text: Tools for Learning Technology at Saint Mary's Our Lasallian mission guides us to awaken, nurture and empower learners. The investment in meaningful instructional technologies is taken very seriously here at Saint Mary's. Our continued efforts to significantly improve learning outcomes is supported by our investment in cutting edge learning technologies, faculty development programming that assures successfully incorporate of these powerful tools and ongoing assessment practices designed to measure the impact we are having on student learning. Blackboard Saint Mary's University uses Blackboard, an online course management & portal system.+ More Blackboard is a course management system that allows faculty and student to access via the web all course content, technical resources, communication and collaboration tools for each of their courses. This system is also our university portal. 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Nokia Lumia 730 to be launched soon with 8 MP camera, LTE, and Windows Phone Tango, rumor says
Nokia's scheduled a press conference on the first day of the Mobile World Congress (see out event calendar for more). That's when it may apparently announce a brand new Windows Phone, the rumor du jour has it.
The new device will probably be called Lumia 730, adding a new level of affordability to the Lumia line, but not compromising on features too much. It won't have a ClearBlack display, or the 'polycarbonate' casing of the Lumia 800, but will come with an 8 MP camera unlike the Lumia 710. The camera unit may be an Extended depth of field one, similar to that used in the Nokia E7.
The Lumia 730 will support both CDMA and LTE alongside 'plain' GSM/HSPA, which means it may be launched in the US by Verizon. Nothing's sure for now, though. It will run Windows Phone Tango, the next version of Microsoft's newest mobile operating system. Tango is rumored to bring support for lower-end hardware, although that doesn't seem to be needed here.
The Lumia 730 will come with capacitive Windows keys, unlike the Lumia 710 which went with physical buttons instead. It will apparently be a little bit thicker than the Lumia 710, sporting a curved back cover. Price-wise, the Lumia 730 should be similar to the Lumia 710. The Lumia 730 will be focused on the European market.
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According to a FIFA report on June 16, Octavio Mangabeira Stadium in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, will be the site for a terrific FIFA World Cup 2014 clash between Germany and Portugal on ESPN (national TV) and Univision (en vivo) on television, and at WatchESPN (online) live stream. Scheduled TV start time for this Group G fixture is set for Noon Eastern Time, but pre-match coverage gets underway two hours earlier via free live streaming feed.
There are two ways to watch the pre-match festivities of the much-anticipated showdown between Portugal and Germany. Soccer fans around the world can watch ESPN3's Pre-Match Coverage of Germany vs. Portugal (2014 FIFA World Cup) at 10 a.m. ET or simply wait for the national broadcast at 11:30 a.m. ET (ESPN TV/live stream and Univision TV) - Watch Brazil vs Mexico free live stream 2014 World Cup here.
For Internet users, another great way to enhance your soccer live stream viewing experience is by checking out ESPN3's Tactical Cam - Germany vs. Portugal (2014 FIFA World Cup) and/or the Highlight Reel - Germany vs. Portugal (2014 FIFA World Cup) feeds beginning at 11:55 a.m. ET. For more information please visit WatchESPN or simply click on the links to be transferred directly.
As far as what soccer fans can expect in today's Germany vs. Portugal battle, this is unquestionably one of the premier matchups of the 2014 World Cup group stage. Thus far, the fixture between England and Italy has been arguably the best quality match of the tournament.
However, all bets are off when these European soccer giants take this field this afternoon to kickoff play in the "Group of Death". It comes as no surprise that 2014 FIFA World Cup oddsmakers have had a difficult time picking a favorite and an underdog in this matchup.
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Ever since Joline married Carl, she's felt madly in love, emotionally bonded and totally committed... even though Carl walked out on her two weeks ago. Convinced she can save her marriage, she drives two thousand miles west on a comic adventure to track down her wayward husband. Along the way, she has close calls with a pair of highway robbers, a Mexican witchdoctor and more than one cactus. But the real odyssey begins when Joline winds up in El Paso, Texas, finds Carl and stakes out his new life...from her car. With a little help from her brother Jay, his new girlfriend Carmen and Neil, her tantalizing "neighbor," she discovers the ups and downs of being the most committed woman in America.
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Births announced this week are: Christopher Mark J. Highley, March 8, son of Kimberly Johnson and Brian Highley; Tyler Alan Maryea, Feb. 28, son of Jamee Huey and Richard Maryea; Jade Marie Scott, Feb. 24, daughter of Diana Dawn Richardson and Christopher Lee Scott.
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Adison Gage Richardson was born to Latoshia Shepperd and Jason Richardson of Berry, Ky., on Jan. 12, 2011 at Harrison Memorial Hospital. He weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz., and is welcomed by his brother, Jaxon Blake Richardson.
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Planting soybean into sod is an option for producers looking to increase acres. Soybean could generate a gross return of $500 per acre, or more, depending on yield and marketing. Soybeans are also a good option for producers who need to renovate pasture and hayfields. Some producers have a lot of experience with soybean while others may be looking at the crop for the first time. The following guidelines attempt to be applicable to both groups of producers.
Converting sod to soybean has some general challenges and opportunities.
Controlling certain weeds takes some strategic planning and mid-March the game begins. I personally don't care about weeds in the lawn, but I do try to keep them out of the landscape beds and the vegetable garden.
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Just in case you haven't heard, I'm Employee of the Month.
I've never, ever been Employee of the Month anywhere I've ever worked, although once I was Student of the Month in Mr. Taylor's fourth grade class at Nevada Avenue Elementary School in Canoga Park, Calif.
It went to my head and I pushed my desk up front and took it upon myself to erase the board, but it turned out Mr. Taylor wasn't finished and the class yelled at me. I was never Student of the Month after that.
Join other women in the community for an event hosted by Bedford Acres Christian Church on April 1 and 2. The session will be simulcast live from Panama City, Fla. The speaker will be Priscilla Shirer, a Bible teacher.
She is a graduate of the Dallas Theological Seminary with a Master's degree in Biblical Studies. She is the author of many books and studies. She and her husband, Jerry founded Going Beyond Ministries.
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My MBP is out of applecare, and I'm not covered by any of the battery replacement programes, but I think I rightly feel a little pissed off that my £1700 laptop has considerably less battery life than even the most basic of consumer notebooks do.
Will apple replace it if I complain hard enough? I'd really rather not spend £100 on another battery!
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18 months and only 103 cycles?!? That's not very many. I had my old battery 15 and I had 421 on it.
I got a new battery under Applecare about 4 months and have 118 cycles.
You tried calibrating it? How do you use it? Plugged in all the time? Not a lot?
It's plugged in 95% of the time, it's my main machine, so consequently it's at my desk usually. I don't know because I didn't notice the issue before hand, but it seems like the battery life has diminished since I moved to Japan six months ago.
I'll give calibration a try. Cheers.
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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 603709, 6 pages
An Energy Supply System for Wireless Sensor Network Nodes
1School of Electronic Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Room 48, Xiyuan Road, Jianxi District, Luoyang 471003, China
2Henan Key Laboratory for Machinery Design and Transmission System, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, China
Received 26 November 2011; Revised 25 March 2012; Accepted 25 March 2012
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The power source is a critical obstacle for wireless sensor network nodes. In order to prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks, this paper presents an energy supply system that uses a specially designed broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting technology for sustaining the operation of wireless sensor network nodes. The proposed energy supply circuit can apply an optimal control voltage to the piezoelectric element to ensure impedance matching between the vibration source and the energy supply system in nonresonance frequencies. As compared to the conventional piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit, it is shown that the efficiency has been increased 4 times. In this work, the overall system structure, the function modules design, and the performance testing analysis are illuminated in detail. Experimental results reveal that this energy supply system can significantly improve power within the wide bands by the active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology and enable wireless sensor network nodes to operate normally.
1. Introduction
Wireless sensor networks have been of great interests over the last few decades. Wireless sensor networks are the integration of sensor technology, embedded computing technology, modern network and wireless communication technology, distributed information processing technology, and so on. They can be used to monitor, sense, and collect the information on the environment or objects by microsensors and transmit these information to the users. Therefore, they have gained numerous applications such as military defense, industry and agriculture, city management, biological and medical treatment, and environmental monitoring [1–3].
However, wireless sensor networks are not rapid commercialization as people have expected. One of the most critical bottlenecks is the energy supply problem for wireless sensor network nodes. At present, the wireless sensor network node generally uses traditional chemical battery. Because of the large numbers of devices and their small size, changing the battery is unpractical or simply not feasible. It cannot fully meet the development requirements of wireless sensor networks. Therefore, more and more attention has been attracted to harvest energy from the surrounding environment to achieve the self-power for wireless sensor networks [4–6]. The combination of an energy harvester with a small-sized rechargeable battery (or with another energy storage system like a thin-film rechargeable battery or a supercapacitor) is the best approach to enable energy autonomy of the network over the entire lifetime. Some possible ambient energy sources are, for instance, photonic energy, thermal energy, or mechanical energy. Because of fast response, low cost, simple structure, no electromagnetic interference, easy manufacture, and so forth, piezoelectric energy harvesters are suitable for wireless sensor networks [7].
Piezoelectric energy harvesters convert mechanical strain energy into electricity. When the resonance frequency of the harvester matches with the input frequency of vibration, the harvester can output the maximum electric power. In practical applications, there are two important problems in piezoelectric energy harvesters. Firstly, the bandwidth of the piezoelectric device is relatively narrow. The vibration status is often unsteady and varies from applications to applications and from time to time. If the vibration frequency is slightly away from the resonance frequency, the output electricity will significantly decrease. To enhance the harvested power, we need to track the vibration status dynamically and adjust the piezoelectric energy harvester for best load matching. Secondly, the energy harvesting efficiency is small, and the harvested energy is very little.
The purpose of this paper is placed on resolving the two aforementioned challenges by using the designed ultra-low-power energy supply circuit to harvest maximal energy for wireless sensor network nodes. The energy supply system can run an adaptive active piezoelectric harvesting technology to generate an optimal control voltage and improve harvested energy in the broadband. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. The related work in the literature is presented in Section 2. Section 3 gives an overall design scheme of the energy supply system. Section 4 details the energy conversion unit and the active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology. The energy management unit is given in Section 5. Section 6 gives the system simulation, results, and discussion. Finally, we draw the conclusions of this paper in Section 7.
2. Related Work
A great amount of researches has been conducted about the energy harvesting technology as a self-power source for wireless sensor network nodes. Shwe et al. exploited a temperature sensing system which harvested the power energy from surrounding machinery vibration by the piezoelectric generator [8]. The approach is very useful in real-time remote monitoring of the machine temperature by sensor network in industries. Tan et al. presented an energy harvesting circuit design of piezoelectric pushbutton generator for wireless radiofrequency (RF) transmitter [9]. When the piezoelectric push button is depressed, 67.61 mW of electrical energy is scavenged and it is sufficient to transmit 12-bit digital word information.
As described above, the harvested energy by the piezoelectric energy harvester is very small. At the same time, it is greatly affected by the vibration status (i.e., magnitude and frequency). Therefore, previous research works have addressed the issue of maximizing the harvested electrical power. Several optimization schemes have been proposed in the literature [10, 11]. They are based on one of these principles: reducing the power loss in rectifying diodes [12], improving the extracted power by using an adaptive circuit [13, 14], adaptive control of the rectified DC voltage [15], or adjusting the natural frequency of piezoelectric energy harvesters [16]. At present, there are three predominant energy harvesting circuits: the passive diode-rectifier circuit [17], the semiactive circuit [18–20], and the active circuit [21]. The passive diode-rectifier circuit is the simplest technology, and its efficiency is the lowest. In the semiactive circuit, the output voltage can be processed nonlinearly by switched control circuit to increase its magnitude and change its phase so that the harvested electrical energy is maximized. In the active circuit, appropriate electrical boundary conditions applied to the piezoelectric element can push the harvested energy to the limits of the piezoelectric harvester. To improve the adaptability of the energy supply system, we propose an adaptive active piezoelectric technology in this paper with the natural frequency of the energy supply system easily adjusted by changing the amplitude and phase of its control voltage.
3. Energy Supply System
The energy supply system that can be used to convert the energy of ambient mechanical vibrations to electricity is used to power the wireless sensor node. In order to increase the generated power and convert more mechanical energy effectively, an energy supply system must be employed. Figure 1 presents a schematic of the proposed system. It contains a piezoelectric element, an energy conditioning unit, an energy storage unit, and an energy management unit.
The piezoelectric element converts the external vibration mechanical energy to alternating power and outputs electrical energy to the energy storage unit through the energy conditioning unit. In the energy conditioning unit, the controller runs an active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology which will be discussed in the next chapter. It outputs an optimal control voltage applied to the full-bridge circuit and the DC-DC circuit. The energy storage unit which is used to store the generated electrical energy is commonly a rechargeable battery or a supercapacitor. The energy management unit contains two parts, a smart switch and a voltage regulator, and monitors the voltage of the energy storage unit. When the voltage of the energy storage unit is in the setting range, the energy management unit can output a constant voltage to power the wireless sensor node.
4. Energy Conditioning Unit
The energy conditioning unit is the most important part of this energy supply system. It determines the harvesting power of the energy supply system and affects the lifetime of the wireless sensor node. An active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology is used to this energy conditioning unit. When the frequency of the external exciting force changes, it can adaptively generate an optimal control voltage applied to the piezoelectric element. Therefore, this system can be in resonant state and realizes impedance matching. Figure 2 presents the electromechanical coupling model and the equivalent circuit model of the piezoelectric energy harvester [22].
In this basic approach, v is the exciting velocity, m is the rigid mass, c represents the damping coefficient, the spring corresponds to the stiffness of the mechanical structure, α is the force factor, and corresponds to the plate capacitance of piezoelectric element. U is the output voltage, and is the output current of the piezoelectric element.
Assuming that the external exciting force is sinusoidal, the impedance of the mechanical side is given by where . When the impedance of the electrical part corresponds to the mechanical part, the maximum energy can be harvested. The optimal matching impedance of the mechanical side is
Therefore, the optimal impedance of the electrical part can be expressed as
Starting from (3), the optimal impedance is difficult to be achieved. We propose an active piezoelectric harvesting technology and apply a control voltage to piezoelectric element for generating the equivalent impedance.
The optimal control voltage can be found out
The optimal magnitude of the control voltage can be expressed by
The optimal phase angle between the control voltage and the excitation force can be written as
To achieve the active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology, a circuit of the energy conditioning unit is shown in Figure 3. When in the external environment vibration occurs, piezoelectric element converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. Because the output energy of the piezoelectric element is alternating, a full-bridge rectifier is essential to transform the AC to the DC. A step-down converter is mainly used to regulate the rectified voltage, so the system can output the maximum power by setting the duty cycle of the DC-DC converter. The power detector detects the power which flows into a constant voltage rechargeable battery and inputs the value of the power to the MSP430F169 controller. The MSP430F169 controller can give the optimal amplitude and phase angle of a control voltage. If we use the excitation force as the reference, the phase generator will generate a square-wave drive signal of the optimal phase angle between the control voltage and the excitation force to control the four MOSFETs of the full-bridge converter which can apply the optimal control voltage to the piezoelectric element.
The full-bridge rectifier adopts a diode rectifier and four N-channel ZVN3320 MOSFETs which are controlled by the phase angle between the control voltage and the vibration force. Firstly, it can convert AC power to the DC power. Secondly, it can apply the optimal control voltage to the piezoelectric element.
Because the power levels associated with the piezoelectric energy harvester are very low in the practical application, a step-down converter is designed to adjust the rectifier voltage for maximizing the output power. In the implementation, the IRF7853 was chosen as the transistor for its high speed and low power consumption. The optimal magnitude of the control voltage is used to control the transistor to get the optimal rectifier voltage.
In the phase generator, a TS862 by ST is chosen as the comparator for its ultra-low-power consumption. It compares the vibration force signal detected by the accelerometer to the optimal control voltage and generates two pulse signals that are 180° out of phase. Finally, RS trigger transforms the pulse signals to a square-wave phase signal.
To avoid the simultaneous turn-on of the two switches in the same bridge arm, a dead-time generator is essential. SN74LVC3G14 and SN74AHCT08 by TI are chosen as the Schmitt-trigger inverter and the AND gate.
During the voltage transition periods of the piezoelectric element, there may be a large charging/discharging current resulting in large I2R loss, so a current regulator is developed. It can monitor the output current and output pulse signals to reduce the power loss. At the same time, a power detector is necessary and can be simply built by a differential amplifier with a sense resistance to measure the output power.
5. Energy Management Unit
The energy management unit detects the voltage of the energy storage unit and controls the output power to drive the operation of wireless sense nodes. It contains two parts: a smart switch and a stabilized voltage circuit. Figure 4 presents the circuit of the energy management unit.
When the external vibration occurs, the rechargeable battery of the energy storage unit is charged. If the voltage of the rechargeable battery increases to the threshold voltage which is determined by the voltage stabilizing diode , the transistor turns on. At the same time, the resistor divides the voltage of the rechargeable battery and makes the MOSFET conduct. The rechargeable battery begins to discharge, and the power is transferred to the stabilized voltage circuit. When the voltage of the resistor is too low to make the MOSFET conduct, the energy management unit disconnects. The rechargeable battery continues to be charged.
6. Experimental Results and Discussions
Experimental results are taken to validate the energy supply system presented in this paper and to demonstrate the operation of the energy supply system. A sinusoidal exciting force generated by the shaker is applied to the piezoelectric element. First of all, we test the performance of the energy conditioning unit. Under the active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology, the voltage and current of the piezoelectric element are shown in Figure 5. It can be seen that when the vibration force happensata maximum or minimum value, the voltage of the piezoelectric element will turn in the short time, and the current will be well regulated. Because of the current regulator, the out current is very small among −10 mA to 10 mA.
Ottman et al. design a classic energy harvesting technology for wireless remote power supply, as shown in Figure 6 [23]. It consists of an AC–DC rectifier with an output capacitor, an electrochemical battery, and a switch-mode DC–DC converter that controls the energy flow into the battery.
Compared to the classic energy harvesting technology, Figure 7 presents the experimental and theoretical power of the energy conversion unit. Because of the circuit efficiency, the harvested power is no longer a constant for different excitation frequencies. The maximum power harvested by the active circuit is 9.8 mW at the resonance frequency 85 Hz. In the nonresonant frequencies, the experimental power regulated by the active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology does not quickly reduce. The output power is up to 4 times larger than the power by the classic energy harvesting technology in nonresonance frequencies.
Assuming the input of the energy management unit is a sinusoidal wave, the output voltage of the smart switch is presented in Figure 8. When the input voltage is lower than 3.6 V, the output voltage is 0. When the input voltage is higher than 3.6 V, the output voltage equals to the input value and the smart switch is equivalent to a voltage follower.
7. Conclusions
In this paper, a new energy supply system based on the mechanical vibrations for the wireless sensor node is discussed. An active piezoelectric energy harvesting technology is proposed to make the impedance of the electromechanical coupling system matching. Therefore, the energy supply system can improve the harvested power within the wide bands. At last, the energy supply system can output the constant voltage through the energy management unit to power the wireless sensor node.
This research is supported by the National Hi-Tech Research Development Program (863 Program) (no. 2009AA044902), the Key Scientific and Technological Project of Henan Province (91100210300), the Henan University of Science and Technology Scientific Research Start-up Foundation for Dr. (no. 09001550), the National Defense Project (JPPT-ZCGX1-1), the Major Project of Basic and Advanced Technology Research of Henan Province (No. 112300413205), the Henan University of Science and Technology Innovation Fund Project for Postgraduates (CXJJ-YJS-Z011), and the Education Department of Henan Province Key Science and Technology Research Project (12B510010).
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ATTENDEES AT the Mercer Loons' 16th annual memorial bike ride head out from Dear Lodge in Mercer, Wis., for a 130-mile trip Saturday afternoon.
MERCER, Wis. - The Mercer Loons Motorcycle Club held its 16th annual memorial run bike ride Saturday afternoon.
"We hold it in memory of all our passed club members," said member Dave Riegler.
Member Scott Tomek led the group in a few moments of silence before heading out on the road at noon.
"Be safe and let's ride," he said.
Beginning at the Dear Lodge in Mercer, the ride included a 130-mile trip through Park Falls, Clam Lake, Butternut and Mellen.
The ride was also a poker run. "At every stop, you get a card and the one with the best hand at the end wins half the jackpot," Tomek said, "The other half is donated to local kids."
Entry cost was $10. Around 30 attended the event.
Upcoming events include the 27th annual Mercer Loon party at Dear Lodge on August 17. The event will include refreshments and live music.
"All proceeds go back to the school and the town," Tomek said.
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* To find out how to get a copy, call your local water company. Or, look for a copy on the Internet athttp://yosemite.epa.gov/ogwdw/ccr.nsf/4de148880a6281188525671d00683256?OpenView.
* These Reports list only those contaminants that exceeded EPA standards during the most recent year. For more information on the levels of other potential contaminants in your water, ask your utility for a complete printout of their analysis.
If you need to test your tap water for lead or other potential contaminants, referrals to state-certified laboratories can be obtained from your local Health Department, the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791, or send an e-mail request to email@example.com.
EPA has issued standards for the maximum permissible levels in public water systems of some 80 potential contaminants that can adversely affect public health and are known or anticipated to occur in these systems.
* For how EPA establishes these drinking water standards, visit http://www.epa.gov/safewater/standard/setting.html
* For a list of the current standards, seehttp://www.epa.gov/safewater/mcl.html.
* For information about other contaminants EPA may add to its list in the future, seehttp://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/ccl/cclfs.html
Responsibility for enforcement of drinking water standards rests primarily with local jurisdictions.
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* For the latest EPA summary (from 1997), seehttp://www.epa.gov/safewater/annual/adw.html
To search by location or zip code for information about potential contaminants in local drinking water
(for example, from Superfund sites), visit EPAs Envirofacts web site athttp://www.epa.gov/enviro/index_java.html
A list of frequently asked questions (and their answers) about tap and bottled water from EPAhttp://www.epa.gov/safewater/faq/faq.html#03
* Fact sheet on EPAs proposal to lower the maximum permissible level of TTHMs (the most common disinfection byproducts) to 80 ppm. http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/mdbp/dbp1.html
* Guidance for people with severely weakened immune systems from EPA and the Centers for Disease Control(CDC)athttp://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/crypto.html
* EPA fact sheet on the arsenic standards at http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/ars/arsenic.html#sch
* Frequently Asked Questions about Arsenic in Drinking Water, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, athttp://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/qarsenic.asp
For the report Arsenic and Old Laws, A Scientific and Public Health
Analysis of
Arsenic Occurrence in Drinking Water, Its Health Effects, and EPAs
Arsenic Tap Water Standard from the Natural Resources Defense Council,
* Questions and answers about lead in drinking water from EPA athttp://www.epa.gov/safewater/Pubs/lead1.html
other inorganic chemicals (cadmium, copper, mercury, etc.) in drinking
* http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/dwh/c-ioc.html
Synthetic organic chemicals (PCBs, pesticides, etc.) in drinking
* http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/dwh/c-soc.html
Volatile organic chemicals (vinyl chloride, benzene, etc.) in drinking
* http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/dwh/c-voc.html
Before purchasing a home system, always verify that the system you
interested in has passed NSF testing. Get their booklet Water Wise
by calling
1-877-8-NSF-HELP, or find the information on their website athttp://www.nsf.org/Certified/Dwatertu_inf.cfm.
The Water Quality Association (WQA), a professional association of
treatment technicians, also tests water treatment equipment. They
award their
Gold Seal only to those systems that have met or exceeded industry
for contaminant
reduction performance, structural integrity, and materials safety. Check
website athttp://www.wqa.org/goldseal/
Consumer Reports analyzed inexpensive faucet-mounted and carafe filters
October, 1999, and more expensive reverse-osmosis systems in July,
1997. Check
your local library for copies, or visit their website athttp://www.consumerreports.org/.
NSF International also has its own voluntary certification program for
water. For names of companies that NSF has verified as complying with
appropriate safety regulation, call 1-877-NSF-HELP or visithttp://www.nsf.org/Certified/BWPI/.
In 1999, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental
headquartered in New York, reported in Bottled Water: Pure Drink or
Hype? on the results of a four-year study of 103 brands of bottled
available in the U.S. For a copy of the report, seehttp://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwinx.asp
In February, 2000, FDA proposed that water bottlers be required to provide
same kind of information about their products that water utility companies
make available about tap water in the Consumer Confidence Reports.
For the
text of FDAs proposal published in the Federal Register, seehttp://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr000222.html
A list of frequently asked questions (and their answers) about tap and
water from EPAhttp://www.epa.gov/safewater/faq/faq.html#03
EPAs recommendations for those with private drinking water wells
EPAs Water on Tap: A Consumers Guide to the Nations Drinking Water
EPAs How Safe Is My Drinking Water?http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/wot/howsafe.html
Children and Drinking Water Standards, an EPA publication with
about how whats in water affects children.
An EPA glossary of drinking water terminology.
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Author: Lieutenant Rick P. Armendariz
Modesto, CA- Modesto Police are investigating a fatal shooting that left one person dead. Police believe the shooting was gang-related and are trying to determine how a female stabbing victim, who was dropped off at a local hospital during the same time period as to the shooting, is related.
On Thursday, February 14th, at about 8:38 P.M., Modesto Police officers were called to a report of a shooting in the 2400 block of Vera Cruz Drive, in northeast Modesto. When officers arrived, they located a 20-year-old male victim, who appeared to have been suffering from several gunshot wounds. Officers provided CPR until paramedics arrived. The victim was transported to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
Preliminary investigation has revealed the shooting appears to be gang-related and resulted from a verbal altercation between the victim and a group of individuals. Detectives learned as the victim was walking in the 2400 block of Vera Cruz Drive, he was confronted by a group of males and females who were in several vehicles. The suspects exited their vehicles and confronted the victim in a verbal altercation. The confrontation quickly escalated and became physical. During the assault, a suspect from the group shot the victim several times. The group of suspects returned to their vehicles and fled the scene.
As officers were on scene at the shooting on Vera Cruz Drive, police received a report of a 17-year-old female who had arrived at a local hospital suffering from critical stab wounds. The stabbing female victim had been taken to the hospital by friends. Officers went to the hospital and contacted several individuals who were with the female stabbing victim. Investigators believe the two incidents are related and are trying to determine how the stabbing occurred. The stabbing victim underwent emergency surgery and is currently listed in stable condition.
Homicide and gang investigators have been working throughout the night and will continue to follow-up on leads, process the evidence collected from the crime scene and interview witnesses. As of this writing, no arrests have been made.
"Because we have several individuals involved who are gang members or gang-affiliated, it makes this case challenging to work through. It will take some time, but we are confident we will come to a resolution," said Investigative Services Sergeant Ivan Valencia. "We know what happened, which is that a male was shot and a female was stabbed. Our job now is to gather the evidence which should tell us how it occurred, why it occurred, and who should be held criminally culpable."
If you have any information regarding this incident please call Detective Robert Gumm at (209) 342-9162 or Crime Stoppers at (209) 521-4636. Callers to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward. Tipsters can also text information to Crime Stoppers by sending a text message to 274637. Just type "TIP704" along with your message.
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Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric: Live-Blogging the Morning Showdown!
"Today" and "Good Morning America" both have special hosts...
It's hard to believe it's been four years since Sarah Palin sat across from Katie Couric for the most infamously gaffe-ridden evening news interview in recent political history. The pair is facing off again this morning in a venue better suited to their particular charms: They're both guesting on different morning news programs. Palin will be gracing the longtime ratings leader Today on NBC, while Couric is filling in for Robin Roberts on ABC's gaining Good Morning America. Intel's Joe Coscarelli will be watching Couric blink emphatically, while Vulture's Jessica Grose follows Palin's every you betcha.
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Yes, we're brewing a special one-off beer for the inaugural Firefly Music Festival in July!
Two years ago today, we cracked open a bottle of Life & Limb and celebrated the relocation of our off-centered hideaway.
Positive Contact, the latest release in Dogfish Head's Music Series, hits shelves in late June.
What is Positive Contact?
Inspired by an a-ha moment, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Brooklyn Brine have collabo
Aging beer is a little like enjoying music. Some folks are forever chasing the latest releases, while others stick to the classics.
We're joining more than two dozen downtown Rehoboth Beach restaurants from June 3-9 for a delicious week of dining out.
Dogfish Head is kicking off a nationwide series of Ancient Ales beer dinners that celebrate our liquid time capsules and the foods that pair best with them.
Tickets are now on sale for the second annual Analog-A-Go-Go, our cask-beer fest/craft fair/vinyl pow-wow!
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It's March in Indiana, a time for high school championships, the Big Ten tourney, and bracket pools for the NCAA tournament! And it's also a great time to take adventage of another blood donation deal. The Red Cross is celebrating Mad Antz week, and from March 8 through March 14 blood donors will receive two free tickets to a Mad Antz game.
AND free donuts!!!
Blood donation saves lives. There is still no man-made substance that can replace donated human blood in many medical circumstances. In an article described in Science Daily, Nicola Lasetera of Case Western University said that 38% of americans are eligible to donate blood, but only 8% actually donate. She said most people donate blood after emergencies and natural disasters occur, but most blood is actually needed for people with chronic conditions, such as cancer.
Take, for example, the story of Sami Gray. Sami developed neuroblastoma at the age of 13 months. Thanks to aggressive treatment including 34 transfusions of donated platelets, Sami overcame her nervous system cancer, has graduated from pre-kindergarten, and is ready to attend kindergarten next fall. For more stories of blood recipients, click here.
But back to the free offers. This week blood donors at the Red Cross or Lutheran Hospital blood drives will get two free tickets to the March16 game, featuring the Mad Ants vs. the Maine Red Claws. They will also be entered into a drawing for two courtside tickets to the game. The March 16th game will be Red Cross night at the Mad Antz, and blood can be donated between 6 and 9 PM. The Maine Red Claws have the D-leagues leading scorer, Morris Almond. It should be a good game, and it's guaranteed to be a good time.
Donation schedules at the Red Cross Facility and Lutheran Hospital are as follows:
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Truth is often found in humor, and so it is in a video released on AARP.org that pokes fun at -- but gets to the truth of -- sex at an older age.
The cartoon is from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and animator Walt Handelsman. See the AARP.org story and video here.
To the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", the video is entitled "Take Me Up To the Bathroom" and is based on the notion that a certain little blue pill can buy you some happiness in the bedroom ... until it's time for the Advil.


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Ellen DeGeneres set Twitter on fire with a 2014 Oscars' selfie, which showed Ellen with a group of her friends. These friends all had some very famous faces. The picture crashed Twitter, but that crash came with a silver lining for Ellen. She was happy to say, they made Twitter history as the "most shared photo ever on Twitter," according to the Times of India on March 3.
The selfie, which is seen above, includes Ellen, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Spacy, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Lupita Nyong. It was Cooper who snapped Ellen's crowded selfie, so he can say the click of his finger made history with his "mobile device."
Streep gushed about never tweeting before, but when you hang around with Ellen, you know there's a chance of doing something for the first time! She goes to great lengths to entertain the masses. Ellen shared how she learned that they made Twitter history:
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Access to Twitter was disrupted for a short period as over two million people shared or retweeted the Ellen and friends picture during the two hours or the 86the annual Academy Awards. Ellen couldn't have picked a better time to have a selfie break a record, this seems to be "the year of the selfie" so far.


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George MorlandEnglish, 1763 - 1804
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Henry Robert Morland (1716-1797), a failed portrait painter and picture dealer, himself the son of a mediocre artist, bred his son George from infancy to the family profession. An early biographer corroborates other accounts of George's upbringing: "[He] was confined from day to day, and from year to year, in an attic apartment, where he was incessantly employed in copying drawings or pictures, or making drawings from casts."1 Dawe adds that "from an over anxious regard to his morals" the boy was not permitted to study at the Royal Academy,2 but Morland the elder may simply have had little regard for the future commercial value either of classical academic training or its concomitant, the painting of history pictures. As a friend of Reynolds (1723-1792), Benjamin West (1738-1820), and Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), Henry Robert Morland well knew that the prosperous middle class was not yet ready to purchase ennobling history pieces but eagerly bought up mild landscapes and instructive genre scenes. Young George was made to study and copy pictures by the Dutch masters and shipwrecks by Joseph Verner (1714-1789), while he himself chose to study Stubbs's (1724-1806) Anatomy of the Horse and later copied fancy pictures by Gainsborough (1727-1788). By 1775 he had achieved such a degree of competence that his father entered his twelve-year old son's work in the exhibition at the Free Society of Artists as by "Master George Morland, ten years old," capitalizing on the vogue for "discovering" untutored geniuses, popularized by the writings of Rousseau and exemplified a few years later by the brief fashion for "the Cornish Wonder" John Opie (1761-1807).3
At fourteen, in 1777, George was exhibiting at the Society of Artists and at the same time bound apprentice to his father. There he stayed, in near incarceration, until 1784, exhibiting continually at the Royal Academy and the Free Society of Artists. In 1784 his apprenticeship expired. There followed several years of experiment and indecision. He drew from the model on three occasions in 1784 at the (forbidden) Royal Academy, traveled to Margate and Calais with a patroness to seek work as a portrait painter in 1785, married the sister of the engraver William Ward (1766-1826) in 1786, and saw the birth of a stillborn son in 1787. His earliest dated work, from about 1786-87, is St. Valentine's Day (18 x 13 1/2", London, Victoria and Albert Museum), part of a series of paintings on the "Progress of Love" executed in collaboration with Francis Wheatley (1747-1801), whose success as a painter of sentimental genre no doubt influenced Morland's decision to take up this most lucrative and fashionable branch of painting.
The period from 1786 to 1790 constitutes the first brief phase of Morland's career when he established himself as a painter of moral and domestic genre (The Squire's Door, c. 1790, 15 1/4 x 12 7/8", New Haven, Yale Center for British Art) and English fêtes galantes (St. James's Park, 16 x 19", Upperville, Virginia, Paul Mellon Collection, and A Tea Garden, 16 x 19/s", London, Tate Gallery, both 1789 ). He also took up the tradition of the moralizing progress in emulation of Hogarth (1697-1764), beginning in 1786 with a series of six pictures called "Laetitia" or "A Harlot's Progress," showing the path of a young girl from innocence to vice, and finally (and here Morland is very much of his own time and very unlike Hogarth) to repentance. His Continental reputation was established in the late 1780s through prints after his subjects of children at play such as Blind Man's Buff (1789, 27 1/2 x 20 1/2", Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts) or Juvenile Navigators (1789, 24 x 30", location unknown).
This period as a genre painter lasted only four years. Around 1790, possibly because he sensed that the commercial appeal of the cult of sensibility had drawn to a close and a new fashion for the picturesque had dawned, he began to paint landscapes and rustic low-life subjects, beginning in 1791 with the exhibition of Inside of a Stable (58 1/2 x 80 1/4", London, Tate Gallery) at the Royal Academy to huge critical acclaim. From this year until his death in 1804 his stock in trade was the depiction of tumbledown farmyards, harmless gypsies, happy peasants, bumbling farmers, picturesque smugglers and fishermen, and shipwrecks in the style of the highly popular Swiss painter Philipp de Loutherbourg (1740-1812). As David Winter has shown, even within the relatively short span of a decade's work on such subjects there are two distinct periods: works painted from about 1790 to 1794, which constitute Morland's "best period," having a freshness and vitality absent from the later works; and works painted after 1794, when drink, debt, and poor health led him to turn out carelessly executed parodies of his own earlier style.
Morland's methods of painting and distribution were revolutionary. As an oil painter, he worked with the best available materials but without sketches or even preconceived compositions, inventing as he worked, so that the finished product, often the labor of only a few hours, had the spontaneity and bravura of a Continental oil sketch. He copied as much as he could from life, bringing donkeys, pigs, and straw into his studio, or waylaying passers-by to pose when the color of their cloaks suited his artistic purpose.4
With a chronic dislike of patrons ("Oh d--n Lords, I paint for no Lords")5 he fell into the clutches of a series of middlemen who hung around his studio, paying him a few pounds' drinking money for a picture painted in Camden Town or Paddington, then selling it immediately for double the price to dealers or engravers in Bond Street and Covent Garden. This system, which presumed an unlimited demand for Morland's productions brought about by the vogue for the picturesque and the craze for English prints in England or France and Germany, changed the relationship between English painters and their clients. For the first time the painter could, in theory, paint the subjects he chose, in the size and colors he selected, and expect to sell the picture at once to a dealer. The burden of finding a purchaser then fell to the businessman.6 Furthermore, under this system the necessity to exhibit at a public institution was eliminated, and thus it was the owners of Morland's paintings who submitted them to the Royal Academy and the Society, of Artists, not Morland himself.
But this system hardly meant complete freedom for the artist. Because his works were meant for engraving, a publisher would buy only images appealing to the broadest (or lowest) public taste. Morland and his like were confined to inoffensive, undemanding subjects with particular preference given to scenes of moral edification, children at play, or views of peasant and farming life. Likewise, pictures could be smaller because their purchasers came from the middle and merchant classes and lived in smaller houses than patrons of a generation before. Finally, complexity of technique or surface finish were not necessarily considerations in a painting whose value lay largely in its quick and successful translation into black and white by an artisan, often unknown to the artist.
Morland himself is an unforgettable character. His father's severity left him unable to submit to authority or discipline of any kind. Dawe tells us that ''he seemed to pride himself in doing every thing which his parents had represented to him as pernicious, and the more he could throw off his juvenile fears the more he thought himself a man."7 In practice this led to behavior so extreme that he takes his place alongside the Prince of Wales, William Beckford, and Lady Hamilton as one of the great comic figures of the late eighteenth century. To begin with, he was drunk at all times; he rarely washed or changed his clothes. Morland usually dressed up like a jockey or groom, in costumes described by Hassell as "whimsical," "eccentric," "ridiculous," "finical, fantastical, and grotesque."8 These get-ups gained in their visual effect if, like Hassell, one met the painter in Paddington, on a summer's morning, carrying a baby pig in his arms.9 He lived in squalor but surrounded himself with food and wine in a studio filled with friends, wrestling, boxing, or pelting passing coachmen with blobs of paint. At the bottom of his garden at Winchester Row in Paddington in the early 1790s, Morland maintained a menagerie of horses, foxes, goats, dogs, squirrels, guinea pigs, and dormice.10
All this seems to have fascinated his contemporaries, but after about 1794 it began to affect his health and interfere with his work. Near the end of Morland's life Collins described him as besotted and squalid; cadaverous hanging cheeks, a pinched nose, contracted nostrils, bleard and bloodshot eyes, a bloated frame, swelled legs, a palsied hand, and a tremulous voice."11 Morland died in a sponging house in Eyre Street Hill, Cold Bath Fields, in October 1804, age forty-one.
To briefly sum up his whereabouts in London during a short life: he lived in North London, near or in Camden Town from the time of his marriage until about 1791 when he moved to the rural village of Paddington; in 1792 he f1ed with his wife to Enderby in Leicester but returned to live in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury. By 1794 he had begun a life of constant peregrination to avoid his creditors. He had visited the Isle of Wight on and off since at least 1789 and spent several months there in 1799. On December 30, 1799, he was arrested for debt and committed for two years to King's Bench Prison where, under the "rules," he lived in a furnished house while working to pay off his bills.
Richard Dorment, from British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century (1986), pp. 228-230.
2. George Dawe. The Life of George Morland, with an Introduction and Notes by J. J. Foster. London 1904, p. 4.
3. For a summary of Morland's development see George Dawe. The Life of George Morland, with an Introduction and Notes by J. J. Foster. London 1904, pp. 4-6; David Winter. George Morland (1763-1804). Stanford, California, 1977, passim.
4. George Dawe. The Life of George Morland, with an Introduction and Notes by J. J. Foster. London 1904, p. 40.
5. Francis William Blagdon. Authentic Memoirs of the Late George Morland ... London, 1806, p. 8.
6. See David Thomas's essay in London, Arts Council of Great Britain, George Morland: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1954, pp. 5-6; Burke, 1976, pp. 390-91.
7. George Dawe. The Life of George Morland, with an Introduction and Notes by J. J. Foster. London 1904, p. 17.
8. J. Hassell. Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Morland; with Critical and Descriptive Observations on the Whole of His Works Hitherto before the Public. London, 1806, p. 9.
9. Ibid., p. 21.
10. George Dawe. The Life of George Morland, with an Introduction and Notes by J. J. Foster. London 1904, pp. 58-59.
11. William Collins. Memoirs of a Picture. 2 vols. Vol. 2, Memoirs of a Painter. London, 1805, vol. 2, p. 133.
John Raphael Smith, A Descriptive Catalogue of Thirty-Six Pictures Painted by George Morland . .. to Be Engraved by Subscription by and under the Direction of J[ohn] R[aphael] Smith (London, [1792]); William Collins. Memoirs of a Picture. 2 vols. Vol. 2, Memoirs of a Painter. London, 1805; Francis William Blagdon. Authentic Memoirs of the Late George Morland ... London, 1806; J. Hassell. Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Morland; with Critical and Descriptive Observations on the Whole of His Works Hitherto before the Public. London, 1806; George Dawe. The Life of George Morland, with Remarks on His Works. London, 1807; "Memoir of George Morland," Arnold's Library of the Fine Arts aud Journal of Literature and Science, n.s., vol. 1, no. 3 (January 1833), pp. 161-71; Ralph Richardson. George Morland: Painter, London, 1763-1804. London, 1895; Ralph Richardson, George Morland's Pictures, Their Present Possessors, with Details of the Collections (London, 1897); J. T. Nettleship. George Morland and the Evolution from Him of Some Later Painters. London, 1898; Julia Frankau, An Eighteenth Century Artist and Engraver John Raphael Smith: His Life and Works, 2 vols. (London, 1902); George Dawe. The Life of George Morland, with an Introduction and Notes by J. J. Foster. London 1904; Martin Hardie, "George Morland I: The Man and the Painter," The Connoisseur, vol. 9 (July 1904), pp. 156-63; Marrin Hardie, "George Morland II: The Engravings," The Connoisseur, vol. 9 (August 1904), pp. 199-207; George C. Williamson. George Morland: His Life and Works. London, 1904; J. T. Herbert Baily, "George Morland," The Connoisseur, extra number, no. 1 (1906); Walter Gilbey and E. D. Cuming. George Morland: His Life and Works. London, 1907; George C. Williamson. George Morland: His Life and Works. London, 1907;
David Henry Wilson, George Morland (London and New York, 1907); Francis Buckley, George Morland's Sketch Books and Their Publishers (Uppennill, 1931); Walter Shaw Sparrow. A Book of Sporting Painters. London and New York, 1931, pp. 61-70; Joseph Burke. English Art, 1714-1800. Vol. 9 of The Oxford History of English Art. Edited by T.S.R. Boase. Oxford, 1976, pp 390-91; David Winter. George Morland (1763-1804). Stanford, California, 1977; John Barrell. The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting, 1730-1840. Cambridge, London, and New York, 1980, pp. 89-129.


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BENTON, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say a sheriff's deputy in Saline County was arrested on suspicion of taking more than 400 pain pills from a home in Alexander.
Authorities say Deputy Paul Babbitt was arrested Wednesday on charges of theft of property and possession of a prescription drug without a prescription. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Babbitt posted bond shortly after he was booked in the jail.
Authorities did not know if he had an attorney.
Authorities say the arrest came after a 60-year-old man told investigators that someone took 400 Dilaudid pain pills from his home.
Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Scottie Courtney says he didn't know whether Babbitt knew the man.
Authorities say Babbitt is on paid administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation
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Anonymous November 26, 2012 at 8:07 AM
What else is this guy stealing? Do what they do in other countries…. cut his hands off.
Anonymous November 25, 2012 at 10:33 PM
You kids had better play nice, or I am going to take my toys and go and play in my own sandbox without you . . .
the pills made him do it.
He did not have the pills UNTIL he did it, dumb ass.
Cops need to be given very extreme harsh punishments or these cops will forever act like thugs. I sure wish groups around the country would start Star Chamber type organizations to deal with these thugs. I'll bet that would straighten these thugs out.
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Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey: 'Your second year is supposed to be your best year'
Miami Dolphins center Mike Pouncey is preparing for his second season in the NFL.
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For starters, new eating habits for a guy that hovers around 300 pounds, and is looking to be quicker in the Dolphins' new zone blocking scheme for the West Coast offense.
SunSentinel.com: What did you give up? What's the hardest thing to give up?
Mike Pouncey: "Man, fast food. It's so easy to get."
SunSentinel.com: You were eating fast food?
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SunSentinel.com: In terms of this offense, the zone blocking schemes, how much do you think this will benefit this offensive line?
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Pouncey: "We've got a bunch of great running backs. Reggie Bush is gonna do a great job for us. This is his offense. If you give him time to make a read he's going to make big plays for us. You've got Daniel Thomas, a guy that can put it up and punch it in there. But the surprise for me has been Lamar Miller, a guy that comes out and works hard every day. He looks great, and we're just glad to have him part of the team, too."
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|OBJECTIVE: To develop a transcutaneous ultrasonography (TUS) method for measuring the location of the stomach during various levels of fluid distension and evaluate any correlation between gastric fluid distension and stomach position. ANIMALS: 6 adult horses. PROCEDURES: Known volumes of water were administered in 2 trials. In trial 1, the stomach was evaluated prior to and after the administration of 2, 4, and 6 L of water. In trial 2, the stomach was evaluated after administration of 6, 8, 10, and 12 L of water. The TUS was performed at the 7th through 16th left intercostal spaces (ICSs). For each volume of water, an image was captured at the most dorsal point in each ICS where the dorsolateral aspect of the stomach wall was viewed. The distance between this point and a horizontal line drawn on the skin at the level of the elbow joint was measured. The measurements at all ICSs were used to estimate the gastric wall height at ICS 12, which was subsequently evaluated for statistical association with volume administered. RESULTS: Significant correlation between the estimated height of the stomach wall at ICS 12 and the volume of fluid administered was detected. A regression equation to estimate gastric fluid volume when initial values for gastric wall height (cm) at ICS 12 and fluid volume (L) are known was developed. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Results suggested that use of TUS for gastric fluid volume estimation is a potentially useful technique.
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