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Newsletter Issue #686January 21st, 2013
A year of lemons? Well, perhaps for a friend and frequent guest on The Tech Night Owl LIVE, where commentator Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's "iTunes Guy," discussed lemons for 2012, a list of the products from Apple and other companies that caused him lots of grief. He also talked about the prospects for an Apple TV set.
When I listened to Kirk's list, which included Macs and a scanner from Fujitsu, I was grateful that I seldom end up with defective gear of any sort. The last serious failure occurred in 2009, when a Panasonic plasma TV weeks out of warranty had a power supply failure. It took a few calls to Panasonic to persuade them to grant me an "exception," a much lower price for the repair, but it was still cheaper than buying an extended warranty. I should consider myself lucky. Good reliability ought to be a given with any electronic product. But it doesn't always happen that way.
You'll also heard from tech journalist Rob Pegoraro, who writes a weekly column for USA Today," discussing the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, including some of the great and not-so-great product intros.
This weekend, my wife called my attention to a TV interview featuring someone discussing the best gear from the CES, but when they began to show off a few of those dreadful convertible PC/tablet-style note-books, I returned to other pursuits. The inability of PC makers to "get it" is but one reason why sales were down over the holiday quarter, despite the arrival of Windows 8. But it's not as if the public is clamoring for Windows 8.
Special Sci-Fi Update! In November, our second sci-fi novel, "Rockoids II: The Coming of the Protectors" was released. The novel continues the exciting adventures of the unique characters introduced in the first novel in the series, "Attack of the Rockoids." Rather than retread the same ground as some sequels do, the story moves forward in unique directions. My son, Grayson, and I had lots of fun writing the story, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did. It's available in both print and Amazon Kindle editions. Why Amazon? Well, since Kindle software is available on various platforms, we only had to make one version to satisfy as many readers as possible.
On this week's episode of our other radio show, The Paracast: Gene and Chris present a special episode focusing on the subject of "cattle mutilations," which have been popularized by such investigators as Linda Moulton Howe, who have laid the blame for these mysterious livestock deaths on "aliens." But there are cases of unsolved livestock deaths that have sinister, more down-to-earth overtones. Case in point: Werner Bock and other ranchers of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. For almost 40 years, these ranchers have been victimized by what could be described as a systematic campaign of terror and death. Bock will explain his frustrating attempts over the years to understand what happened to his livestock and who caused it.
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Remember the very first Mac back in 1984? I suspect many of you weren't around then, or were too young to notice or care, but it had a singular flaw that received its share of complaints. You couldn't upgrade the RAM. It was meant to be a computing appliance, and you would no more open the Mac's case to upgrade anything than you would open your refrigerator to swap out the compressor for a more powerful one.
Later Macs could be upgraded, but that clearly wasn't the vision of Steve Jobs. But it didn't mean that RAM was easy or quick to replace. There were several Mac minitowers in the 1990s that forced you to remove the logic board and disconnect some flimsy cable assemblies to get at those RAM slots. When the first iMac arrived, the computer that signaled the resurrection of Apple, you had to pull out the entire electronic assembly to reach the RAM slots. Why did they design those things this way?
You could clearly get the impression that Apple was hostile to people who wanted to upgrade RAM. Rather than have you go to an outside supplier to save money, they simply made the process impossible. Even when you could replace RAM, the process remained difficult, with the original Mac mini being the worst offender. Some companies even produced special style putty knives to ease the process of opening the delicate case, and forget about replacing the hard drive in a convenient fashion.
When it came to later iMacs, the process became better before getting worse. Just open the cover at the bottom of the unit. Even the Mac mini got RAM upgrade religion in later revisions. Maybe Apple had gotten a dose of common sense.
Until the MacBook Air arrived. In Apple's quest to make note-books lighter and thinner, you cannot upgrade the RAM on a MacBook Air, since it's soldered to the logic board. I suppose actually outfitting the thing with real memory slots and a simple scheme to open the case would have detracted from the thinness and the lightness, and hurt the smoothness of the exterior.
Since upgrading note-book memory is usually done once, if at all, you're forced to buy the MacBook Air with the RAM you expect to need during its useful lifetime. The MacBook Pro with Retina display has the very same problem, but at least it ships with enough RAM for most of you direct from the factory.
With the 2012 iMac, Apple took the schizophrenic approach. The 27-inch iMac has a convenient RAM cover in the rear, making it easy to access the four available slots. Not so for the 21.5-inch version, where RAM upgrades are not officially possible, though you can, I suppose, tear the thing apart and have at it. You can also, I suppose, attempt to solder new memory on your MacBook Air, but why?
I understand why you might want to upgrade your Mac's RAM. Your needs change, or you buy a lower cost model to save some money, hoping to upgrade later. That's something Apple is clearly trying to discourage for more and more Mac users, but it seems more for design than practicality. Apple is presuming to guess what you need, even if it's not what you want.
Now we all know how Apple is quickly removing optical drives from the Mac lineup. Among today's models, only a few MacBook Pros and the Mac Pro have optical drives. Apple has decreed that you will get most of your software and media content online, and thus not need to spend money for a component you will never — or seldom — use. But the one day you do need it, paying $79 for an Apple USB optical drive makes sense. At the same time, it's not as if the prices of new Macs are lower because internal optical drives are history, and how many of you really care that the new iMac has thin edges?
At the end of the day, though, I understand why optical drives are disappearing, and not just because Apple selfishly wants you to get your content online — and hopefully from them — but making RAM upgrades difficult or impossible only inconveniences the customer. It's also not helpful to the third-party vendor who wants to sell you a RAM upgrade, an upgrade that will usually cost a lot less than the price Apple sets for the same part, from the same manufacturer.
I understand why the iPhone and iPad are sold as closed boxes. The Lightning connector gets you external expansion, and don't forget the earphone jack and Bluetooth. In saying that, yes, I understand that some of you have the need to change batteries when you're out of power, and there's no place to recharge. There are accessories that will provide extra power when needed, and maybe only a few of you will bother, so why add an ugly slide out cover for people who will never use it?
But I'd be curious to see how Apple VP Philip Schiller explains why easy RAM upgrades on Macs are meant to be an endangered species.
In the months ahead of the arrival of the iPad mini, Apple was pressured left and right by the media to produce a smaller, cheaper iPad to stay ahead of Amazon and Google. That Apple did release an iPad mini, however, doesn't necessarily vindicate those demands. It may be all about expanding the lineup in a way that was conceived early on.
Look, for example, at the way Steve Jobs dissed 7-inch tablets, saying you needed sandpaper to make your fingers small enough to use one. Those tablets are widescreen, hence in the horizontal position, have very little vertical space. This is a key edge in the design of the 7.85-inch iPad mini. With a standard 4:3 aspect ratio, you have far more room to actually do something, such as viewing a Web page, without constant, endless scrolling.
So Jobs probably wasn't arguing against a smaller iPad, since he knew one was in the works. He was arguing against a smaller tablet that didn't provide enough useful screen space. That's the argument that can be made about those 5-inch tablets, or fablets, which attempt to combine the functions of a smartphone with a tablet. Those gadgets often include a stylus, which is so 1990s.
When it comes to a lower cost iPhone, on my radio show the other day, a guest remarked that we already had a cheap iPhone — a free one in fact, if you got an iPhone 4 with a two-year contract. But some people don't want to commit to long-term contracts, or maybe don't qualify for the basic credit requirements without having to pay a deposit. Once you pay a deposit, the cost advantage is sharply reduced. In some countries, there are no carrier subsidies. If you want a smartphone, you pay the price for the unlocked version, and even a "cheap" iPhone is $400.
Now it so happens that T-Mobile, who is adding the iPhone some time this year, is going to abandon subsidy deals. Instead, you'll have to buy your handset up front at the regular price, but it appears they will let you pay it out over, say, 20 months. Once it's paid off, the price goes down, unlike other carriers where you pay the subsidized price even after the handset's original cost has been covered. But since many customers buy a new smartphone around the time the contract is up, maybe it doesn't matter.
The real question, though, is not whether Apple wants to build an iPhone that's more affordable, it's whether they can deliver a product with the same level of quality as any other iPhone, and still make a decent profit. Apple doesn't play the same game as other companies, trading profits for volume, and hoping to come out of ahead. That marketing approach seldom works.
There's no doubt that an iPhone mini, or entry-level iPhone selling for $199 or $299, would be a smashing success around the world. But could Apple retain a high build quality, and deliver the same experience as the more expensive models? These are the questions that probably weigh heavily on the minds of Apple's executive team. For that cheaper iPhone to launch, those questions will have to be answered in a way that makes sense to the company. It won't happen because the media demanded it, and it won't happen because Apple may be losing tens of millions — hundreds of millions of sales — because they don't do cheap.
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Director, star wrestle with challenging Sam Shepard play
A mix of gritty domestic drama, jarring sexually charged scenes and dreamy surreal moments, Sam Shepard's 1978 play "Curse of the Starving Class" still has the power to enthrall and perplex audiences.
The comedy-drama is running through Sunday, March 10, at Long Wharf Theatre and marks the first staging of a Shepard play at the nationally renowned New Haven venue.
For director Gordon Edelstein, it has been a chance to work on his favorite Shepard play, while for actor Kevin Tighe, the show allows him to draw on his own roots in the desert areas west of Los Angeles, where Shepard has set so many of his stories.
"It's a tough play but it is also a very funny play," Edelstein said in an interview before the first preview last week.
"It's one of those plays that is very hard to get right ... to pitch it just right," he added of the mixture of seemingly incompatible elements in the script -- the hilarity and tragedy that bump up against each other in the lives of the wildly dysfunctional Tate family.
"If you get it wrong, it just doesn't fit together," Edelstein said. "It is its own thing ... but if we can get them to laugh in the first 20 minutes, I think we'll be OK for a lot of the strange stuff at the end of the play.
"How an audience reacts depends on their willingness not to think rationally. A character like Willie Loman (in `Death of a Salesman') can be seen realistically in terms of your life and mine ... but some of (Shepard) just cannot be explained in any logical way," the director added.
Tighe said the danger for actors playing Shepard is to focus on the realistic moments in the play at the expense of the writer's deliberately absurd departures from "real life."
"You have to beware of naturalism, which is the place actors tend to go into," Tighe said. "You have to leave the ground for awhile and then hope you land."
For the actor, the play has been a chance to return to Long Wharf, where he worked with Edelstein on a 2002 production of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," starring Jane Alexander.
Edelstein said he was delighted to have Tighe work on the Shepard production "because he understands the West in his bones. He's a funny guy, but he's a serious intellectual, too ... a very serious reader."
Tighe said that as soon as Edelstein mentioned the play to him, "I kind of went, `Yeah,' right away. ... To a certain extent the play reflects my upbringing, so there's an inherent familiarity for me. I had a father who was very invested in living in the desert. He would be there one moment and then gone the next and you never knew where."
Although Tighe is best known for his work on dozens of TV shows and films, his roots are in the theater, and he said that Edelstein reminds him of the late, great New York theater figure Joe Papp.
"He reminds me of Joe in terms of his energy and his intelligence. Gordon has an acute understanding of actors that (leads you) to trust him completely," Tighe noted.
The actor laughed when I suggested that his wild 1989 cult classic "Road House" had a mix of realism and absurd comedy not unlike Shepard's world view.
"I've gotten more comments on that movie than any other film I've ever done," he said, adding that he is constantly amazed by its broad audience appeal.
"Working class people like it, (college kids), white people, black people. I think a lot of that is due to the music ... the movie had great music," he said of the contributions of Jeff Healey and others to the tale of outrageous violence in a small Missouri town after a businessman, played by Tighe, decides to remake a rundown road house into an upscale bar.
"It was like an Old West tale ... well performed by everyone," Tighe said of cast mates Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Kelly Lynch and Sam Elliott.
"The movie was made during a writer's strike, so we did it without any writers there to correct us," he said, adding that no one realized how much screwball humor was in the movie until they saw the finished version.
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Japan Looks to Start New Antarctic Whaling Program
Despite a ruling by a United Nations court that Japan's research whaling program in the Antarctic Ocean isn't in compliance with international agreements, Tokyo says it plans to start a new research program there.
The country's fisheries agency said Friday that it has submitted a plan to the International Whaling Commission expressing its intention to resume what it calls scientific whaling in the Antarctic in fiscal year starting in March 2015. Tokyo has agreed not to catch any whales in the Antarctic in fiscal 2014.
The agency also said it plans to continue its whaling hunt in the Pacific Ocean next year, but targeting a smaller number of whales than in previous years.
Late last month the Hague-based International Court of Justice ruled that Japan catches too many whales under its scientific whaling program, which has been opposed by Australia and New Zealand as a backdoor way to conduct commercial whaling. The IWC has allowed Japan to carry out a research program ever since commercial whaling was banned in 1982.
The Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research, founded at roughly the same time the country was forced to cease commercial whaling operations, has been granted an annual catch quota by the Japanese government and sells the whale meat generated by its sampling techniques. The institute argues that catching and killing a large number of whales is necessary to improve the accuracy of its research.
The decades-long dispute has drawn attention globally, especially as clashes between Japanese whalers and the anti-whaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society become more confrontational, with ships colliding at sea and putting crew members' safety at risk.
Following the March ruling, Sea Shepherd said in a statement it would "have the ships prepared to return to the Southern Ocean in December 2014 should Japan choose to ignore this ruling."
The Fisheries Ministry said that under its new research program it is considering countermeasures to ensure the safety of seafarers and researchers from anti-whaling groups.


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Spider webs combine a strength and elasticity unmatched by anything we humans can make. They don't trigger much of an immune response in us and are "insoluble in water, two facts that the classical Greeks exploited when they used cobwebs to patch bleeding wounds," notes science writer Adam Rutherford.
These days, spider silk has inspired another innovative use. Utah State University researchers have spliced DNA from the golden orb-weaver spider into the genome of a goat named Freckles, adjacent to her own coded base pairs for prompting the production of milk. Now, when she lactates, "her milk is replete with spider silk."
Rutherford plunks these two scenes four pages apart in "Creation: How Science is Reinventing Itself," a crisp, beguiling and rigorous book. An editor for the journal "Nature," he earned a doctorate in genetics from University College in London. He puts his training to fine, explanatory use here, catching readers up on the past 4 billion years of evolution, and the human tinkering of more recent vintage.
He does this by cleaving "Creation" into halves: "The Origin of Life" and "The Future of Life." Each could stand on its own, but the author wants us to absorb both views — looking back over our shoulder, as it were, and scanning ahead. He makes the strong case that life erupted just once, on the infant Earth, when a cell split in two. "Since then, the thing that we struggle to define as life has passed uninterrupted from it to you, via a colossal series of iterations. Existence is bewilderingly tenacious...."
Evidence for Charles Darwin's natural selection is just as robust, telescoped so elegantly here that I am tempted to send a crate of these books to the gift shop of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. Rutherford writes with flair: "Life is an astonishingly conservative system: DNA is the same in all species, the letters of the code are all the same; the encryption in the code is the same, even the orientation of the molecules is the same. What's true in bacteria is true in a blue whale. Only a system with a single root could display such conservation."
Along with enjoyable snippets of science history, Rutherford crafts felicitous analogies. He describes the continuous traffic across cell membranes as "carefully regulated through gated pores, pumps, and channels that stud the surface of a cell like seeds on a strawberry."
Moreover, this book arrives exquisitely timed to the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision June 13 that genes may not be patented. The second half of the book hums with a sense of technical advances far outpacing changes in the law. "In the next few years," Rutherford asserts, "for only the second time in four billion years, a living thing, probably something akin to a cell, will be born in the laboratory without coming from an existing cell."
Predictions of this ilk are perilous, but the author pulls us along, waxing enthusiastic for Stanford University's Lego-like BioBrick Project, which works to standardize and share the new, synthesized biological components: "At the time of this writing, the BioBrick catalog contains more than ten thousand parts. Each one is a piece of DNA delivered in the mail as a dot on some blotting paper. Drop it into solution, and the DNA floats off the paper, ready for assembly. Some BioBrick parts are genes, some are regulatory instructions, and some are combinations of both, already assembled."
This is called synthetic biology, which Rutherford compares to samplers in rap music, "copying, adapting, and transforming what has come before." Stanford, he writes, is the epicenter for synthetic biology, rooted in the "genetic engineering" initiatives of the 1970s. The book's final two chapters engage the political and cultural fallout.
Rutherford has little patience for those citizens exercised over genetically modified plants, but he takes a sober look at the potential for harm in designing a virus or bacteria into a weapon. In the final chapter, he looks at engineering yeast on an industrial scale to produce artemisinic acid, a key to combating global malaria. And he argues that genetically modified agriculture will be indispensable to feeding a planet beset by climate change, population growth and poverty.
The author leavens the book with slightly mocking Brit humor, and scruples to define and explain RNA, pitching his sentences to the lay reader. But he also goes over some challenging molecular geometry, making this a book best read with a mug of coffee, not beer.
And read it should be. Even if his predictions prove to be off, Rutherford delivers a timely and important dispatch from the field tilled by James Watson and Francis Crick, with a vital assist, as he observes, from Rosalind Franklin. "Creation" shows that their revolution isn't slowing down.
Long manages the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for the Cleveland Foundation.
How Science is Reinventing Life Itself
Adam Rutherford
Current/Penguin; 288 pp., $27.95


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Here is a fairly new Pokemon species that doesn't have a lot of character bio as of yet but even so I will still make a lesson on "how to draw Dedenne", step by step. As you can tell by Dedenne's appearance these species look almost like a small mouse or hamster. Drawing Dedenne will be exciting and full of ease. If you are a Pokemon fan you will fall in love with recreating one of the newest members of the Pokedex. I will be back with two other Pokemon so stay tuned in. Adios mi amigos.
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Spy photographers managed to click off a few images of the upcoming 2015 Ford Mustang with its face exposed, and the car looks far better than I could have hoped. The front fascia is appropriately menacing and manages to toe the line between the overly swept Evos concept and the retro lines of the 2014 model. The corporate grille design is present but doesn't look forced or heavy handed.
Ford seems to have managed to work itself out of the corner it had backed into with the retro-design language of the previous generation. The new look is a righteous step in the correct direction. Check the shots out for yourself.


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In a short ceremony on Saturday, June 22, 29 graduates of the fourth class of the PSI master's program received University of Waterloo MSc degrees in physics and Perimeter Scholars International certificates from Perimeter.
The ceremony featured a keynote speech from Perimeter Board member Art McDonald, and co-valedictorians Ciarán Lee and Ruben Verresen delivered a playful but heartfelt address – a tongue-in-cheek PowerPoint dissertation on the quirks and challenges of the PSI experience – that hit all the right notes.
"We've had a really incredible year… [that] we will cherish for the rest of our lives," said Lee. "I'd love to thank every single person in this room, and a lot of people outside it, for contributing to such an amazing experience."
PSI is Perimeter's unique master's program. In one academic year, students are given unprecedented access to top researchers and resources while studying topics at the cutting edge of modern physics.
Every year, the PSI program attracts exceptional university graduates from around the world and puts them at the epicentre of theoretical physics research. Since its launch in 2009, PSI has become one of the most highly sought-after physics master's programs in the world. PSI is international – students have come from 33 countries to date – and stresses peer collaboration and creative problem solving.
Of the 29 students graduating, almost all are heading on to a earn a PhD. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Oxford, Cambridge, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are all welcoming Perimeter alumni next year, and several PSI graduates are also pursuing their doctoral studies at Perimeter.
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The murky-gendered track star from South Africa who won the world 800-meters championship before questions arose about her eligibility has been cleared to compete as a woman.
Caster Semenya, 19, who has not raced since blowing away the field at last August's World Championships in Berlin, could compete again this month at the Canadian World Junior Championships, after the ruling by the International Association of Athletics Federations.
Semenya's coach, Michael Seme, said she has not been training at 100 per cent due to the uncertainty over her future, and she is believed to have been undergoing medical treatment for an inter-sex condition, according to the UK Telegraph.
Gender tests conducted after her performance last year reportedly revealed both male and female characteristics, and the treatment for such a condition could involve surgery, hormones or both. The fact that she has been cleared suggests the treatment has resolved questions about her gender.


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Enson Inoue is a 178cm, 95kg, MMA heavyweight championship-winning, black belt-wearing, thrower of fists, knees and other jabbing appendages. He also loves dogs enough that he risked massive radiation to help abandoned animals. This guy is good.
Enson breached the Fukushima evacuation zone — an 30km radius around the leaking plant — with the non-profit Hachiko Coalition, which has been caring for the countless irradiated pets left behind in the crisis. This isn't like going to your neighbourhood kennel and scratching some stray's head. There are extremely lethal doses of radiation still pouring out of Fukushima, and Enson didn't care. He just wanted to drop off some dog chow.
It's particularly incredible how close Enson got to the plant — this shot is possibly the nearest I've seen from any source, journalistic or otherwise. And you can see just how cracked to hell the doomed plant is. I suppose that when your career is getting bludgeoned into near-haemorrhaging, a little cesium isn't going to scare you. Or you just have balls the size of fission reactors. [via Hachiko Coalition]


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- Summary
Designed to work perfectly with a Breville Countertop Convection Oven, this pizza stone's porous surface draws moisture away from the dough for crispier crusts. Its special construction also distributes heat evenly across the entire pizza to maintain an even baking temperature. To use, simply preheat the stone in your Breville Countertop Oven at 450° F for 15 minutes. The stone can also be used with a traditional full-size oven.
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- The stone will discolor with use. Discoloration will not affect performance.
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- To remove baked-on food, scrub stone with a stiff bristled brush under warm running water.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Shmo55 from Awesome Pizza Stone I remember when we first got ours, and yes, it had some sticking issues, new, but you have to break these in, season them, and they are fine. Ours is about 5 years old or so, and they are awesome. Nothing sticks to them, and we do frozen pizza's on them. It creates the crunchy crust you look for, even when using left over pizza from the pizza places. I HIGHLY recommend you get this, and just break it in. Put some oil on it, olive preferably, and let it sit in the oven at high heat for about 2 hours. Give it time to cure.....love this stone!Date published: 2018-05-14Rated 1 out of 5 by seasailing from Waste of money! I was so excited to have a baking stone for my Breville Smart Oven! Unfortunately, I ended up tossing this in the garbage. Everything stuck to it and it gave off a horrible chemical odor that filled the house and lingered for days every time I used it. I was hoping after a few uses the quality of this product would improve as with most baking stones, but no dice. They should seriously recall this item.Date published: 2016-07-30Rated 3 out of 5 by KristenH from Indifferent I'm not an expert with a pizza stone by any means - I have had a little difficulty with cooking with this. We followed the instructions - ensured there was enough flour covering the stone before we placed our dough on - it still sticks. We have tried a few times now but the dough is always stuck to the stone after cooking.Date published: 2016-01-14


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people "Nikki will be an amazing mom," Rathbone, 28, told PEOPLE Monday at the opening of Planet Hollywood's Twilight Forever Fan Experience exhibit in New York.
"We're trying to infect her with baby fever so we can have an amazing kid for Monroe to play with. We want him to have a little buddy."
"I grew up with all girls, so if I had a little daughter that would be amazing," he says. "But either way, I don't mind. We kind of hope that we'll have twins, a little boy and girl. That way we have them both done and that's it!"
"On the one hand it does, because who doesn't love a super cute, smart baby?" she says. "But on the other hand, it makes me feel like any cravings I have are satisfied because I get to babysit him and be with him … Sometimes I'm like, 'But I want this so bad!' And other times I'm like, 'But I get to just play with him!'"
What's her job as a godmother? "To buy him everything he wants and hold him when he's crying," jokes Reed, 25. "He's the most fabulous, gorgeous little boy on the planet. It's insane. It's unreal how beautiful he is. I see him all the time. We're practically neighbors, and it's important for us to spend time together so he knows me, so we're always together."
Rathbone, of course, is smitten too. "He's incredible," the actor says of his baby boy.
"He's got these big dimples, this big smile. He loves climbing and running around. He's starting to talk and mimics us. He says 'Mama' and 'Daddy' and 'Hello' whenever we're talking on the phone."
He playfully adds, "His first word is a toss up between 'Mama' and 'Dada' but I'm going to say 'Mama' because I don't want to get in trouble. She had to carry him for nine months. She deserves it."
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In the comments on the last post, Redbeard asks,
Whaddya think that the RMAH is attracting the credit card thieves?
Honestly, I would wager that all the RMAH traffic is legitimate.
The thing is that when you are engaging in something illegal, you don't want someone who opposes you to have control of the money. If the credit card thieves used the RMAH, Blizzard would have more opportunities to detect and stop it. And, most importantly, Blizzard would have an opportunity to prevent the thieves from cashing out.
It's like if you do something illegal in the real world, you pay in cash. Cash is not traceable, and a cash transaction cannot be stopped by the bank.
Similarly, I would think that most RMT operations will use their own credit card operations to cash out, rather than relying on their enemy, Blizzard.
Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut
The Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut comes out tomorrow. Hopefully the Bioware which made the first 99% of ME3 will show up.
The unfortunate part is that I have to leave town on Thursday and won't be back until next week sometime. Here's hoping I have enough time to finish all the content on Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Given my flight leaves at 7am, I'm even considering pulling an all-nighter Wednesday, to finish the game and make sure I don't miss my flight.
I do hope that the EC is good and rectifies the mistakes of the ending instead of doubling down. I would like to stop boycotting Bioware and play The Old Republic for a bit.
The Secret World
There's an old superstition that a bad dress rehearsal foretells a good opening night. Hopefully this holds true for Funcom. The last beta weekend seemed a lot buggier than the previous one. Not to mention that they disabled the Investigative quests, which are a main selling point of the game, in my view. I really wonder why they did that.
I am rather on the fence about TSW. It is very interesting, but at the same time it is a bit unpolished, and the early adopters will struggle through it.
The other thing I am not thrilled with is that Funcom is offering a Lifetime subscription. In my experience, Lifetime subscriptions just mean that the game will go F2P. Probably sooner rather than later, once the game company realizes that its most enthusiastic players are no longer paying for the game.
I think ME3 will be the deciding factor for me. If the EC is good, I'll play The Old Republic. If the EC is bad, I'll play The Secret World instead.


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(CNN) -- Though Robert H. Richards IV was convicted of rape, the wealthy heir to the du Pont family fortune was spared prison by a Delaware court in 2009 because he would "not fare well" behind bars, according to court documents CNN obtained Tuesday.
Richards is a great-grandson of the chemical magnate Irenee du Pont.
He received an eight-year prison sentence in 2009 for raping his toddler daughter, but the sentencing order signed by a Delaware judge said "defendant will not fare well" in prison and the eight years were suspended.
Richards was placed on eight years' probation and ordered to get treatment and register as a sex offender, the documents show. He was also prohibited from having contact with children under 16, including his own children.
The documents were never sealed, yet the ruling managed to go unnoticed until March, when Richards' former wife, Tracy Richards, filed a lawsuit in Delaware Superior Court on behalf of their children alleging "personal injuries arising from the childhood sexual abuse." The 11-page suit alleges that not only was their daughter abused, but Richards abused their son, too. The suit seeks unspecified monetary damages.
While he was convicted of raping his daughter, Richards has never been charged with sexually molesting his son, according to Jason Miller, a spokesman for the Delaware attorney general's office.
CNN tried repeatedly to reach Richards and Eugene Maurer, the attorney who represented him in 2009. Maurer is no longer representing Richards, his assistant told CNN on Wednesday. CNN asked if he had a comment; he has not offered one.
Attorney John C. Balaguer is representing Richards in the civil case, his assistant told CNN. Balaguer has not returned e-mails or voice mail messages CNN has left for him.
This week, after news of Richards' 2009 case came to light, many took to Twitter to criticize the judge in the case, saying that it echoed a recent Texas case in which a wealthy teenager driving drunk killed four people but received no jail time. Ethan Couch was sentenced last year to 10 years' probation.
A witness in Couch's case claimed the teenager was a victim of "affluenza" -- the product of wealthy, privileged parents who never set limits for the boy.
Delaware's Judicial Code of Conduct prohibits Judge Jan R. Jurden from discussing the 2009 ruling with reporters, court spokeswoman Amy Quinlan told CNN.
But at least one member of the Delaware legal community came to Jurden's defense Tuesday.
"It's wrong to attribute (the 'defendant would not fare well' comment) to Judge Jurden," said Richard Kirk, a lawyer who is chairman of a Delaware State Bar Association committee that he says steps up to respond "when judges are criticized and unable to speak for themselves."
Kirk says the argument that Richards would not do well in prison could have been the recommendation of probation or parole officers. However, he said, "common sense suggests that it came from defense counsel."
As for the prosecutor's side, the attorney general's spokesman gave CNN a written statement.
"Cases of child sexual abuse are extremely complicated and difficult," it read. The objective is to "secure justice in every case to the best of its ability given the unique facts and circumstances presented in each case -- sometimes that results in a resolution that is less than what prosecutors would want," the statement read.
"In this particular case, the facts and circumstances made it unlikely that a conviction could be secured at trial. ...This resolution protected the victim and imposed conditions that would make it less likely the defendant could harm others."
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A fantastic team performance, capped by a brace from Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi, ensured Nigeria beat Belgium 4-1 to become the first team to reach the final of this year's Men's Olympic Football Tournament.
The opening half was dominated by Samson Siasia's side, and their attacking verve threatened to carve open their opponents' defence. Much of the initial prompting came from Peter Odemwingie, whose pace and trickery had Belgium on the back foot from the outset.
As early as the first minute, the Lokomotiv Moscow forward broke quickly down the left and crossed the ball into the box. Logan Bailly, recovered from the shoulder injury that forced his early exit from the quarter-final win over Italy, palmed it away but his clearance fell into the path of Ebenezer Ajilore. He fed Sani Kaita, whose shot was saved by the Belgian keeper.
A defensive slip from Nigeria almost gave the Europeans a great opportunity to score. Onyekachi Apam allowed the ball to bounce over his head, but although Kevin Mirallas reacted quickly, his shot went wide of the target.
The 17th minute was action-packed and resulted in the game's first goal. Ogbuke Obasi ran down the right wing, twisting and turning his way past his Belgian adversaries, before unleashing a shot which was expertly turned around the post by Bailly.
From the resulting corner, Victor Obinna played the ball to Odemwingie and he found Femi Ajilore, whose shot was blocked. The Belgian backline could only partially clear the ball, which fell into the path of Olubayo Adefemi, and he rifled a shot home from 18 yards.
Nigeria almost lost their concentration - and their lead - in the minute immediately after the goal. Anthony Van den Borre's run found Tom De Mul, who was denied by some last-ditch defending.
Yet, after regaining their composure, it was Dream Team IV, as they are known in their homeland, who looked the more likely to score. Solomon Okoronkwo beat his marker for pace and got himself into a good position, but flashed his shot wide with just the goalkeeper to beat.
Odemwingie will have also been disappointed to not at least test the keeper from close range after being supplied by Ogbuke Obasi, and a single goal separated the sides at half-time.
Nigeria faced the happy conundrum of whether to defend their lead or push for a second after the interval, and the confusion almost took its toll when Belgium had two great chances to score after the restart. First, Moussa Dembele supplied Mirallas, who brought out a fine save from Ambruse Vanzekin. Then, Jan Vertonghen's first-time volley from De Mul's corner was smothered by the keeper at his far post.
Siasia sent on Victor Anichebe for Okoronkwo and he had an immediate impact, setting up Ogbuke Obasi to side-foot home on the hour mark, although the Everton striker missed a golden opportunity minutes later, hitting the ball wide of the target with the goal at his mercy - and most Nigerian fans already celebrating.
That miss was forgotten, however, when Ogbuke Obasi scored his second and Nigeria's third with a rasping drive from the edge of the box with 17 minutes to go. The right-footed strike will surely go down as one of the goals of the tournament, and dispelled any doubt that the Africans would reach the final.
Six minutes later, they added another. Obinna's corner from the left was taken short to Chibuzor Okonkwo, and his shot cannoned off the post and into the net. Substitute Ekpo Emmanuel brought out a flying save from Bailly as Nigeria threatened to run riot, but Belgium grabbed a small consolation when Laurent Ciman smashed home a free-kick in the 89th minute.
The goal, however, was hardly celebrated as three minutes later it was Nigeria rejoicing at the fact that they had become the first team to book their place in the Olympic Village and the Bird's Nest Stadium for the final, while Belgium must battle for bronze.


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LeTourneau University will host invited speakers and panel discussions during its annual "Theology Week" Monday through Wednesday, Feb. 24-26, and Friday, Feb. 28. Chapel services will be held in the S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance Center, 2100 S. Mobberly Ave., in Longview. Theology Week is sponsored by the LETU Department of Theology. The events are free and open to the public.
Dr. Ben Witherington - 10:50 a.m. Monday, Feb. 24
Monday's keynote speaker will be Dr. Ben Witherington, the Amos professor of New Testament for doctoral studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, who has written over 40 books.
Witherington will speak during chapel at 10:50 a.m. in the Belcher Center, and again during a seminar at 1 p.m. in the Little Theatre on the third floor of the Memorial Student Center. Witherington is also on the doctoral faculty at St. Andrews University in Scotland. His books include "The Jesus Quest" and "The Paul Quest." Christianity Today selected both books as top biblical studies works. Witherington has been on the History Channel, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, The Discovery Channel, A&E and the PAX Network. He has taught at Ashland Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt University, Duke Divinity School and Gordon-Conwell.
"Theology and the Arts" Panel Discussion - 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Belcher Center. Participants include LETU faculty including theology professor Dr. Luke Tallon, English professor Dr. Jim Watson, and worship arts music instructor Ben Shepherd.
Dr. Ben Blackwell - 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26
Wednesday's event will feature Dr. Ben Blackwell, the interim chair for the department of theology at Huston Baptist University, speaking in chapel at 10:50 a.m. in the Belcher Center. He will also speak during a seminar at 1 p.m. in the Little Theatre in the Memorial Student Center.
Blackwell's primary teaching areas are the New Testament and theology. Blackwell has served as a leader in a variety of ministry areas, including social justice missions, teaching and preaching. He served for several years as the local missions coordinator at Fellowship Church in Dallas. He later served as a local preacher in the Durham Methodist Circuit and as the senior steward with Carrville Methodist Church in Durham, England.
Dr. Luke Tallon - 10:50 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28
Friday's Theology Week event will feature LETU theology professor Dr. Luke Tallon speaking during chapel service at 10 a.m. in the Belcher Center.
Tallon is an assistant professor of theology at LETU. He holds three degrees from Pepperdine University: a Bachelor of Arts in religion, a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Christian Thought. His doctoral degree in divinity is from the University of St. Andrews. Tallon has served as a visiting assistant professor of religion for Pepperdine University. He also has taught at Codrington College in Barbados and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Tallon has led courses in theology, ethics and the Bible for students at the graduate, undergraduate and pre-collegiate levels.
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Dr. del Prado specializes in multicultural psychology and university mental health. She has taught and provided therapy at many universities including Washington State University, University of California, Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and Sonoma State University. Dr. del Prado conducts therapy from an integrated interpersonal, multicultural, and cognitive-behavioral orientation, and her primary clinical interests include working with women, women of color, and persons of racially mixed heritage. Dr. del Prado also works as a consultant, providing seminars and workshops to programs on enhancing multicultural competency in the work place.
For six years, Dr. del Prado was part of an international research team and collaborated on cross-cultural research studies of personality with participants in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, and the United States. She has presented the research findings at national and local conferences, and coauthored publications based on these studies in top-tier academic journals. Dr. del Prado's recent publications include book chapters on ethnicity in therapy as well as multiracial identity.
Dr. del Prado is currently Chair of the Women's Issues Committee for the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology and is Co-Chair of the Asian American Psychology Association's Division on Filipino Americans.


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'All I want is a small place out in the country,' is often how it begins. For Dr. Elias S. Hanna and family, what began in 1985 as a small getaway house/farm in the Russian River Valley, morphed into four vineyard locations. Beginning with 12 acres in the Russian River Valley purchased in the 1970s, he and his children began their foray into winemaking with homemade Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Hanna hired a winemaker and expanded the vineyard holdings.
In the Russian River appellation, the Home Ranch on Occidental Road includes Hanna's winery production facility, as well as the main 25 acre vineyard planted to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc. The other RRV property is the Slusser Road vineyard is planted to Sauvignon Blanc, as well as Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. With its cool climate, this 60-acre vineyard is all about aromatics and crisp mouthfeel. Their 88-acre Alexander Valley Red Ranch vineyard is planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Malbec. And, the most recent acquisition is the Bismark Mountain Ranch. Located on the Sonoma side of the Mayacamas Mountains at elevations from 1,400-2,600 feet, the 67 planted acres of steeply terraced rocky volcanic soil are planted to Cabernet, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec, Syrah, Petit Syrah and Zinfandel.
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The Crimson is scheduled to hit the water as the sun rises over the Charles River Saturday.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The No. 4 Harvard heavyweight crew races at home for the first time this spring as the Crimson takes on old rivals MIT and No. 7 Princeton for the 74th awarding of the Compton Cup Saturday morning on the Charles River.
Racing Schedule
6:36 a.m. – Third Varsity Eight
7:12 a.m. – Freshman/Second Freshman Eights
7:48 a.m. – Second Varsity Eight
8:24 a.m. – Varsity Eight
Honoring Howard
The Harvard heavyweight crew will recognize former Crimson national champion and Olympic gold medalist Malcolm Howard '05 with the dedication of a rowing shell in his honor at Newell Boathouse following the conclusion of racing Saturday.
Howard went undefeated against intercollegiate competition in his three years as a member of Harvard's varsity eight, helping the Crimson to three straight national championships. He helped Canada's men's eight win Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008 and received honorable mention in the selection of Rowing News Male Athlete of the Year for 2009.
Harvard Lineups
Varsity Eight
Cox: Kelly Evans, 8: Patrick Lapage, 7: Blake Pucsek, 6: Nick Jordan, 5: David Wakulich, 4: Sam O'Connor, 3: Michael DiSanto, 2: Anthony Locke, 1: Benjamin French
Second Varsity Eight
Cox: Joseph Lin, 8: Phil Matthews, 7: Christopher Fuller, 6: Mark Fuller, 5: Spencer Livingston, 4: Ivan Posavec, 3: Connor Griffith, 2: Jack Morrissey, 1: Elihu Reynolds
Third Varsity Eight
Cox: Alex Sopko, 8: Richard Anderson, 7: Robert Stone, 6: Kyle Gordon, 5: Karl Hirt, 4: Lukens Orthwein, 3: Alex Soutter, 2: Andrew Stein, 1: David Paresky
Freshman Eight
Cox: David Fuller, 8: Peter Scholle, 7: Justin Mundt, 6: Parker Washburn, 5: James O'Connor, 4: Jason Phillips, 3: Eli Shikaloff, 2: Alex MacIntosh, 1: Josh Hicks
Second Freshman Eight
Cox: Colby Wilkason, 8: Matthew Vincent, 7: Nolan Pollock, 6: Shaw McKean, 5: Tom Hanson, 4: William Polachek, 3: Mick Malowany, 2: Luke Phillips, 1: Chris Goldstein
Last Time Out
No. 3 Brown held off a strong sprint from the Crimson varsity eight to win by one second and claim the Stein Cup Saturday on the Seekonk River, ending Harvard's streak of wins against 14 straight dual opponents. The Bears also won the second and third varsities, while Harvard took the freshman eight and second freshman/fourth varsity eight races.
History Lesson
Harvard has won the Compton Cup in each of the last three and seven of the last eight meetings. Princeton claimed the first four cups in the series, starting in 1933, and has won 10 total, while Harvard has captured the trophy 58 times and MIT once. The cup is named for the late Dr. Karl T. Compton, former MIT president.
Last season on Lake Carnegie, the Crimson varsity eight built a boat-length lead by the 500-meter mark and won by 8.3 seconds. The Engineers passed the Tigers for their first second-place Compton finish since 1975. Princeton posted a four-second win in the second varsity, while the Harvard third varsity and freshmen were victorious.
Scouting the Tigers
Princeton, which won the third-level finals at the EARC Sprints and IRA National Championships last season, has defeated Georgetown, Penn and Columbia so far this spring. Greg Hughes is in his first season coaching the Tigers after leading Princeton's lightweight squad to the 2009 national championship.
Scouting the Engineers
MIT is seeking its first win, having lost to Columbia, George Washington, Navy and Gonzaga. The Engineers' most recent race, against Gonzaga at the George Washington Invitational, was decided by just 1.3 seconds. Last season, MIT reached the Sprints petite final, placing sixth, and won the fourth-level final at the IRA regatta.


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A violin played by the Titanic's bandleader as the ship sank sold at auction Saturday for more than $1.7 million, a UK-based auction house said.
The price -- 1.1 million British pounds, when adding the buyer's premium and tax -- is by far the highest ever fetched for memorabilia tied to the sunken passenger ship, according to veteran collector Craig Sopin.
"This figure is going to be hard to beat," said Sopin, who helped authenticate the fact the violin came from the Titanic. "I can't think of anything else that is more iconic to come off that ship."
According to survivors, Wallace Hartley's band played to calm passengers even as the ship sank beneath them.
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The scene was depicted in James Cameron's blockbuster movie "Titanic," which depicted Hartley and his band playing "Nearer, My God, to Thee" as the ship took on water.
Hartley's body was reportedly pulled from the water days after the April 1912 sinking with his violin case still strapped to his back.
In 2006, the damaged violin was found in the attic of a home in Britain. It was authenticated through testing of salt water deposits, according to a statement released by Henry Aldridge and Son, which hosted the auction in Wiltshire, England. The violin was adorned with an engraved silver plate that connected it to Hartley.
Aussie tycoon insists Titanic II good idea
The names of the seller and the buyer have not been released.
The famous wreckage was first discovered in 1985 off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Since then there have been a number of research and recovery expeditions, during which time the artifacts included in the sale were found.
Interest in the shipwreck peaked again after the release of the movie "Titanic" in 1997. The film grossed $1.8 billion worldwide, making it the second highest grossing film in history, according to Box Office Mojo, a site that tracks ticket sales.
Over the years, exhibitions of Titanic artifacts have made millions, and auctions have drawn high-priced sales.
End of an era for tourist trips to ghostly wreck of Titanic
In 2004, Guernsey's auctioned off memorabilia from the Titanic and a few artifacts that had been passed down through the families of survivors. An original menu sold for about $100,000, the president of the auction house said at the time.
Sopin, a Philadelphia lawyer who has between 300 or 400 Titanic artifacts, said the ocean liner's sinking is "in a class all its own" when it comes to disasters, due to its unique mix of historical, cultural and cinematic elements.
"The ship is a microcosm of society," he said, noting the different classes of people aboard the ship that fateful night.
And it had both villains and heroes -- Hartley and his fellow band members, none of whom survived, chief among the latter group.
"What they were doing was actually causing a sense of calm on that ship," Sopin said. "You could only wonder the mass pandemonium that would have occurred otherwise. It helped save a lot of lives."


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To all of you that tune in here to keep reading- you give me so much encouragement (and a deluded sense of purpose!). All of your comments and emails really do make my day. So thanks!
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I was really excited when my kiddos picked Vicky's name out of my scratched up stock pot. She SO deserves a little shopping spree. She works in the school system with severely special needs kids. After school she babysits special needs kids. Before school she babysits special needs kids. On the weekends, she babysits special needs kids. Are you sensing a trend here? Thank God for people like her! If you are the parent of a special needs child you know how hard it is to find someone like this who understands your child. So it goes without saying that girlfriend needs a little splurge! Congrats, Vicky- and thanks to everyone who played along with the giveaway. And thanks to CSN for sponsoring such a great prize!
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Manage Function App Source Control (Java)
Azure App Service basic sample for managing function apps.
- Create 5 function apps under the same new app service plan:
- Deploy to 1 using FTP
- Deploy to 2 using local Git repository
- Deploy to 3 using a publicly available Git repository
- Deploy to 4 using a GitHub repository with continuous integration
- Deploy to 5 using web deploy
- Deploy to 6 using zip deploy
Running this sample
To run this sample:
Set the environment variable
AZURE_AUTH_LOCATION with the full path for an auth file. See how to create an auth file.
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/app-service-java-configure-deployment-sources-for-functions.git
cd app-service-java-configure-deployment-sources-for-functions
mvn clean compile exec:java
More information
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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any additional questions or comments.


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Refreshing gel made with naturally renewable ethanol.
Refreshing gel formulation.
Third-party sustainability certifications.
PURELL Advanced Instant Hand Sanitizer is the most trusted & used brand by hospitals.
Proven to outperform other hand sanitizers ounce for ounce.
The USDA Bio-Preferred Label Program recognizes products that have been independently certified to meet USDA BioPreferred program standards for biobased content.
1. Place enough product in your palm to thoroughly cover your hands.
2. Rub hands together briskly until dry. Should take approximately 15 seconds.
Effectiveness of a comprehensive hand hygiene program for reduction of infection rates in a long-term care facility
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Results: Infection rates for LRTIs were reduced from 0.97 to 0.53 infections per 1,000 resident-days (P = .01) following the intervention, a statistically significant decline. Infection rates for SSTIs were reduced from 0.30 to 0.25 infections per 1,000 resident-days (P = .65). A 54% compliance rate was observed among HCP.
Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the use of alcohol-based hand rubs, as part of a comprehensive hand hygiene program for HCP and residents, can decrease infection rates in LTCFs.
Reference: AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. January 2013. Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 39-44. Steven J. Schweon, RN, MPH, MSN, CIC, HEM; Sarah L. Edmonds, MS, Jane Kirk, MSN, RN, CIC, Douglas Y. Rowland, PhD, Carmen Acosta, RN, BSN
The impact of alcohol hand sanitizer use on infection rates in an extended care facility.
Results: The primary infection types found were urinary tract with Foley catheter, respiratory tract, and wound infections. Comparison of the infection types and rates for the units where hand sanitizer was used with those for the control units where the hand sanitizer was not used showed a 30.4% decrease in infection rates for the 34-month period in the units where hand sanitizer was used.
Conclusion: This study indicates that use of an alcohol gel hand sanitizer can decrease infection rates and provide an additional tool for an effective infection control program.
Reference: AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. 30(4):226-233, June 2002. Fendler, E. J. PhD a; Ali, Y. PhD a; Hammond, B. S. a; Lyons, M. K. BSN, RN b; Kelley, M. B. CRRN b; Vowell, N. A. RN b
Efficacy of Novel Alcohol-Based Hand Rub Products at Typical In-Use Volumes
Abstract: In vivo efficacies of 2 alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) products (gel and foam) were evaluated at a volume of 1.1 mL. Both met US Food and Drug Administration log10 reduction requirements after a single application and 10 consecutive applications. This is the first study to identify ABHR formulations capable of meeting efficacy requirements with a single-dispenser actuation.
Reference: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 34, No. 3 (March 2013), pp. 299-301.
David R. Macinga, PhD, Sarah L. Edmonds, MS, Esther Campbell, BS, David J. Shumaker, BS, James W. Arbogast, PhD
Comparative efficacy of commercially available alcohol-based hand rubs and World Health Organization-recommended hand rubs: Formulation matters
Results: The novel ABHR formulations met efficacy requirements for both HCPHW and EN 1500 when tested at application volumes typically used in these methods. Moreover, these formulations met HCPHW requirements when tested at a more realistic 2-mL product application. In contrast, the commercial ABHRs and World Health Organization formulations failed to meet HCPHW requirements using a 2-mL application. Importantly, product performance did not correlate with alcohol concentration.
Conclusion: Product formulation can greatly influence the overall antimicrobial efficacy of ABHRs and is a more important factor than alcohol concentration alone. Two novel ABHRs based on 70% ethanol have been formulated to meet global efficacy standards when tested at volumes more representative of normal product use in health care environments.
Reference: AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. August 2012. Volume 40, Issue 6, Pages 521-525. Sarah L. Edmonds, MS, David R. Macinga, PhD, Patricia Mays-Suko, BS, Collette Duley, BS, Joseph Rutter, BS, William R. Jarvis, MD, James W. Arbogast, PhD. Published Online: January 24, 2012
The relative influences of product volume, delivery format and alcohol concentration on dry-time and efficacy of alcohol-based hand rubs
Results: Volumes of six ABHR determined to rub dry in 30 s ranged from 1.7 mL to 2.1 mL, and the rate of drying varied significantly between products. ABHR dry-times increased linearly with application volume and decreased
linearly with increasing alcohol concentration, but were not significantly influenced by product format. An ABHR foam
(70% EtOH), rinse (80% EtOH), and gel (90% EtOH) each met EN 1500 efficacy requirements when tested at a volume of 3 mL, but failed when tested at volumes that dried in 30 s.HCP.
Conclusion: Application volume is the primary driver of ABHR dry-time and efficacy, whereas delivery format does not significantly influence either. Although products with greater alcohol concentration dry more quickly, volumes required to meet EN 1500 can take longer than 30 s to dry, even when alcohol concentration is as high as 90%. Future studies are needed to better understand application volumes actually used by healthcare workers in practice, and to understand the clinical efficacy of ABHR at such volumes.
Reference: BMC Infectious Diseases 2014, 14:511
David R Macinga, David J Shumaker, Heinz-Peter Werner, Sarah L Edmonds, Rachel A Leslie, Albert E Parker and James W Arbogast
Use of alcohol hand sanitizer as an infection control strategy in an acute care facility.
Results: The primary infection types (more than 80%) found were urinary tract (UTI) and surgical site (SSI) infections. Infection types and rates for the unit during the period the alcohol hand sanitizer (intervention) was used were compared with the infection types and rates for the same unit when the alcohol hand sanitizer was not used (baseline); the results demonstrated a 36.1% decrease in infection rates for the 10-month period that the alcohol hand sanitizer was used.
Conclusion: This study indicates that use of an alcohol gel hand sanitizer can decrease infection rates and provide an additional tool for an effective infection control program in acute care facilities. (Am J Infect Control 2003;31:109-16.)
Reference: AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. 31(2):109-116, April 2003. Hilburn, Jessica MT (ASCP), CIC a; Hammond, Brian S. b; Fendler, Eleanor J. PhD b; Groziak, Patricia A. MS b
Effect of hand sanitizer use on elementary school absenteeism.
Results: The overall reduction in absenteeism due to infection in the schools included in this study was 19.8% for schools that used an alcohol gel hand sanitizer compared with the control schools.Conclusion: Elementary school absenteeism due to infection is significantly reduced when an alcohol gel hand sanitizer is used in the classroom as part of a hand hygiene program.Reference: AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control. 28(5):340-346, October 2000. Hammond, Brian a; Ali, Yusuf PhD a; Fendler, Eleanor PhD a; Dolan, Michael a; Donovan, Sandra RN, MSN b
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