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Distances given are in a straight line from the centre of Petersfield but travel routes may be longer.
7.2 Miles
22 Whitehaven, Horndean, Waterlooville PO8 0DN
Whitehaven Rest Home is able to specialise in quality dementia care, with carers trained and experienced in helping adults facing the challenges of memory loss. Provision is tailored to personal circumstance and set up with love, care and understanding… more
Vine House Older Persons Residence
9.0 Miles
Vanzell Road, Easebourne Lane, Easebourne, Midhurst GU29 9AZ
Vine House is a small, friendly, family-run residential home which has been offering care for older people for over 28 years. Located in the heart of the South Downs National Park, on the outskirts of Midhurst, the home is surrounded by some of the finest… more
8.2 Miles
Woodberry Lane, Rowland's Castle PO9 6DP
Beechwood House is a pleasant and refurbished nursing home conveniently situated in the village of Rowlands Castle. The service takes pride in giving a standard of care second to none, ensuring that growing old is a dignified experience. Beechwood… more
9.0 Miles
Off Oaklands Lane, West Lavington, Midhurst GU29 0ES
Originally a country home, Pendean House has been transformed and modernised to to provide care for people who require nursing and residential care. Care is also offered to those requiring Parkinson's care and palliative care. Short and long term stays… more
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Bupa Care Homes
3.4 Miles
Overcombe, Huntsbottom Lane, Hill Brow, Liss GU33 7PA
Chatterwood Nursing Home is a Petersfield facility that has been converted from a Victorian building to be beneficial as a care environment for up to 23 residents, many of whom have physical disabilities and enjoy the increases mobility of a spacious… more
3.2 Miles
East Hill Drive, Hilbrow Road, Liss GU33 7RR
East Hill House is located in the village of Liss, in the heart of Hampshire, and provides residential and specialist dementia care for up to 32 elderly people in a unique setting. East Hill House offers flexible care to meet individual requirements.… more
Group / Provider:
Caring Homes Group
8.2 Miles
Lymington Bottom, Four Marks, Alton GU34 5AH
Standing in delightful landscaped gardens of some three acres, Belford House has recently undergone a complete programme of refurbishment. It now provides first class facilities for residents who receive the very best care from a dedicated team of trained… more
Ashley House Residential Care Home
7.7 Miles
56 Forest Road, Bordon GU35 0XT
Ashley House is a specialist home for 36 older people living with the experience of dementia. The home has a warm and unique environment filled with many different and pertinent sensory experiences that add to the welcoming nature of the home. The home… more
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Sanctuary Care Ltd
6.7 Miles
82 London Road, Horndean, Waterlooville PO8 0BU
Wisteria Lodge is a family owned, happy care home providing nursing for the discerning elderly in Horndean, Waterlooville. A recent innovative extension provides beautifully well-appointed rooms with en-suite wet rooms. A hydrotherapy bath with… more
0.6 Miles
Reservoir Lane, Petersfield GU32 2HX
Downs House is situated amid beautiful Hampshire countryside, less than a mile from the thriving market town of Petersfield. It was established in 1976 and has been providing high quality care to the people of Petersfield and the surrounding villages… more
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Western Healthcare Ltd
0.6 Miles
Tilmore Road, Petersfield GU32 2HS
Steep House Nursing Home is set in beautiful grounds on the outskirts of Petersfield Town Centre. Owners believe that they have a homely environment where everyone is welcome. The priority is the welfare and happiness of residents and staff. Professionals… more
Group / Provider:
LRH - Homes
7.4 Miles
Westlands House, Headmore Lane, Four Marks, Alton GU34 3EP
Westlands is an individually owned residential care home for older people, specialising in catering for those experiencing Dementia. The home is situated in the village of Four Marks near Alton and is set amidst beautiful grounds and countryside. The… more
7.9 Miles
19/23 Lovedean Lane, Lovedean, Waterlooville PO8 8HJ
Woodlands Care Home is situated in a peaceful residential area of Waterlooville, from where people can receive a versatile care service whilst having easy access to the local community. The home has undergone a significant investment programme, thanks… more
4.0 Miles
London Road, Liss GU33 7PG
The Beeches Care Village provides a variety of care packages for the elderly in Liss, a small village and civil parish in the East Hampshire.… more
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Larchwood Care
8.7 Miles
63/65 Silvester Road, Waterlooville PO8 8TR
Edenvale Nursing Home is owned by Brookvale Healthcare and offers care for dementia and old age related needs. Supporting an interesting lifestyle, Edenvale has programmes set up to ensure the individual wishes of residents are met, in terms of diet,… more
Wenham Holt Nursing & Residential Home
3.7 Miles
London Road, Hillbrow, Liss GU33 7PD
Wenham Holt Nursing Home is situated in the heart of the Hampshire countryside and offers 24 hour professional nursing care in a safe, homely and relaxed environment. Patients are cared for in well furnished single and shared rooms, many with en suite… more
Rotherbank Residential Care Home
3.8 Miles
Rotherbank Farm Lane, Liss Forest, Liss GU33 7BJ
Rotherbank is a friendly privately owned home, registered for both the elderly and those suffering from dementia. I aim to provide care to the highest standard in comfortable surroundings - residents are encouraged to participate in a wide range of activities… more
3.5 Miles
Hill Brow, Liss GU33 7PB
Milkwood House offers elderly care accommodation for up to 43 people, some of whom have mental health complications or mobility issues, with the house being suitable for wheelchair users. This elegant facility has attractive grounds and a homely environment,… more
3.9 Miles
63 Forest Road, Liss GU33 7BL
Forest Brow Care Home offers care for thirty-two residents who are elderly frail, as well as specialist care for individuals suffering from dementia. This delightful property is a Victorian house that has been extensively refurbished in order to function… more
Group / Provider:
Quality Care Group
7.7 Miles
29 London Road, Liphook GU30 7AP
Greenbanks Nursing Home aims to deliver the highest quality of nursing and secured dementia care. You can find Greenbanks in Hampshire on the edge of Liphook village. A trained nurse is always on duty 24 hours of the day as well as a highly trained… more
Group / Provider:
Kew Care Group
3.2 Miles
Hillbrow Road, Liss GU33 7PS
Eastfield Nursing Home is a dual registered nursing and residential home and they provide first class, 24 hour registered nursing care for the elderly who require either short or long term accommodation in a family-run home. Dennis and Julie Greenwood… more
79 Silvester Road, Cowplain, Waterlooville PO8 8TR
8.7 Miles
Lordington, Chichester PO18 9DX
8.8 Miles


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The Young And The Restless' Fall Preview Spoilers.
This fall is bound to bring a ton of drama to Genoa City, and Soap Opera Fan Blog is here to pass along some spoilers to prepare viewers for the road ahead. Soap Opera Digest has released these previews…
When Delia becomes seriously ill, and in desperate need of a bone marrow match, everyone searches frantically for Billy. Billy is located and agrees to return to Genoa City, but only after agreeing to stay out of Victoria's life. You guessed it, Victor's at the other end of that agreement. Between Delia's health and a secret Billy brings home with him, he and Victoria head down a very rocky road.
Speaking of estranged marriages… Details about Colin come to light and make it easier for people to accept Cane back into their lives. Along with a few surprises, we could be in store for a Lily/Cane reunion.
Look for Adam to take the stand at Sharon's new trial. What he has to say about what a horrible mother she has been is not only damning to Sharon, but Adam's words may come back to haunt him. You can bet Adam won't walk away unscathed.
In regards to another mother, Katherine finds out who Tucker's son is. Though unfortunate circumstances bring Tucker and Katherine closer, in the end he rejects her. This makes Katherine think Tucker's son is better off without him. She remains silent about the truth.
The biggest storyline of the moment surrounds who killed Diane Jenkins. Ronan's tactics to find the truth put him against the almightily Newman family. Victor ends up very pissed off, but Ronan stands his ground. We'll also learn why Ronan left town.
Check out our "Y&R" spoilers over on Soaps.com, our sister site, or read Y&R weekly summaries, news, actor bios, appearances, video clips, polls and comings and goings, and please leave us a comment!
Join us on Twitter @soapoperafan, and Facebook. Come tweet and Facebook with us about "The Young And The Restless," all the other soap operas, "Glee," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Vampire Diaries!"
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Eddie and the Cruisers / Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives
1983 3.8★ 199 mins Dramas Rated: NR
SynopsisMichael Paré stars as Eddie Wilson of the rock band Eddie and Cruisers in this pair of dramas from the 1980s. In the first film, the band is at the height of their career in the 1960s when front man Eddie drives his car off a bridge in an apparent suicide -- but the body was never found. Twenty years later, a journalist investigates. In the sequel, Eddie is living in Montreal as Joe West and revives his music career.
Directed ByMartin Davidson
StarringDavid Wilson, Ellen Barkin, Joe Pantoliano, Matthew Laurance, Michael Paré, and Tom Berenger


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To address computer security issues, IST recommends all computers on the Bannatyne and Fort Garry campus:
Operating system patches can be acquired from several sources, including Microsoft's Windows Update site. However, for machines running Windows 2000 and Windows Vista and Windows 7 (see notes following), IST has implemented a Windows System Update Server (WSUS).
WSUS provides software updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using our WSUS Server, administrators are able to fully manage the distribution of updates released through Automatic Updates.
The WSUS server maintains automatic installs of patches and updates that have been approved by IST for our university computers. After a computer has been configured for WSUS, we ask that you never use Windows Update. Even though Windows Update is still available, it may install updates that have not been recommended by the University.
How you benefit from our WSUS Server:
Configuring your machine to acquire updates from the University of Manitoba WSUS
The following instructions will assist you in configuring your computer to obtain Windows updates through the WSUS at The University of Manitoba. Prior to proceeding with these steps, please contact your container administrator, work group manager or departmental computer representative. This individual may have already prepared your machine for receiving updates via the University of Manitoba WSUS server.
To download this update file, right click on the following link and choose Save or Save link as: umWSUS-inst.reg
Then choose a location to save this file to and click OK. To start the installation, browse to the location you save the file to and then double click on the file.
Select Yes when asked if you want the information added to the registry.
Acquiring updates
Once your computer has been configured to automatically check for updates. It will check for new updates from the WSUS approximately once every 24 hours and after rebooting.
When your computer requires an update, it will automatically download the updates. Then at the scheduled time, 12pm noon, the update will be installed. If your computer requires a reboot a dialogue window asking whether you would like to postpone rebooting will appear and remain until your preference is given. This dialogue window will reappear approximately every 5 minutes until you do reboot.
For a more detailed discussion of WSUS please visit:
Microsoft's Software Update Services Deployment White Paper
Manually creating the reg file
While not recommended, you can use RegEdit to manually enter the relevant options into the Windows Registry.
To change the appropriate registry keys, we recommend downloading the file umWSUS-inst.reg as describe above or follow the below steps to create your own:
Copy the text below into Notepad (or any text editor). Please copy the text exactly and be sure to leave the quotes and save the file as a text file.
Save this as "umWSUS-inst.reg".
Install the keys by double clicking on the umWSUS-inst.reg file icon. You will be warned that the registry will be modified. Click on Yes to add the information to the registry.
Your computer is now configured and should be contacting the WSUS server for updates.
Key configurationA detailed explanation of what each of the key does now follows.
HTTP URL of the WSUS server used by Automatic Updates and (by default) API callers; This points to the UofM's WSUS Server
The HTTP URL of the server to which reporting information will be sent for client computers that use the WSUS server configured by the WUServer key; This points to the UofM's WSUS Server
Determines the use of client-side targeting. This is disabled
This is set so that only users in the Administrators user group can approve or disapprove updates.
This is set to 0; Enable Automatic Updates.
This is set to 4; Automatically download and schedule installation
This is set to 0; Every day
This is set to 0xC; 12:00pm; Noon
This is set to 1; Logged-on user gets to choose whether or not to restart his or her computer.
This determines whether or not Automatic Updates should wait at startup before applying updates from a missed scheduled installation time.
Time, in minutes, that Automatic Updates should wait at startup before applying updates from a missed scheduled installation time.
This determines whether or not DetectionFrequency is enabled and in this case it is.
Time between detection cycles. This is set to 22 hours.
This is set to 1; silently install minor updates. This will install updates that do not require a system restart immediately.
This is set to 0; Disable custom RebootWarningTimeout (the default value of 5 minutes is used).
This is set to 0; Disable custom RebootRelaunchTimeout (the default value of 10 minutes is used).
This key is set to 1; enabled. The WUServer is not used unless this key is set.
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Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme
Landlords must now secure tenants deposits under an approved Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme - find out what you need to know
A major change to renting a home was ushered in on April 6 2007, when new rules regarding tenants' deposits were introduced.
The Tenancy Deposit Protection scheme brought in extra protection for the vast majority of people renting homes in England and Wales.
It aims to ensure tenants are treated fairly and make it easier for landlords and agents to settle disputes over compensation paid for damage to rented properties.
What is Tenancy Deposit Protection?
Money protection: how the Tenancy Protection Scheme can help you
Tenancy Deposit Protection (TDP) means that landlords who collect deposits, or agents who do so on their behalf, must join a statutory scheme to ensure tenants get their deposit, or part of it back, if they have kept a property in good condition. Disputes over how much should be returned will be mediated by an independent dispute solving service. TDP affects all new assured shorthold tenancies taken out from April 6 2007.
I'm a tenant, what does this mean for me?
As a tenant you will continue to pay a deposit, but the landlord or agent must either pay it into a holding scheme, or retain it and sign up to an insurance-based scheme. The landlord decides what scheme to use, but they must inform you of its details within 14 days of taking the deposit.
If at the end of your tenancy there is a dispute, this can now be settled by an alternative dispute resolution service (ADR), linked to the scheme, rather than resorting to the courts. Using the dispute service is not obligatory, but disputes will now only go to the courts if the landlord and tenant do not agree to use the ADR.
I'm a landlord or agent, what does this mean for me?
If you are a landlord or agent and collect a deposit on an assured shorthold tenancy you have two options, a custodial or insurance-based scheme.
• The custodial scheme The Deposit Protection Service will see landlords hand over a deposit within 14 days of receiving it, and it will be held until the end of the tenancy. The landlord and tenant then agree how the deposit will be divided, if at all, and inform the scheme which will return it to both landlord and tenant.
If there is a dispute, the amount disagreed over will be held until the dispute resolution service or courts decide what is fair. The custodial scheme will be completely free, with no charges for money transfers or dispute resolution, and interest accrued on deposits held will pay for its running.
• The insurance-based schemes Tenancy Deposit Solutions Ltd and The Tenancy Deposit Scheme allow landlords to retain deposits, but they must pay a premium to the insurer.
When a tenancy ends the landlord returns the agreed amount. If there is a dispute, the disputed sum is handed to the insurance scheme for safekeeping until it is resolved. If the landlord fails to comply, the insurance scheme will return to the tenant the deposit they are entitled to.
Under both schemes, deposits must be returned within ten days of agreeing how it should be divided, or the dispute resolution service reaching a decision.
There will also be two new schemes available from April 1 2013, Capita Tenancy Deposit Protection and Deposit Protection Service.
What happens if the tenant has a tenancy agreement taken out before 6 April 2007 but stays after the end of that tenancy?
If the tenant remains in the rented property beyond the initial fixed term that began before 6 April 2007, how the deposit is treated will depend on the circumstances:
• For a statutory periodic tenancy - i.e. the tenancy continues with no new agreement but on a rolling basis - tenancy deposit protection will not apply, as no new AST will have been created.
• For a replacement/renewal tenancy - Where a new fixed term tenancy has been agreed, a new tenancy agreement draw up, or the rent has been changed. This is a new tenancy and so tenancy deposit protection will apply. The deposit previously paid under the earlier tenancy is repayable to the tenant at the end of that tenancy, so it should be returned to the tenant and a new deposit sought and covered. Alternatively, if the landlord continues to hold the original pre-April 2007 deposit as security in respect of the new tenancy it must be protected under scheme
How do we avoid problems with the deposit?
Tenancy deposit protection underlines the vital importance of a comprehensive inventory, listing any damage, checked and signed by both tenant and landlord, or agent. Tenants and landlords should take advantage of the low cost and ease of use of digital cameras and take a series of photos at the start of a tenancy, which are agreed by both parties.
Useful links
• The Deposit Protection Service
• Tenancy Deposit Solutions Ltd
• The Tenancy Deposit Scheme
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Not As Windy for your Saturday…January 11th, 2014 at 7:14 am by chrisgilson under Weather
If you're looking to do something outside this weekend, today would be the day to get out and enjoy! That's because unlike Friday, it won't be as windy. It will be breezy in spots at times this afternoon especially in Eastern New Mexico where winds will be sustained from 10-20 mph, but nothing like you remember on Friday.
High temps will also climb above average for much of the state. Highs will break into the 50s and 60s for much of Central and Southern New Mexico. A storm system will move in late tonight and this will bring in changes for the second half of the weekend. We'll have more details on that coming up at 9 & 10 on KRQE News 13.


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The November 14 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have led to numerous landslide dams being formed in North Canterbury and Kaikoura rivers and streams. Information on these landslide dams is available here. As a precaution it is strongly advised to keep away from all riverbeds north of the Waiau River in case there are any sudden releases of water.
The Kaikoura Zone Committee will meet at Memorial Hall on Wednesday 25 July for its monthly water management meeting.
At the meeting the committee will receive a number of presentations from experts and industry leaders relating to water issues in the zone.
The committee will begin with an update from the Regional Committee followed by a presentation on the proposed Land and Water Regional Plan from Environment Canterbury. The committee will specifically consider how the draft plan relates to its zone.
Next, the committee will receive a presentation on Environment Canterbury's draft Gravel Management Strategy which was released to the public in late June. The draft Strategy was developed after discussions with the industry and key groups to inform decisions on resource management matters.
Its purpose is to set out the role of Environment Canterbury to sustainably manage gravel extraction from rivers for natural hazard purposes, and to allow for sustainable economic development without compromising safety, and cultural, social and environmental values.
The committee will finish the meeting by discussing its processes for engaging with the community and key stakeholders to get feedback on its draft Zone Implementation Programme (ZIP) for water management.
The committee finalised its draft ZIP at its June meeting and will host a series of community meetings in July and August. Members of the public will have a chance to come along and share their views on the draft ZIP and ask questions.
In late March the committee hosted two community meetings to gather local feedback on its water management priorities for the zone, which form the basis of the draft ZIP.
The priorities are; drinking water; biodiversity and natural values; water, nutrient and effluent management; Kaikoura stream, fans, flats and wetlands; and visitor and transport corridor impacts.
The committee hopes to be able to present a final ZIP to the Kaikoura District Council and Environment Canterbury in October. Once endorsed by councils, it will form the basis for the design and realignment of work programmes, for drafting regional plan provisions.
Copies of the draft ZIP and feedback forms are available here and at the meetings.
The Kaikoura zone committee was launched in mid-2011 as a joint committee of the Kaikoura District Council and Environment Canterbury.
Kaikoura Zone Committee meeting
1:00pm, Wednesday, 25 July
Community Hall, Kekerengu Valley Road, Kekerengu
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Hi Guys,
As it says on why I run, I'm doing this to get fit enough to join the armed forces. I have a training programme from the british army website but the problem is, the first one is run 2 mins walk 2 mins for 20 minutes.
I tried doing that and got to a minute and a half before I had to stop.
I'm going to have to train hard because I haven't done any serious exercise for the last 8 or 9 years and am about 3 stone overweight.
I've got my running shoes and I've been running once since I bought them. I've also joined a roller derby skating group and when I can afford to fully intend on joining the local gym and swimming sessions.
So the point of this post is to ask if anyone has any pointers or anything? How do you get past the whole 'damn, I'm so fat' bit, and how do you work past your blocks?
I've lost just over a stone since I started but I haven't lost any more weight in the last week. How do you break through the barriers?
Any advice or anything would be most appreciated as I do enjoy running and my end goal is very important to me.
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Posted over 4 years ago
Hi Kaden
Well done for making your first run. I know its hard, I really struggled when I first started and although not brilliant, I have made progress. If running for two minutes then walking is a bit too much for you, slow down your running a bit to something a little bit more comfortable for you - dont go for an all out run at this stage. I would also recommend group activities. I find it much easier to run with someone else. Have a look at parkrun.com and find your local run. I swear by these and find them enjoyable. Best of all they are free. Also, take a look at runengland.com. It will point you in the right direction of a running club which is beginner friendly. You have done very well to lose a stone - dont be dishartened because you havent lost any more -you have just hit a plateau, it will start coming off again soon.
keep the good work up and let all the bugs know how you get on
Posted over 4 years ago in reply to Rachel C
Go onto ITunes and buy the 50 US Military Cadences album. Stick this on your pod. Run 3 times a week, and run a fast jog, say 7kph. Listen to the rhythm of the album. Add 10% per week in time, not anything else, and keep listening to the album. You will learn all the I wanna be an Airborne Ranger songs and can repeat back with the troops. You can hear their feet stomping too, which will set your pace. Before long you will be running the full time of the album (90 mins or so) and will be more than able to up your pace later. This is a good way to start.
Hi kaden, i myself am running to get fit and lose weight, Try not to get too hung up on weight loss mate, as when your running you convert fat to muscle and muscle is heavier than fat. Try and weigh yourself once a week, you'll notice more of a difference. Also dont push youself too hard to start with nice and steady does it with plenty of rest in between day on day off. Congratulations for the weight loss so far, the main thing is keep going and never give up and swimming is an excellent second activity to do. Cardio vasclar. Good luck mate. P.s I'm ex forces too.
Posted over 4 years ago in reply to Darren Smith
Work up to the start of the training program. Give yourself a couple of weeks to start it properly. Get in some swimming and (if possible) cycling - both excellent ways to gently restart a rusty aerobic system.
Posted over 4 years ago in reply to macdaddy256
Thanks so much for the support and advice guys!!! It's so reassuring to have people to talk to :)
I shall check out and try all the suggestions, thanks so much! :)
Posted over 4 years ago in reply to Kaden
Rather than weigh yourself, measure yourself instead. You may well find that although you are not losing weight, you are losing inches.
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This little 1960s top was on sale at Mercy as well, and such a steal that I immediately had to 'gram it. Someone on Instagram commented that it looked very Louis Vuitton S/S '13—that's definitely what came to mind when I spotted it, but I loved the force and simplicity of that whole collection, so it was a no-brainer to pick up something so referential to it. But of course, that collection, which is new, is actually referencing the era contemporary to this shirt, which is old... so... there's a bit of fashion-reference-ouroboros occurring here, and I'm afraid the space-time continuum will collapse if I elaborate any further. Some critics don't seem very excited about the impending umpteenth wave of mod-inspired fashion, but graphic prints have always been near and dear to my heart, and they're so hard to find when the trend is in low tide. I could do a whole series on the multi-faceted nature of my love affair with checkerboard—oomph, I just freaking might.
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The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a Flash Flood Warning until 8 p.m. for the following counties in Northeast Mississippi: Benton, Marshall, Tippah and Union counties and the northern portion of Lafayette County.
At 5 p.m., Doppler radar estimated 1 to 3 inches of rainfall had occurred over the past two hours. Showers and thunderstorms will produce an additional 1 to 3 inches of rain over the next three hours.
"Do not drive your vehicle into areas where the water cover the roadway," said a NWS statement. "The water depth may be too great to allow your car to cross safely. Move to higher ground.
"Most flood deaths occur in automobiles. Never drive your vehicle into areas where the water covers the roadway," the statement added. "Flood waters are usually deeper than they appear. Just one foot of flowing water is powerful enough to sweep vehicles off the road. When encountering flooded roads make the smart choice: Turn around – don't drown."


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Over the weekend, I made this bar for MKG Productions. It uses a few old whiskey barrels and some 1×3 lumber stained to match. The barrels still had some whiskey sludge inside them (As you can see from the last photo!)
I designed this dollar bill for a Sesame Street episode about finance.
It needed to be easy for children to find the numeral "1" in the design, and look familiar as a banknote, but not so close to the design of the US dollar bill to get us into legal trouble.
The original drawing of Mr. Hooper is by Caroll Spinney, though I went over the lines to get the weight to look right with the drawing of the rest of the bill. We printed these out on blue copy paper and then glued the front and back halves together so that the paper would be durable enough for puppets!
I also made some cards and envelopes to hold the dollar.
I had fun designing this CD cover for a pair of Hip-Hop Penguins… there are a whole mess of Photoshop filters that I don't ordinarily get a chance to play with, so it was a blast to go berserk with lens flares.
I'm like Elmo's ghost writer, except with crayons. (actually, these were drawn with Stabilotones – they're supercrayons!)
I made these posters to appear in Michael Showalter's pilot for a new television series. They needed to appear to be designed at different times, and by different people – and the photos cleared for use were mostly pictures of animals, and photos of someone's vacation. I had fun thinking up names for non-existent programs, and corny jokes to hide in the posters.
These logos were created for a spoof public television program named "The Michael Showalter Showalter," on a network named "PBT".
I was given quite a bit of leeway – the client wanted a red logo on a white background for the program, and a brown oval for the network logo.
I made these pedestals for a display of new jewelry at DeBeers. The rocks are made from polystyrene foam, and coated with concrete (for the rough rocks) and foamcoat (for the smooth rocks.) I had help from Andrew Bunch and Tom Smolenski with sculpting and finishing the 50 artificial rocks that went into the display.
I went on a tour of the Ralph Lauren office when I was working with them on an illustration project, and we met an employee in the hallway. They asked me if I could draw pants, I replied "Yes," and that's how these drawings came about.
I made these illustrations from reference photos – I was given a stack of clothing, and my friend Sean McBride helped with the photography as I tried out my best pant poses. So, If you see some blueprint-style advertisements in Macy's, that's me wearing those pants!
The last two images were accidents – I forgot to switch layers off in Flash – but I kinda like how they look so I thought you might be interested.
Designing and building this machine was one of my biggest challenges on Silent Library.
Figuring out a way for the hands to rotate around a point where I could place no pivots was tricky – so I made a semicircular track for a set of rollerskate wheels, and attached a pair of silicone hands to the wheels. The hands are moved by steel bars which slide in tracks to convert the circular motion of the motor into the back and forth motion of the hands. Some bearings helped to keep everything running smoothly.
My task on this project was creating an automatic mechanism that would fire a dozen eggs at contestants on Silent Library.
I experimented with a tennis-ball-style launcher first, but settled on a gatling gun setup, powered by a disassembled t-shirt gun. The revolver chamber is made out of sections of PVC tubing ringed with UVA foam to prevent air from leaking out of the gun. A one-way mechanism rotates the revolving barrels to advance a new egg into place whenever the chicken cycles. A cable pulls on the gun's trigger when the chicken is in the horizontal so that the eggs will fire out of the rear of the chicken at the right moment. Dario Gimenez sculpted the chicken-shaped cover for the machine.
Below is a video of the mechanism at work (with the air gun removed,) followed by a clip of the egg gun firing a few eggs at a contestant.
This seven-foot-tall crane was made to strike game show contestants in the groin with a sand-filled plastic wrecking ball. The frame is made from steel, with plywood panels, heater vents, lawnmower wheels, and some video arcade switches.
Courtland Premo helped with the electrical system, and I managed to hit the poor contestant in the groin in two out of my three attempts. Yay!
This was a fun challenge!
The writers for Silent Library wanted to hit the contestants with ostrich eggs… but since ostrich eggs are expensive and are so hard that they need to be opened with a hammer, I needed to create some fake ostrich eggs that would make a mess and not kill anyone.
I started by creating a two-part plaster mold from an actual ostrich egg (the egg might have cooked from the heat of the curing plaster, though I never found out since the egg stayed unopened in the refrigerator for the rest of the shoot.)
Porcelain was poured into the plaster mold and left for a few minutes to form a thin shell, and after the porcelain had dried melted parrafin wax was poured into the porcelain shell to make it waterproof. Each of the dozen fake eggs that I made contained the goo from eighteen chicken eggs (thanks to Craig Burghardt for teaching me how to open eggs with one hand, mess hall style.)
The fake eggs were sealed with more melted wax, primed, and then spraypainted. Courtland Premo made a catapult to launch these eggs, and they totally didn't hurt anyone!
I've made things that punch people, and machines that kick people, but here's a machine I made that kicks and punches people at the same time! Increases productivity by 100%!
The foot and fist are both set in motion by pneumatic cylinders, with a foam foot inside the boot and a foam fist, so that no bones would be busted.
I made these urethane rubber hammers to smash the hands of Silent Library contestants, and set up a pneumatic mechanism to make the hammers swing up and down.
I cast my hand a whole bunch of times on the third season of Silent Library – in this case, six times to make a machine to slap contestants with rulers.
The vinyl rulers are sewn to the hands with fishing line so that they don't go flying off in dangerous directions, and the wheel of rulers is put into motion by a bicycle crank and a long stretch of chain.
I've never had to cast an animal before, but there's a first time for everything.
To keep the hot plaster from melting the octopus into a pile of reek, it was frozen. Its tentacles were flattened against a sheet of aluminum foil so that there wouldn't be too many undercuts on the mold.
Katie Akana cast the octopus in gelatin (with some sort of secret ingredient to make the creature especially stinky!)
This prop needed a revised mechanism to clobber Silent Library contestants in the head (I changed it to work with pneumatics instead of the original electric motors .)
I also cast the giant foam balls which did the clobbering. The balls have volleyballs in their centers, to save the cost of some expensive polyurethane foam.
This pasta wig was made to be eaten off the head of a senior citizen on Silent Library.
I cooked the pasta lightly so that it would be flexible, but not mushy. I held all of the pasta together with some remarkably sticky gelatin.
I shaped it to be one of those sideways haircuts that are popular with young people these days – those sideways haircuts are funny!
I made a giant (12′ across!) cloud and lightning bolt for the Kikkerland booth at the ICFF this year.
The components were made out of several sheets of blue foam sandwiched together, with an MDF and solid wood backing for support. I put together a homemade hot-wire cutter to shape the foam, along with my regular arsenal of saws and surform tools.
This electric chicken mixer was made to scratch Silent Library contestants with its sharp talons!
I removed the guts from an ordinary hand mixer and modified them so that they would fit inside a rubber chicken; I'm very happy with how it came together, especially how the power cord comes out the chicken's mouth.
I assembled these hollow acrylic spheres so that they could hold three sneakers underwater, inside a giant swimming pool. The joints needed to be carefully glued and sealed so that they wouldn't be destroyed by the water pressure!
This red robot needed some modifications so that it would not look like a toy commercial when it made an appearance on Sesame Street to illustrate the word "activate."
I disassembled the robot and removed the speaker and some random ear-popping and eyebrow-raising functions, added some details, and painted it a more generic silver color.
This week, Fran and I were interviewed for the Frenzer Foreman Animation forum. I just listened to the episode, and I was surprised to learn that Fran and I sound totally different. Nobody ever told me that we don't have twin voices! Also, I goofed on the identity of Baby Bear's puppeteer. Sorry, Baby Bear.
For this video, I designed, constructed and puppeted the Godzilla-style creature. (there are some shots of the process of building the puppet over here) I also made a few of the props for the city and helped to dress the set.
I worked with Ryan McFaul (director, camera, props, set) and Katie Akana (props, set, moving vehicles and things around with magnets) It was so much fun to smash things with them, even though I spent the better part of two days crammed under a table with one arm reached as high as I could manage, surrounded by the output of a sweet-smelling fog machine.
We even managed to make Godzilla breathe fire! (kids at home: the secret is an aerosol can of WD-40 and a lighter.)


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I know this pump is fairly new, but had wanted to know if anyone has tried this breastpump? What do you think? Any ideas as to where to purchase?
I know this pump is fairly new, but had wanted to know if anyone has tried this breastpump? What do you think? Any ideas as to where to purchase?
I called Add A Little Love.com to see about this and they said the pump was just released on Friday and that they would have the particulars probably today. I got my last pump from them and am expecting again and will get another at the same place.
I have been using this pump for several months (I was one of the mom's who got to test it). I love it. If you are exclusively pumping, it may not be powerful enough. It is not as strong as the Symphony but worked great for me. I have the PIS Adv and chose to use this one exclusively from the day I got it. It is really portable and will hook up on your waist w/ the attachments you can do a lot while pumping. I mainly used it at work. I only was pumping twice a day (and now once) as my son is now a year old and nurses also. I like it for the ease of use and lightweight. BTW, I pumped the about the same amount of milk from this pump as my PIS Adv, which is slightly less than I could from the Symphony.
Hope that helps.
I got the Freestyle last week and it is working well. I really like how portable it is. There are so many different features on it so I had to get a little help from the LC I bought it from at Add A Little Love online's store and everything is running smoothly. I find that I get about as much as I did with the Symphony rental unit. I also find that I relax more because of the hands-free thing.
I'm so glad you like it. I was contemplating buying it. I am currently using my friends PIS. I'm trying to rationalize this purchase considering there is nothing wrong with the pump I am borrowing, but it looks so much more convenient! Would like more feedback from anyone else who has purchased or used it.
I'm an EP and would love to have that new freestyle pump, but I really can't justify it since I've been using my PISA for a year now and it still functions fine. How much do the freestyles go for? Maybe I can get one when #2 is on the way.
I purchased my Freestyle from www.milksmile.com and love it. I previously used the Medela PIS, and planned to continue using it with baby #2 when I saw the Freestyle, which came out just before I went back to work after my maternity leave. I hesitated to make this purchase b/c my PIS worked just fine, and I really wasn't sure if the new model justified the expense of purchasing a second pump. I called the folks at milksmile.com, and they were incredibly helpful, letting me know the features of the pump and giving me "real world" feedback on the pump, including the advantages over the PIS (I also liked that this was a real person who I could follow-up with for any needs I develop as I'm using the pump). I've been using the pump for just over a month now (3x a day), and it's so nice. The little things are well thought-out, like the timer on the unit and the hands-free straps.
In sum, I do think it was worth getting even though I already had the PIS. First, while I don't think the two-phase expression technology is essential, it is a nice feature. I also think the pump overall is a little more gentle, for lack of a better term, while still expressing the same amount or more milk than I got from the PIS. I LOVE the battery-powered operation so I don't need to plug in (especially when pumping just before going to bed), and it's much lighter and more portable than my PIS. Overall, it was money well-spent and I'd definitely make the purchase a second time.
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Not sure if this helps anyone, but I'm planning on purchasing from http://addalittlelove.com/index.html
Their price for a Freestyle is only $285! I've never ordered from them before, but they are listed on Medela's site as a authorized medela dealer. HTH!
This looks really cool -- if anyone else is going to get this please post back with how it works for you. I'll probably get one next time around (ds is 21 months now so not sure how long I'll really be pumping for him). Thanks
I ordered mine on Monday from addalittlelove.com. I EP for my twin girls right now, so I hope it will keep up. I'm not giving up my Symphony just yet though. I'll post back a couple days after it arrives to let you know what I think.


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Dr. Sklar is chair and professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Dr. Shah is assistant professor, Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Disaster preparedness and disaster response should be a capability of all academic health centers. The authors explore the potential role and impact of academic medical centers (AMC)s in disaster response. The National Disaster Medical System and the evolution of disaster medical assistance teams (DMAT) are described, and the experience at one AMC with DMAT is reviewed. The recent deployment of a DMAT sponsored by an AMC to the Hurricane Katrina disaster is described, and the experience is used to illustrate the opportunities and challenges of future disaster medical training, research, and practice at AMCs.
AMCs are encouraged to identify an appropriate academic unit to house and nurture disaster-preparedness activities, participate in education programs for health professionals and the public, and perform research on disaster epidemiology and response. Networks of AMCs offer the potential of acting as a critical resource for those AMCs stricken by a disaster and for communities needing the infusion of highly trained and motivated health care providers.
The Association of American Medical Colleges can play a critical role in assisting and coordinating AMC networks through its relationship with all AMCs and the federal government and by increasing the awareness of medical educators and researchers about this important, emerging area of medical knowledge.
Disaster preparedness and disaster response have received increased attention and interest since the Hurricane Katrina disaster1 and with the recent concern about the risk of an avian influenza pandemic.2 Academic medical centers (AMCs) have been victims of disasters3–5 as well as potent resources for disaster response and mitigation.3,6 However, there has been little discussion about roles and opportunities for AMCs in disaster medicine. This may be attributable to the infrequent occurrence of disasters, the competition for scarce resources at AMCs, the historical absence of disaster medicine in medical school curricula, and the national research-funding agendas. AMC hospitals also do not derive any clear financial advantages from participation in disaster preparedness beyond a required minimum level, unlike their involvement in lucrative clinical areas such as cancer care or cardiac care. However, the increasing frequency and intensity of disasters7 and concerns about the affects on AMCs are likely to change the perception of how important this area is, and what kinds of responses are possible or appropriate for AMCs.
Disaster medicine encompasses planning, surveillance, and response. Disaster preparedness involves the first two aspects and should be a capability of all AMCs. Disaster response involves prehospital care, hospital evacuations, transport, definitive care, and rehabilitation. Disasters generally follow a cycle described as prodrome, impact, rescue, recovery, and quiescent.8 Prodrome consists of initial awareness of the disaster threat and preparation for a response with activation of a variety of internal and external resources. Impact involves the actual disaster event and damage as well as mitigation activity as the event unfolds. Rescue involves deployment of resources to aid victims of the disaster. Recovery includes rebuilding and application of additional resources to infrastructure needs. The quiescent stage is the period after the recovery when preparedness for future disasters occurs. A disaster-response strategy generally involves the first four phases of the cycle, although continued training should occur during the quiescent period for optimal performance. In this article, we emphasize the first four phases of response.
Optimal response to a potential disaster requires an understanding of the disaster medical system in the United States and the possible ways in which an AMC could be integrated into the system. The history and evolution of disaster response in the United States as compared with other nations provides an important context for understanding the present disaster-response infrastructure.9 We will describe one particularly relevant component of the emergency-response infrastructure, the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), discuss the organization and deployment of disaster medical assistance teams (DMATs), and provide an example of an AMC with a DMAT at the University of New Mexico (UNM). We then describe the recent deployment of the New Mexico (NM) DMAT to Hurricane Katrina, and, finally, discuss the case for involvement of AMCs in disaster preparedness and response and end with specific recommendations.
The NDMS is a national medical response system that was established by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 and that originally resided in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).10 In 2002, the NDMS was moved to the newly created Department of Homeland Security under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Public Health and Medical Emergency Coordination Act of 2006 moved the NDMS back to DHHS under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness.
This system supplements state and local medical responses during major disasters and was designed to care for up to 100,000 casualties arising from a massive peacetime disaster or an overseas conventional military conflict.11 The major components of the NDMS include (1) patient evacuation, (2) definitive medical care, and (3) medical response. In collaboration with the Department of Defense, the NDMS participates in the evacuation of patients from disaster-affected or disaster-threatened areas. This typically involves aeromedical evacuation using military assets, with NDMS personnel providing medical support at the sending and receiving sites. As part of the second component, the NDMS coordinates a national network of public and private hospitals that serve as the receiving facilities to provide definitive medical care to evacuated patients. The third and possibly most well known aspect of the NDMS is the medical response system. The NDMS organizes and deploys a variety of disaster-response teams that include DMATs, disaster mortuary operational response teams, and veterinary medical assistance teams. DMATs are the primary mechanisms for medical care within the disaster area.
DMATs are teams of professional personnel including physicians, nurses, and emergency medical technicians and are designed to provide care during a disaster.12 Each team has a sponsoring organization, which could be a hospital AMC, or public health safety agency, that will be responsible for overseeing the training and recruitment of members under the provisions of a memorandum of agreement with the NDMS. There are presently 80 DMATs in the United States.13 The organizational structure of a DMAT is based on an incident command system model led by a team commander and organized into the major activities of medical operations, logistics (resource and materials management), administration, communications, and safety.
Teams are deployed to disaster sites with sufficient equipment to sustain themselves for a minimum of 72 hours while providing care in extremely austere disaster environments. Typically, DMATs deploy as 35-member teams composed of physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, pharmacists, and support personnel. DMATs are occasionally deployed during the prodrome phase in anticipation of a natural disasters such as hurricanes; for other types of disasters, they are deployed during the impact and the rescue phases. DMATs often remain during the recovery period until the health care infrastructure regains capacity to provide health care services.
The organizational structure and support for DMATs has evolved over the past 20+ years. Financial support of DMATs was initially based on local resources. In 1989, the NDMS system began to provide financial support for DMATs.14 The use of the funds was limited to equipment initially, but later it also included some support of personnel and training needed to maintain the team.
The UNM Health Sciences Center is one AMC that has a long history of sponsorship and leadership of a DMAT as well as education and research in disaster medicine. In 1984, UNM started the NM DMAT under the leadership of the director of the division of emergency medicine, Dr. Paul Roth (now the vice president of the health sciences and dean of the school of medicine), and it was among the first teams to become a member of the NDMS. Initial equipment was purchased in 1984 using departmental clinical resources, which included two tents and a variety of medical and logistics equipment. The team was made up of nurses, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, communication experts, and other volunteers, who conducted training exercises and received no additional pay for their activities. Participating physicians were from the department of emergency medicine and other UNM School of Medicine departments. The nurses, paramedics, and logistics experts came from the university hospital and community organizations. The original vision was to use the DMAT to provide direct humanitarian assistance, to gather information about the nature of problems and disasters to which it was sent, and to identify training needs and materials.
In 1989, the NM DMAT was the first DMAT in the NDMS to be deployed to a major disaster. In response to the devastation to the Caribbean islands from Hurricane Hugo, the NM DMAT deployed 70 members to St. Croix to establish a field hospital.15 Since then, the team has been federally deployed 22 times (see List 1), making it one of the most deployed DMATs in the nation.
Support for team members when deployed occurred through a variety of mechanisms, including a federalization mechanism somewhat like activation of military reservists. Faculty and staff previously had a choice of taking annual leave and accepting a federal stipend or not taking annual leave and allowing the university to directly recoup the cost of the salary paid during the deployment. However, now all DMAT members deploy as federal employees and are paid directly by the federal government. At UNM, they take 15 days of leave, allowing them to receive university pay in addition to their federal pay. Clinical shift backfill costs were covered at some times, but presently they are not covered, which causes the costs to be borne by UNM and the department of emergency medicine.
The recent deployment of the NM DMAT to assist with Hurricane Katrina treatment and recovery occurred 24 hours before the hurricane struck. The team was staged in Houston in preparation for the hurricane. Five UNM faculty members from the department of emergency medicine deployed with the team. All clinical responsibilities for the team physicians were filled by the remaining department physicians. The assumption that all shifts would be covered was critical to the rapid deployment and has been an underlying commitment of the faculty of the department of emergency medicine since the DMAT was created. Other nursing personnel received permission from their supervisors to leave and had to arrange their own coverage in some cases.
On arrival in New Orleans, the uniqueness of this deployment became clear. Whereas most previous deployments of the NM DMAT had involved temporary primary care support and supplementation of local medical resources,12 after Katrina most other medical resources were knocked out or severely limited. Care of evacuated patients with exacerbations of chronic conditions who had lost their ongoing care (dialysis patients, diabetics, and ventilator patients) mixed with the more typical primary care needs. The team set up operations in the arena adjacent to the Superdome with the mission to provide medical care to the evacuees during the evacuation. The most common complaints encountered during the operation were exacerbations of chronic medical conditions from patients who had been separated from their medications, oxygen, and outpatient medical care for several days. When flood waters and security concerns endangered the DMAT, they were evacuated and became the providers of care at a field hospital on the campus of Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge.
At LSU, the NM DMAT joined personnel from the Louisiana Department of Health, the Illinois Emergency Response Team, and the Public Health Service Corps in setting up a 170-bed field hospital in the Pete Marovich Athletic Center. The team members, trained and experienced in disaster response, were predominantly assigned to command and control duties at the field hospital, and the direct patient care was primarily provided by a wide variety of volunteer health care professionals, many of whom were displaced from New Orleans. In the course of about six days, over 6,000 patients were cared for at the field hospital, and over 15,000 evacuees passed through the campus. The DMAT personnel during this deployment were predominantly assigned to command and supervisory positions within their specialties. For example, the DMAT physicians participated as medical command over operational areas such as triage or patient-care units. The DMAT medical directors served as medical command for the full facility.
The recent Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding created a situation unlike any previous disaster. The extent of the need, the inadequacy of local resources, and the loss of life is unparalleled in recent U.S. history. The UNM sponsored DMAT and the other DMATs that were deployed provided critically needed emergency medical care but also exposed some limitations of the present NDMS concept for a disaster of this magnitude.6 The provision of care was compromised by inadequate planning and logistics, inadequate supplies and pharmaceuticals, inadequate communications systems, an inadequate number of health care providers, and transportation and deployment issues.16–19 Although the NDMS was conceptually designed to handle 100,000 causalities, limitations of the system have been an ongoing concern.19,20 In a survey of governmental response agencies, only 31% of the federal and 26% of the state and local respondents believed there were sufficient combined governmental and private resources to meet the medical needs of 30,000 disaster casualties.21 These deficits suggest opportunities for improvement if appropriate organizational and resource changes are made.
AMCs may have disaster-response plans and resources that can help communities respond to large-scale disasters. Many AMCs were prepared to mobilize their resources in response to Hurricane Katrina but ultimately found that there was no mechanism to integrate these systems into the federal, state, or local response structure.6
By sponsoring a DMAT, in the event of disaster, an AMC can ensure that its resources will be used effectively in a coordinated fashion. The teamwork and command structure of a DMAT also provides for the safety of the team members as well as any patients, and can reassure the AMC that volunteer physicians and staff will function as part of a formal system. Among the benefits of sponsoring a DMAT is expertise gained by the volunteers, which can then be applied to local problems and incorporated into educational programs. Besides delivering on its commitment to humanitarianism, the team also may perform in a manner that garners favorable press to the sponsoring institution. A successful DMAT may also provide the nidus of a comprehensive disaster program that may become the recipient of grants and philanthropy. Some institutions may wish to develop a departmental or multidisciplinary center that incorporates all phases of disaster response, education, and research.
UNM has incorporated the DMAT into its Center for Disaster Medicine, a state-supported program within the department of emergency medicine that provides training, research, and disaster-response capabilities. This center has been fortunate to receive federal grant funding for biodefense education as well as other topics of importance to the public, and to medical care providers and hospitals. However, education of medical students and residents in the principles of disaster medicine remains a sporadic and elective opportunity as opposed to a required educational experience. The Center for Disaster Medicine has also engaged in some unfunded research to help define this young specialty. There is a great need for further research into the epidemiology and response to disasters so that future training can prepare providers for the situations they may encounter. Most research to date has focused on reports of individual disasters and casualty patterns, but because of the infrequency of disasters and the uncontrolled environment for data collection, the conclusions based on such research are of limited utility. AMCs have the opportunity and responsibility to participate in the education22 and research agenda for disaster medicine because it involves protection of the health of the public—one of the roles of AMCs.
The present federal grant programs provide support for training but very little support for disaster research or the creation of a cadre of disaster researchers or experts. Such expertise is critically important as we prepare for disasters or public health emergencies such as pandemic influenza, emerging infections, or bioterrorism. The location of DMATs and disaster medicine centers in AMCs will provide the expertise and support to help in the further development of this relatively young specialty that combines medical, toxicological, sociological, architectural, political, and psychological disciplines.
On the basis of our experience, we recommend the following:
1. AMCs identify an appropriate academic unit to house and nurture disaster-preparedness and disaster-response programs, to include education of medical students, residents, and faculty in disaster preparedness and response. Support of a DMAT could also be a part of the commitment. AMCs can mobilize a significant number of physicians to be deployed with disaster-response teams because of their ability to spread coverage among the physicians staying behind.
2. Research into the epidemiology and clinical response of disasters should be initiated at AMCs. Funding for such research should be made available by federal, state, and community sources.
3. Public education into disaster preparedness can be coordinated through AMCs. Such education should be coordinated with planning at all levels so that the public is informed appropriately about its role in mitigating a disaster.
4. Organizations such as the AAMC have the opportunity to provide leadership in developing an awareness of the important roles that AMCs can play in disaster preparedness, education, and response.
5. The NDMS should consider a policy for reimbursement of backfill expenses to sponsoring agencies. This would remove an important disincentive for participation in the sponsorship of a DMAT, by AMCs.
Hurricane Katrina exposed some of the limitations of the present NDMS response system and the lack of involvement of many AMCs. Preparation for future disasters should include the active involvement of AMCs in all phases of disaster medicine. The model of a center for disaster medicine that incorporates the multidisciplinary skills and experience needed in disaster preparedness and response should be considered as one possible option for addressing the complex issues inherent in a disaster.
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Can you draw them first? That helps a lot I think. Just use whatever you have available to draw it. If you have Mathematica or some other software that's even better. The plot below is the first one. It's pretty clear what has to be done right:
It's the integral of the paraboloid over that little blue rectangle in the x-y plane. So x goes from 0 to 3, y goes from 0 to 1, and z goes from the blue to the top of the paraboloid. Can you now convert this into a triple integral?


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Andrew de Bruyn Joins The South Africa Business Network
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, March 8, 2013 /South Africa Business Network/ -- An accomplished financial executive in the chemicals industry with almost two decades of diverse professional experience, Andrew de Bruyn has routinely demonstrated the passion, vision, dedication and diligence necessary to be mentioned among the elite.
As a result of his brilliant body of work as well as the enormous amount of success he has experienced throughout his entire occupational history, Andrew de Bruyn has earned recognition in the exclusive network of prominent professionals with the South Africa Business Network, the world's largest premiere networking resource for South African career professionals.
Employing his extensive experience and experience in finance as well as his outstanding leadership abilities, Andrew currently serves as the Financial Director for Efekto, which is a company that specializes in the production of a comprehensive range of chemical products that help to beautify gardens across South Africa. The company offers a wide selection of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides that are compliant with the government's safety regulations. Serving as a leader in their industry, Efekto has also expanded operations into the areas of turf management, farms, and public health.
In his position with the company, Andrew is responsible for managing the company's financial modeling and analysis. Prior to joining the Efekto team in November of 2012, he spent almost two years as the Chief Financial Officer of the Trading Division with Busby. He also spent over two years with Gem Diamonds, where he served in the role of Projects Financial Manager. In addition, Andrew was a Financial Manager with Air Products for almost a decade.
Although he has gathered a considerable amount of his expertise through his voluminous professional experience, Andrew is also an extensively educated individual who earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting from his studies at the University of South Africa and the University of Natal. Additionally, he is qualified as a Chartered Accountant through the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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Evangelist Dr. Billy Graham (www.bgea.org) has remained faithful to God's Word since becoming a Christian as a teen-ager. I recall him stating to the media many years ago that he concluded to trust the Bible as divine revelation and never question its authority.
With that, the God of the Bible has honored his ministry worldwide for years upon years. Far and wide the masses have clogged city streets, churches, and stadiums to hear Dr. Graham call them to "decision." It was the decision to either reject or receive Christ as personal Savior and Lord.
Now Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) provides viewers with the amazing Billy Graham Crusade Classics. These span the past 25 years. They bring the good tidings that Christ can save any repentant sinner. It's the call to salvation, the pressing news the planet needs exceptionally so now in confused times.
Along with Dr. Graham, there are scores of world-renowned personages at the crusades: actors, singers, athletes, statesmen, and pastors. Then of course there are always the "team" members: George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows.
Inspiring music and encouraging testimonies are accented throughout each crusade gathering. Those who have sung "Just as I am" then give witness to the changed life in Christ.
Just as readers have thanked God for testimonies printed in Dr. Graham's monthly publication, DECISION, so they marvel when hearing those in-the-flesh testimonies in real-life and real-time from believers on the crusade platforms. The baseline to every testimony is Jesus Christ as Master of Life.
One always closes a crusade viewing with a thankful heart that midst the secularism of our age the biblical truth is expounded forthrightly. The crusade audience always responds with scores of individuals going forward to experience the born again change of soul.
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Foreign investment into Europe holds up in 2012
Brussels, 5 June 2013
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Europe held up in 2012 despite the ongoing economic problems in the Eurozone, according to EY's annual European Attractiveness Survey. This report, now in its 11th year, combines an analysis of international investment into Europe over the last year with a survey of more than 800 global executives on their views about how and where global investment will take place in the next decade.
- UK remains top recipient of FDI in Europe although Germany closes the gap
- Mixed messages in Western Europe as investors look for bargains amid recession
- CEE investment picks up after two disappointing years
- US remains top investor in Europe, BRIC investment weakens
Despite the recession, the reports finds there was only a moderate 3% reduction in FDI project numbers down from 3,906 in 2011 to 3,797 in 2012. However, investment levels still remain higher than pre-crisis levels and the number of jobs created was up by 8% on 2011 to 170,434.
Marc Lhermitte, EY's Head of International Location Advisory Services and author of the report comments, "The crisis has led foreign investors to actively pursue scarce opportunities and restructure their manufacturing presence in Europe. Consequently, we have in fact witnessed an investment rebound in key destinations including the UK, Germany and Ireland, but also in Poland and Russia. Foreign investors are for the most part confident that Europe will weather these hard times, and emerge stronger and different".
Although rapid-growth markets are capturing the interest of foreign investors, Europe still remains the world's largest FDI destination in terms of value, although its share in global FDI declined from 28.6% in 2011 to 22.4% in 2012, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Destinations: FDI by country
The UK once again took the lead in terms of FDI with 697 projects in 2012, an increase of 3% although Germany is now closer than it has ever been in second place with 624 projects an increase of 5%. After overtaking the UK in the number of projects in manufacturing sectors during 2011, Germany is now catching up with sectors driven by services – France (471), Spain (274) and Belgium (153) came third, fourth and fifth respectively.
The countries in Western Europe that did particularly well and received a significantly higher number of projects compared to 2011 were Spain (273), Ireland (106), Belgium (153) and Finland (62). This was primarily down to a decline in relative unit labor costs, which enhanced their competitiveness.
A second group of Western European countries including France (471), the Netherlands (161), Italy (60) and Switzerland (61) attracted fewer projects and relatively few jobs. The reasons for the decline in investment vary from stagnant growth in France and Italy to high operating costs in the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) picked up as an FDI destination in 2012 after two disappointing years. Though the number of investment decisions slipped 5% on the year, the region secured 26% more jobs. That meant that CEE providing competitive costs with nearshoring advantages overtook Western Europe to become the leading recipient of FDI jobs in Europe – mostly due to increased manufacturing in the region.
Poland had the continent's biggest increase of 22% in 2012, attracting 148 projects. Within CEE, Poland outpaced Russia (128) to become the leading destination for FDI. Serbia was also a strong performer attracting 78 projects. However, investment into Turkey and the Czech Republic declined slightly with 95 and 64 projects respectively.
Analysis by sector and activity
Business services and software remained the leading FDI sectors in Europe, providing 699 and 402 projects respectively. The UK was again the leading destination for these projects (28%), with Germany a distant second, followed by France and Spain.
Manufacturing accounted for 25% of investment projects, but 60% of jobs created on the continent. Russia became the leading recipient of FDI jobs in manufacturing operations, followed by the UK, Turkey and Serbia. The automotive sector provided the biggest surprise: despite European car sales being at their lowest for almost two decades in 2012, the sector provided 28% of all new FDI jobs in Europe – most being component makers. The focus of car manufacturing is gradually moving from the heart of Europe to its periphery and companies are quickly reorganizing their assets to gain competitiveness and tap into growing markets.
Where is investment coming from?
Intra-European investment is Europe's major source of FDI but in terms of investment at a country level the US remained Europe's single leading FDI generator, accounting for 1,045 (28%) inward investment projects in 2012 mostly in the business services and software sectors. The UK continued to be the favorite destination for American companies in Europe.
Europeans remain confident in their neighbors as they contributed more than half of all European FDI inflows – seven European countries, led by Germany (406), the UK (255), France (198) and Switzerland (184) were among the region's top 10 investors. Together, FDI projects from European countries and the US accounted for more than 80% of FDI flows into the region.
Only 245 projects (6.5% of the total) came from the BRICs, a concerning decline from 266 projects in 2011. The majority of the projects were directed at the UK (70) and Germany (63). By contrast projects from Japan were up by 17% from 150 to 176.
London – Europe's most attractive city
London remains the unrivaled leader among Europe's cities, both in terms of the opinion of investors (49%) as well as in the number of investment decision secured which stood at 313 in 2012. Business services, software and financial services accounted for more than 70% of these projects. Paris comes second, identified as attractive by 34% of investors and securing 174 decisions followed by Barcelona in terms of project creation and Berlin in the perception survey. And yet, despite their excellent infrastructure, skilled labor and high quality of life, European cities struggle in the global competition. London is the only European location investors name among the top 10 – compared to 3 in both India and the US, 2 in China and in Japan.
Investors have faith in Europe
2012 was another difficult year for Europe as business leaders struggled to protect their bottom line in a stagnant economy. However, perhaps counter to expectations, this year's survey shows that companies have become accustomed to the economic situation in Europe, learned to live with it, and do not want to miss out on the significant opportunities that still exist. The region is once again rated the second most attractive destination in the world to establish operations only behind China.
Most global investors believe Europe's attractiveness will improve, or remain unchanged, in the coming three years. Fewer than one in four believe it will decline. The proportion of investors expecting an improvement, at 39%, has scarcely changed since 2011 (38%). Worryingly perhaps, investors not yet established in Europe are more optimistic about the region's prospects than those already present: 60% of BRIC-based respondents and 45% of North American executives believe that Europe will become more attractive for inward investors.
Marc comments, "Thirty-eight percent of the companies interviewed are planning on investing in Europe next year, up from 26% in 2011. Despite economic uncertainty, investors have learned to master this "new normal". They are also expecting further economic integration, fewer regulations and a renewed focus on education and innovation to move the European 'dream' a step closer to reality."
Indications for 2013
The risk of an imminent Eurozone break-up, which weighed heavily on business confidence during much of 2012, has been averted. However, investors are "realistically" optimistic. While they think that the recession will end, they know that recovery is likely to take longer than it has done in the past. Half of our respondents predict a three-year recovery, while one-third expects it to take five years.
Marc concludes, "Europe's fundamental strengths – stability, skills, structure and shoppers – still outweigh the continent's economic weaknesses. Though gloom over the eurozone crisis lingers, the international business community believes in these strengths and still sees Europe as a reasonable long-term bet."
Notes to Editors
About EY
EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 167,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.
EY refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients. For more information about our organization, please visit www.ey.com.
This news release has been issued by EYGM Limited, a member of the global EY organization that also does not provide any services to clients.
About the survey
EY's 2012 European Attractiveness Survey is based on a twofold, original methodology that reflects:
The "real" attractiveness of Europe for foreign investors. Our evaluation of the reality of FDI in Europe is based on EY's EIM. This database tracks FDI projects that have resulted in new facilities and/or the creation of new jobs. By excluding portfolio investments, mergers and acquisitions, it shows the reality of investment in manufacturing or services operations by foreign companies across the continent.
The "perceived" attractiveness of Europe and its competitors by foreign investors. We define the attractiveness of a location as a combination of image, investors' confidence and the perception of a country or area's ability to provide the most competitive benefits for FDI. The field research was conducted by Institute CSA in February and March 2012, via telephone interviews, based on a representative panel of 840 international decision-makers.


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A new Transformers game, Transformers Prime, is coming. The game is a brawler aimed primarily at younger gamers, as it's based on the Transformers Prime cartoon, not the movies .It will be released on the Wii and Nintendo DS later this year.
"Hasbro Studios has done a phenomenal job with the Transformers Prime television show," said David Oxford, Executive Vice President at Activision Publishing. "We are collaborating closely with the series creators to capture all the adventure, humor and friendships from the show to create an authentic action experience for Transformers fans of all ages to enjoy."
If you're a more "mature" Transformers fan, you'll want to try Transformers: Fall of Cybertron which is also coming out later this year for the PS3 and the 360.


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Wally Rippel
Wally E. Rippel is a long-time developer and advocate of battery electric vehicles.
Wally has a prominent role, labeled as himself, "Research Engineer, AeroVironment," in the 2006 documentary movie Who Killed the Electric Car?, including two brief scenes in the official trailer.[1]
In 1968, as an undergraduate student, he built the Caltech electric car (a converted 1958 VW microbus) and won the Great Transcontinental Electric Car Race against MIT.[2][3]
In the 1970s and 1980s, Rippel worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on electric vehicle battery research, among other things.
Around 1990, Rippel joined AeroVironment and helped to design the GM Impact, later named the EV1; he had worked on the induction motor for the car before joining AeroVironment.[4] In 2003, he was one of the participants in the mock funeral for the EV1 as GM prepared to collect the last few for crushing.[5]
Rippel left AeroVironment in 2006 and joined Tesla Motors, where he continued his lifelong work on the battery electric car. He left Tesla in 2008.
Patented Inventions[edit]
The US PTO lists 24 issued patents with Wally E. Rippel as inventor:
- US 6954010 Lamination cooling system 2005-10-11
- US 6674164 System for uniformly interconnecting and cooling 2004-01-06
- US 6232742 Dc/ac inverter apparatus for three-phase and single-phase motors 2001-05-15
- US 5914590 Electrical power regulator 1999-06-22
- US 5751150 Bidirectional load and source cycler 1998-05-12
- US 5441824 Quasi-bipolar battery requiring no casing 1995-08-15
- US 5099187 Power connect safety and connection interlock 1992-03-24
- US 5099186 Integrated motor drive and recharge system 1992-03-24
- US 5041780 Integrable current sensors 1991-08-20
- US 4920475 Integrated traction inverter and battery charger apparatus 1990-04-24
- US 4884631 Forced air heat sink apparatus 1989-12-05
- US 4874681 Woven-grid sealed quasi-bipolar lead-acid battery construction and fabricating method 1989-10-17
- US 4873460 Monolithic transistor gate energy recovery system 1989-10-10
- US 4873161 Positive paste with lead-coated glass fibers 1989-10-10
- US 4664992 Composite battery separator 1987-05-12
- US 4603093 Lead-acid battery 1986-07-29
- US 4570212 Silicon controlled rectifier polyphase bridge inverter commutated with gate-turn-off thyristor 1986-02-11
- US 4415963 FET commutated current-FED inverter 1983-11-15
- US 4384321 Unity power factor switching regulator 1983-05-17
- US 4353969 Quasi-bipolar battery construction and method of fabricating 1982-10-12
- US 4319318 Voltage reapplication rate control for commutation of thyristors 1982-03-09
- US 4275130 Bipolar battery construction 1981-06-23
- US 3808481 Commutating Circuit for Electrical Vehicle 1974-04-30
- US 3641364 SCR Chopper Circuit 1972-02-08
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Further reading[edit]
Books that discuss Wally Rippel include:
- Bob Brant, Build Your Own Electric Vehicle, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
- Ernest H Wakefield, History of the Electric Automobile: Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1998
- Michael Shnayerson, The Car That Could: The Inside Story of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle, Random House, 1996.


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