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A purging station with a substrate container receiving zone having at least one upwardly extending purging nozzle. The nozzle has a circular engaging lip. The substrate container has support means for at least one substrate and a purge port assembly that includes an externally facing sealing flange facing downward from the container. The sealing flange has a central aperture and a cantilevered flange portion that engages with the circular engaging lip of the nozzle. The weight of the substrate container on the nozzle carried by the canilevered portion of the flange causes bending of the flange for a resilient soft seal.
1. A reticle SMIF pod for holding reticles used in the manufacture of semiconductors, the pod comprising:
an upper shell with an open interior and an open bottom;
a door configured to sealing engage and latch to the upper shell at the open bottom, the door comprising a base, support members for a reticle extending from the base and defining a reticle pod receiving region, and a nozzle interface facing downwardly for interfacing with purging nozzles; the nozzle interface comprising a disk shaped cantilevered flange portion formed of a resilient polymer with a central opening for passing purge gas therethrough, the cantilevered flange portion positioned to be concentrically deflectable from the horizontal upwardly into a conical or rounded conical position when engaged with a purge nozzle.
2. The reticle SMIF pod of
3. The reticle SMIF pod of
4. The reticle SMIF pod of
5. A combination purgible substrate container and purging station, the purging station having a substrate container receiving zone with an upwardly extending purge nozzle, the nozzle having a circular engagement lip with a diameter and positioned in a horizontal plane, the container comprising a nozzle interface with a cantilevered flange portion and a central aperture therein, the cantilevered flange portion extending horizontally and connecting with a supported portion radially inward from the cantilevered flange portion, the supported portion having a diameter less than that of the circular engagement lip, whereby when the substrate container is placed in the receiving zone with the nozzle interface aligned with the purge nozzle, the cantilevered flange portion flexes upwardly from the horizontal.
6. The combination of
7. The combination of
8. The combination of
9. The combination of
10. A purgible substrate container for holding at least one substrate, the container comprising:
a container defining an open interior, the container including an open side and a purge port aperture;
supports attached to the container for holding the at least one substrate within the open container;
a door sealably latchable to said open side;
a purge nozzle interface assembly for injection of purge gas attached to the container at the purge port aperture, the purge assembly including a resilient polymer disk with a central aperture and a cantilevered peripheral portion, the disk supported radially inward from the cantilevered peripheral portion, the cantilevered portion having an unflexed position wherein the cantilevered peripheral portion extends horizontally and radially outward and a sealing engagement position wherein the cantilevered portion is flexed and extends upwardly at an angle from the horizontal unflexed position.
11. The purgible substrate container of
12. A substrate container comprising containment wall with a purging aperture, a nozzle interface, the nozzle interface comprising a resilient polymeric sealing cantilevered flange portion positioned parallel to the containment wall and outwardly facing, a purge gas passageway extending axially through the sealing cantilevered flange portion into the interior of the substrate container.
13. A method of supporting a reticle SMIF pod on a support base, the SMIF pod having a door with a bottom side, a pair of purge ports base having a the method comprising supporting one side of the SMIF pod on a hard stop and supporting the other side on a soft stop comprising a purge port assembly having a nozzle interface member comprised of a resilient polymeric material, the soft stop having a vertical tolerance when seated of at least about 0.1 inches.
14. A method of purging a substrate container, the substrate container having a purging port on a bottom side thereof, the purging port comprising a resilient polymeric thin annular portion, the annular portion having a downwardly facing engagement surface portion and an opposite upwardly facing side, the upwardly facing side not being supported, the method comprising the steps of:
placing the substrate container on purging station having an upwardly directed nozzle with the downwardly facing engagement surface,
bending the annular portion upwardly by the weight of the substrate container resting on the nozzle.
15. A substrate container with a purge port aperture and a purge port assembly attached therein, said purge port assembly comprising a body portion and a nozzle receiving portion both formed of a resilient polymer, said body portion having an annular channel shaped recess extending therearound and sized to sealingly fit the purge port aperture, said body portion further having a diffuser port and a bore extending axially through the body and in communication with the diffuser port, the nozzle receiving portion comprising a flange portion integral with a tubular portion, the flange portion having a central aperture and comprising a supported flange portion and a cantilevered flange portion concentric with and extending radially away from the supported flange portion, and a tubular portion integral with the supported flange portion, the tubular portion sized to be insertably retained within the bore of the body portion, whereby the flange portion is positioned exteriorly of the container, the diffuser port is interiorly positioned and there is an axial purge path through the purge port assembly.
16. A method of confirming placement of a substrate container on a purge station on a purge nozzles, comprising applying downward pressure and visually observing and feeling a deflection of at least about 0.1 inch to confirm the proper engagement, the deflection arising from a resilient nozzle interface.
17. A reticle pod stocker comprising:
a vertical post having purge gas tubing therein and connectible to a purge gas source,
a plurality of trays swivelably connected to the vertical post, whereby each of the trays swing horizontally to a plurality of different positions, each tray configured for receiving reticle pods and having a purge nozzle extending upwardly therefrom, each purge nozzle connecting to the purge gas tubing.
18. The reticle pod stocker of
19. The reticle pod stocker of
20. The reticle pod stocker of
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/892,196, filed Feb. 28, 2007; this application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/396,949; filed Apr. 3, 2006, U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/668,189 filed Apr. 4, 2005, and U.S. Pat. No. 7,328,727 issued Feb. 12, 2008, all of which are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference.
The invention relates to substrate carriers used in semiconductor manufacturing and more particularly to transportable and shippable reticle/photomask carriers and purging systems for controlling the environment in such carriers.
The processing of silicon wafers for semiconductor applications typically includes photolithography as one of the process steps. In photolithography, a wafer surface with a deposit of silicon nitride is coated over with a light-sensitive liquid polymer or photoresist and then selectively exposed to a source of radiation using a template with a desired pattern. Typically, ultraviolet light is shone through or reflected off a surface of a mask or reticle to project the desired pattern onto the photoresist covered wafer. The portion of the photoresist exposed to the light is chemically modified and remains unaffected when the wafer is subsequently subjected to a chemical media that removes the unexposed photoresist leaving the modified photoresist on the wafer in the exact shape of the pattern on the mask. The wafer is subjected to an etch process that removes the exposed portion of the nitride layer leaving a nitride pattern on the wafer in the exact design of the mask.
The industry trend is towards the production of chips that are smaller and/or with a higher logic density necessitating even smaller line widths on larger wafers. Clearly, the degree of fineness to which the surface of the reticle can be patterned and the degree to which this pattern can be faithfully replicated onto the wafer surface are factors that impact the quality of the ultimate semiconductor product. The resolution with which the pattern can be reproduced on the wafer surface depends on the wavelength of ultraviolet light used to project the pattern onto the surface of the photoresist-coated wafer. State-of-the-art photolithography tools use deep ultraviolet light with wavelengths of 193 nm, which allow minimum feature sizes on the order of 100 nm. Tools currently being developed use 157 nm Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) light to permit resolution of features at sizes below 70 nm.
The reticle is a very flat glass plate that contains the patterns to be reproduced on the wafer. Typical reticle substrate material is quartz. Because of the tiny size of the critical elements of modern integrated circuits, it is essential that the operative surface of the reticle (i.e. the patterned surface) be kept free of contaminants that could either damage the surface or distort the image projected onto the photoresist layer during processing leading to a final product of unacceptable quality. Typically, the critical particle sizes are 0.1 μm and 0.03 μm for the non-patterned and patterned surfaces respectively when EUV is part of the photolithography process. Generally, the patterned surface of the reticle is coated with a thin, optically transparent film, preferably of nitrocellulose, attached to and supported by a frame, and attached to the reticle. Its purpose is to seal out contaminants and reduce printed defects potentially caused by such contamination in the image plane.
However, extreme EUV utilizes reflection from the patterned surface as opposed to transmission through the reticle characteristic of deep ultraviolet light photolithography. At his time, the art does not provide pellicle materials that are transparent to EUV. Consequently, the reflective photomask (reticle) employed in EUV photolithography is susceptible to contamination and damage to a far greater degree than reticles used in conventional photolithography. This situation imposes heightened functional requirements on any reticle SMIF pod designed to store, transport and ship a reticle destined for EUV photolithography use.
It is well known in the art that unnecessary and unintended contact of the reticle with other surfaces during manufacturing, processing, shipping, handling, transport or storage will likely cause damage to the delicate features on the patterned surface of the reticle due to sliding friction and abrasion. Likewise, it is generally accepted by those skilled in the art that any particulate contamination of the surface of the reticle can potentially compromise the reticle to a degree sufficient to seriously affect the end products of processes that use such a flawed reticle. In this regard, the art has developed innovative approaches to locate and support the reticle in reticle containers so as to reduce or eliminate sliding friction and consequent abrasion of the reticle and the resultant generation of contaminating particulates. In recognition of the need to maintain a controlled environment around the wafer during storage, processing and transport, the prior art has evolved approaches to isolation technology that allows for control of the environment in the immediate vicinity of a wafer by providing for a container so that it can be kept relatively free from incursion of particulate matter.
Typically, containers are provided with standardized mechanical interfaces that allow automatic manipulation of the container by processing machinery. Such containers can hold photomasks of up to 200 mm and are designated standard mechanical interface pods, or SMIF-Pods. Even with such a controlled environment, migration of particulates that may be present inside the controlled environment is still possible due to pressure changes of the air trapped in the controlled environment or turbulence of the trapped air brought on by rapid movements of the container and/or by disturbing the trapped air volume. For example, thin walled SMIF pods may experience wall movement due to altitude related pressure changes causing the trapped air inside the controlled environment to be displaced. Temperature changes can set up convection currents within the container. Dimensional changes of the container and its components due to pressure fluctuations can lead to compromising the sealing between cover and door of the carrier and incursion of particulates within the carrier. Prior art approaches contemplate a breathing apparatus between the external environment and the internal controlled volume of air. The breathing apparatus provides a path for the air to flow. Prior art breathing apparatus may include a particulate filter to block the entry of particulates from the external environment into the controlled environment of the carrier.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that particulate contaminants are but one half of the equation. Equally important are gas-phase contaminants or airborne molecular contaminants (AMC) due to ambient air venting or leaking into or getting trapped in a hermetically sealed system. For example, at a suitable dew point temperature, the moisture in the air will condense out of the air and some of it may get deposited onto the reticle. Even with a perfectly sealed container, there is the possibility of air entering into the system when the reticle is removed from and replaced within the container during processing. Water vapor condensing onto the patterned surface of the reticle can interfere with the optics just as a solid particulate would. Other sources of gas-phase or vapor contamination that are believed to be significant are solvent residues resulting from reticle/pod cleaning operations during the photomask lifecycle, chemical agents generated by out-gassing from the structural components of the carrier and chemical agents that enter into the carrier from the ambient atmosphere by breaching the hermetic sealing arrangement between the carrier shell and the carrier door.
Multiple contamination species are thought to be the largest contributors to gas-phase contamination. These include NH3 (ammonia), SO2 (sulphur dioxide), H2O (moisture) and condensable organics C6-C10. Depending on the photolithography system, a photomask can be exposed to a laser light source of a wavelength that can range from 436 nm to 157 mn. Currently, 193 nm lasers are quite common. The energy of the laser can initiate chemical reactions that precipitate defect formation and propagation on the surface of the reticle. For instance, some of the chemical species are altered to form highly reactive species such as SO4 2− and NH4 +. Some of these chemicals, such as acids for instance, are reactive with glass and can damage the reticle by etching it to create a haze on the patterned surface. The bases can create resist poisoning. The condensable organics can lead to SiC formation. In general, all of the contaminants can be considered to result in the same effect: crystal growth that degrades the functionality of the reticle. In this respect, the current thinking is that moisture or water is one of the key ingredients required for crystal growth. Essentially, water combines with some of the aforementioned contaminants to form the salts are generally clubbed together under the rubric of crystal growth. Prior art use of dessicants, for example, cannot ameliorate this problem because they cannot reduce the concentration of moisture to low enough levels to prevent salt (or crystal) formation. Likewise, purging a reticle carrier with clean dry air (CDA) or other dry gas may not reduce the moisture concentration to the levels required to avoid crystal growth. There is therefore a need for a contamination control mechanism at each stage of the reticle life cycle.
One of the approaches commonly employed in the art to ameliorate the effect of the chemical contaminants is periodic reticle/mask cleaning. The mean time between such cleans (MTBC) can approach, for example, approximately 8000 wafers in a 193 nm exposure tool. The threshold of the MTBC is set to prevent mean time between defects (MTBD) printed on the wafer using the reticle/mask. However, there is a limit to the number of such �cleans� a reticle/mask can be subject to before resolution is degraded beyond functionality and the mask must be scrapped. In view of the above, one of skill in the art will recognize the need to ensure that the reticle environment within the carrier remains clean during storage, transportation, manipulation as well as during the standby condition when the carrier is empty of the reticle. While desirable, it is generally infeasible to construct a hermetically sealed environment that is absolutely impervious to incursion by AMCs or other contaminants. It is also infeasible to continuously purge the reticle carrier especially when the reticle and reticle carrier have to be transported or shipped.
Although purging solutions, such as disclosed in the related applications referenced above, have greatly controlled the incursion, concentration and rate of accumulation of AMCs within the photomask carrier, further improvement is desirable. Accordingly, what is needed is system, structure, or device for further ameliorating the incursion, concentration and rate of accumulation of AMCs within the photomask carrier to levels that preclude or significantly reduce the formation of crystalline salts and generally minimize the presence of any contaminants on the reticles.
The present invention, in certain embodiments, provides a reticle/mask carrier with a controlled environment within which to house a reticle during storage, transport, processing and shipping. According to a primary embodiment of the present invention, the reticle/mask carrier is equipped with means to control the ingress and build-up of particulate and gas-phase contaminants into the controlled environment.
The present invention provides systems, components, and processes for providing and maintaining a controlled environment within pods, within pods with bottom opening doors, particularly reticle SMIF pods.
In an embodiment, a pod has a flexible nozzle-receiving flange positioned on a lower surface of the door of a bottom-opening pod. The nozzle-receiving seal includes a downwardly facing, generally circular, sealing flange that may deflect axially or bend upon loading by a nozzle to form a seal.
Embodiments of the present invention provide a receiver for removably receiving a bottom-opening pod. In preferred embodiments the receiver is configured as a tray with nozzle interfaces for purging connections with the bottom-opening pod. In certain embodiments, the pod receiver has an aperture sized and positioned for allowing downward venting through a central exit filter on the bottom of a pod.
In certain embodiments, the bottom-opening pod has a pair of downwardly facing sealing flanges that directly interface with the nozzles on the tray. The sealing flanges support a portion of the weight of the pod and contents. The weight of the pod and contents loads and deflects the sealing flanges, thereby improving sealing contact between the sealing flanges and the nozzles. In an embodiment, the sealing flanges are combined with or integral with an elastomeric and/or resilient bushing or grommet that is received in an aperture extending through the door thus comprising a purge port assembly. The bushing has a bore therein that may receive a check valve component.
In certain embodiments, a diffuser portion, as part of a grommet, extends above the top surface of the door of the bottom-opening pod. The diffuser has outlets preferably oriented outwardly, so as to direct purge gas away from the patterned surface and pellicle.
In certain embodiments, the sealing integrity of the purging interfaces between the tray and the pod door can be affected by the positioning and/or stability of the pod on the tray. In an embodiment, the interface between the pod door and tray will be at discrete contact regions on the tray, providing substantially three-point or three regions of contact between the pod and the tray. There may be visually discernable vertical movement upon manual contact with the pod, in that there is preferably a tolerance of at least about 0.1 inch vertically in the resilient engagement of the purge nozzle with the sealing flanges.
In certain embodiments a purging station provides a plurality of trays arranged in a stacked configuration for receiving the bottom-opening pods. The trays can be movable, for example swivelable in a horizontal direction to provide easy access to the bottom opening pods thereon.
According to another aspect, the opening in the tray corresponds and is substantially concentric with the filter on the door of the bottom-opening pod. Moreover the filter is preferably shaped and sized substantially proportionate to the reticle and preferably positioned substantially concentrically with respect to the reticle.
According to yet another embodiment of the present invention, the bottom opening pod is provided with a means to continually inject pressurized, extremely clean dry air, denominated XCDA, into the hermetically sealed space of the reticle carrier and a means to exhaust the XCDA from the sealed space. A continuous purging in the hermetically sealed space in this manner serves to flush out contaminants and prevent haze formation or crazing on the mask/reticle therein. In preferred embodiments, a stack of swivelable trays will have purge lines to provide continuous purging of stored bottom-opening reticle pods.
Also it is noted that there appear to be similar hazing and contamination issued associated with wafer containers as described above. Thus, aspects of solutions, as described below, are also applicable to wafer containers Additional objects, advantages, and novel features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned by practice of the invention.
The accompanying figures depict embodiments of a bottom opening pod for holding substrates, specifically configured as a reticle carrier, and a purging station configured as a swivelable stack of trays providing a library of reticle pods. Any references to front and back, right and left, top and bottom, upper and lower, and horizontal and vertical are intended for convenience of description, not to limit the present invention or its components to any one positional or spatial orientation. �Substrate� when used herein refers to wafers, or reticles used in the manufacturing of semiconductors. Any dimensions specified in the attached Figures and this specification may vary with a potential design and the intended use of an embodiment of the invention without departing from the scope of the invention.
The door portion 106, depicted in
Referring now to
In an embodiment depicted in
In an embodiment of the present invention, the first area 212 of the first opening 196 is configured to be substantially proportional to the surface area 129 of the second patterned surface 128 of the reticle 124. According to one aspect of the particular embodiment, the first area 212 is at least 50% of the surface area and in a further embodiment the surface area is at least sixty percent (60%) of the surface area 129 and preferably in the range of seventy-five percent (75%) to one hundred percent (100%) of the surface area 129. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first area 212 is substantially concentric with reticle receiving region 168. Furthermore, the first opening 196 and the location of reticle supports 154 are arranged so that in a assembled configuration, i.e. when the carrier shell 112 is mated to the door portion 106 and the reticle 124 is supported on the reticle supports 154, the filter 232 is located with the surface area 288 disposed opposite at least a portion of second patterned surface 128 within the hermetically sealed space 118 such that reticle perimeter 130 overlies perimeter 289 of surface area 288.
One of skill in the art will recognize that other operative configurations of surface area 288 and second patterned surface 128 are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. All of the aforementioned operative configurations are selected to maximize the extent of the surface area 288 relative to the second patterned surface 128 based in part upon the dimensions of the hermetically sealed space 118, the diffusion length generated during reticle carrier purging, reticle processing, transport, shipping and storage and other conditions the reticle 124 might encounter during its residency within the reticle carrier 100. The surface area 288 is disposed proximate the second patterned surface 128. By selecting the extent and location of surface area 288 in the manner of the present invention, the probability, that a particulate present within or entering the hermetically sealed space 118 will preferentially encounter and settle upon the surface 288 instead of diffusing onto the secondary patterned surface 128, is maximized. To those skilled in the art, the extent of surface area 288 is representative of the total number of fluid passages available for entry of a fluid into the filter 232. The term �high-surface area� associated with reference numeral 338, on the other hand, refers to the effective surface area of the total filter media available for filtration as the fluid flows through the entire thickness 290 of the filter 232. The effective surface area controls adsorption of gases and chemical reactions. In this regard, the filter 232 differs from the prior art SMIF pod filters in that the filter 232 of the present invention is structurally a significant component of the door portion 106 because surface 288 can extend over a substantial portion of the upper door surface 136. Furthermore, in the assembled configuration, base layer 276 is positioned on closed end 252 so that filter 232 places the hermetically sealed space 118 in fluid communication with the ambient atmosphere outside the reticle pod 100 through the plurality of perforations 264.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the concentration of moisture within the hermetically sealed space 118 is preferably maintained at concentration levels approaching a few parts per billion (ppb). Using prior art approaches, such as dessicants for example, moisture concentrations within the hermetically sealed space 118 can be controlled only to within a few parts per million (ppm). The level of humidity control achieved by coupling reticle pod 100 to a purging system which periodically flows a very dry gas, such as for example dry nitrogen gas or dry argon, through the hermetically sealed space 118.
One of skill in the art will recognize that injecting a very dry purge gas, for example dry nitrogen gas and dry argon gas, under pressure into the hermetically sealed space 118 will cause at least a portion of the purge gas to egress through the filter 232 and out into the ambient atmosphere through the closed end 252. An apparatus and method of purging the reticle carrier 100 is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,988,233 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,810,062, the entire contents of the two patents being incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. In an alternate embodiment, the hermetically sealed space 118 is pressurized by the purge gas flowing into it through purge diffuser fittings. The purge gas exits the hermetically sealed space 118 through the filter 232. Generally, purging the hermetically sealed space 118 removes trace contaminants by entraining them in the gas flow. Purging with dry gas also dehumidifies the filter 232. Purging under pressure may dislodge and thus remove particulates and other contaminants that may be weakly bonded to the physisorptive media filter elements and the filter elements that specifically filter particulates. In effect, purging regenerates filter 232 by replenishing its capacity to adsorb contaminants. One of skill in the art will appreciate that the capacity of the filter 232 of the present invention may also be replenished by replacing the depleted filter 232.
According to an embodiment depicted in
The diffuser body portion and nozzle receiving portion are formed of a resilient polymer such as Hytrel� (a polymer of E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company). Other thermoplastics, such as PBT (polybutylene terephthalate) may be suitable, including elastomers.
As depicted in
A separate purge port assembly 350 is received through each of apertures 400, 402. Inwardly facing circumferential edge 403 is received in lateral groove 360 to sealingly secure the purge diffuser assembly in place in the aperture. Importantly, diffuser ports 366 are oriented outwardly toward lateral wall 148 so that purge gas is introduced intermediate the sides of the reticle and directed away from the patterned surface or pellicle. As depicted in
In use, pod 100 is placed over tray 502 with each of flange portion 372 registered with one of purge nozzles 510 as depicted in
Dry gas may then be introduced through tubing 512 and will flow through purge nozzles 510 and into purge diffuser assembly 350 through inlet openings 378. The dry gas will then be directed into the hermetically sealed space 118 through diffuser ports 366. In that diffuser ports 366 are oriented outwardly away from the reticle, the gas will not impinge on any patterned surface. A portion of the purge gas will egress through the filter 232 and out into the ambient atmosphere through the closed end 252.
Each of the purge diffuser assemblies 350 may be equipped with a check valve assembly 356 received in hollow interior space 376 of sealing insert 354, and configured to allow a unidirectional flow past and prevent ingress or egress of gaseous or particulate contaminants into the hermetically sealed space 118 when the system is not in use. Diaphragm valves with slits such as those described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,482,161 referenced above may also be employed in conjunction with or without the check valve assemblies 356. This is a mechanical means for limiting the exposure of the filter media 276, 278, 280, 282 and other media that the filter 232 may comprise of, to the ambient atmosphere external to the reticle carrier 100.
Of course, many alternative embodiments of the present SMIF reticle pod are possible and are within the scope of the invention, as will be appreciated by those of skill in the art. Moreover, the inventive aspects are applicable to other substrate containers such as FOUPS (front opening unified pods) for storing wafers. Such wafer containers are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,736,268 and RE 38,221, the disclosures of which are incorporated by reference herein. These substrate containers applicable to the invention have interior volumes ranging, preferably from about ⅓ of a liter to 10 liters and are generally principally comprised of rigid polymers such as polycarbonate. Although the description above contains many specificities, these should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention but as merely providing illustrations of some of the presently preferred embodiments of the invention.
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The Book of Beer Awesomeness
A Champion's Guide to Amazing Beer Activities, Party Skills, and More Than Fifty Drinking Games
Beauty is in the hand of the beer holder. From pouring to storing, from crushing cans to doing keg stands, from beer bongs to beer pong, this definitive guide to beer drinking is a brew-lover's bible. Written by the experts behind The Book of Beer Pong-and featuring feats of fortitude and games of strategy, skill, and memory, alongside other activities and challenges- The Book of Beer Awesomeness is full of kings-playing, cup-flipping, frosty-mugged fun. Tips and tidbits that cover thebrewing and drinking of this most beloved of beverages around the world round out the ultimate guide for enjoying any beer-in any situation.
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This place is the best BBQ I've had in a long time. I've tried other local BBQ but none compares to the smoke flavor here. The side dishes are awesome also. If u r in or close to Guthrie u have to stop and eat at Red Top BBQ!
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School Reports 2012: MediaCom
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The largest media agency in the UK had a colourful year. Its biggest headline came from the loss of the £50 million Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest retail banking account to ZenithOptimedia. The Everything Everywhere consolidation meant T-Mobile was moved into its sister agency MEC and Feather Brooksbank (now Carat) lured away the Scottish Government framework from MediaCom Edinburgh.
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Despite this, MediaCom did well to retain big clients in competitive pitches, notably Muller and Bose. And it landed the consolidated DFS account, which translated as an extra £40 million in billings in addition to the TV account it previously held. The win crippled the incumbent, Brilliant Media, so it was not a huge surprise when, a few months later, MediaCom snapped up the regional shop and absorbed its remaining client list.
The industry also gossiped when the chief operating officer, Steve Bignell, handed in his notice to join ITV as its sales director. Following this, the chief executive, Karen Blackett, took the opportunity to reward Claudine Collins for her hard graft by promoting her to managing director.
Despite launching a specialist retail division in 2010, and landing DFS, MediaCom still hasn't filled the hole left by the departure of Boots in 2008, so expect the WPP agency to be on any retail pitchlists that arise this year.
MediaCom was recognised for its work last year, earning a Campaign Media Award for T-Mobile "royal wedding" and a commendation for its digital Lucozade activity. More of this in 2012 would be welcome.
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"We grew by £14 million to £1.15 billion - extending the lead over our nearest competitor by 32 per cent. We won 25 accounts including the biggest pitch of 2011 (£92 million DFS). We won 12 statutory repitches, and grew organically in digital (Sky, Selfridges) and social media (E.ON). We innovated, adding product placement and music consultancy, and a new retail division, hiring Danny Donovan to run it. Nine out of ten of our people would recommend working here."
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Going Negative in November — Can it Win for the GOP?
In its Topic A feature for Sunday April 4, 2010, the Washington Post asked several experts — among them the Pew Research Center's Director of Survey Research Scott Keeter — whether the Republican Party would win in November with a negative strategy.
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The Pew Research Center's final pre-election poll of 2,587 likely voters finds 49% supporting or leaning to Obama, 42% for McCain; 2% for minor party candidates and 7% undecided. When the undecided vote is allocated, Obama holds a 52% to 46% lead over McCain. The survey was conducted from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1.
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Counterops - recycled materials
A minor change in the layout of my kitchen is going to require new countertops, and I'm interested in using something made of recycled materials.
The big-box stores offer Eco by Cosentino. It's the same manufacturer as Silestone, and the same process except that it uses mostly recycled glass instead of quartz.
What other recycled-material counters are widely available? There seem to be more complaints about chipping of the Eco material than with other resin-based counters. However, this is kind of a backwater and some of the materials that I've read about may not be available here.
Stainless steel or copper. Better than just recycled (which it probably is), it's recyclable.
Some of the very cool products with glass have a reputation for staining--that's the ones where there's some concretey stuff holding them together. So get a sample and run the full torture test before you commit.
Another option that people like to skip is tile--there are many tiles with small to 100% recycled content. Fireclay is one manufacturer that is big on that, and they send free samples.
There are really only a few types of recycled counters: Particles in resin or concrete, reclaimed (buy the counters from Craig's List or architectural salvage and rejigger them to fit, or other salvage that didn't used to be counters also cut to fit), and the materials that can be melted down and remanufactured like glass or metal. Slab glass counters, whether recycled or not, can be problematic for a high work zone. They can nick, chip, etc., and even shatter.
Bioglass is made by compressing recycled glass for years until it fuses and transforms. It's gorgeous, and tougher than ordinary slab glass, but very expensive, and considering the production process and shipping, the only environmentally sound part is that it's keeping that much stone from being taken from the earth and that much glass from potentially going into it.
Terrazzos, which many of the glass counters are, with concrete substrates, have all the downsides of concrete, primarily etching and chipping. The resin ones hold up better, if the name material is ground up fine enough (Quartz counters are stone dust with resin and very durable). I have sunflower seed husk board, husks in resin, on a non-work counter, and for my table. It does react to water and has a few chips and divots, but is holding up pretty well after four years considering how big, and delicate, the husks are.
There's a recycled marble that uses large chips of broken marble in resin. It has a totally smooth, polished surface, but you can see the depths of layering, which is pretty cool. It looks a bit like chipboard. :) Because it's stone, it might hold up better than some of the other larger bits slabs, but I don't know for sure. It still might have little bits that occasionally chip out.
Paperstone isn't meant for heavy wet areas. It shouldn't rehydrate and pop out if there's no coaster like my husks, but don't leave pools that can get to the paper part. :)
You can get any material you want anywhere you want it, if you're willing to pay for it. Having it shipped on a carrier that was coming to your town anyway isn't a significantly greater environmental issue than whatever it took to get what you can buy locally there.
If you want new but relatively low impact, go for tile. There are also quite a few kinds of tile which are made with recycled content ranging from stone to glass to scrap ceramic. Some have post consumer recycled content, and all have industrial waste.
The big question is why do you want recycled? If you're really trying to make not to impact the environment, go reused/repurposed with material that is already where you live. If you're trying to encourage manufacturers to use the materials that are already out there rather than digging up new, and you're fine with the resin part, then Eco might be a good choice for you, or one of the recycled stone or paperstone versions. If you just want it because it's cool, the sky's the limit. :)
I've had Curava's recycled glass countertops for a year now with no chips, dings, or other problems. I love them! We bought at Lowe's.
I've had PaperStone in my kitchen for almost two years, and a review I wrote over a year ago is still true:
I like it very much, and would put it in my kitchen all over again. The color is so rich, and the surface feels incredibly smooth. But scratches are pretty obvious. My counters haven't yet achieved an overall patina, so the scratches might recede eventually. (The counters have been in only since July 2012.) And the one seam I have is also quite visible. That might be partly because of the inexperience of my installer.
I will add a few things... It's installed around my cleanup sink, and there's an integrated drain board, with no water issues. There are stains from where I've left the cast iron Dutch oven to dry overnight (rust or oil, not sure which). Note that the resin is made from cashews, not petroleum. Finally, some recycled paper countertops are not UV stable and so darken over time.
I'm glad to see so many reports of success with alternative countertop materials. The more options the better.
I just want to clarify, however, when I spoke of the drawbacks, those were the if something bad happens possibilities, not the first thing that would happen. My working counters are tile and hard green soapstone. Neither of them, by their nature, can be nicked, chipped without extreme violence or water damaged, though I suppose if the water sat for long enough on the grout, it might defeat the sealer and soak through to the mortar bed. I don't think it could get to the wood, however, since it would evaporate sooner, and given the assumption that no one was there for a month to dry it up.
The sunflower seed husk board, on the other extreme, can be damaged by standing water, and chipped, and probably easily nicked, though it wouldn't obtrude like it does in glass. Anything meant for kitchen counters, like Paperstone or glass terrazzo is going to have a much better success rate. It's just not impervious.
Our counter is recycled glass in a resin base by glassrecycled.com
We also have recycled glass backsplash.
You can see them both on my kitchen reveal thread. Happy to answer any questions about our counters.
Here is a link that might be useful: Green Green Kitchen Reveal
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions!
I should probably explain what I'm doing. My house is an early (1951) mid-century modern split-level. I am only the second owner; the original owners lived in it for 56 years.
The kitchen still has its original maple cabinets, with distinctive hinges and pulls. The cabinets are staying, even the one that has to be removed to allow installing a dishwasher. It's at the end of the run and the original end panel will be reattached to a wider cabinet base.
I would prefer a counter that includes recycled material because I think it's more responsible to use such. The most environmentally responsible thing would be to keep the existing ones and fill in with salvaged material, possibly reclaimed butcher block, only where the new unit will be.
I would do that if I liked the existing counters, but I don't, even though they're completely in period. They aren't the original ones, but they may be identical to the originals: post-formed white laminate with gold speckles. My neighborhood isn't ritzy by any standard, but I may need to sell the house within a few years and it is becoming hard even in this modest neighborhood to sell a house with laminate.
I am used to tiled counters because they're ubiquitous in California, where I used to live, but they're not at all popular here and would be a definite barrier to sale. I do have tile in mind for the backsplash, but it appears to me that Fireclay is made to order and almost fantastically expensive (for tile), although not as expensive as almost every other counter material I'm considering.
I'm losing enthusiasm for Eco by Cosentino after reading the CU article. Eco was dropped from the 2011 ratings after it split during testing.
Wouldn't you know that Chocolate Truffle was the Caesarstone color that I liked best even before I knew that it had recycled content?
I will check out Curava when I'm next at Lowe's.


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It was a Saturday morning and I was up early and on the front porch, getting ready to slice a tomato and eat it. The dog was looking up at me like he wanted some and I reminded him, "You don't like tomatoes."
I had heard nothing from Mary all morning. I concluded she must be sleeping in, so when she finally came downstairs and stepped out on the porch, I thought it would be good fun to provoke her a little. I told her she ought not to lie in bed so late, because it made her eyes puffy as though she had been crying.
"I wasn't lying in bed," she said. "I was packing."
"I'm moving out, Don," she said.
I had not expected this. I knew there were certain aspects of things that she was not happy about, but I did not know we had reached an emergency stage. I said, "Mary, wait and let's talk about this." She shook her head no and said she had already thought it through and wasn't changing her mind. I said indignantly, "But I haven't thought it through."
"You don't have to think it through," she said. "I'm leaving, and that's it."
I studied her face, trying to understand what was happening, and my indignation began to wilt when I noticed how her jaw jutted, as I had seen it do many times before when she had made up her mind to get through some chore that she was dreading. Two things occurred to me: one that she was serious, and two that I loved her more than I knew what to do with.
I began to fall apart and believe that she was right and must go. Here was Mary, my wife of seven years, an attractive person with her sharp, serious eyes, and as smart as anybody, and tough, and at times humorous, and simply admirable in all respects. In contrast, here I was, a person of ordinary talents, at present unemployed, and not especially ambitious to improve, and really not mindful of anything in the world on that morning outside of my tomato that I had been planning to eat, and my knife that I had planned to slice it with. I had found the knife to be slightly dull, and so my whetstone was there too on the table like an emblem of my inability to get on with things.
I told Mary that she was completely right and something had to change. She deserved better, and I was the one at fault. Whatever would make her happy was what we needed to do next, I said. Looking back, I would call this a moment of pure selflessness on my part, except that it was only a moment, which makes me question its purity.
Mary sat down with me at the table. It was a former cable spool and she had polyurethaned the top of it. She pulled off her glasses and wiped them with the paper towel that my tomato had been resting on. Without her glasses she looks very vulnerable.
"I want you to be happy," I said.
"So do I."
"I won't be happy if you're not happy," I said. "I love you, and so therefore I want whatever is best for you."
She considered that and smiled. She put her glasses back on. She said, "But that's not really true, Don."
I said, "Well I want it to be true, and I intend for it to be true in the future. If you're not happy, I'm not happy. That's the program."
"I'm seeing a lawyer on Monday," she said.
"A lawyer? What for?"
There was more staring at each other now.
I said, "Look. I thought you were talking about moving out temporarily. That's what you just said, I think. Monday's a little abrupt to be seeing a lawyer, Mary."
She didn't speak. I stood up. I looked at the top of her head by the part in her hair, where there was a small stubbly spot. I had dropped a blob of SeamerMate in her hair when she was helping me with the gutter, and it'd had to be cut out with scissors. It was a small thing that would not have been very noticeable, had you not known where it was and had you not been standing directly over her head. There were so many reasons why I loved her! I reached to touch the stubbly spot, and she got up and went into the house.
"Monday is too soon to see a lawyer!" I said.
I followed her upstairs and saw her open bag on the bed with her clothes folded in it. It was only her overnight bag. She stood at the clothes rack by the wall. Her hanging clothes were on this rack made of pipe because we were remodeling, and I had torn out the closets upstairs. She pulled out a suit of hers and said, "Where is the hanging bag?"
"I don't know where it is," I said. "Somewhere."
She spun around and knocked her bare foot on the corner of a computer that was sitting in the floor beside the bed. The computer had not been plugged in for a couple of years. It was an old desktop computer from when they were still making all the cases out of metal. Mary swore and picked up her foot, and I took the suit from her.
I put my hand on her shoulder to steady her, and with my other hand I hung her suit back on the end of the rack. "You can leave this here for the time being," I said.
"My foot is bleeding," she said, and she went downstairs.
I looked at her bag on the bed, and something happened. I became alarmed and also distracted. It was panic. I picked through the clothes in the bag to see what all she was taking with her, and I wondered if she had a damned boyfriend. I went downstairs to the bathroom, where she was getting a Band-Aid. I said, "Have you got a boyfriend?"
"Let me move out, and you stay here in the house," I said.
"You can forget that idea," she said. "This house is making me batty."
She went to throw the Band-Aid wrapper away, but the wastebasket was crammed full. She shook the wrapper at me and then flung it. It fluttered sideways into the tub.
"I'm fed up!" she said.
"If the house is the problem, we can fix that," I said.
"Get out of the doorway, please!"
"Look here," I said. I ran up the stairs and into the bedroom, and in one move I lifted the computer, monitor, and keyboard in a stack from the carpet. I carried them downstairs. This wasn't an easy feat.
"Look, I'm throwing this out," I said. I got the door open and carried the computer outside, and I set it in the back of my truck. Then I went back inside the house, looking for more.
"I wish you had thrown that computer out a long time ago," Mary said.
"I know it," I said. I ran upstairs and started the vacuum.
Mary came up and told me to stop vacuuming. I pretended not to hear her. She went back down the stairs, and I unpacked her bag and put her clothes back in the dresser while the vacuum was running.
I paused to consider the carpet. It was striped in shades of purple, blue, and magenta. It wasn't a nice choice, and it had not been professionally installed. It had come with the house. Also, I noticed, the bed sagged, and the headboard did not line up with the windowsill because of a slope in the floor. One pane in the bottom sash of the window was cracked and had been repaired by me some time ago with a yellowish piece of strapping tape. It occurred to me that if I honestly wanted to be kind to my wife, I would encourage her to spend a few nights in a nice motel room.
That troubled me, because I did want to be kind. But what I wanted even more than that was for her to not leave me, ever. And I had the feeling, the more I paused and considered my surroundings, that if she once made the break and left this house, it would be very hard to ever talk her back into it. The house had many problems, entirely apart from the people who lived in it. Outside of the house it was a big world, and a person with my wife's merits would soon find new challenges and ways to spend time with more interesting people than myself. I would be left alone in the house then, with the carpet and without Mary.
I vacuumed. I tidied all the boxes of our stuff as well as possible — they were boxes that had not been unpacked in two years — and I gathered some scraps of lumber that had been lying about upstairs. After calling a warning, I tossed them from the window into the grass. I had been meaning to do this for weeks.
I ran back down the stairs and past Mary, who was sitting on the sofa in her silent Indian Chief mode, holding the cat. I ran out the front door and moved all the lumber from where it had landed in the yard to the barn across the road. I was careful not to block the lawn mowers, but otherwise I was just adding junk to the pile that already included sheets of roof metal and parts of broken farm implements from before our time. It was a hazard but now was not the time to worry about it. I strode back into the house and washed the dishes. I got a headache. We were out of aspirin, so I took a beer from the fridge and drank it at the sink, though it was earlier in the day than I would normally have a beer. It was about ten, I guess.
I heard Mary on the stairs, and then I heard her walking above me and then walking back and stepping down the stairs again. She came into the kitchen. "Where are my clothes?" she said. "What did you do with the clothes that were in my bag?"
"I put them away," I said. "I thought you were staying now."
"I never said I was staying."
"Well, stay, and I'll go."
"No, I'm going," she said. She ran back upstairs, and I heard her pulling open dresser drawers.
I went out to my truck and left.
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what was with the tongue? and the noise,. FML
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The ending made me laugh my ass off. She looked like she was fuckin' possessed and was going to die. Hahahahaha.
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