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Peterson Winery
2010 2-4-6 Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
California: Sonoma County: Dry Creek Valley
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As evidenced by today's delicious offering, 2010 is shaping up to be a brilliant year for California Cabernet Sauvignon.
Our friends at Peterson Winery gave us special early access to their 2010 2-4-6 Cabernet Sauvignon, a wine so-named for its limited 246 case production. From its generous nose to the lush palate, this wine really embodies the essence of Dry Creek Valley Cabernet.
In the 6 years that we've been showcasing their wines, Peterson Winery has become one of our very favorites. In fact, it is difficult to find a winery whom we have featured with more frequency. Fred Peterson (grower) and Jamie Peterson (Fred's son and winemaker) make a formidable team, crafting wines that are so consistently delicious and superb.
Drinking beautifully, now, we'd also recommend that you hold a few bottles for the next several years. This wine will continue to improve and evolve. Decant today's delicious Cabernet for optimal results.
Tasting Profile
Dark and foreboding with beautiful dark cherry juice hues. A weightiness in the glass gives clues to what is to come on the palate.
Quintessential Cabernet with cassis, leather, plum, dried herbs, steeped Bing cherry, cola, oak and soft cedar notes.
Flavors almost perfectly mirror the nose, with the added delightful flavors of blackberry and blueberry compote.
Exceptionally long with plush tannin and pronounced juicy, dark fruits that slowly give way to subtle spice.
This wine begs to be paired with a bone-in ribeye syteak with a dollop of bleu cheese. Serve on a sizzling plate and you'll be the hero of the evening.
What the Winery Says
Tasting Notes
The complex nose releases layers of dark, ripe fruit with hints of dried herbs, eucalyptus and forest floor with just a whisper of floral. A full, round entry reveals lush black cherry, plum and currant wrapped in spicy cedar and a mineral essence. Chewy tannins appear midpalate along with note of fine herbs, dried strawberry, tobacco and a hint of cocoa.
This savory Cab will pair beautifully with classic dishes like Beef Wellington, as well as weekday fare such as Shepherd's pie or your favorite stew.
Jamie Peterson's Vintaged View & Vineyard Notes
By blending grapes from selected blocks in two prime Northern Dry Creek Valley hillside vineyards, we produced this easy-going style of Cabernet Sauvignon. Made in the same manner as our mountain Cabernet, but aged in older, more neutral barrels, this is a haveyour-cake and eat-it-too wine. With ample acidity, balanced tannin and moderate alcohol, this Cabernet should cellar well for 6-8 years and develop beautiful bottle bouquet to complement the fruit forward quality that makes it so delicious in its youth.
Technical Data
- Composition
- 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
- Appellation
- Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County
- Harvest Dates
- Sept. 29, Oct. 4 & 8
- Alcohol
- 13.8%
- pH
- 3.7
- 0.64g/100ml
- Barrel Aging
- 22 months
- Type of Oak
- 100% neutral, 4-8 year-old French oak barrels
- Bottled
- July 18, 2012 (unfined & unfiltered)
- Production
- 246 cases
- Release Date
- January 2013
2010 2 • 4 • 6 CAB Dry Creek Valley
About the Winery
Peterson Winery is located on Dry Creek Road just north of Healdsburg, in the famous Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma County, California. For those of you who aren't familiar with the geography of Northern California, Healdsburg and the Dry Creek Valley are about 75 miles north of San Francisco, and 15 miles from the Pacific Ocean coastline.
Peterson Winery grew out of the vineyards that now supply it with grapes. That may seem unusual, but our background is not just in winemaking, but also in grape growing, or viticulture. For us, making great wine is about the grapes – where and how they were grown, what the weather conditions were, and how the vineyards were managed during the growing season.
Winemaker Jamie Peterson
I've been helping my father at the winery since I was 12, back to the days of labeling each bottle by hand (watch out for those mid-1990's crooked labels…). I actually grew up in the vineyards and cellar. I worked two harvests here at the winery in 2000 and 2001, the 2001 harvests Down Under in Australia at Lowe Family Winery and then in New Zealand, at Ngatarawa Winery. With this solid base of experience, much to my excitement I was given the opportunity of taking over winemaking duties at Peterson Winery in June 2002, and I've been loving it ever since.
Overseeing the quality of the wine from when the grapes come in all the way through to the bottle is my main responsibility and priority. Since it's a pretty small staff here this keeps me pretty busy, but when I'm not checking up on barrels or wrestling with the bottling equipment, you can often find me at one of the numerous tasting events we attend, whether it is for charity or for the love of wine.
My winemaking philosophy follows that of my father- great wine is about place, and time/vintage, not about how much the winemaker can change a wine to suit a certain style. I continue a low tech/high touch approach here, with the only major changes from the methods of my father being sanitation practices (use of steam cleaning for water conservation, etc.) and an adoption of a "gravity-flow" handling of the fruit.
Vineyard Notes
The grapes for Peterson wines are grown in small, traditionally farmed vineyards, primarily in the Dry Creek Valley. Though each vintage varies from year to year due to weather factors, the vineyard locations remain the same. And since all Peterson wines originate from the same small plantings, there is a true consistency of place that is reflected in our wines.
Making great wines is all about balance.
It starts in the vineyards, where we try to achieve a balance from bud break in the spring until the grapes are picked in the fall. Balancing the canopy, the crop load, the sun exposure, the hang time, and the hundred other details involved in managing a vineyard are what need to be considered to achieve balance.
Once the grapes are picked, it is then the winemaker's responsibility to continue the balancing act in the cellar. All the variables that Mother Nature gave us during the growing season need to be considered because they affect the grapes and the approach to winemaking for that vintage. If you keep a good handle on the growing conditions of the season, you have fewer preconceived notions of what the wine should taste like because you've already been dealing with all the realities of that vintage.
At Peterson Winery we practice the philosophy of Zero Manipulation.
Our definition of Zero Manipulation is using the gentlest winemaking techniques possible to maximize flavors, aromatics and the original essence of the wine. The less you do in the course of a wine's tenure in the cellar, the more of the grape's and vineyard's essence you'll have to bottle.


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This is gonna replace CD's soon; guess I'll have to buy the White Album again. — Agent Kay, "Men in Black"
One of the ideas that has been relatively unexamined pertaining to the purchasing and pricing of scholarly content is the notion that publishers should no longer engage in "double-dipping" — that is, charge once for something, not twice, and never again. This is stated especially as regards open access (OA) articles in hybrid journals, but also is reflected in the preference some have for the CC-BY license.
SPARC Europe defines double-dipping thusly:
The term "Double Dipping" is used because publishers receive money twice: the subs[c]riptions are still paid by the universities and authors pay for Open Access
Peter Suber has complained that double-dipping isn't prohibited by RCUK policies regarding Gold OA, and the fact that the policy allows it:
. . . is a waste of taxpayer money and a giveaway to bad actors.
But does double-dipping really make you a "bad actor"? Is it really a waste of money? Or is double-dipping merely what content businesses do? Does it make things affordable? Could it be that OA publishers themselves double-dip?
In the "no double-dipping" theory of hybrid OA journals, publishers who have 5% of their content published as Gold OA should reduce their subscription prices by 5%. Otherwise, they are double-dipping. For instance, here is Elsevier's policy on double-dipping:
Elsevier amends its journal list prices to account for each and every sponsored open access article. Our subscription customers are not charged for open access articles – we do not doubledip.
While the concept of "no double-dipping" has obvious charm and a feeling of fairness, the real world poses challenges both to its utility and to its fairness in practice.
UTILITY PROBLEM — The "one to many" problem. The asymmetry between the subscription model (where many readers pay for content) and the Gold OA model (where an author pays once) creates a mathematical problem around "double dipping" constraints. Gold OA is predicated on the notion that an author can pay an APC once, and the article is free from that point forward. If the article is also published under a CC-BY license, the opportunity for secondary revenues based on selling the content to secondary markets is reduced even further, theoretically to zero. For argument's sake, let's say one publisher's Gold OA fee is $1,500. Then, let's say that publisher publishes 5% of the articles in a hybrid journal as OA articles, publishes 500 articles in that journal in total, and has to decrease the price of each of its site licenses by 5% to avoid the perception of double-dipping. And let's say this publisher has 2,000 site licenses, which it sells for an average price of $750 each. Based on this math, the publisher makes $37,500 in APCs, but has to eat $75,000 in site license discounts to avoid double-dipping. The net loss to the publisher? $37,500. This is the problem of counting one article transaction against multiple licensing transactions — each license benefits from the reduced fee, but the publisher only receives the fee once.
UTILITY PROBLEM — Too many moving parts. Now, in the scenario above, presumably the publisher could discount the site license by only 2.5%, but this isn't likely to satisfy librarians watching for double-dipping, especially if the publisher had also planned a 7% price increase and then tries to argue that it only increased price by 4.5%. There is likely to be a backlash if the discount rate doesn't match the percentage published as OA. There are just too many moving pieces in pricing to isolate the influence of hybrid OA inside a pricing This becomes even more difficult when you include the wildcards of bundling and negotiations.
UTILITY/FAIRNESS PROBLEM — The effect on APCs. Let's assume that despite all this complexity, somehow a "no double-dipping" approach becomes workable. A publisher is going to have a rational reaction — keep revenues up or increasing slightly, and look for another way in the same model to find more money. The most immediate option is then to increase the fee for the related Gold OA. Hence, "no double-dipping" creates upward pressures on OA fees. This makes the benefits of enforcing a "no double-dipping" policy unclear.
FAIRNESS PROBLEM — The deeper-dip at larger institutions. If we assume that Gold OA APCs have to increase in order to support not only the discounting required in a "no double-dipping" world, but also to support some share of normal annual price increases, we should begin to see more regular upward pricing dynamics in APCs — after all, why not increase prices elsewhere to avoid controversy? If APCs rise, who will pay for this? For good logical reasons — they publish more research, namely — larger institutions are most likely to pay the lion's share of Gold OA APCs, shifting more costs to them, making them effectively the subsidizers of discounts across the board. The double-dip turns out to be an industry-wide deeper-dip into the coffers of larger institutions, and a de facto subsidy to smaller institutions.
FAIRNESS PROBLEM — Fully OA publishers are allowed to double-dip. While subscription publishers are reminded not to double-dip when they publish a hybrid OA journal, OA publishers are not reprimanded about double-dipping with APCs and institutional memberships. At BioMed Central, institutional and corporate members receive discounts, but there is no guarantee their membership fees will be recouped through these discounts. The risk is shifted to the institutions as soon as the membership is paid — will you get your money's worth? There is no mention of refunds for unused funds, which means BioMed Central is essentially double-dipping — taking money from authors and institutions, and keeping any unclaimed funding it receives from institutions. It is the OA version of the double-dip. At PLoS, researchers at member institutions receive a 10% discount on PLoS APCs. Again, there is no guarantee that all the money will be utilized through discounts. If there were a true dedication to no double-dipping at BMC or PLoS, you would think that any funds not used in the discounting — which is ostensibly an incentive to authors at the sponsoring institution — would be refunded to the institution. Otherwise, BMC and PLoS are living off the margins (the unused discounts), which is equivalent to double-dipping — making institutions pay for OA when they shouldn't have to.
UTILITY PROBLEM — "No double-dipping" drives up prices. The double-dipping concept gets to one of the fundamental truths of content businesses, which is that a key survival technique is to sell the same content multiple times, but at lower prices in each instance than you could if you didn't have other outlets. Not only does this help lower prices for various participants in the content marketplace, but it also protects publishers from dramatic shifts in single segments because these can be offset by dynamism elsewhere. Selling a movie in theatres, via DVD, on demand, via a tie-in book, and as a collector's box set is not "double-dipping" — it is a sales technique that allows customers to differentiate what they want to buy, creates affordable prices at every sales point, and ensures enough funds for the next project. Selling filtered and refined scholarly content to relevant users, to licensing entities, to businesses, to information services, and to sell the audience's attention via advertising is all about selling the same content multiple times — and it makes each piece viable if done correctly. Refusing to allow multiple instances or methods of commercial gain only puts more pressure on those that are allowed, driving prices up accordingly. The "no double-dipping" theory and the CC-BY license both stifle revenue diversification.
FAIRNESS PROBLEM — Publishers can't "double-dip" fees but institutions can "triple-dip" the value out of subscriptions. One fundamental change with the IP-based site license was that all the value of a large institution's content access suddenly went through the library budget. Departmental subscriptions withered away quite quickly. Add in proxy server access, and the institutional site license also helped erode personal subscriptions and began to whittle away at membership dues as well. In essence, the site license is "triple-dipping" in value, and is itself a great example of how pricing pressures visit when business diversity is limited. Prices go up faster than inflation because the underlying diversified business is eroding at a rate higher than inflation, and the site license has to bear the parts of the business it is absorbing. Again, we have an asymmetry — the site license is absorbing all sorts of revenue opportunities for publishers and non-profit societies, yet there are efforts to decrease the ability of these entities to find new ways, including OA, to make up the difference.
UTILITY/FAIRNESS PROBLEM — "Double-dipping" lowers taxes. The government itself double-dips, and many times over. Taxpayers pay for taxes to fund national parks, but also pay admission fees. Taxpayers support bonds to build airports and their parking structures, but still have to pay parking fees even after the bonds have been repaid. The same goes for toll roads. Schools charge taxpayers various fees for their students to participate in athletics, musical programs, and other activities, despite the taxpayers having paid taxes to build the buildings, pay the teachers and coaches, and buy and fuel the buses. All these "double-dips" factor into the overall pricing (tax rates) and sense of fairness of the system. If there were no double-dipping, taxes would increase for everyone. Double-dipping in the scholarly space may be just another way of making sure taxes don't go up. For instance, it will be interesting to see how the UK government deals with the RCUK mandates, their effect on research funding, and their tax policies. I believe OA in the UK will lead to a general tax increase at some point unless other funding approaches come in to alleviate the funding diversion the RCUK mandate has created.
UTILITY PROBLEM — Even OA has carrying costs that require long-term payments to support. As I've noted elsewhere, online publishing certainly isn't free, and in the scholarly space, isn't cheap. Using one-time payments to support an ongoing online business creates a type of payment pyramid scheme — as costs rise, you need more payments to cover not only current costs but carrying costs for what you've done previously. This is why the bigger OA publishers have created membership options — they need the recurring, renewable revenues memberships can provide in order to attend to their infrastructure and keep APCs low. In essence, the long-term vitality of any content business requires some level of consistent support. If we want the OA literature to be around long enough to provide a meaningful archive, it needs a complementary source of support in addition to APCs.
FAIRNESS ISSUE — Academia itself double-dips. You don't have to look far to see double-dipping in science or academia:
- Tuition and fees, both charged to the same students.
- Multiple grants supporting the same research project.
- Universities taking grants from governments and philanthropies and keeping the patented IP that emerges.
Essentially, "double-dipping" is a pejorative term for risk mitigation strategies in a business model and for a clever system designed to create multiple entry points and overall affordability. Individually and locally, we can afford things we couldn't otherwise because all we're paying for is one of the many "dips" a content or other business is making in a market. The site license is more affordable because advertising, reprints, licensing, or other lines of business allow it to be priced well below what the site license alone would cost. The DVD is $14.99 because the box office receipts were so good, the on-demand revenues are strong, and the sequel (paying it forward) is being primed. We should recognize "double-dipping" for what it is — risk mitigation, price sensitivity, and market awareness — and not condemn it or make policies that have an unnecessary chilling or unanticipated rebound effects.
Given all this — the pressures that single-dipping could place on APC prices, on subscription prices, on institutional budgets, on taxpayers — it seems we may actually want to support reasonable "double-dipping." Done well, double-dipping makes things affordable.


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Homeschooling now a growing trend in mainland China
By Esther Teo,The Straits Times/ANN
September 23, 2013, 12:03 am TWN
BEIJING -- Back in her hometown in northern Shanxi province, little Liu Yanxiu used to struggle to finish her school homework, staying up till 11pm on some nights. But that heavy workload is now lifted off her little frame, with her days a lot less stressful.
After seeing her struggle for two years in the public education system, which is free up to junior high school, her parents enrolled her in a private "homeschool" earlier this year in Beijing opened by homeschooling dad Zhang Qiaofeng. This is despite the yearly fee of around 80,000 yuan (US$13,000).
At the Beijing Dragon Academy, which is actually the living room of Zhang's apartment, converted into a school and a reading corner, Yanxiu, eight, takes lessons such as English language and reading with her sole classmate, Zhang's son.
Zhang decided to share his teaching method with other parents last year after he started homeschooling his son, now eight, two years ago.
"I like going to school at home because there isn't that much homework. It's fun because we also get to go to the nearby parks to play," said Yanxiu who lives with Zhang's family.
Yanxiu is among an increasing number of children in China whose parents are eschewing public schools in favor of smaller-scale alternatives.
Frustrated with the rigid teaching methods, the slow pace of learning and a spate of student abuse scandals in the public schools, more Chinese parents are rethinking their children's education.
About 2,000 children are being homeschooled in areas such as Beijing, Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces, where mothers have largely taken on the role of educator, according to a report last month by non-governmental organisation 21st Century Education Research Institute. There are no comparable figures from previous years.
Though Illegal, Not Banned
Homeschooling is illegal in China under the 1986 compulsory education law. But the authorities seem to be going easy on the practice, with even the state media reporting on the rising trend as far back as 2005.
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Brunswick XC3 Table Tennis Table
Brunswick: Connecting generations through superior craftsmanship and innovation since 1845. With its sleek blue playing surface, sturdy black undercarriage, matching net and post set and top quality ball and paddle set, this high quality table tennis game will add flair to your recreation room and bring excitement to it as well. Built with quality craftsmanship, this highly styled table is designed for superb performance and playability. Its fold up capability allows for single play or convenient storage. This table is backed by Brunswick, the leading producer of game room products for over 168 years.
Table Tennis Features:
- Top color: Premium blue with white outlining
- Top material: 24 step roller coating process produces a high quality playing surface that will perform equally well for the beginner or the Olympic professional.
- Playing surface top: 16mm
- Product dimensions (unfolded): 60" (W) x 108" (L) x 30" (H)
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- Weight: 181 lbs.
- Frame (deck): Heavy gauge steel tubing – 20mm x 40mm, black powder coating
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- Legs: 30mm x 30mm, black powder coating, adjustable levers
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Dry and bright with sunny intervals. Frosty tonight.
A dry, bright and cold day with variable, often large amounts of cloud, but some breaks allowing some sunny spells to develop. Winds will be light. Maximum Temperature 5 °C.
A dry evening and night with only patchy cloud and some long clear spells. These will lead to a widespread sharp frost and some patchy freezing fog. Minimum Temperature -5 °C.
A dry bright day with most places remaining sunny. A few freezing fog patches may linger in low lying areas. Cold, with frost returning widely in the evening. Maximum Temperature 3 °C.
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Sunny, dry and rather cold.
After a frosty start, today will be fine and dry for most of us, with plenty of long sunny spells. It will be windy in the southwest, and there will be more cloud in parts of eastern England.
A cold cloudless night for many, will allow frost to develop widely, with some fog patches too. Thick cloud in south-west England and south Wales will curtail frost there.
After a frosty start, Scotland and northern England will have another dry, cold and bright day. However, it will be milder, but rather cloudy and grey further south and west.
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The next few days will see milder weather, with rain and strong winds at times, particularly in the north and west. South-east England is likely to stay dry until Thursday.
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It will be windy on Thursday, though southern and eastern parts will see a mostly dry day with some brightness later. However, further heavy rain will spread into northern and western counties later in the day, extending across most of the UK through Friday. South-eastern parts are likely to see only small amounts of rainfall but it will become significantly milder across the country with much less frost than recently. This milder, wetter and windier theme is likely to continue into the next week, but in general, the winds will be stronger and the rain will be heavier in the north-west of the UK, whereas south-eastern counties will stay drier and quieter on the whole. However, there are signs that it could perhaps become less unsettled later in the period.
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Microtechnology - Dry etching
Contrary to wet etching, that requires the immersion of the target in a gas, or more commonly in a liquid, dry etching consists in using plasma (partially ionized gases) to etch the target.
It is a more precise and controllable form of etching from the microtechnology point of view in a lot of cases, but also a more expensive one.
This page intends to introduce the principles and provides example of dry etching technics.
This page contains several parts:
- What is a plasma?
- Plasma Etching - PE
- Reactive Ion Etching - RIE
- Inductively Coupled Plasma - ICP & Deep Reactive Ion Etching - DRIE
- Ion Beam Etching - IBE
- O2 plasma stripper
- Examples of recipes and reactions
What is a plasma?
Dry etching can be associated with the use of a plasma. Before talking about the etching technics, we need to be clear about what a plasma is.
Gases are made of molecules with no linking force between them (by opposition to liquids, and even more to solids!). A gas naturally has a small ionization rate, this means a small quantity of ionized molecules compared to the total quantity of molecules in a given volume. These ions are created and ions recombines very fast inside the gas.
A plasma can be seen as a highly ionized gas, so that the global «cloud» has a neutral electric charge, but at a local scale, you can see electric charges for a not so short time.
This definition is not very academic, but it describes quite well what a plasma is. A ionized gas, so ionized that it local charges are large enough with a long enough lifetime to produce effects!
Schematics of a gas and its comparizon with plasma
There is several ways of producing a plasma from a gas. In every cases, it is a question of energy brought to the molecules. If you excite molecules with a high energy, the link between its components will break up, and ions will separate.
In microtechnology, plasmas are made either by increasing temperature, or by using electromagnetic excitation. In microtechnology's dry etching, this is the second method that is used.
Plasma is considered as a fourth state of matter. As the ionization is all but natural for the molecules forming the gas, it is chemically highly reactive. This makes plasma very interesting in microtechnology processing!
In the following sections, we will see the different ways plasma are used for dry etching.
Plama Etching - PE
As its name tells, Plasma Etching, that we will note more commonly PE, is done by ionizing a gas mix inside a chamber to obtain ions that will react with the target material.
Schematics of the principle of Plasma Etching (PE)
This video shows the complete plasma etching process (Xvid format).
The ionization of the gases is done by R.F. excitation emitted by an electrode at the top of the chamber. The target wafer is placed on an electrode connected to the ground. The pressure inside the chamber is in the range of a few mTorr to a few hundreds of mTorr. The random movement of the ions inside the chamber makes them reach the target and a chemical reaction etch the material.
Plasma etching makes highly isotropic etching.
The process depends, of course, on the chamber's geometry, that is not controllable. What the operator has to set as parameters are: gas flow, pressure and R.F. power.
As for every etching technics, the gases nature determine the efficiency and selectivity of the etching. This is the first point to choose when calibrating an etching recipe. An equilibrium between R.F. power and gas flow controls of the ionization rate of the gases, while a higher pressure increases the probability of ions to get in contact with the target material.
Also note that the gases flows control the rate at which products are evacuated from the chamber.
RIE is a variation of PE. The principle of etching device is almost the same, but this time, the chamber top electrode is connected to the ground and the wafer is placed on the excitation electrode. This makes a large difference...
Reactive Ion Etching - RIE
In RIE, the products are accelerated in the direction of the wafer. This has consequencies on the etching process, especially if you want a more anisotropic etching!
Schematics of RIE chamber
Since the wafer is connected to the R.F. signal instead of the ground in PE case, electrons are statistically more often in contact with the target than positive ions (they are far lighter!). Electrons are highly reactive species, so they are easily adsorbed by the target material, polarizing it negatively. In the same time, the loss of electrons in the plasma makes a global positive charge in the ions «cloud».
This produces an acceleration of the ions toward the wafer!
Schematics of the RIE effect
The first noticable effect is the apparition of another etching phenomena due to the ions velocity: physical etching! The layer molecules are stripped away by impact of ions on the wafer. Physical etching is characterized, of course, by a very low selectivity, but is highly anisotropic!
The second effect is that contrary to plasma etching, where ions move randomly above the target, in reactive ion etching, they have a higher probability to have a movement in the direction given by the electric field. This makes a tendancy to anisotropic etching.
Schematics of the physical and vertically directed chemical etching in RIE
RIE offers the possibility to set up anisotropic etching recipes. This depends on the type of material to etch. If it has a poor capacity to adsorb electrons and polarize, RIE produces the same effects as PE (not much difference). On the contrary, a material with a high capacity to adsorb electrons allows the calibration of highly anisotropic recipes.
Dielectric materials have a poor electron adsorption capacity, semiconductors a higher one. So, anisotropic etching recipes concern mainly silicon, polysilicon, composite materials, etc.
The difficulty of the calibration is an equilibrium to find so that the plasma provides a lot of electrons and ions, the electrons are adsorbed to the surface, ions etch the surface, but not too fast so that electrons have a long time enough to be adsorbed again (or you get an isotropic etching again!). Sometimes, the chemical reaction products must play a role in the process to enhance anisotropy.
Getting a high etching rate during an anisotropic etching is a not so easy task, and calibrating a recipe can need a lot of tries.
Compared to PE, RIE has a lot of advantages in term of anisotropy. Another kind of etching devices, more evolved, have been developed to get even higher anisotropy in etching process.
Inductively Coupled Plasma - ICP
& Deep Reactive Ion Etching - DRIE
Deep Reactive Ion Etching is an extension of Reactive Ion Etching to indicate that the etching is anisotropic and can be used to etch pattern very deeply in the substrate (as its name tells...)
In this technology, plasma is generated by a magnetic field, and densified by a second magnetic field generator. The objective is to reach a high ionization rate in the gases to enhance the RIE effect.
This is where we talk about Inductively Coupled Plasma, noted ICP.
Ion Beam Etching - IBE
Also called Ion Beam Milling, Ion Beam Etching is the extreme case of physical etching. It consists in using very high energy and a neutral gas (Argon) to make a pure physical etching of wafers.
Most of time, this is useful to etch metals and other materials that have tendancies to not react very well to chemical etching.
IBE is very efficient, and can etch almost anything. The counterpart is that physical etching is always done by ion bombardment, and this process generates heat, even more with a high energy. So IBE is very likely to burn a polymer mask, and etch any other material! The difficulty is to find an equilibrium between etching time, and temperature management.
IBE is rather anisotropic, but the problem is that you etch a large quantity of pure material, that has not reacted chemically, and is not volatile!
So, to avoid etched material molecules to redeposit on the target substrate, it is tilted, so that molecules have a tendancy to fall rather that redeposit!
Schematics of an IBE chamber during process
O2 plasma stripper
Completely opposed to ICP, another use of plasma etching can be seen through the study of the O2 plasma stripper.
Here, plasma is generated by microwaves, and the goal is to avoid any physical etching while keeping an efficient chemical etching.


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For the community of Colonial Beach, they are truly a ray sunshine. On Wednesday at the Drifterdome, the Colonial Beach Middle School girls basketball team accomplished the memorable feat of winning their third Northern Neck District Championship in row by defeating the Northumberland Indians, 46-25.
"We started out with a earthquake, and later at the beginning of school we had a hurricane that brought flash floods," Colonial Beach Elementary School Principal Julia Britt said. "This team kept our spirits up by consistently winning, and this championship was something for everyone to look forward too."
The Drifters withstood a potent Indian attack led by Rajaa Sheloazz, who scored 23 points, while scoring over 50% at
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On the winning side, the entire starting Drifter lineup consistently crashed both the offensive and defensive boards at will. On the floor, point guard Jordan McGuinnis, and forward Heather Parsons harassed the Indians with turnovers (steals), which lead to fast break opportunities. Drifters reaching the three digit game milestone were forward Deniya Newman (16 points), shooting guard Kenzie Cox (10 points), and center Meghan Seaman (10 points).
Elated over her first year, Drifters Middle School girls' head coach Marisa Jacobs said, "From the start to the final game the girls have had an awesome season. The last three years have been simply amazing. We had a lot of new girls that stepped up, complimented by new players that transferred in. I am really proud of them."
In the first quarter, the Drifters, led by two steals from McGinnis, opened the game with a 5-0 run. While Cox added four points from the mid-range area, Newman and Seaman combined for 11 points to extend the Drifter lead to 17-3 to end the quarter.
With the Drifter cheerleading team screaming from the bleachers, Newman blasted by opposing Indians with an additional seven points to increase their lead at half-time a 28-6.
In the third quarter, the Indians began to show signs of life as Sheloazz single handedly pushed the Drifters to the brink with steals, and deflections. She also recorded three trips to the foul line, while scoring a total of five points to cut the Drifter lead to 36-16.
Sheloazz's brave performance continued into the fourth quarter; however, it was not enough, as the Drifters withstood a Indian nine-point rally to score 10 points of their own. After an assist from Newman to Seaman for a lay-up, the game was over, and the Drifters accomplished a dream come true—a perfect 12-0 season, and their third district championship in a row.
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The Northern Neck District championship against the Washington & Lee Eagles was no walk in the park for the Drifters.
After the Drifters ran up a 4-0 lead to start the game, the Eagles responded with a 7-3 run. Eagle guard Alexia Wilson lead the charge with four points. At the end of the first quarter the visiting Eagles led 7-8.
The second quarter proved to be a clinic in defense for the host Drifters, as they controlled the offensive and defensive boards. The Drifters scored an additional 12 points courtesy of Seaman, Newman, Parsons, and Shelby Modlin.
In the third quarter the Drifters held the Eagles scoreless. Parsons was relentless as she aggressively stalked opposing Eagle ball handlers. Combined with Eagle turnovers, and stalling for time, the Drifters ended the quarter with a sizeable 25-13 lead.
In the final quarter, with the end in sight, the Drifters continued to suffocate the Eagles with scoring from both foul line and field. Forward Collie Sexton scored the Drifters final points with a jumper to win the game, 36-19.
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The DAC/AMP is cheaper for obvious reasons, but would it make a large difference if i bought them seperately? These are for my HD650s.
Should i get a DAC/AMP Combo or buy them seperately?
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Unless you know that the DAC and AMP in a combo are powered separately and isolated from one another you are almost always better off getting individual components.
If this is the case, then what AMP and DAC do you think would be suited to the hd650? My budget is very tight, $500 at most.
What source(s) are you going to be plugging everything into?
Is this for music only? or also movies? and gaming?
You should be able to find a good DAC/Amp combo for $200, but your welcome to spend $500.
These headphones are going to be almost completely dedicated to playing music, although i might watch a movie once in a while. For the source i'm using a Sony Walkman (Z-Series)
So you watch movies on your Sony Z series?
(as well as listen to music).
The Fiio E11 ($60) can easily drive 300-Ohm (HD650) headphones.
Not sure if you can even directly connect an external DAC to the Sony Z series USB port?
Or if the Sony Z series can stream digital audio thru the USB port? (I know it can transfer digital files).
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Bobbi Jo Kenyon said she knew at age 5 she wanted to be a teacher. Now, the Ottawa Hills High School biology teacher has been named the 2012 Michigan Teacher of the Year.
The Grand Rapids native has been a teacher in the Grand Rapids Public School system for 16 years. She was surprised at a school assembly May 17 when state Superintendent Mike Flanagan made the announcement.
"I was shocked when I realized what was happening," said Kenyon. "I am part of the instructional leadership team and was told the team was receiving an award. Then, Superintendent Flanagan said a special teacher was going to be honored. A fellow teacher nudged me and then I knew."
Kenyon has taught a mixture of math and science classes and developed a forensic science program used throughout the district. "The television program CSI was becoming very popular," she explained. "I wanted to help students better relate to science, so the school program shows how science relates to law and crime solving. It's been rewarding to see former students go on to pursue careers in pathology; one student accepted a position with the FBI forensic program."
Kenyon earned a master's degree in education from Grand Valley in 2002 and has stayed connected to the university. "I loved attending Grand Valley. I make a point to recommend Grand Valley to other teachers thinking about getting a master's," she said. "My classes were relevant, my professors were knowledgeable and the information I learned was usable."
Kenyon has hosted Woodrow Wilson Fellows from Grand Valley in her classroom as part of the Woodrow Wilson teaching program which helps future teachers gain real-world experience in the state's neediest schools.
She said she can't imagine doing anything else in life. "Teaching is not a job for me, but a way of life," she said. "My dad was a science teacher, and when I was little, I would set up classrooms to teach my family and friends about science. I love what I do."
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Twelve horse farms and one hay farm are being monitored for several soil, pasture and environmental parameters thought to be related to the MRLS outbreak of 2001. As of April 11, all farms have had 3 cycles of sampling completed. Forage samples are analyzed for fungal mycotoxins, alkaloids associated with tall fescue, cyanide and minerals. Soil samples are checked for populations of yeasts and molds.
Fungal mycotoxins: 116 samples have been submitted with 80 results returned. All data are below detectable limits.
Alkaloids associated with tall fescue: 192 samples submitted, 168 results returned. All levels are low and within normal ranges for early spring.
Cyanide associated with white clover: 84 submitted, 34 returned. Levels vary by field but are low and within normal ranges for early spring.
Forage mineral content (including nitrate): 76 submitted, 67 returned. All samples are within normal ranges for early spring.
Soil microbial count: Counts for yeasts and molds are variable but within a normally expected range.
Horses from these pastures have experienced no MRLS symptoms.
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Some farms have expressed an interest in taking forage samples to be analyzed only in the case of an MRLS event. This voluntary sampling would expand the number of farms for which monitoring data would be available, if needed. UK has developed a protocol for general pasture sampling and can be made available on request to Jimmy Henning, firstname.lastname@example.com or Wayne Long, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Tanzania: Hifadhi Ardhi Shinyanga (HASHI) Project
The Shinyanga region in the north of Tanzania is occupied mainly by the agropastoral Sukuma people. The Hifadhi Ardhi Shinyanga (HASHI) project, which means "soil conservation" in Kiswahili, is a government initiative under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. It has been instrumental in reviving the Sukuma people's traditional practice of conservation. Using indigenous knowledge, they are practising a natural resource management system called ngitili - a Sukuma word meaning enclosure. Traditionally ngitili were used to provide animal fodder for very young, old or sick animals unable to follow other animals to grazing lands. Involving the conservation of grazing and fodder lands by encouraging vegetation regeneration and tree planting, ngitili has proven to help protect the environment and improve the livelihoods of communities in the region. The Shinyanga region used to be extensively forested with dense woodland and bushland species. The traditional practice of ngitili was used by people in response to serious fodder shortages caused by the frequent droughts typical in semi-arid areas. The government relocation scheme, together with drought, over-grazing, cash crop cultivation, destruction of forests to wipe out tsetse fly and increased demand for fuel wood, began to reduce land productivity and increase deforestation and soil erosion. The Shinyanga landscape is now changing, thanks to farmers' enthusiasm for agroforestry.
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Skip to comments.Rush Limbaugh's 'slut' comment draws wrath of Staten Island's three female lawmakers
Posted on 03/02/2012 7:39:09 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island's female elected officials from both sides of the aisle are demanding that conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh "apologize to all women" for calling a Georgetown University Law student a "slut" on his program.
Limbaugh caused a national firestorm when he used the word after Sandra Fluke testified before Congress about the need for contraceptive coverage.
"What does it say about the college coed ... who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex?" Limbaugh said on Wednesday. "It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex."
He went on to suggest that Ms. Fluke distribute sex tapes of herself.
"If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it," he said. "We want you post the videos online so we can all watch."
The remarks brought swift, bi-partisan condemnation in Washington, with President Barack Obama, who called Ms. Fluke personally, and GOP House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), slamming Limbaugh.
The Island's elected women -- state Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn), Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-East Shore/Brooklyn) and City Councilwoman Debi Rose (D-North Shore) -- called Limbaugh's remarks "disgusting" and said they were made all the worse because March is Women's History Month.
"It does not matter if your hero is Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Thatcher," said Ms. Savino, "this is about treating women with dignity and respect. If Mr. Limbaugh cannot find it in his conscience to apologize, his fans and advertisers should demand that he does."
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I think this kind of thread ought to banned on FR. I've seen more of this crap than I want to see anymore.
So what
david letterman called sarah palin a slut, bill maher called sarah a slut, jerry brown called someone a whore...
Free contraception ... the new turd from the left.
A slut is as a slut does.
Sandra Fluke calls herself a slut on her own Facebook page so what is the big deal about Rush saying it?
Every time politicians take on Rush, they end up on the short end of the stick. When will they ever learn?
When will she be at the next SlutWalk protest?
If Ms Savino has any proof that Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Thatcher were in need of $3,000 worth of free contraceptives at any point in their lives, and demanded same, she can produce it. Until then, they have exactly zero in common with the Fluke chick.
Rush just told the truth, as 100% of the women in my family said.
Rush hit a nerve with the sluts.
David Letterman said that Sarah Palin is a slut in his top 10.
Rush needs not to get himself trapped in this. The left is purposely making the issue about sex (again), when it is about Obamacare and its demands on Churches to provide healthcare to its employees. A Constitutional issue.
And we should not get into this trap ourselves. I don't care about Fluke and her promiscuity, I care about what started the debate, the act of unconstitutionality.
What about all the names Sarah Palin was called?
Because it is a vitally important role in their service to their constituents on Staten Island, to spout their ignorant opinions concerning an arrogantly promiscuous sh!t disturber in DC.
First two days of the week:
Amid sky-high and rising fuel prices Obama's Energy Secretary admits the administration is working towards even higher gas prices, Obama apologizes to Islamics while our soldiers are being murdered by Islamic terrorist infiltrators in Afghanistan, and Santorum ties Romney in delegate count in Romney's home state of Michigan, while Romney claims his popular vote plurality there constitutes a "win".
Last three days of the week:
Rush insults all women, calls women that use contraceptives sluts, calls women who need reproductice medical care prostitutes.
Seems like Dave doesn't even know what slut means.
Three female lawmakers?
They're worried about Rush Limbaugh?? Don't they have other things to worry about like getting everyone's 250 dollar a month contraception free for every woman??
Please, the world needs your fight for contraception. Some people have to choose between food...or the pill. Help us.
He should have called her , the community punch board.
Last year the left and NOW embraced the "slut" label
situational ethics is all about politics
I remember Joan Rivers saying today they are all tramps. When the girl is right, she's right.
But don't let Rush say it.
I dont care who uses contraception..none of my business.
My point is
why do I have to pay for it! You can get FREE birth control at any planned parenthood place first of all. If this college bimbo wants to get laid but not knocked up then she'll just have to get the already free pills or BUY THEM YOURSELF YOU BIMBO. How much does she spend on make up? If she's THAT broke give up the makup and pay your own bills..This is all such a crock of sh*t , it really is . Just like Obama
I can't afford to shoot my guns at the target range as much as I want. I want leftists to pay for my ammo. Greedy leftist jerks!
Of course they didn't. I wouldn't put it past them to wander around their offices muttering that word and others they use for Sarah. The two Democrats are probably worse than the one Republican, but as we've found out NO NEW YORK politician can be trusted to be sane, honest or courageous.
Andrew Breitbart dies.
Ted Nugent endorses Romney.
Vladimir Putin vows to defend Christians.
I think the Constitution hangs in the balance, right now. Not trying to be be theatrical.
It is almost as if many of the focal areas of the Constitution such as speech, privacy and the role of government have come together in this one situation.
I see this as a Rubicon.
Well that actually makes a little sense. Guns are a Constitutional Right (so Government subsidies are not out of the question), and prophylactics are not.
"calls women that use contraceptives sluts"
Really? When did he do that? Not in the last 3 days, he hasn't!
This young woman has no respect for herself. Why should anyone else?
Boehner— SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH!!!
He should be kicked out of the speakers roll!
Jerry Brown called Meg Whitman a whore. But conservatives are not allowed to say the same. There is no free speech in America any longer. There is "selective" free speech. Liberals can say anything because it's considered free speech. Conservatives can only say certain things because then it's called hate speech.
The U.S. now has about 979,892 laws and regulations. Why in tarnation do we need to make more laws?
The Detroit News reported today that Quicken Loans and Sleep Number Beds have pulled their advertising on his show.
my dictionary defines slut as "a saucy girl"...The "B" involved here is far above saucy...
They will suffer the consequences, Rush will replace them in a heartbeat with other sponsors.
The dictionary defines the term as "a sexually unchaste woman". Rush should apologize only after Miss Fluke proves that she's not a sexually unchaste woman. I think the feminazis are going to be in for a very long wait.
Also, I think these lawmakers should apologize to all women for saying they or Miss Fluke represent "all women".
Lessse, February is black history month, now were in women's history month?
Do I dare ask what month April is?
White man history month? No, no that's just ugly and probably illegal.
How about homosexual appreciation month?
Pedophiles and teacher history month?
You're so full of crap it's coming out your eyeballs.
He insulted all unmarried women going to $65,000 a year schools who believe that their $9 a month contraceptives should be paid for by other people.
I take it all the women you know fit that description?
Or maybe you fit that description?
MSNBCs Crystal Ball (a Stripper's name) is leading a boycott of Rush's sponsors over birth control much like they went after Beck. She was on three shows tonight explaining it. Well unlike Beck (who I miss) who worked for a establishment Republican at FNC, Rush owns his own show and has no one person who can fire him. He is much longer established in his radio show than Beck at FNC.
The libs are doing everything they can to project that Rush is the head of the Republican party and to force Republicans to give an opinion on him. Well they shouldn't take the bait.
The Morning Joe Scarb this morning claimed that opposing these future Obama-care mandates is challenging settled issues from 1965.
Obama personally called the liberal Betsy Ross Sandra Fluke to thank her for her heroism and ask her if she was OK
Tonight the MSNBC drama fun was to bring on Sandra and playing video-cam clips of Rush to her and showing her reacting to it with them live. Priceless comedy drama
I am not a super fan of Rush but this is too much fun.
If these idiots want women to be treated with "respect", don't list Eleanor Roosevelt as a woman who was treated with respect. FDR cheated on her just as JFK did on Jack, Ted Kennedy did to Ethel, and Bill Clinton did to Hillary.
I don't recall hearing these cows say anything about the above, and never will.
Sandra Kay Fluke (born April 17, 1981)
Sandra Fluke's professional background in domestic violence and human trafficking began with Sanctuary for Families in New York City. There, she launched the agency's pilot Program Evaluation Initiative. While at Sanctuary, she co-founded the New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court, which after a twenty-year stalemate, successfully advocated for legislation granting access to civil orders of protection for unmarried victims of domestic violence, including LGBTQ victims and teens. Sandra was also a member of the Manhattan Borough President's Taskforce on Domestic Violence and numerous other New York City and New York State coalitions that successfully advocated for policy improvements impacting victims of domestic violence.
As the 2010 recipient of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Fran Kandel Public Interest Grant, she researched, wrote, and produced an instructional film on how to apply for a domestic violence restraining order in pro per. She has also interned with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking; Polaris Project; Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County; Break the Cycle; the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project; NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund; Crime Victim and Sexual Assault Services; and the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County.
Through Georgetown's clinic programs, Sandra has proposed legislation based on fact-finding in Kenya regarding child trafficking for domestic work, and has represented victims of domestic violence in protection order cases. Sandra is the Development Editor of the Journal of Gender and the Law, and served as the President of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and the Vice President of the Women's Legal Alliance. In her first year, she also co-founded a campus committee addressing human trafficking. Cornell University awarded her a B. S. in Policy Analysis & Management, as well as Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies in 2003.
#2....As far as Sleep Number Beds firing him: who in the hell ever heard of Sleep Number before they hired Rush? He no doubt put them on the map. And, I've heard him personally buy and give away 2 of those beds to callers, just like he did with the car he bought for that woman a couple of years ago. Those beds are not cheap....think they go for about a thousand bucks. That's OK..... it's their loss. Hope they have to go out of business.....
Apparently the democrat sluts are feeling picked on.
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Another Sackett book, The three brothers are commissioned by their ailing mother to discover what happened to their father. He disappeared in the CO mountains looking for a cache of French army gold ore 100 years old some 20 years back.
A member of his party had killed him before the elder Sackett would tell them where he'd hid the gold. 20 years later the same man follows Tell and attempts to murder him also. But he misses and Tell doesn't.
And he gets a new girl.
I don't get the fascination with gold. You can't eat it.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission has fined Google $25,000 for impeding an investigation into how the online search leader collected data while taking photos for its Street View mapping feature.
The FCC says, in a report from Friday, that Google Inc. deliberately impeded and delayed the investigation. It says the company did this by not responding to requests for information and documents.
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The written word in all its glory and complexity is the world of the student of English. Students may focus on either literature or writing, and those who love European culture before 1600 can explore KSC's new Medieval and Early Modern Studies program.
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Rounds of Snow to Hit Oregon; Needed Rain for California
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AccuWeather.com reports a storm will bring both slippery travel to the Northwest and needed moisture to the much of the West in general to end the week.
While winter has been in full swing across the eastern two-thirds of the nation since late November, the West Coast has had a hard time finding much in the way of extreme cold or snow. A change is already underway for the West.
A series of storm systems from the Pacific Ocean are forecast to succeed in reaching the California, Oregon and Washington coasts through this weekend and into next week.
Enough cold air will be in place to bring snow not only to the Sierra Nevada and Cascades, but also to areas along the coast in the Northwest.
The greatest amount of snow and rain will be focused from northern California to southern Washington border through the weekend.
Rounds of wintry precipitation will fall around Portland, Ore., into Sunday. Initially, snow will fall, but a transition to ice and later cold rain will occur over the weekend. There is the potential for a heavy amount of snow and ice.
Accompanying the snow will be strong winds from the east blowing out of the Columbia River Gorge as high pressure funnels cold air toward the coast.
Areas such as Troutdale, Multnomah Falls, Cascade Locks and Corbett, all in Oregon, will likely endure blizzard conditions and very difficult travel at times into Saturday.
Those expecting to travel on I-84 through the Gorge should be prepared for very hazardous conditions, such as blinding snow, whiteouts, extreme cold, road closures and the possibility of becoming stranded.
Enough snow to shovel and plow are forecast around The Dalles and Bend, Ore.
Similarly, those who will head south on I-5 will need to be ready for slippery and dangerous road conditions, especially when traveling through higher elevations south of Eugene.
The best chance of snow in Seattle, Wash., is Saturday night into Sunday. Dry air may hold the snow to the south on Saturday.
Snowfall in Portland will likely range from 3 to 6 inches into the weekend. In the Oregon Cascades, snowfall of several feet are forecast.
Much-Needed Rain, Snow to Reach California. Farther south into California, rounds of heavy rain and snow will fall into early next week.
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Student Fashions Raise Environmentalism's Style Profile
By Jon Reidel Article published April 26, 2005
Stevia Morton wanted to create a senior thesis that helped dispel the stereotypical image of environmentalists as poorly dressed hippies. For this to happen, she knew she had to attract the attention of people who might not otherwise pay attention to green issues.
The result — a fashion show with nine students modeling ecologically friendly clothes as a DJ spun discs at the Living/Learning fireplace lounge — seemed to do the trick. About 50 students and faculty attended the April 20 Earth Week event that in some ways was as culturally contradictory as Bob Dylan's appearance in a Victoria's Secret commercial.
"Sometimes I feel like people think that if you're into the environment you automatically dress like a hippy," Morton says. "I care so much about environmental studies, but I do feel like there are some stereotypes that need to be changed. If you want people to respect you, you have to present yourself a certain way. I wanted to show that you could do that wearing clothes that aren't damaging to the environment and that aren't made using child labor."
Morton's "eco-fashion show" was one of a number of environmentally related campus events in celebration of Earth Week (April 18-22). Other events included a bio-bus fundraiser concert; book signings and potluck dinners with authors; a fair with live music and arts and crafts; displays of academic projects; a visit from a solar-powered bus; and a soapbox speak-out at Redstone Green.
In some ways, Morton's fashion show exemplifies the changes in culture since the inagural Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, and how students attempt to draw attention to environmental issues. "If you want to get things done today I think you have to try some non-traditional things," she says.
Morton says she's always been interested in fashion, but her passion for environmental issues developed when she transferred to UVM after a year at Emerson College as a dance major. She eventually started looking into the conventional clothing industry and discovered that its use of chemicals, insecticides, herbicides and toxic dyes was extremely damaging. Large amounts of runoff and byproducts are produced, which work their way into the environment and are passed through the food chain, causing adverse health affects, she says.
"'Buying local' is now a common phrase among those concerned about sustainability, but usually we think of it as applied to food," explains Morton's advisor, Stephanie Kaza, associate professor of environmental studies. "Stevia's project raises the possibility of buying local in clothing — something almost impossible in the United States. Her work is on the forefront of what I hope will be an emerging values movement in support of locally grown clothing. Offering this alternative is one way to voice concern for sweatshop labor, corporate control of production and fashion homogenization."
Morton said Burlington is fortunate to have a number of alternative clothing stores and second-hand shops where she buys most of her clothes. For her project, Morton purchased 15 pieces of clothing from local shops that were made sustainably or out of environmentally friendly materials like organic cotton, rayon, silk, linen or hemp.
Morton cut up the clothes and redesigned them based on sketches she drew herself with the guidance of local designer Wylie Garcia. "There's no reason to make new clothing when there's so much second-hand fabric out there," she says.
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Tillai Kaliamman Temple
The Tillai Kaliamman Temple is situated at the northern end of the town. It was built by Kopperunjingan who ruled between 1229 and 1278 AD. Legend says that subsequent to the defeat of Kali in a dance competition with Shiva, Kali was banished from the Nataraja temple to the outskirts of the town where a temple was erected for her later.
Annamalai University
This residential university was founded by the late Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar and has now developed into a fine township called Annamalainagar. The impressive buildings and the library have become a great centre of Tamil learning and Carnatic music.
Nataraja Temple
The temple, dedicated to the Nataraja form of Lord Shiva, is spread over an area of 400 acres.
This is where lord Nataraja was said to have performed his cosmic dance.The main sanctum houses the AkashaLinga, where the lord is worshipped as a formless presence. An unique feature of this temple is a shrine dedicated to Lord Vishnu as Govindaraja adjacent to the Nataraja Shrine. Parvati is known as 'Shivakami Sundari' here. There are other shrines, Subramanya and Vinayaka in the complex which comprises of five prakaras. The sacred tank is called Siva-Ganga to the east of which is a Mantapa with 1,000 pillars. On the Eastern and the Western gopurams are carved 108 images of different poses illustrating the art of dancing.


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Is the 22nd Edition of SM an "Editorial" revision?
EPA published a letter stating that the 22nd edition of SM is merely an editorial version of the approved method and issued a national ATP approval. Since PDF files cannot be attached to these posts, please send me an e-mail if you want a copy of the letter.
However, some have noticed differences in method practices such as the inclusion of MS/MSDs in the BOD method and the incorporation of a change in the incubator temperature reading schedule found in 9020B.
It is becoming apparent that the 22nd edition is not a mere correction of spelling, but potentially significant changes in practice. It would appear that SM is incorporating the 12 QC elements that EPA first proposed then subsequently eliminated as required in the final Methods Update Rule (the 12 were relegated to option 3 for when a method lacks QC).
From a legal standpoint the letter is merely an ATP approval of the 22nd edition and is an option to the approved method cited in 40CFR part 136.3. The selection of methods is your choice so be sure you know what you are obligating yourself to do if you select the 22nd edition.
The question - after all of the expose - is what other changes have been made? Have any of you noticed a difference in method or QC requirements between the approved method and the 22nd edtion version?