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Late at night, she separates her body,
leaves him dozing, hitches up
her cutoffs, yanks down the T-shirt,
forgets her shoes, runs for home.
The piled sealskin trips her, and she gasps,
fur spiking her calf
wet, oiled, sand-crusted. His smell,
but stronger, submerges her, waves of it lapping,
and her insides lurch with desire
for what, in the darkness, she can’t make out lying there
until, thinking of him of him, she gathers
the folds of skin to her chest. The smell appalls her,
its raw, watery meatiness. Her cheek flinches
at the clammy underside. But by now she has found
she can’t put it down.
It weighs as much as two six-packs.
In the streetlight, fur pricks
and glitters. Voracious, she drinks
the smell, beastly, nearly human.
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This, she thinks, is what we want.....
Photolithography (also called optical lithography) is a process used in microfabrication to selectively remove parts of a thin film (or the bulk of a substrate). It uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask to a light-sensitive chemical (photoresist, or simply "resist") on the substrate. A series of chemical treatments then engraves the exposure pattern into the material underneath the photoresist. In a complex integrated circuit (for example, modern CMOS), a wafer will go through the photolithographic cycle up to 50 times.~
Photolithography shares some fundamental principles with photography, in that the pattern in the etching resist is created by exposing it to light, either using a projected image or an optical mask. This step is like an ultra high precision version of the method used to make printed circuit boards. Subsequent stages in the process have more in common with etching than to lithographic printing. It is used because it affords exact control over the shape and size of the objects it creates, and because it can create patterns over an entire surface simultaneously. Its main disadvantages are that it requires a flat substrate to start with, it is not very effective at creating shapes that are not flat, and it can require extremely clean operating conditions. ~
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Several types of solar cells are made from such wafers. A solar wafer is a circular solar cell made from the entire wafer (rather than cutting into smaller rectangular solar cells). ~
Academy Award® Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the futureand sets out to prevent them from coming true. In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsules contents and the girls cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB MYLES. But it is Calebs father, professor TED MYLES (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the documents chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional eventsthe last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Teds attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. With the reluctant help of DIANA WHELAN and ABBY, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, Teds increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disasterand the ultimate sacrifice.
Late at night, she separates her body,
