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A height adjustable cane includes an upper tubular member configured to slidably receive a second tubular member in a telescoping manner. A plurality of apertures are formed in the first tubular member which allows a button of a snap button assembly to pass therethrough and lock the tubular members against relative movement. Using the push-button assembly and the telescopic feature, the length of the cane may be adjusted. Increased stability between the tubular members is provided by a cam locking assembly including a housing receiving a cam member. The cam member includes a lever and a raised camming surface that selectively engages an outer surface of the second tubular member.
1. An adjustable cane comprising:
a first member having a plurality of spaced apertures and an opening;
a second member adapted for telescoping relation with the first member;
a handle located at an end of one of the first member and the second member;
a snap button assembly at least partially housed inside of the second member and having a button on a first end extending radially outward through one of the apertures in the first member;
a cam locking assembly located adjacent the opening including a housing receiving a cam member with a raised surface, and a cam lever operatively associated with the cam member for selectively engaging the raised surface with the second member through the opening of the first member.
2. The adjustable cane according to claim 1 wherein the raised surface has a generally triangular prism configuration.
3. The adjustable cane according to claim 1 further comprising a tip portion opposite the handle of the cane at an end of one of the first member and the second member, the tip portion including a base having plural legs connected thereto.
4. The adjustable cane according to claim 1 wherein the housing includes a notch dimensioned to allow the lever to be moved from a locked position, substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cane to an unlocked position.
5. The adjustable cane according to claim 4 wherein the lever of the inserted cam member is integral therewith and extends from the housing through the notch.
6. The adjustable cane according to claim 1 wherein the snap button assembly further includes a button on a second end resiliently biased into, and radially outwardly through an aperture in the first member.
7. The adjustable cane according to claim 1 wherein the cam member is substantially cylindrical with a raised surface extending therefrom.
8. A height adjustable cane comprising:
a first tubular member having a plurality of spaced apertures;
a second tubular member configured to be received within the first tubular member and having at least one aperture formed thereon, and a snap button at least partially contained in the second tubular member and adapted to pass through the at least one aperture in the second tubular member and one of the apertures in the first tubular member;
a handle located at an end of one of the first member and the second member; and
a cam locking assembly including a housing mounted on an outer surface of the first tubular member and a cam member located within the housing including a lever and a raised surface extending from the cam member, wherein movement of the lever positions the raised surface in contact with the second tubular member.
9. The height adjustable cane according to claim 8 wherein the raised surface has a generally saddle-shaped configuration.
10. The adjustable cane according to claim 2 wherein the raised surface is generally saddle shaped at an outermost point of extension of the raised surface.
11. The height adjustable cane according to claim 9 wherein the raised surface is generally saddle-shaped at an outermost point of extension of the raised surface.
This invention relates generally to an adjustable walking cane and more particularly to an improved locking mechanism for such a cane. An adjustable cane is desirable as it allows one cane to be used by a variety of different sized individuals.
One known arrangement for adjusting the height of a cane is to provide a telescoping sleeve assembly.
An inner tubular portion of the assembly carries a spring-loaded push-button which selectively engages one of a plurality of axially or longitudinally spaced apertures formed an outer sleeve. The length of the cane depends on which aperture receives the snap button.
This adjustment feature has improved and expanded the usefulness of a cane.
Attempts have been made to improve the adjustment features of canes relative to those presently found in the market. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,085,763 to Thomas uses a collar having an interior opening and a wing-type male screw. By tightening the threaded wing-type screw, the position of the hollow outer sleeve is fixed relative to the hollow inner tubular member.
In U.S. Pat. No. 4,044,784 to Smith, a swivel lock fixes a handle with respect to a support member.
The swivel lock includes an internal sleeve in threaded engagement with an externally threaded portion on a lower end of a handle member. An annular compressible member is positioned between the sleeve and support member so that as the sleeve is threaded onto the threaded portion, a lower end portion bears against the compressible member to grip the exterior surface of the support member.
In both of the above patents, repetitive twisting of the height adjustment mechanism is required. Typically, individuals using a height adjustable cane are elderly or physically challenged, and such twisting and tightening motions are difficult for them to perform. Also with regard to Thomas, there is a direct metal to metal contact which eventually causes the surface of the inner tube to deteriorate causing the adjustment mechanism to become less secure.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,139,040 to Kelly describes a collapsible light-weight crutch which includes a pair of height adjustment retention rings. These rings are constructed of an elastomeric material which tightly engages respective upper and lower support members. However, the rings do not provide a compression between the inner and outer tubes and thereby do not act to reduce the wobbling effect due to the telescoping features.
The U.S. Patents to Nakatani U.S. Pat. No. 4,596,484 and Nakatani 4,029,279 show locking methods using a lever type device. However, the locking mechanisms of these devices are fairly complex and are not directed to walking canes.
Therefore, it has been deemed desirable to develop an adjustable walking cane having a locking mechanism which is reliable, easily operated by individuals without requiring repetitive turning motions or high degrees of strength, and which is simple and economical to manufacture.
The present invention contemplates a new and improved adjustable walking cane that overcomes all of the above noted problems and others and is easily locked/unlocked, is reliable, yet is economical to manufacture.
According to a more limited aspect of the invention, a first or upper tubular member has a plurality of spaced apertures formed in a sidewall thereof. A second or lower tubular member is inserted in a telescoping manner into the first tubular member and carries a spring biased snap button that extends through one of the apertures. A cam locking assembly includes a housing mounted on the first tubular member that receives a cam member selectively actuated by a lever. A raised surface on the cam member engages the second tubular member providing a radial locking force that limits relative movement between the first and second tubular members.
According to a more limited aspect of the invention, the cam housing includes a recess that receives the lever in an actuated position.
According another aspect of the invention, the raised surface of the cam member is preferably a general triangular prism configuration that provides a positive locking/unlocking feedback action to the user when the cam member is actuated/deactuated.
A principal advantage of the invention is the provision of a height adjustable walking cane that includes a locking member that is easily actuated and deactuated.
Another advantage of the invention resides in the positive feedback that confirms that the cam member has been actuated.
Yet another advantage of the subject invention resides in the simple construction of the cam locking assembly.
Still other advantages and benefits of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon a reading and understanding of the following detailed description.
The invention may take physical form in certain parts and arrangements of parts, a preferred embodiment of which will be described in detail in this specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part hereof, and wherein:
FIG. 1 is a side view of a height adjustable cane having a cam locking assembly formed in accordance with the teachings of the subject invention;
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the spring biased snap button assembly used in conjunction with the cam locking assembly for an adjustable cane;
FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the cam housing;
FIG. 3B is a cross-sectional view of the cam housing taken generally along lines A--A of FIG. 3A;
FIG. 3C is an elevational view of the cam housing taken generally along the lines C--C of FIG. 3A;
FIG. 4A is a perspective view of the cam member and lever;
FIG. 4B is an elevational view of the cam member of FIG. 4A;
FIG. 4C is a bottom view of the cam member of FIG. 4A;
FIG. 5 illustrates the cam locking assembly in an actuated or locked relationship with the first and second telescoping tubular members, the cam member and lever being shown in phantom in a deactuated or unlocked position; and,
FIG. 6 is another embodiment of the subject cane having a quad leg base.
Referring now to the drawings wherein the showings are for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the invention only and not for purposes of limiting same, FIG. 1 shows an adjustable cane A having a first or upper tubular member 10 which includes a handle portion 12 at one end. The handle can adopt a variety of styles or configurations to conform to desired comfort, gripping, or weight bearing considerations, and may include a hand grip 14 for comfort and/or wrist strap (not shown) to keep the cane close at hand. The other end of the first member terminates in a hollow open end 16. Intermediate the handle and the end 16 are a plurality of openings or apertures 18. Preferably, the openings are generally equi-spaced in a longitudinal direction to provide height adjustment of the cane as will be described in greater detail below.
A second or lower tubular member 20 is at least partially received within the hollow open end 16 of the first tubular member in a telescoping relationship. The lower tubular member further includes a plastic plug 22 received in one end and a rubber bottom tip 24 secured to the other end. The plug serves as an anti-rattle member by providing an increased interference fit between the first and second tubular members where the inner and outer diameter portions of the first and second tubular members, respectively, are otherwise slightly spaced apart to allow the telescoping movement for height adjustment. The tip 24 is preferably formed from rubber because of its non-skid, shock absorbing properties when brought into contact with a supporting surface, such as the ground or a floor.
A spring biased snap button assembly 26 (FIG. 2) is at least partially secured within the second tubular member 20. It includes a biasing wire 28 carries one or more buttons 30 that selectively project through the apertures 18 formed through the sidewall of the first tubular member 10. Moreover, according to the preferred arrangement, openings 32 are formed in the sidewall of the second tubular member to receive the buttons therethrough. This holds the snap button assembly in place within the second tubular member. When an opening 18 is aligned with opening 32, the button is urged radially outward to lock the first and second tubular members against relative movement. Likewise, when the length or height of the cane is to be altered, the buttons are depressed, against the spring force of the wire, through the openings 18 and the tubular members repositioned to a desired height so that a new set of openings 18 are aligned with the snap buttons. By this structure, cane A is adjusted to a variety of lengths to accommodate different sized people. As will be appreciated, the snap button assembly may use only a single button, thus eliminating the need for a second set of openings 18, 32 shown along the left-hand side of FIG. 2. In all other respects, however, the snap button assembly would operate in the same manner as described above.
Returning attention to FIG. 1, located adjacent the open end 16 of the first tubular member is a cam locking assembly 40. The assembly includes a housing 42, cam member 44, and an actuating lever 46, preferably integrally formed with the cam member. Details of the cam housing 42 are illustrated in FIGS. 3A-3C. The housing is a hollow, generally cylindrical conformation adapted for receipt over the end of the first tubular member. Preferably, the housing is circumferentially continuous at opposite ends 48, 50 and includes a mounting boss 52 extending outwardly from the sidewall. A cavity 52 is formed in the boss to receive the cam member therein. More particularly, the cavity has a pair of spaced recesses 54, 56 (FIG. 3A) that receive similarly dimensioned shoulders 58, 60 (FIGS. 4A, 4C) of the cam member. Moreover, the cavity 52 communicates with a cutout or notch 62 in the boss through which the actuating lever 46 of the cam member 44 extends. The actuating lever has a pivotal range of movement of approximately ninety degrees, abutting contact with the housing and the recess wall 64 defining stop surfaces that limit further travel of the lever. An enlarged tab 66 is formed on the lever at an end opposite to the cam member to facilitate actuation by a user.
Raised surface 70 forms the camming face which is preferably a saddle surface located atop a rounded triangular prism type configuration. For further clarification, the raised surface has a concave-convex rounded edge at an outermost point of extension of the raised surface. In other words, the raised surface is concave from one angled side of the prism to the other and is convex in a direction perpendicular thereto to follow the contour of lower tubular member 20 when engaged. The outermost point of extension of the raised surface is located at an angle slightly greater than ninety degrees from the lever as best illustrated in FIGS. 4B and 5. In this manner, the user encounters a positive feedback as the lever is rotated from an actuated to a deactuated position, or vice versa.
The raised surface extends through an opening 72 formed in the lower region of the first tubular member and when actuated to the slid showing of FIG. 5 tightly engages the external surface of the second tubular member. When fully actuated, the lever is disposed generally flush with the outer surface of the housing and the raised surface is slightly over-center. When deactuated, and as shown in phantom in FIG. 5, the raised surface is disposed in the boss cutout 62 such that it does not engage the second tubular member nor inhibit relative movement between the first and second tubular members. While the preferred material of construction of housing and cam member is plastic, it is appreciated that other materials may be used without departing from the scope and intent of the subject invention.
As may be appreciated from FIGS. 4A-4C and 5 a user may simply flip the lever 46 into and out of a locked position by applying an upward or downward force to tab 66. The applied force to the lever is minimized due to the inherent mechanical advantages afforded by use of a lever. Further, by using lever 46 to actuate (lock) and deactuate (unlock) the assembly, only a simple upward or downward force needs to be applied, overcoming the twisting action or excessive force required for other known assemblies.
FIG. 6 is another embodiment of the subject invention wherein adjustable cane A is provided with a quad leg base 74. The base includes a rectangular plate 76 interconnecting the second tubular member to four spaced legs 78. In all other respects, this embodiment is substantially identical in structure and operation to the adjustable cane described above.
The invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiment. Obviously, modifications and alterations will occur to others upon a reading and understanding of this specification. It is intended to include all such modifications and alterations insofar as they come within the scope of the appended claims or the equivalents thereof.
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Choir members are expected to dress in a way that is appropriate for a lector or Eucharistic Minister. Casual, but nice. Slacks are fine for women but low-cut tops and bare midriffs are not allowed.
- Men: ties and/or jackets preferred but not required. Collared shirts are required. No shorts and t-shirts.
- All members: collared shirts or sweaters are required.
Rehearsal Dress
Since the choir practices in the church, attention needs to be paid to dressing respectfully. Polo-type shirts and/or button down shirts required for all. If you're only wearing a T-shirt, have a jacket or sweater to cover it up. Women's Short shorts are not allowed.
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Choir members are required to purchase a choir gown or tuxedo. At the time of the audition you will be measured.
Current prices are as follows:
- Women's Gown: $80. (A few used gowns will be available for $50).
- Men's Tuxedo: $135.
Tuxes and gowns are ordered the first week of school and arrive near the end of September -- plenty of time to get them tailored and hemmed.
When you come to the audition, please bring cash or a check with you made out to "The Saint Anselm College Choir."

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An acoustic mirror includes constituent layers that are substantially odd multiples of λ/4. The constituent layers include a first impedance layer and a second impedance layer, where the first impedance layer includes a first material having a first acoustic impedance and a first dielectric constant, and the second impedance layer includes a second material having a second acoustic impedance and a second dielectric constant. The second acoustic impedance is higher than the first acoustic impedance, and the first dielectric constant is lower than the second dielectric constant.
1. An acoustic mirror comprising:
constituent layers comprising a layer having a thickness of substantially an odd multiple of λ/4, where λ corresponds to a length of an acoustic wave, the constituent layers comprising a single pair of layers, the single pair of layers comprising a first impedance layer and a second impedance layer,
the first impedance layer comprising a first material having a first acoustic impedance and a first dielectric constant, the first material comprising at least one of aluminum nitride, gallium nitride, and zinc oxide,
the second impedance layer comprising a second material having a second acoustic impedance and a second dielectric constant, the second material comprising a polymerized benzocyclobutene,
the first acoustic impedance being higher than the second acoustic impedance, and
the first dielectric constant being higher than the second dielectric constant.
2. The acoustic mirror of
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9. A duplexer comprising filters, the filters comprising first and second BAW resonators, each of the first and second BAW resonators comprising:
a substrate;
a first impedance layer comprising a first material having a first acoustic impedance and a first dielectric constant, the first material comprising at least one of aluminum nitride, gallium nitride, and zinc oxide;
a second impedance layer comprising a second material having a second acoustic impedance and a second dielectric constant, the second material comprising a polymerized benzocyclobutene;
the first acoustic impedance being higher than the second acoustic impedance, and
the first dielectric constant being higher than the second dielectric constant;
electrode layers that are above the second impedance layer relative to the substrate; and
a piezoelectric layer between the electrode layers.
10. The duplexer of
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wherein the duplexer further comprises at least one additional layer located between the two partial electrodes, the at least one additional layer comprising a layer that is substantially λ/4 and that has a dielectric constant that is less than the first dielectric constant.
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This application relates to an acoustic mirror for a bulk acoustic wave resonator (BAW resonator) and a stacked-crystal filter (SCF) with at least one pair of layers that are λ/4 or 3λ/4 layers, where each pair of layers includes a first layer with a first material of high acoustic impedance and a second layer with a second material of relatively lower acoustic impedance.
Volume oscillators—FBARs (thin-film bulk acoustic resonators) or bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators that work with acoustic waves—are based on a piezoelectric base body that is on each of the two main surfaces with an electrode. Such a resonator has a resonance frequency fr that depends on the total thickness L0 of the oscillating base body approximately in accordance with the formula
The required layer thickness L0 for a resonating BAW resonator in the HF range is in the μm and sub-μm range. Thin-layer processes are therefore required for the production of the layers of the base body.
In order to keep the energy of the acoustic waves inside the base body of the resonator, and to provide a sharp resonance frequency for the resonator, two main construction principles are known that make sufficiently high reflection of the acoustic waves possible at boundaries in order to provide an adequate filtering effect with low acoustic or electrical losses.
One possibility for keeping the energy of the acoustic waves within the base body of the resonator comprises arranging the base body over a hollow space, in which case a membrane can also be arranged between the lower electrode and the substrate. This arrangement is also called a bridge-type resonator.
Other BAW resonators of the mirror type use a so-called acoustic mirror. This type includes a number of layer pairs with alternating layers of materials with higher and lower acoustic impedance. Each of the layers has a layer thickness of one quarter lambda (λ/4) so that at each boundary reflected wave portions are superimposed constructively. In principle, in selecting the layer thicknesses, values would also be possible that correspond to odd multiples of quarter lambdas, thus λ/4, 3λ/4, . . . (2n−1)λ/4, with natural numbers n. To optimize resonator characteristics, mirror-layer thickness can deviate slightly form the λ/4, 3λ/4, . . . (2n−1)λ/4 rule. SiO2 is used in particular as a material with lower acoustic impedance. A heavy metal such as tungsten or molybdenum, or aluminum nitride, is used as a material with higher acoustic impedance. The higher the impedance difference between the two materials, the fewer pairs are used for an acoustic mirror. Some acoustic mirrors need at least two λ/4 layer pairs between the lower electrode and the substrate. With each additional layer, however, the effective coupling of the resonator, and thus the bandwidth, is reduced. In contrast to a resonator of the bridge type, the bandwidth of the resonator can be reduced by up to 30% in this case. With such resonators, it is therefore significantly more expensive to construct a band-pass filter with adequate bandwidth.
Another disadvantage of a BAW resonator of the mirror type is in the complexity of the process for depositing and structuring the multilayer structure required for it. Each λ/4 layer increases the complexity, and thus the cost, of the production process. With the number of necessary layers, errors also become more frequent so that a significant scattering of resonance frequencies of the resonators over an entire wafer and, as a result, the average frequency of filters must be taken into account.
Since the bandwidth of the acoustic mirror is reduced as the number of layer pairs for the acoustic mirror increases, in a duplexer, for example, that has two filters with different passage ranges (pass bands), a separate acoustic mirror would be required for each of the two filters. The complexity of production is thereby increased.
Layers with high dielectric constants, such as the metal tungsten and molybdenum in particular, can result in coupling of electric signals to the substrate, which results in undesired speech overlap and an increase in insertion loss.
This application describes making an acoustic mirror out of at least one pair of layers of materials with different acoustic impedances, such that a low-k dielectric is chosen as a material with lower acoustic impedance. If such a dielectric is combined with another layer of a material with high acoustic impedance, then a highly reflective acoustic mirror is obtained. Material combinations for the mirror-layer pair have been found that make possible a highly reflecting mirror even with only one pair of layers.
The low-k dielectrics used are known as insulation, covering, and intermediate layers for microelectronic applications. This class of materials, the low-k dielectrics include hardened foams, porous oxides, and aerogels, as well as networked hardened polymers and other organic materials that can deposited by the CVD (chemical vapor deposition) technique or the SOD (spin-on deposition) technique. These materials have a lower dielectric constant than SiO2 and have an ε less than 3. In addition, they have even lower densities, ρ, and small elastic constants, c. Since the acoustic impedance, Z, is calculated according to the formula
Since the acoustic impedance of a material rises or falls with its density, steps can be taken to reduce the low acoustic impedance in the layers even further. It is advantageous, for example, to provide nanopores in the mirror layer with lower acoustic impedance. Such nanopores can be determined structurally in appropriate polymers or be present in a material with a 3D structure. Nanopores can also be generated later, however, for example by foaming the material with a gas-releasing substance, especially with a propellant. Siloxanes as well that are derived from silsesquioxanes have structurally determined hollow spaces that reduce the density and thereby the acoustic impedance. Materials like aerogels or porous silicates likewise have pores and thereby a lower density.
Low-k dielectrics that may be used with the acoustic mirror described herein include polyaromatic polymers derived, for example, by polymerization of monomers of polyphenylene or bis-benzocyclobutene substituted with cyclopentadienone and acetylene. By means of the polymerization, for example, networked polyphenylene (trade name SiLK�) or networked bis-benzocyclobutene (trade name BCB) is obtained that has, for the example of BCB, a glass-transition temperature (maximum temperature stability) of more than 350� C., an elastic constant of about 2 GPa, an average density of 1.0 g/cm3, and thereby an acoustic impedance of only 1.4�106 kg/s/m2. The low-k dielectric SiLK has a glass-transition temperature (maximum temperature stability) of more than 490� C., an elastic constant of about 2.45 GPa, an average density of 1.2 g/cm3, and an acoustic impedance of only 1.7�106 kg/s/m2.
Commercial polymers on this basis are known, for example, from an article by S. J. Martin et al.: "Development of a Low-dielectric-constant Polymer for the Fabrication of Integrated Circuit Interconnect" in Adv. Mater. 2000, 12, No. 23, December 1, pages 1769-1778, and are also commercially available. The elastic constant of this material is in the GPa range and thus is an order of magnitude below the elastic constant of SiO2, which has been used so far as the low-impedance layer. Since the density of this material is also lower than that of SiO2, extremely low acoustic impedance results.
The high thermal stability of this material is most suitable for making subsequent layer deposition of additional functional layers possible, such as, for example, another high-impedance layer, piezoelectric layers, electrodes, diffusion barriers, or passivation, even at the high temperatures required for this. They can be applied in very homogeneous layer structures by the spin-on technique, in which a desired layer thickness can be set with high precision. With a mirror-layer pair that includes such a polyaromatic layer, coupling in the BAW resonator is increased. With this, the bandwidth in the BAW filter is also raised by an average of 14% with respect to conventional acoustic mirrors. In this way, a BAW resonator with an acoustic mirror becomes a fully equivalent alternative to a BAW resonator with a bridge structure.
The process costs in the production of a BAW resonator or even in the reduction of an acoustic mirror for a BAW resonator are reduced by a reduction in the number of mirror layers needed. For a layer pair of tungsten/polyaromatic low-k dielectric, only a single layer pair is required.
By reducing the number of mirror layers, the diffusion of the average frequency over all resonators manufactured on a single wafer is reduced. In addition, the interrupting electric coupling to the substrate, caused especially by the use of metallic high-impedance layers in the acoustic mirror, is reduced by reducing the number of layers in the mirror and by reducing the relative dielectric constant of the low-k dielectric.
Another material besides SiLK� with a low dielectric constant, low density, and a small elastic constant c, is benzocyclobutene. This material is known as a dielectric in microelectronics by its abbreviation, BCB, and as an insulating and covering layer. It is also extremely well-suited for acoustic-mirror layers with low acoustic impedance, since it also provides and achieves a highly homogeneous layer thickness during application and can be applied to a substrate reproducibly in a desired thickness, for example by the spin-on technique.
The acoustic mirror described herein has application in a BAW resonator, in which the layer of higher acoustic impedance, for example tungsten, is applied directly onto a material acting as the carrier, onto which the layer of lower acoustic impedance, for example a polyaromatic compounds, such as SiLK� or BCB, or another low-k dielectric is applied, and onto that a resonator including a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and an upper second electrode are applied. Glass, ceramics or semiconductors, for example, are suitable as substrate materials. It is also possible to use a multilayer substrate, in which individual layers or the entire substrate can also comprise organic materials.
The layer thicknesses for the layer pair of the acoustic mirror are adapted to the desired resonance frequency of the resonators and thereby the average frequency of the filter resulting therefrom. Because of the high bandwidth, a suitable layer pair of λ/4 or 3λ/4 layers can be used not only for a given resonance frequency but also with other frequencies that lie within the bandwidth of the mirror or with resonators with such resonance frequencies.
For the material of the lower electrode, the metals aluminum, tungsten, molybdenum and gold are suitable. Advantageously, a material with high acoustic impedance is used for the lower electrode layer.
For the piezoelectric layer, a material with a higher coupling constant is selected advantageously that can be deposited uniformly in the desired thickness, depending on the average frequency. Zinc oxide and aluminum nitride are especially suitable for BAW resonators. However, other piezoelectric materials are suitable in principle, to the extent that they meet the boundary conditions mentioned.
For the upper electrode layer, the same choice applies in principle as for the lower electrode layer. Each of the "lower" layers of a BAW resonator layer structure serves as a "substrate" for the layer applied onto it and withstand at least the conditions for depositing of the layer above it without damage, and it has only slight surface roughness so that no acoustic scatterings, losses, and growth disturbances appear that would reduce the dynamics of the resonators and thereby increase the insertion loss of the resulting filter.
In conventional acoustic mirrors with SiO2 as the mirror layer with low acoustic impedance, the surface roughness of SiO2 makes a polishing process (chemo-mechanical polishing, CMP, as a wet etching process, ion-radiation etching as a dry etching process) necessary before the lower electrode is deposited. One of the main reasons for the increased roughness of the uppermost SiO2 layer of conventional acoustic mirrors is that the SiO2 layers as low-impedance layers form the large surface roughnesses of the high-impedance layers (W, Mo, AlN) upward during deposition of the successive layers. Without this polishing step, the roughness appearing at the boundary between the lower electrode and the lower-impedance layer increases the acoustic losses in the resonators and thereby the insertion loss of the filter. Low-k dielectrics such as SiLK� and BCB, which are applied, e.g., by the spin-on technique onto a high-impedance layers such as tungsten, for example, smooth the roughnesses of the underlying layer through their flow properties. The surface roughness of the low-k dielectrics such as SiLK or BCB is itself extremely low after the hardening process of the layers. Typical RMS roughnesses are less than 1 nm. Other steps, such as costly and expensive polishing process to provide a homogeneous boundary are thus superfluous.
A BAW resonator or a stacked-crystal filter in a somewhat changed embodiment can be used as an impedance element for constructing a reactance filter, as is known, for example, from U.S. Pat. No. 5,910,756. Such a filter contains resonators connected in parallel and in series in a branching circuit, whereby the connection can be of the ladder type or the lattice type, for example. If the design rules for the reactance filters are also observed, a band-pass filter can be created in this way that has the required bandwidth for HF applications, in particular in current usual communications systems.
BAW resonators with an acoustic mirror, as described herein, already provide the increased bandwidth with respect to known resonators with conventional acoustic mirrors required for the individual resonators. This can be read directly from the admittance curve of the resonator, in which the distance between resonance and anti-resonance frequencies of the resonator represents a measurement of the bandwidth.
An advantageous application for a BAW resonator filter with an acoustic mirror is a duplexer. Such a duplexer comprises two band-pass filters, whose average frequencies are very close to each other and cover, for example, the transmitting and receiving bands of a communication system. The two band-pass filters of a duplexer must thus be tuned to each other such that each filter exhibits as high a level of attenuation as possible at the average frequency of the other filter. Depending on the required distance between the two average frequencies, it may also be required that the two facing flanks of the passage range of the two filters be set to be particularly steep. For such demands, high-quality filters are required that require high-value reactance filters, in the case of reactance filters. For this, for reactance filters comprised of BAW resonators, each resonance frequency has so far required its own acoustic mirror, adapted to the resonance frequency. With the aid of the acoustic mirror described herein, it is now possible to use an acoustic mirror comprised of only one pair of layers for both filters of a duplexer and thereby still meet the high requirements for flank steepness, bandwidths, and near selection. Only one substrate with a specific acoustic mirror applied over an entire surface is successfully realized for two filters working in closely adjacent frequency ranges. This simplifies production and thereby lowers costs. Because of reduced coupling through the acoustic mirror layers, it is also possible, with the acoustic mirror described herein, to expand the resonator further by applying the pair or pairs for the acoustic mirror to the entire surface and without additional structuring between individual resonators or individual filters.
With the given material combination, W/SiLK�, a broadband acoustic mirror, A, is realized that has a reflectivity for the acoustic energy of a wave of more than 95% at the average frequency mentioned. The acoustic mirror, A, can, however, also include additional layer pairs, thus additional layers with higher acoustic impedance, HZ, and additional layers with lower impedance, LK. These layers are arranged alternately in the desired number. Above the layer of low-k material, LK, is the lower electrode of the BAW resonator or an adhesion transmitter, diffusion barrier, or growth layers are formed, for example, by depositing CVD or spattering a molybdenum layer with a layer thickness of about 195 nm.
Above the lower electrode, E1, a piezoelectric layer, F, is now applied, for example a zinc-oxide layer. A spattering process is used, for example, as the application process. The piezoelectric layer, P, can, however, include other materials, for example aluminum nitride or another suitable piezoelectric material.
As the upper electrode of the BAW resonator, a second electrode layer, E2, is arranged above the piezoelectric layer P, not necessarily of the same material as the first electrode layer, E1. In many cases, the upper electrode E1 is also provided with tuning, trimming, or passivation layers.
The resonance frequency of the BAW resonator is determined approximately according to the formula f=v/2L0, where L0 is the layer thickness of the BAW resonator and is composed of the layer thicknesses of the piezoelectric layer P, and the two electrode layers, E1 and E2. For the primary oscillation mode of the BAW resonator, the thickness is set to λ/2. It is also possible to set the thickness d, to a multiple of λ/2 and accordingly stimulate higher oscillating modes. Besides the schematic cross-section,
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Advantageously, a reactance filter includes a ladder-type structure, in which several BAW resonators, Rs1, Rs2, and Rs3 connected in series and several resonators Rp1, Rp2, connected in parallel, are connected to one another as shown. Beginning at one input or output, the structure can be abbreviated with the letters p for parallel resonator, Rp, or with s for serial resonator, Rs. In
The ladder-type structure can be expanded with an arbitrary number of additional serial and parallel resonators, whereby each parallel resonator, Rp, can be composed of two parallel resonators connected in parallel and each serial resonator, Rs can be composed of two resonators connected in series. The known design rules for ladder-type filters can be applied.
By increasing the boundary reflection and the bandwidth of the acoustic mirror described herein, a certain thickness tolerance also results for the thickness of λ/4 and 3λ/4 layers. Thus it is possible to use one and the same layer thickness for the acoustic mirror layers of two different filters, the resonance frequencies of which lie near to each other, for example a duplexer with an RX filter and a TX filter for the UMTS 3G standard.
In another experiment, the dependency of filter characteristics on variations in layer thicknesses within the acoustic mirror described herein was determined. For this, with the RX/TX filter pair already described for a UMTS duplexer with an acoustic mirror described herein, the layer thickness of the low-k dielectric (here: SiLK�) was varied from the optimal value (here: 165 nm) by �13 nm.
Although the embodiments above been described on the basis of just a few optimal combinations of materials, other materials may also be used. If a deviation is made from the mentioned low-k organic dielectrics that bring with them the optimal conditions for the acoustic mirror, then more than one layer pair of λ/4 and 3λ/4 layers can be used for an acoustic mirror. This also applies when a deviation is made from using tungsten as the material for the layer with higher acoustic impedance and a transition is made to molybdenum or aluminum nitride is made, for example. In the acoustic mirror, the number of mirror layers required is reduced. This, in turn, reduces the interrupting electric coupling to the substrate and in all cases simplifies production of the mirror, which now no longer needs any structuring. By using acoustic mirrors, one obtains a higher degree of freedom in the selection of desired materials, which makes possible further optimization of BAW resonators and filters resulting from them. In doing so, the minimum characteristics of conventional BAW resonators are achieved, but for optimal layer combinations they are significantly exceeded, as illustrated.
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The Verhulst Equation
The Application of the Theory of Island Biogeography to Political-Religious Affiliation
Chapter 2
Back to the Verhulst Equation. The conservatives, especially the religious conservatives, exhibit behaviors and attitudes that correspond with higher rates of reproduction, which is closely related to the variable r. The liberals exhibit behaviors and attitudes related to high density populations, where N is close to K. As such, they are highly resistant to two of the most common periods of extinction across species: when populations are small; and, when populations have reached the carrying capacity of the habitat.
And this leads us to the work of Robert MacArthur and Edward Wilson. In 1967, they published the Theory of Island Biogeography, one of the most important works in the field of biogeography, and by pure accident, human political behavior. The Theory of Island Biogeography is a theory of species population distribution. At the core of this theory is the desirable habitat, the island, surrounded by a less desirable habitat, the ocean. What makes this interesting is when these island habitats start out with no species.
As species migrate to the new island, there is a distinctive choreography. First, MacArthur and Wilson noted that a a species that is able to establish populations on more than one island in an archipelago greatly reduces the risk of extinction. This is relevant to the study of conservatives and liberals, because it is founded upon two behaviors that improve species viability: the ability to increase habitat range; and the ability to create genetic diversity.
Second, island area varies directly with the number of species. From this, one can make a corresponding argument that geographic area and habitat variation induce greater variations in political-religious disposition. In other words, nations that occupy large and diverse geographic areas and genetically diverse populations are likely to be nations with wide political and religious differences across the population.
Third, cohesiveness is necessary for the survival of new colonists. This cross-species phenomenon noted by MacArthur and Wilson is best observed in humans among the very religious. Their social cohesiveness and their elevated reproductive rates are no coincidence. In new territories, social cohesion improves reproduction, income redistribution, defense, and the survival of small breeding populations, which is why the history of emigration prominently features coordinated religious emigration.
Indeed, this is corroborated by the Sosis and Bressler study of 83 religious and secular communes, which found that the mean longevity of religious communes was 35.6 years, while secular communes lasted an average of 7.7 years. As we have mentioned before, the cognitive coordination of the religious conservatives is remarkable, and this tendency of animal social behavior, adopted faithfully by humans, is phylogenetically ancient.
Fourth, the average survival time of a founding population increases exponentially with r. From MacArthur and Wilsons findings with other species, we can presume the survival time of human colonies is also exponentially increased by the rate of population growth, be it from reproduction or immigration. The strong orientation of religious conservatives against abortion and gay marriage is the echo of this evolutionary pressure for species to withstand low population density.
Fifth, in a habitat with no crowding, genotypes that can harvest the most food will have the most offspring; in crowded areas, genotypes that can reproduce with the lowest amount of food will displace the less efficient forms of reproduction. This has direct implications on the thermodynamic characteristics of conservatives and liberals. Conservatives increase the amount of energy a habitat devotes to reproduction, while the liberals promote a greater tendency to reducing entropy in their environments. The larger and older the urban population, the more efficient it is in energy use.
Sixth, a new colonizing species favoring high reproductive rates will tend to change back to K selection, that is, reduce reproductive rates and maintain the population near the carrying capacity of the habitat. The applicability of this phenomenon to human behavior is certainly of great interest, as it implies a two-tier process of human dispersal and the occupation of new territory. The first phase is colonization and the rapid conversion of the energy into reproduction, with the second phase being a decrease in the energy devoted to reproduction and subsequently, population stability.
Of course, conservatives are more inclined to increase the habitat energy devoted to reproduction, while the liberals are more likely to promote population stability in the habitat. Concurrent with the human migration out of Africa is the formation of urban population centers slightly lagging behind the initial waves of modern human migration. This two-tier process seems to be symbiotic, and has increased the rate of human dispersal across the planet.
Besides the problems of extinction due to small breeding populations and habitat depletion, humans are exceptional in their ability for waging warfare. This has placed our species under considerable evolutionary stress, and curiously, conservatism and liberalism are central to the Darwinian adaptiveness of human conflict.
Conservatives organize for warfare quite effectively, and swell the ranks of both military and policing organizations. They maintain an eternal state of vigilance when it comes to potential threats from outgroups. They are forever communicating these threats to others, and respond more strongly to verbally communicated threats.
The liberals are less likely to join military organizations, less suspicious of strangers and outgroups, and more likely to avoid violent conflicts. In a species that has evolved in the specter of constant warfare, these liberalistic attitudes would seem to be at the mercy of the more militaristic conservatives. However, the rate of violent death has plunged considerably from prehistoric times to present day. There are several reasons for this.
Let's go back to the Vietnam War, which would have the unexpected result of assisting in the development of evolutionary game theory. In 1972, John Maynard Smith would connect game theory to the theory of animal conflict. Smith was a leftist, and in a poorly veiled social commentary about the Vietnam War, he invented the Hawk-Dove game that would pit his resource-stealing and war-mongering Hawks against his resource-sharing and peaceful Doves.
In Smith's initial model, when a Hawk encountered a Dove, the Dove fled, leaving all the resources for the Hawk. This was a pretty good situation for the Hawk, except for one slight problem: other Hawks. When a Hawk encountered another Hawk, this confrontation led to mutual destruction. After assigning evolutionary "values" to the permutations of Hawk and Dove confrontations, the evolutionary survival value of Hawkish behavior was equal to that of the Dove.
Smith had proposed the idea of the evolutionary stable system, as in the Hawk-Dove case where competitive strategies could not drive out cooperative strategies. However, evolution and stability are not very compatible, and Smith's line of reasoning was more designed to explain why both cooperation and competition would coexist among the same species.
Indeed, we are engaged in the constant state of competition and cooperation at every level of social organization, which reflects the fundamental competition and cooperation waged by our genes. More on this later. But there are indeed military advantages to liberalistic attitudes, and these lie in the survivability of large populations. Small populations are especially susceptible to extinction due to chronic warfare, and the liberalistic attitudes that stabilize large populations provide resistance to warfare-initiated extinction.
Further, liberalistic attitudes promote the formation of military alliances, while conservatives are more likely to go it alone. While counterintuitive, liberalistic attitudes indeed provide for advantages in the execution of human warfare. Arguably, a population reaches peak defensive efficiency with a wide spectrum of political disposition across the population.
Thus, the evolutionary pressure for conservatism and liberalism has been very strong. This raises a fundamental issue of political and religious disposition: is it shaped by genetics or environment? The answer to this question is both, and support for this viewpoint comes from several studies of homozygous and heterozygous twins reared apart.
To say that evolution did not plant the seeds of human political and religious disposition is to say that evolution didn't happen at all. Social organizations are fundamentally energy systems, that is, they all facilitate some form of energetic adaptation to the environment. This has left its mark on both the human genome and culture. This adaptiveness has led to the development of the socially specialized brain.
We are more energy efficient as a population if our brains are specialized. It seems that gregarious social life has taken full advantage of the cerebral lateralization of the brain, and improving a population's chances of survival. This has been noted Giorgio vallortigara, which led him to argue that the direction of behavioral asymmetries at the population level arises as an evolutionarily stable system.
Conservatives and liberals are the most cognitively divergent of the political cohorts, and are quite symbiotic when filling the diverse economic roles in a modern economy. While cognitive diversity has substantial advantages for species, the cost in humans is seen mainly in the political and religious conflict it induces.
So here we are, stuck forever in the parallax world of conservatism and liberalism, which are two of the great evolutionary advantages of our species. The conservatives extend habitat range and rapidly convert energy into reproduction, while the liberals increase the amount of human biomass a habitat can sustain. Together, they have made the human species fantastically successful, elevating us with the status of monarch species of the planet earth.
We have also created another mechanism for evolution: synthetic biology and the circumvention of the ordinary processes of natural selection. The long-term impact of this new era of evolution is unclear, and will be guided by this eternal conflict between conservatives and liberals. But one thing for sure, it's going to get done, our way.
Written and Narrated by Charles Brack, March 2011


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The Toledo men's basketball team raised approximately $15,000 in funds for the UT Dana Cancer Center in support of prostate cancer care with its "Tie One On" event on Feb. 4 against Buffalo.
Rockets head coach Tod Kowalczyk and his staff all wore custom Toledo bow ties in support of the event. For fans, donations were accepted and packages of a game ticket, bow tie, commemorative photo and a part in the post-game reception were sold for $100 each.
Last season, the event, organized by Vice President for External Affairs Larry Burns, raised around $4,000.
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New Owens president marks first week on the jobWritten by Caitlin McGlade | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Mike Bower started in Ohio, moved to Indiana, then hit Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan and North Dakota.
He's learned that windmill technicians are rare and valuable, that testifying before state House and Senate hearings is rewarding and that, sometimes, bodies of water expand instead of shrink.
But now he's back in Ohio. And a homecoming, he has learned, is sweeter than charting new territories.
"Our youth, they're always looking for something different," he said. "It's amazing after living in six states, you find out it's just as good here in Ohio as it is anywhere else. But it takes moving from one state to another state to another over a period of time to find that out."
The week of July 1 marked his first few days as president of Owens Community College. Bower has been busy meeting with faculty and department heads, chatting with students and getting accustomed to the area again. While it's a little too early for concrete plans, he intends to begin his new appointment by keeping collaboration with area universities on his to-do list, along with continuing credit transfer programs and keeping in close contact with students.
Mary Ellen Mazey, president of Bowling Green State University, wrote in a statement that Bower brings a "breadth of experience to Owens."
"He is certainly well known and respected in higher education. His business acumen and his dedication to student learning and success will serve him well," she wrote. "There are many opportunities for collaboration between BGSU and Owens, and I look forward to working with Dr. Bower in the future."
Hard act to follow
Bower is Owens Community College's sixth president. Chosen from a pool of 300 applicants, Bower will fill the position left open by former president Larry McDougle who retired for health-related reasons in September. The college's board of trustees announced a national search last year and Vice President of Finance and Administration John Satkowski served as interim president while the board and a search committee tracked down candidates.
McDougle, who served for about a year and a half, brought stability to the campus by attending state meetings with other community colleges, meeting students and making himself approachable to faculty and staff. He also managed to preside over a tight budget without making layoffs, said Dee Talmage, chair of the search committee.
"Larry McDougle is a hard act to follow; we loved him — we adored him," Talmage said.
The search committee chose Bower for his experience in community colleges and business, his leadership capabilities and his high energy. His teaching experience at an Indiana University branch campus is a bonus, Talmage said, because he can empathize with teachers about how administrative decisions affect the classroom.
"He has the ability to network and is very warm and everyone feels like you can stop and chat with him," she said. "He's very open and honest and a very nice, pleasant person to be around."
Along with the challenge of filling McDougle's shoes, Bower must face the growing problem all institutions must tackle: shrinking budgets, Talmage said. Cuts in state funding have pushed the 2012 college budget to $97.06 million, down from $103.86 million in 2011, according to information provided by Owens' spokesperson Brad Meyer.
Although Bower most recently comes from a state that ranks high in economic growth because of oil drilling, he said the tight budget is nothing new because Nebraska state legislatures were frugal. And, thanks to his passion for wind energy, Bower knows all about wrangling on the House and Senate floor.
Devils Lake legacy
Bower testified for four years to secure a $7.1 million wind turbine project at Lake Region State College (LRSC) in Devils Lake, N.D. The structure is a 1.6 megawatt, 385-foot-tall future power source for the campus that will also allow the college to sell energy credits, he said.
Bower also started the college's wind farm technician program. The classes start simply by challenging students to make it to the top of the wind turbine. He said if they make it, the next step is to send them to the top with tools. If they can achieve that, they enroll in the program and come out with a skill that can earn them a starting salary of about $46,000 a year, he said.
He also initiated the creation of an Office of Institutional Research, led LRSC to a longer-term planning processes, expanded the nursing program by adding a simulation lab learning environment, added a student career adviser role and led the college through a Higher Learning Commission visit in 2011, which resulted in a 10-year continued accreditation status, according to an email from Erin Wood, director of marketing and communications for Lake Region State College.
Aside from academics, Bower kicked off some of the LRSC's first sports teams. Volleyball, baseball, softball, basketball and golf were new additions under his lead.
Bower said he's happy to be near Lake Erie, where he can continue fostering his hobby of fishing. But that's not because Devils Lake didn't have enough fish. In fact, the lake is expanding at a rate crippling to homeowners and farmers who live at its shore. The body of water has quadrupled in size over the past 17 years, rising by 27 feet and consuming 150,000 acres of land by flooding. The region's climate became wetter starting in the '90s and has yet to shift back. The lake has no outgoing streams to drain it, according to accuweather.com.
How he got here
Bower served in the U.S. military from 1971-74, worked at the Ford Motor Lincoln Mercury Division in Cincinnati until 1980 and moved on to Thomson Consumer Electronics in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Marion, Ind., until 1994. He taught technical program classes at Ivy Tech State College and management classes at Indiana University's Kokomo campus through the '90s. He served as associate dean, and later became dean of Academic Education & Training Programs at Central Community College in Columbus, Neb., until 2001, when he moved to Eau Claire, Wis., to become campus dean at Chippewa Valley Technical College.
He headed back to the Midwest in 2004 for Mott Community College, where he was the executive dean for extension campuses, continuing education and corporate services. His last appointment was in Devils Lake, N.D.
Before finishing his doctoral degree at the University of Nebraska, he had previously earned a Master of Business Administration from the department of business at Indiana Wesleyan University and a Bachelor of Science in industrial supervision at Indiana State University.
Bower, who grew up in Chillicothe, was accepted to The Ohio State University but didn't have the money to go. He had secured a full ride to earn a two-year associates in applied science degree at Vincennes University in Indiana, so he decided to start there.
He said he can empathize with students concerned about affordable education. Semester tuition at Owens Community College ranges depending on number of credit hours, from $146 for one to $2,827.60 for 24 credit hours for in-state students. Out-of-state students pay $276.56 and $5,438.20, respectively.
"The most important degree I have was from a two-year school," Bower said. "Why? Because I could afford it."


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Bringing someone with you? Check out the Significant Others Track!
Zappos' Beer Tasting Pirate Party 8:00PM - 12:00AM Details
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JSConf US 2011 will be held in the epic Portland Art Museum on May 2nd and May 3rd. Yes - we are dragging the craziest conference ever westward AND bring it to culture, art, sophistication. What better place to house a conference themed around the artistic 8-bit excellence of a 1985 Apple II game? From rebels to pirates to wagoneers - JSConf never stops and this year we have more than a couple rivers to ford that will make your day. Come ready, come prepared and most importantly come with a laptop.
All the legendary luxury you have come to expect from JSConf and most importantly the leopard-print robes, we found a Kimpton property to stop your wagons - The Hotel Vintage Plaza. Not just that, but we are happy to present room rates starting at an all-time JSConf low of $145/night. These rooms will book up as there is limited space available so reserve now online or call 1-800-243-0555 and use the code "JSConf". Taking a cue from JSConf EU, the conference hotel is a short walk (~8 minutes) from the conference venue. Portland is an awesome city, so our recommendation is to take the long way to and from the conference - trust us, you will enjoy it. We will be posting places to visit and things to do here, so check back often.
We have all been there, the significant others, left in the hotel room - alone. BUT NOT AT JSCONF!!! Thanks to an awesome sponsorship by the awesome people from Jupiter, we have 2 full days packed with awesome activities for you. From visiting some of the amazing nature to old historic mansions, there is something for everyone on the significant others track. The only rule - no JavaScript talk!
On the significant other track, everything is included so there is no reason not to register today!
|Meeting in Hacker Lounge at Portland Art Museum
|Bus Leaves to Multnomah Falls - scenic drive
|Arrive at Falls - see falls and hike around
|Lunch at Multnomah Falls Lodge
|Bus Leaves Multnomah Falls for Pittock Mansion
|Tour Pittock Mansion
|Return to Portland Art Museum
|Meeting in Hacker Lounge at Portland Art Museum
|Leave for Walking Tour of Portland
|Visit Lan Su Chinese Garden
|Return to Portland Art Museum
Listed below are the selected speakers for JSConf 2011. We had over 150 awesome speaker proposals that can be seen here, if you wish to browse them. Some of these proposals may be presented at JSConf still on our awesome Track B stage, so be sure to look for them in May!
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The Zappos Family of Companies, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is a leader in online apparel and footwear sales by striving to provide shoppers the best possible service and selection. We carry millions of products from over 1000 footwear and apparel brands. Established in 1999, we are currently located in Las Vegas, NV, Shepherdsville, KY, and with a brand-spanking new extension software development shop, we're back in our "hometown," San Francisco, CA. There are approximately 2,500 Zapponians, but continual growth makes that number ever-increasing.
We've been asked by a lot of people how we've grown so quickly, and the answer is actually really simple...we've aligned the entire organization around one mission: to provide the best customer service possible. Internally, we call this our WOW philosophy.
And, we believe that it's our unique, "fun and a little weird" culture that drives the WOW. In January 2011, Zappos earned #6 on the 2010 Fortune: 100 Best Companies to Work For List, and our sales exceed 1 billion dollars a year. We think we might be on to something here...
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At Palm, the web is at the foundation of everything we do. As the only mobile platform built on the web, Palm webOS offers developers a thriving environment for creating, distributing, and promoting applications. From an SDK based on web standards to a developer program that leverages the web to deliver openness and choice in distribution, we are making it easier than ever before to take your web skills to mobile. Of course, this is only the beginning. We believe the web is the future of mobile development, and we're excited to be a part of the community that is driving this amazing transformation. For more information visit http://developer.palm.com/.
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The Mozilla Corporation is a global community dedicated to building free, open source products and technologies that improve the online experience for people everywhere. We work in the open with a highly disciplined, transparent and cooperative development process, under the umbrella of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. As a wholly owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation organizes the development and marketing of Mozilla products. This unique structure has enabled Mozilla to financially support and cultivate competitive, viable community innovation. For more information, visit www.mozilla.com.
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Yammer (www.yammer.com) is the leader in enterprise social networking, providing a secure way for employees to communicate, collaborate, and share information. The basic version of Yammer is free, and customers can pay to upgrade their network to receive additional administrative and security controls, priority customer service and a dedicated customer success manager. More than 100,000 companies and organizations are using our award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to improve employee productivity and engagement.
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uxebu has been endangering the javascript waters since 2008 with the mission to promote and push incredibly forward thinking javascript projects, develop (mobile) cross platform apps and provide cutting edge services to our customers. Through our close partnership with leading companies in the mobile sector, uxebu is the place to go to for quality development and support for (mobile) web apps. If not developing and tinkering on javascript related things you can find the uxebu crew on a bunch of conferences and dev events around
Ogilvy is one of the top ten marketing communications firms worldwide and the leading global network in one to one marketing. Today, Ogilvy employs over 15,000 people in 450 offices around the world. It is a member of the WPP family of companies. Our tradition of providing training and career development to our talent began with founder - David Ogilvy- and continues today over 60 years later. The strength of our reputation however, continues to lie in the collective skills and talents of the individuals we hire.
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Shopify <3 Javascript developers.
Not only are we the easiest way to sell stuff online via a beautiful, customizable shop, but we're also the easiest e-commerce platform to integrate with and build stuff on top of.
Shopify prides itself on concentrating on the 80% of what every shop owner needs, and does a really, really good job of it.
Here's where you come in: there's still 20% left that some merchants need - services like product recommendation engines, in-browser chat, SalesForce and Facebook integration, on demand tshirt printing, an Arduino thing that lights up every time a sale happens, etc. The list is endless. Make us a thing that lets you take a picture of a thing, add it to your store, and post on Craigslist. Awesome.
Last year we watched about $100 million dollars of stuff sold on Shopify. There is a ton of room here and we want to help you make cool stuff for our merchants and get into http://apps.shopify.com
Check out http://shopify.com/partners - we have a Node.js adapter and a JSON API.
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Internet Explorer 9 delivers a more beautiful web by embracing HTML5 and using hardware acceleration to bring it to life on the PC and soon Windows Phone. IE9 delivers on the promise of using the web to create true applications through its Pinned Sites integration with Windows 7. And IE9 is committed to a more interoperable web, so developers can write the same mark-up once and have it work across browsers.
The IE team loves HTML5 so much, we launched Dev Unplugged: a contest to push the limits of modern browsers without the use of plug-ins. Developers can choose to either create a Gaming app or a Music app for the chance to win over $40k in prizes. The Grand Prize is $9k in cash and a fully-loaded trip to attend the Future of Web Apps in Las Vegas! The submission deadline is May 8th, so don't wait to show us what you can do!
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Threefourteen is all about Mobile Web Application development. Our team have a long history of creating web applications both on and off the mobile platform. We work with customers from all over the world to deliver training, application development and consulting.
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R/GA is a leader in the complex process of combining creative and technical pursuits. Developers and technical architects are given the chance to participate directly in the early stages of the creative process instead of simply executing after ideas are already baked. At R/GA programmers are not "stuck in the back," in fact many of our most successful and award-winning projects were inspired by technical minds. It's this global pairing of technical and creative skill that's the power of R/GA.
R/GA is a full-service digital agency that transforms the way people interact with brands. A commitment to technology, design, strategy and innovation defines R/GA's continuing legacy as an iconoclast in the world of communications and marketing. With diverse offerings including mobile, retail and product design, R/GA's model quickly adapts to the fast moving digital trends.
Founded in 1977, R/GA has received the most prestigious creative awards for film, broadcast, design, advertising, and interactive. It was selected as Adweek's "Digital Agency of the Decade" and "Digital Agency of the Year" in 2009. Advertising Age also named R/GA one of the "Top 10 Agencies of the Decade" and Fast Company named us one of the "Top 10 Most Innovative Advertising & Marketing Companies." Headquartered in New York with offices located throughout the world, R/GA is part of The Interpublic Group (NYSE:IPG), one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations.
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Rackspace® Hosting is the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. In 2010, Rackspace was recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company and listed on the InformationWeek 500 as one of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. The company was also positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting." For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Sponsoring the code(food,bar) event at JSConf.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.
Sponsoring arcade night at the 8-Bit Revenge Party.
Facebook is a social utility that helps over 500 million people around the world communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and over the past few years, the company has developed a number of open source infrastructure technologies to support the site's growth including HipHop for PHP, Cassandra, Hive, Scribe, and Thrift. Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.
Sponsoring the JSConf Hacker Lounge.
Jupiter is dedicated to making JavaScript and the web an easy and enjoyable place to develop kick-ass apps. We open-source everything and provide expert web application development, support, and training. We've collected our experience delivering enterprise JavaScript applications and made it publicly available as JavaScriptMVC.
JavaScriptMVC leverages the best tools and techniques in JavaScript development, and integrates them into a single package. It brings direction to the madness of JavaScript development, and guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.
Sponsoring the JSConf Significant Others Track.
Sponsoring the JSConf 2011 videos available for free shortly after the conference.
Basho Technologies, is the creator and commercial sponsor of Riak, an open source, scalable, non-relational database being used in production by companies including Mozilla, Comcast, Wikia, and Mochi Media.
Why is Basho sponsoring JSConf and NodeConf? Because we have an up-and-coming community of JavaScript users that sustain us with hard work, positivity, and code contributions, and we are committed to making their lives easier with a scalable, rock-solid, fault-tolerant database for production applications.
Basho was founded in January 2008 by a core group of Software Architects, Engineers and Executive Leadership from Akamai Technologies and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sponsoring the JSConf 2011 photos by Mathias Meyer available forever and for free shortly after the conference.
Groupon, launched in November 2008 in Chicago, features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, eat, see and buy in more than 300 markets around the world. Groupon uses collective buying power to offer unbeatable prices and provide a win-win for businesses and consumers, delivering more than 400 daily deals globally.
Sponsoring the JSConf Private Reserve Beer Samples at the Beer Tasting Pirate Party.
Yahoo! is an innovative technology company that operates the largest digital media, content, and communications business in the world. The Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) offers web services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone.
YDN is also home to the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI). The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written with JavaScript and CSS, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. YUI is available under a BSD license and is free for all uses. YUI is proven, scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo! and contributors from around the world, it's an industrial-strength JavaScript library for professionals who love JavaScript.
Sponsoring the JSConf Track A.
Sponsoring the Pre-JSConf Workshops.
"JSConf is awesome". That seems to be the going definition of this intimate conference dedicated to the JS programming language. One thing has been made clear, JSConf is one of the best tech conferences out there and rightly so, because JavaScript or JS is one of the best languages out there. The core focus of this conference is to present the wonders of JavaScript that are often overlooked. The content of the conference caters to all types of JavaScript developers from client interface to server development to testing. We are pirates. We are JSConf!
The theme for JSConf US 2011 is "The JSConf Trail", sort of a play on the 10980's 8-bit game we all grew up with about the journey westward during the 1860s. Everything you have seen, heard, or come to know of about JSConf is about to change once again. Prepare your wagon and oxen to ford the river for an amazing time as the JavaScript community comes together once again in Portland, Oregon. Also, don't forget to pack your rad 1980's clothes that we both know that you have. Trust us, they will come in handy :) .
We are trying to make something different and we are trying to do it with JavaScript.
Chris is the Vice President of Product Development at OurParents, co-curator of JSConf, founder of Iterative Designs, and producer of JSConf Live and the Minute With podcast series. He has some crazy ideas about how we, technical leaders around the world, should grow sustainable development communities.
Laura is the founder of Loda Floral Design and the co-curator of JSConf. She is the organizational force behind JS Boot Camp in Washington, DC and quite impressively is a licensed architect and an awesome mother.


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CORPUS CHRISTI - The Department of Life Sciences at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies is looking for volunteers to help restore an oyster reef habitat at Goose Island State Park in Rockport. Two oyster reef restoration events are scheduled from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. April 6 and May 4.
Volunteers will bag up reclaimed oyster shells and carry those bags to the water to build an educational oyster reef. This innovative project recycles oyster shells back into the Gulf of Mexico waters and creates a habitat where young oysters can attach and grow, ensuring an abundance of the mollusks for future commercial harvests. The project is coordinated by Jennifer Pollack of the university's Life Sciences Department.
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- Comprehensive athletic club – with state-of-the-art cardio and weight training equipment, real-time and on-online personal training, aerobics studio, luxurious locker rooms, and much, much more.
- Full-service Alvea Spa – a quiet desert oasis where rejuvenation, wellness and serenity are the status quo.
- Tennis Center – an impressive tennis complex with four lighted professional courts.
- Resort Pool – large outdoor resort pool and spa with highly-manicured landscaping, large deck space, and breathtaking Sonoran Desert views.
- Indoor Lap Pool – An Olympic style lap pool complete with wave-reducing design that allows you to do laps without resistance from other swimmers in an indoor setting you won't want to leave.
- Two eating venues offering a full range of culinary experiences.
- The Center for Higher Learning – a 24-station state-of-the-art computer learning center for polishing your technical skills, or a perfect place to take classes of all sorts – which may include computers, digital photography, foreign language, wine appreciation and more.
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Any aspiring radio DJ
The Good
Ability to change your audio quality mid-stream.
Multiple encoders and streams from the same system.
The needs improvement section
Sometimes restarts the stream off its own accord, doesn't affect the listeners (1/2 second skip) but it can be irritating during a live chat show
If you are looking to start up an on-line Radio Broadcast, whether it be Live or Pre-Recorded, then I would highly recommend SAM3.3.2.
With a 3 Desktop Layout, you can easily switch between different options
All of the above desktops can be customized to have any part of the software you want in them, this is easily done by clicking the 'Window' tab and simply choosing the option.
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Sherman Craig is a retired teacher and school administrator, currently operating his own business, Wanakena Woodworks, which makes rustic and fine furniture by using local resources within the Adirondack Park. He is an active outdoors traveler and volunteer, and is a current member of several organizations including the Clifton-Fine Economic Corp, Adirondack Mountain Club, and the Waterfront Revitalization Project. He is Chairman of the 5 Ponds Partner subcommittee, managing relationships with groups associated with trail development and maintenance. His committee developed the Cranberry Lake 50 hike and assisted in the opening the Alice Brook snowmobile trail and bridge.
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