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Study of the Integration Success of an Implant System With a Novel Abutment Attachment Design in Immediate Loading Cases (Bridge)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Biomet, Inc.
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Integration success rates measured by lack of implant mobility and crestal bone regression measurement will be higher for the experimental implant design than for the control implants.
Partial Edentulism
Tooth Disease
Device: New Abutment Connection implant
Device: Nanotite Certain Tapered implant
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Prospective Randomized-controlled Study of the Integration Success Rate of an Implant System With a Novel Abutment Attachment in Cases Loaded Immediately
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Cumulative success rate [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]crestal bone regression (amount of bone loss measured) and equivalence in integration success (implant mobility)
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|Study Start Date:
|August 2011
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|December 2016
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|December 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: New abutment connection implant
Implant with new abutment connection
Device: New Abutment Connection implant
New abutment connection implant
Other Name: Osseotite Endosseous dental implant
Active Comparator: Nanotite Certain Tapered implant
Nanotite Certain Tapered (standard abutment connection) implant
Device: Nanotite Certain Tapered implant
Nanotite certain tapered (standard abutment connection) implant
Other Name: Nanotite Endosseous dental implant
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In this study patients are randomized to receive either the experimental implant system or the control Nanotite Certain Tapered (standard abutment connection) and assessed for integration success measured by cumulative success rate in cases that are loaded immediately
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- patients of either sex and older than 18 years of age
- patients needing at least one dental implant to treat partial edentulism
- patients physically able to tolerate surgical and restorative dental procedures
- patients agreeing to all protocol visits
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients with infection or severe inflammation at the intended treatment sites
- patients smoking greater than 10 cigarettes per day
- patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
- patients with uncontrolled metabolic diseases
- patients who received radiation treatment to the head in the past 12 months
- patients needing bone grafting at the intended treatment sites
- patients known to be pregnant at screening visit
- patients with para-functional habits like bruxing and clenching
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|Juan C Carvajal, DDS
|University of Chile
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|February 7, 2012
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|May 11, 2016
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Keywords provided by Biomet, Inc.:
clinical study
dental implants
Nanotite Certain Tapered implant
crestal bone level
immediate loading
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Tooth Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
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While the explosions left hundreds visibly hurt, the event may have also left thousands with invisible scars.
Just a few days ago, Laura O'Flaherty finished her second Boston Marathon race, but the sights, the sounds and the emotions of this year's race haven't necessarily left her with happy memories.
"You're there hugging someone because you're excited of the jubilation of the marathon, and then you're hugging someone because you're consoling them," said O'Flaherty. "So that kind of mind shift kind of puts you in panic mode and makes you pretty somber about a situation like that."
She finished about 30 minutes before the explosions happened.
Nancy McCoy of Tomah finished just 15 minutes before.
"I turned around and talked to a marathoner that had finished four minutes before the bombs went off, and he started tearing up when we started talking," said McCoy.
"It's going to create impacts, it's going to create memories, it's going to create visions," said therapist Todd Hoffe.
Hoffe said traumatic events like the explosions at the Boston Marathon can lead to symptoms of Ppost-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, including depression and anxiety.
"If it's ongoing, it can affect the major areas of your life," said Hoffe.
But PTSD could affect more than just the hundreds of runners and thousands of spectators at the event.
With things including the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, graphic images and videos of the event can be seen anywhere over and over again.
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He said for some runners, these images will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Others may get better with time, and everyone copes in their own way.
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Watching over Hubbard Park: Beyer steps down as caretaker after 32 yearsStefan Hard / Staff Photo
Geoff Beyer stands next to a cherry tree outside the caretakers residence in Montpeliers Hubbard Park. Beyer is retiring as caretaker after 32 years, though hell remain parks director and tree warden for the city.
MONTPELIER He is the Capital Citys Green Man, and like the mythic deity from the British Isles Geoff Beyer is a lover of plants and trees equal parts trailblazer, historian, educator, and guardian of all things covered with foliage. In Beyers case his kingdom is Hubbard Park, and after 32 years he is leaving his home in the woods.
But hes not going to go too far.
Im still going to be the director of parks, and the tree warden, he says of the other two hats he wears for the city. But Ive been working on a house in East Montpelier and it will be something to finally move in. Im excited, I think its my family that is finding it more challenging to leave.
Hubbard Park has grown and improved since 1899 when it was left as a 125 acre bequest to the city by John Hubbard. Several land parcels have been added over the years and the park is now 185 acres with seven miles of skiing and hiking trails running through it. Among its most signficiant features is the 54-foot stone tower built in 1913, but the park is also home to baseball and soccer fields, and a small pond.
Beyer, the first resident caretaker, met his wife Kim after hed already moved to the park, and together they raised three daughters, Marcianna, Celeste and Dana in the caretakers home. My two youngest daughters were both born in the living room, he says. And it has been great for them all to grow up here.
The Goddard College graduate has been the parks sole resident caretaker, and as such hes drawn on a myriad of skills, not the least of which is his ability to get along with the public and sometimes their dogs. He has fostered partnerships with the schools, created a program to bring international workers to spend time working in the park in the summer, and is well on his way to seeing a new generation of Montpelier youth discover the local wilderness.
It was important to connect with the school groups, he says of some of the outreach hes done in the community. To get those fourth-graders in here so that they can establish a relationship with the park now so theyll take care of it when they get older.
Today, many Montpelier residents volunteer, and in summer its sometimes hard to reserve space and time at the parks barbecue area. That privilege is granted to city residents at no charge, although outlying residents are welcome to reserve a picnic spot as well for a relatively low fee. The setting is universally popular for gatherings like birthday parties and family reunions, but it wasnt always so.
When I first came to the park it was really in disrepair, he says. The biggest spurt of growth occurred in the first 10 years of his service, he adds. During that time trails were repaired and constructed, and word spread through the city that the park was a great place to go.
Today there is no season that doesnt find the park in use, with intrepid visitors doing everything from skiing to searching for prized chanterelle mushrooms after a spring rain.
Community interest has been a great boon to the park, he says. We couldnt do what we do without the community.
On Tuesday hed just finished a tree pruning workshop with 15 residents who learned the ins and outs of pinching and cutting, all to improve the health and vitality of their shrubs and trees. He speaks with enthusiasm of the search for his replacement.
Weve gotten 20 applications so far, he said. And most are local, but today we got an application from Scotland and thats exciting. Scotland is a long way to come from.
The opportunity to apply for the job will close on Friday when members of the citys parks committee will start reviewing the applications. The two finalists will be interviewed by the committee and the city manager before a decision is made.
Along with a salary of between $15 and $18 per hour, the new caretaker will be able to move into the house for a rent of $1,100 a month. Beyer added that its possible the house could be renovated into two apartments, one of which could be for the caretaker, and the other for one or more of the citys AmeriCorps volunteers. It could have two apartments and the caretaker could decide which one to live in.
Beyer is hopeful that his replacement will be on board by early July. All the better to give him time to explore his new environs in East Montpelier.
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Some people don't have warm and fuzzy feelings about the holidays. Some people aren't religious. My father is the first one and I am the latter. Now that the holiday season is approaching, what am I to do? As a daughter of a dad who is from a Jewish family, a mom from a Unitarian Universalist family and I not identifying with either, when I just want to enjoy some of the traditional foods associated with Hanukah? Answer: create my own "holiday."
And that's exactly what I did.
I gathered those I love—my family (dad Larry, mom Sarah and brother Henry), my boyfriend Timmy and my best friend since childhood Brianne and her boyfriend Boyd. We came together at my house to celebrate nothing at all but to enjoy each other's company and eat some delicious Jewish food.
My dad made his latkes, my mom made Tzimmes (pronounced: SIM-us) and Brianne (a professional chef) made a creamy leek soup. Tzimmes is a traditional Jewish stew of sorts (often made for Rosh Hashanah) with its sliced carrots representing gold coins, symbolizing the hope of prosperity in the year to come. My mom puts her own twist to it—mashing sweet potatoes and carrots together and adding matzo balls. We have it every Thanksgiving. My dad puts his twist on the latkes too, using matzo meal instead of flour. The leek soup paid homage to my ancestors as it is popular in Romania, which is where many of my family members hail from.
We had all the ingredients for a holiday—family, friends and food. I cooked up a holiday and it was a success. A new tradition might sound oxymoronic, but they have to start somewhere, right? So, here's to new traditions.
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Larry's Latkes
6 medium potatoes
1 onion, peeled and quartered
2 large eggs
¼ cup matzo meal
salt, pepper to taste
pinch of baking powder
vegetable oil for frying
Peel potatoes and grate in a food processor. Drain in a colander, pressing out the liquid.
Finely chop the onion using the steel blade in the processor.
Return potatoes to the food processor, add all other ingredients (except oil) and process until just smooth and evenly colored.
Heat 1/8 inch of oil in a large heavy skillet, preferably cast iron, until a drop of batter sizzles on the surface. Drop a large spoonful of batter into the skillet and flatten it with the spoon to make a thin pancake. Fry the latkes on both sides until brown and crisp, adding more oil if necessary. Drain the latkes on paper towels and keep them warm, in a single layer in a 200 degrees oven, until all the latkes are made. Serve with sour cream or applesauce.
Sarah's Tzimmis
3 cups water
6 yams
6 carrots
1 small onion
1 small apple
1 Tbsp. butter
½ Tbsp. brown sugar
salt, pepper to taste
1 box of matzo meal with directions for making matzo balls + ingredients
Peel and chop the yams, carrots, onion and apple into bite-sized pieces. Put in large pot with butter, brown sugar, salt, pepper and water and simmer uncovered until mushy. While simmering, make the matzo balls. When the stew is finished, stir in the matzo balls.
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1 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
4 large leeks, white and light green parts only, cleaned and sliced
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 potatoes, peeled and chopped
7 cups chicken stock, vegetable stock or water
1 bay leaf
salt, pepper
½ cup cream
Heat the olive oil over medium heat in a large, heavy soup pot and add the leeks and a generous pinch of salt. Cook, stirring, until leeks are tender, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and potatoes and stir for about a minute. Add the stock or water, bay leaf and salt. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer 30 minutes. Remove the bay leaf.
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JEFFERSONVILLE, NY — There's something timeless about track and field meets, particularly those held under a bright blue sky with balmy temperatures. For in their glorious diversity of running, jumping and throwing events which are taking place simultaneously in their respective locales of the venue, the athleticism, spirit, rivalry and manifestation of perseverance, endurance and stamina render these meets special in the cavalcade of spring sports.
For Division IV foes Tri-Valley (T-V) and Sullivan West (SW), it has and will always be so, even in these times when the legions of Bears far outnumber the essentially young and rebuilding Bulldogs. It's been five years since that iconic April 16, 2008 meet when Sullivan West's girls, propelled by Rianne Erlwein's anchor leg, took tenth of a second precedence over T-V's Caroline Bertholf in the 1600 relay. The final event of the day afforded Sullivan West a 71-70 victory over Tri-Valley for the Division title in a story penned by this writer for this newspaper entitled "Breaking point."
That storied win snapped a Tri-Valley streak of 129 consecutive division victories that had dated back to 1985. The Lady Bears won the Section Nine title that spring, something they've been doing consecutively since 2007, right up through last year. And given their depth and talent, this looks like number seven in a row for Tri-Valley, a fitting departure gift for coaches Joe and Missy Iatauro who are retiring this June.
The Lady Bulldogs' last hurrah over Tri-Valley came in the winter of 2008-09, when they beat T-V for the indoor Section Nine title under the savvy watch of then Coach Joe Seidl, who has now resumed his mentorship at SW beginning this past winter. Seidl's young charges are a work in progress, but you can rest assured that in a couple of years this rivalry with T-V and other teams will be back in full force. Even though the scales have tipped heavily in T-V's favor in both the girls and boys realm in recent years, there is still plenty of electricity when the teams meet.
This was Sullivan West's first meet of the season, but it was T-V's third, having hosted a home opening boys and girls victory vs. Eldred and participation and great success in the Pearl River Relays, wherein the trio of Ally Reynolds, Vicky Tingley and Mareena DiMilia broke the school record in the shuttle relay. It was the first salvo of an impending volley of records that will shatter this spring. Tri-Valley easily handled Sullivan West in this league opener as the boys outpointed Sullivan West 82-59, while the Lady Bears pounced on their young rivals to the tune of 106-31. Track and field is not just a team enterprise, but also an individual one, and many of the day's winners will become the subject of much laudatory praise from this writer as the spring moves on apace.
For now we'll just list the victors, though there were some surprises and upsets, including T-V sophomore Zach Nilsen's victories in the 110 and 400 hurdles over Sullivan West junior standout Mitch Paciga. The latter got some measure of revenge as he out-jumped Nilsen and teammate Matt Cardona to win the high jump. Paciga was second in the pole vault to T-V's Aidan Woolsey.
Boys winners
3,200-meter relay: Tri-Valley (Ian Kurzrock, Hauk Boyes, Justin Weintraub, Brendan Hasbrouck) 9:11.2
110 hurdles: Zach Nilsen (TV) 16.3
100: Matt Cardona (SW) 12.1
1,600: Reed Scott (SW) 4:52
400 relay: Sullivan West (Adam Murphy, Andrew Stabbart, Joe Campanelli, Jeron Kivii) 49.2
400: Aidan Woolsey (TV) 55.3
400 hurdles: Nilsen (TV) 63.9
800: Weintraub (TV) 2:10.2
200: Cardona (SW) 24.7
3,200: Scott (SW) 10:35
1,600 relay: Tri-Valley (Tyler Greffrath, Nilsen, Weintraub, Woolsey) 3:55
Long jump: Cardona (SW) 17-7
Pole vault: Woolsey (TV) 11-6
Shot put: Aric Boyes (TV) 48-4.5
Discus: Anthony Rydell (SW) 110-0
Triple jump: Dan Short (TV) 34-4
High jump: Mitch Paciga (SW) 6-0
Girls winners
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100 hurdles: Mareena DiMilia (TV) 16.1
100: Katlynn Graffrath (TV) 13.9
1,500: Autumn Bender (TV) 5:18.7
400 relay: Tri-Valley (Sara Dertinger, Greffrath, Caroline Martin, Maria Terbush) 55.6
400: Courtney Meyerer (SW) 64.8
400 hurdles: Sabrena Smith (TV) 74.7
800: Bender (TV) 2:37.6
200: Rosa Martinez (SW) 29.0
3,000: Graham (TV) 11:54.9
1,600 relay: 1. Tri-Valley (Bender, Sabrena Smith, Brittany Pennell, Vicky Tingley) 4:32
Long jump: DiMilia (TV) 15-3
Pole vault: Tingley (TV) 7-0
Shot put: DiMilia (TV) 34-6.25
Discus: Colleen Jones (TV) 99-6
Triple jump: Hannah Feinman (SW) 30-1
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Engineered Control Systems Inc., a correctional systems integrator, is undertaking 12 correctional projects at any given time and serves eight western states, from Arizona to California to Alaska.
The company is among a new breed of integrators that run UL-listed fabrication shops where they test the detention electronics products they use. ECS also developed Enterprise, its own integrated inmate management system.
Bob Ellis is president of ECS, which was founded 10 years ago and is based in Spokane, Wash. He talks about Enterprise, smart smoke detectors, IP video, digital intercoms and how touch screens differ from industrial touch panels.
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Bob Ellis: We've gravitated strongly from a big backlog of new construction to where 85 percent of our backlog is remodeling existing, operating facilities. Consequently, we've gotten quite good at that over the last five years.
There's a 10- to 15-year lifecycle for detention electronics, and we're at a point in that cycle where there are an awful lot of systems that need replacing. That's with almost 100 percent touch screens and touch panels.
The third change is that we used to be exclusive subcontractors to other companies, but right now we're running probably 70 percent of our business right now as the general contractor. That number used to be 15 percent.
CN: What are the primary challenges of integrating an existing facility?
BE: The biggest challenge is that the facility is occupied and the customer doesn't want any downtime. A lot of companies take a canned approach: 'Here's our system. Stick it in.' The customer says, 'Well, that's not what I wanted. Our facility doesn't operate that way.' That creates hardship in facility operations because making the necessary changes extends downtime.
When we pick up a project, the first thing we do is send out a project engineer with a touch screen or touch panel and demonstrate the available methodologies to control a facility. There's no right way or wrong way; it's how that customer wants the facility to operate. We take that information back here and design the system. We fully mock it up here in the shop. We have a UL 508 Panel Shop here, where we build the system. Program it, test it. We invite the customer to come in at critical milestones to look at the operation and provide input on how they would like it changed. Some integrators say, 'This is the way it is. If you want me to change it, it's a change order.' We've never charged yet for a change.
Everything we do is oriented to making the transition as brief as possible. We accomplish this with extensive pre-testing of the system, extensive demonstration and garnering input from the owner prior to actual install. After it's bought off by the customer, we try to match existing wiring schemes. Wiring comes in at certain angles and lands in certain locations, so we design our new replacement back panels to fit perfectly, including where the wires land. We'll go through and tag and identify all the wiring. At that point, we agree to shut it down, lift the wires out, replace the back plane and terminate it. You're back online in 24 hours.
CN: What are the most exciting emerging applications?
BE: We are fairly unique from other integrators in that we have our own Research & Development Department. We look at industrial products on the market and evaluate their usefulness and their applicability to the corrections market. We'll evaluate it, and then if we're comfortable with it, we'll recommend it. We're a long distance contractor with projects in places like Guam and Alaska. It's not cost-effective for me to put out a component on which we save, say 5 percent, if I have to send somebody out there frequently during that warranty period.
The products we use are all ones that represent 15 years of testing and evaluation. As far as PLCs, we use Modicon. We've been using them for 11 years and have not had one failure. We generally use Best UPSs, Vicon CCTV, Edwards/EST fire alarm, and we're starting to use the Harding Instruments intercom line. We use Elo touch screens exclusively.
We've been promoting the use of touch panels, as opposed to touch screens, over the past couple years. Touch screens, of course, are PC-based and sit on the console. Behind it you have an industrial quality PC, and beyond that is some rather expensive HMI (Human/Machine Interface) software, such as Monitor Parole, Wonderware, or some of the other popular HMIs.
Touch screens have become the accepted norm - almost old hat. The downside is the Windows software is always in a constant state of revision, thanks to our friend, Mr. Bill Gates. He comes out with a new reg level and that creates some headaches sometimes, particularly for older machines and software. Plus, you have this hard drive that's spinning all the time. It gets used. If you write your programs efficiently you can get a long life out them, but sooner or later it is going to die.
We started evaluating touch panels a couple years ago. They are rugged, industrial controls used on factory floor. You can spray them down with water and they're able to take extremes of hot and cold. During our evaluation, we disregarded most of them and the one we're using now is a Siemens panel. Nice thing about touch panels, there's no hard drive or software to worry about, and they're a lot less costly than a touch screen, typically a quarter of the cost.
With a traditional touch screen, you have multiple pages on that touch screen, so you're constantly changing pages according to what part of the building or application you're doing. With the cost-effectiveness of the touch panels, we can have multiple panels in that control room. One can be dedicated to one pod and another dedicated to movement so you don't have to change pages.
We still use touch screens in large central control rooms and typically use touch panels in small control rooms, local housing units, towers, booking areas and for stand-alone units.
CN: What are end-users asking for?
BE: More information at their fingertips through an inmate management system. We've not seen a lot of demand for the hand-held terminals, although our R&D department has evaluated those products in response to customer request.
The use of hand-held PDAs (personal display assistants) depends on how the facility is operated. If they have a roving officer and don't have a control center in a particular housing unit, a PDA would be more applicable, but most do have a control center and users would just as soon keep control there. A lot of it is protective thinking - not wanting inmates to get control of a box that can open doors and activate intercoms. Although if the integrator has done his job, an inmate won't get very far with a PDA.
CN: Why did ECS develop its own inmate management system?
BE: We found that many existing inmate management systems don't support a standard Windows interface. Plus, they are horrendously expensive, although they have their own use because they can interface with an accounting system. We can write drivers to talk to the inmate management system that have a standard Windows interface, so you don't need to have duplicate data entry. In some control rooms you will see two PCs running, one for the touch screen and another one inmate management. The trouble is, you have to go back and forth between the two.
About five years ago, the state of Washington contracted with us to develop what we call our Enterprise inmate management package. What we've done is married touch screen technology with inmate information and tracking systems. So in a typical application, you select a cell and up pops all the information on that inmate, including photo, number, name, physical characteristics, medical and dietary requirements and warnings.
It's all automated. I touch that cell and I see all the information on it. I can tell the officer to release Joe Brown and his physical characteristics are easily verified by the officer. We also have automated cell search schedules. You can sort by dietary or medical requirement, or with the touch of an icon you see all those needs on a given floor. It gets rid of the paperwork in the modern control room. You also can generate cell search reports and inmate locations for documentation.
The modern control room workload doesn't get lighter year by year. They just keep adding more and more tasks to the list, and this is a way to reduce that workload. We want to get rid of paperwork in the control room.
CN: Have we seen the end of hard panels?
BE: We hardly do one hard panel job a year. We're doing a downtown mid-rise jail in Multnomah County, a mixed-use facility in Portland, Ore. That was a job that was specced for hard graphic panels. We did a presentation using these less expensive touch panels and the customer went for it. They'd never had a touch screen or touch panel in any of their facilities.
Due to the diminishing volume, our traditional supplier of fire life and switches for hard panels has a six month lead time for delivery. Prices for hard panels have tripled in the last five years and the quality has gone down. We used to be able to get two years out of a push-and-talk button, but now we have jails where the sheriff has to replace them every month. Unfortunately, a decline in quality is one way of competing.
CN: Correctional facilities must keep smoke detectors away from inmates, which also makes them difficult to access for maintenance. Two recent jail fires spread largely unchecked in facilities with compromised detectors. How is this addressed?
BE: The smoke detector heads are getting smarter. One of things we like about the Edwards line is that the internal circuitry compensates for the build-up of dirt. That's one of the biggest problems for a correctional fire alarm system. All the bedding and laundry generates a lot of dust and lint. I'd say probably 90 percent of correctional facilities do not properly maintain their smoke and heat detector heads, which results in a lot of nuisance alarms.
With internal circuitry, when the detector reaches a threshold and, rather than going into alarm, it just sounds for trouble. You can actually look at a screen and plot the amount of build-up, so instead of just an arbitrary maintenance program where you clean all the heads once a year, you can focus on the heads that need attention.
CN: Aside from a complete upgrade, what are the options for jails and prisons with dirty detector heads?
BE: Unless you've got one of the modern systems that can actually report the amount of contamination, the only way is to climb up there and pull that cover off and see what it looks like. Depending on the extent of the contamination, some heads you can clean yourself, some you have to send to the factory, others you have to throw away.
Some hotels are now demanding sensitivity testing, which means you bring in this expensive $5,000 smoke generator and you start hitting the detector with different levels of smoke until you find out what the activation point is. If it's too high, you get rid of the detector or replace it. But the problem there is that it's a time consuming process, and in a correctional facility, that factor increases four times.
Almost never do correctional facilities have someone on the payroll who can handle an inspection of heads. Generally, you should probably contact the local contractor for that brand of fire alarm system. They can give you advice on how to proceed.
We're also seeing more integration of the correctional system with the fire alarm. Most fire alarm systems nowadays are addressable. Each detector or pull station comes up on its own discreet address and gives you, to use plain English, a descriptor of where it is. We're seeing more and more of integration into the touch screen so that, in the event of a fire alarm, we pop up a graphic map and show the exact device and alarm, which means we write a driver to talk to that fire alarm system. We've written drivers now for most of the major brands out there.
CN: What's new in intercom applications?
BE: As you probably know, there are a lot of intercom manufacturers out there. In the 60s and 70s, there were numerous pre-packaged systems like the Stentophon and the TOA and some of the other big systems. They were typically stand-alone or had some rudimentary integration into the control system. The industry kind of got away from that, into more relay-based, contact-driven systems off the PLC and interfaced with discreet intercom amplifiers. With the advent of some of the more modern systems, such as Harding, I'm starting to see a swing back. Harding came out with their new DXL unit, which is a smaller, more distributed unit that's more cost-effective for a lot of facilities.
We are promoting systems like that. They employ a technology called DSP, or digital signal processing, which takes the audio signal, digitizes it, cleans it up and then sends it on out. One of the biggest problems you'll see with audio systems in a cells with six hard surfaces produce a tremendous amount of echo. With DSP, we can clean up the echo effect and make the signal more intelligible for the control room operator. This also applies to dayrooms and other high noise areas.
We're seeing a lot of interest in IP video. In a traditional video system, we have cameras going into switchers and multiplexers and then coming out on the monitor. For long term recording, we have the DVR. We're seeing an awful lot of customers going to IP. In fact, we're doing a project right now for the state of Idaho that uses all IP video. It looks like a good technology. Essentially, it uses the same Local Area Network that your computer uses.
My forecast is that, within five years, the majority of systems being installed will be IP-based. It means the camera would be going directly into your video server, your PC, and there the images are stored and displayed in real time for control navigation or brought up for an event that happened two months prior. Already with the job we're finishing in Idaho, officers have gone back and looked at three inmate fights they didn't even know had happened. Another inmate will mention the incident, and they go back and look and sure enough, there are four inmates beating this guy up.
CN: Is the use of DVRs and IP mutually exclusive?
BE: DVRs are IP-compatible. You can tie them together and bring the information up from the DVR. But what IP video allows is getting rid of the DVR altogether, and the recording and storage is done right on the PC. Of course, these are high-powered video servers we recommend for this application. Compared to DVR, IP video has a superior storage time, access and cost. As the IP software gets better and more robust, switchers and DVRs will disappear altogether.
CN: How does ECS stand out?
BE: Again, we have a UL-listed shop. For most integrators, their fabrication shop is not UL-listed, but it is becoming more common. That guarantees electrical safety and the proper way of fabricating electronics. Another thing we recommend for integrators is that they have their own installation staff.
So many integrators are what we call 'Parts & Smarts' contractors. They do the design, ship the components off to the job site, and an electrical contractor who may not be qualified to mount the cameras and intercom stations, and then the integrator comes out and sorts it all out. You have less quality control over that installation.
We do long-distance work, but it's how you implement and execute it. We have our own crews that go out and do the physical installation at the job site, as opposed to just shipping it out and hoping everything works out OK.
Probably 10 years ago, integrators had limited bonding capability. We can bond up to $20 million, and those that can't do it are getting left behind. We've seen a number of integrators go out of business in the last few years, particularly in the West. But bonding capacity is just a symptom. These are companies that have not kept up with the changes. We're proactive and looking for new ways of doing things. We help write a spec or come out with a product, and others follow suit.
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WHERE HE STANDS: 8th, 58 points out of first place. Lost one spot last week.
TEXAS RECORD: Will be shooting for his 11th straight top-10 finish. Overall has two wins and 12 top-10 finishes including eight top-five's in 19 starts. Finished fourth in the spring race.
LOOKING AHEAD: Biffle will be making the 400th start of his Cup career this weekend. "I'm real excited about Texas, and the 400th start seems like a lot, but I remember them (the news media) talking about Ricky Rudd's 700th start, so we're a little over halfway to that mark. I can still get to third (in the point standings) with a couple good runs. If I win Texas and have a good run at Phoenix and Homestead I'm looking at standing there third in points. And I think we can win Texas."
LOOKING BACK: Biffle rallied in the final 100 laps to finish ninth at Martinsville. But he was livid after the race as he felt Jimmie Johnson had ruined his chances of finishing in the top five. Biffle grabbed Johnson by the collar on pit stop as he shouted "you knocked my... rear bumper off. You...ran into the back of me." Biffle shook his finger at Johnson as Johnson said, "I was inside of you. If you want to talk about it, we can talk about it." A few moments later Biffle told the media "we had a top-five car. I just wish that wouldn't have happened (being forced to pit to have the flapping rear bumper removed)." A few hours later, Biffle tweeted an apology to Johnson. "I apologize for the way I acted toward Jimmie Johnson after the race, hard racing and I (now) know the bumper had damage already."
ETC.: Biffle, as a former teammate of Matt Kenseth, said he "like to see Matt win it (the 2013 Sprint Cup championship) I think he deserves it. He's worked hard and made a big decision to make a change (from Roush Fenway Racing to Joe Gibbs Racing). He had been at Roush for a long time like me and I'm happy for him. He's gonna be tough to beat. He may not need any help or encouragement because you saw last week (at Martinsville). Matt finished second and led a lot of that thing and beat the 48 car (Johnson) by four or five spots."
78 KURT BUSCH, Chevrolet
Team: Furniture Row Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 9th, 75 points out of first place.
TEXAS RECORD: One win and 12 top-10 finishes in 21 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Busch said, "Texas was the turning point of our season back in April. We felt like we had a whole different swagger about the team with the setup we brought there. We qualified second and ran up front. Unfortunately, we had a mechanical problem (fuel regulator) and didn't take advantage of the setup. I'm looking forward to going back to Texas and trying to clean up some spilled milk from before."
LOOKING BACK: Busch finished 18th at Martinsville. "We didn't qualify well (19th), didn't practice well and obviously didn't race well," said a frustrated Busch. "I don't know what it is but there's something about this track that doesn't suit me. It was a very disappointing performance today. I had one really good run, but couldn't keep it up. We weren't good on restarts and I was just trying to survive out there."
ETC.: Busch admits "we haven't had much success at the last three Sprint Cup races, so it's time to turn that around. I feel Texas has the potential of being one of our better Chase races." Busch hopes to win a race for car owner Barney Visser and the Furniture Row team before he moves on to Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014. "It sure would be nice to give this team a win," added Busch.
99 CARL EDWARDS, Ford
Team: Roush Fenway Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 10th, 76 points out of first place.
TEXAS RECORD: Finished third in the spring race for his fourth top-eight finish in the last five races including a second and two third-place finishes. Won both races in 2008. His third triumph came in Nov. 2005.
LOOKING AHEAD: Edwards is looking forward to this weekend. "There couldn't be a better track for us to go to (than Texas)," said Edwards. "We had a great test there the other day. It's a fast race track. It's aged a little bit, so it has some character and you can drive the car into the corner really aggressively and slide it around a lot. That makes it really fun to drive and when you have success at Texas the folks there really make it special."
LOOKING BACK: Edwards finished 12th at Martinsville. "It was a really tough race," said Edwards. "Our car was a middle-of-the-pack car and we made it to 12th, so we salvaged something. I caused the first two cautions when the car was real hard to drive on entry (into the corner), so that was pretty frustrating. I felt bad about that. The car was real, real loose in and that was the reason I hit Kvapil (Travis) there like that (in turn four). It was kind of embarrassing to do that but that's how it goes I guess. I'm going to apologize to him right now."
ETC.: Edwards is featured in the new music video put out by recording artist Sara Evans. "Sara was as nice and down to earth as she seems," said Edwards. "She amazed me with how much heart she put into this song ("Slow Me Down"). We had a lot of fun shooting the video and I hope everyone enjoys it." Evans, a Columbia, Mo., native as is Edwards, said, "Carl blew us all away, both on and off camera. He nailed the acting parts and was so much fun to have around on set especially during the fighting scenes in the apartment. We're both from Missouri and share the same sense of humor, so it was easy to joke back and forth, we had the entire crew cracking up, but on camera it looks like we literally hate each other. I hope the fans love the video for 'Slow Me Down' as much as I do."
22 JOEY LOGANO, Ford
Team: Penske Racing
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"This decision was made for what's best moving forward," said Rich Miano, the only UH athlete to play as a "Rainbow" and coach as a "Warrior." "This is a tough decision, and Ben Jay is paid to make though decisions. And I think being from Ohio State, and a university with that type of branding, I think that he made the proper choice."
A choice that Miano said will attract more student athletes to Manoa.
Former Rainbow Wahine volleyball player Aneli Cubi-Otineru said, "I think it's a good idea. I mean, some teams were just Warriors and then some teams were Rainbow Warriors. S o it's kind of confusing. But it's good that just all the men's teams are all Warriors. I think it's a lot easier."
Former men's basketball coach Riley Wallace said he agrees with a single name, but is upset at the choice.
"In my heart, we will always be the Rainbow Warrior. I like that. The Warrior part was fine. The Rainbow was fine. So I thought that the connection of the Rainbow Warriors satisfied all of them," Wallace said. "It all started with June Jones. He just didn't like the Rainbow. They associated with the Rainbow Coalition and the rainbow standing for the gays, which have been totally accepted across the country now. And to me, all that was not real, a real reason to take it out."
One of Wallace's players, Alika Smith, said he feels the same way.
"You put your heart and soul into something and all of a sudden, they want to change it. But at the end of the day, you're still University of Hawaii. That's the main thing," Smith said.
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"Demand for our GPU offerings in the quarter was very strong, and shipments were temped only by supply constraints. This was the second straight quarter of record GPU shipments, led by an 18% sequential increase in notebook discrete units. More than half of our GPU shipments in the quarter were DirectX 11-capable and [so far] we have shipped nearly 16 million DX11 GPUs to date," said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, during the quarterly conference call with financial analysts.
AMD announced revenue for the second quarter of 2010 of $1.65 billion, a net loss of $43 million, or $0.06 per share, and operating income of $125 million. The company reported non-GAAP net income of $83 million, or $0.11 per share, and non-GAAP operating income of $138 million.
ATI's revenue increased 8% sequentially and 87% year-over-year to approximately $470 million, which is higher than GPU revenues received by ATI when it was independent back in 2006. The sequential increase was driven by record GPU unit shipments, partially offset by a decrease in average selling price. The year-over-year increase was driven by an increase in GPU shipments and ASP. Operating income was $33 million, compared with $47 million in Q1 2010 and a loss of $17 million in Q2 2009.
AMD also reaffirmed plans to introduce the next-generation ATI Radeon HD 6000-series graphics processors in 2010. However, this time AMD did not say that it planned to refresh the whole lineup, but only promised to debut some of the novelties.
"In the second half of the year, we expect GPU demand to remain healthy and supply constraints to ease. We remain on track to bolster our GPU leadership with the introduction of our second-generation DirectX 11 graphics products later this year. [...] We will start introducing the second-generation of our DX 11 products before the end of the year," said Mr. Meyer.
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#2719 - 05/20/00 06:24 PM ~phile and ~phobe
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If ~phile connotes a lover of something, and ~phobe connotes one who has a fear of something, what connotes someone who hates/detests something?
I have tried the various dictionaries and Thesauruses (Thesauri?) with no luck.
Anticipating a barrage of derision, David108 asks:
Example - my friend is a Rugby fan (Rugbyphile?) and I can't abide the game. What am I?
#2720 - 05/20/00 09:47 PM Re: ~phile and ~phobe
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David, how can I break this to you gently... <g>
-phobe has two(2) senses: fearing or hating -- which adds up when you think about how the two are related.
you are a rugbyphobe. a better example of where the two senses become... confused is 'homophobe'.
#2721 - 05/21/00 03:43 AM Re: ~phile and ~phobe and ~miso
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"miso" before something means -I believe - what you are looking for.
For example, misogynous means someone hating women.
But I don't know how to coin the word about 'miso'rugby...
#2722 - 05/21/00 09:53 AM Re: ~phile and ~phobe
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Would Phoebe's admirers and detractors be Phoebephiles and Phoebephobes?
#2723 - 05/21/00 10:17 AM Re: ~phile and ~phobe and ~miso
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sure, miso- and philo- as prefixes; -phile and -phobe as suffixes.
Can anyone cite a form of miso (Greek) used as a suffix?
#2724 - 05/21/00 01:15 PM Re: ~phile and ~phobe and ~miso
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#2725 - 05/21/00 01:28 PM Re: ~phile and ~phobe and ~miso
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:-) nice try, but (although a nonconformist may hate to conform) I don't think
-ist (used to denote one who practices or believes in) qualifies...
#2726 - 05/21/00 02:14 PM Re: ~phile and ~phobe and ~miso
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There's a revolting Greek seafood paste called "taramiso". Does that qualify?
#2727 - 05/22/00 06:19 PM Re: ~phile and ~phobe
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From former emails and postings - a cricketer!
But seriously, it would make you a non-conformist at a public school and a Saturday shopper during the five(six)-nations during winter.
The best I can think of would be a form of anti- or contra-. Rugby is an Etymological word (please correct me!) and is named after the place from whence it began - like cheddar, Gorgonzola, champagne etc. so it is difficult to give it a handle. Anti-Rugbyist, contra-rugbyite just don't roll off the tongue as well as CRICKETER! so maybe the form should follow what you are a fanatic of and not what you aren't. Example: 'Do you like Rugby?' 'Hell, no. I'm a die-hard cricketer'. Nuff sed. Do you really need to be so ardently anti-rugby (or anything else) to have a new word (or prefix/suffix) coined for the purpose??
#2728 - 05/22/00 06:20 PM Re: ~phile and ~phobe and ~miso
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Don't forget that delicious Japanese miso soup. Mmmmmmm............ Soup.
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Lists are outrageously popular today and I have to admit I'm inevitably attracted to them onHuffington Post. Ones like "The Nine Most Hated Halloween Candies" (only nine?), "The Best Donuts in America" (hoping Madison made the list and knowing it did not) and "The 10 Worst Breakfast Cereals of All Time" (I hate all cereal). These lists proliferate especially as the year draws to an end. As a matter of fair disclosure, I write for a magazine who each year assembles an iconic list, The Best of Madison.
I rarely agree with the voters' picks for best restaurants regardless of the categories. My disagreement isn't limited to this publication's poll, either. They all leave me crying, "You've got to be kidding!" I'm particularly dismayed by those "Best" banners that appear at the top of my computer screen when I do a Google search. This year, I thought I'd massage my own ego and put together my list of our town's top dining establishments. Those that made the Top 10 List were as much about innovation and imagination as the quality of the food. I think they all would be standouts in most any town where they decided to set up shop, but fortunately they choose Madison.
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text: Urban Myth, Manufactured by Army to Keep Civilians Away from Military Installations Lee Brickley posted:8/4/2013 9:14:16 PM The eugenics movement had gained momentum in the early 19th century. It was based on the belief that if human breeding is controlled and only the best genes are allowed to reproduce, the human race can have superior species, according to PBS. "It was presented as mathematical science." It looks like inspired by this mathematical science, the scientists allegedly kidnapped a woman and hypnotised her. They then impregnated her with an artificially created human-pig DNA seed. According to Cryptozoology.com, they were looking for the birth of a creature on which they could conduct their tests. The baby born after a delayed pregnancy had a huge head and snout, which was eerily similar to that of a pig. One fine day, the Pig-Man escaped and made woods his place of residence. Over the decades, there have been reports of his sighting - "a strange tall man with a swine face roaming around the Casnnock Chase woods." "Witnesses recall a human body in tattered clothes, a distorted face, an unmistakable snout and the shrill squealing of the Pig-Man heard miles away," Huffington Post reports. Lee Brickley's book "UFOs, Werewolves And The Pig-Man" claims to tell the real story behind Pig-Man. Mr Brickley has written the book after more than a decade of research and interviewing eye-witnesses, according to Birmingham Mail...... Full Article Here: http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/495512/20130730/pig-man-paranormal-urban-myth-cannock-chase.htm#.Uf78ENK1Fc1 (copy and paste into browser)LincolnGenghis posted:8/11/2013 4:29:11 PM I will bite on this one . What the hell does the title of this thread have to do with this pig man theme that you keep bringing up. Just that clear disconnect between the title of this thread vs the actual content is enough to make me question whether your book is also filled with such scatter logic.I don't know that I would have the time to read such dribble because I have more important things to do... Like laying on the floor and counting the number of popcorn specks on a ceiling, playing bourbon pong .. ect...ParanormalPaul posted:8/13/2013 11:07:50 AM According to a link I read, this so called Pig-Man was created by the military to keep people away from a certain area. Of course this is told by the grandson of a person that was supposed military person in that area. I find it hard to believe to pin the whole explanation on the word of one individual. Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Accelerating Opportunity: A Breaking-Through Initiative Launches
OVAE announces the launch of Accelerating Opportunity, an ambitious multi-state effort that promotes improved academic access and economic opportunity for low-skilled adults in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon and Wisconsin. OVAE is a member of the steering committee for this multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative.
The initiative is managed by the Boston-based organization Jobs for the Future (JFF). OVAE will support its work by helping redesign adult basic and postsecondary education programs to integrate basic skills with practical, occupational training and adequate institutional support for adult learners. In November, approximately five of the 11 states will be selected to receive implementation grants over a three-year period to execute their plans. The program will ultimately engage at least 40 community colleges across the country and impact about 40,000 adult learners.
"Accelerating Opportunity will give adults without skills and credentials beyond high school the tools that they need to secure a brighter future." said Johan Uvin, deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives. "We hope this initiative will help the nation build a stronger, more stable economy and a workforce better equipped to participate in today and tomorrow's global market."
The initiative is supported by a ground-breaking coalition of fundersthe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Kresge Foundation and the Open Society Foundations. For program and implementation expertise, JFF has engaged the National Council for Workforce Education, the National College Transition Network and the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
OVAE Welcomes Heidi Silver-Pacuilla
OVAE is pleased to welcome Heidi Silver-Pacuilla as the new team leader of the applied innovation and improvement team in the Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL). Prior to joining ED, Silver-Pacuilla was the deputy director of the National Center for Technology Innovation at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) under a $5 million Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services grant. In her role at AIR, she also worked with DAEL's Teaching Excellence in Adult Literacy project. Silver-Pacuilla holds a doctorate with a major in adult literacy and a minor in learning disability from the University of Arizona. Her work in assistive technology for adult education as a NIDRR Mary Switzer Fellow resulted in an Early Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association in 2005. She has authored over 15 professional publications, including Investigating the Language and Literacy Skills Required for Independent Online Learning, and was coeditor of, Breakthrough Teaching and Learning: How Educational and Assistive Technologies are Driving Innovation (2011).
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CTE and STEM (Part of a Continuing Series)
As noted last week, many STEM-related jobs, especially the most desirable and well-compensated of them, require education beyond high school. Addressing this need, Anthony Carnevale and his associates at the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce specify that "America needs more workers with college degrees, certificates and industry certifications ... If we don't address this need now, millions of jobs could go offshore."
The National Association of State Directors for Career and Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc) and others focused on the career and technical proficiency of students recognize that a major emphasis must be placed on ensuring that students are academically prepared to succeed in these challenging jobs that typically require postsecondary education. According to the NASDCTEc website, the CTE community "has re-dedicated itself to work together at every level to transform the U.S. education system ... into a new, even more productive system ..." Progress has been made in attracting students to take more advanced academic courses, but according to an issue brief by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), "more must be done to ensure a fully developed, skilled STEM workforce that will help secure America's economic future." Organizations across the education and business spectrum s, including OVAE, ACTE, and NASDCTEc, insist that the initiatives embodied in rigorous programs of study, integrate courses combining academic and technical approaches. These supporting methods form an integral part of a broad-based curriculum and instructional approach designed to enhance students' understanding of STEM subjects and to attract more students into STEM career pathways. The problem, according to NASDCTEc, is that "Unfortunately, growth in these sectors is hampered by jobs that go unfilled because there is a shortage of qualified, skilled workers." (To be continued in future issue)


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Mixed Quintet (Leroy Jenkins)
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James Newton (flute)
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A nice gesture by Andre Ethier and Eric Karros Bobblehead Unveiled
The fans sitting in the first seven rows of the Right field seats got a nice surprise on Tuesday night when they received free Dodger dogs on Tuesday wrapped like this:
What a nice thing for Andre to do! I was not sitting there but my friend Lorena got the text along with the picture. Thank you Andre!
Dodgers lost three consecutive games for the first time this year. On top of that, Matt Kemp reinjured his left hamstring scoring from first base on an Andre Ethier's double. I noticed someone getting mad in the dugout but did not realize it was Matt until afterwards. Kemp is back on the DL. Good luck Matt.
Tonight is the fourth game with Chad Billingsley against Greinke. I will be sitting in the Left Field pavilion tonight. I am told the seat is above the milk sign. Looking forward to seeing Deuce, William, Dee, Joe, Ron, Pete and the rest of the fans that sit there.
The next bobblehead has been unveiled today. It is the Eric Karros bobblehead.
Nice! I like it! It is on my birthday June 28, but I will be out of town. Not to worry, brother Vic will collect for me.
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I wish I were still able to sit in my old season seats in the left field bleachers…. keep up the great work on this blog. I still love my Men in Blue….
Sheryl! OMG! Long time! As I sat there in the LF pavilion keeping score I was remembering you being there. Although the Dodgers lost, I had a blast there. I know many of the people there that are season ticket holders + two other friends Cari & Kristen suprised me as they were also sitting there. So good to hear from you. Hope you are doing well.
Russel, I too think that those balls just got away from Billingsley. I had a blast sitting in the Left Field pavilion. Could have been better with a W but oh well. I can't wait for Scully bobblehead. It is going to be a crazy day at the stadium. For all bobblehead you need to get early to the stadium. There were 51K+ at the last bobblehead day (infield).
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Seattle-based Homewell Senior Care Inc. opened at 2432 Main St., Longmont, offering live-in and hourly personal care, companionship and homemaker services for seniors wishing to remain at home. The franchise is Homewell's first in Colorado; it also has offices in Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.
Taco John's restaurant has reopened at 933 Main St. in Longmont after being closed since 2008. Cheyenne, Wyoming-based Taco John's International Inc. has more than 400 stores in 25 states.
Sensorielle Organic Wellness Spa is moving from downtown Boulder to 1369 Forest Park Circle, Suite 104, Forest Park Village, Lafayette. The new location features four treatment rooms including two larger rooms with fireplaces. The spa plans to add couples massages in the same room as well as healing and informational workshops for the general public, couples and therapists. The first such event will be a Reiki workshop on Sunday, Feb. 17, led by the spa's owner, Jewl Petteway, a licensed massage therapist and Usui/Karuna Reiki master. The spa will have a soft opening on Sunday, Feb. 10, and a grand opening in March.
The city of Boulder's Division of Housing, including the city's homeownership program, has moved to 1300 Canyon Blvd in Boulder. The office is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The office entry door is located on the northeast corner of the building, facing Canyon. Staff phone numbers and email addresses have not changed.
The Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory has changed its name to the Colorado Energy Research Collaboratory and expanded its mission to include a newly created Carbon Management Center. The group was formed in 2007 and has focused its research on biofuels and biorefining and solar and wind energy. Group members include the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Colorado State University and Colorado School of Mines.
The city of Longmont's sales- and use-tax collections increased 4.7 percent in December, compared with the same period a year ago, according to the city's finance department. Longmont collected $3,929,726 in December, compared with $3,752,306 in December 2011. The collection in December represents sales made in November. The sales-tax component of collections increased by 2.4 percent from the same month the year before, and the use-tax component increased by 15 percent. Total sales- and use-tax collections for the year to date increased 4 percent compared with the same period in 2011, according to the report.
The city of Boulder's sales- and use-tax collections increased 4.6 percent in December, compared with the same period a year ago, according to the city's finance department. Boulder collected $7,229,887 in December, compared with $6,911,348 in December 2011, according to the report. The collection in December represents sales made in November. In Boulder, retail sales-tax collections were down 2.4 percent in December, compared with the same month last year.
Boulder-based Newton Running Co. Inc. has signed a three-year sponsorship with Ironman, the brand name of the triathlon-competition event company based in Tampa, Florida. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Newton makes running shoes that may help runners change how their foot strikes the ground when they run. Newton's first Ironman event sponsorship will be the 2013 Accenture Ironman 70.3 California on March 30 in Oceanside, California.
The Boulder area was among the metropolitan areas with the best economic performance over the past year, according to a survey of economic growth released Jan. 17 by the Santa Monica, California-based Milken Institute. Boulder County ranked 15 on its annual Best-Performing Cities index. The measure factors in job and salary growth over the past year and five years and the success of an area's technology sector. Boulder and the rest of Boulder County jumped up from 59th in last year's survey, mostly because of the growth of area high-tech industries, which are weighed heavily in the measure. The Fort Collins-Loveland area did better than Boulder, placing 12th, which was down from third last year. The Denver-Aurora-Broomfield area ranked 30th, up from 44th in 2011. San Jose, California and the rest of Silicon Valley topped the list.
The unemployment rate in Boulder and Broomfield counties dropped in December, and Boulder County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate of Colorado's large counties, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The rate in Boulder County dropped two-tenths of one percentage point in December to 5.5 percent as the county added 1,340 new jobs. In Broomfield, the rate dropped two-tenths of one percentage point to 6.6 percent. Employers in Broomfield added 240 jobs. Both counties outperformed the state, which had a 7.6 percent unemployment rated, down from 7.7 percent in November. The national unemployment rate remained at 7.8 percent.
Vail Resorts Inc. reported record revenue and skier visits at some of its resorts, but pulled back on profit guidance expectations because of poor early-season snow. The Broomfield-based ski operator (NYSE: MTN) said lift-ticket revenue was up 4.3 percent season-to-date through Sunday, Jan. 13, at its seven resorts. The company said it now expects net income of $39 million to $49 million for fiscal 2013, if normal weather conditions continue. That would be more than double last year's results. Vail Resorts' fiscal year ends on July 31.
Keen One Quinoa, produced by Boulder-based Keen One Foods LLC, now is available at 44 King Soopers and Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage stores across Colorado.
Longmont-based UQM Technologies Inc.'s (NYSE: UQM) electric motors and controllers are at the heart of the new Regen Nautic E180 all-electric outboard motor introduced at the Dusseldorf Boat Show. The E180 uses a UQM PowerPhase Select 145 electric motor and controller system, mounting them inside a traditional-looking outboard motor package.
Longmont-based software company Kozio Inc., signed a distribution contract with Massachusetts-based Trilogic, which will market and sell Kozio's Verification and Test OS product.
Telecommunications company supplier Puregas LLC bought Broomfield-based Pentras Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Puregas is based in Broomfield and is a division of Altec Industries Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama. Employees at Pentras Inc. are expected to continue working for the company, which makes compressed-air pressurization equipment for telecommunications-industry clients that is similar to that made by Puregas. The equipment is used to provide dry, pressurized air to improve performance of telecom equipment while reducing operating expenses.
Boulder-based Room 214 Inc., a digital marketing and social media agency, announced its new service for linking Facebook Parent-Child pages to help companies with multiple locations utilize local check-in deals and other local update features.
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March 26, 2014 —
PIKE AND WAYNE COUNTIES — Linda Lohner teaches biology at the Wallenpaupack Area High School in Pike County, where she and her fellow science teachers are currently developing a new curriculum.Every Wednesday, after the final bell rings, Lohner and a group of students who are passionate about the environment and outdoor activities meet in her classroom to learn about and experience the natural world outside of school.
Although the knowledge students glean from this club may not appear on any state test (though this new curriculum is careful to meet or exceed the demands of the latest standards), members of the Environmental Activities Club under Lohner's tutelage become well-prepared to participate in the annual Pike/Wayne Envirothon competition, through hikes, camping and fishing trips, bird- and reptile-watching excursions.
When the Pike County Conservation District, along with the Pike/Wayne Conservation Partnership, received a PA Department of Environmental Protection Environmental Education grant to help educate students on water conservation issues and design rain barrels (www.pikeconservation.org/EveryDropCounts.htm [1]), Lohner jumped at the opportunity. In a creative partnership with the Art Club, students in Lohner's Environmental Activities Club brainstormed ideas and painted barrels. These will be auctioned off as a fundraiser as part of the Every Drop Counts! Project coordinated by the Pike County Conservation District.
Barrels designed by students at Honesdale, Wallenpaupack and Delaware Valley High Schools and Canaan Christian Academy are currently on display at many local businesses. (For a map of businesses and a list of where rain barrels are located throughout Pike and Wayne counties, see tinyurl.com/p822btf.) The colorful works of art range from underwater ocean scenes to a field of blooming flowers. High school senior Danielle Spewak, a member of both the art and environmental clubs, believes art and nature share a tight bond. "When you think about the environment, you associate it with beauty in its purest form." This connection forms the foundation for the work done on the barrels and, they hope, will encourage folks from the community not just to bid on their designs, but also to utilize the barrel at their home or business. Kristina DiGiampaolo is excited to create something useful for farmers, but also "something beautiful that they can stare at that represents what they are trying to protect."
Rain barrels are used to collect and store rainwater runoff from roofs to be used for many environmental reasons. This water is used to wash cars, water gardens or in agricultural operations, especially in places where rainfall is scarce. Rainwater collection is an ancient practice that is seeing newfound attention among conservationists all across the globe. Many attribute this to the rapidly changing climate and challenges that are associated with maintaining a steady water source in times of extremes. "Even though we have a lot of snow now," explains Mrs. Lohner, "that doesn't mean we're not going to have a drought in July or August, so if you can collect what little rain there is, you'll have it when you need it."
Although it is now beyond a doubt among climate scientists that the climate is significantly shifting, public acceptance of this reality lags. Currently, many public schools face pushback against teaching the latest climate science in the classroom. Some of the students in Lohner's environmental club experienced disapproval from community members when trying to share ways to conserve home energy or resources. Recently, an outraged person called into a local television station after a segment aired about the rain barrel project to complain about the school wasting tax dollars and time on unimportant issues. Danielle Spewak was eager to clear up this misunderstanding. "We meet after school on our own time. All of the materials were paid for from a grant, even the paint we used."
Even in the face of such opposition, the resolve of each student was obvious. The passion and enthusiasm to make our tiny part of the world a better place was palpable in Lohner's classroom.
All are welcome to bid on the rain barrels between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 at the Hawley Earth Fest in Hawley, PA.
[Editor's note: This spring, the Pike/Wayne Conservation Partnership will host a series of educational programs on topics including water conservation, non-point source pollution, best management practices to assist with stormwater management, water quality and testing, native plants of our region, green cleaning and home energy efficiency tips. For a program list, see www.pikeconservation.org/EveryDropCountsPrograms.htm.]