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Peter Kelly doesn’t remember anything from Tuesday 11 August 2020.
Just after lunch, the 51 year old suffered a cardiac arrest while at work. His colleagues started CPR immediately and continued until paramedics arrived. Paramedics were able to get a rhythm back, and Peter was transferred to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Peter’s wife Mandy says that if not for the quick actions of his colleagues, Peter may have had a very different outcome. The family are reminding the community of the importance of first aid courses and CPR training.
“We’re incredibly lucky. Someone heard Peter collapse, and immediately started CPR. They used a defibrillator which they had in the building. It was so important in keeping him going until the paramedics arrived,” she said.
“Who knows what the outcome would have been if Peter had been at home, or his colleagues hadn’t recently done a first aid refresher.”
“Peter was very lucky he had his arrest at work, with people around, and that those people knew how to perform effective CPR,” said RAH ICU consultant, and member of Peter’s treating team, Dr Michael Farquharson.
ECMO machine helps Peter’s recovery
Tests showed that Peter needed bypass surgery. Following surgery, Peter was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), where he stayed for three weeks.
Due to the trauma his heart had been through, the decision was made for Peter to go on an ECMO machine. ECMO machines can be used to perform the function of the heart and the lungs after a significant trauma.
“The ECMO machine gives the heart time to rest and slowly recover so that the heart can start to do more of the work itself,” Dr Farquharson explained.
“It can be a long process, but it gives the body a chance while the heart is recovering.”
The Royal Adelaide Hospital treats around eight to 12 patients every year using ECMO.
The Kelly family says thank you
Peter’s main memory from his three weeks in ICU was the voice of one of his nurses, Nihada (pictured left).
“In my mind, when I thought of her voice, she was on the ward, but it wasn’t until I came back that I realised she was one of the ICU nurses.”
Peter’s wife Mandy is thankful for the time the staff in the ICU took to make sure her and the couple’s two daughters, Mia and Sophie, were aware of what was going on.
“They looked after us. Michael took the time to sit down with the girls and explain what was happening, how Peter was and what they were doing. For me, that was an incredible weight off my shoulders for him to explain everything to them,” she said.
Peter and his family have spent the last few weeks visiting the people and places that saved his life, passing on a small token of their appreciation.
“It feels like coming in to say thanks and leave a few pastries isn’t enough. I know the staff appreciate it, but all I can do is shake their hands and say thanks for what you did.”
“Everyone has been amazing – the best, most competent people – and I wouldn’t be here without them. They helped keep me alive,” he said.
The staff on the unit were thrilled to see Peter and his family again.
“Nothing beats seeing Peter smiling and well, and standing up. That’s the greatest reward for a clinician,’ said nurse Nihada.
“It really is rewarding when a patient comes in after discharge. Peter’s recovery is the result of the team work of a whole range of people,” Dr Farquharson said.
“It’s great to see Peter doing well.”

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Manufacture for boric acid crystals and laser oscillation apparatus
|Posted date||Jul 22, 2011|
|Date of filing||Feb 13, 2004|
|Gazette Date||Nov 16, 2004|
|Gazette Date||Jan 21, 2007|
|Title||Manufacture for boric acid crystals and laser oscillation apparatus|
This invention provides a boric acid crystals that is useful to make wavelength conversion optical element and the like, which is made by dissolving water-soluble original material in water to make solution, evaporating water from the solution, either through sintering or not, to make culture material, and then fusing such culture material to make boric acid crystals. As a result, the boric acid crystals can be obtained simply in short time with low cost and further with excellent homogeneity and reliability. Also, this invention provides a laser oscillation apparatus with high reliability by using such crystals as wavelength conversion optical element.
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Contact Information for " Manufacture for boric acid crystals and laser oscillation apparatus "
- Japan Science and Technology Agency Department of Intellectual Property Management
- URL: http://www.jst.go.jp/chizai/
- Address: 5-3, Yonbancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan , 102-8666
- Fax: 81-3-5214-8476


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An initiative created to spur potential customers to go downtown and patronize local businesses on Harrison Ave. Venues on Harrison Ave. hire local musicians to play (usually on Wednesday nights, but sometimes Thursdays and Fridays) and attract people to come out to dine and listen. Ultimately, it would bring more focus to what Downtown Harrison Ave. has to offer for shopping, dining, the arts, businesses, etc. It is our hope that Downtown Panama City will become a destination much like
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Ekiti State House of Assembly has reinstated three lawmakers suspended from activities of the House following their roles in stalling the passage of the 2022 revised appropriation budget.
The lawmakers are Yemisi Ayokunle, Ajibade Raphael and Tope Ogunleye.
Their reinstatement followed the adoption of a motion moved by Leader of the House, Bode Adeoye at plenary on Tuesday.
The Motion, seconded by Biodun Fawekun was unanimously adopted by members of the House.
The Speaker of the House, Olubunmi Adelugba had earlier read the letters of apology written by the three lawmakers at the plenary.
The lawmakers apologised for not following the directive of their party, the All Progressive Congress on the choice of Speaker to replace the late Funminyi Afuye, who died on the 19th of October, 2022, after a brief illness.
One of the suspended lawmakers, Kemi Balogun, representing Ado Constituency II had earlier apologized and was reinstated on Monday, October 28, 2022.
With the lifting of the suspension, four of the suspended seven lawmakers have been reinstated.
The House adjourned sine die, thereafter, to allow the various Committees of the House to scrutinise the 2023 Appropriation for eventual passage.


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If you’ve been wondering when we’d reach the WTF-tastic tipping point of the shared universe, that moment is now.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount and Hasbro have announced plans to combine a smattering of toy and sci-fi properties into one massive shared universe. The project will jam the worlds of G.I. Joe, ROM: Spaceknight, Micronauts, Visionairies and M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) into one gigantic film universe. How this will actually work? We have no clue whatsoever.
The shared universe will follow the writers’ room model the studio has been using to generate an assembly line of Transformers movies, and they hope to attract “top talent” to the venture. Which, they managed to pull in some all-stars for the Transformers idea, so there’s a chance there could be some A+ writers working on this. But it still just sounds positively absurd.
“Hasbro and Allspark Pictures put storytelling at the center of everything that we do. These brands are filled with memorable stories and vivid characters, and this universe creates a framework for how they will become interconnected,” Hasbro chairman Brian Goldner said. “Extending our partnership with Paramount allows us to continue our long-term strategy and overall vision to build dynamic worlds for all of our brands, and we are thrilled to collaborate with them as we develop these properties.”
Of course, it makes sense the studio would want to capitalize on every piece of intellectual property on the shelf, and with the Transformers franchise accounting for a mind-boggling $3.8 million to date, along with a respectable $675 million from the two G.I. Joe films, there’s obviously money to be made by mining nostalgia. But are they really clamoring to see these franchises brought to life on the big screen — and in a confusingly bloated shared universe to boot?
Would we like to see a ROM movie, or a Micronauts film? Sure, that’d be great. But does it all need to be wrapped into the same continuity that makes room for both Cobra Commander and the Spaceknights? Probably not. Just because we mixed all these action figures together playing in the backyard when we were kids doesn’t mean they need to be thrown together on the big screen.
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Uganda’s Ministry of Education on Friday released a fresh statement -suspending an earlier planned return of Primary one, two and three back to school.
In a circular issued by the Permanent Secretary Alex Kakooza and dated June 4th, the Ministry also asked that the schools should first wait to send the students expecting to get holidays as of yesterday.
Students from primary one (P1) to primary three (P3) were expected to report back to school on June 7th, while their counterparts in primary four (P4) and primary five (P5) were expected to break off for holidays as of yesterday June 4th.
“The semi candidates (P6, S3, S5) are also expected to report back for a special term on June 7th, 2021,” the ministry notes.
“Pending the expected guidance by H.E, the President, Ministry of Education and Sports informs managers of education institutions and the general public that the planned reporting back to school and breaking off for holidays, as indicated above, should be delayed until further notice,” the ministry added.
Schools have been ravaged by the increasing rate of COVID-19 infections.
On Thursday, Makerere University Business School (MUBS) principal Prof. Waswa Balunywa postponed end-of-semester examinations, citing rising COVID-19 cases.
In an internal memo accessed by this website, Prof. Balunywa said that the exams will be canceled until further notice.
“We have continued to receive information regarding numerous cases of the Coronavirus infections amongst students and staff. Thus, is, therefore, to inform you that the forthcoming examinations are canceled until further notice,” the principal noted.
MUBS guild president Ogwang Robinson confirmed the memo and said that the student body had been informed about the situation.


LabVIEW Programming Fundamentals
This chapter provides an introduction to the fundamental aspects of LabVIEW programming. It covers the most frequently used data types, controls, structures, subVIs, functions and their applications within LabVIEW.
In LabVIEW, controls serve as the primary means to input and display data. LabVIEW supports a wide range of data types. Common data types such as numeric values, Booleans, and arrays are shared with other programming languages. However, LabVIEW also includes unique data types specific to its environment, like waveforms and instrument logic names. The relationship between controls and data types in LabVIEW can be intricate. Generally, a single data type may correspond to multiple controls, and some controls are versatile enough to represent various data types.
SubVIs in LabVIEW function similarly to functions in textual programming languages. They act as basic modular units for data manipulation within a program. Structures, on the other hand, are utilized to control the execution sequence of a program, altering the flow of operations based on specific conditions or loops. These structures in LabVIEW parallel the use of structures and control statements in traditional programming languages.


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the town of Carboneras is located in the Municipality of La Yesca (in the State of Nayarit).
There are 6 inhabitants. Carboneras is 983 meters above sea level.
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The Festival offers a variety of storytelling styles and story genre. You'll hear home town tales brought by humorist, Philip Gulley. Experience the powerful stories of first nations, told by master storyteller, Dovie Thomason. Be entertained by the imaginative Ed Stivender and his banjo. Find common ground in the world stories told by Noa Baum.
Also appearing at the Saturday 7 pm storytelling concert, Chris Longenecker, the Lancaster County Poet Laureate 2012-2014, author of How Trees Must Feel.
Storytelling Concerts: Friday 7 pm. Saturday 2 pm. Saturday 7 pm
Storytelling Workshops: Saturday 9:30 am to 11:00 am.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A North Carolina mother and her 7-year-old daughter recently moved to Colorado Springs in search of a cure for severe epilepsy—Liz Gorman says her daughter, Maddie, is in desperate need of relief.
“We had a miserable Thanksgiving and a miserable 7th birthday for Maddie because her seizures were so severe, and it was hard watching her go downhill like that,” said Liz.
The Gormans moved from North Carolina on December 19th so Maddie could legally take a form of medicinal marijuana.
Her dose is small – just three drops a day – but it’s effective.
“She’s definitely more alert and aware and just a little bit better at communicating,” said Liz.
They’d been fighting for a chance to use a specific strain of marijuana to help reduce Maddie’s hundreds of seizures a day.
Since starting medication just two weeks ago, Maddie’s daily seizures have dramatically decreased and she’s able to chew food again, something she forgot how to do just three weeks ago.
Although this is working for Maddie, doctors warn against trying untested experimental drugs.
“Right now, there is no evidence but it certainly has sparked interest and we really ought to do research on it,” said Dr. Cynthia Kuhn, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center.
Liz and her husband, whose job has forced him to stay in North Carolina, are hoping for the same.
“We’d love to see it legalized in North Carolina so we can come home.”
Liz says she and Maddie will stay in Colorado if the medication continues to work.
If it doesn’t, they’ll move back to North Carolina and work to change the law here for other kids.
The medication costs $250 for a three month supply of the drug.

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It’s become an accepted fact that the millions of bacteria that live inside and all over us have a big impact on our health, with connections to gastrointestinal conditions and relationships to digestion, obesity, and skin conditions being in a way, intuitive: All those bacteria are right there, so it’s perhaps not that surprising that they affect bodily functions in their same region.
What’s been harder to understand, historically, has been the apparent connection between our resident bacterial communities, especially those in the gut, and the human brain — notoriously protected from bacteria by the blood-brain barrier.
Yet there’s more and more evidence that somehow, the bacterial colonies that live in our guts can affect and even somehow control how we feel.
Mark Lyte has been studying this relationship for approximately 30 years.
When he first started this work, “it was dismissed as a curiosity,” according to a recent profile of research into the gut-brain connection in The New York Times, but over time, as Lyte and others continued to publish their research, they uncovered more and more compelling evidence that bacteria could not only affect but could perhaps even be a causal factor in mental disorders — something that implies they could also be eventually used to treat these same conditions.
Researchers have shown that the presence of certain bacteria can identify people that are more prone to depression and anxiety disorders. Other bacterial communities have even been connected to conditions like hyperactivity and autism. Just last September, as the Times reported, the National Institute of Mental Health awarded up to $1 million to four separate research projects looking at ways to better understand how these colonies of gut bacteria affect mental health.
This research is so fascinating because of its potential impact: if we find that abnormal bacterial colonies have a role in causing mental disorders, then perhaps if we alter these bacterial colonies, we can treat these mental conditions.
This is the promise and claim of the multi-billion-dollar and growing probiotics industry, but it should be very clearly noted that as of right now, we still have no idea how to effectively manipulate gut bacteria to treat mental conditions or many other issues; we’re not even sure such treatments are possible. And it’s worth noting that the gut-bacteria effective treatments that have proven useful for specific applications like a C. diffinfection are vastly different from the probiotics being marketed at your local drugstore.
We’re at a crucial moment
Despite the overhyping, the potential impact of our growing understanding of the weird relationship between our gut bacteria and our health is still huge. We have no idea how to treat some mental disorders and our treatments for many psychiatric conditions haven’t gotten any more effective since the 1950s.
Through huge research initiatives, we’re trying to understand the brain right now. At Smithsonian magazine’s “The Future is Here” festival earlier this year, Dr. Thomas Insel, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said: “We think about the 21st century as a century for chronic, non-communicable diseases … most of all, brain disorders.”
At the same time, a major project that’s trying to categorize all the different bacterial communities in our bodies and the ways they affect our health could open up a whole new understanding of those “brain” disorders.
“We are, at least from the standpoint of DNA, more microbial than human,” Insel told the Times. “That’s a phenomenal insight and one that we have to take seriously when we think about human development.”
Lyte’s lab focuses on figuring out some of the ways these bacteria could affect our mental health. They’ve found that gut bacteria produce neurochemicals like dopamine and serotonin. We’ve known those were produced in the gut for a long time, but didn’t know until recently it was the bacteria making them.
Other researchers have shown that providing mice with certain bacteria makes them less likely to give up when they are forced to swim after being dropped in a cylinder of water that they can’t escape from. In other cases, mice given certain bacteria have become less anxious and stressed. In other fascinating work, mice with certain symptoms that resemble, in part, autism in humans have had those symptoms reverse after a bacterial transplant — something fascinating, if still incredibly far from being applicable to humans.
These potential treatments, called “psychobiotics,” are being tested in humans too, for psychological conditions and neurological disorders.
But as transformative as the idea of bacterial manipulation might be, it’s still a long way from being ready to be implemented. As Lyte told the Times:
“It’s the Wild West out there … You can go online and buy any amount of probiotics for any number of conditions now, and my paper is one of those cited. I never said go out and take probiotics … We really need a lot more research done before we actually have people trying therapies out.”
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Castries: The government of Saint Lucia celebrated the 44th anniversary of Independence, with all citizens of Saint Lucia have participating in the festivities and scheduled events on Independence Day.
The theme chosen by the government for this year’s Independence Day celebrations was “Douvan Ansanm: One People. Shaping our Destiny”. In addition to various planned activities that aimed to showcase the country’s rich history and promote gender equality, the celebrations were also geared towards fostering a sense of unity and togetherness among the people of Saint Lucia.
Various Ministers and leaders worldwide wished and congratulated the country on the 44th Independence Anniversary. Saint Lucia recent Minister of External Affairs also wished “Happy 44th Independence anniversary to the island Saint Lucia.”
While expressing, he said, “On this special occasion, may we, as Saint Lucians both here and in the diaspora, celebrate our successes whilst looking towards a brighter future. We continue to overcome the challenges which confront us and remain steadfast in our efforts towards building a more resilient nation for current and future generations! Douvan Ansanm: One People, Shaping Our Destiny.”
The Prime Minister of Grenada also congratulated the country with their warming message in which they wrote, “The Grenada administration wishes heartiest felicitations to the Government and citizens of Saint Lucia on the occasion of their 44th Anniversary of Independence today, February 22, 2023.”
Furthermore, they also shared a note to mark the occasion, where they extended their best wishes for the continued peace, prosperity, and well-being of the people of Saint Lucia.”
Both nations share a great bond of friendship, and Grenda also prested their desire in which they stated that they are looking forward to the strengthening of relations as we work together within the ambit of our Caribbean Community and at multilateral levels.
Moreover, Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell attends a reception at the Police Headquarters in Saint Lucia, hosted by the Acting Commissioner of Police, Mrs Crusita Descartes-Pelius, to celebrate the nation’s 44th Anniversary of Independence!

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As technology continues to play an increasingly important role in transforming Human Resource Management (HRM) operations across the world, SystemSpecs Technology, a subsidiary of SystemSpecs, has underscored the importance of an intelligent and committed workforce for corporate organisations in overcoming challenges.
During a recent visit by students and staff from the Industrial Relations & HRM Unit of Covenant University to System- Specs office in Victoria Island, Lagos, its Managing Director, Demola Igbalajobi, said intelligent, committed employees of good character have played a huge role in helping the company overcome various challenges in its 30 years of existence.
The visiting students were exposed to core HRM practice and were provided insights into how human resource management practice works with technology, as SystemSpecs Technology is a renowned provider of human capital management technology solutions and services for organisations of all sizes and structures across Africa. “Our challenges have changed over time as we develop. However, getting intelligent, committed staff and people of good character has helped us in overcoming various challenges over the past 3 decades,” said Igbalajobi. “Our recruitment process is rigorous so that we can get the brightest of the brightest. Sound character and ethics are also important to us.
At System- Specs, we desire people who are not only creative but also have a strong desire to create positive change in the society.” In his remarks, Head of Covenant University’s Industrial & HRM Unit and leader of the visiting delegation, Dr. Odunayo Salau, said: “This academic visit has given us some exposure on how HRM practices can best be implemented. Now we are seeing the need to move from the conventional way of doing things to a strategic approach.
“We can see the inevitability of technology in the practice of HRM, reflected in technology solutions such as the Enterprise Resource Programme (ERP), which I think every organisation should have,” he added.


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Utility of Early Postoperative Unstimulated Thyroglobulin in Influencing Decision Making in Patients with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
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Serum thyroglobulin is used to screen for disease persistence or recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). We sought to assess the utility of early postoperative unstimulated thyroglobulin levels (uTg) as a decision-making tool to guide the use of radioactive iodine (RAI) in PTC patients.
We performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained database of patients surgically treated for PTC from 2015 to 2017. We analyzed uTg approximately 6 weeks postoperatively. Patients undergoing total thyroidectomy or completion thyroidectomy were included in the study, and patients were analyzed according to postoperative uTg and receipt of RAI.
A total of 255 patients were analyzed, with 134 patients meeting the inclusion criteria. The median postoperative uTg was 0.3 ng/mL. Overall, 49.3% (66/134) of patients achieved the target uTg of ≤ 0.2 ng/mL at a mean time of 7.9 ± 0.3 weeks postoperatively; 60% (40/66) of patients who achieved uTg ≤ 0.2 ng/mL postoperatively did not receive RAI. A uTg ≤ 0.2 ng/mL was maintained at 6 months in 98.1% of patients, including 100% of patients who received RAI and 96.7% of patients who did not receive RAI (p = 0.8). Of those who did not receive RAI, none demonstrated structural disease recurrence on 6-month ultrasound. Patients with early postoperative uTg > 0.2–2.0 ng/mL showed benefit from RAI, while patients with uTg > 2.0 ng/mL did not achieve the targeted uTg level regardless of receipt of RAI.
Postoperative uTg may be used to guide the use of RAI. Achieving near-undetectable uTg within 6 weeks postoperatively could aid providers in assessing disease burden and minimize RAI use for patients with a low-risk of disease recurrence. Continued follow-up is necessary to accurately determine long-term outcomes.
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The Way of a Man with a Maid is an anonymous, erotic novel, probably first published in 1908. The story is told in the first person by a gentleman called "Jack", who lures women he knows into a kind of erotic chamber.
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social club of óbuda | november 2016
The Social Club of Óbuda invited Soharóza to do a classical choir performance as part of their “Faces of A Cappella” concert series. Naturally, we needed to redefine the classic part immediately so that we could provide a characteristic experience of our own. Our outfit was wearing T-shirts with human faces on them (= members of a human choir), we improvised and surprised the audience for more than an hour. Some of the musical games we played included circlesongs based on music hits suggested by the audience, rhythm games built from words thrown in by the listeners and we even showed them our so-called “breath-monster”. The result was a choral performance, but in the non-classical sense.


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The Buffalo & Erie County Library System gave the public what it wanted -- retention of all 52 branches, regardless of cost, level of use or condition of facility. Now the system is starting to buckle under that weight. The first crack in the foundation is visible -- a cutback in hours and increased overdue fines unless the county comes through with more money.
The cutbacks and fine increases are meant to cover a $700,000 budget shortfall. It's a responsible action in the face of a projected deficit, but it's also as predictable as politicians making promises.
A couple of years ago, the system underwent an extensive outreach program to the public over a reorganization plan. The outcry to keep neighborhood libraries was loud. So here we are -- running a system that ranks 27th nationally in the number of people served and ninth in the number of branches, according to library officials.
People were unimpressed that the downstate firm hired to do a study of the library system, Aaron Cohen & Associates, suggested the system consolidate libraries. Now it's time to pay the price: A dozen libraries throughout the county will have hours cut back an average of four hours a week, and four libraries -- Crane, Dudley, Hamburg and Kenmore -- will have Sunday hours eliminated. And you can be sure that price will go up as older branches face ever-increasing maintenance costs.
County Executive Joel Giambra is proposing a $27.1 million library budget for next year that includes only $97,500 in additional county-appropriated funding. That's short of the $797,500 needed to cover costs. The fine increase is expected to give the library a $400,000 boost in revenue. To be fair, the library hasn't increased fines since 1983, and the new schedule is in line with what other libraries are charging.
Cutbacks in hours and increased fines are the price of doing business when the community decides every library needs to be up and running. The community finds value in library services, especially technology. You can renew and request books online. In October, 38 percent of the requests were placed from home, office or school.
But that technology costs money, as does maintaining a system of library branches that exceeds what most other areas our size have. Sooner or later, the money runs out. Those who demanded that the county maintain a system impractically large have a right to be concerned about the cutbacks in hours. They have less of a right to complain about it.


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INDIANAPOLIS (March 28, 2017) — Tom Griffiths of Kendallville, Ind. has spent quite a bit of time on the road since the beginning of the year representing Indiana Soybean Alliance at events across the state and beyond. Griffiths was elected as chairman of ISA in December 2016.
“From the changes in Washington, D.C. to the challenges we are facing in the farm economy, this is an exciting time to be leading the Indiana Soybean Alliance,” said Griffiths, who is currently serving in his third team representing soybean farmers from northwest Indiana on the ISA board of directors, which manages the soybean checkoff and the soybean membership and policy organization in the state. “It is more important than ever to ensure our soybean checkoff dollars are being invested in projects to bring real value back to our farms.”
Other members elected to the ISA executive committee include: Joe Tuholski of LaPorte as vice chair; Elaine Gillis of Dunkirk as secretary; David Rodibaugh of Rensselaer as treasurer; Jim Douglas of Flat Rock as grain production and utilization committee chair; Craig Williams of Oaktown as marketing and communications committee chair; and Anngie Steinberger of Edinburgh as membership and policy committee chair.
“I believe building demand for our soybeans and their value-added products – like meat, dairy and eggs – is a critical function of the soybean checkoff and I have seen firsthand the benefits these investments have had both domestically and internationally,” said Griffiths.
The ISA Board of Directors also welcomed three new farmer-directors to the board during its December meeting, including: Nancy Cline of Kirklin representing District 1; Mike Koehne of Greensburg representing District 4; and, Phil Ramsey of Shelbyville representing District 4.
ISA works on behalf of nearly 28,000 soybean farmers in Indiana who contribute to the soybean checkoff. The ISA Board of Directors is responsible for the investment of those checkoff funds. Under its three-year strategic plan, the ISA identified six major areas, including grain marketing, livestock, new uses, production and environmental research, aquaculture, and biofuels.
For more information about becoming involved with ISA, visit www.indianasoybean.com.
The Indiana Soybean Alliance works to enhance the viability of Indiana soybean farmers through the effective and efficient investment of soybean checkoff funds and the development of sound policies that protect and promote the interest of Indiana soybean farmers. The ISA is working to build new markets for soybeans through the promotion of biofuels, livestock, production and research, grain marketing, new uses, environmental programs, and aquaculture. ISA is led by an elected farmer board that directs investments of the soybean checkoff funds on behalf of more than 28,000 Indiana soybean farmers and promotes policies on behalf of the ISA’s 800 dues-paying members. Visitwww.indianasoybean.com for more information.
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INDIAN Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria on Friday strongly backed indigenous development of a fifth generation fighter jet and said the IAF was working on an ambitious modernisation plan to bolster its combat capability. Addressing a press conference, Bhadauria said the plan includes induction of more Tejas and Sukhoi aircraft, integrating of indigenous ASTRA beyond visual range missile across platforms and upgrading the Jaguar jet fleet among others. He said the issue of pricing of 83 Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) to be manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has almost been finalised and the contract is likely to be signed soon.
Asked about IAF’s plan to acquire 114 fighter jets, he said leading aircraft manufacturers have responded to the initial tender and adequate priority is being given to expedite the acquisition process. Last year, the IAF issued the initial tender known as the Request for Information to global aircraft companies to produce the jets in India along with an Indian firm. On the fifth generation fighter aircraft (FGFA), he said the IAF fully supports the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft project of the HAL and that there was no plan to import any such jet. “No plans for importing a fifth generation jet. The AMCA project is being given go ahead. We have given full support to it. The programme is taking off,” he said, in first clear view of the IAF on the project. Last year, India conveyed to Russia its unwillingness to go ahead with the joint development of a FGFA primarily due to the high cost involved in the project.
‘1st 4 Rafale jets to be operational in May 2020’: Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said the first Rafale fighter jets will be seen in Indian skies only by the end of May 2020. Responding to a query
by IANS, Bhadauria said that India will receive the first four of the 36 Rafale fighter jets by May 2020.
“The advantage of getting the Rafale in May next year will be that our pilots will be substantially trained by then,” said Bhadauria.
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Pulsed power is the science and technology of accumulating energy over a relatively long period of time and releasing it instantly, thus increasing the instantaneous power. They can be used in some applications such as food processing, water treatment, weapon, and medical applications.
Energy is typically stored within electrostatic fields (capacitors), magnetic fields (inductors), as mechanical energy (using large flywheels connected to special-purpose high-current alternators), or as chemical energy (high-current lead-acid batteries, or explosives). By releasing the stored energy over a very short interval (a process that is called energy compression), a huge amount of peak power can be delivered to a load. For example, if one joule of energy is stored within a capacitor and then evenly released to a load over one second, the average power delivered to the load would only be 1 watt. However, if all of the stored energy were released within one microsecond, the average power over one second would still be one watt, but the instantaneous peak power would be one megawatt, a million times greater.
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Single pulse energies as high as 100 MJ, power as high as a "few hundred terawatts" with voltages between 10 kV and 50 MV, and currents between 1 kA and 10 MA, have been achieved at least as of 2006.
Railgun is one of the example usage of pulsed power and it is still at research stage due to its complexity.
- Dipole magnet "kicker"
- Electromagnetic forming
- Electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
- Explosively pumped flux compression generator
- Linear transformer driver
- Magnetic pulse welding
- Particle accelerator
- Power (physics)
- Pulse-forming network
- Triggered spark gap
- Z Pulsed Power Facility, "Z machine"
- ABB Pulsed Power Manufacturer of semiconductor-based replacements for thyratrons


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Fraud prevention and payment systems group Alaric International has signed a partnership agreement with Channel Group of the Philippines, under which Channel will re-sell Alaric’s authentic payment and fractals fraud prevention systems to its client base in the banking sector.
“The time is right to introduce this new generation of switching and fraud detection products to the market here,” said Wally Sandoval, managing director for Channel Group. “This doesn’t just give the Philippines a chance to move away from aging legacy systems but rather to leap forwards technologically, by offering standards-based solutions with an extremely modern feature set.”
Alaric International director, Paul Griffin, added: “The Philippines has some highly innovative ideas, particularly in the convergence of banking and mobile technology. However, the region suffers from an ageing infrastructure which is in desperate need of replacement. Overall the Philippines has had a poor experience of ‘low cost’ solutions and many banks have moved to outsourced alternatives simply out of frustration.
The US money market fund reforms came into effect in 2016 and are already dramatically shaping US fund industry with investors flooding out of prime funds and into government securities. While the reforms are similar, they are not the same. GTNews interviews Yeng Bulter, global head of the cash business at State Street Global Advisors on the differences.
There are various ways for financial institutions to benefit from advanced technologies and business models provided by FinTech's. Whether a business' approach is radical or incremental, data management can help a company to increase their return on investment, argues André Casterman, INTIX.
Tim de Knegt, strategic finance and treasury manager for the Port of Rotterdam, discusses how he is using blockchain, the challenges he will face in his role of treasury over the next 12 months and the advice he would give to someone starting out their career in treasury.
Due to the low interest rate environment and Basel III regulation many corporate treasurers, who may have in the past been very reliant on the banking sector to provide them with cash management solutions, have been forced to explore alternative options as banks have been refusing short dated cash deposits.


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Rush Group, Europe’s largest trampoline park group, is looking to enhance its venue management capabilities after partnering with Roller.
Rush Group attracts around four million visitors each year to its more than 50 parks across the Nordics, UK and Germany. Its brands include Superfly, Jump House, Jump In and Airhop.
Roller’s venue management software offers online booking, ticketing, point of sale and waivers capabilities. As part of its partnership with Rush Group, Roller has integrated PayPal payment services.
Rush Group believes it can boost revenue, efficiency and guest experience through the integration with Roller.
Petter Haagaas, chief executive at Rush Group, said: “We are delighted to partner with Roller as our technology provider for our 54 venues across Europe. We look forward to leveraging Roller’s comprehensive platform to streamline our operations and deliver unforgettable experiences to our valued guests across all of our locations.”
Roller operates in over 28 countries and provides its services to trampoline parks, playcentres and family entertainment centres.
Luke Finn, chief executive at Roller, said: “We are thrilled to have Rush Group join the ROLLER family, and we look forward to partnering with them in our shared vision of driving growth through great guest experiences.”

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Love is the most important word
Jason Mraz‘s Tour is a Four Letter Word finally made its stop in Manila last Tuesday, May 14 and the Grammy winner nailed every performance.
I’ve never seen an artist who went up on stage just to introduce his opening act without drawing much attention. He is so humble, fun and over all a good guy. A full night of music began with a 30-minute set from one of the newest singers and Youtube sensation Zendee. She did a great job warming up the audience before Mraz. She also returned during the performance of Lucky.
When Jason got on stage, the crowd went wild. He appeared in casual style as usual, t-shirt, jeans pants and the straw fedora hat. Mraz and his band kicked off with The World as I See It, followed by Everything Is Sound and one of my favorites The Remedy. The screen behind him showed beautiful graphics as he sang, especially during Butterfly.
Jason brought a nine-piece band, including a percussionist Mona and horn section consisted of 3 baldheaded guys on saxophone, trombone, and trumpet that added an extra flavor on the show plus a sleek stage with artistic video display. The singer songwriter kept both boys and girls on their feet as he led us through an amazing live show by inserting his old collections of Make It Mine and You and I Both
I was not familiar of Only Human, but I appreciate its soulful arrangement. He had an understated soulful voice that got my attention on this song.
Two of the highlights were A Beautiful Mess and Woman I Love, a tribute to the women in the lives of the entire band and brought the audience into romantic evening.
He put the live band to the full extent with more instruments than you would have thought needed in a concert. Long and great set list which incorporated everything from his debut album with The Remedy to his massive hit I Won’t Give Up.
Expectedly, he closed the night with the biggest song of his career, I’m Yours. Everyone was singing and dancing throughout the encore song. He kept the sold out crowd on their feet and enjoying themselves for an amazing Tuesday night. I also did not notice a sound distortion, it was perfect, and everything was balanced from vocals to instruments.
Without a question, we’re inspired and I felt like he had worked so hard to share his gift and touch our lives through his music. LOVE perfectly described the show and the truly most important word in this world.
By: Cen Sulit
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Budget 2020 India: Certain specified categories of g-secs would be opened fully for non-resident investors, apart from being available to domestic investors.
By Kaushik Shaparia
Budget 2020 India: This year’s Budget has been drafted with an eye on the longer-term growth prospects of India. So, even if the markets have come away disappointed for the lack of measures that yield immediate results, the finance minister has focussed on laying the ground for a stronger economy. India is taking short, but certain steps towards developing a more vibrant bond market and some of the measures announced on Saturday are a move in that direction.
Certain specified categories of g-secs would be opened fully for non-resident investors, apart from being available to domestic investors. This is indeed a positive step and potentially takes India one step closer to bond index inclusion, which will help reduce the crowding out risks and maintain a healthy demand-supply position in the bond market. The decision to raise the limit for FPIs in corporate bonds to 15% of the outstanding stock from the current 9% should please the fixed income markets. For corporate issuers, this would not only help in more efficient price discovery, it would also provide them access to a larger pool of capital.
Traditionally, domestic banks have been the biggest buyers of government bonds followed by domestic insurance companies and the RBI, while the FII share of bond holding has been less than 5%. With the slow pace of deposit mobilisation, it is difficult for banks to both increase their credit disbursals substantially and also buy enough government bonds to maintain a healthy demand-supply dynamic in the bond market. Given this backdrop, opening up the bond markets more liberally to foreign investors would be a big source of incremental demand for bonds, thereby helping longer tenor yields to decline and aid in the transmission process.
The proposal to set up a new debt ETF for government securities is also a welcome move which allows for a wider and longer-term investor base. Of course, we would need to see the details of the securities that are included in this fund. The decision to divest stake in LIC should be seen as a demonstration of its intent to gradually reduce its holding in state-run enterprises and allow them to operate more independently. That stance seems to be reflected in it wanting some PSBs to raise resources by themselves from the capital markets.
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However, we would have liked to see more done by way of uniformity in the corporate tax rate for domestic and foreign companies. Though the corporate tax rate has been reduced to 22%, foreign companies operating in India continue to be taxed at a much higher rate of 40%. This, we believe, should be corrected to allow for a more level-playing field. We would have also liked to see more done by way of steps to alleviate the stress we continue to see in the NBFC and real estate sectors. But as much as might remain to develop a truly dynamic financial market, we are moving in the right direction.
The writer is chief country officer, Deutsche Bank, India


And once again I’m taking my T@B back into the dealership for more repairs. The repairs covered by my insurance company for the collision with sheet metal on a Nevada freeway were taken care of this summer. The warranty work approvals took longer to be approved. But, the manufacturer, Nücamp, came through and agreed to cover all the warranty work. Ordering of the parts took more time. I had hoped to have my work done over the summer while I was in Michigan and be heading out on new adventures this next week, but the repairs need to be done and so I’ll be patient.
There weren’t any serious problems: a window that was slightly akilter and didn’t latch right, the door that didn’t seal properly, a screen that came unstitched, another screen that had a cord that loosened and didn’t work right after 6 months, a crack in the molding above the bathroom sink, and then the big problem with the heating system leaking glycol. I have confidence in General RV of Wayland, Michigan as I drop it off for the repairs. They have a very large garage and a steady flow of repair work. They did a great job on my repairs from the accident and I’m looking forward to having everything fixed and ready for me to be back into my journey.


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The Social Democratic Party candidate for Ohaji/Egbema state constituency seat in the 2023 election, Honourable Onyiriuka Stanley, has expressed delight over the just concluded Iri Ji festival and has urged the people of Ohaji Local Government Area of Imo State, to sustain the cultural festival in the community.
Onyiriuka made said this while speaking with journalists during the Iri Ji Ohaji 2022 cultural festival (yam festival), which held at Ohaji District Headquarters, Umuokanne, on Saturday, a statement by Liberation Mandate Media’s Ikenna Orioha, disclosed.
The assembly candidate said it was important the community sustained the culture, so that many good things will be gained and enjoyed for even development.
The festival had the theme, Idi N’otu Na Oganihu, which is interpreted; Unity and Progress of Ohaji.
Onyiriuka said the yam festival propagates unity, love, peace and cordiality among the people and is also an opportunity for the people to brainstorm on positive ways forward for the enclave.
He added, “I and my supporters are happy to have graced the Iri Ji cultural festival of Ohaji. We are also joyous that the festival is attended by people from far and near including the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, his deputy, Prof. Placid Njoku, Speaker of Imo Assembly, Rt. Hon. Emeka Nduka, Chairman Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, HRH Eze E.C Okeke and Minister of Education (State), Rt. Hon. Goodluck Opiah.”
Onyiriuka urged the government to address the issues of flooding, bad roads, unemployment among others, adding that he would facilitate development in the LGA if elected in the forthcoming 2023 elections.
He said, “I also use this medium to ask government to urgently address the issues of flooding, deplorable roads, lack of electricity, poor healthcare delivery, unemployment among other needs debilitating the people who produce the wealth of Imo State.
“My election into the assembly will facilitate development at Ohaji/Egbema. For this reason, I appeal to all indigenes of our state constituency to see me qualified, as well as having the capacity to deliver and give your mandate in 2023.
“I will not fail you nor take you for granted. May God continue to bless, keep and direct the good people of Ohaji/Egbema as they work in unison and the fear of God to advance better living opportunities.”


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Monday, September 12, 2011
All about spatial literacy... and free on-line
Left image: An English village streetscape in Suffolk, United Kingdom.
Right image: Somewhere but nowhere to go: milling around a Paris railway station.
Related sites to the Spatialworlds project
21st Century Geography Google Group
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
Where am I??
Adelaide, Australia: S: 34º 55' E: 138º 36'
Have a play with these two – all about spatial literacy
ArcGIS Online - a way to go on-line
* ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based geospatial content management system for storing and managing maps, data, and other geospatial information. Built on Esri's cloud infrastructure, it gives you access to geographic content shared and registered by Esri and GIS users around the world.
With ArcGIS Online, you can
• Create and share maps that can be accessed by anyone through a browser, a mobile device, ArcGIS for Desktop, or a custom application.
• Access and discover thousands of free maps, datasets, services, tools and other geospatial content.
• Manage geospatial content through an easy-to-use catalog of items or groups.
• Share your content publically, with specific groups, or keep it private.
* Have a play with ArcGIS Explorer on-line. Well worth the time to see that here is a GIS viewer with street basemaps, satellite images, aerial photography and the capacity to digitise, import Shapefiles and much more. All on-line, with no required software to load up on your computer and all free – all you need is the internet to do some amazing GIS. This is the new world of GIS delivery; on-line and user-friendly. You will also find pre-made map projects on the Brisbane floods, active hazards in Japan, glacial retreat in Alaska, to name just a few.
* In particular make you own map following the instructions
* ‘How to us it’ videos are available free on the ESRI site to support your exploration of ArcGIS Explorer on-line.
* Think about signing in to the on-line ESRI environment to get even more functionality.
* Even go the extra yards and play with the featured maps and apps from the ArcGIS Community
A new dimension
A great resource for developing spatial awareness. Interesting to apply to your area or known world landmarks. All about spatial literacy. In particular it is an interesting tool to incorporate spatial literacy and awareness with historical and contemporary things students are familiar with or studying.
Dimensions is an experimental prototype for the BBC. They want to bring home the human scale of events and places in history. The D-Day landing beaches measured from London to Norfolk in the UK. How far would the Titanic stretch down your street? Dimensions simply juxtaposes the size of historical events with your home and neighbourhood, overlaying important places, events and things on a satellite view of where you live. Certain "Dimensions" can be transformed into short walks, so you can get a physical appreciation of the distances involved.


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DelMar has demonstrated that VAL-083's anti-tumor activity is unaffected by common mechanisms of chemoresistance
NEDD4-1 may regulate the proliferation, invasion, migration, and chemoresistance
of lung ADC cells through the PI3K/Akt pathway, suggesting that it may be regarded as a therapeutic target for the treatment of lung ADC.
15,64] Hypoxia-induced autophagy also imparted chemoresistance
in HCC cells.
The poor response to chemotherapy is hypothesized to be due to either chemoresistance
commonly seen in neuroendocrine tumors of other sites, or the lack of an appropriately determined regimen.
33 A lower Bax/Bcl-2 ratio is associated with chemoresistance
and adverse cytogenetics in AML.
Therefore, novel strategies to overcome chemoresistance
are urgently required.
The higher urolithin A concentration mixture was most effective at inhibiting the number and size of colon-cancer stem cells and inhibiting the activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase, a marker of chemoresistance
This nanoparticle formulation provides new and promising properties, including overcoming the mechanisms of chemoresistance
developed by tumour cells that affect the efficacy of chemotherapy agents.
Currently, authors advocate that the recurrence and chemoresistance
are the main problems for its treatment.
Dr Gottesman, whose research interests include mechanisms by which cancers become resistant to chemotherapy, reinforced in his keynote address that traditional monolayer cell culture models used to study tumor chemoresistance
have proven to be woefully inadequate.
53) Although it remains to be elucidated whether the altered metabolism directly affects carcinogenesis or chemoresistance
, it seems likely that metabolism plays an important role in reprogramming cancer cells to the pluripotent state.
Immediate and transient phosphorylation of the heat shock protein 27 initiates chemoresistance
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A man who sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl and claimed that he thought she was 18 has been jailed.
Conrad Pritchard aged 22 of Isaac Close, Salford was sentenced on Thursday at Manchester Crown Square to 32 months in prison after being convicted of sexual assault of a child under 13.
The court heard that on Sunday 25 June last year Pritchard was out drinking with three other people in a pub in Salford before heading to the home of one of the group at around 1am.
Whilst at the address the quartet continued drinking into the early hours of the morning before Pritchard silently disappeared upstairs.
A short time later the woman who lived at the property heard her four-year-old daughter crying in a clearly distressed way.
The woman went upstairs to comfort her daughter when she found Pritchard naked to the waist and lying next to the girl pretending to be asleep.
He ran out of the room, at which point the girl told her mother that he had assaulted her.
Pritchard was found hiding under a bed in another room before being chased out of the house. After being arrested, he claimed during his police interview that he thought the little girl was actually the 18-year-old babysitter.
Detective Constable Paul Davies of GMP’s Salford borough said: “Conrad Pritchard targeted a four-year-old girl as she slept in her own home so that he could satisfy his own appalling urges.
“He deliberately targeted his victim and since the incident has continued to show very little remorse for his actions.
“What he did that night left his victim understandably distraught and we are continuing to provide her with support from specially trained officers.
“His attempt to justify what happened by claiming that he thought a four-year-old girl was actually 18 is absurd and he is now where he deserves to be.”


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Posted on Thursday, May 2, 2013 • Category: Remote Control
If you want control the DVD or TV/AV system that located in your living room via the remote control when you sleeping in your Bedroom. this IR extender will achieve this for you. Basically, it works as a repeater that moves the IR signal to a different location. This is an improved IR remote control extender circuit. It has high noise immunity, is resistant to ambient and reflected light and has an increased range from remote control to the extender circuit of about 7 meters. It should work with any domestic apparatus that use 36-38kHz for the IR carrier frequency.
Posted on Friday, April 26, 2013 • Category: Power Supplies
Modern power supplies are known as "switching regulator power supplies."
In most switching supplies, the 110 volt AC input is first rectified by
two diodes and filtered by a pair of capacitors. This creates two high-
voltage sources; one positive and the other negative.
A pair of transistors is then used to switch these high voltage supplies
across the primary winding of a transformer. This switching action is
very fast. A typical switching speed is around 40,000 cycles per second
or 40KHz. An integrated circuit is commonly used to control the
transistors. This IC not only controls the speed at which the
transistors are switched, but also controls the amount of time that each
transistor is energized. The output voltage of the power supply is
determined by the "on" time of the transistors. If the transistors are
keep on for a longer period of time, the output voltage of the supply
will rise, while shorter times lower the output voltage. This is known
as "pulse-width modulation."
Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2013 • Category: Motor Controllers
This triac based AC motor speed controller circuit is designed for controlling the speed of AC motors like drill machines, fans, vacuums, etc. The speed of the motor can be controlled by changing the setting of P1 potentiometer. The setting of P1 determines the phase of the trigger pulse that fires the triac. The circuit incorporates a self-stabilizing technique that maintains the speed of the motor even when it is loaded.
Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 • Category: FM Transmitters
Long range, very stable, harmonic free, FM transmitter circuit which can be used for FM frequencies between 88 and 108 MHz. With good antenna transmitter can cover 5km range. It has a very stable oscillator because it uses LM7809 voltage regulator which is a 9V stabilized power supply for T1 transistor. Frequency adjustment is achieved by using the 10K linear potentiometer. The output power of this long range RF transmitter is around 1W but can be higher if you use transistors like KT920A, BLX65, BLY81, 2N3553, 2SC1970 or 2SC1971.
Posted on Friday, April 12, 2013 • Category: FM Transmitters
Building two stage 40 Watt FM Transmitter Amplifier. RF input power should be between 0.5 and 1 watt. Amplifier is powered by 28V power supply. The diagram shows a 2N3375 driving a 2N5643 but there are many other transistors that will work. I used these two transistors just because they were cheap at the time. If any of the variable capacitors are at full capacitance you can pad them out with a fixed ceramic capacitor of suitable value. Extra capacitance also might be needed on the base of the transistors (i had to add 3 100pF capacitors on the base of the 2N5643). The transistors are bolted to a piece of right angle aluminum which is fixed to the metal chassis to dissipate heat effectively.
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It is interesting to note that most business disputes can be averted or minimized with good planning and an effective strategy.
Experienced business litigation attorneys help business entities to handle all documentations, filing and publication requirements for the creation of corporations, limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships and sole proprietorships.
Further, they can help to determine which entity will best suit their business needs. You can also hire lawyers for your joint ventures & partnerships disputes.
Acquisitions and Dispositions
Business litigation lawyer represents clients in their acquisition and disposition of business assets, corporate stock and membership and partnership interests. The transactions may range from relatively small private transactions to complex companies involving multi-state based assets.
They also provide services from the early pre-due diligence stage to the closing of the transaction, and assist with a comprehensive due diligence investigation, advice on the acquisition structure, letters of intent, capital formation and the drafting and review of all necessary agreements and documentation.
They work to develop a professional relationship with their clients and take pride in the successful closing of the transaction.
General Business Contracts
The corporate practice of business litigation lawyer includes a broad array of services ranging from preparation of shareholder and partnership agreements to other corporate agreements requested by the clients, including employment agreements, non-competition agreements and sales and service agreements.
They also create documents for commercial financing such as lines of credit, term loans and factoring and asset backed lending arrangements.
To the extent needed, they also prepare basic standardized forms that may be used by a business in the provision of its goods or services.

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|Publication number||US5445311 A|
|Application number||US 08/324,271|
|Publication date||Aug 29, 1995|
|Filing date||Oct 13, 1994|
|Priority date||Jun 30, 1992|
|Also published as||US5311404|
|Publication number||08324271, 324271, US 5445311 A, US 5445311A, US-A-5445311, US5445311 A, US5445311A|
|Inventors||Philip A. Trask, Vincent A. Pillai, Thomas J. Gierhart|
|Original Assignee||Hughes Aircraft Company|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (47), Classifications (100), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This is a continuation application of Ser. No. 08/187,023, filed Jan. 27, 1994, abandoned which is a division of application Ser. No. 07/906,637, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,311,404, filed Jun. 30, 1992.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to the preparation of electrical interconnection substrates, particularly high density multiple interconnect (HDMI) substrates, to receive integrated circuit (IC) chips by both wire bonding and solder connections.
2. Description of the Related Art
HDMI multichip module wafers are typically fabricated to accept integrated circuit (IC) dies by either wire bonding the circuit leads to (typically gold) wire bond contact pads on the wafer, by a tape automated bonding (TAB) process, by solder bonding the leads to solder contact pads on the wafer, or by a combination of both wire and solder bonding. Working with both solder bonds and gold wire bonds on HDMI wafers is more complicated than the wave soldering process commonly used in printed wiring board (PWB) fabrication. With PWBs, as opposed to HDMI wafers, a patterned copper network on the board is coated with solder that wets only on the copper contact pads, not on the epoxy PWB material. There is accordingly no need to mask the PWB during the wave soldering process. With HDMIs, on the other hand, the interconnection substrate cannot simply be subjected to a wave soldering process, since that would preclude gold wire bonding to the same substrate. Even if a photoresist mask were used to protect the contacts intended for wire bonding, such masks are not compatible with the temperatures employed in wave soldering and the hot air knife typically used to remove unwanted solder. Furthermore, gold in the presence of solder forms brittle, undesirable intermetallic compounds.
The typical HDMI is initially provided with gold contact pads only, not solder contact pads or "bumps". The process previously used to allow for soldered contacts as well as wire bonded contacts involves first coating the HDMI wafer with a layer of photoresist, and then forming openings through the photoresist to expose the contact pads that are intended for solder bonding. The gold film is next selectively etched from the exposed contact pads, followed by a solder electroplating step to deposit solder in the contact pad locations from which the gold was previously removed. The wafer is then heated to a temperature at which the lead and tin in the solder melt and form an alloy. The photoresist is removed, along with the overlying unwanted solder, prior to formation of the solder alloy at the desired contact pad locations.
A primary problem with this method is that, because the plated solder must be heated to achieve the proper alloy, the alloy may not be consistent from wafer to wafer; this can lead to variations in solderability, which is an serious drawback. Moreover, the wafer preparation process is complicated by the additional steps required to remove the gold from the desired solder contact pads, and to afterwards heat the deposited solder sufficiently to form an alloy. The heat treatment must be performed in an inert atmosphere, typically nitrogen, which is fairly expensive to provide. The additional processing increases both the cost and the time required to prepare the HDMI substrate.
The present invention seeks to provide a method of preparing an electrical interconnection substrate, such as an HDMI, to receive IC chips by either wire bonded or soldered connections, without the wafer-to-wafer inconsistency in the ultimate solder alloy that was encountered in the past. It is also desired to eliminate the need for additional process steps to etch away the gold from the desired solder pad locations, or to heat the wafer for the formation of solder alloy pads. A simpler preparation process, and a resultant interconnection substrate that includes a protective coating and is less expensive to fabricate, are also sought.
These goals are accomplished by initially providing an electrical interconnection substrate with a series of wire bond contact pads that include a layer of conductive wire bonding material, typically gold. A dielectric solder mask is formed over the substrate, with openings in the mask to expose the contact pads for which soldered connections are desired. The substrate is then exposed to a molten solder alloy, preferably through a wave solder process. This dissolves the wire bonding material from the exposed contact pads into the molten solder, and in the same step deposits a layer of solder both onto the mask and into the mask openings, where it forms solderable contact pads. The solder between the openings is then removed from the mask, preferably with a hot air-knife, followed by the final formation of additional openings in the solder mask to expose the contact pads for which wire bonding is desired. The remainder of the mask if preferably left in place on the substrate to form a protective coating.
The wire bond contact pads preferably consist of a layer of conductive, substantially non-ductile material surmounted by a layer of gold about 1-5 microns thick; this thickness is sufficient to be wire bondable, but thin enough to dissolve into the molten solder. Where fine geometries are involved the mask is preferably an aluminum-on-dielectric laminate so that substantially straight and vertical openings are attained, and multiple passes can be made through a molten solder alloy bath to assure removal of the gold from the desired contact pads and its replacement with solder. The aluminum portion of the mask is removed prior to exposing the substrate to the molten solder.
When prepared in this manner, the interconnection substrate is ready for IC attachment and requires no further heat treatment to alloy the solder. Since the wave soldering process dissolves away the gold from the pads to be solder coated and replaces the gold with solder in the same step, there is no need for a separate gold removal etching step. The dielectric layer readily withstands the temperature of both the molten solder and of the hot air knife. Since successive wafers are subjected to the same molten solder, consistency in the solder alloy is assured from wafer to wafer.
Further features and advantages of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description, taken together with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of an HDMI substrate, showing representative IC chip locations for both wire and solder bonding;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of an HDMI that may be used to practice the invention;
FIGS. 3a-3h are sectional views, not to scale, illustrating successive steps in the preparation of an HDMI substrate to receive both wire bonded and soldered connections, with two alternate connection schemes illustrated in FIGS. 3g and 3h; and
FIGS. 4a-4f are illustrative diagrams illustrating successive steps in the wave flow solder and hot air knife process preferably used for the invention.
FIG. 1 is a plan view of an HDMI wafer 2 that can be prepared through the teachings of the invention to receive IC chips with both wire bonded and soldered connections. Chip pads 4 are provided on the wafer's surface to receive respective IC chips, which are typically held in place with a layer of epoxy. A series of discrete bonding pads surround each chip location, or are at least formed along some if its sides; the individual bonding pads are included within the bonding pad areas 6 indicated in the figure in a conventional manner.
The HDMI wafer provides a series of electrical interconnects for the various contact pads, as indicated by the sectional view of FIG. 2. Typically formed on a silicon substrate 8, the wafer 2 includes various levels of electrical feed lines that are connected to respective contact pads through vertical via interconnections (not shown). A pair of contact pads 10 are illustrated, along with a power lead 12, separate signal leads 14 and 16, and a ground lead 18. The power and ground leads are illustrated as extending laterally, while the signal leads 14 and 16 extend into the page and constitute x,y orthogonal pair of signal lines; all of the leads are buried within the HDMI wafer. The various lead lines are separated from each other, as well as from the contact pads, by dielectric material. A process used in the present invention to prepare such an HDMI wafer to receive both solder and wire bonded contacts is illustrated in FIGS. 3a-3h. Referring first to FIG. 3a, an HDMI wafer 20 is shown with a pair of contact pads 22 and 22'. The wafer will be processed in the ensuing steps so that pad 22 emerges as a solderable contact pad, while pad 22' remains a wire bond pad; both pads are identical to begin with. Each typically includes respective aluminum pads 24, 24', covered by top metal layers 26, 26' of a conductive, non-ductile material such as titanium/tungsten or nickel. A layer of a relatively soft wire bonding material 28, 28' is formed on top of the top metal; this layer is preferably gold, but may also be formed from other materials, such as copper, copper alloy or tin, that are wettable by molten solder. Aluminum is not suitable for this purpose, since it is not wet by molten solder. As explained below, it is important that the wire bond layers 28, 28' be thick enough for wire bonding, and yet be thin enough to readily dissolve when exposed to a molten solder. For this purpose gold with a thickness of about 1-5 microns has been found to be suitable.
Both of the pads 22 and 22' are initially suitable for wire bonding. The beginning of the process to convert pad 22 to a solderable element, while leaving pad 22' wire bondable, is illustrated in FIG. 3b. A dielectric solder mask 30 is first deposited over the HDMI wafer. The mask 30, which must be able to withstand contact with molten solder, is preferably a layer of polyimide about 10 microns thick that is spin-coated and cured over the wafer and contact pads. Other mask materials that could be used include silicon dioxide and silicon nitride. A layer of aluminum 32, preferably about 0.5 microns thick, is sputtered over the polyimide layer 30 to establish an anisotropic (straight and vertical) subsequent etch through the polyimide 30 to expose pad 22. If SiO2 or silicon nitride is used for the dielectric mask 30, the aluminum layer 32 is not needed. A layer of photoresist 34 is next spin-coated on top of the sputtered aluminum layer 32, patterned and developed to form openings in the photoresist over pad 22 and all of the other pads to be made solderable. The aluminum layer 32 is then wet etched, replicating therein the openings previously established in the photoresist layer 34. A reactive ion etch is subsequently used to pattern the polyimide layer 30, using the patterned resist and aluminum layers as the etching mask. As a result an opening 36 is completed through the polyimide, aluminum and photoresist layers to expose pad 22. With the aluminum layer 32 ensuring that the polyimide sidewall profile is nearly straight, a solder bonding pad subsequently formed in the opening will also have straight sidewalls to prevent shorting between bonding pads when IC leads are solder attached.
After the solder pad opening 36 has been patterned any remaining photoresist is removed, preferably with a wet photoresist stripper solution, followed by removal of the hard aluminum mask layer 32 preferably with a wet aluminum etch solution. The resultant HDMI wafer with contact pad 22 exposed and pad 22' covered by the polyimide is shown in FIG. 3c.
In the next step, the results of which are shown in FIG. 3d, the wafer is coated with a solder alloy layer 38 that extends into the opening for pad 22 as well as over the remainder of the wafer. This may be accomplished by loading the wafer into a solder jig that includes recesses to accept several wafers. The wafers can be attached to the jig with high temperature tape on their outer edges to prevent them from lifting out of the recesses during subsequent wave soldering and hot air-knife leveling. The wafers in the jig are preferably run through a wave solder system that is equipped with a hot air-knife leveling unit. Several such systems are available, such as the Teledyne/Halco, Inc. Model 350.
The solder application process is illustrated in FIGS. 4a-4f. In FIG. 4a the wafer 20 is shown being preheated, preferably to a temperature of about 230°-250° C., to prevent it from cracking due to thermal shock when it is subsequently exposed to a molten solder. The wafer is carried on a perforated belt 40 during this process. As the wafer enters the wave solder system, solder flux 42 is automatically applied to it (FIG. 4b). The wafer is then passed through a wave solder bath 44 as illustrated in FIG. 4c, and receives a coating of molten solder alloy. The temperature of the bath depends upon the particular solder alloy employed; most usable solder alloys will have a molten temperature in the range of about 230°-270° C. During a single pass through the wave solder system, the thin layer of gold 28 is dissolved from the exposed pad 22 into the solder bath, and the solder layer 38 fills the polyimide opening for pad 22 in its place. If fine pad geometries are involved, several passes may be made through the wave solder bath to assure a complete removal of the exposed gold and its replacement by solder. Depending upon the pad pitch, additional passes may be recommended to ensure that all pads are solder coated. The dissolved gold is dispersed into the large reservoir of molten solder. Although gold is known to form undesirable embrittling intermetallics with solder, the very small quantities of gold dissolved into the large solder bath (typically about 20-50 gallons) will not build up sufficiently between normal bath replacement cycles (typically about every two weeks) to be detrimental.
In the next step of the solder process, illustrated in FIG. 4d, a conventional hot air-knife 46 removes the excess solder between pads from the upper substrate surface, preferably operating at a temperature of about 424° C. and an angle to horizontal of about 25-30 degrees. All of the solder is removed from the underside of the substrate 20 by the lower portion of the air knife 48, which operates at the same temperature as the upper air-knife but is at an angle of about 0-3 degrees to horizontal.
Following the removal of the excess solder, the substrate is gradually returned to room temperature by a flow of forced cooling air (FIG. 4e). In the final step, illustrated in FIG. 4f, the flux is removed with an aqueous cleaner 50 and the wafer is dried.
The solder contact pad 52 which remains in the exposed opening 36 over pad 22 after the excess solder has been removed is shown in FIG. 3e. After being reflowed by the hot air-knife, the solder pad is ready to receive a TAB Bonded die attachment with no further processing required.
The final processing steps to prepare the wafer involve the wire bond pad 22'. A photoresist layer is applied to the wafer and patterned to expose openings over the desired wire bond pads, such as pad 22'. The wafer is next subjected to a reactive ion etch to remove the portion of the polyimide layer that is exposed by the patterned photoresist, followed by a removal of the remaining photoresist. As a result, an opening 54 is formed in the polyimide to expose the gold bonding pad 22', as shown in FIG. 3f.
FIG. 3g illustrates the attachment of IC dies to the two pads 22 and 22'. It should be noted that the polyimide layer 30 has been left in place as a protective coating for wafer 20. An IC chip 56 is shown attached to the upper surface polyimide layer 30 by an epoxy 58, with a gold lead wire 60 extending out from the chip and wire bonded to the gold layer 28' on pad 22'. Various types of wire bonding processes may be used for this purpose, such as thermal compression, ultrasonic, thermal sonic and microgap bonding. These processes are well known, and are described for example in Licari and Enlow, Hybrid Microcircuit Technology Handbook, Noyes Publications, 1988, pages 191-202.
IC chips may be bonded to the solder bonding pad 22 with the circuits either face-down or face-up. A face-down flip-chip contact is illustrated in FIG. 3g, with a circuit on chip 62 bonded directly to the solder pad 52 by means of solder "bumps" 64. As with the other bonding techniques described herein, flip-chip bonding is known and is not claimed per se as part of the invention.
Another solder bonding technique for pad 22 is illustrated in FIG. 3h. In this case a die 62 has been adhered to the polyimide layer 30 with an epoxy layer 64 in a TAB process. A lead 66 of copper or other metal that has been coated with solder extends from the circuit on the upper surface of chip 62 and is bonded to the solder pad 52 by heating the lead, preferably with a laser, to reflow the solder and establish the contact. As opposed to the flip-chip attachment technique, in which all of the bonding pads for a given die are heated simultaneously and bonded at one time, the laser TAB process establishes bonds wire-by-wire. TAB is well known and is described for example in Licari and Enlow, supra, pages 203-208.
The present invention offer numerous advantages. Since the molten solder is in alloy form when it is first applied to the solder bonding pad, there is no need for a later heating step to establish the alloy, and a high degree of uniformity is achieved between different wafers in a production run. Also, since the exposed gold layer is dissolved into the same solder bath from which the solder contact is obtained, the prior requirement for a separate gold removal step before a solder coating could be applied is eliminated. Commercially available production wave solder hot air-knife equipment can be used and, since the solder is stoichiometrically ready for IC lead attachment by solder reflow, the wave soldered pad requires no further heat treatment. The polyimide or other dielectric forms a protective layer that can withstand the temperatures to which the wafers are exposed during the wave soldering process, and it also delineates the pads to be solder coated and separates the leads, preventing solder from shorting two or more leads with unwanted solder. By eliminating fabrication steps that were previously required, a more efficient and economical process is achieved. Furthermore, the selective removal of gold from those pads where solder is desired prevents the formation of brittle gold-solder intermetallics.
While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, numerous variations and alternate embodiments will occur to those skilled in the art. For example, the wafer could be dipped in molten solder, kept hot and subjected to an air blast to remove excess solder, in place of the wave solder and air-knife technique described above, although this is not recommended for fine pad geometries. It is accordingly intended that the invention be limited only in terms of the appended claims.
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Hey Bayonetta fans, the Umbra Witch has returned! 5 years after being announced, Bayonetta struts her way back onto the Nintendo Switch family of systems just in time for Halloween in Bayonetta 3.
Sporting a wicked new ensemble and familiar pigtails, the Umbra Witch must face a mysterious evil using her signature guns and time-slowing Witch Time ability. This time, invading manmade bioweapons called Homunculi find themselves in Bayonetta’s crosshairs.
Let’s take a look to see how Bayonetta 3 stacks up to its predecessors after being in development for 5 years!
Bayonetta 3 Details
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Developer(s): PlatinumGames Inc.
Genre: Action-adventure, hack and slash
Mode(s): Single player
ESRB Rating: M (Mature 17+)
The Umbra Witch makes her triumphant return
In this third and exciting instalment of the Bayonetta series, the unstoppable Umbra Witch joins forces with a whole slew of other Bayonettas to stop human-made Homunculi from wreaking havoc on the world. In addition to Bayonetta, you will also control the feisty witch-in-training Viola, who is ready to unleash hell on the Homunculi with her sword and her capricious companion, the feline demon Cheshire.
On your journey, you meet a veritable coven of Bayonettas, each more fabulous than the last, while fighting through the streets of Tokyo, the mountains of China and beyond. While I don’t want to spoil any of the story, I found myself having a hard time following the story chapter to chapter. Though, to be honest, it really didn’t matter because the game’s flashy combat is what will draw most in.
Action packed campaign
Bayonetta 3’s combat system is heavily inspired by Capcom’s Devil May Cry series. Bayonetta demands fast reflexes and quick thinking. However, in many ways, this system is more complex than its predecessor. Initially, you might be fooled into thinking that the combat system in Bayonetta is a button masher.
However, it’s not, and it teaches you everything you need to know about how to use it. In addition to being able to perform various attacks, you are also able to summon massive monsters to help you during battle. Although Bayonetta is a genuine challenge, I never felt like I was having a hard time following the action. The Umbra Witch, Bayonetta, can also summon her demonic darlings like Gomorrah, Malphas, and Phantasmaraneae during battle, unleashing their demonic powers in the heat of combat and in new, larger-than-life battles where you directly control the action.
Some of the new characters in Bayonetta have a distinct feel that might throw some people off. For instance, one of them relies on her ability to parry instead of dancing out of the way. This feels different, and it can be hard to take in at first, but I enjoyed learning how to walk again. The only weakness of Bayonetta 3’s gameplay is its non-combat areas. Although they are still enjoyable, I feel that PlatinumGames should have kept the puzzles and platforming parts of the game shorter. For the most part, these areas are generally uninteresting and lacklustre.
Flashy visuals with some performance issues
Bayonetta 3’s visuals are a mixed bag on the Nintendo Switch. Some of the earlier levels look rough and not what you would expect. When not in combat, I noticed some bad pop-ups that appear in the world around you. And, early on in the game, some of the areas where there’s a lot of fire look pretty rough. I also noticed some frame rate issues when the action got intense on the screen.
Despite the apparent various compromises that PlatinumGames has made to Bayonetta 3 on Nintendo Switch, it’s still for the most part a great looking game. The smooth 60 frames per second and the vibrant combat are enough to carry the game through. Though I do wonder what PlatinumGames is holding back on due to the Switch’s hardware limitations.
Additionally, Jennifer Hale does an excellent job in voicing Bayonetta and her supporting cast adds to the fun. The game’s over-the-top style is also very appealing.
Bayonetta 3 will put a smile on fan’s faces despite its flaws
In the end, Bayonetta fans will love Bayonetta 3. It doesn’t stray too far from previous entries in the series. The biggest new features are the addition of a new character and the ability to summon massive beasts. Though, I would say you really have to have played the games to fully appreciate what Bayonetta 3 has to offer.
It’s a shame that the game suffers from some presentation and performance issues. While they don’t ruin the experience by any means, they are noticeable. Let me know in the comments section below if you’ll be picking up Bayonetta 3 and what you like best about the franchise.
+ Familiar gameplay that retains the series’ iconic style and feel
+ New mechanics like Demon Slaves allow plenty of new playstyle options
+ Great voice acting by Jennifer Hale and the supporting cast
+ Over-the-top on-screen action that will keep you on your toes
– Some performance issues and muddy textures in the game
– Some may find the over sexualization of characters a bit too much
OVERALL ASSESSMENT OF BAYONETTA 3
Lasting Appeal/Replayability: 4/5
Overall Rating 4/5 (80%)
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