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What's better, down or synthetic insulation? What exactly is fill power? How can you avoid hypothermia? How is warm stuff tested, and how best can you care for it?
With winter conditions firmly established on the hills, here's a timely and comprehensive look at the technicalities of staying warm. In part 1 of this detailed two-stage article outdoor-obsessed boffins Matt Fuller, Dr. Matthew Morrissey and Dr Mark Taylor discuss some of the science surrounding insulation and physiology.
In part 2 they'll present a brief history of insulated clothing and equipment, look at different materials, describe testing methods used for assessing a garment's warmth and offer some interesting ideas about how clothing might be made warmer in future.
Nb. If you're interested in the science behind outdoor clothing more generally this article should be read with the authors' piece from April 2012 - Waterproof Breathable Fabric Explained.
Insulating layers are important in many climbing and hillwalking situations, separating ourselves from the often harsh environment. Through over a hundred years of mountaineering, the same principles of keeping warm have been employed: windproofness, staying dry, and trapping still air. Although insulated clothing has changed significantly since mountaineering's inception, there is still considerable room for development. Some of these possibilities will be discussed in part two. First up, the physiology...
'Even small reductions in core temperature can cause reduced coordination, poor judgement and significant discomfort. In a mountain environment this impaired performance can be dangerous, so having the correct clothing and experience is vital'
The human body is homeothermic (warm-blooded) and its core temperature must be maintained at approximately 37 °C. Humans evolved in a hot environment, and only by engineering new clothing and shelters have we managed to settle in high latitudes.
Thermal comfort is achieved when the body is in a state of heat balance, where heat loss is approximately equal to heat production. To survive cold conditions, reducing one's heat loss or enhancing one's heat production is essential. The former can be achieved through the use of clothing and the latter by increasing thermogenesis, the heat produced by the body. Our body heat is produced by four main routes:
The human body is more naturally equipped for warm climates than cold; it is easier to lose heat through evaporation of sweat than to preserve it by shivering. In fact, the ability of shivering to raise body temperature is highly dependent on insulation: a lightly or unclothed individual may increase their heat loss by shivering as the heat production is not conserved but simply accelerates heat loss to the environment. Even small reductions in the body's normal core temperature (of approximately 37 °C) can cause reduced coordination, poor judgement and significant discomfort. In a mountain environment this impaired performance can be dangerous, so having the correct clothing and experience is vital.
Cold injuries can be described as either local or global. Frostbite is a local injury; hypothermia is a global injury. Frostbite occurs most often in the hands and feet because the body attempts to maintain core temperature, even to the detriment of the extremities. This occurs through vasoconstriction, a narrowing of small blood vessels that are often close to the skin. By reducing the blood flow to the high-surface-area digits, overall heat loss is reduced, but fingers and toes can suffer as a result.
Before the onset of frostbite a mountaineer might experience hot aches, which can be exceptionally painful. Hot aches are most serious when they affect a mountaineer's ability to carry out basic tasks such as belaying or eating. Hot aches are somewhat similar to chilblains and occur when core body temperature rises, pumping warm blood into previously vasoconstricted blood vessels. The blood flows rapidly into the constricted vessels, causing swelling which is exacerbated if the hands have been damaged by impact (eg. when ice climbing). The swelling causes pressure on nerves and the associated excruciating pain.
Hypothermia occurs when core temperature falls below 35 °C. Because of its effects on mentality and morale, even minor cases can be dangerous. As ever, fitness is important: fit individuals vasoconstrict more readily than untrained individuals, which aids core temperature regulation. Also, a high level of fitness generates a greater metabolic response to cold.
Adaptation to cold can also be local or global. In the local case, vasoconstriction in the extremities of cold-adapted individuals is less than in non cold-adapted individuals. This leads to higher skin temperatures and better manual performance; higher skin temperature of the hands of Yukon and Arctic Inuit (routinely exposed to intermittent cold) have been recorded. Whole-body (global) adaptations are more complex and disputed, but several types of cold adaptation have been observed, studied and reported. These develop based on the time-frame and intensity of the cold exposure, and may include development of a higher basal metabolic rate to account for greater heat loss, or conversely development of a lower skin temperature to decrease the skin-environment temperature gradient.
'It is important to remember that the human body is the heat source in a clothing system. The role of insulating clothing is therefore to conserve the body's heat'
It is important to remember that the human body is the heat source in a clothing system. The role of insulating clothing is therefore to conserve the body's heat. The body loses heat by four routes:
'A thicker material will trap a thicker layer of air, thereby making it warmer to wear'
Heat transfer mechanisms are summarised below (adapted from 'The comfort and function of clothing', L. Fourt, N. R. S. Hollies, 1969):
The key to the insulating performance of down, Primaloft and any other fibrous material is their ability to trap air and block heat transfer by radiation. Thickness is therefore crucial to a material's insulation: a thicker material will trap a thicker layer of air, thereby making it warmer to wear. The table below shows thermal conductivities for various materials. Note the difference in conductivity between a typical fabric, which is mostly air by volume, and the conductivity of wool or cotton fibre: fabrics are warm because they trap still air. If the air is not still then the insulation is ineffective because of the onset of natural convection. This happens when an air gap reaches approximately 13 mm in thickness.
An interesting note is that when the thickness of cylindrical insulation (i.e. a sleeping bag or jacket) increases, its outer surface area also increases, and this additional surface area is available for heat exchange with the cold environment. Therefore, above a certain thickness of cylindrical insulation further increases in thermal resistance are very hard to achieve; this can have pragmatic implications, for example the huge insulation required for restful sleep at -40 °C is extremely difficult to attain.
'Water is 24 times more conductive than air... The key is to stop water accumulating in insulation, and to force it as far away from the body as possible'
Your body's main cooling mechanism is sweating. Without it, you'd die on the flog up to Stob Corrie nan Lochan or while marching across a sunny glacier. But sweat that remains in your clothes will make them less warm, which is not ideal if you're about to belay or bivouac. Thus, adjusting your clothing to prevent overheating is every bit as important as preventing chilling. Wicking baselayers, that transport moisture away from the skin without evaporation, will prevent overly-rapid cooling, but equally reduce the effectiveness of sweating when it is required. If the air temperature is below freezing then it is extremely difficult to force moisture out from all your clothes and condensation is inevitable. The key is to stop water accumulating in insulation in the first place, and to force it as far away from the body as possible.
Water is 24 times more conductive than air (see table above), and consequently wet clothing provides less insulation than dry clothing. Wet clothes struggle to trap air and as they dry the evaporation chills the wearer and the other garments. Whether it is wet from sweat or the outside environment is irrelevant. Furthermore, as discussed below, down insulation may collapse when wet and become thinner.
A synthetic belay jacket is a worthy investment. Because of the loft-retaining properties of wet synthetic insulation, their ability to provide the warm human body with the opportunity to dry the layers underneath the insulation is better than with wet down insulation. Because this additional insulation allows for normal or higher than normal skin temperatures, water can evaporate and either leave the clothing system or condense further away from the body where its cooling effect is less pronounced. With no insulation or less effective insulation (such as wet down) the drying of the inner layers would be slower.
In very cold conditions, the dew point (temperature at which condensation occurs) may be present inside a clothing system or, of arguably greater relevance, a sleeping bag. Over a long period this will lead to a build-up of moisture inside the sleeping bag and will reduce its performance. In extreme conditions, this moisture may freeze. A hundred years ago, polar explorers struggled with this as their furs became heavy and inflexible as ice formed inside them. Modern insulation is more resistant to wetting and freezing but excessive moisture build-up is still highly undesirable. Highly breathable shell fabrics are very important in trying to stop moisture accumulating, though vapour barriers that completely stop evaporation of sweat from the user may also be used to avoid insulation being saturated by water.
The wind chill index represents the air temperature perceived by uncovered skin, rather than the absolute air temperature. The reason the perceived temperature is lower than the actual temperature is because wind strips away the insulating layer of air (the boundary layer) that surrounds the body in still conditions. A windchill chart summarises the effects of wind and the one below, taken from Wikipedia, has different colours referring to the chance of frostbite occurring.
Wind chill can be negated by windproof layers and by covering up skin. However, wind has a further influence on insulation: if strong enough, it can compress insulated clothing, reducing the thickness of the insulation and making it less effective. Therefore, stiff and heavy outer fabrics, and insulation that resists compression, may be more appropriate when strong winds are expected than thin and supple fabrics such as Pertex.
Altitude affects the body in many ways, which are only briefly covered here. Altitude reduces the heat-producing effect of food, and makes food harder to eat; it increases vasodilation, and reduces power output. The only beneficial effect of altitude is that the air trapped in your clothes is less conductive than at sea level, being less dense. On very high peaks this may make up to a 30% difference in insulation versus the insulation at sea level.
There is a mass of information available on insulated equipment. A quick search of the UKC and UKH forums will bring up pages and pages of solid advice and of course some hearsay, and the gear reviews are helpful too. A full internet trawl will bring up a lifetime's worth of stuff. Books on the subject, however, are few-and-far between with the exception of Invisible on Everest by M. Parsons and M. B. Rose. Papers on the subject are often less 'academic' than you might think and can be quite readable to the non-specialist, as long as you can access them. Some links are posted below. The physics of heat transfer is in any physics textbook, and is also discussed on this website.
Cold injuries:
(Papers): 1) J. M. Stocks, N. a S. Taylor, M. J. Tipton, and J. E. Greenleaf, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 2004, 75, 444–57.
2) D. Gavhed, Human responses to cold and wind, PhD thesis, Karolinska Institutet, 2003.
The effects of altitude:
(Papers): 1) K. Cena, N. Davey, and T. Erlandson, Applied ergonomics, 2003, 34, 543–50.
2) T. Fukazawa, H. Kawamura, Y. Tochihara, and T. Tamura, Textile Research Journal, 2003, 73, 657–663.
3) C. M. Blatteis and L. O. Lutherer, Journal of Applied Physiology, 1976, 41, 848–858.
4) G. P. Burton, I. Parker-Dodd, and D. Ed, in The Science of Climbing And Mountaineering, eds. N. Messenger, D. Brook, and W. Patterson, Human Kinetics Publishers, Leeds, 1st Edn., 2000.
5) H. Wang, S. Hu, G. Liu, and A. Li, Energy and Buildings, 2010, 42, 2044–2048.
General advice:
Andy Kirkpatrick's website offers typically excellent advice on how not to freeze to death.
The complex calculation of clothing required in different situations is given on this website
All three authors are current or past members of Leeds University's internationally renowned Performance Clothing Research Group. Matt Fuller is an experienced hill walker, keen mountaineer, and terrible rock climber. He is studying for a PhD investigating the insulating materials used in the outdoor industry. Dr. Matthew Morrissey is interested in all kinds of protective clothing and recently finished his PhD; he is most at home falling off waterfalls in a kayak but also harbours suppressed aspirations to climb back up them in winter. Dr. Mark Taylor usually prefers to go under mountains rather than over them. He has been testing outdoor clothing for the Performance Clothing Research Group since 2000.
Thanks to Tom Hartland for his helpful suggestions.
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Molly Butler will play golf at Black Hills state and Grace Edeen will run track and UNC-Ashville in North Carolina.
Laura Alicke will run track and Texas A&M-Commerce, Jered McCafferty will run track at the University of Mary in Bismark, North Dakota
SHS ATHLETES SIGN LETTERS OF INTENT - Four athletes from Sheridan high school signed national letters of intent Wednesday to compete in college.
Molly Butler signed to play golf at Black Hills state in Spearfish, Laura Alicke signed to run track and Texas A & M - Commerce, Jered McCafferty signed to run track at the University of Mary in Bismark, North Dakota and Grace Edeen will run track at UNC-Ashville in North Carolina.
BRONC / LADY BRONC TRACK - The Sheridan high school track teams hosted a dual meet with Gillette results are up right now below here on the sports page at sheridanmedia.com, tomorrow the Broncs and Lady Broncs will compete at an invitational in Billings.
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Bronc and Lady Bronc soccer teams host games with Gillette tomorrow the girls match will start at 4:00 and the boys go at 6:00.
Girls 100 Meter Dash Varsity
1 Bomar, Peyton Sheridan Hig 13.20 12.83 4 5
2 Rafferty, Riley Sheridan Hig 12.74 13.00 4 3
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4 Thoney, Alicia Sheridan Hig 14.36 2
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6 Hooge, Emily Sheridan Hig 14.10 14.47 4
Sheridan College headed to Fort Collins, CO this past weekend to compete at the CSU Stampede.
The women's team had a number of individuals qualify for the short round.
Latasha Weiferich a freshman placed second in the long round in the barrel racing with a time of 15.11 seconds, she placed fifth in the short round with a run of 15.25 seconds, which placed her third in the average and moved her into the third place position in the region.
TRACK AND FIELD - The Bronc and Lady Bronc track teams host a dual meet with Gillette this afternoon events are scheduled to get underway at 4:00.
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Disappointing Cruise: Pacific Dawn Cruise Review by jkrfun
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Disappointing Cruise
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We expected more from the Waterfront restaurant because it was going to be a proper sit-down dinner. However, the service was sub-standard which resulted in: not getting our orders correct, not being brought bread or butter until the meal was served or we asked for it, not getting drinks in a timely fashion, and finally food arriving only slightly warm. The best meal I had was one where I asked to have the salmon/ dilled potato entree (one slice of fish over a half cup of potatoes). Not being very hungry, and not wishing to waste food, I asked this to be served to me as my main an chose the chicken broth with vegetable wonton as my entree. When the salmon did arrive (at twice the size!) it was more cold than hot. I knew this was not correct as another diner at my table had this item as their entree and it arrived hot for them. Breakfast seemed to be a repeat of the selections at Plantation with the difference being that it was served individually. We did not dine at La Luna though we had a look at the menu and that evening there were only two non hot/ spicy options. As for Salt Grill, that WAS worth spending extra money on! Maria and Danny took care of our table and are to be commended for their professionalism and attention to detail. Both of them helped make our dining experience stellar that evening.
I have NO issues with bar bills for various soft drinks or alcohol, but I found it annoying to be forced to pay for something to eat if I was feeling peckish or, in future, to know that I would have to bring my own snacks along on the cruise unless I was not going to be bothered by paying $6.95 for a small tube of Pringles.
Enough about food, onto entertainment.
According to what I read on the P&O website: The best cruises bring you unforgettable entertainment. As the stars sparkle in the night sky, so do the stars on stage. Every P&O Cruises ship features a choice of dazzling entertainment for your exclusive pleasure. Spectacular shows you won't see anywhere else.
Actually I found it to be forgettable entertainment. Though clearly they tried, the quality just wasn't there. Perhaps there wasn't much to choose from at the time of booking but sadly the fact is that the stage performances were not even as good as some high school productions I've seen. I was struck by the lack of creativity, innovation, sophistication that I had previously enjoyed on other cruises. I do not need or desire anything so "high brow" but over-used humor, and high school antics, with a dose of double en tendres to "spice" things up seemed more suitable for a less intelligent adult audience.
I found it unfortunate that there were two shows offered as a one time only option and those occurred during day tour times. Having seen a preview of the "magician" (who was predictable) it was of no great loss to have missed him. However, I feel the acrobats were performers that should not have been missed. And it would have been nice to have added another booking of that show during the time we spent outside of Noumea, given that many people did not disembark due to the lateness of our arrival hour.
Having said all that, had the food and entertainment not been so abysmal we would have remained for the duration of the trip, rough seas aside. As it was, we did not take the tour we had paid for in Port Vila, and instead booked a flight back to Brisbane. Less
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Inside this Issue
Infectious Diseases
Subdivision Report
I am pleased to
report that after countless e-mails and teleconferences the
Infectious Diseases portion of the Program for the 2009
Annual Meeting is finally set. Our Plenary Session is
titled "Mass Spectrometry for Identification and
Characterization of Microorganisms" and will be comprised of
three presentations. Dave Ecker, of Ibis
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of mass spectrometry and the available instrument
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will discuss the use of mass spectrometry for direct
detection and identification of respiratory viruses in
clinical specimens. Donna Wolk, of the University of
Arizona, will wind up the session with a talk on the
application of this technology for genetic profiling of
bacteria. Special thanks to Donna for her efforts in
making this exciting session a reality.
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Workshops at the Meeting. The first Workshop will be
focused on new strategies for the diagnosis and management
of Clostridium difficile-associated disease. Dale
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Medicine, has agreed to talk about disease spectrum,
outcomes, epidemiology, surveillance and prevention.
Karen Carroll, of Johns Hopkins University, will discuss
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with particular emphasis on the role of molecular methods
for detection of toxigenic strains. We are fortunate to
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authors of abstracts of particular importance or interest to
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Infectious Diseases Subdivision is titled "Molecular Testing
in the Developing World". Stay tuned for more details on
this session.
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were recently published in JMD (March, 2009). This
group was formed in the Fall of 2003 under the leadership of
Daynna Wolff, my colleague here at Medical University
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of AcroMetrix, a multi-center assessment of CMV viral
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of relative quantitation but there was disparity in terms of
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COAH Regulations, Affordable Housing
Dear Mayor:
Yesterday, the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) met and approved their new "third round" regulations, which will again be published in the June 2 New Jersey Register and effective as of that date.
COAH also proposed amendments to these regulations, which will be published in the June 16 New Jersey Register, beginning a 60-day comment period for these amendments, which the Council hopes to approve in the fall.
COAH approved its regulations with only minor technical corrections, as anticipated. Also, COAH did not adopt its repeal of its earlier regulations, which will allow the three local governments (and only those three) which were granted substantive certification under the earlier third round regulations, to continue with their plans under the previous regulations.
If you recall, the League's Executive Board approved preparations for a possible challenge to COAH's regulations and sought $500 pledges for interested municipalities. While the proposed amendments address some concerns raised by local governments, based on our preliminary review, the League will continue its preparations for a possible challenge. For more on this and the pledge drive, please see our Dear Mayor letter of April 18.
A copy of the League's pledge form is available at: http://www.njslom.org/COAH-3rd-round-pledge.pdf
The proposed amendments are online at: http://www.nj.gov/dca/coah/june08rules.shtml
COAH's website includes a summary of the proposed changes approved for publication yesterday, as follows:
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After the Republican marionette doll named Scott Walker that masquerades as Wisconsin's Governor signed a bill Thursday repealing the state's 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act and then disappeared for the weekend to perform at a few horrifying children's birthdays, a lot of Wisconsin's Democrats were understandably disheartened. Observed Christine Sinicki, a Democratic state rep. who co-authored the original legislation, "This whole session has been anti-woman and anti-middle class, and this fits right in with that agenda," none of which would shock the Wisconsin voters who successfully launched a recall campaign for Scooter after he took aim last year at collective bargaining rights for the state's public workers.
According to the Daily Beast's Michelle Goldberg, though, not everyone in Wisconsin is displeased with the Governor's decision to make it more difficult for working women to bring discrimination suits against their employers. For people like Republican state senator Glenn Grothman (pictured here probably picking his nose in front of constituents and a major proponent of the repeal effort), not only was the Equal Pay Enforcement Act burdensome to those poor, beleaguered businesses who no doubt found it impossible to both turn a profit and pay women the same — if not, gasp, more! — than their male colleagues, it went against the natural, nurturing impulses of women. Amid the piles verbal feces that spluttered out of Grothman's mouth when he was given an opportunity to defend his support of the act's repeal, Grothman offered up what we might think of as an amateur's attempt to explain sociological phenomena, that is, we might think that if anybody in the GOP believed in the sciences, social or otherwise.
Take a hypothetical husband and wife who are both lawyers. But the husband is working 50 or 60 hours a week, going all out, making 200 grand a year. The woman takes time off, raises kids, is not go go go. Now they're 50 years old. The husband is making 200 grand a year, the woman is making 40 grand a year. It wasn't discrimination. There was a different sense of urgency in each person.
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Strategic Planning for Victim Service Leaders
From the Office on Victims of Crime:
On February 24, 2010, at 2 p.m. (eastern time), the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will present a Web Forum discussion with Anne Seymour and Viki Sharp regarding Strategic Planning for Victim Service Leaders. Ms. Seymour is Cofounder and Senior Advisor of Justice Solutions, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that specializes in criminal and juvenile justice, crime victims' rights and services, and community safety. In addition to serving victims for 25 years as a crime victim advocate, she has also helped more than 30 local, state, and national entities to develop strategic plans and authored or contributed to more than 30 OVC publications, including the Strategic Planning Toolkit. Ms. Sharp has spent 30 years as an advocate for crime victims' rights and continues to educate and train others during her retirement. As a consultant for the National District Attorneys Association and OVC, Ms. Sharp helped establish and expand victim services throughout the country and provided extensive training in crisis intervention, communication, vicarious trauma, team building, and victimology to law enforcement and victim service providers. For more information about the Web Forum discussion, visit http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ovcproviderforum.
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What is the purpose of this section? The purpose of this section is to provide procedures for the administration of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) preventive health services and fitness efforts under the FHWA Worklife Wellness Program.
Does this directive cancel an existing FHWA directive? No. This is a new section that has been added to the Personnel Management Manual (PMM).
What references were used when writing this section?
Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970.
Public Law 79-658, Title 5, United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 7901.
Title 41, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 101-17, Temporary Regulation D-76.
Executive Order 12345, dated February 2, 1982.
Comptroller General Decision B-240371.
What is the FHWA policy on health and fitness services? The FHWA regards its employees as it's most important asset. The FHWA supports and encourages physical fitness and other preventative health programs, as well as programs dealing with disease prevention. These are all essential elements of an effective Worklife Wellness Program. The positive impact of good health on maintaining effective performance and productivity has been well established and is endorsed by the FHWA. Providing the means to help employees ensure their health and fitness is therefore a very necessary and integral part of the FHWA Human Resources Management Program.
What do the FHWA health and fitness programs include, and how are they made available?
These services consist of:
Emergency treatment of illness or injury on the job.
Specific disease screening (blood pressure monitoring and cholesterol screening).
Follow-up treatments, as feasible, under the direction of a private physician.
Health education.
Stress management education.
Periodic physical examinations for full-time employees age 40 and over.
Periodic health screenings for employees under age 40.
Environmental health hazards appraisals.
Physical fitness programs and facilities.
Health services and intervention programs.
Washington Headquarters employees can obtain these services through the Civilian Health Unit and the Employee Fitness Center.
Availability of these services for field employees is contingent upon local arrangements.
Who has responsibility for these service programs?
The Director of the Office of Human Resources is responsible for developing FHWA's policy and service programs for Washington Headquarters employees.
The Resource Center Director, Federal-aid Division Administrators, and Federal Lands Division Engineers are responsible for the establishment and review of health services programs in their respective organizations. To the extent practical, offices are encouraged to partner with other Federal agencies to provide these services to employees.
Managers are encouraged to consider FHWA mission responsibilities and financial resources when developing individual programs.
How can offices obtain these services for their employees?
Offices can explore various methods for obtaining health services for employees who work in groups of 300 or more, which may include employees of all Departments or Agencies who are scheduled to be on duty at one time in the same locality. In this situation, a health services program may be established within the following framework:
If FHWA staff or facilities are not adequate to provide needed services, management may consider entering into an agreement to use existing facilities of another Federal government agency.
If neither FHWA nor another Agency has adequate facilities available, management may consider:
jointly establishing a professional health unit and/or fitness facility to service the FHWA and the other participating Agencies, or
entering into an agreement with qualified private or public organizations for professional services.
Health services may be provided for employees who work in groups of less than 300 if it is determined that such services are in the Federal government's best interest and a reasonable basis for that determination is recorded.
Methods for providing these services include arrangements with local hospitals, private and public health clinics, private physicians, multiphase screening programs, and voluntary health organizations. Field offices desiring to implement a health program in field operating divisions under their jurisdiction should contact the Worklife Wellness representative in their servicing human resources office. Field offices are reminded that the purchase of fitness club memberships for the use of employees on a continuing basis should be undertaken only where all other resources have been considered and rejected, and where employee use of the program will be carefully monitored as part of a bona fide preventive program related to health.
Attachment 1 provides a discussion of activities and services that are appropriate for payment under the FHWA Worklife Wellness Program. The list is not meant to be all inclusive. Employees should consult with the appropriate Worklife Wellness Coordinator concerning other activities that may be acceptable for payment.
Who is eligible to participate? All FHWA employees are eligible to participate in the FHWA sponsored health and fitness programs with the permission of their physicians. Employees with Flexible Spending Accounts must consider the tax implications of using Federal funds for health and fitness activities as opposed to funds set aside in this pre-tax program.
How are absences for participation in health programs handled?
Employees may be excused from duty for the length of time necessary to participate in Agency-sponsored preventative medical programs (e.g., physical examinations or screenings, immunizations, and health education programs).
Employees interested in participating in lunchtime exercise programs should consult with their supervisors to arrange their working hours to accommodate the extra time needed for exercise.
Wellness activities must be designed to enhance the Agency's mission. For example, bottled water for the office is a personal preference. Washington Headquarters' offices that use bottled water normally request that their employees pay a monthly fee for this service. In addition, organized sports registration may enhance office morale, but this, too, is a personal preference.


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Three years after the death of his band's drummer, Feeder frontman Grant Nicholas feels ready to take on the world again. By Andrew Murfett.
On January 7, 2002, Feeder drummer Jon Lee called his band's frontman and guitarist Grant Nicholas from his Miami home. Nicholas was screening calls and when the caller ID displayed an unidentifiable number, he ignored the call. Lee called again a few minutes later and Nicholas once more ignored it. Only 20 minutes later, Lee had hanged himself.
Three years later, Nicholas, 37, is at home in North London preparing for a world tour to promote Feeder's fifth album, Pushing the Senses. Unlike the aptly titled collection of cleansing songs preceding it, Comfort In Sound, the new record has more universal themes, Nicholas believes. Yet he remains acutely aware that trainspotters will be looking for macabre references on any Feeder release.
The story of Lee and Nicholas is a long one. They first met as teenagers growing up in Wales and crossed paths through several bands.
Nicholas had the idea for Feeder just before he moved from Wales to London, where he landed a job in a recording studio.
"I did it for three years and realised I was missing playing live too much," he says.
He kept in touch with Lee, regularly sending him songs and demos, until Lee moved to London and the two began Feeder in 1991.
The swift departure of their first bass player prompted a parade of auditions, none of whom impressed Nicholas. But an ad placed in free-listings mag Loot by Japanese bassist Taka Hirose caught Nicholas' eye. After meeting in Camden for drinks, the two immediately clicked and Hirose has been Feeder's bassist ever since.
An alternative rock band built around heavy guitars and strong pop melodies, Feeder were out of sync with the Britpop-obsessed scene and had trouble getting a record deal. However, when US bands such as Smashing Pumpkins began to appear, Feeder found their fortunes improved, touring consistently most of England's fleapit venues and garnering a cult following.
"It was a difficult time, because it was very much about image and fashion and we didn't fit into that. When the whole American thing exploded, we began to get a little bit of rock press on our side and we eventually signed to an indie label (Echo)," Nicholas says.
An EP, Swim, was followed by a debut album, Polythene, in 1997. With US college radio reaching out and the single High making the soundtrack of a Jennifer Love Hewitt film, the band headed to the US for a nine-month tour.
The band produced another middling album, Yesterday Went Too Soon, before their breakthrough Echo Park, with its irresistible single Buck Rogers. Feeder finally had a certified hit and Nicholas noticed the media's change of attitude.
"It's three minutes of music that really helped the band crash into a massive audience," he says. "I don't think it's the best thing I've ever written but it needed to happen. We'd been bubbling for ages with a cult following - suddenly it was blown open."
Nicholas still vividly recalls the night Jon Lee met his wife-to-be, Brazilian model Tatiana Englehart, in Miami. The band were touring with now-defunct US rockers Everclear.
Nicholas recalls: "He decided to stay behind after the show and went on the Everclear crew bus. The next morning when I saw him, he said he'd met this girl and she was the one."
Lee became engaged to Englehart and the couple settled in her south Florida home. He continued to commute to Britain for recording and tour obligations.
Nicholas insists it was a viable option. "I knew how committed to it Jon was. I mean, we started it together, it was his life, he loved it. He did worry about things being difficult when he was away. Obviously, he worried about the travel too."
Both Nicholas and Hirose went to ground after Lee's death.
"It was an horrendous time," Nicholas says. "It was so out of the blue. Jon was so full of life, he was the last person you'd expect to do that."
Hirose went home to Japan; Nicholas, who found he was unable to relax, headed to the studio.
"We hadn't decided whether we were going to carry on again, we didn't know whether it was the right thing to do, whether we'd even be able to or whether people would accept us. So I went into a studio with an engineer, the same way I usually work, locking myself away for about a month and found the songs came in a short time."
"It sounds odd but I think that the whole shock of it worked for me in a quite positive way. It made me really try things and do the music I really wanted to make. Even though I was very low at the time, I felt quite free because there were no ties.
"I've always made music that I hope people will like but I seemed to be focusing on making sure we were really happy before we put it to anybody else.
"We felt it was worth trying to continue after all we had put in, and honestly, he'd have expected us to. It was a difficult time because he was such a big personality."
Gil Norton (Foo Fighters, Pixies) returned as producer, along with Nicholas' usual engineer Matt Syme, noted for his percussion programming. Nicholas says Syme's knowledge of Lee's technique and style made it possible to electronically recreate some of his playing style, and they also enlisted the talents of former Skunk Anansie drummer Mark Richardson.
The poignant Comfort In Sound was a huge success in Britain, selling 600,000 copies.
"I always worried about the sympathy factor," Nicholas says. "But people's sympathy only goes so far, people have to like what they hear." He acknowledges that some reviewers held their fire. "Look, some went a little easier than normal. But we still had some bad reviews."
Nicholas is something of a control freak. He reads all the band's press and regularly visits eBay, where he found a rare copy of Feeder's first demo EP, Two Colours, going for £200.
"It's about the music for me but at the end of the day it's still a business and I want to know if people are doing their job, otherwise we can't achieve what we need to achieve.
"I know I shouldn't read reviews," he says, "but I'm curious about the songs people like and what they think of them. I don't take it too personally. You can tell if people have really listened to the album or not by the way it's written."
He resents the common perception that he is Feeder. "We do talk, no matter what people may see on the outside," he says.
But can the other members contribute to songs?
"Sometimes," Nicholas says. "We're a band and it's important to have ideas. But you can't force them to come in with tunes. On the last two albums, I know there haven't been as much of that as there used to be. Everybody brings something to a song and the future's open. It may work differently on the next album, I don't know."
As Nicholas heads off to rehearsals, I ask him how different the songs would be if Jon Lee was still alive.
"We've moved on as much as we can," he says. "It's sad but at the same time I feel that if Jon was around, maybe the songs would be about different things, but we'd still be making these kind of records."
Nick Duerden, a senior writer for Q magazine, has followed the band's progress from its infancy. "Occasional attention-grabbing singles aside, they were always fairly faceless," he says. "Ironically, Jon's death made them less so."
Duerden believes Nicholas was more than entitled to continue the band. "Suicide is a tragedy," he says. "But should everybody else's life be abruptly curtailed also? Grant's life had been Feeder, for well over a decade at the point of Jon's death. To walk away would have been terrible and, more importantly, pointless. He has more to say now, through music, than ever.
"Jon's death gave them an edge, a certain cachet, and I suppose it is true that this latest album wouldn't be as good, as profound, had the tragedy not occurred," Duerden says.
The next day, Nicholas has a spring in his step. Rehearsals are nearly over and, with the help of a couple of samples, the band can play every track from Pushing the Senses live. Comfort In Sound was haunting, thanks to the instruments and the candour of Nicholas' lyrics. Led by anthemic single Stumble and Fall, this new album is something of a watershed for Nicholas, whose writing subconsciously gravitates towards Lee.
"You don't even realise you're doing it sometimes but I've learnt a bit and accepted everything now - this album's more positive about moving on. Yeah, there's some melancholic songs but it's also a lot of really optimistic tracks."
The song Frequency is a case in point.
"There's a little bit of the past there. Obviously losing something, you know there's Jon, but to me, it's something that isn't there, almost wishing you could go back and say some things you don't have a chance to say."
Yet one of the album's more moving moments, Tender, is not directly about Lee but about a friend who lost a child.
"It's a healing song. Losing Jon helped me realise about healing and how important friends are. It's about anyone who's lost anybody and come through it."
The unexpected revelation about the subject of Tender is as candid as the guarded troubadour gets.
"Look, it's something where people can listen to the words and find out what I was trying to say and also, if you get a different idea from it, that's great too because that's all part of the freedom of music."
Following Lee's death, Nicholas realised he was married to the band. Although he is in a serious relationship, he admits he's difficult to live with because of the time he invests in his craft.
Feeder manager Matt Page told Q last month that Nicholas "finds reason to complain about everything. He's a constant worrier".
"Everyone's different," Nicholas says with a shrug. "I do like to be busy, even though I moan about it a bit. I need to be active and creative. This was a dream, then suddenly it's my career. It's hard, you have to make big sacrifices. It doesn't stop when you go home, there's always something."
Still, three years on, Nicholas feels that much more relaxed and his band are ready to take on the world, with Richardson on board as a full-time member. Curiously, the workman-like Richardson was friends with the flamboyant Lee.
"Look, he must've felt weird," Nicholas says of the transition. "It will take time for us to get to know each other but I think it's the right thing. He's powerful and versatile, which is what you need in a band like Feeder. As long as we can get on well, this should continue for a while." He pauses. "I'm hoping for a long time."
Tellingly, none of the bands Feeder toured the US with in their early days have survived. What gives Nicholas hope is that Feeder's record sales haven't peaked.
Duerden believes they have reached another level. "Feeder have stopped being unremarkable," he says.
"They've developed as a band and musically they are more interesting than ever. They've got depth."
Nicholas says: "We've always felt we could be a big, worldwide band. We may not have always been the next new, big thing but we've always grown our following with each album. I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think we could go further.
"We've achieved a lot but it feels like a halfway point. It's almost like we have a new lease on life."
Pushing the Senses is out now through Liberation/Warners.
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International bandwidth demand growth has been robust on all five of the worlds major submarine cable routes, but has been particularly rapid on key routes to emerging markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. While bandwidth demand on the trans-Atlantic route which has long been the worlds highest-capacity route increased at a healthy rate of 36% annually between 2007 and 2012, demand for bandwidth from the US to Latin America grew 70% per year over the same period, and demand for capacity on the Europe-Asia route via Egypt grew a staggering 87% per year.
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There is no greater need for the Association of Technology Professionals than to carry out the original mission of the association while constantly evolving to meet the current needs of its members. Earlier this year, AITP set forth in action a plan that would gain a clear profile of AITP membership, evaluate how well the association was responding to member needs and assess what additional products and services AITP might be able to offer in the future.
The Association of Information Technology Professionals contracted the Market Research & Statistics Division of Smith, Bucklin & Associates to create a Member-Needs Assessment survey specifically for AITP members. The survey was created to specifically explore the quality of existing products, programs and services, concentrating on the association's core competencies of representation, information, assistance and education.
In May 2003, an e-mail was sent to the 3,600 AITP members explaining the purpose of the Member-Needs Assessment and containing a direct link to the survey. Overall, 1,044 surveys were returned completed to AITP Headquarters representing a very high response rate of twenty-nine percent.
The AITP Board of Directors would like to thank everyone who took the time to respond to the AITP Member-Needs Assessment. The results of this survey have provided the association with clear results that will help mold the vision, focus and direction of the association in years to come.
The results of this survey are now being analyzed by AITP leadership, but the following highlights were made available to provide a glimpse of the major findings revealed from AITP's Member-Needs Assessment.
Membership Composition
It was found that slightly over half of the respondents had learned of AITP through a friend or colleague, thereby identifying AITP's greatest promotional tool as the members themselves.
Thirty-five percent of AITP members have been with the association for eleven years or more and twenty-five percent are new members having been with AITP only one year. Long-term members and short-term members currently represent sixty percent of the association's membership.
In responding to the category that best describes the member's position/title, over sixty percent of respondents identified themselves within these three categories: Practitioners – Programmers/Analysts/Specialists in IT (26%), Practitioner – Senior IT Executive [CIO, CTO, Director] (20%), and Practitioner – Middle IT Management (18%).
Responses also varied when AITP members responded to the functional area they work in. The large majority, twenty-four percent of respondents, work in the area of Computer Systems/Operations Management (CIO, VP, Director, Manager MIS, Operations). Fourteen percent identified themselves as working within the field of Education/Training. Systems Development/Programming Staff represented twelve percent of the AITP membership.
Industries represented by the AITP are just as varied as positions and functional areas. Eighteen percent responded "other" with the top three specified industries being Insurance, Utility and Retail. Thirty-eight percent of respondents are with a company whose annual income is less than $25 million.
The survey also reported that half of the respondents pay for their AITP membership from their own pocket while the other half had their annual membership costs covered by their company.
AITP Services
Local chapter meetings were indicated by eighty-two percent of respondents as the greatest benefit to AITP members. When asked to rate importance of association services/benefits, local chapter meetings were given the highest rating, followed closely by the Web site and the AITP Annual Conference.
Remaining on a local level, AITP local chapter meetings are not only the greatest benefit members are aware of, they are also the benefit association members are most satisfied with, as sixty-nine percent of respondents felt very satisfied with these meetings.
Sixty-six percent of AITP members attend/participate in their AITP Chapter meetings and events. Reasons for not participating in AITP Chapter meetings included a lack of additional time, scheduling conflicts, distance of the meeting and a lack of quality.
While recognized as the third greatest benefit to AITP members, another big finding from the Member-Needs Assessment was that an overwhelming majority of respondents, ninety-two percent, do not plan on attending the AITP Annual Conference in St. Louis. This fact can be attributed to new restrictions and less funding on employee travel across almost every industry. AITP has recognized this issue and is seeking to deliver the same educational content available at the national conference in an exciting new way. Chapters can now host a local educational seminar and view the Annual Meeting of the Members via Web cast. At this time, ten chapters are currently registered to take advantage of this new Web cast opportunity presented by AITP.
While the majority of respondents will not be able to participate in the AITP National Conference, the survey also tried to gauge member interests in additional services/meetings the association could offer that may be of greater benefit to the association. If AITP were to develop a "virtual" conference, thirty-seven percent would be likely to participate. If AITP were to develop a one-day event with Speakers, sixty percent indicated they would be very likely or likely to attend.
When deciding to attend a conference or seminar, content was indicated as most important followed by location.
Regarding content, the top three topics members wanted to learn more about at a seminar, conference or chapter meeting are Technology Trends, IT Strategies & Management and Wireless Communications.
Regarding e-mail communication to AITP Members, seventy-six percent of respondents feel the frequency of e-mail communications is just right, while ninety-two percent feel the e-mails they receive from AITP are timely. In judging the content of each email, forty-eight percent of the respondents feel very satisfied and forty-two percent are neutral in their overall satisfaction. While the majority of members are satisfied with the association's e-mails, this finding does demonstrate to AITP Headquarters that steps should be taken to improve the quality of format and content of each electronic communication.
The Member-Needs Assessment for AITP also included questions on how the members felt regarding the performance of the association overall. A large majority of members, representing sixty-eight percent of respondents, are either very satisfied or satisfied with their AITP membership. In the responses that indicated a lower level of satisfaction, responses included no value at the national level, topics are not relevant or interesting, or local chapters are in decline.
The Member-Needs Assessment has been applauded as an overwhelming success, delivering results pertaining to AITP Membership profiles, member contentment and member needs. The results of the survey will be strenuously reviewed by AITP leadership and will be further referenced in decisions involving the enhancement of existing association programs or establishing future programs and initiatives.
AITP Headquarters would like to thank everyone for their participation in the survey and for the honesty and candor in your answers. Because of your help, AITP is able to continually evolve to meet the needs of its members and provide the greatest benefits possible.
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- Sulfur: the pic ain't great.
Yes. Also unnecessary, I think. What does this image tell us, apart from the very obvious fact that, yes, HD-DVD generally have some sort of cover? :) -- Cid Highwind 15:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'd agree with you. Personally, I don't see the need for it, but wanted other opinion before just outright hosing it. :) -- Sulfur 16:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- I hold no such reservations. --OuroborosCobra talk 16:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
HD Remastered Trek EnterpriseEdit
OK, For those who have seen the preview, and already made plans to get the HD DVD's for remastered Trek (like me), I thought we should address something. The DVD's will have an Enterprise Fly around, alowwing a user to fly around a digital model of the Enterprise and look at it from almost all angles. Now I was wondering that since this is official Paramount made "footage", whether screencaps from the fly-around can be considered cannon for uploading here. Especially for the fact that good images of the Enterprise 1701 are hard to come by in episodes.
I would hope that we could upload screencaps from the fly-around, because then we can get virually any angle for the Ship page.
I hope someone responds quickly about this. --Nmajmani 13:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- IMO, any such 'footage' would have the same quasi-canonicity as the Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual. Although officially licensed, it is a derivative work. -- Connor Cabal 15:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- Correct. Also, I don't think we're especially short of Enterprise images... ;) -- Cid Highwind 18:46, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
OK then. Just wanted to confirm. Thanks to both of you wor a speedy response. --Nmajmani 19:08, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Format death?Edit
Warner has announced that they're abandoning the HD-DVD format. Paramount was rumored to be doing the same, but yesterday, they denied it. [1] Should that be noted on the article page? Adambomb1701 18:44, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
- Not until there's confirmation. -- Sulfur 00:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
HD-DVD gone, how about Blu-Ray?Edit
Now that HD-DVD seems to have finally died, is there any word on TOS-R Season One getting released on Blu-Ray, and the other seasons going Blu-Ray instead of HD-DVD? --OuroborosCobra talk 23:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
- Paramount's announced that they're going Blu-Ray. Nothing beyond that. They're keeping their cards close to their chest at this point, and I'm betting that it'll take 'em at least a few weeks (if not longer) to announce anything. -- Sulfur 01:02, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
The name of the format was "HD DVD", not "HD-DVD". Shouldn't the article be moved to reflect that? Same for the "TOS Season 1 HD-DVD" article. TJ Spyke 14:57, September 4, 2010 (UTC)


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