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April 27, 2011
DOE Offers $130 Million for Advanced Research Projects
Up to $130 million will be available from DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) in its fourth round of funding, DOE announced on April 20. The funding will support research to find rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. The five new technology areas will join ARPA-E's seven existing programs in power electronics, battery technologies, building cooling, non-photosynthetic biofuels, grid energy storage, and carbon capture.
Each new area has specific goals. Under the new Plants Engineered to Replace Oil technology area, ARPA-E is seeking to create farm-ready plants that capture more energy from sunlight and convert that energy directly into fuels. If successful, the program will create biofuels for half their current cost, finally making them cost-competitive with fuels from oil. For the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage program, ARPA-E is seeking advancements in three focus areas: high temperature storage systems to deliver solar electricity more efficiently around the clock; fuel produced from the sun's heat; and HVAC systems that use thermal storage to improve the driving range of electric vehicles by up to 40%.
Also as part of the newest initiatives, ARPA-E is supporting the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies, an effort to find replacements for naturally occurring yet scarce minerals with unique magnetic properties that are used in many emerging energy technologies. ARPA-E seeks to fund early-stage technology alternatives that reduce or eliminate the dependence on rare earth materials by developing substitutes in two key areas: electric vehicle motors and wind generators. In addition, ARPA-E launched Green Electricity Network Integration, which will fund innovative control software and high-voltage hardware to reliably control the grid. The effort aims to deliver controls able to manage 10 times more available wind and solar electricity than is currently on the grid as well as to develop resilient power flow control to enable more electricity through the existing transmission lines. Finally, Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT) will be ARPA-E's portion of the DOE SunShot Initiative, which seeks to reduce the total cost of utility-scale solar systems by 75% by the end of the decade. The Solar ADEPT program focuses on integrating advanced power electronics into solar panels and solar farms to extract and deliver power more efficiently. See the DOE press release and the ARPA-E website.


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- Apr 21:
- Oakland A's players plan to visit Aaron Hern, Martinez boy injured in Boston bombings
- Apr 19:
- Boston Marathon bombing: Students film get-well video for Martinez victim Aaron Hern
- Apr 18:
- Boston bombing: Martinez victim Aaron Hern shows 'remarkable' progress, gets visit from Michelle Obama
- Aaron Hern Fundraisers: How to help the family
- Apr 17:
- Aaron Hern Fundraisers: How to help the family
- Boston Marathon bombing: Martinez boy's surgery a success
- Apr 19:
- Recovery fund established for Martinez boy injured in Boston Marathon bombings
- Boston bombings: TV networks plan prime-time coverage
- Boston bombings: Television can only 'hurry up and wait'
- Boston bombing suspects: Who are the two brothers?
- Police: Suspect who killed MIT cop is dead; second suspect tied to Boston bombing
- Apr 18:
- Boston bombing suspect on video sought; Obama at memorial: 'You will run again'
- Apr 17:
- Fremont manufacturer's battery was used in Boston bombings
- Boston Marathon bombing: Martinez boy's surgery a success
- Source: Authorities recover pressure cooker lid
- Apr 16:
- Oakland: Vigil, run planned to to honor Boston Marathon victims
- Restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, ID'd as victim in Boston bombing
- Boston bombers will be found and punished
- Boston Marathon bombs were packed into pressure cookers filled with shrapnel
- Apr 15:
- Boston Marathon bombings: Martinez boy, 12, injured by shrapnel, expected to recover
- Purdy: Remember Boston bombing next time in line
- Google helping friends, family locate Boston Marathon runners
- At least one from Bay Area wounded at Boston Marathon
- Boston Marathon explosions: Bay Area marathon runners describe chaotic scene after detonations
- Boston Marathon explosion: Early photos from the scene
- Boston Marathon explosions: BART, San Francisco step up police presence
- Boston Marathon explosion: Other cities beef up security in response to explosions
- Security beefed up worldwide after bombs at Boston Marathon
- Boston Marathon bombing kills 3, injures over 140
- Boston Marathon: Ethiopia's Desisa, Kenya's Jeptoo win in Boston
Aaron Hern, the 11-year-old Martinez boy injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, took a "huge step forward" in his recovery Thursday and may be removed from the intensive care unit at Children's Hospital in Boston as soon as Friday, according to an update from his mother.
Katherine Hern reported in a Facebook message sent to a family friend that her son is "almost completely 'unhooked' from most of the medical tubes and that his neck brace has been removed.
"Huge step forward," Katherine Hern wrote. "He may be out of the ICU as early as (Friday). Physical therapy folks came in and started talking about what we have to do there."
How long Aaron will remain in the hospital remains unknown, according to his mom, but she noted that it "sounds shorter than longer!"
The bombs exploded Monday as Aaron and a group of family and friends waited near the finish line to cheer on Aaron's mother, Katherine, as she finished the race. Aaron was with his father, Alan, his sister, Abby, 10, and family friends Sandra and Frank Hall.
Sandra Hall, who is still with the family, said Wednesday that Aaron's second surgery was completed shortly after 6 p.m. in Boston and that he was beginning to talk after his breathing tube was removed. Aaron also underwent surgery Monday after the blast.
The breathing tube was removed a few hours after the second surgery.
Doctors will continue to monitor Aaron for infections, Katherine said in an update Wednesday; they are concerned about proper blood flow in repaired muscle tissue.
The lingering fever that had family worried had decreased enough for doctors to go through with the surgery and had greatly reduced by the time the surgery was completed, Hall said.
"His whole leg was hit and the doctors said that the fever was probably caused by all these small abrasions from the tiny shards of shrapnel," Hall said.
Doctors were also successful in completely closing his wound; as a result, Aaron will not need skin grafts to heal.
It's unknown yet if Aaron and his family will be back in California in time to celebrate his 12th birthday on May 1.
Check back for updates. Contact Rick Hurd at 925-945-4789 and follow him at Twitter.com/3rdERH.

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Finalizing the Charge roster might not mean anyone is sent packing.
Head coach Steve Hetzell and his staff have until 5 p.m., today to submit a 10-man regular season roster to the D-League. The Charge currently have 12 players.
Canton can carry two players on the inactive list. Veteran guard Robert Hite seems a likely candidate for it as he missed another practice Wednesday because of a hamstring injury.
Forward Gilbert Brown, also battling a hamstring problem, went through half of Wednesday's practice at Edgewood Community Center, Hetzell said. It was the first full-go action he has seen in 10 days, and, by the sound of it, he looked like a guy who hadn't played in a week and a half.
Point guard Re'mon Nelson might be headed for the inactive list if Brown can go in Friday's season opener at Erie. Hetzell said Wednesday he intends for Brown, the second of Canton's two first-round draft picks, to make the trip to Erie.
The Charge will re-evaluate the situation after today's practice.
The 5-foot-9 Nelson, the only open-tryout player in training camp, has impressed. But a third point guard on a roster in which only 10 players can be active seems a bit excessive. Canton already has point guards Jorge Gutierrez and Bo Spencer — Canton's other first rounder.
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RANDOLPH – The nation's oldest collegiate band, the Norwich University Concert Band, will perform at the park at Gifford Medical Center on Sept. 25 from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
The free concert, titled "Autumn in the Park," will be led by conductor Lt. Col. Todd Edwards with a flute solo, "Concertino for Flute," featuring Audrey Seaman.
Music at Norwich University in Northfield has been a significant part of the curriculum since its founding in 1819. With the arrival of William Baylay, the first professor of instrumental music, in 1823, the band became all-brass and an integral part of the daily life of cadets.
Today, the band is a full instrumentation band with woodwinds, brass and percussion, and it continues to perform in support of the Corps of Cadets at all formations, reviews and special parades. The band has performed for the inauguration of several U.S. presidents, including John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, as well as for parades and concerts throughout Vermont and New England.
Conductor Lt. Col. Edwards spent nearly 25 years in the U.S. Air Force Band program, serving as a trombonist and vocalist as well as an audio engineer and lighting designer, after enlisting at age 18.
He received the Air Force Public Affairs Awards for Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year in 2001 for designing and executing a seven-band deployment throughout Europe in 48 hours supporting Operation Allied Force, including a short concert aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt – a first for Air Force Bands while in an active combat zone.
Because of his vast deployment expertise, he was selected by the Pentagon to advance the first-ever band deployments in direct support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, during combat operations. Being the first bandsman on the ground in April of 2004, he led bands traveling to seven bases in Iraq, Qatar and Afghanistan and later led a second deployment group to perform additional shows in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Djibouti.
In addition to performing before U.S. presidents, he has played before several heads of state, including Queen Elizabeth II.
The concert is free and open to the public.
Valley Bowl of Randolph will be onsite with its food truck for anyone wanting to purchase dinner.
Bring a blanket or a lawn chair. The Gifford park is south of the hospital, before the Thrift Shop, at 44 S. Main St. (Route 12) in Randolph. Ample parking is available.
The concert is weather dependent. If the weather is questionable, visit Gifford's Web site, www.giffordmed.org, for updates.


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October 12, 2005
It's been four years since Richmond County employees have gotten a raise, and that includes the men and women who keep the city safe. Dozens of deputies have already resigned to take better paying jobs, and more may be on the way. News 12 is on your side with a look at what it all means.
"You keep hearing rumors that five or ten more are going to be leaving next week. You just have to wait and see," said Col. Powell.
Colonel Gary Powell says it doesn't surprise him to find resignation letters on his desk each week. Ninety-two deputies have left the Richmond County Sheriff's Office already this year.
"If they don't give them some type of raise soon, there are going to be a lot of people leaving," Powell said.
Last week, the vice sergeant resigned as well as two investigators, all for one reason, not enough pay and no increase in sight.
"Lately we've lost several good people that have been here upwards of 15 or more years," Powell said.
Powell says it's been four years since any deputies have seen a raise. And so they're hoping when City Administrator Fred Russell releases a budget proposal on Monday, their raise will be included. But Russell remained tight-lipped when we asked him about the likelihood of a raise.
"It would be premature for me to give out any numbers or whatever, but let me assure you that part of my concern is taking care of my employees as best we can," Russell said.
And as a former deputy himself, Russell says he understands the need for a raise, but he say he can only stretch the available funds so far.
"Are we concerned about losing good people? Sure, we always are. But it's got to be balanced against what the taxpayer is willing to pay," Russell said.
And Commissioner Bobby Hankerson says while raises for law enforcement are a priority, folks have to remember all county employees are worthy of a boost in pay.
"You don't want to have one employee having lunch with another one and one says I got a pay increase and the other says I thought they didn't have any money," Hankerson said.
And while some county employees may be hanging around to see the new budget to see if they will get an increase in the next budget, Commissioner Marion Williams says it's not likely.
"If there were some changes, I think we would have been talking about it now. A new budget is coming around fast and I don't foresee anything as of yet," Williams said.
"I just hope they pass it this time to help us out a little bit, because these guys definitely deserve it for the job they do," Powell said.


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Wednesday, the Dent County Sheriff's Office received a complaint from the Salem Livestock Auction in reference to cattle theft from their facility. Investigation has revealed that the theft occurred from 12:30-1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Surveillance video shows two suspects retrieving cattle from back lots, herding them into a shoot and loading them into a 53' tractor trailer. At this time, it is believed the suspects stole four cows and one calf.
This case is currently under investigation. The Dent County Sheriff's Office in Salem is seeking information about the suspects.
Please call 573-729-3241 with any information.
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NATSOT: River Falls 2011 sectional win over Memorial
McKenna Gruber/E.C. Memorial Junior Defender:
"Coach Schiefelbein had us sit in the middle of the field and look at the scoreboard, and think do we want to feel this way again, and we all realized it can't happen again."
After being eliminated by River Falls two straight years in the sectionals, the Eau Claire Memorial girls soccer team is determined to end what is now a three-year absence from the state tournament. With a team-first motto in 2012, the Old Abes believe they are on the cusp of a special season.
Asia Laudal/E.C. Memorial Senior Midfielder:
"We definitely have team unity, want to win together, not just for ourselves, but for one another so we play as a team."
Sydney Volbrecht/E.C. Memorial Senior Defender:
"The attention should not be on one person, work as a team that actually helps you win."
The Old Abes say practicing game-type situations has been vital to their success this year, a work ethic that has carried over to their performance on the field.
Ali Quarberg/E.C. Memorial Senior Forward:
"When we do drills like this everyday in practice, we make sure we focus on it as it correlates to our game."
Meg Van de Loo/E.C. Memorial Junior Forward:
"In high pressure situations, have 1-on-1 with the goalie, if you can slot it into the small space you'll have a better chance."
With the WIAA post-season still four weeks away, the Old Abes have plenty of time to get better, head coach Kit Schiefelbein says she enjoys being around this group of kids.
Kit Schiefelbein/E.C. Memorial Girls Soccer Coach:
"It definitely is a special crew, quite honestly we don't have a super star, we have a balanced attack, on any given night, six or seven kids can step up and score. One of our strengths that's not talked about a lot is our defense, they don't allow anyone near the goal."
Which is just fine with Old Abes goalkeeper Jenna Sturz who has allowed only four goals in 14 games.
Jenna Sturz/E.C. Memorial Junior Goalkeeper:
"I really get excited when I see my teammates score because obviously it not only helps our team, it helps me, takes pressure off because we're up again, it's fun to watch my teammates be successful."
Bob Gallaher/Reporting:
That success the reason why the Old Abes are the Athletes of the Week. Reporting in Eau Claire, Bob Gallaher for SportScene 13.


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- Introduction
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- Black market breast milk
- Black market breast milk
- Carrying a stranger's children
- Carrying a stranger's children
- The eight-time egg donor
- The eight-time egg donor
- Cash for napping in public
- Cash for napping in public
For $10 an hour, Jessica Cole will swallow a sleeping pill, curl up in a crowded room and let random strangers watch her sleep.
For $800 a month, Amy F. will pump milk from her breasts and sell it to a mix of parents, fanatics and fetishists over the Internet.
For $10,000, Carrie Bloedorn will allow doctors to harvest her eggs—for the eighth time—and pass them to an infertile couple.
And for $23,000, Jessie Cook will consent to having another woman's twin babies grow in her uterus for nine months.
These women don't know one another, but in a shattered economy, they have something in common: They all need money, and they're all willing to use their body to get it.
With the unemployment rate the highest in a generation—one in eight single moms is jobless, for instance—Americans have had to find creative ways to pay their bills. Women are feeling the strain because they make less on average and have less savings to tap into, says Nancy Folbre, Ph.D., professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Some research centers report jumps of as much as 50 percent in the number of healthy people willing to be medical guinea pigs. One Connecticut medical school reports increased interest in gynecological "modeling," a job that pays roughly $200 for two hours mostly spent spread-eagle in stirrups while med students practice pelvic exams. A sleep clinic in Boston pays people willing to live for 28 days without windows, clocks, computers or contact with the outside world up to $5,000.
If selling one's body for sex is the world's oldest profession, then the reality of American economics circa 2010 has created its newest profession—selling one's body for everything but sex. Should we worry when a woman's body parts become nearly as valuable as the work she can do with her hands and mind? "We as a society have not figured out which parts of our body or self a person can sell. There's a broad gray area of ethics and commerce where we are not comfortable," says economist Debora L. Spar, Ph.D., president of Barnard College in New York City and author of The Baby Business (Harvard Business Press). "Whether it's wombs, eggs, sperm, organs, genes or breast milk, we don't have any sense of where to draw the line, except at prostitution."
So is this a bold and exciting new world in which women are taking control of their financial situations? Or are their economic circumstances taking control of them? Even some of the women involved aren't quite sure of the answer.
Black market breast milk
Amy F., a store manager in Indianapolis and mother of two, produces far more breast milk than her 14-month-old son, Jonas, can consume—as much as 56 quarts a month, so much she can barely fit anything else in her freezer. So, she figures, "why shouldn't I make money from something that will otherwise go down the drain?"
Amy needs the money. When her husband, Brian, lost his primary job a few years back, the family spent time without health insurance. As a result, bills piled up after the birth of their 3-year-old daughter, Hannah, and after a staph infection landed Amy in the hospital twice. Brian is working full-time again, but "he had so little work for so long that the credit card debt really built up," to as much as $30,000, Amy says. Even with new insurance, Amy had to shell out $800 for a scan of her shoulder and about $6,000 to treat Jonas's chronic ear infections. "Every time we were about to get caught up, there was another setback," she says.
Amy learned about the notion of selling breast milk from a college friend whose mother's job as a wet nurse paid her tuition. It sounds like something out of the Victorian era, but with publicity surrounding the benefits of nursing, the breast milk market is booming. At least one Los Angeles staffing agency openly matches new moms with wet nurses. Nonprofit and for-profit milk banks across the country provide donated milk for a fee to parents who want to breast-feed but cannot, as when women have a medical condition that prevents nursing. And with the economic downturn, "we're getting a lot of calls from women who ask how much we will pay them for their milk," says Pauline Sakamoto, R.N., executive director of the Mothers' Milk Bank in San Jose, California. "We explain that it's a volunteer process."
Because going through official channels doesn't pay, some moms with milk to spare have struck out on their own; all Amy had to do to get started was Google "Breast Milk for Sale." She advertises on Sell.com and TruckAndBarter.com, reaping $400 to $800 a month from customers in New York, Oregon, Texas, Florida and the Carolinas. She ships her bounty via overnight mail or Greyhound bus delivery, sending out four coolers packed with about 22 bags of milk (6 ounces each) every week. For an extra $12, she will line the package with dry ice.
Amy provides milk for free to one client, a man whose wife died in childbirth and whose baby is allergic to formula. But as it turns out, "only two customers actually have a baby," she says. "Three are men who like the taste, and the rest are fetishists who pour milk on their partners during sex. Some guys spend their money on beer; these guys spend it on milk. I would feel bad charging [the widower]. But I don't mind getting money from the weirdos."
The American Academy of Pediatrics in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, recommends that people buy breast milk through licensed banks. These banks charge $3 to $5 an ounce, about 10 times what Amy asks, but the fee goes to testing milk for bacteria and certain viruses and later pasteurizing it. Banks typically screen donors using an eight-page medical questionnaire and a blood test for HIV and hepatitis. "Individuals who would not have passed our screening are selling their milk," says Sakamoto, also president of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America in Raleigh, North Carolina. "A healthy child might be able to handle bad bacteria, but not one who is immuno-compromised." These risks have prompted a few states, including New York, to require that people buy or sell breast milk only through licensed providers. That means Amy and her New York clients are breaking the law.
For nonprofit milk banks, paying donors would raise the price for people in need, as insurance usually does not cover milk, Sakamoto argues. "There is potential for fraud when you pay someone directly," she adds. "Her milk could be mixed with a neighbor's milk, cow's milk or water. It could be old or not stored properly. Any of these scenarios could compromise a baby's health." (Amy won't sell milk expressed while she is on antibiotics, or if she's had alcohol the night before. She alerts customers when she is sick so they can opt out.)
Amy won't close up shop until her milk supply dries up, which could be in two years or more. She's used her milk money for supplies such as diapers and payments on her car and her husband's student loans. At this rate, she will make $5,000 to $10,000 for every year of sales—enough, she says, to start saving for her children's college. "I want to do that for my kids," she says. "I don't want them to be in the same situation my husband and I are in."
Carrying a stranger's children
Hopeful parents once had to wait at least six months to find a woman willing to be their surrogate. Today, for the first time since the practice began three decades ago, there's no line. "Because of the economy, we are seeing more women than ever," says Fay Johnson, program coordinator for Creating Families, a surrogacy agency in Encino, California.
Jessie Cook, a 25-year-old military contractor and married mother of two in Mobile, Alabama, is due to deliver twins this summer—the biological children of a couple she met online, parents who have been trying for more than a decade to have a second child. Cook, who was implanted with the couple's embryo using in vitro fertilization (IVF), set her fee at $18,000, a price she says she could accept without feeling "like I was trying to sell their child back to them." The couple will also pay Cook an extra $5,000 for having twins, compensate her for missed work and provide $500 in maternity clothes after Cook completes her first trimester.
Although Cook and her husband, Jeremy, a mechanic, work steadily, the family owes thousands of dollars in credit card debt and car loans. And when a family member ran into hard times during the real estate crash, Cook helped out. Still, she insists her initial motivation wasn't money. Two years ago, a pregnant pal who had suffered repeated miscarriages asked her to act as a surrogate if her pregnancy failed. It didn't, but the idea stuck in Cook's mind. "My children are the best thing in the world to me," Cook says about her sons, Andrew, 8, and Chance, 2. "I can't imagine not being able to have kids. Surrogacy is a kind of calling for me. I'm doing this to change someone's life."
Surrogacy carries the same risks as any other pregnancy: Women can develop high blood pressure or gestational diabetes and, if the baby is delivered by caesarean section, infection or bleeding, according to the March of Dimes in White Plains, New York. Depression is common; one in eight pregnant women and new moms suffers from it. And childbirth is fatal for about one in 10,000. A surrogate's risk for complication is higher than for most pregnant women because IVF raises the odds of conceiving multiples—as Cook did. Prospective parents and surrogates often choose selective reduction if more than two babies are conceived, but Cook is firmly against abortion, meaning she took on even more risk than usual. Still, Cook says, "I'm not worried. I have the gift of carrying a child very easily."
Because women's pregnancy experiences vary so much, the balance of physical risks with emotional and financial rewards can be tough for many surrogate mothers to gauge, Johnson says. "For the more altruistic woman, the payoff is the child, regardless of the economy," she says. "But when women do it just for the money and something unexpected happens—multiples, complications, bed rest—she never feels she is getting enough."
The eight-time egg donor
Two and a half years ago, Carrie Bloedorn, 31, retired from her career as a "serial egg donor." A stay-at-home mom in Atlanta, she had donated seven times, nearly "back to back to back," keeping her on fertility medications for more than three years at a stretch. The extra money, from $4,000 to $15,000 per donation, had been a nice perk, funneled into a minivan down payment, college accounts for her 6-year-old twins and start-up costs for her long-term dream of opening her own egg-donation agency. But she knew she had already donated more times than doctors recommend. Seven times, in a process similar to that of IVF, she had injected hormones into her stomach, prompting her ovaries to produce multiple eggs, then undergone egg retrieval, during which doctors insert a needle into the ovary via the vagina. "In my mind, I was done," she says. The cratered economy changed that calculation.
Last winter, Bloedorn's husband, Eric, was selling medical devices for a fledgling company, and sales were at a standstill. Bloedorn herself estimates she lost about $8,000 trying to launch her agency, draining her business bank account and ringing up charges on a credit card that doubled its interest rates. "It became obvious to me that the economy was a bigger factor than I realized," she says. "I started getting scared." After cutting back every other way she could, she was forced to rethink the decision she'd made earlier: She reenlisted to be an egg donor, asking a fee of $10,000. "I was desperate," she says. "How long would it take me to make $10,000 at a part-time job?"
"Over the past few months, we have seen donor applicants go from an average of 13 a day to 40," says Andrew Vorzimer, an attorney and CEO of Egg Donation, the agency in Encino where Bloedorn enrolled. "We're hearing from an extraordinary number of working moms who would have never considered it before and college-age women begging to be accepted because they can no longer get student loans." Unemployed women are also offering up eggs, reports Robin von Halle, president of Alternative Reproductive Resources in Chicago. "We're finding more professional women who wouldn't have had the time had they not lost their jobs," she says.
Bloedorn first donated about five years ago, on the suggestion of a family member whose best friend worked at a fertility clinic. She says she's never thought much about the children she's helped to create, even after seeing photos of kids who her share her DNA. "I'm not attached to my genetics, I guess," she says. "I don't know the man [involved]. I don't love that man. I gave away an egg that had a chance of becoming an embryo, but I didn't carry it, and it doesn't feel emotional to me. Now that I've met some of the recipients, I understand how difficult their journey was. I am proud of my decisions, because they provided a gift to others while helping my children have better lives."
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama, warns against donating eggs more than six times, chiefly to reduce the chance for half-siblings inadvertently dating but also to minimize medical risks to the donor, says Glenn Schattman, M.D., chairman of the Practice Committee of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, an ASRM affiliate. Donors risk ovarian hyperstimulation, a condition that in extreme cases can lead to kidney failure as well as infections caused by egg retrieval. Possible links between fertility meds and ovarian cancer have long been debated; in 2009, BMJ published a study of more than 54,000 Danish women that found no convincing association. Still, "six times is enough," Dr. Schattman says. "Just because a person wants to take the risk doesn't mean that medically we should let her." Lyne Macklin-Fife, program administrator at Egg Donation, agrees—in theory. "So many cycles should shut the door on [Bloedorn]," she says. "But she's in dire need. The money is too good for her not to do it."
Bloedorn remains ambivalent about her decision to advertise her eggs. Since her lowest point, her husband has found a better-paying job, and she has recouped all but $2,000 of her business losses and launched her agency, Eggspecting. But Eric has also enrolled in an MBA program, and this May, $60,000 in student loans will start to come due. As an egg broker, "I'd never accept a donor who has done it more than six times," Bloedorn says. "I go back and forth, willing and unwilling, and think, What if it does something to my body? I've been lucky. Then again, what's one more?"
Cash for napping in public
On the surface, literally, Jessica Cole has it all. Size 34B breasts. A perfect size 6 body. As a "fit model," whose body fashion designers use to create patterns, the 27-year-old in Brooklyn, New York, turned her corporeal flawlessness into cash. In her best month, she earned $3,500—not bad for a recent college grad trying to get by before beginning graduate school for anthropology. Then "the recession hit, and business dried up—I couldn't get any more work," she says.
One day last winter, a friend turned her on to a new way to use her body for bucks: An ad on CraigsList.org headlined "Come and sleep at the new museum." The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City wanted women ages 18 to 40 to arrive around noon, put on a cotton nightie, pop a sleeping aid if they chose, slip into a bed in the exhibition space and sleep until closing time. "The friend who forwarded me the ad said he wished he could do it," Cole says. "But they wanted only women."
"This is XX," by Chinese artist Chu Yun, aspired to create "a living sculpture through sleep," read the accompanying wall text. "The participants…are less real-life, modern-day Sleeping Beauties than islands of enviable calm.… There is an inherent irony in the participants' supernatural tranquility: That they are only able to maintain their state of sleep with the assistance of sleeping aids, suggests that, perhaps, their state is not one of relaxation, but of withdrawal and extreme vulnerability."
Hundreds of women applied, says assistant curator Jarrett Gregory, including a narcoleptic and someone feeling catatonic after a recent breakup. For her two-month stint, Cole dozed for dollars three days a week, earning a total of about $800. She says taking a pill didn't faze her, "because I used an over-the-counter pill and not a prescription." That sense of security may be misplaced, warns Donna Arand, Ph.D., clinical director of the Kettering & Sycamore Sleep Center in Kettering, Ohio. "Over-the-counter drugs aren't necessarily safer," she says. "Interactions with other drugs and supplements can occur with OTC sleep aids, and they can contribute to heart or breathing problems."
In her rare moments of wakefulness, Cole enjoyed measuring her audience's response. On her first day, a woman with a foreign accent wondered aloud if Cole was real, then decided she wasn't: "She said my hair was obviously a wig and that my veins were really badly painted on my arms." Later, a man lifted the pillow Cole had put over her eyes to block out light. "I screamed at him, 'You can't touch art!'" she says. "The service I provided with my body in that bed did not involve touching. Then it becomes prostitution."


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- Overview
- Transcript
- View Offline
- Navigating and customizing the workspace
- Managing documents and pages
- Rotating pages and spreads
- Adjusting and mixing page sizes
- Overriding master page items
- Putting text on a path
- Threading text frames
- Applying strokes, fills, and other formatting effects
- Nesting, grouping, and locking objects
- Formatting: character-level and paragraph-level
- Packaging, printing, and exporting
Skill Level Beginner
Finally, it's time to make a new InDesign document. The way to do that is to go to the File menu and choose from the New submenu. You'll see that you have three options here: Document, Book, and Library. But we're going to be focusing on making a new document in this movie, so that's what I'll choose. Notice that there's a keyboard shortcut to get to this faster, which is Command+N on Mac, or Ctrl+N on Windows, and either of those open up the New Document dialog box. Now there's a lot of information here in this New Document dialog box so, let's take it systematically. I am going to start by skipping the Preset however, and jump right to Intent.
Now, the Intent means where are you intending this document to go? Is it supposed to be a print document, or is it supposed to be an on-screen document? Adobe calls this Web, but it's not like you're making an HTML page, so I really wish they had chosen to call this on-screen instead of Web. Web makes no sense to me. Anyway, for on-screen documents, let's say you're making an interactive PDF, or a SWF file or something, that is when you choose Web, and if you do that all of your page sizes change to pixels, your measurements change to pixels, everything gets set to RGB in your document, and so on.
It's just a convenience for when you are making those interactive kind of documents with InDesign. I'll be talking about interactive documents in a later chapter. Right now, I'm going to stick with a basic print document just like we're used to, and we'll move on. You can see that the measurements are all set to your default measurement system which I talked about in an earlier chapter. In this case, it's set to picas, and we can change the Page Size right here. Now there's a lot of default sizes built in, Letter size pages, Legal size pages, A4 pages and so on. I'll choose A4.
That's a nice size for Europe. For all of those of you in Europe, you know A4 quite well. Now, the key here is you want to choose a Page Size, which is your final output. Don't try and take into account Crop Marks, or Registration Marks, or any of those other things you might add outside your page, just the final printed size of your document. So, if you're printing on A4 paper, then choose A4 here. Now, if you're printing on a custom size, feel free to dial that in here, you can just type whatever values you want into these settings. For example, if you're doing a 7"x 9" document, you can just type those in there.
Notice that I typed it in inches with the "in" marker, and it automatically converted that to picas, just a little convenience that it is doing on the fly here. You can also change the Orientation. In other words, do you want it to be taller than it is wide, or wider than it is tall? That's Landscape versus Portrait. Let's go ahead and change this to Landscape, and you can adjust the number of Columns and Margins. Now these simply add guides on your page. We looked at the Column guides and Margin guides in an earlier chapter. You don't have to dial these in.
You don't have to choose the number of columns right now if you don't want to. It's just a convenience to set up your document from the beginning, the way you might want to set it up later, but you can change all these values later. That said, if you're trying to be efficient, if you're trying to create a template, let's say, it is a good idea to specify exactly what you want here to save yourself time in the future. Now there is one more set of options down here that's missing from this dialog box. Adobe is hiding this from you, and it's hiding these features from you because they think it might overwhelm you to have too much in this dialog box, but I want all the features right in front of me.
So, I'm going to unhide them by clicking on the More Options button, and when I click More Options, you can see there we go, we get Bleed and Slug options down at the bottom. This is another ability to add guides outside the document page area, and I'll be covering those in a later chapter, but for right now, I just wanted you to know, those options are inside this dialog box. So check them out. Now, let's go ahead and jump to the top of the dialog box here, and look at Number of Pages, and Start Page. The Number of Pages, always start off with one page, but if you know it's going to be an 8-page document, go ahead and dial that in here. That's up to you.
If you know that your document is going to start on page 16, you can go ahead and type that here if you want. You should tell InDesign, whether this document is a Facing Pages document, or a Single-sided document. For example, if you're making a book that has a left-hand page, and a right-hand page, then you probably want to have Facing Pages turned on; magazines, anything that has a left- and right-hand page where they're facing each other, you probably want that turned on. If you're just making one-page ads, something like that, then go ahead and leave that turned off. In this case, I'm going to leave it turned on, and I'm also going to leave off the Master text frame checkbox.
The Master text frame checkbox is kind of a hold-over from the Old QuarkXPress days. QuarkXPress had a feature called Automatic Text Box. InDesign wanted to make something similar, and so Adobe added this feature called Master text frame, and all it does is it adds text frame to your master pages automatically for you. And in InDesign, you typically don't need that. I'll be covering master pages, and text frames in a later chapter, but trust me, for now, you typically do not need InDesign to add these for you automatically. So, I usually leave that turned off.
I'm going to set this back to 1, starting on Page 1, and just a one page document. If I need to add pages, I can add them later. And I wanted to point out that if you've spent more than 30 seconds on this dialog box, getting the measurements just right, setting it up just the way you want, and so on, well, you're probably going to want to do another document in the future, which is similar to this or the same is this, so it's a good idea to take just a moment and save this as a Preset. Just click the Save Preset button, and give it a name. I'll call this David's 7 x 9 doc. You can call it anything you want.
I'll click OK, and you can see that it shows up here in the Document Preset popup menu right at the top. In fact, let's go ahead and cancel this and say we're starting over from scratch, a couple of days from now, we're going to go to File menu, choose New, choose Document, up comes the New Document dialog box, and you can see that there's my Preset from the Document Preset popup menu. I can select that, and it fills out all of the rest of this. So, I don't have to worry about it. I don't need to go in there, and make sure it's correct. I know it's correct, because it was when I made my Preset. So that's very, very handy. Now, I'll click OK, and you can see that the document is just dandy.
It's just what the doctor ordered, but you know, sometimes you'll do that. You'll set up a new document, you'll create it, and then you'll look at it and you'll say that's not what I wanted. I wanted this to be Portrait, not Landscape. Well, don't panic. It's not the end of the world. All the changes that you've made inside that New Document dialog box can be updated, they can be changed in an already existing document. For example, if I did want to change this to Portrait instead, I would go to the File menu, and choose Document Setup. Document Setup lets me change a lot of those features that were in the New Document dialog box.
Note that it will not let me change the Document Intent. It's still set to Print. It will not let me automatically add a new Master text frame. I don't care. I'm not going to use one anyway. But it will let me change things like the Page Size, and the Orientation. Let's go ahead and change that to Portrait instead. It'll also let me change my Bleed and Slug settings, which again I'll cover in a later chapter. You'll notice that it does not show me the Column and Margin guides. That's interesting. You can still change those, you just don't do it in this dialog box. You do it in a different dialog box and I'll cover that in a movie later in this chapter as well.
But in general, you get the idea here that you can change all these values right in here. Let's go ahead and click OK, and you can see that I've changed this already existing document to Portrait instead. You know making a new document with the proper settings is the first step in creating a strong foundation for your publication. In the next few movies, I'll cover many other settings that you should pay attention to when building your documents.


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Thanks to generous donations, the department awards renewable $1,000 fellowships to newly admitted, full-time freshman students with declared majors in History (LEC), Public History, Secondary Education, History, or Social Studies (with History minor option). A minimum 3.5 high school GPA is required at the time of application. The scholarship is renewable for up to four years provided that the student's cumulative GPA does not drop below 3.5 and they maintain full-time status as majors in the Department of History.
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The History Undergraduate Fellows grant program funds undergraduate history majors and minors who engage in scholarly activities outside the classroom and/or who pursue opportunities that advance their professional goals as historians. Grants ranging from $50-$500 are awarded to further research, encourage internship or volunteer experiences, defray the cost of travel to a scholarly conference, or in support of other scholarly or professional activities in history. Applicants must submit an application form, a resume, transcript, a brief statement describing the project, a proposed budget, and a statement of support from a faculty mentor. Applications are due on November 15 for projects taking place in the Spring Semester, and on April 1 for projects taking place in Summer I and II and Fall Semesters. More information.
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Dr. Peter Schmitt taught for 43 years in the Department of History at WMU and he valued nontraditional learning experiences that explored the natural world, the built environment and human ingenuity. The friends and family of Dr. Schmitt created this endowment fund as a legacy to him. Fund grants of up to $500 will support varied learning experiences that enhance awareness, understanding and knowledge of the interconnectedness of history with the arts and the natural world. It would include but not be limited to participating in short courses in art or architectural history, in field biology learning experiences, in workshops in historic preservation or traditional crafts, in retreat experiences that emphasize an understanding of the natural world, or in other activities that promote personal insight into the interrelationships between people and their environments, especially in historical contexts. All members of the WMU community including emeriti and alumni are eligible for support from this fund.
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Stephen and Jean Kendrick of Rensselaer, Missouri, happily announce the engagement of their daughter, Melissa, to Jack William Sharkey, son of Jack and Gail Sharkey, all of Taylor, Mo.
Miss Kendrick, a 1995 graduate of Monroe City High School, graduated from Truman State University in 1999 with a B.A. in English and received a M.A.E. in Elementary Education in 2000. She is currently employed as a fourth grade teacher at Monroe City Elementary in Monroe City, Missouri.
The prospective groom, a 1997 graduate of Palmyra High School, attended Houston Universal Technical Institute, receiving ASE certification in diesel mechanics in 2001. He currently works on the family farm.
The couple plans to be married June 21, 2013, in a private ceremony on the groom's family's farm. A reception for friends and family will be held in Quincy later in the evening. They plan to make their home in rural Taylor following a brief honeymoon trip.
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"Marriage is starting to look good on you."That's what Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) says to Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) in the Season 8 finale of Fox's Bones when he notices Brennan looking longingly at a picture of Booth's newlywed mother. But has Brennan really changed her mind about marriage?Spoilers! Get scoop on 39 must-watch finalesBooth has always maintained that he will wait for Brennan to propose to him. But despite Booth's latest observation, Brennan suggests he shouldn't hold his breath. "Nobody can guarantee how they're going to feel about someone 10 years from now," she says. "Recent research suggests that cycles of attraction might run as few as four years. ... I love you Booth. Isn't that enough?"Check out 12 bubble shows we hope get renewedDoth the lady protest too much? Booth seems to think so. Watch an exclusive sneak peek at the finale below to see why Booth believes Brennan has "an unconscious desire" to get hitched. Do you think, after another scary run-in with serial killer Christopher Pelant (guest star Andrew Leeds), Brennan will pop the question?Bones' Season 8 finale airs Monday at 8/7c on Fox.
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The Atomic City Aquatic Club recently wrapped up its 62nd short-course season with three prestigious events — the Eastern Section Southern Zone Age Group Championships in Greensboro, N.C.; the Spring Senior Championships in Nashville; and the National Club Swimming Association Junior National Swimming Championships in Orlando, Fla.
In the Age Group Championships — the top swimming event in the Southeastern region for swimmers 14 and under — ACAC swimmers bested their times in 21 of 39 races. Great performances were put in by Cameron Holcomb, Sydney Goodman, Stevie Logan and Colby Maupin. Both 10-and-under boys relays ended up in 11th place overall.
In the Senior Sectional Championships — the top swimming event in the Southeastern region for the older swimmers — five of nine races were for best times. Chandler Ott and Margaret Stansberry swam very well and both had drops in time.
In the Junior National Championships — a USA Swimming-sanctioned event that drew 1,790 elite swimmers and 911 total relays from 255 teams from across the entire country — best times were swam in four of 14 races. Kent Eldreth swam individual races, while Sam Schechter, Jonny Goss, Kent Eldreth, Jack O'Connor and J.T. Hinsley swam individual time trials.
The ACAC boys relays placed third out of the five teams represented from the Southeast in all four events for which they qualified, moving up places in seeding in all events. For a team to even have enough qualifiers to swim four of the relays was impressive enough. To place so well and move up seeds was even more impressive.
"The honor and importance of attending a national-level event like the Junior Nationals cannot be overstated," said coach Betsy Hondorf. "There were teams and swimmers from as far away as Washington state and California. The best of the best. Our boys have worked hard since August with this meet as their goal, and they did a tremendous job."
The results served as a prelude to bigger things to come.
Coach Mike Bowman said, "I'm so proud. Once again we had more swimmers make cuts to the higher-level events. Four of our six Junior National swimmers made it for the first time.
"Our seniors were outstanding. And our younger swimmers at the Age Group Championships gave us a sneak peek of Senior Sectional and Junior National swimmers of the future.
"We have a crew of eight-and-under youngsters steadily improving, and new swimmers joining all the time. The future of ACAC is bright, and I predict we'll be seeing even better results in the years to come."
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Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said Sunday that his team and the 49ers did, indeed, discuss the prospect of a trade of 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh to the Browns.
Harbaugh and 49ers CEO Jed York denied the initial report by ProFootballTalk.com. However, Haslam told the USA Today on Sunday there is something to the story.
"There was an opportunity there, and it didn't materialize," Haslam told USA Today.
The ProFootballTalk.com report said there was a deal in place for the Browns to surrender multiple draft picks for Harbaugh, with the deal being nixed by Harbaugh.
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|10' 6''
|Tested Weight
|2' 0''
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
|360 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
|30 gal.
|22 deg.
|Length on Trailer
|Max Headroom
|open boat
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
|8' 0''
|Trailer Weight
|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
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|Tested Power
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The Fountain 38 TE (Tournament Edition) Center Console Sport Fish certainly does all that, causing Team Fountain's fishing crew to dub it "the fishing beast." From the recommended triple Mercury 225
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The center console is a treasure to operate from. Switches and Gaffrig instrumentation, and controls are all easy to reach and have a clear flexible plastic cover to shed water away. The T-top has gra
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There are two fish boxes on either side of the boat for the keepers. These boxes hold up to 800 quarts and drain overboard. Storage and access hatches are crafted throughout the hull.
A Neat Selling Point
A stand-up head and shower are mounted under the center console for family outings. That's something you wouldn't think of for fishing, but sure makes it easier to sell it as a family boat when trying
Do you want to thrill your friends, terrorize the fish and have everyone trying to figure out what just passed them as if they were at anchor? If this kind of macho appeals to you, Fountain's 38 TE (Tournament Edition) Center Console Sport Fish can certainly fill these requirements. One of Team Fountain's fishing crew dubbed it "the fishing beast." After running my test boat through its paces, I understand where She gets the moniker. From the recommended triple Mercury 225 Optimax outboards to the large stable fishing platform forward, the 38 TE's built to bring in the trophy fish.
Before launching the 38 TE, I spotted the trademark design Fountain uses on its performance hulls. A deep 22.5-degree VEE with Super Ventilated Positive Lift hull design, notched transom and keel pad add Fountain characteristic speed and control. Measuring in at 37 feet 11 inches, this 38 footer seems more like 48 feet.
Moving from aft, around the center console forward and up to the fishing deck is safe and comfortable even for a big guy like me. High quality stainless steel bow rails surround the fishing deck. Pop-up cleats keep the surface clean underway leaving no toe stubbers when moving about. The anchor well is very sturdy and easily handled my full weight without bowing or creaking under pressure. Large cutout steps lead up to the fishing deck making it much safer going up to the deck with your gear or coming down with the big fish. Movement of the deck was very stable even in the 15 to 20 knot breeze we tested in.
Stepping down you find four fish boxes for the keepers (two running down each side). These boxes hold up to 800 quarts and drain overboard. Storage and access hatches are crafted into the hull throughout. A forward facing double seat is carved into the front of the center console with a 25-quart cooler below. Under the gunnels are provisions to store six rods. Our test boat also stored the optional swim ladder under the starboard gunnel. The gunnels sport pop-up cleats, dock line hawsers, and rod holders.
Underneath the large fishing platform up front is a large V-berth and much more storage for extra gear. The V-berth easily sleeps two adults, stores up to eight rods in the storage area below the berths and is lit with florescent lights. Our test boat also had optional fans which really are handy when you get a little too much sun waiting on the big ones!
The center console was a treasure to operate from. A pre-wired electronics box is standard. The test boat was outfitted with integrated electronics including radar, GPS and more. Switches and controls were all easy to reach and had an additional clear plastic flexible cover to shed water away. The T-top had grab bars for the riders, cup holders and a glove box. The Gaffrig instrumentation was installed for the pilot to work from the port side. A tilt wheel and drop-away helm seats with molded in footrests made operation at any speed very comfortable. The T-top had a canvas cover to keep the sun or rain out. Fountain listened to the fishing crew when they considered mounting the rod holders and lights on the back line of the T-top. The two out-board rod holders were angled so you were less likely to tangle lines with the inboard four rods!
A stand-up head and shower are mounted under the center console for family outings. That's something you wouldn't think of for fishing, but sure makes it easier to sell it as a family boat when trying to convince the spouse you really need this boat!
Access to the batteries and other bilge components was easy through the large stern access in the deck. A 50-gallon circulating livewell is mounted centerline of the stern and serves as additional seating when closed. A sink with pressurized water is mounted under a cover on the port side. Adding oil for the engines is a snap using the access ports mounted next to the sink. A walk-through transom door on the portside makes getting on and off the boat safe and also provides convenient access to the triple Optimaxes. The optional swim ladder slides into place one-handed using a slotted mount on the port side. Pressurized water connections for wash-down with fresh water or raw water are also provided.
I really had fun running this boat through the paces. She got onto plane in an average of 5 seconds and was at best cruise at 3000 rpm. At best cruise I can expect to get 1.74 miles per gallon and a range of 565 miles using up all of the 360 gallons from the tank. I reached a top speed of 65.4 mph with a crew of four, a nearly full tank and strong breeze. At this speed I can expect to still get an incredible 329 miles on a full tank of fuel! Noise levels were very comfortable with best cruise at only 86 dBa.
Thirty items top the list of standard items for Fountain's 38 TE. Another 24 items are on the list of enticing optional items.
If you are trying to get to the fish first, be comfortable and stylish underway or while sitting still and have the power and control of a real speed boat, you might take a long look at Fountain's 38 Tournament Edition.
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|Head: Fixed
|Power Steering
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|Washdown: Raw Water
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Volume 21, Issue 4, November 1982
Auger and photoelectron line energy relationships in aluminum–oxygen and silicon–oxygen compounds21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571870View Description Hide Description
Silicon–oxygen and aluminum–oxygen compounds exhibit significant XPS Auger and photoelectron chemical shifts that are accurately measurable. Chemical state plots of K L L Auger kinetic energy versus 2p photoelectron energy permit identification of chemical species from the locations of their points on the plots. The K L L Auger electrons of Al and Si were generated by the bremsstrahlung component of the radiation, with conventional instrumentation. The location of points on the plots can be understood on the basis of polarizability of the environment (on the Auger parameter grid of lines, slope +1) and on the basis of the factors contributing to the energy of the final state ion in the Auger transition (a grid of line, slope −1). Tetrahedral aluminum has a significantly smaller Auger parameter than octahedral aluminum, and this difference is repeated, but with reduced magnitude on the similar plots for silicon and oxygen lines for the same compounds. Otherwise, the Auger parameters for this class of compounds are remarkably uniform. The Auger parameter values for oxygen and sodium in these compounds, using the 1s and K L L lines, are relatively small compared to those of other compounds of oxygen and sodium. For compounds of similar Auger parameter, differences in Auger final state ion energy are interpretable on the basis of electron density on aluminum and silicon atoms in the initial state, due to extent of bonding to oxygen, or to amount of negative formal charge on the silicate structure. Inclusion of tetrahedral aluminum enhances the negative charge and decreases the final state ion energy in high alumina zeolites. The difference between the energies of the O1s and Si2p lines in the inorganic siliconcompounds is almost invariant, 429.0 to 429.6 eV. The three siliconpolymers examined have a significantly larger line difference, 429.8 to 430.1 eV, making possible a differentiation between silicones and silicates. The oxygen K V V lines, with Auger transition final vacancies in valence levels, have shapes characteristic of chemical structure. The uncharged Si–O–Si structure exhibits a well‐defined shoulder; in Al–O–Si the shoulder is so close in energy it merely gives rise to asymmetry in the peak; Al–O–Al and charged Si–O–Si give oxygen K V V lines as single sharp peaks.
Chlorine and hydrogen chloride on clean and oxygen‐covered Fe(100): Bonding and reactions21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571871View Description Hide Description
An ASED molecular orbital study of the binding, structures, and reactions of Cl, Cl2, HCl, and HCl+O on 4–21 atom clusters in the Fe(100) structure has been made. Cl2bondsdissociatively (as seen by Dowben and Jones in LEED and TDS studies). Coverage is limited by σ* p repulsions; orbitals of this symmetry are occupied by electron donation from iron. We find Cl favors onefold and twofold sites and discuss this unexpected result with perturbation theory. It is suggested that with decreased backbonding from iron to Cl the fourfold site can become favored. There is an absence of experimental or theoretical evidence supporting orbital reoccupations to favor the high‐coordinate site. HCl dissociation is found to occur with a barrier on the surface that is roughly half the gas phase binding energy, leading to stable products. The HCl+O→Cl+OH reaction on the surface is found to be structure sensitive and the reasons are interpretable from molecular orbital theory.
Growth and surface properties of lanthanum hexaboride crystals21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571872View Description Hide Description
Single crystallanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) has been grown in a tammann furnace. In the furnace and at 1500 K, lanthanum (La) and boron (B) are melted in proportion to the stoichiometry mass ratio in 30–45 kg/cm2 argon atmosphere. When the diffusion time at 1500 K took less, the cubical crystal grew and when it took longer, the needlelike crystal grew. The crystal growing direction was 〈100〉 for both cases. From the etch‐pit observation, this crystal growth has been shown to be stratified along the direction 〈100〉 and therefore the periodic crystal growth has been certified. The height of remolded microprotrusion, which was formed on LaB6 emitter apex, was about 30 Å and the curvature radius was between 10 and 20 Å. The brightness (B) of the electron beam emitted from this remolded tip was about 1×101 1 A ⋅ cm− 2 ⋅ sr. This was unstable, however, because of the random walk of La atoms on the tip. Variation of the work function of platelike LaB6 tip takes a constant value beyond monolayer formation of O2 and H2 on the surface, respectively. Therefore, the LaB6 emitter is stable even in low quality of vacuum (10− 7–10− 8 Torr). Pyramidlike etch pit has about 30° dip angle. The etching degree defined to be the ratio of x/h was between three and four.
Si incorporation in Al x Ga1−x As grown by molecular beam epitaxy21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571873View Description Hide Description
The incorporation of Si in Al0.25Ga0.75As was studied as a function of Si cell temperature and substrate growth temperature. Within experimental error, the measured electron concentration was equal to the Si atomic concentration as determined by secondary ion mass spectroscopy. For substrate growth temperatures much above 650 °C, the Si concentration decreased with increasing substrate temperature. This is attributed to a possible decrease in the effective group V/III ratio and evaporation of Si. For Si cell temperatures above 1150 °C, stacking faults in the surface morphology indicated the initiation of Si precipitation.Electron mobilities at room temperature were between 1300 and 600 cm2/Vs, decreasing at higher doping levels. The donor activation energy was observed to increase as a function of both Si cell temperature and substrate growth temperature.
Influence of buffer thickness on the performance of GaAs field effect transistors prepared by molecular beam epitaxy21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571874View Description Hide Description
The influence of buffer thickness on the performance of GaAs metal semiconductorfield effect transistors prepared by molecular beam epitaxy is investigated. Little or no looping or light dependence and good transconductances are obtained for devices with buffer thicknesses of 1 μm and greater. For maximum drain saturation resistance and minimum molecular beam epitaxygrowth time, buffer thicknesses of 1 to 1.5 μm are indicated. The dependence of field effect transistor performance, as well as observed backgating effects on buffer thickness are attributed to improvements in the quality of both the buffer and active layers. In addition, preliminary results indicate that the saturation characteristics can be improved and looping reduced if the layers are grown at higher temperatures.
Clustering and second‐neighbor interactions in semiconductor alloys21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571875View Description Hide Description
The virtual‐crystal approximation in the framework of the tight‐binding method is extended to include interactions between unlike second‐nearest neighbors for semiconductor alloys. These interactions are determined by taking the experimentally observed bowing parameters of the energy gap as input information. Conclusions concerning the question of clustering are drawn and compared to experiment.
Large grain CdTe thin films on Sb–Bi alloy‐coated Ta substrates21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571876View Description Hide Description
Description is given of the preparation and structural properties of thin CdTefilmsdeposited on two Sb–Bi alloys with compositions of 60% and 70% by weight of Sb on Ta substrates, at temperatures just below that of the melting temperature of the alloys, 380° and 430 °C, respectively. The Sb–Bi alloy filmsgrow with an (003) preferential orientation that matches the (111) plane of CdTe, and are expected to provide low‐resistance Ohmic contacts to p‐type CdTe in solar cell applications. The grain size of the CdTefilms was about 2 μm when deposited at 350 °C on the 60% Sb alloy; after vacuum annealing of the depositedfilm for 10–15 h at 350 °C, the grain size of both the Sb–Bi film and of the CdTefilm increased to about 20 μm. With controlled conductivity, CdTefilmsdeposited in this way should make ideal solar cell components.
Deposition rate dependence of the critical optimization temperature for thin film properties: Evidence for the disordered area reevaporation mechanism21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571877View Description Hide Description
A wide variety of inorganic and organic vacuum‐deposited materials have previously been shown to exhibit sharply optimized properties when the condensation (substrate) temperatures T s are held in a very narrow range near 0.33 of the respective normal boiling points. The optimized properties include many electrical, photoelectrical, optical, and structural parameters, and the immediate cause has been shown to be singularities in the crystallite size and orientation in films formed at the critical temperature T 0. It has been proposed that the underlying mechanism of this critical optimization effect is a new process involving reevaporation of small well‐defined but d i s o r d e r e d (amorphous) areas of the film. This mechanism predicts an ∼7.5% change in T 0 for each decade change in deposition rate at typical rates. A definitive check of this prediction is in fact experimentally complicated, and none has previously been attempted. We report here a careful study of the deposition rate dependence of T 0 for a model material, metal‐free phthalocyanine (PC) (chosen because of its lack of stoichiometric complications). The experimental rate dependence of T 0 for PC (18±3 °C for a decade change in rate) is found to be in excellent agreement with the theoretical prediction (∼20 °C). This is good evidence for the disordered‐area reevaporation model. In addition, we discuss in detail the alternative possibility that only conventional surface diffusion factors are at work, and conclude that such mechanisms are not likely to be the explanation. Based on our confirmation of the rate dependence of T 0, we indicate how to calculate T 0 for any appropriate material and deposition rate. Finally, measurements on films whose initial layers were deposited at different values of T s from the bulk suggest that the disorder which is present for T s<T 0 is associated with difficulties in establishing the first fully crystalline layers of the film (probably because of the presence of the disordered areas); they also suggest that the shortcomings of filmsdeposited at T s>T 0 may arise during the later stages of deposition, perhaps because of excessive out‐of‐plane crystallite growth.
The effect of the atomic incident angle upon the microstructure of thick beryllium deposits produced by physical vapor deposition21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571878View Description Hide Description
Thick (1–3 mm) beryllium deposits were produced by physical vapor deposition on a carbon‐coated polished 4130 steel substrate at 400 °C and with rates of deposition from 0.1 to 0.3 mm/h. The deposit microstructure was examined by metallographic technique and the characteristics of the growing as well as fracture surfaces by scanning electron microscopy. The texture of the deposits was determined by x‐ray diffraction and correlated with the deposition parameters. The deposits have unique grain and crystalline texture characteristics. They consist of columnar grains with their major axis parallel to the direction of incident adatoms. The self‐shadowing mechanism was not observed to have a prevalent contribution to the development of the microstructure during the growing process. The deposits were found also to be highly oriented with the major axis of their columnar grains, corresponding to the [001] crystallographic direction and always pointing toward the evaporation source. Within the range of deposition parameters that have been analyzed, the deposition rate was shown to have an insignificant effect upon the microstructure and texture characteristics of the deposits.
A study of the sputtering of copper–nickel using a combination of techniques21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571879View Description Hide Description
Quantitative atom‐probe field‐ion microscopy (APFIM), x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS), and qualitative secondary ion mass spectrometry(SIMS) have been applied in a phenomenological study of the modification in surface composition of copper–nickel targets by low energy ion sputtering. In agreement with the bulk of previously reported studies, XPS and SIMS data suggest the preferential loss of copper. APFIM data have revealed that the immediate surface layers remain unchanged in composition while a nickel‐enriched layer is found immediately subsurface. This result is in accord with recent studies using ion scattering spectroscopy.
Effect of glow discharge treatment of substrates on parylene‐substrate adhesion21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571880View Description Hide Description
A detailed investigation of the effect of argon, oxygen, and methaneglow discharge(plasma)treatment of substrates on the adhesioncharacteristics of parylene polymer to a variety of substrates is reported. It is found that methaneglow dischargetreatment, which results in the deposition of a glow dischargepolymer of methane on the substrate surface, is most effective in improving the bonding strength of the parylene polymer, while the oxygen glow dischargetreatment which produces a hydrophilic substrate surface with no or insignificant polymerdeposition is detrimental to parylene adhesion. The effect of argon glow dischargetreatment may vary from true cleaning of the substrate surface to deposition of a thin layer of a polymeric coating produced by the simultaneous glow discharge polymerization of the ablated organic materials existing in the reactor and may or may not improve parylene adhesion. These results are supported by the Auger electron spectroscopy and contact angle measurements of the glowdischarge‐treatedsurfaces. Model studies using substrates of different surface free energies indicate that water‐resistant adhesion of parylene polymer increases with the hydrophobicity of the substrate material and is in harmony with the above findings. From the viewpoint of adhesion the most advantageous and dependable effect is obtained with the methaneplasma treatment. The treatment results not only in the formation of a more compatible, hydrophobicsurface but also produces radical sites for covalent bonding with the parylene.
Electron‐beam lithography three‐mark silicon automatic registration and its capabilities for process distortion compensation21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571881View Description Hide Description
Submicron e‐beam lithography requires that successive levels be accurately registered to each previously processed pattern on a wafer. Using a Perkin–Elmer manufacturing electron‐beam exposure system (MEBES)R, we estimate the ability of an automated three‐mark registration system to correct for distortion created by typical silicon processing. The results show that this registration system is capable of tracking process‐induced distortions typically to within 0.15 μm everywhere on 64‐mm‐diam silicon wafers.
Mask fabrication for VLSI using an electron beam exposure system21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571852View Description Hide Description
This study describes the results of feature size distribution, pattern location accuracy, and level‐to‐level registration error on chrome master masks fabricated by an Ee−BES‐40 electron beam exposure system. The system has the capability of high speed electron beam blanking at 40 MHz, the capacity for large size masks (with 6 in. mask cassettes), and an automatic cassette handling system. OEBR‐100 (PGMA), as the electron beam negative resist, is used for 5 and 6 in. chrome masks. Both wet processing and dry plasma technology are used for chrome etching. Test patterns and 64 K DRAM TEG, as the practical pattern, are used in this study. More than 40 measurements are taken, uniformly distributed over 96 and 112 mm squares, and the feature size distribution is measured by a laser interferometerx–y measuring system. Pattern location accuracy and level‐to‐level registration error are obtained using the Ee−BES‐40 quality assurance programs called market and plotmarket. market operates by scanning over the resist image of the test pattern, utilizing the normal fiducial mark location hardware. The following results are obtained: (1) Feature size distribution within the 6 in. mask: ±0.1 μm, (2) Level‐to‐level registration error: less than 0.1 μm. High quality masks with about 0.02 defects/cm2, and rapid throughput of ten masks in 6 h using the automatic ten cassette handling system are obtained.
Intense‐pulsed plasma x‐ray sources for lithography: Mask damage effects21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571853View Description Hide Description
A characteristic of pulsed plasma sources is that each intense x‐ray pulse is of very short time duration, typically ∼1–100 ns. Thermal energy is thus deposited almost instantaneously into the x‐ray mask elements, and since the heat cannot be dissipated in such a short time, the potential exists for damaging the mask. A theoretical analysis has been carried out to examine such mask damage effects and their role in constraining key system parameters (e.g., throughput, resolution). It is shown that the timescale for interpulse cooling by heat conduction in a helium environment is adequate for source repetition rates up to a few hundred pulses per second. Thermal stress‐induced mask failure mechanisms are discussed. Finally, it is concluded that plasma x‐ray sources capable of being repetitively pulsed at rates >1 Hz appear to be promising candidates for high‐resolution, high‐throughput lithography.
Silicon nitride single‐layer x‐ray mask21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571854View Description Hide Description
In LP‐CVD process, preparation of silicon nitridefilm with small tensile stress and low refractive index was investigated as a function of deposition temperature and reactant gas ratio (SiH2Cl2/NH3). The small stress film with low refractive index can be prepared easily by high temperature deposition. Applying the film to an x‐ray mask membrane, a new silicon nitride single‐layer x‐ray mask with a large area window (such as 50 mm in diameter) and high transparency to visible light is realized. Using this mask, a submicron resist pattern (0.5 μm line and space) can be replicated easily by Si–K x‐ray exposure system.
Cryopump regeneration studies21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571855View Description Hide Description
A cryopump (APCI Model HV202‐8C) connected to a pump speed test dome was used to evaluate the time and effectiveness of its regeneration using alternate methods of purging and heating the pump. Regeneration effectiveness was determined by measuring the pumping speed and helium adsorption capacity of the charcoal after cool down. The pump was loaded with 8 g of water and 10 std.L of argon prior to regeneration. For all tested regeneration methods the helium speeds were within 80% of the maximum speed. Warm up and evacuation without extra heat or a purge followed by cooling can be done in 4 h and 15 min. Regeneration was accomplished in 2 h and 45 min using a heater on the outside of the housing and a nitrogen purge to bring the cryopump to 310 K, followed by evacuation with a mechanical pump to 100 mTorr without heat or purge, then closing the roughing valve and starting the cryopump. An initial water vaporpressure of 100 mTorr does not increase the cool‐down time compared to a lower starting pressure. Tests with other gases showed that argon and nitrogen have to be pumped below 20 mTorr and hydrogen and helium have to be pumped below 4 mTorr to avoid long delays in cool down.
A fail‐safe automatic vent control for Pfeiffer turbomolecular pumps21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571856View Description Hide Description
An inexpensive and easily constructed circuit is described which provides fail‐safe automatic venting of turbomolecular pumps regardless of the power shutdown mode. Using Pfeiffer TCF 101 vent control unit, shutdown of the turbomolecular pump will occur with automatic delayed pump venting initiated by a power failure, and with manual venting. This paper describes a circuit modification to add an additional mode, automatic delayed pump venting activated from the front panel on/off switch, to the vent control unit. The circuit requires no additional power supplies and mounts in existing space in the control unit.
An o‐ring‐sealed rotary feedthrough for UHV applications21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571857View Description Hide Description
A differentially pumped o‐ring‐sealed rotary feedthrough for ultrahigh vacuum applications is described. Its simplified design results in a significant reduction of machining requirements, compared to previous designs.
Guidelines for construction of low‐pressure gas manifolds21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571858View Description Hide Description
Expressions are obtained for the outflow pattern from the orifices of a gas manifold in the molecular flow regime. The example considered in detail is a section of tubing with identical holes equally spaced along the tube. The manifold is characterized by k, the number of holes, and n, a conductance ratio. Example of outflow patterns for various values of n and k are given. The quantity k n − 1 / 2 emerges as a figure of merit for uniform discharge. A simple experiment supports the usefulness of the model used.
Precision manipulator heating and cooling assembly compatible with sample transfer21(1982); http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.571859View Description Hide Description


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One of the globe's best loved boy bands, The Wanted, have announced details of their biggest tour to date, the Word Of Mouth World Tour 2014.
The Wanted release their third studio album, 'Word Of Mouth' on November 4th. The album promises to be a combination of classic pop as well as exploring new ground. 'Word Of Mouth' arguably features the most hit singles on any one pop album this year, including massive hit singles 'Chasing The Sun', 'I Found You', 'Walks Like Rihanna' and 'We Own The Night'.
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LYONS � One year ago Brad Tallent from Baton Rouge, La. and Austin Graham from Dayton, Tenn. met in Georgia on the Appalachian Trail. On Sunday evening, Oct. 6, they tented on the banks of the Erie Canal in Lyons. Brad and Austin are currently paddling their kayaks on the Erie Canal as part of their 5,000-mile journey from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico.
Austin and Brad celebrated Father�s Day, 2013, by launching their kayaks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. They began their long paddle at Cheticamp, Nova Scotia, on the Cape Breton Islands. They hope to arrive at their final destination, the Gulf of Mexico, by Christmas.
One day in an effort to capture predicted winds and hasten their journey, they mounted huge home- made sails on their kayaks. According to Brad, �That was not a brilliant move- when the winds suddenly caught us; we ended up over and under our kayaks�! They also have gained a new appreciation and respect of labels- just because the label says that the radio or camera is waterproof does not mean that it really is. Austin stated that he would advise future kayakers on the Erie Canal to �go with the flow� rather than fight the current. Brad mentioned that he was surprised how much he really, really missed his girlfriend!
When asked if they had any �ah- hah� moments in regard to the Erie Canal, Brad and Austin both expressed their awe relating to the following: a 150 year old double lock, so short and so shallow; the concept of locks opening and closing totally on water power; the apparent work ethic and craftsmanship involved in the digging and completion of the canal; the indescribable natural beauty along the canal banks; the awesome feeling of being a part of history, if only for a few days, while traveling the canal itself � the experience makes a person want to return and learn more.
Indeed, Brad and Austin are not traveling in a packet boat. Their trip is sponsored by Johnson Outdoors of Old Town, Maine. They are equipped with �Necky� Kayaks, �Extra Sport� life jackets, and �Carlisle� paddles. They drink a minimum 4 liters of water a day and carry provisions for 6-10 days. They tent or sleep �wherever�.
The Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the town of Nicolette, sleeping on the banks of the Richelieu River, hiking on the International Appalachian Trail, crossing Lake Champlain, entering the Flight of Five at Waterford, and kayaking the Erie Canal through the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge are all early chapters of the odyssey � yet to be completed is the Western Erie Canal, Lake Erie, the Michigan Peninsula, approaching Chicago, entering the Mississippi, and heading south to the Gulf of Mexico- all before ol� man winter begins to show his presence.
While celebrating Brad�s birthday and waiting out a huge rain storm at McDonald�s in Lyons, the �Gulf Odyssey Guys� were intrigued to hear about local history � crockery in Clyde, peppermint in Lyons, roses in Newark, Erie Canal stores and Mormon faith beginnings in Palmyra, and mills and tanneries in Macedon. Brad and Austin are part of a new fast growing group- state, national, and international long distance kayakers experiencing history on the Erie Canal.
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