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Sonny, the biggest dinosaur is in Umno
YOURSAY 'Mukhriz, the biggest dinosaur of all is a character called MM. Once he's gone, your backstabbing Umnoputras will cover your back with spears.'
Mukhriz: Pakatan 'dinosaurs' won't always be around
Jiminy Qrikert: Mukhriz Mahathir has made an excellent point that all Malaysians must take into serious consideration as we head towards GE14. He says the Pakatan Rakyat dinosaurs could be gone by then but he makes no mention of who will then take over. If he did, he would be showing up the tremendous difference that exists between the next generation in Pakatan and BN.
He would inadvertently demonstrate the depth of quality, integrity and leadership excellence in the Pakatan ranks against the rubbish in the BN ranks. Mukhriz is right to remind us that the Pakatan 'dinosaurs', those undisputed giants in Malaysian politics, may no longer be around during GE14.
The rakyat now needs to rally around the next generation of Pakatan leaders, even as these leaders must continue to fight for the interests of the rakyat and prepare well for GE14. Malaysians will have yet another chance to rid our nation of the curse of BN.
SS Dhaliwal: Mukhriz, it is not about being old but about being principled, corrupt-free and having integrity. This is what we want in politicians, unlike Umno politicians who are brainless and without principles. That is what Umno stands for, whether new blood or not.
It is an open secret that you still ape your father's words and thoughts, and not capable of thinking on your own. Without your father's support you would have been chewed up and spat out by the vultures in Umno a long time ago.
Geronimo: Mukhriz, you mean to say that the old guards are to give way to the younger leaders so that the latter can enjoy the former's ill-gotten gains? These old croaks who have long passed their sell-by dates will cling on to power come what may, to reap the nation for what it's worth.
Toonarmy: Mukhriz, the biggest dinosaur of all is a certain character called MM. Once he's gone, your backstabbing Umnoputras will cover your back with spears. Enjoy the sun before the clouds and the rain descend upon you.
Onyourtoes: The greatest Umno reactionary force is talking about change, can you believe that? I don't see you representing change or the future of this country. You may be young in age, but your ethos, behaviour and orientation are no more than a dinosaur. You epitomise the old politics of hate, racism, dominance and ketuanan (supremacy).
Your proposed water charge on Penang shows your rent-seeking, bullying and racist character. You wouldn't be able to face the younger leaders of Pakatan. Even the older leaders in Pakatan are light years ahead of you. Seriously, what qualifications and capability do you have, other than you being your father's son?
Do you know why the Malays are always behind? It is because feudal leaders like you and your father are always having a stranglehold on them. With due respect, I don't see any hope or future for the country under your leadership. You will only complete the disaster begun by your father.
Call me Jibby: Mukhriz, I cannot agree more with you. Don't forget your dearest daddy is from the pre-dinosaur era, who refuses to retire from politics. He should spend his final years of his life with his grandchildren, not spewing racial venom to poison the minds of the younger generation.
What4: Hello, Mukhriz, what do you know about politics? Kan semua ini bapakasi atau daddykasi? (Weren't all of these given by your father?) You can't even fight with Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin and now you want the members to support you for the vice-president's post? That is very greedy and a stab in Najib's back.
Ace: A petty sob trying very hard to sound intelligent. However, with the amount of grey matter, that's the best he can come up with. Anyway, after the dinosaurs in Umno go, their next batch of dinosaur-thinking "leaders" will be no match for the Pakatan youngblood. Just compare Mukhriz, Hishammuddin Hussein, Khairy Jamaluddin, etc, with Nurul Izzah Anwar, Tony Pua, Rafizi Ramli, Gobind Singh Deo, Liew Chin Tong, Shamsul Iskandar, etc.
Evil girl: Apa "Berani Ubah" (Dare to Change)? You were already scared to debate with Khairy and Dr Mohd Khir Toyo in the last Umno Youth election, saying debate is not part of your culture. So what else are you going to change? Bring back the Internal Security Act (ISA)?
Bumiasli: How can you inject "new blood" with so much of dirty blood around? It's this "blood" politics that has destroyed our country. First father, then son, then cousin, and so on. The same blood flows from the top to the bottom. Change the blood group and we will have a healthier country.
CQ MUAR: Mukhriz is already showing signs inherited by his vicious father, continuing the legacy of his father, being a 'chip of the old block'. This is one guy all quarters must stay alert about - regardless on which side of the political divide they are.
If Umno is to look forward to a leader free of any form of dictatorship and tyranny, it must rid itself of the 'Mahathirism' - for the sake of especially the Malays and also for the non-Malays (with unity in mind).
Mukhriz can now promise you the moon and the sky to garner support, but once he has crossed the line and assumed power, he'd change like chameleon. He said his father enjoys the support of many - but he avoided mentioning his father also incurred the wrath of many, both Malays and those from the other races.
Kingfisher: It is hats off to Mukhriz for contesting the veep position as it will inevitably give rise to some serious soul-searching among Umno's younger and more progressive generation on the capacity and competence of the three incumbents.
It is an opportune moment for the party to cull and trim it of non-performers and challenge those who are seeped in superficiality in national political leadership and lacking in in-depth political philosophy and convictions.
Apacerita: After the dinosaurs, came the mammals and reptiles and men. So PKR will thrive on longer while BN/Umno die and become extinct, go into oblivion.
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The victim's brother has been implicated in the Christmas Day slaying of a Flowery Branch man, Hall County Sheriff's Office officials said Thursday.
The sheriff's office identified the victim as Alan Scott Fyfe, 54. His brother, Mark Alan Fyfe, 52, has been charged with murder.
Alan Fyfe was killed Wednesday morning at a home in the 6400 block of River Hill Drive in Flowery Branch, according to investigators.
His body was discovered in the home's backyard, where authorities said they believe he was killed.
According to the arrest warrant, Mark Fyfe shot the victim multiple times.
"Mark Alan Fyfe ... did with malice aforethought cause the death of a human being, Alan Scot Fyfe, by shooting him on and about the head, neck, chest, hand, and arm with a firearm, resulting in his death and did admit same," the warrant reads.
A hang-up 911 call was the "catalyst" for the investigation, sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Mark Mitchell said.
At 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, deputies responded to the home and spoke with Mark Fyfe, who told the officers a second man inside the house had made the call. That man was later identified as Mark Fyfe's son, Kevin Fyfe, 21.
When deputies asked to speak with Kevin Fyfe, the elder Fyfe closed the door and refused to let the officers inside.
Deputies checked the exterior of the house and saw the victim's body in the backyard, and the Hall County SWAT team responded.
After a brief standoff, both men surrendered and were arrested. Kevin Fyfe was later released with no charges.
Additional charges filed against the suspect indicate his arrest — and interview — were not peaceful.
In addition to the murder charge, Mark Fyfe was charged with three felony counts of obstructing an officer and one felony count of interfering with government property.
The arrest warrant said he harmed an investigator "while attempting to flee the interview room."
In another count, Fyfe is alleged to have injured a second investigator by "head butting" him and accused of having been violent toward a third officer while attempting to flee from arrest.
Fyfe is accused of shattering the back window of a sheriff's patrol car by "kicking the door off the track," resulting in the count of interfering with government property.
Mitchell said he could not offer a motive for the crimes.
"We don't have that information at the time," he said. "It's still ongoing, as far as the investigation."
Fyfe had his first appearance in court Thursday morning before a Hall County Magistrate Court judge.
He requested representation from the public defender's office and a committal hearing, which was set for Jan. 17 in Magistrate Court.
The judge will hear testimony for probable cause and rule whether to dismiss the charges, reduce them to State Court or move them to Superior Court.
Fyfe is being held without bond in the Hall County Jail.
The incident remains under investigation by the Criminal Investigations Division of the sheriff's office.

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Thomas Earl Spencer, 84, of Galt, died April 22. He was born June 24,1928 in Afton, Okla.
Mr. Spencer was a general contractor who built church buildings for the Church of Christ. He served many years as a minister in the Eastside Church of Christ in Stockton.
He is survived by his daughter, Bonnie L. Fassler of Galt; brother, Ed Spencer of Oklahoma; sister, Ruth Krumlei of Holland; and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty Spencer; and brothers, Jim and Vernon Spencer.
A memorial service wil be hold at 1 p.m. Friday at at Eastside Church of Christ, 3880 E. Fremont St., Stockton. Committal will be private.
Lodi All Faiths Cremation assisted the family with arrangements.


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In April 2013, the first major theme redesign was released to all sites in the SOM Web System. The focus of this redesign was to create a modern look and feel for the SOM websites and to make a theme that could adjust to various screen sizes and devices.
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Although a consistent look and feel between sites is a goal, we recognize the importance for organizations to maintain their own identities. This system enables the creation of high impact landing pages and other layouts that are specific to your site's needs. Contact the OIS Web Team for more information!
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Dear Carolyn • My mother was a stay-at-home mom while Dad worked a traditional 9-to-5 job. Now that I am married, my mother has been projecting into our life quite a bit. My wife is a wonderful mother and a busy ob-gyn. For many reasons that I support, she works full-time. My mother has a tendency to point out things like "Store-bought Halloween costumes are cheating" and "It isn't a homemade dinner if the chicken came precooked from a store." My wife and I typically nod and smile and say something neutral. But I've noticed that as my children can understand more adult conversation, my wife is getting increasingly upset when my mother says these things. What kind of conversation can I have with my mother to stress that I appreciate my childhood but not her meddling into my parenting skills?
Can't Be Martha Stewart
Dear Can't Be Martha Stewart • Full disclosure, your question made me adrenaline-surge angry. Self-calming techniques employed. I suggest a conversation that isn't a debate about your wife. Instead, make two key points: (1) When your mother makes these comments, she denigrates your choices. You and she run your family as equal partners, and you're proud of the way you're doing things, and the way your kids are turning out. (2) When your mother compares your family life to the one she created for you, she's entering cats in a dog show. Right now, roughly two-thirds of moms with kids under 18 are employed. Snark-attackers like your mom aren't just scoffing at what they see; they're also defending themselves against it. That your wife is a doctor arguably makes her Uber-Intimidating to your mother, or at least easy to reduce to a symbol of the kind of power Mom never felt she had. So don't treat your mother as a silly anachronism. Do say that you appreciated your childhood, and consider adding that if you and your wife were raising kids when she was, you might make similar choices. That's why the purpose of this conversation has to be about the universal. All parents reflect their times. All families do better when different generations support each other.
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Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg has joined the schools debate with a speech at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts.
The speech by the Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby is likely to win him friends in the public education field…simply because he's not Michael Gove MP, the Secretary of State for Education.
Unusually his speech took three themes: freedom, devolution and collaboration. But he stayed true to those themes throughout the speech.
His speech emphasised the current fashion for very short non-sentences:
As Andreas Schleicher says, collaboration doesn't just fall from the sky. Here there is an important role for central government.
As the enabler of collaboration.
Short non-sentences do work in speeches, but not in too great a quantity.
The very important not this, but that device favoured by just about every politician made an appearance:
Not new duties, but giving teeth to existing responsibilities.
Without an intended pun much of the language in the speech was very laboured, with hints of origins in a policy focus group. For example, we heard:
That is why I would bring forward changes to the Schools Admissions Code…
Political speakers appear to have eyes and ears only for "bringing forward". Their speeches would have a better turn of phrase were they not too timid to use alternatives such as:
It is strange and I suspect that its source is the Commons debating chamber.
I'm not sure whether he'd intended for the title of his speech, "No School Left Behind," to have echoes of a George W. Bush legacy. Somehow I doubt it. But President Bush's "No Child Left Behind Act" was probably closer to the former Labour Government's school apparatus of test, checks and controls than many would expect.
It's clear that Mr Twigg had a huge amount to say in this speech. That much was apparent with one passage two thirds of the way through his speech:
A school system based on evidence not dogma.
That is what a One Nation schools system is about.
Networked schools in a networked world
No school left behind.
That means schools working together.
Working in collaboration to spread excellence.
It's all there. Everything an audience could hope for from an opposition front bench spokesman's speech.
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The Brandon Wheat Kings will try to put a positive spin on a frustrating first half this weekend.
The Wheat Kings (11-18-2-2) play three games in three nights before going into the Western Hockey League's Christmas break, with the first two being a home-and-home set against the Moose Jaw Warriors (12-15-3-4), who hold down eighth place in the Eastern Conference — five points ahead of Brandon.
It's a chance for the Wheat Kings to make up some ground and have a happy holiday, or continue their slump and have a blue Christmas.
"I think this is probably one of the most important times of the year," Wheat Kings captain Ryan Pulock said. "… I think for us right now, these next three games are going to kinda show what direction we want to go. If we come out with three hard-fought battles and hopefully get a win or two or three, I think it will be a great sign. I think it's really going to show what our team is made of this weekend."
Tonight's game is the Wheat Kings' last home date of the first half and head coach Dwayne Gylywoychuk said it's the game the team is focusing on to set the stage for the rest of the weekend.
"We want to start with a good performance at home," he said. "We've been kind of in and out here, probably more out than in at home. But we want to make sure that we have a good start to the weekend (tonight). That's what we're looking for first. If we have a good effort (tonight) and start with the win it will carry into Saturday night and then Saturday night can carry into Sunday night."
While the Wheat Kings have dropped eight of their last nine games, there are positive signs. The club has been competitive in its last four games, winning one, losing one in a shootout and being tied with the Saskatoon Blades until late in Tuesday's 7-5 loss.
"I think our last four games we've actually taken a step," Pulock said. "Some of the losses we've had have been some mistakes that I think are easily fixable, but I think we've come out with a lot of hard work in our last four games and that's what our team needs to do if we want to have a chance to win."
After struggling to score following their strong early-season production, the Wheat Kings have broken out with five goals in each of their last two games, but it's come at a price. The club has given up an almost unfathomable 101 shots in its last two games.
"We're still making mistakes that are killing us," Gylywoychuk said. "I think that right now I look at the big picture. It's what we're doing on the ice that's giving the other team opportunities. … I think it's going to be important for us to establish (a strong game) defensively and really keep hitting home to these guys that if we play strong defensively that the opportunity to play offence is going to be there."
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• After being sidelined with some minor biceps tendinitis earlier in the spring, lefty Miguel de los Santos made his first spring training game appearance on Monday. The 22-year-old allowed a pair of runs in his inning, walking one and striking out two. Results aside (particularly since it was his first game action), the stuff was good.
De los Santos has a wipeout upper-70s changeup with lots of deception and screwball-like action. He shows the confidence in throwing it to both left- and right-handed hitters. None of the Dodgers' hitters on Monday were able to stay back on the pitch, and of the seven changes he threw, he induced four swinging strikes and a weak groundout. The offering could rate as a plus-plus (70-grade) pitch.
Against the Dodgers, de los Santos threw his fastball at 89-91 mph. He often sits in that range but can touch up to 94 mph on occasion and sits 89-93 with consistency when at full strength. He has funky mechanics and may never have plus fastball command––which may ultimately keep him in a relief role––but the stuff and command projects to be good enough to make him a good left-handed reliever and potentially a late-inning guy.
When de los Santos pitched with the rookie-level Surprise Rangers in 2008, his curveball was the money pitch and the changeup was underdeveloped. The prospect used his '09 season to focus on his change. While the change took off, the curve took a step back. He threw three curves (two for strikes) at 73-74 mph on Monday––the pitch is a slow-ish big-breaker that isn't as sharp as it could be, and he had trouble commanding it with consistency last year. The curve could ultimately be average, though, and passable as a third offering.
The Rangers optioned de los Santos to minor league camp and Double-A Frisco earlier in the week. If he starts with the 'Riders, he'll be skipping the High-A level, but the southpaw should be able to handle the jump. He already has big league-caliber stuff but just has to refine his fastball command in order to take the next step forward.
• Rule 5 Draft selection Mason Tobin is one of the more intriguing story lines of camp. The Rangers' opening day bullpen doesn't figure to have many open spots––if any at all. And because Tobin has a nice arm, if he doesn't make the team and the club wishes to keep him in the system, it won't be easy to work out a trade for him.
Tobin missed almost all of the 2009 and 2010 seasons due to Tommy John surgery and subsequent cleanup procedures. The stuff isn't an issue, and his command has been impressive so far––particularly for a guy that has just 96 innings over parts of four seasons in professional ball.
The former Angels prospect worked a 14-pitch (nine strikes) inning in Tuesday's 'B' game. While Tobin yielded a solo home run to Royals prospect Mike Moustakas, the overall stuff was very good. Showing all three pitches for strikes, Tobin threw his fastball at 92-94 mph, his changeup at 79-82 mph, and the slider at 84 mph. He fanned top prospect Eric Hosmer on a 93 mph fastball.
Tobin is doing a good job of commanding his fastball low in the zone, but perhaps the biggest surprise has been his changeup that gives him a strong three-pitch mix out of the bullpen. The righty is flashing a change with nice deception, and he appears to have confidence in the pitch.
In three 'A' game appearances this spring, Tobin has hurled three scoreless frames, giving up one hit, walking one, and striking out zero. His hard sinker has induced eight groundouts and one flyout.
• Converted catcher Leonel de los Santos appeared to be enjoying himself and quickly taking to the mound after last Friday's tracking session. He threw three pitches for strikes with a fast arm and relatively clean and repeatable mechanics. He slows his body down a bit on the offspeed stuff and can tip the slider and change a bit, but that's to be expected for someone so new to pitching.
'Macumba' got his first-ever game action as a pitcher in Wednesday's Low-A/High-A intrasquad game. He threw 18 pitches (10 strikes) and hurled a scoreless frame, hitting a batter and getting a strikeout of Tomas Telis. He mixed in an 89-91 mph fastball, a 79-81 mph slider, and one 80 mph change––throwing all three for strikes. When he missed, he didn't miss by much. There should be some more velocity in his arm as he continues to acclimate himself to the mound.
• Coming into spring training, shortstop Jurickson Profar and centerfielder Engel Beltre were generally considered the top tier of Rangers position-player prospects. But third baseman Mike Olt is quickly working his way into that group, and there's a legitimate argument that he could (emphasis on could) be the organization's top position prospect.
Olt's bat speed has been excellent, and it seems to have improved since last year's fall instructs. The good bat speed and strength enables him to put on impressive displays in batting practice (video here). He still needs to show he can carry it over into the games, but Olt has been very solid on the back fields thus far.
• Right-hander Yoshinori Tateyama, 35, was recently optioned to Triple-A Round Rock. The sidearmer struggled in big league spring training action, yielding four runs on 11 hits in 4.2 innings. With an 86-88 mph sinking fastball, a soft sweeping slider, and a screwball, Tateyama's stuff has plenty of movement but little margin for error. His command wasn't sharp enough and he worked up in the zone too often. He'll begin the season in the Round Rock bullpen but remains on the 40-man roster, so he should get a big league look at some point if he has success in the minors.
• Another Japanese product, Hirotoshi Onaka, is a bit younger and less heralded. The 22-year-old outfielder was signed by Texas after he went undrafted in the NPB draft in his native Japan. Listed at 5-foot-10, 175-pounds, Onaka appeared in 75 games over his four-year career at International Pacific University, batting .327 (92-for-281) with five homers and 36 runs batted in.
It's too early to tell much about Onaka, but he is performing well early on. His batting practice video clip can be found at at this link. He picked up a couple knocks in the Low-A/High-A intrasquad, laying down a drag bunt single and getting down the line at 3.9 seconds (per Baseball Prospectus' Jason Parks). He was also clocked at 4.0 seconds on a routine ground ball––a 70-grade time from the left side. Later in the contest, Onaka turned on a Tim Steggall fastball and hit it out for a two-run homer.
• Abel de los Santos, 18, is worth keeping an eye on. As a starting pitcher in the Dominican Summer League last season, he posted a 1.85 ERA in 58.1 innings. He gave up 46 hits, walked 21, and struck out 56. The Dominican Republic native has a fast arm, and he threw his fastball at 88-91 mph in Wednesday's minor league intrasquad. He unleashed a sharp slider with plenty of tilt that got a pair of strikeouts––it looked like a definite plus pitch.
• Last weekend, I went to Los Angeles with Jason Parks of Baseball Prospectus to check out a handful of top college prospects. Scouting reports on a handful of players––including UCLA's Gerrit Cole, USC's Austin Wood, and UC Riverside's Matt Andriese––can be found at this thread on the subscriber message board.
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Warplanes pounded Gaza for a second day Thursday as three Israelis and three Palestinians were killed in fierce fighting which began with Israel's targeted killing of a top Hamas chief.
Israel's harshest assault on the Palestinian territory in four years, which comes as the Jewish state heads towards general elections, prompted an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council amid growing international concern.
Police said that since Israel's targeted killing of Hamas military chief Ahmed Jaabari on Wednesday afternoon, militants have fired around 180 rockets over the border, one of which hit a house on Thursday morning, killing three Israelis and injuring another four.
And the Israeli air force has pounded Gaza with more than 100 air strikes, killing 11 and injuring at least 115, medics and Hamas officials said.
"We have three killed," Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP, saying four other people were also injured in a "direct hit on a house" in Kiryat Malachi, a town which lies 30 kilometres (18 miles) northeast of the Gaza Strip.
The attack on Kiryat Malachi was claimed by Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades in a statement on its website.
Israeli police said they had raised the level of alert across the entire country in order to deal with "the possibility of terror attacks" in response to Israel's killing of the Hamas chief.
"All the major cities in southern Israel were hit, and the majority of the more serious damage was in Beersheva," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP.
Schools within a 40 kilometre (24 miles) of Gaza were closed, and those living within seven kilometres (four miles) of the strip had been told not to go to work, he said. "It's a pretty serious situation."
An AFP correspondent close to the Gaza border saw several Israeli jets flying south as well as convoys of military jeeps and at least two flatbed trucks carrying armoured bulldozers.
In Gaza, Palestinian medics said three Hamas militants were killed in an early strike near the southern city of Khan Yunis, raising to 11 the number of Palestinians killed since the hit on Jaabari at around 1400 GMT on Wednesday.
"Eleven people have been killed and 115 people injured," he told AFP.
Throughout the morning, further air strikes hit northern Gaza, Gaza City and east of Khan Yunis, injuring another three, medics and security sources told AFP.
Among the dead were five Hamas militants, two children, a woman and an elderly man, he said. The identities of the other two were not immediately clear.
The violence sparked a furious response from Egypt's Islamist administration, which has close ties with Gaza's ruling Hamas movement, with Cairo recalling its ambassador in protest at the Israeli operation.
Israel has said the strikes were only "the beginning" of an offensive targeting Gaza militants and warned it may expand its activity, with the army saying if necessary it was "ready to initiate a ground operation."
"If it becomes necessary, we are prepared to expand the operation," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday evening, several hours after the start of Operation Pillar of Defence.
Defence Minister Ehud Barak said the operation was to strengthen Israel's deterrence, damage militant groups' rocket-firing capabilities and stamp out attacks on Israel.
Jaabari's death sparked fury in Gaza, with Hamas's armed wing warning saying that by killing its leader Israel had "opened the gates of hell on itself."
And Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said the strike was tantamount to a "declaration of war."
In New York, the UN Security Council held an emergency 90-minute session to discuss the crisis, with Arab states pushing for a strong condemnation, but the US envoy strongly defending Israel's right to self-defence in the face of Palestinian rocket fire.
Amid fears of a regional flareup over the confrontation, US President Barack Obama and UN chief Ban Ki-moon both phoned Netanyahu and Morsi in a bid to de-escalate the conflict.
Britain urged restraint and Russia said it was "very concerned."
The air strikes capped five days of rising tension in and around Gaza, which saw Israel kill seven Palestinians and militants fire more than 120 rockets over the border, injuring eight.
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British model Sophie Dahl has followed in the literary footsteps of her grandfather Roald, the world-renowned children's writer.
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London literary agent Ed Victor is convinced the 22-year-old model has a solid alternative career.
He says she has the gift her grandfather had of writing easily, fluently and with a great deal of charm.
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A bill supported by the Montana State Brewers Association (MSBA) sputtered and died in the Legislature faster than a frazzled lobbyist can suck down a pint at 5 p.m. on a Friday. Currently, Montana's brewery taprooms must stop selling pints at 8 p.m., and customers are limited to 48 ounces, or three pints, daily. Rep. Tom Facey's House Bill 315 would have extended microbreweries' hours until midnight and eliminated the three-pint limit. The bill, though, died at a Jan. 28 committee hearing.
"This was basically a turf battle between craft brewers and tavern owners," says Facey, D-Missoula. In committee, he says, the bill received just four votes out of 18. "That means it's deader than a doornail."
Some brewers believe the bill was preordained to die an early death.
"The deck had already been stacked against us," says Tim Bozuk, owner of Bitter Root Brewing in Hamilton. Bozuk also serves on the Montana State Brewers Association's executive committee.
Bozuk says he received a call the day before the bill was scheduled for its first hearing. A local tavern owner alerted him to the scuttlebutt: Some tavern owners planned to pull microbreweries' tap handles in protest.
The day of the hearing, Bozuk says, he was warned: "We were told we better drop this thing or we'll lose every tap handle in the state."
Bozuk declines to name the source of the threats.
"We did lose a handle and maybe more," says Tim O'Leary, owner of Missoula's Kettlehouse Brewing Company. While O'Leary says that handles revolve regularly, due in part to seasonal brews, the tap he says was removed was "gone last week, pretty much [at] the time we testified."
Bitter Root Brewing's Bozuk has lost "at least three that I know of and I'm sure there's plenty more."
Big Sky Brewing Company, which offers samples but does not sell pints, does not support or oppose the bill. Bayern Brewing's Jurgen Knoeller, asked if any taverns have recently discontinued his beer, says, "I'm not going to answer that question."
Compared with MSBA, the Montana Tavern Association is a giant, representing roughly 800 taverns, compared to MSBA's 20 microbreweries (of which just 11 have taprooms, Bozuk says). Montana Tavern Association attorney and lobbyist Mark Staples did not return multiple calls for comment. MTA Executive Director Diana Koon says she had no knowledge that some tavern owners opted not to serve local brews as the hearing approached.
"The MTA wouldn't have had anything to do with that," she says.
But, she says, "That's an individual business owner's decision."
The association opposes the bill on a number of fronts. First of all, Koon says, MTA has already compromised where microbreweries are concerned. Montana has a three-tier system: manufacturing, distributing and retailing. Small breweries, though, were allowed an exception at a previous legislative session, she says.
"The small breweries have been given allowance to be able to not only manufacture the product but distribute their product and sell their samples to customers," Koon says.
Removing the restrictions on the amount of beer microbreweries can retail, Koon believes, would place microbreweries in direct competition with tavern owners.
"It's their job to brew the product and it's the retailer's job to sell their product," she says.
Paul Gatza is director of the Brewers Association in Boulder, Colo. In most other states, he says, microbrewery taprooms are treated like restaurants: Hours are comparable and servers use their discretion to determine whether or when to cut customers off.
Bozuk says he already cuts customers off—the lightweight who acts tipsy after just two drinks, for instance. He wishes he could serve a fourth pint to the 300-pound dude, or serve customers who occasionally get off work early, drink their limit and then return after dinner for more.
If breweries are allowed to serve past 8 p.m. and pint limits are eliminated, Koon says, "I imagine [taverns] will [lose customers] to some degree."
Microbrewery owners, on the other hand, insist that the clientele they serve aren't the folks who frequent the taverns.
"These are not your customers," Bozuk says.
Microbrewery customers are typically looking for a smoke- and gambling-free environment, microbrewery owners say.
"It's an entirely different atmosphere. And that's something that I'm told regularly," Bozuk says.
He says that his business is dependent on both its on-site retail sales and wholesale to the same taverns that pulled—or threatened to pull—his taps. "I did over $100,000 in wholesale last year. I can't afford to lose that," he says.
But lost revenue aside, what concerns Bozuk and O'Leary most is that the bill seems to have pitted one small business against another.
"Generally, we work together for the common good," O'Leary says. "We just got a little off track here."
Now, he says, "We're trying to make friends again."
"The stupid thing is these [bars] are places that we frequent," says Bozuk, who eats lunch at local taverns three times a week.
"I'm right here in town," he says. "We're neighbors."
MSBA plans to meet later this month to regroup. Brian Smith, co-owner of the Blackfoot River Brewing Company in Helena, says one route may be to change state statute to allow brewers to purchase a limited number of the on-premise licenses now sold to restaurants and pubs. A citizens' initiative to expand hours and eliminate ounce limits is a possibility, too, Smith says, but that route would likely prove difficult and expensive.
In the meantime, breweries wait for the dust to settle and the taproom/tavern relationship to return to normal.
"What do you do?" Bozuk says. "I'm just trying to make a living here, for crying out loud."


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By Peg Wunder
Marc McClellan presented a program at Rotary Monday, May 12, about Mobridge Youth Organization (MYO) from its very beginning with some of the highlights over the years.
It all started with three young ladies approaching Byron Utter in 1994 and asking him to coach a softball team. In the first year they upgraded the old softball diamond and played there. The next year, 1995, 50 girls came out to play softball. The program was so successful that Byron was asked to set up a boys' baseball program and to take over the T-ball program for little boys. The goal set in 1995 is that "every child in the program plays." The emphasis is on each child learning the rules. MYO has always been short of money so all types of fundraisers and doing whatever they could to raise money was necessary. For a time concessions were sold from the back of a truck, there was trash pick-up of roadside ditches, car washes and MYO ran junior varsity events such as football, volleyball and track. They added bingo, held the DQ Classic and even cleaned fish that were donated to them for a fish fry. The volunteers were comprised of not just parents of the children in the program, but plenty of people who saw how important this program was to the children and to the town of Mobridge.
Two structures were built by this group. A storage shed was built adjacent to the tennis courts to store equipment for the various teams. Marc commented that lots of people stored equipment for various programs in their basements and with the construction of the storage shed all the equipment was in one place. The program was expanded to include basketball, volleyball, football, soccer, tennis and drama. Lots of young people from out of town started asking to be allowed to join the program. Thirty thousand dollars was spent to get the youth football program started. Right now 175 kids are signed up with 90 from out of town. Football is the most popular sport in MYO. Several of the towns whose youngsters are coming in for the program have helped pay for equipment. It was necessary to put in place a rule. Teams practice one hour and then play. Lots of parents want to coach football and were scheduling extra practice time. It was necessary to limit practices just on the days the teams came in Mobridge.
MYO bought a 20-seat bus, which is used by the various teams and can be rented by other groups. The Mobridge Teeners Baseball Team use the bus to get to their out of town games. Rotary built a shed at Tiger Stadium and MYO built a new attached concession stand with adequate electrical outlets. As many of the junior varsity events are held on weekdays, there was a problem with manning the concession stand, so Joyce McClellan assumed the task of finding women who could help man it on school days. It ended up that a few men also volunteered to work the concession stand. Denise Hoffman ran the stand for 10 years and Lynn Kuhl is now in charge.
Mobridge has not been allowed to host a state baseball tournament because there were no lights at the ballpark (Legion Memorial Field). MYO set out to get lights. The bid came in at $100,000 with the city helping with getting it paid off. The 3B tax also contributed to the drive to pay for lights. In March, 2014, the debt for the lights was paid and now we are eligible to host a tournament. Businesses have been, and hopefully will continue to be, supportive of the program which is good for the youngsters of the area and has been very beneficial to the merchants of Mobridge.
In March each year there is a sign-up fee of $30 per youngster to enter the MYO program. They can play in several of the programs during the year. There are no extra fees or charges, but parents are asked to volunteer time to make the program successful.
MYO Bingo is a big event in the spring. The first year $6,000 was made. Marc said they appreciate all the people, especially the "cute little old ladies" who have been ardent supporters of Bingo Night ever since it started.
The DQ Classic has been very popular. MYO started their own tournament, thus making it no longer necessary to travel out of town to other tournaments and having to pay hotel and meal costs. The DQ Classic is limited to about 60 teams. They play 100 games in one day and every gym is used that day. Ten games are played at one time in the various venues. The middle school event attracts 14 teams with three busses bringing children in from Central High School in Aberdeen.
This year over 300 youngsters have signed up. Soccer has 90 signed up, baseball and softball have 175, football has 175, volleyball has 40 with 30 in drama and 30 in tennis.
Byron Utter started MYO and Roger and Denise Hoffman have kept it going. It is estimated that MYO has raised and spent over one million dollars on this sports program for the youth during the 10 years it has been in existence. High school students have been more than helpful by volunteering to work with the youngsters.
Chris Fried is the current president, Heather Stoick is vice president, and Misti Henderson is the secretary-treasurer. Other board members are Josh Henderson, Stacy Bauer and Kristi Eisemann.
Marc's mother, Joyce McClellan, was recognized as a guest.
Haden Merkel, Chamber Executive Director, made some announcements. This weekend is graduation. Dashes for Splashes will be held this week-end with the run on Friday and the bike-a-thon on Saturday with all proceeds going to the outdoor pool fund. Friday at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m. at Scherr Howe is the Murder Mystery Dinner Theater with tickets at $20 per person. Pizza Ranch will have a talk about the landfill at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Cindi Volk will present the Rotary Scholarship Wednesday at the awards ceremony at school.
President Harley Overseth announced that next Wednesday the Relief Fund for the Ranchers will close. More than $5 million was raised which will go to aid over 600 farm families
Peg Wunder received a pin and a document stating that she is now a Paul Harris Fellow. The award is from The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and was presented by President Harley Overseth.


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The woman at the center of a disturbance that erupted at a protest against the gay marriage ban on Friday will be pressing charges, The Desert Sun has learned.
Phyllis Burgess alleges that she was assaulted as she carried a Styrofoam cross through the crowd at a No on Proposition 8 rally. The 69-year-old Palm Springs resident originally declined to press charges when asked by police and joked she felt lucky, at least she didn't lose her wig in the tussle like Cloris Leachman did on Dancing with the Stars.
"I guess I didn't see the gravity of the whole thing and how it was being portrayed to the public," Burgess said. "People are incensed. They seem to want some kind of justice."
What was planned as a peaceful candlelight service in front of City Hall took a hostile turn when the crowd began pushing and a cross was torn from Burgess' arms. The cross ended up in pieces on the ground.
The crowd chanted, "Go home!" "Nazi!" and "shame on you!" as organizers pleaded with the crowd to ignore the woman. About 500 protesters attended the event, the largest in the county since 52 percent of voters approved Proposition 8, an amendment that banned same-sex marriage.
Palm Springs Police made no arrests, but say they spent about 40 minutes on Saturday trying to convince Burgess to press charges.
Lt. Dennis Graham said he tried to convince her how important it was to file a police report.
Detectives, he said, are reviewing video taken at the rally to try and identify possible suspects.
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It's interesting how that works. The highest fasting glucose reading I ever got (114) was while I was doing Atkins induction. As a vegetarian for the five years previous, consuming 300 grams of carbs a day and a ton of grains, my fasting glucose was consistently in the 70's and 80's.
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Originally posted by loafingcactus View PostThe point is that this is not how it works. Eating one piece of fruit often gives you a *lower* average blood sugar for the entire day than not eating it. Finding the point of inflection (turning point, where lower carbs start raising your average blood sugar) is something each individual has to find for their own body. Pet theories on one side or the other are not helpful to the individual.
How does this look to the individual? You go Very Low Carb and you start waking up with a higher blood sugar. Anything you eat all day long raises the blood sugar, and it doesn't go below that number when you woke up. You add a little carbs. Now you wake up with a lower blood sugar. When you eat (especially when you eat that carb item) your blood sugar does go up, but then it comes back down to that LOWER baseline level.
For me that inflection point comes at about 40 grams/day. If I eat 20 grams/day, my average blood sugar for the day is higher than if I eat 40 grams/day.
Regarding your fruit comment
Eating one piece of fruit often gives you a *lower* average blood sugar for the entire day than not eating it
Give you a example on Saturday my BS was 5.2 i thought of trying some grapes so i did had a small bowl of grapes and my BS after 1 hour was 11.0 2 hours later 8.8
So when i tested my BS again maybe 5-6 hours later it was still around 6.8 6.5
@ sting and macey.
If you injure your quadriceps, what do you do?
I would isolate the injured muscle and not use it until it healed to a base level that I could start rehabilitating it.
How do we rehabilitate the quads? Well we start using them of course, very slowly & lightly with LOTS of rest at the start, then using them more intensely as time goes on, still with lots of rest.
Why would this be any different for our internal metabolic cells than it is for muscle cells.
You've got diabetes, your glucose handling metabolic cells are injured. What do we do? Well we refrain from eating carbs and eat as much nutrients as we can (to heal) as choco said. Once our glucose handling metabolic cells reach a base level of repair we have to start using them again to continue healing. How do we do this? Well we add quality carbs back into our diet. Slowly & lightly at the start with lots of rest (what I said), gradually increasing the intensity with lots of rest until you are cured of diabetes type 2.
If we look at how the very visible body systems (muscles) repair and grow then we might have a better understanding how the non visible systems (metabolism) repairs and grows.
^^^^This is a better strategy then worrying about blood sugars IMHO
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I agree dilberry. I am doing a trail marathon on Saturday so I know all about aching quads...rest and then retest. I was (inarticulately) advocating the use of the most complex carbs possible to start so that the acclimatisation process would be potentially less stressful. If it was my beta cells I would be incredibly wary of risking them with sugar and I am not a big believer in fructose.Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
dilberryhoundog why do you think that BS and muscles are the same? OK we can assume they work the same way but what if they don't, where's the proof that they do, ones a ripped muscle the other is blood sugar.
See if your not diabetic and don't test every day maybe you could have a different view, not saying its wrong but it could be.
Sting, VLC associated with what some people* call insulin resistance is a very commonly observed phenomenon. I can assure you it is not just Slacker and me, or some very unusual reaction.
*I think it is a big assumption to call the higher blood sugars insulin resistance. I just call them higher blood sugars and get on with what needs to be done to have normal blood sugar.
ETA: I also think this muscle rehabilitation model would need some serious science to back it up. If one is going to claim a model, it needs proof. I'm find saying I don't know why people's fasting BS goes up when they eat VLC. You don't need to know why to know what you need to do to fix it.�In God we trust; all others must bring data.� W. Edwards Deming
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Originally posted by sting View Postdilberryhoundog why do you think that BS and muscles are the same? OK we can assume they work the same way but what if they don't, where's the proof that they do, ones a ripped muscle the other is blood sugar.
See if your not diabetic and don't test every day maybe you could have a different view, not saying its wrong but it could be.
I was looking at comparisons between injured body tissue and injured body tissue.
Looking at blood sugar is like saying: flood heights went to 10 meters then fell to 7m then levelled off at 5m. Flood heights tell us we have a problem, (which we can usually tell anyway from water being effin everywhere). What we want to find out is what broke to cause the flood (did a dam burst, levee bank fail) and how do we fix it.
Same goes for diabetes, BS tells us we got a problem, it doesn't tell us what it is and how we fix it.
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There's a member on the diabetes forum who has been a diabetic for 60+ years has controlled it most of the time, still today he has to eat only foods which don't spike his BS.
Some of the elder ones on that site who have been diabetics for decades still now avoid fruits that make them spike badly, because they send them over the top, and they been controlling the foods they eat for years, so you think if they allowed some fruits in slowly that maybe their spikes wouldn't be so high? maybe..not sure.
This is what i tried to ask them but anytime you do ask or try and bring some discussion about it, the thread gets closed, its like they think what do you know punk, we been doing this for decades, what you think we haven't tried or whatever.
One thing i know is they always state that after a weeks months of eating properly and bringing the BS numbers down, it only takes one night eating the wrong foods and their numbers are all messed up for the next days/weeks.
I actually started a thread asking them this, how many days/weeks do they see BS numbers stay high even after one meal, just to see if it was ok to have a piece of fruit sometimes, They closed the thread.
For the sake of transparency you should have an explanation from whoever closed the thread.Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
OK who here asked the question we be discussing here on the diabetes forum lol?
Carb intake to BG function.
I don't think injured organs always have the same ability to regenerate that muscle tissue has. If you have no beta cells you aren't going to suddenly grow them in the presence of slightly elevated blood sugar. If it was that easy, diabetes would be curable rather than simply treatable.Female, 5'3", 50, Max squat: 202.5lbs. Max deadlift: 225 x 3.
Originally posted by MaceyUK View PostIf it were me (thank God it isn't) I wouldn't feel the need to reintroduce sugar into my diet. I suppose the mechanism would be that pancreatic beta cells can and do recover so you should give them something to do but then again there's a small amount of carbohydrate in green leafies and berries that will keep them ticking over...
Again, meat generates more insulin than carbohydrate in general. This is an energy management issue.Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.
Link Insulin Resistance Linked to Weaker Bones
Type 2 diabetes is the result of insulin resistance, which causes cells to react improperly to the insulin that is secreted. Normally, insulin helps regulate sugar, or glucose, concentrations in the blood. With insulin resistance, the pancreas produces increased amounts of the hormone to compensate. This leads to abnormally high levels of insulin in the blood, or hyperinsulinemia.
In turn, hyperinsulinemia increases the risk of other diseases. Left unchecked, it can cause high blood pressure, obesity and other serious complications. Together, these conditions are known as metabolic syndrome, which greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.
In addition, type 2 diabetes is linked to a greater risk of bone fractures, even though bone-mineral density often is higher among diabetics, compared to non-diabetics. To assess the effects of insulin resistance on bone strength, researchers correlated bone strength relative to load with the level of insulin resistance.
They found that bone strength decreased by 10 to 14 percent every time insulin resistance doubled. This decrease in bone strength corresponded to high insulin levels in the blood, rather than high blood-sugar concentrations.
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The concentrations of intracellular TP(INT) and MG were significantly elevated in erythrocytes from diabetic patients. Normalisation of either TP(INT) or MG to intracellular glucose concentration (nmol glucose/mgHb) confirmed that erythrocytes from diabetic patients accumulated more reactive metabolites than did those from healthy controls.
Diabetic patients can be characterised by an increased formation of TP(INT) and MG. The 25-fold increase of MG in type 1 and the 15-fold increase in type 2 diabetes, together with a several-fold increase in TP(INT) and decreased glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity even under normal glucose conditions, imply that normalising glucose level cannot completely prevent late diabetic complications until this acquired error of metabolism has been restored.
Translation: dibetics have hugely increased amounts of MG and decreases in the enzymatic process which de-toxifies it (within cells). This condition is much more severe in T1s than in T2s.
Did you get that last part? Completely controlling blood sugar levels is not enough to prevent complications. "Eat to your meter" while much better than the "binge and medicate" approach does not address the matter in a comprehensive manner. BLOOD SUGAR CONTROL EVEN IF PERFECT IS NOT ENOUGH. Clearly, as we each look for what "works" we need a more comprehensive definition of what "works" means!
So, what does this mean for treatment? Well, as I see it there are two choices. 1) Find a way to repair the "acquired error of metabolism" mentioned in that last abstract, or 2) Metabolize a LOT less glucose and thereby produce less MG and hopefully diminish or eliminate the harm. This is where we should be thankful that ketosis exists. It IS actually possible to wean 95% of your cells basically OFF glucose and train them to derive their energy from FFAs and ketones instead. Neither of these alternative energy pathways produce methylglyoxal.
Number 1) would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath. Meanwhile, it seems clear that number 2) is the most and best we can do for now. Of course, the big money will ONLY focus on 1) and continue to oppose 2) as a threat to forecasted profits should they solve the puzzle. My hope is that those of us who pursue 2) won't even need 1) even if they eventually succeed and get their patent.
This issue is NOT elevated serum glucose. Which makes sense because a) this symptom only appears very late in the game and 2) even complete control of this symptom appears not to prevent EITHER progression or complications. Getting the glucose out of circulation and accepted by the cells via exercise, insulin, medications to reduce IR or any other means is hardly a solution - it only increases intracellular MG production, advancing the disease and its complcations (in spite of joyful meter readings). Insulin resistance as DEFENSE MECHANISM not disease attempting to protect your cells from further poisoning with MG. Fighting it is NOT a good idea.
Clearly, elevated BG is worse than normal BG, but the real issue here is the sum total of glucose being USED. Therefore, I have made this my focus: take all steps possible to reduce glucose utilization all around while maintaining good health via its alternatives at the cellular level. BG readings are secondary. Mine are actually slightly higher (at least moring reading) when I'm doing my best at minimizing glucose than they are when I "slip" a little.
Food for thought (pun intended).Last edited by sting; 06-18-2013, 10:08 AM.
Originally posted by sbhikes View PostI don't think injured organs always have the same ability to regenerate that muscle tissue has. If you have no beta cells you aren't going to suddenly grow them in the presence of slightly elevated blood sugar. If it was that easy, diabetes would be curable rather than simply treatable.When I'd had enough of the grain and starched based 'diabetic eating for health' diet (eating for health, my ass!) my weight was 242.5 lbs. On starting primal- 18th April 2013 weight : 238.1.
27th July 2013. weight after 100 days 136.9 weight lost 101.2lb ; that's 105.6lbs since I stopped the 'diabetic eating for health'
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Using a new microscopy method, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can image and measure electrochemical processes in batteries in real time and at nanoscale resolution.
Scientists at ORNL used a miniature electrochemical liquid cell that is placed in a transmission electron microscope to study an enigmatic phenomenon in lithium-ion batteries called the solid electrolyte interphase, or SEI, as described in a study published in Chemical Communications.
The SEI is a nanometer-scale film that forms on a battery's negative electrode due to electrolyte decomposition. Scientists agree that the SEI's formation and stability play key roles in controlling battery functionality.
But after three decades of research in the battery field, details of the SEI's dynamics, structure and chemistry during electrochemical cycling are still debated, stemming from inherent difficulties in studying battery electrode materials in their native liquid environment.
"We've used this novel in situ method to understand the dynamics of how this layer forms and evolves during battery operation," said Raymond Unocic, ORNL R and D staff scientist.
Battery researchers typically study the structure and chemistry of the SEI through "post-mortem" methods, in which a cycled battery is disassembled, dried and then analyzed through a number of characterization methods.
"This is problematic because of the air and moisture sensitivity of the SEI, and the ease by which environmental exposure can modify its structure and chemistry." Unocic said.
The ORNL researchers formed a miniature electrochemical cell by enclosing battery electrolyte between two silicon microchip devices that contain microfabricated electrodes and silicon nitride viewing membranes.
The transparent "windows" seal the highly volatile battery electrolyte from the microscope's vacuum environment and allow the electron beam to pass through the liquid, which facilitates imaging of the electrochemical reaction products as they form.
To reproduce a battery charging cycle, the researchers applied a potential at the working electrode and monitored the resulting changes in current. The most striking result, said the researchers, was capturing an unprecedented view of SEI evolution during potential cycling. The technique is able to image the formation of tiny crystalline particles only one billionth of a meter in size.
"As we start to sweep the potential, we didn't initially observe anything," said lead author Robert Sacci, a postdoctoral research fellow with ORNL's FIRST Energy Frontier Research Center. "Then we started seeing shadows -- presumably polymeric SEI -- forming into a dendritic pattern. It looks like a snowflake forming from the electrode."
The researchers plan to build on this initial proof-of-principle study to better understand the factors behind the SEI's formation, which could ultimately help improve battery performance, capacity, and safety at the device level.
"Tailoring the SEI's structure and chemistry to maximize battery capabilities appears to be a delicate balancing act," Unocic said.
"When you cycle a real battery, the interphase structure can form, break, and reform again, depending on how thick the layer grows, so we need to look at improving its structural stability. But at the same time, we have to think about making the interphase more efficient for lithium ion transport. This study brings us one step closer to understanding SEI formation and growth."
Next steps for the researchers include applying their technique to study different types of battery electrodes and electrolytes and other energy storage systems including fuel cells and supercapacitors.
Coauthors are ORNL's Raymond Unocic, Robert Sacci, Nancy Dudney and Karren More; and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Lucas Parent, Ilke Arslan, Nigel Browning. The study is published as "Direct Visualization of Initial SEI Morphology and Growth Kinetics During Lithium Deposition by in situ Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy."
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