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I have 4 Foxtail Palms, I did have more but many of them died, especially the smaller ones.
My number 1 Foxtail seems to be being overtaken by one of the smaller items that I planted near to the side gate fance. The one of the very front corner was like $50 and the others were $15 or something so I got 3 at that time. Its both taller and the base is really thick. It just doesnt have the same number of clear rings that the older one has.
These are doing OK. I didnt take any photos of the one that seems to be doing best. I got the one in the front corner but its not the tallest. There are 4 left in total now.
Just did a head count and all 4 items are still in place, but they are pretty slow. the main one has a 1.5 inch base now at a guess, then the two cheaper ones have almost caught up, at least in height with one being quite taller. The little tiny one in the back actually looks pretty healthy now considering I half expected it to die.
Foxtail Palm Tress are doing OK. The main 'specimen' Foxtail in the fron cost $50 and now looks decidedly short in comparison to the next two that cost $19 each or so. the specimen has a much fatter stem but just doesnt seem to be growing much, especially in height. Maybe its position is more challenging? Its the hottest part of the garden, but at least it has a new shoot out.
Foxtail Palm Tress are petty cheap and I have brought a few, mmm, around 6 at least that are scattered around. One of them was a pretty big one that cost $50 or so. I'll upload some pictures below which should help.


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text: From: Steffen Persvold <sp at scali.com> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:06:19 +0200 (CEST) > I have an idea that this happens because the packets are comming out of > order into the receiving node (i.e the bonding device is alternating > between each interface when sending, and when the receiving node gets the > packets it is possible that the first interface get packets number 0, 2, > 4 and 6 in one interrupt and queues it to the network stack before packet > 1, 3, 5 is handled on the other interface). That is exactly what is happening. Packets are being reordered. Welcome to one of the flaws of round-robin trunking. :-) > If this is the case, any ideas how to fix this... Don't use round-robin, choose the output device based upon hashing of some bits in the IP/TCP headers :-) You won't get 2Gb/sec for a single TCP stream, but you will for 2 or more.


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Ronnie Laws has always been an R&B-oriented saxophonist miscast in the jazz world, starting with his early association with the rapidly declining Blue Note label. His debut album (reissued on CD) has a couple of decent melodies (the opening "Always There" is the most memorable), some soulful tenor and soprano playing by the leader in a style heavily influenced by Grover Washington, Jr., and vocals on only one of the eight selections; Laws's attempts to make it as a singer were still in the future. However this obviously commercial effort (every song fades out before it hits the five-minute mark) can only be recommended in comparison to Ronnie Laws's later more inferior recordings. ~ Scott Yanow


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Unions are against globalization. To listen to them, unions are a force for good for all workers (rather than just the workers who pay the union its dues). But to watch them, you can see that they're in favor of cartelization. They don't mind other people competing against them, as long as those people are hobbled by the same pay rate, protections, and benefits as the union members have. In other words, they're not allowed to use a lower cost of living, or a lower regard for their own safety, or a longer work week as a competitive advantage.
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What a study in contrasts: the guy in the big house down the block gets elected president on a stirring platform of "Yes, we can", while the folks on Stony Island win a referendum on a platform of "No, you can't."
While the national electorate delivered a sweeping referendum in favor of change, a few hundred people in one corner of Hyde Park want to keep things as they are, throwing a monkey wrench in plans that might require adaptation and adjustment.
While the president-elect symbolizes the possibilities of racial reconciliation and equality, Hyde Park's own representatives of Liberal activism, almost entirely white, do their best to chase away employment in a predominantly black and low-income ward, one with unemployment rates significantly higher than the national or even metropolitan average.
The concrete results of these grass-roots escapades are that things don't really change much in Mr. Obama's neighborhood, that nothing gets fixed, and that we get to watch buildings fall apart even faster than NIMBY cadres get older. Or rather, like the astronomical costs of CTA maintenance, things simply get deferred, and the folks on Stony Island and Harper Avenue get to live the way they have grown accustomed to living for the last 40 years.
Shabby gentility, Hyde Park style: you can fix it after I'm dead. Après moi, le déluge.
We've said from the beginning that NIMBY-ism is simply the language of self-interest clothed in the rhetoric of "community" consensus. The movement for a dry-vote challenges even this definition, for the following reason: even its strongest proponents made no attempt to speak on behalf of the "community" interest, or the greater good of the neighborhood. Cited as an example of "direct democracy," some dry-vote supporters insisted that those living outside the 39th Precinct simply butt out.
Very well. Residents of the 39th, and their mujahideen, now have 4 some years -- at the very least -- to savor the solitude of their reinforced survivalist bastion.
Meanwhile, things are already changing in the rest of the neighborhood. A few general thoughts on the entire episode and its meaning for the future.
The locus of NIMBY activism is clearly within the 39th Precinct, with a few conspicuous exceptions. The bulk of the action going forward, however -- should capitalism manage to revive at some point -- is going to be north of 55th Street. The major and very minor NIMBY figures have had much less success influencing anything in this area, and they now have much less legitimacy for doing so.
Part of the reason for this is that much of Hyde Park's development drama to-date (including the death of the Co-Op) has been about a dance-of-death, in which the University of Chicago wrestles in a pit of burning sand with the aging folk-heroes and horseless Lawrence of Arabias who are our local activists. The latter thrive on settling scores with the University, and undoubtedly feel that they have scored one here.
But the University is no longer the only player in the neighborhood, and to the extent that our local Robin Hoods continue to taunt the bumbling giant, they will exhaust themselves fruitlessly while truly desirable changes -- both small and large -- occur without their involvement. Indeed, they already are and already have.
These changes offer a striking contrast to the singular record of NIMBY non-accomplishments racked up at The Point, Doctors Hospital, and various smaller sites. William F. Buckley would have been proud of our obstructionists, for in all of these instances, they have managed to "stand athwart history and yell "Stop!"
We can't necessarily blame the 39ers for "putting Precinct first." We just have to remind them that by doing so, it's going to be a bit harder to convince anyone that they can also speak for the "community", or for the greater good of Hyde Park, Kenwood, and the South Side. The laws on our books allow property owners to put self-interest ahead of things like local unemployment, racial equality, public safety, and commercial prosperity. These laws have been taken full advantage of.


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Sensible Home Pro necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 123 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Sensible Home Products
Sensible Home Products is a company that sells and installs home improvement products. Our main products are replacement windows, roofing, siding and insulation but we may add other items in the future. There are many "Window and Door / Roofing / Siding" companies in our area so we really need to have a professional logo that will help us stand out from the competition.
Here are some things about how we are marketing our products.
• We are not the cheapest window in town. We sell quality over quantity.
• We are professionals. Our handling of the sale and installation is very customer service focused.
• We focus on the Value added aspects of replacing your windows roof or siding. "Our Products Make Sense" in terms of money saved through lower heating and cooling bills.
• Our home improvements look great and save you money.
• We don't want to appear like a small contractor. We are going for the look of a larger more professional operation.
• Our sales people arrive to the customer's home in a shirt and tie.
Anyone who owns a home!
The target age group would be from 25 and up.
having, using, or showing good sense or sound judgment.
We like dealing with sensible people. They will think about the return on investment when they are considering a home improvement such as windows or siding.
We are a new company and want a modern look for our logo, many window replacement companies have been around for a long time and their logos are old and outdated. A fresh and original design should help us to stand out from the crowd.
We have not started our business yet so we are open to color choices and design ideas. We will also be building a website around the logo. The logo will be used on everything from polo shirts, stationary, invoices, business cards, vehicles, etc… so it should be designed to look good on those types of items as well.
We would like to stay away from logos which contain a window or house (unless you can dazzle us); there are a lot of companies in the replacement window business and many include this element in their logo.
Because the name Sensible Home Products is not self explanatory on its own, if you can integrate somehow that we are a Windows, Roofing and Siding company that would be helpful.
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text: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu> writes: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Drew Raines wrote: > >> Has any one of you actually used these to sustain a PC for any >> measurable length of time? I'm not sure at what market this >> junk is aimed, perhaps suckers. > > In the Durham NC residential grid we have a power outage that > lasts approximately one second approximately once a month. [...] > I've recently started putting my home computers (which are all > members of my home cluster:-) on $50 cheap UPS because they are > enough to sustain a system across these frequent, short, outages. I work in a university research building where you'd expect the power to be consistent, especially since the whole medical center is battery-backup'ed (critical hospital systems being the primary reason). Oddly enough, we see those spikes or flickers all the time, so I got a Back-UPS 350 with the hopes of doing exactly what you said, surviving the frequent, short, outage. No go. After trying two machines and a monitor on the battery-backed plugs, just the two machines, and finally just one machine, I got the stupid thing to provide a couple seconds of life. But that was it. The box said 17 minutes under average load. I'd think one 200-watt power supply would be average enough. That was my Dell Precision 530 PC, sans monitor. When I tried only my Sun Ultra 30 (again, no monitor), *beep*, reboot. And then APC has the audactiy to include a serial cable as if that's useful. Until I find the serial port on my clock radio, that does me no good. (I've seen reports from others, though, that only the Smart-UPS line and up can signal a machine to safely shutdown anyway.) Long story short, I replaced it with a Smart-UPS 650 which seems to support both systems through mild outages. For $275, though, I wanted it to log in, check my e-mail, and respond appropriately to outstanding messages before it signaled a machine to halt. Oh well. -Drew


text: Vettel's weekend win at Monza moved him 53 points ahead of Alonso and 81 clear of Hamilton [AFP]The Formula One championship has said farewell to Europe for another year with two big questions being posed as the glamour sport sets its sights on races in Asia, the Middle East and Americas. The first - as the mechanics packed up and the trucks left Monza on Sunday night - was when and where, rather than whether, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel will wrap up his inevitable fourth successive title. The second concerns Ferrari's 2014 line-up, and the chances of Kimi Raikkonen joining Fernando Alonso in a potentially explosive partnership, and looks likely to be answered within a matter of days. Rumours The paddock chatter after the Italian Grand Prix was that Ferrari's most recent world champion, currently with Lotus, had agreed a sensational return to the team with which he won the title in 2007. There was no word from Ferrari, whose president Luca di Montezemolo said on Saturday that the team would decide its drivers immediately after the race weekend and after talking to Brazilian Felipe Massa, whose place is at risk. Massa, fourth on Sunday, is out of contract and has not won since 2008 while Raikkonen took this year's season-opener in Australia and had racked up a record 27 successive scoring finishes before Belgium in July. Montezemolo did not rule out Raikkonen, who left Ferrari in 2009 after being paid off to make way for Alonso, when asked whether he would have him back. "What happened in the past with Kimi? we won a world championship," he replied. "First of all, Kimi is a good driver. For us it was a big satisfaction to win with him the first championship with the new team without (seven times champion) Michael (Schumacher), without Ross (Brawn)". Lotus want Raikkonen to stay but must wait for Ferrari. "In the end if he wants to go to Ferrari he will go to Ferrari, and that's it," Lotus team principal Eric Boullier told reporters. "Kimi is in a position where he is being chased by most of the paddock, and he will decide."The Vettel question comes down to simple mathematics, with the German now 53 points clear of second placed Alonso with seven races, worth a total of 175 points, still to be won. The 26-year-old has won half of the races this season and, ominously for his rivals, the last two in Belgium and Italy were supposed to be his weakest - with team principal Christian Horner going so far as to call them Red Bull's "Achilles heel". The next four are Singapore, South Korea, Japan and India and Vettel won all of them last year. The German's closest rivals had no illusions about their scant chances. Impossible ask Lewis Hamilton's immediate response after finishing ninth in the race for Mercedes was to declare his championship challenge over, although he then had a rethink and vowed to keep fighting even if the odds were stacked against him. "I basically need to win every race, which is the tallest order ever, but I can do nothing but try," said the 2008 champion, who is now third overall but a massive 81 points behind the leader. "I wish it was a closer battle at the front. It's a shame it is like it is." Alonso said it would take a lot of luck for him to overhaul the Red Bull. "I think we need to be realistic about the championship now there's a very big gap. We don't have enough races and probably we don't have the speed right now to win some consecutive races and hope to reduce the gap just by pace," said the Spaniard. "We need to be lucky and we need to have some DNFs (retirements) from Sebastian or something to win the championship. With the races left and the points disadvantage, it's hard." Asked whether it was all over, Horner refused to tempt fate and repeated a familiar mantra. "The championship is not yours until nobody can score more points than you," he said. "So we are going to continue the approach that we've always taken which is focus one race at a time and try to get the best out of each weekend. "It's been a big weekend for us here... for Sebastian to extend his lead in the drivers' championship and for the team to extend its lead in the constructors' championship is obviously massively positive for us. But there's still some way to go." SOURCE: Reuters Sport Formula One


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How to upgrade TikiWiki from 9.2 to 9.3
New versions of TikiWiki are being released frequently. In the event you find your Tiki web site out of date, you can always download the latest version and upgrade the installation. When upgrading TikiWiki, you will need to backup your database and files. This will prevent any loss of data during the upgrade process.
The upgrade process includes, backing up your existing database and files, uploading the new tiki files to your server, and running the install script. The following article will explain the steps to upgrade your TikiWiki from 9.2 to the 9.3 LTS version (This is the long term support version, which is supported until November of 2015).
Steps to upgrade TikiWiki
- Log into TikiWiki and click the wrench icon at the top right side.
- Click the tiki.org/Download link in your TikiWiki admin section.
- The TikiWiki download site will load. Find the latest long term support version.
The url should be the following.
Click the 9.3 link to download the file. The file you download should be named the following:
- Login into your cPanel.
Go to PhpMyAdmin and backup your database.
- Go to the File Manager and select your TikiWiki directory and click go.
Backup your files by creating a folder and moving them to the folder you create.
Upload the tiki-9.3.zip file and Extract the .zip file.
Important! Make sure you have the files in the root folder for your TikiWiki and not in a tiki-9.3 subfolder. The installation will not work if the Tiki files are in a sub folder.
- Visit your Tiki site. You should be redirected to a url similar to the following.
The "Welcome" page for upgrading TikiWIki will show. Click Continue.
- On the "Read the License" page, click Continue.
- Click Continue on the "Review the System Requirements" page.
- Enter the database name, database, username, and the password.
Note! If you forget the username and password, you can view the username and reset the password in PhpMyQAdmin.
Click Continue.
- Now you should see the "Install & Upgrade" screen. Click Upgrade.
- The TikiWiki site will now be upgraded. On the "Review the Upgrade" page, click Continue.
- Configure the general settings. The general settings should show what you had in your database already. Double check the values and click Continue.
- Finally, Enter your Tiki. Click the Enter your Tiki and Lock the Installer (Recommended) link to complete the upgrade.
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Royvon needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 46 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Royvon Boarding & Training
We have two dog boarding facilities, one in Surrey (Postcode = KT10 9AW. United Kingdom) and the South Wales (Postcode = CF47 0TJ United Kingdom). The premises are 180 miles apart so in a totally different physical locations. We provide premier boarding & training for dogs while their owners go away on holiday. People need to feel very comfortable about the standard of premises that they leave their dog.
Surrey pictures http://www.facebook.com/album.php?a…0894787353
South Wales Pictures http://www.facebook.com/album.php?a…2599742154
I can send these pictures if required.
Our business has been running since 1959 so we have much heritage, see http://www.royvon.co.uk/heritage.htm
Dog owners who want the very best for their dogs. Want to see professionalism and high standards. They need to see a very positive vision into the place where they may be leaving their dog.
The two icons will be located on our home page of our website.
An image of kind, friendly, professional people looking after all the guests at our premises with great facilities. Its all about the facilities, the care the dogs get from the team and the fun the guests have while in our care. The icon would need to be very warm and welcoming in relation to dog friendliness.
Currently we have a too high a bounce rate from our home page as users are expecting to see a physical building or picture of a premises as they expect one location. We have two locations and currently we don't illustrate this on our home page. Our home page doesn't tell the web users where we are and what high standards we have on offer. http://www.royvon.co.uk We want to include under the main navigation menu two large icons, one for each of our locations. One icon for Surrey on left and one for South Wales on the right. These icons will then link to a separate page for each location. See details about individual locations attached.The two icons will take up the whole width of the page and and them an equal space down the page. Each location icon will tell a story of the actual facility. It will give users a real feel of what we have to offer. Please see pictures above in 'Tell us about yourself'. The icon maybe a montage of pictures or some other kind of design. I would like a small element of the icon to depict the location both immediate and regional. A welsh flag for South Wales location and an English flay for London location would be good but only a small part of the icon. The icon's that demonstrates each of the locations needs to give a local feel, something to illustrate the physical aspects of the premises but keeping to the 'dog care' which is the main focus.


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Have you tried Bard's Tale? The brewery was started a few years ago by two brothers; one of whom has Celiac Disease.
Food and drink, eh? My tastes are pretty eclectic, from a good steak to felafel. Love good Mexican, Italian, Indian (which I've had at the source!), Greek, Thai, and Szechuan Chinese. Oooo, and I shouldn't forget Japanese Hibachi!
As for potables, I am a HUGE single-malt scotch nut. I've probably tried around 50 different marques over the past 20 or so years, and I was recently at a tasting sponsored by The MacAllan which was EXCELLENT! Oddly enough, my primary alternative to Scotch is a Black Russian! Go figure!
Greetings, fellow atheists. I live in Florida and am vacationing in the Keys with my DH to celebrate 30 years of marriage. We raised two free-thinking sons, one of whom has joined us here in the Keys for some kayaking with his dad. We are pescatarians, though we don't have fish at every meal, being mostly vegetarians. At dinner last night we had a special treat, key lime/mango pie, a favorite that I don't indulge in very often. We also had a lovely bottle of wine and I offer a toast to you all.
I'm happy to have had an invitation to this group and am looking forward to getting to know many of you better.
I'm Brent, and I'd have an order of toasted raviolis or a barbecued pork steak (both St. Louis delicacies) with some diet Coke or Coke Zero, perhaps followed by gooey butter cake for dessert.
*LOL* I know, not the healthiest stuff... ;)
I'm Paula, living in Detroit, Michigan. Definitely not a coffee person - I don't care of anything with a hint of coffee, mocha, cappuccino, frappuccino, etc. lol
My favorite drink is Coke Zero...and on occasion, I add a bit of Captain Morgan Spiced Rum ;) Tough to pick a favorite food.....fresh, crusty bread with real butter or fruit salad is always a winning choice!
Thanks for the invite, Ruth. While you're all sitting there having grown-up stuff like tea and muffins, I'm going with plain, perfect, New York Pizza and some soda. I like to write - short stories and one pain-in-the-butt novel that I've been trying to get published for over a year.
And hey, this is as good a place and time to share a win for the non-believers: I was fired from a job for a being an atheist and I fought back. I filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - AND I WON!!!!
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Phenylketonuria screening
What is this test?
This test measures the amount of an amino acid called phenylalanine in blood. It is used to screen newborns for phenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic disorder wherein the enzyme needed to break down this amino acid is absent or lacking. This causes phenylalanine to build up in the body, which may result in mental retardation and other serious health problems[1][2][3].
Why do I need this test?
Laboratory tests may be done for many reasons. Tests are performed for routine health screenings or if a disease or toxicity is suspected. Lab tests may be used to determine if a medical condition is improving or worsening. Lab tests may also be used to measure the success or failure of a medication or treatment plan. Lab tests may be ordered for professional or legal reasons. The following is a possible reason why this test may be done:
- PKU - Phenylketonuria
When and how often should I have this test?
When and how often laboratory tests are done may depend on many factors. The timing of laboratory tests may rely on the results or completion of other tests, procedures, or treatments. Lab tests may be performed immediately in an emergency, or tests may be delayed as a condition is treated or monitored. A test may be suggested or become necessary when certain signs or symptoms appear.
Due to changes in the way your body naturally functions through the course of a day, lab tests may need to be performed at a certain time of day. If you have prepared for a test by changing your food or fluid intake, lab tests may be timed in accordance with those changes. Timing of tests may be based on increased and decreased levels of medications, drugs or other substances in the body.
The age or gender of the person being tested may affect when and how often a lab test is required. Chronic or progressive conditions may need ongoing monitoring through the use of lab tests. Conditions that worsen and improve may also need frequent monitoring. Certain tests may be repeated to obtain a series of results, or tests may need to be repeated to confirm or disprove results. Timing and frequency of lab tests may vary if they are performed for professional or legal reasons.
The recommended time for this test is between 24 hours and 7 days of life. If blood is collected before 24 hours of life, the test should be repeated when your baby is 2 weeks old[4].
How should I get ready for the test?
Capillary blood or venous blood:
Before having blood collected, tell the person drawing your blood if you are allergic to latex. Tell the healthcare worker if you have a medical condition or are using a medication or supplement that causes excessive bleeding. Also tell the healthcare worker if you have felt nauseated, lightheaded, or have fainted while having blood drawn in the past.
How is the test done?
A sample of capillary blood or venous blood may be collected for this test.
Capillary blood:
Common sites to collect a capillary blood sample are the fingertip and earlobe. Infants often have a capillary blood sample taken from the heel of the foot. Once the site is selected, the healthcare worker may heat the area with a warm compress to ensure adequate blood flow. The area will be cleaned with antiseptic. A small needle is used to make a cut in the skin surface, and the area may be squeezed gently to produce blood. The blood is collected in small collection device.
Venous blood:
When a blood sample from a vein is needed, a vein in your arm is usually selected. A tourniquet (large rubber strap) may be secured above the vein. The skin over the vein will be cleaned, and a needle will be inserted. You will be asked to hold very still while your blood is collected. Blood will be collected into one or more tubes, and the tourniquet will be removed. When enough blood has been collected, the healthcare worker will take the needle out.
How will the test feel?
The amount of discomfort you feel will depend on many factors, including your sensitivity to pain. Communicate how you are feeling with the person doing the test. Inform the person doing the test if you feel that you cannot continue with the test.
Capillary blood or venous blood:
During a blood draw, you may feel mild discomfort at the location where the blood sample is being collected.
What should I do after the test?
Capillary blood:
After capillary blood collection is complete, cotton will be placed over the site and held firmly until the bleeding has stopped. A bandage or cotton may be secured over the site.
Venous blood:
After a blood sample is collected from your vein, a bandage, cotton ball, or gauze may be placed on the area where the needle was inserted. You may be asked to apply pressure to the area. Avoid strenuous exercise immediately after your blood draw. Contact your healthcare worker if you feel pain or see redness, swelling, or discharge from the puncture site.
What are the risks?
Blood: During a blood draw, a hematoma (blood-filled bump under the skin) or slight bleeding from the puncture site may occur. After a blood draw, a bruise or infection may occur at the puncture site. The person doing this test may need to perform it more than once. Talk to your healthcare worker if you have any concerns about the risks of this test.
What are normal results for this test?
Laboratory test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, the method used for the test, and many other factors. If your results are different from the results suggested below, this may not mean that you have a disease. Contact your healthcare worker if you have any questions. The following is considered to be a normal result for this test:
- Newborns: =2 mg/dL (=121 micromol/L) [5]
What might affect my test results?
- Results increased in:
- Premature infants with immature livers [5]
- Results decreased in:
- Insufficient protein intake [5]
What follow up should I do after this test?
Ask your healthcare worker how you will be informed of the test results. You may be asked to call for results, schedule an appointment to discuss results, or notified of results by mail. Follow up care varies depending on many factors related to your test. Sometimes there is no follow up after you have been notified of test results. At other times follow up may be suggested or necessary. Some examples of follow up care include changes to medication or treatment plans, referral to a specialist, more or less frequent monitoring, and additional tests or procedures. Talk with your healthcare worker about any concerns or questions you have regarding follow up care or instructions.
If this test is positive, another test should be done on your baby to confirm the result[2].
Where can I get more information?
Related Companies
- Children's PKU Network - http://www.pkunetwork.org
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation - http://www.marchofdimes.com
- Genetics Home Reference - http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov
[1] Henry JB: Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, 20th ed. Saunders, 2001.
[2] Levy HL & Albers S: Genetics screening of newborns. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 2000; 1:139-177.
[3] Matalon R & Michals K: Phenylketonuria: screening, treatment and maternal PKU. Clin Biochem 1991; 24(4):337-342.
[4] American Academy of Pediatrics- Committee on Genetics: Newborn screening fact sheets. Pediatrics 1996; 98(3 pt 1):473-501.
[5] Tietz NW (Ed): Clinical Guide to Laboratory Tests, 3rd ed. W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 1995.
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I understand why the People
in the Northwest
say the canoe is sacred,
that the canoe has a spirit.
We know that a cedar tree
can tell us by its rings
when salmon runs were big,
when bears and eagles
and wolves feasted on salmon,
and left the carcasses
near the trees,
and the carcasses decayed, and
the nutrients went into the soil,
and into the roots of the trees.
And what else do we know, but perhaps
this tree grew where an Ancestor
had been buried,
that the Ancestor fed the tree, that
the Ancestor's flesh became the tree's
flesh, that the Ancestor's blood
became the tree's sap?
And what else do we know, but that
This tree continued the life,
growing to great heights,
providing shelter for birds and
other animals,
providing bark fiber for clothing,
and for fishing nets,
providing bark fiber for baskets
in which to collect berries or cook shellfish,
fine woven baskets that are passed from
mother to daughter, and from grandmother
to granddaughter?
And when the tree's time was done,
it was felled,
and became a canoe,
a seagoing canoe that carried the People
on waters the Ancestor knew,
carried the People to gatherings and
sacred ceremonies.
And what else do we know, but perhaps the
song that comes out on the water to a puller
in the canoe
is a song from the Ancestor,
a song of thanks for continuing the
circle of life,
and respecting the interconnectedness
of all living things,
a song of thanks for respecting
the sacredness of life?
Richard Walker, Mexican/Yaqui, is a newspaper editor in Kitsap County, Washington, and is a correspondent for Indian Country Today Media Network. This poem was included in his chapbook, "The Journey Home" (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2012, www.redbirdchapbooks.com).


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Ernest Rutherford, in full Ernest Rutherford, Baron Rutherford of Nelson, of Cambridge, (born August 30, 1871, Spring Grove, New Zealand—died October 19, 1937, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England), New Zealand-born British physicist considered the greatest experimentalist since Michael Faraday (1791–1867). Rutherford was the central figure in the study of radioactivity, and with his concept of the nuclear atom he led the exploration of nuclear physics. He won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908, was president of the Royal Society (1925–30) and the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1923), was conferred the Order of Merit in 1925, and was raised to the peerage as Lord Rutherford of Nelson in 1931.
Early life and education
Rutherford's father, James Rutherford, moved from Scotland to New Zealand as a child in the mid-19th century and farmed in that agrarian society, which had only recently been settled by Europeans. Rutherford's mother, Martha Thompson, came from England, also as a youngster, and worked as a schoolteacher before marrying and raising a dozen children, of whom Ernest was the fourth child and second son.
Ernest Rutherford attended the free state schools through 1886, when he won a scholarship to attend Nelson Collegiate School, a private secondary school. He excelled in nearly every subject, but especially in mathematics and science.
Another scholarship took Rutherford in 1890 to Canterbury College in Christchurch, one of the four campuses of the University of New Zealand. It was a small school, with a faculty of eight and fewer than 300 students. Rutherford was fortunate to have excellent professors, who ignited in him a fascination for scientific investigation tempered with the need for solid proof.
On conclusion of the school's three-year course, Rutherford received a bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree and won a scholarship for a postgraduate year of study at Canterbury. He completed this at the end of 1893, earning a master of arts (M.A.) degree with first-class honours in physical science, mathematics, and mathematical physics. He was encouraged to remain yet another year in Christchurch to conduct independent research. Rutherford's investigation of the ability of a high-frequency electrical discharge, such as that from a capacitor, to magnetize iron earned him a bachelor of science (B.S.) degree at the end of 1894. During this period he fell in love with Mary Newton, the daughter of the woman in whose house he boarded. They married in 1900.
In 1895 Rutherford won a scholarship that had been created with profits from the famous Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. He chose to continue his study at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, which J.J. Thomson, Europe's leading expert on electromagnetic radiation, had taken over in 1884.
University of Cambridge
In recognition of the increasing importance of science, the University of Cambridge had recently changed its rules to allow graduates of other institutions to earn a Cambridge degree after two years of study and completion of an acceptable research project. Rutherford became the school's first research student. Besides showing that an oscillatory discharge would magnetize iron, which happened already to be known, Rutherford determined that a magnetized needle lost some of its magnetization in a magnetic field produced by an alternating current. This made the needle a detector of electromagnetic waves, a phenomenon that had only recently been discovered. In 1864 the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell had predicted the existence of such waves, and between 1885 and 1889 the German physicist Heinrich Hertz had detected them in experiments in his laboratory. Rutherford's apparatus for detecting electromagnetic waves, or radio waves, was simpler and had commercial potential. He spent the next year in the Cavendish Laboratory increasing the range and sensitivity of his device, which could receive signals from half a mile away. However, Rutherford lacked the intercontinental vision and entrepreneurial skills of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, who invented the wireless telegraph in 1896.
X-rays were discovered in Germany by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen only a few months after Rutherford arrived at the Cavendish. For their ability to take silhouette photographs of the bones in a living hand, X-rays were fascinating to scientists and laypeople alike. In particular, scientists wished to learn their properties and what they were. Rutherford could not decline the honour of Thomson's invitation to collaborate on an investigation of the way in which X-rays changed the conductivity of gases. This yielded a classic paper on ionization—the breaking of atoms or molecules into positive and negative parts (ions)—and the charged particles' attraction to electrodes of the opposite polarity.
Thomson then studied the charge-to-mass ratio of the most common ion, which later was called the electron, while Rutherford pursued other radiations that produced ions. Rutherford first looked at ultraviolet radiation and then at radiation emitted by uranium. (Uranium radiation was first detected in 1896 by the French physicist Henri Becquerel.) Placement of uranium near thin foils revealed to Rutherford that the radiation was more complex than previously thought: one type was easily absorbed or blocked by a very thin foil, but another type often penetrated the same thin foils. He named these radiation types alpha and beta, respectively, for simplicity. (It was later determined that the alpha particle is the same as the nucleus of an ordinary helium atom—consisting of two protons and two neutrons—and the beta particle is the same as an electron or its positive version, a positron.) For the next several years these radiations were of primary interest; later the radioactive elements, or radioelements, which were emitting radiation, enjoyed most of the scientific attention.
McGill University
Rutherford's research ability won him a professorship at McGill University, Montreal, which boasted one of the best-equipped laboratories in the Western Hemisphere. Turning his attention to another of the few elements then known to be radioactive, he and a colleague found that thorium emitted a gaseous radioactive product, which he called "emanation." This in turn left a solid active deposit, which soon was resolved into thorium A, B, C, and so on. Curiously, after chemical treatment, some radioelements lost their radioactivity but eventually regained it, while other materials, initially strong, gradually lost activity. This led to the concept of half-life—in modern terms, the interval of time required for one-half of the atomic nuclei of a radioactive sample to decay—which ranges from seconds to billions of years and is unique for each radioelement and thus an excellent identifying tag.
Rutherford recognized his need for expert chemical help with the growing number of radioelements. Sequentially, he attracted the skills of Frederick Soddy, a demonstrator at McGill; Bertram Borden Boltwood, a professor at Yale University; and Otto Hahn, a postdoctoral researcher from Germany. With Soddy, Rutherford in 1902–03 developed the transformation theory, or disintegration theory, as an explanation for radioactivity—his greatest accomplishment at McGill. Alchemy and its theories of transforming elements—such as lead to gold—had long been exorcised from so-called modern chemistry; atoms were regarded as stable bodies. But Rutherford and Soddy now claimed that the energy of radioactivity came from within the atom, and the spontaneous emission of an alpha or beta particle signified a chemical change from one element into another. They expected this iconoclastic theory to be controversial, but their overwhelming experimental evidence quelled opposition.
Before long it was recognized that the radioelements fell into three families, or decay series, headed by uranium, thorium, and actinium and all ending in inactive lead. Boltwood placed radium in the uranium series and, following Rutherford's suggestion, used the slowly growing amount of lead in a mineral to show that the age of old rocks was in the billion-year range. Rutherford considered the alpha particle, because it had tangible mass, to be key to transformations. He determined that it carried a positive charge, but he could not distinguish whether it was a hydrogen or helium ion.
While at McGill, Rutherford married his sweetheart from New Zealand and became famous. He welcomed increasing numbers of research students to his laboratory, including women at a time when few females studied science. He was in demand as a speaker and as an author of magazine articles; he also wrote the period's leading textbook on radioactivity, Radioactivity (1904). Medals and fellowship in the Royal Society of London came his way. Inevitably, job offers came as well.
University of Manchester
North America had a good scientific community, but the world centre of physics was in Europe. When in 1907 Rutherford was offered a chair at the University of Manchester, whose physics laboratory was excelled in England only by Thomson's Cavendish Laboratory, he accepted it. A year later his work in Montreal was honoured by the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Shortly after winning the Nobel Prize, Rutherford wrote the entry on radioactivity for the 11th edition (1910) of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
With the German physicist Hans Geiger, Rutherford developed an electrical counter for ionized particles; when perfected by Geiger, the Geiger counter became the universal tool for measuring radioactivity. Thanks to the skill of the laboratory's glassblower, Rutherford and his student Thomas Royds were able to isolate some alpha particles and perform a spectrochemical analysis, proving that the particles were helium ions. Boltwood then visited Rutherford's laboratory, and together they redetermined the rate of production of helium by radium, from which they calculated a precise value of Avogadro's number.
Continuing his long-standing interest in the alpha particle, Rutherford studied its slight scattering when it hit a foil. Geiger joined him, and they obtained ever more quantitative data. In 1909 when an undergraduate, Ernest Marsden, needed a research project, Rutherford suggested that he look for large-angle scattering. Marsden found that a small number of alphas were turned more than 90 degrees from their original direction, leading Rutherford to exclaim (with embellishment over the years), "It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you."
Pondering how such a heavy, charged particle as the alpha could be turned by electrostatic attraction or repulsion through such a large angle, Rutherford conceived in 1911 that the atom could not be a uniform solid but rather consisted mostly of empty space, with its mass concentrated in a tiny nucleus. This insight (the Rutherford atomic model), combined with his supporting experimental evidence, was Rutherford's greatest scientific contribution, but it received little attention beyond Manchester. In 1913, however, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr showed its importance. Bohr had visited Rutherford's laboratory the year before, and he returned as a faculty member for the period 1914–16. Radioactivity, he explained, lies in the nucleus, while chemical properties are due to orbital electrons. His theory (the Bohr atomic model) wove the new concept of quanta (or specific discrete energy values) into the electrodynamics of orbits, and he explained spectral lines as the release or absorption of energy by electrons as they jump from orbit to orbit. Henry Moseley, another of Rutherford's many pupils, similarly explained the sequence of the X-ray spectrum of elements as due to the charge on the nucleus. Thus, a coherent new picture of atomic physics, as well as the field of nuclear physics, was developed.
World War I virtually emptied Rutherford's laboratory, and he himself was involved in antisubmarine research. He was also a member of the Admiralty's Board of Invention and Research. When he found time to return to his earlier research interests, Rutherford examined the collision of alpha particles with gases. With hydrogen, as expected, nuclei (individual protons) were propelled to the detector. But, surprisingly, protons also appeared when alphas crashed into nitrogen. In 1919 Rutherford explained his third great discovery: he had artificially provoked a nuclear reaction in a stable element.
Return to Cambridge
Such nuclear reactions occupied Rutherford for the remainder of his career, which was spent back at the University of Cambridge, where he succeeded Thomson in 1919 as director of the Cavendish Laboratory. Rutherford brought physicist James Chadwick, a colleague from Manchester, to Cavendish. Together, they bombarded a number of light elements with alphas and induced transformations. But they could not penetrate to the nuclei of heavier elements, as the alphas were repelled by their mutual charges, nor could they determine whether the alpha bounced off after collision or combined with the target nucleus. More-advanced technology was needed in both cases.
For the former, the higher energies produced in particle accelerators became available by the late 1920s. In 1932 two of Rutherford's students, John D. Cockcroft of England and Ernest T.S. Walton of Ireland, were the first to actually cause a nuclear transformation; with their high-voltage linear accelerator, they bombarded lithium with protons and caused it to split into two alpha particles. (The pair shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for this work.) As for what actually occurred in a collision, Scottish physicist Charles T.R. Wilson had in the Cavendish developed the cloud chamber, which provided visual evidence of the tracks of charged particles and for which he was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1924 the English physicist Patrick M.S. Blackett modified the cloud chamber apparatus to photograph some 400,000 alpha collisions and found that most were ordinary elastic encounters, while eight showed disintegrations in which the alpha was absorbed into the target nucleus before that nucleus ruptured into two fragments. This was an important step in the understanding of nuclear reactions, for which he was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize for Physics.
The Cavendish was home to other exciting work. The neutron's existence had been predicted in a speech by Rutherford in 1920. After a long search, Chadwick discovered this neutral particle in 1932, indicating that the nucleus was composed of neutrons and protons, while a colleague, English physicist Norman Feather, soon showed that neutrons could cause nuclear reactions more easily than charged particles. Charles D. Ellis, who was yet another physicist working at the Cavendish Laboratory, looked at beta- and gamma-ray spectra, which added to knowledge of nuclear structure. With a gift of some of the newly discovered heavy water from the United States, in 1934 Rutherford, Australian physicist Mark Oliphant, and German physical chemist Paul Harteck bombarded deuterium with deuterons, producing tritium in the first fusion reaction.
Rutherford had few interests outside of science, primarily golf and motoring. He was politically liberal but not politically active, although he did chair the advisory council of the government's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and was president (from 1933 until his death) of the Academic Assistance Council (and its successor organization, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning), an organization designed to aid scientists who had fled Nazi Germany. In 1931 he was made a peer, but any gratification this honour may have brought was marred by the death of his daughter just eight days before. He died in Cambridge following a short illness and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
atom: Rutherford's nuclear modelRutherford overturned Thomson's model in 1911 with his famous gold-foil experiment, in which he demonstrated that the atom has a tiny, massive nucleus. Five years earlier Rutherford had noticed that alpha particles beamed through a hole onto a photographic plate would make…
spectroscopy: Atom countingThe British physicist Ernest Rutherford spoke of counting the atoms and in 1908, with the German physicist Hans Geiger, disclosed the first electrical detector for ionizing radiations. The development of wavelength-tunable lasers has made it possible to carry out Rutherford's concept of counting atoms. As stated above, RIS…
principles of physical science: Unexpected observation…project, reported to his professor, Ernest Rutherford (then at the University of Manchester in England), that alpha particles from a radioactive source were occasionally deflected more than 90° when they hit a thin metal foil. Astonished at this observation, Rutherford deliberated on the experimental data to formulate his nuclear model…
electromagnetic radiation: Gamma rays…the New Zealand-born British physicist Ernest Rutherford found that three different kinds of radiation are emitted in the decay of radioactive substances; these he called alpha, beta, and gamma rays in sequence of their ability to penetrate matter. The alpha particles were found to be identical with the nuclei of…
subatomic particle: The divisible atomSix years later Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, working at McGill University in Montreal, found that radioactivity occurs when atoms of one type transmute into those of another kind. The idea of atoms as immutable, indivisible objects had become untenable.…
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text: nassays: The Source Magazine Presents the MLK Acknowledgement Award to Nas & The Game Nas and The Game were honored by The Source Magazine with the Prestigious Martin Luther King Acknowledgment award for their acts of compassion and deeds to help others in their community. In celebration of the birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 25th Anniversary of their publication, The Source Magazine honors and acknowledges the work of members from the Hip-Hop community whose deeds and actions have demonstrated courage, compassion, and the will to serve others. This year, Nas, along with The Game, were honored for their acts of philanthropy and charity throughout their serving communities. Nas was specifically honored for his call to action last year in the case of a single and unemployed father of eight, Stanley Young. Young, a recent widow and laid off construction member in Washington DC, came to the attention of the MC when his manager was visiting the city and saw a news segment of the man pleading for assistance after losing his home in a fire started by a near by facility. Nas, who was on tour in Japan was sent an email with Young's story and immediately reacted, calling for a call to action to raise money for the man and his family. Within days, Nas used his social media and celebrity platforms to garner attention and raise over $40,000 to assist the single father and his family through the online donation site, Crowdtilt. Nas also donated $10,000 to the Young Family and released the following statement, "As a single father I couldn't help but feel for Stanley. He has my [utmost] respect as a man. It takes a real one to do whatever it takes to help his family. I want to help the Young family get a fresh start on life and I want the world to know that they can help make a difference if they stick together. We are learning an incredible lesson and Stanley is the teacher of that lesson. I cannot wait to meet them in person." Humbling himself as a man and a human being, Nas stripped his celebrity in order to prove to the public and the youth especially, that we all have duty to impact the lives of one another and take care of our communities. Read More January 21, 2014


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Collection Recovery policy in West Bengal
Collection/Recovery policy
Our Collection / Recovery PolicyCore Belief
- All dealings should be with utmost professionalism, honesty and integrity.
- Delivery of services of the highest quality & standard.
- Comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
- Use the Company's assets only for business purposes.
- No misuse of the Company's information to which access is given.
- No receipt or offer of any illegal payments or gifts.
- No engagement in activities that are in conflict with the Company's interests.
- No use of physical force or means of duress, coercion.
The debt collection / recovery policy of Tata Teleservices Limited (The Company) is built around dignity and respect to the Customers. The Company selects outsourced agencies for providing such services, which, possess unblemished records, are free from criminal background, and agree to work within the framework of Company's philosophy, policies and business ethics. The Company meticulously follows due diligence guidelines in selection of outsourced agencies.
The collection policy and the outsourcing arrangement will not affect the rights of Customer against the Company, including the right of the Customer to obtain redress as applicable under various licensing conditions, Indian Telegraph Rules, TRAI regulations, directions and orders etc.
The payment against Company services has a stipulated due date, which is appended on monthly bills & will be decided by the Company taking into account periodicity of billing and usage by Customer. The Company will specify to the Customer upfront tariff plans at the time of acquisition and such tariff plans and delay payment charges, if any, will be reproduced on monthly bills duly applied on usage log of Customers.
All the practices adopted by the Company for follow up and recovery of dues and repossession of Company assets will be in due consonance with all applicable laws and regulations. The essence of Company's polices / procedure for collection & recovery of dues are reproduced below
- The Company will send detailed monthly bill to Customer on predefined bill date (bill cycle). Such bill shall include details of all charges, due date of the payment, delay payment charges, Company's toll free contact center number & contact name/title, address, telephone number and e-mail address of appellate officer of the Company, reference information about appended collection / recovery policy & billing dispute resolution mechanism on TTSL website. This information can also be provided to Customers from Company's customer service centers. In addition the Company will send a SMS / outbound dialer's call to Customer, intimating outstanding of dues and due date by which Customer must clear his dues.
- Post dispatch of bill, SMS Message and/or outbound dialer call, the Company may allocate such details of Customer outstanding bill to a Collection Agency. The Collection Agency will update Customer about the due date & outstanding amount of the Customer and facilitate Customer by way of informing nearest payment centre and other channel / mode of payment.
- Customers are expected to pay their dues by the due date. In the event of any doubt about the outstanding / clarification on the due amount and charges in the bills, the Customer is requested to seek clarification / register their complaints to the authorized Company's channels as indicated on bill or Company's website.
- In the event of failure of payment of dues by the due date, the Company may send a reminder SMS / outbound dialer message or out call intimating about non payment of over dues & subsequently degrade service levels (outgoing / incoming facility) of the Customer and these services may be restored only upon clearance of dues.
- When a customer has disconnected our services, the Company shall initiate due action to repossess its properties provided to the Customer if any, at the time of enrollment, by way of allocating Customer details and asset particulars to the recovery agencies involved in repossession of the Company's assets.
- Wherever the Customer has disputed the bill/outstanding dues and such of the dispute/complaint/appeal is pending, such cases will not be followed by the Collection Agency for collection of dues.
- In case agent of Collection Agency finds that the telephone has been taken fraudulently with the identity/ address proof not in line with records furnished to the Company the agent of Collection Agency will provide the feedback to the Company. The Company will examine the case and take appropriate action.
- The Company shall maintain secrecy / privacy of the Customer information as per the licensing conditions and will not share details of call records to its agencies. The Company may not entrust a collection case of a defaulting consumer to more than one collection agency at a time.
- The Company may not entrust a collection case of a defaulting consumer to more than one collection agency at a time.
- In the event of continuance of default in payment of dues, the Company may initiate recovery proceedings through Company's legal representatives, advocates & solicitors against the Customer as per service agreement signed by Customer, law of land and various statutory provisions inclusive (not exhaustive) of Negotiable Instrument Act, Proceeding under summary suit /recovery suit. Any legal case may be settled amicably between the Company & Customer.
- Collection Agencies engaged in collection of dues are communicated about Company's philosophy, instruction by regulator and other abetting laws, by way of multiple clauses in the legal agreement signed for the assignment and a detailed code of conduct is published and communicated to all collection agencies.
Click here to read the Code of Conduct for Our Collection Agencies.
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text: Hi, For the design of a new computer room I need to put together an estimate ASAP of typical power usage by a mythical "full computer rack" - 3 years from now. My crystal ball is a bit fuzzy in that range so I thought it best to collect several opinions and then present an answer based on those values. If you have a moment please fill in your best guess for power consumption values, in 2008, in kilowatts for: 1. a "high end" rack (most power) 2. an "average" rack (average power) 3. the "minimum worthwhile" rack (least power) The third one is a probably not named well, so here's an example in today's terms: this rack might be stocked with Pentium III's from 2001 or so, since anything cooler than that wouldn't calculate fast enough to be worth the effort of maintaining it. I'm not going to specify what type of computing equipment goes in the racks, assume that it's whatever would be appropriate for your own work. Thanks, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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During a typical construction day, more than 35% of a contractor's time is spent on activities other than actual installation work. This could be anything from time spent moving around the job site, mobilizing, and cleaning up to studying the plans, laying out the work, and any other activities not directly related to actual installation. This "non-installation" time is spread evenly over the course of a typical project. A few minutes here, a few minutes there, day-by-day, distributed over the entire crew. More than half of this "non-installation" time is spent on plans, layout, and material logistics.
What if you could shift those activities to the front of the project, to the "pre-planning" stage, if you will? Could those activities be done more efficiently as a dedicated task, rather than in the field a few minutes before going to work? How much money could you save if more of the work was pre-planned? Could you get your crew to work a few minutes earlier? Could you minimize trips from the work areas to the job office or gang box if things were better planned?
Every type of project is slightly different, just as every company is different; therefore, every company's outline of a pre-plan will be different. The following 10 ideas for pre-planning should help you see how your organization can save time and money. Although every idea isn't meant for every organization, you should find a few that will strike a chord within yours.
- Under-slab detailing
You can maximize the savings and minimize the costs if you spend the time to create a detailed under-slab plan, including exact dimensions for conduit stub-ups in walls, detailing footing penetrations, and creating specific plans for equipment rooms with many conduits. Using CAD tools and a color printer can make the drawing much easier to read. The CAD tools will help identify conflicts and will allow you to visualize under-slab routing, before you start installing.
You will save hundreds of dollars for every conduit run that can be put under the slab rather than being run overhead. In addition, every conduit stubbed up in the wrong place will cost hundreds of dollars to fix. At this point, you may also find opportunities for pre-fabrication work for the stub-ups and supports.
- Submittal/installation details
Many submittals are just for basic fixtures, equipment, and material that we have all installed hundreds of times. Depending on the project, there will also be various specialty equipment and fixtures, which you may not have previously worked with.
Custom light fixtures are very common, and are often built by small design firms with a focus on the aesthetics of the fixture rather than simple installation. The submittals for these custom fixtures usually don't provide much information about the installation, a situation that can eat up valuable time in the field when you're trying to figure out how to layout the rough-in, what type of ring is required, what mounting hardware is needed, etc.
The following standard planning practices can help the installation efficiency on these custom pieces of equipment:
Contact the manufacturer or go to its Web site ahead of time to get installation detail sheets for all custom equipment. These documents will be invaluable to the field crews roughing in and installing the equipment.
Request actual photographs of the equipment. A photo really is worth a thousand words, and it can be an essential component in the planning process.
If there are still questions after looking through the photos and detail sheets, find a technical contact at the manufacturer. These companies are usually very small, and their staff will be knowledgeable and helpful. A 5-minute conversation can save hours of valuable time during installation.
- Mounting details
There are all types of devices and fixtures that must be installed, each of which has specific rough-in requirements, depending on the type of device or fixture and the location it is installed in. Some have specific mounting details called out on the plans. For some, you will want to design your own installation detail.
It should be standard practice to create a spreadsheet that lists all devices and fixtures along with mounting details, including:
Ring type, depth, and orientation
Layout for mounting
Mounting height/location
Power feed layout and connection
Wall covering
Hardware included
Other miscellaneous parts required
Structural support details
Earthquake details
This spreadsheet can reference specific details and submittal information. All information can be assembled in a binder and easily duplicated for everyone on the project who is doing rough-in. This will keep people from constantly having to go back to the plans to review wall coverings, fixture elevation details, etc., on the project plans in the field office.
The rigorous process of going through device-by-device, detail-by-detail, and room-by-room will point out problems and ambiguities in the plans early on, allowing you to deal with them now rather during installation.
- Light fixtures
Light fixtures create some interesting challenges. They will usually only be called out as a single type on the fixture schedule, but may actually have several different mounting options, such as T-bar versus hard-rock ceiling mounting. Often, there will be fixtures mislabeled on the plans, which creates a problem with the original fixture counts. Sometimes, specific parts of the fixture are needed in advance for rough-in. All of these little details will come back to bite you during the course of construction. Plan your lighting package better, and you will save money.
Be sure to consider the following:
Room-by-room count and verification of type.
Verify mounting orientation in counts.
Shipping details — what gets shipped and when.
Create a list of lamps.
Create tracking sheets for receiving fixtures/lamps.
Label all fixtures when receiving with room number.
Plan a delivery schedule with slack in it.
- Room detailing packages
In each building, there will be several critical rooms that consume a significant portion of the budget, even though they are relatively small in square footage. These include the electric rooms, mechanical rooms, and data rooms. Because these rooms are not part of the usable square footage of the building, their size is squeezed down as much as possible. Therefore, installing all the equipment, conduit, process piping, lighting, and fire sprinklers, while maintaining all code-required working clearances, is challenging to say the least.
Such tight working conditions impact productivity. In addition, the tight areas leave little room for errors, so re-work is common in these areas to get all piping into place while maintaining code clearances. Thorough pre-planning can eliminate a lot of the challenges associated with these space-challenged rooms. Here are some areas to keep in mind:
Use CAD software to make changes easily.
Create objects in CAD to match actual submittals.
Detail floor plan and wall elevations.
Detail under-slab stub-up locations.
Check for clearances, fit, and conflicts.
Verify every circuit with the plans.
RFI conflicts, missing circuits, etc.
Create panel schedules ahead of time — correcting conflicts found.
Plan homerun and feeder layout.
Complete bill of materials (BOM) — factor into budget.
Assemble details, BOM, panel schedules, and submittals into binder.
- Circuiting and homeruns
You can gain an incredible amount of productivity by focusing on circuiting the project and laying out all homeruns before the project starts. Don't leave these things to chance, accept the fact that they will be figured out in the field, or assume the plans are correct. It is essential to verify every detail yourself before you start working. Things to look at include:
Verify circuiting against panel schedules.
If circuiting isn't shown, draw it in during the planning phase.
Consolidate as many homeruns as possible.
Detail out every conduit run 1¼-inch and larger, checking routing against structural, HVAC, and architectural plans.
Put as much work in under the slabs, in the decks, or above the HVAC as possible — wide open equals fast.
- Material storage and logistics
A lot of time is spent on the job site walking around looking for material, making material lists, receiving material, trying to inventory light fixtures, etc. You can minimize this wasted time by planning your material logistics up-front.
Don't save on storage and waste manpower.
Organized job storage means efficiency on the job site.
Standardize your storage setup.
Own your storage containers and customize them.
Locate gang boxes very close to work areas.
Have suppliers keep the storage container stocked.
Have a first year apprentice keep the gang boxes stocked.
Use master purchase orders for all commodity materials.
Create custom equipment receiving forms for major buyout items, fixtures, power distribution, etc.
Print special labels for lighting and other equipment, denoting what it is, and where it goes.
Verify your fixtures, switchgear, and other equipment room-by-room to make sure there are absolutely no errors.
- Pre-fabrication
Figuring out what parts of the project can be built off-site in a more controlled environment will save thousands of dollars and shave significant time off of the schedule. What can you build ahead of time? Here are some things to consider:
- Fixtures and whips
- Fixture mounting framing
- Large cable runs
- Box assemblies
- Support assemblies
- Forms for site/slab
- Value engineering
The best margin you can make on a change-order is usually the one where you are giving money back. This is called a value engineering change-order, and even the strictest public agencies that only allow a 15% markup on change-orders regularly give away 50% for value engineering proposals. Look for every way possible to give back money, including:
Substitute raceway types / fittings.
Dig into light fixture and gear packages.
Copper vs. aluminum feeders — do the math.
Trading schedule time for money.
- Foreman files
Every bit of time you save the foreman on administrative and supervision activities will go directly to the bottom-line. The entire pre-planning process helps in this area. Another piece of low-hanging fruit is to standardize the organization of the foreman's files. Organize all the information they will need to run the project and pre-fill out everything possible. Paperwork done in the field will be 30% of the quality of that turned out in the office and will cost four times as much.
Contract summary and scope
Subcontractor scopes
Project budget
Major purchase orders, including terms
Major material receiving forms
Test forms
Project forms — requests for information (RFIs), daily extra work reports (DEWRs), memos, transmittals, material requisitions, and time cards
Submittals — including additional install details
Standardized file structure for storing information
Practice makes perfect
The last century has brought numerous productivity enhancements to all industries. Construction is one of the most challenging because we work in essentially an "uncontrolled" environment that is constantly changing. Establishing processes, inserting controls, and creating standards is much easier in the relatively controlled environment of manufacturing where the facility can be designed around efficiency in which the same or similar things are built over and over.
With construction, each job site is created from scratch. Although a project may have common elements, it will also inevitably be very different from the last — especially the more complex facilities where architects are constantly pushing the envelope. By putting these pre-planning strategies to work, contractors have a big opportunity to save money on their next project.
Brown is the founder and president of D. Brown Management, Lodi, Calif., a consulting and management firm specializing in project management and operational processes for contractors. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Safety should always be a part of your planning process. You can organize your safety plan by phase of work, and include safety meetings specific to the topic, detail special personal protective equipment (PPE) required, and other specialty forms.
Consider discussion of the following topics:
- Underground
- Work on floor decks/roof
- Branch installation (0 feet to 9 feet)
- Branch installation (10 feet or greater)
- Power distribution/large equipment
- Power turn-on
- Fixtures, devices, and trim