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Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble catches an instantaneous
glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular cluster M13,
one of the brightest and best-known globular clusters in the northern sky. This glittering
metropolis of stars is easily found in the winter sky in the constellation Hercules and can
even be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.
M13 is home to over 100,000 stars and located at a distance of 25,000 light-years. These
stars are packed so closely together in a ball, approximately 150 light-years across, that they
will spend their entire lives whirling around in the cluster.
Near the core of this cluster, the density of stars is about a hundred times greater than the
density in the neighborhood of our sun. These stars are so crowded that they can, at times,
slam into each other and even form a new star, called a "blue straggler."
The brightest reddish stars in the cluster are ancient red giants. These aging stars have
expanded to many times their original diameters and cooled. The blue-white stars are the
hottest in the cluster.
Globular clusters can be found spread largely in a vast halo around our galaxy. M13 is one
of nearly 150 known globular clusters surrounding our Milky Way galaxy.
Globular clusters have some of the oldest stars in the universe. They likely formed before
the disk of our Milky Way, so they are older than nearly all other stars in our galaxy.
Studying globular clusters therefore tells us about the history of our galaxy.
This image is a composite of archival Hubble data taken with the Wide Field Planetary
Camera 2 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Observations from four separate science
proposals taken in November 1999, April 2000, August 2005, and April 2006 were used.
The image includes broadband filters that isolate light from the blue, visible, and infrared
portions of the spectrum.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgment: C. Bailyn (Yale University), W. Lewin (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology), A. Sarajedini (University of Florida), and W. van Altena (Yale University)


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Warwick Davis would prefer Star Wars to Harry Potter
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- 23 September 2013
Warwick Davis has confirmed he would rather make a return to the 'Star Wars' franchise he credits with changing his life than star in another 'Harry Potter' movie
Warwick Davis would rather have a future in 'Star Wars' than 'Harry Potter'.
The diminutive actor has had roles in both franchises but insisted he would rather return to his roots with the science fiction sagas upcoming new trilogy rather than the new wizard series based on JK Rowling's book 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'.
Warwick - who played Ewok, Wicket, in 1983's 'Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi' and had three small roles in 2001's 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace' - admitted it was a tough choice but stuck to his guns.
Speaking to the Independent on Sunday newspaper, he said: "If I had to choose between a new 'Harry Potter' [film] or a future 'Star Wars' ... Hmm ... It's a tricky one.
"But I would have to go with the planned 'Star Wars' films by [director] JJ Abrams. It's where I started and it would be wonderful to be part of the new trilogy."
The 43-year-old star insisted his role in the last film of the original 'Star Wars' trilogy was his defining moment and a life-changing experience.
He explained: "My life changed when I got a part in 'Return of the Jedi'. I'd already seen 'Star Wars' when I was seven, so it was a powerful experience being 11 years old, and seeing the actual film set and meeting my heroes.
"I was intrigued to see how films were put together and edited, and it was the first time I had come face to face with other little people. It made me realise I wasn't alone."


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Engadget.com reports that U.S. American Comedian Ellen DeGeneres apologized for making fun of the iPhone. In her "The Ellen DeGeneress Show " she aired a funny Apple spoof. Sadly it seems Apple did not find it too funny. And so she seems to have been pleased to apologize… The vid is courtesy of Warnerbros. Sadly […]
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In the midst of our deck building project we had an unexpected but welcomed surprise in the form of some free sod. How did we happen upon free sod? Well it pays to have a Ray Ban outlet relative in the construction business who was working at a job hat ordered too much. They were about to throw out almost 2 pallets full of perfectly good sod and we snagged it for free, all for just knowing someone in the right place at the right time.
Scoring the free sod was a blessing for our wallets in the long run. However, in the short term it left us scrambling to get the remaining white stones removed and a truckload of top soil brought in to frantically finish prepping. On an particularly hot and steamy Saturday morning a large truckload of topsoil arrived and we were ready to get prepping.
Sod needs to be laid as soon as possible after it's cut. Ideally you would lay it the same day, so once we were left with the sod we knew time was ticking to get the stuff down in place and start watering. To prolong the lifespan of the sod until we were able to lay it all out we unrolled a number of pieces in the shade and continued to water it to prevent it from drying out, turning yellow and ultimately dying on us.
The guys (and Nikolas too) work hard to move stone as quickly as possible, which unfortunately still left us with a terribly rocky base. To remedy the unfriendly soil conditions we lay down around 6 inches of top soil over the entire area to be grassed and raked it out by hand so it was a smooth and even foundation.
The old stones had a reflective quality in person that blinded you, throwing a force field of heat back at you. That combined with a severe lack of shade made it feel like you were sitting on a sheet of tinfoil rather than a refreshing retreat near the lake. By just removing the stone and adding topsoil the area already looked a million times better than before despite it's still unfinished state. Throughout the day work continued. Trimming out a few odd and ends and creating a nice edge for the sod through the walkways and gates so that everything would look nice, clean and ultimately finished. Once all the prep work was complete the sod was ready to be laid out. We were hoping and praying that it would survive despite the longer than ideal time it hand been waiting.
Although quite heavy, sod is relatively easy to lay down once all the prep work is done. You simply set it down, roll it out and stagger where the ends meet so that it's laid out in a brick pattern. When it comes to a corner we'd lay it up to the edge and cut it around the object. Probably not how the professionals would do it but we've found that a long serrated bread knife works wonders for cutting through the grass and roots.
Overall most of it survived and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out. Over time some of the spots unfortunately did yellow on us due to the time it spent hanging out waiting to be set down. We remedied that by adding in some top soil and grass seed. By next spring you won't even be able to tell which was sod and which was patched by us.
In the end we love the new found lushness of the space. So much better than the barrenness of the white rocks before.


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Easy. Cheap. Adorable. How can you pass up something like this? I found places online where they sold the tutorials on how to make these glass pendant necklaces. Here's mine for free. If you make something using this tutorial, please upload pictures of it in our Flickr group to show it off to everyone. You may be featured on Simply Modern Mom.
- paper
- exacto knife
- ruler
- cutting board
- glass tiles* (rectangular, circular, or square shapes available)
- bails* (I used aanraku small size)
- clear glue (I used Diamond Glaze. Mod Podge will work too, just not as well.)
- super glue or E6000
- toothpick
- wax paper
- ball chains, ribbons, necklaces
- paper towels
*glass pendants and bails can be found pretty much anywhere online… Amazon, Etsy supplies, etc. I have also found bails at craft stores.
1. Using the exacto knife, cutting board, and ruler, cut your papers to the size of your glass tiles. I prefer to cut my papers slightly smaller than the tiles (about 1mm shorter all the way around). I had squared tiles, so I rounded the corners of my paper a bit to fit the tiles better. You can use just about any kind of paper, although tissue paper may be to thin and transparent. Suggestions: magazine pages, scrapbook paper, origami paper, cardstock.
2. Clean the glass tiles with a slightly damped paper towel or cloth. Allow to dry completely.
3. Lay a sheet of wax paper over your work space, the glue doesn't stick to it. If your glass tile has a frosted side, you will want the paper to glue to the frosted side. Apply a layer of Diamond Glaze or Mod Podge to the frosted side of the glass tile. Gently place the paper onto the glue with the designs facing down. (The polka dots in the picture below is the back side of my pendant. The design is on the other side of paper.)
4. Quickly wipe off excess glue with toothpick and dry paper towels. Turn the tile over and press down on the glass tile hard to allow the layer of glaze to even out. Allow to dry completely, approximately 30 minutes to an hour.
5. Working on the back side of the pendant again, put another layer of glaze over the back of the paper to seal it. If you are using the Diamond Glaze, you will only have to do this once. If you are using Mod Podge, you will need to use a brush and do a few coats allowing drying time between coats. I also applied glaze on the sides of the paper to protect the edges. Use a toothpick and paper towel to wipe off excess glaze or glue. Also use the toothpick to pop any air bubbles in the glaze. Let it completely dry, approximately 5-6 hours or longer.
6. Once it dried, clean off any excess glue anywhere on the glass tile with a lightly damped paper towel or carefully scratch it off with finger nails.
7. Glue bails to the back of the pendants at the top. Make sure you check your designs and note which side you would like to have as the top of the pendant. If you use super glue, apply a small amount of the glue to the back of the tile and the bail. Work quickly as it dries fast. You will also need to get it right the upon first contact because super glue doesn't allow much time for adjustments. If you use E6000, squeeze a pea size onto wax paper. Then use a toothpick to apply a small amount of it to the back of the tile and on the bail.
8. Let it dry for about 30 minutes to an hour. Then put on ball chains, ribbons, or necklaces.
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31-Jan-2003 -- In the course of a marathon 4000-kilometre trip through northern Nigeria I had already garnered the first successful land-based Confluence in that country a couple of days previously (see 10N 9E).
We left Jos on a Friday morning in our little Suzuki headed to the northwest, hoping to reach Sokoto by nightfall, where we would spend the night and continue the next day to our home in Niamey, Niger. I had already checked my mapping software for possible Confluences and had found none, but as luck would have it, as we reached the crossroads town of Pambeguwa we left the basemap's track and headed to the north, passing the towns of Dutsan Wai and Soba. I checked the coordinates and found we were approaching the confluence of 11N 8E, and quickly put in a new waypoint for it. We were following what appeared to be an old track on the map and the Confluence looked to be right off the road on the 5 km scale.
Approaching the town of Maigama I zoomed in and found the point to be just a couple of hundred metres off the road to the north. When we came abreast of the Confluence we were just in the centre of the town and I began to think of the possible complications of searching for Confluences in inhabited areas, but decided to try it anyhow. We turned around and took the first dirt road north into the town. Before too long and after weaving slightly to avoid granaries and buildings we came to the outskirts of the town and pulled up before a deep ditch. The Suzuki would have had no trouble negotiating it but by this time we were drawing a very large crowd of young people. The GPS indicated just 23 metres to the Confluence, straight ahead, so I got out with my camera, leaving the GPS attached in the car, and hurriedly crossed the ditch and snapped the approximate point before it became covered with people.
When I turned around, the car was surrounded by a crowd, all shaking hands with my wife! They had thrown their bicycles on the ground behind us as well, so we were trapped! Not knowing much Hausa and not wanting to explain what we were doing, I motioned for them to pick up the bicycles and we backed out, turning around in a tight space and negotiating the buildings before turning right on the pavement and picking up speed, waving to the bewildered crowd behind us! Not the way I prefer to do Confluences, but at least we bagged it!
As a footnote to our Nigerian confluence experiences I shot a picture of a license plate from Nigeria's Kogi State, which should become a favourite of confluencers, as the motto on their state's plate reads, "The Confluence State." Of course they are referring to the confluence of the Niger River with the Benue coming from the east, but I certainly wouldn't mind having such a plate on my car, would you? Unfortunately we were not able to visit Kogi State on this trip. Maybe in the future we will be able to bag a Confluence in the Confluence State.


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BUFORD, Ga. -- The family of an adorable toddler has received great news.
11Alive first introduced you to Asher Nash last week. The 15-month-old's mother said he hadn't been submitted for a job by a children's modeling agency because the child has Down syndrome.
After hundreds of thousands of people rallied in support of Asher, he managed to land an interview with OshKosh B'Gosh.
On Friday, the family received the good news: Asher has been offered an ad campaign with OshKosh for the spring of 2017!
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His mother, Meagan Nash, admitted to being a little nervous when they went in for their meeting with OshKosh's CEO earlier this week.
As it turned out, she had no reason to worry.
"He went in there and he was Asher," the proud mother said. "He was waving, he was blowing kisses! The CEO held him and he didn't want to leave."
OshKosh told Meagan they wanted to feature Asher in an ad after they saw what he could do.
His big sister Addi agrees.
His family wanted to highlight his disposition, and his disability.
"Even though he has Down syndrome, he's not different," his sister Addi said. "He's just Asher."
The family wanted to get him in to ads to raise awareness that people with Down syndrome are just people.
"Not just in advertisement, but in schools, in their work place, in the community they live in," Meagan Nash said.
And it's worked. Meagan says she's received thousands of messages from all over the world about the impact Asher has had.
"They say, 'You made it all the way over here, we're so proud of what you're doing,'" she said.
Meagan Nash said she's proud of Asher too.
"He's bringing joy to people," she said.
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Since breaking up in 2003, the Dismemberment Plan has become one of those bands that has benefited from time away from the spotlight. The quartet's name often appears on lists of acts underappreciated in their time, more influential than marketable, inspiring a small but passionate fan base.
Yet the Washington, D.C., group wasn't completely under the radar in the '90s and early '00s. The last time Travis Morrison and company visited Southern California, they headlined the Mouse House, and at the time of their breakup, the band had a significant following thanks to tours with Pearl Jam and Death Cab for Cutie.
Splitting up didn't help their commercial status, but D-Plan's legend has only grown over the past decade, their impact seen in everyone from Interpol and much of the post-punk revivalist outfits that still aren't out of style to the flash-in-the-pan dance-punk scene that gave rise to the Rapture and Liars. The band's angular melodies and off-kilter rhythms leave it akin to math-rock that followed, while its bass-heavy studio polish and idiosyncratic sense of humor could draw comparisons to Primus in the '90s.
That's a lot of pools to have dipped feet into, and though this kind of unclassifiable amalgamation is admirable to other musicians, Dismemberment's lack of broad appeal is easy to understand. Things haven't exactly improved since they've returned. Despite receiving considerable notice upon their reformation at the start of 2011, with a notable appearance at Pitchfork Music Festival later that year, the group's current comeback album, Uncanney Valley, and subsequent support tour, which played Hollywood's Fonda Theatre on Thursday, hasn't captured widespread attention. Not as much as the band deserves based on its history and absence, anyway.
In front of a crowd that has aged along with the band – they, too, have tacked on years without looking or playing the part – opening cut "Do the Standing Still" was less effective as an inciter than as an observation of reality. The newer material is interesting because of the incorporation of drum machines, establishing a distinct identity apart from their previous four works, the older stuff is so much stronger that many Uncanney tracks served mostly as opportunities for people to get drinks or smoke cigarettes.
But it didn't take long for passions to stir and the realization of the rarity of the performance and amiability of the band to sink in. Morrison often displayed a goofy, self-satisfied smile, unabashed in his joy that people still care about his music and show up to see it performed, even when the venue is at half-capacity, as it was this night.
Songs from the band's two seminal collections, Emergency & I (1999) and Change (2001), saw fans break free from their stationary state and start pogo-hopping while singing along to favorites "Ellen & Ben" and "Back and Forth." There are unsubstantiated rumors that D-Plan will be back in spring for sets on the polo fields in Indio; "What Do You Want Me to Say?" alone would catch the ears of teenagers wandering through the Coachella crowds looking to be inspired.
Opening the show was Telekinesis, the project of Michael Benjamin Lerner, here playing with three additional touring members (including Wild Flag's Rebecca Cole) and offering selections ranging from strong cuts off this year's Dormarion, particularly "Power Lines" and "Ghosts & Creatures," to a Guided by Voices cover.
Lerner is a good songwriter who nonetheless always seems to be about five years too late. He's still putting out records with indie mainstay Merge and getting coveted supporting spots on tours like this one, yet seeing Telekinesis never really take off, commercially or creatively, over the past half-decade makes one wonder how long Lerner can keep this going. Look how hard it's been for the Dismemberment Plan, and they've got a deeper resumé.
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This question comes from an unanswered question on Math Stack Exchange.
A two-component link in $\mathbb{RP}^3$ is any embedding $S^1\uplus S^1\to \mathbb{RP}^3$. Two such links are homotopic if there exists a homotopy between the maps such that the images of the circles remain disjoint at each intermediate stage. (Note that each circle may pass through itself during the homotopy.)
What is the set of homotopy classes of such links?
If either of the circles is nontrivial in $\pi_1(\mathbb{RP}^3)$, then it seems to me that the possibilities are completely determined by the linking numbers of the various components of the preimages in $S^3$. However, if both of the circles are nullhomotopic then the situation in the cover is much more complicated.


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The all-inclusive Caribbean resort, Almond Casuarina Beach, now open and has become the fifth all-inclusive Almond Resort.
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Upon arrival, we were met by our driver who took us to the Casuarina by Limo. What a surprise. Our driver Rodger was excellent. Lots of changes since we were there last.
New Building and we had ocean front. Amazing
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All food was great. We also dined at Almond Beach Village (Italian) and Almond Club. They carry most Top Shelf brands, limited choice in after dinner drinks.
Beach was rough but I liked it because I love to body surf and boogie board, Not too good for swimming. Pools were great. They have a small pool for children, which was nice.
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Looking at what's reported in the NOAD, one of the meanings of implicate is the following:
convey (a meaning or intention) indirectly through what one says, rather than stating it explicitly; imply: by saying that coffee would keep her awake, Mary implicated that she didn't want any.
Is implicate used as a synonym of imply, or are the two words used in different contexts?
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Gough Whitlam became Australia's 21st Prime Minister on 5 December 1972. His Labor government, the first after more than two decades, set out to change Australia through a wide-ranging reform program. Whitlam's term abruptly ended when his government was dismissed by the Governor-General on 11 November 1975.
The public lives of Gough Whitlam and his wife Margaret extend over half a century. After serving in the Royal Australian Air Force, Whitlam joined the Australian Labor Party in 1945. He became the Member for Werriwa in Sydney's south in 1952, retaining the seat in 11 more federal elections over the next 25 years.
Whitlam led the reform of the Labor Party platform during the long years in Opposition. As Prime Minister he immediately set about implementing a reform program that included strengthening Australia's status by making Queen Elizabeth II Queen of Australia. His government drew on international agreements to develop programs on human rights, the environment and conservation.
Margaret Whitlam played an important role as a political and prime ministerial wife. An outspoken public speaker, broadcaster and columnist, she accompanied Gough Whitlam on his countless overseas travels. As a qualified social worker, she was particularly interested in social conditions. Their public lives continued after they left The Lodge in 1975. Mrs Whitlam died in March 2012.
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It was about time. I truly think it was a month or so past due to take out the trash, but finally the era of the "convoluted contract" is over in Tampa Bay. Finally there is some finite closure to the whining and egotistical demands made by Hank Blalock on at least two opportunities before the Tampa Bay Rays reluctantly brought him up with the Big team. Finally there will be so joy in Rays-ville for the might Blalock is gone lock, stock and bat barrel.
With the Rays finally pulling the trigger and designating him for assignment, they have effectively sent Blalock home to Ranchero Santa Fe, California to re-think his logic to getting back to the Major Leagues full-time. But hopefully, it will not be with the Rays. The team could still offer him a Triple-A deal, but I hope Blalock decided to move in another direction…far away from Tampa Bay. This action was really past due in my mind based basically on his blatant disregard for protocol and using the media to spin his wheels in motion back to the Major Leagues.
The Rays front office finally reached down deep inside their mindset and saw a mediocre utility player who basically verbally extorted them in to compliance to the Majors again, then appeared in only 25 Rays games. The Rays could see that their "Less than a Million Dollar Man" was in fact an overpriced benchwarmer who produced only a .254 average with a lone Home Run and 7measily RBI while up with the Rays. Here was a guy who tossed out accolades and performances, but then looked like a wet firecracker when needed. It was a great inexpensive experiment, but had horrendous results.
This was the guy the Rays chose to take the place of another "B"-list player, Pat Burrell instead of other capable MLB quality players stirring the pot in Durham. Former MLB players Dan Johnson and Joe Dillon, who also were having breakout seasons at Triple-A were bypassed for the charming vocal (sarcasm) renditions of Blalock. Either one of the above mentioned hitters would have been an improvement over Mr Blalock, and all three of them can play multiple positions on the field.
Some team around the game might need a average bench bat or a utility player like Blalock, but I hope the rest of the MLB paid close attention to the series of farces Blalock the negotiator played on the Rays management. Hopefully Blalock will play it smarter next time and let his bat do the talking. Some will throw the blame of the end of Spring Training rant, plus the May manic cry for promotion to 'bring me up or let me go" towards his agent, Scott Boras. But it was Blalock who stood firmly behind those words and quotes. If he felt Boras had pushed too hard, he never voiced that opinion or showed an ounce of remorse.
It was Blalock who thrust his chest out like he was the Rays answer at their dismal Designated Hitters spot., I would characterize Blalock's Rays tenure as lukewarm ( at best). But there will be those voices heard loud amongst the baseball world that think Blalock was about to break out after posting a 7-19 (.368) mark with 3 walks over his last 9 Rays games. Combine that with his 2010 InterLeague mark of 8-23 (.357) with 5 walks and his only Home Run off Houston's Bud Norris, and some might say this Rays move was a tad bit premature.
By the Rays deciding to reactivate Gabe Kapler for the Disabled List last night, and send Blalock packing, it might speak volumes about what the Rays expected out of Blalock after all his distractions and banter.
It seemed that Blalock used his mouth to sign check his talents could not cash with the Rays. I am so glad Blalock was designated during an away series and not a home game. Now Blalock can slither away in peace without a throng of Rays fans shouting or throwing fake love towards him in exchange for a parting gift autograph . Some might see this as a extreme measure by the Rays to break a cursed losing streak. The reality is that Blalock has been a part-time player during his brief stay when the Rays needs a full-time leader and DH right now.
When Blalock first signed with the Rays I was hoping he left his bad baggage still in Texas and did not bring his brash, hard nosed attitude with him to Port Charlotte this Spring. But we all know how that worked out as Blalock cried and whined like a little child when he was not awarded one of the final roster spots. Immediately it threw up huge red flags to me of his past Rangers rants. I smelled danger on the horizon, but the Rays took their lumps and finally got him to agree ( after a nice $$ bump) to go to Triple-A and wait his turn.
Then in May, Blalock wanted to either be in a Rays uniform, or be let go to shop his talents elsewhere, and the Rays let him saunter into the Rays clubhouse on May 15th, as former Ray Pat Burrell was packing his bags.
J. Meric /Getty Images Immediately he was on the clock (with me) to prove he was the solid choice. Just because you work out and carry a strong work ethic doesn't mean it translates into instant game time production. Blalocks' gun was not loaded with blanks, but his hit and miss mentality began to grow thin with the Rays, and they cut the cord…….thankfully.
Blalock might go on to prove the Rays wrong, and that would be good for him and his career, but his time here in Tampa Bay is over now. Who knows if he might mimic fellow former Rays DH Burrell and find a spot to rejuvenate and rebuild his career. All I know it is time to finally rest easy and know that the Blalock experiment is over in Tampa Bay.
No longer will we see a guy who promised results swing and miss in a critical moment (15 K's in 63 appearances). No longer will we see a guy brought in to help produce runs have a lower Slugging Percentage than Carlos Pena. No longer is their sorrow in Rays-ville…for the might Blalock has gone home. Do not let the door hit you on the way out.


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Been throught the good ad bad with this system Medtronic so this is there web information page (Source)
Been throught the good ad bad with this system Medtronic so this is there web information page (Source)
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Had a physical Therapist do a range of motion before the spinal injection and one after. All I know is my spasms responded to the therapy and were within the guidelines required by Medicare.Originally Posted by jessie.gray
Remember money is the main factor required to receive this treatment. The operation cost close to $60,000 and it cost approximately $4,000 to refill my pump every 6 months.
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I take a small dose of oral Baclofen for just this reason. By small I take 10mg at 6:00am 10mg at 2:00pm and 20mg at 10:00pm. I need more at night too because of more activity at night. This oral dose lets me to always have fresh Baclofen and a prescription to use incase of a malfunction.Originally Posted by jessie.gray
I had to ask for these consideration they were not offered. The down side it took 2 year of a weaker formulation in order to refine the dosage. Meaning I had to go in for a refill and reprogramming every 6 weeks, until my oral dosage and Infusion System were complimented.
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How long have you had this pump? Does it stick out a lot on your side? Any problems with it yet?Originally Posted by Apparelyzed
I have had 2 baclofen pumps since 1998. I like to travel, and in the near future may be in SE Asia for an undetermined amount of time. I would like to stay in another country for more than 6 weeks, and wondered what the best way to figure out how to get re-fills while I am there. Anybody know? I am a world traveller, which is a big accomplishment for me because I am a quadrapalegic with severe CP. So, I am ready to take my travels to the next level and stay away from Oregon for more than the 6 weeks that my pump goes between re-fills. Any online databases or something that list "service stations" for the pump?
I would like to add a short response. Prior to getting my baclofen pump, of course I was on oral baclofen and found out that oral baclofen destroys your liver. I was upset not having been told this information before I was on it for several years.
I am very pleased with the baclofen pump, I just wish they lasted for more than five or six years.
I asked a question here recently about the effects of baclofen on the liver. According to Dr. Wise, baclofen "is not known to be hepatotoxic or renal toxic at 120 mg/day". Who told you that oral baclofen destroys the liver?Originally Posted by Chari
Another question for those who've had the pump for a while. Does having the pump restrict your range of movement at all? If you twist around a lot or are very active, is the catheter more likely to slip out of the spine?
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They can have it deliver bolous amouts any time in any amount to get you off orall dose at bedtme or wheneverOriginally Posted by knowthill
Scottsdale, AZ
Make the best out of today because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come. Nobody knows that better than those of us that have almost died from spinal cord injury.
Hi,Originally Posted by tigger74
So far the Codman pump has been fine, and is not noticeably bigger than the Medtronic pump.
I have not found any of the pumps restrict my movement, however, if you have sensory sparing, the pump may make sleeping on the same side as the pump is implanted a little uncomfortable, but you do get used to it.
In the UK, these pumps, Medtronic and Codman and the refills are fitted and maintained for free under the NHS.
The pump, I have a Meditronic, it does stick out some, it does get in the way if you can bend over, but,,, it does help, and it is easier than taking oral Baclofin. I've turned mine down {had it done} as low as I can go. Believe me I know it, it is a double edged sword, more strength, more spasticity. I'm on the edge right now, my goal is to come off of it someday, today is not the day. It's made me progress the way I am today I can't really get that mad at it.


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Let $X$ be a discrete random variable with possible values $\{x_1,\ldots,x_n\}$, and let $p$ denote the probability mass function of $X$. In addition, denote $p_i=p(x_i)$.
The entropy of $X$ is defined as follows $$H(X)=H(p_1,\ldots,p_n)=-\sum_{i=1}^n p_i\log p_i$$
I'm looking for a low degree (up to $\log n$) polynomial $P(p_1,\ldots,p_n)$ which provides as good as possible approximation for the entropy of the distribution.


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I could watch this all day. Honestly you could compare Bird highlights to Jordan ones. Only difference is instead of dunks it's passes. The pass at 1:38 could be the greatest ever.
tb727 says:
Not sure if Bird is the best ever. Spanarkel had a few good years. Same with Birdsong :D
JR says:
For some odd reason I'm having a hard time finding many Spanarkel highlight videos.
tb727 says:
There's gotta be some. Well at least some of him dancing.
I SO wish he played for the Celtics. Seriously was Chris Ford better than him?
Karl Dillinger says:
No Jordan is the best ever without a doubt, but Bird's highlight reels can rival anyone's even Jordan's.
Three Toe says:
How can one define "best ever" when either could be better than the other one, depending on the team around him. In a one-on-one, Jordan v Bird in both of their primes, maybe Jordan takes it, but in actual basketball, it's hard to say elite player A is strictly better than elite player B.
Sometimes I don't focus on best as much as on "changed the game forever". There are very few guys that can say that.


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Chocolate New Year's Hourglass
COUNTING DOWN the minutes until the start of 1998 will be sweet indeed… if you include this chocolate treat among your festive decorations! The hourglass confection is the work of our kitchen crew, who reveals that the design tastes as good as it looks. That's right—it's completely edible! And, though it appears time-consuming, the figure is easy to make.Mostly, it's a matter of forming cones from chocolate using kitchen funnels, then assembling the pieces.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Total TimePrep: 45 min. + chilling
MakesYield: 1 hourglass
- Materials needed:
- 1 pound white candy coating, melted
- 1/2 pound milk chocolate candy coating, melted
- 2 large pretzel sticks (each 7 inches long x 3/8 inch wide)
- White candy coating curls and shavings, optional
- Two plastic funnels (each about 4 inches wide)
- Waxed paper
- Masking tape
- Small metal spatula
- Bowl
- Cup or glass
- Sharp knife
- Pastry brush
- Serving plate
- Foil doily (optional)
- Directions: Place waxed paper over tube end of each funnel; seal with masking tape. Spoon white candy coating into funnels and spread with spatula as shown in photo A at left, forming an even layer on all surfaces.
- Invert funnels over a bowl and tap gently to release excess coating. Turn upright and balance funnels in cups or glasses. Refrigerate for 5 minutes. Repeat coating and chilling process twice (tube ends should be completely filled after all layers are complete). After the third layer, chill for 15 minutes or until completely set.
- Remove tape and waxed paper from tube ends. Gently push shell away from the tube end toward the cone. Holding the outside of the funnel with one hand and the inside with the other, twist shell a quarter turn to release the funnel (see photo B above right). Place cone side down on waxed paper. With a sharp knife, cut ends to within 1/4 inch of cone and discard; set cones aside.
- Draw two 6-inch circles on a piece of waxed paper and place on a greased baking sheet. Evenly spread thick milk chocolate candy over each circle (see photo C above right). Refrigerate for 5 minutes. Remove waxed paper; return circles to waxed paper and set aside.
- Dip pretzels into milk chocolate coating and place on waxed paper to set. Drizzle with white coating.
- ASSEMBLY: If desired, place doily on serving plate. Place one chocolate circle on doily, smooth side up. Brush the edges of one cone with white coating and attach to chocolate circle.
- Brush a small amount of white coating on the tube end of one funnel; attach tube ends of both funnels together (see photo D at right). Hold for 1 minute; let set. Brush edges of second cone with coating and place second chocolate circle on top, rough side up; let set.
- With a sharp knife, cut pretzels to fit between the circles, about 6-1/4 inches. Brush milk chocolate coating on pretzel ends and attach to each side of hourglass. Garnish top and plate with curls and shavings if desired.
Editor's Note: White and milk chocolate confectionery coating is found in the baking section of most grocery stores. It is sometimes labeled "almond bark" or "candy coating" and is often sold in bulk packages of 1 to 1-1/2 pounds. Finished size: Hourglass is 6 inches wide x 6-1/2 inches high. the white confectionery coating with food coloring to match the decorating scheme for your party. You can also make matching "glasses" for each guest. Simply follow the instructions and use slightly smaller fun funnels, remembering not to break off the long narrow ends that form when you pour chocolate into the funnels. They will serve as stems for the glasses. Also, make smaller chocolate circles to serve as glass bases.
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This is very easy to make. It takes only a few ingredients and is a snap to assemble. I used a larger funnel to see if I could make a centerpiece and it turned out great. You will have to adjust the length of the pretzels. If you put some streamers around it will be really festive.


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Nationals not worried about rotation's slow start
MIAMI -- One of the more surprising developments early on this season is the struggles of Washington's starting pitching.
After right-hander Stephen Strasburg allowed six earned runs on eight hits over four innings on Tuesday, the rotation's ERA rose to 5.06 for 26th in the big leagues. Last year, the Nationals posted the seventh-best ERA at 3.60.
"I think that's kind of how it works. We've had some dominant years in the past and teams are constantly trying to adjust on us," Strasburg said. "It's our turn to adjust on them. ... Everybody's stepping up their game to face us. It's our job to get to work and get back on track. I'm not really worried about it. We're swinging the bat really well, consistently here. As long as we can minimize the damage a little bit we'll be OK."
Since opening the season with two quality starts over the first three games, the Nationals have just three over their last 11 contests.
As a result, the bullpen has been taxed. Relievers have thrown the third-most innings (50) in the Majors. They have managed to record the fourth-best ERA (2.52) despite the heavy workload.
"They're good pitchers. Obviously they're not perfect," shortstop Ian Desmond said. "Something we'll deal with. It's nothing anyone here is worried about. We know what they're capable of. Offense has to be better too."


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LYBC, Inc. Reports 24% Increase in Earnings
Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 9:00am
Lyons Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of The Lyons National Bank, reported earnings of $3.8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2011, an increase of 24% over the same period last year. Earnings per diluted share were $4.18, an increase of 17.1% over the same period last year. Earnings for the third quarter of 2011 were $1.5 million, an increase of 12.4% from the second quarter of 2011 and 40.1% over the same quarter last year.
The increase in net income year over year was due primarily to increases in net interest income and noninterest income and a reduction in provision for loan losses. Net interest income totaled $13.0 million, up 1.5% over the same period last year, due primarily to growth in earning assets and a reduction of funding costs. Net interest margin, on a tax-equivalent basis, was 3.61% for the first nine months of 2011, declining from 3.93% for the same period last year. Provisions for credit losses totaled $835,000 for the first nine months of 2011, compared to $2.2 million for the same period in 2010. Noninterest income was $4.5 million, up $709,000 or 18.9% year over year, due primarily to increased gains on sale of loans and other assets, as well as increases in earnings from financial services and services charges on deposit accounts. Noninterest expenses increased 8.7% year over year, due primarily to the opening of the company's newest branch office in June 2010, located in Seneca County.
Total assets as of September 30, 2011 were $539.5 million, an increase of $36.1 million or 7.2% over the same period last year. Total loans outstanding as of September 30, 2011 were $342.4 million, up $41.5 million or 13.8% over the same period last year. Loan growth was funded by strong growth in core deposits, as total deposits increased $50.5 million, totaling $474.1 million at September 30, 2011.
At September 30, 2011, the company's allowance for credit losses totaled $6.9 million, or 2.01% of total loans. Nonperforming loans totaled 1.76% of total loans as of September 30, 2011, decreasing from 1.87% at September 30, 2010, while net charge-offs for the first nine months of 2011 were 0.12% of average loans, decreasing four basis points from the prior year. Each of these indicators helped support the level of the company's allowance for credit losses, and the subsequent reduction in provision expense, and continues to compare favorably to national averages published by the Federal Reserve.
"Even with all the volatility and uncertainty in the financial markets and economy, 2011 is again shaping up as a very successful year for Lyons Bancorp", stated President and CEO Robert A. Schick. "Our performance to-date is further testimony to our keep it simple "Main Street" business model."
Lyons Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for The Lyons National Bank. The Lyons National Bank is a community bank with offices in Lyons, Clyde, Macedon, Newark, Ontario, and Wolcott in Wayne County; Jordon in Onondaga County; Geneva in Ontario County; Penn Yan in Yates County; and Waterloo in Seneca County. Subsidiaries of The Lyons National Bank are Lyons Realty Associates Corp. and Lyons Life Agency, Inc.


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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. -- Carlos de los Cobos has an undeniable interest in the Mexican National Team.
The Fire's first year head coach was a member of the Mexico side that advanced to the quarterfinals of the 1986 World Cup, so he is rooting hard for his home country to go far in South Africa.
"This is important for Mexican people," De los Cobos said of the tournament.
El Tri, who play their second Group A game Thursday against France, opened the tournament with a 1-1 draw against South Africa on Friday. De los Cobos said that he obviously would have preferred a win in the tournament opener, but that a tie was a decent result.
WATCH: RECAP: South Africa vs. Mexico
"[It was a] difficult game," De los Cobos said of the Mexico vs. South Africa match. "I think that Mexico played the first half very good and then, in the second half, [they] weren't the same team."
Thursday's match against France (2 pm ET; ESPN, Univisión) is an absolutely critical one for Mexico. Sitting on one point after one match, El Tri are tied with France and South Africa (who lost against Uruguay on Wednesday) for second place in Group A. Uruguay is in first place in the group with four points.
A loss would put a huge damper on Mexico's shot at advancing past the group stage, but De los Cobos is confident that the team will avoid a disappointing result against Coach Raymond Domenech's talented—if inconsistent—French side.
"I think that when Mexico play against big teams, they play better," De los Cobos said. "I have confidence because I saw very speed [and] I saw players with good management of the ball. I hope that [we'll get a] very good result in the next match."

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Tigers fall in 10 despite Scherzer's stellar start
Blown save sends game to extra innings after vet strikes out 11
TORONTO -- Max Scherzer has built a cornerstone for his career on making his final 15 pitches his most important in a game. His final pitches in the eighth inning Saturday against the Blue Jays were among his best of the season.
The results on the pitches that followed his exit, from Dioner Navarro's game-tying single in the ninth off Joe Nathan to Nolan Reimold's walk-off double in the 10th inning, were the ones that brought back the debate for manager Brad Ausmus in the wake of Saturday afternoon's 3-2 loss at Rogers Centre.
When has the starting pitcher clearly thrown his last pitches?
It seems like a simple question with a starting rotation that includes three American League Cy Young Award winners, the reigning AL ERA champ and two pitchers battling for the AL lead in wins. The answers, however, have been nowhere near that clear. The debates, rightly or wrongly, have produced one of the recurring themes of Ausmus' first year as a Major League manager.
For any new manager, it's going to be a debate. For a manager who has to simultaneously ride this rotation for any title hopes, yet protect its health, it's going to be a raging one.
Saturday, for him, was not a debate.
"Max had kind of emptied the tank on those last few hitters," Ausmus said about his decision to send Nathan out for the ninth inning. "He's at almost 110 pitches. If you send him back out there and he gets in trouble and you ask someone else to come in, it's not really the best way to do it. To send him back out, I don't think would've been the right decision."
Scherzer wasn't entertaining the discussion.
"I was done," Scherzer said when asked if Ausmus had checked on him. "I mean, there's nothing else to it. I was done. I'm not going to sit here and play second-guessing the manager. I was done."
Ausmus has heard all sides. His decision to stick with Justin Verlander following a mound visit amidst a sixth-inning jam two months ago in Chicago became headline scrutiny once the White Sox turned their rally into a seven-run inning.
Four days before that, his decision to stick with Scherzer against Red Sox slugger David Ortiz through a seventh-inning threat earned some praise for his faith in Scherzer, though Ortiz's RBI double chased Scherzer with a three-run lead.
A week before that, Ausmus faced both sides on the same decision to let Anibal Sanchez start the ninth inning with a 1-0 lead with Oakland. While the case could be made to stick with Sanchez after a one-out double brought the winning run to the plate, another twist suggested Nathan had better chances if he started the inning rather than enter with runners on.
Ausmus has watched and learned his starters' tendencies as the season has worn. And as he saw Scherzer turn up his fastball to 97 mph for back-to-back three-pitch strikeouts of pinch-hitters Danny Valencia and Reimold to end the eighth, he believed he was watching Scherzer's last, best pitches.
"We've seen him pitch," Ausmus said. "We have a couple guys on our staff you can tell when they really kind of empty the tank, and the way they pitch speaks more than what they actually say.
"[Pitching coach] Jeff [Jones] checked on him prior to the eighth, and he was fine. But in talking to Jeff and watching how he pitched, I was very confident that the eighth inning was the last inning."
Scherzer ended his outing with 106 pitches, having retired his final seven batters -- four of them by strikeout -- after giving up his lone run on Melky Cabrera's sixth-inning RBI double. He was immediately greeted with a handshake from Ausmus, rather than a discussion, as Ausmus sometimes will do if he wants to check on his pitcher's stamina.
Scherzer has thrown at least 110 pitches 13 times this season. One of them was five days ago, when he threw 115 pitches over seven innings of two-run ball in a hard-luck 2-1 loss to the Yankees.
Asked if he pitched the eighth like he was throwing his last 15 pitches, Scherzer said, "I saved everything there for the end. I knew that inning was going to be tough, especially when you're going down to the third time through [the lineup]. They've seen your stuff, they've gotten to see what your offspeed looks like. Those can be the toughest times. That's where I empty the tank and let everything fly."
The Blue Jays produced more offense in 28 pitches against Nathan than they did in Scherzer's eight innings. He had converted his last nine save opportunities since late June and had been charged with runs in only one of his last 12 outings since the end of June.


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Holy cow! Milking parlors on dairy farms are yet another application for air curtains, the energy-saving devices that keep outdoor and indoor environments separate at open doorways.
Prairie du Sac, Wis.– After decades of energy-saving applications for industrial openings and more recently for commercial building entrances such as hospitals, hotels and schools, air curtains now have been proven successful at preventing milking parlor equipment freeze-ups on dairy farms.
Milk productivity setbacks were frequent challenges from November through March during subfreezing days for Griesen's Family Dairy located 60 miles northwest of Madison, Wis., in Prairie du Sac, Wis. The medium-sized 680-cow farm suffered product losses, production delays from automatic milking equipment freeze-ups nearest the parlor entrances, and potential injury issues from slippery floors and poor indoor air comfort for employees.
Materials handling equipment dealer Bernie's Equipment Co., Holmen, Wis., recommended air curtains by Berner International, New Castle, Pa., to retain heat in the milking parlor.
On ambient temperature days above 32°F, the floor's radiant system supplied by a 400,000-btu, stainless steel, 95.1% efficient Munchkin boiler manufactured by Heat Transfer Products, Scottsboro, Ala., combined with each cow's inherent 4,000-BTU/hr heat output, adequately maintains the milking parlor's target temperature range of 38°F to 40°F. The heating system was adequate despite the fact co-owner Hans Griesen prefers the two 16 x 8-foot entryways to remain open through three daily shifts for optimum productivity and animal movement in and out of the 24-stall herringbone-style milking parlor manufactured by DeLaval/Germania, Vernon Hills, Ill. On subfreezing days however, the heating system couldn't maintain set point temperatures near the entryway.
If At First You Don't Succeed…
Griesen first tried portable salamander forced-air heaters. The entrances were warmer, however, the $100/day cost for fuel, kerosene emission odors, and potential fire hazard, sent Griesen looking elsewhere.
An employee dedicated to opening and closing the two doorways all day was considered cost prohibitive, even at minimum wage rates, according to Griesen. Griesen also considered both strip curtains and air curtain technology so the entry doors could stay open. Strip curtains were too obstructive to the animals. His first review of an air curtain at a nearby farm wasn't a positive experience, either. The farm used an inexpensive foreign air curtain brand with short lengths bolted in tandem to span the wide doorway. The air curtain was noisy, its modular construction vibrated, and it didn't provide the proper volume, velocity, or uniformity of air stream to prevent outdoor air infiltration, according to Griesen.
Try, Try Again!
Finally, Clyde Conger, Bernie's general sales manager, and Berner manufacturer's representative, Tim Spreda, vice president-sales, MII Equipment, Milwaukee, Wis., worked with factory sales engineers to specify two USA-made,16-foot-long, one-piece air curtains from the Berner's Industrial Direct Drive 12 model product line. The air curtains are mounted above the milking parlor's open doorways and retain up to 80% of the facility's energy even during wind loads of up to five-mph. Each air curtain features a corrosion-resistant powder-coated finish, five high-efficiency 1/2-hp motors, and a welded aluminized steel frame that retains a strong structural integrity they even when spanning across such a wide opening. Consequently, there are no gaps in the 7,631-cfm, 1,635-fpm air stream it provides across the 16-foot-wide entryways.
"Hans had already educated and sold himself on the air curtain concept before we got involved; therefore he knew exactly what he wanted and had designed the application in his head," said Conger.
"Some of our co-workers were skeptical as to whether air curtains would solve the problem, but they're believers now since we haven't had any more frozen equipment issues," said Griesen, who hired a carpenter to reinforce the doorway headers that receive the air curtain support brackets. "One employee took infrared color temperature readings and there was a big difference in temperature inside the doorway with the air curtains on and off."
What is an Air Curtain?
Air curtains consist of fan motors, blowers, nozzles and directional vanes, and a control package. When properly engineered for the proper horsepower, nozzle discharge, and airstream angle, an air curtain essentially "seals" a doorway from outdoor elements, flying insects, and dust. The airstream must strategically "break" at the threshold of the doorway for ultimate performance. While air curtains are typically activated by a plunger switch after a door opens, the milking parlor air curtains are activated by a thermostat located near the entrance. Gas-fired hot water or steam, and electric heating coil options were considered, however, Griesen felt the milking parlor's heat radiant heat system was sufficient if cold air infiltration could be curtailed.
Although Griesen's main concern was subfreezing air infiltration, the air curtains are also saving the facility energy, because the radiant floor system's boiler cycles on less to maintain the set point temperature.
The air curtains supplement the overall cutting-edge energy efficiency design and construction conception when the Griesen family relocated from the Netherlands to build the 40-acre farm from the ground-up in 2005. Other technologies are:
- energy efficient metal halide fixtures with lamps by Sylvania;
- variable frequency drive on the milking vacuum pump;
- four scroll compressors by Copeland–div. of Emerson Climate Technologies, Sidney, Ohio, for milk refrigeration;
- two heat exchangers by DeLaval/Germania for compressor heat recovery;
- plate cooler by DeLaval/Germania.
All the efficiency equipment combined saves the farm an estimated $35,000 annually in energy savings, according to Griesen.
While the milk producers association, the Dairy Council of California continually uses its "Got Milk?" campaign to advertise milk's benefits to consumers, Griesen's air curtain success should prompt dairy farmers to ask themselves, "Got Air Curtains?"


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The threat of imminent labor unrest at four U.S. Pacific Northwest ports was averted on Wednesday as the dockworkers union said its members would stay on the job despite "substandard" contract terms being imposed unilaterally by grain shippers.
Both sides in the stalemate left open the door to further negotiations. A spokesman for the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service told Reuters the agency was in contact on Wednesday with the parties.
The shipping companies declared a formal impasse in stalled contract talks with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) days after nearly 3,000 rank-and-file union members voted overwhelmingly to reject management's "last, best and final" offer.
The contracts at issue cover workers at six of the nine grain terminals operating in Puget Sound and along the Columbia River that handle more than a quarter of all U.S. grain exports and nearly half of U.S. wheat exports.
In calling an impasse after a last, brief round of talks on Wednesday, the shipping companies also said they planned to implement terms of their latest proposal, effective at 6 a.m. local time on Thursday.
The Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association, which represents the shipping companies and grain terminals they own, stressed the move was not the "lockout" that was widely expected after management's proposal failed to win union agreement.
(Read more: Shipping Industry Going Through Rough Seas)
Under a lockout, employers typically bar union members from returning to work, and seek to keep operations running with non-union replacement workers, until a settlement is reached.
Speculation that grain shippers might take such action was fueled by union reports that the companies had hired a Delaware-based company that specializes in providing security and replacement workers in labor disputes.
The U.S. Coast Guard said in recent days it was prepared to establish "buffer zones" to keep union-related protests from interfering with navigation around two of the ports seen as most likely to be caught up in labor tensions.
"This is not a lockout," association spokesman Pat McCormick said in a statement. "The companies informed the union that ILWU members are welcome to come to work under the new terms and conditions of employment."
Staying On The Job Under 'Substandard' Terms
The companies said that under an impasse, the union essentially had three choices - to acquiesce and accept management's terms, to call a strike, or to have their members continue to report to work under the imposed work rules "but seek further bargaining."
In a brief statement released shortly after the impasse was declared the union said it was following the third course, at least for now.
The Northwest Grain Handlers left open the possibility of imposing a "defensive" lockout should the union begin to engage in "intermittent strike activity," a "partial strike," work slowdowns or sabotage.
Negotiations have stalemated over numerous work-rule changes sought by the companies to improve efficiency and lower costs but have been opposed by the ILWU as onerous give-backs ultimately designed to break the union.
Meanwhile, some 15 container cargo ports on the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts are bracing for a strike threatened on December 30 by nearly 15,000 union dockworkers unless shippers extend their contract.
(Read more: 'Container Cliff': US Faces 'Devastating' Port Strike)
So far, the ILWU has not asked its members to authorize a strike, nor has it set a strike deadline or made mention of a walkout.


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Horse meat DNA linked to Polish supplier
In a statement posted online this weekend (January 26) Ireland's minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Simon Coveney said: "Tests of the Polish ingredient concerned have been released and are showing up to 20% horse DNA content relative to beef. This confirms previous results that the raw material from Poland is the source of equine DNA content in certain beef burgers."
ABP Foods imported the ingredient and used it in the production of burgers at its Silvercrest facility in County Monaghan, Ireland. The burgers were exported to Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
Interruption in business
The ABP Food Group welcomed the news, which confirmed its initial view that the contamination originated from a third-party continental supplier.
Paul Finnerty, group chief executive, ABP Food Group, said: "This has been a very difficult experience for all involved and has led to a significant interruption in business for Silvercrest and its customers. We are relieved that the source of the problem has been identified.
"While the company has never knowingly purchased or traded in equine product, I wish to take this opportunity to apologise for the impact this issue has caused."
When asked to name Polish firm involved in the scandal, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, which carried out the tests, told FoodManufacture.co.uk: "As the investigation is ongoing, we are not in a position to name the Polish company."


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Graduation ceremony in the auditorium. Herb Rosenthal was the graduation speaker. Seated behind him on stage (L-R): C. K. Eaton, Sims Carter, Harvey Thompson, Lorser Feitelson, J. Morgan Henninger, George Jergenson and Edward "Tink" Adams.
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The dangers of our 'new data economy,' and how to avoid them
Clip: 03/15/2019 | 3m 15s
Roger McNamee was an early investor in Facebook and still holds a stake in the social media giant--but he's also become a vocal critic of its practices, especially around how it handles user data. McNamee offers his humble opinion on why as consumers, we need to stop being passive and take control of how we share our personal information.
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The ROI on hosted solutions
Three papers get onto the cloud
How many companies can buy bandwidth as cheaply as Amazon, say, can sell it? Or source servers as cheaply as Yahoo!, or can build data centres in energy-cheap places, like Microsoft? Then again, how many companies would store mission critical data on Amazon's EC2, or sensitive data in Google Apps? C'mon guys, we're not particularly paranoid, but Google gets everywhere.
World+publishing dog may be talking up software as a service and cloud computing, but the reality still for most large organisations is that they prefer to take the management pain than have their data living on someone else's servers, accessible only over the internet. (OK, so Salesforce.com customers are a partial exception). This is why IT vendors usually push hardest at small and medium-sized companies to sign up for hosted apps.
How many small companies would willing set-up and run their own Exchange server, if they could get someone else to do it and for less money? Indeed for many, a hosted apps provide may be able to offer better security than they can provide themselves. That, at any rate is a theme of this week's collection of white papers from the Reg Library, which are all about hosted applications.
This Microsoft white paper majors on the ROI on hosted versions of Dynamics CRM and MS Exchange. Oddly enough, Microsoft maintains a channel sales policy for hosted apps, which seems a little perverse given that it can build, operate and maintain data centres far more cheaply than any of its dealers. However, software as a service remains small potatoes for the company, which cites an IDC forecast that $2.4bn of Microsoft software will be delivered via hosted solutions over the next three years.
Microsoft is an unusual company to be touting hosted solutions - simpler licensing and predictable per seat pricing makes for a less profitable sale than the traditional EULA gig. The received wisdom is that Microsoft, in common with Oracle, is keen to drag its heels as much as possible on software as a service. However, the decision for many small companies is not between Microsoft licences and hosted apps, but between Microsoft software and hosted apps from Google, or open source alternatives. When Microsoft Office is widely available as hosted solution, and when Microsoft hosts the solutions itself, then we will know that software as a service has truly arrived.
The growing email archiving dilemma
Until reading this paper from Mimecast, a supplier of email management over the cloud, we were unaware of any dilemma surrounding email archiving. But sure enough regulatory and retrieval issues and average volume growth of 30 per cent a year for email archives means that enterprises have got issues. Mimecast argues that many companies use outdated cost benefit assumptions to reject software as a service based email management.solutions. According to the company, The emergence of eDiscovery and recent legal judgments have put "critical business importance on search speed and accuracy, which are difficult to achieve without integrated, purpose-built archiving solutions".
We are not sure if we accept the argument, but it is a well argued case. As a bonus, this paper itemises an 11-point checklist for companies to consider in controlling their email mountains.
Offloading malware protection to the cloud
In every cloud there is a silver lining. Especially where IT security companies are concerned. Cloud computing, and its closely related siblings Web 2.0 and software as a service, offer new back doors for hackers, and new things for security vendors to frighten us with.
So it may seem counter-intuitive that Trend Micro is inviting customers to offload some of their malware protection on to its cloud- based hosted security service. The aim is to to reduce endpoint resource consumption, network bandwidth consumption, malware, and overall risk, according to this short paper from IDC, which cautiously welcomes Trend's hybrid approach.
"Unwanted content (malware, spam, bad web sites, unproductive information, etc.) never hits the customer's gateway. Therefore, the customer is not responsible for content it never received. This reduces risk, cuts bandwidth requirements, lowers archiving requirement, and limits eDiscovery activities." ®
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Can I just be absolutely sure, at the risk of insulting you, that you know what 'the Australian bush' is? You must if you're well into translating a book on Australia.
What is the chapter about? - ordinary contemporary people brawling in some outback pub and the bush ethics surrounding such fights; or the period of the bushranger and conflict with the police; or the shearers' strike and the fights that broke out between strikers and 'scabs' brought in from the cities.??


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Modern construction in Rome yields ancient discoveries
Clip: 02/09/2019 | 5m 8s
Work on Rome's new state-of-the-art subway line near the Colosseum has been plagued by delays, but it's also unearthed a surprise treasure trove of thousands of artifacts, including a Roman military barracks and an ancient home with more than a dozen rooms featuring frescoes, mosaic floors and other decorations nearly intact. NewsHour Weekend Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports.
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Rick has been taken hostage at Belford Prison by knife-wielding inmate Donald, who turns out to be a worrying mixture of charming and psychotic. But even worse for the comic, his captor has a pathological hatred of liars. Special two-hander, starring Jack Dee and Robbie Coltrane


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How long the era of electric cars will last ?
How long the era of electric cars will last ?
I read something about Fuel Cells becoming more of a reality, and that uses Hydrogen and Oxygen to create electricity, with water as a byproduct. I also remember Atmospheric Electricity from Atlas Shrugged, but Fuel Cells are probably next. Either way it'll still take a while.
Fuel cells for cars are not happening. Transporting/transferring hydrogen into a small vehicle like a car is a beast. Using the CH4 methane molecule is more efficient than compressed hydrogen. Which leaks out of just about any container.
Fuel cells also use platinum as a catalyst for the reaction of H and O, which is expensive and rare.
People shall still be driving ICE vehicles in the next few decades, although in steadily decreasing numbers.
And on the other hand, people shall keep on driving EV's in steadily increasing numbers.
At the moment the marketshare of EV's is 0.5% of total sales.
The era of EV's has just started, and it will not end anytime soon, at least not in the next few centuries.
Predicting centuries of technology is a) science fiction, and b) un-testable. Not usable for any kind of decision-making.
Increasing share of cars produced will happen until 2030 when (minimum) half of all new cars produced will be electric.
@Tslarevolution I read an article at Yahoo! that commented about platinum being substituted. The forum won't let me share the link, but it's from ConsumerReports.
I believe electric vehicles will be around for a long time now that we are starting to have better batteries (and getting better). It is the most efficient and versitile means of powered transportationwe have at the moment. With the possibility of room temp superconductors (or at least very low resistance wireing) in the future, the energy transportation costs could drop to almost zero. This will make the power plant to wheel efficency so good that the possibility of another technology in the near future supplanting electric very unlikely. The electric revolution is just begining!
Fuel cell tech IMO is a joke (although it will continue to serve a niche market) that has been played on the public for too long mostly by car companies trying to stall the progress of better tech. Due to its use of hydrogen it is also inherently inefficent, leaky and dangerous. But it is complicated so that like hybrid cars it makes a bigger industry (more people employed) to make and service.
For me simple is better, however we can expect far fewer people employed in the electric car industry of the future.
And I'm definitely not expecting fuel cell over electric, just something I read around. In my opinion Tesla and other electric companies are showing that electric power is the next big thing.
Fuel cell cars are electric cars, they are FCEVs. Fuel cell EVs use hydrogen to store energy and produce electricity instead of batteries in BEVs. Unlike electric power, there is no network for producing and distributing the hydrogen needed in FCEVs. Combined with problems associated with storing hydrogen that others have mentioned here, along with continuing advances in battery technology, I'm not expecting FCEVs to be practical any time soon, if ever.
10 years for EV's? I think our thread starter left a 0 off that number. True, it's very hard to predict what the future may hold but electric is looking good for what's foreseeable.
Electric battery car era will continue not for the next 10 year, but likely for the at least next 500 years.
@ baku
Indeed, it's not a matter of years, instead it's a matter of centuries!
What, have you no faith in future transporter tech? >:P
EV's are far-and-away the most efficient form of personal transportation technology available today, and it is constantly improving.
Equally as important as the advent of electric vehicles is the increasingly speedy development of electric charging infrastructure. Just a few months ago, Tesla Superchargers were capable of delivering 160 miles of charge in 30 minutes. Today, that figure has improved to 200 miles of charge in 30 minutes. At this rate, Tesla stations may be able to deliver 300 miles of charge in 10-15 minutes by the time Gen III is rolled out.
I'm not sure how long the EV era will last, but I am definitely looking forward to seeing just how efficient Tesla and EVs can become.
@ TeslaSomeday
At the moment it's still 90 kWh per hour.
In (roundabout) September 2013 it's going to be 120 kWh per hour.
And JB Straubel has mentioned that even faster charging will be possible. Maybe next year already?
Thank you for the correction.
Maybe I'm just excited for Tesla to prove all the doubters wrong, but I think the completion of new charging stations across the country is even more exciting than the upgrades to the existing stations.
The increase in the number of charging stations should be the final dagger in the range anxiety doubter debate. I can't wait for that day to come.
Anyhow, burning gas (oil) will be history.
HMMM. Electric car would be more technological and modern. After one decade will never know a flying car would be invented.
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Oh I dunno,
The electric motor industry lasted pretty long.
Probably not in my lifetime, but certainly in my children's,
I would expect that urban transportation will no longer
be using internal combustion engines.
I think it will last until something more advanced comes along. Like using sun energy only or some other energy source that we have not discovered yet. My guess is that it will outlive our generation.
I think we also need to think about the fun possibility of riding electric scooters to work. It seems practical if it is under 10 miles. My handicapped co-worker lets me ride in her chair scooter here at work and it is a blast. Why can't we drive things like this on local streets maybe in the bike lane? Trust me, if you try one you will want one for commuting or shopping.