resistance is zero. Right. So we have to always consider this in our design. Of course it depends on the ink used but the typical resistance differs between printed silver ink trace and pcb solid copper trace - roughly 100 times bigger. So there is a huge difference in resistances as well. Okay. The third, which is really related to materials is dielectric. In PCBs there is no need to design, especially dielectrics, between two conductive traces but in IMSE design we need always to design a dielectric layer between two conductive layers and also, as I earlier mentioned, this 3D surface - I would like to highlight this as well - because it means that when the final shape of the product is somewhat kind of the correct 3D shape. This means that the printed circuit would need to be designed a bit different than any PCBs. So I'm gonna ask you more about those materials in a minute. But I was really impressed when I first saw it. I really thought it was a one- or two-sided only circuit structure and I'm really impressed to find out that no, it can be multi-layer and like you said Sini, completely encapsulated, so that opens up a lot of opportunities I think. So Sini, can you talk more specifically about the materials that are used for structural electronics? I know Tuomas just mentioned the silver inks, the dielectric materials, that you can do multi layers. Just the materials overall are really different, so can you talk a little bit about those please? Mm-hmm - yeah and I would say the key essence of our technology is really the know-how and understanding, of not just the individual materials, but the four material stack ups. So we need to, first of all, we need to obviously understand how all the elements perform together like the films, the inks, the components and so forth, and it's... As if it wasn't complicated enough; the traditional boards. -yes! So it all has to work in synergy and it's of course, it's like one thing to understand how they perform when they are in 2D, but in our case we are then also bending and stretching everything into that three-dimensional shape. So that process as a whole, has a huge effect on the material characteristics and performance values. Like Tuomas mentioned before, for example, the conductive ink resistance changes over the manufacturing period so it's a big pile of materials research and chemistry as a whole that we have done to understand the behavior of different material stack ups. So we - of course we try to be on top of what works together and of course - what doesn't. So... And so do you publish those, or will you be publishing those in the form of a datasheet, so when a PCB designer might move into this space that they'd have some guidelines? Yes. So obviously, the material stacks are one element of our licensing content. So we are able to provide our customers with validated and functional material stacks that they can use to test our building products. How long have you been at this? Because I know you work with materials and that, that is a long, arduous process. It takes a lot of discipline. Mm-hmm - yeah so we've been around since 2011 and we've used a lot of time and effort for exactly materials research, and creating the validation processes. So now we're in 2018 and we are mass manufacturable so it takes time. Yes it sure does, yeah when I've talked to friends that are chemists, it just takes a long time. So, back to you Tuomas, with all those different materials, and you mentioned also embedded components. So I would like our audience to learn more about the implications which you began to talk about - with the printed inks, the silver inks, and what not. But what are some other implications of those different materials? And what kind of components - because you're really talking about embedded components here I take it? So help us understand that a little bit more? So like Sini said, understanding materials and materials tax, those are very important. So as I earlier said, this trace resistance for example, it is a big thing. Also another example is this flexible film which are speaking back to SMD process, for example. So typically we are using small SMD components like LEDs, resistors, diodes, transistors... Traditional? -traditional yes. Oh okay. Traditional off the shelf components. But when we are selecting components on our IMSE products, the key element is the height of the component. So the component should fit inside the product, it's the first thing. The second thing is that when we are injection molding the product the melted plastic flows over the component - so the component should stand this injection molding and yes, the thinner the component the better. Okay so - and I am certain that you have to take in consideration the thermal implications of what kind of thermal conditions those components can survive in? Yes we have also considered this. So for our listeners; I just want to let you know we're gonna connect all kinds of links and pictures because if you're like me you need some visuals to really understand - this is sort of hard to do - in the form of a podcast - it's a little difficult to talk about, but again I want to remind our listeners that we are recording simultaneously on YouTube and also we're not showing visuals here but we will put up a myriad of links and photos. Because if you're like me, you need pictures okay so. Yeah actually we have a white paper regarding this. Okay. Will you share that with us Tuomas? Okay great. Yes yes. Okay. It's just in our webpage so we can share the link of course. Wonderful and the other thing that I wasn't clear about is: so you do the printed portion of the process and then you mold. It's not like you're creating it on a 3D surface right? Or does it go both ways? We first print, this is 2D, then we place the component; assembly process, after that is forming process, the film takes its 3D shape, and after that comes injection molding. This is actually the reason why we are doing this, is that we want to enable our customers to use just standard electronics manufacturing equipment. So when we are placing the components in 2D, it means that we don't have to have anything like 3D pick-and-place or anything like that - you can use standard PCB manufacturing equipment. And then you mold. Which seems so counterintuitive? I don't know how you guys are doing it. I think you're magicians so... You have to come and see it. I know - oh speaking of which also I'd like to let our listeners know that I'm delighted that Sini and TactoTek have agreed to come be a sponsor at AltiumLive they will have a booth there. They will have physical samples and you'll be able to see this and if you're like me , I think this all of a sudden aha moment happens when you can physically see - or like Tuomas said, read a white paper and you have some kind of visual representation of what's happening. And you will gasp. It's really incredible to watch so I invite you always to come to AltiumLive in San Diego or Munich and see them there. So let's jump into how Altium and TactoTek had the good fortune to come together. Sini you started to talk about a challenge you guys had to face in that, there was a gap in the design tools to support your technology so, our team have been working with you for a while so can you tell us, sort of what that process has been like and, sort of how we've been working together? Yeah, so I think for us, how we have worked so far is that, obviously we have a lot of design disciplines that contribute to the IMSE, structure not just electronics and mechanics, but also graphics design, antenna design, and illumination design. So all of those different design elements have to work in perfect synergy, because we don't have those separate structures but we only have that film and everything is on top of that one or two films. So the element that we have been missing so far in the design tools is the support of design for IMSE type of parts. So we've been using Altium Designer for years for electronic design, but we've been sort of manipulating the tool which is meant for PCB design and we are using familiar functions for something else. So today we are not just using the tool anymore but we've been very, very happy to start really working with Altium and doing research on specific features and automation we could integrate in the tools in the future to enable more efficient design process for IMSE and printed electronics as a whole. Which is so exciting to me. So if I understand you correctly, then we're really starting to develop design rules for a whole new technology? Mm-hmm - exactly and in that way obviously shortening the learning curve for new technology and bringing it to the hands of the actual end users; the designers of the products. Well I really love that you guys are using traditional mainstream tools like Altium Designer so designers, their ramp-up on the technology can be quicker and just using kind of some familiar things like a 2D manufacturing process so there's not this whole giant - there's not 20 obstacles in the way and such a learning curve, and such a huge investment, change of equipment - you've really been really thoughtful in integrating existing technology but then tweaking it. Yeah, exactly. Which is really exciting. Tuomas because you've been specifically on the hardware side; I look to you sort of as the voice of our audience. Can you talk about some specific examples in regards to things like stack up, DRC's. Can you give us some kind of down and dirty, you know, where the rubber meets the road sort of examples of how that's fleshing out? Yes. So if I first start with the stack up; currently we are using PCB layer stack up in our designs, which is not it's not pure IMSE - and this stack up, this causes challenges and generates a lot of more work when we have transferred in design files between EGIT and for example in the simulator tool. So if we have a tool where we can define IMSE stack up as it is in real products, it makes the design process even faster. Second thing is the dielectrics. So at the moment we are designing and checking dielectrics manually. It's time-consuming and there were still missing dielectrics in certain places and this caused failures during our production. This is very, very critical, so if the tool has, for example, dielectric generators, check the position for each dielectric and then place it according to user definitions, so it makes design even faster, and also makes the production more easier for us because there are no failures anymore. Along those lines - from inside of the tool, will a designer actually have helps to help them choose a specific dielectric or is that something they'll need to know ahead of time? And then those dielectric constraints will be inside the tool - or do we know yet? No we don't know yet. Okay that's a good answer. That's okay. You know, I really see from my perspective in the industry, this tighter - and the lines between mechanical you know ECAD, MCAD, all the different design disciplines. the lines are just blurring - and I think that's never more true than with your technology. I think you made the lines disappear which is exciting and so enabling! Is there anything you wanted to say about that Sini, just about the different disciplines, or specific challenges that may come into play? Because you're bringing all of these things into play? Yeah I think one very good example and Tuomas, I'm sure you are more familiar with them, is for example, a simple file transfer. So we need to be able to, first of all in IMSE, we have to be able to convert first a three-dimensional shape into a two-dimensional form. Then design electronics layout, then convert back to three-dimensional format, and during all of those processes, we need to have a file transfer mechanism that actually works in between the tools. So yah, like you said; the lines are blurring and we're excited to see how we can help in enabling this in the tools. Well I'm very excited - before we wrap up is there anything I might have missed? Thank you both for this interesting conversation, and I'll be sure to share your white paper and any links you like to share. Is there anything I may have missed, just because of my own ignorance - neglected to ask either of you about today? I don't think so, not from my side. What do you think Tuomas? No, not from my side as well. Okay, well please be sure to share as many links as you can you guys, and again - I want to encourage our listeners to look - this is one set of show notes you're going to want to look into - and click through and see really where the future of technology is going. It's very exciting and as I say, we continue to develop our agenda. You know things like high-speed stack-up, things like that within Altium Designer 19, but in the future we hope to be able to offer the enabling technology in a future release of Altium Designer. So thank you both for your partnership and working together. It's been a delight and I also invite you again to join us at AltiumLive either in San Diego or Europe. TactoTek will be in both locations and you'll be able to get your hands on it and see and touch this amazing technology it's really going to blow your mind. So thank you Sini, thank you Tuomas, I really appreciate you - welcome to podcast land. Thank you Judy, it's very exciting. It's been a delight to have you and thank you - because I know you guys are - our hours between here and Finland are a little different. So thank you for accommodating our time frame today. So thank you again for listening to the OnTrack Podcast, we appreciate you so very much. Join us again next time. Until then remember to always stay on track!
EPISODE 1: About The Snowboard Project THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT EPISODE1.mp3 Download the "THE SNOWBOARD PROJECT EPISODE1.mp3" audio file directly from here. It was automatically transcribed by Sonix.ai below: : Man like Mark Sullivan warrior self, stay tuned for the chilling episode. : A positive mental attitude and clearly all obstacles which stand between you and your image your purpose in life. This is the Snowboard Project featuring Mark Sullivan and the Beav. The Snowboard Project. The Snowboard Project. : Welcome to the snowboard project. MARK SULLIVAN I'm the Beav and this is the new snowboarding podcasts that we're putting together. : It's pretty exciting. This is this is show number one kind of talk to me what is The Snowboard Project? : Well The Snowboard Project is is a little bit of a different take than traditional media to snowboarding and the goal is basically self-improvement through snowboarding like the snowboard has been my vehicle to travel the world to meet driven fascinating people and to have all these crazy life experiences and it wasn't just the tricks that I was doing it was through the people I met and the places I got to visit. And so you know to me the some of the more fascinating stories in the sport are with the pro riders but with the people who've dedicated a piece of themselves to the sport of snowboarding so those could be you know anything from the pro riders but also people who were sales reps people who are graphic designers people who who were there for the beginning of the sport right and were part of the genesis of snowboarding and so those are the stories that I find interesting and I want to cover with the snowboard project now. : There are a few other podcasts out there. There are some action sports podcast from snowboard podcasts. What's really going to set us apart what's really going to be the difference. : Well hopefully you know I can drill down into some real useful advice that these people have some of the lessons they've learned some of the mistakes they made and how they've learned from them and and really you know maybe take a piece of that to your own life beyond snowboarding. : So who are some of the people that we're going to be kind of like covering through this through this season of the summer project. : Well there's all sorts of people I mean I've I've talked to some of the legends like Mike Chantry and Bob Klein guys like Dave Seoane guys like Mike Basich and Ricky Bower the coach or the halfpipe team for the United States. So all sorts of different people Pat Bridges Aaron Draplin. I mean the list goes on and on. : Let me ask you this personally what do you hope to kind of extract from these interviews that can not only be shared with your audience but do you feel like you might actually be gaining some some great advice just for your own self that you didn't actually know about beforehand. : Yeah you know the funny thing is I kind of walked into this thinking that I knew a lot about snowboarding you know I was like I got this figured out just do a podcast I've been an announcer and been involved with media. That's a natural fit. And what I realized is that like every single interview I've actually learned something about the snowboarding by just listening to different people's perspectives and how they approach the sport differently than I did. : And so with every interview I actually learned something about the sport and it has driven me to want to do more and more and more podcasts. We're going to start out with three shows a week. We're going to go to five shows a week in about a month. You know right now I'm actually just building shows on the side doing interviews with different fascinating people. But I will start with three shows a week and then go to five shows a week because snowboarding is such a rich sport. There's so many different characters and people involved with it. I think that it deserves to have a different kind of in-depth media than just like here the pros here the tricks or the edits. Right. And so this is supposed to give you something more to listen to. : Yeah kind of talk me just a little bit about that. Why. Why do you feel like there's a need for this kind of media in our current state of snowboarding. : Well you know the media has kind of taken a shift recently with with social media kind of becoming a dominant form of as a media outlet. And so you know when you look at what you get from the media now it's been boiled down to a single image or a single video clip and you really don't get those in-depth interviews you don't get those in-depth stories and you don't really you know have access to kind of the stories behind the stories and so that's really what I'd like to share. : How do you feel like this is really good. It's like differentiate from kind of our current snowboard media I guess. : Well I'd say this is going to be a completely different number one it's audio. So there's I mean normally like snowboarding is you know very visual in terms of the media portrayal of the sport. And so that's videos that's pages and magazines traditionally maybe not as much anymore but you know this is definitely not a visual medium so I'll try to tell stories that hopefully paint a picture in your head. And the interesting thing is that like when you're listening to this you have to actually use your mind to create kind of the image of your head of what was happening and so I think that's kind of a little bit different than actually being kind of force fed visuals the entire time. : Now there's kind of been this like I guess classic structure on how like you know the media or magazines or movies would make would make money. Just tell me just a little bit about how you plan to fund something like that. : Ok well this is pretty interesting and for the first time ever in my career this is going to be an advertising free model. Maybe I'll accept advertising from your company I'm not sure but that's a different story right that's totally different. But note no endemic advertisers is going to be no Bourton ads it's going to be no never summer ads. This is not to play favorites this is actually just to tell the real truth behind snowboarding as I see it. Right. And this is my own impression of the sport based on my 30 years experience with it. So anyhow I'm using what's called patriae on and you go to patriae on dot com slash the snowboard project and you can donate money to this podcast and so you know you can donate two dollars you can donate you know up to a hundred dollars to become an associate producer and have a monthly consult consultation with with us and we'll tell you about you know if you want to win a gold medal or where to go in January we'll talk to you every month. You know about snowboarding or over the phone. So anyhow there's different levels. Go to patriae on dot com slash the snowboard project and donate because this is actually the first time ever in my experience that this is a media outlet that is not reliant on advertising and not beholden to those advertisers to tell those stories so we can just tell the real truth. : Don't forget to support advertising free snowboarding media Patreon.com/thesnowboardproject and possibly slow boat projects. : Let's just rewind just a little bit let's go let's go into kind of the history of you and media and why you know why you feel like you're someone that it has the I guess ability to tell these stories just tell me just a little about your history of snowboarding. : Ok well I started snowboarding when I was 14 years old and I was like one of the fairly early adopters. Let's say I was on a ski vacation in Jackson Hole first time out west and I broke my skis and I was like do I Telemark or do I snowboard. And I walked into a shop and there was Chris Pappas and he rented me a board and got me set up and and gave me a lesson. And so literally from that very first day though I was like This is what I want to do with my life and I've never looked back actually like you know 32 33 years later it's like I've never actually looked back and so you know roll that forward I was a sponsored athlete for a number of years and trying to follow the stream of professional snowboarding and then I got my hands on a Transworld media kit when I was like 18 living in Breckenridge and it was like you know three or four thousand dollars in ad breakdown and I added up all the ads and a copy of Transworld and I was like they're bringing in like a half million dollars in a shoe. : Whoa. : Yeah that was just the advertising they had subscribers and newsstand sales I mean they were bringing in a lot of money. I was like you know what. If they can bring in this kind of money and yet the story of what we were doing we were like jibbing and doing night. We had a little bit different style than was portrayed in the magazine. So I was like you know this voice maybe has a place in snowboarding media and so I started a Xeen based on working. I lived in a two bedroom apartment with 11 dudes and two pitbulls paid about seventy five dollars a month in rent for a bed. It was like a hostel. : And and. : And so of like I gathered together my roommate's big brother had just come out Big Brother Magazine Issue 1 had just come out and to maybe had just come out they were looking at issue one though. And that was kind of the inspiration was to do something like Big Brother. And and so you know my roommates were all kind of sponsored athletes and we kind of gathered round I was like myself. And T.J. Liese and Chad Schnacky and a guy named I believe Joe W. was involved as well. And Pat Abramson and so those were the guys kind of contributing to. We also had you know I also live with like Rowan Rogers and Dale Rehberg and that whole crew. Nate Cole and those guys were on the road though they were already kind of famous and we were trying. We're knocking on their door basically trying to become pro riders. And so we decide we're all pretty much led the charge. But like the idea was like let's tell the story of what's going on here with these kids in Breckenridge. That is a little bit less glossy and than the traditional media that was out there. : Sure. Now so that was the start of Player Magazine Player Magazine magazine. Tell me. OK so you took that and he took that idea and model and you went out to like what. : Yes. We made like a thousand copies. And you know I sold ads I was like the ad sales guy as well as kind of one of the editors of one of the four editors and and we came up about I don't know. Four hundred dollars short. So we had to kick in a hundred bucks to get the thing printed and we brought to Esai a thousand copies of the magazine. And you know we had it on the cover of the first mag was Stephanie Seymour she had just been in Playboy she was like the hottest girl in the world. Totally buck naked on the cover just naked girl on the cover of the magazine. And so literally I distributed like 1000 magazines in four hours and everywhere you looked at this trade show there were people reading the magazine and it was like a hit and people were like Man you got to do more of this and so that kind of like gave me my start in the media and gave me this direction. And so I made a second copy a player and like that. The thing is though I didn't know anything about graphic design didn't know anything about printing. All I knew about was snowboarding and my raw desire to kind of like tell our story from from our perspective which was different than what was happening in the traditional media. And so that was kind of the birth of my career in media and that was like 90 to maybe something like 92 93. Yeah. : How was it. How was it walking into. Into SIA I did you have like where you were you scared about the outcome or were you like hey this is what I'm doing and I'm gonna kick ass and you know I don't know if we really had you know I think it was probably more like how we're going to sneak in. : Right. So it's more like worried about like how we're going to get into SIA like guess snowboarder. : Yeah you know and like I mean we were pretty raw I had sponsors at the time still and and so you know figured out we all figured our individual path and then brought boxes of magazines or at backpacks of magazines and to start handing them out. And and you know from the first reaction I mean everyone just loved the cover. What's not to love about a naked girl on the cover of a magazine when you are 18. Right. And so. So yeah immediately like people were like the immediate reaction from the first person who saw it was like wow that's that's something different. You know and that was kind of you know an unintentional success I guess. I mean I mean the print quality the typos everything with I look back on that and it was so bad from like a you know from a professional perspective. But yet it had this raw message that was different than what was out there real cool. : So you took that experience and you then went back to college you decided hey this is going to be my my life path. Talking about college talking about the start of East infection and what that was all about. : Ok well I made a second issue a player and I decided to go all color because it was always about improvement. Like just like snowboarding you know you want to get better and better and better so I was like OK how do you go from a black and white Color you make a color one so I made a color one printed on an offset press I remember you know printing and the idea distribution models and shops for free. Get them out there printed 10000 of them. And and I go to pick up the magazine and the guy who's the rep from the printer is like here's the magazine man. : Looks like you guys are having a wild time up there in the mountains and I was like yeah yeah we are totally. : And he's like so how do you do your color correction anyway. And I was like What's color correction. : Right because everything like every photo is just like super dark. It was like literally flat bed scanned of prints basically and photos that we took of screengrab the forehead VCR and we like pause the the VCR and take photos of the TV screen to do video grabs. We were pretty ghetto. Right we just figured out how to make it happen. : But that's when I realized that like OK there's more to this than than just like making it happen. It's not just about the idea it's about doing it as professionally as you can. And so then I was like OK well I should probably go back to college and learn more about this you know. And I was already I already done a couple of semesters in the fall in the summer at UVM and so I went back and and switched my major from environmental studies to marketing business and I figured I'd learn the business side of magazines and I could find the people who knew about color correction and about graphic design and all the while I was like graphic designing and doing all these jobs I did basically every job at some point for the magazine. And so then I had a friend Pat Bridges who I grew up competing with. And so I talked to him about hey I you know I'm back here and going to college full time I'm going to finish this thing out and I'm going to start a Xeen here to represent East Coast snowboarding and so he came up with the name yeast infection which captured the infectious spirit of snowboarding on the East Coast at the time. : Sounds like it. Yeah. Oh man. : And so you know but I liked it because it was kind of like you know little bit outsider and really and like snowboarder and Transworld at that time there was no coverage of these cause you might get like four or five photos a year of like someone on the East Coast snowboarding and yet here's this vibrant scene going on every weekend every day that we could go to the mountain we were doing it and and so that's kind of the birth of East infection and then so you know my strategy with the first issue the first one was 24 pages and it was like I wanted to put as many people in that first issue as I could so I put like 130 different riders in that first issue. : Yeah the photos were small then it was like hey you're in the magazine hey you're in the magazine hey you're in the magazine. So all the sponsored riders kind of got a little piece of that. : And so that kind of snowballed for three years got better and better and better for three years and I learned a world about publishing and about you know about how magazines were made and also just from you know a DIY perspective as well. There was no one kind of helping us do it. We got to the point where where we had a house that we rented for the staff and so that was like Pat Bridges and Evan Rose who's like now the creative director. Burn this guy Chaka. Michael Gardzina he'll be one of my interviews as well. And so all these guys all ended up sticking with snowboarding or skateboarding and like George CavalLA was my first followed Twitter. He's at 686 today. And Herb George with my ad sales guy and and he's OSiris shoes he like runs those Cyrus. And so I see how all these people had just had this genuine passion. It was our way of like going to college and learning but also doing what we loved. And you know and really that's what this podcast is about is like taking something you love and then pouring something of yourself into it. And so that's what these stories really in this podcast are about people who can can dedicate themselves and their passion their time and their work towards their passion. So they get a little bit maybe more satisfaction out doing something you love share. : So you were able to snowball this thing to the point where you guys had enough capital to go out and rent to rent a space where you actually did this help put you through college. : No I mean basically they paid the rent and we had a party every Tuesday night like a keg party every Tuesday night and there are some wild stories from those parties but so the keg party funded like the magazine know the Keg Party is funded itself. But we just wanted to have a good time we were snowboarders we were still competing we were all kind of want to be sponsored riders at the time but also had the drive to do something more with snowboarding than just ride. And so it was just quite an adventure you know to have a house and all your friends and just to be able to dedicate yourself and your spare time and that's kind of when I started working these crazy hours shows going to school and getting A's and B's in school full time and also making a magazine full time. And I was doing the sales I was doing the graphic design. I was writing a little bit of the stories. Bridges was really the writer. It came naturally to him it did not come naturally to me at that time. And so really and you know it was just this like trial by fire. : So we would make mistakes we would make big mistakes you know and then we learn from those mistakes and tried not to make them again. Right. And so then you know after I graduated college it was kind of like OK I think I have done the East Coast justice as far as like I've made three years of magazines Time to go out west because I knew that like my experiences in Colorado that it's like softer snow bigger mountains for a variety of reasons I wanted to go out west. So I actually had like job offers from both snowboarder and from Transworld and snowboarder was like Do you want to be in sales or do you want to be an editorial. And I was like well what's the difference. And they were like well the sales people make a lot more money and the editorial people get to travel everywhere. And I was like I'll be an editor. And so that's how I kind of landed in California. You know as associate editor you know packed up the the Nissan pickup truck and dragged the U-Haul trailer across the country and showed up there just totally green. : Now to me this kind of sounds a little crazy like you're like 24 25 26 right around there. Yeah kind of just keeps coming out of school. How was it that snowboarder and Trans World and all these magazines out West had this kind of bead on you basically and said look we want Mark Sullivan to come out here. We want him to come. : Well I mean the magazine that we are make we were going to the trade show. Bridges and I would go to the trade show and try to sell ads to potential advertisers. : And you know we did print you know 10000 copies of each issue so they were getting out there people saw and we sent them to snowboard shops. We had a handful of subscribers you know. And so it was kind of a known quantity. And I think that maybe they recognized the fact the desire to do this you know to be a part of this industry and to you know just be a part of snowboarding at a bigger level and so you know I remember it was kind of heartbreaking that like when I got out there like like on my first day of work my boss was like Hey man you can't be sponsored anymore that's a conflict of interest so I just drop all my sponsors and I was like Oh man that's this is going to help my sponsorship opportunities and now I can become a pro somehow. : Like I still had that dream kind of in the back of my head that I'd be a pro but it made me like really come to that decision like no you're going to be working in the industry and not a writer right. Not that I ever gave up on writing or progression and writing but like that that was going to be my path. : Basically from then on. : Talk to me about day one. You walked in there. Were you scared or did you walk in there with all the confidence in the world that you were just going to change this magazine. : I was scared shitless. I mean this is like let me paint a picture for you. : This is like an old airplane hangar divided up into cubicles with a few offices. It's the home of Surfer magazine which is like just a legendary publication that started in 1964 basically to define surf culture. And there were like all these old surfboards around and really was like a you know like where the culture of surfing live while snowboarding was just like a stepchild basically to Surfer magazine everything was a stepchild the Surfer magazine. And so you know I got in there and you know the guys from Surfer magazine were really confident and I was a guy who just literally landed in California the week before. Couple of days before and was just out of my element in every sense of the word. But I was just like you know I'm just going to try to do college try and give it my all. And so that's what I did and like. And I was an editor and I never found writing easy but I was like I'll do it so like you know I was like this guy who would like write stories like four and five times from scratch I'd write at once and then like rip it up and like you know write it from scratch again and just do that over and over and over again until the point came seven or eight years later when I could actually just pick up a pen or typewriter or whatever keyboard and write you know. But it was hard fought really to do that but I knew that my voice was legitimate as far as like I was a snowboarder and I was one of the only people who defined them. I was the only person to define themself as a snowboarder. Like at that time like that's who I was I was a snowboarder just like the surfers that Surfer magazine they were surfers and then they got into media as a byproduct of that snow. : So snow when it was kind of being run by people that snowboarding but not necessarily snowboarders. : Yeah I mean they were competent. They snowboarded for sure. But it's like they didn't grow up like defining themselves as snowboarders and so they you know. Good job great people. But it's like they didn't just they didn't live and die by snow. To me snowboarding mattered more than magazines right. For them it was like hey I got this great job being you know working at a magazine or whatever. And so you know and they were great people they did a good job they tried to tell these authentic stories of the pros and the people who were out there doing it. : But it was like I came from this other place which was just like I define myself by this and if I do a good job it's a byproduct of that of that determination. : Now you came in as an associate editor basically how you kind of work your way up and how did you get to the point where you were like You know I guess calling the shots steering the ship. : Well it's funny. You know I almost it was almost a really short term gig. I started at 24 grand a year which is actually like so my 24 grand and like what ninety three this is like 97 when I was seven 97 I started a snowboarder. And so Neal my six month review came and I was like Man this is like a dream job I get to work with people I like could just focus on snowboarding and I kind of kind of carte blanche as far as like just going and you know being a snowboarder I can go to all these different cool places I've always dreamed about going and. And so I go in for my six month review and my boss is like OK you've done an awesome job. You know we want to promote you to senior editor and I'm like patting myself on the back like I've made it right. And so then it comes time to negotiate the salary that he offered me 26 grand. Like a two thousand dollar a year raise to take that new job title I was like look here's all my bills I actually add them up ahead of time and and actually it cost me 27 five to live here in California. It's just that cheap the rent isn't cheap. : You know whatever. And he was like you know hey look you can take this or leave it. There's a hundred people waiting for this position. And so I literally I took a couple minutes you know to think about it but finally I was like OK OK I'll do it I'll stay on you know and basically I had to call my parents to ask them to pay for my car insurance you know because I couldn't afford car insurance. Sure. You know and so and so you know and that kind of gave me the mettle to like to be like OK I'm here for snowboarding this isn't about the money. This isn't about you know about you know rising to the top or whatever this is about the sport of snowboarding and doing a good job for it. So then the dot com boom came and. And so they're all of a sudden was like you know a land rush for people who knew media. And so I was one of those people so we're like a lot of people and so actually the bosses at snowboarder ended up going and starting their own kind of new media company that was Internet. And I don't know whatever they had like a bunch of different facets to and they tried to get me you know to go with them and I was like well wait a minute I'm the last man standing here. : That makes me by default I hope anyway the boss and so sure enough I stayed. Everyone else left and I had this Leicht negotiation which was like based on my prior experience with negotiation and wasn't going to get run over. Sure. And I became the editor in chief of snowboarder magazine at that point and really had completely staffed the whole magazine. We didn't have an art director we didn't have a photo editor we didn't have a managing editor. We didn't have any of the people that we had to rely on. So really it was like I got to redefine the magazine. At that point and that's when Bridges kind of came out I tapped him on the shoulder you know and he came out as a senior editor and and then I hired Jeff Baker and then took a while but I found Aaron grappling because I really had this passion for design and being authentic to design and that into working out. In fact funny story about that is I actually put my job on the line to hire Aaron Draplin right. : It's like his first job he was in college and he was just about to graduate from MCAD in Minneapolis which is like a great design school. But you know the head sales guy publisher guy was like guy you know there's just no way that a guy from college can handle. So anyhow I'm just like look back and you can fire me if this doesn't work because I was also driven like I was I saw like a piece of me in him which was like he was driven to snowboard. He was driven to great design and that's something I didn't have the great design or the background design but I knew that he wouldn't let let us down you know because he loves snowboarding enough where it's like he didn't owe it for the job he owed it for the sport and man that really that first year it kind of I would say kind of redefined magazines as far as like the look the feel the content all of it because we just had all the sudden we went from having people who snowboarded to being exclusively people who are snowboarders running the magazine. And I think that was like the first time that that really had happened as far as I know I could be wrong but as far as I know that was really like the first time that had happened and like within a couple months like we were being copied by every other publication. Most notably Transworld but it's like we made waves. You know we had a good time doing it too by the way we got the snowboard all over the place. : Yeah really quickly just rewind a little bit. Drapin when he has just just talk a little bit about who he is and how his what his influence has been one of those guys behind the scenes that we wouldn't normally hear about but his influence has been pretty huge I guess in snowboarding. : I would say because you know snowboarding media and snowboarding in general such a visual thing that being a great graphic designer. I mean Draplin could like literally render drawings like he could sit here and draw a picture of you that looked more or less photorealistic when he was like in fourth grade. Right. Right. So he was a prodigy of art. I would say. And then he went kind of chased his snowboard dreams in Bend Oregon and then he was like OK similar to me is like I got to get an education get some Mike backbone behind all this passion that I have. And so he went to one of the top design schools in the country. And so anyhow he became the art director of snowboarder and you know on the side he would do stuff like design boards for it or other stuff. Oh yeah. He designed the shirt and custom and I remember you know we were really jealous because he got paid 13 grand to do a single graphic. : That's unfair. You know that's half my salary I know that so. But anyhow. But he deserved it. : You know the thing is it's like he had a real passion and like and a background in design that would allow him to be authentic with his artwork and so he went on to do graphics for basically most of the great companies of snowboarding. And you know he was actually the art director for snowboard magazine when he started. And then he's gone on to like these great things he does speaking engagements all over the world now. Like where he talks about design he's just he's done work for Apple from Microsoft for Ford for you know Nike. I mean he's really like at the absolute top of the game right now. : You were able to hire all your friends hire the people you wanted to excuse me hire all the people that you wanted to hire and then you know you have this crew of people just like ready to kick ass for you talking about some of those days some of those days where you guys were kind of on top of the world and on top of I guess the media world. : Well the thing is it's like we never saw ourselves on top of the world and really it was just like a hard fought battle we all had so much passion for snowboarding it was about the ideas and so we would get into like big arguments about like what was it. Make a good cover. And we tried to take the frame of like OK this is what works on the news stand or whatever but then we would have these you know arguments that would last into the night basically about what would make good content who's a good interview and all these different kind of aspects of snowboarding and you know we put in really long hours we didn't really actually have lives outside of you know showing up at that office and none of us really wanted to I mean we were in so cal we were snowboarders by definition which is like snowboarders at the beach right. And you know we all tried to learn to surf I would say but right with you know just so so results and so basically we poured all of our effort and energy into making that magazine. : And you're saying yeah. Ok rewind a little beg me gimme gimme like a great story one time with all those guys. You guys were you know. Give me some give me some meat. : Ok. Something to something to think about. Let's see. Let's see. Maybe the buyer's guide that was an interesting one. So we did. You know I'd I'd basically talk to our bosses into being able to being able to go to Whistler for the season we got Whistler to donate a house to us because I was like well we got to go to the mountains right in the winter. You're not publishing magazines. You finish in like December and then that issue finished in December comes out in like February March at the end of the season. So I was like so we had like the whole winter to develop content. So instead of traveling out of SoCal we went to Whistler and our whole crew our whole staff went to Whistler sounds like heaven. : It was heavy actually. And so we had the south we had a bunch of pros staying there instead of telling you the buyer's guide story I'll tell you. I actually made my first snowmobile story yeah. Tell me the first snowmobiles is actually a much more interesting story. Maybe so anyhow. I also talked a Yamaha into giving us some sleds to demo for the season and like that was kind of like the beginning of like the snowboarding scene. And so I was like Yamaha we'll do like a feature in our British Columbia issue that we're going to do next year and we'll do a feature on snowboarding prominently featuring Yamaha snowmobiles and so they ended up giving us like the first two Yamaha Mountain max 6 and 7 hundreds in the country of Canada. And so we go and pick them up and grapple ends up there and I'm up there. And Boston Castaic Justin Hostynek is staying with us. And you know so we're going to go out on our inaugural mission Hossan it's got his own Polaris RMK 700 with a 136 track that was like State of the art back then. And so we go out to I forgot the name of the zone. But anyhow we have to go up this thing called the S Shoot we ride out through this trail through the woods. Draplin. No problem. He's from the Midwest. He's been on sleds from MI been on sleds like around fields and stuff. We get to the bottom of this thing called the chute and friend. Yeah I mean literally it's like like a thousand vertical foot or 5 700 foot vertical foot run and then a dogleg turn in the middle of it. : And at Hostynek it kind of looks at Me and is like you and sleds before right. And I'm like yeah totally. And like in my mind I'm like yeah I've been sleds in Vermont around fields or whatever area I've ridden snowmobiles go stop. Yeah. So he just takes off and I take off behind him maybe like 100 yards back just to kind of gauge the speed and basically just wide open pinned straight up this thing right. And literally I make it to the top my first try which is like probably miraculous in and of itself. But then we get to the top and it's like and we turn around like where's Draplin. Oh he didn't make it so Hostynek let go. Don't go get them. And I was like OK. And so I really don't know what I'm doing. And so I basically you know I go to drop in back down the chute the way I came up. And the thing like rolls away. So you're just looking at the Valley for you can't really see the issue until you're actually in. And so right when I see the slope there's strapline capsized in the middle of the run. And so I ended up just basically grabbing a fistful of break the sled goes sideways. I get pitched one way it goes the other and it just rag dolls. Bing bang bang bang bang like 700 800 vertical feet and over ass over teakettle whatever. I mean just all the way down to just pieces of plastic flying everywhere and this is a brand new like six miles on the sled slope. : Oh yes although by the time I got down to the speedometer it was brocaded like I picked up the speedometer was pick it up. The plant didn't want to litter I had this environmental studies background Yeah. So picking up all the pieces of plastic windshield hood all the way down. And you know I pick up the speedometer or whatever and you know locked on the speedometer 15 kilometers. So I had 15 kilometers on it before I total that. And how does it break in the news Yamaha about that one. We ended up paying for the sleds we had an insurance policy and we actually ended up using them but scrapped together I think Dan Hudson like artists who's going to be on the podcast. But he actually like to work or whatever. And those Yamaha's are bulletproof bulletproof that. They were like bulletproof because after this like ass over teakettle ride just breaking off pieces of plastic in every direction. You know it still worked. So interesting though that was my first snowmobile adventure and so that's like you know part of everything it's like OK learn from your mistakes don't do that again. You know and so I never threw a sled down a hill like that ever again. But I also kind of have never really lived that but I'll own it too. You know it's like you know it's like you learn from your mistakes. And so hopefully I won't be doing that too. Now a fifteen thousand dollar sled that I actually have to pay for. Right. So that was in 2000 or 2001. We did. : So now some of the things you were at that snowboarder those years there were some pretty fun things that kind of happened between like super parks and talk to me just about kind of some of those ideas some of those kind of innovative things that you guys ended up coming up with just as you know your crew or did you come up with those are you know I came up with a bunch of the ideas I was always a person who had to sell the ideas to the management we wanted to do something different it was up to me to be like this is what we're doing and they'd be like No. : That takes more work for me and then be like this is what we're doing this is what's right for snowboarding and I would just like fight tooth and nail to do what I thought was like good reason why I probably wasn't an easy person to have as an employee because I was like I was just really determined to do what was right in my mind for snowboarding based on my prior experience and mistakes I had made prior to that. So you know we but we came up with theme issues we had columns for guys like Peter line and Todd Richards and you know then those were just based on influences from other magazines I was always a magazine person. So like Racer X was a motocross Mango's into motocross and they would have a column by a racer and I was like we should have columns by pro snowboarders. And so you know that was something that we did. And you know the buyer's guide as well it's like we used to go out and shoot the buyer's guide at the trade show. We'd like literally go ten miles a day back and forth pulling boards and boots and bindings and photos shooting them in a photo studio and then we came up with it well basically I came up with this idea to basically take the influences like the Japanese buyers guides that were going on and apply it to America and so it turned and my boss once again was like No you can't do that. That's like that's going to take way more work for me and I was like we're going to do it this way or you could find someone else to do it. And there's the you know not being agreeable partner. So anyhow it turned like eighty thousand dollar cost into a four hundred thousand dollar a year gain in fact they still do that same buyers guide to this day. They've made millions of dollars on a single idea. I put my job on the line to do. : Hey how crazy is that. But if you are a product and in the buyer's guide you know that's the way it's done sell. : Now you are a snowboarder living in so cow it's kind of weighing in on you a little bit right. Talk to me just a little bit about kind of the decision maybe too. I mean it had to have been a hard decision. At the same time to just say like leave snowboarder Magazine. : Yeah I mean it was a couple of factors really in that. So bridges had a blown out knee and he wasn't getting it fixed. And so I basically put a carrot on a stick form which is like bridges you get your knee fixed and you can like start really progressing your riding again gangs. We grew up riding competing against each other and all this stuff and he wasn't. He was still riding but not really like progressing right. And so that was kind of in a holding pattern. And so I was like you know Bridges if you get your knee fixed I'll go find a job in the mountains because I don't like so cow I don't want to be here and I'll go find a job in the Malon so it took about a year and he got his knee fixed it was the right carrot on a stick I suppose. And and so I found a job in Sun Valley Idaho or Ketchum Idaho as the international marketing director Prisca. : And that was a great job for me because at least the first because it's like blended my two passions which were motocross and snowboarding skiing I could tolerate. But you know it just took my two passions and allowed me to kind of progress into a marketing role and I became like the international marketing director and I go to Switzerland like once a month and you know and then we started doing bikes and I wasn't like a bike guy per se and so you know it was cool to have like a tour de France team riding your bikes or whatever as the marketing guy. But it's like it just wasn't my thing. So. So you know at a certain point I decide to start snowboard magazine to get back into the snowboarding media. Did you ever get to go to the Tour de France really quick. No no no. I had actually no interest in the bike at that time. I smoke cigarettes right. And so like literally I go to these bike events and like I get up at like six thirty in the morning for like an 8 call time let's say I go smoke like three cigarettes in a row behind the dumpster and then I jump in the shower clean up like not smell like smoke. Do that until like 9 or 10 at night. Right over till like the company dinner wrapped up and then go sneak out to the dumpster and smoke five more cigarettes and go to bed. Right. And like that was like that. I mean I was addicted to nicotine right. And so like that was something that was like Man this is really interfering with my lifestyle you know and I don't want to be I wanted to be politically correct and smelling like cigarettes at a big bike event. Actually it doesn't cut it. Sure. Right. And so. So that was kind of one of the things like the addiction to cigarettes was more powerful than the addiction to my job. OK that tells you house how you know how powerful they are you know. : And it's been hard to quit but I have so that's a good thing. : So in turn you decided then to OK I'm going to go and start snowboarder or exceeding snowboard magazine and and talk to me just about the idea behind that and maybe just the different model of how that came about and how you structured it I guess it was different than most everywhere else. : Well you know being a marketing person it was like I wanted to be like three different approaches in marketing you can be the leader low cost provider are differentiated. And so for me it was like we're going to be different on every level. And that doesn't mean just the content. That means that paper stock the distribution method the way we sell our ads will be different. Everything was to be different. Right. And so it also was like the first family friendly magazine as far as like we didn't print swear words you know and then we took a different focus on product and that was kind of the editorial vision was to integrate product a little bit more and I remember this phone call I had some of the best business advice I actually ever got was from Ken Block when I was trying to sell him spreads in every issue you know and it's just like I put together the team drap Blinn and Jeff Baker I had as the editor and and just put together a team of people who who were trustworthy in the industry known quantities right. So we weren't just like like kids in college making a zeen. And you know Ken Block who started D.C. She was like well what's the magazine. What's the mag about. And I gave him this. : You know it's going to be dead. : And I like went on for like two minutes about how radical and game changing it would be. And he was like That's great. Now say that in five words. And I was like oh shit hog and let me get back to you. And he's like OK. So I call him back two weeks later and I was like snowboard magazine products places and personalities he's like sold. And he bought spreads in every issue from that. Yeah it was like a big contract and we got good advertising you know. I mean basically like went from like zero to one point three million dollars in sales in a single year. Wow. You know so it was like a runaway success because of that idea of being differentiated in every way you know the distribution model. We sent the magazines to to shops right to support their culture and the culture of snowboarding at the grassroots level so it was like I'm not going to deal with your traditional return model where you have one person sitting there counting how many magazines got returned every month instead. You keep the magazines give me away for free with someone who purchases something or or sell them for the cover price if someone wants to buy it. And you keep all the money. Right. And so I figured you know I'd sent 40 copies per magazine to every shop in the country and I figured Zumiez got actually more in way more. But but I figured hey you can't make 40 sales in a month than than what are you doing in business though right. So anyhow that was like the the distribution model and that was different you know and then drew aplan had like a really clean take on design we upgrade the paper stock. I mean like a snowboarder it was always about like just getting away with the cheapest dentist this paper that we could get away with. So I was like Let's go the opposite direction and make it on the nicest paper we can afford. Sure. Right. So that was that was a pretty crazy time. : I would say now you guys weren't just sitting in an abandoned aircraft hangar. : No you guys were where were you guys when you were doing this. We were actually all over the country basically Draplin was in Portland. Baker was in Seattle I was in Sun Valley or catch him still and and then we would come together. We'd all kind of do our separate parts. : We had a sales guy in Southern California Gary and that was kind of the initial team and so then we do our separate things and be on the phone every single day with everybody and then we came together to put that magazine together the first issue it Dragonlance house. And so we all kind of our pieces together and and then put together that first issue and then that was kind of our model is like we'd go our separate ways and then gather you know in the fall for a week a month or took a week to lay it out or whatever and then we'd all gather and put the magazine together. : Now what was it what was the first issue about what was the big thing you were I mean you were I guess the splash into the back into into a magazine. : You know I think it was just like the fact that it was differentiated at every level and I could look someone straight in the eye and be like not only does it look better in his eyes like this authentic voice or whatever but it covers products proxy you have you know that you're trying to sell and so like because I was an editor and a salesperson you know it was like really about kind of breaking down this thing of like church and state which I was always going to be authentic to snowboarding but to idea that the editorial and the advertising weren't related it was something I threw out the window at that point in time because it was like well we can do both. It's like in our photo gallery it's like we'd have captions that listed every product in the photo and the price of that product. So you can be like oh here's a shot of like Peter Line doing a jump and he's on the Division 23 Peter Line for ninety nine and he's got 32 boots. : And so like it was just like this idea that like we could not it wasn't selling out to me at all to do it that way. To me it was just being giving more information in a different kind of information to the actual consumers you know. : Now what was the reaction from from the consumers what was the reaction I guess from shops that kind of stuff maybe in comparison to other magazines that they had. : Well based on those sales that we that I talked about it was a hit immediately right. You know and it was just different and it was quality and I just had a totally new voice compared to like Trans World and snowboarded were so close in terms of design terms of content in terms of direction. But this was something totally different you know. And so I think that it immediately got a place and then you know because of our distribution model I was able to go sell ads at the trade show and be like to any advertiser just like ask any shop in the world what their favorite magazine is. And it was always Armagh because I was giving them magazines for free and they were selling them keeping the money right. And so I think we put it like about a million dollars a year into retail. Like a million dollars a year directly into snowboard shops pockets of time. So yeah it was I felt pretty good about that : Don't forget to support advertising for snowboarding media ads http://Patreon.com/thesnowboardproject the snowboard project the solid gold project. : Let me just shift a little bit let me ask you a little bit about your I guess career as an announcer as someone that I always kind of did events. Talk to me just a little bit about how you first got into it and maybe kind of some of those early years doing events. : Well I became an announcer kind of by accident. I would say I was at a event. I think this was even prior to working at Snowboarder. I was at an event and the guy who was announcing the event was like the father of one of the kids and he was like oh and Jimmy and Johnny they like going now on Saturday night. : And he was just telling these personal stories had nothing to do with the the writing that was going on in the contest. And so basically I snatched the mike out of his hand was like that's a five 40. That is a make twist twist. Right. And I just started calling Trex because they weren't you know calling the tricks and I was like sponsored snowboarder at that time. And you know I was like that was what was important to me was just being able to call the tricks. And so I did that and then and then I guess that went well enough that I got tapped on the shoulder by this guy Jeremy forester who was kind of coordinating the Grand Prix series and basically my second announcing gig was like announcing the grand prix series and I've done it ever since. : So about 20 years of announcing Grand Prix just based on just being pissed off at this announcer you know just not calling trick or not knowing even what the tricks were you know. And yeah. And so then I got to announce the Olympics. That was quite a rush. And now I've also gotten into doing TV stuff I've done this past Olympics I worked for Euro Sport and interviewed all the medalists right after they won their medals which was really rewarding at least as far as like I learned a lot. : And I mean you're interviewing people that rate at the pinnacle of their lives they're going to look back on that 30 50 years from now and be like that was the best day ever. You know and there I am getting ready to ask them questions I did after like 60 different people. I did for free skiing and snowboarding and so you know I've learned that free skiing and snowboarding are are they have the same blood sweat and tears that go into both pursuits and sort of win a gold medal and free skiing or snowboarding takes the same kind of dedication and effort. So I have an appreciation for that for sure. Did you get did you get Ester Ledeka. Oh I did. Oh yeah I got it carried an interview with her. I'll actually posted behind our patriae on firewall. Yeah. Because I have like little behind the scenes stuff videos and stuff that I post behind the scenes so people who actually donate to the podcast make it happen will get unique content and things you wouldn't actually get as part of a free podcast. I'm also going to give away like I have a whole ton of snowboard historical items that I'm sick of carting around just about through the rearview mirror or out the window a while ago and I'm sick carding so I'll say you're going to give away everything that's in your apartment. Just like slowly over time. Oh more than that to my apartment. I'm probably about a hundred boards I'm going to give away and I'm just going to and I have like a trophy from the U.S. Open. And Danny Cas's original avalanche beacon all sorts of weird random stuff. You know that I've collected over the years and then carted around for 30 years and it's like you know what I don't need to live in the past young and live in the future. And so you know with Alaska it's like I'm still progressing. I still have my Alaska thing going on and so that to me is like the future. And so all I'll just look forward instead of back. : Sure. Let's take it back a little bit. Talk to me just about like a in the announcing side of things. You know what is. What have you found have been the real keys to being I guess a successful announcer. : At first it was just getting over the nervousness like I mean the first time you pick up a mike and you're sitting there and there's a crowd of people here and you hear your voice kind of squeak through the speakers or whatever people like on a crane their neck and turn around to see who's talking right. It's really you feel like the spotlight really burning through you and that was always for years. That was like the hardest thing was like the first minute of announcing every event I would kind of dread that first minute just like and then it just got to the point where I was comfortable with it and I could just just pick up the mike and talk you know to an audience or a crowd or whatever and then speak with confidence you know. And then beyond that have insights and then beyond that not only have like unique insights but also make those insights relatable to people who didn't necessarily understand what was happening as far as the tricks go in trying to explain things that a more basic level you know. And so you know it's always been this idea of progression not to SWID like magazines media or snowboarding but also with announcing so I've tried to you know develop tonality and and the ability to build a story to completion. And right now I'm doing well I'm not going to tell you what I do now because I have this whole thing that that I can now create a storyline that ties together from the beginning to the end of an event. Sure. Right. And so that's got a beginning a middle and an end. Whether they know the writers are doing it or not like I can create that beginning middle and end just by announcing. Sure. So those are some of the things that I'm always trying to push forward. You know. : Yeah and you also do your homework. You go to that you go to the half pipe and you watch them all you know. : Yeah that's like one of the most important things is just studying and knowing what's going to happen before it happens or having a good idea you don't know exactly what's going to happen if someone's going to crash or if someone's going to land that trick or they're even going to try the track. But there's a narrative that you can build before the event even begins. And so now these days anyway I've gotten to the point where I'm taking notes and studying and I'm writing intros for the beginning of the show and stuff like that where it's like I'd really try to make a genuine effort to to just make it a better experience for the people standing there watching and not just calling tricks I mean I did that for years like 15 years or 10 years of just calling Trick Trick Trick Trick Trick Trick. : Wow great Ron Vrain you know. Or will that be enough. Will it be enough. You know it's like the story now is much deeper than that. : Sure. Announcer Cher Yeah it's it's it's difficult being up there right and and like missing like a trick or announcing the wrong thing. : Yeah. And you know it's like I've done that for years I've announced wrong things and I've been called out on it and occasionally you can't really pay attention to everything that's going on at once. I mean you got one set of eyes you got to start list and that's about it. And a microphone. And so you know in your notes and so like if you look down and then you forget the writer's regular goofy and then they're going backwards across the flat bottom not forwards to a different track and so you can call it wrong very easily just by like a simple lapse of concentration as far as those tricks go. And so yeah you're not going to always get it right and it's in Italian or you don't see something you know. I'll just try to say something that gives people a general appreciation for the effort that it takes to do something like that like I didn't see the trick. You'll see that I don't like try to call it or make it up or whatever else I'll try to give some people an appreciation of like how they departed Dilip where the tail came down at the landing and how they built their speed for the next hit or whatever you know and so when I get general it's because I'm not like really focused on the detail of the trick. : It's hard you know. : Have you ever been just like lambasted at the bottom of the hill by a bias no one had thought while you could you're calling of that track really cost them something not by writers I mean the thing is when I first started announcing I was like really raw and probably one of my best learning experiences actually happened announcing a Grand Prix was probably my first year. : I know it's probably my second year announcing grand prize I was working at snowboarder and so I was just like I feel like I pretty much was on top of the world or whatever I knew what I was talking about anyway they validated it through giving me a job in the media and this girl drops and this was pretty early in the progression of women's writing not like it is today but this girl drops in and she double frontside hits like that meaning that she goes up she isn't even clear lit by the way she goes up knows like a turn inside the transition that goes and does like a turn topside turn on the flat bottom. She doesn't even attempt backside and that does another turn on the transition or whatever and so I just tore her apart. I was like oh accosts your dad like you know 150 dollars for the entry fee and 200 dollars for hotel rooms and the cost of gas to get here was 200 dollars and so what you're telling me is you just your dad just spent like 50 dollars a second for you to compete in this event. And she broke down crying. I just tore her apart and so my boss who probably should've fired me at the time but didn't then instead he goes you know I always respect him for this he took me aside just like that girl over there. : Yeah Yassir is like that's the girl you just announced that like I know I know I saw our high announced it and he was like see what she's doing right now and I'm like take a good look oh she's crying he's like how does that make you feel. And I was like not very good actually right. : And so then from then on I was able to kind of try to find positive and everyone's writing share right even if they were riding while I would find something positive to say about them. And you know sometimes you could tell the superficiality of the positive Nasserite I mean if I give you some really dumb compliment it's probably because it's not that impressive you know. But but now nowadays it's like at the Grand Prix level those riders all rip. No one's really rain like doesn't deserve to be there but to me anyway that girl didn't deserve to be in a quote unquote world class competition. She should cut her teeth in like a regional event first instead of trying to make the Olympic team with a bottom turn share. You know so. So anyhow though it's like a learning experience all along the way I've had these learning experiences through snowboarding and snowboarding has been that vehicle I guess that's the purpose of this podcast really is like to share some of the lessons learned through people's experiences in the sport. And so I've had a lot of experience. : I thought I knew a lot about snowboarding but really interviewing the different people that I've been interviewing has really been an eye opening experience as far as like they all have different perspectives and different experiences and also you know talking to a sales manager or you know or like a guy who who is there in the beginning of the sport it's like they have different lessons they've taken different things away from the sport of snowboarding and yet it's all this one thing. And so you know to me it's not just about what is marketable like if you buy an ad page you are worth talking about in the magazine or something along those lines. To me those aren't the stories that are actually the most compelling ones in the sport. So hopefully this podcast can can kind of illuminates some of that stuff and hopefully it's good enough that you're going to want to support it through our patriae on page patriarch Dom slash the snowboard project. Please support this effort. I'd love to continue doing this I'm learning so much and enjoying sharing it with everyone. : Suli I just want to ask you like let's talk about Alaska and why Alaska is why Alaska is important to you. And they may be kind of the early days of tailgate. : Ok well Alaska is the most important thing to me in snowboarding today because when I first got there it's like 1998 99. It was basically like from the very first run the best run I had ever done by far hands down. Nothing even came close. And everyone got better and better from that very first run. And so it was like just mind melting right. The quality of the powder or the open terrain you know and the challenge that you felt like you know I was always built up in those TV movies like you could die you know and so it's like you have this fear and then all of a sudden soon as you drop in you know it goes. It transforms to elation. You know the incredible powder and whatever and so the pendulum swing from fear to elation happens in Alaska like nowhere else for me. And so you know I went back to Alaska a number times I was the editor snowboarder at the time so I could assign myself whatever stories I wanted to so I happened to write the Alaska stories because I wanted to keep going back and you know and then when I sold snowboard magazine built that up and then sold it. : I wanted to do something nice I you know I had some money but it wasn't like you know the few money that some people get when they sell a company I just had like a little bit of money to throw around. So was I going to go on the best snowboard vacation of my life and so I went on a weeklong healthy trip with my buddy who was like the deejay of like all the snowboarding events I was announcing like the U.S. Open. : And I was sitting there at the U.S. Open is like hey I'm going to go to Alaska. I sold them and going to Alaska is like I'd go. Oh perfect that I will go by myself. And I didn't think he was going to do it but he ended up like call me up weekly or like OK what's the deal with Alaska let's do this. : So we ended up going to Alaska and we spent like a week helli boarding at this place called a B.A. and it's actually like where tailgate started and. And so it was basically like the whole scene in Alaska was about 20 people at that time. It's like away 070 and and it was just the Mack dog crew. : A handful of French guys and then me and my buddy and we were like the only ones there who were like vacationing the French guys were like making a movie. MacDawg crew is like DCP and Yussi Oksanen and Andreas Wiig and those guys were filming the Mack dog movie. And so we would just hang out and all the downtimes. : Right. And so I'm driving back from from that trip. And on the drive between you know baldies in Anchorage I was like Man I got to figure out a way to share this with more people. And that's where tailgate Alaska was born. So really it was just this thing where it was like the idea of sharing Alaska with more people and promoting that ultimate experience and you know getting people to slay their own personal dragons of fear to face your fear and overcome it. And I think everyone has that experience whether you're a pro or whether you're a guy from the east coast who'
Get Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tips from Jay Colognori, Director of Business Development at Electronic Instrumentation & Technology (EIT). DFM and Design for Assembly (DFA) are important to engineers who know you can’t just design a PCB and throw it over the wall to manufacturing. Early and proactive optimization of all the manufacturing functions from fabrication to assembly of the final system is key. Listen to Jay and Judy discuss high-yield designs, EIT’s value-added engineering services and the latest state-of-the-art inspection technology and test capability. Show Highlights: Jay was educated at Virginia Tech where he attained an EE Degree, followed by a Master's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He spent most of his career in the mid-atlantic and his career spans from board level electronic design to applications engineering doing custom microelectronics for a couple of years, eventually ending up in PCB Design first at TTM and now at EIT. EIT has been in existence for 42 years, and specialize in electronic manufacturing services, turnkey builds, box builds, and demand fulfillment and consider their Engineering value add as part of their DNA. EIT has three facilities on the East Coast, consisting of over 200,000 sq ft. They have a facility in Danville Virginia, headquarters in Leesburg and another in Salem, New Hampshire. Altogether they have eight surface mount lines. The Danville facility is designated as the low-cost center of excellence and is also a 100% vertically integrated location - it is built for box builds. Leesburg and Salem are high-tech facilities with the latest state-of-the-art universal equipment, as well as the latest and greatest inspection technology and a full suite of test capability - with a lot going on and a story that needs to get out - it’s almost been a secret! New EIT website DFM: Bare board tips 2 objectives - 1) to design so that it can be fabricated reliably and with high yields, and 2) so that it can be assembled VM Pad requires a wrap plating process to provide a reliable button around the via. This process requires more copper which can wreak havoc with fine line design, so be sure to plan upfront and move those fine line geometries to the inner layers. Overlapping via structures can’t be made. They need to be stacked and sequential, not overlapping. Sit down with your PCB Fabricator at the time of stackup development, before you even start that router and make sure everyone’s happy with the stackup. FR4 has too high a Dk for high speed designs today and new materials such as teflon or ceramic-filled laminates are becoming more common. If you work with a new material, consult with your PCB fabricator to see how the rules have changed with that new material for the speed you desire. DFA Wisdom: Common Pads - so close together that they touch, rather than routing a thin signal from pad to pad is a common problem. We don’t want them to physically share the same space which will cause loss of control over the solder flow. Keep the pads apart and just run a small solder trace between them. The via in the pad has to be filled, it must be plated over and planarized. Sometimes the planarization isn’t done properly and even a little dimple, with a BGA on top, will cause the gas trapped beneath the solder paste, to expand ferociously and blow all the solder out of the pad at reflow. Always use non-conductive filler it’s much less expensive. The benefit of using conductive fill from a thermal point is negligible and is too expensive for the return. Thermal conductivity is defined in Wattmeters - if you use a conductive fill, you only get 6 more wattmeters which is rather pointless because the copper is already doing all the work. When a thermal via is located in a big plane, with a copper button around it - the button will be in contact with the plane and this is a big no-no. It compromises the solder flow again. Do a sprocket arrangement around that thermal via button. This will create a gap between the button and plane and sprockets simply act as traces surrounding it - very good design practice, frequently missed. Especially on backplanes with active components, this will require retooling to enable manufacturability. Why has design migrated as a service inside many EMS companies? What is the value to the customer? It’s a benefit to both the customer and the EMS. We want to do more for the customer than just assemble the circuit cards. We want projects going through without a hitch, no delays. What we all want is production of electronics. Why did EIT recently choose to onboard Altium Designer internally over other tools? Firstly it’s an all-inclusive package. It’s schematic and design, we like the ECAD and MCAD interface which makes it easy to do 3D fit models. We love the room creation capability that allows you to reuse previous designs. It has very solid DFM rules capability which are set up in advance - that’s a nice piece of insurance. It’s reasonably priced compared to the other high-end tools as well. Engineers After Hours: Big hiker, especially the Rocky Mountains. We’re going to do 3 national parks this summer. Unique hobbies? Jay has been a dart player since the age of 19. Played in a couple of US opens. Pro advice: 2-3 beers is the sweet spot for optimal dart throwing performance. Links and Resources: EIT Electronic Instrumentation & Technology Website Jay Colognori on Linkedin EIT on Linkedin About Jay Colognori AltiumLive 2018: Annual PCB Design Summit Hey everyone, this is Judy Warner with Altium's OnTrack podcast. Thanks for joining us again. I appreciate everyone that's following, we are spreading like wildfire and we thank you for all your comments and opinions and we always look forward to hearing about things you want to hear - so reach out to us on Twitter; I'm @AltiumJudy, or you can connect with me on LinkedIn or Altium is on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. So today I have a longtime friend and ex colleague, Jay Colognori and Jay is the Director of business development at EIT which is Electronic Instrumentation and Technology in Richmond Virginia, and you're gonna have fun just listening to Jay because it's like talking to Matthew McConaughey! So you girls out there? We're gonna just have fun listening to Jay talk... Just kidding, but he does have a nice Southern drawl. So Jay, thanks so much for joining us today, and we look forward to talking to you about DFA and some technical stuff today. So thanks for joining. Thank you for having me. This is an exciting time at EIT we just added on Altium capability and so I'm delighted to get to the word out, and what better way to do it than talking to you? Well, you know when you suck up to your friends at Altium, you get on the podcast. That's how it works around here. So Jay, Why don't you start out by telling our listeners a little bit about your educational background and your professional background sort of set the stage for us? Okay sure. I picked up an EE Degree at Virginia Tech and then a Master's EE at the University of Virginia. So you could say I'm a son of Virginia for sure. I managed to spend most of my career here in the Mid-Atlantic and my career spans from board-level electronic design to integrated circuits, VLSI design, and then kind of jumped over to the other side of the table and became an Applications Engineer, doing custom microelectronics and had a few years running a rep firm making some commissions along the way, and then I ended up in the printed circuit board business working for DDI and VIASystems, now TTM, and one of my customers was a company called Zentech which was an Electronic Manufacturing services company, and I went to work for them. And now I work for EIT who is also situated in the Mid-Atlantic. I do want to correct one thing you mentioned. I live in Richmond, Virginia, but EIT is based in Leesburg, Virginia where we have two other facilities, I can talk some more about that. Alright. Thanks for correcting me there. So with all that variety of background why don't you tell us a little bit about where you are now and about EIT and what their expertise is, and what kind of technology makes they handle and so forth? Yeah. Okay, so I joined EIT back in March, very happy to be there. This is a company that's in its 42nd year of providing... Wow. Yeah - Engineering services which then led to electronic manufacturing services. So we do both; engineering is very much in our DNA, we consider our engineering value-add to be an important part of most of our customer relationships. So, you know, the thing about being in the electronic manufacturing service is that it's kind of a commodity when you look at it from the standpoint of just picking and placing parts with machines. So, we're looking to engage customers at additional levels, including engineering, turnkey builds, turnkey testing solutions, of all manner, box build if necessary, demand fulfillment, soup-to-nuts… so that we're doing more than just using those machines. And EIT has three facilities on the East Coast. Altogether we have over 200,000 square feet of brick and mortar which makes us pretty big for a small company. We have a facility in Danville, Virginia. Our headquarters is in Leesburg. And then another in Salem, New Hampshire. Altogether, I've got eight surface mount lines to keep busy. Danville is what we designated our low-cost center of excellence. It's also a 100% vertically integrated location because they can do any kind of metalwork, cabling wire, box build. We have all that in place. It's a purpose-built facility to support the box builds, which we like to do for our customers. We don't do metal stand-alone, although occasionally I'll build a heat sink or something for somebody. We tend to allocate that factory towards our customer box builds. Okay. And then Leesburg, and Salem New Hampshire are high-tech facilities, they both have the latest state-of-the-art universal equipment, so we can back each other up if something goes wrong and they both have a full suite of the latest and greatest and automated inspection technologies and a full suite of test capability. Wow that sounds impressive! It's a heck of a lot going on, and a story that needs to get out; it's kind of been a kept a secret lately so yeah... I haven't heard of them. I mean I'm on the left coast, of course, but I had not heard of them, but they sound like a really great facility with a really good… going all the way from true engineering to box builds. That's nice. So… and we'll make sure to share the link, by the way, for any of you listeners who are looking for a good EMS or engineering service or whatever. We'll be sure to share that link on the show notes. So yeah, and please do, because we're launching a new website next week, so I want to get that out. Okay. Hopefully the timing for that'll work out. Okay. Alright good. We'll send you some traffic for your new website. So Jay, because of the breadth of your knowledge and experience and background I thought it'd be great for our listeners today if you shared a few tips from, you know, being that you came from some of the largest board manufacturers and certainly in North America and almost the world - maybe three tips or so, on bare boards and then a few on DFA to help the designers in our audience, and engineers in our audience, that might want to learn a few tips and tricks from a pro? Okay, you know I came up with a few of each, you know, really when you're looking to design a printed circuit board, you have two fundamental objectives: one, to design it so that it can be fabricated reliably and with high yields. And then two; so that it can be assembled. So there's mistakes that can be made that can affect both key processes. So first of all, let's talk a little bit about PCB design issues that affect PCB fabrication and reliability and, you know, none of these I think are gonna be earth-shattering, but it's interesting to see the same mistakes being made a lot over and over again.So, we just kind of keep - we're banging the drum and we hope everybody gets the message sooner or later. So, I guess beginning with VM pad. There's more and more VM pad today, by necessity, and VM pad, in order to be done reliably, requires a wrap plating process. Without getting into specifics of what that does, what the purpose of it is, it provides a reliable button around the via. Without the wrap plating process. It's an unreliable arrangement, but that requires the addition of more copper on the outer layers than you would see otherwise, and this wreaks havoc with the fine line design. So, if you're at 3 mill tracing space or below, you really can't tolerate that extra copper; so it requires planning upfront. Understand, if you're gonna need wrap plating and if so, maybe move those fine lines geometries to the inner layers where that won't come into play. Okay, that makes sense. And it'll get you, I mean, you think your design's done and then the next thing you know, your fabricator says, well you know, you realize I'm going to add this much copper to the outside and now you're violating tracing space. I've seen this happen too when there's multiple on RF and microwave boards too and you have... when you're doing sequential LAM or whatever, and you keep plating, plating, and people don't, when they do their simulations, don't add in those extra layers are getting extra copper too. So you really can throw you off. All right. That's a good one. Here's another one that you know, I'm told we're still seeing a lot of it in the market by the guys that I used to work with at DDI, and that is, you know, they'll see overlapping via structures where the designer has put a via from say, level one and three, and another one from level two to eight; that can't be made. They have to be stacked; they have to be sequential. They can't be overlapping but believe it or not. You see it. I've seen it many many times, but you know, to be fair, sometimes when I look at those cords and figure out how they're gonna be stacked up, it… you know. I get confused too. So... Well, I mean, I'll say this again and again: sit down with your PCB fabricator at the time you develop your stack up and your basic via structure and basically your structure is going to be driven by the toughest part of the design. Maybe it's a BGA with a finer pitch than you've ever used before. You're not even sure how to route it, you're probably going to have to stack some micro vias, or at the very least, have some blind or buried vias to get the job done. Sit down with a fabricator, before you even start that router, and make sure that everybody likes the stack up and that it looks manufacturable. Yep, very sound advice. Okay, that's another good one, got another one for us? One more I want to talk about, because this is happening more and more, you know, all the designs are getting faster and faster. I mean, high speed digital is now in the radio frequency and, FR4 is just has too high a dielectric for most of the new designs now, so many PCB designers are going to have to work with materials they haven't worked with before, the more exotic, more expensive materials, and when you start talking about fabricating a PCB with Teflon versus FR4, you're talking about different processing altogether. So, when you go to a new material, consult with your PCB guy as to which material would be suitable for the speed you're looking at, and ask them, okay, how have the rules changed with that material? What are your limitations? And you can ask the EMS provider the same question, because the parent circuit board is the foundation upon which all of our business is done. So we understand PCBs, but I think especially with materials you want to talk to the fabricator. Yeah, it's true and when I worked for an RF and microwave shop once, I told them, I said: you know, sometimes when you see a piece of Teflon material and a piece of... I don't know, Rogers 4350, until you strip the coffer off. You can't tell it's different, but inside the board shop that Teflon can turn into bubble gum, it's not reinforced. But when you take the copper off and you go like this [motions] it like flaps in the wind where 43-50 will remain rigid so, kind of gives you a visual sense of, this is radically different. And the way that it processes inside the shop, and how, the way it interacts with chemicals, moisture, heat, so it is true - the closer you can be when you go into those materials, to your fabricator. Okay, those were three good ones. All right how about DFA wisdom? Okay, well one we see quite often, and I guess it's tempting for the designer to do this, because he thinks he's kind of found a shortcut and a way to use less PCB area, but you see a lot of guys trying to use what we call common pads, and these are pads that are so close together that they touch, rather than routing a thin signal from pad to pad. So these pads do share the same signal, but we don't want them to physically share the same space. That causes us problems with controlling what the solder does once it flows, so keep those pads apart, and run a just a small signal trace between them. And then we'll let the solder mask do the rest, and we can control the flow of the solder. So that's a real simple one, but we run into it a lot. Okay. I talked before about VM pad, we see a lot of designs where people don't fill that via. If the via is in the pad, it's got to be filled, and it must be plated over and planerized. Sometimes that's done properly sometimes it's not. There's a little dimple there... Yup. If there's a dimple in that pad and I place a BGA ball on top of that gas, it's gonna get trapped underneath the solder paste that I apply and there'd be a little air in that dimple and heated gas expands; it expands ferociously. It doesn't want to stay where it is and it'll blow all the solder right out of the pad at reflow time and you know I have customers argue with me against it, it is expensive to fill and planerize via, but it's the right thing to do. You have to do it if you want reliable BGA connections. These are leadless parts that we can't inspect visually, we have to use x-ray. It's not really practical to use a hundred percent x-ray inspection except on high-reliability applications like military, maybe medical. So we lot, we lot-sample these BGAs with X-ray and if we don't see any problems with a lot we carry on. So, I can't emphasize that enough, to fill those vias and fill those vias properly. And I would add further, that there's no point, you know, we have some people that are using thermal vias, these are vias really which are designed, not necessarily to conduct an electrical signal, although they do, but to conduct electricity from a hot part from maybe a ground plane, might be an inner layer or wherever, and you run into people who call out… so there has to be a filling to fill those vias before they're plated over. Right. And there's two types of filling: there's conductive and there's non-conductive. I strongly recommend never to use conductive. Non conductive is much less expensive. The benefit of using conductive fill from a thermal point of view is super minimal. I mean, the copper's doing all the work... Okay. -and if you need to draw or pull more current or more thermal energy, just create more thermal vias because the copper's doing all of the work. I mean, I'll give you some numbers: thermal conductivity is defined in wattmeters, a typical via is going to give you over 600 wattmeters of conduction, if you fill it with conductive fill you only get six more wattmeters. What's that compared to... Oh, yeah. -380 I'm sorry, 380's what the copper gives you. The non-conductive only has point six wattmeters.But the point is both of those are in the noise compared to with the copper's doing. Right. And last but not least. Good luck trying to get a printed circuit board fabricated in China with conductive fill they don't do it over there. Really? Right so well, maybe somebody's doing it but we're having a hard time finding any. Interesting hhm.Why is that? Because it's not, it's not... They just don't like it? It's not important so we're just not doing it? I don't think anybody should be doing it, it doesn't make sense to me, it's too expensive for the return. Interesting, I'd never heard that before actually, but it makes sense with those numbers. I'm kind of surprised it took root for a while. We recommended as far back as five years ago, at DDI, not to use conductive fill, I think it's a dinosaur that it's day has come and gone, but there's probably some engineers out there right now, going no! Huuu! [laughter] We'll see... Yeah well show me the data, you know, and when when there's enough good research out there and data people stop doing it. I'm sure. Okay, so along the lines of thermal vias, here's another tip. A lot of times a thermal via will be located in a big plane so you'll have the via, and the copper button around it will actually be in contact with the plane - this is a no-no. This makes it very hard to deal with the solder flow again. So what we ask our customers to do; is do a sprocket arrangement around that thermal via button and so basically that button will exist - there'll be a gap between it and the plane around it, and then the sprockets are simply traces above, below, and the right and left and that - it's an arrangement of the sprocket - very good design practice, frequently missed and, it's not unusual that we have to go back and retool the board to add those in order to make it. Especially back planes with active components; you see a lot of that and they have to retool to add that feature to make it manufacturable. Well, these are good tips. You were concerned you didn't have good tips. I think these are really good tips actually. Well glad you do. I do, not that I spend all my days, you know, pondering DFA these days, but that's good. You know Jay, you and I worked together for a small bit of time and something I've noticed over the years I don't know... maybe five, ten years, it seems like there's been a migration of more EMS shops that go in to have PCB designers in their shop and not so much I guess, fabricators - at least that I've noticed, they may be there, of course they do with larger shops, but why do you think that is and why do you think that's a good idea? Well, I think it's a great idea for both the customer and the EMS. We, as I mentioned before, we want to do more for the customer than just assemble the circuit cards and if a customer, an Altium customer, finds themselves in a position where they need to outsource some of their design, maybe they you know, their designers are saturated, maybe they just need the resources. What better place to do it than at a guy that knows how to assemble the cards and really understands the issues about fabrication and about assembly. Your chances are that the design from your EMS provider is going to go right through new product introduction without a hitch, whereas if you do it internally and you're not aware of some of the issues you know, it won't go through it without a hitch. We may not catch the problem until it's too late. And we may see several tooling iterations, and you'll see a delay and nobody wants to delay during new product introduction - everybody's in a hurry to get their prototypes. And nobody wants to waste money because that's going to be expensive too - Yeah, but we think there's a lot of serendipity between that particular engineering function and getting to what we all want. Which is production of electronics. Well that does make sense in that, we both know Mike Brown, and Mike I trusted implicitly to know about fab and assembly and he would catch all that stuff so he did have a broader understanding than maybe, somebody who just does, you know has a consulting firm say, that does designs because he's around it all the time all, day long so there's certainly a lot of exposure there. So that makes sense. Well, first of all, welcome to the Altium family! You told me recently that your designer on-boarded Altium Designer 18, that's exciting for us. So thank you for that. What made you - I'm gonna go for a little pat on the back for Altium right here. I want you to tell us why you, why EIT chose to go Altium Designer over perhaps another tool? Okay. Well, we think some of the key features of Altium; first of all, it's an all-inclusive package so it's schematic capture and printed circuit board design. You don't have to worry about working with two different pieces of software. We like the fact that there's an e-CAD m-CAD interface which makes it really easy for us to do three-dimensional fit models once we place the components. We love the room creation capability which as I understand it, allows you to take a previous design, a piece of it, and then just kind of cut and paste it right into your new design. Yeah. So you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I think that's pretty strong and then, last but not least very solid DFM rules capability that you know, is really going to help us get to where we need to be. I mean the fact is these boards need to be designed to IPC standards and the fabricators have tailored their process to meet these standards; and when you send them something that's outside those bounds, the mechanism sort of locks up. It just doesn't work. You'll get a 'no-bid' or bells will go off, so those design rules are critical and that you have the ability to set them up in advance is a nice piece of insurance so; I think it's a reasonably priced tool compared to the other high-end tools as well. So we're pleased to have it. Good. Well, thank you again we're happy to have you on board and I'll needle you later about sending your designer to AltiumLive because we're gonna have a really good conference with some good training coming up. So your designer will probably enjoy going if you guys have the time and budget to do that. Well, keep me posted on when and where. I will it's coming up in October. So Jay, we're kind of wrapping up here, but if you've listened to these podcasts before, you'll know that sometimes I like to ask designers or engineers like yourself, what you like to do after hours, and we call this portion of the podcast designers after hours. So, I know you have a couple interesting hobbies...so why don't you tell those to our listeners because I think they're kind of fun? Well, I'm looking forward to 10 days in Montana and Wyoming this September, I'm a big hiker, and nothing is more fun than hiking up in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. So we're gonna hit three national parks; we're gonna do about two to six hours of hiking a day or as much as my legs can give me and just have just an awesome lifetime outdoor experience and hopefully not run into a grizzly bear along the way… my wife's really worried about that, by the way [laughter]. Bring your grizzly repellent! And then, I know you wanted me to talk about one other thing... My favorite... Yeah, as you know, we business development types are very competitive and what better setting to compete against each other than you know, in a pub throwing some darts. So I've been a dart player since I was 19 and took it very seriously for a while, and spent way too much time on it. Actually traveled every weekend to tournaments all around the United States and played in a couple of US Opens. But that was a long time ago, now I just play for fun on Monday nights. That cracks me up. You are the one and only competitive traveling dart player that I know... Okay, but my favorite part is - tell about the beer to success ratio of a good dart player. Oh yeah, so so we're throwing a 27 gram projectile at a target about the size of a dime and turns out, that if you get nervous or you try too hard, you're not going to be very successful with that. So, it turns out that, that second or third beer really kind of smooths out your stroke and you generally shoot a little bit better. At least that's what we rationalize. And what happens if you go over three? Yeah, that's that's a slippery slope indeed. You've got to be careful... That is so funny oh my gosh. Okay well, that is like one of my favorite, I think, designer after our hobbies yet. So when I come out, we'll find a place and throw a few. Okay. Alright, I'll get my three beers ready Okay! No, actually for me, I'd be like half a beer, like three beers you'd be putting me in an Uber and sending me home. I'm a wimp. So Jay, thanks so much for your time. These have been great tips and it's good to see your face my friend, and I wish you all the success at EIT, and we will certainly share all the links in the show notes and we'll also put the link to AltiumLive in the show notes and we'll encourage your designer to come out and join us as one of the new new beasts of the Altium family. So we'll include that as well. So thanks again for joining and we'll talk to you soon, my friend. Thank you Judy, it was my pleasure. Thanks again for listening to the podcast. This has been Judy Warner with the Altium OnTrack podcast and Jay Colognori from EIT, and we look forward to seeing you next time. Until then always stay on track.
Alex Griendling is the co-owner of Lunar Saloon with his wife Meg. On the episode, we talked about movie posters, creative freedom, and making what you want. Links: Lunar Saloon: https://lunarsaloon.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexgriendling Stardeck: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarsaloon/stardeck-space-grade-playing-cards MCAD: https://mcad.edu/ Notes: -Lunar Saloon -Bouncy Smash -The gaming industry -Cold tweeting -Making what you want -Kickstarters -Stardeck -Astro Alphabet -Interlink -Movie posters -The film industry -Creative freedom -Google -Design vs. Being a designer -Teaching at MCAD -Client relationships -Design process -Starting with sketches -Not being defensive to feedback -Minneapolis -California -Starting Lunar Saloon -The future of Lunar Saloon -Being proud of your work -Twitch -Live streaming -Dream Client: Valve on branding fake corporations and characters within their games -Favorite animated film: Akira, Princess and the Frog, Who Framed Roger Rabbit -What do the people you love think you do for a living: Logos and stuff -Animalator: Dinosaur
Join Altium’s Judy Warner and Ben Jordan for a conversation on Multiboard PCB design. Show Highlights: Many different product areas are being impacted by developments in Electronics, opening new frontiers - beauty products, wearables Electronics are replacing things that traditionally were not electronics Electronics product development are increasingly driven by engineers, but other makers are inspiring growth in the market - i.e. sofas, smart homes Design and product driven electronics, PCB designers are being pushed to partion boards into multiboard systems Everybody faces this multiboard challenge Immediate visual feedback in 3D design / 3D modeling definitely helps Major recurring challenge in industry: aligning connectors and aligning components that have some kind of outward expression on the actual product; MCAD and PCB assembly alignment. Multiboard design editor allows you to do this. Altium trivia and the origin of making tools for makers Ben's brother and his first soldering tool Links and Resources: Multiboard in Altium Designer 18 Hey everybody, Judy Warner here. Welcome to the OnTrack podcast.I'm the Director of Community Engagement here at Altium and this is our very first podcast.You're very brave to listen and we're happy to have you. If you're new to OnTrack altogether be sure to sign up for our OnTrack newsletter which is online at resources.altium.com, or watch our OnTrack instructional video series which you can find on YouTube, and our goal with OnTrack is our tagline is to inspire, educate, and connect, and by bringing you together, the PCB design community, we hope to do that. So, please add this podcast to your favorite RSS feed or on iTunes and you can also follow me personally, please oh please, on LinkedIn or at Twitter at Altium, at Altium Judy and follow Altium on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Now, let's get into the fun stuff. So, today I thought we would talk about a subject that seems to be prevalent today in PCB design conversation, and that is about multi-board design. Many designs are going, as things become more complex, as we all know the automotive market, and so many others, because of size, weight, and power, they're being smaller, we're having to do rigid flex design, we're folding things upon themselves, we're fiting things into very tight spaces so you may have just been laying out single board designs not long ago and then you find yourself entering this sort of complex world that comes with it, comes with it a lot of, you know, new and challenging new aspects of things you need to think about in the overall design. So, a few of those things that I've learned about from my guest Ben Jordan is partitioning, connection management, and signal and power integrity. So I brought in Ben Jordan, who is our resident multi-board expert, and my friend and colleague, and partner in crime. Thanks for having me.So Ben, talk about what you see sort of currently going on in the EDA market as a whole, what's going on at Altium, and what kind of challenges specifically you see designers facing and sort of how they overcome them.Yeah, well, if you look at the PCB design and electronics board level electronics design sort of industry over history over the last, I don't know, even four decades, the march has always been in it. I can't see it changing any time really soon, to make things smaller, cheaper, more reliable,better for production runs, and more compact, and that's really taken an uptick. It's, to me, if I could graph complexity versus board area, I'm sure it would look something like a hockey stick.You know, up- Mmhm.-up and to the right, and that really has always been that way, it's just that with exponential things like this, we see it, the further to the right you go the more acute it becomes, the issue of trying to fit more in less space, and this is partly brought on by higher levels of integration in thesemiconductor side, sometimes it's alleviated by that as our guest at AltiumLive recently in Munich, Lee Richie, aptly pointed out that- Mmhm.PCB designs can in some cases get simpler and simpler because more integration on the actual microprocessor is happening,but at the same time we're dealing with greater densities, greater pin out densities, but something that we have noticed in our industry is, is that there are many companies that were not electronics companies or that on the outside their products may not be considered primarily an electronic device, but- I just saw this in a magazine, like a whole article about electronics and beauty products, like, what?Right, exactly. Or like, a device you can put on your thumbnail so you know if you're gonna get sunburned, and it's an electronic device, t's, it's everywhere. Like you said, it's very prevalent.Yeah, like, wearables is actually a classic sort of prescient example of that, where we, we no longer have mechanical watches. A mechanical watch is considered a luxury item these days and is very expensive if it is a genuine mechanical watch. Mmhm.Just like having a horse has become a luxury item after the automobile replaced the entire horse industry, and we see the same thing happen in many different sort of product realms, and so wearables is a good example of that. I wear a Fitbit, I love this thing, it's cool.Me too, yours is cooler than mine now. A lot of my friends have Apple Watches as well and, so electronics is replacing things that traditionally weren't and these companies are primarily driven by product design and function, not by the engineering team having a good idea. So electronics companies in the past, and there's still many of them that do do this, see themselves as an electronics company and the product development is driven by engineering and inventors who are electrical engineers or equivalent, but then there's this whole growth in the market that happens through furniture makers, ar makers, you name it. That's another weird thing I saw.You name it, and they're becoming- -about the sofa, there's like a whole deviceset being embedded into a sofa, I'm like what?And smart homes, just think of all the control going on. Yeah, yeah yeah.So, so these, but a lot of these are design slash mechanically driven product manufacturers or designers and so the electronics has to fit within that and as a result PCB designers more and more are being forced to partition the design into a multi-board system. So how do you think we're doing as an EDA industry and addressing that and giving them tools that are, you know, easy to onboard and get up to speed quickly, right? They can't spend six months learning how to do really excellent multi-board design, so- -Exactly, so everybody, that's just it, every, everybody faces this multi-board challenge, but in the past, we're not the first company, we're not the first, Altium is not the first EDA company to provide a multi-board design solution, but we are the first in that range of the market where anybody can actually afford our, our tools. If they're a professional designer they can afford Altium Designer and it's pretty well known, and our mission has always been to include the technology people need for everyday kind of design, and advanced technology for design and not withhold that just because somebody is not an enterprise customer. I mean the enterprise has different needs around data management and workflow management, but from an actual design and computer-aided design perspective every PCB designer should have multi-board design capabilities because they all face the same problems, and so I think this is the first timethat in the mainstream we've seen anybody address this multi-board design issue with proper connectivity management and 3D modeling of the system to make sure everything's going to fit.So typically, if you, if you're a PCB designer, and you want multi-board capabilities,that's going to be, it's going to be a huge cost driver for the software at large, I'm not talking about Altium per-se but if you wanted to acquire that ability inside your EDA software it's expensive than, you're saying. Yeah, up until now it's been very high-end packages that had this capability that we're, we're talking maybe ten times the licensing cost, but. Wow.But, I mean there's many different ways of doing it, and most people out there, even myself in my hobby context in my shed, I've done multi-board design systems, and so I realized, and Altium, you know we realized, that it's something everybody needs and we shouldn't withhold it and charge extra for it. It's, it's just, it is a mainstream problem and so the technology should be available to the mainstream. So, that the other way of doing it of course is how people aredoing it up until now if they don't have those tools. You have to create Excel spreadsheets or Google Sheets to maintain lists of pins on different connectors, which connector is where on the design. You have to create a hop, a high level or top level, I nearly said hop level. [laughter] You have to, I know, it's crazy but you have to, you have to do this kind of stuff because if you think about the actual problems associated with it there's, there's, there's a couple of different things. If you're doing a simple stacking design, you can reuse a board shape, for example. The boards will always, not always but maybe they will be the same shape. Think of an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi that has, has shields or capes or whatever they plug into it and they stack up vertically through the connectors and that's, that's a nice elegant way to prototype things, butto go to production it's a bit tricky, and if you're, if you're developing a multi-board system like that it's fairly straightforward, but most systems are not that straightforward, and the different PCBs within the overall product may be in different locations, different planes of orientation, and can interconnect with board to board connectors or cables and harnesses, and then you get into issues like, how do you, how do you manage the pin outs? That's a big one.Connection management is a big issue, with multi-board designs even if you're stacking one board on top of another and you have a header and a socket, a mating socket, most people don't even realize until this, the blue, magic blue smoke is coming out of the first prototype [laughter] that, well actually the female connectors pin out is numbered from looking top down on it, in terms of the library and the footprint in the library you start traditionally pin one is at the top left and you go anti-clockwise, but that means when that connector is on the bottom side of a board plugging into another board beneath it, it's mirrored.Yeah. And this very simple thing can wreak havoc on the design process and time-to-market so, so we needed to provide tools to prevent those kinds of problems.And I'm not a designer. I am, come from the fab and EMS side, so I'm honestly asking these questions, I'm not, but doesn't the ability of our software to do 3D help with that to visually giveyou a sense that it's flipping instead of just sort of imagining how it's gonna go together- It certainly does.-until it's physically in front of you?Yeah, it's really important to have that immediate visual feedback in whatever tools you're using, and if what you do is design anything, you need immediate visual feedback to get things right, and having that 3D modeling helps you align things, but the other side of this, the other area which is probably aside from incorrect pin assignments, one of the other areas that we noted in the industry that people struggle the most with is aligning connectors and aligning components that have some kind of outward expression on the actual product.So, in my, I think of audio gear all the time because I'm into that, right, but, so one example is if I were designing a new amplifier I'm going to have some potentiometers and other controls on the front panel and so I have an enclosure, I have a front panel that has markings, and it has holes, and that's designed in MCAD, but the PCB assembly has to align perfectly to that, and I may actually want to realign components to match external holes and cutouts in the enclosure, and the multi-board design editor actually allows you to do that, allows you to go into a mode where you can actually move individual components and there could be things like potentiometers, or that their main intent is connectors that have to interface with other mating connectors on other boards, and you can actually cause them to snap together so that on the other PCB design you've got absolute confidence that you can make that first prototype and the connector will be in the right place and other components won't interfere with it in 3D space. Yeah, I've seen some of you designers here in our office doing these, you know, rotating and showing, oh if I fold this over then this component is gonna run into that part or whatever I'm being able to just shift things slightly and it move kind of globally, is it's really fun to watch.It looks almost like a computer game to me, right? Yeah.But it's really great how you can move that and and see it mechanically, you know in that 3D space instead of, remember the old days of prototyping, going whoops, forgot about that, and it was completely built out and there's all these expensive parts and you would salvage what you can but some were just like going in the trash can, and I actually have an interesting bit of Altium history trivia about that. Alright let's hear trivia, cool.because we had, we had that exact issue, we, some people who've been around our orbitfor a while will have, will remember that we used to do FPGA design stuff, and we actually had a hardware design team, and their role was to design development boards for developing FPGA designs in Altium Designer, and those boards were modular so we had the Nanoboard 2 is the one on thinking of, we had this huge motherboard, and on top of that you had a daughter card that plugged right in that had, that could have different FPGAs you could try from different FPGA manufacturers, and we had another three different modules you could plug into different locations on the board and each had different input output options, and so during the design process of this we ran into issues with 3D clearance. There were some actual problems, this is a multi-board system, and back then the only way our hardware team were able to model this was to print the board designs that they did have in outlines out in 2D and cut those out and glue them one-to-one on bits of cardboard, corrugated cardboard.I would cut it all out of cardboard and glue with hot melt glue or hot snot we'd call it. [laughter] They'd use hot snot to glue the connectors in the positions where they would be on the final boards and plug them all together like this multi-board mock-up using cardboard, and the actual bulky components would be on it. That's funny.And it was so time-consuming and, too tempting sometimes to leave out some parts that should have been on that model but just, due to time constraints were left off, and I remember-Plus I'm thinking, and then the CEO walks by and thinks you're doing arts and crafts, I mean. Well, I mean it was necessary, but we actually had some boards that couldn't be plugged in in their first revision and had to be revised with a different bill of materials because there was, there were some power supply inductors that stuck out too far and when the whole assembly was together they, they seriously would not fit.So, it had, it's like, if only we'd had this then maybe we could have reduced the cost of the product, products, and so on. So there's a lot of, and as I was saying earlier I think it's inevitable that any professional designer will run into these sorts of problems at some point, the tools need to be provided for them.Well, I had the rare and cool opportunity to speak to Dave Warren one time on a Skype call from Australia, one of our original founders, and I was just trying to get a sense of who the company was and he just reminded me of like, a swashbuckling pirate, like give 'em the tools, you know like, he just he, you can tell he was so passionate about, nobody should pay these, you know, crazy prices for functionality. Whoever wants 'em should have them, by God. You know, in his Aussie accent like you and he cracked me up but I really, it really came through to me that he was about make sure that anyone who wants these tools can have them. That they're reachable and that, it's a fun story by the way. That's cool well that has been an undercurrent of the whole history since the founding and, to hear that straight from the horse's mouth is not at all surprising to me.I remember him sharing a similar story about when we acquired NeuroCAD in- Oh he told me about that, yeah. -the late 90's.So NeuroCAD was the first neural net based, you know routing technology. Yeah, he told me they were charging 118 grand for that software, and he said "we, so we bought it and we cut the" I'm doing like Scottish accent now, "we cut the bloody horns off it and gave it to the people." Yeah, they priced it-So, how much did you sell it for after that?It was $395 I believe. $395, after $118 grand.And the company that developed it sold maybe three or four licenses to a few big companies.We acquired the technology and start, immediately put the price at like, 395 or, you know, under$400 and it sold in the first month, it was over a million dollars of sales because it just, people wanted it they just couldn't afford it. Well, we are out of time, but one last thing I want to thank you by the way for sharing all that. Every time I talk I learn something amazing from you, Ben. So, on the fun side, I've always noticed, I've worked with PCB designers over 25 years plus, and something I noticed they all had in common is they have really interesting lives. I like to call it designers after hours. So Ben Jordan, what do you do after hours?Ooh, ooh that sounds risqué. Yeah no no, this is a G-rated podcast. I'm a very G-rated person after hours actually.I've always been into technology but I'm also from, I'm the youngest of six and from a very musical family so all my brothers and sisters were into music and played instruments and actually the reason I'm into electronics is because of my oldest brother, Les, he was a great guitarist but he was also an electronics technician and used to build his own tube amps and all sorts of cool stuff, so he gave me my first lessons in electronics and my first lessons in guitar right around the time, he bought me my first soldering iron actually for my eighth birthday and taught me how to solder.I burned myself on that thing many times and I loved every minute.I'm like, this was learning but it was, I've never looked back and then, and then right around when I turned 12 he bought me myfirst electric guitar and I haven't looked back on that either. I mean, we just, we are influenced by the world around us but sometimes in our lives we have kind of heroes, and he's definitely one of my biggest heroes and showed me this, this is, this was what my life was always going to be about.Electronics and guitar and, you know, and now I have a family too, so between, between family and work and, I squeeze hobby electronics and guitar in-between those, but it's very full and very fun. That's great. Well it was great having you and I'm sure we'll have you again 'cause you are a wealth of information on lots of subjects. So, let's just wrap up our first podcast here. Well thanks everyone for listening in on this conversation with myself and Ben Jordan.Please remember to subscribe to this podcast and remember to always stay OnTrack!
Today Anne Marie and Michelle interview Dr. Lawrence Afrin, author of Never Bet Against Occam, about his work with patients dealing with Mast Cell Activation Disorder. Dr. Afrin is sharing with us his experience with identifying and treating this disorder from a holistic perspective. Topics What is Mast Cell Activation Disorder? [2:35] The signs and symptoms of MACD [12:10] How can someone find a doctor that will support them through the diagnosis process? [15:55] Environmental triggers or patterns in patients [25:14] Holistic protocols for MCAD [29:58] MCAD and Histamine Intolerance [40:40] Giving your Doctor grace as they may need to learn about this topic being that it’s so new [56:10] Where to find more from Dr. Afrin (exciting advancements in MCAD research and treatment!) [58:00] Links we mentioned in the podcast: Find more from Michelle at UnboundWellness.com Find more from Anne Marie at GrassFedSalsa.com Join our Facebook group at Facebook.com/groups/UnboundHealing Find more from Dr. Afrin at http://mastcellresearch.com/ Order Dr. Afrin’s book, Never Bet Against Occam, to share with your doctor
Hoje a gravação foi no estúdio da Lambda3 e entrevistamos Giovanni Bassi que abriu as portas da empresa e nos contou, como pessoas que são apaixonadas por inovação realizam grandes mudanças, trazendo suas melhores idéias e colocando em prática. Acompanhem e compartilhem!! Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovannibassi/ Arquiteto de software, focado em boas práticas de arquitetura e engenharia de desenvolvimento. Consultor especialista em .Net, responsável pela adoção de melhores práticas e da tecnologia .Net. Consultor em práticas ágeis. Palestrante profissional em eventos técnicos. Instrutor de cursos sobre .NET, Node.js, Docker, arquitetura de software e agilidade. Escritor em mídia impressa, como revistas, e online, como blogs e sites especializados. Professor universitário. Certificado: MCP, MCAD, MCSD, MCTS Charter, MCDP Enterprise App. Developer Charter, Professional Scrum Master (PSM) III, Professional Scrum Developer. Fluente em inglês. Vanguardista do cicloativismo em TI. http://www.lambda3.com.br Especializações: Agile, Scrum, DDD, TDD, BDD, POO, SOA, Design Patterns, Node.js, Docker, Visual Studio, C#, VB.Net, SQL, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, .Net Framework (desde o beta), NHibernate, Entity Framework, Javascript, TypeScript, Angular, Gulp, XML, Web Services, COM+, IIS, WPF, WCF, WF, XAML, Windows DNA, Enterprise Library, Mobile Development, entre outras. https://imasters.com.br/perfil/giovanni-bassi/?trace=3182418120&source=single https://www.lambda3.com.br/ https://www.baguete.com.br/noticias/04/04/2017/lambda3-compra-br-solucoes
Educator and practitioner in biomimicry, Denise DeLuca has now written down the steps we can take to re-align ourselves with nature in our everyday lives, which may impact how we solve the world's problems. And, in her book, each step is illustrated with a delightful drawing. To learn more about Denise and her book, come to her upcoming talk at Eagle Harbor Books on Sunday April 23rd at 3pm. In this podcast, DeLuca speaks to BCB host Sonia Scaer about her book: "Re-Aligning with Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation". We've heard about the “green” architect or designer who attempts to safeguard air, water, and earth by choosing eco-friendly materials and construction practices. But in the field of biomimicry, designers, engineers and makers create solutions to human challenges by looking at nature's ways and adopting nature-inspired designs. Denise briefly describes her career journey -- working initially as a civil engineer -- and tells us what led her to become an educator and practitioner in biomimicry. After many years teaching biomimicry, she observed that people, while learning the practice, started thinking and feeling more creative and curious and as a result came up with innovative and sustainable solutions. Denise is Director and co-founder of BCI: Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, a network of innovators and design professionals seeking to radically transform businesses and organizations to be in harmony with nature. Denise also teaches an online course in Biomimetic Design and Creative Leadership for the Masters in Sustainable Design program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). "Re-Aligning with Nature" is a richly-illustrated book, with every page accompanied by a light-hearted line drawing by Stefanie Koehler, one of Denise's MCAD students. In this podcast, Denise describes how that book-design choice came about and why she chose the format to actively engage the reader in a transformative journey. Denise's book can be obtained from Eagle Harbor Books. Credits: BCB host: Sonia Scaer; BCB audio editor and social media publisher: Barry Peters.
I managed to find another Robin to talk CFD with today. Robin Bornoff has been with Mentor Graphics (& Flomerics before that) for 20+ years, focussed on delivering “good science to engineers. We're talking all about democratisation & appification in CFD. We cover: • why calling niche CFD tools “apps” might be doing them a disservice & whether CFD tools will become commodified; • what the CFD industry has in common with the automotive industry, both in terms of it’s past & future; • how embedding CFD in an MCAD environment helped drive democratisation & why embedded CAD is more than just a user interface problem; Note, this episode was recorded before the announcement of Mentor Graphics’ acquisition by Siemens - we weren’t just ignoring it. LINKS Mentor Graphics (Mechanical Analysis Division) –https://www.mentor.com/products/mechanical/ Robin Bornoff's Blog – https://blogs.mentor.com/robinbornoff/ Social Profiles – https://twitter.com/FloRobin4CFD & https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-bornoff-5639b014
Legends of S.H.I.E.L.D.: An Unofficial Marvel Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fan Podcast
The Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Lauren interviews NASA Scientist and Girl Science and Technology Education Advocate Dr. Camille Wardrop Alleyne in advance of the Comicpalooza 2016 convention. Agent Stargate Pioneer and Agent Lauren continue the Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marvel Collector Corp Women Of Power crate giveaway. THIS TIME ON LEGENDS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.: [02:17] - Giveaway: Marvel Collector Corps Crate Women Of Power - Martha Wells - Comicpalooza Talk LEGENDS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. MARVEL COLLECTOR CORPS CIVIL WAR CRATE [02:35] The hosts continue their next giveaway for the Marvel Collector Corps Women Of Power crate. By our live streamed show on July 20th, 2016 let us know which male Marvel Cinematic Universe character you would like to see gender swapped and WHO you would cast in the role. Make them good, make them funny but most of all just get them into us so you can be included in this Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. awesome giveaway. Dr. Camille Wardrop Alleyne Interview [03:55] - Dr. Alleyne is the Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station (ISS) - Scientific research is always a balance between risk, budget and technology - STEM young women advocacy through Brightest Stars Foundation - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race - Found on Twitter @camillelisa Dr. Alleyne currently serves as the Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station (ISS) a space based science laboratory. In this role, she is responsible for developing innovative strategies that communicate the benefits of the scientific research being conducted on the ISS to stakeholders including US Congress, the general public and potential users. Dr. Alleyne has dedicated her 20 year career to advancing the areas of aerospace and space technology development, specifically in the fields of human space flight, space vehicle systems engineering, integration and testing and space (microgravity) research; and most recently in the areas of global space, science and technology education advocacy for girls – work she does through her nongovernmental organization, the Brightest Stars Foundation, founded in 2007. Kam White Born and Raised in Houston, TX and attended the Houston Highschool for the Performing and Visual Arts, mainly specializing in illustration. Now attending MCAD with intent to major in Comic Art / Illustration. Comicpalooza 2016 Talk [19:43] Lauren talks her panel participation at the Comicpalooza 2016 conventions. Lauren also runs down the science tracks at Comicpalooza 2016 this upcoming weekend. OUTRO [23:57] Haley, Lauren and Stargate Pioneer love to hear back from you about your top 5 Marvel character lists, your science of Marvel questions, who would you pick in an all-female Avenger team, or who’s Marvel abs you would like to see. Call the voicemail line at 1-844-THE-BUS1 or 844-843-2871. Join Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. next time as the hosts discuss the Daredevil season 2 premiere episode “Bang.” You can listen in live when we record Wednesday nights at 8:00 PM Central time at Geeks.live (Also streamed live on Spreaker). Contact Info: Please see http://www.legendsofshield.com for all of our contact information or call our voicemail line at 1-844-THE-BUS1 or 844-843-2871 Don’t forget to go check out our spin-off podcast, Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D..: Longbox Edition for your weekly Marvel comic book release run-down with segments by Black Adam on S.H.I.E.L.D. comics, Lauren on Mutant Comics and Neil with his pull list run-down. Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Longbox Edition is also available on the GonnaGeek.com podcast network. Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Is a Proud Member Of The GonnaGeek Network (gonnageek.com). This podcast was recorded on Sunday June 12th, 2016. Standby for your S.H.I.E.L.D. debriefing ---
Where does collaboration with MCAD fit into your PCB design flow? Are you still encountering communication barriers between electrical and mechanical domains? In this episode, John McMillan talks about the evolution of the handoff between MCAD to ECAD and the advances that make collaboration more efficient than ever before. ProSTEP iViP Whitepaper:Removing the Gap Between ECAD and MCAD Design Video: Communicate with any MCAD vendor Have questions or topics of interest? Interested in being a guest on the show? Contact us at pcb_techtalk@mentor.com. Subscribe today so you don’t miss any future episodes!
Curt McNamara, P.E. is a practicing designer with 30 years experience in medical, commercial, and industrial markets. An active Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers member, Curt received the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000 for his ongoing work in education. He has worked with the Biomimicry Institute to create content for the Biomimicry Toolbox, is a Biomimicry Education Fellow, and helps with the Biomimicry Education Network. Curt created and teaches the Systems and Innovation courses for the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) Master of Sustainable Design, and works to ensure that every student gets a grounding in the techniques of biomimicry and systems thinking. System Ah-ha! Curt's first Earth Day left him with the awareness that local actions have a global affect. Favorite System Tool "It depends." System mapping, for example GIGA-mapping, especially representing different perspectives. Learning Resource Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks, Mark Buchanan Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella Meadows Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, Maggie McNabb Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, William McDonough Systems Thinking Made Simple New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems, Derek and Laura Cabrera Advice "Taking a systems approach is going to make everything easier and better." Contact Minneapolis College of Art and Design: Masters in Sustainable Design (mcad.edu/faculty/curt-mcnamara) SystemDesignReview.com LinkedIn: Curt.McNamara
In this episode, Jeremy Thake talks to Paolo Pialorsi on the new Office 365 developer PNP Partner Pack. Weekly updates Social Share makes it easy to distribute slides and decks to more people through social networks Getting started with yo office for web dev n00bs Simplifying Office 365 Unified API calls with Postman and OAuth 2 Update 4 on Office 365 unified API Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices—November 2015 release Show notes github.com/OfficeDev/PnP-Partner-Pack Introduction to the PNP Partner Pack blog post Introduction to the PNP Partner Pack slide deck Introduction to the PNP Partner Pack video Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS is available iTunes or search for it on “Office 365 Developer Podcast” or add directly with the RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/Office365DeveloperPodcast. About Paolo Pialorsi Paolo is the founder of PiaSys (www.pialorsi.com), a company focused on Microsoft SharePoint and .NET development. He’s a consultant, trainer, book author and speaker at the best international conferences about Microsoft technologies. He writes articles for IT magazines, authored several books for Microsoft Press (the latest is “Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Developer Reference”) and posts regularly on his technical blog (www.sharepoint-reference.com/Blog/). You can follow Paolo on Twitter (@PaoloPia). Paolo passed more than 40 Microsoft certification exams and achieved the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Solutions Master on SharePoint, MCP, MCT, MCSD.NET, MCSE, MCSA, MCAD, MCTS on several Microsoft technologies and IBM Certified Developer on XML technologies. About the hosts Jeremy is a technical product manager at Microsoft responsible for the Visual Studio Developer story for Office 365 development. Previously he worked at AvePoint Inc., a large ISV, as the chief architect shipping two apps to the Office Store. He has been heavily involved in the SharePoint community since 2006 and was awarded the SharePoint MVP award four years in a row before retiring the title to move to Microsoft. You can find Jeremy blogging at www.jeremythake.com and tweeting at @jthake. Richard is a software engineer in Microsoft’s Developer Experience (DX) group, where he helps developers and software vendors maximize their use of Microsoft cloud services in Office 365 and Azure. Richard has spent a good portion of the last decade architecting Office-centric solutions, many that span Microsoft’s diverse technology portfolio. He is a passionate technology evangelist and frequent speaker are worldwide conferences, trainings and events. Richard is highly active in the Office 365 community, popular blogger at www.richdizz.com and can be found on Twitter at @richdizz. Richard is born, raised and based in Dallas, TX, but works on a worldwide team based in Redmond. Richard is an avid builder of things (BoT), musician and lightning-fast runner.
Methylation Support @The Center for Bio-Individualized Medicine
Sterling's new application to read the 23 and me raw data is now available. On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 8 PM Eastern Dr. Jess Armine will interview IT guru Peter Santamaria who is the IT support for sterling's new application. The new app is 50 pages in length and encompasses 825 polymorphisms together with biochemical pathway drawings and an advanced method of searching for polymorphisms that are of interest. This app is the premier application on the market today. Pete will explain how to download your raw data from 23 and me, explain how to obtain your genetic polymorphisms from this new app and all the features of this new application like being able to search polymorphisms via conditions (autism, MCAD, ADD, etc.) or by SNP and how to use the biochemical pathway drawing provided. Pete will explain the technicalities of the new app and Dr. Jess Armine will be on hand to explain any clinically related questions. Remember, you can get the new application by going to mthfrsupport.com and if you use the promo code "NewReport" you can save $20 on the price of the application. This promotion is good until February 22, 2015. Looking forward to having it explained and knowing all the functionalities of the new app myself! Dr. Jess :-)
The rapidly evolving field of metabolomics aims at a comprehensive measurement of ideally all endogenous metabolites in a cell or body fluid. It thereby provides a functional readout of the physiological state of the human body. Genetic variants that associate with changes in the homeostasis of key lipids, carbohydrates, or amino acids are not only expected to display much larger effect sizes due to their direct involvement in metabolite conversion modification, but should also provide access to the biochemical context of such variations, in particular when enzyme coding genes are concerned. To test this hypothesis, we conducted what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first GWA study with metabolomics based on the quantitative measurement of 363 metabolites in serum of 284 male participants of the KORA study. We found associations of frequent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with considerable differences in the metabolic homeostasis of the human body, explaining up to 12% of the observed variance. Using ratios of certain metabolite concentrations as a proxy for enzymatic activity, up to 28% of the variance can be explained (p-values 10(-16) to 10(-21)). We identified four genetic variants in genes coding for enzymes (FADS1, LIPC, SCAD, MCAD) where the corresponding metabolic phenotype (metabotype) clearly matches the biochemical pathways in which these enzymes are active. Our results suggest that common genetic polymorphisms induce major differentiations in the metabolic make-up of the human population. This may lead to a novel approach to personalized health care based on a combination of genotyping and metabolic characterization. These genetically determined metabotypes may subscribe the risk for a certain medical phenotype, the response to a given drug treatment, or the reaction to a nutritional intervention or environmental challenge.
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