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In the Data Centers I work in, the exhaust is sucked out the top of the racks, and every few tiles in the aisles, is a tile with a bunch of holes in it acting as a air-conditioning vent.
If anything, I freeze at times, if I'm in shorts and flip flops.
The data center I visit most right now has hot/cold aisles. It looks more like a meat processing center with all the heavy plastic drapes. They go from floor to ceiling every other aisle. On the front of the racks they even put in plastic placeholders for gaps where we don't have equipment installed yet to maximize air flow through the equipment. They did it too, we never even had to ask.
Most of the time we work from the cold aisle with our laptop carts and it is *cold*. The article is confusing because I can't possibly understand why you need to sit with a cart in the hot aisle to work. You can install your equipment and cabling in such a way that you don't need access to the hot aisle for anything other than full server swap outs, cabling swap outs, and that's pretty much it. You can replace the hard drives from the front of the units, and maintenance the server just by pulling it out in front after disconnecting the cables if you need to do so. Most big 4U servers come with cable management arms that allow you to keep "service loops" so that you don't need to disconnect anything to pull the server out on the rails.
Heck, if you need to just get a 15ft networking cable and thread it through into the cold aisle. You don't have to sit in the heat if you don't want to. Although, I'm a big guy and I like the cold it but its funny as hell to see the skinny bastards walking over to the hot aisle to warm up.
But Momma said Cable management arms are the work of the devil
There fixed that for you
*could not help myself*
Cable management arms are a God Send.
Each of my 2U servers has two power, four ethernet, one serial, and three pairs of fiber coming out the back. Without CMAs working on these things would be a freakin' PITA - never mind increasing the risk that somebody plugs something back in wrong.
If your CMAs are stressing your cables, they are either really crappy or not installed properly.
Well, I don't work [much] with IBM, Dell or HP -- but I thought these things were all pretty much the same.
When a load a Sun CMA, I make sure the power cables go in closest to the arm; these are the least important cables in terms of bend radius. Then I install serial, ethernet, and fiber.
Here's what a loaded CMA on a Sunfire v240 (2U) server looks like: http://www.page.ca/~wes/v240-cma.png [www.page.ca]
Sorry for the crappy picture, it's all I had. Sun CMAs are made by King Slide.
100 degree hot isles are too cold. Hot isles should be the temperature near the maximum component tolerance of the parts in the server. If a part has a maximum temperature of 150 degrees, and runs happily at 120 degrees, the hot isle should be 120 degrees. This way the cooling efficiency is the highest.
See Google and SGI (Rackable) container designs.
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/04/the-beast-unveiled-inside-a-google-server.ars [arstechnica.com]
As you can see from the photo there, all the cables in the front. No need to get behind it where the hot isle is.
Data centres need to pay more attention to warehousing for objects of the size they handling. All the racks should be open and they should be accessed using automatic picking and packing systems.
Once the system is built automated picking system only should access the racks to pick defective units and return them to an air locked workstation and to insert the new data unit. This allows much higher racks and you can treat the whole data processing and storage area as an industrial process. Bringing in cond
Hell yes. Robot machine replacement would rock. Just like tape swapping. Just bring the busted machines to techs for repair. Or if it's just drive swaps the robot could do that too.
In theory you could use waste heat as a warming plant for other housing/office use. Since most hardware is happy with 80 degree input air you would have near 80 degree output water. That's more than sufficient to pipe to warm up homes in cold areas of the world.
To add:
With all the advanced redundant power, networking, etc, you could even have the servers made or adapted to allow for seamless picking...
So you go to your data center, ask for Server X1B7, picker grabs it and brings it to the room / office you are in... all seamless and without losing network or power. The room could even be designed to look and feel like a old-school datacenter.
It really only works for major data centres. Midi ones should have the servers embedded in external walls behind double glazed doors (internal atrium). Drawing in outside air, conditioning it and exhausting it or making use of the air temperature in a heat exchanger.
Another big improvement would be to go all DC in the server room, larger external transformers and redundant transformers (externalises a major heat source that can run at very high temperatures), simplifies battery backup and also adding sol
The problem with DC in the server room is distribution. You would have to go high voltage DC to be able to distribute it.. and then you would need to step it down a bunch at the rack. If you do 48v rail, you're going to need huge distribution bars. Think of a typical server rack these days. A 500W 1U server x 40U. That's 20kw per rack. At 48v you're talking 416 Amps. A minor install of say 10 racks is going to bring you up to 4160 Amps. Just guessing you'd need a bar of copper 2x2" in size to move t
Your thinking wrong kind of server. Adjust your thinking for no sound card, no video card, just an energy efficient CPU, hard disk drives and memory. Also no energy losses in a power supply, or its associated fan. In fact the only fan would be on the CPU and even that should be eliminated by with good design and an effective heat sink. Also adjust your DC conductivity for energy losses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Voltage_DC [wikipedia.org]. Apparently there is only about a 30% difference between AC and DC for ampera
100 degree hot isles are too cold.
Now here I agree, 38 Degrees is no
Should've just ordered a Prescott and saved yourself the heater.
Seriously! What company is going to pay an extra 10% (guessed figure) on top of the cost so they can have a nice comfy room for their data-rats?
Any company that cares about the comfort and morale of their employees!
Rackforce, for one. Their newest data centre in Kelowna BC has some of the nicest offices, conference rooms, and bathrooms I've seen anywhere. The centre of the building is the "data centre", with the offices around the periphery. Works nicely, looks amazing, and keeps the geeks *and* the suits happy.
I've never had a temp problem in a data center. Noise? yes, hot? no.
Agreed. I'll take sound deadening over temperature adjustement. I'm admittedly very sensitive, but for each hour I spend at the DC, my ears ring for three.
Go to home depot and buy a pair of ear plugs. Not the foam disposable ones, but the rubber in ear type. Just like some earbuds and they're connected by a rubber cord.
Just one thing: don't chew gum or clear your throat. It sounds just awful...
Go to home depot and buy a pair of ear plugs.
Nah, get a proper set of ear protectors; mine are probably the best $25 I ever spent.
I got a pair of electronic headphones at harbor freight tools for like 15 bucks, they are meant for a shooting range. Basically they block out loud noises and through a microphone and speaker re-create low decibel noises such as talking. So basically you can be firing your loud ass gun and hear people talking at a normal voice without having to remove the headphones . This works wonders in any environment with loud noises.
Better than home depot, Etymotic full frequency plugs are great:
http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er20.html [etymotic.com]
I've also had some friends use things like these in datacenters:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009363P [amazon.com]
They let you hear people talk (bandpass filter) without letting the low/high noise in.
I've got a pair of Peltor Tactical Sports. I use them while at the shooting range, but they're a godsend in the DC as well!
Are they worth it?
I have 300 win mag with a gun loudener (muzzle break) and it seems no muffs I own are up to that challenge. I end up wearing plugs and muffs at the same time.
Are they worth it?
I have 300 win mag with a gun loudener (muzzle break) and it seems no muffs I own are up to that challenge. I end up wearing plugs and muffs at the same time.
"Holster. Bandoleer. Silencer. Loudener. Speed-cocker. And this thing's for shooting down police helicopters."
You'd still want those. The plus side, you can turn them on and crank the low level sounds up, so you'll be able to hear more than your breathing when you're not firing.
Are they worth it? I have 300 win mag with a gun loudener (muzzle break) and it seems no muffs I own are up to that challenge. I end up wearing plugs and muffs at the same time.
A "loudener"? Seriously? Muzzle breaks do not make the gun "louder" - they redirect exhaust gases in multiple directions for felt-recoil reduction, and to quieten the firearm somewhat.
It reduces recoil, it also sure as hell sounds louder. Do you own such a device? I do.
Here is the first google link to actual shooters discussing this issue.
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93453 [thefiringline.com]
Muzzle breaks do in fact make a gun louder,
That's great, except when I'm spending most of those hours on the phone with a vendor, trying to fix the overpriced hunk of junk they sold us.
I managed a data center. Temperatures like that radiating from servers is bad, bad news. That is an obvious bad airflow problem.
Plus, there is emerging technology to use sound waves for refrigeration. I wonder when they'll deploy it for data centers?
Human costs are important. We're forgetting that, hence idiocy like Wisconsin. If you want to be "old-school economics" about it, all costs should be accounted for, including those stakeholder humans bring up that you may not have realized (employees are stakeholders, even if not stockholders). If you want to be currently capitalist about it, don't bother accounting for any costs that aren't affecting today's golf game. Have fun watching the planet burn then.
The true "tragedy of the commons" is epitomized i
This is a marketing ploy to attract customers to a new data center. Ultimately cost will determine the layout. If a cube is cheaper then cubes it will be. If 100 degree hot aisles saves money vs an 85 degree hot aisle, then they'll run them hotter.
And who wants to invite visitors into a data center? What're they gonna see? Hundreds/thousands of das blinken lights?
In my day Data Centers were at the top of snow mountains which you had to climb barefooted or be turned away. We built them to keep the machinery happy, not the people, whom we preferred behaved like machinery.
We liked our Data Centers the way we liked our women: Bright, White, Antiseptic, and Bitterly Cold.
We liked our Data Centers the way we liked our women:
Hot. And always going down.
We liked our Data Centers the way we liked our women:
Hot. And always going down.
Charlie Sheen, is that you?
Charlie Sheen, is that you?
I'm in better shape then Sheen. No booze or drugs. And I stay in good enough physical condition that I can handle three porn stars without getting a hernia.
With a big rack.
How getting rid of hand scanners?
I used to work in colo facilities for years and the one thing that always concerned me was some person that had gone through the man trap before me had some awful bacteria/virus on their hands.
If the handle on the toilet in the airport can claim that it has an anti-bacterial coating, do you think the hand scanner manufacturers could do the same?
Unless you've lived in a bubble your whole life, you're probably going to be OK...
I hope you don't assume that everyone washes their hands after coming out of the bathroom.
While I don't know about you, I personally would not want to shake the hands of some guy that just dropped a bomb and didn't wash his hands.
You would be OK, none of my coworkers have died of dyssenthery yet...
Now more seriously, relax. Look at how people has historically lived. How long have we had drinkable and controlled water in our home? Or have been almost be assured a john (it is how it is called?) nearby when we need it? And you are probably better feed, have had more vaccines and have acces to more and better physicians than 99,9% of the rest of mankind that has ever been. And even with those disavantages, most of these people did not d
Is there any reasonable difference there between hand scanners and doorknobs that would warrant different treatment ?
You get the same risks just by using the same door as others w/o wearing surgical gloves and discarding them afterwards.
All the Data Centers I have been working at (USA and Singapore) had some kind of lounge/relaxing room with games, food vending machines, coffees, meeting rooms you can rent, showers, etc. Maybe they just forgot to mention it to their existing customers? Or maybe Equinix (not my company) is doing a better job at taking care of their customers? And they're still aiming at 30% yearly ROE, I can't see where a few dedicated rooms would hurt the bottom line so much.
Our data centers also had customer-friendly space. I think it was mostly inside the "show ID to a guard" area, but it was as important a part of the design as the racks and cages.
I manage an R&D lab with a few hundred racks. We constantly swap out hardware for testing. This makes sitting in the lab the most efficient way of getting things done. Unfortunately my work space where I'm currently sitting reads 90F and I'm wearing noise canceling headphones, which squeeze my head into oblivion after an hour or two. We're working on redesigning a storage room into office space to improve our quality of life. Our goal is to work within a few yards of the gear. As long as an office space
I've worked in several data centers. An IBM one had air cooled servers (push cold air into the floor, and every rack has a massive fan pulling cold air up from the floor. It was about 20C day and night. The floor tiles would occasionally break which caused problems when pulling skids of bills over them (it was a phone bill processing and print facility). We would also go through 30 tons of paper per month (2x 1000lb skids of paper per day). There was a lot of paper dust in the place, and the paper was
Not until admins unionize, anyway. Which, luckily, they won't, because they're all libertarians and don't value more than money.
not useing rent a cop security is good!
What kind of security do you prefer?
If you have some things that need certain conditions, and other things that need different conditions, then you have a problem.
Fortunately, I have a solution. It's called putting a wall between them, you fucktards.
Only in those situations where it makes for additional income.
... amenities for staff and visitors
I want a pony.
... amenities for staff and visitors
I want a pony.
I want amentiies for the staff. I hear machines don't work so well when you urinate on them.
I've been renting facility space in a number of data centers over the last fifteen years, including Exodus (remember them?), IBM and Equinix. In particular Equinix facilities have always provided meeting rooms, work areas, (seriously locked-down) access terminals, great bathrooms and showers for visiting techs for at least 5-7 years. OK, the actual cage areas are pretty cold, but that's the nature of the beast -- I wouldn't want my equipment to overheat. Equinix also has tools you can checkout if you forgot yours or were missing something critical, and racks of screws, bolts, optical wipes, common cable adapters, blue Cisco terminal cables... just in case. (Other than paying them for service, not affiliated with or owning stock in Equinix. But perhaps I should have.)
I would always look forward to the free machine hot-chocolate when visiting for work assignments.
I'll second your opinion on Equinix. The data centers I have frequented of theirs even have arcade machines in a breakroom. I rarely see places as well-managed or designed as theirs.
This troll was good, though my favorites are more like "My boss asked me to spend $5 million upgrading the machine room but I've never done this before, so do you have any advice? Should I include comfy chairs?" or "I'm considering upgrading my skills, do you think it would be worth it to learn Javascript or should I just go to grad school at MIT?" Or sometimes, "I'm having a big fight with my boss, can you give me some evidence that Erlang is really the programming language of the future?" I love slashdo
Heat: Data centers should be cool. Everyone wants to do things as cheaply as possible, so they spot cool the racks instead of circulating the air and cooling the entire room. Nothing short of abandoning this practice will remove the "it sucks to be in here" factor. The problem isn't so much that it's 100 degrees, but that it's 100 degrees on one side of the rack and 40 degrees on the other. Spend a bit more on cooling costs and get that to 80/60 or even 90/50 and workers will be much less miserable (an
It's not that I don't like humans, hell I married one. However humans are unpredictable. Applications want and need predictable hardware to live on. Even in a "CLOUD" with floating VMs that fly around like Unicorns you want stable predictable hardware underneath.
Humans trip on things, excrete fluids and gases, need oxygen, light, are temperature sensitive and depending on who's stats you believe cause up to 70% of outages.
I see convergence, virtualization etc as a chance to finally get humans OUT of the data center. Build it out, cable everything. Then seal it. Interaction does NOT require physical access. And a team of dedicated obsessive compulsive robots or humans can replace memory, drives etc.
Data Centers need to be human FREE zones. Not the common room in a dorm.
For some App, Data Center RAID works well. Build 10 low cost data centers, mirror 5->5, run like the wind.
However, due to the transactional nature of some Applications this is not true.
For example, Google's model works great for search.
However it didn't keep those 150,000 users from loosing their data did it?
Once the transaction is done, you can sync the results, but a failure mid transaction can be VERY bad.
Shouldn't it be windows friendly since they have to be there first Tuesday of the month.
That's boiling water temperture! I can just imagine the piles of cooked sysadmins there.
Are people still using crash carts for routine maintenance, in this day of ubiquitous KVM? In our datacenter every other row has a desk with two terminals with access to the KVM for those two rows. Unfortunately it's in the cold aisle, which makes it a little chilly to work there if you didn't bring a coat. I have been known to take breaks in the nearest hot aisle to warm up.
A crash cart should be used for diagnosis and installs. KVM for everything else.
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NEW YORK, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alliqua, Inc. (OTCQB: ALQA)
Dear Stockholders,
Two thousand twelve was a year of significant change at Alliqua – change that I firmly believe will set the stage for future growth and success. It was this vision of the future that energized me to join the board of directors and more recently assume the responsibilities as chief executive officer. What I saw was a company with all the necessary building blocks of success:
I believe Alliqua has a compelling story that has yet to be told – one that I personally find very exciting. Let's review our 2012 achievements and discuss our plans for future growth.
2012 Achievements: Establishing Strong Leadership and Product Awareness
In the latter part of 2012, we began the first phase of change at Alliqua by bolstering the corporate and medical expertise on our already experienced board of directors through the appointment of Dr. Jerry Zeldis as Chairman. Jerry continues to serve as the chief medical officer of Celgene where, over a 15-year period, he helped build one of the world's most successful publicly traded biotech companies with a current market capitalization in excess of $40 billion. At the same time, I joined the board of directors and then took over as CEO in February of 2013, after having spent the last 25 years operating medical device and wound-care companies. Most recently, I served as the CEO of Convatec Inc., where our team worked to triple overall sales to $1.7 billion, with a large part of those sales derived from the wound care marketplace. In addition, we added James Sapirstein to the Alliqua team, who now serves as the head of our Alliqua Biomedical division where he intends to bring our drug delivery vision to a reality. James has had executive experience at both large and small companies, including Bristol Myers Squibb, Tobira and Gilead, which should provide us with valuable insights as we seek to leverage our proprietary hydrogel in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.
In 2012 Alliqua also worked diligently to advance our products through scientific studies and opening new marketing channels. A post operative study of SilverSeal® in patients who had foot and ankle surgery was conducted in 2012.
These interim results, which were presented at a major medical meeting, were very encouraging, demonstrating reduction in scarring and incidence of infection compared to traditional dressings. Importantly, this mirrored many of the anecdotal comments that our current customers have been providing us.
We pursued and achieved formulary status for both our SilverSeal® and HyDress® products with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which serves over 5 million patients. This contract is expected to open up a new channel to market our products, and provide an important wound-healing solution to inactive military personnel.
We also made the decision to consolidate our offices in Langhorne, PA, the current site of our manufacturing facility. I am particularly excited about our relocation, as it will enable our entire team for the first time to work together under one roof, allowing us to build a high-performance winning culture. In addition, it allows us to re-allocate certain G&A expenses to revenue generating activities.
We accomplished a lot in 2012 in this first phase of change for our company. It can best be described as a year of building – building the resources, staff, and clinical evidence behind our products, as well as the strategic plan necessary to propel our company into a new phase of expansion for 2013 and beyond.
Moving Alliqua Forward in 2013: Increasing Revenues and Expanding the Product Portfolio
Our hydrogel technology – the same technology that gave us our marketed surgical dressings, SilverSeal® and HyDress® – is the backbone of our company and represents an enormous opportunity for growth in many ways. In 2013 we intend to roll out a strategy to leverage this technology platform.
First, we are in the process of hiring a select group of senior, proven, sales and marketing managers who, together with our existing talent, will strive to increase revenues from our marketed products: Together, we intend to:
a) open up new distribution channels
b) drive demand in our current channels including the VA
c) leverage the strong clinical data
Through these and the existing educational and marketing efforts that are already underway, we expect to see SilverSeal® and HyDress® revenues start to increase in the Q2-Q4 timeframe.
Second, we plan to utilize business development opportunities to expand our product offerings. Namely, we intend to:
a) focus on in-licensing marketed transdermal products to fulfill our vision around leveraging the hydrogel in transdermal drug delivery use. Initially, we intend to focus on wound healing associated with pain, dermatology, infection and cancer
b) expand our portfolio beyond products with potential hydrogel application by endeavoring to in-license or acquire additional wound-care products
This 2013 direction is intended to provide some early wins, while building for sustained growth in the future.
Capital Conservation and Growth
We recently completed a round of financing by our insiders which I believe demonstrates the confidence we have in our ability to build Alliqua for the future. These funds are expected to be allocated toward the revenue-generating efforts I described earlier. While funding is vital to any company, success is driven by more than just capital. I believe the changes we made in 2012, including the strategic differentiation of our Alliqua Biomedical and AquaMed Technologies divisions, provides Alliqua with the foundation necessary to achieve our vision to become a world-class wound-care and topical drug delivery business.
In conclusion, I would like to thank our stockholders, advisors and colleagues who believe in this company and remain committed to its success. I look forward to continuing our work together in 2013 as we strive to execute on our plans, increase revenue and create outstanding returns for our company and its stockholders for years to come. I wish you all well and look forward to updating you on our accomplishments throughout the year.
Warm Regards,
Dave Johnson
Alliqua, Inc.
About Alliqua, Inc.
Alliqua, Inc. (ALQA) ("Alliqua") is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing, and distribution of proprietary transdermal wound care and drug delivery technologies. Alliqua's leading technology platform produces hydrogels, a 3-dimensional cross-linked network of water soluble polymers capable of numerous chemical configurations.
Alliqua currently markets its new line of 510K FDA-approved hydrogel products for wound care under the SilverSeal® brand. Alliqua's electron beam production process, located at its 16,000 square foot GMP manufacturing facility in Langhorne PA, allows Alliqua to aggressively develop and custom manufacture a wide variety of hydrogels. Alliqua's hydrogels can be customized for various transdermal applications to address market opportunities in the treatment of wounds as well as the delivery of numerous drugs or other agents for pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Additionally, Alliqua's drug delivery platform, in combination with certain active pharmaceutical ingredients, can provide pharmaceutical companies with a transdermal technology to enhance patient compliance and potentially extend the patent life of valuable drug franchises. Additionally, our subsidiary, HepaLife Biosystems, Inc., focuses on the development of a cell-based bioartificial liver system, known as HepaMate™.
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Further, there can be no assurance that the necessary regulatory approvals will be obtained or that we will be able to develop new products on the basis of our technologies. In addition, other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 29, 2012 and our most recent Form 10-Q filings with the SEC. Investors and security holders are urged to read these documents free of charge on the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise our forward- looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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If you drive a car, there are 5 ridiculously easy tricks you need to know to make sure you aren't getting ripped off by your insurance company.
Insurance companies hate that you're on this site right now because they know that drivers who use these tricks save up to $455 per year. Don't get ripped off by your insurance company, take the time to learn the 5 tricks that can help you save huge!
Trick #1
If you drive less than 40,000 miles per year, you could qualify for huge discounts. The reasoning behind this is pretty straightforward, the less you drive, the less likely you are to get in / cause an accident and thus the cheaper you are to insure. The problem? Many insurance companies won't bother to tell drivers this. And why would they? If you don't ask, they can charge you a premium and make tons of money off of you. Don't get ripped off! If you drive less than 40,000 miles per year make sure you're getting your discounts.
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Get multiple quotes. Insurance companies don't all assess risk the same. For the exact same driver of the exact same car, quotes can vary by hundreds of d ollars. On average drivers who get multiple quotes and then switch providers save $455 per year. Luckily for drivers there are great, free services out there like LowerMyBills.com who get up to 5 insurance companies to compete for a drivers business. This helps ensure that drivers get the lowest possible quote they can.
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If your car is over 3 years old, insurance companies hope you don't know to ask for reduced coverage. The problem for drivers is that as their cars age they don't think to ask for reduced comprehensive and collision coverage on their cars even though the car is older and less coverage is needed on them because they are worth less. And don't count on your insurance provider to tell you about this because they likely won't. They'd much rather you carry too much insurance on your car and if you ever do get in an accident not only will they have collected huge premiums from you for years but they won't have to pay out near your coverage levels because your car won't be worth that any longer.
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If you haven't had an accident in 5 or more years, you could qualify for discounts. Drivers who have gone this long without an accident could qualify for 'Good Driver' programs. These programs are meant to reward good safe driving. If you've gone this long without an accident and you aren't getting a discount, you could be getting ripped off.
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The jobs website Careerbuilder.com reports nearly one in five workers said they plan to celebrate the holiday with coworkers. The survey asked workers who they would rather spend Thanksgiving with, and only 1 percent answered coworkers. Ninety percent said family. The remaining 9 percent answered neither.
The Last Word In Business
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Q My dog is a 10-year-old Boston terrier has problem that's been going on for about a year and he is miserable. My vet called it a hernia and said that his colon was trapped in it. He has a huge bulge on his backside and he strains to have a bowel movement. My veterinarian says that we should consider putting him to sleep because the surgery for this is not very successful, and he is too old to go through that anyway. We are devastated. He/we cannot go on like this, but he is otherwise very active and healthy for his age. What do you think?
A: This kind of story drives me (Dr. Henri Bianucci) crazy. I just had a client tell me that they had put their puppy to sleep recently because he had very bad hip dysplasia. He was going to be a big dog and their vet told them that hip replacement surgery was the only option for a dog that size.
There is, however, a much less expensive alternative to a hip replacement called a femoral head ostectomy. This is very effective even for very large dogs.
Everyone, including the veterinarian, was trying to make the right decision for the dog. The owners didn't want to see him living in pain and immobility, and the vet didn't want them to do a procedure that wouldn't work.
The problem is, he was giving them outdated information, which was based upon a study published in the 1970s that said dogs over 45 pounds were not suited for this procedure. This belief persists to this day in the minds of many veterinarians. I was taught the same thing. But my experience and subsequent studies say otherwise. I have performed femoral head ostectomys on huge dogs for 18 years with virtually no complications.
Your case is another example of why you should not hesitate to seek a second opinion, and do some research, when it comes to the health of you or your pet. Innovations in medicine and surgery are happening all the time, and conditions once thought to be poorly responsive to surgical repair are now seen to be highly treatable. So when a condition seems beyond help, digging a little may yield some promising options. Charlie has such a condition.
In addition to being man's best friend, dogs share a condition with us: benign prostatic hypertrophy. This is the testosterone-driven enlargement of the prostate gland. In men, this growth tends to compress the urethra, obstructing the flow of urine. In dogs, the urethra is not usually affected, but the enlarged gland can impede the passage of stool, causing dogs to strain.
The testosterone also seems to weaken the muscles of what is known as the pelvic diaphragm. This is a network of muscles in the pelvis that helps keep the abdominal contents in when abdominal pressure rises. The combination of increased straining against impaired muscle tone results in hernia formation. This condition is almost exclusively seen in intact males, which is just one more reason to neuter your dog.
These hernias cause the colon to make a U-turn at the exit, making it difficult to impossible to pass stool. These can become life-threatening emergencies if the urinary bladder is entrapped. The procedure entails rebuilding the pelvic diaphragm. Most of the time this is done by rearranging muscles. Neutering also is required to reduce straining.
As we have said many times, age is not a disease. Certainly, with advancing age, the odds that an individual has or will develop a health condition increases. But in an otherwise healthy patient, age is not a significant factor in the ability to withstand anesthesia, surgery and recovery.
Dr. Henri Bianucci and Dr. Perry Jameson are with Veterinary Specialty Care LLC. Send questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Nature: Radioactive Wolves
The historic nuclear accident at Chernobyl is now 25 years old. Filmmakers and scientists set out to document the lives of the packs of wolves and other wildlife thriving in the "dead zone" that still surrounds the remains of the reactor.
NOVA: Finding Life Beyond Earth – Part 1 & 2
Scientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: Are we alone? Combining the latest telescope images with dazzling CGI, "Finding Life Beyond Earth" immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system. We used to think our neighboring planets and moons were fairly boring – mostly cold, dead rocks where life could never take hold. Today, however, the solar system looks wilder than we ever imagined. Powerful telescopes and unmanned space missions have revealed a wide range of dynamic environments – atmospheres thick with organic molecules, active volcanoes and vast saltwater oceans. This ongoing revolution is forcing scientists to expand their ideas about what kinds of worlds could support life. If we do find primitive life forms elsewhere in the solar system, it may well be that life is common in the universe – the rule, and not the exception.
Science Night: 10/19
Nature: Radioactive Wolves


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Rutherford's Gubernatorial Bid makes Kankakee Stop
State Treasurer Dan Rutherford made a stop in Kankakee Tuesday, two days after he announced he was running for Governor in 2014. Rutherford is on a three-day swing in the state, stressing his push to change the climate in Illinois.
The 58-year-old from Livingston County says jobs is the focus. He said if unemployment can be lowered, other issues will take care of themselves.
The budget issues – he said – will begin to disappear once the economy show improvement.
Rutherford also talked about Illinois' recent decrease in the bond rating. That's the end result of legislators failing to restructure pensions.
This downgrade is the 10th negative issuance since the start of 2012.


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If you made a bucket list of the most luxurious hotels and spas to visit in Southern California, the five-star winners of the 2013 Forbes Travel Awards (formerly Mobil) would be a good place to start.
The awards for outstanding service and excellence announced Monday this year gave Montage Laguna Beach, its restaurant Studio and its Spa Montage five-star status in an across-the-board sweep. The Craftsman-style hotel with 248 rooms sits on 30 acres atop a bluff overlooking the ocean. Grand Del Mar in San Diego also was honored with a trio of five-star ratings for its hotel, the Addison restaurant and the Spa at Grand del Mar.
Newcomers to the five-star category also include Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and its Spa by La Prairie, and the Resort at Pelican Hill in Newport Coast, whose spa earlier had earned the top rating. In the restaurant category, Chef Josiah Citrin's Melisse in Santa Monica joined the five-star club.
Returning as five-star stars: L'Ermitage in Beverly Hills; Montage Beverly Hills; St. Regis Monarch Beach; the Beverly Hills Hotel; and the Peninsula Beverly Hills.


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The inherent failure of so many big government initiatives lies in this simple fact. the further away from the people power is consolidated, the more corruption, waste, fraud, and inefficiency we will have. Western Hero does a great job of giving us the latest example
Mark Steyn points out, so much government now is expensive window-dressing. The president looked good in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy:
He had himself photographed in the White House Situation Room, nodding thoughtfully to bureaucrats[…] and Tweeted it to his 3.2 million followers. He appeared in New Jersey wearing a bomber jacket rather than a suit to demonstrate that when the going gets tough the tough get out a monogrammed Air Force One bomber jacket.
So you can have Big Government bigger (or, anyway, more expensive) than any government's ever been, and the lights still go out in 17 states – because your president spent 6 trillion bucks, and all the country got was a lousy Air Force One bomber jacket for him to wear while posing for a Twitpic answering the phone with his concerned expression.He notes that the hurricane only struck a few counties on the eastern seaboard, but it's winds wreaked havoc with an antiquated electric grid across a swath of states:
Everyone else had slightly windier-than-usual wind – and yet they were out of power for days. In a county entirely untouched by Sandy, my office manager had no electricity for a week. Not because of an "emergency" but because of a decrepit and vulnerable above-the-ground electrical distribution system that ought to be a national embarrassment to any developed society.
Imagine if Obama's 2009 stimulus had been spent burying every electric pole on the Eastern Seaboard. Instead, just that one Obama bill spent a little shy of a trillion dollars, and no one can point to a single thing it built.


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Alfonzo Dennard's felony conviction of assaulting a police officer, and the misdemeanor for resisting arrest, now puts the Patriots in a precarious position.
The team won't know for how long, if at all, the cornerback will be imprisoned until his sentencing April 11. At that point, free agency will have been open for a little less than a month.
The Patriots now have three players in their secondary whose fates are up in the air. Dennard is facing up to a maximum six years in prison on the two charges, while the team also has to consider free agent cornerbacks Aqib Talib and Kyle Arrington.
How valuable is Talib to the Patriots now? And for that matter, how valuable is Arrington?
Talib is one of three players the team may be considering applying the franchise tag to, with offensive tackle Sebastian Vollmer and wide receiver Wes Welker in the mix. The price for tagging cornerbacks is costly, and Talib would cost around $10.7 million. With an estimated salary cap of a little more than $16 million to deal with 18 free agents, the price of making such a move could change the underbelly of the team.
The Patriots have to make a decision on a franchise tag by March 4.
The team does have options, though. Devin McCourty can be moved back to cornerback, while Tavon Wilson can take on more duties in the secondary. (Patrick Chung is also a free agent.) Cornerback Ras-I Dowling is also expected to return after suffering a season-ending thigh injury. McCourty and Dowling were initially envisioned as the Patriots' starting cornerback duo when Dowling was drafted in 2011. But that plan went off the tracks when Dowling suffered back-to-back season-ending injuries and the secondary struggled.
The Patriots also have five picks in the NFL draft, which begins April 25.
Dennard is in a pickle here. Being convicted of assaulting a police officer is nothing to smirk about. His options here on out are limited.
But despite his conviction, and the position it puts the Patriots in, the team has a bit of maneuvering room if the development of younger players like Wilson and Dowling is a priority. Dennard's potential loss gives these young players opportunities.


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If you want to attend a launch event for Diablo 3, complete with long lines, then you better hope you live near Blizzard's hometown of Irvine, CA. It's the only U.S. event planned for the release of the game on May 15.
Blizzard and the GameStop at the Irvine Spectrum have teamed up for the midnight release, which will be attended by many of the Diablo 3 development team and Blizzard executives. Festivities will begin at 8 p.m. PST on May 14. The evnt will include giveaways, contests and some extra video footage that hasn't been seen before.
If you live outside the United States, then you can attend official events in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and the region of Taiwan.
If you don't live anywhere near Irvine, then contact your local retailers to see when they will have the game on sale. Many retailers are planning to be open at midnight when the game goes on sale.


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The improvements also will provide Norfolk Southern with the potential to connect Ohio Valley markets to other major East Coast container ports.
The Heartland Connector project is a public-private partnership among Norfolk Southern, Ohio Department of Transportation, Ohio Rail Development Commission and Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Council of Governments to upgrade the NS rail line to accommodate double-stack trains. Previously, containers only could be single-stacked on trains moving over the connector.
The project included raising clearances at five locations along the 124-mile route between Cincinnati and Columbus and adding tracks at Norfolk Southern's Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal near Columbus. Prior to the upgrades, double-stack intermodal trains leaving the Port of Virginia for Cincinnati and Detroit followed longer routes through Tennessee or Pennsylvania. Now, double-stack trains bound for Detroit use a route that is 212 miles shorter, and trains traveling to Cincinnati travel 69 fewer miles and save up to two days transit time.
Financial support for the $6.1 million project included $3.6 million from the federal government combined with matching contributions from Norfolk Southern and the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Council of Governments.
"The Rail Commission is very happy to have been able to facilitate this very important infrastructure project that builds on previous investments and further solidifies Ohio's position in the global supply chain," said Matthew Dietrich, executive director of the Ohio Rail Development Commission.
"Routing trains over the Heartland Connector improves transit times and allows Norfolk Southern to provide more reliable service and handle additional intermodal freight," said Jeff Heller, NS group vice president international intermodal marketing. "The Heartland Connector is significant for the Port of Virginia because it increases the efficiency of the Heartland Corridor to move goods to and from Ohio and other Midwest consumer markets and adds to the competitiveness of the Hampton Roads region."


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Friday, June 12, 2009
Rod Serling Interviewed (1970)
Posted by Kliph Nesteroff at 12:00 AM
Labels: 1970, rod serling, twilight zone
3 comments:
- Craig Zablo said...
Thanks for posting the Serling interview. I enjoyed it!
- June 12, 2009 at 3:15 AM
- Ms. Bizarro said...
Is that Serling stepping over the cables? I'm always on the lookout for rarely seen photos of RS. Thanks for the post.
- December 22, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Kliph Nesteroff said...
Yes, Ms. Bizarro. That photo is from the Life Magazine Photo Archives. They have tons of great, rare, and artsy lookin pics.
- December 23, 2009 at 2:51 AM
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Today is Wednesday, May 23, 2018
News Release — 12 August 2010
Media contact: Traci Peterson, (817) 272-9208, firstname.lastname@example.com
ARLINGTON - Theresa Jorgensen loves mathematics, and she's not afraid to let a classroom full of undergraduates at The University of Texas at Arlington know it.
James Epperson wants undergraduates to know that it's important to explore why accepted mathematical concepts are true.
Barbara Shipman hopes students approach learning like a researcher - by asking a question and working along the bumpy path toward an answer.
These three University of Texas at Arlington mathematics professors are among seven talented, dynamic UT Arlington faculty honored by the UT System Board of Regents this week with Outstanding Teaching Awards.
In its second year, the program rewards faculty members who deliver the highest quality of undergraduate instruction through a demonstrated commitment to teaching. Awardees also are recognized for showing a promising future of excellence in all aspects of instruction.
UT Arlington President James D. Spaniolo nominated the honorees based on recommendations from department chairs, deans and a committee established by Donald R. Bobbitt, UT Arlington provost and vice president for academic affairs.
"These awards are a significant investment in recognizing faculty who are committed to actively engaging students, and we appreciate our Regents' support for their work," Bobbitt said. "Such incentives are continuing to help make UT Arlington a place of exciting intellectual exploration."
Each nominee submitted course descriptions, student and colleague recommendations, statements of their teaching philosophies and examples of student outcomes for consideration.
Jorgensen, an assistant professor, said sharing her enthusiasm for mathematics comes naturally. Though her doctorate is in partial differential equations, Jorgensen has focused her research in math education. She is a leader in the UT Arlington Mathematics Teacher Preparation Academy, a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board-funded project that aims to improve mathematics education in kindergarten through 12.
"I knew that the papers I would write about solving problems in partial differential equations would maybe get read by three people," she says. "But when you work with teachers, you see the light bulbs go off in their heads and they say, 'Wow these ideas are great. I'm going to take this back to my classroom.'"
Epperson, an associate professor, is director of the UT Arlington Mathematics Teacher Preparation Academy. He is also co-principal investigator on a $1.9 million National Science Foundation grant for the creation of the Arlington Emerging Scholars Program. That program is to increase the success and retention of undergraduates studying science, technology, engineering and math.
In his classes, Epperson tries to encourage a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts by challenging undergraduates with complex work. Epperson's wife, UT Arlington associate professor in mathematics Minerva Cordero-Epperson, was honored with a UT System Outstanding Teaching Award last year.
"In all my undergraduate courses, I try to get to that question of, 'Why is that true?'" James Epperson says. "I want them to see that learning is not just listening to the teacher and taking it all in. You have to be involved in asking these 'why' questions."
Shipman, an associate professor, also wants her students to forge their own pathways of understanding. She also is helping other educators with the publication of her Active Learning Materials for a First Course in Real Analysis, a series of classroom strategies she developed. That project is funded by a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Shipman says it's her job to help students negotiate the bumps and pitfalls that come with being active participants in their learning. That way, the knowledge they gain will have a lasting impact.
"I don't want to lead them down the smooth path that's already been figured out," she says. "Through targeted questions, I lead them into the storm so that they can make the path their own."
The awards program was established by the Board of Regents in August 2008 as the latest in a series of UT System-sponsored activities aimed at fostering innovative approaches to teaching, research and commercialization endeavors at all 15 UT System institutions.
UT Arlington economics lecturer Jane Himarios was among three winners from across the state invited to speak Wednesday when UT System officials announced the awards in Austin. The Board of Regents gave 72 awards this year to faculty. Each tenured winner of the Outstanding Teaching Awards receives $30,000. Tenure-track faculty receive $25,000. Contingent faculty, which includes adjuncts, lecturers and instructional assistants, receive $15,000.
Other UT Arlington faculty members honored this year are:
Anand Puppala, professor of civil engineering, says the driving force behind his teaching is a desire to produce well-qualified, energetic engineers who will design and build the country's infrastructure. Puppala's research focuses on soil mechanics. He has secured more than $7.5 million in external research grants for UT Arlington, including funds from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Texas Department of Transportation. Puppala was inducted into the UT Arlington Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2009 and has twice won his department's award for outstanding civil engineering instructor, an award made by students.
Lauri Jensen-Campbell, associate professor of psychology, encourages students to be active participants in the learning process by soliciting their opinions and involving them in live demonstrations in class. Her goal is to build students' critical thinking skills, thus allowing them to keep learning long after class ends. Jensen-Campbell was inducted into UT Arlington's Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2009. Her research areas include bullying and health outcomes and personality and adolescent development.
Joanna Webb Johnson, senior lecturer in English, finds success in teaching by relating her lessons to students' experiences, whether in a freshman composition course or in an upper-division young adult literature class. Among her numerous activities, Johnson is a regular presenter at UT Arlington's annual Leadership Retreat for students. She also is a mentor for a student who is a U.S. war veteran through the American Corporate Partners program.
Jane Himarios, senior lecturer in economics, believes that all students should have a solid introduction to economic thought because the discipline affects lives in myriad ways. She has earned accolades from students for creating an engaging environment where lessons are linked to current events in a way that helps them transcend the classroom. She is a former winner of UT Arlington's Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching.A complete list of names and the institutions at which they teach is available online at www.utsystem.edu/teachingawards/.
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The University of Texas at Arlington is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.


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by Rich Binsacca
This is an excellent book on hard landscaping — techniques for making walkways, patios, garden paths, and other features that improve and extend the use of your garden. It is so profusely illustrated, you can almost "read" the book without the text.
Includes chapters on installing a grand entrance with precast stones, transforming old steps, making raised beds with interlocking blocks, making a patio, transforming an old concrete walkway, casting your own stepping stones, making a flagstone courtyard, building a garden pathway, and installing low-voltage lights. Highly recommended for the do-it-yourselfer. 9" x 11", 121 pages, softcover.


text: I get the strategy behind trying to make me defend MY behavior, but I'm not going to, because I've been upfront about it many other times. My analysis hinges on two things that are simply true to anyone who isn't crazy: 1) that there are many members here who have constantly posted about things relating to morality 2) these same people manage to avoid ever mentioning or giving the impression that they have flaws as well. I'm sorry, but somethings just not right about that.


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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - The mayor of Wilmington, Del., says a man suspected of killing his wife and wounding two others at the New Castle County Courthouse is dead.
Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams said Monday in a telephone interview that the shooter was killed by police. Williams says he was told the man shot and killed his wife and wounded two other people about 8:10 a.m. Monday. Williams says the couple were estranged.
A Wilmington police spokesman said earlier in the day that three people were shot. Cpl. Jamaine Crawford said the victims were two women and a man. The man was described as a security person.
Hours after the shooting, there was still a heavy police presence around the courthouse and streets were blocked off.


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The lights are on
@ Meta77
Hearing the song that they used for the Announcement Trailer, I would say that the music will be just as stellar as before!
The July release date is incorrect. It has been officially announced via PlayStation.Blog that LittleBigPlanet 2 will arrive this winter! So far, I've only heard a couple things about the sequal:
1) The game will feature a new graphics engine which will even apply to the current user-created levels.
2) Stephen Fry will return as the game's narrator!
3) You can compose your own music, make cutscenes (or even short movies!), and make actual characters (instead of mindless robots).
4) Finally, users can make actual games instead of game levels.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm extremely excited about this. I can't wait to see how Media Molecule can top the original!
I saw a thermometer in the video though... **sigh** ...So they didn't get rid of that...
I'm so excited for this. Especially the grappling hook thing that looks awesome.
Yea its winter. i just got the email for it.
I'm a Legendary GI member.
Well, there goes my 60 dollars. Well spent I should say.
Yea internets a big part of the game. i mean you can still create levels and what not but to share them or get other great levels internet is a must.
I feel the same way as most of you. I used to think that there was no way a sequel would be productive at all, but Media Molecule has really surprised us and I can't wait until this Winter!
You don't have Internet Brett?
You are enjoying a 50% of your PS3 bro !!
I got so excited after I watched the trailer :)
Gah! I'm so excited for Microchips! No more ugly wires and switches!


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I received an email from Summit girls basketball coach Alexis Barile earlier this afternoon saying that the SkyHawks will be wearing pink uniforms for their home game against Bloomington at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 10. The SkyHawks will be "GOING PINK" in an effort to fight breast cancer.
The pink jerseys are being donated by Ken's Sporting Girls and Summit is expected to get pink items donated by Nike. The proceeds and donations taken will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for fighting breast cancer in honor of former N.C. State women's basketball coach Kay Yow, who passed away last week due to the disease. Summit also will be honoring community members that have survived or have lost someone to breast cancer.


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DailyDirt: Women's Work
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
- The often-quoted statistic that women are "paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men" isn't as accurate or as simple as that single number. There's a gap (women *are* paid less), but the whole story should account for factors such as education levels, hours worked, and occupations. [url]
- The "Opt-Out Revolution" described the phenomenon of working women choosing to drop out of the workforce in the early 2000s to raise kids and lead more enjoyable lives. Apparently, a decade later, there weren't that many fairy tale endings for that choice, and nearly 90% of those SAHMs want to get back to work (but less than half find full time employment). [url]
- Japan could potentially boost its GDP by as much as 14% by adopting "womenomics" policies that would encourage more women to enter or stay in the labor force. In Japan, about 70% of women stop working after having kids -- nearly double the figure for countries like the US or Germany. [url]
- Womenomics could work for the rest of the world, too. However, the benefits might not be as large, with estimates that countries like France and Germany could boost their GDPs by 4% if more women were in the work force. [url]


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|The Young and the Restless was named Outstanding Drama Series.
Photo Credit: AP Images/Invision
The Good:
* Wonderful speeches were made by the winning soap opera actors, especially Amelia Heinle, Eric Martsolf and Eileen Davidson, all first-time winners. The actors were allowed to talk without getting played off in 30 seconds, and it provided some very nice moments.
* Kathy Griffin's opening monologue felt more like her stand-up comedy routine but it was funny, and better than anything we've seen at the Daytime Emmys in a while. Her making fun of last year's Daytime Emmys on HLN, including the horrible onstage couch and Robin Meade's singing, was hilarious and on point.
* Clips were played for the nominated actors. Viewers of the webcast, and those in attendance, got to see the work of the nominees and really appreciate their performances, with one exception (see below).
* The live stream stayed up and there was nice camera work for the most part, with shots moving between the stage and the audience.
* Theme songs from the winning shows were played as the winners walked to the stage.
* A web series category was presented during the ceremony for the first time, with indie soap Venice taking home the Emmy. Executive producer Crystal Chappell was joined on stage by her fellow producers Christa Morris, Hillary B. Smith and Katherine Kelly Lang, along with Galen Gering.
* The wonderful Jeanne Cooper Tribute episode of The Young and the Restless won as the Outstanding Special Class Special.
* The names of classic soap operas were mentioned more times than in any Daytime Emmys in history. Donna Mills talking about how much she learned working on The Secret Storm was one of the best Emmy moments in a long time.
The Bad:
* The word "f*ck" or "f*cking" had to be used more times during the 2014 Daytime Emmys than in any awards show in history. If this were a more casual event, I wouldn't mind. But it was supposed to be Daytime TV's biggest night, a glamorous celebration of the best and brightest, and it came off at times as a bit tacky.
* For similar reasons, Sharon Osbourne on stage needed to tone it down. I personally love her, and she's very entertaining, but did she have to yell, "I feel like I've been here five f*cking hours!"
* Kathy Griffin also insulted the audience and nominees by saying this year's Daytime Emmys: "It's not even a real show. It's like Twitter."
* When Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series category was presented, a clip of Days' of our Lives current "Will Horton" (Guy Wilson) was used in place of the correct clip from the eventual winner, Chandler Massey. How can the Daytime Emmys make a mistake like that? Massey won the two previous years as well so he should be a recognizable face. Why didn't anyone notice this, at the very least during tech rehearsal?
* The winning Entertainment Tonight producer gave a speech that went on and on and on. A seemingly tipsy Kelly Monaco (who could blame her after that Red Carpet disaster) said she had never seen "wrap it up" on the teleprompter that many (6) times before.
* Many of the biggest names in Daytime TV did not show up, including some of the winners last night like Steve Harvey, Ellen DeGeneres and Katie Couric (who just got married so is excused this year).
The Good and Bad:
* Kathy Griffin interrupting Jill Farren Phelps acceptance speech after The Young and the Restless had some funny elements, and was good Web TV. Griffin was funny and Phelps handled it well, giving as good as she got. But whether you believe Y&R deserved to win or to, no other awards show would cut off the winner of the biggest award of the night except the Daytime Emmys. And the show had been on for around 1 hour and 47 minutes at that point. It almost seemed like a scripted interruption since Phelps was famously cut off in the same spot years ago.
* Griffin's story about Susan Lucci not liking Sarah Michelle Gellar when they worked together on All My Children, and Lucci getting Gellar fired, was really fascinating and funny but it would be have been nice if that time was spent talking about the nominees and stars that were there this year versus two winners from the 1990s.
* I liked the addition of the three Spanish awards on paper but perhaps they should have shown clips or presented them back-to-back since the crowd seemed rather uninterested.
Despite some of the negatives, it was the best Daytime Emmys ceremony is the past several years. That's not saying much, but at least it trended up, a bit.


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Elitserien Playoffs (Sweden)
Brynas 0 @ Skelleftea 4
Skelleftea wins the series 4-0
Johan Harju [6], Brynas, 0-0-0, -1, 2 SOG, 0 PIM
Playoff totals: 4 GP, 0-0-0, -5, 0 PIM
Season totals: 55 GP, 18-10-28, -9, 16 PIM
Brynas entered game four of the best-of-seven series with their season on life-support, needing a win to stay alive, but crumbled after Skelleftea struck on the power play approaching the midpoint of the middle frame and wound up shutout and swept in front of the home crowd. Just as had been the case in the three previous matches, Brynas had difficulty solving Skelleftea's goaltending, even despite seeing more balance in the frequency of opportunities. Former Lightning netminder Johan Holmqvist [7], who made every start for Brynas, stopped 29 of 32 Skelleftea attempts on net. Like his club, Johan Harju, who was his team's leading goal-scorer and among the team leaders in total production in the regular season, finished his postseason in extremely disappointing fashion having gone pointless in the series.
Official Recap [8] | Box Score [9] | Highlights [10]


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Juneau Gastineau Rotary Club meeting, 7 a.m. every Thursday, The Prospector Hotel.
Women, Infants, and Children walk-in clinic, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., 3245 Hospital Drive, first floor. Free nutrition services for income-eligible women who are pregnant, breast-feeding or just had a baby, and for infants and children up to age 5. Details: 463-4099.
Storytime and crafts, 11 a.m., Douglas library. Details: 586-5267.
Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon, noon, Moose Lodge. Details: 463-3488.
Senior Center lunch, noon, Douglas Methodist Church. Free. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Details: 463-6175.
Bartlett Baby Parent Time, noon-1:30 p.m., Bartlett Regional Hospital Robert F. Valliant Center classroom. For parents and their infants up to 1 year old. Free. Details: Debi, 796-8975.
Parenting group for mothers, noon-1 p.m., AWARE. Thursday afternoons. For women who are parenting and have lived with an abusive partner. Call ahead if you will need childcare. Free. Details: 586-6623.
Toddler Time group, 3-4:30 p.m. every Thursday, Juneau Family Health and Birth Center. Free. Meet other families while your children get their "wiggles" out. Details: 586-1203.
Helping children through divorce/separation workshop, 4 p.m., Dimond Courthouse, Room 312. Details: 463-4719.
St. Brendan's Galley hot meal, 6 p.m. every Thursday, St. Brendan's Episcopal Church, 4207 Mendenhall Loop Road. Details: 789-5152.
Prayer Shawl Group, 6-8 p.m., St. Ann's Parish Hall, 416 Fifth St., downstairs. A weekly group to crochet and knit shawls to be given to individuals in need of comfort. All skill levels welcome. Details: Rhiannon, 586-3137.
First Thursday Reviewers' Circle, 7-8 p.m., downtown library. Book club for adults and young adults who love to read. Come prepared to talk about a book or audiobook. Details: Carol, 586-0434.
Take Off Pounds Sensibly meeting, 7-8 p.m., Shepherd of the Valley Church. Details: 780-6294.
"We Do Recover" NA meeting, 8-9 p.m., Rainforest Activity Center, behind Bartlett Regional Hospital, 3240 Hospital Drive.


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The Cubs embarked on the long haul of a true rebuild, and the image in mind always has been this: Restock that farm system, prepare great prospects to hit the big leagues together en masse, and then pounce on well-chosen free agents to finalize a winning mix.
If you look back at elite teams in the last 20 years, most have that kind of blend. Cheap, ever-improving kids, complemented by established stars brought in at the right time.
A funny thing happened along the way, though. Free-agent classes in off-seasons to come are drying up.
Superstars in every direction have taken early, enormous contract extensions instead of reaching free agency. The next two winters were supposed to feature big-money targets such as David Wright, Joey Votto, Justin Verlander, Felix Hernandez, Adam Wainwright and Adam Jones.
Instead, all those players have signed pre-emptive deals to stay where they are. Clayton Kershaw and Robinson Cano (with new NYC based agent Jay-Z) might do the same.
So what's a rebuilder like the Cubs, with eventual money, to do?
Deep farm systems are gold, and that gold can be shipped around the country to help fill holes.
Joel Sherman of the New York Post wrote an excellent piece last weekend, positing that Major League Baseball is entering the golden era of trades. Several general managers he spoke with agreed.
This season showcases two early examples of trades yielding great results.
The Atlanta Braves pounced on Justin Upton and Chris Johnson from the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Martin Prado and four minor-leaguers.
Upton would be the NL MVP if the writers voted today, and, as a bonus, Johnson is leading the league in batting average.
The Kansas City Royals waited for years for their young nucleus to come together. It kept not happening, mostly because their pitching draft picks had been disastrous.
So this off-season they decided to deal from strength -- positional prospects -- and get what they deemed a true ace. They gave up Wil Myers, perhaps the best hitter in the minor leagues the last two seasons, for James Shields of Tampa Bay.
That trade was universally decried by the baseball cognoscenti. How could Kansas City give up six to seven years of affordable, and theoretical, excellence in Myers? All for just two years of the not-quite-top-tier Shields?
But the Royals decided that their time was now. Someone has to show the young guys how to win and help breed the calm confidence to maintain.
So far, so good. Shields has pitched, and talked, like the invaluable ace that franchise hasn't had in decades. Kevin Appier, anyone? A young David Cone?
Saturday, Shields shut down the Red Sox in a no-decision at Fenway, allowing 1 run and striking out eight in 6 innings.
Of course, we'll see how this one plays out over the next few years.
Both trades featured a common trope: a buyer with a deep farm system is willing to take on a star's remaining salary. Shields will make $22 million combined this year and next. Upton gets $9 million this year and $14 million-plus in each of the next two seasons.
The other huge piece in the Cubs' plan -- the increased revenue of a Wrigley revamp -- is seemingly going to come together. With cash to spend, acquiring salaries through trade will be how some big pieces arrive to play there.
Is there risk? Of course. But trades like these are a far better chance to take than the enormous multiyear contracts that got Jim Hendry in trouble.
The dwindling free-agent market and resultant dealing may end up saving some front offices from themselves.
Bringing in the big pieces for that winning Cubs mix is still a ways away.
But doling out horrid eight-year contracts won't be the only way to do it.
•Matt Spiegel co-hosts "The McNeil & Spiegel Show" 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday-Friday on WSCR 670-AM. Follow him on Twitter @mattspiegel670


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Eugene McGuinness | 25/06/12
Send in the clowns! "Harlequinade", the new single from Eugene McGuinness, will be available via digital download on 6th August - the same date as his much anticipated new album, The Invitation To The Voyage. A strutting synthetic surge, Harlequinade is a folk tale of drug-fuelled cross-dressing and clown-costumed debauchery with a soaringly anthemic chorus and wordless sing-a-longs. The accompanying performance video was filmed in London by The Marshall Darlings and is available to watch here:
Eugene can also announce a four date London specific tour entitled 'The Invitation Tour', with shows in north (Proud Galleries), south (Corsica Studios), east (Birthdays) & west (Notting Hill Arts Club) London this August, as highlighted below. Eugene's London show at the Lexingon on 3rd July is now sold out. Further dates have also been announced, including shows as special guest to Anna Calvi and The Wombats. Full live dates with ticket links are as follows:
- 30th June - Blissfields Festival, Hampshire
- 3rd July - Lexington, London SOLD OUT
- 6th July - Lounge on the Farm Festival, Canterbury
- 8th July - Delamere Forest, Cheshire (Wombats support)
- 12th July - Somerset House, London (Anna Calvi support)
- 22nd July - Tramlines Festival, Sheffield (free)
- 3rd August - Corsica Studios, Elephant & Castle, London
- 8th August - Proud Galleries, Camden, London (Music Week Breakout)
- 17th August - Parr Hall, Warrington (supporting Miles Kane)
- 23rd August - Birthdays, Dalston, London
- 29th August - Notting Hill Arts Club, London (Death 2 Disco)
- 14th-16th September - Festival No.6, Portmeirion
We can now also reveal the album artwork for The Invitation To The Voyage:


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The Internet Scout Project alerts us to Baylor University's digitization of a beautiful resource on an often less than beautiful event. It's the 1895 War of the Rebellion Atlas, with 175 plates and designed to accompany the complete textual record of the armies on both sides (available in libraries with large collections and strong shelving, also via Cornell University).
Sunday, March 13, 2011
1895 Civil War Atlas
Posted by Harold Henderson at 3:07 AM
Labels: 1895 War of the Rebellion Atlas, Baylor University, Cornell University, Internet Scout Project
2 comments:
- PalmsRV said...
Very nice resource. Thanks for the tip.
- March 13, 2011 at 12:47 PM
- Wendy B. said...
Hi Harold. I just wanted to let you know how much I'm enjoying your blog, and I've nominated you for the One Lovely Blog award. Cheers!
- March 14, 2011 at 11:35 PM
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Just seen this. What do people think? I find it shocking that Parvo is man made.
[full article removed by Admin (see below). Can you provide the direct link instead, Sabby? - Karlin]
Just seen this. What do people think? I find it shocking that Parvo is man made.
[full article removed by Admin (see below). Can you provide the direct link instead, Sabby? - Karlin]
Rosie-06/06 - Ebony-01/07 Harley-08/08
" My sunshine doesn't come from the skies, it comes from the love in my dogs eyes "
All I know about parvo is that we had it in my street. 3 dogs died - 2 puppies that hadn't finished their vaccinations, and 1 unvaccinated adult. My vaccinated Cavalier was OK, although we were regularly walking along the street - I did wipe paws and shoes in disinfectant coming back into the house. It's not just puppies that can be at risk, elderly dogs are also vulnerable. However it came into being or spread, parvo today is a killer and we have regular outbreaks in the Midlands, so we need to take care of our dogs.
I was surprised after all that science that the writer described himself as 'a strong advocate of treating the dog with respect for its nature as domesticated wolf' - very out-of-date! The latest research says that dogs are not directly closely-related to modern wolves - they share a common ancestor and therefore DNA but dogs and wolves have evolved very differently over the centuries. Apparently the nearest wild link to the dog today is a Golden Jackal!
Kate, Oliver and Aled
I love how he blames the breeder:
"I brought home a new puppy some years ago from what I thought was a
responsible breeder: In accordance with our contract, the breeder was not supposed to vaccinate the puppy. But she did - on the very day I came to pick it up... 5 weeks later, this little female almost died from parvo; in 9 days, her
weight went from 9 kg below 5 kg. She literally lived on IV and did not move at all for over a week...."
Parvo incubation is 3-10 days, obviously this person is against vaccination and didn't get a 2nd booster, she has no evidence that if she got a second booster that her dog would have still gotten parvo, she also suggests that dogs who don't get the vaccine do not get parvo "I never saw a case of Parvo among the dogs that were not vaccinated"
Hello! They brought parvo to his puppy class! My puppy class is at my Vet and it is exclusive so that only puppies that go to my vet are allowed in the class, so the vet knows if every pup has had its shots. They ask us questions like "Has she been in contact with any other dogs, do you take her walking etc. Obviously he wasn't so selective, which brings me to my last point HE has not let us know whether he allowed her puppy that died to have contact with other dogs, and it is common knowledge amongst knowledgable pet owners that the first booster does little more than kill the immunity from its mother which is why there are 2 more shots!
Take that article with one HUGE grain of salt.
Also have deleted it as it's a copyright issue to reprint an entire article without permission -- providing a link is fine.
Cavaliers: Tansy : Mindy Connie Roxy Neasa Gus
In memory: My beautiful Jaspar Lucy Leo Lily Libby
Just to add: ask anyone in rescue: the single biggest threat to litters of unvax'd puppies is... parvo. Number one killer of unvax'd puppies in pounds... parvo. A puppy has, like a human child, a totally immature and barely formed immune system when young so of course is going to be succeptible to serious diseases more so than an adult. That is why children not adults died in huge numbers from well-documented CHILDHOOD diseases like whooping cough, measles, mumps, polio before there were vaccinations. Good immune systems are in some part, genetic as well anyway, not related to how healthy anyone is at any given time. Anyone who claims to know anything about vaccination knows that a puppy can easily die after a first vaccination for parvo -- that's why two and sometimes three shots are given and it is called the puppy *series* vaccinations... and needs the one year booster too.
I'd recommend people always have the skeptic filter on when visiting random websites -- and look for some sensible confirmation elsewhere before getting worried about claims like this.
Cavaliers: Tansy : Mindy Connie Roxy Neasa Gus
In memory: My beautiful Jaspar Lucy Leo Lily Libby
Thats the link. (If it works)
K9joy Education: free article on The Parvo Hysteria by Mogens Eliasen
What gets me is that Parvo is a man made virus.
Rosie-06/06 - Ebony-01/07 Harley-08/08
" My sunshine doesn't come from the skies, it comes from the love in my dogs eyes "
It isn't. Viruses mutate all the time from existing viruses and jump species as well. It was not manmade.
Cavaliers: Tansy : Mindy Connie Roxy Neasa Gus
In memory: My beautiful Jaspar Lucy Leo Lily Libby
Parvo is not a "man-made virus." It is a variant of feline panleukopenia.
Try these for the etiology of parvo:
Vet Microbiol. 1999 Sep 1;69(1-2):29-40.
Host range relationships and the evolution of canine parvovirus.
Canine parvovirus (CPV) is an example of an unusual class of emerging virus-those that gain an altered host range through genetic variation and subsequently become widespread pathogens of their new and previously resistant host species. CPV was first detected in 1978 as the cause of new diseases in dogs throughout the world, when it rapidly spread throughout domestic populations, as well as becoming widespread in wild dogs. CPV was soon shown to be a variant of the long recognized feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), from which it differed in less than 1% at the nucleotide sequence level. Genetic analysis showed that virtually all of the biological differences between CPV and FPV, including the canine host range, were determined by three or four sequence differences in the viral capsid protein gene. Analysis of the atomic structures of the CPV and FPV capsids showed that the differences controlling host range were located within two different structural regions and were exposed on the capsid surface. The CPV which first emerged in 1978 appeared to be derived from a single ancestral sequence, which has allowed the ready analysis of the subsequent evolution of the virus in nature. Sequence analysis has also revealed that CPV strains have undergone a series of evolutionary selections in nature which have resulted in the global distribution of new virus variants. This was first seen in the global replacement between 1979 and 1981 of the original (197 strain of the virus by a genetically and antigenically variant strain, and the subsequent widespread selection of other variants which have also become globally distributed. The genetic and antigenic variation in the virus strains was also correlated with changes in the host range of the virus, in particular in the ability to replicate in cats, and in canine host range differences seen in tissue culture cells.
J Vet Med B Infect Dis Vet Public Health. 2005 Sep-Oct;52(7-:303-11.
An annotated historical account of canine parvovirus.
A brief annotated history of canine parvovirus-type 2 (CPV-2) and its variants is summarized with emphasis on the most significant contributions of individuals involved in the initial recognition of CPV-2 and subsequent discoveries that have advanced our knowledge of the nature and evolution of this novel canine virus. Time has obscured the observations of many veterinary clinicians and researchers throughout the world who sensed the presence of a new disease when CPV-2 first made its appearance in 1978 and then, within 1-2 years, spread worldwide. Since 1979, nearly 600 articles, papers, numerous text chapters and monographs have been published on the subject of CPV-2. The early history is well known by veterinary infectious diseases specialists and noteworthy publications are recorded on the National Library of Medicine (USA) website, PubMed and in review articles. Because of the great number of publications, it is not practicable to cite them individually; however, reference is made to certain individuals, reviews and selected papers that I consider particularly relevant to the history of progress in the understanding of CPV-2 and the disease it causes. The clinical disease caused by CPV-2 and its variants, the immune response to infection or vaccines, host range and the development of practical diagnostic assays are noted in historical context. The basic biological properties and the physical, molecular and antigenic structure of CPV-2 and its variants are also discussed briefly. Finally, key players who have contributed to the antigenic and DNA sequence (evolutionary) relationships between CPV-2 and the other autonomous parvoviruses of carnivores are noted and hypotheses regarding the origin and evolution of CPV-2 and its variants are mentioned.
Pat B
Atlanta, GA
from http://cvi.asm.org/content/8/3/663.fullCanine parvovirus (CPV) and feline panleukopenia virus (FPLV) are members of the feline parvovirus (FPV) subgroup and are classified as autonomous parvoviruses of the familyParvoviridae (23). CPV type 2 (CPV-2) was first observed in dogs in 1978, and this virus subsequently became globally distributed such that it is now endemic in populations of domestic and wild canids (16, 22). The origin of CPV-2 has not yet been identified, although various hypotheses explaining its derivation and sudden emergence have been proposed. The most widely accepted hypothesis for its emergence is that CPV is derived from FPLV in cats or from FPLV-like viruses in wild animals by natural genetic mutation. Genetic analyses of parvovirus DNA obtained from a number of wild carnivore isolates might support the latter hypothesis (26, 30,31).
and Wikipedia:
Parvovirus CPV2 is a relatively new disease that appeared in the late 1970s. It was first recognized in 1978 and spread worldwide in one to two years.[2] The virus is very similar to feline panleukopenia (also a parvovirus); they are 98% identical, differing only in two amino acids in the viral capsid protein VP2.[3] It is also highly similar to minkenteritis, and the parvoviruses of raccoons and foxes.[4] The early belief was that the feline panleukopenia mutated into CPV2. It is possible that CPV2 is a mutant of an unidentified parvovirus (similar to feline parvovirus (FPV)) of some wild carnivore.[5] A strain of CPV2b (strain FP84) has been shown to cause disease in a small percentage of domestic cats, although vaccination for FPV seems to be protective.[6] CPV2, however, does not cause disease in cats and does so only mildly in mink and raccoons, and is a virus almost exclusively affecting canines.[4]
Two more strains of canine parvovirus CPV2a and CPV2b were identified in 1979 and 1984 respectively.[5] Most cases of canine parvovirus infection are believed to be caused by these two strains, which have replaced the original strain, and the present day virus is different from the one originally discovered[4][7] although they are indistinguishable by most routine tests. A third type, CPV2c (a Glu-426 mutant), has been discovered in Italy, Vietnam, and Spain.[8]
Cavaliers: Tansy : Mindy Connie Roxy Neasa Gus
In memory: My beautiful Jaspar Lucy Leo Lily Libby
*snap* -- Pat we both posted at the same time... on this ridiculous article which still can mislead and unnecessarily worry people.
Never was a site so inappropriately named.K9joy
Cavaliers: Tansy : Mindy Connie Roxy Neasa Gus
In memory: My beautiful Jaspar Lucy Leo Lily Libby