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Johnny Brokaw is a radio revolutionary. Think about him as the Che Guevara of Radio, doing things a little differently than most with nothing being held sacred. He grew up in a small town in Ohio, but always knew Colorado was where he belonged. After enduring 23 years in the mugginess of the midwest, he moved to Boulder right after his college broadcasting bachelor's degree was finished. He lived there for the summer before moving to Breckenridge, in a large part due to fate as it would seem. After living in Breck for a year, to his delight the dream job of Radio DJ at KSMT The Mountain came available, and he never looked back. Over the last 10 years Johnny has been spewing randomness to the locals, engaging them to think more and enjoy life to the fullest. He loves doing what he does, and the listeners seem to have a closeness with him when they see him on the streets or at one of the millions of fun KSMT events- as he is also the Promotions Director for KSMT, heading up all the parties and sponsorships and ski events and concerts that are a vital part of Summit County life. He loves live music, backpacking and beer.
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I came from Michigan 6 years ago and my new home has been Colorado, Summit County and KSMT. Working for "The Mountain" for the last 4 years has been most amazing. I get introduced to new music as much as you the listener does and I love it… just one of the reasons why I love KSMT.
I go by Gibby and I love Summit County and look forward to some really great times. If you see me out and about be sure to offer me one of those hugs. Peace be with you. Love what I do and hope the same for you.
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Born Justin Barnett on June 21st 1975, I was introduced to reggae, in high school, at the age of 16 years old. After purchasing Bob Marley, Songs of Freedom, I was hooked for life. Upon moving to the high country of Colorado in 1999, I linked with DJ Weez who got me an interview with KSMT in September of 2000. I have been the proud host of Eggs over Irie ever since. It is my passion to find the deepest and best tracks to play every Sunday morning. Being in Summit has been an inspiration, and I am so grateful for each and every listener. Jah guide and protect!!
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I began my journey on the radio airwaves in 1997 at Mesa State College with 91.3 KMSA. Focused on underground hip-hop I became music director and eventually made my way to the community radio dial of 88.1 KAFM. Over the course of the next five years I managed and ran two very popular underground hip-hop shows in Grand Junction. Moving forward after graduating with a degree in marketing I positioned myself in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. I now have the honors of hosting my own specialty show on the commercial FM station KSMT 102.1 & 102.7. Over the last seven years of broadcasting in Breckenridge I also have had the great pleasure of hosting a radio program on WHRI 5.875 short-wave radio not only in the United States but also in five counties on the radio Africa network. Radio is great and God is good.
The Fox…
I wouldn't say that it's so easy to describe myself over a cup of coffee or simply to say the girl next door. The Fox, born and raised in the best town ever, Ann Arbor, Michigan. I graduated from Western Michigan University and also studied abroad in London, England. I came out West to visit a friend and got sucked in the vortex of what we call Summit County for 12 years strong.
I've had many hats worn so to speak while working here in Summit County. A few that come to mind would be Program Director, Production Director, Operations Manager, Director of an audiovisual organization, Emcee, Band Liaison, Waitress, toilet scrubber, "Tell it like it is" Director and a Kickass friend supporter.
Music is a POWER. I love music. It's what keeps me going when having a bad day, keeps me smiling when shreddin and its what you hear in the background when you just got off work and hanging with your friends BS'n about what happened that night as you sling back a few. Music makes everything better! So if I can make your day better then I'm all for it!
Question I get asked the most: People ask me all the time why are you called The Fox? It's my last name! I love my name so I wear it proud! So no, I don't think that I'm a Fox and call myself that! Come on man! Really?
Things that bother me: People that don't listen, getting asked the same question over and over again and people that slack in their jobs. If I'm working with you and you're on my team you best be working just as hard as I am. Nuff said!
What's my poison? Vodka. Preferably Dan Aykroyd's in a crystal skull.
Best concert Venue: Summit Music Hall if were talking about Colorado…I like Statebridge as well.
Favorite hangout: Doesn't really matter where I am as long as I'm with good friends.
Favorite Movie: Army of Darkness, "First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow."
Cait Roukey
The mountain's newest DJ Cait Roukey hails from New Hampshire. With a background in public radio/dance instruction/tending bar/snowboarding, Cait is thrilled to be working for KSMT, whose music is as eclectic as she is. You can find Cait on the slopes, at just about any local music venue and on Sundays at KSMT from noon until 4.
Ty thinks KSMT is cooler than watching Bob Ross paint happy clouds. He has jocked in Tampa and St. Louis before getting the best part time job with The Mountain. Favorite bands include smashing pumpkins, radiohead and gorillaz. But when he's on snow, he has to put on the pharcyde 'cause yo momma has a peg leg with a kick stand.
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Broyles, an All-American, was lost for the season with a torn ligament in his left knee after going down in the third quarter of the seventh-ranked Sooners' 41-25 win over Texas A&M. The senior had two catches for 87 yards and both helped set up touchdowns.
In Corvallis, Ore., Owusu was taken from Reser Stadium by ambulance after a helmet-to-helmet hit by Oregon State's Jordan Poyer.
He was prone on the field for several minutes after the hit midway through the second quarter, but gave a thumbs-up after he was loaded on to a stretcher and placed into the ambulance.
Stanford reported that Owusu had a concussion but was conscious and had a full range of motion in his extremities. He was taken to the hospital for X-rays, but later returned and was in the locker room with his teammates after the game.
Case Keenum threw for 407 yards to become the most prolific passer in NCAA history and he added his first two rushing touchdowns of the season to in No. 14 Houston's 56-13 win over UAB.
Keenum passed Timmy Chang's career record of 17,072 yards passing for Hawaii from 2000-04. Keenum finished the game with 17,212 yards passing.
Keenum completed 39 of 44 passes for 407 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions. The senior completed a 16-yard pass to Justin Johnson in the third quarter to pass Chang's mark. Kennum tied Chang's record with a 26-yard pass to Johnson on the previous play.
Keenum, who threw nine TD passes against Rice last week, completed his first 11 passes against UAB. He began the night 267 yards away from matching Chang's mark.
2-Blocked extra points by Georgia Southern in its 14-12 win over The Citadel.
6-School-record field goals by Montana's Brody McKnight in a 32-7 win over Western Oregon.
11-Consecutive Mountain West Conference road wins by TCU with its 31-20 victory over Wyoming. The Horned Frogs matched the conference record set by BYU from 2005-07.
29-Straight losses by Valparaiso after Marist beat the Crusaders 30-7. Valparaiso hasn't won since a 20-17 victory over Concordia (Wis.) on Sept. 12, 2009.
42-Carries by Terrence Lefall to set a school record in Howard's 10-7 win over Hampton.
59-Years since No. 4 Stanford last opened a season 9-0.
697-Total yards by Baylor in its 42-39 victory over Missouri, setting a school record.
Interim Big 12 Commissioner Chuck Neinas said the conference has no plans to expand further prior to next season, although that doesn't mean a move back to 12 teams couldn't happen eventually.
Leaders of the conference's schools have been divided over whether the league is best with 10 schools, where it settled after losing Nebraska and Colorado prior to this season, or finding a way to expand back to 12.
With Texas A&M and possibly Missouri headed to the SEC, the Big 12 has added West Virginia and TCU this year in an attempt to stabilize.
Neinas said the conference would be OK with 10 or 11, if Missouri stays.
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First on our list is Aditya Narayan's famous kiss episode in SaReGaMaPa. The gig goes as such, that Aditya is walking among the audience and a girl from the audience, comes up to him and gives him a kiss on the cheek. Aditya is left spell bound by the incident, and is later teased by Ismail Darbar. A little known fact is that the girl and the kiss were all preplanned. Promo of this Famous Kiss was aired before the episode, to draw the audiences' interest towards it. Though the scene wasn't appreciated by all, SaReGaMaPa achieved what they went out for.
News channels defiantly use celebrity break ups to get their ratings high, but production houses create fake love stories too, to highlight their poorly faring shows. According to our sources, the production house, Shreya Creations, spread the news of Chahat and Kinshuk hooking up off screen, in the same way as they were in love in the serial. Now, can we spare a thought to the girl Chaahat, the 21 year old, who moved on in real life, just recently, after a breakup in marriage? Was it justified on the part of the production house to cross over Chahaat's dignity like this, and stoop so low? Was it right on part of Shreya Creations to use the kids as mere TRP gaining mediums? After this entire gimmick, the award for the worst media gig of the year definitely goes to Shreya Creations.
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Situated in Naumburg, this hotel is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) from Naumburg Cathedral and within 6 mi (10 km) of Stadtkirche Sankt Marien and Rotkaeppchen. Goseck Castle and Winzervereinigung Freyburg are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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Expo Center

IBM Tivoli Ped (Booth 101-04): IBM Tivoli/Predictive Analytics for IT and Service Management

IBM System z Software (aka, System z Zone): OMEGAMON for z/OS Management Suite (Booth 105-05) and System z as Enterprise Security Hub (Booth 105-06)

Smarter Computing Zone (Booth 101 and Booth 515)

IBM Expo Theater (Booth 001): October 24, 05:30 - 06:00 - Consolidated Data and Application Security Management (Session: ISA-4198A)

Sessions

October 25, 11:15-12:15: Securing Your Mainframe Virtual and Cloud Services With Enhanced IBM zSecure Suite (Session 4153A - Mandalay Bay North Convention Center - Mariners B)

October 25, 2:30-5:45: Predictive Business Service Management Leveraging Performance & Capacity (Session 4142A - Mandalay Bay South Convention Center - South Seas D)

Technical Meetup

October 25, 4:30-5:45: Security & zSecure at Mariners B – Mandalay Bay North Convention Center (Session #4097A)

We have a website with more details and of course you can follow the conversation on Twitter #iod11 and watch the general sessions on the Livestream.

...and speaking of Las Vegas and IBM Conferences. The Pulse 2012 call for speakers deadline is fast approaching (November 7). See Jen's Pulse blog for the details on how you can submit a session proposal.
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Information On Demand (IOD) is in full effect in beautiful Las Veagas, Nevada (airport code: LAS).

Tiffany Winman has a good summary with all sorts of great links on the IBM Software blog.

The conference has already yielded one new announcement (IBM Adds Optimized Analytics Systems to x86 Line) but for details on the day-to-day I default to Todd "Turbo" Watson's blog for the lastest in news and releases.

We are using the Twitter hashtag #iodgc (the gc is for "global conference").

For those that physically in the building, be sure to stop by the booths listed below that are showing service management solutions.

Booth 602-07 IBM Tivoli Security for zEnterprise
 Tivoli Integrated Service Management on System zEnterprise provides effective a single-point of management, regardless of domain, application or complexity. These demonstrations highlight how to: Manage heterogeneous environments as a single entity to provide flexibility and value for the business.

Booth 602-08 IBM Tivoli Integrated Service Management for zEnterprise
 IBM Tivoli Security for zEnterprise solutions help to centralize and automate the security management of mainframe and consolidated Linux for System z environments. It includes Tivoli zSecure, Tivoli Security Management for z/OS, and Tivoli Identity and Access Assurance, which helps clients manage risk, reduce costs, demonstrate compliance, and address complexity.

Booth 702-07 IBM Storage and Security Solutions
 eMail Archiving with CCDA-IA, DB Archiving with Optim-IA, TSM clients (B/A, HSM) with IA and IBM Tivoli Data and Application security — protects data and applications via auditable content-aware access controls, fine grained entitlements and encryption key management, providing an end-to-end protection of sensitive data in enterprise storage.

If you're not there, I recommend checking in regularly to the IOD home page and checking out some of the livestream videos (live and archived) as well as the additional materials that will be posted during the week.

If you have additional resources for the conference that you're using, please feel free to place them in the comments section below. There will also be a few wrap-ups in the IOD-related commmunities here on ibm.com.
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Correction and clarification
Regarding Terence Corcoran's Aug. 23 column, Hockey Sticks and Hatchets: Charles Montgomery says he rents space and telephone service at Emerald City Communications in Vancouver but does not work for Emerald City Communications, and has no relationship with, nor has he completed work for, the David Suzuki Foundation. Also, Mr. Montgomery posted on his Web site a Bloomberg report that claimed Cubans were among the happiest people in the world. He himself did not say Cubans were the happiest people.
Mr. Montgomery also did not say of James Hoggan that Mr. Hoggan is a public relations man who doesn't believe people have any right to engage in public relations on behalf of views Mr. Hoggan disapproves of. Those are Terence Corcoran's views.
The National Post and Terence Corcoran wish to retract the assertion that Mr. Montgomery "deliberately" gave wrong information about the hockey stick debate and climate change science. The National Post regrets the errors.
It was a masterful effort.
Titled "Meet Mr. Cool: Nurturing doubt about climate change is big business," the article -- published Aug. 12 -- focused on Tim Ball, a retired University of Manitoba climatologist. Mr. Ball has spent much of the last decade delivering talks to whoever will listen on what he sees as the questionable science behind global-warming theory.
The real purpose of Meet Mr. Cool, however, was to turn all climate skeptics into incompetent, misguided and ignorant fools who are nothing more than paid fronts for a corporate-industrial conspiracy to debunk climate change science. As Mr. Montgomery put it, "Over the past four years, a coalition of oilpatch geologists, Tory insiders, anonymous donors and oil-industry PR professionals has come together to manufacture public consent for Canada's withdrawal from Kyoto."
If that sounds a little Noam Chomskyish, that's because Mr. Montgomery comes from the same ideological school as the famous author of Manufacturing Consent. A visit to Mr. Montgomery's Web site reveals a man obsessed with primitivism and dedicated to the usual leftist world views. Touring for his latest book, The Shark God, about life on islands in the South Pacific, Mr. Montgomery asks the big science questions: "Can a man convince a shark to eat his enemies?" He says he found himself believing in "the strangest things: rainmaking stones, magic walking sticks." On geopolitical issues, he joins David Suzuki in idealizing Cuba as one of the world's "havens of happiness," compared with the United States and Britain. Americans, he says, are the world's least happy people "because of their consumer-driven economies." Mr. Montgomery is from the school of economics that believes the war on poverty will only be won when everybody is poor.
So we know where Mr. Montgomery is coming from. Where he leads his readers in "Meet Mr. Cool" is therefore somewhat predictable. Still, he needed 4,200 words in his attempt to demolish the integrity and credibility of scientists who criticize climate-change theory. An unusually high proportion of those words convey information and ideas that are false, distortionary and misleading, that are smears and unfounded claims, that omit the truth. Through it all, Mr. Montgomery fails to deal with the core scientific issues.
Before we get to that, the glaring irony is hard to avoid. Here is Mr. Montgomery, writing in a mass media outlet, claiming that a tiny group of scientists nobody has ever heard of -- the Friends of Science -- is out to "manufacture consent" against global-warming theory, itself beyond doubt the greatest mass-manufactured consent product in history. His article even sells itself as a function of "consenses" among scientists. If any subject deserved to be dragged through the manufactured-consent filter, the vast global consent over climate change would be at the top of the list.
Mr. Montgomery's piece offers good guidance on how the system of manufactured consent works to destroy those who would question that consent.
The biggest little item in this effort is the blanket dismissal of Mr. Ball's claim -- made during a talk to a group of citizens in Comox Valley, B.C. -- regarding the famous icon of manufactured climate consent, the hockey stick. Bold-faced text is from Mr. Montgomery's Globe article.
As proof of the climate-change conspiracy, Dr. Ball shows the crowd a graph with a kinked line jigging across it. This is the famous "hockey-stick graph" published by Pennsylvania State University scientist Michael Mann and his team in 1999, which shows temperatures to be fairly stable for hundreds of years, then rising rapidly in the past few decades. Dr. Ball claims that the Mann team "cooked the books," and that its blunders were confirmed just a few days previously, in a report to the Congress by the U.S. Academies of Science. "He threw out all the data that didn't fit his hypothesis," Dr. Ball says, without offering evidence to support the charge. His outrage is now as searing as the baking sun outside. "I personally think [Mann] should be in jail!"
One could certainly fault Mr. Ball for over-the-top rhetoric, something scientists of all stripes seem to enjoy. But Mr. Montgomery then goes on to present the idea that the Michael Mann hockey-stick controversy is a big fat zero, a myth promoted by climate skeptics. He does that by misrepresenting the issue.
The original hockey-stick graphic actually claimed to represent temperatures going back 1,000 years, not just "hundreds of years," as Mr. Montgomery described it. It's an important distinction. Two major reviews of the hockey stick have found it to be wrong in its 1,000-year claim. Mr. Montgomery skips over that issue and makes it look as if Mr. Ball had misrepresented the facts.
Many of Dr. Ball's ... points are easily refuted. Consider the hockey-stick graph: He was right that the U.S. Academies of Science had delivered a review of climate science to Congress.
But their report concluded that temperatures in the past 25 years really have been the highest in 400 years. Moreover, the panelists assured reporters that there was no evidence at all that the Mann team cherry-picked its data -- completely contradicting what Dr. Ball told his audience in Comox.
Here Mr. Montgomery deliberately gets the hockey-stick issue wrong. The 400-year confirmation is beside the point, since nobody disputes temperatures are the highest in 400 years. The contention is over the claim that current temperatures are at their highest point in 1,000 years, which the U.S. National Academy of Science in the end concluded the hockey-stick graph failed to prove. In other words, it downgraded the major 1,000-year claim and upheld only the minor 400-year part.
Another more devastating statistical review of the hockey stick was conducted by Edward Wegman, chairman of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences committee on theoretical and applied statistics. His study found, among other things, that part of the original statistical analysis was based on "incorrect mathematics." It dismissed the 1,000-year claim. "Overall, our committee believes that Mann's assessments that the decade of the 1990s was the hottest decade of the millennium ... cannot be supported by his analysis."
For a glimpse at the Wegman report's conclusions, see the article on the opposite page by Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. Wegman also questioned the objectivity of the review process for the hockey-stick research.
The facts behind the hockey stick would have been known to Mr. Montgomery when he went after Mr. Ball. But perhaps Mr. Montgomery can be forgiven his lapse on the facts, since he appears to have taken many of his cues from a man named Andrew Weaver.
Andrew Weaver, the Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, and a lead author of a chapter in the upcoming IPCC report, gives a frustrated sigh at the mention of Tim Ball's cross-country tour. "He says stuff that is just plain wrong ... Ball says that our climate models do not [account for the warming effects of] water vapour. That's absurd. They all do." Likewise, he says, Dr. Ball's claims that climate change could be explained by variations in the Earth's orbit or by sunspots are discounted by widely available data ...
"What Ball is doing is not about science," Prof. Weaver says. "It is about politics."
When it comes to politics and climate science, few beat Andrew Weaver as a player. His agency, a division of Environment Canada, builds climate models and has more riding on the business of climate change than perhaps any other science group in Canada.
Among Mr. Weaver's notorious political statements is the following: "God help Canada if the Conservatives get in," he said in 2004 during one of his lobbying pleas for more funding. If that's not politics, what is? These days, apparently, federal civil servants -- which is what Mr. Weaver is -- apparently have absolute freedom to wage partisan politics.
Also in 2004, Mr. Weaver dismissed the original hockey-stick research debunking the 1,000-year claim as "simply pure and unadulterated rubbish." We now know that Mr. Weaver's dismissal was pure and unadulterated rubbish.
Mr. Weaver reportedly claimed it is "absurd" for Mr. Ball to charge that climate models "do not account for water vapour." But Mr. Ball says he never said that water vapour is not accounted for in models, nor did he ever say -- as claimed by Mr. Montgomery -- that temperatures have not risen in recent years.
Another expert brought in to discredit Mr. Ball and other skeptics is Ian Rutherford, a former federal civil servant from the Environment Canada fold.
"These people are ignorant. Well-meaning, but just plain ignorant," fumed Ian Rutherford, executive director of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society ... "The Friends of Science are driven by ideology and some kind of a misplaced understanding of how the world works. Many are what you would call paleogeologists. Looking at the geological record, they see evidence of wild swings in climate."
I called Mr. Rutherford, a retired federal environment bureaucrat. He turned out to be a motor-mouth of putdowns of scientists who don't agree with his views. He dismissed Mr. Ball as a retired professor who had not produced any recent research. He said other scientists criticized in Mr. Montgomery's article are specialists in areas that are unrelated to climate and climate modeling. "They are ignorant," he said.
The fact that Mr. Rutherford himself is retired, has produced no recent research and is not a climatologist -- which Mr. Ball is -- didn't deter Mr. Rutherford from labelling others as ignorant. As for his own views on climate, Mr. Rutherford is locked to the idea that the great government-backed computer climate models used by the United Nations are good science and offer solid evidence that "the entire increase in globally averaged temperatures since the start of the Industrial Revolution is due entirely to man's interference with the climate."
This is simply not true. The UN's 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report says: "The Earth's climate system had demonstrably changed on both global and regional scales since the pre-industrial era, with some of these changes attributable to human activities." [Emphasis added.]
Mr. Rutherford also claims the hockey stick is a trivial issue since it plays no role in the science argument. This is also untrue. The hockey-stick chart appears dozens of times in UN and Canadian government climate reports, generally at pivotal points and as the core iconic proof of unprecedented climate change. It is also crucial to NGO activists: It appears, for example, as the lead graphic on the David Suzuki Foundation's climate page.
As noted, Mr. Ball is not really the target of "Meet Mr. Cool"; he's the straw man for a smear of scientists who stand apart from the so-called climate-change consensus. To better the smear, skeptics are dismissed as pawns of the energy industry.
Then there is Tom Harris, Ottawa director of the High Park Group, which is a registered lobbyist for the Canadian Electricity Association and the Canadian Gas Association. Mr. Harris has written several essays attacking Kyoto and the science behind climate change for the National Post and the CanWest newspaper chain. In his articles, he quotes several members of the Friends of Science advisory board -- including Dr. Ball and Profs. [Madhav] Khandekar, [Tim] Patterson and [Tad] Murty -- but he never mentions his own connections to the Calgary organization.
In 2002, for example, Mr. Harris organized the Friends' first Ottawa press conference in 2002 (sic), and helped to make their video, according to Mr. Jacobs. And as recently as May, he organized a trip to Ottawa for Dr. Ball, paying him $2,000 to give a presentation to federal MPs.
Thus begins Mr. Montgomery's great steamroller through the idea that scientists who oppose the climate consensus are in the pay of corporations. It's a classic leftist trick, as if receiving money from corporations is in itself a sign of corruption.
There isn't enough space here to itemize the scores of false links and little errors that make up Mr. Montgomery's fantastic tale of corporate and Tory conspiracy.
From the above sample, we have the line that links Mr. Harris to the electricity and gas industries, as if he were an "oil industry PR professional." As Mr. Montgomery was told by Mr. Harris in an interview, Mr. Harris has no connection with those industries. They may be clients of High Park, the company he works for, but he has no business with them. Mr. Harris says he told Mr. Montgomery that his funding for his climate activity came from Gerald G. Hatch, a distinguished metallurgist, former director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and funder of the Gerald G. Hatch Isotope Laboratory at the University of Ottawa.
Mr. Montgomery nevertheless chose to create a fictional corporate connection. Moreover, Mr. Harris also says that Mr. Ball was never paid to appear before federal MPs in 2002, and that the scientists who came to Ottawa recently had no connection with the Calgary-based Friends of Science or the petroleum industry.
The debate over corporate backing should, in any case, be a non-issue. In the end, though, it is the most important issue to anti-corporate activists. Nobody gives two hoots about the Friends of Science and the bit of funding they might have received, at most $200,000, provided by a University of Calgary fund, organized by Prof. Barry Cooper. It was used to produce a DVD about climate science that nobody has seen. It has yet to appear on any network. Compared with the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth and the billions spent by Ottawa on climate, skeptics are working with pennies.
The real impact of Mr. Montgomery's Globe and Mail article would be to warn corporations, especially energy firms, against taking on climate-change theory. If they challenge the established climate fundamentalism, they run the risk of bringing down the wrath of activists and thereby alienating the public.
When corporations do choose to publicly oppose climate-change theory -- and few do -- they run up against people like James Hoggan, head of James Hoggan and Associates, a Vancouver public relations firm and a self-appointed iman of anti-corporate fundamentalism. Mr. Hoggan compares the oil industry's largely invisible and non-existent involvement with climate skeptics with the tobacco industry's attempt to deny the risks of tobacco. "It happened with the tobacco industry. It happened with the chemical industry. It happened with the asbestos industry. And now it's happening with climate change," Mr. Hoggan told Mr. Montgomery.
According to Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Hoggan is a public relations man who doesn't believe people have any right to engage in public relations on behalf of views Mr. Hoggan disapproves of. "It makes me extremely angry. I don't think that the people who are involved in this should be able to get away with it. My goal is to find out as much as we can about these people and make it public. Who are they? Who is paying them? What motivates them? How is it they can sleep at night?"
The only role for corporations, apparently, is to join the manufactured consent and become part of the fundamentalist crusade. Otherwise, they face the wrath of Mr. Hoggan and others who accept no opposition.
The Pembina Institute, an Alberta-based think-tank and major proponent of climate-change action, receives large dollops of corporate cash. Nobody sees that as a moral issue or a conflict. There is also massive corporate backing for climate action from Canada's electricity, nuclear, gas and other industries that stand to benefit from Kyoto-type accords. No complaints there either.
Mr. Montgomery didn't have to go too far to find Mr. Hoggan. The latter is on the board of the David Suzuki Foundation. Mr. Montgomery works for a Vancouver graphics outfit called Emerald City Communications, which has the Suzuki Foundation as a client. Mr. Hoggan, who also does work for the Suzuki Foundation, despite his role on its board, assigned two of his staff to research corporate involvement in climate issues. One of them, David Grandia, operates a hilariously warped Web site -- a sort of al-Jazeera of climate theory dedicated to exposing climate skeptics as corporate/Tory thugs. It was Mr. Grandia who came up with the news that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a fishing buddy of Barry Cooper's, the professor who helped fund the Friends of Science DVD. If Stephen Harper has ever fished, he has never fished with Barry Cooper.
The whole Montgomery attack on climate skeptics is, in fact, a product of a little collection of people within the Suzuki axis of climate fear, based in Vancouver.
Last Friday, I twice called Mr. Montgomery at his Emerald City office in Vancouver. A guy named Chris said Charles would be in soon. Within about an hour of the second call, however, the following e-mail arrived:
Dear Terence,
I got a message at the office suggesting you wanted to talk about climate change. Unfortunately I'll be out of the office on holiday for 10 days, then only around occasionally until Sept. 6.
I suspect you wanted to talk about my piece in the Globe. I try to let my stories speak for themselves, and let the continued discussion about the science take place between the folks who are actually engaged in the science. If you would like to speak directly with scientists working in the field of climate, let me know and I'll forward contacts to you. I believe you are already in touch with members of Friends of Science, as [their head] Albert Jacobs told me that you were their biggest supporter in the media.
Charles Montgomery
Even in his notes Mr. Montgomery gets it wrong. I have never previously talked to Albert Jacobs, never mentioned him or Friends of Science in a column, never published any of their work, have in fact never been in touch with the group. Now we know how Mr. Montgomery came to believe in rainmaking stones.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|8 Jul 1969
|Filing date
|7 May 1968
|Priority date
|7 May 1968
|Publication number
|Briney Douglas, Peters George A
|Original Assignee
|Us Air Force
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (25), Classifications (9)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
July 8, 1969 G. A. PETERS ET 3,454,154
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARRIER Filed May 7," 1968 Sheet of 5' INVENTORS. GEORGE A. PETERS DOUGLAS W. BRINEY ATTORNEYS July 8, 1969 PETERS ET AL 3,454,154
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARRIER Filed May 7, 1968 Y Sheet ,3 of 5 INVENTORS. 53235517; 353%? 2 2 BY y v ATTORNEY July 8, 1969 P TERS ET AL 3,454,154
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARRIER Sheet 3 of 5 Filed May 7, 1968 INVENTOR$ GEORGE A. PETERS ATTORN E'Ys BY DOUGLAS w. BR us G. A. PETERS ET L INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARRIER July 8, 1969 Sheet 4 of5 Filed May 7, 1968 INVENTORS. A. PETERS GEORGE BY DOUGLAS W. BRINEY ATTORNEYS July 8, 1969 G. A. PETERS ET AL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARRIER 6 o'r's Sheet Filed May 7. 1968 INVENTOR'S. GEORGE A. PETERS oousLAsu R a BY United States Patent 3,454,154 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARRIER George A. Peters, La Habra, and Douglas Briney, Yorba Linda, Califi, assignors to the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force Filed May 7, 1968, Ser. No. 727,309 Int. Cl. B65d 83/00 US. Cl. 206-56 6 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A cartridge tray for protective handling of critical integrated circuit (I.C.) and transistor elements capable of being packed and transported in standardized containers in nested relationship and clipped together to be inserted and removed from the package as a unit. A special spring element is formed in the underside of each tray, which provides pressure to hold in place the fragile element in the tray below, its leads being thus protected from damage. These stacked units can be inserted in the magazine of automatic and semi-automatic systems, where the critical element is lifted off with a vacuum probe or other means, and deposited in its proper location on the circuit board. The empty water or cartridge tray serves as a hold down for the next loaded cartridge, and when it is removed the next tray is stepped up into position. Test probe systems can test a single loaded cartridge, or a stacked unit.
Background of the invention This invention relates generally to protective packaging of integrated circuit elements, and more particularly to a cartridge tray for protective handling of the circuit elements.
In the past integrated circuit carriers were individually designed by the supplier. The end user, procuring integrated circuits from a variety of suppliers, could not incorporate the carriers into a common automatic or semiautomatic assembly process.
Summary of the invention The object of the present invention is to provide an established standard LC. and dual transistor cartridge and cartridge carrier which insures protection of the LC. elements, and provides proper packaging and handling and further, provides means for accurately locating the element, and, in general, facilitates the automatic and accurate placement of the elements in their proper positions on the circuit boards.
Specifically, the carriers are made of uniform dimensions, having a cut corner, or other deformation conforming in a complementary manner to a similar deformation of the package and later the magazine to insure uniform orientation. They are provided also with oppositely disposed indentations to accommodate an elongated wire clip which holds a series of stacked elements together. A retaining spring secures the unit.
At the users plant, the system acts as a cartridge feed for automated placement equipment. The carrier stack is inserted into an indexing feed mechanism which steps the loaded carriers up to a precision locating point where a vacuum probe lifts the LC. or other element out of the carrier and automatically places it on the circuit board within the required close tolerances. The empty carrier is ejected as the next loaded carrier is stepped up into position.
The carrier may be injection molded, using Lexan polycarbonate thermoplastic material, or any other material found to be suitable for the purposes. Polycarbonate was selected for its dimensional stability property. It also ice has good electrical properties and high heat resistance. It also provides the properties required when the device is used as a testing holder in combination with commercially available multiprobe heads.
The cartridge has many means for protecting the fragile critical elements. The elements are cradled on a saddle located in a central recess, and individual smaller recesses are provided for the individual leads.
The carrier is designed to accept variations in element sizes and those which have precut and preformed leads.
The individual element carriers are thus nested and inserted as a composite unit into a package and later into an automated magazine chute. The arrangement allows a step-up system to advance the magazine upward in such a manner that the end cartridge or LC. carrier is accurately positioned for a vacuum pick-up head or similar device for placing the element accurately in its position on the circuit board. The end or top cartridge operates as a hold down for the cartridge located directly below. The critical elements are thus held within a protective package, rather than being subjected to the risk of damage by individual handling.
Description of the drawing FIGURE 1 illustrates in an exploded view a series of nested cartridges, showing the retaining clip and spring;
FIGURE 2 is an exploded view of a series stacked cartridges with a fragmentary showing of the container holding the stacked unit;
FIGURE 3 is a perspective view, much enlarged, of upper and under portions of cartridge trays, and showing a form of spring means within the cartridge for holding the critical elements accurately positioned;
FIGURES 4 and 5 are fragmentary views, much enlarged, showing spring modifications; and
FIGURE 6 is a schematic showing of a test probe system.
Description 0 the preferred embodiments Referring more in detail to the drawing:
In FIGURE 1, a series of wafers, trays or cartridges 10 are shown confined in nested relationship by means of the wire clip 12. Each cartridge is formed with oppositely disposed recesses 14 which accommodate the prongs of the wire clip 12. A spring retainer 16 secures the nested unit, and as a unit it is inserted in a standardized covered package 18, see FIGURE 2, for transporting from supplier to user. A desiccant 15 may be provided when the assembly is to be enclosed in a container. The series of cartridges may be enclosed in a sealed plastic bag prior to its being placed in container 18.
Each cartridge is formed with a cut off corner 20, or with some other distinctive deformation, which conforms in a complementary manner to a similar deformation 22 on the package 18. This augments the rapid and accurate placement of the cartridges in the packagefo r transfer to an automated magazine system or for proper positioning for probe testing of the entire contents of the package in one probe operation.
Each tray or cartridge 10 functions as a protective carrier for the critical element 24 (FIGURE 2), which is later transferred as above noted, to its position on a circuit board. The trays 10 are formed with a central recessed portion 25, and slots 27 to accommodate and protect the fragile portions of the critical element. The recess 25 leaves a saddle portion 40 for support of the element. In addition shoulder 26 fits into a recessed floor 28 in the tray below for a nesting relationship.
The series of slots 27, extending through the floor 28 of each tray, accommodate, protect and accurately position the delicate leads 32 of the critical element 24.
In addition, each carrier 10 is designed to accommodate various sizes of LC. elements with pre-cut and pre-formed leads. This is made possible by some sort of resilient element, formed on the under portion of each carrier or tray, to hold the fragile element in the tray below it, firmly in place.
In FIGURE 3, spring teeth 38 are illustrated to perform the function of biasing the I.C. element 24 on saddle 46.
In FIGURE 4, a resilient plastic spring 34 serves this function. The strip 34, is for example, a die cut plastic polycarbonate strip, of thickness of the order of .005. This strip, assembled into the bottom of the carrier, acts as a spring hold down, and gently holds the critical element 24 on the carrier saddle 40 of the tray below. Pressure is exerted on the case of the component 24, rather than on the fragile leads. Lead and seal damage are thus prevented.
In FIGURE 5, a pair of spring teeth 36 extend longitudinally and depend from saddle 40. In each of these examples, the holding springs exert gentle pressure and provide the necessary protection against damage, for the fragile elements,
The individual loaded elements may be tested by the supplier before being packed and shipped; or the whole stacked unit may be tested by miniature probes.
FIGURE 6 is a schematic showing of a probe testing device.
The system is such that test probes 44 and 46 of a test unit can be positioned in any desired manner such as by means of guides 52 above and below an individual loaded cartridge as 10 in FIGURE 6 or modified to test a stacked series. A cover 50 may be used for protection of the critical elements during testing. Either set of probes may be resiliently mounted to float for accommodation in positioning.
I claim:
1. A standardized cartridge carrier for protection and transportation of critical and fragile components of integrated circuits, said carrier comprising a plurality of cartridge trays capable of being nested to fit into a container in nested relationship, recessed means in each cartridge tray suificient in depth for accommodating and protecting a fragile integrated circuit component, means for holding said plurality of nested cartridges together as a unit so that they may be removed from a container as a unit and inserted as a unit into a magazine for automatic transfer of said elements to circuit boards, means for holding said trays together as a unit comprising a legged Wire element of U-formation, an open U-shaped recess formed in opposite edges of each cartridge tray, the legs of said wire element entering said recesses at their open areas, and a spring clip engaging both legs of said wire element.
2. In a standardized cartridge carrier according to claim 1, a series of slots arranged in opposed pairs in the floor of each tray for accommodating the lead portions of said component, spring means located on the under portion of each of said cartridge trays for providing moderate pressure on the component located in the tray immediately below.
3. A device as claimed in claim 2 wherein said spring means comprises a curved resilient plastic strip.
4. A device as claimed in claim 2 wherein said spring means comprises a pair of oppositely directed and longitudinally oriented spring teeth.
5. A device as claimed in claim 2 wherein said spring means comprises a plurality of oppositely directed and laterally disposed spring teeth elements.
. 6. A device as defined in claim 1 including a container for surrounding said carrier.
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,792, l 11 5/1957 Ringler et al. 2,826,333 3/1958 Rodemich. 2,987,198 6/1961 Crane.
JAMES B. MARBERT, Primary Examiner.
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|Filing date
|Publication date
|30 Dec 1953
|14 May 1957
|Fed Paper Board Co Inc
|Containers for small parts for radio and television and the like
|30 Jan 1957
|11 Mar 1958
|John P Kichline
|Device for vertically storing refrigerator containers
|1 Aug 1958
|6 Jun 1961
|Allied Plastics Company
|Spacer for produce containers
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|7 Jul 1980
|28 Sep 1982
|Reliability, Inc.
|Packaging system for semiconductor burn-in
|17 Oct 1980
|12 Oct 1982
|Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
|Magazine for storing and supplying circuit elements
|16 Jul 1980
|16 Nov 1982
|U.S. Philips Corporation
|Packing for a stack of rectangular, plate-shaped parts
|25 Jan 1982
|15 May 1984
|British Telecommunications
|Integrated circuit chip carrier
|10 Mar 1982
|20 Nov 1984
|Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
|Flat-type semiconductor device and packing thereof
|29 Oct 1984
|9 Dec 1986
|Hughes Aircraft Company
|Ceramic package for compensated crystal oscillator
|10 Aug 1989
|20 Nov 1990
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Surface package type semiconductor package
|10 Aug 1989
|17 Mar 1992
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Method of producing semiconductor memory packages
|20 Jul 1992
|4 Jan 1994
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Method of producing surface package type semiconductor package
|27 Jun 1995
|11 Jun 1996
|Molex Incorporated
|Packaging system for storing and handling electrical connector components within storage tubes
|23 Jun 1994
|4 Mar 1997
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|13 Sep 1996
|8 Sep 1998
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|10 Jun 1998
|23 Nov 1999
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Resist pattern forming method using anti-reflective layer resist pattern formed and method of etching using resist pattern and product formed
|24 Aug 1999
|23 Jan 2001
|3088081 Canada Inc.
|Biological specimen cassette
|31 Aug 1999
|1 May 2001
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|30 Apr 2001
|3 Sep 2002
|Hitachi, Ltd.
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|30 Jul 2002
|3 Jan 2006
|Renesas Technology Corp.
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|19 Feb 2008
|19 Mar 2013
|Miraial Co., Ltd.
|Semiconductor wafer container
|21 Aug 2007
|25 Mar 2014
|Micronas Gmbh
|Lead frame magazine cover
|30 Jul 2002
|28 Nov 2002
|Wahei Kitamura
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|30 Jul 2002
|5 Dec 2002
|Wahei Kitamura
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|30 Jul 2002
|27 Mar 2003
|Wahei Kitamura
|Surface package type semiconductor package and method of producing semiconductor memory
|21 Aug 2007
|28 Feb 2008
|Micronas Gmbh
|Lead frame magazine cover
|19 Feb 2008
|8 Oct 2009
|Miraial Co., Ltd.
|Semiconductor wafer container
|21 Jul 1979
|12 Feb 1981
|Philips Patentverwaltung
|Verpackung zur aufnahme einer vielzahl von plaettchenfoermigen teilen
|U.S. Classification
|206/724, 206/718, 206/204
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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