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Tyler Roe remembered at Winchester balloon release
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Titanic images: New 3D shots capture sunken megaship
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South Dakota Avenue neighbors complain of trash, bus in their street
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Germantown stun-gun robbery is second in county in one month
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A monstrous supercell is born in McCook, Neb., on June 19
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Round 9 Feature Match: Bo Tang Versus Gabriel Gonzalez
Bo Tang represented Canada in the 2011 World Championship, and has since become one of Canada's most recognized and accomplished competitors with a total of five YCS Tops. He came here on a whim at the last minute, not knowing if he'd be able to make the WCQ this year! His opponent this Round is California's Gabriel Gonzalez, who traveled here this weekend from Los Angeles to compete with what's become one of the the hottest decks of the weekend: Infernities. Bo Tang's playing Mermails, and both of these competitors are 6-2 and sitting on the bubble.
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Issue 4 • Date Dec 1973
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Ambient Effect On Ionic Charges in Dielectric FilmsPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 234 - 236| | Quick Abstract | PDF (448 KB)
The effect of various annealing ambients on the ionic charges contained in the dielectric structures of silicon dioxide-silicon and silicon nitride-silicon dioxide-silicon was investigated. It has been observed that most effective ambients in making ionic species immobile are nitrogen and a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen chloride gases. Further, silicon nitride used as passivating dielectric films over semiconductor devices has been observed to be an effective barrier for ionic impurities. View full abstract»
An Analysis of Current Crowding at 180° Bends in Film ResistorsPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 262 - 263| | Quick Abstract | PDF (176 KB)First Page of the ArticleView full abstract»
Thick Film Pastes for Multilayer UsePublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 216 - 223
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Suecessful multilayer processing requires careful selection of conductor and dielectric pastes. As pastes they must satisfy geometrical and processing needs; as conductors and dielectrics they must meet electrical and other requirements. Some dominating considerations for paste selection are reviewed. A method is described for evaluating paste performance with test patterns which simulate multileyer applications. Various popular conductor and dielectric pasteswere evaluated and the results are reported. Some frequently encountered processing problems and their causes are discussed. Although all pastes evaluated were found less than ideal, a satisfactory combination of conductor and dielectric pastes was selected. View full abstract»
Connectors in Very-High-Speed Digital CircuitsPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 256 - 261| | Quick Abstract | PDF (704 KB)
The properties of standard card edge, printed circuit, and flat cable connectors have been investigated from the point of view of transmitting pulses with very short rise times. A simple theory based on linear approximation of the leading and trailing edges of the actual pulse waveform is derived to predict the effect of impedance mismatch caused by the connector. Experimental confirmation of the theory, measurements of popular types of connectors, and extrapolation of experience with a 350-Mb/s logic network confirm that, under certain conditions, the currently available connectors can be used with pulse rise times longer than 250 ps and with interconnection impedances from 50 to 100 ohms. Transmission lines matched at both ends and/or balanced pairs are preferred for interconnections between different parts of a very fast (greater than 250-Mb/s) pulse system. View full abstract»
Copper Alloy Spring Materials and Spring PropertiesPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 237 - 242
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Copper alloys have long served as spring materials in electromechanical devices, but the miniaturization of electronic equipment has imposed new demands on these materials. The first is that of improved elastic properties to ensure satisfactory performance at the higher operating stresses and temperatures encountered in these miniaturized devices. The second is that of improved methods for characterizing those spring properties of design interest in light of the more stringent operating margins encountered in these devices. Some of the newer alloys, processing methods, and strengthening mechanisms being employed to provide copper alloys with improved elastic properties are reviewed. Thermomechanical processing is shown to be a particularly effective means for achieving high strengths in a variety of copper alloys. New methods for characterizing the elastic properties of spring materials are discussed and compared to traditional methods based on tension tests. View full abstract»
Characterization of Sputtered Gold-Tungsten and Gold-Molybdenum Metallizations for Microwave Power TransistorsPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 224 - 229
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The stability and hence reliability of sputtered gold-tungsten and gold-molybdenum films has been determined as a function of anneal temperature up to 650°c. Isothermal and isochronal resistivity experiments have yielded an activation energy for particle growth in 3000 Å gold films of 0.4 eV below 200oc and 0.7 eV about 200oc. The activation energy for the refractory layer was calculated to be 1.8 eV from particle size measurements. Annealing the films up to 500oc for 24 h resulted in a decrease of internal stress in gold from 2.5 x 109 dyn/cm2 to 0.2 x 109 dyn/cm2. Similar decreases in internal stress were observed for tungsten and molybdenum. The observed results are discussed in terms of microstructural changes. View full abstract»
Epitaxial Growth of III-V Compounds for Electroluminescent Light SourcesPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 208 - 215| | Quick Abstract | PDF (1352 KB)
During the past decade, semiconductor junction electroluminescence has evolved from a laboratory phenomenon to a manufacturing technology. This success can be attributed to the extensive research in the preparation and characterization of III-V compounds. Materials emitting radiation in various regions of the visible spectrum are now available. The epitaxial growth techniques used in the fabrication of III-V compound electroluminescent devices are reviewed. Both vapor and liquid phase epitaxial techniques are discussed, including the applications of these techniques to well established materials as well as newer materials. The state of the art of light-emitting devices fabricated from members of the III-V compounds and their solid solutions is also reviewed. View full abstract»
Cosputtered Aluminum-Rich AlTa Alloy FilmsPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 230 - 233| | Quick Abstract | PDF (592 KB)
An R F sputtering system was employed with a target consisting of a 20cm diameter aluminum disk, about 1/4 of which was covered by a segment of tantalum. This target construction makes it possible to obtain on a single substrate a broad range of film compositions in one sputtering run. The result, concluded from X-ray analysis, is that only three phases are observed on a 10 cm by 10 cm Coming glass substrate. 1 ) On the aluminum side there is the fcc AI lattice with about 7 at% Ta dissolved in it-93 at% AI 7 at% Ta. 2) On the tantalum side there is a -Ta lattice with about 20 at% AI dissolved in it--80 at% Ta 20 at% AI. 3)Between these two phases exists an amorphous phase--85 at% AI 15 at% Ta. The thickness profile over the substrate shows a deep well between the 80 at% Ta and the 15 at% Ta-phase. This profile indicates that there is a condensation gap for the composition from 15 to 80 at% tantalum. Resistivity and measurements of temperature coefficient of resistivity (TCR) yield values from 30 to 240 -cm and from +500 to --125 ppm/deg K, respectively, depending on the position on the substrate, that is, depending on the phase present, The two aluminum-rich phases have, as far as we know, not previously been reported, neither in bulk nor in thin film form. We have observed most attractive features of these phases in their annealing and anodizing behavior. View full abstract»
Evaluation of Electrically Insulative Adhesives for Use in Hybrid Microcircuit FabricationPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 199 - 207
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Although it is generally accepted that the use of adhesives in the fabrication of hybrid microcircuits offers advantages over other bonding methods, there currently does not exist a set of guidelines for the selection of adhesives which will ensure sufficient compatibility with microcircuit components and metallization systems to meet the long use-life, high-reliability requirements of military and space applications. The initial results of a study directed to the task of selecting suitable evaluation tests which can form the basis for such guidelines for electrically insulative adhesives are presented. The properties of adhesives considered to be of major importance for the proposed application are enumerated and briefly commented on. Polymeric types of adhesives are briefly reviewed and the major epoxy resin-curing agent systems comprising the adhesives that are commercially available and represented as being specifically designed for microelectronic use are identified. Specific tests to determine the chemical and electrolytic corrosivity of adhesives to commonly used metallization systems, their long term outgassing after cure, and their bond strengths under a variety of conditions are defined and discussed in detail. Comparative results obtained to date from these tests are given for five representative adhesives. All are epoxies cured with a different major type of curing agent: a primary secondary amine, a tertiary amine, an anhydride, a modified heterocyclic amine, and a boron trifluoride complex. View full abstract»
Thank You, AlexPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 198| | Quick Abstract | PDF (67 KB)First Page of the ArticleView full abstract»
Application of Glass-Ceramics for Electronic Components and CircuitsPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 247 - 256
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Ceramic materials of interest for electronic components, such as ferroelectrics, ferrites, and transition metal oxides have no natural glass-forming habit. A rapid cooling of their melt is required to obtain homogeneous glasses. This is the most important requirement for controlling crystallization and phase dispersion, as required for Various applications. Materials and methods used for making disk and multilayer capacitors are discussed and their properties are described for normal and high voltage applications, and for hybrid circuits. Other application areas to be discussed are cryogenics, thermistors, varistors, and magnetics. View full abstract»
The Influence of Temperature on Stress Relaxation in a Chill-Cast, Tin-Lead SolderPublication Year: 1973 , Page(s): 243 - 246
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Data on the compressive stress relaxation of chill-cast 60/40 tin-lead solders for two loads, 6.89 and 24.8 MN/m2 (mega newtons/ square meter) and for temperatures from 27 to 108°C are presented. For the complete temperature range tested, it is shown that the stress relaxation can be modeled as an Arrhenius reaction-rate process with an activation energy of 0.65 eV This activation energy is in close agreement with solder activation energies inferred from earlier studies of self-diffusion, creep, and creep rupture. This suggests that the stress relaxation is diffusion dominated for the temperature range studied, and that the present results may be extended to other tin-lead solders by using available correlations. View full abstract»
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Pull the oil filter if there is no oil in it or very little then its' agood possiblility that the oil change place didn't put any in it. But have the mechanic do it so he can attest to it if in court. This should be a good lesson to you to check your oil every oncein a while.
I totally understand the mistake: ( I just want to know, what could be done now. The piston rod is bent and lifters are broken, can those parts alone be changed or the whole engine has to be replaced? Please advice.
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The crankshaft will proberbly be damages as the lack of oil will destroy bearings and damage the crank, I would consider another engine.
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This is a good discussion and I've been trying to decide CH vs. CW myself, mostly for watching movies but with an occasional HD tv show or football game. Just got an Epson 8350 and have been experimenting with various projected sizes on a white wall to make the screen dimension and size decision before I order one. Even though the Epson only has manual zoom, I have it placed on a rear shelf that is easy to access and have not found changing the zoom between sources to be a big deal.
For my eyes I'm finding an 88" width from an 11ft seating distance to be very immersive with 2.35:1 films, but overwhelmingly too big with 1.85:1 and 16:9 content due to the larger vertical image which puts a strain on my eyes much more than does additional horizontal width. In addition, 16:9 material from Comcast in HD looks far worse than Blu-ray. So going CH will have the benefit of shrinking the 16:9 and 1.85:1 sources so they do not feel too big vertically and will hide some of the artifacts visible in cable feeds.
I agree with those who noted how disappointing 2.35:1 film watching on a CW setup has been to them when it feels "shrunk" from 1.85 and 16:9 material, and letting 2.35:1 films shine with a sense of wider grandeur and no black bars in a CH setup has great appeal to me since that aspect ratio comprises the vast majority of movies I enjoy.
I note you just got your Epson projector. Is it your first projector (it seems so). If that's the case you might want to hold off buying a screen for a while longer and keep experimenting with image sizes.
Right now you are saying that a 100" diagonal 16:9 image is too big for you.
But frankly that's on the small size of screens these days so it's a bit odd that you'd find it too big. I'm betting it may be your unfamiliarity with having a projected image in your home. It happened to me at first as well.
When I first projected images on my wall (before I built my home theater) I felt a 94" diagonal image was plenty big. After a while I noticed I enjoyed a bigger image. Then bigger...etc. Many people have gone through this as one of the most common issues first time projector owners face is later realising they could have gone for a bigger screen (and say that's what they'll get next time).
I have a seating distance like yours, a little closer even, and I went with a variable image size system, using my zoom and a masking screen. I'm watching 2:35:1 images up to 124" wide and 16:9 images up to 120" diagonal (and sometimes over 130" diagonal) and it's tremendously cinematic. No guest ever complains (they like it). When I think back on my thinking a 94" image was plenty big, and I zoom the image down to that size, I can hardly believe what I was thinking and I'm glad I took longer to get used to having a projector before ordering a screen.
Of course we all have to go on what each of us is comfortable with. But this is just a bit of advice...from some experience.
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The glory years of the Detroit Tigers: 1920-1950 by William M. Anderson ; with a foreword by Dan Dickerson
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There is are some logically weak claims that morality only springs from religion - usually the religion of the person proclaiming it. Matt Dillahunty looks at some of them. (a bit under 30m)
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Senator Inhofe, chair of Environment and Public Works, articulates his 14th century beliefs.
a tip of the hat to Greg
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The Wall Street Journal has published some remarkly wrong anti-science pieces in the past few years. Physicist Lawrence Krauss reponds to a recent bit of wrongness. Eric Metaxas should be writing about real issues. It is too bad folks like Larry have to spend time correcting the mistakes .. over and over and over...
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Values of children raised in Northern European families are just fine.
What about America? What of secular ethics?
For nearly 40 years, Bengston has overseen the Longitudinal Study of Generations, which has become the largest study of religion and family life conducted across several generational cohorts in the United States. When Bengston noticed the growth of nonreligious Americans becoming increasingly pronounced, he decided in 2013 to add secular families to his study in an attempt to understand how family life and intergenerational influences play out among the religionless.
He was surprised by what he found: High levels of family solidarity and emotional closeness between parents and nonreligious youth, and strong ethical standards and moral values that had been clearly articulated as they were imparted to the next generation.
"Many nonreligious parents were more coherent and passionate about their ethical principles than some of the 'religious' parents in our study," Bengston told me. "The vast majority appeared to live goal-filled lives characterized by moral direction and sense of life having a purpose."
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and largely uncovered by the Western press. ..
Boko Haram and a massacre in Nigeria
YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested Friday is the "deadliest massacre" in the history of Boko Haram.
Mike Omeri, the government spokesman on the insurgency, said fighting continued Friday for Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on Jan. 3 and attacked again on Wednesday.
"Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted airstrikes against militant targets," Omeri said in a statement.
District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
"The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous," Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defense group that fights Boko Haram, told The Associated Press.
He said the civilian fighters gave up on trying to count all the bodies. "No one could attend to the corpses and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now," Gava said.
An Amnesty International statement said there are reports the town was razed and as many as 2,000 people killed.
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Insulting the state religion in the middle east...
A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah, according to a person close to his case.
Raif Badawi was sentenced on charges related to accusations that he insulted Islam on a liberal online forum he had created. He was also ordered by the Jeddah criminal court to pay a fine of 1m Saudi riyals, or about $266,000.
Rights groups and activists say his case is part of a wider clampdown on dissent throughout the kingdom. Officials have increasingly blunted calls for reforms since the region's 2011 Arab Spring upheaval.
Badawi has been held since mid-2012, and his Free Saudi Liberals website is now closed. The case has drawn condemnation from rights groups.
He called from prison and informed his family of the flogging, due Friday, said a person close to the case. The person, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisal, said Badawi was "being used as an example for others to see".
It is time to stop derring to religion as a society - Jeffrey Tayler.
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From English Pen
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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I'm very curious to see what impact Pope Francis will have on global warming action this year. Many evangelical protestants are in the opposing camp.
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The notion of apocalypticism is new, but it has had a large impact - particularly in the US. Here Matthew Avery Sutton is interviewed about his new book American Apocalypse.
The idea that Jesus is coming back soon was a fairly radical and unconventional idea in the 19th century, but by the 21st century it's the air American Christians breathe. The most recent polls said something like 58 percent of white evangelicals believe Jesus is going to return by 2050. They simply take for granted that there is going to be a Rapture and Jesus is going to come back.
I took those statistics and others like them and moved backwards in time. What I found in my research was that apocalypticism was central to fundamentalists and evangelicals. What made them most distinct, what set them apart from liberal Protestants is not what we've traditionally thought. It's not questions of the virgin birth or how you read the Bible or questions of the nature of the incarnation or the literal resurrection of Jesus or Jesus's miracles. All those matter, all of those things do set them apart, but they don't affect how they live their daily lives. The one thing that affects how they live their daily lives is that they believe we are moving towards the End Times, the rise of the Antichrist, towards a great tribulation and a horrific human holocaust.
In their minds, the imminent Second Coming would not be as important as getting people saved. Salvation, converting sinners, would be the most important thing driving them. But in terms of how they're shaping and organizing their own lives, I think apocalypticism has been the driving force for much of the last century. It has fueled the movement and shaped it in fundamental ways.
The standard narrative of white evangelical history is a great withdrawal from culture in the 1920s and then a reengagement in the 1950s, leading to the religious right in 1980s. Do you want to revise that?
Yes. That's one of the historiographical arguments I'm making in the book. The traditional argument is that fundamentalists were active and engaged in American society until the Scopes trial, the anti-evolution trial, in 1925. They were humiliated and defeated in the Scopes trial, they withdrew and focused on building their churches, their institutions, but they weren't engaged in mainstream culture until the rise of Billy Graham who helped turn them around. Then it's a few quick steps to the rise of the religious right.
That's incorrect. They never gave up. They never withdrew or disengaged from culture. In the 1930s, for example, most of these fundamentalists were very critical of the New Deal. For Americans who were actively looking for signs of the coming Antichrist in the context of the 1930s, in the context of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, Roosevelt had all the markings of someone setting the stage for the end times. He was concolidating power. Government was growing.
I found a letter from one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's operatives. He had gone out to survey the country and look for areas of strength and weakness before the 1936 election and what he told FDR is that the greatest threat was not from the economic reactionaries, that was his term, but from the religious reactionaries. He said the "so-called evangelical churches are strongly against you." It was shortly after that that FDR issued a letter to all the churches of the nation, asking for their support, and asking what he could do to better meet their needs.
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Today's xkcd explains much more than people dealing with wireless signals...
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Located in Oud-Zuid, this bed & breakfast is within 1 mi (2 km) of Virtual Museum Zuidas, Concertgebouw, and RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre. Stedelijk Museum and Rijksmuseum are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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This smoke-free bed & breakfast features self parking, concierge services, and limo/town car service. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a garden are onsite.
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Xaviera's Amsterdam Bed and Breakfast features tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a garden. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Amsterdam bed & breakfast also offers concierge services and limo/town car service. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
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- Total number of rooms - 4
- Number of floors - 1
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