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What's New in the NICU? (Horse Neonatal Intensive Care Unit)
The neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, is that special place in a veterinary clinic where premature, critical, and newborn foals receive intensive, round-the-clock care. The NICU handles everything from breathing problems to heart conditions to disease and more. If a foal's in trouble, it's the place to be.
Researchers from the U.K. (A. Borchers et al.) recently examined the survival and diagnoses of sick neonatal foals in a study published in abstract form in the Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. They identified the primary diagnoses for foals entering the NICU.
Thirteen university and private equine referral hospitals enrolled 643 foals over the 2008 foaling season to be considered for the study. Researchers identified approximately 25% of these foals as having perinatal asphyxia syndrome, commonly known as dummy foal syndrome (possibly resulting from inadequate oxygen supply at or around the time of birth), 16% as having diarrhea, 16% as having sepsis (blood infection), and 8-10% as being premature. The outcomes for these diagnoses were generally quite good: 90% of dummy foal patients, 60% of septic foals, 50% of premature foals, and 90% of foals with diarrhea were discharged.
So what has the new millennium brought to the NICU that has helped veterinarians reach these numbers? The age of information technology, instant communications, and medical innovations have had an impact on this critical unit of equine medicine. Add to the mix a more optimistic attitude toward treating these foals, and a great deal is new in the NICU.
The Information Age
The 21st century has brought with it an amazing ability to collaborate and exchange information. The Internet and e-mail, in particular, have allowed us access to a world of information at our fingertips. Pamela Wilkins, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM-LA, ACVECC, professor at the University of Illinois, has been involved in emergency care for many years. She says new technology allows her to easily connect with her colleagues in the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC).
This association is dedicated to advancing high standards of practice for those involved in veterinary emergency and critical care. It is also committed to promoting communication and dissemination of knowledge in relation to emergency and critical care medicine. The large animal group within the organization has been quite active, bringing many great minds together. Some of the new findings in neonatal care come from multisite collaboration between ACVECC members with similar areas of expertise.
In the spirit of promoting communications and knowledge, Wilkins called upon her network of ACVECC colleagues to answer the question, "What's new in the NICU?" Diplomates who responded included Fairfield Bain, MBA, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVP, ACVECC; Kevin Corley, BSc, BVMSm, PhD, MRCVS; Bettina Dunkel, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVECC, MRCVS; Eileen Hackett, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVECC; Brett Tennant-Brown, BSc, BVSc, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVECC; and Ben Buchanan, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, ACVECC.
The No. 1 new NICU development these experts say they have observed is the increased intensity and targeting of the foal-monitoring process. According to Wilkins, veterinarians have seen "improved and more intense cardiovascular monitoring with the goal of instituting early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) to improve survival. This is paired with improved understanding of fluid therapy."
This EGDT particularly helps patients suffering from severe sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis occurs when bacteria overwhelm the bloodstream and the body goes into overdrive to fight them. The EGDT involves balancing oxygen delivery with oxygen demand by monitoring cardiac (heart) measures and blood circulation. The technique was introduced in human medicine in 2001 by Emmanuel Rivers, MD, and it has since been applied to equine medicine. Veterinary use of this intense monitoring process has significantly decreased NICU patients' mortality rates. Better understanding of fluid therapies and electrolyte balances also has helped veterinarians provide rapid response to sick foals.
Expanding on the increased diagnostics and monitoring, Wilkins and her ACVECC colleagues also cited the "development and use of potential prognostic indicators such as lactate and glucose concentrations and their changes over time in response to treatment" as emerging NICU advances. Basically, the ability to monitor things like lactic acids and sugar levels in blood can help veterinarians immediately respond to foals in crisis. The Borchers et al. study, for instance, revealed a significant association between the level of L-Lactate (LAC, the ionized form of lactic acid) in the blood and foal survival rates. Neonatal foals with higher lactate levels, which meant there was either a lack of oxygen flowing to tissues or the tissues weren't using the oxygen efficiently, had a much greater risk of dying than those with lower levels. According to this study, LAC is likely to become an important monitoring factor for treating foals in the NICU.
Other observations from the ACVECC on NICU developments, according to Wilkins, include an "increased emphasis on nutritional support including refined parenteral (intravenous) nutrition and early enteral (oral) feeding for enterocyte (intestinal lining cell) health." Essentially, veterinarians are customizing foal nutrition to ensure the cells in the intestinal tract that absorb nutrition and water are as healthy as they can be. Neonatal foals provided with the correct nutrients to benefit the development of these cells will likely experience more positive outcomes. (For more information on nutritional support for sick neonatal foals, see TheHorse.com/11686.)
Wilkins also pointed out that researchers and veterinarians can now better recognize and define disease states such as ulcerative dermatitis, a probable colostrum-related skin disorder (similar to neonatal isoerythrolysis, or jaundice); neutropenia, a condition in the blood that shows an abnormally low number of neutrophils, which are the white blood cells needed to attack foreign bacteria in the bloodstream; and thrombocytopenia, where the patient has low blood platelet counts.
New information about all of these conditions has helped veterinarians develop improved treatment options. There also is a focus on "the potential importance of endocrine (hormonal) dysfunction in critically ill foals," according to Wilkins and her colleagues. In a study appearing in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2009, KA Hart et al. discovered that endocrine dysfunction occurs often in neonatal foals and that it negatively impacts both disease severity and survival rates. Certainly, more study of the endocrine system and of hormone imbalances is warranted based on these findings.
Medical and Technological Advances
On the medication front there has been a widespread discontinuation of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) use for foals with prenatal asphyxia syndrome, according to Wilkins. Her colleagues noted that the introduction of vasopressin as a useful pressor agent in foals is another great NICU advance. Vasopressin is a hormone secreted by the pituitary gland that helps control water retention by reducing the urine output; it also increases blood pressure directly. These substances offer more tools for the veterinarian to help balance what is going on in the foal's body. Another new treatment, says Wilkins, is the "use of doxapram constant rate infusion and/or caffeine in supporting respiration in foals without a normal drive to breathe." Unimpeded breathing is critical to the successful outcome of many NICU cases.
With surgery, Wilkins said the ACVECC group has seen an "increased emphasis on future athleticism, including improved management of cuboidal bone immaturity and septic arthritis (infection of joints)." The cuboidal bones, located in the carpus (knee) and tarsus (hock), are a common area of immaturity in foals, and these abnormalities can be challenging to correct.
Wilkins said several of her colleagues mentioned that another change in the NICU is a "decreased number of interventions for treatment of umbilical problems including umbilical abscess and patent urachus (a leaking umbilicus)." These types of surgeries sought to correct infected areas of the umbilical stalk by removing (the area) surgically, but these problems are now being treated medically with good success. The move toward more intensive medical monitoring has likely decreased the need for some invasive interventions.
Jaye McCracken, DVM, of Hagyard Equine Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., agrees that monitoring in the NICU has become much more intense. She sees several technological advancements as being very beneficial to NICU operations.
"The ultrasound in general has become as important as a stethoscope," says McCracken. "The addition of color Doppler ultrasound, which shows blood flow, has been a great help." She offers the example of a sick foal with a kidney condition: A veterinarian used to place a catheter in the urinary tract and would have to observe blood in the catheter to diagnose a problem. Now conditions such as this can be diagnosed with ultrasound. Another example is using ultrasound to monitor the lungs of foals with suspected Rhodococcus equi pneumonia.
Another monitoring tool that has gained prominence in the NICU is the pulse oximeter. This device indirectly monitors the oxygen saturation in a patient's blood. "It was traditionally used in surgery," McCracken explains, "but now it's used on sickbed babies. Using this tool we can easily determine if a foal needs nasal oxygen in an immediate and responsive way."
MRI is an additional innovation that has a place in foal critical care. While it is not used often due to its high cost, in cases of potential spinal cord damage an MRI can help a veterinarian distinguish between growth plates and fractures, which is difficult and in some cases impossible to do using a traditional radiograph (X ray), especially in young animals.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT, in which the patient is exposed to concentrated, pressurized oxygen) is another addition to the NICU that might be useful for treating dummy foals and foals with septic physis, or infected growth plates. But McCracken notes that it is sometimes difficult to make objective findings with oxygen therapy. For dummy foals, success seems to be related to the severity of clinical signs. If the prognosis is fairly good the HBOT accelerates the healing process. But foals that are in serious medical trouble often cannot be helped. McCracken has had great ¬success with the treatment of septic physis with oxygen therapy. Bain and others from the ACVECC also mentioned the use of hyberbaric oxygen in the treatment of septic arthritis and perinatal asphyxia syndrome as a development in NICU care. Studies are under way to determine whether HBOT is effective in controlled trials, corroborating field reports of the treatment's efficacy.
On the whole, McCracken has seen a decrease in the total number of foals admitted to Hagyard's NICU in recent years. She feels this is due to the struggling economy as well as the fact that field veterinarians can perform many more procedures, such as fluid therapy and antibiotic therapies, on the farm. Owners of foals admitted to the NICU tend to be better informed about foal care and are willing to spend the money to pursue positive outcomes. Even though some treatments can be performed in the field, the NICU is really the best place for a foal in crisis, due to the 24-hour monitoring and nursing care, as well as access to the best medical tools, she notes.
Finally, attitudes of both practitioners and owners seem to have changed in recent years, note our sources. Although the economy has made owners more cautious about expensive treatments, there seems to be a general shift away from the notion that sick foals are hopeless, says Wilkins. The information age, technological advances, and the increased success rates in foal treatment have made owners and veterinarians more likely to give a foal a fighting chance.
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While Jones brings a strong arm and accuracy on the mound, and range and speed in the outfield, what has allowed him to shine is his competitiveness.
"The thing about [Cody] is, it absolutely frustrates him to the max if he makes a mistake," head coach Matt Long said. "If he gives up a hit, he thinks he's lost the game. If he doesn't get a hit at the plate, he gets down on himself a little bit — but that's because he's so competitive. If I had to pick something about him that makes him a leader, it'd be his competitiveness. He's an easy-going kid outside of baseball, but when the game starts it's all about the win."
Jones has garnered respect from teammates and opponents alike for his ability on the mound. The senior, who signed with Crowder College in Neosho, Mo., is 5-0 in seven appearances with two complete games and three shutouts.
If those numbers don't grab people's attention, his 1.09 earned run average is as impressive as the fact opponents hit just .164 against him with an on-base percentage of .254. Throw in his 37-8 strikeout-to-walk ratio in just 32 innings pitched, and it's hard not to be impressed.
"I think I bring good pitching — more at pitching than at center field," Jones said. "But I think I bring good speed to center field, being able to go get the ball. My freshman year, I wasn't as good at pitching. Ever since then, I've been working with coach Long on my pitching. He's a great pitching coach, and he's helped me get better year after year. He helps me with my pitching and coach [Denny] McCrotty shows us videos and helps us out."
Jones' fielding percentage of .971 led Long to compare his centerfielder's play in center to one of the best to play at Russellville, Madison Beaird — who has a fielding percentage of 1.000 with the Wonder Boys this season.
"If you would have bet me $500 four years ago that we would ever have somebody that could cover center field like Madison Beaird, I would have taken that bet any day of the week," the coach said. "Cody, I'm going to put him right up there with Madison — and you know what Madison's done up at Tech. When the ball is hit between right-center and left-center field, sometimes our right- or left-fielders are a non-factor."
"The one year he was here I played behind him and didn't get to play that much," Jones said of Beaird. "But I got to watch how he hustled and how he laid out for every ball he could and his speed. I kind of try to play like that and hustle after everything — use my speed to the best of my ability."
One thing neither Long nor Jones mentioned was the Cyclone's contribution at the plate. Jones has hit .351 this season at the lead-off spot, with an on base percentage of .442. He has three RBIs and scored 26 times. The senior has drawn 12 walks to just four strikeouts.
The Cyclones will host Bryant in a game that will either clear or muddy the 7A/6A-Central Conference race tonight at M.J. Hickey Park.

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New for 2014
The 2014 Nissan Pathfinder adds a new supercharged four-cylinder hybrid powertrain in addition to the conventional V-6 gas engine. SL models are now available with the SL Tech Package, which includes navigation, a 13-speaker Bose premium audio system and an eight-inch touch screen.
Vehicle Overview
The 2014 Nissan Pathfinder is a midsize seven-passenger crossover, slotting above the five-passenger Murano and below the full-size Armada in Nissan's lineup. It is sold in S, SV, SL, and Platinum grades in front- or all-wheel-drive configurations.
The 2014 Nissan Pathfinder is available with a 3.5-liter V-6 making 260 hp and 240 lb-ft of torque and a supercharged 2.5-liter I-4 hybrid producing 250 hp and 243 lb-ft, and both are paired to a continuously variable transmission (CVT). Fuel economy is a 2014 Pathfinder strong suit, with the EPA rating front-drive V-6 models at 20/26 mpg city/highway and 19/25 mpg with all-wheel-drive. Pathfinder hybrids return the most impressive fuel economy at 25/28 mpg for front-drive crossovers and 25/27 mpg with all-wheel drive.
On the road, it's clear that the Pathfinder is no longer the same truck-based SUV that it was before, now favoring a smooth and comfortable ride. All-wheel-drive models provide the most capability since it gives the driver the ability to switch between front-drive, automatic all-wheel drive, and four-wheel drive lock modes. While both engines are fine, the hybrid is "clumsy" around town due to the engine stop-start system's abruptness, which caused noticeable shudders at low speeds. Additionally, V-6 models struggle at highway speeds due to the CVT's slow responses, making high speed maneuvers, such as overtaking, difficult.
Inside the Pathfinder, there is ample space for seven passengers and an intuitive infotainment system. Interior refinement is a 2014 Pathfinder strong suit with a "cabin that is devoid of excess wind noise even at 110 mph." Family usability is the Pathfinder's primary focus with an easy to access third row and a maximum cargo capacity of 79.8 cubic feet.
The 2014 Nissan Pathfinder has a five-star safety rating from the NHTSA (out of a possible five stars) and earned a good score in two categories that the IIHS has tested it in.
What We Think
The 2014 Pathfinder's evolution back into a crossover has turned it into a vehicle for families looking for all-weather capability, seating for seven, and an available hybrid powertrain. All-wheel drive models provide a good blend of refinement, family-friendly features, and all-weather capability in a refined crossover. However, in a 2012 First Drive review, we noted that the CVT detracts from the powertrain's usability at high speeds where "sudden requests for power at highway speeds are met with an unacceptably long pause before speed starts gathering." Additionally, front-drive models suffer from "considerable torque steer," making the all-wheel drive variant better to drive due to its ability to accelerate in smooth manner. Regarding the Pathfinder Hybrid, we said in a 2013 review that it lacks the refinement and smoothness of competitors from Toyota. Furthermore, it has limited benefit from a fuel economy perspective due to powertrain "compromises made for the sake of affordability" such as the air-conditioning compressor being connected to the gasoline engine.
You'll Like
- Driver-selectable AWD system with three modes
- All-weather capability of all-wheel drive models
- Refined cabin particularly in V-6 models
You Won't Like
- Unrefined CVT
- Abrupt engine stop-start system with the hybrid
- Front-drive models suffer from torque steer
Key Competitors
- Toyota Highlander
- Ford Explorer
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There are more than a few parallels between stalwart modern punk bands Green Day and Blink-182. Both are power trios who rose to prominence in the 1990s on the back of catchy and infectious pop-punk anthems that galvanized a generation of diehard alt-rock fans who still pack concert halls whenever their heroes go on tour.
During a recent interview with CBS Local, Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 addressed Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong's recent onstage tirade at a radio music festival, prompting the singer to check himself into rehab right in the middle of the band's extensive promotional activities surrounding the release of three new albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!.
"I don't know exactly what's going on. I saw what happened onstage, and then I saw the announcement like two days later or whatever it was that he was checking himself in to get help," Hoppus said when asked about the Green Day situation. "I think that's great if it's what he needs, and I wish them all the best. They're an amazing band and really cool guys, and I hope that all is good in their world.
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Realize that the number of followers doesn't necessarily translate to influence on Twitter. In examining the Top 10 Twitter champions based on the number of followers, according to Twitaholic, five factors stand out.
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1. Put out the red carpet for your family, friends and colleagues. Ask those people you know to follow you on Twitter. Seek them out on Twitter and follow them to allow for direct messaging as another communications channel.
2. Make your mark on the world. Think beyond social media. What are you known for? Where are you a tastemaker in the real world? Include music, television, books and politics.
3. Become a media personality. Create content for other media platforms. Have a media presence offline including television, newspapers, magazines and movies to build a following. Then, take a cue from the news where they promote their Twitter handle to attract their audience. (For example, @SamChampion.)
4. Invite others to follow you on Twitter in every communication. Include your Twitter handle in your email signature and email newsletters. Where appropriate, add it to other online communications such as customer service.
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Stewart succeeds John P. Rathbone, who will retire Nov. 1, 2013 after a 32-year career in the finance and administrative divisions at Norfolk Southern.
Marta Stewart joined Norfolk Southern in 1983 and served in several finance positions before being named Vice President and Controller in 2003 and then Vice President and Treasurer in 2009. She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from The College of William & Mary and is a Certified Public Accountant.
John Rathbone (left) joined Norfolk Southern predecessor Norfolk & Western Railway Co. in 1981. He served in several auditing positions before being named Vice President and Controller in 1992, Senior Vice President and Controller in 2000, Executive Vice President Administration in 2004, and Executive Vice President Finance and CFO in 2012. A native of Alexandria, Va., he earned a bachelor's degree in history and English from Virginia Tech and is a Certified Public Accountant.
"We thank John Rathbone for his leadership, counsel, and numerous contributions that have been instrumental in building today's Norfolk Southern," said NS CEO Wick Moorman." I am confident that our company's history of financial excellence will be in good hands with Marta Stewart."


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Very impressive yet again. I'm an avid DYI'er, probably to a fault. I'd like to use your concept in the future when I add a WFO to my arsenal. That's in the future though, other priorities lie ahead of me now.
It wasn't efficient enough so I decided to donate it back to the mud instead of taking it with me. When I go back to Neo I'm going to do it right.
great looking pies!! just a few questiones, how are you able to keep your dough at a specfic tempeture? Where do you get your cake yeast?Thank youVincent
Hi, I live in Orange County CA, would you happen to know where I can buy some cake yeast?I really would like to give it a try.Thanks, Vince
I'm using caputo (red bag.) epic failure with the dough last night! I think too much cake yeast, Ive got some Issues with my digital scale, I have the MY Weigh kd 8000, when i set it to grams it does not have the capability of showing tenths. The bulk process was no problem, so I then balled the dough then went to bed. Woke up the next morning to find a lot of activity in the dough, thought to my self this isn't going to be good, being that I wasn't going to start making pizza till 6:30 pm. Well needless to say by then, way to much activity with no rise when I put the pizza on the deck (780 degrees) do you have any experience with this type of scale? I do like the bakers % feature, whats the saying "when all else fails, read the directions"
I always like how Chau is willing to sacrifice anything just for the sake of an informative pic....although I'm sure this one still ate quite well....


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New overall BMW 60-130 record set by a twin turbo E36 M3 - 4.49The overall BMW 60-130 record has been broken by a twin turbo E36 M3. Yes, this car belongs to Mert Dastan. Not the most credible source in the BMW world and someone who has accrued a questionable reputation. Therefore, we advice readers to keep these questions of credibility in mind when reviewing the provided details of this run. The car is a Euro spec E36 M3 with twin 68 mm turbos, custom intercoolers, and an 8900 rpm redline. The car was run on C16 at 27 psi. There is no video of the run and the owner admits there is nitrous on the car although claims it was not used.
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Apex Speed Technology - 05-22-2011, 11:40 PM
No matter what you think of him, Mert's cars are the real deal and he has taken a lot of time to learn how to get the most out of them....
ItalianStallion - 05-23-2011, 08:16 AM
This car is retarded fast! Anything sub-5 is just insane. 1/4 mile in mid 9 sec @ 145+ traps, right?
Twinturbom3 - 05-23-2011, 09:36 AM
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Twinturbom3 - 05-23-2011, 10:08 AM
The main goal was to dive into 4s. cannot describe how happy I am now. We did test each weekend and were deep into this test.
We were so much into the 60-130 tests, and now I feel so goood.
Will post vid, photos, not that difficult. Just ordered some more video systems.
The E36 M3 euro, bought it brand new 1998 july, was individual paint, I have taken it off the truck coming from germany.
So the E36 M3 has a big meaning for me, was 23 when I bought it brand new. Never intended to strip it. Wanted to keep the interior close to stock.
There is not even a single gauge inside.
But will make my E36 lighter for sure. But not stripped, just lighter....there is a difference between light and stripped.
My E46 M3 is stripped. Thats no secret. Its lighter than a stock E46 M3.
regarding n20, tried to spray 2 times, both trials ended with massive loss of traction. Once n20 hits, the car has jumped into the the other lane.
This kind of loss of traction was never experienced before. It scared me, cause not just the back of the car, also the front all together loose grip. It does make me feel scared.
Conclusion, will spray n20 in the coming days with the newcoming tires. Will make it lighter. And hopefully come with better times.
Note: Why dont you do your best? There is no best at a given time. You can continuously improve.
I have a very long list of things to do, which will help me to go sub 4.49 seconds 60-130.
I promised to dive into 4s. I did 4.49 / 4.54 / 4.60 / 4.70 all at the same day @ 91 F ambient.
Just the slope by itself, it was 0,49 % incline, if I can get a 2 % decline, which is very easy to attain, my times will be less than 4,49 s. Imagine my time was with a 0,49 % UPHILL. From a 0,49 % uphill down to a 2 % downhill the times will change a lot.
Now will continue to work hard to make sub 4.49s
Thanks God, there is so much left to do to improve both M3s.
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first off, I realize that some of this is not relavent to boats on here, but if you're like me, you can appreciate any motorized machine getting upgraded
so here we go...
adding more pumps, larger bag to regular side and a complete audio makeover. started with the ballast first. pulling the floor up took almost 2 days(working a few hours here and there) to completely strip the inside. all that remains are the 2 side cushions and the seatbacks. I'm convinced some of the guys building these boats are contortionists....
got the floor up and started working. boat came stock with 4 rule fill pumps-1 to each rear bag and 2 for the front ibs and same setup draining the system. replaced the regular rear pump with a tsunami and tee'ed off the goofy intake with another tsunami to the regular side. this gives me 2 fill using 1" hoses to the bag and 2 drains using 3/4". hard tank is still filled first off a 3/4 line from the regular rear tsunami then begins filling the bag. the end goal was dual lines all 1" to the bag. came out pretty good and tried to keep the look of the wiring factory.. drilling the hole in the hull this weekend for the additional drain and need to add the relays under the dash for the touchscreen to activate the system. trying not to add any switches-keep it as factory feeling as possible.
thanks to MLA on here for the parts so far.. stereo starts next week when ballast is done..
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awesome Sandm, I'll be watching this very closely and taking copious notes for my upgrades (gotta wait for the boat first ). Just to make sure I'm following were the stock pumps Johnson's, and then you replaced them with Rule 1100's, or is the pic not accurate?2006 Outback V - Gone
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I was under the impression that johnson/rule were one in the same. they are the factory pumps. I did have to move one of the front pumps around.
the original orientation was regular rear was in the back where the tsunami is, the tee'ed thru hull was one of the front pumps, the one closest to the gas tank is the other front and remained there. the other one that is running to the front on the drivers side was originally the goofy rear pump. I had to swap front/goofy with each other to get it all to fit.
installing additional drain pump tomorrow. I'll snap a pic of the location of that one. had a hard time finding a location. it's real tight working in the back. I'm envious of the mojo lockers. they are massive and would be easy to work in ..'06 Supra Launch 20SSV-gone but never forgotten
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This is what I was referring to. Johnson makes aerator pumps in addition to impellar-driven pumps.
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very cool, learn something all the timeMalo <--- Means--Evil or Mean One. This explains a lot.
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they are johnson 1000gph pumps.
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Those red pumps are the OEM pumps and are the original design of Mayfair. Mayfair was absorbed my Johnson Controls a few years back and they have maintained the same Mayfair bilge and live-well pumps that now carry the Johnson name. On a side note, Rule and Jabsco are under the same parent company called Xylem Flow Control.
got a chance to work again today.
bag is all plumbed in. 2 tsunami pumps with 1" hoses should fill quickly. I swapped the fill/vent on the outside top of the bag per mike's advice as I had a little leakage out the vent when full..
location for the second pump. might need to replace it with a higher flow as it's pumping to the other side of the boat and has an uphill jaunt to get there.
and now for the hard part...
drilling the new thru hull. went pretty good. I think..
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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - A local college student is joining a growing group of women and turning to the wold wide web to help pay for cosmetic surgery. One website caught her eye and she hopes to have her breast augmentation paid for, in full, by complete strangers.
"I just want to make a little bit of changes to my shape," said Denali, 27, who declined to give her last name. The Palm Beach County college student wants to improve her appearance and she wants to do that by getting breast implants. She is hoping that complete strangers will fully finance the procedure through the website 'MyFreeImplants.com'.
Denali hopes to raise $6,000 for her cosmetic procedure.
"There's a lot of women on there that have a goal of $9,000 or $10,000 and they haven't met that so I just want to keep it simple and low where I know that I can make that goal," she said.
The website takes donors and women like Denali and, lastly, surgeons like Dr. David Shuter, M.D., of Jupiter, who has already operated on at least one woman who financed her breast augmentation through the website. Shuter says, after the procedure, he was even referred to other website members. "Any plastic surgeon in town, every plastic surgeon in town, could be involved in this type of situation," Shuter said.
Other Palm Beach County plastic surgeons believe they have already operated on many women who have used this method of financing. "They've been given money for the breast surgery. I did not inquire where the money came from but it could have come from this website," said Dr. Greg DeLange, M.D., who has a practice in Palm Beach Gardens.
After just a day as a member of 'MyFreeImplants.com', Delani has a long way to go to reach her financial goal. But she hopes, as odd as it may seem, that there are people who are willing to help her.
"It's good to know that there are genuine people and that they really want to help," she said.
The contributions received online are kept in an escrow account until the women reach their goals. Surgeons say they would never proceed with any procedure, like a breast augmentation, unless the candidate is healthy enough and medically prepared to go under the knife.


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Clarkson University Takes Second Overall in USA Racquetball National Intercollegiate Championship
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The Clarkson University Racquetball Club brought home impressive hardware in the 40th USA Racquetball National Intercollegiate Championship.
Traveling to Tempe, Ariz., at the end of March for a long week of competition, the team was second only to Baldwin Wallace College as a team, as well as for men's and women's for the entire Division Two League.
The tournament included the best racquetball athletes from 50 colleges across the nation competing in the final collegiate tournament of the year.
Clarkson brought a team of six men and three women, each playing in both singles and doubles at six different skill levels.
The team did extremely well in the first round of play, knocking off impressive opponents, like University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, University of Utah, and Arizona State University.
In a later round, the men's number-one seed from Clarkson, Marco Fontana, lost to the eventual national champion, Jansen Allen, from Colorado State University.
Notable results included senior mechanical engineering honors major Anthony Sinopoli of Brockport, N.Y., taking first place in the whites division; junior mechanical engineering major Lucas Matacchiero of Valatie, N.Y., fourth place in reds; junior mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering honors double major Cassandra Miller of Essex Junction, Vt., first place in reds; junior mechanical engineering major Janine Amell of Schenectady, N.Y., third place in reds; and junior chemical engineering major Alicia Wariner of Long Beach, Calif., third place in blues.
The team combined for a total 365 overall points.
The USA Racquetball National Intercollegiate Championships features nearly 350 of the best young college racquetball players representing 50 colleges and universities from across the country.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Front row: (left to right) Alicia Wariner, Cassandra Miller, Marco Fontana, Vanessa Aukshunas, and Siavash Namiranian. Back row: Janine Amell, Luke Matacchiero, Anthony Sinopoli, Jordan Yagoda, and Jon Bennett.


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Samsung is building a 10-story complex in the heart of Silicon Valley that will be home for some of its memory and display researchers and a whole lot of ecosystem efforts.
SAN FRANCISCO — Across town from the big mound of dirt where contractors are starting work on Apple's new circular headquarters, Samsung is building its own high-tech temple. In a press reception here, a handful of execs outlined plans for memory and display R&D there.
These big construction projects are monuments to the fact that Silicon Valley remains one of the hot global hubs in the electronics business. Like so many other companies, Samsung wants to tap into the top-drawer pool of component, system, and semiconductor talent here -- and, of course, a lot of angel and VC investors.
Since 2012, the executives said, most of Samsung's employees have worked outside Korea (190,000 of 286,000 last year). But some of the brightest lights are still in and around Seoul. For instance, even though the San Jose display lab headed by Brian Berkeley will take the lead for issues like user experience, interfaces and formats, and driver electronics, the core display technology remains back at home base.
Interestingly, Berkeley said the emerging OLED technology now accounts for 29% of all mobile displays (by dollars, I assume) and was a $10 billion business last year. Prices are still high, keeping OLEDs from reaching their full potential in TVs, he said, but yields for the displays are on the rise.
The memory lab is headed Bob Brennan, a smart-as-a-whip system architect. But he tips his hat to the geniuses back in Korea who have been hammering out technologies like vertical NAND flash and new ways to scale DRAM.
Most of Samsung's chip development is in Korea, too, though it has a growing team near its fab in Austin. Interestingly, several sources said Samsung had an ARM server SoC project in Silicon Valley, but it was cancelled recently when the customer, a big local datacenter (Google? Facebook?), opted out of the project.
I asked Hong Hao, a newly named senior vice president of Samsung's foundry business, about the ARM server project after he told me he used to run an SoC program in San Jose. He just smiled broadly and said he couldn't comment on rumors.
Hao showed a chart of Samsung's foundry offerings. It consists of three flavors of 28nm offerings (maybe more to come) and two of the 14nm FinFET variety. The missing planar 20nm node is one Samsung supposedly keeps only for internal use.
It will be interesting to see who gets to a 16/14nm FinFET node next -- Samsung and its partner Globalfoundries or TSMC. Though TSMC is reportedly getting the Apple iPhone 6 chip business, the Samsung/GloFo deal was supposedly motivated to get big deals from companies such as Qualcomm. Of course, Intel will beat all of them; it is expected to start making its x86 chips at 14 nm late this year after many delays.
This is clearly an industry of fewer, bigger players cultivating expanding ecosystems and making fewer, bigger bets.
Someday visitors will probably be able to see Intel's headquarters from the top of the new Samsung building, but that new "spaceship" Apple is building will be just beyond the horizon -- and appropriately, so given the inscrutably secretive company it is.
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In November indie rockers Sleigh Bells accused Demi Lovato of sampling their songs "Infinity Guitars" on her song "Stars," without proper credit or compensation.
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Lovato's producers Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub responded, issuing a statement to Billboard, explaining, "We did not use any samples in Demi Lovato's song 'Stars.' Demi was also not involved with the production. She only wrote top line." The production, they said, had nothing to do with samples from Sleigh Bells' music or any band's for that matter.
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Manchester United's first, last and only line of defence
"We're your first, last and only line of defence," rapped Men in Black's Agent J, assuming full responsibility in protecting the world from extraterrestrials. When the bigger tests arise, Manchester United's back four will have to realise that they're mostly alone in their battles, too; for the midfield, even in containing two largely defensive-minded players in Michael Carrick and Paul Scholes, can only do so much.
It is very easy to point to the return of those on the sidelines as the solution to United's current defensive woes; Saturday's 4-2 win over Stoke City would suggest that they do need Chris Smalling, Phil Jones and Nemanja Vidic back fit – and they do – but, in considering the quality of the (yes, depleted) back four they have to choose from, the reasons for conceding are not as clear-cut as they appear.
Jonny Evans and Rio Ferdinand were among United's best performing players in 2011/12 but it is difficult to tell whether this season will be the same; for every bad performance like the one against Tottenham, there were wins over Liverpool and Newcastle United before and after. Against Stoke, a single error for Michael Kightly's goal at 3-2 was enough to act against the two, but in reality it was a single blemish in an ultimately satisfactory performance. Rafael da Silva and Patrice Evra, too, looked assured once United saw off Stoke's early pressure.
United's failure to prevent Charlie Adam's £10million crosses from coming into the box were neither Evans' or Ferdinand's problem; in fact, as dangerous as Stoke were from the cross, United's defenders and David de Gea made sure to limit the end result of them after Wayne Rooney's early own goal. It is far too simplistic a view to lump everything with those easiest to blame; but when Stoke attacked, and attacked well, it was because they took advantage of the way the home side set up in attack where even the midfield had wandered forward: and the back four would then find that they are indeed the first, last and only line of defence. Sometimes, you can get away with it. They did at Old Trafford.
"There is no doubt our attacking play is the best part of the team at the moment. Our forwards got us out of trouble again because our defending has been slack," Ferguson conceded, and though it would have been remarkable had he said any different, it is matter that must be explored further. When you have Danny Welbeck, Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie up top it shifts responsibility on the midfield — and Carrick and Scholes would have to pull the strings to make them of any use, which they did well, in knowledge that the visitors can hit them on the counter and expose any temporary imbalances, any gaps. Whilst potentially game-defining, it is the only real downside to United's bold, bad-ass emphasis on attack.
United have now scored six goals in their last two home games, conceding five, losing one, winning the other. It is as if Sir Alex Ferguson recognises the risks that comes with it but is willing to keep going, especially when, sandwiched between the two games (Spurs, Stoke), was an impressive 3-0 away defeat of Newcastle. It is why, with leaders Chelsea coming up, we may see United retain the front three that have, nearly on their own, maintained the side's credentials when pitted against Manchester City and also Chelsea.
"We should accept that he'll try to build a team for the next three or four years," said Dimitar Berbatov's agent Emil Danchev in March 2012. According to Danchev, in selling Berbatov, Ferguson wants to "change the style of play of United, to put more speed in the game", which should translate into being less pragmatic, a style the team would adopt post-Ronaldo. Could it be that United want to have another go in being the team they were in 2007/08? Certainly, they have the players for it.
What makes the front three of Van Persie, Welbeck and Rooney so impressive is that they look comfortable no matter what the game demands of them; they respond well to the actions of the opposition, whether they are enjoying a lead or just a prolonged spell in possession, and use their initiative when required. The trio would pop up on the left and, crucially, appear not be fazed by it. Indeed, it was the impressive Van Persie whose stunning cross found Rooney in the box to make it 1-1 (and goals 2,3 and 4 would have the three scoring, assisting or both). Even Antonio Valencia was willing to let them in his home on the right and, fed up of being a recluse, found himself in the middle, and, in keeping with the theme, playing well. It's just a little too similar (but it is important to stop short in danger of speaking prematurely) to the way the double-winning team of '08 set up where Carlos Tevez, Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney and Nani rotated positions and seemed so at ease with the whole thing. Of course, though, if it were so easy, every team would do it.
What United have to do now is now is find something resembling a balance that doesn't hinder any of its stars. Failing that, they could always score one more than the opposition.
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"Ferguson wants to "change the style of play of United, to put more speed in the game."
The current midfield lacks the speed and technique to win the ball back and move it forward through the middle. OK against Stoke but not against the top 5 teams that can control possession as we've seen. Give Man Utd the Chelsea midfield and they'd run away with the league.
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Australia name Agar for India A clash
Nineteen-year-old spinner Ashton Agar is one step away from making a remarkable Test debut on February 22 after being named in Australia's side for the three-day match against India A starting on Saturday.
The West Australian left-armer, who made his first-class debut less than a month ago, went on tour as a net bowler while players were still arriving in Chennai following commitments with the one-day series at home against the West Indies.
However Agar's impressive performance in taking 1-27 off eight overs in the two-day match against the India Board XI this week convinced selectors to keep the teenager in the squad and give him every chance to cap a fairytale rise to international cricket with selection for the opening Test in Chennai.
Captain and selector Michael Clarke said Thursday's training session in Chennai was only the second time he had faced the left-arm slow bowler.
"Ash bowled really well in the two-day game," Clarke told AAP on Friday.
"Everyone knows he's very talented. He's had success for Western Australia (eight wickets at 30.12 in two matches).
"I spent some time with him yesterday in the nets and tried to get him to watch some of the Indian spinners in the nets and see what he was learning from what they were doing.
"He's going to be a very good bowler.
"He wants to learn - he wants to get better.
"You never know what could happen.
"He's very lucky now. He's been given the opportunity to play in this three-dayer."
Clarke said Agar was "certainly an option" for the first Test.
"We have (left-armer) Xavier Doherty, we have (offspinner) Nathan Lyon, we have (offspinning allrounder) Glenn Maxwell and we have Ashton Agar who all bowl spin," Clarke said.
"We want to make sure we're doing everything in our power to make the right decision for the first Test."
Lyon, who took 3-69 off 13 overs in the two-day game, has been named for the India A clash.
Doherty, who was rested from the two-day fixture after only arriving in Chennai the night before the game, will also play against India A in a "bowl-off" for spots in the Test side.
The selection of allrounder Moises Henriques, who claimed 4-12 against the India Board XI, indicates the NSW seamer is well-placed for a possible Test debut next Friday ahead of uncapped Victorian allrounder Maxwell.
Naming Henriques for the first Test would give Australia the option to play two specialist quicks and two spinners.
Middle-order batsman Clarke (hamstring stiffness) and opener David Warner (fractured thumb) will both skip the three-day game.
Clarke said he'd continue to build up his running fitness for the first Test.
Aust XI team to play India A: Shane Watson (capt), Ed Cowan, Phil Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Matthew Wade, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, Ashton Agar, Xavier Doherty, Nathan Lyon.
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Bublè took the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon stage on Friday night (April 26) dressed as a chicken to perform fun.'s "Some Nights." With help from Fallon and Parks and Recreation's Amy Poehler, the fun. tribute band, aptly named CLUCK., (definitely don't forget the period at the end) ba-cawed their way through the feel-good anthem. Watch below.
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Last month, Fallon debuted his clucking skills with the all-chicken Lumineers tribute band, The Chickeneers, which featured Blake Shelton and Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman.


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"We are very happy with it," said Paly coach Scott Peters. "One of the reasons we received the No. 1 seed was the wars we won against Gunn. They are a tough team that I expect will make it to the championship game. It is pretty cool to have two teams from Palo Alto in the top three seeds in the bracket."
The Vikings are expected to open against No. 8 seed Milpitas (13-11) from the SCVAL El Camino Division.
"I believe that for our girls to be successful in the playoffs, we have to treat each opponent as a dangerous threat," Peters said. "Once you start to play the game, your seed doesn't matter."
In the top half of the bracket is Gunn (17-5), which received the No. 3 seed and could face No. 6 San Benito (16-8) in the quarterfinals. A victory by the Titans likely would earn them a date with No. 2 Gilroy (21-1) in the semifinals, while Paly could face No. 4 Oak Grove (20-4).
The perfect scenario for Palo Alto, of course, would be to meet Gunn in the championship game on March 5 at Santa Clara University, with both teams then advancing to the NorCal playoffs. The Vikings already have beaten the Titans twice this season.
"I think the girls have done a great job this year of preparing to play each opponent and not taking teams for granted," said Peters, who hasn't enjoyed this much success since his 2006 team went 25-5, won 10 of its final 11 games, and lost to Mitty in the CCS Division II semifinals. "We always say before every game: 'This is the most important game of the year.' And the girls have bought into this. This has helped our focus throughout the year."
This may be unlike any Paly girls' team previously. The team has no individual star, no big point-scorer, and no one for opposing teams to concentrate on. This is a team in every sense of the word.
Eight players return from last season's 13-11 squad that lost in the second round of CCS. The Vikings picked up transfers Sydney Davis and Josie Butler, plus freshman Danielle Butler to go with veterans Lindsay Black, Shamelia Clay, Katerina Peterson, Emilee Osagiede and Mariah Philips. Add in Stephanie Allen, Mary Albertolle and Sam Borsos and Peters has a deep lineup that pressures opposing teams into mistakes.
Palo Alto is only 6-8 in CCS play during the past 10 years and has never played in a section championship game. The Vikings are only two wins from reaching the finals and only three wins away from making school history with their first-ever CCS crown and NorCal berth.
The Palo Alto girls aren't the only No. 1 seeds from the local area. The Sacred Heart Prep and Pinewood boys also received top seeds in Division IV and V, respectively, while the Pinewood girls are No. 1 in Division V.
The SHP boys (22-2) won't open until Saturday, where they will play the winner of No. 8 Half Moon Bay (18-9) and No. 9 Monte Vista Christian (15-14) at Menlo School. A victory means a likely date with No. 4 Carmel (20-4) in the semifinals. Sacred Heart Prep is the defending champion and a heavy favorite to repeat.
In the half of the bracket, Menlo School (12-13) is seeded No. 6 and opened last night.
The Pinewood boys (19-5), who finished second to SHP in the West Bay Athletic League this season, will begin defense of their No. 1 seed on Saturday at St. Francis-Central Coast Catholic in Watsonville. The Panthers will face the winner of No. 8 Jewish Community (15-7) and No. 9 Alma Heights (11-11), both from the Private Schools Athletic League.
Should Pinewood reach the semifinals as expected, it will face another WBAL team —either No. 5 Priory (10-11) or No. 4 Crystal Springs (12-12). Pinewood has beaten both teams twice already this season.
Also in Division V is No. 11 Eastside Prep (7-18), which eliminated No. 14 G.B. Kirby of Santa Cruz, 59-31 on Tuesday. Kyle Carter led Eastside with 14 points. The Panthers needed a victory on Thursday to advance to Saturday's quarterfinals against No. 3 Mid-Peninsula (19-2).
In boys' Division I, No. 11 Menlo-Atherton (13-13) opened with a 46-38 win over No. 14 Carlmont (16-9) on Tuesday.
In boys' Division II, SCVAL De Anza Division champ Palo Alto (18-6) is seeded No. 4 and will open Saturday, most likely against No. 5 Cupertino (17-7), the only team to beat the Vikings during the league season. The quarterfinals and semifinals will be at Foothill College.
The Vikings, however, are in the same half of the bracket as No. 1 Mitty (25-2), the team that eliminated Paly in last season's semifinals. Should both teams win on Saturday, they'll meet in the semis again on Tuesday, also at Foothill.
The girls' Division V race once again looks to be between Pinewood (21-5) and No. 2 Eastside Prep (19-7). Pinewood will have homecourt advantage in the quarters and semifinals, opening Saturday against either No. 8 Summit Prep (10-7) or No. 9 Anzar (8-14). Eastside Prep will face the winner of No. 7 Jewish Community (13-6) and No. 10 East Palo Alto Academy (7-4) while No. 3 Castilleja (12-14) will take on either No. 6 Pacific Collegiate (13-10) or Kehillah Jewish (9-8).
Should Eastside Prep and Castilleja advance as expected, they'll meet in the semifinals on March 2 in Los Altos Hills.
Pinewood earned the No. 1 seed by beating Eastside Prep, 43-40, for the WBAL playoff title last Saturday.
In Division IV, two more WBAL teams will be vying for honors there. Sixth-seeded Sacred Heart Prep (12-10) opened Thursday at home against No. 11 Harker (20-4). On Saturday, No. 4 Menlo School (16-10) likely will face WBAL opponent Mercy-San Francisco (18-8), seeded fifth, at Notre Dame-Belmont.
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Cops Are the Only Ones Who Can Watch the John Edwards Sex Tape Now
A North Carolina judge ordered Andrew Young, the former Edwards aide that wrote about the tape the Senator made with Rielle Hunter, to turn the tape over. He has to do it with a platoon of storm troopers too.
The judge ruled today that Andrews should go with a police-appointed private security guard to his safe deposit box and hand the tapes over to the guard. The rent-a-cops will also collect and erase images from the tape off Andrews lap top, get the log book from the safe deposit box, and take "other items" from their home. They will also probably leave muddy tracks all over their nice clean carpets. Jerks. Young is being sued by Hunter, Edwards' mistress and baby momma, for invasion of privacy and return of the tape. A judge originally gave Young until Wednesday to turn it over or else face jail for contempt of court, but now his personal army has been invited to the party as well. This better be one damn good tape!


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The Phillies Are Down, But Not Out
Despite having two of their best players sent to the DL today in Chase Utley and Placido Polanco, the Phillies still came out swinging against the Reds. More importantly, it was the back-up players who made the biggest impact on the game. This gives Phillies fans hope that even with 7 players on the DL, they can still produce.
At the very bottom of the line-up, both Brian Schneider and Wilson Valdez hit 3-run homers in the 9-6 win over the Reds. Schneider went above and beyond, with three hits in the game and scored on the Valdez homer. The homer by Valdez was his 3rd of the year and only his 4th since 2004.
Joe Blanton kept the Phillies in the game, allowing just one run until the dreaded 6th inning. That has been his Achilles heel all year long. With 2 outs in the 6th, Blanton gave up a single, a walk and then a 2-run double. He did finish with 7 2/3 innings allowing just those 3 runs, so this is progress for Blanton.
But leave it Brad Lidge to try and throw away all that hard work and momentum for the Phils. With two outs in the 9th and a 3-run lead, Lidge gave up a walk, a single and then a 3-run homer to Joey Votto to tie the game and send it to extra innings. It was his 2nd blown save of the year in 7 opportunities.
So the depleted Phillies offense would have to rally yet again, and they did. In the 10th they faced Arthur Rhodes, a former Phillie, who had not allowed a run in 33 consecutive innings this year. Ryan Howard doubled, Jayson Werth walked and then Raul Ibanez stepped to the plate.
The home plate ump had a moving strike zone all night long and when a low 0-1 pitch was called a strike on Ibanez, manager Charlie Manuel finally lost his mind. He jumped out of the dugout and ripped CB Bucknor a new one, getting him tossed out of the game. But the managerial fireworks sparked the Phils in a big way. Ibanez took the very next pitch to center for an RBI double. Ben Francisco, another bench player, hit a single to score Werth and then Valdez struck again with a bunt that scored Ibanez.
And just like that, the 3-run lead that Lidge blew was back with a 9-6 score. JC Romero was called on for the second save attempt and got the job done without issue. Thank goodness for JC! You are my hero :O) Please tell Lidge that he owes you, big time.
The Phillies will play the Reds again tomorrow with a quick turnaround at 12:35pm. Roy Halladay will pitch and try to sneak the Phils out of town with a series win.
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To replace Utley and Polanco, Greg Dobbs was brought back and is clearly still having issues. He had only 2 hits in 17 at-bats during his short time in AAA and went hitless tonight in 3 attempts. Brian Bocock was also added to the roster. At AAA this year, Bocock hit only .177 in 209 at-bats so I cannot imagine he brings much to the table either. But at this point, beggars cannot be choosers. The options are limited.
The Phillies are going to have to rely on their bench players if they are going to contend. They did it in 2007 as Tadahito Iguchi and others filled in admirably for players who went down, like Utley who got hit with a pitch, breaking his hand. Can they do it again in 2010? We shall see.
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In fact, Kansas City Southern Railway, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, and the United Transportation Union are heading to federal court over the railroad's announcement it intends to install inward facing cameras in its locomotive cabs as a safety overlay to monitor crew behavior and train-handling techniques.
At issue is the railroad's quest for improved train safety and efficiency vs. a train crew's right to privacy, as rooted in the Constitution's First, Ninth and 14th Amendments. Courts have not always found a constitutionally protected right of privacy in the workplace, as evidenced by widespread us of cameras recording employee and patron activity in banks, restaurants, and other shops.
When Canadian National was found to have installed a hidden videotape camera in a train-crew locker room in Pontiac, Mich., in 1999, a state court ordered the camera removed on privacy grounds. CSX rethought its decision to install a hidden microphone in crew rooms. And Burlington Northern (now BNSF) was rebuked by a federal court in the 1980s when it sought to use drug-sniffing dogs to uncover narcotics in the belongings of train crews. Privacy vs. train safety and adherence to operating rules was at the core of each dispute.
For sure, substance abuse among those in safety sensitive positions is unacceptable and a clear and present risk to public safety. Following a 1987 collision on the Northeast Corridor in Maryland that killed 14 (where Conrail engineer Ricky Gates, impaired by narcotics use while operating three locomotives running light, missed a "slow" signal, ran through an interlocking, fouling the main line, and was rear-ended by Amtrak's train 94), Congress authorized mandatory drug and alcohol testing for railroaders in safety sensitive positions. A "right" of privacy gave way to a more compelling "right" of public safety.
More recently, the use by train crews of electronic devices while on duty—such as cell phones, texting devices, and electronic games—was deemed a deadly risk made horrifically clear in 2008 when a Metrolink engineer Robert M. Sanchez, distracted while texting, ran a stop signal and slammed his packed commuter train head-on into a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, Calif., killing 25 and injuring 135. The Federal Railroad Administration followed with an order banning the use by on-duty train crews of all personal electronic devices. Score another victory for public safety.
Railroads, understandably, seek every means to ensure train crews are not impaired or otherwise distracted while on duty. CN and RailAmerica went so far as to commence testing of train-crew hair samples, saying evidence of narcotics use remains in hair for up to a month vs. only a week in urine samples that typically are used in mandatory drug tests.
Kansas City Southern is not the first railroad to install inward facing cameras, which are intended to catch train-crews violating the electronic device ban, engaged in unauthorized napping and other unfocused or improper behavior. Los Angeles Metrolink installed such cameras following the Chatsworth collision—and there they remain. Kansas City Southern said it intends for one camera to face sideways recording actions of the engineer and conductor, and a second camera trained on the locomotive's control panel.
Having a federal court decide the fate of inward facing cameras in the locomotive cab presents risks for the railroad and unions.
Following the Chatsworth crash, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended all railroads install on locomotives inward facing cameras. While the NTSB has no regulatory authority to enforce its recommendations—the FRA must make such a ruling—hanging heavy on the unions' challenge is a Supreme Court decision (Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council) that held actions of expert federal agencies are to be given "deference" by the courts. An NTSB recommendation could be deemed by the courts as sufficient reason not to interfere with Kansas City Southern's action.
The court may also take note that with some 163,000 miles of track, railroads operate the largest largely unsupervised shop floor in America, and that the cameras are simply a surrogate for management presence in the cab.
Still, the FRA has not acted on the NTSB recommendation, and is thought unlikely to do so under Administrator Joe Szabo, who spent much of his career as a union lobbyist opposed to privacy intrusions on his members. Yet, it was Szabo who instituted the ban on the use of electronic devices by train crews.
The unions surely will assert there are alternative, more positive and less intrusive means of supervising train crews—that railroads should devote greater energy to reducing a more common cause of accidents, crew fatigue, plus provide more intensive and remedial employee training. The unions may also point out that soon-to-be installed Positive Train Control will provide an effective safety overlay that will stop trains in the absence of appropriate action by train crews.
A potential difficult obstacle for Kansas City Southern will be the unions' allegation that the railroad is compelled to bargain collectively over changes to existing work rules, although the railroad contends installation of the cameras is a "managerial prerogative" not subject to collective bargaining. By going to federal court to resolve the issue, the railroad avoids a threat of a work stoppage that could send fearful customers to other modes.
Whether interest-based bargaining—whereby both sides, choosing to avoid confrontation, seek mutually to solve the legitimate concerns of the other—would have produced a non-confrontational result cannot be known. However, major railroads, including Kansas City Southern, successfully engaged in interest-based bargaining prior to implementing remote control operations a decade ago.
There is another rub here. Federal regulations prohibit operation of the train by other than a federally licensed locomotive engineer. Trains do not make periodic stops to allow the engineer to use the cab's toilet, so it is widely ignored—but not publicly acknowledged—that the engineer turns train operation over to the conductor when periodically using the toilet. With cameras, which never blink, recording every activity in the cab, the question becomes whether an engineer will halt his train periodically to use the toilet—slowing average train speeds and increasing fuel burn—or allow himself to be documented by camera of a willful violation of federal regulations that can result in suspension, dismissal, and loss of a federal license to operate a locomotive.
Inward-facing cameras are another example of the divisions and dynamics existing in today's workplace. Yet to come—and this is a "when" rather than an "if"—is the battle, after installation of Positive Train Control, over whether freight trains can operate safely with a lone crewmember rather than the mandatory two crew members now required under collective bargaining agreements.
So, here's looking at you, kid. Now let's see who blinks first—or is ordered to blink first.
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CFP Board Participates as a National Partner to Encourage Savings
Washington, DC, February 22, 2011 – As many Americans have found during the economic crisis, having savings means peace of mind and financial security. But as a new survey shows, more needs to be done to encourage people to save, even if a little at a time.
"Over the last couple of years the savings rate of Americans turned positive as they reduced debt and stashed money away in response to the economic uncertainty," said CFP Board's Consumer Advocate Eleanor Blayney, CFP®. "Now the challenge is to keep people saving even as the economy improves."
Blayney offered three easy ways to save as part of a financial plan:
On Tuesday, the American Savings Education Council and the Consumer Federation of America released the findings of their fourth annual national survey assessing household saving. The findings reinforce the need for savings as Americans report that they are feeling less secure about their futures.
The survey found, among other things, that:
"The slow pace of the economic recovery reinforces the need for Americans to save, even if a little at a time," said Nancy Register, associate director at the Consumer Federation of America. "Through automatic savings and a sound financial plan, we hope Americans will be able to build a nest egg and be prepared in case disaster strikes."
CFP Board is a national partner of America Saves Week, a nationwide initiative first organized in 2007 that aims to promote personal savings, improve financial education and provide opportunities to save. In 2011, America Saves Week occurs from February 20-27. The week features more than 1000 local and national partners and is a coordinated by America Saves and the American Savings Education Council (ASEC). America Saves was originally organized by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) over a decade ago.
Consumers have many resources they can access to learn about increasing their savings. AmericaSavesWeek.org offers a variety of ways for the everyday person to learn more about topics like net worth, retirement and debt management. And Savings Fitness: A Guide to Your Money and Your Financial Future – a joint project of the CFP Board and the U.S. Department of Labor –
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Garden Talk: July 20, 2006
From NGA Editors
Poison Ivy Gets Pumped Up
One of the scourges of summer is dermatitis from contact with poison ivy. The leaves, branches, and roots of this perennial vining weed contain an oil (urushiol) that, once it penetrates your skin, can cause itching and scratching for weeks. Worse yet, the oil remains active on clothes, tools, and gloves and can reinfect you even when you?re not working in the garden.
As if poison ivy isn't bad enough already, researchers from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, predict that due to increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, poison ivy will be growing even bigger and faster. For the past six years, researchers have monitored poison ivy plants growing with present CO2 levels and those given artificially increased levels to mimic future predictions. They have found that poison ivy with high CO2 levels doubled its growth rate and produced more of the pain-inducing oil than control plants.
Researchers suspect that all woody vines can put the increased CO2 to use in producing more leaves and vines because they don't have trunks or other supports that need a share of the carbon.
For more information about this research, go to: Science News.
The First True Red Hydrangea
One visit to your local garden center and it?s clear that mophead hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) are very popular. While pink or blue flowers have been the most popular colors, plant breeders also have been working on new red selections. Up until now, most red hydrangeas have produced flowers that are more lavender or deep pink. However, ?Hornli? breaks the mold. Hydrangea macrophylla ?Hornli? produces fire engine red flowers on a dwarf plant that's perfect for a container or flower garden. ?Hornli? grows only 2 feet tall and wide and produces 3-inch-diameter blooms on old wood, so it will need protection in colder areas. It?s hardy in USDA zones 6 to 9.
For more information about ?Hornli? hydrangea, go to: Park Seed.
Veggies Help Prevent Clogged Arteries
It?s common knowledge that eating vegetables is good for us, and a recent study helps us understand at least one reason why. In laboratory tests on rodents, researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine found that mice given a diet including vegetables, particularly peas and carrots, had healthier arteries compared to mice with no vegetables in their diets.
One half of the mice received 30 percent of their calories from vegetables, while the other half received no vegetables. After 16 weeks researchers measured cholesterol to estimate the extent of atherosclerosis (plaques in the artery walls) and found that the fatty deposits in the arteries of mice that had eaten vegetables were 38 percent smaller. This is the first study to suggest that eating vegetables may reduce atherosclerosis and prevent strokes and heart attacks.
For more information on this research, go to: Wake Forest University Medical Center.
Add Water-Absorbing Gel After Planting
Water-absorbing crystals are often used to keep containers, hanging baskets, and pots moist during dry summer weather. The traditional way to apply the crystals is to mix them into the potting soil before you plant. Every time you water, the gel contained in the crystals absorbs moisture and expands. The gel slowly releases water over time, keeping the soil moist longer and requiring you to water less.
But what happens if you are so busy in spring you forget to mix in the crystals? A new product will help you add gel to the potting soil even after planting. The Gel-Jector is a caulking-sized tube filled with water-absorbing gel. Using a caulking gun, you simply inject the gel 4 inches deep into the container and let it work its magic. Use 4 trigger squeezes for a 12-inch-diameter container.
For more information on the Gel-Jector, go to: Kinsman Company.


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'Charles in Charge': Where Are They Now?
From 1984 to 1990, "Charles in Charge" was one of the most beloved sitcoms on television, surviving a brief cancellation thanks to a superloyal fan base. Starring Scott Baio, the show was set in a New Jersey college town where student Charles worked as a live-in babysitter for two families. Nearly 30 years after the show's debut, fans still have fond memories of the comedy, which featured an impressive list of guest stars, including future A-listers Meg Ryan and Matthew Perry.
Today, while several of the show's alums have left the acting arena altogether (Sandra Kerns, April Lerman, Jonathan Ward, and Michael Pearlman all said goodbye to Hollywood), a few "Charles in Charge" stars are back on TV once again: Baio is the star and executive producer of the Nickelodeon show "See Dad Run," while his co-star Nicole Eggert is currently competing on the ABC diving show "Splash."
As we celebrate the recent trend of 1980s nostalgia programming, here's a look at what happened to the stars of "Charles in Charge."
— Victoria Leigh Miller, Yahoo! TV