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Anti-Doping Updates August 29, 2012
By Erin Greene on 29/08/12 at 9:03 am
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) recently made the decision in the United Kingdom to ban sports supplement Jack3D, believed to contain WADA-banned substance DMAA. According to the press release, DMAA has been responsible for 137 doping violations worldwide. Please continue reading the press release issued by the MHRA in relation to the banned product.
MHRA Press Release:
"The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has ruled that the popular DMAA containing sports supplement Jack3D is an unlicensed medicinal product and that it and all other DMAA containing products need to be removed from the UK market amid concerns of potential risks to public safety.
DMAA is most commonly used as a workout aid or weight-loss supplement and can have a physiological effect on the body narrowing the arteries and raising the heart rate; this has been linked to suspected adverse drug reactions worldwide, ranging from shortness of breath to heart attacks. It has also been linked to at least one fatality.
The MHRA has already issued eight urgent notices instructing retailers to remove the product and any other DMAA containing products from sale. The MHRA has recently taken action against a number of products presented as sports supplements that fall within the definition of a medicinal product because of the potent herbal ingredients they contained.
DMAA is also banned under the prohibited list of banned substances by the World Anti-Doping Agency and has been responsible for 137 doping violations worldwide.
David Carter, the Manager of the MHRA's Medicines Borderline Section said:
"People need to be aware when choosing their sports supplements. These products may claim to increase performance but contain powerful ingredients which can have serious side-effects.
"We recommend that people only use approved products and speak to a qualified medical practitioner if they have any concerns about any supplements they may be taking."
Graham Arthur, Director of Legal at UK Anti-Doping said:
"This is a significant step forward for all competitive athletes as methylhexaneamine (DMAA) is a banned substance 'in-competition' that frequently appears in over the counter and internet bought products but not clearly on the label. Athletes who use sports supplements need to choose reputable manufacturers who can justify their claims with scientific evidence, and have their products screened to minimise the risk of testing positive for a substance on the World Anti-Doping Agency's Prohibited List. UK Anti-Doping continues to work closely with the MHRA to protect the health of athletes and to prevent doping in sport."
Notes to Editor:
1. The MHRA is the government agency responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work, and are acceptably safe. No product is risk-free. Underpinning all our work lie robust and fact-based judgements to ensure that the benefits to patients and the public justify the risks. We keep watch over medicines and devices, and take any necessary action to protect the public promptly if there is a problem. We encourage everyone – the public and healthcare professionals as well as the industry – to tell us about any problems with a medicine or medical device, so that we can investigate and take any necessary action. www.mhra.gov.uk
2. DMAA has been linked to severe side-effects. Australia's Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA) issued a warning on the substance following a state coroner's verdict that DMAA has resulted in the death of a man who had consumed DMAA purchased online.
The TGA decision to ban DMAA (external link)
3. Relevant companies are advised to remove Jack3D from sale and to take similar action for other products containing DMAA, which is also is known by the names Methylhexanamine, methylhexanenamine, dimethylamylamine, 4-methyl-2-hexanamine,4-methyl-2-hexylamine, 2-amino-4-methylhexane,1,3-dimethylamylamine, 1,3-dimethylpentylamine,Geranamine, Geranium oil and Cranesbill."
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This is an easy one, completely by my own choice. Eating raw foods with regularity, while simultaneously trying to make it varied, is more difficult than I thought it would be. My brain is always in a future-thinking mode where food is concerned. I need to soak almonds because I'm almost out of almond milk! That granola needs to dehydrate for 8 hours, which means I should be around to check it later on, probably… I should pick some greens and celery now and put them in the fridge so that I don't get lazy about juicing tomorrow morning. Salad is the one thing I'm eating everyday that allows for spontaneity (also raw chocolate + banana shakes, I'm having those everyday too).
I wanted to make one that would be suitable to gathering 'round though, a little bit nicer. If I'm in a potluck situation, I always volunteer the salad portion. Mostly because I want my friends to get real jazzed about vegetables. I know I can fix them up pretty well, so the obligatory salad offering becomes this sort of greater mission thing. I was thinking about holiday time and the need for a fresh counterbalance that still felt rich in certain ways.
I love a tangy and creamy tahini-based dressing. It seems like a bit of a hippie-dip staple, but for good reason. It has a luscious texture that really fills out a salad/slaw. Its undeniably fatty feel on the tongue carries flavour really beautifully too. Citrus, cumin and garlic tag along, all with a quick blitz in the blender. Then I just did some small shreds/cuts on a bunch of my fall faves. The beets and sweet potato stay crunchy. The apple is lightly tart and juicy. The brussels sprouts fill this out and the celery was kind of a last minute addition, super fresh though.
I ate this with a big helping of greens and half an avocado, you know, just for fun. Pretty refreshing and perfect as far as Fall lunches go. Anyway, gonna keep it short today. This gal's got seeds/nuts to sprout, buckwheat to soak, cherry tomatoes to dry, lathing to tear out in a future kitchen (!!!), trim to paint, and other fun things :)
Print the recipe here!
With tahini dressing guidance from Tara
NOTES: You could easily mix up the veg here. I went with beets and sweet potatoes (because yay! Just found they're kind of awesome in their raw state), but kohl rabi, celery root, little turnips and fennel would all be so tasty. I use a very basic Benriner Japanese Mandolin to make quick work of the shreds. I've had it for years and it's still so sharp–highly recommended small investment.
salad ingredients:
1/2 lb brussels sprouts, trimmed + finely shredded/sliced
2 stalks celery, thinly sliced
2 small-medium beets, peeled + cut into thin matchsticks
1 small-medium sweet potato, peeled + cut into thin matchsticks
1 apple, cored + thinly sliced
1/2 small red onion, sliced into little slivers
salt + pepper
dressing ingredients:
1 clove of garlic, peeled
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp grainy mustard (or dijon, whatevs)
1/3 cup raw tahini (or regular, NBD)
juice of 1 orange (a generous 1/4 cup)
raw honey/maple syrup/agave nectar to taste
1-2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
salt + pepper
splashes of apple cider vinegar/water for thinning out (if necessary)
to finish:
big handful flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
1/3 cup raw pumpkin seeds
In a large bowl, combine the sliced brussels sprouts, celery, beets, sweet potato shreds, sliced apple and red onion slivers. Season all of that with some salt and pepper and toss. Set aside.
Make the dressing: combine all of the dressing ingredients in a blender on high until you have a smooth dressing that will coat the back of a spoon, in a decidedly thin way (you might have to add splashes of cider vinegar/water etc to get there). Check it for seasoning, adjust and set the dressing aside.
Pour the dressing onto the salad and toss it up. Garnish with the pumpkin seeds and parsley. I think it could hold up in its dressed state, sans apples, for a couple hours if you had to bring it somewhere. Just add the apples and garnish it up right before serving.

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Noonan: America and the Aggressive Left
Half the country feels—and is—beset by government. That's not progress.
The constant mischief of the progressive left is hurting the nation's morale. There are few areas of national life left in which they are not busy, and few in which they're not making it worse. There are always more regulations, fees and fiats, always more cultural pressure and insistence.
The president brags he has a pen and a phone. He uses the former to sign executive orders. It is not clear why he mentioned the latter since he rarely attempts to bring legislators over to his side. Who exactly is he calling? The most hopeful...
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This novel is all insight and irony. The writing is glorious. Listening to the superb reading of it by Edward Hermann it took my breath away.
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Maybe it's a case of timing...
I hate to say this because I have loved every Stegner I've read so far. But Joe Allson's tedious self-absorption grated on me after a while; don't see how his wife put up with it. The excellent narration only emphasized the petulant whining of the protagonist. I'm of an age where reflections, whether sweet, bitter, regretful, angry or content, are to be expected of me, and I comply. But while I may be approaching the end with some trepidation, and spend way too much time contemplating life and not always positively, I refuse to allow myself to be an Allston. Perhaps it's because unlike Joe, I still have work which I will inhabit until I drop; it keeps me joyfully and necessarily occupied. I may finish the book one of these days; right now it just irritates me.
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Well written, but not much excitement or happiness. Descriptions are very well done. Tone is modest and pleasant. I will read everything he has written because he is a very good story teller. Though the telling of the story is very good, the topic is a bit dour. Cheers, Ken
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- Erik
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Would be better as a short story...
This was an oddball read for me. While the underlying story was interesting enough, I found the author overly descriptive. I know that in some literary circles, "painting" a vivid picture via prose is considered the highest from of story telling, but as in with most things in life, moderation is the key.
As I've said, however, the underlying story was quite interesting and a little bit twisted when you think about it, but I won't give anything away here. Overall, it was a rather depressing tale, so I won't recommend this for anyone looking for a light uplifting read.
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Then there was a story but it wasn't the story I wanted. He went to Europe, found (with so little interest) the home of his mother, realized that her name was still known there and just when I was perking up and paying attention, he said "it wasn't worth the price of admission."
It was a downer to me .. humorless and too much in the head of the main character.
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The story just didn't move me. It was metaphorically wonderful, but just not exciting. Not even close to Angle of Repose.
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Well: Stegner's writing knocked my socks off, but the overall content of this novel left me scratching my head. The main character is depressingly flat and whiny, even; there are several plotlines that are left unfinished and unresolved, and the one plot line that creates suspense at all is convoluted, weird, and, yes, also unresolved. Overall, while the performance was very strong and Stegner's description was deft and impressive, the novel felt like a rough draft or a collection of ideas for a longer, more polished piece.
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The Lifestyle Project
This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project
Learning Goals
- Which everyday tasks require large inputs of energy
- Which everyday tasks do not require a lot of energy
- Simple ways to reduce energy use
- The details of what can and cannot be recycled in their community
- Simple ways to reduce garbage output
- Simple ways to reduce water consumption
- The connection between food production and energy use
Context for Use
it is important to introduce the project in such a way that the students are poised to take on an unusual challenge. This can be accomplished by conducting an in-class discussion on the challenges of our energy consumption, and/or by giving a quiz about environmental habits or the students' ecological footprint. The outcome of these preparatory activities should be that students begin to question their own environmental impacts and that they are motivated to alter their personal behavior. The Lifestyle Project teaching notes page contains some specific ideas for introducing the project.
The project begins when the class discusses energy resources during a lecture or lab period. There is usually one week of introduction, baseline calculations, and time for everyone to choose their categories. After that the project runs for three weeks. Some planning must be done to allow the project to fit into the rest of the course schedule. When the project runs into things like Thanksgiving or Spring Break, it can actually be a good thing because it gives students a chance to try out the project "on the road" and they gain even more insight. It is important that the project is not strictly mandatory, because students can't be forced into making lifestyle changes. Thus, the project should be optional, with the other option being a 5+ page research paper. I have found that if the project is introduced in a way that sets up an interesting challenge, the majority of students will choose to participate.
Teaching Materials
- Lifestyle Project (Microsoft Word 43kB Oct27 10)
(dates and specifics will need to be changed to fit your course)
- Baseline data collection (Microsoft Word 100kB Jan10 06) This can be used to determine pre-project usage patterns
- Simple worksheet (Microsoft Word 43kB Dec23 05) Students can calculate the energy use of various tasks (similar to the handout above, but shorter)
- Excel spreadsheet (Excel 27kB Jan10 06) For calculating energy use
- The same spreadsheet, filled in to use as an example (Excel 27kB Jan10 06)
- BTU calculation assignment (Microsoft Word 43kB Dec23 05)
- Eco-Quiz A fun and qualitative way to assess the "eco-rating" of each student. There are several examples of this quiz, adapted for use at different campuses.
- Rubric for journal assessment (Microsoft Word 30kB Oct27 10)
Teaching Notes and Tips
- Detailed description of the Lifestyle Project, including the rules and the categories.
- Tips for the journals and assessment
- Teaching notes for the Lifestyle Project
References and Resources
The Lifestyle Project was featured in the November 2007 issue of Geotimes Magazine, in an article titled, Students Change Their Lifestyles bibliographic information .
The project was described in two articles in the Journal of Geoscience Education. The first article is by the project creators and the second article is a response from one of the Journal editors after he had used the project in his course.
- Kirk, K.B., and Thomas, J.J., The Lifestyle Project, Journal of Geoscience Education, v.51 no. 5, Nov. 2003, p. 496-499
-Dexter Perkins, Associate Editor, Journal of Geoscience Education
from Perkins, D., Comments on the Lifestyle Project, Journal of Geoscience Education, v.52 no. 2, Mar. 2004, p. 197
Other Examples of the Lifestyle Project
- The Lifestyle Project at the University of Redlands
- The Lifestyle Project at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
- The Lifestyle Project at Malaspina University-College, British Columbia
- The Lifestyle Project at the University of North Dakota
Resources for the Lifestyle Project
- 100 Days Without Oil - This blog recounts a lifestyle experiment to live 100 days without oil. It is a highly advanced version of the lifestyle project, but involves the same decisions, actions and calculations.
- Carbon Footprint Exercise from Iowa State University
- Comparison of Carbon Calculators (pdf file) by JP, Padgett et al, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 28 (2008) 106–115. This paper examines the similarities and differences among ten US-based carbon calculators.
- EarthScore: Your Personal Environmental Audit and Guide This booklet can be used as the foundation for a lifestyle-based environmental project. Summary of the book
- Ecological Footprint Calculators (more info)
- Ecological Footprint Quiz (more info)
- Carbon footprint calculator ( This site may be offline. )
- Carbon Footprint (more info)
- Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories from various universities. The site includes links to reports and methodologies on how to calculate greenhouse emissions. From the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
- Diet, Energy, and Global Warming by Gidon Eshel and Pamela A. Martin, University of Chicago


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Cars that go 5,000 miles between fill-ups, electric power plants you buy like appliances, and a better standard of living... Automobile and power companies are spending billions to make it real.
I'm at the headquarters of Ballard Power Systems in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, and my big fuel cell moment is about to occur. Following the example of the premier of British Columbia, the mayor of Chicago, and the chair of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, I am going to drink the exhaust from Ballard's prototype fuel cell municipal bus. This is less foolhardy than it sounds, since the only emission from the fuel cell engine is water. For this reason, many people think that fuel cells can change the world.
At Ballard, the exhaust-drinking routine has grown so tiresome that when I ask for a sip, Paul Lancaster, Ballard's treasurer, doesn't even offer me a glass: he suggests I cup my hands under the bus's exhaust pipe. The pipe points straight down, presumably because its effluence is not a noxious gas that must be spewed into the atmosphere in hopes that it will dissipate. I bend over, and, within a few seconds, I collect several teaspoons of warm, clear liquid. As I begin to drink, I try to imagine a mountain stream, but the water is disappointingly bland. "Like distilled water," Lancaster explains, and I realize that what I'm drinking is, in a sense, exactly that - the pure product of the union of hydrogen, the element that powers fuel cells, and oxygen in the engine. In some engine designs, even the exhaust water becomes an asset, recirculated to aid in internal processes. One tenet of the coming hydrogen age, according to businessman-cum-fuel cell visionary Joe Maceda, is that "pollution is a measure of inefficiency, and inefficiency is lost profit."
After decades of unfulfilled promise, fuel cell momentum is now so great that its emergence as a predominant technology appears just short of inevitable. During the early 1990s, nearly every major car manufacturer in the world launched a program to build a fuel cell automobile. Then, in April, a stunning announcement by Daimler-Benz AG suddenly gave the fuel cell age a timetable. Mercedes-Benz's parent company said it was investing US$145 million to buy a one-quarter interest in Ballard, the world's leader in fuel cell technology, and $150 million toward a joint venture with Ballard to create a new vehicle fuel cell engine company. Daimler-Benz also announced that beginning in 2005, the new company would produce 100,000 fuel cell engines annually. This is a remarkablefigure, considering that the company, the world's 15th-largest auto manufacturer, makes only 700,000 cars a year now.
"Daimler-Benz has a history of being one of the more conservative companies in the auto business, and arguably the auto business is one of the more conservative industries in the world," says Bill Reinert, a Toyota mechanical engineer. "So when somebody like Daimler pours millions of dollars into a technology and comes up making a statement like that, you have to say this might be pretty serious."
Though Daimler's fuel cell car will be powered by methanol, a hydrogen-rich derivative of natural gas, it is widely assumed that the use of fossil fuels to power fuel cells will be transitional, leading to an era in which hydrogen is extracted from sustainable energy sources. It is hard to overstate the implications of such a development: A drastic decline in air pollution, oil spills, acid rain, and greenhouse-gas emissions. An epochal geopolitical shift as global reliance on Middle East oil comes to an end and international trade balances are realigned. The emergence of quiet, decentralized electric plants sized according to need - small enough to power your car (and perhaps, at night, your house); big enough to power a town of 15,000 people, or, in tandem, a city. The disappearance of the electric grid is a possibility; a makeover of the electric-utility industry is nearly certain.
It is likely to take 50 to 100 years to achieve a mature "hydrogen economy," but the impact of fuel cells should be felt long before that. Over the next decade, products are likely to emerge on the market that are both more efficient and more environmentally benign than their predecessors. The century-long reign of internal-combustion engines will almost certainly be challenged by fuel cell-powered cars and buses that are quiet and clean, and use energy far more efficiently than today's vehicles. Naval forces in several countries are looking into fuel cells to run submarines and provide auxiliary power on oceangoing vessels; the US Army is building a backpack-sized fuel cell generator that can power a soldier's electronics gear, from night-vision goggles to infrared heat detectors. Fuel cell-driven desalination plants may offer clean water cheaply, defusing a potentially critical 21st-century resource shortage. Within a few years, fuel cells will probably power professional video cameras and many other products that now use batteries. Your laptop may eventually run on a fuel cell whose range is measured in days, not hours.
To be sure, all this is heady stuff considering that no commercial products now use the technology. (The one quasi-exception is a 200-kilowatt power generator manufactured by International Fuel Cells of South Windsor, Connecticut. IFC has installed more than 90 units to power buildings ranging from hospitals to casinos to jails, but the US Defense Department subsidized a third of the $600,000 price tag for 70 of the units.)
Nevertheless, fuel cells are poised to ride some powerful historical trends. For one thing, the trend in energy use over the last one and a half centuries has been toward reduced carbon consumption and increased use of hydrogen. Each predominant feedstock - from wood, through coal, then oil, natural gas, and, ultimately perhaps, renewables - has contained more hydrogen and less carbon than its predecessor, and each successive fuel has been cleaner and more powerful.
In addition, just as computer telecommunications has promoted information decentralization and dematerialization, fuel cells promise to untie energy consumers from centralized power generators - you might say that energy wants to be free. "The information revolution and the coming energy revolution are similar in that we are using human ingenuity to replace energy and raw materials," says Joseph J. Romm, acting assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the US Department of Energy. "We can use information technology to avoid travel and transportation, and we can use energy technology to reduce energy consumption, pollution, and our use of natural resources. Both revolutions represent a fundamental transition to a world in which we are not resource constrained, yet we have a higher standard of living."
The irony is that for all of this technology's potential benefits, the one thing it notably lacks is strong public support. As William Hoagland, president of the fledgling advocacy group Hydrogen 2000, points out, "There are a lot of political and other forces supporting the conventional fuel structure, and we don't have a hydrogen industry or a public constituency asking for change." The US government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel cell research and development over several decades, but in recent years, as that investment hasfinally borne fruit, the public perception - well represented in Congress - is that fuel cells are a stagnant technology. "The last few years have created a lag between what fuel cells can do, what funding ought to be, and what everybody's understanding of them is," Romm says.
As the US Environmental Protection Agency's newly toughened clean-air standards and the upcoming international meeting on global warming in Kyoto focus attention on combating pollution, the technology's stature in the US is likely to rise. Indeed, Romm says it is understood at the DOE's "highest levels" that fuel cells will be part of President Clinton's evolving strategy to counter climate change. Nevertheless, more than one-quarter of the department's current $16 billion budget is spent on nuclear-weapons management, while all fuel cell programs together amount to about $90 million. Sandy Thomas, a researcher at Directed Technologies Inc. who consults for Ford Motor Company's fuel cell vehicle program, says, "If I could take 1 percent of the nuclear-weapons budget from the Department of Energy and put it into hydrogen fuel cells, that would probably take 10 years off hydrogen development. But the weapons budget is sacrosanct - you can't attack it, even though we don't build, test, or explode nuclear weapons any longer."
Compared with the internal-combustion engine (ICE), the fuel cell engine is a simple, if elegantly engineered, device. Its lineage dates to 1839, but it wasn't until the early 1960s, when NASA began using the technology to power spaceships, that fuel cells found theirfirst application. Unlike an ICE, which runs on high-temperature explosions, most fuel cells rely on relatively cool electrochemical reactions. The fuel cell has no moving parts: as hydrogen feeds into the cell, the catalyst, a thin layer of platinum, induces the gas to separate into electrons and protons (hydrogen ions). In the case of the proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, the technology favored to power cars, the protons pass through a membrane to combine with oxygen on the other side, producing water. The electrons, which cannot pass through the membrane, are channeled along an external route through an electric motor, which the electrons drive. The process is two to three times more efficient than that of an ICE, and its only by-products are electricity, water, and a moderate amount of heat.
"Fuel cells are much more natural," says Joe Maceda, the visionary who this year formed Power Technologies Corporation, which, among other things, markets fuel cell-driven desalination plants. "Human beings, for instance, are basically electrochemically driven membrane processes. We take in oxidant and fuel, we change the form of it, things move through membranes, and we oxygenate our blood - that's how nature works. Most industry is built on brute force: you start a process by increasing pressure or temperature. Nature changes free energy states much more gently, and, as a result, much more efficiently. So the next century is going to see a shift toward electrochemical processes and away from temperature and pressure systems."
Redesigning cars
At the core of fuel cell activity is Ballard, a 325-employee company that has contracts with eight of the world's nine largest car manufacturers. (The lone exception, Toyota, is thought to be spending more than $700 million a year to develop alternative-fuel cars in-house.) Ballard is positioning itself as the Intel of the fuel cell industry: just as the Silicon Valley giant tapped a vast market by providing microprocessors for many computer brands, the Canadianfirm hopes to build fuel cells for a virtually unlimited array of electrical products. Financial markets like Ballard's prospects: though the company still has no significant earnings, its stock is worth about six times what it was when the company went public three years ago.
Founded in 1979 as a contract research and developmentfirm focusing on lithium rechargeable batteries, Ballard switched to fuel cells when funding for battery projects dwindled in the early 1980s. General Electric developed PEM fuel cells for the Gemini space program in the early 1960s, but when NASA found a related technology with superior characteristics for space applications, it shelved work on PEM fuel cells, and GE's patents in thefield eventually lapsed.
At the prompting of Canada's Department of Defense, which was searching for an unobtrusivefield generator, Ballard took up where GE left off and made rapid advancements in intensifying PEM fuel cells' power potential.
Along the way to leadership in the technology, Ballard got a couple of big breaks. One was a series of discoveries in the early 1990s by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Until then, PEM fuel cells had been considered too expensive for mass production because their catalysts required a substantial amount of costly platinum, but the Los Alamos scientists found a way to reduce the necessary platinum by a factor of 40. Suddenly, it was conceivable that fuel cells could compete with ICEs. Paul Lancaster, my Ballard tour guide, denies that the Los Alamos discoveries aided the Canadianfirm, but Shimshon Gottesfeld, the laboratory's project leader, says Ballard officials visited Los Alamos regularly and showed deep interest in the lab'sfindings.
Equally important, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) decided in 1990 to stimulate development of nonpolluting cars by requiring that zero-emission vehicles comprise 2 percent of annual statewide car sales by 1998 and 10 percent by 2003. Though CARB had battery-powered electric cars in mind, the batteries' weight, uncertain durability, and short range have stymied the cars' development. Fuel cell developers, however, were galvanized. Consultant Sandy Thomas says bluntly, "Without the zero-emissions program in California, I wouldn't have a job." When CARB dropped its 1998 requirement last year because battery-powered car development had stalled, Thomas and most other fuel cell advocates were relieved, since fuel cell cars now hadfive more years to prove themselves.
The most vexing issue developers face is the selection of fuel to deliver hydrogen to fuel cell engines. It's a choice with huge environmental implications. Automobile emissions cause more than 60 percent of air pollution in urban areas.
The Harvard School of Public Health estimates that in the US alone, one kind of car emissions - fine particulates - causes 50,000 to 60,000 deaths a year; several other types of vehicle emissions are also thought lethal, but no mortality estimates exist for them. In addition, automotive use of fossil fuels accounts for 20 percent of the nation's carbon-dioxide emissions, the most significant greenhouse gas. If the US vehicle fleet switches from ICEs burning fossil fuel to fuel cell engines using hydrogen derived from renewable sources - which may be possible within several decades - levels of both kinds of car emissions would drop to zero. Even if the hydrogen is produced from natural gas, as is common now, vehicular air pollution would end and greenhouse-gas emissions would drop by more than 60 percent.
The global consequences are even more extreme. The DOE estimates that in a mere 20 years - from 1995 to 2015 - the demand for energy will grow by 54 percent worldwide and by 129 percent in developing Asia. China and India, the world's two most populous nations, are expected to satisfy an exploding demand for energy by tapping vast reserves of coal, among the dirtiest of fossil fuels; it is widely assumed that the pollution and climactic impact of such developments will be grave. The advent of hydrogen not only poses a dramatically cleaner alternative, but also offers developing countries a chance to bypass at least part of the expense of building a fossil fuel infrastructure just as industrialized countries are poised to turn to more advanced technologies.
Yet shifting to hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars will not be easy. True enough, hydrogen is already used in all sorts of processing, from the hardening of fats and oils - hydrogenation - to, ironically enough, oil refining. But hydrogen, like gasoline, must be manufactured: it bonds so easily with other elements that it doesn't exist naturally on Earth in pure form. The trouble is that while gasoline is sold in 200,000filling stations across the US, the hydrogen infrastructure is minuscule. The result is a chicken-and-egg dilemma: What manufacturers will market hydrogen-powered cars if hydrogen isn't available to drivers? What hydrogen producers will build more plants if hydrogen cars aren't on the road? And without hydrogen fuel, who will buy hydrogen-powered cars?
Hydrogen's problems don't end there. Though most experts believe that the element is at least no more dangerous than gasoline, the public perception, based on memories of hydrogen-bomb tests and accounts of the 1937 Hindenburg airship crash, is that it's extremely unsafe. More worrisome, hydrogen can't easily be stored in a car. If it's stored as a compressed gas using current technology, the amount required to provide the range equal to 15 gallons of gasoline takes up four times as much space and weighs twice as much as afilled gas tank. If it's liquefied, it must be kept below - 423 degrees Fahrenheit, just 36 degrees above absolute zero. Both the safety and storage problems are considered surmountable, but they have discouraged some car manufacturers from embracing pure hydrogen fuel.
A transitional solution may lie in fuel cells' flexibility: they can run on any hydrogen-rich fuel, including gasoline. Chrysler, in fact, is developing a "fuel-flexible" fuel cell engine that can run on a variety of fuels, from gasoline to hydrogen. The engine will include a reformer that can convert gasoline and other fuels to hydrogen, neatly bypassing hydrogen's infrastructure and storage problems. The trade-off is in efficiency and environmental benefits. The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that a fuel cell car using gasoline would provide at best 1.5 to 2.3 times higher fuel economy than the same ICE car burning gasoline, while a fuel cell car running on hydrogen scores 2.8 times the gasoline-powered car's performance. Emissions of pollutants by fuel cell cars running on gasoline would drop substantially but would not equal the zero level of hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars. Chrysler's success may hinge on its ability to devise a gasoline reformer small and efficient enough to be placed inside a car. Sandy Thomas calls that job "an extraordinarily difficult technological challenge" comparable to installing a miniature oil refinery in a car to convert crude oil to gasoline.
Daimler-Benz has opted for a middle path, choosing methanol as its fuel. Methanol is usually produced from natural gas, but it can also be derived from feedstocks as diverse as coal and renewable plant material. Like gasoline, methanol requires an onboard reformer, but its fuel economy, 2.5 times that of an ICE using gasoline, is higher, and its emissions are lower. Methanol's biggest advantage is that it's a liquid at room temperature, which means that it can be transported and handled much more easily than gaseous hydrogen. However, it, too, suffers from a small infrastructure.
Ford's fuel choice is the most daring and potentially most beneficial choice: hydrogen. Ford is banking on the validity of studies by Sandy Thomas and Joan Ogden, a Princeton researcher, suggesting that hydrogen's infrastructure problem could be solved by using excess refinery hydrogen and supplyingfilling stations with reformers capable of converting natural gas to hydrogen. These reformers probably would be much more cost effective than the ones Chrysler wants to install inside cars: they would not have to meet onboard miniaturization and durability requirements, and they could operate nearly constantly, serving all of the cars that patronize a givenfilling station. Once demand for hydrogen grows to a substantial level, hydrogen refiners presumably would be prepared to build additional plants. To cope with the hydrogen-storage problem, Ford has designed a car that is similar in performance and safety to a Taurus but with an aluminum body and other lightweight features. Weighing only 2,000 pounds - compared to a Taurus's 3,300 - Ford's car can travel farther on less fuel, meaning that less hydrogen needs to be stored onboard. Ford's solution understandably has gained the support of some environmentalists, who fear that if Chrysler or Daimler-Benz succeeds, the incentive to move to fuel cells using hydrogen from renewable sources would disappear. Chris Borroni-Bird, an advanced-technology specialist at Chrysler, disagrees. "If you can commercialize fuel cells in thefirst place by using gasoline, there will be an inexorable trend toward cleaning up the fuel, because that will improve vehicle performance."
From an environmental perspective, the best transitional fuel may be the one that leads most quickly to the use of fuel cells using hydrogen from sustainable sources. "No matter which fuel we use in the near term, we need to keep our eyes on the prize: that it's a renewably powered fuel cell vehicle that ultimately deals with transportation challenges," says Jason Mark, a transportation analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "A gasoline fuel cell is at best a stepping-stone to something better. It's my hope that it becomes only a stepping-stone and not a roadblock."
Of course, a major innovation in the nascentfield of fuel cell technology could upset these calculations. One possible example is the claim announced last December by researchers at Northeastern University in Boston. They say they used graphite nanofibers to increase current hydrogen storage capabilities by a factor of 10. If true, the discovery means that a car could travel 5,000 miles on a single hydrogen cartridge; the empty cartridge could then be recharged or exchanged for a full one. Since afilled cartridge could potentially be delivered to the driver, there would be no need to establish a hydrogen infrastructure, and the two greatest obstacles to use of hydrogen - lack of infrastructure and onboard storage problems - would be removed. However, many specialists are skeptical of the Northeastern claim, particularly since the researchers have not revealed enough information to allow outsiders to confirm theirfindings. "If it works, it's going to change everything," says Robert H. Williams, a senior scientist at Princeton. "We don't know if it's going to pan out, but I think it shows that if we take hydrogen seriously, there are all kinds of surprises in store for us."
Meanwhile, Ballard is providing fuel cells for all three kinds of engines - for Chrysler, Daimler-Benz, and Ford. Accordingly, Ballard is agnostic in the fuel dispute: its chief hope is that one of the strategies works, enabling the company to ride the technology's success to riches. To reinforce its position, Ballard has secured 91 patents, with another 104 pending; together, these patents cover 61 inventions.
Ballard still faces competition from major US oil, electronics, and chemical companies - Exxon, ARCO, AlliedSignal, Motorola, 3M, and DuPont all have launched their own fuel cell-related programs. Many of these companies investigated the technology in the 1960s and 1970s and gave up; now, with interest in fuel cells renewed by the Los Alamos discoveries and deepened environmental concerns, they have gotten back in. Last May, Delphi Energy & Engine Management Systems, a General Motors division, announced an alliance with Exxon and ARCO to develop an onboard-vehicle processor to extract hydrogen from fossil fuels such as gasoline and methanol. John Robbins, Exxon's program manager, declines to say whether the oil company foresees shifting from marketing fossil fuels to selling pure hydrogen if a transition to a hydrogen economy occurs, but Patrick Grimes, an energy consultant and former Exxon researcher, says, "The oil companies are in the fuel-providing business, and they'll provide any fuel that enough people want to buy."
The biggest imponderable in the future of fuel cell vehicle technology may be its ultimate cost. A 1994 study prepared for the US Congress's Office of Technology Assessment estimated that these cars would cost $4,000 to $7,000 more than comparable ICE cars. Sandy Thomas believes that in early production runs, Ford's hydrogen-fueled cars will cost no more than $1,500 to $2,000 above their ICE equivalents. Paul Lancaster maintains that Ballard and Daimler-Benz together know how to design cars that will carry no premium at all. Given the current unwillingness of car buyers to pay a higher sticker price for greater fuel economy and lower pollution, the projection by Ballard/Daimler-Benz may have to be correct if fuel cell-powered cars are to catch on. Lancaster believes that a combination of technological advances and economies of scale from mass production will make fuel cell engines competitive. For example, even though Ballard has already reduced the amount of platinum in its engines by 90 percent, Lancaster says the company is already testing another tenfold drop in the platinum load. Its researchers have also found significantly cheaper ways to produce the engine's membrane and the graphite plates surrounding the membrane, he says. If Ballard's projections are accurate, the expectedfinancial benefits of owning a fuel cell car - lower maintenance costs because of the absence of moving parts and lack of need for oil changes and smog checks - will be a bonus.
Transforming the utilities market
Just as environmental regulations stimulated fuel cell vehicle technology, deregulation is about to do the same thing for fuel cell power generation. Specifically, the impending deregulation in the electric-utility industry will create many opportunities for fuel cell power plants, which will reach market years before fuel cell cars. Recent legislation has ended utilities' monopolies in many respects, enabling consumers to buy electricity from remote providers. As a result, the established practice of building huge central power plants in anticipation of future demand, while reflecting their construction costs in current electric rates, may no longer work. Instead of building large plants whose capacity will not be fully tapped for years, suppliers will probablyfind it cheaper to augment central electricity supplies with power from modular fuel cell units located near the point of consumption. These fuel cell generators, which emit no noise and only trace pollution, can be placed close to consumers without violating local noise and pollution ordinances.
Deregulation will also prompt electrical "productization" : instead of having to rely on electricity from the grid, consumers will be offered varied qualities of electricity. In particular, users who now deal with grid outages will have access to the more reliable electricity supply of fuel cell generators. Though the cost per kilowatt of these generators is likely at first to be much higher than that of conventional power plants, their superior reliability and quality should attract many buyers, including an array of high tech manufacturers for whom dependable power is critical.
International Fuel Cells's success in selling its generators seems to confirm this assumption: although the units' subsidized price - $2,000 per kilowatt - is substantially above the $500-to-$1,500-per-kilowatt range of conventional power plants, IFC has sold 140 units and has received orders for 185 more. Fuel cell manufacturers are counting on continued technological innovations and economies of scale to bring about huge price reductions in generators, just as in fuel cell cars.
These next-generation generators may be particularly popular in developing nations, where capital for large conventional power plants is in short supply and debilitating air pollution is widespread. Joseph J. Romm, the DOE's acting assistant energy secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, says, "Just as some countries are bypassing a nationwide system of telephone lines and leapfrogging to cellular, we'll see countries bypass a nationwide system of big central-station power plants and extensive power lines and leapfrog directly to distributed power" provided by fuel cells. That, in turn, could alter political relationships, strengthening remote areas and weakening central authorities.
"The market for stationary fuel cell applications is potentially bigger than the car market," says Lancaster. Indeed, H Power, a Belleville, New Jersey, fuel cell manufacturer, estimates that sales of on-site fuel cell power generators will reach at least $2 billion by 2005. To feed that market, Ballard is developing a 250-kilowatt generator, big enough to power a small hotel or strip mall, that is slated for commercial sales around 2002. Energy Research Corporation of Danbury, Connecticut, plans to put a 2.85-megawatt fuel cell plant, which can power 1,500 homes, on the market within a year or two after that.
"Power plants are going to be just like furnaces," says Joe Maceda of Power Technologies. "They're going to be appliances." One day you may be able to drive your fuel cell car during the day, then connect the car's engine to your house to provide heat and electricity at night. Alternatively, electricity generated by the engine could be fed to the grid in return for credit. Thanks to the fuel cell engine's efficiency and reliability, an asset that usually sits idle for all but an hour or two a day could become a steady income earner.
Even if this scenario doesn't become reality for several decades, the links between automotive and stationary fuel cells suggest a strong synergy. "The car industry and the stationary power industry are both so huge that if one of them adopts fuel cells, it will pull the other one into the market," says Toyota's Bill Reinert. "It is probably too early to say that fuel cells will be a climax technology, but it sure seems like they will." Building the Hydrogen Economy
In April 1997, Daimler-Benz announced a US$295 million investment in fuel cell technologies. Toyota is spending an estimated $700 million a year to develop alternative-fuel cars.
Last May, ARCO and Exxon announced a multimillion-dollar fuel cell-related research alliance with Delphi Energy & Engine Management Systems, a division of General Motors.
These are just a few of the big players migrating toward the hydrogen economy. You may recognize some of the others ...
General Motors
Sandia National
Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
Rocky Mountain
Jet Propulsion
Fluor Daniel
Los Alamos National
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Schatz Energy
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Fire vs. Water; Cool vs. Hot
The traditional internal-combustion engine (ICE) runs on high-temperature explosions - fuel is burned, producing heat, which is then converted into energy.
In contrast, most fuel cells rely on relatively cool electrochemical reactions: hydrogen feeds into the cell through channels on the flow field plates, and a platinum catalyst ionizes the gas, splitting each molecule into electrons and protons (hydrogen ions). The protons pass through a membrane to combine with oxygen on the other side, producing water. The electrons, which cannot pass through the membrane, are channeled along an external route and harnessed to power an electric motor.
The fuel cell process is two to three times more efficient than that of an ICE, and its only by-products are electricity, water, and a moderate amount of heat.
The Burning Issue
Hydrogen advocates call it the Hindenburg syndrome - the presumption fostered by the 1937 Hindenburg crash in Lakehurst, New Jersey, that the hydrogen airships somehow ignited, causing the tragedy, and that it is therefore too volatile to be used as automotive fuel. To these proponents, both strands of the supposition are false. Addison Bain, the retired head of NASA's hydrogen program, has amassed evidence strongly suggesting that the Hindenburg's fabric skin, not the hydrogen inside it, ignited as a result of a static electrical discharge.
Additionally, the advocates say, hydrogen is no more dangerous than gasoline. While gasoline fires spread along the ground, hydrogen flames go straight up; anything below a hydrogen flame consequently doesn't catch fire. An outdoor hydrogen fire may be less risky than a comparable gasoline fire, while a hydrogen fire in an enclosed space may be more dangerous. The emergence of hydrogen-fueled cars is therefore likely to be accompanied by alterations in garages and mechanics' shops to provide more ventilation.
Hydrogen also burns more efficiently and at a cooler temperature than gasoline; someone standing next to a hydrogen flame may not even feel it. But such flames are hard to detect, so that a person might unwittingly walk into one. A possible solution is to add odor or color to hydrogen, but the trick will be to find substances that add smell or hue without interfering with the operation of fuel cell engines, which are notoriously intolerant of impurities.
"We have assimilated the dangers of gasoline into our day-to-day lives because the benefits outweigh the risks," says Peter Lehman, director of the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. "And we will do the same with hydrogen."


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It is breast cancer awareness month and I have a good friend who I am supporting in the Walk for a Cure event. Over lunch one day, we laughed over the fact that manufacturers were getting a little carried away with the color pink.
Now I understand it is to bring awareness and I'm not knocking it. But this led to a friendly text message game between us. For the past two weeks, we've been texting each other each time we see something totally outrageous. For example: pink tic-tacs, a pink maglite flashlight, pink toilet paper (no really! this was to promote breast cancer awareness, not just pink in color to match decor!) Yesterday, she texted to let me know she picked up a prescription with a pink ribbon embossed on the lid.
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Hellow Toulan,
I thought about posting few pictures i took while i was doing damage tests.
Really it was an experience ~ bit of a cost but extremly fun, been doing while hunting card parts so i had to visit all mobs anyway )
Its been a bit of a brainstormer to try armors, tick which gets hit, deduce what damage is filtered and this on every mobs with every combinations of armor and plates i prepared.
Afterwoods i thought of doing an estimation of the % damage in each type as i had more card parts to loot anyway, and those test been pretty relevant and gave me loads of informations.
Now shared both on this forum and on Toulan Wikia (thanks to Miles for updating thsi one as i ignore how to do that).
Hope those informations helps our people in future, and enjoy your time on Toulan
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The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has unveiled the first batch of titles that will compete for its Muhr AsiaAfrica Awards, including Brillante Mendoza's Thy Womb and Wang Bing's award-winning documentary San Zimei - Three Sisters.
The line-up includes a mixture of veteran filmmakers, previous Muhr award winners and newcomers who will compete for prizes including the $50,000 best feature film award and $40,000 best film and special jury prizes.
Wang Bing's San Zimei - Three Sisters won best film in the Orizzonti section of this year's Venice film festival. Mendoza won the Muhr best film award at DIFF in 2009 for Lola.
Nashen Moodley, DIFF's Director of AsiaAfrica Programmes, said: "The Muhr AsiaAfrica programme always offers fresh, unconventional and exciting cinema that would be otherwise hard to access in the region, and this year is a bumper crop."
The line-up includes:
Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing, dir: Hussayin Tabak (Turkey)
Taboor, dir: Vahid Vakilifar (Iran)
My Afghanistan: Life In The Forbidden (Denmark-Afghanistan)
San Zimei - Three Sisters, dir: Wang Bing (China)
Inside, dir: Zeki Demirkubuz (Turkey)
Thy Womb, dir: Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
The Great Kilapy, dir: Zeze Gomboa (Angola)
Today, dir: Alain Gomis (France, Senegal)
The Great North Korean Picture Show, dir: James Leong, Lynn Lee (Singapore)
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Well so far so good for a Monday! I am proud to say that I held up my end of the deal and
1. went to bed early last night
2. got up and went to the gym, which does give me more energy
3. didn't eat too much sugar yesterday and didn't have any wine
4. did the meal plan for the week on Saturday and Art did the shopping for me. Thank you Art! Love you!
5. went to bed with a clean and organized house (for the most part hehe!)
6. we had made plans to do something fun this morning before nap.
We met some friends at Hullabaloos and the kids had a blast. It's an indoor play area and we actually had taylor's 2nd birhtday there. We got there right at 10:30, left right at noon, ate lunch in the car and now both children are asleep and I am organizing pictures. Yay! I feel great :)
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When I was doing my internal medicine residency, another doc in my class was a girl named Christine. She was just doing a 1 year internship before going on to radiology.
She was a good person, and a good doc. But she was a HORRIBLE black cloud. Bad luck just followed her and her patients, in spite of the fact that she took damn good care of them.
She just had remarkably shitty luck. When she was on call, her service would always max out with admissions, and they were all really sick. Codes would occur. Her patients seemed to die more often then anyone else's. And, again, this was just bad luck. She was a good doc, just always seemed to get the sickest patients.
After the first 6 months of this, she was so burned out that she needed a vacation, and booked a cruise.
On the first night of her cruise, the guy sitting next to her at dinner collapsed and died from a peanut allergy.


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While we don't have a formal bucket list, we plan on doing several fun things this summer. One activity we plan on accomplishing is writing a few letters to our favorite authors. Letter writing is a bit of a lost art it seems but it's a skill kids should learn. Personal letters are so fun to write and receive! Plus, the activity is a great way to practice spelling and handwriting skills.
We really enjoyed reading Elizabeth Schoonmaker's Square Cat last week. While looking for more information about the book online I ran across Eula the Square Cat's blog. It appears that Eula and her creator like to receive mail and drawings from kids, so my daughter decided that she wanted to write her first letter to Eula and Elizabeth Schoonmaker. My daughter also drew a picture of Eula in a ballerina's outfit to send along with her letter. She asked Elizabeth about Eula's square spiral tail. She wants to know if Eula always had a square tail. (According to my daughter, square tails are harder to draw than regular tails.)
As far as finding address information, many authors have websites and blogs and sometimes you can find mailing addresses posted online. If you are unable to find mailing contact information for an author, you can also send the letter to the publisher of the book. Just address the letter to the author in care of the publisher. Not all authors will have the time to write back but some will surprise you with a letter in return, especially if you send a SASE along with your letter.
Letter writing links:
How to Write to an Author (Reading Rockets)
Arthur's Letter Writer Helper (PBS Kids)
Elizabeth Schoonmaker saw our review of her book, Square Cat, and has kindly offered to giveaway a signed copy of her book to a Brimful Curiosities reader! How awesome is that? It's certainly something to purr about! (Plus, to our surprise, Eula featured our cube cat activity on her blog. Make sure to take a look!)
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Overview of Otitis Media and Interna
Otitis media, inflammation of the middle ear structures, is seen in small and large domestic animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, ruminants, horses, pigs, and camelids. It can be unilateral or bilateral and can affect animals of all ages. Although typically sporadic, outbreaks are possible in herds. Otitis media usually results from extension of infection from the external ear canal through the tympanic membrane or from migration of pharyngeal microorganisms through the auditory tube. Occasionally, infection extends from the inner ear to the middle ear, or reaches the middle ear by the hematogenous route. Primary otitis media has been reported in certain breeds of dogs, particularly Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Untreated otitis media can lead to otitis interna (inflammation of the inner ear structures) or to rupture of an intact tympanic membrane with subsequent otorrhea or otitis externa.
Clinical Findings and Diagnosis:
Signs of otitis media include head shaking, rubbing or scratching the affected ear, and tilting or rotating the head toward the affected side; self-trauma can lead to aural hematoma. The most common cause of recurrent otitis externa is undiagnosed otitis media. When otitis externa (see Otitis Externa) accompanies otitis media, the external ear canal may look inflamed and contain an abnormal discharge. The pinna or ear canal may be painful and malodorous, and the hair surrounding the base of the ear may be wet or matted. Because the facial (cranial nerve VII) and sympathetic nerves course through the middle ear, animals with otitis media may exhibit signs of facial nerve paralysis (eg, ear droop, lip droop, ptosis, collapse of the nostril) and/or Horner syndrome (eg, miosis, ptosis, enophthalmos, protrusion of the nictitating membrane) on the same side as the affected ear. Exposure keratitis and corneal ulceration may develop. With facial paralysis, the nasal philtrum or lip may deviate away from the affected side. These signs help to distinguish otitis media from simple otitis externa.
With otitis interna, inflammation impairs function of the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII), resulting in hearing loss and signs of peripheral vestibular disease such as head tilt, circling, leaning or falling toward the affected side, general incoordination, or spontaneous horizontal nystagmus with the fast phase away from the affected side. Extension of infection from the inner ear to the brain leads to meningitis, meningoencephalitis, or abscesses, with signs referable to those conditions. In horses, severe otitis media/interna can result in fusion and fracture of the tympanohyoid joint; extension of the fracture line to the calvarium can lead to intracranial spread of infection or cause hematoma and death.
Whereas animals with otitis media/interna are usually alert, nonfebrile, and have a good appetite, those with meningitis or meningoencephalitis are usually depressed, febrile, and inappetent. A major differential diagnosis for otitis media/interna in ruminants is listeriosis. However, in listeriosis, cranial nerves other than VII and VIII may be affected, causing signs such as dysphagia or loss of facial sensation, and affected animals are usually depressed.
In large animals, otitis media and interna are presumptively diagnosed based on history and clinical signs. A history of bottle feeding or feeding of contaminated milk to neonates, concurrent or previous respiratory disease, chronic ear infection, or aural foreign body, in conjunction with typical signs of otitis media/interna, should prompt examination of the ear canal. Otitis media is confirmed by visualizing a bulging, discolored, or ruptured tympanic membrane. Although the tympanic membrane may be visualized using a simple otoscope in many cases, the anatomy of the ear canal hinders visualization in some species, such as horses and llamas; endoscopy, or video otoscopy, is an alternative approach. Imaging methods assist in diagnosis and assessment of lesion severity. Radiography can detect osseous changes in the tympanic bulla and fluid in the tympanic cavity if appropriate positioning and techniques are used. However, CT and MRI are more sensitive and are the preferred methods when feasible. In some cases, diagnosis is made only at necropsy, using special techniques to expose the tympanic region. Diagnosis of clinical otitis media/interna in one ear should always prompt examination of the other ear to determine whether subclinical otitis is present.
Otitis media has been reported to be present in 16% of dogs with otitis externa and in >50% of dogs with chronic otitis externa. The tympanic membrane has also been reported to be intact in >70% of cases, and the disease is usually bilateral in dogs. Primary and secondary causes and factors of otitis externa can lead to otitis media. Diagnosis can be challenging, because the tympanic membrane can be intact. Palpation of the tympanic membrane with a blunt instrument is not an accurate method of determining the patency of the tympanic membrane. Advanced imaging techniques (CT or MRI) are more sensitive than routine radiographs but are not 100% sensitive and specific. In some cases, exploratory (and therapeutic) bulla osteotomy may be necessary.
Treatment and Prognosis:
Treatment of otitis media/interna is most successful when started early in the course of the disease. Chronic cases are often refractory to treatment or recur after apparent remission. When otitis externa accompanies otitis media/interna, the ear should be examined closely for mites and foreign bodies, such as plant awns, and the discharge cultured for bacteria. Many aerobic and anaerobic bacteria have been cultured from the ears of animals with otitis media/interna, and mixed infections are common. Pathogens that warrant mentioning because of their frequency of isolation include Malassezia spp and Pseudomonas spp in small animals; Streptococcus suis in pigs; Streptococcus spp in horses; Mycoplasma spp in goats; and Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, Histophilus somni, and Mycoplasma bovis in cattle. M bovis is particularly problematic in dairy calves fed unpasteurized waste milk from cows with intramammary infection. However, other pathogens, such as coliform bacteria, Staphylococcus spp, Neisseria spp, corynebacteria, and Trueperella pyogenes are frequently isolated from the ears of affected animals. Isolation of a bacterial pathogen(s) or mites from the ear helps direct initial treatment but does not necessarily imply causation of otitis media/interna, because the same organisms can be isolated from the external ear canals of apparently healthy animals.
Ear mites, when present, should be treated with an appropriate systemic antiparasitic agent (see Antiparasitics for Integumentary Disease). Topical acaricides can be instilled into the external ear canal once it is cleaned. Bacterial infection should be treated with appropriate systemic antimicrobial agents (see Antibacterials for Integumentary Disease), based on culture and susceptibility test results. If the tympanic membrane is intact, a culture can be obtained via a myringotomy incision with a tom cat catheter. It may be possible to aspirate fluid. If not, 0.5 mL of sterile water can be instilled into the bulla and the fluid aspirated for culture. No antimicrobial agents are labeled for treatment of otitis media/interna in food-producing animals in the USA, so extra-label drug use guidelines must be followed and prohibited drugs avoided.
In addition to antimicrobial and/or anthelmintic therapy, the external ear canal should be cleaned and flushed if otorrhea or otitis externa is present; physiologic saline or dilute antiseptic solutions, such as iodine, chlorhexidine, or hydrogen peroxide, are commonly used for flushing. Steroids or NSAIDs can help reduce inflammation and pain associated with otitis media/interna. Corneal ulceration, aural hematomas, and concurrent infections should be treated appropriately, if present, and the animal protected from further self-injury.
If the tympanic membrane is intact and otitis media/interna does not respond sufficiently to systemic antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory therapy, myringotomy (perforation of the tympanic membrane) can be performed to relieve pressure and enable culture and drainage of fluid from the tympanic cavity. In chronic, nonresponsive or recurrent cases of otitis media/interna, it may be necessary to perform bulla osteotomy or total ear canal ablation to establish sufficient drainage and enable effective lavage. Tympanostomy tubes can be implanted into the tympanic membrane after myringotomy to allow continuous drainage in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels with primary secretory otitis, but such tubes are not useful to drain more purulent exudate.
Early diagnosis and treatment of otitis media/interna can result in complete resolution of infection and clinical signs. However, with severe, chronic, or nonresponsive cases, owners should be advised that neurologic deficits and hearing loss may persist even if infection is resolved. In small animals, otitis media may be resolved only by surgery (total ear canal abalation), particularly if multidrug-resistant bacteria are present.


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Chicken Potato Bake
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Bake: 1 hour
Makes4 servings
- 1 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon rubbed sage
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
- 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3-1/2 to 4 pounds chicken pieces, skin removed
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 4 medium red potatoes, cut into 1-inch cubes
- In a shallow bowl, combine the first 13 ingredients. Place oil in another shallow bowl. Dip chicken in oil; coat with crumb mixture. Place on greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan.
- For potatoes, in a large bowl, combine the oil, salt, parsley, paprika, garlic powder and pepper. Add potatoes; toss to coat. Place around chicken.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1 hour or until chicken juices run clear.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 632 calories, 23g fat (4g saturated fat), 142mg cholesterol, 2311mg sodium, 53g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 4g fiber), 52g protein.
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Nov 9, 2018
So delicious, I didn't remove the skin from the chicken and it was very crispy , chicken was very tender. The potatoes were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. The coating mix adds great flavor to both the chicken and potatoes. I cut my potatoes in wedges instead of cubing them. This recipe is a winner! Great taste, easy to prepare, great taste and economical!
Mar 26, 2014
My family loves this chicken and the potatoes. I found both the chicken and potato seasoning mixtures to be well- seasoned, ample portions for coating both potatoes and chicken. I have made it many times using either bone-in chicken pieces or boneless/skinless chicken. When using boneless/skinless chicken breasts. I find the potatoes need the full hour in the oven but when using the boneless/skinless chicken breasts, I cut them in half, like a large chicken tender and bake them 30-35 mins at 350. (Use judgement and test to be sure juices are running clear before removing from oven.) Love the flavors in this dish and the fact that the meat & potatoes are together on one pan in the oven. My "meat & potatoes" guys really like this.
May 15, 2013
I have made this recipe twice now, although I think I need help making the coating come out crispier. It was still delish and very easy.
Sep 19, 2011
I omitted the plain salt in the chicken coating and it was salty enough. The coating for the potatoes did not seem to stretch far enough--I used up all the coating before my 4 potatoes were coated. I threw my remaining potato cubes in the salt-reduced coating I had leftover from the chicken (I only had 2 1/2 lbs of chicken so there's no surprise that I had some coating leftover), placed them in the pan with the chicken, then sprayed them with cooking spray like you do for oven fries sometimes. I separated the two kinds of potatoes in the pan so I could compare them and I liked the chicken coating potatoes better than the original recipe coating potatoes. If I made it again, I would definitely simplify things and give it all the same coating.
Jun 26, 2011
I only used the chicken recipe on 2 pounds of skinless/boneless breasts.I was missing some of the items, like the onion powder and seasoned salt, but the seasoning came out amazing. It went perfect with a country dinner.
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Apr 18, 2011
My six year old can not get enough of this chicken! We have renamed it at our house in her honor. YUM! I keep a batch of the coating on hand at all times.
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Oct 14, 2009
2,311 mg sodium ... holy cow, folks, that's a whole day's worth of sodium in one fell swoop.


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The word "tart" is probably one of the most used homonyms in culinary terms. First of all, "tart" used as an adjective has to do with taste — like bitter, sour or acerbic. But today I'd like to focus on "tart" the noun. This kind of tart can come in many, many forms: sweet, savory, shortcrust based, puff pastry based, fruit-filled, custard-filled, cheesy, etc., and is usually served as either an appetizer or dessert.
The tart I've decided to whip up this week is a mix of sweet and savory — roasted grapes and goat cheese — on a bed of flaky puff pastry crust. It's an easy-to-prepare, classy appetizer that'd be perfect for a fête during any season.
So why did I pick puff pastry over a short crust pie dough? Honestly, I'm a lazy baker and puff dough is as easy as grabbing from the freezer, thawing then baking. It's also a party food lifesaver and should always be kept onhand for last-minute appetizers, main dishes accoutrements and desserts. For flavor, always choose puff dough made with butter, not vegetable shortening, as it will give you a buttery, flaky, melt-in-your-mouth product versus one with a weird aftertaste. Another cook's tip: an egg wash (see recipe below) will give puff pastry a golden-brown kiss of color.
Try out this sweet, savory, and not too tart (the adjective) tart recipe that's topped with roasted grapes, goat cheese, walnuts and fresh rosemary. It's a breeze to bake up and your party guests will surely be impressed.


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A game tomorrow but the team that played Swansea were not involved in the morning session today.Some were in as Clichy didn't get the message and a few others,no doubt for some treatment like Yaya and Milner.That left 14 on show which included Suarez, Rekik, Rusnak and Huws.
I was only able to stay for a short while but was hopeful at the start as one of the curtains was down but that was soon repaired and back up to limit the view.Lombardo was with the coaching group today as they set off for some jogs and then into a planned series of stretches.Quickly off then with Mancini taking the whole group off for one of his regular shape/formation sessions.Maybe we will see a lot of this group play tomorrow or maybe not. A low key start to a very big week and I am sure Thursday will see a big training session for the full squad in preparation for the final. I just hope we get a good result against WBA on the way.


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By JEFF PICKELL
I walked around the block today, pondering the meaning of Easter, which, even though the Biblical story is about the resurrection of a man (ahem, Man, I should say), it can also be considered a story of rebirth, right?
After all, the Bible recounts the death of Jesus and his rise from the grave as a beginning of a new relationship between man and his Creator. Or am I getting this all wrong?
I've been introspective lately. This is kind of an exciting juncture in my life.
My nephew, Johnny Five, is a spring baby. Or will be. My brother John and sister-in-law Stephanie went to the hospital this morning and doctors began inducing labor.
(I should note that I'm writing this on Monday evening).
For some reason, I thought induced labors were kind of like...expedited...labors, that they didn't take as long as traditional "wait and wait and wait" childbirths. Boy was I ever wrong. The process started about 12 hours ago, and John just told me he doesn't expect to see his son until the wee hours of the morning.
When I talked to him, Stephanie was waiting for an epidural, after which both she and John planned to nap. John had just finished a hearty dinner of two sandwiches from Panera bread, delivered by my mom.
"I smashed them," he said. That's our code for "I wolfed them down."
"Oh yeah? What kind were they?"
"I don't know," said John. "You know the names of those things?"
"Yeah, man. I love that place."
"One had bacon and turkey and was on big bread."
"Bacon Turkey Bravo. What was the other one?"
"I don't know. It had like roast beef and salami and some other meat on it."
"Oh," I said. "I don't think I've had that one."
"Other than that, how are things?"
"They're good, man. Things are going well," he said.
"All right. Well I guess I'll let you go," I closed. "I love you."
"Love you too, man."
Springtime. Birth. Rebirth. The resurrection. The egg and the blossom. The rabbit. The Kora, who comes out of Hell and brings with her the warm season.
The spring archetypes are the happy archetypes. Things go south in the winter, but in spring, everything is almost good again.
I was up nearly all night last night, half-dreaming and half-hallucinating, pastoral pinks and blues and yellows flushing around behind my closed eyes, commingling occasionally to form a pleasant face or a vision:
—Darla the dog
—Sheets, fresh from the dryer, heaped on the kitchen table
—An elementary classmate's turquoise shoe soles. I chased her.
—Worms glowing under a bridge base.
—A swaddled infant sleeping in the sun.
He was my brother Jamie. My mom said he wasn't quite ripe when he came out, so she would set him atop a folded comforter in a laundry basket. She would place him in the square of sun that shone through the basement sliding door.
I think this is what the poet William Blake meant when he talked about the sublime—it's what you feel when you have too many feelings to feel. You just kind of put your mind on autopilot and see what tricks it can pull on its own. Opium helped Blake "break down the doors of perception." I don't have his drug connections, so it's a rare experience for me, coming usually after extended periods of excitement and sleep-deprivation. Like on Christmas Eve.
But last night was better than Christmas Eve. It was like Christmas Eve 2: Christmas Eve-er. Tonight, I suspect, could be even worse—Christmas Eve: With a Vengeance.
I mean, come on! It's a baby! It's spring! It's Easter season! Ham is on the way!
We're alive!
UPDATE—Stephanie gave birth to an eight pound, seven ounce baby Johnny Five a little before 8:30 this morning (Tuesday).– April 4, 2007


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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Trying to Follow
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
What is God Doing?
Things have been pretty crazy around here. Getting used to living in a new city is tough. But God has been using the situation to work changes in me. Working to increase my dependence on Him. Some days it goes smoothly. Some days I go kicking and screaming. Stay tuned for some new things, maybe a new blog. He is calling me to some things, some I know some, I am still waiting for some answers as to what to do! Pray for me!
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Full-line supply brings savings to wine bottling plant
It started with boxes of wine – very big ones.
Every day, tankers bring 12-15 shipping containers from the docks at Avonmouth, UK, to Accolade Park, the largest of the global company's European wine importing and distributing operations.
Each container holds up to 25,000 litres of wine. The Accolade Park site extracts the wine, bottles or boxes it, then ships it out for distribution in the UK and Europe.
The problem was that too much wine was getting left behind in the container bags.
"As you pump the wine out, the bags collapse," says Julian Rainbow, the company's Utilities and Process Engineering Manager.
The collapsed bags made it difficult to reach the liquid near the end of the pumping process. So the company sent out a challenge to different pump manufacturers: Reduce our losses. After a trial period, Grundfos won the bid with its Liquid Ring SIPLA pump range – the best performer of all the products tested.
Rainbow tells the story accompanied by Grundfos' Ian Dure, Key Account Manager for Grundfos Industry, Water and Waste in the UK.
Dure says, "You were leaving behind 300 litres beforehand. What did we get that down to?"
"The best we had was 60 litres – the average is 100," says Rainbow.
"So," Dure says, "at a loss of about one British pound per litre, going from 300 pounds to 100 pounds, and with 12 to 15 containers a day, if you multiply the savings across each container, the cost of the new solution paid for itself in a couple of days, including the installation costs."
"It was an excellent trial," Rainbow adds. "Nobody else provided the same kind of technical support and background for the trial, and we were very pleased with that."
One full-line supplier
At the time, Accolade was designing a new facility to replace the two, ageing plants in the area. "We were looking for ways to improve the company's carbon footprint locally," says Neil Wallburton, Engineering Manager. Part of this solution lay in finding energy efficient pumping solutions – from water supply and distribution to boiler feeding to processing and cleaning and all the way to effluent treatment.
"Grundfos suggested they could provide a lot more than just those tanker offloading pumps," Rainbow says. "We liked what we saw with all their controls and modern designs. It gave us the best opportunity to make some savings from an energy point of view as well. And that's why this site has predominantly Grundfos systems in it."
In a tour through one of the tank houses, Rainbow spreads his arm out in a broad gesture. "Certainly wherever you look there are Grundfos pumps dotted around," he says, adding that Accolade Park specified Grundfos throughout the entire process.
Dure says, "Our global manufacturing already supplies the leading OEM companies that would supply to this type of process – in this case Krones. This cleared the way for strong communication among all parties."
One replacement
Accolade's previous plants used several different pump suppliers, he adds. That meant the factory needed to stock spare parts for all the different types of impellers, seals, motors and so on. The company also rebuilt its pumps annually for some applications. "We knew if we didn't, we'd get a failure 18 months down the road," Rainbow says.
Going with Grundfos as one full-line supplier has meant a large cut in costs for spares due to the large degree of interchangeable parts on different products, he says – not that the spares have been so necessary.
"In the two and a half years we've been running, the mean time between failures is huge, says Wallburton. "I can't think of one instance where a pump has been at fault for a failure."
In fact, of the 100 or so Grundfos pumps onsite, only one has needed replacement due to a bearing failure.
"We knew it was going to fail," says Rainbow. "We had a window of opportunity to replace it, and it only took a couple of hours. The commonality of spare parts is very, very good. It could have been a whole different story, but it was fantastic."
Wallburton adds, "If you think of the speed and scope of our operation compared to what we had previously, we're running longer hours, seven days a week, at higher rates. The attrition on pumping gear is higher, yet we've only had one failure.
"It is quite a good success story," he says. "From an end-user's point of view, reliability has been absolutely excellent, maintenance has been minimal and the lifecycle costs to me are very impressive. It's something I will take forward when I'm looking for speccing future equipment."
Accolade Park installed Grundfos pumping systems throughout its entire wine bottling plant -- from tanker offloading to dosing and disinfection, hygienic pumps, heating and cooling, water supply and wastewater. Accolade Park saves energy and money from the efficient, modern systems, and it saves further costs by stocking standardised spare parts.
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Think of CloudMagic as a search engine that only searches you. It indexes your Google and Twitter data and then cuts down search speed significantly because it doesn't get bogged down by any network or server delays. It's like if Spotlight (or Quicksilver) for the Mac was available on your Android phone. You can search through your Twitter, Gmail, Google Apps, Docs, Calendar and Contacts through CloudMagic.
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If you're a heavy Twitter user, you'll find that CloudMagic effectively fixes the mess that Twitter search has become and if you're not, you'll still love it for its Googleness. If CloudMagic adds Facebook and other services, it'll be an indispensable tool for Android. [Androinica]
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Boy, 14, rescued by Revere police officer during savage attack by two Rottweilers, police say
A Revere police officer shot one Rottweiler that was attacking a 14-year-old boy in a fenced-in yard, then scaled the fence and ran to the boy's aid, carrying him to safety while firefighters kept a second dog at bay by blasting it with a fire hose.
Officer Mike Mullen is being credited with saving the life of the boy in the dramatic rescue Thursday afternoon. The boy is in critical condition at a local hospital but is expected to survive.
No charges have been filed in the attack, but the two Rottweilers were euthanized at the behest of the owner, said Detective Sergeant Steven Pisano.
Around 5:40 p.m. Thursday, Mullen and several other officers responded to a backyard on Squire Road, behind the Northgate Shopping Center, after a 12-year-old boy called to report that two dogs were mauling his friend, Pisano said.
The backyard was enclosed by a padlocked, six-foot-high, chain-link fence topped with barbed wire, Pisano said, and officers could not immediately enter while the dogs continued to attack the 14-year-old.
Mullen drew his service pistol and fired at both dogs, hitting one in the leg and forcing it to retreat from the boy, Pisano said. While firefighters sprayed the other dog, Mullen scaled the fence, picked up the boy, and ran to the gate, where firefighters cut the padlock and hustled the bleeding boy to an ambulance, Pisano said.
"If [Mullen] hadn't done what he did, we're very convinced that, due to the severity of the injuries, the boy would have died there,'' Pisano said.
Pisano said that after interviewing several people in the area, police learned that the two boys frequently hang out at that location and were friendly with the dogs. The 14-year-old knew the dogs by name, had pictures of them on his Facebook page, and had been seen in the past letting the dogs lick his hand through the fence, the boy's family told police.
His 12-year-old friend told police that on Thursday night the pair had scaled the fence by climbing a snow bank and jumping onto a retaining wall connected to the fence. The friend told police that he had stayed on the wall while the 14-year-old had jumped down into the yard and played with the two dogs for almost a minute before one of them began attacking him, Pisano said.
"A lot of his clothes were shredded off,'' Pisano said. "There were a lot of wounds all over his body and a lot of blood.''
The owner of the property had kept guard dogs in the yard for three decades, and in all that time police never received a complaint about him or the dogs, Pisano said.
Mullen was uninjured, but is currently taking a short break from service, Pisano said.
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