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Obstetrician & Gynecologist (OB/GYN)
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Winthrop University political scientist Dr. Karen Kedrowski says a competitive field of Democratic and Republican presidential candidates benefits South Carolina when it holds the first-in-the-south primary.
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Mike + The Mechanics, Mike + The Mechanics / Living Years / Word of Mouth / Beggar on a Beach of Gold / Rewired / Hits: It's hard to gauge exactly who was aware of it and who wasn't, but for the past several years, one of the more notable absences from iTunes – at least here in America, anyway – has been the back catalog of Mike + The Mechanics. What started as Mike Rutherford's side project from Genesis quickly turned from a studio lark into a major commercial success in the US when the group's self-titled 1985 debut produced two top-10 singles with "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" and "All I Need Is a Miracle," and when they returned with their sophomore effort, 1989's The Living Years, they took their homeland by storm as well, with the title track hitting #2 on the UK singles chart and topping the US charts. After that, though, the Mechanics lost favor in the States – another grunge-related tragedy? – and never found top-40 success again…but don't think that means that you shouldn't investigate all of these digital reissues.
It's only been a few short weeks since we introduced Emmylou Harris's 70's Studio Album Collection and 80's Studio Album Collection to our digital catalog, but now it's time to bring something from Ms. Harris's catalog to CD…or, more specifically, to bring it back to CD.
In 2007, we put out a pretty cool Emmylou Harris box set entitled Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems, one which featured 78 tracks, all hand-chosen by the singer-songwriter herself. At the time of its initial release, Emmylou said of its contents, "I've selected not greatest hits but personal favorites that – with a few exceptions – have never appeared on any other compilations, but were important gems in the string of pearls that each album strives to become." In addition, the set also included a handful of contributions she'd made to different tribute albums, various and sundry live and demo tracks, and a few collaborations.
It's vinyl reissue time again, and this week's offering is generally considered to be the third album by The Specials, although it's technically credited to The Special AKA. Why the change in name? Well, you know how it goes with bands: memberships change over time, and sometimes enough members depart to make it seem a little dodgy to keep the band's name the same.
In the case of In the Studio, which emerged almost half a decade after the previous Specials album (More Specials, released in 1980), there was good reason to view the group as an untested entity, given that Terry Hall, Lynval Golding, and Neville Staple had all headed off for the poppier pastures of Fun Boy Three, leaving Jerry Dammers as the predominant creative force. Not that he hadn't already been writing songs, but there was definitely a major shift in the material with the aforementioned trio having departed the ranks, particularly in the political content.
It's a good time to be a Peter, Paul & Mary fan.
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Whether you knew him for his artwork or his music, Don Van Vliet – beloved to many as Captain Beefheart – has been much mourned since his death in 2010 at the age of 69, but the man who once helmed The Magic Band has continued to maintain a dedicated following. While his music was generally well out of the mainstream, his seminal album, 1969's Trout Mask Replica, made such an impact that it was added to the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2010. For many, though, that particular album is the sum total of their Captain Beefheart collection, which is why we're so excited about the opportunity to expand some people's musical horizons with our new limited-edition four-disc boxed set, Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972.


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My toads have spawned at last. I can't remember another year when they have spawned so late. Delighted to see those long strings !
No Lyn, that's the one I can work. The new one is lime green.
I had this reply from the manufacturer -
Thank you for your email regarding a bottle of Provado Vine Weevil Killer 2 which are now filled into the easy dose bottles. Many of our concentrate pesticides are assigned to this bottle design. These bottles have a two way valve which should allow liquid to run into and out of the dosing chamber. With the desired volume of liquid in the dosing chamber the top can be removed and by tilting the bottle into the sprayer, allowing the liquid to flow from the dosing chamber into the waiting receptacle. A clever design, if, in my view, over complicated and a bit unnecessary for the average consumer. From your description it sounds as if the valves aren't lined up correctly which is restricting the flow of liquid either into the dosing chamber or from the dosing chamber. We are receiving 'mixed reviews' on these bottles and last year we had a similar comment to the one you posted. Already these bottles are used for a large proportion of our liquid concentrates and it is not unreasonable to have a very small proportion of these complicated bottles that don't function as expected – although this is of course not the expected outcome. I thank you for taking the time to let me know of your recent experience and I will forward your email to the department involved with the use of these easy dose bottles for their reference.
Saw my first comma and a white (don't know which one) yesterday...4 different species seen this week, great!
Sycamore seedlings I would say!
Looks like a sedge that has self seeded. Not a good position for it. You probably have more as they can self seed readily.
Is it alive? With your fingernail scratch a little bit of the bark/skin off - if it is green then still alive if brown, dead.
Sorry, didn't answer all of your question.I think the bottom plant is a differnet variety of dracaena or it could be a cordeline - difficult to see.
Overwatering could be the problem for the yellowing. Most plants die from overwatering more than anything else. Let them dry out between watering. Also it looks like they are potted into lovely pots but there are no drainage holes in them - this makes it dificult to judge watering. If I wee you I would repot into plastic pots and then place them in your lovely pots. This way you can water easier, see when plants are root bound and need to be moved to a bigger pot. Hope this helps.
Dracaena or Dragon plant. There should be lots of info for their care on the net.
Easy to take cuttings and make new plants when they get too tall. Cut off one of the leggy pieces down to where it joins the main stem. Then cut the stem into 10 -15cm sections and place in water. Ensure you keep them the right way up as they will not grow if you put them in upside down. When roots appear, pot up in free draining compost and grow on.
Ok, here's one. This has self seeded itself in my Mum's gravel path. Not the best photo. Any ideas?
Good question Nutcutlet...sometimes we never get to a positive id as the pic posted isn't clear enough, the plant too immature or we just don't know or agree.


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A horizontal wafer boat for maintaining semiconductor wafers during wafer processing is disclosed. The wafer boat is configured to reduce the likelihood wafer slip when wafers are heated to processing temperatures of about 1000° C. and above.
1. A wafer boat combination comprising a wafer boat and a plurality of a semiconductor wafers, the wafer boat comprising:
a first end and a second end;
a plurality of slots positioned between the first and the second ends, the semiconductor wafers being respectively received in the plurality of slots, each of the plurality of slots comprising first and second upper support guides to maintain the semiconductor wafers in a vertical orientation; and
a lower grooved portion for supporting a plurality of wafers, the wafer boat having an inner radius originating from a centerpoint, the slots extending generally along an arc having a radius of curvature corresponding to the inner radius, wherein the lower grooved portion has a generally arcuate and concave contour as viewed from the centerpoint, and wherein at semiconductor processing temperatures of between approximately 1000° C. to 1400° C., the lower grooved portion substantially conforms to the portion of the wafer supported thereon.
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The invention is in the field of equipment used in the processing and manufacturing of semiconductor wafers. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved horizontal wafer boat.
In the manufacture of semiconductors, silicon wafers are thermally processed. One method to process the wafers is to use horizontal furnace tubes. The wafers are processed to change their electrical properties and to build circuits. The temperatures for these processes range from 600 to nearly 1400° C.
The production of semiconductors is a very controlled process. As part of this process, furnace operations are performed on silicon wafers to build layers on the wafer and to dope materials into the wafer to change its electrical properties. Discrete dielectrics and pathways are formed to create capacitors and transistors. With precise configuration, a device is created.
Furnacing operations are generally classified into two categories, Atmospheric and Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (LPCVD). Atmospheric operations are used to anneal, to diffuse dopants into wafers, or to form oxide layers. These processes are typically performed at high temperatures, i.e., greater than about 900° C. Some atmospheric operations for high purity or for deep diffusion can reach temperatures of 1350° C.
LPCVD operations are used to build layers of polysilicon or silicon nitride onto the wafer. These operations take place under a partial vacuum, typically at lower temperatures in a range of between about 600° C. and 900° C.
A combination of the operations described above is used to construct a three dimensional device on the wafer. A simple device such as a power chip can have two layers while a complex logic circuit might have more than seven layers.
There are several different methods of furnacing wafers, referred to as horizontal, vertical, and Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) methods. RTP is a single wafer process, whereas both vertical and horizontal furnacing are batch processes. More specifically, horizontal furnacing refers to a process in which many wafers are positioned on a wafer holder, or "boat", which is inserted into a horizontal furnace tube. Devices, such as wafer boats (also known as conti boats), which are subjected to furnace operations during semiconductor wafer processing are referred to herein as "furnaceware".
The material used to form the wafer boat must be resistant to high temperatures and not introduce impurities into the operation. When silicon wafers were first processed, the support fixtures were primarily made out of quartz. Quartz, however, suffers from several drawbacks when used in the production of wafer boats. In particular, at temperatures above about 1000° C., quartz tends to creep. After repeated furnace cycles, the quartz boats deform to an unacceptable degree. Wafer transfer operations are typically automated and it is critical to insert the wafer into a well defined feature of the furnaceware. If there is misalignment, the wafers may "crash" into the furnaceware contaminating the entire wafer load and often breaking. Broken wafers can introduce particles into the clean room environment and affect other processes as well.
Another drawback is particle generation. During LPCVD operations, a layer of deposited material, such as silicon nitride, is built up onto the surface of the wafer. The material that forms on the wafer during LPCVD operations, along with the wafer itself, have comparable thermal expansion rates such that a good mechanical and chemical bond exists. LPCVD deposits do not, however, adhere well to quartz because of mismatched thermal expansion coefficients which produce stress on the layers when the furnaceware is subjected to temperature changes. This stress causes the layers to flake and can introduce device-damaging particles into the system.
Chemical etching can also cause problems with quartz. Furnaceware is cleaned on a regular cycle to remove layers which have developed thereon. Typically, acid baths are used to remove these layers. Quartz can be chemically etched by the cleaning solutions used, and this can cause quartz furnaceware to lose strength and dimensional stability.
Many of the disadvantages known to exist in quartz furnaceware can be avoided by substituting other materials, such as silicon carbide (SiC) in the place of quartz. SiC has a thermal expansion coefficient similar to LPCVD depositions which form a mechanical and chemical bond to SiC. One useful replacement material is recrystallized SiC, available from Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics of Worcester, Mass., under the tradename CRYSTAR®. This material is a silicon carbide ceramic which has been impregnated with high purity silicon metal. Due to its robust mechanical properties through a wide range of temperatures and purity characteristics, CRYSTAR® ceramic has been shown to be an excellent alternative to quartz. CRYSTAR® may be used to support wafers during furnacing operations and can also serve as the furnace chamber.
As wafer sizes have increased, and as the size of features on the wafers has decreased, technological improvements in photolithograpy, inspection, furnacing, clean rooms and other areas have been required. Current production facilities for semiconductor devices employ wafers ranging in diameter from 100 mm to 200 mm. Currently, there is a desire to process wafers as large as 300 mm in diameter because such wafer sizes will allow more than twice as many chips or dies to be fabricated on each wafer. This is desirable because fine feature size devices require critical processing parameters, and there is a strong desire to reduce the number of wafers being processed and have a more tightly controlled production environment. Unfortunately, the shift to 300 mm wafers has been a slow process due to the large number of technical problems associated with the handling of large wafers.
Horizontal wafer manufacturing involves a series of thermal processing steps to build the device. Horizontal processing temperatures in excess of about 1000° C. for at least some of the manufacturing steps cannot be avoided. Due to the high temperatures and wafer stress, wafer slip can occur. A wafer is a single crystal disk. Wafer slip is the permanent plastic deformation of the wafer's crystal lattice. The transition temperature from brittle to ductile behavior of the wafer is about 720° C. Therefore, slip can occur at process temperatures above 720° C.
Wafer slip is important to the manufacturer because it has a negative impact on device performance. A device is made up of a series of gates which can switch states. These gates have precise features which must be maintained. If a slip plane occurs, the gates can become corrupted and fail to function properly. Even if the slip plane is small, device performance can be compromised because the dielectric properties have been changed. Typically, rather than investing more time in processing, a wafer with slip is scrapped.
Wafer slip creation is affected by several factors including temperature, gravitational stress, thermal stress, wafer type, wafer defects (edge chips, existing dislocations, oxygen content), and previous processing steps. As the thermal energy within the wafer increases, the energy required to induce slip decreases. Once the 720° C. ductile threshold is reached, slip lines can generate relatively easily. Shear stress, the dominant contributor, acts in plane and pushes the lattice so that it dislocates. Experimental and theoretical studies have analyzed the effects of temperature on allowable shear stress. Allowable shear stress is defined to be the maximum stress before the onset of slip.
Wafer mechanical stress and thermal differences are directly affected by the wafer boat. Accordingly a need exists for a wafer boat that minimizes these stresses with the resultant minimization of wafer slip.
The prior art discloses wafer boats for use in the manufacture and processing of semiconductor wafers. However, unlike the present invention, the prior art does not address nor overcome the disadvantages noted hereinabove. For example, in JP6124911, there is disclosed a horizontal wafer boat having a plurality of slots wherein a plurality of wafers are mounted. Each slot of the wafer boat, however, comprises a plurality of what appear as stabilizing or support members referred to as "wafer falling-down preventing members" which are provided with grooves to prevent the wafers from falling. This wafer boat also comprises flat supporting parts to support the weight of the wafer with its flat portion positioned in the slot. The wafer falling-down preventing members and the flat supporting parts, however are disadvantageous to the wafer positioned in the slot since the plurality of wafer falling-down preventing members and the flat supporting members contribute to wafer stress and wafer slip. Additionally, the boat described in JP6124911 is constructed to accommodate wafers with a flat portion positioned in the slot. This positioning of the wafer in the slot with its flat portion being supported by the boat allows side-to-side movement of the wafer in the slot, such as during transfer of the boat to and from a furnace. This wafer motion places stress on the wafer, increases particle formation and thus lowers device yields.
Thus, a need exists for a wafer boat which eliminates the disadvantages of the prior art wafer boats.
The wafer boat of the present invention is configured to reduce the likelihood wafer slip when wafers are heated to processing temperatures in excess of about 1000° C. The inventive wafer boat includes two upper support guides to maintain the wafer in the vertical orientation, and a lower, supporting groove to support the weight of the wafer. The material of the boat is selected, and the groove is shaped, such that when the wafer and boat are subjected to wafer processing temperatures of about 1000° C. and above, the shape of the groove will substantially correspond to the shape of the wafer contacting the groove, thereby supporting the wafer across the entire arc over which the wafer is contacted by the groove.
The present invention relates to a horizontal, silicon carbide wafer boat configured to reduce wafer slip. Several factors have been considered in the development of the wafer boat of the present invention. In particular, the present invention recognizes the following principles: a) silicon strength decreases significantly at temperatures above about 600° C. and dramatically at temperatures above about 900° C.; b) below about 720° C., silicon is brittle and will not form a slip plane; c) shear stress is the dominant stress which induces slip; and d) the total wafer stress must be below the slip generation stress threshold.
Wafer mechanical stress may arise from three sources—gravity, wafer pinching, and wafer-boat frictional forces. Wafer pinching and wafer-boat frictional forces are the result of differences between the boat and wafer thermal expansion. All of these forces are directly related to the wafer boat design. As shown in
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Another component of mechanical stress to analyze is wafer pinching. Wafer pinching occurs when the wafer is constrained by the wafer slot when it is thermally expanding. As the wafer load is inserted into the furnace and processed, the wafers and the silicon carbide boat do not expand at the same rate primarily due to the much greater mass of the boat. The wafers heat up much more quickly and therefore expand outwardly. Thus, the boat must provide adequate space to allow for the thermal expansion difference between the wafer and the boat. The upper slots need to be designed with sufficient space to allow for this expansion. In addition, as the upper slots are positioned higher in relation to the center of the wafer, more allowance must be given for wafer expansion. This wafer allowance is a function of both the length of the chord formed by the upper slots and the height of the upper slots. As such, an allowance for wafer expansion must be provided with regard to the upper slots and must increase as the height of the slots increases.
As noted above, because of its lower mass, the wafer is more thermally responsive than the boat, causing the wafer to expand and contract at a different rate than the boat. This mismatch in expansion means that the wafer must slide over the surface of the lower slots. As the wafer slides over the support, static friction must be overcome to allow the wafer to move. The static friction creates tangential forces on the wafer. The friction force is a function of the normal force on the wafer at the support points:
An additional property can be determined from the relationships above. To reduce friction effects, the wafer support angle should be minimized, the slot surface should be machined to less than 2 micron Ra, and the supports should approximate a tangent or be continuous to the wafer.
An analysis of the heat transfer from the furnace to the wafers has demonstrated that radiation will be the dominant contributor to heat transfer at high temperatures. In other words, wafer areas that are exposed to radiation will heat up quickly.
In radiative heat transfer, there are source(s), target(s), and blocker(s). A source is defined as a mass at higher temperature which gives off radiation. The target is defined as the mass which is being analyzed for heat transfer. The blocker is defined as a mass which interrupts the line of sight between a source and target.
Between the source and target surfaces, a geometric relationship called the radiation view factor exists. The radiation view factor defines how much of the radiant energy leaving the source actually hits the target entity. Because of complex geometries including curved shapes, 100% of the target entity is not directly visible to 100% of the source entity. Since there is not always a direct line of sight, not all of the radiation energy is received by the target.
In a horizontal furnace system, the furnace tube is the source and the wafers act as the targets as well as the blockers. As the load heats up, the wafers also act as sources to each other and heat is transmitted from wafer face to wafer face bi-directionally through the wafer load. From an understanding of the different modes of heat transfer to the wafers, it becomes possible to define additional characteristics of the inventive wafer boat. The boat should maximize the line of sight between the wafer faces and the furnace tube. Additionally, the boat design should not have a large thermal mass which will significantly lag behind the wafers thermally.
Wafer boats of the present invention are manufactured using slip casting techniques and green machining. From the green state, the boats are furnaced and then subjected to a final machining step. Prior manufacturing experience has shown that thin walled boats do not have a high rate of survival in this process. Also boats which have windows or cutouts close to the edge of the boat are prone to mechanical damage during manufacturing and in subsequent use.
Considering the above effects, the boat wall nominal thickness should be no less than about 5 mm. Likewise, windows should be positioned a minimum of about 10 mm from the boat ends or any sharp transitions.
Taking the several considerations outlined above into account, the inventive wafer boat was developed.
Since they are formed of different materials, the wafer 32 and the wafer boat 30 have different thermal expansion coefficients. In one embodiment, the wafer boats of the present invention are formed of SiC. One preferred SiC comprises recrystallized SiC commercially available from Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics Inc., of Worcester, Mass. under the tradename CRYSTAR®. Such materials can comprise either recrystallized SiC or silicon impregnated SiC where semiconductor grade silicon has been used to fill porosity in the body. The silicon impregnated material can be further provided with a layer of CVD-SiC to seal the surface and prevent silicon migration during use of the device in wafer processing.
Recrystallized SiC, either impregnated or not, is preferred for wafer boats as a result of its strength at high temperatures. Specifically, CRYSTAR® material has been found to be significantly stronger and more dimensionally stable than quartz throughout the semiconductor processing temperature range. As a result, the material can be used to fabricate wafer boats that resist thermal distortion or sagging during their working lifetimes.
Boats formed from recrystallized silicon carbide (i.e., CRYSTAR® material) have been found to exhibit a thermal expansion coefficient that is about 27% higher than that of polysilicon wafers.
Boats intended for use with 300 mm wafers will most likely be moved using automated equipment which contacts the underside of the boat. Based on this type of boat transfer, the design was analyzed to determine stress due to loading. The total possible wafer capacity of the boat was defined as 25 wafers, (approximately 3.38 kg). A safety factor of ten was chosen. Although this factor of safety is high, experience has shown that wafer boats are often exposed to severe handling. The brittle nature of ceramic materials and the interface of the boats with automation and rigid fixturing require a high safety factor.
As noted previously, the wafer boats of the present invention are intended to be used with 300 mm wafers. Of course, the present invention is not intended to be limited strictly to wafers of this size. Rather, the inventive wafer boats are intended to be used both with existing smaller wafer geometries, as well as with larger wafer geometries which may be developed.
In the case of a wafer boat for use with a 300 mm wafer, in one embodiment, the boat includes 10 slots intended to hold 10 wafers. Such a boat is approximately 11 cm long. The opposing upper supports are positioned approximately 6.8 cm above the lowest point of the groove, and spaced apart from one another by approximately 10.4 cm. Each slot will have a width of approximately 0.89 mm. The groove will have an arc length of approximately 20.82 mm.
It should be understood that each of the dimensions provided above is given at room temperature and is intended for wafer boats formed of CRYSTAR® recrystallized SiC. The dimensions may differ for boats formed of different materials based upon the thermal expansion coefficients of those materials. Likewise, the dimensions will be different at wafer processing temperatures of between approximately 1000° C.–1400° C.
The wafer boat of the present invention was tested according to normal methods of usage and the following results were obtained:
From the foregoing detailed description of the specific embodiments of the invention, it should be apparent that a novel wafer boat has been described. Although particular embodiments have been disclosed herein in detail, this has been done by way of example for purposes of illustration only, and is not intended to be limiting with respect to the scope of the appended claims which follow. In particular, it is contemplated by the inventors that various substitutions, alterations, and modifications may be made to the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the claims.
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Here are my latest versions of my Knight Rider Style lights. Version 3.5 in blue and Version 4 in red. My friend wrote me an awesome new program so I can now PWM (create fade effects) to all of my light scans. It's hard to see them in some of the scans in the video due to how a camera collects light but every scan has a faded beginning and end to them. The video doesn't do it justice to how good they look. My father-in-law is the owner of the Black TA. It was nice being able to film a 2nd car instead of using mine all the time (even though it is in it). I know it's a little crazy trying to watch 2 cars at once going through all of the scans but the Blue scanner has 20 of them and the Red scanner has 30. The video would be way too long if I did them separately. Thanks for watching! Tech Specs: Version 3.5 24 Output Control Box 100 5mm 35,000mcd LEDs Left + Right Scoop are mirrors of each other PWM fade effect Remote Control 10 Speeds per scan EEPROM saves last scan and the speed for all scans. What ever scan is running when it is turned off will begin when turned back on. The speed is saved independently for all scans. Once they are set, they don't have to be set again unless I want to change it. Version 4 50 Output Control Box 200 5mm 35,000mcd LED Independent LEFT - RIGHT scoops Random Eye Scan (eyes move to random position for a random amount of time at a random speed. It will never do the same movement twice). PWM fade effect Remote Control 10 Speeds per scan EEPROM saves last scan and the speed for all scans. What ever scan is running when it is turned off will begin when turned back on. The speed is saved independently for all scans. Once they are set, they don't have to be set again unless I want to change it.
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Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World
June 25, 2015 // 9:00am — 10:30am
Masuda Hajimu will discuss his new book, Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, asking, what, really, was the Cold War?
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June 10, 2015 // 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Please join us on June 10 to celebrate the launch of the new Hyundai Motor–Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy. Made possible with the generous support of the Hyundai Motor Company and the Korea Foundation, the program will expand the Wilson Center's unique strengths and rich legacy of substantive and diverse programming on Korea.
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June 03, 2015 // 5:30pm — 9:30pm
This very special screening of "Ode To My Father: Korean War & Divided Families" is held in support of legislation encouraging family reunions between Korean-Americans and North Koreans (H.CON.RES 40) and to strengthen the US-ROK alliance.
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May 18, 2015 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Historian Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia – the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias – communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear zones created a bubble of immunity, where dumps and accidents were glossed over and plant managers freely embezzled and polluted.
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May 11, 2015 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Antisemitism is on the rise today in Europe and around the world, but there is no consensus about how the global community should respond. In this talk, drawn from his forthcoming book, scholar James Loeffler offers a historical perspective on this debate by looking back on the first major episode of global antisemitic violence after World War II, the "Swastika Epidemic" of 1960.
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May 04, 2015 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
In "The Reagan Era," Doug Rossinow gives a full and rounded view of how the foreign policies of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush took America—through a sometimes chaotic path, one marked with war scares, troop deployments, indirect warfare, scandal, and diplomatic triumphs—to the edge of a new era of American predominance.
Luther's Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege
May 04, 2015 // 2:00pm — 3:30pm
Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Scholar and Historian James Reston, Jr's newest book "Luther's Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege" describes a crucial but little-known episode in Martin Luther's life and reveals its pivotal role in the history of Christianity. Drawing on Luther's correspondence, notes, and other writings, Reston presents an earthy, gripping portrait of the Reformation's architect during his time in excommunication.
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands
April 27, 2015 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Drawing upon never before seen Chinese sources, Sulmaan Khan tells, for the first time, the story of how non-state actors moving across the Tibetan borderlands exposed state weakness and caused the PRC to move from empire-lite to a harder, heavier imperial formation. That change transformed Chinese policy towards the third world and the Cold War.
2015 Ahtisaari Symposium: New Evidence and Perspectives on the Helsinki Accords
April 27, 2015 // 9:00am — 12:30pm
The Ahtisaari Symposium series, established at the Wilson Center in 2010 in honor of Nobel Laureate and former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, provides a forum for discussion of historical and policy perspectives on vital European security issues. In cooperation with the University of Helsinki, the Wilson Center also hosts a scholarship program for Finnish professionals from the scholarly, media, business and public policy communities.
Rethinking US International Broadcasting: A Conversation on Mission, Strategy, and Organization
April 22, 2015 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
By many accounts, U.S. international broadcasting's mission is unclear, its attachment to U.S. foreign policy strategies tenuous, and its organizational structure ineffective. Many see the entire enterprise as broken. For a new assessment, "Reassessing U.S. International Broadcasting," co-authors S. Enders Wimbush and Elizabeth M. Portale interviewed some 30 individuals with extensive experience in foreign policy strategy, international relations, international broadcasting, public diplomacy, and promotion of human rights and democracy. Join us in a discussion on the future of US international broadcasting.


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Rational Team Concert, Top Support Content in March!
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It's an RTC love-fest today! Hot off the reporting presses here in Rational Support, here are the top fifteen technotes used in March to help solve the Rational Team Concert PMRs you reported. As always, these are taken directly from our PMR reports and tabulated to help you solve the same issues which you may be encountering:
Jazz licensing: Exploring Rational Team Concert
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Jazz LICENSING : Exploring Rational Team Concert
Rational Team Concert has a simple set of defined roles to enable key solutions for your organization. With Rational Team Concert you simply acquire licenses to support the roles and solutions that you are interested in. This provides you with an unprecedented level of flexibility and cost efficiency to choose and use only what you are interested in to support your needs. Rational Team Concert allows you to implement individual components of RTC now and others later simply through licensing - and without your typical deployment and integration headaches and risks.
When you purchase a role-based license for IBM Rational Team Concert you will have read, write, and comment access to some or all of the capabilities of the Change and Configuration Management application. In addition, there are three types of Developer client access licenses.
Client access licenses:
With a role-based licensing scheme, when you purchase a client access license for a particular role you will have read, write, and comment access to some or all of the capabilities of the Change and Configuration Management application.
You install the client access license activation kits in the License Key Management section in the Administration page of the Jazz Team Server. You assign the licenses to users in the Client Access License Management section of Jazz User Administration. See Installing and managing license keys for instructions.
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Configuration Management application.
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Once a Jazz Team Server is installed, you may install additional license keys in the License Key Management section in the Administration page of the Jazz Team Server
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Jazz.net - New and improved!
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Jazz.net is live with a completely reworked and improved website
The new Jazz.net site includes the addition of Rational Requirements Composer, Quality Manager, and Focal Point for Project Management. We have done what you asked for and made much more of our Jazz Development open and transparent. Now clients and community members will be able to enjoy the benefits of transparent development but no longer just for Rational Team Concert. Now you can participate with us in shaping plans, prioritizing fixes, and interacting directly with our expanding Jazz Development Team for three new Jazz Products. See http://jazz.net/ for the complete details
eGuide now on Jazz.net
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Rational Team Concert education modules in IBM Education Assistant.
IBM Education Assistant is a collection of multimedia educational modules designed to help you gain a better understanding of IBM software products and use them more effectively to meet your business requirements.
Please check them out and let us know what you think ... either via the feedback mechanism at IEA or by leaving a comment here.
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How did the IBM Software Accelerated Value Program help a Financial Services Company save big bucks?
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How did the IBM Software Accelerated Value Program help a Financial Services Company save big bucks?
Financial Services Company (FSC) is one of the world's largest banks with worldwide operations serving more than 75M customers. They've made a significant investment in IBM Rational's software development solutions, including Rational TeamConcert (RTC), Requ
FSC has a very intricate ecosystem and although RTC performed as expected, the loss of confidence in RRC and BF threatened the migration of 18,000 MKS users to RTC. The client found working with Rational Customer Support to be a very frustrating process as complex interactions between BF and RTC elongated the identification of root cause and remediation. The integration between RTC and BF did not meet user expectations and there were serious questions about BF's to perform at scale.
To address the integration issues AVP engaged the Customer Satisfaction Project office (CSPO) and Development. Regular checkpoints with the client improved communication and collaboration and Development produced 5 hotfixes that solved this problem.
Now focused on performance, AVP arranged for BF Development to create a series of performance tests using environment variables similar to Financial Services Company's and increasing user load. The checkpoint meetings monitored test progress and documentation recording settings and results. This also exposed a number of unnecessary workflows which AVP help eliminate, further increasing output. After 3 months BF was stable and performing satisfactorily, without degradation, above the maximum users levels FSC had set. The client was then satisfied their BF investment would produce the requisite ROI. The migration from MKS was back on track!
RRC users around the world were experiencing varied response times with some functions taking too long to respond or refresh. Upon learning that Financial Services Company planned to engage its own performance test team, AVP engaged the Rational Executive and Global Response Teams (GRT) to partner with the Financial Services Company performance group. To understand the problems being encountered, the AVL (Accelerated Value Leader) obtained previous measurements of RRC function response times and network latency from Financial Services Company's global sites. AVP also arranged for a GRT resource to work onsite to measure system responses and recommend optimized server settings.
GRT discovered that Financial Services Company was using an unsupported topology with RTC and RRC sharing the same server – and would never achieve the desired performance. To improve performance in the short term, IBM recommended migrating to a later version of RRC and adjusted server settings on the unsupported topology to approach target performance levels. AVP also identified the impact using the newer version of RRC would have on other tools in use.
AVP facilitated daily checkpoint calls with the client and extended IBM team. A number of PMRs were raised, which resulted in 2 hotfixes being applied to RRC. Use of the newer, patched version of RRC and tuned server settings allowing the Financial Services Company performance team to report that the product was suitable for use, but the impending move to a new data center necessitated architecting a supported topology. AVP has continued to work with Financial Services Company to ensure that the data center design and implementation will optimize the performance of the Rational solution and ensure Financial Services Company's ROI.
With AVP coordinating and prioritizing the efforts of FSC and IBM, solution stability and performance have improved, as has the quality of the partnership between our two companies. Increased confidence and usability has positively impacted productivity of Financial Services Company's global analysts and developers.


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Josh Dallas melts our hearts each week on the hit ABC fantasy drama Once Upon A Time as Prince Charming and off the screen, he manages to look as dapper as his character. For the 2013 PaleyFest panel featuring the cast of the show, Dallas, wore a one-half breasted suit by Brunello Cucinelli. He added a pop of color with a mustard yellow tie to the wool suit from Cucinelli's spring 2013 collection. A white pocket square and black lace-ups were all that was needed to finish off his look.Photo: Getty
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