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Thread: TGIF!! SotD Friday December 7
Polo Black.
Tuscan Leather by Tom Ford
MIDNIGHT TRYST parfum by Neil Morris
Wearing Guerlain Insolence.
Mostly wear a fragrance 2-3 days to one week befor I change and I do not make it to go every day to here.
Hope to be able to spend more time on fragrances.
Have a great weekend everyone!
I'm wearing Opium today.
I've trademarked the color bleu
Lack of sleep all week + hangover + new job (which I am LUVIN right now) = scent sensitivity
so - low silliage, simple Crazylillbelue & the Poppies Vanilla Macaroon.
Hope all the sickies feel better!
Sakecat's Scent Project
"Wardrobe" and Reviews of everything I've tried to date. Please come visit and let me know what you think.
Vol de Nuit evasion from Dimples! And yes, it does seem to more resemble Attrape Coeur than the original Vol de Nuit. Will be comparing in more than memory later. But it is unquestionably delicious.
More warm wishes to our growing chicken soup cohort and best to Lievje. For those of you who don't speak centigrade (sadly includes me) that was a fever of 106 fahrenheit.
Sending BEMs scuttling back to Betelgeuse with my fierce fumage!
By Jacques Bogart as SotE
I keep sniffing the sillage. Very very nice...
we have seen the enemy...and he is us.-Pogo
Testing out my sample of Hermes Elixir des Merveilles. I must say that.......
I smells goooooooood!!
Definitely goin to get a bottle of this.
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Me too!! Me too!! My bottle (which I had forgotten that I ordered!!) came today and I spritzed it over the remains of Fougere Bengale and the combo is divine. Violets and tobacco and leather and patchouli!!! Yumsters!
I am going Insolently to bed and RULLY hope we'll hear more from you Ydee - for a relatively small piece of geography The Netherlands are certainly well represented here on BNotes!!
"The world is ruled by letting things take their course. It cannot be ruled by interfering." Lao Tze
I have been so busy I can't even post my SOTD! Today I wore Barbara Bui and tonight I wore Chinatown to my work Christmas party!
15 hour day at work, wrestling around (literally) with colleagues much younger and stronger than myself. The annual training. I always sign up for the last session hoping that I will win the lottery by the time it rolls around. I am exhausted but smell great in AL Johri!


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Pepsi made its debut in 1893, more than 50 years before Coca-Cola first hit supermarket shelves. Originally called "Brad's Drink," it was renamed Pepsi-Cola in August of 1898. The company, specializing in carbonated drinks, has had dozens of slogans over the years. From 1939 to 1950, they promised you could get "Twice as Much for a Nickel." Some other great slogans from days gone by? How about "More Bounce to the Ounce?" or "You've Got a Lot to Live and Pepsi's Got a Lot to Give."
Most recently, they are working to appeal to those Pepsi drinkers who are examining food labels for artificial flavors. Their new slogan in North America last year was "Pepsi-Cola – Made with Real Sugar."
And even if you don't love the cola itself, chances are you enjoy one of their products. PepsiCola also makes Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, SoBe, AMP Energy, IZZE, Naked Juice, Propel, Mug, Aquafina and the new and premium water brand, Life WTR – which they will highlight in the 2017 Pepsi Super Bowl commercial.

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Choosing The Right Internet Business Opportunity
Unless you start your individual company and have your personal product, the one method to earn money with internet advertising and marketing or MLM is to change into an affiliate: that's just the best way it's. So that leaves most folk counting on discovering a strong firm, with an in demand product, and a lucrative pay or compensation plan. Illinois also sued YTB and solely settled in May 2011, primarily forcing the corporate virtually out of business. If you are prepared to work exhausting and take a small threat then a web-based business alternative is waiting for you. Hear from existing enterprise homeowners and keep up to date with the most recent enterprise news and events and take the first steps to following you dream of owning your own enterprise. Before speeding and buying into the first internet enterprise you come throughout it's good to first do some groundwork. This article can be looking at varied business ideas that, if applied the right manner and with the right funding and support, can be anyone's breakthrough on the planet of enterprise. Overall, the compensation is quite generous and, for the fitting individual, Young Living generally is a fun and lucrative business enterprise. This approach, companies get the chance to easily advertise their services and products.
As with many others, we watched the recession, questioning how it will affect our enterprise in the long run and when it'll end". Surveys show that just about 65% of the businesses which weren't capable of succeed, had immediately given up their business just due to some trials. Since you work from home, it can save you rental funds and overhead price significantly that can help you plough all your capital and profits again into the business. Knowing this offers one one thing to look out for within the enterprise one is trying to embark upon.
Also, the seller has to make it clear that in the event you purchase a business alternative from them, your contact info can be given to prospective buyers sooner or later. Word-of-mouth is a vital type of promoting in the case of the business of a kid, as it's more probably that the potential clients are safe. So I heard about Powerteam International from one among my enterprise partners, T. Harv Eker, who you've got in all probability heard of (He wrote Secrets of the Millionaire Mind ).
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At just four months old, Ellie Walton was diagnosed with a brain tumour. After 17 surgeries, 28 rounds of chemo, and 42 days of radiation, sadly Ellie passed away. Now, she is forever four.
Two months after the death of her child, 28-year-old Sarah Walton had to carry Ellie's ashes home. The custom urn her family had made was not yet ready, so the little girl's ashes were given a temporary cardboard box, which Sarah strapped into Ellie's child seat to keep secure.
You should be here
She took a photo and posted it to Facebook with the following note:
"You should be here.
"We made you a custom urn, you would love it baby girl. Unfortunately temporary urns are just boxes, that wasn't good enough for you, so I decorated it, until your perfect urn comes in.
"Driving you home the other day, I was scared, but buckling you in felt normal. Even though None of this is normal, none of this is right. You should be here. Death is so selfish baby girl. My heart is broken. I'm Literally hurting and torn, I know your in a better place, and yet no place is better than in my arms. I know your happy and pain free, and yet I want you here. It's been two months since I last kissed your cheek or played with your hair. It's been two months of pure torture, agony, and despair. All I want back is our daily life, whatever they entailed, I want it back. I want hospital visits back, and chemo back, I want your laughter, and your joyous heart back. The things that brought my heart so much pain, only a few months ago, I so desperately want back today.
"Life's not fair baby girl, you know that better than anyone. I do know that your life brought me so much joy, and looking back, I'm thankful that I made sure to tell you every single day just how much I loved you. I will forever be grateful to have been your mommy.
"Baby girl I don't want you watching over me thinking that your passing only causes me pain. You see baby girl, I would gladly take this pain over and over again, if it meant that I got to be your momma. Cause had I never known you, I would have never known pure happiness, I would have never known to live every moment as your last, and I would have never known what true bravery, strength, and courage looked like. This will change baby girl, I will make it change. I never want another mom to feel this way, and I will fight for these other kids so that no other mom has to buckle in ashes of their babies. Because you have always been worth #morethan4"
More than just one photo
Ellie's full story was shared by Sarash and the family via Facebookand the website, Prayers for Ellie Walton.
Reading through those pages, the heartbreaking reality of Ellie's life really hits home. No child should have to take on so much - and no parent should be expected to carry such grief.
But in the documenting of her story the load can be shared - and other families suffering the loss of a child can feel a little less alone.


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Measure A will keep basic services going
As the former CEO of InnVision the Way Home, I have spent the majority of my career working to provide pathways out of poverty to thousands of Bay Area families. An integral partner in this work has been Santa Clara County and the critical services they provide. Unfortunately, Sacramento has drastically reduced funds and increased responsibilities of local government. The global economic downturn has required even deeper cuts to essential services. Just in the last decade, the county has slashed more than $2.02 billion from its budget, threatening services for thousands of local families and businesses. Through Measure A we will be able to continue to provide some of the most basic services for impoverished families in this valley. Please join me in supporting health and crime prevention programs in our region, disease control and emergency preparedness. Your support is important. Vote yes on Measure A.
Christine Burroughs
San Jose
Even to an outsider, Cho should be mayor
I am so happy that a person I have known for over 20 years is running for mayor of Fremont. He has impeccable integrity and a high work ethic. His attention to detail is second to none. It is encouraging to see good people like Steve Cho dedicate his efforts to make a better community.
If I lived in Fremont I would vote for Steve Cho and encourage those who do to vote for him.
Hank Zoeller
Don't trust president over Libya attack
I heard President Barack Obama say on TV that trust is the most important quality of a president. Let's ask about his coverup of al-Qaida's role in last month's terrorist strike on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that killed four Americans, including our ambassador. The Associated Press reports the CIA station chief in Libya found terrorist links within 24 hours of the Benghazi attack and told Washington. Over the next two weeks, Obama repeatedly implied the attack was due to an anti Islam video. The Benghazi consulate was attacked twice before Sept. 11. All other embassies including the Red Cross had already left the area because of imminent danger. Denial of Islamic terror as a source of attacks on the United States and foreign lands fits a pattern of Obama's administration. But as he says, we surely trust him.
Robert Stiasny
San Jose
Supreme Court will decide women's rights
The Supreme Court gives an important reason to vote Nov. 6. America needs justices who believe that women's rights must be protected by the legal system. A woman and her doctor make decisions about her medical care, not congressmen. The best chance to get such justices is to re-elect President Barack Obama. America needs new justices who believe and vote that a corporation is not a person, and certainly not an American citizen with privileges given by our Bill of Rights. The only chance to get these justices is to return President Obama to the White House.
Frank Crosby
Morgan Hill
Student performance not improving enough
I take issue with Thomas Friedman's accolades (Opinion, Oct. 21) about President Barack Obama's transformative educational policies.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's ridiculous statistics about the success of the Race to the Top initiative may reflect the internal "investigations" of the Gates and Broad philanthropic organizations that helped fund the initiative, but are not at all reflected in external, in-depth studies conducted in recent years.
Stanford University's most comprehensive 2009 study concluded that 83 percent of charter schools perform either worse or no better than traditional public schools and an excellent and thorough National Research Council report confirmed that standardized test scores do not measure student learning adequately.
The most extensive turnaround school reform programs that took place in Chicago under Duncan and in New York City have produced no credible improvement in student performance. Perhaps Friedman needs to exercise better critical thinking when he takes Duncan's claims as gospel truth.
Maritza Dahl
Miller top candidate for hospital board
Julia Miller is a candidate for the El Camino Hospital District Board.
As a former mayor and council member of Sunnyvale, she has the experience and credentials to represent her district on the El Camino Hospital Board. She has many, many years of experience serving on several regional and local boards, the San Francisco Bay Trail, Sustainable Silicon Valley, Leadership Sunnyvale, Bay Area Air Quality Management District and several other boards. She is an excellent candidate and has the experience of managing large budgets and projects. She will be an independent voice for patient care, reduced health care costs, fiscal accountability, transparency and oversight of taxpayer dollars.
Julia Miller has the time, energy and background to continue her service to the community. Please vote for Julia Miller for the El Camino Hospital District Board on Nov. 6.
Kavita Tankha
Los Altos Hills
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What you'll learn from Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server 2012 will help you understand what indexes are doing in the database and what can be done to mitigate and improve their effects on performance. The final destination is a guided tour through a number of real-world scenarios and approaches that can be taken to investigate, mitigate, and improve the performance of your database.
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|Publication number
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|Jan 16, 2007
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|Dec 6, 2004
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|May 9, 1997
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|Eric J. Bergman
|Original Assignee
|Semitool, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (103), Non-Patent Citations (37), Referenced by (7), Classifications (41), Legal Events (12)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This Application is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/621,028, filed Jul. 21, 2000 and now U.S. Pat. No. 6,869,487 and incorporated herein by reference, which is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. PCT/US99/08516, filed Apr. 16, 1999, which is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/061,318, filed Apr. 16,1998 and now abandoned, which is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/853,649, filed May 9, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,240,933. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/621,028 is also a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 60/145,350, filed Jul. 23, 1999.
Semiconductor devices are the basic building blocks of most electronic products. They are widely used in almost all consumer electronic products, such as cell phones, computers, televisions, etc. as well as in communications, medical, industrial, military, and office products and equipment. Semiconductor devices are manufactured from semiconductor wafers. The cleaning of semiconductor wafers is a critical step in the manufacturing semiconductor devices. The semiconductor devices on wafers are microscopic, often fractions of a micron, while the film thicknesses may be on the order of 20 Angstroms. This makes the devices manufactured from the wafers highly susceptible to performance degradation or failure due to even the tiniest amounts of organic, particulates or metallic/ionic contamination.
For many years, wafers were cleaned in typically three or four separate steps using strong acids, such as sulfuric acid, and using strong caustic solutions, such as mixtures of hydrogen peroxide or ammonium hydroxide. These are highly reactive and toxic chemicals. While these methods achieved varying degrees of success, they had certain disadvantages, including the high cost of the process chemicals, the relatively long time required to get wafers through the various cleaning steps, high consumption of water due to the need for extensive rinsing between chemical steps, and high disposal costs. As a result, extensive research and development efforts have been made not only in the United States, but also in Europe and in Japan, to find better wafer cleaning techniques.
Several years ago, after extensive research, the Inventor developed a revolutionary new process for cleaning wafers, using ozone and heated water or water vapor. In recognition of this breakthrough achievement, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded the Inventor several pioneering U.S. Patents on his ozone and water process. The ozone and water process is now widely used in the semiconductor industry. This ozone and water process has proven to be remarkably effective in rapidly cleaning contamination and organic films off of wafers, while avoiding many of the disadvantages of the older methods using acids and caustics. Among the advantages of the ozone and water process is that it is fast, and requires no expensive and toxic liquid acids or caustics. It can also operate effectively as a spray process, which greatly reduces water consumption and space requirements.
The water and ozone process can be performed in various ways. In one form of the process, ozone gas diffuses through a thin layer of heated water or water vapor on the wafers. The water and ozone can be applied in various ways. These include spraying water onto the workpiece while injecting ozone into the water, spraying water on the workpiece while separately delivering ozone to the workpiece or delivering a combination of steam or water vapor and ozone to the workpiece. Spray techniques using hot water have been especially successful at increasing the removal rates of various organic films and contaminants from workpiece surfaces.
One advantage of the water and ozone process is that it is generally carried out at temperatures above room temperature. This provides for faster processing or cleaning, because the chemical reactions between the layer, film or contaminants to be removed, and the water and ozone, occur faster at higher temperatures. However, notwithstanding the phenomenal success of the water and ozone process, some disadvantages have remained in highly unique and specialized applications, such as in removing certain types of photoresist, or in processing workpieces having features of certain metals, such as NiCr or silver. With additional research and testing, the Inventor has now overcome the disadvantages of using the water and ozone process in these applications as well.
A novel wafer cleaning solution, application technique, system, and methods are used to speed up processing in the manufacturing of semiconductor wafers, memory disks, photomasks, optical media, and on other substrates which microelectronic, micromechanical, or micro-electromechanical devices can be or are formed (collectively referred to here as "workpieces" or "wafers").
Wafers are processed or cleaned by applying a chemical stream to the wafer surface. Ozone is delivered either into the liquid stream or into the environment around the wafer. The chemical stream, which may be in the form of a liquid or vapor, can be applied to the wafer via spraying, immersion, bulk transfer, flowing, etc. In general, a liquid layer is formed and the thickness of the liquid layer is controlled. The chemical stream may include ammonium hydroxide. The Inventor has discovered that ammonium hydroxide is surprisingly effective in removing certain photoresists. He has also discovered that when used with the water and ozone methods, ammonium hydroxide reduces corrosion of certain metals used on wafers. These discoveries now allow the novel water and ozone process to be used on more different kinds of wafers.
In one aspect of the invention, the chemical stream is a processing liquid. The liquid may be heated and applied onto the wafer surface. Heating speeds up the process. The processing solution is formed into a thin liquid layer on the wafer surface. The thickness of the liquid layer is advantageously controlled through the use of one or more of the rotation rate, the flow rate of the processing solution, and/or the injection technique (nozzle design) used to deliver the liquid (or steam) stream to the surfaces of the wafers.
Ozone chemically reacts with the contaminant to be removed. The contaminant may be a film or layer intentionally applied to the wafer in an earlier manufacturing step, such as photoresist. Alternatively, the contaminant may be undesirable particles or residues or films that get onto or form on the wafer during the manufacturing process. Both types are referred to here as contaminants. The ozone is brought into contact with the contaminants by diffusion through a liquid layer on the wafer, by bulk transfer, via jetting or spraying, by entrainment or dissolution in a liquid stream, or in other ways.
Heated water vapor or steam can be used instead of or in addition to liquid. With steam, it is possible to achieve wafer surface temperatures well over 100¯ C., thereby further accelerating the processing or cleaning chemical reactions. A steam generator may be used to pressurize the process chamber to achieve the desired temperatures. The increased pressure within the processing chamber can also provide for use of higher ozone concentrations, thereby further speeding up processing. The rate of oxidation provided by the ozone may also be improved by irradiating the surfaces of the wafers with ultra-violet light.
The water and ozone process, when run at higher temperatures, is very fast and efficient in removing contaminants, such as photoresist. However, some wafers may have metal features or surfaces that are corroded by hot water. To avoid corrosion, these wafers are typically run at lower temperatures. However, this slows processing in general. And with some types of photoresist, the strip or etch rate of water and ozone process at lower temperatures becomes especially slow. The Inventor has now discovered that using ammonium hydroxide with the water and ozone process quickly and completely removes photoresist, even at lower temperatures. As a result, the water and ozone process can now be used on wafers having metals that are otherwise subject to corrosion.
The invention resides as well in sub-combinations of the methods, and apparatus described.
A wafer is processed or cleaned via ozone diffusing through an aqueous layer or in an aqueous vapor/gas environment, to oxidize contaminants. Additives in the aqueous layer enhance or enable the desired etching action, such as removal of films or layers including photoresist, germanium, hafnium, copper, aluminum, titanium, tungsten, nichrome, silicon dioxide, and silicon films or layers. Use of ammonium hydroxide or other bases, in the water and ozone process, allows the process to remove even very hardened photoresists. Use of bases with the water and ozone process also provides for very fast removal of photoresists from wafers having metal surfaces or features, while at room temperature, to avoid metal corrosion.
Referring to
One or more nozzles 40 in the process chamber 15 direct a spray of ozone and process liquid onto the surfaces of the wafers 20. The spray may be directed to the upper surface of the workpiece 20 or the lower surface (or both). The liquid may also be applied in other ways besides spraying, such as flowing, bulk deposition, immersion, etc. A pump 55 provides the liquid under pressure along a flow path, shown generally at 60, for ultimate supply to the input of the nozzles 40. The liquid is at ambient temperature, e.g., 15–30¯ C. Most often, the process liquid used is deionized water. Other process fluids, such as other aqueous or non aqueous solutions, may also be used.
The flow path 60 may include a filter 65 to filter out microscopic contaminants from the process liquid. Ozone is injected along fluid flow line 70. The ozone is generated by ozone generator 75. It is supplied along fluid flow line 80 under pressure to fluid flow line 70. Optionally, the process liquid, now injected with ozone, is supplied to the input of a mixer 90 that mixes the ozone and the process liquid. The mixer 90 may be static or active. From the mixer 90, the process liquid and ozone are provided to be input of nozzles 40. The nozzles spray the liquid on the surface of the workpieces 20. Ozone is also introduced into the process chamber 15 from the nozzles.
To further concentrate the ozone in the process liquid, an output of the ozone generator 75 may be supplied to a dispersion unit 95 in the reservoir 45. The dispersion unit 95 provides a dispersed flow of ozone through the process liquid to thereby add ozone to the fluid stream prior to injection of a further amount of ozone along the fluid path 60.
In the embodiment of
Another system 120 shown in
At step 205, heated deionized water is sprayed onto the surfaces of the workpieces 20. The heated deionized water heats the surfaces of the workpieces 20 as well as the enclosed environment of the chamber 15. When the spray is discontinued, a thin liquid film remains on the workpiece surfaces. If the surface is hydrophobic, a surfactant may be added to the deionized water to assist in creating a thin liquid layer on the workpiece surfaces. The surfactant may be used with hydrophilic surfaces as well. Corrosion inhibitors may also be used with the aqueous ozone, thin liquid layer process.
The thickness of the liquid layer is controlled at step 210 using one or more techniques. By reducing the liquid layer thickness, the ozone is better allowed to diffuse to the wafer surface where it reacts with and removes contaminants. The workpieces 20 may be rotated about axis 35 by rotor 30 to thereby generate centrifugal force that thins the liquid layer. The flow rate of the liquid (or vapor) may also be used to control the thickness of the liquid layer. Lowering the flow rate results in decreased liquid layer thickness. Nozzles 40 may be designed to provide the deionized water as micro droplets thereby resulting in a thin liquid layer. Hence, rotating the wafer is not essential.
At step 215, ozone is injected into the fluid flow path 60 during the water spray, or otherwise provided to the internal chamber environment of chamber 15. If the apparatus of
While ozone has a limited solubility in the heated deionized water, the ozone is able to diffuse through the water and react with photoresist at the liquid/photoresist interface. The deionized water appears to assist in the reactions by hydrolyzing the carbon-carbon bonds of molecules of organic contaminants, such as photoresist. The higher temperature speeds up the chemical reaction cleaning, while the high concentration of ozone in the gas phase promotes diffusion of ozone through the liquid layer even though the liquid layer may not actually have a high concentration of dissolved ozone.
Elevated or higher temperatures means temperatures above ambient or room temperature, that is temperatures above 20 or 25¯ and up to about 200¯ C., with typical temperatures ranging from 25–150¯; 55–120¯; 75–115¯ C., or 85–105¯ C. In the specific methods described, temperatures of 90–100¯ C., may be used. With temperatures above 100 C, liquid is used in a pressurized chamber, or steam may be used. Use of lower temperatures (between 25 and 75¯ C. and preferably from 25–65¯ C. (rather than at e.g., 95¯ C. as described above) may be useful where higher temperatures are undesirable. Still lower temperatures, e.g., 15–25¯ C., may be used to avoid corrosion, as described below.
After processing, the wafers may be rinsed at 220 and are dried at step 225. For example, the workpieces may be sprayed with a flow of deionized water during the rinse at step 220. They may then be subject to any one or more known drying techniques thereafter at step 225.
To conserve water and achieve a very thin liquid layer, a "pulsed flow" of liquid or steam may be used. If the "pulsed flow" cannot maintain the desired elevated wafer surface temperatures, heaters 27, for example, one or more embedded heated recirculating coils, a heating blanket, or irradiation from a thermal source (e.g., an infrared lamp), etc. may be used.
Corrosion of metal features, areas or films on a wafer may occur if the metal films are exposed to high temperature de-ionized water. This situation may arise with back end of the line (BEOL) wafers, i.e., wafers which have already been plated or otherwise provided with metal layers. These types of wafers have therefore been processed at lower or at ambient temperatures, to avoid corrosion. However, in the past, at low or ambient temperatures, fast strip rates generally could not be achieved with the water and ozone processes. In some cases, faster strip rates could sometimes still be achieved by using increased ozone flow rates and concentrations. Nevertheless, wafers subject to metal corrosion have generally required more time, as they necessarily have been cleaned at lower temperatures.
Ammonium hydroxide has now also been discovered to be advantageous in performing the water and ozone process at lower temperatures. More specifically, the Inventor has discovered that ammonium hydroxide enables stripping of certain photoresists at ambient temperature, which otherwise are not removed satisfactorily using the water and ozone process. Testing shows that one or more components of photoresist (for example Shipley 712, Shipley 718 and Shipley 1815 photoresist) are not readily stripped at room temperature. With these and other similar photoresists, a residual film of photoresist remains on the wafer, when processed at room temperature. While the bulk of the photoresist layer (the bulk photoresist layer) may be reduced from e.g., 18,000 or 14,000 A to 2000 A in less than about 4, 5 or 6 minutes (when using the water and ozone process at room temperature), the final film or residue having a thickness of e.g., 3000 A, 2000 A, or 1000 A may take in the range of 10–30, 12–25, 15 or 20 minutes longer (sometimes even more) to be removed. The addition of ammonium hydroxide during the water and ozone process enables complete removal of all photoresist in about 3:00 to 15:00; 4:00 to 12:00; 5:00 to 10:00 or 6:00 to 8:00 minutes.
The same result can also be achieved via immersion. Immersing a wafer in very dilute solutions of ammonia will remove photoresist film or residue. Diluting a 30% (weight) solution of NH3 in water to the following concentrations enabled removal of the 2000 A residue in the following times:
H2O:NH3 (30% wt.)
Residue removal Time
A 30% (weight) solution of NH3 results in a 60% solution of water and NH4OH. Volume ratios and weight percent ratios for NH4OH can be calculated directly from the data listed above. As shown, use of even extremely dilute NH4OH can enable the removal of photoresist and subsidiary components of photoresist even at ambient temperatures.
Other additives may be used instead of ammonium hydroxide for removing photoresist or other organic contaminants. The principal goal of the additive is to elevate the pH of the solution that is applied to the wafer surface. The pH should be raised so that it is between about 8.5 and 11. Although bases such as sodium hydroxide and/or potassium hydroxide may be used here, TMAH (tetra-methyl ammonium hydroxide) may be even better in some cases because it avoids concerns over mobile ion contamination. Ionized water that is rich in hydroxyl radicals may also be used. HF and/or HCl may be used as additives for removal of organic contaminants, particles and/or metals, or for removal of oxide and regeneration of a controlled chemical oxide.
The dilute ammonium hydroxide solution may be applied in the photoresist removing process in various ways. For example, syringe pumps, or other precision chemical applicators, can be used to enable single-use of the solution stream. Photoresist may be stripped or cleaned away by using a deionized water stream with ozone, and can conclude the strip with a brief period during which ammonium hydroxide is injected into the aqueous stream. This assists in minimizing chemical usage and waste generation. The system may optionally monitor and control the pH the using the appropriate sensors and actuators, for example, by use of microprocessor control.
Ammonium hydroxide has also been found to be especially advantageous in stripping negative photoresist. Testing has shown that the water and ozone process (using hot water) removed negative photoresist in about one hour. The addition of a 30% (wt. NH3 in H2O) solution of NH4OH to the water at a dilution ratio of 2000:1 decreased the strip time by roughly 60%, to about 20:00 minutes. This also proved to be successful in stripping a negative photoresist which had been implanted with boron at 100 KeV and a dosage of 1E16 atoms/cm2. Previously, the water and ozone process had not been successful in removing positive photoresist implanted at dosages above about 4E14 atoms/cm2.
Test results show also that silicon wafers can be processed using a 4:1 water: ammonium hydroxide solution at 95C and experience an increase surface roughness (RMS) of less than 2 angstroms. When this same solution is applied in an immersion system or in a conventional spray system, RMS surface roughness as measured by atomic force microscopy increases by more than 20 angstroms and the maximum surface roughness exceeds 190 angstroms. Additionally, while a conventional process will pit the surface to such a degree as to render the surface unreadable by a light-scattering particle counter, the water with ammonium hydroxide and ozone process has actually shown particle reductions of up to 50% on the wafer surface.
Aluminum, Al/Si, Al/Cu and Al/Si/Cu alloys are commonly used in the semiconductor industry. However, the water and ozone process can attack these metal films, especially if a galvanic potential is established between these metals and some other metal or doped regions on the wafer surface. To run the water and ozone process at high temperatures and at high strip rates, without substantial corrosion of these metals, certain corrosion inhibitors can be used. These include nitrates, especially aluminum nitrate and ammonium nitrate. These corrosion inhibitors are used at concentrations in the range of 0.5 to 5 or 1 to 3 grams per liter. Benzotriazole and sodium orthosilicate may also be used. While some inhibitors are preferred over others, due to concerns over metal or mobile ion contamination, these corrosion inhibitors may be used singly or in combinations with each other to control corrosion. Phosphates may be used on silver and copper films, and sulfates used on silver as well.
Nickel chromium (NiCr) is a metal which may be used on wafers. While either Ni or Cr alone show significant corrosion resistance to the water and ozone process even at temperatures up to 95C, the alloy of NiCr is surprisingly completely corroded or removed by the water and ozone process, even when run at ambient temperature. However, when ammonium hydroxide is added to the water at ambient temperature (e.g., 15–30¯ C.), the corrosion is eliminated. Ammonia dilutions in the range of 20:1 (starting with a 30% weight solution of ammonium hydroxide) have been successful. The use of ammonium hydroxide is also useful in reducing corrosion on silver. Ammonium hydroxide may also be added to the process liquid (e.g., deionized water) to reduce particle counts on the wafers, with the ozone preventing pitting of the silicon surface by the ammonium hydroxide.
The water and ozone process alone has been shown to provide etch capability on certain films, including metal films such as aluminum and alloys of aluminum as well as silver, copper, tungsten, germanium, germanium/silicon, titanium, and nichrome. In addition, additives such as ammonium hydroxide can be used to enhance this etch capability, as well as provide etch capability on films such as thermal (silicon di-) oxide, TEOS, etc. These oxides are generally not attacked by the water and ozone process. However, the lack of oxide etch may cause a parametric shift in certain devices which have been optimized as regards to processes such as ammonium hydroxide hydrogen peroxide mixtures (APM) which do remove small amounts of oxide. The water and ozone process with 2000:1 ammonia will etch thermal oxide at around 0.4 to 0.8 A/minute. While the etch is significantly less than the APM process, it can be boosted by increasing the ammonia concentration in order to comply better with device requirements.
Continuing now with
It has been found that the process of
In the embodiment of
In the case of oxidizing and removing organic contamination, conventional aqueous ozone processes show a strip rate on photoresist (a hydrocarbon film) of around 200–700 angstroms per minute. In the liquid layer controlled system of the disclosed processes, the rate is accelerated to 2500 to 8800 angstroms per minute in a spray controlled liquid layer, or higher when the liquid layer is generated and controlled using steam.
In the system shown in
In each of the systems shown in
Thus, novel method and systems have been shown and described. Various changes and substitutions can of course be made, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The invention, therefore, should not be limited, except by the following claims and their equivalents.
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New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) Truecaller, an app that helps identify unknown numbers and also block spam calls launched a new app on Tuesday that offers a substitute to the stock messaging app on Android phones from India.
Truemessenger, which will follow in other markets after India, seeks to curb spam messages by identifying numbers in the SMS inbox.
"Truecaller identifies 900 calls a month and one in seven calls are spam. We are looking to provide the same experience in texts with the new Truemessenger app," Truecaller India head Kari Krishnamurthy said.
Truecaller has currently over 80 million users in India, while its global user base is near 180 million.
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Zahav, the Israeli restaurant next to Society Hill Towers, and Izakaya, the Japanese lounge in the Borgata, made Travel + Leisure magazine's roundup of 50 best new restaurants in the United States.
Zahav's tout reads: "Can hummus be haute? Yes, in this laid-back Jerusalem-stone room, where chef Michael Solomonov brilliantly reinterprets Israeli street food. Zero in on the meze — say, Sephardic minted-leek fritters with sheep's cheese and honey, or kibbe naya, a Middle Eastern lamb-and-bulgur tartare scented with allspice. Dinner for two $68."
Izakaya's blurb reads: "Having dazzled New Yorkers with his unexpectedly refined cooking at Buddakan [and Pod in Philly], chef Michael Schulson now masterminds the Pan-Asian small-plates menu at this loungy casino restaurant. Follow shrimp dumplings in white-miso lobster broth with the addictive "kinki" chicken wings: braised in duck fat, crisp-fried, then slicked with spicy-sweet glaze. Dinner for two $105."


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New Poll, Plus McCain's True Obsession: Obama
August 21, 2008, 1:32 AM GMT
One thing I, in all my travels here -- Americans want a respectful campaign. They do, they want it. Now, people say, well, negative ads move numbers. They may. But do we have to go to the lowest common denominator? I don't think so.
John McCain, July 2008
So the latest WSJ/NBC poll (the same one showing Barack Obama's lead slipping away) also shows that Americans think John McCain is running a negative campaign:
By a nearly six-to-one margin, voters say Republican presidential candidate John McCain is running a negative campaign against his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Nearly three in 10 voters, 29%, pointed to McCain as the candidate running a negative campaign, compared to just 5% who said Obama is running a negative campaign. McCain's 29% rating is the highest of any one candidate in the previous two presidential elections according to the WSJ/NBC News survey.Know what? They're right. It's not just their opinion. It's a quantifiable fact.
(A great graphic showing McCain's true obsession can be found on the flip side.)


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Just in: Kasim Reed also to have speaking role at DNC 2016
Next week's Democratic National Convention is getting more Georgia-centric by the minute.
We told you earlier today that House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, D-Atlanta, would be speaking from the convention stage in Philadelphia on Monday.
Now, a Hillary Clinton campaign official tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will also have a speaking role next week.
Dates and timing of Reed's address will be announced later.
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Kasim Reed is really nothing to brag about and does nothing in my eyes to make Hillary look better. He is as corrupt as the rest of the republicans that run this state.
What a piss poor excuse for a mayor
These conventions are nothing but pep rallies anymore. Doesn't do any good to listen to any of them. Nothing substantive is ever discussed. We can only hope the debates surface some distinguishing detail.
Explain why you are supporting the illegal dnc activity. Why support hillary the criminal?
Tell me what democrat run city is doing well,Detroit Flint Chicago Philadelphia and on and on. Atlanta has been going downhill for the past 7 or 8 years,you can't walk the streets of the city after 6pm bold job Kasim and good thing you will be going soon maybe we will elect a republican to straighten out the mess I doubt it
You clearly don't live in Atlanta and the massive amount of unprecedented building going on intown right now would beg to differ with your baseless claims.
There is much more to Atlanta than "intown".... it's not "intown" that most of the robberies happen. It's not "intown" where most other violent crimes occur.... Just saying... his claim has more basis than your remedial attempt at enacting somewhat of an intelligent response.
Too bad you can't comprehend his point then since Democrats control "intown" and not the surrounding burbs. Thank you for making my point and proving his wrong that the crime is in the republican controlled suburbs as much if not more than "intown".
A bad man!
He's no Christian
Kasim Reed is awesome. Atlanta is a great city and it's nice to see that acknowledged.
What a delight for the gay black community.
I thought he looked a little tinkerbellish!!!!!!
Why??? You have a city out of control to run!!tell everybody about your streetcar project,how it worked out!!
Tell 'em 'bout Yo' Street Car Project--What?
He is a good speaker.
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Jason Sellers....u must be an . Idiot
even more reason to watch something else that night...
Maybe he won't find his way home!
We are gonna take back the congress the house and kick them teapublicans to the curb
Crooks talking to bigger crooks
Planning his next political career he would have been at the RNC if they would invited him.
Only idiots care
Kasim Reed?? Never heard of him.
Too bad Zell Miller isn't speaking at the GOP convention this year. What a speech.
He fits in with the rest of the LLD trash that will be there !!!!!!
Kasim Reed the mayor that wasted millions of tax payer dollars on a street car to no where instead of fixing the roads or the deteriorating sewer system. Way to go.
Those wasted millions of tax payer dollars on a failed attempt to create more revenue for the city. He did help to get the Super Bowl to Atlanta, which will bring $300 million to the local economy, so you lose some you win some. It would be different if it was the other way around.
If Melania had only said what M. Obama also said....
This is the first time that she's been proud of America, then all the dems would love her and vote for Trump.
Dems are bassackwards in everything they say and do.
And the Dems will also embrace black lives matter liars.
Going as far as having the mother of the CRIMINAL that attacked the cop in Ferguson speak at their convention. Pretending her son was a victim.
Carrying on lies, such as hands were up. All lies!
They must mean "black LIES matter" to all the suckers that enable them....Dems, media, and every democrat plantation controlled major city.
Another failure to speak at the Dumbacratic convention!!!
He hates White people.
White people hates Black people and try to pretend they don't and you guys still have issues about America electing a Blavk President. Get over it, he won twice and he's getting ready to leave office and Madame President Hillary Rodham Clinton will become our 45th President of the United States of America.
Because he's such a success!! Worst mayor since Shirley Franklin! In a long list of terrible mayors!
Faux News finally fired that disgusting old white troll Roger Ailes for repeatedly sexually harassing women in the workplace for decades. What a sick organization for protecting his crimes this long. They're so gross that it's not even reported on their own site. Humiliated in front of the world. Another disaster for the Repubtards as their clown show rolls on.
AND....... NBA is moving next year's All Star game out of Charlotte due to the North Carolina Repubtards stupid and hateful 'bathroom bill' against transgender human beings. ALL lives matter. Millions of dollars lost to the state. Explain that to your citizens Repubtard legislators. So gross. Move on.
@AtlantaTruth Speaking of crimes...Why is Hillary going to jail?
HRC is innocent of all bogus charges. FBI director and Attorney General concurred. Move on.
As a taxpayer, I want all the money back that the Repubtards squandered on multiple stupid Congressional investigations of her by the Repubtards. And found NOTHING ! They even admitted it was all political. So gross. Why aren't Bush and Cheney in supermax for war crimes and lying to the world. Responsible of hundreds of thousands of American and Iraqi deaths.
OH, and they wrecked the US economy while at it. Sickening. Move on.
American Taliban Tea Baggers ideology:
Ideological purity
Compromise as weakness
A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
Denying science
Unmoved by facts
Undeterred by new information
A hostile fear of progress
A demonization of education
A need to control women's bodies
Severe xenophobia
Tribal mentality
Intolerance of dissent
Pathological hatred of US government
Tea Baggers = American Taliban.
Did you know Hillary is a "tea bagger"? Well, at least she was about 30-something years ago.
I can't believe the AJC allows some of these comments. I guess if you're insulting Republicans it's all good.
American Taliban are disgusting monsters. Lock em up ! Get em outa here !
Don't feed the juvenile troll.
@AtlantaTruth what is your beef with the Tea Party.....btw, i don't think the Tea Party is a major player any longer. They seemed to have fizzled. But you have this unhealthy obsession with something that really isn't in the spotlight.
@Unfreakinbelieveable @AtlantaTruth
So were the Nazis when they started. Be vigilant against evil !
Another good reason not to watch. They are making it too easy.
chuckie99, I didn't watch the Republikkklans Convention. It was a mess full of speech plagiarizing, non endorsement speeches and one out shining each other. Drumpf trying to kiss Pence and caught himself.
@tinala Bet you will watch that lying PIG next week though.
Mayor is the worst


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Date Posted: Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
Categories: Historical and Cultural Affairs News Sussex County
(DOVER, Del.—Oct. 1, 2014)—During the month of October 2014, the Zwaanendael Museum, located at 102 Kings Highway in Lewes, Del., will present two special programs focusing on different aspects of the history of Delaware's Cape Henlopen region. Both programs are free and open to the public. For additional information, call 302-744-5055.
On Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the museum will present the program "His Majesty's Sloop of War DeBraak," a day-long slate of maritime-history and -archaeology activities held in conjunction with Lewes' annual Boast the Coast maritime festival. Among others, museum activities will include block-and-tackle demonstrations and a 2 p.m. presentation on the wreck of the DeBraak, a British warship that was escorting and protecting a convoy of British and American merchant ships en route to the United States when it was capsized and lost off Cape Henlopen on May 25, 1798. The remains of the ship's hull and associated artifact collection have been curated by the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs since they were acquired by state of Delaware in 1992.
On Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, the museum will present a walking tour that explores the unusual tombstones of St. Peter's Episcopal Church cemetery in Lewes. Held in the spirit of the Halloween season, the tour, entitled Mysteries of History," will depart from the Zwaanendael Museum at 2 p.m.
The Zwaanendael Museum was built in 1931 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the state's first European colony, Swanendael, established by the Dutch along Hoorn Kill (present-day Lewes-Rehoboth Canal) in 1631. Designed by E. William Martin (architect of Legislative Hall and the Hall of Records in Dover), the museum is modeled after the town hall in Hoorn, the Netherlands, and features a stepped facade gable with carved stonework and decorated shutters.
Zwaanendael Museum exhibits and presentations provide a showcase for Lewes-area maritime, military and social history. Current exhibits include "A Seaborne Citizenry: The DeBraak and Its Atlantic World" which tells the DeBraak story, and "Delaware and the War of 1812" which examines the service and sacrifice of Delawareans of 1812 to 1815, and the important role that the state played in a conflict that helped shape the development of the United States as a nation.
Following is a long-term schedule of Zwaanendael-Museum-sponsored special events. Unless otherwise noted, all programs take place at the Zwaanendael Museum located at 102 Kings Highway in Lewes, Del. Museum hours from April 1 to Oct. 31 are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Sunday, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. From Nov. 1 to March 31, museum hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free for all events listed. For additional information, call 302-645-1148.
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014
"His Majesty's Sloop of War DeBraak." Held in conjunction with Lewes' annual Boast the Coast festival, the event will feature a day-long slate of maritime-history and -archaeology activities including block-and-tackle demonstrations and a 2 p.m. presentation on the DeBraak shipwreck. 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014
"Mysteries of History." Walking tour explores the unusual tombstones of St. Peter's cemetery in Lewes. Tour leaves from the museum at 2 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014
"Delaware's Decades—the 1970s: 'Coastal Zone Act of 1971.' " Lecture by Kevin Coyle, principal planner for the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, on the landmark state-legislation that limited industrial development in Delaware's coastal areas. Part five of an eight-part series exploring decades in Delaware's history. 2 p.m. Free admission but, due to space restrictions, reservations are required by calling 302-645-1148 no later than Nov. 6, 2014.
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014
Dutch-American Heritage Day. Learn about the contributions that the Dutch have made to the economic, social, political and cultural life of Delaware and the United States. Program will include a lecture by Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs archaeologist Craig Lukezic. 2 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014
"Hospitality Night." 1920s holiday-themed program featuring festive décor, music, demonstrations and seasonal refreshments. 6–9 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014
"Tour Zwaanendael Museum." Enjoy the museum's festive holiday-décor. Event held in conjunction with the Lewes Historical Society's Christmas Tour of Lewes. 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015
"Delaware's Decades—the 1980s: 'Salvage of His Majesty's Sloop DeBraak.' " Lecture by Claudia Leister, executive director of the Milford Museum. Part six of an eight-part series exploring decades in Delaware's history. 2 p.m. Free admission but, due to space restrictions, reservations are required by calling 302-645-1148 no later than Jan. 5, 2015.
Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015
"Delaware's Decades—the 1990s." Program description TBA. Part seven of an eight-part series exploring decades in Delaware's history. 2 p.m.Free admission but, due to space restrictions, reservations are required by calling 302-645-1148 no later than Feb.2, 2015.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Delaware's Decades—the 2000s. Lecture by Bill Ayrey, lab manager and company historian from ILC Dover, who will discuss the future of space travel and space suits from the early 2000s to the present. Eighth and final installment of a series exploring decades in Delaware's history. 2 p.m. Free admission but, due to space restrictions, reservations are required by calling 302-645-1148 no later than March 2, 2015.
Thursday–Saturday, April 9–11, 2015
Lewes Tulip Festival. City-wide series of activities celebrating Lewes' Dutch heritage including Dutch games, crafts and a display of Delftware ceramics at the Zwaanendael Museum. Sponsored by the Lewes Chamber of Commerce. Downtown Lewes. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. 302-645-8073.
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Dutch-American Friendship Day. Discover Delaware's Dutch roots and learn how that connection is alive today.10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
King's Day. Celebration of the birthday of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands in a program that will also explore royal titles and Delaware's Dutch connection. 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
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Listed below are the bills and resolutions that Delegate Loupassi has introduced for the 2017 General Assembly Session. Click on a bill or resolution to learn more about it, including full text of the bill and the current status of the legislation.
2017 Legislation Introduced
- HB 1641 Disclosure of insurance policy limits; homeowners or personal injury liability insurance.
- HB 1643 Electronic wills.
- HB 1644 Driving under the influence; first offenders; secure transdermal alcohol monitoring.
- HB 1645 State Sickness and Disability Program.
- HB 1646 Form of garnishment summons; maximum portion of disposable earnings subject to garnishment.
- HB 1647 Presentence report; waiver by defendant.
- HB 1648 Notice by trustee required before foreclosure sale; tenant of property subject to sale.
- HB 1652 City of Richmond general district court; concurrent criminal jurisdiction.
- HB 1654 Examining and approving a statement in lieu of the settlement of accounts; fee for commissioner.
- HB 1811 Unlawful detainer; initial hearings on a summons, etc.
- HB 1931 Fare enforcement inspectors; enforcement of payment of fares for use of mass transit facilities.


text: Governor Ernie Fletcher, Mayor Bill Paxton and McCracken County Judge Executive Danny Orazine will join Ingram Barge Company executives and associates as they "break ground" for construction of Ingram's new Paducah Landing office and warehouse facilities. The groundbreaking ceremony will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the building site, located at 900 South Third Street. Ingram officials today noted that the project is a significant additional investment of resources in the City of Paducah and McCracken County. Ingram has maintained a major portion of its inland marine support operations in Paducah since 1984. "The City of Paducah is pleased by Ingram's announcement of the construction of a new Ingram barge company operating headquarters in downtown Paducah," Mayor Paxton said today. "This announcement enhances Paducah's reputation as the hub of the inland waterways. Paducah will benefit from having a company of Ingram's stature expand its operations in Paducah." The new facilities will include offices, warehousing, and parking in a complex that will become the new home for Ingram Barge operations in the Paducah area. Work on the new warehouse facility has already begun, involving a careful renovation of a century-old brick office building. This location will house activities supporting Ingram's Custom Fuel Service operations, barge maintenance, information technology, purchasing and warehouse functions. Additionally, construction will begin soon on a new two-story office building to house the company's operations, human resources, crew dispatch, and other support functions. Overall, more than 60 Ingram associates will be located at the new Paducah Landing facility. The project will provide an estimated 700 parking spaces. Ingram employs approximately 700 associates in the Paducah area. Ingram Barge Company President & CEO Craig Philip explained that the new location will provide a much more productive and pleasant working environment for Ingram's associates. "Our associates have very important responsibilities for vessel operations, customer service and safety, and this new base of operations should contribute greatly to getting these vital jobs done for our customers and crews," Mr. Philip said. "Everybody is excited about this move." Orrin Ingram, Chairman of Ingram Barge Company, commended the governmental and other economic development leaders who have encouraged the company to sustain its business operations in Paducah. "Paducah is a critical location for our inland marine business," Mr. Ingram said. "We enjoy doing business here. For many years now, we have received strong support and encouragement from the City and County, as well as the entire community, and have deeply appreciated the strong work ethic of Kentucky."


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The seventh annual Farm to Table Dinner tickets are now available for sale!
Every year has SOLD OUT, and we have no doubt this year will, also!
October 1, 2017 is sure to be a phenomenal event!
5pm - Wine and Moonshine Reception
6:00 - Farm Tour w/Ed Land
6:30pm – Dinner in the Vineyard
Tickets are $90 each, and can be purchased right here on the website or in the farm store.
This unique dining experience combines gourmet farm-to-table dining and a breath-taking setting with 270° views of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
In 2015 we welcomed four local chefs…Jamie Allred of Fortify, Pam Headapohl of Chattooga Belle Farm, Tyler Williams of the Bulldog Cafe, and Gayle and Dave Darugh of the Beechwood Inn, and the Blue Heron restaurant in Clemson. The menu featured items grown and produced within 50-miles of the farm.
Regional Future Farmers of America (FFA) students helped us serve this year's feast alongside Habersham County Farm-to-School Student Ambassadors. Chattooga Belle Farm is an active participant with the Georgia Organics Farm-to-School Program and supplies apples to the Habersham County, Georgia school district. A portion of proceeds from our dinner will be used to fund college scholarships for FFA students.
And here's what people have said:
You guys should be very pleased with your event Sunday evening. The weather was wonderful, the food was great and the organization was flawless. This was truly a first class event, but what else would you expect from a first class operation. And, if things could not get better, you had a magnificent sunset for everyone. Thank you for allowing us to be part of this.
Ed and Kitty,
Wanted to thank you again for the wonderful event on Sunday. Everyone who joined us loved the event; the views obviously breathtaking,the food delicious and every one who represents you warm and inviting. I believe we will have another large group next year!
Thanks again and hope to visit soon,
Nanci Distler
Kitty and Ed,
What a wonderful evening. Thank you for being such wonderful, kind and gracious host!!
Enjoyed our chance to visit and share in such a beautiful setting. What great voices you both are for agriculture and agribusiness and advocates for homegrown products.
I am grateful for what you both mean to our community !!!
Warmest regards,
Thomas and Lynda