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Home Made Lawn Vacuum
I thought some of you might get a kick out of my homemade lawn vacuum (don't laugh at the Murray tractor! It's been replaced with an Ingersoll 448 and a CUB 6284 CUT this year). See photos below.
I mow over 2.5 acres of slightly hilly and tree covered yard and our grass grows so thick that even mowing several times a week would result in windrows of cut grass. When we first moved to our place ten years ago we had no mower since we had moved from an apartment. Since we had stretched our budget just to purchase the house (sounds better than saying I didn't know better) I went right out to Wards (they were still around) and bought the last Murray riding mower they had on hand for the season. It was a shiny green riding mower with a Briggs 18 HP horizontal opposed engine, hydrostatic drive, and a 42" deck.
As soon as I got the Murray home I started putting it to work - not only as a mower but also as a hobby farm tractor. In defense of the Murray, I have put it through **** over the years. The last several years I have been repairing it repeatedly and it has started leaking oil. The compression is low and the engine is loose enough that when you shut it off it continues to spin (not dieseling) for what seems at least 15 minutes. Still, I think I can charge the battery and hose it off and still get a hundred for it from someone that can't afford more.
Anyhow.... After raking the grass up several times I soon realized that I needed some method of picking up the grass as it is cut. The only thing offered for the Murray is a bagging system that I'm sure would choke the first time it saw our thick grass. Also, I imagine the bags would require emptying every circuit around the yard. No, I needed something with a real vacuum assist and a trailer to hold the clippings.
Now I know that there are vacuum systems available on the market that feature a 5 - 8 HP engine and vacuum on the hitch, but I'm your basic cheap S.O.B. Never buy anything you can build from seemingly totally unrelated components and in no more than the next five years. In fact, for this project the need was so great that I shortened the project timeline to under 1 year.
So to create the core vacuum unit for my lawn vacuum I turned to my favorite department store - e-Bay. After watching the various ads for some time the perfect item (a Billy Goat) popped up one day at a great price and only an hour and a half from home. To ice the deal I pointed out to my wife that if we purchased it the sellers location would be roughly along the route to her mothers place and we could make a weekend road trip, picking it up on the way home. Done.
To those of you not familiar with Billy Goats, they are gasoline powered vacuums designed for vacuuming large areas such as parking lots and factory floors. Mine sported an 8 HP Briggs and Stratton engine. At $350.00 I paid a comparatively good price for it and some of the unwanted components I stripped off it I resold on e-Bay. After removing the collection bag and other unnecessary items I was left with a four wheeled machine with the 8 HP engine and vacuum housing attached.
The next step in the project was to fabricate a new exhaust housing to channel the debris into a pipe/house to direct into a towed trailer. This was cobbled (welded) from an old steel freon tank and some heavy gauge steel shelving. The results were not pretty, but it served my needs. I also removed the original wide vacuum pick-up and welded the resulting hole shut with a plate. This left the vacuum hose connect left on the vacuum side of the housing. I then fabricated a catch hood from steel VAC ducting to attach to the deck discharge of the Murray and hook up to the vacuum hose. This was beginning to look like something!
I now built a trailer tongue to attach to the hitch on the Murray and created a hitch to hook up a trailer at the rear. My lawn vacuum was now complete. But before I could put it to use I had to build a wood frame and screen top for my trailer that would catch the grass and leaves while allowing the blown air to escape. Now I was ready.....
The first time I hooked up everything I stood back to admire my handy work and realized I had created a lawn train. The whole rig actually maneuvers quite well I have found as long as you don't drive into an area you would need to back out of (for obvious reasons). A few circuits around the yard amazed me at how well the rig picked up the grass clippings and how much better the Murray mowed with it attached. That Billy Goat generates enough vacuum to suck gophers out of their holes!
For many years now I have mowed using what has come to be known as my Lawn Zamboni. Though the process of mowing our yard takes at least three hours every week (42" deck, remember?) the resulting attractive lawn was certainly an improvement over the pre-Zamboni days. The biggest problem I have had with the outfit is the fact that the green grass clippings are blown so hard into the trailer that they compact into a solid mass that is nearly impossible to get back out when it is time to empty it - even using a pitch fork. Another issue is that the compacted green grass weighs so much that it is straining the load capacity of the trailer and when full really strains the Murray hydrostatic tranny.
Another bonus to having this rig is the amount of grass and leaf mulch available to us that we never had before. We find plenty of uses for it and I like recycling everything we can. Oh, and did I mention this thing is awesome in the fall when all our leaves come down!
So Murray is being retired this spring. The Ingersoll has an available hydra-vac unit that mounts to the back and runs off the tractor hydraulics which I hope to acquire soon. If that happens I will probably seek a new home for the Zamboni as well, though I am sure that with a newly fabricated deck adapter would continue to serve. We'll shall see.....
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
Hey !, whatever works, right ?, pretty neat setup Jeff and for sharing with us .
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
I love it! Good old fashioned use what you got the best you can. I'm planning to make a vac/shredder for my 1650MF useing the rear PTO to power the vac and building a three point mounted trailer that will dump when I lift the three point. Anyway you do it, sitting on a tractor seat beats raking!!!
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
I like it Jeff, thanks for sharing and the nice write up on how you made it.
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
I screwed up a couple years back. We have an acre and I too didn't have riding mower. Bought the first one at a garage sale I found. 30 bucks for a non running non moving Craftsman RER. Cleaned the carb and put a new pulley on the transmission and I was mowing. I needed a bagger though. The leader of our scout troop for which I am on the committee had an old 18 hp craftsman that the engine was junk on and wanted to get rid of it. He gave me that, the bagger for it and a yard trailer for free. The trailer was in great shape but with no wheels. The trailer had a huge well built cage on it for use as a grass catcher. I retrofitted the bagger to work on my little craftsman and pulled the cage off of my trailer. My two large oaks and my neighbor's 2 large oaks dump a ton of leaves so then I was thinking of building a leaf rig. At an auction the following spring I could have bought an old Montgomery Wards yard vac for 10 bucks. I should have. Still to this day don't know why I didn't. I just use my 2 snappers now and do a lot of dumping. Oh well.
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
excellent idea and project
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
Love it!
If you ever decide to get rid of the Zamboni, make sure you let us know first! That is just too cool. i do have a rear mounted vacuum on my Simplicity that is a life saver in the spring when the grass is growing fast and in the fall when the tress leaves dump on us.
I have considered going to a larger cart or 4 wheel wagon as the 2 wheel carts I have require a lot of dumping with the amount of area I have to mow.
for sharing!
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
awesome. hey dont worry, i have a little White L-12 and i am like 6'4 and 260. whatever works man. i look like an elephant riding a bike on that White.
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
I have made one. The biggest issue is the darn dust from the leaves. If the top of the cart is enclosed you will need an opening at the top/rear and it blows LOTS of air out. When I started mine I tried plastic drainage hose but it is too stiff.
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Re: Home Made Lawn Vacuum
Great setup! slkpk
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- Accelink
- Avago Technologies
- Foxconn
- JDS Uniphase
- NeoPhotonix
- Santec
Optical Amplifiers are evolving. There are various types including the EDFA, Raman, and Semiconductor configurations. The EDFA optical amplifier units can be used in telecom and datacom (SONET/SDH/DWDM/Gigabit Ethernet) applications to change an electrical signal into an optical signal and vice versa.
According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, "Optical Amplifiers are used to update the communications networks to manage broadband, to update the data center networks to make them manage traffic with higher speeds, to implement the backbone network for mobile communications.
"Everything is going mobile. This evolution is driven by mobile smart phones and tablets that provide universal connectivity. With 6 billion cell phones in use and one billion smart phones, soon to be 6 billion smart phones, a lot of people have access to mobile communication. Video, cloud-based services, the internet, and machine-to-machine (M2M) provide mobile connectivity. All these devices are networked and drive significant traffic to the broadband network, stimulating the need for optical transceivers."
The optical amplifier component market is intensely competitive. There is increasing demand for optical components as communications markets grow in response to more use of smart phones and more Internet transmission of data. The market for network infrastructure equipment and for communications semiconductors offers attractive long-term growth:
Data center growth is in response in part to the growth of bid data, and in part to the incredible bandwidth being consumed by video content. New programming is moving to broadcast quality short videos that can be downloaded by users Users can download broadcast quality news or training videos as broadband networks become universally available.
Low bandwidth video does not directly drive adoption of optical components. It indirectly does by creating demand for broadband data transport. Video capability at the high end of the market is creating need for network high speed of transmission just because of the quantity of data being transmitted.
The Optical Transport Network (OTN) is a set of optical network elements connected by optical fiber links. Optical network elements provide transport, multiplexing, switching, management, supervision and survivability of communication channels. Carrier Ethernet is emerging. Optical transceiver, transmitter, receiver, and transponders support the implementation of the new network capacity.
Optical amplifier components are an innovation engine for the network supporting end to end data transport over optical systems. Optical components support and enable low-cost transport throughout the network. Optical components are needed for high speed network infrastructure build-outs. These are both for carriers and data centers. Network infrastructure build-out depends on the availability of consultants who are knowledgeable.
Optical amplifiers are evolving to be compliant with the 10Gbps Small Form Factor Pluggable (XFP) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) specification for next generation optical transceiver devices. There is expected to be tremendous investment in wireless cell tower base stations as the quantity of network traffic grows exponentially. Carriers worldwide are responding to the challenges brought by the massive increase in wireless data traffic. The advent of big data and exponential growth of data managed by the enterprise data centers is a significant market factor.
The global optical amplifier market at $900 million in 2012 is anticipated to reach $2.8 billion by 2019. Growth is driven by the availability of high speed processors and component devices that support increased speed and traffic on the optical networks. The migration to all optical networks is ongoing.
Markets are driven by the availability of 100 Gbps devices and the vast increases in Internet traffic. Internet traffic growth comes from a variety of sources, not the least of which 1.6 billion new smart phones sold per year. Smartphone market growth is causing the need for investment in backhaul and cell tower technology. SHOW LESS READ MORE >
- Accelink
- Avago Technologies
- Foxconn
- JDS Uniphase
- NeoPhotonix
- Santec
Optical Amplifier Executive Summary
The study is designed to give a comprehensive overview of the Optical Amplifier equipment market segment. Research represents a selection from the mountains of data available of the most relevant and cogent market materials, with selections made by the most senior analysts. Commentary on every aspect of the market from independent analysts creates an independent perspective in the evaluation of the market. In this manner the study presents a comprehensive overview of what is going on in this market, assisting managers with designing market strategy likely to succeed.
Optical Amplifier Executive Summary
Optical Amplifier Market Driving Forces
Optical Amplifiers compliant with EDFA, Raman, and
Semiconductor types
Optical Amplifier Market Driving Forces
Ongoing Transition To Media For Communications
Optical Amplifier Key Themes
Optical Component Amplifier Market Shares
Optical Component Amplifier Market Forecasts
Optical Amplifier Market Description and Market Dynamics
1. Optical Amplifier Market Description and
Market Dynamics
1.1 Growth Of The Global Economy Becomes Steadily More Sluggish
1.1.1 Global Economic Conditions Impact Optical Amplifiers
1.2 Enterprise Information Accessed By Mobile Workers
1.2.1 Cloud Technology Brings Rapid Time to Value
1.3 Optical Amplifier Applicable Networks
1.3.1 Carrier Networking
1.3.2 Data Centers
1.3.3 Data Center Storage
1.4 Amplifier Definitions
1.5 Customer Plans for Optical Network Implementation
1.5.1 AT&T As An Optical Component Customer
1.5.2 AT&T Fiber Networks Provide Backbone Connectivity
To Data Center
1.5.3 AT&T Voice Over IP (VoIP)
1.5.4 AT&T Optical Network Investment
1.5.5 Financial Centers Invest in Optical Networking
1.5.6 JPMorgan Chase spends $500 Million To Build A Data Center
1.5.7 Verizon Investment in Optical Networks
1.5.8 Verizon Investment in Data Center Networks
1.5.9 NTT Com Operation Of A Route That Connects
Europe and Japan
1.5.10 Deutsche Telekom Application Delivery Network
1.5.11 Ikanos Highly Integrated VDSL Communications Processor
Optical Amplifier Market Shares and Market Forecasts
This section selectively describes market shares, forecasts, segments, and regional revenue. Numbers are the result of primary research in all cases. Selected company are described from an independent analyst perspective with a thumbnail sketch or analysis of their market numbers or commentary on their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the analysis is focused on looking at the topic segment by segment, including company descriptive analyses by segment and subsegment.
2. Optical Amplifier Market Shares and Forecasts
2.1 Optical Amplifier Market Driving Forces
2.1.1 Optical Amplifiers compliant with EDFA, Raman, and
Semiconductor types
2.1.2 Optical Amplifier Market Driving Forces
2.1.3 Ongoing Transition To Media For Communications
2.1.4 Optical Amplifier Key Themes
2.2 Optical Component Amplifier Market Shares
2.2.1 JDS Uniphase Optical Amplifiers
2.2.2 Finisar
2.2.3 Oclaro
2.2.4 Oclaro PureGain PG3000
2.2.5 Furukawa Electric Amplifiers
2.2.6 Furukawa Electric Desktop Amplifier
2.2.7 NEC Optical Communications
2.2.8 Source Photonics
2.2.9 Accelink EDFA-BA Series
2.2.10 API - Hybrid Silicon Detector and Transimpedance Amplifier
2.2.11 Oplink Amplifiers
2.2.12 TriQuint
2.3 Optical Component Amplifier Market Forecasts
2.3.1 Optical Amplifier Market, Erbium Doped Fiber
Amplifier (EDFA)
2.3.1 Optical Amplifier Market, Raman
2.3.2 Impact of Cloud and Virtualization on Network Performance
2.3.3 EDFA, Raman and Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Market
2.3.4 Optical Amplifier Form Factors
2.3.5 Component Needs For Next-Generation Fixed And
Mobile Access
2.3.6 Raman, Semiconductor Amplifier Shipments Evolving;
Utilities Hone In On M2M
2.3.7 Managing EDFA While Preparing For Raman and
2.3.8 Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
2.3.9 Using EDFA Devices To Implement Raman and
Semiconductor Port Capacity
2.3.10 Need For More Compact Pluggables Than The CFP
2.3.11 Tunable XFP Optical Amplifiers
2.3.12 Utilities Hone In On M2M Cellular Communications Nodes /
Optical Amplifier Market
2.3.13 Types of Amplifier
2.3.14 Telecom Amplifiers
2.3.15 High-Speed Optical Amplifier Market
2.3.16 CFP MSA for 40 and 100 GiGbps
2.3.17 Managing EDFA While Preparing For Raman And
2.3.18 Networks Moving To Embrace An Ethernet Protocol
2.3.19 Modulation
2.3.20 Raman Coherent Channel Position Must Be Managed
2.3.21 Semiconductor Modules vs. Raman Modules
2.3.22 Carrier Networking
2.3.23 Enterprise Networking
2.3.24 Return on Investment (ROI) of Component Needs For Next-
Generation Fixed And Mobile Access
2.3.25 Technological Trends and Vendor Consolidation Impact Carriers
Push for Semiconductors
2.4 Optical Component Market Forecasts
2.4.1 Measuring Cost -Per-Bit-Per-Kilometer
2.5 Optical Component Amplifier Prices
2.5.1 Multi-way 1550nm CATV optical amplifier--WE1550
2.5.2 edfa 1550nm optical amplifier
2.5.3 1550nm Erbium-doped Optical Amplifier
2.5.4 FS-T20 KEYENCE EDFA Fiber Optic Amplifier
2.5.5 Fiber Optical Amplifier Polarization Maintaining
Optical Circulator
2.5.6 Fiber Optic Amplifier PLC Splitter 1*8
2.5.7 -27dBm (500mW) 1550nm EDFA Fiber Optical Amplifier
2.5.8 EDFA 1550nm Optical Amplifier
2.5.9 1550nm Erbium-doped Optical Amplifier
2.5.10 JDSU 1550nm Optical Amplifier--WE1550
2.5.11 Optical Fiber Amplifier EDFA
2.5.12 SA32xx 32Ports FTTB High power EDFA
2.5.13 18dBm 1550nm Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier EDFA
2.5.15 DWDM EDFA system
2.5.16 EDFA Gain Flattening Filter
2.5.17 CATV Optical 1550nm edfa
2.5.18 -30dBm (1000mW) EDFA1530 1550nm High power EDFA
2.5.19 Catv EDFA
2.5.20 High Quality 20dBm CATV EDFA, 1550nm Fiber Amplifier
2.5.21 Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA)
2.5.22 FS-17 KEYENCE EDFA Fiber Optic Amplifier
2.5.23 EM-030 KEYENCE EDFA Fiber Optic Amplifier
2.5.24 CATV EDFA with network SNMP 22dBm 1550nm
Fiber Optic Amplifier
2.5.25 Dual Power Source JDSU Pump Laser 1550nm EDFA
2.5.27 1550nm CATV EDFA
2.6 Optical Amplifier Regional Market Segments
2.6.1 Finisar Net Regional Sales
2.6.2 JDSU Regional Revenue
2.6.3 Oclaro Regional Sales
Optical Amplifier Product Description
This section describes selected company and selected products. Products for this market segment are described with attention to the most significant aspect of features and functions in this category of product. The juxtaposition of a range of different product descriptions from a single market category provides a really good way to access market directions and achieve market competitive analysis. This section is arranged in three pieces: immersive products, conference room products, and end point products. Company products are described in the appropriate sections, meaning a company is mentioned several times in the chapter in different places.
3. Optical Amplifier Products Description
3.1 JDSU Optical Amplifiers
3.1.1 JDSU AON Super Transport Blade Platform
3.1.2 JDSU EDFA, C, 15 dBm, Compact, 70x90x12 mm
3.1.3 JDSU Detectors/Receivers
3.1.4 JDSU Photodiode, APD/TIA, 1310/1550 nm, 2.5 Gbps,
Pigtail Receiver
3.2 Finisar
3.2.1 Finisar Hybrid Raman-EDFA
3.2.2 Finisar Variable Gain EDFA
3.2.3 Finisar Compact 70x90 mm Variable Gain EDFA
3.2.4 Finisar UltraSpan
3.2.5 Finisar UltraSpan Raman
3.2.6 Finisar UltraSpan Power Booster
3.3 Oclaro PureGain PG3000
3.4 Furukawa Electric Amplifiers
3.4.1 Furukawa Electric Desktop Amplifier
3.4.2 Furukawa Electric EDFA module / Raman EDFA
3.5 3SP Group
3.5.1 3SP Group CW Amplifiers
3.6 Accelink
3.6.1 Accelink EDFA-BA Series
3.7 Advanced Photonix - Picometrix
3.7.1 API - Hybrid Silicon Detector and Transimpedance Amplifier
3.8 Alcatel Lucent
3.8.1 Alcatel-Lucent 1675 Lambda Unite MultiService Switch
3.9 Oplink
3.9.1 Amplifiers
3.10 Triquint
3.10.1 Triquint TGA1328-SCC
3.10.2 Triquint TGA8652-SL
3.10.3 TriQuint OC-192 Modulator Driver, SMT Package
3.10.4 Triquint TGB2010-00-SM
3.11 Photon-X Optical Amplifiers
Optical Amplifier Technology
4. Optical Amplifier Technology
4.1 Erbium Doped Fiber Optical Amplifiers
4.1.1 Praseodymium Doped Fluoride Optical Amplifiers
4.1.2 Telluride Based Erbium Doped Optical Amplifiers
4.1.3 Semiconductors Optical Amplifiers
4.1.4 Raman Optical Amplifiers
4.1.5 Planar Waveguide Optical Amplifiers
4.2 Ethernet Emerges as Only Network Standard
4.2.1 ITU-T CWDM/DWDM Optical Wavelength Grids
4.2.2 100-Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3.ba Specifications)
4.3 WDM-PON Technologies
4.3.1 PON Progress
4.3.2 GPON and WDM-PON
4.4 Phase Modulation Minimizes Size And Power Of 40Gbps
4.4.1 Europe Scalable Advance Ring-Based Passive Dense
Access Network Architecture (SARDANA)
4.4.2 Fujitsu Optical Components Key Technology
4.5 FTTx Device Management
4.6 Finisar Technology
4.7 Vitesse Transimpedance Amplifiers
4.7.1 Vitesse 1 Gbps to 4.25 Gbps Transimpedance
Amplifier with Photocurrent Monitor
4.7.2 Vitesse 10.6 Gbps to 12.5 Gbps TIA with Photocurrent
Monitor and Input Slicing Adjust
4.7.3 Vitesse 10.7 Gbps Transimpedance Amplifier
4.7.4 Vitesse Limiting Post Amplifiers
4.7.5 Vitesse 3.125 Gbps Limiting Post Amplifiers (CML)
4.7.6 Vitesse 10 Gbps Multirate Limiting Post Amplifier
4.8 Rohm Semiconductor Amplifiers & Linear
4.8.1 Rohm BA2904YFVM-C
4.8.2 Rohm BA2903YFVM-C
Optical Amplifier Company Profiles
This section selectively describes company strategy, partners, acquisitions, and revenue by segment and regional revenue when available. Company are described by looking at what is most interesting about that company. The descriptions collectively give a sense of market directions within the industry segment. The alphabetical listing of company thumbnail sketches provides an accessible way to find out what is going on in any particular company.
5. Optical Components Company Description
5.1 3SP Group
5.1.1 3S Photonics Group becomes 3SPGroup
5.2 Accelink
5.2.1 Accelink Global Sales
5.4 Advanced Photonix
5.4.1 Advanced Photonix - Picometrix, LLC
5.4.2 Advanced Photonix Revenue
5.4.3 Advanced Photonix Development Systems and
Strategic Relationship with Appleton Papers
5.5 Agilent Technologies
5.6 Alcatel-Lucent
5.6.1 Organization
5.6.2 Alcatel-Lucent Innovation & Technology
5.6.3 Alcatel-Lucent History
5.7 Analog Devices
5.7.1 Analog Devices Focus On Key Strategic Markets
5.7.2 Analog Devices Broad Line Of High-Performance ICs
5.7.3 Analog Devices Digital Signal Processing Products
5.7.4 Analog Devices Revenue
5.7.5 Analog Devices Revenue Trends by End Market
5.7.6 Analog Devices Industrial –
5.7.7 Analog Devices Automotive –
5.7.8 Analog Devices Consumer –
5.7.9 Analog Devices Communications –
5.7.10 Analog Devices Markets and Applications
5.7.11 Analog Devices Industrial and Instrumentation Segments
5.7.12 Analog Devices Defense/Aerospace Segment
5.7.13 Analog Devices Energy Management Segment
5.7.14 Analog Devices Healthcare Segment
5.7.15 Analog Devices Automotive Segment
5.7.16 Analog Devices Consumer Segment
5.7.17 Analog Devices Communications Segment
5.7.18 Analog Devices Segment Financial Information and
Geographic Information
5.7.19 Analog Devices Revenue Trends by Product Type
5.7.20 Analog Devices Revenue Trends by Geographic Region
5.7.21 Analog Devices Sales by Regional Segment
5.8 Avago Technologies
5.8.1 Avago Technologies Announces Enhancements to
Versatile Link Plastic Optical Fiber Product Family
5.8.2 Avago Revenue
5.9 Broadcom
5.9.1 Broadcom Digital Subscriber Line (DSL),
5.9.2 Broadcom Revenue
5.9.3 Broadcom Broadband Communications Solutions
5.9.4 Broadcom Mobile & Wireless (Solutions for the Hand)
5.9.5 Broadcom Infrastructure & Networking
(Solutions for Infrastructure)
5.9.6 Broadcom Customers and Strategic Relationships
5.10 Cube Optics
5.11 Emcore
5.15.1 EMCORE Revenue Third Quarter Ended June 30, 2012
5.12 Finisar
5.12.1 Finisar Wavelength Selective
5.12.2 Finisar's Industry-Leading Optical Products
5.12.3 Finisar Net Sales
5.12.4 Finisar Optical Subsystems And Components
5.12.5 Mobile Traffic Is Increasing
5.12.6 Finisar Revenue
5.12.7 Finisar Business Strategy
5.12.8 Finisar Ten Largest Customers
5.12.9 Finisar Customers
5.12.10 Finisar / Ignis
5.12.11 Sytune (Acquired by Ignis / Finisar)
5.13 Foxconn Technology Group
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5.14 Fujitsu Next Generation 100GbE Optical Transceiver
5.15 Furukawa Electric Business Segments
5.15.1 Furukawa Electric Pump Laser Modules And
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5.16 Gigoptix
5.16.1 Gigoptix Segment And Geographic Information
5.16.2 GigOptix Has Incurred Negative Cash Flows
5.17 Huawei
5.17.1 Huawei Vision & Mission
5.17.2 Huawei Strategy
5.17.3 Huawei Financial Highlights
5.17.4 Huawei Corporate Governance
5.17.5 Huawei Research & Development
5.17.6 Huawei Cyber Security
5.17.7 Huawei Milestones
5.17.8 Huawei Annual Report
5.18 Ikanos
5.18.1 Ikanos Markets
5.19.1 JDSU Revenue
5.19.2 JDSU Communications and Commercial Optical (CCOP) Products
5.19.3 JDSU Customers
5.19.4 JDSU Advanced Optical Technologies
5.19.5 JDSU Innovation
5.19.6 JDSU Market Strategy
5.19.7 JDSU Strategy
5.19.8 JDSU Acquisition of Dyaptive Systems and QuantaSol Limited
5.19.9 JDSU Expands Global Market Presence
5.19.10 JDSU Optical Thin Film Coatings and Components
5.19.11 JDSU Optical Communications
5.19.12 JDSU Test and Measurement
5.19.13 JDSU Lasers
5.19.14 JDSU Advanced Optical Technologies
5.19.15 JDSU Customers
5.19.16 JDSU Optical Communications Equipment Customers
5.19.17 JDSU View of Long-Term Trends
5.19.18 JDSU Photonic Power and Photovoltaics:
5.20 Luxtera
5.20.1 Luxtera and STMicroelectronics to Enable
High-Volume Silicon Photonics Solutions
5.21 Menara Networks
5.23.1 NEC Supplies Government Agencies
5.23.2 NEC Revenue
5.24 NeoPhotonics
5.24.1 Neophotonics Customers
5.24.2 Neophotonics Revenue
5.24.3 NeoPhotonics PIC-Based Products
5.24.4 NeoPhotoni: Huawei Technologies Key Customer
5.24.5 NeoPhotonix Global Customer Base
5.24.6 NeoPhotonics
5.24.7 NeoPhotonics Announces New FTTH Component Technology
5.26 Oclaro
5.26.1 Oclaro Vision
5.26.2 Oclaro Optical Components, Modules And Subsystems
5.26.3 Oclaro Market Focus
5.26.4 Optical Communications
5.26.5 Oclaro Product Portfolio
5.26.6 Oclaro Business Strategy
5.26.7 Oclaro Worldwide Support and Manufacturing Strength
5.26.8 Oclaro Segment Sales
5.26.9 Oclaro 2013 First Fiscal Quarter Revenues
5.26.10 Oclaro / Opnext
5.26.11 Oclaro Acquires Mintera
5.26.12 Oclaro
5.27 Oplink
5.27.1 Oplink Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2012 Revenue
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5.30 Reflex Photonics
5.31 Rohm Semiconductor
5.32 Santec-Creating Optopia
5.32.1 Santec ICC
5.32.2 Santec Satellite Organization System
5.33 Source Photonics
5.33.1 Source Photonics and China Mobile Communications
5.34 Sumitomo
5.34.1 Sumitomo Revenue
5.34.2 Sumitomo Strategy
5.34.3 Sumitomo Electric Europe
5.35 Triquint
5.35.1 Triquint Innovation
5.35.2 New Dual-Channel SMT Driver Sets High
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5.36.1 Transmode Revenue
5.37 Vitesse
5.38 Zhone Technologies
5.39 Other Optical Component Companies
5.39.1 JDSU Competition
5.39.2 Advanced Photonix Competition
5.39.3 Oclaro Competition
5.39.4 Finisar Competition
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Optical Amplifier Executive Summary
Table ES-1
Optical Amplifier Market Aspects
Table ES-2
Optical Amplifier Market Driving Forces
Figure ES-3
Optical Component Amplifier, Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2011
Figure ES-4
Optical Component Amplifier, Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide,
First Three Quarters 2012
Table ES-5
Optical Amplifier Market, Dollars, Worldwide, 201ES-2018
Optical Amplifier Market Description and Market Dynamics
Figure 1-1
Optical Amplifier Applicable Networks
Figure 1-2
NTT Communications Global IP Network
Table 1-3
Ikanos Next Generation VDSL Communications Processor Features
Optical Amplifier Market Shares and Market Forecasts
Table 2-1
Optical Amplifier Market Aspects
Table 2-2
Optical Amplifier Market Driving Forces
Figure 2-3
Optical Component Amplifier, Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide,
First Three Quarters 2012
Figure 2-4
Optical Component Amplifier, Market Shares, Dollars,
Worldwide, 2011
Table 2-5
Optical Component Amplifier Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2011
and First Three Quarters 2012
Figure 2-6
JDSU AON Super Transport Blade Platform
Figure 2-7
Furukawa Electric Desktop Amplifier
Figure 2-8
Accelink EDFA-BA Series
Figure 2-9
API - Hybrid Silicon Detector and Trans-impedance Amplifier
Table 2-10
Optical Amplifier Market, Dollars, Worldwide, 2013-2019
Table 2-11
Optical Amplifier Market, Dollars, Worldwide, 2013-2019
Table 2-12
Optical Amplifier Market, Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier
(EDFA), Raman, and Semiconductor Amplifier, Dollars and
Percent, Worldwide, 2013-2019
Table 2-13
Optical Amplifier Market, Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier
(EDFA), Dollars, Worldwide, 2013-2019
Table 2-14
Optical Amplifier Market Industry Segments, EDFA, Raman,
Semiconductor Amplifier, Dollars, Worldwide, 2013-2019
Table 2-15
40G, Semiconductor Amplifier Target Markets
Figure 2-16
Total Optical Transceiver, Optical Amplifier, and Optical Component
Subsystems Market Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2013-2019
Figure 2-17
Optical Amplifier Regional Market Segments, Dollars, 2012
Table 2-18
Optical Amplifier Regional Market Segments, Dollars, 2012
Optical Amplifier Product Description
Figure 3-1
JDSU Optical Amplifiers
Figure 3-2
JDSU Optical Amplifier AON Super Transport Blade Platform
Table 3-3
JDSU Optical Amplifier AON Super Transport Blade Platform Features
Figure 3-4
JDSU Optical Amplifier AON Super Transport Blade Platform
Figure 3-5
JDSU Optical Amplifier AON Super Transport Blade Platform
Figure 3-6
JDSU Optical Amplifier EDFA, C, 15 dBm, Compact, 70x90x12 mm
Table 3-7
JDSU Optical Amplifier EDFA, C, 15 dBm, Compact, 70x90x12 mm
Table 3-8
JDSU Optical Amplifier Photodiode, APD/TIA, 1310/1550 nm,
2.5 Gbps, Pigtail Receiver Features
Figure 3-9
Finisar Hybrid Raman- Optical Amplifier EDFA
Table 3-10
Finisar Hybrid Raman- Optical Amplifier EDFA Features
Figure 3-11
Finisar Variable Gain Optical Amplifier EDFA
Table 3-12
Finisar Variable Gain Optical Amplifier EDFA Configurations
Table 3-13
Finisar Variable Gain Optical Amplifier EDFA Features
Figure 3-14
Finisar Compact 70x90 mm Variable Gain Optical Amplifier EDFA
Table 3-15
Finisar Compact 70x90 mm Variable Gain Optical Amplifier EDFA Features
Figure 3-16
Finisar Optical Amplifier UltraSpan Raman
Table 3-17
Finisar UltraSpan Optical Amplifier Raman Features
Figure 3-18
Finisar Optical Amplifier UltraSpan Power Booster
Table 3-19
Finisar Optical Amplifier UltraSpan Power Booster Features
Table 3-20
Oclaro Optical Amplifier PureGain PG3000 Features
Figure 3-21
Furukawa Optical Electric Desktop Amplifier
Figure 3-22
Furukawa Optical Amplifier ErFA20000 series
Figure 3-23
Furukawa Electric EDFA Module / Raman EDFA Optical Amplifier
Figure 3-24
3SP Group CW Amplifiers
Table 3-25
3SP Group Optical CW Amplifiers Features
Figure 3-26
Accelink Optical Amplifier EDFA-BA Series
Table 3-27
Accelink Optical Amplifier EDFA-BA Series Features
Figure 3-28
API - Optical Hybrid Silicon Detector and Transimpedance Amplifier
Table 3-29
Alcatel-Lucent 1675 Lambda Unite MultiService Switch Features
Table 3-30
Alcatel-Lucent 1675 Lambda Unite MultiService Switch
Cost Saving Optical Amplifier
Figure 3-31
Triquint TGA1328-SCC Optical Amplifier
Table 3-32
Triquint TGA1328-SCC Optical Amplifier Features
Figure 3-33
Triquint TGA8652-SL Optical Amplifier
Table 3-34
Triquint TGA8652-SL Optical Amplifier Features
Figure 3-35
Photon-X Optical Amplifiers
Optical Amplifier Figure 3-36
Photon-X Optical Amplifiers C-Band
Figure 3-37
Photon-X Optical Amplifiers L-Band
Figure 3-38
Photon-X Optical Amplifiers C-Band Double Optical Amplifier
Optical Amplifier Technology
Figure 4-1
Explosion of Protocols
Table 4-2
10G GPON Intermediate GPON Technology Development
Equipment Vendor Support
Table 4-3
Motorola GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) Features
Table 4-4
ONT Product-Portfolio Development Functions
Figure 4-5
Vitesse Transimpedance Amplifiers
Figure 4-6
Vitesse 10.6 Gbps to 12.5 Gbps TIA with Photocurrent
Monitor and Input Slicing Adjust
Figure 4-7
Vitesse 10.7 Gbps Transimpedance Amplifier
Figure 4-8
Vitesse Limiting Post Amplifiers
Table 4-9
Vitesse Limiting Post Amplifiers Features
Figure 4-10
Vitesse 10 Gbps Multirate Limiting Post Amplifier
Figure 4-11
Rohm Amplifiers & Linear
Optical Amplifier Company Profiles
Table 5-1
ACON Vision
Table 5-2
Advanced Photonix Target Markets And Applications
Figure 5-3
Picometrix, LLC
Table 5-4
Analog Devices Embedded In Electronic Equipment
Table 5-5
Analog Devices Industrial And Instrumentation Market Applications
Table 5-6
Analog Devices Defense/Aerospace Products
Table 5-7
Analog Devices Energy Management Segment Products
Table 5-8
Analog Devices Healthcare Segment Innovative Crosspoint
Switch Technologies
Table 5-9
Analog Devices Green Automotive Segment
Table 5-10
Analog Devices Safety Automotive Segment
Table 5-11
Analog Devices Comfort Automotive Segment
Table 5-12
Analog Devices Communications Segment Systems
Table 5-13
Analog Devices Crosspoint Switches
Figure 5-14
Table 5-15
Broadcom Broadband Communications Solutions
Table 5-16
Broadcom Customers and Strategic Relationships
Figure 5-17
Table 5-18
Finisar Business Strategy
Figure 5-19
Cumulative Broadband Subscribers
Figure 5-20
JDSU Tunable XFP
Table 5-21
JDSU Market Strategy
Table 5-22
NeoPhotonix Global Customer Base Of Network Equipment Vendors
Table 5-23
Oclaro Competitive Positioning
Table 5-24
Rohm Goals for Education and Training
Figure 5-25
Source Photonics Global Presence, Global Scale: Facilities
- Accelink
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- JDS Uniphase
- NeoPhotonix
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Optical amplifier components are an innovation engine for the network. Optical amplifier components support and enable low-cost transport throughout the network. Optical amplifiers are needed for high speed network infrastructure build-outs. These are both for carriers and data centers. Network infrastructure build-out depends on the availability of consultants who are knowledgeable. Optical network elements provide transport, multiplexing, switching, management, supervision and survivability of communication channels. Carrier Ethernet is emerging. Optical amplifiers support the implementation of the new network capacity.
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The moment when the ball struck first baseman Tommy Joseph's glove for the final out of the Phillies 10-8 win over the Mets — dealing a major blow to their rival's wild card hopes in the process — felt more like a collective exhalation than a moment of celebration (see Instant Replay).
Two days earlier, the bullpen faltered suddenly. A game-tying two-run homer by Jose Reyes in the ninth was the first body blow. The game-winning three-run homer by Asdrubal Cabrera was the knockout.
Saturday, the collapse occurred over the course of five innings as the Phillies let a lead that was once 10-0 slip away, one drawn-out at-bat after another.
Missing, of course, was the moment of impact in the proverbial slow-motion car crash, thanks to well-placed sinkers and four-seamers from Michael Mariot.
"The bullpen's been sputtering," manager Pete Mackanin said in an understatement.
Joely Rodriguez entered in the sixth inning with a 10-4 lead to face a string of lefties and it quickly became apparent that he did not have his fastball. A middle-in four-seamer that caught too much of the plate was slapped for a double by Mets shortstop Gavin Cecchini, his first major-league hit and a run. A second run scored when a little dribbler by third baseman T.J. Rivera died on the third base line, leaving Rodriguez with no play.
"He just didn't throw quality strikes," Mackanin said.
Even the normally-reliable Hector Neris struggled on Saturday. In his 77th outing of the season, Neris walked two straight batters and then surrendered an RBI double to Cecchini of his own which narrowed the lead to 10-7 and thrust the uncertainty of a save situation onto Mackanin.
Mariot was given first crack at the ninth inning one day after Mackanin said he would give Jeanmar Gomez a break from closing duties.
Mariot's audition got off to a rough start. He gave up a pinch-hit solo home run to Jay Bruce — who had been mired in an 0-15 slump — with one out in the ninth and then walked Eric Campbell and Michael Conforto after a pair of grueling at-bats that lasted a combined 18 pitches.
The two hitters fouled off eight of Mariot's pitches and took several four-seamers that just missed the plate.
"I was pretty upset about that," Mariot said of the four-seamers that missed. "I was hoping to get at least a swing or maybe a call on those. Talking to [catcher] A.J. [Ellis], I think he said that they missed but I was hoping at least one of them to get called a strike."
Gomez was up in the Phillies' bullpen but Mariot ensured that Mackanin wouldn't need to throw the recently-struggling closer back into the fire in a high-stress situation.
Mariot was able to locate his fastball when he needed to most. He fooled Lucas Duda with a two-seamer that the slugger popped out to Freddy Galvis and got Travis D'Arnaud to ground a four-seamer outside right back to him.
"I just told myself: 'keep throwing strikes and good things will happen,'" Mariot said.
He threw just enough strikes to ensure that the Phillies didn't end up on the wrong end of what would have been the Mets' biggest comeback in team history.
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College football wrap: Auburn upsets No. 18 LSU with controversial finish
College football wrap: Auburn upsets No. 18 LSU with controversial finish
AUBURN, Ala. -- Gus Malzahn was ready to try anything to get a win for his Auburn Tigers.
Malzahn relinquished offensive play-calling duties. Following his daughters' advice, he traded his usual game-day visor for a cap. And then, when the clock expired and LSU players were celebrating an apparent last-second win, the Auburn coach put all his faith in a ruling he couldn't control.
Daniel Carlson kicked six field goals and Auburn beat No. 18 LSU 18-13 on Saturday night after officials ruled Danny Etling's apparent last-gasp scoring pass came after time expired.
Malzahn said he knew there were only zeroes on the clock before the snap to Etling.
"I was pretty confident time had expired," Malzahn said. "It was just a matter of going to the booth and confirming it."
Etling rolled to his right and found D.J. Shark in the back of the end zone on a 15-yard pass, setting off a short-lived celebration by LSU players (see full recap).
Hornibrook proves he's ready in Badgers' win over Spartans
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- By the time Alex Hornibrook's first start was over, there wasn't much question about whether he could handle one of the toughest road tests in the Big Ten.
Hornibrook threw for 195 yards and a touchdown, and 11th-ranked Wisconsin turned its early-season showdown with No. 8 Michigan State into a rout, beating the Spartans 30-6 on Saturday.
"You've got to have respect for a guy whose first start is against a Michigan State defense," Wisconsin running back Corey Clement said.
"He's going to come out the next game and do even better. I think he's just getting his feet wet."
The freshman quarterback outplayed fifth-year senior Tyler O'Connor, his Michigan State counterpart. The Badgers (4-0, 1-0 Big Ten) were the better team in the first half and then outscored the Spartans 17-0 in the third quarter (see full recap).
No. 23 Rebels find their rhythm, beat No. 12 Georgia 45-14
OXFORD, Miss. -- Mississippi quarterback Chad Kelly faked the handoff and then took off running toward the end zone. A few seconds and 41 yards later, the quarterback had cruised through the middle of the Georgia defense and into the end zone untouched.
It was pretty much that easy for the Rebels all afternoon. Ole Miss finally built a lead it couldn't give away.
No. 23 Ole Miss rolled to a 45-14 victory over No. 12 Georgia on Saturday, building a 31-0 lead by halftime and a 45-0 advantage by midway through the fourth quarter.
Kelly threw for 282 yards and two touchdowns. Ole Miss (2-2, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) broke a 10-game losing streak in the series dating to 1996 (see full recap).
Dobbs rallies No. 14 Vols to 38-28 win over No. 19 Gators
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- This time, Tennessee delivered the comeback.
And in the process, the Volunteers took out 11 years' worth of frustration on Florida.
Joshua Dobbs accounted for five second-half touchdowns Saturday and No. 14 Tennessee erased a 21-point deficit to beat No. 19 Florida 38-28 and end their 11-game losing streak in the annual series.
"I didn't see anybody blink," Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. "Nobody flinched. They just kept playing."
This marks the first time Tennessee (4-0, 1-0 SEC) has beaten Florida (3-1, 1-1) since 2004. The Volunteers had lost to Florida by one point each of the last two years despite leading in the fourth quarter of both games (see full recap).


text: environment Grand Rapids airport proposes new plan to deal with runoff from de-icing fluid By Jennifer Guerra • Sep 9, 2011 Photo courtesy of the Gerald R Ford International Airport Airplanes across the country use de-icing fluid, and airports have to figure out how to deal with the run-off from the fluid. The Gerald R. Ford International Airport has come up with a $15 million plan to deal with the run-off which contains a substance called glycol. The Grand Rapids airport currently mixes glycol with storm water and dumps it into a tributary, where it breaks down and creates a bacterial slime. Army Corps bumps up the juice on fish barrier to block carp By Mark Brush • Sep 9, 2011 Petty Officer Bill Colclough / U.S. Coast Guard Officials at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Chicago District say they plan to pump up the electricity at their fish dispersal barrier along the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal. The increase is intended to repel smaller fish. From the U.S. ACOE's statement: While extensive research and monitoring indicate that small Asian carp currently are not currently within the vicinity of the fish barrier, and all field telemetry research indicates the barrier is highly effective, the Corps is taking this conservative approach to operating the electrical dispersal barrier out of an abundance of caution. Corps officials say they'll turn up the power "later this fall." In the statement, Corps officials say they have an aggressive monitoring program and have tracked nearly "1.9 million detections of tagged fish in the barrier area, with no indication of tagged fish having crossed any of the electric barriers in the upstream direction." Environmental DNA (eDNA) evidence was found above the barrier leading some to wonder whether the fish are establishing themselves in waters close to the Great Lakes. Officials at the Corps say while DNA testing has some advantages, but "eDNA does not provide conclusive proof of the physical presence of live fish." Moose hunt opposed by Chippewa tribe in the U.P. By Mark Brush • Sep 8, 2011 MI DNR It's up to the Michigan State legislature to determine what game is available for hunting in Michigan. In late 2010, the legislature opened up the possibility of a moose hunt in Michigan. They charged the Moose Hunting Advisory Council with developing recommendations on whether or not a moose hunt should be conducted. (You can let them know what you think by dropping them a line - firstname.lastname@example.com). The council is expected to present their report to the Michigan DNR's Natural Resources Commission next Thursday (September 15). The Associated Press reports that the Moose Hunting Advisory Council will recommend a moose hunt of 10 bull moose. The NRC will take the recommendation and decide whether a hunt will occur. But ahead of all that, the Inland Conservation Committee with the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians voted to oppose the hunt. Here's part of a statement from the tribe: At its Aug. 1 meeting, the committee cited biological concerns of a hunt's impact on a fragile and uncertain population of 433 moose. The proposed hunt would take 10 bull moose in the fall after the rutting season, according to news accounts. The Department of Natural Resources was officially notified of the decision last week. The statement says "under the terms of the 2007 Inland Consent Decree, the committee's opposition effectively ends Michigan's bid for a moose hunt, for now." A spokeswoman for the DNR said the tribe's position will have no effect on the report going to the Natural Resources Commission next week. If the NRC votes to establish a moose hunt in Michigan, the question of whether or not the tribe's opposition prohibits a hunt will have to be answered. DuPont promises to reimburse homeowners for trees killed by herbicide By Rebecca Williams • Sep 8, 2011 Arthur Chapman / Flickr A few months ago, reports started coming in that an herbicide made by DuPont was hurting and killing trees. The Environmental Protection Agency recently ordered DuPont to stop selling the herbicide Imprelis. DuPont had suspended sales shortly before that. The herbicide was used by lawn care companies to kill weeds on lawns and golf courses starting last fall. Bert Cregg is an associate professor of horticulture at Michigan State University. He says Imprelis can cause a range of different injuries to blue spruce, Norway spruce and white pine. "You might see like in a big white pine, you might see a little bit of top growth doesn't look quite right, you'll see the twisting and curling, stunting of the top of the tree, in other cases, yeah we've seen the tree killed outright." This week, DuPont announced a program to process damage claims from property owners. DuPont declined an interview. But in a statement, the company said property owners with approved claims will receive replacement trees – or cash compensation. DuPont's also facing a number of lawsuits, including a class action suit brought by a woman from Allen Park, Michigan. State officials warn of fire danger ahead of Labor Day weekend By Mark Brush • Sep 2, 2011 Fire Officer Randy McKenzie / MIDNR Want to roast some marshmallows this weekend? Natural resource officials in the state have a message for you - "with the romance, comes responsibility": Listen Listening... / The Associated Press reports that campfires account for about one in 10 wildfires. From the AP: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says warm summer temperatures and a lack of rain have combined to make the risk of wildfires especially high. The agency says the highest risk is in the western half of the Upper Peninsula and in the central counties of northern lower Michigan, areas that are especially dry. There's only a slight chance of rain over the weekend to lessen the danger. The DNR recommends taking precautions to keep campfires under control and extinguishing them by dousing them with water before leaving. Foes make final try to block UP mine By The Associated Press • Sep 1, 2011 Opponents of a planned nickel and copper mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula are making a final legal appeal to halt initial blasting at the site. Four organizations have filed a motion in Ingham County Circuit Court for a stay of mining permits issued by the state Department of Environmental Quality. A judge with the court is considering an appeal of the DEQ's decision to grant the permits. The Huron Mountain Club, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, National Wildlife Federation and Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve say the mine jeopardizes water and air quality in the forestland of western Marquette County. They say extracting minerals at the site could pollute ground and surface waters with sulfuric acid. Kennecott Eagle Minerals says the project can be carried out while safeguarding the environment. Coal regulations could reshape Midwest energy By Dan Bobkoff • Sep 1, 2011 courtesy of Duke Energy The Midwest relies so heavily on one source of power that some call us the "coal belt." Coal is cheap and plentiful, but that's about to change. A wave of government regulations is about to hit the electric industry. Ed Malley, a Vice President at industry consulting firm, TRC Corporation has a name for all the new rules coming down the track: "The train wreck." That "train wreck" is the list of environmental regulations expected to be in place within the next few years. Electric utilities say this will mean the shutting of power plants, leading to higher prices and less peak capacity for hot summer days. Environmentalists say: about time. Attorneys General urge Great Lakes, Mississippi split By The Associated Press • Aug 31, 2011 Kate.Gardner / Flickr Attorneys general in the Great Lakes region want a multi-state campaign to cut an artificial link between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds that provides a pathway for invasive species. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, the attorneys general invite their counterparts in 27 other states to pressure the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for quicker action. The Corps is studying whether to separate the drainage basins in the Chicago area, where they were joined more than a century ago by construction of a canal. Zebra and quagga mussels have used the waterway to invade states farther south, and the Asian carp is threatening to migrate into the Great Lakes. The Corps report is due in 2015. The letter demands a faster timetable. EPA wants to hire unemployed for Great Lakes clean-up By Mark Brush • Aug 24, 2011 U.S.E.P.A. The U.S. has suffered from a bad economy for the last three years. Parts of the Great Lakes have suffered from bad pollution problems for the last several decades. Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to use money from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to put people to work cleaning up pollution in the region. From an EPA press release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is setting aside approximately $6 million for federal agencies to sign up unemployed workers to implement restoration projects in federally-protected areas, on tribal lands and in Areas of Concern in the Great Lakes basin. EPA will fund individual projects up to $1 million. To qualify for funding, each proposed project must provide jobs for at least 20 unemployed people. "These projects will help to restore the Great Lakes and put Americans back to work," said EPA Great Lakes National Program Manager and Regional Administrator Susan Hedman. "In a sense, we will be using these funds to create a small-scale 21st century Civilian Conservation Corps." The AP reports that Congress has appropriated $775 million over the past two years for the GLRI. One of the GLRI's main goals is to clean up toxic hot spots known as "Areas of Concern" around the Great Lakes. These Areas of Concern have been identified for decades, but clean-up efforts have stalled as funding for clean-up has been scarce. EPA officials say they will award funding for these new clean-up projects by the end of September. How to kill invasive species aboard a Great Lakes freighter By Mark Brush • Aug 23, 2011 James Marvin Phelps / Flickr Invasive species introduced into the Great Lakes by the shipping industry have caused enormous economic and ecological damage. Some estimates put the costs of invasive species in the Great Lakes at billions of dollars annually. Quagga mussels, round gobies, and spiny waterfleas have spread all over the place in the Great Lakes, disrupting the food chain. The question is, how do you get rid of these critters that can hide in the nooks and crannies of a ship's ballast tanks? The critters get in when a ship pumps in ballast water in an overseas port. They hitch a ride across the Atlantic or Pacific and get dumped in U.S. waters. Today the EPA requires ships to "swish and spit" before entering U.S. ports. That means international ships have to flush out their ballast tanks with salt water from the open ocean before coming in. It's a sanitizing method that several states and environmental groups say is inadequate, and they're pushing the EPA to do more. But nobody knows what kinds of ballast water treatment systems will work AND will be cost-effective to shipping companies. The Duluth News Tribune has a story today about an effort that is thought to be the first "major-scale test on the Great Lakes" of a ballast water treatment system. It's being tested on a 1,000 ft. Great Lakes freighter. Freighters that stay in the Great Lakes don't bring the invasive species in, but they can help spread invasives from port to port around the region. They Tribune reports the researchers treated 1.8 million gallons of ballast water in the ship with lye - a caustic chemical often used as an industrial cleaning agent. Before the ship reached it's destination port, they neutralized the treated water with carbon dioxide before releasing it. One of the biggest challenges in combating invasive species in ballast tanks, is how best to sanitize such a large amount of water sitting in the complex maze of a ship's hull: "The good news is that we were successful in delivering the biocide at this huge level for a 1,000-foot laker, then successfully delivered the neutralizer, all while the Indiana Harbor was on the job," Phyllis Green, superintendent of Isle Royale National Park and the instigator behind the effort, told the News Tribune. The Tribune reports that research into the real-world test is ongoing. Water samples from the ballast tanks will show whether the lye killed organisms "and whether the treated water was then successfully neutralized to prevent environmental harm." Results of these tests should be available next month, the paper reports. State's submerged oil report called "premature" By Mark Brush • Aug 19, 2011 EPA Region 5 The Michigan Department of Community Health's report on the submerged oil is being called "premature" by the National Wildlife Federation. In its report, MDCH officials declared that "contact with sediment containing submerged oil will not result in long-term health effects." Some sediments in the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek became contaminated with heavy tar sands oil after the Enbridge pipeline break. In the Kalamazoo Gazette, National Wildlife Federation Senior Scientist Doug Inkley said the agency should have done more research before making such a statement: "It's a premature conclusion based on incomplete results," Inkley said. "The jury is still out." Inkley said his biggest concern about the study is that eight chemicals found in the submerged oil were not included in the conclusion. A toxicologist at MDCH told the Gazette that some of the chemicals weren't tested because the submerged oil didn't have enough concentrations of the chemicals to warrant testing, and because "some of the chemicals were actually groups of chemicals, some of which had already been individually tested in the study." Tourism's Bright Spot By Jack Lessenberry • Aug 19, 2011 Nobody needs me to tell them that this has been a rough decade for Michigan's economy. The roughest since the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties. And, as the stock market plunge indicates, a return to the prosperity we used to take for granted is nowhere in sight. That doesn't mean, however, that there aren't a few bright spots, and one of the brightest has been tourism. A few weeks ago, I spent an hour with George Zimmerman, who runs Travel Michigan the official state tourism promotion agency. Victory for Lake Erie watersnakes By Mark Brush • Aug 16, 2011 screen grab from YouTube video What do a Lake Erie watersnake, a bald eagle, and an American alligator have in common? They've all rebounded from the threat of extinction and no longer require the protection of the Endangered Species Act. The only place these snakes are found in the world is on the western edge of Lake Erie in Canada and Ohio. The snakes were listed as threatened in 1999 because of habitat loss and because humans often killed them. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the tide has turned for the watersnake. The Service published a rule in the Federal Register today delisting the species. From a USFWS press release: Recovery criteria include a combined population of at least 5,555 snakes on the U.S. islands, sustained for six years, and protection of key habitat. Through continued habitat protection and public education, the Lake Erie watersnake population grew to about 11,980 in 2009, and has exceeded the minimum recovery level since 2002. About 300 acres of inland habitat and 11 miles of shoreline have been protected for the snake since it was listed. Back in 2005, reporter Rebecca Williams traveled down to the islands in Lake Erie to witness researchers taking their annual snake census - aka "Nerodeo" - "that's Nerodia, the snake's scientific name, and rodeo, as in cowboy roundup.": The snake biologists don't just look under rocks. They dive into the lake for snakes. They sneak up on piles of snakes and then grab the whole writhing mass. The snakes bite. The researchers' arms are covered in snakebites. The bites aren't life threatening, but they're really, really bloody. And then it comes to the job at hand. The biologists are going to force the snakes' stomach contents out. They call it "barfing the snakes." And what were they barfing up? Mostly round gobies - an invasive species. So here is a case where native species are taking a bite out of an invasive species' population. The Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe did an episode on the job of a Lake Erie watersnake researcher in 2006 (the snakes poop, pee, bite, and release a musky smell when they're caught). You can watch Rowe drop to his knees and get chomped on by a Lake Erie watersnake at about 6:20 in this video: The snakes are still listed as endangered by the state of Ohio, so killing them is still illegal under state law... no matter how much they bite you. A settlement reached for part of River Rouge cleanup By Mark Brush • Aug 15, 2011 Library of Congress The U.S. government has agreed to pay $10.8 million for part of a cleanup at the River Rouge complex in Dearborn. From the Detroit News: The Dearborn automaker filed suit in May 2004 against the federal government in U.S. District Court in Detroit, arguing the government should pay a share of the costs of cleaning up the automaker's Rouge manufacturing complex that opened in 1917 stemming from military production from World War I. Michigan State leading multistate freshwater study By Kyle Norris • Aug 14, 2011 Flickr user mdprovost A Michigan State University scientist is leading a team of researchers to study how lakes, streams and wetlands are connected to their surroundings. Associate professor of fisheries and wildlife Patricia Soranno is using a $2.2 million National Science Foundation grant to examine land use and climate change's effect on freshwater ecosystems. Downed trees used to create electricity By Kyle Norris • Aug 7, 2011 Andy Dolman/Creative Commons Tons of trees felled by a spring storm that swept across Calhoun County will be used to help generate power for residents and businesses in Mid-Michigan. The Battle Creek Enquirer reports that a two-story pile of limbs and branches will be fed into the Genesee Power Station in Flint, which uses wood fuel to create electricity. The debris pile has been growing at the Community Compost Center in Marengo Township, about 110 miles west of Detroit. Cougar travels through Michigan and winds up in Connecticut By Mark Brush • Jul 27, 2011 Neil McIntosh / Flickr Wildlife officials believe a cougar that was killed in Connecticut traveled through Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This from Interlochen Public Radio's Linda Stephan: Just months after the federal government declared the cougar extinct in the Eastern United States – a wild cat has been identified in Connecticut. DNA evidence links the cat to a South Dakota species. And officials believe this same cat was spotted in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Researchers say they're pretty confident this very cat was also sighted in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Asian carp evidence renews calls for action By Rick Pluta • Jul 21, 2011 USACOE There is new evidence that Asian carp may have slipped past electric barriers in Chicago-area waterways. The barriers are meant to keep the fish from reaching the Great Lakes. The news has launched a new wave of arguments over the threat posed by the invasive species. The Army Corps of Engineers turned up nine positive tests for Asian carp DNA out of hundreds taken from Chicago-area waterways. Federal officials say that's not proof the invasive species is getting closer to Lake Michigan, or that it poses an imminent threat of infesting the Great Lakes. The state of Michigan is suing the federal government to get the shipping locks shut down as an emergency precaution. John Sellek is with the Michigan Attorney General's office. He says there is a growing body of evidence that the threat exists. "How many more warnings do we need at this point that that impending tragedy is coming? The time for studying is over. It's time to take action." The state is appealing a judge's refusal to close the Chicago shipping locks while the Army studies ways to permanently ensure Asian carp don't become a Great Lakes problem. Crest of heat wave passing through Michigan, power conservation urged By Mark Brush • Jul 21, 2011 Rich Mondky / NWS Much of the state is under excessive heat warnings and air pollution alerts today as the peak of the Midwest heat wave passes over the state. The heat index (a measure of air temperature and relative humidity) has reached 110 in some areas. According to Jeff Masters at wunderground.com, 22 deaths in the Midwest have been blamed on the heat wave and Detroit is expected to reach 100 degrees for the first time in sixteen years. One death in Oakland County is being blamed on the heat and power companies are asking customers to cut back on their electricity usage. The Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO), issued an energy conservation alert today because of high customer demand. Michigan among worst for toxic air pollution from power plants By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jul 21, 2011 mdprovost ~ Prosper in 2011 / Flickr http://j.mp/1SPGCl0 Michigan ranks seventh worst in air pollution on a list the Natural Resources Defense Council calls the "Toxic 20." The NRDC study found almost half of all toxic air pollution comes from coal and oil-fired power plants. Detroit Edison's Monroe Power Plant ranks fourth among power plant polluters in the country. Ohio took first before Pennsylvania, Florida and Kentucky. Hugh McDiarmid is with the Michigan Environmental Council. He says Michigan is on its way to less toxic energy usage. "We're on sort of the verge of a new era where we're going to use as much renewables as we possibly can, we're going to look at efficiency because that provides power to about one tenth the cost of a new coal plant and we're going to maximize those two efforts," McDiarmid said. McDiarmid says Michigan's rank on the "Toxic 20" is an opportunity to work toward less harmful energy use in the future. The "Toxic 20" are: Ohio Pennsylvania Florida Kentucky Maryland Indiana Michigan West Virginia Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Alabama Texas Virginia Tennessee Missouri Illinois Wisconsin New Hampshire Iowa - Amelia Carpenter - Michigan Radio Newsroom White Lake gets federal funding for restoration By Laura Weber • Jul 21, 2011 An inland lake in west Michigan is getting a boost from the federal government to help clean up pollution and restore wildlife habitats. It's one of many places along the Great Lakes shoreline where cleanups are needed. Programs to clean up White Lake, north of Muskegon, have been awarded more than $2 million for restoration. The money will be used to help clean toxins and reestablish habitat for fish and wildlife. Patty Birkholz, director of the Office of the Great Lakes says damage done by years of pollution from the manufacturing industry is not beyond repair. "That's true, it's not. But it's taken a huge investment on the part of the federal government, on the part of the state government, but also a lot of work by the local people." Birkholz says Michigan has more "Areas of Concern" near the Great Lakes than any of the other Great Lakes states. She says it's important for the state to rehabilitate waterways that were damaged by the, quote, 'sins of our fathers.' DTE plans to operate Fermi 2 nuclear power plant through 2045 By Mark Brush • Jul 20, 2011 NRC DTE Energy plans to submit an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that would allow the company to operate the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant through 2045. From the Detroit Free Press: The utility's license to operate Fermi 2 expires in 2025 and the application, if approved, would allow DTE Energy to operate it for an addition 20 years. Fermi 2 began commercial operation in 1988. The renewal is in addition to the utility's request to the NRC for a new nuclear power facility located at the Fermi site. DTE filed that application in 2008, but the licenses has not been issued yet. Current beach closures and advisories around Michigan By Mark Brush • Jul 19, 2011 user andrea_44 / Flickr When bacteria levels get high, county health departments close the beaches. The latest news of a beach closure is on Lake St. Clair: A week after the Macomb County Health Department gave the all-clear message to swimmers at Memorial Park Beach in St. Clair Shores, the beach has again been deemed unsafe for swimming. The department issued a no-swimming advisory today for the beach because of high E. coli levels Blossom Heath in St. Clair Shores remains under the no-swimming advisory because of its E. coli levels, as it has been since May 26. County health departments issue the warnings and closures, and the state keeps track of them. The Michigan BeachGuard System has a map with red flags marking closures and advisories. Currently, there are 15 advisories or closures at public beaches around the state - that's 15 out of 1,211 public beaches. What do all the heat warnings, advisories, and watches mean? By Mark Brush • Jul 19, 2011 NOAA Media outlets around the state want you to know... IT'S HOT!! They have several different ways of telling you it's hot. There are heat advisories, warnings and watches, heat indices, and ozone action days. But what do all these terms really mean? Here's a breakdown of the terms you might be reading or hearing about. Illegal wolf kills spiking in Michigan's Upper Peninsula By Rebecca Williams • Jul 14, 2011 www.isleroyalewolf.org No other wildlife species, it seems, causes such extremes of emotion as the wolf. Some people want to protect it at any cost. Others want to shoot the animal on sight. And in Michigan's Upper Peninsula illegal wolf kills are spiking. Wildlife officials say they can defuse the situation if they can just get gray wolves removed from the endangered species list. Interlochen Public Radio's Bob Allen filed a report with The Environment Report on the controversy in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Allen reported that the return of the gray wolf in the U.P. more than 20 years ago didn't cause concern, but that's changed in the last few years as some hunters are convinced wolves are decimating the white tail deer population. Here's Allen's report: Developing electric vehicle charging stations (and where you can find them now) By Mark Brush • Jul 13, 2011 Google Maps and the U.S. Department of Energy One group in west Michigan wants to encourage more people to buy electric cars by building more charging stations. From the Grand Rapids Press: The West Michigan Strategic Alliance is proposing the development of at least 4,000 charging stations across eight counties. Alliance President Greg Northrup is seeking approval from county boards in Kent, Ottawa and Muskegon for the project, which would be financed through the sale of bonds and be repaid over a 10-year period. "We've got $3 billion invested in battery projects in West Michigan," Northrup said. "Why shouldn't we have the infrastructure to go with it?" So those are 4,000 proposed electric charging stations. How can you find charging stations that are online now? Google and the U.S. Department of Energy to the rescue. You can enter your address on the DOE's website to find alternative fueling stations near you. Fast Company says "eventually, this Google/DOE partnership will serve as the primary EV charging station data source for GPS and mapping systems (like the one that may be in your car already)." Coyotes make themselves at home in Michigan cities By Rebecca Williams • Jul 12, 2011 Rebecca Williams / Michigan Radio Coyotes have been moving into a lot of American cities. Here in Michigan, you could potentially see coyotes almost anywhere. But researchers don't know a whole lot about the state's urban coyotes. A small research team from Wayne State University hopes to change that. They're trying to figure the animals out. They want to find out how many coyotes are living in cities. And they want to know what they're eating, and how they survive. A few weeks ago, one day just after dawn, I met up with the research team at the side of a road in Oakland County. We crossed the road to get to a grassy, undeveloped piece of land. The group fanned out to look for evidence of coyotes... that is: tracks, and scat. After just a few steps, we found tracks. Local girl scouts take aim at palm oil in cookies By Mark Brush • Jul 12, 2011 Ann Dornfeld / Environment Report To make way for palm oil plantations in countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, forests are slashed and burned. By clear-cutting these forests, foreign governments and companies can ruin the habitat for animals like Sumatran tigers, Asian elephants, and orangutans. The Detroit Free Press has a story about two local girl scouts who are hoping to get palm oil out of their Girl Scout cookies. From the Freep: The Girl Scouts don't have a badge for "Demanding the Organization Stop Using Palm Oil in its Iconic Cookies and Causing a National Brouhaha." If the organization did, Rhiannon Tomtishen, 15, of Ann Arbor and Madison Vorva, 16, of Plymouth would have them sewn on their vest or sash. A 2007 project about orangutans for a Girl Scout Bronze Award has snowballed into a nationwide campaign to remove palm oil from Thin Mints and the rest of the cookie lineup. When the girls learned that Indonesian and Malaysian plantations destroy the rain forests these great apes call home to grow the ingredient, they did what the Girl Scouts taught them to do -- take action. The Free Press reports that teens met with national leaders in the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. to raise their concerns and they hope to have a follow call with the leaders next month. Canadian oil is boosting midwest economy, but at what cost? By Dan Bobkoff • Jul 7, 2011 Adee Braun / Changing Gears Listen Listening... / Green energy is often said to be the future of the Midwest economy. But old fashioned fossil fuels could be having a bigger effect on the region's jobs and corporate bottom lines. This is not conventional oil, though. It's a thick, tar-like crude from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada. It's sent here by pipelines, many which cross our rivers and the Great Lakes, and that has some worrying about a bigger risk to the region. Who Cares About Great Lakes Dredging? These Guys. (slideshow) By Kate Davidson • Jul 6, 2011 Kate Davidson / Changing Gears We brought the story of the Great Lakes dredging backlog to your radio and computer screen. But sometimes, you need more of a visual. (Even more than my 18 million ovens post.) So click through to my slideshow to meet some of the people affected by sediment buildup in regional shipping channels. Pages« first ‹ previous … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 next › last »


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No Free Shop: Why Target Companies in MBOs and Private Equity Transactions Sometimes Choose Not to Buy 'Go-Shop' Options
Adonis Antoniades
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance
Charles W. Calomiris
Columbia University - Columbia Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Donna M. Hitscherich
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
April 28, 2014
We study the decisions by targets in private equity and MBO transactions whether to actively 'shop' executed merger agreements prior to shareholder approval. Specifically, targets can negotiate for a 'go-shop' clause, which permits the solicitation of offers from other would-be acquirors during the 'go-shop' window and, in certain circumstances, lowers the termination fee paid by the target in the event of a competing bid. We find that the decision to retain the option to shop is predicted by various firm attributes, including larger size, more fragmented ownership, and various characteristics of the firms' legal advisory team and procedures. We find that go-shops are not a free option; they result in a lower initial acquisition premium and that reduction is not offset by gains associated with new competing offers. The over-use of go-shops reflects excessive concerns about litigation risks, possibly resulting from lawyers' conflicts of interest in advising targets.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 58
Keywords: Private equity, management buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, offer premium, cumulative abnormal returns, conflicts, litigation risk, lawyers, merger agreements, go-shop, special committee
JEL Classification: G32, G34, K22
Date posted: April 30, 2014 ; Last revised: March 24, 2015
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