Return Of The MITERS Journal
Icaro Aveiga
While the journal was initially used as a way to facilitate intra-society communication through minutes, notes, and featured projects, the journal has since undergone changes to be used primarily as a guide for informing members about updates and projects, as well as sharing recent news with the MITERS alumni network. Issues are planned per semester, focusing on promoting member projects, announcing new equipment or tools, advertising upcoming demos or events, and any other interesting topics or stories from members.
After a day on the course with its suppliers, MITER Brands team members returned to the Hershey Lodge on Wednesday, Sept. 27, for another dinner and auction, this time with customers. That group then golfed at the Hershey Country Club on Thursday. Between the two contingents, the MITER Foundation hosted nearly 500 guests in Hershey.
A sign of good carpentry is miters (the 90-degree joints formed at the intersection of two pieces of trim) that fit together nicely. For a good fit, mitered moldings must be cleanly and accurately cut, then secured with glue and finish nails. Miter clamps are a handy tool to have at your disposal when assembling pieces of mitered molding.
For a 20 mil wide trace, the excess capacitance in a corner is 0.5 x 3.4 fF/mil x 20 mils = 34 fF. We can simulate the TDR response from a 34 fF capacitor with a 20 psec rise time signal (or any rise time) and the return loss. In the TDR simulation, a 34 fF ideal capacitor is added in shunt to the middle of an otherwise ideal, uniform 50 ohm transmission line. Figure 3 shows these simple simulations.
The TDR response of the 34 fF capacitor and the return loss match the 3D EM simulation extremely well. A corner behaves exactly like a small excess capacitor. The capacitance in a corner depends on the line width of the 50 ohm line and is about 1.7 fF/mil of line width. This amount of excess capacitance can be used in any circuit simulator to evaluate the impact of a corner in any application.
For example, while one corner may not produce a very noticeable effect at a specific rise time, multiple, periodically spaced corners can create a Block Wave resonance and show an enhanced return loss and a dip in the insertion loss at the Block Wave resonant frequency. This is easily simulated using a uniform transmission line periodically loaded by small excess capacitors.
The return loss is a useful parameter to describe when reflections begin to affect the transmitted signal at the receiver. If the return loss is less than -15 dB, the impact on insertion loss is less than 0.1 dB, or negligible. Figure 4 shows the simulated return loss for corners in traces of 120 mils, 20 mils, and 5 mils wide.
If your interconnect traces are 120 mils wide, a 90-degree corner might have a noticeable impact at 5 GHz. At 10 GHz, the return loss for just one corner is -10 dB. This will definitely impact the insertion loss. And at 20 GHz, with a -5 dB return loss, a corner can completely destroy a signal on your interconnect. Avoid corners at all cost or your design is ruined. This elephant is a wall.
2004?? Coincidence? I think not!! I bet he stole it to use as a prototype for DTW. You always knew but waited nine years to exact your revenge. Enticing him with erotic french tales of historic oak, you convinced him to build an old wet workbench knowing in time the sucker would explode and do in your nemesis. Only then would the plane return to its rightful owner.
Awesome work! I am one that miters my transitions and this is something I would love to try. However my only concern is that when we use a more ornate baseboard, I could see this taking a bit more time. I know I would probably spend a lot much time on this to make it perfect, as that is how I am with the special details. But this is a true skill that we should learn. Thank you for sharing your historic solution.
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Great video to accompany the article. I too am one who just miters it. Actually never thought to do otherwise. Seemed a straight forward process to form solid stock to the appropriate profile but I agree with the above comment that an extremely ornate piece would certainly require a bit more perserverance.
Thanx for sharing your experience
Certainly one has to pick a technique appropriate to the conditions. A raked return works best for a short run, into a newel or door casing. In the same vein I would not like to have only one solution for every circumstance. Would it not be better to improve skill sets then to forgo them? These returns can easily be made to stain grade requirements.
I have 2 examples on a 90 degree half landing stair case that need solving. Lots of thought and time in this, and actually already have both skirts in place with a compound miter at each return waiting to be mated. Both examples involve the skirt not having enough room to run out to base board height before the return.
Are the videos still available? I would love to see. The information provided is great. I have this exact situation at the bottom of my stairs and would love to see the video for the visual on how to custom profile the returns.
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The scariest figures are the whippers wrapped in coyote fur and other animal skins, faces covered, slits for eyes who carry whips that strike the ground ominously. Some men are called to enter the open spaces to be whipped, others choose to enter on their own. After these whippings the men shake hands, and others in the crowd throw corn pollen. The sense I have is that there is both correction and blessing associated with this complex ritual. The whippers have been in the kivas for 10 ten days and at the end of the dance we watch these frightening supernaturals return to their mountain homes for another year.
As the dancers returned to the church for the final part of the ritual enactment, my friend and I decided to leave. My senses were on overload, humming through my body. I had the feeling that I had seen this dance before, perhaps in another context. Only later that night did I recall that I had seen the Matachines dance during holy week on the Pasqua Yaqui reservation outside of Tucson Arizona. The role the Matachines played in the Deer Dances held Easter week was to banish evil forces.
After receiving numerous complaints about health, hacking, and privacy concerns with the wireless digital devices, the Public Utility Commission of the US state of Maine voted to allow customers to opt-out of the meter change at the cost of $12 a month.[75] In Connecticut, another US state to consider smart metering, regulators declined a request by the state's largest utility, Connecticut Light & Power, to install 1.2 million of the devices, arguing that the potential savings in electric bills do not justify the cost. CL&P already offers its customers time-based rates. The state's Attorney General George Jepsen was quoted as saying the proposal would cause customers to spend upwards of $500 million on meters and get few benefits in return, a claim that Connecticut Light & Power disputed.[76]
In 2013, Take Back Your Power, an independent Canadian documentary directed by Josh del Sol was released describing "dirty electricity" and the aforementioned issues with smart meters.[85] The film explores the various contexts of the health, legal, and economic concerns. It features narration from the mayor of Peterborough, Ontario, Daryl Bennett, as well as American researcher De-Kun Li, journalist Blake Levitt,[86] and Dr. Sam Milham. It won a Leo Award for best feature-length documentary and the Annual Humanitarian Award from Indie Fest the following year.
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