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October 26, 2015 | Taras Tymoshekno
Taras Tymoshenko, interactive literature advocate
I decided to become a writer early on. While I was practicing for that calling I found many opportunities for downtime, which probably wasn't a good start. Around the mid-2000s, as I thought about what I could contribute to the long, proud literary tradition, I noticed that there were people making comics and putting them online. It was a rich vein of free entertainment for a kid who didn't know the first thing about piracy, so I got hooked.
My favorite webcomics told long, complex stories that spanned years, both in the lives of the characters and their creators. That most of them were roughly drawn and haphazardly plotted didn't matter, because these people had never been allowed to tell these stories this way before. They could create something with the complexity of a novel, all by themselves, and lay it out for the world to see. That these people could grab the attention of so many, with so few apparent complications and expenses, seemed magical. Even the worst, most primitive comics had the virtue of communicating that anybody could do this if they wanted.
Other webcomics fascinated me because they were doing things I had never seen before, that hadn't been possible before the Internet set the medium loose. Ideas were coming from everywhere. Webcomics, webtoons, and even flash games all seemed like an expression of the same newfound artistic and technical freedoms. In some cases it was hard to put these creations into one category or another—I talk about webcomics here only because I can't find one word that would constitute all of these new forms.
Inspired, I scribbled out some comics right away. Being a webcomic fan in those days, you could hardly keep from becoming a webcomic creator. I remember developing a callus from drawing with my laptop's nipple mouse, laboriously faking brushstrokes with MS Paint's pencil tool. Needless to say my own contributions didn't register as even a blip in the webcomic multiverse, but that was fine, it was all for fun. I didn't treat webcomics as a lesser pursuit than my writing, but I had no doubt with which of the two my eventual destiny lay.
My first major writing project was a collection of interconnected short stories (nine in all—I was a big Salinger fan) which I titled Carefree Arizona. Having no other outlet at the time, and being pretty used to the webcomic model by then, I published it online. I didn't expect a huge surge of attention, but, having finished the work, I actually couldn't even imagine it. There was no way, regardless of quality, regardless of promotion, that the Internet would pay the same level of attention to some short stories that they did to webcomics.
Then, later, I saw the contradictions inherent in the work itself. In retrospect it seemed like I wanted to make a comic all along, or at least something visual. The stories were concerned with imagery more than anything else, and often my clumsy attempts to describe what I could have more easily drawn served to muddle everything even more than my inexperience. The images in your head when you read are prompted by the writer's descriptions, but belong to nobody else but the reader. I could never give up that control, so I struggled with prose in an unnatural step toward the definite and exact. The things I thought I valued in literature turned out to be the reader's images, not the writer's.
I remember my struggle to invent a new way of describing the world of my story in prose. A "radial description" wherein the reader's viewpoint is positioned in a tree, looking down at the vast landscape that surrounds it, seeing the story play out on that 360 degree stage. A way of making the reader feel that they could turn and look around within my story escaped me. There was also my attempt at conveying an infinite regression, like so: "And where the uterus of the mother had once been: a family hugging each other in death. And where the uterus of the mother had once been: a family hugging each other in death. And where the uterus of the mother had once been: a family hugging each other …" And so on. The units that made up the regression never flowed into each other smoothly enough, and the linearity of the medium prevented me from escaping the reality of the finite and installing the illusion of the infinite. These things turned out to be easy—they just required materials other than words.
Eventually I did leave writing behind, and turned my attention fully to webcomics. I ran very far from writing, believing that the fewer words they contained, the purer comics were. The more closely wedded to their visual nature, the better. I should have learned a lesson from the early days of webcomics about borders and purity. They're imaginary, arbitrary, and in a truly creative setting they cease to matter. The only thing that matters is a good idea—or even a bad one, if it's interesting.
"The Garden of Forking Paths" by Jorge Luis Borges
Literature itself has long been grasping at something beyond its borders, and with more success than my "radial descriptions." Trashy works like Choose Your Own Adventure, but also respected junk like Pale Fire and "The Garden of Forking Paths" are fine examples. Some works play with formatting and structure, while other literary masterpieces boast generously illustrated first editions, usually stripped down to the text after they've distinguished themselves.
People are reading more than ever—they're just not reading the same things or in the same ways. Interactive literature of various types has been around since the 1970's, and is currently enjoying a healthy surge of popularity. On the more conventionally-structured end, there's slash fiction, which, whatever you think of its general quality, is subversive in its appropriation of intellectual property and its treatment of it. And it couldn't exist in such a visible way without the freedom that technology grants. More significantly, writing is threaded through everything we do online. We don't experience it continuously anymore; it's more discrete, and it's mixed in with many other elements. This is all just for a start, though.
Computers and the Internet have exposed all media as artificial constructions. There are areas where certain media find the most success, such as the video game's ability to create worlds, and the novel's strength at peering into the human mind, but purity is an illusion caused by physical restrictions. People often mistake a concept's recent history for its entire history—paper is just one stage on the journey of an idea.
There is a persistent belief that linear, printed, non-visual narratives are the literary ideal. In fact a lot of what we now think of as gospel, as the way a novel must be, actually stems from the technical limitations of printing. Words were much easier to reproduce than pictures, linear stories were easier to bind and organize, and options for narrative interactivity through a medium of ink and dead wood were severely limited. The format of the modern novel developed out of these and other physical limitations, and along the way became codified and deified by writers who did incredible things working with very primitive technology. I'm a believer in limitations encouraging creativity, but I'm also a believer in picking your own limitations, whenever you can. It's the difference between walking into a room and being thrown into a cage.
In many ways more hybridized, non-linear, visually-aided storytelling is a return to the earliest oral traditions. The same basic stories would be transformed by different storytellers, who would use costumes, props, and their environments to enrich their tales, while the audience could react, ask questions, and encourage the storyteller to alter their telling in various ways. It all added up to an interactive multimedia extravaganza in the ancient world—or so I imagine. I wasn't there, but the tradition of oral storytelling of course continues to this day, and it was in fact the technology of writing and printing that separated it from literature. It's not a new observation that things tend to go in cycles: when photography arrived on the scene, realism in art hit a peak and the art world looked back at primitive art to find another way forward. It's entirely possible that literature, triggered by the invention of the computer, is itself at the start of a new cycle.
It's now any writer's job to find the things they most value in literature, which is harder than trying to adhere to the things that have been historically valued, but more rewarding, both in a personal and public sense. Maybe once you find the elements you value your work will end up having little resemblance to literature as it's generally understood. That's okay. There's more than one way to define literature, and more than a couple of ways to tell a story.
Taras Tymoshenko is a cartoonist who is working on bringing comics into the third dimension. Before he was doing that he made various comics for SBBoard.com, mainly a long-form comic about a cult titled Floatillion. Most prestigiously, sometimes he posts comics on Twitter.


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Every summer, my in laws take the kids for a week (or two.) Usually, this means the husband and I fix up the house or do something equally as boring. This year, I decided we were going to go away and do something fun. House repairs and work could wait.
I grew up visiting the Adirondacks, and while my family still has a house there we could have used for free, we knew we wanted to have a different type of Adirondacks experience this time around. The husband and I both camped a ton before the kids were born and I've missed it a ton. In the end, we chose to camp at the Lake Placid / Whiteface Mtn. KOA Kampground.
As the name implies, the Lake Placid / Whiteface Mtn. KOA sits in the shadows of Whiteface Mountain in Wilmington, NY (located about 20 minutes outside of Lake Placid, NY.) We chose a KOA this time around because we knew we could expect clean, spacious sites, plenty of bathhouses, and a camp store for any last-minute purchases. In other words, we didn't want a primitive campground. Mama wanted to shower every day, but still feel like we were really camping.
KOA also offers a great military discount- we saved 20% off our stay! Four nights of camping for well under $100 fits our budget quite nicely, especially when you can easily save even more money by cooking meals right at the campsite.
The Lake Placid / Whiteface Mtn. KOA features full and partial hook-up sites for RV's and campers, tent sites (no hook-ups), and several types of cabins. It also has a pool, arcade, snack bar, laundry facilities, store, bike rentals, playgrounds, organized activities, mini golf, plenty of walking trails, access to the Ausable River, and free WiFi (although we could never get it to stay connected for longer than a minute or two.) The staff was always friendly and available if we needed anything.
When I made the reservations, I requested a site with privacy. We were camping without our kids and I wanted to be as far away from anyone else's children as possible. I love kids, just not when I'm trying to have a relaxing, kid-free vacation. We wanted to be able to enjoy a quiet campfire every night and wake up to the sounds of nature in the morning, not the sounds of other campers. KOA delivered.
I'm pretty sure we couldn't have had more privacy. Our site was located at the very end of the campground, with plenty of trees and shade. The campsite was (mostly) level, with a fire ring, picnic table, and plenty of space for parking.
We could barely see our neighbors (the blue tent in the photo below), who ended up checking out on our second day. No one else occupied that campsite for the rest of our trip, so we were really off on our own site of the campground. It was amazing. We never had issues with noise from other campers, and the staff drove around during quiet hours to make sure everything was peaceful.
We were right along the path that led out of the campground and across the street to The Hungry Trout restaurant and another that led down to the river. We fell asleep and woke up to the glorious sounds of the rushing river and now my sound machine just seems pathetic. We hiked down to the river while enjoying our morning beverages. It was the perfect way to start the day.
A little further down the river path is a swimming hole, complete with rock jumping. I was not brave enough to try it out, but there were tons of people down there each day, happily jumping 20ft down into the river. Nope.
The bath houses were clean and we never waited more than a few minutes for a shower or restroom. The floors do get muddy, which is inevitable in a campground. Just bring shower shoes and you'll be fine. The water pressure was glorious. Nothing beats a hot shower after hiking up a mountain. Well, nothing other than a cold beer and a hot shower. Just not together.
The bath house we used also had a stove/oven and a large sink, which we used to wash our dishes each day. (I forgot to take pictures of our bath house, so you'll have to settle for one I took in another part of the campground. Most of the bath houses are similar, with an outdoor sink, showers, and bathrooms. Some had laundry facilities included, and one we saw was basically an outhouse, but they're all a short walk from each other if you need something different.)
The best thing about the Lake Placid / Whiteface Mtn. KOA, though, was the location. Whiteface Mountain's entrance was a mile away, downtown Lake Placid was a gorgeous 20 minute drive, and we had easy access for our High Peaks hike. We're used to staying in our family cabin just outside of Adirondack Park near Lake Champlain, and we enjoyed staying in the Wilmington/Lake Placid area much more. We may even stay at the campground when the rest of the family is staying at our family cabin.
I read a ton of reviews when we were deciding on a campground and the majority of reviewers said they'd stay at the Lake Placid / Whiteface Mtn. KOA again and that it's, by far, one of the best KOA properties. After our visit, I have to say that I completely agree. We'll be staying at the Lake Placid / Whiteface Mtn. KOA again in the very near future, maybe even with the kids in tow next time. And my new camper.
Is there anything you'd like to know about the Lake Placid / Whiteface Mtn. KOA or tent camping in the Lake Placid area? Leave a comment and let me know and I'll answer it the best I can!
This post about the Lake Placid/Whiteface KOA was originally published on FiddleDeeMe.com in July 2015.

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BY his own admission, Rhys Weston didn't have the best of games when he made his first Wales start in the Millennium Stadium friendly against Bosnia-Herzegovina.
But the Cardiff City right-back is in good company. The great John Charles, the finest footballer Wales has produced, also had a nightmare on his international debut against Northern Ireland in 1950.
Weston deputised for the injured Mark Delaney, but his dream night turned into a nightmare after four minutes when he was caught out for Bosnia's first goal in the 2-2 draw. Wales manager Mark Hughes replaced him with Matthew Jones.
It is to Weston's credit, then, that he has refused to let the Bosnia blues get the better of him and has bounced back for the Bluebirds.
He has been one of City's most solid performers in their last two matches, against Plymouth Argyle and Port Vale and has another key role today in the Division Two clash at Stockport.
Speaking for the first time about the Bosnia game, Weston said, "I'm under no doubt, I didn't play well.
"It was a learning experience for me and, for a 22-year-old who plays in the Second Division week in, week out, playing international football is quite an achievement."
Weston was exposed inside five minutes when Galatasaray striker Elvir Baljic - a former Real Madrid player - cut inside him before rifling the ball past Darren Ward.
"I'm my own biggest critic and I know I started that game shakily," said Weston. "I was at fault for their first goal, but the more the game went on, the more comfortable I felt. I could have gone to pieces after Baljic scored but I didn't and that was pleasing. I've got to take positives out of that game.
"A year ago it might have affected me, but I've worked hard on building up my character. If you make a mistake there's no point worrying about it.
"The Bosnia game was a big match for me. I was nervous, very much so, and the start I had didn't help. Despite what happened, I will always look back at the match fondly.
"I found out after the game that Baljic played for Real Madrid. He's a very good player and I'd like to think I had the hardest job on the pitch!"
Weston, who has missed only one of City's league games this season, the 2-0 home defeat against Bristol City, went on, "The other Welsh players, like Andy Melville, Gary Speed and Robert Page, were great with me at half-time. They told me to forget about the first Bosnian goal.
"That's the way things are with Wales at the moment. The established players make the new ones feel welcome and everyone helps each other.
"Mark didn't say much. He has his own style. He's not one to wrap up a player in cotton wool. If he thinks you can do it he will put you in. That's the way I prefer it."
Hughes will have a defensive problem if Delaney is still sidelined for the crunch Euro 2004 qualifiers against Azerbaijan in Cardiff on March 29 and Serbia-Montenegro in Belgrade on April 2.
"I don't know what Mark will do for those two games. That's a different scenario because they're European Championship matches," continued Weston.
"The only thing I can do is turn up - if selected - and show him what I'm capable of in training.
"I came on against Azerbaijan in Baku and I did OK, but we were winning 2-0 at the time and Azerbaijan had practically given up."
City manager Lennie Lawrence had plenty of words of comfort for Weston after his Bosnia experience and has told him his aim must be to dislodge Delaney, whom Weston rates as the best right-back in the Premiership.
"I've got a lot of respect for Delaney. He's a fantastic player and he's done it the hard way," he said.
"I know he's the No 1 right-back for
Wales. My ultimate aim is to displace him, but that's going to take me a fair time."
Weston's priority today is to ensure the Bluebirds follow up last Tuesday's impressive 2-0 win at Port Vale with another victory at Stockport.
Promotion-chasing Bluebirds have not won back-to-back league games since the end of November and the defender knows that has to change. "We got a fantastic result against Port Vale and it's imperative we push on from that," he said.
Lawrence is expected to field the XI that started at Vale Park, with Gavin Gordon continuing to partner Peter Thorne and Robert Earnshaw in a 4-3-1-2 system.


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I've never liked things popping up when I select words since I select words all the time to keep my place while reading, however that was easily disabled.Easily disabled provided you are using a website with a WHITE background. If you try using it on a website the a dark background it's impossible to read the options.However, being able to use regular expressions to search pages is AWESOME!! I've been waiting for a plugin to do this for years.So thank you very much kind sir :)
Edit: Unfortunately I am unable to take a screenshot of the options menu. When I try to take a screenshot the options menu disappears. The issue is that the background appears transparent. It might be a Ubuntu or Linux issue, I assume you use windows.
Don't take it personal, I rarely give 5 star ratings.
The options are perfectly readable on sites with dark background - which site didn't work for you? I haven't found one not working. UPDATE: I've tested FS on both Ubuntu (in VirtualBox) and RH Linux before, and didn't see any background problem. So it's likely related to the specific website you went to that may have a CSS rule overriding Addon SDK's panel's CSS, which, if happened, is more an Addon SDK issue. Anyhow I need to reproduce it to fix it. END UPDATE
Frankly, simply because this addon is practically the only usable/correct FF addon that does regex search for you, IMO it should already deserve a 5-star from a regex user's standpoint - if this feature was easy, why Firefox/other addons don't do it?
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This tank paper model is the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Burstyn Tank, this tank papercraft is designed by CT Ertz and from landships. The Burstyn tank was a paper proposal by an Austrian Army officer Gunther Burstyn, afer he saw tracked agricultural tractors. The Austro-Hungarian authorities showed no interest when it was proposed to them in 1911. Burstyn eventually patented his design but did not progress beyond a paper project. HGM (Heeresgesschichtliches Museum) in Vienna constructed a full sized model of the Burstyn tank in 2011. The folding "arms" on the tank were designed to help with trench crossing. The front pair were capable of swivelling to help with steering. [via CT Ertz]
An Austrian army officer, k.u.k Genie-Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn (born on 6/7 1879 in Bad Aussee, Steiermark, and dead 15/4 1945 in Korneuburg, Niederösterreich) inspired by the sight of the American Holt agricultural tractor with crawler tracks, designed a small tracked vehicle, which he called a Motorgeschütz (motor-gun), built it in model form, and sent this and the design to the Austrian War Office in October 1911. Had it been built the vehicle would have been 3.5m long, 1.9m wide and 1.9m high. Cross-country speed would have been about 8 km/h, road speed 29 km/h. It would be propelled by a 60HP Truck Engine. The four subsidiary wheels, two at each end on arms, could be lowered as required, the rear pair being driven as an aid to traction and the front pair, which could be pivoted, being intended for steering. It was supposed to have an armament of a small calibre fast fire gun (30-40mm calibre). Its tactical use would be close support of Infantry Attacks, for suppression of enemy MG's, and also frontal attacks against enemy artillery positions.
The Austro-Hungarian War Office returned the designs to Burstyn saying they might be interested if a commercial firm could build it: Burstyn had no industrial contacts and so let the matter drop. Also, the War Office declined to finance any further work. Meanwhile the German War Department asked to see the design, but were not enthusiastic even though a leading German military periodical keenly endorsed the idea. A further complication arose when Burstyn in 1912 sought to patent the design and was told that this could not be granted as it infringed existing patents, including those for agricultural tractors. (He eventually was granted a patent, no Zl. 252 815 DRP.) Thus discouraged, Burstyn allowed the idea to drop, and it never progressed beyond paper.[via landships]
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Layne Energy Solicits Coalbed Methane E&P Concession
US oil and gas company Layne Energy has requested a special operations contract from Chile's mining and energy ministry to develop "unconventional gas" in Region VIII.
Development mainly would cover exploration and eventual production of natural gas from methane coal beds, according to a statement from parent company Layne Christensen.
The requested exploration concession relates to a 720,000-acre (2,900 sq km) area in the Arauco basin.
The ministry will negotiate exclusively with Layne, which aims to sign a contract by year-end to begin testing and exploration by the start of the southern hemisphere summer, the statement said.
If successful, the company could begin production in 2008, according to a ministry statement.
The project would mark the first exploration of coalbed natural gas conducted in gas-hungry Chile and could provide new hope for the country's energy diversification efforts, the statement said.
"We believe the Arauco Basin offers exceptional resource potential with shallow access to thick coals at gas contents often seen in the better western US basins. The project area has nearby infrastructure with access to both industrial and consumer markets," Layne Energy's president Colin Kinley said in the company statement.
Layne Energy would develop the project with a partner while maintaining a 50% working interest.
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In 2008, about 50 million people in America checked the "Religious None" box. Ten million of those are ardent atheists. This means that the rest of these 40 million people aren't really sure what they believe. The nones account for more than More than Charismatic, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Mormons and Muslims put together. You (hopefully) have friends, neighbors and coworkers that fall into this category. People like David Noise, author of Unbeliever Nation, are on a campaign to claim the
Friends at DG put this interview together when I was out in Minneapolis to speak on Unbelievable Evangelism. Here is the original post.
Here's a string of new videos to go with my book The Unbelievable Gospel, which won "Book of the Year" in the Evangelism/Apologetics category in the Christianity Today awards. Feel free to use them in teaching, posting on your blog, or however they might be helpful. What is Re-evangelization? from Jonathan Dodson on Vimeo. Does Anything Need to Change in Personal Evangelism? from Jonathan Dodson on Vimeo. Why Do People Find the Gospel Unbelievable? from Jonathan Dodson on Vimeo. What
In this brief talk, I respond to the evangelistic crisis in America by revisiting evangelical approaches to evangelism. Taking the radical perspective of Jesus' approach to evangelism, I uncover practices that are countercultural to American Christianity. This talk was adapted from content in my new book The Unbelievable Gospel: Say Something Worth Believing. If it's of interest, there are a ton of resources at www.unbelievablegospel.com


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I just started the process for my Q clearance for a fellowship research position. Unfortunately, I have some concerns that I might be disqualified. When I applied, accepted, and started work for the fellowship, I was not informed that I would be going through this security clearance process. I was told about 2 weeks into the position that I was being recommended for the clearance. If I had known the intensity & scope of the background investigation for the clearance, then I might not have accepted the position. Now my concern is that I will lose this fellowship if I am disqualified.
Has anyone heard of a person losing their fellowship because of failure to get a Q clearance or any other type of clearance? If so, can you explain the situation and final outcome?
If the fellowship stipulates that a certain clearance eligibility is a requirement then yes, if you are denied eligibility you could lose the fellowship. If the clearance aspect was an add-on after the fact and not a requirement then it is a toss-up depending on what the issues are.
Thanks for the reply. The disqualification issues are specifically related to drug use throughout the 10 year investigation period. If I am disqualified for this history, do you know if I would be eligible for the Q clearance after abstaining from drug use for 12 months? Or do you think the fellowship would be rescinded due to my failure to attain the clearance after the first application.
I am also going to thoroughly read through my fellowship acceptance information for stipulations related to security clearances.
If you were not honest on the SF86 that will work against you. If the drug use in question was minor and 8 years prior but still reported it would seem mitigated by time. Think whole person concept vice one issue. Did the fellowship state as many applications do "must be able to obtain a Q clearance? If so, then yes I would expect to lose the fellowship. You will need the Q clearance to access the documents required for your fellowship. Without the clearance you cannot have access and cannot perform in the fellowship.


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- Details have come to light of how a Kajiado family's situation has changed since the publicising of the father and son's love triangle with a British woman
- Elders in the family's clan are involved, and are trying to solve the family's ongoing crisis
Strange new details have emerged in the love triangle situation of a man, his son, and a British woman, since their story went public a couple of days ago.
Mzee Rempesa ole Kirkoya, 40, and his 19 year-old son Lawrence Kanare from Olooshobor, Kajiado County have been shunned by the community, and elders are preparing to perform cleansing rituals on them so that they can be accepted back.
This is after they were embroiled in a love triangle with a 26-year-old gym receptionist from Kent, UK, Rebekah O'Brien.
During a recent interview with Daily Mail, O'Brien, who is back in the UK, said she met and fell in love with the Maasai moran aged 40 and married him in 2013, although he was already married to his Kenyan wife Joyce (deceased).
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It has also emerged that Rempesa's wife committed suicide after the Maasai moran sold the family's two acres of land to entertain O'Brien, reported The Standard.
O'Brien in the Daily Mail interview, said Joyce died of "an accidental overdose".
Rempesa's brother Joseph Kirkoya said he (Rempesa) broke up with O'Brien in early 2014 after Joyce committed suicide, just before O'Brien gave birth to the couple's baby girl, who died weeks later.
The British woman shortly after became romantically involved with Rempesa's eldest son, but Rempesa denied this, and even denied that O'Brien's two-week-old son is Lawrence's.
READ ALSO: Emotional tribute of woman whose husband was killed in a tragic love triangle
O'Brien had told Daily Mail that she sent Lawrence £600 (KSh 88,400) to go to Britain and see their newborn son, but Lawrence, a Standard Seven pupil, denies receiving any money.
He however admitted to being the father of the son, contrary to his father's assertion.
Elders have vowed to not allow Lawrence step out of the country to be with the foreign woman who is at the centre of a family's anguish and embarrassment, even if it means staging demonstrations at the British Embassy to block Lawrence from obtaining a UK visa.
Joyce left behind four young children, who are also bearing the brunt of their father's and elder brother's actions.
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President Rody Duterte never forgets.
Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel "Manny" Piñol on Tuesday posted an update on his social media, with regards on his duty to help our fellow Filipino farmers.
In his post, Piñol approached President Duterte and reminded him of their commitment. As expected, Duterte positively said that he never forgotwhat he have promised.
"I have not forgotten. That's a commitment which will be fulfilled,"Duterte said as he promised for free irragation for the farmers.
According to Pinol, the 60% of the payment during the irragation will go to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA).
It means that big part of their profit only goes to the irrigation fees.
That's why prior to Duterte assumed in the office he already vowed to have a free rrigation for the farmers, especially the small ones.
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Rody Duterte never forgets.
Last night, as the 4-hour long third Cabinet meeting came to a close in Malacañang, I approached President Rody Duterte and reminded him of our commitment during the campaign of providing free irrigation water to the country's small rice farmers.
"Mr. President, I would like to inform you that I have done my leg work to realize our commitment of free irrigation to the rice farmers," I told him.
"I have not forgotten. That's a commitment which will be fulfilled," he told me even as he reminded me that the rice farmers will have to organize themselves and make sure that the irrigation canals are well maintained even as the irrigation water will be provided free.
It was actually during a visit to my hometown in M'lang, North Cotabato in August of 2015 when then Mayor Rody Duterte was briefed on the problems of rice farmers who have to shell out a huge part of their harvest to pay for irrigation fees.
Of the total irrigation fees paid by the rice farmers every harvest, 60% goes to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) as Irrigation Service Fees (ISF) which is used to pay for the salaries and wages of the agency's officials and employees.
Nation-wide every year, the NIA collects over P3-B while the services have remained very poor.
It was then when Mayor Duterte publicly declared that should he become President, he will make sure that irrigation water will be provided free to the small rice farmers.
"Why ask the Filipino farmers to pay for what is theirs?," he asked maintaining that water is national patrimony owned by the Filipinos.
When I informed him that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Loren Legarda has promised to support his free irrigation commitment to the farmers, the President was obviously elated.
There are actually two ways of realizing the President's commitment of free irrigation and these are the amendment of NIA's charter or an annual support of P4-B to cover the ISF.
Whatever is the case, the President's commitment of free irrigation will certainly be realized.
When Rody Duterte makes a promise, he makes sure it is fulfilled.
#Changeishere! #PresRodyCares! #DuterteDelivers!


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Christine McDannell of Eco Chateau Spa
North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: October 19, 2012
Today my guest is Christine McDannell of Eco Chateau Spa in Mission Valley.
Eco Chateau does not believe in a passive statement echoing a half hearted commitment to trendy ideas.
The Vision and Mission of Eco Chateau is a living document. It represents an actionable plan that continuously reaches towards the ideal of sustaining Eco Chateau customers by renewing the Eco Chateau world.
Such an endeavor requires input from all involved. The founding team has been intimately involved in the creation of Eco Chateau's Vision and Mission. Finishing touches are currently being applied. While they may not be able to unveil it quite yet. Eco Chateau is confident that you will be pleased and impressed when they do.
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State of Society Report 2010
Minneapolis Friends Meeting State of Society Report: Fourth Month 2009- third month, 2010
In the spring of 2010 Minneapolis Friends Meeting is responding to leadings to deepen our faith, to become more welcoming, to be true to that of God in our heritage, and to bring our voice and values to our larger communities. We are in the midst of change — changing the timing of our monthly meeting for worship with attention to business, initiating an on-going Meeting-wide process for racial healing, exploring participation in Quaker Quest, considering another trip to visit our F/friends in Cuba, continuing to revise First Day School curricula for our youth while also identifying needs for adult education, updating the tasks and guidelines for our standing committees, and simplifying how we record minutes at business meeting.
The impetus for change comes from many directions. It comes as we look at who we are in order to authentically welcome new attenders, as we ask what we need from each other to grow spiritually, and as we discern Spirit's priorities for our energy and resources. To use the language of our Christian heritage, how do we live in the Kingdom of God now? Addressing these issues has revealed disparate needs and competing ideas as well as new opportunities to speak our truth and listen deeply to one another. How do we use and evolve our Quaker process of discernment and listening for that of God in each of us to make change with integrity, in Spirit and in love?
In November, 2009 two groups began reading a chapter a month of Fit for Freedom, not for Friendship. Discussions of Quaker racism and attempts to address it are rich and provocative. In these and other discussions, Friends state that we are missing something by remaining primarily of European descent. How do we need to change to become more inclusive and whole?
This winter Monthly Meeting approved the Adult Program Committee's proposal for a five month, weekly exploration of Quaker spirituality, faith, history, and testimonies. This involved changing a longstanding practice whereby Peace and Social Concerns Committee invited a speaker for one adult program session per month. The resulting discomfort sparked a discussion; what do adults in the Meeting need to nurture and express our faith, and how much of that can we as a Meeting provide for ourselves? We held a threshing session on a Wednesday night attended by 20 people. It became clear that our needs for education, connection and spiritual sustenance are varied and cannot be met in one 45-minute period on Sunday. We continue to grapple individually and collectively with both the perception and reality that we do not have enough time for all that is important to us. Perhaps as we move forward, we will embody the wisdom, expressed in Ecclesiastes, that there is a time for everything under heaven.
We struggle to see what work is ours to be done, and how to organize ourselves to do it. It is difficult to fill standing committees while energy bubbles up for activities outside of the committee structure. In March 2009, we laid down Advancement and Outreach and approved a two year ad hoc committee to focus on newcomers. With great excitement we've begun the first major re-design of our website with the intention that it serve internal communication needs as well as make us more visible to those who want to find us. In the spirit of welcoming, we also keep our elevator in good repair, and we are grateful for the gift of a new amplifier for our microphones, so all may hear and be heard. Our Marriage Oversight Committee is developing ways to meet the ongoing needs of those whose marriages are under the care of the Meeting. Death and Memorial Committee is clarifying the tasks involved in caring for those facing death and identifying those able to provide service in doing these tasks.
As a Meeting we have been able to meet expenses. We addressed the recession by eliminating items from our budget for 2009-2010 that we hoped we could later add back in. In May of 2010 we approved re-funding these items with a budget surplus. For 2010-2011, we decided to approve our full budget with an awareness that we might have to take items out if revenues are not adequate. At the same time many individuals and families are struggling with a lack of adequate employment. We experimented with informal structures to connect those with needs with those with resources. Two groups formed to provide mutual support during long unemployment and other economic stresses.
We continue to speak publicly from Quaker testimonies. Three members spoke of simplicity and environmental stewardship with our US Senator, Amy Klobuchar. Two members attended our US Congressperson, Keith Ellison's Interfaith Gathering and were humbled by the work of other faith communities. Three members participated in an annual interfaith lobby day at the state capitol. Ten people participated in "The [first] Great Minnesota Walk to Worship" weekend. Ministry and Counsel created a map of the homes of members and attenders who are interested in sharing rides. Many continue active participation in the Alternatives to Violence Project, locally and nationally.
We are renewed by participation in the wider community of Friends. Thirteen attended a clerking workshop at TCFM by Arthur Larabbee. Fourteen attended a metro-wide half day session on sharing our Quaker faith and experience with family, friends and newcomers. One member is on Friends General Conference Central Committee. Another, on AFSC's Friends Relation Committee. Our youth participated in NYM youth retreats in Milwaukee and Madison and at our own meetinghouse.
We note a continuing change in leadership as the elders of families who strengthened the Meeting in the second half of the 20th century are less and less active. We thank God for the strong, Spirit-based legacy they have given. We are blessed with an increase in the number of new attenders many of whom are in their 20s and 30s, an age group which is not strongly represented in our current membership. There are currently 21 children enrolled in FDS, and we note a 12% decrease in the number of nursery visits. Many carry a concern for more interaction between the adults and the youth.
As we undergo change, we continue meaningful traditions as well; our 53rd annual Fall Camp week-end, our active support and hosting of the winter fund-raiser for Friends for a Non-Violent World, our annual White Envelope Gift, which this year went to an international group, Water for Peace: Iraqi & American Reconciliation Project; and in Minneapolis, the Peace House: A Place to Belong.
We are thankful for many gifts shared among us and note two specific causes for celebration. In January, we celebrated the gift of 10 years of service of the Meeting's administrative assistant. And we eagerly await the publication of a history of the meeting, from 1850 to 1950 researched and written by one member with the counsel of several others.
May we be strengthened by knowledge of our past and willing to change and be changed so that our future is vibrant and joyful, we are more deeply welcoming, and our faith-based voices can bring about heaven's values on earth.
Minneapolis Friends Meeting Membership Report
Fourth Month 2009 – Third Month 2010
Generally stated, there are currently 90 active adult members of Minneapolis Monthly Meeting and 9 active associate members.
There are 55 regular adult attenders and 22 regular attenders who are children.
New members: 4 adults by convincement
New associate members – 3 children
Released members: 3 adults
by death – 1
by transfer – 2


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A sweet mother and son were my third holiday mini session of the day. Fun fact – Kristy is related to Melissa from the previous session (sisters!) so it was one big family affair. So much fun.
As soon as our session started, I knew Kristy and Chayce have that super special mother/son bond, and it certainly came through on their photos. Just another great session in the books!


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|Tipo de publicación
|Número de solicitud
|Fecha de publicación
|27 Ene 2004
|Fecha de presentación
|16 Sep 2002
|Fecha de prioridad
|20 Abr 2000
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|Ravi Ramaswami, Victor Joseph, Colin C. Davis, Ronnie J. Yenchik, Daniel A. Kearl, Martha A. Truninger, Roberto A. Pugliese, Jr., Ronald L. Enck
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|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/556,035 filed on Apr. 20, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,482,574 which is hereby incorporated by reference herein.
This invention relates to the construction of a droplet plate.
An ink-jet printer includes one or more cartridges that contain a reservoir of ink. The reservoir is connected by a conduit to a printhead that is mounted to the body of the cartridge.
The printhead is controlled for ejecting minute droplets of ink from the printhead to a printing medium, such as paper, that is advanced through the printer. The ejection of the droplets is controlled so that the droplets form images on the paper.
In a typical printhead, the ink droplets are expelled through orifices that are formed in an orifice plate that covers most of the printhead. The orifice plate is usually electroformed with nickel and coated with a precious metal for corrosion resistance. Alternatively, the orifice plate is made from a laser-ablated polyimide material.
The orifice plate is bonded to an ink barrier layer of the printhead. This barrier layer is made from photosensitive material that is laminated onto the printhead substrate, exposed, developed, and cured in a configuration that defines ink chambers. The chambers have one or more channels that connect the chambers with the reservoir of ink. Each chamber is continuous with one of the orifices from which the ink droplets are expelled.
The ink droplets are expelled from each ink chamber by a heat transducer, such as a thin-film resistor. The resistor is carried on the printhead substrate, which is preferably a conventional silicon wafer upon which has been grown an insulation layer, such as silicon dioxide. The resistor is covered with suitable passivation and other layers, as is known in the art and is described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,719,477, hereby incorporated by reference.
To expel an ink droplet, the resistor is driven (heated) with a pulse of electrical current. The heat from the resistor is sufficient to form a vapor bubble in the surrounding ink chamber. The rapid expansion of the bubble instantaneously forces a droplet through the associated orifice. The chamber is refilled after each droplet ejection with ink that flows into the chamber through the channel(s) that connects with the ink reservoir.
In the past, the orifice plate and barrier layer were mechanically aligned and bonded together, usually in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment. Inasmuch as the orifice plate and barrier layers are made of different material, the need for precisely aligning these two components is complicated by the differences in their coefficients of thermal expansion. Also, this approach to constructing a printhead limits the minimum thickness of the bonded components to about 25 μm, which thus prevents the use of very small droplet volumes with the attendant high resolution and thermal efficiencies such use would permit.
Currently, the notion of an integrally formed orifice plate and barrier layer has been considered. For clarity, an integrated orifice plate and barrier layer will be hereafter referred to as a droplet plate, which is a unitary plate defining both the ink chambers and orifices (the orifices hereafter referred to as nozzles). It will be appreciated that such a plate eliminates the problems associated with the orifice plate and barrier layer construction just mentioned.
Manufacture of such a droplet plate may be carried out using photolithographic techniques, which techniques generally offer a high degree of design latitude. It is desirable, however, to arrive at a simple, reliable fabrication process that has very precise dimension control as well as one that results in materials that are robust and inert.
The present invention concerns a process for fabricating a droplet plate and provides design flexibility, precise dimension control, as well as material robustness. Also provided is a droplet plate fabricated in accord with the process.
Other advantages and features of the present invention will become clear upon study of the following portion of this specification and the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an inkjet cartridge that carries a printhead having a droplet plate formed in accordance with one preferred approach to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional diagram of a printhead substrate onto which the droplet plate of the present invention is formed.
FIGS. 3-8 are diagrams showing preferred steps undertaken in making a droplet plate in accord with one approach to the present invention.
FIGS. 9-12 are diagrams showing preferred steps undertaken in making a droplet plate in accord with another approach to the present invention.
The process generally comprises a two-stage deposition and patterning/etching procedure whereby the firing chambers in the droplet plate are formed first, followed by the nozzles. The process does not rely on etch selectivity between materials. As a result, a good deal of design flexibility is provided in selecting the droplet plate material. In this regard, robust, highly inert materials can be used as the droplet plate to provide effective resistance to chemical attack, such as from the ink.
The deposition aspect of the process is preferably carried out using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), which, among other things, permits the use of the highly inert materials (such as silicon oxide) as compared to, for instance, spin-on polymers and epoxies. Sputter deposition, also known as physical vapor deposition (PVD), may also be employed for depositing the dielectric material.
Although an integrated droplet plate (comprising both firing chambers and associated nozzles) is fabricated by the process of the present invention, the process steps are such that the firing chambers and nozzles may be shaped independently of one another.
In a preferred embodiment, the droplet plate is formed directly on the printhead substrate, which substrate carries the heat transducers as mentioned above. A dielectric material layer is deposited via PECVD onto the substrate and shaped to form firing chambers. In one approach, this shaping is carried out by depositing the layer to a depth matching that of the firing chamber and then employing reactive-ion-etching to define the chamber volume.
The chamber volume is then filled with sacrificial material, which is planarized before an additional amount of dielectric material is deposited to a depth desired as the thickness of the nozzle. The nozzle volume is then etched and the sacrificial material removed to complete the droplet plate fabrication.
In another embodiment, a single deposit of dielectric material is made over previously placed bumps of sacrificial material. The bumps are sized to match the volume of the firing chambers and are placed over each heat transducer. The layer is then etched to define the nozzles, and the sacrificial material is then removed, yielding a droplet plate that is produced with a single PECVD step.
With reference to FIG. 1, a printhead 26 having a droplet plate formed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention may be carried on an inkjet cartridge 20. The cartridge 20 includes a plastic body 22 that comprises a liquid ink reservoir. As such, the cartridge 20 includes both the ink supply and printhead. It will be clear upon reading this description, however, that a printhead having a droplet plate according to the present invention may be used with any of a variety of cartridge configurations, including for example, cartridges having very small reservoirs that are connected to larger-volume remote ink supplies.
The illustrated pen body 22 is shaped to have a downwardly extending snout 24. The printhead 26 is attached to the underside of the snout 24. The printhead 26 is formed with minute nozzles from which are ejected ink droplets onto the printing medium.
Referring next to FIG. 8, which is an enlarged cross sectional view of a droplet plate 30 after its final fabrication step, each printhead nozzle 32 is integrally formed with the droplet plate 30 and opens to a firing chamber 34 in the droplet plate. The small volume of ink in the firing chamber 34 is fired through the associated nozzle 32 toward print media.
As mentioned earlier, the droplet firing is caused by the rapid vaporization of some of the ink in the chamber by a heat transducer, such as a thin-film resistive layer. The resistor is part of the printhead substrate 38, described more below. In the present invention, the droplet plate 30 is formed directly on the substrate 38, thereby eliminating the need for separately bonding together those two parts. FIG. 8 depicts only a piece of the droplet plate 30 that includes two nozzles 32, although a typical droplet plate 30 will have several nozzles.
The description of the process for making the droplet plate of the present invention is begun with particular reference to FIG. 2, which shows the printhead substrate 38 before fabrication of the droplet plate 30. The substrate 38 includes a silicon base 40, which is preferably a conventional silicon wafer upon which has been grown an insulation layer, such as silicon dioxide.
As described in the prior art, such as U.S. Pat. No. 4,719,477, a layer of resistive material, such as tantalum aluminum, includes portions that are individually connected by conductive layers to traces on a flex circuit 42 (FIG. 1) that is mounted to the exterior of the cartridge body 22. Those traces terminate in exposed contacts 44 that mate with like contacts on a printer carriage (not shown), which in turn is connected, as by a ribbon-type multi conductor, to the printhead drive circuitry and microprocessor of the printer. The printer microprocessor controls the current pulses for firing individual resistors as needed.
The heat transducer portions of the resistive layer are part of what may be collectively referred to as the control layer 48 (and shown as a single layer in the figures) of the substrate 38, which includes passivation and other sub-layers as described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,719,477. The hatched portions 36 in the control layer 48 illustrate the location of the heat transducers. The heat transducers 36 are connected with the conductive layers and traces as mentioned above.
Ink feed holes 50 are formed through the control layer 48 on the substrate, spaced from conductive and resistive portions of the control layer. The feed holes 50 provide fluid communication between the firing chambers 34 (FIG. 8) and associated conduits 52 that are etched into the underside of the substrate 38. These conduits 52 are connected to ink reservoir(s) so that the chambers 34 can be refilled after each droplet is fired. Although the conduits 52 and feed holes 50 appear in FIG. 2, it is noted that these components may be formed in the printhead substrate after the droplet plate fabrication is complete.
FIG. 3 shows a first step in the fabrication of a droplet plate directly upon the substrate 38. A first layer 60 of dielectric material is deposited onto the substrate 38. The dielectric material 60 is selected to be robust, highly inert, and resistive to chemical attack. Acceptable materials include silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbide or combinations of these three. Other materials include amorphous silicon, silicon oxynitride, and diamondlike carbon (DLC). The deposition is carried out by conventional plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) or high-density plasma PECVD (HDP-PCVD). Alternatively, high-rate sputter deposition may be utilized. In any event, it will be appreciated that the process of the present invention advantageously uses deposition (and etching) techniques well understood by those of ordinary skill in the art. Process parameters, such as power, pressure, gas flow rates and temperature, can be readily established for a selected dielectric material.
Preferably, the first layer 60 of dielectric material is deposited to thickness of 5-20 μm, which matches the thickness (or height) of the firing chamber 34 as measured vertically in FIG. 8 from the top of the substrate 38.
After the deposition of the first layer 60, conventional photoimagable material 62 is applied to the first dielectric layer 60 and patterned to define the shape (considered in plan view) of the firing chambers 34 (FIG. 4). The photoimagable material may be any soft or hard mask such as photoresist, epoxy polyamideacrylate, photoimagable polyimide, or other appropriate photoimagable material. Hard mask material might include a dielectric or metal material that could be imaged using the above-mentioned soft masking material.
It will be appreciated that, in addition to the firing chambers shapes, the foregoing step could be employed to define lateral ink feed channels that extend across the substrate to conduct ink to each chamber from a feed slot that is remote from the chamber. This ink channel configuration would be employed as an alternative to the feed holes 50 described above. Exemplary ink feed channels are depicted in U.S. Pat. No. 5,441,593, hereby incorporated by reference. The ink feed channels are processed (filled with sacrificial material, planarized and covered with a second deposition of dielectric material) coincident with the subsequent processing steps of the chambers 34, as described next.
FIG. 4 shows the cavities that will become the firing chambers 34 of the droplet plate.
These cavities are present after the development of the patterned photoimagable material 62 (here, assuming positive resist) and etching of the dielectric layer 60. The etching step employs plasma etching or dry etching such as reactive-ion-etching (RIE). Here again, the selection of the etching process parameters would be well known to one of ordinary skill in the art.
It is noteworthy here that the firing chambers 34 are shown in the figures as identically sized and generally cylindrical in shape. It will be appreciated, however, that other shapes may be employed. Moreover, the sizes of some chambers relative to others may be different. This may be desirable where, for example, a printhead capable of firing multiple colors of inks or multiple ink-droplet sizes is employed. For example, in some applications it may be desirable to have the firing chambers that are dedicated to black ink to be twice as large as the chambers that are dedicated to colored ink. The process described here takes advantage of the design flexibility inherent in the use of the photoimagable material for defining the shape of the ink chambers, and thus permits, for example, the differential firing chamber sizing just mentioned.
After the cavities for the firing chambers 34 are defined in the first layer of dielectric material 60, the material is readied for the deposition of more of the same or similar type of dielectric material for spanning the top of the chamber 34. This second layer may be, for example, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, or combinations of these three. Other materials include amorphous silicon, silicon oxynitride, and diamondlike carbon (DLC).
Before the deposition of the second layer of dielectric material, the first layer is processed so that the firing chambers 34 are filled with sacrificial material 66 as shown in FIG. 5. This sacrificial material 66 may be photoresist or spin-on-glass (SOG), or any other material that can be selectively removed.
If SOG is used as the sacrificial material 66, that material is then planarized after curing so that its upper surface 68 matches the upper level of the first-deposited layer 60 of the dielectric material 60, as shown in FIG. 6. Conventional chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) can be used to achieve this planarization.
In the event that a photoresist or other selectively removable material is used as the sacrificial material 66, a resist etch back (REB) process can be used to planarize the sacrificial material to limit its extent to inside the cavities of the firing chambers 34 (and to the same height 68 as the firing chambers). Alternatively, a photoresist sacrificial material could be UV exposed and developed first in a manner such that the photoresist remains only in the cavities of the chambers 34. Afterward, that material could be made planar with the firing chamber by using either a CMP or REB process.
In the event that a photoresist is used as the sacrificial material, a hard bake step may be carried out before the second deposition of dielectric material, described next.
Once the sacrificial material 66 is planarized as described above, the second deposition of dielectric material 70 is made, preferably using the same or similar type of material (silicon dioxide, etc.) as is used in depositing the first layer 60. As shown in FIG. 7, this layer spans across the chambers 34 and is deposited at a thickness (for example, 5-15 μm) that matches the desired length (measured vertically in FIG. 7) of the nozzle 32.
FIG. 7 shows the second layer 70 of dielectric material after deposition and after nozzles 32 are formed through that layer to place the nozzles in communication with the underlying chambers 34 (the sacrificial material is later removed as explained below). The process step for forming of nozzles 32 in this embodiment is substantially similar to the process for defining the firing chambers. Specifically, conventional photoimagable material (not shown) is applied to the upper surface 72 of the second dielectric layer 70 and patterned to define the shape (considered in plan view) of the nozzles 32.
The patterned photoimagable material is developed (here, again, assuming positive resist, although negative resist can be used) and the second dielectric layer 70 is etched using plasma etching or dry etching.
It will be appreciated that the shapes of the nozzles 32 can be defined quite independently of the shapes of the firing chambers 34. Also, as was the case with the firing chambers, the diameter of some nozzles 32 may be different relative to other nozzles. This may be desirable where, for example, a printhead capable of firing multiple colors of inks is employed. Moreover, the precision and resolution inherent in the use of the photoimagable material for defining the shape of the nozzles permits formation of extremely small nozzles (as well as firing chambers) to obtain high-resolution printing and the thermal efficiencies that are available when heating relatively smaller volumes of ink.
As another advantage to having nozzle configurations formed independently of the chambers, it is contemplated that an asymmetrical nozzle/chamber relationship is possible (which may improve the overall hydraulic performance of the printhead). In the past, nozzles were most often formed to be centered over the chambers.
After the nozzles 32 are formed, the sacrificial material is removed. To this end, a plasma oxygen dry etch or a wet acid etch or solvent may be employed. The resulting droplet plate 30 (that is, with sacrificial material 66 removed) is depicted in FIG. 8.
FIGS. 9-12 are diagrams showing preferred steps undertaken in making a droplet plate 130 in accord with another approach to the present invention. This embodiment of the invention provides a droplet plate that can be formed on a substrate 38, as was the earlier described embodiment of the droplet plate 30. Consequently, a description of the particulars of the printhead substrate 38 will not be repeated here.
In the process illustrated in FIGS. 9-12, each heat transducer 36 and adjacent feed hole 50 are covered (FIG. 9) with a bump of sacrificial material 166 that is sized to correspond to the interior of the firing chamber 134 (FIG. 12). The bumps 166 may be provided by the application of a spin-on photoresist material that is later exposed and developed to remove the material between the resistors.
The initial configuration of the bumps, at this stage, will be generally cylindrical. As shown at dashed lines 167 in FIG. 9. In order to make the bumps 166 stable and able to withstand the high temperatures required in the later steps of this process, the bumps are baked for at least one minute at a temperate of about 200° C. As a consequence of the baking, the bumps 166 flow somewhat to take on the rounded shape depicted in FIG. 9. It will be appreciated, therefore, that one can select the amount of sacrificial bump material, as well as its thermal deformation characteristics such that a preferred firing chamber shape (somewhere between the original cylindrical shape and a uniform-radius curved shape) may be produced upon baking the bump material.
Deposition of high quality dielectrics at low temperatures is possible using high density plasma PCVD (HDP-PECVD) with wafer backside cooling. If HDP-PECVD is used in the following step to deposit the layer of dielectric material 160, it will be appreciated that the lower temperatures associated with the deposition step will permit a correspondingly lower temperature (for example 140° C.) for baking the bump material, assuming acceptable bump sidewall configurations can be achieved at such a temperature.
As shown in FIG. 10, a single layer of dielectric material 160 is next deposited onto the substrate 38 to cover the bumps 166. The dielectric material 160 is deposited using a PECVD or sputter deposition process, and the material selected is robust, highly inert, and resistive to chemical attack as was the dielectric material 60 described above. This layer 160 is deposited onto the substrate 38 over the bumps as well as in the regions between the individual bumps 166, thereby to physically separate one bump (hence, one firing chamber 134 and associated feed holes) from another.
This single-deposit layer 160 of dielectric material, in covering each bump, thus simultaneously provides the walls of the firing chambers 134 as well as the overall thickness of what, in prior art embodiments, would have been referred to as the orifice plate.
The nozzles 132 are then plasma or dry etched through this layer 160 (FIG. 11) and the sacrificial material 166 is removed as respectively described in connection with the steps of forming of the nozzles 32 and removing sacrificial material 66 in the earlier embodiment. As before, the shape of the nozzle 132 is formed independently of the shape of the firing chamber 134. It will be appreciated that, prior to removal of sacrificial material, the process step depicted in FIG. 11 is analogous to the step illustrated in FIG. 7 in that that there is a layer of dielectric material forming droplet plate firing chamber that is filled with sacrificial material.
While the present invention has been described in terms of preferred embodiments, it will be appreciated by one of ordinary skill that the spirit and scope of the invention is not limited to those embodiments, but extend to the various modifications and equivalents as defined in the appended claims.
Thus, having here described preferred embodiments of the present invention, the spirit and scope of the invention is not limited to those embodiments, but extend to the various modifications and equivalents of the invention defined in the appended claims.
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Ms. Zongus joined Pharmatech Associates in 1997 and currently oversees all accounting, finance, risk management, legal and human resources functions. Over the past two and half decades, Ms. Zongus has provided her expertise in finance, system designs and installations, project management and process improvement for an assortment of companies ranging from small privately held firms to which focused on providing accounting and human resource services to small emerging companies. Ms. Zongus has worked in a number of industries, including, hi-tech manufacturing, government, Big 4 consulting, transportation, construction, and professional services. The combination of Ms. Zongus' experiences has afforded her the knowledge necessary to guide Pharmatech through the ups and downs of the ever changing regulated life sciences industry and the economic environment while helping Pharmatech to improve performance, increase margins and become more competitive.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Zongus, among other positions, was the manager of Financial Planning and Budgeting for The Burke Company, a Treasury Analyst for Amdahl Corporation and a Senior Consultant for Arthur Andersen & Company's Consulting Division.
Ms. Zongus graduated from University of Santa Clara with a B.S.C. in Finance with emphases in Accounting and Economics.
Ms. Zongus is a staunch proponent for volunteerism and a passionate advocate for education. From her youth, she has actively volunteered for a number of organizations and served in various leadership capacities. Most recently, her efforts have been focused on supporting the many needs of public education in the Foster City and San Mateo areas.


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You won't believe how easy this project is going to be. In this easy peasy cutting board tutorial, I'm going to show you how I made a cutting board with only three simple tools. So, if you're on a budget and don't own or have space for many woodworking tools, you'll love this project.
Wooden cutting boards are a favorite craft I love to make as gifts for friends and family. Various woods can be used and laid out in different color combinations, resulting in amazing looking cutting boards for your kitchen. Also, I like the fact that they come from a renewable source. Don't we have enough plastic and synthetic materials in our kitchens already?
How did I get away with only three tools? The secret here is I bought the cutting boards as a Cutting Board Kit. The woods are all hardwoods, with different color variations. They were already planed and cut to almost the same dimensions. The kit I'll be showing in this tutorial was around $28. The second one I bought was around $20. So, you're paying for convenience here. If you sell cutting boards and are looking for a higher profit margin, this may not be the way to go. But it's certainly a good approach for making occasional gifts and if you don't have extra tools to cut your own boards.
Tools and Materials Used (affiliate links included for your convenience):
Cutting Board Kit No 3
Ryobi Disc/Belt Sander
DEWALT Random Orbit Sander
Titebond-3 Wood Glue, 16-Ounce
Bessey Parallel Clamp, 2-Pack
Cutting Board Oil, 12-Ounce
Safety Tips:
Read the safety instructions that come with your tools and follow those recommendations. Wear an approved dust mask or respirator. If you don't have a dust collector, I'd recommend doing the sanding outside.
And, now on to the Easy Peasy Cutting Board Tutorial:
Step 1 – Order and unpack the cutting board kit. I ordered two kits, but for this tutorial, I'll show how I made that top board in the photo above. The cutting board for this tutorial consists of walnut, cherry, maple, purpleheart and yellowheart. Hence, it made for a great color combination.
Both kits came in the mail in terrific condition. However, you should inspect your kits just to make sure you don't have any cracked, warped or damaged boards. Send it back or get a refund if the boards aren't in decent shape.
The dimensions of the finished board may vary, but my completed board came out to be 3/4 inch X 7 inches X 15 inches. Of course, the dimensions of the boards originally in the kit were different. Also, the cutting board kit you end of with may not be identical to Amazon's product description photos. But it was very close.
Step 2 – Lay out the cutting board. When you get the cutting board kit in the mail, the boards are already oriented for a pleasing design. You could rearrange the design, but I chose to keep the suggested arrangement.
As you can see here, walnut on the outside, cherry & maple in the middle. And then the two smaller strips — purpleheart and yellowheart — create an awesome contrast.
Step 3 – Glue the boards together. I like to place wax paper on my work surface which makes for easy cleanup later. Titebond III waterproof glue was my glue of choice, and I thoroughly coated one side of each board. Use your finger or a popsicle stick to spread the glue out.
Then, I transferred the boards (in the same arrangement) to my Bessey clamps. Bar clamps are also a popular way to clamp the boards. I like to place some painter's tape down on my clamping surfaces to protect the clamps and keep boards from adhering to the clamps.
Next, I like to check for alignment and make sure boards are spaced evenly and lying flat on the clamp surface. Squeeze the clamps fairly tight. Glue should be coming out of each joint which is a good thing. Then, I used a slightly damp paper towel to wiped excess glue away.
Allowed the glue to set up overnight.
Step 4 – Sand the cutting board. I removed the cutting board from the clamps and took it over to my Ryobi belt sander. If you have an electric-powered planer, use that. I don't have a planer so I used the belt sander. The beauty of using these kits is that the boards are so close to the same dimensions, a little bit of sanding is all I needed to do.
I laid the board flat on the belt sander and just kept working it until the surface was smooth and all boards totally flush. This probably took me 20 to 30 minutes. Make sure you keep the board moving though and don't leave it in one spot for long. Sand in the direction of the grain. Wear your respirator or dust mask.
For the ends of the board, I used both the disc sander and the belt. I used a combination square to make a line close to the edge. This gave me a reference point to shoot for while sanding. Again, I kept the board moving and didn't stay in one spot.
For the finish sanding, I used my Dewalt orbital sander. Started with 120 grit. The orbital motion gets all the scratches out that came from the rough sanding on the belt sander. I then moved to 220 grit and 320 grit. Stopping at 220 grit is probably enough. After all this is a cutting board, and it's fixing to get cut up. But for presentation, I like to go one more grit to the 320.
Step 5 – Apply a food grade mineral oil. I've always used a food-grade mineral oil for my boards. It's easy to apply and really makes the wood colors and grain features pop. It also doesn't turn rancid like some other oils. Follow the instructions that come with your mineral oil, but I like to apply 3 coats. Allow soak time between coats.
Some folks also like to add rubber footers to one side of the board, but I don't do that. If you leave both sides as they are, then you can use both sides for cutting. If one side eventually gets too much wear & tear, then just turn it over and use the other side. If it slides too much on your counter while cutting, then place it on a rubber mat or clean cloth hand towel.
Now you have a beautiful cutting board to give away or keep for your kitchen. This board should last for many years. I hope you give this project a try. And if you do, please send me a photo of your finished board.
Here's a quick video overview you might want to check out as well:
Bonus tips on caring for your board:
- Use warm soapy water to wash your board, but don't soak it.
- Don't place it in the dishwasher.
- Consider using one board for meats and one for vegetables. If you cut meats, you might want to clean the board with a mild bleach/water mixture.
- If it develops major cracks you might want to discard it. Food could get embedded in the cracks.
- Reapply mineral oil periodically.
- After many months or years of use, you can always take the board back out to the sander and redo the surface. Then your board will look like new again. Can't do that with a synthetic cutting board.
To conclude, I hope you have enjoyed my Easy Peasy Cutting Board Tutorial. You should be able to make this project with a minimum set of tools. Even if you don't own a belt sander, you could use a hand plane or spend more time using an orbital sander. Use what you have and don't spend a lot of money.
If you want to go all the way and cut (assuming you have cutting tools) all your boards from scratch, then check out my other wooden cutting board tutorials — Make Your First Wooden Cutting Board and Make a Cutting Board. To find other ideas for cutting boards, I highly recommend you check out a website called Lumberjocks.
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This is your brain. This is your brain on screens. If Jeremy Scott's collection had a subtext -and it's not clear that it did- it was that your brains are going a little screwy due to overexposure to screens. Check out the insane-looking cartoon faces on his new intarsia knits : isn't that kind of how your mind feels after several consecutive hours of binge-watching series while simultaneously answering emails on your laptop and glossing Instagram on your phone ? Anyway. The screen thing was very much an urtext of Mr Scott's effort, with its digital television prints and trippy sweaters knit to look the way old television screens did when they went a little wonky. That was all part of his larger theme, which was an homage to Sixties era B-movies and sci-fi that he interpreted with his typical heaping of club-kid flash. The era's tropes were rehearsed in everything from abbreviated A-line silhouettes to ray-gun prints to the paillette mesh that was an overt tip-of-the-hat to Cardin. As usual, the designer seemed to be having more fun making fashion than anyone else on the scene these days, but the lineup's buoyant tone didn't disguise the fact that this was a pretty disciplined collection. The men's looks were eye-popping, but they hewed to classic shapes -guys with some daring in the fashion department might be swayed by a button down in Mr Scott's scribble print, or a leather biker spotted with white polka dots. The rigor was also demonstrated in his materials and his technique. Nothing looked tossed-off here, in other words, just as nothing looked really, truly nuts. The designer's experience at Moschino seems to have convinced him there's some fun to be had, too, in selling tons of clothes.
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Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) Program, 2017-2018
Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship Program (JDS) is now inviting applicants to undertake 2-year master's course at Japanese Universities in English for the academic year 2017-2018. JDS Fellows are also expected to contribute to the enhanced bilateral relations between their countries and Japan, with well-rounded knowledge of Japan.
The Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship by Japanese Grant Aid (JDS) (formerJapanese Grant Aid for Human ResourceDevelopmentScholarship (JDS)) is to support human resource development of the Japanese grant aid recipient countries. JDS Project targets the highly capable young officials (mainly government) who are expected to engage in implementing social and economic development plans as a future leader.
Applicants must have a good command of both written and spoken English.
Course Level: Scholarships are awarded for pursuing master degree program at Japanese universities.
Study Subject(s): Scholarships are available for studying all the subjects.
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Scholarship Provider: JDS is funded by the Government of Japan through ODA (Official Development Assistance) supported by Japanese tax payers.
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- Citizens of Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Tajikistan Cambodia, Mongolia, Laos, Nepal, Vietnam and Bangladesh
- Age limit for Kyrgyz Republic is between 22 and 40, for Uzbekistan, Philippines, Tajikistan, Cambodia and Laosis between 22 and 39, for Mongolia is 25 and 39, for Nepal is 25 and 40, for Vietnam is 24 and 39 and for Bangladesh is below Forty (40) years old, as of April 1st, 2017
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- Mentally and physically in good health
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Test Requirement: English proficiency test (TOEFL) and a math test will be conducted for all the eligible applicants.
English Language Requirement: Applicants must have a good command of both written and spoken English.
How to Apply: Application Form and the required documents must be submitted by hand or by post.
Application Deadline: The application deadlines are
Kyrgyz Republic: October 19, 2016
Uzbekistan: October 21, 2016
Philippines: November 7, 2016
Tajikistan: September 23, 2016
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Laos: October 20, 2016
Nepal: September 23, 2016
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A Prophet is a great film that peers into the ethnic rivalries in the modern day French underworld.
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IE9 Download Fail – The Sequel
Further attempts to download IE9 have been thwarted.
IE9 Promo Page Fail
Microsoft's IE9 Beta download page breaks when viewing in older IE products.
Time To Learn HTML5
It's gaining traction. It's got lots of steam. Already a bunch of WP themes using it. My Android views it. My Chrome browser does too. What am I waiting for?
Their UX Team Created This Audience Pathway Just For Us!
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After a great experience working with Chris and the team at Outdoor Craftsmen we highly recommend Chris Holthouser as a landscape designer and project manager. We had the pleasure of working with Chris over the past several months of a major renovation of our outdoor space/landscape. Chris exceeded our expectations in the design proposal and implementation of the project.
Throughout the renovation, Chris was professional, attentive, and thoughtful in his approach to designing our landscape. Outdoor Craftsmen added additional patios, re-graded existing space, and created brand new stone spaces and privacy. The trees and plants were chosen carefully and creatively placed. He envisioned a much more elegant, useful, and enjoyable space that is an extension of our home aesthetically, and befitting our taste and needs.
Chris obviously has great rapport with the work crew and other colleagues who were extremely valuable to the final outcome. While this kind of project takes time, Chris has taken the additional time to follow up, check up on final details, the well-being of our new trees and plants, and our overall satisfaction with the project. One can see his goal is to make sure his clients are satisfied and to maintain long term relationships with them.
We look forward to working with Chris and the whole team at Outdoor Craftsmen in the future and highly recommend their expertise. We love our new outdoor space.


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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The holiday season is officially over.
IBEW crews took down the lights from the Soldiers and Sailors Monument Saturday morning.
The monument has been decorated for more than five decades.
There were 4,700 lights along 52 strands of garland that the crews took down Saturday.
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