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|Publication number||US7425224 B2|
|Application number||US 11/318,710|
|Publication date||Sep 16, 2008|
|Filing date||Dec 27, 2005|
|Priority date||Jun 7, 2000|
|Also published as||US6998097, US20060131363|
|Publication number||11318710, 318710, US 7425224 B2, US 7425224B2, US-B2-7425224, US7425224 B2, US7425224B2|
|Original Assignee||Tegal Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (8), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (4), Classifications (11), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/589,636, filed Jun. 7, 2000 Now U.S. 6,998,097, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates generally to an apparatus for processing of a semiconductor wafer, and, more particularly, to a high pressure trapping system to collect chemical vapor by-products in successive stages through chemical reactions conducted at progressively colder temperatures.
Semiconductor processes use vapor precursors for processing thin films on an integrated circuit (IC) substrate. The majority of these vapor precursors, together with their by-products, are pumping out and exhausted to a waste stream.
It is very expensive to collect and dispose of the precursor exhaust products. Further, these non-reactive precursors and these byproducts can be hazardous and harmful to the environment. The IC industry is forced to conform to ever more stringent regulations concerning the storage and disposal of these wastes.
It is inconvenient to collect waste as a gas because it is difficult to transport and voluminous to store. It is more convenient to convert the waste, at least partially, into a solid or liquid form. The use of cold traps to completely condense some chemical vapors is well known. It is also well known to use cold traps to condense elements of a precursor at least to simplify the waste collection process.
In a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, high temperature process is often used. Because of the low efficiency of the CVD process, a hot trap is recommended for completing the CVD reaction, leaving only the by-products to the exhaust stream. An example is a copper CVD process. A copper CVD process uses copper-hfac-tmvs precursor to deposit copper on a hot surface (˜200° C.) following the reaction:
2 Cu-hfac-tmvs→Cu+Cu(hfac)2 tmvs (at>˜100° C.)
The reaction occurs at a temperature higher than ˜100° C. The efficiency of this reaction is roughly 10-20%; thus, 80-90% of the precursor leaves the process chamber un-reacted. A cold trap would then collect the precursor Cu-hfac-tmvs, and the by-products Cu(hfac)2 and tmvs. Using a hot trap before the cold trap, most of the precursor would further react, leaving only the by-products in the waste system.
The major disadvantage of this prior art, is the potential contamination of the process chamber due to the hot trap. With the hot trap raising the efficiency from 10-20% to 100%, the amount of by-products Cu(hfac)2 and tmvs, 3-5 times. Also, the efficiency of the hot trap is low because of the low pressure inside the hot trap, and the hot and cold traps would be two separate units. However, the prior art recommends using this configuration to avoid damage to the vacuum pump.
It would be advantageous if hot and cold traps could be combined in a single system to collect different types of wastes from an exhausted chemical vapor.
It would be advantageous if a multi-state trapping system could be provided that operated at a high pressure so that the chemical reactions in the traps are efficient.
Accordingly, a high pressure chemical vapor trapping system to separate and collect elements of a chemical vapor exhaust is provided. The system comprises a hot trap and a cold trap connected to each other as a single unit. The exhaust pump is upstream of the hot and cold trapping system, providing high pressure in the hot trap. While prior art positions the hot trap upstream of the exhaust pump to avoid damage to the pump, it was found that there was no significant damage to the exhaust pump by having the pump connected directly to the process chamber. The reason is that the pump temperature is much lower than most process temperatures, and most processes require a high temperature for deposition; thus, there is minimum deposition at the pump. With use of a wet pump, the only side effect is the faster degradation of the pump oil, thus needing a more frequent oil changing schedule. However, the use of a dry pump, which uses no oil, positioning the pump upstream of the hot and cold trapping system has no effect on the pump. Since a dry pump typically runs at less than ˜70° C., and a wet pump runs at room temperature, and since deposition processes run at much higher temperatures, e.g., typically 200° C. for MOCVD copper deposition; 400-500° C. for PECVD deposition; and 1000-1100° C. for rapid thermal deposition, the prior art concern about significant deposition at the pump, leading to degradation of the pump, is not a concern using this invention.
The present invention system comprises a hot trap having an input port, a gas output port, a waste collection surface, and a heater. The heater heats the hot trap to a temperature in the range from 100 to 500 degrees Celsius. The hot trap accepts chemical vapor such as the above-described copper precursors and provides non-gaseous wastes at the waste collection surface, and gaseous exhaust at the gas output port at a pressure substantially the same as the input pressure.
The system also comprises a cold trap having an input port operatively connected to the gas output port of the hot trap, a gas output port, and a waste collection surface. The cold trap cools the chamber to a temperature in the range from 25 degrees to minus 200 degrees Celsius. The cold trap provides non-gaseous wastes at the waste collection surface, and gaseous exhaust at the gas output port at a pressure substantially the same as the input pressure. In this manner, vapor by-products are collected in two stages.
The invention further provides that an exhaust pump, operatively connected to a hot trap input port, provides gaseous exhaust to the hot trap. In this manner, a high pressure is created at the hot trap gas input port.
The invention further provides a second cold trap. The second cold trap, set to be colder than the first cold trap, can trap the exhaust gas that has a lower temperature. In this manner, vapor by-products are collected in three stages. In the example of Cu-hfac-tmvs, the first cold trap is set at a temperature below room temperature to trap the by-product Cu(hfac)2. The second cold trap is set at a lower temperature (˜−40° C.) to trap the other by-product tmvs.
In some aspects of the invention, the chemical vapor exhaust is an MOCVD precursor such as Cu(hfac) combined with a ligand (Cu(hfac)L). Then, the first chamber includes a plurality of metal plates, or other heated structures extending into the hot trap. These metal plates are of the same metal as in the MOCVD precursor and act as metal collection surfaces. That is, the collection surface acts as the heater in the hot trap. As the precursor vapor is heated, metal from the precursor is deposited on the metal plates as the heat completes the chemical reaction. The metal collection surface/heaters are reclaimed from recycling when a predetermined amount of solid metal waste is collected on the collection surfaces.
In some aspects of the invention, both the hot and cold traps are easily removable for efficient recycling of the collected waste materials. A first exhaust line extends to the exhaust input port of the hot trap. The first line includes at least one valve to block the passage of gas from the deposition process chamber. Likewise, a second exhaust line extends from the hot trap gaseous exhaust port, and also includes at least one valve to block the escape of gas from the second line.
The hot trap includes a first valve at the exhaust input port and a second valve at the gaseous exhaust port. The hot trap is removable from the first and second lines for waste removal, when full. In this manner, the first and second valves in said hot trap prevent exhaust from escaping from the trap, when the trap is disconnected. The valves in the first and second lines prevent the escape of exhaust from the system when the hot trap is removed. In the same manner values are used in the gas lines going to and from the cold trap, they are also used in the input and output gas ports. Then, the cold trap is also easily removable without allowing the escape of vapors from the system.
Sometimes the hot trap collection surfaces are biased with a voltage, whereby charged metal from the MOCVD precursor is attracted and deposited on said collection surface. In other aspects of the invention, the hot trap includes a second input port to accept a catalyst selected from the group consisting of water, alcohol, and ammonia whereby the catalyst furthers the chemical reaction in the first chamber.
The hot trap 120 may also contain a plurality of collection surfaces 159 extending into the hot trap 120. These collection surfaces 159 can be heated by a chamber heater 157 to the temperature of the hot trap 120, generally ranging from 100° C.-500° C. The chamber heater 157 is depicted generically as a coil in the drawings, but the chamber heater 157 need not be an isolated element. Without limitation and by way of example only, the chamber heater alternatively can be associated with the collection surfaces 159 or it can be part of the chamber itself. The collection surfaces 159 collect deposited solid metal waste, which can be reclaimed from the collection surfaces 159 when the hot trap 120 is disconnected to be cleaned.
Moreover, in another aspect of the invention depicted in
Similar to the hot trap 120, the cold trap 140 can be disconnected from the system 100 for cleaning solid waste without allowing vapor to escape. Disconnection of the cold trap 140 is accomplished with the input port valve 169 and output port valve 173 of the cold trap 140. Once chemical vapors are exhausted from the output port 171 of the cold trap 140, they are exhausted out of the system 100.
In an alternative embodiment 200 (
The present invention discloses the use of the hot trap after the vacuum pump without any observable degradation to the vacuum pump, and without any contamination to the process chamber.
While the invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to the preferred and alternative embodiments described above, it will be understood by persons skilled in the relevant art that various changes in form and details can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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Great for scrapbooking and general craft use, this cute 12-piece My Precious Boy Framed Brads Set features epoxy coated metal brads with various designs including airplanes, sailboats and stars. Comes packaged in a clam shell. This item comes assorted. The shipment of the product color will be based on the available colors at the time of order (or you may receive a random color/size/type). The sizes displayed are approximate only.
- My precious boy framed brads
- Product Type: Import.
- Item Weight: 0.0833 lbs.
- Sold as Pack of 24.
- Approximate Package Weight: 2 lbs.

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Vehicle Goes Off Lover’s Leap in Hannibal
An individual who drove off Hannibal’s Lover’s Leap early Sunday afternoon sustained minor injuries.
Hannibal Fire Department officials confirm a vehicle drove over the side of Lover's Leap and fell between 150 and 200 feet where it became wedged between two trees. The road to the top of Lover's Leap was closed off shortly after 1:30 p.m.
The incident remains under investigation.

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- Bloomberg via Yahoo FinanceMay 30 10:00 AM
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Midnight Cheese is a hodgepodge of design and technology related musings going all the way back to 2001. That's roughly 89 years ago in internet time. Lately I've been delving deeper into the scripting side of things from Arduino to the latest (mostly JS related) web trends. My intent is to use this space to share what I learn along the way.
I've been working in the Design profession for 10 years spending the majority of my time on front-end web development. I'm currently a Product Manager with Emma focusing on their new web based email creation tools. Previously I worked at TapeOnline.com and have worked on a wide range of freelance projects doing everything from illustration to motion graphics work.

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Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
Matthews was a six foot tall nude model and Canadian B-Movie actress, appearing in movies such as Tanya's Island and Terror Train. She met Prince in 1982. He re-named her Vanity (saying he saw his female reflection when he looked at her) and she became the lead singer of singing group, Vanity 6, that same year. Prince produced the group's biggest hit "Nasty Girl". Their trademark was explicit sexuality in their lyrics, performances and attire. After one album, Vanity decided to leave her role in Vanity 6 and the proposed film Purple Rain in 1983. Vanity signed a lucrative record deal with Motown Records in 1984. She recorded two albums Wild Animal and Skin On Skin. She also starred in a handful of movies, including The Last Dragon and Action Jackson.
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Colloid and Particle Science
|Anja Mueller, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, is assisting Timothy McAuley, a Ph.D. student in Chemistry, in performing research on biological fuel cells for use in wearable medical sensors. Using measurements obtained with an atomic force microscope, they are exploring the process of coating electrodes with enzymes.|
Clarkson’s expertise in colloid and particle science and engineering led to creation of the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP), the University’s preeminent powerhouse of research. A model of interdisciplinary collaboration, today CAMP’s leading-edge research includes health and environmental fields and the University is moving ahead in the exciting new realm of nanotechnology.
Funding of $7.25 million from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation will enable Clarkson to maintain its leadership position by attracting and retaining scholars of the highest caliber through endowed chairs and endowed fellowships, including a chair in honor of Professor Emeritus Milton Kerker. Colloid Science is one of the key areas to be supported. Other uses include modernizing instrumentation and ongoing upgrades of laboratory facilities and equipment to maintain the state-of-the-art standards required for world-class achievements.


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EAST LIVERPOOL - The city stands to realize nearly $1.7 million from a mineral rights lease signed Tuesday with Chesapeake Energy, which equates to $5,800 per acre for slightly less than 300 acres of property inside city limits.
Service-Safety Director Ryan Estell made the announcement at a streets/land & buildings committee meeting last night, saying the lease encompasses all city-owned property and its portion of Spring Grove Cemetery but not land included in Thompson Park "at this time."
The lease has a non-surface clause, meaning nothing can actually be placed on city property, such as wells or drilling rigs. It also includes a provision for the city to realize 18 percent in royalties, should gas be found under its property.
Estell said some discussion was held regarding the possibility of renegotiating on some areas that could be considered for installation of wells at some point.
The property earmarked in the least includes the so-called Dissette property in East End and the Riverview Florist property that have been annexed into the city.
About 145 acres encompassing Thompson Park were not included in the lease at this time due to some unresolved questions about its status as bequeathed land and because 20 acres already have an existing well that is still producing but minimally, Estell said. That well dates to the 1920s and the park does get some revenue from it, so those acres cannot be included in any new lease.
The park board meets at 4 p.m. today but whether or not the topic of gas leases is on the agenda was not immediately known.
Estell has been working on a plan for spending the lease money "so it's not squandered," and said, "This is one-time money. It's not going to be used to bring in (new) employees."
One priority he will recommend it replacing old windows in City Hall, which he estimated will cost between $50,000 and $75,000, which would be a drastic savings in energy costs.
Estell conceded that some of the lease money will "most likely" be used to bring the city budget into the black, as well as provide retirement buy-outs for police Chief Mike McVay, firefighter Bill Miller and a set-aside for some anticipated future retirements, "so that doesn't affect our budget again."
The money will also provide an opportunity to purchase some sorely-needed police cruisers, as well as the means to upgrade its radio system which Estell said will become illegal after this year and must be replaced at an estimated cost of more than $100,000.
"These are things the city needed to do for a long time," he emphasized, adding that, as much as city officials realize streets need attention, he does not anticipate any of the windfall being used for street paving.
Of the $1.66 million, nearly $350,000 is earmarked up front for specific purposes, since it entails property "owned" by specific city departments.
Estell explained that slightly less than $50,000 must be used for cemetery purposes since it will be generated from property encompassing Spring Grove Cemetery; another $123,000 will come from property on which the water and sewer plants and water storage tanks are located; and $175,000 will come from property overseen by the Community Improvement Corporation currently used as soccer fields, which Estell said he hopes can be earmarked for economic development.
Estell negotiated the lease through DPS Penn with the approval of council and support of Mayor Jim Swoger.
Ultimately, it is council's decision where to appropriate the money, but Estell said he took on the task of trying to determine the best use for the money because he oversees the general operations of the city, but that he sought suggestions from other officials and department heads.

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Chocolate Chambord Cake
8 oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate
1 cup water (give or take)
2 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 to 1/4 cup Chambord
Preheat oven to 375° F. Lightly spray two 9" cake pans (do not flour).
Mix flour, salt, and baking soda and set aside. Mix sugar,
butter, and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well each
time. Add Chambord to batter and mix well.
Melt chocolate with about 1/8 to 1/4 cup water until smooth.
Add chocolate to batter and mix well.
Gradually add the flour mixture to the batter, alternating
with the remaining water until all flour is used. Batter should still be thick,
but not dough like!!
Split the batter between the two pans and bake 30-35 minutes
until toothpick comes out clean.
Allow to cool a good deal, then take them out of the pans and
split each down the edge so that you have "4 round cakes".
Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting
2 tablespoons butter
4 oz. cream cheese
1 1/2 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate (OR 3 tablespoons cocoa and 1 tablespoon
1 1/2 cup sifted confectionery sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
dash of salt
Mix all ingredients well.
Chocolate Truffle Filling
2 box instant chocolate pudding mix (3.9 oz)
3/4 cup heavy cream
4 oz. semi-sweet chocolate
generous dash of Chambord
Melt chocolate and Chambord together (smooth).
Mix the cream and 1 box of pudding together.
Add the other box of pudding SLOWLY until very thick (may
only need 1/4 of second box). Chill.
Putting it all together
With the bottom layer of the cake on it's "final resting
place" slather 1/3 of the Chocolate Truffle Filling on it Add another layer of
cake and slather another 1/3 of Chocolate Truffle Filling
Repeat one more time. Add top layer.
Add Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting over the outside of cake
(If this frosting was refrigerated, you will need to let it warm up a little and
probably whip it soft before it will spread well.)
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The Tilda that I did here is one that I colored during the nasty weather we had two weeks ago. My MIL was here visiting, so we sat at my kitchen table and had snacks and colored all day. I had so much fun!!
I finished her today and wanted to share it. Still working on my layouts and embellishing.
Thank you for stopping by..


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Marvel Studios’ “WandaVision” is the first of Marvel we’ve seen since “Spiderman: Far From Home” was released in 2019, and it was certainly worth the wait. The show is Marvel’s first time including its primary characters and storylines in television shows rather than feature films. With several more Marvel shows on the way – including “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Loki” and “What If?” – “WandaVision” set the stage for the superhero power-company to usher in a new age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“WandaVision” rightfully shocked and impressed audiences with its uncomfortable nostalgia. The show focuses on Wanda Maximoff, or the Scarlet Witch, and the Vision. Despite both characters being Avengers in the last several Marvel films, neither had previously received extensive focus and character development. “WandaVision” explores the power and depth of both characters with more emotional force than Marvel audiences have seen in a while.
The show transforms throughout the series and harkens to sitcoms of decades past, but it does so with a level of unease. It recognizes its audiences didn’t actually watch television sitcoms of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s so it creates a nostalgia that recognizes its own inauthenticity. “WandaVision” plays with expectations, characters and settings like only the product of blockbuster film-level funding and production can.
Full of twists, turns and questions, “WandaVision” keeps audiences constantly figuring out what each episode means before realizing the ground is falling out from beneath them. While not everything is shocking or unpredictable, the show plays with the expectations of die-hard Marvel fans and cultivates a sense of discomfort and fleetingness.
Elizabeth Olsen as Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision shine as they show range and vulnerability. Olsen specifically steals her own show with skill and depth she hasn’t previously had the opportunity to show in the Marvel Universe. Her emotional and relatable performance made the large-scale production come together.
Fan-favorite side characters – including Darcy Lewis of “Thor,” played by Kat Dennings; Jimmy Woo of “Antman,” played by Randall Park; and Monica Rambeau of “Captain Marvel,” played by Teyonah Parris – return to play central roles. However, Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness gave a performance rivalling Olsen’s. She stole the hearts of audiences and facilitated the greatest surprise of the series.
Hahn and Olsen are captivating, and I cannot wait to see them continue exploring the depth of these characters in future Marvel projects.
“WandaVision” truly vaulted over my expectations and somehow felt exactly like a Marvel movie without feeling too comfortable or familiar. It sets an intriguing base for future Marvel TV shows and the coming phase of Marvel generally. If “WandaVision” is a good indicator, I anticipate this phase will develop a new age of Avengers with more emotional complexity, nuance and cinematic skill than audiences typically expect from superhero films.
All in all, “WandaVision” was a 10/10 and a delightful highlight in these dreadful pandemic times.


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This is the chain’s first store in SA.
Gotcha Fresh Tea is starting 2021 with the opening of its newest store in Adelaide, the company said in an announcement.
This is the chain’s first store in SA, and will serve as its 19th store in the country.
"While 2020 was a challenging year for all, we are so thankful for our loyal customers who have supported us and now we take delight in opening our very first store in Adelaide and sharing Gotcha Fresh Tea with South Australians," Gotcha founder Roger Fu said.
Gotcha said its tea is famed and picked from their very own tea plantation in Mount Ali, Taiwan. Offerings include their Kumquat Lemon Green Tea, Golden Passionfruit Green Tea, Mango Jasmine Green Tea and Black Sugar Fresh Milk Brûlée.
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What is ulcerative colitis?
Ulcerative colitis is a long-term (chronic) inflammatory bowel disease. Symptoms include pain (abdominal cramping), a frequent need to defecate (fecal urgency) and bloody diarrhoea. When people with ulcerative colitis are experiencing symptoms the disease is said to be "active" and when symptoms stop this is called "remission".
What is etrolizumab?
Etrolizumab is a biologic medication. This medication is either injected under the skin with a syringe or infused into a vein (intravenous). Biologics suppress the immune system and lessen the inflammation associated with ulcerative colitis.
What did the researchers investigate?
The researchers investigated whether etrolizumab can stop symptoms of ulcerative colitis in people with active disease, and whether this medication causes harm (side effects). The researchers searched the medical literature up to March 12, 2015.
What did the researchers find?
The researchers identified two studies that included a total of 172 participants with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis who have failed treatment with immunosuppressives (e.g. steroids) or another biologic drug. Both studies compared etrolizumab to placebo (a fake medicine). Both studies were of high quality. The smaller study (48 participants) found no difference in remission rates between etrolizumab and placebo at week 10. The larger study (124 participants) found no difference between etrolizumab and placebo in the proportion of participants who achieved remission at week 6. However, there was a statistically meaningful difference in remission rates at week 10 favoring etrolizumab over placebo. In the larger study (124 participants) placebo participants were significantly more likely to have at least one side effect compared to those who took etrolizumab. Common side effects in this study included worsening ulcerative colitis, nasopharyngitis (common cold), nervous system disorders, headache and arthralgia (joint pain). In the other study (48 participants) there was no difference in the side effect rates between the placebo and etrolizumab groups. Common side effects in this study included worsening of ulcerative colitis, headache, fatigue (tiredness), abdominal pain, dizziness, nasopharyngitis (common cold), nausea, arthralgia (joint pain) and urinary tract infection. There was no meaningful difference between etrolizumab and placebo in the proportion of patients who experienced serious side effects. Serious side effects included worsening of ulcerative colitis and infection.
Etrolizumab may be better than placebo for producing remission in people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis who have failed other treatments. Different doses of etrolizumab were investigated but it is unclear what dose is most effective. More studies are required to determine the effectiveness and safety of etrolizumab in patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. Currently there are seven ongoing studies investigating etrolizumab treatment for ulcerative colitis. These studies will provide important new information on the effectiveness, safety and ideal dose of etrolizumab for the treatment of people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis.
Moderate quality evidence suggests that etrolizumab may be an effective induction therapy for some patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis who have failed conventional therapy. Due to small numbers of patients in dose subgroups the optimal dosage of etrolizumab is unclear. Due to sparse data we are uncertain regarding the risk of adverse events and serious adverse events. Further studies are needed to determine the efficacy and safety of etrolizumab in this patient population. There are five ongoing phase III etrolizumab trials and two ongoing open-label extension studies that will provide important new information on the efficacy, safety and optimal dose of this drug for the treatment of UC.
Etrolizumab (rhuMAb beta7) is an anti-integrin that selectively targets the β7 subunits of the α4β7 and αEβ7 integrins, which are involved in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis.
The objectives of this review were to assess the efficacy and safety of etrolizumab for induction of remission in ulcerative colitis.
We searched PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library (CENTRAL) from inception to 12 March 2015. References and conference abstracts were searched to identify additional studies.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) trials in which etrolizumab was compared to placebo or another active comparator in patients with active ulcerative colitis were included.
Two authors independently screened studies for inclusion, assessed methodological quality and extracted data. We assessed methodological quality using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. The primary outcome was failure to induce clinical remission (as defined by the primary studies). Secondary outcomes included failure to induce clinical improvement (as defined by the primary studies), failure to induce endoscopic remission (as defined by the primary studies), adverse events, serious adverse events, withdrawal due to adverse events, and health-related quality of life (as defined by the primary studies). We assessed the overall quality of the evidence using the GRADE criteria. We calculated the risk ratio (RR) and corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) for each dichotomous outcome.
Two RCTs including 172 patients with moderate to severe UC who failed conventional therapy met the inclusion criteria. Both studies were rated as low risk of bias. We did not pool efficacy data from the two included studies due to differences in dose and route of administration. The small phase I study found no statistically significant differences between etrolizumab and placebo in the proportion of patients who failed to enter remission (RR 1.04, 95% CI 1.04 to 1.69; participants = 23) or respond at week 10 (RR 1.67, 95% CI 0.26 to 10.82; participants = 23). The phase II study reported on failure to enter clinical remission at weeks 6 and 10. In the etrolizumab group 91% (71/78) of patients failed to enter remission at week 6 compared to 95% (39/41) of placebo patients (RR 0.96, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.06). Subgroup analysis revealed no statistically significant differences by dose. At week 10, there was a statistically significant difference in clinical remission rates favouring etrolizumab over placebo. Of the patients who received etrolizumab, 85% (66/78) failed to enter remission at week 10 compared to 100% (41/41) patients in the placebo group (RR 0.86, 95% CI 0.77 to 0.95). A subgroup analysis by dose found a statistically significant difference in clinical remission rates favoring 100 mg etrolizumab over placebo (RR 0.81 CI 95% 0.68 to 0.96), but not 300 mg etrolizumab over placebo (RR 0.91, 95% CI 0.80 to 1.03). No significant heterogeneity was detected for this comparison (P = 0.28, I2 = 13.5%). GRADE analyses indicated that the overall quality of evidence for the clinical remission outcomes was moderate due to sparse data. Both of the included studies reported on safety. The outcome adverse events was initially pooled, however this analysis was removed due to high heterogeneity (I2 = 88%). The phase I study found no statistically significant difference between etrolizumab and placebo in the proportion of patients who had at least one adverse event. Ninety-five per cent (36/38) of etrolizumab patients had at least one adverse event compared to 100% (10/10) of placebo patients (RR 0.98, 95% CI 0.84 to 1.14). Common adverse events reported in the phase I study included exacerbation of UC, headache, fatigue, abdominal pain, dizziness, nasopharyngitis, nausea, arthralgia and urinary tract infection. There was a statistically significant difference between etrolizumab and placebo in the proportion of patients who had at least one adverse event. Fifty-six per cent (44/78) of etrolizumab patients had at least one adverse event compared to 79% of placebo patients (RR 0.71, 95% CI 0.55 to 0.91). A GRADE analysis indicates that the overall quality of the evidence for this outcome was moderate due to sparse data. Common adverse events reported in the phase II study included worsening UC, nasopharyngitis, nervous system disorders, headache and arthralgia . A pooled analysis of two studies indicates that there was no statistically significant difference in the proportion of patients who had a serious adverse event. Twelve per cent (14/116) of etrolizumab patients had a serious adverse event compared to 12% of placebo patients (6/49) (RR 0.92, 95% CI 0.36 to 2.34). A GRADE analysis indicated that the overall quality of the evidence for this outcome was low due to very sparse data (20 events). Common serious adverse events included worsening of UC, impaired wound healing and bacterial peritonitis.

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Ricotta gnocchi, is one of the classic Italian gnocchi recipes, along with potato gnocchi and squash gnocchi. These simple and delicious little dumplings can be made “white” just with flour and cheese or enriched with minced greens. I particularly love the spinach and ricotta variation: here the recipe!
Pumpkin gnocchi is a recipe I love to prepare in this season. They are easy to make in advance and freeze, so perfect to plan a dinner even with several people: a feast for friends! I like so much the mild sweetness of these gnocchi and pair them with butter and sage, but also with meat sauces or melted blue cheeses: so yummy!
A few days ago , I have been desiring so much some fresh cheese, the same I use to taste in my childhood! Fine, soft, and delicate cheese with its unmistakable scent of milk… and so… I cooked it! The most famous fresh Italian cheese is called “Giuncata”. Its name descend from the traditional molds made with canes (canes = giunchi in Italian), used to store it. The Giuncata is a soft, and tasty cheese, and it’s and healthy as well! It’s ready in a few hours to be enjoyed with tomato salad, cured meats or even simply speared on a slice of bread!
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Registrations for the 2022 academic year at Vaal University Of Technology are now open, so if you have applied and have been accepted to study at the university. Here is what you need to know.
The registration portal for new and returning students at Vaal University to register their courses for the semester at the diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate level is now open.
First-year registrations for all faculties were initially meant to start on 24 January 2022 and end on 29 January 2022. Returning student registrations for all faculties were meant to start on 27 January 2022 and end on 5 February 2022.
However, following a circular announced received from NSFAS on Tuesday, 25 January 2022 the University Management decided to postpone the commencement of registrations whilst awaiting funding decisions.
This means senior registrations will now start on Monday, 31 January 2022 and first-year registrations will commence on Thursday, 27 January 2022 until 5 February 2022.
All self-funded students are reminded to note that they are required to pay a minimum fee of R2 200 prior to registration. This also applies to all non-NSFAS funded students.
The university has further stated that classes will start on 7 February 2022 and that prospective students will be notified of any further changes in schedule.
Students have also been encouraged to refer to the university’s registration guideline for any additional information relating to outstanding debt and registration fees.
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USLEBER, E; RENZ, V; et al. STUDIES ON THE APPLICATION OF ENZYME IMMUNOASSAYS FOR THE FUSARIUM MYCOTOXINS DEOXYNIVALENOL, 3-ACETYLDEOXYNIVALENOL, AND ZEARALENONE. JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE SERIES B-ZENTRALBLATT FUR VETERINARMEDIZIN REIHE B-INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH 39:617-627(1992).
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WASHINGTON, May 23, 2014 ??? Yesterday, at an evening ceremony honoring the shared service and sacrifices of Canadians and Americans during the long war in Afghanistan, military leaders from both nations spoke at the commencement of Canada???s Afghanistan Memorial Vigil.
The ceremony that took place in the courtyard of the Embassy of Canada here was an hour-long event with a Canadian Honor Guard, attended by family members and colleagues of the American fallen, and officials of the Canadian and U.S. Armed Forces.
Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called it a privilege to gather together with ???treasured allies, the Canadian people, who honor us by honoring our fallen brothers and sisters in arms who served alongside them in Afghanistan.???
In 2002, a Canadian Armed Forces battalion was integrated into the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2009-2011, four U.S. battalions were placed under Canadian command in Kandahar. And in the final phase of Canada???s military mission in Afghanistan, Canada provided up to 950 troops to the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, second in size only to the U.S. contribution, according to a Canadian fact sheet.
Winnefeld said American and Canadian forces have served side by side for two centuries in world wars and other conflicts and crises, and in disasters.
???Together we???ve protected our nations for more than 55 years as close partners in the North American Aerospace Defense Command,??? he added, ???and when terrorists attacked the United States nearly 13 years ago ??? Canadian warriors quickly joined the international effort to release Afghanistan from the grip of the terrorists who attacked us and who suppressed the true ambitions of the Afghan people.???
Canada???s 12-year military engagement in Afghanistan was the largest deployment of Canadian Armed Forces personnel since World War II. More than 40,000 Canadian military personnel contributed to Canada???s Afghan military engagement, according to the fact sheet.
During his remarks, Canadian Minister of National Defense Rob Nicholson said 158 Canadian Armed Forces personnel, one Canadian diplomat, one contractor, one journalist, and 43 American military personnel that served under Canadian command gave their lives for the mission in Afghanistan.
???No one has felt this sacrifice in a more profound way than the loved ones they left behind. They suffered a loss that words cannot describe,??? Nicholson added. ???It is a poignant reminder of the tremendous price our two nations have paid in support of security, prosperity and freedom.???
The Afghanistan Memorial Vigil consists of original commemorative plaques from a Canadian monument at Kandahar Airfield. The Afghanistan Memorial Vigil will travel to 20 cities across Canada and to Washington between May and November 12.
The plaques honor 161 Canadian lives lost during the pursuit of peace and security, Winnefeld said, but also more than 40 U.S. men and women in uniform who made the ultimate sacrifice under Canadian command in Kandahar.
???Together,??? he added, ???we have fought in a noble cause, we have sacrificed together, and together tonight we remember and we resolve to never forget.???
The vice chairman recalled in his remarks those serving around the globe far from North American shores in defense of freedom, and the many families who stand behind them at home.
???Thank you, Canada,??? he told his hosts and one of America???s closest allies, ???for this evening and for your enduring friendship.???


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The Making of Tacoma
Taking inspiration from gothic-style architecture, Tacoma marries ribbed glass globes and a statuesque metal stem to deliver a dramatic wash of light. Suited to both contemporary and traditional settings, Tacoma is one of our most popular decorative wall lights, created for both interior and bathroom use.
Senior Designer Riley Sanders talks us through the inspiration behind the Tacoma collection.
Developing the concept
"Like most of our designs, myself and James our Design Director, take influence from the world around us, creating products we truly admire and would have in our own homes. With Tacoma, it was an opportunity to explore the playful nature of light and how it can create mood through the use of materials. A balance of proportions, I focused heavily on the development of the glass, looking at the shadows each shade created to achieve equilibrium between decorative shadow and functional everyday illumination.
I wanted to deliver a design that was more decorative. Although the idea of a textured glass globe isn't new, Tacoma is a unique interpretation of a classic wall light that's elevated to reflect the modern day. Its presence has a timeless simplicity, retaining Astro's distinctive quality and engineering in a charming yet contemporary design. We initially created Tacoma for the hospitality arm of our business, but throughout the development process, we quickly realised it sits comfortably within a variety of settings. Whether a dining space, bathroom, or hallway, the variety of finishes and glass shades make it a complementary icon within any room.
In three words... "Captivating, playful, ethereal"

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Sea turtle hatchlings in Mexico have long relied on tourists to protect them as they made the difficult journey from their nests to the sea. Now the tourists are gone, and local conservationists fear that many turtles won’t make it to the open ocean.
Regular droughts in Mexico’s southernmost state, Chiapas, make it hard for farmers to grow traditional staple crops. Many are turning to dragon fruit, which can adapt to the dry conditions, as a revenue alternative.
When a breakdown in negotiations left the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas without garbage collection for two weeks in 2019, trash piled up around town and the streets reeked. As the world grapples with waste collection, residents of this city devised a local solution – with sustainable effects to outlast the strike.
A growing number of Mexico City residents say the only homes they can afford are in illegal settlements, where basic amenities, including running water, don't exist. Many settlements use makeshift systems of tubes to connect to wells. Meanwhile, affordable housing advocates say the government needs to provide water to people, even if they live illegally in conservation areas.
Real estate developers say their projects aren’t the root of the city’s inconsistent water supply, but longtime residents say it’s not a coincidence that their taps go dry after condominiums are built nearby. The city government, which acknowledges that its water infrastructure needs updating, doesn’t make public the information that could determine the cause.
Corn is the foundation of many iconic Mexican foods, but in recent years Mexico has been growing less and importing more. A group of women in southern Mexico are supporting each other in growing corn and making corn-based foods, shielding the staple crop from the ups and downs of the global economy.

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Chris Pine and Zoe Saldana are set to beam into the Beverly Hills Hotel on Saturday, Feb. 9 in order to co-host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards. The stars of the upcoming Star Trek Into Darkness will present nine awards to 25 individual recipients.
“We are thrilled to have Chris and Zoe host the Sci-Tech Awards,” Academy president Howard Koch told The Hollywood Reporter. “Their film experience with the kind of technical advancements these awards honor makes them the perfect pair for the job.”
Portions of the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation will be included in the Academy Awards telecast. The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 24.
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A coroner has criticised Cheshire police over the death of a man in custody who'd been pepper sprayed.
The inquest jury found failings by officers may have lead to Jacob Michael's death.
He'd had been taking cocaine when he dialed 999 and asked for help - saying someone had pulled a gun on him.
But less than 45 minutes later he was dead on the floor of a police station.
The coroner is calling on Cheshire's Chief Constable to change the way arrests are handled saying there are 'serious gaps' in some officer's training.
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Unsettled and turning windier over the Bank Holiday weekend. Mixed going forward...
Very mixed weekend - best day Saturday - windiest and wettest on Monday
This is the unbelievable moment a pedestrian in Manchester, comes inches from being mown down by a biker.


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Mr. Rugala was assigned to the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia. Supervisory Special Agent Rugala was assigned to the NCAVC from February of 1995 until his retirement in September of 2005. Prior to retiring from the FBI, Mr. Rugala was Unit Chief of Behavioral Analysis Unit - 1, Threat Assessment and Counter Terrorism.
Mr. Rugala, one of the FBI's “Profilers”, in the unit made famous by the book and movie “The Silence of the Lambs”, and the television show “Criminal Minds” specializes in the detailed behavioral analysis of violent crime to include homicide, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and stalking. These analyses are provided to requesting law enforcement agencies in the form of offender profiles, crime scene analysis, investigative and interview strategies, media and crisis communication strategies and threat assessments. Mr. Rugala also consults with many corporations and universities in developing and implementing procedures and protocols for the prevention of violence in the workplace and in schools to include threat assessment and management services.
Mr. Rugala has participated in ongoing research regarding stalking behavior, serial rape, intimate partner, workplace and school violence. Mr. Rugala has contributed to a number of publications dealing with workplace violence, school violence and stalking behaviors. Mr. Rugala is currently involved in on-going research with the University of Iowa and University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Centers in a NIOSH funded grant to evaluate workplace violence prevention programs in companies throughout the U.S.
Mr. Rugala is a member of the Violence Against Women Online Resources (VAWOR) Rapid Response Project. The Rapid Response Project is a collaborative project between Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) at the University of Minnesota and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Project will help ensure that accurate research and interpretations of issues related to violence against women quickly reach key media and policy makers. Working with a national network of experts, including both researchers and advocates, the Project will gather research, identify key findings and create talking points for use by OVW staff and other national organizations working to end violence against women. Mr. Rugala is also a national advisory board member of the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, a group of Fortune 500 companies who have come together to raise awareness and suggest strategies for companies to deal with intimate partner violence and it’s impact on the workplace.
Mr. Rugala has testified before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives regarding workplace violence as a problem in America's workplaces; has testified before the judiciary committees of the Maryland State House and Senate regarding stalking behaviors on behalf of the Maryland Family Violence Council sponsoring revised stalking legislation; provided expert testimony in several trials dealing with assessing dangerousness in stalking and intimate partner violence; has been a guest lecturer at numerous corporate conferences on workplace violence and at police schools throughout the United States, including the FBI National Academy, as well as police schools in England, France, Germany, Australia, Japan and the former Soviet Union.
Mr. Rugala has consulted with the Protection Detail of the British Royal Family regarding Public Figure and Celebrity Stalkers. Mr. Rugala has also consulted with members of New Scotland Yard regarding mass murder, specifically as it applies to workplace and school violence. Mr. Rugala has been interviewed by various media organizations regarding intimate partner violence, stalking, workplace and school violence, sexual assault, as well as other violent crime issues.
Mr. Rugala is a graduate of the Beaufort, South Carolina’s Senior Leadership Program sponsored by Clemson University, is a past member of Beaufort County’s Affordable Housing Consortium and the city of Beaufort’s Redevelopment Commission. Mr. Rugala was also on the board of directors for Hope Haven, the local child advocacy and rape crisis center, and CODA, Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse, the local domestic violence shelter, which provides support services to victims of domestic violence.
Mr. Rugala holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Penn State University and has attended graduate school in Public Administration at the University of New Mexico.
Mr. Rugala had been a special agent with the FBI for 26 years and was previously assigned to FBI offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Washington, D.C. and Quantico, Va.
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Users should install hog panel fences close to vining plants and keep the structures upright for the best results. All types of vining plants, such as jasmine and clematis, work well with these fences.
Hog panel fences are sometimes also known as cattle panels, and they are built with steel rods welded together at measured intersections. They are typically galvanized to prevent rust, and in addition to their gardening applications, these panels are designed to prevent cattle animals from escaping. In addition to keeping animals in, the panels are useful in keeping animals such as deer out of the enclosed area.

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Am I missing something here? is a question prompted by many dance performances. In my mind, the thought often has an anxious tone, since I consider it my job as a critic to try to miss as little as possible. When I attended the New York premiere of Kinetic Lights Wired at The Shed on Thursday, the question was especially loud in my head. But even more unusual was the unequivocal clarity of the answer. I was missing something. By design.
Thats because Kinetic Light, a disability arts ensemble whose work is made by and for disabled people, has an ethic and aesthetic of access that is exceptionally thoughtful and thorough. It ensures that no one way of experiencing the work is prioritized. No one person can experience it in every aspect.
One I knew I was missing was an audio description of the performance. Kinetic Light uses an application called Audimance, and in keeping with the ensembles emphasis on increasing choice and control, users can pick among no fewer than seven different tracks of audio description for Wired, switching from one to another and mixing them at will.
Audimance is not intended for fully sighted people like me, but before the show, I asked if I could try it. The company generously allowed me to sample the audio description for one section, with the warning that it was created for people whose primary experience of art is through sound, and may be challenging for people without cultivated listening practices.
Actually, I found it familiar, since trying to put dance into words is what I do all the time. One track sounded like the phrases I scrawl in my notebook in the dark: hard to see at first, one dancer emerges, reminds me of X. Others were closer to the polished product of a review, combining physical description with stabs at interpretation. One accurately marked as sexually explicit was a pungent, poetic monologue (by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha), more an evocation of a dancers thoughts and feelings than of a dancers motions: Ill eroticize the shocks.
Listening to these descriptions of a dance I hadnt yet seen, I was reminded of how much information each moment of a dance can contain, how many points of entry. (One track focused exclusively on the lighting, which I tend to treat parenthetically.) The variety of tracks addressing the same section brought into greater relief the inherent subjectivity of audience experience, especially when it comes to emotion and meaning. Mixing them together felt like listening to a dinner companions voice while paying attention to the conversation at the next table. I do that all the time.
When finally I was watching Wired, I sometimes missed these voices or wondered what they might be saying. For here comes a big difference in what I do: evaluate my experience of this work was both of a lot and not quite enough.
Wired is centered on two metaphors that cross and compete. It is the companys first aerial work, which means that the three performers, who are also the choreographers, use cables, rigging and pulleys to rise and hover in the air. Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson do so mostly in their wheelchairs, Jerron Herman on his own. But Wired is also about the history and associations of barbed wire keeping people (or cattle) in or out.
The 85-minute work is divided into many short sections. It feels, excitingly, like a sequence of experiments, but also, frustratingly, like a series of sketches. Many segments seem amorphous, squeezing variations from an already squeezed-out idea, with exits and endings that are arbitrary or baffling. Within each section, the strongest moments are spaced out, separated, like barbs without the connecting wire.
Wired was inspired by the barbed-wire sculptures of Melvin Edwards, and it emulates their balance between abstraction and social or political resonance: Barbed wire is line, as in a drawing, but it also draws blood. Yet, sustaining that balance is trickier in choreography because of time, because of bodies and Wired wobbles.
It begins arrestingly with Sheppard and Lawson airborne in their wheelchairs, floating and spinning like astronauts in low gravity. The wires that hold them and that they hold cross aesthetically, but if the performers grab onto each other and let go, the wires (along with gravity) also pull them apart: abstraction, human drama.
Two sections later, Sheppard and Lawson have another duet, in which Lawson, who is white, keeps tugging at the hair of Sheppard, who is multiracial and Black. Lawson appears to be pulling Sheppard down, and after Lawson disappears, Sheppard flies more freely, but also flails, falling in beautiful slow-motion arcs. Is this escape?
The image is richly ambiguous, since Sheppard isnt fully in control. Her ascents and descents depend on the people operating the rigging (who sit at a table visible to the audience). That tension returns later in a Sisyphean solo during which Sheppard keeps crawling toward a corner only to be dragged back to the center.
But many other sections just spin in the air. And some of the most effective bits arent aerial at all. At the end of the first act, the three performers kneel in boxes of projected light (by Michael Maag), hooded, festooned with barbed wire, sinking and rising as if praying. The meaning here is clear enough, as it is later when Herron uses barbed wire to whip an image of the American flag projected onto the floor. But the connections arent.
For me, theres too much content, too little development. (Even the music wont make up its mind, alternating between R&B-ish humming by LeahAnn Mitchell and modernist prepared piano by Ailis Ni Riain.)
What I found most successful and moving was the atmosphere of inclusiveness and the audience it attracted: buzzing, festive, with many more wheelchair users than Ive seen before at a dance show. When the preshow announcer, accompanied by two ASL interpreters, explained that phones should be silenced but that some audience members would be using devices for accessibility, the information was greeted with cheers. Im sure that many people cheering then and during the bows got more out of the show something different than I did. I was happy to be among them.
Through Saturday at The Shed, theshed.org.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times


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Just took the ferry over here and low and behold there is a library! So thought I'd pop in and update my blog and check email.
This morning I did a 5 km walk over to Point Pleasant Park which is gorgeous. I enjoyed it last time I was here so made a "point" of going back. All sorts of paths and you feel like you are in the country - surrounded by ocean! Got my doggie fix as well. Then I walked to Lower Water St. and visited the Halifax farmers market. It was HUGE and would have been enjoyable but it was absolutely packed as in not being able to move. I treated myself to a veggie samosa and bought myself some wild blueberry tea (delish!) and carried on to the ferry terminal. The trip over was nice - it's another sunny day here.
There is a market over on this side as well but not as big or crowded so much more enjoyable. I sat and had a coffee (and something else...yeah I was naughty....) and listened to a couple of musicians. I will head back on the ferry and over to the Maritime Musuem then on to the pasta party.
Last night went to Durty Nellie's for dinner - had lamb stew and a drink called Whoa Nellie! - rum, orange schnapps and different juices. Yum! I now know why it was called Whoa Nellie as I lurched drunkenly around Halifax afterwards.
Tomorrow is the big race but not going to get uptight over it (so she says now) and will just think of it as a normal 10km walk except I can't sit down in the middle of it or go get a coffee...oh dear.
The pasta party is tonight - well it starts at 3 pm this afternoon actually but I don't intend to go until about 5 p.m.
Not sure what I will do tomorrow afternoon - recuperate gasping on my bed? (if I can make it back there).
Herring Cove is still calling me but not sure there are busses out there on Sunday...will see.
Off to Newfoundland for 48 hours on Monday...

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Srinagar: Three militants have been killed the gunfight which raged in a Pulwama village Monday evening, army said.
“Three terrorists have been killed in operation in Kandi Aglar (Pulwama),” army spokesman Col RK Panday told Kashmir Reader. He added that two AK-47 rifles and one pistol was recovered from the gunfight site.
Earlier, an army soldier was also killed in the gunfight.
Sources said that a civilian was injured during clashes near the gunfight site.
Earlier, a gunfight started in the village after forces cordoned off the village and started searches.


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Boston's city elections are a year away from getting started, but one Haitian community activist is already revving up a campaign for an at-large seat.
Jean Claude Sanon, a community organizer who has been on the radio since 1985, launched a bid this week for one of the four at-large seats on the City Council.
"We need representation at the top of the City Council," Sanon said of Haitian Americans. Sanon has worked on several local campaigns, including former Treasurer Shannon O'Brien's run for the governor's office in 2002. He hosts a radio program called "Eye Opener," and teaches English as a Second Language and citizenship classes.
Sanon said he is launching the campaign this early in the season to put his name out there.
"I'm not the most well-known" outside of the Haitian community, he said, noting that he recently finished a campaign training program with Suffolk University and Oiste, a Latino political organization.
If elected, he said he would focus on crime and violence prevention. Sanon, a longtime activist in the Mattapan area, moved to Mattapan a year ago. He has also lived in Milton, Boston proper and Norwood, he said. Current at-large city councillors include Stephen Murphy, John Connolly, Sam Yoon, and Michael Flaherty, whom many expect to challenge Mayor Thomas Menino.


Day 2 Highlights from AIDS 2022: Community Engagement, PEPFAR Lessons, and New HIV Viral Suppression Campaign
During the second day of the 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2022), among the many things HIV.gov heard about was the importance of community engagement in ending the HIV epidemic. We also heard about a new public awareness campaign focused on people with HIV who are not in care and its powerful messages, including undetectable equals untransmittable (U=U). And we got to visit the conference’s vibrant Global Village. View the highlights video from the second day below, followed by our full conversations with PEPFAR’s Ambassador Dr. John Nkengasong, NIH’s Maureen M. Goodenow PhD, HHS's Kaye Hayes, and the Human Rights Campaign’s Tori Cooper.
More on PEPFAR Progress and Lessons to be Shared
In our full conversation with Ambassador Dr. John Nkengasong, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Health Diplomacy, who leads the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Maureen M. Goodenow, PhD, Associate Director for AIDS Research and Director, Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health, they both highlighted the importance of bidirectional sharing to inform programs. Dr. Goodenow remarked that during a full-day PEPFAR meeting ahead of the conference opening, she heard a number of interesting examples from other countries that could inform and support U.S. HIV efforts, such as youth-led peer groups in Uganda and integrated aging services for people with HIV in Botswana. She also noted how feedback from PEPFAR helps inform NIH’s HIV research agenda. Ambassador Nkengasong echoed the praise for Botswana, noting that they had just announced at the conference that they had become one of the very few countries to surpass the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 95-95-95 targets. Ambassador Nkengasong also discussed his reaction to new UNAIDS dataExit Disclaimer released at the conference, showing that globally the number of new HIV infections dropped only 3.6% between 2020 and 2021, which was the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections since 2016. Hear all this and more in our full video conversation with them.
“I am a Work of ART” and U=U
In our full conversation about the campaigns B. Kaye Hayes, MPA, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infectious Disease and Director, Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, HHS, discussed the new “I am a Work of ART” campaign launched by her office in June. She explained how her team worked closely with members of the community throughout the design and development of the new campaign that focuses on the health and prevention benefits of HIV treatment. The campaign is designed to motivate individuals with HIV who are not in care to re-engage in antiretroviral treatment (ART) so they can live long and healthy lives and avoid passing HIV to their partners. Ms. Hayes shared that the campaign has received positive feedback from community members so far. Tori Cooper, Director of Community Engagement for the Transgender Justice Initiative at the Human Rights Campaign, and also a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), underscored the power of the undetectable equals untransmittable or U=U campaign that Ms. Hayes and other federal officials affirmed during the conference. View our full conversation with them.
Also at the Conference
We spoke briefly with Ms. Hayes and Ms. Cooper on InstagramExit Disclaimer about the powerful messages for people with HIV in both the “I am a Work of ART” and U=U campaigns.
HIV.gov at AIDS 2022
AIDS 2022Exit Disclaimer is taking place in Montreal, Canada, and virtually from July 29 to August 2, 2022. It’s the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS, bringing together thousands of researchers, policymakers, program implementers, advocates, and others to present and discuss the latest HIV research, move research into action, share innovative programs and practices, and strengthen local, national, and global efforts to end the HIV epidemic. Continue following HIV.gov for daily conference highlights on our blog and on TwitterExit Disclaimer, FacebookExit Disclaimer, and InstagramExit Disclaimer. You can also catch up on all our video conversations from the conference on our YouTube channel.


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Canadian High Commissioner Benoit Prefontaine and Executive Chairman of Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) Kazi M Aminul Islam were present as guests at the dinner on Thursday.
Representatives of the Brazil, Japan, and Turkey embassies and the UNDP and ICC were also present in this event apart from the chamber leaders.
They also discussed how to bring more investments to Bangladesh with the cooperation of BIDA, according to a statement.


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For many that divorce in San Antonio, the dream of finding love again and remarrying may be very much alive. However, as we at The Law Office of Roland R. Esparza, P.C. have seen, doing so can potentially complicate matters for those paying child support. Yet if you do remarry and find yourself having to support children in multiple households, the law does allow you to revisit your original child support agreement.
As you may already know, the Texas Family Code states that your child support obligation could be up to 40 percent of your net resources if you support five or more children. That may leave little left for yourself and anyone else you may be obligated to provide for. If you find yourself supporting more than one household, the court may apply one of two new computations to determine a new child support amount. The first determined using the following method:
- The court considers the total amount you would owe under the standard schedule were all of the children you support living in the same home.
- That amount is then divided by the total number of children covered under your child support agreement, then multiplied by the number that are not.
- The resulting credit amount is then subtracted from your total net resources.
- The standard schedule guidelines for the number of children you have before the court are then applied to your adjusted net resources.
The second method is to apply adjusted percentages to your total net resources according to the number of children you have before the court compared to any others that you may support. That calculation table is listed in Section 154.129 of the Texas Family Code.
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Hemispheres is the sixth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1978. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and mixed at Trident Studios in London. It was the final installment in Rush’s post-apocalyptic trilogy, which was a series of three albums starting with 2112 (album) and A Farewell to Kings. It was the also the last of two albums they would record in the United Kingdom before returning to their homes in Canada.
Following themes going back to Rush’s second album, Fly by Night, on Hemispheres lyricist Neil Peart continues to heavily utilize fantasy and science fiction motifs. Similar to their 1976 release, 2112, Hemispheres contains a single, epic song broken into chapters as the first side of the album (“Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres”) while the second half contains two more conventionally-executed tracks, “Circumstances” and “The Trees.”
The album’s final track, the ambitious nine-and-a-half-minute “La Villa Strangiato,” was the band’s first instrumental release. According to Peart the band spent more time recording “La Villa Strangiato” than they did recording the entire Fly by Night album.
The album contains examples of Rush’s adherence to progressive rock standards including the use of epic, multi-movement song structures, complex rhythms and time signatures, and flexible guitar solos, like those found in “La Villa Strangiato.” In the 2010 documentary film Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, the band members comment that the stress of recording Hemispheres was a major factor in their decision to start moving away from suites and long-form pieces in their songwriting. That change in philosophy would manifest itself in the band’s next album, the considerably more accessible Permanent Waves.
For a short period of time, the album was available in Canada also as a red vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve with poster (catalogue number SANR-1-1015), and as a limited edition picture disc (catalogue number SRP-1300), both of which have become much sought after collector’s items. Roal Smeet
- Rush: Clockwork Angels (Review) (popmatters.com)
- Concert Flashback: Rush Plays Boston Garden in 1981 (wzlx.cbslocal.com)
- The Republika’s Top 10 Rush Songs (therepublika.com)
- Perfection of the Fifth Incarnation of Rush (theloftyoaks.com)
- Rush – Beyond the Lighted Stage; A Review (keenemusic.wordpress.com)
- RUSH Frontman Talks About Singing NEIL PEART’s Lyrics (Video) (blabbermouth.net)
- Rush Drummer Neil Peart Denounces Ayn Rand: I’m A ‘Bleeding Heart Libertarian’ (mediaite.com)
- Rolling Stone interview with Neil Peart of Rush and “Commercial” Music (thebrowntweedsociety.com)
- Lower Than Atlantis to release brand new studio album – details and tour announcement (hangout.altsounds.com)
- Q&A: Neil Peart On Rush’s New LP and Being a ‘Bleeding Heart Libertarian’ (rollingstone.com)


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The imagery on a samurai’s armor expresses that samurai’s identity and source of inspiration or empowerment. Is there an image you connect with most?
Use an image from the Asian Art Museum or create your own to decorate the armor or tsuba on the template.
Mon: circular family crests used as identifying marks on battlefield flags and many other goods owned or commissioned by high-ranking samurai.
Samurai: literally “one who serves”; members of the military or warrior class, active in Japan between the 12th and 19th centuries.
Tsuba: a sword guard; a metal guard on a samurai sword between the handgrip and the blade.
- Reflect: Is there an image, either from the Asian Art Museum or your personal life, you connect with most?
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Your iPhone is full of amazing features, but some of the coolest things about it are sold separately. Whether it’s a skin-tight charging case you’re looking for, a keychain-sized tracking device or a foolproof way to keep your phone from dropping, we’ve got you covered.
That’s based on a recently published patent application from Microsoft showing how the company has investigated a finger ring as a possible future wearable device. Microsoft’s impressive-sounding wireless ring could be used as an input device either to control a cursor on a mobile device such as a tablet, smartphone, or even a head-up display like Google Glass.
From personal computers and smartphones, to tablets and wearables, half the fun of following Apple is trying to figure out where it's going to go next.
Looking back through the Cult of Mac archives, a lot of the rumors we've brought to light over the years did hint at innovations that eventually found their ways into the sweaty hands of excited customers. But every once in a while a rumor comes along that's so ridiculous it can't possibly be true. And more often than not, that's exactly the case.
Check out our gallery for our picks of top Apple rumors that turned out to be totally wide of the mark.
Apple’s going to reinvent the television set
Apple TV is still awaiting its apparently game-centric overhaul, but the Apple TV this rumor’s about is the long-awaited Apple television set we’ve heard reports of for years now. Of all the reports we’ve heard, the most oddly specific was one from analyst Peter Misek. He claimed Apple would make a television “display, gaming center, media hub, computer, home automator, etc.” that would retail for $1,250, bring in 30 percent gross margins, feature IGZO panels from Sharp, and be called the iPanel. Oh yes, and Apple was building 5 million of them in May 2012.
Of course, absolutely none of this wound up happening. Maybe the shipments sunk on their way over to Cupertino?
Apple plans to buy Disney
Disney is an entertainment giant. But with assets valued at a total of just (!) $81 billion, Apple could probably snap it up with the money Tim Cook uses to wedge his office door open with. There are people who will swear up and down that an Apple/Disney buyout makes perfect sense — particularly given Steve Jobs’ history as a major Disney shareholder.
Recently Francis McInerney, a consultant at North River Ventures, called the deal “frighteningly obvious” and said that “the logic is so great this could happen tomorrow.” Rumors of an Apple/Disney merger go back at least as far as 1999 when it was reported that Disney planned to acquire both Apple and Pixar in a $12 billion stock swap, with Steve Jobs being ordained CEO of the mega-company. Since then, this rumor has come back with surprising regularity — although it’s unknown exactly why Apple would be interested in running theme parks and making animated movies.
One iRing to rule them all
According to Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White earlier this year, Apple’s busy working on an “iRing" finger ring we’ll use to control our Apple devices with. The suggestion was so preposterous that even the usually poker-faced Tim Cook cracked a joke about it.
The reality is that much of the “digital hub” functionality that an iRing would have brought will likely be carried out by the iWatch when it finally surfaces. For those who really wanted this rumor to be true, however, never fear: several companies have created their own third-party iRings to bring this rumor to life.
The iPhone 6 is getting Dark Knight-style sonar mapping
At the end of Chris Nolan’s 2008 movie The Dark Knight there's a scene in which Batman uses Lucius Fox’s sonar concept to turn every cellphone in Gotham City into a huge sonar-based live map in order to find The Joker. Back in 2012 it was rumored that Apple was interested in applying that same technology to its then-a-gleam-in-Apple’s-eye iPhone 6 handset. The tech would allow Apple to integrate audio sensors into its displays, which could detect the proximity of objects to your iPhone: interrupting your podcast app to alert you that a fast-moving large object is approaching you, for example.
Now obviously it’s a bit difficult to disprove this report given that the iPhone 6 itself is still technically a rumor. This one was also based on an Apple patent, which shows that someone in Cupertino at least took it seriously enough to file the necessary paperwork. However, we’ve heard nothing about it since, while more and more details of the iPhone 6 have been leaking on what seems like a daily basis. Maybe one to chalk up for the unsubstantiated rumor pile!
Which is a real shame because if Apple could’ve figured out a way to license Morgan “Lucius Fox” Freeman’s voice for a next generation Siri the combo could have been a total crowd pleaser.
Tim Cook is leaving Apple
Greedy rumor-mongers didn’t even wait until Tim Cook started running the show at Apple to begin spreading rumors of his plans to quit. Back in 2010, investor gossip site Fly On The Wall wrongly suggested that Cook was off to join HP as its new CEO. (Gullible investors actually led to Apple stock dropping 20 points as a result.) Now that Cook is CEO it’s a bit more difficult to make those kinds of reports convincing, so the narrative has instead changed to suggest the Apple board is unhappy with Cook’s performance and plans to drop him at the earliest possible opportunity. Well, plenty of opportunities have presented themselves, but Cook’s still hanging on in there.
Maybe (shock horror!) people have realized he’s actually doing a pretty great job.
A Retina iMac?
There have been rumors of Retina iMacs practically since the day Apple announced Retina display was coming to iOS in 2010. Most of them have been complete nonsense, and Mac fans have had year after year of seeing their ultra-high-res hopes dashed whenever Apple would announce a new Mac product. Unlike pretty much every other item on this list, however, it looks like a Retina iMac may finally be happening, courtesy of recently discovered code in Apple's OS X 10.10 Yosemite beta. But maybe that’s just the optimism speaking...
Thanks to Apple, Jay Z may now have 100 problems.
Apple going out of business
Over the years the reports of Apple's death have been greatly exaggerated.
According to the always entertaining Apple Death Knell Counter, Apple has been declared dead no less than 65 times since April, 1995. Usually the attempt of journalists looking to pick up click-throughs/sell books/make a fool of themselves, the disease can often manifest in business analysts, other CEOs, and generally anyone who should know better. A recent example? Trip Chowdhry, writing for CNBC, who sagely noted that Apple must come up with its debut wearables product within 60 days or it will perish. "It will take years for Apple's $130 billion in cash to vanish, but it will become an irrelevant company ... it will become a zombie, if they don't come up with an iWatch.” See what we mean?
Sadly these rumors won’t go anywhere, regardless of what AAPL stock prices do. Hey, at least they make amusing reading after the fact.
Sliding two distinctive iRings between my middle and ring fingers on each hand and then conducting the bouncy electronic beat coming out of my iPad mini and into my big fat headphones made me feel less like a conductor and more like an awkward boxer, punching at a touchscreen.
Once I relaxed into it, though, the music started to flow and my hands began to dance; this is one cool iOS music-making peripheral.
The iRing is made for making music, but the potential here is stunning: Imagine a video game controlled with your hands, a webpage that scrolls at a speed you define with your fingers, or an e-book that turns pages with a swipe through the air. This is a truly innovative new product.
This probably isn’t the “iRing” you’ve been waiting for — assuming you’ve been waiting for the mythical (One) Ring, forged by the skilled elves of Logbar, that wants to control, well, pretty much everything in your life.
No, this particular ring — IK Multmedia’s iRing — won’t control your TV, your phone or your wallet. But it is imbued with the power to create music on your iDevice.
Topeka Capital Markets’ report that, by now, we’d all be using finger rings to control our Apple televisions may have added up to precisely nothing (even being mocked by Tim Cook) — but one company is trying to make the so-called iRing a reality.
The company is called Logbar, and it’s launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund an “Ring: shortcut to everything.” When paired with your mobile device, this ring will let you use gestures to send texts, control your home appliances, and carry out a variety of other tasks.
While those predictions may not have come to fruition just yet, music technology company IK Multimedia is launching an iRing of its own that will allow people to perform specific tasks on their iOS devices using gestures.
Topeka Capital analyst Brian White received some criticism last week when he revealed in a note to investors that he expects Apple’s much-anticipated television set to come with a “mini iTV” tablet and an “iRing.” But rather than going into hiding until the whole thing is forgotten about, White has revealed his predictions for the iPhone 5S.
The device will be available with “at least” two screen sizes, White claims, giving those who might switch to Android for a larger display a reason to stick with the iPhone.
Brian White, an analyst with Topeka Capital Markets, brings us a crazy new rumor about the much-anticipated Apple television today following recent meetings with supply chain sources in China and Taiwan.
White claims that the “iTV” will finally launch during the second half of 2013, and that it’ll come with a miniature device called the “iRing”, which the user will wear on their finger to act as a pointer. The device will enhance the motion detection experience and take over some of the functions of the traditional remote control, apparently.