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Petri Wine is a family run vineyard in San Francisco, California, United States. It was founded in 1886 by Raphaelo Petri.[1] In 1953, Petri Wine was the largest domestic producer of wine in the United States.[2]
Petri originally produced their wine exclusively in kegs for bulk, local distribution.[2] During prohibition, the Petri family closed down their wineries, sold their 250,000 gallons worth of stock,[3] and used those profits to become involved in other industries, especially making Italian leather goods[2] and cigars.[3] After the repeal of prohibition, the Petri family used their profits from these enterprises to purchase a number of competing wineries.[3] In 1935 Louis Petri decided to begin bottling their wines and distributing the wine nationally, while also maintaining their bulk business by contracting with E & J Gallo Winery.[2][3]
The Petri Wine company was also instrumental in founding the Allied Grape Growers, an organization devoted to stabilizing grape prices.[4] In 1952, Petri also founded the United Vintners.[3]
As of 1955, Petri Wine was based in Escalon, California, and the Petri Wine name was used for wines produced by the Allied Grape Growers.[1] Louis Petri continued to head both the Petri Wine operation and the Allied Grape Growers.[1]
Petri Wine sponsored the popular radio show, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes from 1939 until 1946, when Basil Rathbone left the show and was replaced by Tom Conway, when Kreml Hair Tonic for Men became the new sponsor. It also sponsored the popular radio show, The Casebook of Gregory Hood (1946 - 1951). Harry Bartell was the company's spokesman on the show for most episodes.
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Participants at the July 28 Hoosier Environmental Council Northwest Region Community Forum in Chesterton passed a resolution calling on the HEC board of directors to demand the resignation of IDEMs commissioner, Thomas Easterly, so that IDEM can resume its mission of environmental stewardship for the state of Indiana.
Indiana made national news after IDEM granted a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit to BPs Whiting refinery that would allow the plant to discharge 1,584 pounds of ammonia and 4,925 pounds of suspended solids daily into Lake Michigan. The Chicago Tribune reported that the permit also allows BP to continue adding 2 pounds of the potent neurotoxin mercury to Lake Michigan until 2012.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution, 387-26, to condemn the widely criticized permit. Easterly and his boss, Gov. Mitch Daniels, assert that the permit is within federal and state guidelines and will not be rescinded. Meanwhile, in response to public outcry, including a threatened boycott, BP has voluntarily agreed to halt implementation of its permit until Sept. 1, while it examines feasible alternatives.
BP, the London-based multinational oil and energy conglomerate formerly known as British Petroleum, plans a $3.8 billion expansion of its 117-year-old refinery on the shores of Lake Michigan in order to process heavier Canadian crude oil from tar sand. Easterly maintains IDEM granted the permit because BP could create up to 80 permanent jobs and nearly 2,000 construction jobs.
Many Hoosiers say its the most recent example of how IDEM puts the financial health and well-being of polluters ahead of the public interest, and that its time for Easterly to go.
I think its clear that Thomas Easterly is promoting the agencys agenda of economic development at the expense of the environment, said Carolyn Marsh, of Whiting, who helped draft the language of the HEC resolution. Thats an abrogation of his responsibility to the public.
Marsh said the Clean Water Act makes it clear that no additional pollution be added to the nations waterways. It is a colossal environmental catastrophe in the making, she said. Theyre creating a dead zone up here.
BP claims there is insufficient space to increase the size of its wastewater treatment facility, and so it requested permission to mix the pollutants with clean lake water 200 feet offshore. If theres no room for it, why is IDEM permitting it? Marsh asked.
Marsh questioned the economic development rationale, citing a City of Whiting statement about the BP plant that reads in part, [T]he Citys immediate benefit is minimal (the portion of the expansion in Whiting will be virtually all property tax-exempt ).
Anybody looking at what industry has planned for the next decade for this area will come to the conclusion there wont be any clean air, clean water or green space left, Marsh said.
The public as the enemy
While the BP permit fiasco has catalyzed calls for Easterlys ouster, outrage over the IDEM chiefs pro-business, anti-public health positions has been steadily increasing since he assumed his duties in January 2005.
John Blair, president of the environmental protection group Valley Watch, has been battling pollution in southwest Indiana for three decades. Gov. Daniels and Thomas Easterly are doggedly pursuing an agenda of neither environmental protection nor environmental management, Blair said recently from his Evansville office.
Its real clear to me that IDEM has undergone numerous attitudinal changes under Daniels and Easterly, he said. Decisions seem to be made that clearly ignore the will of the public and the spirit of environmental protection.
Blair met with Easterly and Assistant Commissioner Scott Nally early in 2005. I asked Scott what he saw in his crystal ball for the future and he said CAFOs and power plants, Blair said, calling the response morbidly honest.
Time and again Easterly says that IDEM is an economic development tool for the state, Blair noted. And while IDEM was founded on the notion that a healthy economy is compatible with a healthy environment, Blair takes issue with claims that power plants fit the concept. Power plants are the antithesis of economic development. For IDEM to have that as an agenda is plain flat wrong!
That didnt stop Easterly in 2005 from promoting the Tondu coal gasification power plant proposed for Carlisle, in northern Indiana. Easterly testified in support of the project, which was withdrawn due to widespread public opposition.
Blair noted that Easterly also testified to IDEMs Air Pollution Control Board last October in opposition to a proposal by the Hoosier Environmental Council to require coal-fired power plants to adopt technology that would reduce mercury pollution by 90 percent. HECs petition wasnt ever really on the table. It was whatever industry said they were going to do, Blair said, adding, We have a situation where it doesnt matter what people think or how much evidence they have to the contrary. Industry gets its way.
Blair charges IDEM with seeking ways to avoid enforcing regulations and to allow firms to modify permits rather than apply for new ones, which might require public hearings. The Indiana-Kentucky Electric Corporation told IDEM they wanted to change from a Class 1 permit to a Class 3 permit for handling waste at its Clifty Creek plant. IDEM encouraged them instead to modify their Class 1 permit rather than apply for a new permit, he said.
Blair also faults IDEM for allowing Consolidated Grain and Barges Mount Vernon plant to modify its permit to allow the firm to use tires and pallets for fuel. This encouragement to go to waste tires really concerns me because it takes a minimalist approach to air quality, he said.
We know that most tires contain some amount of chlorine and that when burned, chlorine in the presence of hydrocarbons creates both dioxin and furan, which are persistent organic pollutants, Blair said. Burning tires also creates a large stream of carbon monoxide waste that should not be allowed to escape into the atmosphere to injure humans downwind.
He added bitterly that IDEM approved Consolidated Grain and Barges request without requiring any pollution controls or safe disposal of the toxic ash.
Easterlys interest in waste tires was highlighted late last year when, in an unprecedented move, IDEM sought to alter the definition of what constitutes recycling by including incineration specifically waste-to-energy projects that utilized waste tires. Although a legislative initiative in the Indiana General Assembly failed, IDEM continues to study the possibilities.
Ive come to the conclusion that Easterly sees the public as an enemy instead of a stakeholder, Blair said. The only stakeholders he sees are the people who want to pollute and are seeking permission to do so.
All CAFOs all the time
Gov. Daniels economic development plan for the state includes doubling pork production; a project Easterly has embraced by resisting increased regulation of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).
Most people assume that the head of IDEM would think his job is to protect the environment, said Bill Hayden, who chairs the executive committee of the Indiana Chapter of the Sierra Club. But he thinks his job is to do economic development.
Glenn Pratt, vice chair of the chapters executive committee, thinks that its improper for the commissioner of IDEM to lobby for factory farming. Hes supposed to be a nonpartisan, impartial judge, but hes going out and promoting them, Pratt said.
Last year, the Indiana Chapter released a report, Promises Broken: CAFOs in Indiana about IDEMs Water Pollution Control Boards suspension of NPDES permit compliance deadlines for three years.
At the time, Shondra Zaborowski, chair of the clubs conservation committee, told The Bloomington Alternative that the Boards suspension of the permit compliance deadlines occurred at a critical stage as nearly 300 Indiana CAFOs with NPDES permits were in the process of establishing and implementing Soil Conservation Practice Plans (SCPP).
SCPPs are grounded on sound agricultural practices generally recognized as prudent and practical, Zaborowski said. Promises Broken states: An SCPP consists of five mandatory and three optional elements that include a map of the soil where manure would be applied, a description of the soil, the slope of land at application sites, identification of practices to reduce erosion and control runoff, and identification of methods to minimize nutrient leaching. The suspension came at a time when CAFOs were beginning to implement Soil Conservation Practice Plans (SCPP) detailing where manure would be applied, descriptions of the soil, slope of the land, strategies to reduce erosion and techniques to minimize nutrient leaching.
Easterly and other CAFO proponents claim CAFOs are highly regulated, but the suspension of the compliance deadlines leads people like Bob Hedges to question IDEMs commitment to water quality.
A retired Fort Wayne banker, Hedges moved with his wife to LaGrange County, hoping to spend his golden years in the home they built on one of the countys many lakes. When a CAFO was proposed for a neighboring farm, he got involved with Hoosiers for Sustainable Agriculture and now serves as the groups president.
Our group isnt just opposing CAFOs but is also promoting healthy alternatives, Hedges said. With all the recent incidents of food contamination, people are looking to organic foods they can buy locally. Our group wants to support and identify those folks in our county who use organic and sustainable traditional agricultural practices, he said.
He noted that the Great American Prairie begins in LaGrange County and that it is dotted with wetlands, lakes, fens and major wildlife habitats such as the Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area. Our concern about CAFOs is about groundwater pollution, Hedges said. He added that LaGrange County is like a large sand dune. It has light soil its called a recharge area so water doesnt run off, it runs down into the ground.
In other counties, hydrologists measure water flows in inches per hour. In LaGrange County, Hedges said, its measured in feet per hour. Somebody wanted to put a CAFO right in the middle of an area that runs right into the aquifer thats the source of our drinking water.
Another proposed CAFO was situated 500 feet from the largest wetland in the area and backs up to the Pigeon River Fish and Wildlife Area. Hedges said his group submitted scientific data to IDEM to back up their concerns about groundwater pollution but were ignored.
They used to have public hearings but they couldnt control those, so now they call them public information meetings, Hedges said. You cant speak and you have to submit your questions in advance. They enforce a time limit and answer whatever they can in that time limit.
Hedges said his group had 30 specific questions relating to hydrology for IDEM. They have a hydrologist on staff but when they got to the hydrology questions, they said, Hes not here, well answer them later. Hedges said the group received the hydrologists responses after the permit was issued.
One CAFO applicant used a fictitious entity a company not registered with the Secretary of State to do business in Indiana when filling out IDEMs permit form. Asked what a bank would think if an applicant for a loan attempted such a stunt, Hedges replied, We would think they were a crook.
He said Hoosiers for Sustainable Agriculture is disgusted with IDEM and has sent the department a notice of intent to sue to strip the agency of its authority to enforce the Clean Waters Act. We dont think they do anything, so since IDEM doesnt regulate CAFOs, its up to the citizens to do it themselves.
Public hearings: window dressing
Sharon Carnes and her Michigan City neighbors have tried to convince IDEM to deny a permit for a proposed garbage transfer station that would be a half-mile away from Mount Baldy on the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore one of the most environmentally significant landscapes in the world.
A garbage transfer station is a place where trucks like the ones used for curbside pickup in cities dump their contents into an area for compaction. The compacted trash is then reloaded onto semitractor trailers for over-the-road hauling to another site.
Carnes said the county road to the proposed site had been once been considered as an alternative entrance to the Indiana Dunes National Park but the project was shelved when an impact study declared the route to be an environmentally sensitive area.
Nevertheless, the permit applicant cited that county road as the access road for the garbage transfer station, and IDEM held a public hearing. We gave a PowerPoint presentation showing evidence why this is not a good site, Carnes said. She and her neighbors thought they had made compelling arguments. IDEM granted the permit.
The community was outraged, Carnes said, noting that 300 people had shown up on a weeknight to testify against it. They felt ripped off. The whole process seemed designed to give the illusion of public input but IDEM disregarded every one of our arguments.
Taking their arguments to IDEMs Office of Environmental Adjudication (OEA) proved futile as well. Its strange, Carnes said. One of IDEMs rules states that the applicant has to show access, and we pointed out that the applicant didnt have a valid driveway permit.
She said IDEM replied, in essence, that they cant check everything. But we gave testimony at the hearing, Carnes said.
She quoted from the OEAs judgment: Public policy is not served by requiring IDEM to review every issued permit prior to receiving notice that a facility intends to commence operation.
Public hearings are all window dressing, Carnes said. She says IDEMs quality initiatives still include improving issuance of permits. They want to make it easier for business to work through the permitting process, but what about protecting the environment?
Reluctant enforcer
IDEMs Easterly told the State Chamber of Commerce in early 2005 that he wanted to increase Hoosiers personal income by providing assistance first, enforcement second. He added that he wanted to have timely resolution of enforcement actions.
But a recent investigation by Dan Stockman of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette found that IDEMs Voluntary Remediation Program is allowing polluters to avoid responsibility, delaying cleanup and keeping neighbors in the dark about contamination.
Deadlines are ignored or extended, the story says. There are no consequences and no enforcement even when deadlines are blown by months or even years.
In an investigation this spring, the Northwest Indiana Times found that BP was fined $8,750 after a spill of 1,000 gallons of untreated wastewater at the Whiting plant in November 2006. IDEM could have levied fines up to $75,000 a day.
This action confirms research by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), a nonpartisan, nonprofit group founded by former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement attorneys. EIP issued a report in March that suggests IDEM is letting polluters off the hook by collecting fees 30 percent below the minimum level of fines set by the Clean Air Act.
EIP Project Director Eric Schaeffer said, States are shortchanging either the public health or the pockets of taxpayers by setting emission fees that are too low to cover the cost of Clean Air Act enforcement programs.
Indianapolis Business Journal reporter Chris OMalley wrote in a March 27, 2006, story that the $2.03 million in fines IDEM issued in 2005 was the lowest annual assessment since at least 1999.
Time to go
Thomas Easterlys assertion that a strong economy means better environmental protection doesnt hold up to scrutiny.
Another recent Environmental Integrity Project report, Dirty Kilowatts, found that Indianas coal-fired power plants are among the dirtiest in the country, threatening not only the health of Hoosiers but of our neighbors in other states as well.
John Blair points out that not only power plants are dirty. AK Steel in Rockport (Spencer County) puts out more toxic pollutants from one plant than from all the industries in Cook County, Illinois, Orange County, California and Los Angeles County, California combined, he said.
Blair noted that Indianas Spencer County has 20,526 residents while Los Angeles and Orange counties and Cook County have a combined total of more than 18 million residents. Based on 2004 figures, that one Indiana plant emits more than 20 million pounds of toxic chemicals. Its mind-boggling, he said.
Its no wonder were sick down here, he continued. Were being inundated with toxic chemicals and IDEM wants to measure chemicals 40 feet in the air instead of on the ground. Their monitoring proposal doesnt reflect what were breathing.
Blair said Easterly has to go. Even though Blair believes the fault lies with the governor, he things getting rid of Easterly would be worth it. It would show the next person that there may be a price to pay.
Carolyn Marsh is more blunt. Daniels can fire him or he can resign, Marsh said. The point is we have to stand up and say, The man has to go!


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Sanitation in Dubai involves planning and managing Dubai's waste and sewage management infrastructure. In the past, due to the rate of expansion of the city, there were problems with sewage capacity and connectivity but in recent years Dubai Municipality has greatly expanded capacity and at present the entirety of Dubai is connected to a central sewage system.[1] In 2007, Dubai had 1,200 km of sewerage pipeline network.[2] An additional 80 km was added in 2011 to connect Dubai Industrial City.[3]
Dubai Municipality maintains two main sanitation plants, one in Al Awir, and one in Jebel Ali. There are also several smaller sewage treatment plants around the emirate operated by private operators to serve specific districts or neighbourhoods.[4] [5] [6]
The sewage plant in Al Awir is one of the main areas of waste water treatment in Dubai. It has been significantly expanded in recent years. The first phase of the plant has a designed capacity of 260,000 m³ per day but by December 2007 it was dealing with almost 500,000 m³ per day. The second phase of the plant added 65,000 m³ of capacity and was commissioned in January 2008. The third phase of the plant was under study in 2007 and adds an extra 80,000 m³ capacity.[7]
The first two phases of the Jebel Ali plant were completed in April 2009 and it has begun operations, easing pressure on the Al Awir plant. The second phase was completed in October 2010. The odour treatment plant was also completed. The project cost over 1,500,000,000 AED, and covers an area of 670 hectares. It has the capacity to process 300,000 m³ of waste water per day. A sewage water pumping station and pumping lines are being created as a second project at a cost 580,000,000 AED. A sewage pumping station and the pumping lines linking up to the main treatment plant at Jebel Ali are being built at a cost of 191,000,000 AED.[8] In 2011, the Jebel Ali Sewage Treatment Plant was selected as the Water Reuse Project of the Year as part of the annual MEED Quality Awards.[9]
During Dubai's economic boom in 2009 the city's rapid growth meant that it was stretching its existing sewage treatment infrastructure to its limits. Sewage from areas of Dubai not connected to the municipal piped network at the time was collected daily from thousands of septic tanks across the city and driven by tankers to the city's only sewage treatment plant at Al-Awir. Because of the long queues and delays, some tanker drivers resorted to illegally dumping the effluent into storm drains or behind dunes in the desert resulting in much controversy. The result of sewage dumped into storm drains was that it flowed directly into the Persian Gulf, near to the city's prime swimming beaches. Doctors warned that tourists using the beaches ran the risk of contracting serious illnesses like typhoid and hepatitis.[13]
Dubai's municipality says that it is committed to trying to catch the culprits and has imposed fines of up to $25,000 as well as threatening to confiscate tankers if dumping persists. The municipality maintains that test results show samples of the water are "within the standard".[14]
As of September 2009, these queues and illegal dumping are no longer reported to be a problem, according to official government releases. In 2013 it was reported that the Jebel Ali plant receive 70% of sewage through the city's sewage network, while the remaining 30% comes from sewage trucks.[15]


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Why Yingli Green Energy (YGE) Stock Is Climbing Today
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Yingli Green Energy
(YGE - Get Report) shares are climbing, up 1.9% to $4.03, on Wednesday after posting a significantly narrower loss during its first quarter earnings period despite missing analysts projections for the quarter.
The vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturer posted a first quarter loss of 35 cents per diluted share, 11 cents worse than analysts expectations of 24 cents, but better than the 62 cents per share it lost a year ago.
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TheStreet Ratings team rates YINGLI GREEN ENERGY HLDGS CO as a Sell with a ratings score of D. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:
"We rate YINGLI GREEN ENERGY HLDGS CO (YGE) a SELL. This is driven by a number of negative factors, which we believe should have a greater impact than any strengths, and could make it more difficult for investors to achieve positive results compared to most of the stocks we cover. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its generally high debt management risk, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins."
Highlights from the analysis by TheStreet Ratings Team goes as follows:- The debt-to-equity ratio is very high at 29.57 and currently higher than the industry average, implying increased risk associated with the management of debt levels within the company. To add to this, YGE has a quick ratio of 0.57, this demonstrates the lack of ability of the company to cover short-term liquidity needs.
- Return on equity has greatly decreased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of major weakness within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment industry and the overall market, YINGLI GREEN ENERGY HLDGS CO's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- The gross profit margin for YINGLI GREEN ENERGY HLDGS CO is currently extremely low, coming in at 12.12%. Despite the low profit margin, it has increased significantly from the same period last year. Despite the mixed results of the gross profit margin, YGE's net profit margin of -20.67% significantly underperformed when compared to the industry average.
- Compared to where it was 12 months ago, the stock is up, but it has so far lagged the appreciation in the S&P 500. Turning our attention to the future direction of the stock, we do not believe this stock offers ample reward opportunity to compensate for the risks, despite the fact that it rose over the past year.
- YINGLI GREEN ENERGY HLDGS CO has improved earnings per share by 35.6% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. This trend suggests that the performance of the business is improving. During the past fiscal year, YINGLI GREEN ENERGY HLDGS CO continued to lose money by earning -$2.05 versus -$3.13 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings (-$0.52 versus -$2.05).
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School accused of providing ISTEP questions on practice test
School says investigation will be launched
INDIANAPOLIS - Students at a local school had access to ISTEP questions before taking the official exam, the Call 6 Investigators have learned.
THE MTI School of Knowledge boasts on its website that its students have won multiple scholarships, and when it comes to standardized exams "the school does not teach to the test."
But sources tell the Call 6 Investigators that fourth graders were given access to questions on the math and science ISTEP before taking the actual exam.
Sources said the school received the questions from the actual test and created practice sheets for students to study.
When the kids began taking the official test, several of the questions looked the same, because they had seen them.
When the Call 6 Investigators visited the school, Principal Sheik Tewfik Choukri said he was preparing a prayer and told his staff he could not respond to RTV6's questions.
The Department of Education says it does not comment on possible, pending or on-going investigations.
Last year, the agency had it hands full when it had to deal with cheating at North Central High School involving the 10th grade biology exam.
The MTI School of Knowledge released a statement Friday saying:
"MTI School of Knowledge is well aware of the serious allegations levied against its administrators. We take academic dishonesty extremely seriously and will be launching a full fledge investigation into the matter immediately. The school is currently not in session for Spring Break and we are unable to contact all concerned parties to give a more detailed statement."
The school could face several sanctions, including having test scores invalidated, and it could also impact their academic standing and their funding.
Currently, a majority of students receive vouchers to attend the school. The amount of the voucher is nearly $600,000.


text: Budget: More Cops, More Surveillance; Less Crime? by David Dean, Apr 03, 2006 TwitterDavid Dean details a proposed crime budget with the largest city-funded expansion of the police department's uniformed force since 1993, and asks what if anything it will accomplish. Tweet Editor's Choice With a Smirk, Bharara Diagnoses New York Corruption Problem Public Conversation on New Veterans Department Begins The Evolving Definition of Transparency Comments Comment(s) The comments section is provided as a free service to our readers. Gotham Gazette's editors reserve the right to delete any comments. Some reasons why comments might get deleted: inappropriate or offensive content, off-topic remarks or spam. Recent Articles by David Dean :Mayor's Summit On Illegal GunsTerror, Not TerrorismThe State Of the City's Crimefighting Cop Killings -- Will The New Laws Do Any Good?High Profile Crimes Post Election


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Return to BlogMillimeter Scale Energy Harvesting Based Sensors
This white paper is based on the sensor presented in the ISSCC 2011 paper:
A Cubic-Millimeter Energy-Autonomous Wireless Intra-Ocular Pressure Monitor Authors: Gregory Chen, Hassan Ghaed, Razi-ul Haque, Michael Wieckowski, Yejoong Kim, Gyouho Kim, David Fick, Daeyeon Kim, Mingoo Seok,Kensall Wise, David Blaauw, Dennis Sylvester from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
The actual paper can be found here.
This University of Michigan ISSCC paper describes an Intra-Ocular Pressure Monitor (IOPM) device that is implanted in the eye of a glaucoma patient. The most suitable implantation location is the anterior chamber of the eye, which is surgically accessible and out of the field of vision. The IOPM volume is limited to 1.5 cubic millimeters. This aggressive IOPM size constraint creates major challenges for achieving high-resolution capacitance measurements, wireless communication, and multi-year device lifetime. Little energy can be stored on the tiny IOPM system, calling for ultra-low power operation and energy harvesting. The required millimeter antennas or inductors result in lower received power and higher transmission frequency, both increasing micro-system power. The IOPM harvests solar energy that enters the eye through the transparent cornea to achieve energy autonomy. The IOPM contains an integrated solar cell, EnerChip™ thin-film Li battery, MEMS capacitive sensor, and integrated circuits vertically assembled in a biocompatible glass housing as shown in Figure 1. The circuits include a wireless transceiver, capacitance to digital converter (CDC), DC-DC switched capacitor network (SCN), microcontroller (μP), and memory fabricated in 0.18μm CMOS.
Why Millimeter Scale?
As in the case of the Intra-Ocular Pressure Monitor, it is often desirable to place microelectronic systems in very small spaces. New advances in ultra-low power Integrated Circuits, MEMS sensors and Solid State Batteries are making these systems a reality. Miniature wireless sensors, data loggers and computers can now be embedded in hundreds of new applications and millions of locations.
Ultra-Low Power Management is Key
The desired IOPM lifetime is years to converge on a suitable glaucoma treatment. However, the anterior chamber volume limits lifetime by constraining the size and capacity of the micro-system's power sources. The IOPM uses a 1μAh EnerChip™ solid state battery from Cymbet. The lifetime is 28 days with no energy harvesting!
To extend lifetime, the IOPM harvests light energy entering the eye with an integrated 0.07 square millimeter solar cell that recharges the battery. Given the ultra-small solar cell size, energy autonomy requires average power consumption of less than 10nW. For the majority of its lifetime, the IOPM is in a 3.65nW standby mode where mixed-signal circuits are disabled, digital logic is power-gated, and 2.4fW/bitcell SRAM retains IOP instructions and data. The average system power with pressure measurements every 15 minutes and daily wireless data transmissions is 5.3nW. When sunny, the solar cells supply 80.6nW to the battery. The combination of energy harvesting and low-power operation allows the IOPM to achieve zero-net energy operation in low light. The IOPM requires 10 hours of indoor lighting or 1.5 hours of sunlight per day to achieve energy-autonomy.
EH Wireless Sensor Components
The Intra-Ocular Pressure Monitor is an example of a wireless sensor that uses Energy Harvesting techniques to power the device. With the availability of low cost integrated circuits to perform the sensing, signal processing, communication, and data collection functions, coupled with the versatility that wireless networks afford, we can move away from fixed, hard-wired network installations in both new construction as well as retrofits of existing installations (such as the eye!). The IOPM block diagram is shown in Figure 3.
The IOPM as shown in Figure 3 consists of five basic elements:
1) A pressure sensor to detect and quantify the pressure in that area of the eye.
2) A solar energy harvesting transducer that converts ambient light to electricity.
3) An ultra-low power management device and Solid State Battery to collect, store and deliver electrical energy to the IOPM.
4) A microcontroller to receive the signal from the sensor, convert data into a useful form for analysis, and communicate with the radio link.
5) A specialized radio link at the sensor node to transmit the information from the processor on a periodic basis to a receiver held in front of the patient's eye.
Building Millimeter Scale EH-based Computers
The IOPM millimeter wireless sensor shown in the Figure 1 photo is shown diagrammatically in Figure 4. The device is a 4-layer stack encapsulated in a bio-compatible glass enclosure. The first layer is the MEMS pressure sensor, with a 1uAh rechargeable EnerChip solid state battery sitting on top. The processor with memory, power management and sensor A/D converter sits on the EnerChip. The top layer is the solar cell and wireless transceiver. All the layers in this case were wire bonded together for electrical connectivity.
Permanent Power Using Solid State Rechargeable Batteries
One drawback to moving toward wide-spread wireless sensor installation has been the poor reliability and limited useful life of batteries needed to supply the energy to the sensor, radio, processor, and other electronic elements of the system. This limitation has to some extent curtailed the proliferation of wireless networks especially with small devices. Legacy battery technology can be eliminated through the use of Energy Harvesting techniques which use an energy conversion transducer tied to an integrated rechargeable solid state battery. This mini "power plant" lasts the life of the wireless sensor.
Cymbet has commercialized a solid state rechargeable battery based on a silicon substrate called the EnerChip. The photo in Figure 5 shows the 1uAH EnerChip used in the IOPM. The EnerChips are used as bare die or packaged in a standard semiconductor package. Mounted on tape and reel, the EnerChips are placed on circuit boards using Surface Mount Technology and then can be reflow soldered to the board. The EnerChips are treated like the other IC packages on the final board.
Using the EnerChip bare die have unique advantages for internal energy storage from a packaging perspective as they are small and can be co-packaged in many ways with other ICs or micro devices. The devices are wire bonded to each other. EnerChip bare die co-packaged in "wedding cake" die stack look like this diagram:
EnerChip bare die can be co-packaged side-by side with an IC, as is the case with the Cymbet CBC3105, CBC3112 and CBC3150:
Rechargeable solid state battery bare die can be attached to a substrate with other devices in System on Chip module:
An important attribute of EnerChip batteries built on a silicon wafer is that they can be solder attached to the circuit board surface using a "flip chip" technique. The flip chip attach mechanism opens up many new miniature packaging options.
Designing and Deploying Millimeter Scale Sensors
This paper demonstrated that existing technologies can be used to build millimeter scale energy harvesting based computing systems and wireless sensors. One of the key enablers for long life operation is rechargeable solid state batteries. There are solid state batteries, ultra low power electronics and Energy Harvesting evaluation kits available today from Cymbet and our Distributors that can be used to design and deploy the concepts discussed in this white paper. Reference schematics, application notes, and ultra low power design techniques can be found at http://www.cymbet.com.
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Plenty, it appears. I got my first good lesson from E. Annie Proulx's novel Accordion Crimes, which documented the rise of Little Palermo in the slums of the city. Italian immigrants worked the docks, mainly unloading bananas, and like many ethnic groups in New Orleans, they were also discriminated against. In a culinary sense, though, "red gravy" (New Orleans marinara sauce) is at least as popular with the natives as red beans and rice.
I received my second lesson on the subject during dinner the other night at the two-month-old Muffuletta's, which recently moved from Fort Lauderdale, where it was located on South State Road 7 for two years, to University Drive in Coral Springs. The muffuletta, a submarine-style sandwich of cold cuts and cheeses garnished with chopped, marinated green olives and served on a round bread, originated in an Italian deli in New Orleans and quickly became famous citywide. This sub may be the one Italian item tourists know as practically native to the region.
Chef-proprietor Glenn Weinstein, realizing that most folks would have never suspected the muffuletta might be Italian, wants to educate the public. And the Cajun and Creole fare on the menu tends to lure the eye. So Weinstein offers Italian sausage next to boudin, fried calamari next to corn-fried oysters, and individual-size pizza pies next to crawfish pie on the menu.
I admit to having been initially skeptical. The bistro is sandwiched (no pun intended) among the chain restaurants that dominate this strip of road. Stars and moons hang from a peaked ceiling, a night-sky mural fills one wall, and gauzy, star-studded curtain swatches add a Crate and Barrel decorative touch. (Our server told us that a restaurant called La Luna occupied the space just prior to Muffuletta's; hence the stars. Before that, the joint was a Kenny Rogers Roasters franchise, which explains the formica diner-style tables.)
Still, the interior design is pretty, and even if the ornamental touches don't pass a skeptic's eye, the appetizers surely will. "Bat wings," chicken wings coated with the owner's secret recipe (no, he won't reveal it), consisted of eight deep-fried wings in a dark, savory sauce redolent with garlic and soy. Corn-fried oysters were also a winning treat -- plump to a fault, too big to swallow in one bite, and meltingly tender. A "Cajun" tartar sauce that accompanied this dish was smooth and creamy, though it could have used a bit of spice to warrant the appellation; my only real complaint here is that the oysters weren't served warm enough; it seemed as if they'd sat too long in the kitchen after being cooked.
One of the tastiest appetizers was a special that evening, boudin stuffed with crawfish and rice. This homemade sausage was delicious, and worth waiting for (which we did -- our order arrived with the entrees). The boudin was literally bursting, its savory rice-based filling popping through the casing. A plainer pork sausage was also offered the night we visited; either could be ordered as a main course.
Like the boudin, twelve-inch pizzas are available as appetizers or entrees (in the latter case they come with a salad). Here Weinstein eschews authenticity, combining Italian and Cajun ingredients on the crisp-edged dough. Pizza purists will be pleased to know that thin-crust marinara-and-mozzarella pies baked with traditional toppings such as pepperoni, mushrooms, and sausage, are also on the menu. But the adventurous palate can partake of the gourmet variety: the "Rockefeller" (oysters, spinach sauce, and bacon) or the "Orleans" (blackened chicken, andouille sausage, and Creole sauce), for example. We enjoyed the "bon temps," a creamy combination of crawfish, spinach, onions, and corn sauce, a light yellow concoction that served in lieu of marinara. The mellow sauce, like creamed corn, blended with the mozzarella melted on top of it, while the onions and shredded spinach added both color and flavor. But the curled, pink crawfish were the pizza's most impressive aspect; even after being subjected to pizza-oven temperatures, the generously sprinkled shellfish were succulent and buttery.
Served with all entrees, the aforementioned house salad comprises a plate of iceberg lettuce, shredded red cabbage, red onion, and sliced tomato, accented by a house-made balsamic vinaigrette that's very good, sharp enough to engage the palate but not so acidic as to overwhelm it. Be warned -- after the basket of fluffy rolls brought in at the beginning of the meal, an appetizer, and a salad, the main course might seem a little daunting. But as our waitress pointed out, this is the kind of food that often tastes even better the next day, so don't be afraid to ask for a doggy bag.
The jambalaya certainly required one. A huge mound of rice, andouille sausage, chicken, crawfish, and shrimp was garnished with a dark tomato sauce, echoing the flavor that pleasantly informed the rice mixture. Because this one-pot meal is prepared in advance, Chef Weinstein tends to make it mild and supplies hot sauce on the table. I'd have preferred mine with a little kick and thought the rice a little mushy, but the poultry, shellfish, and sausage were ideally done. Red beans and rice, a platter of tender kidney beans stewed with andouille sausage and ladled over white rice, might also have benefited from a hand unafraid to increase the heat; otherwise they were faultless.


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